Stevens County reporter (Morris, Minn.) 1876-1877
December 14, 1876 · Page 2 of 6
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vmrm £teven$ §t. gteporter. THE NEWS. FORTi -FOUBTH CONGRESS. Hie Louisiana Election. FRIGHTFUIi rAfSTTAIiTTT* ed by such violent and terrible means AN ENVELOPS as were resorted to in many parishes containing the certificates in triplicate of ft® Theatre Burned and Over 300 Lives Lost. Proceedings ol' the Second Session. in Louisiana complaint should not be election as elector of E A. Cronin, J. C. Cartwright Report of the Republican Committee. and W. H. O'Dell. After handing the In the Senate, on the 5th, Mr. Morton IT IS very rare that the newspaper made if the votes thus obtained are President Grant sent the following W. H. GRAVES, Publisher. A Summarv of the World's Work certificates to Mr. Cronin, the Secretary retired submitted a joint resolution proposing an chronicler is called upon to record so denounced by judicial tribunals and all to Congress on the day named lrom the room. Immediately alt wards Mr. V- and Happenings, ,'. amendment to the constitution to provide for MORRIS. appalling a disaster as that which occurred honest men as illegal and void. MINNESOTA Cartwright opened the door and admitted one To THE FENATE AM HOUSE OP EEPBEBENTATIVES the election ol President and Vice President by fire at the Brooklyn theatre, (Signed) JOHN SHERMAN, Ohio, Mr. Miuto, a police officer of the city of Salem, I have the honor to transmit a letter by direct vote of the people. Mr. Write presented Criminals and Casualtlil on the night of the 5th. E. \Y\ STOI GHTON, N. YM and Deputy United Staffs Marshal. Minto iiceompanifd by testimony addre-sed to me a petition for the division of Iowa into Six hundred pounds of nitro-glycerine TIMELY TOPICS. upon eutering closed the door, locked it, and J. W. Thorp, the stage manager by Hon. John Sherman and other distinguished J. II. VAN ALLEN, N. Y.T judicial distrocts, northern and southern. Mr. took the key, whereupon Cronin requeatdn* exploded at Patrol ia, Pa., killing two Spencer intioduced n bill to establish the Territory citizens in regard to the canvass of states that the fire occurred in this EUGENE IIALE, Maine, him to leave the room. Cartwright and O'Dell in the vote lor electors in the State of Louisiana. oi the Black Hills. The resolution to *fe«%resent situation of afMwf men. wise: A drop was ignited from a border J. A. GARFIELD, Ohio, insisted at first upon Mmto's remaining, but U. GRANT J., provide tor an ii quiry into the St-ite elections S. Cuba A fire at Burlington, N. Sunday, light, in some way inexplacable, is well nigh destructive of slavery. CORTLAND PARKER, N. J., finally upon request oi Cartwright, Minto retired, MANSION, Dec. EXECUTIVE 6, 1876. in various southern States was taken up, and destroyed twenty-six houses and rendered leaving the key in the door. O'Dell as one was guarded from the other. W. D. KELLEY, Pa., So many sugar plantations have atter tha reading of the President's message The letter is extremely lengthy and then locked the door and took the key, but homeless forty families. He immediately directed the stage SIDNEY CLARK, was discussed at length and passed, five Democrats tk been burned, and hands consequently reviews the history of Louisiana since upon request cf the Democrats replaced Republicans on the final During a gale in New Amsterdam, voting witii the carpenter weaver and two supernumeraries J. C. WILSON, Kansas. key in the door. Croniu then TCL.^ withdrawn from their cultivation, that question. Mr. Merriam introduced a bill to the war, claiming that the present to endeaverto exiinguish the N. Y., on the 9th, M. Marrion and child were AXD alter the times prescribed lor holding elections IN THE PRESENCE HhaBIXO labor is very cheap, and a slave who but the difficulty was to election law, givine arbitrary judicial the flames, to escape from their killed while attempting and couniiug the electoral vote. ot all those iu the room, one of the certificates, in 18C8 THE ELECTORAL VOTE. was worth $1,200 will now reach the part on fire. The stage carpenter, powers to the Returning Board, was house, the root' of which was blown off, and showing the election of himself, O'Dell ana In the Ilouse on the 5thMr.Plaisted with the supernumeraries, essayed Caitwright. Alter the reading Cronin Inquired hardly bring $400. Mrs. Marrion was seriously injured. enacted to protect the colored voters, asserted that be distinctly voted in the negative ot O'Dell and Cartwright if they were to effect the object by lowering a on the resolutions introduced on the It cites the figures of previous elections, Mr. Miller, proprietor of well now It va$ Cast on Wednesday, Dec. 0. ready to vote with him and proved with their Sam Sing, a Celestial nabob of Elko, the drop and in so doing added fuel to previous day by Mr. Hewitt, but was recorded and claims that outrages have known hunter's report at Miller's bay on, on sin's* as electors. They answered by de the flarres. The scene last in piny embraced Cal., is about planting a colony of Chinese in the affirmative. The change ot the vote been the rule in that State for many mandiogthe certificates in Cronin's possession, the New Orleans & Mobile railroad, while was opjxssed by the Democrats because it a ceiled apartment and the instant Cirtwright acting as principal spokesman. in Chicago, starting with eightyfive years. It expresses confidence in the The electors met in their several State capitals standing with the but of a gun resting on his would deieat the motion. The Republicans Cronin in reply proposed to proceed the burning drop came in contact integrity of the leturning board and and having 150 ethers awaiting wharf, tbe barrels against his arm, the gun claimed that the record 6ho uld be changed. on Wednesday, December 6th, to cast with tbe vote tor pjesiaent aud Vice President, with it the inftamablu ceiling served to The Speaker ruled that the change should be concludes as follows: their votes for President. Everything was dropped through a crack, causing the gun to stating in