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l)c 3cffciTionian.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1877.
I It S: S I U K X TI A L..
The agony is indeed over. The Joint
Convention completed the count of the
doctoral votes on last Friday morning, and
the President of the Senate formally an
nounced the result reached as 1S5 votes
for Hayes and "Wheeler, and 184 for
Tildcn and Hendricks, and thereupon
declared Hayes and Wheeler elected
President and Vice President of the
United States for four years, commencing
.n the 4th of March, 1877. The Joint
Convention then adjourned after having
been in session, in one sense, since Feb
ruary 1. The Electoral Commission met
at 11 o'clock on the same day, and after
extending the time to the 31st of March
to file their opinions on the questions
passed upon by said Commission, also
adjourned.
Governor Hayes arrived in Washington
n few hours after he had been declared the
President elect and was most cordially
greeted. To cover all technical quibbles
he took the oath of office privately on the
evening of the 3d. But as will be seen
elsewhere, he was formally inaugurated
President of the United States on Monda3r
noon, the 5th iust., with all the honors
properly appertaining to such an exalted
position. Thus peacefully and happily
ends a Presidential contest of unprecedented
duration, extending over a period of more
than nine months of angry and grossly
partisan warfare. But during this long
period of a heated and angry partisan criti
cism, the arrow of sunder did not in a
5.;ngle instance penetrate the official, the
nvrral or social character of the person
-jvhnrn it has been the pleasure of a patriotic
people to elevate to the highest position
within the gift of the Bepubhc.
Death of Jerrv 3Iack. A dispatch
from Oxford, X. J., oa Monday last, to
Win. Wallace, of this place, announced the
death of Jerry 3Jaek. Everybody in this
and surreundini counties knew Jerry. He
was a kind-hearted, simple-minded man.
lie sought hospitality here and there and
made an honest endeavor to repay it with
uiMsie or amusement, lis mental condition
was such as to commend him to the charit
able a::d kin 1 hearted, and we doubt not that
the various little kindness shown hiiu by al
sih persons, will be no source of regret when
they learn that lie has gone whence no traveler
returns.
Jerry was born January 26, 1S14, died
Februarys, lsTT, aged G3 years, 1 month
and S days.
Frcsiriesit llai es' Cabinet.
Secretary of State William M. Evarts
ii Aew- i.rk.
Secretary of the Treasury. John Sher
man, of Ohio.
Attorney- General George W. McCrary,
of Iowa.
Scrttary of the Xavy Carl Schurz.
Oi i-iissuuri.
P.siy,alr;r General D. M. Key, ol
Tennessee.
Stcretary of the Interior Richard "W.
Tbomr son, of Indiana.
Secretary of War Gen. Charles E.
Devcus, of Massachusetts.
Ilccluciion iti the rates of Tele
grains. Toe rates from Stroudsburg to France,
the United Kingdom and Great Britain,
reda-.-ed from 78 to 2S cents, per word.
i!atcs from Stroudsburg to A'.lentown,
TV thhdiem, Easton, Philadelphia, Trenton,
Newark, N. J., Jersey Cit', New York,
pott-town, Wilkes Barre, Huzelton, Mauch
Chunk, Dunnings, Moscow, Gou! Jsltoro,
Tobyhanna, Poeono, Henryviile, Water Gap,
Belvidere and Scranton, 25 cents for ten
words or less; Chicago, Milwaukee, Peoria,
t. Louis, $1 for ten words or less.
In Slonor of the Dead.
The portion of the Democracy which
refuse to be comforted have had their flajr
out for the last few days in honor of their
dead candidate, who was pronounced dead
cn last Friday from an over dose of
Reform. For the sake of decency it is to
be hoped that they will bury his body so
deep that it wiil never be able to attempt
to steal any more electoral votes for the
bone-fit of Democratic reform.
Repudiated by a Unanimous
Ueeisiou ol" itie Electoral
Commission.
