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National Republican., 1884-05-16

GEN. BENJAMIN +. BUTLER is the first
presidential candidate in the field, He was
nominated at Chicago yesterday by q conven-
tion of two hundred anti-monopolists one or
moro of whom was of the female sex. Mrs.
Todd, of California, expressed tho opinion
that woman suffrage would have n chance
with Gen. Butler in the presidential
chair. When the general was coquetting
with Massachusetts democrats for the
gubernatorial nomination, he frankly told
them that his method was not that of the
coy maiden, who was unwilling to confess
her love, but that of widow, who meant
business. lie was honored with the soubriquet
of widow" Butler during the campaign.
Mrs. Todd's speech may have been inspired
by hor admiration for his straightforward
method of political courtship.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
Board OF Fire Underwriters.

NEW YORK, May 15.-The annual meeting
of the board of fire underwriters took place
to-day. Thirty-fve companies were repre-
sented. President d. A. Heald in his report
said that the destruction of property by fire
during tho year aggregated o loss of over
$lO0000,000 which was equal to SO for each
,inhabitant. There is $50,5i4,652 capital en-
ployod in fire insurance Anincrease in total
premiums for the year Of $9,599;079, and an
increase in losses said of $i 6S9 693 was shown.
American companies have gained on every
hundred dollars written 2 27-100 of o cent as
compared with 1882. Ten thousand millions
of risks have been written by 300 companies,
and SS6,000,0O0 of premiums have been taken
with a loss by fire of $i9760.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
IVY CITY RACES.

INSCRIBED TO COL. J. G. M'KIBBIS, PRESIDENT.
Enchanting plain We greet again
The field of Ivy City,
Where Fun is king, and fair, young Spring
Inspires the poets ditty.
Your club has won for Washington
High praise in distant places,
And we, at home, meath Freedom's dome,
Bless Ivy City races.
No quinine pills, so famed for chills,
And bilious victims, oroaky;
Nor druggist mill, nor doctors skill
Not even Doctor Okie--
Are half SO good for sluggish blood.
Or frowning, sallow faces,
As this resort Of bubbling sport
Our Ivy City races.
Now jockeys mount, and pool mon count
On each TO be the victor;
Alas the slip tween cup and lip,
o. Vennor, blind prediotor!
Away they sweep, and take each leap
Unhaudiclppel by traces;
While cheers rGsOund that shake the ground
Az Ivy City ruces,
Yon slow young horse-behind, of COURSE
Seems but u poor beginner;
One mighty burst, aud 10 he's first,
The undisputed winner!
Thus ups and downs OF bays and browns,
With dioramic phases,
Fill, foaming mp, our pleasures cup
Al Ivy City races.
EIoh trotting pet has hackers yet,
And 50 have nimblc PAGERS;
But hunters lly--or seem 10 ay--
Hurrah. tor steeple' chaSersI
McKibbin's wand salutes the stand"
Which dazzling beauty gracey,
And well may claim his need Of fame
For Ivy City races.
Delightful couHel may nothing worse
Than Oyerhowing gladnos
Be heard, or seen, while iyy's green,
To cloud thy face Ia sadness
Ger wars red grave Potomac's wave
Old scores ana sores eiiacesi
Aud Union's shield illumes the field
oflyy CITY races.
-RichGTd 0ulahGH
National Republican., 1884-05-16

Mr.. MORGAN introduced resolution in
the senate yesterday authorizing the com
mittee on finance to investigate the affairs of
the national banks in New York city which
have suspended during the present month,
with view to ascertaining whether thoy
have violated or evaded the laws under which
they are organized. An Overhauling of tho
transactions Of some of the New York ma
tional banks by committee of congress
might do some good, but it is rather late in
the session to enter upon such laborious
undertaking. There are mysteries connected
with the banking business in New York
which cannot be fathomed in week or a
month by the most energetic committee.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
Forelgn Steamship Companies.

yesterday instructed Representative Eaton
to report bill authorizing the secretary of
the treasury to pay to the North German
Lloyd Steamship company, Of Bremen, and
the Hamburg-American Packet company, of
Hamburg, interest at the ratio of per cent.
per annum on such moneys as have been
exacted from them in contravontion of treaty
provisions, and heretofore refunded. Tho
bill further provides that tho interest shall
be computed from the date of tho respective
payments by such companies up to the time
of refunding the same.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
DIR. NEMMAN,s CHURCH.
Decision OF Judgo sedgwick In tho In
Junction Proceedings Taken by Trusts

