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lllenfclriiiK oiUIockb, waicnes anajewuty
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residence on Atlantic street.
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Brownvillc, IVcbraska
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Also good wood at 53.25 per cord. 8w4
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Oldest Paper in the State
Tildenland His Ways.
He talk reform! What! ZVMenset up claim
To be In earnest at reform? For shame!
To seem, but not to be. Is all his aim.
So far as empty words and idle show
Can make a deep impression, he will go;
But when It comes to zealous practice, no.
He smashed a ring a Stateone It Is true,
Or gave his help; but that was only due
To sly design to bring himself In view.
E'en then his work was done In such a way
That friends were screened, while foes were
brought to bay;
And when the sun shone outhemadehls hay.
St Louis doings show the sofry fact
ThntTilden used the artificeot tact.
And made reform a byword by tho act.
lie staked his chances as a gambler planned;
He let that gambler take It In command.
And won because his strikers were on bund.
The second place was given as a bribe,
To mollify the loader of a tribe.
And has become the scoff of public gibe.
Report already bruits thestory round
That Hendricks is accepting, bargain-bound.
That four years hence protn'oilou .may be
found.
Reform like that is nothing but reproach ;
Corruption's plans are carried out by such;
A very little of It is too much.
TILDEX'S "ANSWER."
Disingenuous, Evasive, Dishonest
andLyinjjlSpcciai Plea.
His Income
for 1SG2
$7(5,000.
not less thnn
New York Times.J
At last we have what purports to be
the defense of Gov. Tilden against the
charges of perjury and fraud. It is
signed by J. P. Sinnott, the confiden
tial law clerk of Gov. TildeU during
the period in which income tax law
was in force. Our charges against
Gov. Tilden have been threefold :
1st. That on December 2G, 1803, he
swore to a return of his income in
1862 which was not only false and
fraudulent, when tested by facts In
regard toTildeii's professional earn
ings in thatyear but which was proved
to be 60 by another statement under
oath by Tilden in 1870.
2nd. That Tilden made another
false return for 1SG3 on May 20, 2SG4.
3rd. That in all the subsequent
years, save one, during which the tax
was levied, Mr. Tilden failed to make
any return of income as required, but
allowed himself to be assessed on an
amount very much below his actual
earnings.
The second of these charges Mr.
Sinnott does not take up at all, and
the third he attempts to answer by
some statements deliberately and will
fully false:
SINNOT'S TILDEN'SJ ANSWER DIS
SECTED.
First As to the Items of services
rendered in connection with the P.,
F. W. & C. It. It. reconstruction, we
s-tated as a general fact, testified to by
former officials of the road, that Mr.
Tilden received at least $25,000 for
services reudered'to the bondholders
in 1SG2. To show in what way this
money was earned, itquoted the titles
of certain iuscrUmeuts of the P. rail
way, and by afllxing to each certain
charges, it showed how $24,000 could
have been earned from the bondhold
ers in that year. Mr. Sinnot denies
that the second of these instruments
was drawn by Mr. Tilden, and that
item must be withdrawn. He does
not deny that Tilden drew the others
but he states that no itemized account
was ever rendered, that they merely
formed part of services extending over
a series ofyears, and the most impor
tant of these services were rendered
prior to 1862', That answer is simply
a deliberate evasion of the main issue,
which is, that Mr. Tilden "earned"
at least $25,000 for services rendered
In 18G2. If Mr. S. thinks that he can
extricate Tilden frcm the charges of
perjury and fraud by claiming that
the dates of these deeds are the only
basis for the "presumptidn" that the
money was earned in 1862, he is griev
ously mistaken. We promise to show,
from records of the report, and from
the books of tho road, that we have
greatly understated the amount earned
by Tilden from this source in 1862.
We shall prove Mr. S. guilty of delib
erate misrepresentation as clearly as
we shall show that Tilden has tried to
conceal by evasion hio perjury and
fraud.
Second It Is not denied tbatTilden
received from the Cumberland Coal
Co., on Junel4,lSGl, $5,000, though
Tilden's attorney is made to say that
"if anything was received, it must have
been in settlement of an old account,
and not taxable.' We decline to ad
mit the relevancy of a defense like
this until we test the accuraoy of a
man who seems so well disposed to
take refuge in a suggested falsehood.
