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Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
An Appeal to the Charitably. Disposed
People Of the Country.
ST. LOUIS, April z

ST. LOUIS, April 27..
The Merchants Exchange Relief
Committee have received SO MANY re-
ports of the terrible destruction and
distress occasioned by the recent tor
nadoes in this State, and have official
advices from SO many relief committees
and prominent gentlemen in the dew
astated district OF the urgent need of
assistance for the sufferers, that they
will issue the following tomorrow
morning, and ask place for it in the AS
sociated Press report: q
To the Charitably- Disposed People of the
United States:
The recent cyclones which passed over the
western part of the State of Missouri have
lies, laid waste many thriving towns and vii
lagos, and scattered to the wind houses, stock
cent adyices received by this Committee show
the destruction to be more fearful than pen
can picture. Mark p Nipher, Professor of
c. Shaler Smith, Civil Engineer, who have
just returned from exploring tour which
in Southwestern Missouri, in a report to
this t Com Commlttee' te say say that the ,,. half has
began beg about % trtytiVe niles west of OF s5rin9l
field, and gradually increased in size and power
until it attained width of 1900 feet. For
en- swath from 500 to 1000 feet wide. Men,
women and children were killed or crippled;
HORSES, CdlLle, Sneep ana QO&S were IN q SIM
liar condition. Dwellings, fences and out
houses were not only leveled, but blown away.
Plows, wagons, reapers and other farming inn
plements were reduced to scrap-iron and kin
dling-wood, and in many cases fields with
growing crops 50 covered with forest debris, or
with mud or sand, that much additional labor
will be required to save what has been plant
ed. No houses or barns are left standing in
the track of the storms, and farmers are en-
tirely without houses or implements with
which to carry on their farms. Similar re-
ports come from many other sources, and the
demands upon the people for assistance are
very urgent.
st. Louis is doing all in her power for the
relief of these unfortunate districts; but the
call is great, and cannot be supplied in an ade-
quate manner by the citizens of this State
alone. This Committee, therefore, in behalf
OF the sufferers, appeals to the people of this
country everywhere to come forward and as
sist in relieving the great distress Of the
Southwest. The appeals from the fever
stricken cities of the South during the last
two summers were not more urgent than this.
This Committee will furnish information to
any parties having funds to forward to points
needing assistance, and will receive and dis
burse any money or supplies sent here for;
this purpose. E. o. STANARD,
ALEX. II. SMITH, 81 + .
D. P. ROWLAND, s-,
p" SAMUEL CUPPLES,
MARTIN COLLINS, I'D
Merchants EXCHANGE Relief C0mmitfae.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
TWeedledum and TWeedledee.

