Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 September 1884 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. V ^ Compiled from Various Sources. _.1_ ! PERSON At. AND POUTICAk Os tbe 1st the Sew England Fair opened W Manchester, N. H. Geo. B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, delivered an address. '; Isa three-mile sculling race near lawrence. Mass., on the 2d, Teemer defeated Hosmer by half a length. i A public reception was tendered Gen- , eral Logan at Madisou, Wis., on the 21. The Connecticut State Democratic Convention nominated Governor Waller for re-election. = Hon. Henry B. Anthony, United States Sonator from Uhode Island, died at Providence on the 2d. The New Hampshire Republicans have nominated Hon. Moody "Currior for Governor. Tub Csar of Russia will go to Warsaw September A Bishop Pierce, senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at Augusta, Ga,, on the 3d. General Wolsklky has offered Henry M. Stanley a position on his staff. A proclamation has been issued by Governor Hamilton of Illinois in reference to pleuro-pneumonia among cattle. On the 3d Mr. Tilden was formally presented with the Chicago resolution at his Graystone residence on the Hudson. The Republicans of Massaohus 3tts nominated Governor George D. Robinson for re-election. Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks made an address at Connersville, Ind., on tho 3d. The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention mot on the 3d and nominated a full ticket. The present State officers of Wisconsin were all nominated by acclamation for reelection by the Republican Convention, which met at Madison, on the 3d. The Texas Republican State Convention passed a resolution to the effect that it was inexpedient to nominate a State ticket, which is a virtual indorsement of Wash Jones for Governor. Secretary op the Treasury Folgkr died at Geneva, N. Y., on the 4h, after jrfgeyeral weeks’prostration fromoverwork. Nilsson has signed with Colonel Mapleson to sing in America and England for $2,400 a night.

me 460 me nearness do ly or seaman O’Connell, of the Tallapoosa, was fonml. Alphoxso Taft, American Minister to Russia, was tendered a reception by the Czar and Czarina on the 4tb. Frank Patterson, owner of the Long Branch Opera-house is missing. Warrants have been isstged for his arrest. Admiral Courbet will not shoot any more until the French Minister at Pekin makes his report on the political situa- » tion. The resignations of Collector Robertson of New York city and Postmaster Robinson of Troy, as members of the Republican committee are announced, a The Wisconsin Prohibitionists nominated a State ticket at Madison on the Ah. On the 4th the Indianapolis Sentinel responded to the Blaine libel, and filed a lengthy batch of questions that Mr. Blaine will be called on to answer. Mr. Shoemaker says he will press the suit to an early issue. Mrs. Belva D. Lockwood’s letter accepting the nomination of the Equal Rights party for President is before the public; and she recites what she would and would not do, were she to be elected. Her lotter is both a political and literary curiosity. On the 5th Hiram B. Wilson, a lumber dealer of Cleveland, O., drowned himself in Barry County, Mich. The funeral obsequies of the late Hon. Chas. J, Folger, Secretary of the Treasury, were arranged for Tuesday, the 9th. During the Cxar’s visit to Poland the Empeaors William and Francis Joseph will be his honored guests. On the 5th Frank Patterson, proprietor of theAsbury Paik (N. J.) Opera-house, was arrested in Philadelphia, Pa., on a charge of forgery. Os the 5th sixty-four persons suspected of plotting against the life of the Czar were arrested at Warsaw, including a * number of women. Dr, L. Watson Lyle, who is charged ■with extensive, pension frauds, was arrested in Crittenden County, Ky., on the 5th, and conveyed to Louis ville^^ On the 5th in a street fight in Vicksburg, Miss., Captain Joshua A. Bourne, a St. Louis man, and Jas. Me zler were both killed. They had been bitter enpnfies for Some time. Oeneral Butler spoke at Minneapolis on the 5tlf, and had an audience of upwards of 7,000. - In referring to the recent visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Dublin harbor, the Irishman says he is a “fiddling fool of the Georgian race, and the embodimentfqf all that Ireland abhors.”

un me am a double wrestling match took place at Detroit, Mich., for $1,0X1 a Bide and gate receipts, between Dufur, of Massachusetts; Benjamin, of Washington, and McLaughlin and Flagg. Dufur vanquished Benjamin and McLaughlin downed Flagg. Th« Greenbackers of New Hampshire nominated George A. Carpenter for Governor and a full State ticket. Butler was indorsed as Presidential candidate. Mbs. Harlan, wife of ex-Senator Harlan, •and mother-in-law of Secretary Lincoln, died at Fortress Monroe, Va., the night of the 4th. e „ It is announced that Sarah Bernhardt has signed a contract to star in America, beginning in April, 1886. She is to receive $1,000 each performance. The famous circus and theatrical manager, Yankee Robinson, died at New Jefferson, la., on the 4th, aged sixty-six years. At St. Paul, Minn., a stranger attempted to shoot Sitting Bull as he was leaving the Opera-house the night of the 4th, but his pistol did not go oft, much to the disgust of several bystanders. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Ok the 2dAwonty-two buildings at Mis- , soul*,M. T„ burned. . ,, Marti* Wrinhurgkr who -murdered Louis G6ftfreuhd,-n -peddler, was hanged at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 2d. 'Oi the 2(f Rice & Hutchins’ shoe factory at Marlboro, Mass., burned. - - A collision between Orangemen and Catholics recently occurred on the Labrador coast, in which firearms were used. Several people were reported killed and many wounded. Tbs Mississippi negro, Ed. Thomas, who recently tried to commit an outrage, .was hanged ’by a mob, half of whom were colored men, on the 3d. AN oil tank exploded on the $J and a west-bound freight Rain on the Indian - apoiis & St. Louis line waa almost entire, ly horned. On the 31 Frank Frisbie was arrested at New York on a charge of having stolen $7,001 from a Portland (Ore.) bank. A hard case named Emmett Mitchell, of Belmont County, 0., on the 3d, shot and killed Charles Griffith, a peaceable and highly respected farmer. On the 4th a party of masked. Hnngarlane banged Henry Zovgowsinaiki, of Wilkesbarre, Fa„ who stabbed his daughter #04 then tried to fcijl U'mself,

