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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-12-12
RDSTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. SATURDAY DEC H. 1874

mud. They told Cain that he would
beat the other man 80 far out of sight
that it would take carrier pigeon to
find him, and he couldn't very well re-
fuse to 60 over to the corner grocery
and "set EN- up" for the boys.
TIE CRISIS
finally came. On the eve Of election
Mr.. Gains friends called for "sugar"
again. and be had to sugar EN-. A big
crowd called to warn him that he GER
tainly would be elected, and the saloon
bill was S2S more. Thirteen or fourteen
men shook hands with his wife, hun
dred or more shook hands with him,
and he had to get up and declare that
he didn't favor women's rights and that
he did; that he was down on whisky,
and yet loved it as beverage; that
he wanted currency inflated, and
yet favored specie payments; that
he favored the civil rights bill, and yet
didn't; and in his brief speech Mrs. Cain
counted twenty seven straight lies, be-
sides the eyasions. Mr.. Cain wanted to
hold popular views, and he had to be on
all sides at once.
ELECTION DAY.
On the day of election they dragged
him from poll to poll, stopping at all
the saloons on the way. lie had to
make 256,OOO promises, pull his wallet
until it was as flat as wafer, drink Ia
ger with some and cold water with 9TH
ers, and when night came he went home
and tried to hug the hired girl, called
Mrs. Cain his dear old rhinoceros, fell
over the cradle, and went TO sleep with
his head under the stove.
HOW HE scoopED EN-.
When Mr.. Cain arose in the morning
and became sober enough to read the
election returns, he found he had scoop
ed EN- as follows:
Opposition candidate. SO, 42O
Tobu Gain 81 ,0SU
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-12-12

John Cain was quiet, unobtrusive
citizen. He didn't long for fame and
renown, and he didn't care two cents
whether this great and glorious country
was ruled by one-horse Republican or
a two. horse Democrat.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

THE RIGHTS OF UNITED STATES SOLDIERS
Salt Lake, June 1G.-The Supreme Court
of Utah decided to-day that soldier of the
national army can be demanded by and sHr-
rendered to the civil authorities to be tried
and punished by them only when he is
charged with of1cnse in time of peace such
as is punishable by the known laws of the
land-that is, by the laws of the United
States, State, or Territory; that a city by
law or ordinance is not in this sense the
known law of the land; but that if soldier
when of duty violates an ordinance OF
Salt Lake City forbidding drunkenness
and disorderly conduct he may, in the
absence of provost guard, be arrested in the
act or restrained by the civil authorities, to
deliver over such soldier to the military on
the demand of the latter, and it is the duty OF
the military to enforce against him the law
forbidding such offences; that if the civil au'
thorities, after arresting, refuse to deliver the
offender over to such demand or process to
try and punish him, the military authorities
may take him by force and that if, instead
of resorting to force, the military present
petition to the Federal court or judge in the
Territory, the prisoner must be discharged
by habeGS corpus.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

What right has Richmond To ash any eX-
press facilities at the hands ol General Ma
hone - Wing # yesterday.
Yes, citizens. did not the Wing tell
YOU two years or more since that if you could
do without General MALONE. General Ma
HONE could do without you? Now You are
told little more plainly that YOU have no
right at all to expect anything from him.
Further on this Wing urges General MA.
HONE to be kind, to be ;orgiviAg towards
YOU, and to consider the proposition TO give
YOU express communication with Southwest
Virginia ri0 City Points, proposition which
that same Wing represents to come from one
of yourselves.
Who is General MALONE that be should
thus be set up rs the sovereign dispenser OF
tavJrS and forgiveness to the people Of Rich
mona: /! this is not the height Of impudence
what is it to be cailed5
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

