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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06
LEES LIGHT VOTE.
Members of the Lee Family who Are
Yet to be Provided For.

Yet to be Provided For.
The light vote polled by Gen. Lee is the
subject of great deal of comment in
Alexandria and throughout the eighth Vir-
ginia district. The devoted personal fol.
lowers Of the general attribute IL TO the
security felt by the Democrats, hut the
generals opinion is that many who were
disappointed at the result Of the three nom.
mating conventions last summer showed
their chagrin by staying away from the
polls. IL is noticeable that, In the sec
tons in which the defeated candidates for
the nomination reside, the Lee vote was So
small comparatively that there must have
been great apathy on the part NJ the Demo
Gratis. Mr.. Frank Hume, with his usual
magnanimity, forgot his failure to secure
the nomination, and worked hard all day at
the polls in Alexandria, hut his followers
We're too disgruntled to Join him IN the
effort to pull ten. Lee through. Capt.
Foster and senator Meredith were tho
roughly upathrtic about the result, doing
nothing in the way Of canyassing and merely
dropping II ballot In the box on Tuesday.
There is a very large number Of Democrats
across the river who are 10y no means elatcd
over the election Of their candidate They
know they have now sadded on themselves
another member Of "F. +. ", who expects
to remain IN office for life, and that the
other Lees will soon be turning up asking
to be provided for because Robert T.. Lee
was their father or uncle. Although Fit2
Lee is now governor, and Runy congress
man elect, there are several other members
Of the family ready and anxious to draw
salaries from the government. There Is
Gusts Lee, down in Lexington, who has
never made any attempt to win an office,
hut who will now, It Is said. appears to
public notice so as not to he distanCed by
his brother and cousin There is also a
brother OF Gov. Lee, residing In Stafford
county lie must also be provided for and
couple OF cousins are yet To he heard
from. The Lee men are already figuring
ont places for all Of them. This is the
latest slate. After Senator Riddlebergcr' Is
term expires Fitzhugh Lee Is to
he elected to the United States
Senate, and Gusts Is to succeed him in the
governors chair In ISIS, "Runyn Is to
remain in Congress, while state senator
ship is to be awarded TO the Stafford mem
Der Of the family. II eau he easily under.
derstOOd then that the wOrkingmen Of the
district aud the state are not pleased at the
advancement Of the Lees aud the prospect
Of being Lee ridden the rest Of their natural
lives. They have bad quite Il surfeIt lt the
old Bourbon families, aud have found their
rule anything hut sweet. They can hardly
prevent Gov Lee from going to the United
States Senate in the event Of Democratic
success In the legislative elections, nor eau
they avoid few years Of Gen. "Runy,''
but they can and likely will prevent any
further monopoly of Offices by the Lees.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06
Fncts Worth Knowing.

In all diseases of the nasal mucuOus mem.
brane the remedy used must be nOn-irrtnting.
The medical profession has been slow to learn
this. Nothing satisfactory can be accomplished
with dOuches, snulls, powders, NyrngeS, nstrin-
gents, or any similar application, because they
ar a rtt9aimg an .t ln9IdT2gny p%G ip "s
worse thai failures. multitude of persons
who have for years borne all the worry and
pain that Catarrh can HliCt, testify to radical
Balm.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06
RED STAR CoUGH CURE tones up the system
generally. No depressing effects % cents,
Actresses Painted Like Valentines.
IRostnn Uomp Iournal

Speaking Of makeup II moment ago,
reminds me to ask why IL is that the young
actresses Of to-day are so fond Of making up
on the wrong side of the footlightsY | saw
in one evening lately at two different thea.
tiers two young singers, both pretty, both
successful, and that there might be Il trinity
Of virtues, both painted like comic vaen-
tines. Had either Of these needed such a
touching up Of kindly Natures gifts, It
would not have been surprising, but to
unnecessarily powder ones face, paint ones
cheek homes, and backen ones brOws In Il
manner TO attract attention is piteOus,
Those in the audience who might have
envied either Of these girls her success, saw
something to laugh at In the weakness that
desired to embellish its beauty or bear in
public the professional stamp, Some one
wants to tell such people that they must
exert more art in identifying, since what
will pass behind the foOtlghts will not pass
in front. Professional women are getting
altogether too careless about such things,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06
A GREAT PIGEON RoosT.
Thousands of 1871 rds Killed and Melted
In the Indian Territory.

