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Job J?x?iriti ng
Denominational Railroads.
In a i?Uvf io tue Burlington UaiuJc
,eyc Burdotto says : On the road once
,raore, with .Lebanon fading away in
tbo distance, the fat passenger drum
ming ;idly ou the window pane, the
.cross passenger sound asleep, and the
tall, thin passenger reading "Gen.
.-Grant's Tour Around tho World,"
nnd wonocring why "Green's August
.Flower" should he printed above the
doers of a Budhist temple at Benares.
To me comes the brakcinau, and seat
ing himself on the arm of the Beat,
says:
"I went to church yesterday."
"Yes?" I said, with that interested
Inflection that asks for more. "And
what church did you attend ?"
"Which do you guess?" be asked.
"Some union mission church?" I
hazarded.
"Now;" he said, "I don't like to
run on these branch roads much. I
don't often go to church, and, when 1
do, I want to run on the main line,
where your run is regular and you
go on schedule time und don't have
to wait on connections. I don't like
to run on a branch. Good enough
but I don't like it."
-"Episcopal?" I guessed.
"Limited express," he said, "all
palace cars and 82 extra for a scat:
fast time, and only stop, at the big
stations. Nice Iiuo, but too exhaus
tive for a brakeman. All train men
in uniform; conductor's punch and
lantern silver plated, nnd no train
boys allowed. Then, the passengers
are allowed to talk back at the con
ductor ; and it makes them too- free
and easy. Itich road, though. Don't
often boar of a receiver being ap
pointed for that line. Some mighty
nice people travel on it, too."
''Universalist?'' I suggested.
"Broad guage," said the brakeman ;
''does too much complimentary busi
ness. Everybody travels on a pass.
Conductor doesn't get a fair or.ee in
fifty miles. Stops at all flag stations,
and wont run into anylning but a
union depot. No smoking car on
the train. Train orders are vague
though, and the trainmen don't ge'.
along well with the passengers. No,
I don't go the Universalist, though 1
know some awfully good men who
run on that road."
|jjj^*^resbyterian ?'* 1 asked.
brow gauge," said the brnke
BfctLytraek, straight as a rule,
fiStoul) a mountain ralh
I^HHbJI ; spirit level
IHffi to show their
Rfeacr train.
jjHH^'loiars . are
?pPflBB^flSrVto sit one/n
^R^Tind no room in the aisle to
dance. Then there's no slop over
tickets allowed; got to go straight
through to the station you are tiekcL
ed for, or you can't gel on at all.
When the car's full, no extra coaches ;
cars built at the shop to hold just so
?many and nobody el c allowed ou.
But you don't often hear of an acci
dent on that road. It's run right up
to the rules."
."Maybe you joined the Free
Thinkers?" 1 said.
"Scrub road," said the brakeman,
"dirt road bed and no ballast; no
time and no train dispatcher. All
trains i tin wild anil every engineer
makes bis own time, just.as he pleases.
Smoke if you want lo; kind of go as
you please road. Too many side
tracks, and every switch wide open
all the time, with the switchman
sound asleep and the target lamp
dead out. Gel oti as you p ease and
get oir when you want to. Don't
have lo show your ticket, and the con
ductor isn't expected lo do anything
but amuse the passengers. No, sir;
I was offered a pass bul 1 don't like
the line. 1 don I like to travel on a
road that has no termi: us. Do you
know, sir, I asked a Division Superin
tendent where thai road run to, and
he hoped to dio if he knew. 1 uske-i
kiin if tbc General Superintendent
eould tell me. He ?aid he didn't be
lieve the}' had a General Stipe fin ten
dent, and if Ihcy had he didn't know
no more about the read than the
passengers. I asked who he report
ed to and he said "nobody." 1 asked
a conductor who he got hia orders
from and ho said be didn't gel order
from any living man or deatl ghost.
Aud when I asked the engineer who
he got bis orders from, lie said lie
would like to see anybody give him
orders; he'd run that train to suit
himself or he'd run it into the ditch.
