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THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 18T5.
The Tice-Presiilent is Dead.
Gn the morning of the 22d hist., the
Bad newa wa9 announced through the
nation, that Henry Wilson, Vice
President of the United States, had
departed thi9 life. His death was very
unexpected at tub time, because it
had been announced from day to day
that he was rapidly recovering. "Dp
to within a few minutes of the time
that he expired, he was talking cheer
fully with his attendants, declaring
that he had not felt so well since the
begiuningof his sickness. At twenty
minutes past 7 he said he felt- well
enough to get up and take breakfust,
and called for some bitters that bad
been prepared for him, and having
drank it he laid down on his left side
and died within a few minutes; the
time being at 7:30 o'clock. He died In
the 60th year of his age.
The following brief reference to the
career of this great man from humble
origin, we take from the St. Joseph
Herald :
Henry Wilson was in many respects
a remarkable man. His origin was
extremely humble, and his facilities
for acquiring an education were of the
most meagre kind. At ten years of
age his parents bound him out to a
farmer, for whom he worked eleven
years. Being then his own matter, he
immediately went to work to learn
the shoemaker's trade, and during the
two years of his apprenticeship he
employed every leisure moment in
reading, and so dilligeut was his ap
plication that at the time of finishing
his trade it is said he had reafl over a
thousand volumes of history and bi
ography. Having saved a little mon
ey by over-work he attended the ac
ademies at Stafford, Wolfsborough
and Concord, but losing all his means
by the fallur6 of a friend to whom ho
had loaned them, he was forced to
quitsouool, and walking back toNat
ick, where he had learned his trade,
be resumed work at the bench. This
was in 183S. Two years later wo find
him on the stump in Massachusetts
for the Whig ticket, and so popular
was he as a campaign orator that he
was called upon during that canvass
to deliver over sixty speeches. The
following year he was ohosen a mem
ber of the legislature where he served
in 1841, '42, '44, '45, '46. '50, '51, and
'52, presiding over the Senate during
the last two years. In 1853 he was
eleoted a member of the Constitution
al Convention. In 1855 he was chosen
United States Senator to succeed Ed
ward Everett, who had resigned, and
took his seat on the 31st of January
that year. He continued to serve hi
that body until the 4th of March 1873,
when he was sworn in as Vice Presi
dent, having been elected in the No
vember previous on the ticket with
Gen. Grant.
No purer man ever served in the
councils of the nation. He was one
of those vhtf believed that
"to aide with truth is noble when we
share her bumble crust,
'Ere her cause brings fame nnd honor, and
'tis prosperous to be just,"
The cause of the Vice President's
death was apoplexy. His brain has
been removed and weighed forty-nine
ounces.
Gen. Ben. Butler recently had a se
vere attack of sickness, aud bis death
was at one time reported, but errone
ously, however.
Judge Cole of, the Supreme Court of
Iowa, has resigned. He states as the
cause that his salary was insufficient
to support his family.
The National Grange now in sess
ion at Louisville, Ky., has resolved
that the headquarters of the National
Grange shall be permanently located
in that city.
The Orleans Sentinel says that
many of the settlers who got panic
stricken at the first appearance of
grasshoppers aud left the country af
ter selling off their property for little
or nothing lost spring, are back again
looking for claims.
McDonald, the Supervisor of Reve
nue at St. Louis, has been found guil
ty by the jury, but not yet sentenced.
The law fixes the penalty at not more
than three years nor less than six
months In the penitentiary, and a
fine at the discretion of the court.
The investigations Into the whisky
frauds In St. Louis, by the trials of
Joyce, MoDonald and other promi
nent revenue officers, shows the ring
to have been of monstrous and gigan
tic proportions. It now looks as if
McDonald will have to follow his ac
complice, Joyce, to a "term of service
in the penitentiary.
Wo publish in this Issue the com
plete report of the commltteeof inves
tigation of the charges preferred
against Dr. Fuller, Superintendent of
the Insane Hospital. We do this in
justice to an officer whom we believe
to bo a most excellent one, and will,
we doubt not, continue to be such if
he will follow the wise suggestions of
the committee ami stop, right now,
the use of intoxicating liquors as a
beverage. We read all the testimony
taken in the oaee, and believe the
committee has made a very correct re
port.
