Republic County Journal (Newspaper) - June 5, 1878, Scandia, Kansas In Essentials In TERMS i REPUBLIC JUNK THE Investigation to inquire into the alleged Presidential of the following named Clarkson of York William of Illinois Eppa of Virginia John of Ohio of Pennsylvania Kentucky of Ohio Benjamin of Massachusetts Thomas of and Frank Hiscook of New York The first seven are Democrats the other four Vermont Republicans have nom Redfield Proctor for Gov Colton for and John present in for State The plat form heartily approves the motives and general course of the Administration of and condemns as un uncalled for and revolutionary the reopening of the Presidential question by means of the proposed Potter inves but still very passed over Madison and so on through the sweeping every thing in its The storm appears Iro have originated far to the crossing the Mis of and its course through the State of Illi is marked with At McHenry several houses were blown The house of a German farmer named Brun was one of the and his wife and children were REPRESENTATIVE PHILLIPS has pre pared a the contract between the of the Treasury and the Syndicate for the sale of 4i per bonds contrary to and providing that hereafter all sales of bonds shall be made by open if by to the lowest bidder after due SHERMAN has addressed a letter to Chairman of the and Louisiana Investigating declaring the made against him to be abso lutely destitute of even a shadow of offering to prove that the elections in East and West Feliciana force and and that the protests referred to were support ed by testimony and properly acted upon by the Sherman has designated Samuel Shellabargar as counsel for him before the i THB Pennsylvania Democratic State held at Pittsburg on the nominated Andrew of Union for of for Supreme John of for and Simpson of Secretary of In ternal The resolutions declare against further monetary contraction and in favor of the reissue of der notes as fast as received into the Treasury for a protective State regulation of railway freight and pas senger They also approve the investigation of the al frauds in the late Presidential elec tion but oppose any attack upon the Presidential title as dangerous to our institutions and fruitless its THE Missouri Press Association held a three session at terminating May and adjourned to next The attendance was and the exercises unusually interesting and was followed by an ex over the Iron Moun tain and Southern Railroad to Mobile and New THB National Greenback and Labor party of Indiana held a State at Indianapolis on the 22d and full list of State officers as follows Secretary of State Henry of Grant County cob of Gibson County Treas of Floyd County School Superintendent John Marion The platform opposes the resumption of specie de mands the abolition of all bank free and unlimited coinage of gold and the issuing by the ment of full paper in an amount sufficient to meet the wants of to give employment to all to do a cash Ihe Communists the Commun ism of National bond and consolidated railroad companies are equally Finally the Toledo National platform Is indorsed and v3 E National mef in on the 33d a gear of lic Impression of their feelings given Is embraced in ia resolution approving the action of in appointing a com investigate frauds F alleged ito have in Pros F ww A moving from southwest IB night of the carrying ral where the tornado with number of buildings Wew 5demorisbJrM and their Nina reported 1 o The somewhat abated fi THE following is the full text of the to forbid the further retirement of United States notes That from and after the passage of this it shall not be lawful for of the Treasury or other officers under him to cancel or retire any more of United States and when any of said notes may tie redeem ed or be received into the under any law from any source shall bejong to the United they shall not be or but they shall be and paid out again and kept In circulation nothing shiH prohibit the cancellation and destruction of mutilated notes and the is of other notes of like denomination in as how All SBd parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed THE main features of army as it passed the House are as follows Fix ing the strength of the army at men fixing the number of cavalry reg at with companies of not exceeding 126 and of infantry regiments at with less than 60 privates reducing the force if various staff and pro iding for a board reorganize those j providing for a board to the retiring or mustering out of officers fixing the number of at one and of Brigadier generals at three after those figures have been reducing tho number and rank of re ducing the pay and emoluments of cers transferring the Indian Bureau to Wa Department and prohibiting the use of United States troops for civil unless specially authorized y It is understood proposed transfer of the Indian to the War will meet with strenuous opposition in the Chairman tjie Presidential Election ing has written a long let ter to a explaining the purposes and effect of his The pith of the letter is contained in the follow ing extracts You Suggest that to raise about the last Presidential election will bring on disturbance or Npt at About that possess yourself in There is not the slightest chance of revo lution or When the whole was at beat onthe subject of the a way was found to establish a tribunal to pass upon the and