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Year: 1876

The signs at Washington have much
improved and the prospect is that each
branch of Congress will appoint com
mittee and that same plan to count the
Electoral vote will be amicably arranged.
The arbitrary plan advocated heretofore
by Republican leaders and journals, in
utter disregard Of all presidents, is being
gradually abandoned. The special to
the N. Y. Herald of Sunday, from Wash
isngton says:


A week ago all the Republicans SEEM
ed to hold that the Vice President would
open the certificates and count the votes
as he chose, and there it would end. To-
day, probably third Of them are known
to entertain at least grave doubt whether
the Vice President has any such right or
power, and the more the question is ex-
amined the more already it is perceived
that not only have the two houses, and
they only, the constitutional duty and
power to "examin4" the electoral vote
but that the Republicans have so fully
and repeatedly committed themselves to
this view, and to the EXTREMIST in
terpretations and consequences of it that
they cannot now, without disgrace, at
tempt to oppose it. Within few days a
number of Congressman have begun to
look up the question, and it is now prob
able that when the time for discussion
comes the speakers will be well informed.
Thus the prospect that the two houses
will come to an honest and constitutional
agreement on the manner of examin-
Ing" the electoral votes is good deal
better than it was week ago. There is
also no doubt that the refusal of the Lou
isiana Returning Board to exhibit the
manner in which they secretly manipu-
lated the vote of the State is disgusting q
good many of the better class of Repub'
licans here, who, though they would like
to see Hayes President, do not want to
see him or themselves stained by suspi.
cions of foul play.
Year: 1876

The ALLIANCE LEADER, W, H. Phelps
Editor and Proprietor, under date of De-
cember 18th, comes to us well filled with
wholesome reading. We wish Mr.. Phelps
abundant success and hope our Demo-
cratic friends thereaway will extend prop
er encouragement. We Judge from the
following that our friend feels more at
home in Alliance than in Canton:


Perhaps all necessary explanation in
regard to the retirement of Mr.. Worley
from the Press was made in last weeks
issue, and we will now simply say that
after brief rest from editorial labor we
again enter upon its duties with increased
vigor and determination to make our
paper second to none in Stark County.
We remove the Office to Alliance, its
former location, for several reasons: 1st,
because Canton has good Democratic
paper while Alliance, in the absence of
the LEADER had not I'd, becaus4 our in
terests have long been identified with
those of the business men of Alliance,
and we naturally feel more at home here;
Sd, because, from an impal tial standpoint,
we consider Alliance a more desirable
and pleasanter place to reside than in
Canton.-It is more accessible, and our
citizens are more enterprising,-and it
must be remembered that energy ofCimes
does more to the advancement of town
than wealth,
Year: 1876

Pursuant to call of the State Central
Committee Ito be found in this paper
and that the Democracy of Stark may be
fully represented at the. State Mass Con-
vention to be held at Columbus on Janu-
ary 9Th, 1877, you are requested to meet
in mass convention at Canton on the
above date to give expression as to the
remarkable contingency that has arisen
in the matter of the Presidency. A con-
spiracy is formed by men in power to
defeat TILDEN & HENDRICKS who have
been fairly and legally elected by a ma
jority of over a QUARTER OF MILLION in
the popular vote


DESTROYS of maintaining the Constitu-
ton and the rights and liberties of the
people we cordially invite all others,
without regard TO past party differences
who believe Tilden and Hendricks to be
fairly elected, to join with US in giving
expression to their views and shaping
them accordingly.


JOHNSON SHERRICK


Chairman.
Year: 1876

Our old friend Jasper Shissler, of Su-
gar Creek township, has our thanks for a
number of new subscribers. If all of our
friends throughout the county would go
to work and send us in two or three new
subscribers each it would assist us very
much and run the list of the DEMOCRAT
up second to none in the State. The
DEMOCRAT is one of the largest weeklies
in the country and gives perhaps as large
an amount of reading as most papers
in the country and will give the Democ.
racy of Stark county much better satisfac-
ton than any city weekly. Let ou,


friends consider and see, each one for
himself A true newspaper is the great
bond of union in party. 1t keeps the
minds of the individual members alive
and up to the questions and issues of the
day Increasing its circulation therefore
is the surest way of building up the party


From the above it WILDE seen ifthe local
paper is what it ought to be, it is the or
gan to foster and encourage. e.rr
Year: 1876

