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ELYRIA WEEKLY REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBEK 26. 1885. Or. Editor and Proprietor. HATES OF ADVERTISING.

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ELIZUB WHISHT, the well-known radical abolitionist in the early days of slavery agitation, died last week, at the age SI years. THERE is a chance for a young man from this district to be educated, cheaply, at the Maryland Military and Naval Academy. See letter from the secretary in this paper. THB many friends of Rev. F.

M. Searles, in Lorain county, will be pained to learn of his death, which occurred at Cleveland, last week. His health has been poor for some weeks, but his death was quite unexpected to his most intimate friends. THE Sullivan correspondent of the Wellington Enterprise continues to lo calize in verse. As the REPUBLICAN is desirous of furnishing its readers with everything that is improving, a few Choice items are given: Tall began his school last Tuesday.

Once more do we hear the old bell, And to its call the children come, To learn to read and write and spell. T. Parks is working on his boose; This week the frame was erected; It is late for such work, and if He gets it done, he's elected." More about the railroad is heard. The contractor of the west end Has gone for money to begin the work; On this we are told to depend. The Klpton corrspondent has been seized with the poetic craze, and one personal item is given to what a narrow escape he had In his combat the old man with a scythe: The writer caught a cold in his head, A ferer dragged him deeper; Tour straight days he laid in bed, Just missing the scythe of the reaper.

Bogus Butter The vast dairy interests of Ohio are being undermined at a rapid rate by the manufacture of various substitutes for butter, some of me possibly wholesome, and others are unfit to be eaten by being. The REPUBLICAN proposes to ventilate this subject briefly and give a few facts for the consideration of its ten thousand readers. In thejoutset we say unhesitatingly that the rapid increase in the sale of bogus dairy butter is to a great extent due to the indolence, cupidity, or ignorance of the dairymen themselves, in carrying to market an article of butter that is to the best grades of oleomargarine. This is not true of all our dairymen, we are glad to say, but when for months in succession it is difficult to find in any of the retail stores a first-class article of dairy butter, it is proof sufficient of our proposition. But the dealers themselves have helped bring about this state of things by their own cupidity.

They pay nearly as much for poor as for good butter, and by working it over, coloring and mixing the different grades, sell nearly all of it for a prime article. Thus makers of good butter have had no incentive to compete with those who make an 'inferior article and consumers have been compelled to choose oleo- margerlne, when made of pure beef suet, than use the compound mixtures that are sent to the great markets by the local compounders. These are the facts that make it a possibility for thejbogus butter makers to establish a market for their products. So long as it was sold for what it was, and was made of nobody was defrauded, and good dairy butter was sold at a remunerative price. The situation is very different now.

It is difficult for the purchaser In all our city markets and some of our country villages, to know what he is buying. The bogus and the genuine cannot be distinguished except by experts, and the purchaser is at the mercy of the dishonest who makes an immense profit in selling the imitation for article. Nor are the retail dealers necessarily dishonest in selling Jthe bogus for the genuine. Some of our dairymen are frauds of the first water. It is known for a certainty that large quantities of imitation butter are sold at the factories to dairy men in several of the Reserve counties, for what purpose can be readily imagined.

That butter, after proper manipulation, is carried to the various markets by the dairymen, in quantities not to excite Suspicion, and is sold for genuine dairy butter. Having purchased it of a dairyman the retailer sells it for dairy butter. We do not say that this fraud is prac- tlcecTtrv single dairyman in Lorain county and we hope there are who would be guilty of such an act; but it will do no harm to keep the left JEWS PA PER I eye open on all who may bo thought susceptible to such allurements. Whoever may be to blame for this state ot things la is certain that the bogus butter business has almost paralyzed tbe vast dairy interests, of Ohio. The cheese business was killed by the cupidity of the cheese-makers, several years ago, so that now an Ohio cheese, which on 3e stood in the front rank, can hardly be sold at the price of a good article, in any market in the world.

It was skimming the milk that did the job, and it was the cheese-makers who ordered it, that they might reap a larger profit on creamery butter. But few persons are aware of the magnitude of the butter interests of this State. In every township there are scores of farmers who make, in addition to their own wants, butter enough to exchange for a large portion of tbe groceries, tea, coffee, they consume. These small sums aggregate many millions of dollars a year, and when their product comes in competition with a bogus article that costs less than half to hardship that is wrought to the honest, toiler can be readily seen. But the evil is upon us and what is the proper remedy? Clearly the legislature should provide the requisite laws, but even then they will afford us no relief unless they are rigidly enforced.