Tiluen's effort through the Chairman
of the Democratic National Committee to
defraud Hayes out of an electoral vote
from Oregon, by giving the same to
Cronin. There was not a Democrat on the
Co minission bold enough to defend it.
There is a member of the Georgia
Legislature who so strongly resembles the
Governor of that State, that he is fre
quently taken for that official by the
hungry oL'b-e seekers, and being somewhat
of a wag invariably promises them what
ever they want in the blandest manner
possible, while the Governor is left to
endure the complications which necessarily
follow as best he can.
tfS'lo Friday an unlucky day? Presi
dent Haves received his nomination for
A 1 U" ' 1 ,1 , 1 I
uie j.-reaiujncy on mat day, ana was
declared elected on that day. The Electoral
Commission also rendered its decisions re
upccting Florida, Louisiana and Oregon ou
that day.
&"The Spirit of Berks' rampant
Democratic paper published at Reading,
consoles itself by declaring that Tilden
wasn't worth fighting for, anyhow.
&s5"Thc State election in New Hampshire,
at which a Governor and three members
of Congress are to be choSviu, wiUbs htld ou
the l'dth of March.
Personal.
Henry Dcpue, on Tuesday last, assumed
the proprietorship of the Washington Hotel,
of this place.
Judpe Dreher, of this place, left here on
Saturday last, for Mauch Chunk, where he
is now engaged in holding Court.
The Rev. Doctor Knighton, principal ol
the Academy of this place, preached in the
Second Presbyterian, church at Belvidere, N.
J., on the 25th ult.
Mr. George Knauss, vacated the Wash
ington IloteJi in this place, on Tuesday last,
and moved to Pike county, Pa., where he
will engage in fanning near Matamoras.
Mr. George Dichl, of Springfield, Illinois,
is here on a visit to his mother. George
took up his residence at Springfield three
years ago. lie intends engaging in larming
on his return home.
We regret to learn that Mr. George
Phillips, a. prominent citizen of Stroud
township, this count', is seriously indis
posed, and that his friends have very little
hopes of his recovery.
Miss Itfdia A. Custard, of this place, who
has been visiting her many friends at Phil
lipsburgh, N. J., and Weissport, Pa., for
the past seven weeks, returned home last
Tuesday highly pleased with her trip.
Rev. Theophlus Heilig, of the Lutheran
church, at Easton, Pa., filled Rev. Mr.
Kohler's pulpit in this place, last Sunday
morning and evening, and we are informed
preached two very interesting sermons.
On Wednesday last, Joseph Stroud, son
of the late Jacob 1). Stroud, of ibis place, who
has been here on a visit to friends for the
past month, left for Leighton, Iowa. Joseph
started west from this place 29 years ago,
last fall, and finally located at Leighton.
Jacob Hebcrling, an apprentice in Valen
tine Kautz's wheel-wright shop, completed
his time last Monday; jn the evening all
hands enjoyed a good time in the shop, Mr
John Kautz and others having their say on
the occasion. Wo suppose eatables and
drinkables were partaken of, however our
informant did uot say so.
Entertainmknt dv Our Home Talf.xt.-
We are very happy to inform the public that
there will be a first-class entertainment held
in Williams' Hall, Monday evening, March
1 2th, consisting of part Drama and part
Music. The Dramatical part to be such that,
we have no doubt, will vastly amuse the
audience, viz : "Poor Pillicoddy" with the
following cast of character :
Poor Pilii.-od.lv, E. K. WvckofT,
Captain O'Scuttlo Narrv Wolfe.
Mrs. Pillicoddy
Mi-s Helen Wvckolf.
Mrs. O'Seuttle
Sarah Blunt
Miss Annie Walton,
Miss Lizzie William.
The Operatic part will be selections from the
opera "Cassilda" iu which Mr. Harry Wolfe,
will assume the character of "Don Lopez"
an 1 Miss Lizzie Williams that of "Katerina."
The Beethoven Orchestra has very kindly
offered to furnish the instrumental music.
The proceeds of the entertainment are to be
inven to the Stroudsburg Library Company.
