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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
Passage of the Bill for the Settlement Of
the Virginia state Debt-The
Trial Of POfudexCer.

RICHMOND, Va, March 24.-The Senate bill
for the settlement OF the State debt passed
the House to-day by a vote OF rs to so. The
afternoon papers are iubilant over the pass
age OF the bill.
The trial OF John Z. Poindexter for tne
homicide of Curtis was resumed In the Hust-
inos Court to-day. The first witness was
Mcclure, young lawyer, who accompanied
the deceased to the factory. The case Is
still on
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
WEATHER PROBABILITIES

WASHINGTON. March 2s Ia. m.-For tho Eas.
Gulf states warmer. clear or partly clondv
weather, light variable winds and nearly sta,
warmer. clear or partly cloudy weather, Iioht
variable winds. most southerly and stationary
or lower barometer.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
How the Question OF the Removal Of
the French Capital IN viewed
I'm

LONDON, March GA dispatch from Paris
says that the shop-keepers, hotel proprietors
and business people generally, are strongly
In favor OF the measure for enabling the As
sembly to sit In Paris instead OF at Versailles
but there exists fear that the populsce Of
Paris, In future as In the past, might seek to
overawe the Assembly and bring pressure
upon it.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
A European Governor for Eastern Rou.
melia.

LONDON, March pa Tirnova dispatch
says: M Gueshoff, the leading Bulgarian
inhabitant of .Phillippolis, has started for the
European capitals to endeavor to obtain some
modification of the present arrangement for
the government Of Eastern Roumelia. He
has been advised to confine his effort to the
single point of securing European Governor
for the province. This would be a fair COM
promise and would probably prevent any
serious Outb pak
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
Arrested for Embezz,ement.

WEgrCHEsTER, Pa. March W.-Vanvick
Bull, ex-deputy register OF Wills OF Chester
pS'y s50oo bai liz charged with being accessory to
the embezzIement Of G.. II. Paxton, late regis
fer OF wills. The arrest was made on the
complaint OF two OF Paxton's securities.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
RebufT for the Protectionists.

LONDON, March 24.-The renewal OF the
commercial treaty between England and
France which would have expired In 1880, but
which Is now placed In force again Tor ten
traders and a severe repulse to the protection
iSt party
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25

People are dying every day OF throat and lung
complaints who nis ht be- saved by timely and
persevering use OF the New Louisiana Remedy.
That remarkable product OF our swamDs Ia
everywhere winning golden opinions.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25

charleston News and Courier.I

The South will support, Of course, the nomf-
nee OF the Democratic convention. whoever
he may be, but 1t will take considerable pull
ing and hauling to bring Southern Demo-
Gratis up to the point Of voting for Tilden as
universally a5 they would vote for either
Bayard or Thurman.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25

Providence, r. l., March 24-The House Of
Representatives were engaged on the woman's
suffrage question this morning. Many ladies'
were present to hear tine debate. After con-
siderable discussion it was voted to indefinite
ly postpone the whole subject, and the woman
suffragists left the Legislature much cha
0rined at their defeat.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
No COnprGmise retween Hayes and the
Dem0crat ic CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, March 24.-After consulting
with the different Cabinet officers the eoncu-
sion is irresistible that there Is no foundation
for the story published In the Washington
Republican,, OF this date, relative to a COM
promise having been effected between the
President and the dominant party In Con-
gress Oh the subject Of the national election
laws.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
treaty OF Berlin respecting Eastern Bulgaria
and lively correspondence is proceeding.
Ths nistrssssa WsaYsrs sf Rnuen.

PARIS, March pa meeting Of 10000 dis
tressed weavers and spinners was held ut
Rouen to-day. Speeches were made regard
ing the depressed condition OF trade and reso-
lutions were adopted petitioning the govern
ment to inquire into the prevalent distress
existing In the district.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
A VILrl0l singer,

BALTIMORE, Md, March 24.-Mrs Mary
Kerchner, a good looking woman of forty, Is
now in Jail for dashing CUP full Of vitriol In
the face OF John Scheneth and binding him.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
Russia Endeavoring tn Change the Treaty
of nerltn.

