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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-05

DR.. Simmonds, kis physician, who
lives next 70 Graystone. says that Til
den had been in unusuallY good health
daring the last fOur months. He had
taken great pleasure h bis hons, bis
greenhouses, his choice live stock and
his yacht Viking, and IL reading and
entartainino his friends. He was at-
tackled BY nausea and diaFFhDa on sun
day afternoon, bus Ehis yielded 10 mild
trsasment 90 that en- Monday be vas
able 30 take q ride. BE continued IN
bis usual health until Tuesday after
noon. when the nausea and diarrbBa
returned. He, hs9eveR, passed some
time in bis library In The evening, as
vas his custom.
On being assisted 10 bis bedroom By
DR.. diamonds. tbs 6rst sign ai APP
pEoaobina failure Of the hsart was
noticed By bis dlfiault breathing whiie
ascending the atairs. He was put 10 bed
and carsfnily watched and nouKished
through the night, bot his strsngth
gradually failed. AZ about 8 o'oieck
this mOFninR. DR.. Samuel SWift was
summoned by DR.. Slmmonds for con
aultation. On DR.. Swiktis arrival he
found Mr.. Tildou seated IN his easy
chair. in which he had been placed TO
relieve his breathina. He had lost the
power Of speech about an hour before
and vas evidently nearing the end. He
quietly passed away within fifteen uin-
atea after DR.. Buift's arrival. he died
in ths middle Of bedroom on the Sec
end door. With q southern exposure.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-05

AERAHx, AuQ. A--Upan receipt af the
news q Tilden's death, Gsrernor Hin
r. Coionsf .S4saref y. T7lfen. Ycn1srs.
Nssp York: learn With deep reRrat ef
the death ef yoaF distinguished unola.
Samuel J. Tilden. tender 70 yuu and
ether raiativoa my Eineere sympathy q
yU1r great bereavement. Ia hrs death
tue country LOSES ena Of her mags emf
1ent statesmen and our 6late one Of IT.
greatest sons. Please inaorm me at
your earliest oonsenienos Of he date
which may be hxed foF the funeral, 40 !
uill endsavor % attend.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-05

Not 4 slnets inssancs - oolof tllnd-
neaa haa bssu foand b. SehwaFzbaoh Ia
a. axsminatlon q AJ15 Holtentota. Ma
iaya, MeiaBesiAns. AasEEzliana. Aoeria
and PolFnssiauss and b eonciud-s t6at
the dsfaa4 is con6ue8 50 tna whits rasa.
and i d1e g tndaensea e1untofed 8i1h
civilized iife.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-05

TIE ToisdO Blsss fRap.l says : he
pesple cf the eoantry understand she
ntfef fAilnre Of the Dsmo1racJ b i1lau
les pladees, thsy see that q eannot Be
drpsuded ap1n. and Il Ne hspublioanf
pgt eiean, honest msn bsf0re the ooactEy
Tor Cezgresa this fail, tha Ho1ss q
Representatives will hsve . kspabiie4n
majority After MaF1h 80 neK1'
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-05

Xo Cf. Saatall = Ffikea. r. GreN
st1ms, Xouksrs, N. n. ] have this mo-
meuf earned % TIE sa1dan dsaEh of
your llusfrtuus relafive. Samnel ,. III
den. and hasten - express ny in4i-
eiaual soFroW II an eNent hg which the
e1aGe 81 New York ha4 lost her NEST
distinguished son and tbs N4iien one
81 is Wlses1 aud mcgl patEi1tie ecun
sslera GRpEEa CxEyE1AND.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-05

"A nan never lsaes nnyfting b %
iitenem" Hos abeai Ais ssss ~ street.
carr
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-05

Never borrow tFuahIe. The Interest
yoa hsss - pag fos ths aaeommadaiioa
u exse8ige
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-05

Bstusaa sha Yss and NJ ~ 3
uouap souid nat underssts % thFust
lna Ralnl e 90.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-05

Wasnrws9aS. Au9. A--MoFEisan Of
fersd ana tas Haass unAnim0a " adoga-
a sha follgainz rasolattan;
Rsss1rsd. Thai he Ha9ss 81 keprs-
eeutatpaa of ahe Uniaed Statea has
hsaFd uith pFof0und ssrsos of sns
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
4 State Weather Service.
( From The Bulletin I

