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The state journal., 1884-07-26
Wendell Phillips and the Negroes

Mrs. Cakes Smith in Philomathean Review
was on my way to lecture at Sa-
lem, Mass, and Mr.. Phillips, who
was accompanying me, told me of On
incident which bcfell him on that
very route. The abolition excite
~ ~-.+ ,,,n~ :-i---- -'- ~,
him was young colored man by the
name of Raymonde, who was to
speak with Mr.. Phillips in Salem.
As the two entered the car they were
met with hisses that soon became
yells-a white gentleman arm in arm
with a nigger! The tumult at the
station he'd made Raymoude turn
ashy pale, They were seated side
by side. The cars were 50 crowded
that the women were falnting with
terror. Atlength came the cry ''Pit 3h
the nigger off the train!' when the
conductor told Mr.. Philips that he
must let it be understood that the
young man was lis servant or they
would be no other way to save him.
Mr. Phillips said to me, "That would
be very repugDant to me, as being
false, and the young man was intelli-
gent and cultivated, but l saw
it was matter of life or death. l
had risen and laid my hand,'' contin.
ued Mr.. Phillips, son Raymonde's
shoulder, determined to protect him,
but the conductor cried out, "The
man is the servant of the gentleman,
and has a right to go with him on the
cars This seemed to quiet the in
turiated mob. Thank God those
terrible days are over.
The state journal., 1884-07-26
A Fatal Assault.

WHMNGroN, DEL., July 21.-At
Middletown last night James War
rington, colored, was assaulted by
Lewis johnson, also colored, and
beaten 50 badly with a hemlock paling
that he died today. The assault was
unprovoked. The men were rivals
in love, and Johnson was the unsuc-
cessful suitor. He was arrested
to-day.
The state journal., 1884-07-26
Special to JOURNAL.
Conductor Glenn Bailed,

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 23,-
Judge Alfred Reed, of the Jersey
Supreme Court, came to this city on
Friday, and took the bail Of Con,
ductor Alfred Glenn and the security
for his appearance at the Camden
county court, where he has been
indicted for manslau5 5hter, growing G
out Of the late accident at Ashland.
The amount of the bail was fixed at
$1,000, Louis Kivehule and Richard
II. Turner, becoming his bondsmcn.
The state journal., 1884-07-26
SEVERAL FROM +" Fl, w. o."
Doings in and About the Lumber
City.
WLLIAMsPoRT, July 23.

w lIIlAMsPORI, July zO.
Miss Susie Cradle, of Chicago, is
visiting her parents in this city.I
Mrs. Becky Robson, Of Philadel
phia, former Wi Transport lsdy, is
here on a visit
Mr.. Franklin rbGuix, Of Shame
kin. is stopping in the city for few
days The guest Of Mr.. Josh White.
Mr.. Andrew Cooper, who:has been
visiting his mother in little York,
Pa, returned home on Saturday even
ing, after an absence Of four weeks.
Miss Troup Crabb, Of Jersey Shore,
came down last week, TO take look
about the city.
The camp meeting Of the Wesley
church, commences to day, Saturday.
and continues until the 9Th. of Au-
gust They have secured the Wilson
ground, near the poor house
Last weeks issue of the JOURNAL
contained an article which ! beg leave
to correct The item relating to Mr..
Lynch, spesking at Lockport, N. ~,
on August II, which should have
read Elmira, n. ", instead, on the
same date
Don't forget the excursion to
Elmira.
Mrs. Nj, j. Palmer, who has been
visiting relatives ana friends at IIar
risburg, Pa, returned home on last
Thursday, accompanied by her sister,
Miss Aida Weaver, who will spend q
few days with her in this city.
The benefit sociablc given foc Mr..
William ShadLey, on last Thuts1ay,
was a decided success, both financially
and artistically. They succeeded in
raising $1,000, which was handed TO
Mr.. Sbadney on Friday, by Mr.. q.
Wagon who managed the affair.
A game Of base ball was played
on Monday of this week, between
the ba;bers and the Hepburn House
walters. TIE game stood at the end
Of the ninth inning, 10 to 6 in favor
Of the knights Of the dishes and trays.
Mr.. $. S Lacy, late Of the Wash
ington Sunday Item, arrived in this
city few days ago ostenslbly to visit
friends, but in a conversation with
your scribe, found that he (Lacy) was
working for the interest Of Blaine
and Logan.
Subscriptions now due Don't run
away from the collector.
Mr.. Charles Brown, Of Altoona,
Pa, is visiting friends in this city.
The guest Of Mr.. Geo. Brisco.
Miss Alice Clarck, Of Philadelphia,
is the guest Of her neicc Mrs. Annie
Black, on Maple street.
Last Sunday was the second anna
versary Of the Shiloh Baptist Church,
on Walnut street The exercises
we're conducted by Rev. Figus, Of
Lewisburg University, and Rev. W.
II. Burr, of Elmira, n Y. They
succeeded in raising $68.72, during
the entire day, which was appropri
ated for to pay on the church.
II. w. 10.
The state journal., 1884-07-26
Shot at Target Practice