KJN me oa James tr. msber, of Bellefontaine, O., and Praaker Humbert, wellknown sheep breeder's, were killed while crossing a railroad track near Milwaukee, Wis. At the wire-drawing mills at Joliet, 111., a riot occurred on the 3d, on account of a reduction of wages and the employment of convict labor. Quits a number, including the Chief of Police, were seriously hurt. “ l Twenty persons were suffocated in a sulphur mine in Sicily on the 4tb. On the 3d Andrew Jackson, a wealthy resident of Saratoga County, N. Y., was found fatally injured by the side of a railroad truck, and claimed before dying that two men who had a grudge against him threw Mm under the train. At Omaha, Neb., during a sham battle on the 4th, a platform gave way and forty persons: were injured, some severely. At Troy, O., on the 4th, Mrs. J. Merrill, shot heir husband in the back: part of the head and then took poison. Charles Hill, Cashier of the National Hank olt New Brunswick, N. J., was found dead in his bed the morning of the 4tb, caused by inhaling gas. He has been for twenty years cashier, and there is no known cause for suspicion. A GiiNTLEMan in New Laredo, Max., well posted in Mexican a (fairs, makes the statement that the recent official investigation of the Treasury Department at the City of Mexico developed the fact that there was just $7.59 in the National Treasury of the Mexican Government. On the 4th three business blocks in Marathon, N. Y.t were destroyed by fire. Loss, $20, OX). These was burned on the steamer Merida, at Havaua, a valuable collection of Mexican rarities, aoological and botanical, destine! for the New Orleans Exposition. General Diaz, head of the Mexican Commission, is much affected by the loss, and says it can’t be replaced in ten years. On the 5th a coal mine caved in at Port Burklev, Pa., rendering the property useless for many months to come and entailing a loss of fully $1,0)0,000. Five hundred persons are thrown out of employment. ' It was reported on the 5th that the emigrant ship Lastingham, from London for Wellington, New Zealand, was wrecked in Cook’s Strait, and all on board except fourteen of the crew drowned. By a premature blast of dynamite on the Pennsylvania Railway, near the Union Depot a,t Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 5th, one man was killed and Superintendent Pitcairn’s private car was wrecked. On the evening of the 4tb, during a political discussion at Dawson, Pa., W. J. Mullen became so enraged at his friend, Samuel Short, that he plunged a knife into his side, inflicting a fatal wound. Two nicks in a knife blade led to the identification of Howard Sullivan, a negro, as the murderer of Miss Ella Watson near Salem, N. J. On the night of the 4th John Graham, aged twenty-eight, locked upat Avondale, O., for siealing, bung himself with a strip torn from a blanket. The fall of the grand stand at the G. A. R. reunion at Fremont, Neb., resulted in the injuring of sixty-four persons, several of whom it is thought will die. The cause is said to be the insecure bracing of the stand.

BI1SCEULANKOU9. Ok the 2d arguments were heard in the Blaine 'libel suit against the Indianapolis Sentinel, and a demurrer was filed by the attorneys for the newspaper. Thb French people living at Shanghai expect to be expelled at any moment. The Chinese officials are in a high state of excitement. The balance in the Si» Louis sub-Treas-ury at the beginning of the present month was $19,087,144.81. The Irnttle and window glass factories of Pittsburgh, Pa., resumed work on the 2d, giving emplyment to many thousands of men. Ok the 2d attachments amounting to $2 >,000 were taken out in Chicago., against the Bankers’ and Merchants* Telegraph Company. The cotton mills of Petersburg, Va., all stopped work on the 2d, throwing a large number of men and woiiien out of employment. No disturbance was reported at the mines of the Hocking Valley of Ohio on the 2d, and ,tbe Governor dismissed the militia companies that were l>eing held in readiness to proceed to the scene of the trouble. At Reading, Pa., Mrs. Washington Keiler, who had fasted forty-eight days, died on the 3d. There were seventy -three fresh cases of cholera End thirty-two deaths at Naples on the 31. On the 3d the Southern Association of Railway and Steamship Freight Men held a secret meeting at Louisville, Ky. The wool-growers of Ohio met at Columbus on the 3d, and passed resolutions in favor of the restoration of the tariff of 1867. Ik Italy cholera Is -Spreading rapidly. In the itwenty-four hours ended the evening of the 3d, there were 231 new cases, and 135 deaths. Three deaths from .cholera were reported at Marseilles on the 3d. The Chicago lines were selling tickets -on the 3d to the seaboard at reduced rates. Lowest to New York, $14. Recent investigations show that a great deal of Government land in the West has been fraudulently t aken possession of.

xt 18 sbiu Admiral uouroet is talcing a circuitous routs with his fleet in order to mislead the Chinese. On the 3d. the Cincinnati Exposition was formally opened. Among %>se who delivered addresses was Senator George H. Pendleton. Tim Berlin Socialists have nominated six candidates for the electoral campaign. RKPC'KTS from the gold coast, Western Africa, are to the effect that France has annexed Porto Novo, and Germany Little Popo. Tbs Prussian Minister at the Vatican lias been instructed to offer Anal terms for settlement of differences between the Pope and the Russian Government. Thb people of the Cameroons country, Africa, will protest against: the annexation of that district to the German possessions, as they prefer British protection. The engineer’s report upon the improvement of rivers and harbors in Oregon and Washington Territory- for the past year shows the amount avai lable for the current year, $482,010, and the amount naked i!or next year $1,928,000. Haws has been received at Halifax, N. S,, from the expedition steamer Neptune. She was at Ford’s Harbor, thirty-four miles from Nain, Labrador, July 30. Report says till bands well, and seven stations have bsen established. A RtSSIAN corvette seized the American schooner Sophia Johnson, at Behring’s Island,, Behring Sea, for illicitly selling iram to natives. On 11m 4 h the Free Thinkers held a Convention at Cassadoga, N. V. A panic prevails through ont Italy by reason of tthe cholera. Th*.Lehigh Valley Railroad, main line, rank tlkree feet at Shenandoah, Pa., on the Itb. An attempt is being made to enforce the frobitJtlo i lap at tlubuque, la.

