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THE INDIANA STATE SENTIKEL, WEDNESDAY. MORNING, APJRLL 11. 1877. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11. Hates is afraid to go back on his twin Iraud, Packard, which accounts for the Louisiana commissioe.

Oakey Hall's identity is positively established as being the same person as Sutcliffe, of Quebec, who sailed recently in the steamer Victoria, Chamberlain has given it up and gone to New York. There is a rumor that he will go into the practice of the law either in that city or Boston. Hates, the presidential fraud, says lie will reinstate the officials who helped Bris, tow hunt whisky thieves. He will probably wait until Grant is safe in Europe. There is aconhdent rumor from Arkansas that the Bender family of murderous fiends have been arretted.

They have been living in seclusion under an assumed name. Dispatches from New York promise something of a decidedly sensational nature in the expected Tweed disclosures. The purchase of five republican legislators for is a specimen brick. The Cincinnati Gazette admits that Hampton is in the ascendent, but is not pleased. Fora while poor -South Corolina will be relieved of carpet-bag thieves, but the fact does not enthuse the Gazette.

Cuba is the burial ground of Spanish soldiers. Between the bullets of the patriots and climatic influences of the island, the poor devils who come over to. fight for Spain jet a furlough for alltime. The News is of the opinion that General Lew Wallace is reproducing old war dispatches and publishing them on the editorial page of the Journal. Possibly, but they sound more like dispatches from the camp of rabbit hunters.

In the prevailing dearth of information concerning Oakey Hall there is some comfort in knowing that the woman who is his companion has a large mouth and a wart under her left ear. The great public desires satisfaction on only one more point can she wag the latter member? It is said that when Stanley Matthews was taking leave of Wade Hampton the other day he said to him, "Governor, when 'you are duly installed I intend to go down 'to South Carolina and make a republican 'speech." Writing letters is Stanley's forte. Let him write not speak. Packard is nothing if not plucky, and he mean 9 to hold on to his plunder with as firm a grip as the bigger thief in the white house has upon his. He writes a letter to Hayes -declaring plainly that his title is as good as the pretended president's, and demanding recognition and protection from Hayes at the peril of the latter's consistency.

Wk tiiuk it was kind in the radical organs not to insist that Mr. Tilden was intending to institute legal proceedings against Hayes. The Cincinnati Gazette actually publishes a dispatch from its New York correspondent that Mr. Tilden has never thought of doing anything of the kind, although Mr. Field thinks he has a good case.

Rothschild, the Cincinnatiaa who murdered his mistress ia Texas, is on his way there for trial, having been got out of Ohio by a piece of slightly sharp practice on the part of the Texas officials. If there is any ease in which some little finesa in eluding the vigilance of shrewd counsel for the defense is excusable, surely this is such an one. The director general of the Centennial ex. hibition dined and wined a lot of friends in Cincinnati yesterday. It seems to have been a somewhat gorgeous affair, and will be of value in hindering us from for getting, for a few months more, that the year ust passed wa3 the centennial of our na iional existence.

Alas! alas! Can it be that the telegraph reveals to us the important information that old Boss Tweed, when he 'fesses up, intends handing in the evidence $250.000. was among five radical legislators to se cure the passage of the infamous Tweed charter through the New York legislature, by which millions of dollars were stolen from the city of New York? Morton, we nnders.and. bad an invitation to go south and see things as they are, and not remain at home feeding himself on a mor bid imagination blood and bate. He wouldn't go. He don't want to see things as they ae.

When he does, and tells his party the truth regarding them, then, indeed, is his "occupation gone." There may be some more, capital to be made out of the ''bloody shirt," but we do not believe it. The radical organs tili "harp" on Wade Hampton. They say he is "indiscreet." They want to aay something worse, but do not know ex ictly what to say. Hin trip to Washington was as unlooked for as the ccentric movements of a comet. They were looking for a "vasnal" and the first they knew, a ''peer" walked along.

