Plymouth Democrat, Volume 21, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 May 1876 — Page 2

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rXTMOCTII. May IS, 1S7. DewocrVJ SUte Ticket. Jl. Os.Oama A- Bnklr,tso. toT. r 8wrrsCmrt-AUfMSs-truss 'Tr ram1st District tyuaonl H. Kwk Irk. Monro. V. - ais1tC. Ttowswy. OUm. ft. 1 Jei!, fVsT. """"Vl A . t- y t" i'ift. IW. --.v'iss Hwr4. Osrk. ii)rH P. F-nls. Ki(4er. M . 8. 1-M. DssM-twrm. sjrl; . OfTi.tt, llormrd. Tbw UrU. Marion. . 0. PruiU, Paris. Thnmm J. Han-1fn, Boone. 4Qrgii Kanum Pulaski. jr. A. AJnsn. Cm. Woods. tl. MAnhsil, Kom-uk(k -t - 1 -s i 7Sitor Morton is just now ritnz to explain his connection with ilia expenditure of 250,000 during the war Plymouth D-mfMXal. ' Yea, nd he explained,' much to the (heomture ot the Democrats. "Till the Democrat do him the justice fo publish his explanation. It is da hita, after making the above insinuation. Lagrange Standard. Since the item our Lagrange coteraporary objects to, was published in u The DEMW KiT, Senator Morton has explained that he faithfully accounted for the expenditure of the 250,000 and exhibited receipts showing nal settlement with the government. If his explanation is true, Thi Demo crat Is glad of it lie wasn't content, however, with a plain statement of his connection" with the disbursement of the money, but embraced the opportunity to wave the bloody shirt, and lound the praises of the "Great War Governor." . According to Morton's explanation one would infer that there were very few men in Indiana who did anything to aid in suppressing the rebellion but himself. lie established a bureau of finance, borrowed money on the ffvith of the state without au thority of law, disbursed it where it would do the most good, manipulated the ballot boxes and carried the state legislature in his own interests, and procured the passage of acts legalizing his unwarranted assumption of power 1.1 That he disbursed the money there can be no doubt, and it is undoubtedly true, as he states, that e holds receipts ior ine money paid out by him. But for what purposes the money was ex pened is a question that still remains .in a state of unexplained obscurity. A portion or it, undoubtedly, found its way into the legitimate channels for which it was intended, and a large amount of it undoubtedly did not. Eut that's neither here nor there. The - "-money was expended, whether properly or improjrly, we know not, and the - people of Indiana will have to foot the V Political Slander. - It has come to be one of the fashions to abuse men who submit their names fo office. Men of all grades and stripes cf opinion seera to think they have a perfect right to malign ana slander those who run for office. r' wri aaia... -me tongue o'. slandar

', TlSlio' wru VT.-l-?ti jurn deep i ' and are more rV-I"than the grave. . Poes it follow that because a person desires a certain office he is therefore a minion of evil, and evil only ? Must a man who stands fair in the community be blw:kened by his opponents, simply because he submits his name for office? It is indeed strange yea, is it not wicked? to injure those who d(v sire political honors at the hands of their constituents. The American people must frown down this evil, which is becoming a source of alarm to our institutions. Everybody, almost, seems to think it is net wrong to steal from a railroad, or slander a man who desires an office. But the sin of stealing or lying will be just as potent in making him heinous

who follows his wicked ways. The time has come when we must euucaie tne better side of our nature, exercise a spirit of forbearance, and of charity, and show men that we hive faith in humanity. We hope to see in the many new questions now coming betore the people a better view taken of men, and more attention given to the real poinvs at issue. All men need the warm and hearty support of those who are g od, and all men should strive to develop the kindly spirit which will crown the wearer with the emblems of peace. Reformers Convention. A convention of unusual importance was held in Xew York on Mondi.y and Tuesday of this week, having been iallxl for the purpose of revising means for the purification of the public service, or more properly speaking, for the purpose of finding out, if possib1et iLcpa are mUr aotigh-honem men in the .Republican party to fill the office. The convention wat called, and participated in principally by those Iiepublicans who sympathized with the Greely movement two years ago. Carl Schurz, Wui. Cullen Bryant, Theodora Wakey, Tarke Godwin, John W. Ho) t, and others of like faith were the leading spirits in the convention, roc a lonsr addrA People, presented by a committee, of "u van bchurz was chairman, the following extract ia taken, as showing the sentiment, of the convention : W e shall support no candidate however conspicuous his position or brilliant his ability, ia whom the impulses of the party manager have shown themselves predominant over those of the reformer, for he will be inclined to continue that fundamental abuse, the employment of the government service as a machinery for personal or party ends. We shall support no candidal who, however favorably judged by his nearest friends, is not ; publicly knowa to possess those qualities of mind ar.d character which the stern task of genuine reform requires, Tor the American people cannot now afford to risk the future of the ripublic in experiment on merely supposed virtue or rumored ability, to b. trusted oa the strength of private recoavmendaJon. In one word, at present, no candidate should be held entitled to the support of patriotic citizens of whom the ' question may lrly b asked. " Is be readly the man to carry through a thorough-going reform of the governiiieot?' Can be, with certainty be dc-.--icO upon to posses the moral

