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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-09

one of the most spirited preliminary campaigns
ever made, Mr. Blaine was able to go into the
Chicago convention with but few more than
two hundred delegates. General Grant, whom
Conkling wanted if he could get him, but whom
he knew he could beat Blaine with, at any rate,
had more than three hundred. The remaining
delegates were divided among Washburne, Win
don, Sherman and Edmunds. The impossibility
of nominating Blaine having been demonstrated,
his supporters, fearing the triumph of the third
termers, reluctantly abandoned their favorite,
and, uniting with the other delegates who were
opposed to Grant, nominated Garfield. Between
Garfield and Blaine there had long existed warm
friendship, and on the election of the former to
the presidency, he rendered Blaine position in
his cabinet as secretary of state. As has been
seen, Blaine had grown weary of service in the
senate, and this gave him an opportunity to re-
tire from that body and take more congenial
place in the public service. Some idea
of the motives of Mr.. Blaine in doing this may be
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-09

But the greatest element of Blaine,s STRENGTH
- ;, ~, .ooouoc+ions of he o'iehS.n
power of holding names and faces in his momorv
and his skill in using them has passed into a
proverb The great statesman has taken care
that the counties which he knew when q how
should not slip from that storehouse where he
keeps such large portion of his political capital
81 never met man who could ask SO many ques-
tious or remember as many things as Jim
Blaine said Mr.. j. R. Dutton to me this after
noon. 1 was one of half dozen friends who es
corted him down to the boat when he left here to
go to Kentucky to teach. From that night 7
didn't meet him again until we met in the Mon
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

The circular sent out by Secretary
Troutman, of the Kansas Prohibition
Union, showing the great amount of
work that has been done under the pro-
hibitOry amendment, has been picked to
pieces by dozens of persons, and it is
doubtful now if even Troutman believes
the figures he published. The last arti-
Gle we have noticed on the subject was
from Jas. G. McGinnis, leadiag repub-
lican Of Missouri, who has at all times
been an opponent of prohibition. Heis
a man of facts and figures, never guilty
of idle talk, and this is what he says:
And 1 also deny that it has reduced
the number of saloons. as claimed. but.
on the contrary, assert that there are
more retail liquor dealers doing busi-
ness IN Kansas now than ever before.
And / will call the reports of the Unit d
States Commissioner of Internal ReYe-
nue. in proof of my assertion. These are
no crooked exhibits, gotten up to sup
port theory partial in extent and false
In fact, but the unbiased statement of
the officers of the government who care
nothing about prohibition in Kansas or
elsewhere. i give the following table.
showing the number of retail liqu,
dealers permits liquors included
furnished by the revenue collector to
persons in the district of Kansas during
the wears noted in the table; and show
in the same table the number issued for
the same time in West Virginia. SO that
your readers may note the regularity of
the business in a state that has been
less affected by the prohibition agita-
ton than probably any other in the
union
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

Frank James having about finished
all the business he had with the Mis-
souri, courts, he has started on n trip
south. y Kansas City dispatch dated
the llth, says: In the criminal court
this morning County Attorney Wallace
dismissed the case against Frank James
and Charles Ford, charged with the
Blue Cut train robbery in 1881. The
attorney submitted the statement that
owing To the refusal of Governor Crit.
tenden to pardon Dick Liddle the state
Is deprived of his testimony, and also
valuable corroboratiye evidence, hence
would be unable TO make n case. He
stated that the case at Gallatin for the
bank robbery against James would also
be dismissed, thus yacating all indict-
ments in Missouri. The announcement
created quite n ripple of surprise i'm the
court room. James was Immediately
taken before Judge Krekel, of the L. :.
court, where he had hearing on the
charge Of robbery OF the United States
paymaster at Missouri Shoals, Alaba-
ma. Bail was refused and James viii
be taken to Alabama, this week. lie Is
now in the custody of the United States
marshal.
The court room was crowded during
the progress Of the hearing. James
showed traces of recent illness and COM
planned somewhat of WEAKNESS. In
talking with the reporter, after the dis
missal Of the case, James said he antic-
ipated such action, and expressed him
self as in readiness to meet the charge
In Alabama.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

