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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-23
Full of Prohibition.

AS we go to.press, tbs telegraph
reports Pittsburgh as being chock
full Of live prohib5ionists, and
thai they are still poaring in from
all quarters. Next week veil tell
you wha. the National Prohibition
Convention of 1884 has done.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-23

We especially insist thst every
thoughtful FREEMAN reader shall
carefully read and study the poem
on Home page, "StonA the Wo-
man."
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-23

"Publio Sentiment, but not
enough Public Action" received
too late for this issue, will appea!
next week.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-07-23

The COM Gazette is now giving
much time and space to the ami
hilation of ministers who preach
old sermons.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

A story told by the Louisville
Courier Journal for Mr.. B'aiDe's
benefit: Zone afternoon In 1853, ar.
Buchanan sat upon the portieo of the
cottage at the Soldiers Home, where
he spent the summer. he had but
one youthful, but eager listener, ana
he was in a reminiscent mood.
Among other things, he said in that
queer, usual tone which seemed q
part of himself: For years l was
q candidate for President. Every
four years I thought I was going to
be nominated. Finally, when l had
lost all hope and all desire, when the
friends I wanted to reward had
passed away and the enemies l
wanted to punish vexed me no
further, or were dead, I was nomin-
ated, and here / am just old enough
to feel all the responsibilities and too
old to enjoy the pleasures I once
fancied belonged to the place."
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

A recent Washington dispatch to
the New York Sun says: 1t is re-
ported Logan has determined to do
the Lincoln boom all the harm he
can. Logan AYERS Garfield offered
him the place of secretary of war,
and that he declined and recon-
mended Lincoln; and that Lincoln
has broken his promise to Logan
when he went into the Cabinet, not
to permit anything to be dore that
would antagonize Logan's strength
in Illinois, by the promotion of his
own political prospects. Logan re-
fuses to speak to Lincoln, and ex-
poets to defeat his nomination for the
vice-presidency. So Logan expected
to be able to defeat the Fltz John
Porter bill. The Senator has lately
been taking some big contracts on
his hands not the least of which is
to win the nomination for the Presi-
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
WHAT'S T NOW

The following remark by .Colone
Robert G.. Ingersoll. of Peoria, Ill.
is reported by the indianapolis
Journal:
"IfI had the privilege of picking
out the President I would name
John NJ. Harlon OF the United States
supreme bench. He came from Kec'
lucky. He is about fifty years of age
and Is a mar of bravery and splendid
ability"
This causes a New York parer to
say: Col. Ingersoll will not have a
voice in nominating the Republic
can candidate for the President this
year. In 1876, when he did have
that privilege, he picked James &.
Blaine as the ''grandest combine
ton of heart. conscience and brain''
to be found among the American
people.
What is the matter now? Has the
Colonel observed any falling eff in
the heart, conscience or brain of Mr..
during the past eight years?
Is Harlan now the grandest combin>
Or has Bob himself lost the
key to the combination?
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

It Ia said that the officers of the
Franklin Bay relief expedition &C.
cept it for granted that Lieutenant
Greedy and his M n are all dead, and
that the real object of the present tx.
petition is to bring back their bodies.
There is absolutely no warrant tor
any such belief, as the Greedy party
Was comfortably housed, and we'll
provisioned and could have persisted
only in the attempt to reach Littleton
Island, which they were instructed
to do last summer, provided that sue
cor failed to come up, and the re-
treat was deemed practicable. The
assumption that the men are lost is
not only premature, but may prove
injurious in certain emergencies, to
their relief.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

In regard to the coinage of silver,
the New York Commercial Bulletin
says: call expectations of the sus-
pension of the silver coinage, as far
as this session is concerned, will be
postponed, as our Washington cor
re pondent shows that seven out of
eleven members of the House who
have the subject under consideration
are in favor of having the coinage go
on, and on this point he speaks by
authority ; hence our friends of the
Chamber of Commerce, who have
gone to Washington to urge the pass
age of a suspension bill, are likely to
discover hey have gone on a bootIess
erraLd.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

