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THE BUTLER HERALD.
W. N. BENK8.
Editor tuid PuUshar.
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TbESDAY MAY 27th 1879.
A Little Ring.
A very pretty little game seem*
to have been developed in the trial
of ex-Treanurer Jones in Atlanta.
It appears from the evidence of
Mr. Alton Angier, that an arrange
ment wan entered into between th*
Hon. John H. James and young
Angier, (the son ot ex-Treasurer
N. L. Angier) by which Mr. James
was to be notified when there would
he money in the Treasury, of which
certaiu warrants on the State
would he paid, Mr. James would
then as opportunity would offer
purchase these warrants from the
holders, at a discount which must
have boen pretty lfirge, since it ap
pears that he a'qd young Angier
divided forty thousand dollars
profit as the proceeds of the ar
rangement.
To get at the **true inwardness”
of this pleasant little arrangement,
t it must be remembered that when
^the Radical party had control of
this State, owing to the oxtrava-
gant schedule on which the gov
eminent was administered, it was
often difficult to get the money for
warrants on the.State. When hold
ers would present them they would
Words of Wisdom.
The ponding bill appropriates in
rouud nuuibufo tweuty-aeveu millions
of dollars for thu support of the army
during the next, fiscal year. This army
consists of twenty-five thousand nmu,
« large proportion of whom arc not
citizens of thu United States, aud are
not in any uianuer or foim identified
with the welfare of this country. They
are mere adventurers, picked up at re
cruiting stations, from whom no oath
is required than obedience to the orders
of their superior effioera. Plainly speuk*
iug, they are, in the main, nothing but
imported nierciuaries.
Each soldier costs the people about
eleven hundred dollars a year, liesides
being housed, fed with the best, and
well taken care of iu other respects,
What number of skilled laborers, aver
age farmers, or good mechanics get in
these times eleven hundred dollars »
year, even exclusive of rent, subsistence,
and the like, which the common soldier
docs not pay? Look at the matter
practically, for it directly concerns eve
ry working man. The highest form of
mechanical skill does not command
over $3.60 a day, and, to get that, the
workmen must be exceptionally able.
The average is little kbove one-half
that wages, but%e take the best for an
illustration. >
There are but three hundred and
nine working days iu the year, exclud
ing Sundays and national holidays.
Now, if a first-class mechanic should
work every day in the whole year with
out interruption, and have no deduc
tions for lost time, sickness in his fami
ly, or accidents, he would earn just
$1,081.50 at $3.60 a day, and from tlmt
sum he would have to house his wife
and children, and clothe them and feed
Hard Motley.
We observe that acme of the
Democratic members in Congress
have goue wild on the financial
question, being in favor ot in da-*
tion and all the heresies ot the era.
zy “greenbackeis.'*
When time and occasion permit
we purpose having something to
say on the currency question; in
the meantime, we trust the con
gressmen refered to, will abjure
their heresies and corns hack to the
good old Democratic doctrine of
hard money and that a dollar in
•diver shall he equal to a dollar in
gold. No law that Congress can
p» ss will ev**r make eighty-five
eents in silver worth one dollar in
gold. Some of them are now at
tempting to do this very thing.
We warn them now, that legisla
tion like this will benefit the own
ers of bullion and silves mines and
will of course ultimately come out,
of the working-meu of the country.
Not ouly this, but legislation of
this character, will not be long in
bringing disaster aud defeat upon
the Democracy.
IRON
ATONIC
Prapiratio* of IRON an* CAUIAYA BARK, In combination with tba Pbaapbntaa,
Bndorwd by tha Medical Pytpeprt*, General Debility, It.
VaaaftMtanA %v tha Or. Harter Me4telae ©a.. No. ait |. malm llrcrt, IhiMla
Tba following la ona of tha very many testimonial! we are receiving dally
- - **- *~ ■* “ " Toxic, spon the advice
-—*i an extent that mj
much relief, hut on
e I began the ase el
damarml Daalara Everywhere.