Decision OF Judge sedgwiok In tho In
Junction Proceedings Taken by Trustee
Hopkins.
NEW YORK, May 15-Chief Justice sedg-
wick, Of the superior court, to-day rendered
a decision on the motion to continue the in
junction in the proceedings which wero taken
by Ferdinand Hopkins, as trustee of the
Madison Avenuo Congregational church,
against James II. Seymour, Shepard Knapp,
Gen. U. $. Grant, and others, as trustees of
the church, the church corporation, and the
Rev. DIR. John I. Newman, the pastor. The
injunction restrained DR.. Newman from act
ing otherwise than officiating at tho
church services, and giving lectures in tho
church. Judge Scdgwick continues the in
junction with some notifications. He says
that the proofs satisfy him that tho Rev. Mr..
Newman Is not tho pastor of the church, and
tho trustees should bo enjoined from acting
toward him as permanent pastor. The church
mombors had a right to meet in the church
to transact church business, and the trustees
should be enjoinod from interfering with
that right. AS DIR. Newman was neither Il
momber of the church nor one of
the society for the permanent pastor,
he shonld be onjoned from be-
coming or acting us an officer at
any meeting of the deacons, the church, or
the society. The trustoos should not inter-
fere with the power of sof-govornment of the
church, or of the society in thoir meetings,
and they aro not the judges of the qualifica-
tons of voters at the meeting of the church
or society. The board of church deacons
has no power to determine who are church
members. The trustees should bo enjoined
from interfering with tho plaintiffs rights of
access to the books and record Of the trustees
and of inspecting them. Tho proposed order
of injunction should be modified SO as to
accord with these views.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
Death After a Flfty-Eour Days, Fast.

La CROSSE, May 15.-The case of Mrs.
Armstrong, of Sparta, is in somo respects
without parallel. About two months ago
she was taken sick with what the doctors
called inward fover." Her stomach not
only refused to retain food, but she rejected
it with violence which has been compared
to the aversion hydrophobia victim has for
water. Up to yesterday fifty-four days had
passed since she had partakon of food in any
lorm. She has used water in considerable
quantities. She has wasted to skin and bones
in a moro liberal sense than the term was
ever used before. The doctors say the inward
fever has gradually consumed her body and
sustained life. Yesterday she was given q
minute quantity of food, which she retained,
but toward evening became much weaker
and died
National Republican., 1884-05-16

IT is the will of tho house committee on
appropriations that our diplomatic and con-
sular representatives in foreign countries
should live frugally and economically. Mr..
Dorsheimer and Mr.. Curtin have larger
ideas than the average democratic economist,
but their appeals for decent maintenance
for the United States ministers whose SAL
aries tho committee has cut down woro
unheeded
National Republican., 1884-05-16

The injunction which Trustee Hopkins
obtained against Parson Newman restraining
him from taking any part in the business
meetings of the Madison Avenue Congrega-
tional church has been continued by the
superior court of New York city. Judge
Sedgwick dooidns that n-. Nnwman 80 not
the permanent pastor Of tho church nor n
member of the church, and should, there
fore, be enioined from acting as an officer at
any meeting of the deacons. This is a sub
stantial victory for tho anti-Newman party.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
CNIIoh nnnda to be Paid.

The secretary OF the treasury telegraphod
to the assistant treasurer at New York at
noon yesterday as follows: From this date to
June lst, you are authorized to pay bonds
embraced in the 125th, l26th, and 127th calls,
with accrued interest subject to tho decision
of the department rs to tho regularity Of the
assignments. ExpressGge to the department
to be paid as heretofore by the parties hay
ing the bonds redeemed.
National Republican., 1884-05-16

YOUNG Mr. Emo lived in magnificent style
while he was squandering $i,OOO,OOO in trust
funds. Emo pero made good the steal, and
the ex-bank president may return in few
months and hold up his head among honora-
BILE men. A $2OOOO,oOO father is nice sort
of man to have in tho family. No we'll
regulated Wall street household shold be
without one.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
Award OF Life Saving Medals.

