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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-09
Gravel Roofing.

wv THE UNDERSIGNED certify that
w we have Mr.. Luther Nays Pitch
and Gravel Roofs on our buildings, and
can cheerfully recommend him and his
work to all parties wishing gravel Roofs.
Mr.. May guarantees his work every time
aud is bound to give satisfaction.
JONES & EVANS
G. SCHMUTZLER
g. F. SCHEMPF & SON
VIM. BUCHHEIT
JOSEPH URSINGE
F. MILLER l. co.
AUG. FUERMANN.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-06-09

THIS is the only line tlcketIng from MI
waukee
to Niagara Falls..... ................Sl2.0 90
TO Bu6alO. ................ Il0u
to New Ork.. 0.UJ
to Boston...... .s........................ 1900
These low rates can only be secured at
Company's Office 395 Broadway Milwaukee.
hY-Tickets to all points east on sale
at the principal ticket Offices in the north
west via this short Line. One OF the new
steamships of the line leaves Milwaukee
daily Except Saturday's) at 9 P. NJ. con-
Meeting at Grand Haven with day express
for all points East.
&c. MEDDAUGh, W. K, MUIR,
Western Pass. Ag't. Gen'l Supt.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25

Commissioner Burdet, of the Gen
eral Land Office, will, in his forthcom-
ing report, strongly recommend that
all timber lands owned by the Gov
ernment be appraised and thrown open
10 purchase at not less than their ap-
praised value. He is OF opinion that
unless they are thus placed under pri-
vate guardianship the fine forests of
the country will soon be wasteiully
exhausted by the lumber companies
and speculators, who are now strip
ping the land of its timber under COW
er of dummy" presumption, or with
out any pretense of compliance with
the law, while the Government de-
rives no revenue from il, and the coun-
try sustains almost irreparable damage
from the sweeping denuding of large
areas of its watersheds. He will also
condemn the practice of extending
subdivision surveys over immense
bodies of worthless land west Of the
hundredth meridian, and suggests that
only such tracts be infinitely surveyed
as have any attractions for settlers. He
will also Recommend that provision
be made for connecting the Land Of
flee surveys with important points es-
tablished by the geological surveys of
the Territories, and that monuments
at section corners, &c, be constructed
in much more lasting manner. The
recommendation OF his predecessor
that pre-emption laws should be abOl-
ished and the homestead system made
the only method of acquiring title to
agricultural lands is repeated by Com
missioner Burdett, and earnestly urged
upon the attention of Congress.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25
Secretary Bristow's Report.

The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury will this year be of great
length. 1t will be as earnest in favor
OF resumption and hard money as it
was last year. The report will show a
falling off in customs receipts for the
first six months of the present fiscal
year as compared with the correspond
ing period of last year, but All increase
in the internal revenue receipts as
shown by the report of the Commits
ioner of internal Revenue. In the
absence Of The additional legislation
increasing the tax on distilled spirits
from 10 to 80 cents a gallon, the Secre-
tary estimates the receipts from the
excise at SlO6 100000 for the present
fiscal year,. but the Increased rates will
add to his estimate, according to the
report of the Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue, some $l6;OOO,0O0 making
Si22 OO0, GOO in all. In his last annual
report the Secretary proposed gen.
eral revision OF tho tariff through a
commission, but it is now probable
that he will recommend in Tie coming
report specifically the restoration of
the duties on tea aud coffee. The
Secretary has shown cnnclusively that
the duty on coffee, repealed by The act
of 1872. was added TO the selling price
abroad, with no advantage to consum-
ers here. 4fa. q
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25
Bets on 5000 for Hayes Lost.