LONDON, March 25-A dispatch from
Vienna says that Russia Is strenuously
endeavoring to obtain an alteration OF the
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25

Three hundred quarts of strawberries from
Florida arrived at New York by steamer
from Charleston, S. O., on Tuesday, and were
sold at from 81 to 81 Is quart.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25
THE TENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
The Regular Democratic Nominees, Caf
fiery and Kirkman, klected.
Especial TO the Democr


LAKE CHARLES, March A.-Full official re-
turns Of the Tenth Senatorial District have
been received. The Democratic nominees,
Don Caffery, Of st. Mary, and DIR. Kirkman,
of Calcasieu, are elected.
GEO II, WELLS
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-25

A Great Fire at Akyab.
CALCUTTA, March 24.-A great fire Is raging
In Akyab.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
General Laud ONCE Report.

The annual report of the General
Office has been handed in to the Secre-
tary of the Interior. 1t shows hat dur
ing the fiscal year ended June so last,
9 1888, 1858 acres of public lands were dis.
posed-of, and 9,484, 996 acres were sur
veyed, in addition to 734, SOL ,236 acres
previously surveyed. The total number
of acres Of the public domain still I'M
surveyed is about 1,0S1, 600, 900 acres.
The disposals were mainly as follows:
Homestead entries; 5,260;111 acres;
timber culture entries, 2,766, 574; cash
entries, 622, 574 acres (including 165, 996
acres entered under the desert land
law; grants to railroads, 278, 1874
acres; swamp lands patented to
States, 1888 other grants to States, 1885,
1872 acres. The amount of land surveyed
in the last fiscal year exceeds by 414,-
769 acres the total area surveyed in the
preceding twelve months, and while the
report shows q falling off of some 773,.
600 acres in cash sales, State selections,
scrip locations, and lands patented for
railroad grants, the increase in the area
taken up by settlers under the home
stead and timber culture law has been
sufficient not only to counterbalance
this falling off. but to make the aggre-
gate disposals for the year greater by
647, 204 aces than the total for the pre-
yiOus year.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
Grant mt Chicago.

The reception extended to General
Grant On his arrival at Chicago on the
18th inst was evidently a grand affair.
The city was flooded with people from
all parts of the country and everybody
was wild with enthusiasm. When we
consider the length OF the procession
five miles long-studded by a wilder
ness Ct banners, flags, etc.. and deluged
with music and torrents of eloquence,
then we know that so far as the word
"boom" goes, in the matter of de-
monstration, the Pacific coast in
all its wild shouts, clatter and
whoopee, did not begin to compare
in gush to that great City of Mort
cages. Mayor Harrison delivered the
welcome address frcm the rotunda of the
Palmer House, which, after being ap-
plauded in the usual way, was re-
sponded 70 by Grant as follows:
"Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen of the Commit
tee of Reception of Chicago, Gentlemen Of Chi
eago and Of Illinois: I feel very much hon.
ored by the reception which l am receiving
at your hands to-day. I feel highly honorcd
by the pledge of welcome which has been ut
tered by your worthy Mayor, which is some
thing SO personal to myself it would be hardly
in good taste for me to respond to the language
of it, and it leaves, therefore, nothing for me
to do but to convey my thanks to this Com
mittee of citizens of this city for the hearty re-
ception which they have given me. To one al
fusion, my reception abroad, I will say that in
every case L felt thatit was a tribute to our own
country. I will add, further, that our country
stands differently abroad in the estimation OF
European and Eastern nations from what il
did a quarter of a century ago. An American
citizen is regarded in a different light from
the American citizen of a quarter of a century
ago. At that time it was believed we had nc
nation-it was merely a confederation of States
tied together by a rope of sand, end would
give way upon the slightest friction. They
have found it was a grand mistake. They
know we have now a nation--that we are a
nation of strong and intelligent and brave peo-
pie, capable of judging and knowing oul
rights, and determined on all occasions to
maintain them against either domestic or for
eign foes. And that is the reception you as q
nation have received through me while I was
abroad
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
Farmers. Read the papers.

