sat fr 111 ttlM' 1YifySY o -m v . i smaiii w r sav w .re ---. ..-- r m a i m i fit, t 1,4 u i . ji m. yf.- . m moh . . jr.w m" arx. - s x . i a i ,cpi!Cr, Editor and Publisher. HR IS A FKKEMAJf WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL AKS SLAVES BESIDE." Terms, $2 per year. In advance. X. Iakb WAY ;v ('ash Store ..lTKMI V nlT.SKl IIY taKM tetoE. Pa. am r Vlll:il rybndy is Rushing is nvw f .l5;r,E JFFsRtO IM THE FOLLOWING TofCASH PBICES, ,.r,r,-.;!ii:l"l in tiiisciniiiunlty : t;r.. Ilk -. i.is iver yard. ,., ;, ;! l-'J cents I'- ynl. Ilmnxh .ill w-h.i :it 10 cents. tn-nliiii rt ? all vo.. i!lOc. tofl.12. hirthm. 1- rts er yard. 7M".'?7."" :'"! ?7.7"i per barrel. C, ''' ' ll,s- IV.if,r .it cents per lvotind. ',s it site pur gallon. tM t:TltTIIINO F.I.SK CKKS Kt'ALLV CHEAT. ,r. h: i.-'tiri- tr nn I- l.innels anil Cns t -..;, w'irr.i lit all wed ami wsillvely jmii Liun-r- .rr'-fS. triMxl exc-h:ir nel FLANNELS, YAKNS, Iilt. " -iir in ntinnnnftiir t till" puMIC it it' ( m il.KN rt-ocnMy nwntxl T V J m Sun :in'l liit"ly lHiivtit v -vri t!i-T' li; v retil teil thriiughout )jr 'mm AMI STEAM rOWEH, d-sTi Pit nr liiiil'linir. We hare Fparel Ri u( "ii r Mil! with the N-l i.l mil- ' i ' im lrnt !v rp'-oimiifntl ur'nn- .! Sn-li ; ;tny riMihl rniii the Kft- - iiur fl- ro i;iirfratitc:l Wil., an.I No Shoddy or Cotton 5 n ;ia. Our prices are STf)f WORK r.-. i-Ivo .'iieciat attention. s,n il il he h i. ikiim' to us for nuiule" t--all ,ii uur .vliil. TERMS-CASH. I'srhtiiiretl for Wool, eusburg Woolen Co. iJiil'EiSIOII&Ca Wmm, Penn'a. HEECSIVED OH DEPOSIT. SlIl'ilUJ) 0 TIME IIEP0S1TS. L'ed. COUECTLNS MADE, A V ' A 'iF.NKIt AL ''"'G BUSINESS TRANSACTED. '"" lai1 to ttwinfs i.f or- l. i. -- '- W. HICK. tf V. . I. I JHN D. THOMAS. p . . t"1 Hi.' put. lie- u n r- -. .t...' ,' '"I'Hifm-niif iti OTS .i v.. .- " "'I'' 'I Mi-nr nuiillir. fp..m '"" "l ,.'"'":":-!klU ImwiI tottM(.Hl0C!t "'I'ic . ,,,Y "r"T n the i ',' " iniwlrrate j.rlc.n an 'i'ip.wrr'' """ tM Shots made ' -r r.,(, ',' "m '1 no iiHsurnturo n to ! ''v,,,, ,' V' "' w,"'k th-;s mn Ti-i V .".f:"'t M '"'-V will only '" vj'. i!. ,s""'-' "ti. Shovii nttTl-led "h. i,,r , 1!! ""'kniMfiliU.- manner. ' r ;. ... V" t .t .H t. rl i.-.mti'lciit '''!i' V...'l '" '"'"".ti.l nie lot .lilllv lk l ltVkU-. a ,T'i.2r .V. ' ---- 11 imSKXSTEEL, ,M Tri,Kit or Ki rr.HinB Crop LExiTHER, ANh lF.AI.r.H IM iJi!l AMI I'USTEHEIwV HAIR, Jons sroirx, VA, 'r, .irj'''f'!.'-hv."'"1 ,lp"'l-lc Ibtrk wanted. .,:V,' J "ATMAX, M. II., I'hv ;,"'rM,,1.,1,l,Kri:iv, Kl.iKh.irsr, I'. ""'"'I'-rw''.''', 'illinr uo lilKil L5- ''X u "f l,,lr Jiiiue. fp-;-. ' . ' " ' ! Ut Carrolltowii.) '..'"'WVk A,"nlne. Cumhrla count ' r m 4,,, the I'oai-olflce. f'l ";.1SK('inJ'KhI Attorney at ? '' m';S,,,,rK- Offll-e III IJol- 'u;f-.,t -v ''''"I'lu'l 'jr Wm. Kittll. 1.0"' Ai;ir vkhtisk'm i:ts. HIg PAPTIl IS ON FI1.E WITH W her. AdTertUlna; loutracU r4n b An ovrritiMc t IX nmcr ollcn letitr1;c tlic svntcm, brinvrdon Hittulcnvn nnd wind colic, mid nulijccts the patient to great Ixxlily cullorinK. A Kinitle Uue TnrranCn Srtfzer Aperient will correct the aridity, relieve the p-ln. earrv off the oU.-n-liiiir fitiiffl. nnd save PomeiitneA & l'otiar ppell of illiKHH. lis ell vets are gentle ami tliormili and its general we would prevent much sulterinv? SOLD IIY ALLUKI'IKHSTS. kj. 1 o i rtwy wt home. A vents wanted Outfit nnd terms free IKCKkOil., Auvsusta. Alaine. AVKSTKKX LANDS HOMF9TFADS. II yon want reliaide inforinrttion. where anil how tu icet Hi cheap t- K M. or xovcrninent llomr n1eitl. fr,-,: send yonr it.l.lri'? to S. J.ditMORR. Iand t nitnlKKlon-r tiiwrciirc Kan., and receive lnix copy of The Kantas 1'aritlc Homestead. S77 PKH WKKK (IIIAHANTKKI)to Airerts, Male and Kemnle. in their own locality. Terms and OI'TKIT FKKK. Adi'reiis P. O. VHJKEKY tt;0., Augusta. Maine. trt ii'Jf l"'r 1"y "l "mp- Samples worth il ?-J lU -pU r,.e ri-iissox &.t!.. Portland, Me 59 Vlwltlr I'srili, with your name finely printed. ent lor 2ic. We have loo styles. Arnt IVsntol. U samples sent for stamp. A. H. r L'LLKK & CO., Brockton. Mass. CKtM! t'ARIS!