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Finally, however, this all-engrossing subject to the office-seeker was, along with Philemon's patience, exhausted, and the squire told his fellow-candidate that the object of his desires could now be seen. "The lass jumped to her feet as ye rid up, and said she'd some garden matters to tend, so there 's the spot to seek her."
As for Jabel Blake, he was too late for that day to deposit his bonds at the Treasury and obtain the currency for the Ross Valley bank, so he went sauntering around the city, grim as a defeated office-seeker.
The Bland Bill of 1878 stipulated that at least $2,000,000, and not more than $4,000,000, should be coined in silver dollars each month, at the fixed ratio of 16-1. Garfield, the twentieth President of the United States, was elected 1880, and was assassinated on July 2, 1881, in Washington, by an insane office-seeker, and died September 19th.
On July 2, 1881, President Garfield was assassinated by a disappointed office-seeker named Guiteau. The attention of the people was suddenly turned from the ridiculous diversion of the Conkling incident to the tragedy and its cause.
I bent eagerly over it, and lo, the image and superscription of Caesar stared me in the face! "So I was Manysnifters after all, and this fact was further impressed upon me an hour or so later by an enterprising office-seeker, to whom, in my enfeebled state, I fell an easy prey I endorsed his application for the Nova Zembla consulship."
"'It was done; but the king always declared that that appointment was the greatest mistake he ever made in his life. "Mr. Lincoln stopped there," said the office-seeker. "'Why did he call it a mistake?" we asked him. 'Didn't the donkey do his duty? "'Yes, said the President, 'but after that every donkey in the country wanted an office."
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