every one submitted to that title rests and in case was fraud which palpably affected the electoral and which the Commission did not and If a legal remedy exists for correcting the er you can not believe that such a pro law could lead to disturb If there be no such legal remedy ex and Congress should by approval of the or by twothirds of both houses without that pro why should legal thereafter bad any more produce disturb ance than the decision of tho Electoral Com mission did It is exactly because this fs not and because the people prefer determining questions legal and if legal methods have not been to invent legal methods of determining and to submit to the determination thus arrived this country can not be Having accepted the Electoral of we were bound to submit to Its but we ought at least to be allowed if such was tbe that the returns upon which the Commis sion passed were procured by of Linn Judge of Su preme Judge of Van ren Clerk of of Scott Reporter of the Su preme of Marion KEY has writ ten an letter addressed to the peo ple of the urging upon them the duty of discountenancing all efforts to reopen the Presidential contest under that nil candidates to the Con gress be pledged to sustain the President Hayes to the Executive ALEXANDER STEPHENS has addressed a letter to Hon Clarkson Potter in reply to certain statements re garding Stephens made by Pot ter in a recent letter defending his reso lution of Stephens wishes it distinctly understood that he opposed the cut ting off of Republican amendments for extending the scope of investi gation to other States than Florida and and holds that committed a fatal error in so do Stephens considers the whole proceedings leading to the adoption of the Potter resolution as most most unfortunate and most He adds Its effect will be to disturb the and the Neither Potter nor any body else can prevent and I say to most that nothing short of an general and firm concert of action of the and was the eldest daughter of the Duke of Sutherland and the niece of the Earl of Her the Marquis of is the husband of Prin cess Jueen Victorias THK health of the Pope is and his removal from the Vatican is strongly urged by his friends and accom Hayes and other was lately in Northern New THE marriage of to Miss Ream took place at Wash abiding people of loans and i throughout the iu re probation of this im estimation any with a view to disturb the Presidential as announced by the Pennsylvania Democracy in their Conven tion a few con arrest tho most fearful Those who though sowed the will reap the My own opinion as I repeatedly this affair will prove in the end either a contemptible farce or a horrible Whether it will a of our Federal republic this result must show but I us I said on another recent that all soft words instituting in the minds of tho people of the country the idea that Hayes can be peaceably unseated by Congress are as delusive and as ul as the ol the great arch fiend in the shape of a toad In the ear of sprung all our AND lowa Democratic State Conven Held on tho adopted resolu tions in favor of a tariff for revenue tu substitution of United States notes for National Bank the improvement and a thorough of the al Presidential frauds o 1876 further con traction of the currency by the retirement of United States notes now in The State officers nominated are For Secretary CK of Davis Auditor of 91 Folk Treasurer of 4 Of State kand Office RUSSELL of Rock formerly Marshal of Northern and during the war onel of President Hayess and Hiss niece of will be married at the White House tbe latter part of next DEAN is writing letters to the Iowa papers in favor of the abolition of the jury THE new Mayor of go is a negro named Elwood He ran in between two white Master of Tex State is announced in the Granger organ as an independent candidate tor THE Minnesota Senate is sitting as Court of Impeachment to try Judge Sher charge of official PRESIDENT accompanied by Secretary of War Thompson and Attorney General visited Fortress Monroe on the 23d and reviewed the troops and after ward inspected the Hampton Normal General Su of the Chicago and Alton Rail has been made General a new office with increased GRANT is now doing the Pauls He will spend two months in and then make a tour of the it is will be appointed to the Commercial Agency at an office worth about per SHERIFF JOHN of Stokes a prominent citizen and grandson of was recently shot and killed by James a noted of that while try ing to arrest Smiths JOHN an old and prom inent citizen of formerly a member of the bunged himself on tho His mind was PRESIDENT ANDREW Cornell been appointed First President of the Jury of Educational the of has started on a tour around the world to in spect the missions of the Methodist Episco pal QUEEN VICTORIA was 59 years old on away by MADAME the wife of the dance has recently died near Under her maiden name of Jetty she was well known and extremely popular as a some years both in this country and on the THE Rhode Island by a vote of 20 to has adopted a resolution depre cating all agitation of questions affecting the Presidential Plymouth Church Examining have resolved to entertain against Tilton of publishing a card slandering and violating her vows in not submitting charges to the com before publishing them in the news CRAWLEY of has been nominated as United States Mar shal for THE Honest Money League