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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-21

Indeed, it may truly be said that, IL.
promptness is not always character.
istic of great men, it is an essential
mark of true greatness, and that its
lack is defect, not an eccentricity. AS
a rule, the most successful and compe-
tent persons, in any department of
human effort are those who most con-
stantly bear in mind the duty of unde-
layed action. 1t is not the great mer-.
chants, or professional men, or states
men, who are most negligent of the
lesser duties of life, in all matters where
quickness is necessary or desirable.
Those who are the busiest are pretty
sure to be the most prompt, for without
trustworthy readiness they could hardly
have achieved success to begin with, nor
kept it when won. It is the little peo-
pie of the intellectual world, or the
world of business, who make the most
fuss about "not having time" to do this
or that. The Department of State, the
large mercantile establishment, or the
world-famous professional man, returns
a prompt reply to your question of
business; while it is the cheap cobbler
or the crossroads lawyer who keeps
you waiting for month, and disap-
points you at last. -.
A failure to arrange ones affairs with
view to their prompt management is
more often due to shittlessness, or in
capacity, or downright wickedness,
than to an overwhelming pressure of
duties, or to an accidental oversight.
1t was brutality, not greatness, which
led Napoleon to leave all letters I'M
opened for six weeks, because in that
time nine out of ten would answer
themselves, It was mental inertness
which made that magnificent failure,
Coleridge, leave all letters perpctually
unopened and unanswered. Men sue
coed. or partly succeed, in spite of such
neglect of moral duty, but never in con-
sequence of it. It is not we'll for the
most of us to think that our powers in
other things are so great as to permit
us to initiate that neglect of social de-
ccncy. in the matter Of promptness and
the keeping of promises, which some
celebrated persons have felt themselves
licensed to display. No man is too
great to be absolved from the duty of
courteous promptness, and no man is
too small to be aided by its practice
s. S. Times.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-21
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. FRANK LESLIE is managing her
late husbands publications.
Mr.. MOODY, the evangelist, never
rides in the street cars on Sunday.
Mr.. LONGFELLOw was seventy three
years old on the 9th of February.
IT IS reported that Minister Andrew
D. White is suffering from the climate
of Berlin and wants to come home.
SOME vandal has stolen the brass in
scription plate from the tomb of Presi-
dent Monroe at Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Va.
SENATOR LAMAR is said to owe his
illness to his irregular habits of eating.
At times he almost starvcs himself,
and at other times he eats voraciously.
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE had pew
in the old Christ Church in Alexandria,
Va, where Washington once wor-
shipped; and every button has been
taken from the cushions by curiosity
hunters.
A RECENT visitor to Jefferson Davis,
on his farm at Bcauvoir, says that he is
hard at work on his memoirs, his cot
ton crop for next season will reach one
thousand bales, and his wife and
nephew, General Joseph Davis, are
with him.
Mrs. JENNIE SMITH, of Jersey City,
who has just been acquitted of the
charge of murder, after having been
once sentenced to death, has had a
lecture written for her and is about to
deliver it. 1t Is called "At the Foot of
the Gallows."
SENATOR EDMUNDs says, regarding
the action of the Vermont Republican
Convention in naming him as suitable
candidate for President, that he would
not take the nomination if it were ten
dered. His aspirations lie in the direc-
ton of the Supreme Bench.
Mn. LONGFELLOw is said to write
easily but very slowly, weighing every
word before jotting it down in lead
pencil. There is hardly an erasure in
his manuscript, but when his work re-
turns from him in proof hardly anything
of it's original form is left. 1t is asserted
that "The Divine Tragedy was re-
written after the most of it was in type.
The Boston Globe notices that King
S1AOuSO WcdIS u uCChldCo VI DlhCh
beans rs charm Boston papers al
ways did speak well of Alfonso. and
they have stood by him faithfully il two
marriages and other troubles. 1t was
the beam o. P;cayune.
A M1sERLY old man of Philadelphia,
whose estate is valued at quarter of a
million dollars, has been ordered to pay
fifteen dollars q week for his wife sup
port She brought suit, complaining
that she had been compelled to live on
potatoes, mush and sour milk, and was
il-treated by her husband and daugh-
tiers. She demanded comfortable
subsistence out of the estate, as she
had helped in its accumulation by at
tending market for years, rain or shine,
and selling the produce of a farm.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, the British
Minister at Washington, has now served
there twelve years, only one year less
than his father, who passed thirteen
years in the British diplomatic service
in this country. Mr.. Edward Thorn
ton, the father, was first Vice Consul In
Baltimore and afterward was in Wash
ington as Secretary of Legation with
Mr.. Hammond, the first Minister sent
to our Government by England. After
ward the elder Thornton was Charge
d'Affaires Of the British Legation
here.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-21
The Courtesy Of PrOmptness.

