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The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
TRUE FACTS OF THE CASE.

Tilden will be President after the fourth
of March unless the due course of law is
defeated by force. Upon any construct
ion of the law he was duly elected, and
will be chief magistrate de ,j,re. He has
the votes of 1S5 electors certified, as re.
CURED by the act of Congress, by the
Cove rnors of the several States. ifthe
certificates are held not to be conclusive
evidence of the persons appointed by the
States, and the inquiry is to be made as
to who were actually appointed, Tilden
will have 1876 votes-four by Florida and
eight by Louisiana. The vote of Florida
has been adjudged to him bythe Supreme
Court of that State, a majority of
which is republican; and this result is de-
clared to be correct by Gen. Barlow, one
OF the republicans selected by the Presi-
dent to go to Florida. But, though
thoroughgoing partisan, he was not blind
ed to the gross fraud by which the return
board counted out the Tilden electors
Wash. Union. Jan. S.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
AN ODD PLANTATION SONG.

ONE OF THE COMMON HYMNS OF THE
PLANTATION DARKIEs AS SUNG I'm
NEW YORK.
The original Georgia Jubilee Singers
gave concert last evening in the Church
OF Our Saviour, Third avenue, near Thirty
ninth street, in aid of the east side poor.
The opening piece was one of those
weird Southern ''plantation shouts, with
the usual movements of the body accom-
panying the singing. The following selec-
ton will show the character of the music:
Look up yonder what see!
Shall come togedder in de mornin';
A band of angels after me
Shall come togedder in de mornin'.
oh, Lord, desc bones is mine,
Oh, Lord, desc bones is mine.
Oh, Lord, desc bones is mine
-.- Shall come togedder in de mornin'.
The first line was sung as a solo by a
leader who on the old Southern planta-
ton was one of the party looked up to by
consent as a competent darly to
lead, and who often made up his part as
he went along. In the second line all
joined, makinga chorus of one line. The
third line is solo by the leader, and the
fourth is sung by the whole party. Then
the four lines followed-three of them
alike, as grand chorus for the entire
stanza. 1t will be seen by the above ex-
planation that the entire party, except the
leader, is not required to remember
many words, Neither is the leaders
memory taxed severely, as he is allowed
carte blanche in the way of composing.
All the singers have been slaves; few can
read and write, and but one can read
music.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
General News.


1t Is stated that conference of Demo-
cratic leaders was held at Governor
Tilden's house, in New York, on Satur-
day night, but nothing is known of the
result.
All automatic signal buoy giving blasts
of whistle at short intervals has been
placed for trial off Cape Hatteras. IL is
about % miles from the outer edge of the
shoal in twelve fathoms Of water. Hat
teras Light bearing northwest of north,
magnetic distance about liz miles.
The Board ofTrade of Portland. Maine
on Saturday night, adopted resolutions
asking Congress to negotiate new recip-
roeity treaty. and opposing the proposed
head money tax on immigrants. !
The Legislative Appropriation bill,
which will be reported to the House to-
day, makes reduction of about ten per
cent. in the salaries on nearly all the civ
il officers throughout the country. 1t al
so reduces the clerical force to the num-
ber proposed by the House last session.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
DENOR.iLIZ1TION or TIE GREAT
MOR1LLST,S

| OF the way in which the count in de-
jstroying all self-respect among our public
men Il striking illustration has Just oc-
CURED in the case of Mr.. Wright in the
Senate, who last week supported Hayes"
in speech by which he ate his words of
ten months ago on the Morton bill in the
| most unbushing manner, and another is
| the way in which a number of his collea-
CUES who supported tho twenty second
joint rule for several years now denounce
the principles of it as wild and wicked
Another still and very disagreable one,
presents itself in the case Of the Frye,
Hoar and Wheeler minority of the COM
mittee which two years ago inquired into
the doings of the Wells returning board
in 1874. They reported that "the social
ed canvass" made by these worthless in
the interest of Kellogg seemed to them to
have no validity, and to be entitled to no
respect whatever" In fact theyr
that Wells and his companions had made
up a majority for Kellogg without any
authority of law, though they refused to
call it cheating because they said it was
done with good (philanthropic) motives,
and with mistaken view of their own
powers, and they warned the country of
the danger of havingth presid sntial
election turn ON the decisions of such a
body. Messrs Frye and Wheeler are,
however, now supporting Hayes" by
declaring that they discovered nothingin
1875 to shake their confidence in the
board, or make people distrust it even
when 1t decides presidential contest,
and they are giving Wells certificate Of
character, though they know thatGeneral
Sheridan discovered him to be rascal,
and that he (Wells) swore IN 1874 to in.
timidation in parish from which he was
absent on election day. The reason 1Ir
Wheeler now gives for expecting the
American people to accept a President
calmly from Wells's manipulation of re-
turns is "that he (Wells) was faithful
Union man who was hunted W .th dogs
though the swamps by the rebels" But
Mr.. Wheeler knows in his heart that this
will not do. He is nearly sixty years old,
and that many ''faithful Union man"
was great scoundrel-Scott and Parker,
of South Carolina, for instance. We warn
Messrs. Frye, Wheeler & Co., to beware
of tergiversaton and equivocation and
all forms of double dealing. People were
never less patent with it than at this |
moment. Neither they nor anybody else |
can whitewash Wells and his confeder- |
ates now. 1t is too late.-N. Y. Nation, |
Jan. IL.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15

