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ST. PAUL, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1878.
HE Republicans want to summon Tilden
and his "bar'l" before the Potter commit-
tee. Zach Chandler trad his bank book
might furnish revelations more to the pur-
pose, mmrmmmmmmmtmm^mm
COKKLING, it is claimed, is giving aid and
comfort to Mr. Hayes' enemies. We are
afraid Conklmg has not yet developed inde
pendence enough to do so, although he no
doubt holds a rod of terror over some mem
bers of the administration.
THE Republicans are very anxious that the
Potter committee shall go to the bottom of
the alleged frauds in Louisiana. We know
they arc, for they all say so. Of course their
sincerity in no way questioned by the filli
bustering schemes they have indulged in to
defeat an appropriation for the expenses of
the inquiry. We must believe their words,
not their acts.
THE Chicago Tribune, owned in part by
one of the Washburns, comes gallantly to the
defense of the family against the accusation
of office-seeking. It is a mistake to suppose,
intimates the Tribune, that any person bear
ing that chivalrio name desires to force
himself into public office. It is only their
exalted patriotism that induces them to sac
rifice their private interests for the public
benefit. Precisely.
JUDGING from present indications the con
gressional campaign in Ohio will be a more
than usually animated one. There are five
districts very nearly balanced, while the
others are certain for one party or another.
In these five districts the contest for the
mastery will be waged with unrelenting bit
terness, and the verdict will be looked upon
as an approval or disapproval of Mr. Hayes'
policy at the white house. Both parties will
put forth their best efforts.
The Republican committee for the Second
Congressional district met at Shakopee yes
terday to arrange the call for a convention to
nominate a successor to Major Strait. All
of the committee, except General Jennison,
favored an early convention and it was final
ly decided to hold the convention at Grand
Army hall, Shakopee, on Tuesday July 16th.
Each county has one delegate and one ad
ditional for each 250 votes cast for Pillsbury.
Now Strait's friends ought to howl because a
convention is called without giving him a
chance to come home and electioneer for
another term.
MBS. KATE SOUTHERN, the woman who
killed a rival in her husband's affections,
has had, as announced some days ago, her
sentence of death commuted to ten years'
imprisonment. If the slayer and the victim
had been men, and the bonetof contention a
woman, would not the unwritten law, as de
clared many jury trials in all parts of the
country, have sent Mrs. Southern forth free
of blame? Unless Governor Colquitt wislies
it to be understood that there ia in Georgia
one law of murder for men and another for
women, he should extend his clemency yet a
point, and give Mrs. Southern her full par
don.
"T HE idea of the managers of this affair,'!
says the don-Key of the postoffice1
depart-
ment, "is to secure CQn.troL.of thelnext
House of Representatives. The Democrats
will control the Senate.- Congress wi)l re- Jgationsi although they were-made long after
fuse to receive messages-from Hayes, and
they will receive theni from Tilden. If that
will not precipitate civil war I'do not kfloifr
what will." We are glad tp learn, that the,
Democrats have told) their plans so fully to
the administration post&fister general, and'
that we can therefore place perfect, reli
ance upon the reliability 'Of his utterances.'
We believe it is always regarded"'as a wise
stroke of policy on the part of political man-
tSlfri bs^^ss^spss^s^^^P^sg^fsssaBPfr
,-3sS
the same strain. "We should not be hastily
alarmed/' be Raid. "The armies disbanded
in 1865 still live in spirit, and will never
permit this government to drift into an
archy." "Army," "army"always army
with Sherman. The only reason for this
constant ding-donging on the same theme is
to habituate the people to the idea that they
are an unruly mob who most be managed in
the Napoleonic fashion. There is nothing
to alarnfthe country'and no vestige of a sign
that the government is "drifting into anar-
chy," but Sherman insinuates that there are
dangers ahead in order to give himself an
opportunity to expound his favorite doctrine.
Fortunately for the country, Sherman's
power is less than his desire, and as long as
a free press exists in the land his ideas will
never become those of the mass of the peo
ple, however much a few mushroom nabobs
and would-be aristocrats would like to see
them prevail.
WHILE Grant is feasting with high dig
nitaries in Europe, traveling with his family
from city to city and lodging in the inns
where princes take their ease, his friends in
the United States Senate are urging upon
other Senators that the General is an ex
ceedingly poor man, and that he ought to
be put on the army retired list, with pay of
about ten thousand a year, to keep him
from feeling the stress of absolute poverty.
If Grant is really poor he must be "dead
beating" his way through Europe with a cal
lousness of cheek that entitles him to the
rank of champion tramp. If he Is not poor,
he ought speedily to stop the mouths of the
over-officious Senators who are placing him
in a false light, perhaps with ulterior pur
poses of their own.
IT is astonishing to note the celerity with
which Stephens and Key have risen in the
estimation of Republicans. A few weeks ago
they were the target for ridicule on every
hand, their motives were impugned and their
intentions distrusted. There were found in
the Republican party none so poor as do
them reverence. Now all is changed. They
are lauded to the skies as patriots,statesmen,
demi-gods. Is it asked what the cause of
this change has been? The answer is simple:
Dirt-eating. As panderers to the pretentions
of a fraudulent and corrupt administration
they have won an enviable distinction, and
the Repnblicans would be ingrates indeed if
they failed to recognize the sacrifices they
have made to political and personal de
cency.
