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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-22
TheGreat Blood Purifier
DR.. w. Ross Writes.
Scrofula. Liver Complaint, Dyspep-
sla, rheumatism, Weakness.

H. K. STEVENS, BosToS
have been practicng medicine for 26 years, and
as a remedy for Scrofuta, Litef Complaint Dyspep-
sia Rhetiniatism Weakness, anu al diseases Of the
blood l have never found its equal, have sold
VRGETISE for seven years and have never had Que
bottle ieturu-d. | would heartily recommend ii
to those Ia need of 8 blood purifier.
DIR. W. ROSS, Druggist,
Sept. Is, 1875 Wilton Iowa.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-01-22

RECORDER HACKETT had owned over
four hundred dogs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19
TO BE LOOKED INTO.

As our readers have already been advised,
the last legislature Of Illinois passed reso-
luton proposing an amendment to the con
stltuton looking toward the changing of the
term of various county officers, but the mat
ter seems to have been lost sight of for some
time, and we refer to IT now ia order that vot,
crs may have ample time to look into the
merits of the matter before they become too
much absorbed with other election matters,
and be prepared to vote understandingly on
the question next fall The resolution passed
by the legislature is as follows:
Resoleed Jy the Senate IF the state Of III
nots, The House If Representatives. coacHr1Rg
therein, That there shall be submitted to the
voters of this state at the next election for
members of the General Assembly, II propo-
siuon to amend the eighth section OF the
tenth article of the constitution OF this state,
that the same may read rs follows:
"ln each county there shall be elected the
following county officers at the general cleo
ton to be held on the Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, A. ID. 1882: County
Judge, County Clerk, Sheriff and Treasurer,
and at the election to be held on the tuesday
after the first Monday in November, A H.
1884, a Coroner and Clerk OF the circuit
court (who may be exotlicIo Recorder OF
Deeds, except in counties having 6OOO0 or
more inhabitants, in which county Recorder
of Deeds shall be elected at the general elec.
lion m 1891 Each OF said officers shall en-
ter upon the duties of his office, respectively
on the first Monday of December, after he Is
elected and until their successors are eiecteu
and qualified Provided that no person nav
ing once been elected TO the office OF Sheriff
| or Treasurer shall be eligible to reelection tc
said Office for four years after the expiration
of the term for which he shall have beer
elected"
The matter is quite plainly stated by co
temporary, who says the effect OF this amend
meat will be to make the term OF all count,
officers four years, thereby extending the ten
ure Of the Treasurer, Sheriff and Coroner TIVE
wears beyond that allowed under the presen
constitution. Another feature Is the division
of county officers into two classes, who ar
elected at alternate periods of two years-th
frs, class consisting Of County Judge, Count.
Clerk. Sheriff and Treasurer, and the secon'
! of Coroner and Clerk of the Circuit Cour
with recorder of Deeds IN counties having
populaiion Of G0,O00 or over
One query that arises in regard to TINS PR
posed change Is, why, Of the half-dozen o
more county officers 70 which II relates, Gil Q
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whose terms 1t proposes to equalize at four
years, the Sheriff and Treasurer alone are
made ineligible for a second term. Another
query is, what becomes of the County Sur.
veyor and County superintendent of schools
AS the section stands, these offices are abol-
ished, and it being done by constitutional
provision, can they be re.established?
The pretense IN favor of this constitutional
amendment that 1t lessons to some extent what
is alleged to have become a nuisance, the
multiplicity of our local elections, Is unbound.
ed. BY making one set of the officers eligible
at one election and another set two years
later, we really have the same number of
elections we had before. Upon the whole,
our impression is the thing had better be
voted down. 1t is a sort of constitutional
tinkcring that ought to be discouraged,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

