VOL. 44
The Iluntingdon Journal.
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°like : No. 403 Penn S.reet, Iluntin,gdon, Pa.
July 18, 1879.
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ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE
Uitt; ESSES AND TOWN COUNCIL OF
ILIE 130hoUGH OF HUNTINGDON, PA., for
the tis,il year ettding th© first 31unday of April,
1880, as r.viiroi to ho puldiehed by them, under
the Act of As: ,, ,nbly of April 12ih, 1 575, viz:
zTATEMENT OF THE BUBOES: 4 ES AND
TOWN CtIENCIL OF THE 1:011OUGH OF
At the en•i of the fiscal viar, terminating on the
first Monday of April, ISSO, as required by the
let S.ction of the Act of A•semhly of 12th April,
187 i, etiowing; in detail t-he actual indebtedne.•s
of the s• iii borough; the amount of the funded
dept; the amount of the floating debt; the valua
tion of the taxable property therein; the assets of
the corporation with the character and vette
thereof, and the sate of maturity of the repeetive
forms of the funded debt thereof, viz:
THE ASSETS OF THE BOROUGH
consist of the Engine Hone., Council
litt•an, &J., and the lot on which the
same is erected, on Washington street,
Naluel at
One Siliby Engine. Hose Carriage, &c., 5000 00
315 feet of New Leather Hose, (first
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The:Letitia! indebtedness of the sAid bet.-
ou4h, not including that of the School
DisTriet thereof, is, the :um of the
funded debt 0f.....
and no floating debt
The valuation of the taxable property
therein, according to the triennial as-
sessup.mt uf 1860, is
cost,) in 1879
Plnenix Engine, Iluuse,
Hay Scales and Fixtures l5O 00
Special llo,pital Building 75 00
Town Crock
Cemetery 1, , ,ts (unsold) and improve
inert', made in Igiti 625 00
funtleil of as above stated. l 9 RE
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I.: :oils lo the Ist of M treh, 11174, uud th
sum of :7.0114t of ti per cent. Bonds. psynlile as fel
lows. to wit:t.3lollo August 1575 ; elOOll. Au
gust Ist. 1 875 ; $1001) August Ist, 1877; $lOllO,
Atigo4t ISIS, owl August lot., 1879.
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Secretary
DER
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I W./. Pensions increased. Send postage for new
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Pittsburgh, Pa., or WaFhirttflon, D. C.
27,),1_1 - • oldest Claim Ag,eNcy in the 'United states.
oprl6-tin.
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EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
lEet,ttv of DAVID LONG, deed.]
Letters testamentary, on the estate of David
Long, late of Clay township, deeeased, having
been granted to the undersigned—whose post
°thee address is Orbisonia—all persons knowing
themselves indebted are requested to make imme
diate payment, an•i those - basing claims to present
them, duty authea for settlement.
ap.2l
NOTICE.
J , sse Curfman, of Cass township, in the
county of Huntingdon, applies for tw,uty•live
acres of of land, situate in the township of Cass,
and county Huntingdon adjoining lands
of a survey in the name of Thomas Cole on the
west, a survey in the name of Thomas Taylor on
the north and cast, sad a survey in the name of
Jewett McClellan on the Eolith.
april2-3t*.j JESSE CUItFMAN.
liENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE
Is sure to cure Spavins, Splints, Curb,
&c. It removes all unnatural enlarge
' I. tnents. DOES NOT BLISTER. Has oh ,
equal for any lameness on beast or
":\ man. It has cured hip-joint lameness
n a person who had suffered 15 years.
Also cured rheuniatbin, corns, frost-bites or any
bruises, cut or lameness. It has no equal for any
blemish on horses. Send for illustrated circular.
giving POSITIVE PROOF. Price SI. ALL DRUG
GISTS have it or can get it for you. Dr. D. J.
Kendall & Co.,Proprietors, Enosburgh Falls, Ver
mont. Harris & Ewing, Agents, Pittsburgh, Pa.
May23-Iy.
MINING STOCK FOR SALE.
The Carbonate Gold and Silver Mining Compa
ny of Leadville, Col., own more valuable Gold and
Silver Mines than any other Company in the
Mate. The stock is ten dollars per share, fully
paid up, and nonaseessable. They now offer a
limited number of shares for sale through the un
'ersigned, at $2.00 per ,hare. References and
inf3rmatiun cheerfully given, birect all orders
and communications to S. M. BOYD, 144 Filth
Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa., P. 0. Box 1061:
TREASURER'S SALE OF SEATED
and unseated lands in Huntingdon county,
Pennsylvania.
By virtue of sundry &Os of the General Assembly of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania relating to the sale
of :Seated and Unseated Lund in the county of Hunting
don. for taxes due and unpaid. I will offer at Public Sale,
at the Court. House, in the borough of Huntingdon, on
the second Monday of JUNE, A. D., 1880, (being the 14th
day of the mouth), at 10 o'clock, A. M„ the following de
scribed pieces of laud, or such part thereof as may be ne
cessary to satisfy the amount of taxes and coot+ due and
,iupaid against the same, up to and including the year
1475, and continue thineile from day to day, as the canoe
may be found necessary.
