Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1879 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

From Washington. T>t Secretary of the Treasury Is reported to have Sodded to remit all fines and penalUrn incurred by Mtasteaippl River steamers Ihr carrying an excess of passengers during nfiUrril IT was stated In a Washington special of the (th that there had been a marked increase in the demand tor the standard silver dollars since Secretary Sherman had issued his order requiring the disbursing officers not to discriminate against such coin in making payments. Treasurer Gilfillan would, next payday, try the experiment of paying ten per cent, of salaries to all employes in the District in standard e lver. The monthly pay-roll In the District is nearly (1,000,000. Tna Secretory of the Interior received a letter from the Indian Chief Spoiled Tail on the Sth, in which the latter says both he and his people want to be like the whites. He says he has had enough of the military; wants his people to work; wants no more scouting; since they had been where they now are his peoole had had no whisky; wherever the military are there la always whisky, and that makes trouble. lie says he wants the Secretary to visit him and stay a month, and see how it is. Secretary Schurz replied, thanking Spotted Tail for his expressions of good will, and promised to visit him on the fiOUi of August and to spend several days on the reservation. It was reported on the 9th that the President had decided to restore all of the cadets recently dismissed from West Point for hazing, as there was a general sentiment among army officials that expulsion will not break up the practice. ; . The East. Ths Republicans of Massachusetts will meet in State Convention at Worcester on the 16th of September to nominate State officers. Tn next semi-annual meeting of the National Agricultural Congress will be ijcld at Rochester. N. ,Y., on the 15th of September. Riv. W. H. H. ("Adirondack”) Mvkrsy having become involved In eerioos financial difficulties, and some of his creditors having taken steps to secure their claims, that gentleman recently disappeared, one statement being that be was worn out with work and worry and had gone off for recreation. The Si. Albans (Vt.) Adverturr of the sth publishes an account of an interview with Miss Hodgkins, Mr. Murray’s amanuensis, in which she stated that all of the reverend gentleman’s business would be settled satisfactorily and honorably; that be would rather die than do anything A New York dispatch of the sth announces the conviction for forgery, in that city, of Charles G. Fisher, Assistant District Attorney of Washington, D. C., from 1873 to 1875. The American Bankers’ Association met in annual Convention at Saratoga on the 6th. Large delegations were present, all sections of the Union being well represented. A letter was read from Secretary Sherman in which he attributes ‘-the ease and facility with which the vast refunding operations ot the Government have been conducted” to the co-opera-tion of the, banks. Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, Was re-elected President of the Association.' The autopsy on the remains of the late Charles Feebler, the actor, held on the 7th, showed that he died from the Inordinate use of intoxicating liquors. It was rumored in New York on the 7th that the stolen body of the late A. T. Stewart had been recovered and deposited at night In the crypt at Stewart’s Memorial Cathedral. The crypt had been carefully sealed and several watchmen were said to be on duty day and night The Pennsylvania Prohibition State Convention has been called to meet at Altoona on the 9th of September. It is expected that a State ticket will be nominated aud an address issued. The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on August 9th: Na 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, (1.0001.01; Na 2 Milwaukee. (1.(001.01. Oats, Western Mixed, 32035 c. Corn, Western Mixed, 43© Msc. Pork, Mess, (8.63X08.67M. Lard, (5.7505.82 - Flour, Good to Choice, (4.7001.50; White Wheat Extra, (4.7506.25. Cattle, (6.50010.25 for Common to Extra. Sheep, (3 7‘©>.25. Hogs, (3.7004.00. At East Liberty, Pa., on August 9th, Cattle brought: Best, (5 0005.25; Medium, (3.50 @4.75; Common, (3.0003.30. Hogs sold— Yorkers, (3.450X65; Philadelphia, (3.650 3.95. Sheep brought (3.oool.7s—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on August 9th, Cattle brought: Best, (5.0005.25; Medium, (3.0004.12 X. Hogs sold at (4.5005.37 X for Good. Sheep were quoted at (3.0004.50 for Good.

West and South; An entire fauily, consisting of E. P. Lesuenr, wife and two children, were struck by lightning at Rochester, Minn., on the 4th. The woman and children were killed, and Lesueur was probably fatally injured. Volcano, W. Va., was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 4th. Six hundred barrels of oil, ten stores, the postoffice, railway depot, hotel and other business houses, and about fifty other buildings of various sizes were burned, with their entire contents. The burning oil running through the streets * spread the fire in every direction. The loss would be abiut *150,030. The fire was thought to have been the work of an incendiary. A few days ago four unknown men, supposed to belong to a gang of desperadoes .Iran the Indian Territory, entered the village of Coneyvllle, Kan., robbed the Po/toffice and committed other depredations. The citizens resisted, and one of them named Fitzpatrick was killed, and another named Roberts badly wounded. They then left, and although a detachment At troops started in pursuit, they had not been arrested up to the 4th. Ton Custer battle-field, on the Little Big Moro, is to be made a National cemetery. The Special Committee of the (Georgia House of Representatives have reported sixteen articles of impeachment against Comp-troller-General Goldsmith. These allege a defalcation of *II,OOO. Geo. Q. Cannon, Brigham Young and Albert Carrington, executors of the late Brigham Young, have been sent to the Utah Penitentiary for contempt, in refusing to comply with an order of court to pay into the hands of the receiver of the estate certain moneys and securities. Ojr the sth, a Chicago foundryman named Benn, in a moment of passion L Bhot and killed Conrad Englemanu, his foreman. In an instant, realizing the enormity of his crime, he stepped to a rear apartment, drew from his pocket a clasp knife and cut his throat from ear to ear, expiring almost immediately. A dispatch was received on the sth at St Paul, Minn., by General Terry, from Genera] Mlles, in which it U stated that. Major Walsh, of the Canadian mounted police, accompanied by the Sioux Chief Long Dog, had come to General Mfiea’ camp and stated that Sitting Bull’s whole following, numbering 5,000 to 8,000 people, had moved to three Lake, about eighty’ mik* iaorth-WW See, where thef would remain. Assurances were given that UteY would abstain from all hostile movements on this side, return stolen property, art desist from bunting American buffalo unlustTenanted to do so under the supervision of United States offlciaK

