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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-16
Mysterious and Sudden Death OF Hon
ReverdY johnson.
baltimore TELEGRAM. Feb. 1O.7

baltimore Telegram, Feb. 1911
Reverdy johnson, the distinguished
statesman and jurist, was found dead this
evening at 7:l5 in the ground surround
ing the executive mansion at Annapolis.
MIR. johnson was the guest of Governor
Carroll, and dined this afternoon with
other gentlemen at the executive man.
sion. lie was found dead in the yard by
a servant.
Mr.. johnson came to Annapolis last
night to argue the case of Baker VS..
Freeck. He argued in the court of ap-
peals to-day. By invitation of Governor
Carroll he became his guest at the ex-
ecutive mansion to-day. The Governor
invited Chief Justice Partol of this State
and several other gentlemen to meet Mr..
johnson at dinner at the mansion. Thew
dined about 5 P. NJ. At dinner Mr.. John
son appeared in excellent spirits and his
usual health, and entertained the COM
pany by his conversation and relating
anecdotes. At dinner he took one glass
of MADEIRA and refused to take any more.
After dinner he suddenly asked the Gov
ernor to take him into the parlor. He
took the Governors arm, and walking in
there sat down on the sofa. At the re-
quest Of Mr.. johnson the Governor re-.
joined his guests at the table.
Shortly after a servant appeared at the
door, and reckoning the Governor out.
told him Mr.. johnson was
lying in the yard on the
stones. Gov. Carroll went inn.
mediately to the place, and found Mr..
VIII ho
rage way that passed under the porch of
the mansion, close up to the wall and the
rear door leading into the basement. He
had evidently gone down the front steps
and around to the front side of the house
and fallen where he was found. This
was about 8:l5 P. NJ, and the impression
is that he had been there at least half an
hour. He was then dead, and was bleed
ing profusely from wounds on the right
side of his head and face. His body was
at oace moved into the basement room
and physicians summoned. DR.. William
&. Tuck was first to arrive, and after ex-
aiming the body, pronounced life ex-
tmct. Drs. Riedeaut and Claoude arrived
afterwards.
There are large wounds on the right
side of the forehead, two fractures of the
skull from the upper portion Of the head
to the eyebrow, dislocation of finger
Of the left hand, and cuts and bruises on
the legs and hands. The physicians are
examining the body to determine the
cause of death. Mr.. johnson would
have been 80 years old next May.
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 1.-THE main facts
connected with the death Of Reverdy
johnson in the grounds attached to the
executive mansion, as made last !
night, are not changed
by developments this morning
His death was so sudden and unexpected
after his appearance in the State library
and about the State House yesterday
while the Legislature was in
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-16