Chicago Herald: The fiery and elo-
quent Blackburn walks off with the
senatorial hOnOrs from Kentucky
Blackburn has had u short but rather
remarkable career. He FIRST came un-
der tie national eye i'm the winter of
1915, when he went to Washington as a
member of the forty-fourth congress,
and more ornery looking specimen
never took seat i'm the House. lie
was coarse featured, with a red face
and loud voice. lie wore huge mus
tache trained down from the corners of
the mouth in the vulger style then af.
fected. But his most conspicuous fea-
ture was huge green necktie that fair
" daZZled the multitude and draw every
eye. a tendency to get on his feet all
the time soon excited derision, and peo-
pie began to laugh and suggest that the
wild Kentuckian was fresh" But the
celebrated Hill Blaine debate gave him
an opportunity TO make speech, and
he fairly electrified the House. From
that day TO this Blackburn has been a
national figure, and his success in reach
ing the Senate is the reward of his abil-
ity and individuality.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

New York World 1t is a remarkable
fact that no one in searching for the
causes of the decline and fall of the
United States has struck the insidiOus
evil of the deadhead system. 1t is well
known to a large number of philoso-
pliers and students of human nature
who have been brought upin New York
that the American people are being rap
idly converted into a nation of dead
heads. In the early and sober DAYS when
legislators refused on principle to pay
for railroad tickets or theatsr seats, we
rather admired the frugal sense Of our
repre- esentatives. But when not only
legislators but aldermen, coroners, COM
missioners, port wardens, marshals, po-
lice captains, deputy sheriffs, hotel keep
ers, detectives, judges, superlntendents
and advertising agents adopt the same
homely methods, it will be seen that we
are staggering backwards into a pris-
tine condition.
The appalling fate is staring us i'm the
face-soOner or later we must be vast
agglomeration of deadheads. No pub
lie man of any spirit now pretends to
pay for his railroad travel or his amuse-
ments. To do SD would be an admis-
sion of official weakness.
And this is the reason, no doubt, of
the price that the small minority of the
public have to pay when they enjoy op-
era or drama. Aswe have to give away
seven tickets for every one we sell, say
the managers, let us charge the one fel-
low who pays seven times as much as
usual. And they do.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

5 4. Knapp, president of the Iowa
Agricultural College, thus sums up the
case of barb wire fences "First-They
are cheap, durable, easily constructed
and not liable to get out of repair. Sec
ond-They restrain all kinds Of stock
better than wall, rail, or board fences.
Third-They are economical Of space,
do not harbOr weeds or animals destruc-
tive to crops. Fourth-The fence can
be renewed without loss, or the wires
may be attached to trees by the use of
strirs. Such fences cannot be used with
safety for narrow roads, nor for barn
yards, nor through brush. Cattle must
have ample room TO keep clear off the
fence. When such fences are first erect
ed, and before cattle have learned to
respect them. there is considerable dan
ger afterward. scarcely any"
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

y correspondent of the Pratt County
Press, from Saratoga, Kans., says that
one of the workmen on a new mill near
that place recently found buried, six
inches below the surface, a silver me
dallion, a brass chain attached. On one
side profile Of James Buchanan, sur
rounded by the inscription james Bu-
chanan, President Of the United States,
1857" On the other side, landscape
with an Indian plOwing corn, a church.
a school house, etc, surrounding the
landscape, two Indians with scalping
knives, AZ the right a quiver and arrows,
on the left bow and arrow and at the
bottom an Indian head. The coin
weighs five and half ounces. 1t was
perhaps presented To some chief during
Bucllanan's administration, and lost on
the banks of the NinneScah.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

the states that cast these votes, so that
IL they were to vote in 1884 as they did
in 1880, for tho democratic candidates,
there would be l72 votes, and not
enough for choice. But by adding the
90 votes Of New York state, would
make 20S votes or a clear majority Of T..
Included in the table the states of Indi-
ana and Connecticut are not taken into
consideration though it is more than
likely both of these states will cast their
electoral votes with the democrats. and
farther than this there is not much rea-
son to hope. So, without New York,
even with Indiana and Connecticut,
everything would be lost.
The article in question shows that
there need be little hope of carrying
Ohio, as it has never failed to vote for
republican candidates in presidential
elections. 1t says that on the other
hand, New York, when not democratic,
has always been close, and has been car
ried twice by the democrats in presiden-
tial elections.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

