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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-06

have been built on n capacity for looking
wise and saying nothing, A doctor who
knows how to insinuate by tone and face
and gesture his perfect command Of the
situation, without committing himself to
specific assertions, may make a little
skill 90 a long way, and may eve make
serious mistakes with impunity. 1t does
not seem 50 easy with a preacher to trade
upon his capacity OF reserve, yet ever in
the clerical profession many have gained
the reputation Of profound diyines and
able guides in the spiritual life by n ju-
diciOus management Of platitudes. Nor
would it he hard to show, on the other
hand, how lofty regulations and bril-
limit prospects have been blightcd by too
open mouthed frankness. 1t matters lit
tie what opinions an aspirant for political
or clerical promotion may hold, n long
ny he understands when 10 hold his
tongue about them buta single slip may
mar Il whole career. 1t Is not uncommon
again, to hear people say that they had
rather not meet sOmc famous parsonage
for whose character they have conceived
a high admiration or reverence, for fear
the spell should be broken. This means
that they are afraid Of his saying some,
thing that wouldjar on their prcconccived
notions about him and, considering the
immense diversity Of tastes and methods
of judgment, such a result is certainly
likely enough, But no previously formed
estimate, though it may not be raised,
can well be endangered by silence. The
policy of reserve has been stigmatized,
and sometimes Justly as cowardly, but 1t
il unusually safe. As dead men tell no
tales, silent men commit no blunders.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-06
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II Won want good baking,
il YOU want the best stove,
II you want the cheapest stove,
II YOU want Il good square meal,
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-06

PrMpLEs on the face, rough skin
chappcd hands, saltrlIcum and all cutaneous
affections cured, the skin made soft and
smooth, by the use Of Juniper Tar Soap.
That made by Caswcll, Hazard 4 Co, New
York, is the only kind that can be relied on,
ms there are many limitations, made from
common tar, which are worthless.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-01-06

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"Tor Tic Flood d. The Lirc.,,.

See Deuteronomy, xii: %. The blood being
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and from which we derive our mental rs well
rs physical capabilities, how important that
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come enicebled. Settling upon important
organs, as the lungs, liver, and kidneys, the
effect is most disastrous. Hence il behOOves
all to keep their blood IN a perfectly healthy
condition, asd more especially does this apply
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any other. No matter what the exciting
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DIR. Pierce does not wish to place his Golden
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patent nOstrums, by recommending it TO cure
every disease, nor dOce he so recommend it;
ON the contrary, there are hundreds of dis
eases that he acknowledges it will not cure =;
but what he does claim is this, that there is
but one form of blood disease that it will not
cure, and that disease is cancer. He does
not recommend his Discovery for that dis
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poisons, be they animal, vegetable, or min
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and all Scrolulous Diseases of the Bones, as
White Swellings, Fever Sores, %IIipjoint and
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MOH0 tMOSTu. AGENTS wanted everywhere.
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28
DIR. L1NpERMAN. in the course of an in

DR.. LINDERMAN, in the course of an in
terview which is fully reported in the San
Francisco Chronicle of Dec. 13, attributed the
rise of silver to the heavy purchases of coin
which the United States government has been
making in London and on the Pacific slope,
and to the enormous demand for silver in
China. The future of the silver market
would depend, he said, mainly upon the
legislation Of the United States and Germany.
"There is now," he continued, "about ST.
1000 worth of bullion at the mint waiting
to be converted into trade dollars. The gov
ernment will need hereafter about 81, SOC, 900
in silver monthly, and it is probable that no
more purchases will be made abroad. From
$12,000,000 to $15, 100000 is likely to suffice
for the silver demands of China. If the
market continues as good in China as for the
last four months, there is no doubt that much
Mexican bullion will come to San Francisco
and be shipped hence to Chinese ports. India
is likely to consume about $35, 100000 yearly,
or about half the annual silver product of the
world. do not think the double standard
would be good thing for this country. 1
think we should keep the gold basis, with
subsidiary silver for common use, fixing the
amount for legal tender at $40. We have
now, as estimate, in this country $3.50, ,900,-
900 in gold, aud less than $40,000,000 in
silver, exclusive of plate. OF this amount
there is from $25,OO0,OOO to $3O0OO,OOO in
subsidiary coin, and from S6,OOO,OOO to ss,-
1000 at the mints. To raise the price of
silver as compared with gold above its value
in other countries would be to flood us with
the poorer metal and drain the land of the
more precious"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28
............. .465, ,26o s5S,914 los,

