THE GAINESVILLE WEEKLY REGISTER
Transcribed by Vicki Shaffer

VOL. 2-NUMBER 14-NEW SERIES Gainesville, Texas, Saturday, January 29, 1881

Vol. 8 - Number 24 - OLD SERIES

Weekly Register.

Gainesville, Texas

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Published Every Saturday by the Register Publishing Company.

OFFICE: Blanton-Weekes Block, Dixon Street
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

Leave Gainesville............................. 9:00 a.m.
Arrive at Gainesville...........................4:30 p.m.
Leave Denison...................................3:00 p.m.
Arrive at Denton at............................11:30 a.m.

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A pretty deer is dear to me, A hare with downy hair;
I love a hart with all my heart, But barely bear a bear.

'Tis plain that no one takes a plane To have pair of pairs;
A rake, though, often takes a rake To tear away the tares,
All rays raise thyme, time razes all. And through the whole hole wears.

A writ in writing "right" may write IT "wright" and still be wrong-
For "write" and "rite" are neither "right."

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OVER THE STATE

Mayor French was re-elected in San Antonio.

Prof. O.S. Fowler lectured in San Antonio last week.

Jay Gould is going to take another good look at Texas.

Four fights took place at a corner in Ft. Worth last Friday.

Jno W. Burford is a candidate for city marshall in Ft. Worth.

Mrs. Judge Devine was buried at San Antonio on the 20^th.

San Antonio received last year 6531 car loads of merchandise.

The big Spanish claim land suit at McKinney was again continued.

About 4000 bales of cotton have bee shipped from Mexia this season.

Aaron C. Camp, one of the most respected citizens of Dallas, died last Saturday.

Chas. Wilson, a railroad laborer, committed suicide at Houston last Thursday.

District court of Tarrant county met last Monday. There are 53 new civil cases.

The narrow gauge road, Gov. Hubbard says, will be completed to Waco by May 24^th.

T.E. Jackson, Sheriff of Freestone county, is very sick with pneumonia at Groesbeck.

The store of J.C. Smith & Bro., at Mexia, was destroyed by fire last Saturday night.

A $100 fraudulent bond, on the city of Denison, as turned up, bearing date, July 1, 1873.

Five men were arrested in Dallas last Friday, charged with robbing Chas. Wilson of $17.

Eight prisoners were sentenced to the penitentiary at Dallas by Judge Aldridge on the22^nd.

Dr. T.S. Johnson, of Marshall, and Miss Mary Emerson, of Pilot Point, were married on the 19^th.

The red headed democracy of Dallas is represented at present, in Austin, by that chief Sterret, of the Times.

No city in the country is as quiet after dark as is Houston. People generally stay at home after supper. -----Telegram

Smith, of Titus, wants uniform text books in the public schools. Better wait till the schools are uniform. ------Telegram

Capt. L. C. Fisher is running for mayor of Galveston. He is running independent of politics and asks the support of everybody.

The total population of Texas by the census reports is 1,592,598. Cooke stands 17^th in the list of counties with a population of 20,391.

Five hundred men are now working on the Sunset extension, and five hundred more will be added in a week. --- Evening Light.

Wm. M. Evans shot a colored waiter at a hotel in Fort Worth last Friday. The negro's wound was slight. Evans was held in a $500 bond.

The Courier says: We have again got back to cottonseed for fuel. No coal in the market and no positive knowledge as to when there will be.

J.M. Jackson, indicted for the murder of Green, his brother-in-law in Austin county last fall, was yesterday acquitted in the district court at Bellville.

The state press generally are becoming aroused on the importance of deep water in Texas harbors. Something needed and something Texas must have.

Jinks, of the Sherman Chronicle is of the opinion that it is dangerous to walk along side of the Central. Perhaps that is the reason why tramps are not so numerous.

An ordinance has been passed in Dallas regulating back fare and compelling hackmen to carry passengers to any part of the city when called upon, unless otherwise engaged.

Jack Kelly killed Rev. J.C. Smith on the 19^th inst. No particulars have yet been received, Kelly surrendered to the authorities. Both parties reside at Waresville, Uvalde county.

Dempsey Brown, an old and well known resident of Fayette county, aged about 55, suicided at daylight on the 19^th inst., b cutting his throat with a razor. Ill health is supposed to have deranged his mind.