Fickcts can be procured at D. R. Brown's
jewelry store, or at the New York store.
Tickets 25 cents. Reserved seats 40 cents.
House Hunting. The delightful task
of looking up a permancr:
abiding
place
ior the year to come now engages t h at
tention of a large class of persons. It has
been remarked that these periodical h juse
hunters are everywhere to be seen, in many
cases looking tit residences far above thcir
means. ,lt this gives them an op
portunity to inspect their neigbors' premises
they are pleased with their work, and
invariably coma awa with now food for
gossip. Those who intend to move, and
have had notices to rent put on their
houses, are put to much inconvenience by
the number of inquisitive callers who wait
upon them. And so they should be, for
the notice itself is an invitation to call and
look at the property. At present a num
ber of houses remain unoccupied in the
borough, but with the advent of spring,
when it is thought employment will be
furnished to hundreds now idle, these will
rapidly be occupied.
The loafers who are in the habit of assemb
ling upon the street corners and other public
places, in Stroudsburg, obstructing the high
way, will undoubtedly be pleased to learn
that a bill has been introduced iu the House,
as follows :
To punish improper assemblies upon the
public streets, providing that any three per
sons shall remain for a quarter of an hour in
front of any public house or church, and shall
engage in profane, obscene or loud talk, or
in making invidious or abusive remarks, or
in obstructing the lrghway, thall be guilty of
misdemeanor.
It thould pass, and respectable people
would hail with pleasure.
Birthday Surprise. Ou Tuesday even
ing last, our fellow townsman John Kautz,
was very agreeably surprised by a Ianre
number of his friends, including the Cornet
Rand, taking possession of his house and
having a grand social time in honor of his
sixty-first birthday. An excellent feast was
brought along and prepared by the party
and all had a jolly good time in disposing of
it. Mr. Kautz and his friends enjoyed the
excellent music furnished by the band, and
all seemed to do their utmost to make the
event one long to be remembered by Mr. K.
For the Ladies. A white skirt made
to wear with' trained dresses, and which
does away with the necessity for a bustle,
is of cambric, has ruilb-s all the way
down the back breadth, and four la'ers
of them just at the edge. The out
side lower rufihj is edged with
Smyrna lace, and passes around the
entire skirt. It is starched very stiff and
holds out the dress just enough to make it
graceful and pretty. The material used is
so thin that this skiit is but little heavier
than an ordinary one.
Col. E. E. Norton, of Stroud township,
this county, on Wednesday last sent two of
his blooded mares to Kentucky, for breed
ing purposes.
Tux JjefpjlRsoniAjI cost but $2 a year.
Plant trees.
Plant cabbage seeds.
Horse radish is seasonable.
Plowing will soon be the go.
.
There are fifty-seven colored police in
Philadelphia.
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The cherry crop it is believed will be a fail
ure this season.
Bread i3 sold in Reading by the pound,
instead of by the loaf.
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There arc over a hundred thousand Odd
Fellows in Pennsylvania. .
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This is called "Washerwomen's Year."
It has fifty-three Mondays.
Ivr keeps a house not only warm in
winter but cool in summer.
The public debt was reduced $2,070,429
during the month of rebruary.
Thirty; thousand dollars' worth of oil is
produced daily in Clarion county.
So far as reported the apple and pear trees
are all right for a fair yield of fruit.
Easton druggists are displaying blue glass
for sale. Anything for a sensation.
The maple sugar crop in this State this
year will be large and of good quality.
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Paints and Oils cheap for cash at
Hollinshead's Drug Store. March 1-lmf
Eoos are now quite as cheap diet as
meat, and don t have near so many bones
in.
Wild Pigeons were seen flying over our
borough on Thursday and Friday of last
week.
The New York hotels are filling up with
merchants, and a brisk spring trade has
beguu.
The wife of John Hcffuer, in Reading,
has just presented her husband with their
4".th child.
A DEED, 109 years old, was entered in
the Recorder's
office, at Reading, on
Wednesday.