The recent distressing cases of trichina
spirais at Flint and South Haven, Mich,
which resulted so fatally, have been made
the subject of patient and prolonged in
vestigation by the Medical Society of Kala.
mazOo. Postmortem examinations Of the
bodies of the victims were made, and these
loathSome parasites were found in great
numbers in the bodies. The pork and ham
were also examined, and found to be alive
with them. 1t was furthermore ascertained
that in each case ham had been eaten raw.
As there are others liable to eat ham in this
condition, we commend to them the follow
ing extract from the medical report:
"Eat no uncooked or haJ-cooked hogs
flesh. Tue raw flesh Of the hog, whatever
its shape or condition-whether ham, bacon
or pork, salt or fresh, smoked or unsmoked-
is liable to contain this parasite, full of life
and activity that may soon work remedi-
less mischief in the human body. Bologna
sausage, if pork be in it uncooked, is as
dangerous as any other form OF this meat
The heat that cooks meat utterly destroys
the life and mischieyous power of these YER
min, and no one need fear any harm if TIL:
fact is observed"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

CoNvESTIoNS.-Thc Salem Register thinks
convention is unnecessary in district that
gives nine thousand Conservative majority.
1t speaks its mind very freely, too, as to two
Of the candidates for Congress in that dis
trict ::
Gas far as we are personally concerned,
we care not whether Il convention Is held or
not. If held, and they nominate man to
suit u.s. we will support him. If he does
not suit us we will not. There is one thing
certain, though, and we proclaim it in ad.
vance, we will neither support General
Bowen or Governor McMulin if nominated
By ten thousand conventions"
There is no danger that the latter will be
nominated, and as to General BowEN's merits
we know nothing. But we can safely pre-.
dict that if convention be held and candi-
date be nominated that candidate will be
elected. The friends of organization need
not fear the result. And the greater the
number of "independent candidates the
more certainly will the nominee be success.
full. How, indeed, can the opponents of the
nominee concentrate their strength upon one
candidate except by means of a convention
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18
A Word from Mr.. RuiTner.

JUNE lO3
Editors Dispatch: commend your per-
spicacity iu observing what did not say in
the affair with General Howard. The truth
is that the Generals advance was 50 sudden
and unexpected that bad not time to finish
what started TO say until it would have
been in bad taste for me to say it. l only
intended to make a pleasant and courteous
response to some very handsome things that
he had just said concerning the intercourse
between northern and southern men in the
cause of education.
had, however, in my previous intercourse
with him and other northern men there been
n good deal Modified toward men whom
regarded, and still regard, as extreme III
their views in respect to the negro. They
had during two days listened most kindly to
my views in respect to civil rights, and am
not without hope Of converting several OF
them, including General Howard.
w. III. RUFFSER.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

The Piedmont Agricultural Society pre-
pose to have grand field trial of reapers and
mowers, near Culpeper, on Tuesday, June
23d. They offer silver medal for the best
reaper, another for the best mower, and still
another for the best combined reaper and
mower. Thirteen entries have been already
made, and more are expected. Competent
judges, known 10 be unprecedented, have been
selected, and nothing left undone to make
the test thorough and the awards valuable.
Fully one-third of the State Of Louisiana
is still under water from one TO two feet deep,
and from TO- 900 to $4,000 people are now in
destitute condition, much sickness already
prevails, and unless the people obtain relief
the suffering during the summer months sal
he almost beyond precedent. i $ ~ Is
Professor Tyndall exhibited, his fireman's
respirator at recent meeting of the Royal
Society in Loudon. 1t is attached to a mask.
and consists Of an iron cyf.nderpaeked with
cotton wool, glyeerine, and charcoal. The
wearer is enabled torepainin an atmosphere
of smoke, which he could not etherWist
breathe, for a quarter to half an hour.
A report is circulated at Harvard tia
Huxley has been invited to accept ths, pos
ton made vacant by the death Of Agassiz.-
Ne.c York 1ri6aRe, Il ,.5 rsss$;;is
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18
WASHINGTON NEWS. /.
TIE BANKRUPT BILL.

