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ErrfAPHT AlKOafS F ece8EKK. With oil of coal wbol shk, I are - , "Will be knocked like, lite, but eber. Ajtot coal oil X oft fere warning, Bnt Bridget'aMend ace sow la mowraiag. Nooiepetmftnn I Mary Aid adrfaa. But en-ek-a-day herbmly ta the kirkyard He. Tware better far o'er lire to llrgor Xhaa with opal oil 16 bnra roar anger. Kindle with inroeene, then rifle to lake tin prophet of ot.i-KUjah. The kc rowan kitchen Iwlp in wrtpatetto Are-bag. Dickety, dicker?, dock. The olt ret Are to her f rocky The Bvnie wa red mad ehewa dead. Dicker, dicke.y, doe. Put on tu! ilnrfUng, dh on the oil. When the Are barn the kettle will boil. When the esc berets the hou.- ta aaaem. And, u Uasasil, then ia no ote to Wauio. Ah, indeed, what night bam been, "Were it not for kerosene. There now. J'MlqJrlpk&t '.

SHA ytm erer eee a reel ftrandea, A Scanah Lord of the nre itegTea, With blood 1 pore a thn alnre akr. Baft pure through a thooasad ooaa hrt Why, joat look at mat Pm a real grandee. Fmwenawatv HenalUak.-

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toaa aootea aava ao pan j TetinmayonaM There'll a Mat graiW oe. Ojnrteae long ago Am the find rainbow Wj race begaa to bo, you aaay know And down the am e'en to Ml Straight aa the line of pedifrea.

. n, rva plain to aea Vm a real arandaa

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A Republican latJer Devoted to the AdatiVcetttetit of the lliocal Interests of Monroe County.

Established A. D.,

BLOOMlNGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 83r2.

Sew Seftes.-VOL. XVI.-NO. 16.

THE CHILll. It was morning. "fo this the way,sh to Sing Sing ? MYss," roughly replied a brtl-taped . Wjejclryman, and passed on. It was af ternoon. The child was somawhat fragiJein her appearauoe. Her bonnet was of broken straw, her shoes were much torn : the sun played hotly or bet forehead. She walked on an how longer, - " 4 "Ts this the way to Sing Sing, sir ?" Yea, lit Ue girl, bat. what ar Jitt.goiagthere for?" "- The child trudgKl on, her lips quiyej: ing, but not deigning to answer .the pleasant -laced old man who had stopped the iotarinsr of his horsn to note! her hnrw

ied manner, and who had liked that iitla face, anxious and sad as ita expression

rJlHsdewhad fallrtt ,Kt had fallen, oo, almost, A rough stone byjthe way, imbedded in ibom rectaveoTher tired -tie frame. She looked so worn and tired, tutting there, her tangled hair falling, qu herhaada that were clasped over her icea lthe shakrBgof Irer frame tlfo teavrB were coming, too, and she was tetvely tryini? to keep them back.

. " Why, what is this dear ljtoirLdaj

ugnmi xne exouiaisuoa oame iron a xjair of young Hps. - "A oinosMy, 1 declare f exclaimed ibarsher voice, ncd Katie, looking op suddenly, oowered away from the sight of the young leny and her agreeablelooking eompnnioii. " Whterer are yon doing here, little girl?" HckedNell Maynood, moYing a littl'-. nearer toward the frightened child. 44 Going, His, to Stng Sing," suid Xate. " Why, George ! this child is going to Bing Sing ten miles oil, Child, did yon know it was so far off?" "Katie shook her head, an i wiped way the hot and heavy tears, one by

Why, you little goose I what are yon going to Sing Sing for f Have yoo had your sapper?" Katie shook her head. " Have yon had any dinner 7" Again the child shook her head. " So breakfast, Why, George, the poor thing must be almost starved 1" X should think so," mechanically replied her brother, just recovering from - a yawn, and showing signs of sympathy. Look here, waaVs your name ? WelL girl, you must come up to the honse and get sotnething to eat. Follow me, and well take care of you to-night somehow, said see about your going to Sing Sing io-Moraiw." Xatia followed. What a glorious vision 'burst upon her view ! The plfriat home; jth rocks reddening in the low weetBra sun; the Bhining river; the signs of luxury on every hand. ' Susan, give this child a good supper; she is hungry and tired, too, I imagine. After that 1 will see-what can be done for her." Susan wore a mild laotr. She looked .itetsaotly down at the poor, tired little ne, and taking her hand, which trembled now, led her into the kitchen. Meanwhile her at ry, or that brief part of it which we know, was being told in the drawing room. The sylphlike figure in white, lounging graoefuily in the midst of dolieate cushions, aoeompaiied her narration with expressive gestures, and dot and then a little hut elt. "I should like to know what aheia gomgtoSing Sing for," she said, leaning languidly bask. "We must look ber up something or other to wear a bonnet, a pair of shoes, and then maybe we can manage to have bar earned Boms distance. Obi such an odd little thinff." 'Who is that, my daughter?'' ."Oh, papa. Ton are come home I Why, I was talking about a httle mite of a ohild ; she can't be more than ten years old, if that. I saw hex out here sitting on a moss rock, the nost forlorn abject. She aayg she is gcicg to Sing

