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( OLD SERIES, XL.
VOL{ NEW SERIES. XVIIL
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
FRE.D KURTZ. Epiror and Pror'r
We mail two sample copies of the
“Weekly World” to each of our subscri-
bers. Every new subscriber will get the
RerorTER one year and the WorLp six
months, on receipt of our regular sub-
scription, $2.00. Subscribers in arrears
who pay up and also one year in ad-
vance, will also get the “World” six
months as a premium, 3t
The President appointed November 26
as Thanksgiving.
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What has become of all the new pa-
pers that were to appear at Bellefonte ?
It is about time they appear with their
appearance so we can see what their ap-
pearance appears like. It is apparent
that we havn't seen the appearance of
any appear around here.
Cn
The Philadelphia Press had a brutal
editorial on the death of General M’-
Clellan, We suppose if Mahone, or
Longstreet, or had died the
Press would have had the
most touching sentences of pity and
laudation of the virtues of the recon-
structed rebel brigadiers,
Moseby
mugwump
General M'Clellan was one of the nob-
lest men of the nation in spite of any
thing the press may print in spite.
i i
We don’t see why the office of jury
commissioner is not abolished. It was
created when boards of commissioners
were all of one party and the jury wheel
filled by them mostly from men of their
own politics. Butsince the new consti-
tution has provided for a board of com-
missioners of mixed politics, these offi-
wheel
having jury
cials might as well fill the jury
and save the expense of
commissic
NETS.
smi SPA irs oh
The election is over and was a very
usual
We hope the state
is safe and that snow flakes will be as
white as heretofore with shallow drifts
even if Quay is elected state treasurer
and ivaugurates Kemble's “addition, di-
vision and si:ence” po.icy, in which he
has teen so well scl
We ti is safe
events, and that our people will
quiet one with a light vote—the
result of an off-year,
10led.
ink at all
know
just as well how to keep warm this as
well as last winter.
the county
ight
Wheat is on the decline with no pres.
ent prospect of a rise that will makeany
thing like a flush pocket book for the
honest farmer, for whom 75 to 90 cents a
bushel for wheat is the poorest encour
agement, as he sees the scantiest remu-
neration for the plow, harrow, the seed
and barve-ting
Should wheat not go up to the accus
tomed price, farmers will have to give
their attention to raising something that
will be more profitable. Dairying might
piv better where farms are suited for
that purpose.
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DID HE EVER KILL A MAN?
A dispatch from Williamsport says:
An old man, Patrick Kern, who is in the
county jail, was stricken with paralysis
yesterday. He is 80 years of age and
came to this city thirty years ago. Last
fall he was arrested fir setting fire to
the woods in Gamble twp., and was sen-
tenced to eighteen montbs’ imprison-
ment, At times he is out of his mind,
and raves about having killed a man,
exclaiming: “I killed him; take him
away from me, take him'away from me;
ges how he glares at me with his bleed:
ing throat” In his lucid moments,
when he is questioned he will not speak
or say anything about his past life. His
reputation here has been none of the
best, and it is suspected he must Lave
committed murder, perhaps in Ireland,
and was compelled to flee the country.
; ee
Last week a letter was received at the
Pension Office from a Connecticut wo
man, inclosing an application for a
widow's pension, and in the regular or-
der of business it went to the files. The
clerk glanced over the list and noticed
that a man of the same name given by
the widow was drawing pension which
had been granted him in 1873, and was
being paid through the California agen-
cy. It required only a few minutes’
search to discover that the record in the
two cases were identical. The widow
offered no proof of death, but her affidavit
stated that she had not seen her hus
band or heard of him since the war and
supposed that he had been killed in bat-
tle. A letter was written to her stating
that her husband was already drawing
pension for wounds received in the war,
and by return mail came an inquiry for
his whereabouts, She said that she
had been mourning his death for twenty
years, but was very glad to hear that he
was still living, and if the pension peo.
ple could only assist her in locating him
~ CENTRE
THE PENNSYLVANIA OIL SUPPLY.
