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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-07-17

When the colored voters of the South
wrote to Charles Sumner in 1872 asking him
which of the candidates would, if elected,
enforce the mandates of the constitution and
laws respecting the negro's civil and political
rights g with the most heartfelt sympathy
and the greatest vigor," and Mr.. Sumner re-
piled that in his opinion Mr.. Greely would, a
certain journalist wrote: "The whole cleo
tion with him (Sumner) turns upon one man.
All the tendencies, logic, necessities, facts,
principles of the Republican party, avail
nothing with him, because he does not like
the candidate. The whole moral drift of the
Democratic party does not dismay him, be-
cause the candidate is agreeable to him. =
The journalist who thus wrote was George
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-28

home, given in Mr. Castleman's name
What does 1t mean. my childP'
"Ab! | know, know" she cried, be-
side herself with happiness; land OH I
am so glad"
She could scarcely make explanation
to hcr mother for the exuberance of her
joy.
Her face was radiant when she re-
turned from her visit of thanks to Mr..
Castleman.
He was so kind, mamma; and when
kissed him he kissed me back again"
The days that followed were golden
ones to Nellie. 1t seemed that the sun
had never sent down such soft, Ife-giv-
ing rays before, and it was wonder
ful moon that flooded the valley with
its radiance through the long summer
nights
The dark-eyed girl who had haunted
her vision, both real and fancied, for so
long, had gone on tour in the noun
tains. A little pang still thrilled her
heart at any remembrance of her, but
that, she explained to herself, was but
the result of former habit
Her GOODNESS toward Frank Castle
man diminished in a marked degree as
the days sped on, but there was an in
tangible barrier between them yet.
The two invalids grew stronger every
day, and now that Mr.. Castleman's
horses and carriage had arrived, they,
with Frank and Nellie, took long trips
to Glen Eyrie, Cheyenne Canyon, Mon
ument Park and other points of in
terest.
One day Nellie was sent on pressing
errand to Colorado Springs, and Frank
accompanied her. as usual. as driver.
AS they returned across the mesa
| Gable land) the sun was throwing its
last, slanting beams on the Garden of
the Gods, which lay in beauty beneath
| them.
al always supposed said Frank,
laughing, THAT tulips 1.-TWO lips), lady
| fingers, heartsease and all such flowers
bloomed in the Garden of the Gods. Did
not your Hope shall yet find them,
L sure.
II doubt if you WILL" replied Nellie,
a bright red staining the ivory of her
cheeks.
Whereupon ensued conversation OF
such absorbing interest that full hour
had elapsed ere they had reached the
balancing Rock.
81 shall never forget" said Nellie, ir.
relevantly, that it was here we found
that dear little saucepan"
"And / shall never forget" said
Frank, radiantly, ''that it was in the
Garden of the Gods | found my deal
little saucepan, too"
"And the tulips, the lady-tlngers, the
heartsease as well, " she slyly whispered
BLESSED little saucepans both" he
added. "Uncle and l may well thank
the fate that brought them into oul
lives. "-Jeannie S. JudSon, IN The Cur
| rent
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Washington ShOpkeepers.

