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"ci x iic u Toil's xotTck!
Estate of Johf.I'H Moy Kit, ilor.'il.
The undersigned Kxceiifors of the last will and
testament of Joski'H MovKit, late of Clearfield
township. Cambria county, deceased, hereby noti
fy all persons indebted to the estate of said dece
dent that payment must be made it hout dclav.
and those hiving claims agtinst tins same will
present thciu properlv an' hen' leafed for settle
ment. Am. Sioykks, , ..,.
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pliiation will Im niadi) to tlio next
Court of yunrter Se-siona or CamlirlH County
to extend the limits of Summit vllle borough
soas to Include a part of Washington township
iu said borugii.
SHOEMAKER SECHLF.R,
Aug. 5. SU Atty '8 for Petitioners.
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Incorporate the village ol Hemlock, In said county,
into a borough.
SHOEMAKRR II SF.CIILER,
Aug. 4. lS75.-t. Atty's for Petitioncri.
r A UTIO.V. Having on July 26td
' 1875, pun haseil from Vm. Vouno one
dark brown mare. I hereby notify all jiersons not
to interfere with said mare, as 1'have left her in
hwjHission during my pleasure.
JOHN BENDER.
Carjolltown, July 28, 1875. -27.-St.J
NOTICE All persons are hereby
cautioned against negotiating- a certain
judgment exemption note, dated March 27tli. 1875.
for :, payable to Joseph Walker, as I will not
pav the same. J A CO II WAGNER,
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HOEMAKER & SECHLER,
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T OALLITZIX LAKE, Attorney
w at Law, El enslmrK, Pa. )flic with
, Rejc'eter al Recorder, In Court Howe.
CI I Uli C1I A XI S TA. TK.
THE CATHOLICS AND THE COMMON SCHOOLS
SENATOR TIIURMAN'S VIEWS ON
THE OEGHAN BILL.
The radical party in Ohio have endeav
ored to Btir up a religious strife by the cry
that the public schools are in danger from
the machinations of the Catholic church.
Hon. Alien G. Thurman in a speech made
at Cleveland on last Saturday week took
up this question in all its bearings. After
showing that tUere never wat a public
measure adopted by the democratic party
that gave to the Catholic or any other
church any preference or advantage over
any other sect or body of men, he demon
strated that from the foundation of the
government the democratic party had de
fended the rights of conscience and oppos
ed the union of Church and State. He
proved that the common school system in
Ohie was established and fostered by the
demociatic party, and that the late demo
cratic convention had adopted as a part of
the State Constitution the provision that
4,no religious or other sect or sects shall
ever have any exclusive right to, or control
of, any part of the school funds of this
State." All efforts to interfere with the
status of the common schools had been
time and again voted down by democratic
legislatures. It was reserved for a repub
lican Congress to attempt to destroy the
hchool system by the mixed school system
piovided in the Civil Rights bill.
Passing by his eloquent vindication nf
the democratic party upon other topics we
quote in full his remarks upon the legisla
tion of the Ohio legislature last winter out
of which the radical party is trying to
make capital. He said :
In close connection with the false clamor
about the schools isanother false clamor of
priestly interference in politics. We hear
a great deal about a bill passed by the last
legislature, commonly called the "Ueghan
Hill," and to listen to a radical stum per or
read a radical newspaper, a man, knowing
nothing )lse of the subject, would suppose
that that bill was a frightful enormity giv
ing peculiar and immense advantages to
the Catholic church over the other church
es in the State. But these alarmists take
good care not to produce tho bill itself; be
cause it is only necessary to read it to see
that there is no foundation whatever for
their denunciations. There is not a word
about the Catholie church in the Geghau
law, not a provision that gives to that
church the slightest preference over any
other church, not a provision that is not
found in substance in the Constitution of
the State, and that wis not found in our
old constitution. Ever since Ohio has
been a Slate, ever since the jear of our
Lord 18ir2, the principles of the Geghau
bill have been a part of our fundamental
law. The old constitution declared "that
all men have a natural and indefeasible
right to worship Almighty God according
to the dictates of conscience ; that no hu
man authority can, in any cone whatever,
coutrol or interfere with the rights of con-
science; that no man shall be compiled to
attend, erect or support any place of wor
ship, or to maintain any miuistry against
his consent ; that no preference shall ever
be given, by law, to any religious society
or m.ide of worship, and no religious tests
shall be required, as a qualification, to any
otlice, of trust or profit. But religion,
morality and knowledges being essential
ly necessary to good goverumotit and
the happiness of mankind, schools and
the metn of instruction shall forever bo
encouraged by legislative provisions, not
inconsistent with the rights of conscience."