A littls girt in New Orleans, named Rosa ChrUVan, wav bitton by a Newfoundland dog on tbe 7th of last month, and died of hydrophobia on the sth Instants The Maryland Democrats met in Blate Conventton at Baltimore on the 7th, ard noml- > nated William T. Hamilton for Governor; 11..present Incumbents for Attorney-General and Comptroller, and Spencer C. Jones for Clerk of Appeals. The platform protests against an Increase of the National debt; denounces the election ot Mr. Hayes as a fraud; optionee Federal interference in elections; etc.,etc. The returns received on the Bth from the election tn Tennessee on The State debt qfietUon indicated that the proposition to«ettlc the debt at fifty cents and four per cent. Interest had been rejected by not less than 15,000 majority. Party lines were not regarded In tbe contest. Rev. Theophiluh VAN de Moohtei., a Jesuit priest of Chicago, who bad announced his Intention to renounce Roman Catholicism and join the Episcopal Church, on the 9th sent to the newspapers a notice that he retracts what ho had said against the Church of Rome, and had “ resolved to return to lbw church that opens Its arms to receive back tin erring child.” The Secretary of State of Kentucky had on the 10th receive 1 returns from fifty-eight counties In that State, which give a majority for Blackburn of 23,514. Blackburn.'* majorityin the State would probtbly exceed 40,000, a Democratic gain of over 5,000 over the two preceding Gubernatorial elections. The Republlcins had gained three or four Senators and ton or twelve Representatives. 1N Chicago, on Auzust 9th, Spring Wheat Na 2 closed at 84%084%c cash; 85085><c for September; 85%085%c for October. Cash Corn closed at 33%033%c for No. 2; 34%034%c for September; 34% (</34%c for October. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23%@23%c; 23%@23%c seller Soptomlter; 23%c for October. Rye No. 2, 49%c. Barley No. 3, ——o for cas).. Cash Mess Pork closed at 98.1708 20. Lard, cash, 95.46. Beeves Extra brought (4.850 5.25; Choice, (4.5004.70; Good, (4.100 4.40; Medium Grades, (3.5004 00; Butchers’ Stock, (2 4003.25.5t0ck Cattle, etc., (2.40 03.00. Hogs—Good to Choice, (3.2003.55. Sheep—Poor to Choice, 2.5004.75.

The Yellow Fever. A refugee from Memphis died in Chicago on the 4th, exhibiting slight symptoms ofJ.bc yellow fever, but the physician attending him did not think it a genuine case of that disease. The victim had "tramped” a large part of the way from the South, and been subject to great exposure to heat and hunger. One hundred and thirty-seven deaths from yellqy fever occurred In Havana, Cuba, during the week ending on the 2d, an increase of twenty over the previous week. The total number ot yellow-fever deaths during July was 537, against 504 for the same mouth last year. Since the Iteginning of the year 857 deaths had occurred, against 813 for the same time last year. Seventeen new cases—ten white and seven colored—were reported to the Memphis Board of Health on the 6th. Five additional cases (all colored} were announced after tbe regular report was made out, and would be included in next statement. Three deaths bad occurred. The County Medical Society held its monthly meeting in the evening. The members were unanimous in the opinion that every part of the city will be visited i>y the fever before frost cuts it off. Several towns on the New Orleans, St. Louis Chicago Road rescinded their quarantine against New Orleans on the Gtb. There were twenty-nine new cases and five deaths from yellow fever in Memphis on tbe 7th. A circular has been issued calling upon absent Memphians to aid their suffering townsmen.

There were twenty-two new cases of yellowfever (eight white and fourteen colored) officially reported to the Memphis Board of Health on tbe Sth, and seven additional were heard from after the close of tbe day’s report. The deaths numbered eight. The increase in the pumber of deaths was attributed to a sudden change in the weather the night before, the mercury dropping to about seventytwo degrees and remaining there during the day. The Howard Association placed thirty additional nurses on duty; they hud sixty physicians in the field, all of whom were kept busy. A fatal case of yellow fever was at Mayersville, Miss., on the 9th. Considerable excitement existed there. The yellow fever was officially declared to be epidemic in Memphis by the Board of Health of that city on tbe 9th, and absentees were warned not to return until further notice. Twenty-one new cases and five deaths were reported on the 9tb, and twenty-nine new eases and five deaths on the 10th. A majority of the cases were colored people. A clerk in Pratt’s Oil Works, of Williams burg, died at Brooklyu, N. Y., on the 9th, of yellow fever, contracted, it was thought, while carrying messages to a bark which came fiom Havana in June last, and loaded with oil at the works in July. A New Orleans dispatch of the 9th says noqase of yellow fever was then known to exist in that city.