Assuming the Sua's charges TO be proved
General Garfield IS not fit to be President.
They are SO utterly damaging, If true, that we
rcproiuce the suns statement in another part
of this paper The parallel which the Sun
draws between the case of MIR. Colfax and that
of Mr. Garfield Is forcible and striking, and
tends TO show that the ruined ColiaX is an in
jured man If Garfield is innocent They had
the same amount OF Credit Mobilicr stock rs.
signed them; they alike denied that they had
received any, the denials Of both were rebuilt
ed by strong evidence; but one of them has
been seventeen years in disgrace and the other
IS nominated for the Presidency. If the over
whelmlng ruin of Cofax Is just it bchooyes
the friends of Gen. Garfield to show how their
cases differ. We are willing to judge of Mr..
Gartield's defense with the same candor and
impartialty as If the accusation were new, and
as if we had never pronounced strong opin.
ion against him. But the fact that the charge
is old does not absolve him from the necessity
Of refutlHg it.
The grounds of defense thus far offered by
his supporters are as damaging as the original
accusation. They tryro bclitte it by saying
that 1t is rakcd up from the past, Do they
really thiRk that if General Garfield was cor
rupt eighteen years ago that Is no reason why
he should not be elected President now? What
is of real consequence is not whether the charg.
cs are old, but whether they are true. If true
they are as fatal bar to his election as II the
oncnse had been committed yesterday. WoIld
ColfaX be a fit candidate because so much time
has elapsed since his exposure?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19
THE GREENBACKERs.

We mentioned IN our last the meeting OF
National convention of the greenbackers in
Chicago, organized with the famous Richard
Trevelick as president and after consolidas-
ing the Pomeroy and communists with the
fiatists, left them one happy body in the En-
position building on the eve of making presi-
Dental nominations. 1t appears there was no
lack of candidates, the more prominent being
Ben. Butler, Alex. Campbell, La Martyr, Scion
Chase. W. X. Booth and Gen. J. b. Weaver.
Weaver beat the field on the first ballot. Col
b. ]. Chambers, of Texas, was nominated for
vice president 1t is stated, however, that
the members were far from happy over the
nominations. The New England men were
mad because they got neither Chase or Butler
and the communists wanted Kearney. Weaver
came in much like Garfield as a dark horse
and after his success there was an instant ano
marked lowering of the noisy, exuberant feel
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19
BLAINE AND GARFIELD.

While there was a great deal Of real or SIM
ulated joy among the republicans all over the
country on the announcement Of the nom
nation of General Garfield at Chica'
lcago, little time for reflection shows
that the joy-whatcver there was OF
lt--arosc more from the sense Of relief felt
on escaping the necessity, which so many re.
publicans dreaded, of being compelled to
face, in the campaign, the widespread, popu-
lar repugnance to the third term, in the case
OF Grants nomination; or the serious Null
gan letters business and Arkansaw railroad
fOuness, in the case OF llalncs nomination
But now that little time for reflection has
been had and little of the sunlight of the
public press has been cast on the teartul,y be
daubed character of Gen. Garfield, there Is
not only general abatement of the enthusi.
asm, but something almost resembling a pan.
ic has taken its place. The charges against
Blaine, resting mainly on the unfortunate
Mulligan letters, 1t is now remembered, were
never admitted by his friends No republ
can investigation committee had ever de.
clared him corrupt. No leading republican
newspapers ever called for his expulsion from
Congress, as the New York Times, the Tri
June and many Others did in the case Of Gar
field He was never branded as a perjurer
Nobody ever found him taking bride of So,
600 to vote hundreds of thousands into the
pockets of Boss Shepherds Ring. And YET
belief that his personal integrity had not al.
ways withstood temptatiOn-a belief not es
tabllsAed by evidence before a competent tri
bunal-was enough to blast his political as
pirations and to shut him out from the Office
to which he would otherwise have found an
easy road. So serious, indeed, has thu,
panicky feeling become among the leading
republicans at Washington that a dispatch Of
Monday says;
at is growing into belief here that james
A. Garfield will be taken from the head Of
the ticket, where a blind panic among LOT
of crazy delegates has placed HIM. A calm
Iunprciudiced glance over the official records
shows that Mr.. Garfield stands convicted rs q
perjurer and bride taker. In the Credit
Mobiler case he swore positively that he new
er received a dollar of the stock or dividends
OF the Credit Mobller company. The com.
mittee was composed of Judge Poland, Of
Vermont; Judge Nlblack, of Indiana; Judge
Merrck, of Maryland; Judge McCrary, o.
Iowa, and N. p Banks, of Massachusetts,
All Republicans but one, Judge Niblack, OF
Indiana"
The load of such damaged reputation, i
is believed is too heavy for the republican
party to carry.
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$1,000
l,iO0
S2,4tW

