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THE 'DAILY BULLETIN.
ENTERED AT TUB l'OOT OKFIC IS CAIRO, IL
LINOIS, AS PECOND-CLAAS MATTER.
OPKJCIAL PAPBKO? ALEXANDER, COCNTY.
Krnet I. ThtrteoWo, City Kilitor.
Only Morning Daily In Southern Illinois.
umcial Paper ut tlm City of Cairo.
TABER BR0'8 Manufacturing Jewelers,
No, 128 Commercial avo., Cairo, 111.
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LOCAL WEATHER BEPURT.
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Culm (i Clear
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8 fi Cloudy
8 Dt HhIu
Maximum Temperature. 74 3; Mlnlmnm. Tern
iertiirc, 57:; Eiiinfall 0.0,1 Inched.
Klvor 14 feet t Inchus. Kino 7 Inched. '
W. 11. KAY,
Sore't Signal Corns, U. 8. A,
SPECIAL LOCAL ITEMS.
Notices la tblu column, five cents per lltio, each
Insertion.
ICE CREAM.
The undersigned will, on and after
May 1st, be prepared to luruish our citi
zens a first rate quality of ice cream,
equal in every way to that furnished in
Chicago, nude fresh daily, and furnished
in freezer, from one gallon upwards; deliv
ered to auy part of the city. This cream is
made by an experienced artist and ennuot
tail to give satisfaction on trial. Orders
left at ice house, corner Eighth and Levee,
will receive prompt attention. Will be fur
nished at $1.25 per gallon in quantities from
one gallon upwards. Robert IIewett,
Agent.
CINCINNATI EXPOSITION.
SEPTEMBER 7TII TO OCTOBER OtU.
The Illinois Central railroad will sell ex
cursion tickets at greatly reduced rates.
This is the only route running two daily
trains. The only lino that runs sleepers
through from Cairo to Cincinnati without
change. J. Johnson, Oen'l Agent.
J. II. Jones, Ticket Agent.
FOR SALE.
A first class family horse, sound and
gentle, one of the best in the city, good in
any place, will bo sold at a low figure.
Apply to Frank Kratky, Union bakery.
DAY SCHOOL.
"Madame Floyd has opened a day school
at Turner hall, where she hopes to be pat
ronized. Special success assured in mathe
matics, Latin, French and music. Terms
ow.
The War amono Boot and Shoe Deal
ers is raging, but it is generally conceded
that the best place to buy is at C. Koch's
shoe store, where always will ho found the
largest and best stock of custom hand-made
boots and shoes lor tho lowe-t prices. We
are daily receiving new goods, apd doubt
less carry the largest stock of custom-made
goods in this city, of the best manufacturers.
For bargaius call at C. Koch, No. 90 Com
mercial aveuue, between 5th and Gth streets.
GARLAND BASE BURNER.
The heaviest and handsomest heating
stove ever otTered in this market, for soft
coil, also, same pattern for hard coal, a
favorite with all who have tried them. New
arrivals of every variety ot stoves for the
fall trade are rolling in every day. Last
but not least the celebrated Charter Oak
Cook Stoves. C. V. Henderson,
194 Commercial Avenue.
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.
The best salve in tho -world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulsers, salt rheum, lever sores,
tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and
all kinds of skin eruptions. This salve is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction in
every case or money refunded. Price, 25
cents per box. For sale by Geo. E. O'Hara
BRICK LAYERS WANTED.
A number ot first-claw bricklayers can
obtain employment at good wages by ap
plying to Henry Stout, corner Second
street and Commercial avenue.
FOR SALE.
The "Burnside property" on corner south
east corner Seventh and Jefferson avenue.
House has eight rooms and kitchen. Good
cellar, wood-shed and cistern. Four lots.
Terms reasonable. M. J, Howley,
Real Estate Agent.
LABORERS WANTED.
Near Concordia, Bolivar county, Missis
sippi, I have 1,500 acres of land in cotton
and corn to be picked and housed. To ac
commodate white and colored laborers I
havo largo frame-houses with brick, fire
places in each, with berths and mattresses
in each house, sufficient to accommodate a
Urge number of laborers. Tho house for
, whites will bo separated from those for
:f colored laborers. The highest price will be
paid for good hands. Wsi, M. Sledge.
Over 1550,000 Howe scales sold. Bur
den, Selleck & Co., agcuts, St. Louis, Mo.