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ple wita abuses which have acquired the strength of established custom, and to this end firmly to resist the pressure. even of his party friends?" Whenever there is room for such question, and doubt as to the answer, the candidate should be unfit for this emergency. This is no time for so-called availabil ity, springing from distinction gained or. fields cf action foreign to the duties of government, nor for that far more dangerous sort of availibility which consists in this that the candidate be neither so bad as to repe good citizens nor so good as to discou rage the bad ones. Passive virtue in the highest place has too often been known to permit the growth cZ active vice below. The man to be entrusted with the presidency this year mus. have deserved not only the confidence -jf hon est men, but also the fear and hatred of the thieves. lie who manages to conciliate the thieves cannot be the candidate. Every American citizen who has the future of the republic and the national honor sincerely at heart, should solemnly resolve that the country must now have a president whose name is already a watchword of reform, whose capacity and courage for the work are matters of record rattier than of promise; who will restore tae simplicity, independence, and recitude of the early administrations, and whose life will be a guarantee of his fidelity and fitness a man at tie mere sound of whose name, even, tie most disheartened will take new courage, and all mankind will say the Americans are indeed in earnest to restore the ancient purity of their government. Fellow-citizens, the undersigned in addressing you, are not animated by the ambition to form or lead a new party. Most of ua have long been, and still are warmly attacbed to their party associations. It would be most gratifying to us to see, by party action candidates put forward whose character and record answer these requirements, which present circumstances render imperative. We earnestly hope and trust it will be so. We sha.'l gladly follow such a lead, and make every effort in our power to render it successful But vhile we are ready to accept any and every good result of party action, we affirm that the moral reform of our public concerns is infinitely superior in importance to the interests of any political party. Glad to promote that reform through party action, we shall insist upon it at all events. Should party action fall, experience teaches us that the habitual submission of good citizens to a choice of evils presented to them by party organizations is one of the most prolific causes of corruption in our politics. The acceptance by the people of the argument that one party may be bad and still entitled to the support of good men because ttie other party is still worse, will induce each to consider how bad it may safely be. It will strengthen in each the most unscrupulous elements, and subject the will of the people to the subtle tyranny of organization yielded by those who live by politics. To break that tyranny by a stern refusal to submit to such a choice of evils is the first beginning in the reform of our political life. Without this all oher steps will prove unavailing. We shall sincerely rejoice to see the necessity of independent action avoided. We earnestly hope that the efforts to this end being made by the friends of reform within party lines, will be crowned with success, and that the just expectations of the people may not be doomed to disappointment. We therefore appeal to all good citizens who find their own sentiments expressed in this address, be they inside or outside of party lines, to organize in their respective districts and communicate with the executive com mitte appointed at this meeting, so that efficient co-operation may become possible. Let no effort be spared in bringing the influence of patriotic public opinion to bear upon those who, in the customary way, are soon to nominate party candidates ; and then, in any event, let us be ready to do what tha best interests of the republic demand. Our generation has to open the second century of our national life, as the fathers opened the first. Theirs was the work of independence. Ours is th.e work of reformation. The one is as vital now as the other was then. Xow, as then, every true American must have the courage to do his duty. The Republican Party. Er5. Dkmockat : It is very evident that the Republicans, not only of Indiana, but of the country, are alarmed at the political outlook ana the certainty of their defeat in the coming elections. They clutch like drowning men do at straws, at everything which can be tortured intoan expression of public confidence in their administration of the iroverninent. They cackle and prattle about A l - ,1 . . iuo loveliness or tneir party, like a noisy poll parrot which is constantly attracting attention to its superior merits by calling out "Pretty Poll, 1'retty Poll!" and like Poll they are al ways wanting a " cracker" at the pub lic exiense. They have stood ud in the strength and insolence of their ma jority, arrogating to themselves the credit lor everything that was good ana prosperous in the nation, and accrediting Democracy with everything tnat was evil and unfruitful. Following out their premises to their logical sequences, their argument wouil be that under Republican adminisitration large potatoes crow, and unler Democratic, small ones. In other words, God s bounties are best bestowed upon the people of the United btates only under Republican auspices and according to Republican plans. The vorking people of this country. however, are pretty apt to remember the blessing showered down upon them, tinder Republican rule, in the shape of the panic of 1S73. and how its heavy Uand, of ruin and desolation to their happiness and prosperity, has not been at all lightened under the same auspices. If there is any virtue in legislation, and a wise, pure an? correct administration of public affairs, why has not the Republican party giren us some relie ? T heir chosen president, senate and house, backed by tLeir4 eo.OOO government cfficials, have been in undisputed sway ever sitte that terrible cyclone of devastation, but yet to-day the workiug people of the land are