If he would ihave only consented to a "commission'' and kept prfvctly quiet while they swindled him out of his election, then he would have been once more the "brave" and "patriotic Hampton. The New England Methodists who met at Boston yesterlay do not propose to pray for Hayes. The presidential fraud removed the troops from the tiouth Carolina state house because he could not help him Tiitt democratic party and the dem- ocratic press of the country had bo thoroughly aroused public indignation, and Wade Hampton presented himself in such a defiant attitude that the poor fraud was compelled to succumb. The deyout brethren think that Wade Hampton ought to have been bung, and will probably pray that Buch a fate may yet overtake him, but there are some evidences that the Lord is not listening attentively to that sort of talk. Louis Jesmngs, formerly editor of the New York Times, and now London corres pondent of the World, has had a face to face interview with Oakey Hall in London and established his identity, though beyond this single point the mjstery remains about as deep as before.

Why Hall left New York. why he went to London, what he is going to do there and the nature of his relations with the woman who is with him; none of thes mysteries find any sort of elucidation in the dispatch of Mr. Jennings. He states, however, fhat a part of the interview was con fidential, so it is possible that there are explanations of all these mysteries which may yet reach the public. Meanwhile the coun try must possess it's soul in patience.

IIAYKS AXD LOriSI AXA. In very many and in very important re gards the Louisiana question is one of vital and supreme importance to the American people. R. B. Hayes, the presidential fraud, has an official existence by.

virtue of the crimes that were committed in his interest by radical conspirators in Louisiana. Of this there is no doubt among honest men of ,11 parties. No fact in history is better authenticated, and no axiom in mathematics is more immovably established. The people will remember the infamous farce of the electoral commission, which, with that supreme court miscreant in the lead, who has justly been styled Justice Judas Bradley, refused all testimony for the purpose of forcing into the presidential of fice a fraud, and of compelling them to submit to the rule of a usurper, and remembering this, they will not be fJow to appreciate the impudence of Hayes, who, having secured office by fraud and perjuries committed "in Louisiana, now seeks to avoid a plain duty.by clothing a commission of his own selection and ap pointment with power to settle questions over which neither they nor the presidential fraud have any control whatever. Hayes is in office because perjury tri umphed in Louisiana, and the triumph of perjury was because the infernal crew who committed the crimes in his interest were protected by federal bayonets.

Without the assistance of troops Hayes could no more have been made president than he could have been made an arch angel. Grant, his predecessor, the friend and patron of thieves, placed the troops in New Orleans for the protection of villains, that they might reverse the decision of the people, the benefits to inure to Hayes and Packard and their confederates in crime. Hayes has secured his part of the swag. Packard clamors for his share, and the troops are retained in close proximity to the villain because the infamous miscreant who inhabits the white house dare not order them away, fearing that Packard, who is not only a conspirator but a desperado, will unearth the whole plot by virtue of which Hayes entered upon the duties of president. But there is a throb of public anxiety which beats from Louisiana to the remotest parts of the country.

Hayes affects composure, but is disturbed nevertheless. Pent up indignation breaking over all barriers, and pouring in upon him like a tidal wave compelled him to bow to the stern demands of Wade Hampton, and Chamberlain is in his rear and will make it hot for him. Louisiana presents a more formidable front The frauds and perjuries in that state, like the dry bones of the valley are beginning to rattle into life, and there is danger of their coming forth more terrible than an array with banners. To silence them and remand them back to torpidity is the purpose of the com mission. This commission, as we have be fore shown, is without the authority of law.

and like Hayes himself, is a fraud. There is no warrant for it in constitution or statute. It has na right to act or to advise. In so far as it attempts either it usurps authority Evarts, who is secretary of state because he helped Judas Bradley and his associate con spirators put Hayes into office, in bis in structions to the fraudulent commission in the performance of their unconstitutional duties, says: Upon assuming hi office the president finds tne situation oi auairs lu uoutsutna us to just ly demand his prompt ai-d solicitous alien tion; for this situation present a one of it ffaturea the apparent Intervention ol a mill tary power of the United States In the domes tic controversies which undouoiedly divide the opinions ana aisiuro tne harmony oi the people ot thata-aie. fills Inl rvention, arising during the term and by the authority of hi predecessor, throws no present duty upon the irel lent, except to examine and deter mine the al extent, and form and efiVct, to which such Intervention actually exist, and to decide as to the time, tnauaer and con ditions which should be observed In putting an end to it.

