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Year: 1879

THE editor of the Cincinnati Gazette
signed petition to the President for the
pardon of one KELLEY, convicted of hav-
ing advised an illegal voter to lie his ballot
into the box, and rises TO explain that his
signature was given because he thought
there was doubt of his criminality. The
Gazette follows this explanation with this
line of remark:


We regard election frauds as among the
worst of crimes, and would punish not only
those who vote fraudulently, but those who
furnish money TO procure fraudulent votes.
But, however intense our feelings upon this
point we are ready to listen to reason and use
our influence in behalf of persons who may be
in danger of being unreasonably or unjustly
punished
Year: 1879

in forming political alliance with the
President, and failed for much tho same
reason that Miss NOBLE did in her matri-
inonial endeayor. 1t remains to be seen,
however, whether Miss NOBLE Is crazy or
not to get up POTTER investigation and
attempt to destroy the validity of the Pres
ident's existing marriage contract.
Year: 1879

THE checklist thing yet Is the Demo-
cratic claim that GLovER's so.called report
was suppressed by Republican influences.
The truth is that GLOVER begged and
begged the Democratic majority in the
House, In season and ont, for permission to
print this alleged document before the
adjournment of the Forty-fifth Congress F;
that he tried to get Clerk ADAMS to print
1t during the recess, and that he renewed
his begging with increased persistency
throughout the entire late extra session.
But his Democratic friends refused him the
privilege he sought, even after he expunged
from the report all allusion to any of the
numerous Democrats he had caught in the
two years time consumed by his inquiry.
Despite these facts, however, the Democrats
now claim the credit for having made ex-
posures which they have in reality sought
to cover up.
Year: 1879

While the Republican ticket in
New York is strong against assaults
from within. it is not proof against
effort from without. No where else
on this continent is the result of in
reference at the polls better under
stood than in New York. Those that
supposed there would be a heartier
Republican response to financial is
sue embracing protection of National
Bank notes and retirement of Green
backs, did not understand stalwart.
ism. 1t is now evident that both
Conkling and Wheeler rely more up-
on the working of the machine than
upon the effects of their appeals. The
best resistance that the Democracy
can oppose to desecration of the ballot
box, will be the names it will present
at Syracuse, with which will bo en-
bodied demand for free ballots and
repeal OF Dayenport's election laws:
unlimited coinage and free circulation
OF silver; reduction of taxes, with
an assertion Of the supremacy of con-
stitutional law, and the right of the
states to coHtrol the qualifications of
Year: 1879

Much as the administration would
like to break the rule OF Conkling.
there is not the slightest hope of ac-
complishing it. The Republican par
~ in New York is not made up of the
class of men capable Of the necessary
effort, and if it were, there is no 9TH
er issue, except that enunciated at
Saratoga, that would present the
slightest basis for such a movement.
Mr.. Cornell is the candidate of the
machine, and is therefore at the head
of those that have been accustomed
to his management. AS matters now
stand, inception of independence is
hopeless. So far as stalwartism is
concerned, even Evarts and Curtis
are in accord with Conkling. 1t is
only in regard to third term, or the
candidature of Conkling himself, that
there is difference in sentiment.
Nothing but defeat of the Republican
party in New York at the coming
election can upset Conkling, and such
result would be as disastrous to
Sherman as to himself. But if Cornell
should be elected, Conkling will be
absolute dictator of the National Re-
publican nomination in 1880. In that
event, Messrs. Sherman, Schurz,
Evarts and Curtis must be content to
wait yet little longer.
Year: 1879

The st. Louis Journal of Agri-
culture has long article endorsing
w. b. Tucker, of Galloway, for State
treasurer. If for no other reason
the fact of the st. Louis Journal of
Agriculture supporting him ought to
rum Fuckers chance for any Office
In the gift of the people. If Gala
way county wants the State Treasury
ONCE they will have to run some man
besides Tucker.
Year: 1879

electors and representatives. With
such platform, in such a contest,
the Democracy must be successful,
and winning New York the election
of President with follow, as mat
ter of course.
Year: 1879

At this moment it looks as il the
backset administered to Sherman will
be irreparable. The convention at
Saratoga was no ordinary assembly.
Whatever may be said of its choice
for governor, the body itself was
highly representative. The building
occupied by it was filed with an array
of ability that Is rarely witnessed.
President Wheeler was called to
the chair, and with Conkling, ad-
dressed followers and supporters.
The platform unanimously adopted
amid the greatest enthusiasm, refer
red to resumption, not as the contri-
button of John Sherman, but as the
crowning element of Republican
financial policy, originated by the
senators of that party after a veto OF
imitation by Grant in 1874.


