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The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-03-13
New Orleans Notes.
A RESUME OF THE PROCEED
ING OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
The REVENUE BILL AND OTHER MATTERS
CONTESTED ELECTION CASES IN THE
SENATE AN EXCITING SCENE IN
TIE HOusE-THE WORK OF
THE WEEK-A PAINFUL
REPORT,
Especial Correspondence Of the VIM
DICATOR.]
New ORLEANS, Feb. q, 1880.

Inc General Assembly has MADE
much progress during the past week
with the business before It. and n
large number OF bills have been
finally passed in both Houses. Seve-
raj important measures will come up
for action In q few days. Among
these ts
TIE REVENUE BILL.
This was made the special order
for Friday, but after some discussion
then, its further consideration was
postponed until Monday. when it
will be taken up In the House and
debated. As 1t Is a long bill, and
nearly every member has an amend
meht, some OF them, three or four,
II ID probable that the bill will be
under discussion ten days, or two
weeks. That 1t will be modified 10
tain. Much oppositions has been
developed to 1t, especially to that
provision which sets aside three
mills for the interest fund. The
members representing the levee dis
trtcts are opposed to it because it
will reduce the levee fund to one.
fourth Of q mill, and the champions
Of public education are opposed to it
for q similar reason. They contend
that two mills will not only be amply
sufficient for the interest fund, but
will leave q large surplus-about
Sl75, 900. The Committee on Ways
and Means decided upon three mills
for interest, In view Of the possible
contingency Of the refunding OF the
entire debt Of the State IN four per
cent bonds, as provided for in the
constitution, which bonds will have
q face value Of seventy.five cents on
the dollar Of those for which they
will be exchanged. The Committee
show that while such refunding will
cause q heavier interest charge at
present, It will save the State several
mtlltons Of dollars in principa! and
interest by the time the debt is en-.
tirely liquidated. This Is freely ad-
mttted, but members dissent from the
view that the whole Of the debt, or
even any considerable portion Of it.
will be refunded \ L lin the next two
years. They insist that q two mills
tax for interest purposes, will fully
meet every requirement, and that
the additional mill proposed IL need
ed for, and must be devoted to school
and tevee purposes. 4 lively fight is
certain to ensue over this provision
OF the bill. and present indications
ate that the three mills interest
clause will be defeated. Other pro-
visions Of the bill will be fiercely
fought, and the disseDsions over it
are likely to be Of the most animated
character.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-03-13
vERDlCTs IN CIVIL CASES,

After . sharp contest the House has
finally passed the bill to permit niue
jurors to render q verdict in civil
cases. The bill was defeated early IL
the session by q failure to receive a
constitutional majority on its third
reading-f0rty.nine votes being cast
for, and fifteen against It. Under the
constitutional rule q majority Of all
the members Of each House is re.
quired to pass q bill on its third
reading, and fifty votes constitute
that majority In the lower branch.
II Was necessary, therefore. to re-.
consider the rate by which the bill
had been defeated, and bring 1t 10
again az II It had never been acted
on. Yesterday 1t came up again on
Ito third reading, and after a severe
struggle secured just enough votes to
Insure 10 passage; the result Of the
roll call being yeas so, nays 30.
There 10 little doubt that it will pass
the Senate and become q law. This
important change In our jury system
h provided, for 10 the constitution
which delegates TO the General As.
sembly the authority to make 1t.
The Republicans generally opposed
the bill In the House, and were sup.
ported in their opposition by several
city and country Democrats.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-03-13