In all the list of popular proverbs,
there is none which is neater or trucr
than the old Latin declaration that
che gives twice who gives quickly"
Nor is it only in charitable deeds that
the advantages of promptness are thus
manifest; for there is scarcely line of
human conduct in which such celebrity
as is consistent with prudent action is
no. found to be an effective promoter
of good results.
But while all are ready to admit that
promptness in thought, word and deed
is an excellent characteristic, and one
which is of great advantage to him of
whose life it is an element, too many
regard it as a matter within their own
concern, and not affecting the interest
or the comfort of others. If they
choose to be little dilatory, they con-
TESS that they are doing themselves
some harm thereby, but declare that it
is their own business. with which no.
body else need trouble himself. In
point of fact, however, q lack of due
prOmptness in ones own actions, how
ever personal and individual they may
seem, is quite sure to be marked in
convenience or discourtesy or posi-
tive loss to some one else. In this So
cial world, where no one can live for
himself, and where the whole fabric of
society is woven with threads of mutual
assistance, one mans neglect or failure
must work injury to others; and this
is specially true in matters of time.
If you delay to do your part of any
work, you are actually stealing time
which does not belong to you. and may
be thus diminishing the length of the
working life of your friend or neigh
Dor, or of some one whom you never
will know. An unanswered letter, an
undone errand, an unspoken message,
an unperformed piece Of work if such
things as these worked injury only to
the lazy or forgetful man who has neg
lected his duty, the loss to the worlds
good work would still be material; but
the injury is far greater because it him
ders or destroys that which would have
been done by some one else, or many
others. And the pettiest men, by their
lack Of pr0mptness, may impede great
works on the part Of the worlds best
laborers. & 81. es.--.s:
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-21
An Ingenious Mechanical Wonder.

MIR. WILLIAM GROLLMITZ, German
citizen, has constructed and set up at
his house a novel piece of mechanism,
consisting of sort of clock-work put
in motion by two hundred-pOund
weights, which places in action in an
interesting and amusing manner var
ious objects on a platform eleven feet
in length and five feet in width. The
platform is covered with green moss,
and along meandering course various
automatic figures of men, women and
animals are moving to and fro, turning
about or dancing. In the background,
situated on a mountain, is a windmill,
and at the foot of the mountain water
mill. The wheels of both mills are put
in operation by water flowing from 4
pond in the meadow, and in which
ducks and geese are swimming. In the
center Of the pond a waterspout shoots
it's streamlets high in the air. At the
extreme right end Of the platform is a
church, and in it fine orchestral in
strument which discourses several of
the most pleasing church and national
airs. Over it is fac-simile representa-
ton of the great Strasburg clock. The
Twelve Apostles appear and move in a
circle around their Master, each bowling
as he passes. When Peter approaches,
a soldier standing on one side of the
steeple appears, and a cock on the OPP
posite side flaps its wings and crows.
Satan also appears at an upper door,
and eyes Judas until he is out of sight.
On the left of the church is q stable,
and lying in a manger is the child Je.
sus, and kneeling around him Joseph
and Mary and the shepherds. The
Wise Men of the East are approaching
the stable, carrying gold, frankincense
and myrrh. This does not by any
means exhaust the various objects Of
interest.-Bufalo Commercial.
IT is said that the Emperor Alexander
Of Russia has become . confirmed hyp-
ocondriac. He shuts himself up for
days, and can with difficulty be per-
suaded to take food, which must be left
ct his chamber door. He frequently
bursts into tears, and is afflicted with
strange dreams. On the night when
these seize him two doctors sit up in his
bedroom. In short, it is supposed be
Is mentally affected, and his long seclu:
sion al Evadia, it Is believed, Is to be do
voted TO system of treatment which
viii either IN Or cure:
IAN Assistspt Postmaster at Pitts
field, HIass., added one thousand dol.
lars to his Income in year by remov-
ing fresh postage Btdmps from letters,
putting on those that had been used.
and selling the stolen ones. He used
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-21
Miss T. Westphal

Keeps on hand large and well
sorted stock of MILLINERY, FANCY
GOODS and ZEPHYR WOOL, opposite
the Union Hotel, between Second
and Third North streets. .t#
NEW ULM, MINI.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-07-27
JUDGE BLACK AND GENERAL.
GARFIELD.

