The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, August 20, 1896, Image 2
« THE FRONTIER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY By | Til FWOWTISB PRIKTINO CO. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA. Some of the ladies of Lincoln have organized a McKinley club. The prohibition state convention will be held in Lincoln August 2Sth. Clemens Prinz of Cuming county died from the effects of over-heating. Eastern tourists are greatly pleased with what they see in Nebraska this year. Carl R Borgqnist one of the oldest inhabitants of Cheyenne county, died last week. The Fremont hemp and twine fac tory will this fall use up the product of 2,000 acres Lightning struck the Bohemian Catholic church at South Omaha last week, killing three people. » Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman wants 95,000 from South Omaha for injuries received from a defective sidewalk. Burglars broke into the postoffice at Tobias to rob the safe. They were not successful in opening the strong box. An effort was made to blow the safe in the Charles Doris jewelry store in Fairmount The would-be robbers were unsuccessful. * Sarpy county is hard at work on an elaborate float to be entered in the Nebraska parade at Omaha state fair week. It is being constructed at Pa Billion. The Adams postoffice safe was blown open and its contents rifled. About •100 in stamps and money were taken. There is no clue as to who were the thieves. Maggie Halpin, of Greely, the 17 year-old daughter of William Uulpln, went to Lake Ericson with a party of young folks and was drowned. Her remains were recovered. Professor Barbour, professor of geol ogy at the state university, was at Ver don recently inspecting the wells and snaking a full geological report of Kichardson county. A son of Mr. and lira Lawrence Burns of Tekamah was kicked in the face by a horse lsst Thursday and se verely injured, his nose being broken and his face bruised. On account of soms defect in the hoisting apparatus, Henry Hoggett, a well-digger, fell eighteen feet to the bottom of a well in Casa county apd was severely injured. Grandpa Arend of Elm Creek went . out recently to shoot a few rabbits in 'his garden. The load went through a neighbor’s window, nearly making a pot shot of the family. George Latta, a prosperous Burt county farmer, has just completed a barn having a capacity of twenty seven horses, 1,000 bushels of grain ■, pod fifteen tons of hay. Bev. Clarence A. Stewart, pastor of the Methodist church at Tamara, has handed in his resignation as pastor and also^: withdrawn his membership from the Methodist church. Hoover, the murderer of his brother -in-law, Councilman Duboise, was exe cuted in the jail at Omaha on the 7th. He left a statement expressing regret t killing the best friend he ever had. John Q Williams, in charge of the artesian well at the Rosebud agencr, dropped dead from heart failure. He was a man of 60 yeara His home is Pittsburg, Pa., where his remains will be sent Gus Roberts of Liberty was last week sent to the asylum at Lincoln. He im agines himself to be the bearer of the sin of the world and desires to be put to death that the world may be iree from sin. Fullerton people are somewhat In 4 dlgnant because Lena Stan key, a 14 year-old girl debsuehedby her father, • had been spirited out of the country. The case against the old man will hare :J to be dismissed. At Oakland lightning strnek the flue *, on the residence of Alfred Johnson, running down the inside of the house and out of the door, doing slight dam age to the house, but scattering brick ta all dlrectionu At Elkhorn a horse fell on Charles ’ Killey while he was out riding and in jured his thigh. Before the man was rescued be was nearly drowned, as he had been precipitated Into a ravine partially filled with water. By the overturning of a load of grain «u which he was riding, the »-year-old son of Frank Bailer, a farmer living seven miles north of Exeter, had the tines of a pitchfork run into his brain, causing his death in a few hours. Pierce precinct, Pierce county, voted on the qpestlon of voting bonds to the amount of >14,000 to aid the Norfolk A Yankton railroad in completing its line Of road from Norfolk to Yankton and the bonds carried by a vote of 163 to 23. Three hundred car-loads of corn ^ passed through Blair inside of twenty four hours The cars were made up ta fifteen trains each being drawn by two engines The corn was gathered from various stations along the Elk horn. The adjutant general's office has or dered the discharge from the Nebraska > ; National Guard "for the good of the ,, service” the following: Private George i T. Freeman, company C, First regi went, Beatrice; Private B. B. Lincb, troop A, Milford; Privates A Augus tus