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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12
The Ex ct Popular Vote nj the Recent
Election,

The exact popular result of the Presi-
Dental election has been long in dis
pute. our system of eiecting President
and Vice President not requiring official
consolidation of the popular vote. The
Enquirer has placed itself in communi-
cation with the proper officials OF every
State in the Union, and has obtained
from the Secretaries of State or Re-
turning Boards the full official returns
of the whole vote. The following table
has been prepared with great care, and
the proof diligently compared with the
letters of the officials above indicated.
1t will be noted that General Hancock
popular majority over General Garfield
is 8, LOG, and that in a total vote of
9, 169, 213, General Garfield is in a mi
nority of 1850
Following is the table, which is Off
cial.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

PRESIDENT GARFIELD sent to the Sem
nte, on the 9Th, the following nominations
for Cabinet officers, which were unanimously
confirmed without reference or roll-call:
James G. Blaine, Of Maine, Secretary Of
State.
William Window, of Minnesota, Secretary
Wayne Mcveigh, of Pennsylvania, Attor-
General.
Thomas 1. James, of New York, Postmas-
Samuel j. Kirkwood, of Iowa, Secretary
of the Interior.
Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, Secretary of
War.
William a. Hunt, of Louisiana, Secretary
of the Navy.
VICE-PkEsIDENr ARTHUR occupied
the chair of the Senate on the, 9Th. Mr.. Hoar
offered a resolution extending to Winfield
8. Hancock the privileges of the floor during
his stay in Washington. Adopted unani-
mously. The nominations of the President
for Cabinet officers being received, the Sen.
ate went into executive session and then
adjourned.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES and family left
Washington by special car, on the 9Th, en-
route to their Ohio home. At Severn Sta
ton, twelve miles from Baltimore, while
rounding curve at q high rate of speed, the
train came into collision with another train
of empty passenger cars, drawn by two
locomotives, also running at full speed. Tho
effect of the collision was to throw the three
locomotives into the ditch, each a shapeless
wreck. The first and second passen.
ger-cars were partially telescoped
together. The car occupied by ex-Presi-
dent Hayes's family was the fifth In the
train and escaped uninjured, although its
occupants were pretty badly shaken up. ].
Wyman Young, of Shamokin, Pa. was in
stantly killed, and some six other passengers
occupying the first car were more or less in
jured. OF the train men, John Oliver, q
baggage maste- was killed; Harry Freeburn,
engineer, fatally injured, and several others
seriously hurt.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, on the 9th,
peremptorily removed from Office st. Louis
Police Commissioners Finney and Moffet,
the Governors previous polite request for
their designations having been unheeded.
The Governors action is based upon the re-
cent report Of the Grand jury, which ami
madverted quite severely upon some of the
official actions of the Commissioners named.
THE island of Ischia, in the Medit-
erranean, at the north entrance OF the Bay
OF Naples, has been visited by terrible
earthquake. At Casa Macciola 800 houses
were demolished, and ITO dead bodies had
been taken out of the ruins with o hers re-
manning yet uncovered. There was consid-
cradle loss OF life in other parts Of the
island.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12
Washingt0n's Chair Used at GarlleId's
Inauguration.

NEW YORK, March L, 1681.-R. j.
Bright, ESQ.,, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sem
ate of the United States, ETC.: SIR-Agreea-
bly, to the request of the Committee Of the
Senate on the Inaugural Ceremonies on the
4th of March next, at the installation of
James A. Garfield as President of the United
States of America. extended by telegraph
through you, 1 have the honor of forwarding
to your address by Adams Express the iden-
tical chair from which the Father of Our
Country, George Washington, rose to take
the same oath of office in 1889. This inter-
esting relic has been in my personal charge
for fifty years-upOn my receiving my first
commission as u. S. Marshal for the South
ern Distict OF New York from Gen. Andrew
Jackson in 1881.
Oblige me by an early acknowledgment of
its safe arrival to your hands, and believe me
to be yours respectfully,
WIN. COVENTRY II. WADDEII.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12
WIN. COVENTRY II. WADDELI..
f Peabody. when returnino bom,