IF disasters to iron-clad ships of war con
tinue at the present rate, it will soon be a
question whether vessels of that description
are not more injurious to the nation that
owns them than to the enemy. The terri
ble calamity of yesterday, by which hundreds
of lives were lost through the sinking of the
German iron-clad Grosser Kurfurst, is an
event of a kind similar to the overturning
of the British iron-clad Monarch, a few years
ago, and to several other disasters that have
more recently befallen the English navy.
In seeking to make iron-dads impregnable
to the shots of modern improved cannon,
the builders have been obliged to overweight
their vessels until they are almost unmanagea
ble, and are in fact little better than floating
coffins. And, after all, they are not very
formidable as assailants since torpedoes
have been brought to their present stage of
perfection.
SHERMAN'S SKELETON.
James E. Anderson, who has been sum
moned to testify before the Potter investigat
ing committee, was supervisor of registration
in the parish of East Feliciana, Louisiana, at
the time of the presidential election of 1876.
The votes cast in that parish numbered 1,736
Democratic and only one Republican, al
though in 1874 there had been 1688 Repub
lican votes cast, and for the election of 1876
2,127 colored voters had registered and but
1,004 white voters. It was, however, satis
factorily shown that the abstention of the
colored Republicans from voting had been
deliberately planned in advance. No Re
publican ballots were supplied to the voters.
No organization had been effected. The
word was passed that Republicans were to
stay at home. The design of all this was to
give the Republicans a prima facie case of
"bull-dozing," upon which the returning
board might throw out of the count the
whole vote of East Feliciana and other par
ishes. It was an artful dodge of a villainous
kind, but it worked smoothly.
Anderson's share in the 'business was as
supervisor to attach to his return of the
votes a protest stating that the election had
been unfairly conducted on account of in
timidation by the Democrats. On Novem
ber 13, six days after the election, he sent in
his return to the State board of returns. No
protest accompanied it. Ten days later he
delivered tb the returning board a paper al
leging that he had1
agers to "give themselves away'* to their ^mts^.t^Vs^^jf^^vedfto be true
opponents without unnecessary delay.
HE most dangerous man, in intention at'
least, in- the country" ,torday is",Walfiarri
Tecumseh Sherman* He wants his .brother
John to become President', &nd 'would stop
at no measure of violence to prevent the
Republican party from losing control of the
executive department. He believes in gov
erning the country by force of arms, and
would like to see nothing so muchrasa mil
itary dictatorship, in fact if not in name,
established in the United States^ witji Jaim
self either as dictator on the power.behind,
the throne. Not many* months go fce'told
the merchants of New Tort that without the^
army they would be nothing but a mob...,'Iti
is a noteworthy indication of the spread of
Sherman's ideas that this saying of,tthe Gen
eral was loudly cheered by. thai men to whom
it was addressed. In his speech in New
York on Decoration day, Sherman took up
be/Bn intimidated while in
the discharge of hi&duties. During these
ten days 'Anderson' seems to have
ha&some.idea that he conld squeeze^ money
out-of the Democrats by agreeing not to
make a protest, and it wa$flurihjg(these1
ten'
days that Pirate, Sherman,.becoming aware,
of Anderson's1
shakinessfbraced him up by
writing {tie letter.b^which so tirach has been.'
said,egging him on, to enter the protest. The
returning bdafd threw out the vote of East
Feliciana, on &e jjjafepgth'pf ^dei^n'slalUv
the. time preJterib^Utyr Jaw tor entering pro
testa, and although- Anderson.'had nothing
whatever to do with-^the- actual voting, his
duties being simply to supervise the registra
tion, and to "receive the returns from the
oommiSsioners^hdection and forward them
the returnmgboard.
These are the outlines of the occurrences
in Louisiana concerning .which (the Potter,
couimittee will take evidenoe." Most-of the
',Wfbr the committee of Congress that ivjs^
,ited Ixrajkiana' andTirade ah investigation!
last year., ..Sherina^s pejfc*jjp.,{$a conspiracy'
ha^ yet to be proved. The letter he wrote to
Anderson is said to'have been destroyed, but
bhotdgraphs of it are in existence,,, must
not be supposed, however, that when the
document is published it will exhibi Shej
irtsa as rfflvising Anderson in so many-words
to enter a false protest. Shermanistoo'
wary an oloffox to make such a mistake as
that. 'He used indirect and vague terms,
leaving Anderson to fill in the missing in
structions that would suggest themselves to
political wire-puller, and striker-., TJje hon-
'es^p&ople of the North, (so .Sherman wrote,
or-words to that' effect,) would sustain
Anderson in protesting' against the wicked
Bulldozing of the Democrats. The federal
government would protect him. The safety
of the country demanded that the Republi
can party should remain in power. In such
roundabout phraseology did the foxy Sher
man instigate Anderson to do the work of
falsification.
We may expect the Republicans to seek to
break the force of this letter by applauding
it as patriotic, loyal, and all that sort of
thing. But the country cannot be bam
boozled in such an affair. No one knows
this better than Sherman himself. His agi
tation when the committee of inquiry was
ordered by the House, his endeavor to fore
stall the committee by writing a letter de
manding that be might be represented by
oounsel, the scene with Anderson when he
tried to get that person into a trapall show
that the mysterious letter is the skeleton in
Sherman's closet. Doubtless Anderson is
able to add some of the reading between the
lines of the letter, and knowing that to be
the case the Pirate hears a more frightful
rattling of his skeleton's bones. When the
day comes for the skeleton to be dragged out
to public view, and that will be before long,
Sherman will bid adieu to public life.
THE ARMY WITHDRAWAL, OP THIS
FROM POLITICS.
