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Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

examination. s. B. Chase, Secretary
of the Hanscom u Co. printing estab-
lshment, testified that about noon on
Nov. 21st, Joseph G. Mackin, Secretary
of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, called on him at his office,
showed him a Republican ticket, and
asked him if he could duplicate it. He
told him he could do so, whereupon
the head of the ticket was cut off, and
sent by jeremiah Thompson, trusted
employee, to the establishment of
Baker & Co. to be engraved. Mackin
said he wanted the ticket reproduced,
with the name of Rudolph Brand,
Democratic candidate for State Sena-
tor in the place of that of H. w. Le-
man, the Republican candidate. The
type was bought of Farmer, Little u
Co., and one Wright set the names in
type, substituting the name of Brand
for that of Leman. In the evening
about 1000 of the tickets were print
ed, and Mr.. Wright said he delivered
them personally to Mackin in his room
at the Palmer House. These counter
felt tickets were found in the ballot
box, and must have been put there
after p. m, on Friday, Nov. 21st, sew
enteen days after the election.
Other witnesses scorroborated Chase's
testimony. On this showing Gov.
Hamilton has disregarded the returns
of the county canvassers and issued
certificate of election to Leman. Be
fore this action of the Governor, Brand
wrote Leman a letter proposing a re-
count of the votes through the entire
district and the final determination of
the contest by the testimony of the
voters. Leman declined the PROPOSE
ton.
Indictments were found against the
judges and clerks of the precinct some
days ago, but they have not been re-
turned since affairs have taken the new
and startling course they have.
Mackin will doubtless be indicted.
A committee of eighty persons has
been appointed to raise a fund of 25,-
900 to be used in discovering and pros
ecuting all the guilty parties.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

In the Senate Monday morning Mr..
Mitchell read a letter from General
Grant relating to the bill recently in
troduced to give him pension. Gen.
Grant expresses the hope that the bill
will be withdrawn, as under no circum-
stances could he accept a pension, even
il the bill passed both houses and re-
ceived the approval of the President
Mr.. Mitchell stated that he had intro
duced the bill because the chairman of
the Committee on Pensions, and the
President had recommended pension
for General Grant. He (Mr. MitchelD
had always felt that General Grant
ought to be placed where he was
when, to accept the Presidency, he
laid down the Office he won in the
war. In Difference to General Grants
wishes he withdrew the Pension bill.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

Through Gen. Motifs death va
cancy OCCURS in the office of Com
mander-in-Chief of the New Jersey
National Guard. Governor Albeit
has the appointment, but the nominee
is subject to confirmation by the Sen
ate. Gen. Sewell, of Camden, and
Gen. Plume, of Newark, are the two
Brigade Commanders of the National
Guard, Gen. Sewell has had lengthy
service in the Union Army during the
civil war, and was made Major Gen
eral by act Of Congress for gallantry
on the field Of battle. In 1877 he was
ordered by Governor Bedle to the
command of the troops at Phillipsburg,
where the riots were in progress, and
he did splendid service for the State.
Gen. Plume has served the longest in
the National Guard, but his service
during the rebellion was unimportant.
Gen. Sewell has the strongest claim to
the honor in almost every respect but
he is a Republican and Gen. Plume is
a Democrat The Governor is a bitter
partizan, and Plume,will probably be
nominated. If he is nominated purely
on party grounds then the Senate
ought to reject the nomination. Poll
tics should not be allowed to control
appointments in the National Guard
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

Senator Griggs, himself keen
sportsman, has given an opinion to
the Passaic County Fish and Game
Association that while black bass
cannot be legally caught in New Jer-
sey between November 1st and June
1st of each year, there is no law against
their sale except from March 1st to May
1st. The game laws are in a much
mixed condition, and an attempt to
secure a complete revision will be made
this winter. One difficulty with a
general law is that the habits of the
birds differ materially in South and
North New Jersey.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.