The amount of Taxes and Costs must be paid when the
laud is struck off, or the sale nosy be avoided and the
property put up and re-sold.
UNSEATED LINT.
Acitus. WAiIItANTEES AND OWNERS. TAXES.
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417 tit :yes Tano.t.. sl4 51
416 Robert Austin, (John McCalian's Heirs) 34 49
1644 Martin Orlady. l2 64
437 William Mitehiner ..... 39 88
438 Th , .mai Mitehiner 39 82
10 McComb
44,2 John WatAtm
;31 , 7 'Robert Wat‘on
1 lot Campbell&Jacobt4
2.h) Samuel Hartsock ll 60
207 Henry Sills l2 00
400 John Freed 23 20
137 Samnel Morrison. (part) 794
130 Hugh Morrison, (part)...
1146 Andrew Sills ll 36
275 T. E. Orbison l5 95
434 Sarah llartsock 25 65
4 , N1 Sarah Barriek
193 J3;011 Barriek •••• 803
4.0 Peter Hartsock 23 20
DWI EliZaliellt 1iart50ek........ • •
.723 J ti
393 Samuel Galbraith
Janio.s Galbraith
369 Juba Galbraith
carbon Township.
53 Henry Rbodes
116 J.,1) Maun
65 John P. Baker, (Orbison & Durris,) 390
00 .1. N. Spangler
::::16 J. S. Schinickuy and Win. and Elia 3 Wiest, l6 80
1;2. 11., do do 2l 60
:;91 do ilo • do
.
134 Daniel Brwle.
113 F. 11. 1111 V
SG Philip Wager
;50 A. P. WAson's heirs.
21 Willi:in' Itailey'd heirs
5 .latnee Li l,qtn
:u Robert Gardner
i) George Shall',
4(10 Thomas Palmer
400 George Stever
400 Jacob 11.1tzhimer
4uo Harry Baker
./110 Thomas Russell
.1.14 t David Ralston
4 , 0 Thomas Ralston
400 Ephraim .lo ves
44:0 John Brown
400 00
4 , m) Jonathan Priestley
James Dean
410 Henry Canan
.11.0 Adam.
40 0 Henry West
4 , 10 Alexa, der Johnston
500 00
400 Thomas ➢l'Clure.
400 John EtalAon..
400 Samuel Canso
403 00
44a) Abraham Dean
4 , 10 James Inlstou
4 . ) , ) Sall mei Marshall
4,1 Itobert Caldwell
100 Matthew Simpson,
4114) 31ones McClure or M'Clain
490 Joliu Fulston
400 John Galbraith
4 , K) George \Vice
Zl7 Deviancy's heirs
127 R. M. Cunning
210 Joseph Miller or Wilson
Morrie Townsh;r.
I Samuel P. Wallace's heirs.
19 Janie Cullen
1:321 Swoope Hunter
1-I,rkr Township.
412 William Sillilli (A. P. Wilson's heirs) lO6 69
362 du do du
Springfidd Township.
4+lo Nathan Ord
4 Caldwell's heirs.
140 Nancy Davin .
40u lvtacflustou
362 Johanna flustou
332 Rosin Davis
400 John Chamber
15ii Neal Clark.
40t) J wises Chambers
409 Robert Chambers
4;;;; Nancy Chambers
40,1 Benjamin Rush
126 Samuel Sally and Betsey Chambers 446
333 Peter Stines 699
400 Diary Freed
250 Tempy Shaffer lB 75
395 Samuel Cornelius
$ 6500 00
$699.207 00
N Speer & Martin
152 Elie Smith
347 Robert Irvin
279 James Water.
260 Sarah Ilartgi.k
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HO Joseph Miller
175 Peter Wilson
_ __
171 Isaac !Kemple..
4(1) Leas & 151 eT it ty
248 W. W. &D. C. - Enti ikon
s's 00
200 00
50 Peters 44 Stroup.
30 Gid.o Ellag ....
50 00
456 gaimickey & Feist 24 34
400 do do ......
4N) Abraham Sell
TA) Abraham Morrison
b 7 Thomas Morrison...
Walker Township.
117 John Kerr, (Wnt. Crow, owner,) l4 75
422 Su,anna I.,Jur6h
512,975 00
41. Rudolph Lourigh,
437 J. 4m Patton .......
:;J Juin, McCahan
Wareiorsalerk Township.
10 Michaa Low .., 2 20
•:2 1 .!, Pet.. Grazier's heirs.....
2:4 AVillimu Stow , 3zo6
... ....
2 :ft C. Stow
21.5 K. Stewart
1). P. GWIN,
Chief liurgess.
SEATED LIST.
Broad Top City.