E Peabody, when returning home
from Bluffton, Mimi, was pursued by
wolves, and as he had no weapon with
which to defend himself, he climbed a
tree, where he was obliged to pass the
night, the gaunt, hungry animals howl
ing and crashing their teeth under
him. He suffered very much from cold,
one hand and foot and both knees being
badly frozen.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

Mr.. A. w. SoPER has been appointed
& Iron Mountain Railway.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

THE Apportionment bill, passed by
the House, was not acted upon by the Sem
ate, and therefore JAILED to become . law.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

TIE President, on the LIST, issued q
proclamation converting the Senate In special
session at noon on March 4.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

FERNANDO WOOD was amember-elect
Of the Forty seventh House, and q special
election will be held In his district to choose
a successor
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

THE Indiana Senate defeated the
Local Option Law by vote of % to Is.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

GOVERNOR FOSTER COMMITTED to inn
prisonment for life the sentence Of John
Welsh, who w&>.. have been hanged at Free
mont, O., on the 4h
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

A rELKeRAM from Chilli announces
that Don Francisco Calderon has been elect
ed Provisional President Of Peru. Peace
negotiations will probably be resumed
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

WILLIAM HALLER, q prominent So
cialist, died at Cincinnati on the LIST.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

JAY GOULD and party left st. Louis
on the LIST by special train for . tour Of in
spection over the railway lines controlled by
him in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkan-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

SECRETARY SHERMAN, on the Sd,
formally rendered to President Hayes his
resignation of the Office Of Secretary Of the
Treasury, in order to take his place In the
United States Senate.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

A DUBLIN telegram of the 2Sth says
Mr.. Hearne, land agent to the mother of
the late Lord Mountmorris, was fred at by
two men, near his residence at Ballinrobe,
and MORALLY wounded. He received six
pistol shots.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

The usual Mard Gras celebrations
took place in New Orleans, Memphis and
Shreveport. The weather was fine and the
attendance unusually large, especially OF
Northern visitors at New Orleans.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

A TERRIBLE gale prevailed of the
coast of Newfoundland on the 1at. A num-
Der of vessels were lost with all on board.
Every boat in st. Johns Harbor was de-
stroyed. The storm Is said to have been
the worst known in sixty years.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12


A wRxcKINe train on the Hannibal
& ST. Joseph Railroad WAS dispatched from
BrookneId, Mo-, on the morning of the LIST
TO the assistance Of . regular passenger train,
previously ditched, near Bevier. The re-
lief train was composed Of two wrecking
cars, . caboose. and one passenger-car.
There were on the train number Of railway
employees, surgeons and citizens Of Brook
field. IL had proceeded short diaance and
had got upon Brush Creek bridge, which ia
n Howe trusse, about one hundred feet long,
when the bridge gave way with . crash. The
engine went over the bridge safely and did
not leave the track ut all. The derrick car
also passed over the bridge, but left the rails
Immediately afterward and went . hundred
feet into the ditch, where It lay, wheels
up. The tool car. which was next,
hung for n moment on the edge of the break,
then fell, followed by the caboose, which fell
on the top Of It, and the passenger coach,
which fell on top of the caboose. The pas
senger coach had been attached to the wreck
ing train for the purpose Of conveying the
wounded to BrookfieId. Nearly all the peo-
pie on the train were in the caboose, and this
fact accounts for the loss Of life. When the
passenger coach fell upon the caboose the
latter was crushed to splInters, only the floor
remaining intact. Its dreadful effect Il I'M
derstood by the statement that of all who
went down in the wreck only Mr.. A. j. Car
ter, Superintendent Of Bridges, and two
other persons escaped death or injury.
The following Is q corrected list Of those
Killed and injured. Six persons were killed,
viz. F. Lock, A. jury, Geo. swick, John
Connors, w. ). HslIctt, and DIR. o. II.
Wood. The wounded are Geo. Wenzel, +.
Tabier, ". N. Hunter, DIR. VIM. Rear, II.
Carter, VIM. Huse, J. Moorehead, James
Conway, James Cloud, ID. Fitzgerald,
James Nolan, James Doyle and N. McGrail.
some Of the wounded were pronounced
fatally injured.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

A Swiss colony has purchased 10000
acres of land near London, Laurel County,
NY. Forty families are expected immedi-
ately and they will be followed by more
when suitable locations are procured.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

