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mtxml VOL. 29, NO. 23. PLATTSBTIRGH, N. Y., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1883. WHOLE NO. 1480. Pittsburgh Sentinel IT Entered as aeeond-claas matter at the Poet-QffiM in Plattsburgh, Clinion county, N.Y. TV. X.AH8INC3 A SOW, Pnblinhers. PTTERM8-»I PO, IN ADVANCE Local and Miscellaneous. Fuseoger trami bnrghM follows: trains arrive and depart from Platts- aonco SOUTH. 2min* Arrive. I Train* Leave. ttptMS, 12.45 P.MJExprw., 1.10 F. U. Apron, 8.80 P.M. BxpfeM, 8.66 P.M. Mooer. train, 12.80 P.M. | lusable, mail, 3.80 r u. QOTNa NOBTH, Train* Arrive, £?* 6.80 A.M. 8.05 P.M. 4.15 P.M. mail, 6.40 P.M. Trains Leave. Express, 5.86 A. M. Bxprest, 8.80 P. M. Mixed, 6.00 p. ac. tfocwrs train, 6.10 A. M. Cbateaairar Railroad. Traioa leave Plattsburgh at 6.40 a. m. and 3.30 p.m Arrive at 11.20 a. m. and 6.05 p. m. Arrival an a Departure of Steamers. Bteimer A. WUIiama arrives frotn Burlington at 10-.00 A. M.; returning leaves Plattstnrgb at 1:45 F Steamer Maquam leaves Plsttaburgh at 16:30 A. U. for the Islands and Maqtum; returns at 4:30 P. M. union Temperanc e meetings. Tn WOMAH'S OBBISXIAN TEMPEKANOI UNIOH meete on Saturdays, at 8 o'clock, In the Academy baQdlag, All ladles Interested in the cause are cor dially invited to attend. Tsa Uanos TKHPXBAHOK PBATKE MEETING will be held at tne Perlstrome Presbyterian Chapel on Mondayerenlog next, at 7* o'clock. THB WOKSM'B TavnsAiroa PBAZBB MEETING vlU-ttebeld Wednesday afternoon or each week, at the Perisfeome Presbyterian Ohapel, at 3 o'clock. Mag. J, D. WOODWARD, PTM, MM. FBASOXS B. HALL, Sec'p. • The reader's attention is called to the following new advertisements which appear to-day. When dealing with advertisers, our friends will confer a fa m by mentioning THSSKNTZNEZ,: Hew Goods at O. W. Hornlck's. Meeting of the Board of Excise. Maohlnery for Bale—G. W. Hornlck. Oherter While Pig*-8. Oordoa, Chazy. Texas Land Loans—H. B. Barnard, Agent NoUoe to Preseat Olatms-Est. John Green. PopnUr Btore-FrankfleJd's Temple of Fatblon. Notfoe to Pnseat Claims-Eat. Matthew Finegan. KoUoe of Jnry Drawing-J. P. Brenaa, Clerk. NEXT TUES- DAY, ~Nov. 6TH. PABAGRAMS. i *©t* next Tuesday, g—Thursday, NOT. 29th. ? Excise meets to-morrow. ^-Don't forgot the Band Fgp this even- ^ i season has arrived Abating clubs. . —Bead Comptroller Davenports letter on political page. - x —Don't let the stormy weather keep you home from election. —Wbjtmore & Clark's Minstrels will •fait Plattsburgh, Jan. 11th. —Communion service at the Baptist church next Sabbath morning. —Mrs. E. B. Hedding, of Port Henry, is Visiting frieads in Plattsburgh, —Vennor announces the first oold snap for the 3d, 4th and 5th of November. —The property of the Arnold Hill Ore Company has been attached by creditors. —The President has re-appointed Thos. H. SUagsby as postmaster at Booses Point. —A. M. Ransom, Esq., of Mooers, in- tends opening a law office at Fort Coving- ton, we hear. —\Forward P. D. Q.,\is printed on the eomer of some of the letters received by us 1 What does it mean ? —The last week has been a season of Tain, flunflirtrin?, wind, lightning and thun jf*ide,wind predominating. E> ladies of Trinity ohuroh make the nt of their annual bazar on the 16th of December, s in maohinery may be obtained g On Gt. W. Hornick, Plattsburgh. Manufacturers please make a note of it. -Miss AnnaM. Bakef, daughter of E. C. Baker, Esq., of Plattsburgh, is attend- ing the Temple Grove Seminary at Sara- toga. —Miss Laura Haynes returned to Platts- burgh much improved in health, and last , Sunday resumed her place as soloist in the Baptist choir. —A large force of men are engaged in patting the new gas main up Bridge street. The oompany intend the people shall have all the light they want. —Horace N. Humiston, the Troy barn- burner, passed through here, escorted by a Sheriff, on Tuesday on his way to Clinton prison, where he will reside for the next seven years. —'Speaking about big loads of ore, Lewis Spinks xeoently drew with his team, from the Bedford mine to the separator, a load weighing 16,480 pounds. Please make a note of this at \81.