IGlnbe- Democrat.
TAHLEQuAH, |. T., Oct. 2l.-The great
est wild pigeon roost In the United States
is just now located about twenty miles
north of this place, in Going Snake district,
this nation. A man just from there says
the trees covering mile square OF tim
bered land are literally as fun as the limbs
will bear at night with these birds, Mil
lions of these birds are there, he says, and
at night when they come IN to rOost they
make noise like mighty thunder Birdmen
say there are only two droves of wild
pigeons now in North America, This is the
larger one, A great many people are en-
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06

Thousands OF ladies troubled with nervous
ness aud female troubles have been cured by
using DR., IIenley's Celery, Beef, and Iron,
The pure pleasantesl, aud most effective
! ton, wholes le agents, Washington,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06

adjoining. WheSNs iste crop was dug
they were near. Az found to be striped
part red and part allow. The two va
rieties are supposed TO have mixed.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06
Coal V%ood Y
johnson Brothers,

Wharves and Railroad Yard:
Twelfth aud Water Streets Southwest.
Branch Yards and Offices:
1902 + street northwest.
1918 seventh street northwest.
1910 Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
lll2 Ninth street northwest
Corner of Third and X streets northwest.
22l Pennsylvania avenue southeast,
LARGEST PRIVATE RAILROAD YARD
south OF New York also EXTENSIVE
WI ARNES, giving unsurpassed facilities for
lhe economic handling of FUEL of all kinds.
SfgCOAL DELIVERED ON CARS DIRECT
FROM MINES INTO OUR YARD.
We deal Ia best qualities of ANTHRACITE
md BlNuYlNOUS COAL.
Al hudr nf WOOD either In stick or pre-
pared, lu Ofior A. our factory,
tlGhN COAL. FULL WEIGHT and MEAS
yRE prompt deliveries, and prices as low as
Fuel CRn b. furnished, oC2S II
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06

DoST let neuralgia ana rheumatism get
rooted in the system, but XIII them with SALIVA
ton oil.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06

81 per gallon, 10 cents quart bottle, No, l
Rye Whisky best In the world Tor the money,
at MCGees, Ninth street, near ID.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06

To the Lawyers of Washington.
Brain workers will regain increased mental
power by taking Dr. Henley's Celery Beet
aud Iron,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06

OvERCOATs of our own manufacture
silk Lined,
Satin.lintd
Italian Lined.
Prices from 81 to s35. Eseman Bros, Tailors
and CothleTs, eth and L.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-06

Albania for Collecting Carpet.

Those Scotch Cheviot suits to order at S25 ar
attracting general attention. Eiseman Bros.
cor. eth and Il.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14
81.

silver would result in the greatest indus
trial calamities. Every species of prop
erty would shrink. The only exceptions
to that result being gold, and debts which
would be increased to an extent to which
property would have shrunk. Every
public creditor, Mr.. Vance said, took our
silver dollar gladly, except only the class
that distinctly and solemnly agreed in
writing to take it. But we were told
silver had gone down. This was not 80
much true as that gold had gone up. Mr..
Vance read from late financial reports OF
Havana markets to show that American
silver dollars were at premium over the
silver coins of England and France. In
the course of all his economic reading, he
said, from Moses to Sunset Cox laughter
he had never met q case so weak as that
made now by the enemies of silver. He
had heard many cases argued in school
clubs and in cross roads debating societies;
he had heard pleas made from the tail
end of ginger bread carts and had read
endless platitudes in the Congressional
Record, but he had never met or seen a
worse abuse of logic or feebler attempt
to outrage common sense than the argu-
meLts used by our bankers, bondholders
and gold men generally in the discussion
OF the silver question.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14
Education in Dakota.

