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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-18
NUMBER 80.
The Governors.

Were there ever so many Dor,o
cratic Governors before as tbere will
he on the first day of January. 1881 p
massachusetts, after a long course of
annual chills at the bare suggestion
OF Benjamin f. Butler as Governor
wakes up this morning to find himac-
tually in the seat of John A. Andrew
lhls follows not long after President
Arthur's appointment of new Col
Iector for Boston in opposition to the
wishes OF the party as shown by the
voice OF the press and the protest of
the Republican Congressman. New
hampshire, the home of President
Arthur's Secretary of the NAVY. who
was charged by prominent Republi-
cans with having dictated the nomi-
nation for Governor, comes danger
ously near Democrat. Connecticut
elects Democrat. New York, where
PRESIDENT Arthur kindly sayed the
Republican voters the trouble of
nominating their candidate for Gov
erliof, elects Democrat by a ma
Jorlty so great as to be almost if not
quite unprecedented. PENNSYLVANIA.
Where the President put a power of
attorney for Federal appointments
INTO the hands of an interruptions and
unpopular SenatOr,-the most obnoX-
louS specimen of the Boss in Ameri-
can politics to-day, elects a Demo-
crat. In the great New England and
Middle estates sections the only States
having Republican Governors will
be Rhode Island and Vermont which
are never debatable ground, New
hampshire and Maine, where the one
brilliant Republican victory of the
year was won under the inspiring
leadership of James G. Blaine.
by the opening of the new year not
less than twenty one of the thirty
eight State Governments will. appar-
emily, be in the hands of the Demo-
cratic party. If President Arthur
had kept the pledges of impartiaity
Wlthin the party and fidelity to the
people with which he took his office,
there would not be so many Demo-
cratic Governors. This is one lesson
OF the result which will repay study,
| ". Y, T5jbl2e-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-18
Influence OF the Soil on Health.

The influence of the soil upon the
health of those living upon it, is
brought out very plainly during the
prevalence of epidemic diseases.
That maIarial diseases Qike intermit-
tent fevers) originate from the soil,
is already accepted and recent in
yestigations show pretty exclusively
that the germs of Cholera, Abdomi-
nal Typhus, Yellow Fever. and the
plague are in some way connected
with the soil, which is daily corrobo-
rated by letters from all parts of the
country, stating the marvellous effect
PeJ10td has on those diseases, and in
their convalescent state. JOHN E.
COURTNEY, of Co. ry, Pa, says; II
am still getting better, thanks to
your Per0a0 and MdndliA." See
page "A in ILLS of Life"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-18
HOffenStein's Bugle.

MT. Hoffenstein," said Herman,
ss ne 1olded up a pair of pants and
placed them on pile, "if you don't
hai any objections l would like to get
rom Gle store away Won efending, and
60 Smlt de soldiers to de Spanish
fost." "Vell, Herman, l dinks you
haa peter keep away from de SOL
dlefs," replied Hoffenstein, "und
stay nit de store, because, you know.
y0u qon't can put any confidence NIT
desoldiers. viii tell you Why. Won
day vile | was in Vicksburg, during
de var, cock-eyed soldier came in
my Store nit an old bugle in his hand,
una he looks around. l ask him vat
he wants, und he buys a couple of
umdershirts, den he delIs me to keep
his buMglle und de bugle behind &c
eou iier until he comes back. After
de cttK eyed soldier vent destore out
some more soldiers come in und walk
all around, vile dey look at de goods.
'Shentlemens,' | say, do you want
anyding? We are shust looking to
see Vot you haf,' said one uf dem, und
afder aYile another says: Bill, shust
look dere at de bugle; de very ding
de Captain told us to get. You know
We don't half any bugle in de COM
pany for dree months. How much
you ask for dot bugle?' | dell dem
dot l can't sell de bugIe because it
belongs to a man vOt shust vent out.
L will gif you $50 for it, says de SOL
dier, pulling his money out. dells
him L don't can sell it, because it
wasn't mine. i viii give you $780,
he said. My or r-acious, Herman, /
wants to sell de bugIe so bad dat |
vistles. De soldier delEs me vile dey
YOs leaving de store dot if | buy de
bugle from de man Yot owns it dey
will do it. | sees a chance, you know,
Herman, to make some money by de
operation. Ven de cock eyed soldier
comes back he says: Cit me nv
bundle and bugle; I got to 90 to de
camp says: My frent, don't you
want to sell YOUR bugle?' He delIs
me no, und l says: My little boy
Leopold, vOt plays in de store, sees
de bugle und he goes all around cry
ing shust as loud as he can, because
he don't get it. Six dimes | takes
him in de yard und yips him, und he
comes right back and cries for de
bugIe. 1t shows, you know, how
much drouble man viii haf nit a
family. | Will gif you den dollars tor
it shUst to pleas little Leopold De
soldier WON'T dake it, und at last [
offers him fifty dollars und he says,
"Vcll | will dake fifty dollars, be-
canse | can t waste any more time, |
haf to go to de camp" After he goes
away | goes to de door und watches
for de soldiers vat wanted de bugle, /
see dem passing along de street, and
| says. My frentS, [ haf got de
bugle," und dey say, "Vell, dam it,
Wy don't you blow it?" My gr-r-a
cious, Herman, vat you dink? All
dem soldiers belong to desame crowd,
und dey make de trick to SPINDLE
me. LeYi Cohen, across lie street, he
finds it out, und efery day he gets
boys to blow horns in front of my
store, so as to make me dink how I
vas swindIed. Herman, | dink you
had better stay nit de store.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-18

