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TIE PETH OF TIE NEWS
Washington News.


There is a gold fund of s~13o,OOU,OOO in the
United States treasury.
Secretary Teller declines to approve OF th'
action of the Utah Mother i'
Eo-& wv
Postofaces established: Iowa-Red Rock,
Marion county. Wiseonsin-WoodhuIl, Fond du
Lac county. Postmasters commissioned
Chauncey +. Wilson, Bloomington, Oak. /;
Matthias Schliygen, Starr, Oak. New Offices
Alexander C5urson, Red Rock, Marion county,
Iowa; Joseph Strait, Woodruff, Fond du
Lac couDy, Wis.
TheIab oring people of Washington are in q
statsof grea. agitation over the importation of
sone $50 Italian and Hungarian laborers by q
sewer contractor. They are paid IS cents per
day, the ruling price for such labor being
S1.25. The W~orkingmen Of the District of
Columbia, white and black, consider that the
work upon all public improvements should be
given to them and that they are being defraud-
ed of means which they should be permitted
to earn. They are holding meetings, making
speeches, passing resolutions, and
appealing to the authorities for a redress Of
their grivances, but the cheap foreign laborers
keep right on doing their work. Violence is
freely threatened and serious trouble is
feared.
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The farmers are everywhere remindC d
that all other things are as low in COM
parison as wheat and corn-sugar 3
cents lower than usual, coffee 5 cents
lower, and cotton and woollen goods,
clothing, shoes, blankets, hardware,
tools, harness and farm implements 10
to % per cent. lower-so that the low
priced crop this year will go almost as
far in purchasing the low priced neces-
saries that he requires as the high
priced crop of 1880 did. This is some
what of an exaggeration, but not alto
gether. There are things, however,
that are not affected, and they are debts
and mortgages. There is no reduction
in these things, which abound in newly
settled communities, and the moral is,
to dispense with them in the future, as
far as possible.
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bishop huntington for cleveland.

Northampton Letter to Springfield Republican.
Among the prominent men of the country
who spend their summers in the delightful old
county of Hampshire is Bishop Huntington, of
Syracuse, N. Y, who resides for the summer
in an old-fashioned farmhouse somewhat
modernized, in the quaint and historical old
town of Hadley. Your reporter had a very
pleasant chat the other day with this we'll
known theologian on the political aspects of
the day. While the Bishops tastes and work
do not leadhim into politics, yet he is a keen
observer of what is going on in the political
world, and his deductions are made
after mature reflections and careful investiga-
ton. AS to his own position the Bishop
said: 81 class myself with the independents,
for l I'm in the habit of voting according to
the character of the men placed in nomina-
ton" In reply to a query as to his opinion
of Mr.. Blaine he said: swell, l have no
desire to publish my opinions TO the world,
nor do l care to hold them back. l have
never been in favor of Blaine, whom l recog-
nize as a trafficker in official influence, and
l am very much panied to see so many of my
New England friends yielding up the high
standard of morals so requisite to the Presi-
Dental candidate in the past Nothing has
been said in this miserable attempt which
can bring him into the society of the pure
statesmen of the past 1t would, indeed, be
deplorable If young men of this nation
should be informed by this election that the
people of the United States condone the offenses
proved against James G.. Blaine. The moral
effect would be very depressing should they
be told by his election that they can lie, de-
fraud, become ~demagogues, bribe-givers and
takers and still not forfeit the public conf
dence. 1t is a humiliating spectacle to see so
many men like Hoar, Dawes, and others
twisting his dishOnored record in such a way
as to become a deliberate attempt to make his
conduct reputable. To me the action Of those
who sneer at the attempt to purify the political
atmosphere is contemplate"
trail New York his opinion Of Cleveland has
weight In answer to his views of Cleveland
he remarked: ellis public life has been trust
worthy, upright and manly. He is a man of
honor, and there is much in his public career
to admire" Touching upon the scandal con-
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THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
ramI,any all Right.

