D. J WHIOHAED, Editor and Owner. TRUTH IN PREHRENOHTO FICTION. TERMS; 25'Oents a Month. Vol. 7. GREENVILLE, N. C., TUESDAY, MARdH 1, 18&8. No 994 The Ladies of diaGllrye-e ninvvililtee da rteo c. oirn,^ sUpenceto f our beautiful HamburgÍ, Swiss and ' Hamburg, Swiss and !!iansook Nansook iiuosvte lrye clienivee odf. I Also a Torchon, Torchon, and other Laces. Wa ec ohmavpel ejutes lti nreec oeiíved Jewelry, Jewelry, Jewelry, Jewelry, cLoandsiiesst inS3g h iirnt pWarat iostf SSetutsd, GBeunttt’os nCs ufifn a nadll the latest styles. Winter-Goods- Winter Winter-Gooos-Winter tmhaakt emrouosmt bíóer s Sopldri ntog Ricks & Taft. WASHINGTON L tT T E R . (JFrom ourRegnlw Corresponde at.) Washington, Feb. 28, 98. Shall the most dastardly piece of treacheiv perpetrated in the nineteenth century be condoned foi a cash con- Blderation ? That is the question Mr. McKinley raised when he sent Secretary Sherman—at ,lasi the old man is given something to do, but it was a nauseating job—to circulate among Ins former collea^mes of the Senate, for the purpose cf informing them that the administration had decided, if the naval court reported that the Maine was was blown up by intention, to demand a cash indemnity of Span. If Mr. Sherman correctly report. .! .some of the remarks made iiy Senators with whom he discussed the inattir Mr. McKinley must have blushed. Ever since It has been practicHly known that the court bad^lound unmistakable evidence that the Maine was wrecked by ti^^achery, the administration has been gradually, through divers newspaper interviews, and by Other methods, preparing tbo public lor , this indemnity buJness, by dropping hints about the injustice of holding S p aa'n sponsible when it disavowed the crime or any knowledge of it, un » of the probability that the crime was Committed by some Spaniard who was an enemy of the present Spanish Ministry, etc., etc. The Spanish charge d’afiaires in Washington also icok a hand in the attempt to have his country let down easily by ofilcially Plating that no mines cr torpedo have ever been planted in ihe harbor at Havana The fact that this íéllow was once a‘- BOCiated with de Loide was ecbugh to prevent belief of any statetUL.ut he might make. ' There is not the slightest doubt that an overwhelming majority of Congress believes with a majority of the people of the country tnat Spanish blooü should be shed to avenge the poor devils ^.w^o were the victims of Spanish treachery in Havana harbor j but there is also a strong desire in Congress to act in concert with the administration, if possible, in .order that it cannot be said by the Spaniards, or other foreigners, that there is a division of sentiment in the United States. This desire may result in Congress allowing the demand for a raon«y indemnity to be made on Spain, but it will be, even then, lárgely becaus.^ of the belief thaf Spain could not pay the indeipnity and would not if it could, and that war would be the result, anyway. Although Mr. McKinley continues to talk peac", his actions, tluough h’s subordinates, show that he believea with almost e/erybody else in Washington, that war with Spain is inevitable, and, to his ciedit he it placed, he is taking vigorous steps to %ee that we are fully prepared to do our share of the fighting when it once gets started. The more promptly and vigorously he acts upon that Maine report, which is expected this week, the better he wjll stand with Congress and the people. Mr. McKinley must have been a Utile bit afraid that the well-known scrapping propensities of Teddy Rosevelt made him *a damrerous man to have in charge of the Navy Department at this time, or secretary Long would now be taking several dajs rest and Teddy would be in charge. Mr. Long announced his intention of going away for three or tour days, but Mr. McKinley persuaded him to change his mirtd. Most persons would rather set. Teddy running the machine juet now. Renresentative Sulzer, of New York, who has been somewhat harshly criticised because of his objection, when unanimous consent was asked in the House that the bill, aheady passed by the Senate, providing for the