effect that the certificates his order. California papers indulge spread the existing flames. In a flash, made, but Mr. Fulhr arose on the Democratic "There weie in the State of Louisiana would be produced and attached to the certificite discharge its contents into Miller's shoulder, done as previously reported, except in the in fervent hopes that the Chinese will as though powder had been previously side and said he had voted in the afirniative on the day of election 92,996 white sli iwing the result. Cartwright and from the eilect3 of which he died in three States of South Carolina, Louisiana, Florida, hut his vote was not recorded in the journal scattered about the scenery, the entire become so O'Dell refused to proceed, and requested' enamored of the new climate registered voters, and 115,310 colored, hours. after this correction was made the Speaker and Oregon. In the two former States thv Klepper and Caswell to retire, which they declined properties were in a blaze. The usuil as to relieve the Pacific shores a majority of the latter of 22,314, it is exercised his privilege and voted in the affirmative, F. AY. Cox, a burly teacher at Witherel to do. Cartwright arose and addressing canvas*ing boards gave certificates of election avenues of escape were thus summarily which carried the question. A well known that if left free to vote, of their presence. Crouin said: "It you want a row you closed up at the rear, and an exit, if to the Republican electors. In Florida, the school-house, near St. Jo., Mo., was tried -ouiewhat heated discussion was carried on uninfluenced by violence or intimida might as well have it now as at any ottier at all possible, had to be made by way on a charge of assault and battery, for severely during this skirmishing, but ot no importance majority of the canvassing board commissioned time." Cronin said, "Sit down we are not tion, the blacks wovld be almost unatninously The Main Building of the Centennial except as regarding the rules ot the of the box entrance. the Rcpublieau electors, while onn here to have a row, but to vote lor President," punishing a 12-year-old student because Republican, and that with the House. Alter the leading of the President's Exhibition has been purchased for and again requested Cartwright and O'Dell to The.fire broke out during the performance member of the board—the Attorney General he could not spell a certain word. The little white Republican vote its majority message, the tollowing committee on the in proceed with the ele. tion. Mr. Cirtwright •250,000 by the company which proposes a of the last act of the ,:Two fellow was knocked over seat, striking on of the State-commissioned the Tilden clec vestigations ordered in the South were an would be about equal to that above indicated. then moved that Mr. O'Dell act as chairman, Orphans." in which Miss Claxton, who tors. In Oregon, the Governor refused to to establish a permanent international his head, received a gash on his lac, and was uounted On Louisiana Messrs. Morrison, The plan appears to have and upon the vote of himsell and O'Dell declared a Jenks, McMahon, Lynde, Blackburn, Meade, plays the part of the heroine, lies on commission Watts, one of the Republican thumped black and blue by heavy wooden exhibition. Philadelphia feels the motion carried, and O'Dell thenappointed been to select for purposes of intimidation House, Phelps, New, Ross, Townsend, Ol the boat house floor. In five minutes Cartwright secretary. Dr. Watts then ruler The jury found him guilty. The fine electors, liecaase he was a postmaster wlifn and violence as few parishes very dull without its show, and hopes Pennsylvania, Dan lord, liurlbut, ot Illinois, read a paper purporting to le his res:guation more the audience would be dismissed elected, and it is claimed was thereby ineligible, and costs amounted to over ?27. Crapo and Joyce. On Florida: Messrs. as possible, for in forty out of the fit' to keep up the popular interest by this as elector. Cartwright moved the acceptance and there have been nothing Avould though he has sineo resigned. The Governor Three young ladies—the two Misses Thompson, Debolt, Walling. Hopkins, Gar ty seven parishes where these were of the pretended resignation, and it was declared new project. London experience, how commissioned one Tilden elector n liiplace. more serious to record than the destruction field and Dunnell. In the South Carolina not emploped the Republican majority carried, andi mint duOrly thereafter,by Campbell and a Miss Choate—and one man, The result is, that in the four States committee the name ot Mr. Cochran-} was ever, is against its success. of property. The house was a vote of ^he two, Watts was declared was GOO, but to select those in which James Gregory, were drowned in a mill pond named theie tire two sets ot votes tor President, substituted for that ot Mr Stenger, excused about two-thirds filled, these below THE VACAXCT. and the final result now depends upon ten miles trom Olmsted, Ky., on the 9th. A the colored vote as compared with the ELECTED TO FILL ©n acoount of illness in his family. Germany will not take part in sitting well forward toward the stage. which set of votes is allowed to stand, or Then the proceedings were interrupted white would be large unless unlawful}7 party of fifteen were going to a dance, ten in SENATE—Dec. 6th.