BLUE RIDGE, Pa, July pa col
ored excursion party from Baltimore
visited this place to-day. During the
morning David Williams, while shoot,
ing at a targent, accidentally shot
Alexander Hazclton, inflicting proba-
bly, a fatal wound. Williams was
arrested and Hazelton was taken to
Baltimore.
The state journal., 1884-07-26
Past Finding Out.

A woman will lug pet dog around
the streets all day long in heI arms,
and yet feel keenly the disgrace of
being seen carrying her own baby.
The female mind is past finding
out.-EG,
The state journal., 1884-07-26
Another Elopement.

BALTIMORE, July 22-Miss Ellen
Owens, (white) aged 81, eloped with
a colored man Jesse Plater) who was
a farm hand employed by her father.
The parties boarded train at Halls
station, Prince Georges county, and
succeeded in reaching Bennlng's sta
ton, where they were arrested by
officer Prater, Of Washington. They
admit that their intention was
matrimony.
The state journal., 1884-07-26
SpScial to THE STATE JoURNALI
Committed for Court.

TmoMAsvrLLF, GA, July %, 1884.
Chas. Mast, a colored man, was
arrested about two o'clock On the
morning of July 81, for being found
in the room of Miss Menmar, who
was the guest of Mrs. Hening Quinn
of Thomasville, Ga. He acknowl-
edged that his intention toward the
young lady were of the vilest charac-
ter. He was committed to Jail to be
tried at the term of the superior court.
We have been informed that the
base ball nine, of Chamberburg, are
a lot of GROWERS.
The republican voters Of the Eighth
ward, are not making any prepara.
tions to organize campaign club
The state journal., 1884-07-26

The game between the Olympics
and Nationals, was postponed on
account of rain.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
FOREIGN NOTES.

An attempt was made to destroy, with dyna-
mite, the house of Moffat, manager of a large
mine at Cheatormoor. He had incurred the
enmity of the miners.
The latest intelligence from General Go rdon
says Khartoum can hold out till the middle of
November.
AT Marseilles, during the twenty-four hours
ended at O'Clock on Monday last, nine per-
sons died from cholera. The disease is in
creasing in virulence at Naples.
Reports of the ravages of the cholera in va
rious parts of Italy shows, for twenty-four
hours, 40 new cases and forty-fve deaths. A
veritable panic prevails in some districts IN
fected with cholera. In many instances physi-
clans attempting to minister to cholera pa
tents have been brutally maltreated. The
persons making these assaults labor under
the delusion that the doctors are engaged in
poisoning the people.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
4 Chicago Business Man Murdered.

William H. Downie, member of the Chicago
board of trade, was found dead in the base
ment of his house with bullet hole in his left
temple. He was alone in the house at the
time of the occurrence. From the fact that
his face was powder burned and his hair
scorched 1t was at first supposed to be a case
of suicide, but a close examination of the po-
sition and the direction of the wound and the
fact that no weapons could be found, led to
the conclusion that murder had been COM
mitted. He had brother, Chas. J. Downie,
with whom he had frequent alterations in
regard to an undivided estate left them by
their mother, these troubles leading to sep
aration after an unusually stormy scene and
an attempt by Charles to brain his brother
with an axe. Suspicion leads to the belief that
it is q case of fratricide.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
A RASH ACT.
Il Bright Young Girl of Io,ra Blo,cs Her
Brains Ont,