Os (he 4th an unsuccessful attempt was made to rescue political prisoners at Warsaw, Kusg in. The operators in the Straitsville coal district of Ohio will abandon the mines unless the strikers agree to take the rates offered. IT is said the Chinese hare out a military road through the French cemetery at Canton, destroying the mausoleum and rifling tombs. On the 4 h the Minnesota Elevator Company, owning from thirty to forty elevators on the Milwaukee ft St. Paul Road, made an assignment. Nkarly 200 Americans are attending the Evangelical Alliance meeting at Copenhagen, Denmark. Xus annual session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opened at Philadelphia, Pa., on the 4 h, with an address of welcome by Governor Pattison. Dave Fitsgkrald, of Toronto, Ont., and Jim McHugh, of Glasgow, Scotland, fought for |1,000 a side with hard gloves at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, on the 4th, the match lasting over tliree hours, and resulting in a draw. ' At Lynchburg, Va., the colored people are highly excited over a scandal in which the pastor of a Methodist Church is involved. / member of the flock tried to kill him with an axe. During August the losses by fire aggregated $10,1100,003, exceeding any previous known Bre record of that month, and making a total of $74,000,000 as destruction wrought by fire this year so far, and about $11,000,000 in excess of the same eight mont hs of 1883. At West Chester, Pa., pleuro pneumonia has broken ont among cattle. Upward of thirteen thousand people attended the Ohio State Fair at Columbus on the 5tb. Soudanese rebels attacked Kassala recently, but were repulsed with great loss. Five deaths from cholera were reported at Marseilles on the 5th. There is a rnmor current that the Union Pacific will close its offices^ at St. Louis and Chicago. Brigands are said to be ravaging Macedonia and murdering the people who fail to pay ransom. Union molders who returned to work in Cincinnati on the 5th, were attacked and maltreated by those who were stilt on a strike. j The miners in the Fourth Pool of Pennsylvania, now on strike, are becoming discouraged, and numbers are daily returning to work.

x-u/nAAXiXfi a* vaa a icjiwt on me cotton crop for the MemphisfCistrict does not show so favorable a condition as a month ago. There were 122 fresh cases of cholera at Naples and thirty-seven deaths within the twenty-four hours ended at 9 p. m. on the 5th. There were 138 deaths throughout Italy during the sams time. The disease is also rapidly spreading in Spain. Jay-Eye-Sre and Phallas tried to lower their respective records at Racine, Wis., on the 5th, but failed. The Free Thinkers at their recent Convention demanded that the Government tax all church property and abolish all religious ser vices maintained by the Government. • A The Mnzeppa Mill Company,' of Red Wing, Minn., made an assignment on the 5th. Liabilities, $145,000; assets, $175,000. The failuire grows out ot complications with the Minnesota Elevator Company. There were 10) failures in the Uuited States and fourteen in Canada during the seven days ended the 5th; total 213, against 198 the previous week. At South Bend, Ind., ten pr isoners escaped from the jail the night of the 4th by sawing the iron bars of a ventilating register. Seven others declined to participate in the breuk for freedom. A Chinese opium joint in St. Louis, Mo., was raided by the police on the 5th, and among the plunder confiscate! was some Indian hasheesh. Hog cholera is reported to huve broken out in the vicinity of Alexandria, Va., and several deaths among the swine are reported. 6 The coal mines along the Ohio Central Railgpad will all be closed owing to the unsettled condition of business and the trouble with the miners. The mines at New Straitsville will also be atandoned. Bkadsthket’s cotton repdirt for the month of August, based on telegraphio and mail advices to date, reports the general average of the crop in the United States as not above fair.

LATE SEWS ITEMS. McKee Bbotheks’ creamery at Vincennes, 1ml., was destroyed by fire on the George Bchrifber committed suicide at Indianapolis, Ind., on the Tth. He was thirty-three years old and unmarried. The royal family of Russia were expected to arrive at Warsaw on the 8th. In a liar-room brawl at Cle veland, O., on the 7th, Jonas Hunkens had his throat cut, and died in a few minutes. An international conference on the Egyptian and Congo questions is talked of. There were 133 deaths in' New York on the 7lb. The intense heat is saild to have caused most of them. James Nelson shot and killed Peter Seip near Wheeling, W. Va., on the 7th. They were out hunting and Nelson mistook Seip’s head for.a squirrel. The report that the German lleet in Chinese waters is to be increased, is flatly denied. The River Nile is falling, and there is prospect of trouble for the Khartoum relief expedition. The Second National Bank at Xenia, O., has b en nuthori* >d to resume. The funeral of the late Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, was solemnized at Providence, on the 6.1i. Sergeant Julius Fredericks of the Greely party is not satisfied, and declares he is going to the Arctic regions again. Tan Hill, the Birmingham (Eng.) boxer, is coming over to tackle some of the American light-weights. He has issued a general challenge. Director General Burke says the New Orleans Exposition will be ready for business on time. In fact, they could open on the first of November. The Emperors of Germany, Austria and Riuaia will put their crowned heads together and discuss their common enemy, the Anarchist. The Fiench have seised IPassaadava Bay, Madagascar, without resistance. A clerical parade in Brussels on the 7th was made the occasion for a riot, in which muny people were injured, three being killed. The police were powerless to protect the paroders. Inspectors have been investigating the practice of United States Marshals, District Attorneys and District Court Clerks in collecting illegal fees, and some startling revelations are promised when the reports are made public. The American health officer at; London telegraphed that the shipment of ragfe from that city to the United States was fraught with danger, as there Is a great deal of sinall-pox in London. Ah immense demonstration in favor of bill took place at Glasgow, 7th. , on the O h. The procession wag inland