Now you see, sir, I'm a railroad man
and 1 don't care lo run on a road thai
lias no time, makes no connections,
runs nowhere, and has no Superinten
dent. It may be all right, but I've
railroaded too long lo understand
it."
"Did you try the Methodist?" 1
said.
"Now, you're shouting," he snid
with some enthusiasm. "Nice road,
eh? Fast time and plenty of passen
gers. Engines cany a power of
uteain anil don'lyou lor etil; steam
gauge shows a hundred, and enough
all the time. Lively road ; when the
Conductor shouts ell aboard, you can
hear him to the next station. Every
train lamp sbines like a headlight.
Stop over checks given on all through
tickets; pass, ngeis can drop oll I ho
train as often as he likes, do the sta
tion two or three days and hop on
the next revival train that comes
thundering along. Good, wholc
sou'ed, companionable conductors;
aiu't a roatl in the country where tho
pnssengors feel more at home. No
passes; every passenger pays full
tralhV. rates for his ticket. Wesloy
an-hou80 air brake on all trains, too ;
pretty safe road, but I didn't ride
over it yesterday."
"Maybe you went to tho Congre
gational Church?" I said.
"Popularroad;" s dd the brakeman :
uAn old road, too ; one of tho very
oldest in this country. Good road
bed and comfortable cars. Well
managed road, too; directors don't
interfere with division Superinten
dents and train orders. Road's
mighty popular, but it's pretty inde
pendent, loo. See, didn't one of the
division superintendents down East
discontinue one of the oldest stations
on this line two or three years ago?
But it is a mighty pleasant road to
travel on. Always has such a splend
id class of passengers."
"Perhaps you tried the Baptist?"
I guessed once more.
"All, ha?" said the brakeman,
''she's a daisy, isn't she? River road ;
beautiful curves ; sweep around any
thing to keep close to the river, but
it's all steel rail and rock ballast,
single track all the wa}' and not a
side track from the round house to
the lenyinus. Take a heap of water
to run it through ; double tanks at
every station, and there isn't an en
gine in the shops that can pull a
pound or run a mile with less than two
gauges. But it runs through a lovely
country, these river roads always do ;
river on one side and hills on
the other, and it's a steady clime up
the grade all the way till the run ends
where the fountain head of the river
begins. Yes, sir, I,II take the river
road every time for a lovely trip,
sure connections and good time, and
i.o prairie dust blowing in at the win
dows. And yesterday when the con
ductor came around for the tickets
svilh a little basket punch, I didn't
ask him to pass me, but I paid
my fare like a little man ; twen
ty-live cents for an hours run, and a
little concert by the passengers
throwed in. I tell you pilgrim you
take the livcrroad when you want."?
But just here the long whistle from
the engine announced a station, and
the brakeman hurried to the dour
shouting "Zionsville: Tins train
makes no stops between here and In
dianapolis."
Resuscitating the Dead.
John Hall and OutTcll Smith, hang
ed at Murfreesboro, Tcnn., recently <
were handed over to the physicians
for experimenting purposes. Both
men were pronounced dead within
seventeen minutes, cut down, placed
in collins, und hurried as speedily ae
possillc to a house three hundred
yards distant, where Drs. Byrne and
Murfree, of Murfreesboro and Dr.
Sieger of Nashville, had arranged
instruments and appliances for the
purpose of resuscitation. In the
presence of a large number of physi
cians, thirty minutes after the rope
had been cut, the experiment was
tried. The clothing ol the dead mur
derers was quickly torn from the
bodies, which were wrapped iu hot
blankets, the dislocation of their
necks reduced, and artificial respira
tion kept up. Electricity was then
applied to dilfercnt portions of the
brain and spinal chord, and other
stimulants used. Muscular move
ments scon ecemed to be apparent,
the pulse beat feebly, temperature
was raised to 10.1 degrees, the eyes
opened and appeared to be directed
to different objects in the room, with
the regular breathing and muscular
contraction. There was a peculiar!
expression of face and eyes, a sound
with each inspiration and expiration,
the bodies presenting life like ap
pearance.
