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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-05-14
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Atlantic.
Capt. Benz. ]. Staples is at Ellsworth
to buy lumber io.buiid store and dwelling
house opposite Capt. l.. Y. Joyce's new
house on the road TO the steamboat wharf
Herbert Joyce has divers from Port
land a, work on the lobster pound at the
steamboat wharf.
Mrs. Robbins has jus, returned from
Portland with a new stock Of millinery
goods.
Miss Pickering Of Deer Isle, began
school in district No. |. Tuesday. Nav T.
Mary A. Carroll Of Southwest Harhor, be-
gan school in district No. =, April IS.
Cool for the season.
May o. c. A. NJ.
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RNRp< ID. NEREiiI.
Trustees for the hnndinlIer~ Of Tie Collins Gran
lie Company Of East Buehill, Maine.
Pnrtland. March 10. IeSl. IlMIl
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lie Tells What Disfranchisement Has Done
and May Do in the South.

He Tells What Disfranchisement Has Done
and May Do in the South.
Interview in Philadelphia Press.
81 haven't even read Cleveland's civil service
reform letter to George William Curtis, but if
the President-elect could take a little jaunt
through Virginia and see the Bourbons there al
ready wrangling and fighting over the Offices
that they expect to be made vacant next March,
he would be amused and instructed.
'aThe speech made by Blaine in Augusta, just
after the election, was one of the ablest presen-
tations of the situation In the South havs ever
read, and its words ought not to be forgotten by
the Northern people. I, myself, long ago callel
attention to the political strength exercised by
Bourbon voters in the South.
'iAfter the Danville massacre" continued the
General, several of the senator's including
Sherman and Edmunds pressed me to bring
this outrage to the attention of the Senate and
country. / agreed TO do so, and one day, while
discussing the subject with Mr. Sherman
called his attention to some points involving the
treatment of the negro by Che Republican party
that have never been able to understand
said Mr.. Sherman, when the Republican
party made the negro free, T. who had done all
in my power to prevent it, thought emancipation
an awf.a thing WE'LL as years passed by, ina
proved and now the wonder is that having made
him tree. the Republican party will not protect
him in his freedom. | believe that we viii have
another civil conflict in this country, not over
the question OF slavery though Although
fought against the Union, | declare / would
never consent that those who attempted to de-
stroy it should again become its rulers. If the
t;onEederatas lad wsn am very sure the North
would not hege been allowed TO manage the
federal government
II caIlel Mr. sherman's attention to the CON
dition Of Affairs III the country The South is
represented in the Senate entirely by Southern
Democrats, and I believe thirty-two of their
tthirty-six senators were Confederate brfgadiers
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NEWYEAR'S AT THE CAPITAL
Concluded from First Page.l

counts. Conviction upon any one Of these
counts would have insured sentence to the
peniscutiary for term of years.
The district authorities alone are responsible
for Capt;.in Howgates escape, and are the only
ones to act in recovering him. For some unex-
planned reason the officers in the district at
torneys Office have never raised their hands to
find out where Howgate is or to bring him back
for conviction and punishment Howgate stole
from the government over 100000 1t was
very good percentage of his ill-gotten stealings
that went to certain merchants in this town who
connived at his making of fraudulent vouchers.
The process was simple one. A dishonest
merchant with an account of, say, 5000, for
consideration might sign blank voucher which
could be used for voucher representing $4,000.
This Howgate matter, if opened up pretty thor
ouehly would show the necessity OF an absolute
and sweeping change in everything relating to
the prosecution of crime in this District 1t
could be shown that those who were chiefly re-
sponsible for the prosecution of Howgate were
his intimate and boon companions. Before his
exposure these officials had often accompanied
him upon his yacht down the Potomac.
Through their intimacy, with him it is certain
that they practically connived at his escape, and
so far as any fear of prosecution is concerned,
he might walk the streets of Washington to-day.
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more. Thirteen hundred for Gates; none for
Fontelieu. There were no Republican alligators
in Bayou Pigeon swamp that day; they were
solid for Democracy and reform.
And this is true history Of the manner in
which Kellogg,s district was wrested from the
Philistines, and handed over to the party of
saccharine and light. BY the time the Noven
Der elections came, the finishing touches had
been put upon the district The Governor of
the State sentthe militia over there early in the
summer, to quen the noisy remonstrances of the
Republicans. Later, wellained volley into a
kellogg barbecue disposed of eighteen undesir-
able voters, and finally, the Democratic chief
tains conceived and executed the lofty thought
of putting Fontelieu and all tie rest of the
prominent Republicans into Jail, and keeping
them there, without hearing. until after cleo
ion. In fact it is scarcely necessary to dwell
upon Kelloggs defeat AS the gentleman who
brought in the Bayou Pigeon box would say. Ca
va sans direi
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Minor Notes.