—Mr. Windom in the Paris Exhibition of 1878, the principal For those in the family circle, dress whether both are rejected and the election throughout by a dialogue which had the character prevented, for in so doing it might be one canoe and five in another. As the party troduced a bill to extend the provisions ot a thrown into the Ilouse. Below will be found of an altercation between Cronin on one circle, and galleries, there was no way reason given that the German land grant to a Minnesota railroad, after expected that, should any majority of t*n approaced the bank, about twenty five associated press telegrams, giving details ot side and Cartwright and O'Dell on the other, of escape except by Washington street. which the standing committees were announced. Government and ihe Chambers of Com they could thus obtain in such parish the latter should act yards distant, the canoe began to dip water the operations in each of the four States. Cronin insi-ting that Ihe panic-stricken people rushed pell The resolution ol Mr. Withers to with him and proceed with the business ot es be regarded, they would nevertheless merce do not anticipate that a sufficiency and finally sank Five ot the men swam to South Carolina. inquire into the sending of troops to Petersburg, mell toward and down the stairway. the college, and tl.ey refusing to do ST. After attain their purpose by the sup the bank, and one lady, and the other four of German goods will be sent to Va., was called up and discussed, and The mai exit became immediately the pretended appointment of Watts, COLUMBIA, S C., Dec. 6.—Democratic Electors pression of a large Republican vote. were consigned to a watery grave. after slight modification, passed. A message Cronin arose and addressing Cartwright and Paris to warrant the large expenditure choked up, and a scene of terror, confusion met at 12 in., and, aft»r a long session, from the President, acc« mpanied by a re or In pursuance of this plan, five of the O'Dell said, in efFect, it not in these precise At Lawrence, Kansas, a terrible accident cast the vote of the State for Tilden and Hendricks, and distress ensued with beggars to be incurred by the Empire. In additiou, of Senator Sherman and other members ot parishes selected in which the greatest words, "Gentlemen, do you reluse to act with and entered a protest in the mandamus from kerosene occurred last week the committee who attended the canvass description. Just above the landing me In proceeding with the business ot the they think the present time of violence and intimidation were prac case against the Secretary of State, made by the returning board in Louisiana. A Mrs. J. A. Gaston took a coal oil lamp to go place of the stairway a woman, in electoral college?" One or both then replied, llayne, compelling him not to deliver the depression inopportune. ticed were East aud West Feliciana, motion was made to print the document entire, up-stairs to bed, when the lamp exploded, the crush, had her foot pinched between s gnifving unqualified refusal. Cronin then election returns to Speaker Mackey, as the which border upon that portion of the and alter discussion the subject was referred said this reiu^ul to act created vacancies in setting her clothing ablaze in an instant. Her the bannisters and fell. The Supreme Court decided. That is a strange coincidence that to the committee on printing. Mississippi in which murder and outrages tlie electoral college, and that he appointed TLie Republican Presidential Electors have screams brought her son and husband to her crowd behind, forced forward by the HOUSE.—Dec. 6th —The message of so prevaled during and preceeding J. N. L. Miller? ot Jackson county to fill one gives each of two men a withered right just ca.-t the vote of South Carolina for Hayes terrified people still further behind, side in a moment, and they work in an almost of said vacancies. Miller having been introduced the President with documents reierred to in the election as substantially to prevent wad Wheeler, uid adjourned sum die. leg and a cast in the left eye, but it superhuman manner to save herlile,but fell over her and piled on top of each into the room, and informed of wbat the Senate proceedings, was read and laid on any Republican vote east Baten came to pass in San Francisco. The had taken place, asked Cartwright and O'Dell her flesh was so badly burned that it Ikirly the table on motion ot Fernando Wood, by a other four and five deep. Rouge, which borders on the southernportion if they had refused to act with Cronin in casting vote ot 153 to 90, a party vote and the Hou~e The scene which then ensued is beyond Florida. first went away unexpectedly, and the dropped from her bones, and she soon died in of East Feliciana Moorhouse, the vote ot the State. Cartwright answering adjourned. description and the horrors the greatest agony. Her son and husband TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 6.—A quo warranto was second was murdered. The relatives said they had so refused. Miller then which adjoins the State of Arkansas SENATE, Dec. 7—In the the Senate which resulted can be better conceived issued aud served on the Hayes electors yes were also terribly burned. signified his intention to accept the appointment. of and Ouachita which adjoins and lies the first thought they recognized the on the 7th, a communication signed by Carl terday before they cast their votes. Also a by the statement that up to this writing The two then appointed John Parker, directly south of Moorhouse. The geographical Schurz and J. B. Henderson was received, body as his, although the body was bill of injunction was obtainad in behalf oi Secretai-y, and the votes were taken by ballot upwards of 300 bodies have been Personal, Impersonal and Political. praying that a constitutional amendment be position of these five par Gov. Tilden against the members of the canvassing President and Vice President and the lor disfigured, and mournfully buried it. recovered. Wm. Wheeler, of Skowhegan, Maine submitted to the various States by which the board, and-the order granted restraining ishes was well suited to the purpose business formally proceeded with to th^ end. A few days afterward No. 1 returned electoral vote for President and Vice President In some instances whole families them from completing the canvass on the Penrling these proceedings Cartwright, Watts who went into the Black Hills one year ago to be attained, for it was easy for members may be conferred on the Supreme Court. The of have perished. The bodies present basis of the vote canvassed by a majority ol and O'Dell were engaged in signing papers. The identity No. 2 has not been ascertained. has gone home worth $100,000. of clubs formed therein and wiio committee on printing reported in lavor ot ATCEOXIX, the board of canvassers. Signed, every form of contortion, just as they At a caucus of Democratic members usually perpetrated their outrages with printing all the depositions accomnaning the Attorney General W. A. Coke, a member W. B. CASWELL. stiffened in the last agony, when the report ot Hon. John Sherman on the election masked laces, to pretend that they of the canvassing board, protested against the HESET LEPPEE. of the the House a determined spirit was manifested floor gave way and they plunged down An Excellent Receipe for Curing n Louisiana. The printing was opposed by action of the board in certifying to a majority were committed bv border ruffians to enter into no compromise with the Thurman, Eaton and otheis and a lengthy into blinding smoke and llauies. Arms of votes in favor of the Hayes electors, and Loulsana. Hams.