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The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
BAIT FOR DEMAGOGUES TO NIBBLE.

NEW YORK, June "A. 1876.
Friend Cotton: 1t looks as
though the end would come some time.
l am doing all | can to have the gov
ernment take 100000 acres of land and
give the railroad company credit for
sl5,000,OOO, but the prospect of their do
ing it is not as bright as l wish it was.
l wish you would have the newspapers
take the ground that this land ought
to be taken by the government and
held for the people, so that when they
wanted it they could have it, etc.
Something that the demagogues can
vote and work for. Letting the govern
ment take the lands now at $3.50 an
acre to pay debt due them, say in
twenty years, is not more than say 81
would be put in sinking fund at per
cent, interest compounded, each six
months. | will see what can be done
toward getting the 1919 back from the
postoffice department; but it seems to
me that you should have got the postal
agent in California to settle this, or at
least recommend it.
Yours truly,
G. P. HUNTINGTON.
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
HUNTINGTON AS BARGAINER.
New YORK. June II. 1875

Friend Cotton: Your three let
ters of the 26th and 9th of Nav.
Nos. -, are received. | notice what
you say of Wigginton, Luttrell and
Piper. The latter should be defeated
at almost any cost. San Francisco can
not afford to have so worthless fellow
represent them N Congress. ! bought
the picture and think you will like it.
When l went up to buy it said to the
salesman that it was larger picture
than you wanted, etc. he did not seem
to recommend it very much, only said
that $4,000 gold was as low as they
could sell it. then told him l would
take it. He then said there was two or
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
California soon after Congress ad-
journs. When that win be / don't
know. The d. may.
Yours truly.
&. p. HUSTIxoTox.
a PROPOSED PICNIC PARTY.

NEW YORK, July 20, 1876.
Friend Cotton: have been working
for the last two months Ia get a part y
Of say twenty-five southern members
of Congress to go out 10 California and
over the line OF the 5. =. and see what
We have done and our ability To do. OF
course, | want no enc 10 go except the
best men of the south; men that will
go for the right as they understand il,
and not as Tom Scott or somebody else
understands if. told Senator G Jrdon.
of Georgia, if he could get up u party
of the best men of the south, we would
pay ali their expenses, which suppose
would not be less than $1,000. and
think il would b.. money well expended
When would be the best time to come:
think it would as we'll To take them
over the ;. +. before the connection is
made between Tehachapi and Los 4 n
geles, as they could see what We have
done better than if they should go all
the way by rail. Then have the rail
laid as far east as it well could be. with
men at work between the east end of
the rail and the Colorado river. Give
me your views on this.
Yours truly,
{. i. HUNTINGTON.
p. S.-I have had several talks with
Gordon, and today sent him letter
see copy. | have just received a dis
patch to go Washington tonight. and
shall go.
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
THE COMPLIANT ASSOCIATED PRESS.
NEW YORK. .Julv 4 1879

NEW YORK, July 5, 1876!
Friend Cotton: = / have re-
ceived telegram that must come to
Washington tonight. l shall go, but
dread it, as it is fearful hot. wish you
would have it sent to the Associated
Press here that the contract is let to
build the S. P. r. r. bridge over the
Colorado river. Of course it should be
so understood by all there that the
bridge is to be built. 1 have had some
talk with Scott about trade. l said to
him we were about closing contract for
bridge, etc. Steel rails are coming
along better than they did. If I had
not ordered any rails until had re-
ceived orders from California, as per
my letters in January to Mr.. Crocker,
you would have wanted them bad be-
fore you had got any shall come to
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27