A Cooper and Stanley E. Lindsley i of company G, Second regiment, Oma guards An old man named McNulty and his t®*i living near Oconto, quarreled ovet the ownership of an old bridle. In the heated argument which followed the old man fired a shotgun and filled the boy’s hide so full of bird shot that ; it looked like a grape cullender. The r, mounds are not fatal. B'O. Whittemore, a mas «3 years ol p; •**. Who was reported some three - > weeks ago as beipg placed under $7,000 r hoods on the Charge of rape of a Utile 'Pi |W fourteen years old, came into die ■#’ triet court at Auburn and changed hit ■ v plea to that of gsctlty and Judge StiU neat him to the state prison for ten’ pears at hard labor. j I At Tobias a barn belonging tu J. I*. Sutfin was struck by lightning Satur day night and burned to the ground, together with ita contents, consisting of oats, hay and farming implements, Loss about $700, partially covered by insurance. Thomas Wilson, a man who has been held in the county jail at Blair, since last March for breaking into cars on Elkhorn, escaped last Friday night, lie had to go through three doors and had made three separate keys and un locked every door. Following is the mortgage record of t'latte county for the month of July, 1800: Fifty real estate mortgages hied, $47,122.86; thirty-eight real es tate mortgages released, $35,372.25; sixty cbattle mortgages filed, $13,220.46; eight chattle mortgage4 released, $5, 080.60. Herman Koch, a prominent farmer living near West Point, met with what may prove a fatal accident. lie' was returning home with a calf in his wagon. The team became unmanage able and threw him out, breaking one of his legs and otherwise injuring him. The broken leg was amputated. A burglar tried to get into Alex Francis’ general merchandise store at Dunbar, but was unsuccessful. He next tried the postofBce, but again failed, but be was successful in enter ing F. Boos' general merchandise store. Goods to the amount of $60 was taken. He was overhauled with the spoils. The thief had just been re leased from the penitentiary. Reports from country precincts in Gage county, show that the recent storm did considerable damage in a strip of country north of Beatrice, varying from one to six miles in widtli and extending across the country. The corn is badly blown down, scores of windmills wrecked and many small buildings torn to pieces. Orchards were stripped of their fruit and Bhude John F. Crawford, a well known ref* dent of Omaha, was struck by. the northbound Missouri Pacific passenger train at the railroad crossing at forty eighth and Leavenworth streets. His right foot was severed above the ankle, the face badly bruised and the chest and arms were covered with scars and gashes from being dragged along the track. Death was almost instanta neous. He was about 00 years old. A serious accident occurred on the Burlington railroad one mile west of Nemaha. Mrs. Nettie Umbling, a farmer’s wife from near Howe, Neb., a lady friend and two small children were in the act of crossiug the track when a freight that was backing up struck the vehicle in which they were riding, killing both horses outright and tearing the vehicle to pieces One child had its leg broken in two places, the other its leg broken in one place. Both ladies were badly bruised. The little ones will die. A peculiar accident happened as the Union Pacific flyer was pulling out ol the yards at Sidney. The main driv ing wheel on the left side of the loco motive broke .from the axle and leav ing the engine ran out on a side track for fifty feet. The train was running but five miles an hour and was stopped within a few feet of where the acci dent occurred. The accident was caused by a flaw in the journal of the driver and had the train been going at full speed the result would doubtless have been a disaster. The Lincoln Journal says tha^ nu merous complaints have been made about the breaking open of desks at the state bouse. Desks have been ran sacked on several occasions and post age btamps stolen. In some cases the loss amounts to considerable. About one year ago complaints of this kind were numeroua One office was robbed of 880 worth of stamps or a whole year's supply. Some of the robberies occur at the noon hour. Entrance to offices is supposed to be effected by persons who have keys to doors as well as deska J. W. Stocking, who has lived neat Panama for a number of year* had the misfortune to step on a nail while do ing hie choree. He did not pay much attention to it until neat day when it pained him very much, so he went to eee a doctor, but lockjaw was setting in and nothing could be done for him. Three different doctors were called and held a consultation, and all gave him up and death relieved him of his suffer