—The following quantities are from Mississippi and Arkansas, where Bepublican lenders. discussion ot the question was had, including and legs are bent and twisted in every denounced the same as a criminal and gross NEW ORLKAKS, Dec. 6 —The Republican like outrages had been perpetrated. for twelve hams. Take three pounds As whether fraud was practiced to the legality of the count in that .Slate, and ot falsification of the returns on file in the office way. Hands are clenched and reach Electoral College met at thu Capitol at 12 the action of the Governor ol Oregon in withholding The location of these five parishes was of the Secretary of State. He also gave certificates of fine salt, one-half pound of salt in the disputed Southern States, Prof. Lowell o'clock, and organized, but, owing to the absence out as if grasping for help. the certificate trom the Republican not, however, better suited to the dan of election to the Tilden electors, savshe does not think any man a thousand of Messrs. Brewster and Levissee, took peter, pounded fine, and one pint of In the middle of what was the lobby elector and giving the same to the Democratic to be accomplished than was the great stating therein that the returns on file, cau a recess until 4 o'clock to fill the vacancy, ac miles away is competent to judge. elector. The repor was ordered printed. of the theatre lay an immense pile or molasses. Mix the above well together, vassed by the board, showed a clear majority disproportion existing therein between cording to law, occasioned by the absence of The Senate sub-committee to inves resolution wa- offered instructing the com rubbish, smouldering beams, fragmennts for the Tilden and Hendricks electors. these electors. At 4 o'clock "the College met and rub each ham with the mixture the number of white and colored voters. miltee or privileges and elections to inquire The Democratic electors, Wilb. Call, Robert ••gate the facts attending the appointment ol of girders and other things. again, and Messrs. Brewster and Le»'is.see were nto the aff'TS inOegon mentioned aboveordered The former numbered but 5,134 Then put them in a cask and allow Bullock, Robert R. Hilton and lames Young, elected to fi:l their own vacancies, and tha Presidential ekctors in Oregon, oca-Lts of This heap was nearly opposite the printed. r.I"\ Howe introduced a bill the latter 13,244, a majDiity of the lat met at the Capitol, in the office of the Attorney them to stand five or six days, after eight votes were cast for Hayes and \Vheeler. Senators Morton, Logan and Kernan. principal entrance to the auditory of to restrain unauthorized persons Irom acting ter equal to move than one-third of the General, and cast tbe vote of the State, The Democratic electors, with certificates which they should be reversed, the James McCann, a soldier at Fort &s electors the theatre. Beyond it was another according to law. They also signed a petition from Gov. McEury, whom tney claim to be entire majority of the colored voters House, on the 6th, the mes In the to the Senate aud House of Representatives of top hams being put in the bottom heap, marking the place where the Snelling, threw his head into a buzz saw and de jure Governor, also met, and cast eight in fifty-seven parishes of the State. sage of the President with documents reierred the United States, stating their legal election, stairs which led to the gallery fell. votes for Tilden and Hendricks, aud forwarded had it sawed in two. He did it in the pres sprinkling fine salt between each layer The returns of votes actually cast in to in the Senate proceedings, was read and and praying that they might be recognized as them to Washington. Under the heap first mentioned a dead ence of the men who were running the saw. these five parishes suggest that the again let them stand five days, when laid on the table on motion of Fernando electors "of the State. body was found and the firemen dili He was under imprisonment for desertion Wood, by a vote ot 153 to 90, a party vote and The Republican electors met in the executive clubs to whom was assigned the task i pickle should be prepared and put Sayings of the Ancicnts. gently prosecuted their search in this the House adjourned. chamber, and organized by electing J. C. and thought he would get out in that way. of securing Democratic majorities on them, composed of salt and water direction. With much labor some of Humphries pr siient, aud A. W. Leonard IIorsE. Dec. 7.—In the House on the in Previous to the war Gen. Thomas II therein bad performed their work of Be more prompt to go to a friend secretary. They cast their vote for Hayes and the heaviest lumber was removed and strong tnongh to bear an egg. 7th, M"\ McCrary introduced a resolution for violence and intimidation effectually, adversity than in prosperity.