A WIFE full of truth, innocence and love,
is the prettiest flower a man can wear next
to his heart.
The farmers of some parts of Fayette
county are making maple sugar and plow
ing for oats.
Since the fall in price of drinks in Al
lentown, seventeen wells are advertised fur
sale in that place.
Our town had jolly bonfires Sic, in honor
of the inauguration of President Hayes on
Monday evening last.
Mr. Smith, of Pottstown, owns four
teen hens, who laid 219 eggs during the
month of February.
Last Tuesday morning SherifT Shafi-r
started for the Eastern Penitentiary, accom
panied by Thomas flanna.
The temperance men in the Western
part of the State have selected Altoona as
their nest Held of action.
Another harpist put in an apperance
hist week, but didn't tarry long, money
evidently being too scarce.
This is the time that enterprising mer
chants should Login to court
trade through the newspapers.
the spring
cursion parties have
engaged the
Camden & Atlantic
railroad
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for almost
ever' day in July and August.
The Philadelphia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will commence
its sessions on the 21st of March.
How about that wheel-barrow ride bet?
Come Harry get around and have things
fixed up ami let the show come off.
Ladies' costumes will fit tighter than
ever this spring. In fact, they will stick
a good deal closer than a brother.
The price of kerosense has taken quite a
tumble during the past few days, owing to
the breaking up the oil combination.
A catfi.su weighing pounds was
recently hooked in the Monongahcla river,
near Brownsville. Is this a fish story ?
The Knights of Pythias are stronger in
this State than anywhere else in the Union
They have 450 lodges and 40,000 mem-
bera.
All those wishing to consign their produce
to responsible parties for promptness and
reliability will examine our advertising
columns.
Shortly after Judge Dreher sentenced
Thomas. Hanna, last Saturday, one of his
"chums" said "it was really discouraging."
Decidedly so.
As the time for fall election approaches
politics waxes warm. Some candidates ar
already working like beavers in order to
secure a vote.
The pleasure of taking one's breakfast in
bed, with a lively baby to kick over the
dishes or get its toes in the butter, is what
no bachelor can find out.
An attractive young lady says the reason
she doesn't marry is because die has too
much respect for mother to wish her to
figure as a mother-in-law.
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John J. High, of Lancaster county, is
eighteen years old, six feet three and one
half inches high, and weighs 230 pounds,
yet he may become higher still.
Sixty thousand bushels of potatoes have
been imported into Philadelphia from Eng
land, Ireland, Bermuda and Halifax, dur
iug the prit few weeks-.
Industrial Notes.
All the wire mills at South Easton are
in full operation.
The Lehigh shovel works at Bethlehem
have resumed operations. - '
It is said that but one iron furnace in
New Jersey is now in operation. -
Simson's axle factory at Allentown has
a full complement of hands employed on
full tune.
The Phoenix Iron Company has received
an order from Cauada for 3,500 tons of
bridge iron.
The Keystone Tack Factory ofPotts-
ville is running eleven machines and cannot
fill their orders.
A' rolling mill for the manufacture of
scrap iron is being erected at Providence,
Luzerne county.
Nimson's axle factory, at Allcntown,
has started up on full time aud with a full
complement of hands.
The Allegheny Car and Transportation
Company, at Swissvale, now employ over
one hundred hands, and cannot keep up
with their orders.
Among iron men on the south side of
Pittsburg business is reported as improv
ing. Machinery that has been idle for
months is being again put in motion.
One hundred cars for use in the Brook
side Colliery, Schuylkill county, are being
built at the car shops of the Philadalphia
and Reading Railroad Company, at Read
ing.
fT g i r
hie American Manufacturer says:
"What ever may be thought of the times.
many of our manufacturers arc running to
their full capacity and some of them are
unable to - keep up with their orders.
Double turn is the vvord in the rolling mills,
while many of the idle glass works are start
ing up and the machine shops tell of marked
improvement in orders.