"Q-Iou say that these figures were made
by Mr. Garfield? Ayes sir.
"Q-That was his idea Of what was coming
to hims A.-Ies, sir"
All this, We It remembered, occurred after
the investigation had bcgun-after James A
Garfield had sworn that he never owned, re
Ceived, or agreed to receive any stock OF the
Credit Mobilcr or of the Union Pacific Rail
road, nor any dividends or profits arising from
either OF them"
And after Garfield had sworn TO tins false
hood, Republican committee of the House OF
Representatives, made up of his own political
and personal friends, and with Judge Poland
of Vermont as its Chairman, branded him tor
ever rs bride takcr and perjurcr in thes,
blasting words
"He CGdrfel,) ogreed rih Nr. Ames to tak,
ten shares Of CredH WoJiiier stock, but did moi
pay for Me sanss. Nr. times received tie etghss
per cent dipide6 IN bonds and sold them foI
ninet ysereR per ccHt and also rtceicsi the sirtJ
per cent cash dtrideHd Thich, together cih III,
price If tie stock and interest, igt a balance d
5000. Tbs sum rdS pat Deer 10 .Hr. Gdrtiei,
bg a cheek on de ISergedHtdtAT7as."
The Credit Mobilicr exposure shattered
good many regulations; but it left no charac
tiers worse damaged than those of Schuyle
Colfak and James A. Garfield.
Schuyler Colfax, unnoticed, is living out tn
last years of "A dishonored life; while by GU
rious turn of memorable struggle in nomi
mating convention, James A. Garfield, his fel
low criminal is the Republican party's candi
date for President of the United States
The Sun having thus, on the Invitation o
the Herald, produced its proofs, the latter pa
per, still assuming in great charity TO Gen
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19
THE STORM KING.

The past week has been unusually notable
for it's heavy transforms in different parts OF
the country and for not few additional lorna
dos and cyclones. New York city and viclnl-
.ty,-Iong Island and New Jersey most nota
Div, where serious drought had prevailed for
some weeks-were visited week ago not only
with drenching rain but 1t was accompanied
with such furious winds as to do large
amount of damage.
But the heaviest visitation in the way OF
rams was in the upper Northwest-northern
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dacotah, &c All the
villages along the Mississippi river from 81
Paul to Winona were flooded, and much dam
age was done the property of the merchants
AT these places The freshets swept away four
teen bridges on the Winona X st. Paul rail-
road, and trains were not able to pass over the
track for some time in consequence Great
damage was done to farm property, and the
overflow of the Wolf river did much injury
in the Wisconsin lumber region The num-
Der of persons killed during the storm, as far
as ascertained, was SIX.
The Chippewa river in Wisconsin rose six
teen feet above hlgh-water mark, and soV,ooV'
900 feet of logs damned above Chippewa
falls, swept down the river as far as The Deiis
dam, near Eau Claire 1t was feared that this
dam would give way and the entire lot of tim
Der be swept into the Mississippi river, but
thus tar that calamity has been averted.
The storm, though also doing much injury
to the property along the Minnesota rivers,
has greatly benefited the crops in that state
and Dakota. The weather for a consid-
cradle time previously had been very warm,
and the ground was parched, and the grain
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about $50 passengers on board most Of whom
plunged into the water, and as far as was pos-
sible in the darkness were picked up by the
boats Of the Stonington, but it is believed that
over 50 we're drowned The Stonington,
though badly crushed, remained afioat and
landed her passengers, as well as the rescued
of the Nsrragansett, in safety. The accident
is manly attributed to foggy weather, though
the officers of the unfostunate steamers by no
means escape censure.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

While Washburnc was at the head of the
committee on appropriations in the house at
Washington he was called the watch dog OF
the treasury, and there was no man in Wash.
ington whom the lobby corruptionists and
treasury plundercrs so much feared and hated
But on Grants election Washburne was taken
from the house by being first appointed secre.
tary Of state and then sent to France, and Gar.
field got his place at the head of the appropri-
atoms committee. The change was truly an
unfortunate and costly one to the American
people Garfield became at once the promoter
of the huge land grants and subsidies, by
which millions of acres of the public domain
and tens of millions of money were voted to
great corporations and rings That may be
called the beginning of the organized corrup
lion which hourished during Grants two
terms Garfield voted for almost every in
iquitous scheme OF the lobby that then con.
trolled his own and the other leading com.
mttecs
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