The same provision, enlarged iu its scope,
is found :u the present constitution, which
declares, article 1, section 7, that, "All men
have a natural and indefeasible right to
worship Almighty God according to the
dictates of their own conscience. .No per
son shall be compelled to attend, erect, or
support any place of worship, or maintain
any form of worship, against his consent,
and no preference shall be given, by law, to
any religious society; nor shall any interfer
ence with the rights of conscious be per
mitted. No religious test shall be requir
ed, as a qualification for office, nor shall
any erson be incompetent to be a witness
on account of his religious belief ; but
nothing herein shall be construed to dis
pense with oaths and affirmations. Reli
gion, morality and knowledge, however,
being essential to good government, it
shall be the duty of the general assembly
to pass suitable laws to protect every reli
gious diomiuation in the peaceable en
joyment of its own mode of public worship,
ami to encourage schools and the means of
instruction.
Now, this constitutional provision com
pletely covers the Geghan laws, for what
man will dare to assert that the inmates of
our asylums, or even the convicts of our
penitentiary, are less entitled to the rights
of conscience than other men, or less enti
tled to the ministry of religion, or that they
can be compelled to atteud any place of
worship, or maintain any form of worship
against their consent? The constitution
embraces every man woman and child in
the state, the guilty as well as the innocent,
the prisoner as well as the freeman. The
legislature can inflict penalties for the
commission of crime, but there is one pen
alty it cannot inflict, one penalty that the
constitution imperatively forbids, and that
is, a deprivation of the rights of conscience
And uow, whai is the Geghan law? Let
me read it, and you will see that, every
word I have said is strictly correct, and
that the clamor against it has not the slight
est foundation in reason or truth. It reads
as follows :
"As Act to secure liberty of conscience
in matters of religion to persons impris
oned, or detained by authority of law.
"Section 1. Be It enacted by the general
assembly of the state of Ohio. That as lib
erty of conscious is not forfeited by reason
of conviction of crime or by reasou of de
tention in any penal, reformatory, eleemosy
nary institution or any house of refuge,
workhouse, jail, or public asylum in this
state, no person in any such institution shall
be compel lcl to attend religious worship or
instructions of a form which is against the
dictates of his or her conscience; and it shall
be tho duty of every director, trustee, su
perintendent or other person having iu
charge any such institution, to furnish am
ple and equal facilities to all such persons
for receiving the ministrations of the author
ized clergyman of their own religious de- , religion the Catholic reverently receives the
nominations or persuasions under such rea- , instructions of his spiritual guide : id sea
sonable rules and regulations as the trus- ular matters La to CJr. .i
tees, directors, directors, managers or sup- ' th h!? ? Tf- her men act, upon
erintendents shall make, but o such rules t'Ctatf L ,,IS T J"dne.nt:. Tbero
shall b so construed as to prevent the cler- ! Rre tens. ?r thousauds of Catholics who
gyman of any denomination from fnllv ail- ' 7, nd have always voted, the republican
ministering the rites of his denomination to ! tl.ce t ; and if the number of such votes is
such inmates, provided such ministration diminishing, it is not because of priestly
shall entail no expense on the public treas- : domination, but because the spirit of know-
ur.Ti o mi '... - i nothingism again stalks abroad, and threat-
"Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from ens to nhtui., ..,,. .w .......; .
. , - .
and after its passage.
"Geo. L. Converse,
"Speaker of the House of Representatives.
"Alphosso Hart,
"President of the Senate.
"I'assea March 30, 1875
republican party.
