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National Republican., 1884-10-09

An interesting article from the Norfolk
Tirginidn in reference to the peanut will
be found In another column. 1t was
evidently prepared with great care, and
there is no good reason to doubt its gen.
cral accuracy. The rapid growth of what
may now be regarded as one of Virginia's
staple articles of commerce from feeble
beginnings TO large proportions is worthy
of more than a mere passing notice, and
we naturally are led to ask the cause oft
And for this, fortunately, We have not
far TO look.
Before tho war;" the Virginian tells US,
the nut twas grown only in small patches
for family use, but when the Yankees
came south to give freedom to the man
and brother they tasted the dainty nut,
80 u they liked it's dainty flavor, and
when they got home began TO clamor for
it," This was the beginning Of the pea
nut industry.
Before this, however, tho value of the
article was not entirely unknown, for the
samo paper tells us that IL had been
largely imported from Africa. 1t was not
tho dainty flavor" which seems to have
been discovered by the inquisitive and
acquisitivo Yankee, but rather the fact
that the nut could bo raised horo upon our
own soil. But could this DO done profit
ably? So long as it could be imported at
less cost than it could be raised for in this
country tho farmer, of course, had no
inducement to engage in its cultivation,
except in small patches for family use.
To meet this difficulty il was clearly seen
necessary to offer him such q bounty rs
would tempt him TO undertake the
business, and this was accordingly done
by imposing tax or license for the
priv lege of selling the imported article
which We call tariff. This tax, which
amounts to one cent pound in tho shell
upon the foreign nut, is equal to % cents
bushel--no small item, as any intelligent
chool boy can easily cipher out with slate
and pencil.
In bushel of nuts in the shell there
are twenty-five pounds, and in 100000
bushels, the product last year, thoro are
theEefoGe 33,OO00O0 pounds, upon which
be tax or tariff OF / cent apOund amounts
National Republican., 1884-10-09
POLITICAL SMALL TALK.

Give the democrats half q chance and
thero would be no more freedom of
speech in the north than in tho SOUTH
Commercial Gazette.
st. John processes to have tho support
of the praying people, but there will be
ten preachers who will vote for James G..
Blaine for every one who will vote for
the Kansas renegade bloomington (IH)
PmtdgrGph.
"The muddy pool of politics was the
rock on which l split" said the colored
preacher TO his flock, Henry Ward
Beecher would not describe his condition
in exactly the same words, but they fit
his case all the same.-Baltimore american
The louisville Courier Journal advices
democrats not to bet on tho Ohio election;
and il might add that as "A general rule it
is safest for democrats not to bet on any
thing in tho way Of elections, unless ii be
in the south, where they have chance
to regulate the returns with shotguns,-
Globe. Democrat.
Carl Schurz refused TO address a demo.
cratic meeting in Ohio until he was paid
$3.50 in cash. lie was offered check, but
declined it--therein showing the extent
of his faith in demoeracy-ho wouldn't
! trust II oven Tor barrel OF wind. The
great statesman for revenue only doesn' t
appear to be getting loft this yoar.-Phila-
deiphia Press.
Say, brethren Suppose you reduce the
| everlasting folderol Of this campaign al
nearly Us possible to tho minimum.
There's no need ofrepublicans pretending
| to be "stuck after" Butler or democrats
after st. John. Own up that the reason
why one coddles Butler is because he
draws votes from Cleveland, and the
reason why the other coddles st. John is
| because he draws votes from Blaine.
| Thore are two or three tricks in the
world hardly worth trying, One of them
is teaching your grandmother how ia
suck eggs Remember, brethren, that
you are not all bunCo stcersrs, and that
tho American people is not respectable
old gentleman from tho country
! Rochester POST Express.
National Republican., 1884-10-09
A CIVIL SERVICE POINT.
0nice.Holders Held to be Eligible to Receive
Dues OF State Associations.

