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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

When rich man. or man in high
social position. with money enough for
all the lawyers he cares TO employ, is
convicted, sentenced and hung, or sent
TO the penitentiary for life or long
term, we may fairly admit that the
law is stronger than money So far
there is nothing TO sustain such an ad-
mission
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

The joke is on George w. Martin, of
the Junction City Union. John A.
Anderson, his ideal statesman, having
cut some queer antics on the, tariff
question, George felt it incumbent
upon himselfto Indulge in few twists,
to show his political independence. At
the recent convention in his congress
sional district, he got resolution in
serted in the platform, demanding that
the poor mans luxuries, tea and coffee,
be admitted free Of duty. The fun Of
it was, that they have been free ofduty
for some time, bus no member of the
convention knew enough about it to
offer suggestion to that cfiect.-Kan-
s1s Chief
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

We won't say sure, but il looks very
much as though the Leavenworth
Times is against Coz. John A. Martin
for governor. for what else could that
paper mean by endorsing Martin in a
matter or position TO which Martin
does not hold.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
SUPPRESSION OF the MORmoNs.

The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston,
preached in Chicago Sunday on the
best means 10 be taken to suppress
Mormonism in Utah. lie said that the
territory should be temporarily gov
erned by a commission that the Nor
mon immigration should Ice sent back
as prospective violaters Of the law
and that information concerning the
true character of Mormonism should
be scattered ia those districts of Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark where
most of the recruits are obtained.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
The Daily EAGLE of Wichita, is a

The Daily EAGLE of Wichita. is a
daisy and no mistake. The secret OF
its excellence can be easily explained.
In the first place, il has competent
head. and in the second place-the
condition equally As Indispensable, it
is published in a live town. The bust
ness men of Wichita are awake to
their best interests as the advertising
columns of the EAGLE abundantly
testify I They are also awake in Har-
per as testified daily by the e. and o.
Harper Graphic.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05
THE LATEST NEWS.

The Wichita Daily EAGLE now ar.
rives here on the early morning can.
non ball, getting here several hours in
advance of all other dailies, and giving
the latest associated press dispatches
TO our citizens few hours after the
papers come from the press.--.Setig.
rick Ctr PdatdgraDh.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

As the time approaches when the
matter must be decided as between
several strong candidates with equal
claims, and backed by almost uncon-
ciliable forces, il becomes more plain
that VIM Tecumseh Sherman is the
only man whose nomination would be
followed beyond all doubt by tri-
unphant election.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

The growth of cremation through
out the country is rapidly on the in
crease. In fact the heirs of the late DIR.
Lamoync have issued a circular TO the
effect that their crematory establish
ment cannot longer be used by the
general puplic-that it is too small
to supply the increasing demand.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

Murat Halstead thinks Cleveland
and not T'ildcn will be The nominee Of
the democracy. He writes thus from
New York. Butt field marshal has
been brilliantly unsuccessful as one Of
the prophets.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

Senator Don Cameron, il is stated,
win take no part in the national re-
publican convention this time. lie
will not go to Chicago. and will not
interfere in any way in the Interest Of
any candidate.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

A statesman in the Presidential
chair has ceased to be prime neces-
sity, and good common sense is now a
sufficient qualification. Statesmen are
needed in Congress, and political
sharpers are best of at home.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

The democrats for twenty years
took their presidential candidates
from New York and have had them
beaten every time.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

The Wichita EAGLE has commenced
. large and handsome daily. We hope
the Publishers will be justified in their
venture. - Kansas Chief
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

81 .sH
All the editors are now taking rest
and the new ticket will be made by
the Cjcbaoo convention.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26

son, as victim. His age was years.
He was a favorite with all, hut espe-
cially dear to his father. AS is known
TO many of your readers, Mr.. Lohr
suffers from extreme deafness, and
this child was his chief medium of
communication with the rest of the
family, since his words were palmer
to the fathers ears than any Others.
Frank" was an amiable lad his loss
is sadly felt, and the family merit the
sympathy of the community and the
public.
On Tuesday morning, the 18th,
inst, George A., oldest son of Peter
and Maggie Lohr, grandchild of
Alex. Lohr, died of the same dread
disease, and was on Wednesday laid
by the side of his little playmate
and uncle. George was IN his fourth
year. AT this writing other members
of this family are i'll, and the help of
gracious God is invoked for them.
PASTOR.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26
Merited Success.

