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The young people in Cleveland need
a good literary society badly.
It seems as though Kansas City is
the Eldorado of colored lawyers by the
way they are settling there.
We are sorry business prevented our
being in Chicago last Monday evening,
but • ‘Leo” and friends must overlook
this disappointment.
Ouk Dayton, Buffalo, Toledo,Urbana,
Geneva, Erie, Indianapolis, Chicago
and Railroad letters, all arrived too
late for insertion in this issue.
We are indeed pleased to note
the Cleveland Leader's stand in refer
ence to those shameful and disgraceful
“shot in the back” Virginia massacres.
A large number of the three months
subscribers’ time expired last week and
quite, a number expired this week.
‘ We hope that every one will renew and
send in at least one new subscription.
T Senator Mahone, in his address,
gives the American people many things
publicly and in such plain language
that the rottenness of both the great
political parties heartily wish the little
.Senator had “went under” during the
late “unpleasantness.”
A number of communications have
been omitted, this week and many have
arrived to late. On account of the
printers having a holiday Thursday we
were obliged to go to press one day
earlier and of course all matter for in
sertion should be in our office a day
sooner. We wish to call the attention
of our correspondents and agentstothe
notices in the first column on the second
page. ■
Judge Harlan’s opinion ot civil
rights ought to be read intelligently by
every citizen in the United States, and
public opinion, the law of this country,
would be advanced and bettered almost
immeasuraoly. What a vast amount of
goad matter and food for thought has
been given to our people, to all Ameri
can citizens in the last two months by
Colonel Ingersoll, Hon. Frederick
Douglass, Judge Harlan and Senator
JkUmx Ollvf«
HONS. B. K. BRUCE AND S. P.
ROUNDS.
• f We give this week an excellent por
trait and a sketch of the life of one of
our representative men, Register B. K.
Bruce. While at Norwalk a short time
ago, in attendance at an emancipation
celebration, we had the pleasure of
meeting Mr. Bruoe, of having several
conversations with him, and of hearing
him speak. We found him a pleasant
and agreeable gentleman, easy of ap
proach; one who could bear the honor
at such a high office as he holds with
becoming dignity. He is an intelli
gent and ready talker; as a speaker, in
tererting, instructive and logical. Mr.
Bruce's ability to tell a good story or
anecdote at the right time is one of the
reasons why he was such a success in
his recent speeches in this State. A
large, portly gentleman, with a good
strong voice and a pleasing appear
*ace, Register Bruce makes an at
tractive as well as an intelligent
speaker. His reasons for not
speaking in this city in the Square some
were given in
the GAXSTHt of November S, and. we
ft. to Mr an*™,', nuu-.j
issue we hope to give a portrait of one
of the staunchest friends of our race, a
gentleman who shows his friendship in
a most substantial way. We have
reference to the Hon. S. P. Rounds,
Public Printer. Watch for it.
* PASSING EVENTS.
Lee Simmons, a colored boy of Mo
nongahela City, Pa., was hurt last
Wednesday by falling slate, taking off
two first toes on his left foot, smashing
the other, and splitting the little toe in
two.
Governor Jarvis opened a colored
people’s State fair in Raleigh, N. C.,
the other day, and said he knew of no
State in which the colored people are
doing so much for themselves, and none
in which so much is being done for
them, as in North Carolina
A deaf mute named Syllenburg, while
crossing the trestle-work of the P. &
W. Road, near the Allegheny Gas Works,
yesterday afternoon, was struck by a
train and hurled thirty feet to one side.
The strangest feature of the whole
affair is that the young man escaped
with a few slight bruises.
On a recent afternoon Frank James,
the notorious outlaw, was permitted to
visit, with his wife and child, the stores
of Gallatin, in which place he is still
a prisoner of the State of Missouri.
On the same day a Negro, who was
accused of stealing a ham, was confined
in the court-house with a ball and
chain.
11 you must have a best girl, by all
means get one from Cleveland. It is
alleged to be on record as history that
a young lady of that city recently con
fessed that she so adored a dentist, the
homeliest man in the cits, too, that she
had had five sound teeth pulled for the
privilege of being near him a few mo-
ments.
Mrs. Daniels, a colored lady, died in
Philadelphia few months ago and left
$50,000 worth of property.
Hon. J. M. Langston has been ap
pointed Charge d’Affairs to San Domin
go, so the dispatches say.,
There are four colored boys in Rome,
Ga., studying for the Catholic priest
hood.
Mr. James A. Sykes, local editor of
the Savannah Echo, has been appointed
United States Railroad Postal Route
Agent between Albany and Brunswick,
Mr. C. C. Lewis has invested a round
thousand dollars in La Grange, a
suburb of our city. He purchased four
lots for that sum during the week.—
Chicago Conservator.