\ —Reports to the Troy Daily Time* from New York potato growing districts show that the quality of the crop was never bet- ter and the yield is much greater than last year and exceeds the average. —Major John Egan, now stationed at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, is making a short visit this week with his father's family in Plattsburgh. He is accompanied by his wife, who will remain for a while. —People looking for a good and safe in- vestment of their money, at a good rate of Interest, are referred to the advertisement of the Texas Loan Agency, represented in Platteburgb by H. E. Barnard, Esq., —Tho galo on the lake on Wednesday afternoon was very severe. The sohooner Mary D, Craig lost her mainmast as she was going around the Burlington break- water, bnt got into port without further damage. —Emery Hinds, aged abont thirteen years, a son of Bbbert Hinds, of KcoBcville, wen,t duck haoAg at Auger pond on Mon- day. The mK^ teing old and heavily charged, burst,'#klng off the thumb of his left band and terribly lacerating the hand. —See that every Republican in your neighborhood is out to vote on election day. —This iB the Jewish leap year, and is re- markable for containing 13 months or 393 days. — M Rally around the polls, boys, rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom.\ —Glens Falls' water pipe is giving out. Five hundred feet of new iron pipe will soon be laid. —A hunting party from Troy recently killed in the Adirondacks ten deer inside of ten days. —It is just as important to keep the Re- publican party in power in time of peace as in time of war. —One stay-at-home Republican in each school district on election day may lose us the State. Don't take the chance. —Furniture, upholstery, undertaking goods, sash, doors and blinds for sale by G. W. Hornick. See new advertisement. —Comptroller Davenport's letter on our political page ought to convince every tax payer where it is for his interest to vote thisfall. —Spruce gum is scaroe in Maine cities, and one dealer in Augusta has just paid $50 for a bushel purchased of a dealer in this county. —There are six ballots for next Tuesday's election, endorsed respectively \State 'Judiciary,\ \Senate \Assembly \County\ and \Contract Labor.\ —This week ends the political campaign, and those of our readers who do not enjoy political topics will find our columns filled hereafter with their full ooapliment of in- teresting reading matter. —The wedding of Mr. C. B. Prescott and Hiss Adele Whits el, is announced to take place at the residence of the bride's parents, at Decatur, 111,, on Thursday next, Nov. 8. Mr. Prescott is well known in this section, and we all wish him much joy. —The employes of the Crown Point Iron company have accepted the reduction of ten cents per day. To offset this the com- pany offer a material reduction cm coal, wood and goods purchased at the com- pany's store. One furnace will blow in between Nov. 10 and 15. —The base ball game between the Witherbees, of Port Henry, and the Bever- wycks, of Bouses Point, which was to have been played at the latter place last Friday, did not come off, owing to a disagreement. Each nine charged the other with engaging professionals. —The O. & L. C. railroad has fitted the gap made by the recent burning of the bridge over th* St Regis river at Stock- holm Depot, with a temporary structure, and the freight oars which had accumulat- ed in great numbers are again moving for- ward to their destination. —The stockholders of the Addison rail. road held their annual meeting at Rutland on the 30th. The following board of directors was eleoted: C. W. Clement, W. C. Clement, J. S. Mead, of Rutland, Gen. John Hammond, of Crown Point, and F. S. Witherbee, of Port Henry. -Mrs. Langtry's second American tour was opened at the Opera House in Bur- lington last Saturday evening, in the pres- ence of the largest audience that ever as- sembled there. About fifty from Platts- burgh, attended, going and returning by the steamer Maquam, which made a special trip. —William Robson, who was sentenced from Rensselaer county to Clinton prison for fifteen years on July 17th, 1877, on being convicted of assault upon a young woman of Albany, has been pardoned by the Governor. It has been found that the charge was without foundation, and that the evidence was false and fabricated. ist week a young man named Albert Leslie hired a horse from a hotel keeper at Barton Landing, Vt., for a short drive. He was finally traced to the residence of his father i n Champlain, where he was ar- rested by officer Spear. After an examina- tion at Rouses Point he was committed to the jail at Plattsburgh to await trial. —Dr. J. C Wall, «f Minerva, Essex county, was arrested last Friday by Deputy U. S. Marshal Dow, charged with demand- ing and receiving more compensation for procuring a pension for Margaret Collough than the law allows. He was brought before the U. S. Commissioner at Plattsburgh, D. S. McMasters, but the ex- amination wftB adjourned until Nov. 7th. —The public spirited citizens of Eliza- bethtownand along the line of the proposed new railroad from Westport to that village, are making earnest efforts to secure the funds necessary to build the road. The estimated cost of a firat-olass road is $125,. 