Virginia Readjusters ale mad"
becuase Sabin, the chairman of the
Republican National committee, has
written a letter to Dezendorf, chairs
man OF the Virginia Republican COM
mlttee, intimating that the "straight-
out' Republicans will be recognized
at Chicago rather than the Mahone-
ties. 1t seems that the Republican
party-grand old party that it is
Was perfectly willing to conspire and
unite with the regulators as there
appeared a chance to thus carry the
state; but, at the very first failure.
the Republicans turn their back on
allies and scarnper up again to
their "bigh moral ground.N
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

ut was not necessarily says the
graphic Times account of the Utica
battle-''to count up the votes to
reach a conclusion as to which ticket
had won. Mr.. Miller's weary coun-
tenance, as he looked thoughtfully
toward the stage, had defeat stamped
UPON it. The man who had been re-
garded as a lord Of leaders, and who
had absolutely wasted the greatest
opportunity presented to him in the
course of his political life, nad all
lowed the keener Arthur mon to beat
him with a scheme in which he had
been offered a chance. and he was
about to discover that fact"
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
A COMMON MISTAKE,

1t Is q common mistake for care.
less observers to assome that there is
a strong sympathy between business
and politics. The errtr finds most
frequent expression in the assertion
that Presidential campaign has a
paralyzing effect on trade and enter
prise Of all kinds. We are told now,
for instance, that the uncertainty felt
regarding the outcome of the next
Presidential election Is productive OF
commercial depression and that BUSH
ness will not improve materially ur-
til the country knows just what is
going to happen in politics.
Nothing could be farther from the
fact than this absurd assumption.
Our business men know little and
care less about the Presidential >trug.
gle. They mind their own affairs
and pay very little attention to poli>
tics. The average curbstone bum
mer, who owns no property and pays
no axes, feels far wider interest in
the nomination and election of q
Presidential candidate than does the
average business man. 1t would be
better for the country if this rule
were reversed, but there Is no likell-
hood that it will be reversed in the
near future.
The truth is that our business in
terests flourish or languish independ-
ent of political happenings. Good
times and bad times, as u rule, spring
from causes that are only remotely,
If at all, connected with the triumph
or defeat of parties and candidates.
The weather and the condition of the
crops both at home and abroad, are
Infinitely more influential in affect
ing prices and profits than any polit>
ical change can be. A railway freight
war, or its cessation creates more dis
turbance in the stock market than q
presidential election.
Notwithstanding these truths, we
are continually being told that the |
business interests are in favor of this
candidate or policy and opposed to
that. The federal officials and feeble |
organs who favor the nomination of
Arthur are loud in their |
assurances that the business men
want to have him reelected, and that
If their wish is not gratifed a tremen-
dous depression, il not a financial
will follow his defeat. This is
not only = mistake, but may be set
Town as The veriest claptrap.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

Americans are considered a prac~
teal people, and politics r the last
thing into which sensationalism is
apt to creep. And yet what else but
sensati0nalism is that which gives
Mr.. Lincoln prominence as q can
didate for vlce-Dresident? What
has the young man ever done, or
shown capacity to do, to entitle him
to the second highest place in the gift
of the peopleF Or has the country
come to regard birthright as a neces>
sary quality for political preferment?
If so, we are not so far removed from
royalty as some seem to think, after
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
Attempted Robb.r~

unknnMn April 20 Thrao
danna persons entered H. Anlee
e OF Jack Wood. a fsrm tne resi-
m uo purpose of roboing. WE with
nnt IN attempt to drive tha w GODS
wonn out was shot and iue ROBBERS
heard t tha His son, Albert woosly
and ~ s,e Shooting. ran into Wv " ood*,
Miss Ms Msr sh9s dead by the ' reI room
in With nar = Woods Mood the daugh uer'e esn
q 9a Of the ~1 ro5 5se off, t.. it is sus sp ses
Woods as blood VS. was shot by Miss
be the same ,oooers are supposed tue te
robbed Sheriff nss who shot and
county two nirhne.o klns of Boone
excitement p1 evan before. Much
h.eer the robbers. wS A. posse is out
1yached. VI IT caught viii
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
OUR NAVY.