At the meeting of the Connecticut Republi-
can association held last evening in st. George S
hall the following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, o. s. Firman; vice president, II. s.
Stevens; corresponding secretary, l., T. Smith;
recording secretary, A. T. Tracy, and treasurer,
II. A. Seymour. The question was raised
whether OF not an ofiice.holder was eligible
under the civil service rules TO hold the posi-
tion of recording secretary, as the constitution
of the association prescribed that all dues
should be paid to him. The chief examiner OF
the civil service commission, who was present,
gave 1t as his opinion that, as the money re-
ceivcd by the secretary is for defraying the in.
cidental expenses of the association, aud not
for political purposes, an Oilice.holder was
eligible. over one hundred members have
signiied their intention of attending the elGC-
National Republican., 1884-10-09


THE law and the constitution confcrs
upon the black man all the rights and
privileges that are enjoyed by the white
man. Conspiracy to restrict the black
man In the exercise Of these rights and
privileges is as much crime against tho
government as revolution and treason.
depression Of the civil liberties of the
black man in the south by in
tinlidation or the Justification of
the election returns is deadly blow
aimed at the very foundation of tho ro-
public. Bourbon failure to recognize tho
equality of the negro before the law
mot social equality is evidence of bour-
bon incapacity for the exercise of the
rights of citizenship. Tho law says that
the vote of black man shall be counted
the same as the vote Of white man, and
that he shall be protected the same as a
white man. When the laws are set at
defiance anarchy reigns. The federal
election laws are dead letter in the
south. They are openly violated in every
acknowledging state. The general govern
mont does not protect its citizens is these
states. The rule of lawlessness is su-
preme VIII any northern state reward
and perpetuate anarchy by assisting u
solid south to elect a democratic presi-
dent and endangor the life of the nation
Let us hope and pray not.
National Republican., 1884-10-09

JUDGE BRALEY, of Madison, writes to
the effect that Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote
the poem Solitude" or Love and
Laughter" at his house under the cir
cumstances detailed in previous letters on
the same subject. Two hundred wit
nesses might be produced who would say
that she wrote Grcy's Elegy ut the same
time and place, but that would not mako
her tho author. If Col. Joyce can pro-
duce scrap book or newspaper of date
anterior to tho time fixed upon for its
production by Mrs Wilcox and her
friends, with the disputed poem in it, a
million witnesses could not establish her
Slniiseyy Q" wt5Aass tsBS. t"~ Is"fv BtY5EG
the range of possibilities that she had
Col. Joyce's Love and Laugh
ID and then sat down in Judge Braloy's
libhary, wrote it out, and rechristened il
"Solitude?"
National Republican., 1884-10-09
TOO MUCH CULCnA.


"GdiFs' Boston Dispatch 10 he Enquirer.
All that can make out of the newspaper
situation in Boston Is passion TO make money
thinly concealed under the arguments that
somebody else except the newspapers has been
trying to get some, too. Such newspapers here
as have declined money from railroads
Dogencs could not find with n lamp. The
advertising and the pharisec prayers arc let
OIL In parallel columns, 1--WE thank God we
are not as other men" and 80 cents line,
whatever the intention. such arc the new
two commandments and the other eight have
been given to the poor.
The general conduct of tho present cam
paign on both sides leads us to logically ex.
pcCt that the next president of the United
States will steal all the coal In the bin
which congress provides and ship II of, This
view of the presidential responsibility is
mainly derived from our newspaper press, and
from mono more so than in the city of Boston.
As you approach the sacred precincts of
Harvard university, instead of finding more
deCenCy in the discussion of the presidency,
iull of pamphlets whore the professors and the
alumni nssail each other, not for having com
mittCd any moral oflcnse, but for exercising
the right of private difference. These pam.
phlats as n general rule, are written in sort
of pigeon English, as If their authors had but
recently acted in the Greek play and forgot
| their mother tongue. some OF them are ter
| rillc against Cleveland republicans; others are
| grandly COntcmptuous of Blaine republicans.
| Can anybody wonder that the empire of reason
| and enlightenment has departed from such a
| people7 II has not, on the contrary, because
| II is only the higher classes who are guilty oil
| such inhospitality The plain and ordinary
people have never been angry In this cam.
| pnign, because they have never been brought
| up to believe that they in some manner de,
| rived nn aristocracy or monopoly OF control
| over this commonwealth which they had re-
| solvedto secure forever through the agency o
| the ma jority of the newspapers.
National Republican., 1884-10-09

enthusiastic supporters. The exhibit Of this
great states wonderful resources is something
amazing, principally because hitherto I'M
known to outsiders The rapid growth Of the
industrial arts, rs here testified TO, is the best
possible argument for the election of the re.
publican national and state tickets. The old
when she takos the second progressive step,
lust nj the close of the exposition, by bursting
The bourbon bonds that have already too long
bound her. she will indeed have taken stride
Tint will induce northern capital and enter
prise to her borders, ere long TO become one OF
The most prosperous, populous, aud wealthiest
National Republican., 1884-10-09
BUT DID SHE COMPOSE 1rs



