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The St. Johns herald., 1890-09-18
Who is Johnston!

on MT. Toby w. Johnston, a dis tinguished member of the Prescott bar. It is believed that this article was inspired, if not written, by a 1 certain Prescott individual who is too well known to need a more con itemptible designation at our hands.
 A Gazette reporter learning that MT. Johnston came to Arizona from Columbus, Miss, and knowing that Mir. A. Humphries of the Phenix bar, formerly resided at that place called at his office in the Thibodo building last afternoon for the pur- pose of interviewing him in refer ence to the attack on MT Johnston.
 INTERVIEW.
 Reporter MT. Humphries, do you know Toby ". Johnston, of Prescott, who is. 1 believe, a former resident of Columbus, Miss? If so please have the kindness to tell me something about Mr. Johnston and his people. How are they esteem ed by the best element in Colum- bus?
 Mir. Humphries II have known T. ". Johnstown and those of his relatives who live in Columbus from my earliest childhood. Mr. Harrison Johnston, his father, has resided there for more than half century. He is numbered among the more honored and respected citizens of Columbus, and before the war he has been 8 conservative Republican, which is very unpop- ular thing to be in Mississippi.
 He has some politcial enemies, the outgrowth of a long and active life. Aside from these he is a pop ular man. Hon C. A Johnston, who is brother of MT. Toby John ston, of Prescott, is the most pop ular man in Mississippi today. He ] has been for years a member of the National Democratic Executive Committee, and last year he de- clined the nomination fer governor of Mississippi on the Democratic ticket. He is president of the First National Bank of Columbus, and is well known on Wall street in New York where he spends most of his time.
 MT. Toby Johnston moved away from Columbus while 1 was a mere lad, but I knew him quite we'll then and have frequently heard him spoken of since his removal from Mississippi. He was regarded as an accomplished lawyer and an ad vocate of real power His practice was frst-class and must have been worth $25,000 a year, as it extend ed from Columbus Miss, to Mobile, Ala. He was one of the aldermen of Columbus, being the youngest man ever elected to that position. He was also mentioned by the press of the State as an available candi- date for Congress. His former law partner is now associated with the ex- Chief Justice of Mississippi in the practice of law, and the firm stands at the head of the Southern bar.
 Reporter From what you know of Mir. Johnston personally, what do you think of the article III the Republican today?
 NIT. Humphries ;-I am not ad vised that any rust has ever rested on MT. Johnstown' escutcheon, and I believe the article in question to be wholly false, word for word and line for line.
 Reporter Are you not Re publican, Mir. Humphries? Mr. Humphries;-Ye 1 am Republican, fat-footed and broad heeled with Roman nose, and 1 always stand by my party's press. But I do not think the article in 1 the Republican was written by any
The St. Johns herald., 1890-09-18


 A Grant county correspondent of the New Mexico Stock Grower, in the following prosy way, ricites the wonderful improvement which has taken place in the condition of the ranges and cattle of that sec tion:
 4 short time since the COW was sad; she scarce could raise her head, bedad. Her hoofs were sore, her tail was limp; her mane and bangs had lost their crimp, and miles she trudged from grass to drink, with scarcely strength enough to wink. The owner, too, looked blue and gIum, and cnssed the cat tie business some. But since the rains the grass is tall-the COW can raise her head and bawl her hide is slick, no bones protrude, she prances like a Deming dude. Her tail is sleek, her eyes are bright, she shorts and dares the crowd to fight. Her owner, too, digs up the chink and asks tbe boys to take a drink. God bless the rain, the gen. tie rain; it makes a man feel young again. He feels like tossing up his hat, and bowling, like a Democrat.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22
ONLY USE FOR THE NEGRO.

