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The I'Olitieal Aspect in Cuba.

HAVANA, September 24.-San Domin-
go adyices to the 10th report that within
the last two weeks matters have assumed
a serious political aspect in amor theast.
ern province called Lareja. Many bloody
encounters have occurred between the
revolutiouists, headed by Gen. Baugas,
and the Government troops. The latter
were badly beaten. The partisans OF ex.
President Gonzales have raised rebel.
lion in the northwestern provinces, be-
ginning by capturing the town Of Monte
Cristo. The whole Republic Is in n ate
Of excitement. Many prominent citizena
have been arrested merely on suspicion.
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Poisonous mistake.

cLEyxLAxD, O., September 94.-Mrs.
James st. Clair and her two children,
son and daughter, residing at No. 30
Lake street, in this city, were poisoned
by eating toad stoola in mistake for mush.
rooms yesterday. The two children died
last night and the mother is not expected
TO recover, H-
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OMAHA, September 2l.-Ten companies
Of the third infantry arrived hero o.day
by 4 special train over the Rock Island
road and left for Montana. They are en-
route from the scene OF the late riots in
Pennsylvania 10 the seat Of war in the
Indian country.
The county commissioners Of Douglass
county have replied to the petition Of the
taxpayers asking for the withdrawal oi
the suit against the U. P. R. r. for $780,
900, ,declining:to acceleIto thewishes Of the
petitioners and the suit will be prOsecut-
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PHrLApEIPHIA, September 94.-FIOur-
Steady and unchanged. Wheat Firm and
unchanged. Con-steady; yellow 56a6oe,
mixed 5Sa5SHc. Oats-Firmcr; western
mixed 32a34c, white western S5a3Sc. Rye
Steady and unchanged. Provisions
Qaiet, and unchanged, Butter-Firm; WeS.
tern Reserve at 22a24c. Cheese-Firm;
fancy l2ISal3c. Eggs-Firm; western at
l9A26c. Petroleum-Unsettled; crude 93<c,
refined 1870 bid. WhiSky-$l T..
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FOREIGN NEWS.
THEWAR IN THE EAST.

LONDON, September 24.-Mehsmst Ais
reported victory turns out TO have been
deieat. A Russian official bulletin an.
nonnces at the close OF the fight: We
held all our positions; 4 rene wal Of the
attack Is expected; there is no estimate
ot the Losses; there Is u reconnaissance by
ten batallioni: the armies occupy the op.
posite bank Of the Banica LON; the ferry
between Pirgos and PArapan indicates
that the RuSsiAns are recovering Iost
ground the principal MOpJspoSrin army
surrounds GaloChEs. a
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-25
The Admission OF Pupils TO the
Public schools.
--- NnEEIINo, Sent. q. 1871.

EllIOrs lHtIIIissuerr:
AtIhe regular meeting Of the Board oil
Education held Thursday evening, Sept.
10th, inst, The Superintendent was di.
rected 10 enforce strict compliance with
Article 4 Of the General Rules Of the
Board. t.
In order that all parties interested may
know what Article 1 is, will you be kind
enough to print 1t, as also accompanying
resolution Of the Board.
Respectfully JouS C. HERvEY,
f,N .hE Snpr
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- WHEELING WEST VA, TUESDAY MORNING S11

the provisions Of Article 4 Of the General
Rulesi and that The Board shall not bs
deemed 10 have given any consent except
as may hereafter be ShoEn'by resolution,
and that the Superintendent report his
action hereunder at the next meeting Of
the RoaPd.p
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LONDON, September 24.-Steamships
City Of Berlin and State of Navada, from
New York; arrived out
SAN FRANCISCO. September 24.-Clear.
ed-British ship Earl Dalhouse.
PLYMOUTH, September 24.-Arriyed-
Steamship Suevia, from New York.
NEw YORK, September 24.-Arriyed-
City OF Montreal, from Liverpool; Italy
from Liverpool.
QUEENSTOWN, September 24.-Arrivcd
Steamship Lord Give, from Phlladel-
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ESTABLISHED AUGUST "a, 1852 stloa rgN

Ing no general system like The States on
either side Of us. Then, as now, II cost
something to support the public schools,
and from Ons-third to ons.half Of all the
taxes paid by the people were for school
purposes.
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Nav YoRK, September 24.-Tke package
trade to-day in staple cottous IS quiet.
Prints moved slowly. GinghamS are In
brisk demand. Dress goods, Shawls and
skirts are in fair request. Low grade all
wool cassimeres in fair demand. Foreign
goods fairly active. -0a.sf-
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NEw YORK, September 23.-The Sur
rogate to-day decided the will Of Miss
Dancer duly executed, and after the be.
quests to the legalees the rest goes to the
heirs.
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-MemphiI Chamber oil Commerce
adopted q resolution calling convention
Of delegates from Western and Southern
States 10 consider the question Of increas-
ing the mail facilities Of those sections.
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PTTsBURaH, September 2I.-Petroleum
Firm and prices higher; crude 81 471ia
2 so at Parker's, immediate shIpment re.
fined l5Hc, Philadelphia delivery.
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Weather Indications.
OYEics OF rHR caIr1 aioNiL oTSIcIR.
WARRINGTON. D. C, Ssnt, 81 A, IL


