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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-05-18
ROBBING MISS SWEET.

WASHINGTON, May 8.-Miss Ada c.
Sweet, pension agent at Chicago, testified
before the Committee on Civil Service
this morning in relation to the charge of
paying money for her position as pension
agent. She testified that she was an ap-
plcant for the position, and in considera-
ton of receiving the appointment agreed
to pay David Blakely, pension agent,
50, 100, and was directed by him to pay
the money over to B. H. Campbell, then,
as now, United States Marshal for that
district.
When she had paid 50, 100 she notified
Blakely and Campbell that she had per-
formed her part of the contract, but
Campbell told her that was not correct;
that he had note against Blakely for
$4,000, and she was to pay the whole Of
that note. Witness stated that Camp
bell is General Babcock's father-in-law.
Considerable correspondence passed be-
tween all the parties on the subject.
Blakely was also defauter as pen
sion agent in the sum of three thousand
dollars. When he turned the Office over
to Miss Sweet he turned over to her
thirty-seven thousand dollars, and in
d1ced her to give him receipt for forty
thousand dollars to cover up his deficit
and promised to attend to it in few
weeks. He did not do so, and when the
office was visited by an official from the
pension office, Miss Sweet told him the
whole story. The agent told her he
would delay the examination of her Office
until he was on his return trip so as to
allow some further time for paying this
deficit.
One day after the Minnesota election
Gen. ]. H. Baker, the Missouri Commits
sioner of Pensions, and Blakely. came
into her office and demanded that $4,000
deficit be paid that day. and charged it
upon her as her own deficit. She went
to Campbell, and between them the
amount was raised. Campbell gave her
note for about ST 800, which she in
dorsed and got discounted, and she raised
the balance. On that occasion Blakely
and Commissioner Baker were very great
friends, and Baker knew of the arrange.
ment she made with Blakely.
When the President found out that she
was paying out money for her appoint
ment, he notified her that continuance
of it would be sufficient cause for re.
moval. This was after she had paid the
50 900.
She had paid out SO much on that
amount that so far she had received no
benefit from her appointment as pension
agent, but had run into debt, and was
still behind about $2,0O0 Baker is now
Surveyor General of Minnesota, and
Blakely is publishing paper somewhere
in that vicinity.
Adjourned.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-05-18
OVERSTOCKING DALRLES-

1t is better to keep 20 COWS in good
pasture, and to be well fed and cared
for in winter, than to keep 40 on poor
pasture and scanty winter feed Good
cows on good dairy lands, when not
overstocked, will average about 500 per
season in butter and cheese; but on more
COWS than the land can feed as they ought
to be fed, and the profits run down to S25
or $50 head The proper way for farm
ers to do is, in all their farming business
to do everything well; keep none but
the best breeds or grades of stock, feed
literally. have good fences, and they
will find it pays better than contrary
system.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09
r o E t R Y


Hark the peal from tower and steeple ?
Hark the shoutings of the people!
Hark the gun!
Yet another tits the token
That the gallant West hath spoken,
And corruption's chains are broken,
Every one.
Hail to her who bore our banner,
Hail to glorious Indiana,
First in line!
To dishonor mcomplaint,
See, she rushes forth defiant
Thro' the battle like a giant
Freshed with wine!
Wax We bolder, men, and bolder!
Press the shoulder, boys, 10 shoulder
'Tis the tilnei
With no recreant or defaulter
Pause to cavil or to palter!
Think, to WAIVER Or to falter
Were crime
Unto every man that doubteth,
Unto every State she shouteth
Follow on!
Mind We how the vultures tore you,
Mark the ravening beasts which gore
YOU;
Drive the herd Of wolves before you.
Sire and son ~
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09

FooLING WITH WAsPs.-Burling-
ton Hawk~eye: A near sighted MAI
out on South Hill went wandering
around among his currant bushes
yesterday afternoon and stopped
down and pulled a live centennial
wasp's nest up by the roots to see
what it was. He didn't get it any
where near the focus of his eyes be
fore he had an idea that it was fiat
iron some of the women had set out
side to cool then he thought it might
be a concentrated case of prickly
heart; and then it dawned upon him
that he had picked up a raw thunder
bolt, and finally his heart went clear
down into his boots as he realized
that he had got hold of the danger
GUS end of the He'll Gate explosion
and pulled it off
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09

How TO BECOME A LAwYER.-A
day or two ago, when a young man
entered Detroit law yer's office to
study law, the practitioner set down
beside him and said
''Now, see here, I have no time to
fool away, and if you don't pan out
we'll l won't keep you here thirty
days. Do You want to make good
lawy era"
Eyes, sir"
swell, now listen. Be polite to
old people, because they have cash i.
Be good to the boys, because they
are growing up to cash basis
Work in with reporters and get pufs.
Go to church for the sake of example
Don't fool any time away on poetry
and don't even look at a irl until
you can plead case. If you can
follow these instructions you will sue
coed. If you cannot, go and learn to
be doctor and kill your best friend.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09
Baltimore Prices.