There can be no if about the receipt
of this $5,000.
Third In regard to the two fee3 of
$10,000 each received for services ren
dered to the bondholders of tho St. L.,
A. & T. H. road, Tilden Is, of course,
unable to get behind his oath. But,
with his short-sighted cunning, he
attempts to cover up the facts under
a cloud of words In all those there
are but two definite statements, and
thesea'reavasive. 1. Thatof the$I0
000 received Oct. 17, 18G2, "no appre
ciable part, if any, can be apportion
ed to 1862." 2. That of the$10,000 re
ceived on Nov. 7, "no considerable
part belongs to 1862." And yet, G3
pages, or more than half of Tilden's
ESTABLISHED 1858.
legal instruments made in 1862. It
was in March, 1862, that the road was
sold to S. J. Tilden and others, nomi
nated as a purchasing committee; it
was in June of the same year that the
formal conveyance was effected ; it
was in June that the certificate of in
corporation of the new company was
filed, and its directors appointed; it
was in Juno that the new board, of
which Tilden was a member, held its
first meeting, and referred certain im
portant resolutions to its council, S.
J. Tilden, and it was at various dates
in the same year that the final deeds
of trust were executed, the distribu
tion of new bonds effected, and the
"reconstruction" job wound up, very
much to the profit of 8. J. Tilden.
On the whole we must adhere to our
charge that $20,000 was "earned"
from that corporation in 1862.
Fourth It is denied that Tilden re
ceived any "fees, compensation, or
payments" from the Chicago and
Northwestern Co., in the year 1862.
It is not denied, however, that he
"earned" such an amount iu 1862,
and was paid for it in a subsequent
year. Mr. Tilden must not confine his
attention to "receipts" in one portion
of his answer and to "earnings1' in an
other. He must take some one con
struction of the law and abide by it.
For the present this charge must re
main. Fifth It is asserted that the Toledo
& Wabash Co. never was a client of
Mr. Tilden, and that neither iu 1SG2
nor at any other time did he receive
anv fees from it. That we must ac
cept as conclusive.
Sixth It is denied that $25,000 in
bonds was received in 1SG2 for services
rendered to the Chicago & Alton Co.
We never said that it was. On Sept.
9th we stated theamountof the bonds
to be $25,000, but uext day we made
thefollowingcorrection and added the
following facts: On April 18, 1863.
Mr. Tilden received twenty bonds of
the C. & A. R. It. for services render
ed in 1S62. To answer this specific al
legation, which can be proved by ref
erence to the books of the Co., Mr.
Tilden presents this choice piece of
pettifogging:
"No bonds were retained or receiv
ed for sucii services in 1SG2, nor was so
large amount ever received, including
expenses and disbursements. Services
wore rendered, and no doubt they
were taken into account in computing
the gross earning of that year."
Here we have the "receipt" theory
again adopted because it suits better
than "earnings," and here we have
a palpable quibble preferred to a plain
statement when there could be no dif
ficulty iu meeting ttie chsrgeequarely.
We must reitefate this charge with re
newed emphasis.
Seventh The receipt of $1,000 as
trustee of the Balance Dry Dock Co.,
is admitted.
We must then after giving Mr. Til
den's answer all the weight which can
be claimed for it, restate the following
as among the items of his income in
1SG2 from the following sources: P. F.
W. &, Chicago railroad company, $25,
000; St. L. &T. H. railmad company
$10,000; Chicago and Northwestern
railroad company, $20,000, Chicago &
Alton railroad company, $20,000;
Balance Dry Dock Compauy, $1,000.
Total, g7G,000!
It is not denied that his income tax
from interest, dividends, etc., in 1862
was at least $12,000, and it is tacitly
admitted that 'the expenses, repairs
and taxes which could be legally de
ducted from the gross iucorue did not
exceed $6,500.
we suumit mat Tilden a answer,
in regard to this year, instead or dis
proving the general charge, furnishes
a very strong presumption of its truth.
When so little can be 6aid in defense,
the case must be a very bad one.
