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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-12-27
FOR THE HAYES ELECTORS.

In most cases the returns opened by
the Returning Board correspondent
precisely with the certified statements
of commissioners of Election furnished
us. The most material difference arose
from the failure of the Supervisors of
East Baton Rouge, TanglpahOa and of
Orleans to forward the statements of
votes from all the voting places in
their respective parishes. In thirty
five out of thirty-eight States in the
Union these figures would be conclu-
sive. No one would claim that Sam
uel j. Tilden and Thos. A. Hendricks
were not entitled to the Electoral vote
of the State, but in Louisiana a tribu-
nal has been set up which on former
occasions has overthrow the will of
the people as expressed at the polls,
and for which the power is now claim
ed in its discretion to change the re-
suit of the popular vote of the recent
election. In view, however, of the
returns and the law, and the facts
which should control the Returning
Board. with which we have made our
selves familiar, we have no hesitation
in saying that the result shown by the
votes actually cast cannot be changed
without palpable abuse of the letter
and spirit of the law governing the
Returning Board and a manifest per-
vision of the facts before it. Irregu-
larities have been committed in some
instances by officer: conducting cleo
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The Result i'm Louisiana.
An Aadtes. to the People of til. U.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1.-The COM
mittee of visiting Democrats issue the
following address:
New ORLEANS. Dec. 1, '76.
TO tie people of the UtGted States:
On our arrival herein casting about
for approaches to the officials who con-
troll the elections of this State, we dis
covered that they were all of one po-
litical party that the Governor had
appointed none but Republican Su-
pervisOrs of Elections, and that the
Returning officers constituting the
State Board were IF the same political
school. Influenced by these auspi-
cious surroundings our thoughts and
hopes were turned toward the eminent
gentlemen who had been selected by
the President to be present and see
that the Board of Canvassers made
fair count of the votes actually cast,
and on the 18th of November we in
vited these gentlemen to meet and
confer with us. This cooperation
was declined, but we, nevertheless,
have reasons to believe that to this
correspondence may be attributed the
invitation to us on the 18th ultimo by
the Returning Board to attend and be
present at its meetings as spectators
and witnesses of its proceedings.
Through this courtesy and the services
of competent stenographer We be-
came possessed of all the essential
facts developed on the face of the off,
cial papers. We have been furnished
with a certified copy of the dupli-
cate statements of votes made by the
Commissioners of Election at each
place of voting in the State. From
these statements it appears that the
Tilden Electors received the following
votes, tO-wit r- ID.
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cflacs ,auus -aT r.'.' see %

Without further interruption the
counting of the votes for President aud
Vice-President was concluded, the re-
suit was declared to be the election Of
Grant and Wilson, and the the two
Houses separated and adjourned.
The questions recur, what is the
force OF this example of counting the
Presidential vote of 1872, and of the
precedents thus established and how
will they apply to
THE COUNTING OF THE VOTE IN 1876,
the twenty-second joint rule having ex-
pired with the last Congress and not
being renewed at the last session Of the
present Congress? 1t is contended in
some quarters that in the absence of
this and any other joint rule on the
subject, the pre-existing practice of
leaving the counting of the Presiden-
tial vote absolutely in the hands of the
President of the Senate is revived, and
that there is no escape from it. But
unless, before the appointed day in
February for the counting ofthe vote,
some joint rule for the count be agreed
upon between the two Houses, the ex-
ample and the precedents of 1872 will
inevitably prevail and govern the ac-
ton of the House or the Senate in this
important matter, as the case may be.
1t will be perceived that by these
precedents of 1872, the full concur
renee of both Houses is required to the
electoral vote of any State, and here is
the difficulty upon which the two
Houses may utteraly fail to determine
whether Tilden or Hayes has been
elected our next President.
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Woman.