The older shopkeepers of Washing
ton are usually very interesting men.
They have lived through a great deal
of interesting history in the place where
history is made, and have caught some
of it now and then as it passes by. For
years they have furnished the great men
of the country with necessaries and lux
uries-oftentimes at great personal eX-
pense. But their unusual class of Gus
toners has given them unusual expert
ences, and as result unusual culture
OF certain sort. They are reservoirs
of Renaissance. One could not spend
an afternoon more pleasantly than in
chatting with the gray-haired proprie-
tor of certain bookstore on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, not far from the Capitol,
made famous by the great men who
have whiled away their idle hours with
in its walls. No private building in
Washington has ever held more distin-
guished men than this little shop. Few
have such store of memories as is to
be found there. But the young men in
these shops are not SO well informed as
the old shopkeepers, and their COM
mepts upon their famous old customers
when they affect any personal knowl-
edge about them at all are apt TO be
very funny. Several blocks west of the
historic book store is hat store, more
ambitious and less distinguished than it
used to be. Two other hat stores further
west attract more fashionable people,
now that all the people in Washington do
not live in the central or eastern parts.
But it is still a successful establishment,
and, while 'Viewing with alarm" tine
encroachments of its rivals, points
with PRIDE to its past achievements
and to its dead customers. In its win
dow is a hat--an old-fashioned beaver
labeled "Henry Clay's last hat,
which is eyed with reverent interest by
all the Kentuckians who come to town.
Recently two rather distinguished Ken
tuckians went IN to look at it. They
were allowed to do so by the courteous
young clerk, who also treated them to
choice tid-bits of information about the
past glories of the store He told them
that all the great men of the bellum and
ante bellum periods bought their hats
at this old, reliable establishment. This
was the hat that Clay ordered just be-
fore his death. He had not really worn
it. 'iHe ldied," continued the clerk
| Gllbly, right across the way III thaI
old double house" "Oh, | guess not"
put in one of the Kentuckians, " Clay
died at the National Hotel, down here
bit" "Yes," said the clerk, that's
so. 1t was Daniel Webster who died in
that house across the street" "Oh,
no." said the other Kentuckian, "Dan.
| Tel Webster died at his home in Massa-
chusot.s." "Well," said the cornered
Gle K, fairly desperate at this rude treat
uent Of his treasured recollections,
somebody died. at that old house
across the street, anyhow" Every
4 LLeiy said both Kentuckians. Good
morning. Cor Phtiddeiphta Record.
1t is one proof of good education
and of true refinement of feeling to re-
spect antiquity. -SiGoarney.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-28
4 SONG OF THE SWEETEST.

A song of the things that are sweetest,
The cunningest and the completest,
Meath the beautiful sky that is DER us,
In the beautiful world that's before us.
On the breast of the dear sea under us
None of which three can sundcr us.
Say a moon with little star daughter,
That looks at herself in the water
From her blue bower so high up above us,
So close to the angels that love us;
But these are less dear to the night
Than unto my heart its delight.
Little bough, with the little leaves on it.
Faint green, like Titanias bonnet,
As fresh as the hopes of the spring-time,
As light as the songs of the wing-time-
Little bough but left you to see
A little face sweeter to me.
Little shell. with the pink overspreading,
Like the cheek of a bride at her wedding,
And as smooth as the brow of the sister
Whose coral lips lately have kissed her
Little shell-ship that saileth the ocean,
Thou'rt but type of my shrine of devotion.
Oh, little bee rocked on a mullen,
Neither listless nor lazy nor sullen,
A wise little hunter of sweetness,
A quaint little teacher of neatness-
What's more cunning than this little fellow,
Clinging close to the mullein-hower yellow?
Is't bud with the red breaking through it
And the morning sun staying to WOO it?
All, lovely and Turing the rose is
Which the buds fairy lattice discloses;
But my cradle, bower that is fairer,
Holds flower that is sweeter and rarer.
Is't nest with baby bird in it.
a soft-throated gray little linnet,
With fathers wing lowering over IL,
And mothers breast ready to COVERT?
All, the sweetest of sounds, so my vote Ia,
Come not up out of little birds throatiesl
Mothers heart, with little head on it,
Proud and happy because she has won it
Mothers heart says her baby's the sweetest,
The cunningest and the completest,
Of all the sweet things under Heaven,
OF all the sweet things ever given.
--HO,Oard Glyndon. in Hdrper's Weekly.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-28
THE RIO GRANDE FLOOD.
The Water the Highest in Fifty Years, and
No Abatement in Prospect-Incalculable
Damage to Crops and Other Property.