The non-existence of any serious diff
ference between tweedledum and twee-
dledee has long been one of the accepted
postulates of the philosophic world; but
it seems to be denied in the political
world. According to the New York
Times, tweedledum in New York and
Pennsylvania is wholly distinct from
tWeedledee in Kansas; and the politi-
clan who does not detect the difference
is unworthy of house room in any part
of the Republican mansion. The argu-
ment of the Times in this behalf is one
of those ingenious bits of campaign lit
erature rarely found outside the columns
of newspaper that is supporting can
didate very much against its will. A
brief summary of it will be of use to the
journals, of which there are some, no
doubt, that will find themselves in that
predicament before that date which
Americans are accustomed to call, with
a fine flavor of classicality and inaccu-
racy, the Ides of November.
In Pennsylvania and New York, as
the Times points out, the State Conven-
tions judiciously conceded to the dis
tricts the privilege of selecting their
own delegates to the National Conven-
ton. 1t was the right, of course, of the
OCdLS SOAFoHCIOuS W tdhc lIc privilege
from the districts; but that no offense
might be given to the minority the rig hit
was magnanimously waived. Ali the
Convention asked, as an equivalent for
the waiver. was that the delegates,
when selected by their respective dis
tricts, should take their Instructions
from the Convention and vote at Chi
cago for its candidate, Grant. The dis
tricts were deferred to in the most
graceful way. The Convention didn't
even offer to suggest the names of the
men to be sent. And for its gracious
ness it only demanded the insignificant
concession of the delegates independ-
ence. So that they voted as the Con-
vention pleased they might be named
Nokes, or Stiles, or Brown, OF anything
else the districts desired.
But in Kansas everything was differ
ent, The Convention was Blaine
Convention, instead of being Grant
Convention, as the New York and
Pennsylvania Conventions were. 1t
instructed it's delegates to vote for
Blaine at Chicago, while the New York
and Pennsylvania Conventions instruct
ed theirs to vote for Grant. And the
Kansas Convention, in it's wild Western
way, was not content with depriving
the district delegates OF their independ-
ence. 1t insisted upon appointing them
also, and deprived the districts of the
poor privilege of saying who the men
should be that were to go to Chicago
bound hand and foot.
This is the way the Times regards
the Kansas bolt in favor of Grant as a
laudable piece of business, while the
New York and Pennsylvania bolts in
favor of Blaine are high-handed out
RACES. This is why it looks upon the
Kansas tweedledee as wholly and dis
tinctly dissimilar from the New York
and Pennsylvania tweedledum. Yet
there will be those who, even after
reading the argument of the Times. will
fail to detect the distinction and revert
to the old-fashioned opinion that the
difference is not worth mentioning.
Detroit Free Press.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
~ = = n MARTIN COIlIINS,
Merchants Exchange Relief Committee
A Large Portion Of Macon, Miss, De-
st1Oyed by q Tornado. Ani

MERIDIAN, Miss, April 26.
A special to the appeal from Macon,
Miss, says: 14tA
Last night at half-past eight o'clock one of
the northern part of this place. resulting IN a
sad loss of life and wholesale destruction Of
the dag sgur had two
currents of air., one from the northeast
and the other from the southwest, bear
ing clouds charged with electricity, we're
hurled together right at the fated locality It
was war of storms. Besides the incessant
across the clouds, varying in size from q
chestnut to that of mans head. Right in the
center of that part of the town around the
railroad station the storms met and the work
of destruction commenced, and in less time
than l can tell it the place was in ruins.
the beating rain, against the pitfless
winds, our citizens rushed to the scene
squads OF men combined went TO work tore
dying and dead that were scattered every
where. The scene beggars all human attempts
closed their places Of business and are de-
ed. Eighteen were killed outright and forty
more or less wounded, some perhaps fatally.
After the storm some of the ruins caught
fire, but the fire was checked before spreading
About ten o'clock a perfect water-spout Wis
tied the scene, to render it more horrible.
Men and women were found to-day decapi-
tated, the limbs torn from their bodies. and
their homes. Stock was all killed in that
vicinity. Bolt goods from a store were found
eight miles from the town in tree-topS. ;, =
a child of Mr.. Horton found a head guar
ter of mile away from the scene of the de-
siruction. ss4l3I :
One house near the center of the storm was
whirled around and its front changed in an
exactly opposite direction. aa.t,, -
"A negro woman was found dead in a field
west of the depot, literally stripped of all her
clothing.
1t rained nearly all the morning and most of
the niphf- hllt a noble hand of women. true to
the Biblical tradition, "Woman last at the
Cross and first at the tomb are doing all that
human hands can do in administering to the
wounded and dying. . e3lt-
The only two houses remaining intact are
filled with the dead and wounded. The faces
| of the dead and groans from the mangled and
| dying make up picture that would bring sor-
| row to the hardest heart. II IL
| The loss is variously estimated at from
| SIZE, COO to $500 600. .---'-
Macon, Miss, is about 125 miles south OF
COrinth, on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
Worthy OF Consideration.