The doctrine of vested ghts and the
sanctity of private property, so dear to
the Anglo-Saxon heart, have been per-
verted to builI bulwarks of defense
around the unjust acquisitions of the
rich, and to break down the barriers
once erected around the possessions of
the poor. Thus the wealth produced
by labor has been taken to fill the over
tiowing Golfers of the indoleut rich
while the agencies of the most power
1ul government on the globe have been
employed to pu; shackIes upon the la
boring man: Courts OF equity, organ
lzed to administer justice, to protect
the helpless and weak, to defend inno-
cence when assailed by greed and ava
rice, have put still heavier hand upon
the hopeless and helpless victims of
corporate oppression, aud their writs
now run to take from famished ard de-
spalrinS labor the right TO live by that
which it creates.-FrOm an add.ess nv
Peoples party Elk. Com. of Texas.
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The Caucasian., 1895-06-27

three parties that wanted it at $4,000.
and showed me letter that had Just
come in from Mr.. Schaus, who is in
Europe, in which he said not to sell at
l.ss than $1,000 gold; that the artist
was an old man and would most likely
never paint so important a picture
again. Your, ETC..
C.. p. HUNTINGTON.
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
A BAD CONGRESS,

w" I OIsn; . UITt 70, IS!S.
Friend Cotton: Herewith find eopy
of letter from Flagg in reference to
Arizona freight. l have done all | can
to prevent certain bills from being
reached and do not think any bills can
be that will hurt us, but if there are
they will pass, as this Congress is. I
think, the Wor- set of men that have
ever been collected together since man
was created. Yours, ETC.,
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27

We DEMAND THE FREE AND
UNLIMITED COINAGE OF
SILVER AND GOLD AT THE
PRESENT LEGAL RATIO OF
Is TO l.-PEoPLE'S PARTY
PI ATFORM.
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
DON'T GO ANY MONEY on HIM.

A@' DA'h, nd lCs
Friend Cotton: Since | last wrote
you, yours Nos. Al , ~ and 43 have been
received.
The $4,000 that let Jones have is tied
up for ten years. | think we can make
more than the interest on the amount
paid for by Jones' road out of our OF her
roads by not running the Jones road
at all, and Jones is very good natured
now and We need his help in Congress
very much, and l have no doubt we
shall have it. We must have friends in
Congress from the west coast, as it is
very important, l think, that we kill
the open highway and get fair sink.
ing fund bill, by which we can get time
beyond the maturity of the bonds that
the government loaned us to pay the
Indebtedness, and | think if any Re-
publican is elected in Sargent's place
he (Sargent) is worth to us, if he comes
back as our friend, as much as any six
new men, and he should be returned.
1t is fearfully hard to get money
here-I think never so much so before
Yours truly,
G.. =. HUNTINGTON.
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
HE WORKS 365 DAYS IN THE YEAR.
NEW YORK, March %. 1879.

Friend Cotton Your letters of March
3rd and Sth, Nos. 143 and 144, reached
me in Washington. You write me that
you wish Senate bill No. 153 to pass. 1t
gives the right of way through the
military grounds at Benicia, as you no
doubt understand; as amended it gives
the right only to the Northern II. II.
company.
am having a very lively fight in
Washington, but things do not look
bad.
Scott is making very dirty fight,
and shall try very hard to pay him
off, and If do not live to see tine grass
growing over him 1 shall be mistaken.
You know work 365 days in year
when it Is necessary.
Yours truly,
G. +. HUNTINGTON.
CONTROLLING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
NEW York, May 2, 1876.
EPioud CnIt0n. HprQwith + eoud a
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
"A WILD SET OF DEMAGOGUEs
NEW YORK. June 3O 1a,


Friend Cotton: Yours of June 18th
No. 80, with enclosures, is received.
think your letter to Mcfarland was
good. l returned from Washington
last night. l am almost happy to think
l shall not be called there again this
session, as Congress has adjourned its
first session, and may the likes of it
never meet again.
| think in all the worlds history
never before was such a wild set of
demagogues honored by the name of
Congress. We have been hurt some. hut
some of the worst bills have been de-
feated, but we cannot stand many such
Congresses.
Yours traly,
e. z. HUNTINGTON.
The above letters were written nv
man who now writes to Senators to
see if he can c0nvance them. He is
of that class of men who, in some
mysterious way, manage to get hold
of millions of money through na-
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
POLK MONUMENT.
LET EVERY REFoKNER CoSrkipUrE
To BUILD II.