~oA wnAcu tuey come lntO existence. NO
one should be permitted to teach in our
public schools who cannot read English
without any foreign accent, in natural
and expressive manner. ~>,.&ssE d..
The parents Of the children sent home
from your school, while Catholic priest
comes IN and teaches the catechism of his
cnurch, have just cause for instituting
SUIT against the trustees permitting the
action. If Catholic children were thus
sent home from any school and An Epis.
copallan or Baptist clergyman were per-
mltted to 60 into the school and teach the
catechlsm of his church, Catholics would
at once raise the cry OF sectarianism
and injustice, and I should GER
tainly join them in that crv.
The Protestant part of your community
should illustrate the origin of their name
ana protest earnestly against the as
sumption OF your priest. If your state.
ment IS correct, he has arrogated paro-
chial authority over the school. and
brought it under the religious control OF
the Catholic church. The Catholic
church would almost anathematize anv
religious denomination of St. Cloud do.
ing what you say that church has done.
| From your third statement, as to the
character of the books used in the school
it appears that the Catholics in your com.
mun'ty are doing what they would per-
NIT no Protestant denomination to do
Let Episcopalian or Methodist interpre-
tations of the Bible be inserted in our
school books and the Catholic priesthood
would make the charge Of sectari.
anism ring through the State.
They cannot tolerate the reading
OF the Protestant version of the Bible,
without note or comment; and how lusty
would be their cry if the Westminster
catechism. or the Methodist Discipline, or
the Thirty-ninei PARTICLES we're required to
be read in our common schools Protest.
ants must not be scctarian in this matter,
yet you affirm that the Catholics in your
community have introduced books into
one of your public schools in which there
are prayers in poetic lancu for little
children, addressed to the Virgin Mary,
and pictures Of persons kneeling in prav.
er before cross. There is not within
my knowledge single instance of any
Protestant denomination thus taking ad.
van age of its numbers and converting a
public school into parochial school, in
which the distinctive tenets Of particu.
lar church are taught.
If public sentiment in your community
cannot prevent the abuses of which vol
complain. there is, at present, no direct
legal redress. II we are to infer from
what is done in your school, where Cath
olics happen to be in majority, what
would be done in all our schools if thew
had the power, it may be proper to pass
a law that the distinctive catechisms.
creeds, and ceremonies of no religious or
''pagan order shall be taught in our pub.
lie schools. Very respectfully yours,
D. BURT,
Sup't of Pub. Instruction.
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session, in apparently full health that the
community has not yet recovered from
the shock. van
DR.. H. Lewis Steiner. State Senator
from Frederick county, a dist;non;shed
physician and chief inspector of
the Army Of the Potomac.
during the war. who examined the BODY
shortly after it was found. gives the FOL-
lowing as his theory of the cause Of the
death Of Mr.. johnson:
He either stumbled over piece of coal
or, being seized with vertigo or incipient
symptoms of apoplexy and striv;nr to
save himself, moved towards the Vest
staggering along by the northerly side Of
the executive mansion, at each step his
body gaining additional momentum. 50
that having reached the door LEADING
into the basement, he swayed around to
the south and fell, his head striking
against the sharp corner Of
the granite base of the
house which gave the first wound on the
head: Reaching the pavement of rough
cobhle stones second wound was re-
ceived in front of the first. At this
instant probably the bones of the nose
were fractured. One joint of the second
finger of the right hand was dislo-
Gated. Whether subsequent strue-
giles may account for abrasions
on the knees and fingers 81 the left hand
can not be positively asserted. The
wounds in the .s. scalp were
accompanied with fractures Of
external bones on the cranium
and base Of skull; also with a probable
rupture Of some arteries at the base.
Death must have resulted instant|v-
Gwynne, attorney general of state and
son'in-law ofMr. johnson, is of the op;n-
:on he was seized with vertigo and fell.
as he had a similar attack lastinr three
hours while attending trial in South
Carolina several years ago.
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An Arsenic.Proof Stomach.
From the Tr0y Times.1

A thirteen-year.old daughter of a Mr..
Flagg. residing near Whitehall, is exciting
the attention Of the physicians and scien.
titic men in that vacinity. Some time
ago Mr.. Flagg put some arsenic on some
bread and placed it in portion of the
house frequented by rats. The bread
suddenly disappeared, and again and
again other pieces were placed in the
same locality, with the same result. He
finally determined to watch and ascertain
ifpossible, what became of it. He had
not long to wait before he was horror
stricken to observe his little daughter
walk away from the place, examining her
m outh with the poisoned bread. A ply
stefan was sent for, and before his arrival
the sobbing child made known to her par
ents that she had eaten all the bread pre-
pared for the rats, and that she liked j:
better than anything she had ever tasted.
The physician was surprised, and think
ing, possibly, that the drug might not be
arsenic, he examined it, and found it ar
senic beyond doubt. To still further
test it he tried small quantity on a cat,
which quickly sent the animal into cor
WILSON'S, causing its death very soon
afterward. What seems remarkable, too
is the fact that ever since the child frs,
tasted arsenic it has begged for the dead
ly drug, time and time again. About
year ago the child fell sick with fits.
Nothing would bring her out of the con.
vulsions. In her quiet moments she
would beg necessarily for arsenic. The
physician in attendance believing that
the girl could not possibly recover ven.
tured to give it to her. the child
deveured it with avidity, and in less than
three days she was we'll as usual. Since
then she mas been given the deadly poison
at different times, the only effect it had
upon her being to make her appear we'll
bright, and cheerful The case has been
laid before several scientific men, all of
whom pronounced it one of the most re-
markable phenomena Of the age.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-16