The public debt statement issued
March 1 shows decrease in the debt for the
month Of February Of $11, $40, 155. Cash in
the Treasury, $235,eos .1z6; gold and silver
certificates, 81, AS, 740; certificates of de-
post outstanding, s, 965. 900; refunding GER
ti6cates, s7s2, $50; legai-tenders outstanding.
$346y ,016; fractional currency outstand-
ing, S15,590, SAT, less amount estimated as
Lost sr destroyed s,s75, 9s4), s., 14.41a.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

1t is asserted that within eighteen
months two and half miles of the pro-
posed channel tunnel between England
and France will have been exc waited,
and that the work will be completed in
about four years. Still another grand
scheme, however, for crossing the chan
mel is contemplated, namely. a line of
steel tubes, sixteen feet in diameter,
ballasted so as to make it weigh one
and a quarter tons to the foot less than
the water displaced. and held at depth
of thirty-five feet below the surface, so
rs not to impede navigation, by chains
attached to caissons sunk to the bottom.
One of the notable persons in soci-
city at Washington is said to be the
Japanese Minister. He dresses in ex-
IRENE fashion and rides TO the Capitol
in fancy turnout. His English is
very good, but he has the features of
his nation strongly marked. and is
therefore to American eyes ugly.
TIE Duchess of Hamilton recently
entered her rapidly burning stables and
led out her favorite horse, that would
go with no one but herself
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

THE Sandwich Islands are being de-
vastated by smallpox and other epidemic
diseases. At Honolulu panic exists, and
the white Inhabitants are leaving "a fast as
possible by sailing vessels, the mail steamers
refusing to land or take on passengers. The
sanitary condition of the city Is represented
as being most wretched. There IL not .
sewer within its limits and its site IL honey
combed with vaults that have not been
cleaned in . quarter of century.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

The Minnesota State Capitol at st.
Paul burned on the night of the LIST. The
fire broke out while both Houses Of the Leg
islature were in session, and the flames
spread 50 rapidly that some of the law
makers had TO escape by means Of ladders.
The building was burned to the ground, en-
failing loss to the State of about 500, 900,
besides the destruction Of the Historical and
Supreme Court Library, which can not be
Altogether replaced. The State records and
trust bonds were stored in hre-proof vaults
and thereby saved.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

THE Irish landlords, in consequence
of the passage Of the Coercion bill, are tax
ing united action for evicting defaulting
tenants, and win endeavor to supply their
places with Protestant tenants from Ulster
and elsewhere. The eviction of Rev. Pat
rick Hurley, the parish priest Of Kilkoman,
Kings County, has created no little conster-
nation. Other evictions are now Of daily
occurrence. The League has issued circu-
las to the Secretaries Of branch Leagues
throughout Ireland, asking the details Of all
eyictions since January1.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-03-12

A LATE Dublin dispatch says: The
police are very active making arrangements
for arrests, and lists Of persons have been
prepared for immediate presentation TO the
viceroy. The Land League will net be In
terfered with 10 long - IT keeDs within
reasonable bounds. Owing TO the near
approach of enforcement Of the Coercion
bill, several persons from the other side of
the Atlantic disappeared from Dublin. The
Fenian element there IL considered con-
temptible, and the authorities know every
thing connected with IL.
, 1881-11-20

my own private library, and there
I started a library for the society
again." This second library was unfortun~
ately destroyed by fire In 1874. But in tho
two years during which the resurreoted
library of the society remained at No. II
Congress street visitors saw at least a por-
ton, perhaps all, Of Mr.. Wentworth's docu-
ments Doubtless Afr. Scammon said to
many visitor, pointing to the documents:
"These dusty tones Of Congressional lore
vera conveyed to the society BY tue Hon.
John Wentworth in lieu Of the regular mem
bership-feo Of Sss00.' Let him call some Of
these visitors and prove by them that AIR.
Wcntwortll's documents were burned, not
stolen.
We make these suggestions in the interest
of peace between two old citizens of Chicago.
Mr.. Wentworth and Mr.. Scainmon are prom
inent figures in the history Of this city. They
have done the State some service. Forty
years is too long tor any war to work desc
lntion, urd the fate OF $500 worth OF Con-
gressional documents is not sufficient
ground for raking up the embers OF an
ancient feud.
, 1881-11-20