The slightest allusion to General
Grant was followed by exhibitions
OF enthusiasm. Senator Conk-
ling was obliged to pause in his ad-
dress, as cheer after cheer arose for
the mailed man on the dark horse
with the Senator himself behind him
as heir apparent in case of q declina-
ture or defeat.
Year: 1879

The work on the public schools
is progressing in such manner us
to lead us to infer that it will be
completed in time for the schools
50 begin on the 10Th of September.


A great deal Of the repairing that
is being done this vacation should
have been attended to years ago,
and it has been nothing less than
gross mismanagemcnt that has al
lowed the school buildings 70 reach
their present dilapidated state Had
repairs been made IS they became
necessary, il would have taken but
a small sum Of money each year,
while the property would have
been in a good condition. As it is,
il now requires q much larger
amount to make the buildings in
habitable. During the past year il
was unsafe e DC il some rooms il
the buildings. Several times patch
q y plastering have fallen, barely
missing some Of the pupils.


Out side it Is no better Every
where neglect is apparent, and
every one who has the welfare OF
the community at heart will com
mend the Board Of Education in its
efforts 70 make the public schools
what they should be- The time
when people thought any old shan
Is good enough for a school house
has passed away and il is found
that pupils learn just as well, and
full better in q pleasant room, as in
one not fit for hogs pen. l..
Year: 1879

Considerable crookedness has
been discovered in regard TO the
employment of State carpenters At
Madison Three men, although
drawing regular pay from the State,
spend most Of their time in doing
work for private individuals, or in
speculations of their own.
Year: 1879

The foundation of the magnif-
icient chamber OF commerce build
Ing at Milwaukee, is now well nigh
complete. The structure is being
built by Alexander Mitchell, and
when finished will be one Of most
elegant Of its kind in the United
States.
Year: 1879

That was n heartrending occurrence
the other day at Parkville, l.. f., in
which bright little boy was crushed to
death in two minutes time by pet
bear supposed TO be tame and harm
less" The child was q faVorite i'm the
neighbOrhood and in his own family,
and his mothers frenzy, as she insisted
on pouring brandy into his mouth TO re-
store him, when al around her knew
that be was qu 10 dead. was terrible ~
behold. He had not been teasing or
YeXinQ the bear. He and companion
were running around the animals when
Ben caught him and drew him into
his deadly hug. The bears had never
exhibited any bad temper They had
Do always been dOcile and well behaved. f"
apparently as gentle az n sucking dove
They had been mixing freely with hun
dreds Of persons NJ the hotel, for two
wears, coming into the bar and drinking
lager beer with people, pulling out the
cOrks of the bottles themselves, and get
ting full and jolly Their owner fre-
quently took them out 10 drive in p
wagon, and they capered around among
grown people and children with as much
freedom az " they had been pair Of
dear gazelles wish gladdening blue eyes.
Danger would ~ soon have been looked
for from village night-watchman a.
from one Of them
Year: 1879

You're a man after my own heart said
a belle at the Old South Ball to a vouno
man who had opportune!y rendered her
a slight service. That's exactly what L
am after, he answered, as quick as a
flash, and with low bow. 1t certainly
was impudent, but it is equally certain
that the fair one smiled very sweetly up
on him, and sailed away hanging upon
his arm, to the dismsy of crowd of less
;1,dacious gallants.
Year: 1879

What's this2 The ''Hat Finisher's As
sociation!" The small boy must belong
to that to man. If anything in nature
can finish a hat in shorter order than the
small boy, we haven't heard of it, that s
all.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
SOC per month for less than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at soc per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing postofice.
Year: 1879