OH the priceless value Of the love of
a true womanl Gold cannot purchase
a gem so precious. Title and hOnors
confer upon the heart no such serene
happiness. In our darkest moment,
when corroding care, gathers thick
around, and even gaunt poverty
menaces with his skeleton finger, it
CLEANS around the soul with an angels
smile. Time cannot mar its brilliancy,
distance but strengthens its influence,
iolts and bars cannot limit its progress
it follows the prisoner into his dark cell
and sweetens the home mOrsel that APP
peases his hunger, and, in the silence
of midnight, it plays around his heart,
and in his dreams he folds to his bosom
the form of her who loves ON still,
though the world has turned coldly
from him. The couch made by the
hands of a loved one is soft to the weary
limbs of the sick sufferer, and the pO-
ton adjusted by her brings rePOse to
the fevered brain, and her words of
kind encouragement revive the sinking
spirit. would almost seem that God
compassioning womans first great frail-
ty had planted his jewel in her breast,
whose heaven-like interest should cast
into forgetfulness mans remembrance
of the fall, by building up in his heart
another Eden, where perennial flowers
forever bloom, and the crystal waters
cush from exaustless fountains.
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Letter From Hopkins County,
WHITE PLANS, Dec. Is. 187y

WHITE PLAINS, Dec. Is, 1876.
Editor Herald.
Our village was thrown into consid-
cradle excitement on the 18th by a
drunken brawl, which occurred be-
tween several citizens who had come
to town during the day, and became
intoxicated. Pistols and knives were
drawn, but on the interposition of
friends, the disturbance was quoted
and without serious result. We were
only rejoicing the happy escape from
drunken melee, but the peace and
quietude in our village was of short
duration. Early on the morning of
the 10th several of the same parties
who were participants in the disturb
ance of the previous evening, returned
being still intoxicated, soon after other
parties arrived, and after indulging in
potent draughts of "rife" whisky, were
ripe for any display bantered of vaun-
ted bravado, in resenting imaginary
insult. After numerous quarrels in
which there was the usual display of
noise and profanity, we had fight
which took place in the store of Mr..
johnson. A man by the name of Jno.
E. Hunter, wrenched pistol from the
hand of Robert Burris, and beat him
severely upon the head, inficting a
number of deep wounds.
Still later in the evening another
fight took place in the store of Taylor
q Bro, with a man by the name of
j. K. Forbes, as umpire. The parties
were too drunk to injure each other.
After the fight, a man named OH
Fox, came in the store for the purpose
of getting the hats of the parties who
had been engaged in the fight, where
upon Forbes told him to let the hats
be or he would whip him, he, however,
disregarded the threat, when Forbes,
struck him blow upon the head with
broom handle, whereupon they
cllnched, and during the scuffie, Forbes
was struck twice with knife, sup.
posed to have been in the hand ofFox's
brother, when Forbes staggered and
fell. Both the brothers started to run,
but were followed by Hunter and
Burris. After running about fifty yards
they We're fred upon and Dick, Fox,
(the brother supposed to have done the
cutting) was killed. The ball entered
above the right ear and passing through
the head lodged in the left temple.
The other brother succeeded in reach
ing his home in safety. Fox was left
laying in the place where he fell,
from four o'clock in the evening, until
twelve at night, when he was removed
by his father. Forbes received one
cut in the back and one in the side; he
is very low and not expected to live
1t is hardly necessary to add that
all the parties who were engaged were
drunk, excepting Hunter, who was
entirely sober. Hunter and Burris,
have made their escape.
REX.
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THE PRECEDENTs THUS ESTABLISHED
FOR 1876 IN THE REJECTION OF
GEORGIA, LOUISIANA AND
ARKANSAS.