enlisimejnt of two additional regiments of ai;tiUery,be taken up andconsidered until disposed of, immediately after the pas- Siigeofthc sundry civil bill, says did so because he thought there was no n<^cessity to increase the regular army, and. that he regarded the I: ill as an atteroyt on the part of the plutocrats to take advantage of existing conditior 8 to increase the army and thus still further entrench themsdves against the people, as to the special needs of these men now to fight Spam, Mr. Sulzer said ; “Why, if war should be declared, I wouUi resign my seat in Congress in 24 hnorsand would raise a regiment in my district. I would get a thousand young able-bodied fellows would g » to the front under some Federal brigade commander; and there would he no lack of such regiments.*’ The defeat of the Republicans by the combined votes of thé Democrats and Populists several times recently, when theHousewas in committee of thewhole, has so aggravated the RepuhUcan leaders, that they have notified the Republican members that they must be more regular in théir attendance and have given them a hint that if they are not,^ list of the absentees’ will be daily published, as was done in the fortj-seventh Congress. shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes BETHEL ITEMS. B e t b e l , N; C., Feb. 28tli, 1898. Rev. G. L. Finell spent cjaturday here. Jesse W. Thomas spent Sunday Tarboro. in G. W. Blount, of Williamston, spen Sunday here. **. Rev. A. W. Setzer spent Saturday and today here. u Farm w’ork in this community progressing finely, J. R. Bunting went to Tarboio twice on business last week. shoes shoes E A FULL LINE OF mi " ' “^ F O R < S i T ^ sshhooeessj ^ MMeenn,, BBooyyss,, YYoouutthhss,, IInntfaannttss,,! ^jjoespten. Boys, Youths. Infants, shoes 18 A. Ward made a business trip to Washington last week. C. M. Bernard anl Dr. J. W. Perkins, of Greenville, took the train here Sunday morning. Rev. K. H. Basmajian, of Boston, an Armenian, preached two excellent sermons in the Baptist church Sunday morning and night lo large congregations. He will lecture at the Academy tonight on Armenia, Turkey and Constantinople. shoes shoes shoes shoes shoesshoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes LLaaddiieess,, MMiisssseess aanndd CChhiillddrreenn.. Ladies, Misses and Children, havWe htehne yoauss utrraadnec ew itthh auts'’ yyoouu alwAaylws gaeyts fwuelll cvoamluee apta oidu rfo srt osarem.e shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes .[shoes ishoes shoes Ishoes shoes sboM shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes ishoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes shoes who would fight and we Mrs. Gotten Honored. The New Haven, Conn., Palladium gives a full account of the brilliant reception in that city given by Mr^. Godfrey Dunscomb in honor of the Colonial Dames from which we make the following extracts “The special feature of the reception was the recitation by Mrs. Cotter, of North Ca**olfna, of an original poem^ ‘Virginia Dare.” The noem, itself is really a remarkable bit of literature’ and Mrs. Gotten recites it beautifully. It is long, occupying on hour tor delivery, yet not once does the author refe r to her notes, and thioughout the entire imie, her enunciation is delightfully clear and the attention of the listener is never lost. Mrs. Dunscomb heard Mrs. Gotten recite in Washing* ton and induced her to come here. “At the close of Mrs. Cotten’s recitation, she was presented with a bUfee bunch of bride roses tied with blue and yellüw ribbons, by the Colonial Dames. STEPPINQ-STONES ASp rrivinegr trhuen nRiinvger ,b eWtwineteenr atwndo Sbuamnkmse—r tbe Shores. ' 21.. SSpprriinngg WDraesshs GGooooddss.. ■ 3^.. SSpprriinngg FOovoetr Wweeaarr.. 5. and so on right across. Tcahrer iiendn aunmde sroalbdl eb yli tutsl ef otrh yinogusr oefc otoniolemt yn eaendd, pleasure. LANG’S CASH HOUSE. We wish to inform our many friends^ Mr. R.E.L. C REN SHAW,a skilled maruec nho ewn plarregpeadr^e da ntod ]p irmopmrpotvleyd f.i ll Walel A complete line of-— n pI Ulimi - n selecs from, ^ uch State experiment farm at Raleiyh uorrcd enrusw a tu rtvhfeju fro clwlo bww infjgi prices,J .g.o. o»d.s. (\ now has charge of, our Dn ai•ry an* delivered at your door; Awill serve yuu promptly and satis Elmwood B u t t e r ,..25 cts a poiCnd\ _______ Sweet Milk,............ 