Aye, that is the question. Is it better
to quiver from head to foot in the parox
ysms Of fever and ague, or to Danish the
atrocious disease by II course Of that
standard anti,ebrie remedy, Hostetter's
Bitters. There cannot be much doubt
as to the response OF the malaria stricken
to this inquiry. From every locality on
this continent whose inhabitants are tor
mented with the shivering plague comes
an increasing demand for the only genu-
inc preventive and eradicaEt Of malaria
provided by science. The denizens of
fever and ague districts well know how
utterly inadequate to do more than give
brief respite are the so-caled remedies
Of the faculty. Quinine, arsenic, bismuth
what are these but poisonous pallIatives
which cease after time to produce any
beneficial effect whatever, and if persist
ed in wreak irreparable mischief up in
the system -? Everywhere they are be-
ing abandoned by intelligent persons,
and that genuine vegetable specific for
intermittent and remittent disease, Hos
letters Bitters, substituted in their
place.
Year: 1876

OVER THE GRADE. From Doc. Cor
donier we learn that team loaded for
this place went over the Trinity Noun
tain grade this side Of Kise Station, ow-
ing to the road caving off about four
feet. Two other teams had just passed
over the same place.
Year: 1876

LEG BROKEN.-Jos. G. Purdy of
Lower Trinity writes us that on Mon
day last John Keach had his leg broken.
His horse fell with him and then drag
ged him about 100 yards, his foot being
caught in the stirup.
Year: 1876

WILTON DRAMATIC TROUPE -Tb;s
Company arrived here Monday last bnt
owing to stormy weather were unable TO
give an entertainment until Thursday
and even then played to very small
house, it having rained hard all dav nnd
evening. The bill presented was a good
one and put on the stage and PLAYED in
a manner deserving Of better patronage.
The Company has gone to Hay Fork
and will return here and give another
performance next Monday evening, on
which occasion will be presented the
" Miser of Marseilles," an interesting
Olio, and the laughable farce of "a Reg
ul"r Fix" The Company is good one
and ought to draw good house.
Year: 1876

The Amateur Handicap Athletic meeting,
h,ld Yesterday afternoon at the EewYork Athletic Club
Grounds at Mott Haven included spirited and interest


ing contests and clear bracing air. careful management
and good track helped to make il a success The run
ming began with i've IO0yard Gra trial heats" which
Year: 1876

My father spent one whole summer
on Il farm gate which was model of
its kind. Two of them would have
taken up small farm. 1t was ono Of
the most perfect things to climb over
that you ever saw. 1t would give em-
ploymcnt to two men to open it. A
small engine would work it easily. 1
suggested to the Old gentleman an i'm
provement by placing the boards wider
apart, so it would be handler to crawl
through. He suggested an improve
ment in my manners with sh Ngle.
1t was nearly as good as a pair OF Sip
bars. 1t was SO hard to open that L
always went to one side and climbed
the fence. He finally remodledd it aud
fixed it SO he could drive through it
without getting out by letting the
tongue of the wagon strike it and
knock it down, but he had to get out
when through and Sc: it up again. He
afterwlrd rcmodclcd it into stove
wood,
Year: 1876

DIDN'T WoRK.-A young man read
in the Ledger Il few weeks ago that if
you wanted to find out if the woman you
had selected as your future spouse had
good temper, you ought to take occasion
to step or her dress, or snap the sticks of
her fan, or in some other way annoy or
discompose her. :" IT," said the great
authority, who presides over the column
OF advice, "She betrays no sign Of i'll
temper she will prove model wife,
Accordingly the young man seized an
opportunity when his sweetheart was
rugged in her most killing array to step
on her trail and pulled out about three
yards of gathers, with rip like peal of
thunder, exposing about three quarters OF
the framework that makes her dress
stick out behind. But, instead of meet
ing the accident with perfect equanimity,
she TUNED around and jabbed her para
sol into his eye, called him Il lunk head
ed leper, and asked him why he didn't
wear his feet sideways. He expressed
himself as thankful that he didn't marry
the girl before finding out what sort of
temper she had, but the doctor doesn't
think his eye will grow out again,
Year: 1876

AN ANEcDoTE OF GEN. CusrER.-A
member OF Custer's first cavalry COM
mand writes to the New York Herald:


The brigade knew what drill was but
when Custer took command he put men
through as farmers work to save grain
from an approaching thunderstorm. He
seemed to like the officers and the looks
of the men, and while he worked to make
us worthy of his lead he felt that we must
work to be worthy of such n commander.
One month under Custer made every
horse machine and every man an auto
maton.