Dr. Sieger here staled the desired
object tiad been accomplished, which
was to show the action of electricity
and other modes of stimulation upon
the nervous and muscular systems.
The stimulants were then removed
when the bodies (teased to show any
signs of life. The bodies weie given
to the doctors at the request of the
murderers for dissection.
A Fiend.
Boston, May 5.?A shocking case
of cruelty was reported from Law
rence, in this State, the victim b? iug
a woman twenty years of age named
Etta Wood, who it is staled, was for
some lime confined in the cellar of a
boarding house in that city, kept by a
Mrs. Lennon, deprived of all proper
clothing and other comforts, terribly
beaten and otherwise ill-used. The
discovery was made by a woman,
who, while passing the house, was ap
pealed to by the girl from the cellar
window. The police were informed,
and the girl was taken from her pri
son and carried to the slalion house,
where site was attended by the city
physician. She charges that she was
frequently beaten by Mrs. Kennon
with the meat mallei and potato |
masher, and that tdie was kept all
work almost constantly. The affairI
has caused great excitement, and
Mrs. Kennon, who denies tho stories, i
has been arrested.
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A Slap at the Bloody Shirt.
Mr. Talmngo directed his congrega
tion yesterday to sing, "My country,
'tis of thee," said his text?Judges i.,
15? and continued as follows : "To
meet engagements in nine Southern
cities and to catch a glimpse of the
South land in the sprng time, I mado
a trip two weeks long below Mason
end Dixon's line. I went equipped
with questions and hungry for infor
mation on moral and religious and
political subjects. I had a grave to
visit in Georgia, that of my uncle,
Dr. Samuel K. Talmage, for twenty
years President of the Oglcthorpo
University. When the war for sla
very broke out he lay down near the
scene of his usefulness. He was one
of those who arc the adornment of
the Southern pulpit. Such men as
Jas. II. Tbormvell and Smyth and
Duncan and Pierce are to be mention
ed with him. I went resolved to sec
and make a report of what I saw
while South. I had no political rec
ord to look after or guard, for the ca
reer of my usefulness has opened
since the war closed. My admiration
for the Democratic and Republican
parlies, as parlies, is so great that it
would take one of McAllister's most
powerful magnifying glasses to catch
u glimpse of it. American publics
are rotten. That party steals the
most which has the best chance. [Ap
plause] I found while Souih the most
perfect proof that the bulk of the sto
ries we get here in the North, distill
ed by special correspondents, arc
sheer fabrications and most persis
tent attempts to misrepresent the real
character of a large section of our
people. There is no moie need of
governmental espionage at Charles
ton or Savannah and the other South
ern cities than there is in New York
or Boston. Some, people have an
idea that the sentiment in the Soulh
is the re-establish me nt of negro sla
very. Ah! the people are all hearti
ly glad to get rid of it, and the plains
are now placed under a better system
of cultivation because it is gone. Old
planters told me that the worry and
anxiety and the care and looking af
ter a plantation of negroes is all
gone, and now all they have to do is
to pay the wages at the end of the
month. Put it to ballot in the South
whether or not you would have again
the system which prevailed before the
war and you would get a thuudering
negative. The fight for slavery closed
sixteen years ago and those Norlbci n
politicians who keep the subject of
American slavery still rolling might
as -ifcll try\to make the Door rebell
ion*'in'Rhode Island or the attempt of
Aaron Burr to found an empire a test
for our fall ( lection. The whole sub
ject of American slavery is dead and
damned. The negro loves his work
and his South. When we hear of riv
ers dragged and lakes to fish out col
ored men who have been Hung in we
get but sample stories of what the
North is expected to believe of the
South, but they are so ridiculous as
hardly to need contradiction. There
is no maltreatment of the colored peo
ple, and as for American slavery, look
lor it in your Northern cities among
the army of employees, bee your
female clerks. They need your sym
pathy far more than the workei8 of
the rice swamp or sugar plantation.