The Philadelphia Times prints pri-
vate letter from Judge J. S. Black, who
is now in Paris. dated June %. 1880, to
the editor, in which he alludes to Gen.
Garfield in the following terms:
Your expressed determination to see
that General Garfield shall be defended
against all unjust aspertions upon his per
sonal character is equally pleasant reading
to me, for have been his devoted friend
for years, and am resolved that never
vii! believe that he does not deserve the
affection l have bestowed upon him. II
he would carry the principles which regu-
late his private life into his public conduct
he wCa.d make the best Chief Magistrate
we have ever had. But he will act for the
interest or his party, as he has acted all his
lifetime, and that viii require him 10 take
the advice which Stephens gave 10 Mont
pelius In the buckshot war. do not know
any really good man who has done AMI as
sisted in doing so many bad things in poll
tics as General Garfield"
When it is remembered that Judge
Black is an ultra Democrat and man
whe believes that the Republican party
has never undertaken or accomplished a
good thing, the above testimony Is most
valuable, and should have the effect to
close the mouths of such Democrats as
are spending their time in repeating stale
calumnies against General Garfield.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-07-27
FOR the OXFORD DEMOCRAT

GENERAL HANCOCK Is A DEMOCRAT.
ter what a favorable war record he has.
No matter how faithfully or brayely he
fought. He obeyed orders-did well. Gen.
Hancock is the candidate of the Demo.
cratic party for President. His conduct
at New Orleans and other actions establish
him Democrat. However much OF cred
It may attach 10 him for meritorIous SER
vice during the Rebellion, what we a.
voters, seeking TO keep the management
OF our national affairs in honest, patriotic
and statesmanlike control, want To DO, j.
TO remember that Gen Hancock Is Dem
ocrat,-the candidate OF that party for
Prcsident-and that he will If he be elected
do rs he did in the Rebellion - ''obey
orders: not do well, as then, but do injury
To Us all; because carrying out the policy
OF the Democratic party has brought, now
brings, and ever will bring injury TO Us all.
If elected he will be the tool OF Demo
cratic leaders, Office seekers and partisans,
and will be compelled to do MI the work,
dirty though 1t will be, that they require
done His influence will be eXerted to
carry to success Democratic measures
pernicious we know they will he. He will
be a Democrat modern nemocrat-no
better, probably no worse, than any other
Democrat. Therefore we must forget
Hancock the General, but we must not fail
To remember Hancock the Democrat and
the politician. An honored General, allow
him the need of praise due; candidate
for the Presidency, made such by modern
Democracy Be not led astray; remember
the party, its past, present and future, and
only remember Gen. Hancock rs its candi-
date for President. SPARKEs.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-07-27
THE NEWEST RELIGION.