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THE DAILY CAIRO
For Rent. Furnishedjrooms iu a good
locality, with or Without board. Apply
southeast corner Eleventh and Wa'nut
streets, second door.
Mrs. Fitzoerald.
GENERAL LOCAL NEWS.
Nottctn in the colnmni, ten cent! per Uno,
each Intcrtioo. Marked
Mrs. J. B. Phillis is visiting friends 'a
Anna.
Barnum's Circus showed at DuQuoin
yesterday.
"Between the acts" cigarettes, whole
sale and retail, at F. Korsmeyer's.
Tako your wife, your sister or your
cousins, or somebody else's sister or cousin
and attend the grandconcert to-night at tho
Athcneum.
- Mr. McPleeters, an old resident of
Alexander county, but at present from Dyer
county Tennessee, is in the city, shak'ng
hands with his old friends.
"Between the acts" cigarettes, whole
sale and retail, at F. Korsmeyer's.
Remember the Bergersjtake our advice
and secure your seats at Daniel Hortman's
early this morning.
The Reform Club had its usual meet
ing last night. Nothing of special import
ance was done or said.
Tho sister and mother of Mrs, Herman
Myers, from Chicago, are here on a visit to
their relatives.
Jack Breen is now confined iu the hos
pital by sickness. He paid his bondsmen
in full, and hence escaped prosecution.
Mr. William Oehlcr will shortly com
mence the erection of a two-story brick
building on the east side of Commercial
avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets.
e installation of the newly elected
officers of tho Hibernian Fire company will
take place in the company's engine house
on Tuesday evening next.
As we predicted, a crowded house will
greet the Bergers to-night. Nearly all the
center seats were taken yesterday and
checks last night were being taken for the
best seats in the circle up stairs.
Mr. R. II. Bailey, of St. Johns, the
young man who made a rousing Demo
cratic speech at- the late gathering at
Hodge's Park, was in the city yesterday,
and honored The Bullets with a call.
Ou Monday next a new time card of
the Cairo &. St. Louis Narrow-guage rail
road goes in effect. Under the new card
the passenger train will leave Cairo at 8:43
a. m. instead of 9 :40 as heretofore, and will
arrive at St. Louis at 5 :20 p. m.
A colored woman uamed Martha Park
er wa3 yesterday arrested on a warrant
sworn out by an Itali?a woman for abusive
language. Miss Martha had abused the
woman's children, and was fined five dol
lars and costs for the luxury by Judge Olm
sted, Ingersoll, the blatant, the valiant, the
defler of heaven, earth, purgatory and
brimstone, is supremely disgusted. He is
most wretchedly indisposed. In referring
to the result in Maine he said it was bl?nk
ed bad ; indeed, he has so far unbosomed
himself as to declare that the Republican
party ha3 gone to to a warmer abode.
There is only one 'pedieut left to Bob,
and that is to wash his hands of Republi
canism, form a team with Widow Butler
and embrace Democracy.
We are 'glad to see our people so ap
preciative of genuine talent, as is shown by
the number of reserved seats sold for the
fiercer entertainment to-night. We ore
glad of this, because Mr. Hartman has
taken considerable risk as well as gone to a
great deal of trouble to get this compnuy
here. He has expressed his confidence in
our people by doing so and during the
winter sensoii will follow the Bergers by
some of the very best talent ou the road.
Miss Eva llannon and Mr. G. W. John
son, an employe of Mr. B. F. Patker, we're
married rtt tho residence of Mr. N. A. Han-
nou, in this city, day before yesterday in the
afternoon. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. B. Y. George. The conple are
well known in this city and county, and
have scores of friends who will be glad to
learn of their new state. Wo have not tho
full particulars ot tho affair, but feel safe in
saying that it was as pleasant as such af
fairs always arc. We congratulate the par
ties, ind wish them every possible joy.
Tho Illiuois Centralia, with character
istic enterprise, has placed upon its road a
through passenger train, which, leaving
Chicago at 8 :u0 p.m., daily makes the run
to New Orleans in 38a hours. This is
eight hours quicker timo than has ever been
made between these two points, and is eight
hours quicker than any other route. This
train also has through sleeping coaches,
and connects with interesting lines for
Memphis, Nashville, Mobile, Charleston,
Savannah and nil prominent southern cities'.
Mr. John Henderson crossed on the
ferry yesterday afternoon with the intention
of paying Mr. Grundy Bryant a visit, but
ho had proceeded but a short distance on
tho Kentucky shore when he was met by
the sick man's nurse, who informed him of
Mr. Bryant's death. lie was
much worso during Thursday night,
and had to be tied down in bed, and when
not tied had tobo held down by five men.
