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The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-16

THE following paragraph is part
of the charge of Judge Davis to the
jury in the Walworth case. 1t seems
to us to be right to the point:
"And' this leads me to say in re-
spect to these letters and the evi
dence given here touching the cha
racter of the deceased, that jurors in
this class of cases ought to be careful
to remember what they are some
times to prone to forget and what
the general public are very apt to
forget, that in the eye of the law all
men, without respect to condition,
character, habits, either moral or
physical in their nature, are under
the protection of the law. The same
shield that the law interposes over
each of us, with which it sits continu-
ally by your bedside at night and in
all your domestic relations and fol
lows you in all the pursuits Of life, j;
held by the genius of the law at all
times over all persons however hum
BILE they may be. That wild, foolish
notion of justice that man who has
been guilty should have his grave
raked open to show his character and
pursuits in life, for the purpose OF
creating public sentiment that he
was so bad man that he ought to
die-that wild notion of justice has
no foothold in the administration of
either truth or law"
These words ought to be distinct
ly kept in mind. A regulated society
could not exist for an hour if it were
to be admitted for moment and in
any case, that any man had any right,
with the single exception of saving
his own life, to kill another.
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on par with gold. But when We
recognize the fact that contraction
had to come and that when it came
prices would be narrowed down and
consequently money be much less
plenty than it was, we can see nothing
very ominous in the present state OF
things In our own immediate local
ity money is scarce because we have
had but very little to sell to bring it
here. Since warm weather has come
the butter and cheese that has been
sold from our County has made a
perceptible difference in the amount
of money circulating here. The lum-
Der trade is now worth but little and
our people must turn their attention
to producing other things that the
markets of the country demand.
With nothing to sell, money would
be scarce in Potter County if Infinite
Wisdom itself guided the finances of
the nation, but with plenty to sell
money will be plenty whoever is
President.
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Death of a Veteran Editor

Saturday we received the sad intelli-
gence that G.. B. Cotter, an old, tried
and trusted friend, had passed away,
and there came yelling up from mem
ory's gurgling springs the recollection
of repeated acts of earnest friendship.
and mourning deeply his death, sadly
regretting the occasion which calls it
forth, we cheerfully contribute to his
memory, unstained by dishonor, bright
with the record of heroic struggle, the
tribute of respect due one who has for
forty years fought so earnestly the bat
tie of truth, labored so necessarily for
right and never wavered in the vindica-
tion of justice
Mr.. Cotter was born March Is, 1915.
near the village of East Aurora, Erie
county, n. Y. Concerning his early
history we know but little, save that it
was an arduous struggle and prepara-
tiOn in the school of labor for lifetime
of incessant toll. He enjoyed few ad-
vantages, single term in district
school comprising the opportunities up
on which was laid the foundation of his
future career. He began work in a
printing Office when mere lad, just
when we cannot state. The first au-
thentic information upon this point
places him at the case in the Office of
the Western Register. Terre Haute, In
diana, in 1918. Here, as everywhere
through life, his demeanor won for him
hosts OF friends and the acknowledge
ment of worth. He began his editorial
labor at the age Of eighteen, and soon
thereafter became the publisher and
proprietor Of the VoG Popasll, at War
ren, Pa. He was in the editorial chair
during the Presidential campaign of
1886, and was, almost without Interrupt
tion, thus engaged until 1866, when he
came to Saginaw to accept position
on the Saginaw Valley Herald Dur
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Now TURN out the Republican par.
ty, send Grant home to Galena and
his officials to their several phases of
abode. Let Hartranft and Mackey,
and the rest of the State function
aries, retire to private life and give
US Buckalew, give us Hoffman or
Seymour, and the whole list of Dem
ocratic would-be office-holders, that
corruption, fraud and embezzlement
may come to an end and we may
have an honest administration OF
public affairs.
1t is nothing that the municipal
government of New York City un-
der the Democratic rule became the
most corrupt the world has ever seen
since the days of imperial Rome
that is the party of honest men. 1t
is nothing that the greatest swindle
ever practiced on our government
had, for one of it's two chief mana
gers, a prominent Democratic poll
tician and member of Congress
that is the party of honest statesmen.