The removal Of one of the storckeepers
connected with the Milwaukee Whisky
Ring was urgently requested Of the Ring
by the distiller in whose family he was
living. 'Why, he's all right" said the
chief; she's receiving a regular salary
from the pool,'' "Yes," responded the
distiller. 81 know he's all right in that
way and never complains over extra
mashes, but he makes such long prayers
before each meal that the victuals get
cold, and my wife wants him sent away9
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More Black Hills Golden News.

The following letter, which we are per-
mitted to use, on condition of not reveal
ing the name of the parties, (which would
give other prospcetors chance to watch
their movements evidently refers to dis
coveries in quest of which q party of
thirty men are said to have left the
Black Hills early last week. The writer
came through to the Black Hills from
Montana in December, following most of
the way the staked survey for the North
ern Pacific:
BLACK HILLS, jan. 18th, 1875.
FRIEND -: As you are the one who
is the cause Of my being here and having
a good thing, you are in with it. The
Black Hills are good, beyond doubt,
but the best diggings ever found, in our
opinion, is within thirty miles of the
North Pacific line of road. We found
immense prospects all along our way.
We found good diggings within a mile of
the line in Montana. Now, -, We will
keep watch Of the country and keep you
posted, but we cannot do anything now
on account Of the Indians, but if the road
starts in the spring there will be
nothing to fear from them. And
then look ont for the richest mines in the
world. We found plenty of quartz. We
found lead where we can make ten dol
lars day with a hand'mortar, and it is
close to the line of the road. Was almost
crazy and wanted to stay, but thought
of my hair. We found diggings that are
the best in the world. I got nine dollars
in one pan. It was hard to leave, but we
had to keep hid from the Indians most
of the time and l thought our lives worth
more than gold. We found lead where
you can see gold in every place. will
write you again the first opportunity.
We shall stay here for some time, as it is
not safe to 60 back with . small party
and I will not take in large party until
I get myself and friends we'll fixed.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-16

REPLY OF STATE SUPERINTENDENT BURT.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, J
DEPT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,
ST.. PAUL, Jan. 81, 1876.
To n. Obermiller and J. w. Robertson, St.
Cloud, Mimi:
GENTLEMEN: Yours of January 25th,
containing statements respecting public
school in st. Cloud, is received. Replying
to these statements in their order, the
mere fact that your county superlntcnd.
ent of public schools is Catholic is not
an occasion for animadversion. He
should, however, be friend to our sys.
tenn Of free public schools, and il, as you
affirm, he is not, he ought at once to re-
sign his position. None but faithful
friends of this system should attempt its
management.
Your second point is, that twice in a
week, from three to four o'clock P. NJ.
Protestant children are sent home and a
Catholic priest teaches the catech;sm of
the Catholic Church, in German. It is
probably assumed that this is permitted
by section l6 Of our school law. That
section, however, has no reference to re.
ligious instruction. 1t means only that
all instruction in geography, arithmetic,
&c., commonly given through the medi-
u'n Of the English language, may, for
one hour in day, be given through the
medium of the German or any other
modern language.
Your fourth item is, that the teachers
cannot pronounce the English language
correctly, and are not capable Of teaching
it. This fact grows out Of the existence
of the law in question. In order to make
it possible to give instruction in German,
teachers who can speak it are hired, in
spite of the fact that1 they cannot pro-
nounce English with the accuracy neces-
sary in teacher. I know of numbers
of districts in this State where such is
the fact. The people insist upon this
hour in day proviso Of the law, thrown
out as political sop to our foreign.born
population, and they hire some one who
speaks half in one tongue and half in an
other, and the school neither learns
good English nor the correct use of
the foreign language mixed with
it. The German Empire is wiser than
this. It requires French to be discon-
continued in the schools of Alsace, and
Danish in the schools of Schleswig. Hol.
stein. in which it was spoken before the
conquest of that territory. German is
the language of the schools of the Ger.
man Empire, and English should be the
language of the schools Of the United
States. The abuses to which you refer
should lead to the repeal Of the law I'm.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-16

