Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1883, Page 13

e —————————————— ARSI PV AN AUNARsx Asasns N and taken out of the hands of the com missioners! (Whe Durant? He is now in Adiron- dacks on his five-huudred thousand acre forest? A hundred-million iron mine apeculation when he finishes his road to Ogdensburg! 1 have one hun dred l‘hv-nwnvl dollars there, or rather my children have! My personal fortune soncentrates in a peanut!) FULFILLED PROPHECTES, Reporter—Was everything promised by the projectors of the Union Pacific railroad carried out in good faith? G. F.T.—Yes, even to finishing the road before the time. These letters, w;luou‘ long ago, show how faithfully What has taken place was predicted long botore. : : OFFICR CREDIT Monitign or YonK.].l an. 8 1866, ., Frar man Mass Convention. Omuha —Daar Train You ask me to_attond Nebraska Emigration meeting. Can't do Time occupied overy momomt in pushing forward Pacitic railroad, and in doing this T can aid more the cause you advocate than in any other way., We intend to keep track ahoad of your emigrants, let them come s fast as thoy will, With' six stationary stoam engines of our own engaged in proparing materi §, with nearly overy sw mill for 100 miles (fifty up the river and fifty down), hard at work—with arrangemonts now making for early completion of road to F Kearney, you will find how little time I h to make speeches or write lotters; with forty miles of road open! twenty more to be ready in February and forty in June, making 100 miles toward Pa 1 hope by building fiftoon or twenty miles a month to convine immierants of Canada and Europe wa s! find work enough to do at good wages laborers, choppers and mechanics, Those best inducers to immigration! Good wiges and prompt Our raflway lands are another important thing to settlor, our terms will bo liberal to bona fide ocenpier of s low prices and long crodit to the farmer, the cattlo raiser and tho shee Lucer, will be oaterprising gontl h s in pu AvEnica, Naw i Frain,Chair (e nen as- mocinted w to the Pucific, Letter from Col. Silas S sulting engineer U. engineer of New Y Washington aqueduct OMAnA, January 9, 1806, Goo. ¥ Train, Chairman Immigeation ?l-’ntiug: business engagements will prevent my being present at your mesting this even. ing, but if you think my views on subject of any service they aro at your disposal! This wholo country wants muscle, real bone and sinew, and plenty of it! The most productive lands, which, if properly cultivated, would supply the whols world with food, are lying waste and desolate for want of muscle! The groat Pa railroad must be built in five ears! To do this we must have muscle! 'he groat Platte valloy must be populated, and 1t cannot be done one moment too soon! The honest, industrious laborer, be he Cai dian, Irishman or German, will find constant and remunerative employment on the railroad and when that is_finished he can have all the land desires to cultivate on the most reasouable terms! nd ere long either ho or his sons will be called upon to represent this great em- pire of the west in our state and national councils! E YMOUR, ymour, con- R. R., ex state , chicf engineer A WELL KEPT SECKI Reporter—But why, Mr. Train, as there was no fraud in the Credit Mobil- ier contract and Union Pacitic subsidy, has impression gone abroad? Why did you not make this explanation before, and stop the slander? G. F. T.—Because it did not amuse me to do 8o, When Dana called on me at St. Nicholas hotel, in 1872, ing two pages of The Sun at my disposal for facts, I was too mad at his “‘swindle (or ignorance) in putting up Greely to elect Grant, and as he did Tilden to make sure of Hayes, and now repeats **fraud” to re-elect Avthur, through Tilden ana Kelly. Another thing; having organized Credit Foncier, and bought 6,000 Omaha lots, 1 was too much interested in rolling up that *‘New Chicago” into another Chicago, to roll me into a hundred mil- lionaire-ship. Again, I was astounded at gigantic “‘fraud,” (which psychologi- cally T saw, but did not understand) that both parties put up, to sell America to Europe, or rather to change our solemn greenback contract into gold? T'was only then I tried to open the eyes of the “damn phools,” who do the ring master voting, by my herculean campaign of eleven hundred greenback conventions, in three years, for the presidency! Omaha heard me several times, (and then went back on me.) CREDIT MOBELIER PROFITS, Reporter—Did yon hold a big contract, Mr. Train? G. F. T.—No, my brother-in-law (James W. Davis) made it over to Ames. Yes Credit Mobilier cleared on first contract $1,000,000, on fifty-cight miles. As I before remarked, Oakes Ames’ con- tract (667 miles, $47,925,000,) was made August 16, 1867, signed on behali of railroad by Oliver Ames, president pro tem! brother and partner of Oakes Ames, contractor, and approved by Oliver Ames, C. S. Bushnell, S, Harbaugh (gov- ernment commissioner), and T. C. Dur- ant, as executive committee of road all interested in Credit Mobilier. This contract was assigned October 15, 1867, to seven trustees, viz., Durant, Ames, Alley, Dillon, Bushnell, McComb, and Bates, for use and benefit of stock- holders of Credit Mobilier. Awes contract cost railroad, Coat the contractor. . . 