Amid the booming of cannon and
shrieking of steam whistles the cap
stone of the Washington Monument at
the National Capital was successfully
laid on Saturday afternoon last. The
mortar in which the cap stone rests
was laid by Colonel Casey and his as
sstants in the presence of few spec
tators who had braved the storm of
rain and wind to see the finishing
touches given to the great monument
which rears its head 555 feet above the
earth. Colonel Casey has been in
charge of the work in the last six years,
and no accident causing loss of life has
happened in that period, owing to the
great care exercised.
The official ceremonies to mark the
completion of the monument will take
place on February 22d, the one-hun-
dred- and -ffty-third anniversary of
Washington's birth. They will be un-
der the direction of joint commission
of the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives, consisting of Senators Sher-
mon, Morrill,, Allison, Bayard and
Lamar, and Representatives Dorshei-
mer, Tucker, Reagan, Collins, Eldredge,
Bingham, Cannon and Laird. The
commission will hold meeting next
week to arrange a programme for the
occasion. When the corner stone of
the monument was laid on July 4th,
1S49, in the presence of President Polk,
the Vice President, members of the
Cabinet, Senators, Representatives. and
a host of other persons, Robert G.
Winthrop, then Speaker of the House
of Representatives, delivered the ora
ton. 1t is expected that he will de-
liver the inaugural address on the
completion of the shaft next February.
In 1854 the funds of the monument
society were exhausted, the shaft hav-
ing at that time reached the height of
175 feet, after an expenditure of $780,
900. Subsequent difficulties with
rival society defeated the efforts to OBJ
tain an appropriation from Congress-
and the disappearance of a stone con
tributed by the Pope during the Know
Nothing excitement shut off to a great
extent contributions of money from
private sources. The Legislature of
California voted $1,000 year until the
monument should be completed, but
nothing had been paid down to 1874.
In 1871 the State of New York voted
$10,000on condition that enough money
should be raised to complete the shaft,
and New Jersey voted So, 900 and Mimi
esota $4,000 on q like condition. In
1874 the society had in hand only SIS
900. the most of which was contributed
in California on election day in Nov,
1850. 1t was apparent that Congress
must act if the monument was ever to
be finished. In 1878 and 1874 efforts
were made to secure appropriations to
insure the completion of the work by
the time for the opening of the Cen
tennial Exposition of 1876, but they
failed. In the latter year, however, an
appropriation was made, and since
that time the work has steadily ad-
vanced.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

The Kansas State Temperance Union
met in it's third annual session at To
peka, the other day, with nearly two
hundred delegates and members in at
tendance, including Ex-Governor st.
John and wife. Among the resolutions
adopted was one condemning the
course of st. John during the late can
vass. That gentleman attempted to
make speech, in the course of which
he said: Il am not here to defend a
third party or any other, but | am
here to enter protest against the reso-
luton now under consideration. (Cres
of Sit down Get outD. This union
was not organized in the interest of
any party" CA voice-'Get out, then;
you have been in too long, now.'O
There was bitter feeling among the
majority of the members against st.
John for his course in the recent cam
paign, and it was rumored he would
be asked to resign his membership.
The membership of the union is about
100000.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

The declaration in the libel suit
brought by Rev. J. B. Graw, of Cam
den, against A. M. Heston and J. G.
Shreeve, of the Atlantic City Rcuie,c,
was responded to at Trenton Monday,
when the defendants, by their attorney,
Samuel H. Grey, Esq, of Camden,
filed plea of justification in the New
Jersey Supreme Court and the case
was sent down to the Camden circuit
for trial next May. The suit is brought
on account of a statement made in the
2erieao charging Mr.. Graw with having
forged the names of two Camden cler-
gymen to an offensive circular issued
against Mr.. Charles S. Ridgway, a
well-known citizen of Camden.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11
Bridgeton, N. j., December II, 1884.

The sensational rumor" started by
Major Pangborn's Jersey City Journal
is one of the most unlikely yarns that
ever emanated from the columns of a
Hudson county newspaper. And,
when this is said, a great deal is said,
because Hudson county journals have
q notoriety for coming sensations of
this character. There is no foundation
whatever for Major Pangborn's story.
OF the eleven Republican State Sena-
tors, not one of them will make deal
with Governor Albeit. On the con-
trary, so far as the South Jersey Sena-
tors are concerned, there never was a
time when they felt so strong in the
Republican faith as now. They do
not propose to give the Governor one
inch more than he is allowed by cour-
tesy and right They will object to
anything in the way of deal, and will
stand firm for Republican principles.
No Senator can be found in this sec
tion of the State who will vote to or
ganize the Senate in the interests of
the Democratic party The First
Congressional District has announced
by over four thousand majority that
no Democrat need apply for office at
Trenton at the hands of the next Leg
islature, and the Republican Senators
and Assemblymen from South Jersey
mean to carry out its wishes to the
letter.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

