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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-05-24
ORPHANS COIRT

Ihc Orphans Court of Allcgany county
holds Its sessions on Tuesday of each week
OFFICERS.
ChtJ JtAtge-John Coulehan.
Assocsates-Wm. Piatt, Robert Bruce,
Regtster Of WjlLs-JOhn Rhind,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-05-24

Ex-SENAEon "Joa" Lane, Of Ore
gon, pronornoes Calilornia's new con-
stitution better than chat of any 9TH
or 5tate.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-05-24
HEAP FOR CASH.
LAW and REAi EsTATE0FFICE E
BROADWAY, FROSTBJRG, MD.

BRUAU va 7, FRUSIBUhG, MD.
I'm connection with the practice of Law
Il the undersigned will give special atten
ton to the
Purchase and Sale OF Real Estate,
And sballentleuvort 0 makeit theinterest o
persons wishing to purchase, lease, or zen
property, 10 firstapply at this office. Prop
crty entrusted to him for sale or other dis
position will be advertised at his own ex
pense. He has { present for sale, or rent
several desirable houses, several good busi-
ness stands, ,androoms suitable for offices.
JNO. S GROVE,
Sept5 Attorneyat Law.
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Observation-Disclosures.

John Brady, No II; p Brady Ne,
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13

Fowler. 1t is quite lengthy, but the
essential points are these: For con-
veying freight less distance than
twenty miles, not more than 100 per
cent. additional to the rate on through
freight per mile shall he added; from
30 to 80 miles, not more than 70 per
cent, and from so to 100 miles, not
more than 80 per cent; provided that
not more than ia charged for carry
ing the whole length of the line in the
State shall be charged for shorter
distance. For passenger travel not
more than 8 cents per mile shall be
charged. provided that not more than
is charged for the entire length Of the
road in the State shall be asked for =
shorter distance; and provided, fur
ther, that no road shall be compelled
to carry a passenger any distance for
less than fifteen cents.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13
After all the emphatic denials that

After all the emphatic denials that
have been made by the Democratic
leaders that an attempt was made by
the Democracy to buy the electoral
votes OF three States, Smith Weed
and Tilden's nephew. Pelton, when
put on the witnes stand before the
Potter investigating Committee.
acknowledged that the cipher dis
patches were sent and that eighty
thousand dollars was offered for an
electoral vote. But with a persis-
tence that is strange indeed, when
II IL known that FELTON, was O member
of Mr.. Tilden's household, ate at the
same table with Mr.. Tilden, was his
private Secretary. and the only son
OF his only sister, who had for years
presided at the table OF the Tilden
mansion, they try to make the public
believe that Mr.. Tilden did not know
that they were trying to buy the
Presidency for him. Had Mr.. Potter
known that this was to be the end of
an investigation organized to try to
ruin the Republican party. it never
would have been ordered. Yet it
seems strange that the Demo cratic
leaders In Congress. many Of whom
knew what had been done, should
have voted for this investigation.
They no doubt thought that they had
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13

No party was perhaps ever left in a
moro pitiable plight than Tilden
leaves his party, or the men who
managed the Democratic campaign
OF 1876, by his evidence before the
Potter Commi tee last Saturday. He
takes it for granted that Pelton and
the other gentlemen connected with
the cipher dispatches are guilty OF an
attempt to buy the electoral vote, but
he wants it unders God that the man
ayers OF the Democratic party do not
come up to his STANDARD Of morality"
and he repudiates them all. 1t will
now be in order for the Democratic
leaders, with whom Mr.. Tilden pro-
poses to have nothing to do, to ask
the old gentleman why he declared
in his card OF denial some time since
that he knew nothing Of the cipher
dispatches till long after the electoral
vote was cast, and on his examination
Saturday, admitted that he knew OF
the negotiations when Peltou got TO
Baltimore. and before the electoral
votes were cast.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13