During pretty sharp spat between
Eustis, Hoar, Sherman and Butler in
the Y. S. senate, on Thursday, the
confession was eXtortcd from Senator
Sherman that suffrage was not con-
ferred upon the negro because he was
IT. for it or as a matter Of right, but
only for political reasons; and 1t was
on the same ground measures by this
congress would be justified to enforce
the legal rights of the negroes at the
South.
Senator Butler, in reply, warned the
senator from Ohio that whenever he
attempted to carry out his threat Of
another crusade upon the South
through supervisors and United States
marshals, for the purpose OF dominat-
ing elections there, he would have a
fire in his rear from the men who had
carried their money and their industry
into the South. These men would be
found side by side, shoulder to
shoulder through evil report and good
report, in preserving in those Southern
states the same character Of govern
ment that existed there to-day. That
was because they understood and
knew that it was through the power
and influence of just such govern
ments that their investments in the
South could be preserved. The senator
would find, whenever he attempted to
re-establish in the South those recon
structiOn governments. which had left
in their train the black mark of spoil
alton, of disgrace, and of humiliation,
and which would always De areproach
to the history of this country, a pro-
test in his own state and in his own
country, that would cause him TO
hesitate before he carried it out to its
fullest extent. He (Mr. Butler) would
not exchange one hour of good order
in the South for all the political power
that negro suffrage had given to the
South. If he had the power to-mor-
row he would transfer every atom of
that political power to the North and
wish the North God speed in the solu-
ton and management Of it. He APP
pealed to senators and he appealed to
the people of the North to believe
Southern men when they said that
they were far more interested in an
orderly, humane, honest, settlement
of the race question than the people of
the North could possibly be.
The senate then adjourned.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

Careful researches by Noel Humph-
reys and DR.. Hack luke have found
that there is no actual increase of in
sanity in Great Britain. In this
country, however, there is no question
as to an increased ratio, though it is
largely recruited from the foreign ele-
ment. Among natives, the statistics
show that the farming class show the
largest percentage, "and no WONDER"
says the Chicago Herald, ''the trials
and the life of the American farmer
are such as to drive any one into a
madhouse. There is every reason why
the class that has to bear the burden
of taxation, that isgetting deeper and
deeper into debt each year, that has to
raise small mortgages by putting on
larger ones, that has to sell crops at
cost or less than cost price, should fill
the asylums for the insane. The per-
son that has to Starve his family In
order to have corn enough to burn,
and that looks upon the return OF
spring as the time when the holder of
his mortgage can get at him and turn
him out of doors,is strong candidate
for an insane asylum. The honest
laborer, with family to support,
turned out of his position by duty
free imported pauper in order that his
employ may have enough surplus to
endow libraries, has been started on
the road to the insane asylum; as have
been his starved children, brutalized
by hunger and poverty.
"The Republicans in Congress have
refused to take any figures in this CEN
sus year as to the actual condition Of
the farmers, knowing that the publ
cation of the truth will be the death
knell of the heinous wrong of protec-
ton. But this years census should
give complete and accurate returns as
to the insane, so that we may know
where the trouble is and remedy it,"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

that part of the Bible which implied
belief in a Divine being was not sec
tartan, but that part teaching OF the
divinity of Jesus Christ, the Trinity
and Sacrament was not universally be-
lieved and consequently sectarian.
Senator Sherman, from the Com
mittee on Finance, reported yesterday
substitute for his antitrust bill,
which provides that trusts or cOmbi-
nations between two or more citizens
or corporations, made with "a view to
prevent competition in the importa-
ton, transportation or sale Of articles
Ofcommerce, are declared to be against
public policy, unlawful and void.
And the Circuit Court OF the United
States shall have original jurisdiction
of all suits of civil nature at common
law or in equity arising under TINS
section.
The resignation of Bismarck, as
Chancellor of the German Empire,
was accepted by the Emperor yester-
day. His successor has not yet been
named, but it is rumOred that General
Won Caprivi will be the man. The
German government without Bis
marck Is something Ike llaHlleJ WIFI
Hamlet eliminated; and the future OF
the empire without the strong arm
and master mind of the Iron Cham
cellor." whose brain united Germany,
will be an interesting field of observa-
ton in the future.
At | o'clock yesterday morning the
dry goods house of Pardee, Mills Il co.;
Peoria, was burned. The day had
been a grand opening" day, and the
store had been crowded with visitors
till far into the night. Loss, Sl25, 900
to $500 insurance, 100000. rms
is the third fire in the same building
within 10 months.
The bill reducing the legal rate of
interest in Iowa from ten to eight per
cent, has passed both houses.
The Worlds Fair bill has been re-
ported to the House.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