It is not many years since Archbishop
Hushes, of New York, and Archhiahon
PurcelL of Cincinnati, were open suppoi ti
ters of Lincoln's administration, and were
I a . ... - '
When this bill firefpasse.feterase of T" reP"bliean leaders
f.f nm fy-,!. r I - uvrw vm IUC77
representatives mere were si
and thirty-two against it, and among those
wno voted tor it were seven conspicuous
republican members, one of whom, I am
told, was and is a Protestant preacher of
tho gospel. But immediately afterward
the idea entered the heads of the party
managers that .some party capital might
be made out of the bill ; that it might be
made to assist the anti-Catholic and know
nothing cry about to be raised for party
purpose ; and hence thes seven republicans
were induced by party consideration to fore
go their judgment and to vote for a recon
sideration of the bill, and, only four days
jiter mey nau voted lor 1L foui of tliem
leaders was heard to utter a word about
priestly interference in politics, or priestly
domination. On the contrary, these vener
able prelates were lauded to the skies by
the republican party, and their examples
everywhere cited as an inducement to
Catholics to vote the republican ticket.
Nay, further, President Lincoln manifested
his high regard for the Archbishop of New
York by sending him on a mission to
Europe, and the whole republican party
applauded the act. But did the course
taken by those eminent prelates none
more eminent or better entitled to the
regard of their flocks and mankind con-
voted against it, and three of them omit- I , , Catholic vote? Every man of u Jjftianifests sensibility. The head of the
-i . a . ... - . t. . . . ...
ini in vote at, a..'. iNow ii ine bin were a
bad bill, why were seveu republicans found
voting for it, before the party lash was ap
plied to their backs? And why did three
stand out so far as to let it pass without
their dissent ? If it is a bad law, why did
not the republican st? convention con
demn it aud demand its roal? They
were ready enough to condemn the legisla
ture, but you find not one word iu their
platform condemning this law. If it is a
i bad law why did not the republican con
vention of Hamilton couuty, only Isst
Wednesday, refuse to pass a resolution de
manding its repeals ? If it is a bad law why
did not some republican orator, from Geu.
Hayes down to the least of them, or some
republican newspaper, great cr small,
point out wherein it i bad? But you
hear nothing of that kind from those speak
ers ; you see nothing of that kind in those
papers ; but you hear and see general de
clamation withou end passionate appeals
without truth or oecency, and misrepresen
tations without stint or limit. You hear
it asserted that howev.".r unobjectionable
the bill may be, it was passed in obedience
to piiestJy dictation, and this assertion
is made a text for a crusade agaiust the
Catholic church and wholesale denuncia
tion of the democratic party. Bnt what
foundation is there for the charge ? That
some Catholic priest or priests may have
expressed themselves in favor of tho bill,
is, for aught I know, true ; that some
Catholic newspaper may have advocated
its passage may also be true ; but pray,
tell me, when did a man lose his rights as
an American citizen by being a Catholic
priest? When did it come to pass that
ujMjn a measure touching the rights of con
science, a Catholic newspaper was bound
to be silent? And when, in the forum of
reason, patriotism and common sense, did
an indiscreet remark of a preacher or a
newspaper furnish a just reason for assail
ing an entire Christian church aud an en
tire political party ? And when did they
furnish a just ground for charging the
members of a general assembly, chosen by
the people and knowing their responsibility
to the people, with succumbing to priestly
dictation ?
Nine-tenths, at least, of the members
who voted for the Geghan bill were Protes
tants, or sympathize with Protestantism.
