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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

promises which they expected TO ripen
into fat offices after Mr.. Tilden's inaug-
uration. To this day they think of
the Electoral Commission as device
by which they were personal robbed Of
their promised share of spoils. Angry,
unreasoning and famished, they hound
and hunt members of Congress to "oust
Hayes" by any means, constitutional
or not. What care they for public
peace, IL only Democratic President
may deal out fatness to the faithfulp
Incessant importantly, often rising to
shrill notes of threatening, is bad enough
by letter; but, as the session draws near
an end, members reflect that they must
presently face these ravenOus workers,
and beg once more nomination and
election.
During the contest this fall, these
wolves of partisanship will howl around
every Democratic member. Before they
will nominate, he must pledge himself.
1t is impossible to say how many mem
bers, now averse to a disturbance of
the Presidents title, will become bound
by revolutionary pledges before they
return to Washington. After repeat
% VI Npe "a
element and bitterness, all manner of
charges against Republicans, it will be
less easy for members to refuse to act
upon those charges. After trying, by
all sorts of pledges, to satisfy greedy
supporters, how far can Democratic
members be trusted to resist the revo-
lutionary spirit next winterP Some
will be left home by constituents, and
will return to Washington crazy to get
Office. Some will be strongly tempted
because, if the meditated revolution
succeeds, they will have the power of
electing a President in the House, and
can bargain for high places with the
candidates. 1t is not safe for the coun-
try to trust this party. No matter how
much Mr.. Potter and others may pro-
test, revolution, bloodshed and anarchy
lie that way. There is but one safe
course, now as in other times when De-
mocracy has threatened revolution.
The country must make its Indignation
felt, now and at the polls next fall.-M
Y. Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07
4 CURTAIN LECTURE.

1ls90 p. NJ
What 60 10 the country this summer1
Now that's too absurd. Mr.. b.
To bury the girls in farmhouse,
Whcrc never a man they will see.
How can you expect them 10 marry2
1Ou haven't the money to spend2
tell lon that's all stuff and nonsense.
YOu'll find IL cOsts more in the end
When they're left on yOur hands for lifetime
You'll wish you had listened 10 me,
And retrenched in some other direction
tell you, you will, MIR. b.
I've told everybody we're going
To Long Branch, and then 10 the Springs;
And now TO come down TO the country
They'll be saying all manner Of things.
Have you thought of the shock 10 your credit3
That's worth more than money, You say;
i hope folks will think IL is meanncss,
And not that YOU really can't pay.
think You might try tO afford IL.
IT don't matter, much about ne.
But the girls Will be 80 disappointed
It's cruel, IL is MIR. b.
The Grays have asked Julia to Newport;
/ worked hard enough, / am sure,
To get her invited last winters
Must she write now and say she's too poor
To buy a respectable outft2
What excuse Hte can make don't know,
And il never will do TO offend them:
Indeed, Mr.. b., she must gol
They move in the very best circles;
It's chance that she oughtn't TO miss;
I'D never have given that party,
If I'd Thought it was coming TO this.
Don't tell me that coal shares have fallenl
That's the way with yOu-on upon stocks;
Whenever | ask for Rdollar,
=, Or tell you the girls want new frockH.
Seems to me to be riskng your money
In this way is very unwise
Aud If You Will do IT, why don't you
Invest in something that will rise?
You know how we all hate the country.
And just because board there is cheap
To ask us TO 90 there this summerl-
MIR. b., believe you're asleepl
-Harper's Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07
One of Mr.. Potters Witnesses.

Mr.. JAMES +. ANDERSON, formerly
OF East Feliciana, La, is wanted. I'm
less he swears roundly, and unless what
he swears is to be believed, the bottom
drops out of the great Louisiana fraud
case, and Mr.. Potter has builded in
vain. Some time ago, the Democrats
announced that they had secured posi-
tive evidence of fraud in East Feliciana,
Mr.. James +. Anderson, an election
Supervisor in that district, having made
clean breast of his offenses in various
particulars. Little by little, this affair
grew into some importance, until it may
be said that Mr.. Potter's indictment of
Secretary Sherman, as well as the whole
Louisiana case, was founded upon cer-
tain mysterious allegations of Ander-
son. Precisely what Anderson claimed
to have done, or confessed to have done,
never appeared; but, in general terms,
1t was alleged that he tampered with
the election returns from East Feliciana,
so that they were thrown out by the
Returning Board. In this loose shape
the story drifted about the country,
Anderson, meanwhile, grumbling that
he had not been taken care of by the
Republicans. In this shape the Times
took up the case, referring to Anderson
as one of the many men whose con-
sciences were quickened by failure to
secure the reward which they had ex-
pected for their alleged villainy. Web
Der, who acted with Anderson, is dead.
and his share in the anticipated reward
of wrong doing is said to be due to his
widow, who has prosecuted the claim
in Washington.
When Mr.. Anderson saw in the Times
the allusion TO his alleged confession
and new alliance with the Democrats,
he wrote a card, which was printed in |
this paper May 2l, 1878. In that docu-
ment Anderson said; 81 did not falsify |
the East Feliciana returns; have held |
no communication with the Democrats;
have told no story, made no confession, !
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