ings. Mr. Stocking was a single man. He leaves one sister and brotner, who live near Panama and one brother in California. President Barnes of the §tate Agri cultural society, declares that from the applications and inquiries received up to the present time the state fair will be 30 per cent larger than any of its predecessors. Not only will there be more exhibits, and more of them, but there will be a number of entirely new ones, some of which will attract a great deal of attention. He is enthu elastic over the change in the grounds since the last fair. The thick carpet of grass, where a year ago was newly ploughed,and graded ground, has, in fact, made a wonderful transformation, and one which will be appreciated bv all visitors. A fatal accident occurred at Glen Rock, a station op the Missouri Pacific some six miles north of Auburn. Will iam Hawkins, a farmer living lu the village, while getting oft of the high side of a box hay rack, had one of it is feet caught some way and he tumbled to the ground, falling on the end of a pitchfork handle. He had thrown tho fork to the ground before starting to get down. The tines sticking in the ground held the handle upright The handle was forced some six inches into the body, passing through the bladder. He cannot live but a short time. ▲ fruit tree fakir is getting in hit work iff neighboring towns of Kalla City. He sells fruit trees on the in stallment plan, and takes fruit in pay when the trees begin to bear. He takes an order and it turns up in the bank a collectable note. * Very Rev. G H. Gardner, dean of Trinity Cathedral, Omaha, died sud denly of pneumonia at Bayfield, Win., lest, wee«r. He was sick out a few days- He was 46 years old and leaves a wife and six boys. He was there spending his vacation, as is customarv. He has been a prominent candidate for bishop of the Episcopal church for s number of time* DR. flANSEtMVAS LOST HIS CHRONOMETERS STOPPED ADD IE LOST HIS BEABIHSS. JACKSON RESCUED HIM. Found by the English Scientist on 'mn loo Floe—HU Lucky Meeting With the Norwegian Explorer was Ac cidental—*The Fran Aban doned In the Drl/tlng Ice—Nansen's Story. Vardok, Norway, Aug. 18.—Tbe captain of the Windward, the British steamer which has just returned from Franz Josef land after taking supplies' to the British North pole expedition commanded by Jackson and known as' the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, filed a telegraphic message here yes* terda.v describing the accidental meeting of Jackson and Dr. Nnnsen, forming one of the most remarkable incidents in the history of Arctic ex ploration, for it appears that the Nor wegian ex plorer had been living in a hut quite close to one of the English explorer's stations for along time pre vious to the meeting of the two men, yet neither one of them was aware of the other’s presence in that vicinity. In this messrge, Jackson describes his accidental meeting with Dr. Nansen while the latter was traversing the ice pack, and it appears that it was a lucky meeting for the Norwegian ex plorer, as the latter was misled, ow ing to inaccuracies on the map drawn by Payer, the discoverer of Franz Josef land, and also oeeause Dr. Nan sen’s two chronometers and his watch having stopped, he was quite unable to establish his position and was con sequently trying to march westward to Spitzbergen over the ice pack, which was not only highly dangerous but probably impossible. Jackson, after meeting Nansen, con ducted the latter to Elmwood,, the headquarters of tbe British expedition, where the Doctor awaited the arrival of the Windward, which left the Thames on June 10, and Vardoe on June 28, to take supplies to the Jack son expedition, and not to bring them back, as currently reported. Jackson, in the dispatch filed by the captain of the Windward, said: “On June 17, I met Dr. Nansen three miles out on a floe, east of Cape Flora, and inder most extraordinary circum stances. He bad wintered in a rough hut within a few miles of our north ern limit in 1895, and this Rprlng we unwittingly came within a few miles of his winter quarters. "Dr. Nansen left the Fram with one companion. Lieutenant Sigard Scott Hansen, a lieuteuantin the Norwegian navy,and director in the astronomical, meteorological and magnetic observa tions, and reached latitude Sd:14,y traveling northeast from where he left the Fram, which was in 84 North, 103 East It is believed here that the Fram may turn up here or at Bergen shortly, as she stood the ice very well, has plenty of provisions on board and there was no sickness among her crew ;when Dr. Nansen left her on March '3.4, 1894. Professor Mohn says that the scien tific result of Dr. Nansen’s observa tions are magnificent, and that sev eral- islands havo been discovered. Dr. Nansen, in