000. A committee has been appointed to procure subscriptions and to obtain grants of land along the line. It is expected that the road can be constructed and ready for operation by July. —Copt. Henry Mayo has resigned as captain of the steamer Williams, the resig- nation taking effect on Thursday, and E. J. Baldwin has been appointed to succeed him. The Free Prew says: Capt. Mayo is now in his eighty-tot year and is un- doubtedly the oldest steamboat captain in active service in the United States. He entered tho employ of the Champlain Transportation oompany in 1825 (sailing under Capt. Jahaziel Sherman), and can thus show a record of fifty-eight years of continuous and active service. He became a captain in 1834 and in his time has com- manded some of the best boats on tho lake. His retirement is well earned and we trust he may long enjoy it. Mr. Baldwin, his successor in the command of the Williama, has long been in the service of the com- pany and is wen known to evoryb«dy as a competent, trustworthy and courteous of- ficsr. We congratulate him upon Eta well deserved promotion. —W. H. Sisson is in town. —''Forgery in Clinton County!\ See political page. —The City Band Fair will continue in Palmer's Hall to-night and Saturday night. Don't fail to attend. —About 100,000,000 feet of lumber passed through Eonses Point from Canada, going to Burlington, this summer. —The ladies of the Board of Managers of the Home for the Friendless, are requested to meet at the Home on Broad street to- day, Friday, at 3 o'clock. —A revolution in prices! Some very sound and convincing arguments are ex- pressed in the new advertisement of L. Frankfield's Temple of Fashion. -Mr. E. G. Moore, of Plattsburgh, killed a partridge in his front yard last Saturday, and had him cooked for Sunday. Why didn't you invite your friends ? •The enterprising druggist and stationer at Chateangayj Mr. E. A. Jackson, has issued a very handsome pocket diary or note book with a fine view of Giant Gorge and Pulpit Rock at Chateaugay Chasm, displayed upon the cover. —We take particular pleasure in calling attention to the Canned Fruit, but up by Daniel Sanborn, of Peru. He uses none but the choicest articles, and personally superintends the whole thing. It is not at all surprising that numerous private fami- lies get their entire supply of that kind of goods from Mr. Sanborn. —The Episcopalians at Champlain are moving in the matter of securing a rector, and expect to have one of their own, separ- ate from the ohuroh at Rouses Point. Bishop Doane has nominated a man named Shearman for rector of the church at Eouses Point, and the members are seeing r hat they can do towards raising a sup- port. —While William Ohampang and a friend named Premore were examining a shot gun at the house of the former, near the Maine mill, last Sunday forenoon, tho gun was accidentally discharged, a portion of the contents striking Champang in the face. He. will lose the sight of oue eye, and was badly cut in a number of places, but was not fatally injured. —In the northern towns of St. Lawrence and Franklin counties owners of stock are alanued at the prevalence of a mysterious and fatal disease which has attacked their herds. One dairyman in St. Lawrence county lost in one day eight cows, another eleven, another five, and others more or less, according to size of their herds. With- in the last few days no new cases have been reported and it is hoped that the disease has spent its force. -As the season of high winds is at hand it would be ft good thing if our people— especially those doing business on the streets where horses are apt to stand— would unite in a concerted effort to keep waBte paper for stove consumption. Our exchanges ore generally uttering a caution in this regard, for there is hardly anything that will startle a horse—even a staid and sleepy one—like . paper fluttering about him. •Bishop Potter's first official act after his recent consecration, was to visit the Midnight Mission in New York and admin- ister the rite of confirmation to a young girl who was in a feeble state and who had expressed a wish to be confirmed in the Episoopal church. His first sermon was preaohed on Sunday to the convicts in the penitentiary on Blaokwell's Island. This was certainly walking in the steps of the Master who came \to seek and to save that which was lost.