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THE COMING CESAR.

There is about the Grant movement
Il certain air Of defiance and arrogance,
as though 1t was destined to place the
neck OF the Democracy under the
yoke and establish the Republicans in
permanent empire. There is, however,
no man whose candidacy inspires less
uneasiness in the Democratic mind
than U. S. Grant, and our only fear is
that when the clacque subsidies his
weakness will become painfully ap.
parent to the Republican managers.
lie was the blight upon the Republi.
can party and brought it from over.
whelming majority down 10 its pres.
ent minority, as short review of the
facts will show. When Grant came
into Office the Republicans had ma
jority in Congress of 1903. There were
1l8 Republicans from the Northern
States and 67 Democrats. The in.
famies of his Administrations, the
rings and pools which formed under
every department of his government
and which enjoyed his continued pro.
lection, lost to the Repu blican party
its majority, and in the tidal-wave
year gave to the Democrats q majority
of 81. 1t is true that this was in part
due to the overthrow of the carpet
bag governments in the Southern
States, but this took place in spite of
Grants efforts to uphold them. Even
his bayonets failed to pin them upon
the Southern people and his last official
act was to withdraw the troops from
the support of the carpet.baggers in
South Carolina and Louisiana. That
which was called "Hayes' Southern
policy was simply the completion of
the movement which Grant had begun
and which had indeed been forced on
him. His efforts TO keep that filthy
horde in power in the South had lost
him the support of the strongest Re.
publican States of the North. Lot
the idea root itself in the Northern
mind that Grant, should he be return.
cd to power, wo1ld attempt again to
prop up tho rotten Republican power
in the South and his defeat in the
Northern States would bo certain.
When the third-tcrm movement began,
in 1874, the wise heads of the Repub
lican party forcsaw defeat for the
party. But Grants third-tcrmera, then
as new, were booming and the wiser
heads were howled down. In New
York, Dix, who had been elected in
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of Election Omcers.

10 case the person who shall have received the
second highest number Of votes for inspector shall
not attend on the day Of election, then the person
who shall have received the second highest nun
Der Of votes for Judge at the neat preceding elec.
tion, shall act as inspector in his place and in
case the person who shall have received the high
eat number Of votes for Inspector shall not attend
tho person elected judge, shall appoint an nspec-
tor in his place aud 10 case the person elected
judge shall not attend, then the Inspector who 70.
ceived the highest number Of votes shall appoint
judge In biz place or ifany vacancy shall con-
tiuue ia the Board for the space Of one honr after
the time fixed by law for the opening Of the cleo.
tion, the qualified voters Of the township, ward
or district for which such officer shall have been
elected, present at the place Of election, shall Sc
lect one out Of their number to fll such vacancy.
Also, that where judge, by sickness or una
voidable accident, is unable 10 attend such meet
ing Of judges then the certihoate or return shall
be taken charge Of by one Of the inspectors or
clerks Of the election Of the district who shall do
and perform the duties required Of said judge un-
able 20 attend.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-10-22
Misffllaneons.
New Marble Yard.
TOMBSToNES, MONUMENTS,
Posts for Cemetery Lots.

A NEW MARBLE YARD-Call at j. FLA
HARTY'S Marble Works. Choice work and low
prices. Directly opposite the Lutheran Church.
Third street. Clear6eld, Pa, March 81, ls79.u
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BALD EAGLE VALLEY BRANCH.
STAGE LINES.
CLEARFIELD MAIL.
W. s. PLunMER, Conductor.

A stage leaves Curwensvillc daily for Reynolds
Vile, at o'clock, p. M, arriving at Reynoldsyille
at O'Clock, p. IN. Returning, leaves Reynolds
willie daily, at o'clock, a. m, arriving at Cur
wensyille at l2 O'Clock, m. Fare, each way, -.
stage leaves Curwensvllle daily, at o'clock
p. M, for Dubois City, arriving at Dubois City
at o'clock, p. IN. Returning, leaves Dubois at
o'clock, a. m, daily, arriving at Curwensville at
" o'clock, m. Fare, each way, Sl.50.
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Notice is further hereby given.