Not a few of them are earnest aud active
members of Protestant churches. Some of
them represented constituencies in which
j the Catholic aro scarcely one in a hundred
of tho people. Did these men succumb to
. Catholic dictation? Were the seven repub-
licans, the Protestant preacher included,
j who at first voted for the bill, servants of
the poije? Is there any man, not an idiot
' or utterly blinded by prejudice, who does
not see that the charge is absurd, that it is
i a mere trick of party managers, who are
I willing to jeopard religion, convulse society
I and sow the seedi of porpetual discord iu
, order to achieve party success? Can not
j any man in his senses see that if party
. ascendency can bo obtained one year by
! attacking a particular church, it may be
j obtained at another time by attacking
some other church. I can remember when
! a Universalist was not allowed to testify as
a witness in some of the states; when it
was necessary to believe iu hell (ire in order
to give testimony about a horse or an ass ;
when, in 'some neighborhoods, he was re
garded as a foe to religion and worse than
an infidel. There are many people yet
who think that a Unitarian denies the
truth of Scripture, and deserves the frowns
and condemnation of all true christians.
There are 6till others who regard the
Quakers as enemiesof government, because
they insist upon the gospel of peace aud
deny the lawfulness of war. There are
others who regard the Episcopal church
as a sort of adjunct to Home. And so of
all the sects ; there is not one against
whom, in the minds of other sectaries, pre
judice may not be excited ; and f that pre
judice is to take the form of political war
fare, there is no sect that will be secure
from its baleful influence. The radical
managers now assail the Catholics, know
ing them to be in a rainorty. Were the
Protestants jn a minority, I dare say some
of these same managers would bo found
assailing them. No, my friends, the only
safe ground to stand upon is the demo
cratic principle of equal rights aud perfect
freedom of conscience, embodied iu our
Federal and state constitutions. The
churches are poweiful and efficient instru
mentalities for good, and whatever may be
a man's belief or disbelief in theological
tenets, he can not truthfully deny their con
servative power over the morals and peace
of society. Bui whenever they shall be
dragged into the mire of politics, whenever
warfare upon a church shall become a high
road to political perferment, you may rest
assured that a blow at their usefulness will
have been dealt that will require many
years of pain and suffering before its evil
effects will cease to be felt.
To hear a radical stumper talk of the
Catholic church, you would think, if you
knew no better, that all the members of
that church are under the absolute domin
ion of their priests ; that the priest has but
to point his finger and his whole flock vote
for the party to which he points. There
never was a more unfounded assertion,
never a greater libel pronoanced against a
body of American freemen. In matters of
The Siamese Tirins t)utdfnie.
"TWO SOULS W1THBCT ASrXGI.KTHOlT.HT,
TWO HEARTS THAT BKAT AS OM."
The Savannah (Georgia) JVVw, says :
It appears that Savaunah is shortly to have
the opportunity of seeing a curiosity of na
ture's laws, which is said to rival the cele
brated Siamese Twins. This woudeirul
lusus naturio is at present being exhibited
in Augusta, and the Chronicle and iScntit.el
thus describes it :
"This strange freak is in the shape of a
double child, or, more strictly speaking,
iwo ehftdren joined together-. - The curios
ity is the offspring of colored parents. Crit
tenden and Sarah Jones of Beech Island,
South Carolina. One of the children is a
perfectly developed female, large for her
age, and with every appearance of health.
The other, who is a male, is but imperfect
ly developed, has only the rudiments of
limbs, and does not eat, depending for sus
tenance upon its sister. These two beings
are joined together by a wide band in the
centre of which otio of the lungs of these
strange creatures seems to be'located.
Touch the mail, aud the femalo will shrink;
pinch it and she will cry. II.-verse the
opera; ion, and still it is tho female who
I is ready to say no, for it is notorious as that-f male i
the sun gives light to the earth, that
tho great body of Catholics continued to
vote as they had been accustomed to vwte
the democrats continued to be democrats
and the republicans contiuued to be re
publicans. It is a little curious to hear republican
speakers denounce what they call the in
terference of the Catholic priesthood in
politics, and then turn over a few pages
of history and see what the Protestant
priesthood have done, not only with
the approbation, but encouraged by the
loud plaudits of these same republicans.
