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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

The supplement circulated in the Regis
ter and the other Democratic papers, last
week, is the spawn of the Democratic
leaders who met at Columbus, week be-
fore last, as 1t was understood,' to shove
Mr., Converse off the track for Congress; /;
but, finding that Mr.. Converse would not
shove, the next thing to do was to SLAM
der and vilify the character of Mr.. Eng
lish to the extent of their ability, The
supplement referred to is the result of
their sitting. This is their last dying
struggle-their eyes are sot.--
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03
The Bursted Secret Caucus.

The Democratic secret caucus to devise
means to prevent the United States Su-
pervisors from interfering with Demo-
cratic repeaters was correctly reported in
the Gazette, not verbatim in all, but cor
rect in the ideas expressed, the spirit of
the remarks, and much of the language.
This revelation of the inwardness of the
Democratic party has sent a sensation
through its intestines, and has stirred up
much recrimination and ill feeling. It
will be noticed that in nearly every SEN
tence of the speakers were charges against
the party fidelity of some named Demo-
cratic officer, from Sheriff through all the
administrative boards of the city, the
Police Board, Public Works, Fire Com
missioners, County Clerk, County Com
missioners, and every other officer or
| board. All were charged with employ
ing or not discharging Republicans; all
were blank blanked, and all were threat
ened. In the hurried writing out of his
shorthand, our reporter forgot to state
that the caucus ordered the campaign CON-
mittee to meet the Police Commissioners
| yesterday afternoon, to see about putting
every Republican off the force, and filling
it up wholly with Democrats who would
do the party work at the election.-CiR-
cinnGti Gazette.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

IT is against law and justice for sher-
ifs to charge an auctioneers fee for selling
property on execution. Yet we are reli-
ably informed that Sheriff Smith in at
least two cases charged the party six dol
lars in each case.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03
Another Base Falsehood!

We are reliably Informed that certain
parties in the political interest of Sheriff
Smith, have originated a story that the
Republican Central Committee of this
county have held meeting for the pur-
pose of Withdrawing Major Cook from the
ticket for the Sherifalty. This falsehood,
as we learn, is being fndustriously circu-
lated in sections of the county where it is
thought it cannot be timely and success
fully controverted. The whole thing is
bare-faced lie. No such meeting has
been held, and there is no such desire to
to have Major Cook withdraw from the
contest. His friends have every reason
to believe that he will be triumphantly
elected. They know him to have been a
good soldier and an honest, worthy man,
and they, intend to eight it out on that
line"
These falsehoods to which we have re-
| ferred show the desperation of Smith S
friends, and their willingness to circulate
ISLANDERS and do any amount of dirty work
that they think will answer their purpos-
es of deception, and their determination
to succeed, by any means, in the election
! of their candidate.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03
ACE GREGG, Secretary

REPUBLICANS, examine your tickets
well before you deposit them. See that
the names of the candidates are all on the
ticket, and that they are spelled correctly.
See that the middle name or initial in each
candidates name is correct, and that a
wrong initial has not been purposely sub
stituted, in order to destroy the ticket
Compare your tickets with the one pub.
lshed in the HERALD, which is correct.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

WE believe it is violation of law for
a Sheriff to charge a judgment-debtor
with the expenses of transporting ap-
pIaisers of real estate to the ground to be
appraised. This, we are informed, Sher-
iff Smith does. s... ...
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

Chicago Tribune: 'sThe Chinese must
go. They have raised 81 200 in San Fran
cisco and forwarded it for the reliefof the
yellow fever suffers of the South. Such
competition with honest labor is enough
to fire the heart of the LATEST hoodlum. -
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

THE people have had about enough of
Os. Smiths mismanagement and bun
Cling in the sherif's office to know that
he is miserable failure. Now, let us
elect MAJ. Cook, and if he should do no
better than Smith has done, we'll turn
him out and try another man.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

A LITTLE investigation into the fee-bills
of those who have been so unfortunate as
to have costs to pay for Sheriff g services
may lead to something to their pecuniary
advantage.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

The people of Jefferson township have
not forgotten Sheriff Smiths crooked
transactions in the sale of Henry Kirk's
personal property.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

