Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — Making a President by Fraud. [ARTICLE]

Making a President by Fraud.

SENSIBLE VIEWS Of A REPUBLICAN JOURNAL. Elmira (N. Y.) Advertiser. It seems the indictment of the Louisiana Returning Board relates entirely to the electoral vote, and that Stanley Matthews and John Sherman are to be brought in as accessories. This appears to change the look oj the matter, and It becomes less easy for the people at Washington to assume indifference as to results or consequences. If it be really true that Madison Wells and his fellow members of the Beturning Board are guilty of the offences charge i, and on account of which they are indicted, we cannot see why it is not equally true that Matthews and Sherman are accessories. Certain it is they were present all through the sessions of the board, and had access to all the papers and documents, knew all the facts, advised and recommended all the action. If it be said that Madison Wells had a motive, much more had Matthews and Sherman. These latter gentlemen knew their ground, and knew that high office and great power depended on their success. They were not playing for any doubtful or uncertain stake. They understood the situation. They held the cards in their own hands, and what aces and bowers were not quietly kept up their sleeves were shuffled at pleasure to whom they pleased.

Mj. Finley Sharp, a young man living near this place, and who has been attending school here, is the inventor of a very neat microscope, which has thecapaeity of magnifying 4094 times. It is in possession of Dr. Cowger. A careful inspection of a drop of water under the lense of this ingenious apparatus, would almost persuade a fellow to take thi yellow ribbon and abstain from water drinking. A careful scrutiny of a clear drop of water reveals nnmerous turtles, flies, worms and bugs, and all uupear to be as lively and festive as Kansas grasshoppers. A collar box furnishes the bottom of the microscope, the upper part being made of different colored strips of pasteboard. The instrument is very ingeniously corstructed, and gives evidence that Mr. Sharp has paid considerable attention to the study of philosophy, and has a desire to advance in the study of natural history.- -Monticello Democrat.

The radical treasurer of Howard county, lowa, lately disappeared, and left the combination safe, which sho’d have contained $20,000, locked beyond the power of any one to open it. The Supervisors thought that perhaps he might not be a defaulter, and so gave him a few days’ start; then, when they were going to break open the safe and give a deadly finish to conjecture, the maker - the safe wasn’t paid for—interfered and wouldn’t let them open it till they had forked over $1,300. It took them several days to make up their minds to do this. Then they broke the safe open and—found $65.38 in cash. They are now in cold pursuit of the fugitive, who is some thousands of miles beyond their reach. Lowville, New York, has just experienced an exciting social sensation. Cyrus C. Haskins, twice a widower, fell in love with Mrs. Brooks, twice a widow, so desperately that she had sufficient control over his mind to induce him to marry Mrs. Lizzie Spaulding, once a widow, to whom she sold all interest in him in consideration of a S4OO house and lot. Having effected the marriage, Mrs Brooks was sued by Mrs. Spaulding’s sister for the property, and for erecting a head upon Mrs. Spaulding’s sister was sent to jail. These are nearly all the complications up to the time of going to press.

The Lick telescope is to be a big thing on eyes. It will have a larger refractor than anything in existence, the cost being set down at $150,000. There will he a subsidiary refractor four feet in diameter, with silver-on-glass and speculum metal mirrors, costing $20,000. Tell, of Paris, has offered to make crown and flint-glass discs for the object-glass of a fortyinch refractor for $20,000, two years being allowed for the work, after which it will take three years for the optician to perfect the glass. Chief Justice Agnew, Rev. Dr. M’Kinney and Charles Townsend, of Pennsylvania, were arrested at Beaver, in that State, for violation of the game laws in shooting pheasants on the 4th of July. It seems that the country justice knew more about the game laws than the head of the Su • preme Court, as tie latter said he wasn’t aware there was any law limiting the time for shooting pheasants. The defendants plead guilty and paid their fines. There is a charge against Gen. Scott for contingent expenses amounting to $1,129, which has been on the books of the Government since 1816. The Secretary of War has just been advised by the Auditor that it might do no harm to cancel the item, seeing that the General is dead, and never was morally responsible for it anyhow. The loss by strike and obstruction to business for five days on the five truck lines of railway, including destruction of property of the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads, is estimated at 26J millions of dollars.