Sketch of the Life of the Mur- dered President. James Abram Gaifie d was ship of Orange, Sayan \ 10th of Novem 3 Garfield, win Yivedl on a sm could lo to support his family birth ot “amex consisted of children. Before mn father died. "The fanaily | close and hand epoug and har ter. Bat the wi RY faith =a should 3 ) had whi his wi tained as wi was a hand one, bal James reached his sevente joave home, Much 1 he learned the assisted in sup he was able to pi tek oation by attending nentis in cach vear, 10 work at pisgurn to he obtained employ man path of the Ohto canal, rank of a boatman, the being to becoine a sail months on the canal, exposure attack of young Garticl three mouths, When he had contemplated ventan March, 1849, he ent high school in @ mother had saved a & she gave to school, After th he did not earn, esl TO pory bills at the acade from home a {i A Poot In a8 his owy with carpe moring enough t RAYE the fall term « up fo pay ue Thue < tose Of to teach a i t avails of which we penses fu ES pug pr Val obtain ti 3 insurance policy, wi man who loaned him 3 anor sols, End 3 at th come, that at iL Nr with him to } receiving mer ‘oriage being an familiar withy 0 1aise he there were or fanization 6d, he w it rank of ma ut and me mm the lx of Chickamauga.” In 1862, whil: absent Garficl 1 bad been elects Giddivgs district of Oh Congress, He 1 ig! ved vie com army on Decemnl Congress, Heil from the sro, along with 8 worth and two or three other g who consented to run for C canse they thought the war wo over before they wo : their seats in 1563, Gen 3 a member of the House eve ecssive re-¢lections, nomination to the term. Ceiroral the House at sional car influence wr 4 as the leader of the Repu body. He was placed on military affairs at the ginning of his sec to the committe 1867 was again placed on the committee, and made its chairman. he was placed at the head of the eommittoe banking aud ecarrency, and in 1871 was moted to the chairmanship of the committ on appropriations, as the } siticn, to Henry Lo Dawes, havin ceive from Speaker Blaine the chain the way and ne ans, In this mained at the head of the aj mittee four years, when the Rep ibliean ma jority in the House vanished and Ge eral Gar fir] | was theown ont of his chairmanship and made the second of the Republican members of the committee on ways and means. In this position he remained four years, and in 1879 was placed by Speaker Randall at the head of the lepublican membership of that committee, Under the Democratic rule he also served as a member of the committees on rules, a recoy- nition of his rare knowledge of parliamentary law, In 1877, General Garfield was the Republican candidate for the Speake Talip, but the Demo- crats were largely in the majority, and Mr, Randall was elected over him. In the early part of the same year he bad Leen a can didats jor the seat in the Sepate made vacant by Mr, Sherman's entranes ingo the Cabinet, He with. drew from the coutest; however, at the special req west of President H: wee, who assured ham that he could be of mere services to the admin- istiation of the country &sa member of the House. In A878, when the Democrats cone irolied the [egislatare, General Garfield was a an date for the complimentary vote of the Repabl ¢ n members tor r, but alter a protracted contest in the caucus, his name way withdrawn, and it was 1esoived to cast only 11k vot s in the two houser, In January of this yar, the Repnkiicans having meanwhile re aired control of.dhic Legisiatare, General Garfiel 1 again became a candidate for a seat in the Senate jor the term beginning March 4, 1841. when My. Thurman's ended. Ex-Senator 8 anley Matthews, ex-Atiorney-General Al phonso Taft, and ex-Governor Wiliam Deui- aon, hd $140 entered into a canvass fur the plac , bat by the time the caueus met the gen- «ral sentinent of 1he State was 50 carnagst and euthusia-tic in favor of Ga field that his three come itors withirew w.tbout waiting for a Lullot, and be wes nomigated unanimously by a rising vote, and a week later was clected United States Senator by twents-two majority in tho Asse.lly and soven majority in the Senate i On the 8th of June, 1880, General Garfield was put in nomination for President of the is went mile Hee nil n, hi term, he was transfers on wavs and BUCESAOF position propriati Senato National Convention, held in Chicago, and exciting pouitical conventions ever held in tiis country. General Garfield was nominated ou the thirty-nintly ballot, amid tremendous excite- mont, receiving 899: votes to 806 for Grant; Blaine, 42 Washburn, 54 Sherman, 3; neces. sary to a choice, 397. The subsequent excit- ing canvass and General Garfield’s election, pasination on July 2, are events of suc sh recent occurrence that they ‘need not be retold here, President, wions, whim reasons: ble dua 1 , 1963 General Arthar was 4 i ~ Yes boyy atom and inspected the a view of having regimen 10 their i BEW I'vEimenis filled by enlist instead of As an advance Ri whim mid was then thi elected Colonel