At the recent election in West Vir-
ginia a Constitutional amendment was
adopted changing the time of holding
the State elections from October to
November. This leaves Ohio the only
October state Of any Importance, and
it is not unlikely that similar change
will be made there soon. The distinc-
tion that comes from being the ad-
vance skirmish ground for a Presiden-
tial battle scarcely compensates for the
resulting disturbance to exclusively
State interests.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

The following are the sums received
from all sources, for public school pur-
poses, by the cities of this State. The
figures are culled from the annual re-
port, now ready, of State Superinten-
dent Apgar: Atlantic City, $16,651. 20;
Bridgeton, $16,014S3; Camden, STA, 673;
Elizabeth, $45, ,96S OS; Gloucester City,
$7,06O.72; Hoboken, $72, 724.1S; Jersey
City, 1929, 52O.12; Millville, 19,SOO. 90;
Morristown, $13, ,3O7.O3; Newark, 1885,
910.T; New Brunswick, $29, $50. 80;
Orange, $26 431.65; Passaic, $50, 537. rs;
Paterson, $112, 2,075.23; Perth Amboy,
81, 4s9. 6s; Phillipsburg, $17, ,565. II; Plain
field, $27, 7,046.46; Railway, $1e, TIC. So;
Salem, $12,O75.1S, and Trenton $51, 3d.
IA; total, $1,2O7, 19O.27. The whole
number of children in the cities of
school age, between five and eighteen
years, is: Atlantic City, 1922; Bridge
ton, 2,510; Camden, 1902; Elizabeth,
$3.50; Gloucester City, 1928; Hoboken
10,907; Jersey City, 52,207; Millville, q
GIG; Morristown, 1862; Newark, 42, ,SO9;
New Brunswick, 4,724; Orange, 4,297;
Passaic, 2,319; Paterson, 16,3S1 Perth
Amboy, 1919; Phillipsburg, 2, 552; Plain
field, 1924; Railway, 1,7O3; Salem, 1, 1893,
and Trenton, $685. Total of children
of school age in the twenty cities. 1885,
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11
Reports from all sections of the

Reports from all sections of the coun-
try, says Southern journal, are that
the cotton crop is reaching the market
in cleaner and better condition than
it ever did before, and that its freedom
from dirt and trash is really phenome-
nal. Especially is this so of the cotton
which reaches New Orleans. All of it
is good, but that coming from Texas
and Western Louisiana is so fine and
clean that the pickeries are actually
suffering for lack of work.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

The Electoral Colleges of the several
States met at the State Capitals on
Wednesday, Dec. 3rd, and cast the
electoral vote for President and Vice
President. Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Is
land, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Mipneso-
ia, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Ne
vada, California, and Oregon, cast 1872
votes for Blaine & Logan. The "Solid
South and New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, and Indiana, cast 219
votes for Cleveland & Hendricks. The
Democratic candidates have also a
plurality of the popular vote.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

Governor Albeit will have the ap
pointment of member of the Ripa-
rian Commission to succeed General
Mott, deceased. There are four Ripa-
rian Commissioners, and three of them
reside in North Jersey. Gen. Motifs
successor ought to be a South Jersey
man. The appointment is for life, un-
less the Legislature by act fixes a spec
flied term hereafter The salary is
$1,000 per annum.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11
A DEMOCRATIC TRIBUTE TO
BLAINE.
THE BRILLIANCY OF THE FIGHT HE
MADE FRANKLY ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