The State already provides heavy penalties for selling any article of the patencISbutter forfcthe genuine. Oleo- margerine'f is now legibly labeled In packages when it comes from the manufactory. It is required to be made from beef suet and In this condition it is healthy, and its manufacture as of commerce cannot be interdicted, under the ruling of the court oi appeals in York. Whatever competition dairymen may meet with in its sale they will have to stand. But the ruin dairy men suffer is only part of the injury inflicted.

In the hands of dishonest men bogus butter is made ef every species of grease, pure and impure, and there is danger of destruction of health by its use. The remedy is in the enforcement of the law. If more protection is needed, let us have it, and then every county in the State should have a protective association, organized with special reference to the prompt, vigorous and unrelenting prosecution of every person who violates the law. The dairymen of Ohio can protect themselves to a great degree, and command a good price for thair butter, If they will make a good article and band together in enforcing the law against all who defy it. It may be necessary to require a label to be placed on every package purchased by both the retailer and consumer, if it is not more than a pound.

With the bad reputation of the bogus article will come an increased demand for thefgenuine, but purchasers want to know what they are paying for. It is to be hoped that the great dairy interests of Ohio will receive due consideration In the legislature soon to meet, andialso that there will be a general awakening among the dairymen in the direction of organizing for the enforcement of the law. What do the dairymen of Lorain county say about an organization Is it not they began to do what their neighbors in adjoining counties are doing? Let us hearjfrom them. PraudSWill Hot Succeed. There is abundant evidence that the boodle democracy who perpetrated the outrageous frauds in Cincinnati, and attempted to do the same thing In Columbus, are weakening.

They can not bring tbe rank and file of their party np to the point of sustaining them in their Illegaljand disreputable work. A gentleman wellj known in Ohio, and who has during the past two weeks visited half the counties in the State Informs us that wherever he goes he finds many honest democrats who openly confess the enormity of the frauds, that they were perpetrated by democrats alone, that they are inexcusable and indefensible and will ruin the party If further efforts are made to take advantage of them by seating members who are clearly defeated if the fraudulent votes are not counted. The people are now fully posted in the premies. The fact is not now denied that when the polls closed in Cincinnati the democratic heelers saw they were beaten, notwithstanding they had permitted hundreds of men to vote in excess of the registration, which is strictly contrary to the law. They then resorted to forgery ol the returns by changing votes of each democratic candidate in one precinct, after the tallies had been counted by the judges, and the totals entered in the proper column, adding two hundred votes to all except one, by changing a figure 7 to a figure 9 In a bungling way.

In an other precinct the judges refused to finish the count after the democratic straight ballots were counted, gave the ballot box to a police onlQer unlocked, and when, a week afterward, they met to finish the count the box contained nearly two hundred less tickets than were on the poll list of those who voted, and every one of the missing tickets were republican. These are only a few of the more glaring frauds perpetrated, but the clerk persisted in counting the frauds in as by that means It elected the democratic ticket. This is what the courts are now trying to correct. The people of Ohio will not tolerate auoh methods of conducting elections, In any party, and the boodlers are beginning to learn this fact. The ten democratic of the House who have already received their certificates, based on these frauds, will not be permitted to hold their seats longer than the committee will require to obtain the necessary proof, but should the clerk insist on issuing the certificates to the four senators it will give the democrats a majority in that body, and it will be seen whether they will dare vote themselves into permanent occupancy with these facts before the indignant citizens of Ohio.

If they do it will be taken as granted that the democrats have openly adopted the Mississippi methods, and there is no fraud committed by themselves they will not justify. Citizens of Ohio are watching these proceedings with intense interest. The Natural Gas Industry. There Is just now a boom In manufacturing industries in Ohio that bids fair to rival any former period in her history. We refer to the discovery of natural gas, which, since the remarkable discovery In the vicinity of Pittsburgh, has stimulated Ohio manufacturers to prospect for the same hidden treasure, and with most gratifying success.