MATHEMATICAL Corn. - There
are some curious things about corn,
and one is where do the red and the
speckled ears come from when you
don't plant any but white corn, and
another is, why don't we find an eal
with an odd number of rows on it
You can find a four.leaf clover, but
we have never found the odd row on
an ear of corn yet. 1t is always four
teen, or sixteen, or twenty, or some
even number, and we would like to
understand what corn knows about
mathematics and what objection ma.
ture has to odd numbers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-18

The title of the lesson was, "The
Rich Young Man." and the golden
text was zone thing thou lackest."
A teacher in the primary class asked
a little tot to repeat the two, and
looking earnestly into the young
lady's face the child said: cone
thing thou lackest-a rich young
man."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-18

The White House is unquestion.
ably the most repaired building in
the Union, if not in the world. II
might be economy for the people to
erect a new house for their Presi-
dents in order to escape the annual
White House repair bill.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-18
SOL N. Fremont ST., Baltimore

sor N. Fremont ST., Baltimore
During the war l was in
juredin the stomach by apiece
Of a shell, and have suffered
fromiteversince About four
yearsagoitb brought on Paraly-
sis, which kept me in bed six
months, and the best doctors
in the city said I could not
live. Isull,ercdfearfully from
indigestion, and for over two
years couldnot eat solid food
and for a large portion of the
time wasunable retain even
liquid nourishmcnt. l tried
Browns Iron Bitters and now
after taking two bottles l am
able TO get up and go around
and an rapidly improving.
&. DECKER.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-11-18
BROWNS IRON BlTTERS is

BROWNS IRON BlTTERS is
a complete and sure remedy for
indigestion, Dyspepsia, Malaria,
Weakness and all diseases requir-
ing a true, reliable, non-aIcoho!ic
tonic. 1t enriches the blood, gives
new life to the muscles and tone
to the nerves.
The river press., 1882-03-08

1t is related of an absent minded young
lady. that. having been ouy II armed. she
started IF 9n her bridal tour. Tney stopped
at hotel in a Western city. So tar, SD Z cd.
s me lime in the night there came success
sion of terrified shrieks from the room "c-
cupied by the bride and groom, aud The
clerks, porters and employees generally !,
rushed up stairs, only to NETT frantic fe-
male, clad in white, fleeing in desperate
haste from her apartment, crying:
''Oh, there's man in my room!'
The clerk rushed in, and found the groom
half disrobed, standing in the middle of the
floor, one boot on and the other in the hand,
the picture of amaZ ment. He explained
that he had just come up stairs, and was in
the act of undressing, This wife had previous
]y retlred) when she suddenly awoke with u
shrek and fed.
''Wbat was the mystery ?" asked the clerk.
''Damifino," said the husband.
.Instthen tha hridopnnr r'sseistp i'm a hure
bedspread, procured for her by a chamber
maid. came back, looking very red and fool
ish. and in half minute she explained the
mystery by saying:
''Ob, Fred. I forgot was married, and
when awnke WAS so frightened"
The river press., 1882-03-08
" hRt u Woman Can Do.