Hanging in the larder of a Doylcstown
landlord on Thursday last were nine turk
eys, hatched from the egg only last year.
whose aggregate weight, when dressed, was
214 pounds. They were fed and fattened
by Reed rrctz, of Redministcr, and were
lot of birds that would be pretty hard to
pretty hard to beat in this or any other
county. The heaviest one weighed over
27 pounds. Doylcstown Inttlllgencer.
Sadie L. Caioion and Mollie Bly
MYKlt, teleprah operators at the junction
near Lowistown, recently boarded the en
gine of the local freight east and ran the train
as far as the signal station in the Narrows
one playing engineer, the other fireman
They returned on the "local" west in the
same manner, and since evervbody. is eon
gratulating theni upon the success of their
exploit.
Portland. The following are the new
ly elected omen s of the borough of Port
laud: Burgess, Wm. Fox; Council ut.mi. J
L. Miller, John F. Rader, Philip Dates
man, John Lamb. John Ott, Jos. M. bcott
Jr.; Constable, Henry M. La Bar; Assc
sor, Amos Bissev ; Judge of Election
George G. Beam ; Inspectors. William Kap
pel, Theodore Ott ; Auditor, T. J. Meads
Surprise Party. On Wednesday even
ing last, Mks Emma Noltheffer, of t hi
place, was given a surprise party by a !arg
number of her friends. Everything passvi
off as pleasantly as a merry bell until all were
in readiness to take their departure fo
home, well pleased with the evenings enjoy
inent.
Hard ru;-nr-D for common sense and
decency. That big boy who took up h
position near Hess Brother's corner, on last
Sunday and paid that little boy to insult passers-by
by word? put into the month of the
little boy by said big boy. It is to be hoped
that said bitf boy '.vill soon learn enough to bo
and act Ilk 2 a man.
At the public sale of W. II. Gruver. in
Springfield township, Bucks county, Pa.,
held February 22d, an Alderney cow
brought 10O.")0 ; two Percheron horses
$220 and 8210 respectively ; an 18-month
old Percheron colt, 8117 ; a Berkshire sow,
8 12; aud one pair yellow tumbler pigeons, SI.
The ladies' fashions this spring bid fair
to be exceedingly uniijue and charming, so
our wives, sisters and sweethearts may sur
prise us constantly with the changing beau
ties which the Goddess of Fashion vouch
safes to those who have a pocket book
larjrc cnoueh to follow her commands.
A great amount of work is required on
our streets to remove the heaps of ashes,
ice and other debris collected through the
winter. This rubbish should be removed
as early as practicable, in order that our
borough may retain its good reputation for
cleanliness.
A SPF.CIAL meeting of the grand lodge of
Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania will be held iu
Easton on Monday afternoon, the 10th inst.
The purpose is to admit past grands to
membership, and to impart iu.st ruction iu the
working of the order.
Sun.sCHinKns who intend to move this
year should at once send lis notice of the
fact, so that wo may know to what point to
forward the paper after the removal. In all
cases say where you are now receiving the
paper, as well as where you wish it sent.
Joe Com.'itv, the pugilist, whoso trial
for shooting two police officers has occupied
the New York Court of General Sessions
the last week, was on Saturday convicted
of assault with intent to kill, and on Tues
day sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
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At a meeting of the South Mountain
Railroad Company, in New York, recently,
it was agreed to issue bonds to the amount
of 81,000,000, ten per cent, of which will
be issued monthly on the completion of the
road.
The papers of Pittsburg say the ravages
of diphtheria in Western Peunsylveniu are
unprecedented. Whole families are beinjr
swept off by this terrible disease.
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Jamks WmrMEii, of Snyder county,
raised l,.r00 bushels of potatoes on ten acres
of ground last year, lor which he received
$1,SX).
Court Proceedings.
Continued from last tceck.)
Commonwealth vs. Thos. Hanna Larceny
of Silas D. RobesoD's overcoat, valued at
SIG00 was stolen from him December 22d,
1S7G. Thomas Hanna was suspected of the
theft and January 19th, 1S77, was arrested
in the M. E. Church, at East Stroudsburg
wearing the overcoat, - Hanna had made
several declarations which tended to fix the
theft on him. . The defense was, that the
overcoat had been bought of a fellow named
"Zeke," alias Charles Wiggins for $'J 00.