SOME of the Democrats, who never vote
for anybody but a Democrat, are pretend
ing that they intended to vote for Major
Cook before the article appeared in the
HERALD stating the fact that Sheriff
Smith had purchased valuable real estate
and taken the deeds in other than his own
name, and are crying persecution, :" and
charging us with trying to crush the bus
iness character of young man. In the
article referred to we have stated nothing
but the truth; and the Register, after all
its bluster and mock sympathy for Smith,
! acknowledges the charge to be true, but
denies the correctness of the differences.
As regards design or wish to crush the
character of young man, the charge is
utterly false. We presume that we have
in our lifetime benefited and assisted
double the number of young men to place
and prominence that Mr.. Kerr has. Long
! have yet to learn that it is persecution, or
| injustice to the public interests, to pub
| lish the glaring imPerfections and official
misdeeds and blunderings of public off,
cials, old or young. Now, while we are
upon this subject, we will take occasion
to say that as some reckless opponents ot
Major Cook charge him with being in
strumental in having the fact in relation
to the peculiar manner in which Sheriff
Smith takes deeds to real estate publish
ed in the HERALD three weeks ago, it is
due him to say that Maj. Cook never
knew anything about it until it was pub
lished. and if those statements were want.
ing in truth (Which they are not), Major
Cook is not responsible or to blame fol
them iniany way, shape or manner.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

THE editor of the Register is giving him
self great deal of unnecessary uneasi-
ness about Mr.. English's views on finance
and temperance. We don't believe it is
any Of the editors. business what Mr..
English's views are upon these subjects,
he would not vote for him if he was as
pure as the saints immortal, if he was
not the nominee of the Democratic party
and if he were as pure as these old an
clients, his purity would be bar against
his receiving the Democratic nomination
Now, Mr.. Register, hadn'tyou better at.
tend to your own State kettle of fish, and
let the Republicans manage their own
political canvass?
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

We don't believe with Mr.. Millikan,
when he more then intimates that any
husband who puts piece of property in
his wife name is a scOundrel, preparing
to rob his creditors.-RegiSter.
We neither said nor intimated any such
thing; nor do we believe it, under all
circumstances; there may be, and we
think there are exceptions to this rule.
But, suppose we were the Sheriff or Coun-
ty Treasurer of the county, and had come
into the office when we were not pucuni
arily worth a hundred dollars-and you
were on our official bond-and after
receiving 1000 dollars on our sal ary We
should turn real estate speculator, and as
fast as we bought piece of property we
should have the deeds to the same taken
in the name of cur wife or somebody else,
what would you think would be the OBJ
| ject of SO strange transaction? Would
| it not be a fair conclusion to suppose that
l we had fraudulent designs in view at some
time, when financial troubles might come
upon us? And would you not feel a lit
tie uneasy in your boots of your liability
on our bond? No, sir, you could not
avoid it, and you would not be likely, by
your vote, to continue us in the office, in
view of this suspicious circumstance
Suppose our present County Treasurer
should, during his present term in office
be found putting his property out of his
hands, and should at the end of his term
ask the people to re-elect him, have you
any idea that the people, under such cir
cumstances, would be willing to trus
their money in his hands for another
term? The suspicious circumstance i
not in purchasing property, always, bu
it is in the fact that when he has purchas
ed it he has the deeds made in anothe
PERSONS name
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

Os. SMITH started off in this campaign
for the sheriffa1ty with as much brass
and assurance that he was going to be re
elected as though the people were lot
of slaves and he had the power,to control
their votes. The young men, especially,
he claimed as his supporters, with as
much confidence as if he had chattel-
mortgage upon them. We apprehend,
however, that the voters of this county
will do their own voting, and show Mr..
Smith that he is not their proprietor, and
that he has not their votes to let..
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

IF Mr.. MiIlikan votes the entire county
and district ticket this fall, will he be
voting the temperance ticket throughout
'-RegiSter.
If the carpet-bag editor of the Register
was legal voter in this county, and
should vote the entire county and district
Democratic ticket this fall, would he be
voting the temperance ticket throughout ?
And. if he should vote the ticket through
out, would his vote be consistent with his
high pretensions for temperance, morali-
ty and Sabbath-schOol teaching? We
only ask for Information,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