—Cliilo. Ruger, who has become famous in connection Wheeler, and C. H. Haroe, colored, one ot a joint committee to prepare rules, either constitutional a horrible sight was revealed. Beneath whilst the proof discloses brief sum the electors, was selected as messenger to Let him who neglects to raise the with the South Carolina troubles ol the past or legislative, such as may best be Privateering is a game in which great that mound the corpses lay in convey the returns to Washington. maries of portions of which are hereto fallen, fear lest, when he falls, no one month, was an attorney with small practice calculated to secure the counting of the Presidential rows, heaped one upon another,packed prizes are won. For example, in 1745 votes in a manner that shall not be annexed, that, where violence and at Janesville, Wis. He entered the army as will stretch out his hand to lift him Oregon. together with a fearful solidity,which when the Scotch rebellion embarrassed questioned. The resolution was referred ta intimidation were insufficient, murder major of the 13th Wisconsin volunteer infant up. -Eddin Sadi. told of the great pressure to which the judiciary committee. Mr. Frye presented The SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 6. Daily Stock the English Government, the proprietors maiming,, mutilation and whipping rr- We do not choose our own parts in a protest trom the Colorado Legislature against they had been subjected. Exchange extra this morning prints the following were resorted to. Instead of a majority The telegraph, on the 2d, announced of two privateers waited on King the refusal of the House to admit to his seat life, and have nothing t» do with those from Portland "Gov. Grover to-day On the 9th, the funeral of those who of 6,000 or 7,000 which the Repub the member-elect trom that State. The House i.-siiHf| phi tificrttes to two Haves electors anil the death of John Key es, one of the oldest and parts. Our simple duty is confined to •George II, and offered S3,000,000, their were not identified, or whose friends then adjourned. licans should have had in these pa S one elector, Cronin. "The two llayes Tilden most highly respected citizens of Winona playing them well.—Epictetus. share of prizes, as a loan to be imme had not the means to bury them, took SENATE, Dec. 8.—On the 8th inst. in electors decliued to meet .rith Cronin, where ishes upon a fair election, there was He was an honored member of the bar of that A wise man will always be contented diately employed in the royal service place. There were over one hundred upon the latter, who held all three certili the Senate, on a motion to take up Edmunds actually returned to the returning city, and the excellent educational advantages with his condition, and will live cutes, appointed two Republicans to act in resoln ion proposing an amendment to the bodies, some sixty hearses, each with It was thankfully accepted. The sum board a Democratic majority for the Winona enjoys are largely due to his en their plaos. The two whom he appointed rather according to the prec jptsof constitution ii ovidii the manner ol counting two coffins, being in the line. The cold parishes of East and West Felicinia epresented in purchasing power tre deavors. met with him, received their certificate s, aiM electoral votes, Merrimon made the point virtue than according to the customs was intense, but all Brooklyn seemed Morehouse, and Ouachita of 3,878, and then all voted for Pres dent, two for Hayes, ot order that under the 21st joint rule the le what it would now, and the value A petition from Carl Schurz and of his country.—Anthistlienes. to have turned out to the funeral. and Cronin for Tilden." in East Felicinia, where the registered r-solution could not be considered, 'ihe of the entire capture may be estimated others has been sent to Washington, asking You cannot be buried in obscurity The Bulletin has the following special from There was a tremendous crowd at Chair (Ferry) overruled the point, and an colored voters number 2,127, not a Cong) ess to submit a constitutional amend I'orilai "A dispatch from Salem says tbe you are exposed upon a grand theater by the fact that, including the casks nouncedthat the joint rules were not in force Greenwood. As the cortege passed Republic n vote or elector was cast Secretary of State has given Cronin, the democratic ment to the various State legislatures, before Merrimon appealed from the decision ol the to the view or the world. If your actions through the gate the bell in the tower the treasure weighed 78 tons, 12 cwt, In East Baton Rouge, containing 3.552 elector having tli« highest number of Chair, with other Democrats arguing that the the holiday adjournment, providing lor the are upright and benevolent, be tolled mournfully. On either side, colored voters and but 1,801 whites and was brought to London in forty votes, a certificate. The two republican joint rules were in force, because they could counting ot the Presidential vote by the su assurred they will augment power and along the pathways, on the hillsides electors refuse1 to act with him, and assembled the Democrats claim a majority of 017 not be abolished by one house without the five wagons, and deposited in the Tow preme court. happiness.—Cyrus. and supplied the vacancy. The republi and invading the private plats were consent of the other. Bayard (Dem.) as at which, but for the rejection of sever er. v cans voted tor Hsves. Cronin appointed two Honest name is goodly but he that the last session of Congress, sided with tbe the people. The ground set apart for al polls by the commissioners and su Miscellaneous News Items. lemocrats to act with him and cast the vote of Republicans, and asserted that the joint rules hunteth only for that, is like that had the reception of the mutilated remains pervisors of election, would have been the State, one for Tilden and two for might be terminated by each House at its di3 Of all who have ever received a sil Pedestrians crossed the river on the rather seem warm than be warm, and was donated by the trustees of Greenwood returned to the returning board as Hayes." The Post's special from Salem cretion. When the vote was taken the de ver medal for saving human life, Eu ice at St. Louis on the 11th. edgeth a single coat with fur.