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FRIDAY; JANUARY 22:1888
• Eirriaxwoon, January 20,180 0 .
9IFFAETING OF REPUBLIf AN
STATE CENTRAL 00301ITTEE.—The
Union Republican State Centl , ll Committee will
meet at BABRISBURG on THURSDAY, THE
FOURTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, at TWO o'clock
for the purpose of AXlng the t'me . and place
of holding the next State Commotion; and other ap
propriate business.
A full attendance is earnestly desired.
BALUSHA A. GROW,
• Chairman of Committee.
GEO. W. BANERSLY , lSecratarles. -
J. R. McArxx,
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WE runrr Ote_inside pages of this
morning's GAZETTZ—Seeond page: ."Your
House," "The Child Angel," Ephemeris.
Miscellaneous. Third and Sixth pages:
.Commercial, „Financial, Mercantae and
Biter News, Imports, Markets. Seventh
page-: "Kate Field on Agricultural Fairs,"
"Three Notable Personages," "Hell Gate,"
Clippings.
U. S. BONDS at Frankfort,, 79i.
pranonnmt at A.ntwerp,sSi©spi francs.
GOLD closed yesterday In New York a,
1353. ,
le REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COM
MITTEE will hold a meeting at Harrisburg
on the I ,4th of February, at 2 T. u.
• A. um. reported from the, Reconstruction
Committee, on r Tuesday, relieves this dies.
bilities of several hundreds of Southern
ex-rebels.
THE SENATi will confirm no more of Mr.
JonarS'oies nominations, except in the very
few instances where the public interests may
require vacant offices to be filled without
delay.
GENERAL RODMAN, of the army, is re
ported to have given an opinion, before the
Committee of the House on Wednesday,
that a three himdred feet span for bridges
over the Ohio river, was a very , reasonable
limit. I We think the real merits of this
question are not exactly within the range
of his , artillery: •
THE POLITICAL SITUATION in the Indiana
Legislature is just now an awkward one.
The Republican nomination for thee. S.
Senate, conceded by the caucas to Lt. Gov.
CUMEACK, moets with a bolt from eighteen
Republicans, members of the two Houses.
The effect is to deprive the nominee of the
majority .- vote essential to his election, and
may 'result ultimately in forcing his with
drawal in favor of another candidate. in
that contingency, Hon. R. W. THOMESON,
of Terre Haute, is likely to be taken up.
- OUR SECRETARY OF STATE should make
his strong point on the English negotiations,
and forego any more dabbling in territorial
annexation. He came out of the Alaska
scrape only by a very hard squeeze; the
St. ;Thomas bargain will be thrown back
upOn his hinds, and yet he is'said to be
insane enough to be at this moment actually
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engaged in negotiations for the purchase of
Cuba. It is satisfactory to hear that a Con.
gressional resolution is proposed, sharply
censuring such an unjustifiable assumption
of prerogatives.
THE CRY OF g' EXTRAVAGANCE.'
Some of the Republican papers of .the
State have allowed themselves to be led into
attacks upon the Republican ;members;' of
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the Legislature for extravagance, which,ive
think, n close examination of the facts will
show to be unfounded. •
The basis of these, attacks is the allega
tion that the Republican caucuses, in
'con
tract
branches, refused to accept an offer to con
tract for the pasting and •folding of the two
Houses for $9,000,. preferring to ,have the
work done by officers of their own selec
tion at a cost, axis claimed, of $50;000..
It is very true that these caucuses rejected
this proposition, because the law of 1368 re
quires each House, at ,its organization, to
' elect a certain number of pesters and fold
ers, and it is not competent for , either or,
both Houses to enter into: a contract until'
after its organization; but it is not true that
the pasting and folding of the two' Hous6
ever did cost $50,000, or that it can cost
anything like that sum, under present ar
rangements.
The charge is that the pasting and fold
ing of the last House cost $37,000, and that
of the Senate $13,000; but the fact is that
there are no data for determining what the
pasting and folding really did cost.
Prior to the passage of the act-of 1808
!there was no such office known to the law
l as that of pester and folder. The practice
was to have that • work done by assistant
doorkeepers, assigned to that duty by the.
presiding officers of each house; and as the
House reported last_ year to have had
thirty-seven assistant doorkeepers and the
Senate thirteen, the conclusion is jumped
at that they were all assigned to dut'y in the
folding:room, - and each paid $l,OOO, a, con
clusion for which there is no justification.
