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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-12-23
THE SILVER STATE.
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Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06
WYE DAILY SEE: DECEMnER 6, 1880.

Q. Did you read Il over before It
Was iigned2 A. I believe I did.
Q. Did You tell him that would dol
A. No, sir.
Q. Did MI. Hitchcock give you this
money! A. No, sir.
Q. You say 1t is MIR. Hitch cocks
money! A. Yes, sir.
Q How much was therel A. Six
h ndred dollars.
Q When did 1t come into your pos
session. A. Last week.
Q From whoml A. L have an
srsred 1t came into my possession in
3 general business way.
RIP-RAP JOBBERY.
In the winter Of 1873 congress
passed N appropriation bill for
CSC, 600 to improve the Missouri river
ct Omaha and Council Bluffs. Ths
liberal appropriation was procured by
the Nebraska delegation IN congress
In response 10 petitions from the
Omaha board of trade and leading
business men Of Omaha The con-
tract for furnishing material for thie
work was frsndulrntly award d to P.
W. Hitchcock and W. II. b. Steut.
The contract, as shown by the attida.
Wit Of Michael O'Brien, of La Platte,
Sarpy county. Nebraska, on file a the
war department, Was surreptitiously
let to.the highest bidder under false
p%retenses. This contract became 3
source of shameless fraud in the infer
lori y of material furnished and bogus
measurements. The following is one
of several sfhdavits that ,ubs,antiates
thstact of Systematic frauds by p. w.
Hitchcock IS rip-rap contractor:
STATE OF NEBRASKA,
DOUGLAS COUNTY.
G. E. Wheeler being duly ssoru ds
posee and Gays that he WAS a sub-con-
tructos under Hitchcock & Stout
for furnishing willows for the Mi,sourl
Diver rip-raps at Omaha during the fall
of 1873 and winter of 1879. Thu. shs
ma erial &c furnished was, in
accordance with the directions
of Phinens w. Hitchcock, most
~ fine brush, tres tops snd
small poles. That this material vas
delivered at the river bank in front VI
Omaha, and that there was systematic
fraud In the measurement. Deponent
delivered (l65) one hundred aud ak
~ five eords, government measure
ment, but only received pay from
Hitchcock & Co. for az seventy
seven cords. Oeponent further states
that he Jaw the stone delivered by
Hitchcock & Stout for these rip-rsps,
which stone was very inferior In quail
ity, mostly porous stone Of the nature
of soap-stone, and q large percsn,
age was frozen clay, also quarry soal-
ings In small dimensions.
@. 4. WHEELER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, 6
notary public, for and In Douglas
county, Heb., this 18th day Of June,
1879. JOHN RosICKY,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06

JUDGE JEBs BLACK has written =
letter on the transportation question
to the New York Chamber Of Com
merce denOunciug railroad mOnopolles
As public robbers, and insisting that
legislative rec rictions not only on uss-
'enger tarifs but also Cd freight rates
are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1t willnow
De in order for the railroad organs to
denounce Judge Black as 4 black
mailer, a communist, and an enemy to
the public welfare.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06

THE Psnnsylvsnis railroad COM
papy two days age announced that 1t
you'd hereafter receive no freight TO
New York by way Of the Baltimore
snd O~hioroad, that Incorporation having
transferred its passenger business 30
another routs. The excluded rosd
has now made other arrangements and
four trunk lines are In operation be-
tr, en- New York and Chicago.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06

GATH says that rs. 900 tierces of
lard were used In New York in Nov.
ember in the manufacture Of bogus
butter. Nearly that amount of soft
soap las been used by DR.. Miller in
the recent Union Pacific
appointments, $50 to speak"
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06
MR.. WHITE AND OUR SCHOOL
SYSTEM.