For Tennessee and The Ohio Valley,
warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather,
south, yeeriDg 70 west winds with sta.
tionary or falling barometer, followed at
the West stations BY rain areas,
For Lakes, warmer south winds. in-
creasing eloudineas, rain areas and fall
ing barometer, followed in Upper Lake
region by rising barometer and colder
north winds. ..r
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Hon. G. H. Hubbard, OF Cambridge,
Mass, and the Congressmen OF the sew.
eral districts are invited to attend.
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FINANCIAL AND CoMMERoIAL
By TELEGRAPA.


Exw Yo7x, September 24.-MoSEY--
Ae!lve .,.i at oa1 per cent, closing st 9. Prime
lletSSahnle paper 6a7 per cent. Custom
L,e;eSelPls S9S3 OOO, The Assistant Treasurer
sisnarsed y $3.50 900. Clearings $4,000, COO.
sterling qnies long 4.s2A, short 4.S6.
doLp-Steady at l0SIal0Sh. Borrow.
ing nte' fiat to per cent. Carrying rates
SlLvER-At London 54iSd. Here silver
bars are 81 ?2H, greenbacks, 81 1sN gold.
Silver coin Kan per cent discount
GovBRSNENTS-Firm, .0I~-
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RAILROAD BoSDs-Quiet

stocks-Heavy and lower with at times
Tree pressure to all prices, and declined
to per cent. Coal stocks, WeStern
Union ahi trunk line shares were the most
con'piduous in the decline. Near the
close there Was q recovery Of y 10 X per
cent. The closing Of another savings bank
10 Chicago and the over issue OF West
Philadelphia Railroad Co. stock caused
feeling OF depression. :
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BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.

TO THE DAILY LYTE1LIGESoRR
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BUsISEss NorH,-The bank clearinss
lt Pittsburgh show marked falling oil
rs compared with the corresponding week
In 1875 and also in 1875. and Likewise
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-16
LIFE INSURANCE. INVESTIGA TONS.

The prominent feature in the misnanaged
affairs of the Security, the Continental, and
the New-Jersey Mutual life insurance compa-
MES is that the funds and securities were
handled as if they were the private property
of the officers in charge. Misrepresentation
and falsehood are alleged in all OF these ca SEES;
i'm the first of them, fraud and PERJURY are
charged, and it is yet an open question whether
the second of them may not fall in the same
category. LOOseness of management and ex-
travagance have also characterized these COM
panies Reviewing the facts as far as ascer-
tanned, it is clearly evident that the officers
were unfit for their trusts. The question nat
urally arises whether there is not some radical
defect in a system by which untrustwOrthy
men can obtain control of such large amounts
of money and securities. The opponents OF
State supervision claim that the Superintend
ent's certificate of soundness lays the founda-
ton for these false trusts. They say that
without the approval of State Department,
each company would have to rest OH its own
merits. The public, it is supposed, is lulled
into a mistaken sense of security by the broad
seal of the department. Without such certif-
cation, it is asserted, every man would inquire,
before paying money for a life insurance,
whether the men he was about to trust were
really trustworthy. Mindful of the fact that
trustees of such concerns too often perform
their duties in a pcrfunctory way and with
little careful examination, he would inquire
particularly into the character of the officers
the president, the treasurer, the secretary.
Not till he felt assured that they could be
relied upon for honesty and good management
would he risk his money in their hands.
With every new failure in life insurance this
question is started afresh, but whether the
number of persons who think State supervision
a mistake increases, We have no means of
Judging. TO sweep away that supervision
might prove dangerous experiment. A mer-
chant, before no sells bill Of goods on time,
makes particular inquiry as to the solvency of
the buyer. If life insurance were only offered
for sale TO merchants, they could and would
make all due inquiries before buying it But
the life insurance canvasser carries his wares
into every nook and corner of the land Not
one man in ten of those who take life-pOlicies
Is capable or has the means Of ascertaining
whether company is solvent OF its officers
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NEW WORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY FEBRUARY l6, 1877.

