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SPRINGER INDICATED.

Congressman Springer, of IL
linois, who is member of the
Committee on Contested Elec-
tons, refused to vote in the Com
mittee for the unseating of Wash
burne, Republican, and the seat
ing of Donnelly, Democrat. There
upon some of the over ardent
friends of Mr.. Donnelly insinua-
ted that Mr.. Springer had acted
corruptly in the matter, and
accused him of having been
bribed. They walked up the
wrong passenger, however 1t is
not often that an honorable man,
falsely accused, is fortunate
enough to have at hand so COM
plete and damaging an exposure
of his accusers and vindication OF
himself as Mr.. Springer met his
assailants with. His vindication
was as complete as was the ex-
posture and shame of those who
had conspired against his reputa-
ton and good name.
Mr.. Springer's offending was
that he had, despite all solicita-
tons, refused to give up his con-
victions of right and duty, and
vote to seat Donnelly simply as a
matter af party advantage. For
this, Mr.. Springer has gained there
spect and confidence ofright think
ing and honorable men of all par
ties. Mr.. Springer is Democrat,
and has always acted with entire
loyalty to his party, but he rightly
conceives that party loyalty does
not, of a right, bind him to sink
his honest convictions of duty, and
do an unfair and unjust thing to
secure party advantage. The
legislation of the country would
be all the better, if there were
more such men in the halls of
Congress.
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are not presented by their own
party they will find them outside.
It is a notice in advance served
upon machine politicians and par
ty managers to select men solely
with view to their honesty, ca
pacity and fitness for the posi-
tions, or have them defeated. The
Presidential "boomers' will take
notice.
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INSANE ASYLUM.
Letter from DIR. Camden,

Eds. Independent:
To "Enquirer's" questions in
your issue of March 9th, 1 will
say, that the appropriations for
current expenses for the year end
ing September 3Oth, 1880, is $780,
900; for transportation $500; for
the insane in jails. $4,000.
IA citizen owning a valuable
farm, say worth $4,000, or U. s.
Bonds to that amount" would be
charged for maintenance and trav-
cling expenses. The Hospital
charges So per week for pay pa
tients, which is turned over to the
Treasurer of the Hospital and is
credited to current expense fund.
(See reports). When patients are
able to pay, they are required to
do so. But as few are worth $I0,-
900, or the half Of it, the conse-
quence is there are few pay pa
tents. From an equitable stand
DOluC tuC HuCSIiOu oiIoCo WuCtbCI
any citizen should pay? The per-
son who is worth $4,000 and has
contributed by taxation year after
year to build and maintain the
hospital while in health, should
receive some benefits from the in
vestment when stricken by the
saddest affection known-and
often the prop and stay OF a family
is forever taken, whereas the i'm
prudent and worthless, who never
contribute, are at all times to re-
ceive benefits. 1t looks like I'M
equal taxations if all do not share
alike. The free school law re-
quires all to be taxed in proper
ton to their means, and all are en-
titled to the same benefits. Why
should it not be the case in our
State hospital ?
T. b. CAMDEN, Sup't.
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THE SPRING ELECTIONS.

The returns from the local cleo
tions held this week in many of
the Western States, show some
curious changes. AS a rule, how
ever, they have little or no bear
ing on national politics, as the
contests are not fought on nation
al but local issues. But both par
ties make nominations, and indie
pendent candidates are frequently
run when dissatisfaction exists
with the regular nominees. In the
elections held this week in the sew
eral western States, there seems
to have been an unusual amount
of independent voting done. Iowa
towns which have always been
Republican, have elected Indepen-
dent, Democratic or mixed tickets,
while on the other hand, Demo
cratic strongholds in Indiana are
wiped out by Republican victories.
This condition Of the public TEN
per means that party managers
will hereafter run great risks of
defeat, if they insist on foisting
unworthy and Objectionable can
didates upon the party by means
of the party machinery In short,
that there is widespread and
growing disposition on the part
of the people who do the voting,
to vote for good men, and if they
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Political.