B U T L E R
trades, even in prosperous titnen, can
not work regularly throughout tin
year. They are fortunate.iu the pros
cut period of distresa to find employ-
half or one-lliird of the
be told there wee no money with L BriM * yen
, stone masons, pain-
which to pay them and would re- ^ mnMnile ^ , nd al)lim ber of othe.
ceive little encouragement to ex
pect or hope that they would be
paid at any early day. At the same
time, they would receive au inti
mation that the warrants could be] meet for
sold to Mr. Janies, j |
Parties who wer| in financial
stress were thus virtually foroed to
sell their warrants to Mr. Jamy] mosl b'
at his own price. Ti ue the hold
ers bad a legal right to sell to
ofybody; but as Mr. James was
the only man in Atlanta who
knew whon the warrants would bi-
paid, it was out of the question
for any broker to compete with
him.
Aa a Georgian we regret that
anything of this sort should have
occured iu our State as connected
with our State officers; but as aba
ses have existed we are and have
been in favor ot a thorough inves
tigation into them; and if it turns
out that any ot our Stite officials
have wilfully done wrong, we trust
they will be adequately punished.
Iu this connection we regret to
say that there is a wide-spread be
lief that great abuses exist in the
Comptroller General’s Mice, es
pecially with reference ta the wild
land department. Instances have
come underour knowledge in which
parties have paid the full amount
of 8tate and county tax on their
wild lands, and have had proper
receipt* for the lime, and yet their
land has been sold and they have
been compelled to redeem it or
lose it; and this too with the knowl
edge of the Comptroller General.
We do not think it would be amiss
for the next legislature to make a
thorough examination into that
office, and especially the manner
in which the collection of tbe wild
Taad tax has been enforced.
We have written the foregoing
with great reluctance. For Comp
troller Goldsmith, we have always
entertained the highest regard;
but it it due to- him, and due to
The law thus not only make* 1 the
condition of tlio regular aoUlier, who is
alien, and lms no tin to bind
him in-re, and no knowledge of or care
for free institutions, not only far butter
than tlmt of tlio average citizen, wheth*
fanner, mechanic, laborer, or pro
fessional, but it stations him at the polls
the day of election, which nn«y
called the poor man’s day, and places
a bayonet, in his bunds to control the
ballot. This is the exact application of
the existing system, aud has in -.a illus
tinted over and over again in in mv of
the States. It was this brute force tlmt
stood behind the conspiracy to steel the
Presidency in 1878, and hHpod io c m
snnmto the fraud at Washington.
Ifis is full of wurning as to th° down
fall of republics. Corruption aud ex*
travgauce first, sap the moral founda
tions, and then an army of moicenurie
complete the work. Tn his nv-mor ble
oration on the completion of tie* Hun
ker Hill monument, Daniel Webster
described the present situation with al
most the spirit of prophecy iu •the«
striving words:
“Quite too frequent resort is nvrle
to military force; und quite too mm
the substance ot thu poople is eon
ed in nmutaining armies, no*,
defence against foreign aggression,
for enforcing obedience t t o domestic
thority. Standing armies are the op
pressive instruments for govern ng the
people iu the hands of heredirary and
arbitrary monurchs. A military repub
lic, a government founded oh m.-ck
elections [like that of Hayes—k}D. jand
supported only by the sword, is a move
ment indeed, but a retrograde and dis
astrous movement, from tbe regular
and old-fashioned monarchical systems.
’ “If men would enjoy the blessings of
republican government, they must go
ern themselves by reason, by * mutual
counsel abd constitution, by a sense
of feeling and general interest, and by
the acquiescence of tbe minority in the
will of the majority, properly express
ed [a* by the repeal of the army at the
polls—Ed. J; and above all, the military
must be kept according to the language
of our bill of rights, in strict subordi
nation to the civil authority. When
ever this lesson is not learned and
practiced, there can be no political free-
but it is due lor Dim, . ana aue 10 dom. Absurd, nreposfcurous is it, a
the public that these matters gcoffand a satire on free forms of con-
shoufd be thoroughly investigated, stitutional liberty, for frames of gov
ernment to be prescribed by military
leaders[like Grant and Sherman-Ed.]
tnd the right of suffrage to ln> exei cis
ed at the point of the sword.”
