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VOLUME XI. LENOIR, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23. 1886. NUMBER 39. STATESVILLE NEW YORK. WALLACE BROS, General Merchandise -AND PBODUCE DEALERS, AND Headquarters for Med- I icinal Crude, Roots, ' . ' ''. Herbs, Berries, Barks, Seeds, Flowers, Gums & Mosses, statesville; n.V -Jot- WALLACE BROS., General Produce Dealers -AND- Commission Merchants, 304 Greenwich St.," BROIVN'S IRON BITTERS WILL CURE HEADACHE INDIGESTION -BILIOUSNESS DYSPEPSIA NERVOUS PROSTRATION MALARIA CHILLS and FEVERS TIRED FEELING GENERAL DEBILITY PAIN w the BACK & SIDES IMPURE BLOOD CONSTIPATION FEMALE INFIRMITIES RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA KIDNEV AND LIVER TROUBLES FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS t TU Cnuln. has TrU Urk and crod R4 Un om wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER. CLINTON ' A. CILLEY, Attomov-At-La7, Practice in Zl Iho Courts. PERILS OF CIRCUMSTANCE. A Suggestive Story of the Sufferings of Two Innocent Victims. Hew York World. km? hilj toving with a pile of $500 bills today an admirable portrait of Major-Gen. Mansfield, which adorns the issue, caught my eye anij recall ed a case of circumstantial evidence to my mind which, in these days of peril to victims of circumstances, may be of suggesti ve interest. A few years ago John Hardy, the last of his race, consumptive, with hacking cough, possessing a little property which, judiciously manag ed, brought him in $1,200 a year, came, by the advice of hisphvsician, from his home in Peoria, 111!, to the seashore, hoping that the bracing atmosphere might do him good. He was studious, fond of routine read ing, agentleman by birth and breed ing, without bad habits of any kind, quiet, temperate, well-behaved. He found a home in a boarding house kept by church members in Brook lyn, in Sydne place, not .'far from the church of St. Charles Borromeo. Among his fellow-boarders was Marv Scott, a.young woman born in Car diff, Walesa public school teacher, a well-informed 1 and well-behaved person of twentyTtwo. She was oc cupied in school from 8 in the morn ing until 4 in the afternoon, and passed much of .her evenings in cor recting compositions, looking through arithmetical and algebraic problems worked out by her schol ars, and preparing the multitudi nous data required by school exam iners. Hardy and Miss Scott sat next each other at the table, and formal acquaintance developed, in the course of a winter, into matured friendship. There was no love about it, no abnormal affection, but a simple friendship born of mutual respect. THEY GO TO A THEATKE. One clear, crystal December day, after an animated discussion at the table, and subsequently in the par lor, as to a certain Shakesperian reading. Hardy said : "See here, Booth plays Hamlet tomorrow night. I suppose you will grant that a man who has spent thirty-five years on the stage ought to know how to read that passage." "Why, certainly' replied Miss Scott. "Not that I have any special respect or regard for Mr. Booth's scholarly opinion. I suppose it is fair to infer that he will read the line intelligently after a . m 1 1 all these years oi endeavor ana cm inism. 'hut what of it ?" "Nothiner.' 4 rejoined Hardy, "exceptr that if you will put up with my occasional go ings out for a breath of fresh air, for as you know I cannot with any comfort remain a great length of time in a public assemblage, L shall be very glad indeed to afford you an opportunity of testing which of us is l.'i the right." After considerable chaffing it was agreed that they would go. Hardy procured the tickets and they came to New York together. The Bridge was not then comple ted, so taking the cars to Fulton Ferrv, after an icy passage across the fiver and the usual comfortless ride in the surface cars, they found themselves pleasantly ensconced in two parquet seats in Booth's Thea tre, then standing on the corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street. At the end of the second act Hardy excused himself to bis companion, saying :" "With your permission I will leave you now for about ten or fifteen minutes. I will walk as far as Broadway and back, exercise my arms and relieve my lungs and rejoin you as soon as pos sible. Meantime don't feel the least concerned." Stie readily excused him, understanding thp situation, and he went out. NOW YOU GET at THE STORY. ; To his amazement the full moon, which an hour and a half preceding made the city bright as day, had disappeared and the clean, clear, blue sky, through which the bright stars had pierced, was dart and threatening. The air was full of snow, blown hither and there by tremendous tempestuous winds, and at least two inches lay virgin, spot less on the streets. Turning the collar of his coat up on his neck and bracing himself, Mr. Hard y started in the teeth of the wind ; towards Broadway. . , , . His eyes moistened and his ears were