met her on mv wav." said the

plemiaiit taoed old man ; "she asked me about it, , and I would have stopped her, ' but she trudged on. Where is she? It was ijoon when I saw her." " in the kitchen, papa. Susan is taking goo I care of ber, I think, and when she has bal a hearty supper we will talk -with her. W ' " A gay trio of yojing gfrls came in. The nettings were put up, the gas was burning brightly, and music and mirth banished all thoughts r.f care. Suddenly Kell May wood remembt;red the odd little Hgnre, and clasping her hands said, "Oh, I've something to show vow, gi'lat" and 'Suaan'was pU;king gooseberries near . the pantry in the-kitchen. "Where is .the child, Sosfer asked HdlMaywood. "t)n tire doorstep. Miss." "Why, no, Susan, tbare's nobody to be Bees." Ma 1 Miss." Sosatt placed her pan down, hold her apvoa up to ' eaten the stems of the berries, siid walked deliberately to the door. . . Why, she sat there sometime after supper. I turned andoame in ; she was siMnig-kliere, looking up, up at the stars, I expect. I thought she 'was

mighty o met child; but she's deep, deep, Mis Nellie; she's gwie.- Let me see.

there ain't but ' flveH rbuu-t Should lie afraid she'd took so nethinir: thevVa

mighty arthd.' "Why, didn't you te 1 her she might atey 1! night Nell Maywood was peeping here and there to spy her if possible. "Yes, Miss Sell, an.: told her what a good bed there was ov'ir the woodshed ; but she looksd stranns out of them large eyes of hers." "The poor cluTd is in trouble,'' said Nell, quita sorrowful til&t she could liot farther relieve her noceastties. rd have given her aometliing to wear, and wa could hare sent Iter to Sing Sing; and perhaps she will come back again if so. will you send her to me ?" "If she do, I wiD, Miss," answered Soeao, going at the gooseberries again. Bat little Kate did not come back. She bad been watching her opportunity to qS, o4 hmi fwd v m vm

aone tone. She rlept in &n open field ; Brawled in tome hay ; she would have walked all night if she had dared, but he was afraid of the rlaTlrnD "Mr. Warden, there's a queer cam over at my house," said a bluff looking fellow, meeting the warden of Sing Sing prison. " We found her last night in some ont-oMha way place, and nothing would do but my wife must take her in, We can't find out her name, except that it -is Kate, and I expect that she wants to see somebody in prison. But we can't get anything oat of her where he's oome from or. anything abont it." " Bring her over here," said the warden "my wife ia wanting a little girl for help ; maybe she's just the ouo.H So Kate stood, trembling more than ever, in a few moments, in the presence Of the Warden and jailer. Kate was a pretty chifd. Her blue eyes worn an expression of intense melancholy; her hair had been nicely eomW. '-d curled, and some one had put a good pair of shoes on her feet. " Well, my little girl, said the warden, kindly for he was prepossessed in her favor where have yon come from?' . " New York," said the child.faintly. The men looked at each other incrednkcudy. " Do yon mean to say that" yen have come to Sini; Sing from ifaw York on

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- xes, air, .. bu nw nuio, mgnuiosa at bis manner; ;Whjjat had ift it something of severity. : " And what have you come for ? "

To s-i my father." ThechOd burst -forth with one great sob, and jror a mc stent her Httle frame aa shaken with a tempest of Jfeiing, . " And who is your father ? " asked the warddU kindly. ' " Hp id Mr. UwV said te.ohil4. as