Pennsylvania, says the Times, was the
pioneer State in the great petroleum in-
dustry and up to date bas held an easy
lead over all the states and nations com-
bined. In point of fact a history of the
petroleum industry for the past quarter
of a century would be chiefly a history
of the industry in Pennsylvania. For
the last five years leading producers and
dealers in this staple article have been
giving careful study of the subject of the
probable future supply of petroleum in
Pennsylvania and its duration. In this
study the opinions and conclusions of the
scientists connected with the prosecution
of the second geological survey of the
state have been eagerly sought.
Prof. Charles A. Ashburner has pre-
pared a paper on the “Products and Ex-
haustion of the Oil Regions” of the state,
which was read by title at the Halifax
meeting of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers held in September.
The statistics contained in this paperare
partly the compilation of Stowell, the
well-known petroleum reporter, and the
opinions are based upon observations
and surveys made by Prof. John F, Carll,
of Venango, and Mr. Ashburner himself.
These statistics show that the toial pro-
duction of the oil in Pennsylvania and a
small field in Southern New York up to
the beginning of the present year aggre-
gated 261,000,000 of barrels, which, at
$1.63} per barrel, the average price for
the entire quarter of a century since the
Drake well was first struck, netted the
immense sum of $426,300,000, The de-
veloped producing territory covers 360
square miles, divided into six districts.
Of these districts that of Venango, the
first opened, has produced the highest
average, or 846,000 barrels per square
mile, The Butler district comes next,
with a production of 821,000 barrels per
square mile; the McKean district, with
820,000 barrels per square mile, and the
Allegheny district fourth, with 419,000
barrels per mile. The other two districts,
Warren and Beaver, have produced re
spectively 343,000 and 62,000 to the square
mile.
In the opinions of Professors Ashburn-
er and €arll, the Pennsyivania oil terri-
tory is defined and the climax of produe-
tion has passed. There has been a
marked decline in the annual production
since 1882, the decline being constant
and steady. The production has fallen
sufficiently below the demand to canse a
drain of four or five millions of barrels
upon the accumulated stocks. Whie
predicting that the flood-tide of oil pro-
duction is past and the limits of the ter-
ritory known, Mr. Ashburner declines to
make any predictions as to the length of
time yet required to entirely exhaust
the deposits or the probabie future yield.
Enough is foreshadowed in his paper,
however, to warrant an eager haunt for
oil territory in other states and a steady
advance in the price of oil, unless new
deposits are found.
A GD HPAI HAI 558
It turns out that John Sherman's Vir-
ginia speeches were the opposite of his
bloody-shirt harangues in Ohio. In
Ohio he revived the memories of the
war and wanted to fight it over again.
Last week in Virginia he commended
them for their bravery in fighting for
what they believed was right, and that
their valor on the battle field was an
honor to the American name.
This man Sherman is the national
knave—the most stupendous political
fraud of this century—he will curse the
southern people with one breath in Ohio
and then go right down into Virginia
among them and tell them how heroi-
cally they fought for what they thought
was right. We do not know which peo-
ple most owes John Sherman a rideona
rail with a coat of tar and feathers, the
Ohioans or the Virginians.
One thing is certain, if the Union
army had been made up of knaves and
cowards like this demagogue Sherman,
there would have been few lives lost
from the north. He didn't fight when
the fighting was done, and his ranting
twenty-five years thereafter shows his
cowardice and knavery.
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The Tyrone fo dark and silent for
a Hime, are about to resume operations.
Hantingdon, Oct 28.—Mre, Mary Pat-
terson’s flouring mill at Paradise Farnace
thi« county, nas burned last night, Loss
shout $10,000, insured, The origin of
the fire is unknown,
It is reported in Lock Haven that a
number of Eastern capitalists are about
amd to Ba oie Var, wi
o n
« view of developing the Sey,
Henry Mattern, of Centre co. while
working at a threshing machine was
canght in the tumbling rod, but escapsd
with the loss of his blouse, shirt and sev.
aoa Yauch, and a badly damaged head
Leroy Strank, of Olearfisld eo, who
runs a Jaw-mill, Bad 4 Shri Expo
rience. He was caug mw ,
Whitled around Sin shaft With foufut
pass each revo
Snec itand a spike-atuddad plank. strike.
ing the latter with such force aa to tear
¥
she would make it very lively for her
truant gpouse.
The man was picked up for
though his injuries
BOSSES AGAIN DOWNED.