VIE NEW HOTEIs Inc Spotswood, under the
Il proprietorship of the undersigned, is now
Open and ready TO ,eceire Visitors
and guests. The establishment has been renewed
and rette from cellar to roof, and is in complete
order. 1t is emphatically new house, and it is
determined to make it stand Of the very best
kept Hotels in the State. The proprietor has had
very enlarged experience for fteen years as Hotel
and Springs proprietor, having kept the old Column
bian Hotel and the famed Spottswood Hotel, at
Richmond, and the Jordan Alum Springs in Rock
bridge. He is quite he may claim, here in the
Valley Of Virginia, to be able to keep Hotel. He
therefore invites thu people Of RoeRin CHAM and
adjoining counties and the travelling public to call
at the SPO1TswooD and see whether he understands
the business of his life.
1t is scarcely necessary to say that the table, the
parlors and the chambers will always be found
agreeable.
The proprietor, in conclusion, is quite sure the
people of the Valley will cordially sustain this effort
to establish irstclass Hotel, such the Spotts-
wood shall be, in Harrisonburg.
My Omnibus willalways be ready to convey pas
sengers to and from The SpottsWoo1
Feb. IS, 1875. sM BOWMAN, Propr.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09
The story the Horses Told.

Two men once lived near each
other whose houses were almost alike.
But they were very different men,
Each owned splendid black horse,
which he loved and petted, and we
will let the horses tell what kind of
men their owners were.
co." you say, ''horses can't talk,
and SO 'of course they can't tel
stories!"
Well, wait and see if they cannot.
One cold Winter these two men
were very i'll, and at nearly the same
time they died.
Now there was little white church
mile away from their homes; and
tavern where men drank and gambled
and swore little farther off in the
same direction.
Well, Sunday came, and no one
went out to harness the horses, and
they stood all day in their stalls.
They were both used to going out
On Sunday evening. In some way
they now got loose, and what co you
think they did =?
One horse walked on to the little
white church, went into his place in
the horseshed and stood there all
church time waiting for his master to
come out.
When meeting was out a man
went to the shed for his horse, and
there he saw old Black turning his
his head round to see if his master
was not coming too. And he did
not go away till boy was told 10
get on his back and ride him home.
"Ah," said an old man, ''that horse
knew that his masters heart was in
the prayer meeting"
The other horse made his way to
the tavern, and stood by the post
where lie had so often stood cold
nights, waiting for his master He
heard the glasses ring, and the men
laugh and shout, and soon he heard
angry Zones when they began to
quarrel
But there he waited. The 9 O clock
bell rang in the village, and all the
people went home from church and
soon the lights went out, one by one
from the windows.
Poor Rover! He had no one there
to blanket him, and he stood shiver
ing in The cold till midnight, sure
that his master would soon come out
and ride him home to bis warm stable.
When the men came out at last
one cried, as if the very sight was
rebuke to him, "Why, here is Rover,
waiting for his master, who is dead at
home !"
Now did not Black tell as plainly
as words could have done it, that bis
owner loved and served God ? Did
not Rover tell that his master de-
spised Gods house and his people,
and spent his Sabbaths with drunk
ards and gamblers
Even the dumb animals bear wit
ness to the lives men lead, and will
tell of them when they are gone.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09
Errors Of Youth,

a GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from
IA Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all the
effects of youthful indscretion WILL for the sake of
suffering humanity send free to all who need it the
recipe and direction for making the simple remedy
by which he was cured Sufferers wishing to profit
iN9the adve Users experience dose by address,
in perfect confidence,
bJOHN B OGDEN. 40 Ceda rSt New York
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09
CHESAPEAKE AND ONO R. Il