Not half of these officers were assigned to
such duty, the others being employed in
various other ways. •'
But the Republican members of the Leg
islature . of 186$ saw that the. power , ; to
appoint:thette Wldetant'doOr-keePtirs was lia
ble to great o,llB,,e s .belpg-in ti c 4ll . llbo-
jted, twidAluit.fiome isid`tiettesPfkoleed who
did n 9 duty at all, said they accordingly in
structed their . Committees on Retrenchment
and 'Reform to draw op, a bill limiting the
namber andfaing the pay of the officers of
the two Houses. •
A. bill was accordingly drawn up by Ur.
ERRETT, of Allegheny, with this purpose
in view, which, with some modifications,
was adopted in both. Houses. This was the
bill under which the Legislature is now or
ganized„ After fixing the number of Ser
geants-at-Arms, Door-keepers, Messengers,
etc., it provides that the House shall elect ten
Pasters and Foldets, at a saliry of six hun
dred dollars each, and two Superintendents
at eight hundred dollars each, and that the
Senate shall choose seven Pasters and Fold
ers ut six hundred dollars each. These are
'all the officers chosen by either House to per
owl this duty.
Under the operation of this law there are
ow in the
House, 10 asters and folders at $6OO $6.000
• • 2 :superintendents at gSOO 1.600
Senate, 7 pesters and folders at 4600 4, ttil
Total cost of pasting and folding 811,600
This, then, is the whole cost of the pasting
and folding at the present. Instead of costing
$30,000 or $40,000 or $50,000, as variously
represented, it costs, 'and can cost, but $ll,-
SOO, which is but a few hundreds over the
sum at which the contract was offered, over
which so much disturbance has been
made. And as there never was a
contractor for the State who did not
Come in after his contract was out,
with a poor mouth, asking for extra pay,
the mere offer to 'do this work for a nomi
nally low sum, is no evidence that it would
not, in the end, cost ranch more than the
pasting and folding will now cost, - under
the law of 1868. The pesters and folders
are also frequently assigned to other duties,
and so save the expense of other officers.
It is also to be taken into account that
this law of 1865 reduced the pay of aid the
emploueee of the two .q . ouees, and will, if let
alone; work a saving of many thousands to
the State, Instead of being abused,as the ;Re
publican members of the Legislature have
been, for adhering to this law, they deserve
much credit for its passage, originally, and
for their present persistence in its enforce
ment.
TREATMENT OF 'TIM, INSANE.
In the ruder stages of society Insanity,
has ever been regarded, not as a disease,
amenable to curative treatment, In like man
ner as maladies which befall purely physical
organisms, but as a visitation from the Evil
One. In accordance with this mistaken 1
conception of the complaint, the victims of
it have been denied sympathy and core,
driven forth from companionship with their
race, and compelled to take up their abodes
in forests, among rocks and in dens of the
earth. , I - I
With the progress of particular nations in
knowledge and refinement, juster ideas pre- 1
wail, and provisions are made both for the
custody and the care of individuals •in
whom reason has been dethroned. ` \ lt is not
pretended that - medical science hasleached
perfection; much less, that its d.evelopment '
is most satisfactory in that delicate and in
tricate department of it which takes .cogni- ,
zance of intellectual disorders. ' But this is
insisted on, and not without abundant cause, I
that much real progress has been made, and
results of great value attained. It was a
vast stride to reach the conclusion that lu
naticiare not possessed by devilsi This in
volved the fact that they were entitled to I
Compassion. It was another stride to ascer- 1
taro that they suffered from disease; and '
that, in many, instances, the disease would
yield to treatment, and reason again return
to its seat. If the , best, and consequently
Ultimate, methods of treatment have not
been discovered and applied, the case is no
worse in this than in other departments.
All human knowledge is, at best, approzi:
mate rather than abtolute. 1
- Hospitals for the detettion and treatment
of the Insane are confessedly - among the
best instrumentalities so far devised for
ameliorating the condition of that class of
patients. Experiments have, indeed, been
made in other directions, and with such de.
grees of success as to inspire hope of some
thing better. Until these hopes shall be ful
ly realized, thetospital system will remain,
and the best will be , done under it that is
possible of.
It cannot be disguised, hbwever,' that
many persons regard -Lunatic Hospitals as
adaptations of the Bastile, in which husbands
and wives, parents and children readily im
mure such of their relatives as are I.ibn.ox
ions, or by whose confinement they can
profit pecuniarily. This conception_ is not
1 creditable to the understandings 'or the sen. -
timents of those who cherish it; for,•it pro
ceeds upon thoassumption that those who
sustain the closest and tenderest 'rela'tion
ships, by nature or contract, are in chronic
conspiracy against each other, and that any
one of them can readily procure; for &pal
try sum of money, or none whatever, a cef
tificate from a respectable physician, that
either of the others itrof unsound mind and
unfit to go at large.
