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The Republican journal., 1872-05-09
Generalities.

A big fire in New York on Monday damaged
the Metropolitan Hotel, destroyed Nblo'r
Theatre, HelmboId's drug store, and other build
ings. The loss is very large.
The corporators of the Bangor and Calais
Shore Line Railroad are to meet at Cherr, teld
May 10Th, for organization.
boy in Bangor, on Tuesday, while playing
about moving train, fell upon the track, AM
lost his leg.
The Maine delegations at Washington ha-
agreed upon the following named gentleman
corporatOrs for the State of Maine for the Cen
tennial exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876: Al
large, Abner Coburn, Phiander }. Carleton.
Henry Z. Prentiss, William l.. Putnam; Fir-l
district, Joshua l.. Chamberlain, Vim. +
Hanes; Second district, Jas. I. Paten, Josiah
&. Coburn; Third district. Arson P. Morrill,
Edmund Wilson; Fourth district, Charles Shaw
George w. Ladd; Fifth district, Charles b
Hazeitint.
The ingenious youth " o submitted thi,
poetic composition to his teacher, week "
two ago, has since used about BARRE VI
slippery-elm poulticeS and arnica and xiycerlne
tons standing:
Oh, Lord of love
Look from above.
On uS poor little scholars
We've had fool
10 teach our school.
And pal him hfty dollars.
A suspicious Sewburyporter IN SaturIa,
discovered a neWly-made grave in the won't
at East Salisbury, and ~ummOning pollcemaL
and one of the Seectmen of Salisbury, proceed
ed to solve the terrible mystery. Digging
down T. few feet, the party discovered box
and inside the box an elegant caSket ani n~iur
the casket dog wing on ms back with hi~ for
a a
Gen Charles w Roberts famous 30 OIi
Whitley" between twenty and thirty wear, VI
age, has at last departed this life at Bangor
There probably is not one Of the surviving
members of the brave Old Second Maine, rl.-
Eighteenth and rwenty-Second Massachusel,7
or the Twenty-ftth New ORR regiments, who
cannot recall to mind his ''prJud" martial bear
ing whether under lire, on tht march % vi
dress parade.
White hatY are 10 be the Greeley badge
Cincinnati correspondent writ = The rntl
Louisiana delegation went home thus equlppri
and the Hon. John Wentworth appeared f.. M.
same speckess head-pieCe on the streets tht-
morning, and announced that white hats "a
gong TO be the fashion ia Illinois anti Au-I
November"
Mrs. Randall Of Mattapoisrtt, 3, wears 1lt
wheeled halt-bushel Of potatoes two miles lu-
day last week. IN order thai TRENT might le
sure to have them III season tor spring plautlns
ohe culuFates IN re OF land herself Win ven
John Cayanaugh- children, Ut ~outa~I.k
Massachusetts, picked up an Old plugyei-Jl
gun barrel, the other day, aud as 1u ,Ni.-...
ment put one end OF it in the stove. The Il it,
ence between old jrou and il new stove ,sli-.
out Of Johns pocket.
The RockIand Free Press saw thattnr l'Eri-U
shoe factory at 'lhomastou Is turning uul abIIl
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Hare is what Il writer for the Boston
Globe says about weli-known Maine
Congressman.
Mr. Peters of Maine is that nice smooth,
clean, reshlooking man talking with the
Speaker and MIR. Scolield Of Pennsylvania.
Don't You see that group Of handsome
men midway down the second aisle MI
Peters is that one that is telling a story, TO
which the others are listening lie at
tracts a certain class of minds. but there
is q sort of eNcusiveness about him that
keeps the common herd at Il distance
Those who come within the radius OF his
sphere, pronounce him q really charming
character; he tells the best story, cracks
the best Joke, and adores the ladies. Mr..
Peters always looks As if Just from per
fumed bath, with the aroma Of sandal
wood and perfumes still around him; he
is always scrupulously attired. and repre-
SCENTS one of the best types OF New Eng
land cuture and refinement.
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ana Brown was declared the nominee. 1t
Was moved TO make i unanimous an
nouncement. and this was carried, though
with some dissenting votes.
Nj. C0chrane moved that the President
dnd Vice President OF the Convention be
a committee to announce TO the candidates
their nomination.
4 resolution OF thanks to Cincinnati Tor
hospitality was moved and carried
Thanks also to the officers OF the conven-
ton We're adopted.
After loud cheers for the successful can
didates, given with great enthusiasm,
followed by cheers for Schurz, tor Cincin-
natl and for the Committee Of Arrange
ments, which were given with equal cor
diaIity, earnestness and good will, in re-
Spouse to vehement calls for a speech
Senator Schurz said:
My fellow citizens This convention has over
wheimed me with kindness, and have especially to
thank them for the indug ence with which they have
borne with me while was endeavOring to the best
OF my ability to conduct with fairness and impair.
TALLY the deliberations of this large and let us con-
tess little manly body (Laughter.) We have now
accomplished our work: Our duty it will be now to
proclaim to all the land the principles we have EN-
bodied in our platform and go forward and solicit,
with all the entreates which our minds and heart