Yesterday morning ho was taken with
spasms, and at about ten a. m., his attend
ing physician, Dr. Bass, gave him mor
phine. Ilo died at one o'clock iu the af
ternoon, leaving a wife and three or four
children. His was nu unmistakable case of
hydrophobia.
BULLETIN; SATURDAY
At tho Charleston fair yesterday all
the famous race horses of this neighborhood
had the dirt thrown Into their eyes by a
moro fleet-footed animal. They were Lucy
Bugg, owned by Geo, Bodk'n, of Ballard
county; Lady, Williams, tho proporty of
Judge Bugg, of Blandville, r id Mr. Kobt.
Smyth's horse, Ilany Hill.
The tub system is proving to bo some
what of a nuisance under tho existing mon
agement. A number of families have
adopted them and abandoned or closca
their privy vaults, rid find now that tho
tubs,so far from being an Improvement, are
a very disagreeable airagenment. Under
the ordinance requiring citizens to ubo
these tubs instead of vaults, the city is
compelled to send a cart nround at regular
times to gather them up; end property is
taxed to defray the expenses of running
these carts. This was complied with for a
a short time but tho practico has now en
tirely ceasod to the great inconvenience of
those citizens who havo complied with 'to
ordiuence. The attention of those who's
duly it is to either carry out the ord'isnccs
or annul them is respectfully called to ii9
state of affairs.
Tho Governor elect of Maine, General
Harris M. Plaisted, was born in Jeffe.
son, N. II., on November 2, 1829, and was
brought up on his father's farm, working
during the summer months and teaching
school in tho winter. He finally graduated
at Colby University in 1853, pud at the Al
bany Law School In 1855, when he was ad
mitted to the bar, end begrn practico of
law in Bangor, Me., in 1850. lie served in
the Union army throughout the war as Col
onel of the Eleventh Maine volunteers, end
and received at its close the brevet of Maj.
General. In 18G7-08 he sat in the State
Legislature; was a delegate-at-large to the
National Republican Convention of 1808,
and served as Attorney General of the
State during 1873 73. In 1874. he was
elected to Congress from the Fourth Dis
trict by about 1,000 majority, but was not
a candidate in 1870. In that year he was
an earnest champion of Mr. Blain's Pres
idential claims.
The roosters which our cornt.y ex
changes trotted out the the day after the
Maine election still crows, and is in splen
did health. Complete returns from every
precinct in Maine gives the State to Plais
ted by one hundred and seventy-four ma
jority. The Republicans may say the vote
will not be canvassed by the Legislature
until January; but do we have to wait here
until the vote at our city election is can
vassed before we know the resu't? Cp i
vasing is a mere formality. Tho returns
arc all in now, and we have cot the State,
and if the election was not over a week old
we would be lu favor of burning a tar bar
rel and firing a ct'mon. The first gun of
the campaign is ours. Senator Blaine said,
"As goes Maine so goes the Uniou." We
are willing to take his word for it.
It will probably interest some people
in Cairo to know that the State Liquor
Dealer's Association, at its last meeting,
held in Chicago on the 2"' ad iust. adopted
resolutions settling forth that enemies of
personal liberty are coustimtly attempting
by statute to bring ab ut a condition of
affairs in the liquor traffic similar to that in
Maine, and have succeeded in getting
adopted a notoriously unjust measure, calcu
luted to make tho calling of the liquor
dealer and manufacturer odiou3. The reso
lutions then declare the convention . will
proceed to organize a State Association of
members of the trade and oppose the pro
visions of the dram-shop act pud other
hostile legislation, ond will call to strict
accouut members of the legislature, nd
use their united power to prevent the elec
tion of men too cowardly to resist the allure
nients of temperance women or too stupid
to comprehend the vicious effects of sump
tuary legislation.