George Hanna, a brother of the defendant,
was the principal witness for the defense, he
swearing that he was present at the sab of
the overcoat and had lent his brother Thomas
$9 00 to buy it. On cross-examination, he
could not stand the fire aud wilted, his evi
dence fining to the jury almost for naught.
Mrs. Neyhart alias "female whip-poor-will,"
next tried to make the defendant's character
stand forth as clear as day, swearing that she
had seen the overcoat in "Zekes" possession,
but on being questioned, showing a lamen
table ignorance about color, smoothness, aud
appearance of coats in general, it was evident
her zeal and affectum over balanced her better
judgment. The case was well argued on both
sides. The jury soon rendered a venlift. of
guilty. On Saturday afternoon the Judge
called Hanna before the Court and nt'tir
talking to him both kindly and advisedly,
sentenced him to pay a fine of $50 00, and
undergo an imprisonment in the Eastern
Penitentiary for two years in solitary confine
ment with hard labor. Davis and Lee, for
Commonwealth. Storm and Kinney, for
Defendant.
Commonwealth vs. George Drake. De
fendant in this case was indictded for steal
ing a Buffalo Robe, from Dr. J. Pace
Mutchler. The learned counsel concerned
for him, moved that the indictment be
quashed, but the Judge would'nt do it as it
ou:u uae necessuare-j ROing leinnu tliC
J 11 r. . 1 ll i , ,
returns. Drake then pled guilty aud made
a plea for mercy, which the Court in its
kindness, aud yet in stiict accordance with law
and justice, granted, seteneing the defendant
to pay a fine of $" X and undergo an im
prisonment in the County Jail for 3U days.
This ended the criiniual business for the
term.
Peter W. Shafervs. George Serfass This
was the Crst case in Common Pleas and was
tin appeal from an award of Arbitrators.
The matter in dispute was about a lease and
(he rights of defendant under it. It was
more a question of law than a fact. A
conditional verdict was rendered for the
plaintiff, sulj'Vt to the decision of the Court.
Storm for Plaintiff. Holmes for Defeudaut.
Mahlon Gower vs. Samuel Fahlstick and
Samuel Gower An action of trover and
eouverion for manure bought by Plaintiff at
an Assignee's sale and removed ly the
Defendants. Plaintiff claimed $23 Ui) and
the Jury gave him a verdict for $' f,C.
Holmes for Plaintiff. Storm for Defenea it.
Borough of Gouldsboro vs. Supervisors o!
Coo! ha ugh Township The Borough of
Gouldsboro built a bridge over the lLittl -Lchih,"
which is on the boundary line ul
said Township, and demanded contribution
from the Township. This was altogether a
question of law and the Jury was instructed
to render a special verdict. Holmes for
Plaintiff. Storm for Defendants.
Commonwealth of Pa. for the use of John
B. Storm ct. al. vs. William Ilollinshead and
William S. Bees This was an action on an
Administrator's Bond against the defend
ants as sureties. No defence. Verdict for
the Plaintiffs for penalty of the Bond, viz :
$I,-b)0and damages assessed in favor of the
different parties. Storm and Staples for
iv.ai::tiir. Holmes aud Burnett for Defend
ants. The Sheriff acknowledged the following
Deeds :
Jacob K. Shafer, Sheriff, to Henry Cros
key and Charles S. Biley, 9 tracts of land in
Cooli-aiigh tsp.
Jacob K. Shafer, Sheriff, to Sam'l. Siglin,
20 acres hi Chestnuthill tsp.
Jacob K. Shafer, Sheriff, to Henry Shatter,
I'A) acres in Hamilton tsp.
Jacob K. Shafer, Sheriff, to JohuE. Sny
der, I acre in Barrett tsp.
Jacob K. Shafer, Sheriff, to David and
Theodore Saylor, S acres in Ross tsp.