The San Antonio Weekly Express of the 20^th has a chronological review of the events of 1880, which occupies more than one page of the paper. That number ought to be preserved by all who are interested Alamo city.

Arch and Bob Blackwell, charged with the murder of their step-father, in October, 1879. was called at Weatherford on the 11^th. A severance was granted. A nolle pros. was entered as to Arch. The testimony showed that the homicide was justifiable.

Officer Kitrell arrested a tramp yesterday morning who looked like a walking advertisement for a rag merchant. He said that his name was Thomas Moore, and that he had not struck a lick of work in six years. He said furthermore that he was glad of it, and that if he kept his senses he never would. -- Dallas Herald.

CORRESPONDENCE.
Dexter Doings.
In the absence of your regular correspondent, I assume the role, and will act as reporter ad interim.  

Our new officers are "daisies", and the brawls that heretofore disturbed the streets of Dexter, are things of the past.  Moore F. Carter, deputy sheriff, is active, courageous and vigilant, J.A. Morris, J.P. is fearless and impartial, and Constable Flood is earning golden opinions by the faithful discharge of his duty.

Business of all kinds is suffering from this hyperborean weather.

Professor King is still confined to his room and Professor Darnall supplies his place until he is able to resume his position.

The Wilder House gives hospitable greeting to all wayfarers, and many a weary traveler breathes a benediction upon the heads of mine host and his amiable lady.
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Valley Creek Items 

The young folks of our community enjoyed themselves very much at a party given them by Uncle Nathan Hobbs, on last Friday night, and till the full dawn of day the gay dance continued.

Several of the fair sex of Saddler's Band were there to add to the pleasantries of the occasion.

On account of the inclemency of the weather our people are all housed up, consequently business in the farming line is quite dull.

Some of our boys went to Marysville the other day, got on a little social tare, and yelped a few before leaving that august place.   For fear of the authority invested in Jess Jollman they withdrew outside the corporation, and began their march homeward, arriving at a late hour with little spirit or activity.  "All is well that ends well."  Mind the ending, boys.

Quite a sensation was created on last Monday at the Valley Creek school house, by the arrest of Prof. Mart McGee, who has charge of the Valley Creek school.  The particulars relating to this I am not familiar with.   I hope to see him at his post soon.  We can ill afford to do without the services of such an efficient teacher.  His school is in a flourishing condition, numbering about 45 pupils. 

A good deal of sickness in our community.

Died, on the 12th inst., little Ora, daughter of Stephen and Cynthia Billingsly.  We extend to the bereaved parents our sincere sympathy and condolences.
                                            Dr. Tutt.

Elm Extracts.  

Once more the sun has smiled upon us with all of its effulgence, and everybody you meet asks with bated breath, "Is that all," or "Has the winter got tired cutting up, and resolved to lead a sober life?"  We all improve when our mistakes are pointed out, and we think the seasons ought not to persevere in their wickedness, especially after becoming aware of the fact.  They ought to reform.  Now, if they would only reform, so would we; but who can help being a trifle mean, after being frozen and melted by turns?  It is altogether too trying, indeed it is.

Our spelling match last Friday night was by no means largely attended, which , perhaps, was owing mostly to the cold weather.   However, we will have another soon, and hope more encouragement will be given it.   All are aware of the good results attending the spelling school; then show it by "example as well as precept."

Rev. Mr. Smith preached at the Trinity Chapel last Sunday, which, by the way, was the dedicatory sermon.  A very nice attendance was had.

Mr. Lambert is now occupying the premises hitherto in the position of Mr. James Bradley, on the Biffle farm.  We have room for many more in our midst and shall be glad to welcome reinforcements hither.

We have but few sportsmen here, else the wild geese would never have occupied the wheat fields as thickly as they were without molestation.

I tried to possess myself of some information about the weather up north from these birds but they were strictly non communicative to other than their own species, and as a matter of course, that excluded Fidem and he missed the coveted news in consequence.