Last week the Men Religion said Of
Garfield that he Il asa nan suspected OF
the most dishonorable transactions, nay
more, proved guilty of them by Con-
pressional Committee and the Press
thereupon accused the Norway semi-oc-
casionally- religious weekly Of bearing
false witness against its neighbor. This
week the New Religion evades the accu-
sation-it does not attempt reply-and
quotes from the utterances Of some Re
publican papers in 1873. Its silence is
virtually withdrawal of the charge
made that General Garfield was proved
guilty of the most dishonorable transac-
tons by Congressional committee.
But silence is not enough. In tins
case it is suppression of the truth-a
deed sometimes as malicious and wicked
as the bearing Of false witness. The
only Congressional Committee ever called
to sit in judgment upon General Garfield
or his acts was the famous Poland Com
mittee which investigated the Credit
Mobilicr. That committee, made up OF
two Democrats, two Republicans and one
Greeley Liberal, unanimosly presented
after careful investigation and full hear
ing of testimony, a report which recon-
mended the expulsion of two members OF
the House of Representatives, and said
in regard to six members who had been
accused of wrong doing in connection
with the Credit Mobilier:
The committee do not find that either of
the above named gentlemen, in contracting
with Mr.. Ames, had any corrupt motive or
purpose or was aware that Mr. AmcS had
any: nor did either Of them suppose that
me was guilty OF any impropriety or even
indclicacy Ia becoming purchaser Of this
stock. The committee have not been able
10 lind that any of these members OF Con-
gres, have been affected in their Official ac.
ton In consequence of their interest In
Credit Mobilicr stock The committee find
nothin. in the conduct OF either of these
members IN taking this stock that calls Tor
any recommendation by the committee.
That is the verdict of the Poland COM
mittee. One of the six members acqut-
ted by the verdict Is General Garfield.
That is the Committee, instead of prov
ing him guilty Of the most dishonorable
transactions" unanimously report that he
was not guilty. This verdict the Nem
Religion, in common with other Demo
cratic papers, deliberately suPpresSes. 1t
makes tho assertion that he was accused
of corrup, practices by the committee,
but pcrsistcntly refuses to publish the
verdict of acqui,tal. This suppression Of
the truth in order to aid SANDER is a bad
thing for the secular press to do. What
it should be called when done by pro-
fcssedly religious paper we leave our
readers and to the readers OF the Ne,o
R,Iigion to determine. Press.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-07-27
Attest

Before this. the blanks had not been
ruled for the Aldermen. and the required
number was always requested to sign.
On receiving new blanks printed as above
indicated, what more natural than that
only three Aldermen should be asked to
sign: II has been ascertained thH IN
che Secretary of States office there was a
large number of the old blanks when the
new ones were printed. Why then were
these new ones printed. and why were
they enormously printed: Simply that
city officials Nigh, be misled by receiv-
ing blanks from the Secretary of State
which they would suppose to be correct,
coming from so high source. Ebcn +.
Pillsbury of Augusty, was the printer OF
these blanks. He is lawyer of good
reputation, and did not make a b!under
in this matter We stake our reputa-
ton as printer on the statement that
no job Office would rule of spaces for sig
natures when working from plain blank,
without orders from head quarters. If
such orders were given they were given
for the purpose of cheating and detFaud-
ing the people out of their rights by mis-
leading their officers. The desired end
was accomplished, and by the assumption
of Gov. Garcelon in declaring law un-
constitutional, these city Representatives
were deprived of their certificates. There
is 40 doub. that the men were elected by
a majority vote. This fact has never
been questioned, and yet men Who pro-
f,ss toba candid, fair minded, high toned
gentlemen are willing 10 see the will OF
the people set aside on the ground Of such
well PLAYED Trick as thus.
II our form OF government means any
thing. i mean, that all sail have fair
play, and tina, the declaration OF ballot
Shall be final. When any number Of
men will endorse any measure which sets
TINS fundamental principle aside. /, Is
time to look and see what has led to such
degeneracy.
Mauy of the other eases Of loss are so
complex we shall treat of them in sepa-
rate articles. and shall illustrate several
of them with engravingS, made from
photographs showing fraudulent al,era-
tons in returns.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-07-27
THE NATURALIZATION FRAUDS
IN NEW YORK.

The Wallace Committee obtained soms
more interesting facts from COMMISSIONS
Davenport at the examination on SATURDAY.
with regard to the tremendous naturaliz.
alton frauds perpetrated by the Democrats
in 1868. Mr.. Davenport presented a
tabular statement showing that the whole
number of attempted naturalizations in
the Superior and Supreme Courts in the
month of October was 37,477. On the
18th of that month 2543 naturalization
papers were granted in the Supreme Court
by one man. Judge Barnard; aud on the
same day, in the Superior Court, 2O77
were granted. A witness, Nathaniel
Jarvis Of the Court Of Common Pleas, who
was in the Superior Court on one occa.
sion when naturalization was going on.
testifes that applicants were not allowed
to be present. Judge Hamilton of the
Marine Court testities that the greatest
number of naturalization papers he had
ever found himself able 10 administer in 4
session of eight hours was eighty. This
was at the rate of one in six minutes.
But Judge McCunn Of the Superior Court
testifes that be naturalized at the rate of
two a minute; and Judge Barnard Of the
Supreme Court exceeded even that, for on
the day in question he naturalized 25I3
in five hours. which would be at the rate
Of more than eight in a minute. This
cantainly is whitling the naturalization
mill at dizzy speed. Mr.. Davenport tes.
tilted that, at the election of 1898, about
&C, 900 persons voted on these fraudulent
papers in the city, while there were some
thousands more who voted in neighboring
counties, and in New jersey, Connecticut
and Pennsylvania. The Democrats car
ried the State by just 10000 majority,
50 that their frauds in the city gave them
the victory and saved them from being ia
a minority of 80, coo. as they would have
been, on an honest. vote. Commissioner
Davenport testimony makes very inter
esting reading, but it is odd that the
Dcmocats should have hh upon this par
ticular time to expose their iniquitoas
campaign methods in New York city.
The exposition explains their disinclina-
ton to have the purity of the ballot box
protected and their hatred for Supervisors.
but it will not greatly assist them in their
present canvass. 1t is not surprising
that Sen. Mcdonald repeatedly lost his
temper and tried to browbeat Davenport
into silence.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-07-27