Find them on Fulton street, Brook
lyn ; Broadway, New York ; Washing
ton street, Boston ; Chestnut street,
Philadelphia. We want reformation
in all these places to protect the weak
from tyrannical employers, and we
bad better begiu our charity at home.
.Another impression is that there is
a hostility to Notthern men who
come to the Soulh to setile. The im
pression is that they are to be ku
kluked or otherwise made uncomforta
ble. It is a lie. They want all the
help they can gel from the North.
They want the cotton spindles near
the cotton fields and Northern men to
manage and Northern girl* to tend
them. Of course, there is no more ad
miration for fools und hraggers
there than hero. Aman may go down
to a Southerner as he works in the
Held and begin Ins self-exultancc,
"I'm from Boston, I am ; yes, I
marched through this very section
with my regia cnt; 1 remember kill
ing a heifer on your front sloop.
What a good thrashing we gave 3'ou,
didn't we, now?" Such u man as
that, to suy the least, would not get
a very hearty welcome. lie would
not be chosen a deacon in a Church
and it would not be, surprising if he
moved oir on the mtst mobile section
of a fence and coino clown without
much attendance to the landing place.
Yea, and 1 should be inclined to say
be deserved it. (Applause.) A Brook
lyn man is as good as a Mobile man
if he behaves himself. There is not
a more hospitable people in the world
than the people of the South. (Ap
pluusc.) J bring to-day a general
invitation to you all and n'l the North
to goto the'Soulh and settle down.
Horace Greeley'a cry of "Go West,"
must he changed to "Go Soulh," or
rather added, for I here is room enough
all over. There nw fortunes by the
hundred to be made by the first men
who go in io take possession of the
riches of Ihc South. You Northern
workers, go down where you can
breathe. The fare is only $15, if you
aie not too particular how j-ou travel.
Afraid of heat? You have hotter
da\s here than ever aro there. Of
fever? Wherever you go West or
Sou'.h, \uu have un acclimation at
tack, and it is only a different kind of
a shake, (Laughter.) Stop cursing
the South, and stop lying about her
and go South und develop her im
menso resources of mining and for
ests. (Applause.) Let your Northern
young men settle down with the
Southern young women, and under
tho magnolia grovo and the orange
tree put your political feuds asleep
in tho cradlo of a generation half
North and South. (Applause) I
hate to see these stories of the South
ern people gotten up and kept up for
base political purposes. (Applause.)
Another wrong impression is that the
people of the South are antagonistic
to the United States government.
The people of the South submitted to
the settlement of the sword and aro
submissive, if they "eat fire" they
keep a private platter of coals in a
private room. I sat down with them
and the forks did not look as if they
had stirred hot coals nor the spoons
as though they had ladled liery pap.
The men of the South arc working up,
and you can see ihero.'meu of forty
and sixty years starting afresh in life.
It is devilish in us lo caJLthe temper
of the South saturnine. Xhavc trav
eled a good deal and I have yet to lind
a man North who has a fair ground
of complaint against the South. (Ap
plause.) I wish thai what I say may
be received in silence. I sometimes
almost wish for an invasion of foreign
arms, to let Ihe world sec what u
united people wo are at heart and
how the forces of Gran) and Lee
would march together and not against
each other.
If a half dozen politicians North
and South would only consent J.o die
there would bo no more sectional ac
rimony, It would only be ncase then
for the undertakers. Wo would glad
ly lit up the catafalque and play the
"Rogues March."?NcuT^York World
April VM/t.
A Big Disgust.
The 2Tr.wsa.nd Couricvhas informa
lion that D. T. Corbin,*A. S. Wal
lace, W. E. Earlc, SJ W. Melton,
John Ii. Cochran, Simeon Corlcy and
others, "who rcprcseut the brain and
courage of (he Republican parly in
this State arc intensely disgusted
with the composition and conduct of
the recent Republican Convention
held in Columbia." They profess sur
prise that adversity lias-, taught the
parly northing, and tkaWfhe the same
old set of cut-throats au4. thieves is
as rampart as ever. IuSua.no cause
for?wsujrpiise ..easla^jJfae ^Couuty
Conventions consisted ijBely of the
old backs and thieves, a'-f the masses
of the colored people were too busy
preparing for a cotton crop to take
any slock in the present meetings.