The greatest find yet discovered is at Findlay, where there are six wells bored which yield 8,000,000 cubic feet of gas a day. Springfield has already struck a flow of 500,000 feet in one well and others are going down in various parts of the city. The whole State is seized with the craze, and there is little doubt that it will be found in abundance in many other localities. It is used for fuel, as well as for lighting purposes, and saves a large per cent of cost in manufacturing iron, as it is a perfect substitute for coal. Its durability is the only factor to be yet determined.

On this subject a writer in tbe Commercial Gazette says: The most important question in connection with the natural gaa industry Is whether the supply will be permanent. Opinions differ. At Fredonia, N. the streets have been lighted many years by natural gas, and there has not as yet been any diminution of the supply; on the other hand, the telegraph last week brought us news of the failure of the supply of gas of the wells in an Illinois town. So reliable prediction as to the permanency of the supply of the fluid can be made until the origin of natural gas is fully settled.

If, as ii held by many, the gas is being constantly evolved by the combination of Its elements In the subterranean regions of the earth, it is natural to conclude that the supply will be permanent. If, on the other hand, we are drawing on the supplies generated ages ago, and since kept imprisoned in the cavities of the earth, only awaiting an outlet, the exhaustion of tbe supply will only be a question of time. If, as is probable, naturai gas is found in large quantities throughout Ohio, millions of dollars will be added to the wealth of the State; new manufacturing industries will spring into existence; the old enterprises will take on new activity and strength under the influence of cheap fuel, and the ability of Ohio to produce cheap manufactures and to enter into competition with other States in the markets of tbe world will be increased a hundred fold." 1 Chance for a Student, MARYLAND MILITARY AND NAVAL ACADEMY, OXFORD, Nov. 13th, 1885. EDITOK REPUBLICAN Dear Sir: -There is a vacancy in your district for a cadet who wishes to enter the Maryland Military and Naval Academy.

Anyone who procures the appointment to which the district is entitled will be allowed to attend the college free of charge for board, his only expenses being for tuition, washing and incidentals. The academy is national in its character, interests, and representation, having now cadets from thirty different States of ths Union. The naval department is an attractive feature of the Institution, and the practice-ship Winifred lies at anchor in the beautiful Tred Avon river, before the academy, ready for use at all times. The discipline, system of instruction and manner of life are the same as at West Point and Annapolis. The faculty is composed of graduates of the military and naval academies, of Tale college, and of other first-class colleges of the country.

We would thank you to publish this letter, and thereby aid some worthy young man in obtaining an education. Truly yours, H. C. BOUNDS, Sec'y. The Democracy and State finances.

COLUMBUS, Nov. 20 --The report of the State Treasurer has been submitted to the Governor, and it Is a fine Illustration of democratic extravagance and mismanagement. It is positive proof that the people of Ohio did not get rid of the coal oil gang any too soon to save the State from bankruptcy. The most startling showing is in the general revenue fund, Irom which all general expenses of the State are paid. Through the schemes of the democratic Legislature and the expensive bourbon administration the disbursements have exceeded the receipts during the year just closed by nearly $500,000.

There was a balance of $587,653 58 in this fund at the commencement of the year. This araount had dwindled to $98,138,47 on November 15,1885, being $489,515.11 in excess of the receipts, which were (2,656,312.11, the disbursements from the fund amounting to $3,045,827.87, The balance in the State treasury November 16th, 1884, was $710,717.75, while on November 1885, It is only $254,038.79, the expenses ot the State for all purposes having exceeded the receipts by $462,678.96. The present condition of the State treasury cannot be accounted for on the ground of reduction in the public debt, for the report of the Sinking Fund Commissioners shows thnt the receipts of that fund have been more than sufficient to meet the payment of principal and interest on the public debt. Grant's Book. The New York Tribune says the first volume of Gen.

Grant's book has been published, and subscribers in Lorain county may expect to be called upon by the delivery agent in a short time. The Tribune says of the book: "It contains nineteen illustrations, Including that of the house in which he was born. The fln-t of the fifty-nine chapters Is devoted to questions of an- cescry, birth and boyhood. The second takes up Weat Point and graduation, and will doubtless astonish the cadets of to-day with its narratives of a quiet course of study in which no lesson was read twice and many hours spent in miscellaneous reading. Chapters 3 to 6 inclusive, tell of his army life while Chapters 7 to 13 deal with the Mexican war.