"A diabolical contrivance is prom
ised by one of the Connecticut clock
manufacturers, being nothing less than
a clock which, by an application of Mr..
Edison's phonograph, is made to shout,
in distinct tones: "Get up, john"
'' Get up, Sarah" ETC., or to make any
other announcement, as substitute for
the customary bell or gong.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

THERE is music in the air, for another
political campaign is upon us, and what
few newspapers are not already set
down as organs will be denounced as
Tyres.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07
WASHINGTON, May 81

hAohlNdIoN, MAY ols
Postmaster-Gen Key receives a great
many letters daily, expressing hearty
approval of the sentiments expressed
in his open letter. The following are
specimens:
Secretary Sherman writes If the
South would now accept your advice in
the spirit in which it is offered, it would
do more in connection with the South
ern policy of the President to bind this
country together and destroy sectional
parties than anything else"
Thurlow Weed says: Il have seldom
seen words more fifty spoken, or senti-
ments more clearly or forcibly ex-
pressed"
A gentleman writing from Mississip-
pi says: Don't let Mr.. Hayes believe
for a moment that the people of the
South are responsible for the wretched
folly and madness of their contempti-
BILE representatives | am here in the
heart of this State and can assure you,
with all sincerity and truth, that there
are not ten honest and intelligent men
to be found in 100 miles around who do
not deprecate the late action in Con-
gress in ordering an investigation as
wanton and foolish in the last degree"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07
A sagacious s.. Louis cat observ,

"A sagacious st. Louis cat observed
that two of her kittens were invariably
saved and the rest of the litter thrown
into the Mississippi. Again becoming
a happy mother, she hid two of her
babies In an clubhouse and carried the
rest in different direction. Investiga-
ton showed that she deliberately took
them TO the river and threw them in,
evidently preferring 10 select herself
the two kittens she wished to rear.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

The elder Cameron looks on the
marriage of Don as good joke on the
boy. "Catch me getting caught a sec
ond time" grunts old Simon. - Chicago
,JO1iy.nnl
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

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your dealer keep them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

WHEN the disorders of babyhood attack
your baby use, at once, DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup,
and notice its rapid and beneficial effect.
Price, % cents.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07
THE MARKETS.

PARTICULARS regarding Electric Belts free.
Address Pulvermacher Galyanie Co., Cincin. %.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

THE Fenians of Buffalo felt hurt and
triiled with when they were informed
that Gen. O'Neill died at Omaha six
months ago, while they had been wait
ing six weeks for orders from him.
Detroit Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

SWISS AGUE CURE has cured cases Of six
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

There must have been some lively
work done to contract the 80, 900 Re-
publicans into 80, 800 and to expand the
1900 Democrats into 10000. Is it
any wonder that the Potter fraud-hunt-
ers did not want the investigation ex-
tended to Mississippi and Alabama?
They assume virtuous amazement and
Indignation at the alleged picayune
frauds in some precincts of Florida,
while they were guilty of polling or
counting more spurious votes in Mis-
sissippi than the whole vote cast in
Florida. Nothing can be palmer or
more certain than that Hayes was
counted out of the ten electoral votes
of Alabama and the eight electors of
Mississippi by the Democratic BULLDOG
ers and ballot-box suffers who are now
bawling " Fraud at the top of their
lungs Chicago Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07

A AnVEpTISEpS Desiring TO reach the reader.
Ia SVGn IlOEnS ofthis State, can do so in THE
~ BEST AND CHEAPEST MANNER. by address,
ing E. Z. PRATT n and 10 Jackson St, Chrago, nj.
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cICatnlOgue.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07
How Tilden Carried Alabama and Mis-
sissippi.