dre,c! This was grand strategy. He was
never before known TO withdraw. WHAT cOuia
1t meant The country had not long TO wall
for the further and final development OF the
plot. Judge David Davis was elected 10 inc
Senate, and there were only two thoroughly
non-partisan Judges left upon the bench VINO
could be depended upon for Tildcn. The OBJ
iect which the friends of Reform had IN view
in creating the Commission was defeated, ana
craftsmanship ruled the hour. 1t will shortly
follow, in the natural course OF events, that
Logan will either be appointed Secretary OF
State or Judge of the Supreme Court.
These are the simple facts in the case ana
in view of them we say, Impeach Logan! III
is too late to save Tilden but not too late 10
show I'D the conspiracy by which the Com
mission has been made partisan triouha''
The friends of Reform have the satisfaction,
of course, of calling the fifth judge Joe
Bradley, but that after all must 10 any
thoughtful person seem inadequate. IL wouid
be more consoling to impeach Logan. IL may
be said, to be sure, that the law does not
provide for the process of impeachment in the
case Never mind that. AS President Grant
said when he nominated an ineligible can
didate for Secretary OF the treasury
Change the law" We suggest impeach-
ment because that seems to be the torfe
of the friends of Reform. When we consider
their success in impeaching Belknap and the
certainty that they will i'm few days impeacf
Grant, we feel that it is no answer TO the
demand for Logan's impeachment that ne Is
not liable to the process. Let the Reformers
bear in mind the noble example of the physl-
clan whose practice it WAS always to get his
patients into fits. because that was his specially
impeachment is undeniably the "best hold ]"
of the Reformers Let them make Logan
liable, and then, in the absurd yet forcible
slang of the street, ego for him bald-headed."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-16
ZIP RIP fHESf

The train is coming to stop little too
fast We are not so near destruction as the
sudden and extreme economy which now sends
jar through every department of business
would indicate. 1t is true that we had, long
time ago. costly war, and that the bill for
it has just been sent in for payment; it is
true that the country has been for some time
in the condition of the luckless hOrseman who
galloped along carrying his head loosely under
bis arm, not at all sure either that it was the
right head after all it is true, also, that
society INDUCED in purple and fine linen, and
fed too grossly for while. The patient needs
bleeding. But he should not be bled to death.
Metaphor aside. we would suggest to heads
of establishments and households that much
of the present depression is due to unneces-
sary fright on their part panic In busl-
ness acts precisely as it does in a burning the
ater-everybOdy looks out for himself! But
in money matters the devil catches not only
the hindmOst, but the whole flying crowd.
wooden manufacturer with plenty of money to
spend in his pocket chooses to store 1t away
in stocking or in foreign securities, ard
lessons his order on his grocer One-half; the
grocer, under the pressure, buys half the
amount of beef from the butcher, the butcher
cannot pay his cobber, the cobbler shuts up
shop and takes to begging, and the cOnse-
quence is that neither cObber, butcher, nor
grocer will buy the coats which heretofore
came from the manufacturers mill. SO the
work of ruin goes round and round redupli-
Gated million times, and whoever starts such
ball of gathering want a-rolling will be
crushed under it at last himself.
1t is quite time we should look upon the
brighter side of this darkening picture. No
other country could stand the tremendous
moral and material strain made upon ours the
last year. But no other country is so rich in
the variety and vastness of resources, nor, We
may add, in the practical sound sense and
sound temper of her people. Half the danger
to the mass arises from the irrational terror of
individuals and their selfish desire to hoard
their small gains for future emergencies.
There is no surer way to make those gains
smaller or to bring the emergencies nearer.
Economy as we urged before. in reason is
useful But the present extreme measures for
saving the country remind lis of the old story
of the Irish carter who was told to lead his
horse to precipice and dump the load. Pat
pushed horse, cart and all over. "Faix!"
he said "it does the job completely. but it's
"hard on the bastc!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-16

honest. The question then is whether Il I.
wise to withdraw from nine men out Of 70,
the services of the State in such inquiries ba.
cause the tenth man does not need then,
Nevertheless this question will constantly arise
till State Departments attain the highest Dos.
sble level of efficiency.
There are two possibilities Of defect in I'm,
State Department Of Insurance First that !,
will not do the best that is possible with n.
means at its command; second, that II MAJ
be hoodwinked. Certainly it has not l,ee.
doing its best in past years, when a comnanv
in the condition of the Security could 20, !.
certificate that il was solvent. Tt seems "a -
an examination might have been made th.,
would have revealed something Of that com.
pany's rOttenness long ago. False statemeD,,
were indeed made to the Department, but |, /.
not clear that the Department could not bsv.
gone behind them. The woodworking process; !,
very much facilitated by the knowledge that
at certain time the Superintendent will beo;n
bis researches. In weak concerns, eyerythn.
is duly prepared for him shortly beforehand
A quantity of securities is borrowed for tho
occasion. There was an instance last Yea,
where the same securities did duty as the assets
of two companies. After the examiners
had finished examining one concern. tho
securities were taken over to the other one.
and the messenger that carried them had
hard race to get them into the
hands of the second one before the
examiners arrived. The business of bor.
rowing securities to pass examination IA.
long since lost the charm of novelty. Brokers
are said to be employed in it, receiving per.
centage as if it were an ordinary businesa
transaction. But where anything of this sort
is suspected, it would be very easy for the
Superintendent to ascertain the facts. He can
make his examinations at any time, and az
often as he pleases. If, two or three weeks
after the yearly examination is over, he should
suddenly come upon suspected company and
begin his operations over again, he could sOon
find out whether the concern really owned the
securities that had figured in its annual state
ment. Two or three examples of the sort
during the year would put stop to the
dangerous business of borrowing securities
since it could only be performed at the risk Of
detection in perjury. Ii company should
appear sound and honest on determination,
the process would rebound to Its credit, and
nobody would be harmed.
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yn6cf to ACCOMPLISHMENTS