SOMEBODY has written letter from
this place to Saturdays Cincinnati En-
Qutrer, giving the following items of po-
litical information to the Democratic or
gan of Southern Ohio: "Hon. Charles
Palmer, Democratic nominee for Judge
of Common Pleas Court for Ross, High
land and Fayette, is expected to run ahead
of the ticket. His election is almost GER
tain. Converse will carry this county by
small majority. Many Republicans are
soured on English for the way Mills Card
ner was snubbed in the Convention, and
will vote for Converse" Much as the Re-
publicans of this county desired the NOM
ination of Mr.. Gardner,n Republican in
this county will vote for Converse, be-
cause Mr.. Gardner was not nominated
Fayette county is good for from 400 to
500 Republican majority, and we advise
sporting Democrats, if they don't want
to lose their tin, they had better not stake
it on a Democratic majority in Fayette
county. The statement of the Enquirer is
wholly unreliable and is made to deceive
the voters of other counties in reference
to Republican vote in Fayette. No DEM
ocrat in this county is verdant enough to
believe that Smith, for Sheriff, or Palmer,
for Judge, or Converse, for Congress, can
get majority of votes in this county.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03

BREMEN, UctoDer Ist, 1878.
sWM. BURNETT Jim Cook ate supper
at my house at O'Clock [Saturday eve
ning], and left for home as sober as a
judge. B. H. BURNETT. y
We warn the voters of the county to be
on the lookout for more, and perhaps
worse ISLANDERS, upon the eve of the cleo
tion, when the perpetrators think their
deeeptions are put out in a manner that
they cannot be detected until it is too late
will resort to any trick or misrepresenta-
tion that they think will subserye their
ends.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-10-03
GEO. I. BAILEY.
G. GARIs.
7 w GuTFSpTE

Sworn to and subscribed in my pres
ence this, the 1st day of October, A. D.
1873. E. W. WELSHEIMER,
[sEALl Clerk.
Mr.. BENZ. Burnett, who was on his way
to Pittsburg with lot of cattle, was tel
egraphed to on Tuesday, in relation to
this charge against Major Cook, of being
drunk on Saturday evening last, and on
the same day Mr.. Burnett telegraphed
to his relative, as follows:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-25


TIE Supreme Court has adjourned for
q week.
TaE days and nights are Of equal
length.
EARLY peas and potatoes are being
planted.
THE "cold snap" will interrupt garden
making.
A DEER ia to be wheeled for at Frank
Walters on Thursday next.
TINS is the season OF the year that the
doctors have their harvest.
THERE was another whitewaah at The
police court on Saturday morning.
The "Phoenix" company will play at
Library Hall, Pittsburgh, this week.
The County Board Of Equalization
will meet at the Court House this morn
ing.
-Four marriage licenses were granted
last week by the Clerk Of the County
Court.
THE firm Of Liuch & Thompson, attor-
neys, has been dissolved. Mr., Thompson
has left the city.
The prospects are fair for the biggest
wheat crop ever known. The grumblers
will have 10 stand aside.
An irate citizen aska: "Can any one
tell why horse,cars are always going the
other wayH' We give it up.
The first fishing party Of the season
went up the creek on Saturday and put
in a solid day in piscatotial sports.
MEssRs. HARPER Bros. have laid on our
table a copy Of the Hat, Cap and Fur
Trade ReuicD for the month Of March.
The entertainment Of the Wheeling
Cadets Sixth Ward pupils) will be re.
peated at Washington Hall tomorrow
evening.
EVE was the only woman who
never threatened to 60 and live with her
mamma, and Adam was the only man
who never tantaliEed his wife about the
way his mother used TO cook.
THE lynching Of John Wallace, the
Wetzel county murderer, wSs the all alb.
sorbing subject Of conversation in the
city yesterday. The universal verdict
was "seryed him right"
Tnp summer hotel opposite Frank
Walters Two.Mile House Ia rapidly up.
proAehing completion. twill be known
as the Belleyiew House, and will be
opened to the public about the first oil
May.
In selecting seeds Of any kind always
be sure that you select the best and the
ones that will yield the beat returns. II
don't require any more labor 10 cultivate
good products than ii does to cultivate
bad ones.
TRAvEIERs who arrived in the city
yesterday Via the B. 4 o. Road report
The lynched murderer, Wallace, "a hang.
ing 10 q tree In full view Of the passen.
gers, near the railroad track, q short dis.
lance from Burton.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-25

