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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-08-24

In the "Annals of the Bar and Bench"
is printed an anecdote of an English
barrister who at some country assizes
thus addressed the Judge: II must be
frank with the Bench. I was retained
in London by the attorney for the pros
ecutor OF this wretched man. On my
arriva, here / was retained by the attor-
ney of this unhappy man. am sorely
in need Of both retainers. And, with
your Lordship's permission, will i'm
partially marshal the evidence for and
against him. make the necessary speech
es and leave It to your Lordship and the
jury to determine which Is most con-
vincing-my line of attack or my line
of defense-for / am in doubt about the
matter myself" II Judge Poland has
read the anecdote be will remember that
the Judge postponed the case
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"Wanted."
From the Boston Post.

Wanted-Gen. Sherman's letters to
Hancock; Oakes Anes's memorandum
book; the Republican dispatches stolen
from the committee room at Washing
ton; copy of the interview between
Conkling and Garfield at New York;
proof OF who furnished the two thous=
and dollars paid two members Of the
Maine Legislature to prevent quorum;
copy Of the law framed by Logan for
selling negroes into slavery; hatchet,
as a present for any deserter from the
Democratic party who never lies; pic
lure Of Hancock for "mask" for Sena-
tor Hoar; authentic information as to
what Gen. Butler proposes to do; the
price current for Greenback voters OF
Republican antecedents, as fixed by Mr..
Blaine; President Hayes's civil service
orders engraved on brass, as token OF
his distinguished consideration for Ches.
ter A. Arthur; another copy for Gov.
Long, for his tribute to the good sense
of the people by invoking civil service
reform as special issue of this cam.
paign; pictures Of the yonng Republic
cans of Massachusetts who declared in
advance for candidate "without
stain" ditto of our friends of the Trav.
eller, taken Immediately after Chicago
sat down on Grant; copy Of that die
patch from the Secretary OF War sent
Banks, requiring his immediate attend
ance at Washington, which he kept in
his breeches pocket ten days Business
is rather dull in dog days, and we want
to 60 into the show business.
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reported for The Spirit of DemocracyJ
Proceedings of the Monroe County
Greenback Convention.

Pursuant to call from the Greenback
party OF Monroe County, they assem-
bled at Jackson's Ridge on August IA,
at o'clock P N.
Mr.. James Dougherty was chosen
Chairman and j. L. Gillespie, Secretary.
The house was called to order by the
Chairman and proceeded to'nominate the
following excellent ticket:
Recorder-Simon Dougherty, of WASH
ington Township; Commissioner-C. B..
Knowlton, OF Washington Township ;
Iufrmary Director-Lewis Gray. OF
Green Township: Surveyor-Thomas
Greenbank, of Summit township.
The name of John Moore was recon-
mended by tue Convention to Noble and
Guernsey as a suitable candidate for
number OF the State Board OF Eqaliza-
ton.
On motion OF the house the Chair
appointed the following committees:
o. F. Flint, to correspond with the
other counties of this Congressional
District, to arrange for holding Con-
gressiOnal Convention.
Thomas A. Way, Jr., to correspond
with Noble and Guernsey for the pur.
pose Of selecting candidate for Mem
Der Of the State Board Of Equalization.
Executive Committee. L. Gillespie,
W. L. Norris, .Thos. Adams, Ed. Milli-
gan and Daniel Baker.
Speeches we're then made by John
Moore, Thos. Adams and r. a. Way,
Jr., in which they dealt telling blows
upon both the old parties in such q man.
ner as to produce frequent applause
from the audience, which wss largely at
tended by the Greenback party OF the
county, also many others who had not
united themselves with the party to
throw off the yoke Of bondage. Much
enthusiasm was manifested throughout
the proceedings Of the Convention, which
foreshadows an increased vote for the
ticket and Gen. Weaver.
A resolution was passed that copy OF
the proceedings be furnished the Gazette
and Spirit. also the Advamce, published
at Salem, Columbiana County. Ohio.
j. L. GILLESPIE, Necret0ry
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wThe following, which is extracted
from the columns of the Philadelphia
Press, (Repu5lican) of January, 1873,
will be interesting reading for Mr.. Gar
field and bis friends:
Deceive themselves as they may, gen.
tlemen In Congress who have been in
vesting in the Credit Mobilier cannot
brave 1t out on the assumption that they
had right to buy into it. We desire
to give them the full benefit of honest
motives, but it is proper to say that any
attempt TO lay down the law that Sena.
tor or Representative can become inter-
ested in schemes before Congress, or as
an attorney, can 60 before the depart
ments and courts and take fees to sup
port or oppose measures on which he
has voted, or may vote, will be lndig.
nsntly repudiated by the people"
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We asked political acquaintance OF
ours, says the Cincinnati Saturday Night,
the other day, what he thought of the
campaign. "My FRIEND" says be, "the
campaign is opening up glorlously; the
outlook never was better. I've been
asked to drink 422 times already since
the nominations, and-and--excuse me,
my friend, but theirs man hollering to
me now to come with him and have
something; the outlook is glorious, my
friend, gle-orious!"
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TRUE DEMOCRACY.