That all persons except Justices Of the Peace, who
shall hold an once or appointment Of trust under
the government Of the Uuitsd States, or Of this
State, or Of any incorporated district. whether
commissioned officer or otherwise, a subordinate
officer or agent, who Is or shall be employed un-
der the Legislative, Executive or Judicial de-
partments Of this State or Of the United States
or any city or incorporated district, and also
that every member Of Congress, or Of the State
Legislature, or Of the common or select council Of
any city or commissioner Of any incorporated
district, are by law incapable Of holding or er
erclsing, at the same time, the Office or appoint
ment Of Judge. Inspector or clerh Of my election
Of this Common weaith
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SIC. 10. On the day Of election any person
whose name shall not appear on the registry Of
voters, and who claims the right 10 vote at said
election, shall produce at least qualified voter
Of the district as q witness 10 the residence Of
the claimant In the district In which he claims to
be voter for the period Of at least two months
Immediately preceding said election, which wit
ness shall be sworn or affirmed, and subscribe a
written, or partly written and partly printed aii.
dAvit TO the facts stated by him, which aihdavit
shall dchne clearly where the residence is Of the
person 20 claiming to be voter, aud the person
30 claiming the right to vote shall also take and
subscribe a written, or partly written and partly
printed AFFIDAVIT, stating 10 the best of his knowi.
edge and belief when and where he was born I;
that he has been citizen Of the United States
for one month, and Of ,he Commonwealth Of
Pennsylvania that he has resided in the Com
monwcalth one year, or II formerly q qualified
eleotor OF native-born citizen thereof, and has
removed thsreffom and returned, that he has 70.
sided therein six months next preceding said eloc.
tion that he has resided In the district In which
he claims to be voter for the period Of at least
two months Immediately preceding said election
that he has not moved into the district for the
purpose Of voting therein; that he has, iftwenty.
two years Of age or upwards, paid a State or
county tax within two years. which was assessed
At least two months and paid at least ono month
before the election. The said afhdavit shall also
state when and whore the tsx claimed to 10 paid
by the afiant was assessed. and whom and who're
and to whom paid, and the tar receipt therefor
shall be produced for examination unless the
afiant shall state In bis afidavit that II has been
lost or destroyed, or that he never received any,
and n naturalired citiren shall also state when
where and BY what court he was naturalired aud
shall also produce his certificate OF naturalization
for examinationi but II the person 50 claiming
the right 10 vote shall take and subscribe al an
davit that he is a native bora citizen OF the
United States, or " born elsewhere shall state
the fact In his afidavit, and shall produce evi.
dence that he has been nsturnlired, or II entitled
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-10-22
BOARD OF TRUSTEES ,

srocKuoLDEns' TRUSTEES.
J. II. Barton, N. D., A. II. Best, Jacob Brown,
IN. Biekford, Samuel Christ, A. N. Raub, II. q.
Cook, 7. Q. Hippie, Esq, X. P. Mccormick, Rsq.,
W. W. Rankin, JOHN A. RoBB.
STATE rRusrKEs.
q Hon. A. @. Curtin, Hon. II. l.. Dieienbich,
Den. Jesse Merrill, Hon. VIM. Bigler, J. Q. @.
whaley, s. Miilar Mccormick, Esq.
WILLIAM BIGLRR,
President Board OF Trustees.
JESSE MERRILL,
Vice President.
s. MILLAR MCCORMICK, Secretary.
THOMAS YARDLEY, Treasurer.
Lock Haven, Feb. .79-iy2e,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03

compelled TO do much extra service, and
the locomotives and rolling stock of all
kinds are kept almost constantly in mo-
ton. Between Saturday night and Sun
day noon Is cars Of butter and cheese.
rs of beef and 1913 cars of stock, passed
St. Adams station from Montreal or
from the West via the Grand Trunk
railway. Besides these, 124 cars of ex-
port freight in bond stood in the st.
Adams yards Monday morning, awaiting
transportation to Boston.
The official returns of divorces and
marriages in the several counties of YER
mont for the year 1878 show an increase
of nearly 6 per cent in the marriages.
The number of marriages had been de-
clining for seven years previous. this is
pretty distinct indication of returning
prosperity. The divorces number 1877,
nearly Is per cent more than in the
year 1877, and the ratio of divorces t.
marriages is one to fourteen. Of the
counties, Lamoille, Washington and Rut
land would as usual take the lead only
for Orange, which reports twenty-on'
divorces, or one for every eight mar
riages. Essex has but one to report
while Caledonia reports eighteen, an in
crease upon her usual number. In som
counties the falling off in the number Q
divorces granted under the new law
quite marked.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03