The editor of the Prairie Farmer pub.
lished in Chicago recently made trip of
observation through central Dakota and
among his observations makes the fol-
loving in regard to the public schools and
public school system of this territory:
Settled as Dakota largely Is, by intel
ligent American citizens from many of
the older states, one may we'll believe
that the interests OF education are early
looked out for. Ample reservations of
public lands, the sixteenth and thirty
sixth sections, or 1850 acres in every
township, made for school purposes, will
give this Territory one of the largest
school funds in our country But as we
understand it, such lands can not he sold
or used until after admission - a State.
These lands are, however, growing more
valuable every day. I'VE saw q section
today which We wonld think cheap at SIS
per acre. But the citizens do not wait
for these; the erection Of buildings and
the organization of schools are provided
for by contributions and local taxation,
as fast - few settlers get together in
any town. The township school system,
instead Of single district boards, is in
operation throughout the territory, and
most Of the counties have school commits.
sioners; and teachers institutes are beinl
held already IL many OF these counties
Teachers are fiocking In from MINES
Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, etc.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14

GREENBACk Weaver, of Iowa has in
troduced bill in congress appropriating
three hundred million dollars to make up
to the soldiers of the rebellion the differ
ence in value between gold and green
backs in which they were paid for their
services. Weaver has always contended
there was no difference in the value of
gold and greenbacks and if he still enter
tains that belief it ls is difficult to under
stand what he means now by the "ditf-
erence between gold and greenbacks. ."
But be that as 1t may there was very
great difference 10 the market and purcha-
sing value OF these two mediums OF ex-
change, and it is but tardy justice to the
soldiers that this amount should be made
up to them now. Those who remained
at home and prosecuted their business
and professional avocations received the
benefit OF the initiation IN profits on their
wares, prices of their produce and remu
neration for their labor, but the soldier
stood the brun: of battle, endured the
labor of the weary march and the expo
sure of camp life for half the wages of a
common farm laborer. Thousands OF
them had families at home who scantily
subsisted on the $lS per month IN depre-
c,sted currency sent them by the husband
aud father. Twenty years have elapsed,
it is true, but the moral obligation of the
government to those who maintained and
perpetuated its existenc is none the less
for the lapse Of time. The soldiers were
placed in position where they had no,
an equal chance with those engaged in
civil pursuits, and some equitable ad.
justment of the difference should be
made.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14
TUE doctors of st. Paul denouuce the

TUE doctors of st. Paul denounce the
present style of fashionable dress on dress
OCCASIONS with both women and men as a
total disregard of the dictates of common
sense, and consequently prolific source
of pneumonia, that fatal malady which Is
sweeping its countless thousands into un-
timely graves. But however correct the
doctors may be in their views on this SUBJ
ject, it will affect the style Of dress very
little, II any. There are very few society
ladies who would not rather die in the
fashion than live out of it. The old say
ing, zone might as we'll be out Of the
world as out Of fashion, originated in
this propensity. The fashion OF ladies
appearing at balls and swell parties as
near naked as modified and stultified
modes,y will permit, is principally ques-
tion Of comfort and propriety In warm
weather, but when the nude craze is car
ried into unreasonable weather in defiance
of comfort and health, it should be con-
demned, and il that will not correct the
evil the last resort of ridicule should be
employed On the principle that ''despe-
rate cases require desperate remedies %
Nearly all these semi nude fashions orig.
mate with the demi monde OF the city OF
Paris, whose immorals are condemned
and despised by theii sex, but whose prln
cipsl fascinat Ion by which they lure into
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14
J. @. WARN0OK.

The anti-railroad pass fanaticlsm has
struck tue United States senate, and sen.
ator Voorhees,, of Indiana, "the tall syca-
more of the Wabash was the gun
through which it was fired into that body.
1t provides fine and imprisonment for
railroad officials who offer passes to the
president, vice president, cabinet officers,
senators or congressman. Railroad pass
legislation is one Of the supremest follies
OF this law making age. 1t is as mean
ingless and spiritless as a political plat
form. 1t ,s show of public virtue with
out any substance Dan. Voorhees,
doubtless has life pass on every railroad
In the United States. There are thous-
and ways In which such laws can be eva
ded, and the ways are left open purposely
for evasion. Ii Mr. Vorhees considers
himself bribed whenever he accepts a
railroad pass he ought to be impeached
on thousand counts. The way for
those virtuous law makers to show an
earnestness in antl-railroad pass legisla-
ton is to provide q severe punishment
for themselves for accepting railroad
passes, not that such law would be en-
forced any more than the ether, hut for
tue looks of the thing.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14

The Convention Last Saturday.