In Proctor Knott's amendment to the
army appropriation bill forbidding the use
of troops for any purpose not expressly au
thorized by law, the Republican papers af
fect to see another step in the direction of
revolution, and are busy picturing to their
readers the horrible things that may come to
pass if the amendment receives the sanction
of both houses of Congress and the Presi
dent. One of their number, the Chicago
Tribune, is particularly [alarmed for the
safety of the country. It regards the amend
ment as offering immunity to every species
of rascalitycounterfeiting, incendiarism,
illicit distillation, smuggling, and all manner
of deviltry.
"It is a promise to the communists," says the
Tribune, '"that if they shall undertake to burn
mills and factories, seize railroads, stop travel
and the transportation of merchandise, violent
ly depose municipal governments, and possess
themselves of public and private property, the
President nor the general of the armies shall
not, when requested by the State government,
furnish a company of soldiers to preserve the
peace, or aid the State authorities in maintain
ing the State law and the State authority."
All of which is the sheerest balderdash
and demagogueism. If the editor had ever
read the constitution under which he enjoys
the blessing of liberty to make an ass of
himself whenever it shall please him, he
would have discovered that it is ex
pressly provided by that instrument that
the United States shall protect each of
the States against domestic violence on ap
plication of the legislature, or of the execu
tive when the legislature is not in session.
The presumption that an amendment to an
army appropriation bill can change the or
ganic law of the land is wholly original with
the Tribune. The amendment of Mr. Knott
was not intended to curtail the power of the
President in matters affecting the public
peace, and if it had been so intended would
be wholly inoperative. It was intended,
however, to put a stop to the infamous and
anti-Republican practice of sending troops
into the several States at the call of some
hireling of the administration, to interfere
with and thwart the will of the people at the
ballot box, and under pretense of securing
an honest expression of the people's will to
commit the most gigantic frauds. Such
a purpose the amendment most certainly
had, and all honest men of every party will
agree that the purpose is commendable.
The enforcement of its provisions will not
interfere in the slightest degree with the
constitutional rights of the President. It
will simply remove a terrorism that has been
mainly responsible for the thousands of
crimes committed in the South, whether by
individuals, white league bands, or Ku Klux
dans.
It is not to be wondered at that the Re
publicans should bemoan the destruction of
tkeir most powerful political agent in the
Southern States. The party is a party of
force. Had it not been for the illegal and
unconstitutional use to which it has put the
army, it would have been retired from pow
er long ago, and the government would now
be a government of the people and by the
people.
REPORT OP THE GRAND JURY.
The grand jury reported and was dis
charged by Judge Wilkin yesterday. It is
notable that the jury report having made a
thorough investigation of the two charges,
"election frauds" and "school book bribery,"
which were especially submitted to them.
In neither case did they* find any indict
ment. The prosecution of the so-called
election frauds was purely political and vin
dictive, and fell to the ground, as it must of
necessity. The charges against the Sixth
ward judges of election were of a character
which, if indictable, would indict all the
judges of election we have ever had in this
county, including the most distinguished as
well as the least distinguished.
The school book bribery case was also
investigated without finding occasion for an
indictment. The ground work for the pro
ceeding was the legislative investigation in
to the charges of one Brandt, who, admitting
th^at he sought a bribe, claimed that such
bribe was given him by Liberty Hall. The
readers of the GLOBE are familiar with the
history of the affair, and it does not need to
be repeated here. Suffice it tb say that the
action of the grand jury 'vindicates Liberty
'Hall,'vas every one supposed 'it' would, and
leaves Brandt in the unenviable position
which* he deserved. It is more
than hinted that the investigation developed
serious financial crookedness on the part of
some of the supporters of the Merrill bill,
but the jury Beemed to have thought it un
wise to pursue the matter further.
The attempt to make Liberty Hall a scape
goat was seriously unjust, and the vindica
tion which he received at the hands of the
grand' jury will satisfy the public.
Beauties of Republicanism.
(Pioneer Press, May 18.]
TUB Pioneer Press iB not for Stewart. It is
not for Washburn. It will insist on raising
politics above the level of the low canning of
the three-card monte tricksters who have so
long too largely controlled ife i
11'those
v,-,
Brains Always Did Tell. __
Pioneer Press, May 26th.]
who know all about Washburn and
Stewart and their precise' measure and
stature, will be disposed to smile at the
suggestion that eitherof them lays daim to
any striking intellectual superiority Both
of them 'will* draw their pay with' great
ability Neithef of them possesses the
order of civil, abilities necessary to a dis
tinguished career in'Congress So far
as the national public are concerned both
would sink out of sight in the general mob
of mediocre Congressmen.
THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 1, 1878.
**JEHE GRAND JURY.??
v,K
They flabmlt Their Report ana Receive
a Their Discharge. ^JK S
In the district court yesterday" forenoon,
during the progress of the trial of the case
of Jacobson vs. the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul railway company, the grand jury
filed into court to submit their final report
for the term. They had but one indictment
to returnthat against Charles Marcus, for
burglary. In connection with the labors of
the jury, Thomas Cochran, Jr., submitted
the following report: ~t
BEPOBT OF THE GRAND JTJBY.
To the Honorable Judge of the District Court,
in and for the said County of Ramsey:
The grand jury empanneled for the May
term of said court would respectfully present
the following report:
FirstThe said grand jury has investigated
with patience and care all the ordinary crimi
nal cases which have been brought to its notice
by the county attorney and made due return
upon the same from time to time to this court
according to the usual custom.