\ —A movement is on foot to establish a a line of passenger boats on Lake Cham- plain, two in number, to be run from St. Johns, P. Q., to Whitehall. The citizens of St. Johns promise to take $25,000 stock, and it is expected Burlington, Flattsburgh and other places along the line will sub- scribe liberally. The parties pushing the project went to New York last week, and if successful in raising the desired amount of stock, the boats will be built this winter and put on the lake in the spring. —Last week we published an account of a partridge that broke iu a window of Oorbett's drug store in Whitehall. We give another instance of the want of saga- city, or judgment, in the partridge. The other day, postmaster Douglass, oi West- port, for the first time in years, left his office, intent ou slaughter, carrying an empty snot gun, and a game bag well stock- ed with -crackers and cheese. He was just leaving the village, and while in front of the residence of C. H. Eddy, a fine par- tridge flew from one of the shade trees across tho street, and struck a building with such force that it fell dead to tho ground. Mr. Eddy said that partridge broth was good for a sick man, and now the postmaster says it is strange that most young men will spend so much time, and ammunition too, for one poor partridge, when those older and more experienced havo just got to step out and pick thorn up. Who next ? OVER TH E BORDER. —Hay is selling at St. Johns at from $V> to $7 a ton. —United States Consul General Stearns, of Montreal, during the visit of Governor- General Lome and the Princess Louise to that city last week, received a polite note from Col. DeWinton, that they would be pleased to receive tho Consul-Geueral at the Windsor. The Consul-General was in attendance, and was the only official gentleman presented to His Excellency and Her Eoyul Highness, besides those who were connected with the Corporation and the societies. •MTDo not forget to vote AGA1N8T the proposition to abolish contract labor. Hal- lota will bo found at every polling place. [From a sketch by Et t Wallace, o£ Syracuse.] The lat e Bridge Disaster. The inquest in the Fort Edward bridge calamity is still in session. The testimony shows that many timbers were rotten. Mr. and Mrs. Thei.se, two of the injured, are at their house at Fort Edward, unable to move. Their injuries are more serious than at first supposed, but will not result fatally. The remain- der of the injured in Fort Edward are improving, although none are able to be oat. Edward Deal and Patrick Howard, the engineer and fireman, returned to their posts on Monday morning. Mr. Harrington, of Warrensburg, one of the injured, was taking his first ride on a railroad train. He was on his way to meet his blind daughter who was returning from a school for the blind at Batavia. ACROSS TH E LAKE. —The steamer Mari/iuita,i6centlj burned at Shelburn Harbor, has been rebuilt. —The new Bhops of the Vermont Shade Roller company at Vergenaes were started on Saturday. —The steamer Water LMy has discon- tinued her regular trips between Vergennes and Westport and will hereafter run only when business requires. —Captain and Mrs. Hawley, of Swanton, were surprised on Monday evening of last week, by a large number of friends, it be- ing the tenth anniversary of their mar- riage. —On Saturday burglars broke into the office of Columbian marble company, the ce of Chaffee & Son, Ripley & Son's office and the Central depot at Rutland. The raid netted only $ 1.25. —A six or seven-years-old son of Rev. J. W. Quinlan, pastor of the Methodist church at Middlebury, was kicked by a horse on Friday, and had his jaw bone broken iu two places. R is thought that it will be fully mended in time. —A severe gale swept ofer Burlington last Tuesday evening. It w*s of short du- ration, but its fury was great. The chim- ney of the city water works ^rias demolished, but it fortunately fell in an Opposite direc- tion from the pump hou6e s afcd none of the employes were injured, although the flying bricks grazed one of the men in the yard. It fell upon a shed, killing a^horse. KAII.KOAD tCCIDEMATM<!