A terrible disaster occurred on Long Island
Sound at II 80 O'Clock on Friday night OF
last week, by the collision of the steamers
S.onlngton and Narrsgansett, belonging 10
the Stonlngton line. Both steamers were
loaded with passengers The Narrasansett
was the chief sufferer, being struci; amidships
on the starbeard side, and infiveminutes sank
to the man deck and grounded A few min.
utes later, by the explosion of the gas tank,
the boat was wrapped in flames There were
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

Newspaper publishers will get no relief
olt Of the present Congress. The patent on
wood pulp will not be repealed, as the Demo.
cratic Congress prefers to keep up the present
heavy tax on knowledge and education.-P Pom
;tac ISeatinet
Geo. F. Rowell IL Co., the widely-known
N. Y newspaper agents, issued a circular two
months ago not only charging, but proving,
that the one great obstacle IN congress to the
removal of the wood pulp monopoly was the
opposition of James A. Garfield in the house
WAYS and means committee. Mr. Rowell had
spent weeks at Washington laboring for the
removal of this heavy taS on knowledge, and
knew exactly whom he had 70 tight
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

Garfield represents the brains, the courage
and morality of the republican party.-ch'c"'
go Tribune
Then the "brains, courage and morality OF
the republican party consist in taking d
brlbe, sneakingly attempting to hide the crime
by the suboInatlon of perjury, and failing in
that boldly perjuring his own soul by lying
out of it on oath. Generally that KIND Of
courage and morality" finds its most appro
pirate representation in the penitentiary
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

There is sad to be painful GOODNESS, since
the Chicago Convention, along the color line
Though Fred Douglass, Turner and other
distinguished leaders OF the race went to Chi
cago in full confidence that they would be able
to secure the second place on tie ticket iol
Senator Bruce, they found it impossible even
TO have his name presented in the convention
as a candidate nomination for the vice pres
idency. Itw nted that in paying the fares
and hotel bl + the colored delegates, and
allowing the % stop at the same hotels and
sit in the same convention with white folks
the republicans had done all for their "colored
brethren that they ought TO ask for.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19
ing in Iowa

BY the way, the nomination OF GarheIa Is
resurrection of the christian statesman, race
eunnosed TO have become extinct on the pollt
ical decease of Schurey ColtaX. 1t Is pi'y
the same hand of resurrection couldn't raise
up the great Indiana smler and give MN
the second place on the ticket.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

New Jersey, Long Island and portions OIL
Eastern Pennsylvania are being terribly raw
aged by the army worm. The dry and hot
weather of May seems to have been peculiarly
favorable to their development They are
quite equal in destructiveness to all KINDS OF
vegetation as the grasshoppcrs in Kansas and
Nebraska. They are to be dreaded, however,
only In dry seasons, so that with our abundant
rains in the west we shall probably hear moth
ing of the army worm hercabouts tins season
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

We have the highest regard personally ior
Gov. Cullom, and therefore cannot but sympa-
thise with him in view OF the threat HIS
friends are said to make of compelling INN
TO take the stump in Illinois during the pend
ing campaign against Judge TrumbnIl' we
can imagine no more painful position Gov
Cullom could be placed in than to be com
PEELED to meet Judge Trumbul on the stump
before a ten thousand audience.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

mysterious epidemic has appeared at
North Adams, Mass, within few days, ana
Is spreading rapidly IN the surrounding coun-
try. There are about seven hundred cases Of
sickness in the city, and two or three hundred
in the region about 1t resembles cholera NOR,
bus, but does not seem to be danger Gus in any
sense as there have been no fatalities as yet.
Physicians differ as to the cause OF the dis.
temper, some ascrbing impurities in the
drinking water, and others to atmospherical
phenomena. What particularly disgusts the
temperance people in that rigidly total abstin
ence aud puritancal quarter Is, that nothing
but French brandy Is found to be an
cfficacious remedy, aud that the dealers in that
article are reapng rich harvest
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

ing that had thus far prevailed in the conven-
ton and the delegates, scarcely waiting for
formal adjournment, stole away in sort Of
glum, unsati,tied state of feeling that BODIED
little enthusiasm IN the canvass.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19

Great heavlngs Gen. Weaver, the green
back nominee for the presidency, Is another
OHIO mainly birth, though at present resld'
ing in Iowa.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-06-19
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET,

