The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 25, 1884, Page 2

A Bich Little Girl. Washington Republican. The richest little girl in PROCTOR KNOTT. world the One of His Characteristic Speeches When in Congress. is the seven-year-olk daughter of toot Harpers V - - Captain George H. Perkins, of the | jena R Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, made Li g ae tala t been it } , | navy, who is well known in this city- | ying and avery humorous speech in May, ) abe best : g anit P | She ts worth $7,000,000 in her own paene ui < 57 a proposition to pave renne- % 3 fe ‘i eeutoneci ge : ] name, the amount having been lett zood is to be sylvania avenue at the public ex- He gave as one reason why her recently by her grandiather, >nse. > gave as one rea me Rea : y | Wailham F. Weld, of Boston. Mr. this should be done that the avenue a : peor eee ae Weld was the father of the ittle is so much used by the horde of of- ficeholders that throng the thorough- fares of Washington. ‘‘For sir,’’ said Mr. Kott, ‘it there is a being on earth for whose comfort and con- venience I entertain the profoundest solicitude, 1f one whose smallest wants stirs my sympathetic | soul to its serenest depths, it 1s your = died four girl’s mother, and when h into eirs, including the child, came the possession of the bulk of his tor- 3,000,000, which was divid- | The sum ot | tune, ed into four portions. $20,000,000 and a valuable residence | in Boston were bequeat Mrs 2erkins, wife of the captain, and $20,000 annually tobe used in care ing forthe little millionaire heiress | 1 mikes there is xed to vttice holder, your public function- ery. When I see one of that ‘tnoble army of martyrs until she reaches the legal age h: -_| claims her £ his home and all the sweets of pri- | = wi ee : : ee . = . Us a erkins’ income in actua vate lite, tor which he is so emmi- | © “pee nently fitted by nature, to immolate | cash $40,000, without including his himselt upon the altar of his coun- } Boveriment salary OF the rental from try’s service for four long years, | his magarficant residence in Boston. Homer’s tonching picture of the last | cceciany Chandler yesterday char- sad scene between the noble Hector | acterized the story that Captain Per- and the weeping family rises betore | kins had resigned trom the navy to my sympathetic imagination. When look after his estate as untrue, and I see him plunging recklessly into an said that he has been ordered to com office of the duties of which he is |" board the steamer Hartford. The profoundly and defiantly ignorant, I| Captain applied for ene Rcaneseate am reminded of the self-sacrificing | With @ view of resigning at the end heroism of Curtis when he leaped in- | "4 of the : sage The department, to the yawning gulf which opened however, declined to grant the re- into the Roman forum. When I be- | Gest, as he had been away trom du- held him sadly contemplating his ! ipl for two years. The secretary majestic features in one of those said the Captain was one of the best gorgeous and costly mirrors which officers in the _ Service and that he is furnished him at the public ex- would not resign because he loves pense, my heart goes out to him in sympathy. WhenlTsee him seated sorrowfully at a miserable repast of sea-terrapin and champaigne my very bowels yearn for him. And when I see him performing perhaps the only duty bidding abieu to millions. | sea life too well. Blaine and Cleveland. From the New York Times (Rep.) In seeking the co-operation of Re- publicans whose sense of political a rectitude is outraged by the nomina- for which he is tully competent, sign- |. ate S e a tion of Mr. Blaine the Democats will ing receipts tor his monthly pay, | . : = have to overcome a rooted distrust of 2am so overwhelmed with pity for his | = E = the mis condition that I wish I were in his place. When such con- siderations as these, sir, have crowding upon my mind, appealing ir party in respect to the reforms erable which these Republicans deem the most important. come ss < They can best conquer this dis- | the revenue, and that sense of A Party Co: he Missouri Rey \ Nv ir. George Wi **Honest and ec ron, peaceful gressive purifi it nor wise i iC service gen- Repub- the are not to says; and lican success’’— | words fall like a judicial condem- | nation. What can haye provoked so | thoughtful, zealous and intelligent a | Republican to ,make this fearful summary of the moral results of of Republican Mr. twenty-three years Fer ascendency ? words imply that his party isthe au-! thor of the evils which it is incapable ot correcting, they imply that it has made the pubhc administration dis— honest and extravagant; that it has debauched the public service; that it takes millions of revenue from the people which the government does not need; and that its rule isno long- er marked by ‘‘that sense of general security’? which upright administra- tion alone can give. Is the condem- nation just? Js the Republican par- ty the guilty and incorrigible culprit Mr. Curtis depicts it, his words the ot a disappomted ana soured mind? Let a few facts be mentioned as forming part ot the probable basis of or declaration are unwarranted his arraignment. When Mr. Curtis looks at his par- the supreme ty he seesa sudge of court whose position on the bench is alleged to have been nought; e sees who two other supreme judges are suspected of having been appointed on conditions which they immediate- ly afterwards