Tho secretary Of the treasury has awarded
gold life saving medals to William II. Daily,
of San Jose, CAL; Dominick J. Ryder, of
New York city, Alfred and Joseph Cardran,
of Mackinaw island, Mich. and silver life
saving medals to Charles Il. Rosevear and
John II. Theiss, of New York; julius w.
Rohn, of Milwaukee; w. H. Bowman, of
Shawneetown, ILL.,, and Lieut.. Alfred NJ.
Palmer, u s. A., and Sergeant William Will
SON H. s. A
National Republican., 1884-05-16
Mr.. Eno,s Great Roman Father Act. -.

Whom tho inevitable hour arrived Mr..
Amos II. Emo, father of the president, amiably
handed over sS5oO,0OO for the relief Of the
bank, and the directors raised another half
million. Emo pcre is worth S20,00o000, and
ho sat in the bank yesterday aud told the
excited depositors TO come on. He said that
he was good for a million q day for something
like n fortnight. This Roman father per-
formance saved the bank, but what is to be
said of tho directors and other officials of the
institution who slept while the president
gamblod away the deposits of the trustful
nugfnmpra
National Republican., 1884-05-16
Education a Negative Force.

GUUNty q. q NtVS,
No sophistry or false reasoning can ever con-
vince us that the industrious and self. denying
citizen should be taxed to educate the children of
indUlent and immoral parents II is is II delusion
and snare to suppose that education affects the
morals of n citizen. Education Is a negative force
which may be used for good or for evil, as the
individual may bo inclined.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
Tho CattJo pisea,. in ,ho xy,,t.

Prof James Law, chairman of tho treasury
cattle commission, has reported to the secre.
tary that, after careful investigation, he is
satisfied that there is no foot and mouth
disease among the cattle Of Kansas, Illinois,
and Iowa. as reported. He inoculated cattle
with the virus taken from other cattle suf-
fering with the supposed disease, and found
that there was no contagion. lie attributes
tho prevailing malady to orgot.
National Republican., 1884-05-16

SENATORS VEST and CoolSrell desire TO be
stood up and counted as opposed to tho bill
placing Gen. Grant on tho retired list. They
have been counted accordingly.
National Republican., 1884-05-16

THE senate yesterday passed the house bill
authorizing the loan of ;1,0OOOOO from the
Uuited States treasury to the New Orleans
cotton exposition. Some slight amendments
were made, which have already been con-
CURED in by tho house.
National Republican., 1884-05-16

banks for tho same purpose. In his own
language, ho was simply "robbins PeLor to
pay Paul" The contracts which were sup
posed to be the basis of the banks operations
and the source Of its income had no exist
National Republican., 1884-05-16

Wheeler Acquitted, as was Expected.
NEW ORLEANS, May 15.-A special to the
Times Democrat from Hazlehurst, Miss, says
The jury in the case of Il. b. Wheeler, on
trial for the murder of j. 7. Matthews, after
being out about an hour returned verdict
of not guilty.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1884.

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can haze TIE NArloNAL REPUBLICAN matted Ito m'nt,
pospafi, Jor co ccp,s per month"; The address tang
changed as often as desired.
National Republican., 1884-05-16

ing. A week arterward he returned to
Cheraw, and again coming into collision
with Richards killed him.
National Republican., 1884-05-16
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Anlugetncrata,


NAT1oYAG--" Peck's Bad Boy"
FoRps-"Ride 81 sapis" aud MY wifes Bonnet"
CoMlouE-Variety performance
UiME MUsEuM-Me and evening performance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-26
The Wrong Word.

Uncle Rube, the old colored man who
does odd chores around the post-office,
received a registered letter the other
day 1t was addressed to Hon. Reuben
Sparks, Esq, and had gone the rounds
If all the white dignitaries in the city
whose names began with S. before it
reached its lawful owner. When Uncle
2ube was informed he presented a
beaming charcoal yisage at the counter
of the registry department. There he
was confronted by a pretty girl, who
was eating caramels and sorting out
great bundles of letters.
'You must bring some one to identify
you, she said, holding on to the letter.
(Which w-h-a-t. I doan. diskiver
de akrimony of your demarks, Miss"
'.Why, we want you identified"
Else been done IDENTIFIED Miss, in
de Baptiss Church.
"Well, bring some of the people to
identify you here. How do we know
you are the same person this letter is in
tended for?''
"Does you mean de vaxinnashun,
Miss?''
Inc young lady laughed and Uncle
RUDE scratched his head Another
young lady took pity on the old man.
Uncle Rube. bring in some one VIII
knows you-who can prove you are til,
Sparks the letter is for. =
Yankee, Miss, Yankee, said Uncle
Rube, bowling low, II hab plenty of
folks to do dat Then turning to the
first young lady he said, reprovingly:
''Yoh pronounced de wrong word dat
time, Miss. Eff you had sed recognise,
Use knowed what yoh meant. Tze
accustomed to select languish. Detroit
Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-26
ssThe Best Fertilizer.Y