It lias seemed, however, to the jury that many
of these cases, while technically proper subjects
for it to inquire into and pass upon, might
have been disposed of withobt injury to the
cause of justice and with a great saving of the
valuable time of the court and of expense to
the taxpayers of Ramsey county, in the munic
ipal court of the City of St. Paul, which has
sufficient jurisdiction to have adequately pun
ished many of the offenders which were held to
await the action of this body.
Second. Hon. Judge Wilkin called especial
attention of the grand jury to the two cases
known as the "election frauds" and the "legis
lative bribery." These have received the most
careful, thorough and searching examination,
and it is both due to this body and to the coun
ty attorney who conducted the investigation
before it that this should be said. With re
ference to the officer just named, it is further
due that testimony should be borne to the abil
ity and impartiality which he has displayed
upon every case which has come up for exami
nation.
ThirdThe usual committees were appoint
ed to examine into the condition of the connty
buildings, board of control, etc. Attention is
called to their reports. No examination was
made of the county poor house, because of
scarlet fever prevailing in the family of the
keeper.
FourthThe attention of the grand jury has
been called by certain prominent citizens to
the existence of various public houses of pros
titution within the city limits, with the re
quest that such action might be taken in the
matter as might vindicate the laws upon the
subject.
Upon examination, however, of the statutes
applying to these cases, and of the city ordi
nance in relation to the same, the grand jury
is of the opinion that in the latter is to be
found the most efficient means of suppressing
these infamous resortB of lust and crime.
The grand jury believes that it is within
both the power and duty of the city council to
rigidly enforce these ordinances, and believes
further that if this were done the attention of
every grand jury would no longer have to be
called to matters whick from their very nature
require more sumnnsry, vigorous, immediate
and continious action than it is possible for
bodies constituted as these juries are to give
them. Respectfully submitted,
THOS. COCHBAN, JB.,
Foreman.
Appended to the report were the following
statements from the several sub-committees
appointed to inspect the county buildings.
THE COUNTY JAIL.
Your committee beg leave to submit the fol
lowing report. We have examined Ramsey
county jail and would suggeat suitabl iion tie
rods running across the building to strengthen
and prevent the spreading of the Bide walls:
also, we would advise the removal of the old
Boor in the second story corridors, and filling
in between the floor joists with concrete, or re
move the lath and plastering on the ceiling in
the first story corridois and make the flooring
double thickness on second Btory of corridors
this would answer the same purpose as the con
crete, and would be about one-half the cost.
In removing the lath and plastering on the ceil
ing of the first story corridor, would require
white-washing to give it a good and clean ap
pearance. This improvement will do away
with the rats, as they will have no place to
secrete themselves. There could be some im
provement, we think, made in heating with hot
air if the furnaceB were changed so that they
would be some twenty-five feet apart. The
cellar under the jail building should have a
cement floor and the stone walls plastered with
one good coat of cement mortar. We would
recommend that a laundry be fitted up in the
basement, BO the prisoners could do their own
washing. Much credit is due the late Sheriff
Becht for the good order about the grounds
and the general cleanliness of the jail. We do
not recommend any extraordinary expenses in
the jail building, as we think it should be re
moved at no distant day to the outskirts of the
city. C. BOYDEN, Chairman.
THE HOSPITAL.
Your committee appointed to examine the
county hospital beg to report as follows. We
find that the dormitories for the men are in
sufficient in number and in consequence there
are times when too many patients are kept in
one room, thus endangering their health or de
laying recovery.
We find the sewerage very deficient. Only a
small drain less than two feet under ground
and leading out to the adjoining lot, where the
waste remains as standing filth.
We find the water supply quite inadequate to
the wants of the institution, the cisterns being
only of Bixty barrels capacity.
Your committee recommend that an addition
be built so as to provide more dormatories, es
pecially for patients with cutaneous diseases.
That estimates be obtained, and if thought
practicable, a sewer be constructed from the
building south to the ravine, some 400 feet
away. That the cistern be enlarged so as to
contain 250 or 300 barrels. In regard to the
general management of the hospital, your com
mittee is of the opinion that it is well done.
Mrs. A. S. Thompson, the matron, appears
to be doing all in her power to promote the
comfort of the inmates. Everything about the
premises presents a neat and orderly appear
ance, and the patients generally seemed cheer
ful and expressed themselves as well pleased
with the treatment received. No complaint
was made about the food beings unsuitable or
insufficient, and from an examination of the
books kept by the matron, showing prices paid
for groceries and meats, we are of opinion that
the articles named are furnished at a reasonable
price. From an examination of the books of
the board of control we find that the total ex
penses of the institution from August 1, lb77,
to May 1,1878, have been $3,962.75. Of this
amount as it was expended, should be deducted,
for it was expended for an addition, $367.63,
leaving the total for ordinary expent.es, $3,595.-
12 for nine months, or about $400 per month.
which we are informed would be about $20 per
month for each patient. Respectfully,
A. Q. GTLBEBT, chairman.
CODNTV OPFICEBS.
The committee report that their attention
was called to vatiousirregularities which have
existed in'certain matters contrary to law for
some' years back, but as they have been inform
ed, these have been cured by recentlegislation,
they do not think it worth while to call more
particular notice to them at this time.
That they have not taken the time to examine
critically ar rekpects'the &cc6unts -of -theaudi"-
tor and treasurer, but they desire-especially to
commend the system of book-keeping which
the new connty treasurer, Hon. H. M. Rice, has
adopted, and the clear manner irijwhich all the
books are kepts, so that a glanceTwill reveal
the exact condition of_ the coifnty'finances at
any time.