deities OF the Brahmin priesthood are
debased representatives of the attri-
butes Of God, and that the traditions
on which the idols are worshiped are
the outgrowth OF corrupt priest
hood. The tendency OF the move
ment is to take the people toward
the moral standard OF Christianity.
The speaker OF the Texas House Of
Representatives selected as Assistant
Clerk o: the House school teacher.
After his appointment it appeared
that he had once taught a school to
which colored pupils were admitted.
The Democratic members made this
tho ground for opposition, and he
was removed.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat in an
article on probable Presidential can
didates says: Thurman put himself
out OF the race by his untimely flop
on the money question; Hendricks
has destroyed what little chance he
had by supporting Voorhees, for the
Senate, and Bayard is from a Stat
with only six votes in the convention.
A daughter OF the late Brigham
Young is in Washington. In a recent
interview she is reported as saying
that she had been treated very well
at the capital by members OF Con-
gress and the press, but very badly
by christians. Are we TO 10 infer
that there are no christians ia Con-
gress or among the newspaper men
at Washington?
Mr.. Tilden, though iorgetful in re-
gard to many things connected with
the management OF the late Presi-
dental campaign after the election,
was positive Of ono thing. He says !:
Il declare before God and my coun-
try that the votes OF Louisiana and
Florida were bought" 1t seems
however that the men who made the
sale failed TO deliver them.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13

The State Senate passed the bill
Friday concerning interest and usury.
The bill leaves the legal rate ofinter-
est at 8 per cent. but allows s per
cent. where specifically contracted for
in writing. All judgments and de-
crees draw the same rate OF interest
as the note or agreement upon which
ii is rendered. The penalty for TAX
ing a greater rate OF interest than al
lowed by law is simply the recoup-
ment or recovery Of the excessive in
terest. The section allowing present
indebtness to be renewed at the same
rate of interest originally agreed upon
was stricken out. About the only
change In the law as 1t now stands
made by this bill ia the reduction of
the contract rate OF interest from 10
to per cent. The measure is a very
conservative one. and we think a very
just one, and probably the only one
which can be got through the Senate
this session on the subject of interest.
Indianapolis Journal.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13
INDIANAPOLIS Letter.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 10, 1879.
Mr.. Editor
Your readers have been thoroughly
posted on the doings Of the Legisla-
ture, 80 it will not be necessary for
me to say much on that subject. The
Legislative apportionment bill is now
the order Of the day, and has created
considerable interest here, as it un-
doubtedly will all over the State.
The bill most likely to become the
law will leave our Senatorial and Rep
resentative districts exactly the Same
as they now are, and presume our
people are well enough satisfied with
that arrangement.
On last Friday evening /, with 9TH
er members, attended an exhibition
at the Institution for the education OF
the deaf and dumb. There are 379
pupils in the Institution between the
ages OF eight and twenty one years.
Sixty OF the whole number are semi
mute, and the balance are mute.
There are 159 girls and 900 boys, and
six OF these are from Marshall county.
The exhibition consisted OF the meth
Cd OF communicating instruction, and
the extent OF mental culture OF the
different grades. Some OF the
youngest boys and girls OF class
were brought upon the platform, and
directed by their teachers to state, on
the blackboard, who they were, their
place OF residence and their studies
After the signs were given them, each
scholar turned to the board and wrote
the answers without the least hesita-
ton or embarrassment. in plain. round
letters, spelling each word correctly,
after which specimens Of their hand
writing on paper were shown us for
examination. They we're also exer-
cised in examples in primary arith-
metic. and proved themselves as pro-
ficient as our children OF the same
age who can hear and speak. More
advanced classes were presented and
exercised at the blackboard; and
their penmanship was beautiful, al
though performed rapidly. SPeci-
mems Of written compositions of the
advanced classes were certainly as
we'll executed and showed as much
ability as any we have ever seen pre-
pared by moro fortunate children.
The new system OF training recent
ly adopted In this country is most as
tonishing. The pupils are taught to
speak by the motion OF the lips OF the
teacher. One of the pupils, a deaf
mute, told where she lived and how
long she had been In the school. An
other plan Of instruction Is communi-
Gated by singularly constructed fig-
ures, which represent the shape OF
the mouth when producing q vowel
sound, and the pupils read the signs
which make the vowels. 1t looked
like reading Hebrew letters.
The children presented healthy
and cheerful appearance. and seemed
highly delighted with the entertain
ment, as certainly we were. The ad-
vancement In the education OF deal
mutes is as surprising as 1t is useful
and necessary, j. nj. CONFER.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13
PeItOn,S Confession.