of 1he mencement of ar Ninth New which enlisted iu the United St two years, and desire it Governor Morgan would uo the more it npe ortant work when f iments b the efforts of the A sioners of the Cit) wore } colonels of th e mand of the | ix tila LTR I'he ad been forn nr reg tare Iarge ation to 1 the comman wen his desire to field, Morgan rej rot be spared from the rvice and thet while he appreciated General desire for war pervice, he knew he wi 3 rable the pt Governor Arthur's mld do far ee for county by eon York’ gdmin ti Decem from office duties of with Mr, Gay 's dosth carrisd I 1 ! d in promot election of esident Grant. being chainman of the Central Grant Ch tb of New York, He also served as chairman of the executive committed of the Deg bli an Rig ate committee of New Yori. He re-entered ofticisl lite on November 20, 1871, Leing appoint ed Collector of the port of New York by Presi lent Git ant, Mr. Arthur was succcedod as 1878 by General E. A. Merritt, and Las since been engaged in the pregetice of law, In ihe he was elected chairman of the Republican State committee, and conducted the campa‘gn which ended in the election of all but one of the candidates of the Republican party for six Bate offices. In June, 1880, he was nominated for Vice- Pr. sident by the Na'ional Republican conven- tion, held at Chicago. General Stewart L. Wood ford proposed his name in the conven- tion, and the nomination was seconded by ex- Governor Dennison, of Olio; General Kilp at- riex, of New Jergey; Emery A. Storrs, of illi- nois; Denis McCarthy, of New York, and others, General Arthur was married in 1859 to Ellen Lewis Herndon, of I'ielericksburg, Virginia. Mis, Arthur, who died in January, 1880, be- came the mother of two children, Chester Alan Arthur, aged six’cen, and Ellen Herndon Ar- thar, aged nine, » Was drawn into Wis Vel ch interest ing the first collector in INITIALN, No wp ue They Sometimes Canse, mao Gout and wil chief Justice of 1 ti claimed Mrs, Gow wii . born, As Peter Trela of the father o gentleman who he oo wapied the position ati ftor his bel altar know: Oliver Gow Now, the AROS A! enabled the gate the n followed tl a mite in p! RAT, the inti vf i that word. His father, a Was exis it IRL was afforde Norther 1p, { 0. T. istend Ger wavs but as he position ¢ ch paren ight prophetic. fred P. W. Lawren: Phelps, I. at which poons, tended follies, follows : But these potty confined to the init for it often hap pel ANNOYAne Is of « vidio Blog 18 effect, was known by tion of he a1 ok sea lion, A Cattle, hilo 1 mable ; she merged husband, The 1 over the mas nity affords ¥ only their initials, but a surname as well. A young lady maiden name was Lost, which been made the medium of consi annoyance to her by her married a gentleman whos e name Found. She had har time gratulate herself ups he fact when she was made the subject of the follow- ing lamvoon: Let the morry « Khe whe w Last now i CO. Bayler was known as t or, and when his comp 4 ring the changes they wonld exclain Wall np h i 1 We 1 #110 i - Ww hen obi je tior rhyme was not wonld be answered b: ‘‘ How many are there Who can measure its immensit; 0. A le gg was another badly-chosen initials. He | fliction patiently, however, but rich annt died and left him a sm tnne by her will, which compelled him to withdraw from college, he lowed into private life the ing: lad 's Wi 2s alile obiee ‘ \ name inaa on 1 © i ANIONS ¢ fect i Dy ten —— The steamer Cuzoo, of the Orient Line, has arrived at Plymouth, England, from Australia, with an experimental shipment of fifty tons of meat in good condition. i —— 41 meals are kept irregularly, in our | youth, something creepsupin our aduit ago whict shows diminished vitality Sr———— Tha sculptor is the man“who pretty figure.” cuts SCIENTIFIU NOTES, Moat immersed in molastes has nie 441] nths, Hoof { contal i" rved io lippings ao f1 AI 1a. the arrak o dintille a juice of forma the well-known Bhp {i : among delicacies | trout, had snd mackerel. place Among the st ubt tan of diet that are within 8 of small means i up will be raised view to prolit.ratl pleasure. they raise beef and purpose of supplying 1 market lu many 167 any there are carp ha the enstom: common proper OM He { height elinnh Or rocess, as of a tree or bull | fhis can be readily : y measuring some lower object and its shadow aud then making a com calenlution, Even a child Ta a pole of any given height; place it inan absolutely perpen dicalar position; meagure on the level ground the lenzgth the shadow; measure the length of the shadow of the tre e; then multiply the length of the treu's shadow by the height of the polo, and fiivie the product y the | b nith of the shadow of the pole, or instance, if ou pole is six feet hig hy its shadow ten, and the chadow of tho tree | tifiy, the height of the tree will be | thirty feet! r cannot n or ke Of East and Middle. Clarfield left hi fpsldont wan shot, 1 on a sheet back figuiiia West and South, Now Orleans oul s and the 1 Enery thercupon issn charge of the city y