2 lots Sylvester Biddle
I lot Stilwell Bishop. 75
2 lots Gustave English
3 " li. Flissett 2 25
... ... -.—
L " William °sal 1 50
2 " MD. Moore.
2 " R. O. Moorehouso 1 50
1 " J. B. Stevinson, 75
2 " Benjamin Tingley 3 00
2 " Samuel Tobias. 1 50
1 " Janice Crowley lB
4 " E. J. Mo,,relot 3 00
, ....... -----
" Charles Flanagan 1 b 0
• thalmont Borough.
5 " Levi Evans' heirs
1 " S.isauua Harris Bl
1 " William L. Ilitibiltun
1 " .I(.lin Long's heirs
I " William John
1 " Mary Sullivan
1 " Francis Reamer
1 " awl house li. S. Isenberg • 575
1 " Michael McCabe 473
"
1 " Lichard Owens 215
1 " `•
ilenry McClure 3 60
1 " •• - Mrs. Owen Fagan 350
1 " J. W. Curry 67
-.-
.
1 CI Andrew Gleason... 6 50
i i , , :: ii Slewellyn thighs ' 155
" William P Kelley..— 2 10
2 " " John Richards'heirs
"
2 " Jamer Reed
"
1 " George Wighman 324
1 " " C.C. Reed
"
1 " James Michell's heirs 4 90
Dudley Borough.
••
1 " M. J. Martin
••
4 .. Lawrence Mangan 2OO
L " ii Sarah Piper 1 00
Henderson Township.
96 F.. A. Green
15,7 it [eel i& - . Lytle ........................ ...............
Huntingdon Borough.
~
1 "JohnSnyder's tut
eae
..... ... 1 73
AMUN LJNG,
Executor.
1
44 D. IL. P. Neely 4 56
2 64 Esther Lytle
3 66 Bev. Luther Smith 9 30
1 " George Brumbaugh 3 00
4 Acres A. A. Cohill 1 60
1 Lot 11. Q. Miller 2OO
1 " Marl E. Warfel 3 10
3 Itl Samuel Patterson 3 00
1 " and House Charles Cornelius 6 08
1 " Mrs. Nancy Miller 3 10
1 ,. " and House William J. Householder's estate 4 55
1 64 William Foester '2 92
1 46 " Abram S. Johnston 3OO
i , .t Emily S. Scott 1 00
5 "Planing Mill Stewart, March & Co , 165 30
11 " and Shops Orbison & Co., Car Manf 'r Co 234 95
1 " and House Rudolph McMurtrio's estate lB 40
1 " Simon Bales .. ... 80
1 " David Witherow 1 88
1 "and 2 Houses Charles C. Ault 972
1 44 Margaret Roberts 4O
1 " Margaret Murrells ...........
1 Jackson White 230
1 " and [louse John Yingling B9B
3 gl Jonathan Miller
1 ‘• and House A. L. Dunmire 304
1 " William Heffner 7 40
1 " Mariah Miller
1 " and House George Porter 693
1 " Rev. J. Plannett
1 " and House Andrew Richtner 633
1 " Elliott Robley
1 " 6i David Sturtzman
Land " William H. Thomas l5 75
3 if 3 at George Wells l9 90
1 "and Brick House) Jacob Zillius 26 76
1 " J. Asbury Crewitt 7O
1 " and House Joseph Carter lO5
14 0 J. R. Dean 1 26
1 4 .. Frank Moultrie Estate 1 23
1.. if Rev.M.L. Drum.
203 acres. Frank Ilefright
1 73
547 " llefright & Wharton 3O 77
Three Springs Borough.
1 Lot. Samuel Smith 32
1 " Siunuel B. Young 32
A. P. M'ELWAIN,
April 9th, 1580. Treasurer.
New Advertisements.
Tionis OF SALE.
Barite Township
Brady nicriship.
Cass Tams/gip.
cnnawell nwnship,
Dablin Township,
Franklin Townshp,
4 20
60
..... . 6 00
Iblmwell Township,
Jachgun Township,
Lincoln Township.
ateida To.anship.
Tod Township.
7 70
6 08
~.. ............
13 08
... ...... ....- 1 75
2 20
Union Township.
Oneida Township.
HUNTINGDON, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1880.
citigrapOrat
JAMES G. BLAINE.
SOME POINTS IN THE CAREER OF
THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE,
BY DR. JAMES ICING,
Late Surgeon • General of Penn'a.
Prominence in a public career always
leads to erroneous statements in regard to
a man's early life. It is our purpose to
give a brief sketch of Senator Biaine io
the vicinity of his birthplace, in the midst
of his friends and relatives.
James Gillespie Blaine was born on the
31st of January. 1830, at the Indian Hill
Farm, Washington county, Pennsylvania,
oppOsite the town of Brownsville. The
old stone house where he first saw light is
still standing, and is now included within
the limits of West Brownsville, though at
the time of his birth it was simply the
mansion house on the Gillespie farm. The
house was built by Mr. Blaine's great
grandfather, the elder Neal Gillespie, in
1778, on what was then the frontier of
civilizat:on. The late James D. Bowman,
of Brownsville, accurate in the local his.
tory of the valley, said it was the first stone
house ever built on the western side of the
Monongahela river.