describing their life during the winter of 1894-96, said: “When the bears’ flesh had been ex-L hausted we were obliged to kill the weakest dogs to feed the others, and continued thus until the whole pack had been slaughtered. “Myself and companions started in tbe direction of Spitzbergen on May Kt After that we occupied six weeks on snowthoes, dragging sledges and kayaks (the Arctic canoe) loaded on sledges after ua We went partly overland and partly over sea ice. “We reached Jackson’s winter quar ters, where we found all in good health. We remained there about six weeks, till the steamer Windward arrived." JONES’ SELECTIONS MADE. Gov. Stone and J. 11 Johnaon on tho Democratic Eiaeatln CoiunaUtas. N*w Yobk, Aug. 16, — Chairman Jones of the Democratic national com mittee has deolded upon those who will compose ^he campaign committed They are: John R. McLean, Ohio; Governor Stone, Missouri; Clarice Howell, Jr., Georgia; C. A. Walsh, Iowa; J. R. ShanUlin, Indiana; J. J. Dwyer, California; D. J. Caiupau, Michigan, and J. B. Johnson, Kansas. Governor Altgeld ifiay also be ap pointed a member of the committee. Fusion Not Llksly In Washington. - Ellknsburg, Wash., Aug. 16.—The Democratic, Populist and silver Re publican conventions met yesterday and received representatives from the cofaferenoe committees Each then took a recess to give the committee further time to confer, the Democrats being dissatisfied with the distribution of offices. The present situation sug gests a fusion between the Populists and free silver men, with a separate Democratic ticket. ••wall's Son Works Aesinst Him. Naw York, Aug. 16. —The following speakers have been engaged to stump Mainaifor McKinley and Hobart: Har old M. Sewall, son of Bryan's associ ate; Senators Hale. Frye and Lodge; Congressmen Dingley, Bou telle and Doliver, ex-Governor Pnkin of Louis iana, ex-Senator Warner Miller, J. Sloat Fassett of New York and Gen eral Clark E. Carr of Illinois, ex-min ister of Denmark. Capitalist Mnrdsred. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 16 —Hon. W. F. Eyeter of Chambersburg. Pa., was murdered here last night. Fred Vance and five women of the town are detained at the station as knowing something of tho case. Mr. Eyeter was here with a party of prominent Pennsylvania capitalists, en route to Cripple Creek to invest In mines. FUSION IN THE SOUTH.' B*pibHc»8i| Sound Moony Damocntl nod PopalliU Mny Unite. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 1?.—It is not st all'unlikely thut a combination ticket will be put in the field by the Republicans, National Democrats and Populists in some of the Southern states. The executive committee of the National Democracy is in receipt of propositions looking to this end from Alabama, Texas and Florida and is inclined to look upon them with fa vor. The leaders of these three par ties in the South have no‘t yet dis cussed matters of detail in the proposed fusion, but it is probable that if it is to be carried out thev will fuse oh the state tickets as nearly as possible in proportion to the strength that eacli one possesses and that elec toral tickets will be made of men pledged to vote against liryan and Sewall. rive. ^HIUAUU FAILURES. ®**P» ®ron* Wool, Hides end Liquor Deal* •re Onable to Meet Their Liabilities. Chicago, Aug. 17. — Five failures were recorded to-day as follows: The Chicago and Western Soap works, $80, 000 assets, liabilities $50,000; Louis Sibers and 8ons, liquor dealers, $35, 000 assets, liabilities $30,000; the Chi cago Consolidated Iron and Steel company of Harvey, $300,000 assets, liabilities not known; Henry M. Ho sick, wool, ]93 Michigan street, $200, 000 assets, liabilities $125,000; George Obertie, dealer in hides and leather, $200,000 assets, liabilities $125,000. Congressional Nominee Withdraws. San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 17.—A sen sation was caused In political circles of the Twelfth congressional district by the announcement from Marshall Fulton, the Democratic nominee for congress, that he has withdrawn from the race. In his letter to Chairman Onion of the Democratic executive committee, Mr. Fulton gives no reason for his action. Mr. Fulton is the sec ond Democratic candidate to with draw from the race after the nomina tion had been made. Klllna His Will's Paramour. Buttic, Mont., Aug. 17.—Joseph L. Bonesteele, a bartender, went home about 5 o’clock this morning and shot and killed Frank Cole, a lodger at the house, whom ho found with his wife. Cole came to Butte from SL Paul, where ^ie held positions on the Pio. neer Press and Globe. He was made city clerk of Butte two years ago, but the mayor, learning that lie was liv ing witii a woman to whom he had not been married, recalled the ap pointment._ Hlg Oil Trnlts Set on Fire. Lima, Ohio, Aug. 17.