noon a .sjtje iwald speak; for her rushing sibs. The- warden looked at she ja'ler. " foyd ; there are three Loyds here fim, Uoody and Dick,"-said t ho jailer. ' That may not bi tUoir proper tiaiu.-s,' iwipijdded the warden. ' "That's so," said the jailer, "but I can try Vm ail. Little one, was your father's lunu Jim?" Tito child nodded her head, or they 'Nught she did ; she was all convulsed with the reaction brought on by the sudden termination of .her journey. " If it's Jim he's a bad one," said the jailer in u low voice ; "he's in iro.is this mortiijg for tempting to break jail ; he don't deserve a little girl like that one, the villain. Come, child, I'll go and find Tonr father." He took Kate's shak ing band ; with the other she dashed tl .e tears away as fast as they felL It frightened her almost into calmness to see tho ponderous door at which the jailer applied the key, and the stillness of the stone passages ; the dimness thrown overall; the constant succession of baro and bleak, black walls were torrib.e to a sensitive mind like hers. How the heavy tread of the jailer, and the trend of the warden behind him, echoed through the gloom and the space I It was, in truth, a great tomb through which they .moved a tomb in which were, confined living hearts whose throbs oould almost be heard in the awful stillness. On, on they went, now through that passageway and then through the other. Every- . thing spoke of crime ct fierce passions subdued and held in stern control everything from the grim face of the fe

rocious watchdog to the sentinel armed.

Then they turned and went np the

stairs, the jailer holding the scared bird close to his side with a tender clasp, the

warden following: Another tramp, and at last they oame to a standstill Tha jailer rapped at the cell door. Slowly the figure of a man, with a harsh, haircovered ftoe, appeared, "Here's your little girl come to see you," said the jailer. " Little girl ! hem 1 you're green," said the man, in glum accents. " I've got no little girl, or yon wouldn't catch me here." "lather," said the childish voic ft sounded so sweet, so ohildish, in that terrible prison. Bat, as the scowling face oame close to the bars, the child hid her face quickly in the jailer's arm, halfsobbing, it wasn't him. " Well try the next one." He walked farther on, and spoke more pleasantly this time: "WeB, Bondy, here is little Kate; don't you want to see her f "Little Katie4 there was a long pause. "Ihad a Kate ance -not a little Katie; I. broke her heart Qod pity me ! Go on, it can't be for me." Again the sweet voioo rang out : "Bather. Tito prisoner caiae up close- to the bars; a youthful face, framed with light wavy hair face in which the blue eyes looked innocent a face that it seemed a sin to couple with a foul deed, gazed out It was a child's earnest, pleading, tearful eyes; a dark expression rolled like a wava across his brow ; a groan came np from, his bosom, and with a low moan he staggered against his bed, crying : '" Take her away ; I can't stand the sight of. anything pure like that." Kate had hidden hur face a second tim, as she feebly cried, "It isn't him;" so they kept on to a thud cell. " Jim, here's a little girl Kate, your daughter wants to set, yon." A stnpid "what V ct.me from the bed, the mail had probably just awakened. "Your little girl" There wa a sounding of rattling irons that made the girl shiver. Dimly appeared the face and outlines of a wellmade man the countenance handsome but evil He seemed not to coinpreherfdt Itatlis fast as the chains would permtt him he oanie forward and looked out at the anxious face below. With a loud conclusive cry she exclaimed: " father 1 iiither I" and fell nearly senseless againi t the jailer. "Katie I" exclaimed the man, and there watf a nervous twitching about the muscles of the month. "Whatever has

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eome in theref

ting Us hand across his

face. A smothered " Yes." issued from his lips. They opened the ponderous door and put the child, within. Her arms were outstretched, his were wide open, and they came together with a clanking sound together about the form of that poor little child. "Oh, father!" " Oh, Katie ! Katie 1" and then there was a quiet sr.ving. By-and-by, the man lifted the little head, whose glossy curls were falling on his shoulder and oh ! what a sharp rattle of chains smote on the ear and locked in her face. After a moment's 'irresolution he kissed her, and then his eyes fell under her eamcqt, loving look. " Katie, what made yon come ? " " Wanted to see yci, father," and the hWMWhjsfbtaaain,

Hovr did von come, Katie ? Never mind the noise, they are locking up; they will lie hero again and let you out How did yon co-na, Katie?" "I walked here." " From New York, child?" "Yes, father." There was no sound, save that of tha chains, s he strained her closer to hid bosom. . And how did you fedve her, Katie -yotr mother ?" The question was fearfully asked, but not responded to. He gazed eagerly in the child's face ; her little Up was quiverinir. " Katie, tell me, quick !" "She .lied, father." A groan a terrible groan followed ; the man's head fell in the lap of .his child, and he wept with strong cries, The jailer and the warden said that- they never saw a sight so wofuL, And the child tried to comfort llim, till hip strength seemed to be gone, and his sobs Were like gasps. " Oh, Katie, when did she die ? Oh, my poor May 1 my poor girl I" "Ever so long ago, I think; ever so many weiiks," replied tho child ; " but she told me to come and see you, and comfort you." " Oh, this is hard; very hard; she always forgave me." " She told me to pray for you, looj she told me to ask you would you be real good after yon came out, and meet

ner in Heaven." "in. heaven! I in heaven?" groaned the man, giving way in his agotiy. The child was an gal guided. Her soft fonch