Register B. K. Bruce, of the United
States Treasury, has just completed and
filed his annual report, covering the
operations of hisoffioe for the past fiscal
year. Work has progressed so rapidly
in the loan division of his office, as to
render possible a reduction in the cleri
cal force there, but their services will
be needed elsewhere in his office.
A number of gentlemen in Washing
ton, D. C., are engaged in a project to
establish an industrial training school
for colored youths. Collector Cook and
Hon. Fred. Douglass have lent their
aid to the work, and as both of these
gentlemen have money and influence
at hand, the project wilj doubtless suc
ceed.
Mrs. Nellie Douglas Horn has been
engaged as a teacher at Indianapolis
and is meeting with success.
Prof* Boston is making a fine busi
iiess success traveling in Michigan for
a prominent piano and organ firm. He
is now in the City of the Straits.— Con-
S. B. Hyers was obliged to go to Chi
cago to rest his company, as sick
ness had disabled the troupe.
Mrs. Hyers and Miss Carter, “The
Twin,” both took down at the same
time with the same disease, intermit
tent fever. Mrs. Hyers is out of danger
and rapidly improving. The troupe
will open in about two weeks at the
West End Opera House, Chicago.
The complimentary dinner given by
Col. Williams to Judge Ruffin was an
elegant affair. It was in the famous
room where Sumner, Wilson and An
drew dined and took council during the
war. The speeches were excellent and
the host was at his best.— Boston Hub.
W. A. Pledger, of Atlanta, Ga.,
Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the National Colored Convention re
cently held in Louisville, Ky., has is
sued a call for a meeting of the com
mittee in Washington, December 19, to
consider matters of interest to the col
ored people.
B. K. Bnice, Register of the Treasury,
sends presents to all aspiring Negro ba
bies named for him in the South. If
this fact is well advertised the next
generation will have a good many men
of the same name.— Chicago Inter
Ocean.
— e
Trouble.
The color' line in schools is just at
present an absorbing topic in Burling
ton, N. J. A colored clergyman want
ed to send his childreh to one of the
three white schools in the town, for the
reason that the distance to the one col
ored school is a half-mile further from
his residence. The request was denied
by the trustees, when he sought through
the Supreme Court a mandamus to
compel the trustees to admit his chil
dren to the white school. The court
has heard full presentation of the case,
but has reserved decision. The color
line in public schools has for years been
in dispute in New Jersey.
Important Notice In Reference to
the4:ime of Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati and Indianapolis Rail
way, Indianapolis and St. Louis
Railway, Dayton and .Union R. R.
Cleveland, October, 1883.
Ata meeting of the General Time
Convention, held at Chicago, 111., Oc
tober 11, 1883, at which a large major
ity of all the railroad mileage of the
United States and the Dominion of
Canada was represented, it was agreed
that a previous recommendation of the
convention to adopt uniform standard
of time should be put in effect with the
general Autumn and Winter changes,
which are to be made on Sunday, No
vember 18, 1883. The standard adopted
for the railroad li^es in the territory
traversed by the “Bee Line System” is
that of the Ninetieth Meridian and will
be called “central time,” which com
pares with the time now in use, as
follows:
Cleveland time is 33 minutes faster.
Columbus “ 28 “ “
Cincinnati “ 22 “ “
Indianapolis’* 16 “ “
St Louis “ 1 “ slower.
In other words, from and after the
date above given, the trains of these
companies which have hitherto run by
Columbus (Ohio) time will be run by a
standard which is twenty-eight minutes
slower. A. J. Smith, G. P. A.
—lt is estimated that ten thousand
hunters are killing deer and buffalo in
Montana along the Northern
Pacific Kail road— Chicago Herald,
A Vitriolic Address^
Mr. Mahone, as Chairman of the Re
adjuster State Central Committee of
Virginia, has issued an address to the
members of that party in regard to the
late election. After a review of the
management of State affairs by both
parties, and claiming for the Readjust
ers the credit of introducing important
reforms, Mr. Mahone thus speaks of the
late campaign:
When the Bourbon faction assemble 1 in
Lynchburg in July last to formulate a plat
form, a large element of its membership
avowedly and openly favored the adoption of
the “color line.” Bourbon journals pro
claimed t hat the true issue of the can vas t was
the race issue, and that the contest should be
forced into a struggle between the whites
and the blacks. T hat such a plank would be
incorporated into the platform adopted
seemed highly probable Until the final action
taken devclope Jie fact that, tor reasotis
best known to themselves, the Bourbons
had determined not to make written
proclamation of their purpose to draw
the color lino. Even the most mod
erate Bourbon did not pretend thajt
this failure to draw the color line in the plat- 1
form sprang from hick of purpose so to do,
but it was admitted on all hands that it had
not been formally adopted from motives of
policy. The temporary Chairman of the con
vention addressed himself to “the white peo
ple of Virginia;” leading Bourbon organs
recommended the platform adopted as ”a
white man’s platform,” and while Bourbon
coadjutors, under the name of straight-out
Republicans, were sent into the black district
to disaflect colored voters, the whole burden
of the* Bourbon leaders in the white districts
was to excite the race prejudices and passions
of the whites against tne blacks.