Jacob K. Shafer, Sheriff, to Jessie R.
Smith, 1 lot in East Stroudsburg.
Court was adjourned to March 14th, 1S77.
A Virginia hunter says that he saw
about seven hundred thousand ducks settle
on a pond. They were wedged closely to
gether. He fired both barrels of his gun
into them. They flew away, leaving no
dead ones in the water ; but as soon as the
flock spread out a little dead duck loosened
and fell until he picked up enough to fill
twenty-nine barrels. Efforts are now be
ing made by an enterprising cotemporary
to secure the author of the above as a re
porter. Hi3 style of truth telling suits
exactly.
The worst case of municipal indebted
ness in this country is that of Portland, Me.
U ith a population of but J0,000, aud that
mostly of poorpcople, it has a municipal in
debtedness of 815,000,000, or 8200 per head.
Four millions of this were incurred for rail
way connections which were to make Port
land the great entrepot of the northeastern
coast.
What married women want is more rest.
Then why don't they take it instead of ly
ing awake half the night to lectcre their
husbands, and getting up first in the morn
ing to find something for the next lecture?
Mrs. Mayfield, a widow, of Stanford,
Ky., fell in love with a tramp at sight, who
came to her house to beg, and married him,
notwithstanding the threats of her relatives
to put her in an insane asylum.
Ladies of fashion in Paris powder their
stockings with gold dust ; but who cau
see it ?
Bermuda, tomatoes are for side in
PbiUdelphia at fancy prices.
THE INAUGURATION.
A GALA DAY IN WASHINGTON.
NOTHING TO MAR THE CEREMONY.
THE inaugural address.
The President began his address at 12.-15
P. M., immediately after the procession
reached the platform. The following is the
address in full :
'Fellow-Citizens: We have assembled to
repeat the public ceremonial begun by
Washington, observed by all my predeces
sors and now at time-honored custom, which
marks the commencement of the Presi
dential oflice. Called to the duties of this
great trust, I proceed, in compliance with
usage, to announce some of the leaditi"
principles ou the subjects that now chiefly
engage the public attention, by which it is
my desire to be guided in the discharge of
those duties. I shall not undertake to lay
down, irrevocably, principles or measures
of administration, but rather to speak of
the motives which should animate us and
to suggest certain important ends to be at
tained in accordance with our institutions
and essential to the wciLi e of our countrv.
At the cutset of the discussions which
preceded the recent Presidential election it
seemed fitting that 1 should fully make
known my sentiments on several of the im
portant questions which then appeared to
demand tiie consideration of the country.
Following the example, and in part adopt
ing thi language of my pre deeessors, I wish
now, when every motive for misrepresenta
tion has passed away, to repeat what was
said before the clectlm, trusting that my
countrym.m will candi 11 y weigh and under
stand it, and that they will feel assured
that the sentnm-nts Ueciaivd
in accei titiLT
the uouiiuati.jii tbr th Presidency will bo
the standard ol' my conduct iu the path be-
fjr lilt i-h:i:-.;d as I iv'.v :im ivih t !,, r
. o ' - i a. .j
anJ ditiieult task of carrvin- them
neiii viil i;i
the practical administration of the govern
ment, s:j far as depends, u;i Lt the Con
stitution and taws, ou th j iji.i-i' Executive
of the nation. The permanent paciaca:i.u
of the country uixm am-.i i.rniii..!.
and hy
such measures as v.i.i j-jeuie
the c-.mi.lelo
lil'llf !'!!. l!l ! i: l-lil7.UJ l'l !l i ! .-
;e tree en-
joiueiu oi an ineir c iisu'iiu !:.;; n
!
is now the one subject in our public affairs
which all though; l'u! and p.-.t i i ,ti j citizens
regard as uf sup.A-m; i;ii;s-
the :.iurni::ix i.t;
Many
of the calamitous
rf ll,i
tremendous revolu; ion
Wiiie."!
h:, p:;-s. I
naiu. The
over the r-outi.e.'n Mates ctsSi r
i
immeasurable ueueiits whieli Wi.i surely
follow, sooner or later, the heart v iml
generous acceptance of the legit hutc'ru-nlt
of that revolution, have bet yet b-.-e:: re.-.ilz -d.