BE11ArRE LOCALS. - Messrs. F. ].
Smith and Mehallen Campbell, whose
house was destroyed by the burning Of
Nlcholls planning mill, are rebuilding.
Master Commissioner Charlesworth
offered the Centennial Hotel at public
sale again Saturday, but failed to get any
The entertainment at ziich's Hall on
Saturday evening, for the benefit OF st.
Cecilia Band, was witnessed by q large
audienoe,and netted the band handsome
sum.
Several ladies and gentlemen from
Wheeling assisted the Bellaire choirs at
the temperance meeting Saturday night.
The Mite Society for the benefit OF the
Missionary Sabbath School, meets at the
residence Of Mrs. Runyau, on Gravel
Hill, tonight.
We understand the Nationals have re-
iected Cooper, their nominee for Mayor.
As yet no further nomination has been
made.
Mr., james Hockinburg has announced
himself as a candidate for Mayor, "inde.
pendent Of all parties.n
Mr.. John Christal will sever his con-
nection with the B. & o. stock yards on
the first Of April, and remove TO his farm
back Of Wheeling. A gentleman from
Parkersburg, W. Va, whose name we
failed TO learn, succeeds him.
Our town has certsinly improved in
morals since the commencement OF the
temperance revival. There hasn't been q
case before the Mayor for the last three
days.
The crowd at the calico social on Fri.
day night was even more dense than The
night before. The receipts for the evening
were over $500.
The Republicans Of Pnltney township
met IN convention at the City Hall on
Saturday afternoon. The convention was
called 70 order by eleoting Mr.. ]. B
Smith, President,and Mr.. james Tallman,
Secretary; after which nominations fol-
Justice OF the Peace were called for,
John Oswald and Joel Strahl were nam
ed, and the ballot resulted: Oswald 8,
Strahl 81. Three trustees, John ]. Powell
joshua Keyser and Charles Henry were
nominated by reclamation. Robert
W. Nelson was nominated FOL
Treasurer also by reclamation
For Clerk, Solomon Arbenz, by accl ANA
ton. There were two candid ates fol
Township Assessor, Thos. Garrett and
John Mcfarland. The ballot stood, Gar
rett 4, Mcfarland 2; none but those liv.
ing outside the corporate limits voting
N. II. Rowles, Geo. o. Robinson and
John R. Tesbet were candidates for Con.
stables, and as two were to be nominated
the Convention chose Rowles and Robin
son, the latter on the second ballot.
The temperance Meeting Saturday night
was addressed by Messrs. Cracraft and
Baggs, OF Wheeling, and Col. Ferguson, Of
Cambridge, Ohio. About thirty signed
the pledge. Mr.. Dunbar took his leave
OF us on that night, and vote Of thanks
was rendered him for his valuable ser
vices here in the temperance cause.
A prayer meeting was held in the Dis
ciples' Church yesterday afternoon, al
which Mr.. E. B. Winans announced that
the ladies Of the Temperance Union were
determined to keep up the meetings, and
that II was very likely they would have
a speaker here from Columbus to.nighI
in place Of Mr.. Dunbar.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-25
River News.