It h clear that in subsequent years
Mr. Tilden must have received pay
ment for services iu 1862, on which,
according to his own theory, he was
bound to pay tax. If he never return
ed as income either fees which were
not paid, or receipts which represent
ed services in some year previous, he
need only to have given his clients sev
eral months credit to have returned
no income at all.
He has hot thought proper to show
by what method he reached his esti
mate of $7,11S as fncoraejfor 1S62, but
until a betterexplanation is forthcom-
ing, we must assume that it was by
the method Indicated. That theory
would certainly not mend" his charac
ter as a perjurer and tax-grabber.
The "defense" of Mr. Tilden's fail
ure to make any returns of his income
between 1S64 and 1S74 the year 1S6S
alone excepted needs only to be
stated to deepen the contempt which
all honorable citizens must feel both
for the man wlto authorizes and the
man who sigus such a plea. It is as
follows :
"Mr. Tilden received no favor from
the government officers, and sought
none. He did nothing but pay all they
imposed on him. Nearly all his in
come from investments paid the tax
through the corporations whose bonds
and stocks he held without allowarice
tor tne lawiui aeuueuons. On the
Residue, after the lawful deductions
were made he believed at the time,
that instead of paying less, heofteuer
paid moro than would have been the
result of a full but troublesome ac
counting. He preferred in that way
to be exempt from the difficulties in
cident to attempting a specific state
ment of the affairs in which he was
interested, and of the corporations and
business in which he was an Investor,
Iuuu UlOU IU Ut) CACUJJJICU UULU LUtt IU
spouslbility of adjudicating on the
and also to be exempted from the re
BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA,
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facts and the law applicable to uncer
tain and fluctuating elements during
rapid and violent changes of fictitious
values."
Anything more disingenuous or
more thoroughly characteristic of its
author, it would bedifflcult to imagine.
Mr. Tilden knows, as does every man
who ha3 seen an income-tax return,
that when an annual income exceed
ed $10,000 and paid a tax of five per
cent., any portion of such income de
rived from dividends paid by corpora
tions which had previously paid the
tax of 3 per cent, was still chargeable
with two per cent, on the return of
the person by whom the dividends
were received. We do no hesitate to
assert that from the New York mine
alone Tilden's income between 1865
and 1872 was not lesa than a yearly
average of $50,000, being more than
double the amount of his average as
sessed Income during fthese yeare.
- After waiting so long, it is Bome
what remarkable that Mr. Tilden
should have attempted any defense at
all; after attempting it, nothing but
conscious guilt could have made his
answer tne contempuoie rarrago or
half-truths and evasions which it is.
We are glad, however, that Mr. Til
den has rested a part of his case on
simple issue of fact. There we are
quite willing to meet him, and shall
with all the haste which the exami
nation admits of, prove that he has
attempted to conceal perjury by false
hood, and to hide fraud by the arts of
the pettifogger and shyster.
Governor Tildeu.
We give below fifteen reasons why
the Democrats, of Brownvillo call
Tilden a reformer, and give him their
support:
1. Because of his connection with
the N. W. Railroad Ring, which
swindled innocent stockholders out
of millions of property.
2. Because of his swindling of the
Government, in issuing large amointa
of illegal curreucy iu the State of
Michigan.
3. Because of his defrauding the
Government by false income returns
in 1S62.
4. Because of the judgments ren
dered against him in favor of the Ga
lena & Chicago it. R, and judge
ments against him for; taxes, from
which he obtained relief by a bill
smuggled through Congress.
5. Because, while claiming to be a
great "Reformer," he not4only failed
to punish the plunders of the State of
New York who robbed the State .of
millions under pretext of building a
new State House, but actually made
them his fast friends and confidential
co-workers.
G. Because he violated the Consti
tution of the State of New York In
approving a special street railway
bill, in which hB.vVaa personally In
terestedwhen his sworn duty re
quired him to veto it.
7. Because ho approved a bill ad
ding $50,000 per annum to the fees of
theSherilfof New York, whose pay
previously fdached the enormous sum
of $40,000 per annum.
8. Because he nominated to a high
office of honer, trust and profit a man
who was a defuuiterrto the amount of
$80,000.