''What fertilizer is best for vegeta-
blesP' Taking all things into consid-
GRAFTON, nothing has given me such
complete satisfaction for all occasions,
and all crops, as the contents of my
compost-heap. This is composed Of
barn-yard and stable manure; cleanIngs
of pigpens; sink-hole (where all the re-
fuse Stops of the house are thrown) of
the privy; all the weeds from the gar
den; also the cabbage-leaves, potato
tops, bean and pea vines; in short,
everything that we think will add to it's
value. The heap is always made with
in reach of water, and whenever it gets
too hot sufficient quantity of water is
thrown upon it to keep it from burning,
but not enough to keep it from heating.
The heap is generally worked over
twice; once late in the fall, once in
early spring. The above has given me
better satisfaction than coarse stable
manures or any commercial fertilizer I
ever tried. With ME it never fails. and
with one or two exceptions I prefer it
to any or all other fertilizers ever used
upon my land.
OA kJOUcAbOOOs cbonCo Vi uISI0 4WOOuS
applied broadcast at the rate of fifty to
seventy-fye bushels per acre, and har-
rowed in, are equal to, and if the sea-
son be dry, superior to the compost. I
have g number of acres of potatoes now
on hand, MANFRED in this manner, and
giving me a remarkably large yield. 1t
is possible that Strawberries may be
another exception, but / know of no
others. If one knew the character of the
soil it would be much easier to give di-
rections in regard to manures. Some
times a very coarse and apparently
poor manure, will have a remarkably
good effect upon very stiff and heavy
soils. This is due as much, and often
times more, to the mechanical effects
of the manure In loosening, as we say,
tightening the soil, and thus improving
its condition, as it is to the fertilizing
effects of the manure. One more adj
vantage of the compost heap: it may
be obtained with but slight outlay of
money; and it is surprising how large
heap may be accumulated in the
course of the year by close attention to
tt. II. Smith, IN N. 7, Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-26

were at dinner. The smell of the wine
awakened the old demon in HIM, and at
the next station he got glass of liquor.
he made fool of himself; insulted the
passengers; was complained of, and
discharged.
''Once more after that the company
gave him a chance to earn his bread.
He was appointed to petty clerkship
In the general office His son had lono,
ago lost bis place there on account Of
Incorporate habits. The father soon
lost his in the same way. Some sudden
temptation overlook him, and away he
went again
1T was pitiful to hear him beg for
another trial. He'would do anything,
and at any price. He would be flag
man at a crossing. But there were no
vacancies; and if there were, he could
not be trusted. He would be watch
man in the DEPOT; but they dared not
depend upon him. / believe he would
have joined the mop brigade if they
would have let him; but it was out of
the question.
From that time he gave up trying
10 be respectable, and sank lower and
lower You see what he Is nova
common tramp and teggar. His wife
is in the workhouse; his son is in the
penitentiary; he himself will soon be in
his grave. But SO long as l have q
crust of bread will not let him starve.
''Your train is coming. When it
stops you will see man get off. 1t is
the present Superintendent. He began
as an office-boy under tho General; but
he never surrendered TO the Generals
enemy. While the General was coming
down, his clerk was going up. up, up!
He took one place after another, each
one higher than the last till now they
have made him Superintendent. He's
a teetotaler himself, and he won't have
drinking man on the road if he knows
it. Here he is on the platform. He
hasn't half of the Generals ability;
but, bless you, what's ability worth when
it's preserved in alcohol" -ReU. George
Huntington, an Chicago Adrance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-26
A Drummer Sold.