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boARp looMs- Sd Id0e-4th column
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b sINEss CHANCEs-@ IG0s-4tb column
DANCING AC ADENIEs--6h PaGe-3d column.
DIV IDEND NOTICLS-7M Id0c-4th column
DRY GOODS Sd Tdgc-4th column
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FURSITURh- 81 Pd0e-ith column
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]CE CYEAN-3d P09e-5th couiin
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JUpE4CH LOG 1Nl


Tilden is lost. SO much seems certain. Par
tisanship has been altogether too much for
him. His success has depended from the very
first upon the possibility Of banishing partisan
shin from the contest. 1t could not be done.
Every effort to secure a nOn-partisan view of
the situation has failed. The votes of the
precincts where partisanship was successfully
quelled by the determination OF partisans were
thrown out by partisan Returning Boards the
members of which refused the most brilliant
offers to lay aside partsanshp and take
non partisan view. At every point the efforts
of the non partisans have been defeated; every
move, whether by persuasion, intimidation, or
purchase, has been blocked. Even in the last
resort, the organization of the Electoral Com
mission, partisanship has triumphed and Tilden
and Reform have bcen if we may be pardoncd
the expression, "knockcd higher than kite"
The opponents of craftsmanship and friends of
Reform have i'm the most remarkable way been
foiled at every turn. There must have been
design in all this. We solemnly believe there
was cOnspiracy-a conspiracy all the way
through but especially in the organization of
the Commission. That conspiracy ought to be
unearthed, exposed, brought to light. We be-
lieve it can be. Howl
Impeach John A. Logan!
Listen John A. Logan is the Head Center,
the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mo-
gul. and Mugwump of the final plot by which,
partisanship was installed in the Commission.
When the bill creating the Commission was
under discussion, the only question in the
minds of Mr.. Tildens friends whether it
could be organized on a thoroughly non-parti-
san basis by the selection as fifth Judge and
fifteenth Commissioner of a nOn-partisan who
could be depended on TO vote for Tilden.
Believing that this had been securely provided
for, and that Judge David Davis would
surely be the comparison fifth and
fifteenth who could be depended on every
time, the friends of Reform cheerfuly sup
ported the bill and carried it through the
House. Mark now the tracks Of the con-
spiratOr and the unfolding of the conspiracy.
John A. Logan was candidate before the ILL
nois Legislature for reelection to the United
States Senate. Several ballots had been taken,
and he lacked but three or four votes of ma
jOrity. Logan is subtle, deep. OF course he
could have had those votes at any moment.
He knew it, but he was playing for larger
stakes What did this willy cOnspiratOr do
Waited till the occasion was absolutely yellow
with ripeness, and then, while the country
wondered and the friends of Reform
stood aghast at the unusual spectacle-with-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-16
POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr.. ID. D. Field might have had better LUCK
with his latest witness II he had examined him III ffen
Mr.. ID. d. Field might have had better luck
with his latest witness II he had examined hin ~
French. Certainly he wolld stand better WIN w.
people IL he could ouy get the newspapers ~ fep0'
himself IN Choctaw.
The people of Oregon are not disposed to 10
very hilarious Gov. Grover Notwithstanding Wv
luster he has east upon that State. San frncsc" pap
say there was enthusiasm demonstration on INC w
casiou OF his return home.
The one sided independents" who were W
ANXIOUS to have Mr.. Hayes settle this little matter "
,.t,cy . rlace IN President Tdens cabinet, are nov
very busy giving advice to the composition OF ffes
deat Uay,ss cabinet some men revolSe on thor Axe
very rapidly.
The Hon. Stanley Matthews, the Hon. Lo-
reno Danford. and the Hon. George W. MciivApe afs
talked of for the nomination for Governor OF ONO
Judge Matthews has also given notice Of an intention
eoutest bs scat VI the bounding Banning from mo ~
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