When Daniel Webster gave ut
terance to these American sentiments,
the country was at peace as it now
and the regnlar army was little more
than a third of its present number.—
New Y rU Sun.
Motion for New Trial Overruled•
The motion for a new trial in tbe
ease of the State rs. Oscar Flanni-
gan, was overruled by Judge Craw
ford.—The case will now go np to
Supreme Court on appeal at the
September term.—Bnena Vista
Argus,
Sad Accident.—A fatal and dis
tressing accident occurred on Mr.
T. R. Lurasden’s place in this
county last week. A negro man
named Eleek Little had an old
gun iu his hand walking through
his house when the hammer caught
in his clothes some way aud dis
charged the weapon. The whple
load penetrated the he«i| aud face
of his little hoy five yea is old, who
mantling nr playing near his
fat harm the time. The child was
killed instantly nndthe po* r father
ran wild with grief a ml fell down
aud fainted.
A Dangerous Torpor,
Torpor of inactivity of the kidneys
seriously dangerous lo those organs,
:io»* it is the precedent of diseases
which destroy their substance and en
danger life. This sluggishness may be
come bv stimulating them, nut ex
cessively, hut moderately, an elfect
produced by Qostet,tor’s Stomach Bifc-
u general iuvigorant and altera
tive, possessing diuretic properties of
common order. The impetus which
this admirable medicine gives to their
evacuative function counteracts any
tendency to congestion which may ex
ist in their tissues. Both they and
their associate organ, the bladder, are
invigorated as well as gently stimulat
ed by the Bitters, which exerts a kin
dred influence upon the stomach, liver
and bowels, and by strengthening the
system, enables it lo withstand materi
al epidemics, to which when exposed it
light otherwise succumb.
No eloquent, tongue or pen is need-
Lightning
ive public,
natism. Lame
Hack. Neuralgia, Bruises, Sprains,
Corns and Bunions. It is also uue-
qimied as a remedy for the ills that
commonly afflict horses, such as Spa
vin. Ringbone, Calls, Scratches, etc,
—Worts and Knots being easily re
moved by i's use. 'fry Coussons’
Lightning Liniment, and
want no other. I 'rice 5U cents a bot-
ile. Korsule by Walker «t> Gunn,
Butler, (ii
MALE INSTITUTE,
The next session of this Institution will o[en January 13th
1879.
The rates of tuition will In* a* follow*:
Primary department. —
Academic.
Higher
Incidental Fco *
USE THIS BRAND.
ARM WITH HAMMER BRND. 99*
CHEMICALLY PITRE.
BEST IN THE WOULD.
Bra hi* A-.y suam
One teaspoon In l of this Soda used will
milk equals Four lea spoonsful* of
of the beat Baking Powder,
saving Twenty Times its
cost. See package tor
valuable infor
mation.
If the teaHpoonftyl is too large and
does not produce good results at
til st, use less tute wards.
fc‘ »f-!L.
— $1 50 per month.
2.60 “ “
— 3 60 * “
.75 per Session.
a have madfl n liberal deduction on nnr pc->t r-.itiH. Instruction will be thuronph
and discipline strict. AU the d*pnrimonta will be ft .led with competent teachers The
President will givo special attention to ibe control of the savenl rooms. The primary
department will be visited moruing and ntternen by him and tbe other departments nt
least once every dav.
The sob obi room will be made comfortable and every facility afforded the students for
rapid proRreas. Good recitatic nu will be roqmred aud no student will bp allowed to pass
over a lesson until he understands it.
We earnestly ask tho continued rnpport of our patrons and promise to make eury
effort to deserve their support. Fer six years we h-ivo had tbe undivided support of
this community and we mention this as onr best recommendation to those winning «»
good school for their cbiloren. •
Board and tnition con bined can be bad for less than A12 00 per month Libi r*l dis
counts will be made for caymeuts in advance. For fan her information address.
JAMES T. WHITE, Presided.
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