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w Whenever the Republican party
gets in tight place, and there lis accord
ingly demand for Southern ssodtrages, .
the "outrages" are always forthcoming
just at the time they can do most good
tits curious coincidence that, year after
year, just before the election, we have o
supply Of colored corpses. The number
and barbarity Of outrages, with similar
adaptation to the demand, depends alto
|gether on the extremity to which that
party is reduced.
1t is ascertained that it will reqnire ar
unusual number of dead darkeys to give
HAYES any chance Of success, and accord
ingly double set of handsis running the
outrage mills. a
tits gratifying to know from past ex
perience that as soon as the campaign is
over most of these murdered martyrs
will turn up as good asnew VI They will
be on hands to vote for HAYEs,o and viii
have poultry for breakfast next morning
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r Since Queen Victoria took her place
on the English throne, SO years ago,
every throne in Europe,from the least to
the greatest, has changed occupants.
Colorado, the Centennial State, is
booked for an election on the, 10th of next
month The Legislature to be chosen
will have She election of two United
States Senators
Some statistician reckons that there
are on the earth 100000 steam engines,
with an aggregate of 100000 horse
power, or an equivalent Of the strength
of 100,000,000 men.
Schuyler Colfax, pronounced corrupt
by committee of the Senate of which
he was the presiding officer, is working
hard for Hayes and Wheeler. What
must 1.-The character of an administra-
ton which finds in such man an accept
able co-worker2
e DR.. Helmbold has instructed Judge
Curtis, of New York, as counsel, to at
once begin legal and criminal proceed
| ings against his brother, Albert Helm
bold, of Philadelphia, and others, "for
tconspiring to imprison him in mad
house." Mrs. Helmbold has awakened
to the conclusion that her husband is not
insane. Public opinion is divided on the
question of his sanity.
The Princess Salm.Salm is about to
marry an English gentleman at Stuttgart
named Heneage. The Princess was origi-
nally Miss Agnes Leclerc4, of Baltimore,
who in 1862. married Prince Felix Salm-
Salm, then Brigadier in the Union army
and afterwards an aide-de7camp of Maxi
milan, of Mexico. Prince Felix, restor-
ed through her efforts to his position in
the Prussian army, fell fighting at Grave
lotte.
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CRUSHED By ARMED FORCE
The Indian War.

Sioux CRY, IA, September 1S.-The
following is just received from Fort
Sully:
. Heavy firing vas heard on the river
ten miles below here, last Tuesday, ap-
parently in the direction of the Black
Hills, but no explanation ofeit was had
Till yesterday. About ten days ago Col
oncl Buell., commanding at Cheyenne
River Agency, sent some scouts out to
General Terry, who failed to reach him,
lbnt we're attacked by Indians, and one
was wounded in the shoulder. Retreat
ing. they came across large military
trail, which proved to be Gen. Crooks.
On The way the scouts saw q camp of
thirty lodges near Slim Buttes, north OF
Hsrhey-s Peak, and when Crook was
overtakcn, the scouts informed him, and
turning back his cavalry, by a rapid
march, Crook surprised and killed every
one. estimated, to number between two
and three hundred Indians. Not one
escaped
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That sIar,yrdom a Weak Fraud.

When Satan refused to abide by the
Heavenly Councils, ard bolted the Con-
vention to run as an independent, he no
doubt set up the Claim that be had been
cheated At any rate from that time to
this every hotter has tried to hide his de-
feat behind this pretext.
Old and stale as this song is, CHAM
BERs is singing it in mournful numbers
and expecting the voters to dance to it.
This pretense that CHAMBERS was
cheated out of the nomination is prepos-
ferrous bosh He was not cheated. The
simple truth is, the Democrats have had
enough Of him, and that Convention
plainly told him so. His followers have
had weeks to hunt up arguments to
show how HE was wronged, and the hest
of them are the fmsiest qnibbling.
Give Mr.. CHAMBERS every vote he
could count in that Convention, and he
was in the minority. He knew this, and
his adherents there knew it, and because
they knew it, they raised a question,
never before raised in any Convention
on earth, in order that they might have
some pretext for boiling.
! A squad of busy Republicans were
lthronging the streets and the lobbies, in
sisting that the Republican party was
longing and yearnlng to support CHAM
IBERs. There is noreason to doubt tha
CHAMBERS yielded to their solicitations
and finding on a careful count that b,
would be beaten 10 the Convention, h,
decided to bolt before ballot was ha(
to show his weakness, and throw him
| self into the arms of these Republicans
But alas, alas, he soon discovered tha
this clamorous squad was not the Re
publican party.
! We affirm what we know, when we sa
that CHAMBERS was in the minority il
that Convention, no matter which dele
cation from Pultney township should b
admitted.
After all the quibbling and pettifog
lying and Misrepresentation that hav
been practiced by Mr.. CHAMBERS follow
l'ers, the plain solid fact remains, tha
CHAMBERS thought be was stronger on
| of shat Convention than IL, and scornin
his party when he could not use it 70
selfish purposes, he bolted., sssl
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why rnes s,amneded.