SHOCKING DOUBLE TRAUEDY. A D«el on the Streets of Vicksburg, Miss., Results fin the Mortal Wounding of Both Participants—The Affair the Result of a L«ng Feud drawing Out of an Invasion of the Domestic Circle of Captain Bourne by James F. Metaler. Vicksburg, Miss, Septembers. About a, quarter before t*e ve o’clock Yesterday Washington street tu the vicinity of Arthur Jacob’s store was the scene of an intense excitement. A bloody and thrilling tragedy, resulting in the death of Captain Joshua W, Bourne and the mortal wounding of James F. Metzler, occurred. The impromptu duel—for such it was— was not unexpected, and when the rapid pistol firing was beard, aud before the cause of lit was definitely ascertained, many in the vicinity remarked that it was Captain Bourne aud Metz er. Trouble has long been brewing between these men, and it culminated in the bloody work of yesterday. ORIGIN OF TI1K TROUBLE. The beginning of the trouble between the two men dates far back in the past. There has been trouble between Captaiu Bourne and his wife, and two suits are now pending, one f »r divorce and one for possession of the children. Captain Bourne, whether justly or not, has held Metzler responsible for his domestic infelicity, aud this it was that led to the bloody affair of yesterday. As stated above, the two men have been at oats lor some time, and both have seemed to expect and dread just such an affair as occurred yesterday, as they seemed to shun each other. TUK TRAGEDY. They met, however, yesterday, and an eye witness gives the following account of the terrible scene that followed: Metzler was standing on the sidewalk on the west side of Washington stteet. lie was alone, or at least was not talking to anyone. Bourne approacbed, but did not seem to notice his arch-enemy until within probably fifteen feet of him. Suddenly he raised his eyes and the hatred of years seemed to cu urinate then and there. Metzler’s right side was towards Bourne and he-did not see the latter. Bourne, quick as a flash, pulled his revolver and, without a word fired, the ball passing through Metzler’s bowels and body, making, it is thought, a mortal wound. Metzler then retreated into Arthur Jacob’s store, Bourne following and firing rapidly. Alter Metzler got into the store be got behind the counter, drew hia pistol and commenced returning the fire. Bourne continued to shoot and advanced on Metzler until they clinched, both firing until both pistols were emptied, when they were seperated. HIS WiFi! AND CHILDREN. Captain Bourne received two wonods, one in the left breast a short distance above the heart, and the other in the abdomen about two inches above the navel. Captaiu Bourne requested that Father Picherit and'his wife and children be sent for. Father Picherit was soon fonnd, and a short time afterward two of his children arrived, the oldest one, Brucie, a beautilul little girl of about ten years of age, and the other a boy of fire or six years. Upon hearing the news of the terrible affair, Mrs. Bourne went directly to tbc bouse of Captain Metzler, the father of Mr. Metzler. While there she met your correspondent. She stated that Bourne had sent for her, and that she had sent her children, and asked what she had better do. She wan advised to go to her husband, by all means, and Mrff. Metzler, the mother of Jim Me tzler, also told her she should most certainly go to him. BOURNE DEAD. Captain Bonrne died at five o’clock last evening at the La Madrid House, where he had been taken, without seeing his wife he loved to death, ft was a pitiable and touchiug sight to witness Captain Bourne’s two l.ttle children sitting on the floor by the side of their dying father. The sympathy of the entire community is Undoubtedly witli Captain Bourne. Mrs. Bourne was formerly Miss Mary L. Mabin, of this county, and married Captaiu Bourne shortly after the war. Captaiu Hourne has been Chancery Clerk of this county, and has occupied other high official positions. metzlkr’s wound. After the shooting Metzler was arrested, but when found to be badly hurt was conveyed to the residence of his father. The ball which is thought to have made the mortal wound, was extracted from the body o( Metzler. At 6 p. m., physicians staled that he conld not live thiongh the night.

THE DEAD SECRETARY. Official letter from Acting Secretary VE State Davis to the Heads of Departments and Bureaus Announcing the Death of Secretary Polger and the President’s Directions in the Matter. Washington, D. C., September ft. | Arrangements will be made tor a special train to leave Washington the evening ol the day previous to the day of Secretary Folger’s funeral, to convey a number of officials to Geneva. Acting Secretary o! State Davis yesterday received a telegram tro'm President. Arthur directing that an Executive order be issued formally announcing the death ol Secretary Eolger, and in accordance with this the following letter was addressed by the Secretary of State to the other members of the Cabinet: Sir:—With deep regret I announce to yoia that the HouoraldtM. h tries J. Folgcr, Sec.-t-tare of the Treasury of the United suites, > osterday ditd at hia home in Genera. Stale of New York. Thus has closed the life of a distinguished and respected citizen, whu, by his services as an executive officer of the United States aud as a > legislator and Judge of his own State, won the esteem and regard of his fellow-countrymen. The President directs that all departments of the executive branch of the Government and the offices subordinate to them shall manifest due honor for the memory of this emine nt citizen in a manner consonant with the dignity of the office thus made vacant, and the uprijhtcharacter of him who held it. To this end, the President directs that the Treasury Department and its dependencies ini this capital shall be draped in mourning tor a period of thirty day; the sevoral Executive Departments shall be closed on ttie day of the funeral of the deceased, and that on att public buildings of the Government throughout tho U nited States the National flag shall be draped In mourning and displayed at bait mast. Dr. Gregory Resigns. Jefferson Crer, Mo. September 5. Dr. E. H. Gregory, of St Louis, President of the State Board of Health, has tendered his resignation to Governor Chittenden. Tha letter reads: “I herewith present my resignation as a member of the Missouri State Board ot Health. I bave considered the matter and concluded that another, more efficient, can be found to fill my position.” The doctor was anxious that his resignation should he accepted at once, bnt this the Governor was not willing to do and only ac> cepted it to take effect January 1. Murder and Probable Butclde. Portland, Me. September A Yesterday at the City Hotel Thosy Libby , proprietor of the West Point House all Point’s Neck, Cape Elizabeth, shot and killed Lydia Snow, his domestic, and unsuccessfully attempted suicide. Came unknown. Libby has a wile and family. The two arrived at the City Hotel last night and took a room. Pistol shots were heard iu the room this morning, and investigation showed Miss Snow lying dead on the floor and Libby wounded and bleeding with a ballet in his brain. The chances of his ricoverv are about even. Miss Snow was the daughter of it f’etwoo, and, so fay as known, u pare girl,