A Beaver up a Tree.
New York 0. K.
VIRGINIA TRUE.
cenasmmase{ | smsimmss
PENNSYLVANIA
Our State went Republican by less
f
than half the majority given for Blaine
The boss machine got a severe shaking
up and a Beaver and a coon have been
driven up a tree for safety, from which
another hunt will bring them down.
Democratic gains are reported from
all parts of the state.
CENTRE COUNTY
has gone Democratic by about 700 ma~
jority. Bellefonte only gave 52 Repub-
lican majority.
NEW YORK.
Hill, Democrat, is elected governor by
a large majority. The city gave 52,000
Democratic majority.
VIRGINIA.
Virginia is true to the cause, and
elects Lee governor over the blatant
Wise by a large majority, and has made
Democratic gains in the Legisiatore,
which
doubt.
will settle Mahone's hash, no
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IMMURED IN BING-SING.
New York, Nov. L.—Ferdinand Ward
was called up before Judge Barrett yes
terday for sentence. After overruling
six ressons fora new trial the Judge
sentenced the prisoner 10 ten years iv
Sing-Sing at hard labor. After his sen:
tence Ward was taken from the courts
room to the Sherill"s office, whither Dis-
trict Attorney Martine soon followed.
The latter had a consultation with Sher.
iff Davidson, and it was decided tha
Ward should be taken to Bing Sing "vy
the first train from the Grand Central
The time for its departure was
280. During the time interveoing—
nearly three hours— Ward's movement.
were kept secret, but it was understood
that he was being accorded the privilege
of attending to some private affairs, H.
was not returned to the Tombs, Warde:
Finn turned over his effects there, con
tained in two satehels, to a friend, whe
came with an order from Ward, who war
taken to Ning-Sing Prison on the 2.80 p,
m train, accompanied by Sheriff David.
Warden Kieran, At the priro
it was found that ard hat $181 in ow.
in bis posession. He will t
wouming, It his od
term will be reduced to
was very
reak fast he ate
and coffee the same as
He was then march-
apel and listaned to a sermon
n. At 10.30 he was march
to baving bis bucket on
and bis pan akabple sauce and
the other, was to serve
mbined. H
lone An lin cel
L Hi
NO. 43
PREPARATIONS FOR THE FUNE-
RAL ON MONDAY.
New York, Oct. 30.,~Arrangements for
the fuweral of General George B. Mes
Clellan were nearly completed to-day,
The body of the dead General, with the
family and relatives, will remain in Or-
ange till Sunday aternoon, when they
wiil be brought to tuis city. The Gene
ras body will be taken direcily tothe
Madison Bquare Presbyterian Churco,
where simpie services will be held on
Monday at 10 a. m, The Rev. Dr, Chas,
H. Park hors, Paswr of the Charch, will
officiate and will probably be assisted by
Rev. Dr. John R. Paxton, of the West
Presbyterian Charch, himsel! a veteran
in tue Army of the Paton. By Gener-
al McCiellan’s own wish, expressed witn-
in the last few weeks to his wife, no eu-
logy will be delivered at chaieh. “I de
gire tu be buriedwituno more display thao
ss a sumple citizen,” were his words,
Consequently wo military bonors will
be extended 10 tue de d suldier.
Immediately after the ceremony st the
charen, the budy will be taken in asp c-
isl car vifered by the Pennsylvania K R,
Cowpauy, 10 Treutun, where inwrmeum
will tuke place io the famuy lot un Mon-
day sitervoon. N o services wilt be held
at the hoose in Orange. The pall bear
ers will be General W, B. Fraoklin, of
Hartford; Major General W. 8 Hancock,
Maj or Generel Fuz Jobo Porter, Gener
al James KE. Johousou, General Martin T
McHone, Wm C Briwe, Tuatchier M
Adams, 8. Lo. M Barlow, Uolonel Edward
ti, Wright and Henry C. Kelsey, Secre-
tary of the state of New Jersey, veteraos
who had fought uoder the dead general,
are i «vited 10 attend his funeral bat not
i any military capa y, Governor Ab-
vott issued a proclamation to the people
of New Jersey, to day directing that ou
the day of the fuseral “all the public
buiidiugs be draped in woorniog, flags
placed at ball wast, officers of the Na-
tional Guard wear mourning fur six
wouths aud that all the regimental ava
battaiion colors be draped for th « same
period and that ou the day of the fune-
ral of a Maojor General salute be fired, and
that all public offices be closed, Also
earnestly requests aur citizens 10 desist
from all wordiy employments and de
vote the day to appropriate religious ser-
vee: and -uch demonstrations of sorrow
sid respect a8 ure fitting to the oceasion
aud memory of the illustrious dead.
