Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-29

Are These WOrkingmen?
Sixty years ago my father went from MasSa-
chusetts to Ohio with young wife and three
boys. In few years four girls were added
and another boy. My father, Sc years old, has
always been hard worker ON the same farm
and the oldest daughter is a farmers wife, The
other six children, by hard work at farming.
making furniture, washing dishes, making
Clothes teaching school and lecturing, with
the aid OF their hard working, elfdenying pa
rents IN all graduated from college The sons
leges and one professor. The daughters mar
ried preachers and professors. All are work
ing according to their capacity physically aud
children, two are farmers and one farmers
wife. Seven are professors and two professors
wives. None OF us are able to live without
labOring class. We all sought, with great ear
nestness the emancipation OF the most OPP
pressed la6orers OF our country. We have no
or below labor. Now are we all entitled to a
place in the. workingmen's party? We all
think so; we have no other place to go. None
own bonds. We wished We were when our
country needed to sell bonds. We belong to
the laborlng class; we have no other place.
thing that opposes them Yet We Up an without
exception, abOminate the principles, the spirit,
the measures and the men that control the so:
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WV S'NSNSf OVepOSO'
A BEAUTIFUL GIRLS VIOLENT DEArH.-A
saddest calamity that ever befel our little vii
lage occurred this morning at about O'Clock,
MISS IAN; Annie k9berg being accidentally shot
Captain F. II. Pratt. of this village 1t hap
pened as follows: Miss Ruberg, daughter of
John Ruberg, OF this place, was at Mr.. Pratt's
store to purchase some ribbons, and Miss
Oracle Pratt was attending to the store all
alone. The girls stood chatting and laughing
ogether, examining the ribbon, when Oracle
sspied small cartridge pistol on the shelf be-
hind her, and, thinking to show 1t to Annie,
handed it down but just as it struck the coun-
er the hammer hit something which caused it
o GO of while tue pistol was within foot or
head on the right side. She fell forward upon
utter word. Miss Pratt uttered scream after
family what had happened. The neighbOrs
and people, hearing the shot and the scream
ing, ran into the store Mr.. Ruberg with them.
recovered her senses. The body was taken to
the Swedish Lutheran church, and the sad
news communicated as gentle as possible to
mother is nearly bereft of her senses, raying
Historically and calling her daughter. Miss
Pratt, who unfortunately was the cause of the
untimely death Of her schoolmate, and her
mother, Mrs. Pratt, are nearly crazy with
grief. Annie was just fourteen years old, and
budding into wOmanhood-a beautiful, good
and beloved by all.
BETTER THAN AN ARMY OF DRUMMERs.-
We mean no disparagement to commercial
travellers when we say that an advertisement
in widely circulated newspaper is better
than an army OF drummers. The drummer
speaks With miraculous organ but to a limit.
ed audience. He must eat and drink and
sleep. He is mortal. The newspaper can be
in dfty thousand places in one day. 1t can
n a fhHuS2nd of
lime. 1t has no set times nor seasons, but
comes every day smiling to its work. Steam
and lightning. are its ministers. The sign
board is good in its way circulars are read by
the curious and by the innocent; drummers
sometimes make sales; there are hundred
ways OF OF reaching for trade, but there is one
channel of general information. Those who
fail to use il get no hold upon the moving
world. Business men who have business, and
who keep il, ADVERTISED hila. Record.
WHAT. A SQUIRREL REvEALEp-On the
anfy Of ss sne t5 eat huntington
dria: Years ago in and about the village lived
wild and evil man, the terror of the country,
known as Lewis, the robber." Many night
traveller lost his gold, and many wagner on
the old fittsburg and Philadelphia pike was
bereft by force of his valuabes. Last week
two gentlemen Vent out hunting on Short
Mountain, mile or two west of town. They
shot squirrel which, wounded, ran into the
trunk of large oak. What was their surprise
when graSplng into the hollow trunk for their
game to discover an old Dutch oven full OF
Spanish doubloens, Mexican dollars, English
sOvelelgnS and other coins, all dated previous
to the year 1920. Several packages of papers
were found which crumbled to dust as soon as
touched. Their glittering wealth, which they
divided between them, amounted to- several
thousand dol lars. 1t is supposed that all this
wealth was deposited in the tree by Lewis
the robber. altoona PA Tribune, dug. e.
How GEORGIA WAS MADE DEMocRAr1c-
Our only safety was in intimidation and
bribery. We had either to do that Or let the
commonwealth go to the dogs. 1t was not
shot gun that l used in my district, but the
argument of the shot bag. 1t was unanswer.
able. An old negro named Isaac helped me
out wonderfully when first used the Shotbag.
Isaac had belonged to me, and he was willing
to do whatever told him. The style in which
he dispensed largeSSe from the ShOt-bag aston.
lshed the federal officials who were watching
the election, and brought about a wholesome
and decided change in the politics of the COL
Ored voter. L never yet saw a negro" con-
tlnued the General, laughing, that wasn't in
favor Of sound currency and hard money,
But It's too early to be talking about who
saved the state. The republican party was
defeated by the man who stood at the polls
early and late and brought order out OF chaos
with bribery. Yes, sir bribery, pure and sim.
PIE: say it was right-lBob 1oopsbs to an
Interviewer.
A@GOOd spirits are often taken for nature
yet nothing differs more, inSenSibility being
generally the source Of the former, and sensi