And now it is nothing that one of its
old leaders, cabinet officer, is found
to be defaulter in the sum of nearly
million of dollars-that is the party
of an honest record. Yes; put them
in power and season them with a
small sprinkling of Liberals and we
shall have such fine display of hon
esty, purity and economy in public
affairs that future times shall mark
it as an epoch in the worlds history.
We confess that we were some
what surprised the other day at read
ing short item of news from Wash
ington. We had supposed that we
were done with Buchanan and his
cabinet, and their imbccility, treach-
cry and treason only as a story of
the past, but here is a new develop
ment. 1t seems that owing to de-
lays caused by the war the accounts
OF Buchanan's cabinet affairs have
not been settled until the present
time, and now his Secretary of the
Interior, Jacob Thompson, is found
to owe the government between
$8OO,O0O and 100000.
This delinquency occurs in the
Indian Trust Funds, which were un-
der his control.
Reform, gentlemen, is a good
word, but actions are better, and if
God and the American people ever
give you a chance, if it be only in
one single township of a dozen voters,
try your hands at reforming your
record.
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IN NOTHING perhaps, is it more
true that "distance lends enchant-
ment to the view" than in matters of
history. In looking back through
the brief years of our national exist
ence even, we see only the grand
points i'll the characters of its found
ers, their heroic daring, their brave
endurance, their wise and thoughtful
provisions for the future of the infant
nation. No thought comes to us of
defects, real or suspected selfshness,
irritability or dishonesty. We fancy
that then public men were pure, de-
voted, wise, self-sacriicing, ETC., and
that they worked together harmoni-
ously.
So we naturally incline to believe,
and SO our Fourth of July orators
would lead us to believe, no one of
them yenturing to hint that there
were people ever that did not glow
with new enthusiasm at Patrick
Henry's eloquence or deem that any
of his compatriots were like mere
common men. For the correction of
such ideas we sometimes find some
old paper or letter, handed down
for two or three generations, or ones
life of himself that makes one feel
that human nature was very much
the same then as now; that public
servants were accused of the same
faults and sins as are our own public
men.
Harper'S Magazine for July, has
an article on the signers of the De
claration Of independence; very in
teresting, in giving descriptions of
them and extracts of letters from
them showing the handwriting and
telling even of little differences and
distrusts which, of course, spread
wider among the people to whom
they were not personally known. 1t
is a comfort in one sense, for we can
hope that with the present generation
the strifes, and distrusts and accusa-
tions of the present time may be
dropped and only the valuable points
of character or the real defects will
live in time to come.
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WE HEAR a great deal said nova
days about hard times; the causes
of hard times and the scarcity of
money, etc; and if the individual is
of the Democratic or Liberal persua-
sion in politics the responsibility for
such state Of things is laid upon
the present administration and it's
financial policy, while the sage pre-
diction is invariably indulged in that
they are running the country as fast
as possible; in fact that they are
driving the governmental team to
the ID at breakneck pace.
We do not propose to go into a
defense Of the financial policy of the
Republican party. That policyis SUBJ
stantially what it has been for the
last dozen years, during all which
time it has answered very good
purpose for the welfare of the coun-
try, both in war and peace, though
its enemies have been continually
saying sits going to ruin u.s." We
simply write this article to remind
our readers that the country is not
not ruined yet. That though money
is scarce to what it was just at the
close of the war, yet that the husi-
ness Of the country goes on and
people live on as well as ever, though
they may have a. little less money
to spend.
We admit that where men con-
tracted heavy debts a few years ago
with currency worth but little more
than fifty cents on the dollar in gold
they are having very hard times to
pay them now with currency nearly
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lished should hereafter pay postage,
also that there should no longer be a
free exchange among newspapers.
Although We think the motive which
prompted this action was petty and
mean still we think intrinsically the
action is right. But already the
newspapers are talking about the
repeal of the law at the next session
of Congress and advising their sub
scribers to pay postage on their
paper only till the lst of January
next. This seems to us decidedly
wrong. There is no good reason
that we can see why any persons
should receive their reading matter
free of postage or in other words at
the expense of somebody else, for the
carriage of all mail matter must be
paid for in some way. We believe
that the law passed last winter was
a good one, right in principle and of
great pecuniary advantage to the
government and, we hope Congress
will not be either bullied or wheedled
into repeating either of its provisions.