faithfully fuliilled ; swal- he sees a supreme court made to Curtis’ to every generous sentiment of my better nature; when I have thought how the official nerves of our neglected public servants are sac ked poor by ‘the car rattling o’er the stony street,’ I have felt, under the sudden impulse of that we | ought to tear up the old cobble-stone | the moment, pavement on the avenue and supply its place with one of the patent wooden which the splendid carriages of government officials with their coats | of arms and liveried outriders might glide as smoothly and noiselessly as of the fairy queen through the rosetinted clouds of the upper ether. Mr. Knott disclaim- ed anything but the kindest teelings | toward the people of Washington. “I rejoice,’’ said he, ‘to know that they are so fortunate as to have the privilege of enjoying the fruits ot the government's munificence in improv- ing the nation’s capital.”” But 1 do | hope that after we shall have paved | and lighted all their streets for them, after we shall have contributed in | every possible way to their comfort, } convemrence and stastes, they will not insist on our making an appropria- m to pay salaries to the little cast- iron niggers which I see some gen- tlemen have put up in tront of their houses to hitch their horses to.’ —Ben. Peeley Poore. | new-fasn- | 5s joned | ones, over our | the wrial car | | | Danger to the South Dallas Herald. | If the Republican nominees should be elected and Logan has much in- fluence with the administration, it will be a bloody shirt administration. and means a renewal of southern troubles and a disturdance of «affairs in the south. There is one redeem-— g trait in Blaine’s character—he has no sympathy with or respect tor Billy Mahone and Ins class, whom he has denounced as political bush-whackers unworthy of the affliction of any polit- zcal party. ia Texas will never smell any Blaine | chicken-pi Enterpris Monday Holden ; didate would so completely and con- | more completely tree from the faults Wash Jones and his kind | $ trust, as far as now appears, by the nomination of the one man who has | Shown in high position and exposed to the severe pressure of his party in the State where it is strongest and ting, and by putting him | most ex in nomination on a short, simple, declarafion for reform. need hardly say that that man is Gov. Cleveland. No No other could have stood the No other can- plicit other has been so tried. trial better, if as well. vincingly stand for the best element | in his party; none would so com mand the trust ot the best element of the Republican party. No would be, in all essential regards, so Blaine 1 other | nearly what Mr. not, or which the latter has. He would be in himselt, by his character, by his services. by the way in which he has redeemed the obligations impesed by Republican support in the post he now holds, the embodiment of the | principles yiolated in Mr. Blaine’s nomination. Gen, Loghn’s Methodism. From the Chicago New: ‘The Western Chri for the current week, with an ev- ident purpose to secure the religious an Advocate vote for the Republican ticket, says | Gen. Logan 1s a Methodist. We | that the administration itself was the | ; corrupt | promptly re-elected by their constit- low its solemn decision and give a di- rectly opposite one: he sees gigantic canspiracics organized successfully, one alter another, in the very heart at Washington, ending over of the government and with ram: lar treas of the country, carrying | on a methodical robbery of the gov- t] revenue ernment through its inte department or its post-office depart— high ment, or its Indian bureau and The Saratoga Convention. From the Post Dispatch Ww apparent tha 2 Was = 0 « But wher the Flower men lay g - gether and found that they composed of several diifere tions, each ot which had in’ trai a diff nt dark horse whese na was not Flower, they quietly concur red in the nomination of Cleveland, who was elected by an unprec ed majority. 1 he same sort at work in the There was evi Sar There were Bay- Oga COavention. Payne sull men and Butler men and who some |men, and probably | cling to a hope that Vilden can ‘be j i induced to accept, and they all con- | very sidered Fower’s candidacy a harmless, convenient and pleasant joke. He fairly revel.ed in the joys ot popularity and did not feel the ex- pense. The convention dealt kind- !ly with him, fet him down very kind- | ly and the honor oi nominally shar- Ing the delegation with Cleveland 1s satisfactory re- probably an entirely compense to the gemal, hearty and opulent Mr. Flower. A mar so useful tothe New York politicians cannot be picked up every day, and the next time they have to bold one of their rotten boroughs against the assaults of the Astor purse, they will call on Mr. Flower again. But the action of the convention in merely endorsing Cleveland’s admin- the delegates istration and leaving without any instruction, except that they must vote solid as the majority | may direct, leaves the preference of New York still a matter of dispute. Cleveland’s triends claim that ates forty— two ot the seveaty-six dele: are already for him and that a large por- tion of the others are not against him butintend to do what may seem best tor the party after conferring with Per-- haps it is best for Cleveland that the the delegates of other Siates. into ew York delegates should go public offcial head of the conspiracies: he labored and protracted prosecution