The passage by the house at Wash
ington of the Oklahoma bill declaring
the Cherokee slip public land, although
the bill has yet to pass the senate and
be approved by the president, has al
ready started a rush for these lands
almost equal to the rush a year ago.
Hundreds Of people are already in the
strip stalking out claims, and what
ever may be the law against such pro-
ceedure, there is no doubt every such
claim will be defended to the death.
BY the way, talking of the negroes
seizing Oklahoma, there are hardly
any among these boomers, and within
a month after the strip is legally
opened nine-tenths of its acres, as well
as of the rest of Oklahoma, will be in
possession of the whites. Do the
negroes expect to GUST them?
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for Infants and Children.

"Casssstsi il % wen adspted 70 children that
recommend IL - superior to any prescription
known 70 me-" II. A AnCHxR, NJ D.,
III 60 Oxfegd g., Brooklyn, ny.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22
TUESDAY.

A general strike of workingmen is
in progress at various points in Eng
land. Over 100000 men are out, and
this number Is constantly being in
creased The strike Of coal miners in
Brunswick, Germany, has ended, the
employers Conceding the men IA small
advance in their wages. They have,
however, dismissed one hundred Poles,
who were the ring leaders in the
strike. On Sunday Herr Schroeder
delegate Of the miners to the interna-
tional miners conference at BrusSels),
in an address to the miners said that
if matters could not be arranged
peacefully the miners would seek to
establish universe! brotherhood and
inauguratc an International strike, in
order to show the world the poverty
stricken condition which would pre-
vail without coal. Herr Schrocder'S
speech finally became so violent that
the police dissolved the meeting.
The Hon. John Young Scammon,
who since 1895, has been a prominent
and influential citizen of Chicago, died
at his home in that city Yesterday
morning. He was nearly 70 years of
age. He was largely instrumental in
the building Of the Michigan Central
road into Chicago and the Chicago x
Galena Northwestern west, thus Civ
ing the city the first Of its marvellous
network OF railroads, which have
largely made the city what it now is,
and probably the greatest railway
center in the world.
The Cherokee boomers, warned by
the Presidents proclamation, are re-
turning from the strip, which they en-
tered In defiance OF law.
The house committee has decided TO
TX the date for the opening OF the
worlds fair for April q, 1892, and of
Chicago Oct. 30, 1892.
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A Russian savant, Count ZourobOff,
has just been tried and acquitted on
charge of cruelty to children for max
ing the following strange expert
ment: He bought four 3-year-Old
children of poor parents, confined
them in separate large, comfortable
rooms, teaching them nothing, but
supplying them plentifully with
wholesome food, no clothing, and with
a deaf and dumb old woman to wait
upon them. The object was to see
what were the intinctS of the natural
human animal. The result was, they
Developed into veritable wild beasts,
unable to talk, with no notion of de-
cency, bowling and snarling, and tear
ing their food like wolves. He has
now placed them in different families
and is trying to educate them back to
humanity.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

The defeat of Mrs. Reedy for matron
is, in way, unfortunate. She has
shown, in the years she has been in
the asylum, exceptional ability for
that kind of responsibility, and it is a
truth that every one will admit that
a successful matron Of an insane asy-
lum is not a person that is found
every day. The perfect self-control
and endless patience that are neces-
sary in such an official are rare quail
ties, and Mrs. Reedy seems to have
them to degree. OF Mr.. and p. A.
Buttertleld we know nothing In this
capacity. They are untried. But
they are known to be excellent peo-
pie, and it is not to be supposed they
will be found lacking In qualifications,
nor should they be hampered, on as
Stunning this trust, by the pressure OF
any outside feeling that they are not
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

The farmer "must have cheap wool
en- cloth, shouts the tariff refOrmer,"
when he puts in his sympathy for the
farmer. Wooden cloth and wooden
clothing were never as cheap as they
are now.-ChicdgO Journal.
And you know that all the cheap
wooden clothing of this country is
made of shoddy. Rags no longer go
to the paper mill, but are ground into
shoddy to be converted into cheap
"woolen" cloth. An honest wooden
cloth suit can always be bought for
half the money anywhere on the other
side of the Canada line for half the
money required on this side, and every
honest Chicago dealer knows it. A
$50 suit of honest brOadcloth is no bet
ter to-day than it was ten years ago.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22
SUNDAY.