The writers for the young will be dismayed that the General says he was not studious and did not like to work but the search for the reasons for his success in life will not be fruitless. From the 14th to the 16ch chapters, inclusive, Is the narrative of his marriage and life In California up to his resignation in the army. Even when at West Point he had no military ambition but looked forward to the life of a professor of mathematics in some non-military college. The remaining twenty-three chapters are devoted to the war of the rebellion, and there are maps of all principal battlefields. The General's opinions on all questions, and his estimates of persona who came within his acquaintance, are freely stated, and new lignfi is thrown on the character of many generals, notably that of General Joseph E.

The second volume touches incidentally upon the Andrew Johnson matter, which has been the subject of so much discussion of late, caused by Mr. Depew's letter. It will be published in March. Atacoulc Klectlou. New York Swells.

The cheap swells of New York, says the Brooklyn Eagle correspondent, are a source of infinite amusement. One very amusing specimen is a very long, Indeed a very, very long young man with a thin face, spindle legs, arms that seem composed of at least three joints, and a chest about which a seven-inch hat band might easily be clasped. He is pallid and white, and he affects the most astonishingly English clothes. One day last summer when I was coming into New York from a short trip out on the Pennsylvania road, I found this specimen seated in front of me. By his side on the same seat were piled a number of satchels and bags ornamented with big sliver initials and a square crown over them, which, I suppose, passed for a crest.

Every other seat in the car except the one occupied by the satchels was taken, when a large man got in at New Brunswick and went up and down the aisle looking for a seat. Finally he approached the long young man, pointed to the satchels, and said quietly "Are you keeping this seat for any one?" "How?" queried the young man with a supercilious look. "Whose seat is this," said the large man a little louder. "I'm aw saving it for a deah old chap- pie friend of mine. He" gets on at Newark, you know." The large man considered for a moment that it would be an hour before the train would arrive at Newark, glanced up and down the car again, looking at the long, thin man, pointed to the bags, and said, curtly: "Clear that seat!" ''No, ear; I will not." "Clear that seat!" 6ay The large man did not wait to hear more, but he grabbed the satchels one after another and sent them spinning up and down the aisle as Scotch curlera play their game on the ice.

Then the large man sank his three hundred pounds heavily into the seat, pinning the dude in the corner as though he was wedged there for life. There was a silence of at least ten minutes, and then the great swell, who was more pallid than ever, said, meekly "May I go and get my traps, sir?" "Certainly," said the large man, rising and making way for him politely. "Go and get them by all means." So the lank and languid and extraordinarily dressed young man went from one end of the car to the other, gathered up all his belongings, and returned to the seat, which was now fully occupied by the 300-pounder. "Am I to sit here," said the swell, timidly. "No, little one," said the 300-pounder in a large and affectionate tone.

"You are to stand up with your little bags in your nice little arms until we get to the end of the road. I have a friend In New York waiting for this seat." -A "Notice" worded as follows is said to appear on the door of a well known business office: "The hours of attendance in this office are: To canvassers for church subscriptions, 10 to 2 book and insurance agents, 2 to 4 commercial travellers, beggars, and advertising men, all day. We attend to our own business at night." King lodge No. 00, F. and A.

held annual eleotlou last Monday evening, and with entire unanimity placed Dr. W. F. McLean in the master's chair for tbe third term. Under hit excellent management, aided by efficient subordinates, this lodge has taken a trout rank.

The following are the officers elected: W. Dr. W. F. McLean; 8.

Dr. JB. C. Perry; J. H.

M. treasurer, J. W. Hulbert; secretary, P. H.

Boynton; S. Charles E. Lee; J. Dr. A.

W. Uazel; stewards, M. Levagood, F. Brown; tyler, F. W.

Albee. A special meeting is called for work in F. C. degree, on next Monday November 30tb. Hoyle Flower, Grocers, Remember, When you come to Elyria to buy groceries that Hoyle Flower will always give you the lowest possible price and the yery best goods.

Try Our Fremont sugar-cured hams. They are the best hams In the market. In Teas We claim to give a better article for the money than any other house in Lorain county. Try us on teas. In Coffees We have a very fine line of both green and roasted.