In his recent speech at Mansfield,
wherein he formally announced himself
as candidate for President, John
Sherman did not pretend to conceal the
magnitude of the results dependent on
the election next November. On the
contrary, he urged it as an additional
reason for the Republicans to rally to
his standard. What he said on this
topic is worthy of the most serious
thought of all parties. We quote his
words:
''The question for the people of the United
States to determine is whether they will allow
the policy of the Republican party to be
changed, and the Democratic party to be placed
in control of the Executive and Judicial
branches of the Government, for the Judicial
branch will follow the fate Of the Executive
branch.
which has been the bulwark of equal rights and
fair elections, will, in the natural course of
events, be changed in a single Presidential
term, SO as to place the Democratic party in
control of the Supreme Judicial tribunal of
the land This is the first great issue of the cam
pdign."
This compliment to the Court was
merited by its decision sustaining the
constitutionality of the Davenport Elec-
tion laws. and by the votes of Miller,
Strong and Bradley on the Electoral
Commission, sustaining the frauds in
Louisiana and Florida.
The reconstruction of the Supreme
Court is one of the most important in
cidents to the Presidential contest. 1t
is now partisan and bigoted beyond all
experience. We have seen it packed
to reverse the most solemn judgments,
in the interest of great corporations.
We have seen three of the Judges v1o-
late their oaths and outrage law and
justice to consummate the foulest crime
in American history. This experience
shocked the country, and has prepared
public opinion for even greater wrongs,
when demanded by political necessity.
Grant, or Sherman, or Blaine, OF any
| other Republican, would, if elected
President, fill every vacancy on this
bench with partisans quite as pro.
nounced as Miller, and as subservient
| as Bradley or Harlan. The court would
be a mere echo of the Administration.
As an interpreter of the Constitution
| and the laws, it has the power, and as
now organized it has the will, to under
mine the principles upon which free
government rests, by DEGREES in favor
of Capitalization and of overthrowing
home rule in the States.
The steps forward in this direction
have already startled all rejecting
minds. But let the third term be sue
cessful, and this advance will be like
infant toddling compared with the
strides to despotism that are certain to
follow. The real question to be con-
sidered is, not whether one man or an
other shall be put in the White House,
or whether the Democrats or the Re-
publicans shall have the spoils to dis
tribute, but whether our institutions
are to be preserved in their integrity.
N Y. Sun.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
out Mesopotamia and Khurdistan. Immense
numbers of starving Christians are going to

out Mesopotamia and Khurdistan. Immense
numbers of starving Christians are going to
Bagdad for relief.
General Stewart, in command of the English
troops, defeated 5000 Afghans near Ghaznee
on the Goth inst, killing and wounding 400.
Chicago shippers were informed on the 24th
that the Canadian Government had removed
the embargo against cattle shipped through
Canada.
Treasury Department through the United
States Minister at Madrid, that no more pork
need be sent to that country, as it will not be
allowed to pass the custom houses. The reason
alleged is because trichina is feared.
The King Of Sweden has decided to create
Professor Nordenskjold, the Arctic explorer, a
baronet and to present to him the Grand Cross
of the order of the North Star in diamonds of
the value of 1000 guneas.
The powers have addressed collective note
to the Porte demanding that the frontier evac-
uated recently and since occupied by the Al
banians be Immediately reoccupied by the
Turks and then surrendered to the Montene-
grins in accordance with the terms of the con-
vention.
A dispatch from Calcutta, on the 25th, states
that while reports of King Theebaw's death
are not confirmed, official intelligence has
reached India that he is suffering from some
dangerous malady, and attempts are being
made to stay the disease by sacrificing virgins.
Lord Gladstone has declined any place in the
new English Cabinet.
The Dublin corporation have conferred the
freedom of the city upon Captain Potter, of
the relief ship Constellation.
A St. Petersburg paper says The plague has
appeared in the Volsk district, Government of
Sartoff. Famine also prevails. Twenty-seven
peasants had died from starvation.
Bank stocks fell two per cent. in Montreal
on the 9th ult., on the report of hostile legis-
lation in the New York Legislature in regard
to taxing foreign capital.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says the missing
workmen who had been lodging in the base
ment under the guard room of the Winter
Palace until the day of the explosion, ar
rested there on the 9th ult. He has con-
fessed the deed He was placed in the palace
by the Executive Committee six months be-
fore the explosion. Three other persons of
high rank were also arrested.
The village of Medenice, in Galacia, Austria a,
was destroyed by fire recently. Three hun
dred buildings were burned
The new English Cabinet formed by Glad
stone is as follows: Duke of Argyll, Lord
of the Privy Seal; Earl Kimberly, Secre-
tary of State for the Colonial Department;
John Bright, Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster; Marquis Harrington, Secretary
of State for India; Marquis of Ripon, Viceroy
of India; Earl Granville, Secretary of State
for the Foreign Department; Sir William G.
Vernon Harcourt, Secretary of State for the
Home Department; Lorn Selbourne, Lord
High Chancellor.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01