—At i o’clock this morning lightniug struck a 30, 000 barrel oil tank on the Kemper farm, three miles south of here, owned by the Standard oil company, and the fire communicated to three others. The Standard people em ployed BOO men to throw up embank ments and are shooting the tanks tc let the oil out. The smoke from the burning oil obscured the sun. The loss will reach $75,000. No Ootd Ticket In Nebraska. Ltnooi.n, Neb., Aug. 17.—Whatever the gold standard Democrats may do at Indianapolis, it is quite evident that the stute of Nebraska will not put up any gold standard Democratic electors. It is well known that Tobias Castor, N. S. Harwood, A. J. Sawyer and John A. Ames of Lincoln, D. T. Cook of Beatrice, and ottier gold standard Democrats, are opposed to any such more They contend that such action would help Bryan more than McKinley. Two Nm In a BA- Joseph Halo. 8t. Josri'h, Mo., Aug. 17. —During heavy storm Thursduv an old ice house north of the city was struck by lightning. Yesterday afternoon a gardner informed the police that just before it was struck and burned he had seen two men enter It. A force of men are at work digging in the ruins to find the bodies. Oklahoma Ginning Plant. Y Guthrie, Ok la., Aug. 1'/.—The Cim arron Ginning company, with a,capi tal of 940,000, waa chartered to-day, and will build an immense ginning plant one mile east of Langston. E. M. Greon is president. W. .1. Pouts, treasurer, and V. A. Thompson, secre tary. Thirty stockholders, represent ing 1.000 acres of cotton, arc in the scheme. I«. A. W. In l*ulltic«. Louisyn.i.K, Ky., Aug. 17.—The of ficial publication of the T,eaguo of American Wheelmen, the* Bulletin, it going to lake a hand in political af. fairs, and will mipport the gold stand ard. Sterling Elliot of lloston, presi dent of the League, suys thut iu the next issue he will have an editorial in favor of the gold standard. A Minuter Fired Upon. U UK NOS Aykrs. Aug. 17.—A dispatch from Cliiiqnisaea (Snccrc) ISolivia, an nounces that, a merchant named Cullar attempted to assassinate the Chilian minister to Itolivia wliile the latter was i here, tiring several shots from a revolver. The minister wasseeerely wounded. U.u.rnl Srhellendnrf Out. : Rkiu.in, Aug 17.—It Is officially an nounced that the 1'russian minister for war. General Bronsart von Schel lendorf, who was appointed in 189S, has been relieved from office. He will bo succeeded by General Von Gossler. Killed by Lightning. Kansas Citv, Mo , Aug. 17.—John Haggett, a denier in live stock, of 72 North Tenth street, Kansas City. Kao , was ruck by lightning and killed yesterday while standing under a tree on what are known as Muucie's bluffs, live and one-half miles west of the U n ion depot. The richest gold plaaer mines of Alaska have been transferred to Canadian territory, and miners are now paying miners* lax to British authi titties. SHERMAN ON FINANCE. THE OHIO SENATOR DENOUNCES THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER. OPENS OHIO'S CAMPAIGN. The Financial UUtory of the Vnltad Statai Dlaeutted at Length-—Declared That Worklnfntn and Pan.Ion* an Would Ua Rained If tha Gold Standard It Mot Maintained. Columbus, Ohio, Aupr. 17.—The Re publican State campaign opened here at 1 o’clock thiB afternoon in a great tent m the presence, it is estimated, of 10,000 people. At 1:30 o’clock, after the usual music and cheering of some well known men, Governor liushnell, as chairman, formally opened the ex ercises with a short speech, after which he introduced United States Senator John Sherman, who was re ceived with great cheering. As sooty as order was restored, the veteran financier spoke, in part, as follows: “Both tho silver and tariff arn vital questions of domestic policy of equal importance, bat I propose on this occasion to ronfin * ray remarks mainly to what is known as the frei oinage of tilver at the ratio of sixteen p rts of silver to one of i^old. This issue i* thrust upon ns by the Democratic part/, or, rather, by the Popu list b.-auch of the Democratic party. “Gold and silver coins are recogniz>d by all commercial natiou* of the world as the best standards of valu9, as tin m?asure of every ar ticle of desire, of everythi lg that is bought or sold. Ihese two m«ta!s not only measure all other things, but they measure e ch other. Their relative value constantly changes. Twenty-throe years ago sixteen ounces of sil ver wnro worth more than one ounce of gold Now thirty-one ounces of silver can bo bought by one ounce of gold. *‘In 1834, during the administration of Pres ident Jackson and under tho leadership of Daniel Webster and Thom is H, Benton, Con gr ss adopted the ratio of ifl ol silver to 1 of gold, by reducing tho number of grains in the gold