WASHINGTON, June 1G.-The House this Of.
icrnoon concurred in the conference report
on the bankrupt bill, but with manifest re-
luctancc. A large majority of the members
arc in favor of absolute repeal, but being con-
WINGED that the Senate was just the other
way, and would concede but little, they ac-
cepted the next best thing-viz some amend
ments curing glaring defects in the old law:
There is at least something gained, but had
the conferences report been rejected the law
with all its evils must have rcmlined on the
statute book. The most important amend.
mcnt was that reducing the fees 10 one.nail
the amount now allowed.
THE CURRENCY.
The new conference committee on the cur
rcrcr bill held two sessions to-day, ana the
members express some confidence that tney
will cone to an agreement. 1t Is suggested
that the committee may. and probably VIII,
come to the conclusion to incorporate as one
of the main clements of the bill clause pro-
vidng for the withdrawal OF, say fifty mil
lions of the present bank circulation of the
East, and its apportiODment to the South
and West. ''
POSTAGE ON NEWSPAPERS.
The Senate this afternoon adopted clause
to the post.otiice appropriation bill provi-
din" for prepayment OF postage at the Once
CT publication on all newspapers and perl
odcals sent through the mails. The iost'
master. General has complained for long
lime that the Department, under the present
system, docs Tot receive one.half the postage
due on newspapers and periodicals on ac-
count of the neglect Of the postma>ters 20
collect it. There Is no doubt much truth ID
.hj,. but it would seem to be somewhat OF a
hardship to compel the proprietors OF puoil'
cations to prepay postage on tile papers De-
forging to their sub>cribers.- Washington
tcfeQrdm- Baltimore Sun.
Just such hardship as it is t" make men
prepay postage upon other peoples letters
that is. no hardship at all. The present Sys-
tenn OF collecting from ten thousand people
" h,t could he so much more easily collected
from Que editor is 4 disgrace to modern clVl-
lization. 1t costs the Government, too, us
tie PoslmaSter.Gene has shown. Sf40,0OO
Der anuum, all of which sum would be saved
under the new law. The House proposes to
editors that the postage upon their papers
may be reduced from $3.50 per thousand to
eighty cents per thousand, if they will pre-
pay it. And this the editors call Il hardship
Why? For 10 other reason than that the
editors themselves would have to ply the
eighty cents, whereas the subscribers now
;mv the So 80. Let us hear no more about
SAHDoRS contracts from such editors. Pray
where is the subscriber who wouldn't stop
paper that should treat him in that manner
seeing that these editors only advance the
money for their subscribers:
p. S.-The Senate proposes higher rate.
/, viii be settled by 4 conference committee.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18
DEATHS.

Died ut his mothers residence, AL BERT AU6-
TIN son Of b. w. aud sally Ann Berry. In the
twentieth year Of his age, Of disease OF the heart
Farewell, ALBERT, dear,
You have gone to heaven and left me here;
There Is none OIL earth Will ever know
The grief and sorrow Of your mother.
Dearest ALBERT, thou hast left us,
We tlfy loss most deeply feel;
But Ills God that has bereft us,
He can all our sorrows heal.
His funeral will take place from ST. Peters oathe-
drnl Mt o'clock THIS AFTERNOON. The friends
OF the family are requested to attend.
Died, on The 18th Instant. ut Lexington. va, at
the residence of her grandfather. Colonel Thomas
H. Williamson, MAMIE WILLIAMSON, daugh-
ter Of John Il. and T.. o Purcell, aged ten months.
Norfolk papers will please copy.
Died. at her fl hers residence, No.. 500 Elgh.
tecpth street. between Venable and Clay. KATE
MCCARTHY. in the twenty-third year Of her age.
Her funeral will take place from 81. Pe!er's Ca
thedra THIS Thursday EVENING az > o cioch.
invited to attend.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