The committee has taken especial pains to
examine into the workings of the board of con
trol. Certain recommendations were made by
the grand jury of October, 1877, in referenceto
the .manner in which the accounts of the alms
house and ^hospital expenditures for. the poor,
should be kept. These, recommendations to
gether with others made by a committee of
conference appointed by the chamber of com
merce, the board of county commissioners and
the city council, have been carried out with the
best of results.
It is now possible for any citizen to find,
upon a casual examination, the coat of the alms
house and hospital for- any month in-the year,
the name of any recipient of aid from the,
county with the particular form in which that
aid is given, and the cost to the county thereof.
The committee would urge upon those citi
zens, who are accustomed to" complain ~of"the
expense of administering this branch of the
county's affairs, the examination of these
books, which are always open to them, and
would further urge on citizens who are ac
customed to aid diffeient persons with various
kinds of relief to take the pains to examine
whether they are also recipients of the conn
ty aid, and to what extent. In this way im
postors can be found out and exposed.
S. S. BREED, Chairman.
After the usual formalities Judge Wilkin
dismissed the grand jury for the term, thank
ing them for their zeal in prosecuting the
work placed before them.
CURING DRUNKENNESST
A.*Chicago Doctor Unkindly Replies to Dr.
D'fJnger,and, ThinksJheLatter JtVant* to
Sell Some Book.
To the Editor of the Globe.
CHICAGO, 111., May 28, 1878.In your
issue, of May 13th, I notice an article
"Dr. D'TJnger Present," and, believing that
the following is important in connection
therewith, I most respectfully submit it to
those interested. That the quotation made
by the gentleman, with intent to support his
hypothical sayings in relation to a cure for
drunkenness, is an erroneous one, I will
prove to be a fact:
"T. D. Williams, M. D.," remarks that the
higher medical authorities say that the effect
to be produced by Peruvian bark when given
for its anti-periodic and tonic properties are
augmented by giving it in infusion. Now the
higher authorities don't say anything of the
kind, but exactly the reverse, as witness this
from the "United States Dispensatory," (page
306 edition 1876,) the highest of the high au
thorities,the official guide-book of every med
ical college, educated physician, and druggist
on this continent. Says the authority in ques
tion, article "Cinchona:" "It is evident from
what has been said that an infusion of the
bark, on account of the tinnin-Uke principle
which it contains, may precipitate gelatin, tar
tar-emetic (a deadly poisox,) and the salts of
iron, without having a particle of cinchonia,
qumia, or other alkaloid in its composition,
and that, consequently, any inference as to its
value, drawn from these chemical properties,
would be fallacious."
Here the gentleman substitutes a period for
a semicolon, but why he says not however
it further reads:
"Butas the active principles are thrown
down by tannic acid of galls (Grahes test for
the alkaloids) no bark can be considered good
which does not afford a precipitate with the
infusion of this substance."
These observations were made by the
authors of the United States dispensatory
in reference to a test used to estimate the
medicinal value of the different varieties of
bark. The infusion which they
here mention is a simple one, being pre
pared without acid, and is not the officinal
infusion to which I previously referred. On
page 1268, U. S. D., latest edition, 1878, it
reads:
"The U. S. infusion is an elegant and very
effective preparation. Water extracts from
bark, the kniates of quinia, and cinchonia, but
leaves behind the compounds which these prin
ciples form with cincho-tannic acid.
The simple infusion, therefore, is feeble.
But lhe addition of the acid ensures
the solution of all or nearly all of the active
matter." "The acid infusion has, we believe,
all of the powers of cinchonia itself, and may
be given for the same purposes."
Why ought not this to be received as con
clusive evidence of the fact that the organic
alkaloids, the kinates of quinia and cinchonia
are procurable by the druggist, all contra
opinion of the gentleman notwithstanding?
He assures us that his preparation is
an non- officinal one, and furthermore
its formula a secret which he has gratuitous
ly sent broadcast of the land: hence, being
non-officinal what is it but an nostrume?
The following is a verbatim copy of a
letter handed to me by a physician who
came into possession of it through the kind
ness of a patient to whom the letter was
addressed. It is an explanatory epistle re
iterating the substance of a portion of my
former published communication:
4
MIKNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 22, 1878.
J. P. S
DEAD SIKYours to hand-. In reply, I have
ceased recommending any tincture to be put
up by druggists, because they generally use
old and stale bark (or adulterated or cheap
bark), and therefore it fails to do what I have
publicly staked my reputation on. Your bet
ter plan would be to get a pint of the tincture
from me, and I will forward it with full in
structions. It is taken readily, causes no un
pleasant symptoms, and does its
work thoroughly, as I have abund
ant evidence. I have not entered
into this matter as a business, but have been
driven to it by innumerable letters received,
I gave the formula gratis for my fellow man,
and, had the druggists not taken advantage of
it, what I desired would have been accom
plished but they did not do this, and in
many instances I am blamed for their oonduct
in the mattei. A pint of the tincture costs
me about $7.40 to make it, and my profes
sional fee is $5. Therefore, on remittance to
me of $12.40 by post office order, I will for
ward you medicine by express, and I can as
sure you you will never regret the expenditure.
Yours respectfully, fec B.D'UNGEB, M. D.