The debt ques.ion Was not the issue on which
Bourbomsm hoped to win, for their attitude
toward it was one of abject abandonment of
all pretense of principle and acceptance of
every measure they had denounced.
Their attitude upon the questions of suffrage,
education, economy and taxation was equally
abject and cringing. They therefore sought
to find other issues upon which they might ap
peal to the voters of Virginia.
In their written platform they sought to
sound a key-note against Republicanism, but
their own support, of theretofore pronounced
Republicans answered this clamor and para
lyzed the power of this appeal. On the tariff
they assumed a position so incomprehensible
that the people recognized them as imposters.
On the subject of a repeal of the internal
revenue system which they sought to make
an issue, they found no opposition. In the
weak and gabbling clamor of opposition to
bossism they found it impossible to produce
facts or sustain public interest. In a studied
array of offenses of omission and commis
sion against our party, with which they
adorned their platform, it was found, as soon
as our canvassers met them, that there was
not a good count in the indictment.
And so, the Bourbon faction,finding naught
in their platform, naught in the record of the
Readjusters wherewith to break the solid front
of our party, deliberately abandoned all other
issues and threw the whole powerof its speak
ers, its press, and its organization into the
race-cry with the energy of despair.
As late as July 26, when their convention ad
journed, in the faith that other issues might
prove available, the race issue had not only
not been made prominent by the Bourbons,
but had been ignored. So long as it was not
agitated, and, indeed, up to the last week of
the canvass, when murder became rampant
our party was intact, and eye y report from
every section brought a confident assurance
of victory.
But as the election drew near the Bourbon
faction, realizing that on every other issue it
was hopelessly defeated, infuriated by a
knowledge of impending disaster, seized Upon
the race issue, chanced, chorused and intoned
it until, wrought up to fever heat, it became
their solo, only and absorbing theme
screamed in threatening frenzy, fierce and
bewildering as the dance and song of the Car
magnole in the days of the sans culotto.
Asearlj- as September a leading Bourbon
editor announced to a member of our party,
in a public place, that the Bourbon plan of
campaign was “to buy all they could and bully
the remainder.” How faithfully this pro
gramme was carried out the sequel will show.
What was at the time regarded as a senten
tious piece of badinage has now been real
ized as the dim foreshadowing of a bloody
truth.
The progress of the canvnss developed an
organized system of duplicity, practiced by
our opponents, whereby in black districts they
appealed to the blacks for support on the
ground that our party gave them no recogni
tion and used them as mere tools and eats
paws, while at the same time, in white dis
tricts, their appeals were made to every preju
dice of race to save the whites from an al
leged purpose on our part to elevate the
blacks above them.
The same speaker, who would be found to
day in a black district professing affection
and regard for the neuro and a purpose on
the pa> t of himself and party to do more for
them than the Readjusters had done or prom
ised, would be found to-morrow in u White
district proclaiming in impassioned appeals,
that the whites iti the negro sections were
being trampled under the feet of the black;
that he camo from their down-trod
den homes with a cry of despair from
them as a tneßsagc to their brethren, and that
“ by the gods this was a white man’s country
and the white man should rule or the rivers
should run blood.” The above is no idle state
ment, but a quotation from Bourbon speech
es heard by tens of thousands.of Virginians
under circumstances of excitement, accom
panied by floods of falsehood pretending to
sustain tee appeal, and circulated too late to
be contradicted before election day.
Contemporaneous with these appeals, sen
sational circulars from Danville, Cumberland
and elsewhere, filled with false statements of
wrongs and outrages committed by blacks;
cartoons depicting negroes punishing white
children; pictures of negro men with a white
child on one knee and a black child on the
other; infamous perjuries as to the utter
ances of our public speakers, and lies, great
and small, calculated to inflame race preju
dice, were spread broadcast through the
white districts of the State, backed by corrup
tion money without stint, while, they were
studiously suppressed in the black districts
and their absence supplied by doubled funds
of money to “buy or bully” the blacks.
As the excitement thus begotten became
more intense—as the buying or blacks became
more and more apparently impracticable—the
violent policy became the more necessary to
intimidate blacks and inflame whites. Arms
began to pour into the southside regions. The
supply ot small arms in our larger cities was
exhausted, and the demand extended as far us
Baltimore, until one Democratic headquarters
within twenty miles of Richmond had forty
stand of muskets, and the Danville region
was a walking arsenal. The cry that “ white
men should rule or die,” the announcement
that a war of races was upon us. swelled in
volume and ferocity. Threats of the lives of
our leaders became more common than any
other argument.