From a telegram in the Globc-Dcm-
ocratof the 19th it appears that ar
rangements have been made for a
fight between those two noted pugU
lists, Jem Mace and Tom Allen. The
match is for $5,000, to come off May
20th. A forfeit has been put up. Har
ry Hill of New York is mauagiug for
Mace, and Barney Aaron for Alleu.
If Allen dare meet Mace in the prize
ring he will be badly whipped iu a
very short time.
We have later news to the effect
that Allen denies that arrangements
are made for a fight between him and
Mace. He says, however, that if
Mace challenges him he may fight.
Our understanding is that Allen but a
short time ago promulgated a sweep
ing challenge to ail pugilists, for the
championship of the world, that Mace
has accepted aud he must now fight
or shut up his pretensions to the
championship of anything, unlees It
be that of a braggart,
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 15, 1875.
Editor Nebraska Advertiser.
I suppose that ere this reaches you
your readers will have been informed
by the telegraph of the sudden and
dangerous illness of the Vice Presi
dent. He has been confined to bis
room in the capitol building for sever
al days, but has so far recovered that
iiis physician thinks he will bo out in
a few days. The prospects of his
speedy recovery will be hailed with
joy by everyone, as Mr. Wilson is one
of the most honored, trusted and lov
ed, as well as one of the greatest
statesman of the nation. It is now
thought that it will not be prudent
for him to attend to his official duties,
as President of the Senate during the
coming session.
Senators and congressmen have
commenced to arrive, and are busily
engaged iu getting their domestic ar
rangements complete before the 6th of
December, when congress meets.
Somesouthern members late rebels
are represented as asserting that
they Intend to do everything iu their
power to prevent the payment of any
more debts caused by the war. This,
of course, includes pensions to wid
ows, orphans, and crippled soldiers,
made such by the war: and also the
stopping of all appropriations for the
maintenance of soldiers homes, ceme
teries, etc. This seems to be pretty
plain talk, and only indicates what
the "rebs" would do if they but had
the power. How do your readers like
it.?"
It is rumored that Treasurer New
will Bhortly tender his resignation
owing to uuforaeen complication in
his private business affairs. He has
made an efficient officer and his with
drawal will be much regretted both
by his superiors aud those under him.
There have been several ohanges
made in the Department of the In
terior, in clerkships, etc., iu the past
week. On Saturday six or eight
clerks in the pension Bureau lost
their heads, andseveral more are like
ly to follow. Commissioner Atkin
son seem3 to be weeding out his bu
reau, and puttiug things on a sound
working basis.
Tilings now look as if we were to
have Grant for our next President,
aud, of course, the demi-rebs will
soon bet up their howl again about
Caisarism, third-term, etc. We won
der what they will do about It. It is
too bad that they can't have their
way, but then they are so uncertain it
will not do to trust them. Perhaps
after they have been on their good be
havior for fifty or a hundred years the
people may again be foolish enough
to trust them. Of course it is hard on
them, but then they were naughty,
and must take the consequences.
Allow us to express our sympathy
for your correspondent "C." He
ought to have known better than to
go to Cheyenne. Of course drinks
are high. But then the air out there
is so light that it does not take so
much to make a man wonder "how
the dickens that can works," as it
does further east.
Yours truly,
Ncsbig.
We extract the following fro
ny
a
letter written from San Francisco to
the Illinois State Journal:
The readers of the Jonrnal, and es
pecially the ladies, have heard much
about the century plant which, fable
says grows a huudred years, blooms
once and then dies. That is very pret
ty an poetic. But I have seen these
century plants here, nine years after
planting out, run up twenty-five feet
high, six iuohes in diameter of the
floral shaft, a huge tuft of branchiug
ffowersjat the top; aud others, which
had blossomed, gone to seed and died,
and were as dry as a seasoned pole,
while the plant at the root was taking
a fresh start. So much for the century
plant. One gets a good deal of the
romance of life knocked out of him as
he travels around that is, if he keeps
his eyes open.
The Missouri Bepubllcan says the
sole comfort that Democrats can ox
tract from the results of the late State
elections is in the result in Mississippi
That State would have gone Republi
can too had the Democracy acted like
good citizens instead of ruffians and
permitted the negroes to vote. It is
hoped that when the time comes to
vote for President some such man as
Sheridan will have matters in such a
shape as to permit the loyal and hon
est citizens of the south to vote as well
as those of the ku-klux aud White
League.