The Milwaukee ScRtincl publishes letter
from Judge A. h. Braley, of Madison, Wis,
relative to the disputed poem Solitude" or
"Love and Laughter" which is herewith pre-
sented:
"a have been asked to say what know about
the authorship of a certain poem published in
tho latest volume of Ella Wheeler (now Mrs.
Wilcox, and entitled Solitude was greatly
astonished when saw an article in the Water
town Republican which attributed the author
ship 10 one Col Joyce. Isupposcd that 1t was
simply mistake of the editor of that paper
aud that 1t would be corrected ut, once. But
when heard that this same Col. Joyce abso-
lutcly claimed the poem rs his own produc-
tom i snlsl sqx HAT was ulti;Ia sRtttplftSIf sRtttplftSIf
| borrow She steal from the brains of another !
| With all the wealth of her splendid genius
would she appropriate the literary property of
another should as soon think of Vanderbilt
coming to me to borrow $40.
But now To the facts. II so happens that l
| knew all about the origin of the poem in ques-
| tion. / know when, where, and under what
| circumstances 1t was written and the occasion
| which inspired II. II was written at my house
| Mrs. Wilcox, then Ella Wheeler, was on her
way from her home in Westport to visit this
| city Tor the purpose of attending guberna-
! tOrial reception party. l think II was the in
| auguTatlOn Of our present executive, Gov.
| Rusk on her way hither she met Il friend,
| Il young widow, whose sad face and dress OF
| solemn black bespoke the sorrow oil her heart.
| The contrast between her own happy cOndi-
| ton and that OF her mourning friend affected
her most profoundly and she spoke of il Oh
her arrival at my house in Madison. The next
day while dressing for the party, the first fouI
lines of the poem occurred to her, and when
| she came down stairs she repeated them in my
| presence, and the very next day she wrote the
whole poem IN my library and read II to my
| wife and to me. Now these are facts, the plain
simple facts about the origin and the inspira
ton ofthat poem.
And will add, in conclusion, that anybody
| who asserts or claims that Ella Wheeler did
| nor Wrle every WoTu, syllaDlet ana llnc Oh ina
| beautiful little poem utters what is audaci
Ously untrue. The idea is hers the expression
is hers, and It Is stamped all the way through
| with the works of her ready and fertile pen
BY publishing this you will aid the cause o
truth and justice and crafty her friends ant
| YOURS truly.
National Republican., 1884-10-09

CANADIANS arc getting tired of fur
nishing haven for defaulters from tho
United States, and negotiations are in
progress looking to modification in the
extradition laws which will enable us to
claim our own and enforce the claim,
Perhaps our neighbors are fearful lest the
scoundrels from this side of the border
may soon bo in the majority.
National Republican., 1884-10-09

The microscopic vision of tho district
commissioners legal adviser has dis.
covered after infinite search that it is
doubtful whether the commissioners have
right to allow tho widow of the MUIR
dered Policeman Fowler $75 from the
policeman's fund with which to defray
the expenses of her husbands funeral. II
the law does not permit the commissions
ers to appropriate the sum for the purpose
asked, then the law is mighty mean
law, and should be changed to fit cases
like tho one in point.
National Republican., 1884-10-09

Mr.. T1LpES's admiration for Thomas
Jefferson aud A. Jackson is profound. Ho
has given SO much of his heart to these
defunct statesmen that he had none loft
to bestow upon Grover Cleveland. He
had too much reverence for the memory
of jefferson and Jackson to mention Cleve-
land the same day.
National Republican., 1884-10-09

CLEVELAND is credited with having
charged for si3 days attendance upon
court during single year while he held
the Office OF sheriff of Erie county. For
n strictly first class representative of re-
form and honesty in public affairs this
may be said to have been doing fairly we'll.
National Republican., 1884-10-09
Not Pleasant Reading.