pinched as with icy fingers,, but he was full of pluck and life and the hot blood pumped through his veins as he pushed vigorously along, and he rather enjoyed the crackling of the snow under his well-shod feet. Still prudence suggested to him not to- strain himself overmuch, and just before reaching the old Nathan homestead, then about to be turned into an Adams Express de pot, he turned about and, with a Semi-trot, moved back towards the Ashe did so a man rushed swiftly past him towards Sixth avenue, dropping, some fifteen feet further r?L: v-Un in the SnOW. ; on, a eumuig , .t j louna, to nis bu" r - w watch! to which was attached a bro ken gold chain. ' , , , "Halloo I Halloo r-.he,. Routed. "Here I Here I you have dropped something. Here's your watch I But the fleeing figure paid no at tention and -continued its rapid course. Instinctively Hardy accelerated his pace, calling, out all the time. In his anxiety to overtake the fleeing man he paid no attention to noises behind him, if indeed the howlings of the wind and the vigor of the storm would have permitted it. THE CIRCUMSTANCES BEGIN TO TELL. As he reached4he corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street, in the full glare of the flickering gas lights he was felled to the ground by a policeman's club, yanked fto his feet by a vigorous hand, roughly pulled and hauled by a dozen! men, one of whom, grasping the watch which he held tight in his hand, said : "Well, here.it is in his very possession." - Dazed, amazed, bewildered, Har dy knew not what to do. His protests were laughed at, his shouts and cries for help were igno red, and between two stalwart "po licemen .followed, : preceded and beleaguered by a tremendous crowd of men and boys such as can be gotten together in that conspicuous spot upon the slightest pretext he was hauled off to the Twenty-ninth street station, where, behind the desk, sat the doughty Capt. -Williams himself. !' You can imagine the mental con dition of this young man, unaccus tomed to the hurly-burly of metro politan life, who had never spoken to a policemanp whom the idea of a scuffle, of a rough and tumble, was abhorrent, whoknew that pir cum stances were against him, who knew that his fair young friend, as unaccustomed to New York and its localities as he, was wondering and waitiug in the theatre, and those of you who have been troubled at any time with asthma can possibly un derstand his physical condition. He -was covered with snow, his clothing had been considerably disarranged, and he was about as near a nonenti ty, for his morale was by the sudden shock largely undone, as it is possi ble to conceive. "What is your name ?" "John Hardv " "Where do vou live ?" "No. 19 Sydney place, Brooklyn." AND MORE OF IT. Before the next question could bo put the door of the station-house was flung open and two policemen rushed furiously in. "Quick, quick," said the taller, "where is that man that was just arrested ? His victim is dying. Qnick. He is needed for identification" "Where ?" "In the drug store, corner of Twenty-fourth street and Broadway. Quick." Followed, preceded, beleaguered by the crowd, poor Hardy was marched down to the drug store, where, on an extemporized pallet, lay a man fast bleeding to his death. With him Hardy was confronted. "Do you recognize this man as the one who stole your watch and stab bed you ?" " Feebly the sinking man looked, nodded and died. Hardy was taken back to the station-house, where, in a cell charged with theft and issassination, we will leave him, conceding, I think, that circumstances were very decidedly against him. THE GIRL OH, WHERE WAS SHE? And how about Miss Scott ? We left her where Hardy did, in the parquet at the close of the sec ond act. Knowing the necessity of her escort's keeping in the pure air as much as possible the yonng lady contented herself with the play. She looked back once in a while, but without the least suggestion of an noyance. The act passed, the en tr'acte passed, the curtain feU final ly upon the last tableau. ; Then she was annoyed. She made her way with the crowd towards the door and in common with the rest was surprised at the storm which by this time had as sumed tremendous proportions, banking in huge drifts the snow along the curbs, whirling it across the tracks into areas, with long win rows on one side, leaving a clean swept street upon the other, Pandemonium always exists dur ing ten or fifteen minutes after the close of a New York theatre. Policemen, hack-drivers, footmen, little boys anxious to earn ten cents by calling out numbers, and the confluence of sundry streams of or dinary passers and outcomers of the theatres contributed a multitudinous mass of hurly-burly element, Jlalf an hour passed. . Bang, went the doors. ' 'Madame," said the watchman, "I will have to ask you to step out Bide I must close up." By this time terror had taken the place of annoyance, as that had giv? en way to surprise, and Miss