9. Becaeue he appointed to office a
Brooklyn man who had been indict
ed, and convicted of robbiug the char
ity funds of that city of large amounts
of money.
10. Because he had pa'rdoned and
turned loose upou the community a
large number of criminals within the
past eighteen months.
11. Because he opposed ths prose
cution of all cases where ring men
controlled party machinery and Pres
idential delegates, pursuing and pros
ecuting only those who had no politi
cal influence.
12. Because of Tilden's intimaoy
with Tweed from 1866 to 1871, when
they worked hand iu hand together
n all political matters.
13. Because Tilden's relatives and
intimate friends were always interest
ed in Tweed's "jobs."
14. Because, during Tweed's reign
in New York, Tilden's returns of
taxable property were merely nomin
al. 15. Because of his disloyalty to the
United States Government during the
Rebellion.
The Vi'aj it Happened.
One man Is ready to believe Tilden's
explanation a clergyman, who tells
this story 1 "I was journeying with a
younger brothef of my flock, with
whom I ocoupied a section in asleep
ing car. Iu the night I quit my
couch to refresh myself at the cooler.
Having done so I returned to what I
conceived to be my section, and ob
serving that my companion as I took
the sleeper to be had moved oyer to
the outside of the berth, I shook him
by the shoulder with gentle force, re
marking, iu the words of a seculiar
Bong, "Tommy, make room for your
uncle.' To my ineffable' surprise
and horror, the sleeper I had so rudely
awakened was of the opposite sex.
She shrieked aloud and in another
second I had bounde'd into my own
berth, and waV apparently snoring
the snore of the just. It seems to me
that they might have big oanvas
numbers put on the berths, such as
thoy have on the pilot boats lu New
York, say five or six feet long;" then
the railway-faring man, though sbtoft
sighted, need not stray."
Hurrah for Hayes and Wheeler !
THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 5, 18T6.
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Confederate Claims on the National
Treasury.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Oazztic, writing from a point in Cen
tra) Kentucky, says:
"Apropos of losses, it may be said
that the ex-slaveholders are engaged
at present figuring out their gains on
the basis of the electioh of Tilden.
That is, 30 much for each slave lost by
emancipation, and it is astonishing
what figures they plaoeon their form
er slaves, and their losses in the way
of fence-rails and provender by the
Federals have amounted to an im
mense sum, with accrued interest.
That tho Southern element count on
being reimbursed from the National
Treasury is no Radical canard, but
plain, blank truth. This may not be
thedootrine north of1 the Ohio, but it
is Democratio gospel south of that
stream. A few minutes' talk will
bring the truth out of any of the ex
slaveholders, and that is their princi
pal reason for advocating the election
of Tilden, and there is but little dis
position to conceal the fact. The idea
of reform in the National administra
tion is a minor consideration. It is
Tilden and government claims here,
or Hayes and No cash."
This is undoubtedly a cor.reot state
ment of the facts in,.the case, and it
points the sure road to national bank
ruptcy. The ruling classes in the
South have never for one moment
abandoned the idea or the expecta
tion of eventually recovering pay
from the government for their losses
in the war. A large proportion of the
former slaveholders expect to get
compensation Jfor their slaves, and
there will be a formidable movement
to this end whenever the Democracy
finds Itself in control of all the branch
es of the government. But compen
sation for their slaves is not the only
form that Southern reprisals will take;
there will be a long list of other
olaims, public and private, on account
of losses iu the war. Many of these
were introduced by Southern mem
bers during the last session, but were
not pressed because they could not pos
sibly pass the Senate, or receive the
approval of the President, and it would
have been impolitic to press them.
But once let the Democrats elect a
President and get control of both
branches of Congress, and the doors
will be opened for all such claims, and
they will be paid by. millions. As
samples of. the bills introduced by
Southern members during the recent
session, we present the following:
HoulJ M. Bright, of Tennessee,
troduced a bill to pay the heirs of
Thomas Hood $5S,t)95 for supplies
taken from his farm, which was the
battle ground of Stone River In 1SG2.
Possibly he might have figured up an
even $59,000, but he wouldn't stretch
his conscience for five dollars. Hon.