Foreign Intelligence. A very violent storm visited the south ot England on the night of the 3d. Hailstones five inches in diameter fell in extraordinary volume and wrought great damage to the growing crops. Great numbers of cattle, sheep and bogs were killed. It was the most destructive storm that has visited that section for years. A few days ago a family named Monette, consisting of seven persons, and living at Port Vian, Canada, were poisoned by eating bread which bad been standieg near some Paris green. Three have died. According to London telegrams of the sth the steamer Louis David, en route from Antwerp to Naples, was recently wrecked off "Cshant, France, during a thick fog. Twentyseven of her passengers were drowned. On the sth, in Staffordshire, Eng., 3,400 colliers struck against a proposed reduction in wages.

Tub Infanta Marie del Pinar, second sister of the King of Spain, died on the sth of nervous fever. The funeral ot" the Socialist Member of Parliament, Geib.'at Hamburg on the 6tb, was attended by 20,000 persons. On the 6th, the watei urst into the Luding Glueck Mjne at the Zabrize collieries, in Prussia. All the miners in the pit, numbering thirteen, are supposed to have perished. The town of Cbatenois, near Strasburg, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 6th. More than 2,000 people were rendered homeless. Tbe money loss was over 1,000,000 marks. His Holiness, the Pope, has bestowed his pontifical blessing upon the Panama Canal project Thb King of Menelk, ruler of the southern portion of Abyssinia, has abolished slavery in bis dominions. ' Dispatches received from Cape Town on the 7th were to the effect that General Wolseley proposed to occupy Ulundi until peace, was restored; that Cetewayo, whose army was reduced to 1,000 med, had sent in messengers asking for new terms of surrender; etc., etc. > ■’' The German corvette Freys burst her boiler just as she was leaving tbe port of Batavia a few days ago. Four men were killed add several injured. A dispatch received from Copenhagen on tbe 7th says the announcement that the Swedish Arctic Exploring Expedition had escaped from the ice in Behring Straits was premature. According to an Alexandria (Egypt) telegram of the 7th, King John, of Abyssinia, had discovered that the treaty lately negotiated wfttuEgypt did not bear his signature,

and hail ordered the reoccupation by ills army of the districts surrendered to Egypl under its provisions. The Exchange Bank of Montreal dosed its <l<H>ra on, the 7th, after .sustaining a run of uuexuinlod pnqiort’iona The I labilities of the iqetUulioii are -stated to be (900,000, and the usual promise' to psy in full I* made. Rt ssia has notified the Powers of her Inton Hon to construct a military bridge across tbe Danube at Blllstrli. B<>ME<>fi" the Nihilist conllnt-d at (Messi, recently cotpmittod suicide by burning himself to death over his kerosene lamp. Rev. Newman- Hall, the dlstinguishpl Congregational preacher of London, Eng., was divorced from his wife on the Bth. TjlE trade for the investiture of the new Khedive of Egypt left Constantinople on the Bth. On the Sdi Scrvla presented to the Porte a claim for 2,000,060 francs damages for the of property by the Albanians In their raids across the Rprvlan frontier. At Montreal on the Sth tbe Ville "Marie Bank collapsed after a run lasting about an hour. Subsequently, the Managers Issued a notice saying that they owed (575,000 and had over 91,000,000 of assets, and wofild pay every dollar in full. The suspension of the Ville Marie was followed shorfly Sifter by that of the Bank of Hochelnga, whose debts are estimated to be about (300,000. Tills bank claims also'to lie able to paj’ in full. A frantic run was then made ujion the City and District Savings Bank. At the hour of closing the Managers hail met all liabilities', and said ihej- hud abundant means to do so in future. There was great excitement. A< < OHDIN« to a Sernjevo dispatch of the lOtli a fire in that city had destroyed 288 houses,3lß shot s and fojtfy-eight warehouses, involving a pecuniary loss of 100,000,006 florins. Several pcrisons perished in the flames, the number lieing variously estimated at from ten to 2,000. The fire was started by an ex-plosion occurring in -a- spirit warehouse where excise officers were gauging and sealing casks. , A Cahul (Afghanistan) dispatch received on the 9tli announces the final signature of the treaty with the Ameer. This instrument provides tor a telegraph line to Caimi, ancT stipulates Chat the Ameer’s foreign policy shall be controlled by the British Government, which agrees on its part to protect the Ameer from foreign aggression, An Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch of the 10th says the British Government had placed an unqualified veto upon the project ot the return of the ex-Khedive to Egypt. AccoliDiNG to Calcutta telegrams of the *lotli the cholera was still raging among tile natives and troops in Candahur, and spreading toward Herat. The Rumpa rebellion was assuming larger proportions. A Cairo telegram of the 9ti\ says that the administration of the new Khedive was proving altogether unsatisfactory and a fresh crisis in Egypt was threatened. By noon on the 9th the run upon the Montreal District and City Savings Bank had spent its force. At that time many of those who, the day before, were so anxious to get their money, brought it back again. During the flurry the bank paid out (250,000.

THU CINCINNATI INVESTIGATION.