Scott stood trembling in every limb, with out a cent in her pocket, as ignorant of the locality in which she was as of the programme she would better pursue. Briefly she told her story to the watchman, who said he was sorry but really he could not help her. A dozen hackmen surrounded her proffering their services. - The poor girl had no money, and if her pockets had been lined with gold she wouldn't have known what to do. Finally one of them said, "Where do you wish to go, Mad ame r "To Brooklyn." "But the boats don't run after 12 o'clock and it is now within-fifteen minutes of that hour." This was false but Miss Mary did- n t know it. Again approaching her the dri ver said; "xou had better Jet mi take you to the United States Hotel at Fulton Ferry. 1 will trust you that far. You can get a room there and notify yonr friends in the mor ning. ALAS, POOR MARY ! This seemed the best course un der the circumstances, and, accept ing hit suggestion, the utterly be wildered young woman got into his hack, a veritable nighthawk- while he, with a? companion, mounted his box and sped away in the darkness, as the winds whistled and the storm whirled through the streets and about the carriage and its frighten ed passenger. p Instead of turning down j towards Fulton Ferry, John Quinn jthe dri ver, turned up Broadway and dash ed along as best he could, for the mow by this time was tolerably deep and falling thick and fast, - embar rassing progress by reason of its drifts, until he reached the Boule vard on the west side of the town. Cold, 'shivering, terrified, Miss Scott huo-ged herself and tried to reason. Suddenly looking through the ob scured pane, frost covered, she said to herself: "Why, Fulton Ferry is in a settled part of the city. This isn't," and she beat upon the front window with her fan. ' No response. She called loudly to the driver. No notice. Desperate with fear the now thor oughly awakened and aroused v wo man opened the door and reckless of her fate jumped from the car riage as it sped along. She landed in a snowdrift near a gas lamp just as the door of a brilliantly lighted gin mill was throwu open and a half dozen intoxicated rounders came pell-mell upon the desolate and deserted street. "Hallo," said one ; "by jove, but here's a gal, don't you know." Wet "to the skin, her clothing covered with snow and disarranged, Miss Scott was dragged into the barroom, where for the en suing half hour she was made the butt and plaything by men too drunk to do her serious harm, but full enough of the devil to make her wish that she had never been born. At 3.30 o'clock in- the morning the barkeeper said, "Come, you will have to get out of this." "But where shall I go?' she asked between her sobsh "Go where you came from, only get out of here," and with a push aud a lunge he thrust her into the snow just as Policeman Schenck came swinging his club in the blinding snow. I "Hallo Charley," he said "What's up r "Nothing special, except this old tram." - "Give me a drink." "Cert. What will it be ?" "John Barleycorn is good enough for me, I guess with a weed.' Whis key and a cigar were handed him by the barkeeper, who said, "Just get that old baggage out of here will you, Schenck! Push j her along. She has been bothering the life out of me since 1 o'clock this 1 morning." "Who is she ?" "Oh, I don't know. Some old tramp." "Godd night," said Schenok, as raising the girl to her feet he said, "Come along now None of your airs," and little by lit tle, with pushings and haulings and curses at his luck, he yanked her fo the station house, and after perf unc-e tory preliminaries shoved her, wet, broken hearted, hewildered, dazed into a common cell. , , . THE GROSS AND NET RESULT, At (o'clock the following rnqra ing, hat gone, hair down, clothing tor i, every rag on her soaked, as dirty, as unkempt as lany ordinary tramp, she was taken with a dozen others before the Police Justice, who heard the officer's story only and sent her to the Island as a common drunkard for thirty days. - John Hardy was arraigned in Jef ferson Market Police court that same morning charged with theft and murder, and bound over to await the action of the Grand Jury. Thirty days, in spite of protest, entreaty or threats, Mary Scott pass ed on Blackwell'a Island while John Hardy, with no friends, no money, no opportunity to send ,: for friends or money, waited as many a man has waited, the action of the Grand Ju ry. - ' v.