On Saturday the steamer oNeal de-
parted for Pittsburgh at z A. n, and the
Courier for Parkersburg ut 10l N.
The short line packets arrived at noon,
and departed for their respective des-
tinations ut 3 o'clock.
The Hudson departed for Cincinnati
at 5 o'clock.
The Salt Valley, from Ironton, and the
Carrie Brooks, from Z~anesyille, passed up
The stockdale, from Cincinnati, passed
up yesterday morning at about 9o'clock.
There was s feet 8 inches in the chan
mel last evening. Weather stormy, snow
ing and cold.
The Mallie Ragon is to-day's packet
for Parkersburg at 103 o'clock.
The Andes will arrive from Cincinnati
at noon to-day.
lBy Telegraph
ST. LOUIS, March 24.-Arrived-Gold
Dust, Memphis. Departed = Kinney,
Kansas City. River fallen 8 inches 10
feet 2 inches above low water. Weather
clear and cool.
NEW ORLEANS, March A.-Weather
cloudy and warm. Arriyed-Susie Sill
yer, 81, Louis; Kate Kinney, Red river.
EVANSVILLE, March 24.-wea.her
clear. River 10 4.1O feet and falling fast
JPN. Smith, Etna and tow, Fashion,
Cons. Millar, Fred. Wilson and tow
Down-Donnally, Grand Lake, Laura L
Davis, Grey Eagle, Bowling Green. Bus
mess rather light.
V%IoKsBuRe, March N.-Up-John B
Maude. Down-C.P p. Chateau.
LOUISVILLE, March 2.-Weather cleal
and cold. Departed-James D. Parker
Memphis; Golden Rule, New Orleans
Mary Houston, Cincinnati. River fall
ing; z feet inches In canal.
CrNcIsHAT1, March 24.-Riyer 20 fee
8 inches and falling. Arriyed-Granit,
State and Barnard, Pittsburgh; Whal
and tow Wheeling; Golden City, Ne,
Orleans. Departed-Granite State Pitts
burgh; Barnard and Whale, st. Louis.
MEMpHIs, March 24.-River fallini
steadily. Acknowledgment, New Or
leans. Departed-Golden Crown, New
Orleans; City OF Helena, St. Louis.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-25

PULPIT PoMr.-Rey. Father Collins
celebrated mass at St. Alphonsus Church
yesterday. Al 10 A. NJ. he preached upor
"The Will OF God Your Sanctiication.'
Thsre were sixty.seven accessions Ia
the North Street NJ. E. Church during
the recent revival.
During the revival at Wesley NJ. E,
Church, which is still in progress, there
have been 1856 accesaions.
Rev. E. Fl. Jenkyns preached at Wiese
Hall yesterday morning and evening
Rev. Jenkyns, who comes from The
church OF England, will probably become
the pastor OF the Reformed Episcopal
Church Of this city.
A young mems prayer meeting is to be
held at the Zane Street NJ. Z. Church THU
evening.
"The American Pagan" was the sub
ject Of Rev. Georges sermon at the
Fourth Street NJ. E. Church.
Rev. Faubel, OF Bellaire, occupied The
pulpit Of the German NJ. E. Church yes
terday.
Rev. G. G. Fritsche is at B~aresyille at
tending court meeting Of the German NJ
f. Church.
To day will be a holiday. OF Obligation
in the Catholic Churches. Services will
be held al Q 80 and 10 A. NJ.
Tomorrow evening the superintend'
ents and teachers OF all the Sabbath
Schools in The city will meet in the base
ment room Of the Uniterd Presbyterian
Church on Chapline street to organize.
The subject OF discourse at the English
Evangelical Lutheran Church yesterday
morning was 1.-THE Little Missionary
from 2 Kings, v, %. Ths Sunday
School lesson was No. 12, Of the lnterna-
tional Series, the theme being "Manas-
sch Brought to Repentance" Chron,
xxi, 9-lG. The evening sermon was
IAN invitation to 60 on u Pilgrimage
from Numbers <, 20. "Come thou with
US and we will do thee good"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-25

souAI1y WEATHER. = The squally
weather predicted by the IsrELLIdENoER
q few dayssince came TO hand yesterday,
A sharp thunder storm set in about 3 a.
M. and continued for an hour or so, after
which the weather gradually became
colder. During the greater part OF the
day a binding snow storm prevailed,
much 10 the annoyance OF those persons
who ycntured out, The snow, however,
melted almost "a rapidly az II fell, and
the earth was very thinly covered, indeed,
by her white garment. On Satnr.
day the thermometer indicated Coz
above zero, but by last evening the mer-
curry had descended to 24'. II Is not
thought that the cold snap has as yet
done any damage TO the frnit or the grow.
Ing crops. II will not continue long, and
within a day or so We expect to see the
skies as bright and the sun as warm
as during the pleasant days Of last week.