TUNE-Johnny Comes Marching Homo.
From North to South, from Rast to Yves
Hurrahl Hurrahl ~
Der all the land by wrong oppressed,
Hurrah! Hurrahl
We greet the standard bearers now,
We pledge them with united vow
From camp and hall. from field and plow.
IN trus Democracy.
The .bloody shirt we do not wave,
Hurrah! Hurrahi
For strife is buried In the grave,
Hurrah Hurrahi
With garments clean, and records clear.
United, We have nought to fear,
While Joined in brotherhood sincere,
OF true Democracy.
For Hancock Is the name to win,
Hurrahl Hurrahl
Hes marching on, he will march In,
Hurrahl Hurrabl
And English, too, an honest man.
Above reproach-his life We scan
VIII help to rsuuits the olan,
OF true Democracy.
For Hancock brave and English true,
Hurrahl Hurrahl
Will reunits the gray and blue,
Hurrahi Hurrahl
30 ding the starry banner ont,
And welcome With joyous shout,
The name that put the foes to rout,
And join Democracy.
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Poland Against Poland.
N. Y. World, Aug. 4.

Judge Poland turns up again. He
has been writing letter to the Rev. Mr..
Dewey, of Martinsburg, in which be ex
presses the opinion that..the great effort
in this campaign is to draw the minds of
the people Away from the real issues be-
tween the twp parties upon some more
triflipg personal question OF candidates. y
Having uttered this, Judge Poland pro-
coed, to avow the authorship OF letter
addressed in his name to Ex-Governor
Ryland Fletcher, Of Vermont, which is
wholly takensup with smere trifIng
personal quessionn as TO the conduct OF
General Gst1ei6 Ia the matter of.the
Credit M6mlief: Charitable people had
regarded this letter as forgery, remem.
bering what Judge Poland certified to
ION this same subject as a member oI
Congress in 1873, Now that Judge Pc.
land admits it's authenticity 1T is in or
der to print it side by side with Judge
Poland's official verdict on General Gar.
| field:
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The General outlook for the campaign
is favorable.
The man who spends all his money on
q diamond shrt-stud carries everything
before him.
/, The last census shows that Rhode Is-
land is entitled to another alderman in
both warde.
"How shall we get The young men to
church ?" asked religious weekly. Get
the girls to go brother, get the girls to
60,
Horses in Boston are suffering from
q throat distemper. They are evidently
for summer vacation and trip to the
Holy Land.
II the King Of Siam visits this coun-
try the aged and infirm puns about ''just
as siam" will soon have to hobble
around again.
Edison thinks be can construct an en-
CINE that will make 600 revolutions 4
minute. Let him take 1t to Mexeco i'm
mediately.
Steamboat companies are not bebsnd
the philanthropists in doing a great deal
to encourage people to learn to swim.
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Big Story About Jay GOuld's
Wealth.

Jay Gould's winnings during the last
year are variously estimated, but on any
reckoning his capital has been rolling
up like q SNOWFALL. A year ago he sold
loo, 900 shares of Union Pacific for
about $7,500,000. Then he bought a
controlling interest in Kansas Pacific,
which was at IL, for about $500, 900,
and in the next six months the stock
rose to 90, netting S4,000,000. Wabash
was vt lS when Gould bought, some cay
two thirds of the stock, and it rose later
to 6S3. His profits on the consolida'
tion bf the ST. Louis Northern, which
be bad bought at "A and saw rise to AZ,
and Wabash are put at S4.S50,000 In
all, by spending about $3,85G,000 fol
stocks, Gould has netted 81l 200, 600 il
he were to sell ont.
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Ont tor Hancock.