THE explanation Of the attitude of Bis
1narcS and the Emperor towards the present
Parliament and their advocacy of the pro-
gram of Internal economic reforms against
the opinions Of the majority of that Parlia-
1nenr may be found in an effort to placate
the Socialists. The vote Of the latter was
considerably increased in the election in the
face Of the severely repressive measures
which have been instituted against them.
They have made great headway. They have
menaced the Empcror's life and Bismarck's
life. Their brethren in Russia killed the
Gar, who was 4 relative Of the Emperor,
and apparently it was only Question Of time
how soon they would attack him and
after him his son. To placate them Bis
1narck conceived his scheme of legisla-
ton In their favor, embracing a great
State insurance company to guarantee
workinEmen against accident and their fami-
lies against the results of their death, and to
pension aged and INDECENT workingmen. It
was great Socialistic charitable scheme to
aid the men who had been their enemies, and
the Emperor committed himself to it, and
rather than face the majority in Parliament
who oppose 1t staid away and let Bismarck
do the honors. Bismarck may not be ablefto
carry the measures through. He may have
no expectation of doing so, but the fate OF
his measures is Of little consequence, as he
has placed himself and the Emperor upon
, 1881-11-20

PRINCE BISMARCK recently Expressed his
opinion lit public manner lis to the persecu-
ton of the Jews. 1t seems that ajewisll gen
tlenan at the head Of large industry in
Varziu was entertained, with Others. at q
public dinner BY the Chancellor. and that he
seized the opportunity to ask his host wheth-
er lie approved of the "Jew-baiting," to
which the Chancellor replied:
Certainly not; nothing Can be more Unjust. /
ain rlost decidedly opposed to this agitation
against tho Jews whether from the point or
view OF religion .'r rAse. WITH equal right they
could one day flil upon Germans nf Polish or
French extraction end say tney were no Hes-
mans That tho Jews Stow 1t prediiccuon for
trade is Il InAt;er OF 1aste; their previous ex-
.eiuson from all other professions n,ny, pcrhaps,
well justify It, Hut it Is certainly nor warmth
able to tulk uDnut their superior wealth III Tint
iui!amsnalury way, which find wholly con-
teulp1ib1c Us being calculated u excite the envy
and hutred or the multitude. will never nsree
to the constitutional rights of ste Jews being
restricted III any way. The intellectual orgnni-
zation uf tho Jews In general incl!nes them to
criticism. and the greater number OF them.
therefore. are on the sie OF the Oppusition: but
make III distinction between the Christian ana
the Jewish opponents of my ecuuo:nic policy,
which couscientlously hold to be profitable Tor
the nation.
, 1881-11-20