Says a dispatch from Madison, Indi-
ana Two months ago a couple of fine
looking men visited the farm of Moses
Smith, a worthy colored man, in Han
owe Township. Finding him at work
in the field, the strangers proceeded to
compliment the old mans farm, and
wound up by offering him the agency
for selling a certain kind of halter, say
ing that they would give him one for
every one he sold. Tney showed him a
paper which he refused to sign or put
his mark to, and leaving a few halters
they departed saying that they would
be back again, hut never re-
turned. A few days ago however, a
bank notice was sent to Mr.. Smith from
Cincinnati, saying that they had a
note of $500 left with them for collec-
ton, which note had his"X" mark on
it. The note has been left at First
National Bank of Madison for collection,
and it looks like the unfortunate old
man will have to pay it even at sacri.
fee of his farm. Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
were slaves at one time, and by hard
work raised 81 900 each with which they
bought their freedom. The farm they
now live on they paid 50, 100 for. Two
years ago they were burned out of a
house, but have since erected another.
Much sympathy is expressed for Mr..
Smith in his dilemma.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
Murder and Arson.

A horrible crime has just been perpe-
trated at Frankfort Ky, which may
have, ere this reaches the reader, re-
suited in a case of justified lynching. J..
j. Wilson, an ex-penitentiary convict, it
now appears, several days ago, in COM
pany with another Of his clan, set fire to
the blacksmith shop of Thomas Heiner,
at Frankfort. At about the same time,
Hefner disappeared, as did a seven-year
old boy vino lived with his parents in
the rear of the shop. Heffner
vas the principal witness against
Wilson and was probably the means of
his conviction and consequent sentence
to the penitentiary several years ago,
and the fact that Heffner's shop was
burned and he himself disappeared i'm
mediately upon the release of Wilson,
justified the authorities in arresting
him for the crime. An investigation of
the ruins resulted in finding the charred
remains of the small boy, son of the
City Engineer, Marcus Jones, and also
the shoe of Heffner in which was the
charred foot Of a man. It is presumed
that Hefner was killed, and to cover
up the crime, the shop was burned over
him; but while the outlaw was setting
fire to the building, doubtless the little
Jones boy accidentally happened in at
the door, and to close his lips forever a.
a witness, it is thought he was Drained
and thrown into the consuming flames.
Wilson has made a partial confession
of the deed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
His Money,s Worth.

A stranger with an aggressive hat and
a genial flavor ofhayseed drew up before
Officer Dean on Broadway, last Sunday
night, and put his arms akimbo.
"Be you one O ther perliceP" he
inquired.
II be" answered the blue coat senten-
tiously.
you're poorly wellposted bout things
in general, I 'spect."
The officer admitted he did know a
thing or two. The stranger looked all
the more gratiied.
."Ive KEN deown t. York." said he,
1T hev an ALFRED, Dustin time. Wot
I wants a little %recreashun, seel I don't
car bout stumblin' gin a perfeshunal
Astist, but I'd Jest like t buy a slice of a
neat little row, whar' a Teller kin gouge
and bite some and amt tied down by
emmy cussed rules. Thar amt no rat
pits mol dog-ftin' places bout yer, is
thar, whar' a little difikilty could be
riz?"
The officer told him that he had better
get an almanac or indicator, but said
that he thought that with four fingers
more of the last whisky he had been
drinking he might be easily accommo-
dated. The stranger thanked him
heartily and withdrew.
About 4 o'clock yesterday morning,
the same officer found q man tied up in
a knot on the corner of Waverly place.
He tried to undo him, and when he had
pried the hat back from his nose the
stranger of the previous night emerged.
He was quite drunk, there were bumps
all over his head, and he looked as if he
had been shaved with a buzz-saw.
"Thankee, ole felrr" he said CRATE.
fully. @Thankee. He'd a Dustin time
Keeled over a barten'r and got chucked
out by four on 'em. Yes, sir, fit -four
times over, an Seth Hines kin go hum
t. Steuben a feelin' good meow"
He went to the Jefferson Market Pc
lice Court first, though.
"Ten dollars" his Honor said, whe1
he heard the story.
Ten dollar. That's yer figger, eh
Squar, Pm a-gittin' inter you, I 'spect
Why, I've had a free fte four times
hand runnin', and got licked ever,
shot. Reckon you didn't know that, Ell
Squar, the rumpus is cheap at double
the money" and he paid his fine with
chuckle of intense statisfaction.-Ne
York Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
Cold FLOODED Murder.

