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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13
He Had Influence.

He Had Influence.
From the Eureka (Mo) Sentinel
A candidate for county Office was
Longing around Main street, smoking
his cigar and canvassing in his mind
the chances for and against his
election, when he was approached by a
seedy-lOoking stranger, who brought
him to halt and asked:
''Be you Mr.. -?''
''That's my name," replied the can
didate.
II s'pose you've never heern tell of
me, hev' yer?' asked the stranger.
Cant say that I ever enjoyed the
pleasure of your acquaintance that is,
not to my knowledge, though I may
have met you during my European
trip. met a number of distinguish
ed individuals then perhaps you are
one Of them.''
"No, sir, you did not M et in Yewrop;
though might a bin there if I'd a
wanted ter. I've seen better days,
and was wealthy in my time. I'm a
forty-niner, and hev he'd more money
than you could shake stick at
"Oh, button up your lip said the
candidate, who was getting out of pa.
thence, Elm cold and want to go in the
house,
''But one word, and my business
with you is ended-not my business,
but yours-it's for your own benefit
that make the proposition
Swell, what's your proposition p
''Now, look a here, afore we begin,
] n vn11 n A1@,,
from taw. I've got more politicle in
tloo'nce than you've got any idee on.
amt no striker I'D cut my head off
afore I'd strike candidate for piece;
but must have money to spend with
the boys, to keep them in the traces,
as it were. Your name brings up reck-
leckshuns of my childhood's days my
folks to home had a hired girl of yer
name, and for the sake of early reck-
leckshuns I want to stand in for yer.
want to see yer 'lected, and on 'lec-
ton day you will find my brain plan.
MIN and my good right hand executin'
to win for yer glorious triumph at
the polls. Just hand me out hun.
dred dollars and I'll send in votes so
thick and last it'll make the inimy
crawl inter knot-hOle."
''Oh, blazes,'' said the candidate !;
II haven't got any hundred dollars to
give up; I'm struck for coin on every
corner. You fellows must think I'm
Flood & O'Brien.''
"Well, don't know but l might cit
along with fifty" returned the man of
influence. ''Come to think on it, I
guess 1 could manage to squeeze
through with it; but the boys is pow
erfully absorbent
ooh, let me alone,'' said the now
thoroughly irritat9d candidate. GIVE
got other uses for fifty dollars than
giving it to an old stiff like you.''
''Me an old stiff" exclaimed the
rustler. II knowed you didn't know
me; I'd scorn to be an old stiff, and if
it's any objek to you to have man of
intioo nee working for you among the
boys, for the insignificant sum of
twenty-five dollars, say so now, or see
me arrayed on the side of the inimy
next Tuesday,
'Oh, go off and de- said the candi-
date as he walked away and started to
enter the door of a saloon.
''Jest one minnit,'' said the stiff, as
he laid his hand on the candidates
arm; yer don't know how yer's
THROWN off on yerself I'm as dry as
q fish, and if man of infoo' nee aim
with two bits with of whisky, I'd
like ter know what there is in this
county that s with anything
He got the two bits.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13

Merchants Gargling Oil has become
one of the most popular ]iniments for
human flesh that is now prepared.
while for horses and cattle it has no
equal in the world. We are assured by
those who have used it for piles-one
Of whom is a distinguished physician
that among all the various pile rene
dies, none afforded such speedy relief
as the Gargling Oil,--Louisville (Ky.)
Daily Democratic, June 4, 1856,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-13

W nat 40 you you say to John
"Oh, no, Mr.. Easy, such a common
name -
"a proof of its popularity, my dear.
1t is scriptural-we have the apostle
and the baptistrwe have a dozen popes
who were all Johns. 1t is royal-we
have plenty of kings who were Johns
and, moreover, it is short, and sounds
honest and manly
Eyes: very true, my dear; but they
will call him jack
swell I'VE have had several celebrat.
ed characters who were Jacks. There
was-let me setback the Giant Kill
er, and Jack of the Bean Stalk-and
Jack-Jack''-
''Jack Spratt,' replied Mrs. Easy.
"And Jack Cade, Mrs. Easy, the great
rebel-and Three Fingered Jack, Mrs.
Easy, the celebrated negro-and, above
all, Jack Fallstaff, ma am, honest Jack
FallstaH-honest Jack Fallstaff-witty
Jack Fallstaff''-
81 thought, Mr.. Easy, that 1 was to
be permitted to choose the name.'
"Well, so you shall be, my dear; I
give it up to you. Do just as you please;
but depend upon it that John is the
right name. Is it not, my dear?''
cts the way you always treat me,
Mr.. Easy you say that you give it up,
and l shall have my own way, but
mover do have it. 1 am sure that the
child will be christened john"
<Nay, my dear, it shall be just what
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09

