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Year: 1879

As might have been anticipated, there Will
be strong effort to defeat the call by the
present Legislature OF constitutional con-
vention. It Is claimed that the amendments
were adopted at the recent election, and the
New Orleans Times argues therefrom that
opposed to a convention. Whether the count
will show that a majority OF votes were In
favor OF the amendments or not, we are per-
fectly well satisfied that majority of the
people of the State are In favor Of conven-
the amendments simply because they were
on the ticket and without rejecting that their
adoption would initiate against the call OF 8
conyentlon-in other words, give pretext to
opposing it.
Year: 1879

4
A Misrepresentation Of Ms Views Con.


cernIng . Convention In Louisiana


what the senator Really said.


Senator Lamar was questioned by a repre-
sentative OF the DEMOCRAT as to how much
truth there was In the report, which is being
industriously circulated by ring men and
monopolists and other opponents OF conven-
ton, that he had expressed himself as being
strongly opposed to the Legislature Of Louisi-
ana calling a constitutional convention. The
Senator was informed that his name was
being used among the delegates from
the country parishes in order to deter
them from advocating convention. He was
told that the remark was attributed to him,
that IL the Legislature Of Louisiana ordered a
constitutional convention, it would leopard
ize the chances OF the Democratic party in
the next presidential contest.


The Senator replied that he had said
nothing to any one in opposition to, or In
favor OF, constitutional convention. He
knew nothing at all about the matter. The
prospects Of the Democracy In the next
presidential contest were not mentioned to
any one. The only thing he did say
was, that the calling OF conventions
In the Southern States at this time was
inopportune. The Senator remarked that he
didn't want to be dragged into State affairs,
which do not concern him. Senator Lamar
casually made the remark mentioned, but
did not know what position the gentleman to
whom Il was made occupied whether he was
a member Of the Legislature or not. The
Senator never intended that he should be
quoted as opposing q constitutional conven-
tion for Louisiana.
Year: 1879

1t was grave mistake on the part Of the
Secretary, and an inexcusable one, to suspend
the legally demanded payments OF gold at the
In the treasury is for the payment Of the In
terest upon the public debt, and yet the bond
holders who had the check OF the assistant
treasury OF the United States upon the ireas-
urer, or any Of the assistant treasurers, pay
aDie IN coin, could not obtain the coin for
which the cte eek called yesterday at any SUBJ
treasury, except New York.
Year: 1879

Remarks Of Hon. J. M. Kirkpatrick, of the

 Council. Pending Action C. B. No. 2.

 Jan. 23. ". ". Weed, Photographer.

 MR. PREsIDENT-.I desire 10 say few words in regard to the propriety and neces- sty of enacting a law of this kind. In the first place, it IS we'll known fact that our counties are very large and certainly, sir, it would De cOnferring very great iavor upon the miners to enact a law whereby they might be empowered to keep their own records. IL is something that they have beenin the habit of doing, and there can, it seems to me, be no good objection to their making their own laws and keeping their own records The object of the bill is to legalize their action in keeping their own district records. It is certainly great inconvenience for the miner or prospector to come hundred and seventy or hun drcd and seventy five mics to the county seat 10 record his location. The district records are just as good and valid when kept in the district as are the records when kept in the County Recorders office. l, for one as an Olu miner, am perfectly will

 ing 10 rest this privilege with the mIners knowing, as l do, that they are men of as much intelligence ana integrity as any other class of men We have in our They know their rights. and will protect them, nor will they do anything .. in conflict with the laws of the United States.n Therefore, ia justice to the miners oT the Territory Hf ArlzoRe, I say that this measure should become a law. There may possibly, from a nasty view, be some obiec- llon to that clause of the bill which makes the Recorder responsible, and it may be said that he should give bonds; but, in my experience, I have never known of Dis trict Recorder giving bonds, and in no case have l known any uoublo to grow out of any neglect Of duty, or from not gi.ing bonds. but have known of instances where there vas difficulty with county records, All the miners have tgiked with are will ing tc rest the natter in their own conduct, and they will take care of themselves no ioubt I trust, MT. President and gentle men. that this measure will become a law
Year: 1879