No Abatement in Prospect-Incalculable
Damage to Crops and Other Property.
SANTA FE, N. NJ, June %.
For more than thirty days past the
high waters have swept through the Rio
Grande Valley, and every hour the course
of the river has changed. AS yet there is
no promise of abatement, and at Alamiho
and other points the river was as high
yesterday as it has been for fifty years.
The results are growing daily
more appalling, as can be readily
understood when it is considered
that the long overflow has turned almost
all the earth into quicksands. Wagon
roads are entirely abandoned and by the
most persistent efforts only has the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad been
able to support track on their main
line. At Rincon the course of the river
and the entire country is so much changed
as to be really unrecognizable. Where
the round-house stood is now the main
current of the stream, which turns itself
and flows north considerable distance.
From RincQn to Dora Ana there is moth
ing to suggest railroad. No attempt
has been made to rebuild.
The towns of Tome, Los Pinos, Valencia
and Peralto in Valencia County, are
swept away and five hundred families are
destitute on the mesa. The San Marcials
is flooded, boats being used to pass from
house to house. The waters form an
ocean, and the iron railroad bridge at
that point was saved only by throwing
into the river several loads of cut stone
worth $3.50 car.
haa 81
on Manzeares avenue, beginning at the
depot and extending to the ChieftdiR Of
flee.
The old town of Albuquerque is flood
ed, and there is water in the new town.
More than two-thirds of the crops in
the valley are loss. Wheat, nearly ripe,
has fallen, and in many places the care
fully cultivated fields are only sheet of
water. Mosquitoes, frogs and sand-flies
and other pests render day and night
hideous to the people. The cost of la
borers, who are worked almost con-
tinuously by the railroad company and
are allowed double pay for night work, Is
immense. Last week the majority of the
men put in eighteen days' times Train
men have been doing extra duty and are
worn out.
TIE Rio Grande has been rising at AL
buquerque for two days. On Thursday
afternoon the stream broke through the
dixie five miles above the new town, OPP
posite Las Ranches, but 200 men and
women, working day and night, finally
succeeded in repairing the break. This
state of affairs is expected to remain UNI
changed thirty days longer, as the SHOWS
in the mountains of Southern Colorado
are yet ten 20 forty feet deep and heavy
| rains tall in New Mexico almost daily.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-28
POPULAR JUSTICE.

Oliver Garfield, the Murderer of Mollis
Che rlSin at Nincennes, Indiana, Taken
from Jail by Indignant Citizens and Hung
within, Sight of the Scene of His Crime
A Hear. tless Wretch.
NlNCENNEs, IND, June %.
To-day oliver Canhcld, who murdered
MoliieGherk in, told Officer Runner that he
would like to see the girl, and was grant,
ed the privilege. When he entered the
room where sln' was lying, he looked at
her and laughed. Officer Runner took
him ont of the room and asked him what
he thought about.it. al would like to
finish her," said Garfield, with tiendish
grin, and then burst out laughing. The
city was excited during the afternoon,
and the officers of the law claimed
that they expected Garfield would
be mobDed tonight. There is no
question about there being two mobs or
gained. Nearly all the officers claim
that they will hardly dare to make
any resistance. Cantield's crime Is the
most fendish ever recorded here. He
took his victim in his arms, and instead
of kissing or embracing her, he shot at
her five times, two shots taking effect in
her brain. She had been conscious but
once since she was shot. Her case was
most remarkable one, and has attracted
wide attention from physicians.
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VINCENNRa, IND, ,

VINCEssRs. IND, JuR9 -.
Garfield was taken from the Jail by u
mob of masked men at one O'Clock this
morning and hanged. The mob met with
40 opposition from the Sheriff or his
deputies except that he re-
fused to deliver the key to the
JAIL In consequences of this the mob
had to break down. the Jail doors. This
occupied at least forty minutes Garfield
was found covering in his cell and made
an attempt at prayer. He was FASTENED
out to the street, where several hun
lred of the best citizens were wait
ing to see what would be done. 1t
was proposed that Garfield be hung
near the Jail, but he requested that he
be byng in sight of the house where he
killer his sweetheart. This proposition
was lset with deafening yells from the
crowd, and he was hurried up to a con-
venent telegraph pole within stones
throw of the scene of the murder. Be-
fore the rope was drawn Garfield
was asked if he had anything to
say. He was weak and fainting
and could scarcely talk. The most he
could say was that he was guilty and that
lie was sorry ne Kllleu the girl; InaC III III
was to do over he would not do
what he has done. He begged
that his mother be told
that he had tried to be reconciled to
heaven but that he did not believe he
would ever get there. He was given one
minute to say prayers, but he had by this
time sank so low he could scarcely
be aroused. The rope was soon adjusted
around his neck and, amid the applause
of the crowd, he was drawn to height of
ten feet and then left to hang. There
was scarcely struggle visible, but the
victim probably lived thirty minutes. A
card was pinned to his coat requesting
the Coroner to let the body hang until
twelve O'Clock to-day. The mob did not
| dispense until DAYLIGHT,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-28

1t is one proof of good education
and of true refinement of feeling to re-
spect antiquity. -Siaoarney.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-10
Tho T,lerr.ph az a Now antberer.