The Louisiana Democrats appear to be
capturing the members of the Packard
Legislature at the rate of about one day
and Packard is apparently unable to re-
capture them. Pinchback gave some OF
the captives lodging in his house, and
when General Badger with squad OF
Packard militia appeared and made de-
mand for them Pinchback fell back on
his reserved common law rights, declar-
ing in effect that the house of citizen of
Louisiana, without reference to race. COL
or, previous condition, or previous party
affiliations, was his castle, and refused to
be intimidated.-1elegrdph.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15

1 ID
cember 1ith.
Death Of Hon. Fishsr A. BIocksome
Just before going to press we received
the sad intelligence of the death of Hon.
FISHER A. Blocksome. Mr. Blocksome,
for the past few days, had been suffering
from slight cold, but aside from that
was apparently enjoying his usual health,
not having been confined TO his bed. AL
| though in his ninety-fifth year, this sad
event was as..unexpected as sudden; but
yesterday he conversed freely upon the
issues which now agitate the public mind.
and was consulted by prominent citizen
IN regard to the political history of our
state; his most excellent memory, togeth.
er with his most intimate relations with
the affairs of State in years gone by, have
long since won for him the reputation of
being the best accessible authority upon
the subject. He died at exactly five o.,
clock this morning. The news has cast
sudden gloom upon the whole commu-
nifty.
Hon. Fisher A. Blocksome was born
IN Sussex county, Delaware, September
IL, 1852, commenced the study of his
profession with Mr.. Finney, at Viii.
mington Delaware, in 1902, with whom
he remained about year, or until that
gentleman removed to Philadelphia. He
then pursued and finished his course of
studies under Mr.. Broome of the same
place, and was admitted member of the
bar in April, 1905. He emigrated to Ohio
IN November, 1906, soon'afler she was ad-
mltted to the Union, and took up his resi-
dence III New Lisbon, where he has since
resided, anhonored member of the church,
bar, and society. At an early day he at
tached himself to the Episcopal Church,
and remained an honored and consistent
adherent of the same faith until death,
He represented his district in the State
Legislature from 1925 to, and including.
1889; also was elected to the State Senate
in 1S47 and 1S49, was elected Prosecut-
ing Attorney Of Columbiana county four
different times, serving eight years in all.
lie cast his first vote in 1903 and voted
for Madison in 1908 since which time he
has never failed to cast his vote for the
Democratic Presidential candidates, with
one exception this occurred in 1871, when
he voted for Charles O'Conner.
MIR. Blocksome became a member ofl
the Masonic Order, as Entered Apprent-
ice, at Warren Ohio, about the year 1924,
and was charter member of the first
Lodge established at New Lisbon. He
rose by degrees, in the usual manner, un-
til he had reached the Chapter, of which |
order he continued to be member until |
his death, at which time he was the old |
est Mason in the State of Ohio.
The funeral will take place, with Ma
sonic honors from the residence of the
deceased, Saturday afternoon at one o. |
clock.
Several persons from Salem attended
the funeral. But few men attain the age
OF Mr.. 3. and so fully retain all their
mental faculties.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
The President for Packard.