1t is little early for the South
ern outrage mill to begin grinding, but
the prospects of famine this summer
have given the business sudden i'm
petus. Between now and November
the number of inventions of which the
Patent Office takes no cognizance will
begin to swell.--Brooklyn Eagle.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
NORTHERN OHIO JOURNAL.
NOTICE..

Subscribers who find blue x drawn
through this notice will know that with
this number of the JOURNAL their pres
ent term of subscription expires.
We sincerely trust that all will testify
their appreciation of the paper by re-
newing promptly.
1t should also be remembered that the
JOURNAL is now furnished at the ex-
tremely low price of 81. SO per year,
and that it is, in consequence. the cheap
est weekly paper in the Congressional
District.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
The Preside ncY.

While Grants nomination seems as
sured, it is interesting to look at the
vote of some of the States whose dele
gates will make this result possible: =
OF 1Lri Dam lf1i
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
WASHINGTON.

The President, on the 22d, nominated Ed
gar NJ Marbley, of Michigan, Commissioner of
Patents, and Joseph K. McCammon, OF Penn
sylvania, Assistant Acknowledgement of the
United States.
At the Cabinet meeting, on the 23d, Secre-
tary Evarts read letter from the United States
Consul at Bangkok, Siam, stating that the
King of that country would leave the latter
part of April for tour through Europe and
the United States. A United States man-of-
war will probably be sent to convey him from
England.
Ezra B. French, Second Auditor of the
Treasury, died at Washington on the oath.
A bill was introduced in Congress, ON the
26th ult-, to amend the internal revenue laws
SO as to impose tax on every package of
oleomargarine, or imitation of butter, equal
to ten cents for every pound, and authorizing
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to pro-
vide special stamps and to issue proper instruc-
tions and regulations in regard to the same.
Pending action of Congress on the treaty of
Washington it is thought that two United
States men-of-war will be sent to Canadian
waters to protect American fishermen against
the recurrence of the Fortune Bay outrages.
A citizen of Washington calls attention to
the important fact that the writing of the
original Declaration of Independence is be
coming so pale that it will in comparatively
short time be wholly undecipherable.
At the Cabinet meeting on the 9th ult., the
Secretary of the Treasury read statements
showing that the surplus receipts for April
will aggregate from SO 000. 600 to S12, 600 600.
The report circulated on the 26th ult., that
United States men-of-war will be dispatched to
Canadian waters to protect American interests,
is pronounced erroneous.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01

A SCIENTIFIC writer says: There are
three important physiological reasons
why woman's hair is longer than her
husbands. The first is that since nature
has Withdrawn from her the hair
growth of the face, and to a great de-
gree that of the body, larger supply
of hirsute forming material is left for
the scalp. The second is, her hair
having a larger diameter of shaft is
stronger and less liable to break, and
has, too, an increased formative power
of the papilla. The third reason is,
that she is usually less engaged in men
tai labors or business worry, and so
there results more constant and even
supply of blood to the scalp. Her head
is less constantly covered and is better
ventilated than the mans, and it might
be added that she cultivates her crop
with more care and greater pride in it
than her lord and master would care to
be accused of.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01