Ever since the democrats allowed
themselves to be euchered out of Til
den's election they have felt very much
as though they had made fools of them.
selves, and though they have not ac
knowledged it to the public, Rany
leader who favored that electoral COM
mission is heartily ashamed of his stu
pidity. The situation does not improve
with age, either A; and now that the re-
publicans are twitting the democrats
for their cowardice in that contest, it
becomes the more unpleasant to think Of
A Washington letter says that Mr..
Blaine the other night, dlscoursed in an
interesting vein upon the stormy period
OF the electoral commission. 1t will be
remembered that he voted against the
commission, and has always disputed
the propriety of the means employed to
settle the difficulty of that winter. lie
said it was strange the democrats did
not recognize the fact that they were
the. absolute masters of the situation.
The republicans were beaten. They
knew it, and were merely casting about
for way to come to graceful acknOwl-
edgment of their defeat. All the dem
ocrats had to do was to remain quiet
and simply wait. They should have re-
fused to have anything to do with the
electoral commission proposition. 1t
would have been enough for them to
say that the methods of the constitution
afforded them an absolute guaranty of
their rights. Suppose the democrats had
taken this position of conservative,
resting upon their unquestioned rights;
what could the republicans have done
with the votes Of the states in dispute
Suppose nothing had been decided in
advance OF the day i'm February when
the joint convention of congress should
have met to count the vote. The count
would have proceeded, under the con-
stitution, until the first disputed state
should be reached. Everything would
have proceeded in order up to that
point. Then does any one suppose Fer
~ would have had the audacity to count
the states vote for the republicans in
face OF protest from the democratic
house No, most decidedly not. What
then would have followed? ? Why, simp-
y the method devised by the constitu-
tion for such an emergency. Where the
vote of a state is in dispute the two
houses must separate and pass separ-
ately upon how the vote shall be count
ed. Unless the two houses concur the
vote OF the state cannot be counted.
This would have been a legal and inn
preenable position for the democrats to
have occupied. With the rejection of
any one of the states in dispute Tilden
wonld have had the majority. and would
have been declared elected.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15
The Texas legisIature has at last pass

The Texas legislature has at last pass
ed bill to prohibit the fencing of pub
lie lands and to prevent the herding of
stock upon the same. In substance the
bill provides that it shall be unlawful
for any person or company to fence the
land of another or any public lands in
the state, without the written consent
of the owner or duly executed lease !:
and if found guilty the person violating
the law is liable to fine of from fifty
cents to one dollar per acre per month
for each month the land isinclosed. Six
months is given to persons who may
have lands fenced contrary to law to re-
move the fences. The act does not ap-
ply to persons who have heretofore set
tied upon lands not their own, where
the Enclosure is 200 acres or less, and
when the principal pursuit of such per-
son on the land is that of agriculture.
Section requires that any party own
ing land surrounding that of another
must fence the inner line of his own
survey, and build lane sixty feet wide
to the outer boundaries of the surround
ing land, putting gates at each end pref
ty much wherever the owner of the in
ner survey may require.
Section provides that it shall be un-
lawful for any person, firm or corpora
ton to herd, or aid in herding, or cause
TO be herded, loose herded or detained
for grazing by line riding, any cattle,
horses, mules, asses, sheep or goats, on
any vacant public domain, school, uni
versity or asylum lands within this state
unless the same shall have been leased
from the proper authority provided
that this section of this act shall not ap-
ply to persons herding such stock in
gathering for or carrying to and from
market, or in moving the same from
one section of the country to another.
Under this section, however, it is con-
strued that any person may turn theil
cattle loose, to roam at will on the pub
lie domain.
Should n ranchman violate this proyi.
sion, he is liable to a fine of 500 fol
every section of land used contrary tC
law.
At this distance it appears that the
new law viii have the effect of turning
most of the grazing lands OF Texas ou
from under fence and that the conse
quence will be the public ranges will al
be overstocked in short time. Veal
]
thy ranchmen will alone prosper, fol
they can lease and inclose all the rang,
they need, while the smaller ones must
take their chances on the outside.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