IT is in California that certain mill
ionaires reside, who let it be under
stood they will advance the means
necessary to give Grant a nomination
and assist with cash in purchasing his
election. They distinctly avow that a
third term is essential to the protec
ton of capital in this country against
the masses, who are too frequently
agitated and disposed to uprisings,
strikes and riots to suit these million.
aires. Grants friends should put it
on different grounds than this, If the
general voter has anything to say. 1t
is rather soon for an empire, and quite
too early to talk about keeping down
the masses with the bayonet Fortu-


nately the workingmen have votes and
will hardly be convinced of the neces-
sity of electing a man at the bidding
of money bags to keep them in order
Year: 1879

so soon as matters were arranged as above the
crowd got up and went out. The crowd took
its station along the stairway and huddIed to-
gether on the sidewalk. Frank got out, passed
across the street and went into the Jail. He
had a small following. Burke came ont
passed across the street and went into the
jail. BE had big following.


The attorneys had arranged things SO that
when Burke and Frank encountered each other
IN the sheritf's office, they were not the least
bit surprised.


They passed the compliments of the day. and
after whispered conversation, Frank passed
into the custody of Burke.


Meanwhile the sheriff's office was heaped nm
in numbers until a small sized multitude
had full possession. The crowd fingered for
something tragic, sensational, not SO tame.
Frank sat inside the rail; Burke stood at the
gateway. People looked on, and the edge of
the crowd was now and then showed and swayed
by Bill Kings errand boy trying to get
glimpse. he saw Burke there and feared to
to test the weight of his brogans again. He'd
tried it once, made his paper pay for his tele-
gram, which advertised him as belonging to the
white ''liver'-ed specie; and no more of the
shock for him.


After few moments Mr.. O'Brien came in.
handed the sheriff paper, and he took Burke
Into consultation. Burke read the paper and
sent it over to Clough and Rogers. This time
q writ of habeas corpus for Franks release
At ~ o'clock A n. to-day Judge Wilkin will
take up the Frank case.
Year: 1879

No such sacrifice has ever before been made
and no such opportunity will probably occur in
the next ten years, to procure a complete outfit
at such low prices is now offered at the as
signee's s sale of the immense wholesale clothing
stock of Hanauer, Lichtenauer & Co., at Nos.
loS and Ito East Third street. Everything Of
fered is of first quality, both in material and
manufacture. Full dress and business suits.
overcoats for men and boys, and gentlemen's
furnishing goods of latest styles and in rich
material. The opportunity to select from so
large stock is a great advantage to the buyer.
and the exceedingly low prices brings suit Of
clothes within the reach of any one however
limited their means.
Year: 1879

Should never wear. a shabby hat if they wish to
make an impression. Go at once to III East
Seventh street and purchase one of Pannelrs
new style 1870 gents hat. They are handsome
and cheap.
Year: 1879

On the mantlepiece of my grand
mothers best parlor, among other
marvels, was an apple in a vial. 1t
quite filled up the bottle. Childish
wonderment constantly was, chow
could it get there?" By stealth I
got on a chair to see if the bottle
would unscrew, or if there lad been
a joint in the glass throughout the
length OF the vial. l was satisfied by
carefll observation that neither of
these theories could be supposed; and
the apple remained to me an enigma
and a mystery.


One day, walking in a garden, I saw
it all. There, on tree, was vial
tied, and within it tiny apple, which
was growing within the crystal. The
apple was put into the bottle while
it was little and it grew there.


More than thirty years ago we
tried this experiment with a cucum-
Der. We laid bottle upon the
ground by hill of cucumbers, and
placed tiny cucumber in the bottle
to see what would be the result. 1t
grew till it filled the bottle, when we
cut it off from the stem, and then
filed tee bottle with alcohol and
corked it up tight. We have it now, all
as fresh, with the little prickers on it,
as it was when first corked up.-Er-
change.
Year: 1879