SPEAKING of the " Fraud-Hunt' of
the Greasers" for the purpose of GUST
ing Hayes, reminds us of some curious
election returns in Arkansas, Alabama
and Mississippi, for which the =" fraud
hunters are not searching with any
great zeal or energy. The Repub-
licans carried each Of those States in
1872 and were bulldozed' out of them
In 1876 by the majorities here given.
The vote of Arkansas for President in
1872 was as follows:
Grant (Rep.). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ,0I3
Greeley. (Dem. and Ind .ShSS'
Rep. mal...................... ai4O
The same State voted in 1886 as fol-
lows:
Tilden (Dem.) ............... .5s0Il
Hayes (Rep.) ...........................3S669
Dem. mai ai....................... 94O2
When the number of Republicans
had increased at least 10000, it is very
extraordinary that the Republican vote
decreased in four years 20, 404 and the
Democratic vote increased by 20, ,144.
The bulldozers could tell how that GU
rious result was effected.
Take Alabama next. In 1872 this
was the vote:
Grant (Rep.) p.)....................... .@,2i2
Greeley (Dem. and Ind d)........,....."T9,4 AS
rep. MAJ .............s..... 40, -
But in 1876 this was the result:
Tilden (Dem.) .)..................... .102,OO2
Hayes (Rep.) ..............,....,.5 .5S,S3O
Dem. ma. ................,,'43,G ,GS
The bulldozers got in their work to
perfection. They wiped out a Repub-
lican majority of nearly II, 900 and sub
stituted Democratic majority of al
most $4,000. The Republican vote,
which should have exceeded 100, 700,
was emaciated to 68,230. Did $4,000
Republicans die off in those four yearsP
And where did the Democrats obtain
their %, 557 new votesp Terrorism and
obstruction account for the Republican
decrease, and coercion and ballot-box
stuffing explain the Democratic in
crease, and that is the way Alabama
was carried for Tilden.
But Mississippi knocks the persim-
mons: In 1872 the Presidential vote
stood:
1rant (Kep.)'.... ................ ,9l6
OltCltJ ADtlus allu lLts ~ ljl
hep, maj. ........................ ~, 10
The next year, 1873, there was a
Governor to elect, and the Democrats
ran Alcorn, a popular man, who drew
off some Republican votes from Gov.
Ames, who was unpopular, with this
result:
ames (kep.).; ;.........''...'''.. t4i5U.
Alcorn CDem. )............. ,9O4
Rep MAJ l....................-. -...... ~, 4O3
At this election the Democrats did
their " level BEST" and the Republicans
were not fully united, as the vote shows;
still the State went over q 900 Repub-
lican. The colored Republicans alone
constitute more than 10000 majority in
Mississippi.
The Ku-Klux and shotgun companies
took matters in hand in 1876, and made
the following returns of the result in
that State:
lllden (Dem. m.),..................... liz, lI3
Hayes (hep. )...... ....................... 52,6O5
Dem. maj. ......................... 1855
There must have been some lively
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-06-07
"VEGETTNE,"' =

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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-04-25

other roads, that they may know wheth-
er SAID corporations respectively furnish
to the public and each other safe and
convenient accommodations at reason
aoie and proper rates, and perform and
discharge their duties to the government,
the public and each other, and fully per-
form and accomplish the purposes for
which they were established, in accord
ance with the various acts of congress
under which they are organized and
the laws of the land. After consultation
with officers of corporations interested,
SAID commissioners shall proceed to es-
tabllsh rules and regulations to govern
operation and management Of roads of
sad corporations, and shall supervise
observance thereof, so as to afford and
secure to the government and publish
all advantages of inter
travel and transportation over said
roads, as we'll as to secure and enforce
the reciprocal rights and duties of said
corporations, which rules and regula-
tlons shall govern said corporations in
the operation and management of their
respective roads until the same shall be
reversed, altered or annulled by the
said commissioners or by decree of the
circuit or supreme court of the United
States. The bill further and fully de-
tails the method of enforcing the powers
of the commissioners; the commission
ers each toreceive $4,000 per annum,
and be allowed a clerk at $500 per an
mum, and office and incidental expen-
ses; the same to be borne by the rail
roads III proportion to the gross re-
ceipts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-04-25
'IDS, WIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1878.

III wages, and if the masters could not
agree to it they would refer the matter
to arbitration The masters replied,
declining both proposals, and adhering
to their original resolution, namely,
that If strike occurred at anv of
the mills where notice had been
given Of the 10 per cent. reduction,
the remainder of the trade shall
lockout at the earliest possible mo-
ment, and the amount derived from re-
duction at those mills which continue
work shall be applied to fund for as
slstlng those firms whose hands strike.
Notices of reduction expire tomorrow.
A strike. which will affect 10000 opera
tlves, is certain. The cotton operatives
held an open-air meeting at Burnley
to-day. Five thousand persons were
present. The resolution of the mas
ters in regard to the lockout was dis
cussed. The. meeting enthusiastically
reaffirmed its determination to strike
unless the notices of reduction are with
drawn. An amendment in favor of ac-
ceptlng the five per cent. reduction
only found five supporters. A crowded
meeting Of Blackburn spinners also
UNANIMOUSLY refused to accept the re-
duction. About 900 weavers, warp
ers, and winders at Preston unanimous
ly expressed a willingness to accept a
five per cent. reduction. They also re-
solved that all hands would continue at
work until all employers had been in
terviewed. The Blackburn hands have
already begun to come out of the mills.
1t Is stated that such fixed determine
ton to resist the masters, regardless of
the consequences has never before
been evinced at Blackburn during any
previous strike. Four mills have with
drawn notices of reduction. A meeting
of 1900 operatives, at Accrington, Of
fered to submit to 10 per cent. reduc-
ton if the masters ran their mills only
four days per week, and five per cent.
if the mills ran five days. Similar res
olutions were passed at Church, Har-
wood, and Enfield The lowest and latest
estimate of the numbers who would be
affected by the strike is 10000. 1t is
thought that the strike would not much
affect Manchester trade, as there are
vast stocks Of manufactured goods in all
parts of the country. a.-..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-04-25