Mr.. Pelton has spoken. The nephew
and confidential secretary OF Mr. Til
den. and the Secretary OF the Demo
cratic National Committee, confesses
that an attempt was made to buy the
electoral vote OF louisiana, South
Carolina, and Florida; acknowledges
that the cipher kilograms, as publish
ed, are substantially correct, admits
that he is the author OF the dis
patches agreeing to pay $4,000 for
the electoral vote OF State, and de-
clares that Manton Marble, Smith M.
Weed, Woolley, and other Democrats
were his confederates or agents in ne
gotiating the purchase. This is, in
effect, plea OF guilty on the part OF
the leaders OF the Democratic party.
When the charge that the Demo
Gratis had attempted to buy the cleo
toral votes OF two or three States was
first made, it was met by an unquali-
fed denial. The people were inform
ed that no such proposition had ever
been made or entertained for a mo-
ment. When the cipher kilograms
were published the correctness OF the
translation was at first denied. Then
explanations were offered to show
that all references to money related
to campaign expences, or to expendi-
lures on the part OF the committee.
Now, after hundreds OF letters have
been written, and scores OF witnesses
have testified to explain away all the
complications of the Democratic case,
here comes a witness from headquar-
tiers who admits all that was ever
charged, and involves the gentlemen,
who have been SO prolific in explana
ton, in new complications.
Mr.. Pelton is important In this mat
ter only al he plays an important
part. Driven from every position that
they have taken, falling back from
the aggressive to the defensive, and
then taking up the line OF retreat, the
Democratic leaders find themselves in
q corner. In this last extremity, when
denial no longer answered. and when
explanations wers only laughed at, it
was no longer a question OF further
resistance, but one OF escape. 1t was
no longer question as to who could
make the stoutest denial, but as to
what one could best afford to make
open confession. Pelton was chosen.
and. like the Immortal J. NJ" he as
sumes the pressure. He takes the
sins OF the whole Democratic manage
ment on his shoulders, and staggers
OF. 1t is an amusing and interesting
spectacacle, but it does not clear the
skirts OF the Democratic party. There
was an efforj made to buy the electo-
raj vote of three States, and Peltou's
confession simply points out the gull
ty parties.-Inter Ocean.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13

The Indianapolis Journal gives the
following as the main features Of the
bills introduced Ia the Legislature
regulating the practice OF medicine
In this State: Two bills have been
introduced. One of them provides
for State Board OF Health, to be
composed OF two men from each Of
the three leading schools of practice,
to whom application shall be made
for license to practice medicine. The
other bill requires application to be
made to the county clerk. Both bills
authorize the licensing Of physicians
who are regular graduates OF any
medical college under the manage
ment Of these schools OF medicine;
also. any person who, though not a
graduate, has practiced medicine in
these schools for ten years and has a
good moral character and a good
standing In his profession.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13
NeighbOrhOOd Notes.

