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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-12
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-12

WE RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE
w the nRmo Of n, A. uieckl Thomas ms
candidate for city marshal ~ ensuing cleo
ttOn, April 7, 1885. MANY NoTERs
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-12

I'VE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN
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rO-Slection TO the ufiice OF city engineer AZ the
ensuing April election,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-12
Fg OILY Attorney.

WYE ARE AUrHO kiZED TO AN
w nounse hyde Ionuings * n candidate
for city pttorucy In tho ensuing municipal
election, April y, 1855.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-12
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
Corrupt OmcfaI Ring.

Walter A. Shuckers, of Illinois, the
new Superintendent Of the Pension
Buildings, has recently come into pos
session of facts which justify the be-
lief that a corrupt ring of officials and
clerks in that Office has for years been
robbing the Government. The matter
at present is in the hands of the local
detective force, which is making o
thorough investigation into the char
ges against the suspected individuals.
A portion of the evidence already col
lected shows that six ofthe peculators,
one of whom it is alleged is John Fl.
Dickerson, the former Superintendent,
have furnished q row of cottages at
Colonial Beach, a summer resort on
the Potomac, with tables, chairs, mat
ting, carpets, curtains, ETC., stolen
bodily from the Pension Building
The buildings, too, are constructed OF
lumber belonging to the Government.
and were in every case erected by en-
ployes of the office. One of the de-
tectives engaged in the case is now at
Colonial Beach, trying to secure fur
Their proof of these charges.
The pension officials are unwilling
to give out any detailed information
at present. The charges will include
the making of corrupt contracts a.
well as wholesale thievery. One OF
the allegations against Dickerson is
that last winter he advertised for pro.
posals for making certain changes in
the boilers and other heating appara.
tus at the Thirteenth street Office OF
the Pension Bureau, when one of the
Elocal firms offered to perform the
work for 5000. Dickerson then ad
vised a friend to bid $195. He did 50
and was awarded the contract. The
engineer of the building then made
the alterations, at Dickerson's sugges.
ton, and the $195 was divided among
the three. MI. Shuckers says a mum,
Der of high and trusted officials are
concerned in the peculation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
Grant had thirty-nine classmates

Grant had thirty-nine classmates
at West Point. Ten of these became
major generals of volunteers in the
Union Army. They include W. B.
Franklin; J. A. Hardee, just retired
from the regular service as a briga-
der; Frederick Steele, n of Grants
lieutenants; RUFUS ingalls,, retired as
quartermaster, general, j. A. Rey-
nolds, II. F. Clark, and J.. H. Potter
are now on the retired list as colonies
in the regular army. Fifteen of the
class served in the Mexican war, and
Of these seven were killed in action
or died of disease. Four members
went over to the Southern side.
Three of these were born in the North,
r. S. Ripley, of Ohio, S. G.. French.
of New Jersey and Franklin of New
York. They married into Southern
families. Gardner was the only one
in the army in 1861. Ripley rose to
be a acknowledgement. Franklin led
the class, and Geo. Deshon was sec.
ond. The latter resigned after the
Mexican war. and is now q Catholic
priest. Only ten Of the class survive,
of whom Gen. Franklin, head of the
Colt works at Hartford, is most con.
spicuous.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
Brenner WitLdraws.


Simon Bremen of Montgomery
county, who was nominated by a
rump convention at Sharpsburg on
the 1st of September, as the Demo
cratic candidate for this Senatorial
district for his second term, has con-
|cluded to pull off. 1t was the correct
thing for him to do, and we admire
his discretion. He would have been
shamefully beaten, not only in Preble
county, but in his own county. A
new Convention has been called to
meet in the city of Dayton, on next
Monday, 2lst inst, for the purpose
of putting in nomination a suitable
Democratic candidate for the posi-
ton. If the convention steers clear
of the coal oil gang influence, and
selects q man who cannot be polluted
or corrupted by it, we have no doubt
Of his election. The delegates to the
Senatorial Convention from this
county, will be found in the proceed
ings of our county convention in an
other part of this paper.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
All patriotic men and women who

All patriotic men and women who
read the following paragraph from
the Charleston Ne,os and Courier the
most influential and widely circulated
democratic paper in South Carolina,
will applaud the sentiments:
"How does it happen that in this
day, and never before, the choicest
daughters of the South, the daughters
of wealth and refinement, high born
and high bred, are found in the school
room, ministering like angels to the
children of the rich and poor alike?
Is not the answer at hand? Out of
the destruction and d~esolation of war
has sprung this great blessing. 1t is
the silver lining of that dark cloud
turned now refulgent upon our land.
What ages of normal progress might
not have been accomplished has been
wrought by q mighty revolution with
in one generation. The war is already
blessing the South. Who does not see
it, in the schoolroom as elsewhere. Or
the cross that we bore, our children
are already wearing the crown, and
our ch;ldren's children shall wear it
after them"
In the face Of such declarations
who desires to see a revival of section.
alism or bitter contentious based on
the old war issues-a civil var ended
twenty years ago? The demagogues
and scoundrels who would perpetuate
the old war issues and continue the
factional feelings are unworthy the
name Of American citizens and
should be scorned by every patriotic
citizen.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
A DEATH BED CONFESSION.