Now, see here, I move we crown Rough and Ready poet laureate (not lariat) , for he undoubtedly deserves it.  If we do that, his strength will overthrow fiction, and  he'll have as sure enough running by steam, a destiny by no means to be grinned at.  Success to him.
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Mrs. Sprague married Sprague for his money.  She is now seeking a divorce.  Mrs. Christiancy married Christiancy for his money.  She also wants a divorce.  After all, is not the old method of marrying for love and best that has been discovered?   It really seems that way, and we take pleasure in recommending the same to our unmarried friends, both male and female.  Try it---Belton Journal.
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Concerning matters of quarantine, the governor in his message to the legislature makes some suggestions that if carried out, will result in great benefit to the state and her people. ---Fort Worth Advance.
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The Bonham News, a regular old fogy newspaper, at war with railroads and every character of internal improvements, and regards with horror everything that contemplates progress and advancement, remarks:  "Maxey, Throckmorton and Reagan are all on the good terms with the railroad lobby, and it is hard to tell upon which that influence will center -- probably, however, upon Throckmorton, and it so, he will be the senator. ---- Jefferson Democrats.

Jay Gould and the Apostle Paul.
Moberly Headlight.
  It is the tendency of mankind to worship money, and the belief of almost every one that no one amounts to anything unless he possesses it, it makes no difference how he came by it.  He may have cut his grandfather's throat to secure a will made in his favor when there was danger of its being changed, but that is soon forgotton.  Society's conscience loves to be wounded, and however deeply, the wounds readily heal to the plasters of the root of all evil.  If Jay Gould and the Apostle Paul were to travel through the country together in a palace car, Jay Gould would attract more attention.  People would envy Gould for his palace.  The one would be recommended for his shrewdness, the other condemned for his lack of enterprise.
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In One Lifetime.
  Some one has recently written:  "I am an old man yet in material things I have seen the creation of a new world.  I am contemporary with the railroad, the telegraph, the steamship, the photograph, the sewing machine, gaslight, chloroform, the steamplow, the friction match, nitroglycerine, the monitor, the caloric engine, the California gold discoveries, the oil well discoveries, guttaperchs, canned fruits, the electric light, the telephone, etc.  Gentlemen conservatives, these are some of the footprints of the present generation.  Do you think the moral world will remain the same as before!  That society will be unaffected by these changes?  If you do, let me call your attention to the fact that this same generation has seen the abolition of slavery on a grand scale, the ascendency of republican America.  And the march is steadily on, with accelerating motion.  What is its meaning?   Where will it end?
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Insurance Against Neighbors
  Human nature is the same the world over, as the following instance will help to show.  A Danbury insurance agent called on two of his customers, whose premises adjoin, for a renewal of their policies.  The first one is a grocer.  The agent said to him:   "I suppose, Mr. ----, that you will renew your policy, which expires next month?"  I have to see about it.
"Well, I suppose I'll have to, " said the grocer.  "As far as I'm concerned there is no need whatever that I sho'd insure.  I am here all day to attend to things, and there ain't a bit of danger of fire from my place.  But there is no telling what that fellow next door will do, and as long as he's there I've got to keep insured."
The agent called on the customer next who is a baker.  He could not help reasoning that if the danger in that establishment was so great there was a possibility of having the amount of policy doubled, at least.
He told the baker why he called and cited that there might be a probability of a desire to increase the policy.
"No," said the baker, scratching his head thoughtfully, I don't believe I'll add any to it.  I wouldn't insure at all if I wasn't sure where I am.  You see I'm up all night baking, and can watch things, so there's no danger here, but there's no telling what that chap next door will be up to.  If it wasn't for him I would not insure a cent.  But as it is I've got to do it."
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The census bureau furnishes the following statement of the population of towns and cities in the southern states having more than 10,000 and less than 30,000 inhabitants;  Augusta Ga., 23,028; Galveston, Tex., 22,263; Norfolk, Va., 21,626; Petersburg, Va., 21,853; San Antonio, Tex., 20,561; Houston, Tex., 18,646; Wilmington, N.C., 17,361; Montgomery, Ala., 16,117; Lynchburg, Va., 15,959; Chattanooga, Tenn., 12,891; Macon, Ga., 12,748; Vicksburg, Miss., 11,814; Portsmouth, Va., 11,388; Shreveport, La., 11,017; Austin, Tex., 10,960; Dallas, Tex., 10,358, Columbia, S.C., 10,040.
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Forney commenting in the Philadelphia Progress, on the result of the election, says that "we now face the empire, and there is but one great force to the ____ Democratic party.  Garfield ___ fills the gap for Graft?
(The next few sentences unreadable)
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The Dallas Sanctificationists are restored to health, which gave way under the effects of their fast.  Mrs. Mahler and Mrs. Copenhagen refused for some time to eat; saying that bright angels fed them on strawberries and cream from the spirit-land.  While thus starving themselves, Henry Mahler, a member of the band, calling himself Jesus Christ, was wandering in the Trinity bottoms, naked and bearing a huge wooden cross.  Ex.
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of the most distinguished signers of the Declaration of Independence, died on the Fourth of July, 1826, just half a century after enrolling their names to that immortal instrument.  The last toast of Mr. Adams for the cusomary celebration on the day of his death was, "independence forever."  The last words he uttered were "Jefferson survives."
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Ancient poets and philosophers speak of the galaxy as the road by which heroes want to heaven.  The Greeks supposed that Juno accidentally gave suck to Mercury when an infant, or to the infant Hercules, who, while she slept, was laid by her side; but perceiving who he was, she threw him from her, and the heavens were thus marked by the wasted milk.
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A gentleman living near Tehuacana, says he has invented an instrument that can be unerringly used in pointing out hidden veins of minerals.  He says that an instrument placed in the hands of all men would soon make silver as plentiful as iron.
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The Mewl
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A Boy's Paper on Natural History
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(not completed yet)
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The amount of silver dollars coined since February 28, 1878, and up to December 1st, 1880, is about $73,000,000 of which only about $26,359,644, or a little more than one third, is in current circulation among the people.---Ex.