-30 Kxtra Mixed Visit lua; ii rds. with name. live.. or no for'ioc. Mklej. vili.k Card Co., Mcllenville, Col. Co., X. Y. 25 Ultra line Mixed 'ards. with name, lOcts., ost paid, L. Jests Co , Nassau, Y. PflU UAVCC , ,r' nr"t I'nMIe UUffl llMICO Service, t'ompleteand reliable. Kndorsed Irom oft1cl.il sources. Kiirr rhf fnr hrciii. Secure territory at once. For circulars and terms nUre j I' AkK.it CITY I'llll.lsllIX. TO., Plillad a, Pa. LAND for SALE. flfifl Al KKS W I'ARlll.Kl AXII 0W,UWl7 IIHllER l.lMivii near the great Ksnswha. Hlver. In Putnam t'onnty. West Vir tcini.i. in qnantlties to suit purchasers Soil ir-xxt, wjtfr pure and atiundant, t holier excellent', cliurehes. rcIhhiIs and mills convenient: title per fect. Price 3 to S per acre. Terms accommota tln. Send lor full deserip'ion to.f . Li .MiLDAN, Winfleld. Putnam County, West Virginia. Sulphur Soap b Qnwnf, IWsritiif. Hiiiiffttiiij. Sootlinf, leiling lid rarifjitg. Tt renders the coameat akin WniarVaMy nft mild Wmltlifu. It llnpnrt a beautiful mouthneas to the skin, and forms an claotlc whitoueas. It cures 1ums,sraldis chafing, excoriations, rougbnewi, tan, sunburu, freck les, liver spots, chappel liamls, sores, ulcers, dandruff, lillntert on the hands and feet, itch, ground itch, itrliius; between the toes, itching of the Uxly, pi! en, corns. Atno relieves the. Itching ajil irritation of Mtiug and stincing Inaects. As it is tjieciivlly silaptod t tlie Toitrr, NrasKT, and Hath eooji, yon can take a S'lpJiur Juith at plensuro. r bath ing Children, ii is unequalled. - Lntiiea who m it in their Toilet would never do ithotit it. It neutralises the ior of perspiration, and, as an external remedy, can scarcely l o used amias. Kull ilirectioii accoiniony each package. TBY IT. Wes 23 CU. ctr Cik. 3 Cxloi f:r C3 Ctt. By mail 36 Cta. By mail K CIS. Mais Drsor AT Tr. Vn i l)yke' OfHoo, Ho. 1321 Green St., Philadelphia. Bald tr all UWaEcMa. USE NO OTHER. L? POCkET KNIVES Vl rCZem LOCK, nin. " ' II ft i m E9. AVo. II . r.ifrSENTERS'. 8.kCK'S?t .M1TH A, AGRICUL-Ay vis: TUSH tools ysij CARD. Harry Jacobs would rc-aiMM-f fully litf'im lii mitiy frien.ls in Cnmhrla coun y and elsewhere that "''": siirned 1rm. ol which he is a member, has opened I nVw ?iiT a bmrh skst at . l .lrke Ntreel, PkiUdelphia lor the sale of the verv best fades of " w !. t.lM K. Tor domestic use and will at all times keep nn assortment (of the Jery Test br"nJs only) which will compare lavor ably with any ever ottered to the trade, AM per sonJ visiting the city are cordlslly Inr te.l to Id spect our stock. WliUlpbl. p. s -We will also k.-cp on had a fine stock choice brands ol Clours. 8-18.-1 t.J Boyd & Gamble. AUC1IITKCTS And Superintendents Cermania Bank Building, Corner Wood oinl IHamotul fit., 2-3. riTTSKUKQH, PA. ly. niVE itins VOIt SALE. I have fi,r nal n rhoii-e lot nf joitngrOLANI) a i . il.... iKiil iki rn i &ffl for Kliilr Co., ph. Aug. 18. 1876. 3m. m tr T'T.AVJv. M. D.. rospoctftilly Vi. . .....r.uuiou.l Hervices to Ilia .iti..-. ..r i...un.l.rir and riclnltr. fflce ad. iolnin residence and immediately In the i rear of Hon. K. .1. Iloyn s orun V. In, made at the resilience of .Mrs. Uunn. on ""r- ford street, t'cuitur. l,4-Z.-. I EIJENSHURG, A COUNTRY K 1IOOI Grotty nt pale an.I tirM She Kits in Jier sliff-hm.k chair, While 1 lie blazing Hummer ami Sltinett on Iter noft tinmn hair, And the tiny brook without, Tliat. sh hears through the open door, Mocks with its murmur eool Hard beiuli and dusty floor. But .Jemmy's bare brown feet Are aching to wade in the stream, Where the trout to his luring bait Shall leap with a quick, bright gleam ; A tu! his feat her' bine- eyes stray Tu the flowers on the desk hard by. Till her thoughts hae followed her eyes Willi a half-uncoiisfions sigh. Her heart outruns the clock. As Hhe smells their faint sweet scent ; But when have time and heart Their measure in unison bleut? For time will haste or lag. Like your shadow on the grass, That, lingers far behind Or tties when you fain would pass. Ilaro patience, restless J-m, The stream and the fish will wait; Anil patience, tired blue eyes Down the winding road by the gate, Under the willow shade, Sia.ids some one with fresher flowers ; So turn to your lionks again, And keep love for the alter hours. A 1 O VJt L iS 1A JVC? Kit. A story or two from an old hunter will not prove uninteresting, I kuow, conse quently I will copy a few pages from my diary in relation to my adventures in Afri ca, where I spent considerable time, nearly a score of yeais ago, hunting the wild and ferocious monsters of the forest and jun gles. With no more preface, then, my good friends, I will at onc proeeed with my nariative. I had been out on a hunt several months, and had bad a number of thrilling adven tures far more exciting than really pleas ant. This Reason I was accompanied by a friend named Morris Ilelly, and, as usual, several sooty faced natives. The