Murder in cold blood began in Madison
County. Days before it was repeated in Dan
ville rumors of the shipment of arms filled
the air, and during the lair week at Richmond
—long before any outbreak occurred—the
knowing ones were heard to whisper and
mysteriously predict what might be expected
at the proper time.
Tn due time it came. With what premedita
tion and design it came, let any impartial
num who read the Bourbon press and heard
the preparations made for it judge for him
self. Who provoked it? Who perpetrated it?
Let the Bourbon journals themselves testify.
With what purpose it was perpetrated let the
thousands of false circulars turning it to
Solttical account spread broadcast by the
lourbons almost before it occurred, and the
effect they produced, speak as no argument
can.
The massacre in Danville is dignified by
Bourbonism with the name of riot. The facts,
as gathered from all sources, are that upon
Saturday evening preceding the election, just
after the Danville negroes had received their
weekly pay and were buying their Sunday
supplies in a crowded market-place, a white
man appeared, had an altercution’with a negro,
and whipped him. The tight was ended, and
no other negroes came to the rescue of the
punished man. But the programme was not
interrupted by this circumstance. An armed
gathering of the “best people” of the “best
and bravest” wad conveniently near, and in a
moment a murderous throng poured out of
the building where they wore assembled, open
ing a deadly lire upon the unarmed, defense
less and flying negroes.
How many were killed no one knows, and
no ano will probably learn the truth, for the
condition of thing’s still in Danville is such
that the truth can not Ik- >arne J. That they
were shot in the backs like dogs while run
ning uway; that no pistol ehot was tired by a
black man: that no white man was injured
sate by his own friends: that for days the
poor victims were found dead in alleys, in
warehouses, and under houses, like poisoned
rats that had crawled away to die; that the
negroes tied to the woods, to the State of
North Carolina, to the tour winds of Heaven—
those are a few of the facts of this bloody
wholesale murder, which was telegraphed far
and near by the Bourbons as an Insolent up
rising of the bhuiks against the whites.
Bftnuhaiicously with these occurrences the
crack of the Bourbon weapon engaged m po
litical niurd.w resound© I, and the Bourbon
knife sunk deep in the counties of Charles
Citv, Haliia.v, Hanover. Fioy.L Augusta, Lee
and elsewhere, ming lug with Sabbath day
symphonies from the Bourbon capital, and the
race cry was shouted with a brutal feroeitv
intense enough to make V irginia the rival of
any Southern State in her record of bloodshed
and lawlessness.
These, fellow-citizens, were the means re
sorted to. Th<- cgects were all that the bull
dozers cou’d have hope 1 for.
Murders, deliberately planned and executed
with remorseless malignity, were presented
to the remote and i^uonuit whites of the val
ley and southwest as ti c unai o>dablo self-de
fense of these wolves against thO iamb as-
Bailants. Without the means of in forming
themselves of the ba ea<ss of these false
hoods. thousands of our imrty, deluded and
deceived, yieide Itoan i n ' of gene: BU>
#o fouHy placet up il aud in the region
when Wls' Ie aniv. wero permitted
|hv w|Mtuvrer» tlbHßaelvM para<ie<| the
streets, armed td the teeth, un
der the pretence of preserving order. In
the city of Danville, where Cameron received
in 1881 votes numbering 780, and Wise, in 1882,
received 841 votes, and where 1.379 Readjuster
votes were enrolled, but 26 votes were cast for
the coalition candidate, whose life was threat
ened, and whose coffin, it is said, had been
actually made and paid for by the party of
honor and intelligence.
In the bounties of Halifax and Charlotte,
adjacent io Pittsylvania, thK pdliCy of pur
chase, as well as rioting, prevailed, arid while
the methods were a little' less violent, they
were none the less corrupt. Thus it was that
Halifax; with a colored voting population ol
3,814, against 2,031 whites, after giving John S.
Wise 548 majority In 1882, gave the Bourbons
25) majority in 1883. And Charlotte, with a
black voting population of 2,055 and a white
population of 1,398, after giving John S. Wise
*62 majority in 1882 gave a Bourbon majority
of 360 in'lßß3. That these majorities were hon
est no sane man will imagine. How they were
brought about will in due time be made ap
parent.
The above tire only aamp'Os Of the meth
ods resorted to by the Bourbons. Bribery
and corruption appear to have been the or
der of proceedings generally throughout the
State.
In the history of polities in this State the.
recent campaign -is, thank God! without
precedent, and to the forbearance and long
suffering of the Readjusters is due the fact
that this State is not How batbed in blood.
