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WASHINGTON

Full Text of the Confeslion ITfadebySamuel B. jflLcLin.

Bitter Arraignment of President Hayes and His Friends.

The President Charged With Destroying the Men WHO Placed Him in Office.

Total Defeat of the Railroad Lobby in House.

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George L. Smith Nominated for the New Orleans Collectorship.

Special Dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal. THE ALLEGED FRAUDS IN FLORIDA.

Washington. April 24.—The press dispatch from Florida touching the presidential count in ihat Sate caused considerable excitement here in political circles, and most anxious inquiries have been made for McLin's confession. It seems a copy of this confession has been in Washington for several days, but the facts of its whereabouts has been guarded with great 6ecrecy.

Associated Press Dispatches. THE CONFESSION. As a member of the late State Board of Canvassers of the state of Florida I feel impelled by a sense of duty to myself and justice to others to make the following statement: At the time the canvass was made I was not at any time conscious of acting otherwise than right and proper. I entered upon the canvass with the conviction that it was my privilege and dutv, in a political sense, to give the benefit of every doubt in favor of the Republican party. 1 felt that when a question could be decided either wav without doing violence to a public sense of justice it was fairly allowable in politics that I should always lean to my own party and give my decision in its favor, even at the hazard of straining a point. At no time did I feel that I occupied the position of a judge charged with the duty of a strict and nice weighing and balancing of all the evidence presented. Looking back now to that time I feel that there was a combination of influences that must have operated most powerfully in blinding my judgement and swaying mv action. I had been for many years, and was at the time of the canvass, a very active partisan. I sincerely thought that our state and the nation would suffer irreparable injury if the Democratic party Avere to obtain the presidency and the policy of hatred to the negro and those who had been the* friend of the negro should obtain control at Washing ton. It was the common and unanimous talk, also, that-the very existence of men in the south who had upheld the Republican party depended upon the election of Mr. Hayes. Mr. Hayes would sustain them throughout the south, while Mr. Tilden would crusli them. I was shown numerous telegrams, addressed to Gov. Stearn6 and others, from the leaders of the Republican party in the nerth, insisting that the salvation of the country depended upon the vote of Florida being cast for Hayes. These telegi ams came from those to whom I had been accustomed to defer the chairman of the national committee, and tne man who was the nearest personal friend of Mr. Hayes had conducted the canvass. These telegrams also gave assurance of the forthcoming of money and troops, if necessa6ary, in securing the victory for Mr. Hayes. Following these telegrams, trusted Northern Republican party leaders and personal friends of Mr. Hayes, arrived in Florida as rapidly as the railroads could bring them. I was surrounded by these men, who were ardent Republicans, and .especially by friends of Governor Hayes. One gentleman particularly, Governor Noves, of Ohio, was understood to represent him and speak with authority of a warm personal friend commissioned with power to afct in his behalf. These men referred to the general destruction of the country should Mr. Tilden be elected the intense anxiety of the Republican party of the North, and their full sympathy with us, I cannot sav how far my action may have been""influenced by the intense excitement that prevailed around me, or how far oartisan zeal may have led me into error neither car. I say how far my course was influenced by the promises made by Noyes, that if Mr. Hayes became President I should be rewarded certainly. These influences must have had a strong control oyer my judgment and action. Reviewing my action at this distance of time, with all calmness—with my ardor cooled and my partisan ^zeal chilled by the President, who has basely betrayed and mercilessly destroyed the Republican party of the south and crushed the very men who did so rfruch for his election, I am persuaded that the Florida canvass was not conducted with that cool, calm judgment and honest, unbiased decision that should have characterized ^a proceeding involving such Vast and important interests. Instead of this I now see that the whole proceedings went through upon tije highest political excitement that patyisian feeling, stimulated to the utmost by the most powerful agencies, usurped the place of reason and sound judgment, and politicial expediency ruled the hour. A large number of p.-ecints were either contested bv the the Democratic or Republican party voluminous testimony was filed, and the lawyers of both parties argued, cach for their side'] hira in of the issue, that it was the duty of the