Colonel A. E. Jones testified on the Ith that ho was a candidate on the National ticket for Congress in the First District last fall; had no help from Mr. Bayler. James O’Conner testified-that he met Mr. Butterworth at his office before the election, but received no money from him, nor from anybody else, for his services at the election. Francis Johnson testified that he never saw Butterworth pay money to any person. John Ambrose testified that he waa a Democrat. but not an active politician -, was at the First Precinct polls in the First Ward on election day; he knew that fifty dollars was left with Mr. Richards; witness gotten dollars, and three others got the same amount; had a talk with Pat Dooley, who also got ten dollars for working for Butterworth; before election. Mr. Hofer'told witness fifty dollars bad been sent to his precinct for Mr. Buttorworth, and witness answered, "All right;” witness voted for Bayler, and Dooley did, too; witness also received money from Bayler and his friends—twenty-five dollars altogether; got the same amount from Butterworth; the first money he received was from Butterworth; then got twenty-five dollars from Bayler, and ten dollars from Buttorworth after tbe election; witness knew of fifty dollars bting distributed in his ward for the Democratic ticket; saw a man named Wallace with fifty dollars, who gave a few quarters to a man named Taylor, and Taylor gave witness and one Murphy four quarters; Wallace was working for Butterworth. . .-<•»

Charles F. Hayman testified that he was now a member of the City Republican Executive Committee, and was a Deputy Marshal last fall; received five dollars for such service; went over to Covington to talk with Francis about repeaters; saw Francis and Edwards and Jerry Reed about persons coming over here to testify before the committee; found no one over there who had voted illegally on thia side of the river. At the meeting of the committee on the sth, it was resolved that the evidence for the memorialists should clcsa with that day's testimony. Charles T. Hayman, being cross-examined, ■ Slid he did not say that Hoffman agreed to furnish them money for frauds that they might discover: Tim Edwards toid witness that he could furnish the uames of thirteen repeaters for 1g'O; be had a talk with Edwards afterward in a Covington saloon: Francis and Reed were present; may have tola Edwards and Francis that he was getting ten dollars per day; witness said to Edwards that he didn't care whether the thirteen names were legitimate or not, so that they got their evidence. Bam McNamara (Democrat) testified that he met Butterworth two or three times; he told him that he wauted forty dollars for the Eighth Ward independent Club, the officers of the club were all Democrats; be told witness to call at his office the next day; found Dr. Ayres and O'Connell there; they told Butterworth that the officers of the club would be satisfied with five dollars each, but they had better not be paid till after the election; Butterworth gave witness three dollars to spend with the boys; got three dollars from hnn on two other occaions; saw him at the Gibson House, before Jie election, about the money that he had promised; he put twenty-five dollars in the bands of Sam Bailey, who promised to give it to them after the election if they worked as they promised; the second day after the election witness received the money; would not have voted for Butterworth if he bad received no money; witness had been in the workhouse twice; was let out last March; never heard about the investigation till within a week; ne4«r was paid for holding tickets at an election before.

Parker Dixon, Assistant District Attorney, testified on the 6th that Hayman had told him that the Democrats employed him (Hayman) to work in evidence against Butterworth; that he was a Republican, but expected to make money out of this jpb. Jonn Critchell testified that be was a member of the Republican Campaign Committee of 1878; the committee employed Francis and four other men to watch for four days before and on election day for “ repeaters," and authorizea Francis to employ thirty additional watchers on election day; witness understood the character of Francis and the four men to be good, and, as far as he knew, thev performed their duty faithfcffiy; witness raid nothing to Butterworth about employing these men until after election. James T. Francis testified that rtayman told witness on tbe 22d of July that he was making ten dollars a day and expenses, and wauted witness to go in with him and f urnisu the names of fifteen men who would swear tnat they had voted illegally; he said he could get SIOO fur them; he didn't care what ticket they voted, so he could make a showing to his employers; neitifer Butterworth nor Young had anything to do with witness' employment to watch the polls; Hayman agreed to divide $l5O with witness if they could get affidavits about repeaters; agreed to the proposition in order to get information from Hayman. ■ ~ ~ District Attorney Channing Richards was sworn, and raid Hayman bad come to him and told him he bad been offered employment by the Democrats to hunt up the evidence of illegal voting, to be used as evidence in this investigation. General Thomas L. Young testified that be bad run for office in the county four or five times; a candidate cannot get along without spending money, and spending it in a legitimate manner; tbe Republican party assesses candidates a certain amount determined upon by the Campaign Committee; it was customary to employ men of tbe opposite party to work for a candidate if they expressed an intention to support that candidate; witness paid SI,OOO assessment to the committee and spent about $2,400 himself; did not pay any man a dollar for any illegal purpose. Thomas Edwards stated to the committee that Hayman told him be had a sure thing, and wanted witness to get tbe names of parties who bad voted illegally, and:told him to aak Hoffmanfor*3oo for tbe informatics) concerning the illegal voters; afterward Hayman told witness he could not get SSOO, but could get *300; when be came for witness to give him tbe names asked him for his share of the mcney, but he couldn’t give it to witneca, and he did not get any names; Hayman told witness first that he did not care whether the names were legitimate or not, so he got them. On cross-examination, witness said