EVEN so great curse as a pesti.
lence says the New York Tribune
may work out bensfcent ends. No
one can mingle with Southern fami-
lies of the best class, without being
impressed with the fact, that their
feelings toward the North had under
gone marked change during the last
year. There is bitterness enough left
heaven knows in many hearts, but
there is not nearly SO much of it as
there was. The generous response
which was made by the Northern cit.
les and towns to the appeals for aid
from the plague-stricken valley has


brought the two sections nearer to-
gether, SO that a Yankee of the Yam
KEGS can receive to-day from Southern
families who have been impoverished


ty the war such greeting as this
"You come from the blessed North"
The report from the Howard Associa-
ton of New Orleans for 1878 has this
beautiful reference to the North:
"And now, brethren, what more can
be said, save if We attempt to speak
in praise of, AMI that sent to our peo-
pie that bounty 50 grand, which we
have administered to the stricken
and afflicted. We have already, as
best we could, expressed in words the
thanks we feel to them for their di-
vinel y-inspired charity. NO human
pen can fttingly express it. 1t is as
unutterable as the sorrow and suffer-
ing which their generosity has miti-
gated and relieved. Eternity alone
will unfold all tho good that they have
done. We who have, in the admins
tration of their bounty, been called to
stand by the bedside of sickness and
death, and in the house of mourning
and destitution, can tell them only
that we have seen the light of hope
replace the gloom of an almost despair
and strength and courage revive IN
those who were ready to die. We
have seen and we have felt, but even
we do not, and cannot, know all here
The record of it all is written above,
and there only shall they read it.
Year: 1879

AT Virginia City, Nevada, satur-
day, Judge Rising gave the Savage
Mining Company an injunction re-
straining sutro from building bulk
head in the tunnel or in any way pre-
vtnting water from flowing through
it. The Savage company gave bonds
cf $4,000 to indemnify sutro for any
damages resulting from water enter
ing the tunnel. Pumping will begin
at once, and water will be sent into
the tunnel. Sutro has lody of
armed men in readiness at the con-
noction between the tunnel and the
combination shaft. The Savage COM
pany does not intend to employ fight
ers, as they are confident they can
disperse regiment BY the judicious
use of pumps and hot water.
Year: 1879

While the Democrats have all along hoped
to fool the people into the belief that they
have sought in abolishing the existing cleo
ton laws to promote honest and free cleo
tons and fair count, some of their leaders
have made admissions during their recent
debates at the throne of King Caucus which
show the utter hollowness of these pre-
lenses. General SINGLETON, of Illinois, is
among the rabid and outspoken on that
side, and in the fever of his debate in caucus
he made admissions that show conclusively
that the object of repeating these riders is
to tear down and remove the safeguards that
they throw around the elective franchise,
and thus expose the ballot-boX to all sorts
of frauds usually practced by the Demo-
cratic party. He said that if they permit
ted these laws to remain upon the stat
ute book, authorizing the appointment of
marshals and supervisors of elections, the
result would certainly be the election of
whoever the Republican party might nomi-
nate for the Presidency in 1880. These stat
utes provide for the preservation of the
peace at the polls and for officers who shall
supervise the elections to prevent fraudu-
lent voting and fraudulent counting of the
votes. There can be no just claim that
marshals and supervisors ut the polls
tend in any degree to produce unfair or
dishonest results. Thus far history
shows the reverse to be the effect of their
presence and supervision, and it is tor this
reason that their presence is undesirable
with the Democratic party. They virtually
admit that with fair elections and honest
counts the Republican party will inevitably
elect whoever they may nominate for the
Presidency in 1880, and hence these safe
guards of right, propriety, and justice must be
removed. Mr.. SINGLETON only echoed faith
fully the sentimeutand purposes of his party,
and such admissions only help TO convince
the country that the President fully COM
prehends the case, and that the veto is
justified by every consideration of duty re-
lating to the present and future welfare OF
the country. The declarations of the Demo-
Gratis, in substance, that their only hope of
party success in the next Presidential cleo
ton is through II corrupt and outrageous
exercise of the ballot, and that of itself is
sufficient to satisfy every good citizen that
these laws, one and all, should stand be-
tween the Democratic party and these
temptations to fraud and wrong.
Year: 1879

fidelity to the right infinite credit, and is
honored by the plaudits of grateful peo-
pie, who have been made happy by this ex-
alted display of fearless patriotism under
firm discharge of his constitutional duty.