DR.. HARTMAN & Co.-Gents: Pc
runG sells very well here. 1 have
ordered several dozen bottles since
your agent was here.
w. w. STEELE & Co..
Chilicothe, Ohio.
I am selling your PerWad and it
gives universal satisfaction. We have
good sale for it.
G. w. BARRERE, Hilsboro, o.
Trade splendid on Pe11oaa. We
neversold medicine that gave better
satisfaction.
D. REED & Son, Pomeroy, Ohio.
The case of medicine you sent me
came all right, and is doing me good.
Others think so too, who have tried
it. Please send me dozen bottles
of Per,oaa.
ROBERT LOGAN. Topeka. Kan.
Your Per,And sells fast, and gives
good satisfaction.
J. s. SANDETs, Martinsburg, Pa.
This great medicine can be found
at all drug stores. Ask for them. Also
the book on the Ellis of Life"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26

The bill regulating the electora
CT unit which passed the Senate last
week, and now goes to the House, re-
quires that the Presidential electors
shall meet on the second Monlay in
January, and that each State shall, at
least six days before the electors
meeting, decide any controversy or
contest over the choice of electors.
On the second Wednesday in Febru-
airy succeeding the meeting of the
electors Congress shall begin to count
the votes. Objections to the counting
of any certificate must be in writing,
and it requires the affirmative vote of
both houses to reject vote. Where
there is more than one return from
Q State, those certificates shall be
counted which were declared regular
by the proper State tribunal. In case
ola dispute coming up from state as
to which of two or more returns is
legal, that return shall be counted
which shall be approved by vote OF
the two houses, acting separately.
This IS the same bill that passed the
Senate of the last Congress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26
Dogs.

to the account of the dogs in this
country were charged the cost of feed
ing them, the damages they do direct
ly by the destruction of property and
of life, and the injury their vicious
habits haye inflicted upon the agri-
cultura, interests by discouraging
wool. growing and if on the other
side of the account were credited all
the good they have done, real and
fancied-it would be found that The
balance against the dogs would ex-
coed the cost of keeping all the sheep
in America. One important charge
made against them would be that
they help men, who should be in
better business, to kill birds which,
ifpermitted to live. would keep down
the number of insects injurious to
food crops. 1t may be no fault of the
dog that he is thus brought into the
business of increasing the cost of liy-
ing, but it certainly is the fault of the
industrious and honest workers, who
are ever called upon to pay the cost
of the necessities and the pleasures OF
the idle and the vicious.
A remarkable thing in this connec-
ton is that the very class which
should be first to demand the re.
straint, if not the extinction, of dogs
IS the class which is most ready tC
claim the right and privilege of keep
ing them. The poor are always more
burdened with these curses than are
the rich the idle loafer is more likely
to have hanging about him half {
dozen vicious ours than the honest
worker is to have even one. Yet there
are few sound arguments in favor o
the existence of these destructive anC
costly animals. That they are CRATE
full to those who have won their affec
tions is true-so would be the ten!
! of thousands of little children nov
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26

TAXES UNACCoTNTED FoR.-The
report Of State Comptroller Heating
on the Collection of State taxes re-
veals condition of things that re-
quires to be promptly remedied either
by rigOpus enforcement of exist
ing laws, which Mr.. Heating informs
us are ample for the purpose, or by
the adoption Of a different system OF
collection. Mr.. Heating states that
at the close of the last fiscal year, en-.
ded September 80, 1888, the entire
amount of State taxes in the hands
of collectors unaccounted for was
SS55.344. Ofthis suln, the State taxes
in default in Baltimore city amount
ed to 1887 ,054.S9, and in the counties
to $685. 89. Mr.. Keating describes
these "claims," representing past. due
taxes, as "long outstanding" and
"the most of them insOlvent," while
Of the more than a third of million
of dollars of State taxes due by Balti-
more city, he says. "they have been
transferred to each succeeding collec.
tor, and where the collections of re-
cent years have been prompt, they
are diminished but little"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26