The naval appropriation bill which
recently passed the Senate had abou'
a. much steal crowded In it as the
liberal conscience Of the Republican
majority could stand. If it should
not be checked In the House y
Democratic honesty and eca::om...
the Chandler Roach jobbers viii be
in Is high clover as the Robs snu~
Roach gang used to be. According
to the Worlds estimate the Senate
amendments to the bill include both
grand and petit larceny. For the
proposed new cruisers the sum of ST.
500, 900 is appropriated, and the "mis>
celIaneous EXPENSE item is increased
from $4,000 to $41O,O0O. For con-
tinuing work on the monitors the
amount of$2,O OO, O0o is added, and the
general expenditure fund of the
Bureau of Equipment is swelled from
500, 900 to $3.50, 600. Half a million
dollars Is given for ordnance Of the
boats in course of construction, and q
sort of sneak theft of SO, 600 is added
to the incidental expenses Of the
Bureau of Navigation. Then an ad-
ditional $270,0O0 is clapped on to
the general expenditures of the Ord
nance Bureau, the Bureau of Repairs
is increased from 81, 900, 900 to s $780,
700, the Bureau of Steam Engineer
ing from S76O, 900 to 1850, 600 and so
on through the list.
Not a dollar of these various sums
is needed at this time, and scarcely a
dollar will be honestly spent if 1t
be put at Bill Chambers
command.
The pretense that to resist the steal
is to oppose the improvement Of the
navy is a trick Of the lobby. We
have expended In the Navy Depart
nent since the close of the war over
'5O7, 900, 900, exclusive of the sums
received from the sale of old vessels,
md what have we to show for it?
Little else beside the Secor claims,
he regulations of Robson and
Chandler and the rotundity of John
Roach.
As we have managed for years to
ct along with q rotten shell Of q {
lavy, we need not mind twelve I
lonths' further delay, and it is just Y
8 well not to give Bill Chandler {
aese extravagant appropriations on {
ne eve of q Presidential election. q
Lead US not into temptation" Is a q
Use prayer. q
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

Though officially dead, Roscoe
Conkling still lives in the politics of
New York. George H. Sharpe, who
basely deserted Conkling during the
Senatorial fight Of 1881, has
just been defeated for dele
gate from his district to the Chi.
cago convention. Conkling's friends
did the WORK. "And thus the whirli.
gig Of time brings in his revenges.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

World: The Utica herald is trv.
ing to help Blaine in this state by
meanly insinuating that Senator Ed
mund's habits are bad. Mr.. Ed.
munds does take a drink occasions
ally, a thing not altogether unusual
with the most austere of Vermont
ers, and if the Herald wants to helm
MIN in the West, where he is weak
est, let it keep on showing him up as
a mellow New Highlander who is not
ave-se to jlngling glasses with a
neighbor occasionally.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

Morning Journal: The great OBJ.
lection to MI. Arthur in the RANKS of
the Blaine men is that "he could not
carry New York; Therefore thew
are all for Mr.. Blaine. But could the
"Plumed Knight" do so ? and if not
what is the use of sending a delega.
ton to Chicago to vote for him? A
question which does not seem to have
suggested itself to the Republican
partisans on all sides is, "Can any
Republican carry the Empire State
in November?"
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Interstate Colored Conference
in Session.
A C0nscience-Stricken Mur-
derer Confesses,
And Gives the Details of a
Lynching.
Explosion Of Dynamite in In
diana,
A Observation-Disclosures Murderer.

SOnsc4oAce.Str1eke0 Murderer.
DEs MONIES. April 28.--A srecia,
to the State Register from Audubon
Iowa. says: the murderers Of old
l Jefferson last Saturday hav va
been captured and are Jonn Smvthe
ana Joel wilson, his sons-in.law. and
Cicero Jefferson, a son of the MR.
aered man. All three are nov ~
Jall. at ten o'clock this mornino
tney were brought up for examinas
LODI. wilson and Smith were haId
,1r tne murder and remanded tin
Wednesday, but Cicero became com'
s stsaence>stricken and asked to make a
tatement under oath. He then NO."
ceeue TO make a full Confession ra-
the murder, and told how ha
ano the other two men who arc n no
oer arrest left here on hor1ab. ~
%ent TO hi1 fathers house. lied ths,r.
n,a broke into the house. to,k t1t'a
man from bed. tore OFF h; ,'o ah; ;ne
put a rope around his neck. drs n'.aL'
[re m On a's back over the ground s. =
- Ee ana there hanged him. WIZ
'% uling up the body while The oth",
oolled on the rome. T Hhe others
' Mapped ps the end of the rome aro .ne
" oooy, mounted their horses o1 Luz.
' % ne and We're arrested at hom aea'
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
Wavlaid and A''