At Carlton, Neb., on the St. Joe &
Denver road, on the 15th inst., a farm
er named Ingalls in attempting to
run across the railroad track in front
of an approaching train, to go to his
team which "had become frightened,
was caught by the train, knocked
down and cut to pieces. The engine
and five cars passed over the body of
the unfortunate man, severing it just
below the shoulders, both legs cut off,
and the balance of the body ground
into a shapeless mass of quivering
flesh.
The Chicago Post and Mail, Inde
pendent, pays of the recent State elec
tions "They will generally be
accepted as a healthful sign, and as a
certain indication that the better pub
lic sentiment is still for leaving the
administration of affairs in Repub
lican hands, and that the majority of
the people are convinced that the or
ganization which has served them so
well in the past is still capable of hou
estservice, and that the government
of the country can Bafely be left iu its
hands.
The Quinoy Whig, speaking of the
late election in New York, says, "The
real issue was Tammany and anti
Tammany, or, rather, Tilden nnd
anti-Tildeu. Gov. Tilden, as Is well
known, is a prominent candidate for
President, and if his ticket was de
feated yesterday, 83 the first returns
indicate, he of necessity sinks hope
lessly out of the Presidential arena.
' mi
A man named Allen, in Boone
county, Neb., cut his throat with a
razor and died, one day last week.
GENERAL NEWS.
Gleaned from our Exchanges
Telegraphic Reports.
and
The mail stage from Corpus Christi
to Brownsville, Texas, was taken pos
session of on the nigiit of the 18th by
robbers, and everything taken, mules,
wagon aud all. .
At Evanston, Wyoming Territory,
the snow is reported to be from three
to four feet deep.
An order has been given the com
raaiidant at the Philadelphia navy
yard, to hurry along the completion
and equipment of the new sloop of
war lying in the Deleware, and to put
a number of monitors in readiness for
service.
W. B. Webb, near Knobnoster, Mo.
was thrown from a wagou and killed
on the 18th.
It is reported that Brick Pomeroy
has suspended, that his liabilities are
$140,000 while his assets are $000,000.
Well, we presume there is nobody
but a few rebels sorry about the sus
pension of such a publication as his.
Mrs. Mary Bruce was recently mu.-
dered near Jackson Ohio. The house
In which the murder was committed
was then fired to bum the victim and
thus hide the cause of her death.
Isaiah Hanscom, ohief of the bureau
of construction and repair at the navy
department, will recommend, in his
annual report, that a policy be adopt
ed of the building of a certain num
ber of war vessels annually of both
iron and wood until our navy shall bo
able to compete with that of any na
tion of the world.
A big gun, weighing over fifty tons,
which had been lying on the beach at
Fortress Monroe for several years, has
been ordered to the centennial
grounds by the national government,
preparatory to having it placed in the
centennial exposition.
John McNamara, a car driver in
New Orleans, put J. J. Dowliug off a
oar because he refused to pay his fare.
When off, Dowliug drew his pistol
and shot McNamara dead.
Richard Dockstader, a clerk in the
Clevelaud, Ohio, po3t.office for the
past fifteen years, was arrested on the
16th on oharge of robbing the mail.
On his person were found eleven let
tera addressed to Cleveland parties.
Seven of the letters had been opened.
A variety performer suicided in St.
Joseph, Mo., on the 17th. Her maid
en name was Nellie Grundhaud, but
she was known at the theatre as Nel
lie Wyatt, alias Nellie Morrosco. It
is said that her husband's jealousy
caused her to destroy herself.
John Tradeer was recently sentenc
ed at Terre Haute, Ind.. to imprison
ment for life for the murder of Jas.
Martin, last Oct,
Chas. Nutting of "Amherst, Mass.,
has picked from a single tree 37 bush
els of apples.
Turkey pays aunually in the neigh
borhood of $60,000,000 as interest on
its debt.
A meeting house was sold at auction
at Plymouth, Ind., recently, for $10.50.
Accordiug to the recent census the
population of Massachusetts is 1,651,
652. There are 1,793 fewer saloons in
Michigan than there were a year ago.
Winteraet, Iowa, has produced an
apple weighiug 2 pounds 2 ounces.
France has 123,000 industrial estab
lishments giving work to about 1,800,
000. Mr. Frederic Montes, an American
citizen, who went to Havaua a few
weeks since, provided with a legal
American passport, has been arrested
by the Havana authorities and thrown
into a dungeon at Cabanas Fort.