One day trooper, whose joints were
stiff and whose bones ached from riding
an ugly horse, fell out of his set of fours
on drill, and declared he would be shot
before he would drill another alf.hour.
He was on his way to the guard house
when Custer rode up, ordered his release
and requested his presence ut headquar-
ters. The sulky-tempered trooper fol
lowed the General, wondering il he WAS
not TO be placed over against the fence
and shot. Custer had tar different inten-
tions. Bidding the trooper sit down, the
General calmly inquired


" Why do you refuse to drill ?"


Because | am tired out and shaken
up, and | know all about every drill"


When | took this brigade" said the
General, 81 thought knew just how to
command it. l have learned something
new every day | shall always be learn
ing. ltyou refuse to drill all others will
soon refuse. Then discipline will soon
relax, men and horses forget, and in our
first action we shall be cut to pieces for
want Of intelligent maneuvering. | want
you to be II man, and yet you must be u
machine to obey"


The soldier was silent.


" | ride five miles to your one," con =
tinued the General. Il sleep three or
four hours you sleep seven or eight
l have 1000 men to care for you have
only your horse. l have thousand com
plants TO listen to you have none. |
have five times your work, fare no better,
and will be shot as soon AS you are. II
| take all this 5urthen and trouble and
make hard work on my shoulders, are
you not willing to bear u tri flo ?"


Tho trooper returned to his saddle
One day, year atterward, he died be-
fore Custer's eyes-died so bravely that
the General said Of him


" An army like that man could con-
quer the world"
Year: 1876

THE vigorous efforts made by certain
Democrats to prove that Gov. Tilden
was a Jealous war man in 1860 have re-
called President Lincoln's story of the
California Judge who produced Vir-
ginia witness to prove that he had never
been hostile to the Union. The witness
swore that the Judge was as loyal as he
was himself but on being questioned
could not recall an instance in which he
had exhibited any loyalty. At last he
was asked, "Well, when Fort Sumter
was fired n what did he say ?" 81 dis
remember what the Judge did say, Tut
know he felt just as l did," "And pray,
sir, how did you feel ?" "Well, the fact
is always have felt that the firing on
Fort Sumter was premature"
Year: 1876

A REMARKABLE story is told Of the
fearful scene at the death of Charles Rey-
nolds, Custer's chief scout, and the best
shot on the Missouri River. He was shot
off the back OF his horse, and in falling
caught the horse and killed him, and
making breastwork of the beasts body,
he commenced terrible slaughter of the
Indians. He lay behind his horse, dying
and still shooting, and every shot he fred
his deadly aim sent savage to the dew
IL. When he was taken of the field after
the fight, twenty-five dead Indians were
found around him.
Year: 1876

The ablcst Judge. having the most
vigorous native intellect, and profound
est thinker and logician, holding place
to-day on the bench in the South, is Ham
Chalmers. the extraordinary young man
just elevated to the Chief Justiceship of
Of Mississippi. His brain is massive,
his brow imposing, his intellectual train
ing admirable, his professional learning
and acumen extraordinary. He is the
younger brother of Major General Chal-
mers, q son of the late United States
Senator from Mississippi. The bar and
people OF Mississippi alike confess the
wisdom and learning Of the youthful
jurist, the youngest chief justice that
ever won the ermine at the hands OF
true representatives Of the Intelligence
and patriotism OF a Southern State
Austin Statesman.
Year: 1876

Announces to proprictors Of beer saloons and
to the public that having completed his i'm
menSe apparatus for manufacturing