—Sir cemetery, and is located on Battle says "At noon the Secretary of Stab cision of the Chair was sustained by yeas 50 votes actually cast. If to the Demo delivered to E. A. Cronin, democratic Thomas Wyatt. The assessed value of taxable prop hill, but a short distance from the doxie Charreton, aged 7, is probably nays 4. Without the transmission ol other im cratic majority from the four parishes candidate for elector, contesting the seat of Sonday jrtant business the Senate adjourned to Xenophon relates that, when an Armentan e:ty in Des Moines is $4,071,387. Twenty-fifth street entrance, at the as above stated we add the 617 as the youngest, On Oct. 21 she was pas J. W. Watts, postmaster, a certificate of corner of Battle avenue and Maine av prince had been taken captive The gale of the 11th, on Cheaspeake Claimed and insisted upon before the appointment as elector. The six |Lectora turing sheep near Tramolie, in France HOUSE, Dec. 8.—Tn the House, Mr enue. Battle hill rises to the left of with his princcss by Cyrus, and was Bay, is reported as the worst for years, returning board, a Democratic ma jo. candidates then assembled in the committee when her little five-year old compan Baker, of Indiana, introduced a bill propos asked what he would give to be restored the main entrance to Greenwood. It room of the senate chamber. After half an ity of 4,495 is tbe result of an election Seventy cases of small-pox were re ing an amendment to the constitution for hour one of the republican electors, W. II. ion, who was washing her apron from to his kingdom, he replied :—"As is the highest point in the cemetery, in five parishes containing 13.244 col bidding the assumption or payment of any ported in Alleghany City, Pa., last week. (Mell, came out and w»nt to the office of the and near it the battle of Long Island for my kingdom and liberty, I value a board over a deep tank, tipped over claims for loss or damage growing out of losr ored Republicans and 5,314 white Advices from Constantinople state Secretary of State to demand a certified copy or destruction ot property during the te re was fought. The soldiers' monument, them not but if my blood would redeem and fell head foremost into the water Democratic votes. The conclusion that of the certificate, for it seems the certificate that a fresh war tax has been levied upon bellion. A resolution tor the appointment of princess. I woud cheerfully the tomb of Col. Vosburgh, of the 71st my intimidation and violence alone could included the name of E. A. Cronyi, democrat, Instead* of running away for help or males between the ages of 15 and 60. a committee, and requesting the Senate to appoint give it for her." When Cyrus had liberated New York regiment, and a monument and W. II. Odell and J. C. Cartwright, have produced this is almost irrestible a like committee act therewith, to crying, the brave little girl quickly The Mark Lane Express says the fact republicans, aud as the latter demanded to see to Capt. Freeborn, the pilot who perished them both, the princess was and that such influences were employ present to the Supreme Court tor their opin and hold the certificate, and Cronin refused to righted the board, caught her drown that the grain supply of the Old World is off Sandy Hook, 30 years ago, asked what she thought of Cyrus. "I ion on such questions bearing on tbe juris ed and were supplemented by murder let them have it, nothing could be done. ing companion by the heel, and sue really short is for forcing itself upon the mind diction and powe s of the two houses in joint did not see him," she said "I noticed are all near the plot selected by Aid. when that was thought necessary is About this time Cronin left the room where session in counting the electoral vote as said of buyers. only him who offered to die for me." Guthrie. A trench or circular grave ceeded in rescuing her. She then established by the proofs already re the electors were assembled, and took a stroll committees may deem important in tbis eri The Cabinet, with the approval of of seven feet in depth and 13 feet in around town. The story further goes that A young gentleman of Eureka, Nev., ferred to. It but confirms the conclu stripped, wrapped her benumbed and sis, wertovr-r on a proposition by the Repub when the electors met, Oiell and Cartwright width was dug, capable of accommodating the emperor, adopted a resolution against the called on a youug lady who resided in sion to refer to the vote cast in these licans to debate. Ibe pension appropriation almost lifeless portege in her own refused to act with Cronin, whereupon Cronin He participation ol Germany in the French exhi bill was then taken up and passed. The resolution 100 collins. The great crowds five parishes in 1874, when no special the vicinity of the "big ditch." declared a vacancy and elected J. N. T. Miller warm clothes, and then only ran oil to offered Thursday by Mr. Wood, o bition ot 1878. which were met near and just within was seated beside her on the sofa talking matters existed for use of crual means and II. Parker to fill the places of the electors New York, calling on the President lor copies get help. Cleaveland suffered from six fjres the-cemetery were formed about the and a vote being biken, Cronin voted for Tilden about the weather and the election, to influence the election. The Repub of instructions sent to or received trom military vast grave. The site being on the side and Hendricks and the two others for from Saturday noon to tfanday noon, the 10th when she sighed deeply, which caused lican majority therein was 3.979. officers in the South was taken up and Hayes and Wheeler Cartwright and Odell An Arkrasas termer, while plough He The by of a hill, and completely exposed, the him to change and 11th. loss the most destructive result so suggestive of violence and the conversation. alter debate passed. The House then adjourn first accept the resignation of Elector Watts ing, lost his pocket book. Next year cold was almost insufferable, but still was 125,000. ed to Monday. remarked that the ditch was a terrible intimidation was obtained by means then elected him to fill th« vacancy, and cas' the people held their places. There the Post says it is reported that pestilence he unearthed it, and sent the contents SENATE, Dec. 11,—The report of the most terrible and revolting. Organized the vote of the State for Hays and Wheeler nuisance and would breed a was no delay in removing the remains Great excitement prevails. "The Republicans one of these days t'e odor arising clubs of masked armed men, formed there is to be iresh exodes from Russia ot Democrats attending the Louisiana returning which were a hundred dollar note, a are indignant at the Governor's action." from the hearses and yagons and depositing board was ordered printed. The committee as recommended by the Central Dem from it was simply awful. She blushed Mennonites, 50,000 of whom desire to settle fifty and a twenty, to the Treasury at SAX KAXCISCO, Dec. 7.