latter were not much to be dejvendedon, however. in a moment of trouble or danger. In fact, they were rather cowardly, and almost always ready to run, If the chance for flight was any ways good, On several oc casions they had left Kelly and me to face the mnsij, wholly alone and unaided. Well, early one morning, before we had made a start, and while the natives were preparing b.eakfast, Kelly declared his in tention of going out a little way to look around. No sooner said than done, and out he went, leaving me to smoke my piK and enjoy my lcisuie, 'You Ftay here," said ho to me, ''and see that the breakfast is properly prepared by the time I get b.ick, which won't be long, I assure you, for I'm mighty hungry myself. I'll just take a squint aiound here, and see if there's any game stirring ; though there's never much lack of that, 1 t ika it, in this section of the world." 'Well, hurry back." I replied. "Break fast is almost ready now, and we'll make an early start, Besides, I wou't veutuio far away alone." Kelly said he should run no risk, and would be back in good season. Iti fact, he added, he should not go out of the sound of my voice. With these words my companion started off, and in a few min utes disaj peared from my sight. Fifteen minutes afterwards I was startled by the crack of a rillo, not vety for off, either. leaping to my feet, I excitedly cried out There ! Kelly's into it already, some how." Bidding the natives follow me, I seized my riflo and darted off in the direction of the sound. The daikics obeyed my hur ried behest, but managed to lay a good ways behind, as usual. Quietly for I en jojed silence we hurried along, At length we began to mount the side of a huge hill that lay befoie us. Up, up, np, cautiously crawling along on our hands and knees, for there the crack of a rille was almost always warning of danger and !h) hunter made his calculations accoid ingly. A, length I reached the top, where I found a level plateau of several acres. The sMt was almost barren, and the trop ical sun poured down with a scorching power. However, I could see but ono thing, then, with any distinctness, and the sight of that fairly curdled the blood in my veins. In the centre of the plateau appeared the form of a lion, and the mighty mons ter was ripping and rending the body of poor Kelly into a hundred pieces. I think the animal came suddenly upon my companion, who fired his weapon but missed his aim, and before, he could reload hiding place there was none, not even Iho trunk of a tree the terrible animal bore him down. Such things often hap pened, and to the best of hunters, as may well be supposed- . , . , On the edge of the plateau I suddenly halted riveted to the spot by what I saw. Before I fully recovered my senses, my natives reached my side, and just as they arrived at the lop of the hill, and took in a realizing sense of what was before them, the lion raised his head and uttered a roar that seemed to shaks the very air. Quick as lightning Ihey took to their heels, and tore d.wn the hill, leaving me alone to do the best I could. All this the appearance of the natives st the brow rf the hill, the roar or the lion, and the flight of th bUtclieys occur PA., FltlDAY, SErTEMBEIl 8. 187G. red almost simultaneously ; and the next moment, quick as a Hash, the roaring mons ter sprang away from the gory carcass of poor Kelly, and darted at met with a single bound clearing half the distance, and the morrent be struck toe ground, fiercely bounding forward aga in. As the lion left the ground a second time, I sank down be low the brow of the hill, dropped upon my knees, pointed my rifle upward, and fired away at the monster while he was flying through the air almost directly over me. The ball struck him, but not fatally, and the next moment the animal landed a few feet beyond me on the side of a hill. Alighting in such a place, the fierce brute could find no footing. After a few sting gles to retain his balance, he toppled over, and rolled down the hill, uttering roar upon roar. At the same moment I sprang np on the level ground above, and rapidly began to reload my rifle, accomplishing the task in an extraordinary short space of time. Meanwhile the lion had reached the bot tom of the hill, which was pretty steep, I assure yon, and regained his feet. For a a moment only he stood, looked around, as if a little bewildered, and then he spied me, and darted up the hill toward the spot I oc cupied. Tho monster was bleeding in