of Curran applied to q similar condi.
ton of things in another country, is
like dead body in a millpond; he
lies quietly and obscurcly at the bot
tom as long as there is any soundness
in him; bst his bulk expands with the
gases which corruption cnvolves che
becomes buoyant by putreiaction and
rises as he rots." Surely II Is not prop.
cr to say that this system is corrupt
seeing that all the great and good men
now in the executive departments con-
stantly practice it. Whether it is an
evil that ought to be abolished or
virtue to be encouraged, is certainly q
question on which there Is some differ
ence of opinion. What ] assert is that
there is no law which forbids II, nor
no rule of morality among public ofil-
GERS which condemns it. That being
the case, is it not horrible to convict
this party who has certainly done
nothing worse?
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
WHITE HOUSE lscANDAL

Ihe editor OF the Phlladelphia Itmes,
in alluding to the 'iamily jars" which
occasionally take place in the White
House, over the crooked whisky"
dealers, records the following:
Slowly as the "White House com
plicityp in the whisky frauds comes
out it appears rapidly enough. The
country may prefer to know the whole
Hercules of tho thing from the actual
sight of foot only, but il more of the
body of it must be exposed, the uncov-
ering is at-foast interesting, however
painful. The testimony of ex-Trcasu-
ry Solicitor Bluford Wilson before the
House committee on the st. Louis
whisky trials is only to the same dis
graceful facts already exposed, of the
tampcring by favored army officer
and trusted attache of the President
with official documents that happened
to point to himself. In the present
case, Babcock is shown to have put
"W. H." into one of Wilson's exhorta-
tions to the government prosecutor to
spare no guilty man. The interpola-
ton must have been a very stupid
trick, if the design was to show Will
son in the light of an enemy to tine
White House. For there was Solici-
tors lctter-press copy of the original
showing the fact of addition and forg-
cry. But stupid or not, il seems to
have hurt its author with the Presi-
dent much less than its object. vii.
son could not clear himself of suspicion
in that quarter, though one would
think he had game enough Of smaller
kind to occupy his time without being
anxious to hunt in the direction Of the
White House. Babcock certainly did
not have to leave it on the sight by
the President OF the audacious "W. H.
stuck into an honest letter. And what
is to be thought of such a fact, even al
this late day. According to Wilson
the first coolness between the White
House and the Treasury was when
Babcock became implicated in the
frauds. Till then the President show
ed no lack of cooperation in prosecu
ting them. And when told by VIII
son, who naturally wanted to make
some defense against unjust suspicion
that Babcock was suspected, partly or
the score of his "Sylph" correspond
encc, which Porter had explained by Q
very silly story of a woman, the Pres
ident, it is said, indignantly denied
the story, and brushed it away with q
contemptuous gesture" emphasizing
his faith in Babcock's innocence, be
cause, "if guilty, he was the most
guilty wretch in the country" Thi,
may be very good friendship, but what
r
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
TIE WORD OF PROMISE TO.
THE EAR.