25 ets a gallon, [factorily. We solicit your patronage. SPouurre MCrielka,m..,................................3.. c2ts5 a cqtus aar t.q a[Darati-riy Phone 14. Residence Phone 95 JAMES & WILEY BROWN, Proprietors. « A TVSON Vlce-Pre,; J. L. LITTLE. Cash^.r; ' ’ KBOROANIZED JUNE 15th, 1896. STA.TEB^’jmiSrT OB' T Ü B l Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hardware and Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hardware and BUILDERS’ MATERIAL. We can save you money oh all goods pur« chashed from us. The Bank of Greenville, GREENVILLE, N. 0. A - t t l x e O l o e e o f B t x e x x u e e e i I D e o . I S t l x , 1 8 W 7 - ALFRED FORBES. RESOURCES. OIxvmerriB D arnadft sD lauounta PDrueem firuomm oBna Snktosc k FCuurrnreitnutr ee xapnedn sFesi xtures CCaasshh Hone mlusi ndl $42,004.8^ I,650 64 1,000.07 44,598.0 1,615.25 2,1116.57 7,867.51 90,456.77 LIABILITIKS. CUanpdiitvaild setdo cFkr oplalitds in Deposits subject to Check CDiuwel itioei ’Bs aCnhkoscks outstanding Time Certificates of Deposit 1283,,709070. ‘0 . 103,291.8'^ 867.i> Total 1132,118,6’ Total 1132,118.61^ ' y oWrej srtuadny to apfeTfiumllyú ltnhree «vcep^.i i¡uciee o»m«umu»o d¿a.t..uocni c-aoiureolu.t^e nt with «ood banklag.' A# ;ú .-'1.4' .‘Í . . m í,.. DAILY REFLECTOR n J. W H ICflA BD . Eflitor. JVP AFTERNOON /EXCEPT SUNDAY) BnteTed as Eecond-Clas^ Mail Matter SUnSCRIPTION RATES Ore year. One moDtL» One xreek. Pelirere.1 in town by carriers oiit extra cost. ' AnvertisiPgr rates are liberal ana can lie bar! nn applif alion to the editor or at tie bíHcé. ^ v3.00 .25 .10 witbdesire a live correspondent at ftverv po«tofllfe i" tbe county, who will send in brief items of nexvs as It occnrs in'eftcb reiirbborbood. Write plainly and only on one side of tbe paper TUES-Ar. 1. Signs of T h rift in th e S outh. There ip roanifeRt ibroughout I h e S o n b h a tih ia time, in spite of tbe depreseion which prevai’s elsewhere, distinct gisrnsof indnstrial and commercial 'g:rowtb. T h ish a p p v condition of thingrs is due in part to the wideawake and eaterprisingr spirit of onr pecple, and in part to the varied and ehxaustless resonrcer. with nature has endowed onr soil. The Constitution has already called the atttention of its readers to the ^ratifyin? review of southern industiial conditions which appeared recently in the New York Journal of Commerce I n line with this review is tbe interestiner comment which one of the staff correspondents of the Chicagro Record makes upon recent and prospective railwaY development in the South, Says the staff correspondent: “A boom in railroadL bmldingf years vast ehanges are destined to occur in the opiomercial and industrial status of the & ^ th . Eyerythiujsr seems to point clearly in this directiopi an¿l, cheered by the prospect which the future bolds out to us, let our people put their shoulders togrether and do ail within their power to make the prospect real. '-Atfauta Constitution. Sam Jones Platform. Atlanta, Ga., Feb* 21.—Rev. Bam Jones today announced his platform as a candidate for Don’t Tobacco Spi^ and Smcke Yonr Lite Away. Ify d u want to quit tobacco using easily and forever, be made well strong, magnetic, full of new life and ^igor, No-To-Bac, the* wonder worker tbat makes w^'ak men strong. Many gam tefx pounds IB” ten days._ _ÜEei 400,000 c u re i Buy N'o-To-Bnc from your own druggist, who will guarantee a cure. Booklet and sample mailed ree. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or NexV Y^ork. S eim to r L indsay’s W ish. seems to have etauck the Southern States. The indications are tbat the year 180H wilf be notable for the larerest increase of mileage southof the Potomac and Ohio rivers, and more track than will b > built in the rest oftheUnited States and Canada Down below Ma“ son and D ixon’s line the suiveyorp, graders, and tracklayers are very numerous. Wherever you go there are gangs of men with triangle and sextant riming lines through plain and valley, over hills, and across rivers, while closely following them are graders, track layers and bridgebuiklers. A conservative estimate promises 3,000 miles of new track, which is 30 per cent, more than was constructed in tbe entire cruntry last year, and four times as much as was biiilt in the South. This activity is not coiiflnect to any particular section, but includes all the States south of Mascu juid Dixon’s line.” Of course, the South mav not make good d u n n g the present yea*' ibe predictions of the Htaff correspondent. To do this she ninst exceed by 1,200 miles the record made by the entile country during the past year; and she must exceed her own record by 2,100 miles. But who can limit the enterprise of this section! Before the present year expires the South may have con- Biderably eclipsed tbe figures cited by the staff correspondent, beaidee making her activities strongly felt in other directions. While it may savor of enthusiasm to declare that in latent posaililities the South io unsurpasFod by any other section of the country, yet such 18 undeniably and , Aljpolutely true. Blowlv but surely lapitifcl is beginr ing to realize this fact, and to improve its opportunities for investopent in this iictioii. Within'^ the next few ‘Tf l b a ^ plenty of money to do with as I wished,” said Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, to a party of friends, at the Hotel Wellington the other morning. “I ’d have music played at all my meals and get cigars áiade at $50 a hundred. Those are tiro luxuries I would most surely in dulge myself in. I'd have the music played by a small orchestra, say a horn and two or three violins, and a flute and a bass viol, and. I ’d have it play soft, harmonious airs while I ate and now and then I ‘d haye some vocal music given by colored voices. There’s a peculiar harmony in a negro’s singipg tone. I ’d have them sing sucli things as ‘When the Watermelon H angs Upon the Vine.’ That’s a song^ calculated to inspire the most sluggish appetite. r rém embW^^^^^^h ouce on a Mississippi river boat. A lot of us were aboard and in the party was Hooker, of Mississippi. There were some negroes aboard, who played instrumental music with biinjos, gu ita;s, and a fiddle. I asküd them if they ever sang, and they said they did sometimes. Well, they struck up ‘Wheu the Watermelon Hangs Upon the Vine.’ Hooker had never beard it before, and it nearly set him crazy.” Governor. H e made the announce, ment in a public addxcss. Next to himself the evangelist favors Allen D. Candler for Govenor, and he fires hot shot into the opponents of that gentleman. Speaking of tbe. crusade against corrupt politicians, Mr. Jones said: * “When you shoot in the hole where they are they will come out a-humpiug and swear they were j^ot in there. But they are fuU of shot all the same. You can tell th e hole l»y V he^fang that ran out and holleréd. United States Senator Steve Clay swears he was not in there, and I don’t believe he was. And Dubignon swears h i was not in there. GeneTai Evan 3 said that the hole was so full he could not have gotten in if he wanted to.' Gentlemen, 1 know tbe hole* was full from the great crowd that came out of there in the last few days. , “The platform on which I stand and liaye stood for twenty years and more is simple, unadulterated, unpurchasable, nnballied manhood.” . . As to thb financial issues the evangelist said; “I am sick and tirod of the average little politician racking around oyer the Slate preaching gold buggery or championing silver diggery, which he uses simply as a blindfold to hide from the eyes of the people his own inefficiency for the oflSca he proposes to fill, or to raise enthusiasm on a question about which be himself has view3 that he could not sell fer 10 cents a dozen in any intellectual market”. Summing up, Mr. Jones thus concludes: ‘‘L e i’s pen up the jackasses for a while in the ba<*k lot nnd .rot out some thoroughbreds.” Family of Four on $200 Per Year. A, II. Zander contributes an article to the March L adies Home Journal in