T.. F. Redner, OF Texas, Greek: J, Sophomore
English prizes were awarded toe. q. Keedy,
of Mary land, aud George d. Peters, OF Geor-
gia.
The college grounds have been brilliantly
illuminated every night, makinga fluc pro-
menade. The buildings and halls were open
for visitors, and altogether the commence
mcnt Is quite 4 success. The town Is
tlronged with strangers from various parts
of the country.
Captain J. E. Raft, of Tennessee, has given
the college S1,100; Bev. DR.. Conrad, of
Philadelphia, 500; Mrs. S. Z. Bittle, OF Sa'
yannab, box of minerals to the college,
and au oil.painting worth 5000 to the De-
given to The Society.
The Board of Trustees appointed COM
mittce to report at the next meeting plan
for raising an endowment of 100000 by
the Guarto.centennia OF the colleSeln 1873.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

tits remarkable how strong the popular
prejudice is ugairs. the back-pay swinde.
Two years ago the Republicans of the First
Minnesota district elected the Hon. Mark II.
Dunnell to CONGRESS by 10000 majority.
Now, his reno a,inatiou Is looked upon as a
sure forernnner of party defeat, and the
chances are that it will not be made. The
ST. Paul Press leads the opposition to him.
1t says the popular prejudice against him is
so strong that the party in its present en-
feebled condition cannot afford to burden
itself with him, and less objectionable man
must ne chosen.-Ne,o York Tribune.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

CnIEP-JUSTICE WAlTE.-We had pleasant
chat with Chief:Justice Waite last evening
at his room at the Marlboro House. Mr.
Waite is Il mild and courteous gentleman,
open and liberal in all his views, without
party or sectional prejudice, and just the
man for holding the balances OF justice. lie
was born in 1916, and is ti'ty-Sevcn years Old.
He graduated at Yale in 1887 and was adj
mitted to practice law in Ohio in 1889. He
practiced his prot eSSion at Toledo, in that
State. from 1889 to 1874. In the fall Of 1871
Mr.. Waite was appointed one of the counsel
of The United States before the Geneva
Arbitration. While on his way to
Europe he SAW President Grant for
the first time. This is his first trip
down South and he speaks in the highest
terms OF our people and our resources. lie
spoke of the good people OF Richmond, Va,
and how kindly he was received in that city.
When Mr.. Waite first heard Of his appoint
meut he was Just taking his seat Is president
O: the OHIO Constitutional Convention, and
ii reporter of one OF the papers in Cincinnati
Informed him that his nomination had just
been sent to lie Senate. ll"WaS very much
surprised at the news. as he never knew
General Grant to any extent until after his
return from Geneva and within less than Il
year from bis appointment. The Chief JUS
tice is very thick set, has Il large mouth that
is always in good hum0r, wears black, silky
whiSkerS. and his countenance is pleasant
and inviting Raleigh Crescent.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

An objection has been made in New York
to spripkling the streets with sea or salt
water. The case is to be considered in Il
circuit court. The street sprinkler was de.
MED the use of Croton water. dc resorted
to salt water, was arrested, and the case sent
up for trial. The result is interesting. The
strcet-car companies have been prohibited
from using salt to dissolve the snow along
their tracks because it is injurious to
health. We did not know that salt in sum.
mer would have that effect. The question
has been raised, however, and is to be tried
in regular form.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18
The Granite Fraud III the Erection OF
the State Department Building.