„„ 3 94
.. 40i
- 408
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ANCESTRY
Mr. Blaine came into public life, if not
by a law of heredity. yet by a strong as
sociation in his immediate family. His
great grandfather, Colonel Ephraim Blaine,
of Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsyl
vania, was commissary general of the Rev
olutionary army from 1778 till the close,
of the struggle in 1783
Mr. Blaine's grandfather, for whom he
is named, intended originally to enter upon
a professional and political career, but a
somewhat prolonged residence in Europe
after he had completed his studies diverted
him, as it has so many young Americans,
fr,an following his first and better ambt
tion. Ile returned to his heme in 1793.
bringing with him, as a special bearer of
despatches, a celebrated treaty with a for
eign government, since become historic,
and afterward led chiefly the life cf a pri
vate gentleman Mr. Blaine's father was
born and reared in Carlisle. and after an
extended tour in Europe, South America,
and the West Indies, returned to spend the
greater portion of his life in the adjoining
county of Washington,-where he died be
fore his son was fully grown. Ile came
west about 1818 having the largest landed
posessions of any man of his age in West
ern Pennsylvania, owning an estate which.
had it been preserved,would have amounted
to many millions. As a single item in
that estate, it may interest the present
generation of Pittsburgers to recall that in
1825 Mr. Ephraim b. Blaine (the Sena
tor's father) deeded to the Eco!,outites the
splendid tract of land on which their town,
with all its improvements and all its wealth,
now stands The price wag $25,000 for a
property whose value to day, even ifs un
improved, would be a princely forttri3e.—
There were also tinilier tracts on the Al
leghsny and coal tracts on the Mononga
Bela, at that day of no special value, which
now represent large fortunes in the hands
of those lucky enough to hold them Very
near the large tracts owned by his father
and grandfather, Senator Blaine is now
the possessor of one of the most valuable
coal properties in the Ponongahela valley
In area it is but a fraction of that which
he might have hoped to inherit, but in
value it is manifold greater than the whole
landed estate of his father fifty years ago.
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INTELLECTUAL TRAINING
Special pains were taken by Mr. Blaine's
father to give his son a thorough intel
lectual training. He was under the best
tutora g e in his earliest years, and at the
age of 11was sent to Lancaster, Ohio, to
school, where be lived in the family of his
relative, Hon. Thomas Ewing, at that time
Secretary of the Treasury. General Thomas
Ewing, at present in Congress, his cousin,
and of the same age. was his classmate,
under the tuition of an Englishman named
Wm. Lyons, a brother of the elder Lord
Lyons and uncle of the late British Min
ister at Washington
In November, 1843, Mr. Blaine entered
the freshmen class of Washington College,
and graduated in September, 1847, at the
age of 17 years and 8 months In a class
of thirty three members, Mr. Blaine shared
the first honor with John C Hervey, now
superintendent of public instruction at
Wheeling. He was a diligent, ambitious
student, specially excelled in mathematics
and Latin, and was marked also for his
proficiency in logic and political economy.
His college guardian was his uncle, Hon.
John H. Ewing at that time Represents
Live in Congress from the Washington dis
trict, and who still lives at an advanced
age, with a very lively interest in the for
tunes of his nephew.
At the quarter centennial of the class,
held in 1872, twenty nine of the thirty
three were living, and every one of them
was a man of position and character in his
community. John H. Hampton, esq., of
this city, A M. Gow, of Washington, Pa ,
John V. LeMoyne, of Chicago, were mem
bers of the class.
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TEACHER, EDITOR, AND POLITICIAN
After graduating, Mr. Blaine taught for
awhile as college tutor in Kentucky and in
Pennsylvania, wrote for the newspapers
and magazines, and engaged in the study
of law, though he did not enter upon the
practice. In 1853 he went to Maine and
assumed the editorship or the Kennebec
Journal, and afterward of the Portland
Advertiser. His progress in Maine cannot
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He Done It. I Drinking Too Much. Horrible Fate of a Ghoul.
! Plain Talk to Young Men.