C. W. Millikeu, of Kentucky, pre
sented a little bill fur the heirs of
Robert Isherwood, asking! for $G0,
627.63 for farm supplies "consumed by
the animals and troops of the United
States army." The accuracy with
which this claim was figured down to
sixty-three cents is quit9 admirable.
Mr. Charles C. Campbell, of Virginia,
appeared before Congress In the per
son of his representative, Hon. Wm.
Terry, and asked for a trifle of $19,G95
for property appropriated by the Union
army in 1864. W. W. Walden, of
Missouri, asked for $3,000 for a build
ing destroyed by fire during the war,
and the Hon. Mr. DeBolt presented
a bill for his relief. Chafied P. May,
of Alabama, lost some cotton, and
Hon. W. H. Forney introduced a bill
to pay him $6,304.83. Hon. G. W.
Wells, of Mississippi, introduced a
bill to pay one A. Burwell, a constit
uent of his residing iu Vicksburg,
$75,000 for real estate appropriated by
the Federal army lu 1863. Mr. Shan
non, of New Orleans, owned a steam
boat which was pressed into the Gov
ernment service dtring the war, and
the Hon. O. R. Singleton introduced
a bill to pay him $37,000 for the use of
it. Hon J. Hi Blount, of Georgia,
had a very hungry constituent in the
person of A. D. Maxwell, of Macon,
who wanted $270,000 for ordinance
stores and supplies taken from him by
the Federal army in 1863. As the
stores were designed for rebel use it
was unkind in our army to take them,
but, under the circumstaucss, it would
be rather hard to have to pay for them.
These are samples of a great number
of bills of thi3 clas3 purely private
claims'.
Another class was for the payment
of money to Southern States or cities
for alleged damages received during
the war. West Virginia wants$200,-
000 for the destruction of a certain
road and the bridges thereon by th'e
transportation of army supplies during
the war, and Hon. Benj. Wils"oU in
troduced a bill to pay it. Hon. Mr.
Whitthorue, of Tennessee, Democrat
io chairmsn of the Committee on"
Naval Affaire, asked that his State be
reimbursed for the railroad destroyed
and the material appropriated by
Sherman's army, and presented abilT
of $000,000. Hon. John Goode, of Vir
ginia, introduced a bill to pay William
and Mary College $65,000 for buildings
destroyed during the war. The town
of Lexington, North Carolina, wanted
$17,000 for its court-house destroyed
by fire while occupied by United
States soldiers, and Hon. A. M. Scales,
Representative from that district,
presented the bill. Hon. C. J. Faulk
ner, of West Virginia, introduced a
bill appropriating $12,000 to reimburse
the county of Randolph for damage
done its roads and: bridges during the
war. Hon. M. J. Durham, of Ken
tucky, filed the claim Of the Madison
Female Seminary, at Richmond, Ky.,
for $10,325, for use of the building by
Union troops during the war. In
1863, the Presbyterian church atMur
freesboro, Tenn., was used as a hospi
tal for TJnicn soldiers, and Hon. J. M.
Bright presented a bill for $10,000 on
this account. But perhaps the most
rrtodest claim of all was that embraced
in a bill Introduced by Hon. William
Walsh, of Maryland, who asked Con
gress to pay the Mayor and Common
Council of Frederick, Maryland, $300,
000, being the principal and accrued
interest of a forced loan levied on that
city by Gen. Jubal Early, of the rebel
array, during Lee's invasion of Mary
land and Pennsyvania in 1863.
These are samples of bills actually
introduced by Southern members dur
ing the recent session of Congress. If
they did not pass the House it was
simply because the Confederate's knew
they could not pass the Senate; but
the fact that the claims were present
ed aud bills introduced for their pay
ment shows whattheSouthern people
expect. There are thousands of such
claims made out and prepared in the
South, all ready to be presented and
urged as soon as the Democracy gets
control of the government. This is
but one and not the least; of the dan
gers involved in the succes's of that
party. iV. Y. Times.
Tilden's Extracts.