Pat McNeal Makes n Statement,
Admitting n Murder, for
which his Brother is now Serv.
ing n Term in the Peniten.
tiary.
Oxford Citizen.
The story of the crime is as follows :
a Virginian and about twenty-three
years of age. He was a quiet and in
offensive young During the
month of February, 1854, he visited
his uncle, John Norris, of College
Corner On Saturday night, May 81,
Scott made his first visit to the Corner,
in company with three sons Of Mr..
Norris. The party had all been drink
ing, but none were intoxicated. About
IL o'clock the boys started home. Jno.
McNeal, who was in an intoxicated
condition, meeting them begun pick
ing a quarrel, and in q second q bloody
quarrel was on hand, during which
thomas Scott was cut in the left side
and MORALLY wounded.
At the October term of court Nc
Neal was indicted for murder and
found guilty of manslaughter, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for q
term offive years. Nc evidence was
produced to show that John McNeal
actually committed the murder, as he
was convicted upon his own utteran-
ces to the physician, his wife and a
student, to whom he said. "I've done
up one man and if they hadn't got
my knife I'd done up another. He's
up there in the street now, dead"
Pat McNea), who was present at
the fight, comparatively sober, and
who testified that his brother John had
no knife on the night in question, is
dying with consumption, Friday call
FED in Father Kayser, of St. Mary's
Church Of our village, to whom he
made a confession. Father Kayser
immediately sent for John T. Neilan,
Esq, who was prosecuting attorney
at the time McNeal was convicted. as
it was desired on the part of Mrs.
McNeal, to have Mr.. Neilan present
and bear witness to the confession.
| Since the trial and conviction of her
son she has been very bitter in her re-
marks against the representing at
torney. Mr.. Neilan came up Friday
afternoon, and the same night tele-
phoned from Oxford the confession to
the Hamilton correspondent of the
Cincinnati ENQUIRER, as follows:
State of Ohio, Preble county, SIS: Patrick
McNeal, of the age oftwenty-one years, a res
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17

The Agricultural industries of
Ireland are rapidly improving, and
among the results of the continued
agitation there rank foremost. The
last official staten ent shows that she
has 81, 294 acres more ground under
cultivation than she had a year ago,
the increase being largely in flax
fields at the expense of grass. There
has been also an increase in the mum.
Der of horses and mules of 13 $50; OF
cattle, of 115,962; and of sheep, OF
232,62S; while O decrease Of 37,42S
pigs is reported.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17

Woman suffrage has been estab-
lished in Kansas in the election, and
the Kansas City Times says that at
Seneca sthe ladies were out in full
force and exercised their franchise
according to the dictates of their
husbands" This is discouraging.
What is the use of the women vot
ing if they are only going to vote as
their husbands tell them? 1t is true
that they ought to vote with their
husbands if they are honestly con-
WINGED, upon a careful and conscien
tious examination of the case, that
their husbands are voting right; but
itawould be a sign of independence
if they voted against their husbands,
though it might not add to the har-
mony of the domestic circle after
ward.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
James G. Blaine got his son Wall

James u. Blaine got his son Walk
er quartered on the United States
treasury as an attorney of the Court
of alabama claims" at a salary oil
$4,000 a year, and Walker got some
body else quartered on the treasury
as his private secretary at o salary
of $1,000. 1t turns out that there is
no authority of law for the employ
ment of either Walker Blaine or his
secretary. Like Topsy they "jusl
growed." From mere private citizens
they "~evoluted" into well paid public
functionaries without authority o.
law. This is the way things have been
done under Republican rule, by,
these abuses will not be celebrated un
der Democratic administration. Here
let US observe that the private secre
tary business is getting to be q pub
lie nuisance. The greatest statesmen
and the greatest lawyers of past gen
e~rations we're their own secretaries,
but o a whipper-snapper who man.
ages to thrust himself, or to get thrust
by some influential relative or friend
into a fifth-rate office, must have g
private secretary provided for him al
the public expense. We suppose this
thing will go on till the private sec
rotary gets a clerk, and the clerk &
body servant, and the body servant
a barber, and the barbera boot black
Well, no, we guess not after all
There is q Democratic administration
in power now and we guess the ras
Gals will have to go, private secreta
ries aud all.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
CheapM Money.