W. N% -.
News is just r.ctlvea n Us g.
ing of SherifAiSl'S' " milf
ty, who was Waylalo' n,
the body horribly lna drpif
Is little doubt huG tiie ! b,..
mitted by an organ'a.1It ,,J.I
laws known as the
Adkins had been zaalo" al
to Justice :,
Is securing the county !
assassius,
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

So far as the Senate investigation
is concerned. the Danville farce is
played out. The committee will now
submit the evidence to the Senate.
The blacks have sworn to one thing
and the whites, irrespective Of party,
to another. "You pays your money
and yeu takes your choice"
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

MI. Parneil Was recently asked if
he was really about to 1esign his lea
dership. II have made engagements
that will occupy the next five wears
Of my life," he said, land I particu-
larry wish my friends in America to
know that I have no intention of
leaving the post to which l have been
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
.~Jeannstte Invsst's''

WASHINGTON, ApTll = =.
the Jean uette conn1l'stvi q.
ing Melville was ASKER ~. ~,
anything about the rr''' ,'.
he and DR.. AInyler flt4p,,
about the proper course "
in an emergency anu Il
conclusion thai unde ~.
stances was anything y" ~.
ism to be permitted In n,
cy arose which wou'u ~
nlbalism they detefu,D'
cyanide Of potassium, 81
themselves out OF las n.
matter of fact, no"e''li IA.
vessel In such haste aha"
son with them.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

When Mr.. Mcbride, who nomi-
mated the Hon. w. o. Speer for City
Attorney, was called upon for q
speech at the close of the convention
yesterday, he said he thought a man
should not be called upon to deliver
his own funeral grafton 1t was
plain talk, but MI. Mcbride had
teen forced to swallow some pretty
bitter medicine and he couldn't help
talking fright out in meeting"
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
RApubllcan Fs

LOUISVILLE, April ~ :,
publican p~'iiuarles Del In !,
OF tn s city to elect at t's'.
stale convention the H
bitter aud strong oel"e s'.iIt
anti-Arthur Ineu thaV
ception the ward elec'IV. i.
diso.derIy, resulting IL j.
sets of delegates. NaD p.,ig..
serious cutting ana suu a,
occurred. W.. A. Mapop,, .a
the 9th ward nleetins' ,,,hi
aud head horribly GU ' a.p.
the hauds OF Chas. JonD
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
A DUEL

The advanced guard of the armv
On its way to Monterey, had driven
out of the town Of Marin q considers.
BILE force of Mexicans. who had left
their dinners to be eaten bv the
Americans, when it camped for the
rear TO come up. That afternoon q
portion of the Texas cavalry occupied
q vacant lot. near the PIazas. While
drawing water at one of the wells.
which at first was supposed to have
been poisoned, a dispute arose be-
tween two young men named Barclay
and Rogers. At sundown, to Rogers,
SURPRISE. he received q challenge.
written in lead pencil on a piece of
olrty paper. Rogers had no paper on
when TO write q reply, but he told
q bearer of the challenge that he
no Intention of woundinr the
feelings OF an old messmate. and he
begged he would accept his verbal
explanation rs an apology, which he
d'd, and expressed his full satis{ac>
lion aud pleasure at terminating the
difficulty so happily.
Inc next day, however, Rogers was
astonlshed at receiving another COM
munication from an officer in the
artillery, stating that Rogers replv
was not satisfactory to Mr.. Barclay.
and demanding a written apoloov
rogers was on duty that day, but as
soon as relieved he mounted his
morse and rode to the tent of an in |
iantry friend to consult him and ask |
bis assistance in the affair. Rogers |
related his story, and told his friend.
alter what had passed, he could never
to give a written apology.
II fear them" said his friend. "a
light cannot be avoided; but wait
mere a moment and I will ride yer
ana see your adversary's second
Lieutenant r , the ar illery cficer.3
After The lapse of half an hour The
TREND returned and said:
wei, | fear the meeting mrat
axe place; l can do nothing. and
oeslde, l regret TO inform YOU that'
rom The delicacy Of my situation. I
annot act FOR you in this matter.
'ut u K. requests me to AK
,ou as a favor to call on him to-n,or-
ow. as be thinks he will be able to
manage the difficulty"
me a aud generous Lieuten.
nj Il. was the pink of chivalrv IN .
American army. He was w. 70 -,
popealed to by his brother officers IN ,
l1airs OF honor, and his decision Wa 9
ecelved as final. The Dext d.v !
galioped to Lieutenant Rs !
mt and was kindly received. Attar !.
glass ct wine they tai sed the matter =
le difficulty. :,
1t is strange" said Lieutenant r : :
you admit you intended no MAN, H. Q
ao nave SAID SO; but why not put it C.
For the very cause" said Rooa-. e
the verbal explanat,o, =
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
UncOnGrm.

