Show DATS this new illustrated juvenile weekly baill keeps up its excellency cel lency in text and pictures it is of information and a rich dource amusement for the young an J should be patronized STATE conventions have been nearly all held except that of kentucky to take place next thursday when at the same time the district conventions of th carolina will be had the democratic work i then ready to begin in good earnest for the cincinnati convention on the dinst where a candidate will be put up whose very shadow will eclipse all the republican ticket head and anil ko 27 OF bunks funks standard series that excellent and yet cheap collection of standard stin dard works on history geography science religion morals and literature contains the elder calamities of authors a very interesting and really fa ting volume abounding with abec dotes of writers of different times and countries it is instructive as well as amusing you cin get it at john chambers on fifth street THE has passed the house bill admitting classical duty free showing thereby that a young republic in a virgin country has a full and correct appreciation of what the effete and effeminate monarchies of the old world generally consider as their monopoly this country already contains treasures of art and collections of valuable antiquities not surpassed by many of the institutions of europe which have had the support of centuries THE iun RATiON of travel requires peculiar tact says the editor of the home journal of new york who listened to the author of OUTDOOR LIFE is published in I K funk cos standard series in a lecture on that theme his selection ot topics and his treatment of them ire admirably adapted to hold the attan tion and delight a popular and cultivated audience the rapid and vivid style of word painting which he adopts is one of the best possible for the description of travels john G chambers will furnish it for publishers price office HOLDERS are quite numer aps ops in the union although not so much by to as office seekers we find the following enumeration of officers and employees of the united states executive office congress department of state treasury department war depart 1861 navy department no justice 2876 gov yr ern printing biece 1168 dei apartment part ment of agriculture 77 post office department total number of the greater share of these except the postoffice Post office and treasury depart mants are in washington THE delegation in the cincinnati convention will insist y upon having the following plank in corp orated in the democratic platform while the democratic party fully appreciates the of our free in and most earnestly ad berea to the policy of the founders of the republic inviting people of all nations tongues and creeds to bottle among ug and enjoy their ben ceita we claim thai every commonwealth composing the united states has the inalienable right to regulate it domestic affairs in such manner ats by it i deemed most conducive to the happi neM of its people whether it be the exclusion of imported haupers paupers and felona the taking of precautions against malignant fand infectious diseases or the limit aaion of the immigration of persons choso whoso distinctiveness of religion habits and customs is kiich as to tend to disturb the harmony o political economy or interfere with the prosperity of the people betray a good deal of solicitude about the ca adl date whom the democrats will nominate at cincinnati on the dinst they are especially anxious to warn the democrat of athe very worst choice for them surely the very worst for the republicans who smiled and connived at tho fraud of 1876 by which the elected president waa defrauded of hl teat and an usurper inaugurated many lican are beginning to regard the domination at chicago as A junish ment of providence for their sins they are despondent dejected and disconsolate and all the hope they hare is that probably the democrats might commit the blunder of nominating weaker man than barfield how this should be possible with an array of name like tilden seymour hayard thurman field ll endricks tic we fail to tec democracy i calmly telf poised in the conscious i nea strength tho dorco of it principle and the power of they put forward us their standard bearer in the presidential tournament while none of th republican candidates of chicago would have been able to carry more than limited the country each and every one of the statesmen who will be submitted to the ballot of the democratic delegates at cin Is certain to sweep all demo cracy like wind on pen the multitude in jerusalem ue will also gainor at least neutralize numbers of re publican voters who autly confider con a presidential ticket with chas A arthur at the tail as a derae to their party ayen if archangel gabriel tood at JK head of it |