Take Up Coii~esson. sf Ev~ry Ae<sase.
TIE CAucAsIAS's fund for the mon
iment now stands as follows:
ro,a1 .r,ount noIlae,aJ mn .a
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27

The Official Record of the Value of
1893 and IS04-Five Hundred Millions
the
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27
100000 100000. SOLD!
10000 GOING DAILY.

No hook ever tGhiI.l-4.
such \ remarkable p ~ -
weeks. rhis book b. ,r.,...a u
saiion Throughout fl,rI t.. a
IL is q revelation or - e
question. and - 'haug -., -
nf fniili"ns If paffiuI. -,'e,
the great is-ur uuH - Il
American peopl-.
The Caucasian., 1895-06-27

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An INTERNATIONAL MYSTERY


PANS, Jan. iJ.--A newspaper of this
city announces che death mt Nice of Mr..
Franklin Johnson son Of the cashier of
the First National bank Of Bonneville, n.
Y, under suspicious circumstances. The
young man, it would SEEM arrived at
Nice about two weeks ago, and went to
Monte Carlo, where he was piled with
wine, druggol and robbed of over $500.
AS the young man was in delicate health
the affair is believed to have hastened his
death.
BONNEVILLE, n. Y, Jan 10-Mr. Albert
Johnson replying to the questions of a
correspondent of the Associated Press, said
that the story regarding the drugging and
robbery of his sou in France is substan-
TALLY correct. AS to the details of the af-
fair Mr.. Johnson knows nothing. He is
awaiting a letter from the United States
| consul, who has been in communication
with the police authorities of that place
He understands that the French police are
investigating the story of the administer
| ing of drugs to young johnson, with the
view of asoertainiug if it had anything tc
do with his death
Franklin johnson is not known to have
had any American acquaintances at Nice
| He was IA man of a great deal of experience
| having travelled extensively, and it is MOI
believed that he would be easily led away
| by strangers desirous Of robbing him. He
| left for France six weeks ago for the bene
fit of his health.
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uhEratetuI.