The Slate Convention was made up
of the worst material of the County
Conventions, and as a consequence
they could do nothing but sink to their
former level. Doubtless some of the
parties mentioned arc sincere in their
disgust, but the rest have to > much
of the gastric toughness of the ostrich
to become squeamish on their own
account. They have the sense to
see that the Northern Republicans
con not. stand such an incubus ns the
Slate Convention would impose upon
Ihe party, and that South Carolina
will be severely let alone. No chance
of preferment for Radicals in Stale
politics. Hence these tears. Lei
these gentlemen who are sincere in
their denunciation of Rcdical wicked
ness prove their sincetity by falling iu
the Democratic column, which alone
can stem the tide of corruption.?
News and Herald.
Now or Never.
Let the Democrats of Ihe State
have all their quarrels before the con
vention meet to nominate the State
ticket. As to policy or principle
there is little difference of opinion,
hut as to men we may expect pretty
sharp sparring by particular friend of
aspirants for office. It is belter to
talk right out now and say tho worst
as well as the best about candidates
before the convention moot; but after
the nomination have been made, let
all the voters of the State move f?ic
ward as one man to elect the ticket.
Let all dissension and bitterness and
personal prejudice die away with the
sound of the gavel that dissolves the
convention. Il may not be amiss to
discuss the qualifications and moral
character of our candidates for Stale
offices. The people should be inform
ed as to tho men who are to lake the
helm of State. For the last six
months Gary's faults and virtues have
been brought out in strong nnd strik
ing colors. The average voter begins
lo know about what sort of man he
is, and enn vote inlclligonly for, or
against him. Hagood's friends and
opponents are vcnlillating his charac
ter now, und by ihn time the conven
tion meet there will be no necessity
for a man, who rends at all, lo vote.
with his eyes shut either for or
against Ilagood. The candidates for
the other offices should be discussed
In the same way, so that tho people
may vole intelligently for tho men to
fill iljeso offices.? Carolina Spartan.
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The Last of His Race.
Senator Bruce, the colored Senator
from Mississippi, in alluding to the
time when ho should retire from the
Senate said, somewhat pathetically :
"I believe that 1 am the last of my
race that will ever occupy a scat in
this branch of the Federal govern
ment."
Most likely the words of the colored
Senator will prove to bo correct. The
Republican party, although still anx
ious for the negro vole and always
ready to make the most glowing
promises to the colored voters, has
ceased to nominate them for any im
portant otlice. Once in a while, it is
true, a sop is thrown to them in the
shape of some little position, with a
few hundred dollars in it. but the day
for making them members of Con
gress and United States Senators ha3
gone by. Never was a race of peo
ple more cruelly disappointed. 1 heir
brief dream of glory and power in
this country has passed away, and
all that is left to them is the bitter
realization of their actual condition,
as hewers of wood and drawers of
water for the white race. It is true
they are no longer slaves. On the
contrary they arc citizens and voters,
but aller all how much better is their
social condition now than it was dur
ing the long nigbt of slavery? When
the administration of President Lin
coln, as a war necessity and in older
to conquer the South, declared that
slavery should no longer exist, the
Republican leaders saw their oppor
tunity and at once embraced it. They
promised the uegroe* not only citizen
ship, but social and political equality,
and even passed laws to bring about
such a condition of affairs. But the
result has proved that the Republi
can party has promised more than it
was able to perform. For what good
result has grown out of all their pro
fusion of promises? The social con
dition of the negro is no better now
than it was thirty years ago. They
cannot associate with iho whites on
the same level, not even with the very
'coders who promised them so much.