«EKS A Car Cut in Two->*olM»cIy Iltirt. Rather a singular accident occurred at Mooers Junction Wednesday morning. As the mixed train for Plattsburgh was being made up at about 9 o'elook, the train backed down to the baggage <|nd passenger car, which was standing on the track just south of the Ogdensburg road. It was supposed that the brake^ weje dj>wn, in which case no harm would'h^ve,been dome,' but it appears that they wete not, and the car when struck, not being coupled, moved slowly away from the train and acrosg the track of the O. & L. C. road, just aB a freight train from the east came up. The engine striking the car in the center cut it nearly in two, making it a complete wreck. For- tunately no one was hurt. No serious damage was done to the Og- densburg train. The head light was broken, and there were some other slight injuries, but nothing to prevent the train moving on. is There no Remedy) MB. EDITOB:— IS there no law against breaking people's doors and windows at a late hour of the night ? If so, we would be glad to have it enforced. There may be fun for the boys on All-Hallow-een,with their cabbage Btalke, but wheu they gath#r up rotten tomatoes and stones and throw them into people's residences, picket the house of an aged and helpless woman where there are no men about, open her window and throw in a cat, and pelt her house with stones, it is time something was done. The boys may laugh, but it is no laughing matter to damage people's property, or frighten aged and sick people, unable to take care of themselves. A SUBSOEIBHB. The only remedy is to make an example of the offenders by complaining of them before the Village Recorder.—[ED. UA.ILROAD —E. J. Morris, of Ballston, for some time past the private secretary of Supt. Voorhees of the Del. & Hud. Canal oom- pany, has been appointed ticket agent at Sohenectady. Mr. A. Campbell, formerly trackmaster's clerk, will succeed Mr. Mor- ris in the superintendent's office. —R. C. Blaokall, superintendent of con- struction and machinery for the Delaware & Hudson Canal company, testified at the inquest now in session at Fort Edward that the locomotive Voorhees -weighs, together with tender, about 135,560 pounds; the engine Dotterer, 140,000 pounds; the Tup- per, 111,000 pounds; the W. B. Culver, which was drawing the ill-fated train, 119,- 400 pounds. PliA'S'TNHUJKOII PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ary of Reports of Schools for the School nding October Nth, 18S0; Names oi\.Schools. High Hehool, Grammar School, Intermediate \ oak Street Broad Street \ Hamilton St. \ Elizabeth St. \ Cornelia »t. •• Totals, .0 1150 No tardiness occurred at the Mgh, oak Street and Elizabeth Street schools during two weeks; at tlio Grammar, Broad Street' and Elizabeth Street schools during one week. FOX HOLDKN, Slip't, -WOR K will WIN in politics as in buMtuiws. Republicans will you WORK for Republican success? • - --«••• - —.... —For fall particular*? of the great for- gery, see political page. \TUBCotHEiHeartI Answers to Inquiries. We are receiving orders for large num- bers of sample copies of this magazine, and in answer to inquiries will state : 1. That subscriptions can commence with any month, but it would be well to order a few weeks ahead of the date you would like to begin. 2. The long continued story by Rev. George Mac Donald, LL. D. is concluded in the November number. 3. The December number, which will be issued about the middle of November will be a fine holiday edition. 4. The January number will contain the first chapter of a charming continued story by the popular author Joaquin Miller, en- titled \Home Sweet Home. 5. The SENTINEL and the COTTAGE HEABTH will be sent to the address of dif- ferent persons for the same price, that is $2.50 a year for both. Deatb of Robert Wilson. Eobert Wilson, for the past twelve years foreman of Hartwell & Myers' machine shop in Plattsburgh, died of consumption at the home of his brother in Ottawa, On- tario, Wednesday morning of this week, Oct. 31. . Mr. Wilson* has been in failing health for some time past, and in fact never re- covered from his severe illness of several months since, though able to be about, and attempting for a time to resume work the Bhops. He left for Ottawa only a few weeks since. Mr. Wilson was about forty years of age and leaves no family. Deceased was a member of the Plattsburgh fire department during the entire time of his residence here, was foreman of Horicon engine and hose company for several years, and at the time of his death, was Chief of the Fire partment. RESOLUTIONS OF BBSPECX. At a meeting of the members of Belief Hose Co., No. 2, held at their rooms on Thursday eve-'— toe following resolutions were unanim< adopted: ol the Plattsburgh Fire Department, therefore Besolved, That while we recognize in this be- reavement the hand of our Heavenly Father, we bow to the dispensation of His providence, anc* trust that it may be overruled to our good. Resolved, That we extend the expression of our sincere sympathy to the surviving relatives, and that a