MR.. WHITE AND OUR SCHOOL
SYSTEM.
Mr.. Rioha7d Grant White 10 o
chronic g%rumblsr. For forty years
paat, no hss been d~eyosing his energies
to the faults and failures OF the Eng
lish language, and having to all ap-
pearances fully exhausted the subject
he has now turned his attention to our
public school system, which, as might
be expected, he finds to be worse than
useless, an excresence upon the body
polite, a whited sepulchre filled with
dead mems bones,
In a leading article iu the Decem
Der number of The North American
Review Mr.. White haSglven the reasons
for his views ON the school question.
He declares that ''the mass Of our
public school children are unable to
read iutelllgently, to spell correctly,
to write legibly, to describe under
standlngly the geography OF their own
country, OR to do anything that res-
sJna-ly we'll educated children should
do with ease" Nay, more, says Mr..
White, although they Can give rules
ghyly and recite fr. m memory, as to
elementary education they are, most
of them, in almostns holp!ess and bar
rem a condition of mind as if hey
never crossed the threshold of a school
house. Millions Of dollars annually
are expended on Tie 50 called ''higher
education and squ4Ld.red in normal
colleges and high Sc oots TO give 4
snuttcfing Of useless knowledge to
children who vii never be able to use
t, while the whole system is a lament
abip iaiiure honeycombeu with super
h~cislitg and useless as an instrument
in building up the state Intellectually
or morally.
Mr.. While has d doubtless done good
service in calling popular attention to
the fact that there are defects aud Sc
ri us defects in . system If public
! Instruction. He mas gathered many
fsc which may be profit biy studied
by our various boards of education.
Although the public may find in Mr..
White a prejudiced Judge and a far
from impartial observer, yet, making
due allowance for a critic whose whole
llfe has been spent III haw-picking and
fauit.fnding, and whose bias of m d
Is 0 towards exposing The evil than
exhibiting the good in mankind and
society, there are some observations
! of MIR. White which have their foun-
dation IL an actual state of affairs
existing in The school system Of the
present day.
Americans are Justly PROUD Of Jhetr
public aehgo!=. There is NJ one OF
ta=ir io-fi.aioa. it, which popd.as
Interest u - m.-k,i n uu1u
%conidene- 2 .=r. and lhis interest
and e~cuHGa4na ant u~ir,,
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06

ANTI-ADMINIsTRATIOS papers are
makisg much Of the fac; that Senator
Blaine hasn't sat at dinner at the
White House for two years. So
much the worse for Senator Blaine.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06

IT cost Bill English s27 GOO to run
for the vice-presidency. Mr. Engii,h's
mortgage mill viii have to gr nd out
This amount during the coming year,
and some one is bound to suffer.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06
PONGA COAL.
Result of Prof. Aughey's Ex-
animation Coal, With In
dIcations of Gold
and Oil.
POnca Courier, Dec. 2.

POnca Courier, Dec. 2.
the result Of the geological exam
nation OF the coal found . half mile
west Of this city, exceeds by far the
expectations of the most sanguine,
and settles, for all time TO come, the
fuel question In northern Nebraska
Prof. Aughey pronounees the vein to
be four and q half feet In thickness
and OF excellent quality, and promises
that by going not mOr than 100 feet
further down another and much
larger vein will be found. A will be-
noticed by the repor, given below, a
color Of gold was also discovered at
the depth of $40 feet. Our people
are, of course, highly elsted over this
discovery, but no more so than the
people in the crowded east, from
whom our daily mails 'come ladeo
with etters OF InquIry, aud 1t has
been found necessary to issue circu-
lars in reply,
Prof. Aughey also examined the
water In the prospect hole and dis
covered the presence CT petroleum.,
which If proven 70 exist to any very
great extent will cause a perfect whrri
of excitement.
At a meeting of the coal company
last Monday night, about 10000 acres
Of Iaad was leased, and the contract
for sinking the hole 100 feet deeper
let tn Mesgr5. StoH "a & Welty, Who
will commence operatlors at once.
The following is the resu & the
examination Of BORN s made at
Ponca, Neb., by Prof. Samuel Aughey
f the specimens preserved by the
Ponca Coal and Mining Company,
November Y, 1880; boring done with
.- I,,II
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06

coss Of Carrying grain between Chi.
csgo and Ne. York, amatser depend
ing on the will Of two or three men,
10 equivalen, so . tax OF as5 ,0O0,0 900
apon the agricultural products of the
gsst.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06
NEBRASKA IN THECaBINET
Stray Leaves from the Re-
cord of the Man Who
Aspires to the Shoes
of Carl SchurZ.
A Trader ia West Point Cadet.
ship Bribersof Legislators
and Corrupt Jobber.