Even Senator Bruce himself, a sensi
ble, excellent and able man, wealthy
and refined, and with a cultivated and
beautiful wife, docs nob have the run
of the best society at the capital of
the nation, nor in bis own Stale of
Mississippi. Simply because he be
longs to au inferior race of people,
who arc barred without tho pale of
while association because of an im
mutable law of God himself. It is
true, everybody respects Senator
Bruce, because he has raised himself
above tho level of his race, but where
is the intelligent while man who
would want to intermarry his chil
dren with the children of the colored
Senator? Providence Himself has
preserved the distinction between the
races by giving a white skin to one
and a black one to the other, and no
law passed by any human authority
can ever break down that barrier. Jt
is the badge of master and servant,
and will be to the end of lime.
Thus, as we have said above, the
words of Senator Bruce, that he will
be the last of his race who will ever
occupy a seat in the United States
Senate will in alb probability prove
true. The fanaticism and folly that
led to the elevation of a few colored
men to high offices have in a great
degree passed away, and now even
the party under whose management
slavery was abolished, aud which
promised the colored people of the
Union social and political equality,
no longer has the heart lo put lliora
Ui for offices of public trust and
emolument. That parly has broken
its faith with the voters who made its
success possible, and without whose
support it would long ago have been
crushed out of existence by the De
mocracy. Let our colored citizens
remember Ibis fact. They made and
sustained the Republican par v, in
duced to do so by its lying promises
to them. They were to be in all res
pects the while man's social and po
litical equal. They were to be Sena
tors, members of Congress, Judges,
&e. How much of all ibis lias been
realized? Let the sad words ol Sena
tor Bruce, the best representative of
the colored race who has ever sat in
the Senate answer : "1 believe that
I nin Ihe Jast of my ra3C that will
ever occupy a scat in Ibis branch of
the Federal government."
The words are prophetic and a
mournful commentary upon the bro
ken promises of the Republican party.
Let the colored voters of that party
trust it no longer, because it has be
guiled them inio direct opposition to
the will of God, in leading them to
believe that the time could ever come
when they might take their places in
the councils of the nation as the
equals of tho ruling race. Far better
cast their lot with a party that does
not promise impossible tilings, but
which never refuses to do Iho best it
can for the colored citizens of the re
public.?Bellefont (Pa.) Watchman.
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Love Overcomes Everything.
Elizabctli City, in. C, is in a state
of great social excitement over tbe
recent sensational elopement and mar
riage of a gushing young couple.
Jonathan Ivy has for some time been
courting the handsome daughtor of a
respected and well-to do oitizen. Tho
young lady's name was Florence Sey
mark. Her parents did not approve
of young Ivy's advances, nnd finally
forbade him their house. The lovers,
however, managed to meet clandes
tinely and made up their minds to an
elopement. Old man Seymark, by
some means or other, got wind of the
proposed escapade, and went gunning
for Jonathan. Coming up with the
gay young lover, he blazed away at
him, hitting him In the left shoulder,
and inflicting a painful but not dan
gerous wound. Florence was over
whelmed with grief by her father's
hasty conduct, but her passion for
her wounded lover was intensified a
thousand fold. She sent him a letter
telling him she would fly with him
that night if he would come for her.
So that night young Ivy put in an ap
pearance with a close carriage about
1 o'clock. Miss Florence was in a
terrible dilemma, for her cruel par
ents, to insure against any escapade,
had not Qwly locked the girl in her
room, but also taken away every
stich of her clothing. But she was
not to be baffled. She made a rope
out of the sheets of her bed and let
herself down to the ground with no
other garment but a night dress cover
ing her blooming charms. She told
the coachman to "look the other
way," and, after her lover had helped
her into the carriage and covered up
her shivering form with tbe :Carriage
robes, she made him sit on the box
with the coachman. 'They drove to
the house of a friendywherc Florence
was attired in proper garments, and
then proceeded to the house of the
sympathizing^ preacher, some distance
from town, where the lovers were
speedily united in wedlock.