81 EASTWARD. 't..
Leave Staunton, S45 II. IN. 10 80 D. IN
Arrive Charlottesville 1905 1925 am.
-. = Lynchburg 4 800 IN. 800 :.
" Gordonsvilie IL so AM. ] Is g
+" Washington 637 Pm. GIT 9
g Richmond $40 :. 4,45 :.
Train sleaying Stanton at S,45 a. IN.
and $40 p. M, rundaily(exceptS Sunday
stopping at all regular stations.
Trains leaving Staunton at 750 A. NJ,
and 10 30 P. NJ ,srun daily stopping at all
regular stations between Huntington
and Allegheny, and at Covington,
Millboro, Goshen, Waynesboro, Green
wood, Mediums River, Ivy. Charlottes-
vile. Gordonsyille, junction and Rich
mond.
Pullman sleeping cars run on $50 A.
NJ. and 10 80 z. NJ. trains between Rich
mond and Covington.
The $40 P. NJ. Train makes close con
nection with the R. Y. r. s. C. R. r, for
Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The 4,45 Il. NJ Train makes close con-
nection with the Richmond and Peters,
burg and Richmond and Danvilie X. r.
for the South.
az For further Information. rates,
&C., apply to JNO. H. WOODWARD
Agent StauntOn, Va.
-. CONWAY R. HOWARD,
..... G. P. Il Il. Agt
w. NJ 5. DUNN, Eng. and Supt,
mar 23-tf
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09

Fun AND OTHERWISE. = Neither false
curls, false teeth, false calves, nor
even false eyes are so bad as false
tongues and false hearts.
The sweetest Of all pleas ures, and
one that will never decay, is to cherish
the heart that loves you.
The meanest of all possible traits
OF character is that which prompts a
man to greet you friendly to your face
and denounc> and SANDER you to
othera.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09

The New York man who bought
pair Of pants, and quarrclled with his
wife the whole OF Sunday for dropp-
ing speck Of greese upon them
tore them from thigh TO knee ON
Monday morning while engaged in
using the leg to light matches with
{ Exchange.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09
WILSON'S HOTEL,
w WOODSTOCK Va.
Enlarged and Greatly Improved
AMPLE ACCOMMODATIONS
FOR THE
Increased Demands of Public
PATRONAGE.


This hotel has been recently improved by
the erection of a brick addition to the main
building which Will give considerably more
room, and afford ample accommodation for
the travelling public.
THE TABLE will be we'll supplied at all
times with the best the market affords, and
no pains shall be spared to satisfy the wants
ofguests in this department
TIlE BAR will be stocked with the best
Liquors. A full supply of Wilson's pure
Rye whisky, (the only homemade whisky
sold in the county, can be found by those
wishing pure article for medlcal purposes
Jurors attending court will be boarded
for their fees per diem, and their certificates
taken in payment if desired.
charges Moderst@ a call respectfully
solicited.
ROBERT WILSON.
May 1T
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-11-09

Al cd Massachusetts house, torn
down the other day, contained 2 Q
empty paragoric bottles, but the
children were all dead.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19
AIEALISGS

The Phil. Sheridan Mining Company,
says the Enterprise, has purchased
IL 200 feet running in a %northerly and
sutherfy direction. occupied ami
in the possession of the company. be-
ing the ground and ledge located and
owned by the Brooklyn Tunnel Com.
pany, being eleven claims of 200 feet
each on the lefges located Ivy the North
Cedar Hill Mining Company and relo-
Gated by The North Cedar Hill Tunnel
Company on the 22d day of September
1851" Consideration, $4,000.
l.. Richardson, sub contractor, saws
the Reno Journal of the 18th. com
inenced work IN the new Stale Prison
walls yesterday. with a force of twenty
men. The working force will be in
creased as fast AS rock sufficient Tan be
furnished. The contractor IL nov in
Carson making arrangements for the
shipment of ashlar rock from the old
Prison quarry to the new Prison
grounds.
Yesterday and the day Lefore there
We're received at the Carson Mint 3.
bars Of bullion from the Consolidated
Virginia Company. The value of these
bars is no less than $500. 500 40. twill
be devoted TO metalliferous uses, argen
tiferous and auriferous, in due course
oftim@. So says the Carson Appeal OF
the I4th.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19

THE Gold Hill Nems objects to the
Republican State Central Committee
.electing delegates to the National Con-
vention, and favors the calling of q
State Convention, because it affords less
ground for complaints OF favoritism
and at the same time gives the dele
gates selected al opportunity to confer
with their constituents-the county del
eGates by whom they are selected, and
Republicans in attendance at the Con-
their preference as
to whom the support of the State shall
be given in the National Convention.
The NeWs is right. The election of del
egates by a committee savors too much
of Star Chamber proceedings, and u
contemporary can count on us in as de-
cidedly in favor of a State Convention
by each party.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19
ALLUREMENTS OF THE PRESI-
DENTAL OFFICE.

