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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27
ssTWO New York Vice Presidents.
New York Letter in Rochester Democrat

The fact that General Arthrlrsis the
most recent vice president elected from
the state of New York recalls the mem
ory and character of the first. One
point of similarity holds in this paral-
lel-their clerical parentage. Aaron
Burr was the son of Presbyterian
preacher, while Arthur's father was
prominent in the Baptist ministry. l
we'll remember the latter as man of
both robust body and mind. He stood
six feet high and was we'll proportioned,
and yet, Notwithstanding his great
strength and physical development, he
was mild and gentle to an extreme.
He was teacher as well as preacher,
and seemed indeed best adapted to the
tirst-mentioned office. l remember
hearing an address which he delivered
on this subject and was so impressed
with the freshness and power of his
views that it led to some personal in
quiries. He told me that ne had al
mays loved 10 teach, and had been to a
greater or less degree in that service
since boyhood. Indeed" said he,
"when I was mere boy they called
me the wee schail master, and have
been at it ever SINCE" He published
several books which indicated his pecu-
liar love Of research, and one of these,
"Arthur on Names" is a work of per-
manent value. To return to our paral-
lei, our first and last vice presidents
We're lawyers, and were residents of the
city Of New York. Had Jefferson
been removed by death Burr would
have become president, and his evil
destiny would have been escaped. All
his bad luck, indeed, occurred after
he was nearly through the vice presi-
dency.
Another point of similarity is found
in the fact that both were widowers.
Had Burr reached the white house.
Theodosia would have been its tempo
rary mistress. Burr had then been
widower five years, and was desirous
of marriage. His daughter joined in
this desire, for she knew how lonely
her father must be after her union
with Alston. The latter deprived Burr
of his best support-the society of
high-toned daughter-and when thus
bereaved he became the victim of evil
influences. Theodosia was married a
month previous to her fathers entrance
iuto the vice presidency, and having
witnessed this gratifying ceremony she
accompanied her husband to his south
ern home. The next time she met her
father he was mere refugee who
sought her hospitality, being crushed
by public vengeance awakened by the
death of Hamilton. Tho first New
York vice president, indeed, was the
most remarkable political wreck in
history, and hence his
name will always hold an unenviable
distinction. He was the only one of
our vice presidents who was an avowed
duelist, and though that was one of the
sins Of the age, it really seems strange
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

THE comments of the London Echo
on the death of President Garfield are
perhaps the most significant of any
yet uttered by the European press. The
Echo says: "Sovereigns and statesmen
Of Europe would do we'll to reflect upon
the cosmopolitan sorrow. Were every
one of them swept away tomorrow the
people would not be half so deeply
touched. European sovereigns and
statesmen still maintain their control
over the bodies and possessions of those
whose lives and treasure are lavished
IN dynastic aggrandizemept, but they
have lost the hearts of the people. In
the hour of her sorrow the great cosmo-
politan Republic commands far more
sympathy beyond its border than the
proudest historic monarch of Continen-
tai Europe could command over its
subjects" ..
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

The New York San makes the very
sensible suggestion that, since in some
cities and towns subscriptions of small
fixed sums to the Garfield Fund have
been opened among people whose
scanty earnings make even these sums
hard to give, it should be made point
that nothing like compulsion in secur-
ing subscriptions be resorted to. 1t is
now certain that the fund for the widow
and family of the dead president will
produce an income amply sufficient for
the luxurious maintenance of those for
whose benefit it was raised, and all ad-
ditions should be purely voluntary.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

CESAR had his Brutus, Charles I. had
his Cromwell, and Roscoe Conkling has
his Lowery, who, though he may not be
as illustrious as many of the other per-
sonages who have figured on fame's
immortal camping-ground, is quite as
busy as any of them. 'Sam" Lowery
has been thorn in Conkling's side for
many years. He has at last succeeded
in carrying his home county against
him, when "Conk" was personally ia
the field and peddling tickets in his
own ward. "Sam" is, according to the
Nation, an Ulster Protestant, popular
with the Catholics, and has for many
years made it his life work, CORE
spondent of the San says, ito whittle
down the ConklinG Caesar to ordinary
mortal proportions He has kept at
this steadily for many years,
and would have doubtless accom-
pllshed it before now but that
ne has had occasionally, for some
unexplained reason, "to keep out Of
sight" He never, however, allowed
any Of the whiting he had done on the
Cesar to be repaired, or puttied over,
or anything of that kind, SO that when
ne resumed operations there never was
anything to be done over again. He
must in fact long ago have damaged
the magnificent torso" more than the
world knew. This whiting, too, is de-
scfibed as having been labor of love
With him. He is "master of political
intrigue" but does not seek Office, and
VIII be satisfied with the honor of oust-
Ing Mr.. Conkling from a seat in the
convention and occupying it himself.
he is not an orator, but excels in
drastic reports" He certainly seems
nom all this to have been made for the
oumilition of the 'great senator"
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