The Board of Agriculture, at its July
meeting. resolved to establish fully
equipped weather station in connection
with the Experiment Station. They found
that a great deal of the work of such
station was being done at the Experiment
Farm already, and that the tull duties Of
a weather station could be easily dis
charged by its existing agencies with some
help from the Chief Signal Officer Of the
[. S. Army.
The Commissioner of Agriculture was
instructed to lay the petition of the Board
for assistance before the Chief Signal Off
Ger and the Director of the Station was
instructed to organize the service as soon
as the necessary means were obtained
Gen. W. b. Hazen, the Chief Signal Of
ficer, gave prompt and favorable reply
to the petition of the Board and prom
ised them the assistance of an expert
enced weather observer as soon as the
service was commenced. The enterprise
will, therefore, be put on foot just as soon
as the buildings of the Experiment Farm,
which are rapidly approaching completion,
are ready to receive it.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
A Diseased Sympathy.

From Richmond Christian Advocate.
Has not the pendulum
swung too far towards an unhealthy
humaneneSS? Is not a diseased sympathy
working injury to that body polite! Is
there not a sentimentalism abroad that
cOndoncS crime because of Il mawkiSh ten
derness towards the victim of the law"
Does not the vicious class count on a GER
tain pity from the public? Is not our
civilization losing its hatred of robust
rascals? Our ancestors were merclless to
a scoundrel. They believed in a gallows.
They had no patience with dilatory courts.
The full measure of punishment was met
ed There is a morbid and
abnormal dread of hurting criminals. The
assassin excites compassion. Flowers
perfume his cell The vicious anarchist
the mad dog of civilization caught
numbering the brave guardians of society,
with dynamite bomb, finds the law lax,
the magistrate ''leaning towards mercy,
and willing forgetfulness of his hideous
crime. The smooth and artful expert in
vice plays the martyr Of misfortune be
hind the bars, and finds gushing reporters
to tell his woes and hysterical women to
weep over the story.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
4 Rich Joke.


The Washington dispatches disclose a
rich Joke on the Senate. 1t has been the
fashion of the Senate committees to at
tempt to discredIt the sincerity and good
faith Of the President in his removal or
suspension of Republican officials. They
have studiously tried to make it appear
that the President had made removals for
party purposes only, and in disregard of
his avowed purposes and pledges In or
der to give the suspended officials a send
off, with a fine certificate of character and
diploma of martyrdom, the committees
have in numerous cases made reports, and
spread them upon the journal of the Sen
ate, reciting in substance that the suspen-
ded official was a faithful one and was
suspended for political reasons, and for no
cause rejecting on his character or con
duct, personal or official.
case has come to light which has very
much shaken the value of these indorse-
ments. Away back in the early part of
Mr.. Cleveland's administration he had APP
pointed one Alonzo Z. Sharp Postmaster
at McCoOk, Neb Sharp was appointed as
a Democrat. But he followed the bad
precedents of too many Republican Off
cials, and was soon short in his accounts
Thereupon Mr. Cleveland promptly sus
pended him, and nominated one Thompson
the Senate showing that Sharp was short
in his accounts, and was no longer fit for
public trust in public office.
With these facts and undisputcd proof
of their truth before them, the Senate
committee gravely report to the Senate the
following, which will be found in the Con
gressional Record of June 3, page 53s7
ION the 1th day of February 1886, the
President nominated to the Senate F. A.
Thompson to be Postmaster at McCook,
Neb., vice A. p Sharp, suspended during
the recess Of the Senate. The suspension
seems to have been made for political
reasons, and the committee has not found
anything in the case rejecting upon the
personal or official character or conduct of
the suspended officer"
SO Mr.. Sharp, who was kicked out for a
Democratic thief, finds himself immortal
lied in the Senate record as Republican
martyr. No sooner had he been proved a
rasca! who ought to be turned out than
the Republican Senators claimed him as
their own and capped on his brow the
martyrs crown. Although a proved de
faulter, repudiated by his sureties, the Re
publican senators found nothing in his
case ''refecting upon his personal or oifi
cial character or conduct
Several differences are irrcsistibly sug
geSted by this incident:
First-That Senate certificate plastered
upon the front of kicked-out official is a
very poor label of character.
Secondly when a Democrat in
Office turns out to be rogue, he thereby
is proved to be a spotless Republican, and
as such, the senate takes him under the
9gis of its protection.
Thirdly That the Republican Senators
consider that when an officer applies to
his own use the Government moneys and
becomes the terror of his own sureties.
there is nothing in such a state of facts
which reflects upon his personal or Off
cial character
AS the Senate record must Ie taken for
absolute verify, there is NJ escape from
these conclusions
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
Shall we RenOminate the Old Court

Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.l
| request you to publish the following
which appeared a few days ago in the Will
mington Star:
The real objection, and it is very
strong one, is that it is extremely hazard
Gus to elect for an eight years term two
gentlemen who are now 75 years old and
one of whom has been in impaired health,
we believe, for some years. They are GER
tainly excellent, high toned gentlemen,
country well in Congress, at the bar
much Of them to require them to take Of
they are 50 or "a years old.
But for this, We would believe that it
would be judicious and just to reelect the
two excellent and able gentlemen referred
to above. When Chief Justice Smith was
SO unlustly assailed eight years ago the
Star stood up openly in bis defence, and
tor IS course received the thanks of the
venerable jurist. 1t has lost none of its
high respect and admiration of him. 1t
regards him as one of the ablest of our
Jurlsts, one of the purest of our public men,
one of the best of our citizens. If he were
eight years younger the Star would GER
talnly be anxious to see him continued on
the bench
think the Stars reasoning is conclu-
sive and that the Convention next week
ought to pass strong resolutions of en-
dorsement of the high character and abil-
ity of Messrs. Smith and Ashe and put
two younger men in their place
DEMOCRAT
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
Civil Service.
From Asheville Citizen.

If politicians, self-styled statesmen, and
chronic Office hunters think the people are
not in full accord with President Cleve
land and his civil service reform policy,
let them give an opportunity for them TO
be heard, and they, the politicians. will
hear It themselves. This is fully shown
in every convention, State or district, yet
held, certainly by every State convention.
1t was very strongly emphasized in the
South Carolina Democratic State Conven-
tion on the 5th. The committee on plat
form omitted the civil service plank, but
the convention by a large majority restor-
ed it, reiterating their confidence III civil
service reform.
This is very significant 1t illustrates
the difference very clearly between the
body of the people and the few spoilsmen.
Civil service reform is right, and will win
because it is right. 1t is in behalf OF hon
est government; and an honest intelligent
performance Of duty by those appointed
to attend to the business of the people
who pay for the work.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
4 SIG ANT ACTION.
EdgecOmbe Democrats will Not go on
Republicans Bonds Hereafter.


At the Democratic convention of Edge
combe. according to the Southerner, Mr..
W. T. Braswell offered the following:
RESOLVED, That the Democrats OF Edge
combe county in convention assembled do
deliberately and solemnly declare that the
standing by Democrats of Republican of
fetal bonds, should be discountenanced.
1t is demoralizing to the party and defeats
its will. 1t encourages trafficklng for Of
fee, engenders corruption and results in
putting in places of official trust men fire.
quently without character and never a
representative of the body of the people.
RESOLVED. That Democrat who aids a
Republican official in giving bond does the
party greater injury than if he had voted
the entire Republican ticket.
Its reading was received with applause.
Mr. Donnell Gillian made an eloquent
speech on duties of Democrats and party
discipline Democratic successes he said
had been due to Democrats holding to-
gether. Success in the future must be OBJ
tained in the same way. The first princi-
pie of Democracy was party fealty. The
speech was received with plaudits of ap-
proval, and the resolutions were adopted
by vociferous and ringing AYE" and
with not dissenting vote.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
W. ID. Pruden, Esq, for Supreme Court
Judge.
Especial Cor. STATE CHAoNICLE.l