The following bills have passed
both Houses, received the Govern.
or signature and been promulgs.
ted:
An act to provide for the transfer
OF certain cases pending and unde.
termtned before the justices Of the
peace for the parish OF Orleans. and
before the Third District Court Tor
the parish Of Orleans, to the CITY
courts OF New Orleans.
Az act 10 d. the arst terms OF the
district courts under the constitu-
ton OF 1873, and to regulate the az.
ing. by the district judges, Of subse.
quent terms.
An act relieving the Attorney Gen.
ersl Of the prosecution OF criminal
cases In the parish Of Orleans be.
fore the criminal courts thereof.
An act to FIX the time and places
for holding sessions Of the Supreme
Court Of the State Of Louisisns,
Joint resolution requesting our
Senators and Representatives in Con.
gress to secure the passage bv the
Congress OF the United States of a
bill appropriating y sufficient eum OF
money for the opening and dredeine
OF the channel OF the mouth Of Re3
river.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-03-13

me VUESIIVN VI POLlCE JURORS,
The Democratic members OF the
General Assembly met in caucus on
Monday last and decided to support
. bill to provide for the appointment
Of police jurors by the Governor. for
tne next four years. Much oppost.
ton was manifested to this propo1i.
tton, but 1t was finally adopted by q
vote OF IS to 10. IN accordance With
the action Of the caucus o bill "a nov
10 the House which gives the 90.
pointment OF police jurors TO the
Governor, until the general election
in 1854.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-03-13

Ut Booster, aud Harris, Of DsSoto'
supported the motion, which wss
adopted. and the Republican Nom.
6ers OF the House, WOO had signed
the memorial. nine In all, were ar.
raigned to answer.
Their statements were, with one
exception, to the effect that the me.
mortal had been presented to them
by the notorious l.. I. Souer. Kel.
logg's agent, who had represented to
them that 1t only contained q denial
Of the statement made by q neWspa.
per that the Republican members had
voted for the joint resolution which
recently passed the General Assem-.
bly, calling upon the United States
Senate to GUST Kellogg. Az thew
had not voted for the resolution In
question, they had no hesitation in
Offering their signature to the doc.
ument. They also stated that II they
had known the real contents Of the
memorial they could not have been
induced to sign 1t, as its statements
were false. Some OF the coIored
members stated that they had a
great reluc' ance to sign, even upon
Souer's representations, a. they we're
opposedPt0 Kellogg and carpet.baa.
gerry, and did not care TO do snv.
thing to bolster up either.
The exception referred to Wa Mr..
BulOw, OF Assumption. His stsfe.
ment revealed another crime to be
added 70 the long list which KELLOGG
and bis agents have perpetrsted In
order TO secure the seat now With.
held from Mr.. Spo6ord. Mr.. BuiOw
said that ut the time the memorial
was being signed. be was sick In bed !:
that he had never seen It, and that
hts signature WAS q forgery. such q
etatelaent necessary produced Q cen.
sati0n. A committee vas st once
appointed TO investigate tho mater.
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reached, the pressure for his resignation
became disagreeably strong, and as soon
as possible afterward be yielded to this
pressure and returned to private life.
All of his subordinates who had shown any
zeal and efficiency in assisting their chief,
were at once dismissed, and the journalistic
friends of the ring took particular pains to
let the public know what they were dis
missed for.
The ex-Secretary probably consoled HIM
self with the belief that the sCaadalous
treatment he had received from Republi-
can administration would be atOned for by
the Republican party. He therefore allowed
his name to be used as a Presidential cam
didate in 1876 1t was practically hooted
down in Convention. As Mr.. HAYES letter
of acceptance contained many eloquent
passages in regard to reform, there seemed
TO be some foundation for the industriOusly
circulated rumor that Bristow would be
offered seat in the cabinet. But the offer
was never made and the ex-Secretary
dropped ont of sight and ont of mind-beng
now, we believe a successful lawyer in New
York. When the third-term business was
demolished by the nomination of Garfield,
it was thought that the only Republican
who had ever distinguished himself as the
enemy of the ring element In that cOmbna-
ton of iniquity called "Grantism," might
be called from obscHTity and utilized as an
exponent of the cleaner side OF Republican,
ism. But there is not the slightest in
dication of such intention. Belk-
nap and Robson are in the field
for the Republican ticket; Joyce is writing
Republican campaign songs; Babcock con-
siders the election of Garfield a. indispensa-
BILE to National salvation, and all the bigand
little rogues, with scarcely a single excep-
ton. who figured in the most rascally period
of National history, are laboring vigorously
in the same direction. If poor Bristow
united in himself the mental and moral
characteristics of Benedict Arnold and
Judas Iscariot, he could not be more studi-
ously ignored than he is by the party whose
reform professions he endeavored to put
into practice. He is considered of less con-
sequence to-day by that party than the ex-
convict who is furnishing il campaign songs,
or the ex-military Secretary who came so
near being a convict himself When Grant
told John Russell Young-and Young
printed il in his book-that "Bristow was a
bad man, and that if he had been nOmi-
mated in 1876 he (Grant) would not have
voted for him''-the Republican party said
"Amen," and there is no prospect of his
ever escaping from the double condemna-
ton. AS an illustration of the real princi-
pies of Republicanism, so far as honesty and
integrity are concerned, there can be moth
ing clearer or more conclusive than the ex-
perience of Benjamin III. Bristew.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-09-01

