Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 January 1880 — Page 4

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ON Christmas day three masked burglars murdered a farmer living near Delphos, Ohio. The Yazoo, Miss., papers are asking lor an investigation, and want to know how long this sort ot thing is to be tolerated in solid Ohio,.

WE beg our Republican friends, as they contemplate the Maine muddle, to con&ider how we Democrats felt when something a good deal worse than is now going on in Maine was being enacted in three States and in a Presidential year.

A CARPING Republican fears this is a Way bosh government: Governor Williams and Judge Niblack are from that classic stream, as are Judge Biddle and Senator Voorhees. Senator McDonald came from Fountain county, and now comes Judge Scott from Vigo county. —[Indianapolis News.

Of course it is, and it i« better lor being •aa

GENERAL SAM CABY is at present engaged in refuting Ingersoll. One of "his points is the inquiry: "What good have the infidels done, anyhow?'' And the irreverent Cincinnati Commercial intimates that a. personal question of the same tenor has been asked about Samuel Fenton Cary for several years and as yet has not been satisfactorily answered.

PENNSYLVANIA Republicans will held their State convention on the fourth *jFebruary. This will open the political campaign for 1S80, being the first convention that will be held. It is generally understood that under the dictation of Don Cameron the delegates to the National Republican convention will be instructed to vote solid for Grant. That will make his nomination a certainty.

IF either Blaine or Sherman should be nominated by the Republicans, and the nominee should be elected) of which however, there is small chance, the, President would be a man of character and ability, and the cabinet would not be made up of the ragtag and bob tails gathered from the political slums. If Grant is nominated the people know what to expect, for they have been there.

LEADVILLE is a new place, but its citizens think they know their rights and are determined to maintain them. A jury at that place, not long ago, became disgusted with the sass administered to them «nd the witnesses by the judge. They ^concluded to stop him. In accordance •with this resolution they ordered the

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THURSDAY. JANUARY I, 1879.

IK the Republicans ot' Maine don't "know yet, after all these years, how to make out election returns we move they "be guardianed by Garcelon.

TUB early date at which the Republican national convention is to be held, •will reduce to a minimum the probability of Blaine's being sun struck.

IN Maine the Republicans are trying to scare the Democrats and Gr^enbackers by threats of mob violence but the D's and G's don't scare worth a cent.

GRANT 1R in Washington. Prominent among those who met him at the depot were Babcock and Robeson. Boss Shep. perd will probably entertain him during his sojourn there.

GR ANT will wind up his Cuban and -C—»u.— —, 11-..J Oil r.u, days prior to the meeting of the Chicago convention. He will then be nominate! with a rush.

Sheriff to lock up the judge for a couple of week*, "just to take some of tbe style out ef him,'' as the foreman expressed it. And the Sheriff obeyed their instructions. Much to His Honor's disgust he was dragged off to the jail where, at last accounts, he was still incarcerated. That the wheels of justice might not be im peded the jury put the most popular bar keeper in town on the bench, and wen on with the trial as if nothing unusua^ kid happened, and as if they were following every precedent laid down in all the law books from the beginning ot time.

IF the ruling powers in Russia are severe in the measures they have adopted for the repression of nihilism, the Nihilists are adroit in fanning the flame which they hope to see become a consuming conflagration. One of their latest devices has been to circulate among the ignorant peasantry the story that the Czar had issued a dgcree ordering the landed proprietors to divide their estate among the peasants. Iaabued with this idea, the peasants on the estate of Count Schoavaloff—the diplomatic gentleman who keeps swinging like an animated pendulum between all the capitals of Europe—raised a miniature rebellion. Thoc.e of the:n in the Sergieveskoi district, »eeing that the Count was not taking any steps for a division of his property, gathered at the castle, secured it, expelled all the servants and sacked it. Soldiers were sent to the. scene to disperse the rioters, and were met with a shower o^ stones. I]

It is 6aid that the affair hai assumed a serious aspect, the peasants of 6ever.'l neighboring communities having formed the rioters. What makes it more alarming to the. authorities is that the peasants are well armed. It is to be hoped the peasants will succeed in their designs.