Witke's SPIRIT, acknowledged uni
versally to be the standard authority
of this country on all disputed points
that arise in sporting circles, decides the
majority of General Hayes for Gov
ernor of Ohio to be 1896, and states
the case as follows:
The majority of Hayes, according to
the figures or the Herald, was 1896
and no prevailing ignorance in the
State of Ohio on the subject of the
English language, or, we should rath-
er say, no confusion in the mind of
the editor of the Herald, can make 1t
over 5000; or, to speak more precise
ly, $40. which was the vote of Hayes
over Allen. That vote over Allen
was plurality, which, being reduced
by the 1858 votes cast by the Prohibit
tionists, gives Hayes majority of g.
996 over all. The word majority,
which means more than one haLf, cam
not be changed by the Constitution OF
TIE State Of Ohio, or limited by the
understanding" OF the Herald. Its
meaning being fixed-as fixed as the
laws of the Medes and. Persians-spe-
cific declarations would be required to
unfix it instead of to define it, and
such declarations, if any were import
ed into the premises, would have to
provide that the English language
should be altered for, the purpose of
this Cleveland bet and that plurality
should mean ,aGjo5ity. The Cleveland
Herald, which is usually very accurate
would have done better. if it, had
turned to Webster before =. trusting
! itself to the settlement of the above
| proposition an authority very worthy
of being consulted upo,, aipoint which
| the bet referred 10 had made, 3. ques'
ton of language, as well as a matter
of fact. Webster defines the word
majority, in its election sense. to be,
''the number bv which the votes OF a
successful candidate exceed those ior
other candidates" and this, SO far as
the word majority is concerned, is the
law of our lauguage and our land. 1t
is the law, like wise, of the COnstltu-
ton of Ohio, which, though it pro-
vides that the candidate for Governor
shall have the highest number OF votes
i'll order to be elected" does not ven
ture to alter the defiuition of the word
mnjo,ty. lt'simply provives for the
SUCCESS of plurality. "Republican'
| should have been declared the loser OF
the bet. We have arrived at an un-
happy state of things in This country
when ignorance is entitled to- a pre-
MUM, 81
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25
THE report of the Commissioner o

THE report of the Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue contains matter OF
a great deal Of interest to a large class
OF readers. For them il will not be
too cumbersome for perusal, and we
shall not therefore make an elaborate
synopsis OF it. The receipts for the
year ending June 80 were $ll0,445 :
I92 93. This shows a.considerable q. in
crease over the revenue of last year,
which only amounted to $lO2,644,- :
TAG 50. The result is due TO the ad-
vanced rates of duties levied by the
act of March 3, 1875. The receipts OF
the current fiscal year are estimated at
S122, 100000. OF the amount received
So. .l44, ,OO4 Al was from the tax on fer
mented liquors and $37, 1903. 46l from
the tobacco tax. The rest Of the in
ternal revenue is mpinly from the tax
ON. spirituous liquors. Naturally
enough, y great part of the report is
taken up with a description of the
whisky frauds and discussion OF
methods to be adopted to prevent their
recurrence. The Commissioner seems
to have great confidence in an intri-
cate system of checks and stamps but
nothing of the kind will prevent
rogues from stealing. The true reme-
dy is to get honest men into office,
Various suggestions are made in re-
gard to changes in the Internal Reve-
nue. Office, and an increase in the num-
Der of agents is asked for, which the
people will not be very well Inclined
to listen to.-WOrld.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25
Oncial Ynte Of Wisconsin.

That grand Radical victory in Wis
consin don't seem 10 pan out as well
as the leaders OF that party have been
claiming. Their majority for Luding-
ton for Governor of several thousands
has bean contracted to S4l, while the
Democrats elect all the ether State Of
ficers by the following majorities ::
Lieut., Governor, Parker, Dem, l,2OI !;
Secretary of State, DO, le, Dem. 62I !;
Treasurer, kuehn, Dem, 2,SU4; At
torney- General, Sloan, Dem, 1,Sll !;
Superintendent of Public instruction,
Soaring, Dem I,175. TO give Luding-
ton majority, the votes Cast at the
Soldiers Home, by the Chippewa In
dams and half-breeds is counted,
which it is claimed will he rejected on
a contest, which it is thought will take
! lace.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25


SPECIE RESUMPTION.-The Cincin-
natl Gazette, one of the most widely
circulated Republican papers in the
West, recently contained lengthy
article on the subject of the Resump-
ton bill and the Sherman interview,
from which we clip the following par
agraph:
"But, on the other hand, to sell
bonds to buy coin to redeem and float
the whole volume of greenbacks, car
rying on the top of them the whole
volume of bank circulation over
$3.50, 900, 900 in all-wOuld be like bor-
rowing specie to pour into a bottomless
pit. The thing is impossible, and it
would be the widest folly to attempt
it. To buy coin 10 pay and withdraw
the greenbacks is to add over $500, 900, :
900 to the bonded debt-to make the
most tremendous contraction of money
the world ever saw. The approach of
the time would cause q chronic mon
etary panic. The attempt could not
go forward six months without over
throwing the Administration which
made it. To buy coin 10 float the green
backs with conversion into specie on
demand, is to multiply the bonded
debt without limit=to buy coin to sell
cheaply to exporters and hoarders.
Either of these attempts would be a
stroke of financial genius such as the
world never saw" t.-..'
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25