miserable and despondent with hope deferred of better times. Better times will come, but it will only be when the miserable, impottntly incompetent Republican administration that hi B paralyzed our industries, and hi rgared our people, is hurled from its bl gating supremacy. They falsely assume that the Democracy is m disorganized body, not united upon any plan of public policy or relief to the country. What has the

wonderfully united (?) Republican party given to the people of this country in the way of a settled public policy or actual relief ? Has it not given us a stone when we have asked for bread ? Go to the hovel of the artizan, and the laboring man, see his wife and children formerly clothed and subsisted in comfort, now in rags and almost starving, and ask there what relief has been received from the united (?) Republicans. Ask the thousands of unemployed workingmen throughout the land what relief they have received from that blatant organization. The only settled public policy It has is to maintain its legions of office holders in power. And bloated they are by public pelf wrung and stolen from the toiling millions of the land. Well may they grasp at straws. Well may they sing the praises of their cho sen men, and under fulsome laudations of their imaginary virtue seek to drown out public criticism. Defeat stares them in the face. They have blocked the wheels of retrenchment and reform sot in motion by a Democratic house, and have done it, too, not in the interest of the people. but in that of the office holders. The people of this country are not blind. They know the house of representatives forms only one branch of, and is unable of itself to revolutionize the government ; and they know, too, that a partizan senate and a partizan president have deliberately, maliciously and with not one iota of patriotism or regard for the public good, opposed every measure originated in the house, by the more direct representatives of the people. Is there anything in the action of the Republican members of the pres ent house or senate that the intelligent Republican can point to with pride? Nothing is manifest in them but a brazen, desperate determination to avoid exposure in their rottenness and corruption. None of that digni fied, quiet demeanor with which an honest and pure man meets his accusers, but a noisy, wicked, vituperative calumniation of others, with which they seek to distract the attention of the public. Instead of peremptorily deposing their wrong doers, as the Democracy do and have done, they protect them in their infamy and clog investigation all they possibly can. JTo difference what may be the motive of the Democracy, whether good, bad or indifferent, if the Republican officials are honest, and have discharged their duties efficiently and correctly, they can bear and need not fear investigation. At present, though, they are panning out at the little end of the horn, notwithstanding the president's order in the interest of his friends prohibiting the removal of original documents from the departments to which they belong. The course of the Republican gentlemen has in no wise strengthened the confidence of the people in them, and we propose to show them, especially in the state of Indiana, that they are on the losing horse. Blue Jeans Jimmy," as they call him, will ride into the gubernatorial mansion next October.with 20,000 majority. The people have been deluded by the Republican party, and after years of trial it has proven itself the most heartlessly selfish, incompetent and corrupt organization that ever administered the affairs of the government In selecting men to perform the functions of government, we ought to be as careful as each of us would be in appointing one to administer an estate for our wife and children. In thus selecting our next governor for the state, how does the wily, cunning Orth compare with the sterling, able and patriotic James D. Williams? Orth stands as a bigoted intolerant partizan, as the champion in this state of Knownothingism, the most infamous political organization known to our history, and as one whose abilities have more than once been enlisted in the oppression of the weak and defenceless. Williams stands as an exponent of large-hearted, common sense convictions and ideas ; of an economical,c orrect and pure administration of public affairs. The people know how to choose between then, and the handwriting on the wall reads, An overwhelming, crushing defeat awaits the Republicans of Indiana next October." So let 'em squeal. I. Washington Correspondence. 1 WASUIX&TOH;I. C- Marl2, is73. The great unknown to whom Mr. Blaine has so frequently referred as the man who will be suddenly sprung upon tne Cincinnati convention by the Grant clique, is now known to be Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, now Minister to jfans. Grant owes his. advancement in life to Washburne. and is de termined to secure him the nomina tion if possible. It was Washbn rn a wish that his name should not be men tioned too early as a candidate. He is very unpopular with his party, and he knows it, and was therefore afraid to give his legions of enemies time to kill mm off by showing his absolute unfitness for the chief magistracy. Grant let the cat out of the bag the other aay, while 44 m his cups," and stated that all hi3 influence in the Cincinnati convention will be used for his early and steadfast patron. But the president forgets that his influence, ven with the rapscallions of the Republican party, has been steadily and rapidly on the wane, ever since it has been regarded as a fixed fact that he has not the ghost of a chance of being renominated. There axe dozens of men in the Republican party who will have more personal influence on the delegate to Cincinnati than U.S. Grant: and it is more than probable that the con vention, scared by the earnestness and evident purpose of the distinguished leaders of the - Liberals " and " Reform Republicans " will throw overboard i all the old party bads, and take up such a man as G. W. Curtis or George F. Hoar. The friends of the several Democratic aspirants are all a: ya.-t-DtIv hopeful. Thos of Mr. Bayard are es pecially enthusiastic, and make up ia