which he tolls how he maihiains a family of four persons, his wife, tv o children ant? hitnseif on $200 per year. He is a school ^eacher and is paid a salary of ¿405, out of which ho saves and puts out at Ínteres: $200 yearh\« Living 111 a small VViscoiisiu tow n be has advantage of cheap routs, his oilier expenses are: provision^ -$94 ^2; clothing and’foot-wear, $3'^; magazines and newspapers, $5 incidental, $10 ‘‘Our meals,” Mr. Zander w’riti s “we tina abundant in quanity and variety. For breakfast we have coffee, coffee-cak^s, bread and butter, with eggs or fried b a n occasionally. For dinne- we have boiled potatoes with butter gravy» boiled cabbage or other vegetables, a-ud pudding or pie, and coffee. Sometimes we haye pork and beans, and sometimes some egg preparation, as potato pancake, dumpling, etc., For supper we have the remains of our dinner with fried or biked potatoes, and eggs. 'Ve have coffee with every iheab . On this fare we thrive well.” Cuscarets stimulate liver, kidney and iMiwels. Never Fieken, weaken pr ^ri[)e. 10c. The woman who reads tier Bible and the advertlsementM in papers that reach her, can always |be depended upon.*— Profitable Advertising. ‘‘The Armv and Navy Y^ear Book” rates the navies oU the world as follows: 1, Great Britain; 2, Francs, 3, Russia; 4, Italy; 5, United States; G, Germany; 7, Spain; B, Japan; 9, Austria, and 10, Netherlands, but, under present naval coutracts, according to the New York Tribune', Japan in 1899 will go to the fifth place, crowding down the United States an irG erm an y one point. Wlicn bilious or costive, eat a Cafcarfit, candy ciihaitic, cure guaranteed. lnc,'2")c. An eccentric character who lives near Derbv, Conn., has been engaged for some time past in tnftking violins for the angels Ho is ;iu *XDort wood worker, and these instruments are saift to bo finely constructed. No racnex» will tempt him to part with his instruments; he declares that God ordered 1000 violins from him. I ■'•MfclDY CAT-ilAi^i m Just t~v n lOc. box of casearetf, the linest iiver and bowel refjulator ever made. Secretary L o n g save that the Navv D epartment knows no more aboAt tbe Maine disaster than it did five minutes after the receipt of Oaptain Sigsbee’s first Dispatch. Evidently the D e partment hasn’t read the seusational newspapers. • Everytody S*yi bo rascareis Candy Cdthartic, the most wondeKful- medical discovery of the age, pleasant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and postively on kidneys, live and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure hoadache, fever, habitual constiputiou tuid biliousness Pleas^ buy and try a box of C. C. C. today, 11, 25, 50 cents.. Sold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. —— DRÜGC.5STS { n • i t' ^ -¡•V'Ji; to c « « of coosfipatlon. rascoroSs or, ll.« 1 , 1 ' ; . M ‘ !!' ht -i b U a h .'.U • irv/> «p-pr -n u o r sni'«.i>iit cniise i-asy natarnir.*!*;!!' .-i.vr,-,' Nil 6o r j a ji . morlng and evening. Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Rev. A. W. Setzer, Pastor. “Sunday school 9:30 A. M. C. Ii.^Rountree, Superintendent. Better and more attractive than ever. New Features Throughout Fine - Racing. Purses Aggregate $4,000 Liberal Premium^ in ad departments The exhibits of F ish, Oysters, Game. Live Stock, Poultry and Agricultural Products will be the finest ever displayed The Ladies Department is unusually large m f iG B t lS U f iillB F ree! F re e !! s DIRECTORY. cw no ( CATHOLIC— regular services. EPISCOPAL—Services fourth Sunday » morning and evening. I^y services second Sunday morning, Greaves, Rector. Sunday schooi fi^db A. M. W. B. Brown, Superintendant. METHODIST—Services everv Sunday, morning and evening. Prayer meeting Wednesday «veoing. Rev. N . M. Watson, Pastor. Sunday school 9:30 A . M. A B. E llington, Supenniendenti * .. P R E S B Y T E R IA N —Servjces third Sunday, morning and evening. Rev' J B. Morton, P astor. Sunday schoo. 9:'. 