Editorial IN the EuCntHg Star.
Tho answer of Commissioner Edmonds in the
case of Crawford against squier ct al, is not
pleasant reading TO the district people.
Whether he was a partner with squier, or was
lending money on his own account at from 8
to Is per cent, 1t is about equally unpalatabe.
OF course, district officials have the same right
that other citizens have TO invest their money
to advantage, but they should draw the line
considerably short Of the Edmonds-Squicr's
transaCtinns
National Republican., 1884-10-09
MORE MALARIA THAN EVER.
The City's Health Suffering From tho Pro.
longcd nrought-What the Doctors Say.

lOngcd Drought-What the Doctors Say.
Common report says the whole city is sick
or in a more or less convalescent condition
though the death rate is not thereby alarm
ingly accelerated. How is it in your expert
ence?"
This question: with variations, was fred at the
best half of score Of the leading physicians
of the city who had met Tuesday night Mt the
regular meeting ofthc Medical association ofthe
district The replies were cautiously and pro-
fcssionnlly nOn-commlttal in several instances,
while the less straight-laced admitted that
there was a large amount of sickness in the
city,
More malaria than have ever seen at this
season before" answered one veteran enter
mittcnt fever of an aggravated form, and q
great deal of comes under my notice daily"
said an active man with growing practice.
people are sick and will be more so if the
sewers and surface do not receive washing
| before long. | am only astonishcd that there
arc not more sick people i'll the city than there
are, and 1 should not be surprised at serious
trouble coming, If the rain does not" The
speaker was an experienced man In sanitary
matters. He backed up his half prediction by
referring to the fearfully odorous condition of
| the sewer traps
| ~ sudden change in the temperature now
will make the undertakers busy, though"
| said young man Just admitted to member
| ship. "a drop of twenty degrees will make
the consumptiyes drop off like ripe fruit"
The new members elected were Clifton
Mayfcld, A. Y. =. Garnet, jr., C. b. Shirley,
| d. p. Hickling, and A. W. McGarvcy; associate
members, Frank Baker and Thomas Taylor.
|
A Naval Surgeon Resigns.
| G tlN.,t, has nj ta1 th1
National Republican., 1884-10-09

Mr.. BERdH has discovered that IL is
dangerous to attempt to stop horse race
because one Of the racers is troubled with
n sore on its back.
National Republican., 1884-10-09

A telegram received atthe navy department,
from Lieut.. Comd'r Hitchcock, says that
the wreck Of the Tallapoosa has been towod
throe.quarters of mile further in toward Ed
gartown light, where her stern has grounded
in six and three-fOurths fathoms of water,
National Republican., 1884-10-09
EDNCHTInNfI


GPENCERlAN BUSINESS COLLEGE, COR
= ner Ninth and streets northwest Beau
tinil, cOmmodious halls parlors, and class
rooms. Complete in facilities for training sons
and daughters, and men and women for self
support and independence. Fun corps of able
teachers Day and night sessions, Students re-
ceived at any time. Call or send for circulars
scholarship for year from date of entrance,
SO.
Use of the srENoGRAPH or shorthand
writing machine taught In special department.
Machines on sale.
HENRY Q, SPENCER,
-.--.. Principal.
& wEsrHoRPE, TEACHER or MUSIC,
% OIL 9th street N. w. hpeclnlty-Vocal and
instrumental se16-1mN
NJ oRWoOD INSTITUTE SELECT SCHOOL
~ for Rrls) reopens SEPfEM BER 20. 1912
and l2l4 1ith ct. n. W., Washington, d. G. A
complete school coursc-Engllsh, scientific, Clas-
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llculary French and German. Art, Elocuton,
Music (piano, Prof Anton Gloetzner). A Col
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vancc1 students Preparation classes for Vassar
and other colleges. Call ut 1914 14th 81: y. W..
or address MIR. and MRS W. ID. CABELL
Principals aeI2.tf
National Republican., 1884-10-09
.LOSI 1YD FOUND.