There are several things which those
men don't know who really believe tina,
CHAMBERS had majority in the Judicial
Convention Here Is one item which We
venture to guess that nine-tenths OF them
never heard OF, and yet it was vel
known to those who fully informed
themselves as TO the composition OF the
Convention. IL,
Pultney township, Belmont County
elected two sets of delegates and one
set of alternates. The township was en-
titled to eight votes. or the CHAMBER:
set of delegates but six appeared liz tbt
Convention. ~
Now in the place of the two absent
the alternates had clear and anqnes
tionable right to act, if that set bad any
right there at all. These alternates were
all opposed to CHAMBERs. Three o
them were present, get the CHAMBERS CO
terie wholly ignored them. Whenever
vote was had CHAMBERS side. counted
eight votes from Pultney township, al
though they had no pretense Of a claim
to more than six.
1t is not at all improbable tina. CHAM
lBERs and bis followers apprehended tha
a Committee on Credentials might dis
close this little game Of stealing th
votes of these two alternates. The furi
Gus hostility of the CHAMBERs party t,
a Committee on Credentials doubles
seems unaccountable TO many persons
It is not 50 mysterious to those wh
could see behind the curtains.
If it were of sufficient Importance, 8
least three more chapters could be adde
to this, all bearing upon the, secret res
sons for opposing the app ointment {
1.-THE committee. zr- s{.-
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g Probate Notice.

A CCOUNTS,snd vouchers have been filed In
IL the Probate Court of Monroe County,
Ohio, for settlement, by. the following Ad.
ministrators, Executors and Guardians:
First partiafJaccount of Thomas Cline and
VIM. Weddle Executors Of George Cline.
Third partial account Of G.. L. Tyler Guar.
dian Of Lizzie and Alice Archer.
Second partial account Of G. L. Tyler Guar.
Il dian ol Joseph Mccullough. Al
Fourth partial account Of James O. Worley
Guardian of James W. Gray.
First and final account Of Peter Fankauser
Executor Of Maria Wiedmer,
First and final account Of S. A. and Isaac At,
kinson Executors Of Stephen Atkinson,
Third partial account Of Jonathan LIeuellen
Guardian Of Samuel Ruoker's heirs.
Final account of Samuel Pancoast Admir- OF
Stephen Pancoast. ~ -
Any person interested may fle written
exceptions to said accounts, or any item there.
of, on or before the l4th day of October next,
when the same will be finally heard and con-
tinNed from day to day until disposed of,
JAS R. NORRIS,
sept l9,'76w3. Probate Judge.
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TIE EASTERN WAR.
The EIuIgaEiNn AfrncliieS.

LONDON, September 19-Lord Bar
Ing, in his report, estimates in Sand Jak
Of Philippolis 12,0C0 Bul2arians and
two har dred Mussulmans were killed
antl 81 villages burned. The Bulgarians
burned five small Turkish villages. The
report gives a circumstantial account OF
the destruction of each town 1t states
that the most fearful tragedy of the
whole occurred at Balak. Hearing that
PREPARATIONS FOR A REVOLT
were going on here, Achmet Aghta was
ordered to attack the town. He sum
moned the inhabitants to give up their
arms, but distrusting his intentions they
refused to obey and Adesultory fight
succeeded, lasting two days On the
9Th Of May the inhabitants had parler
wish Achmet, who soemnly swore if
they gave up their arms not a hair Of
tiieir heads would he touched. The will
ayers thereupon SURRENDERED their aims
and then all the money in the place was
demanded, after securing which Bashi
Bazouks set upon the people and
- SLAUGHTERED THEM LIKE SHEEP.
tss,About one thousand five hundred
took refuge in the church. Baflled in
all attempts to fire it from the outside
the Bashi Bazouks finally climbed to the
lroof and threw burning piles Of wood
and rags dipped in petroleum among
the thickly packed mass of human be-
lings below. At last the door was forced
open and the
20 MASSACRE COMPLETED.
4, The inside Of the church was burned
The only survivor of this slaughter tt
be found was an old woman, she alon,
remaining alive of family of seven
4 Barring continues: l visited this placl
on the 31st OF July. Hardly corps
had been buried. Where man fel
There he now lies. In the streets at ev
ery step lay human remains a
f., RorING AND swELTER1NG IN THE SUN
The stencil was overpowering. Fiv
Thousand iu all we're killed here, an
Fabout eighty girls were carried off Th
surviving people live in wooden huts o.
lthe outside Of the yillsge in great mis-
kery. To Achmet and his men belong
Ithe distinction of having committet
bperhaps, the most heinous crime tina
has stained the history of the presen
century. Nevertheless be has been dec
GRATED by his government. as have ais
several other leaders in these crueltie:
The report concludes: There was ur
}doubtedly revolution which had to b
CRUSHED By ARMED FORCE
but the government is to blame for cal
i ing ont the Bashi Bazouks, for had
not sent regular troops earlier Bast
Bazouk would have been necessary
The manner in which the rising wa
! suppressed was inhuman to the last dc
! gree, fifty innocent persons suffering 70
) every guilty one
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The Mormon Cnt.Tnroas Convict