Unquestionably, cases have happened in
which sane persons;have been spirited, away
'from society and held as lunatics, to gratify
greed or revenge. This has occurred oftener
without the intervention of Hospitals than
with them. What has been in this regard,
will continue to be. But cases of this sort
are not as numerous as novelists and sensa
tional reporters endeavor to make the rest
of mankin,d ,believe. . •
Recently a number of instances of alleged
maliCious incarcetaticn hive been brought
before judicial tribunals; and the most has
been made of them that could be. Brit, the
fact was conspicuonsly, revealed by the evi
dence that neither the relatives nor : the at
testing-phisicians were actuated - by cove- -
tousnewfor Malice, bit by clear conceptions
of what was their duty. They mayhave
been mistaken as to,the mental condition of
the individuals with who& they were called
to deal; but the chances are tell tomni that
their^ judgments 'were more reliable than'l
that:of the Courts by s whlch they wereover;,
ruled:,
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Tit:ese,4lo3—is,;‘ll:isreici,litexe4iniii64l_ ar'..,
brinetkilar . consideration the forms to 'd.
4.AZETTE::_ iilar,AßT 221 1E69
observed in committing private patients to
Lunatic Hospitals. In a special manner the
State 711edical Society has felt called upon
to memorialize the Legislature on the sub
ject. The members of this Association are
naturally touched in their sense of honor by
the popular imputation that an indefinite
number of them are ready, for the fun of
the thing, or for a pecuniary gratification,
to sign a certificate which will consign any
man or woman to a Mad. House, Trusted
in the most critical emergencies of life, and
constantly relied upon in the supreme or
deal of death, they evidently feel the pres
ent imputation upon their integrity as an
insult.
The laws of Pennsylvania prescribe what
forms shall be complied with before a crimi
nal or pauper shall be admitted as a lunatic
to a Hospital, but do not designate what
fornialities shall be observed in the reception
of private patients.
In 1752 the Managers of the Pennsylvania
Hospital, of whom 137ZJAMIN FRANKLIN
was one, ordered that no patient should be
admitted except upon the certificate of a
physician, and the written request of a near
relative or friend. / This order has been
adopted by all the otheY Hospitals, and re
mains in force.
What the Medical Society of the State
now ask is to have It pipvided by law that
insane peyAons mt 4 be' placed in Hospitals
by their legal •guardians, but never without
the certificate of one; l or more reputable
physicians, after a personal examination,
made within a week of the date thereof; the
certificate te be dulyi acknowledged and
sworn to before a judicial officer, who shall•
attest the signature, and the respectability
of the signer; that upon a written statement,
addressed by a respectable citizen to any
law judge; setting forth that a certain per
son confined as insane, is not so, the judge
shall appoint a commission of three persons,
one of whom at least shall be a physician
and another a lavryer, l who shall hear such
evidence as may be offered, and, without
summoning the party to meet them, shall
liSve a personal interylew with him or her,
and shall report their proceedings to the
judge, and if their decision is that the party
is not insane the Judge shall issue an order
for his or her discharge. Various other pro
visions are suggested with the view of cov
ering the case as fully as practicable.
We think well of 'the aforesaid Memorial
and of the draft of a bill by which it is ac
companied; and we urge the matter upon
the consideration of, the Legislature. We
do not affirm that this bill ought to be
passed into a law; but we are fully, of the
opinion that some bill on this gcneral sub
ject is indispensable. Against the contin
gency of wrongful confinement all reasona
ble precautions should be erected, and, at
the same time; care should be taken to pro
tect from aspersion the reputations of those
citizens who are called upon professionally
or otherwise to fulfill the unpleasant duty
of committing friends or patients to Luna
natic. Asylums.
THE KANSAS : PACIFIC RAILWAY
At the last session, of Congress a bill
passed the Senate granting right of way
and subsidy to the Union Pacific Railway,
Eastern Division, now better known as the
lianas Pacific, front Its present termbaua to
Cheyenne Wells, a distance of fifty-four
miles. This bill has been reached in regu
lar order in the House of Representatives,
where it is being] earnestly debated. Mr.
WASLIBURti is its chief opponent; but the
bill has many able advocates, and it is
thought that the .chances of its passage are
1 about even.
This road is finished to a place called
Sheridan, in the midst of the plains, not far
east of the western border of. Kansas, a
distanee of four hundred and five miles west
of Kansas city„ the place of beginning.
That is as far as the former acts of Congress
authorized the Company to go.
Sheridan is a little village, the mere
creature of the road, without any important
1 western connectons, and is surrounded by
a country wholly destitute of timber. Chey
enne Wells, on the other hand, is an old
point where roads from. New Mexico, the
valley of the Upper Arkansas, and the
I whole mountain range as'far north as Den
\ ver, converge. 'From this point the road to
Denver-theany casha i d constructionf
ro m
eh
is without pro.
vided for Til the' billbeara :off in:ii — direc
tion a little north of wait; While the con
templated road to the Pacific; through Nei . .