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GIVEN TOTHE JURY.
{ of Ferdinand
Ward Found Guilty
1 wr
ru
OR ~ The trial of Fe rdi-
(rou.
New York, Oa,
usnd Ward was coutinued to day
J. Cuambers, stenographer in the case of
Holt Wydai ull Warner, and Lr orge E.
spacer, Uastiter of Graut & Ward, were
«amined briefly, bus their testimony
develvped notuing uew. The prosccu-
then rested,
Cunnsel for the defense then moved
sil
chsrge io the indictment they intended
o 8sk the jury fur 8 cunviclion, Lue
mot on was decied temporarily. Ex.
Judge Cochran opened jor the defeuse
He said that his cient bad been boand-
«i by the press, by financial mes and
¢mbers of a prominent family, but the
jury bad only to consider the evidence
and render a verdict acc ordingly. Wm.
5. Warner was called for the defense.
He testified that he knew ward and
recoguized the check for $71,800, which
he had received in the ordicary course
of business Alter certification by the
Murine Bank it wag dep sited In tue
American Exebange Bauk. On cross.
examication Warner said that be receiv
od the check in Ward's private office,
and at the time he had with him the obs
ligarions on which the money Was doe,
The smount was the profit on certain
investmeats with Grant & Ward on gov-
ernment coutracts. Tue witness could
not rem mber the form of the obligation,
but it was due on that day (May 5, 1884 )
Julian T. Davies, the Receiver for the
firm of Grant & Ward, testified that he
tisk possession of the assests of Grant &
Ward on May 8, 1884, Some of the se-
curities had been delivered to theirown
ers on their paying the loana for which
they had been pledged. Others were
valueless, and others were waiting dis-
posal by direction of the Court. Of the
$310,000 in bonds of the Baffalo and
New York Raiiroad, Senator Chaffee and
Recetver Johnson, of the Marine Bank,
both claim them. Benjamin Fish also
claimed some bonds, aud five were deliv.
ered to him by order of the Court. In
one package where 125 bonds should
have been, 124 were fcund to be missiog.
He bad found $700 in ov office on tak-
ing possess on aud the bank account was
on Kirawn. The assignment of Grant &
Ward was here offered in evidence,
‘At 8.80 General Tracy began summing
up for tne prisoner. He Was followed by
1 olonel Fellows for the ple. Upou
‘he conclosion of Mr. Fellow's remarks
the jury retired. They found a verdict
of larcency in the first degree.
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A GREAT STORM IN LABRADOR
Halifax, Oct, 28.—A great storm raged
off the coast of Labrador on the 1ith
inst, doing immense damage among the
fisting fleet gathered there. Eighty ves-
sels were wrecked, and at least seventy
men were lost, Two thousand persons
are now ashore in a destitute condition
The news has created great excitement
herr, Steamers will be immediately dis-
patohed to the scene of the disaster with
rovisions, clothing and other comforts
r the cast-aways,
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SHE GAVE BIRTH TO FOUR AT ONE
TIME.
Providence, R. I. Oct. 28,~Mm. J,
Fravk Gilmore, of No. 6 Lawrence street
wave birth to four children this morning,
bi all died within four boars The
Sativa is doing well fois the Jatuer
m yx penses by charging ten
ow “ ug Sxp the adie, Tce handred
. eople visited the place to day.