SALT LAKE, Sept. 20 In the Beaver
Court this morning, Judge Boreman, in
the course of his charge to the jury, said,
The prisoner Lee stands before you
charged with being participant in one
of the most atrecious massacres Of hu-
man beings, OF men, women and chill
dren, on the Mountain Meadows, in
1857, that was ever known in any part
of the civilized world. The evidence
shows that the persons killed we're emf
grants. For several days continuation
of Indians and whites had been making
an attack on their encampment. The
Indians and whites wed with each other
in their Gendish work, destroying over
I20 men, women and children. 1t has
been alleged that he shot one woman
with gun, another with q pistol, and
cut the throat of another, and told an
Indian not to spare a young woman
whose life the savage had asked him to
spare. Thejury retired at IL 45 a. M,
and at 80 p. m. returned with verdict
of "Guilty of murder in the first de-
orep t-+t -
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The. American Team wins BY
Eleven Points,

CREEDMoRE, Sept. 81 I'm the first
part of the morning the weather was
cloudy with a stiff wind blowing dead
from the targets, but before the shooting
commenced the wind moderated, and the
sky became clearer.
The following are the individual scores
of the American Team at eight hundred
yards: Baker II, Weber 66, Allen IS,
Fulton 10, Farwell 66, Rathbone 6S; to-
tai 400 ~ '
The following are the individual scores
of the Irish Team: Rigby So, johnson
81, Joynt 81, Fenton 66, Dyas 66, Nil
ner 6S; total 394.
The first FIVE shots at the nine hun
dred yards range gave the Americans
130 and the Irish 1875
The result at the nine hundred yards
range gave the Americans. 1856 and the
Irish 1863. The American team lead at
the end Of both ranges by 80.
Total score: One thousand yards
Irish 39I, Americans $40; Irish gain 81
points, leaving the Americans victors by
IL points.
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CAsTORIA.

Is pleasant and perfect substitute. in ala.
ses, for Castor OIL. Castoria is the result
of an old Physicians effort to produce, for Ais
own practice. an effective cathaFffe,
pleasant to the taste and free from gripings
DR.. Samuel Pitcher, OF Hyanniss Mssas sS6s-
ceeded in combining, without thep use cf Slss-
hol, purgative agent as pleasant 70 ta&e
as honey, and which possesses all the desR-
rable properties of Castor Oil.
1t is adapted to all ages, but is especially ~
commended to mothers as reliable fSm6ay
for all disorders of the stomach and bowels Of
children. 1t is certain, agreeable, absolutsly
harmless, and cheap. It should bes used for
wind collie, sour stomach, worms, costivsness,
Group, So. then children can have slsep spd
mothers may rest. sa ssass Is 4ss
I J..B. Rose & Co. of 40 Dey Street New TEA.
are the sole preparers Of CastcriA. Alssr5 y.
Pitchers recipe. slss junse0, ,7Utixe
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County Correspondence.
Written for The Spirit of DemocracY.l