CLEVELAND, o., August SOL. S. Morgan, of J..
s. Morgan & Co., job printers of Cincinnati ar
rived here this morning. He dined at the hotel
with a friend then called at the st. Clair Place on
Mrs Luehrs, who holds his note for 81 600. After
an interview with her in the presence of the wife
of the proprietor of the Place Morgan said to Mrs.
Luehrs she better send her note TO Cincinnati, as
a meeting of creditors would be held there to-mor-
row, saying which he arose from his seat, walked
to the other side of the room, and, without warn
ing, drew q revolver and shot himself Through the
head, inflicting a wound which terminated fatally
a few hours later -r.
ward. was holding down the tongue of a two
wheel cart, to-day, while heavy log was being
loaded. The weight of the log threw the tongue
violently up, throwing Finkbinder face down on
a large plank, and the tongue fell on the back Of
his head, killing him.
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The CoIored National Guards.

ST. Louis, No., August pa reunion OF the
COlored National Guards of the United States will
be held here tomorrow, and continue three days.
Companies A and b, of the Sixteenth Illinois
Regiment under command of Major j. W. Scott.
arrived to-day from Chicago. The Zouaves of
Memphis will arrive tonight and the Mcclellan
Guards of the same place, will come tomorrow.
Captain Ed Brown and Lieutenant b. j. Payne,
of the Palmer Guards, of Columbus, o. are here,
and will represent that company, and a company
is expected from Dayton, O. The two Chicago
companies were received at the depot by the
Attuck Guards of this city, and were escorted to
the Union Hall. where they now are, and where
all other visiting companies VIII be quartered.
Tomorrow there will be athleticsports at the Fair
Grounds a competitive drill, and an inspection
and review. Tuesday, the officers of the National
Guard Union will hold a Convention, and on
Wednesday there will be a parade in the after
noon and reception in the evening.
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A RELIC OF THE WAR.
The Button That Was Shot From General
Hancock's Coat at Gettysburg.
.1o D. o..