Mr.. Knott, of Kentucky, Chairman
of the Committee on the Judiciary, in
his remarks in the House on the bill
limiting the Presidential term to four
years, painted the allurements of the
presidential office, thus:
A salary of $4,000, a mansion sus-
tanned in a style that few persons
dreamed of, furnished, repaired and
heated at an annual expense OF
SIS 1000, with the very air breathed
there perfumed by rare eXotics, prop
agated in a $50 900 garden; the house
maintained atannual expense of s., 900:
a private secretary at $1,000 a year 10
do the Presidents writing; TIVE assist
ance secretaries at S2,200 a year to do
the work of the private secretary;
two clerks at $3.50 to do the work of
the assistant secretaii les (Lau2 hier); a
steward at 81, 1000 to supply the Presi-
dents table with the choicest wines
and richest viands that could tempt
or satiate his appetite; with $4,000 a
year for books. periodicals., stationery,
kilograms, and Ia comical pause) 9th
err contingencies; what that meant he
did not know, but thanked God for the
contingencies 0Laughter). Ii the
children of Israel sighed for the flesh
pots of Egypt. what must be the an
guish Of u sensitive soul when taking
a last, long farewell of such a salary
and such Injuries?
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19
GEN. CLARKE AZ A HUMORIsr.

We have always heard General II.
NJ. Clarke represented as a gentleman
of cultivated tastes, fine literary at
tainments and an able lawyer, but were
not aware that he was ever particular
ly noted as a humorist, and consequent
ly we were not prepared for the fol-
lowing specimen of arid wit which
we find chronicled in a late number OF
the Carson Tribune:
When the showing made of the de-
crease in the expense Of feeding the
state prisoners (54R cents per capita
Was submitted 10 Messrs. Minor and
K%itlrell, Gen. X. NJ. Clarke rose to
his feet and said to Mr.. Minor: "Sir,
if all the State officers were IA
teal as yourself and Mr.. Lyman, the
State would Don become rich" Sc.
rotary Minor blushed a little, but soon
recovered himself and politely &C
knowledged the compii ment.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19
POOL SELLING ON THE BIG
RACE.

From a dispatch received yesterday
from Francisco we learn hat tho pool
selling on the big race to come off on
the I'D inst. commenced at the Lick
House Thursday evening. There was
q large attendance aud the bidding was
lively. Pools started: Rutherford,
800; Katie Pease, $35; Chance, $42 so;
Revenue. $25; Golden Gate, S25; Fos-
ter, SIS; Hockhocking, s.. After the
first pool Revenue, Foster and Hook
hooking went into the field, the next
sale being Rutherford, 500; Chance,
$S7 so; Pease, $22 so; Golden Gate,
500; Field, $50. Subsequently Katie
Pease went to the second place, the
sales closing as follows; Rutherford,
500; Chance, $22 so; Pease, SIS; Gold
on Gale, SIS: Field, $22 SO. Ruther-
fords ,friends seemed to be there en-
masse, very few outsiders taking any
part In the bidding.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19
PACIFIC COAST DISPATCHES
n
A Pat ana Gail Collapsed -s1'ciGc-
ktDmey's Bi. Aui;- Woodbury. Case
Postponed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. Is.
The San Francisco branch of ChaS.
Larue Il Co., dealers in puts and calls.
has collapsed 10y the disappearance of
The resident partner named Shedal. fle
leaves a lot of bills unpaid and claims
of parties who have taken chances wmh
him.
\ Frenchman named Nicholas Se!es-
ION shot himself with a pistol ON M.ig>
wharf to-day, inficting n moral
wound. IL is not certain whether Il
was a suicide or an accident. lie was
inst on "A spree.
In the Unitd State, District Court to.
day Judge sawyer, in the big suit OF
George w. Kinney, against the Consol-
dated Virginia Company overruled
defendants demurrer to amended COM
plant and gave defendant ten days III
which to answer.
The case of Woodruff. alias Miller, OF
the Contract and Finance Company de
iaulting fame, has again gone over for
the term in the Municipal court.
A Darling Bank Robbery.
BAKERsFIELD, Feb. IS.
~ bfAitiE diid Shtttrlul ppbtfy vas
perpetrated last night on the Kern VAL
icy Bank. MIR. Lansing, the Cashier
of the bank. sleeps in an adjoining
room To the counting. room. G. Brewer
had been sitting with him during the
evening and left the bank between 10
and IL O'Clock. Lansing was still busy
with the affairs of the bank, the safes
being open when Brewer took leave
4 he 4 aSl,lar ra4taa1 xlntk Ahnnf N
quarter of an hour afler n tap was heard
posing it was Brewer returning for
something, went to the door and
opened il, when he WAS struck with
what is supposed to have been a sand
club. He vas then chloroformed aud
thrown on "a table where he lay till Is
O'Clock in the morning, where he was
found. The robbers went through the
safes. The whole sun taken amounts
to S27 900; S22,000 OF this was in the
County Treasury, about $1,000 belong
ing To the bank, including 81, 900 be,
longing to Wells, Fargo d Co. The
president of the bank has taken
prompt measures, and although bust
ness was suspended many will he here
we learn to enable the bank to esuni
business to-day. A reward Of 1000
has been offered for the apprehension
Of the robbers.
The State Prison Investigation.
CARSON, Feb. IL.
The Board of State Prison Commits
sioners met this morning pursuant to
adjournment. Mr.. De Long suggested
the meeting of the board at Virginia
on Monday next, rs he had twenty
three witnesses to examine. General
Kiitrell opposed it. He says they
seek to open The old charges Of starv-
ing the prisoners, which was investi.
gated by the Legislative Committee
last winter. The board adjourned UNI
til Monday next.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19