f. B. GROWS CONFIDENTIAL. Oh, come with me and be my friends For on your loro my vote depends. And listen while II frankly state Why I’m a model candidate. I’m called the knteht of the waring plume. And this the reason. I presume. I've got the brains anti l’re got the dash. And always light for "strict'y cash.” I'm quite “magnetic,” too, I know, . For 1 “draw” the "loot” wherever I go; In this World's goods I'm now au fait. Because lhav* a taking way. I served in the war by substitute^ And then I played it rather ente; 1 got the State to settle the hill. And 1 was a patriot lust for nil. And when the war had closed in peace, I rigged myself in a red them so. And swore by all that's black and blue Those awful rebels we’d subdue. But when I struck a “ Little Rock.” Which gave my system quite a shook, it forced upon me lameerul days, And now I like “ PaciHc” ways. Tho’ venomous tongues asperse my mmo, And taunt me with “ it's all a game.” With perfect truth 1 can proudly say My record's clear as-the lirht of day. For .when in the House I rose to explain How puhl c trust means private gain, I made such a case as you’ll agree Allowed me a chance to go ‘ Scott free.” Asa-* man of letters” I greatly excel. And ATulligau said they’d do fairly well; But when 1 took my "copyright'' He owned my “style” was very polite. Oh, when I'm in the PreslWhfs chair. You’ll not IlmKiue a “deadhead” there; For “ various channels” now I see Where 1 can serve your nominee. Just come with me and prove my love: For you the "jungle depths” I’ll rove: I’ll And the places rich with gold. Where jobs are thick and honor sold. 1*11 spread our ships all over the main; The Lion's tail I’ll tw st with a chain. • And the swart Chinee, with h s heathenish oue, I'll get to dig down in Peru. The sun shall shine on this fair land. The crops grow big at my comm a ml. And every man have plenty of “tin,” If you’ll but help to get me io. Oh. come with me, and be my friends. For on your love my vote depends: The White Hous » seems to beckon mo: - 1 fear it's a cheat. Your friend, J. B. —button (Robe.

The Butler-Blainc Alliance. The alliance between Butler and the Republicans is explained by the fact that the labor vote is to be thrown for Butler for the purpose of electing Blaine. Then, of course, Blaine being elected, Butler will get “recognition” from the new Administration. That this is a very good scheme for Butler and the Republicans is evident; but how about the labor vote? What inducement has the laboring man to vote for Butler that Blaine may get to the White House? The theory of the Greenback- Anti - Monopoly - Labor- Reform agitators is that the labor vote constitutes the germ of a new party; parties are both “played out.” and that the future belongs to the workingmen, who in some unexplained way are going to revolutionize the Government, so that there will be no more monopoly, only just enough labor, and as much currency as heart can desire. They do not explain exactly what the method is to Be, probably liecanse they do not clearly uuuei stand ii; but first they want to “break up the old parties” and get a real friend of the people into power. Such movements as that under Kearney’s lead in California and under Butler in Massachusetts are the natural fruits of this vague longing for a “change” Tho laboring men by voting for Kearney got temporarily a" communistic government; by voting for Butler, they apparently destroyed both the old parties for the'time being; and Butler after getting into power made it hot\for tho politicians and the “mugwumps” and the “college consumptives” and thus it seemed for a time as if the end were at hand. If, therefore, there were the remotest chance of electing Butler President, we could understand that the laboring men might be brought to vote for him in large numbers this year. But there is not. He can not get a majority of the Electoral Col’ege, and all that ho can do is to elect Blaine, or throw the election into the House, which would elect Cleveland. In either case he only helps one or the other of tho old parties and the laboring man is now to be asked to vote for him in order to do this. Don’t vote for the monopolist Cleveland or the monopolist Blaine; vote for the people’s friend, Butler, and by so doing elect Blaine or Cleveland. Yon have, O hornv-banded toiler, a reasonable spite against your cwn face. Trust in us, and cut oft your nose. The remedy is a specific. It has been in use for thousands of years, and never been known to fail. Urging the workingman to vote for Butler this year is simply urging him to make a fool of himself. A large labor vote for Butler in three or four doubt'd States would only send Blaine to the White House, and intrench there for four years more the very monopolists whom the labor reformers have been denouncing. What a contempt for the intelligence of the American laborer, what a deep-seated and cynical disregard ot decency is involved m the idea of advising him to vote for Butler to elect Blaine. He never did so ridiculous a thing before; why should he be such a fool now? We do not believe he will be. He will find out tjje truth about the Butler-Blaine “deal” before November, and will decline to be made a tool of; and Butler once found out by him, will suffer the fate that is always hanging by the merest thread above the head of any politician who, being devoid of conviction and principle himself, comes to think at last that “politics” is only the manipulation of a large body of fools by a small body of knaves. — New fork Post, (lnd.).