money to be made by investing
In an undeveloped property. pa.
tiently waiting for the enhance
ment of its value, which must
naturally follow its working, than
in speculating in the stocks of
mines which are controlled by
rings, the profits of which specu-
latiOns are usunlly divided be-
tween the insiders" and the
brokers. The value to the coun-
try by the legitimate use of capi-
tai in the developing of It's min
eraI wealth during the next ten
years is beyond calculation, and
the use of the same capital in mere
speculation not only will not add
a dollar to the wealth of the cOun-
try but will be the cause of untold
misery, since for every dollar thus
gained there must be one lost.
Year: 1879

The entire sophomore class OF the State
University of California have been ex.
PEELED because of the obscene programme
concocted by them. AS an example to
evil doors, this may be proper and cor
rect, but it does not seem to US strictly
lust in other respects. There were pro-
badly but one or two connected with the
vile proceeding. The Faculty endeavored
to find out who they were and failed. Con-
seuuently, to make sure of their men,
they bunch the innocent and the guilty
together, and turn out an entire class,
thus dlsgraclng many who probably never
had anything to do with it. If we know
there is weed among a bed of flowers.
and cannot for the moment find that weed
we do not, on that account, tear up the
entire bed, but We patiently wait until
such time as the weed shall put forth its
head.
Year: 1879

In New York, Monday evening, Peter
Van Ness, pedestrian, who was engaged
in tramping tournament, during one
of his resting spells INDUCED In liquor
too freely aud went TO bed drunk. When
his trainer reused him to go on the track
Van Ness seized his revolver and shot
him in the arm. He was finally gotten
on the track, but behaved in very ugly
manner, abusing the spectators roundly.
Liquor and fatigue had made the pedes-
trian temporarily insane.
Year: 1879

~A frontiersman named Stanley
Huntley has been visiting the camp OF
Sitting Bull, and has talked with that
leader. Mr. Huntley told reporter of
the St. Paul Globe that Sitting Bull had
said she'd do everything to avoid fight
He ssid he'd run from any command OF
soldiers across the line to avoid q fight.
He expressed himself kindly of the
white people, but most contemptuously
of the Long Knives-the American ar
my. He said all he asked was . living
for his people, and that he was determin-
ed to have. The soldiers be declared
he could whip with his old women
Mr.. Huntley added that sit is idle talk
to speak as Gen. Sheridan and other ar
my officers have done in discrediting
Sitting Bull with having any influence.
His people revere him, are obedient.-
He is both a chief and statesman -
He's great organizer" When asked
what he thought about turning the In
dams over to army management, the
frontiersman replied that in his opinion
'the army ought to be turned over to
Sitting Bull to learn drill system and
how to organize"
Year: 1879




EE Peter Henderson, the veteran gar
dener, made very significant statement
during the course of his remarks here
before the Convention of nurserymen
and Tourists. This statement embodies
the remarkable fact that if garden seeds
when planted in the spring, are firmly
pressed when under earth by the ball of
the foot at the time the gardeners are
putting them ia the ground, they will in
variably grow, drought or no drought,
and, what is still more important, they
will spring up earlier and grow faster,
and mature better than any of their kind
which have not been subjected to this
discipline. The same rule Of pressure,
he says, holds true in regard to trans
planting trees, shrubs, and plants. Hen
1erson said that though he had been ex-
tensively and steadily engaged in the
business Of gardening for more than a
quarter of century, yet he had not
made and proved this discovery until a
few years ago. This is an item of great
practical value to many Of our people,
and especially to those who lives in the
suburbs of Cleveland Cleveland Herald,
Year: 1879