The convention called and held at the
court house last Saturday afternoon for
the purpose of appointing delegates to
represent Stutsman county in the Fargo
convention was not largely attended and
yet reasonably well attended consider
ing the intense cold and SHIRT notice the
people had of the time and place Of hold :
ing the meeting. As the chllfor the con-
vent,on at Fargo was itself without ac-
knosledged paternity an Conferred no
4anthorit, upon any one t.'caif ihe coun;y
meetings to appoint the delegates the
meeting in this county was called by the
chairman of the county commissioners,
Mr.. J. !. Eddy. On the meeting beng
called to order Il. f. Wallace was made
chairman and A. W. Lewis secretary.
The object of the meeting was stated by
the charm an after which a somewhat
animated discussion of.the division ques-
tion was engaged IN by E. P. Wells, S.
l.. Glaspell, johnson Nickeus and j. W..
Goodrich, which was brought to close
by MIR. Nickeus moving that committee
of three, consisting of f p. Wells, F. B.
Fancher and D. NJ. Kelleher, be appoint
ed to report resolutions expressive OF the
sentiments of the meeting on the subject.
MIR. kelleher asked to be excused from
the committee as he thought it very like
ly there would be disagreement but his
request was not granted, and Mr.. Glas-
pell moved IS an amendment that the
committee in their report express it as
the sense Of the people of Stutsman coun-
ty that Dakota should be admitted into
the union as whole, which amendment
was defeated by close vote, showing
that those present were very nearly equal
ly divided on the question Of division or
admission as whole. The committee re-
ported q resolution to the effect that the
d. legates from this county to the sonvcn-
ton at Fargo on the 18th Of January be
Instructed to use all honorable means to
secure an expression of that convention
IN favor of division of the territory on or
near the 46th parallel, TO which sentiment
Mr. Kelleher dissented. The resolution
was adopted The delegates were then
appointed to carry out the instructions
embodied in the resolution, the delegation
consisting OF E. p. Wells, r. E. Wallace,
J. J. Eddy, Anton Klaus, Jr., and Hon.
johnson Nickeus.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14

THE democratic caucus of the OHIO leg
lslature did honor TO the party in that
state by the nomination of Hon. Allen G.
Thurman for United States senator, and
this mark of respect and appreciation of
the noble old Roman is the more con-
splcuous for the many foolish things the
party has done IN that state of late years.
The legislature of that state is republican
by small majority, and as Hon. John
Sherman is the present incumbent whose
term is about to expire, and as he is not
only the ablest republican In the state,
but by virtue Of his position as president
of the senate is next in the line of success
sion to the presidency, IN case Of death or
other disability of president Cleveland,
it Is not probable that any NJ the repub-
lican members Of the Legislature are mug
wumplsh enough to throw him over
board. Ohio's reputation for wanting
the earth IN politics Is too well established
and known to admit of a sDppostion that
she wOnld sacrifice even q remote posi-
bility of regaining the clutches on the
federal patronage she held under the
Hayes administration, and there is re-
mote possibility of regalning it by keep
ing Sherman in the senate. But, as We
haye said, while there is only remote
possibility of the election Of Thurman
the democratic party did itself honor IN
his nomination for the position. In the
ranks of the party of that state he towers
above all others like a stately eak in a
forest of shrubs, and IN the ranks of the
party and all parties OF the nation he Is
regarded by all intelligent, we'll informed
people as one of the master minds of the
country whose wisdom and honesty will
live ana 1t is to be hoped influence many
succeeding generations to come.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14
The Silver Question.