Some indignation is felt bv those of
our citizens who own cows because tho city
authorities permit Texas cattle tree passage
through, and, in fact, to remain in the city
when it is well known that they endanger
the healthy stock wherever they go. Herds
ot these cattlo are taken from the pastures
of Texas, crowded into cars and are kept
without proper food or water tor days
while being transported to the northern
markets. As may be expected they sicken
nnd dio by scores and the carcasses are
dropped off by tho way as they pass,onto their
destination. They come here by train loads
and are kept in tho stock yards for days
await'iig shipment, the dead ones being
hauled back of tho Mississippi levee, and
some of tho live ones even being disposed
of to somo of our buiclicrs. Asaconso
quence the disease that is common anion;
that class of stock has made its appearance
among tho cattle of this city ond, being
contagious and always fatal, has spread
alttrmingly and made away with about
twenty-five of tho finest cows in tho city,tho
property of about as many different citizens
Among these wo may mention tho names of
Mr. E. S. Dewey, one cow; Mr
Hurst, two; Mr. Amugtou, one
Mrs. Sticker, one, and Mrs. Burns, two.
great many are sick ami likely to die, and
every owner of stock is keeping it at homo
for fear of losing it. Tho danger is not
fancied; it is real, and it devolves upon
those in authority to avert it as much as is
In their power. Under tho city's health laws
everything can be excluded from tho city
limits that endangers its health, and there
is no reason why diseased cattlo should bo
made an exception to thu rule, since they
havo proven so prejudicial to too luteiest,
to our citizens.
MORNING, SEPTEMBER
Ono of our most enterprising and there
fore successful merchsntilo firms is that of
Smith Bros., on tho corner of In'-tecnth
and Poplar streets. Keep'ng a B'xk as
argc and as varied as ample means, end a
thorough knowledgo ot tho demnds of
their trade can mako it they havo built up
on extensive and profitable business, which
has compelled them to mako repeated ad
ditions in their Btoro rooms. They are now
again about to enlarge thcr business house
by extending it across the enl'.re square
from Poplar street to Washington avenue,
which will give them a store room twenty-
five feet wide and about ono hundred and
fifty feet long.
A reporter of tho "Puducrh F iteipr'se'
visited the abode of Gen. Haskell's Salva
tion Army the other day pad has tho follow
ing to say at the conclusion of l !s inter
view with tho General: "Tho conversation
finally drifted on to tho remarks made by
individuals and articles appearing n the
papers of tho country concerning tho army
and their doings, and this finally led to
mention of tho article that ap
peared in the Co'-o Builehn, 'n which pa
ex-member of the army showed Gen. Has
kell up 'n a very bad light. Tho General
had not seen the article, when told by the
reporter' that the ex-member, Ferdinand
White, had given him somo tenlble sand
blasts to a Bixletin reporter, he simply
said : "Wo must expect to bo I aduced by
our enemies. W nitu was discharged from
the bend for conduct rnbecom'ng a mr i
engaged in this work, rnd it is iu reta'Mi-
tion for his discharge that he is now doubtj
less endeavoring to injure me and my army."
Ho poke of Waite kindly yet pla'nly, ml
positively denied tho t 'Uth of the
statements made by Wn'tc 'u his conversa
tion with The Bclle'iiN representatives.
The General also stated that the army was
not injured by such repor '. 'Our work
speaks for itself,' he said, 'rnd our clip
acters, one and all, are ireprorchable.'"
For the informatian of 'he goad people of
Paducah we will say that the General did
not discharge White from his fmy. 'lac
fact is the General begged White to accom
pany him to Paducah, and acV oowledgcd
in the presence of three gentlemen, while
on tho wharfboat and ready to board Mie
Fowler, that he had not discharged White.
It is our humble op'nion that or-city
is run rather loosely at the present time.
There are many things that have been doae
that should have been lett undone, pnd
many things that should be done that rre
apparently receiving no thought from our
city fathers. The city seems to have a
slip-shod way of doing business, of which
tax-paying citizens are not apt to approve,
and for which we tako it upon ourselves to
mildly chide our municipal monarchs. Hie
first instance we recall to mind i3 the busi
ness the city has had with Mr. Cnas. Nellis.
This gentleman, under con Lract, was bound
to deliver from between five and ten thou
sand cubic yards of gravel on our sheets,
and was told that ho would be required to
give bond for the fulfillment of the con
tract. The bond was dra n up by City
Attorney Hendricks. but, being
found illegal, was not signed.