Especial Cor. STATE CHAONICLE.
am pleased to see ". ID. Pruden Esq.
of Edenton, so favorably spoken of for Su
preme Court Justice Public sentiment is
growing in favor of a new court. While
Mr.. Pruden may not be the most brilliant
man, he is by far the ablest man III the
First Congressional District. AS a lawyer
he is pre- eminent at the bar Of ten cOun-
ties over which his practice extends.
Mr.. Pruden came near being nominated
for Judge when the present able Judge
Shepherd VAS nominated, and he has
received compliments as a lawyer from
almost every Judge that he has ever prac-
ticed before. Laborious and thoroughly
incorruptible, his friends believe that he
would make great Judge.
Some correspondents of the newspapers
have done Mr.. Pruden a great injustice by
intimating that he is physically weak,
when the truth is, that although not very
robust, he is a very healthy man and ca
pable of a wonderful amount of mental
labor. Honored and esteemed by all who
know him, North Carolina has no wor-
thier son.
VOICE FROM THE CENTRE.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19

exercise can be expected results Of a salts
factory nature.
North Carolina has IL her Judicial his
tory Wen whose fame - cotAtenaIYo with
the English speaking people. To-day,
wherever English decisions are known, Is
the name of Chief Justice Kuf1in one of
honor and strength
Vast learning and exalted integrity pro
vide reasons for such acquaintance; and
IN years to come, will the opinion OF Judge
Geo. Y. Strong, if he be nominated To the
Supreme Court bench. be studied and es
teemed as store houses OF lea ming, and
correct legal principles. In writing thus
We use no vain words and but express
those Of truth and sOberucSs.
In all North Carolina we know no man
whose learning Is va>ter or whose nteg-
rity is frccr from reproach. Ne can say
with certain truth that no lawyer is better
equipped than he May We not say that
the man whom Governor Bragg deemed
his superior as a lawyer, and who in the
estimation of those who knew them best
was his full equal, has no superior in our
State
Your correspondent remembers well the
declaration made by the great Governor
Bragg, that Judge Geo Y. Strong was his
own superior as a lawyer. And not only
from this source do we hear highest praise
of Judge Strong, but from every lawyer
who has met him i'll legal debate. During
a contest with him no lawyer feels secure
in his positions; and it is only when the
court of last resort prOnouuceS its final de-
cree is safety felt. From the present Chief
Justice do we hear words of like cOmmen
daton for Judge Strong with those uttered
by Governor Bragg.
Such in very truth is the man whom the
convention that meets in Raleigh on the
25th, August 1886, will be urged by many
counties to nominate for Judge of the Su
preme Court Let us see that North Car
olina lose not the opportunity to possess
herself of the vast legal requirements Of
the Hon. Geo. Y. Strong.
|
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
Description of Il Kiss by One Who Has
Been There.
from Wilson Mirror.

A kiss is the visible sign and token of
an inner sentiment which no words can
express. The eyes and the tongue do a
good deal of appreciable work of love
making, but the meeting of the lips is the
sign and seal, the chrism, so to speak,
which transforms the earthly into the
divine. Love without kiss would be like
the harp without the hand, the rainbow
without its hue; the brook without its
babble the landscape without its colors; the
tube rose-sweetest flower for scent that
blows without its ordor; the borealis
without its variations; poetry without
rhyme; Spring without sunlight; a garden
without foliage or marriage without love.
The young woman whose ideas teach her
to recoil from kiss cheats the lover of
the joys of loving, and those good old
hours of wooing and cooling would be rob
bed of that exquisite delight which makes
earth wear for a time the glorious sem
blance of Heaven, and which make NOR
tails dream of the raptures of Paradise
regained
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19

Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.l
The judiciary of a country is by much
the chiefest means for promoting its glory
or causing its degradation
What school boy has not had his praise
worthy pride stimulated by reading the
lives of the great justices of the past, and
where shall man be found whose indus
try and active exertions in honorable pur-
suits have not been urged to more vigorous
action by reading the life of Holt, Mans
field, Hardwicke. And what names in the
whole of great England's long history have
been more productive of lasting benefit
than those of her learned and honorable
judges?
If all laws were wisely made, then in
deed would their Interpretation be com
paratively perfunctory. But unfortunately
such is not, by any means, the case.
The nice shades of difference which lie
between the various statutes and their
different interpretations are what produce
difficulty and perplexity and to the we'll
disciplined mind alone belongs the power
of a proper and correct discrimination.
From that man then whose legal views
are made acute by long and continued
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
Hon. John Manning for Supreme Court.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE. |

Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.
There seems to be a wide spread senti-
ment in favor of a change in the Supreme
Court; but no one has vet commanded uni
versal appreciation the successor of
Judges Ashe and Smith. | beg to present,
without his knowledge, the name of Il
gentleman eminently qualified in all re
spects for this exalted station. If he can
be induced to accept the nomination, the
convention will find no wOrthier man than
the Hon. John Manning, of Chatham. He
possesses rare qualifications for Il Judge;
talent, learning, industry. justice, integ-
rity and honor. He is in the prime Of life;
and his faculties, Sharpened by long and
successful practice, are bright and clear.
AS public officer his record is marked by
a keen appreciation of the needs of the
people, by lofty patriotism, by fine execu
tive ability and a just sense of personal
honor and independence. Few men have
made so honorable record in so brief
public service.
AS lawyer Mr. Manning is beyond my
praise. His mind is eminently judicial.
He looks through legal question unit. he
sees the bottom. He grasps principles and
goes to the foundation. His work for the
last ten years has been Of the kind to fit
him especially for a place on the bench.
AS one of the "Code Commissioners he
necessarily formed a close acquaintance
with the whole body of our statute law,
and as Professor of Law in the University
he has been dealing with all the principles
of English and American Jurisprudence.
Besides this work he has kept up IA large
practice and maintained his position as the
peer of any lawyer at the bar, He would
90 on tie bench, nominally a new man,
but virtually an experienced Judge
| would not be understood as desiring a
change, nor do | know Mr.. Manning's
views of the matter, but, if change is to
be made, where will be found better
bench than Augustus $. Merrimon from
the west, John Manning from the centre,
and James E. Sheppard from the east I?
Very respectfully, l..
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19
The Price OF Il Kiss.
En- tract from Long Branch Letter by a
Woman in the New York star

EXTRACT from Long Branch Letter, by
Woman, in the New York Star.
l heard a story of Nine. Adam, that in
teresting woman, and must tell it you.
do not know whether it is old or not, but
it is good. Gen. Gallipet had come to see
Nine. Adam on her ''at home" evening,
and came up to make his duty to madame,
who was standing near the mantelpiece.
She wore velvet gown, very decolletee,
her lovely neck and arms showing against
it like living marble. Gen. Gallipet bowed
and said with admiration, ''Sapristi, those
beautiful shoulders!" and then in stiff
and soldierly manner he bent over and
kissed her left shoulder. Madame, flushed
with Indignation, gave him blow with
her hand on his face. This he did not care
for; he made another profound bow, and,
saying ''Since l know the price," kissed
the other shoulder. Now, Dolly, was not
that delicious? Oh, why is it that such
men grow old and die. Why do they not
live forever to teach the rising generation
how to act under trying situations.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-08-19

Hon. Mr.. PrOtectionist or the Hon Mr.
Free Trade What he may think about the
Tariff amounts to little You want to tell
Your readers what your idea Of Tariff is
and III doing ii you don't want to consid-
or any mans views. The trouble is, : he
continued, if you Will allow me to say it,
''that the newspapers have become III
large measure but mere distributors Of
news, and full and learned and vigorous
discussions Of public questions are not seen
III the newspapers of to-day as much as
forty years ago. Again: Editors quarrel
too much. 1t is rare that find two Dem
Ocratlc editors IN town on good terms.
| find lawyers, doctors and preachers
friendly, but every editor seems to think
he cannot conduct a paper III the same
town with another editor without there
being personal antagoniSm and they make
their differences public and expect all the
citizens to enter into their little disputes
and to take sides Now this is all wrong
and is anything but elcvating to journal
ism, &c, &c. This gentleman is a man
of fine sense and broad views and takes
much interest in public affairs and believes
that the newspaper can be made a greater
power for good than any other agency.
He wants to see the profession attain the
position to which it is entitled and he de
sires to see it using its great influence to
inculcate truth rather than to talking 50
much about the doings of mer. He is
very near right and every editor would do
well to consider his mature reflections.
Certain it is that most of us fall into the
prevailing habit Of giving more prominence
to PERSONS than to IDEAS, when the order
should be reversed.