The New York Star, Tammany organ) says
editorially; '"The Tammany organization has
expressed itself manfully fearlessly and frank
ly. 1t believes that a grave mistake was made
at Chicago, but it feels the plan Of its duty
still lies within the party lines. Bigotry and
prejudice have been shown, which have not
helped the party nor rendered to popularize its
principles. Nevertheless. after mature refec-
ton Tammany holds steadfastly to the allegi-
ance which had birth nearly a century gone
ranks it knows how their industry and skill
have developed our and multiplied
our national wealth. Itwould not invite them
to disassociate themselves from the party to
which they have uniformly owned and given
adherence.
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In a general way the people 81 this
country are becoming educated as to
the necessity of the preseryglon II tor
ests, as they are to the ethetic value
of the propagation AID ornamental
trees. The subject las two distinct
phases, the materiaJone and the @sthet-
ic one. 1t is not aone the conservation
of the streams which is to be consid-
cred importapI as this undoubtedly is;
the question of the increased cost of
lumber if me of the highest consequent
ces, reae1ing as it does in the matter of
rents Nose who have little voice in
dealing with the subject, but who are
in the last analysis greatly affected by
the manner in which it is dealt with.
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A Chicago paper says it is not a
new thing in the United States, and in
the border states especially, that the
production of wheat does not pay ex-
penses. Many can recollect when it
required two bushels of corn raised in
Ohio to pay the postage on a let
ter from Boston to the Western Re-
serve" or northern Ohio. And many
now will remember when corn in Hi
nois was dull of sale at ten cents a
bushel, and dressed turkeys we're offer
ed at the doors of citizens for twenty
Ave cents. Yet even in those days
there was no over-production except in
places where distant markets could not
be reached. Nearly every year we have
accounts of famine in some parts of the
world. Just now the depression in wheat
which has generally been regarded as a
standard commodity, and has heretofore
maintained something analogous to a
standard price, appears to have carried
down the prices of nearly all the staple
commodities. For instance, the price
of the whole range of metals is very
much depressed viz, iron, steel, lead,
copper and the manufactured product
of these staples. Iron and steel rails
are cheap, lead and iron pipe are cheap.
The bushel of wheat goes about as far
in the purchase of these articles as it
did two years ago. Moreover, the
prices for the whole range of domestic
fabrics have been greatly reduced. 1t
is worthy of note that more and more
as the price of wheat has been reduced,
reduction has followed in nearly the
whole list of what are called staple arti-
cles. The price of wheat seems to have
q governing influence as to the price of
a great many leading articles; at least
the association is close enough for such
inference.
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Mr.. Ignatius Donnelly, it is an
nounced, will shortly publish a book
which will startle those who are inter-
ested in the controversy regarding the
authorship of Shakespeare" 1t is said
he has found in the works of Sir Fran
els Bacon 6 cipher, which, applied to
"Shakespeare's' plays, proves beyond
doubt hat they were written by Bacon.
Without reference to Mr.. Donnelly's
researches, it may be said that this same
thing has been often proved-to the sat
isfaction of the writers-but it does not
stay proved. Ingenious speculations
may interest a few people and confuse
some, but the vast majority of lovers of
Shakespeare" throughout the world,
in generations past, present and to
come, recognize no other mar than Will
ham Shakespeare.
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rha Criminal calendar.

Frisbie, the ~defaulting a teller of Port
land pleaded guilty and begged for a quick
sentence.
Charles R. Rice, travelling agent for Chase
Bros, nuIserymen of Rochester, N. Y, killed
himself, when about to be taken to jail on a
charge Of swindling his employers.
At Ottowa, Kansas, Carrie and Bessie Water
man, aged twelve and fourteen years, daugh-
ters of James Waterman, q farmer, tied a rope
around the neck of a half brother, six years
old, dragged him about and beat him with
sticks till he died The head of the child was
nearly severed by the rope. The girls stated
at the ~coroner's inquest that they hated the
child and wanted him dead. They were held
for murder.
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Huntington said, with emphasis. sRei,oSiHp
as 1 do, that this is a thing Of the past snd ;,
part Of his present character, 1 shalt certsiniSI
vote for him. Until 7 came into this sts4a
never heard aught about this scandal IA
uoss not look with complacency on tie past
ing to the Christianity which teach we are -
forgive, and As / understand that he Il livino
an honorable life in the present, 1 see no reasoS
why should not cast my vote for the reform
Governor, Grover Cleveland"
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IOod products should
continue for any great length of time
an inevitable result would be Areduction
in the price of farming lands all over
the country. But there is nc probabil-
ity hat the depression will continue
until such a result is reached, because
1t is not at all likely that in years sue
ceeding there will be such immense
crops as have been grown this year ~,
almost every locality at home eAd
abroad.
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Personal Points.

Nathan Thayer of Nathan, Thayer & Co.,
New York stock brokers, died
Ex-United States Senator esmith has become
insane, and has been placed in an asylum at
Portland, Or.
Col Clement L Best, Fourth United States
artillery, who is commanding Fort Adams at
Newport, is announced 10 be engaged to Miss
Mary Tooker of New York. The wedding will
be celebrated this season.
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Converted to CLEVELAND.