several places ; both Kelly and myself had evident ly wounded him, and he appeared to be maddened with the pain of his injuries. Such a roaring as he made mortal ears sel dom hear. It was a critical moment for me, but, thank God ! my nerves were firm, and my eyes undazzled. To the fullest I realized the peril of my situation, but I w as too old a hunter to be easily dashed. Well, the mighty monster glided steadily toward me, and when about half way tip the hill, I raised my rifle and took a steady aim at his shaggy head. I thonght I bad him sure, but, you know, "man proposes aud God disposes." One moment I stopped to make myself doubly sure. All ready I laid my finger upon the trigger, but just then a sudden sound styyed my purpose. It was the cry of a leopard that struck upon my ear, and the sound came from right behind me, bursting upon me like a clap of thunder. I dropped the muzzle of my rifle, and rnpidly looked behind me. Not twenty feet behind me, crouched down for a deadly spring down so close that it lay almost flat upon the ground with his fiery, burning, glaring eyes fixed steadily upon me, was a huge leopard. There I was, between a lion and a leop aid, and I ask you now, could any mortal man b i placed in a more desperate and per ilous situation. "Heaven help roe now !" I muttered. Not a minute elapsed after I turned to look back In? fore the ferocious leopard vaulted from the ground and went whiz zing through the air. The moment for ac tion restoied to me a measure of my fore thought, and I junicd backward several paces, at the same time stooping down un der the flying tnouslcr. The leopard landed on the very spot where I had been standing what would . have been my fate if I had not moved back, I yon may guess and just as his feet touch I ed the ground, the lion's head appeared above the top of the bill, and almost in stantly afterward, the lion himself. A roar from one, and a screech from the other, followed, and mingled together. Between the two 1 seemed to escape obser vation, and I tell yon, I was mighty thank ful for it, and I looked n with bated breath. Instantaneously the monsters bounded it each other, taking the fight wholly out of my hands. Standing, as they did, upon the very edge of the declivity, their charge upon each other overturned their balance, and they lolled over and over down the hill, ripping und tearing, and screaming, and roaring like very devils. I ran to the edge, and, looking over, watched them. That was my time to es ele, you will say, but I was fascinated by the sight of two fucIi dreadful monsters engaged in battlo array, and I almost for got my own imminent danger. At the bottom of the hill the battle was renewed with three-fold fury, and for a long time the denouement seemed uncer tain. I could have shot either, but that would have left tne exposed to the attack of the survivor. Besides, I really wanted to see the monsters light it. out, and felt pretty sure they would demolish one anoth er in the long mn. Lying flat on my stomach, with my head just over the brow of the hill, I watch ed the sanguinary struggle below. With ntiger interest I noticed every phase of the unusual conflict. At length the leopard stretched himself upon the ground, and uttered a loud and wailing cry. Standing over the twitching and kicking lrody, tbo conquering lion proudly threw his head aloft and uttered a roar of triumph. At that moment his eyes fell upon me and the gory, uusatcd animal again darted up the hill. Once mote I leveled my rifle, and this time nothing occurred to mar my put pose. I tired and stiuck the brute be tween the eyes. Weak and wounded as he wns, that was almost to much for him. With a cry of pain he tottered and nearly fell backward down to the bottom. By a mighty effort recovering himself, however he clung to tho side of the hill and strug gled fiercely to maintain his footing. I felt no pity for the monster, however could not lie expected to feel any. A large stone, just as much as I could lift, hapttoning to be lying 1-Kse at my feet, I picked it up, and with all my force cast it at niy enemy. Tho heavy stone stiuck they dying ix-ast in the head, finishing his career. With a last ronf he rolled over and over down the hill. ; Shortly after I was rejoined by my native guides, but it was quite a while before I could induce them to approach the plateau. Finally, I somewhatovercaine their alrm ; and that accomplished, I had a grave dug for poor Kelly, in which he was laid to his eternal