zeal and hard work for their lack of tturcericrl strength. But the number of his friavls is growing larger week by week I should rather say hit political mpporUrty because all who know the able aad courteous senator are his friends. The friends of Mr. Justice Davis, of the supreme court, are working actively for that distinguished gentleman, under the direction of Mr. John D. Defreer. an honest man, an

able wirt -puller, and a personal rather than a poliu ral friend of Mr. Davis. The admirers of Mr. Hendricks, it is unnecessary to say, are working vigorously for him, and are determined to do their best to secuie his nomination. The friends of Tilden are working hard and spending mcjey freely for their favorite; and if they do not succeed, their failure cannot be charged to a lack of energy and a free use of the sinews of war. A confidential friend of President Grant said, to-day, after inflating to the extent of a half a dozen glasses of lager, " Do you know who is going to be nominated at Cincinnati?" The immediate answer from nearly a dozen persons present was "Blaine." No, sir," was the reply. " Well, then," said several of bis auditors, " Conkling or Hayes." "Not right yet," said the president's friend ; " you will have to go lower down in the alphabet. The name of the man who will get the nom ination begins with a W,' which his name is Washburne,, the present Min ister to France. An incredulous laugh greeted this assertion. " Well, gentleman," was the reply, " I am willing to bet 81,000 against 8100 that Washburne is nominated." " But why do you think so?" queried some one. " Why do I think so V was the responss ; "because the 'old man' wants him nominated. You know as well as I do that Washburne made General Grant, and you also know that Grant never deserts his friends." " But how about Conkling?" was the nest query. "It is reported that he is Grant.s favorite, and that Grant is using his influence in Conkling's behalf." " O, that is all gammoB," said the president's friend ; "the president may seem to favor the nomination of Conkling. but is really doing all he can to secure the selection of his friend Washburne. Mark my words 1 Either Washburne or Hayes will receive the nomination at Cincinnati. An arrangement is already made by which Conkling is to throw the vote of New York for Washburne, in case he sees no chance of his own nomination. Blain of course will lead off on the first few ballots, but a compromise candidate will finally be selected, and his name is Washburne." I incline to think there may be a good deal of truth in all this. It is far from certain that the Republican candidate who leads on the first few ballots will be the successful one, as the history of nominating conventions show. Seward distanced Lincoln by a respectable majority on the second and third ballots in the Republican convention of 1864; and yet Lincoln was finally chosen. The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; and consequently Blaine must not be too sure of his nomination at Cincinnati. As for Conkling, he stands no earthly show of the nomination. It is bearly possible that he may secure a complimentary vote from the delegates from bis own state ; but even that is by no means certain. As for his being" the choice of the president, the idea is simply ridiculous. Conkling is confessedly an able man; but he is excessively egotistical and arrogant in bis manner, and is the very last man in the world for a man of Grant's calibre to "tie to." Fellows like Rufe Ingalls, Phil Sheridan, and Robeson are more to Grant's liking; and al though he may seem to be on friendly terms with the high-toned New York senator, there can be no doubt he would prefer that some one else should be nominated at Cincinnati. Be this as it may, Grant's present influence over his party is exceedingly limited. As a candidate, he has dropped out of sight altogether; and, in the sunset of his power, is almost deserted by those who, a year since, were proud to be i counted among his friends and defenders. The centennial celebration was first suggested in 1869, and the proposition was received with general favor from the start. During that year delegations from several states went to Philadelphia to confer with the centennial committee which had already been appointed by the city councils. The movement took form when congress in March, 1871, passed a law providing for an international exhibition, the ap pointment of a centennial commission, etc. The international feature of the exhibition was rpposed by many members of congrrs, and by none more earnestly than Senator Sumner, who urged that the exhibition should be distinctively American, as its main object was the celebration of a great national anniversary in which .the monarchal governments of Europe had no sympathy and should have no part. The last speech rf his public life, delivered in the United States senate, was an earnest protest against this feature of the bilL In 1S7-', congress created by law a centennial board of finance, with authority to raise subscriptions to the amount of $10,000,000, in shares of not more then 810 each, for the purpose of eracting suitable buildings. Pennsylvania, through her legislature, contributed SI, 000,000, and the . city of Philadelphia 8500,000. Since then, liberal contributions from many of the northern and western states have been made in aid of the project, and the. present congress approiated 81,500,000 for the same purpose. Jefferson county, Iowa, has a man and wife whose united ag i almost 200 yearn. Mr. Hogan was born in 17S6 and his wife in 1779. They have lived in wedded bliaa aloce I. -115. The receipts at the South Bend operahouse Monday evening upon the occasion of the production of "Hamlet" by Edwin Booth and McVic er't theatrical company, were $532. Some workman in Clinton, Iowa, the other day, nnearthed from under the sidewalk a weather-beaten starch box. which on beineopened was lound to contain the skeleton of aa infant. ' ifA monstrous Cfclican was rntW nn- . j . r tored inHaywsjd, Freeborn coumr, If inn. wfclch meaaunl eight feet from tip t tip of the wiegvj; Lt feet ia height; and from tLe l.- of iiie sjluH to the tip of the bill,

EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.