Tho following well.wrtten review
Of Hayes letter OF acceptance, is ex-
tractcd from the Philadelphia Times,
and is worthy Of pcrusal by all, as
being the view taken from an Inde-
pendent standpoint =
Rutherford B. Hayes, the Presiden-
tial candidate created by Morton, Conk-
ling and Cameron, and through whom
they expect to part the raiment of Re
publicanism in the future, has given
his first essay to the public, =
In rosy promises Mr.. Hayes is an
artist. Being the creation of Morton
and Conkling and Cameron, they can
afford him the widest latitude to bring
the garlands of victory as their crowns,
and they did not even betray concern
when Carl Schurz sat with their can
didate, and held his ear for the old
time promise that the masters had
broken TO his hope, as they hurled him
over the Republican battlements and
proclaimed him as outside Of all healthy
political organizations. They well
coined all that the luxuriant fancy of
the German orator could give TO the
letter of acceptance by way of adorn-
ment, and did not so much as cherish
a fear that all may not be well when
the fruits of victory are to be gathered.
Long before the Cincinnati council,
the harvest that Mr.. Schurz believed
TO be but blossoming week ago, had
been parted by the men who made
Rutherford b. Hayes. Morton is as
secure today in his Premiership under
the Republican reform administration
as if Carl Schurz had never whispered
at Columbus; Cameron, the younger,
is as sale for the Treasury portfolio as
plightcd faith can make 1t, with un.
limited power to reward his friends
and punish his enemies; Conkling has
the absolute control Of the vast patron.
age Of the administration In New York,
with special authority TO make Curtis
bite the dust as soon as tho shouts Of
victory go up from the Republican
multitude, and Bristow, tho patient OK
that trode the corn for the spectators
of Cincinnati, will find no place to lay
his head when the Hayes reform shall
come to be exhibited under the direc.
ton Of the leaders who have chosen
their agent to do for them what they
could not dare TO do themselves.
Smoothly as the Hayes letter glidos
along before the casual reader, when
II is tested by the obvious truths which
confront it, the absolute littleness or
bald hypocrisy of its chief features be.
come painfully apparent. His un.
qualified and elaborate pledges in favor
Of civil service reform arc the severcst
strain upon the crcdulity Of the nation.
II the men who nominated him for q
moment believed one-half he promises
in favor of civil service reform, he
would be beaten fif,y thousand in Ohio,
nearly twice that in Indiana, would
not figure much above scattering in
Pennsylvania, and New York, and
Vermont would bc doubtful. Tho tens
OF thousands Of Federal Offices in tho
various States are now confessedly
filed by the most debauchcd form Of
the system that Mr.. Hayes promises
Internationally TO overthrow, and ifit
were believed by bis party leaders that
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
, Posr MASTER pupcuAsr-,rl

A PosT MASTER PuRcuAsr.-Thc
Warren Ledger says;
ut seems that the appintment OF
Colonel Walker to the postmastership
at Erie was the result of u purchase on
the part of his friend, c. NJ. Reed, who
offered to give three thousand dollars
to tho campaign fund, and more II
necessary. Col,Walker would do well to
stand down the hall but he will not,
nor will he be asked TO do so while
Recdwill have an honorthrust upon him.
Money obtains appointments in these
degenerate days, under Grant, and
Hayes endorses Grant. Does il seem
right to endorse such system Here
Is a warning 10 postmasters. Give
literally to the campaign fund or stand
aside Tor some one who has couple of
thousand that can 20 toward the pur.
chase OF votes for Hayes and Wheeler.
Why should the spirit of Republican
man be proud2 viii honest men rat.
ify such a thing by their votcsY There
is iniquity in the administration, and
the purpose is 10 continue IL under
Hayes. win the honest voter endorse
the method by which offices are oh.
taincd2 Official position now depends
upon ones having money to pay for Il,
or upon friend, like Reed. The Eric
purchase is a small transaction; but
the method of doing business under
Grant and Cameron is disclosed by Il,
oil the same. Will the Eric people
submit to the intrigue, or will they
start an opposition postotlice2 They
should kick against the Reed. Walker
iniquity, andin some way show proper
resentment"
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
CAUTION.

An persons are hereby cautioned against pur.
chasing OF In any way nsddIiag with The folIow.
ing properly, nov In the possession Of William
mare, ! bay horse and harness, two-horss va.
on, ! buggy, harness, cook stove, sewlne m Machine.
sAsirs, eeussAsld furaiture, shevvs, ious plous,
cows, pies, aefss " csfN, " scrvs ests.
acre, baekvhsst, hay and vksst 10 tie tsrp.
sew isp Aad tsn'batk, ~ the same vas paschAsrd
BY ne q private mls % tbs fSd Gay Of July, ssj
!. - wnh him On lost csiy, sskjsst 70 ~ srdsS
d any tinA emo. VI, O0IjFV.
Clsarfcid, July %, is5S.ats
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
CUSTER AND HIS MEN.