To me, as a Virginian, a former slave
owner, and un ex-Confederate, the saddest
feature of this reign of terror is the sufferings
it has inflicted upon the negroes here. This
unfortunate people have had a fate as black
as their skins. They were originally torn
from their home and country and enslaved
by whites; they were then freed from bond
age; both without any agency of ther own,
and now. when thej' act on their rights volun
tarily accorded to them, they are shot
down like dogs for party purposes
by the beneficiaries of their toil for cent
uries. Unless such outrages be punished
and their perpetrators branded as they de
serve, we may well despair of the main
tenance of State or popular rights; for both
have been violated and degraded.
Mr. Mahone concluded by declaring his in
tention to wage an undying war upon Bour
bOnisnl, and appealing to ail who have sup
ported the Readjuster cause to stand firm in
defeat as well as in victory, and to continue
the fight in behalf of a free ballot and good
government.
A Shotgun Platform.
Attention is called to the altogether
unique resolutions passed by the Demo
crats of Copiah County, Mississippi.
The calm impudence of a public meet
ing that can pass a resolution advising,
fellow-citizens to desist from participat
ing in county politics, on peril of their
lives, belongs to an age of barbarism,
and could be found nowhere but in a
Democratic stronghold and in the bully
ing South. Bloodshed and Violence are
resorted to as readily there as is friendly
argument in the North. The purpose
of Southern Democrats is no longer dis
guised. They insiston a “solid South”
and “a white man’s government,” and
profess to be ready to fight for these
ends. The law-abiding people of this
section of the Union will read with in
terest, not to say indignation, the
Copiah County resolutions. The end is
becoming more and still more apparent,
and it is growing plainer that the hon
est and peaceable majority must unite
in defense of common interests and the
welfare of common citizenship. Apathy
now means increased trouble in the
future. The issue is being forced and
it is becoming imperative that the
North be made solid in behalf of a free
ballot and political liberty. The pro
grammed slaughter at Danville is of the
same piece with the resolutions in Co
piah County. The purpose is the same
all over the South. This question will
have to be met next year:
Whereas. Certain rumors are current that
the relatives of the late J. P. Matthews have
threatened the peace of society in order to
avenge his death by killing Democrats and de
stroying their property; now, therefore, be it
Removed, By the people of Copiah County
in mass-meeting assembled this day at the
Court-House of said county, that if any per
son shall be injured, or an attempt made to
injure him, either in person or property, tn
any manner by the said relatives or friends of
said J. P. Matthews, t&ut we hereby declare
that we will hold his said relatives and friends
who participate accountable for the same, and
that we will regard them as without the pale
and protection of the law, and common ene
mies of society, and that we will visit upon
them certain, swift retribution. Be it further
lbs Ivci, That so long as the relatives and
friends of the said J. P. Mat thews obey the
law and beoom? good citizens we hereby
pledge them the protection of the law.
Revolved, further. That in the* opinion of
this meeting it is necessary to the safety of
society and the welfare of all races and classes
in this county that the Matthews family shall
keep out of politics In Copiah County.
Resolved, further, That from henceforth no
man or set of men shall organize the negro
race against the whites in this county, and if
it shall lie attempted in the future we hereby
give notice that it shall be at the peril of the
person or persons so attempting to do.
Resolved, That we do hereby pledge our
selves each to the other, our lives and for
tunes and our sacred honor, that we will all
and individually from henceforth hold our
selves In readiness to enforce the foreg ing
resolutions, and to meet nt any time upon the
call of the Chairman of this meeting.
Resolved, That a committee of twenty-four
from each supervisor’s district be appointed
by the Chair to present a copy of these reso
lutions to the brothers and sons of the late J.
P. Matthews, and that the same be published
in the Copiah Atg.ial and Crystal Springs
Meteor.
Resolved, By the citizens of Copiah County,
in mass meeting assembled, that the honors
heretofore worn—and worthily so—by Beat
No. 2 be and the same are hereby awarded to
Beat. No. 3. Be it further
Rcso’ved, That this resolution is by no means
intended to reflect, upon the past and present
services of Beat No. 2, but to show our appre
ciation of the result of the election of the tick
et in Beat No. 3. It is also
Resolved, That the clubs continue their or
ganizations and consider themselves not dis
banded, subject to the call of the Chairman of
the Democratic Executive ( ommittee.
Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be
extended to the Hazlehurst Brass Band for
their services on this occasion.
J. L. Mkapk, Chairman.
Jbssk Thompson, Jr.,
C. J. Am.en, Secretaries.
—ln dianapoli s Journal
A Fact Clearly Demonstrated.