minute of the action of this company be entered upon our records and that a copy be fur- nished the village papers for publication. Resolved, That as a further token of respect TOT his memory that our hose carriage be draped in mourning for the space of thirty days. WJI, T. BCBLEIGH, Foreman. J. A. HACAB, Sec'y. At a union meeting of Horicon Engine and Hose Co., and Lafayette Hose Co., held last even- ing, the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to re- move from us Eobert Wilson, who has long been an honored member of this company, oace its chief, and its representative as chief ofr department of Plattsburgh, the Fire Resoloed, That while we bow to the will of God, we will cherish the memory of our departed brother, profit by his wise council, and keep his name upon our rolls. Resolved, That we as a company extend to the relatives of brother Wilson our sincere sympathy In this hour of affliction. Resolved, That a delegation of members of this company attend the funeral and pay this last re- spect to his remains. Retolved, That Horicon Hall be draped in naoun ing for thirty days. JAMES D. PHILLIPS, Foreman Horicon. ED. ERNO, Foreman Lafayette. Sudden Death of 3. XV. Spa! it ing. J. W. Spalding, of Morrisonville, died very suddenly yesterday morning. He had been sick about a week, and confined to his bed; but no apprehension was felt of his immediate death. Yesterday (Thursday) morning, at about five o'clock, he was taken suddenly worse and expired in a few moments. HiB wife, father, and others were called to his bed- side. Deceased was a son of O. C. Spaldiug, of Morrisonville, and was about 30 years of age. He was doing a good mercantile business at Momsonville before he was taken sick. The funeral will be held from the M. E. church Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. Important to Joh n Cook. If this notice reaches a man named John Cook, a native of Ireland, of the county of Monaghan, he is informed that his father George Cook, in Ireland, is dead and has left him a farm which he will have if he returns in six months. For further particulars call at this office. GsT Another prominent Democrat i Plattsburgh heard from ! He offered a dol- lar a bushel for potatoes, to bo paid lor when O. H. Foote is elected Sheriff! An honest and unsophisticated farmer took him at his word and brought him n large load of potatoes. But thu \proaiineut Democrat\ backed squarely out and re- fused to take the potato'es. If any one knows of any moro prominent Democrats that want to buy potatoes on Uie.se U'rrns, send him around! -The vote on the proposition to abolish convict labor in the state prisons promises to be divided singularly. In the cities there will bo a large majority iu its favor, and in the oountry an almost unanimous vote against it. The farmers of the state are unwilling to pay taxes in order that the convicts may live in idleness; but the city mechanic is apparently ready to assume the burden. Comptroller Davenport's Letter. The letter of Hon. Ira Davenport, Comp- troller of this state, printed on political page, appears under very remarkable cir- cumstances. It is in answer to a challenge from Ex-Speaker Chapin, the Democratic candidate for the office which Mr. Daven- port now holds. We think the universal verdict will be that Mr. Chapin has not only given himself away, but given away the whole Democratic party, bad. By his hot-headed indiscretion he has afforded an opportunity for a gentleman whose state- ments no one will question, to lay bare the lideous character of the last Democratic Legislature of this state, and show the utter foolishness of attempting to explain away the alarming increase in our state taxes. As many of our readers are aware, Demo- cratic speakers and newspapers have attributed this increase to the cost of maintaining free canals, and by accumulat- ing a surplus in the treasury, known aB a ' 'reserve fund.\ In reply to all this Comp- troller Davenport shows: * 1. That the state tax levy, instead of be- ing increased about two millions, as the Democrats are obliged to confess, has been increased more than two and a half mil- lions ! 2. That, instead of adding to the surplus in the treasury, as claimed, the Democrats have actually taken ant over half a million put there by the Eepublican administration of the previous year. Had the Democrats kept their hands off this reserve fund, the tax levy would this year be a million greater than it now is. Had the Eepublicans done as the Democrats have, used up the sur- plus, the tax levy last year would have been a million and a half less than it was. In other words, the tax levy of 1882 would have been but a trifle over five millions of dollars, while for 1883 it would be almost ten millions or nearly double. 