Gen. G. 7. Christensen of Brooklyn, N. Y.
who has been a Republican for thirty years,
has recently declared himself as opposed to
the Republican candidate for president Gen.
Christensen was asked what he and the Scan
dinavian Independents, whom he represents,
would do in the coming campaign.
"Whatever influence represent, " he replied,
'shall be exerted in favor of the election Of
Gov. Cleveland. We shall hold a public meet
ing of Scandinavians when the issues of the
campaign will be more fully set forth. We
dom rely so very much on the strength ofour
vote here-about Is, 0O0-but when you consid-
er that there are 600, 600 persons of Scandi-
navian birth in the country, many counties in
Minnesota and other Western states being
wholly populated by them you will see what
all enormous voting strength our people
possess. The prospects are excellent, and l
believe almost all our people will vote for the
reform governor"
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The Chicago markets..

Wheat, Chicago spring, 75@75%c; No. 8,
Chicago spring, 5Sc; No. 2 red, 7Sc; No. 3 red.
64c.
Corn, cash, 76K@7sc.
Oats, cash, 25c.
Rye, 55Ac.
Barley, 66c.
Pork, cash, SI6.75
Lard, cash, S7.20@$I55.
Markets.
Wheat, No. 2, 744c.
Corn, No. 2, SOC.
Oats, No. 2 white, 2SLc.
Rye, No. l, soc; No. 2, SIC.
Barley, No. 2, 602c; extra No. 3, Acc.
Mess Pork, SIC cash.
Lard-Prime steam, sZ.20
Butter, choice creamery, 24@26c; fair to good,
2O@23c; best dairy, 17@l9c.
Minneapolis Markets.
WHEAT, No. l hard, 1910; No. 2 hard, 74c;
No. !, Csc.
Corn, No. 2 55c; rejected, 4s@5Oc; con-
demned, 35@40c.
25%c; rejected, 22024c; condemned, 22@23c.
Barley, No. 2, 5S060c.
Mixed Feed, No. l, s1z5O@s1s; No. 2, $3.50
Corn Meal, unbOlted, s17@s16; bOlted, s2l
Hay, timothy, s9095O; wild, choice, $50
$50; No. 2 wild, $5.5O06.75.
st Paul Markets.
WFEAT-No. l hard, new, 79c; No. 2 hard,
75c; No. 2, CSC.
Corn, No. 2, SOC; No. 8, 4Sc.
Oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c; No. 2 white, 25c; No.
3 extra, 24c.
Rye, No. 2, 45c.
Barley, No. 2, SOC; No. 8, 4Oc
Ground Feed, $3.50.
Baled Hay, So timothy hay, s10OO@s105 So
Flax Seed, S1.15.
Timothy seed, SL.20
Potatoes, 25c.
Eggs, 14Xc.
Butter, dairy fair, 121<c; choice, 15c; cream
cry, lSc
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Record OF Casualties.

AtNeponset, Mass. the A. T. Stearns Lumber
company suffered a $4,000 fire.
Funda & Sons planning mill, at Syracuse, N.
Y, was burned. Loss, $4,000; insured for
$4,000.
Sutherland's saw mill at St Boniface, one
Of the largest in Manitoba, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. The mill was valued at $780,
Goo; half insured Forty thousand dollars
worth of lumberw was consumed
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In reply to an invitation to visit Chicago,
Gov. Cleveland wrote: You may be certain
hat 1 should be very glad to accept your in,
~vitatlon, and l have no doubt that the great
city of Chicago would extend to me a cordial
reception but / have now on my hands an
Office the duties of which are exceedingly e1,
acting, and they will not be postponed VI
course they must not be neglected. Added 70
this conditisn of affairs, / must suggest the
fact that my recent nomination to a higher
Office renders il absolutely necessary that !
should be accessible to those who are constanFr
ly calling to see me, many of these from a q
tance.
Mr.. Conkling is said to have remarkedto N
of a number Of Mr.. Blaine's friends VINO a
intimated that Mr.. Blaine was confidently e.
pecting that before the campaign went my lC
further he would stump the state Tor the
publican ticket: ''Pray give my comphme
to Mr Blaine and tell him that L have no or
insl practice"
Admiral Porter says, 81 have been "A
publican since the formation of the party,
/ do not want TO live to see Jim Blaine h
dent of the United States"
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Wheat, Chicago spring, 75@75%c; No. 8,
Chicago spring, 5Sc; No. 2 red, 7Sc; No. 3 red
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Or The CLARION.
POOR BLAINE.
BY C. KENDRIcK, NJ. D.

