Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — John A. Burk Killed by Lightning, at Fowler. Indiana. [ARTICLE]

John A. Burk Killed by Lightning, at Fowler. Indiana.

Scratch a Greenb acker and you trill find a Democrat. The woods of Ohio are said to be fall of presidential timber. Oar exchanges are everywhere bragging on tbs ooming wheal and. eorn crop. If the Chicago convention wanted a dark horse why didn’t they take Senator Brace? It’s their death-straggle. The Greenb ackers are everywhere endeavoring to collude with the Dsns* cerate, this season. Now let every Republican pot his sbonlder to the wheel and the ear of freedom and equal jasticeto all men will move on.

The National Greenback convention at Chicago, last week, bad many hard words for the Republicans bat not &n evil thoaght for the Democrats. A little eoalitton makes them wonderoas kind. Gen. James A. Garfield was one of the immortal eight that declared ■Hayes President of the United States in 1877, and he cannot therefore hope to secure a Democratic vote. ’ The Democrats are “pison” to the high joint commission. During the past fourteen years the number of bushels of wheat raised in the United States has been increased from 148,552,829 to 448,756,000; of com from 704,426,853 to 1,544,899,000. The present wheat erop everywhere promises a heavy yield, and taim products generally are abundant. The Republican State Convention meets at Indianapolis, to-day (Thursday). We are pretty confidfltat that Col. A. D. Straight will he nominated lor Governor and Horace E. James for Secretary of State.- We are also reasonably confident that the Republican State .ticket will be elected this fall by a very handsome majority.

Gov. Foster, of Ohio, in a speech at Cleveland, during a Garfield ratification meeting recalled the saying attributed to Senator Conkling that nothing but the act of God could prevent the nomination of General Grant, and. added, “I accept Senator Conkling as a prophet. The act of God has come, and Gen. e?al GtCrfield has become your candidate.’' ' The National Greenback convention, at Chicago, last week nominated Hon. James B. Weaver, member of Congress from lowa, of Weaver bill notoriety, for President, and B. J. Chambers, of Texas, for VicePresident. The last-named is also the nominee for the same position by the Pomeroy branch of the G. B. party. Now we have two fiat nominees for the presidency (Dlllage and Weaver) and the ayeragp G. B. will be puzzled to know which one to support. Verily, the Greenback-Inflation-Fiat Free Love-Fizzle party is badly rattled. . <

James A. Garfield, the Republi- | can candidate for president, can carry every Republican state at the north and poll the full Republican vote generally wherever the shot? guu and bulldozing tactics of the Democracy do not prevail to keep onr voters a*ay from the polls. The nomination’of General Arthur for vice-president, an able and well known leader among Republicans of New York state end for yeats ~a faithful friend of Senator Conkling, throws upon the latter the responsibility of carrying the state of New "V ork for the Republican electoral ticket. To redeem his prestige in the (>arty and demonstrate his power to take care of his friends Senator Conkling cannot fail in this particular duty, which the circumstances of the last few weeks have assigbed him. He is placed in a position where by Jiig efforts the success or failure of our ticket may be decided. He has a personal and direct call from the Repnblican party to do ft certain thing. The eyes of all the Republicans in the country are upon him, and his attitude in the canvass will be watched even more closely than it Was in 1876. If be stands listlessly by now as he did then and allows the

Btate to be taken away from os, the party will fix the responsibility on I him and keep it there. We want New York state; bat there is a way of winning even without New York state, and it should not be neglected. Alabama, Florida, Sooth Carolina, and Louisiana, even Mississippi, beJoDg of right by a fair ballot to the I Republican party, and we can secure their electoral votes if courage, means and persistent determination are applied to the taek. The method by which this work can b« acooniDlisbed bas, So to speak, two handles to it. One is to create, foster into fall development Sad establish a mighty moral sentimene at the north, demanding in peremptory terms that a free political canvaae and fair elections be permitted in the south this year. The other is that agents be cent among Republican voters in the south who