JUDGE SCOTT.

Thi appointment of Judge John T. Scott, ot this city, to the supreme judgeship made vacant by the death of Judge Perkins, was trade public yesterday, the first ruews of being brought by private dispatches. The suspense has betn long for it was generally supposed at the time that the appointment would be made a week ago yesterday. Each day has been looked forward to as likely to settle the question and then it was deferred for another twenty-four hours. And each day a new candidate would enter the lists.

It will be a source of gratification to all Terre Hauteans that one of our citizens received the appointment. Three eentlemer. from here were mentioned in connection with it and all were eminently qualified, both as regard8*tpersonal character and legal acquirements. The appointment of any one of them would have secured a good judge.

Of the three, Judge Scott, having lived here much longer than either of theothe1" two, is the best known. He was Judge of the Common Pleas Court of this county for several years, and until, by a reorganization of the judiciary of the State his office was abolished. He made an excellent judge, early winning and retaining always the respect of the attorneys and litigants.

In this higher court, to which he has been called by the appointment of Governor Willian.8 he will rank with the

best of his colleagues.

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THE TALK OF AN HONEST MAN We fiod the following very beautiful paragraph in the 6talwart editorial cplumns of the Indianapolis Journal:

"In the First legislative district of New Jersey, Mr. Stockton, Democrat, was elected by a majority of six, but the canvassing board, finding the returns from a Democratic town defective in form, rejected them and gave the Republican candidate, Mr. Robinson, a certificate ot election. The latter accepts it, conditionally, and in a card to the voters of the district say 6: 'I will not retain the position for which 1 have a certificate of election, unless 1 am certain that the votes polled elected me until the exact truth is determined I consider the result undecideo I will countenance no effort to secure or retain the seat upon any. mere informality or technicality.' Tnis is the talk of an honest man. If the Deu.ocrats and Fusionists in Maine, who have been counted in without being elected, should adopt this view tnere would be a speedv, end„of the troubles in that State."

By reason of carelessness the Journa does not, or through blindness cannot see the most pertinent point in the incident it so graphically describes. It will please observe that a Democratic canvassing board in New Jersey, finding the returns from a Democratic precinct defective in form followed the law and gave to the Republican candidate the certificate of election This is just what the canvassing board in Maine, following the Republi can precedents, and tbe decision of a Republican Supreme Court has done. It is the main point in both instances. We thank the Journal for the phrase, "This is the Jalk ot an honest man." But we shudder to think of the consequences, had the conscience of R. B. Hayes been hnng on so fine a trigger as that of this Mr. Robinson whose speech our Indianapolis contemporary in a phrensy of gush pronounces tbe

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"talk of an honest man." Mr. Robinson will take bis office just as Mr. Hayes did his and just as any other man would.

THERE has been so. much said about the library, misrepresenting Mayor Havens, that we, after talking with him, state his position, and ask that he be no longer misrepresented upon this ques tion. Mr. Havens in in favor of a public library as much as any other citizen in the city. He does not believe that a vote last spring "for A library tax" meant that the City Council should organize a public library to be maintained perpetually by the taxation of the people. The ordinance offered proposed this. To this the Mayor was, at the time the ordinance wa, offered, opposed and he is still op posed to it.

The vote last spring, if it meant any thing, meant that the people were willing to pay out of the City Treasury |6,ooo— and no more. Submit the question to the people—shall the City Council or ganize a public library to be perpetually maintained by the people being taxed therefor?—and if it carries we know that the Mayor will not 6tand in the way of the passage of the proper ordinance to carry out the wish of the people.