conii;ctx r w. k. bailey, couxty H'PHUMKMir.KT. To hon all tormuocxleocu t r thi d-partmrnt herald be fcidremwd, at fljmouvii, 1 ul. - The following are some of the great libraries that are, and have been, Bince the time of Alexander the Great: The Alexandrian Libraric contained 700,000 volumes, and was the largest ever collected before the art of printing was invented. Th Royal Library, Paris, contains "00,000 printed volumes, and 80,000 manuscripts. The Bodleian Library, Oxford, contains - 420.0W volnmes, and 30,000 manuscripts. The Royal Library, Munich, contains over 600,000 volumes and 16,000 manuscripts. The Vienna Library 350,000 volumes and 16,000 manuscripts. The Naples Library 300,00 J volumes, and 6,000 manuscripts. The Imperial Library, St. Petersburgh, 400,0C0 volumes, and 16,000 manuscripts. The Imperial Library, at Copenhagen, 40 .',0OO volumes and 20,000 manuscripts. The City Library, Berlin, 250,000 volumes, and 5,000 manuscripts. The Astor library. New York, 100,000 volumes, ad 1,200 manuscripts. Commissioner Eaton reports that 340 libraries in the United States, contain 1,091,590 volumes, 8S.740 pamphlets, and 11,545 manuscripts. Notwithstanding this vast accumulation of reading matter within the domain of the United States, and the annual employment of 257.6S9 teachers at an expense of 84,974,338, there yet remains an army greater than has ever been assembled on this continent, of native born Americans, over ten years of age, who cannot read. It is encouraging, however, to know that this army of illiterates are growing handsomely less every year. The great state of Delaware has de clined to exhibit her educational progress at the centennial. It might convey some personal reflections upon Delaware pedagogues to enquire, why; therefore, it is not best to do so. Good, wholesome, normal instruc tion ; a mild, firm government, and a proper amount of exercise ; in other words, sunshine in the school room, in the daily intercourse of teachers with superintendents, and, vice versa, will do more to keep children in school than all other means put together. Magnificent school buildings, the finest furniture, plans finely arranged and promptly executed ; text books, appara tus in abundance, and all the so-called machinery, are worthless, unless ani mated by the life, strength, and vigor of good, wholesome teaching. It is reported that among persons, eighteen years and under, the proportion of the illiterate is smaller in San Francisco than in any other large city in the Union. In the Tennessee Teachers' Associa tion, held recently, one of them said, that while he believed in the co-educa tion of boys and girls before the war, his opinion was now somewhat changed. He thought that boys now, as a rule, were less fit to associate with girls than they were then." Tennessee is not the only state whose boys are rude, but in many localities the asser tion can be reversed to the credit of the boys. An Indianapolis teacher thinks that too much school time is occupied in trying to learn historical dates, and that only a few of the important should be learned. Don't presume any sane teacher would teach very long and not find out that special efforts and extra time taken to teach pupils the exact historical dates, was absolute folly, and the time thus taken, really lost to the school. Not long since the people of a Bra zilian city decided to erect a monu ment indicative of the respect for the present wise Emper.or, Dom Pedro. The emperor, hearing of their desisro. sent word to them, that the most gratifying expression of regard on their part would be in the erection of school houses for the education of their chil dren. It is bad to quell disorder in a disorderly manner, such as by jingling a Dell, or tapping with a pencil, or stamping with the foot, or whacking the table with a stick the table is not to blame. We would advise teachers not to question children by throwing books at their heads; the children would be justified in replying by means of flying slates and disengaged ink wells. Unmarried male principals should be docked S5.00 per annum till they marry, that their assistants may be spared unnecessary distraction. National Teacher's Monthly. Announcements. At the request of many friends I have connented to become a candidate for the office of SENATOR jorthe counUea of Marshall, Fulton and Pula.-ki, aubject to the decision of the Democratic district convention. platt Mcdonald. Era. Democrat : HOWARD BABNABY, the preent Incumbent, will be a candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER of the Second district, aubject to the ciciaion of the Democratic county convention. MANY VOTERS. A. SOUTH will be a candidrw-for COtTSTY SURVEY OR, aubject to the deti-rton of the Democratic county convention. J. M. KtlN'GER, present Incumbent, will be a candidate for COUNTY SURVEYOR, aubject to the decision of the Democratic county convention. HORACE CORBIN, present incumbent, will be a candidate for re-election to the otiice of JUDGE of 41t judicial circuit, subject to the deciaion of the Democratic nominating convention. ARTHUR L. THOMSON, present Incumbent 7L.be acandidate for re-election to the office of TKEASURi-.R of Marshall county, aubject to the decision of the Democratic county convention. -fLTrS C- FIXK. present incumbent, will be a candidate for re-eU-ctioti to the office of SHERIFF of Marshall county, subject to the decision of the Democratic county convention. PF52Y - JONES, present incambent. will be a eandidatefor relclkn to the once of PF-OSECU-TINtJ ATTORN" K V nf tKrt :..,);,.!, s. ...T. ject to the deciaion of the DemocnUc nonvnaUnic . lurml m m ""T" numoer or the citizen or .Marshall and Fuiton counties, I announce myself aa a candidate for JUDGE of tha ai i.i.o 1, .v. . . . . . . aubject to the d tin coa vexation, Aa Cb CAfKuii. a candidal for SH E.K1 F, vubject to ib drioa of lia lMniiVrtii A.VIXXFJDGE. of REPRESENTATIVE of Marshall countv auhjirt tion! dsoiauB vt " Democratic county' ctcndecision of the Democratic county convention. By request of the Dmrrj"-r of tiuVKBuS TOWNSHIP. JAMES M. WICKIZER, of Walont town -M p. wis t a -i'!i4at for tie of KiPP.k.EST 11 t,aut.ttt to the, Ix-sKieraMe Bosaiiuuiua; -venuon to held T PijnKHiii, June 44. Ers IKitocxaT5 At the earnest solicitation of my friend. I bar conacntaM to la a candidate forSTA'lE fc.EXAYvj.ri, tur this seaaic-dal dwnct and yoa areauuirid la an r m- name for tnt iwii, uruijoct w tae detUiau of the DemotTLWl V4.J.WW. . i i-SGCtt SXUfiUBOil, Jbochsi.