THs Mississippi pesocrt's talk ike
men sense and patriotism ever their
viciers n-othi"g could be btfter lhan
this -.ntiinr'ft il'oin the Nleksburgh
Hcroja; y Il i aot oe -ald in he
ful;.-s .ha- ,tt' cor aas neen bar
r-n o -ord! Let u so use tue bless
in2s th,t have been granted us, that
all The people or his state, OF every
age, sex, color and race. and OF every
political creed shall have cause to re-
ioice that we have won this victory.
We are now responsible that Missis-
sippi pursues the path of peace and
prosperity. She has again emerged
from darkness; so let the glorious
light of her redemption shed its efful-
gence over all the whites and blacks,
that all may live in harmony. and be
blessed with contentment and pres
periiy. Then shall we have indeed
won victory whose glory can never
fade"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25
Death ofvice President wilson

On Monday last dispatches from
Washington anpounccd eile sad news
ofthe death o Henry Wilson. Vice
President OF ine Uni5ed States, wejc''
occurred at, 7:l5 o'clocl, that nor1i's
at the room in the Cap tol which n al
been occupied by him since his first
attack, about three weeks ago. Hi7
death was quite unexpected, as, on
Saturday the dispatches announced
that he was gradually recovering, and
for the North this week. He rested
well the night previous to his death,
awoke at seven in the morning and
expressed himself as feeling bright
and better. He sat up in bed to take
his medicine, lay down on his left side,
and expired in few moments with
out struggle. A post mortem exam
ination was made, and apoplexy was
pronounced the cause of his death.
Henry Wilson was born at Farming
ton, N. a., Feb. 16, 1912, aud was
therefore sixty-three years and nine
months old when he died. His par
ents were poor. and at the age of ten
years he was apprenticed to farmer
with whom he remaindd until he was
twenty-one years old. During this
time he received but about twelve
months schooling, but having a taste
for books he made good use of his
leisure hours, as it is said he read over
LOCO volumes, mostly, historical and
biographical which he borrowed in the
neighborhood. AT the close of his ap-
premiership he went 10 Matte,
Mass, where he served two years in
learning the shoemaker's trade, and
having acquired little money he re-
turned to New Hamshire and for a
while was student at the academies
of Stafford. Wolfsborough and Con-
cord, and returned to Matte and re-
sumed his trade in 1888. His first ac-
tive participation in politics was in the
contest OF 1910, when he was an earn
est supporter of General Harrison. He
afterwards served several terms in the
Massachusetts Legislature. In 1S4S
he was delegate to the Whig Nation
al Convention which nominated Gen
eral Taylsr from which he withdrew
and Joined the Free Soil movement.
In 1853 he was nominated as the Free
Soil candidate for Governor of Massa-
chusetts and was defeated. In 1855 he
was elected United States Senator in
place of Edward Everett, and was re-
elected to the position in 1859, 1865
and 1871. In 1872 he was elected Vice
President ON the Republican ticket
with General Grant. He had written
several works on the subject of slave
ry and for several years has been en-
gagged on his great work entitled "The
History of the Anti-Slavery Struggle
in the United Slates," which he leaves
unfinished.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25
xsAs MuapnH MYsrrn1Es.