have for year* been deprived of their political privileges, to aroawe them to a new interest in the ex#reise of tbeir duties as eitixens, and to essare them of adefaate protection. Car voters in many districts throughout the south have been so dismayed and discouraged by the murders and whippings visited upon them by the red-shirted shot gun organizations of the Dctn ocrats, that they mast have tbeir confidence and spirit cultivated anew. The Republicans of the north must set their facet like Hint i and act with ceaseless energy to secure protection for oar voters in the south. The importance of a successful effortio this direction cannot be overestimated. If Republicans anile to impress their sentiment on the country, requiring of the southern Democrats fair play for the Republicans in the late Confederate states, aud will subscribe liberal sums of money to conduct a lively and aggressive canvass in those states to show the colored voters that the determination to protect them in their citizenship and equal rights is supported by the unanimous party strength at the north, we will carry several if not all of the states we have named. But the workers and the money must be supplied in the north. Our friends are ell out of office in the south and have few active workers or men in a situation to give money. Garfield and Arthur will poll the full Republican vote of the north, and while we want an active and wellconducted campaign here, the bulk of the funds expeuded and the strongest force of workers should be sent south. But the party must back up this enterprise at the south in the proper way so that it will be sure to succeed. A failure would not only be rediculous hut daruag ing. Mr. Hayes’ administration has utterly failed to guarantee to eaeh stale a Republican-form of government. The conduct of this canvass should give an earnest of the better part the administration of Mr. Garfield will perform in this particular.

John A. Burk, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Burk, who reside on Front street, in this place, was killed by lightning, at Fowler, last Sabbath afternoon, about 3 o’clock. He and his father were on the street and seeing the shower coming the son hastened to the residence of one Mr. Jones. After entering the house he pulled off his coat and sat down to rest near the stove, not far from Miss Maggie Jones. A few minutes after the lightning struck the chimney of tho boueo and passed down to the room where the persons mentioned were sitting. The electricity glanced from the stove to one of John’s feet and passed up his body to his head, killing him instantly. Maggie was also hit on the foot bui not otherwise injured. The building was pretty badly damaged, and other parties severely shocked. Physicians were called and every effort made to restore the young man, but all efforts proved in vain. The deceased had been engaged on a farm near Fowler since in April, but was in town with his father on Sabbath. The remains were brought home Monday, and after appropriate services were'coosigned to the grave, in the eemetery near the Orphan’s Asylum. John was a promising young man, near twenty years of age, and his sudden death a severe affliction to liis parents and family. The entire community sympathize with the parents and relatives of the deceased in their sad bereavement

In response to a resolution of the Senate, the Secretary of the Treasury has caused to be prepared an official statement of expenses in curred by the United States in the war of the rebellion; also, the specified amount paid on the principal of the public debt thereby incurred. The statement of expenses growing out of the war from July 1, 1861, to June SO} 1879 s inclusive, amounts in gross expenditures to $6,79 *«,- 782,508; * ordinary expenditures, $699,549,123.62; specific expendi I tures of the war, $6,187,243,385. The Democratic parly is responsible for this debt and for the taxes which the people are paying to-day, and will have to pay for a long time to come on aoconnt of it. The [American people ought to make a deep and solemn resolve that the Democratic party should never be entrusted with the control of the government as loDg as a dollar of the debt which it caused remains anpaid.—lnd. Journal. New York Tribune: “Great MaI jority Garfield,” men used to call the able and popular statesman who was nominated for the presidency yesterday. Representing “the New England district” of Ohio, in the extreme northeast corner of that State, he was in the habit of carrying It, wbeuever congressional elections occurred, by overwhelming majorities. He was elected first in 1882, by 8,525 majority; in 1864 bis majority was 11,771; in 1868 it was 10,088? and in 1868 it was 10,800. Nine times in succession he haft been chosen in the distriot. hi spite of all the political ohangea as ibe past twenty years, his plurality at the last election waa 9,613.