coin. As silver was thus sligntly under valued it was not largely coined Silver could be coined in Franco at the ratio of 1»to l, and theownoruf silver bullion could send it to Franco and have it converged into coin at that ratio, thus receiving about * per cent more for his bullion than if coined at the Americau ratio of 16 to *. Gold became the only Amer ican coin in circulation, and the avowed pur pose of tho pas-age of the law of 1834 was to make gold tho standard. This law. heartily approved by Andrew Jackson, would now be called *The Crime of 133h’ THE ACTION TAKEN IN 1853. * In 1853, upon the report of Senator Hunter, when Pierce was president and when all branches of th© govenment were under Demo cratic control, Congress reduced the quantity of silver in tho fractional coini (half dimes, dimes, quarters and half dollars) more than 8 per cent; directed the pure has 3 of the silver for their coinage on government acconnt. abolished the law for their free co.naga and made them a full legal tender for S’* only, leaving gold still practically thd only full legal tender United States coin. At this time tho silver dollar bad disappeared from th * current coinage of the United States and was practically and pur poselr demonetized. This. 1 suppose, would now bo called the ‘Crime of Silver was practically demonetized by this act and the act of 1834. “Iti* certain that from 18)1. when Mr. Jeff orson became president, to tho close of Buchan an’s administration in 1811, tho Democratic party was a gold party, nppo.od to si.ver and all forms of paper mon°y “When the Republican party came into power in 1861. by the election of Mr. Lincoln it had to faco a formid ible r-bollion. G >ld and silver wore alike banishod from circulation and irredeemable paper money of all denomi. nations, from ten cents to $ ,>00 was substi tuted in place of coi i. When he war was over tho Republican party sought to restore specie payment ns soon as practicable. In March, 1*69, it pledged the faith of the nation to pay ment in coin or its equivalent of all bonds of the United States and to rej*oam the United States notes at the earliest possible moment in coin. THE 1873 REVISION OF MINT LAWS. “In order to carry out this pledge it became necessary to revise th» various coinage laws of the United State*. This was promptly and ▼ary oarofuily done by n bill framed in the Treasury department while Mr. Boutwell was Secretary. It was thoroughly considered by tlio ox parts of that department ind was printed and submitted to all persons in the United 8tates who wero suppos *d to be familar with the coin age laws. The bill, containing sixty seven sections, accompanied by a moss of infor mation that fills a volume, was sent to Con gress April 2, 187*, by Secretary Boutwell anti its passage was strongly recommended by him This bill omitted from the coins of the United States the silver dollar, precisely as was dp o in 18 8. bnt provided for the coinage df tha fractional part* of the dollar in accord ance with tho act of that year. The bill was pending in Congress for three years—was care fully considered in both house* and special at tention was called to the omission of tho 4124 grain silver do lar, which w <s never in the bill at any stage, and tho reasons for this omission given. It was finally determined at the urgent request of morabors from the Pacific coast to insert among tha silver coin > a trade dollar containing grains of stand ird silver, but this dollar was made like the minor coins, a legal tender for $5) only. There was but ono yea and nay vote on tne bill, und that was on tho proposition to repeal tin charge made by the mint for tho coin ago of gold I voted against its repeal. “The bill passid both housos and became a law February 12. 187.1, by practicnlly a unani mous vote of both pirti a, and was specially supp irfco.l and voted for by tho senators and iu ‘tubers from the -ilver states • This ha-* been called the 'crime of 1878* and a« the bill was under my charge in the Senate 1 was rieid to be the chief criminal. It was, in fact, a wine moasnre of public policy, carefully discuss'd and considered during three yea re When we tost the outcry against this act with tha sober acts shown by official rocoris, it ap pear.* simply ludicrous. Tho total numbor of silver dollars coined from 1792 to 1873 was 8.031, £>*: while tho nninber of trade dollars issued under th» coinage net of 1874 containing sovan and one-h df grains move silver than the old dell tr was 3* .,9.4 and the nnmbo * of stand ar i silver dollar* coined under the Bland-Alli li>n act of 1878 was 4 M.793.011. fifty-four times tho number issued before I87& **lt is strange that tha vary men who sup ported and u god thU coinage liwof 18 3 and dnm tnded tin exclusive coinage of gold are the very men who now domand the free coin age of silver and d mounco as “golditss” and robbars all who believe in the coinage of both gold and silver. 