capable OF making, the support of the people of
the United States for the candidates we have nOmi.
mated. | have already done much speaking in
TINS convention, and may be will have to do so
much daring the impending campaign that you will
certainly bear with me il | close my speech by
secondiug the motion to adjourn, and by declaring
Fne Liberal Republican Convention adjourned sine
he. Cheers ana applause If my physical health
w0uld allow me to talk to You it would afford ne
great qualification. am, however and have been
ior time past invalid. have retired from
politics, and truly would not have been here at all
had it moi been for this Liberal Republican move
ment, which could not possibly stay from. Jap
pause. | ia it and Of it, and shall 60 with it
10 the end, ii can gather up my health, which
think VIII be greatly invigorated by what have
done. ! hope BY and-by to be able to help your
cause. Loud applause and calls Tor Palmer and
Ii,t0n, neither OF whom however, appeared
The vast concnurse had by this time
greatly diminished, and the more enthu-
siastlc portion who, till now, fingered
abol;l the platform, gradually withdrew,
and thus ended an inaugural meeting of
magnitude, interest and import.
The ron OF States was then called for q
choice Of the National Committee, and
the Convention adjourned sine die.
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The Portland Argus. Democratic, which was
among the first to urge the nomination of Cen
Grant by the Democrats, in 1865, uoN turns
against its first love. and hoiSts at the head of
ITS columns the names of Greeley & Brown.
| Bangor Commercial.
Democratic papers have sometimes in
dlcated their preference for candidate in
their own party, by thus placing his name
before the public, with the saving clause
Subject to the decision Of the Democratic
National Convention" But this is the
first time, we think, that a Democratic
paper has given the place of honor to the
nominees of another party and committed
itself irrevocably to their support. The
general opinion is that the Democratic
National Convention will have something
to say upon the question OF the candidates.
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The kennebec Journal Of Saturday
ridicules the nomination Of Greeley. But
on the previous day it sad-"What will q
crusade against Grant amount to with
Greeley left out?r Now that the old white
coat is to the front, the Journal should
stick 10 its declaration.
The bill taking off the duty on tea and
coffee has passed Congress and been
signed by the President. Ii is tub
thrown by the taritlites to the free trade
sentiment of the country, " lille the for
mer endeavor TO save some ri the greater
expressions that the country suffers from
The London Times has delivered it's
opinion OF the Cincinnati nominations.
1t says ''the nomination Of Greeley is
farcical and his election hopeless 1t how
ever, kills Grants chances for reelection
and makes certain the nomination of a
candidate by the Democrats.
The Navy Department has woke up,
and says it don't believe the story about
Capt Halls return to Greenland. Perhaps
after all we Shall hear something reliable
about the great Polar Sea and its in
habltants. But no more new and for
midable races, ii you please
The Machias Republican does not &C
cede to the statements going the rounds
Of the Republican papers that Mr. Hale's
denomination is certain It says that
Waldo county is entitled to present the
republican candidate.
There is one thing to be said in
Greeley's favor. Unlike Grant, he can't
I'LL half the offices in the country with his
relatives, for he hasn't got them. That
will be one Improvement that can't fail to
be realized.
The Massachusetts law permits the
sale Of beer and malt liquors in the towns
that may 50 vote, and Il lively canvass is
now going on, the question being beer or
no beer John Barleycorn is likely to
WIN in most cases.
Another female prisoner has been
convicted, Libby Garrabrant, in New
Jersey, tor poisoning q lone bachelor for
whom she did housework They hang
murderers in that state
The Lewiston Journal has commenced
to publish letters from its junior editor,
who in is Europe. The account OF the
passage over has decidedly saline flavor.
On THEIR BEER. Boston and almost
all the principal towns, in Massachusetts
voted to have their ale and malt liquor
Is the revolution going Backward
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when the Convention shall meet, some
two months hence. The political situation
is full of interest, and it is also pregnant
with THE OPPORTUNITY, if it be wisely
imprOved
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A few days ago, the President issued
an executive order which closed with
these words. Honesty and efficiency,
not political activity, will determine the
tenure of office" Casey, convicted of
dishonesty by congressional committee,
is still Collector Of New Orleans. Cramer.
the most inefficient minister ever accred-
tied by America, is still at Copenhagen.
Leet, convicted of dishonest extoltion by
the merchants OF New York and a com
mittee of Congress, is still matchmaking
American commerce at our great metrop-
oils
The Republican journal., 1872-05-09