THE San Antonio (Tex.) Express
says: 1.-The little girl, Jessie Lumly,
upon whom the operation of fgastrotomy,
or cutting through the stomach, was
performed by DIR. Herff, last August,
and who has since received all her
nourishment through the stomach, is
gaining strength and flesh very rapidly.
The child masticates the food given
her, and. being unable to swallow,
takes the chewed diet and inserts it
into her stomach through the tube
placed there by the surgeon. She has
got so that she can digest any kind of
food given>her, and appears to be per-
fectly healthy and as cheerful and
frisky as any of her playmates."
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01

A BooTBLACK tackled New York
citizen in Broadway not long ago, and
said the streets were slushy, almost
everybody wore overshoes, business
was bad, and asked him for quarter
to get nights lodging. saying, .s If
you'll give it to me III give you a point
on stocks" The citizen gave him
quarter, and the bootblack said: ..Now,
when you go down to Wall street in the
morning you buy Iron Mountain; buy
lots of it; it's going up.' why. how
do you know anything about Iron
Mountain?'' asked the man. The boy
mentioned the name of a well-knowni
Wall street operator, and said: 81
blacked his boots to-day, and while 1
was doin' it he said to friend as was
with him, Iron Mountains going to
boom,' says he. That's how I know
it.' The man took his point to the
street, bought the stock and made
twenty per cent. on his investment, for
Iron Mountain had a boom, sure
enough.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01

A CLEVELAND lawyer, defending
handsome young lady charged with
larceny, closed his appeal to the jury
thus: 8. Gentlemen: you may hang the
ocean on a grapevine to dry, lasso an
avalanche, pin napkin to the mouth of
a volcano, skim the clouds from the
sky with teaspoon, throw salt on the
tail of our noble American eagle, whose
sleepless eye watches over the welfare
of our Nation, paste For Rent on the
moon and stars, but never for moment
delude yourselves with the idea that
this charming girl is guilty of the
charge preferred against her" The jury
acquitted without leaving their seats.
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01
A Cincinnati Family's Fight With Fire.
The Cincinnati Gazette of a recent

date says: 3ii7 -
About half-past three O'Clock yesterday
morning coal-oil stove exploded in frame
shed used as a kitchen in the rear of Charles
KOchs bakery, 333 Main street. AT the time
the fire broke out Koch was in the basement
engaged in baking the days supply of bread,
cake, etc. Koch ran up into the shed, thence
up flight of stairs leading to the second foor,
where his wife, four children, named Frank,
ten years old; Amelia, seven; Charlie, five,
and Willie, two, and two domestics were. Koch
wakened all of these, and the entire party be
came panic-stricken. Mrs. Koch, with the two
boys, Charlie and Frank, and the two servant
girls, ran through the building to the Main
street front, where Mrs. Koch jumpee from
the window to the pavement below, fortunate
ly escaping with no more serious injury than
a sprained ankle. The others started to follow
her, but were prevented by the police and
firemen, who took them down on ladders. In
the meantime Koch took the little girl, Amelia,
and the baby, Willie, one in either arm, and
started down the stairs he had previously
ascended, but which were now all abiaze,
Koch, instead of stopping to look for
other means of egress, ran Down the stairs
with the children, and through the flames on
to the street, all of the three being badly
burned-Koch being burned about the head,
arms and hands, the baby about the hands
and arms, and the little girl Amelia was terribly
and probably fatally burned, the skin being al
most entirely burned from her feet, arms,
breast andbhead. i2.1i
Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-01

Show me the man you honor; l know
by that symptom better than by any
other what kind of a man you yourself
are. For you show me there what your
ideal of manhood is. what kind of man
YOU long inexpressibly to be.-Cdrlyle.