Have you forgottou the petition to congress
of three thousand (I think that was the
number) Protestant ministers, denouncing
the policy of a democratic administration,
aud with what a flourish of trumpets it was
presented and applauded ? And is it not an
undeniable fact that no democrat ever sug
gested or thought of assailing a Protestant
church because of that "priestly interfer
ence in politics? Is it not an undeniable
fact that though the form and language of
tho petition wore criticised, though it was
said that it was of questionable propriety
for the petitioners to appear in their cleri
cal character and not in their simple capa
city of citizens, yet no one was found to
deny their right of petition, or to vilify
their churches because they exercised that
right? Have you forgotten the advent ia
Washington of a large body of Protestant
clergy of Chicago, who almost assumed to
speak in the name of the Almighty when
demanding of President Lincoln the issu
ance of the emancipation proclamation ?
And isnotevery.matiofyoua wituessof the
fact that that "priestly interference in poli
tics' '(occasioned no democratic assault uoon
a Protestant cb u rch, wh ile on t be othe r band
it was lustily applauded by the republican
leaders and the republican press? And yet
these same leaders and this same press are
ready to go into spasms if a Catholic priest
has the audacity to exercise his right as an
Amorican citizen, and express, however
modestly, a political opinion that is not
orthodox according to the radical creed.
Fellow citizens! I am not a Catholic,
and I have uo desire to draw comparisons
between the Protestant and Catholic priest
hood ; but, since the latter are so freely
denounced for what is called their inter
fat ence in politics, it may not be amiss to
ask a few plain questions:
What man ever heard a political sermon
from a Catholic pulpit? I am sure I never
did, nor did I ever read or hear of one.
What man can number the political ser
mons preached from Protestant pulpits,
from that of Henry Ward Beecher, in Ply
mouth church, down to that of the hum
blest edifice whose spire points to Heaven ?
What man ever hoard of a Catholie
priest making a stump speech? I am sure
I never did, nor do I believe such a thing
ever occurred.
But who can tell how many Protestant
ministers have taken the stamp, from Hen
ry Ward Beocher down to the Granville
Moodies?
What man ever heard of a Catholic
priest being a candidate for office? I know
that I never did, nor do I believe that any
one of you ever did.
But how many Protestant ministers havo
held, and how many yet hold office, from
the halls of congress and of the state legis
latures down to the humblest offices of the
county, the city aud the town?
Fellow-citizens, you will much misun
derstand me if you suppose that, in any
thing I have said, I mean tocensuie, much
less condemn, any Protestant church or
any Protestant priest. On the contrary, I
stand here to defend the rights of every
church, and to maintain that every man,
bo be Christian or Jew, Protestant or
Catholic, priest or layman, believer or un
believer, shall enjoy, to the fullest extent,
bis rights as a citizen ; that be shall have
the rights guaranteed by ourconstitutions
federal and state the right of free speech,
the right to petition the law-making power,
the right to vote as he sees fit, the right to
bold office, and, most sacred of all, the
right to worship Almighty God according
to the dictates of his own conscience. I
stand here to maintain that he shall uot be
traduced and proscribed because he exer
cises these rights; that a vindictive pre
judice snail not be excited against bim be
cause he exercises them ; that he shall be,
to all intents and purposes, what the con
stitution makes him, a free man. I stand
to denounce the agitators who would prac
tically deprive any man of these rights, to
denounce the know-nothirm spirit that
seeks to reduce Catholics and foroign-borr.
citizens to the status of a degraded class in I
the community, to denounce the hypocrisy ,
that our schools are in danger, or that our '
ligislation is controlled by any priesthood j
whatever ; and I stand here to appeal to i
you, whatever may be your religious belief !
or disbelief, whatever are or may have been
your political affiliations, whatever may be
your calling or occupation, whatever may
be the land in which your eyes first beheld
the sun, to set the seal of your condemna
tion upon the most heartless, insincere,
illiberal, anti-Atnericau and dangerous at
tack upou freedom of conscience, the rights
of the citizen, the peace of society, and the
welfare of your government evert made in
America since the know-nothing banuer,
twenty years ago, went down in the dust.
