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Year: 1879

From the Cleveland Leader.


He thinks the common sense of
the country was pledged to let Mrs.
Chisholm 90 and return in safety and
that there was no real danger in her
or his mission. In fact, he saws,
'the result showed that the indicted
parties stood in no peril from her,
or indeed from any testimony that
could have been given on that trial
by anybody.


There was never enough danger of
conviction to justify any intelligent
fear. The trial was a dreary farce
from beginning to end" He acquits
Judge Hamm, the Democratic Off
cial who tried the case, of any bias
against the prosecution or any un-
fairness in his rulings-unless, in
deed, in those against the defense.
The Prosecuting Attorney, also a
Democrat, and his distinguished as
sociate counsel, did their duty well
and bravely, in General Woodford's
judgment. The jury was fairly and
impartially drawn, from blacks as
well as whites. The nine white men
upon it, however, were all Demo
Gratis, but men of average intelli-
gence. The three negroes, says the
General, evidently possessed neither
brains or courage, and he was In
formed that two of them were also
Democrats. 'The remaining negro
was probably Republican, but eY-
identity he was without sense to
form or courage to maintain any in
telligent opinion on the subject"


81 think that the prosecution
made out a clear and complete case
of murder. The charge of the Judge
was direct and positive, and yet the
jury were only out long enough to
take one ballot and write their ver-
dict, which under the Mississippi
law has to be written and signed
by the juors."


This Infamous and unwarrantable
verdict, he believes, does not repre-
sent the feelings of the great mass
of negroes nor of the white Repub-
licans, nor yet of a small minority
of sober and law-abiding Democrats;
he is sadly and reluctantly compell-
ed to say that the verdict truthfully
and honestly represents the present
judgment and wishes of the great
majority of the white men of Kemp
er county. They consider it "unfor-
tunate but natural and almost excu-
sable" that Judge Chisholm, j ohm P
Gilmer and Amos Mcclellan should
have been shot by the mob, while
they regard the killing of Cornelia
and Johnney Chisolm as an accident
to be regretted to be sure, but not
regarded as a criminal thing. Says
General w: "There is no intelli-
gent and brave purpose to vindieate
the law and punish the mob or its
.ringleaders. In word, while Judge
and District Attorney try to do their
duty, there is as yet no brave and
tolerant public opinion behind them
to hold up their hands and enforce
the law. The friends of the law
among the people are quiet and pow
erless. The friends of the mob are
resolute, out-spoken and dominant"
These views of General Woodford
fresh from the chief center of inter.
est for countless thousands in both
North aud South during. the last
few days, will be read with interest,
and will contribute largely to fix
opinion upon the topics as to which
he gives Judgment.
Year: 1879

All this excitement and influx of
masses of men and the consequent
irregular squatting anywhere upon
unoecupied ground, began at once
to produce discord and a fever of
speculation in real estate. A certain
corporation claimed to own the
whole town site under a patent from
the government, and tired to exact
payment from every tenant; but the
illegality of this was asserted, and
pending decision, everybody not on
ly laughed at the company but pro-
ceeded to buy and sell original squat
ter claims as though no better title
was ever in eIistence-a supposition
probably true at that time. Town
lots rose from nothing to fabulous
prices in a day, and fortunes were
made and opportunities neglected
accordingly.


Next time period of dumping, "
that is, getting forcible or fraudu-
lent possession of property. Men
would call with a paper having le-
gal appearance and politely inform
some man occupying the cabin they
coveted that they had bought the
property from the owner.


"You know, pard, ," they would re-
mark affably, "that you just settled
down here cause 1t was convenient
like, and nobody said nothing about
it; but now the owner thinks be or
ter have some good from his proper
ty, and we've bought it. We don't
want to be unpleasant, but 1t looks
like you'd have to VamOOse." "


''That's all right,-nO ofense,
the shaggy-headed cottager would
reply quietly, ''but 1 reckon eff the
owner or anybody else wants this
we're cabin they've got to take it,and
THEY'VE got to hold over me, and get
up right 'arly in the mornin' too"
and he lays a loving hand upon the
hilt of his six-shOoter, while the
would-be jumpers anathematize their
way out of the door.


There were, however, clear cases
of tenancy of land where no title
was held, and here the occupant, II
unruly, was likely to find his cabin
timbers falling about his head In the
middle of the night, under the Wig
orous stroke of a band of citizens
who proposed to see the real owner
mt in possession then and there.
Needless fellows would insist upon
putting there trading shanties or
dwelling houses anywhere in the
streets and alleys set apart for pub
lie use, and then down would come
q squad of police, hitch q span OF
horses to the underpinning and raze
the obstruction in ten minutes Hard
words were a matter of course IN all
these little public and private tran
saotiops in real estate, and every
5av or two a man was shot or beaten
half 10 death; but public opinion
and the numerous witnesses quickly
and loudly decided the right of the
case. and the coroners Jury was ve-
ry likely to formulate the popular
verdict. Truth to say, the UoE pop
ttlS in these cases was usually ABOUT
right. Outside of a case Of robbery
by ''bunko thieves" if a man gets
shot in Leadville, it is safe to con-
clude that he has got his deserts.