Especial uiSpatcn 10 the W
WASHINGTON, June 15.-The exposure of
the granite Swindle in The erection OF the
State Department Building by Mr.. Spcer, OF
Pennsylvania, was one of the principal SEN
sationS of the day in the House. The granite
which is used in the construction Of the mon
strouS pile now rising west Of the Executive
Mansion, comes from Richmond, Va, and is
reputed 10 be the finest stone of the kind in
the country. For long time there have been
scandaious rumors floating relative to the cut
ting OF the granite. Near the end the debate
on the sundry civil bill, the appropriation OF
$50. 900, for the continuance of the work
on this department having been voled, Mr..
Spccr read a statement, supplied to him on
good authority, charging that the granite
cost the Government ga foot; that the Gov
eminent paid certain parties II per cent. Of
the gross amount for the disbursement of the
money. besides paying ST. day Tor an arch-
tcct at the quarry, SO day for superin-
tcndcnt. besides paying for boss for every
twelve men, and supplying all the tools used
by them in cutting the granite. The atten-
ton of the House was 1T once attracted to the
charges. and lively scene ensued between
two members of the Virginia delegation, Platt
of Norfolk, carpet-bagger aud admlnl>tra-
ton man, and Smith of Richmond, native
and Conservative Republican. platt Sprang
to his feet as if he bad been personally
aSsailed. He denounced these charges aS
false, and showed such remarkable in
terest in the matter as to Indicate that
there is some truth in the charge privately
made that he is silent partner in the
contracts. This charge was pretty broadly
limited BY Mr.. Smith, who frankly admitted
that $4,000 had been SqueeZcd' out OF the
contractors. Ord%ay Il Co who happen to. be
Democrats, by the Yankee pension agent at
Richmond, Andrew Ws.h5urn by name.
Smith stated that he had preferred charges
against Nashburn. and had laid them before
The President, who had said that there was
sufficient cause for the removal of WASH
burn from Office. 1t seems that Washburn
forced the contractors 10 pay fifteen per
cent. for Republican party purposes by nav
iny their contract withheld until they cane
down with the money. There Is 4 strong
ring ut Richmond, consisting OF the custom
house officers. and the pension agent, who
constitute faction Of the Republican party
in the District. The money eNtorted by this
rng is used to sustain the faction. Another
interesting allegation in connection with the
matter is that high officer of the Treasury
Department shares the fifteen per cent. with
Wa.hburn. Phtt's noisy denial of these
facts had no weight whatever with the
House. which never pays much attention 10
him nowadays.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

THE CHANGES IL THE BANKRUPT LAW
One important change is that while now
failure TO pay for fourteen days man could
be thrown into bankruptcy bya single credi-
tor, there is an extension Of the time to forty
days. The next is as to the power OF any
one creditor to throw person into oaDk-
ruptcy. Now one man to whom Sl30 Is dle
can throw person into bankruptcy. AS
proposed to be modified, it requires the as
sent Of one-fourth of the creditors and one
third in value. This provision was made to
date back to the time this Congress met, in
December last. The present law makes no
provision for discharge from bankruptcy.
BY the new bill the debtor may be dis
charged when such debts are paid, or at the
request of one-halt of the creditors. Nari-
Gus other improvements on the present law
are mentioned rs reasons for accepting the
report Us ameliorating the riSor Of the pres
ent law.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

The man Tom Collins, whose tongue has
been so busy in tabricatlng ISLANDERS against
our best citiZcas, and who has thus far baf-
fed all attempts TO bring him to condign, is
supposed by knowing ones TO have formed
some sor: OF connection with the Dispatch
and Adams Express. He is so ela,ed at his
success in stirring up strife that be has taken
TO writing in the Dispatch in order to get q
more ready and rapid circulation for his ma
icious tales. General Malone and the At
ianlic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad Com.
iDany are at present the especial Objects of
his attacks. An artful dodger is that Tom
Collins Wing Of yesterday.
Everybody understands this suggestio.
Very well; let Us see who "Tom Collins !"
is. We propose to publish on Saturday
morning the names of our correspondents
if the Wing will pledge itself to do the same.
We dare ii to the exposure. Let us zee who
" Tom Collins" is.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

AFAr PLUM CHANGED TO A BITTER Pill.
Under the present law, which authorizes the
annual publication Of the laws in certain
number of newspapers, selection is invaria-
bly, made of the bitterest partisan journals,
without respect to influence or circulation.
These journals were expecting q fat plum
in the publication of the new law cOdifying
the statutes of the United States. 1t was
estimated at the State Department that the
cost OF publishing this law in the "official !"
papers would be not less than half million
dollars. It has been determined, however,
TO save this money, and bill will be passed
providing that no newspaper publicatio.
shall be made Of the revised statutes,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-18

IFXINGTON, g., JUNO TO, IoI4.
MeSsrs. E0itors,-Wil you please insert
In the next issue of your paper that the
chesapeake and Ohio and Atlantic, MisSls.
sippl and Ohio Railroad Companies have
generously agreed to return free II fare all
Alumni of Washington and Ice University
attending the Convention of Alumni to be
held here on The Odd instant: Each Alum-
nus is requested to procure I! chcci; from the
conductor before leaving the train Tor Lex
ington. Very truly, W. A. ANDERSON,
President Alumni Association.