Nebyayka would feel highf,
honored by the choice of one of her
leading public men FOR a position in
tn. cabinet % General Garfield.
Nebraska cannot however afford to
disgrace General Garfield and the
nation By foisring into such 81 hon.
orable and responsible position-s
man whose public career has been
stepped in corruption and infamy.
1t is a burning shane
and an eternal disgrace to the
people ofthis young and growing COM
monwealth that any portion of her
press is 30 dehased aud 80 low in the
moral scale as to endorse and recon-
mend a man who is self-convicted by
his record, as a trader in c~adetships,
. briber o. legislatures and a patron
OF forgers and thieves.
The disreputable methods resortea
to by his followers to create the I'm.
preston that the subsidized editors
and political strumpets who are clam.
oring for Bitchcock's elevation to a
cabinet position voice the sentiment
of the people Of Nebraska, c mpels US
to enter solemn. protest against this
attempt to crown the msn whom the
people of this state repudiated in 1876
for his infamies with lsurels in 1880.
Let those who have endorsed Phin-
cas- W. Hitchcock for Garield's cab
met read the following extracts from
the public records :
A SELF CONVICTED CADETSHIP TRADER.
Official copy.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WASHINGTON, January 26, 1867.
Hon. Edwin N. Stanton, Secretary of War:
SRI hereby nominate Thomas NJ, I
Woodruff, of Omaha. in the county of
Douglas, and Territory of Nebraska, to
fill the cadetship vacancy in the congress
sional district Of that territory.
His age is eighteen years.
Yours very respectfully,
P. w. HITCHCOCK,
Del. Congress, Neb.
Will the Secretary rlease cause the APP
House of Representatives.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06
aAHA, Neb., June 9th, 1867.

SIAHA, Neb-, June 9Th, 1857.
Hon. M. SuSnton, Secretary Of War, w ashing-
ton, D. c.:
SIR-It appears that Thomas NJ. Wood
ruff was nominated the 18th of February
last by the delegate from Nebraska, as a
cadet to the West Point Academy. His
fathers acceptance is dat d the 10th of the
same month. After most di igent inquiry
1 am unable TO learn that such a party
ever resided in the. state, or rather L am
satisfied that he never did reside in Nebras.
ka. The father, J.. G.. Woodruff, is a
major in the army engineer corps, whose
residence has long been in Washington. 1t
is TO be presumed that the domicil of the
son is t e same.
As We have many young men II this
state "ho would be glad Of the place and
who are fully qualified, l feel bound 10
protest against the said Thomas Wood
ruff entering the academy as from this
district. =
will make aftidavits in support of my
statement.
Very respectfully,
tSlgne7b Your Obedient servant,
JOHN TAFFE,. NJ. C.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06
REPORT.
Mr.. Speaker:

WI. speaker
Your COMMITTEES beg leave to submit
their report, az directed by the follow
ing resolution, to-wit:
Whereas, Charges have this day
been made that a certain corporation
or person connected Herewith has
sem a written communication offering
to supply money to secure the election
of ~ United States senator from the
state of Nebraska; therefore
Resolved, That a committee of five
be appointed by the chair to investi
gate the above. or any charges of cor
rUption 5y the use of money or other
advantage, by any person or BY any
railroad or other corporation, within
or without the state; whether any cor
rupt or improper influences have been
at any time, Gr are now being used to
control the election of United States
senator; that the committee have
power to send for persons and pa
pers, would respectfully submit the
following report;
Your committee would recommend
that the evidence which is hereto 80,
.tached and made a part of this
marked exhibit "a" be prir on5
would further submit, frs that Fbe
letter which reads as for ~ 'Hs
Eyururr g "9'
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06

l'cOnstitutlon. lnelr PROGRESSED OOlec
IS to bit the growing generation to b
better members of societysnd moreics
psols of bearing their part in the gov
eminent Of the people by the people
Notwithstanding Mr.. Whites denis
Of the adage that Ignorance Is tn
mother # vice." political economists
without exception, r prepared t
uphold it by a mass of facts and 6g
ures which cannot be controverted
Thoroughly believing in the truth o.
this maxim, our school system endsa
vors to diffuse intelligence among The
greatest number, leaving to crime 10
excuse for ignorance and offering to
ell the opportunity of fitting them
selves for the highest Positions Of
Eono2 and trust In the gift of the peo-
people. Thisis the object of our school
system. That is Is . lsudsbls one not
Lot even Mr.. Richard Grant White Ia
prepared TO deny. How well 1t Is be-
ing carried out is the point upon which
writers are now differii g.
In the first place 1t must be ad-
mitted by any candid person that such
. wide reaching system of public in.
struction cannot be carried out with
out many defects and many failures.
Its very universality Is responsible for
these. Organized to do the greatest
amount of good to the greatest mum
Der, there must be many instances in
which 1t will fail to accomplish the
precise end for which 1t was founded.
But these defects and failures are at.
tendant on every system Of general
application and by no means initiate
against the system as g whole. Our
public schools deal With the most
diVsrss nntionalitieo and social ele-
mants. Minds naturally bright, others
BY nature the direct opposite, rich
and poor, dispositions varying In the
most widely diyerging degrees are to
be dealt with and supposedly to be
brought to q common height of mental
advancement. and Literary proficiency.
The very universally Of the system
which Is It's greatest excellence, be.
comes in isolated instances IFS greatest
defect and the perplezing problem is
Constantly presented how to adapt
the system to the Deficiencies of the
few without destr ying its value
to the MANY Our graded
schools against which Mr.. Grant White
hurls his weapons have resulted from
this perplexing problem, and are
dealing, as we think, Efficiently With
the question. The great increase Of
our school population, which goes
band in hand with the growth of the
country, presents aDotcer element in
the school pr b. III. Old methods of
instruction, ample when they were in
PRODUCED for the needs of the time,
now fail to accomplish the same re-
suits. Thousands Of teachers are nov
required where hundreds were once
sufficient, and good teachers have al
ways been rare. Efficient school su.
perintendsnta should be possessed Of
as rare qualifications as a successful
general, and the renrand is greater
than the supply. l. short, our scnrol
system has been for the last fen years
endeavorng t. adapt itself 10 the
needs OF the times snd to remedy de-
fects which were the natural out
growth IF a system in itself well de
signed aud on the whole worthy Of
the admiration and commentator
which have been bestowed upon 1t.
The yaly natter Tor surpr,s. IS ttat
u system Of public instruction
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06
Time lOa. m.