'Jood ViiddHng , Middling faTW Middling (iood Ordinary Tone—steady- PEANUTS 5 7-l6 41 Prime " Extra Prime Fancy •ipanish pone—steady, % to H I to 2 | ' 55c bu Greenville* 5 arKet. ‘ ’orrecied bv S. S huU % Butter, per lb Westt'rn Sides Sugar c'"*ed Hamb Corn Corn Meal Floin, Family Lrtfd OaS: Sugar P o fie e Salt j»ei Sack ('hiekens F.ggs ]'er #, The work and discipline of the srhoi wli he as heri toforo. /2 Oi’ 12 5= fl •1 00 We »mk a continuance ol your l; vfal pstronage. W H .R A 08D Á LE . Offers liis services to the citizehs ot Greenville and tlic public generally. ^ ROOFING, G U T T E R I N G , Í Spouting and Stove Work, ^ a specialty ^ Salisfaetion guaranteed or ^ no charges made. Tobacco FIu(*s made in season. Simp 3 on Dickinson Avenue. (j Barbera. S J NOBLES, . , TONSOUÍ AL ARTIST On Fourth street near Postotllce Only Ba. her shop In town conducted by white workmen A. B.FENDFJÍ, FASHIONAP^E BARBER, Can be. found below Five Points, next door to Ketlector olllce. lAWES A.^ñfilTH. I TONSORIAL ARTIST, obksnyille. n. c. Fatronnge solicited. * Cleaning, Dyein and Presidag Gents Clothes a speclalt v HÍRBERT EDMUNDS, FASHIONABLE RABLBK, ' ' attention given to cleanli.g f . SEE THAT ? What Is It ? It is^a picture 01 tne celebrated^ IN PICTURES AND PRINT. PAilKE Best in use ’ The outfit ot no businessman Is complete without one. The Reflector Book Store has a nice assortment ot these Fountain Pens also a'beautiful line of Pearl Handle Gold Pen?, You will be astonished when you see them and earnhowvery cheap thev are You may never, But should you ever Want Come to see us. I ■ Anything from a - a r . 1 •TO Tlie Daily Reflector O i v c s t h e ■ l i o r n f e v o r ^ a f t e r n o o n ji,t t h e s m a l j p r i c e o f 2 5 c e n t s a m o n t h . A r e y c m s ^ u h - ? c r i l ) c r ? I I n o t y o u o i i e h t t o l ) e . Advsntag«é of the Author Artist Over th e Mere W riter. The artist nuilior has som ething that he w ishes to tell,, and to do th is he has at his command tw o modes^ of expression, each of which supplem ents and supplies th e shortcom ings of the other. Wh^re the lirn^ itation blocks the way of w ords h e can im agine out his idea w ith h is pencil. When it fails, words cam supply its need, and so he can p resent his idea before the world at a trem endous ad%^antage. It seem s as if he m ust be better fitted than any one else for that presentation of what be m eans. He has lived and moved w ith h is characters. He has eaten and drunk, slept and wakened with them , and to him as to no one e h c they are visib le personalities. But let him describe them, how ever m inu tely and accurately, and t'ney w ill not he impressed on the mind of the c a su a l reader as they would be if he saw them in a picture, or; if the' reader is im aginative enough to clothe those characters w ith a hody,Mt is probably not at all w hat th ey weTe really meant to be. How intensely interesting ,i t would have been if Poe, lik e Blake, had been able to im agine'out som e of th ose strange visions that filled his brain not ^nly in wnrds, hut in actual lines as w ell, or if b ervan tes had left us som e idea of how Don Quixote and his Spánish squire really looked, howe'Ver roughly drawn th ey m ight have b een ! It is under the B yzantine em perors that the earliest m anuscripts of modern Europe were produced, and they exist in great num bers and are of surprising splendor. A tim id suggestion m ay indeed be ventured that the Byzantine scribes w ere less careful of their calligraphy than of their paintings. That m ay be true, and it may yet romain^truo that th e B yzantines bad a splendid calligraphy of their own and a splendid notion of how to adorn their pages. ■ T h e Irish m onks of th e six th and se v en th centuries, th e E nglish m o n k s of th e n in th c e n tu ry and th e F re n ch of a som ew hat la te r tim e w e re th e fellows for b e a u tifu l k tterin g . T h e ' splendid m an u sc rip t w h ich is called by th e n a m e of K in g K n u t a n d which lies in th e B ritish inuseum contains "lettering w hich is so beautiful in its s tra n g e m odification of the classical llonihn le tte r t h a t even th e splendid renaissance w o rk of fivo centuries late f scarcely equals it. E v ery one kn o w s tlie “ G o th ic” c h a ra c te