NAVIGATION. is now resumed on all the
lakes from Duluth to the Atlantic
ocea' and it would seem that the era
of cL cap transportation had pretty near
ly arrived. From the Radvay Age we
learn that wheat is now carried from
Chicago to New York by lake and rail
for l. cents per bushel, and corn for II
cents; wheat by lake and canal for 81.
From Chicago to Buffalo the vessel rate
is as low as sic. for wheat and Sc for
corn. These figures are scarcely one
quarter of the all-rail rates Il few weeks
AGO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-04-25
TREASURY STATEMEN
RECOGNITION OF MEXICO.

An associated press dispatch of the
10th from Washington says the state
department has received information
from Minister Foster that on the 9th
inst, he recognized the Daz govern
ment. A private letter says the recog-
milton was received with general delight
by the citizeus of Mexico.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD COMMISSION BILL
Washington advices of April 18th say
the house Pacific railroad committee
has reported the bill establishing Pa
cifc railroad commission. The bill has
been made the special order for May
9TH. 1t provides that Charles Francis
Adams, Jr., of Massachusetts; Albert
Fink, of Kentucky; Thomas M. Cooley,
of Michigan, and their successors to be
hereafter appointed, are hereby ap-
pointed board of commissioners to be
known and designated as Pacific rail
road commissioners, who shall hold
their offices from the date of enact
ment of this law until three years
from the first day of January next
Before the end of said term
and of each succeeding term
of three years, the president of the
United States shall nominate, and by
and with the advice and consent of the
senate, appoint three commissioners of
the said board, who shall hold their
offices for a term of three years from
the expiration of the preceding term.
In case any vacancy in said board, oc-
curing by declination, resignation, or
otherwise, the president shall in like
manner appoint a commissioner for
residue of the term and he may in
like manner remove any commissioner.
One of the commissioners OF said board
shall be skilled in the management and
operation of railroads. Said board of
commissioners shall have general super
vision of the roads of the Central
Pacific railroad company, the Union
Pacific railroad company, the Kansas
Pacific railroad company, the Denver
Pacific railroad company, the Sioux
City Pacific railroad company,
the Burlington & Missouri Pacific rail
road company, the Western Pacific and
the Central Branch of the Union Pacif-
ic railroad company and of all rail
road corporations which shall here
after receive any aid in lands, bonds or
credit by act of congress granting the
same, renewing or continuing any grant
heretofore made. Said board shall
have its office in the city of Omaha,
state of Nebraska, where its records
shall be kept. Itshall be the duty of
said commission, from time to time as
often as need be, to examine the sew
eral roads of said corporations, and
their books and papers, and to in
form themselves of the conditions of
said roads, of their rolling stock,
stations and station-houses, and of
the manner In which they are opelat-
ed, and of the rates and charges
for which they transport freight and
passengers, and of their connections
and relations with each other and with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-04-25

CONGRESSMAN WOOD, who is the cham
pion of the proposed new tariff law, has
succeeded, after three days struggle,
in postponing until May 10th the action
of the house of representative upon the
senate resolution to adjourn sine die
June 18th. As the action upon this
resolution was made test of the
strength of the tariff party, the vote is
important. The vote to postpone the
resolution to May 10th stood ayes, 129;
nays, 113. This indicates that the tariff
bill will pass the house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-04-25

TIE state of Indiana is soon to be the
field of another political conflict; the
politicians are already at work. The
state elect a full delegation to congress
and legislature, which chooses a sue
cessor to Voorhees, in the United States
senate. This latter is where the great
contest will turn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-04-25

GOLD is being paid out in many pla-
ces in the country along with silver
and greenbacks. The legal tender sill
yer dollar is, however quoted at a frac-
ton above gold, and the greenback a
fraction below.