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4 4 dog; answers to the name of sport" a
liberal reward viii be paid by returning TO b2O
Sd st. N. W.; tag 2377. 0-9
National Republican., 1884-10-09

VTowES BOoKKEEPING-THE SHORT.
IL est method in the United States; months OF
study saved no text books open all the year:
81 month; slo for three months; Howes
Rapid Business Penmanship alone, 50. -chol-
ars taught separately. HOWES BUSINESS
SCHOOL. hl7 Ilh al
National Republican., 1884-10-09
"a. ..u4an NOTICES.

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notice, y their rooms, $50 Il street northwest
orders for tickets at reduced rates can be Sc
cured ~ same place every evening until NOVcm-
Der !, isst. o,.., ..
bnppicineninl ilst VIII be hledi as per agree
tober 20, 1854. - .,
e President
j. l.. II. WINFIELD, Secretary oc6-mws-6t
- u,SuINorn1 n A. oCr = Zoe,
Re" "A9hiNuioN' ~ ~ oOi' l. 1904
have tbls dov tolsep cb.roe or storo ao7
1cVGhth street nOrtnwesti petween ID street tnd
6p,sll,la 3,"iue' ", ahu VII nH pieaseu TO see my
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MY, DIR. II o.. cANpEE, THE VITO
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FEHSr EkHGroS H dhEHEEAAB Il ASok kSb Sb
HESDRlCKsIThe Nation9l Democratic Com.
mittee has appointed A. A Wilson to take charge
the collection Of funds In this District and has
authorized him to receive subscriptions for de-
irRylng the legitimate expenses Of the National
Democratic Campaign. Those desiring to CON
tribute can do so IN person or or by addressing
him. p. o. Box $40. se25.2w
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Letters for Europe need not be specrauv d.
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4UCTIOy SALES.

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Notice Ia hereby given that on THURSDAY,
OCTOBER Q, 1ss4, NJ l2 o'clock noon, at ware,
to the highest bidder for cash, a lot of lost,
stolen, and abandoned property, as authorized
by the United states Revised Statutes relating
to the District of Columbia
RICHARD SYLVESTER,
Property Clerk Metropolitan Police ID. q.
WASH. h. WILLIAMS. Auctioneer.
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National Republican., 1884-10-09

INl open SATURDAY, OCTOBER d, 1894,
for the reception of pupils--at = o'clock p. m for
misses and masters and at o'clock y. m. for
vlted to attend the reception ON the above day.
Glasses Will be formed for the season OF 1SS4-'5
on the above day. Glass days, Tuesday and Sab
urday. Circulars are now to be had az Music
stores and Academy, splb-lm
National Republican., 1884-10-09

IMMERSION INSTITUTE, o14 14rH ST.,
u bet 1 and X, Select Classical ard Mathe.
matlcal School for Boys, begins its 33d year
SEPTEMBER l0-the second Wednesday of the
month. Prepares for Business, Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, and other colleges for the scientific
schools and for the y. :. Military and Naval
b. YOUNG, Principal, Ola 14th St Circulars
can he obtained mt the bookstores aul4-tf
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TOR RENI-HOUyE ES,

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THURSDAY. OCTOBER o. 1884.

Entered Mt the Poqtoilce at Washington, D. G..
NJ second-class matter
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NJ ATIONAL UNIVERSITY,
IN l. a w ID E p A II II NJ II N II (.

FACULTY.
HON. ARTHUR MACARTHUR,
Associate Justice of the supreme Court of the
District ofColumbia,
President.
HON. SAMUEL i. MILLER
Associate Juatice Of the Supreme Court OF tho
United States,
Professor of International and Constitutional
Law.
II. q. CLAUGHTON, Esq,
Professor of Pleading, Evidence, Equity Jurls-
prudence, Commercial and Maritime Law.
WILLIAM Il. WEBB, ESQ,
Professor of Practice and Judge of Moot Court
EUGENE CARUSt. ESQ,
Professor OF the Law of Real and Personal
Property, Contracts, Negotiable Instrn-
- ments, and Applied Evidence.
inc opening exercises Of the Law, Medical,
and Dental Departmcnia will take place at tho
New Law Building, No. 1000 Il street north
west, MONDAY. OCT. o. 1884 at o'clock y. IN.
Addresses and announcements for the ensuing
session will be made.
The Alumni and students of the Law Depart.
ment and the patrons and friends OF the Unl-
verslty are cordially invited TO be present.
Students who propose to enter the classes arc
also requested TO attend.