Condensed from the official reports
of the proceedings of the two Houses
of Congress in February, 1873, in the
counting of the Presidential electoral
votes of the several States cast in 1872,
for President and Vice President of
the United States, we publish the joint
rule and chapter of precedents which
will surely return to plas ue the invent.
ors in the coming counting of the vote
of 1876. Touching the vote of each
of the States of South Carolina, Flori-
da and Louisiana in 1876, the prece-
dents of the rejection of Georgia, Lou
islana and Arkansas Of 1872, are full
of instruction.
The votes of the Electoral Colleges,
so called, for President and Vice-Pres-
ident of the United States, in 1872,
were counted at a joint meeting of the
two Houses of Congress, in the cham
Der of the House of Representatives,
on the 18th of February, 1873, under
a Joint rule, the substance Of which
is embodied in the following extracts:
"If upon the reading of any such
certificate by the tellers, any question
shall arise in regard 20 the counting
of the votes therein certified, the same
having been stated by the presiding
officer, the Senate shall withdraw,
and said question shall be submitted
to that body for its decision and the
Speaker of the House shall in like
manner submit the same question to
the House for its decision, and no ques-
ton shall be decided affirmatively, and
no votes objected to shall be counted
except by the concurrent votes of the
two Houses, which being obtained, the
two Houses shall reassemble, and the
presiding officer shall then announce
the decision of the question submitted,
and upon such question there shall be
no debate il either House, and any
other question to this object for which
the two Houses are assembled may be
submitted and determined in like
manner"
The first interruption to the count,
under this rule, was on the counting
of
THE VOTE OF GEORGIA,
the eleven votes of that State for Pres
ident and Vice President being divided
among half dozen persons, including
three for Horace Greedy, deceased, for
President.
Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts,, here
raised the point of order that as Hor-
ace Greeley was dead at the time
(December) when the electors assem-
bled and cast their votes, he was not a
person within the meaning of the Con-
stitution.
Tie Vice President (Colfax) then
read the rule requiring separation of
the two Houses to consider the ques-
ton; but, at the suggestion of Senator
Conkling, the matter was temporarily
withheld in view of other questions
likely to arise and which might be con-
sidered in the one separation by each
House.
On the reading of the certificate
of
THE VOTE OF MISSISSIPPI,
Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, objected
to counting it, because the certificate
did not state that the electors had
Y, tnl hy ballot.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-12-27

Street musicians in Paris drag pianos
about, and, stopping before a house,
play with great sclf-possezsicn.
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tons, and in making returns, but they
are about a much on one side as the
other, and Us TO intimidation, violence,
or ether illegal acts prevented a free
and fair election, there is evidence on
both sides, but not of such character
as to. effect the general result. In
most instances the acts of violence
proceeded from mere lawlessness as in
the case of Henry and PinkstOn, and
had no connection with politics. tits
a significant fact that in the parishes
where it is alleged that votes were
kept from the polls by intimidation
the total vote of such parishes was as
large as at anytime heretofore, and in
the whole State, it is 1900 above any
vote heretofore cast. An honest and
fair canvass of the returns, even under
the Louisiana law, cannot materially
reduce Tilden's majority as shown on
the face of the returns.
Signed Jno. NJ. Palmer,
Lyman Trumbull,
VIM. Bigler,
Geo. B. smith,
Geo. w. Julian,
III. p. Watson.
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And the HAYS Electors recei,

The result of the vote for Presiden-
tial Electors as disclosed on the face
or the returns opened by the Return
ing Board in our presence are:
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GEO. C. WEDDING,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
AND U. S. COMMISSIONER
HARTFORD. KY.

Will attend to all business confded to
bis care 10 the inferior and superior courts
Of the Commonwealth.
p1r Oeice opposite Court House near
the Post Office. n40~ly.
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HARTFORD LODGE No. 1873.

Meets in Taylor Hall. in Hartford,
Ky on the Second and Fourth Saturday
evenings in each month. The fraternity
are cordially invited to visit us when con-
venient for them TO do so
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B. L. BERGMAN. D. d. q. NJ.
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An Efficacious Remedy.

efhcaei0us remedy
for diseases Ofths Liv-
err, Heartburn, and Dyspepsia. simmsss' Liv-
err Regulator. Lewis g. Wander Chisf Clark
Philsielphis Post Ofics.
nO37-ly. " .l1l sag s.-
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COUNTING OF THE VOTE.
How IL Was Done by Congress In
1872.