repose. A SAiy VASE Or "S'l'OSA'V BKIGG3 MAKES INQCIKIKS AS TO THE LAW IN THE MATTER. While Judge Copley was sitting in his office the other day looking over some law papers, the door opened and a man hob bled in upon crutches. Proceeding to A Chair, and making a cushion of some news papers, he sat down very gingerly, placed a bandaged leg upon another chair, aud said : "Judge, my name is Briggs. I called in, judge, to get your opiniou about a little point of law. Mr. Judge, s'posin you lived up the 'pike here a half a mile, next door to a man named Johnson. "And s'posin' you and Johnson were to get into an argument about the human intellect, and you was to say to Johnson that a splendid illustration of the superiority of the human intellect was to be found in the power of the human eye to restrain the ferocity of a wild animal. And s'posin' Johnson was to remark that that was all bosh, because nobody could hold a wild animal with the human eye; and you should declare that you could hold the savagest beast that was ever born if you could once fix your gaze on him. "Well, then, s'posin' Johnson was to say he'd bet a hundred dollars he could bring a tame animal that you couldn't hold with your eye, and you was to take him up on it, and Johnson was to ask you to come down to bis place to settle the bet. You'd go, we'll say, and Johnson'd wander round to the back of the house, and pretty soon come front again with a dog bigger' u any four decent dogs ought to be. And then s'posin Johnson'd let go of that dog and sick him on you, and he'd come at you like a sixteen inch 6hell out of a howitzer, and you'd get skeery about it, aud tiy to hold the dog with your eye and couldn't. And s'posin you'd suddenly conclude that may be your kind of an eye wasn't calculated to bold that kind of a dog, aud you'd conclude to break for a plum tree, in order to have a chance to col lect your thought, and to try to reflect what sort of an eye would be best calcula ted to moiify that sort of a dog. You ketch my idea, of course? "Very well, then, s'posin' you'd take your eye off of that dog; Johnson, miud you, nil the time sicking him oil and laugh ing, and you'd turn and leg it for a tree, and begin to swarm up as fast as you could. Well, sir, s'posin' just as yon got three feet from the ground, Johnson's dog would grab you by the leg and bold on like a vise, shakiug you until you nearly lost your hold. Aud s'posin' Johnson was to stand there and holler, "Fix your eye on him, Briggs ! Why don't you manifest the ivower of the human intellect ?' and so on -gassing away with ironical remarks like thc ; and s'posin' he kept that dog ou that leg until he made yon swear to pay I he bet, and then, at last, had to pry the dog off with. a hot poker, bringing away at the same time a half a pound of your meat in the dog's mouth, so that you bad to he carried home ou a stretcher, aud to hire four doctors to keep you from dying with lockjaw. "S'posin' ibis, what I want to know is, couldn't you sue Johnson for damages,and make him pay heavily for what tint dog did ? That's what I want to get at." The judge thought for a minute and then said : "Well, Mr. Bitggs, I don't think I could. If I agreed to let Johnson set the dog at me, I should lie a party to the transaction and I could not recover." "Do yon mean to say that the law wont make that infernal scoundral, Johnson, suffer for letting his dog eat me np?" "I think not, If you state the case prop erly." "It won't, hey ?" exclaimed Mr. Briggst hysterically. "Oh, very well ! very well ! It's a beautiful government, this is ! Beau tiful, aiut ii ? I s'pose if that dog had chewed me all up, and spit me out it 'd 've been all the same to this constitutional re public. But blame me if I don't have satisfaction. I'll kill Johnson, poison his dog, aiKl emigrate to some country where the rights of citizens are protected. If I dont, you may bu'st me open 1" Then Mr. Briggs got on his crutches and hobbled out. He is still a citizen and will vote at the next election. IUuslratrd Weekly. A Weird Thocoiit. You have seen a man in the crowded assembly.say Bnrdette, of the Burlington JIairkeye, a grave, earn cst-looking man, with the stamp of genius and the lines f lofty aspiration and noble impulse on his face, suddenly spring from his seat with the pallor of a heart pain lightning his face with its ghastly glare, while he hastens from the curious glances that are bent upon him, into the pitying shadow of the silent night. And a