.......ii . -i
Bim iius-siiiinen, tne ears ore-
Kent mg more the appearance of those of
an animal than a human being. The pul
sations of tho heart and the act of respira
tion can bo plainly perceived in the liga
ment joining the bodies. This ligament,
if such it can be called, is joined to the
girl at the end of the breast bono and
to the male lower down. It is broad and
thick, covered with skin like the rest of
;he bxly. Whether there are two distinc
tive sets of vital organs or whether both
are dependent upon one, has not yet been
determined. The latter opinion seems to
prevail, however. It is apparent, at any
rate, that the male receives nourishment
through its companion. A well known
physician of this city examined the twins
yesterday and pronounced them to be the
most wonderful natural phenomenon of
the kind in the world. The mother and
father of tho children are strong and heal
thy. Twins were never born to them be
fore. The twins are about eight weeks
old. Messrs. Hatikerson and Weathersdy,
of South Carolina, have them in charge,
and intend to take them from Angustato
Savannah, and thence to Nsw York."
A Story Wortti Hepeatixo. Judge
Davis, of Illinois, a is rich man. The public
may not know how he became wealthy.
About thirty years ago, when Judge Davis
was a practicing lawyer in the West, he
was employed by a Connecticut man to
collect $800. Davis went to t he place w here
the debtor lived, found him to be rich io
landed possessions but without a dollar iu
money. He finally settled the bill by giv
ing a deed for a tract of land a flat, moii-t
and undesirable pice of land iu appearand.-,
lying close by a sheet of water, and con
sisting of about sixty acres. Davis subse
quently met his client in St. Lruis, when
the latter (who seemed not to have the
usual Connecticut shtewdtioss) foil to and
gave him a regular "blowing up" for tak
ing the land rather than insisting on having
the $800 in cash. He did not want any of
your Western land, and he told Davis that,
having received it in payment of the debt,
he had better keep it himself and pay the
money out of his own picket. To tin's
Davis agreed. Stepping into a friend's
office he borrowed $800, took the Connec
ticut man's receipt for the land, and held it
for a rise. That land forms part of the
suburbs of Chicago. Judge Davis has sold
two or three hundred thousand dollars'
worth of it, and has nearly a million dol
lars worth left. It is a striking example of
what Western property has done for its
holder, and as the story has never been
printed we thought it would be interesting
enough to publish.
As Impressive Sight. The.ro were
seventeon of them exactly seventeen.
They marched down Michigan avenue iu
double file all but one. He marched alone
at the head of the column. They were no
ble young men. They had high foreheads
and intelligent faces, and there was a stern,
determined lotik on each face a look
which said they would die at their coun
try's call. Were they going forth to Wattle?
Were they going to the rescue of some
kited seutiment which the wicked woild
was trying to blot from the hearts of man?
Were thy goinn to the succor of the un
fortunate and distressed? No, not a cent's
worth they were going out to play base
ball. It was an imposing sight to see them
march, march, march, each form erect,
each step in time, each face bearing that
look which warriors wear when the roarof
the battle is loudest. If every one of the
seventeen had been on their way to the
wood-pile or the corn-field the right could
not have lecii moie grand oi thrilling.
Detroit Free Pre.
OnB of the most niovoking things in this
world is to have one's name spelled wrong
in a complimentary notice iu a newspaper.
Dead bodies found turned ever in coffins,
after slumbering in the grave for years, are
supposed to have been buried alive ; but if
the truth were kuown, their names were
wrongly spiled in their obituaries, and
this caused the corpse to turn over in dis
gust. Morris town Herald.
Sii-ent Romance or a London Street.
Noifolk street, Strand, has a curious
commemorative monument. An observant
sjectator will notice that the first floor win
dows of a large house at the corner of How
ard street presents a peculiar apjiearance.
Tho shutters are up, and thy are covered
thickly with dust, whilf. through the chinks
can be seeu tho blinds, also thick with dust,
and mouldering away with age. Those
shutters and blinds have been in exactly
the same position, untouched, for about
fifty years. During that time no human
foot, it is believed, entered that room.