Upon the election in Louisiana this
year will turn, in all probability, the
Electoral vote of that State. The new
Constitution gives to the. Legislature
then to be elected the right, at its dis
erection, to choose Presidential Electors.
Whichever party wins it will undoubt
eddy use that privilege, for Louisiana
politicians, on either side, are not blind
to the comparative value of bird in the
hand and one in the bush. 1t is the
opinion Of leading Republicans in the
State that the election can be carried by
proper effort, including vigorous cam
paign. with prominent Republican speak
ers Of national reputation. The exper-
iment is well worth trying. We have
already pointed out that there are signs
that the better sentiment of the Demo
cratic Party in several of the Southern
States revolts at the outrageous course
which its leaders have recently pursued.
This fact may be turned to advantage
by an active and frank canvass. In any
case, the more the conduct of politics in
the South can be assimilated to the line
which is followed in the North, the bet
ter rs the prospect for peace, order, and
prosperity in that region.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03
HOTELS AND PROHIBITION.

Hotel keepers who get prosecuted for
selling liquor and then close their hous-
es to have revenge and coerce public
sentiment are not entitled to sympathy
or respect. The public is not easily
driven, and is not yet ready to admit
that good hotel cannot be kept without
liquor. Those Bonifaces who say it
cannot had better close for good and en-
gage in some other business. The prohib-
itory law cannot and ought not to be
enforced against others unless it is en-
forced against innkeepers. The Wash
ington county states attorney and grand
jury have just made themselves conspic-
uons for partiality and folly in proceed
ing against all other liquor vendors in
Montpelier and leaving the hotel-keep-
ers exempt. They have no right to thus
administer the law, which is no respect
er of persons. If they cannot enforce it
in all cases alike, they admit that it is
defective; if they can and do not. they
become amenable to law themselves.
Drinking is an enormous evil, but it may
be doubted if its i'll effects are greater
than those which follow cowardly or
invidiOus administration fpublic affairs.
st. Adams MESSENGER.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03

Owing to the large edition, increased
size, double frontispieces. etc., of the
November numbers of Scribner's Month";
ly and st. Nicholas, it has been found
necessary to appoint the day of issue
later than usual. .ScriJner's Monthly
edition 100000 is now out. It is
'tan agricultural number containing
half a dozen papers of the highest inter-
est to farmers and others interested in
rural life, besides a portrait and copy
of bass-relief of Bayard Taylor. and the
beginning of new serial story by Geo.
w. Cable. st. Nicholas, permanently
enlarged. printed on heavier paper, with
wider margins, and having many special
attractions. was issued on the 25th.
New volumes of both magazines are
begun with these numbers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03
POLITICAL NOTES.

Since the Ohio election nearly all the
Greenback candidates in one Maryland
county have declined to run.
President Hayes expresses the opinion
that in the next Congress the Republi-
cans will have control of both branches.
The Iowa Republicans carried both
the Congressional districts which elected
Greenbackers last year, and the Prohi-
bition vote in the State fell away from
10,545 in 1877 to about 5000.
The Boston Herald says: "Gen. Butler
has no chance left. The drift is against
him. Even he has lost faith, and not
single follower of his expects him to be
elected. 1t is only question now of
the size of the majority"
The city election in Baltimore, re-
suited favorably to the Democrats, as
was expected, but the Republican candi-
date had 1880 votes to 25,729 for
Mayor Latrobe, reelected. This is
better showing than the Republicans of
that city have presented for some years,
and indicates growth of Republicanism
in the State.
The London Truth, in a long article
upon the life aud character of General
Grant, says: "On the whole. Grant may
be described as about the one great gun
America has turned out since Washing
ton-Lincoln, perhaps, and certainly
Longfellow, excepted. He is, moreover,
a truer exemplifcation of his country's
genius than either of these eminent
men,"
When we are given to understand that
only one child in four in Carter county
in this State is going to school, and that
Ssh 50 represents the sum total of in
terest taken in the common school educa-
ton in the county, the exploitation of the
periodical butcheries there is at hand.
We infer that the majority of the chill
dren of pupil age are growing up in
ignorance and with murder permeating
the atmosphere they breathe. The re-
suit is not difficult to conjecture. Louis
ViUe Courier Journal.
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THE REBOUND.