HARRISBURG, Pa, August l5.-Dr.
Michael Steck, Greenback candidate for
Governor two years ago in
this State, has come out for Hancock
DR.. Steck was appointed Indian Agent
for New Mexico under Fillmore's ad.
He was Republican until
carried into the Greenback camp few
years ago and was . candidate for the
State Senate of the Republicans and
GreeHbackers before he was nominated
for Lieutenant Governor.
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Dafrymen.s Folly.

Some dairymen adhere, even against
the full light Of fact and discovery, to
the old fashioned folly of coloring but.
ter with carrots. annatto, and inferior
substances, notwithstanding the public
record made by the Perfected Butter
Color Of Wells. Richardson & Co., Bur-
lineton, vi. Those creameries that get
the highest prices use it constantly. 1t
is solo by Druggists.
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was stationed at clump OF trees that
was about the centre OF Hancock's corps.
II was iu the Second brigade, Second
division In the same division we're
Gen Gibhou and Gen Alexander Webb
Col. Smiths regiment which captured
-four of the Confederate flags, suffered
severely. There we're 9 officers killed
out OF 16. and 10S men killed out of
l2o4. or nearly half the regiment. 1t was
there that Capt. Weed was killed, and
the spot has since been called Weeds
bill. Col. Smith said: IL was connect
ed with the Army of the Potomac from
its earliest organization until mustered
out at Cold Harbor in July, 1864. and
have been throughout. directly and in.
directly, under Hancock's command -
|'His presence was Inspiring always on
the Peninsula and on the Potomac
regarded him rs having no superior as
general.
"More than once after resuming COM
mand OF the Second corps, Gen. Han
cocks wound compelled him temporarily
to put himself in the hands of the sur.
geon, but the battles of Spottyslvania
and the other desperate conflicts In the
Wilderness; of Cold Harbor, Peters
hurg and wherever fighting was to he
done, did not fail to find him in the sad
die and at the head of his men.
"The anniversary of the third days
fight at Gettysburg will be remembered
by his old soldiers to-day. His gallant
conduct at South Mountain will be re-
called on the 14th of September, the
eighteenth anniversary of that battle ;
three days later will be the anniversary
iof the terrible aght at Antietam, where
Hancock succeeded Richardson Last
Thursday was the eighteenth anniver.
sary of Malvern Hill, after which the
| general-in-chief urged Hancock's pro.
motion as major-general OF volunteers.
The anniversaries of Marve's heights
before Fredericksburg, where Hancock
and all his aides we're wounded; oi
Williamsburg. after which Mcclellan
sent his memorable dispatch to Lincoln
concerning Hancock, and of Chancel-
lorsville, when Hancock horse was sho,
under him, must be celebrated after the
election for President in November
next. ."-Ne,c York San.
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Sick Folks Save Money

by buying the medicine known as Kid
ney-Wort. 1t is dry, vegetable com.
pound Of wonderful efficacy in all dis.
eases of the liver and kidneys. One
package makes six quarts OF medicine
which contains no poisonous liquors. be.
ing prepared in pure water. See large
advertisement.
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Seveuty.second New York.
New York Sun, August Q. 1880.

Gen. Garfield's authorship Of the Cen
sus law Is q single example, among many
that might be referred to, OF his practi-
cal labors as sagacious legislator out
side the domain Of party politics. .-Iri-
bune.
Gen. Garfield is not the author OF the
law under which the census OF 1880 was
taken. The preparation OF the presen,
census law was the honest undivided
work Of Mr.. s S. Cox, OF New York
who gets much less credit than belongs
to him for bis faithful and sagacious Ia.
bors in legislation "outside the domain
OF party politics
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OFFICIAL ATTACK.
Page Z of Report of

OFFICIAL ATTACK.
Page Z of Report of
Feb. Is, 1873.
"The facts in re.
gard TO Mr.. Gar
field as found by
the committee are
identical with the
case of Mr.. Kelley
to the point of re-
ceptiun Of the
check for 1929. He
agreed with. Mr..
Ames to take ten
shares Of the Credit
Mobilier stock,
bat did not pay for
the same. Mr. Ames
received the 80 per
cent. dividend in
bonds, and sold
them for 81 per
cent. and also re-
ceived 60 per cent.
cssh ivid e n d,
" b | c b togsther
paid the price Of
the stock and inter-
est and left q bal
ance Of 1929 This
sum was paid over
to Mr.. Garfield by
a check on the Ser
geant-at Arms, and
Mr.. Gcrfield then
understood this
sum cas the bala.
ance Of diuidends
after paying for the
| stock"
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LincOln's Tenderness.