From the N. Y, Evening Telegram, Nov. 29l
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The following correspondence took
place between the two committees
Gen. John N. Palmer:
DEAR SIR We would be clad
to be able to publish all the testi-
mony Of witnesses taken under or
der of the Board OF Returning Officers
before the Commissioners, but we have
no means of getting copies of such dep
OsitiOns as are taken in behalf of the
Democratic candidate for Electors.
If you will secure us copies of
such depOsitious, We will with
pleasure transmit them with copies of
dispositions taken by the Republican
candidates, so that if printed hereafter
the whole body of testimony may be
read and considered together. No
doubt request by you of the gentle
men taking dispositions will enable you
to comply with our request for = copy
Of them. Very respectively yours,
JOHN SHERMAN, Chm"
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LIVER

BY malIl fI.Uf-
Manufactured only j. m. ZelIn q cs-,
Philadelphia, Pa For sale by sl Druggists
Extract Of a letter from Hen Alexander \
Stephens, dated NJ arch 5, 1871: I occasionally
use, when my condition requires il. Dr.. sin-
mons Liver Regulator, with good eject. IL 10
mild, and suits me better than more active
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"NEw ORLEANS, Dec. 1, '76.
Hon. John Sherman

Hon. John Sherman:
DEAR SIR Your note Of yester-
days date was received this morning,
and at once laid before the gentlemen
with whom l am associated, and they
instruct me to announce that they
are extremely anxious that all facts
relating to the election of Presidential
Electors in Louisiana shall be known
to the people of the United States, but
that your note contains no assurance
that the evidence collected here will be
laid before the country. They further
instruct me to say that though upon
that and other grounds, they decline
to be the medium of communication
between representatives of the Presi-
dent aid citizens who claim TO have
been chosen by the people of LOuisi-
any at the late election as Presiden-
tial Electors, they would gladly unite
and cooperate with you and your as
sOciates in collecting and cOllating tor
publication such returns, protest, pc
utions, exceptions and evidence taken
by all parties, with any other papers
which may be necessary to full I'M
derstanding of all questions that relate
to the election of Presidential Electors
in this State. In view of your PropO-
sition and the importance of a proper
understanding of all the facts by the
country we must express our regrets
that you declined the cooperative ac-
ton proposed by us in the beginning.
Very respectfully, &c,
JOHN NJ. PALMER"
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Gen. John B. Gordon. ,-f
R. L, Mott Of Columbus, Ga
are among the hundreds to
whom We can refer. PriosSlse
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SIMMONS


a.an1, Indigestion prevail to
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Pain in the shoulders, Cough, Dizziness, so.r
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the best remedy thar has ever been discovered
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been for forty years, and hundreds Of the
good and great from sll parts Of the Sssngry
will voueh for its virtues, viz:
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B shop Pierce Of Georgia.
mo. Gill Shorter. Ex Gov. Of AlsbsnA-
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LODGE MEETINGS.
A. Y. M.
HARTFORD LODGE, NO. 156.
Meets third Monday night in each
month. JOHN Y. TRACY, w. NJ.
SAM +. HILL, Secty.
. r.. A. M.
KEYSTONE CHAPTER, NO. 10.

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z. WAYNE GRIFFIN.

Physieiaus' prescriptions accurately COM
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HARTFORD LODGE NO. -.

Meets in Taylor Hall, Hartford, Ky.
every Thursday evening A cordial invi-
tstion IL extended to members of the Or
der to visit us, and all such will be made
welcome.
I'BARRETT, W. C. T.
CLAUDE J. YAGER, W. Sect.
G B. WILLIAMS, L D.
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