140,102 0141 Profits of contractors. R Dividends from proceeds Ames con- tract wore $20,471,668. Durantby playing Fiske offagainst Alley and Alley against Gould quietly scratched himself out of onion bed! (These patent- self-acting-hen-scratching machines aro dangerous inveations). Gould was more adroit! He ploughed with Boston heifer through Vanderbilt’s stamps (as silent portner, fo wvo Horaco K. Clark’ ig interest), and stole the wholo Road (as he did Tribune through Phelps and Rois by buying Ortow's fitty one shares, cleaning out Taylor, sinclair Ayre'a forty-nine, and now owns World but John Duff. Dillon was saved as Gould's figure head) The best answer to all this is hawked the contract through all Meses Taylors, Lowes, Garrisons, Rich of whom cried “‘stinking fish."” these were the contracts For first 100 mil ext 167 miles, £13,000 next 100 5000 next 100 miles, £50,000 next 100 miles, 200,100 next 100 mil 000 Total Yos, $12,000 per mile & A5, 000 9,600,100 8,000,000 0,001,000 09,1500, 00 667 miles < 115,000 OMAHA'S OVATION work in many ways. This was one Omaha Herald, Decombor 30, 1845, OMAA Boarb o) Ovany, Ner. s December 20, 1863, § GEORGE FRaNcIs TratN—Two years Ago you struck the first pick in ground at Omaha, inaugurating the U. P. R. R which is now under eflicient management rapidly extending iron arms towards Pa- cific ocean! Then casting your oyes over great val leys west of Missouri, you took into cal- culation the immense agricultural and commercial resources of Nobraska, the incaleulable mineral wealth of deponden- cies in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and almost boundless gold and silver regions extending west to Pacitic, and far north to British pos-essions, you found Omaha on the highway of nations, you understood the advantages of loca- tion, you grasped idea of 1ts unlimited commercial importance, you declared Omaha must be a great city; from that hour you have beeu its untirins advocate, and now you are i our midst enlarging our city "by building one hundred cot- tages and other imp: ments, Impressed with the importance of your efforts in behalf of our city, and desirous to express gratitude of our citizens there- for, the board of trade of Omaha ap- pointed undersigned committee to tender you public banquet at Herndon house at such time as may suit you convenience. With every sentiment of estoem and respect. J. PaTRIcK, H. CoLriNg, W. Burr, Committee, Herxpox Ho OMmAHA, December 20, 18 } Dear J. Patrick, G. H. Colling and C. W, Burt: Your memory is good, So is mine. You gave me a western welcome then. How can 1 forget it! Ingratitude is man’s strong point. It is my weak cne. Few have the gencrosity to praise. Many important events have been crowned into my short life, but of none, of which am 1 more proud than striking the first sod on world’s highway. Some grand event startles mankind cvery two thousand years. Four thousaud years ago the Pyracids were built. Two thousand years later tho grandest enterprise of China and Egypt were created. DBut grander than all is this gigantic project driven through the Rucky mountains, While the third Bonaparte is cutti canal through one continent to Eastern Asia, Durant is making his way with steadfast energy through another conti- nent to Western Asia. Paris to Pekin in thirty days. Two ocean ferry boats and a continental railway. Men have gifts, I cannot play the fiddle like Paganini, nor piano like Stra- kosch, but with strong intuitions I have ways been successful in mapping out the future, The reform club, headed by Cobden (and his free traders), went into llinois Central railway. That enterprising com- pany spent for many years one hundred thousand dollars a year in advertising! All the world poured into Chicago! Hence Illinois, in twenty years, almost doubled Massachusetts in population, in two hundred and twenty, Omahais bet- ter situated than Chicago! Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans and Tran Omaha as northeastern cities throug Chicago and the northwestern population through the mining regions! No great water course we-t but the Grand river, flowing two thousand miles north to the gold mines, and two thousand miles south to the ocean! Omaha, like Chica- go, will be a railroad center! In two years, three railways will cross railroad bridge from east to the great ter- minus of the Union Pacific at Omaha. Another from Sioux City will run along the mighty river to connect you with St. Louis by Missouri and Kansas railway system? By that time Union Pacific will reach Fort Kearney! The Platte will be bridged, also, giving Nebraska City these great railroad connections, aad opening up the great salt works of Lancaster. Some artesian well may open up at your door, coal, iron and gold, and flood your city with puve water, and your Central rk will have a thousand acres of forest tr We like those wholike us. That is all there is of life. You are as independent of me as 1 am of you, yet the same strange destiny which so mysteriously governed my life has brought me again to Omaha, and seems to link me with its progress and prosperity! Success is best evidenze of success! When 1 see on your wharves car loads of tea on their way from China to London and Paris, I shall feel that my mission, in part, has been accomplished 3, F. T, These were my predictions long ago. The world can tiow judge who was right! This was part of Credit Mobilier evolu- tion! Does fraud develop a nation? through Pulitzer.) Was John B, Alleyt Yes! He played sharp game on Durant! He was Union Pacific director as well as control trusteo of forty-seven millions Credit Mobilier contract!— When Boston played out Now York to hedgo on Judgo Barotte, Fiske and Gould, Alley as President told Treasurer to accept no subscriptions and then (playing old Bor- ton borrowing specie dodge from several Banks £o ceusel now on &nd vads the law!) tendered 829,000,006 greenbacks! Then he tendenced same up to $60,000- 006! Borton gobbled Durant and Gould gobbled Borton (My million due will keop?) Reporter.—How much was really made on the contract? G. F. T.—The Gould aflidavit in Boston Credit Mobilier ease to herd off McComb gives tnis as the COAT TO KAILKOAD COMP. Hoixe contraet . . Ames conbrac, Davis contract, . NY. 140.120 131.768 COST 10 CONTRACTORY, Hoxie contract, Ames tract Davis tract $93,540,287 | Profit To which should be added amount paid O Mobilier on - ac count of 58 wiles 1.104.000 13,925,328 But thisis all gammon! Everybody connected with itis dead or baukrupt Total profit on constructio Reporter—Is thero any doubt. about the profits of the contract?, . G. F. T.