Senator Hoar says the chief at
traction Of the PRESIDENCY for Mr..
Edmunds would be the power OF
writing veto messages.
While Mr.. Tilden's opponents
are making all the noise, it is no
ticeable that he is quietly garner
ing the in few delegates that are be-
ing chosen.
Gen. Malone. as chairman, has
called convention OF the Pead-
justers of Virginia, to meet at
Richmond July Z. This will be-
after the Republican and the Dem
Ocratic national conventions have
met, and the Norfolk Vrgiaidn
charges that it us nothing more
nor less than the sale of his ele-
ment to the Republican party.
providing he can secure his price,
viz: the distribution of the federal
patronage in Virginia.
VIM G. Groesbeck, of Ohio, has
replied to the New YORK call upon
him to be a candidate for the
Democratic presidential nominal
ton. He answers that he would
be proud to accept the nomination,
but would not seek it. If" says
he. "the Democratic party wants
me for any purpose, it will call
me. If it don't want me, l prefer
not to bother it," There is not
much likelihood of a Groesbeck
boom being started upon this let
ter. He has big barrel we'll fill
ed, but apparently he does not re-
spond to the solicitation to tap it
in a futile effort to get the nomi-
anton.
At the head of its editorial COL
umns the Boston Journal makes
the announcement that Grant will
soon state his position with regard
to the presidential nomination.
The language OF the Journal is /:
ut is now said in well-informed
political circles that General Grant
will be heard from before the Chi
cago convention, and that he will
place himself upon a platform
which his friends assert, will carry
the country. 1t is intimated that |
he will announce that the emer-
gency must be great, and the call
a very loud one, to induce him to
think of resuming official duties,
and that under no circumstances
will he consider it, unless it is &C.
companied by perfect under
standing on the part of the Rupub-
licans, that he is to be released |
from service at the end of four
years."
The Washington Post thinks
that if Mr.. Sherman keeps his
word and declines to 60 before the
Chicago Convention unless backed
by the full vote of Ohio, he must
depend on Blaine's magnanimity
to let him in. Mr.. Blaine can con-
troll some Of the Ohio delegates.
There isn't the least question on
this point. If he wants their votes
on the the first ballot he will get
them. There is more than one
Ohio district that is as enthusiastic
for Blaine as any district in Kan.
sas. 1t may be for his interest to
conciliate the Sherman faction, in
the hope of reciprocating when
Sherman's name shall have been
withdrawn. But if he insists on
making his full show of strength
at the start Sherman will be shut
out if he adheres to his pledge He
can't possibly get the united sup
port Of Ohio without the consent
of Blaine.
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WHAT WILL THE HAIR VEST
BEP

Secretary Sherman has return
ed to Washington. During his
short visit to Ohio, he found his
fences in good repair, his lands
in fine condition for blowing, and
his seed of the first quality. But
the danger is that full yield may
be prevented by the Blaine birds
picking up the seed. Agricultur-
lists are always meeting with un-
expected annoyances.
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A Guide

FOR THE PURCHASE OF TRIPLE
PLATED SPOONS AND FORKS.
Persons having occasion to purchase
silver plated spoons or forks, will do well
to observe the following
EXTRA PLATE is NOT TRIPLE PLATE.
Triple-plated Spoons and Forks have
the following numbers stamped on the
back-Teaspoons, No. 6; Dessert Spoons
and Forks. No. 9; Tablespoons and Forks,
No. IL. All goods not having these num-
bers stamped on the back of each spoon
and fork are not triple plated, but of in
ferior quality Remember these numbers
and you cannot be deceived. Cut this out
and take it along with you when you 60
to purchase.
The best assortment of all qualities can
be found at W. L. JONES',
febl4-tf. Next to Everett House.
Job lots of GOOD CALICO only 6
cents per yard at DEATRICK'S.
------------s- = -----------
PePs Corn Solvents sure cure.
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Another Southern Cotton
Factory.
Baltimore Sun.

Confidence in southern cotton
factory enterprises is evidenced by
the subscription, within the last
two weeks, of 100000, the maxi
mum amount of stock proposed,
for the erection ola cotton factory
at Spartansburg. South Carolina.
The people of that thriving little
inland city promptly subscribed
$150,000, and Charleston capital
lists invested $4,000 in the enter
prise. Orders for the machinery
have been put in. The factory is
to contain 1000 spindles and 100
looms.
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Notwithstanding the great advance
in the prices of material and labor.
Messrs. Gettinger s. Hoke, by placing
their orders for Spring and Summer
Boots and Shoes, with the manufactur-
ers very early, are enabled to supply
their customers at very small ad-
vance on old prices generally, on some
goods no advance.
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The Senate i'm 1851.
Washington Dispatch to Cincin

Washington Dispatch to Cincinn att
Comm ercial
There is a good deal of comment
and quiet figure work here as to
the probable status of the Senate
in 1881. If New York, New Je. :
sey, Connecticut and Indiana elect
Republican Senators, and Ger.
Malone goes with the Republican,
or Grant party, as he calls it, the
Senate will be Republican by two
majority. If he remains on the
fence it will be tie, and the Vice
Presidents vote will decide all
political and important questions.
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The village of Norton, n. j., num-
bers among its residents a woman
eighty-four years old who has raised
a family of twenty-four children
twenty of whom are still living
and her brother, who at the age of
eighty-one still chops couple of
cords Of wood every day, and boasts
that he has laid by a snug sum for his
cold age" New Jersey is a very re-
markable country.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1880.
THE TTLDEN BOOM.