New ORLEANS, January 14.-General
Augur has just received dispatch from
the President, copies of which have been
furnished Nichols and Packard, in
which the President says the Nichols Su-
preme Court is not to be recognized any
more than the same number of lawyers
called together by any citizen. The Pres
ident says he does not want to recognize
either Nichols or Packard until the Con
gressional committees make their reports,
but if compelled to recognize either he
must recognize Packard.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15

Hon. JAMES B. EUsTIs, who has been
elected by the democratic Legislaturela
United States Senator from Louisiana for
the term ending March 1879, is descend
ant of an old Creole family,is about forty
five years of age, graduate of Yale Col
lege, and is lawyer of ability and large
practice. As number of the Louisiana
Senate, he took an active party early in
1875, in bringing about the arrangement
known as the "Wheeler compromise"
In January, 1876, after Pinchback had
been turned away from the Senate doors
definitely, the democratic members of the
lower house of the Legislature elected
him to the United States Senate only one
republican member participating in the
election with them, while the State SEN.
ate, by majority of one, declared that
there was no vacancy, and therefore no
necessity for an election Mr.. Eustis is a
brother of the late George Eustis, Jr.
who was number of a Congress before
the war, and was afterwards arrested on
board the Trent as secretary of the Con-
federate legation to France.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
LYONS AROUr

1t is Il dangerous thing to trifle with
cold. A darkey preacher once told his
hearers that he thanked God, "that the
devil went about as a roaring lion, seek
ing whom he might devour., He might
that he was near him; but when he
heard the roar he could get out of the way;
if he didn't, he desereed to die" So when
one hears the wheeze or the cough which
tells of the old lion of Consumption
lurking around, he should fly to DIR. Wis
rar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, and get out
Of the way of danger. This pre- paration :
is well-known, has been tried nearly
fifty years, and is acknowledged by all
who use it to be unsurpassed in its sooth-
ing and healing properties.
90 cents aud 81 bottle. Sold by all
druggists,
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
.s0sY.

"Do love my children Just aIikeP'
SLOW the mother face uplifteed,
AS asked the question aDropos
ora subject we had sifted.
"of course do. God bless them all
My sober student Harry
MY darling Nell-Our singing bird.
Ana May--our household fairy;
And Joe'-she stopped moment then
Like ONE who fain would linger.
flcked from the carpets face a thread.
And wound 1t round her finger.
l knew doe" was n gracius lad
In spite of home endeayor
VINO seemed to blunder into III,
And wrong and sin forever,
And so thought 1t sure must be
Loves golden band was fraying,
through wear and tear of rebel feet
That smote 1t outward straying.
knew those trembling, loving hands
Had shot the night bolt over
80 many times in dawning gray,
To welcome in her rover.
What wonder IL thought to hear
some words of colder IN Gaming
About the boy who tried her love.
Almost past loves redeeming:
Perhaps" she said, II am in fault.
Perhaps an honest showing
Wllltell me you are right. and
Have erred the while unknowing
But still could not help it DEAR"
Her faded face grew rosy
81 love the others all day long
But nights-I pray for JOsy."
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
THE PENNSYLTABLA 'INTLNIDA A.
TON" RESOLUTION.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph, Rep.

tioiii .ne thllauelpnla Telegraph, Rep.
AN UNcoNsEQUENTIAL PROCEEDING.
In the State House of Representative..
Yesterday the Republicans failed to show
.nelr wit and the Democrats lost their
neauS over series of balderdash resolu-
tiohs with reference to the count of the
PRESIDENTIAL vote. If these resolutions
mean anything they mean that the Ore
gon electoral vote in dispute must be
counted lor Mr.. Tilden, and that conse-
qnently Mr.. Tilden must be declared
elected to the Presidency of the II. SThe
democrats were not smart enough TO see
TINS, and they consequently entered upon
such an opposition of the string of words
words, words as places them in the pos
tlon OF opposing not only the declaration
OF the election of their candidate, but of
any fair and equitable solution of the
PRESIDENTIAL difficulty. The facts that the
RESOLUTIONS were prepared in a RepubH
can caucus, and were introduced and
pressed to a vote by Republicans seem to
nave thrown the Democrats completely
on their guard, and to have rendered
them incapable of either voting or talking
intelligently. 1t is true that those who
got up the resolutions and forced their
passages did not mean to give away the
hepuphcan case, but it is also true that
upon any reasonable Interpretation of
their words, this is just what they did do.
The whole proceeding was a perfectly
preposterous one, and the opinion eX-
pressed by one of the statesmen who had
the floor yesterday, to the effect that any
delay or hesitation over the passage Of
the resolutions would produce doubt and
fear in the public mind, was one of the
most preposterous features oft. Taking
1t all in all, this attempt to manufacture
partisan capital cannot be regarded as a
very pronounced success, and its only
erect VIII be to satisfy the public that the
members of theState House of Represen-
tatlVe on both sides are better partisans
than they are patriots, while they are pa
trlots, while they are lacking in sufficient
gumption to make their parti ,anship
eftectlve even for party ends, to say noth-
ing of patriotic ends.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
Fatal Ro,c. Bet,Ueen Sold iers and Teamas