Iotdi i.s.'..'.''..". '4o0,zoU ooo,9lf 1Uo,54b
The Republican vote fell off in Alabama 27
per cent, in Mississippi 81 per cent and in
Georgia Al per cent. Why? Because self
government in those states was only a name;
because the rifle, the knife and the bull-hide
had full sway, and there was no protection or
hope of protection from state or Through
them) of federal authorities. In these three
states Tilden's majority was 172, AT, whereas
his whole boasted popular majority in the
whole country was less than 10000. 1t is
time for thoughtful men to know and reflect
where this popular majority came from; not
from neighborhoods where there are school
houses, and where people can read and can
not be bulied, but from the ignorant coun-
ties of the south where the colored voter was
persuaded by threats, by ropes and by bull
let's to vote with his former driver or not to
vote at all.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

Here was gain of II per cent. over any
previous Republican vote; and this, too, in
spite of violence, fraud and intimidation,
which kept thousands of colored men from
the polls in some of the parishes of Louis
lana and in many parts of all the southern
states. In Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina the Democrats would have carried
everything with a rush had it not been for
the promise of protection in the exercise of
their rights which Republican voters got from
the local and federal governments; as it was,
the Republican vote was reduced thousands
by the shotgun, revolver and other peculiar
Democratic machinery.
In the seven other southern states this Pc
culiar machinery had its perfect work with
this result:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

The Hindoo Princes insist that Empress
Victoria's title shall be Kishourahind, the
"she-lord of India" Dreading the ridicule
Of Europe the British Ministry object, but are
willing to accept Kaisar hind, "Cesar of
Hindoo-land.''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

THOSE acute Democrats have discovered
that Henry Pinkston. murdered by the
said he was not, and his wife says be was
not, but the men who testify before the
House committee in New Orleans say he
was, and the Democrats insist that all other
testimony in Louisiana is false. A mans
own word as to his political principles is not
to be taken unless it is supported by the
word Of good Democratic negroes who can
not tell a lie.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Eoening Post claims to have the
highest authority for stating that, In count
ing the electoral vote, as we'll as in other
matters, Messrs. Hill, Lamar, and other
Southern Democratic leaders in the House
will stand by the forms of procedure, what
ever they are, and will not in any event
leave their seats in the House, or join in any
revolutionary or violent measure, though of
course they would prefer the election of Til
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28
Instructive Figures.

The New York Tribune gives some inter-
esting and useful tables derived from the re-
suits of the late election. 1t contrasts the
Presidential vote of the twenty-five northern
states with the largest vote ever before cast
by the Republicans in those states, as follows:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

IN the province of Quebec the spruce gum
question is dividing the people, and the par
Lament is questioning if it is expedient to
grant the gray nuns of Montreal the privilege
of making spruce gum syrup. The Irregular
trade" object.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

PRESIDENT Grant says he has been serv-
ant of the sovereign people for sixteen years,
and now he only wants to become sover-
eign himself with the privilege of criticising
the servants who are doing their best to
serve him and the other forty million rulers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve eommu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

IOJdI' ...z,0U5,4II z,54Uj7zz ooI ,UUJ
Maine and Vermont gave their real test
vote in September, when the Republican vote
was larger than ever before.
It will be seen by this that there were 337,-
005 more Republican votes than were ever
cast before at any election; gain of 13 per
cent. In nine of the southern states the Re-
publican vote was larger than ever before, as
the fo lowing figures show:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

NEWFOUNDLAND is exultlng over her cop
per mines, the product for the past year being
10000 tons and commanding the price of fifty
dollars ton. She talks bravely of rivalling
Our minns
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28
THE PRESS
THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 2s, '76

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
journal,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

Betting men charge Morrissey with out
rageous bad faith for a man with reputation
for Square gambling. They say that pool
was formed by three or four of Morrissey's
and Tden's friends, some of them well
known in Wall Street. This pool called for
70,000 or more on paper. 1t is believed that
not dollar of it went into the pool box.
Republicans were pouring in their money
against sham, and Morrissey, selling pools
at S100 to $50 in Tilden's favor, was crying,
'Here is plenty of money waiting to be taken
at the same Odds" That this game was
carried on in Tilden's interest is asserted by
both Republicans and Democrats. 1t is also
stated that the three or four persons who
were to share the "usufruct" of this $4,000
in case Tilden were elected refused to pay the
$4,000 into the pool box when they discov-
cred that Hayes was undoubtedly elected
Consequently, if Morrissey attempted to pay
the bets in favor of the holders Of tickets on
Hayes, he would fud himself $4,000 short,
and be compelled to either bankrupt himself
or prove defaulter. The fictitious $4,000
was represented on the books by the largely
generic name of JONES'"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28
Our New York Letter.