The New York Sun has come
once more to the breach, and is
now laundering away for Tilden
in New York, and the western
States are echoing back Tilden
delegations to Cincinnati. The
old man still retains his grip.
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B Q O K S.

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the most magnificent structure in Ameii-
ca, also splendid views of the White
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WASHINGTON,
News and Notes From the
Capitol.
WASHINGTON, April 8.


Reform has begun in Washing
ton and has progressed so far that
they have commenced hanging
negroes for the crime of murder.
On Friday last the negro, Stone,
was executed for killing his wife
in October last and attempting to
kill her sister. Previous to the
day of execution the deputy mar
shall tested his weights, pulleys and
ropes with bag of sand weighing
225 pounds. The rope was three
fourths of an inch thick. Stone
was a good feeder and had increas-
ed his avoirdupois during confine-
ment to over 200 pounds. The
drop was about five feet, ana when
his weight came upon the rope his
head was severed from the body.
1t was terrible sight to those who
had craved the privilege of being
within the Jail enclosure to wit
ness it, aud affords Bovee and 9TH
ers of similar views with an addi-
tional objection to capital punish
ment.
An extra effort is being made
to again swell the list of pension
ers. Commissioner Bentley is do
ing his best to restrict the appro-
priations within reasonable
bounds, and the result is he is
most gloriously abused for doing
his duty and contending for a wise
and statesman-like economy. The
opposition he meets with from
certain quarters, is simply compli-
mentary to the Pension Office
management.
The entire pension list OF Great
Britain is only about ten million
dollars per annum, and that of
France and Germany less than
seven millions each. while that of
the United States is between sixty
and seventy millions; and projects
are on foot which, if carried out,
will double that sum. 1t is against
dishonest and unworthy claims,
only, that Commissioner Bentley
sets his face.
THOSE FINAL INsTRUCTIONs.'
Two or three of our newly-ap-
pointed foreign ministers are now
in the city receiving their "final
Instructions This whole thing
is only solemn farce-hanging
around the State Department a
week or so before leaving for their
supposed field OF uuty, under the
pretense of getting posted up as
TO the latest views of the Govern
ment. 1t is all an efete humbug'
A wag very aptly likens this BUSH
ness to an old hen sitting in dignl-
fed silence on a glass egg.
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION.
Quite number of leading Re-
publican Senators, including Cam
erol, Conkling, Edmunds and Lo-
gan, have within a few days past,
expressed the very decided opin.
ion that General Grant is going to
be nominated at Chicago on the
first ballot. OF course they all sup
plement this, with the further
opinion that their candidate will
as surely be elected. When We
hear from the people next Novem-
Der, instead of the politicians, we
can tell better about that.
SOLoN CHASE.
Scion Chase, of Maine, the faith
er of the Greenback movement in
the East, has assumed the editori-
al management of Chase's Enquir-
er, in addition to his many other
labors in behalf OF honest money
and fair play. We trust father
Chase may prove that he can
weld a pen as readily as he can
drive "them steers"
OCCASIONAL.
4 4 4
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The patient President Grevy
has given NJ. Bonnat seventeen
sittings for his portrait. Theirs
was not so good a subject; he was
interested and adaptable at the be-
ginning, but at the end of the first
hour his enthusiasm gradually
cooled down, and before the Sec
oad hour he was asleep.
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BUSINESS LOCALS.
Something New.

Blocher has added to his stock a
Drug Depart nett, and as he sells on
short profits lock out for cheap drugs.
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Fresh Garden and Flower
Seeds

D. L. ". Bakers is headquarters for
Garden and Flower Seeds. He is
agent for the justly celebrated Shakers
Garden Seeds,
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A paragraph went the rounds

A paragraph went the rounds of
the English newspapers last winter
about a pheasant having been shot
that had a wooden leg. Now the
sequel is being published. 1t is to
the effect that London surgeon,
taking his holiday in the country,
found a pheasant caught by one leg
in a trap. The bones were complete
ly smashed and the leg bleeding.
Taking out his case of pocket instru-
ments, the surgeon carefully ampu-
tated the leg, and then made a neat
little artificial leg, fastened it to the
stump and released the bird.
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THIS PAPER

May be found on file at GEO. P. RowELI
& Co.'S NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING BUREAU
(lo Spruce St. where advertising con-
tracts may be made for it in New YORK
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W: II. MATHEWS & SON, Agents,
febl4-2m. Martinsburg, W. Va.
We would advise all who yfnt
CHEAP GOODS to goto
FL. N. DEATRICK.
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A job lot of SOLID COLOR
PRINTS at cents at DEATRICK'S.
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Try Peps Corn Solvent.
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-05