Campaign Lies. The pnblic press has a right, and indeed it is its duty, to discuss the careers and characters of candidates for office; but it has no right, and it is an abuse of its powers, to circulate scandals and to magnify ordinary incidents for political purposes, it is an unfortunate feature in America n. politics that malicious personal assaults on candidates are too frequent, and in connection with such attacks it is linmiliating to note that many respecta ble journals and individuals, incapable pe-haps of originating such falsehoods, do not hesitate to circulate them when some meaner person has given tlem birth. The most serious result of this evll js that it gradually educates the people to a. certain indifference as to all utterances respecting the past acts of candidates, and leads them to voto according to political proclivities irrespective of such matters. It has grown into a familiar adage that ’"a man never knows himself until he is nominated for office,” and personal abuse of candidates is regarded as an expected feature of every campaign. When Garfield was nominated for the Presidency, the discreditable facts in bis Congressional career were known and demonstrated. The record had been made up and officially published by loading members of his

own party—there was no disputing nor dunying them, and yet these faets did not prevent his receiving his party vote. The explanation of this surpris ng result is not that a portion of the American people were really indifferent as to whether an honorable man or the reverse was elected President, but that, heedless of the evidence, they d d not believe the statements made. It was a notable illustration of the fact that personalism in politics iias destroyed public confidence in campaign stories, whether true or false, and militates against any nice discrimination as to the feal worth of candidates. The foolish and mendacious stories nut in circulation, against Gov. Cleveland's character might safely, we think, be left unnoticed. They carry on thoir faee the evidence of a campaign lie, for they have nothing to do with his official career in the State of New York, but fasten on his private life be lore he became an eminent public man. It is as if the slanderers had counseled together, sayiug, “we can find nothing in his public <acts as sheriff, mayor, and governor on which to assail him, so let xis hunt tip the incidents of his youthful life, and use sortie of them for our purnoses.” They searched, there'ore, and found something in the shape of “a woman scrape” in his earlier life, and on this their malice and imagination began to work simultaneously. We say again that Governor Cleveland’s friends could have easily afforded to let this wretched political trickery pass in contemptuous silence. Because the very nature of the story, and the fact that during excited municipal and stale elections it had not availed to injure him in the locality where his history was best known, made it impossible for the slander to. be of any consequence in a National contest. But as truth and

vuuuvt uiv «uo nttuyunviuis ui the Democracy in the present tight, it is perhaps as well that immediate steps were taken to nail the lie and expose the real spirit of the attack. In this refutation and exposure we are happy to see that Republicans as well as Democrats have united and over their own signatures have denounced the scandalous story. We hope now the campaign will be allowed to progress on the general issue and that we will have no more of this kind of petty lying. It is, however, too much to' expect this in a contest in which Blaine is a conspicuous figure. His whole career has been that of a wire-puller and political trickster—politics in a local and National sen-e has been his business, his sole business, for a quarter of a century. He is ambitious, audacious and unscrupulous, and what ever can be done by any kind of intrigue or mirepresentation will be attempted under his leadership. The Democrats may expect a campaign of dirt throwing, and the business has been commenced earlyt Wo may not retaliate in kind—it may not trouble ns to find out what Blaine did in Maine thirty years ago in his relations with the softer sex, but we will meet slander with exposure and falsehood with the truth. Blaine’s public career afi'ords ample material for proving him unfit to hold office without borrowing any thing now the romance of his youth.—Exchange. Butler’s Letter. General Butler’s letter of acceptance of the Presidential nominations of the Anti-Monopoly and Greenback parties —or, as he puts it, his adress to his constituents—is thoroughly characteristic of the man. Like nearly everything he does, it is interesting. There are passages in it which are strong and telling, and which will make a marked im{iression upon voters. It is undoubtedy designed as a bid for votes; but in this respect it does not differ from similar documents which have preceded it, and it is on'y fair to say that the General has “put his best foot forward,” and done it in a more effective fashion than either Mr. Blaine or General Logan.

i m; him puniuu ui iu« ueuerai a letter is devoted to an account of his stewardship, as a member of the Democratic Natioual Convention which nominated Governor Cleveland. He shows that he was there made a member of the sub-committee which was chosen to prepare a tariff planK, and that, in such committee, four of five resolutions snbmittee by him were agreed to without division, and the fifth failed ol adoption by a tie vote. There would certainly seem to be nothing in this record to cause the man who made it to withdraw from political fellowship with those who assisted him; yet this is one of the reasons the General assigns for his refusal to support the nominee of the convention in which he participated. General Butler follows this up with a recital of his failure to get the minority platform prepared adopted by tho Democratic Convention. Some of the matters covered by his resolutions were dealt with clearly'and fully by the majority report. On the simple score of a declination to adopt his phraseology in some particulars or his views in otters, General Butler really has no greater reason for complaint than any of the members who voted for the platform which he presented. He has, however, the right to choose the course which seems best, and as a result of that choice we have his letter. There is a sharp contrast between General Butler’s treatment of the labor question and that accorded it by Mr. Blaine. Indeed, that portion of the letter of the former seems to have been penned with especial reference to the utterances of the latter. Mr. Blaine spoke of the rich, rewards which labor received in this country, and intimated that any frugal man could readily, from his savings, acquire a home for himself. General Butler says: “Laboring men are out of employment and starving, after a quarter of'a century of Republican rule. * * We have in this country, even In its youth, almost infancy as regards the life of Nat’ons, richer men than in any other country in the world, and as poor men as any other country in the world, however enslaved that country may be, for a man can not be poorer than starvation.” Geucral Butler’s forcible presentation of the condition of the workingmen and workingwomen of the United States is a strong argument against the industrial policy which has been pursued by the Republican party, and ft shows that the so-called “protective” system, which is the pride and boast of the Republicans, has built up monopolies and crushed and impoverished labor. General Butler diplays his political sagacity in the recommendation to his supporters to combine with the opposition in order to make their influence felt. He plainly gives his reason for, this course, and his recommendation will no doubt have great weight with his followers throughout the country.— Detroit Free Press. -The Tribune, the leading Blaine organ of the country, refuses outright to pay its printers the prices which other papers pay. How these Blaine leadsr* do love tho workingmen!