—Latestadvices from on privileges and elections reported favorably them in the circular trench. like a full blown rose as she said: ocratic Committee, rode through the in Brazil or the United States. Salem, Oregon, say that all the Republican Washington for identification. The on the resolution authorizing an investigation Then the services were begun. Rev. "Oh, it ain't the ditch we had onions country at night, marking their course An execution amounting to $2,900, and Democratic electors assembled in a room a» to the eligibilt y ot Watts, the Oregon was pocketbook of leather, covered Dr. Noah II. Schenck read the beautiful audLimburger cheese for dinner today." by the wliiping. shooting, wounding of the Senate chandler. The Secretary of elector. Laid over till to-flay. Senab Cam 000 has been received by the sheriff of Hum burial service of the Episcopal State passed an envelope through the door to with mould, but the legal tenders with eron, of Wisconsin, introduced abillprovid maiming, mutilation, and murder ol bolt county, la., in favor of the bondholders Mr. Cn nin, who read it as the certificate of ing that lrom and after its enactment the church, which was listened to attentively women and children and defenselemen, in had suffered from rust and rain of the old Des Moines Valley railroad com the vote civen to Messrs. Odell, Cartwright A Massachusetts young man went United S ates shall receive legal tender notes by those who were within reach whose houses were forcibly entered a and there were only few black puny. and himself. He then put it into his pocket, at par in payment of import duties and all to visit his true-love the other evening, of kis voice. There was inexpressible while they slept, and, as the in refusing to show it to the Republicans. Odell, Tbe National Base Ball League closed dues and revenues of every kind. The Senate crumbs, instead of the fresh, crisp and his friends at the house where sadness mingled with solemnity in the mates fled through fear, the pistol and Cartwright and Cronin seated themselves at a then resumed consideration of unfinished its sessions in Chicago on the 9th. W. A, bank notes. They were entrusted to a scene. Hundreds of people wept, the table, organized by electing Odell chiirman. he boarded resolved to ascertain what business, being the joint resolution of Ed the rifle, and the knife the ropi Hulburt, of Chicago, was elected President Watts offered to leave the room, bnt as the munds proposing an amendment to the constitution "time o'night" he got home. So they lady who is a great expert, and who by tears freezing on their cheeks as they were employed to do their horrid lor the ensuing year, and N. E. Young, of other Democrats, Kleppell and Laswell, re the providing that the lectoral vote lor put a tin pan on each of the stairs in issued from their eyes. A monument work. Crimes like that, testified to her knowledge and patience separated fused to leave, lie remained at the request of President and Vice-President be counied by Washington, Secretary. hallway and tied them all together in a circular space of 10 feet will be by scores of witnesses, were the means the other Republicans. Watts then tenderer the particles and stuck them on paper the Supreme Court. An amendment was A Bethel dispatch more by to Pa., says erected in the centre of the plat, with a string leading from top hij resignation as the elector. Odell and employed in Louisiana to elect aPresi -viopted providing that the electors shall vote with mucilage, proving they were than one-halt the mines in the State are stop Cartwright severally demanded their certificates bottom, and fixed them so that when viva voce, iustead of by ballot. Edmunds argued appropriate devices and inscriptions, dent of the United States. notes of the National Bank of Balti ot Cronin, who repeatedly refused ti ped. The nunbr of men thrown out of em in favor of the prcposed amendment at he softly opened th? front door and to which work the theatrical profession '•Members of the Board,acting under surrender them. After som* time. Cronin length, and was followed by Morton, who opposed more, Maryland. The notes were re ploymert is estimated at between 35,000 and sneaked in the pans would descend promise a subscription of 820,000. oath, were bound by law, if convinced asked if tliev refused act with him. Odetl it. Without action the Senate adjourned. before 45,000. It is believed the suspension will be and meet him. And a little while deemed, and the farmer lost not one The plat is 200 feet square, and commands lid Cartwright said No very emphatically, by the testimonv tint riot, tumult entire by the middle of the month. daylight those in the house who a fine view of many of the beauties but demanded their authority to act shonlf e cept. acts of violence, or armed disturbance HOUSE, Dcc. 11.—Under the call of shown. Cronin then left the table, th« Republican were not in the trick covered up their A dispatch from Manitoba says of Greenwood. the States the following were the more im did materially interfere with the puri electors having made no oljecton to heads aod softly prayed under the Col. Henderson, Chief Commissioner Small pox is raping at White Mud River, and portant bil!