A study Of the battlefield of the
Little Big Horn has revealed the story
of Clusters splendid fight as plainly as
it is likely ever to be known. The
position of the bodies of our slain sol.
diers shows that the attack was made
by three columns, at three different
points. One column was commanded
by Major Reno, the second by Captain
Benteen and the third by Custer. OF
the movements of the first two com.
mands We were already informed. 1t
is now evident that Custer, with five
companies, marched northward three
miles from the Indian village, and on
the opposite side of the river He
then made an attempt to cross and at.
tack the village, but was opposed by
the savages, and thus cut off from com.
munication with Reno and Beuteen,
who had crossed below, at the point
where the forces separated. Clusters
only salvation then was to retreat in
the direction of the advancing infantry
OF Gibbon. He divided his little force
into two parts, and each made desper.
ate resistance to the onslaughts Of the
Indians. The eloquent field tells the
direction taken by each company,
where the first fatal shot took effect,
where the skirmish line was formed
and swept away, where a final junction
OF the survivors and the last gallant
stand were made, and where, surround.
ed by his brothers and best loved com
rades, the heroic commander snccumbed
drawer than the bravcst-among the
very last to die.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09

HOLD THE FoRr.-From all parts Of
thecountry comes cheering intelligence
for the Democracy. Camp fires are
are seen on bill and in valley, and the
indications are that o sweeping victory
awaits the Democratic host. The lines
are advancing, massed for the conflict
with banners unfurled and batteries
unmasked. Therefore, cheer up, boys
and keep the ball rolling, for
Now the country sees the signal
Waving in the sky,
Tilden, Hendricks, bold appearing.
Victory Is nigh.
cHoRus.
Take the fort, for they are coming,
Justice signals still,
Wave the answer back to Tilden,
In good time We will.
See united rings advacing,
Rascals leading on
Millions every day are going,
Money almost gone.
See the glorious banner waving.
Hear the buge blew,
10 our leaders name we'll triumph
Over every foe.
Everywhere the battle RACES,
But success Is near
Onward comes our chosen leader,
Cheer, reformers. cheer
-Phiie dely,hia Commoa,sealfk
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
CAUTION

All persons are hereby cautioned agains,
purchasing or In any manner meddllne with the
following property, now In the possession Of MARI
Withsright, Of Ferguson township, viri 1 COW,
] cook stove, ] sink, cupboard, lot Of potatoes
and oats In the ground, a. the same were pur.
chased by me, and have been len In possession Of
said Withsrigbt on loan, subject TO my order Al
any time. SAMUEL McCULLY.
Marrcn, Aug. 2, isie.ss
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
A DMINIsTRAToRs' NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that Letters Of Ad-
ministration on the estate Of CHRIST. NEFF,
late Of New Washington, Clearheld county,
Pa, deceased, having been duly granted to the
undersigned, all persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment, and those
having claims or demands will present them
properly authenticated for settlement without
delay. jos. II. BRETH,
Administrator.
New Washington, July 10, '76-ot.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
CAUTION

An persons are hereby cautioned against
purchasing or In any way meddling with the
following property now In the possession Of O
illegal, Of Boggs township, Wis Six acres oats
In the ground, acres corn Ia tho ground, q lot
Of hay and rye In the barn, AZ the same belongs
70 me, and Is len with him on loan only, subject
to my order At any time. ED. FLEGAL,
West Decatur, Aug. o. ls76-st.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
gtw advertisements.

EXECUTORS NOTICE.
IL Notice Is hereby given that letters tesla.
mcntary having been granted to the subscriber on
tho estate Of JOHN W. IRWIN, deceased i.,t
Of Morris township, Clearheld county, Peun'a.
all persons indebted to said estate are requested
to make immediate payment, and those having
claims against the same will present them duly
authenticated for settlement
JOHN L. CUTTLE,
Clearheld. July ~, '76-6ts Executor.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09
CAUTION

All persons are hereby cautioned against
trusting or harboring Mary Conner, a pauper Of
Burnside borough. as the Oyersecrs Of said Dor.
ough will pay no bills Of her contracting.
JAS. 3. wETzEL,
JOHN KIMR,
Burnside. July 20, ls76-st oserseers.
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BURNED OUT,
Bur NOT
B u R N E D u P!