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Medicine in the time of Pharaoh

The well-known professor, iir. Ebers,
of the University of Leipsic, during the
recent stay at Thebes obtained valua-
bic papyrus roll of the time of Pharaoh,
containing the complete medical system
of the priests, for the priests were also
doctors in those days and mingled med
icine, magic and religious observances
in a remarkable manner. If the patient
happened to get well they took all the
credit; but if not, the gods got all the
blame-the mans time to die had come.
Thus we see mems characteristics repeat
themselves in all stages of the world S
growth. In our day pious people are
apt to say, 1T pleased the Lord to re-
mOye,n etc., when if the truth We're
known the physicians would come in
for share of the grave responsibility.
The papyrus, though probably written
thirty-fiye centuries ago, is in state of
perfect preservation. Not single cha
racter of its one hundred and ten pages
10 itil0ohlS' NI1C VI CllCoC pdSCo dIC IC-
voted to diseases of the eye, in which
the Egyptians appear to have been more
skilled than any other nation of their
time. Besides this it describes every
part of the human body and the disease
to which it is the subject, the proper
mode of their treatment, with special
directions as to the quality and quanti-
ty Of the medicines to be administered
for their relief. Another division treats
of the history Of medicine; and as this
papyrus of Ebers' is the Oldest authori-
ty yet discovered, much of Importance
may be expected from it.
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WORKING.

Under my window passes a washer
woman with a large heavy basket
full of clothes; soiled clothes that
she has been collecting. The first
thought is, cher lot is hard, her labor
coarse, her face and arms embrowned
and burned with exposure" But her
eyes look bright and glad. She is
thankful for work, it is occupation
for her energies, for her skill, for her
taste, even. 1t is well paid and gives
the satisfaction of well earned provi-
sion for herself and family. She is
one to be congratulated because her
basket is full and her figure 1.-THE and
active. What delight it is to have
''good health and plenty Of work .
to earn ones bread and get it.
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CoUDERsPoRT, Pa. July 16, 1878

THE country members Of the Con-
stitutiOnal Convention-the most of
them-aided by very few of those
residing in or near Philadelphia, are
entitled to great credit for their
faithful persistence in the endeavor
to complete their work. There have
been several mighty efforts made to
adjourn the session until fall by
those who are anxious to fee away
and be at rest, or something else.
The danger to health, the impossi-
bility of continuing labor in the hot
weather, the coming cholera, every
thing that could be urged as an ex-
cuse for putting off the duty Of the
present has been urged again and
again; hour after hour on several
different days, with persistency and
factiousness calculated to wear out
the patience of those who want to at
tend to their business.
SO far the Convention has stood
the test bravcly, preferring to take
whatever consequences shall follow
their regular performance of the
duties they have undertaken and re-
membering, probably, that the poor
and the hard-working inhabitants of
the city, who do their share toward
paying the expenses of this Conven-
ton are obliged to remain at their
posts to endure the sitting heats, to
contract the diseases that belong to
the summer, to suffer more in every
way than these their servants.
The nervous alarm shown by some
of those gentlemen, looks, to US COM
mon people, cowardly and unmanly.
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TITS very natural in going through
the world in meeting strange people
to greet courteously those who seem
to need courteous greeting, to pass
heedlessly by the seemingly favored
and self satisfied. Sometimes this is
all very well, but appearances are
deceitful in this as in all other mat
ters and the sorest hearts and the
hardest lots are sometimes covered
with such an air of jolly ease as sets
every one at rest about them. We
should remember that every soul
hath its own burdens, every one also
its own peculiar joys.
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to view, after which the procession
formed and proceeded to Oak Wood
Cemetery, where the burial services of
the Order were observed. The church
was crowded to its utmost capacity,
and the procession to the grave was one
of the largest seen for some time.
Thus closes a record of a busy life.
Thus has passed away noble man.
Others will come to fill his place and
soon we, in turn, must follow him; and
when comes the time may others say of
us, as we can truthfully say of him,
"Well done, thou good and faithful
servant. Sagina,c Mich Daily CoH-
Tier.