BY the caving of the Means tunnel, al
Grayson. KY, ten convict laborers were
killed, and five injured.
TH1RTY-sIx buildings in the village Of
Pulaski, N. Y, we're swept away by fire
The loss is placed at 100000, on which
there is insurance of half that amount.
A FIRE at Cobourg, Ont, destroyed the
grocery houses Of Brent and Sutherland
and Mulholland's hardware store, the loss
being 100000.
THE steamer Dell Queen was swept
over the dam at kibourn City, Wss., Oct.
9th, and four men were drowned.
THERE appears to be new trouble with
the Indians at the San Carlos agency, A.
t., for which Agent Tiffany alleges the
military are responsible.
The Roman Catholic College at St.
Therese, near Montreal, was destroyed by
fire oct. 7, the loss being placed at $500,
600. Three hundred students were in at
tendance.
Two of the party who lynched the Nc
Donald brothers at Meuominee, Mich.
bave been committed to Jail on the finding
Of the coroner's jury, and five others are
being sought for by officers.
JMAEs LITTLE, conductor on the Santa
Fe road, was killed by two Mexicans in
his house at Las Lunas, New Mexico.
He managed to shoe. both of his assail-
ants, and they were jailed Thirteen
kpife-wouuds were found on his body.
AN Erie oil train of fifty cars caught
fire at the crossing of the Deleware river,
near Port Jervis, N. Y Fifteen cars in
the rear we're cut loose and drawn back
across the bridge, where the tanks ex-
ploded and burned out, melting even the
telegraph wires.
A REMARKABLE disease has appeared
in Platte county, Missouri, which is de-
scribed by some as the black smallpox,
and by others as the original black scourge.
Its victims rot before death, and instances
are given of their bodies falling to pieces
while being prepared for burial.
A soUTH-BoUND train on the Louisville
& Nashville railroad jumped the track at
Dolive Station. Ala, Octorer 9th, and the
cars were thrown over. Gen. John NJ.
Dunn, of the interior department, and
circus agent were bruised. A colored
tramp who was stealing ride was killed.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27
GENERAL NOTES

JOHN B. LYON & Co., OF Chicago, have
resumed payments.
The craftsmanship of the republican
state committee of New York is still held
by Chester A. Arthur.
TIE we'll known Fletcher Har per of
Harper Bros, died on the 4,h of October.
in New York city.
The Rock River conference appointed
committee of fifteen to try Rev. DR.. H.
W. Thomas for heresy, DR.. Fowler being
named as chairman.
The superintendent of the Indian nor
NAL school in Virginia will take thirty of
the more advanced students to Dakota as
instructors of their tribes. and return
with an equal number of unwashcd reds
BARTHOLOMEW, the Russian minister,
has during the summer season occupied
the elegant residence of Captain Downing,
at Newport. R. l. He quietly left that
city October 9TH. without paving any bills,
and his landlord finds the house unfit for
residence for swine.
EIGHTEEN of Georges band Of hostles
surrendered at San Carlos, and we're taken
10 Fort Thomas by Major Wilhelm. The
leaderis said to be in concealment with
four men: Indian runners report that
nine Of Lieutenant Bailey's scouts desert
ed: They are supposed to have gone to
join Chief George.
LAST Sunday night, says an Annapolis
dispatch Of the 9th inst, the 4th class
newly entered in the naval academy, was
hazed numerically. The members of
the Ord class were suspected, and when
the matter was Investigated to-day, re-
fused to indulge what they knew about it.
To-day, the whole class, 50 members,
were sent on board the Santee. They had
to take their bedding and other articles.
and will have to live on the ship until
further orders, not being allowed to speak
to each other.
The republican state convention of New
York, met Oct. 5th. The anti-machine
people were in the majority, but they
used the power that circumstance
gave them rather mercifully. Senator
elect Miller was made temporary chair
man. The committee on credentials re-
ported against the machine delegation
from Oneida (Conkling'a) county and
against some other machine delegations
that were irregularly elected, including
one frgm one of the New York districts.
The anti-Conkling delegation from Brook
Iyn was admitted also. Chauncey NJ.
NJ. Depew was made permanent chair
mad. and was enthusiastically applauded
The following state ticket was put in
nomination: Gen. Joseph B. Carr, state
treasurer; Ira Davenport, comptroller.
Leslie W. Russell, attorney general; Silas
state engineer. and Francis Nj. |
Finch, Judge of the court of appeals,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

fired at by man disguised in female
clothing, who escaped. A girl riding on
a jaunling-car with the intended victim
was wounded.
AN Irish farmer, named Leary, living
on the estate of Lord Kenmore, near
Baltimore, was fatally shot by band of
armed men, who warned him not to paw
rent.
The manager of the Panama canal
states that twelve hundred men are en-
ployed in excavations, and that quarter
of million dollars has already been ex-
pended.
In the hope of checking the expectation
of gold to the United States, the Imperial
Bank Of Germany raised its discount rate
to 81 per cent, and the Bank of England
threatens to advance 5 per cent. to-day.
Gendarmes guard the national bank of
Luxembourg, which has been forced into
liquidation by the government. Its pub.
lie liabilities are 100000 francs, while
3,O0OO 600 francs of its notes are held by
working people.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27
FOREIGN.