—No, it panned out just as | represenzed when Mobilier and got capital. But there was no fraud in the offer! December 12, 1867, they declared a diyi- dend of §4,600,000 from protits,one-half in Union Pacific stock at par. 1868, $750,000 in bonds; June 17, 1368, $1,500,000 in stock and #: cash—all of which was paid! July, 1868, January 3, the Credit Mobilier assigned its interests to the trustees directly, excopt its|sulficient proof. - Having seen Mr. Train claimfor sums then "actually due |under various circumstances, enabling us to it, and thenceforth the trus.|to study his character in its difforent tees coutinued ¢o build tho road | phases, we propose to walk up to the con- under this new assignment and dividing ay profits July 3, L8G8, $2 812,600 in ,000 in cash; bonds! July 8, 1808, 81, Dee nber 29, 1868, 75,000 shares of stock of 100 each, valued at §7,500,000! rpect, and esteem, than has [ Yes, a8 1 never forgnt anything, and |George Francis Train, We shall al- Durant ‘eat at my tablo duriug the|ways cherish for him & profound re. seven years the road was being |spect and warm regard, not more for his constructed, of course every appointment was discussed 'from Doy, the first engineer (who resigned because he did not mark up the estimates) through Snyder, Reed, Evans, Seymour to Dodge! (Who could have imagined that Duraut’s rodinan on lowa road would have been appointed major general in command of 30,000 men aud afterward engineer-in chief and managing director of Union Pacitic’) heporter-~With your father-in-law on 1 He gotout early (and |executive monds, Dodges, Garrets in the land, all 1,000 | Bushnell, Benjamin E. Bat St Louis, aro just as much foudors ofg organized Credit t mortgage bonds, and the other half 50,000 in committee, your brother-in- |law a_contractor, you ought to be well that 1| poste the (¢} T.~Yes. The Hoxey-Davis ontract was assigned to Thomas Durant, Miver Ames (president, brother of Oakes | Ames), John B. Alley, Sidney Dillon (now Gould's f of stath), Cornelius § Henry 8 for benefit of and stockholders of Union Railway Company and Credit | Mobilier! The simple fact, is two part rs went into business together, on tal and lands borrowed from govern | ment! 1f that debtis paid, as Sher man's bill provides, where is awindle ) McComb, a8 truste ) themselves R. Oat west they gave you more | As I said, Union Pacitic owned Credit rrm.ln Qh,’u'l east Mobilier and Credit Mobili owned G. F.T. Yes! they acknowledged my | Union Pacific. (The only fraud T see is partners trying torob each other—that 18, Union Pacitic of Gould is trying to cheat Credit Mobilier of Dnrant out of legalized dues through false protensions? Reporter—1 am_ surprised that Dana ignored your Credit Mobilier denial of yraud? G. I 7. By the way, I did him an injustico once, This postal from him shows he had no intention of charging me with anything wrong N Orrice, July Citizen Geo, Francis Train There was no fraud when Citizen G. F. T, 1 the Credit Mobilier or whilo in his hands. That came afterward through con- gressional corruption, C.A. D, CHINA THEN AND NOW. Reporter—Did you say time was re- duced one-half sinco your Chineso and Australian clipper, three decades ago? 3 —Yos! Average time, via San Francisso, is, betwcen New York and Sydney, 83 days, and Sydney to London about 42 days! Pucitic Mail Steamship company and Oceidental and Oriental, between San Francisco and Hong Kong, via Yoko- hama, mail communication is regular with Japan and China direct! Shanghai, Corea, and North China via Japan, and by way of Hong Kong! Yes! Hong IKong to New York averages days, Shanghai, 34 days, and from Yokohama, 24 days! Tronscontinental transit to and from San Francisco and New York con- sumes seven days! Average time from London to Honyg Kong is 38 days, Shang- hai, 42 days, Yokohama, 43 days, show- ing considerable difference in favor of Amcrican route! Among the Pawneos and the Sioux, Three hundred miles from whito nian news, Tiw Train was stopped, the 8 ager made fast, A wire to wire aud lightuing blust. Roplied: Ho caught from off the wite The passing news for our desire; R v will not soon forget This wondrous telegraphic bet. Photographers grouped the crowd o rpeeches wild and loud, railing our vast continent, As czars and kiugs, on plensure bent. My family party occupied Thiat famous ear, Lincoln's Pride. Lord Airley was our welcome guost, Just gone in Scotland to his rest. At Tromont house Charles Wilson came To have me journalizs our name. us T wrote in an hour, eho—Power.”) Other excursions were on time, As energy advanced the lin As Methodist clergy, lod by i'rost, Tho senate party Ben Wade lost. Editors on buffalo trail The merchant prin Erastus Brooks and | Earl Cowper and his pr. rie gun. G.E.T. Mormon Friend in Gentile Need. In the coming Mormon contest, this Pacific railway ussistance in the hour of need should be eredited to Mormon land. G. F. Whon breaking ground at Omah: December second, sixty-three, Blood RED contractors’ cruel war Was 1D hot in intonsity! Ten billion stamps! A million men teauism cost us then, ick and speech on Missouri's banks Won me the name of *“Prince of Cranks!” Ciossing continent in seven days The World cried out “‘is T'rain’s last craz Old Brigham Young, that night by wire, I made a chief in council tire, Director; **Yes, at once,” he said, Aund stuck by Road till he wus dead. 1f Gentiles now, the Mormon said They strike the men who used their spade; The workmen whose lubor sweat Have placed us under lasting debt, (Suns help through prairie wilderness We could not then have won success. ) A REMARKABLE MAN. They thought much of yeu then Rep. Mr. Train? Train. Oh! yes. This from The Omaha Herald of January 19th, 1866, expresses what the whole American press said at the time. Have they found then who 1 am! The departure of Mr, Train leaves us free to say a fow words concerning this remarkable man, which we have not felt at liberty to say before. Nota few of our contemporaries have been