Speculation in tOwn-lots dld not
last very long, however, and now
real estate is down to a pretty solid
basis of value. The probability IS
tbat the future will see a decline in
nrioes, as a whole, rather than an
enhancing of the value Of real estate
within the corporate limits, as no
doubt Leadville has seen her high
tide-mark of population.


SeribReT's for October.
Year: 1879

There was a great excitement in
front of a fruit commission house on
South Water street little after one
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Apar-
ty of dealers Overhauling and inves-
tigating a large lot of peaches which
had just arrived in the market, dis
covered one basket with the fruit
just as good at the bottom as at the
top. The error was soon rectified
and quiet restored.
Year: 1879

Please

 This is your home, ify you please you can spend yoy money here and beautify it. -Theresno way to improve aplace so much as going away from home to spend your money. Not your place to be sure but the other place Spend your money where you please and when you want credit go to your merchants, it encourages them so much, they have to wait for the money. Spend your money where yon please i. its yours and some body wants it, Spend your money where you please, its bound not to be acceptable to to some one. Then why spend it at home, it will make business better for otir merchants by so doing they will keep a better assortment of goods and sell at lower prices than if they have to credit out, while cash @oes to other places. Spend your money where you please, but let that pleasure be at home.

 Set the example now. Buy your clothing your groceries, sugar, coffee ! and teas at home, and in a short time wonderful change will take place, ! your eyes will gladcn and prospects will become brighter in fact the place will put new appearance and every body will wonder and ask the cause. | the answer-you spend your money at home
Year: 1879

The name of the insurance company which
did not know that a former president had
misapproprated nearly $4,000 of its funds
till Superintendent Smyth apprised it of the
fact, proves to be the Knickerbocker, the Oldest
company in the United States. The secretary
makes the curious statement that the company
has decided to say nothing about the affair
whether the deficiency has been made good or
not,
Year: 1879

To-day at West Point the statue of General
George A. Custer will be uncovered. This officer
achieved great military distinction, though his
tragic death took place ut the early age Of thirty
Year: 1879

Washington has pair of MOore5 who are
mixed up oftener and more incxtricably than
the famous Kentucky Turner'S The latest
complication has been disentangled far enough
to reveal General Ewing in sneaking at
tempt TO find a bucket of mud to fling at
Secretary Sherman. There is, consequently,
furious Democratic wrath, both at the failure
to find the mud and at being caught in its
pursuit.
Year: 1879

Secretary Sherman has every reason to feel
grateful to his enemies. Their persistent
abuse and Misrepresentation give bin an
excellent excuse for showing the country how
admirably he is administering the affairs of
the Treasury Department. They assailed his
funding operations, and he replied to them
In an exposition of his work which has
deepened the public sense of gratitude and
obligation for the wisdom of his course. Their
last attack was on his use of the appointing
BOWER and his reply, published this morning
Year: 1879

nor any one else could change it. He then
turned to his desk and went ON with his work
Mr.. Shellabarger could do nothing but abandon
the business, and he came away from the de-
partment denouncing the Secretary sharply for
his imperviousness to reason in the matter


OF the personal and private life of Mr.. Sher-
man it is pleasure to speak, although there is
not very much to say. 1t is quiet and simple.
l have three pictures of Mr.. Sherman in my
mind. The first is of the Senator as he stands
in his place in the chamber, talking, in his
calm hut very direct and vigorous way on the
subject in hand, his tall figure bent little
over his desk, upon which he rests his hands
when he does not use them for a gesture, which
he does but seldom. His remarks, whether
long or short are models of clear and straight
forward utterance. His department. as Sena-
tor is never open to criticism, for he is always
attending to the business in hand. Then there
is picture OF the Secretary of the Treasury,
seated at his desk from which he looks up and