~ me EdtpTS.
Any one who has read the Lewiston
Journal ever since IL has been printed can
tell lust what that paper will say about +.
NJ. FOgg through this campaign; and every
voter in oxford County knows inst what
the OLford DeMOcrH will say about him.
But let these two black Republican papers
say what they will, we know that +. NJ
Fogg Is stirring up the oxford bears for
fight in September next, so that they
will give William 7. Frye severe hug
ging. And such boys ~ Hon. Enoch Fos-
ter and Hon John p. Swasey will look on
and see the fun 20 on, because Frye says,
Stand back, boys" How do oxford
Republicans like this: OXFORD Co.
This communication, cut from the
Auburn Chronicle, was written by the
same party who a week previous signed
himself an Oxford County Republican.
We like the above, we reply in answer
to his final question. 1t shows to what
straits the Fusionists are reduced. 1t is
a repetition Of the effort to show a lack
of harmony between prominent Oxford
County Republicans and Mr.. Frye, in
order to give Dutch courage to the Reform
host. In 1878 Mr.. Foster addressed the
District Convention at Auburn and moved
that Mr.. Frye be renominated by accla-
nation. This year, in a speech never
equalled by himself for enthusiasm and
earnestncss, Hon. John p Swasey pre-
sented Mr.. Frye's name and moved that
he be renominated by reclamation. This
does not look as though these two gen.
tlemen bore Mr.. Frye any ill will. The
fact is, that as Mr.. Fogg travels through
Oxford County, he is impressed by the
fact that we are more firmly united and
more enthusiastic than ever heforej that
MS own partisaus are cool, even to rebuk-
ing him for participating in the State
steal - and that his defeat is certain;
hence he sits down in his sanctum and
pens such stupid little squibs as the
above, and signs them "Oxford Co" and
"Oxford Co. Republican"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-07-27
SHOWING THE CLOVEN FOOT.

The Commercial has at last shown the
cloven foot. IL has all along plead with
the Greenbackers to stand by the Demo-
Gratis for the sake Of an assured victory.
with the promise of fair play; at the
State Convention in this city there was a
mutual agreement between the parties
that the State Committees of the Demo
cratic and Greenback parties should pre-
sent to the people list of Electors for
President and Vice President, that should
be fair and equitable to both parties.
But since the Democratic National ticket
was put in the field, that party has been
steadily Withdrawing from the Green
hackers. The following extract is from
the leading article in yesterdays COM
niercial
And we say in all sincerity, that the man
or men who, at such an important crisis,
persists In Il course that endangers sue
cess, is an enemy to the party, and i trail
tor % It's interests and TO the State, what
ever his creed or profession; and also To
the great and patriotic party which bas
for It's standard-bearer the gallant Han
cock, under whose banner the country Is
destined To a glorious victory over all foes,
within or without the party-and will be
remembered and treated as such in the
great day OF triumph which surely awaits
it, Harmony and union among those who
are battling for the great principles upon
which this government was founded, will
not only carry the State next September
for General Plaisted, but gise Us electoral
rOte 10 Hancock and ERgiish.
If Names electoral vote is to be given
to Hancock and English, what is to
become of the Greenbackers' share:
These Democrats are extremely anxious
for harmony and union provided it
ensures Democratic victory Wing.