OF course the Democratic press at once
resort to the Chinese system of warfare with
noisy gongs and offensive stink-pots but it
will be of no avail. The President will be
neither frightened nor forced from his
position by any demonstration that
the conspirators may be pleased to
make. Intrenched in right, and backed by
the loyal sentiment Of the country, he can
fearlessly and calmly survey the scene OF
tumult that is raging around him, and
smile in pity Mt every miscreant who howls
fraud at his feet. These things may be un-
pleasant, but they are all perfectly harm
less, and can be endured in patience. 1t is
little amusing to witness the efforts of
those who assail the President to find some
foothold or standing ground upon which to
plant themselves to make this controversy
with the executive power. Thus far they
have two points upon which they
labor to sustain an attack. The
first is State Rights, and the
other obsolete English precedents, which do
not apply to our own form of government,
except perhaps, by way of comfy. They
ignore the Constitution and the laws of our
own country. They forget that this is a
Republic and not constitutional mon
archy, and that the people rule, when they
rule rightly, by an honest ballot, for which
the President is now giving battle. They
| seem to forget, or if they have not forgotten
they do not seem to care for the fact, that
when State sovereignty ensues Federal SOW
ereignty retires and that when we resort to
the precedents of monarchy for the form
Of our Government we cease to be Repub-
lie. The two main planks of the Demo-
cratic platform, as asserted at this juncture
by its adherents, are outside the Union, the
Constitution, and pure republican form
Of government as much as secession and re-
bcllion were, and the popular judgment
will reject them as political heresies.
Year: 1879

THE SHIFTING UNDER DISCONTINUE,


The Southern press, now that the Presi-


dents veto message has been promulgated,
is in frustrated and excited frame of
mind. 1t is disappointed. 1t had hoped
that the President had been captured, or that
he would not antagonize the plans and pur-
poses of its Representatives in Congress in
an effort to strip from the civil power Of the
Federal Government the means of its en-.
forcement But it has learned its mistake.
The Executive has asserted not only his
prerogative i'm fearless and able manner in
this emergency, but he has shown an un-
shaken allegiance 10 the Constitution and


the national welfare, and has done this from


position so strongly intrcnched in law
and right that there is no power to dislodge
him or weaken his fertilization and hence
the Democratic press everywhere resort to
raillery and abuse. 1t denounces him as
fraud, with display of glaring capitals
that are designed to intimidate, while the
performance is attended by grimaces
aud contOrtions that must be painful
to the performers, if they do not hurt the
feelings of the President, who is a calm OBJ
server of the performance. He has taken
his position boldly and firmly, He has
placed in the pathway of these conspirators
an obstacle that they have no power to re-
move or surmOunt lie has exposed and
checked their newborn scheme of TevOlu-
ton. In this he has done himself and his
Year: 1879

IT appears that the speech accredited to
Senator VOORHEES, in the report of Wednes-
days Democratic caucus, printed in our
news columns yesterday morning was made
by some other Senator. The speech was so
like what VOORHEES, would have said if he
had been present at the caucus as to make
it appear that he has done himself injustice
in denying it. Otherwise the report stands
uncOntradicted
Year: 1879

THE proposition to pass joint resolution
extending the operations Of current appro-
priations for six months is as cowardly as it
is evasive of the constitutional duties of
Congress. If adopted it would only and
simply prove that the Bourbons still cling
to their revolutionary idea of coercing the
Executive in the face OF their inability to
legally accomplish the partisan results to
which they seem to be so thoroughly de-
voted. No reasonable man will deny, now
that the Democrats haYe failed in a cOnsti-
tutional effort to obtain the final enactment
of their cherished project, that it is their
further constitutional duty to submit TO the
inevitable and make the best terms they
can with fate Any other method will lead
them into the mire deeper and deeper, for
there can now be no other construction Of
an additional attempt to coerce the Presi.
dent than that it is prompted by a deliber-
ate design to subvert the Constitution and
destroy the organic equilibrium of the Gov
eminent
Year: 1879

If the Administration has any especial
and important project of public benefit to
Subserve, now is the time to bring it for
ward. The Democrats want to do some
thing, anything in fact, to detract public at
tention from the present situation. A war
with Mexico, the annexation of Canada, or
even the canonization Of His Satanic Maj
esty would be jumped at by the Bourbon
leaders in Congress as an agency for the di-
version Of the public mind from the con-
temptation of their recent blunders in
craftsmanship. Amy port in storm" is
their motto just now.