GIVES YOU PLEASANT GOOD MORNING


as you enter, but keeps his eyes ON his papers
as he answers your interrogatories, unless you
have something very important to demand his
attention. The desk before him, however,
deeply covered with letters and official docu-
ments, is never in disorder Mr.. Sherman nev-
er wastes any time on anybody, and the man
does not live who can bore him for any length
of time. If the caller does not know when his
business is done he is soon put in the way of
finding it out, and yet the Secretary is never
blunt or brusque like his brother Tecumseh,
who hasn't as much business to attend to in a
week as John has in one day. The third view
of this man is his appearance in his home-a
modest and comfortable house on Franklin
square-at home he seems always to sit at the
end of the table in the rear apartment, which
answers for library and dining room. There
he reads his papers, writes his letters smokes
his cigars, talks to his friends, and L suspect
that, when he leaves that seat, he leaves it to
go to his Office or to his bed. In the morning
he always walks to the treasury department,
carrying a light cane and walking at rapid
pace. The distance is hardly quarter of
mile. In the afternoon he rides out as is the
custom with all the members of the Cabinet,
before dinner. The evenings are usually spent
at home in the society of his wife and adopted
daughter, who compose his household. His
home and everything about him, his dress, his
horses, etc., are all plain and unostentatious.
And, although he is reported to be worth a
half million of dollars, his manner of living is
apparently as quiet and moderately expensive
as when he depended upon his annual salary
alone. In fact, his life in its quetness, its dig
nifty, its freedom from frivolity and its careful
economies of time and strength, is more like
the life of some great private banker or capital
ist than like the life Of the average American
politician,
Year: 1879

This evening an opportunity is afforded to
hear an exposition and defense of the finan-
cial policy of the Government by the head of
the Treasury Department, the man who
made effectual preparations for the resump-
tion Of specie payments, achieved resump-
ton, and successfully conducted the refund
ing of the bonded debt thereby reducing the
annual interest charge one third. The wise
and mastery policy which the Republi-
can party adopted and he executed, has
brought the demand notes of the Treasury
to par and provided for their redemption on
presentation. The Secretary has equalized
the paper dollar, and has given to the dollar
of the laborer as great a purchasing power
as is possessed by the dollar of the bond
holder


The policy which has brought all this
about has been and is fiercely assailed as
productive of more evil than good. 1t will
be both interesting and edifying to hear
what its official exponent has to say in ap-
probation and defense. Indeed to the
utterances of the speaker who ad-
dresses the people OF Portland tonight
more consideration attaches even than be-
longs to the declarations of the Secretary of
the Treasury. Mr.. Sherman was from 1864
until he took the Treasury portfolio in 1877,
member of the Finance Committee of the
Senate. and with the exception of three
years its chairman. His acquaintance with
the financial operations of the government
has been for fifteen years of the most init
mate character. The resumption act, which
was called until its exection Sherman s
Sham," but which is better known now as
peculiarly fitted to discuss the financial ques-
ton, and from him tonight may be expected
an able and exhaustive discussion of the
theme.
Year: 1879




The reports of commercial failures during
the first two quarters of the current year are
bitter pill for the inflatonists. While specie
payments were, as yet, only the promise of an
act the Green back orators predicted that re-
sumption would bring complete prostration in
its hand and scatter ruin throughout an already
Impoverished country. But, since the green
back was moored securely to gold, Messrs Dun
Barlow 4 Co. have published two quarterly
wreck charts, and, behold the figures which
they present are very rainbow of promise in
the business sky. The report for the first quar-
ter was most encouraging exhibit; yet the
second throws the first into the shade. We
will begin with the early return. The table
below gives the number of failures, the amount
OF Liabilities and the average sum failed for in
Year: 1879

THE Boston Globe, journal that the
Democratic and Greenback papers in this
State frequently quote with appreciation,
says ''That season of business prosperity
has dawned is becoming daily more apparent
even to the most chronic disbelievers.' Will
the doubters in Maine accept the authority
of the Globe?
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publica
ton but as guaranty of good faith


wecarnot undertake to return preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

With the above title, the undersigned will pub
lish at Augusta, Maine, campaign paper, beginning
Tuesday, July 29th, and running to the end of the
campaign; devoted to the Honest TRUTH about the
MONEY QUESTION and the SOUTHERN CUES
TION.


The Honest Truth will especially devote its col
ums to the interests of the Laboring man, and will
expose the folly and wickedness of the Demagogues
and Democrats who are now seeking to array Labor
against Capital and Capital against Labor-thus
taking away all chance for the return of good times
now dawning upon us.


The Honest Truth will show how the Northern
Democrats and Greeenbackers in Congress have
voted for everything the Southern Rebels have de
manded 1t will expose the record of Ladd and
Murch, Greenback Congressman from Maine, and
show that they voted with the Southern Rebels all
the time.


The Honest Truth will aGvocate the election of
DANIEL f. DAVIS as Governor of Maine. He is
the first PRIVATE SOLDIER ever nominated for
high Office in the United States He is man of the
people, from the people, with the people. Let's
give him lift, Boys


The Honest Truth will be handsomely printed with
clear type, on good paper, and each number will
contain fourteen full columns of reading matter the
columns to be the same length the Lewiston Daily
Journal The first number will contain, with other
matter the speech to be delivered by Hon. John
Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury at Portland,
July 23d.