Recent cold weather in the South
has set the oldest inhahitant to telling
marvellous tales. A Georgian of rem
iniscent procivities declares that on
the "cold Saturday. in March, 1885,
the Oconee river at Athens was frozen
hard enough to permit the passage of
wagons on the ice, and China trees
were split open. The earth was as
hard as a rock. Many persons were
frozen to death. A negro who drove
half a mile to mill returned dead,
frozen stiff as poker. In 1857 the
cold was so intense in parts of North
Carolina that shade trees were cut
down for fuel. Snow lay on the
ground for six weeks. beginning to
fall in December, 1856. Some snow
remained in the State as late as April.
That year the Neuse and Trent rivers
at Newbern were frozen solid and
were used as thorough fares by pas
sengers. The Cape Fear froze at Will
nington.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26
GAINESVILLE.
he weather is cold.

The weather is cold.
The sleighing is just splendid.
A teachers institute will be held
at the Albright school house Satur-
day, 26th inst.
The Maryland school, taught by
Mr.. Myers. of Sand Spring, is pro-
crossing finely.
The first neck-tie party and oyster
supper of the season was given at Mr..
r. M. Elbows Monday night, and
was an enjoyable affair.
Surprise parties are the order of the
day Tor rather of the night.) Last
Thursday a party from Terra Alta
gave Miss Lou Feather a surprise.
Mr.. Silas jenkins and his sister
Ella, of Alum bill, have returned
home after an extended visit here
among relatives. l M. Falkenstine
accompanied them home.
About all the farmers around here
are preparing to burn lime in the
spring. AS many as twenty sleds go
from here to White Rock coal bank
in one day.
Mr.. McMillen, of Cumberland, is
opening up coal bank on Mr.. N. B.
Browning's land on the pike road.
We noticed Mr.. G.. G.. Humbertson,
of Oakland, in town one day last
week.
What has became of LEO" and
"Daisy?" We would be pleased to
hear from them again.
Mrs. John E. Otto is lying very III
with rheumatism.
Little Pearl Feather, daughter OF
NJ. E. Feather, is very low with diph-
iberia.
PLATO,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26
A Practical EnterpI Use.

OAKLAND, Md, Jan. 22d, 1884.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN :-Oakland
seems to have been peculiarly design
ed by nature as suitable location for
first class academy or seminary, and
1t is surprising that the citizens of
Garrett county have never properly
realized or appreciated its numer-
ous advantages in that respect. The
healthfuIness and salubriiy of the cli-
mate which have made the glade re-
gion so universally popular as a sum-
mer resort, haye also caused this
questioned to be agitated abroad by
many of our summer visitors, while
there is a lamentable lack of energy
on the part of our citizens who would
necessarily be benefited by such an
enterprise. Mr.. Garrett and many
patrons of our summer hotels, &C.,
have expressed a willingness to con-
tribute literally. Therefore, let our
public spirited citizens call a meeting.
organize a company and select com
mittee to solicit subscriptions, at
home and abroad, and before the
close of the present year the success
of this most laudable enterprise will
be assured.
Pro Bono PuBIJCO.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26
Town meetings.