______
Mr. Pinta went home from the "lodge" Remember, young friend, that the
the other night and tackled the "fifteen" Children are not apt to htlicre they Indiana furnishes the most horrible case
world is older than you are by several
puzzle. He wrestled with the thi r ty blocks drink too much water, andyet they do. on r' cord Gordon Truesdale, it handsome
—at least he thought there ere i thirty of When you come in the house, panting and S buth Bender, had i.. desire to procure a years, that for thousands of years it has
been full of smarter and better young men
them, he being in splendid condition to thirsty from play, you will take a tumbler collection of human skulls, being an ama
than yourself, that when they died the
"see double"—and in about an hour and of water , and drink it down as fast as you tour phrenologist He dug down into the
globe went whirling on, and that not one
a half had the thing solved to his own sat can, an d then rush out to resume play, and, grave of Sarah Platts, cut the flesh away
man in a hundred millions went to the
isfaetion. Then he got pen, paper and ink perhaps, repeat the drink. Now, the next around the neck, and placing his foot on
funeral or even heard of the death. Be as
and attempted to write out the solution, time you feel thirsty, try this experiment. the breast of the corpse, wrenched the
smart as you can, shed the light of your
as follows : "Shove 4 down, push 1 over, Take a goblet of water, and slowly sip it head off by main force He disjointed and
wisdom abroad in the world, but don't try
carom on the 14, swing the right bower, Before it is half gone, your thirst will be threw away the lower jaw. He poisoned
to dazzle or astonish anybody with it. And
drag out 6, keep the 10 in the king row fully quenched, and you will feel better i his nose with some of the matter from the
don't imagine a thing is so simple because
keno on the black, deal again, run the 5 for having drank only that which you corpse, and his head swelled up until incis
you happen to think it is. Don't be too
again,from first base, move 3 to the southwest of need. And we are all apt to acquire ions had to be made in his nose and fore-
sorry for your father because he knows so
15, white to play and mate in twelve the habit of drinkinc , while c- Ling our head to prevent the skin from bursting.
much less than you do. He need to think
moves, Pto Rt 15th, then set 'em up on meals. Animals don't do it, and it is hurt- His eyes actually decayed and became
the other alley, throw double 6's, croquet ful to us. Nature gives U 4 all the saliva sightless, and the odor was so horrible that he was as much smarter than his father as
the 9, take the 7 on the fly, lead king, we need; and ifany one will chew his attendants were at first obliged to flee from you think you are smarter than yours.
then R to R 7, rake in the pot, and mo— food slowly and thoroughly, and not take the house and afterwards ,handled him -or ANI , 40
mov—move--." His wife becoming alarm• a swallow of drink until through eating, with gloves. He confessed his crime and To see how eagerly a human being will
ed at his absence came down stairs at 2 a. the desire to do so will soon leave, and he died in awful agony. As soon as the breath catch at a straw, it is not necessary to wit
m., and found him under the table. But will require only a few sips of water, tea left the body it was placed in the coffin, ness a drowning. The phenomenon is now
he had "done it." or coffee. This practice. too, will do won- but it swelled so as to burst off the lid, manifest chiefly within aeloons, where one
- - ---.......--...... - 41....... - - - ders in the way of keeping off indizesticin, , and the remains were hurried to the tern end of the Straw is is:nu:el-KA in a turn
SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL. dyspepsia and sickness.—Golden Days. 1 etery in the night and buried. bier. .
be called slow, for he was chosen to the
Legislature in 1858, where he served four
years. the last two as Speaker of the House.
The following paragraph is from a letter
by the late Gov. Kent, of Maine, who
modestly refrained from classing himself*
with Feisenden, Hamlin, and the Morrills,
.though he belonged in the front rank of
public men in Maine, made especially
prominent to the whole country in the
campaign of 1840 :
"Almost from the day of his assuming
editorial charge of the Kennebec Journal,
at the early age of 23, Mr. Blaine sprang
into a position of great influence in the
politics and policy of Maine. At 25 he
was a leading power in the councils of the
R, publican party, so recogniz , d by Fes
seuden, Hamlin, the two Morrills, and
others then and still prominent in the
State. Before be was 29 he was chosen
chair man of the executive committee of
the Republican organization in Maine—a
position he has held ever since, anti from
which he has practically shaped and di
reotral
. every political campaign in the
state—always le.tding his party to brilliaot
Actory Had Mr. Blaine been New Eug
hind born, he would probably not have re
ceived such rapid advancement at so early
ar_ age, even with the same ability he
po.sessed. lint there was a s'ert nf We tern
dash about him that t , :ok with us Dawn
Easters; an expression of frankn, ss, can
dor, and confidence that gave him from
the start a very strong and permanent hold
on our people, and as the fbundation of all,
a pure character and a masterly ability
equal to all demands made upon him."
HIS CAREER IN CONGRESS
In 1862 Mr. Blaine was chosen Itepre
sentative in Congress, and from that date
he has been well known to the entire
country. Indeed, law men have lived
more constantly in what Mr. Manton Mar
ble would call the full sunlight. of pub
licity. On the floor of the House, in the
Speaker's chair, again on the floor of the
House, thence in the Senate, and during
the political campaigns of all those years
on the stump in almost every Northern
State, Mr. Blaine his been emphatically
with the people and of the per - Ile. His
opinions on all questions have been pro
nounced, sometimes to aggressiveness, and
his worst enemy has never accused him of
evading or avoiding any responsibility or
the expression convictions 0 1 ally
public issue.