militia. need of murder were taken Ark.,, by a crow Mic) i with ten memix ii Jerome, of gan, will yan colebrati ry stafl and an oscort f six companies Misa, mayor of Arkansas was fought at Terrena, + be land Leatherman, and James Rucker, a prominent attorue The difficen by Ma Rucker y grow ont of igs made yor Leatherman in Mr. loth combatants were was professionally wounded first fire, Leatherman was hit in the arm, and it was bolieved would prove fatal, Tue fair grounds at Kansas City, Mo, wer ly crowded with sightscors when a firo broke ont in the main hall of tho exhibition building, and the people fled in every direction, frampling on one ancther in their efforts to es- cape, The flames soon spread to the grand stand, where 12,000 persons were watching the J ACEH, and were trampled upon and a large number were maimed or mutilated, is about £60,000, The pecuniary loss | i ninglon. Foreign ows, have boen fread fate from Berlin, The hibited all meetings likely to participate, ee i— why shoul nidn't all babies be given the right to oboose their names? babies have the privilege, after a time ; hut give a bdy a name, and it hangs to him till death, i ———— @ pro» socialists are of its skin in Richmond, Mich, Bandits, A list of kiduaped British subjects between 15800 snd 1881 shows a curious indication of the existing state of many countries that boast of being eivilized, In Greece, brigands captured, but eleven vears ago, in swoop, Lord und Lady Muneaster, Mr, Herbert, Mr, Vyuer, Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd, snd the latter's child, | the men wera muy dered except Lord Muncaster, released with the object of raising money for the ransom demanded, Mexican bandits rad throe r hmen, one of vhom was murdered, and the other two berated upon ransom being paid by the Italian rob bors but Bpain has tolerated more of th outrages than any other untry, four occasions they succeeded in making captures, and furkey is re two incivilities of demanded aggregate to $120,000, In Bieily one British birth w th to fall into the In 1 Linas bea one capt Hritish government paiged five subjects; ee Un Iarge Yansoms, oniy but th the sums in the more individ unfortunate hands of bri where ran British govern. Wis Fhanans, CyYery instance sOm 1 paid, the bil, Helped the President, were laying the aation eof the Branel lore HE Jot him drive L" The brawny i i ttle Talk's de ely I anded him ‘T'm afraid, my li ob for you § little yer short placed the spike 1t took many bt with hie i the tile : bu t Ad ig i 1% was » fe i- Their *tatemenis Indorsed. Cath 3 ment ungualifiedls fidence. In this folie W ing from AV: it 18 3 and we whut we hat makes Fike Poulish. A Splendid Medicine---Heart and Kid- ney Disease, Female Weakness. Tawa 1818 H.R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists. Skin Grafting, Hitherto in skin grafting it has only been possible to use skin or mucous membrane which had been taken from the living. Dr. J. H. Girdner, of New York city, has, however, succeeded in retaoving a portion of the skin of a German who bad committed snicide six hours before, and in engrafting it on the arm of a child which bad been struck by lightning, The grafts took well, and tho result was that the child was much less disfigured than might ture of its injuries, subject, Dr, Girduer says: witnessed, as 1 have done repeatedly, skin taken from the dead body several hours after death return again to life, adhere to a granulating surface and with surprising rapidity send out pro- longations of delicate skin in all direc- ions, covering the surface with a new skin comparatively free from contrac- tion, must agree with me that skin grafting is in its infancy, and that when men of avility have given it more atlen- tion and found out the possibilities of he proceeding, we may expect to see follow burns and nevi removed by ex and their places filled with a skin ad fs pe sriect an the i » aud which h living Cision, dead op body of another That Patuiie Vedewmie, i ho most vige Bd alter effects 10 arrest it { Tem ithe The glone Pein in, Host Prove ors ent amd ry gulsting mach snd bowels, in FANS, Bhon the Joint, eh depends the health ae made 10 act Like ligestion, » thon vagh, and It is asserted that if a person exposes himself to the eleetrie light for some time, in a ¢ ‘Jose inspection of the same, his hands and cheeks will show—if be be of a fair complexion—esll the symp- toms of sunburn, even in midwinter, will develop freckles on his quickly as when he goes 1 by a sun-umbrella i [ an prostrated any bas nse of Hoy thirst, 1008 3 ran King, of Philadelphia, says, “] do pot intend to remove a single msn from the force, big or little, white or black, if he does his duty.” Good for Mavor King. in April Inet, sibers of # minsti els end Lives States has nearly fifty more paper mills than any in the world, and it con. nt as much paper as the mills uniry » ents Ls in Bay 0 CVEryY Own i sided it vile fn aarked A ——————-———. 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