busy perpetrating indecent assaults and flings this paper because its editors have dared to encounter the prejudices of themselves and others, by manifesting their confidence in the upright manhood, unsullied morality, great ability and striking genius of Geo. Francis Train. All the odium that self-righteous, jeal- ous, ungenerous persons of this character have sought to attach to us for what we have done in this regard we have taken the respousibility to accept, although we are bound to claim, what is true, that, as men came to know Mr, Tram in his true and manly character, our burdens be- came very Jight in that particular, In fagt it was rather strengthening than otherwise, to one’s popularity, before Mr, Teaig left, to be known as his friend, We are not attempting an extended eriticism of Mr. Train’s character, His ¢areerhas been both peculiar and re- warkable,. At thirty-six years of age, he has become world-renowned. | His so- ciety has;been sought in the first cities of the'wopd by the first statemen’on both sides of. the water, That he is & man of to require either proof or illustration, His versatility is simply astonishing. T'hat he is a business m: grasp and ability, the fact that mat many men of di iction in our day, more his nature and the incorruptible purit, f his character. Frank, honest, unsel- fish, generous, forgiving, he has com- bined 1 him, and his whole life illus- | trates, the chief elements of a true, up- | right, mauly character. Aeing with hi | 80 much during his stay hiere, his absence | is felt most keculy by ourselves, and by hundr ds of othersin this community whe share our good opinions of this dis- gisut power, intellectually, is to> patent 1 of tremendous his schemes have commanded the confidence of the first capitalists of the world is fossional and say, that whilst we have we never yet found one who has made a complete conquest of our re- brilliaut talents than for the nobility of tinguised man. We wish him a hearty Godspeed, and an early and safo return to Nebraska. Omaha as a Railway Center, Since the breaking of ground for the Union Pacific—Omaha's first railway Omaha has become one of the im. portant railroad centers in the United The Union has built numerous branches and extensions, and has absorbed other rail it has in its system nearly 5,000 miles, The general offices and headguarters of the entire system are locatedgin Omalh. The railroads now centering at Omaha on the west side of the Missouri river, are the Union Pacific, the Omaha & Re publican Vailey, the B. & M., the Mis souri Pacifie, the Chicago, Minneapolis, aha & St. Paul, and the Kansas City St. Joseph & Council Bluffs; and on the east side are the Chicago & Northwest ern, the Chieago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago & Rock Island, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Paul, the Sioux City & Pacific, the Kansae City, Joseph & Council Blufts, and the Wabash, e most States. acific ds, 80 that now Among the Ancients. The cardinal archbishop of New York is 82 Maino papers announce the death of Mrs. Sallie Griffin, in Raymond, that state, one day last woek, at tho age of 104 years, FRED DOUGLAS. i Views on the Puical Siuston- He Wants a Change of Public PHIICV. He v « poses John Sherman as the His Talk With on Civil Rights, nng M Johnsc Corresjndence of the Cleveland Lewder. Wiasiisaroy, November 23, — This woek's Harper's has an oxcellent picture of Fred Douglass—as good a one as has ever been published. Mr. Douglass is one of the most striking looking men in pub- lic life. Ho has coarse hair, as whito as nowly-washed wool, which stands out in a wiry bush from his big head, Ho has an open, solemn face full of character, black eyes shooting out from heavy over. hanging eyebrows, and a fiem, decisive mouth, In talking ho uses as good lan- Kuage as any man in Washington, and his words are 8o connected that they would bear printing as they come from his lips Mr. ‘l.-uul.um was sitting in his office in the building whero 2ths star route trial was hold when 1 called to see him yestorday, and he began at once to talk of the late elections and the civil rights bill. Said ho: “1 have just boen reading Tsaac Martin is dead in Covington, Ky aged He was a highly esteemed cit- zen of that county, where ho was bo and raised. Mitchell Patnam, 103 years of age, traveled alone from Texas to South Car- olina to see his former home, Ho wasa soldier in the war of 1812 and in the Texan struggle. Little Rock is chagrined that Clement Taylor, a negro, who died Eriday, did not live a month longer, when he would have been 110 years old. . James Blackburn, a farmer of Ed- zar county, 1L, has passed off at the age o 90, Ho was the owner of 2,300 acres of land and commanded a regiment in the Blackhawk war. William Latham, who died at Bridge- water, Mass., recently, aged 80 years and 2 days, was ono of the best informed autiquarians in the state onall topics con- nected with the early history of New En- gland. “Pompey” Graham, an old darky at present living in Montgomery, N. Y., is not less than 118 years of age. Ho dis- tinetly remembers the disbandment of the revolutionary army at Newburg, the event taking place when ho was about 18 years of age At that time “Pompey” was a slave in the Graham family at Shawannunk, and after hix emancipation ained the Graham name. The other morning,” says the Clarks ville (Mo.) Sentinel, “‘four boys w sitting on a workbench near the depot cheerfully swinging their feet, laughing and talking, and bantering each other for a foot-race. A Sentinel roportor had the sity to approach them and obtain ames and ages, which were as fol- th lows: Andrew Pegan, aged 77; John Juett, aged 79, 8. A. Edwards, aged 83; Henry Schooler, aged 84.” = T SINGULARITIF A cockroach has threo thousand teoth, In Bibb county, Ala., peach troos were re- cently in bloom, Bodie, California has a curiosity. It is o grown leghorn rooster with two horns over the eyes. A