bitter, cynical smile curves your lips when you hear your wife pity him, for you know, from sad, heart-breaking experience, that a man who fastens the after-end of his suspender with a pin has no business to lean back on his chair. Preventive of Hydrophobia in Dogs. Boil three tablespoonfuls of salt and an ounce of carbolic powder in a pint of water. squeeze in a lemon, nnd then let a piece of meat simmer in the mixture to give tt an ' attractive taste. Take out the meat and put the liquor in a cool place. Then, while the remedy is cooling, lead the dog out : behind the barn and shoot him between j the eyes with a Remington rifle. One pint of the liquor will bj fouud enough lor one hundred dogs. scJtuJtz showx vr. DIGNIFIED BUT SCATHING I.fiTTEK TO THE EX SENATOR. The following letter from ex Lienten aut Governor Munller, who was elected by the Republicans of Ohio the t-anie year that Governor Allen whs elected Governor, in translated from the H 'alchtr am Ert, of August 24th. To Mr. Carl Sehnrt : The announce ment that you are wiig to make your but as a reformed reformer in our Ix-auti-ful Forest City has been a nurpiise to ms and no less to many of your former ad mirers. I think 1 undersiitud why the re publican leaders wish to see i lie ii Tur lor reconverting the liberal German first a, plicd in our city ; but what I don d unde -stand is that you should so leadny oiler your assistance ! Vou must Lave known, since 1872, that the reform ideas thiiw seed you helped to sow took sttong root with us here, and that these roots cannot be polled out without some trouble. 1 do not think that you are given to the illusion of being able to re republicanizi the Ger man reform elements of this locality, even with the rhetorical mastership that is your own. But aa the persons who have Called you here believe, or at least pretend to be lieve, that such a dexterous performance can be accomplished, and inasmuch as the liberal Germans aie thus exposed to the humiliating suspicion of requiring only an intimation from yourself to be converted (this explaius why you make your first campaign speech in German), it is right aud proper to protest. Far too long al ready, far too long for the honor of the German element as Well as the honor of all of us, has the false idea been worked aud speculated upon that the German vole can be efiectively influenced and controlled by some one great or small politician. It is high time to do away with such notions. But iu case that your speaking in Ger man is accidental, aud that the inference drawn from it be therefore void, I still must avail myself of your presence in order to set forth something to me all-importaut. Having been a member of the New York conference, to which you invited me, I feel called aud justified iu doing so. Disgusted with corruption in the reign ing party, without coulidence iu the other party, I beheld in a conference of indepen dent patriotic men a ray of hope for ic form. The spirit that prevailed in the conference surpassed my expectations ; the result of ita deliberations were satisfactory to me. Al though tnauy members were inclined to cross the Rubicon immediately and to use) the conference as a starting point for a third party, the opinion of the more prudent members predominated, viz: tu remain as yet iu a positiou of waiting; to issue au earnest address to the people, aud to found a third party only in cute that this address should be unheeded by the several conven tions which weie to be held in the imme diate future. The address to the purpose, edited by yourself, left no doubt which class of Pre idential candidates was meant lo lie worthy of support. The first sections manifestly depicted the class represented by Messrs. Morton, Blaiue ami Uonkitng, while the other sections weie directed against such candidates of expedience aa Hayes and II art ran ft. There was not the leat doubt of this in the conference. Nor can the author of the address be iu doubt of it. Since this seems to be the case, however, I intend to assist his mem ory and remind him that when he lead the address before me aud my friend ou the day preceding the coaference, and made us acquainted wilb its Uiiout, M naatej after each section had been gone througu with, called the names of the candidates that were meant though not named ; and that after reading to us the following : "We shall support no candidate who, however, favorably judged by his nearest friends, is not publicly known to possess those qualities