Yesterday was fruitful Of accidents.
A landslide occurred at 3 O'Clock IN
the morning on Warren's Hill, Troy,
N. Y, which demolished two resi-
dences, killing two women and an H.
year-old girl. Three other persons
were injured. At Glens Falls, N. Y,
the old Queensbury MOrsau bridge,
upon which several men were at work,
collapsed and fell into the Hudson.
Two men were drowned and others
are missing. Two w0rkmen were
killed and several others fatally in
jured by a boiler explosion in a col
liery near CarbOndale, Pa. Henry
Purdy and his wife and daughter were
killed by train while trying to drive
over the Michigan Central tracks at
Jackson, Mich. Two children were
burned alive at a fire. In the Quebec
provinces.
The Court of Common Pleas No. 4
Yesterday morning rendered its de-
cision in the baseball suit OF the
Philadelphia National League club
against William Hallman. The court
refuses to grant the injunction asked
for To restrain Mailman from playing
WlUlI uIlt iuy''o iIS"S Wv
club and sustains the Players League
club in a demurrer to the National
League clubs bill Hallman played
with the Philadelphia National
League club last season, and the latter
in in its bill claimed that under the
"reservc rule" the club held an option
on his services for the season of 1890.
The French garrison at KOtonau, in
Dahomey, is surrounded by 10000 Da-
homian troops, and the situation of
the Frenchmen is perilous. Rein
forcements are being called for.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Lake Shore train near Youngstown,
o., by spiking switch, but a slow
freight ran into it ahead of the pass
senger and saved the latter.
President Harrison yesterday issued
a proclamation ordering all settlers off
the Cherokee strip, which is not yet
open 10 settlement.
The water in the river at Cairo con-
tinued to recede yesterday.
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THE a. A. X. AT QUINCY.

The work OF the recent meeting or
the Illinois State Encampment of the
G. A. II. at Quincy stands in striking
and honorable contrast with that OF
the recent Indiana cncampment as
well as that Of the National encamp-
ment at Milwaukee last summer. The
two latter seemed to have no other
in view than to bring the order into
derision and contempt. They were
boundless in their raid upon the
national treasury, demanding not only
the immediate passage of service
and dependent pension bills, but
arrearages of pensions to the amount
of over $4O0, 900, 900 and increased pen
sions that would swell the yearly out
lay of the government for pensions
alone to 800, O0O, 900: and having for
mulated all these prepOsterous de-
mands, proceeded, with all the impu-
dence and arrogance Of the old Roman
P2rtorian Guards, to denOunce politl-
cal death and destruction to all U.
S. senator's and congressman, or candi-
dates for such positions, or any other
offices, if they dared to stand in the
way of their greed.
The Illinois Encampment Tourney
INDUCED in no such hoggishness-put
on no such lordly airs. It's resolutions
are moderation and proprety itself,
and must go far to redeem the order
from the popular dislike and contempt
into which the hummer and bounty
Jumper element was rapidly MINERS
ing it. The resolutions Of the Quincy
meeting may be briefly summarized:
Opposition to service pension bill
until disabled comrades and depend
ents of deceased soldiers can be pro-
vided for.
Opposition to the proposal to pay 81
a day to soldiers for the time they
were in rebel prisons.
Opposition to the proposition to ask
the general government to pay the eX-
penses of the soldiers homes in the
states, for the reason that the govern
ment already pays 800 a year for each
inmate of such homes. So much for
raids on the public treasury.
Another resolution was voted down
to ask an appropriation of the legisla-
ture of Illinois to erect monument
to Gov. Yates, the meeting holding
that provision should first be made for
living comrades, and monuments
might be erected by subscription.
A resolution was adopted in favor of
the recognition of posts Of colored
veterans in the South as members of
the G.. A. II. and condemning action
in certain quarters of the South
against such recognition.
Col. Distin, of Quincy, was elected
commander for the ensuing year, with
j. +. Harrol, of Aurora, as senior vice
department commander.
Delegates were appointed to the
Twenty-fouIth Annual National En-
campment, Archibald Means, of Peru,
being the choice for this district, with
j. II. Murdoch, of Streator, as alter
nate.
The encampment decided to hold its
next annual meeting at Peoria.
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can supply them with all the cOal
they need at no ruinOus advance or
the cost OF the home article, this will
be such an additional pressure, that
the miners rely upon it with full con-
hdence to prove irresistible to the
owners.
Meantime, as to the Emperor Will
liams' labor conference, M. Jules
Simon, theeminent French statesmen,
who is in attendance upon it as one Of
the delegates from France, says the
entire scheme Is prompted 10y Il desire
to check the rising tide Of socialism
and popular dissatisfaction which
threatens the stability of the empire.
but that it will be Intellectual. He
thinks that ii will be impossible to
satisfy the Socialists and that one
concession will lead to demand for
another, until the avalanche the EN-
peror has set in motion will over
whelm him. He remarks further that
the struggle is on between the masses
and the classes, the many and the
few, luxury and starvation, the peo-
pie who toll in misery and those who
keep them tolling. IL shall not see
the day." he continues, "and you may
not see it, but the day is coming when
the autocratic powers of Europe will
be forced to unite against united
Socialistic army and be forced to stand
or fall together"
The miners OF England, whose stu
alton, as shown by the Chicago Herald
letter of MI Postgate week ago, is
at least in a considerable portion of
its mining regions, fairly comfortable,
by achieving for the rest of the Island
a like or even better condition, will
probably do much to avert from Eng
land the desperate and deadly strug-
gle which M. Simon sees looming up
for the rest of Europe. England is
to-day more nation of plutOcrats
than aristocrats, and the masses can
always rely upon success from raids on
vested interests rather than on vested
privileges. 1t is from money bags
and not titles that the welfare of the
masses must be eXtorted, and in no
country in the world is such conflict
more likely to end in successful solu-
tion with so.ttle bloodshed as in Eng
land.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