W. G. DePauw q Co., of New Albany, are the
lowest bidders on plate glass for the new Cincin-
natl postofice building.
Gray Griffith, aged fourteen years, was
drowned in Flatroek river, near Columbus while
boating. Two others in the boat with him es-
capped
A young man named Lewis, from Battle
Creek, Mich, on avisit to his father, near Port
land, while out coon hunting had his arm blown
off by the explosion of his gum
At Evansville, a woman named Solomon
eighty years old, wandering aimlessly about the
street, has been taken to the city iail--the
Evansville home for the aged
Fred w. Heath of the firm of Heath e. Co.,
bankers and brokers, of Muncie, and Miss Laura
Bennett of the same place, We're married yester-
day, Revs. Simpson and Stabler officiating
The fountain presented the city of Madison by
the Oddfellows will arrive in lew days and be
set up. Its size can be estimated when it is
known that two cars are required for it's trans
portation.
Henry Schnitzer, of Garrett, undertook to
drink what he thought was cider with cold
lunch The liquid proved to be concentrated
lie. He drank several swallows and is danger
ously sick.
B. j. Ice who had dry goods store at Ander
son and one at Marklesvlle, village in the
south part of Madison county, has made an as
signment. Henry j. Bronmenberg was appoint
ed assignee. The liabilities are about SIS, 900,
with 81. 900 assets.
AT Connersville, the historic law suit of W. T.
Dale and others against l.. r. and O. T. Thomas
is now on its third trial 1t began sixteen years
ago, and has been through the Supreme Court
twice. Some of the original parties died of and
their administrators have taken their places
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A Husbands Cruelty.

NEW YORK, Jan. AT Winfield L. l., ter
rible case of cruelty was brought to light. Last
June Mrs. Katie SCHNEIDER. wife of prosperous
tailor of that place, gave birth to child. Two
days after her confinement the husband insisted
on her going to work in the tailor store She
worked in the shop for two days, and she not be-
ing able to perform the task assigned her, the
husbend locked herself and child up in dingy
room in the attic. without any bed or covering,
save the clothes she had on He supplied her
with food every day. but without knife, fork or
spoon. She was afraid to leave the house, be-
cause he had threatened to shoot her. When the
cold weather set in she could stand it no longer,
and fed to the house of neighbor, where she
now lives. She is about to bring suit against
her husband for the support of herself and
Child.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-02
GUARDING THE ELECTORAL RETURNS.
The Difference Between Now aud Eight
Years Ago.