Flour is two dollars a barrel higher
than it was two months ago. Corn has
kept its sister cereal company and is
worth thirty-fve per cent more than it
was. Butter, which sold for sixteen
cents in July, commands twenty eight
cents now, and cheese, which was drug
at six cents, is quick at nearly twice
that. Canned goods, which have. with
in few years, become one of the staples,
have appreciated forty per cent in
fifty days. Sugar has gone up half a
cent pound, and there has been a SUBJ
stantial rise in coffee.
Iron has nearly doubled in value, and
all manufactures of iron show CORES
ponding appreciation. Hides. leather
and articles made of leather are up
about fifteen per cent from bottom prices,
and copper, tin and lead sell for from
eight to sixteen per cent more than they
did. White lead has advanced a cent a
pound, and linseed oil four cents gall
on In two weeks, while all other paint
supplies have fully symphathized in the
upward tendency. Glass also feels the
impetus. and is from ten to twenty five
per cent higher.
Meats do not show a marked rise, but
are all quoted firm.
Wool has advanced about ten per
cent. Cloths of all sorts remain at
about the same figures. but with large
ly increased demand and a confident
expectation that woolens at least will
be worth more than they are. and, in
deed, this is the feeling in nearly all
lines of trade.
A leading lumber-dealer in this city
remarked last week, with the excep.
ton of some Western sorts, our stock
will not bear much higher quotations
than have ruled during the summer
but We feel that it is worth more, because
purchasers have got through waiting
for further reductions, and it sells read
lily. We are having all we can do, and
there is no apparent reason why we
, shall not have for months to come. u
This feeling prevades all business circles,
and is having the grandest effect in bus
mess. Half the troubles of the hard
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03
THE SENATE MAJORITY.

The present ex-confederate majority
in the United States Senate is ten
counting Davis of Illinois-making it
eight when be votes with the republicans
and nine without his vote on either side.
By the defeat of six Senators whose
terms expire in 1881, viz: Eaton of
Connecticut, Herman of New York, Ran
dolph of New Jersey, Wallace of Penn
sylvania, Thurman of Ohio and Melon
aid of Indiana-and the election of re-
would stand thirty nine republicans and
thirty opposition. So it is easy
to perceive the possibility of republican
supremacy in the Senate, for the support
of the republican administration of 1881.
Nor is it wide of the mark to predict a
republican majority in both branches of
Congress. The question has been put
again to the people, by the majority of
the Forty-sixth Congress, whether we
are nation or confederacy, and their
answer in the elections of 1879 thus
far is distinct and positive. We are a
natiou-and "the Union-it must be
preserved"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03


1t now comes out that the Tilden ne
gotiator in South Carolina who proposed
to bride four members of the legislature
in that state in November, 1876, with
$4,000, and then secure the arrest of
the Republican electors so as to prevent
them from casting the electoral vote of
that state, was Mr.. Mclean, the Tilden
police commissioner of New York. When
the cipher dispatches fell into the hands
of the Tribune, he begged so hard not
to be exposed that he was promised that
it would not be done unless it was neces-
sarY.
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The captives had not been subjected to
any maltreatment or to insult. 1t is
even hoped that the same skillful officer
will succeed in obtaining the surrender
of the leaders in the attack on the agen-
cy, the murder of Meeker, and the fight
with Thornburgh's soldiers If he
should do SO, we hope that these men
will not be-. as has been suggested. turn
ed over to the State courts. They could
have no justice there, and exact justice
is what is required. Gen. Sherman has
written to Gen. Sheridan, explaining
the motives for the policy which has
been adopted, and highly approving of
it. The history Of the Ute troubles,
since the outbreak, is certainly chap
ter of which Secretary Schurz may we'll
be proud, and which ought to 60 good
way toward compensating him for the
vulgar abuse to which he has in some
quarters been subjected.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03