Il Bright Young Girl of Io,ra Blo,cs Her
Brains Ont.
Mabel Griffths, the 15-year-old daughter of
Hon. John y. Griffiths, of Page county. Iowa
suicided at her fathers house in Shenandoah
last Sunday. Mabel attended the high school
at shenandoah for several years. She was
aheao OF ner classmates in all her studies and
IN her ambition extremely desirous of 0oino
70 the normal seminary, where she Comb
take higher course. All throu0b fba
lne vacation she debated the point with be,
parents, both father and mother thinking II
W0uld pc best for her to continue at the biob
Scnooi Tor another year. Sunday morni5o-
Mabel forced the matter to a seftiement as
scnool was to open the next day. and sbe
wanted to know the final decision After o
mute taik Mr.. Grifiths told her that she TnuS+
attend the nigh school for a while Mabei
MADE bitter objections to this, and defianfIIl
SAID sne would die first" The family ne;5
no attentlon to this threat, and Went 70
cnurcn. On returning, just as thew were an
terlng the front gate, the girl shOt berself ~
Ine mead; the ball going entirely through the
skull and ki- ling her instantly. None of tho
family heard the report, and the terr;biee
Tragedy was not known until Mabel's vonnoras.
sister entered the room and foiJnd r.
stretcned on the floor. Mr.. Griffith was caIIad
ana thinking Mabel had tainted he nicked ~,
ent. "ao dppar-
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
CAPITAL BRIEFS.

Indian Commissioner Price has taken meas
| ures for the immediate relief of the starvin
| Piegan Indians.
In the case submitted by United States Dis
| trict Attorney Thomas, of Kentucky, the frs
comptroller of the treasury has rendered al
opinion that fees for notices in proceeding
under the internal revenue laws to enforc,
| forfeitures, except court advertisements fo
| the government, are to be paid for at com
mercial rates.
The funeral on Tuesday of Rev. Joh1
Brooks rather noted colored preacher, pas
tor of the Fifth Baptist church, was attended
with considerable disorder and only the pres
ence of strong police force prevented row
Brooks was member of several societies
among them the Sons and Daughters of Moses
Good Samaritans and others.
The debt statement issued the 18th shows
Decrease in the public debt during August
Sc, $50; decrease since June 3d. 1884, sI2, $780,
al; cash in treasury, S414,541 ,952; gold certi
ficates outstanding, s12, II, $751; silver certifi
Gates, S121, 131 92l; certificates of deposit, s14
10000; refunding certificates, S271, 800; legal
tenders, 1916, 739 1916; fractional currency. &C..
$4,000.
The postmaster general, acting under the
provisions of the act of 1866, which requires
the postmaster general annually to fix rates
to be paid for government telegraphing, has
issued an order fixing the rates for the re-
mainder of the present fiscal year. The re-
duction ordered is the greatest reduction
made in any one or series of years. The rates
promulgated are those reported by the senate
committee on postoffices and postroads last
winter in their postal-telegraph bill. The
postmaster thinks it is fair to adopt them for
the government service.
The following special examiners of the pen
sion office have been appointed under the
civil service act: Colorado, F. W. Galbraith;
Illinois, G. W. Whyte, James H. Mccoy, D. S.
Mcintyre, j. F. Allison, W. H. Woodland, W. L.
Faulke; Indiana, E. S. Dorment, NJ. W. Wat
son, Henry Peed, ]. Richardson's; Iowa, S. W.
McEldery, j. c. Mckenzie; Kansas, Lewis C.
True, James W. Asher; Kentucky, w. S.
Nicely, Daniel McCaullay; Michigan, T. W.
Burke, John T. Hall, Clark Stanton; Mime
sofa, C. B. Rockwell; Mississippi, Nathan
Picard; Missouri, W. W. Dedrick, Arson C.
Harding; Nebraska, W. L. VANDERBILT; Ohio.
Leender H. Means, Hugh N. Patton, W. Zafeet,
L. N. Quimby; Pennsylvania, S. N. Abel, VIM.
Burke, James H. Lambert, Edward Welchman,
c. A. Swesserott, Philip ]. Hofider; Tennes-
see, Alfred T. BadgIy; Texas, Charles Han
back; Wisconsin, 81. A. Richards.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The corner stone of the Dakota university
was laid at Mitchell on the 4th.
Forest fires are raging in Michigan and de
stroying vast tracts Of timber.
Bishop Pierce, senior bishop of the M. E
Church south, died at Augusta, Georgia, on
Wednesday.
The state veterinarian of Kansas states that
pleuro-pneumonia exists in some portions OF
that state.
Hooking Valley tOhio) coal mines will suspend
operations.
Gov. Hamilton, of Illinois, has issued pro-
clamation quarantine against cattle from in
fected districts.
Neilson has signed contract with Maple
son to sing in England and America the
coming season.
James G. Blaine made an address on the 4th
before the New England fair association at
Manchester, N. H.
Frank Pr tterson, manager of the opera
house at Long Branch, is a defaulter, and the
police are searching for him.
Rear Admiral Andrew Allen Harwood, q.
s. N, died at Marion, Mass, in his S2d year.
He was appointed midshipman in 1918 and re-
tired in 1854.
The third annual exhibition of the national
mining exposition, under the auspices of the
Denver chamber of commerce, was formally
opened on the LIST.
While James r. Fisher and Prosper Hum
bert, well known sheep breeders, were cross
ing the railroad track near Milwaukee, the rig
in which they rode was struck by a train.
Both gentlemen were crushed to death.
On the LIST five bodies were taken out of the
sunken steamer Belmont, making eleven in
all. 1t is thought that all the white bodies are
secured. There still remains the bodies of the
colored woman and colored child in the wreck
Dispatches from the leading clearing houses
of the United States show that the total clear
ings for the week ended August Both were
$3.50 l69, los, decrease of twenty-five and sew
enty-one-hundredths per cent as compared
with the corresponding week of 1883.
The first attempt to enforce the prohibitory
law at Dubuque, Iowa, was started a few days
ago. Petitions were filed with the clerk
OF the court, praying for injunctions to re-
strain seventeen saloon keepers of that city
from maintaining and continuing nuis-
ances in the form of saloons.
Sitting Bull and wife, Spotted Horn Bull
and wife, Long Dog, Grey Eagle, Flying By,
Crow Eagle, Princess Winona and Red Spear, |
the Sioux chiefs, accompanied by an inter-
prefer, Louis Primeau, and Agent McLaugh-
lin and wife and boy, of Standing Rock agency,
have gone to Minneapolis to attend the fair.
The debt statement shows decrease of the |
public debt during August of $3.50, $50. De-
crease since June 80, 1884, S12, $50, Ill Cash in |
the treasury, S414,5H,952. Gold certificates |
$21,79,52O. Silver certificates. |
s12l, 1881, Certificates of deposit, $14, 10000.
Refunding certificates, S271,sOO Legal ten.
lers, 346,T39,3 76. Fractional currency, &c.
l12,OO1.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
POLITICAL NOTES.