AAAN AAANb ANfA ~ y ANNWe h9AhNAfAf
People in this age have become 80
used to the telegraph that they never
ask themselves what they would do
without 1t. The instantaneous trans
mission OF news by electricity is no
longer marvel TO us. but we look upon
II AZ matter Of course. Six hours
after the closing of the polls in New
York, we knew as much about the
election there as the people OF the city
themselves. liza dispatch is delayed
haitian hour beyond the time II ought
to have been received, we become inn
patient and growl at the "slownesin
OF the telegraph. THE GAZETTE, the
morning after the election. announced
the result in nearly every state from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, aud
where, as In few cases, the an.
nouncemont made was incorrect, that
was due to subsequent returns chang
ing the result, or TO human error, and
not to failure OF the Geographic SER
vice. For all purposes of information
AZ to the general result, THE GAZETTE,
printed ten hours after the polls closed
had AZ accurate reports from Maine
and California rs newspapers published
in those states.
In 1910, at the conclusion of the clog
cabin" campaign, the only one in our
history To afford parallel with that
just closed, there was neither railroad
nor telegraph communication, aud It
was q month and longer before the
more distant districts knew the result
and could glorlfy over the election OF
Harrison. Al that time Missouri was
the extreme Western state. Had
there been California and
other Pacific coast states. they
would have remained in ignorance OF
the result OF the election until the re
turns could have been slowly aud labo-
riously collected, consuming a month
or longer the totals added and the
news carried by sailing vessels around
the entire continent of South America
TO San Francisco. The people in that
distant part OF the country would have
but just learned whom they had elect
ed president about the time for his
Inauguration. Here in Texas we
would have waited for aship from New
York TO Galveston, whence the news
would have been gradually taken into
the interior. We might have known
who our next president was to be in
time to celebrate his election at the
Christmos holidays, IL the news olrcu.
lators were industrious, but could
hardly have expected It in advance Of
that time.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-10
st. Louis RopubIIoan CcIovslan dI.

The G.-D.'s poultry yard is still af-
ilicted with the gapes.
At last We learn why Mr.. 3, r. Jones
was made chairman Of the Republican
national committee. He is to be the
man Of the emergency.
Mr.. Jones of the Republican national
executive committee had better put a
good sized lump of ice in his hat. His
foolish address would leave the im-
preston he has brick in his beaver.
The great moral idea OF the Blaine
managers in this crisis Ia to claim
everything in sight and to grab every
thing they can reach. Their only dam
ger Is Of dislocating an arm trying to
reach too far.
That was a miserable shift of the Re-
publican national committee-the card
of President Jones. But it shows the
desperate and reckless character of the
party managers for whom he speaks.
Mr.. b. +. Jones announces that the
Democratic party will not be allowed
To thwart the will OF the American
people. Probably he considers that
Blaine, Elkins and Gould are the
American people.
Mr.. b Il. Jones, chairman of tho
Republican committee. eharacterizas
the Democracy as the party which mas
for years been notoriousIy the psrty Of
fraud IN elections. The cool imnu-
dence OF this will not be lost upon any
enc whose memory goes back to the
year 1876. Mr.. Jones' proclamation h
harmless. The people are not ready
for another electoral steal.
Chairman Jones OF the national Re.
publican committee Is seized with A
sudden ft Of reverence for the sane
lily Of the ballot.p His appeal 10 the
counter committees reads very like an
open mint Tor those officials To throw
out Cleveland votes. II seems that
Mr.. Jones has yet To learn that that
game Was play ed out In 1876 New
York state Will not prove a wholesome
resort for visiting statement this
year,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-10
chicago Herald ana. RrrI.