Dilhciiit and c Uibarr.iS-ing "i'.;wsli ns i; i 1 1
US at the threshold of this Mai. pvt. 'Ih
people of these Mates stiu i.Ni.vri.-l;.d,
and the inestimable bles.-in-g of wise, ho n est
and peaceful local s:I'-g'i!:ie!,t is n t
fuiiy enjoyed. Whatever diti'.-ruiee of
opinion may exist as to the c..'.: ef this
!
eouuttion oi to
:s. the ;.:ct is clear that la
tl e progress of events tho ti:n.
when such govot unteiit is th
necessity required by ull the
csts. public aud private, fthos
QUESTION Or It.V.T
L:.s:
in.e
torn,
I'ativi
Lat-.s.
But it niust not b
local ;overu:neiit w
H : ;
r
th:;t
: i.
;'i,l
a true
ee two
maintains inviolate the rLh'.si S ;u
self-government. Wi;h re.-
te t:
dis.iuct races, wh.--.se
::i,:r uaiiji,
to each
other have Lr u:ht upon u, the d
complications and perplexities whi
ilea i.;s0
wri::iio;it
in ttiose Mates, it must be a
wnicn guarus tue intere:
1 ;
carefully and e-iM iilv. It must
eminent' which sulniiits loyally ;;
ea h- j. U.V
to the Cotistitutk n and tho Lw.the l.a - ni
the nation, ::r.d the law.? of the States t!u ;:i-
selvcs, accepting and obeying i
whole Couslitmii.n at is. i
this sure and fcubstantLl f..;
, i.
a:ig Uj-i.
su erstructre of bci.
:al ;oe;,l 'ja-vc;
ll ... .1 s
can be built up uul ua henvise.
A NON IWItTI? AN SJ'il.ir.
In furtherance of such obedience
letter and the spirit of the Oe,s:i
auu in uciuwt ui aa i.iai os ;i;..'.i:r.;.'
plies, all so-called party interests I s.
apparent importance, and party !i:ie
he permitted to fade into iuig:;il
lllCi
s in--','
e.i .i' e.
The ouestiun we have to
coosi icr
f.;r the
immediate Welfare of the Spates
Union is the question of government er no
government, of social order and all the
peaceful industries aud the happiness that
belong to it, or a return to barbarism.
It is a question in which everv ciiiz :n of
the natiuu is deeply interested, and with
respect to which we ought not to in a
partisan sense either Republicans or Demo
crats, but fellow-citizens and f'e'iow-men, to
whom the interests of a ce-mmon country
and a common humanity are dear.
the labor question in the south.
The sweeping revolution of the entire
bbor system uf a large portion of our coun
try, and the advance of -t,(:00,000 of peo
ple from a condition of servitude to tluit et
citizenship upon an equal footing with then."
former masters, could not occur without
presenting problems of the gravest moment,
to be dealt with by the emancipated race,
bv their former masters and bv the General
Government, the author of the act of
Emancipation. That it was a wis.1, jnst
and providential act, fraught with good tr
all concerned, is now generally ecu ceded
throughout the countrv. That a moral
obligation rests upon the National Govern
ment to employ its constitutional power
and influence to establish the right of the
people it. has emancipated, and to protect
them in the enjoyment of those rights when
they are infringed or assailed, is also general
ly admitted. The evils which aliliet the
Southern States can only be removed or
remedied by the united and harmonious
efforts of both races, actuated by motives
of mutual sympathy and regard. And
while in duty bound and fully determined
to protect the right of all, by every con
stitutional ineans at the disposal of wy
adminsitration, I am sincerely anxious to
use every legitimate influence in favor cd
honest and efficient local self-government,
as the true resource of those States for tn-J
promotion cf the contentment- and pros-
t.H
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