'It has boon said that tho dropping of tho silver dollar in the coin igo act of 187.1 was sur reptitiously dona This charge is shown to be fal*e by the debate in c > agrees. and especially by tho declaration of the men who now make (he charge. Sixteen months after tha pas-ago of that act Ssnator Jonas of Nevada, in a de bate in the ten %te. Juia 11. 1^74, said: ’1 am ' opposed to any proposition, coroo in whatever j form it may. that attempts to ova: rule what ! (*o J himself has made for money I believe ' tho sooner wo coma down to a purely gold standard tie b^tfcar it will be for tlio country." ; 1 “Senator Stewart of Nevada, in tho same de bate onthel th of Juno, 1874: 'Si.*, the labor I * l In# man and the prolueeria 'ntitlod to h-ve hii product and hi-* labor measured by the aame standard of the world that measures four national dcb» Tlioro have boon a crest many battles fought ng lin-t gold, but gold has won every time Gold never has compromised. Gold has made tho world icapoct it a 1 the time. The English people once thought, they could get alo >g without gold for a while, but they had to come back to it1 "On June 1. 1874. Senators Jones nod Stewart and all the representativjs and senut ra of the silver states were urgent and honast in saying that gold was the best and only stamlurd of valuer, but they changed their minds wh*n the largely ine reused and ine reading pr uluction of silver in Nevada and other states redu’od the market value of silver below that of gold as the establirbad ratio of sixteen to one. Then they wanted a market for their silver. ThoV wonted ' to pay existing debts and obligations con* tracted upon a gold basis in silver but took care in their contracts to stipulate for the pay-, ment of gold in them, and this has been ani ia now the general practice in tho silver states. “During this period silver rapidly fell in market valno below gold at the ratio of sixteen to 1. Prior and lubsequant to 187a • many changes ware made in coinage by the leading countries of the world. Germany in 1871 changed its standard from silver to cold. France, Italy, Switzerland and iloigiura ‘-ad in. 18S.1 entered into a treaty called the Latin un ion to which others I ecame parties an.l by which tha coins of each of these countries are received and paid by all of thorn. This im portant arrangement was first modified and finally abandoned and gold became tho stand ard of valuos of th' so countries, but in h!I. sil ver was coin d and largely used as a subsidiary coin p erisely ns in the (Jolted States Mr. Sherman here sketched at con siderable length the history of the Brand-AHison act of 1875 and thd Sherman purchase act and its repeal. • Referring to the bimetallic declara tion in the repealing act declaring it' to be the policy of the United States to always maintain the parity of gold and silver, he said: inis o jc aration, made by Congress ind ap proved by the president at a time when the puilic mind waseontored upon the silver rju ?s tion, is a wise statement of public poliez that oa^ht to be acted upon without regard to pari ty divisions. This bill passed a House of Rep resentatives fresh from the people by a vot of SSJyea* a*»d 118 nays and the Senate b.* the vote of 43 yeas agiinst 32 nays. This act was not a party vote, but it i*, 1 believe, the ex pression of opinion of a majority of the two great parties of the country. •\And here, fellow citizens, we ought to stand. I appeal to Democrats and Republicans alike We are all interested in having a soun l and stable currency founded upon gold and silver. We cannot by law fix the value o f either metal or coin or of any of the articles that enter into the wants of life. “We had, July l, last, in a-etnal circulation among the people of the United ttate*, $l,>09, 72),£iM, as stated by the report of the treasury department. We had also at that date ?8<4, 1119,981 in the treasnry, mostly gold and silver, hold for redemption of United State* notes and Bilver certificates.^ All those forms of money have bo°n maintained by th> government at par with gold and they travel the circle of the world without diminution of their purchasing power. Though silver bullion has fallen to nearly one half its former value yet wo have / used it an 1 maintained silver coins made from it at a paritz with gold at the ratio of IB to I. “But now we are brought face to face with a. proposition which, if agreed to, w.U make sil ver the sole standard of value for all debts and credits, for the wage* of labor and the pur chase and 8 ale of property. If the free coinage of silver is authorized, then the market van* of silver bullion becomes ths standard far pay ments on a:l contracts made in the past, the present or the future and 41 '*% grains of standard silver bullion, worth noto 51 cents, can, with free coiaage, be coined into a dollar npon the demand of any holder of such b ill ion. The government does not undertake to maintain its relative value with gold. The government stamps it ‘This is a dollar.