The Euglish naval force in Chinese
waters amounts to twenty-one ships,
with 112 guns aud about two thousand
officers aud men.
Barnum advertises the whole stock
of the hippodrome and the world's
fair for sale at auction, November 26,
either in Bridgeport or New York.
Arrangements are in progress for
colonizing two or three hundred En
glish laborers and their families in
Southern California.
The Centennial Exhibition will be
opened on May 10, 1876, and will re
main open every day, except Sunday,
until November 10.
France produces only one-half the
wood she uses for fuel, despite the
considerable forests that everywhere
cover the country.
The old bell which called together
the Virginia Convention of 1775, in
Richmond, is still in use in Martins
ville in that State,
The military pension roll of Ger
many now contains the names of 48,
727 invalid soldiers and officers, and
24,900 widows.
At a Prohibition meeting in Penn.,
a very "tight" man wa3 hired to sit
on the platform as an awful example.
The head cook at one of the Boston
clubs draws a salary of $5,000and nev
er pots his hands to a pot or kettle.
The Egyptian Government has ap
plied to England for two experts to
examine into and arrange its finances.
During the past seven years the
United States has paid to Spain for
tax on sugar about $125,000,000.
The Greek journals announce the
death of Mrs. Black, Byron's "Maid
of Athens." She was 76 years of age.
There were 12,318,500 one-cent piec
es coined at the Philadelphia mint
during the year ending June 30th,
1875.
Of the 1,145 voters over 70 years of
age who registered for the last elect
ion, in Brooklyn, 7 claimed to be over
90.
A new hotel annunciator has been
invented whioh will register on the
dial what guests want who ring the
bell.
The revenue of France since the
commencement of the present year is
$22,000,000 in excess of the estimates.
A Swedish school-house, for exhi
bition at the Centennial, has been
shipped f.ro.m that country to Phila-L
delphia.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Bergli's Good Work How the Rich
Men live Moody and Sankey A
Wonicrful Work of Art The
Nest Democratic Candi-
dite Taxes Beecher.
Correspondent Nebraska Advertiser.
New York, Nov. 22, 1875.
beroh's oood work.
Henry Bergh's new Society, for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children if
doing as good a work as his old or,e
for the Prevention of Ciuelty to Ani
mals. He has turned bis attention to
the thousand aud one shows in the
city. AttheTivoli Gardens, 'in 8th
Street, Is a boy acrobat, ad vertised
lender the name of "Prince Xieo" who
nightly performs the most difficult
feats on the tight-rope. .He is a little,
wee ohild, not over ix years of age,
delicate and pretty a's possible. A
man named Leonard, a brute of a fel
low, owns him, am'i has taught him
not only the common feats of tight
rope performers, but many more start
ling and dangerous. Leonard com
pelled him to walk the tight-rope
blindfolded, to ascend and descend a
rope fastened at an angle of forty-five
degrees, o'ud a score more of feats
which the eldest equilibrists decline
to undertake, and all without any
netting uuderneath to save him in
the event of failing.
B'?rgh stationed a few officers in the
audience, and when Leonard and the
boy appeared, they 3prang forward
upon the stage and seized them both.
At the examination the next morn
ing, it was shown that the ohild was
the son of a drunken rag-picker in
Philadelphia, that the father sold
him to Leonard, who bus trained him.
Leonard has habitually beaten, starv
ed and abused him. When practicing,
if the child fuiied in the slightest par
ticualar, the brute; would kick and
bruise him, without mercy. He per
forms none of the feats willingly ; in
fact, there is terror in hi3 face from
the moment he is forced upon the
rope till he is through. He trembles
so with fear during his performance
that theohanoes of failure are largely
increased, but he does it beciuse he
knows that if he fails he takes the
ohances of being killed by the fall,
nnd that if he escapes that, his brute
of a master will half-kill him witli
beating. Think of putting a boy
seven years old, on a small rope
stretched from floor to ceiling, a dis
tance of sixty feet, at an angle of forty-five
degrees, and compelling him
to crawl up the terrible incline ! And
then when at the top, sixty feet from
the stage, to slide down the steep de
scent with frightful velocity, grasp
ing the rope only with his toes, bring
ing up in the arms of his master.
Judge Donohue, will put the child
in the oharge of the Society, who will
fiind him a home.