In reviewing Mr. Blaine's Congr, , ssional
career we desire at the outset to point, out
a very superficial and frivolous line of re
mark, which we sometimes see, not only
in regard to Mr. Blaine, but to other
prominent public men. "What great
measure did Mr. Blaine ever originate ?"
asks the unfledged but omnipotent chamber
statesman, and might go on ind,finately
asking what great measure did Mr. Sher
man or Mr. Thurman ever originate, or
Mr. Edmunds or Mr. Co nkling or Mr.
Webiter or Mr. Gallatin ? Such critics
arid such criticisms are equally shallow.
Great measures grow in the minds of the
people. Specie payment came after long
public discussion, and now Senators are
quarrelling as to who it was that drafted
the bill passed in 1875 So it is with all
measures of great public moment. They
do not spring from the mind of one wan
sitting behind his Congressional desk The
duty of the statesman is to shape, mold,
guide, direct in a It-publican govei urnent
The creative power is in the ninds of
many, and the cause of action is necessity.
The great lawyer does not create his ease
He argues it, developes it, applies pin
ciples to it.
To say that Mr Blaine has bern a power
in Congress for the past seventeen 3 t.ars is
simply to affirm current history. Though
entering very, young. he made his mark
at once. At the period of darkest . depr es
sion in the war, when anxiety brooded
everywhere and boded everything, Mr.
Blaine delivered a speech on "The Ability
of the American People to Suppress t:,e
u~
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Rebellion," which has been cited for the
great attention and warm commendation
it received. Its value lay not alone in its
timeliness, for after its wide circulation it
was reprinted as a campaign document in
the Presidential campaign of 1864
It was the delivery of this speech,
and some discussions which took place
shortly after, that caused Thaddeus Stevens
to say that "Blaine of Maine has shown
as great aptitude and ability for the higher
walks of public life as any man that had
come to Congress during his period of
service."
During the first session of Mr Blaine's
service as member of the Post Office Com
tnittee he took an active part in co-opera
tion with the chairman, Hon John B
Ally, and the late James Brooks of New
York. in encouraging and securing the
system of postal cars now in universal use.
Distribution on the cars had not been at
tempted on any great scale, and the first
appropriations for the enlarged service
were not granted without opposition.
Following the war, and throughout the
peiiod of reconstruction, Mr. Blaine was
active, energetic, and intelligent. He wets
especially prominent in shaping some of
the most important features of the Four
teenth Amendment, particularly that re
lating to the basis of representation. The
diseussioas on the great series of
in which Mr. Blaine figured largely, are
among the most interesting and valuable
in the history of the American Congress.
THE GREENBACK HERESY,
In 1867, while Mr. Blaine was absent
in Europe, the theory of paying the public
debt. in greenbacks was started in Ohio by
Mr Pendleton and in Massachusetts by
-General Butler. Just after his return in
the autumn, at a special or adjourned ses
sion of Congress in November. Mr. Blaine
assaulted the proposition in a speech of
great research, logic and force. It thus
happened that he was the first man in
either branch of Congress who spoke
against the financial heresy that in subse
quent years has engrossed so much of
public attention. From that time, both
in C o ngress and before the people, Mr.
Blaine has been indefatigable in bringing
the public opinion of the country to the
right standard of financial and national
honor. Others may have been more prom
inent than he in Congress, but it is haz
arding little to say that Mr. Blaine, more
than any other man, has retched the mind
and aroused the judgment of the people
by addresses from the stump through the
East and the West.
In his 39th year Mr. Blaine was chosen
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and was re-elected for the two succeeding
Congresses. It has often been said that
no man since Clay's speakership presided
with such an absolute knowledge of the
rules of the House, or with so great a mas
tery in the rapid, intelligent and faithful
discharge of business. His knowledge of
parliamentary law was instinctive and coo]
plete, and his administration of it so fair
that both sides of the House united at the
close of each Congress in cordial thanks
for his impartiality As Mr.. Blaine pre
sided over some of the must exciting
scenes and sessions of the House, the ap
pruval he secured is especially noticeable.
A MEMORABLE EVENT.
Even more marked, at least in the pop
War eye, than bis career as Speaker, was
Mr Blaine's course in the House when he
returned to the fl ,or at the close of his
!-peakership Few have forgotten the sud
den tilt by which, in a day, a victorious
and exultant Democratic majority was
changed into n surprised. subdued anti
saddened errxd, under Mr Blaine's ag,
gres-ive and unexpected tactics. The de
bates of that memorable session on the
proposition to remove the disabilities of
Jefferson Davis are still fresh in all minds,
and more likely to be appreciated perhaps
to-day than at any time within the last
three ytars. Mr. Blaine's speeches laid
the foundation of success in the campaign
of 1876, though he was not selected as the
standard bearer. The excitement growing
out of this exciting session with all its
attendant events brought Mr. Blaine more
prominently before the country than any
othi•r citizen fir the time, centered upon
him indeed a hi,stility more malinant and
a love more enthusiastic than are often in
spired by public service, and his failure to
be tiowir•at , cl at. Cincinnati was a di-ap
pointment to the great mass of Republi
cans throughout the country. To thousands
in Pennsylvania his defeat came as some
thing like a personal grief. On the final
ballot Mr. Blaine had 351 votes, Mr.