Mexteb and Arizona, diverges to the south
[l west. -
The main argument.ins favor of this ex
tension of fifty-four miles are, first, that it will
secure a railroad -the whole distance from
the Wasiouri ai'Kiinsis City to'Denver, and
to the extensive mining region of which
that city is tie ,metropolis ; and, second,
thSt by doing ea) the ;entire' road,. upon
which the govnrnment has alrody expended
46,48000 in i bonds will be made remu
munerative i Whereas in its present condi
tion --"ending nOwhere"--it is impossible
to pay. , , -. . :-.- .--
The distance from Cheyenne Wells to
Denver is one hundred and thirty miles,and
the line passes through extensive forests of
pine and thrOugh ricu coal fields, the open
ing of which would be of immense advant
age to the rapidly growing settlements of
Kansas, and add greatly to the revenue of
the road. .
bln. J. WOLY:stOIiD, of Atwood, Arm.
strong county, Pa., sends .us a club for the
Pittsburgh Weekly GAZETTE, and writes as
follows:
"We have been reading the GAZETTE for
a long time and express ourselves much
pleased with your earnest efforts to make a.
.good newspaper, and to disseminate correct
_moral, mid political principles. We feel
that yon have exerted a powerful influence
in the late election, and hope you will not
flag in your well directed efforts in the
future. Your paper is of long standing in
I the family of your correspondent, his father
I having subscribed to it over eighty years
ago, and since then it has ever been a family
favorite." I '
We are daily is receipt of anal , letters
from our friends, and - are quite gratified that
9hPreoPteijk d
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TILE .PENDING TREATIES.-
It is put as one objection to the new Ala
bama' treaty that its terms require us to pay
to England any amounts found to be due to
her citizens, under claims arising in the last
fifteen years. =We may find, say the objec
tors, that we owe too much for convenient
payment. Another objection is that the
treaty does not distinctly declare a princi
ple, as to neutral and belligerent rights,
which its substance in effect concedes-abso ,
lutely. Here, in these two points, is the
whole case against the adjustment now before
the Senate. One splits hairs upon a question
practically of no value whatever, while the
other, based upon a most improbable appre
hension, chopsuaorality in place of logic,
aiming to engraft the repudiation of just
debts into international law.`
Beyond the objectors of these classes, are
mustered a brigade of editorial noodles who
are so afflicted with the idea that Mr. REV
ERDY Jonsson, with all his, eating, drink
ing and talking, is the diplomatist really re
sponsible for the shape of this adjustment,
and that the whole work is,
_therefore, of
necessity unsound, that any allusion to the
treaty now awakens a chorus of denuncia
tion from half the journals Of theland.
We think these 'gentlemen will, in time,
get more honesty, more wisdom and a
clearer view of the facts, when they dis
cover that, throughout this negotiation, our
Minister at London has taken no part but
that of a foreign secretary for Mr. SEWARD,
who has in fact- controlled and shaped the
entire adjustment at his official desk in
Washington. When they discern, in the text
of the treaty itself, its own amply effective
concession of the English liability for the
international mistake; when they can recon
cile their consciences, with their patriotism,
to the obvious claims upOn our own na
tional honor, the pending question will be
stripped of all its terrors.
It is possible that the grave and dispas
sion Ste deliberations of -the Senate may be
influenced by the shallow, ad eaptandurn
fallacies which continue' to humbug no small
portion of the public. We are entitled,
however, to hope for better things. There
are brighter indications that both Senatorial'
and popular opinions are slowly swinging
about into a more correct and honorable
view of the results which now represent, in
fact, one of the greatest triumphs of Ameri
can diplomacy since the Ashburton treaty
was signed.
Of Senatorial opinion upon the three tree.:
ties now pending, a dispatch before us
says:
"The Committee on Foreign Affairs has
already discussed them informally, and
from this discussion it is evident that they
will forthwith report in of ntu-
ralization and San Juanfavor
treaties, the
but a re
garding the Alabama treaty there is con
siderable doubt. In the first place a ma
jority of the committee seriously object to
the provision allowing the British govern
ment to bring iu claims against us for fif
teen years back, as offsets to claims of our
citizens against it. It appears but just,
however, that these claims against us, if
they have any foundation in law, should be
settled, even if in striking the balance the
cash account should - be against us. The
fact that we have .in reality compelled Eng
land to acknowledge the recognition of the
belligerency of the Southern Confederacy
ass violation of international law is sufil
cient for us to exult over; That England
I. DR.
has done this does not appear at a casual
The
glance: but reflection on the subject de
velops the fact, greatly to the credit of lir.
Seward. He himself argues that if uo ,
wrongs were to be righto no commission I
would be necessary, and the accession. of I
England to the demand for a commission 11
is in truth an admission that our claims
against her are valid. The commission
will not, It must be remembered, settle any
point of international law, but will merely
determine the amount of the claims."
CUBA.