The Alabama treaty and the Geneva
conference still perplexes the parties
thereto. 1t is reported that the President
has had interviews with the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, seeking support for
the administration. Earl Granville's re-
spouse to the American proposition was
laid before them. The proposition of tile
United States was that there should be
established an international principle, de-
timing the liability OF a neutral for conse-
quential damages. The English PROPOSE
ton is as follows
That the United States withdraw the claims
for consequential damages, Great Britain still
maintaining that they are outside Of the PROPOSE
tons OF the treaty; that in future wars wherever
either nation is Il belligerent and the other a
neutral, the neutral shall not be held re~pon-
slble for indirect or consequential damages in
claims arising i'll similar manner and under
similar circumstances with the claims to which
the Treaty of Washington refers.
Only the republican members OF the
committee We're invited. They expressed
the opinion that consequential damages
should not have been included but as
they are there the honor of the nation is in-
volved and they were willing to strengthen
the President. They also suggested that
the democratic members should have been
called in. The New York Herald. from
which these reports are derived, con
cludes its despatch as follows
Mr.. Willard positively declared that the mis-
takes of the Administration could not be faSten
Ell upon the Republican party by any measure
of eXpediencY. This terminated the interview
After their withdrawal the President and Secre-
tary Fish finally decided that Earl GranviIle's
proposition was unacceptable; that cannot
recede from our case presented ut Geneva,
to Minister Schenck.
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The Kennebec Journal thinks that lit
is rs impossible to bring such elements as
assembled at Cincinnati together i'll har-
mony as to mix oil and water" But they
intend to put in an alkali, and with the
soap this made, give the administration a
lathering.
Swedish beer is the popular tipple in
Bangor just now. Like Cowper's tea, it
''cheers but not inebriates." Before al
lowing its unrestricted sale, the members
of the city government drank pailtul
each, and didn't get off their legs, but
they adjourned Immediately after.
Grant never was much Of strategist,
and now he has been badly flanked by the
open and guileless Greeley
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About Horace Greeley,