A most cruel and willful murder oc-
Cured at Piketon, KY, a few days ago,
in which Jacob Cline, a p~eaceabie and
inoffensiye man, wa murdered by Harry
Scott without any cause whatsoever.
The Coroner's inquest reveals the fact
that Scott tried the day before the MUIR
der to borrow a pistol without succeed
log, but on the fatal day he finally OBJ
tanned a revolver, and was seen sneak
ing about the streets following Cline,
until finally he got close up to Cline.
When Cline's wife from a distance saw
Scott draw the pistol she shouted 70
warn her husband, but ere be could
turn around Scott had fired. and Cline
fell, shot through the left shoulder. his
left lung pierced, and mortally wounded.
He died soon afterwards. Scott crossed
the river and made his escape. The ex-
element is general, and should Scott be
caught before it subsidies he will be rap
idly shufled off.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
Feeling in QratarY.

Some one asked Sheridan, the wit
and orator, why he went to hear the
eccentric Rowland Hill preach. II go,"
he replied, "because his ideas come red
hot from the heart"
A young preacher who had made a
failure in DR.. Emmons' pulpit COM
planned that somehow he couldn't get
into his subject"
"Do you know the reason why?"
asked the caustic old man. "It is be-
cause your subject never got into you"
These two anecdotes will suggest to
the youth who desires to become an
orator two primary lessons. One Is
that unless the subject possesses the
speaker, he will fail to make it take
hold of the audience. The second is,
that deep feeling is essential to the
speaker who would produce emotion in
others.
Matthews, the essayist, puts this
thought in a pat way: "The bullets,
according to the hunters superstition,
are sure to hit the mark if they have
first been dipped in the huntsman's
blood"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
Getting mt the Results.


The New York Sun prints the official
canvass for State officers as made by the
Supervisors of Counties. In New York
and Kings counties the official count has
not been completed, but the result will
not probably be changed fifty votes
from the official counts on election
night, and those figures are used. The
table shows the following majorities,
except for Governor, the figures in his
case indicating a plurality: Cornell,
Republican, Governor, 40,172; Hos
kins; Republican, Lieutenant Governor,
1,130; Carr, Republican, Secretary of
State, ALL; Wadsworth, Republican,
Comptroller, 7 $50; Ward, Republican,
Attorney General, 1909; Wendell, Re
publican, Treasurer, 1851; Seymour,
Democrat, Engineer and Surveyor,
1879; Kelley's vvte, 77,471.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
Lynchrng in Minnesota.

The house of two bachelor brothers
was burned a short time ago at
St. Cloud, MINI. 1t was supposed by
them that a man by the name Of Col
dale had done the deed, because Coldale
had charged them with alternating the
affections of his wife. Another man,
whose name is not learned, was living
with Coldale, and a few days after
Walde's house was burned they were
missing. Investigation revealed the
strongest evidence that they had been
murdered. Buckshot balls were found
in the wall of the room, a large pool OF
blood in one place, and an ak covered
with blood. Suspicion at once rested
on the Waldo family. John Waldo was
found, arrested, taken to Long Prairie,
the county Reat, and had an examina.
ton last Saturday. Although the evil
dence was very slight he was held to
await the action of the grand jury. On
Saturday a large number of indignant
citizens came in from the surrounding
country, and the officers had all they
could do to keep them from doing the
prisoner violence. In the afternoon, an
parently becoming somewhat frightened
at the conduct of the crowd, Waldo
made a full confession of the bloody
deed to Sheriff Davis.
He claimed his brother Michael did
the killing; that he was present and
helped drag the bodies off and bury
them; that one of them was hot and
instantly killed and the other badly
wounded, and an ak was used to finish
the jsb.
The bodies were found as stated by
him, wrapped in a sheet and buried il
the brush. The horribly mutilated re
mains presented a most sickening sight
This was more than the enraged citizens
could stand, and on Saturday night the
prisoner was taken from Jail by a mob
and Sundays sun shone upon his life
less body hanging to a tree. His
brother, who is now under arrest, it il
feared win share the same fate.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
Tossing upon a BED OF Agony