Annual Report f the Treasurer of the City of FlymoatB, Indians, for the Fiscal Year Eutilag May 5, 1876. Tt lAe HvmornU, tht Major mni Oaaaaoaj Ovarii A t t.-jr vf IHymcutA : I saVmit the followin report of funds received and dishurwt fcr me since laM annual report of date A pnl : 2, 1 s7 to-srit : A mount on hand April 12 1373 i itv fund f 4,04 41 School Fund 1.107 97

Total on hand 541 Amount rroiived between April 12. and May S, l!75, as per settlement with ex-Clerk Thomson. and re purted at that date City funds S 13 3 School funds SS 96 Total receipt THnbunwments alove 192 33 Ci'.y orders paid and returned to Clerk.. .J SOS I. Which left balance on band May City funds 9 4.029 S School fnnda 1,1 to itt Total t 5,176 SS Receipt sicca May H. l.73. City Funcs received O A Johnaon. Mavor.. f i E Snyder, Clerk J W Uoean. Marshal W Kelly. J P O R Chancy, on judjnaent, Woiford. ...... T J Hupp. saloon license. .............. On not ia my bands, aa follows, by order of tU Council John V iervtr . . . . .......... Mike SpeuwhofTer. Wolfardt, principal and interest (This but note I had to aue.whtch accounts for the $6 90 of Interest.) IJcen.es A L Thomaon, for old houao. Sale of ct-mett'ry lota ..................... FinanceCoTumittee, on losxa..... .... Delinquent taxes. ... ............. Total collected on regular dus pliate of 1S75 $9,340 45 Coileoted on a.-countof advertiaitiK and sale ot lota of 1S75 ? 50 Less 5 per cent, for collection. . 467 02 127 00 26 SO Sft 00 11 59 lOO 00 M 00 SO 00 31 90 f7 00 10 50 So Oil 4.2S7 00 M6 4J Balance 3,873 63 Give city fu.-id three-fiftha, or 5,324 12 Total receipts $11 S.V 09 Add balance on hand 4,029 45 Total $15,887 54 Receipts of School Fund Delinquent duplicate (taxes) ..S 204 82 Regular duplicate of 1S75 3 549 41 Total receipts ( 8,753 69 Add balance on band 1,146 93 Total $4,900 62 Receipts of Road Fund County Treasurer, on two road warrants from County Auditor, July 15, 1S75 f 1,850 75 County Treasurer, on road warrant from County Auditor, Jan. 11, 1876 S 18131 Total : 11,532 06 DUb. e menu of Rod Fund Road orders and reccipu redeemed and returned to the Clerk, for which I hold bis receipts ... 689 63 Note of Uauer A Brother, with interest on . 1,053 oa Total Total disbursements.... Sl,772 6S Total receipts 1,532 06 Deficit in Road Fund.. 240 62 Disbursements of City Fund City and old Corporation orders, including $13 58 of interest redeemed and returned .1,772 63 to Clerk, for which I hold his receipts... $8,821 07 One note given to John Soice 1,500 00 Interest on same .SO 00 One note Riven to First National Bank.... 2,000 00 Interest on same 16 67 Total Add bal Road Fund deficit $12,387 74 240 62 Total disbursements $12,628 36 Total receipts of City Fund, including balance $15,887 54 Total disbursements 12,628 36 Balance on hand $ 3,259 18 Disbursements of School Fund School house bond No. 1 redeemed. $1,000 00 25 coupons of school bonds, $100 2,500 00 The bond and 15 coupons returned to Clerk 1,000 for the other 10 coupons, at the Merchants' National Bank, Chicago, but coupons not returned yet. Expense of forwarding money to Chicago. 1 00 Total : Total receipts Total dUbu mements $3,507 00 4,900 62 3,501 00 Balance on hand $1,399 62 KKCA.FITCU.TIOX. Total receipts and balance city tuna $15,887 54 Total receipts aod balance school fond ... 4,900 62 Total receipts and balance road fund 1,532 06 Total receipts and balance $22,320 22 Total disbursements city Tund ...$12,R28 36 Total disbursements road fund 1,532 06 Totai disbursements school fund 3,501 00 Total disbursements. ...$17,661 42 ...