  Yes, and the aggregate of gold coinage in the time about specified is about five times that of silver, and none of it is in general circulation among the people.  This sate of affairs certainly gives much more reason for discontinuing the coinage of gold than of silver.--Bonham News
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  The editor of the Mineloa Courier in the conclusion of his salutatory says:

"We buckle on our armor, grasp our goose quill, fall into line with the 'redeemed,' and prepare for the storms of a journalistic sea."
  We hope the Courier will not be such an old foggy as this indicates.  Goose quills are out of style now.  Lead pencils ae too cheap to be fooling with quills.
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Learn your children to read the newspapers.  It will do them as much good as half their schooling.  A boy or girl that reads will grow to be intelligent and well informed.  They will learn faster at school, they will make better grammarians, they will write more correctly, they will spell better and they will be smarter everyway.  The parent who deprives his children of something to read is robbing their intellects of that which is more precious to them than gold.
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Divide Texas---never!  To the guillotine with the man who harbors such treasonable designs against the integrity of Texas.--(Henderson Times)
So long as the memories of Houston, Rusk, Lamar, Hemphill and a score of other noble patriots that fought and bled for Texan independence are revered and respected, Texas will remain one and indivisible.  The bare idea of such an outrage, if it were possible, would cause the bodies of these heroic dead to turn in the coffins.--Longview Democrat.
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It now seems that the successor of Justice Swayne will be Hayes' last chance to reward friends by placing them on the supreme bench.  Justice Clifford has so far recovered his physical health as to be able to go to the public dining room in his hotel for his meals, but his mind still remains so impaired that he cannot form a connected sentence.  He is not able to resign, and may not live on as he is for a year or so.  Mr. Conkling at present holds back Justice Hunt from resigning, with a fair prospect of continuing so to do.  The Supreme Court adjourns early in February, so that the pressing need of new appointments by his administration will soon be gone.
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The Revista of today says, that the general government has decreed that the custom houses at Mier and Camargo, in the state of Tamaulipas, be again opened.  This action has been taken probably in view of the fact that several railroad lines are looking at these places as favorable points of terminus.  The opening of these ports will prove a great convenience to the commerce of this frontier.---Brownsville Cosmopolitian 17th
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Condensed News Items.
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The ex-Khedive of Egypt has again asked leave to come to Constantinople.

Governor Churchill, of Arkansas, was formally inaugurated on the 18th.

Secretary Sherman is of the opinion that we cannot float a three per cent bond.

General John F. Miller has been elected United States senator from California.

It is reported that Greece is preparing a note asking the intervention of the Powers.

Rev. W.H. Persine D.D. a prominent Methodist minister died on the 22, at Detroit.

An elevator containing 25,000 bushels of grain was burned at Peoria, Ill. last Saturday.