has called a general meeting to bo held at Mil waukee on tbe for the purpose of per and forming local furthering the interests of the SHIELDS had a1 public reception by tbe military and civio societies of Mil waukee on the THE American Association for the Advancement of Science will hold their 27th meeting at Louis in beginning on the 21 EUGENE United States at has itr It is reported that he Is so much iu disfavor at on ac count of statements publicly made by him reflecting upon tho Turkish will IN assigned to some other mis NEWS Reports have been received at Lon from announcing that had been a rainfall in several that sowing is general and prospects for har vesting The Coroners Jury which has been holding an inquest on the victims of tho mill explosion at has returned a verdict that tbe disaster was the result of an milldust floating in tho air kindled by fire in the woodwork of Wash burn A originating in a spark from the stones running The Committee on Commerce of Senate agreed to report favorably the name of Gem for Surveyor of the Port of Henry was hang ed at on the for the murder of Gus also Feb ruary At on the Cook was shot dead in his house dur ing a 4uarrel with Charles aged Jesse Walker was hanged at Farmers on the for the murder of his Violet in February Both the murderer and his victim were Governor of has commuted the death sentence of Kate of Pickens to imprison ment in the Penitentiary for 10 The rectifying establishment of Christopher at of the largest in the has been seized by Government officers on account of alleg ed of stumps Three firemen were killed at Hart on the by falling 111 SO hfr was ways borne a most excellent her self preferred the charges against the details of which nre almost too horrible for Virulent cholera hns appeared at Of 41 Europeans attacked 30 have One hundred cases among the native population are The State Savings Bank of suspended on the At Bureau on the evening of the Samuel Elizabeth of Judge upon refund further permis sion to continue his armed and gaining admission to Shehans shot but without fatal She then ran down pursued by und the father at tempting to arrest the the latter tired at the ball entering his Kearney then a from the with which ho deliberately cut Shehans throat from ear to and then with a razor he severed his own falling hack dead almost in attempting to wrest knife from Ihn wan badly hut lioth she ami husband about 40 years of ami had boon visiting Shehan for about a The latter Was the mother of two ami hail been separated from her husband for some Frost Coles and Alexander two prominent citizens of Forest Camp bell on the USIh met in the woods by agreement and fought a duel with the only witness being an old color ed man who was called iu to iut as umpire and see fair Both made a on which In receiving u mortal wound in the left his own knife dead and Coles fled to escape The two men were and had been warm about some trivial the lie was in tho opin ion of one of at nothing could wipe out the insult but Tho House Naval Affairs Committee agreed to report favorably on thu IJar rfs appointing a Hoard of Admiralty to sell thp old ships and i new Games one of the largest iron firms of Western with works located ut New Green Sharon and other points in the Chenan go It was reported on the 28lh that tbe Mexican town of New Laredo was besieged by an insurgent force under Garza and that the Customs officers had fled to tho American side of tho river for pro At on the night of the a lady named while temporarily cvit tho throat of her daughter aged and then qut her Both The recent cyclone in Wisconsin killed 50 people and injured about Hundreds are left homeless and without a meal to The survivors along the line of tbe tornado are in great HAMPTON has sent to at her which picked up by a Southern cavalryman at the battle of Bran the great English the 87th year of i Liberai his at the unanimous request Of the Springfield Diocesan has his former resolution and accept the of is was married tf Ar i During a severe storm the night of the an entire 61 18 together with the went through a high trestle on the Kansas Rail road near into yawning abyss Three men ou the locomotive were presumably a long for their bodies had proved still more strange to no trace of the loco motive could be Stockholders of the Consolidated Vir ginia Mine have begun proceedings against the of Flood trustees ot the to recover the sum of alleged to have been wrongfully diverted by said trustees in their management of the The defendants claim that the ob ject ofthe proceedings Is simply to bear the stock by attacking the management ot the The Worlds Convention of Good Templars assembled at Minneapolis on the The Stewart Hotel for Women in York City has proved a and will soon bo opened tothe general Fifty Austrian emigrants who re cently arrived in this country en route for Nebraska were swindled by sharpers In in the on Phi rah up the Senate authorizing the of War to have erected head stones over graves Union soldiers Interred in private Tlie District of Columbia was considered and several sections disposed of In the ot rising to question of personal stated that charges had been made against citizens of the Parishes ot East and West Fe which if true compel retire in shame from Ills He to the and had read that portion of Shermans Clarkson in he referred to the election in Robertson denounced