The Difference Between Now and Eight
Years Ago.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The way the returns
of the electoral votes of the States, as they are
delivered to acting Vice president Edmunds, are
held preparatory to the final declaration of the
two Houses of Congress, differs from that of
1876 as widely as the circumstances of that year
differ from those of the present Now they are
placed in the safe with no ordinary precautions,
for there is necessity for them. The returns
of 1876 as they were delivered to acting Vice
president Ferry, were put under extra locks and
guards day and night. During the period of
suspense, down to the action of the Electoral
Com mission. the greatest vigilance was OBJ
served. Threats from different quarters as
we'll as the excited state of the country led to
extraordinary precautions One hundred extra
policemen were sworn in and placed on
guard night and day. The number was occas-
ionally increased This done once in conse
quence of reports of plans maturing in Balti-
more to make descent on the Capitol to seize
the returns They were in a safe in at
the Senate end OF the Capitol. AT all hours that
room was closely guarded
Unknown to any one but the Sergeant-at-arms
of the Senate, at nights man locked himself in
that room, and remained without light and in
silence till morning One night he carelessly
drew match to light cigar. Though it was
for an instant only the light was seen and the
alarm raised that all was not right in that room.
The door was shaken and call made, but the
man inside remained silent Preparations were
made to force the door, and the Sergeant-at-arms
was sent for. After hearing the report of the of
fcer of the night, he found a way to delay
forcing operations till morning, when the guard
were relieved and the man inside came forth to
confess his carelessness and receive a proper
reprimand. The sudden light was a mystery to
the guard as long as they were on duty
When the Senate went to the House to meet
in joint session to count the votes, the box con-
tanning the returns was placed in the possession
of chosen man, who was strongly flanKed ON
the way by the guards but with as little display
as possible while the joint meetings were being
held Guards were posted in the galleries, on the
fioor-especially in the vicinity of the Speakers
desk where the box was-throughout the Capt.
tol building and in the approaches.
This was kept up with military precision
throughout the suspense, down to March 4.
Meanwhile precautions on larger scale were
taken by men higher in Office A military force
was concentrated in and about Washington,
and held in readiness for any emergency-that
of inaugurating Hayes, protected by bayonets,
If necessary.
A Cabinet official at that time said recently:
''The preparations for great emergency were
more extensive than any record shows The
country was nearer it's greatest crisis than was
known, except to few"
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Catharine Clubh,s Marriage.

READING, Jan IA sequel to the hasty mar
riage of Miss Catharine Club, the only daughter
of wealthy citizen of this place, to Franklin
Herdyman, who served FIVE years in jail here
some years ago, was developed here to-day,
when it became known that the bride of a few
days intended applying for divorce. When the
groom returned to Reading, after seven years
absence, he registered at the hotels as Francis
Newman. The Herald says of the affair: Her
dyman came back to Reading dressed in the
finest clothes. sporting an elegant watch and
plenty of money. He formed the acquaintance
of Miss Club on the streets, and, being of fine
address. a mutual attachment sprang up between
them. and they were married. After the cere
mony they both repaired to the brides home,
from which the bridegroom went to his hotel,
where he spent the night The bride now claims
that she did not know that Newman was Herdy-
man, and intends applying for an immediate
divorce which. it is alleged, the husband will
resist" Herdyman is now in Philadelphia. but
intends returning to Reading in a few days.
The brides father is worth several hundred
thousand dollars
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There is a project on foot for erecting a milk
condensing factory at Highland.
Mrs Jean Lindsey, relict of Rev James Lin, :
sey, of Bloomington, died at her home in Lii. Il,
Tazewel county, aged ninety-fve years.
Professor James HI. Brownlee of the Southern
Illinois Normal School, has been made presto, ut
of the State Teachers Association for the efsu
ing year.
At Rockford burglar entered the house o. R.
D. Woodruff and holding a revolver at the h. ads
of Woodruff and his wife, took 1925 worth of
jewelry and left.
At Waukegan, on Tuesday, the rope of a
bucket in which debris was being lifted out of
well, broke, and the bucket fell upon George
Heiting, breaking his skull
Near Shelbyville Alexander Andes a con-
ductor on the Peoria, Decatur 81 Evansville rail
road, fell from freight car into Black river, on
Tuesday night, aad was drowned.
Only nine of the thirteen Peoria distilleries
are in active operation, and using only II 900
bushels Of grain duly. The revenue collections
from the Peoria district for December were
ST., 105,920
At Carmi the head of the muddrum of the
steam engine at Staley & Zeigler's Touring mills
blew out The escaping steam badly scalded
George Woolheater, the engineer on the arms,
face and neck.
Two unknown persons called at night at the
house of Joseph Ramey, living near Vienna
Ramey was in bed, and his wife and two chill
dren went to the door. AS the door was opened
gun was discharged, each of the family receiy-
ing portion Of the shot The would-be assas-
sins then fed. Ramey had o. week before re-
ceived notice to leave the country, on account
of trouble growing out of recent murder.
Near Vandalia, aparty of searchers rescued
two trappers named Smith and Carr who have
been in the Okaw bottom, just south of there
for week, unable to get out, owing to the high
water They had given up all hope of rescue.
and, when found, We're wrapped up together in
their blankets and perched upon a box, half sub
merged by water. They had to be carried and
placed in the boat being almost dead from hun
ger and exposure
/ The Rev. r. N. Smith, of Sterling who was
expelled from the ministry by the Rock River
Conference for alleged adultery with two widows
of his church, has written a letter in which he
says he has no further object or interest in life
but to vindieate his character and confuse the
conspirators. He adds: I'm closing, want to
declare my innocence of the vile and blasphem-
Gus charges made by these two conspirators, and
to,say that they are but the fulfllment of the
threats of Mrs. Maria Libby made when hurled
her from my lap, whore She had indelicately
thrown herself. She turned, and shaking her
| fist in my face. said i see it now, and know
| that you hate me, but will be revenged r. III.
| Smith, will be your ruin
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rs HE PLAYED OUT?
Searching Comment on Mr.. Beecher and His
Recent Speech.