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and strong political ties had a powerful influence in the exercise of these powers, and the Republicans having a majority of the board the canvas was largely in their favor, as the resulj proved. Ii the board, had acted in accordance with the decision of the Su preme Court of the State defining the powers and duties of the board in reference to throwing out precincts, since rendered, there is no question of the fact that Mr. Tilden would have been entitled to the vote of Florida. Excluding the returns from Baker county, which were counted out, which I have since learned, from the parties who made it, was a falsely manufactured return, and including the true return, which corresponded with the precinct returns of that county, would certainly have given the state to Mr. Tilden. Archer precinct No. 2, Allachua county, was included in the count. The fraud committed in this precinct was not 6hown to the board by the Democratic lawyers, although a contest was made and much attention given to this precinct but I have recently learned from trie Republican leader of that county that after the returns had been -brought to Gretnvile the county seat, 219 votes were added to the returns by the inspectors and clerk of said precinct. In Leon county 74 small Republican ballots were stuffed into the the ballot-box at Precinct No. 9, yet it was not made to appear to the satisfaction of the Democratic member of the board that these were false ballots. Subsequent confession 6h«ws that these were stuffed into the box. I had seen Joseph Bower, one of the inspectors, have tickets similar to them a few days before the election, and cautioned him against their use unless they were generally adopted. He afterwards learned that he" had givep them up. In Jefferson county, in a certain precinct at which Mr. J. Bell was inspector, one hundred votes were surreptitiously added to the ballots and counted. No charge was made as to this fact before the board. The confession of J. Bell, since made to me,discloses the fact that had the 219 votes fraudulntly added to the Archer return, and the 74 votes stuffed in the box in Leon county, and the 100 votes 6urreptiously added in Jefferson county, aggregating 394 votes, been rejected, and the Democratic rejected precincts which were excluded for irregularity and illegality contrary to the decision of the Supreme Court, been retained and counted, Mr. Tilden would have carried the State. The conclusion, therefore, is irresistible that Mr. Tilden was entitled to the electoral vote of Florida^ and not Mr. Hayes. In making the statement my motives will doubtless be questioned by many, but the facts will stand alone as the truth without any more motives to sustain them. I am free to admit fhat viewing this as I now do. and remembering that Mr. Hayes was continually inspiring hi6 personal friends and trusted agents by every means in h:s power to secure for him the electoral vote of Florida and Louisiana, and believing it to have been a conscious wrong on his part, done with the knowledge that he had not been elected, as his subsequent repudiation of Gov. Packard, whose title was founded upon his own, and his willful and cowardly desertion of the very men who contributed so largely to his election, my contempt for the pitiable littleness of the man is beyond the power of expression. Mr. Hayes has denied the validity of his own title in denying Governor Packard. He has ignored his Florida friends, showing that he believed them unworthy and tainted with fraud, yet he holds on to the presidency, which, in his own opinion, was se:ured by this very fraud. He has cowardlyly abandoned and betrayed his southern Republican friends through fear of being ousted from an office that he believed he never was elected to by the people. Whatever may he the opinion of men in regard to my motives, I give them facts, and leave my motiyes to a higher tribunal.

SAMUEL B. MCLIN.

The above was signed and sworn to before the clerk ot Thomas county, Geor-

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POLITICAL HISTORY OF M'LIN AND DENNIS. •", It is said that McLin's record at the White House is that he came on to Washington last summer in quest of a place under the government. The President nominated him, at the extra session for a judgeship in the Territory of New Mexico. His nomination not being act cd on at that session, it was sent in again at the regular session and was rejected. McLin came again to the President, who informed him that he|could do nothing for him to send in his name for any position under the government would only be inviting defeat. Both Senators from Florida and Senator Spencer fought McLin's nomination while it was before the Senate.

Dennis was made internal revenue ageBt for Alachuahua county, notwithstanding the fact of a i.umber indictments pending against him in connection with the frauds in Archer and else where. The office of revenue agent was not large enough for Dennis for the work he had done, and he therefore turned against the administration. There is much speculation, as to the parties who procured the admission of fraud, some persons positively asserting, that friends of Tilden did it, while others name piom inent Republicans disaffected towards President Hayes as thus concerned.