pen For 82 in advance we
lie Kupowrer one vear and
will send
the New
AWG paperd jor the Hie |
This offer we make to induce advance
payment,
of
w
TOBACCO IN IRELAND,
James I. disliked tobacco, describing
“smoking as a custom loathsome to the
eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the
brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in
the black stinking fume thereof resembl-
ing the horrible Btygian smoke of the
pit that is bottomless.” In spite of his
opposition, however, and of high duties
imposed on the weed at various times,
the custom grew popular, and in the
middle of the seventeenth century a
considerable quantity of tobmeco was
grown in several English counties as
well a8 in Ireland. The policy of the
Government at this time was to encour-
age the Puritans of North America, and |
to give them the monopoly of supplying |
the mother country with tobacoo; and |
shout 1661 a heavy penalty was imposed |
on all tobacco grown in Ireland, followed, |
about ten years later, by an act alto-
gether prohibiting its growth, and order.
ing all constables and other officers to
enter grounds and pluck up and destroy
tobacco plants, no tobacco also bging |
allowed to be landed in Ireland without
previously landing in England. The
necessity of the second act is a clear
proof of the very successful progress of |
the enltivation of the tobacco plant at
that period in Ireland. For upward ofa
century from that date the growth of
tobacco was totally prohibited. After
ward, npon the revolt of the American
colonies, for the double purpose of pun-
ishing the Virginia planters and trying |
to win the affections of the Irish, the
Government of Lord North repealed the |
disabling statute of Charles IL, and it
ful to grow and enre
In this
during the
vears of Irish independence, and the
o i . 3
became again law
Ireland.
things remained
tobacco iu condition
eighteen
permission to grow tobeceo in Ireland
by the
By an act, however, |
¢ and two William IV., the act of
North was repealed, and from that
aie
was still
Articles of Union.
of «
Lor
day a fine of £100 is impossble on any
expressly continued
n
i
person growing more than one pound of
This act did pot
without consid.
tobacoo in his garden
vid
pass through Parlisment
at:l f Fait 41/3 . “ro : Yo
erable opposition ; much information
was elicited as to the eunltivation then
existing, and Lord Valentia and Mr.
Lefroy, among others, gave waluable
testimony as to the benefits accruing to
the count from
tion. There can be no question that
certain dis the
re
so cultiva-
in
{ricts where soil was suit-
Te
able large profits we earned. The
county Wexford, and the "neighborhood
of Enniscorthy in particular, was the
most favored spot in this respect. Aza
proof of this the records of the debates]
sufficient,
also anthority to the same effect
in Parliamentare and we have
Inthel
Dublin Penny Journal, December,
there is to be found an
on this subject.
is
article bearing |
In relating the account|
farm
from county Wexford, the writer gi
ses bone :
some 1interesian
bacen
of an interview with 5 t
as to the
iat conld be extracted from In
worry a bx
g information
él
wi
value
soil by the growth of the now forbidden
plant. A young man from Enniscorthy
had been over to Maryland, and on his
return brought with him some seed, and
encouraged his brother to venture on if,
and from £100 had ono
Holding a farm of six
half an sore
been prodaced.
teen acres, this man bad made a p
of £1,200 in seven years, The tobs
sold well because it was Irish, and the
prohibitory act lately
with mneh disfavor and dismay.
18K 1 was vies
:
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BRITISH BABY AND HIS PAINTER
The prevalent pictorial motive of oar
great painters for the last two or three
years has been babies, and our old
friend the British matron must
least enjoyed this peculiarity to
in the Academy. There are, it is true
abont five nude figures in the present
exhibition, but it would not be much
of an exaggeration to say that there are
nearly 500 babies. Every variety o
infantile healthiness or sickliness is dis
played here, Anew ** Liliputian Ware
house” might be set up with shoes,
socks, capes, frocks, and bonnets of
these Academic “innocents.” There
is, I notiee, one special kind of bonnet,
like a miniature conl souttle, lined with
plaited satin, which isa great favorite
with Academicians, and which they
have attained great skill in rendering.