Secretary of State John NJ Palmer Of
New York told a good story about his
wrcstle with the civil service
when l was elected, " he said, there
was one little place which was wanted by
a friend of mine. He was an old soldier,
without much money, and a man thor
oughly competent and trustworthy. l
promised him the place. When came to
appoint him, l found that it was under
the civil service. told him TO 60 and take
the examination, and then I'd fix him.
He came out fourth on the list as it was
returned to me
Il looked over the returns The first
man had been little lame on spelling.
objected to him He would never do. The
second could spell all right, but was lit
tie lame in his handwriting. / got rid OF
him. The third wrote Ike copper plate
and spelled like dictionary. No flaws
were visible. Then remembered that be
was inclined TO be extremely eonviyial.
So l said 'Ill appoint him, and the first
time he gets drunk I'll fire him for cause
and then appoint the man ] want. So
appointed No. 3, and what do you suppose
the ungrateful rascal didf
''Well, I'm blessed If he didn't take the
pledge the day he commenced work and
has never taken a drink since. New
York World
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General Markets.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 9,-FlOur steady: win
ter super, S2.lO@2.20; do extra S22502 40; No.
winter family, S2.5Od2GO; Pennsylvania
roller, straight, S26O0275; western winter,
clear S25O92 10. Wheat quiet, steady, with
6OlSc bid and 6O}ac. asked for January Corn
firm, dull, with 4S5sc. bid and 4gJ6c. asked for
January. Oats quiet. steady. with 3734c. bid
and 3oc, asked for January. Hay firm: good
to choice timothy, Sl30l3.50. Beef dull. Pork
dull. Lard duh; western steam, 81 .22J66D7. Z. .25;
city, 500 Butter easier; western dairy. ,lOa
l8c.; do creamery, l5626c. do. factory. iOa
l5c.; Elgins, 25c.; imitation creamery Pa
lSc.; New York dairy, l0020c.; do creamery
l6Q24c.; Pennsylvania creamery prints, extra.
27c,; do cnOice, 26c; do, fair to good, 23Gt25c
prints iuboing at 2898lc. Cheese quiet; New
York large, 90lll4c.; do. small, 9@0l2c. par
skins, 3sG9c. ;full skins, 2g3c. Eggs weaker
New York and Pennsylvania, 2416c. ice house
lD602lc. western, fresh, 231se; southern, 2
612216c.
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IT is blessing to weak human nature
thai it has not to bear the heavy handi-
cap of forek lowledge. If the losses and
disasters of 1898 could have been fore cen,
now frightfully the suffering woald have
been increased If the slow and painful
half-recovery of 1894 had been foreseen in
all it's wesrying details, multitudes Of
business men would have refused to face
all the risks Of the year with the certainty
of such scanty profits A bene6cent dark
ness hid from us the outcome, and eter-
nal hope spurred men to employ many
thousand hands during part of the year
with little gain to themselves. No one
can know what the new year may have in
store. The mosl careful and sagtcious
estimates in such revolutionary times as
5hese are not to wander far from the truth.
The root of trouble and of doubt is that
the situation is in the strictest sense revo-
lutionary. The old order changes. Thir-
ty-three years of steady, and uuiinching
protection for home industries aud of
stou0-nearted maintenance of the National
credI5 end in a reversal so complete that
no one can suess how far it may go. In
general, we know that something like
a quarter of the Nations industry
Is uuemp Dyed at this time, and
that its Treasury has forfeited
the confidence of the ablest bankers and
money lenders by urging upon Congress
q policy which, ifnot one of unmistakable
bad faith, was at least eminently caicu.
lated to render hostile those whose trust
borrowing Nation has need to cultivate.
So the Yea, s95 higgins with the Nations
credit lowot than 10 mas Oeen at any other
time for many years and with a greater
part OF It's Industry unemployed chan at
any time in the lhirly two years lS6t02
inclusive. From such a STATE of depres,
siou. Under the natural law Of reaction
some recovery might with reason he ex
pectrd ana the people have done theiI
best to assist recovery by Jheir verdict
against furrher prosecution of the revolu
tionary licy. But no one can know
how n th- continued agitation during
the present session of Congress may
undermine business, or how far the new
duties on woollens may embarrass thos'
American works that are still in opera
tion, or how far the distrust Of the
Governments financial policy may drive
gold abroad. We are all in the dark, anc
probably it is blessing that the future
cannot be accurately foreseen.
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THE country has begun another year of
labor and of venture, not without hope,
but as yet without the confidence which
is fruitful in production. The best rea
son for hopelessness is found in the deci-
sion of the people intrusting power to a
Republican Congress after March 4. 1t
is, therefore, not Improbable that h esita-
tion may prevail until the present incom-
peteut and dangerous Congress has lost
its power to do evil. Less than two
months more of doubt the people have to
pay for their frea kish election of a Demo.
cratic Congress and President in 1892, and
for two years longer their power of re.
covery will be fettered by a Democratic
President Business discounts every
thing. A sixty-day note for unlimited
prosperity would be taken at once, but
for the fact that the Republican party
is moi yet in position to make such note
without the Endorsement of the President
The best it can do is to give guarantee
that destructive legislation shall stop il
sixty days, and the business world is quite
inclined to attach some value to that paper
also. Even within sixty days the Repub
licans have large power to stop things, i
not to do things, and that also is reassur
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Neff has brought suit against the Lake
Erie and Western Railroad company for
$4,000 damages just two years ago Netf
made himself famous by heroic and sue
cessful effort to avert wreck on the Lake
Erie road, He was "a brakeman on the
train that went through the Miami bridge
over the Wabash river and which resulted
in great loss of life to passengers AL
though wounded, Neff managed to secure
a lantern and crawled along the track and
tagged the second section Of the train and
kept it from following the first section
into the river The legislature voted Netf
medal for his bravery. In his suit Neff
alleges permanent injury.
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NEW YoRE, Jan. 9.-Steers strong and
higher; oxen and dry cows dull; native steers,
poor TO prime Sl25d5.35; oxen 81 9Od4 as;
bulls, S2.3593.75; dry cows, 81 .4Oa3.40 Calves
slow, but generally steady; poor to prime
veals, S507 %; barnyard calves, 81 2j@3; west
ern calves, S2.5OG3.25. sheep in demand and
firm; lambs slow, but steady; poor TO prime
sheep eZgd'i2i common 70 choice lambs, S3,4O
@4.9O Hogs lower at s44O@476 for extreme
weights.
EAST LmERTY Pa, Jan. 9.-Cattle steady;
and unchanged. Hogs steady; Philadelphias.
S4.4504.5O; common 10 fair Workers, 4ir4 l5:
roughs, S304, Sheep dull; extra, S3d3. 20:
fair, Sl.4Ogl 80; common to fair lambs. 81 lOq6
an
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ELECTRICAL PROGRESS.
The Strange Element OutgrOws tn
knowledge of PrOhcients.