Hayes had 379, and Mr. Bristow 23, so
that Mr. Hayes only had a majority of
five. puriu g the seven ballotings 404 dif
ferent delegates voted for Mr. Blaine, but
they were not combined in one ballot.
CAMPAIGN OF 1876
After the election of President Hayes,
to which Mr. Blaine devoted all his pow
ers, he entered the Senate. taking his seat
in December, 1876. Many regretted that
the able Speaker of the House, the 'lash
ing and brilliant debater in Committee of
Whole, should, as they expressed it, be
shelved in the Senate. Three years have
passed, and it would be hard to name a
man who has been less securely shelved, a
Senator Who has moved su promptly to the
front and stood there so firmly as Mr.
Blaine. The Senate contains a large num
ber of able men and some skillful debaters,
but iu logical, offiliand discussion, in quick
perception, full command of every re
source, and entire forgetfulness of self, it
contains no man superior to Mr Blaine.
He has been called dramatic. lie is dra
matic, not because he poses, but because
he is absolutely natural, and nature is al
ways dramatic. His career in the Senate
has been as active as that in the House
He has taken a prominent part in every
prominent debate, and though not tearing
to differ from his party, has always been a
strong party man, and is to day one of the
recognized leaders on the Republican side.
PECULIAR TRAITS
Mr. Blaine is a man of good temper and
temperament, though with a certain intel
lectual vehemence that might sometimes
be mistaken for anger, of strong physique,
wonderful powers of endurance and of re
cuperation, of great activi y and industry,
kindly and frank, easily approachable, and
ready to aid_ all good causes with tongue,
pen and' purse His studies have been
largely on political questions and political
history. Everything connected with the
development of the country interests him,
and he is a dangerous antagonist in any
(natter of American history—especially of
the United States since the adoption of the
Federal Constitution. He is an intense
believer in the American Republic, one
and indivisible, jealous and watehful tor
her honor, her dignity, and her right of
eminent domain, ready to brave the wrath
of the East for the welfare of the West,
as in the Chinese question ; ready to differ
from political friends rather than permit
the indefinite suspension of the writ of
habeas corpus ; ready to brave the wrath
of the Conservatives for the rights of the
Southern blacks, as in his opposition to
President Hayes' Southern policy—and
perfectly ready to give the British lion's
mane a tweak when that fine old king of
beasts crashes too clumsily among our fish
ing flakes
HIS REMARKABLE MEMORY.
Mr. Blaine's knowledge of facts, dates,
events, men in our history, is not only re
markable, but almo'st unprecedented. In
his college days he was noted for his early
love of American history, and for his in
timate knowledge of its details. That field
of reading has been enlarged and cultivat
ed in all his subsequent years, until it
would be difficult to find a man in the
United States who can, on the instant,
without reference to book or note, give so
many facts and statistics relating to cur
rent interests, to our financial and revenue
system, to our manufacturing industries of
all kinds, to our river and harbor improve.
ments, to our public lands, to our railway
system. to our mines and minerals, to our
agricultural interests—in fact, to every
thing that constitutes and includes the
development, achievement, and success of
the United States. This has been the study
of his life, and his memory is an encyclo
pw.lia. lie remembers because it is easier
than to forget.
THE LATE TROUBLE IN MAINE
Those who have been disposed to regard
Mr Blaine as an impulsive and p)ssibly
rash man, were kiLdly furnished by the
Democratic party the opportunity to be
completely undeceived, in the steadiness,
persistence, and success with which he
conducted the Republican party in Maine
through its recent troubles, and brought
order and law out of chaos and threatened
violence No finer display of statesman
like qualities has been seen in this coun
try, and the American people are not slow
to perceive that in the protracted and per
ilous struggle in Maine, Mr. Blaine ex
hibited all the qualities required for the
discharge of the most difficult and delicate
duties of an executive station.
Many parsons warmly disposed to sup
port 11r Blaine for the Presidency corn
plain that he does nothing for himself—
Nor is it likely that he will do anything..
If chosen President his nomination must
be won by the Republican masses and his
election by a frank and confident appeal
to the people No wan is freer from the
spirit of the demagogue and time server
His friends believe that his candidacy
would evoke an entbuiasm not equalled
in this country since the famous campaign
of 1840.
Tight Laoing.