LAGER BEER


he is prepared to sell the same at a lower price
than any other home made article and of as
good quality IA any similar article produced in
tho United States. fe4
Year: 1876

black bear, which is certainly well
trained. At the proper moment it
rushes from behind the scenes, over


mimic rocks and cascades, and at
tacks Bill with tremendous vigor.
For about five minutes Wild Bill


and the bear hug each other very
fiercely, until Bill manages to stab


the animal with a remarkably
bright bowie knife. Then the bear
rolls Bill on the stage, and both
continue to roll over and over until
at last the frontiersman is seen ly-
ing uppermost, but still in the
bears terrible hug, when the cur
tain falls amid frenzied applause.
SO far as we could last night OBJ
serve, the bear was not muzzled,
neither were his claws cut. He is
doubtless an intelligent and good
natured animal; but some night it
might come to pass that Wild Bill
might suddenly find himself Sc
riously in need of more formida-
BILE weapon than a tin bowie knife,
while the audience would yell and
cheer and smoke their cigars, and
wonder chow they can make that
seem like real blood" "
Year: 1876

quality, and so public measures
advocated by them have not met
with favor.


The associations, however, in this
city for the industrial schools and
for the State charities aid and
inspection, as well as those for
sanitary work during the war, have
been notable exceptions to this.
They have been composed of the
very flower and pink of our society;
ladies who united the utmost grace
of manner and knowledge of the
world to the most devoted spirit OF
humanity and earnest piety; who
employed the sweetest attractions
of their sex and the highest fruits
of culture to draw the Indifferent
and the prejudiced into paths o.
mercy, compassion and public use.
fulness. While such are represented
in our public boards, we shall bC
sure that our official charities have
infused into their dry organism The
highest spirit Of humanity.
Year: 1876

The following auecdote illus
trates the truth of the proverb
anent the slips between the cup and
the lips;


A few years before his death the
Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, sent
a looking-glass of rare size and
beauty, with an emba sy, to the EN-
press of China. The looking-glass
had to be carried all the way from
st. Petersburg to Pekin by human
hands. Despite theimmensedis
which had to be performed in this
manner, the looking-glasS safely
reached China; but, in the mean
time, difficulties had broken out
between Russia and China. The
Son of Heaven neither admitted
the embassy, nor did he accept the
present. A courier was dispatched
to st. Petersburg, who asked the
Emperor what was to be done with
the looking-glass. The Emperor
replied that it should be carried
back by the same route, and in the
same manner. When he gave
this order the Grand Duke
Michael happened to be present,
and offered to lay a wager with
the Emperor to the effect that the
looking-glasS would be broken on
the way back to st. Petersburg,
The Emperor accepted the wager,
and the bearers of the looking-glasi
received stringent orders to be al
careful as possible. If they should
break it on the road they would bt
severely punished; but if they
should bring it back safely they
would receive a handsome reward
They carried it back with the most
incredible care, forty men bearing
it by turns, and safely reached St.
Isaae's palace in st. Petersburg with
it-where the Emperor stood with
his brothers at the window of the
palace, and laughed at having wor
the bet. But on the staircase o.
the palace one of the carrier;
slipped his foot and fell down
dragging several of his companions
after him, and the precious look.
ing-glass was broken into a thou
sand pieces. The Grand Duke
therefore, won his bet.
Year: 1876

THERE is regular old tyrant shaker out
in Ohio. He edits newspaper with the tre-
mendous name of the Busyrus Forum, and
edits it with power. Here is a specimen: /:
"Shall the Republican party, which found
this country in peace and plunged it into all
the horrors of fratricidal war, be now permit
ted to enrage the people to insurrection,
strangle free government, and carry out its
matured policy of holding continuous power
by making Grant perpetual dictator? No!
thousand times, no! We trust that cool,
wise counsels will prevail. and that justice
and equity will assert their supremacy. But,
if this grave iniquity, this crime against free
government of defeating the people of their
choice for President by arms, fraud and cor
ruption shall be consummated, then let the
moral sense of the country be aroused Let
indignation meetings be held at every gather.
ing place in the land. Let the orators, with
words of wisdom and tongues of fire, enkindle
the sacred flame of freedom in every breast.
Let the press, that mightiest conservator of
liberty, send its red-hot bolts of lightning
through the heart of tyranny. He is a cow
ard who falters when duty calls. He is
slave who bows at the shrine of arbitrary
power. He is only free who, when robbed OF
his liberty, strikes down the tyrant Gessler as
did the patriot Tell" The New York Tiib-
une thinks this is pretty, but that careless
reference to Julius Caesar and Brutus would
have strengthened it some.
Year: 1876

we think it clear that the term of the
Presidency should be increased certainly TO
SIX years. 1t came near being so fixed in the
framing of the Constitution, and it would
nave been better if it had been. If the term
were thus heightened an additional provision
should make a President ineligible for re-
eiectlon, thus securing an important step
toward ClVil Service reform by removing the
temptation to use official patronage to that
end.-lndianapolis Journal.