Mr. HALE, our Minister at Madrid, ad-
vises our government that Spain will sell to
us Cuba for $20,000,000. We hav 'nt the
money to spare, nor any part of it, and that
transaction will never be consummated.
But this offer yields a strong confirmation
to the opinion hazarded of late in this jour
nal, that Cuba is, sooner or later, to be ours
at any rate, in the natural progress of
events. ThiA now seems to be apparent to
the Ptovisional government of Spain, which
wisely proposes to forego an expensive and
doubtful contest with the insurgents of the
island, and to, anticipate an inevitable loss
by making the surrender now of profit to
herself. ,
For the rest, when the Cuban revolution
ists learn the present temper of the govern
ment ar Madrid, we shall see Some remark-
able proofs of the insincerity of 'their paper
professions in favor , of abolishing slavery,
Absorption into our Republic means that
abolition in earnest, and so would the re
newed submission of the Cubans, to the au
thority of a Junta which has' already pro
claimed freedom throughout the Spanish do
,
minions.
Thp , • end of Cuban, • slavery is. written.
The -etnitncipatioi which in any event is
inevitable,. destroys in effect the value 'of
tb.e • island as a dependency of the Spanish
crown. The same measure will have the
came temporary effects, upon the queen of
the Ai:kinds, which followed the abolitiOit i of
slavery in the English West Indies. Eng
land could wait, during one generation, for
the slow but certain reaction which has
once more restored the material value of
Jamaica and Barbadoes, as provinces of the
empire. But Spain cannot wait. The hour
that sees Cuba no longer a valuable tributary
to her treasury will also see the home gov
ernment inviting the best terms of purchase
from our own country -,and from European
powers, 'From such competition we should'
have little to fear. Practically, our Repub
lic 'commands that market. We can make
our own terms. The only price weare, now
or hereafter, likely to offer will be simply
Americarkitizenship. And in this direction
events are rapidly moving.
THE LATE;•eOL. - T. ()pi:sato.
Of this distinguished citizen of' Ohio re.
D.
.
cently deceased, D. P. writes justly as fol
lows: • . • •, • :
The telegfaph this morning gives the sad
news of the death of Colonel Key. I lose
.a good friend, and the..country one of its
noblest Citizens. He was a
by man o
info f fin
rmae i
fi
tellect, 'graced vas stores of,tio „
&urinated and 'Male t
ugeftd• bye ttce ,16fti9st%
prilicipleasud,the Idnolest itapOses.
these made him useful, for they undo biLu
Ibrave. Strange as it may seem to those who i
saw him only in public life, he was :modest '
and retiring In his disposition and deport
ment as a girl. The work he found himself
driven to made him bold.
It is on this account that he never re.
ceived credit for what he did accomplish.
The work done, he went his way s in search
of other duties, and left to pretenders and
charlatans the reward.
As a member of the Ohio Legislature, he
gave to woman her day in court, and, by
one statute carefully worded, killed that
beastly relic of a barbarous time called "the
husband" at common law.
When the war broke out he labored hard
to carry with him the Democratic party at
the North into an earnest support of our
Government. He very nearly succeeded.
During the war, while on General Mc-
Clellan's staff and stationed at Washington,
he drew up the act of emancipation setting
free the slaves of the District, and through
his personal efforts, in i no wise aided by
Henry Wilson, he had it passed to a law.
He was the author of all McClellan's cele•
brated orders that had a tinge of humanity
in them, and as the confidential friend and
adviser of that unfortunate military man, he
did much to create that popularity which so
I strangely survives his blunders and misfor
;unes.
washingten Items.
The Administration have received an im
portant piece [ of official information from
Minister Hale at Madrid, stating that over
tures have been made to him, as the Ameri
can representative, for the sale to the United
States by the new Spanish Government of
the Island of Cuba. The matter was laid
before the Cabinet, and as soon as it
assumes a more definite shape it will be
communicated to Congress in advance of
any steps looking toward a treaty in the
premises. The price intimated is said to ex
ceed twbrity millions of gold.
It is worth nothing that one of the first'
messages Mr. Lincoln sent to the Senate
asked advice of that body In the settlement
of the dispute about the San Juan boundary
question. The foreign Relations Commit
tee took the question into consideration and
recommended that steps be taken to refer
it to SWitzerland for arbitration. Mr.
Sumner made the report. No action was
had upon it, and Sumpter was soon fired on
and the matter dropped. The course then
advised by Mr. Sumner has now been
adopted.
The Copper Tariff bill passed the Senate
by the very decided majority,of thirty-eight
to eleven. Several amendments were made
to the bill as it passed the House, the prin
cipal one being a duty of forty-five per
cent. ad valorem on all manufactures of cop
per. An amendment excepting from the
increased duty all copper, and copper ore
now on shipment for transportation to the
United States at this date was also agreed
to. Another amendment providing that the
act shall not take effect until the Ist of April
next was lost. The bill goes to the House
to-day, and it will probably pass in its
present form.