Mr.. Greeley was born in Amherst. New
Hampshire, Feb. 3, 1911. His father was
one of the old style New England farm
ers, OF small means, and barely contriv-
ing to make a living for himself and fam
lily from barren soil. His childhood
knowledge, which mastered every book
that fell in his way. Determined to be a
maker of books and newspapers, he en-
tered printing office at East Poultney,
Vermont, in 1926, as an apprentice,
speedily became an expert workman, and
rendered assistance in editing the paper.
Working in various places, and acquiring
that knowledge for which all printers
have opportunities, he found himself in
1882, in New York city, with but $40 in
his pocket. He went to work at type set
ting, but in course of two or three wears
engaged in the printing Of daily penny
paper, the first in the world, which had
an existence of three weeks He after
wards became associated in the publica-
ton of the New Yorker, weekly paper,
and was its editor. Although the paper
was of decided ability, it failed to return
much profit to its owners during the
seven Years of its existence
Greeley had his first decided success in
editing the Log Cabin, during thu Harri-
son campaign of 1910. In April, 1871,
the Daily Tribune saw the light and
in a few months the Weekly Tribune.
With these Mr.. Greeley has ever since
been identified. A term in Congress con
stitutes his only prominent official ser
vice. The recent connection of Mr.
Greeley with public events is too we'll
known to need recital Sprung from the
rank OF the workers, and winning his
way by his own eXertious, his sympathy
with those who labor has always been
quick and earnest Temperate in his
daily life, thoroughly honest in his opin-
ions and acts, though sometimes misguid-
ed, a denouncer of frauds, peculations
and usurpations, in high or low, he has
impressed himself upon the country as a
man who will be blindly subservient to
no men and to no interest He thinks for
| himself, and will wear no mans collar
These qualities and his record have en-
deared HIM to millions in the Countrywide
farmers Of the West, the negroes Of the
South, the thinkers and workers of New
England, Considered in the light OF
winning republican votes, it is the strong
est nomination that could be ma dc.
The Republican journal., 1872-05-09

An Illinois delegate withdrew Palmer,
who would accept under no crcum-
stances. Illinois changed 81 for Julian
10 II for Brown. The vote was then an
nOunced rs follows:
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The announcement OF Mr.. Adams vote
was received with great cheering.
After an interval of twenty minutes.
Mr.. Goodrich of Minnesota moved that in
the future ballots, when the vote Of States
has been polled, NO changes Shall be al
lowed except on an entire recall of the
roll. Without taking a vote on this ques-
ton the convention proceeded to call the
roll.
SIXTH BALLOT.
After much confusion the result of the
sixth ballot was stated:
Whole number, IA
Necessary 10 a choice, 35S
Greeley 4s2
Adams, lh7
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camp, say

''Mr. Greeley's popularity i no myth. He
is strong with the Observation-Disclosures AS with the
eX-saves, with the Irish aborers rs with the
natiVe-born farmers who have never voted a
Democratic ticket in their lives. He NAV be
beaten; but those who fancy the lob an easy
one, will, one Of these days, see cause to alter
their opinions. If the Phlladelp hia people con-
clude 10 undertake the job, It behooves them to
build >fnuter platform than they are now
thinking Of, and 10 ind stronger man than
Grant to put on it when built"
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THIRD BALICI
FOURTH BALLOT.

Adams gained or the fourth bal Hot.
which stood as follows:
Greeley pa
lrumbull, III
DAVIS, Al
Brown,
Alter the fourth ballot Mr. Casey Of the
District OF Columbia, offered resolution
giving vote to the Territories, which
was tabled. Mr.. Mcclure withdrew Cur
tins name, and asked leave for the Penn
sylvana delegation 10 retire, which was
granted, and proceedings were suspend
ed until the return of the absent delega-
ton.
FIFTH BALLOT.
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No choice. A good many delegates
left after Greeley's nomination, and the
vote for Vice President was languid and
embarrassing.
Mr.. Hickman of Pennsylvania moved
that Mr.. Brown be nominated by acclama-
ton.
Cries of 'No - mo-"
The motion was withdrawn.
Governor Koener of Illinois renewed
the statement that he was instructed to
say in behalf of Mr.. Trumbull that the
latter would not accept a nomination
AS doubts were expressed, we have tele-
graphed him and have here his reply pos
itively declining
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BALLOT FOR vICE-PREsIDEN1

A delegate inquired whether Trumbull
was a candidate for Vice-President and if
he would accept. Gov koener, in be-
half OF Mr. Trumbull replied that the lat
ter would not accept under any circum-
stances. An Iowa delegate nominated j.
d. Cox, the man who was too pure TO
stay in the sink hole Of Washington
Mr.. Burnett of Ohio announced that
Mr.. Cox's name was not before this con
vention.
The result was then announced as fol-
lows:
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On the fifth ballot the vote stood as fol
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SECOND BALLOT.
There is an interruption, and much eau
cusing is going on. The vote is concern
trating on Adams and Greeley. Schurz
has left the char, 10 join The Missouri
delegation and fight tie new coalition Of
Brown and Greeley.
The result Of this halInt was:
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SECOND BALLOT.