he did not intend to fiipibffi names dr take money, but accompanied llajmitn -over the river to find out what be knew; he had a party write out a list of fictitious names to give to Hayman; con Id nt remember who the mao .was who wrote the names for him. Benjamin Eggleston testified that he was Judge at the First Precinct of the Second Ward polliS the election pawed off quietly; VKw no Deputy Marshals handling tiokete; the want is liepnblii an; candidates generally lure men of "influence on the other side to hold tickets for them and secure votes. J. J. Desmond, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney under L. W. Irwin, testified that, at an investigation of elections, the im of money by Mr. Butterworth and any other candidate waa ■rider consideiation; witness concluded there waa evidence sufficient to warrant finding indictment*. and submitted the matter to the Grand Jury, but they found no bills: was interested in the result of the October election, as Mr. Irwin was a candidate for re-election. George W. Jones testified that he was Buperviaor at Precinct B. Nineteenth Ward; it is a heavy Dcmocmtid ward; the election was as auiet as witness ever remembered: din not panic tickets, but took a position where he could see tickets handled by the Judges, and was satisfied it waa a fair election. V - * - ' On the 7th, a large number of witnesses testified: James T. Francis, who swore he never made the remark that he hail got his work in and made (2)0 on election day;" John W. For I. who swore that he was employed to watch Kentuckians coming over to vote, but didn’t vote himself, and tliat the election was quiet and orderly; William Ellis, who neVersaw a more quiet election, and was paid (3 to watoh the Covington men, but didn t vote himself: John Niehaus, Samuel Killsiurn, John Farrel and others, who swore that they were employed to watch Covington men. and saw no illegal voting;John Johnson.of Covington, who saw three Covington men come to the )>olls as it to vote, and when they were prevented, rail! they were watching for illegal voters; J. T. Francis (recalled) who said he saw a man who was holding Democratic tickets drag a man who waa holding Republican tickets away from the polls and strike him; Matt Reed, who said he was in Cincihnati four days lie fore election to find out if anybody had moved from Covington; Chas. Kugg. who said he had a few tickets in his hand, bnt distributed none; Francis told him that he had pointed him out to the Marshals and Supervisors, who would see that he was all right if he get into trouble; he was not certain that he used the terms Marshals or Supervisors, but that was the inference witness drew; Thomas Fay, a member of the Republican Committee, who knew nothing about illegal voting; C. W. Meyers, who said that on election day a man told him he had eight or nine men who would vote for the Republican ticket if they were paid for it. but witness declined to negotiate; Ricbmxi 11. Hatch, who said tbe election was a qniet one, though the colored voters were many of them compelled to swear in their votes, and many refused to vote; J. H. Kelly, who said the election was the fairest ever held in his precinct, and bad no personal knowledge of buying voters; Michael _ lawrence, Charles Danna, T. A. Blinn and others, each of whom declared the election to have been a quiet and orderly one,and fairly conducted; E. A. laggin, who testified that he never belonged to any political club that did not receive money; tielonged to r tbe colored Democratic Club in 1875; was a friend of Milton Bayler, although not a Democrat; received money from him and voted for him; did not believe any member of tbe club supported Bayler in 1878; when witness published his card refusing to support Bayler in 1878, on account of his soft-money principles none of the club supported him; when witness published the card Bayler came to him, and offered him 0 to support him, and reorganize the club before election day; Butterworth paid him five or six dollars, which he distributed among the boys; after Bayler was nominated in 1878 tbe club received fifty dollars from the Democratic campaign committee; the club disbanded two days before the election; witness thought it was ulxiut a week liefore the last eketion that he met Bayler, and he promised (lOOjif he wonld work for him and secure the club for him; he also told him to come over to his office the next day and he would give him S2OO.

General Banning was examined on the Bth, and testified to having been assessed (500, (800 and $1,(00 for campaign expenses wh n running for Congress against Hayes, Steve Mon and Matthews, respectively: spent money beside among the saloons, f< * bands for political meetings, for men to hold tickets for the polls, and in various waj s; had paid the expenses of Republicans working for him. ’Theodore Cook, a former member of the Democratic Committee, said he hail employed persons of opposing political parties to hold tickets; regarded it as a legitimate use of money; his expenses as a Congressional candidate, in 186 G, were (3 (XX); the election of 1878 passed off without trouble; it is customary to pay laboring men from two to five dollars to hold tickets aud importune voters; if he were a candidate, and a Republican should come to him and say that ho would not support his opponent, witness would pay him if he were a man of influence; would not buy a man’s vote. Vivian Fsgin testified that James Eagm told him that he was sorry he had testified against Butterworth; had been tricked into making the affidavit, and had no intention of signing sdeh documeut. that the statements in the affidavit were untrue. . . . Mr. Butterworth was called, and said that McNamara. of the Eighth Ward Independent Club, had said that the club was comi><>scd of independent voters, and that their ticket had his name on: his (Butterworth s) friends recommended him to pay the club twenty-five dollars to work for the club ticket, which he did; McNamara never met him at the Gibson House, as stated; witness never employed a Democrat to work unless recommended by some one in whom he ha<l confidence. A discussion occurred on the subject of calling all the memorialists, which finally terminated with an agreement upon the rollowing ' entry, which waa ordered made: “it being conceded by counsel representing both sides of this controversy that the memorialists, who’ signed the memorial upon the representations made to them, upon the truth of which they replied, have no personal knowledge of the sac b; the Committee, therefore, unanimously agree that it is unnecessary to involve the Government in the expense of bringing said memorialisto before the Committee; that this be put upon record.” . It was also agreed thatjhe affidavits should not form A part of the testimony before the Committee, and the stenographer was Ao instructed. William H. Pugh, one of the memorial’ets, testified that personally he had no information of his own, but acted upon information of j ergons who were brought into the committee-room.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

j -Richard Grant White says English gramm’ar is dead. —Senator Wade Hampton’s leg still gives him a great deal of trouble. —Senator Allison has been made an LL. 1X by the Western Reserve College. —Vice-President Wheeler think? of going to Colorado this summer for the benefit of his health. ' * —Senator Matt Carpenter has been invited to deliver the address at the State Fair at Montpelicj* on the 10th of September. He is a native of Vermont —The Rev. Ada C. Bodies, of the First Universalist Church in San Francisco, married a pair the other day, and was the hrst woman to do] so on the Pacific Coast. —The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, N. Y., a brother*of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, is advocating cremation, and offers to subscribe for stock in a company to conduct the business. —lt is reported that Mrs. Asa B. Hutchinson, one of the famous family of singers, has become exceedingly wealthy by the purchase of an unworked mine at LeadvillQ, Col., which has since proved to be of remarkable richness. , —Mr. Chester W. Chapin, of Springfield, Mass., has been chosen President of the Connecticut River Railroad Company. He is eighty-one years old, and is probably the richest man in Western Massachusetts. He retired from the Presidency of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company last year on account of his age. Prince Galitzin, a young Russian nobleman, converted by a Bible given’ him at the Paris Exposition, proposes to build thirty Bible kiosks and to fit up seven Bible carriages. He intends to travel in Russia with Mr. Clough, of Paris, whom he has engaged to have charge of these carriages, saying: “ Since. /Christ laid down His precious life fqj - me, I will give my whole life and time and fortune, for His i —Mr. W. E. Forster, M. P., says: “In dealing with the education of girls in the training colleges it has been fojmd that they require little driving to work compared with boys,, and that they are more susceptible to influences es ambition and a desire to succeed. The danger in -the training colleges for elementary is from overwork. There is no fear that young women will not avail themselves of tbe opportunities offered.”:

