The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-08-30

man Singleton that the latter sought him
out and asked him how be could reward
him. At Dixon's suggestion he procured a
place in the Treasury for q younger brother.
If jefferson Davis is not candidate for
the United States Senate perhaps he would
accept an independent nomination for
sheriff of Yazoo county.
There are soventy-six Republican speak
ers on the stump in Maine. They are trying
TO demelish the Greenbaek Frankenstein
whom they invented,
Colonel Harper, a ranting GreenbacRer
now on the stump in Maine, frightens the
country with this utterance: "Let the Re-
pubicans be warned. Revolution is the
natural weapon Of the common people, If
we fail at the ballot box then tell them to
beware Of the other remedy, the cartridge
boxp
"A convention Of eoloTed men al Terre
Haute, lud., last week, adopted a resolution
demanding the repeal Of the Indiana law
forbidding the inter marriage Of blacks and
whites, as Inconsistent with the constitu-
tional amendment the Unsted states which
gives us full right as citizens, without regard
to race or color"
If the Maine Greenbackers bring out as
full vote in that state as some of them did
in the Greenback Convention Of Somerset
county the other day their hopes of success
may be fulfilled. The committee on creden-
tials of the convention reported 90 delegates.
On the first ballot 167 votes were cast and on
another 2O6 votes.
The postmaster at Logansport Ind, is
transGxed on the horns of politico- religious
dilemma. He belongs to the Presby
church. The United States postoilice au
thoritles say that Mr.. Talbot shall keep his
postoffice open at least one hour on Sunday
The church authorities say that he cannot
do so and be good Presbyterian. Hence
Mr.. Talbot, like Desdemona, sees divided
duty.
The Democrats in Texas are in real ter.
pidation lest the Greenbackers who have
absorbed the Republican vote shall carry
the state. A letter of Representative Rea
gan is printed which predicts defeat unless
, the Democrats awake from their apathy
The Greenbackers have skillfully concillat
ed the large German vote in the state by
r advocating free schools and denouncnl
Sunday laws.
The Kearneyites in California though
that they had outwitted the holders of mort
, cages by imposing a tax of two per centun
Oh the face value of the instrument, ant
t making the lender pay it instead ofthe Dor
rover who paid it under the old system
The savings banks and other lenders hav
e accordingly advanced the rate of interes
[ two per centum, and so the borrower pay
the tax the same as before.
John W. Neatly, Greenbacker @
t Monroe, Maine, has found that it pays +
e read the newspapers. He asserted at
> meeting the other day that greenbacks ant
e gold were not interchangeable, and olIere
. ten dollars to any man who would give hir
v gold for $500 in greenbacks which he had
a The offer was promptly accepted and Nj
# Neatly stopped discussion of that branch {
v the greenback question.
Colonel Harper, the rash Greenbac
: talker in Maine, has beon cornered agar
= At a meeting in Gardiner he said: "I'm s
= confident that resumption is a failure tbs
7 friu tn ha bn t,ylll ulni
n me one instance of a manufacturer payin
+ his hands in gold" Thereupon manulat
&c turer got up and said that he had paid h
hands in gold for three months. But h
If couldn't get Harper to pay over the promi
to ed money.
in The Vicksburg (Miss) "Herald," ;" whc
,e is fighting so courageously against politics
,t intimidation in Mississippi, has some oppo
r. lite words for the renewed advocacy of IL
state rights dogma at the South. 1t woul
be hard to put the argument against sta
sovereignty in better form than the Hera
3 does when it says; "These doctrines we
= all discussed millions of times before Il
war, and the discussions brought on the wa
rs and the war settled them forever in con
mon sense, blunt, never-to-be- iorgottt
-. manner. 1t settled them in manner tn
any man of ordinary intelligence may u
r derstand. The Union was not made as
limited partnership, and one ofits compo
ent parts may not secede from it or break
- up, because the whole is greater than al
of its parts. The states, for local convenient
! have all the rights and liberties guarante
them that it is to the interest of represc
tative central government for them to ha,
but in the event of any conflict of authori
-, the power of the national government
stronger than that of any state. The sal
- guards and projections to the states rest
the representative form of the governmel
!. the courts and the ballot. So long as the
possess their present power all this whin
about states rights and state sovereignty
IS intolerable nonsense"