Cows will quickly falI OF in their milk
unless they have plenty of clean water
within convenientreach. They will suf-
fer considerably from thirst before they
will travel long distances for water,
either in hot or cold weather. II left
too long without water, until they become
feverish, they will drink too much, and
this going from one extreme to the other
will effect unfavorably the health of the
COW and cause decrease of milk. Cows
are Kept solely for producing milk, and
any unnecessary exertion that they are
obliged to make to procure food or drink
will divert just so much Of their energy
from milk production.
Year: 1879

THE New York Journal of Commerce, as
strong Democratic paper as there is in the
country, is explicit in its condemnation Of
the outrage perpetrated by Governor Garce-
lon and his Council. 1t says ''We care not
by what technical pretenses the Board in
Maine have thrown out votes sufficient to
give a majority in the Legislature to the
Democratic party. 1t is no less an outrage
on decency and common honesty, and ought
TO be denounced Indignantly by every right
minded man. Let not the Democrats imi-
tate their opponents in practices they have
so loudly condemned. A wrong on one side
is no justification whatever for its repetition
ON the other, and it should wear the brand
deserved by wrong-doing, no matter who
may perpetrate it.
Year: 1879

So Garcelon, according to his own admis-
sion, knew nothing of the facts in the Aroos-
took case This man Of Jacksonian mold
has been too busy running over the State
and defending his action to find time to dis
charge his official duties. But if he is going
to attempt defence of steal he ought to
thoroughly acquaint himself with the cir
cumstances of the theft
Year: 1879

IT would appear from the following from
the Lewiston Journal that there is to be no
taxation without representation-unti
Judge Pillsbury is consulted: ''We regret
to learn since the Governor and Council set
the world hunting up fatal defects that
one has been found in the State Treasurers
warrant for the assessment of a State tax in
Lewiston. The same defect probably ex-
lists in the case Of all the other disfran-
chised cities. The Statute provides that
the warrant of the State Treasurer shall be
directed to the Municipal officers, but in
stead of that it has been directed to the
Assessors. This fatal defect, with the strict
construction of the law which the Execu-
tive requires las at present advised) will
render it constitutionally necessary for
Lewiston TO hold on to its State tax, until
Mr.. Pillsbury's opinion on the constitution
ality of the law can be obtained"
Year: 1879

THOSE who are rousing the angry passions
of the people in the eastern part of this
State are taking upon themselves fearful
responsibility, and must expect to be judged
by the issue
Year: 1879

The opinion is to some extent prevalent,
even among those who concede that the
contingent of the Republican majority in


the Maine Legislature is palpably unjust
and done with intent to defeat the popular
will as expressed at the polls, that the Gov
error and Council, that technically honora-
bic body, kept strictly within the letter OF
the law while disregardng its spirit, and
that by taking advantage Of those quibbles
and quirks which smart criminal lawyers
use to secure the acquittal Of thieves con-
corning whose guilt no moral doubt is enter
tanned, it has made out in defense of its
wicked action a case that cannot be success
fully impugned from a legal point of view.
Taking advantage Of this belief, Gov. Gar
celon, in the apology which appears over his
signature in the New York Sun, asserts that
he and his accomplices have in all instances
governed themselves by the Constitution
and the statutes of the State. That asser-
ton is false. Our canvassing board has not
only put its own construction upon laws
whose intent is disputed and which the
SOuIb 10 ttuOllOllZCu w
terpret, but it has shamelessly disregarded
the Constitution itself and laws so clear in
language and intent that its own sonstitu-
tional advisors refuse to defend its action.


The PRESS submits to its readers this
morning the beginning Of a series Of articles
reviewing Gov. Garcelons apology and the
work of the canvassing board. These pa
pers, over the signature Of 'Lex," are from
the pen Of gentleman qualified by educa-
ton and the nature Of his professional pur-
suits to judge of the legal merits of the case


TIE writer takes up in detail the cases of
those members-elect Of the Legislature who
have been unjustly deprived of their seats,
and clearly shows the injustice, inconsistency
and illegality of the course pursued by the
Governor and his constitutional advisors.
We trust the articles will receive the atten-
ton to which their merit and the gravity OF
the subject of which they treat entitle them
Year: 1879