New York Sun.
The political con gregation of Plymouth Church
looks celdly upon its political pastor while he
founders in the hottest of hot water. When he
first began to speak in the late campaign a chill
came over his emotional followers In Brooklyn.
AS he proceeded on his edifying career, unpack-
ing his heart with words and Seeding like drab
they CONCEALED into stony Indifference Since
then nothing has moved them. He has hurled
his best phrases at them, put On his liveiest gait
of acting, beaten the brass of his eloquence, and
filled all the air about him with his grevous sin
cerity. They have looked on in open-eyed and
dismal apathy, and the more they have CONCEALED
the warmer it has grown for Beecher.
He is at his wits end. Never before was he
in such fix. No matter how deity his skilled
fingers run over the keys, the great instru-
ment with which heretofore ne has been
in such perfect accord is silent; it makes
no response. He has punctured the bellows
of its emotions, wounded it in the recesses of its
political sentiments, where its feelings are the
most real and its convictions the deepest, and he
can play on it no more. Beecher is in a bad
way.
When he was in his great emergency before, he
addressed himself with deperate cheerfulness to
the task Of lying his way out of it. The measure
OF his success was in direct ratio to the degree
of sympathy he inspired in the people he APP
pealed to; and the natural consequence was that
While he grappled to him the essential few he in
Cured the contempt Of the unbelieving many.
Then, too, he had an emotional and frenetic sort
which certain morbid tendency that he had
cultivated in his audience made them an easy
prey. Now. however, he is concerned in lying
of another kind, colder and more common
place form of mendacity, with novelty in it
and none of the quality that appeals to the
imagination and substitutes warm impulse for
the slower judgment of deliberate reason. He
makes poor fist of it
He has invented new set Of charges against
the Republican party ascribes new motives to
himself for his course in the campaign, says he
was actuated by his solicitude for the South.
takes back his vehement assertion that all the
men in New York were libertines and profigates,
and lies north, south, east and west with the
vigor and the candor of railroad map. But it
doesn't seem to be of any use. The people who
wept with him when he was on the ragged edge
and who covered his nest-hiding with garlands
of flowers, the deacons who wept publicly and
opened their Golfers to his need, show no more
feeling than so many wail-eyed pike.
; His friends may bolster up the pew rents next
week and make a show of escape for their
battered pastor; they may drag new elements
into the congregation and fill the vacancies left
by the sadeyed seceders; but the impression
prevails that Beeeher has praneed up and down
the vertebrse of Plymouth Church just once too
often
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The Whisky Taxes.