Tortured in every joint with inhammatery
rheumatism, is a prospect which may become
q melancholy fact if the twinges of the dreaa
disorder are not checked at the outset. Per-
sons of a rheumatic tendency find Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters a useful remedy, nor do they
encounter the risk in using it they do from re-
sorting to that active poison Colchicum, which
is often employed to arrest the malady' The
use OF the Bitters is equally as affective in its
results, and is attended with no risk. There
is ample testimony to prove that the medicine
possesses blood depurating qualities of no COM
mon orders, besides those of a tonic and gem
eral Alternative. 1t stimulates the action OF the
kidneys and promotes the remoyal from the
system of impurities which develop disease
and are fraught with serious danger. Fever
and sgue, dyspepsia, debility, nervousness,
constipation, etc., are rsmedisd by it,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
A Beehive in an Attic Room.

Mr.. James Emerson, a resident on
the Mutt road, some four miles south of
Manchester, has a swarm of bees which
has been in his house forty years. Hay-
ing no use for one of the attic rooms
in his two-story house, he took the hive
of bees and placed it there, boring
holes through the side of the building
facing the hive, SO that the bees might
go in and out. During all these years
Nj. Emerson has used the honey freely
and the bees. have built a comb on
either side of the hive two feet in
thickness and several feet in height.
The comb next to the hive is filed with
honey, while there is nothing in that on
the other side.-Concord IN. H. Mon
itoT.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
A Painful Pause.

a. AAs @No
After reading this, our young sub.
scribers must hunt up the constitution
and commit a line or two:
Yesterday morning even or eight
old and reliable citizens were holding
down chairs and boxes in a Michigan
avenue grocery, unanim ously agree
ing that this was the greatest coun-
try on earth; a stranger entered and
said:
Gentlemen, I suppose you are all
familiar with politics?"
ave are" they replied in chorus.
And you-al know about the funda-
mental principles of liberty?"
"We do"
Well, I'm glad of it, for I've made a
bet with a Teller back here as to how
the reading of the constitution begins
One of you just write me down the first
ten words"
While he felt for a stub of a pencil
every man began scratching his head
and cautiously eying his neighbor
One began muttering:
"Now I lay me"-and a second
said something about Resolved" and
a third wrote on the top of a cracker.
box: ON motion, it was voted that
that
There was a great deal of coughing
and sneezing and nose-blowing, when a
boy came in and said the strangers
horse had run away. He rushed out
and seven faces frightened up and
smiled, and tried not to look too i'm
Northumberland Free Press.
THERE are in Great Britain eight so
cieties laboring for the conversion o
the Jews, and on the continent of Eu
| rope a dozen more.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
AaunAI bride of considerable beauty

ARuRAL bride of considerable beauty
went to Indianapolis on the honeymoon
tour. Her husband was manifestly
proud of her good looks. While they
were going about the city she was struck
in the face by a falling signboard, and
her nose broken. The attending sur
geon said that she was badly disfgured
for life. @Just my darned luck" the
husband exclaimed; property always
goes to ruin in my hands,"
CONSISTENCY thou art q jewel" as
the ofice-boy said when he got the
paste the right thickness.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20
Through the Bridge.

A stock train, while crossing the Mis-
souri, River, at st. Charles, Mo-, was
precipitated eighty feet to the bed be-
low, caused by a pan giving way in
the bridge. The engine and one car,
on which were the engineer, conductor
and fireman, were saved by the connec-
ton breaking between the cars. Five
stockmen and two brakemen went down
with the train, three OF whom were
killed outright.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-11-20

Taking these stocks as a criterion, the aver
age advance in all securities OF this class since
the first of the year has been about IS per cent.
on their par value, and as the par value of the
railroad stocks in the United States is in round
numbers $4,000, OOO, 900, this advance would
represent an increase of national wealth, on
paper, of more than 81 ,OOO, zoo, zoe. While
this great advance in the price of stocks un-
doubtedly indicates a revival of commercial &C.
tivity and confidence, it is worth while to con-
slider whether it does not also, to some extent,
indicate the growth of a speculative fever more
to be regretted than desired.