Mr. REEDS admirable speech at the in
dignation meeting held in this city Tuesday
night will be found in full in our columns
this morning. 1t is so good that not a
word of it should be lost.
Year: 1879

of the best, and whose Democracy is the
best of its kind, has not lowered its voice in
condemnation of the theft of this State by
the canvassing board. In reply to an article
in the Sunshalf- apologizing for Garcelon and
his accomplices, the World says:


The constitutional privileges of the voter in
Maine must not, by Democrats at least be
taken from him on mere technicality. by a


'written" ballot is meant q ballot the letters OF
which are formed into words with Il pen or
pencil. And yet when the law says q printed
ballot no decent returning officers, we suppose
would exclude written ballot. Errors in
spelling will not ordinarily vitiate ballot II
the sound represent the name of the candidate
fairly. Suppose Mr. Simmons candidate
Ought ballots for Mr.. Simons be excluded?
Or Mr.. Taylor. Ought ballots for Mr.. Taller
to be rejected? Nor will authorizations vit1ate
when there is no reasonable doubt OF the lnten-
ton Of the voter; nor will the use of an initial
as Of a middle name when the candidate has
none; nor will giving the wrong initial, nor
the addition Of "jr.," if in each of these cases
all the surrounding circumstances OF public
notoriety make it plain and unmistakable Tor
whom the ballot was really intended. There
can be no doubt that Governor Gar
celon and his Greenback Council had to decide
whether q given return was q return Lawful
and sufficient TO be counted under the Constl-
tuition OF Maine. But when, if ever, the law
commands q copy of a return to be sent to the
Governor, and the original is sent, nobody, I'M
less dishonest partisan, would throw out the
return. In all such cases conscientious officers
regard the prescriptions of the law as di-
rectory only and not essential to the validity OF
the returns. The things to be secured for pop
ular suffrage are twofold; free and unlimited
vote and correct record and return of that
vote. The rules prescribed arc to be inter-
preted as means to an end. Of course total
and reckless disregard OF the rules, such as
would make return valueless as evidence,
cannot be overlooked. Governor Garcelon can
put himself right only by showing that he ad-
ministered substantial justice under the forms
of law. So far no attempt has been made to
show this.
Year: 1879

Even this man who was elected ssver-
al times from the Tenth ward 10 tie
Board Of Education, and had hsd Year,
of experience at the polls, lacked the
sense to know it was his duty to refuse
to sign the election returns without q
protest, if what the Republican says Is
true. But is assertions are false
Doubtless there were some illegal votes
but the Democrats assure us that the
most If them were cat by Republicans
Year: 1879

THE Republican evinces its passion
and ANNOYANCE at the reports of Treasur-
er Vincent 70 the Council showing so
much money to the credit Of the city,
when that paper hoped to find that 1t
had all been expended long since, as
was the case on the first of September
1878, when the Republicans controlled
the Council.
Year: 1879

For the information of the many
who are daily inquiring about the
Homestead law we copy the following,
which those interested will do well to
preserve:


Hereafter no person claiming to en-
ter public land under the homestead
andpre-emption laws will be permitted
to make final proof until notice has
been given as required by said act.
Any settler desiring to make final
proofs must first file with the final
register of the proper land office Il
written notice Ofhis intention to make
final proof. Such notice must describe
the land claimed, and the claimant
must give the names and residences
of the witnesses by whom the neces-
sary facts as to the settlement, resi-
dence, cultivation ETC., are to be
established.


The filing of such notices must be
accompanied by Il deposit of sufficient
money to pay the cost of publishing
the notice to be given by the register.


Upon the filing of the notice by APP
plcant, the register shall publish such
applications once each week for a pc
riod of thirty days in newspaper
w HUI llC Slluli liitt ny ttii oi'iCi
written on said applications, as pub
lished near the land described in the
application, and he shall also post
such notice in some conspicuous place
in his Office for the same period. A
compliance with the law will requiie e
notice to be published weekly five
times, because four weekly publica-
tions would not cover a period of
thirty days.