Shoes, also, particularly those with a
strap and one button, are, like Osric's
* onrriages, very doar to ” their * fancy,”
and short white socks are also sucoess.
fully treated in several instances. Ii is
remarkable that in this, as of course in
all the leas important branches of their
art, the Aocademicians and Associates
surpass the outside artists, There are
not only » larger number of Academic
babies, but they are bigger, chubbier,
and better dressed than the others. The
average toilet of one of these favored
sucklings must cost abont £20, and as it
js invariably of spotless freshness, must
be a somewhat costly element in the
household expenses. The great apostle
of this new * ory of the children™ is un
Associate called Morera. who had the
good fortune to discover, in a pictorial
sense, the universal attractiveness of
“" Tp "
have at
the full
THE OBEAH MAX,
Obeah, in the West Indies, is a two.
fold art—the art of poisoning combined
wits the art of imposing upon the ered-
ulity of ignorant people by a pretense
of witcheraft, The Obeah man or
woman is one of a great guild or frater-
nity of erime. Hardly a crizninal trial
occurs in the different colonies in which
he is not implieated in way or
another. His influence is unbounded,
the credulous peasantry holding him as
prophet, priest and king of the district
over which he holds sway. If a negro
maiden wants a charm to make her lover
id to her,” if wishes to
one
good a man
avenge a wrong, or to know the secrets
of the future, the Obeah man is st hand
to supply the means and to proffer his
assistance and advice.
“Under the title of “bush doctor ” he
wanders from place to place at the cost
with money by another, denied nothing,
His pretensions are high; but he bas
means at hand to enforce them. He
declares himself powerful fo cure all
diseases. He can protect & man from
the consequences of a crime; he can
even reanimate the dead
His knowledge of poison is immense.
Every bush and tree furnish weapons
for his armory. Unfortunately, in too
many instances, more effective agents
are not wanting tohis hand. How many
planters have had poison administered
to them in their coffee, how many book
keepers have come to an untimely end
by the mixture of ground glass in their
food may be seen in the records of the
slave courts of the different colonies—
Barbadoes and Jamaica especially. Next
to cholera and yellow fever, Obesh was
man connected with the administration
of a sugar estate had to encounter.
There is indescribably
sinister in of the
Obeah man, which is readily observed
persons have mixed much
the negroes Sometimes, a8
an outward and visible sign of his trade
or calling, he carries about with hima
staff or wand, with serpents wreathed
about it or the rude likeness of a human
face roughly delineated on the handle.
Lizards’ bones, cats’ claws, ducks’ skulls,
grave dirt—that is, earth taken from
the grave of a freshly buried corpse—
hang in a bag at his side. He has his
cabalistic book (albeit he can seldom
something
he sppearance
who
with
devices, which he pretends to consult
in the exercise of his calling.
On one oceasion I happened to bein
round his bead, and from under his
shaggy brows I could see a pair of small,
The
instead of employing a lawyer he had
retained for his defense this Obeah man,
and had actually paid him the sum of
three guineas for his services The
wizard had undertaken to * fix the eye”
of the judge, and had persuaded the
miserable dupe that this would infalli-
bly insure his acquittal
ss
WEAR AND TEAR OF GOLD,
The annual loss of gold, by attrition,
shipwreck, fires, eto, is very small, not
quite two tons, or £280,000. According
to Jevons, gold coin loses two per cent
in 100 years—that is £147,000 per annum
on the actual amount, £736,000,000. The
loss by shipwreck cannot possibly be
higher than one-sixth of the ratio of loss
in sea-borne merchandise—say £2 for
every £1,000 shipped ; and as the quan-
tity of sea-borne gold in 1871-80 aver
aged £50,400,000 per annum, the loss by
shipwreck would be £101,000. If we
allow £32,000 for loss by fives, we make
up a total wear and tear of £280,000, or
two tons, the existing stock being under
11,000 tons. MoeOulioch used to reckon
for jewelers, loss, wear and tear, eto,
about one-fourth per cent., which would
be nearly £4,000,000 a year of our pres-
ent stock. The *consamption” by
jewelry is probably even more now, but
this nowise affects the question of a pos.
sible gold famine, since the jewelers’
consumption goes to swell the unocoined
reserve. It would appear that eighty
years ago the uncoined reserve was bot
ter understood than to-day, for I find in
the Edinburgh Review of 1808 the follow.
ing passage: “The precious metals
have a twofold use—for manufactures
and coin. If there is a deficiency of
coin the plate will be melted and coined.
If there is a superabundance of coin it
will be melted and manufactured.”
mi lr A G—
Eoocontricity is harmless, but it never
can be commendable ; it is one of the
children of that prolific failing vanity.
And whether it shows itself in
manners or povuliaritios of dress, it is
clearly acted upon from the presump-
tuous
the wrong, the individual in the rizht.
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