Hopkins (Ky.,) county man is saving up rattlesnake sking for the purpose of making himsclf a vest. Ho now has over one hun- dred. A cow in Hart county, Kentucky, recently gavo birth to five calves at oo tine, threo of which were well developed, alive and healthy, and two dead. One-hundred and ten pounds is tho weight of ar-old child named Fitz Buchanun, who lives in Greenup, Ky. A vessel which arrived at New Bedford o day or two ago,brought an cuglo which alight- ed on the masthead when the vessel was 1500 miles from any land. L. C. Smith, of New London, Conn., set an incubator to hatch five dozen eggs, The result was sixty-one chickens, and he now offers a chromo to any one who will inform him where the odd one come from. White ants in the old state houso are causing considerable alurm, s have attacked the wooden girders and ton their way 8o far into thom that it is bo- ed that the house isin danger of tumbling pe ovel ar Kingwood, Preston county, West Vir. uia, recently, men working on road un- arthod a human skull which measured forty ches in circ umforence around the forehead o other bones could bo found in its vicinity. The skeleton to which tho skull belonged in supposed to have been about fourteen fect high. A Swede couplo who live near Sionx Fally have four children, two of them us perfuct specimens of the _albino a8 were ever keen and the other pair are ordinary fuir-haired children. Tho albinos aro of opposito gender, and the littlo girl, notwithstur color, i protty a8 a pioture, Hor hair is whito s tho driven snow and kinky as the wool of the most thorough bred Africau. IMPIETIE The False Prophet is not so but there Is » great deal of fal on about him, Beecher's advice to *“young nien of 70" to go and see the best actors they can find is not il to creato a stampede of the young and ly from the church to the theater, Hell-to-Pay is the name of a station on the Northern Pacific. When o man wants a ticket ho says: ‘1 want to go to Hell.to-Pay.” But the ticket agent tells him: *‘No, you can pay right here, just as well,” A disheartened doacon declares $hat thero is no hope for the sulvation of & ma. wio will sit on a picket-fence for throe hours and @ half to see a base ball match, and then refuse to go to church with his wife because “‘them pews is too confounded uncomfortable.” A Goorgia preacher in reparted to have re- ceived a bar of soap for » whole year's preach- ing to one congregation, We suspect there is more 1ye in the story than there was in the s0Bp. A Connecticut man buried his wife last Sat- urday, heard of an estimable widow in Brew- sters, N, Y., on Sunday, came for ber and took her to Daubury on Monday, and married her on Tuesday, The paper that tells this wtory speaks of it aa *tolerably romantic.” Mr. Goorgo K. Wendling is lecturing in St. Louix, tuking for his subject the problem: ““Who, what and where is the devil?" Surely a8t Louin audience ought to Lo able to ax- swer theso several questions, “I know of a woman,” said the good deazon, beaming mildly through his spectacles, who wants to be foremost in all good works, but #he is 50 mortal slow that she uever gets there till the good works are all done, Slow? Why she's so wlow that when she undertakes to make an omel t the eggs spoil belore she can break them into the dish.” And the deacon sighed till his suspenders raised his trousers cleay up o his kuees,Rockland Courier-Gazette, — How About the Dos Many people before purchusing o medicine naturally inquire the size of the dose and the strongh of it In usiug Burdock Llood Hit ters a teaspoonful for the littls oues and two teasp onfuls for grown folks are wll that ix necesary at ono time, This magnificent mediiue 18 not only economical but very plewsant to the taste, also s ho was, cation goivg your interview with Sunator Shorman, in which ho makes such a noble stand on the late decision of the supreme court Ho sounds in it the platform of the com ing presidential campaign, and thoso words should make him the candidate for the republican party. The times domand aman. The people are tived of putty men-—of dilettanti walking clothes framos and patent digesters, We want a man who is ablo to seo tho right and who is not afraid to doit. Sherman is a states wman, courageous, far-secing, and of im- placable honesty. If he woro elected he would seo that the laws were enforced both North and South, and that equal rights under the law were given to all people, whatever their polities or color.” A CHANC OF POLICY DEMANDED. “The late elections show that a far dif- ferent stato oxista now," said I. “Yen," replied Mr. Douglass, ‘I am sorry that it is so, but the fact that it is should make the republican party see that they must have a changoe of policy. They have experimented long enough. The people demand that they stop and enforee the law. Lot the world seo that in this American ropublic wo really have equal rights for all people. Wo are Hredlot reforin that does not reform, The admin istration policy of the past eight years has failed. Hayes mado a failure of his Southern policy, Garfield, poor follow, was on the road to failure when he died, and Arthuris going tho same way. Wo want a change in this direction. We must lot the people know that God omnipotent reigneth, and that the United States is the governor of tho American people, and not the individual states This was the ground of the late war, and by releasing it as is practically done by the late deci sion of the supreme court, we loso all wo fought for.” PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S TREATMENT OF FRED DOUGLASS. Speaking of the civil rights ill, *“Mr. Douglass,” said 1, “You had much to do with gotting for your race the privileges they now possess.” **Yes,” continue this white-haired man of color, *‘I romem- ber well the history of our many strugles a decade or o ago. It was in 1866 that the idea of universal suffrage was first brought before the people. Andrew Johnson was