IitAb ~ d. ls
Office U. s. Military Telegraph.
tTelegrams received a the Department (
West Point, n. Y, june y, GILL;
TO General L. II 2elouze, A. &.
homas NJ. Woodruff is The son of an
officer Of the army; residence has usually
been the station If his fathsr; says he has
resided about ten years in Washington,
which was his last place Of residence.
Signed, 7. PITcpFR
Superintendent
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06
tTelegram.)
WAD hun,pr,

VII D~ETNhIMfNI.
WASHINGTON, June %, 1867.
General fitcher, Superintendent Military Rcad.
envy, West Point, y. Y:
Ascertain and report the actual residence
Of Thomas NJ Woodruff, appointed a ca
Diet from Nebraska. 1t il claimed that he
has never been a resident Of that state.
BY order of the secretary of war.
(Signed), i. II. PELoUzE
Asst. Adjutant General.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06

WAR DEP'T. OFFIcE OF I~$sprcroR
u. S. MILITARY ACADEMY. June p. 81.
Case of 4rhonlas NJ. Woodruff, of Oms.
ha, appointed cadet from Nebraska.
Hon. Mr., Taife, NJ. c protests against
his apr ointment on the ground that he is
not a resident of Nabr ska and never even
has been. The law positively requi.es the
sppointee 70 be an actual resident" f the
Young Noedzuf states hiugeIffo have
been a resident If WsNhi., -non Tor tn, asf
ten years. sir. Hitchcock, ann nom.
mated hi,n, called him a re>idsr+ ST -,
braska.
tSiguedl, En-. S~cHRIvER.
inspector.
The Secretary of War orders the appoint.
ment to be cancelled.
tSignedl Ed. S~cHRTvFg.
Inspector General.
Omaha daily bee., 1880-12-06

fNUpy.)
Z. Nm dlvER r r., IN NEB / +,
BUGuHeToN, Dec. %, 1876.
&, q PEEkLSs, Vice Presidenh
'TsN Nardue17c:
DEAR Srs:-I have today seen
VIM. LIVING, ard have arranged with
him for I'll drafts drswp by yourself
and Messrs. Saunderson and
Banks t. be honored. We car afford
to wiz this time, Yours truly,
(Signei) G. E. PERKINS.
WIN. IRVING,
I M NJ. (rediuk)
J. G. TS
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-07-24
TRAINS GOING NORTH.

CONNElTION5.- No. 2 connects at
Shenandoah Jnnc. with Baltimore and ono has'
bound train, arriving ut Washington 20 l. NJ
Baltimore 10 S5 2. NJ, Philadelphia ~ n NJ
New York 6.50A. NJ.
Train No connects at Shenandoah Junction
with BaltiIn ne and ONO Eastbound train, arI!v,
ing at washington IS 4. ~, Baltimore iI.iU
A. NJ, Philadelphia 20 Z. N, Ne" foTK lo'Ao
I. n. .- .-. ;,,
Train No. connects at Shenandoah juno Win
Baltimore and Ohio Wrstbouni train leaving
New York 10 20 p. NJ, Philadelphia so I. NJ,
Rlltinlore 55 and 500 A. ID, washington
gl0 4. VI. ,,
Passengers frorl 8. V. K. x. Stations south OF
Junction Tor Martipsburg take trains : and D..
All Trains dolly except Sunday. standard OF
time that Of Baltimore. Stations marked Z u'e
Az stations. ,>,-cD,,r
Genl Passer GER Agent.
JOSEPH II. SANDS. Superintendent :.
June 10. 1850.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-07-24
N @ 7 G Z !!
Valley Chief Reaper +!
To the Farmers of Jefferson, Berkeley,
and Clarke Counties