BEALLsy!LLE, o, Sept -, 1876.
ED SPIRIT: Notwithstanding the press
ure OF hard times, the people OF Bealls-l
vile app, ar 70 pos ess the spirit or i'm
provelnenr. J. Damn and DE-. Reed are
each putting up tine two story houses;
L l. L,,Lmire is building a neat cottase
in The suburbs of Turkey Town.
Wm Loper, residing just west of
town, has been very bad with typhoid
fever, hut is getting better. Rev. Nc
Donald and family go east this week, to
visit frieuds and tue Centennial; they
expect to be gone until some Time in
October.
Several Of our young men had an at
tack of Texas fever couple Of weeks
ago, but they have all recovered except
William Roberts. who expects to start
in a few days for that State.
A temperance meeting was hel last
Saturday night in the NJ + Church, at
which r ". G. B II n.hprndelivere an
able lecture, which was followed by very
approp late remarks by j Roberts,
DE- J b Shouse and others at the close
of which a resolution was offered and
adopted, expressing desire that no in
toxicating liquors should be sold in this
community The people seem to be
waking up on the subject, and the pros
pect for whisky war is very fAtteling
God speed the right Another meeting
was appointed. to be held in the Chris
tian Church on Saturday night, Septem-
Der 80, to which all are invited. 8
). "Ali day the low clouds have drop't
Their garnered fullness down."
Sounds very well in poetry, but whe!
one enjoys the reality seven days ant
nights, with very little intermission, they
are apt to feel in anything hut a poeti
mood but we are forced to remembc
that
"The melancholy days have come"
There seems to be considerable skir
mishing along the line of the B Il s, W
R r ; none killed, but several wounded
Cause, bad whisky. The Sons OF Fri
"hold the fort
II anything worthy OF note transpire
I will try and let yon know; but for th
want Of items shall, for the nresent
subscribe myself, SLEEPY NELL.
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sHERIFF's SALE
Frederick Ketterer
Daniel Ludwig ct al.

HH -
DY virtue u an order Of sale to me direct-
d ed from the court Of common pleas of
Monroe county, Ohio, will offer for sale at
the front door Of the court house, In the
town of Woodsfeld, between the hours of
10 O'Clock 4. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. on
Saturday, The sSth day Of October. 1876,
the following described real estate situate in
Monroe county, Ohio. to wit:
The southwest quarter Of the northeast
quarter of section three, township six, range
six; also the west half Of the southeast
quarter Of the northeast quarter Of sectien
three, township six, range six, containing in
all sixty acres more or less.
Appraised at @
TERMS OF SALE-One. third cash on day of
sale, and the balance to be paid on confrma.
tion of sale. tsf
TO, LITTLE,
sept26,,76w5. sheriff N, C. @.
CHAs. &. KsrrERER, Atty.
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If the Barnesville Enterprise is still
raking up dead mems records for the pur-
pose of charging them to Mr.. Okey's ac'
count, simply because he lives in Monroe
County, there are stillseveral graveyards
in this county it might INTERPRETATION
roe Democrat ggiEssfe .
That is richly deserved rebuke. Pro
life as the campaign has been in personal
detraction, the Enterprise solitary and
alone enjoys the glory Of digging up a
dead mans bones to electioneer with.
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Another .mollieo Convicted.

I PorrsyILLE, Pa, September 20.-The
case of Thomas Duffey. another Mollie
Mcguire, accused of being accessory to
lhe murder of Policeman Yost, was Civ.
en- to the jury at late hour last night,
and they came to verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree. This is the
ninth conviction of members Of this or
ganization for murder, five being already
under sentence of death in this county
aud in Can bon county.
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The western view OF II.

The Chicago Times, a paper which
takes an independent view of matters
and things, says: "The masses who sup
port Tilden have unquestionably receiy-
ed an mistaken confidence in his sue
cess Every day and every hour the
evidence of independent adhesions to
him are brought to notice To the Times
the indications are to day that if the
election were held at once he would car
rv every Northern State, save Maine,
Vermont, Iowa and Nebraska Prophe-
cies are poor and proftless as argu-
ments; but from the Times point of
vantage, the success of Tilden is assured
beyond the possibility of doubt"
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q
w wSomebody has been imposing upon
the credulity of the Barnesvilles Enter
prise. In the last number we counted,
without lookinc, over the half of 1t. four
teen separate and distinct statements
which were utterly destitute Of truth
some Of them 80 absurd as to make that
paper laughing-stock where the facts
are known. ~ ..a-s
The Enterprise would show as much
discretion, and more regard for veracity,
if it would haveits cock-and bull stories
authenticated before publishing them as
facts. ta
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Cincinnati Live stock Market.