Blaine wound up the Iowa campaign
with as much enthusiasm expended over
his appearance as if he had been Gener-
al Grant himself. Flags, notices. brass
bands and cannon welcomed the hero of
the hour. and the impression is that even
General Grant is not popular enough in
Iowa to seduce the states delegates in
the next nation Republican convention
from Blaine. The Blaine boom has ev-
identity gained ground since he took the
stump in person in Ohio and the Hawk
eye state.-SprinqfeLd Republican.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03
We have struggled through has been

we have struggled through has been
dark. Hurrah for the foreign gold
The Hudson River Tunnel, which has
been talked about for SO many years, is
at last showing signs of progress. The
shaft on the Jersey side has been sunk
to the full required depth-sixty-hve
feet-and now another will be sunk near
the corner of Broadway and Bleecker
street in this city. II will be an i'm
mense affair. rivaling, if not excelling,
the Brooklyn Bridge in in Importance,
and will be, including the approaches,
10000 feet long, or mile under the
river and three-quarters of o mile on
either shore. A double track will be
laid through it, on which over 400 trains
will be able to pass daily, and the pas
senger from San Francisco will be depos-
tied close to his hotel, at the end of bis
long journey. without the necessity Of
changing cars.
'Not guilty, but don't do it again,
is about the substance of the verdict o
the public on the case of the young bank
teller, Blair, who was indlscreet enough
to have few words with his lrisl
coachman, and then to clinch his argu
ment with the solid logic of couple o
i bullets. The jury simply said "No
Guilty." and it took them four days Q
| very creditable endurance to come
that conclusion. The case has excite
great interest both in New York-wher
and in Brooklyn, where he was Dor
and brought up. RADIx.
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times have grown out of want of ssaf.

times have grown out of want Of scat
dence and courage.
The strong advance, in many lines. is,
doubtless, partially speculative or spas
modic, as, for instance, that in iron,
which comes largely from the fact that
when business started the market was
nearly bare, and until they have had
time to make stock our furnaces can
not supply the demand at any price |;
but in bread.stuffs. dairy products and
most others the rise appears fully war;
ranted and likely to be maintained.
We have got to furnish England and
Europe with a large share of bread
they eat during the coming year, and
though we have an immense surplus il
will all be needed, and the return Of
business prosperity will make an increas-
ed demand for dairy products that will
command prices profitable to the pro
ducers, which cannot be much less thar
present quotations. Nice butter ant
cheese cannot be made at any such pri
ces as have ruled during the summer
And the same is true of very man,
other articles which were dropped from
the imitation balloon at such heigh
that the force of their fall drove then
far below their proper level. 1t i
pretty certain that none Of us will eve
see the time when it will take SO muc
money to buy few goods as it did te
years ago, and quite as certain that "
dollars as we did last summer.-WsY7ot
& Farmer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03

The reported safety of the captive
women and children of the White river
agency is confirmed by a despatch re-
ceived in Washington Tuesday from
Los PinOs. The captives stopped at the
house Of chief Ouray, nine miles below
the Indian camp on Plateau creek. on
Friday last. and started east on Satur-
day. 1t is leaned that Agent Meeker
was killed by Chief Douglas band, and
that it was his intention to have slaugh-
tered the women and children, but was
finally dissuaded through the interven-
tion of 0uray's sister. AS it was. Mrs.
Meeker received slight wound at the
hands of the savages, but beyond this
none of the captives were injured.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-11-03

The Ohio River is nearer dry than
has been known for many years. Thou
sands of passengers and large amounts
of freight hitherto going by river are
now compelled to swell the earnings of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
and so great is the business of this line
that all rolling-stOck is at present in use,
and more must be borrowed to serve
patrons who, having held their heavy
freight in hopes of a rise in the river,
which, it is now believed, will not occur
before Christmas, are obliged to send by
roil