Yesterday a well-dreSsed man-but this is
not n fashion article; what's the use of de-
scribing mans dress? Anyway. the man
entered a store, and taking brass button
from his pocket he handed il TO bystander,
and remarked:
Rather valuable relic This button wa
shot from General Hancock coat at the bat
tie of Gettysburg. My father was on Han
cock s staff and picked up the button when
it fell from the Generals coat
II should think that it was valuable"
said the man, examining it. From Han
cocks coat? Well, l declare. What'll you
take for it? Excuse ane, sir, should not
have asked such a silly question
mo offense, sir. / wouldn't sell the relic,
of course, as ii is bound to me by more than
one tie. My father is dead, and the man
looked away while the other party turned
and made a foreign remark to a boy that
stood by the counter laziiy turning the
leaves of a lot of sheet music mo, /
wouldn't sell il" continued the man, "but
as am in straitened circumstances, l am
going to the pawn shop and pawn it,
Don't do that Let me take it."
well, loan me So aFi 9l
The money was handed over and after
the relic man had carefully taken down the
address of the capitalist he walked out
About five minutes afterward the clerk in a
neighboring store entered andeXclaimed:
zee mere, 1ellerS, reckon i We got the boss
relic--a button shot from General Hancock's
coat at the battle of Gettysburg He then
unwrapped Z lot of oil paper from around
brass button.
Where did you get it9r asked the man
who had similar curiosity.
Il got it from a man whose father picked
it up Just after bullet had clipped il from
Hancock's coat The poor fellow had started
to the pawn shop. L lei him have SO on
it,"
'What, hol boss" exclaimed another man,
entering the store and holding up brass
button. Here's a relic for you. Shot from
General Hancock's coat during the"
Say, there" said a man looking through
a doorway, "do you felleTs want to see relic
of the late war shot.
1--WE got one that'll beat it, said a man
STOPPING and fumbling in his vest pocket.
Hole on dar, said colored man. Lem
me show yer de boss curyasity. Hits but
ton got often"
"0h, let up" exclaimed several voices,
while the noise of buttons rolling on the
floor was heard.
LESS look for that feller," said the first
victim. why, bust my buttons, somebody
must have drawn. on Hancock with a
double-barrel shotgun"
The party went out and the only informa-
tion learned of him was that he had just cut
the buttons from an old army coat and
started for the next town.
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negro and lynch every white man who voted
the Republican ticket refuse to pay taxes
and re-establish the Confederacy, with
sanity JEFF Davis as its Chief Executive,
was, after all, only paid Republican spy,
in the service of some of the unscrupulous
managers of that party.
Nor is this the only case A few years ago
an almost similar instance occurred in one
of the Parishes of Louisiana. In fact, this
sort of thing seems 10 be part of the Repub-
hcan tactics, and doubtless the entire South
is now being stuffed full of Just such men
dacious Bohemians instructed to misinter-
pret and nlisrepresent speeches made in the
South by its prominent leaders to the same
extent that Wade HamptOn's silly vaporings
were recently tortured at StauntOn, Va.
There can be no longer doubt that the
Republican leaders stock in trade will be
made up of just such manufactured evil
dence. The bloody shirt is the only STAN
dard they can carry into the contest; and as
the Southern people refuse to wave it, hired
scoundrels will be sent in their midst to
wave il for them.
IN encountering this disreputable mode of
warfare, thinking people should recollect
that whatever the Southern people may be
they are not absolute fools nor stone blind
TO their own interests. After their bitter
lesson of fifteen years ago, they naturally
have no desire to repeat it, The doctrine of
0SNNSSAOii - "' hSoo VIII titllA OO-Ndy ID tllS
alien and seditiOn law of John Adams is
with the people of the North. If anyone
tells them that Hancock fought the same
principles that Lee and Jackson fought for,
they will set him down as a liar All the
money in John Sherman's Golfers would not
induce them to consent TO the re-establish-
ment of slavery, even were it possible,
which it is not. They raise the staples
cheaper, and are making more money in
one wear with the new labor system than
they ever did in two years under the Old
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sixteen years old. He was thrown down between
the cars on the platform. where the conductor
found him. He lived about twenty minutes, bu:
was unconscious. His body was brought here
and identified, Some time later the trackmen
found the bodies of the Others lying in the bitches,
three on one side OF the track and one on the
other A freight train was sent from here and
brought them in about midnight. They were
William Maher, fifteen years; John McNamara,
sixteen wears Timothy Nolan, seventeen years,
and Patrick Ryan, fifteen years. There is a space
of twenty-five inches between the cans and the
bridge, therefore il is cOnjectured that the lads
were sitting up when struck, Probably all but
Shennick was almost instantly killed, as the
wounds on their heads and backs were terrible
The ufxlertaker's rooms where the bodies lie have
been thronged to- ~.
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Lying Tactics.
New York Truth qad.l, August 26.l