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, i —lt is mote than a slight mistake to slight a friend. —Honest money is that which a man gets by working for it.— Picayune. ’—Motto for the keeper of hay scales —•* Learn to labor and to weight’t.” ---Every man is the architect of his own fortune, in case he desires to build one. —An inquiring mind is a good Ahing if it does not waste itself inquiring into other people’s business. —Young men are circulating the report that entire families have been poisoned by eating ice cream. —ls you do your duty you will never have any spare time to attend to other people’s business unless they hiijc you. —Worth, the Parisian man-milliner, will not make a dress, material supplied by the customer, for less than ?3CO or SIOO, and he has all that he can attend to at that price. —We have often wondered how the word “pit-a-pat” originated, but when we call to mind that it rains 220 days in the year in Ireland, it comes very naturally to pity Pat.— Cincinnati Times. —They sent a goose over Niagara Falls the other day to see how she would take it, and when she rose to the surface of the river below she looked up as if saying: “ You think you’re awful smart, don’t you?” Never marry a man on a small salary. Elmira Advertiser. Now, there is good advice for you, girls. Always wait until you have laid up enough money to furnish the house and keep the dear fellow in* cigars and other lolipops. Man is a delicate creature, and needs- tender rearing.—N. K Commercial Advertiser. —lt was a very honest old Dutch Judge in Schoharie County, N. Y., who listened for several hours to the arguments of counsel, and then said: “ Dis case has peen ferry ably argued on both sides, and dare have peen some ferry nice points of law brought up. I shall dake dree days to gonsider these points, but I shall ewentually decide for de blaintiff.” —Talk of the bravery of the sterner sex! Do you remember the first time you asked her, “Will you take my arm?” While you trembled all over like the narrative of the stump-tailed dog, and experienced the sensation of having swallowed your Adam’s apple, what did she do? Why, she took your arm as coolly as she would eat a pickle. —Boston Transcript. —The clause in the new Massachusetts Liquor law requiring every liquor dealer to get the written consent of the owner of the premises is a source of • great trouble in the trade, because | many real estate owners, while willing to take the money of such tenants, refuse to commit themselves on paper. Some of the most prosperous places in Boston are to be closed. —Our inventor is at work getting out 44,000,000 of fancy cards bearing the words, “ You can just bet your sweet life it is.” They are intended to be worn on the lappci of the coats of all men in the United States in answer to the query, “Is it warm enough for you?” They will meet a long-felt want, and ought to have a tremendous sale.— Wheeling Sunday Leader. —At seven o’clock in the morning two duelists, who are to fight to the death at a place in the suburbs, meet at the ticket office of the railroad station. “Gimme a return ticket as usual,” says the first duelist to the clerk in a terrible tone and with a ferocious twist of his moustache. “I—l say, do you always buy return tickets?” stammers his opponent. “Always.” “Then I apologize.”, —A fashionable woman, suffering from a complication of disorders, recently sought the advice of an eminent New York physician. Having related her symptoms, which were of a character to cause serious alarm, she was surprised to hear him say simply, “ Let me look at your shoes.” On seeing them he added, “I cannot treat a patient who wears shoes with such heels as those”--and politely bowed her out. —The other day a farmer met a friend in Detroit, who asked him how prospects were out in the country. “This dry weather is just killing everything,” was the doleful reply. Some hours afterward a storm of rain broke over the city, and as the farmer ran in and out of the wet his friend said: “This will do good out your way.” “May be, may be,” said the farmer, “ but it’s mighty rough on them’s got hay out to-day.”— Detroit Free Press. —We suppose, says an exchange, that many a weary parishioner who has seen his minister wrestling with his fifteenthly has been remindedof the story of Lord Ellenborough. He was listening to the tedious speech of a long-winded barrister, when the latter paused, partly for want of breath, and said: “Is it the pleasure of the Court that I proceed?” “Pleasure, sir,” replied the Judge, “ has been out of the question a long time, but still you may proceed.” —An old man fell dead in Mansfield, Pa., on Sunday night recently, while sitting in the parlor where his daughter and her young man were sparking. It may be that the conduct of the young couple sickened the old man and caused his death; but it will do no harm and perhaps much good to cut this paragraph. out and show it to the old folks who arc addicted to sticking in the parlors on Sunday evenings, when their daughter’s beau wants to tell her a great many secrets and so forth. — Norristown Herald.

A Big Hotel in a Cornfield.