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LATEST fEDS.
( va Elmird Dajly AdrertjSer.

THE MURDERER Of Charles Goodrich
i'll Brooklyn, last winter, has at last
been discovered. 1t is a woman and
her name is Lizzie Lloyd King, alias
Kate Stoddard. She has made a full
confession to the police. She murdered
him for loye-she couldn't part with
him." she said. But as they are evi-
IDENTIFY separated now perhaps the law
viii assist Miss King to meet her lover
where they need never be parted.
NEW YORK, July 14.-The steamer
Tigress sailed this evening from the
Navy Yard on her voyage i'll search of
the Polaris.
WALLACETOwN, Canada, July IA
| 4 furious hurricane and rain storm
passed over this place, doing great dam
age to the buildings, fences and crops.
| The house of Neil Macarthur was struck
by lightning and his son seven years of
age killed.
BALTIMORE, July 14,-This after
noon, in the river, ten miles below this
city, squall struck and capsized sail
boat containing seven young men, four
of whom, Miller Spence, aged II, Jacob
Andrews, aged q, Baldwin Wilson,
aged Is and George Cook, aged 20, were
| drowned.
| MEMPHIS, July 1.-THE health of
the city never was better A few cases
of sporadic cholera, occasionally appear,
but excite no apprehension. Many per
sons who left the city during the preva-
lence of cholera, are returning. The
morning train for Louisville which was
discontinued on account of the cholera
has resumed.
PHILADELPHIA, July 1.-THE CEN
| tennial celebration of the First Metho-
dist Annual Conference in America
took place this afternoon at ST. George s
NJ. E. Church, the same building in
which the first Annual Conference was
held. Bishop James presided and adj
dressed the meeting, saying that the re-
suits during the last one hundred years
in the progress of the Methodist Church
has exceeded that of any other.
Letters were read from Bishops Scott,
Wiley, Merrill, Haven Andrews, -Breck
and Pierce, regretting their inability to
be present.
An essay on Methodism in America
before the First Annual Conference >,
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-16
was read by Rev. J. B. Wakelv y
of New York. -

was read by Rev. J. B. Wakelv u
of New York. D.
Remarks were made by Anthopyu.
for siXty-two years Il member - ~
Georges Church, Bishop Rirb.s5 u
of Canada, and Edward $. Yu5
teresting exercises We're also belJ ;. IL
evening. "<
ST.. LOUIS, July IA dispatch f..
Des Moines, Iowa, says that at an s,.'
monopoly convention held there ON : ''
urday full county ticket was non,;, ''
ted and delegates elected to the ~,
Convention. %
Resolutions were passed decIa,,
that no support should be given IA -.
man for Office who is not in full sym,
thy with the producers and nappf.'
turers, and opposed to monopolies ,I
declaring that the doctrine of tba !;
vested rights of railroad corporatim,
which eXempts them from legisk-i,
control, has no place in the juriv-
dence of free people; demanding /
form in the matter of salaries Of r5r
officers; denOuncing the back-pay sar,.
grabs ana the President for signiDcs
law. and demanding political rrfar.
and strict economy in state and com.,
affairs. The resolutions also invite q,
persons to participate in this moyemqn
FORT Nc PHERsoN, Nebraska Ll
14.-ProfessOr Marsh and the Yale ~
lege exploring party, returned here
day from Niabrare river. where tl..
have spent the last month in geolor;,,
Investigations. The trip was sucra.,
full, and many interesting discover,
were made. \ number of extinct Oh:
mails were found, including several IA.
sill horses, camels and rhmocen,
The party are all well and will start +.
morrow for Fort Bridge, Wyoming +e
ritory, to explore the Mintsh Moupnh
country.
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A WIDOW in Maine has lately
worked out her tax on the highway
and the surveyor said she did her
work better than any man in the
town.
Good! We fancy many women
who are not widows would be glad
to work out the tax if they could
have the amount of the tax by do
ing so.