FUNERAL OF MR. ORTON. New York, April 25.—The funeral of Hon. Wm. Orton, laie President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, took place this morning. He was buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery, at Irvington, on the Hudson.

It was one of the largest funerals of a private individual ever witnessed in New York. A great number of distinguished people attended, recognizing the work of of the dead citizen.

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board to throw out and not include in the refineries could turn out in the course of count, or retain in the count, precincts,

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on the ground of illegality in the conduct the bud is going to pfey on her damask ot the election. The Attorney-General of the State—a member of the board— had decided that the board had quasi judicial power, and had the right to exclude precincts from the count of the returns where shown to be so irregular, false or fraudulent as to prevent the board from ascerUining from them the tiuevote. With this view of its duties the board entered upon the work of the canvass with the conviction that they •were invested with large discretionary powers which were of a mixed character, political and judicial, the political largely predominating. Partisan zeal

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Detroit Free Press: "Nothing is impossible. A man may think he can't climb over a picket fence, but a

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A fir-fetched ioke—In Alabama they chew the tassels of the fir trees as a substitute for tobacco. Which reminds us of the old adage, *'Be fif chewers and you'll be happy.

THE TERKE flALTE WEEKLY UAZCTTK

HAYES.

Visit of President Hayes to the City of lirotherly Love.

Cordial and Enthusiastic Greeting Extended by Local Author*, ities and Citizens,

For Which the President and Party Briefly Return Thanks. %MV

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YESTERDAY.

Philadelphia, April 24.—The city today was gay with flags and bunting, public offices and many large business, and private houses displaying the national colors with great profusion in honor of the four-days' visit of President Hayes, the visit being made in response to urgent soltcitations of the Union League, the Commercial Exchange, and other public and social oeganizations.

A large throng was congregated at the depot and vicinity in this city, and it required some time for the large police force detailed to the scene to clear the grounds.

The presidential patty wa* escorted to carriages a barouche, drawn by four hojses, was reset ved tor President Hayes, and in this vehicle, in company with James T. Claghorn, Esq., and General Patterson, he was seated. The ladies of the party—Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Sherman, Miss Evarts and Miss Platto—together with Secretaries Sherman, Evarts and Schurz, followed in carriages, accompanied by members of the committee. The entire line over which the party moved from the depot to the Continental hotel, was thronged with people, and flags fluttered on every side.

The presidential party arrived at the hotel a few minutes after 2 o'clock, and were driven to the private entrance on Ninth street. The city troops drew up in line on the opposite 6ide of Ninth street, while the presidential party alighted. A dense crowd of people had assembled, completely blocking up the street, and they cheered the party lustily.

Loud calls were made for the President, and after leaving the carriage he appeared on the balcony over the entrance in company with Secretaries Sherman and Schurz and General Patterson. After the cheering had subsided, President Hayes stepped lorward and said: I do not propose to make a speech thib afternoon. I cordially thank you for your welcome, I have some of the administration with me I take pleasure in introducing to you first Mr. Secretary Sherman.

The Secretary stepped forward and was also received with cheers. He said: '•1 always think that it is better to be silent when you have nothing to say, and therefore can only thank you for your kind welcome to us."

President Hayes theHintroduced Secretary Schurz, who said: "I can only thank you. for the kin^way in wlich you have received the mention of my name, and I also thank you for your cordial welcome."

General Patterson then came forward and6aid:"I propose ihree cheers for President Rutherford B. Hayes on his arrival in the city of William Penn," and raising his hat as a signal, three loud cheers were given by the assembled multitude. President Hayes then turned to the crowd and 6aid: "I am pleased to bid you a good afternoon." The party then retired from the balcony, and were escorted to their rooms.