WASHINGTON, Aprt
port published in NJ
morning chat negotiat
ing between tue gog
SPUN and Mexico Look
fer by the former to The
island of Cuba, is rsgal
by the Spanish nliu,u
together improbable Wv
REPRESENTATIVE.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

Mr.. Arthur may have the solid
south at his back, but solid New
York would count vastly more for
HIM in the rattle for the nomination
which will take place in Chicago
next June.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30

It Is the same old show with the
same old performers to run it-Whit-
ford, French, Letter and Smith-the
big four" In the "comedy of the
b0sses.n
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-30
WAGES AND PROTECTION.

In an address to Congress by the
Hon. s. s. Cox, on the federal rev.
enue, the mode of its collection, and
the effect III its income and OutgO,
delivered last month. and so replete
with striking facts, and 80 illumined
by bright flashes OF ,nexhaustible
Wit that every sentence appeals to
reason and taste alike occurs one
passage so plain, So terfe, SO. bright
and f" convincing, that we reproduce
it herewith. Says Mr.. Cox:
Talk not to me of your dollars
and cents difference in weekly wages
while you recoup that difference and
more by act of Congress, by tariffs On
everything that labor needs and uses
and consumes except bread and meat.
No! I will not except bread and
meat even; for have you not taxed
the tools that built The road, its rails.
its engines, its cars, and every me-
chanical implement and appliance
that carries the bread and meat to
our eastern and southern labor from
the fields and ranges Of the West? |
Are not the plows and the hoes, the
harrows and the reaping machines
that the farmer uses taxed? Have
yau not taxed every bol5 in the
farmers wagon, every buckle and
strap and chain In his horses har>
ness? The very clothes OF the
farmers back, from bis shirt to his
overcoat, from his hat to his shoes,
even the bed that he lies on, the roof
that overs him, the glass in his
windows, the plates on his table, the
cup he drinks from, the rope in his
you not taxed them spe-
officially and ad valoremIy from so to
100 and more per cent. as 1t pleased
your honors; and for what?
Have you committed all these out {
rages on u farmers and industrial {
producers in order to secure 81 per
cent. annual return on m%anufactur-
ny capital? Is this the compensa- I
ion that you award to American la I
nor for depriving it Of q foreign mar a
,et for the bulk of its products? You :
TX the farmer, the laborer, the me. a
from the crown of his head to u
he soles of his feet, in sleeping and u
IN riding aud walking, IN y
very bodily function that involves Z"
he breaking of a thread OF the she'd o
ing of y button. You tax his wife q
nd bis son, and bis daughter. and .
is man servant, and his maid SER II
ont, and the stranger within his II
the very pin in their gar d
rents have not escaped your specifics
nd ad valorems. You have made o.,
nto yourselves a ''heaven of iron h.
nd an earth of BRASS" (Lev. 26, re-
~ Your thrift taxes are as the h,
IT. es of Deuteronomy, as the impre. te
atoms of King David Psalms cix.). n
the anathemas Of excommunica- r.,
Oh ; they reach the labor on which &C
icy are heaped In every bodily at. h,
lbute, function, occupation, and or
lation of life! This, too, in the ~
ce of your fiscal report that you had IL
treasury on last Both of June, when hi
III settled your annual accounts, be
'l6, 0S7 ,437 cash, and a surplus of at
venue the current year %(estimated)
SIS, 847, 1875. after allowing SAG, 269,-
s to the sinking fund REPORT of q,
,cretary of Treasury, 1883, page S, 10
I'd table 3D." page y. The govern q,
ent is controlled by the rich. Why tn
Ould not its Golfers overflow? NJ