O.. New 1Ork 1EVlh AiA0.t, August 70.
For many months past Republican jour
mails throughout the country have teemed
with quotations from an obscure paper pub
lishedin Mississippi, called thee 0kolona States
Its utterances reeked with ribaldry and trea-
son. 1t advocated the most pernicious doc
trines and filled its columns with insults to
the Union and its people Extracts from
this paper were everywhere heralded by the
Republican press as an expression of the
real feeling and sentiments existing at the
South and doubtless contributed no little
toward spreading such erroneous belief
among the Northern public.
During a long period the patient inhabit-
ants of 0kolona and its vicinity were con-
tent TO view its editor as a harmless but
amusing idiot, little dreaming that his alb
surdities would ever penetrate beyond the
little circle in which they were laughed at
In time, however, and that very recently,
they learned better-learned how system
atically and UNANIMOUSLY they had been mis-
represented and insulted-learned how they
were coming to be regarded as desperate
gang of partisan cut-throats, instead of a
body of peaceable farmers as they are They
commenced to inquire into the personality
of this red-hot editor, who he was and where
he came from, and soon found out that he
was Northern importation with a very
hazy history In their righteous indignation
they rose, and II was not many days before
he was making the fastest time on record
across the Ohio River. Since then the Oko-
Iona States has been dumb. a.
The most prominent among the Western
newspapers which had given widespread
publicity to the Okolono editors infamous
insults was that stanch Republican journal,
the Chicago Tribune; and, strangely enough,
when the fleeing editor landed it was in its
sanctum, where he has since been engaged
as q member of its staff yrg
Now, the inference is unavoidable that
this red-handed Rebel, who wanted to use
the American flag as door-mat, shoot every
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-09-01
The Wheat Crop-Pushing On.

CHICAGO, August S0.-A careful examination of
the condition of the wheat crop in the great
wheat belt on the line of the Northern Pacific
Railroad has been made for the Associated Press,
and it can be stated that the reports of its being in
danger in consequence of the weather are un-
warranted. The late spring delayed seeding and
harvest fully two weeks and the last week Of
cloudy weather along the line has interfered
with thrashng but the crop is safe, and, with
favorable weather will commence moving largely
this week-fully three weeks later, however, than
last year The Dalrymple farm alone will require
thirty-fve day TO take care of the grain as
thrashed.
The contracting force engaged on the extension
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, west OF the
Missouri will complete the grading to the Yellow
stone carly in October. The President of the
road has directed the Chief Engineer TO transfer
the working force directly across to the located
line of the Yellowstone division, with the intent
to reach and pass Miles City and Fort Keogh next
Iuiv
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fMissouri Republican, 27th. ]


Six years ago BENJAMIN H. Bristow was
appointed Secretary of the Treasury. A
gentleman of high social, professional and
political standing in his native State, Ken
lucky, his appointment was regarded by
both parties as entirely unexceptionable,
and likely to be of material advantage TO
the important Department over which he
was called to preside. The new Secretary
soon gave indubitable evidence that public
confidence had not been misplaced He dis
covered the existence of a secret and power
full organization engaged in the systematic
robbery of the revenue. The robbers were
officers of the Government hitherto inn
plicitly trusted. Their lines of operation
extended in various directions, having a
common center in Washington, from which
intelligence was promptly sent to any point
threatened by Treasury detectives. This in
telligence emanated from the Treasury itself,
and not unfrequently from a quarter still
nearer the Executive. Never doubling that
he was doing his country and party an ines
timable service, while at the same time doing
no more than the imperative obligations of
duty compelled him to do the Secretary
proceeded to expose the robbers and bring
them to Justice. He soon ascertained, TO his
sorrow and shame, that his efforts were not
only unappreciated by the President but
that hostile influences were at work in Pres
idential circles to embarrass and defeat
them. A dishonest man would have made
bargain and shared the plunder; timid
man would have retired from a posi-
ton which promised so much annoyance
and so little satisfaction, and allowed the
robbers to go on unchecked. Fortunately
for the people, unfortunately in many
respects for himself, Bristow was honest
and brave. With courage and fidelity
worthy of the highest praise he persevered
in his thankless undertaking until the whisky
ring was completely broken up, and such OF
the whisky thieves as the Administration
did not interfere to save were lodged in Jail
or penitentiary. Long before the end was