Bergh will go through all the
shows, and take every one of these
children out of the hands of the
brutes who own them. Itls estimated
that there are about three thousand
children similarly employed, in the
cheap theatres and in begging on the
streets, who are slaves in every Bense
of the word. Mr. Bergh proposes to
emancipate them. -
HOW THE RICH MEN LIVE.
Because a man happens to be rich
it does not follow that he lives in gor
geous style. Indeed the "bloated
aristoorats" of Now York-, or the most
of them, live as quietly as other peo
ple, and a great deal more so than
those whose wealth is of recent date.
Vauderbiit, whose wealth runs up a
long way iuto the millions, lives on
Fourth street, a most unfashionable
neighborhood in New York, in a very
plain buuse. Sam Tilden lives on
20th, near Fourth Avenuet Peter
Cooper, on the corner of 22d and Lex
ington Avenue. Cyrus W. Field, on
Gramercy Park, aud Hamilton Fish,
on 17th aud Second Avenue. Daniel
Drew's abode is on the corner of 17th
and Broadway. All these locations
have been abandoned by tho fashion
able, years ago. but tho old fellows
love their old homes, aud stay in
them. Peter Goelet, one of the rich
est men in New York, lives on the
corner of 18th and. Broadway, n aD
old house with ground enough about
it to pasture a cow, and he keeps a
cow on it. The ground is worth. prob
ably $500,000, but Goelet is fond of
milk, and he wants it fresh and good.
Counting the interest on the ground,
the old gentleman's milk costs him
about $10 per quart, but he doesn't
care for that. He wants good sweet
milk in his coffee and he gets it.
A. T. Stewart, has a wonderful
mansion on 5th Avenue, but I rather
think that he built it more for an ad
vertisement of his business than any
thing else.
The fhoddy aristoorats the sudden
ly rioh all live on 5th Avenue and
the streets that run into it above 25th.
They are obliged to get into this loca
tion to show that they are rich those
whose wealth is known and acknowl
edged can do as they please. I should
prefer to be an ancient millionaire, for
I should want the privilege of living
where I saw fit without having snoba
to put me out of conceit with myself,
MOODY AND SANKEY
Are not the sensation they were when
they began. You can get into the
Rink now, without the slightest
trouble, and unoccupied seats begin
to show. Still the Evangelists keep
up their efforts with as much vigor as
ever, and the religibus element of
Brooklyn seern to be in no wise dis
couraged. While their success is not
what we anticipated, there can be no
question that they have accomplish
ed great good. They have succeeded
in awakening the professing Chris
tians to a more keen sense of their
duty, they have brought back back
sliders, and have alarmed thousands
of sinners. The request of prayers
come from every State in the Union.
Moody's method Is peculiar. He se
lects a subject for each meeting, aud
compels the attention of the audience
to that one subject, and nothing else.
For Instance the other morning, the
subject was "Love." Frequently a
good brother, In the course of his re
marks, would p.et at some other phase
of Christian experience, but the mo
ment he did so Moody would bring
him back. Itlehad to talk of "Love''
or nothing. They now hold five
meetings each day.
A WONDERFUL "WORK OF ART.
A memento of interest is the por
trait of Washington, woven of silk
by '..he Jacqnard loom, in Lyons,
twonty years ago. Not a dozen cop
ies of this curiosity exist, and the
marvelous skill of their workmanship,
together with their rarity, put a high
value on thnao in private bands. The
owners of the Jacquard loom wove
pictures in the same manner of the
crowned beads of Europe. Napoleon
I, Josephine, Victoria, the Pope and
Charles X., among the rest, which
were always reserved as presents for
Sovereigns, one copy being made for
each member of a royal family, after
which the frames were destroyed so
that no more could be produced. The
United States Counsul at Lyons see
ing these portraits, suggested to the
manufacturers that there were millions
of sovereigns in our country, and it
would be well to present them with a
picture of their Washington. The
firm, Ponson, Philippe & Viberty,
agreed, if the consul would send an
authentic portrait of Washington,
and an engraving after Stuart's
Washington was selected as a model.