We take the following extracts from
the Chicago Times printed in June
1876, before the St. Louis Convention :
It is useless to talk about defeating
Hayes with Tilden. The chances are
so enormously against it that nothing
but a blind fatuity of the stupidest
part3'ism would venture upon so wild
afi experiment.
But Tilden and Hendricks combin
ed would be a trade-mark of political
dishonesty that all honest citizens
would spurn.It would ".not get an
elcctorial vote north of the Ohio river.
For Tilden to swallow Hendricks aud
survive is an imaginable possibility.
For Hendricks to swollow Tildeu and
survive is an imaginable possibility.
But for Tilden and Hendricks to
swallow each other and survive is
plainly not within theboundsof things
possible.
Such Is hot the Case with Mr. Til
den. He has a record, and unfortu
nately, It is not one that will staud
adverse criticism. Moreover he la the
selection of politicians. He awakens
no enthusiasm among the people. If
nominated Ha3-es will beat him as
bad as Graut did Greeley.
-it
That Is the story, told In brief, that
was filed in Judge Williams' court a
month or two ago, against the great
railroad lawyer, who has not yet made
anything like a definite reply to it.
These two operations Involve what is
called breach of trust ; that is, Mr.
Tilden, being intrusted with a certain
sum of money for spcific purposes, di
verts it from those purposes Into his
own bank account.
It (the nomination of Tilden and
Hendricks) would be, on the very
face of it, an advertisement of total
political depravity. So palpable a
fraud would disgust both the friends
of honest money and the devotees of
the wretched legal-tender swindle,
aud receive the approbation of none
but political hucksters.
In those June days the Times was
telling some bitter truths which all
the whitewash it is now using will
not be likely to obliterate.
Three Reasons Why Independents
Cannot Support Tilden.
1. Because his election would mean
tho triumph of soft money. For
months before the nomination had
begun to weaken on this point, to
urge that the currency question ought
to be kept on the back-ground, to in
sist that it was better to get control of
the government before trying to set
tle the finances. By the time he
came to write hia letter he had resolv
ed to go far enough to satisfy the in
flationists. He did satisfy them.
Gen. Thoma3 Ewiug, jr., The Cin
cinnati Fnquirer, aud the wholecrazy
crowd have been hearty and enthusi
astic since his letter was published. If
he surrenders to them now in advance,
what would he do as president, when
they had a Clear majority in con
gress? 2. The electron df Tilderf would
mfea'n the utter defeat of civil service
reform. He aud his party do not
propose to turn out incompetents:
they propose to turn out everybody.
Last winter they began by turning
out men who, under &H administra
tions and all parties, had been held in
dispensfble because of their life-long
training for their work. They filled
the most tfelfeate and responsible pla
ces with incompetents, and the whole
capital was overrun with a horde of
ignorant office-hunters, scrambling
for the vacancfes f&'at had boen crea
ted by wholesale. "We cannot help
ft," said one of the most intelligent
and conscientious democratic con
gressmen. "These men, and especial
ly those from' the south, are too hungry.
Ho party could resist ihem." If such
was th'e invasion provoked' by the pal
try patronage of the House, what
would happen with the whole patron
age of the executive in their hands?
1 Tilden would turn' out everybody,
VOL. 21 NO. 15.
good aud bad, would make absolutely
every office in the Uuited States a
prize for present party service, and
would thus set back civil service re
form a quarter of a century.
3. Tilden's triumph would mean
the sectional array of the solid south
onccmore against the controlling and
better element of the north. The coun
try is not quite prepared for that re
sult of the war. it would be most in
jurious to the south itself, and to the
country at large it would certainly be
perilous. New York Tribune.
e.
THE GRASSHOPER DESCRIBED
What Kind of a Figure the Pcst of the
"West Make in Minnesota.
The grasshopper a9 a champion
raultlplyist has no equal. He lays
(speaking generally and not put too
fine a point on it) an egg which is
about- the shape of a long primer 0. In
fact he lays several of them. From
August i until winter he is actuated
by a reckless ambition to bore holes in
the ground, the size of a pipestem, and
to fill these holes with cream colored
00. And though he is small he at
tends to his biz, aud is a triumphant
success. In stature he Is about a
match for a six pennystub nail and
formed like a lynchpin. and he wears
a green sealing-wax heail on' him and
a pair of glass eyes, so that with his
long tailed duster on he looks like an
unsophisticated and nearsighted
schoolmaster, lint unsophisticated
isn't what's the matter with him.