In conclusion you will please permit refer
ence to his letter published in the Minne
apolis Tribune: He says, "thank God! in
all my life, in all my vicissitudes, in the
days of my plenty, and in the hours of my
poverty, I have ever felt my heart beat
purelyjand hohly in sympathetic unison with
the weak and unfortunate."
Are we to infer that his heart shall cease
to thus beat, unless the "weak and unfortun
ate" purchase his nostrum at $12.40 per
pound? L. D. WILLIAMS, M. D.
The Pleasure* of&aeaue Life.
Tattooing, the court dress of the state of
nature, has obviously its discomforts. But
even the most ordinary processes of the toilet
are more disagreeable in savage than in civil
ized society. Millions of our fellow-crea
tures shave with stone razors. The thought
is a stupendous one, proving, among other
things, that, when primitive man has an
ideal, when he thinks it the thing not to
wear a beard, his sense of duty is all-power
ful, and he shrinks from no inconvenience.
Probably a sharp shell makes a better razor
than the edge of a flint, and bronze is, no
doubt, still better than either. Yet even in
the bronze age the barbarian who would have
a smooth chin needs a good deal of resolu
tion. Travelers describe the brave throwing
himself on the ground and allowing a tribes
man to shave him almost without a groan.
When the business is done the tribesman
lies down in turn, and endures the barber's
office like a lamb. Moreover, aa good so
ciety often demands sharp-filed teeth as well
as a clean-shaven face, the agonies of the
fashionable are increased by one of the keen
est of minor torments.
The discomforts of savage love affairs and
marriages are sufficiently well known. They
do not greatly differ from what is endured
by civilized people who intend to enter the
state of .matrimony. The engaged young
man is placed with his bride in the center of
a crowd of-the lady's relations, who throw
spears at the interesting couple. This dosely
answers to the criticism* of modern kins
folk but the savage ordeal is soon over and
leaves.no malice nor longing for revenge.
The bridal ceremonies "are" of various' de
grees of painfulness, though they are not so
bad perhaps as fashionable weddings among'
us. Curiouslyenough, it is common hi New.
Zealand and the adjacentthe
"auspicious events,1'fall
isles to steal, after
portable prop
erly of the'happy man. Our burglars, who
invariably pilfer tlie jewels'of the bride dur
ing the hpneymoon, have revived a, prSctic*
which to omit-in some countries, would,be Jte
show gross- rudeness and igorance of the!
customs ofaeciety.i Wheathe.youngi people
have reasim to expect tm^ addition to their
circle, the buBbami' is -treated with' almost
cruelindness"t He1
lest his son should .provejt coward, nojr pork
lest he be sensual, nor chajneleon (a great
dainty) lest his character turn out" unstable
The unhappy'man is confined "to
1 his" beoV
and when, after all, his"child Is 'born,
}ttte
tribe of the mother comes downi, breaks the
pottery, tears up the plants* in the 'garden,
kills the pig, carries off the furniture such
as it, is, and steal the firearms, bows clubs,
and spears.
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dMiMds&umik
ON HIS EAR,
Anderson, Will Tell What He Knows About
Sherman's Rascalities in Louisiana.
[New York Herald Interview.]
"Are you willing to tell what you can tes
tify about Secretary Sherman's alleged con
nection with the Louisiana frauds?''
"I don't care if I do tell. They have been
lying about me long enough. The Republi
cans seem to think that my card to Mr. Pot
ter the other day means that I am going to
stand by them. Why did they not remem
ber me when I needed help? Now I am in
dependent of them, and I intend to keep so.
But I'll go on with the story, and you can
judge whether I am able to give any evi
dence calculated to make certain parties
tremble a little/*
"If you had, as is charged, any transac
tion with Secretary Sherman, what was its
date?"
"The protest to the vote of East Feliciana
is dated Nov. 10 that of West Feliciana,
Nov. 14, I believe. Mr. Sherman reached
New Orleans about the 16th of the month.
Things were then in a very critical condi
tion. Dan Webber, who was supervisor of
elections in West Neliciana, had signed his
protest, but I had not. From what I heard
at the time I felt sure that Dan was acting
in the line of duty in putting his name to
the protest, because in one part of tbe
parish, down in the river region, there was a
small body of disorderly roughs, who inter
fered with the negroes from pure cussedness.
There was not much politics about it. Dan
was not very firm in the faith, however. He
had his doubts whether the protest should be
made to cover so much, and I made up my
mind that I did not propose to testify offi
cially to initmidation when there was no
sign of it on election day. The thing had
all been set up beforehand, but I had no
right to swear that any voters had been in
terfered with unless I knew of actual cases
of violence on election day. There were none.
The election was as peaceful as any in the
country. So I refused to sign. It was a
very few days ofter this, as the dates show,
when Sherman arrived in New Orleans. Dan
Webber and I were both weak, and it was
vital that our parishes should be thrown
out. I told you months ago of the way my
signature was obtained to a blank
sheet of paper and how that was afterward
filled in without my knowledge with a most
sweeping protest, accompanied by
a forged jurat. That was a fraud, and I
had made up my mind to denounce it Just
then the visiting statesman came on the
field. Webber and I both needed backbone.
There is no use in telling a great long story
now. but we were written to by Secretary
Sherman. We wanted written guarantees
that we should be cared for if we allowed
this crookedness to go unrebuked, so that
the returning board and the Republican
party could profit by the wrong."
"Did the secretary write to each of you?"
"No the letter was written to us jointly.
It did not come through the mail. It was
directed to D. A. Webber and James E. An
derson. The stories about there being two
letters are false. It was transmitted to us
through a third party."