The facts in the case are of the severest sim phcity. The troops are in New Orleans to aid villains in the commission of crirres; they were placed there for that purpose and none other; to protect Wells. Anderson and their confederate rogues while reversing the majority of the people of Louisiana so as to count in Hayes and Packard. The attempt to throw the odium upon Grant is cowardly. Grant committed the infamous act of despotism in the interest of crime hy which Hayes was made president, and if Hayes were not a coward as well as a fraud he would at once assume the responsibility imposed upon him by his oath of office But aa we have said, the cowardly miscreant, the returning ward fraud, the presidential lie and swindle, is afraid of Packard, who knows the length and breadth, the heighth and depth of the frauds that placed 1 iL.

ft--? mm in power, ana uence me presiuenuat fraud seeks by cuniauasions to obscure the record, and, if possible, to save his name from the deep damnation to which the Louisiana crimes will eventually sink it. Evarts tells the commission that they need enter the field of inquiry where the frauds lie buried, but by the shortest cut possible arrive at what is the precise duty of the executive. The precise duty of the executive fraud is to remove the troops, but this he will not do un- ess he can in some way placate Packard. It is understood that the returning board villains have been settled with, but Packard, Kellogg and others have not received their share of the booty. Hayes has been run into office and the probabilities are that the commission, if Fackard can not be appeased, will report in his favor, or at least make such arrangements as shall result in placing him securely in office.

The whole tenor of Evarts's instructions to the fraudulent commission distinctly points out such a result. He has, while speaking for a president who is in office by the violation of all law, human and divine, the sub lime audacity to speak of "the pride of the 'American character as a law-abiding na-'tion," and tells the people of Louisiana that the "president both hopes and believes the 'great body of the people of Louisiana are 'now prepared to treat the unsettled results of their state election with a calm and con- 'ciliatory spirit." This fraudulent commission appointed by a fraudulent president and sent on a fraudulent mission, is required to "remove the ob- 'stacles" to the acknowledgement of "one 'government," Hayes does not care which. If this can not be accomplished the next pull is to get an acknowledgement of a "sin- 'gle legislature," no matter whether the members of it were elected or got into it as Hayes reached the presidency by fraud. If this can rfot be done, then the commission is expected to back out and grease. The commission is required to collect "accurate 'and trustworthy information from public 'officers and prominent citizens of all polit- 'ical connections as to the state of public 'feeling and opinion in the community at 'large upon general questions which affect 'peaceful and safe exercise within the state 'of Louisiana of all legal and political privi-ieges conferred by the constitution of the 'United States upon all citizens." This ac complished, and the fraudulent commission is expected to get back to Washington and report to the fraudulent president In the meantime the troops will protect Packard.

A more contemptible farce was never played. ODELL ON DEVEXS A CO. Mr. Wendell Phillips, the "silver-tongued 'orator," who recently lectured in Philadel phia and returned to Boston with the scalps of Hayes and his cabinet, has been inter viewed by a New York Herald correspon dent. The attention of Mr.

Phillips was called to the statement that Hayes's attorney general, Devens, bought back Sims, the fugitive slave, and furnished all the money. This Phillips denies, and says: Sims was sent back In 1851. About ten years afterward Devens woke up and offered to re deem hifn. In the previous efforts for Sims's leiease uevens tooK no part, or many years the slaveholder refused to sell: he hud Sims cruelly whipped. Hud when he thought he had punisheu me negr enough ior running away, sent him to Mississippi.

For many years we heard nothing of una and supposed him to be dead. Eleven years afterward the war freed him and he came to Massachusetts. The idea that Devsns has repented of his course in the Sims case Phillips also denies, there being no record of such repentance. and adheres to his Philadelphia estimate that the attorney general is a tlave hunter, and adds: In the other world I leave such a sinner to the mercy of God; but in this world, if a slave hunter shou'd buy hack his victim, then repent as publicly as he had sinned, and afterwards live a bundre 1 ears and take a Turkish bath everv day, would be to me, al the end of a hundred years, uaoty, In both the English and In the American sense of the woi d. Phillips is immensely disgusted at the shape of affairs in South Carolina.

His comments upon Wade Hampton are valuable, inasmuch as they go to show very conclusively that if there had been a little more pluck in politics during the past few months the country would not be humiliated by having a fraud in the office of president. He said: In every sentence he has uttered on his way Washington I can hear the crack of the old slav-holdiiig whip. Since lsw 1 have not heard the crack ot that whip until Hamptou Kent that insolent letter to Grant. If we ha to-day a man in the wtiite house Hampton would never admitted there after such insolence. If I read the signs correctly, the peo-p have more elf resect than llayes has, and he will soon hear a warning- growl along the grouua tier.