POLITICAL POUTS. ——-The Republican newspapers liare columns about the Morey letter, which is a dead issue, anti not a word about Blaine’s official record, which is as thoroughly alive as if it were inits very printed ——•The slush that General Logan is ladling out to the public is endiight'to make angels weep. It will boa mercy if there is not another earthquake as a result of it that will take us all out of an outraged world together.—iV. Y. Graphic -The Boston Hiraid has it on the best authority that fifty of the leading men of Portsmouth, N. 11., who are Republicans will vole for Cleveland. It will not be strange if New Hampshire’s ele torsi vote goes to the Democratic candidates.

-j.ho avn h'ik oiiir uiuuimes that the report that Tammany wilt covertly aid Blaine or Butler, while ostensibly supporting Cleveland, is an absurd, malicious falsehood. It looks as though John Kelly’s braves will fall into line, a'ter all. They have made up their minds that they can not afford to commit political hari-kari.—Chicago Evening Mail. -Ben Butler never did a day’s manual work in his life. He has been a schemer, a jobber and a money-grab-ber. His methods have not beendecent or honorable e ther in money-getting or in politics. The idea of this arch-dem-agogue being invited to come here and review a procession of men who work for a living is so preposterous that oven children will smile. No wonder there is a disposition to revolt against the grotesque absurdity on the part of some of the labor unions. — N. Y. World. -Again, it is pretty well understood that the Republicans will pay Butler’s campaign expenses, leaving so rnnch the less “soap” for States like Indiana. If there is anything Uncle Sam hates to do it is to “put out” his money. We are inclined to believe that the barga n made through Bill Chandler was to have Butler’s expenses paid with Republican money rather than any promise of patronage from Blaine to Butler. Butler has said he would not trust Blaine, but he knows the value of cash.—Moo Herald. ——The Republican party has for the purposes of this campaign one hundred thousand office-holders to act the parts olf organizers and field officers in the coming fight; also, a good supply of ammunition in the shape of political sinews of war c mtributed by those of-fiee-holders and the many monopolistic interests favorhbie to Republican ascendency. The Democratic party must rely upon the patriotism of good and honest citizens who believe that the books should be overhauled at the end of twenty-four years of Republican rule. -Mr. Hendricks’ name in Indiana is a tower of strength, and the same is equally true of nis great influence throughout the country. In 1876 Mr. Hendricks was elected Vice-President on a ticket with Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, hut diet not rake his seat as presiding officer of the Senate oi tne United States. He is agaiu a candidate for the same office with another of New York’s favorite sons. Again he will be elected, and this time he will, be inaugurated. Cleveland and Hendricks is now the battle-cry, and under this banner the Democratic party will take possession of the Government.—Imliimapolis Sentinel.

The Invariable Sign of Despair, The Republicans are exhibiting the invariable sign of despair. In every Presidential contest when the drift of popular sentiment seemed against them, and the country showed a decided disposition to oust them from from power, they would resort to the tactics of alarming the people with scarecrows and goblins, by picturing the calamities that must follow a Democratic rule. They are resorting- to these tactics now. Usually they leave them till the closing days of the canvass; but the drift of popular opinion is so clearly against them that, although the canvass is hardly begun, they arc already brandishing their scarecrows, and Mr. ilalstead, or the Cincinnati Commercial- Gazette, has been placed at the head of the bureau of horrors. That enterprising journalist, whose personal opinion is supposed to possess peculiar weight from the signal manner in which it lias been repeatedly falsified, and who declared in 1876 that Blaine, and in 1880 that Garfield was unfit to be a Presidential candidate, now comes forward to picture the disasters which will attend the election of Cleveland and Hendricks—taro men remarkable for their discretion 'and conservatism. The Democrats, he says, “will add to their 153 Southern Electoral votes iwo States representing Mexicauism and Mormonism—New Mexico and Utah; and the whole civil-service army will be used with relentless despotism in the party. Each great Democratic city with a garrison of Federal office-holders will be strengtl ened for works not good, and the combined forces would hold the fo-ts for the bonanzas contained in them for an indefinite period. It is into this promised land of fraud and violence that those who are abusing the very name of reformers are leading.” The most curious feature of this solemn warning is that it eomes from a party that is the first in the history of the country to organize and tolerate colossal official rings and conspiracies in the very departments of the Government for purposes of robbery—a party from whose loins sprang the whisky ring and the star-route ring; a party whose Cabinet officers have gone to Washington poor, and left office rich: the list of whose eminent Senators and Representatives is a list of millionaires amt bond holders; which already uses the civil-service army “with relentless despotism in the service of the party,” and which already makes a Republican garrison of the Federal officers in every large city. Every possible comparison of Democratic rule with Republican rale demonstrates the falsity of the Halstead prediction. Every such comparison is in favor of the Democracy, it was the Democratic House of 1875 that broke the reign of extravagance and jobbery which had prevailed at Washington under the Republicans, and introduced the policy of reduction of taxation and expenditures—and that in spite of th« determined opposition of the Republican leaders. It was three Democratic Governors of New York—Tilden, Robinson and Cleveland—who inaugurated the era of reform in that State. Undei Republican rale the Southern .States were wtllowing-grounds of proSigacy and debauchery: under Democratic rail their Governments have been administered with decency and economy. Tile Democratic States of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri Tennessee and Kentucky are intile m free from corruption amt fraud this dm; its the Eepnblican States of Msssacay