II wonder if that pretty Girl over
there IS not fiirt," said one drummer
to another on an incoming Illinois Cen
trail train the other day
''She looks like it, said his compan-
ion, ''and what is more, she and I have
passed q good many happy hours to-
gether. I've staid many night at her
fathers house; but don't do that any
more, and if you can make mash on
her, go ahead.'
The other drummer went over to
where she sat and said:
sPermit ne, madam
Certainly she replied.
my friend over there says he has
known you for some time, ;" he continued
as he sat down. She blushed and smiled
sweetly as she acknowledged the old ac-
quaintanoe.
Every nice fellow" said tho drum
mer.
do you think sop said the woman,
modestly.
"Bully fellow, but he amt very pop
ular with the girls. Don tseem to care
much about 'em.''
"Don't hep she archly inquired.
mot very much.''
"But it's different with me. I like
him ever so much"
Happy old boy! Say, you couldn' t
love me little as his proxy, could
your"
Goodness, no!''.
"Well, that's pretty tough on me;
but if you think so much of him. I'll
get up and let him come over and sit
by YOU
'.Oh! I wish you would.'' The
masher looked red and blue by turns,
and got up and went over and told his
companion what she had said, and
added:
Say, old fellow, you've got her
dead. She's mashed on you the worst
way, and wants you to come over and
sit by her. y
SIS that sop queried the other, with
satisfied smile, arising and bowling to
the lady, who beckoned him over to the
seat with her. And then he went over
and put his arm around her, and when
the conductor came along, he pointed.
them out to him and began to tell him
what a mash the other fellow had made.
when the conductor smiled blandly.
and told him to go and soak his head;
that that was the other drummer wife
and he had known her ever since she
was baby.
The masher got of the first time thew
came up with freight train and went
the balance of the way as live beet.
Bloomington Through MGsk
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-26
A Ready Resource.

The women of Arkansas have q ready
resource against the mischief of the
saloon. 1t is comforting, even to those
of us who have not the comfort of this
ability to help ourselves, to read in the
recently issued circular letter of the
State President of such quick success
for home protection as the following
incident records:
A lady living in small settlement,
said to me: Mr.. -, is building o
saloon in our neighborhood; what is to
become of our boysp
"For answer, furnished her with
blank petition, which she used as di-
rected. The result was the prohibition
of the sale of liquor within three miles
of the school house where that lady
lived; and she cried for JOY when she
heard the news. :"
1t may not be known to every reader
of these simple lines that the petition
referred to, if filled with the names of a
ma or ty of the adult inhabitants of the
district (men and women), would be
the effective instrument in securingthis
immediate prohibition. Almost any
woman would become temperance
tramp" if the tramping might bring
about su1h blessed and such speedy re-
suits. Union sigma.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-26
Temperance Items.

TOTAL abstinence is science and COM
mon sense combined.
DRUNKENNESS is midnight. Modera-
ton is twilight. Abstinence is sunlight.
A New YORK saloon-keeper has fas-
tened the portraits of three Presidential
candidates upon his beer glasses, en-
abling his patrons to use Butler,
Cleveland or Blaine glass as they de-
sire. When one inquired for st. John
glass, the keeper declared hotly: 1--WE
have no use for water Eere. ;" t..
PARIsIANs consume upon an average
over pint of wine per d em, each man.
woman and child of them. Eli Perkins
says of them that ''they are all sallow,
never a rosy-eheeked girl TO be seen,
and even the babies have sickly
look He urges the substitution of
pint of milk as the daily beverage.
The New Orleans Times says: mo
liquor has been sold for the last six
years in one of the wealthiest and most
prosperous counties of Texas, and con-
sequently the Jail is empty. The read
er should pause and consider that word
consequently 1t implies a great
ioO1 anu SiSaI HUI "teOSJO
Standard.
The favorite fiction that yine-grow-
ing countries have no drunkenness
ought to get its end in the Temperance
agitation in Switzerland, where brandy
drinking is on the increase and pow
erty-stricken country. with the area of
Maryland and the population of Ohio,
spends $4,000, 600 year on liquor
philadelphia Press.
WHISKY made the trouble between
"Munce" Roane and his wife, and
caused his wife to nearly kill him with
an ak. He was taken to the hospital
and there became temporarily insane.
He got away from the hospital and
frightened a great many people. One
lady, Mrs VOORHEES,, was frightened so
badly that she died in twenty-four
hours. If Roane had been a sober, IN
dustrious man all this would not have
happened. Whisky was the cause of it
all, and yet good men are found who
favor the selling of whisky. -IO10G
State ReqiSter.