of mind and character w hich the stein task of genuine reform teqtiires, for the American people cannot uow afford to risk the future of the republic in experi ments on mere supposed virtue or rumored ability to be trusted ou the strength of private recommendations," be turned to us and remarked plainly, aud as if it were a self evident matter : "THIS DISPOSES OF MR. HATES." If we compare this passage, which pro u ounces the verdict upon Mr. Hayes, w ith the parole likewise issued by Mr. Schuix, via : that this election did not turn ou po litical articles of faith as much as on the Vtnonalitie of the candidates; not ou plat- . .. .i . . . . i . i toims out on tne men inai bvwsi ou uicm then we discover the irrefutable fact that not only Mr. Schurz but the entire con ference, all of whom enthusiastically ap-. proved of the address aud the above passage counted Mr. Hayes as among those w ho should absolutely not be tupported. And, not yet contented with this the conference, by their sweeping approval of Mr. Adams' speech, fixed it programme as follows : Bristow or Tildeu ; aud in case that neither is nominated, recorin7 of the conjtrenct. The jvositiou takeu by the coutoreuce fully corresponded with my own conviction. It was a great saiitfactiou to me to kuow that so patriotic a body of men as wets assembled there should agree iu the points above mentioned. 1 took the cause to be an earnest one ; I have remained true to it, and shall remain true to it despite of all de serters. How is it with Mr. Schurz the instiga tor and leader of the couference ; the chair man of the executive committee, appointed at his own motion, and which was charged with cany lug out the views and resolutions of the assembly? How is it with the man that, as long ago as 13C1, declared war to the republican party, aud who, to accom plish the ruin of his patty, iu 1872 allied himself with the democrats? Is he, who for the past five years has been using hia captivating eloquence, his great talent aud the strong poaer of his popularity for the overthrow of the republican party is he iu his to day's speech going to support that same party ? Is he going to show the Ger mans that the republican party is better 5u 1870 than it was iu lS?:i, and that Mr. Hayes has become a diileient mau Since the May conference? Will Mr. Schurz on the same speaker's stand ou which four years ago he advocated the alliance with the democratic party to-day represent this alliance to his German fellow-citizeus as dangerous ? Mr. Schurz ought to feel that ne can not i succeed in the attempt to harmonize utspo- ! sition of lo day with both that of 1572 and 'that taken iu the New Yoik conference ! jaud that bo amouut of sophit-tiy i Meiont to till the gap which exists between t-Khurz the reformer and Schurz the repub lic in stump mabir ! If the danger of Tilden administration ! 'e as great as Mr; St-hurz now pretends to fear, n review of his ngitatire activity dui ing the p.ist five years would certaiuly -vera helm him with'a sense of great re SHnsibility, fur no one more than he bast successfully discredited the republican par- . ty in the eyes or the peoplo ; no more than ! be has contributed to the thinning of I a ranks ! ) V hat ever Mr. Schnrz may maintain in order to iccoucile the conliadiction be tween his previous or.ilion and that or day, he w ill iKt be able to overcome the logic or the following ptoisit ihis : 1. irhis activity iu In-ha If of reform since 1M7I, which culminated in the New Yoik conference has been earnetdly bwlieved aud justified, his present oition is uupardou- . able, untenable and inconsistent. I 3. If that con fere 1 1 Co put posed more than , to be a meie Comedy, Mr. Schurz cannot possibly Tavor the elertiou of Mr. 11 aye. And in case that Mr. Schurz did not feel able to abide by Ids duty to eupMrt Mr. Tilden, the only thing Uft for him to d- vn to rtronrene the eonUrerus. 