And the reason Is this":
Fifty years ago a certain nobleman was
engaged to be married. The tf.ty was fixed,
the wedding morning arrived, the break
fast was laid out in that spacious and haad
sonie room, the bridegroom a ready to
proceed to the church, when it Mas dis
covered that the bride was missing. A note
in her handwriting was found addressed to
the bridegroom, briefly informing him that
she had eloped that morning w ith his "best
man," a gay and gallant captain .f dia
gootis. The jilted bridegroom did not kay
much, but he went alone to the room iu
which the wedding breakfast was laid out,
with his own bands put np the shutters and
drew the blinds, locked the door and took
the key. Ho gave orders that the doors
should be nailed up and barred with pad
locked bars, mid that no one t-hould enter
the room agaiu. When the house was let
it was stipulated that the room iu question
should remain untouched, and a sum of
two hundred pounds pr annum was paid
to the tenant to compensate him for the
deprivation of the use if the room. The
nobleman has been dead some years, but
it ia believed the reom has never been en
tered since te day he closed it, and there
are the "wedding meals" moulderingaway,
and the ornaments crumbling into dust in
the funeral glixim.
A Reminiscence ok the War. The
recent death of General George E. Pickett
recalls to the St. Louis Times the follow
ing reminiscence of the battle of Gettys
burg: It was the dayof his crowning glory.
Lee himself ran his eye along the list of his
subordinates, seeking for a soldier fit to
lead the column that was to dash itself
against the Federal centre. There were
many such, but he chose Pickett. What
happened thereafter belongs te history.
Pickett put himself at the head of the Vir
ginians. He had an aid do camp, a boy
almost, and the only son of a mother who
idolized him. Just before the column
bioke from a parade-rest to run, the Gen
eral spuke to his staff officer tei.deily, and
asked him if ho .the aid de-ca-tp) wTro
killed in the charge who would J, sorrow
ing for him. ".My mother," the boy au
sweied, something like a tear dimming the
glint of his steel blue eye, and bu.siedliim
self no further iih the future. Not so
with General Pickett. Just as he mounted
and moved out at tho head of his troops,
ho called the young officer to him and sent
him wilh an unimportant message tea dis
tant part of the field. When tLe boy te
turned the division was decimated. His
commander had just taken the trouble U
save his life.
The charge of the Virginians at Gettys
burg will live in song md story for a thou
sand yenis. Out of five thousand, fifteen
bundled got back alive with their colors
and reported for duty. Of these fifteen
hundred, seven hundred were barely nn
wounded. Some got over the breast works
and died there. Just nutside the parapet,
however, the dead were thickest, aud bore
the most convincing evidence of the terri
ble struggle. Pickett got back alive with
the vemnant of his heroes, but sorely
wounded. Gettysburg was lost to Lee with
the repulse of this charge, and tho confed
eracy to the confederates.
To Cure Diptheria. Cut this out
and try it iu emergency it can do you no
harm, and may be of service. There is no
necessity of death resulting from either
diptheria or croup, es.iecially with the
young, if the proper preventive is applied
in time, and it is at the service of every
mother and nurse in the whole country. It
is simply to spread sonunon tar on a mus
lin strip, as you would prepare a plaster,
aud wrap it around the neck and glands of
tho patieut. Renew and supply frevh tar
on the neck of the child once or twice a
day, and its life is assured. This is a very
simple cure, and as diptheria is in almost
every case fatal, we would advise those
having it to try this remedy. 1 here is
nothing injurious in the tar, and tLeiefore
it can have no bad effect.
It has never been accounted for and
probably never will be why a boy who will
eat four meals, play ball three hours, gorge
himself with unripe fruit and go in swim
ming six times daily during all vacation
aud be healthier than a tombstone, w ill lie
seized with all sorts of maladies the very
tnomeut the school bell rings.
It was only a line or two in the daily pa
per, says the Detroit Free Pre a few
words to the effect that Central Station
had been newly whitewashed. Goodlirai t,
of Sixth street, came home after a night's
; absence with whitewash on hia back, and
! as he met his wife he said: "llanj mj
J luck ! I got carried off on a Lake Shore
(train." She picked up the pajier, plao-d
; her thumb on the word whitewash, and
there were icicles in her voice as sho re
plied : "Don't Ut that happen sgain,
t William Goodhcni t."
The man who said that virtue is its
;owu reward, might have added that vite
: is too.