Thesubseribers have, at great expense, rebuilt
neighborhood necessity, In the erection Of first
class woolen Mandatory, with all the modern
Improvements attached, and are prepared to make
all kinds Of Cloths, Cassimeres, satinetts, Blan.
kets, flannels, &c. Plenty Of goods on hand to
supply all our old and thousand new customers,
whom we ask to come aud examine our stock.
The business Of
cARDING AND PULLING
will receive our especial attention. Proper
arrangements will be made to receive and deliver
Wool, to suit customers. All work warranted and
done upon the shortest notice. and by strict atten-
tion to business we hope to realize liberal share
Of public patronage.
10000 POUNDS WOOL WANTED
We will pay the highest market price for Woo
and sell our Manufactured goods as low as similar
goods can be bought In the county, and whenever
we fall to render reasonable satisfaction we can
always be found at home ready to make proper
explanation, either in person or by letter.
JAMES JOHNSON a SONS,
aprl26u Bower p. o.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09

HAVING engaged in the manufacture Of frat
Ii class MACHINERY, We respectfully inioru
he public tina, we are now prepared to hll al
order' as cheaply and as PromPtiyss can be don'
In any Of the cities We manufacture and dealii
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-08-09

that reason 1t refused to pass vote of
ccnsurc. N'
IL Mr.. Lincoln had been impeached
and evidence had bcens introduced
against him, like the trash you have
here, to show that his wife with or
without his knowledge took present
from some contractor or some officer,
who would have listened to il with
pationce2 Mr. Lincoln conld not have
come into this court with higher
character than General Bellsnap.-
Judge Davis would have sworn for
him that he was all his lifetime scru-
pulously honest, The governor of his
States, and any number of ox-gover-
nors, and the Senators in Congress
would have testified TO tho same fact
but he could not have had a character
one whit better than thatwhichismado
out by General Belknap, and by tho
force of that character the accusation
would have been swept away like
chaff upon tho summer thrashing-flo
Nobody would have thought of o con
viction.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-18
Notice

sgFEaTIsoRs' OFFICE, July l6, 1876.
At a special meeting Of the Board of Su-
pervisors of Douglas County, present Il. W.
Shaw Chairman, and Victor Desimval and
Nicholas Welter, the following resolutions
were passed:
Resoloed, That owners of property be al
lowed to purchase or redeem certificates
held by the county, at the face without in
terest, from date to October lst, 1876 pava-
BE in town or county orders provided they
take ali they own; after that date, for the
period of thirty days, the same resolution
open to all parties.
Resoiled, That owners be allowed TO pur-
chase from the county, with county or town
orders, property decided from sale Of May
lS7l,-provided each owner takes all he
formerly owned-for the face, without inter
rest, only adding the cost of suit: this reso-
luton to last till October Ist. 1876, after
that date same resolution open till Novem-
Der lst, 1876, for all parties
By order Of the Board,
Il. W SHAW. Cha :rman.
VINCENT CoURNoYER, County Clerk.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-18

Superior can flourish as well as
ever How? Why, keep and buy
with your ready cash of your home
merchants; take to Duluth your
''tick"and worthless Town and Coun-
ty paper. August Zachau will sell
you Dry goods, III fact everything
IN his line, cheap as our neighbors
OF the Zenith City. Don't specu-
late IN out lands before you pay up
your old bill. 1t would make a
merchant smile once more, and of
course have no more blues because
he would enjoy good nights sleep
on the pleasure he would have in
being able to pay up his own bills.
You bet. iune3Otl
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-18
The superior Times.
Superiorisns.

-Philbrooks' single mill shuts
down next week.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-08-18

THE FISH TRADE.-The fish
trade of this point is evidently des-
tined to become an industry of i'm
portant proportions. Indeed, the
fame Of our splendid fish is already
such, that with the present limited
facilities for fishing, our dealers are
constantly behind with their or
ders. There have only been two
weeks this season, when our fish
dealers, Messrs. j. E. Cooley &
Co., have been able to fill their
orders from abroad, and on those
two weeks, they shipped respect
Weiy 1880 and l4,5o5 pounds
The fish are plenty here, but the
business OF catching them is not
yet carried on extensively enough
to supply the demand.
Were the quantity Of fish caught
here doubled or quadrupled, then
our dealers could extend their bust
ness to still other points which they
are now compelled to deny alto
gether.- Duluth Tribune.