Indian Commissioner Price has withdrawn
his resignation.
james D. Brady has been renominated 70,
congress In Virginia.
Gen. Buffers law partner writes that he will
support the former for the presidency.
| The Fifth New Jersey congressional repub-
lican convention nominated william Walter
Phelps.
The committee appointed to present Mr.
Tilden with the Chicago convention resolu.
| lions, will atrequest, send the same by mail.
The greenback and democratic national
| conventions for the Eighth Michigan district
| nominated Timothy E. Tarsney, of East Sagi-
| nav, for congress.
fne Oregon state central committee of the
greenbackers and anti-monopolists decided to
print and distribute fifty thousand copies of
Buffers address.
The campaign in Indiana was formally
| opened by both parties on the Both and a hun
dred speeches delivered in towns and cities in
all parts of the state.
The New York state executive committee of
the prohibition party will place in the field
goodly number of speakers and every county
in the state will be canvassed. The commit
tee believes that with sufficient funds to pay
the speakers one hundred thousand votes can
be secured.
Returns from two hundred and forty towns,
giving the complete gubernatorial vote of
Vermont, show the following result: Total
vote cast 2,421; Pingree (rep) received A.
9l7; Redington, (dem) 1855; Soule, green
back $50; Independent and scattering, 1851;
making Pingree's majority 21,413.
Collector Robertson, of New York City, and
Postmaster Robertson, of Troy, have resigned
their membership on the republican state
committee. The colored people insist upon
the name of colored man being placed upon
the presidential electoral ticket should the
resignation of DR.. Derrick be accepted.
The Kansas prohibition convention was
held at Topeka on Tuesday last About $50
delegates were present with credentials, and
of this number about so were allowed to par
ticipate as members of the convention, the
remainder being refused because they refused
to pledge themselves to support st. John for
president. Presidential electors were nomin-
ated. 1t was resolved "That we believe it to
be to our best interests to waive our power
of nominating ticket for state officers, and
leave the matter for each member to act in
dividually, and that we use our best endeay-
ors to secure the election of the national pro
hibition ticket
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
BISHOP POTTER.
Iert of HIS Letter In Witch He Declines to
Come to Nebraska.