The November elections very clearly
demonstrated the fact that there are
Republicans enough in this country for
one party, but not enough for two par
ties. Whenever factional quarrels and
side issues are put aside and a united
contest made victory is assured. The
Democrats have been counting much
on the divisions in the Republican party,
and Democratic hopes of success in
1884 have been based largely on the
idea tnat the Republicans would not be
able to unite. The recapture of the
great States of New York, Pennsyl
vania and Massachusetts, which last
year returned majorities for the oppo
sition, mainly on account of the divis
ions in the ranks of the Republican
party, has taken from the Democracy
almost the last ray of hope. The Re
publican party is a party of principle
and intelligence. Its members are read
ing and thinking men who do not
blindly follow leaders. Differences are
intelligently discussed and, when possi
ble, adjusted. Because of this intelli
gence, when a great National contest
comes, and it is a question between the
Republican party, with its history of
great deeds aone^ and its pledged de
votion to all that will protect and ad
vance the best interests of the Govern
ment, as against the Democratic party,
with its damning past, its notoriously
bad methods of the present, and its un
certain position on all questions in
which is involved the future prosperity
of i the country, the Republican party
will be found united. The ambitions
of no one man. the prejudices of no fac
tion, will stand in the way of perfect
and complete harmony. From this
time on it should be the duty of all Re
publicans to plan and work to the end
that the party will go into the next
great contest with solidly united ranks.
Such a course means victory. — National
Re publican.
—A single Eastern railroad recently
discharged twenty, seven employes for
tutor bHn(|nvss,
OHIO STATE DEBT.
Annual Report of State Treasurer Tur
ney—’the School Commissioners’ Re
port—Meteorological Observations fol
October.
Columbus, Nov. 24.—Hou. Joseph Tur
ney, State Treasurer, filed with the Gov
ernor yesterday his annual report for the
year ending November 15, 1883. From this
It is learned that the balance at the begin
ning of the fiscal year 1882 was $640,1"6.93,
of which the general revenue fund was
credited with $413,356.29; sinking fund,
$208,885.70; 'common schoo’ fund, SIT,-
927.94. The receipts for the year have
been: On account of the general rev
enue fund, $2,943,750.98; sinking fond,
$1,055,574,93; school fund, $1,621,-
087.87—0 r a total Jof $5,620,413.78, which,
added to the balance on hand November 16,
1882, foots up $6,260,590.71. Thg.disburse
ments froin^the general revenue fund have
been $2,738,231.27; sinking fund, $1,102,-
903.17; common school fund, $1,633,981.50 —
or a total expenditure of $5,475,115.94. The
balances on hand’are credited as follows:
general revenue, $618,876; sinking fund,
$161,564.46; common school fund, $5,134.31
—or a total balance now in the treasury of
$785,474.77, something over three-quarters
of a million.
The amounts received are credited to the
following sources: County treasurers $2,-
249,947.11; public works, tolls, etc., $153,-
585.45. From contractors of convict labor—
Mithoff, Evans & Hubbard, $2,700.99; 8. C.
Bailey & Co., $6,862,54; Ayres, Mithoff,
Dunn & Co., $25,582.98; G. W. Atkinson,
$625.73; belt works, $2,991.54. Attorney
General, $38,753.24. Contractor’s arrearages
—Brown, Hinman & Co., $26,346.89 ;Pattou
Manufacturing Company, $31,703.21; Mith
off, Evans & Co., $3,075.22. Auditor of State
—arrearages—sl46. G. W. Gill, agent, 813,-
176.23; Noah Thomas, warden, $28,198,95;
Huff & Monypenny, $8,042.86; Ohio Tool
Company, $12,734.77; Hugh McKenzie,
$4,448.04; W. W. Thompson, $327.02; P.
Hayden & Son, $41,865,481; Duncan &
Jones, receivers for Mithoff, Evans & Hub
bard, $647.53. From other sources—Hon.
Dwight Crowell, Clerk of Supreme Court,
excess of fees over salary’, $99; C. H.
Moore, fees of insurance companies, $27,-
457.08; D. A. Hollingsworth, Attorney Gen
eral, settlement of claims against G. W.
Gill et al., $2,500; Hon. James W. Newman,
Secretary of State, excess of fees, $1,266.15;
sale of Revised Statutes, $90.50; Mitchell &
Watson, balance due on sale of old asylum
grounds, $4,314.68; Hon. Charles Foster,
Governor, suspended war claims allowed by
the United States, $70,943.97; J. R. Brown,
Supervisor of Public Printing, sale of paper
shavings, $1,953.15, and binding, $260: sale
of tobacco warehouse at Bellaire, $3,778.94;
Hon. Charles Townsend, former Secretary
of State, fees, $659.30, and sales of Revised
Statutes, $17.50; N. C.West, Superintendent
Western Reserve & Maumee road, $3,321.43;
drafts on county treasurers anticipating taxes
from Auditor of State, $175,000; other*mi
nor sums from various sources go to swell
the aggregate receipts of revenue to $3,357,-
107.27.