Two more cetennarians gone. Old
Gabriel, mission Indian, died on the
18th inst, at Salinas, Monterey coun-
ty, California, at the age Of Isl years.
The record of his birth is carefully
kept in the Mission at Monterey
Ezekiel Sullivan, veteran of the war
of 1912, died on the same day at Sey-
mour, Ind, age 100 years.-Mrs. Anes-
tasia Parsells celebrated her 104th
birthday in New York yesterday. She
was native of Manhattan Island and
has always lived there.
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EHE NEWS.
SATURDAY,.

The Mississippi floods appeared yes
terday to be receding. On Thursday
night considerable portion OF the
civ of New Orleans was Hooded, but
Yesterday the streets were clear again,
the gauge showing a fall. N0twlth-
standing had break in the leyee %
miles above the city, no further dan
ger is apprehended by the city. FUR
Their up the river, however, the water
is still rising slowly, and the country
from the Arkansas river to NicksDurg,
some 200 miles, is still IN great danger
of inundation, as the levee is consid-
cred unsafe. At Cairo the water Is
falling.
At the inquest into the death of
John Berry, of this city, who was
killed in the Rock Island collision at
Blue Island Tuesday night, the coro-
ner's Jury at Chicago, yesterday, re-
turned a verdict censuring the railroad
company, Engineer Pcaslee, and the
flagman.
The situation at the IIOnw0od,
Mich, mines is growing worse. TWO
thirds of the men are out, and those
remaining at work have been threat
ened with violence. They are under
the protection OF strong force or
special police.
The Cherokee boomers, to the num-
Der of over 800 families, purpose to
move on to the Cherokee strip on Sun
day in spite of the military.
The signal service predicts light
snow and colder weather in this re-
gion, with the possibility of a full
fledged cold wave.
The Miners Federation, of England,
has resolved to order strike OF
miners throughout the entire country.
The French ministry has resigned.
Either M. de Freycinet or N. Flouquet
will form new one.
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Tho Covarpment Printing Office |

The Government Printing Office is
now engaged in filling one of the
largest orders in its history. This is
for Is, 600, 900 blanks for the use of the
40. 600 enumerators of the eleventh
census, who will begin work in May.
1t will take Is, 900 reams OF paper, and
twenty presses will have to be worked
TWENTY-FIVE hours each day for six
weeks before the order will have been
completed.