1ert Of HIS Letter In Witch He Declines tt
Come to Nebraska.
| The following letter has been received BY
the Rev. Mr.. Patterson, of Omaha, secretary
of the standing committee of the diocese
from the Rev. DR.. Potter:
| To the Standing Committee of the Diocese
of Nebraska-Dear Brethren: Informed as t.
| my letter, designed for the council, that it ha.
not been delivered, that body not being in ses
sion; your valued communication which
| acknowledge, suggests that should recall the
declination and RECONSIDER" because at lib
erty to accept the bishopric of your diocese
without deserving Hobart College. After con.
sultation find that the demand Of that insti.
tuition to whose untried presidency 1 am
pledged at this juncture, renders such q
course on my part inadmissable.
Your suggestion is reinforced by letters
from Clergy and Laity and am assured rep
resents the deliberate and unanimous desire
of the diocese. Permit me, therefore, to state
my conviction tnat if yielded and accepted
the exalted position rendered me, should
ALLEVIATE the support of my friends at the
east. thus destroying my ability to render
opportunity, but the diocese, which has
shown a cOmmendable comparative reliance
upon its own resources, also needs and de-
serves to be aided by churchmen from with
out.
Invited to visit and learn somewhat of the
wants of the west, shall ever be grateful for
the friendships formed and the kindness
shown me, especially in your diocese. If 1
write at length, it ia to expires my apprecia-
ton of the field and your call.
Your clergy and laity are influential and
united. There are few considerable obstacles
and there is ample assurance of encouraging
cooperation and success. Situated in Omaha,
the f1Ourishing city of the bishops residence,
are the noble Cathedral and Child's hospital,
erected largely by the citizens which have
been generally devoted to the service of the
diocese.
AS Bishop Clarkson's memorial, Brownell
Hall school then will doubtless secure the
suitable location and buildings he desired and
which its excellent growing work demands.
Communities spring up along the lines of
the railroad, and are, together with the mis-
sion stations and parishes, readily accessible
from the cathedral center. The hills and val
leys of the beautiful rolling prairie stand so
thick with corn that they seem to laugh and
sing; thousands of fOcks and herds feed be-
side the ample water courses, and vines and
flowers and trees of the Lord, lavishly plant
ed. flourish abundantly.
tive heritage. Prevented from becoming your
bishop. pray that your determination to be
alike deliberate and deyOut in your choice,
may be blessed by our divine Lord, the great
head of the church.
Faithfully and afectionately yours,
ELIPHALET MATT POTTER.
President Hobart College, Geneva, NY.
August 30, 1884.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
THE TEXAS FEVER.
Circular Relating to Preventing It's
Snrend

Il Circular Relating to Preventing It's
Spread.
Commissioner Carman has issued the follow
ing circular relative to preventing the spread
of Texas fever among cattle: I'm view of the
recent outbreak of Texas or southern fever
n the stock yards at Kansas City and Chicago,
and other points in Illinois and Kansas, re-
spectfully recommend. at the urgent request
of large number of practical and exper-
fenced operators, who believe this disease
may be transmitted by cars on the lines of
transportation for cattle from points along
the border of southern Colorado. Kansas,
southern Missouri and southern Kentucky,
northward, that all cars used on the lines east
of Kansas City, st. Louis or Chicago in the
transportation of stock from points south of
those mentioned above eastward be washed
and disinfected Immediately after unloading;
and further, that all yards used in penning
and feeding such cattle be thoroughly cleaned
and disinfected twice week or oftener.''
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11

held In New York to consider means to eb
taken to allay the alarm being created by
sensational reports on the subject of pleuro-
pneumonia among cattle. An address was
adopted, which says; when we consider the
great harm done and little good accomplished
by spreading these sensational reports, ex-
cept as indicated In behalf of men who hold
certain Offices, we are irresistibly led to grave
suspicion OF their good faith. Fearing this
bureau OF Animal Industry may do the cat
tie industry of the country great and IRE
parable harm, thorough investigation should
be made by the American Agricultural asso-
citation, and do all In their power to ferret
this subject to the bottom"