- introduced Reducing letter ty and freedom of the election at an\ co operate with him, and after calling in mistaken impression that an earthquake postage to two cents -or the purchase of silver For some years I was l'aiilng in many Indians and Icelanders have died of the of the London Police, told the cabmen poll or voting-place, or did materially Miller tmd Parker, organized his Electoral to and its coinage into illars, to be a I I had arrived and it was time health, was not alarmed until began to lose disease. The government store-house has bullion College as before reported. Secretary Chad change the result of the election there at their mission meeting, the other legal tender lor ail debts public and private, I my appetite. grew very thirst}', my mouth get ready. But it wasn't. :Twas wick claims to have acted simply under the been converted into a hospital, the sick re at to reject the votes thus cast and ex night, that drunkenness was still very including duties and c( in interest (by Glo became parched, my hands dry it was time but heralding Governor's orders. Tho latter was burnt iu nothing "them pans" moved there and their vacated dwellings ver, Dem.) to protect States acain-t domestic elude thera from their final return. Ol to do something. I consulted my doctor he at Jefferson last night. prevalent among them, 13,000 cases efflgy the young man's approach. burned. violence—providing that the President si all the effect of such testimony the Board said 1 had Diabetes, that he had a young lady THE DEMOCRACIC VEHSIOJF. having been reported last year. He not employ the army until alttr the Legislature I General Crook's whole force left patient dying in the same way must sell was the sole and final judge, and if in The following statement by the Democratic of a State ha* certified to him that the have out tny business and make mvself as comfortable The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. commended the superiority of the Fort Reno on the 4th, his intention being to reaching a conclusion, it exercized candidates tor Presidential electors has been authority ot the State is forcibly resisted, and as possible. I tried tvb£*~cloctors and sustained their well earned reputation Published, good faith and was guided by an honest headed: "True Statement to the London cabs and hansoms over those work down the Little Powder river toitsjunc that it is unable to overcome such resistance, everything that could be heard of At last I as best makers of instruments*in their eople ot Oregon." "Inasmuch as grossly desire to do just'ce, its determination tion with the Powder river, and there lorm a or after the Governor has certified to him that of other capitals, mentioned that his heard of a prescription that had cured a case la'se statements purporting to re'ate to whit line, at the Centennial. Their organs riot, insurreotion or overt acts of rebellion I it Mke mine. tried and am a well man. My should be rcspected, even if \ipon likt supply camp and then operate against the officers had condemned 3,500 last year occurred at the holding ot the electoral college have occurred, which he has endeavored and are the only ones at the exhibition declared doctor is astonished, and my friends so much proof a different conclusion might hostiles as circumstances dictate. General to day are being industriously circulated is unable to suppress, and that the Legisla and gave the cabmen credit for hon pleased that they want it known to the thousands by the judges to belong to'the Pow have been reached by other tribune Crook expects to find the Indians on the by men.bers ol the Republican par'y, we, th» ture cannot be convened because of such vio afflicted with any weakness of the kidneys esty, upward of 16,000 articles forgot first rank, and this not merely because undersigned, submit the following as faithful or persons. To guard the purity oi der river. lenoe. The rules were suspended and the ju oi symptoms like mine may have the letails ot the proceedings in que-tion in said one or two particulars, but in "the ton in cabs having been deposited at diciary committee instructed to inquire and it. tho ballot, to protect the citizen ii received from the medicine and be cured. Druggists have News just interior eleotoral college, held in Salem on the sixth several requisites" ot such instruments report on the legality of the circular letter issued Prescription or medicine sent by mail. Medicine the fair and peaceful exercise headquarters by cabmen in 1875. In 01 of Mexico is that President Leredo and cabinet day oi December, 1876, at tbe hour of twelve. by the Attorney -neral during the "ate per bottle. Prescription lor §1. which is equivalent to saying $1.25 their right to vote, to secure hin one instance, two gentlemen had quarreled have been captured by the revolutionists near There were resent in the room designated a* Presidential campaign to United States Marshals Address. M.W.Chapin, Northbridge Center, t.hey were unequaled by others in any against violence, intimidation, out fhe one in which the electoral vote should b' the city of Nuncar. Gen. Escabado's secre in relation t* their powers and duties in over the ownership of a diamond Mass. Reference given with pleasure.' important quality. We oongratulate iMSt the fillowi»g persons: J. C. Ctrtwriglit, rage, and especially murder when such election. tary was shot with several otheis. The gov necklace, valued at £1,000 and W H. O'Dell, J. W. Watts, Henry Kl*pper he company on having added to their attempts to perform this duty, shouh ernment ot Leredo is undoubtedly over W. B. Caswell and Ei. Cronin. At said noui this Fttfns Chapman of Liberty, one of them threw it into a passing Paris, Vienna and Santiago medals is not in never be the decree of &11 men, and aim ol Our creates glory thrown. The whole northern frontier oi be do ol the room in which the elector*1 at Philadeldhia.—Boston had a stiff leg bent at the knee, limbered and emphatically highest award eimty cab. Two hours after it was rising every time we every representative government, ant falling, but in vote was to be cast was opened and the Secretary Mexico except Matan)oras is in possession cf stregthened by the use of Johnson's Anodyne Traveler. when political success shall be attain of State handed to Mr. Cronin bright into police headquarters. the supporters of Inglaes. falL—Coafucius. Linirr o^t.