A striking incident 10 Mr.. Lincoln's
official life is related BY Judge Brom.
well, Of Denver, who visited the White
House in March, 1865. Mr.. Seward and
several other gentlemen were present,
and the Presiden. gradually came to talk
of decisions on life and death. All other
matters submitted to him, be declared,
were nothing in comparison to those he
added: II reckon there never was man
raised in the country on a farm, where
they are always butchering cattle and
hogs and think nothing of it, that ever
grewsup with such an aversion to blood
sbedSas ! have, and yet I've bad more
fifc and deati TO settle IN
four years than all the men who ever sat
In this chair put together. But I've
managed to get along and do my duty,
l believe, and still save most of them !;
and there's no man knows the distress
OF mind. But there have been some of
them / couldn't save-there are some
cases where the law must be executed.
There vas that man--, who was sen.
fenced for piracy and slave trading on
the high seas That was a case where
there must be an example. and you don't
know how they followed and pressed me
to get him pardoned, or his sentence
commuted but there was no use Of talk.
ing. 1t had to be done; l couldn't help
him And there was that, who was
caught recruiting within Pope's lines
in Missouri That was another case.
They besieged me day and night, but !
couldn't give way. We had to come to
q point where something must be done
that would put stop to such work.
And then there was this case OF Beal on
the lakes. That Was case where there
must be an example. They tried me ev.
cry way. They wouldn't give up; but
had to stand firm on that, and l even
had to turn away his poor sister when
she came and begged for his life, and le,
him be executed, and he was executed
and / can't get the distress off my mind
yet" As the kindly man uttered these
words the tears ran down his cheeks
and the eyes Of the men surrounding
him moistened In sympathy. There was
a profound silence, in which they arose
to depart Three weeks after the Presl.
dent was killed.
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The London Lancet says that SO
strokes a minute dangerously overtaxes
an oarsman. For once we must disa-
gree with our estimable contemporary,
Thirty .eight to 40 strokes q minute is
about the right figure. They should be
administered with ball club somewhere
back OF the oarsman's, ears. This, OF
course, relates only to professional
scullers. Drowning will do for anna.
teurs.
The best thing for a bathing dress
would be 8 duck suit.
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st. Louis Republican.

1t is worth Drawing all the horrors OF
q Democratic administration, so rueiully
anticipated by the oe1ce-holders. to get
q glimpse Of the inside management OF
the various departments Of the govern
ment since they have been under Repub-
licsn control. Only enough has come
to the surface during the scandals OF the
past ten years to enable us to feebly im-
agine how much rascality has been COW
cred up; and the longer the Republican
party remains in power the worse will
be the stencil when their official rotten
ness is finally uncovered.
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Telegraphic from Toledo, o.

Mr.. ED1roR: Say TO your readers that
DAY's KIDNEY PAD is extensively used
here by our best citizens, and is effec-
ting most wonderful onres. 1t Is the
best Kidney remedy ever sold in this 10.
cality. W. K WEST, Druggist
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Beating q Circus.