When rival interests illuminate con-
llicting proclamations claiming victory
and asserting fraud, dark and por-
tentous shadow, omlnous OF 1876, is
cast upon the situation. The menace
must give pause to all citizens of the
republic who value peace, order, and
honor above party success. The utter
ance of Mr.. Manning Is unhappily sug-
geslive of Willingness to be taught by
the instructions OF j. Madison Wells
aud return them to plague the invent
nrs. The card to which the name Of
Jones is signed contains, with other
Objectionable matter, gross, open aud
palpable falsehoods. There is 10 JUS
tihcatiOn in the returns so far as re.
ceived for the assertion that Blaine
has carried either Indiana or New
York or that West Virginia is in
doubt. The duty Of the hour is to al
lay popular excitement. The procla-
nations inflame it. The duty OF both
committees Is TO ascertain facts beyond
peradventure before asserting them
The committees have substantially no
fuller information than the newspa
pers which assert contrary claims
The evil, the peril Of both lies is an
assumption as the foundation Of a
threat. The Herald believes IL voices
the honest sentiments of the people of
this country irrespective of party as
ISOLATION when 1t AYERS that the shame
and the Injustice of 1876 shall
not be rep ated. It cannot
be repeated with safety to the
nation The election hinges upon the
result In New York. If Blaine has
honestly aud fairy carried the state
the electoral vote must be counted for
him. its vote is fairly for Cleve
land 1t must be so counted. Frauds
practiced by any party will be rebukod.
That ~ the present temper of the coun-
try. 1.-THE verdict of the people is
that the party administration be
changed the verdict will be recorded,
however rebelliuus the managers of
the long dominant party.
Until that verdict is ascertained by
the constitutional methods, until the
returns OF New York are fully and
fairly canvassed, good citizens will en-
deavor to allay excitement. Mean
time, the quiet resumption OF business
Is an obvious necessity.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-10

dency man representative Of the
vices which caused it, own decay. IL
l. dislnttprGu q under the load Of its
own record aud 1t Will ultimsteiy per-
ish, a. all political parties perish which
have been used 10 advance thu personal
ambition Of leaders rather than inter-
ests Of the public.
The anxiety, the approximations of
the noble army of oitice-hOlders
In Washington and elsewhere
during the last few days must
have been most keen and
distressing. During nearly twenty
five years the beneflciaries OF the Rad
ical party have enjoyed the most lib
eral feed at the public crib. They
have, great and small, come TO look
upon their fees and salaries as a ma
tional heritage, and have been pOlit-
ically educated TO regard the Demo-
cratic party as public enemy, because
IL might some day want t.. put others
in their places and overhaul the books
they have been keeping so long with
out proper supervision. To some mem
bers of this vast array of Uflice-holders
certain sympathy Is due when u
new regime is inaugnrated, but the
great majority are partisans, and mean
ones at thar, who have constantly
schemed against the public interest in
order to advance the Radical party.
To these sort of political day of
judgment will be blessing to the
country; there should be a
general clearing out and an application
TO the public service Of the business
principles usually employed when a
concern is overhauled from top to bot
tom. We hope the day ia now gone,
and forever, when the government
offices need be filed with employees
giving more attention TO politics and
political plotting than to the duties
which they were appointed TO dis.
charge. In nearly every city in the
Union, and in all departments, very
large proportion of the officers and em-
ployes have shown their unfitness for
the public service by their bitter parti-
sanship. They have schemed and
plotted for the Radical party, In season
aud out OF season, md surely, when a
new party takes the reins, they ought
to be ready and willing to depart in
peace without waiting for an invita-
ton to go.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-10
MAKO the West D,mooratio.


The people OF the nation registered
their will last Tuesday for the first
time since the tariff became really
leading issue In political affairs. The
effect of the action OF congress last
winter, and of the discussion OF the
Morrison tariff bill, was distinctly per
ceptible in the vote OF last Tuesday,
which was an admonitlon that ths
Democratic party cannot let 20 with
out needing. The vote cast then was
= plain warning that proteetionism
must go.
The great reduction OF Republican
malorities In Illinois, Michigan, Wis.
consin and Iowa, and the change Of
Republican to Democratic majority
In Indiana, shows the way men'a minds
are turning. The West wants a low
tariff, a tariIf whose object Is revenue
and not protection. and because the
Republican party opposed this interest
Of the West, thousands Of Republicans
voted against IL No special effort was
made TO carry any OF these states, ex-
cept Indlaua, by the Democrats, aud
no aid was given the party ia them.