* Its * purchasing power is fifty-three cents but its * debt paying power is one dollar of debt It it the doctrine of tho Populist and Anarchist, o but it is in direct opposition to the traditional policy of Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and tho Democratic party. “It i8 sometimes said of creditors that they are bloodthirsty Shylocks, aristocrats, blood suckers. extortioners. It may be that there at** among mouey lenders some m»n who merit epithets, but the great body of tho creditors of nur country are among the thrifey, industrious and intelligent men aad women of every com munity. “One groat body of creditors here is the 970, )>0 Union soldiers, their widows and orphans, who are creditors of the United States to the amount of over $l«0,03),o00 a year for 8?rvices ani sacrifices in the Union array. It would be an act of perfidy and meanness beyond expres sion for this great country to pay them witk money of loss purchas ng power than gold roiu, merely because tho overproduction of silver in the United States has re 1 uced the market vain* - Df silver bullion contained in a silver dollar. To take advantage of this decline in order to reduce the value of the pittance to those pen sioners is worse than to rob the graves of tho “By far the greatest Injury resulting from the free coinage of silver trill fall npon the workingmen Their wages are now based upon mono/ of tho highest value npon gold coin of standard value. Under free coinage of silver the value of the silver dollar will fall to fifty breo cents in gold, or as I have already said, the 10) cents of the gold dollar will be worth 1W cents of the silver dollar. With free coin* age of s.lver every working man oan and ought to demand enough silver for his daily wages to he equal to the purchasing power of his pres* snt wages iu gold. Tho straggle between workingmen and employor will then Commence sn 1 no ohe knows better than the workingman, how difficult it is to got nn advance of pay. We have 'trikes and strifes enough now, when the working mau gets his pay in g>id coin, or Ha •quivalent but what will be the condition when he is paid in cheaper money of tho same nom nal amount but of lees purchasing power? Every sintim nt of justice will boon tbo side of the workingman in his struggle for good money or increased wages in cheap money. * Of all tlio evils which a government can in* lift none can be groator than cheap money, whether of coin or pa ,er. , That dollar is the host dollar that buys the largest quantity of Food and clothing. That dollar is the gold dollar, for it buys m< rj foodand clothing than, any other dollar and will also bny a silver dol lar for fifty-: hree cents, if the coma ro of silver is made free at the ratio of 1, to 1 of gold. “Export mce has shown that the United States can make the silver dollar bny as much re-the gold dollar, hut it can only bi done by the government buying silver bullion as needed and coining it into d ltars on government no* soant This has been triel. ‘ This matter of t in free coinage of silver and. the degradation of the stand,rd of value in volves not only qnes ions of money, but of honor and good faith. Wnen tluir honor is in volved. the people never fail to roipdud They have complied witli ovor/ promise and pail every debt contracted siuco tho orga liaation r>f the national govsrnmont, a< it became due. I'll ay have paid Tour-fifths of the debts con tracted during tho civil war, and the prospect , was hopeful that all of it would l.o paid before the clo e of this century, hut this reversing aur standards of value line, liko the Are bell at sight startled and alarmed our people.’’ “Let u« settle it br following tho action of Washington, Hamilton. J off or Son Benson, Hunter, Liucoln end Grant. Lit ns maintain, lilver and gold at par wi b each otbir at the legal ratio of i > to I until a conference among lations can prescribe common standards of value. In tho ineantimo lot no act b' done, so policy bo nilontel. Doomed! At resorted to hat will tarnish the honor of the groat repab Assassinated by Sloonshlnen. Little Kock, Ark., Aug- —News of tn assassination reached here to-day from the moon tain fastness of Sevier :ounty. As the result of a ra>d made by moonshiners Reed Jones, 6 years >ld,is now in his grave and hit brother William, 16 years of ago, is danger— >usly injured.