Iras better for his soul's good than the stripes and the chains. He had been hardened ; her little love melted down the adamiint, had fouud the good locked up in his narnre, and she had sent her sweat smiles through its prison door, Long he tat there, his head in the lap of his beautiful, quiet child. None dared disturb him ; jailer and warden walked to and fro. " Father, when you come ont I'll take care of you." He lilted his head his eyes, red with weeping, were fastened on her face. "Mother said I might" . " God's blessing on you, my precious darling; yon may save your miserable fatherr '. " I will, father." The warden cleared his throat; the jailer spoke roughly to one of the pits oners it was to hide his emotion. "You had better come now," he added, going ta the cell " Katie, you must go ; will yon oome sca n, my child?" " Can't I stay, father V " No, dear; but you shall oome and see me agirin." They took her gently from the dark cell; she sobbed very quietly. In the warden's room stood a pleasant-faced old man, "I have come after that little girl," he said. "She must go home with me. Til take good care of her; I've heard her story, -and when her father comes out, if he's a mind to behave himself, I'll give him plenty to do. Beside that, I'll bring her up once a week to see him. What say, little one, will yon go with me?" And good old Mr. Maywood stroked her hair as he said, pityingly, Poor child 1 poor chdd ! Ten miles from Sing Sing prison there is new a little Ksottage occupied by an industrious man and his daughter. Little Katie is fulfilling the command of her dying mother. She is taking care of liim as well as of herself. Maim Farmer.

A Remarkable Tree. So many curiosities of plant life have of lc.te years been brought into public notice that the report of the existence of a tree which picks np stones, bones, bits of wood and other unconsidered trides from the surface of the ground, retaining them and suspending them in mid air, hardly excites the credulity nowadays with which such a statement would have been received a generation ago. Thirty years ago stories of plants whose flowers were furnished with the means of inclosing flies, or even pieces of meat, as a spider seizes on its prey, and quickly surrounds it with a network of ganze, and which then aetunllv proceeded to eat the prey thus secured almost as a spider would eat a fly such stories, thirty years ago, would have been relegated to the category of "travelers' tales," But we have the authority of Mr. Darwin, and any one may easily have the evidence of his own eyes to prove that the possession of such properties by certain flowers is no fiction, but an undoubted fact. The sauu authority who first brought prominently into notice the remarkable propertaee of tho Drosera has also shown that other plants have actually the power of progression, within certain limits, from one point to another. WithsuoU instances, it requires little effort -to believe' 'the correctness of the report above alluded hi that soma plants ar-3 endowed with tho faculty of picking up loose . articles from the ground. Lieut. Houghton, who recently visited New Guinea and several other Islands .and groups of islands in the Pacific, was tie first, we believe, to report the existesoe-of aueh a tree, -though he did not explain the means -by -.which it aooomplih(!d this unusual feat It appears to be a species of Fieus, allied to the well-known banyan tree, which throws out from its branches air roots that eventually reach the ground, take root there, and in their turn become new stems which perform the same function, so that a single tree eventually extends bo far in all directions as to form a complete .forest in which all- the stems are united by the branches to each other. The prehensile tree in question similarly throws out from its branches long flexible tendrils, which, touching the ground, do not take root there, but twine themselves around any article that may lie within reach. Eventually these quasi branches contract so that they fail to reach the ground, but the finger-like processes continue to closely grip the substance round which they have twined themselves, and which are consequently atHpended in mid-air. In this way articles of considerable weight may be literally picked up from the ground by the tree and so held in suspension. Coionfes and India.

A rxmsakt of the once powerful Pe quot race still maintains a tribal organization in Connecticut. Schaghticoke, the ancient seat of this people, is situat- j ed in the town of Kent, under the I Schaghticoke mountain, in the middle ; ot cue valley of Honsatonio. Schaghti- , coke now consists of six little, browu, j oUpboarded, one-story houses, tenanted , by some seventeen persons, and the : whole tribe numbers about fifty. The . reservation of 300 acres comprises . Sohaghbooke mountain, valuable only fin timber, Vinnie, the aged Queen of the tribe, is nearly white, earns her liv -ing by basket-making, and is a member i im iteweet ()mgregatiQnai olvucoh.