Senator J.S. Williams of Washington Co. Arkansas died at Little Rock last Saturday.

Father Edward Purcell brother to the Arch Bishop died in Brown Co. Ohio on the 22.

The new crop of almanacs does not appear to have suffered much from the cold weather.

Capt. John McMahan Pres. of the Southern bank of Savannah died in that city Thursday last.

The Maine legislature has adopted the committee's report, declaring Plaisted elected governor.

A terrific storm was prevailing on the Mediterranean on the 22.  Fifty vessels were reported wrecked.

O'Neil secretary of the Cork Land League has been discharged no evidence being produced against him.

Forty three members of the Land League have been summoned at Listowal on a charge of seditious conspiracy.

The bill for the retirement of Gen. Ord with the rank and pay of Major General has passed both houses of congress.

At a fire in Chicago on the 21st about a dozen firemen were buried under a falling wall.  Three or four of them will die.

The committee of appropriations in the house have recommended the post office bill appropriating 40,750,462 for the coming year.

Leopold Rothschild married Miss Piongia in London on the 19th inst.  The Prince of Wales and others of the royal family were present.

General Grant has published over his signature in the Chicago Tribune a long article advocating the construction of the Nicaragua Canal.

The failure of Gen. Grant's friends in making him captain-general has probably been the cause of his election as president of the World's Fair.

During the past week there have been distributed 114,998 standard silver dollars; corresponding week in 1880 there were 104,407 distributed.

The House committee on military affairs, by a vote of six to three, decided to report adversely upon the bill placing Gen. Grant upon the retired list.

One of the most terrific storms ever known raged over the Northern and Eastern states last Saturday.  The telegraph wires, were down in every direction.

It is stated that Justice Swayne of the United States supreme court will resign early next week and that ex-Senator Stanley Matthews of Ohio will be nominated.

Charles McKnight, one of the editors and proprietors of the Philadelphia Evening News, and formerly connected with the the Pistsburg Evening Chronicle, is dead.

There is a great deal of cold weather in Ohio just now.  The colored delegations that called on Garfield complain bitterly of the coldness of their reception. --Gal. News.

A plot to depose the Rajah and massacre all the European residents while in church has been discovered at Kolapore, in India, and twenty-seven natives have been arrested.

Gen. Grant has not yet been retired with the pay of general.  He will probably beg around the country until both houses of congress become republican if they ever do.

A bill has been passed in congress allowing certain persons to accept decorations from foreign governments.  We supposed this was passed for the benefit of the great gift taker.

Constantinople, Jan. 21--It is stated in official circles, that Germany recommends the Powers to accept the Porte's proposal for a fresh conference on the Greek frontier question.

A rain was thrown from the track on the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific R.R. near Pond creek on the 20 inst. killing one passenger Mrs. May A. Kirby and injuring eleven others.

St. Petersburg, January 21.--The Agence Russo says:  We think the proposal of the Porte for negotiation at Constantinople in relation to the frontier afforks hope for a practical resuit.

The defense in the Land League trials opened on the 13, McDonough denounced the prosecution as a landlord's indictment against the tenants of Ireland.  The court room was crowded.

Cork, Jan. 21--Mr. O'Neil, secretary of the Cork Land League, recently summoned on a charge of intimidation by writing threatening letters, has been discharged or want of evidence to sustain the charge.

A worthy scene was enacted in the house today.  Gen. Joe Johnson, the great ex-Confederate leader, reported the bill to retire Gen. Ord, as a major-general, and warmly advocated it, and it was passed without dissent.

The president has directed the following officers to be placed on the retired list:  Brig. Gen  Wm. Dunn, judge-advocate general; Gen. Stewart Van Vliet, assistant quartermaster general; Lieut. Col. Samuel Woods, deputy paymaster general; and Maj. Joseph H. Eaton, paymaster.  The retirement of the first two named goes into effect today; of the others Monday.

The latest Cabinet speculation at Washington is that Sherman, after his election to the senate, is to resign that position and remain in the cabinet, and that Foster will then be chosen senator by the Ohio legislature.

The river and harbor bill will be completed by the house committee next week- Galveston may get an increase of appropriation before the bill is out of the hands of the house committee.  Efforts are being made to that effect.