Warrants from the Auditor of State re
deemed, $2,738,231.27. The free banks of
the State have on deposit securities to the
amount of $31,798, and the independent
banks, $59,177. There are also on deposit
bonds from Allen, Guernsey, Lawrence, Ma
rion and Washington counties to the amount
of $351,500; while the securities of insurance
companies foot up $2,863,962.05.
STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER’S REPORT.
The annual report of the State Commis
sioner of Common Schools has been filed.
It is voluminous and still incomplete, the
statistical portion not being fully compiled.
A few essays on educational topics are men
tioned, including the following: “Teaching
as a Profession, the Need of its Being So,
and What it Implies;” Educational Prob
lems for Professional Consideration;” “Edu
cational Resources in Relation to the Effects
of Heredity;” “Growing Necessity for Uni
fying the Management of Township
Schools,” and “A Confidential Talk with
the Boards of Education in Ohio Regarding
the Qualities to be Looked for in the
Teacher.”
In one of these papers it is suggested that
five or seven colleges of the State be encour
aged by the Legislature to establish normal
departments for the training of teachers,
and that these teachers impart these
methods in summer institutes of six or
eight weeks’ length. The report is full of
matter of great interest to school people,
which cannot be successfully condensed to
be of any interest to the lovers of educa
tional matter.
OHIO METEOROLOGY.
The report of the Ohio Meteorological Bu
reau for October is just printed. It shows
that the rainfall that month was greater
than in any month since May, the maximum
amount being at Cincinnati, 8.39 inches.
Ice was reported on the 16th at Wooster,
and on the 16th and 17th at Livering.
Snow was reported on the 21st at Wauseon,
and on the 31st at Warren. With October
was completed the first year of complete
observations made under the auspices of
this bureau. The annual report of the bu
reau is nearly completed, and a summary
of the principal results will be published in
the next monthly report.
A Missing Man Found After Ten
Years.
New Brunswick, Nov. 24.—Ten year
ago a prosperous farmer named David Dow
ling, living near Milltown, four miles from
this city, mysteriously disappeared. Al
though a diligent search was made for him,
his whereabouts was not discovered until
yesterday. It was supposed that he went
to New York and was robbed and murdered.
On Sunday his son Charles was digging in
an old well to clear it of the accumulated
rubbish of years, when . he found the
disjointed bones of a skeleton. The flesh
was entirely gone and the remains had evi
dently been there a long while. There can
be no doubt that the skeleton is that of the
missing farmer, and it is supposed that in
returning home late at night from New
York, he stumbled into the well, which was
uncovered. The family now recall the
fact that a week or two after his disappear
ance the well water had an unpleasant taste.
.For that reason the well was abandoned
and left to fill up with rubbish. No traces
of clothing have been found in the well.
An investigation will be made.
Utilizing Tramps.
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 23.—The. Provi*
dent Wood Yard Association has been or
ganized here with a capital of 85.000. Some
of the leading merchants planned the enter
prise and next week the yard will be opened.
There are 500 cords of wood to start with
and thirty sawyers can be accommodated.
Now when the tramps apply at the police
stations for meals or lodging they will have
to earn them. They will be given tickets
to the wood yard and there put to sawing,
whether drunk or sober. If their clothes
are dirty they will be put in a large boiler,
steamed, dried and given to them before
work is begun. They will receive fifty
cents per cord for sawing. The sawed wood
will be sold to the city fire department.
Pardoned After Spendiug Ten Years
In Prison.
Boston, Nov. 24.—Bernard Boland, sen
tenced to the State Prison for life in 1878,
has been pardoned by the Governor and
Council. Boland, in 18”3, when barely fif
teen years of age, went into a store to tap
the till but was seized by an employe whom
Boland stabbed in the arm cutting an
artery which resulted in death. Boland
was found guilty of murder in the second
degree. It has just been discovered by his
friends that the statutes provide that no
person under sixteen shall be sent to the
State Prison and that the boy should have
been charged with iTumshu^bter, A Wdou
If tiie result.
WORDS TO THE WISE.
The new commercial season is open
ing, and is therefore an opportune mo
ment for a few words to the business
men of this city. None of you will ob
ject to sell to colored persons, for
money is as good from the hands of
one peison as another. The patronage
of persons of color is as mneh to be e
sired as anyone else, because ^ yields
the same product—money. Ihe col
ored trade is doubly desired, for it is
cash, which is infinitely superior to
booking debts. *
Do you want the colored trade, ion
cannot, if you value your prosperity,
sav no. How can you get it? By rec
ognizing the existence of a colored
newspaper and advertising in it. Our
people read their papers, as our y l "®
and extending circulation will attest;
and very naturally feel kindly disposed
to those who appreciate their enter
prises. Some of the best merchants in
the city have tried advertising in the
Gazette, and they say, “with the best
results.” One rates are fair. Snow
yourselves to our people.