The red spider is quite adverse to
moisture; the green fly, likes it, but may
be destroyed SO readily by tobacco smoke
that only neglected plants will suffer
from this cause. Tho mealy bug is SO
large that it may be easily picked of.
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Correspondence i'm Regard to NlixinI
Religion aud Education I'm Schools,

We find the following peculiar cores
pondence in the st. Cloud Journal:
ST.. CLOUD, SrEARNs Co.. MINI. }
January 28th, 1875. {
Hon. D. Burt, State Superintendent Of Pablo
Instruction, st. Paul, Mimi.
DEAR SIR The, undersigned are resi-
dents of School District No. l, in Stearns
county, which includes part of the CITY
of St. Cloud. We have children who
attend the school taught in said district
and feel aggrieved at the course pursued
therein. We will briefly state to you
such facts as we can substantiate by
abundant evidence.
l, Mr.. Kaiser, the County Superin.
tendent Of Schools, is strong Catholic,
and is we'll aware Of and per.
n %its the he practices hereinafter
he is one of the editors, published in this
city, has bitterly assailed the public
school system.
?. Twice each week, on Tuesday and
Friday, the Catholic catechism in Ger.
man is taught to oil Catholic children in
said school, from three to four o'clock P.
NJ, by the Catholic priest Of St. Cloud.
The Protestant children are sent home at
three o'clock P. NJ. We have visited the
school on purpose and have observed this
fact.
3. At said school, as regular reader,
is used Catholic book in German (of
235 pages, illustrated profuscly with pic.
lures peculiar to Catholic church books,
of which the following is the title page,
translated into English:
The Biblical History of the Old and New
Testaments, tor the Catholic Peoples Schools
Of the United States of North America. Pre-
pared by Priest of the Diocese of Basel, with
the Appreciation of the Rt Rev. Bishops of
Basel, Ehur, st. Gallen, Lausanne and Gent
and Sitten. Published by Benzger Brothers,
Printers to the Holy Apostolic Chair.
In the back part of the book is a Ere
view of the different parts of the Cate.
chism in relation to Biblical occur
rences.''
On January 25th, 1876, we visited said
school, and when the priest came in and
began to teach the catechism we objected,
and asked the teachers by what authori-
ty that was allowed. The teachers re.
Piled, ''By permission Of the trustees
(who are also Catholics.)
4. The said teachers are not capable
Of teaching in the English language, and
cannot properly pronounce it.
5. We are informed and believe that
the priest has also taken upon himself to
intiict corporal punishment on the schol-
ars in said school during school hours.
We appeal to you, therefore, to protect
our rights in this common school aud if
additional legislation is found necessary
we would ask you to lay the matter be-
fore the Legislature for its action.
Hoping to hear from you in relation to
this mater, we are
Years, very respectfully,
n. OBERN1LLER,
j. W. RoBERrso>.
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lscted from the worthless. The Con.
gresham who had originally obtained the
appointment of an incompetent clerk
would probably have sufficient influence
to have him or her retained, while tho
really Woodworking and useful employee
without influence would 60 to the wall.
If the anticipated reduction becomes q
reality it must, to be beneficial, be carried
out by a careful culling process that will
discriminate with judgment between the
available and worthless material.
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four. True, in many Of our cities it has
become the custom for large business
houses to close at three or earlier on
Saturday, but in nearly all such cases
the employees are for the rest of the week
confined in their Offices until two or three
hours later than is the case with the
Washington clerks.
A gentleman in one of the bureaus who
has some sixty clerks (female) under him,
gave to me yesterday very emphatic
opinion on the matter. He told me of an
instance where young woman. whose
parents live in neighboring city and who
are amply able to support her in more
than comfort; was sent to him to be given
a place. She proved utterly incompc.
tent for the work allotted her, and was
put at something else. In a few DAYS
she was sent back to her former place
through the influence of a Congressman.
and the work she is paid for doing has to
be done by another. A somewhat SINH
lar case was told me at the same time.
only the reinstatement Of the person.
again female, was made at the rcouest
of Mrs. Grant to the Secretary of the
Department. AS the gentleman alluded
to said, it is pretty small business when
the Presidents wife interferes to fiji the
bureaus with useless clerks. These are
only samples of numerous instances re.
lated to me: The difficulty in the way
ofgetting rid Of such lumber is the inn.
probability that the twenty per cent. Of
employees to be discharged would be Sc.
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another lot the same way, and so on until
the theatre was as full as it would hold.
I don't know how many people there
were in the house, should say five
thousand and there were az many out.
side demanding admission as there were
inside. never saw as many people in
the house before. Everything inside
went along we'll enough considering the
Jam, until some foolish boy, or designing
pickpockct in the north lobby Of the
second tier shouted "Fire!' as the red
light was turned on just before the raising
of the curtain. I was standing down
stairs, near the west proscenium box at
the time, and seeing the rush for the
door, and foreseeing a terrible excite
ment, ran around to the door and shout
ed, and pushed, and crowded, and did
everything in my power to make the pco-
pie go back. The first rush was alto.
gether ungovernable, however, and
out they went pell nell
into the vestibulc, where they were
met by the people from the
street, who in their efforts to get in, COM
pletely blocked the passage, and hardly
anybody got out until we had eased up
the crowd inside. If it hadn't been for
the crowd outside pressing in, the people
who were ranic.stricken would have got
out all right, but by the time we eased
the crowd inside, and made tho general
audience understand there was no fire,
and 20 occasion for alarm, all the mis-.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-31