CHEYENNE, W. T.. Jan.-Iu a row
between lot of soldiers and teamas-
ters at Sidney, Neb last night, pri-
vate James Keith, company C. Fifth
Cavalry, was shot and Instantly killed
After the shooting of Keith about
twenty soldiers procured arms from
the barracks. went to the front of the
place where Keith was killek and fired
several volleys through the windows
and doors or the building, fortunately
injuring NJ one. The firing was stop-
ped by the arrival of the patrol. The
body of Keith was taken in charge by
the commanding officer of Sidney bar.
racks.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
U-AS He EYER NATURALIZED ?
AN INTERESTING QUESTION RELATIVE
TO ONE OF THE MINNESOTA ELECTORS.

AN INTERESTING QUESTION RELATIVE
TO ONE OF THE MINNESOTA ELECTORS.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 13.-In the
Senate to day Mr.. Wilkinson, Democrat
offered resolution that the Committee
on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire
into the eligibility of the several Presiden
tial electors, and that said committee
shall have power to send for persons and
papers. The facts which gave rise to this
resolution are that A. K. Finseth, one of
the electors, it is claimed, is not legally a
citizen of the United States; that she emf
grated to the United States when seven
teen or eighteen years of age, and sup
posing that the naturalization of his father
naturalized the minor children, either
never took out any naturalization papers
at all or such only as are incomplete and
thus insufficient to make him a citizen.
The resolution created considerable ex-
element, but Mr.. Finseth not being in
the city the truth of the allegation can
not be corroborated or contradicted.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
THE ICE STILL CRUSHING ON

CINcINNATI, o., January 14.--The Ice
which had remained stationary above
Newport bridge gave way at noon to-day.
and striking the sunken steamer Cal.
umet, turned the wreck around and
swept it down with the current, making
the boat a total loss. Farther down the
ice carried away about forty loaded and
about as many empty coal boats, and at
Delhi, ten miles below, took the small
st aamer Alexandtr Keneall with it. The
damage by the ice here to-d4y Will ag-
gregate fully 100000.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15

The Spanish merchant steamer, NJ on
tezuma. which was captured by Cuban
rebels and converted into privateer
called the Cespedes, was burned off the
Honduras coast recently on the near ap-
proach OF the Spanish war steamer, Joriie
Juane. The priyateer crew escaped in
boats to the coast, and twenty-four men
belonging to the former crew ofthe Moe
tezuma. who were kept on board as pris-
oners, were picked up in a boat by the
Jorjie Juane.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
Suspension ofa Boston savings Bank

BosToN, Mass, January 12.-The Me-
canios Savings bank, established in 1874,
has suspended. Owing to the stagnation
of business and other causes, the semi
annual dividend due January was pass
ed, and since then about $27, 900 has been
withdrawn by depesitors from the bank.
1t is probable that an injunction will be
served in order to protect all the deposit
tors alike. On the oath of December
there were $446,96l, ,62 due depositors.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
EXTREMELY Low PxICEs.

NOTICE Is hereby given that the nnnrl-
dred Mutual Horse Company, will be held
ut the Practical Farmer in Brandywine
Hundred. on Saturday, the 18th day OF jan
uary. 1871, at O'Clock. p. m.
WILLIAM CLOUD,
jan3-w2t& Secretary.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
Published by Request I
Death Of Hon. Fish.r A. BIocksome.

From the New Lisbon, (Ohio) Buckeye Dec
cember 18th.
The daily gazette., 1877-01-15
NOTICE TO THE LADIES.
MRS. s. A. JOHNSON q, PERCY,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Wigs, TOupees, ChignODs,
Curls, Switches, Etc.