Washington Special in New York Commercial Adj
vertiSer-
The whisky men are in a very happy frame of
mind over the recent opinion of the Attorney
general, under which they are assured that Sec
rotary McCuloch will extend them needed relief
in delaying for year to come the taxes falling
due. Secretary McCulloch regards the whisky
interest as very important one in business
point of view, and that it is the duty of the gov
eminent not to push it to such an extent as will
disturb or threaten it with disaster, if it can be
done without violating the law The whisky
men say that Secretary McCulloch is disposed to
construe the laws literally than did the late
Secretary Folger. One effect of the relief to be
extended to the whisky trade will be to deprive
the government of upward of $40, 900, 900 of reve
nue. during the next five months. which amount
entered into the estimate of probable receipts
during the present fiscal year
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Selling Stock to Buy Bibles.

New 6peClaI.
The American Bible Society offers for sale
$4,000 in New York 7per cent. consolidated
stock. This is done because the society needs
money. 1t is the second sale of securities for the
same purpose, and Mr.. Taylor said: ''The funds
to be sold are part of the earnings of the So
ciety, twelve or fifteen years ago, when our in
come in every direction was larger than it is
now. The stocks are sold because with the in
crease OF population come increasing demands
on us for Bibles We are particularly concerned
just now in sending Bibles through the South,
among the freedmen, and in the new Northwest.
To.get money we issued general circular ask
ing for contributions, but the result was disap-
pointing Money must be had, or the society
must contract its field"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-02
THE INAUGURATION.
Information for Intending Visitors-Prepara
tons for the Grand Ball.

Information Tor intending tISIOrS-Prepar3-
tons for the Grand Ball.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The inauguration com
mittee desire that organizations intending to
visit Washington should communicate with the
committee, stating the number of persons in
cluded in the organization, its intended stopping
place, and other particulars so that positions in
the line of the procession may be reserved for
them, and other necessary arrangements made
The Albany Jackson Corps, numbering seventy
men and band of twenty-five musicians, has
signified its intention to attend and has applied
for a place in the line. The commandant
writes that the corps has rendered it's escort
from Albany to Washington to the President
elect, who is a life member of the organization,
but no reply has yet been received.
The committee on public order express adeter
mination to have Pennsylvania avenue, from
the Capitol to the White House, cleared of all
kinds Of vehicles and distractions on the 4th of
March, so that the procession may not be thrown
into disorder. The committee states that the
inaugural ball will be made prominent feature
of the occasion, and is expected to surpass any.
thing of the kind ever attempted in this country.
Work is progressing rapidly on the Pension
Building, and the grand ballroom will undoubt-
edly be completed in season. The court of the
building, which will be rooted over to form the
ballroom is 3l6feet length by la feet in width,
and surrounded by three tiers of corridors TWEEN
ty-two feet in width. This magnificent struct-
ure affords opportunity for decorations of the
most striking and elaborate description, which
the committee guarantees shall be provided. 1t
is estimated that $4,000 guests can be accom-
modated, but the number of tickets will be
limited to $4,000, Quite lively contest is in
progress between musical organizations for the
honor of furnishing the music for the ball
orchestra of Philadelphia and the Marine band
of this city are the most prominent competitors
The committee has practically decided to have
three bands; one will be stationed in the center
of the hall for dance music, and the others for
promenade music.
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The Liquor Traffic in Des Meines.

DEs MONIES, Ia, Jan. 1.-The enforcement of
the temperance laws in Des Moines is by no
means fiattering to prohibition workers. Last
June over fifty saloons paid licenses at the rate
of 81, Geo year. and at the present time fully as
many places where spirits sold, with little
attempt at concealmept, are running, making
enormous profits Many of these places have
made application to the board Of supervisors
for permit to sell at Wholesale for medicine
culinary, and sacramental purposes only"
which will be considered at the January session
The board us Democratic by one majority
Whether an injunction would lie against the
board granting such permits has not been con-
sidered. One of the three dormant breweries
has resumed operations. and prominent hotel
has refurnished its bar, which has been closed
for six months.