(rreelev's true vote on the first ballot
was 100
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Greeley, -!
irnmbuIl l5i
Davis,
There being no choice, the roll was
called for the third time. There was
great excitement during the call.
On the second ballot, when Missouri
was called and had given Greeley an in
crease OF 7 votes and gave Trunbull rs
instead of three IN the first ballot, Mis-
souri, delegate arose and exclaimed excit-
eddy 1--WE are sold, but not delivered ~
Laughter and applause
All gains for Adams and Greeley were
voclterously cheered by their respective
DartiSanS
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The Liberal Republican Convention
met At Reunion Hall, on the 1st. Very
large delegations we're present from The
middle and western states, smaller ones
trou the south, and ve-y light represen-
uons from New England Col. Grosvenor
called ;he Convention to order, and nomi-
nAied for temporary chairman, Judge
Stanley Matthews. Of Ohio.
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White hatY are to be the Greeley badge A
Cincinnati correspondent writ "Thr entl
Louisiana delegation went home thus equipped
and the Hon. John Wentworth appeared f.. IN.
same ,peckleNs head-piece on the streets rh,-
morning, and announced that white hats ~
going TO be the fashion ia llino,, until au-I
November"
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1872-05-30
A Remarkable Woman.

About twenty miles trolG
the Healing Springs, in the
Allegheny Mountains, there
lives a most remarkable yo.
man. Her name is Morrison,
but she is known all through
the country as "Miss Jennie
Rucker." She is about sixty
years of age, has her hair bob,
bed like a mans, wears a mans
hat, and rides a horse astride
Hunting is her means of live,
lihood, and she kills DEER
bears and other game with the
skill of forty years. experience,
Not long since she wounded a
deer, but before coming up
with it, another-a man-hal
gotten to it and commenced
carving it up. The old lady
expostulated with no avail, and
finally drew a bead on hin,
with her rifle to enforce her
"rights," the fellow jumped be-
hind a tree, but left his heel
exposed, at which vulnerable
spot the old lady fred and hit
She got her deer. She has nine
or ten children, and is is-s said to
treat all travellers hospitality,
who stop at her cabin.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1872-05-30
A Big Grave.

.a.s Michigan antiquaries are ex,
cited over the discovery in AL.
Logon county, in a level piece
of heavy timbered land, of a
mound of earth, with a base
sixteen by eighteen feet, and
now perhaps four or five feet
high. On the summit grows a
beech fee, pot very large, ,sbu,
with a gnarly look, as if the
kind of food its roots have met
below have not agreed with 1t,
A ffourishing maple, lower
down the mount, where il
probably did not find so much
dead man, has attained the
size Of two feet iD diameter
This mound has a. stack of hu,
man bones. A slight opening
has been made on the top, and
skulls and similar horrors TAX
en- therefrom. But very little
of this big grave has been dis
tdrbed, andthe bony fragments
lie scattered about it, 'as '.,1
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1872-05-30
Consistency is 4 Jewel.

Last fall, before Mr..
Greeley fell oat with Gen.
Grant on personal grounds, be
wrote the following for the
Tribune which is just as tr1o
now as then: a.
"The Republicans are gen.
orally 81 tis6ed with General
Grants administration, and in,
clined to renew his lease of
power. There is "a very gen
eral conviction that he is q
safe and prudent Executive.
Gen. Grant has been NOT
quite two years in power. Dur
ing those two years many war
clouds have loomed on the hor.
izon, yet peace with foreign
nations and with Indian tribes
has been happily preserved
The taxes have been largely re.
duced, yet two hundred mil
lions of the national debt Have
been paid off and cancelled,
though we are paying one hun.
dred and twenty millions pei
annum for interest, and thirty
millions per annum for pen
sions to the widows and, or.
phans of our great struggle
We doubt whether any Gov
ernment ever before devoted
so large a. proportion of its an
nual incomes to the payment
Of debt. He misunderst apd5
human nature who fahcies that
these facts will not tell in d
Presidential contest.'