"How did the letter read?"
"Well, it was one of those shrewd things
which nobody but a shrewd politician would
devise. He simply said that we should be
liberally cared for if we stood fi-m."
"Don't you suppose that when Mr. Sher
man was placed on the stand he can laugh
at that letter and say that the only object of
it was to let you know that the leaders of
the Republican party would stand by you
if you performed your duty?"
"Yes, I realize the force of that, but it
happens that the vital point this matter
concerns the fact whether Sherman knew,
when he wrote that letter, that Webber had
his doubts about how far bis duty would
stretch, and that I was on the point of de
nouncing the forgery of which I had been
made the victim."
"And you think you can prove that he
was fully aware of all these facts, and meant
his letter to be a guarantee that you should
be provided for if you consented to shut
your eyes'and hold your tongue.?"
"That is exactly what we expect to do.
Suppose that Lawrence testifies that he in
formed Sherman of the way things stood in
the Feliciana parishes, and suppose that
Pitkin testifies that Sherman understood the
situation exactly, and suppose Whitney testi
fies more fully than he did before the Moiri
son committee, that one "day at the St.
Charles hotel I displayed an envelope which
contained the Sherman letter, and said: "I've
got enough here to burst the whole thing.
Then where will Sherman be?'
"Whatever became of that letter?"
"I gave it to Dan. Webber, and I don't
know exactly what he did with it. You re
member he was murdered at St. Francisville
very shortly afterward. There has always
been a peculiar mystery hanging about his
murder. I have heard that the Democrats
claim to have a photographic copy of that
letter, but I can't state whether it is true or
not. You also remember when we called
on Mrs. Jenks last winter That
she intimated that the original letter was safe
and sound a place where it could be easily
reached. That may be true, but the great
importance to the investigation, so far as
Sherman is concerned, will consist in prov
ing, not that such a letter was written, and
not that it contained such and such words,
but that he knew when he addressed it to us
that we were being bribed to submit to for
geries/'
"Do you think Pitkin will testify?"
"I know he will."
"And you have no doubts you can make
the matter so clear that the country will un
derstand?"
"I believe we can make Sherman come
down from his high horse."
A Sad Case.
[Des Moines (Ia.) Register.]
The Fort Madison Plain Dealer, in its
penitentiary notes for the past week, says:
Graham, the man who has served a twtnty
years' sentence without committing the crime
charged, goes out on the 8th inst.
This refers to a sad case, and one that has
been a standing disgrace to the State of
Iowa, and especially so to the county
of Dubuque. This man was sent
to the penitentiary on the perjured
evidence of his second wife and step
daughter, who, to get rid of him so as to go
to keeping a house of ill-fame, trumped up
the charge that he had attempted to outrage
the person of the girl (the step-daughter),
and had him arrested, and swore it through
in court. Yet, afterwards, overtaken with
remorse, the woman confessed the perjury.
But still, and for the twelve years he had
been known to be innocent the man has
been kept incarcerated. Stung to despera
tion by the injustice of his sentence, the
man doggedly refused to work at hard labor,
and to avoid it held up one of his feet till it
nearly touched his back, and kept it so con
stantly in that position as to contract the
muscles and tendons and make him lame
permanently. Next his mind was affected
and for years'the visitor to the penitentiary
has-been'pained by the sight of this man,
so .terribly wrecked, wandering about
tbe cell-room catching rats, and introducing
himself to all confers as 'Gen. Deatb-Bell."
was ah intelligent,' 'honorable mechanic
when he was trapped into' the penitentiary.
'Now1
he is an'imbecile and a wreck, to whom
ijb is reserved for death alone to be kind. It
|s understood that -the"'reasott he has not
been-parcTonetfoffcoullotlgagois,that '*being
*ec|Id,
isnot"allowedto'walkor run, he may no hunt he may not eat^hare
a
he only go td the poor
house, ahd'be an expense to the*county/
Alabama Democratic Nominations.
MONTGOMERY, AlaTTMay" ^0.The-Demo-
cxatio State convention ndminated 'R. W.
fkbb for governor,' W. W. Screen* for sec-'
ireCaft ol state", J. H. Vincent for1
,M,
treasurer
WHfii Brewer for auditor, H. Tompkins
for attorneygeaertl and L. F. Bo* for snper-
mtendeH*of'edutioi*r,^-^*H ui
GLOBELETS.
O'Oonovan Rossa is dangerously ill with
gastric derangement.
Blackberries are"selling at Charleston, S.
at 2 cents per quart.
While in England there is one birth to twen
ty-eight inhabitants, in France there is not
quite one birth to thirty-six.
Washington ranks twelfth in the list of
American cities. Its population numbers
165,000, of whom one third are negroes.
Mme. Kestell's grave Sleepy Hollow ceme
tery, near Tarrytown, has more visitors than
the grave of Washington Irving, at the same
place.
Congressman Hendnck B. Wright distributes
5,000 loaves of bread at hi* home every holiday
and always finds plenty of hungry people glad
to get them.
The RepubUcan party without a leader is
like a dish of soup without a spoon.Xor Toik
Herald. Ben Butler thinks that he could sup
ply the spoon.
The aquarium in the Paris exhibition has
been finished, but it is found that fish cannot
live in the basins, and the managers are pnz
zlmg their brains over a rearrangement.
DunDg the hunting season just closed in
England it is estimated that 4,400 foxes
were killed, 1.000 run to earth, and as manv
more lost in other ways. The casualties were
rather more serious than usual.