And numeration'is his best mathem
atical hold. He.will stand himself
upright like a peg;in one of those
holes aforesaid, aud view the heavens
with an air of sublime serenity and
woodeu-headed unconsc'iouss.
Don't you fool yourself he knows
just what he is about. He prefixes
himself like a figure 1 in thebuisness,
and adopting thedecimal system of
notation, calmly places'a 0 where it
will do thegmost good. That stands
for 10, andbefore you can' dot and
carry one he has added another cipher
to that, and he now reads 100. About
this time you begin to discover what
sort of a rooster he is, and you enter
tain a degree of awe for him not in
spired by a front view of his greeu
goggles. Reasoning a posteriori you
discover that he is a dangerous neigh
bor. But While you stand amazed he
rapidly suffixes fifteen or twenty more
000, carrying his j"pr6bl:'m Into the
million millions, and has sealed and
cemeuted it up ready to be fired at
you next spring. In two minutes and
a quarter he gives you a problem that
witl 'all your power of multiplication
cannot be solved or elucidated. He
compounds his interest atlOO per cent,
every five seconds, puts a snap judg
ment on your cornfield, and forecloses
before you can say Jack Robinson.
Fergus Falls Journal.
A (Granger at the Centennial;
Many strangers at the centennial
are not yet aware that they can't get
out, even foramomett aud get back,
on the same entra'n'ce-fSe. I saw an
old man, evidently a Granger, try it
theotherday. Hesaysto thegatemrin:
"I want to go out a minute. You'il
know me when I come back, wou't
you?
Gateman Yes; I'll know you by
a 50-cent s!amr.
Granger What! Ain't the iMfieyi
paid good for all day?
Gateman Yes; it's good for all day,
if you stay in all day.
Granger But I want a bite teat.
It'll cost me50 cents in here.
Gatemau That's the rule, old man,
and you'll have to stand it. But I'll
tell you what you can do. You can go
down by them palings, and there
some boj's outside will sell you a saud
wioh for 20 cents.
I followed the old ge'ut' down by
the paliugs to witness his investment:
Sure enough, he fouud an auburn
haired bo$ withsaudwiohes, and tak
ing one through the slats, passed out
a 50-cent stamp. Then he held his
hand through for the change.
"Thi3 is 1876," says the brick-top
Arab.
Granger Well, Iguess I knowed
that before. Gim my change !
Arab This is Centennial year.
Granger (snappiug his fingers ner
vously through thecrack) Here, boy!
I don't want no foolin'. Gim my
change rite away.
Arab Don't you knov this Is" Ceof
tennial year?
Granger Yes, sholy I do." Gim my
change, you owdacious devfT.
Arab Don't give no change Cen
tennial year.
Granger You cussed', infernal, red
headed brat of Satan, ifyo'udotf't g'frn'
me 30 cents I'll come out there aud
get a policeman hold of you".
Arab Now, milter, that wouldn't
be buisness. You don't want to come
out here and pay 50" cents to get back,
just for 30 cents, and if yer was ter
do it for spite, whereM I be when you
got out? You see, th'is Is Centennial
year. Have to make ourjack this
year. Now, you go along quite and
trice, and it'll be theame next Cen'-I
tenn fa f.
Final Arab performs a short war
dance and yells: "Rnn here, Jitrfhiy'
I've done It to another of 'em!''
Granger walks off, rubbing hfsbbt'h
ered brow and muttering:
Well I will be eterually dig-bfasted
mtew gou'rdseed If this ain't f&'e sKfp
pinist place I ever struck J"
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THECbUIVTY.
Tales oflHy Grandraothefi
Hoogley's boy has been spending
his summer vacation with his grand
father and grandmother down East:
He got home this week, and a few
evenings ago, while sitting on tho
curbstone adjosting a rag on his soro
heel, he was telling Squeaky (one of
his chums) what a good time he had.