The Finance Committee of the Senate met
and agreed to some further amend
ments to the National Bank law, prohibit
ing the use of certified checks.; allowing
banking on specie basis, With a deposit of
bonds on a basis of sixty-five per cent.,and
requiring the bank statement to be mae up
at such arbitrary and uncertain dates as it
may be called , for, -,rather than at fixed
periods.
Many doubts are expressed in reference to
the confirmation of the Alabama treaty.
Those who comprehend it assert that we
shall gain no money from it, the balance of
claims being against us, and if the Senate
pays these claims of British neutrals, how
can it refuse to pay those of Southern
Unionists?
SARGENT'S BACKACHE PILLS.
most efficient DIUMELIC, for treatment of
all complaints r, suiting from wea'sness and derange-
went of the Kidneys. such as pains and u - eukness In
the Back or Loins: - Gravel, DropsY, Incontinence
of Urine, Strangnary. Inflammatiod of the 'Kidneys,
ac., &c. DR. SARGENT'S BACKACHE PILLS
eau be used with perfect safety In all cases Ln chll
dren as well as adults. 'Upwards of thirty-seven
years' experience hill proven this medicine tone
the most uniform and eitclent Diuretic ecer distor
ered, besides being in the form of sugarcoated Pills
making tbem easr to take, and not being a parga
tire, never interferes with thq regular discharge
duties. , These Pills can be had at wholesale and.
retLll frotn ' the Froptletor
GEORGE A. KELLEY,
Wholesale Druggist,
COPIER OF WIN OOD
PITTSBH STREET ANURG D BEOOND AVE.
and from all Druggists and Dealers in .Medicine
50 cents p.r box.
LITTLE BILIOUS."
How often this Is the response to the enquiry after
a frirmrs health; as if. to be bilious was a trifling
matter.' hardly worth thinking about. But let it be
remembered that, as • "tall oaks from little acorns
grow." so formidable diseases arise from being tea
little billous,,' • .
Serere bilious attacks era more commln In Spring,
Summtr and Autumn than lu Winter, but the seri
ous disorders attic liver which so often °Cenr at
those seasons, might be traced, In hundreds of in
stances, to Winter Indulgences and their neglected
consequences. More highly-seasoned food is eaten,
mole fiery drinks Imbibed, in cold than in warm
weather, and thus the biliousness la prodncedwhiell ,
under I,,warmer temperature, culminates In remit
tent and intermittent fevers.
The . very best medicine for persons who are either
a /WU or a good rseal bilious, is HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS. Mo blue-phl 'or calomel Is
reOuired in such cases. Those powerful mineral
medicines cut two ways. like liverleedg sword.
They lot, RLs true. upon the but re-act most
d. "st e ck" o tuheyonn'odth cannotbe
o g f
o ther ld g yofte m T .
he They
Bit
ters contain vegetable agents of an Mitt-bilious ten
• dency. that troduce a speak alla most genial effect
• upon the binary organ, without entailing SUS gra
consequences whatever. They are a iturthee moo le-
I ome, and act firsorably and simultaneonsly upon the
stomach. tun liver, the bowels tha nervous , system
and the brain.
THE WOUND OF THE LUNGS:
One of the most accurate'ways of determining
whether the 'unseen in a healthy or diseased con
ditioht is by means of listening to 'the respiration.
To those experienced in this practice it becomes as
plain an inaex to the state of the lungs, and Is 'as
well known to the operator as are the voices of his
most intimate acquaintances. The belief that long
standing coughs, and diseases of tee longs upon
which they are dependent, are incurable.. are
toastfast
becoming obsolete. One great adrantage
gaihed from this advance In medical knowledge is
tt e earlier application of those who.become &Meted
With those diseases to some one competent to afford
relief.. the error which had taken held of the pub-
Ile mind In regard to the c.hrabilityof consumption,
or rather lion-co rability, Is fast becoming obliter
ated, and ills well that it, should be ao, not that
persons should lose that salutary fear which
that would;
make them =ply for a timely remedy, but all
might be induced to use remedies while there Is any
hope. It Is the delay in these. cases
if th eve A r at y
s ous
us
with apprehension and alarm, f
would make timely application of DR. KEYS
couß'S
LUNG CURE In the beginning of a cold or E
gh,
few cases would i go so far as to become irremediable.
• Sold at the Doctor's great Medicine itore,No.l 4o
Wood street. *ILL SIDMITLY REMOVE TC HIS
NEW STORE, NO. le 'LIBERTY, STREET, SEe-
ON D DOOR FROM ST: . .1'
DR. KEYSER'S BESOENT OFFTOE—FOR•
LUNG IMAM:NOWA AN to iTHE' TREAT=
,MEAT OF OM OTOX.CIitONIC`DISE, W 1 , ; Ito;
.IROFENN STREET, 'PFTY6/fgROH;`F.A. 'OM&
it. iitei i.. 41 idid btu
aE osht,
HARRISBURG.