When this discovery was made another
bond should have been immediately pro
cured, and Mr. Nell's, and his bondsmen
should have been required i sij, i it before
he was pei mitted to land gravel at our what
But. apparently, it was everybody's business
and nobody's business to see that this w '
done and,henco it was left undone and Mr
Nellis was permitted to go to work w ith
his tug and barge without giv'ng secu'ily
that he would carry out the contract. He
delivered several loads ot gravel at our
wharf, but lind'ug that there wos but little
money in the job, disconi'nued it and do
voted hunselt to talk ng politics to
the farmers of the county
As a consequence, the city council end street
committee have of late been compelled to
wrestle with tho subject: "F;om whence
shall the gravel for Eighth street come,"
but as yet havo reached no defiuate con
elusion and in all probability will come to
none any too early to please the merchants
ou the street, who are anxious that it shall
be graveled at once. The city has cm
ployed City Engineer Thrupp to super'u
tend tho work, but how many street im
provements lie has superintended since the
last barge load of gravel was brought here
we leave our readers to surmise. It has
also in its employ Street Superintendent
Gorman, whom it pays sixty dollars per
month, and who slnco ho has superintend
cd tho lowering tho Eighth street has dono
little clso than overseo two
old gentlemen who patch tho sidewalks am
who utterly fail to keep them in a safe con
dition. But there is another little matter
that comes to our mind. It is this: Sev
oral months ago tho various fire companies
of the city represented to the council that
their hose was in unsound condition and
prayed that tho city procure a certain
amount of new hoso for them, Tho comp
anies being greatly in need of the hose,
the council ordered it at
onco but on its arrival hero it remained un
touched at tho depot for somo timo. Final
ly it was removed to tho Arab cngino house
to bo tosted.and there it has been every since
to tho great int'.ignation of our firemen
Tho Mayor somtimo ago requested Mr
Ch us. Fair to test it, but that gentleman
having uo gauge was unable to comply
with tho request and the prospect now Is
that thellioso will not bo distributed amoung
the various companies until somo distast
roils lire shall have occurred and proven tho
necessity of its distribution.
25, 1880.'
This Space is Reserved for
A. MAEX, the Clothier,
Whose Advertisement will Appear
in a few days.
We have mentioned in a former issue
the fact that some unthinking had, per
haps, worse individuals, arc industriously it
work trying to prevent the negroes froi.i
going down South to pick cotton. It is
bad enough to employ the means they do
to accomplish th's purpose. Wmle resort
ing to wi'ull falsehood when hey tell the
would-be teniporry emigrrnt, hat he or
she will not bo permitted to return, they
also injure the pecuniary interests of tho
city la so far as they prevent these colored
people from br:ng:ng hundreds of
dollars of southern money
into the coffers of our merchants, and in
mpny cases, throv them upon the commu
nity through the oonvng winter without
he sum usually eprned ;n the cotton fields
of tho Soun. If there was the slightest
foundation for these stories, asido from the
fear that ho men who go out of the city
may not be here to voto "the .'cket'Mn No
vember, the authors of hem might have a
Utile excuse for heir conduct. But there
is none, pnd even th's fear ou the part of
these over zealous po'-ticiens, is treasona
ble, for the cotton pick;ng season will bo
past long before tho election comes off and
and the colored men cn be back here in
time to vote as they please or as they have
pledged themselves to do, whichever the
case may be.
Dave Murdock, 'he young man who
has become famous as a lider of race horses
n our midst, and who has lately adopted
the cooper's trade as a pleasrnt pastime,
got on what is jlgr-Iy ca'led a "beastly
bender" yesterday mornng, rnd while
thereon wended his way into the presence
of a number of fickle females, several of
whom ho gave a very bad beat' ig. The
women had Mm p vested and Conveyed 'nto
the presence of Judge Olmstead, who,
finding that the beating had been particu
larly severe, fined the young men twenty
five dollars pnd costs. Shortly after this he
was arrested on a warrant sworn out by
pnother woman he had beaten. The trial
camo off before 'Squire Osborn, who as
sessed a fine ot five dollars and costs against
him.
The timo of the year is now near at
hand when tho health officer is considered
more ornamental than useful, and it may
not, at this time, bo entirely out place'to
enquire whether or not his sc. . ices would
Ixj desirable all the year 'round. Wliilc
the necessity for such an otlicer is not so
absolute in fall and winter as it is in
spring and summer, yet there can be no
doubt that he could make himself quite
useful and be continually employed in
keeping tho city generally free from all
manner of offenso matter, and in keeping
nn eye on our markets, etc. But we have,
in years gone by, experienced no real in
jury from the lack of a health officer dur
ing tho winter months, and therefore
believe that he can bo dispensed within the
future without injury to tho community.
THE SILVER TONGUE!) ORATOR.