The President and party left the Continental Hotel at 4 o'clock in e?en carriages, and proceeded to FairmountPark, accompanied by the mayor, Col. Thos. A. Scott, and a number of other distinguished gentlemen, including several of the park commissioners. At the Greenstreet entrance to the park they were met by lhe captain of the park guard, with ten guards, mounted, who preceded the party to Horticultural Hall. The walks upon both sides of the roadway were lined with people, and the President was frequently recognized by applause and waving of handkerchiefs. Upon arrival of the party at the hall the First Regiment band plaved "Hail to the chief," and at the entrance to the hall, over which was the word "Welcome" in eveigreees and? fine display of bunting, the President was met by Hon. Morton McMichael, president ofthepaik commission) and General Robert Patterson. Mr. McMichael received the President, and, taking him by the hand, made a 6hort address of welcome. Upon its conclusion the President thanked him for his hospitable welcome. The party then made an inspection tour of the hall. Leaving here they proceeded in carriages by a circuitous route, enabling the President to see to advantage the beautiful park, to the banks ot' the Schuylkill, /where there was a review of the Schuylkill navy. There were twenty-one boats in the water, and a race occurred which proved to be quite exciting. The President reviewed the regatta, standing in his carriage. After the race the party returned to the hotel.

The recGption tendered the President by the Union League took place this ev ening at the Union League house, which was brilliantly illuminated and profusely decorated for the occasion, The front of the edifice was tastefully ornamented with flags and bunting, and the interior was one beautiful mass of plants and flowers. A crowd assembled early in the evening to see the presidential party enter the building, and remained in the street for hour®. His Excellency was cheered warmly as he alighted from his carriage and entered the League house. He was accompanied by Mrs. Hayes, Secretary Sherman. Secretary Schurz, and Attorney-General Devens. The formal reception took place in the spacious reading-room, and lasted over two hours. Rev. Mathew Simpson, bishop of the M. E. church, and his wife were the first to be presented, and were followed in quick succession by hundreds of gentlemen and ladies representing the best classes of society in this city. Mrs. Hayes sat beside the President during the reception. Among those present were Governor Hartrarift and several members of his staff, ex-United States Senator John. Scott, Judges McKinnon and Cadwallader, of the United States court, Collector Tutton, Comodore Crosby and ether officers attached to the United States naval station at League Island Gen. Robert Patterson, Hon. Geo.H. Baker, Morton McMichael, Clayton McMichael, Hon. Wayne McVeagh, United States Consul Bromisky, Postmaster Snowden, Joseph Patterson, president of the clearing house F. M. Brooker, president of the Commercial Exchange Edward Steele, S. Clarke

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Davis, several judges of local courts, and officers of the army stationed in this city also, a large representation of the Philadelphia bar and of the financial and bus iness circles of the citv. During and after the reception a collation was served in'the banquet hall. A fine orchestra was in attendance, and in the parlors on the first floor the vounger guests enjoyed the pleasures of tne dance till near midnight. Sjf:

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Philadelphia, April 25. President Hayes was to-day the guest of the Commercial Exchange. About half past 10 the President and arty left the Conti nental hotel in carrriages and proceeded down Chestnut street to Second. The sreet was thronged with people, cheering the President, who b«wed his acknowledgments. The display of flags was profuse and the Commercial Exchange was covered with buntirg. At a quarter to 11 the President and party rolled up in carriages to the Exchange and entered the building, loudly cheered. The President was accompanied by Gov. llartrantt, Mayer Stokeley and Secretary Schurz. On entering a large reception room the band played "Hail to the chief." The'distinguished guests were conducted to the rostrum which was covered with cut flowers and growing plants, and the President of the Exchange made an address of welcome. President Hayes responded as follows:

Mr. President and Gentlemen—If I do not detain you with any speech you will, I am rure, believe me sincere when I say that I am very sensible of the honor of such a greeting from such an assemblage of the business men 6f the United States. I thank you for it and will detain you no longer. I will give way that I may introduce to you a gentleman connected with the business that interests you and that interests the country perhaps at this time more than any other department of the Government. You will understand, of course, that I reter to the gentleman at the head of the money and business departments. I therefore introduce to you Mr. She man, Secretary of the Treasury."

The Secretary was cordially welcomed and made a short address, after which Gov. Hartranft and Mayor Stokeley thanked the gentlemen of the Commercial Exchange for their cordial reception of the President and Cabinet.