Commenting upon the policy of the presidential fraud, and giving his reasons for attacking it early, Phillips said: The president's fnend4 have sold ns out. It Is no experiment, but a treacherous bargain, and, besides, the steps they are going to take are very per-lous. auU once taken ar Irrevocable. J'iiere no doubt of the b-ntaln that told us out. The republican papers very properly h-ld Tilden responsible lor his nephew's (IVIton's) acts though Tilden never knew each detil.

Mo I hold Hayes responsible for his friends when they sold him out to the white south. The bargain is plain. On the one side the democrat- were to stop filibuster-Inn and let Hayes be counted in. On his side his friends agreed to withdraw the troops; sec oi to recotuiize NlcholN and Hampton hs tfweriiors; third, to charter the Southern Pa-ciflc railway, itl Ving away million or national acr.s and millions of national bonds. (Le worklngmen take notice This last item won Jay Gould and his pocketpiece, the Tribune.

We shall soe the ImikhIii carried out tunn. This delay and commlwlun are only to let us down eal and accustom the public mind to the descent. The troops once withdrawn blood and starvation will rule the sotitn. liiere will it no republican Hinte south of the Potomac. Ofcourse nodemocrttio governor or legislature will ever call lor the national troop, and hence no soldier can croMM the sacred boundary of a tale.

Henry Wilson onfessed to me tiiat our great mistake was In lifting thou territories, after the war. into stages. Then them will be a "solid a uth' the old slave power under a new name. The next congress and the next pr sident will be democratic unie the north becomes a volcano. The you will see millions added to the na' ioual d-bt in 1 1 sh pe of pensions to confederate soldiers, loans to southern Mutes and railways, payment, of half the state debt, etc.

When that hell opens jou will see Hill and Lamar put on their comp ny clothes and their disguise of good behavior. They will appear In their own proper person. ou wl 1 not see Lamar, the actor, perf rmlng rhetoric over humner'i dead body. Hul you will hear La-' mar, the southern white, shamelessly pro-; el dining in excuse for that eulogy of Bumtu T. "You understand.

I saw the carcass and used to hoodwink the Yaukeea, WrSIC IS3 LIKE LOVE. BY BARRY CORNWALL. Once more among those rich and golden strings Wander with thy warm arm, dear girl, bo pale; And when at last from thy sweet discord springs The aerial muslc.like the dreams which veil Earth's shadows with diviner thoughts and things, let the passions and the time prevail, And bid thy spirit through the mazes run; For music is like love and must be won wake the rich chords with thy delicate flnges! loose the enchanted music from mute sleep! Metbinks the fine Phantasma near thee lingers et will not come, unless tones strong and deep Compel him. Ah! methlnks (as love avengers Requite upon the heads of those who weep The sorrows which ihey gave) the sullen thing Deserts thee, as thou left'st the vanquished string. No.no; it comes: sweeter than death or life.

Sweeter tnan nope or joy (beneath the moon). Sweeter than all is that harmonious strife. From whose embrace is born a perfect tune, Where every passionate note with thought is rife. Come, then, with golden speech enchant us soon, Soon as thou wilt with airs of hope, with fears. The rage of passion, or the strength of tears! THE STATE.

Cleveland, Ohio, owes $3,604,900. Richmond is to have a new bank. Orange blossoms are out in Louisiana. Lafayette is going to have a club. A big revival is in progress in Kokoruo.

Cambridge City has four meat markets. The graded schools at Tipton have closed. The Frankfort brass band has bio red out. Pike County owes thirty thousand dollars. Warsaw has a juvenile military company.

Richmond is now without a street Car line. It cost the village of Logansport $2,520.95 for gas last year. Lincoln, Nebraska, has had another destructive fire. Charleston harbor produces 200 pound green turtles. The Merrimac river is unusually high, and damage is feared.

The female barbers of Fort Wayne have proved a failure. The Lagro Express will next week publish their "black list." The Crawfordsville presbytery met at Waveland yesterday. Laporte will soon have an African Methodist Episcopal church. Wheat in Wayne county is said to be looking unusually well. The whooping cough is "whooping up" the little folks of Rushvilie.