New York World Senator Ingalls,,
as an art critic, is too much Of bliz
zard. lie proposes 10 improve the tone
Of the statuaTy decorations in Washing
ton by dumping the whole collection in
To the Kidwell bottoms. Some idea of
how art looks submerged in swamp
may be formed by reading Senator Ing
alls' remarks. The fact is that bad as
some of the eillgies around Washington
are, they are much preferred by the
country 10 some of the live critics. AS
between Wards Washington and Sena-
tor ingalls,, the advantage in repoSe and
silence, to say nothing of durability and
honesty, is all on the side of the statue.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

New York sun : Mr.. Plumb, reflect
ing that the pension list is not large
enough, since IL contains only little
more than three hundred thousand
names, has introduced a bill that en-
deayors to partly repair this great pub
lie want. Among those whom he would
add TO the rolls are all who, though dis
charged from the army, after service in
the civil war, in good health, and with
out wounds or any disease acquired in
the service, now feel unable, by reason
of physical disability, to earn their sub
sistence." How many cases might be
covered by this new class of indisposed
pensioners no one knows and Mr..
Plumb, at least, does not care.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

The Ohio river and its tributaries
have been in the habit of getting ON a
terrible tear about once year, and Sc.
lecting the middle of winter as the prop
er time for the caper. Last year it went
higher than had been known for many
years, and already this season it has
past the mark of 1883. The situation
may be understood from the following
extracts from dispatches dated the 18th:
CINCINNATI.-The day has been one
of the greatest excitement. The
stage of high water OF last year was
passed at p. m. a steady and hard
rain during the greater part of the day.
together with reports of general rains
every place where it would run into the
Ohio, made it certain still that more
dangerous flood will be upon the already
unfortunate people Of the OHIO valley.
The experience of last year made the
people bold in confronting the dangers
they had once net and overcome, but
when now, a new element OF terror
comes in the form of a heightened
flood, a new series of calamities begin
to appear.
LAwRENCEBURG, IND.-The situa-
ton is growing worse and worse. The
mayor, for the first time, to-day asked
help from abroad. More houses are
lifted from their foundations and peo-
pie are removing from the second floors
and abandoning the goods, because of
no place to take them, and the current
is so swift that boating is dangerous.
Mt. CAESIEL, PA.-There has been a
general suspension of work throughout
the mining region. Rain and melting
snow has submerged the workings, and
a large force is endeavoring to dam the
mountain streams. In some mines there
are from thirty to forty feet of water.
INDIANAPOLIs.-The expected appeal
for assistance from the flooded Ohio
river towns reached here to-day. Gov
ernor Porter issued proclamation ask
ing contributions from the people OF the
state. a relief committee of the board
of trade will have charge of the distri-
button of supplies.
Congress this week passed joint res
olution appropriating 100000 to the
Ohio river sufferers, and this added to
private contributions, and aid that will
be extended by the state legislatures,
will check the terrible suffering that
now exists.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15
At the late session Of the Grand Army

At the late session Of the Grand Army
encampment, at Topeka, two resolu-
tions, cleGly political in their nature.
were introduced. One was condemine
the act Of congress in reinstating Fitz
Join Porter, and the other was thank
ing Senator Ingalls, for bis defense of
John Brown. Both resolutions were
referred to special committee, and re-
ported back with recommendation that
the resolutions be suppressed. Ia the
matter Of the Porter resolution, this
action vas taken but the John Brown
resolution was passed over the recon-
mendatIon Of the committee.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

Kansas republicans will hold their
state convention for the purpose Of Sc
lecting delegates to the national con-
vention at Chicago, at Topeka, April -,
lSsl. One delegate will be allowed for
every $50 votes cast for James Smith,
secretary OF state. IL will be noticed
THIS year that the vote cast for st. John
In 1883, will not be used in arriving at a
D-sls OF representation In any Of the re-
publican conventions. Ills name Is
mentioned as seldom as possible now by
Kansas republicans.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