The Horrors OF the Bender Gang Revived.
Kansas City Telegram Chicago Times,
Three persons nysteriously disap-.
peared lately in Kansas within a short
time. which revives recollecTiOns of
the Boulder gang, aud, strange to say,
the crimes and disappearances are new
traced TO the bloody gr0an I OF Cherry
Vale. The body lately fouhd in the
Verdigris river, at Independence,
Kansas, is now identiis IL as the body
OF German named Hayward, who
was on his way to the fatherland. He
was known to haye considerable
amount eff money, and he was last
seen alive at the house of q farmer,
short distance from Independence
His body was found in the Verdigris,
horribly mutilated and tied in bag.
The next mystery is Mr.. Grey, who
left his brother-in laws house at
Usage, Mo-, on Friday morning, Sept.
"a. to visit brother at Sedan, Chatau-
qua county. On his return to Denison,
he took a mixed train at Emporia at
about o'clock. There he was to take
a train for New Chicago, and thence
go to Independence. From there he
would be under the necessity of trav.
cling by private conveyance distance
of 35 miles to reach sedan, where his
brother resides. On his arrival at
Emporia he had to await another train
and here he wrote back to his brother
in-law, Charles S. Marten. In his let
ter he expressed anxiety to be on the
road, as his business required him in
Denison. This is the last Information
received of him. He never reached
his brothers and no trace has been
found of him after leaving Emporia.
The last singular and altogether un-
accountable disappearance is that of
Rose Sydel, of Cedar Vale, Kansas
The lady referred to came to this
country from England, with her hus'
band, Mr.. Frank Sydel, a few years
since, whom she married in London
about seven years ago. She was about
Is years Of age when she took upon
herself the responsibilities of married
life, end at that time was considered
extremely beautiful, after the type ol
English beauty. Some days ago she
left home to visit this city, having no.
titled her friends that she would be
here at certain time. Those expect.
ing her were prompt in making prep.
aratiens to receive her, and were dis.
appointed when she failed to arriYe,
yet supposed, naturally, that she had
been detained, perhaps by sickness
Nothing has been heard of this lady
up to the present time. Thus atten,
ton was again directed to the horriG
Bender locality.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25

Among the stumpers imported into
during the late canvass, was Col. VIM
Nj. Grosvenor, of Missouri. 1t has re-
Gently been reported that he had re-
ceived 1000 of the ''honest money!
of the ';ring" that has recently been
robbing the Government by means of
crooked whiskey." This Grosvenor
denies and asserts that he only "bor-
rowed $500 from Joyce, which he ex-
poets to pay with interest," This lit
tie excuse he copies from the pious
patriot. Garfield, and his associates in
the great Credit Mobiler swindle. j.
E. Mccullough, editor of the st. Louis
Globe-Democ ocrat, in card in that pa
per, tells what he knows of this cham
pion of ''honest money" The follow
ing are the closing paragraphs:
William NJ. Grosvenor is not COM
petent witness against any man, or in
any cause. He is destitute of every
thing that makes manhood respected
and respectable. He has disgraced
every public cause with which he has
ever been connecled, and he has pol
luted every relation of private life
known to the family or TO society. He
has disgraced the army of the United
| States with cOwardice, ,and6 depravi-
I ty which! was worse than cOwardice.
He has disgraced journalism with
practices ranging all the way from
| discreditable to feionious. He has
disgraced politics with shams and
,swindles, which should have sent him
TO the Penitentiary long ago. His
whole character-whether as soldier,
citizen, editor, man or husband--is a
dull monotony OF baseness, which it
would puzzle He'll to produce or On
impotence to duplicate.
These opinions are not expressed by
me now for the first time, still less br.
cause Mr.. Grosvenor is absent from
the city. There is scarcely an epiihet
in this article which L have not ap-
piled to him often, and when he had
ample opportunity to seek such re-
dress as best suited him. MACK.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25

SoME banks of New York, Phila-
delphia and Wilmington have issued
circulars, asking signatures 10 petit
ton to Congress for repea! of the
law requiring stamps on checks.
AT Trenton, N. j., on the night of
the Goth inst, kerosene oil lamp ex
ploded in a shoemaker's shop, kept by
Conrad Cellar, injuring six persons,
one of whom will probably die.
A BAPTIST preacher. well known in
Southern and Western Ohio. was ar
rested in Urbana, Friday night, charged
with assaulting and making improper
propsals to a lady of that city. He
will have preliminary trial to day.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25
The Greenb acks Deprecated by n RepubIi-
can Congress.