AS q wife and mother, woman can make
the fortune and happiness Of her husband
and children /; and if she did nothing else
surely this should be sufficient destiny. BY
her thrift. prudence and tact, she can secure
to her partner and herself a competence in
0lp age, no matter how small their beginning
or adverse fate may be theirs. By her
cheerfulness she Can restore her husban IS
spirits, shaken by the anxiety of business
BY her tender care she can often restore him
70 health, II disease has oyertaken bis pow
trs. by her counsel and love she can win
him frsm bad company, if temptation in an
evil hour has led him astray. BY her exam
pie, her perctpts, and her sex's insight into
The river press., 1882-03-08

mouth forever on the stretch at her own or
her compsnion's qu zzng. She is clipp.r
m Ike the best Of every thing here below, and
to snap off the head of him who does not
act so too.
Finally I'll Il Dublin girls in their tight
fitting jackets are seen to have excellent fig
ures from where the tipptt lies To where he
cket falls, but there their dainty sickness
ends, and from underneath their skirts two
feet are seen that, IN their long fatness, prove
that they have much that is ugly TO stand on
or that they are shod by shoemakers who
should be Drained with their own lap-stones
The river press., 1882-03-08

character, Sue can mould her children, how
ever adverse Their dispositions. into noble
men ard woman. Anh. by leading in all
thing true aud beautiful life, she can r, fine.
elevate and spiIitualiZe all who come within
her reach, SO that. with others of her sex TN
regenerase be world than all the statesmen
or retOrmers that ever legi>lattd.
She can d. much, alas perhaps more, to
degrade man If she chooses To 90 it. Who
p Wer to do? AS wife she can ruin hefse f
by extravaganza, folly or want OF affection.
She can make dt mon or outcast OF man
who might otherwise become good member
Of society. She Can bring pickering, strife
and discord into what has been happy
home. She Can change The innocent babe
into vile men and even into vile women.
She can lower the moral tone of society it.
self, and thus pollute legislation at the spring
head. She has, indeed, become an instrument
Of evil, instead of an angel of good.
Instead of max NJ fl ,wers of truth, puri-
i'y. beauty and spirituality spring up in her
footsteps, till the earth smiles with a lowell
ness that is almost celestial, she can trans
form ii into black and arid desert, covered
with the scorn of all evil passions and swept
by the bitter blast of everlasting death. TINS
is what women Can do for the wrong as we'll
as for the right. l. her mission little one /?
Has sne no worthy work, as has been the cry
OF la,e9 Man may have harder task To
perform, rougher road to travel, but lie has
none loftier or more il fuen,iaI than woman.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-17
The ohio Election.

The sweeping Democratic success in
Ohio, at the ele -tion which took place in
that State last Tuesday, was a surprise.
Democratic gains were looked for but
nothing like the victory achieved was
counted on. One year ago the Republi-
can majority for Governor over the Dem
ocratic candidate was 24,3O9, and of the
20 congressman chosen the Democrats
elected but ). Now the Democratic ma
jority for Secretary of State, there being
no Governor elected this year, is variously
estimated from 10000 to 81, 200, and out
of 81 members of Congress (the State
having gained one by the new apportion-
menD 10 at least are Democrats, are
Republicans and one is in doubt. This
result falls with crushing force on the
already staggering ranks of the stalwarts
in Pennsylvania and New York, where,
as in Pennsylvania, the Independent Re-
publicans have organized formidable
bolt against the boss rule of the Came
rons, and in New York the party is in
State of revolution growing out Of frauds
perpetrated in the nomination of their
State ticket. The indications are unmis-
taxable that these two States will follow
Ohio -
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-17