The Holiday Lall-The Injury of Success
and Benefit of DeEeat-The Democratic
Title a Weak One-The Re-estabIish.
ment Of a Southern Oligarchy-southern
Rancer-What TO Expect from n New
Administration,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28

THE manner in which the pool branch of
the party of reform" was managed has been
exposed by the detection of one of the clerks
of the Democratic State Committee of New
York, who testifies as follows:
State of Ne,o York, City and County OF New York
1. Waitzfelder, being duly sworn, deposes and
says: At about the time Hayes was seller ahead in
the pools in this City, should think about three
four weeks before the election the Secretary of the
Democratic State Committee, W. w. Gordon, had
been going up to the po0l-rooms regularly for the
purpose Of bulliDg Tflden in the betting market.
This continued under my observation. The way the
thing was done was as follows: Mr.. Gordon and two
of his committee clerks (Mr. Coggesshall, Mr.. Rob-
inson, or himself would go to the Morrissey Pool
room and one of the clerks would there buy Hayes
tickets and MIR. Gordon would buy Tilden tickets
for example, as follows: Clerk number one would
bid $50 for Hayes clerk number two would then bid
$50 for Tilden Mr.. Gordon would then bid $56, and
the clerk number two would bid again, taking the
odd number and Mr.. Gordon the even, until Mr.
Gordon had bid $50, the maximum agreed upon;
then clerk number two ceased bidding and the ticket
would be knocked down to MIR. Gordon, making an
apparent bet Of $50 on Tilden against $50 Hayes
or S120 to 500 in favor of Tilden's election.
In this way Tilden became the favorite in the bet
ting, which bets were wired all over the United
States, it being an acknowledged important part of
the Democratic campaign to capture the floating vote
by false quotations in the betting market.
These manufactured quotations were sent by Mr..
Morrssey every night to Mr.. King, clerk of the Ma
tional Democratic Committee, and by him were at
once telegraphed through the United States to the
Democratic newspapers
1 have been sent myself to the National Democratic
Committee to get these quotations. which got from
Mr.. John MOrrissey and gave them to Mr.. King and
try. /. WAITzFELDER,
No. 246 West Fifty-thrd Street.
Sworn before me, the 29th day of November, 1876.
HENRY P. WELLS,
Notary Public, Kings County.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-28
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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-04-20

A BRIEF telegram from New York an
nounces the death Of Mr.. A. t. Stewart,
the merchant prince, after comparative
ly brief illness Alexander Turney Stew
art was born at Belfast, Ireland, in 1903.
He received thorough education at Bel
fast, and at Trinity College, Dublin,
where he graduated In 1922. He came to
this country about a year after completing
his studies, and commenced life In Amer
lea as teaf her Of classics a. private
school In 1927, however, having saved
about 90, 900, he went into a business (dry
goods with which he was not at all famll-
lar. At the outset he determined to have
but one pr,ce, to make that price as low
az the cost Of the goods would allow, TO
buy exclusively for cash; to misrepresent
nothing; and TO deal with all customers
alike. He adhered through life to these
principles, and TO this fact, as well, per
haps, as TO his natural ability and strict
attention TO business, was due his almost
unprecedented success. He leaves for
tune which can scarcely be estimated In
addition to the largest dry goods establish
ment in the United States--that in New
York which covers an area of twenty
two acres, he had branch houses In most
Of the principal cities of the South and
West, beside large warehouses In the
most important cities of Europe. His an
nual sales were estimated at about $780,
DOC, 900, and his net profits at $4,000, 600.
He was also very large owner of real es-
tate, holding some $25, coo, 900 worth in
New York city alone, to say nai,..
ing Of his possessions elsewhere,
which were immense. Some years ago
he purchased about half township ON
Hampstead Plains, Long Island, and laid
the foundations Of city, building a rail-
way 10 connect 1t with New York. In
1869 President Grant invited Mr.. Stewart
10 take charge Of the Treasury Depart
ment, but the appointment was declined,
Mr.. Stewards relations with the Custom
House being such that he could not ac-
cept such a position. Mr.. Stewart was Of
an exceedingly benevolent disposition,
and, unlike many wealthy men, did not
postpone the exercise OF his bcnevolence
until after his death. In l847, the year
of the famine In Ireland, he sent TO his
suffering countrymen an entire ship-load
Of provisions, and In 1862 he contributed
as freely To the sufferers In Lancashire,
England. At the time Of Chicago's mis-
fortune, In October, 1871, he Immediately
sent 500, 600 to the relief OF the homeless,
notwithstanding he had himself lost heav-
lily by the fire, and he followed his first
contribution by second equally large.
Within a few years he has built, at a cost
Of $5,OO0,O 900, two hotels, one for work
ing young men and for working women,
where they can obtain at bare cost the
most substantial comforts OF a home. A
recapitnlation OF all his acts of charity
would fill large volume. In his death
the country loses one Of its most public
spirited men, and the poor a friend who
can scarcely be replaced. Chicago Inter
Ocean. s
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-04-20