A town meeting was held in Stur.
giss' Hall Friday night of last week,
to take into consideration amend.
ments to our town charter. submitted
by Messrs. G.. s. Hamill and John T.
Mitchell, who had been appointed a
committee to prepare the same by
the Burgess and Commissioners of
Oakland. The meeting was organ
lied by the election Of Mr.. w. p.
Totten Chairman, and Messrs. j. t.
Mitchell and Ed Fl. Sincell as Secre-
taries. After discussion several of
the proposed amendments were
adopted and the meeting adjourned
until Monday night, when, after some
discussion, a new committee, consist
ing OF six persons was appointed by
the chair to prepare new charter to
be submitted to meeting to be call
ed by the chairman of the commit
tee, G. S. Hamill. Esq. Our charter
is badly in need of REPAIRS" and nc
time should be lost having the
amendments Incorporated and sub
mitted to the Legislature now in SEES
sion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26

Judge Robinson, of the Eastern
Shore, Maryland. might pray to be
delivered from his friends. He led
in theSenatorial contest until the Re-
publlcans broke in his favor. where
upon all the Democrats went over in
body to Judge Wilson and elected
him. Washington Star, (L1d.)
Judge Robinson's friends" treated
him most outrageously, and by their
conduct plainly demonstrated their
insincerity. If they believed their
candidate to be the best man for the
place. and any other supposition is
unreasonable, they should have earn.
estly desired his election. and have
held themselves ready to welcome
any honorable aid to that end. When,
therefore, in the absence of any sort
OF corruption, the Republicans went
to Judge Robinson's support, his
"friends" should have stuck the clos
er to him, and with their vote added
to that of the Republicans he could
have been easily elected. But the
moment the Judge received a Repub-
lican vote his "friends" began to
leave him. And why? Simply, as
they assert, because they would be
charged with bargaining with the
Republicans. Perhaps some of them
are not above suspician But honest
men reed have nothing to fear
Cans5. Ne,os.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26
McHenry.
Cold snap again.

Cold snap again.
The meeting at Deep Creek is still
In progress, with some seekers, but
as yet no conversions.
An infant child of Mr.. Hanson
Lewis, of P. NJ. Stemple's mill. died
on Sunday night ofdiphtheriticcroup.
The farmers are busily engaged in
hauling their winter coal. They all
say that Chauncy Kimmel's is the
best coal they can get.
The only child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mclean is still seriously i'll.
Mrs. Frantz is seriously i'll and is
not expected to get well.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26
Democrats Fear the Tariff,
PLATO.

WASHINGTON, January 20.-It is
curious fact, but nevertheless one
whose existence will scarcely be dis
puted. that the beginning of the
eighth week since the selection of
speaker for the House on tariff re.
form, finds the Forty-eighth Congress
as much at sea on the question of
tariff as it was when it first assem-
bled. Indeed, it seems, on the whole,
that the uncertainty Is even more in.
tense. and the doubt whether AMY
important tariff measures will be
adopted greater than ever. 1t is I'M
derstOod here that the real cause of
this stop of the wheels of the tariff
reform chariot is due to some hints
received from the financial gentlemen
who are expected to furnish the funds
for the coming national campaign.
OfcQurse, a campaign cannot be made
without money, and when a man,
who is expected to furnish thousands
for this purpose. gently says that
certain line of policy, If persisted in,
will render defeat quite certain, and
render any large distribution of cam
paign funds quite unnecessary, it is
natural that the policy should be
given up, or at least modified very
materially. This seems to be about
the situation with the tariff reforms
of the House. They find. 1t is under
stood. that the wealth of the country.
as well as the intelligence, is against
any radical reduction such as they at
first promised, and that to persist in
it will be fatal to the party's pros.
poets next year. This places them,
too, in very awkward dilemma. so
to speak. To be forced to quietly
settle down and do nothing, or so
nearly nothing, after such loud prom
ises, is very embarrassing. Just to
how great an extent this inactivity
will he carried is not yet determined /:
hut 1t is observed that even those
with most radical views on this topic
are now talking of only very modest
bill, making small reductions and
those who at first talked of a reason
able reduction now say frankly that
they think there should be no general
bill. Not few on the Democratic
side-men who supported Carlisle
for speaker, too-are now advocating
a small bill, placing few articles on
the free list, and making few reduc-
lions, and an early adjournment. A
good deal of interest is felt in seeing
how the House will meet the demand
Of the wool-growers. To see a tariff
reform Congress, whose hobby lay in
the direction of reduction of tariff
deliberately set to work to increase
the rate of duty on so important an
article as wool would be very odd
yet there is very large element on
the Democratic side that Will vote
for an increase, while nearly all the
Republicans will favor a return tt
the old rate in this particular article
The result of the visit OF Speaker
Carlisle and his lieutenant, Mr.. Nor
rison, to the stronghold of high tariff
Democracy is looked for with RooC
deal of curiosity.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26
PRO Bono PUBLICo.
Maryland and W. Va. Boundary.