Attorney General Devens ar.d Secretary Schurz spoke britfly. The President then held a reception for an hour shaking hands with eaeh person as presented. At a quarter to 12 the Presidential party left the exchange building and were driven to the Chestnut street wharf, where the 6t*amer Columbia was in waiting. The distinguished gentlemen went on board amid the cheers of the large crowd assembled on the adjacent pier. The ladies of the party had previously arrived. The boat stood up river to the Richmond coal wharves of the Reading railroad and then proceeded down the river as far as Chester.

London, April 25.---It has been definitely settled that •THE IIUKE OF IDENBERG 6hall remain with his ship in the Mediterranean

YESTERDAY.' IT''

Philadelphia, April 25.—To-night the President attended the Star course entertainment concert by Gilmore's band, at the Academy of Music. He entered after the concert commenced, and just a* Lafeore was rendering a solo. As the President stepped into a private box, accompanied by Mrs. Hayes and other ladies of the party, he was recognized the solo ceased, and Gilmore's band started up "Hail to the chief." The house was packed, and a perfect ovation greeted His Excellency, the enthusiasm being unbounded.

Leaving the Academy the President proceeded to the Chestnut-street theater, where another ovation awaited him. As was the case at the Acaidemy, he was most heartily received. He reached the Continental just in time to be serenaded by the united German singing societies, who, to the number of 200, appeared with torches in front of the hotel. Brief addresses were made by the President, Mr. Schurz and Gen. Devens, and then the crowd dispersed.

At dinner to-day on board the Columbia it was remarked during the conversation that Mrs. Hayes did not seem to ob ject to the use of wine by others,and it was stated that the lady had given her views fully on this subject, Wednesday evening last, at the Union league. The tollowing language is accredited her: It is a great mistake to suppose that I desire to dictate my views to others in this matter of "the use of wine and such drinks. I do not use them myself nor in my family,but 1 have no thought of shunning those who think and act differently. It is a mistake to think that I should want to be so dictatorial. I want people to enjoy themselves in the manner that is most pleasing to them."

TO DAY.

Philadelphia, April 26.—The Presi dent, Attorney General Dcvenc and Burchard Haves, accompanied by members of the Industrial League, this morning made a tour of inspection of the industrial establishments. Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Sherman and theother ladies of the party visited the Girls Normal School. The home for Friendless Children, the school of Design &c.

The first circus bills of 1S7S have showered down upon Burlington, and vesferdav one urchin asked another as they were gazing upon the pictured marvels: "How can you tell a lion tamer?'' and a sad "looking married lawyer who was passing by, paused 10 assure the lad that it was the easiest thing in the world to tell a lie, but when it came to taming her you were liopelesslv up a perpetual stump.—[HawkEve:

An old iady has lately been reading Darwin with startling results. She studied his chapter on "The Survival of the Fittest," and then said thV she didn't know how it might be in England, but in America she had always noticed that those who had fits died young. "However," she added pathetically, "perhaps Mr. Darwin is afflicted that way hitnself, poor man, and its natural enough to hold up hi® own end."

This is the way one of the ladies who belongs to the Atlantic Monthly's contributors' club remembers things: "Gen. Forrest was buried the day my new hat came home. Hayes was inaugurated the spring I made over my old silk. Dickens died when Jennie was a baby. Lincoln was killed when Mary was creeping. The civil war broke out when Sallie was cutting her teeth. The king of Spain was born the year I was married."

THE FLORIDA FRAUD.

Dennis Comes to the Front His Confession.