& f september IL
CATTLE-Common $2a2 60; fair to
medium 2 75a3 rs; good butcher grades
S4a4 40; fair to good heavy oxen 50 75a
4 fair to good Texas and Cherokee cows
and steers 80 75a3 75; fair to good feed
ing steers, $50 to 900 H. averages, 50 rs
a3 90; fair TO good shipping grades 81
25a4 65 -!
HOGS-Common cuttings 81 75a5 !;
common light S. 25a5 Is; fair to good
light IS 90a6 25; fair to good heavy S6a
6 25; stockers are firm at from Soto 5
25 for fair to good healthy grades
SHEEP-Common to fair 24a34c, and
good to extra 3 ta4le perl lb. gross.
LAMBS-Common to fair Shade, and
good to extra qualities 43a5c per lb gross
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[From the Cincinnati Ennnirer.


The latest campaign lie against hon
est Blue. Jeans Williams has been ex-
ploded 1t originated In the columns
OF the New York Times, and was copied
extensively in the Indiana Republican
organs. Mr. Williams, as Chairman OF
the, House Committee ON Accounts, was
charged with having approved bills for
feather busters, cork-screws, DC, for
the use of members of the present
House An examination OF the vouch,
,ers by Mr.. Adams, Clerk of the House,
SHOWS that Mr. Williams made no such
Purchases, nor any other Ola frivolous
character On the contrary, they we're
made BY Mr.. Mcpherson, Clerk OF the
Republican House, and turned over to
Mr., Williams as the proper custodian
In that way these. vouchers appear
among the assets of the Democratic
House. The attempt to ridicule Mr.
Williams professions Of economy in
tpublic expenditures simply, reacts on its
E-authofs when the truth comes out. r
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18th Dus-JoHN sCHREINER, Meig,

sGovernor Tildca has done good aOorh
asa Reformaer, and is entitled to all The
credit Of g. Boston Advertiser Repub-
kooa.
From the New York Tribunel Republican.
"7he tar- payers of his State kaoD that
Reform which reduces their tares is moi
sham. The Canal Ring gentlemen
kao,o there is no sham about II TOO"
"Gop. Tilden is a refoymer and, schat
Is more, genuine reformer, ,cho has
proved his faith By his ,vorks, and as
such has gained deservedly a greater
prestige and strength among the people
Of the United States than any other
statesman in the country."-N. Y. Sun.
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ss-The old silver dollar has a record

RN The Old silver dollar has q record
wllich,9ia these days of cheap. bullion,
Is worth preserving, as it retained unit
value from Washington to Grant in
1873 The act of 1887 (section 81 made
the silver dollar thereafter coined 4l24
grains, standard, alloy included. The
standard of silver was then fixed at 900
parts pure to 100 alloy, The old silver
dollar was 37l4 grains pare silver. Tue
coin of 1887, was nineteenths pure, and
contained just 37l4 grains pure, as did
the old silver dollar Of Hamilton's time
The same amount of pure silver was in
the silver dollar from 1892 to 1873, the
only difference being that there we're 81
grains more of. alloy added TO the weight
of the silver dollar in. 1887, which did
not dehase it-probahly to make it har-
der. The intrinsic value of silver was
the same, unless 81 grains of copper al
10y make an issue.
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1876. WHERE NOW? 1876.


1876. WHERE NOW? 1876.
To MICHIGAN, one of the foremost, -four
ishing and healthy statesl
WHAT FOR?
To buy FARM out of the
o N Z LION ACR e 8
of fine farming lands for sale by the
GRAND. RAPIDS & INDIANA B. R.
Strong Soils Ready Markets. Sure Crops.
Good Schools. K. R. runs through center of
grant. Settlements all along. All kinds OF
Products raised. Plenty of water, timber
and building materials. Price from S4 to
Sl0 per acre; one-fourth down, balance on
time
% Send for illustrated pamphlet, full OF
facts and figures, and be convinced. Address
W. A. HOWARD, Comm'r
Grand Rapids, Mich.
P. R. L. PIERCE, sec'y Land Dept.
febl ,'76m6eow.
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer. !

Zach Chandler is understood to be
swearing at the Germans between drinks.
he thinks Carl Schurz has done more
harm than good in his canvass in Ohio
and Indiana, though he doesn't say so
publicly. In Washington the impress
ion is very general that the Germans in
Dayton, Toledo, Cleveland and this city
win give Tilden seven votes to Hayes
three.
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E7r The S.euhenvile Gazette hss in
formation that Mr.. Danford was inform
ed, while speaking at New Jefferson,
that County, yesterday, that his wife
had attempted suicide, at Niagara Falls,
that the meeting was adjourned, and
that Mr.. Danford appointments in
Jefferson and Harrison have been can
celed. We have no other information
at the time Of going to BeHaire
T0deDen6eDf. 2lSf inst