Arctic Eone, and no polar expedition will,
hereafter be undertaken, i. m ay safely be
predicted. without force of f, ouimaux to
perform the hard work of the Journey bv
sledges. Had Lieutenant Schwatkts expe-
dition accomplished nothing m ore than the
sugss,tlon of improved methods of explors-
ton, his enterprise would have received a
great reward. Captain McClintock, the fa.
nous explorer, points out the value of
Schwatks's work, and Dr. Hayes and Mr..
ParS Benjamin emphasize tas opinion
That Esquimaux are to have an i'm.
portant part in the discovery of the
Pole. 1t will be remembered that thirteen
OF the seventeen members of the Schwstka
expedition were natives, and their assistance
In taking game and making the march was
probably indispensable to the success Of
Lieutenant Schwatka's enterprise. The
Polsr fever never ragged more fercely than
now. Already proposition is made to send
out an expedition next spring to search for
the Jeanette, if that vessel does not report
during October, and numerous explorations
OF Arctic regions will undoubtedly be made
during the next five years. If the prospec.
tive employers will study Lieutenant Schwst-
ka's experiment, engage Esquimaux for
their assistants, and equip themselves to take
game to supplement their stores, they may
yet capture tho pole.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-05
Drunken Stuff.

How many women and children are slowly
but surely dying, or rather being killed, by
excessive docterine, or the daily use of some
drug or drunken stuff called medicine, that
no one knows what it is made of, who can
easily be cured and we'd by Hop Bitiers,
made Of Hops, Buchu, Mandrake, Dandolion
etc. which is So pure, simpl and harmless
that the most frail woman, weakest invalid
or smallest child can trust in them. VIII
you be saved by them? See other column.
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LIIhOGrnnIEing.

The lithcgrsphing establishment and book
bindery of Miles Strickland, Galveston is
one of the largest and most complete in the
State. 1t is the only bindery in Texas that
ever got diploma for blank book manuiac-
turing Strickland is the pioneer book binder
in the Southern country, and he has added
to his Office all the late improvements and
machinery, until now it is without an equal
in the whole South. His prices are as low
and his work as substantial as can be found
in the best o0ces in tho Eastern cities. Send
for circulars and prices. Orders promptly
filed
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No man can do q good job ofwork, preach
a good sermon, try law suit well, doctor a
patient or write a good article when he feels
miserable and dull with sluggish brain and
unsteady nerves, and no0e should make the
attempt in such condition when It can be
so easily and cheapIy removed by n little
Hop Bltters. See Truths" aud Proverbs, "
other column.
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The young man who was so unceremonious
ly kicked out of the parental residence last
evening while wooing his ducenis, by the
irate pater lamilias, sustained no injuries
wha ever because he had on pair of Clan
cey'ts double seated drawers, Shirts and
drawers made to order at the very lowest
prices Call on Chanccy, 700 Main street.
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Stop using Calomel and try "BlkC&-
DRAUGHT" ior liver diseases.
For ISLE by all druggists.

Il seems almost like waking from a dream
TO find oneself so clear headed, so light spirit
eI and SO tul of gay thoughts, when de'pon-
dent feelings existed unit taking Simmons,
Liver Regulator when they were dhslpsted
III a cloud before sunshine and ii seemed as
though life was worth living.
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Who is sbc9 Appointment lady patron

- w no - ehV1 - lAN'''' -
Of the stage, known to be wealthy, is said to
have il In her brain to advise everyone with
whom she conyerses to use "Rve and Rock"
es a beverage, or as tonic, or a cure for
many of tho diseases that flesh heir TO"
be Il cold, cough, asthma, brocnitis or the
consumption. She always adds. however, be
sure TO get Var Reils "Rock and Rye" with
his signature on the label, as all Others are
limitations. The question is, does she receive
= commission, or is she public beneiactor'
Who is she!
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J, ennimnnN SUD The Pole.

Correspond ar sew York Mail.
The churches have learned thM tho best
method of introducing CHRISTIAN civilization
in pagan lands is to make missionaries of
native converts. The same policy has been
developed concerning Arctic explorations
The men who can best endure the rigors of
the Arctic temperature are natives Of tho
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-05

Why is it that Weyersberg is getting so
many new customers for Temps beer? Be-
cause he deliveries the finest beer, ice cold, at
any time OF the day or night.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-05

Will find no trouble in getting fitted in .
dno pair of shoes at Leon Kahn's-we have
sbem in all styles and last, and fully war
,As. every pair custom muau shoes sold
by US.
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The Boss smoke.

Fruits and Flowers cigarettes and smok-
ng tobacco. Headquarters Trinity cigar
icAtory.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-05

English Female b ters cures all irregula
or excessive monthly Eecretlons, lucorrhoea
or whites, chlorisis or green sickness, palpila-
ton, weak back etc.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-05

Mems, youths and boys dress suits at low
prices. Gall and see us-Blankenship u
Blake, Oil Elm street.