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WHAT L. S. DENNIS SAYS. Washington, April 25. I have resided in Alachucha county, Florida, since January, 1S60, and was elected to the State assembly in 1876, at the same time of the late Presidential election. I was at the time member of the State central committee of the party ot Florida, and also chairman of the Republican committee of Alachucha county. I was also president of the board of county commissioners of Alachucha county from 1873 to 1877,and was familiar with the manner of registration and the manner of voting, the location of the polU and all other election machinery. As president of said board and with the consent of said board 1 located all the polling places, appointed all the inspectors who conducted the election, received and counted the ballots and made and certified to the returns. I appointed as inspectors of Archer precint, box No. 2, Green R. Moore, Floyd Duke and Richard H. Black. ThomaD. Vance went at my request to Archer precint on the day previous to the elec tion, and was appointed by the inspectors clerk of election at box No. 2, and served as such. I was at Gainesville on the day of the election. On that night and the day following my residence was the headquatrers of the republican party, .and during the night preceding the election all information was brought to me there. Some time after midnight of that night Inspector Black came to my house and reported to me that the resulc of the election at box No. 2 for presidential electors was as followsFor llayes electors, 180 for Tilden elec: tors, 136. A little later Vance, clerk at said box No. 2, came and made the same report, subsequently both Black and Vance came to me and said they had returns from Archer precinct, box No. 2, signed in blank by the inspectors, and that they would make out the returns so as to meet the expectations of their own party, They retired to a private room where they remained two or three hours, and then informed me they had added about 200 names to the poll list as having voted, and had increased the Republican yote to that extent, and I afterward learned that they had added 219 names to the list. I entered the room while they were employed there and saw them copying names from the county registration books, from which those who had actually voted at Archer precinct, box No. 2, were checked off, and new names selected lrom the names of Republican voters who had already voted at that precihct. After completing the returns in this manner they filed them with the ballot box with the county clerk. The county commissioners met a few days after the election, the board consisting of J. E. Webster, clerk of the court W. H. Belton,justice of the peace and Louis A. Barnes,sheriff, all of whom, were Republicans. During the canvass Inspector Moore appeared before the board and submitted an affidavit to the effect that the returns from Archer precinct No. 2 were false, and that the true returns should be, for Hayes' electors 180 votes, and for the Tilden electors 136 votes but the board decided that they could not hear the evidence as to the truth or falsity of tbe returns, and upon the face of the returns the vote of the county was as follows: For the Hayes' electors, 1,984 for the Tilden electors, 1,267. The result, included 219 votes for the Hayes electors, which were added to the vote cast at archer precinct, box No. 2, by Black and Vance. These returns were sent to the Governor and Secretary of state. After these returns were filed with the Secietary of the state an effort was made to invalidate them so far as Archer precinct, box No. 2 was concerned. Affidavits signed by Floyd, Duke and Green R. Moore, and an official statement from Mr. Webster, were filed with the state board of canvassers, for the purpose of showing that the returns from Archer precinct, box No. 2, were false and fraudulent. It also appeared that Mr. Belton, justice of the peace, had not signed tne returns filed with the Secretary of state and Governor. One of the duplicate returns was sent hack to Alachucha county, and Belton's signature was obtained. Moore was also induced to make a counter affidavit dei.ying the truth of his former affidavit. A counter affidavit was also obtained from Floyd Duke denying his former affidavit. The giand jury of Alachucha county investigated the Archer precinct matter, but failed to find any fraud, and passed a resolution to that effect, whereupon Mr. Webster was induced to withdraw his statement and make another that he was satisfied the return was all right. Then the affidavits and statements were laid before the state canvassing board, and the returns were counted. This result gave- the Hayes electors 219 votes more than were cast for them. I have never heretofore made any written statement or given any evidence regarding this election in Alachucha county (Signed) L. G.

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The above was sworn 10 in Florida before a justice of the peace, and is certified to by the Secretary of the State.

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looked at her and followed her. The woman said, Why do you follow me.'" He answered, "Becaus- I have fallen in love with you." The woman said, "Why are you in love with mfc? M^ sister is much handsomer. She is coming after me go and make love to her." The man turned back and saw a woman with an ugly face. Being greatly displeased, he went again to the other woman and said, "Why did you tell a story?" The woman answered, "Neither do you speak the truth for if you are in love with me, why did you go after another woman?

A NorrUtown fisherman on Friday last caught twenty-seven trout, some of them, he says, weighing over two pounds a piece. He would have caught more, but he is not a very good liar.

Danbury News: Prisoners in the Connecticut state prison get a reduction in time of two months from each year of their term, by good behavior. This to a man serving a life sentence, must amount to considerable at the end cf his time.