The labor of making one of these silk
pictures is something incredible. It
took two years to construct the loom,
three engineers worked at the design,
aud 28,000 sheets of cardboard were
used iu the weaviug. The chain
is of white silk, the filliug of black
aud white, each stitch guided, by
passing through a bit of card, which
as it wa3 used, rose to the top of the
loom aud was cut off. The best of
the finest silk is used for thees woven
pictures. An expert selected from a
huudred poundsofthe choicest raw silk
only ten pounds fit for the purpose,
tho rest going to make superlative
dress silks. Of the portraits made the
first was for Mr. Goodrich, whose idea
it was to have this imperishable souv
enir of Washington, three others
were presented through him to the
cities of Boston, New York and Phil
adelphia. One now hangs in the Bos
ton Atheneura, the New York copy
is in the Governor's room at the city
Hall. A few others found their way
by gift or exchange to private hands.
Consul Goodrich entreated that cop
ies bought be multiplied and sent here,
urging that a fortune might be made
by tho sale of tliem, but the French
men shrugged their shoulders, obsti
nate on a point of pride which was
with them to keep these weavings
unique. Mr. Goodrich was lately
$5,000 for offered his picture by a mill
ionaire of this city, who is a collector
of curious things, but this offer was
no temptation. Acopy of this silk
engraving is in the possession it of
Mr. O. S. Baldwin of Brooklyn.
The picture has every appearance of
a steel engraving in line and stipple,
is peculiarly soft and rich in shading,
and an admirable study of Stuart's
portrait. Of the thousands who have
seen one of the five first copies in the
Governor's room, no one in ten thou
sand has had the slightest idea that
it is one of the inarvela. of nineteenth
century inventions. No one detects
the fabrio except by the closest scruti
ny, hut is silk and woU nigh imper
ishable. THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
Gov. Sam Tilden, a few months ago,
was confident o,f being the next Dem
ocratic candidate for the Presidency,
lie had it all fixed. His programme
was to help to beat Allen in Ohio,
whioh would settle him ; to help
elect Pershing in Pennsylvania,
which he could afford to do, Pershing
having no Pi6sldential aspirations,
and then to make bis name the rally
ing cry of the Democracy of New
York, which was to carry the State
by 60,000. A protty programme, wbb
it not? But somehow it didn't
work. Allen was barely beaten in
Ohio, Pershing was unmercifully
beaten in Pennsylvania, and the ory
of 'Tilden Reform'' was beaten 20,
000 in the-city of New Ybrkt and es
caped defeat in the State by only 17,
000! Where does that leave the cal
culating Tilden? Allen is as strong
as he ever was, and if there is a man
on earth who has earned the undying
hatred of Western Democrats that
man is Tilden. PennsylvaniaDemoc
racy owe3 him nothing, for with his
help they were beaten out of their
boots, and no man from New York
need enter the ring who has Tam
many stuck to him, and who came so
near sinking his party in the State.
Exit Tilden. If he ever had a chance
it is gone. Small men should never
undertake large combinations. The
Democraoy must look elsewhere for a
candidate.
And when it comes to a point the
people of Now York are not as fond
of the Democracy as they were on
general principles. Now that
TAXES ARE HIGHER THAN EVER,
they remember that the city has been
under Democratic rule for years, and
for whatever s bad In the govern
ment, that party is responsible. When
business was booming, and when the
property-owner had merely to put
figures on his property, they did not
care for taxes. But now it is quite
different. Rentsaredown a halfxand
thousands of buildings are standing
empty, while taxes are mounting up
frightfully. The taxes have to be
paid whether business yields or not.
And now that they are worried to
pay their taxes, they begin to find
that it pays to pay some attention to
politics, and the more men think the
less Democracy suits them. It was
this feeling that overthrew Tammany
this fall it is this feeling that will
give the State to the Republicans
next year, sure. The rings that have
plundered this oity and Brooklyn
own the Democratic party, and the
tax-payers find that they can only kill
tho rings by killing the party. De
mocracy in New York is not a corpse
yet, but the death-rattle is in its
I'.i roat. Let us make a judicious horn-1
ination, and there will be no trouble
about carrying New York.
BEECHER
May be as popular as ever in his own
church, but be is not outside of that
body. He attended the Moody and
Sankey meetings quite regularly up
to last Saturday. The clergymen
present on that day were iuvited to
remain after the meeting, to consult
as to the best means of carrying on
the work, and Beecher stayed with
the rest, but, alas ! he was coldly re
ceived, and many of the reverends
did not speak to him at all. He has
not been at the Rink since. In his
sermous he always speaks of Moody
as "Brother Moody," but the evan
gelist always prefixes the plain "Mis
ter" to Beecher's name. There Is no
getting rid of the fact, the public
have lost confidence in Beecher. He
does not stand where he did two years
ago, and never will. Innocent or
guilty, he has lost his grip, and the
eooner he withdraws from the public
gaze the better it will be for his name.