THE Manufacturers ofthis Celebrated
i Reaper and Mower take pleasure in an
nouncing to their numerous patrons anu
the farming community III general, that
the improvements put on the VALLEY
CHIEF, and thoroughly tested during
the past harvest, have all given the most
perfect satisfaction; thus enabling us to
offer Reaper to the trade second to none
in the market. We also state that we had
Reaper trial at Hailtown, Jefferson
county, w. Va, June rs, 1876, with the
"Ohio Champion, Buckley Table Rake
and the New Improved Valley Chief
Reaper" The test was q III favor OF the
"Vallcy Chief" one for the Buckeye
Table Rake" and none for the "Champ-
ioi." In order to satisfy the community
that we have the best Reaper ana Mower
Row presented to the farmers, we arc
ready ut any time TO go before the public
to test and prove our assertions, to beat
any other nowin use.
GEORGE w. WOLF,
Shcphcrdstown, jeff. Co., w. va:
April u, 1880. II
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-07-24
Coloyr1.- -FonxEY's MrccA-CnAkAc.


CoroYrI. FoRSEY's MrccA-CnARAc-
TERIsrIcs or TIE Crowd Thar Is Flock
ING TO sEg GEN. HANcocK-Governor's
Island is now the Mecca OF the faithful
and the daily scrice details their visits
as the average homage of the crowds
that wait upon royal person. Geuer.
al Honcock is in fact holding his Re
publican court in advance of his cleo
ton. ht is interesting to study the va
rjous people that come here daily. The
first thing noticeable is the presence Of
Republicans, especially Republican sol
diers. They are moved by an impulse
common to thousand Of others, but
Hancock embodies the sentiment that
grows in them with every year. "My
love for The men fought with in de-
fense of my coantry," said one OF them
to me yesterday, SIS different from tho
friendship Of my playmates, or school.
mates, or OF the confidence born or the
intimacy in business That wears out
with time, but the seeds planted in the
army, nurtured in tho blood of battle
and growing IN love in the life of the
march and the trials of the camp pro-
duce a devotion that never weakens,b ,but
increases with years aud is ssnctifed by
a deathleSS memory,
Here como also the older and ripper
minds of the great city. General Han
cock has been fortunate in securing the
friendship, as We have seen, OF his own
immediate chiefs, and by his quict Dig
nifty and regular habits Of administra-
tion the regard of merchants like lIenry
Hilton, the successor of A. I. Stewart,
and that exact old millionaire, Peter
Cooper Meu Ike these, with the Iii
roctors OF public opinion in the nswspa-
pers, social leaders, bankers and railroad
magnates, gather TO his levees, and now
that the department has relieved him of
special work, and even dispensed with
his services at the military trial of Gen.
Warren, he is at leisure TO attend 10 the
new duties resulting from his nomiua-
tion Tor President.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-07-24

-Four weeks ago man named Frank
Myers, was knocked down and bitten
IN the hand by drunken man named
Hugh Riley, at Rye, Westchester couni
ty. n. Y. The wound seemed to heal
up, bat on Thursday OF last week Myers
was taken with cramps in his back, stom-
ach and sides. The doctors could give
him no relief, and after suffering intense
agony be died Sunday afternoon.
Gen. Butler doesn't take much inter
est in the Presidential campaign since
the GreeIbackers failed 10 nominate
him for President lie declines to
shell out for the expenses of the Green
back campaign, says be shall not sup
port candidate Weaver. and y not
ready TO say whether Garfield or Han
cock Is his candidate.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-07-24

\ HoRRlBLE STORY FROM VEoISIA
"A dispatch from Wytheyille, Va, TO
the Philadelphia Times, says: Mrs.
Sarah Collins, a dissoluie white widow,
died here on Friday afternoon. after a
brief illness, and was buried Saturday.
Just after her death strong disagreea
bic smell rendered the room untenAblc,
and during the deodorizalion ilonr
barrel was discovered containing The
fcs,ered remains OF Ave small children
murdered by the deceased. The re-
mains were past recognition, but hang
ing from the skulls were long straight
locks of blonde hair, proving them 10
have been white children. Acting Cor
oner Obenchain took the remains in
charge, Uut death had placed the guilty
woman beyond the grasp Of human law.
The Wythewlle Enterprise OF Saturday
confirms the finding of ihe remains OF
five children, but meEtions no names.