$22,320 22 ... 17,661 42 Receipts........ Disbursements. . Leaves balance on hand City fund $3,259 18 School fund 62 $4,658 80 All of which is respectfully submitted, this 28th day of April, A. D. 1870. D. B. AJ1M STRONG, City Treasurer. Examined the foregoing report, counted and can celled all the orders, bonds, notes and coupons, and found tne report correct. S. M-VYER, PLATT McDONALD -Finance Committee, A. MORRISON. ) Report of the Clerk of the City of Plymouth, Indiana, for the Fiscal Year Ending April, 1876. To the Ifon&rable, the Mayor and Common Council of the Ciiy of Plymouth.. I herewith submit this, my annual report for the year ending April, 1816. BECEIPT3. To balance in Treasurer's hands Al&y 6. 175 Distributed as follows City fund proper............ Interest fu ad . $5,176 38 ..4,029 45 ..1.146 93 Total $5,176 38 Total footings of the duplicate for 1875 113,055 74 From which deduct delinquent tax.. 3.130 43 Deduct quietuses for vniows and firemen, exemption ar.d erroneous tax 684 76 Deduct Treasurers 5 par cent, for collection 467 02 Total net collections 8.873 53 i Divided thus I City revenue 5,324 12 School bond interest 3.549 41 Total 8,873 53 Keo'd from J. W. Lokuu. pound..... . 24 80 A. Johnson Afayor. lines ,876 26 IV. Kelly, lines..... 38 00 baloon licenses 8o oo t lrcses 75 oo Theetres 43 tK) Street licenses 45 00 license olleeted by tho Mayor, for which Le has receipt 7 00 license collected by Marshal a oo License collected by Treasurer 12 00 A. L. Thomson, old house 10 50 Rale of cemetery lots 219 00 John rloico. loan 1.4tf7 John Kelson, loan 800 First National Bank 2.000 Road tund. from Co. Treas 1.533 t G. H. Chaney. on judgment 117 59 Delin meut tax collected from May 6, if 75 City fund $.123 55 School house fund 215 02 Deduct 6 per cent, for collecting 26 87 510 70 John W icretor, on note 50 00 .Vichacl Speisshoffer, on note....... 5000 Wolfardt 3190 Sale and advertising city lotslJO 00 Deduct five per cent fees... . 150 28 50 Total $22,320 22 C IS B Cms EMEJSTS. Paid for redemption of City orders $ 6.764 74 Road orders 676 66 Old corporation orders. 42 75 Interest on " " is 58 $ ,m 73 Laoer & Bro.. note and lntl,o3 (15 School bond No. 1 1.0o 00 15 school bond coupons... l,5io 00 Cash in Bank. Chicago.. .1.000 00 Expense of forwarding Ket d road receipts put in b1r Co. - ronsumr, in payment 01 ttoau " ai aub .................. ........ 13 97 Paid note Riven to First National j i aismui umoiy 2,000 . 1 . 1. 1 Lr.. vu naujc.,.. .............. ... 16 67 Paid not (riven to John Soice 1.500 ?o. VIA BIUUq, ..................... fiO Total disbursements .7 661 42 Ra'.sirsA in ( i t it T-.. , .... . Z . '. 1 ,ooa o Amount of city orders issued from auu including April 12. 1875. to April 26, 1376 I 9,40! 59 i.TARn.mEs. Am't of outstanding orders not yet Drpsentwi for r,.iln,,.ti..r, da Kote of John Nelson .".".".. V.".. w 00 Total $ 049 8o Respectfully submitted. April 28. 1876. -ER. City Clerk. it correct. 8. Jf ATE R. PI Mv l X ALT, V Finance Committee A. AfORRXSON. j Latest -Yews. Iron has been discovered near Hastings Minn. James P. Voorheea threatens Kokoino with ILunlet. Fayette coanty, In J, Las abandoned iu agricultural fair. Grasshoppers are hatching in some of the Minnesota counties. LogariFport has 22 lawyers, and enough lawsuits to keep theaa busy. A slr&jrgli ig band of Indians are wandrrliag attotif St attTlvwu ul. - The city delinquent list of Terre Haute will this year amount to f32,00O. At the laet teachers' examination in" Blue Earth county, Minnesota, out cf 150 cjaiiliJatea, onJy one third was acct-pteL. .