Editor FIoridsaa One Of pour correspondents
singing himself Fidelity" recently called az
tenion to the peculiar attitude Of the EDnoas ~
in the present political struggle. Lea me adj q
few comments While protesting 10 he Demo
cratic and sapporter of Colonel Davidson. IL
never utiers a word in behalf of that gentleman,
but ills lis columns with editorials and comm
nicaiions tending 20 divide the Democratic party
and thus secure his defeat. II fails TO publish
che able address from the Democratic Executive
Committee of this Congressional District. but
opens Its columns freely 10 letters and commnni-
cations from The sO-called Independents, whose
avowed purpose is the defeat OF the Democratic
candidate. Its editorials are quoted on the stump
and furnish ammunition 10 Radical and indie
pendent speakers. which they are freely svailing
themselves Of. Indeed. il was . long time after
Colonel Davidson's nomination before the public
was aware thai Mr.. Hilton intended TO ever vote
for him. Davidson was nominated on July 18th
and it was not until September the 81 that the
EeOnOmist hoisted his name II was then gener-
ally conceded that the Radical Convention that
was 10 convene al Quincy three days after. could
moi endorse McKinnOn without mixing splil
in their party. Under the circumstance lac
may have thought il wiser 10 fall into line and
support Davidson. Had il have been an assured
fact that the Radical Convention would have en-
dorsed McKinnon. who can say that the EcOnO-
mist would have ever boosted the name Of our
standard bearers Indeed, there is proof Al com-
msnd 10 show that those interested in The From
Omssf were the originaloEs of the scheme 10 pub
lsh the organ OF the independents known as the
Spectator.
And in this connection, il is not little re
markable thai Mr. Hilton, owning We believe
the press, type and other material belonging %
the Economist Office, should have first issued the
Independent organ. and now accepts pay from
the Radicals TO revive and issue the old Pafriat.
the recognized organ of Skinner. as a campaign
sheet And not only the Spectator hun the Ia
frIot copies largely from the columns OF the
EcOnOnnisf not only its advertisements, but shall
we say il, its editorials 10 show 10 the public
that the Democracy should Dc defeated and their
candidate elected But then Mr. Hilton has the
consoling reflection Of feeling that he jngles in
his pOckef portion of The money raised By the
Radicals 10 defeat Davidson with No wonder
he warned the public sometime since that il was
not good policy to advertise how much money
Jay HubbeR was raising. as ssae Democrats
might be induced TO sell their Influence By 20
tempting an offer. Did he know whereof he
spokes But enough. il sickens the honest con
science OF men TO behold such dupliciiy But
what can you expect of an editor who falsifes
his party platform, and never eorrecis IL. even
when called TO his attention o time (, o changes.
WATcHNAx
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-17

SAVANNAH Ga ltc11Ear ! - -
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der the had of sIsaE1 NeiEhE u M. -
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number af p.azaslsA mAN-A - $780, -
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ton. tr.sm wlemce tAes were .ass.rs.f - 49,
ar frnm lhi= psszn1 - Tazizh4--er 49, -
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promised % keep las.ksE - 49, 60 a.
fure- In lhe me4nlzzse zllzsrl $500 T.
hassee clImulninauI - q sn,.s.-l - 60
and have his rec-saE IA-rezE 80 ~ - pawl-
The q -IEsund casa 49, ular1 laI1r - haf
wrIflen him 80 die.iaci 81 = clMs - &C.
go o. puhIi=h IAis Ietslll.ra q au- Talahass
see Trend. Eha cl4izs . has~ I'D - a-.r a.
ioss and las b-en -Nas4-1 Tae Epnz1
clam has as bera a szlz4 - ua.zprana.-
- Etu III I,<EcelEe - 14ze 4saue - cr.la
IN tilr lsremI~s~- aad taarE rhe - aar4elEr~
~AxAxXAM ME4rMAzr
Fh- ab1Fe c.lmnaasc4aina. ~saA-zzlE wrra-u
by the SaFnmaAh Meu-A4n1 was SD 49,
shorI-EeiEhI @-z1- Ears~s ne~ EgaL lr
subject 81 Sharr WeszAz m M=L Esw1
plain lhn he 1aEAnnaa araers ~ IA 10
blame IN It's mzz1-r hzI sle arszzl4 49,.
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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-17