GOVERNOR,
LYMAN TRuMBULL,
of Cook.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
LEWIS b. PARSONS,
of Clay.
SECRETARY OF STATE,
JOHN II. OBERLY,
of Alexander.
AUDITOR,
LEWIS C. STARKEL,
of st. CLAIR.
TREASURER,
THOMAS BUTTERWORIH,
OF Winnebago.
ATTORNEY GENERAL,
LAWRENCE HARMON,
of Peoria.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-04-07

A VISIT F0TBE HOME AND TUMn
OF Wk8HINGToN.
| To an Eneiishssafs tAsrs Il 10 spot u
7saersd In sll the vide donaiss II kii
/ countSy - StntSosdyoa-Apcn, Ouss IL
home. snd DOW the Last ressias. plsos ol
the immortal Shakspsars.
| The old house whore the great poel
lived. with oil its psseious felics, ssd
the church in the chancel 81 fshich ID
sleeps, are regarded With respect and
! reverance
The whcle country around seems Ia
he alive With hisr me0osy. IRON the
! seotiy hswise Avon, ~ whose silver
ws,ess b played ,yhea &boy, - the
eesdtifsi psfks. snd piesssrvya fdrnsOi
tia Lucy'ss -whsfsy perhaps. -Aasy~ei
these grand thoughts wsre en- Hendered,
/ vhioh :lssss'eses -sduisea a-i&svssy-as
tiun fssni enc edd Of the wotid % tie
An equxi Amount of respect des. ths
Asssisie ~ tetAaypaglysl ~
ingscn: and xhil ra11ejlS aS6t si4e
1medtS. Il cen sV.Sd kth III. Honor 81
sAsvisa eDlynat1 litS,e3 f>esslStue ~,
which today i oas nf Abe gran eat
ar:p sassS 1'hs ysklsasl 100 ssiSe
S Thsa,.. .dssfss.Sb. ss4sVsa.
Mount Vernon, and bsfere ,,bay. leave
they nasheg . te0r1H H~efs apias1krtlS, or
psrhaps strip al A.i .i.tls piece ct bark
from one 81 ~ erspS Oh trees thst
line the walks. and carry them away %
uSasatoa gee 4h6S S46ostu9hs h9Ae
81 the illustrious Statesman and solder.
Evsn the Iudisu dslegatious. We are
told, never leave the Capital till they
ksvs paid visit there, aud it 10 .
beautiful sight IN SEQ them stop before
the. door of the tomb, and look through
q The masble sssepphasxs, whieh go
Ains ely Sof teets gfeat man, who>s
memory eill ever phios Iosthilikf ths
aars, t,ll kths Gibbs S1oeslo swit6ts
mountains and valleys. and rivers aud
oceans. shall have passed sway and
time 10 blended into eternity. Aud not
only are Shakespeare and Washington
h0nored bv their own countryms but
all thc civilized nations in the world
respect thgr mc,Psgies. aS4 Stratford-
r po,om.s, ,sassss SSs;Esd lt.r - glory Org
from the visits Of travellers. than the
City Of Mecca from the yearly pilgrim.
ages of the Mohammsdsu disciples.
Il w.s beautiful day in June, wheo
We lett our hotsl in the City Of Wash.
insaoa. ,snd. ridinsrdswaefqfhs Sixth
street wtaf 49, 6.ss go hSs len.
did stsamsr. " Nv fo1( 10. which
lcsves every morning, Sundays except.
cd. for Mount Vernon.
In . little while We were gliding
over the waters Of the historic Poto-
mao, and as we gazed ON the beautiful
bills and valleys Of Virginia. and be-
held 10 the distance the country seat Of
the late General Lee. n Aslinstop. md
otDsr placsS OF tsrGDt: md orl of
tt s1 y civil ross 81 70 4 N 70
& !: So +. ! : J. (s.s.Ss:;S 10 III:
cry then changed.
The farm hoases that had bssn at
first thinly settled. were now drawn
closely together in long rows and sep
arAted. here and there BY bread roads.
and - We moved aleng. Ne discovered
tlOss emblsmseic ,ligpa ~ IN -
The frst lending was st the city Of
Alexandris, on the Virgiuis eide Of the
river. and . short distance from the