The Argus says tramp printers are
unusually numerous in LaPorte.
i. G. Crary's furniture factory and
stock at Goshen were damaged ST.
500 by fire Friday.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Young. 10th wife OF
Brigham, lectured to crowded house
at LaPorte last week.
Mrs. John Hit. OF LaPorte, has
been divorced from her husband and
gets $4,000 alimony, so says the dr.
gus.
The LaPorte Herald says $25 900
has been paid out in that city to la
borers for cutting and putting up ice
this winter.
Another Of the Brumbaugh family,
in Kosciusko county, has died from
trichina spiralis, making the third
one of the family from that disease.
An alleged counterfeiter was ar
rested in South Bend last week and
committed to Jail. There were other
members OF the gang in town but
they escaped.
Thursday night small son OF Mr..
Tidwinkle, OF Peru. an engineer on
the /. P. & @, road, fell Off dray
and dangerously, il not fatally, in
jured himself.
Valparaiso's young men are now
assiduously cultivating burnsides.
According to the Videite, many OF
them are of the base ball species
nine hairs on a side.
One firm Of ice dealers at LaPorte
distributed $1,000 to employees last
week Ice men estimate that $4,000
has thus far been paid out this win
ter for labor in putting up ice.
The Pierceton Independent says:
John Blaine and his wife living seven
miles northeast OF that place aged
respectively 81 and SO years. have
been married sixty three years.
The Starks County Enterprise says
the people on the north side of the
river are constantly annoyed at night
by the bowling OF wolves. and advises
the commissioners to raise the boun-
ty.
Mishawaka citizens seem to be In
luck. Samuel Tinsley, night watch,
now expects to get a fortune of a
million or 30 OF dollars, from his
great gr.ndfather's estate in Scot
land.
The Rochester Sentinel intimates
that lawyer OF that place cut a
postage stamp from a stamped en-
velope. When the letter was held
for postage he found that it was mo
CO."
The Lime City Ne,cs says, a young
man named Merriman, on entering
the stable OF his employer one night
last week, was cut across the stom-
ach with knife in the hands OF a
man who was trying to steal horse.
The thief escaped.
Valparaiso boasts Of having some
Of the bet wood sawyers in the State,
and the Pidette says that John Miller
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13

The most foolish feat OF the last
week was that attempted and accom-
plished by Capt. Paul Boynton, who
entered the Allegheny river at Oil
City, Thursday morning. when it was
filed with particles OF ice. and swan
to Pittsburgh, distance OF 80 miles.
he arrived at Pittsburgh Sunday az
ternoon, having stopped four times.
His face was badly frosted. and he
was almost entirely exhausted. Such
feats are utterly foolish, and should
receive no encouragement from SEN
eible people.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13


The testimony OF Nephew Pelton
and Manton Marble before the Potter
committee places them and other
leading Democrats ia very bad
light. With all their efforts to con-
ceal il. 1t is apparent that they went
South on corruption business, and
that there was a regular Democratic
conspiracy TO buy up the Southern re-
turning boards. They are very posi-
tive in their assertions that Tildcn
was not in the plot and knew nothing
about IL, but the country will draw its
own Observation-Disclosures Jour
nal.
II the Democracy still believe Til
den honest and innocent OF these cor
rupt transactions they will nominate
him for President In 1880. should they
do this they will know after the elec-
ton what the people think about it,
But they dare not nominate him, they
know he Is guilty and are only trying
to get the party out OF a bad scrape
In as good shape as possible.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13
Assembly Matters.
From Indianapolis News of Friday

rrOm inulnnhpohs NeWs Vi rtiuas-I
Noting has yet been done in the
contested election cases.
The probabilities are rapidly in
creasing that nothing will be done in
the interest and fee and salary ques
tons. The Senate interest bill, just
passed, will be torn to pieces by the
House, unless all signs fail, and the
decisive vote by which the eight per
cent. contract clause was approved
by the Senate. precludes the posi-
bility that it will be abandoned there.
On the fee and salary questions there
is a willingness to do something. but
the right thing to do cannot be agreed
upon. Over half the session has
passed, and almost nothing has been
accomplished.
An important bill was introduced
in the House this morning by Mr..
Humphreys. 1t provides that the
State Board OF Education shall pre-
pare tests of text books containing
ten publications on every subject
taught in the public schools, should
there be that many. and then receive
bids for furnishing the same. These
bids and prices shall be sent to the
County Boards OF Education, who
shall select the books they desire to
be used In their schools. The books
will be supplied directly from the
publishing houses at the current
rates. There is further provision
that there shall be no change made
In text books under five years, and
that books now used shall not be
thrown aside till they have been In
the schools five years There Is no
money in this for the State or County
Boards for their services. but whether
it will do away with the agency sys-
tenn at which it Is directed, is mat
ter OF doubt.
Both houses we're engaged this
morning in hearing the reading oil
new bills, and the calendar was in
creased by the addition OF a large
number OF measures. In the Senate
Mr.. Burrell presented a bill providing
for the appointment OF State Board
OF Engineers and Machinists. three In
number, to be appointed by the Gov.
ernor. They shall visit every county
Ia the State once year and examine
persons DESTROYS OF engaging In the
business OF managing steam boilers
stationary or portable. Iffound com
pstent, applicants will be received FOL
two years and their certificates may
then be renewed. Penalties are pro
vided for the punishment of persons
who shall engage In this business
without obtaining a certificate from
the Board.
Senator Davis introduced q bill au
thorizing counties to adopt Mr.. Johr
F. CampbelPs system Of gravel roads
Mr.. Campbell claims to have invent
ed some sort Of system, and thil
bill is to enable him to realize on ii
A bill introduced by Mr.. Dice, @by re
quest" has the fiavor Of a job abou
1t. 1t requires the County Commits
sioners to supply the Justices Of tn,
Peace, in their respective counties
with the revised statutes. As Their,
are ore thousand townships in tn,
State, with an average OF three Jus
tees of the Peace, 1t will take $4,000
to carry out the provisions Of the act
A bill to regulate the rates 70
freight and passenger traffic in thi
State was introduced by Senate
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13