CCorrespeadence of the ritt•btugh Gazette{.)
HARRISBUDG, January 20, 11SGS
The Commercial of this morning nusrep.
resents Mr. Wilson as saying that the Pasting
and Folding of the last Hollis, cost only
$7,000.. He said that the Pasting and Fold
ing of the present House, under the law of
ISOS, would cost only $7,000, while, if the
officers were doubled, it would cost only
$15,000.
. • dso says that the resolu-
. •
The Commercial Eti_
tion of the House for tienty-seven addi
tional officers was for twenty-seven addi
tional Pesters and Folders. No such thing.
It was simply to add that number of officers,
only a small portion of whom were for
Pasters and Folders.
TICE PRESS OF Piairs.—lt is stated that
in 186 S, after the repeal of the law requiring
the previous authorization by, the Govern
ment of the publication of a newspaper, no
less than one hundred . :and thirty-nine new
journals have been started An Paris. Of
these, one hundred and four nem literary
and art journals; fourteen treated of politi
cal matters, six of them appearing daily;
twelve on art applied to industry and sci
ence; one on magnetism; one on the rural
police; one on concert saloons; one on aerial
navigation; one on rallroa4 stations, and
one on'house porters. Soon after the ap
pearance of the Lanterne, thirty-three pa
pers of the same form and character were
started. They bore, some of them, the most
out.of-the-way names.= Of thehundred and
thirty-nine, only two continue to appear.
The Banking and Currency Committee of
the House have unanimously instructed
their Chairman to prepare an amendment to
the National Currency Act prohibiting Na
tional Banks from certifying any check un
less the maker thereof has on hand at the
time the funds to meet it.
NOTICES —. To lßoardFing,"
/hB,c ' ..
snots n .
"Want," "Found," " .
eteding FOGS LINES each will be inserted in thtuse
columns once for TWENTY-FIVE CENTS ; each
additionatline FIVE CENTS.
WANTED-SITUATIONS.
V~ANTED.--Ato situation PERSON EL
qualified wishes secure a
lo W EL L
a L
drug -
store• • Addressußnly Pittsburgh dispensing ined
eines. A. B C., city Y. V.
jaio;dSS
WANTED-HELP
- - •
• I
NATANTED -NURSE MIRE.---A
nice. tidy nurse girl will find a pleasant home
in a small family, by applying as INe. 33 Beaver
street, Allegheny City. A girl who has never been
in service. 'with some-experienee, preferred. Good
refe.sences required:
ANTED—HELP -At Employ..
went Office, No. 3 St. Clair Street. BOY: El
I GK IT LS and ME, w a n t i ng erent kinds of' employ-
ment. Persons help of all kinds can bi
supplied on short notice.
WANTED---BOARDERS ,
WANTED—DOARDERS--Plelemanas
ant room, with board , sultsble for gent
and wife, or two young gentlemen at 88 FOURTH
T• accommodated few day or dinner boarders can
be Reference required.
WANTS.
ANTED.--A Pleasant , Boom
with board, by a gentleman and wife (Pri
vate family preferred.)' 'references eschauged.
Address, stating .ocation. terms,.c., -
jaV "T—,'' ZETTE F ICE •
WANT'ED—TO RENT.--Two or
THREE ROOMS OF A SMALL HOUSE. in
a pleasant locatio Address man GAZETTE no children.
Good reference. C., On ICE. • •
LOST
I-OST SPECTACLES.—A Pair of
gold epectacles on . Hand street. SATURDAY,
avatars 10. The finder will be suitably rewarded
by leaving them 'with the Collector _ of the Hand
Street Bt±tlF•__-------------
_
at4osl'.—A Diamond Cross Breast
PIS. The finder will be rewarded b 3 leaving it
r. IIeIiTIAL'S office.
TO LET.
910-,LET—HOUSE.—A. First lass
J. 3 stoic brick house with 11. ;Toms, a g d range
oi modern
down, kitchen. Itot and cold ter up ,
stairs and a good wash house and ba soom,
a good coat house on alley back; also a good dry cel
lar under the whole house. Everything in complete
repai For further particulars nquire'of RAM nEY
,t UALT , EealEstate Agents, o.N 91Beaver street.
MO-LET.—Furnished Rooms to
single gentlemen. on Smithfield out square
G z
fro
T .'
O FFBoaICE I rding if desired. Address Box. 31
11.,
m re sfl
O•LET.—THE COMMODIOUS
MN-ELLIN& fIuTISE, 71. Liberty, beta een
ag and Marburg streets.
ApplytoMcD• CROSSAN.
jalti • • Monongahela IfouSe.