The war on the silver dollar is still carried
on by the Shylocks. They are determined on
a further contraction of the currency, in or
der to still further Increase the purchasing
power of money and co~rrespondingly reduce
the price of labor. This financial question will
never be settled until the entire control of the
currency question is resumed by Congress and
conducted in the interest of the people, instead
of a band of scheming Shylocks."-Ioledo
News.
There is no question that the de
pressed condition ofhusiness through
the nation is the result of-the con
slant tinkering with the currency by
the shylocks and the fiscal agent OF
the Government. There can be nc
other cause for the depression in
business and labor. Our money Eevel
was as good and safe to the holder
We never had as much legal tender
money to each person-$3S per per
son. The balance of trade with the
outside world is M hundred and
fifty millions in our favor. The past
year our general crops have been and
are now good. We too say let Con
gross take hold of our finances ano
compel Government agents to act fol-
the interest of all the people and ths
nation, by paying off bonded debt
and thereby return the money bach
to the channels of trade, instead o
locking it up in the Government
vaults and in aiding Wall stree
Banks to play shuttle-cock with th'
general business of the whole coun
try. There is as much reason to asl
Congress to stop the raising of wheat
cotton and corn, as there is to ask tn
stoppage of the coming of silver
We never had too much, nor neye
will.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
The terms of three Republican

The terms of three Republican
Senators in three States which were
but barely carried for Cleveland in
1854 expire in March, 1887. The sue
cessors to Warner Miller, of New
York, Joseph r. Hawley, of Connect
icut, and William j. Sewell, of New
Jersey, must be elected then. Which
party shall control the legislatures
that will fill the places If those Sena-
tors is of Importance to both, but es-
pecially to Democrats, since the latter
must win the next Senate if they ex-
pect at any time during MI. Cleve-
lands term to shape legislation in
congress.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
.uow the Money Goes.

Aside from the photography of the
following resolutions, draf,e by the
Republican candidate for County
Commissioner for his "third term"
we ask the attention of the tax-pay-
ers Of Preble county to its object.
1t is a ver6atim copy from the pub
lie records:
EATON, OHIo-1SS4
Februay 9Th
Belt RESOLVED that it is the Cence of thes
Bord that il is to the interest of the tax-pay-
ers of Prebble County THAR commissioners
attend the Commishainers Assosiateen to be
held Jenury 18th 1885 thare to Confur to geth-
er in regard to the dutyes of THAR Office
Belt further RESOLVED that this Bord APP
propiate fifty Dollars out of the County fund
to pay per Dime and expences of attending
said Meeting.
Belt Further RESOLVED that we appropriate
twelve Dollars to Pay Expences of S. Coovert
for attending commissioners Assosiateen that
was held Jenuay 18th 1884.
There is q County Auditors
State Association" and a County
Clerks State Association" both OF
which meet at Columbus, but none OF
Preble's Auditors or Clerks that we
are aware of have ever had the check
to present a bill fer their expenses,
though it would be just as lawful to
pay them for attending a school OF
instruction" as it is-for Commission.
ers to pay them. The first draft OF
Converts "beit" resolved included
expenses for the time lost in this
sjamboree" to Columbus, bnt that
steal was too much for the other
members of the "Bord," and it was
voted out. He got the $12, however.
Now Mr.. honest voters of Preble
county, don't you think the right
thing to do is to elect a man for Com
missioner who need not be educated.
and paid out of the county funds, tc
fill the position? Mr.. Wehrley is the
man.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17

Gov. Hoadly poiatedly states the
temperance issue when he says that
if the Democrats have a majority in
the next Legislature a constitutional
amendment authorizing the regula.
ton of the liquor traffic by license
ing taxation will be submitted to the
people; while if the Republicans
carry the Legislature and the Su-
preme Court, they will reverse the
decision on the Scott law, and collect
the uncollscted taxes of 1883 and
1854.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17

The Mormons have had their eyes
on a Mexican settlement for several
years past, and are represented as
having lately effected a settlement in
that Republic close on the borders OF
Arizona. The land is said to be good
and the supply of water fair. The
N1ormons will hold on to Salt Lake
City and Utah as long as possible,
but if driven to extremity it is be-
lieyed a large portion will pull up
stakes as they did at Nauvoo and
search for pastures new.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17