The Greenbacks Deprecated by a RepubIi-
can Congress.
The greenback of the war contained
a premise and S contract as follows:
"This note is legal-tender for all
debts public and private, except du-
ties on imports and interest on the
public debt, and is eXchangeable for
United States six per cent. twenty
year bonds, redeemable at the pleasure
of the United States after five years.
This contract and promise held tie
greenback equal TO the bond, ls;ng in-
terconvertibe with it. In 1864 this
convertibiliiy was destroyed else the
greenback to-day would be equal to
the interest bonds which are six per
cent better than gold. On this point
Chief Justice Chase delivered all opin-
inon from which we quote:
f'Thc best support for note circula-
ton is not Limitation, but receivabili-
ty, especially for loans bearing coin
interest. 1t is plain that
a currency so supported cannot depre-
ciate more than the loans: in other
words, below the general credit of the
country. 1t will rise Or fall with it.
At the present moment, If the notes
were received for five per cent. bonds,
they would be at par. In other wOrds
SPECIE PAYMENTS WOULD BE RESUMED"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25

THE Internal Revenue Report o.
Commissioner Pratt, just made, con,
tains an interesting little passage
which shows how faithfully the affairs
of the people are attended to under
this Administration
"As an indication of the extent oil
frauds above described, / have the
honor to report that documentary cyl
dence is Ia possession of this Office
which has warranted the seizure of
twenty-four distilleries and thirty
seven rectifvipg houses. and implicat-
ed over fifty United States Gaugers
and Storekeepers. This evidence also
sho VS. the issue between July l, 1874,
and May l, 1875. of fraudulent spirits
by the duplication of 10000 packages
containing, probably, 100000 proof
gallons, aud by aid of false gauging to
the additional amount of l.0OO000
proof gallons. This, of course, is bnt
a portion of the fraud actually COM
mitted, but in itself indicates a loss of
tax to the Government in ten months
to an amount no less than, Sl,65O,O00." !"
More than fifty establishments have
been seized, and more than fifty agents
of the United States have been engag-
ed in helping them to swindle the
Government ont ofnearly two millions
Q year. And the frauds discovered
are unimperfant compared with those
undiscovered. IfCengress next win
ter will Investigate, it will discover
that the Whisky Ring, which stops
scarce y. short of the White House, has
swindled the Government out of more
than one hundred million of dollars
Let Congress investigate.-Eaq. -s.-l 4.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25

TIE Radical croakers are terribly
alarmed that if the Democrats get the
power they will overthrow our admir-
able free school system yet, Arkan-
sas, poor as she is, financially crushed
by the Radical thieves and carpet-bag-
gers, since the Democrats came into
power there, provides a two mill tax
and the entire proceeds of the poll tax
for the support of public schools, A
more EOnsensical and wicked lie was
never invented than the charge that
the Democracy are opposed to the pub
lie schools.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25

Tie Radical leaders and papers are
Just now in forming the people. how
villain0nsly they are robbed through
the instrumentality'o paper money.
They seem to forget that their party is
the author Of our present currency
system and that the paternity of every
rotten, robbirg bank systemever foist-
ed upon The people belongs to the ep-
ponents OF the Democracy. They have
now not the most distan idea Of re-
turning to specie currency. 1t is on
ly scheme of the plunderers TO give
the entire management of the finances
of the country into the hands of the
National Banks, to commit the affairs
of the nation to their kind care and
keeping. Their talk about "hpnest
msney" is mere nonsense. e
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25
Death of a u. S. Senator.

Orris s. Ferry, Senator in Congress
from Connecticut, died ut his resi-
dence in Norwalk, last Sunday af-
ternoon, from disease called
softening of the spinal marrow,
from which he had suffered for sever.
al years. He was born in Bethel,
Conn, August 10, 1923: graduated at
Yale College in 1874 mad held several
state offices; served with distinction
as Colonel and Brigadier General in
the late war, and was elected United
Stat ca Senator in 1865 and reelected
in 1873, leaving four year of his time
iinexpired. ~ ''-i'ai =:d 'sA9i 'fsr
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25

Pc NNsYLvANIA was saved to the
Republicans in the late election by
Philadelphia, Pershing having a ma
jority over Hartranft outside that city.
But the Republican ticket which car
iried that city was declared by a major.
ity Of the Union Leasueaof FhiladeI-
phia to be the offspring of "that dicta-
'torial band of men, nominally of both
parties, but without true allegiance TO
either, which now rules and oppresses
the city and is disgracing and destroy
ing the Republican organization" And
Of such are Republicans victories.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-11-25

THE President, in his forthcoming
message, will. it is believed, urge up
on Congress the recognition of the in
dependence Of Cuba. The Cabinet Is
said to be badly divided on this ques-
ton. Fish, Bristow, and Jewell all
oppose the Presidents notion while
Chandler, Pierrepont, Robson, and
Be.knap sustain him, The President
ought TO feel safe in having the heads
of The Army and Navy Departments
with him.