setts, Maine, Pennsylvania, Illinois and' Iowa. The last three Democratic Speakers of the House, Kerr, Randall and Carlisle, were quite as clean-hand-ed, to say the very least, as the last Republican Speakers, Colfax, Blaine and Keifer; andl Tilde*, Cleveland. Baynrd, Thurman, "Pendleton, Hampton and Carlisle are as free from suspicion of vfrnalty as Sherman, Blaine, Elkins, Dorsey and Kellogg. In short, judging from the character of the men who would direct the Government under a Democratic restoration, and the honorable specimens of Democratic rule we have had at Washington and in the States in the last ten years, there arc reasons for believing that the election of Cleveland would inaugurate an era of purer and better administration, —Hi. Louis Republican.

The Last Four Yearn , The Republican party can not ask for a new lease of jiower on the character of its candidates. Blaine is av bright and versatile man, but he has done nothing in the course of a long public serviee to establish a claim to statesmanship. Ue is believed to be dishonest, he is known ito be tricky, and there is every reason to fear that lie would prove a whimsical and uncertain, if not a corrupt President. Logan was a good J soldier, but he has been a very poor Senator. The Republicans, there'ore, must make their canvass on the record of their party, and. the most important part of that' record for the purposes of the present campaign should be the last four years. The organization has no right to appeal to the people for approval unless it has done well since they last approved of it. What are the facts? The Secretary of the Republican National Committee has virtually confessed that the State of Indiana, the pivotal point in the Presidential canvass of 1880, was carries! by the corrupt use of money in that year. At a banquet in honor of that gentleman in New York, where the chief men of the party were assembled, he wsis praised for the skill which ho had displayed in bringing to pass the unexpected in Indiana, and the fact that he had won success by bribery was openly acknowledged and treated as a matter of flonfication. Vice-President Arthur imself made a speech in which he jested about Dorsey’s achievements through the liberal use of “soap.” No sooner was President Garfield inaugurated than it was discovered that a huge system of fraud had been in operation during the previous Republican Administration, and measures wore taken to bring the rogues who were responsible fqr it to justice. Chief among them was the Secretary of the .Republican National Committee, who had been feted as tho savior of . the party, and he not unnaturally looked for immunity for himself and his associates from tho officials who were the beneficiaries of these frauds. Even long before Garfield entered upon his dnties as President a fierce quarrel had broken out over the distribution of the spoils, and after his inauguration the quarrel grew more bitter day by day. One faction of RepTlbliowoo, tuv hliUlct uf -nk-fca-was the present Republican candidate for the Presidency, claimed the control of the Federal patronage as their prerogative; the other faction, at the head of which was Roscoe Conkling, claimed a right to a share of the Federal patronage on the ground that it had been solemnly promised to them to secure their active support during the Presidential canvass. The quarrel grew so fast and furious that Conkling ami his colleague m the United States Sem ate resigned and appealed to the Legislature of New York for an approval of their course by a re-election. The most shameless contest in the annals of our State ensued.' The Vice-President appeared in the lobby of the Capitol; there were scarcely concealed attempts at bribery; and to crown all the defeat of one of the candidates was brought about by one of those scandalous devices to which Republican politicians

generally resort as a desperate remedy. Before the contest was brought to a close the evil excitement which it kindled had prompted a disappo'nted of-tiee-seeker to murder President Garfield. His Administration had been marked by a series of disgraceful appointments, some of which were clearly the result of pre-election bargains. Among the worst of these was the selection of Stanley Matthews for the Supreme Court. Of two serious tasks which devolved upon Garlield and b>s Cabinet, one, the,; punishment of the Star-route thieves, Was begun with zeal but carried on coldly; the other, the vindication ol the rights of American citizens imprisoned Without trial in Ireland, was shamefully neglected. In extenuation it may be saiu that the wounding of President Garlield and his long and lingering illness prevented any serious devotion to public business for a time on the part of Federal officials. The Administration of President Arthur took up the task of punishing the Star-route thieves and make a costly and ignominious failure; it took up the task of protecting American citizens abroad and achieved at least a measurable success. Those imprisoned under the Coercion act of March, 1881, were liberated a short time before the act expired by limitation. So far as known the Administration has been honest and decent in the conduct of ordinary official business, and the appointments under it have been in the main creditable. The greatest scandal outside of the failure of the prosecution of Dorsey and his comrades was the attempt to secure polical control of this State for the Administration by tho election of a Cabinet officer as Governor. In that scheme the Stalwarts got possession of the Republican State Convention at Saratoga by fraud and nominated Folger. The result was a salutary defeat of the Republican party all along the line, which brought aboiit a revision of the tariff that the Republicans in 1880 had declared it sacrilege to meddle with, and the passage of the Civil-service law which is now happily in operation. We say confidently that it would be difficult to find anywhere so disgraceful a record for the space of four years. It covers bribery at the ballot-box, bribery in the Legislature, boasting openly corruption, bargains in regard tCJ spoils, quarrels about the fulfillment of t hese bargains, employment of feminine decoys and spying through hotel transoms, neglect of public duty, mismanagement, collusion with criminals, forgery for political ends and assassination. We say that on such a record R is shameless impudence for the Republican party to ask the people to elect its candidates. Fome little consciousness of the weakness of their case is manifest in the fact that the Republican leaders did not dare to put forward the head of the Administration for election, though he is a purer man than Blaine and less responsible for the party disasters. It was enough to disqualify him that ho was ex officio responsible for the political history of tti« cast twit yew*.—Qw,riyr<