Terms of Honest Truth for the entire campaign,
cas- i'm adv
Year: 1879

THIS is how the Boston Herald looks at
it: "What a mistake the late Thomas N.
Dale made! If he had become a labor re-
former in his early years, and denounced
capital, and protested against more than
eight hours work in day, and stood on his
rights, he might have bee me as great man
as Denis Kearney. Instead of doing that, he
went to work, and worked hard, and saved
his money, and in course of time established
new and important industry 1.-THE manu-
facture of certain silk goods in his native
land, and employed many operatives, whose
welfare he looked after with fatherly care,
and finally lost all his property in the panic
that swept over the land.''


THE Evangelist is discussing the Zone
sermon SABBATH question, and thinks
there is much to be said on both sides. ''The
second sermon question may be said to be
fairly up for discussion and experiment, but
that time-honored service is not to be set
aside lightly, and until we are quite sure
that we have hit upon something better to
put in its place. As now, the service is
lightly esteemed in many places, and the
apparent results in attendance and impress
sion seem to ill-requite the pastors labor in
preparing for it."
Year: 1879

In these days Of Brigadiers and Ex-
Confederates 1t may be Of interest to
know that of the six new members OF
Congress sworn in the other day all
were able to take the famous IRON clad
oath
Year: 1879

There probably isn't woman in North
America who isn't afraid of a COW and
there is not a cow in North America which
would harm one hair of woman's head
if it had the best chance in the world
and no other job on hand. Wednesday
forenoon, a stray COW, perhaps from the
country for taste of baled hay. found a
gate open and entered yard on Second
street. The woman came to the front
door dressed to go out, but seeing the COW
she uttered a scream and hurried back.
There wasn't thing in the yard for the
COW to damage or eat, and being tired,
she raised her cud, lay down, and began
to chew away at it. as If she had got
home from long visit to Europe. The
woman next appeared at side window
and called upon the COW TO ''git out.
4 dog might have got but the COW
didn't. Then the woman threw a rag at
the COW and called for the dog. The dog
didn't come and the rag didn't scare.
Then the woman shook pillow at the
cow and peremptorily ordered her off the
premises, but the bovine half closed her
eyes and let her thoughts run ahead to fly
time.


As the COW wouldn't 90, and as the
woman couldn't go till the COW did, stern
or measures were resorted to. y tin pan
was held out of the window and beaten
with spoon, but that COW couldn't be
fooled into believing that Fourth of July
had come. Then the woman went into
the back yard to throw clubs over the
fence and knock couple of horns OFT.
The first one hit the window, and the
next one banged the blinds on the next
house, and the cows horns stuck tighter
than ever. Cries of "Git OUT were
again resorted TO without effect, and then
the woman watched at the front door till
she saw a boy coming along, and she
opened it and cried out:


"Ohl boy! there's a terrible COW in
our yard! Prop the gate open and get
all the boys and police you can and drive
her out, and III give you whole quarter
of dollar! Hurry up, for she looks as
if she was getting ready to come right in
here


The boy bumped" the dangerous ami
nal out in thirty seconds, received his
pay, and the woman gave up going down
town for fear she might have "a nervous
snall "
Year: 1879

Who SAYS that the days OF romance
are ended needs to read the strange his
tory of a Scottish ploughman who has
returned to his native heath after long
exile. Twenty years ago farmer IN
Orkney hired Young man to do farm
work. The ploughman touched the fan
cy of his master's daughter and the re-
suit was that in a runaway fashion. and
in opposition to the viii Of the patrIarchal
farmer. the two became man and wife.
The old gentleman was furious and
turned his back dcterminedly on hi, son-
in-law. The Young ploughman kissed
his wife, left her in her fathers arm, and
sailed for Australia, whence he soon
ceased to write. His wife became "a
mother and remained in state Of such
wretched suspense that her father began
to repent of the treatment to which hc
had subjected her husband. Efforts were
then made to trace the whereabouts OF
the latter by means Of advertising IN coli
onial papers and otherwise, but al to no
purpose. lie had gone 10 America.
Years passed. The grandson grew up 90
manhood, and not liking farm work, babe
adieu to Orkney, took ship last ycar To
the United States and after some knock
ing about found employment in mrr-
camille house in Illinois. In the course
of business he discovered that the gentle
man at the head of the firm was native
of Scotland, hailinS indeed from the
same district as himself Occasional
meetings led to more minute inquiries as
to dates, names of places persons andthc
like in the old country, and after beng
six months in the establishment the
youth found-howeyer wonderful It may
appear-that he was actually serving as
a clerk with his own father. Father
and son are now in Scotland. The man
who went away a penniless plough-boy
but returns rich, has been welcomed with
much emotion by his venerable father
in-law, who is still hale and hearty, as
well as by the wife whom he left many
wears ago in her youth and beauty, but
who is now a middle-aged matrop.