BY c. KENDRIcK, NJ. D.
eve follow where the white plume waves,
This was the battle cry,
OF half million voters of
The party We defy.
By that white plume they freely swore,
They'd rule the Union evermore.
On came the warriors on the fourth,
The timid and the brave;
And still they cried out as they came,
1.-THE white plume still shall wave"
But when the light began to wane,
They could not see the plume OF Blaine.
Nights shadows dark came down and hid
The white plume from their sight;
And nevermore, no, nevermore,
Can it be brought to light;
In some dark corner let it rest,
With the bold knight who loved it best.
Alas, poor Blaine too late too late
The light came and you learned,
Those fatal letters you did pen,
o horror !! were not burned.
But were written on thy snow-white plume,
And now they're craven on thy tomb.
We speak no evil OF the dead
In qniet let Them sleep,
While on their graves the autumn leaves,
Tenderly falling weep.
Oh let the dead leaves with them rest,
Since all died by NoEember's frost.
November, 1854
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The Western Union.

For the year ending June 30, 1854,
the Western Union Telegraph Company
sent A., 076, 226 messages. The receipts
were SIS, 6S2, 989. 60; expenses S13,022,-
5oS.90; net profits, $3.50, 1870. Ex-
penses include cost of building, recon
strnction, rental and lease of lines, be-
sides cost of operating and material,
also half million expended during the
strike. This data is furnished THE
! CLARION hr an exnerieneed anerator in
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from partial insanity, Of distinguishing
between right and wrong.
The test with us in this class Of cases
is the capacity to distinguish between
right and wrong, and we know of no
difference in this regard between total
and partial insanity. Irreconcieable
conflict in the language Of the instruc-
ton is created by the insertion of the
words ''if the accused killed the deceas-
ed with malice" There can be no such
thing as malice without mental account
ability; and this cannot co-exist with an
incapacity, from mental disease. to dis.
tinguish between right and wrong. Re-.
gersed and ren,dnded.
Whitaker & Bell, Grace & Woods. for
appellant.
J. L. Harris, for the State.
A. NJ. VANCE
TIE srArn.
From the Circuit Court of Newton
County. A. G. Mayors, Judge.
Perjury in s,ceariag to school report
CHALMERS, J.
Appellant, a school teacher in New.
ton county, was convicted Of perjury in
swearing to anoficiai report of his school
and sentenced to seven years in the peui.
Tertiary. He taught ut Erin School.
house, in said county, daring both the
| first and second scholastic terms of the
wear 1880. The first term closed Inv
| law on the last day of August of that
year; but by consent of the patrons
the school was continued four DAYS
! longer. 1t was then agreed between
appellant and his patrons, all save one
| asserting, that the four days thus lost
for which the county could pay nothing.
should be made up to the teacher during
the ensuing term. The school opened
again for the next term with the month
of November, and at the end of that
month enough names were falsely added
| to the true number of scholars to mako
up for the days previously under-stated.
1t is for swearing to this false report
that appellant was convicted and sen.
fenced.
1t was not contemplated by the law
that the county should pay for as many
days as we're actually taught, but only
that it should pay for a fixed number
of days during the year. For the extra
days taught, appellant could look only
to his patrons, but in no manner to the
county. Appellant knew that the oath
was false; the perjury was therefore
willful. He knew that the money could
not be obtained unless he took the oath;
the perjury was therefore corrupt. The
result of the false swearing WIS to give
him something not legally his; and he
cannot excuse himself by saving that
he and his neighbors concurred in amis
take of law. Some of the instructors
for the State were not free from error.
but on appellants own testimony his
conviction was inevitable, 1t was said
in BroWH'S case, 81 Miss, that there
: should be two witnesses, or one witness
|! and corroborating circumstances, TO
establish guilt of perjury. There
was one witness other than the appel
liant in this case; and he himself testi-
fed to all the facts, thus furnishing the
; most abundant confederation. lHimrd.
I. H. Woods and S. b. Watts, for ap-
ellant.
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TIE commercial treaty just concluded
between the United States and Spain
for Cuba and Porto Rico, through the
efforts Of Mr.. FosrER, our Minister, is
said to be the most complete reciprocity
treaty ever negotiated by our govern
ment. It opens q market for our sur
plus products on the most favorable
terms, and being restricted in its pro-
visions IS to cargoes carried in the YES
sells of the two countries, viii give
. much-needed stimulus to our carrying
trade.
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PREs1DENT-ELEcT CLEVELAND stated
to an Associated Press reporter that
"the whole country can be sure that the
lawful power and jurisdiction of the
Executive will be so exercised that the
rights Of all citizens, white or black,
under the constitution or law, will be
preserved and protected, and all the adj
vantagss to which they are entitled by
reason of their citizenship will be secur-
ed to them
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Not Guilty.
New AlbanY Optic. ]