The circumference of the waist in a
woman of medium height and dimensions
measures,on an average—when not cramped
and distorted—about 30 inches; but in
those who have I ,nit adopted tieht.lacing
it may measure no more than 20 inches,
and sometimes even much less. Now,
what becomes, in these latter cases, of the
meveral organs contained within the chest
and abdomen? They are, of course, cow
pressed and pushed and squeezed out of
their natural shapes, and made to protude
into places in which they have no busi
ness, because never meant to occupy such
places. It was intended by nature, as a
matter of course, that the chest and ab•
domen should respectively held their va
rious contents in their allotted and relative
positions, occupying certain portions of
space, and having ample roam for the due
performance of their individual duties,
without that jostling and interference with
one another which necessarily accompanies
disorder and bad arrangement. But, on
the other hand, there is no vacuum or
empty space in either of the two cavities
—there is no region without its own par
ticular organ or part ; and each organ or
part, though provided by nature with am
ple room fur the needful and unobstructed
discharge of its special function, has not
yet much to spare When, then, any one
particular organ is, by the system of tight
lacing, &c., unduly pressed upon and
pushed and squeezed, it must. like a man
in a crowd—since it cannot get fait of the
the way—beg seriously hampered in its
movements, and its important duties im
perfectly discharged, to the no small in
jury and suffering sooner or later of the
foolish self-torturer. And this in propor
tion to the unnatural pressure and squeez
ing to which the organ has had to submit.
The excessive crushing, however, which
results from this much to be deplored cus
tom, as well as the consequences arising
from: it, is not confined to one organ only,
but it is transmitted to those lying in its
immediate proximity--these having to bear
the pressure from the organs which are
directly implicated, though they them-elves
may be entirely removed from the direct
load. The practice of tight lacing brings
about this crushing and displacement of
organs most completely and effectually—
hampering and thwarting them in the per
formance of their assigned and indispensable
duties, and with the consequent production
of a whole host of very serious troubles,
and not a few real and grave diseases.—
There are few natural diseases, indeed,
which so thoroughly displace and jam and
wedge together so great a number of the
internal organs, and so generally dissemi
nate among them incapacity for the dis
charge of their multifarious duties, as does
this positively sinful practice of tight
lacing. Shortness of breath, congestion,
and even inflammation of the lungs, con
gestion of the liver, of the 'kidneys &e.,
palpitation and subsequent disease of the
heart; faintings, bronchitis, indigestion,
jaundice, obstruction of the bowels, rup
ture, &c., are a few only of the many evils
arising from the custom which we are so
emphatically condem - ning; a list, one would
think, quite formidable enough to cause
the most thoughtless and most fashion
v,eridden subject to immediately renounce
ail allegiance to a practice so fraught with
mischief; and one, moreover, which has
not a single redeeming point, even in the
occasionally foolish eyes of the sterner sex,
in its favor.-- Good Words.
Destroyers of Carpets.
INSECT PESTS THAT HIDE IN THE CRT•
VICES OF FLOORS.
The season is at hand in which many
careful housewives will be dismayed at the
wholesale destruction which their best car
pets have suffered, through the depreda
tions of some insect pests, and as usual the
injury will be attributed to the well known
domestic scourge, the clothes moth tines
tepetzella But it may be of interest to
some to know that an insect of quite a
different order, and far more destructive,
is fostered unwittingly beneath our car
pets. If the windows of infested rooms be
carefully examined during the winter and
spring, a number of small beetles may of
ten be found not exceeding one eighth of
an inch in length, and of an oval convex
form These insects are beautiful little
objects, being jet black, variegated with
scarlet, and white markings. If examined
through a lower power microscope these
markings are seen to be composed of min
ute elongated scales of various colors, with
which the body is completely covered as
with a coat-of mail. This is the insect
which in the larval state plays such havoc
with carpets, and is known:to entomologists
under the name or anthrenus scrophularioe.
Its discovery in this country is of recent.
date, and it has probably been imported
from Europe, where it has long been
known and dreaded for its uestructiveness.
Owners of carpets who have not suffered
from this source have reason to congratu
late themselves and should be vigilant,
making frequent examinations during the
summer months, at which time the insect
is in the larval state and commits its
ravages while its presence is often unsus
pected. The larvae measure about three
sixteenth of an inch in length, in mature
specimens, and are clothed with short
bristly hairs somewhat longer a' the sides
where they form small tufts., and are ter
minated at the hinder end by a tuft of
longer hair, making them appear nearly
three-eights of an inch long. When they
are disturbed they are very active and
glide very quickly away into some crevice
of the floor or beneath the washboard. It
is not very consoling to know that this
pest is rapidly increasing while no effectual
means for its destruction has yet been dis
covered, although benzine, kerosene oil
and insect powder have been reported ben
eficial. A curious fact concerning these
insects is that the imago or perfect insect,
is frequently found on flowers, apparently
feeding on the pollen. A friend recently
gave me a number of specimens which he
had taken on the tulip, while I have fre
quently found them abundant on the
flu gers of the spirea alba.
A COUNTRY editor received the follow
ing: `•Dear sir—l have looked carefully
:ind patiently over your paper fcr six
months for the death of some individual I
was acquainted with, but as yet not a sin
gle soul I care anything about had drop ,
ped , •ff ; you will please to have my name
erased."
AT a church entertainment in Califor
nia rum punch was smuggled in as cold
tea. The desire for tea became great
Tat extreme height of misery is a F mall
boy with a neyr pair or boors and no mud
puddle.
NO. 17.