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City Book Store. "WALL AND WINDOW PAPER CHICAGO DAILIES and all the LEADING WEEKLIES at U e CITY BOOK STORE IstDoorNorth of Knssbanm &Mayer. mar23m3 Sheriffs Sale 1518 By virtue of an execution taaued out of the office of the clerk of the Marshall circuit court, to me directed, on a judgment m favor of John V. Farweil Jt Ct.. and a;:tinM, Amos E. Wann, I have levied on the following described real estate, to-wit: The couth half of the north talf of the southeast quarter of section number nineteen (lit) in township number thirty-two (32) north of rane number four east, containing forty (40) acres more or less. Also the following real estate, commencing at the north-west corner of the south-wet quarter of the south- west quarter of section number twenty (20), township number thirty-two (32) north, of ranire number four east ; thence running north fifty (50) rods ; thence east one hundred and sixty (100) rods ; thence south fifty rod ; thence west to the place of beginning, containing fiitv (50) acres more or less,situatc in Marshall couuty, Indiana. And I will expose lor sale at public auction, the above described real estate, at the door of the court hojse in f'lvmoutu, Marshall county, Indiana, as the law directs, on SATURDAY, JUNE 10, A; D. 1S76, between the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m., on said day. to the highest bidder for cash, subject to valuation or appraisement laws, and subject to redemption, LEWIS C. FINK, Sheriff ot Marshall County. C, H. Reeve, utty for p!fl. maylSU Application for License. To the citizens of Center Town.-hip, Marshall County, and State ot Indiana : The undersigned herebv. gives notice that he will apply to the Board of County Commissioners of said Couuty, at their next regular term, to be held at the court house, in the City of Plymouth, in said countv, commencing on the first Monday of June," A. D. 1876, for a license to sell spirituous, vinous and malt liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing said liquors to be drank on tlie premises where sold for one year. The premises where said liquors is to be sold and drauk are described asfollews: A part of lot number seventeen (17) aad a part of lot number eighteen (IS) In the village of lnwood, commencing forty (40) feet north of the south-east coinerot fractional lot number eighteen (IS), running thence westwardly sixty (60) feet; thence north torty (40) leet ; thence east sixty (60) feet ; thence south forty (40) feet to the place ot beginning. SAM Cf L FILLER. MaylSt3 Democratic Judicial Convention. There will be a delegate convention held at Rochester, in Fulton county, on Thursday, June Sth, 1S76, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Judge of the i'orty-First Judicial Circuit; a Prosecuting Attorney for said Circuit; and for the transaction of such other business as may come before it. The ratio of representation will be the same as that fixed for the state convention, to-wit: One delegate for every one hundred votes cast in each couuty for Gov. T. A. Hendricks, in ls-, and an additional delegate for every fraction of fifty votes and over. The following will be the representation according to the ratio adopted : Marshall county, 2326 votes 23 delegates. Fulton couuty, 1445 votes 14 delegates. Dam. Aossw, Fulton Co., ) Dajf. McDosild, Marshall Co, Democratic Senatorial Convention. There will be adelegate convention held at Rochester, in Fulton county, on Thursday, June Sth, 1876, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Senator for the district comoosed of the counties of Marshall, Fulton and Pulaski; and for the purpose of transacting such other business as may come is iyji c ii. xuemiuui TCpreseuiauoD win oe me same as that fixed for the state convention, to-wit: One delegate for every one hundred vrtes cast in eich county for Gov T. A. Uoudru Us iu 1872 and an additional d. -legate for every fraction of fifty votes or over. The fulkiwiog will be the representation accordidg to the ratio adopted: Marshall county, 2326 votes 23 delegates: Fulton county, 1445 votes 14 del- gates: .ruiasKj county, rotes 10 delegates. Das Agkbw. Fulton Co. Iam McDonald, Marshall Co. Cum. U. T. Wickeksuam, Pulaski Co. Democratic Countj Conrentlon. There will be a Democratic c-junty convention held at Plymouth, Ind.. on Saturday, June 3, 1876, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the following offices: Representative, treasurer, sheriff, surveyor, coroner, three commissioners and countv assessor. The basis of representation will be one delegate for every twenty and traction over ien votes cast In each of the several townships, for Governor T. A. Hendricfcs, in 1S72, as follows : Towkships. t Votes. DeL Union Center , f nwood Precinct Green Bourbon.................. Tippecanoe German ................. North Polk West " Walnut " 13 552 63 121 24 114 247! 168; 170: 216: 214J Total j 23--6i 115 A central committee will be selected to serve for the ensuing two years, delegates selected to attend the judicial and senatorial convention to be held at Rochester, June 8, and such other business transacted aa may properly come before the convet-tion. The several town. hips are recommended to hold their conventions for the appointment of deletea to the county convention on Saturday, Hay 27, lold. Joint Representative Convention for Marshall and St. Joseph Counties. The Democracy of St. Joseph and Marshall counties are requested to meet at Laporte on Thursday, June 15, 1876, at 3 o'clock p. m , for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the ornce of Joint Representative for U e district compojed of the aa-d counties. Each county will be entitled to the number of delegate vt,te as apportioned for the state convention of 1876. This will give -St. Joseph county 28 delegates, and Marshall county 23 delegates. tt is recommended by the committee thnt those who atu-nd the convention, from either county, be authorized to cast the entire vole of the county to which tiiey belong. AU who are opposed to the Republican party and Its profligate adminlsmion of puMic aBairs, stat ana national, are invited to be pre. ;nt and participate in the deliberations of the convention. Jouk Bkowsfield. Jr St. Joseph, , Ouvti P. kuMut, Marshall. j General Items. In one of the streams near Taylor's Falls Wis., a lump of copper weighing thirty and a half pounds was recently found. J udge W. Z. Stewart, who was buried at Logansport Monday, had six sons, and they were his pall-bearera. The citizens of Bedford, Ind are up in arms and hunting for a wretch named HoS) who is accused of outraging two little girls. Of the 25 ladies who voted at the recent school election in St- Cloud, Minn., only four were uo married. There were no lady candidates.-. " jp ' Two men, while scuiSicg oa th'a cliff at , the Passaic Falls, at Patterson, J., last Monday, accidently ftll over the Irecipice' and tumbled a distance of sixtv-five ftt ta ' the bottom. Fortunabdy they fcU .ito dct p

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