New Albany Optic.
The examination trial of z. NJ. Step
hens charged with manslaughter II
killing Wash Jackson was had TO-DAY
before Justices Alexander Richly and
Smith. After examining several wit
nesses, and the prosecution not wishing
to proceed further the case closed, and the
Justices at once pronounced a judgment
Of acquittal. The facts in the case az elic-
tied from the testimony are about as
follows. On Friday, Oct 3lst, while a
crowd was gathered around a ticket
wagon to get tickets for a show, Wash
Jackson, the deceased, roughly showed
through the crowd, when a general push
ing ensued. Mr. Stephens, in a mild
manner, told them there was no use in
cr0Wding up that way as there was
plenty of time to- secure tickets
AZ this Jackson seemed to take of
Tense when Stephens told him to keep
quiet, and that there was no use
II : fuss. jackson began abusing
Stephens, and at the same time
threw his hand behind him, drew
and cooked 3 pistol and presented It.
when Stephens jumped back, drew his
and fred, the ball stri king Jackson lust.
above the rig ere, ling him instantly.
Jackson fell with cooked pistol lying On
his breast With these facts corroborat-
ca By half dozen witnesses, the c0nr-
could do nothing but acquit. Our citi
zens deplore the sad AFFAIR, but none
more than AIr. stephens himself
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CARL scHURz, replying to CORES
pendent, says that he believes Mr..
CLEVELAND will faithfully carry out
the civil service Law; that he favored the
enactment of similar law in New
York which has been strictly observed,
and that he has no doubt that he will,
As President, act upon the same princi-
pies which he professed and adhered to
a. GorArnnr
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The Brookhauen Leader is a little
worried because we published the head
lines of its editorial announcing the de
feat of CLEVELAND and HENDRICKS
and the statement of the causes. See
ing that the Leader has its hands full
nearer home we will not publish what
the Summit Sentinel and Brandon Re
publican said about it.
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water. caused by 3ong 5

Miss FoRTEscUE, the actress, sued
Lord GARMoYLF. oldest son of Earl
CA1RNs, for breath of promise and re-
covered judgmc at for 10000. This is
the amount named which the defendant
told the jury at the trial he wss will
ing to pay as compensation for a broken
YromiSe
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Whitaker & Bell for appellants.
DECISIONS OF SUPREME COURT
REPORTED FOR THE CLARION BY c. e
Campbell.
MoNpAY. Norember q. IS

MONDAY, November q, 1851
The following cases were 1F,rRod;
46SS-Mrs. NJ. J. Sturdivant V. Jno' Il
Odeneal, use, etc. -,
4684-Mrs. M. J. Sturdivant V. Capl''i
State Bank, ct al.
46SS- Mobile 4 Ohio r. r. Co. '. . l.
Holt.
470s-L. Z. Fairchild v. n. o. & \. l. h.
r. Co.
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A COMPLETE and revised list of The
members of the next House gives the
Democrats 181, Republicans 142, Fusion
and Greenbacker l. Twenty States
send Democratic majority delegation
three States tie and fifteen a Republic
can majority. Two-thirds ofsthe mem
bers of the present House are returned
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The contested election cases in Mon
roe county involving the Offices oil
Sheriff and Chanoery Clerk, have been
dismissed. They should never have
bee commenced.
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ever again have seat at the council board
OF the nation. If Mr.. Schurz must be re-
warded let him be sent as Minister to
Vienna or otherwise congenially assigned.
S. A. G..
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The Count in New York.

he following is the result of the
gidential election in the State of
York as officially announced at
any on last Friday: Highest Dem
Atic Elector, Priest, 56s,l54; highest
publican Elector, Carson, 562 1905;
|rality, l149; lowest Democratic
IctOr, ottendorfer, 56s,O4s; lowest
publican Elector, Harris, 561, 81;