THE BRILLIANCY OF THE FIGHT HE
MADE FRANKLY ACKNOWLEDGED.
There is but one comment on Mr.
Blaine's defeat-'He made gallant
and brilliant fightr' Millions of Free
men voted against him. Hundreds of
thousands labored and schemed, and
contrived to compass his overthrow.
A score of the most distinguished and
influential Republican journals in the
country and many scores of Republi-
can leaders seeded from their party
and lent their efforts and their example
to the cause of the Democracy. Never
before in the history of our politics
was there a Presidential candidate so
terribly handicapped for his race.
Handicapped for his personal and Off
cial record; by the bitter animosities
of powerful men within his party; by
the Independent movements; by the
Prohibition movement; by the mis-
chievous folly of such friends as Rev.
Burchard; by every conceivable ele-
ment of weakness-Mr. Blaine yet
made contest which was picturesque
in its exterior aspects, bewildering in
its brilliancy and startling in its narrow
approach to success. The campaign
is over and the result is known. Mr..
Blaine is beaten. There is no longer
any doubt as to the facts of the case.
But he lost by the thinnest margin
ever developed in a national struggle,
and the winner may be pardoned for
his labored breathing and his reac-
tionary tremor.
Looking back upon it all, one can
see how small a thing would have
turned the scale the other way. Sup
pose Mr.. Beecher had remained neutral
or continued his adherence to the Re
publican party, and Mr.. Beecher's ward
had given its usual vote? Suppose
Mr.. Burchard had not made that silly
speech which insulted and alarmed
thousands Of honest citizens. Sup
pose Mr.. Blaine had not antagonized
the Stalwarts of New York in 1881. and
made sullen neutrals of Conkling,
Arthur and Platt! Suppose Mr.. Conk-
ling had exerted himself even in his
own county (Oneida), which gave Gar
field 1900 majority in 1880, and which
gave Cleveland twenty-eight majority
in 1884. Suppose any of these contin-
gencies, any of them likely, all of them
probable, and what would have been
the effect upon the result? - - : - - ~
The fact is that Mr. Blaine, handi-
capped as he was, weighted as he was
with his record, antagonized as he was
by the best and most respectable ele-
ments of his own party, hampered by
injudicious friends and desperately op-
posed by implacable enemies-Mr
Blaine, surrounded and embarrassed
by such frightful disadvantages, lost
the race by the merest scratch. The
wonder is not that he was beaten, but
that he came SO near winning. Any
other man similarly circumstanced
would have been hopelessly distanced
Mr.. Blaine lost by neck. His bitter
est opponents freely recognize that he
made superb fight. They know and
they acknowledge that his magnificent
intelligence, his matchless address, his
dazzling eloquence, his immeasurable
courage, brought him within a hairs
breadth of achieving the victory
NeD Orleans Tunes Democrat (Dem.).
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

We urge upon Republicans to stand
firm, and begin now to prepare for the
next Presidential battle. With the
great and glorious North at our back
we need not feel discouraged. The
size of forest tree is not realized un-
til it falls. The Importance and grand
ness of the Republican party will not
be fully appreciated until we shall have
a few years of Democratic rule Gin
cinnati Conn., Gazette.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11
We recommend all the readers of

We recommend all the readers of the
PIONEER to a perusal of the Ne,u York
Tribune advertisement in another col
umn, and we advise them all to sub
scribe for it if possible. The Tribune
is the great newspaper of the country;
it is the leader of American journal
ism. Able, faithful and reliable, the
Tribune is the best paper for the peo-
pie. AS an evidence of its growing
popularity, we have only to add that
its presses use ten tons of paper per
day, and it's daily edition averages
from one hundred to one hundred and
twenty-five thousand copies.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

City Council met on Tuesday even
ing, President Cox presiding. After
reading the minutes of last regular
and stated meetings, the resignation
of DR.. Robert w. Elmer as a member
of the Board of Education from the
Second ward was read and accepted.
Petition for lamp in the centre of
East Lake Dam was read, and request
granted. Petition for a blue stone
crossing at Walnut and Marion Sts.,
was read, and referred to Councilmen
of First ward, with power to act. A
number of building permits We're
granted, and several bills ordered
paid. A motion was made and carried
that the Electric Light be placed at
the foot of Laurel street, south side of
Jefferson street. Councilman Rogers,
of the First ward, moved that the Or
dinance Committee prepare an ordi-
nance creating a new ward out of
what is now known as the First ward.
The motion was lost by the following
vote:-Yeas-Rogers, Hancock, Bacon,
Loper. Nays-Cox, Hampton, Geo.
Loper, Recap. After ordering the
Overseers of roads to remove trees
which obstruct the sidewalks of the
city, and instructing the Building
Committee to have the new School
House insured, Council adjourned to
meet on Wednesday evening, Dec. 10th.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