One of the effects of the panic of 1873 was to defeat certain railroad projects in Virginia and suddenly check the growth in its. infancy of a grandly-lajd-out city near Quantico, in Prince William County, in that State, about thirty miles -down the Potomac. Anson Bangs and Jesse Hoyt, two well-known New York capitalists, the former the advocate of cheap transit rail and steamer routes, with others, about ten years ago, conceived the idea of a railroad from some point on the Potomac to the Kanawha River. They procured a charter for such,- a road, and after having examined many locations finally selected the neighborhood of Quantico as the best site for the terminus on the Potomac. Accordingly they purchased there a tract of land—about seven thousand acres—extending from Quantico Creek to Chapa wamsic Creek, on the Potomac River, running back a distance of about four', miles to the Telegraph Road. This triact they laid out in streets, avenues and squares, ana named, it Potomac City. Mr. Bangs was so confident of the success of the enterprise/ that he iinmediately had erected near the intersection of Potomac avenue and the failroad a large

hotel. This is a concrete building of four stories, containing one hundred and twenty-two rooms, and cost $68,000. It is well arranged and finely finished. This building, now occu'pied only by some one to care for it, has long been a wonder to those who have caught sight of it from passing cars or steamers. Thp enclosure surrounding it having once or twice bfeen cultivated in corn gave it a still more singular appearance—a x hotel in a cornfield.— . Washington Star. ;

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—An eighteen-months-old baby was eaten up by an alligatftr near Tampa, Fla., recently. —A Nevada mule was killed, and carefully dissected because he had swallowed ten twcnty-dollar bills. —A little girl has just died at Newport! 11. 1., from injuries received in playing snap-the-whip at a Sundayschool picnic. * —Two negro boys had a .butting match in Greenville, N. C., the other day, and one of them butted the other into eternity. —A little girl at Springfield, Mass., was so frightened by a dog which had been set upon her that she went into convulsions and died. —A man in Utica, N. Y., cut off his wife’s hair close to the scalp because she had trimmed her little girl’s hair short for the hot weather. —Two aged colored women fought in the Newport Almshouse, and it transpired that sixty years before they had quarreled about a lover so bitterly that, on meeting, their animosity was as strong as ever. « —A woman at Burlington, Vt., was fatally poisoned while washing a pair of trousers which a man had worn, while applying Paris green to his potato vines, the poison taking effect through a cut in her hand. —A young man died in Bingham - ton, N. Y., lately from the effects of swallowing a silver half-dollar about three weeks before. He was tossing the coin in the air and catching it in his mouth, to amuse a child, when it lodged in his throat and passed into his stomach. —Some excitement was occasioned at Baltimore, on a recent Sunday, by the fitful noises of a steam-whistle. The noise was very mysterious, as the factories were all closed for the day, and the fires were extinguished. The sound was finally traced to a certain sawmill, and then the mystery was solved. Two cats were disporting about the wire leading to the whistlevalve, and as they occasionally dragged against it the confined air in the pipe escaped, and made the noise.

—I have always supposed that the story that cats were addicted to the habit of sucking the breath of persons while sleeping, where they could get access to the apartment, was nothing but a nursery fiction with which to frighten children from tne practice of taking pet cats to bed with them; but a case in point has just come under my notice, with which I thought it would be well to acquaint your readers, to guard them against a similar occurrence. A young lady of my acquaintance, residing in Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, was awakened last week during the night in an almost exhausted and strangling condition, with just sufficient consciousness to throw from hpr breast a cat whose mouth was thrust far into hers. She had scarcely strength to call for help, and has since been very ill from prostration and ulcerated sore throat. For several mornings previous she had awakened with very peculiar sensations about the throat and chest. The cat was a strange one, as none is kept about the house, and must have gained access to the apartment through a window (which opens on a balcony) near the bed.— Cor. N. Y. Tribune.

Meteors and Meteoric Phenomena.

When observers band together to watch every quarter of the sky, and to keep on the lookout through the whole night< the number of meteors that present themselves is very great. Tn this way it has been ascertained that upward of thirty, on the average, which are conspicuous enough to be seen without instruments, come within the view' of the observers stationed at one locality. And it is computed that telescopic meteors rrinst be about forty or fifty times as numerous as those visible to the naked eye. These results may be obtained from observations made at one station; but when concerted observations are carried on at different stations several other facts of interest come to light. By simultaneous observations at distant stations, it has been discovered that the height of meteors above the surface of the earth usually ranges from one hundred and twenty miles down to twenty miles, the average height being about sixty miles; that the direction or their fiight is toward the earth, eithe; in a vertical or in a sloping directions and that their speed in most cases lies between thirty and fifty miles a second.

We thus arrive at the conclusion that visible meteors are phenomena of our own atmosphere; and as the atmosphere reaches a height, at most, of one hundred and fifty miles, and is, therefore, but a thin'film over so vast a globe as the earth, it is obvious that the spectators at any one place can see only a very small portion of the meteors which dart about through all parts of this envelope. After making allowance sos this, we are forced to conclude that no fewer than three hundred millions of these bodies pass daily into the earth's atmosphere, of which about seven million, five hundred thousand are large enough to be seen with the naked eye on a clear night, and in the absence of the moon. — Prof. G. J. Stoney, in Popular Science Monthly for August. ' c

The failures of farmers are becom ng alarmingly frequent in England. In 1870 they numbered 229; in 1875, 354; in 1876, 480; in 1877, 577; in 1878, 815, and in the first half of 1879, no fewer than 614. In_addition, the facts are well known that farmers in many counties are now losing their capital, ’ that landlords find great difficulty in reletting at any price, and that the remission of rents have only met’" a portion of the difficulty. If the land of England becomes less and less able to compete with that of other countries in the growth of meat and cereal crops, the alteration in the conditions will have an effect not only on the persons immediately concerned, but on England as a whole. Any father who would go out and pqt tar on tpp of hw_;frontx»te.after dark must be lost to all sense of humanity and ordinary respectability.— Detroit Free Press. It is unnecessary, t too; they’ll stay there long enough without being stuck there. Boston Post.