One of the good results accom-
plished by the last Legislature OF
Ohio, was the passing ola law max
ing it a crime for q man to allow
himself to be bribed to vote for any
candidate and imposing a fine for SO
doing. There has been for some time
a law fixing the penalty for buying
votes but the present law fixing q
penalty for receiving the money is a
new M The full text of the law is
as follows:
Sec. 1000. Whoever asks, takes,
or receives any money, property, fee
of any kind or nature directly OR in
directly, for his vote, or for his in.
fuence in favor of any candidate, OIL
for any labor or services rendered, OF
to be rendered to any candidate fol
nomination at any election, held I'm.
der the provisions of the law, relating
to primary elections, or at any pri
mary election held by any politica.
party, whether the same be held il
pursuance OF the laws relating to pri
mary elections within this State OF
otherwise, shall be fined not less than
one hundred dollars, or imprisoned
in the penitentiary not more than two
years mol less than IN year.
Sec. 7031. Whoever, beng a dele
gate to any convention, held within
this State by any political party, ask
or receives, directly or indirectly
any reward, fee, money OIL other prop
ertv, fer his vote, or for his inluenc'
in favor Of any candidate, or for an.
labor or service rendered, or to b
rendered to any candidate for nomi
nation to any office whatsoever, o
for any expenses incurred, shall b
fined not more than five hundred dol
lars, or be imprisoned in the peniten
tiary not more than five years nor les
than two years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
Lincoln and Jeff Davis.

There was a remarkable coincidence
of events in the lives of Jefferson Da-
Wis and Abraham Lincoln until each
approached the climacteric ofhis pub
lie career. They were both born in
Kentucky, Davis in 1908 and Lincoln
in 1909. They both were removed
from their native state in childhood,
Davis being carried to the southwest
and Lincoln further to the northwest,
then so-calied. Both of them began
their political careers at the same
period, in 1874 Davis being then a
presidential elector for Polk and Lin
coin an elector for Henry Clay. Both
served in the Indian wars of the west
and both were elected to congress
about the same time, 1915 and 1916.
And, lastly in the parallel, in the same
year, and almost OH the same day, they
were called upon to preside over their
respective governments, Davis as the
president of the Confederate States
aud Lincoln of the United States.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17

There are 1922 postmasters be-
longing to the first, second and third
classes in the U.S.; President Cleve-
land has, since the Senate adjourned,
made 4S7 changes in these classes.
The number of the fourth class post
masters is nearly $4,000, and the
work of putting out the old and put.
ting in the new officials, as may read
lily be seen, is a big undertaking, aLd
will consume much time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
Philadelphia Times.

Foremost among these pitiable Re-
publican Bourbons is John Sherman,
of Ohio. He began a great battle thirty
years ago, when young, vigorous, hon
est and enthusiastic; but thirty years
Of battle and spoils have sapped his
manhood, enfeebled his energies,
clouded his perceptions, and he is
simply repeating the role Of the pitia-
BILE Democratic Bourbons who con-
fronted him in the better days of his
youth. Think of John Sherman only q
few days ago opening the Ohio cam
paign with a speech that is simply o
repetition of his sectional harangues a
full score of years ago. And think,
too, of him delivering such a speech
before an intelligent audience i'll the
intelligent State of Ohio. Just when
the whole nation had emphasized its
purpose to bury all sectionalism in the
grave Of Gen. Grant, John Sherman,
in imitation of the men so pungently
pictured by Grant on his deathbed as
those who never warmed up to war
until its battles were fought, opens the
Ohio campaign with one of the most
senseless and violent sensational
speeches of the last score of years. 1t
is simply the old Democratic Bour-
bonism breaking out in the plumber
bred Bourbons of the Republican par
ty, and they are digging their own
graves just as the Democratic Bour-
bons dug their own graves when Sher-
man was honest, prtriotic and pro-
gressiVe.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17

Every time q rural Republican
postmaster is removed for a Demo.
crat to take the place, a wall of an.
quish and despair goes up from the
rural statesmen who made the P. o.
their place of political rendezvous.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17

Judge George w. M%cIlvaine, of
the Supreme Court, and q candidate
on the Republican ticket for re-elec
ton, has rendered his resignation to
the State Executive Committee. Poor
health is the cause of his resignation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17

Ohio is to vote on q constitutional
amendment changing our State cleo
ton from October TO November.
This will be a great saving to the
people and the change should be
made. 1t should be remembered that
every vote not cast for the amend.
ment Will be counted against it. All
should vote for it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-17
Chicago Times.

Not having been there, the Republi-
cans who make party platforms have
no personal knowledge that the war
is over But they ought to be willing
to take the word for it of such well
known eye-witnesses as Gen. Grant,
Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan, ali
OF whom were o good soldiers to
quit the field while there was more
fighting to be done. In view of the
overwhelming amount of evidence
from the most reliable sources that the
war is over, the Republicans exhibit a
degree of skepticism on the subject
which is wholly unreasonable, and
which if applied to other things in life
would lead to NO end of confusion.