All who have seen it must have OBJ
served the different shades of marble
in the Washington Monument. This
seems to prove that different varieties
of stone We're used in it's construction,
but such was not the case. All the
marble in the shaft came from the
quarries near Cockeysville, Md. The
yellow tinge of the section completed
prior to 1858 is caused by the oxidation
of the trace of iron in the marble, and
the part above that point, which has
been built since 1878, will eventually
assume a like tinge of color. In gene
rations to come the whole shaft will
harmOniza
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

Notices of application for private
acts to be presented at the next Legis-
lature must be advertised four full
weeks before the Legislature shall con-
vene, on the second Tuesday in Janu-
airy, in order to be legal, and be signed
hV q name
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

Congress is in session, but is doing
comparatively little work. The mem
bers seem only anxious to get holiday
by ordering a recess in order that they
may attend the New Orleans Exposi-
tion. No business of any great import
ance will be transacted in Congress
previous to the second week in Jan
nary.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

Gen. Mott was buried with military
honors at Trenton a few days since.
His body lay in the rotunda of the
State House for two hours, and was
viewed by great concourse of people.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11
MARRIED..

FOX-KERLIN-In Brdgeton, December Sd,
1884, by Rev. Joseph Atwood David Fox
and Mrs. Sallie Kerlin, both of Bridgeton.
RAIsIN NGER-GLENTZ-I Bridgeton, Dec.
1th 1884, by. Rev. Joseph Atwood, George
b. f. Raisinger and Miss Elizabeth b.
Glentz, both of Bridgeton.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

Do not forget to stop in George c. Newman's
Art Gallery, S06 Market street Opposite Straw
bridge Clothiers), and examine his fine col
lection of Steel Engravings and Water Colors.
Handsome Parlor Mirrors, Picture Frames. Sc
The largest stock of any House in Philadelphia
and the most reasonable prices. mar IDLY
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

A sixteen-year-old Hew Hampshire
lad hanged himself in his room a few
nights ago while in state of somnam-
buliSm.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11
DIED

CHRlSTOPHER.-In this city. December 7th.
1884, Sarah H., wife of Daniel Chrstophcr
aged "A years and months.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

Rep. maj'y..1O1 Rep. majy. .l21 Rep. mai'y. 146
The poll list and duplicate returns
were sent to the County Board of Can
vassers, and opened on Nov. 19. They
made the vote as follows:
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11
THE FRAUDS IN CHICAGO.
UNRAVELLING THE PLOT TO STEAL LO-
CANS SEAT IN THR U. S. SENATE


CANS SEAT IN THR U. S. SENATE.
Blaine carried Illinois by fair ma
jority, and Carter Harrison, the blus-
tering Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, was beaten badly by General
Oglesby, his Republican opponent
The returns came in slowly, but from
the first there was no doubt as to the
result. Not so, however, with the re-
turns of the vote for Senators and As
semblymen. The new Legislature is
to elect successor to Gen. John A..
Logan in the United States Senate. 1t
was not until twelve days after election
that it was apparently definitely deter
mined that the Republicans had a ma
jority of one in the State Senate, and
House. This would leave the Legisla-
ture equally divided on a joint ballot.
Two Assemblymen-el elect, however,
were Independent Democrats. They
had kicked in the party traces in 1877,
and had elected David Davis to the
United States Senate. 1t was found
that they might act similarly at the
next session of the Legislature. While
everybody was speculating as to the
possibilities of Logan's reelection, the
State was startled by a report that a
mistake had been made in the count
in the Sixth Senatorial District in
Chicago. 1t is district similar to the
one which Senator DAILY, of New York,
now represents in Albany.
The Democratic candidate was Ru-
dolph Brand, and the Republican can
didate Henry w. Leman. The County
Board of Supervisors was Democratic,
and had refused to appoint any Repub-
lican judges of election. All the poll
clerks were Democrats. The only safe
guard for the Republicans was the
presence of United States Marshals at
the polls. The mistake was said to
have occurred in the Second Precinct
of the Eighteenth ward. The returns,
as filed with the police as soon as the
vote was counted, We're:
President. Governor Senator.
Blaine. 80. .3S9 Oglesby. .40S Leman 42O
Cleveland. .2SS Harrison. .2S7 Brand. 274
Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-12-11

President. GOrelnOr Senator
Blaine. -. .399 Ogesby. 80. .4OS Leman. 22O
Cleveland. .2SS Harrison. ..2S7 Brand .474
Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-23

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