EUGENE, on her recent visit to Paris,
is said to have executed will in favor of
Prince Victor, and urged him to devote
his mind to the imperial cause.
DIpHTnERA is causing terrible mortal
ity in the province of Orel, Russia, where
n per cent OF the cases prove fatal.
AMONG those who sailed from Queens.
town Oct 7, for New York we're Dillon,
Egan, O'Connor, and Redpath.
The Bank Of France is said to have al
most exhausted its stock of ten and twenty
franc pieces. but holds nearly all the five.
franc coinage in the republic.
An Irish landlord, named Bingham, was
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27
| Very Strange Story About Guiteau,

MENTOR, O., Sept. 2l.-The Rev. w.
b: Hendryx, pastor of the Disciple
Church at Mentor, said that in the
midst of the campaign yea, ago Gen
eral Gartield's family received intima-
tlons from Chicago of his being in dan
ger. Being demonstrated with for not
being more cautious, Garfield replied
to Hendryx: 81 did not seek nomina-
ton, and the Lord will protect me if it
is His will" Hendryx then said that
one very dark night during the cam
paign, after the family had retired, a
knock was heard, and Garfield went to
the door. A man there said another
man in buggy outside, fully six rods
away, in darkness, wanted him to come
out to see him. "He is welcome in, but
| cannot go out there" This ended
the interview. When Guiteau's por.
trait reached Mentor after the shoot.
ing, several persons recognized it as a
suspicious-looking face they had seen
several times in the village. His last
words on leaving Mentor, said Hen
dryx, were so bold that we feared for
him. He was thoroughly in earnest to
oppose Mormonism and carry out the
principles of his inauguration. The
baser elements of society saw in him
an uncompromising enemy. and he has
fallen victim to his boldness of speech.
These things show that the people of
Mentor had a fear of some trouble be-
falling President Garfield. From the
very beginning this fear was also the
measure of their love, which was shown
in their attendance at his house to-day
with words of tenderness for the strick-
en- family, especially the two youngest
Garfield boys, who felt their fathers
death keenly, and would not be COM
Forted for long time.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

The recent destructive tornado, OF
series of cyclones, began in eastern
Kansas, moved northward and struck
in several localities in Nebraska with
terrific effect, and then moved east
wardly, doing great damage in northern
Iowa, in southern Minnesota and in
portions Of Wisconsin. Heavy rains
were an incident of the storm in Wis
consin, where the streams were swollen
out of their banks, and disastrous
flood is the consequence.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

In front OF Colonel Thomas Mead's
house, in Greenwich, Conn.,, stands q
sycamore or ball-wood tree, which is
l7l years old, having been planted in
l71O. 1t is about $50 feet high, and 15
feet from the ground its circumference
is 28 feet, and its diameter 8 feet. A
hole in the trunk, which is now no big
ger than mans hand, was not many
years ago large enough for man to
crawl into, and was once used by chill
dren as sort of playhouse. AS the
tree has grown of late years, the aper-
ture has gradually closed.
President Arthur is reported to have
told friend that he did not propose to
live in the white house until after the
special session Of the senate had ad-
journed. He does not care to enter the
white house while it is nearly covered
from sight with emblems of mourning.
These will remain for thirty days.
Meanwhile workmen are making the
white house ready for the new occu-
pant.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

AFTER vast amount Of preliminary
vaporing something has really been
done in the star route cases. Warrants
have been issued against Brady and his
immediate pals, upon an information
filed against them in the district court.
This course was taken because an ad-
journment of the grand jury was secur-
ed in Brady's interest. The gentle
Dorsey's case is not reached by this in
formation, but it is to be brought before
the grand jury later.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

IT is alleged by the Philadelphia
Press that if General Arthur had not
been nominated for Vice President at
Chicago, he, instead of Tom Platt,
would have been elected United States
Senator by the New York Legislature
in Kernan's place-that Conkling and
Governor Cornell had so agreed. The
same paper says Arthur was at first de-
cidedly averse to the Vice Presidency,
because he preferred the Senate.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27
High Wages and Mining.
Peoria Transcript.