- ' : , Circumstances were againt thgm both were they not ? The District Attorney was urged by the press to vindicate the "majes ty of the law and to push to swift punishment the hardened ruffian who, for the sake of . robbery, had assaulted his victim on that con spicuous thoroughfare at the corner of Broadway and Twenty third St, and, when embarrassed by apparent capture, sought relief in the plunge of a knife which cost the life of an estimable citizen. Hardy was indioted, brought be fore Recorder Hackett, convicted and sentenced to be hanged. Mary Scott was liberated at ' the end of thirty days and sought her friends in , Brooklyn. Her friends were of the pietic order-and declin ed, to recognize one who had left her home and ' spent : the night away therefrom under circumstances which were not only suspicious! but criminal., Her Welsh blood mount ed high. Pawning everything she had in life her little jewels, j her best clothing she sought the aid of a noted clergyman in Brooklyn and told her story, convinced him of its truth, interested him in John Har dy's case, secured the thoughtful intercession of the District Attorney, convinced him of his error and pro cured through him a pardon by the Governor, which was subsequently supplemented by an enabling act passed by the Legislature without a dissenting voice. ;j AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN. To make this story complete Har dy should have married Mary Scott, but death claimed him for its own. The excitement, the peril, the dis grace brought him so nearcTepartue for the final that sufiering wa3 his only portion and he hung on care fully attended and nursed, affection ately remembered by day and by night, until three years ago on Christmas Eve his spirit passed, at taining, let us hope, a desired rest, and no more sincere tribute to hero or to statesman on Decoration Day last was -paid than when a - little lady, prematurely old, dressed in solemn garb, laid upon his Green wood grave her annual gift of forget-me-nots and roses and a wreath of everlasting, j Circumstantial evidence had its work and all this might be true. i Globe Commencement, . To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic : After a pleasant visit to friends in Burke, including a view of. the magnificent scenery from the top of Table Rock, we reached John's Riv er at Collettsville and started to wards "the Globe." Many times it seemed that we must be near the end of our journey, for there seemed no place for a road to go farther ; and whence the river came it was , difficult to see. But winding around the hills, and crossing the many fords, and jolting over innumerable rocks, at length we saw the valley widening before us, and soon we found ourselves truly in the Globe. This is a valley, as I have intimated, shut off on all" sides by mountains, save on the south where the river emerges between precipitous cliffs, rising hundreds of feet, almost per pendicularly from its banks, so. that the road has been blasted from the solid rock. The valley of the Globe is five or six miles long, and some times its caves stretch out on each side so as to make it nearly a mile wide. , ' i jWe soon reached Globe Academy, standing in the midst of this flour ishing yalleyj with a large boarding house on the south, a row of offices in the rear, and a church on the north. Housed with Prof. PattOn, we Boon found everybody astir over the approaching commencement ex ercises. Presently the roll of the drum announoed the arrival of the Dallas brass band, which, to many, constituted one of the chief features of the occasion, and truly they made good music. j '"' The exercises began on Thursday evening. The main feature of the evening was a prize contest in com- fjosition and reading by six young adies. Their compositions had al ready been graded, and their public f)erformance was the .reading of se ections from good English litera ture, grave and gay, humorous and pathetic. Their grade on this read ing, as. given by three judges, was averaged with their grade on com position, and subsequently the prize, $7 in cash, was awarded to Miss Bettie Coffey; of BocTne. The read ing was of very high excellence, and the judges found great difficulty in grading one above another, as they, were of nearly equal merit. An other feature of the evening was the Calisthenic exercises, in charge of Mrs. Spainhour. These were" par ticipated in hy a number of young ladies in. becoming uniform, who kept time to music like a company, of well drilled soldiers. And per haps the prettiest of all these was the Calisthenic May-Pole. On Friday there were three more contests for prizes, beginning with another class of young ladea. in composition and reading- Here again was th,e same high excellence, and such equality as to render it difficult to deem one "more praise worthy than another. This prize was obtained by Miss Mary Mast, of Watauga. A class of young men declaimed for another priae, and right nobly did they strive, but only one could fet ita and this favored one was Mr. i. S. Cannon, of Burke? Lastly was a debate for a prize by six; young men, debating the ques tion, "Do the signs of the times in dicate the downfall of the American Republic They presented not written and memorised speeches, but extemporaneous speeches after care ful preparation." These young men will yet be heard from on other platforms than the school rostrum. The prize was obtained by Mr. T. F. Coffey, of Boone. .Nor must