1t Is believed that average humanity
will do more to beat it's way into cir
Gus than it would to gain possession of
a whole side-show. The doors Of Bar.
NUNS Circus were hardly opened yester-
day before an old man over sixty years
of age was walking coolly in without a
pasteboard. When halted he said:
Cant stop minute-Tm looking
for Phineas
"Ticket-ticketr cried the doorman,
as he held or to him.
III tell you I have an engagement to
meet Phineas T. Barnum at this hour,
and if you stop me he may lose $5, ,000," +"
shouted the old man..
"Go back ani get your ticket"
Haven't time."
"You cant 60 In here i"
"Very we'll, then. II P. T. loses q
clean S5, 900 be must blame you, and not
me. He told me to call at this hour and
here / am."
That settled it. Barnum was not in
town, and the old man was lifted up and
dropped outside the ropes.
Within two minutes q young man
walked up to the door and said that he
had been, promised free entrance in con.
sideration Of the fact that he had been
run over by the band-wagon.
"Sbow me the injury-show me the
|placew called the ticket-tsker, as be
reached right and left for the paste
boards.
SIT was an internal injury" replied
the victim.
"Go away-go sway-we pay for
nothing that isn't visible, and we have
nothing in this show which cannot be
seen BY the naked eye!"
A woman bought ticket for herself,
and then taking boy fully thirteen
years old in her arms, she wrapped q
shawl around him and started in.
"That's pretty big baby you have
there" said the man as she came up.
big? Why, you ought to see bis
brother!" she exclaimed, as the weight
bent her nearly double.
She started to pass 10, hut caught her
font and fell fat, and "baby" rolled out
of the shawl in all his bigness.
"Half-fare-get q ticket!" said the
man as he lifted him over the ropes, and
the woman added:
"Crawl under the canvas, johnny
crawl under the canvas! You'll find me
looking at the camel-efants
Before the show opened 10 the even
ing long haired pilgrim hunted up the
manager and confidently observed:
"Chance for big rush here tonight
If the thing is worked right"
"HowY
"You should have some one deliver
an address from box half an hour be-
fore the performance begins. am call.
ed fluent talker, fair philosopher and
can give fifty-six different reasons why
it is not wicked to attend circus.
deliver this address and you pass me in
free"
"Guess not"
"Then il you don't take in enough
money to enable you to leave town and
have to pawn all your animals, turn ou
your horses and 60 home on foot, dom
ask to borrow any money OF me, for
won't lend you 8 copper-not q single
cop"
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NOTARY PUBLIC.

N>HN undersigned, having been appointed
i Notary Public, would inform MS
friends, aud the public generally, thst ne Is
prepared to all Pensioners Blanks. admin
is.sr Osths, take Dispositions, acknowledge
Deeds, Mortgsges- and other instruments o.
writing. !ohN 'hrf nnu n.,.
sprls.,7sy 3ssllsville. Monroe Go. ONO
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NJ World, August 1.

The following letter has been sent to
the Republican Congressional Campaign
Committee by Ralph P. Howe, of Little
Valley, N. r, an ex-soldier connected
With the Seventy second New York VOL
unteers and an Office. holder, in response
to a letter levying ar assessment upon
him:
E. Mcpherson, Secretary:
SrR: You ask me for 81s to help elect
man that was nominated by party OF
politicians that issued orders and sta
toned pickets to prevent crippled SOL
diers from entering the building where
The Republican Convention was in ses'
sion, and for the only reason that they
we're supposed friends Of Gen. Grant,
You have got your man-now elect him
MY vote and influence In the present
campaign, and my money also, shall be
given in favor OF the sOldier-statesman,
Gen. W. S. Hancock.
RALPH p. HOWE,
Seventy.se second New York.
July "a, 1880.
Twenty five Republicans and seven
Greenbackers who are employed in Dan
lei F. Beatty's piano and organ factory
at Washington, N. j.. have declared
their intention to vote for Hancock and
English.
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EP I 8 T o L RY DE
FENsE.
Burlington Free Press
July ~.
" 7 b 9 transac-
tions of Mr.. Ames
in Credit Mobilier
stock were more
than q dozen years
ago; the full inves.
tigation of the mat.
ter by the commit
tee Of which / was
chairman was over
eight years ago.
At the time of the
Investigation I b e
public mind was
greatly excited on
the subject, and it
involved the char
acter and reputa-
tion Of 80 many
prominent men that
probably no mere
personal matter ev-
er was 80 thorough
lv canvasspd and
discussed by t b e
reading and iutelli-
gent people OF this
country. After the
m o 8 t exhaustive
discussion and re-
fectlon. the jndg
ment of the people
of this country was
made up as to each
m q n " b o " a 6
named as connected
" | t b it. Sa, ing
nothing in regard
to any other man,
] b ink 7 mag
most trnMfullg sag
that this public and
popular Judgment
fully and absolutely
acquitted General
g art Ell d Of all
,rrong, either in act
or intent in relation
to the matter"
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L. r. FARQUHAR. M. ID.
formerly Of GAINESVILLE, 0hio,)

Physician and Surgeon,
Once and residence in the Walton property,
WOODS Ell D, . H o.
Having located At the above place, offers his
Professional services, where he hopes BY
close attention TO business to merit public
couAdsnoa and patronage.
Chronic Diseases vsii receive spsoisl
attention. msy4,.6Y