A CURIOUS law case is reported from across the water. It exhibits female vanity in a new aspect, and furnishes occasion for a decision altogether out oi the ordinary run. The facts, as we find them in an exchange, are very singular:

Mt appears that Fraulein Catherine Mehl had lived to be some years Dast a marriageable age. Finally, when a lover came, and there was a prospect of matrimony for h?r, she called herself six years younger than sha really was, and her lover believed her. But before the marriage ceremony the certificate of her birth must be shown. This certificate would contradict what Fraulein Catharine hi'd told her young man, eo ehe altered the date in the certificate to fit her story. The marriage was duly celebrated, the bride and bridegroom were happy, and everything went well until that unlucky certificate with other papers was placed before a clerk for examination and final record of the marriage. This clerk thought he saw something wrong in the brides's birth certificate. It ended in Madame Catharine's arrest and trial for forging a public document. She was convicted by the lower court and sentenced to imprisonment. The first.three months of her married life, perhaps including the honeymoon, were spent in prison. But Madame Catharine was a woman of courage after such trouble married 6he was not to be cheated out ot her happiness without a struggle. She appealed her case to a higher court. Here the trial was reviewed, the motives and results carefully considered, and the judge reversed the decision of the lower court, holding that the crime was not committed with any criminal intent, but was to be considered as the result of female vanity.' This was the case as publicly reported. Female fibs concern ing age are too common, the world over, to need any discussion. But only now has wotnan acquired the right hy law to tell her fib and prove it nolens volens, on the score of female vanity.''

ONE'S OWN BUSINESS. An exchange tells the following story illustrative of the immense advantages that accrue to the man who minds his own husiness, or rather the great calamities he escapes. It in vouched for as a true story. Possibly it may find application in this state:

There was a herdsman driving a hundred head of sheep or'more down Mineral Spring avenue. They went along as sheep always do—first a steady little plod, then a clumsy canter like a wooden rocking-horse, and now altogether in a mammoth wad of animated wool. There was a good-natured man with an um brella in his hand standing near the fence and waiting for the disorganized herd to approach. He thought he had better lend a hand, and so he rushed in front of the flock and waved his umbrella as a sceptre of authority. The result of the generalship was that the sheep rushed pell-mell into a schoolyard just as the scholars, like a flock of human sheep, were pouring out for a recess. In one minute urchins and lambkins wete hcpelessly mixed and intermingled. There was first a sheep and then' a boy, next a girl and then a lamb, while the man, the over-officious and superserviceable chap, who had turned the flock away from the turnpike was left alone between the swaying and surging flock and the school house. Him an aged and petulant mule member of thfe flock marked for immediate and condign punishment, and upon him t^iis horned and woolly Nestor of the flock charged furiously. The man shut his eyes and opened his umbrella, but of no avail, for through the umbrella covering the creaturj crashed like a circus rider«through the papered hoop. In wild dismay the man took to his heels and then old Nestor sent him sprawling in advance of the flock, and before he could regain his feet the flock fell back into single file and each sheep went Fcampering over him. It Was ten minutes before the last sheep had gone over him, and then he arose, shook the bits of broken watch crystal out of his pocket, picked up the rim of his hat and hobbled away, remarking: "After all, I kinder reckon the best business a man ever stuck to is his own business and nobody else's."

Do NOT forget the Turner Mask ball is to-night, and not to-morrow night, as stated in this morning's paper.

WASHINGTON NEWS.

Po&tmaster General Keys. Issues Another Important Order.

This Time Against the So-Calied Bankers and Brokers.

December Crop Report of the Depart meat of Agriculture.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The Post master General issued an order directing the Postmaster at New York to refuse payment of postal orders or delivery of registered letters addressed to so-called bankers and brokers The firms of Lawrence & Co.. pur porting to' do business on stock combination system, 19 Broad Adams. Brown & Co., 28 Broad Allen, Jordon & Co., 54 Wall street and Barnes, Garrison & Co., Nos. 55 Ex change Place and 11 Broad street, and elsewhere in New York City. The operations of persons conducting these con cerns have been enormously profitable.