vitally opposed to it, and would not hear of it for a long time. I was a membor of a delegation of colored men who called upon him at the White House in the spring of that year, and mentioned the 1dea of a universal sufirage and u porfect equality under tho law. Ho would hardly lot us say o word, and answered us in a long-cut and dried speech, in which he scornfully declared that what he had always meant by mak- ing the negro free was the waking him freo to labor, and that the giving of civil cquality to the blacks would initiate a war of the races. He spoke for perhaps fifteen minutes, and when ho Pa i he dismissed us without givingus a chance to make a reply. After we left we talked the matter over, and knowing that the president would have his speech publish ed, we prepared a reply as given by me, country by the Asso- This n;nwufi first called the attention of the people to this view of the case, and the ultimate result was the passage of the fifteenth amend- ment.” ciated Press. | —— MOODY AND SANKEY. The Revivalists Creating & Great Sen- sation in England. Pall Mall Gazette, Cultured society would blush to know anything about Messrs, Moody and San- key and others of their tribe. Revivalism in general, and American revivalism in particular, is desperately vulgar. But, unfortunately, the same might be said with equal truth of every popular move- ment religious or irreligious, of all time, Almost every religion has its origin among men of low degree and the sous of fishermen and carpenters who creats or revive the faiths and superstitions of anking are as a rulo very objectionable persons in the estimation of the men of ight and leading of their time, 1t is only when the first fervor of the new faith be- gins to cool and its vitality to disappear that polite society condescends to investi- gato its origin and to study the phenome- na, psychological or other wiso, which it presonts, The enchantment of distance renders it possiblojfor self-respecting sons of culture to study the lapse of & century with a passing sneer, It is somewhat ir rational, howe ser, to subject the scoriw and lava of extinct volcanoes to the most minute analysis, whole craters in full eruption are treated as non-existent; and those curious about such matters might find more profit froma study,say of Gen. Booth in the flesh than from a telescopic examination of George Fox. Nor can a plain wan see the sense of poring over dreary tomes describing the enthusiasam of some preaching friars of the middle ages, usually exceeding dirty,and as bigot- od a8 they were vulgar, while the labors of such latter-day friars as the American revivalists, who have now pitched their tent—in this case a portable iron build- ing capable of holding five thousand per- sons—in the north of London are disre gorded, Moody and Sankey are not, it is true, graduates of any university. They are men of the people, speaking the language and using the methods, not of the refined but of the generality. Yet they have probably left a deeper impress of their individuality upon one great section of Englishmen and Englishwomen than any other persons who could be smed Whatever we may think of them, however much their methods mnay grate upon the susceptibilities of those who have at length succeeded in living up to their blue china, these men are a factor of considerable potency in the complex sum of influences which make up contem- porary English life. As such they merit more attention than they have hitherto recoived from tho organs of publio opin ion, and for that reason a full account of the American rovivalists and of their ser- vices last night, which we publish in an other part of the paper, may bo studied with interest by some of our readers, and passed over, let us hope, without too cront o shock to their feelings, by the rest C— December, Ta cold Docomber fragrant chaplots blow, And heavy harvests nol beneath the snow, {Pope. ot ring y day the chins Londly the gleomen sing In the streots their morry rhyme. Lot us sing by the fire ever higher, Sing them till the night expire Longfollow. In a drear-nighted Docomber Too hay Py brook, Thy bul or remember Apollo’s summer look But with a aw forgotting Thoy stay thoir srystal frotting, Nover, novor potting About the frozen time. [Koata, Shout now! The months with loud acclaim Take up the cry and send it forth; May, broathing swoot hor spring perfumes; Novomber thundering from the north, With hands upraised, as with our voice, They join their notos in grand accord, Hail to Decomber! say they all, It gave to earth ono Christ and Lord, —{J. K. Hoyt. Docomber hung her glittoring OF frosty sunshine o'er the Tho streamers dancod across tho night Liko angels in a troop of mirth [All tho Yoar Round, When dark Decombor glooms the day And takes our sutumn joys away When short and seant the sunbeam throws Upon tho woary wasto of snows A cold and profitless regard, Liko patron on o noody bard; When sylvan ocoupation’s done, And v'er the chimnoy rosts the gun, And hang, in idlo trophy, near, Tho game pouch, fishing-rod and speas [Sir Walter ott, How like a wintor hath my absonce hoon From thoo, the plonsure of the flecting yoar! What freezings havo I folt, what dark days seen! What eld Decombor's barenoss overywhoro! —[Shakspoaro, Tho sun that brief Docombor day Ttoso cloudloss over hills of gray Aud, darkly circlod, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. ~[Whittior. —— CONNUBIALITIE Tennyson's eldest son will marry o Miss yle. A Bohomian pair were marriod in o Turon, Dakota dry goods store last week. Fmma Bend, the victim of the Taylorville alt, will soom marry a Bloowington gen- nan, Harrison, the hoy proachor, is next spring @ Josio Gritlith, of Indi- to be married to Mi anapolis, nesseo ministors lay up tronsuros, it 1 some place outside of that state, s thoy get an averago salary of only $381 & year. Miss Loo, the charming American lady who rocently married an Bnglishmau, i declared