Just From the Press.
THE NEW AND REVISED EDITION
-OF THE—
Underground Railroad,
BY WILLIAM STILL,
WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.
A larire. handsomely printed, highly illus
trated and beautifully bound book, which ex
plains the mysteries of The Limerwrouud
Railroad, and preserves the only records,
made at the time, of the escapes ot slaves and
their heroic struggles to obtain freedom.
These records were faithfully taken from
the lips of fugitives. Their making and pre
servation would have cost the hie of the au
thor had he been detected. They are therefore
history which would have been lost but for the
risk he took. And what wonderful, stirring,
thrilling history, too! How It rounds out and
completes the history of our country! How
momentous it is to the colored race! It is their
exode from Egypt their grand march through
the wilderness, their entrance into Canaan.
Ail woulff know it. All will know it.
This new Edition contains much matter not
in the old, among which is a carefully pre
pared life of the Author, written and pub
lished at the request of many friends, and in
serted in his book with the hope that it may
entourage his brethren everywhere to do what
men must do in order to succeed. This life
also contains many pleasant allusions to the
great anti-slavery leaders, such as Sumner,
Wilson, Greeley, etc., sac similes of their hand
writing. Tn it are found, too, many bits of
history which have never before seen the
light, as, for instance, the escape of several of
old John Brown’s officers, and the way they
got passage on the Underground Railroad to
places of safety. .
Altogether this book is one which must prove
interesting and profitable to every reader; and
to the colored race, whose heroism helped to
make it, it must prove a history at once in
structive and inspiring.
A commanding volume of 850 pages and 70
illustrations. A work which sells readily.
Agents wanted, with whom liberal terms will
be made. There is money in it for energetic
canvassers, male and female.
Sold only by subscription. Price $1.50.
For circular and terms, address
WILLIAM STILL, Author and Puhlislier,
2i4 South Twelfth Street,
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
C O -A- T . 1
H. C. QUIGLEY
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IN THE CITY.
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TEACHER-OF MUSIC.
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PUNO INSTRUCTION GIVEN.
BEGINNERS TAKEN
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ADVANCED SCHOLARS.
TERMS:
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A GREAT WK fill THE NEGRO RACE'.
HISTORY OF THE
NEGRO RACE IN AMERICA.
From 1019 to 1880.
Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers ana as Citizens,
together with a preliminary consideration of
the Unity of the Human Family, an Histori cal
Sketch of Africa, and an account of the Negro
Governments of Sierra, Leone and Liberia.
By George W. Williams,
First Colored Member of the Ohio LcgSlature,
and late Judge Advocate of the G. A. K. of Ohio
to be Completed in Two Volumes, »,arse
Octavo. Sow Heady, l*art I—IBIO-1SOO;
with Portraits on Steel, Cloth Extra,
93.60.
“This prodigious work is one of the most
cheering books of recent times. * * Without
rashness and with a philosophic breadth of
vision,the author has presented with an almost
poetic force one of the greatest problems that
await human solution.”—N. V. World.
The above is for sale by all dealers, or will be
sent prepaid on receipt of price by the sub
scri t)crs»
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Given to any one who will sell 50 copies of
Life and Times of
Frederick Douglass,
Written by himself.
This is the most interesting work ever pub
lished. Startling as the pages of romance, yet
every word is true, A wonderful story most
graphically told and of great historical value.
Every colored family in our land should have
a copy of this grand work.
IT SELLS AT SIGHT I
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Book will be sent postpaid to any address on;
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238 GARDEN STREET,
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a full line of
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Which will be sold cheaper than at any other
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Call and satisfy yourself.
"coal. ’
Now is the time lay in a winter supply of
HARD AND SOFT COAL.
We keep a complete assortment of the best
Domestic Coals stored in our sheds,
which are the most complete
An the city.
All Coal shall be well screened, promptly
delivered, and sold at popular prices.
J. A. Beidler & Co-,
EUCLID AVE. STATION.
Telephone 1.2U7.
J. A. D. MITCHEL,
Teacher of Guitar, Cornet, &c.
ORCHESTRA MUSIC
FURNISHED FOR DANCING, ETC.
319 Superior Street, Room 7.
OWL CLUB,
64 Public Square, 149 Champlain St.
(Up Stairs.)
Billiard and Reading Parlors
Tonsorial Department in charge of a
Competent Artist.
CHOICE BRANDS WISES CIGARS.
Special attention given to Club Dinners, etc.
The Gazette on sale here.
Respectfully, Chas. G. Starkey.
BUY YOUR GROCERIES FROM
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WHOLESALE AX'D RETAIL DEALER IN
Teas, Coffees, Spices, Sugars,
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w wimt m
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patronage of ladies especially. Address*Tor
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