Exactly.
The New York Nation, referring to
the Whittaker "outrage," truthfully
says: "Throughout the length aud
breadth of the North no white person
makes a companion of a color.'d man
if he can avoid it. The cases where
coloied people are ever treated as so
cial equals occasionally, by invita
tions and the like, may bo counted
on one's fingers, and have almost tbe
character of a moral demonstration.
Iy fact, the practice of the school
faithfully reflects the practica Of
American society." Any one who
has travelled widely through the
Northern Stales will recognize the
truih of this observation. All Re
publicans know it lo be true, and yet
they keep up their demand that the
contrary practice?which they reject
themselves?shall prevail in the
Southern States. An apt illustration
of tho hypocritical and intolerant
spirit which is diffused through the
Republican party.
"The Kissing Bush."
One of the gentle customs that has
bceu permitted to exist in English
homes since the time of tho Druids,
finds expression in the "kissing
bush." It is generally a neat bough
of mistletoe, and when tbe household
decorations arc going up It is rarely
over forgotten, especially where there
are young men and maidens. It
hangs in flic hall, nod the charm lies
in leading your fair friend beneath it
and kissing her. Among the middle
class this feature of the holidays is
never neglected, and at friendly and
family reunions it occasions much
merriment. In this country, howev
er, the tree has been discarded. Tbe
way to do is nqt to lead, your friond
beneath a tree and kiss her there,
but to kiss her where she is ; for nine
limes out of ten, when she gels under
the tree, she'll change her mind.
Procrastination is the thief of many
such an opportunity.
Hn.r.'s Uki'atic Panacka. The Liv
er is the king imperial organ of the
whole human system, as it controls
the life, health and happiness of man.
When it is disturbed in its proper
action all kinds of ailments are the
natural results. The digestion of
the food, the movements of the heart
and blood, the action of the brain and
nervous system, are all immediately
connected with the workings of the
jiver. To keep the liver in a health}'
condition take Hill's Ilapalic Pan
acea. Only 00 cents per bottle.
For sale by S. A. Reeves.
WriKN President Polk died ho left
his entire cslalo lo his widow, at her
death to go to the most worthy person
bearing the Polk name, the Slate of
Tennessee holding it in trust for the
inheritor, and having to decide which
it shall be. Mrs. Polk still survives,
us is well know, in Nashville.
God be thanked for books. They
arc the voices of the distant and the
dead, and make us heirs, of the spirit
ual life ol the past ages. Books are
the mnslcrs that teach without scold
ing, nnd chastise without stripes.
Makes the same use of a book that a
beo does of a flower, it steals sweets
from it, but does not injure it.
Sdbscribr for the Orakoerhro
Democrat.
'Knights ?f;rionoi\ .,,/'11
The following statement is publish
ed by Ornngeburg Lodge, .No. 1,-102,
Knights of Honor, for the information
of all who are in tose led in and desire
cheap-insurance in u reliable, organi
sation. ,
This Lodge was organized March
.10, 1879, and twelve "assessments"
have been paid by its members for
the year er.ding March 10, 1880, as
follows-: ?