by conipetent erities to bo the most beautiful bride that London has ever seen. A sousible girl down east m: instead of a foreign count, are that it is going to be a cold winter, cago Inter-Ocean. Included ar Ly thoe *happy p Monday, was u forty-five pound loaf of bread, five feet in diameter, Miss Adelia Wright, living near Houston, Texas, was recently kidnadep by a young Drother, aided by some friends of hus, in order to provent hor marriage to a young wan nimed Black. The prospective bridegroom swore out the necessary papers and the officers are in pursuit. ThejGirand Duke Alexis, of Russia, whose visit to this country was a social event while Goneral Grant was president, first to got married, the age of 33, i chosen wife is the Princess Amelio of Orleans, eldest daughter of the Connt of Paris, & Roman Catholic and to remain wo. The wives of Russian princes have hitherto all been Ger- mans, ex ept in the caso of Alexander II1., the present czar, whoso wife 1s a Dane. Aloxis is now admiral-| ief of tho Russian navy. Louis Forkey, of Grafton, Dakota, who was to act us best man in_the wedding of Marie Perry and Archilaus Burton, of Grand sged his mind whon he saw the pro bride and fell i o with her at first sight. ‘T'he love-at-first-sight racket worked similar- idw, and they were mar- time and placo that she was the unfe ate Archil nted himself by attendi wedding and weeping bitterly. g the str in Boston, the poin! being run vhen, at the risk of od a plumber Tho indications Chi- the wedding gifts roceived A blind man cros the other day, was over by a reckless driver her own | wantiful young lady ran to his rescue and tod the poor man to the pave- ment. A rich bachelor saw the transaction and straightway sought her out, was introduc ed, courted, proposed, was accopted and mar- ried to the heroine. The effect hus been won- dorful. Hopeful young women may now be Soan atandivg 1 o VIGLAlty OF sbsoot ordesinigs with one eye searching for stray blind men, and the othier on the lookout for o stray bach' elor, for it would bo a terrible bore to tackle ine man without the rich bachelor being around. A London clergyman who does not belicve in offering to a brido the “‘alternative of la- very or perjury " and who alWays omits that kod oxprassion ‘obey’ " from tho marriage co writes o the Pall Mall Gazotto about u wedding in & neighboring church which wis attondsd by an ownthous fngident, . Tho bride being dumb when she should have uttered the sudful word, the bridegroom bade the cler- gymin continno, “for,” said ho, shaling his fist, “we'll sottle that 'ere amony ourselves aftorward,” A paper in Mount Carmel, Mo marriago lust Sunday of a gent for the third time, though they have never been divorced, aud had lived " togathor woven yeurs, ‘Tho first timo thoy were m rind thoy procured their lioenso to marry in Edwards county, bnd unthinkingly crosed over the line into White and had the ceremony performed, Learning of theiv mistake they the wame day returned to Edwards and a woc- ond ceromony wis gone through with, The in Cathiolic, and, as thoso of that faith L rogard @ 1 ading unloss , records the oan and lady tirst tin wuch a porson was porformed e — Unkigsed and Kissea. F. W. 1L Myers, in the Athenwum, *Oh, nover kiss mo; stand apart; My darling, come not near; Bo dear forever to my leart, But be not over dear!” And while shespake her cheek was flame, Hor look was soft and mild; But when I kissed her she became No stronger than a child, Ab, lovo, what wilt thou then apart? Thy hime is thus and here; For ever dearer to iy hoart, Aud never over dear. o — Satistuction Univers hundred and six bottles of ol gave wuch universal satisfaction. ulcerated throat for me in twenty-four hours; Thowas’ C. K. Hall, Druggist, Grayville, 1, r' of giants in Pittsburg on performed by a pricst (and Sunday boing the ime they hid found it couvenient to find ) o plosse b another ceremony *‘In the past three months I have sold one Felectric ¥ Never saw o medicine in my lifo that CHAS. A. WILLIAMS. Cured an | v i ! Kesolvent, 81; Boap, 86 never failed to curemy children of croup.” { oo Cor i sy 20, EDUOCATIONALL Vermont has twenty female #chool superine tendonts, The question of introducing music s a reg- ular study in the public schools of Dubuque, Ta, in boing discussed, The Germans resident in Russia have raised subseription of £150,000 toward establi-hing German classes in the different universities and sominarios of Russia. The Harvard College faculty has taken a most unexpected step by prohibiting the col- lego football eleven from playing any more games this fall, The school diry tora of Columbus, O., have voted to abolish the study of Greek from the high sch of that city, at the end of they n;nl wubstituto a course of classic English i p The largest obsor val ry dome in the world is now being mado in Cleveland for the Unie versity of Virginin, 1t will weigh ten tons and mensure forty-five feet four iuches at the ho Vassar College girls are gotting up an illuminated motto to be placed over the door of that justitution on January 1, 1854, leap ar. It “He who Enters Here Leaves Hope Behind.” Professor Youmans says that the study of dead languages has been the one pre-eminent and historic failure of the so-called liberal ed. ucation. There is more hatred of it than of any kind of study, mathematics not excepted. . Forty young physicians have been launched into professional life from Dartmouth college, Undertakers in various parts of the country now look forwar to a marked increase in Dusiness very soo The educational statistics of the Dritish army show that out of every 1,000 soldiers 30 can neither read nor write, 28 can read but not write, 186 can read and write, while 756 are of wuperior education, Twenty yoars 184 could neither read nor write, cum read but not write, 611 could just read and :I‘rih‘. while 52 only were of superior educas on, Sinco September 27, six pupils ont of one Now York nchool havo died of diphtheria, two havo been sick and recovered, and two othors are still sick. The trustees have closed the school and the building will be thor- oughly examinod, all investigations so far haye ing failod to disclose any occasion for the disoas. Threo of the deaths wero in the jan- itor's family, & It in encouraring to seo that tho matter of public-school education is receiving much fmn\ml attention in circles that have herotos ore taken no pains to discusa it, Convene tions of mannfacturers, assemblies of trades- men, and sociotios of all kinds seem lately to have come to deem the public instruction” of boys and girls important to the industries of tho country. This is good omen, since_ agl- tation is the sieve through which the good and tho bad in most things are apt to be separ- ated.