r of th e tw e lfth and tliirtceu th century m an u sc rip ts, a c h a ra c te r w hich th e m o d ern G e r m án ty p o g ra p h e r has p reserv ed for o u r sins and to punish th e eyes of th o se who would fain stu d y G e n m in tliorougbly, h u t fmv persons know th e pre-Gothic character; th o heaUr tifu k lo tte rin g founded on th o a n tiq u e forms, which w*as preserv ed in th e no rth and in tho sonth, alike in L om bardy, in France', a n d in England, down to á tim e at least as lai ' as the y ear i)50. Talo? an y initi. d page of a te n th c e n tu ry maiius( . ipt, n o rth ern or southern, and set !)uw m uch nioi'o b eau tifu l is th o w 1 nig than are tho figures of m cu an- anim als whitrh are supposed to ad o rn it. The ignoraiico sh o w n in d raw in g these visiiile objects is great, and the absence of a n y pow er over th eir finiiis is rea lly ugly an d offensive, hut the pow er of a b s tra c t form , of m aking a le tte r in to a hi aiitiful thing, is, how ever, sOgri at as to he quite inconceivable to a rac e of iH'ople likii ourselves, w h o ha^ e lost th e trie k o f d ecorative d e sig n .— Independent. llie Eastern Reflector. TWICE-A-WEÉK. Of the ll»,90(),(H30oldcopper cents w hich were sent o u t from the m in t o n l y th e 9Uü,üüO have e .e r been accounted for, and onlj' now’ and th en is a s tra y oiie<)f th e n niaining ll'J,- UÜ0,ÜUÜ seen in ciri’ulation. Í "DOG EteCTED MARSHAL. A ^owr Footed Cwntldate That Polled Thlrtjr-one Tote* O iw His Opponent. Forty years ago a m an in Aurora, Ind., owned a huge Newfoundland that was. know n ail over the town by the nam e o f Boh. The man was Jim ICelso, a .conspicuous character of those days. The dog possessed wonderful sagacity and would do alm ost anythiug w ithin reason that its m aster directed it todo, and when told to “take h im ” would throttle and down the strongest man and hold its. victim w ithout harmiug him seriously until ordered to release him by its ’m aster. So great was the reputation of this sagacious anim al for police duty that in the^spring of 1859, at the city election, the dog, under the name of Bob Kelso, was voted for at the polls and heat for the office of city m arshal Clint Theetge, the principal candidate, by a>. majority of 3l" votes. Old Captain Weaver and^several ^ other'w ealthy citizens of that penod prom ptly proposed to have the dog properly invested with the rights of the office to which such A decisive m ajority had duly d eclared at regular election a preference for over its hum an competitor and prepared in legal form an official bopd in the sum of $50,000, signed by numerous sportive parties and with a certificate from the election board, that Boh had received a m ajority of 31 votes over Candidate Theetge, They presented them selves before Mayor Starks, w ith the dog wearing an officer’s star on its breast and carrying in its m outh tho official bond, certificatoof election, otc., and then, ordering the canine to stand on its hind feet and hold up its right paw in position to take the oath of ofiicc, requested tho m ayor to swear the anim al to fa ith fu lly discharge the duties for which it had been elected, as required by law! The m a y o r refused, reg a rd in g th e proceedings as a joke, h u t th e backers of the b r u te asserted th e ir sincerity in th e m a tte r and insisted th a t th e dog he recognized as th e city m a r shal, or th e y would d efeat tho m a y or for- re-election. T h e dctermipati< m of th e parties kejit his honor in a q u an d ary ' lo r several days until Theetge could invoke th e aid of th e law to p u t h im in th e position, hut he a fte rw a rd becam e so diegnsted over th e a ila ir t h a t ho resigned and moved to Missouri a n d died th ere soon after. . Kelso m et w ith m isfo rtu n e and com m itted suicide a n d the dftg b ecame th e p ro p erty of Tom W’ainecott, w h o enlisted in the arm y a t tho b re a k in g out of th e war and made a g a lla n t soldier of Wie Eighteentli In d ia n a volunteers. Wainscott to o k th e dog to tlie w ar w ith him, a n d wlicthor on th c jn a rc li, in the cam p o r anii