We fear that congress will not pass
any general law preventing the spread
of contagious diseases among cattle.
The pleuro-pneumOnia bill came up the
other day, and met with considerable
opposition, and this opposition came
from unexpected sources. Lanham and
Regan, of Texas opposed the bill "on
constitutional grounds" the telegraph
informs us; but we have an idea that
they opposed the measure for other rea-
sons. When it is once established that
congress can legislate effectually to pre-
vent the driving of cattle from one state
TO another during certain seasons, Tex
as fever, as we call the disease here, will
not be known on the range; though in
preventing the disease the business of
handling Texas cattle in Southern Kan
sas may be interfered with to a consid-
cradle extent. There is no denying that
cattle driven frem the south to northern
ranges after frosts have ceased to occur
in the spring and before it appears in
the fall will impaTt disease TO domes-
tic cattle. The only certain way to pre-
vent the spread of this disease is to pre-
hibit the importation of the cattle that
impart it.
No doubt Mr.. Lanham and Mr.. Re
gan are opposed to the passage Of any
bill that will restrict the cattle of their
state from being driven anywhere, at
any time.
For this very reason we hope Kansas
members of congress will fight the hard
er for the interests of their constituents.
Kansas can't afford to allow its border
counties To suffer such losses as they
have in the past few years. The state
enactments appear insufficient to ac-
complish the ends for which they we're
intended, and it appears that the ma
t!onal congress alone can give us relief.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

Some politician, evidently working in
the interest Of New York man for the
democratic nomination for the presi-
dency, Is engaged in sending out politi-
cal literature from Chicago, going to
prove that New York state Is to be the
battle ground in the campaign this year.
The last article we have noticed ON this
subject is from the Chicago Herald. The
writer goes ON to show that at the next
election there win be f0l electoral votes
cast, eOl being necessary to the choice
Of president. -Four years ago there
were l55 votes cast for Hancock. and
since then L votes have been added-lo
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

The Springfield, ILL.,, Journal thinks
the democrats ought to nominate cou-
pie Of confederate brigadiers this year.
n they should the republican press of
the country could not say ANYTHING
meaner of them than they did of Han
cock, whose loyalty was not questioned
when hghting was to be done.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

General Grant was more severely in-
jured by his fall several weeks ago than
was Mt first supposed, and it is even sug-
gested that he may never be sound
man again. "Ile has not smoked a ci-
gar since December eOth," writes n cor
respondent, and that means that he is a
verY sick man.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

An attempt was recently made by a
householder In an Iowa town TO get an
Injunction restraining the reading Of
ene bible IN the public schools of that
STATE and also to prohibit the singing
o. hymns or repeating the Lords PRAY
eF. In decision rendered last week
however the court held that such selsc.
lions were Intended to incuIcate moral
.y' purity, and honesty, and were.
.refeI"re' a part of the school system.
ne refused to grant the desired order
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

Texas Live Stock Journal The calf
crop will be ap average one--neither
light nor heavy in numbers, trifle bet
ter though, on account of more and bet
ter bulls being on the ranges than here
tofOre.
To inquiring minds wishing TO
know how stock arc wintering In Texas
we can safely say they are doing we'll /;
better than average. Losses none to
speak Of. Certainly not from bad wea-
lher OF shortncsa of range.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

Indian Agent Miles has made favor
able report upon the claims of a number
OF kansans, who suffered from the raid
made through the state by the Chey-
ennes and Arapahoes in 1878. When
the Indian appropriation bill reaches
the senate committee ON appropriations.
Senator Plumb, who is a member of
that committee, expects to secure the
incorporation Of an item for the pay
ment osthese claims.
Barbour County index., 1884-02-15

It transpires that among other sins
Kansas will have 10 answer for, will be
the one Of furnishing an author for a
lot Of Beadle's dime novels. a young
man named Joseph T.. Badger, at
Innkfort, Is u regular contributor to
this class of literature, and gets from
one hundred 10 three hundred dollars
for each book he writes.