I omit. to mention the songs and instrumental pieces inter spersed among these exercises by Mrs. Spainhour and her music class. : And by common consent, the ? best of these were the songs and mstro mental solos of little Winnie Patton,, just eight. years old. In the afternoon an address was expected from Rev. JN. B. Cobb, of Hickory, but in hi absence a Wilkes school teacher was pressed into ser vice, who, not being able to raake a popular speech, tried to make amends to the people hy announcing a pop ular subject, and! talked about "Money." The prizes i were then awarded by Prof. Smith, of Tenn. Rev. E.'F. Jones led in a nrayer of thanksgiving to God for his mercies to the school, and the exercises were at an end. j ' -A Wilkes student says it rains oftener in the Globe than in Wilkes, and during our stay there were fre quent rains, but they came at such times as not to seriously, interfere with the exercises, j : The past session Of Globe Aoade my has been one of ; large prosperity. There was quite a Jarge patronage from atauga, several from lower down John's Riverj from Mulberry, from other parts of j Caldwell and from Burke. j . As already announced, Prof. Pat ton goes to North' Catawba. Prof. Spainhour, the efficient and ener getic principal, hasj not yet made his announcements! for the coming year. I ! G. W. G. Sutherland's Commencement. Sutheblands, June 7. To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic: It has been our pleasure to attend commencement exercises at Suther land Seminary, which were held on the 3d and 4th inst. On June 3, the exercises commen ced at night with a large audience in attendance, which was highly en tertained by : recitations, declama tions and concert work. The evening entertainment was concluded by an address delivered by Rev. W. A. Wilson to the Jeffersonian Dialectic which was highly appreciated by the audience for its profound delivery. Mr. Wilson is one 6f Ashe county's noble sons. j r On Friday, with a very large au dience, the exercises in trie forenoon were devoted to examinations which showed a'pioficiency seldom seen in exercises of this kind. After an hour of relaxation and refreshment, the exercises of the evening began, -j which consisted off essays, declama tions and recitations interspersed with music by class and choruses by choir. At three ofclock the annual address was delivered bv Prof. A. H. Eller, who spoke feelingly of the progress of education in Ashe, his native county, and) plainly showed that he was a thoughtful and ornate speaker and capable of entertaining and enlightening ah audience. On Friday nightjwere the closing exercises, which tinie was taken up by the students in j recitations, dec lamations and reading -essays. Among the recitations, "A Picture to be Drawn" and "Lenort," were recited in special pleasing manner. Notable among the auditors was Prof. Matney, of Tenn., who made some pleading remarks, and ' Major Neal, who is a strong advocate of education. j The audience was estimated to be about one thousand or twelve hun dred. A large number was in at tendance from Taylorsville, Tenn., and other parts of jthat State. iSome were f rom Independence, Va., and Month of Wilson, (Va., was repre sented by a large and lively party. All of Ashe was well represented, and Jefferson sent jout a fair number of her fairest onesj Boone and oth er parts of Watauga helped to swell the audienoe. Dr. Triplett 1 and others, of Wilkes, were present. Miss Jennie Sutherland, who had charge of the musical department, was assisted by Miss Ada Worth, of Creston, N. C" , an! estimable lady, and their part wad Indeed splendid. The Month of; Wilson Cornet Band gave exoellent music. -Withal it was a pleasant occasion, and the suoceBS of ithe firet anniver sary of Sutherland Seminary will certainly elicit a jiatronage which the worthy Prof. J. C. Mctlwen de serves for his zeal, and which r the good citizens deserve for their mag nanimity - When such men! as the. best in that community say it must prosper there is a hope for "its future. May it prosper. j A. " A $75,000 freight house burned down. in St. Louis on the 3d inst. The 8 hour fuss! makers of St. Louis have -resolved to go back to the 10 hour rule, i Two thousand planing mill! men and sash and blind, makers struck in Philadelphia, June 1st. Princess Pignatelli, according to the Paris Figaro correspondent, is now serving as a waitress in a cafe in Vienna. :, " J Mr. John P. Moore of Maryland has invented a circular aaw mill which runs three saws at one and the same time. r 7 ;L.: W. Pitcher, of Chicago, must imagine himself a genuine . peach blow. He has suits pending for libel and damages amounting to $550,000 WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, June 12. 'i'n tho H'.fittfiv nr -i n, i .p.n.m.r i rnirn: - X lie into v jug x iniutiuii iav. a- j dricks made the remark that the . 