Shermans allegations as The then went into Committee of the on the Army Appropriation Springer in the the pending amend ment being to fix the strength of the army at of The was 115 to In the on the lie lands to the education of Ke After some routine business had been disposed consideration of tho Army wan resumed in fce of the and it occupied tlin atten tion of House throughout tho j on the among the bills by to tlie existing the cnp ital and deposits of banks nnd and to impost on dividends in ol 8 per A resolution was agreed to request tho President to to thn of alt correspondence not heretofore and minutes in of the Government relative to tlie of jy t Fishery providing a permanent form of for the of iu of the was reported to thu the to read u third timu nnd moved to take up the House to forbid of leffal tender nnd some discussion tlie motion was agreed nays In llii under the Hominy call of States measures were introduced and re and tlie House into Com of tho Whole on tho Army Appropria tion Knott an under penalties of fine and the employment of any part of tho us a posse or otherwise undor the in and under such us of troops may lie by net of nays An of of from to wus i All voted In the and had for allies oil tlie side nil the who of and Without dispos ing the flouse In the on the consideration was of the forbid the further retirement of United legal tender were voted Hud the ilie the mamier in certain may bu and lo or by and for the ot patents iii name pi tlie The took up the amend ments to lifter disposing if thu passed are the hy to prohibiting tlie n is posse by yeas to 70 The fill strength of is at and there ia a in the number and pity ot Chairman of tlu on the to tlie Iost nl Savinis Depository and to aid 1B the iii the United States lie iae between thu States nnd from the mime a hill tor the transportation of the 1nited mail between mid to ol the from u Uill tho sfv us to every except by Uio shall make terly reports of money received or f by for and that every Post master appointed by the ahull ren der monthly accounts of all moneys so The to the for tho repeal of the then taken up aud the September 10 Is the date for the to take It now goes to tlie lor hid In the on the the Executive and Judicial Appropriation was discussed lit many amendments being disposed The Cembali Appropriation was then taken up and consideration of the message was received 4rom of had Agreed the concurrent resolution in regard to final adjourn moot of with fixing date at June W instead of action was taken immediately after the reading Wood called up the Senate id to post pone its until as by Cau The yeas and nays were fearing number ol Democrats AtC seut the motion would from the select to take cpn in spurious American Many of the emigrants are left Emile who sentenced to at on the 24th of cheated the gallows taking a t i pp the day set wab the murder of Malhias a broth er In for improper Intimacy with JJ James farmer of WMt is wrest the crime of his a beautiful girl Taylor Is member of who a State laws respecting 1 of the result of elections and of the United reported a the feature of Is a provision that no Elect oral vote from any State from which but one return has been received be rejected exeunt by the vote of both houses of and that In case more than fine return Is received from any State the j votes only counted of Electors whose title as Electors the two acting shall concurrently decide is supported by decision of tbe of provided for by its Burnaide Iroin tho Com on Education and reported ad on tlie joint resolution providing an enforcement of and also adversely on the Senate byi to regulate the hours of Placed on the Davis called np tho Senate to provide for an additional Circuit Judge in the Second Judicial Paddock sub mitted an amendment to the Pacific Railroad extending aid to the Republican Valley Jn Committee on reported a section 22 of the act in Pacific declaring privileges and lands granted under that sec tion to the Now Rouge Vicksburg Railroad Ing that New Or leans ordered printed and Hankie intro a Dill to aid Ship Canal guarantee of ration bf tlie or the Springer in the on the Army Ap Interposed a motion 1 purpose of by whether there was a quorum The and naya motion to was A was then made to lay the Senate this was Tlie Semite resolution lor a final on the 17th of The res DOW rocs back and that body may either concur in the amendment or it may iroin any until within a day or two of June when it will bo able qp batty it will be to extend tan time or to adjourn on that The Con ference report to tbe Consular and Diplomat hill nna There was an evening session toy debate Both houses adjourned over till on account Of Decoration London Post of the 28d published the following in the in Petersburg for peace quite equals that in Heis er of a certain of willingness to meet our views of of declines to pass the over tbe of San but discuss in a Congress The Count brings that todleben has been make any attempt to i ir by a committee It Wh that land having the detailed slons offered the lat ter thereupon declared Russias tp the of the bred that k formed of Russias In on the concurrent that existing treaty im this from and inviting the attention ot the tive to the Bills passe amending the Revised Statutes in relation the judicial were and of A dispatch of The an set Courts of tates tha of under the agreed totne have