Congress has passed the bill per-
hitting women TO practice in the Su-
preme Court, under certain restric-
lions. This Is a just tribute TO the
advancement OF the sex; there is no
reason why a woman should not be
allowed to practice law before any
court il she is qualified; and with the
prejudice that now exists against the
sex, a woman will not be authorized
to practice unless she has better
theoretical knowledge OF law than a
majority OF the other sex that are Ii
censed.
The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-02-13

OdU1ucl ~ 1illCu W0o pCiOiO ebo
Potter Committee Saturday. The
telegraphic dispatches say that his
voice was weak and hoarse, but he
denied all knowledge OF the cipher
dispatches, and declared that he had
mo dealings nor gave any sanction
to any negotiations. He said, Il first
heard that Pelton was in Baltimore
from Edward Cooper Cooper was
Chairman OF the New York Demo
cratic State Central Committe) who
told me Pelton had received all offer
to sell out the State Of South Caro-
lima. I Immediately answered that
no money should be paid and no ne
gotiation entertained SO Mr.. Pei
ton, Smith Weed, Manton Marble and
the Democratic leaders voluntarily
took the responsibility OF buying the
Presidency il they could, and accord
ing to their own statements only
failed because Mr.. Tilden would not
furnish the money. But it is far
more probable that they failed be-
cause members Of the returning
boards and electors would not sell.
1t will be recollected with what ve-
hemence those Southern Republicans
were characterized as ~liars and
scoundrels" by the Democratic lead
ers, when they stated that offers to
purchase had been made by the
Democracy. Now that these facts
are proven, and these same leaders
have been compelled on oath to ac-
knowledge their tru h, Democratic
editors ought to have manliness
enough to publish the facts. A few
OF them have done this, and few
have expressed their belief that Mr..
Tilden must have known what was
going on. And this Is the result OF
an investigation that was organized
to ruin John Sherman, as was ex-
pressly stated, by showing that he
and other leading Republicans offered
protection to Republicans OF the
South IL they would cast their votes
for Hayes; and having utterly failed
In this, those men are compelled to
acknowledge themselves guilty of a
crime far greater than was ever
charged against the men they sought
10 ruin. A more humillating specta-
Gle was never seen, than when those
men on the witness stand were COM
PEELED TO acknowledge the truth OF
the cipher dispatches. The only par
allcl case that we can now recall Is
recorded in the book OF Esther. 1t is
the case of Mordecai and Hannah.
But it is not probable that those
Democrats read the Bible enough to
be familiar with 1t. Ifthey had they
might have needed and been saved
from their present disgrace. The
New York Herald. paper that sup
ported Mr. Tilden for President, can
not exactly understand how Mr.. TIL
den could know nothing OF what was
going on. The Herald says:
1t is an ugly and compromising fact
that n man standing in the most intimate
and confidential relations with Nr Tilden
his nephew, Pelton. a member of his own
household. the Secretary who, for years
acted for him, with his knowledge and ap
prevail, countenanced and allotted two
schemes of Returning Board bribery. II
Pelton's mission was sell originated, AS he
testifies. and if the people who accompa
MED him went by his invitation, why die
he telegraph that he needed no further as
sistance. except full powers. which viii
he taken for granted till Withdrawn"
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