A Great fraud Exposed.

The New York Times publishes an analysis of the popular vote of 1876 which cannot fail to arrest public attention. The effect of the publication is to prove as conclusively as anything can be proven by facts, figures and logic, that enormous fraqjis were perpetrated in 1876 in the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in the North, and Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi in the South, and that these frauds were perpetrated in the. interest of Mr. Tilden. The investigation by which the facts were obtained lasted several months, and was of the most exhaustive character. The statement of the results and conclusions arrived at occupies ten columns in the Times. The labor bestowed on the undertaking was enormous, as the labor of unearthing great frauds generally of necessity is, but the expose is complete and convincing. Without going into details here, it shows first, that in the six States above named there was an enormous apparent increase in the popular vote, out of all proportion to the increase in population; that the percentage of electors not voting was decreased in a most astonishing manner; that the ratio of voters to population belied all previous experience; that the claim to a majority of the popular vote is based upon votes fraudulently cast. These conclusions arc reached by comparisons of figures and statistical reasoning which must carry conviction to every mind capable of following an argument. As a specimen of the facts brought to light the following may serve:

The history of Presidential elections during the last"flfty‘j’ears shows that in periods of the greatest political excitement and under the most favorable circumstances not more eightyfive per cent. of the voters of a Statecan be fairly brought to the polls; that is, fifteen in every hundred of qualified voters for various reasons do not vote. This rule holds good with very little variation down to 1876, and in nearly all the States that year. But in that year ninety-nine per cent, of the enumerated voters of Louisiana came to the polls and voted; ninety-six per cent, of fiiose of South Carolina, 94.5 per cent, of those in Mississippi, 95.2 per cent, in New York, ninety-nine per cent, in New Jersey, and so on. The election of 1876 was not a specially exciting one, and there is no possible theory consistent with honesty and fairness that will account for so large a vote. Further examination shows that of this largely increased vote the Republicans only got their usual proportion in each State, while the Democrats received greatly mure than they we ’e entitled to by any law of averages, or by any theory consistent with a fair election.

Again, the comparison of population and the Presidential votes shows the following striking facts: For the twenty years, from 1840 to 1860, the population of New York increased 59.7 per cent., and the popular vote 30.3 per cent.; but from 1860 to 1876, a period of sixteen years, while the population increased 22.9 per cent., ■ the last Presidential election makes the popular vote increase 56.6 pjer cent. New Jersey, during tile first period named, increased in population 80 per Cent., and the popular vote increased 87.9 per cent.; but in the second period, while her population increased 55 percent., the popular vote increased 81 per cent. Connecticut, during the first period, increased her population 48.3 per cent., and the popular vote 35 per cent.; but in the second period, while the population increased 26.8 •per cent., the popular vote increased 58.3 per cent. These are the general conclusions. In proof of them the vote of each State is examined in detail, with surprising results, all supported by the facts of history and logic, and dovetailing together with absolute accuracy. The Tim?s says editorially of the "expose: “ Whether we consider the impossible proportion of reported voters to the number of qualified voters; or the impossible increase of the reported vota to the population; or the mysterious and sudden increase in the Democratic vote without any decrease in the Republican vote—with, in fact, the legitimate and regular increase of the Republican rate—all the facts point to the one conclusion, that of Democratic fraud on the most extensive scale.” The exposure is a fit companion-piece to the great cipher-dispatch fraud. This fraud emanated from the same fertile brain, and was executed in the interest of the same man, who is now planning a repetition of the game in 1880. No wonder the Democrats are determined to break down the barriers against election irauds.—lndianapolis Journal.

Southern Sentiment.

We arc for National supremacy, if necessary, at the cost of every Htate lino between Maine and California.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. And we are for State supremacy, if necessary, at the cost of the Union. Let vour party try tp rub out State lines if it dare. Its leaders will be hung for treason, and its rank-and-file will be riddled with musket-balls at the hands of an infuriated majority. Try it, we say, if you want to be plunged headlong into the chasm of hell-tire that will yawn in your path. The Okolona States, the Vicksburg Herald and Rome other Mississippi papers, are calling General James lionaid Chalmers to account for his selfishness in not defending his great chieftain," Forrest, when that personal explanation was made Washington. (D. C.) liepublican. "Misinformed. It is a subject that the States has never touched, for it knew that Forrest did not stand in need of a defense. We only regret that Mr. Chalmers saw proper - to reply to the lies and accusations set alloat in regard to himself. He should have treated them with superb contempt and silence, for the men in whose black hearts they were spawned are as far beneath him As Apollon in the fire To Itnuriel on the wing. The Herald has shocked the Okolona States by saying that “ Massachusetts has defended Staterights, and she may be called upon to do it again." Massachusetts has also defended the Union, and we hope she will not be called upon, to do that again.— Boston (ifass.) Herald. Yes; but you forget to say that Massachusetts withdrew from that same, identical UniSn long years before the Southern States went out. Our people didn’t clutch her by the hind hoof, and drag her back. * They let her severely alone. But, when wp seceded, she pretended that she was still a member of the American Confederacy, and subscribed money and marched soldiers hitherways to subjugate us for doing the same -thing that she had done herself. X Her. Ordinance of Secession is still unrepealedt'and yet Btiehootsat Secessionists. Shp is still out of the Union,’ and yet she plumes herself on her Unionism! Hypocrite!— Okolona fMiss.) Southern States. - I. ' A *