The following is his story : "I've got
the old boss grandmother for telliti'
stories, and don't you forgit it! She
is as much as 200 yearS old, with a
great long crooked chin, and her face
kinder looks like pork-scraps, but
she's a bully old gal, aiiij can't aha
tell some awful Inj'un stories. She
says she's got three mattresses stuffed
with Injun's hair that my grandfather
killed and scalped when he was a
young man. AH of my grandmother'
pillers is stuffed with Injun's hair,
too, she says. My Grandfather he'd
got an old flintlock-gun that I guess"
wa3 made whenJNoercum out in tho
ark. My grandfather used to shoot
bears'n tigers'n elefunts'n crockerdl
les'n all kinds of birds and everything.
My grandfather shot his gun Intern
lion or wolf one day, and the wolf
growed mad'n run out of the wdods'n
run Inter a naber's house'n swallered
three little children. My grandfather
he runs'n grabbed the wolf n skiuned
him'u saved the children fore they'd
et up. Piruts used to sail up the rivet
In front of my grandfather's houne'n
they used to rob folks and mUrder
'em and git their mtihny ; they used
to murder a thousand folks a day
sometimes and berry the gold In a
cave. My grandmother was all alone
one day. and sum piruts cum and set
the house afire, and my grandmother
throw'd boiliu1 water dn the piruts,
and they left foui millions of gold aha4
run off. You ougiit to see my graud
mother and hear her tell things !"
Boston Sunday Courier,
AmericanlFabrics Abroad;
An American manufacturer, now Id
England, writes home that "the un
questioned superiority of American
cotton fabrics over English warrants'
the attempt by American weavers to
introduce their wares' into theEnglisu
home market. The wholesale jobbers'
and retailers of Glasgow, Ediuburgh,
Manchester, Liverpool; London, Bel
fast and Dublin all. expressed to me
an opiuiou favorable to our fabrics;
and that they were the best to wear,
while none placed them below the
standard of the English. Manchester
has lost all the colonies' on co'afse dot
ton yarns used in domestic weaving
with wool. American Cotton aud the
American style of manufacturing
command the entire tnarket in these
colonies for that article. A Glasgow
jobber admiited the fact, and added
iai c ucic.uuiiuiiiii 1110 uiucib tui
sheetings and shirtings In the Canad
as aud West Indies." This is Great
Britain now, and the faots show that
our exports of manufactured cottons
have a very ""strong foreign hold
already. They are being introduced
Into Afffca, Asia, and South America;
too'.
A visitor at he Exposition, dining
St a French restaurant, meekly inti
mated when his bill, was presented
that his boiled egg contained a ohlokeii
The polite waiter said that he would
have the bill corrected, and soon re
turned with anew bill, upon which
the charge of 30 cents for "eggs" had
given place to an item of 60 cents for
chicken.
A little five-year-oloof Dorchester
somewhat surprised Itis mother a few
days since with the remark: "God is
everywhere; he is all over mo; and
wheu you spadk fcueyou spank Gods"
"I guess dad wishes we'd all die
and go to heav6n,' tdid an old miser's
sonto his maternal parent. "Why so?"
she asked, upon recovering frorn hei
astonishment. "Oh 'cause Heaven's
such a cheap place to live In.
Only one hundred and seven news
papers were established in America
last month, and as long as the number
doesn't go over 6',000 per year, each
paper can be certain of fifteen or twen
ty subscribers.
What peace of Carpentry becomes
a gem as Boon i& It is finished? A
fcte. Good headquarters for young men!
On the shoulders of their sweet-'
hearts.
Why is a compositor like a cripple ?
Because he can't get along wfthbut
a stick.
Made a bull-sigh The marksman,
who went out to Cfeedm'oro, and shot
a cow.
When does a ship of war become a
ship of peace ? When she drops her
rancor.
riere is the verdict of a Kansas jury:
"Died of a kick in the stomach from
his vvife, and he. never Knew what'
hurt him.
UI will resist, under any and all cir
cumstances, the vse of force to coerce
Me&buthintothe Union." S.J. Tilden
When a physician deserts hh pro-
fession for the pulpit the infefuece Is
that he can pteaoU better than he cac!
practice.