— Chicago Newe, There have beon lively times this week among the students of Jeiferson Medical col- logo in Philadelphia, over the question who shall ocoupy front seats in the lecture rooms, It is customary in the le.ture rooms of the college to give the senivrs, or second-year mon, tho seats immediately in front of the demon- strator, whlle the newly matriculated stu. dents must occupy the less desirable localities in the rear, This rule, however, does not srevai in the hospital lectures, which are de- ivered immediatoly after those in the college. "Tho first-year men, accordingly, have been in the habit of leaving their allotted seats before the conclusion of trm first lecture and running over to tho hospital in time to kecure the choice positions, thereby anticipating their favored rivals. The seniors resented this, and o lively tight occurred early in the week, The matter has now quioted down, and the sen- iors have socured their “‘rights,” talogue of Amherst college for 1883~ 1881 coutaing the of thirty-one mem- bers of the faculty, of whom seventeen are rofessors, four aksociate professors, and ten instructors, A sinaller number of students appear in the catale cighty-one i ty-six i y-threo rophe 1e freshmen -a total of 2 instruction is substant; ly un; The “‘administrative rules” contain the kernal of the “‘new system,” and state the conditions of trade which have been adopted in the award of diplomas at gradua- The recent action of the facuity in re- gard to the degres of doctor of philosophy, specifies o two years' course of study intwo subjects of seience or litorature, or one subject of euch, under the direction and to the ap- proval of the professors in the appropriste de- partments; iEewits e satisfactory exuuing- tion upon thoso subjects, and » thesis upon one of thom, together with the customary di- and tuition fees. The holiday inter- fon in of two weeks' duration, begiuning December 18, A IR, Throw Away $350. “Tronbled with asthma for eight years. Not quito two bottles of Zhomas’ kclectrie Ol cured mo completely, after spending over 360 without tho. slightost henefit.” This. i what August Trubner, of Tyrone, Pa., says. Litbnsr 6riTyrons; Modjeska's Corsets. Modjoska is sporting a pair of corsets made for her by a Michigan firm, They are thus descrived: “Onc s of light, transparent, fine silk bolting cloth, and with all its beautiful silk embroidery and point lace trimming weighs only five and o half ounces, with the steels, rones, eyelots and buckles all included.” The othier is of cream:colored satin, lined with white satin, heavily ‘fanned’ and embroidered with white wilk; rich point lace encircles the bust, and across the waist in front Modjeska, in the form of letters which head her show bills, is heavily embroidered in white silk. Upon tho lighter corset the name in the same place and style of let- ters in hand-painted. They are inclosed in silk-lined boxes, with the autograph of the countess on the iside cover.” BAD BLOOD. SCROFULOUS, INHERITED, g CONTAGIOUS. —_— T3, 1570 Serotulous Ulcers broks out on my- body wntil my breast was one mass of corruption, Some of theso ulcers where not less than one and ons-half fuches in dismeter, the edges rough, ragged and uumiu);le‘ dewd, the cavity open to the bone and fillod wit h offenkive matter. Everything known to the medical fac Il{ wis tried in vain, Grad Iy the bone itselt became diseased, and then the sulfering began inearnest. Bone Ulcers began to take the place of those hitherto on the surface. 1 becowe & mere wreck. For months ata time could not get wy hauds 10 wy head because of extreme soronoss, Could Not Turn In Bed. Knew mot what It was to be an hour even free from pain. Had reasonto look upon life itaclt s a curse, Tn the summer of 1850, after ten years of this wretched existence, I began to use the ra Remedicn, and after two vears' persistent use of them the last Ulcer had healed. The dread disease has wuccumbed. ~ All over the breast where Was Once o mass of now a healthy skin, My welght has one hundred and twenty-three o one hundred and fifty-six pounds, and the good work is still goingon. 1 fecl mysell & new man, and all through the Cuticura Remedies. JAS. E. KICHARDSON, Custom House, Sworn to betorelUnited n‘gw-l; 0f Serotulous, Inherited and Contagious Humors. and thus romove the most prolific cause of buman sufleing to cear the i of disfiguring blotehes, Itching Tortures, Humidiating Eruptio sonie Sores. caused by Impure or ify sud beautify the Rkn, and restore the Hair so discase remain, Cuticura Resolvent, rifior, Diu and Aperient, and 1, e, great Skin Curee They are the ouly the new Blo Cuticurs and Cuticurs ' Soay and Beautifiers, are infallible, remedies that succeed when phyriciaus and all other means fall. Creat Blood Medicines. I ‘The half bas not been told s to the great curative powers of the Cuticura K modics. 1 have paid hun- dreda of dollars for mediines to cure dissuses of the lood aud skin, and uever found anything yes to equal the Cutioura Kemedies. " ¥ _Providence, RI, Hold by all druggist " Price: Cuticurs, 50ots; s Porran Dive AXD CiikM Seud for “‘How to Cure kin Diseases.” i I i