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WILLIAM BINGHAM CLYMER, OF
Wellsboro, Pa, and brother-in-law OF
Hon. Hester Clymer, died at Florence,
Italy, on the 26th of May Mr. Viii
liam Bingham Clymer belonged to one
of the historic families of this country.
his grandfather, George Clymer, having
been one of the signers of the Declara-
tiOn of Independence. M. Clymer was
related to the Bingham family in Phila-
delphia and was one of the trustees of
that estate. He was a large landowner
in Northern Pennsylvania, owning.
among other lands, large tract in But
Ter county which has become very val
liable on account of the oil deposits.
About four years ago he went to Europe
for travel and the education of his child
rem, taking with him his entire family.
WUl,dHspOrt SIN,
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On THE first day of this month
the law abolishing the franking
privilege went into effect. Congress,
in its spite against the press of the
country for demanding the repeal,
tackled on to the law a provision that
subscribers to country newspapers
residing in the county where pub
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2en aud Scissors.

A Detroit boy knocked at tie dor
and carelessly inquired Of the man Z
the house: Are you going to moye,.
day." mo" is the answer. "Ilr
$25 you are" responded the h
why, you uimpudent dog" Cos, w
roofs ablaziug, screams the adol4scs.
rascal as lie runs for life; and hv2
true.
OLE BULL will not return and giwg
some more farewell concerts forat Ia;
two years.
A STORY to smile at is this viii.
comes from indianapolis There EL
actor there of such beautiful pr0pt
tions that he is known as the Apl
Belvidere. Exhibiting his e0qgst.
limbs in the streets the other dw. hs
was attacked 10y terrier upon WlN
tail he had stepped and bitten il d:
calf. He walked on easily and did nd
know that he was nipped until somebodI
told him. Did blood flow from ID
wound? Not drop! what did fowl
sawdust! \ thin stream of it from I'D
mangled rotundity of the leg The fad
was stated as a bit of interesting loci
news III the newspaper and Apollo u|
dertOok to chastise the editor. B
what can even an Apollo with Sawdu
calves do i'll rough and tumble fgh:
He was ignOminiouSly kicked out |
the sanctum,
AN Arkansas farmer was alSel
minded enough to leave his pet pantls
and his mOther-in-laW ut home tOgetL
while he went to show. but much +.
his amazement, the old lady was aT
and the panther was dead, on his r
turn.
a DEMOCRATIC editor thus Teas3
with man who don't subscribe: No
| tell you, Squire, the day will con \
when somebody will write a long eu0g
on your life, character, etc, and Il
printer will put it III type, with a hear
black rule over and under it. and viii
all your riches this will be done fMw
as Il grave Tor 4 pauper. QUA nv
ity, wealth, and all such will be SNA. n
of, but the printer, as he arrangS
type, will remark. Poor, mean ar1
he never took the Paper and
swindling the printer out Ct his talN
notice.
CARS are now running through
tunnel under the city of BaltiIhO
Passengers going to Washington by U
way of that city do not now have
change cars there.
DR.. Mary L. Walker, Of OHIO
been appointed to nine hundred
lar clerkship in the office of the II" "
urer of the United States.
A LADY thinks it very strange
whenever she goes to the theatre IVY
her husband, he always goes o'
tween the acts to get some ce'"
chew.
THE FUTURE.-Oh! that this 60 A
less current of years and of seasons Y
teaching us wisdom; that We were Hn,
bering our days; that we were pr@
ing our future by our past; '"
were looking back on the twlIhuD' !,
pidity of the months and weeks w"
already gone; and so improving !" Me;
turity that lies before us, tlia' W
death shall lay us in our graves w men
on the morning of the reSUui0 Ebo
emerge into scene too raptulV- kisl
conception and too magnihceh' ~
attempts of the loftiest eloqueH'' eal
ONE of the papers in an alu~ u,
1.-The new Postal law says II al
require an intimate acqualnIu" \ \
postal affairs at Washington y kula
even the faintest idea of the eA'', ade
variety of matter passed tIee Z v
enormous expense to the Cow. epa,
1t enumerates ''ponderouS dep' d spldn
reports, private letters, artlclto~r sair
ing apparel and other bijoutefN
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OLE BULL will not return and given
some more farewell concerts f0rat ls
two years.