The Maryland and West Virginia
boundary line question is now being
discussed by our Preston county ex-
changes, and suggestions are made by
them that the long disputed question
should be settled at once. The fol-
lowing paragraph on the question is
from the Oakland correspondent of
the Baltimore Day.
The uncertainty with regard to the
boundary line which separates Mary
land from West Virginia is constan
thy giving the people of Garrett coun-
~, Maryland, and the citizens of
Preston county, West Virginia. an
noyance and Mitigation. and the ques.
ton may lead to serious trouble. The
people of West Virginia claim line,
called the old line. to be the boun.
Diary, while the people of Maryland
claim another, called the new line, to
be the correct boundary. The terri
tory between these two lines is in
dispute, and is claimed by citizens of
West Virginia under grants from
Virginia, while citizens of Maryland
hold 1t under patent from the State of
Maryland. Both Preston and Gar
rett counties claim taxes from the un
fortunate owners of these lands. The
two lines are from one hundred yards
to three-quarters of mile apart, and
the people living between them do
not know in which State they live.
By reference to the charter of Mary.
land, which describes the territory
granted by Charles |. to Lord Balti
more in 1852, it will be seen that the
State of Maryland Is "that region
bounded by line drawn from Wat
kins' point, on the Chesapeake bay,
to the ocean on the east, thence to
that part of the estuary of Delaware
on the north which lieth under the
10th degree where New England is
terminated, thence in right line by
the degree aforesaid to the meridian
of the fountain of the Potomac,
thence following Its course by its fur
ther bank to its confluence" The
western boundary line between Mary.
land and what is now West Virginia,
Is the meridian of the fountain of the
Potomac from the point where it cuts
the 10th degree of north latitude to
the fountain of that river. For more
than two hundred years this point
was in dispute, Notwithstanding the
fact that the State of Virginia in 1746
planted what is known as the Fair.
tax stone to mark the spot. Mary.
land however construed the charter
for herself, and not being a party tC
the proceeding by which the point
marked by the Fairfax stone was as
certained, refused to he bound by the
action Of Virginia, and it was not un
til the year 1852 that Maryland, by ar
act of her Legislature, recognized thu
Fairfax stone as the beginning point
The new line was run by Lieutenan
Michler, of the United States coas
survey, in 1859 under commissioner
appointed by the two States, and wa
adopted by the Maryland Legislator,
in 1860, but was never ratified by tn,
State of Virginia.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-01-26

homeless and friendless if even like
care and petting were given to them.
That is true in a limited sense; but
it can scarcely be shown. even under
the circumstances most favorable to
the CANNES, that their work is really
profitable. Observant flock owners
who carefully analyze the cost and
the profit of every part of their busi-
ness declare that the shepherd dog,
that embodiment of canine intelli-
gence, is not a profitable assistant on
the farm, even in caring for sheep,
the work for which he has teen espe-
cially fitted by generations of careful
training. An average boy of ten can
do all that the shepherd dog can do
and much more, and will cost little
more for food, and boys of ten can be
had for less than a Well.trained dog
will cost.
When the whole subject has been
thoroughly sifted there is found in
favor of dogs little more than a mis-
directed and maWkish sentiment,
which leads otherwise sensible people
into the filthy habit Of fondling flea
bitten and carrion-loving beasts; and,
on the other hand, abundant and un-
Questionable evidence showing that
the existence of uncontrolled dogs is
serious menace to the property and
lives of all, and a great check to the
advancement of IA most important in
dustry. -E'rchd3lqe.