The Lafayette Journal says that the raging Wabash is gradually falling. Haeerstown, Wayne county, is to have a new $8,000 school building. The new circulating library of Fort Wayne will contain 2,000 volumes. The LaPorte fire department will have its annual parade on 23d inst Sixty thousand spindles are soon to be in operation at Columbus, Georgia. A party of men from Delphi will migrate to the Black Hills in a few weeks.

A test of the Logansport water works at high pressure is to be had to-day. Boonville is making grand arrangements for a horse race on ti 4th of July. Two hundred and thirty-four tramps were fed at Logansport during last month. Mr. Hammond, the revivalist, is about to conduct revival meetings at Syracuse.

A stock company for the manufacture of organs will soon be organized at Centreville. Fort Wayne Gazette: Twenty miles north of the city the ground is still covered with enow. Fiftv-three thousand dollars in claims have been filed against the state prison south. Joe Goss wants a pardon, and his application is signed by lots of good Kentucky names. The Bliss fund has reached $11.000, which has bee'n invested in United States registered bonds.

The will of the late Arthur Moore, of Syracuse, bequeaths $10,500 to various charitable institutions. The farmers of Bartholomew county have formed a colony, and will makeArkansas their future home. South Bend Register: The Mishawaka wonder is ho more. The four cats that were one cat are dead. Booneville Enquirer: The farmers are nearer up with their work than was ever known The company of United States troops stationed at Jeffersonville have been removed to Atlanta, Georgia.

A careful observer in Niles, reports that 11 feet and 4 inches of snow fell there during the past winter. Seymour Democrat: A lady in Elkhart gave birth to a child last Friday that is said to have weighed 10 pounds. The grand lodge of the Tennessee Masons meets in Nashville, Tuesday, the 3d, and will hold two or three days! Jacksonville, Florida, is to have 2,000.000 gallons of water per day by its prospected works; also 100 fire hydrants. The dwelling houses in Booneville are about all occupied. It is quite difficult to rent a house any place in town.

The oiinsel of Abe Rothschild, the Texas murderer in Cincinnati, will fight proceedings for extradition at every step. Connersville Examiner: James Wilson, of Rush county, has purchased the fast pacer, Sleepy George, lor $1,500. Lafayette Courier: The young men who goto Arkansas from this city hy water, start to-morrow down the classic Wabash. Connersville Examiner: A young lady of this ctty recently received 150 sugar kiss verses through the post office. "Dear Sol." Benton county Herald: W.

S. VanNatta is in Colorado, where he exiects to buy about 1,500 cattle tor Benton county. Jasper Courier: Farmers in this county are generally in good spirits over the fair prospects for good wheat and oats crops. Laporte business men are talking up an excursion to Florida, to come off some time this month a 60 days' trip and sojourn. The work of repairing the Sery levee at Quincy, Illinois, whose breakage caused so much damage two years ago, is in progress.

The California republican state committee is preparing an address concerning the alleged frauds in the registration in San Francisco. The governor of Virginia had vetoed the bill which proposed to lease the James River and Kanawha canal to Mason Co. for 20 years. The Easter collection at HolyTrinity Catholic church at New Albany for the benefit of the Catholic seminary at Vincennes amounted to $240.25. Dakota will probably be the next territory admitted to the union unless the Black Hills country is given a separate territorial organization.

Some of our fruit growers tell us that the peaches and cherries have been killed by frosts, and that the crops of these fruits will be an almost entire failure. The Friends are about to erect a new church in Richmond, the cost of which will be $2.,000. This will be an honor to the society and quite an improvement to the city. Fort Wayne Gazette: Monday afternoon 53 trials and judgments were rendered in the circuit court, which is doubtless one of the biggest day's work ever done in this county. The people of Elkhart county are being troubled about the drive well business.

Some are around collecting royalty for each drive well that has been put down in that county. Rushville Republican: Ginn seems tobe an ironical person. He is reported to have remarked that he didn't care bo much for the nine years' imprisonment as the $2.000 fine. Fort Wayne Gazette About $2.400 of the indebtedness of the agricultural association will be paid in full; the balance pro rata, and at not less than 40 per and possibly 50 per cent Terre Haute Express: A couple of married ladies were discovered, by the husband of one of them, at a beer counter in the south part of the city, in the company of two gamblers, last evening. Sullivan Union: A lively hail storm passed over here Sunday about 1 o'clock.