4 presence of Mr. Holman in Congress was worth $25,000,000 a year to the J U. S. Government. It is thought that Mr. Holman and two other members (Mr. Springer and Mr. Henley) saved , the country thrice -that amount last week. If it had not been for the presence of these teiciuu lueuiuciB upuu iuc icunr .... cratic side, the Pacific R. R. lobby would have succeeded in passing through the house one of the most outrgeous pieces of fraud which any lobby has ever attempted upon the Government. The present Congress is weak from the fact that many of its members are raw and inexperi enced in National affairs.: Whenev- er an important public question comes up, they have no resources of ready information to draw from. Whe'n members like Holman, Sprin ger, and Henly show an aptitude for public business, their constitu ents will act wisely in keeping them j in office, no matter how .clamorous . rjonular and asoirinff dunces' mav bd for their places. Green members, no matter how good may be ; their intentions, are utterly valueless in securing honest legislation against a powerful and disciplined lobby. The Pacific R. R. people had planned to push their extension bill through , Congress, and had so adroitly ma nipulated the members that if it had not been for the presence of Messrs. SDrinffer. Holman. aud Henlevthev . CD ' , would have succeeded. . Iheir prop osition toextend the payment of the debt of the Pacific R. R. was put in such illusive form, that it 'made a direct appeal to the members who were not acquainted with recent Pacific railroad history. Tho argu- ' ment that the U. S. would have bet ter security for its debt, and that in this way alone would the Govern ment secure anything, was well cal culated to deceive. The report of the committee was unanimous, and ' this was a strong argument in its fa vor. The lobby had circulated re ports that the administration was in favor of the bill ; that Secretary ljamar approved it; and, that Mr. mi I. : l i j j .i : favor of it. These false statements, made without the slightest, official anlartiMfv eonm in hnvA Vffn RWill. lowed by many members Without question. Neither Mr. Springer nor xur. jj. oi man Knew mat tue i uuuiu rlT Vh 1 1 1 ntnnl.l nnnieu lir i. rPY A committee renortcd it without warn- incr Kut thfisp. frfintlenian Wire ablo at once to draw from their funds of , experieuco and learning sufficient-- argument to turn the House against the most gigantic scheme that .''has been proposed for years. The meas ure involved the refunding of a debt of $109,000,000. This debt wiir be due in eleven years. The Pacific R. R. committee attempted to rush ; this bill through without informa tion and without reports in the brief , , time of four hours. Mr. fcspnnger made the best speech that he ever ' made in the nonse. He at first ap-. )oared to be the only member to ful- ' y understand the questions" presen- a-j . tt. i i : . teu. lie was wuuuui piuirui.iuii ; but during the speech of the chair man of the committee in favorof the Kill. hr cnt. 'tho Thiirrmin Act. and - n mnr nf fViA Pjipifir I? R hill is a verv readv mathemctician : and during the delivery of the chair man's speech, he figured the inomy -that would come to tho Government under such a measure. He fouid . , to his surprise that the passage of '. the extension bill would cost tho. v Governmeut $75,000,000. Ili'suiear and forcible statement of fuc? 6 im pressed the House with the d is ...--eries made by him during the tin: . v minutes in which he had prepu. his argument. ' , ' ' Mr. Springer is, one of ' tho most n I a .... j-v f ill-. I I i .11 ...I ..... etuu iuua men ui iuv ii'juoc, . it.' has at his fingers' ends a vast in, ..I of information on all public ques tions. If it had not been for ready eloquence it is doubtful it t.iu y Pacific R. R- lobby bill would h been thwarted. ' - ; Mr. nolman's, efforts, howcyer, ' must not be underrated, and patri otic Democrats should never y forgot Mr. Hendricks' estimate of him. The great Indiana opposer of theft, ( waste, and extravagance, is always" i i-: i. Tin u 41. ttb Ilia UUSI. XXV UUO U IvllUIUMgll knowledge of all public questions, and he very rarely makes a mistake. His presence in the House is a stan ding menace to the numberless con- : , ,' spiracies to burglarize the public all who are trying to get their hand K into the public vaults. It is comj" : mon for members" of Congress to say "I would present a bill for this ; or that appropriation, but IIol man L OTrtnlrl Vo inrn in trill oitli an r. jection." He stands alone, uninflu enced by venality. Private, social, and domestic matters do not touch him. . Although this debate was sprung upon him as a surprise, he , : r displayed a thorough knowledge of the minutest details concerning the ' Pacific railroads, and was not equal ed by any -member of the special committee that has had this subject : -undr consideration during the en-' v A . map of the city of London prin ieJ on silk is used for hat linings - f
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