The report of the bureau of statistics show that the total importation of all kinds of foreign iron and of steel rails into the United States for the ten months ending October 31, 1880, amounted to 1,651,549 tons gross, with a total value of $43,614,628.

Bath, Me., Jan. 21--An earthquake lasting about ten seconds was felt throughout this region at 9:45 last evening.  At first there was a loud report followed by rumbling sounds as of a heavy team over the frozen ground windows rattled and distance oscillations were felt.

Miss Annie Presson, daughter of Rev. W.M. Presson, was burned to death on the 6th, at Nashville,  Howard county Ark.  She was sweeping the hearth when her clothes caught fire, and there was no one in the house, she was burned to a crisp before assistance could be obtained.

London, Jan. 21.--A dispatch from Buenos Ayres, January, 20 says the Chillians have attacked and completely defeated the Peruvian army at Meblares.  Gen. Pirelo, President of Peru and commander-in-chief of the army, has fled.  The Chillians occupied Lima, the capital, without resistance, on the 17th instant.

Timothy Cooper, colored, has received a verdict for $2,000 damages under the civil rights act against the people's omnibus and baggage company of Chicago, for forcibly ejecting him from one of their conveyances on account of his color.  This is the second trial and a reversal of the former verdict.

Governor Foster denies the rumor that his withdrawal from the senatorial contest was in pursuance of an understanding with Garfield and Sherman that the latter should resign and enter the cabinet, and he (Foster) succeed to the senate.  He says there has been no understanding whatever bout the matter.

Paris, Jan. 21--M. Gambetta, who was re-elected president of the Chamber yesterday, received 262 votes, which is only 3 more than he received in 1880, when his friends sought to explain the falling off by alleging that the election was hurried.  The extreme left evidently did not vote for him--45 votes were thrown away on other persons.

Washington, January 21 --The senate committee on military affairs today agree to report with favorable recommendation the bill to place Gen. grant on the retired list of the army, by the following vote:  Yeas--Burnside, Plumb, Cameron of Pennsylvania Logan.  Nays--Randolph, Cockrell and Grover.  Absent--Maxey and Hampton.

The bill to place General Grant on the retired list, with the rank and pay of general was to-day reported favorably by the senate military committee.  The republicans had a majority of the committee, owing to the absence of Senators Hampton, Grover and Maxey, and this carried their object.  The democratic papers here to-day are severe on the absence of the democratic senators.

Congressman Ford, of Illinois, received the following dispatch to-day:  "The Illinois State Grange, the largest session for four years, and representing over 1,000,000 farmers of the state, by an unanimous vote, has passed strong resolutions demanding the passage of the Reagan bill, and other legislation by congress, upon interstate commerce, as a matter of pressing public necessity."

Gen. Pierola, brother of the president, and Peruvian minister of war, was taken prisoner.  The Peruvian loss in the battle of Bheorillas is said to have been 7000 killed and 2000 prisoners.  Twenty five thousand Peruvians were engaged in the battle of Meraflores.  The Chilian loses in both battles were heavy.  The diplomatic body at Lima has urged the conclusion of an armistice, and asks that the person of Senor Pierla be respected.
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Poetry is the oldest, rarest and most excellent of the fine arts, and highest species of refined literature.  It was the first fixed form of language, and the earliest perpetuation of thought.  It existed before music in melody, and before painting in description.

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There is every indication that the capitol at Austin will tumble down soon, and there is great uneasiness in state for fear it will fall when the legislature is not in session, and thus be a total waste.
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The work of making cabinets for President Garfield is still carried on with unflagging industry by the press.  How deeply Garfield is effected by this kindness is unknown, but presidents, like republics, are frequently ungrateful.
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Last week, T.A. McDonald, county judge of Madison county, is said to have killed John Christian at Madisonville.  A suit instituted for hire of county convicts, instituted by McDonald against Christian, is given as the cause of the homicide.
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There are only 20,000,000 of acres in Ireland, and yet more than half of this amount of land is owned by 750 landlords.  More than this the parliamentary reports, published a few years ago, show that our of these 750 persons 77 per cent were absentees.
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The colored people of Ohio do not want Senator Bruce in Garfield's cabinet.  A large meeting at Cleveland adopted a resolution that Bruce had done nothing for their race and is not a true representative of his class.  This will be a set back to the Alabama delegation who are on their way to Mentor to urge his claims for a cabinet position.

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