But we especially call attention to our Chase Sanborn's standard Java coffee. This is said to be the very best coffee in the world. It comes to us in lanje, air-tight tin and does not lose a particle of its fine flavor in transit. You will find ic the finest Java coffee you ever drank. Our Stock of Canned Goods Is full.

We have a large line ot California goods, apricots, plums, peas, peaches, Gordon Dllworth family fruit in glass, Dundee and bitter orange marmalade, Barton Guestiera Halford table sauce, Durkee olive oil, Lea and Perrin and Halford table sauce, Durkee salad dressing, French peas, asparagus, Cummlngs' tomatoes, Moore Brady peaches, Red Brook, Montserrat lime fruit juice. Canned at and Fish. Fairbanks' corned beet, Richardson Robbins' potted ham, chicken, game and beef; also canned salmon, lobster, clams, soused mackerel, etc. Examine our dried fruits. Look at our price on sugars and remember when yoij buy an article of us we guarantee the price to be as low as any in the county, quality considered.

French Villa soap Sets per bar. Ladies dresses cleaned or dyed, made up or apart. Also wraps, shawls, silks at Thebaurt 65 Euclid avenue, (pamphlet free). P. S.

We have the largest and most complete establishment west of New York (estab- lishd 1S6S). Our prices are low. Express orders promptly attended to. 4319 Carefully read advertisement of the Albert Medical Institute 27yl NOVEMBER 1885. We Are ow Prepared To Show You FALL STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS, And For QUALITY AND PRICES They Cannot Be Beaten, Please give us a call and you will be convinced.

BOWEN'S, ANNOUNCEMENT, a a SEASON '85--'80. Straus Kupfeir. We created a great furore last season in this department by offering and disposing of hundreds of stylish garments at ridiculously low prices. This year we propose to out-do any and all former efforts, and to that end have co'm- nienced a great CUT HATE sale of Cloaks at figures- which will not pay for the raw material of which the garments are composed. 810.00) All wool Russian Twill 812.00 in blade 815.00) and brown, trimmed or plain, all reduced to $5.00 each.

Russian Twill New- SIS.OO^- markets in fancy and plain trimmings, duced to 88.88. re- BROAD ST. 820.00 Brocade and Plain Silk Circulars, reduced to 810. 830.00 tight tiering Brocade Silk Newmarkets, with beaver, hare lynx trimmings, reduced to 818.00. $15.00 Russian Twill Mantles, very neat and stylish, far trimmed, reduced to $8.50.

$35.00 Phash Mantles, satin quilted linings, chenille fringe, reduced to $18.00. $42.00) Plush Cloaks, very long 850.00) satin lined, seal skin finishn, reduced to 828. Over 300 Dolmans, Newmarkets, Jackets and Russian Circulars, re- duoed from $6, 87.50 and 610 to 84 and 65 each. Fine Twill Circulars with silk hoods, quite new this season, reduced from 012.50 to $5. 200 pieces Silk Velvets, in all leading colors, also black, never sold for less than $1.50, now 81 per yard.

36 inch all-wool Tricots in all the fall colors, 50 cents a yard. Plain, jacquard and plaid Flannel Suitings, at very low prices and in great variety. All the latest styles in Dresfl Silks, both black and colors. Feather trimmings, chenille fringes and yak laces in endless assortment. Buttons, clasps and braids to match any style of dress goods, Bargains in Underwear for gents, ladies and children.

The only place in Elyria where you can get the celebrated Medlicott Scotch Wool underwear. All wool scarlet shirts and drawers at 30 cents each and up. Hosiery, gloves, leggins, mittens, hoods and scarfs at very much reduced prices. Great bargains in our shawl department. 83.75 all-wool Kersey Horse Blankets reduced to $2.

84 all-wool Square Blankets reduced to $2.50. All wool scarlet Bed Blankets at $3.79. All Bed Blankets at 30 per cent, less than any competition. Full standard Prints reduced from 6 1-4 to 4c. a yard.

Indigo blue Prints reduced to 7c. a yard. Genuine Caledonia plaid Shirking reduced to 10 cents a yard. 30c. all wool plaid Flannels reduced to 22c.

a yard. Our bargains are too numerous to mention. Come to Straus Kupfer's, 85 BROAD STREET 87 ELYRIA, OHIO, NFWSPAPFRI.