A full and elegant assortment of HUMAN
HAIR and Hair Goods that we can offer as
the Standard of Perfection, Original In De-
sign and Unsurpassed In Elegance and
Reauty, Mt
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-02-03
A SchOOlbOy Frozen to Death.

A letter from Shawano, Wis, says d
little boy, son of Mr.. G. H. Churchhill
OF that town, was found dead in the
woods. The circumstances attending
the sad event are these: The child was
at school. In going to and from school
he had been in the habit of taking a
"short cut /" through the woods instead
of going round by well travelled road.
The distance by this cut is about three
quarters of mile. 1t was only path
made by the tracks of the child's feet
signs easily covered by slight snow.
Evening came, but the boy did not make
his appearance at home. Search was in
stituted and continued through the night,
but no trace could be found. The next
morning the entire neighborhood turned
out and joined in the search.
The body was found nearly three miles
from the childs home. 1t seems that
shortly after losing the path, the child
struck logging road and followed it di-
rectly away from his home, and losing
that in the storm he wandered around
blindly, until too benumbed with cold
to move. The body was found at the
roots of large tree turned up by the
wind. When discovered, the body was
in sitting posture, the head bowed for
ward to the knee, one little hand pressed
hard against the frozen cheek, and the
other clasping the throat-all frozen to
a solid block of ice.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-02-03
How He Did 1t.

The late ex-senator Nye many years
ago had been appointed at the head OF
the new metropolitan police system Of
New York. The old police had de-
termined to hold over till the legal ques-
tion should be settled. They refused to
disband, but had not ventured to exer-
else authority. In order to make an oc-
casion for this, and to throw the respon-
sibility on the new authorities, riot
was set on foot in the lower part of the
city, the conspirators feeling confident
that the policemen just appointed, being
mostly inexperienced, would fail to sup
press it, and that the commissioners
would be compelled to call the old
policemen to preserve the peace of the
city, and thus demonstrate the necessity
Of continuing them in power. Mr.. Nye
discovered the plot, and, when Ii dis
turbance was well under way e sent q
strong force of his most trustworthy
men, with instructions to close the out
let's to the block where it was going on,
to make no interference with the fight
ing, but to arrest every man who should
attempt to escape. The rioters, who
were prepared to turn their united forces
on the police at the first Inference, and
who waited impatiently for it to COM
mence, were infinitely disgusted when
they found that Mr.. Nye's orders were
only to arrest the survivors and fugitives,
and that, i'll his opinion, the fewer of
them the more convenient it would be
for the administration of justice, and the
better for the peace of the city.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-02-03

The iron steamship State of Georgia,
Capt Cooper, of the State line, arrived
in New York, having a sixteen days
passage from Glasgow. In heavy
westerly gale, her stern was struck by
what sailors call "an unlucky sea-" her
steering geer was carried away, and her
rudder broken short off at the load
line. The steamship was hove to. and
before night Capt. Cooper, and his chief
officer, Mr.. Burns, made a temporary
rudder out of spare spars and hawsers
by which the vessel has been guided
into port.
A pair of yards were l2shed together
and at the extremities lines were affixed
crossing each other in the form of an X,
the free ends being made fast to either
end of the taffrail. This (called by
seamen ga bride y was thrown over
board and towed astern. Booms were
then run out from both starboard and
port waists, from the ends of which
blocks were suspended. A pair OF
throat halliards were then stretched
across the vessel amidships, passed
through the blocks on both sides, and
then carried to the end of the "bri-
die" and made fast. Two men station
ed in the waist by heaving on the rope
easily hauled the contrivance to port or
starboard.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-02-03
Sails Superseding Steam.

A remarkable change in the character
of the shipbuilding on the Clyde has for
some time been going on, and during the
last year it reached very large proper
tions. This is the substitution of iron
sailing ships for iron steamers, and the
change is ascribed in some measure to
the increase OF late years in the price of
coal, an increase which makes it difficult
to run steamships ut n profit In 1873
there were built on the Clyde 1875 iron
screw steamers of 21S, 900 tons, and only
twelve iron sailing ships of $4,000 tons
were launched. But in 1876 only eighty
three iron screw steamers were built,
while ninety-seven iron sailing ships Of
96, 900 tons were constructed. This is
increase of more than eight fold in
three years. The change is one which
will be welcomed by sail makers and
sailors, who generally dislike steamers
for reasons of their own.