3. If the Democratic Legislature had passed the excellent measures presented by the non-partisan tax commission last win- ter, enough revenue might have been de- rivfld from other sources to pay the entire running expenses of the state, so that there would have been no tax levy this year. But they refused to do it, and the tax- payers are called upon to foot the bill of over nine millions of dollars, to pay both necessary and unnecessary expense of the state. Included in the latter, is the little item of eighty thousand dollars, for in- crease of salaries for Democratic office- holders ! The Comptroller in his letter pays little heed to the claim that the increase is caused by free canals. Probably he thought the facts are too well known to need repeating. They are simply these: The expense of free canals this year is one million eight hundred thousand dollars. This the Democrats would nave the public believe is an entirely new expenditure. They very carefully conceal the fact that nearly one million two hundred thousand dollars were paid last year for maintaining the canals, showing a difference of less than five hundred thousand dollars. Political Topics. Head and Ponder Well. — See that every Eepublican vote is cast on Tuesday. —Democrats don't like a \Machine 1 only when they run it. —The Eepublican policy of protection is the safest for farmers. —The Democratic party preaches one thing and practices another. —Democratic promises turn to ashes when the time comes for fulfillment. —New York is a safe Eepublican state when every B-epublican vote is cast. —Sporting men who were betting two weeks ago in favor of the Democratic State ticket are now \hedging.\ —Tho final returns show that the Kepub- licans have a majority of thirty-two on joint ballot in the Iowa Legislature. —Class in political history, stand up? Who owns the Democratic party? Dan Manning owns it, or else he is dreadfully mistaken. —Senator Warner Miller thinks thai people are going to be surprised with the largeness of the Republican vote in the in- terior of this state. —The Ohio Bepublican state central committee has adopted a resolution pressing the belief that on a purely national issue Ohio will remain as ever securely Eepublican. —On Saturday last, the final day of reg- istration in the oity of New York, 44,492 names w*re added to the poll lists. Th< total registry this year is 182,144, or 14,000 less than last year. —The rsoals must go—to the state sen- ate, according to Brooklyn Democratic ethics. Gov. Cleveland has removed Dis- trict Attorney Downing of Kings county for malfeasance in office, and his Demo- cratic sympathizers have nominated him for senator. —Letters received at the headquarters of the Republican State Committee from the interior of the state give the most hopeful accounts of the canvass in their localities. Several of the Senate districts will be re- deemed, and there will be considerable gains in Assemblymen. —The proposed constitutional amend- ment to abolish the contract labor system, by which the prisons have been made self- lustaining, should be voted down. It is an effort to get back to the old system which imposed an enormous tax upon the people to support criminals. —The Democratic faotions are still at loggerheads over the nominations in the districts of New York city. Rival Demo- cratic candidates have been nominated in nearly every senatorial district, and the disunion extends to assembly and alder- nianic nominations. It is a scrub moo all round and deals and trades ara being made everywhere. The Work for Next Tuesday. Whatever is done this year to maintain the Eepublican party must be done by next Tuesday. Please bear this fact in mind. Election day comes but once a year, and there is no postponement on account of the weather! Consistent Eepublicans will next Tues- day make politics a business. However distasteful the work may be, they will b® at the polls and do the best they eas&. Every man has his influence, and the bare presence at the polls of substantial cit- izens has its weight. Every Eepublican may not be able t o jet a Democrat to vote the Eepublicaa ticket. But there is one thing he can de±. He can see that all of his neighbors who- Eepublicans are got out, even if ho harness up his team and brings them. It ia- not the good fortune of every Republican to own a horse, and some who are too < 'Id id feeble to walk to town, would be ^iad' to vote the Eepublican ticket, if they could get there. Here is agreeable work for any honest farmer. Don't let any of these men- get left. We will not presume that any reader of >ur paper fails to realize the importance of this election. We think wo have given facts sufficient to convince any intelligent Eepublican that he cannot afford to allow this election to go by default. But there- are here and there those who do not readl the papers to any considerable extent, antl. they may need to have their attention call- id to this business. Laboring men par- ticularly should be reminded that demo- cratic victory means their defeat. Let it be borne steadily in mind that tae» important work for Tuesday is to get out the full Eepublican vote. If this is done there can be no question as to the result. It is impossible to separate business from politics in this country. Any reading, think- ing man knows that to the wise and con* sistent legislation of the Republican party the country at large and every town and neighborhood\ owes much of its brines * thrift and prosperity. Under the earefnl administration of the Eepublican party every business mnn, whether a merchant t a manufacturer, or a farmer, feels safe. Continued Eepublican supremacy gives .. promise of continued business prosperity, and hence we cannot separate politics from -, our business interests. Let Eepublioans keep these facts iu mind J nd govern themselves accordingly. Encouraging News for Republicans; Fair Prospects of Carrying; tne State. We hear most encouraging reports' from all parts of the State. Eepublicans. are everywhere united, while ths Democrats in the great city of New York are hopelessly, divided. The Eepublican State Committee were • never doing more effective service than this year, and the recent exposures of the recklessness and extravagance of the last Democratic Legislature made by Comp- troller Davenport has thoroughly alarmecb the people all over the State. We are also glad to report greatly in- creased activity among the Eepublicans of our own county, who are coming up to the- work with the enthusiasm of old. They, propose to have a hand in the victory of next Tuesday. When the old Eepublican elephant gets . well in motion, he makes things tremble ! . Our Candidate for Sheriff;, Charles H. Foote, the Eepublicaa can- didate for Sheriff, is too well and favorably known to the people of Clinton county to. need any special commendation at our hands. He possesses in a marked degree the qualities desired in the most prominent - \ executive officer of the county, by being a . careful, enterprising and energetic bxisi- . ness man, always correct and prompt in his business transactions. W$ speak > not s only the voice of business saan but of all classes around the county who have had . dealings with Mr. Foote, in saying that ho is uniformly obliging and popular. What is wanted in a Sheriff ia a conrieous, ob- - liging and correct business man, and in , those qualities no man is Mr. Foote'a . superior. ^His knowledge of the men. of ., the county will ensure tho seleotioa o f capable deputies, and tiis 33iariS t S' office • will be ably administered. Vote for Charles H. Footo for Sheriff. Our Candidate for Jf«nJ>er. Charles H. Bidwell, the candidate for -- Member of Assembly, has Jten one of the active leading Eepublicans of Clinton coun- ty almost from his early manhoods Herig » the son of the late Dr. L. F. Bidwell, one of the most popular physicians that Platts- burgh ever had. Mr. Bidwell was careful- ly educated, and for some years has resid- ed at Mooers and been identified not only with most of the public enterprises of that town but of the northern part of the county^ He is a man of sound judgment and ac- knowledged ability, and if elected to the Assembly, as he most assuredly will be, will make a most valuable and influential, member of the State Legislature, See that you vote for Charles H. Bidwell for Member of Assembly. Our Candidate for JMstrict Attorney. Frank F. Hathaway, our candidate for District Attorney, is one of tho live Eepub- licans of Clinton couuty. He is exceed- ingly popular among all classes, wherever, he is known, and as a Democrat well said of him a few days since, \he has no- enemies.\ He stands deservedly in the* front rank among the youag men of the* county. He is an able and safe lawyer, a> man of pure character and habits^ and one in whose hands the criminal business of the county can be safely confided. See that his name is on your tioket for Distriot Attorney. S3\Mr. Smith, please don't have Clintou, )rison removed.'