grace to 100000 of your dead comrades
who laid down their lives and made their
bloody shirts their winding sheets. L say
to you Democrats, have you no sacred
memories of this bloody war Have you
no dear ones sleeping where the Almighty
God year by year covers them in their
graves in the Spring-time with green grass,
and scatters His beautiful flowers above
and around their nameless graves? Don't
you remember the time when there came
thrilling over the wires the news of a great
battle fought, and that ten thousand brave
fellows had gone down down and that the
struggle would be renewed at daylight, and
when you went to your chamber you knelt
before your God and prayed that some dear
one might be saved through the terrible
fight and brought back safe to you when
the war was over? Remembering all this,
do you think it respectful to the million
living boys in blue-without saying any
thing about the five hundred thousand dead
ones-that we should hand over within
eleven years after the close of the war the
control of this Government to the very men
that undertook to destroy it?" Lord APP
plause.
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A Couple of Extracts.

The following are two extracts from
speech delivered in Aurora, recently, by
Mr.. VIM. Lathrop of Chicago, upon cur
rent politics
"For the last twenty years there has not
been real reform that now bears the
stamp of law, but what had its origin in
the Republican party. 1t is true these
reforms have not always been carried out !;
but it should be taken into account that a
body comprising between 100000 and
30,000,000 of people necessarily moves
slowly. Those who went in search of re-
form in 1872 have returned again, conf
dent that true reform was alone to be found
in the Republican party. Hayes, in his
letter of acceptance, pledges his honor that,
if he is elected President, the constitutional
power of appointment shall not be misused.
What the Cincinnati platform lacks In
certainty on this point his letter certainly
makes good"
OF this Democratic platform Mr.. Lath-
rop said "Read this Democratic plat
form and find out, if you can, what the
party is for. IF any man can tell, from
reading that document, what the party
proposes to do with the Government, he
ought to have a patent on his ingenuity.
No one can tell what it is for, save and
except this 1t thinks that what is de-
sired to purify the Government is, that the
Democrats should hold Office. Beyond
that, / think no man can discover what
the party is for. You wold not trust an
individual if you could not tell what his
principles were from day to day If he
professed to be something one day and