DECEMBER CROP REPORT

of the Department of Agriculture states that preliminary investigation points to an increase of 12 per cent, in the area sown in winter wheat. The only States reporting a decline are Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas, in which the united wheat area would not exceed that of some counties of the Northwest. All other States show an increase, especially in spring wheat States. Of northwest winter wheat the acreage of these States, however, is small, and hence their increase even of a very high ratio does not add materially to the breadth sown in the country, but many large winter wheat states

REPORT A GREAT ENLARGEMNT. New York, West Va., Ohio and Michigan, each 7 per cent. Texas and Tennessee 10. Kentucky and Indiana 14 Missouri 16. Kansas and Oregon 20. Illinois 22. There are quite general complaintsof the ravages of the Hessian fly in early sown crops and of drought hindering germination in later sown, yet the crop starts out on the whole under prospects considerably above the average, especially in the large winter wheat states.

Tobacco—The final returns have not sensibly changed the November estimate of this crop. The total product of the country is within a small percentage of that of'78, the grain being chiefly in Kentucky. Tennessee and Connecticut, and the most serious loss was in Ohio and Missouri, as the whole qual tty is but slightly better than that of last year's crop, although the improvement is quite marked in several states.

TOTAL CROP OF 1S79

is estimated at 384,039,659 pounds, valued at $21,545,591, against 392,546,700 pounds, valued at $22,137,428 in 1878. Oats.—The return of this erop, made November 1st, is confirmed by the report of this month. The total product of the country is estimated at 364,253,000 bushels this year against 413,578,000 ,bushels in 1878. The price returned on the 1st of this month averaged 33.2 cents per bushel, against 24.6 cen*s last year at the same time, making a total valuation of $120, 355,000, against $101,945,000 in '78.

HORTON CHAIR RECLINING CARS.

The I. & St. L. R. R. Co. Is now run sing the Horton Reclining Chair Cara on their trains. To holders of first class through tickets these cars are. free.

This is the only line east of the Mississippi River which run these cars for the benefit and accommodation of its passeng ers. Remember these Horton Reclining Chairs are free.

For information apply to TICKET CLERK. I. & St. L. Depot, corner of Sixth and Tippecanoe streets.

Hatch and

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His Commission Probably Massacred.

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The Excitement at Denver

DENVER, Dec. 30.—Up to this time nothing has been heard from the Commission. The communication between Lake City and Los Pinos has not yet been broken but there has been no news official or unofficial since Friday night. Hatch was to have left for Cline's ranche, 30 miles from Los Pinos, yester. day morning, bat whether he left or stayed is not known. The anxiety is intense and there are fears of another massacre.

AN OLD PHYSICIANS' ADVICE Coughs, Colds, Asthma and other pulmonary affections should be looked to and promptly treated in time, and thus all serious results may be avoided, and for this purpose we know of no better Remedy than "DR. SWAYNE'S COMPOUND SYRUPOF WILD CHERRY/' The first dose gives relief, and it is sure to cure the worst Cold or Cough in a very short time.

Try a 25 cent bottle and be

convinced, and you will thus avoid Doctor's bill, and most likely, a

serious

spell of sickness. Price 25 cents and $1.00 per bottle, or six bottles for $5.00 The large size is the most economical, prepared only by Dr. Swayne & Son, 330 North Si*th street,

Philadelphia.

Sold by all prominent druggists. j# Adv

AFFAIRS ABROAD.

The North British Railroad flakes an OfficialJ^epprf

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Three More Bodies To-day.

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Miners to the Number of Ten Thousand are on a Strike In Mons District, Belgium.,

Miscellaneous European

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A REPORT/"*

LONDON, Dec. 30.—An official report of the North British Railway in regard to the terrible calamity on Sunday from a break in the Tay bridge says: The falling girders made a very clean break from the portion standing. Almost the only signs of a smash are the ends of the rails on which the trains ran. which are torn asunder. The rails remaining are wrenched out of their chairs for a few yards. The severe gales of Sunday ex. tended to Boscastle, Edinburgh, Stranraer, Greenock, Yarmouth, Liverpool and Plymouth. Much damage was done on and and to shipping, including the loss of a French barque and eight men.