sin every case, at the sees a ot one of these robber rings and nothing but the public conviction | 3 he sees | protector of the conspirators men of infamous personal character, one of them indicted for telony, sent as delegates to the party’s national convention ; he sees two admunistra- | tions successively making ilhance/ | with repudiators in a Southern state : he sees Republican members of con- gress, ousted from their seats tor and immoral practice he sees Republican statesmen and uents enriched by the financial rail- road legislation which their votes en- } and last of all, he seesa nom- acted inee for the high office ot president ot the republic marked with the un- | rntuted charges of dishonorable of- have no mind to challenge the truth of the assertion, tor we know very well that Gen. Logan’s name appears on the roll of Trinity Methodist Epis copal Church of this city as that of a | member in full and regular standing, but we also know very well that in | his every-day lite he is about as un- hke a consistent Christi as one! could imagine, It is notorious and altogether beyond dispute that he Outswears any other membh United States Senate; that his tanity is of the most violent shocking character; that he 1s a mas- ter of language unfit tor ears polite. his 1s a subject which we not Ast do care to discuss at length, and we should have s nffered the campargn to evening while we were having one / pass without mention of it but for the | of the heaviest rains of the tewn was being devasted by hail. Wheat 4 : season, a / attempt to use Gen. Logan’s church strip of country immediately north of | relation a a political snare. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. fields were beat mto the ground, and trees were partially | The greatest medical wonder ot Havoc was | world. Warranted to speedily cure Burns | Stripped of their foliage. played with fruit and vegetables, A / much damage to residences by /t destruction ot window glass. | But meagre details have reached us. i Bruises, Cuts, Ulcers Salt Rhex A . e - Sores, Cancers, Piles, Chilblain Heavy wind accompanied the hail do- | Teter, Chapp: per box, Forsaleby F. M.Crumly & Co. 6 tt i» Fever } » Corns, | ed Hands, and all skin erup- | ions, guaranteed to cure in every in-/ tance, or money refuuded. Prive 25 cts bottle by F. M.Cramly & Co. city drug ficial and personal transactions. Are not these things a_ sufficient | ant tor Mr. Curtis’ denunciation arty? Do they not justify his despair? wa of his i Minister Foster has finished his | he pinned it in. | landt street ferry for the WEIR CULTIVATOR Ariins Just Opened : W. J. LANSDOWN, PROPR and Newly Furnished, Roca Main Sueet z : BUTLER * 5 W. J. LANSDOWN M, D, DEALER IN Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils. 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STALKER puce tv in the matter of the nomination. Mae ans Phe New York papers all say that} oppeer. ad WIND the action of the convertion means | ‘ Cleveland, and we are inctined to SO ELON RiweaeD Th ChE eed! the opinion that the re not mista ‘ i ine selfawinging device eaves icviing Giacker, : © opinion that they ot mista working fa dust, sares onc man more than ROM, ken. any other Stacker. Man fhe stack } i ; " : - Which stops, starts, or allows Stacker t H “ | WOCDWORK, moma Miami wood Heavy Robbery. he new hoisting apparatus places “ oS in bee eigtirss stuck from start to fuish, AND ORE Ee Bape other can do t At Syracuse, N. Y. June 13.—Dr. HAISH & COS, . The new stack prevents straw an Albert Mayermoss of Minneapolis | falling through U f of Stacker 4 : : I It takes less than a@ sainute to start St—19 CHAI left the Astor house, New York. Tope aaeer Ss one Gah aloes r - “is down low on wagon; mo for-he vesterday, for home. He had $3, BARB WIRE, _ upsetting and shak r PUMA = ake . . perfect and handy ma: 500, and publicly divided it before Send for Catalogue No 1 leaving the house, putting $300 in Benaett, Wrheeler & Go., Butler, his watch pocket, the remainder in the inside waistcoat pocket, where He took the Cort- Vest Shore train. He saw two men on the boat | ! zain on the cars who we and ¢ india the hotel when he exposed his mon- ey. Upon nearing Kingston the two] to this market. whieh I will sell men began to play three-card monte. | Cheap for Having had many 7 ae in toe manufae- Mavermoss held aloof trom wks in En- game, but consented to change mon- : ¥ ¥ ai ! watches and clocks, ue matter how g ey for the gamblers. Ashe did so | complicated nor how badly they £3 ss ss busec By bringin: seven or eight men gathered around | Have be bused. Bx brneing | : 5 a hiem to 3 nhave them pu him. One grabbed his $309. In | uitzoud running order aid guaran : tee <stistactio the scuffle his waistcoat was cnt open | An! left rerefrom and $3.200 extracte« alarm was raised but the men the train at Kingston. Mayermoss | ‘ i = z .., | Was told there were no police there | business in Washington and will BES ; ; H : z i andin his ex tl n here leave soon tor Madrid. Hismission; — : z = = 3 fand related his story to the Lolice. nited States was in connec-!7 . \.. z i eee Chief Wr go to me commercial treaty Ie - > ? : } sae é ~ | New York and his case before | tween Spain and this country, and is ' ' i : Inspector By Mavermoss hava | said on goed authority to have had! nothing whateyer to do with the ai-j a >ged proposition to purchase Cuhz Never Give tp. 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