The silver question is now the proml-
nent question before congress and through
that agitation the people are being stirred
up all over the country. The ST. Paul
Globe maintains that it is not and should
not be party question. 1t declares the
contest to be one between the gold bugs
and coupon clippers of the east against
the laboring people and producers of the
west.
In the senate the other day Senator
Vance said the present attempt of money
ed men Of the world to depreciste silver
was one of the grandest conspiracles ever
seen. 1t was tyrannIcal and cruel blow
directed at the common people of al
lands. The banner Of the attacking par
ty should bear In PLAIN letters the words
of holy writ, "To him that hath shall be
given, and from him that hath not shall
be taken away, even the little that he
hath" After considering the question
of the whole amount of money In use in
the world, Mr.. Vance went on to show
that the growing commerce and lncreas-
ing population required increased money
facilities. The increase of our popula-
ton, he said, was three per cent per an
mum and our manufactures two and a
half per cent. The mines of the world
were yielding only one and one-third IN
crease Of the present money supply. Yet
per cent OF the money supply, that being
the ratio Of silver in the worlds stock OF
coin. The success of the efforts against
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14


The bill for the vlndicatlon of Gen.
Fitz John Porter, which was passed by
the last congress end vetoed by president
Arthur, will soon be brought up again,
and 1t il believed that it will pass both
houses and be approved by the preslden
President Arthur's veto message of the
bill was perhaps the weakest message he
ever sent to congress, as 1t was probably
done to crafty the spleen of some politi.
clans who had taken stand against it.
Gen. Grant, who took an honest and con-
scientious sta nd ut first against the resto.
ration of Gen. Porter, afterw ards made
honest reparat'on by confessing the error
OF his first impression and vindicating
him so far as was iu his power by COM
munication to popular magazine, and
recently Gen. Pope has added the weight
of his vindicstion by communication to
the same magazine. 1t is high time for
the petty jealousies of little generals with
big titles to subside. 1t was one of the
grandest characteristics of Gen. Grant
that lie could conquer himself as well as
his adversarles on the field of battle, and
in the storms of shell and shot he encoun-
tered on the field Of battle he never dis
played more heroism than in confessing
his error and v'ndlcat'ng Gen. Porter.
This act Of justice on the part of the H.
tnstrlous soldier whose death q nation
nOnrned only few months ago, should
put to shame the petty spite and jealousy
that still continues TO heap odium upon
the vindicated conduct of Gen. Porter.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14
The Dakota Question.

An associated press dispatch of the 1lth
says: In the senate the bill admitting
Dakota and organizing the territory of
Lincoln was reported favorably. Mr..
Butler reserved the right to make mi
norlty report. The main proposition of
the bill Is that the proceedings taken by
the people of part Of the present terri
tory of Dakota lying south Of the forty
sixth parallel of north latitude, which re-
suited in the adoption of constitution
by popular vote on the third day of No
vember, 1885, shall be accepted and ratl-
fed by congress, and the state of Dakota
be admitted to the union on an equal
footing with the other states. 1t is not
claimed, the report says, that this act OF
the legislature was necessary prellmin-
ary to the holding of a constitutional con.
ventlon, and If it was admitted that it
had no legal force whatever, and the pro-
ceedlngs which followed are to be treated
as purely popular; still it gave to the peo-
pie the machinery necessary for the ex-
preston OF the popular will In an orderly
and effectlye way. The conventions
which framed the constitutions Of Iowa,
Michigan, Florida or Oregon, and per-
haps other states, the report says, were
called and held under acts of territorial
legislature. The journal of the proceed
ings Of the convention is alluded to as
giving evidence of high degree of ln-
telllgence, public spirit and industry.
The submission OF the constitution in ac-
cordance with the ordinance of the con-
vention to the vote of the electors is de-
scribed, resulting in the adoption of the
constitution by majority OF Il, 900, max
ing it clear, in the opinion of the senate
committee, that an overwhelming major
lty of the people OF South Dakota approve
the constitution, and desire present ad-
mission into the Union of the states under
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1886-01-14
JAMESTOWN. OAK, THURSD JANUARY IA, 1886.

the coils of their immortality, are adopted
and pronounced 'perfectly lovely" by
Their pure but indiscreet sisters IN Amer
lea. 1t IS a cOmmendable spirit of pride
IN lady TO make herself appear attract
i've, but to do this it Is not necessary for
her to disregard comfort, and sacrifice her
life upon the altar of arbitrary fashion.