FOUNTAIN COUNTY FUSS.

The True Cause of tlio Troubles Jn the Coal Creek Alines.

A State of Affairs With Which Politics Has Had Nothing to Do.

The History of the Difficulty From the Beginning.

[Spcoial Correspondence to the Indianapolis Sentinel.| Covington, Ind., April 25.—As much ado is being made by the Republican press to show that the trouble now prevailing in our mines has its origin in politics, to impugn the action of the governor in granting authority to organize a military company in the vicinity of the mines, and that the company itself is of such lawless character that it should be unceremoniously disbanded, it mav be well to recur to the past in order to learn the true cause of tne present troubles. Some lour or five years ago when these mining regions were being opened, a large influx of miners was the result, a population entirely new and strange to our cities, bringing with them political ideas as is well known antagonistic to democratic principles. When the pressure of the times now upon us came, when! strikes were the order of the day all over the land, and when men were placed in the mines here, not belonging to the union organization, these troubles commenced and new political associations sought by them, and almost to a man \hey became the advocates of the greenback party, and almost in .a body voted for Harrington fcr Governor, LeRoy Templeton for Congress and Peter Cooper for President. This introduction of colored laborers into the mines, standing outside the union organization, displacing the white men and bringing a conflict of interest, added to the usual antagonism of race, resulted in great disorder. One circumstance added greatly to the cause of the distempered state of feeling which arose frcm the strike that was the introduction of colored men into the mines with arms in their hands.

These mines are located in a densely populated agricultural region, and the frequent displays of these arms in the hands of the negro population superinduced the organization of the military compauy about which 6uch a clamor is now made. Application was made to Governor Williams by a requisite number of citizens that they be recognized as a military company under the authority ot the State, and that arms be furnished them. Governor Williams, as it is understood his duty is. referred the matter to his Adutant General, Russ, than whom he could not have made a better selection, who upon careful examination authorized the organization and equipment of the company. It is a well known fact that about three-fourths of the company are of the long established residents ot the county. Captain Tipton is a natiye of Boone county. Lieutenant Erasmus Vicherv is among the oldest residents of this county, was a private in. the Mexican war, served io the late war, and of such is composed the principal material of the company. Not a word of infidelity can be charged to the company. If the truth of the charges is established, it will no doubt turn out that a few of the members of the company were engaged in this lawless act, which the whole country here deplores, and in which the great mass of the company join.

The newspaper reporters who are here, with an inordinate desire for sensation, are striving to have the public believe that this whole outrage is the result of political animosity, and to pander to the depraved appetites of a class of their readers, and perhaps to gratify their employers and give more notoriety to the matters as they exist here, labor to lay at the door ot Governor Williams the cause of the tumult we have in our midst. No place in the state requires in, a greater degree the presence of a well disciplined military company than where this one is. The public is*becoming well satisfied that C&ptain Tipton will enforce the strictest discipline for the government of his coraparry. a-- -i—— O

GAZETTELETS.

Andrassy is a graceful dancer. A company has formed to make speaking dolls, on the phonograph plan.

A Nantucket man has eaten sixty raw eggs within an hour, winning a $10 bet. William Cullen Bryant practices with dumb-bells before breakfast every mornng-

The London Saturday Review denies that falling in love is becoming an obsolete custom.

Not long ago & playful Briton bit hi* wife's nose off, and the patient woman testified in court that she bit it off herself.

Maggie "Mitchell has played "Fannchon* about 3,000 times during the last eighteen years, and it is a good performance yet.

Izar, the billiard player, scored 1,587 caroms without cessation, at Galesburg last week. It was a case of Izar rolling rapidly.

A painter once a store did keep, And he was quite a joker For when he found his girl asleep, lie with a yellcw ocher. —[Hachensack Republican*

King Humbert has issued an order that in future full dress and white choker will not be necessary at his receptions. The simple civilian costume, with black cravut, will suffice.

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heep, and other animals. Testimonial of the effects produced by these remarksable Preparations are wrapped aroun avery bottle, ynd may be procured o. any druggist, on by mail from the office of THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 48 Dey Street, New York City.