8. If Mr. Schurz in his soveieignty be lieved that he could set himself above this; due regard and obligation towards the members of the conference there was left for him the only alternative to roaiutaiu a passive or neutral, or at least a reserved at titude, even if merely for the purpose of quieting in bis fellow citizens and former reform companions the suspicion that his position in this campaign is based ou per sonal grounds rather than patriotic mo tives. I have been induced to write this open letter, as stated before, by Mr. Schurz's coming here for a purpose which is particu larly provoking to me as one who responded to his invitation to the New York confer ence. This provocation prompts me to vin dicate my own position as well as that of all my German co-operators, whom their former leader, Schnrz, now asks to re nounce the same convictions and principles for which they have fought for years aud not uufrequeutly trade the greatest sacri fices. Although the readiness with which Mr. Schurz takes the stump in this city aud to such a purpose is repugnant vo me aud to the German sentiment a feeling which politicians may not look Upon as be ing justified yet I will not by any means weaken the effects that the republicans ex pect from Mr. Schutz's speech, for I am too ardent a friend of political discussion. i. Mueller. Sanctimoniocs Humor He wasn't 'a ferocious looking man and evidently only came to remonstrate In a kindly manner. Something be had written did not exactly meet his views (what it was he never delay ed to tell iu detail), and he thought L ought to drop in and talk it up. There wer three present besides the editor, and a biff Newfoundland belonging to one of the re porters lying under the table. The minuto be opened the deor the dog had him by the lapel of the coat and yanked him into the room with a startling vehemence. It un nerved him a little it would any man, and after he had coughed tip his tobacco quid, be said ; "I don't s'pose it makes much difference, hut you got in t'other dsy that my gal Phoebe wore her mother's hair at a Crow Hollow surprise." Just then the hvcal stopped, pulled out a drawer in the bottom of his desk, and took hold of a black walnut file, on which our previous issues were suspended. "Don't 1" he screamed Vlont draw no gun on me ! I ain't mad ; and I'd not stopped it, only for the old woman. Just lemme get out, and we'll call it square ;" and he made a break for the door, over turned a chair, ami made such a racket that the dog went for him again. He flew along the passage with the dog clinging to his coat tail, and just at the landing while his head was turned to beat the animal off he fell over a box of type that the express man had left standing there, and the next, he knew he had caromed on every step of those two flights of stairs clean out on the sidewalk. As he picked himself up he looked aa though he had been shot out of balloou and walked on by a St. Patri ck's day procession. He uot only has not "top ped his paper, but has sent a quarter in ad vance through the mail. ITow Hates was Captcred. The At lanta Timet tells how James II. Prioe, of the Sixth Georgia Regiment, captured Governor Hayes, present Republican can didate for President, at Petersburg: In charging the breastworks Price saw a splendid Federal flag. This he tore down. Hayes was standing near it. Price or dered him to surrender. Hayes asked, "Are you an officer?" Price replied with an oath, pointing his pistol (which he car lied through the war) at him : "It dou't make a bit of difference : you surrender, or I'll kill you." Hayes' answer was "1 sur render." Price then unbuckled Hayes's sword, cut off the straps, thinking the leather might be useful, and threw the sword away. Carrying the raptured flag he marched Hayes off to headqnaiters. The flag had a silver plate on the staff. Price does uot recollect the inscription, on ly that it was presented from Portland, Me. 1 le out off the plate, and on his return from the war had it made into finger rings, which he presented to the Lookout Moun tain lasses. CHAM.r C. Chapmait, a young me chanic of Tariflville, Coun., recently walked one fourth of a mile forward, one-fourth of a mile backward, then ran one-fourth of a mile, then hopped seventy-five yards on one foot, then, with fifteen eggs placed two feet apart in a row, picked them separately in his mouth without touching bis knees to the ground, and deposited each in a basket two feet from the starting point ; and lastly, with fifteen lemons placed in the same relatve position as the eggs, picked them up separately by band, going back to the starting point with earh, rne, and accomplished (the whole in twelve minutes. During an examination of a class of youngsters the teacher asked, "What ia a monarchy?" aud was immediately an swered by a bright little boy, "A country governed by a king." "YY ho would rule if the king should die? "The queen. "And if. the queen should die, then who would be ruWr?" "The knave," was the reply. ll-2l."T.-tr.J
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