THE Siiper State says that the reports
of rich mining discoveries in different
parts OF the country has excited several
OF our townfolk, and about a dozen diff
ferent parties talk of going into the hills
north and south, rs soon as the snow
disappears from the foothills.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19
bribery OF ELECTORS IN ENG
LAM.

We Americans are so in love with
our own institution, 81 infatuated with
our greatness and progress. that we are
too often forgetful Of the good that may
exist in other systems of civil polity,
and remain blind to defects that may
Turk i'm our own. We perceive the
mote that is in our brothers eye, but
fail TO cast the beam out of our own
eve. The lesson in finance that has
been voachsafed us during the last few
years by France might profitably he
studied by our statesmen and finan-
ciers. In 1865, at the close OF the re
bellion, this nation found itself with a
debt OF, in round numbers, : 5000, O0O,-
900. 1t to-day, although taxation has
been unparalleled, over $1,000, DOC, 900.
Our currency is inflated, and uncertain
in its initiation, and internal trade
and foreign commerce elike languish.
Since 1871, that is within one-half the
time that we have wasted, France has
paid off 81 o ,OOo, 900, of indemnify to
the Germans lin Tcoin); has paid or
funded about the same amount of ex-
pense incurred by herself in the strug-
gle, and remains to-day with a cur
rency Of fixed value, with active indus
tries, with a healthy, growing trade,
and with a public debt bearing easy in
terest, and easily within her control.
And all this with a population and tax
able property less than ours, and with
out one 1.-THE of our natural resources.
Yesterdays dispatches gave US an
othe. text, furnished by an "effete
monarchy of the Old World. Robert
Henry Hurst, a member OF Parlia-
ment for the Borough of Horsham in
the county of Sussex. England, has,
after hearing in committee and in Par
lament, and after consultation with the
Judges of the Queens Bench, been
pronounced guilty of bribery in the
canvass for his position, and unseated.
And this bribery consisted simply in
D8yilS ouu OuCtiuS W poy suO VA
penses Of voters to and from the polls.
We claim a political freedom far in adj
vance OF the English people, and polit.
ical freedom mean political purity; but
we have to a great extent forgotten the
purity that characterized our politics of
old. The English rule just quoted
would, strictly applied, Dust over two
thirds of the public officers in America
who hold their position by virtue OF
popular suffrage. And still the rule
is sound and should be enforced.
We cannot recall an instance of a
similar action on the part of Congress,
save where the unseating has been
q party necessity and been made
= party measure. Political cor
ruption is rife in our land. 1t is but
just that the corrupt fruit should be
destroyed, but let us also attack the
disease at the root and save the tree.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19

AUSTIN AND BATTLE MOUNTAIN
RAILRoAD.-Amos Bowman, the engi.
neer, has handed in the report and
maps OF the survey OF the Austin and
Battle Mountain railroad. The entire
cost Of the road, equipments and build
ings, is estimated at $685. 81. The
Reveile il hopeful that the road will
be built.