Hail stones as large as quail eggs fell, and although the storm lasted but a few minutes the ground was covered with ice. New Castle Mercury: Four thousand dollars is the entire amount due the state from various Henry county officials, dating back for a period of 20 years, and forward to this time, as shown by Donahey's figures. The coroner of Tike county is accused of perpetrating outrages in order to run up his fees. The citizens ot Petersburg are very indignant at the proceeding of the coroner's inquest held over the body of Robert Beazley. Terre Haute Express: The river is falling slowly; the channel is now less than fifteen feet deep.

The depth last year was a trifle over twenty-one feet, and the great flood of the previous year twenty-eight and a half feet. New Albany correspondent Louisville News: Farmers in this county are leaking unusually large additions this spring to their stock of fine blooded cattle and hogs. TLe Poland China and Berkshire in hogs, and the Jersey and short horns in cattle are the favorite breeds. Lafayette Courier: The pimps who run a certain faro bank in Lafayette hired a bully to pound a young man whom they had robbed of $3,000, and whose guardian sought to recover the money. These low rascals will come to grief.

Jasper Courier: Tobaco is being rapidly taken to market in this county. On last Tuesday over 100 wagon loads were taken in by the dealers at Huntingburg, and about 40 loads at Ferdinand, besides several at Jasper and Holland. Seymour Democrat: At Newport, Wayne county, Saturday afternoon, Ollie Dormer and Charlie Scarce were filing the sight on an air gun, preparatory to shooting at a mark, when it was discharged, the charge entering the head of the latter above the right eye, and Charlie was killed almost instantly. Decatur Democrat: St. Mary's township i3 all in an uproar at present on account of a wild beast said to be within its borders, which no person has been able to get close enough to describe.

It is said to make a track somewhat larger than that of a large dog, and a noise somewhat like a sharp, piercing ecreani. Sullivan Democrat: An enterprising old fellow, dressed in the costume oi 1776, has been on our streets for some days selling fac timilies of the Ulster County Gazette giving accounts of the death of George Washington. The editor of the Vincennes Times is fond of such relics and would probably buy the full stock. Sullivan Union: Last Friday afternoon a man by the name of John Moore, living two or three miles south of Farmersburg, shot himself through the head with a ritle, causing, it is supposed, instant death, as his wife found him a few minutes after the report of the gun dead. It is not known whether the deed was accidental or intentional.

A noted German, John Doffin. commonly as Father" Doffin, died at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his restaurant on Market space, in La'ayette. from an overdose of morphine. Fattier Doflin exerted a marked influence among his countrymen, and his place was a noted resort for poli ticians. His kindness of heart and acts of charity were proverbial.

He alwavs had food and shelter for the needy. He was prominent during the war as a friend of the soldier. He was born in Bavaria in 1318, and had resided in Lafayette since 1332. An Edltor Tn ras lied by Statesman. Louisville News.J A fist and skull fight came off at Charles-town yesterday between the Hon.

James K. Marsh, representative in the legislature from Clark county, and Mr. Reuben Daily, editor of tne Jeffersonville News, in consequence of articles published by Daily impugning the integrity of Mr. Marsh on the county seat removal question. Marsh asked Daily to retract his charges.

This Daily refused to do, when Marsh knocked him down and stamped him in the face and on the body with his boot heels. Marsh had the crowd on his side, but Daily refused to either cry "enough" or make any retraction. Both are small men and about the same size, and the individual who intimates that small men will not fight is another, and "never made a If we had been in Daily's place, however, we would have licked the feirilature man if it hud taken us two and a half years by the calendar. SEWS AOTES. The extra session will be called in May.

A white buffalo Vfl Villip nooF Vv-f cho, Texas. General Fitz 1 ia st governor of Virginia. Georgia is to have a Constitution! fnnn. tion at a cost of $74,000. EmiCTation to the Art large the present season.

Sixteen English famili will tu Noble county, this reason. The Pittsburg glass blowers are on a strike. Eight hundred men and hova mit nf work. The vitrol fashion is spreading among jealous husbands. The last case is in Berea.

Ohio. The Democrat reports business at a standstill in New Orleans, everybody awaiting the decision. Fifteen thousand acres of land in Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, is devoted to oil production. The house of Judge Taft in Cincinnati, was damaged by fire to the extent of $5,000 Monday night The present legislature of Virginia has created the office of state commissioner of agriculture. The treasurer of a colored benevolent society at Milton, North Carolina, is missing; so are the funds.