Not little trouble is experienced today
by even the most thorough electricians in
keeping up with the advance of the art
and it's theory, and many Of them com
plain of the inadequacy of their time to
master the current literature of electricity
that is of value. Various schemes of in
dexing and digesting are proposed, but
they all fail dismally when brought to
bear on what was written and done in the
time when electricity was really in its in
fancy. In other words, it is estimated that
the articles and publications of value on
electricity since the beginning of the cen
tury would make some 80, 600 titles, and
it is claimed, with some show of reason
that this mass Of record is more worthy of
indexing than that which is now being
put together in current electrical books
and journals.
One of the most common and annoying
things in electrical invention in the dig
ging up of some one who has done it be-
fore Every late electrical discovery and
apparatus has been more or less anticipat-
ed il would sometimes seem, but it is
not until the inventor and his hackers
have spent large sums of money and much
time that they find out how narrow and
limited is the patent they can secure. Of
ten, too a line of investigation is engaged
in at great expense which some other un-
fortunate has already traversed, leaving
behind him copious though buried story
of his failures; hence it is asserted that II
the electrical literature of the past 90 OF
| rs years were digested millions of money
and much time would be saved, several
| regulations would be lowered and Others
made, and that there would be revealed
| fields of work deserving to be followed uI
from the point at which the effort was
abandoned when conditions were less fla
vorable. New York Advertiser
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Why" he demanded desperately, are
you SO chillyi"
Il must needs, rejoined the princess,
somewhat argumentatiyely preserve my
Composure
The knight laughed a harsh crepitan5
laugh.
Tho cold storage process, no mpr
INJURED, "wiE preserve anything"
Summoning her slaves, she bade tEcm
put him out-Detroit Tribune
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Several curious golden objects have been
unearthed from Etruscan tombs, the nse
of which for long time was conjectural.
IL was at length ascertained that they
must have been the heads Of walking
canes, probably belonging to the dudes of
2, 500 years ago.
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TIeelng from the Avnlnnche.

PARIS, Jan. lO.-Owing to the recent
avalanche at Ortu and Orgei, in the Py-
renese, the Inhabitants of those villages
have fled to AK, where the hospital is full
of refugees The snow is so deep on the
roofs Of the houses that they threaten to
collapse. Wolves prowl about the streets
of Ortu, devouring the bodies of those
killed by the avalanche. The flocks of
sheen owned by VILLAGERS have disapneared.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan, l0.-Bills were
introduced in the legislature yesterday,
which passed first reading, providing for
trying gubernGtorial contests by the legis-
lature. Under either bill, if adopted, the
present governor would hold over until
the contest is settled
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The Iowa woman who has at the age
of "A been married to a sixth husband,
two weeks after a divorce from No. 5,
evidently don't share the belief of some
of her pert young sisters that IL men arC
borrid creatures.
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4veninq Herald
THURSDAY. JANUARY 10, 1895.

If the present rush for harmony con-
tinues, President Cleveland and Senator
Hill will probably be calling each other
"Grove" and Dave" before Congress
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STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS.
Closing Quotations of the New York and
PhiladeIphia Exchanges.

New YoRK, Jan. 9-Two-thirds of all the
business on the Stock Exchange today was
distributed between three stocks, Sugar Chi
cago Gas and st. Paul, and one-third was
done in Sugar alone. The market opened
weak but gradually grew stronger, and the
closing prices were the best of the day Clos
lrr hida.