HON. JOHN H. OUEKT.Y, OP C 'HO, DELIVER
KD A POWERFUL AND ARGUMENTATIVE
SPEECH AT THE OPERA HOUSE LAST EVEN
INO.
from tho Freeport Ilulletln, Supt. SI,
At 7 :!)0 o'clock last evening the Great
Union Band stationed itself in front of tho
Opera House and discoursed somo stiring,
soul inspiring music. At 8:00 the Opera
House was filled to overflowing, many
ladies being present, all of whom camo to
listen to an address on tho issue in pending
tho present campaign, by that prince- of or
ators, Hon. John II. Oborly, the Democrat
ic candidate for tho Secretary of State.
On tho platform were seated thirty or moro
old residents of Freeport and Stephenson
County, who havo for many years been
identified with tho interests of the Demo
cratic party, arid upheld its principles. Tho
largo audience that greeted tho speaker
was tho best ovidenco of tho popularity of
Mr. Oberly, ami when ho ascended tho
platform his presence was greeted with an
outburst of applause. Ho is a flue looking
man, and presents an appearance on tho
platform that csunot fail to win tho adrai
rution of those of a different political belief.
Mr. Oberly was introduced by Dr. W.
W. Krape, who said that he esteemed it
an honor to present before the audience
one af Illinois honored sons a candidate
lor Secretary of State in other words, the
uext Secretary of State Hon. J. H. Oberly.
Applause.J
THE PPEECH.
The speaker stepped forward, and after
acknowledging the applause, prefaced his
remarks by the statement that the issnes of
the campaign were important ones, and he
considered himself incapable of handling
them. The issue of State's rights was
carefully considered, and in a mnnner that
was creditable to the gentleman. The Re
publican bosses, such as Logan and Conk
ling, "had considerable to say about the
question, but the early history of the Dem
ocratic party proved beyond a doubt that it
was a government of the people, for the
pie and labored tor the best interests of the
nation. At the time of the organization of
the Republican party it taught the people
ot the North hatred to the people of the
South, and thus the question, Is this a na
tion? arose.
The doctrine of evil effects of State's
rights, as adopted by ttie R.'peblicun con
vention at Chicago held in the yea: lyjr,
was then discussed.
Branching off to the disgraceful election
frauds perpetrated 'n the Sou'h and else
where, the speaker said that a free and
louest ballot is necessary, and should be
honored by the loyal cit'.ens of the Nation,
while an intimated and corrupt ballot is
more to be feared than a bullet. The inti
midatorof the ballot whoever he may be
should receive the just punishment the law
provides tor. Applause.
The law for the appointment of the chief
supervisors of election, and their deputies
wa3 then stated. The chief is kept in of
fice as long as he is capable of control'ng
elections, and it is a fact that none outside
of Republicans are ever appointed, and
none but Democrats arrested. The manner
in which the frauds were practiced in
Louisiana and New York were described,
pnd how thousands of men were arrested
and thrown into jail, released after the polls
closed, end not ever convicted.
THE EV,ilME.
The speaker having devoted a great decl
of time to the discussion of tho important
subject noted above, he then related the
fight of theGraut and anti-Grant faction iu
the city of Chicago the present year, within
each faction accused each other of fraud r(
every imaginable description; such as bal
lot stuffing, hauling repeaters from one
ward to another and voting them. He read
the charges of Grant mentioned in tho In-ter-Ocean,ithc
Grant paper,) and the counter-charges
of the anti-Grant men. read
from the Tribune. Each charged the other
with interfering with tho ballot box.and yet
these same Republicans accuse tho Demo
crats of being carruptionists, and them- '
selves protectors of a "free and honest bal
lot."
The speaker said he did not present
Democratic evidence it was not necessary.
The facts presented were from men who
style themselves leaders of the Republican
party iu the city ot Chicago. Tho speaker
had a great deal of respect for the Grant
and anti-Grant men such respect that he
believed the charges prcfered were true.
Applause.
The fiuancial question was then discussed
nnd bundled in a masterly manner, after
which the speaker dissected tho candidate
on tho Republir.nn side lor tho Presidency
in n manner that was highly appreciated by
all Democrats present. A glowing tribute
was paid to tho record of Gen. Hancock
tho soldier statesman and after stating
that ho would give tho Republican party
anothei Gettysburg, tho speaker retired
amid great applause, and threo cheers for
Hancock and English and the entire Stato
ticket.
Mr. Oberly spoke for nearly threo hours,
and made a speech that was powerful and
eloquent, and mado a good impression.
Tho meeting closed with a song by thegleo
club, entitled "When Hancock takes the
chair," and music by the band.

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