A positive national good must necessarily
arse from the remarkable closeness of the
pending political fight. The disgraceful and
criminal system Of terrorism which has char
acterized the Democracy's desperate struggle
for supremacy in the South. will be exposed
tn the consideration of the intelligent and
laW-abiding people of the country who will
give their verdict in terms that will be un-
derstood and felt by the guilty Southern
mobocracy.


From the legislative returns in Louisiana
it seems to be fact that the late election has
indicated the action of the board in 1874,
Ior IN every instance where a Republican
member of the Legislature had been unseated
by the Wheeler compromise and Democrat
seated in his place the people had returned
Republican in the last election. This shows
That the claim set up by the Democrats was
1aise one, and furthermore that they had been
beaten fairly and were not entitled to the
seats about which such a terrible row was
kicked up.-Chic0go Tribune.
Year: 1876




"A p r Q Q l. A MI A TION


In conformity to the proclamation of the Pres-
aent OF the United States, and by the advice of the
Executive Council, do hereby appoint


Thursday, the Thirtieth day of November.


Instant,


AS DAY ofPUBLIc THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE to
Almighty God, and recommend to the people of
TINS State the employment of the day thus set apart
IN oterlng the grateful Acknowledgements due to Him
lot the well being of country our State and our
nomes during the year that has passed, and in pre-
ferrng our petitions for the continuance of His low
ng Kindness towards us.


Inc custom Of our fathers endears to us the hold
ing OF family festivals upon that day as beautiful
ana appropriate feature of its observance If amid
the gadness of happy reunions of parents and chill
dren and children's children round common
hearthstone our gratitude for the good that we and
ours enjoy, shall extend our thoughts to the great
family which embraces us ALL shall awaken in our
hearts fresh sentiments of love and goodwill to-
wards our fellow-men, and strengthen our deter
mnaton to support the institutions and aid the in
huences which tend to benefit them, and to lessen
human wretchedness and suffering, then will the day
of our Thanksgiving be most blessed.
Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta this third
DAY OF November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy and of the
independence of the United States of America the
one hundredth first. SELDEN CONNOR
By the Governor.


S. j. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State
Year: 1876

While the Democrats are loudly shouting


'fraud' in Louisiana in order to divert at


tention from other quarters they have been


quietly endeavoring to steal Florida. To


effect the theft returns have been held back


from some of the peninsular counties in


which the Democrats have control until the


canvass OF the other counties is completed


and the number of votes required to make up


Democratic majority is ascertained. The


game was very pretty one, but, unfortu-


nately for the rising hopes of the s'reformers,''


it was discovered, and discovery in matter


Of this kind means defeat. The Democratic


leaders took all imaginable precautions to
secure their object and showed great dis
cretion in the choice of means. The method
they took was TO send to Florida George B.
Smith OF Wisconsin, who as "counter-in''
OF candidates is unsurpassed in this or any
other age. There has never been in the his
tory OF popular governments so expert a
manipulation of votes as Smith. Tweed is a
novice in comparison, and the Placquemine
politicians look up to him with awe. Smith
is veteran in the business, having begun his
career as an amateur returning board twenty
years ago, when he elected Barstow governor
of Wisconsin. The method he pursued was
to return an immense Democratic majority
from the village of Bridge Creek, village
perhaps hundred qualified vot-,
ers. At the opening of the canvass in Wis
consln this year Smith was at once secured
by the Liberty Street Bureau, and it was the
firm reliance of the Democracy upon his un-
surpassed powers that led them to implicitly
hfsslieve that they should carry thestate. ana
They still live in hope that Smith may turn
up somewhere with ten thousand votes in
his hat. But there appears to have been a
mistake somewhere. Wisconsin went Re-
publican. Perhaps it is bad year for Smith.
AT any rate his luck seems to be no better in
Florida than in his native state, and now
that he has failed them the ''reformers" are
ready to give over the last doubtful state.
Year: 1876

we 90 not read anonymous letters and communi-
cauons' The name and address of the writer are in
s cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
put as guaranty Of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nieations that are not used.