and frsud- Adjourned. the session on the 9th 10
be for dsbate only.
AIARGE number OF bills and petitions
were presented and referred II the Senate on the
10Th. favorable rtport WIS made Or the bill 20
~stxblish tie Territory OF Penn bins. The H0use
bill To provide for the deficiency in the Printing
and Engraving Bareaz Of III. Treasury Depart
4 large mum Der Of bills were introduced and re-
ferred A bid wss parsed appropfstsng 4ss5z--
80 for the construction, repptr. preservation and
completion Of the different public works on The
ytructsng the Committee on Foreign Anairs 70 In
anire iato the cause Of the imprisonment Of E.
O1Mesgher Condor. Hf8H
A BILL was introduced in the Senate,
on the iith. to provide for cheap transportation
Of freight between Underwater At or near the At
Ian,ic Ocean and tbe Ohio and Mississippi Val.
legs. by railroad The House bill 10 provide for
the Centennial Exhibition was passed Ma.
Iority fsdverset and minority reports were made
on tse iioase bill 70 protect Witnesses festifyiog
in certain cases. The fnirc-cisss Matchmaker
bill was flrther considered. In the House.
nils we're passed--authorizfng the con.
s.ruction of bridge across the Missouri River al
or near Sioux CT y. Iowa; concerning commerce
and navigation and The regulation OF steam yes-
sells; extending the port Of La Crosse. Wis,
the privileges Of the lawr IN relation TO the i'm.
mediate transportation Of goods In bond 10 an
tntertHr port Wltb0aI appThIsfmeHl ny tAe origin
81 port of entry. The Deficiency bill, appropfi-
ating s6s., 80. was reported from committee.
A BILL was introduced and referred in
the Senate on the 18th, To prevent pspics apd
give elasticity TO legal currency without impair.
ing its value, by limiting its amount according
70 population, etc. The bill fixing the rate OF
portage on third. class mail matter was passed as
reported by the committed; IL esfabl1shes the
rate a. one cent per ounce ON packages DOT en-
ceeding four pounds 10 weight, and allows the
seDdefs OF ssch packages 70 write their names
and addresses thereon, transient DewspA-
uers are to be charged one cent for
three ounces or fraction thereof; and two cent?
for each two addtionsi ounces or fraction thereof
. In the House, the Senate amendments 70 the
Silyer.eoin bill were concurrcd In. report was
made en- the Minnesota election case that Straft,
the sitting member, ID entitled TO his seat. A
resolution was adopted instructing the Judiciary
Committee ~ inquire Into the steps taken In
prosecuting The suits against the Credit Mobilier
and others. The Deficiency Appropriation M
Was passed, ssg8f4
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-04-20

A singular sight is now presented to
passengers on the California Pacific trains
between Davisvilie and Sacramento. For
miles The road passes through broad sea.
stretching for an immense distance on
either side. The water averages three or
four feet in depth. In some places the
top rail Of fences is alone visible, and oc-
casionally houses may be seen islanded in
the vast ocean and cut of from all APP
preach save by boats. The water is not
merely stationary, but moving down the
valley with more or less rapidity. There
is apparently hundred times more water
on the 1ules than in the Sacramento River
ITSELF and the reflection is naturally sug-
gested that If all the swamp and tule land
on the western bank Of the river should
be reclaimed and protected from overflow
by dikes, the waters confined in such a
narrow channel would rise TO an unpre-
cedented height and deluge the streets Of
Sacramento. Although there has been
no rainfall for over week, the water
draws from the tules very slowly, and dur
ing the last few days the fall has been
very slight Vdilejo tCdl.) Chronicle.