Senator Angus Cameron has introduced a bill
to estabhsh a custom house at La Crosse. It is
not so much the amount of importations or ex
portation at La Crosse that cries aloud for a
custom house, as the dire necessity of letting
that city get a crumb from the treasury table!
The crown princess of Denmark is six feet
two inches in height. She has almost a mania
for dancing, and, having a keen sense of the
ludicrous, sets her face against partners who
offer a strong contraut to her own stalwart pro
portions. As a consequence people who enter
tain her have to scour the country to get tall
men as partners for her.
The late Lord Russell wrote in his"Reeol
lections." "I assent entirely to the
opinions of the Lord Chief Justice of England
that the Alabama ought to have been detained
during the fonrdajs in whisb I was waning
for the opinion of the law officers. But I
think the fault was not that of the commis
sioners of cuBtoms, it was my fault as secre
tary of state fr foreign affairs."
It is dangerous for a nth man to die nowa
days. He is pretty sure to be found to have
had two wives. Dr. Wm. Van Zandt one of
the oldest and wealthiest phvsicians in St.
Louis, is the latest instance. His will is being
contested the interest of a boy whose mother
is said to have lived with the doctor for ears
as his wife, she not knowing that there *as an
other wife, with whom the doctor spent half
his time.
Mark Twain's jumping frog is nowher*.
Middletown, Conr., has a frog thit is not only
wonderful but useful. A farmer having placed
a pail of milk in a spring of water to cool o\cr
night, went there the next morning, and found,
it is selemnly asserted, instead of the milk,
a large bull-frog sitting upon a roll of fresh
butter. The explanation is that the frog had
jumped into the pail, and, in trying to extricate
himself, had churned the milk into butter.
Still, we would advise our farmen, not to swap
off all their chums for bull-frogs, until tbe
latter's churning efficiency has been further
tested.
THE CUSTER MASSACRE.
Endeavor to Have An Inquiry by Congress.
The facts and reason of the massacre of
Genral Custer, and his command at the battle
of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876,
will be the subject of special Congressional
investigation if Mr. W. W. Corlett, dele
gate from Wyoming Territory, succeeds in
securing the passage of a resolution to be
introduced by him authorizing tbe military
committee of the House to send for poreoui
and papers and thoroughly inquire into the
affair. Mr Corlett has in his possession from
Captain Whittaker. who is the author of Cus
ter's biography, a set of allegations against
certain officers of the United States army
which, if proven, will show conclusively that,
if General Custer's orders had been obeyed
the result of the battle would have been very
different, and if it had not resulted in a vic
tory for our troops there would at least have
been a saving of life.
The witnesses who are willing to appear
before the committee are the officers and
some of the soldiers who were in Colonel
Reno's column, together with interpieters,
certain scouts and others. The resolution
has the backing of the chairman of the mili
tary committee, with whom Mr. Corlett has
conferred.
Delegate Corlett will offer his resolution
on the very first opportunity. The com
mittee is instructed by the resolution to re
port to the House who. if any one, i? re
sponsible for the disaster of tbe battle in
which Custer and the five companies of the
seventh cavalry perished. The resolution
is intended, Mr. Corlett bajs. to vindicate
the truth of history and to rid the military
service of improper officers
Tcntwssee Democratic onr, iitton.
NASHVILLE, May 29.The Democratic
State convention to nominate five judges of
the supreme court for the August election,
met at noon to-day. All counties in the
state were represented, the legal profession
predominating. The convention is the
largest held in Tennessee for years. After
the appointment of the usual committees,
the convention adjourned at 1.30, and reas
sembled at 3 p. M. Hon. E. T. Tahaffero,
present speaker of the House of Ilepresenla
ttves, was chosen permanent chairman.
Much time was consumed in speeches when
presenting the names of candidates. The
following names were presented from East
Tennessee: Robert McFarland and J. W. De
derick from Middle Tennessee, Wm. F.
Cooper, Peter Turney, Jas. J. Turner, Ihos.
G. Jones, John W. Burton and David
Campbell from West Tennessee, John L.
Sneed. Tbos. J. Truman, Howell A. Jackson,
Robt. T. Morgan, Benj. J. Lea and Judge
Cochran. Two hours were occupied in tak
ing the first ballot by counties, and at the
conclusion great confusion was occasioned
by rapid changes of votes to the leading
candidates. At 9:10 p. M. the total vote be
ing announced, showed a majority for Mc
Farland, Dederick. Turney and Cooper, and
they were declared the nominees by acclama
tion amid great excitement. All but Cooper
are members of the present supreme court.
The convention adjourned to 'J A. M. to-mor
row. There is still one more nomination to
make.
NASHVTLLE, May 20.At the second day's
session of the State Democratic convention,
Thomas J. Freeman was nominated for the
supreme bench on the third ballot. The
nominee is a member of the present supreme
court. Dederick and Turner were dec'ared
nominees' for the State at large, and the con
vention adjourned sine die.
Growing in Favor.
BOSTON, May 3LTh fifty-eighth annual
session olthe general convention of the New
Jerusalem-church in# the United States, met
he.e to-day. K&v-Chauncey Giles, of New
'York, made a. report showing that the or
ganisation is gaining considerable strength
in this country.
^Littlei Khody onjifs Ear.
PBovnHBNcjt, 1.,' May 31.The House
ooncutred'in the Senate resolutions depre
cating the Potter investigation and efforts
to unsettle the Presidential title by a vote of
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