The notice to be given by the regis
ter must state that application to
make final proof has been filed; the
name of the applicant; the kind of
entry; whether homestead or pre-
emption; description of the land,
and the names and residences OF the
witnesses as in application.
| To save expenses the register may
embrace two or more cases i'll one
publication, when it can be done con-
sistently with the legal requirements
of publicants, N newspaper pub
! lishCd nearest tiit land.


When proof is filed that notice has
| been given in the manner and for the
time required by said act of Congress
the applicant will be entitled to make
final proof as provided by the laws in
force III thc uate Vi tilc dllroNdl vi
! sad act.


The proof that requisite notice has
been given wilt be the certificate of
the register that the notice Of the APP
plicant "a copy of which must be
annexed To the ceriiiicate) was posted
by him in conspicuous place in his
office for Il period of Thirty days and
the affidavit of the publisher or fore
man of the newspaper that the notice
a copy of which must be annexed TO
the atlidavit) was published in said
newspaper once each week for five
successive weeks.


The proof of the publication and
posting the notice must be filed and
preserved by the register, to be for
warded to Washington with the final
papers when issued.
Year: 1879

\ correspondent of the New York
1ribunc writes to that paper from
Montana


1t is generally believed in this Ter
ritorv and in Idaho that the Utah and
Northern Railroad will be built next
spring down the valley of the Snake
river from some point on the present
line in Idaho, to the Columbia river,
and that the Union Pacific Company
will thus secure an independent line
to the Pacific and enter into direct
competition with the Northern Pacific.
\ party of engineers is now eNamin-
ing the route, and if satisfactory ar
rangements can be made to OBTAIN the
requisite funds the line could be pushed
through very rapidly. Do the people
in the east know that during the pres
ent year no less than three great lines
of railway are being built to connect
the Missouri river with the Pacific
Ocean? In Dakota the Northern Pa
cific Company is pushing its road
west from Bismark. The Atchison
Topeka and Santa Fee road is near the
New Mexico line, if, indeed, it has
not already crossed it, and is aiming
for the Gulf of California. The South
ern Pacific is extending eastward
through Arizona, and, although ii will
be intersected by the Atchison Topeka
and Santa Fe line, each contemplates
II separate road from the Pacific To the
east. five count the Utah and North
ern as "A Pacific line, rs | believe il is
bound to be. the day is not far distant
when the tourist will have the choice
of five routes to California or Oregon.
Year: 1879

Ferdinand voss. attached to tho Twenty-fourth
precinct, yesterday morning was sent down town
with q letter. He had delivered 1t and was his
turn home when, ut the corner of LOWS and Hous-
ton streets. he large crowd Of men and women
gathered Belt line horse car, which stood
without a driver. Inside three men wore hghting.
The people gathered in tho street passengers.
They told voss that . drunken had got into
row with tho driver and conductor and
had hourishcd revolver. voss got on the
and told the noisy drunkard, whose
name proved to be James Fitzgerald. to


leave. but Fitzgerald was not dsunted by the sight
or the poiceman's uniform. lie cried out that he
would not leave the and that voss had better fol-
low the advice lie had given aud depart. The police
then attempted to arrest him, but no resisted.
In his right hand was seven barrellcd revolver OF
largo caliDro. ana every chamber was loaded.
He put It to voss head. declaring that no
would shoot him dead II he intcrfered
any further. The policeman suddenly threw
the desperate fellow to the floor OF the car and as
sisted by the driver and conductor, wrenc he'd the
weapon from his grasp and took him TO Essex Mar
ket Court Fitzgerald. when arraigned. said that he
was employed an y night watchman ut the Anchor
limo steamship dock. lie admitted having boen
drinking. and said he was on his way home whom
the tight occurred. Referring to his possession OF
the revolver. he said that he had permit to carry
IT, Justice Duny held him for trial for folonious
sault in default OF $500 bail.