in geography, OF fail In memorizlng the rules
Of grammar. are not allowed to advance IN
arithmetic until the rest of the class catch up
with them, and until they have packed their
memories with the geography and grammar
stuff. The general: sncer throughout these
letters at brilliancy" or anything that
grows restless under the "circus ring u
round of the graded system, indicates how
strongly the routine system is championed.
Of the boys and girls who attend our pub
lie schools 90 per cent leave as soon Us they
can read and write. How many leave be-
cause they can't sing with the grade, It any,
we do not know, but those whose progress
depends upon the progress of others, and
desire TO progress according to their own
ability, seek Of necessity some other school.
Pertinent to this matter we find III II Phl1a-
dolphin paper 4 letter written by father,
stating that he heard his little girl sobbing
over rule which she was trying to commit
to memory, the "rulo" being in the follow
i1lg words:
Rule for short division rule dash one write
the diysor ut the left Of the dividend, semi
c0lon begin ut the left hand comma, nd divide
the number denoted by cuch figure OF tue d'v1-
dend by the dlvisor, co1n'n u'id write ne 2uo-
tient beneath, period Paragraph. =. II there
is IL remainder atrer any division comma, regard
1t rs pretiIcd to the next figure cotntnn. anu III.
vide us before period. If any pnrtlnl dividend
Is less thhu tho diyisor. comma, prefix 1t To tho
next hgure, comma. and write cipher IN tho
QuotteI!t period Paragraph proof period dash
multiply The Quorient by the divisOr, comma,
und add the renuintler, comiua, it amy, comma,
to the product, pcri.'d
The statement continues:
After reading these painfully idiotic. para.
Krnnhs, the amazed parent nude Inquiry ana
found that tho plpils-chii1reta nndcr M-Wcre
requires: To study rules in thus way i'll order lnt
they might be able to write 1honl out and
''point :heln. not correctly, but accortinK 10
tho book. - 1 Alsu found, he udfs. thnt II q
comma was left out. though the sense remained
Marks rs though sue had committed vital
bluudcr. Thanks to homo instruction. my little
girl Understands ti1 rules OF arithmetic, btif she
cannnt learn them b, rote in this parrot fasn1on,
done In this matter to relieve our children from
utterly useless tne:nurfzl1,E that leaves them ut
the cnu Ut Il few years with wehheuea iunc5
and no tustt for stuuy9 [ got Il letter the
other day from II luau who hNu graduated from
IL university. He cnulti neither write nor spell
correctly Spelling CUES gose ami yet ut school,
a few years ako. he could Elthly rectte all tho
rules OF grammar, and was by no iueAn3 IN, in
different. pupil under the system thAt does NOT
educate.
We suppose that the Philadelphia teachers
will be as Indignant at this public complaint
Of the barbaris.n and cruelty Of this rule as
the teacher of the LII Sale Street School is
at the complaint OF THE TRIBUNE against
the Objectionable routine Of the graded
system. Nevertheless, it is possible that III
the ligh. Of public discussion both systems
will in the end be reformed.
, 1881-11-20

THAT presumably estiu1able but altogether
too greatly advertised. young man Mr. j. Stan
ley Brown. Is again to the fore in the WISH
fngton dispatches. the latest announcement
concerning him being that he has accepted an
offer from Mrs. Garfield to arrange the letters
and papers OF the lato President so that they
can be used By his biographer. 1t is also stated
that Mr.. Brown only accepted this proposition
after a long consultation With himself, being
loath to leave President Arthur, IN whose serv-
Ice he has been snce the death OF President
Garfield, with tho entire burden OF the Govern
ment on his shoulders. "But," says tho dis
patch. "Mr- Brown feels that. On account OF his
peculiar reia dons to tho late President, this
quest IS in the nature OF a command that cannot
be disregarded and so, in spite Of the visit
, 1881-11-20

THE Swiss general elections, which TOOK
place during the early part Of the present
month. and which have not been noticed IN
the telegraphic dispatches, were neVer1he-
less of unusual significance in one dlrec-
ton. The Radicals won so many seats that
they are in the majority The minority is
composed almost exclusively Of Cathohe
Deputies from the smaller cantons, VINO are
confronted by bitter ecclesiastical enemies
Taken in connection with the French Ger
man, and Belgian elections, it shows that the
popular feeling in Europe, as expressed by
universal suffrage, is rapidly becoming more
democratic and anti-clericai
, 1881-11-20

The morc-tariff monopolists will hold their
next convention lit New York on the 29th
and 3oth inst. The promoters promise tu
prove two propositions to the people Of this
country: ~ that "protection has reduced
the cost of manufactured goods: (2) that it
has increased the price Of labor. As illus
1rated BY railroad steel, it has found the
price Of steel in Europe SIS to ST per ton,
and protection of 125 per cent has ''reduced"
it to $50 per ton In this country An ex-
change remarks in regard to the two propo-
sitions Which the New York Protection Con-
yention intend to prove:
II they can prove the first, they cannot provo
the secnrd; nor can they prove tbs SECOND with
out tiispruving fhe 1rst- What Is the price OF
labor bur the wAHcs that are paid for it? and
what is the chief eicrurnr Of The cost of produce
ton blt, the amount Of wares paid 10 the labor-
ers engaged III production? Thus. SIR. Mill says
{i}uok ILL.,. chap. .iv.. u; 'tNhat the produce
tion OF thing costs to lis producer. or its series
OF producers, is the labor expended in produ-
ciuE it. II We consider as the producer the cup
italist who makes the advances, the word labor
may be repnceL by tha word 'wnges. What
the produce costs to him Is tho wages which he
had to pay II the convention has no better
program. It might Us well save itself the trouble
OF ASseu bling,