*W. P. Brunson.$15.00
?D. E. Smoak.A2m
*L. H. Wannamaker.12.00
fJ. C. Bell....,..l....'^36rp0
*VV. C. Bull.......xiw,
fH. C. Wannamaker.JliJfi
?J. M. Brunson. 12,Qd
*J. G. Wannamaker..12100,
*C. It. Jones.ISfcW
?H. G. Sheridan...*.1.12.00
*J. L Sims.,....:12.0(T
'Robert Copes..;vh.12.00'
?F. DeMars.12-.00
*J.C. Pike.12.00
fJ. F. Izlar.i.v.;....13.20
*A. S. Ilydrick.......12.00
?W. M. Sain..v...4...l?J0O'
* W. II. Perryclear._h..r 12.00
M. M. Danner..?vidSM
fB. W. Izlar'..:.24.0.Q,
?George Boliver.....;.X2.p0
*J. L. Heidtmau...,l2.0jd[
*H. Kohn.,?,..I'..^......MMi
?W. A. Edwards_.,12,00,,
?J. S. Albergotli....^lg.pO,
fO. A. Darby.ri-^&ifni
*S. A. Reeves.P2.?0
*A. Fischer....12.00
?P. Gerlack.......12.00
fJ. Straus.:......-.42i00i
?Ii S. Cummings...,....:i2.00"
*M. Albrecht........:.il2;00 '
*J. J. Street..:12.00 :
*T. Kohn..,..12.00 '
*T. R. Malone.12.00"
*G. W. Brunson.12.00
Note.?Those designated thus *;'
are between the ages of 21 arid 45, ';
uml pay $1 por assessment; thus f are
between the ages of 45 and 53 'and
pay from $1.10 to $3.50 per assess- >
incut. ??1 i
Add to this amount S3 dues and
you have what a policy of $2,000 in
a reliable association has cost at the
ages above staled for twelve months*! ?
The total amount paid by the tbir-:
ly-seven above named Is $623.40^:1
which will be found to be about one :
per cent, upon the amount,($74,000,).:
of the thirty-seven policies.
While we claim for this insurance
associa'ion that it is the cheapest,, we
know it to be the safest. We clafp^'V,
to have the facility of knowing every ,
thing that isdotie by. those in charge .
of its important nfi'uirs,. Those w?o^
are its recognised heads ate not,. sei re
constituted?'hey do not place them
selves in office and prescribe their
own duties and powers,, (neither do
they receive large salaries,) but ' are' (
put there by the po'icyholders them
selves, who ulso prescribe their pow- ;
ers and duties. They are subject to
change every year. We employ no 1
agents, therefore no commissions arc ?
taken out. Our annual dues aro
smaller than those of any insurance
organization (not excepting those '
who, after finding it impossible to'"''
"extinguish" by gross uiisreprcsento/J >
lions Lbj Knights of Honor, have '
adopted as nearly as possible their
plan.) These dues are no? seut out
of the community as theirs are. Of
the S3 paid, 25 cents goes to Supreme
Lodge, SI to the Grund Lodge, leav
ing SI.75 which is spent at home. .
whereas in other of these cheap:(?)
organizations the dues ,ar'e higher, ,
and every cent goes otf, we know.pot.
where, besides 13 cents for\ postal'^jv j
der and stamp on every amount of
dues and every Hem ol' premium.
The fees required to he paid to be
come a beneficiary is small, and 1 in
stead of being sent off to pay large
salaries they remain in the subordi
nate lodge to be disbursed' rfs the
members may see Ol. Out of these
funds we pay a brother who is unfor
tunate and becomes d subled by. sl?k-"
ncss or other dissability the sum of
$3 j>cr week for each week (after the ?
"nsi) he is incapacitated from at-'
tending to and following bis usual
vocation, I .lave you ever heard of
charity in an insurance organization,
before? Nevsr. Why ? Because they
say charity begins (with them at
least) at (The) home (office.) ? ???
Eugenie.
The once beautiful Empress Eu
genie, who in the bight of her glory
reveled and reigrfed amid the splen
dors of a French court, is now on her
lonely way across the pathless ocean
to Zululand to feed her morbid mise
ry by viewing the place where the
last remindful treasure of her heart
fell pierced by the assegais of sav
ages. The loss of empire nnd hus
band centered all her ambition, hopes
and affections in this ono life, and
when that was gone, all earthly hopes
anil aspirations went with it, and the
once beautiful, proud' and powerful1
eroptess is a silent, brokenhearted
and unhappy wanderer upon the
shores of time, with no hopo of relief
to her misery, except through life
portals of death. What a commcnla
ry upon the vaunting ambition of
poor humanity. .
:-_t-. , , y.,^'
J. B. Merwin, editor of the Amw
ican Journal of Education, sayfe : "It
is easy to show that money paid, for
schools becomes an investment at
compound interest."