Mr. Hudson, who to be chosen mayor of St Louis, wrote a card on the eve of the election. Twenty captains of lake crafts signed the temperance pledge at East Saginaw, Michigan, on Saturday. Joseph Milier, of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, was murdered for $000 Tuesday. He was 72 years old.

It is proposed to fit up the Great Eastern for the meat trade. She would carry a hundred thousand beeves. One of the items called for in the invitation for proposals for Indian supplies is pounds of tobacco. The public school at Quincy, has been closed on account of the prevalence of small-pox in that vicinity. The city of New York has recovered $690-849 52 on account of the "ring suits," and and expended $226,711 34.

Robert Hoyden, a colored prisoner in Cincinnati, was shot and killed Wednesday while attempting to escape. James B. Keene, the Califomian, it is asserted, has made over $700,000 during his winter campaign in Wall street A Texas stockman recently sold to parties in Southwestern Kansas 40.000 head ot cattle and 2,000 horses for $140,000 in silver. Richard Caswell, the first governor of North Carolina, has a great granddaughter in the Oxford orphan asylum, that state. King, the republican candidate for alderman from the First ward of Little Rock, is under arrest for robbing, says the Gazette.

The Texas cotton trade with St Louis, says the San Antonio Herald, is $20,000 annually, with a constantly increasing tenden- cy. An enterprising Tennessee youth sold seven pounds of bullets from the battle field of Chicaraauga, in Chattanooga recently, at a big price. Judge A. B. Cochran, of the Virginia senate, while arguing the constitutionality of a bill, fell stricken with paralysis, and is yet unconscious.

The title to "Durant's Neck," North Caro lina, is the oldest land title in that state, it being granted to Durant by the king of the Yeopin Indians, 1GG2. Gen. Kautz, commanding in Arizona, reports that the alarm about Indian depredations comes in a great measure from prospectors for army contracts. The Knoxville Chronicle tells of a rheu- matic applicant to the county court for assistance who has lain flat of his back, unable to sit or stand, for 20 years. A bill is pending in the Illinois legislature for the purchase of statues of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas worth each, to be placed in the state capital Bartholdi's fountain, which was shown at the Centennial exhibition, has been purchased by the government and is to be erected in the Botanic garden at Washington.

A crazy woman of Appleton, Wisconsin, Eroduces panics in the hotel kitchens there emphasizing her demands for square meals by displaying a revolver and a bowie knife. The More tract of pine lands, in Arcadia, Michigan, was recently purchased by Mr. Henry Stephens, of Fish Lake, for SuiO.OOO. It is estimated that there is 20,000.000 feet of timber standing on this tract, which comprises 900 acres. THE IMI'OKTAX ll'KSTIOX.

Of all loathsome diseases Catarrh stands pre-eminent. It renders its victim as disgusting to himself as to others. And the most humiliating of all is the consciousness that his presence is offensive to those around him. If any disease deserves the name of univer-al, it is- this. Dietetic errors and follies which Fashion imposes upon us tend to footer and disseminate it To the pitiful cry of its victims, is Oicrt any cure for Catarrh? there is but one answer consent with Christian reason.

God has never sent one evil into the world for which He has Dot sent the remedy. For the greatest of all spiritual and moral evils, the Great Physician has prescribed a potent and never failing remedy. He has given explicit rules for the treatment and preservation of the spiritual and moral mn. but He is si-. lent in all matters relating to the physical man.

It would be an unwarrantable detraction from His benificent character to suppose that He has afflicted the greater portion of humanity with an incurable disease. The day of plagues is past. The God of Christianity is a God of Love, of Mercy, His message is "Good will to 11 men." The earth and all contained therein was intended by the great Designer to supply man's wants; and surely helms no greater want than remedies for his infirmities. Science is rapidly proving-that the earth is fitted to supply man's uttermost need New medicinal plants are constantly being discovered and new properties developed from those already known. For catarrh, the most potent remedy yet discovered is Dr.

Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Its efficacy has been tested in many thousand cases with uniform success. Cases that had been repeatedly pronounced incurable, readily yielded to it In confirmed, or obstinate caes. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery should be taken in connection with the use.

of the Catarrh Remedy. Full particulars in Pierce's Memorandum books. They are given away by druggists..