Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-03-14

count of diseases contracted in the Uni
ted States service or wounds in battle
since March 4th, 1861, which have been
granted or may hereafter be granted on
application filed previous to January
1st. 1874, shall commence from the date
of the death or discharge. The bill also
provides that in case application for
pensions is not filed prior to January |
1875, the pensions otherwise shall COM
menee from the date of filing the last |
evidence necessary to establish the
same. The Limitation herein prescribed |
does not apply IN claims by or in behalf
of insane persons or minor children of
deceased soldiers.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve- |
nue. replying to a resolution of the SEN
ate, says during the last SIX month"; two |
hundred and fifty-nine illicit distillerles |
have been suppressed, including seven |
ty-one in Tennessee, twenty-nine in |
Kentucky, seventy-five in North Caroli- |
ma, thirty-seven in Georgia, two in IL |
linois, three i'm Indiana, and six in West |
Virginia. The capacity varied from fif- |
teen to one thousand gallons and the |
daily average thirty gallons.
Receipts of the Government from all
sources for the quarter ending December
31st, was $50. .521, 500; expenditures same
period $e2. .s23.377
At noon, Wednesday, the Associate |
Justices, as usual, entered the Supreme
Court room, Chief Justice Waite being
in the rear. As the Associates, on the |
opening of court occupied their seats. |
the Chief Justice took a chair at the |
desk of Middleton, Clerk of Court. A |
few moments thereafter the clerk read |
aloud the commission of the President, |
when the Chief Justice read aloud the
oath to be administered to him by the |
clerk, to which the clerk added, $50 |
help you God" The Chief Justice, |
subscribing ''Chief JUSTICE" then pro-
ceeded to his seat OH the bench, having |
robed before appearing in court, the As |
sociate Judges standing in his honor. |
The reading of opinions was then resu- /
med from yesterday, by Justice Field. |
There was large attendance of men, |
bers of the bar and others, in the court |
room.
The following was issued Monday |
morning:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, March 9th, 1874
1t is with deep regret the President |
announces to the people of the United |
States the death of Millard Fillmore, ,one |
of his honored predecessors who died at |
Buffalo, New York, last evening. The |
long continued public services and en-
nent purity of character of the deceased |
ex-President will be remembered be- |
yond the days of mourning in which |
the nation will be thrown by the event
which is thus announced. AS mark |
of respect to his memory it is ordered |
that the Executive Mansion and the sew
eral departments at Washington be |
draped in mourning until the close of
the day on which the funeral shall take
place, and that business shall take place,
and that business shall be suspended on
the day of the funeral. 1t is further
more ordered that the War and Navy
Departments cause suitable military and
naval honors to be paid on the occasion
to the memory of the eminent citizen
whose life is now closed,
U. S. GRANT.
By the President, Hamilton Fish, Secre-
tary of State.
The Grangers are to set up Statis-
tical Bureau of their own i'm Washing
ton, which is to collect information in
relation to crops through the local
Oranges, disseminate the information |
thus obtained to the Granges-and keep
it away from the newspapers. The last
feature of the plan is a weak one. If |
newspapers should have it, and will get |
it. |
While yet the ashes of President |
Fillmore are awaiting the last rites of
sculpture, the telegraph brings the
Intelligence that Charles Sum.
ner, of Massachusetts, the ssFather of
the Senate,'' has been stricken suddenly
by death in his sixty-fourth year. The
concurrence of two such deaths within
the lapse of a few hours, gives to both
an added impressiveness and solemnity.
The life of Charles Sumner is one TO
which the prescribed limits of news
paper article can render but insufficient
justice. For twenty-three years he has
been leader of the Senate, and his
speeches and measures embody some of
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valuable work in the record of that body
Mr.. Sumner was a man of ripe scholar
ship, refined tastes. connoisseur of
rarest taste in all fields of art and liter
ature. His house in Washington con-
tains one of the richest and most inter-
esting collections of rare books, manu-
scripts, pictures. bronzes and curious
relics to be found under any private
root in Europe or America. He knew
his mental superiority to most other
men, and his consciousness made him
arrogant and overbearing to opponents.
Socially he was one Of the most gifted
and delightful of men, but in public af-
fairs he accepted no advice, brooked no
opposition. The most memorable Incl
dent of Mr.. Summers life was the cow
ardlv and brutal assault made upon him
in May, 1856, by Preston S. Brooks,
Democratic member of the House from
South Carolina, subsequently known as
| s'Bully Brooks This ruffian took of
| fense because Mr.. Sumner made one Of
his powerful and unans werable speech
es in reply to Senator Butler. of South
| Carolina, who was an uncle of Brooks
| wherein he depicted the ''Barbarism of
Slavery" The next day, while Mr..
Sumner was seated writing at his desk
in the Senate Cham Der, this precious
specimen of Southern slave-breeder
sneaked UP behind Mr.. Sumner and
felled him to the floor with heavy gut
ta-percha cane more than one inch in
| diameter. There was no one else in the
Senate Chamber except Senator Stephen
A. Douglas, who refused to interfere for
fear his position would be misconstrued