PlETRO.
THE INSANE HOSPITAL.
Report of the Fuller Investigating
Committee.
On the 20th inst. the committee ap
pointed by Governor Garber to inves
tigate the charges made by Dr. Miller
of the Omaha Herald, against Dr.
Fuller, Superintendent of the Insane
Hospital, finished its labors and made
its report which is as follows :
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 20, 1875.
To His Excellency, Silas Garber, Governor
of Nebraska :
The undersigned committee beg
leave to make the following report:
Called by you to investigate the
truth of certain charge published on
the 4th day of November A. D. 1875,
in the Omaha Herald, reflecting on
the character aud administration of
b G. Fuller, M. D., superintendent
of the Nebraska hospital for the in
sane, the committee met at the capi
tol in Lincoln, on November 17th,
1875, at 3 o'clock p. m. It held its
sessions continuously until the 20th
day of November, 1875, as will more
fully appear in the exhlbitof proceed
ings hereto attached marked ' J."
It caused all persons who would
probably know anything about the
subject matter under investigation to
be brought before it, and their testi
mony under oath, written in their
presence, and by them subscribed, is
hereto attached in exhibit of testi
mony marked "K." Exhibit "E"
hereto attached i a copy of phe Oma
ha Herald dated November 4th. 1875.
containing the lett er signed" J. T. B."
making said charges.
The charges are in substanoe as fol
lows First That Superintendent Fuller
is addioted to the excessive use of in
toxicating liquors, and since his ap
pointment has been frequently so in
toxicated as to be unfit to discharge
the duties of his position.
Second That the private tr.ble of
SuperiutendentFulIer at the hospital
is well supplied with liquors, and
that intoxicating liquors are used as a
beverage in the insane hospital.
Third That Dr. .Fuller's manage
ment of the institution, has been very
extravagant, aud that Improper sup
plies have beeu furnished to the hos
pital in purchases made by the super
intendent. Fourth That Superintendent Ful
ler has permittod one of the trustees
of the hospital to live at the institu
tion for a year or more with his fami
ly at the expense of the state.
Fifth That Superintendent Fuller
neglects the duties of his position.
Sixth That Superintendent Fuller
is not competent to act as managing
physloian of the hospital for the in
sane. To ascertain the truth of these
charges, the committee procured the
attendance and took the testimony of
a large number of witnesses (twenty
seven persons being fully and thor
oughly exair ined by it) and visited
the hospital for tho Insane, giving it
careful examination and inspection.
As to the firstchnrge, the committee
finds that it is not true that Superin
tendent Fuller is addicted to the ex
cessive use of intoxicating liquors,
aud that it is not true that since his
annointment he has been frequently
so intoxicated as to be unfit for the
discharge of the duties of his office.
Your committee, however, regret,
but feel constrained to report that the
proof shows that Superintendent Ful
ler, since his appointment, has occas
ionly, perhaps once a week, indulged
in the drinking of spiritous and malt
liquors, and that on three or four oc
casions he evinenoeu me iact uy ui
changed personal appearance. The
evidence is conflicting as to the
extent of the effeots of drink
ing upon him at these times,
some of the witnesses testifying that
the change was notso great as tocause
them to think at the time that lie was
under tho influence of any stimulant,
and others who met him at the same
time being positive that in manner,
voice and appearance he showed the
effeot of drinking liquor. ,
Your committee report that it is not
true that the private table of Superin
tendent Fuller is supplied with liqu
ors. On the contrary, the fact fully
and satisfactorily appears that Intoxi
cating liquors have never appeared at
his table, and have not been used with
his approvnl as a beverage at the hos
pital. Liquors have at rare intervals
been given to visitors, usually at their
request, but the testimony of the hos
pital steward evidences the fact that
sueh censurable practice was in most
instances unknown to the superin
dent. Your committee say it Is wholly un
true that the manaeement of the in
stitution has been extravagant or that
improper supplies have been furnish
ed to the hospital. On the contrary
the evidence of all witnesses, whether
connected with the asylum or not
shows the fact that the administra
tion of its affairs have been saving
and economical to a very gratifying
deeree.