In the last two issues of the FLoRIprAN
we have specified by name few of the
counties that have largely shared in the
immense benefits resulting to the State
by a change of Government from Radical
to Democratic control. The counties thus
individualized were Duval, Escambia.
Leon, Monroe, Jefferson, Nassau and
Santa Rosa, and the saving in these
seven counties in State taxes alone in the
last four years OF Democratic rule, as
compared with the amounts exacted dur
ing the last four years of Radical domi-
nations, has amounted in the aggregate
TO the enormous sum of $3.50, OO3.63.
Other counties have shared in similar ben
efits, as their textbooks show Take
Gadsden for further illustration
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-17

jackson is one of the counties where
Radical emissaries organized strife and
murder. Purman and Hamilton, true
representatives of the carpet-bagger and
cherished leaders in the ranks of the
plunderers who aided in fastening the
rule Of financial imbecility and robbery
on poor Florida, were the agents sent to
that county. Their mission was to bind
the negroes to Radicalism by oaths and
to poison their minds against their white
neighbors by all sorts of falsehoods, and
they succeeded to such an extent that for
a time fearful condition of things pre-
vailed. All this was changed by the
great Democratic victory of 1876, and
Jackson is now one of the most quiet and
orderly counties in the State, with a
highly prosperous future before her
Aside from the internal peace her people
have since enjoyed, they have found that
better government has brought with it
less burdens in the shape of taxes, State
and county, as the following comparisons
taken from the textbooks for series of
show:
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-17
FOUR RADICAL YEARS.

p.e is an aggregate saving in four
E~eagj of $34, 251.25 in State taxes, or an
average of $8,562.3l year. The saving
IN county taxes in the last four years as
compared with the last four years under
Radicals has been $l3, 295. O4, which is an
average of $3,323.76 year. This makes
gross reduction In State and county
taxes in Gadsden in four years of $47,-
546.2e, or a yearly saving of $ll ,ss6.O7.
This county, too, like others in the "black
belt" aside from the lessening in the
cost of government, has derived an in
conceivable amount of good from the
better administration of law, which has
been source of greater protection to life
and property and given a sense of secu-
rity to the people which was never expe-
rienced under Radical rule And this is
among the most highly priced fruits of
the change.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-17

- The Republicans of Jefferson nominated
four colored men for the Assembly on the
9Th, three of whom are Methodist preach
ers, with Parson Witherspoon heading
the list. The Constitution says: The
ticket, however, fails to give satisfaction,
and colored men in the Waukeenah and
several other districts of the county are
very indignant, and affirm with great
vehemence that they will not vote the
ticket. The most serious objection, how
ever, is to Parson Witherspoon, and at a
meeting of prominent colored men on
Friday, it was decided to throw him over
board and Joseph Rains was substituted.
The intense opposition to Witherspoon
is in consequence of the fraud he at
tempted to perpetrate on Postmaster
Stewart, of Tallahassee, and the exposure
made by ex-senator Bruce and Fred Doug
lass They say that a man who il SO
unprincipled as TO solicit two prominent
colored men to perjure themselves, to
enable him to inveigle another colored
man into the payment Of money, for
which no consideration was ever rendered,
is unworthy of confidence and should not
he honored by the votes of his race and
party.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-17

The beneficial results following the
change from Radical to Democratic rule
in Florida, secured by the hard-fought
struggle of 1876, have been shown in an
important decrease in the cost of govern
ment as well as in a great improvement
in the government itself as evidenced ,by
more careful handling of the public
money and a more faithful execution of
the criminal laws from which has resulted
a marked lessening in crime and an in
creased general sense OF security from one
end of the State to the other. This alone
has compensated the people for the efforts
made in 1876 but when to this il added
the fact that better administration in this
respect has been gained at greatly di-
mlnlshed cost to taxpayers, the people
have increased reasons for satisfaction.
1t has been shown from the records that
taking the State as whole there has been
a saving in the cost of government, dur.
ing the last four years under Democratic
rule as compared with the last four years
when the Radicals were in power, of
1878, 725.4s in State taxes alone, and that
in county taxation the saving has been
$ls6,sOO.4S during the same period, max
ing an aggregate of $759,O25.l9, which
is an average of $ls9,758.2s in reduced
cost year.
We have printed the official statistics
bearing on this magnificent showing of
every county in the State, and no doubt
our readers have studied them. We
have, too, in several instances separated
the results in individual counties for the