•iyo-urir.--Warehouse No. 299
Ltberty• str.et, now occupied by S. F.WART
.). For terms enquire of Teller of Keystone Bank,
corner Garrison alley. Ala
VOR RENT.—A FIRST CLASS
ALE VAULT. ' Capaetty 1,000 barrels. Ap
plyatßo4 PEl`ti,lfTK ET. Tat
ryo-LET-11011413.—Brick House
of four rooms and liteh' n. Possession given
ebrnary let. Apply at lin Clark street. (Jan
TO LET.--TWO HANDSOMELY
furnished rooms. with gas and fire. oue on first;
r. and one front up stairs . Inquire at 199 Third ,
avenue.
TO—owelling House, No.
94 Wylie street, contatninz 12 rooms.
S ORE RoO3I, No. 96 Wylie street. corner of
'Federal Street: Apply to - A. 31. BROWN, 96
WyUe street, and 111 Fifth Avenue.
TO. LET.—WAROThiE.-= The
11111
large Four Story WAREHOUSE, 3SSmithfteld
street, at present occupied by Messrs. T. B. vounis
•ft CO. to the furniture business.- Inquire of SIMON
JOHNSTON, comer of sinithtleid street and Fourth.
0 LET—WAREHOUSE. . No.' IS'S
*mi,titteld street: occupied by V..lssen as an
up foisting awd furniture store.
Also; to let; large oil warehouse on Hancock
A.i.o, a dwelling with 7 rooms.
Also, smell finished house with 11 rooms. No.
A 8 Hancock street, Goth opposite ...bast Church.
„Hancock. large house on the Co ner of Penn and
street. suitable for °Slues
Enquire at 2771 . ENN STREET.
_____________________
-yOR RENT.-,410178E.—A. -large
- macs D ULM LE HO treiE, containing large
ouble Parlors, Library, Dining Boom, 'Kitchen
and Wash House on lower floor, • and 8 b.d rooms
and butt, room on second floor. Also finished attic.
good cellar with balr.e.oven. in It, together withlarge
yard panted with shrubbery and fruit trees. Hot
and cold water and gas through tbe house. The
hone Is In good order, finely papered anu painted
throughout.. Marble 13/andel:dem s in barlors, Mrs•
ry and dlnin troops. Possession given at once: to
cation in Elerehth (old Sere ntb) ward. For terms.
ac., address. Di Z., care Boz W. Gazette Office.
FOR SALE--BUSINESS.- THE
STOOE. AND GOOD WILL of wholesale and
retail Dry Goods and NotlOn Houle. now doing a
• ood business, located on Federal street, Alleglae
11y situ. Also the store room with fixtures and eel
, r ”TO-LET," xhls Is an opening seldom offered.
particularsd second to none on the s greet. For
apply to CROFTS r n," Real Es
tate Agents and Brokerclio. 139 Fourth avenue.
1 ------
on SALE.- -
House and Lot on
Fayette street, Fifth Ward, Allegheny. House
new. containing Five Rooms. t, dile and Hall, well
furnished. Lot feet irons , hy ee , t-lii depth,
Two Lots on Chaxtlers street, each AO feet front
by 140 feet In septa, emu. I . 0 iihsard Alley.
One Lot on Nixon street AO feet front by 132 feet
In depth, Sixth Ward, Allegheny, _
Also, for lease llf acres of ground with a`good
House of Three Rooms with necebSarV Out buildings.
at Woods Run, fora term
of from one to ten years.
House and Lot NO. —Lacock street, Allegheny
ALEI.a.NDER PATTERSON.
e •
,nrner Jai:alas, and Preble street. Stith ward,
Allegheny. , , . I mat
FO . SALE—DESIRABLE WES-
L! TEEN' AVENUE RESIDENCE, located c a
'estern avenue, Allegheny dry, between Bidwell
street' and Irwin avenue. , Realdenee — brick of 11
room% hall d acoad cellar, gas throughout and .
all anlsh :d nfirst class style. Lot '4ll by 120 to a
RO toot alley, w il l besold on easy terms. Apply to
C ItOrr .1.. PHILLIYB, Real Estate Agents, :a°. 139
Fourth Immo.. :
OIR SAL E--BUSEVESS tSTAND—
, F_
A.' well' known and prosperous wholesale bust
.
• •
nese stand, with stock and fixtures, ; is, offered for
e
sale. ettleactory reasons are given for the dispo.
'aal. ~A pply at if WOOD STREET.
.j OR Salem,' Ohio,/
Venn OF 30 ACRES, ieltb goodlatprove ,
cuts. int orchard of all &lads of trun. Would pe
Bo
c itable toe truck garden, Yer_tlrrpty...do , spray_
T. art. Ssiber,. x 37.4;
Jan iieletlit
FOR SALE