Your committee report that it is not
true that one of the trustees has been
permitted to live with his family at
the hospital at the expense of the
state. The fact is that Col. Charles
MathewBon at the request of the
board has remained at the hospital
during several months past, acting an
superintendent of the construction of
the new wing now undergoing erec
tion. His family has visited him
during his duty there, but at no ex
pense to the state. He has been paid
a per diem allowance for supervising
the work of the builders, but baa
drawn during the time no pay, or
mileage as trustee, and money has
been saved to tho state aud excellent
work resulted from his efficient ser
vices. Your committee say that the proof
does not sustain the charge that Su
perintendent Fuller neglects the du
ties of his position. The testimony
fully warrants the repnrtat our hands
that-he has brought to the performance
of his duties an earnest, pains-taking
oare that has resulted in valuable
changes in the treatment of the un
fortunate under his charge.
Your committee say he is not in
competent to act as the managing
physician of the hospital for the in
sane. The testimonials to his profes
sional competency for the performance
of the delicate aud responsible duties
confided to him from the trustees of
the institution, its able assistant su
perintendent, and from his older
brethren in the profession. Doctors
French, Mausfelde, Radraore and
Robbius are extremely complimen
tary to so young a man.
Your excellency has made a verbal
request of the committee that it make
such suggestions as may be deemed
advisable. Having passed in detail
In the light of the proof upon the
truth or falgity of the charges made,
we have this only to suggest:
Dr. Fuller, by reason of his high
professional standing, executive abili
ty and economy in adminstration is a
valuable man to the state. We would
regret to see him removed from a po
sition that for reasons phown he is fit
ted to fill so ably. Under the law
governlug your excellency as the ap
pointing and removing power of the
state, ho should only be removed for
malfeasance In office, or for good and
sufficient cause. If tho service of
such offioial efficiency enn be retained
with perfect safety to the state it is
certainly well to retain ft. But if his
power Is to be weakened and his fac
ulties in the slightest degree impaired
by the use of intoxicating liquors, then
his services should be dispensed with
and the state should gain by his loss.
Not because wo think Dr. Fuller an
inebriate or in danger of becoming
so, or that he has any craving, uncon
trollable appetite for liquor, for we do
not so think, but because of the pecul
iar delicacy or the sacred trust connd
ed to him by the state, we say he has
no right to drink intoxicating liquor
at al He is always on duty. He
should be ever ready for duty, with
no faculty impaired or power weaken
ed. The path of safety for him and
for the poor unfortunates confided to
his care and professional treat
ment U the path of total abstinence.
If he follows it he can do great good.
If ha leaves it his power to harm
should be destroyed by his removal.
.Respectfully submitted.
Chas. F.Manderson,
M. W. Wilcox. V Com
Paren England,
The Nebraska City Chronicle an
nounces that Dr. F. Renner, editor of
the Staats Zeitung, has received the
appointment of Internal Revenue
Agent for Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and
Nebraska. We regard tho appoint
ment as a good one, and is undoubted
ly satisfactory to the German's of the
district named.
In RIchnrdson county, while a
young man was gunning his gun
kicked him on the nose causing it to
bleed, and it kept on bleeding until
he bled to death, which was on the
morning following.
The residence of Jas. Ferry, near
Elkhorn, Neb., was destroyed by fire
on the 18th. Loss about $500. The
fire origiuated from a defective flue.
A Mrs. Flag, of Grand Island, re
cently gave birth to a child which
weighed 161bs 9oz. Long may Mrs.
Flag wave.
The remains of Vice President
Wilson lie in State, embalmed, In
the Vice Prsldent's room in the capi
tol. In one of the Roman Catholic
churohes of Brooklyn, recently, 9.000
pennies were deposited in the alms
box in one day.
It is calculated that twenty tons
of roasled coffee are sold in New York
each week.
Hops grow wild in great abundance
in Arizona a fair article for brewing
purposes.
England has 700,000 Sunday school
scholars, in about 6.000 schools.
In California 3.0QQ Chinaiqen
native born Americans.
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sffl?.,iiyt8at
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Six inon7nraVal1oedTrV
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Probate Xotim
In the matter of the Estate of ThL
deceased1 Il30aa 1
7 "n" mat an persons ltxiL,Ti
..luuppenr Deiore me atthi iX" -mJ
Probate Judge, in Brownvllle ,2?? -V
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