The advance in wages all through
the Mississippi valley and east is likely
to prove injurious to Western mining
interests. AS is generally known, a
large share of the mineral found in Col
orado and south of it is of q low grade
order. This can be worked to a rea-
sonable profit when the wages of the
workingmen are not over $3.50 or So
per day. But at $3.50 or 81 a day the
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27
NELSON W. ALDRIcH, congressman
of Rhode Island, has been elected sue
cessor to Gen. Burnside in the U. S.
senate

The love of some women for their
drunken brutal husbands is past COM
prehension. In New York, last week,
saloon keeper set blood hound on
his wife, the beast tearing the woman's
arms and neck in most horrible man.
ner. She is the owner of store and
supports her husband, but in spite of
his abuse it seems she loves him, for
on his arrest she refused to prosecute,
and the brute was set at liberty.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

Miss de Collier, of New York, has just
finished q screen which is intended for
presentation to Secretary Blaine for his
new house in Washington. One panel
represents wild flowers, another orchids
and ferns, another begonia leaves and
vines on ground of olive satin. The
frame is OF carved ebony.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

SKILL IN THE WoRKsHop.--To do good work
the mechanic must have good health. If long
hours Of confinement in close rooms have enfee-
b!ec his hand or dimmed his sight, let him at
once, and before some organic trouble appears,
take plenty of Hop Bitters. His system will be
rejuvenated, his nerves strengthened, his sight
become clear, and ,Nhe whole constitution be built
up to q higher working condition
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

Timothy K. Earle, prohibitory can
didate for lieutenant governor Of Mas
sachusetts, and with one exception the
largest manufacturer of card clothing
in the country, died at Worcester, in
that State, Saturday night. He was So
years old.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

that so tragic an affair should have oc-
cured while he was holding the second
office in the gift of the people--thus
leaving the vice presidency stained
with blood.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-10-27

From the Atlanta (Ga.) Sunday Pho
,aograph: The editor OF the PlkesIC unity
Ne,vs has been cured of rheumatism by
st. jacobs Oil.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Encourage Signs.

There il reason to hope that that por-
ton Of the Democratic party who do
not train with Sherman and Hayes on
the one hand. and Belmont the repre-
sentative of the Rothschilds on the 9th
er Will be aided by at least a part Of the
Western Republicans in their effort to
prevent the perpetuation of the untaXed
public debt and the destruction ofsilver
money. We infer this from the opposi-
ton which Is made by Republican
papers in the West to the proposition
to put Mr.. Levi F. Morton the favorite
of Wall street at the head of the Treas
ury in the Garfield Administration. The
resistance finds emphatic expression in
a leading editorial i'm the Chicago Trlb-
une which objects to Mr.. Morton because
he 'hasmade an immense fortune in job
bling in American securities" and, also,
because he has two leading ideas which
are not to be tolerated. These are, first,
that the greenbacks should be demonet-
lied, stripped Of their legal tender char
acter and then retired ID, that tho
silver dollar be likewise demoneti2ed and
its further coinage prohibited" Again:
.'As banker, Mr. Morton sees things
across his own counter he wants every
body who has to pay a debt to find gold
for that purpose : "lf MIR.
Morton goes into the Treasury he will
take with him his own convictions
on the legal tender question. He will
go there, carrying with him the convic-
tons of Belmont and his class ofmoney-
shavers of New York. Against such
opinions, says the Tribune, 1.-THE indus
trial classes of the country will emphat-
icalIy protest
Such indications of Republican opin-
ions in the West are gratifying. 1t ac-
cords with the feeling Of the Western
and Southern Democracy. 4 similar
concurrence of ideas exists in the West
and South on the tariff, the navigation
laws, the improvement of the Mississip-
pi river and its tributaries, and, if sink
ing differences in regard to other issues
from which we pray TO be delivered,
these two sections could be brought into
harmonious political actiop, it would be
grett thing for the country and espe'
cially for the South.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-20
Honest Money"

The following, as 80 think very es-
sential provision was added TO the
Funding Bill pending its consideration
in Committee of the Whole, on motion
of Mr.. Speaker Randall. 1t reAffirms
the right of the government TO pay the
bonds in the silver dollar Of the present
weight and fneness, according to con-
tract, and compels the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay them in that descrip-
ton of money, thus overruling the arbi-
trarv conduct of the present head of
the Treasury who has refused thus to
apply the silver with which the treasury
vaults are bursting
Provided, That nothing in this Act SHALL
be SO construed as TO authorize an increase
of the public debt; and provided further,
that before any of the bonds or certificates
authorized by this Act are issued it shall
be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasu-
~ to pay en- bonds accruing during the
year 1881, all silver dollars of 4124 grains
and all gold over and above so, 600, 600 in
the Treasury for redemption purposes
The proYiso was adopted by large
majority. 1t shows that the Democrats
in the popular branch of Congress have
not abandoned the opinion that the
silver dollar for the reconciliation of
which the Mississippi Legislature ex-
pressed itself so unanimously, Is honest
money!