PHEWJ The MalcMtoroiM Record of tbe Deancrutic Parir.' i Extract from a Speech In ConwreMby Mr. Bnttertrorth, ot Ohio. Now, is tlio Democratic- patty the

I proper ftgentiy to secure civil-service re

form ? I want to say to gentlemen ,ud thn country that riled are hot judged tiy a single utterance or by a single act, but by the whole tenor and course of their lives. And parties are not judged by a single resolution or platform, nor by a single act. Political parties are rightly judged by their record and by the imprint they leave upon their country's history in tho times in which they exist and move; by the inanher ill which they deal with Uie country's interests and honor. Gentlemen, the history of your party is written. Its record is made up, and is as palpable to all the world as if printed in letters of light and suspended across the henvons between Orion and the Pleiades, Known of all men by

that record, you must stand upon il.

You came into tho control of this House

proposing civil-service reform, reform in all matters that challenged public ci-itl-

loism.. tfow did yon get Here? Ispeikit before my country in deep humiliation i

but it is the record of this republic, that

your majority rode to tbis. House fetlock dejp in human blood. Kay, nay, this is a matter of record and not mero declamation. To get your majority more men were murdered lor attempting to vote the Republican ticket than fell iu dofeuse of our flag at Gettysburg. In order to got and niaintun your majority iu this House more tueu vwent donii duller the knife, the revolver a-ja the shotgun" than fell righting for the republic at Mai vein Hill or Shiloh. Ahd yet this party talks to us about civil servioe reform; about political freedom I There ia not fl spot upon the escutcheon of our country's honor upon which we do not find traces of your party fingers. There is not a rent iu you country's flag that your partisan did not -shoot there with hostile lead. The time was within ten years when you did not furnish as much protection to American citizens in the enjoyment of their political rights within the shadow-fall of this Capitol as pagan Borne furnished to her citizens in her remotest provinces, and yet this party parades itself as the champion of civ I rights and political equality before the law. Upon youdbr wall hangs the map of your country. It I asked you go ami put your pencil upon a Slate where political riot goes un checked, where political outrage aud wrong go unrebiiked and the perpeLrat

ors go nnpunisli' d, there is not a man iu this Hou-e who would have the brazen effrontery to put a (icucil within the boundaries of an acknowledged Republican State. Gentlemen will not accuse me of acy unkind intention, I want to ray to niy brethern from the South (and do not forget it, gentlemen) that the mothers of the North that bound bandages around your wounded soldiers, who watched over them when sick and toothed and comforted them in their dying hours, who gave them tender care when dying aud Ohiisiian burial when dead-, are not the mothers who could or did teach their sons to hate you. We fought your cause, not you ; and whon that cause went down in the rod sea of war we gladly welcomed peace and hailed you as our countrymen. All 'we ask now, in the language of the martyred dead, is, everything for security, nothing for revenge. To return once more to the map of my country. Go with me to any county where political corruption reigns supreme; go with me to the wards aud pre cincts where the police on election day are doubled, where the police are trebled, where trembling patriots walk up to the

polls fearful lea1, they be beaten over tho heads with bludgeon" or be thrust sway by ruffians; point out that ward, loiut

out that precinct, point out that county to me. There is not a. man within the souud of my voice who will ever think of pointing to a county, ward or preoiuct which is confessedly Republican, How is it, gentlemen, that political rights are only safe where you are not, aud threatened only wheie you are in undisputed majority? How ia it? t have traveled from Maine to the Rio Grande, from the northwest corner of the republic to Florida, at least in imagination, searching for an answer to this question. When my eye rests upon a State, county or precinct where there is a clear Republican majority Iflud quiet, order, equal rights, full and adequate protection to every voter. But when I want to find the opposite of that 3 on know, gentlemen, it ia a matter of record, these ballots exhibiting the tissue ballots used in south Carolina I attest the truth of what 4 eivyy-wben I wapt to find the reverse uf that, I say it in- all- humiliation, I have to go where Democraoy'reigns supreme and exercises almost undisputed power. One word more and I have done. Much has been said about the preservation of the country's honor and integrity. In 1880 your party approached a victory away up in the frozen corner of this r. publio, iu Maine. What was the result? The credit of this country was chilled to the heart, the national securities, sank in a moment, Yes, your ouury's credit was shaken, and millions upon millions were lost upon the bare suggestion that tho national Government

might pass under your control aud its honor and integrity into your party's keeping. Nor is that all What else ? As it was flashed along the wires that span the country that you were successful in Maine, presaging a victory furyou in October, thero followed swiftly after messages to the great; manufacturers of tho country in these words : " Stop my order; if Hauoock is elected 1 shall countermand it" In my own city an order was given for twenty-one thousand dollars' worth of machinery. Aftt r the returns from Maine the order was b toyed until the result of tho October election determined that the country's integrity and its honor were secure agoiutd tho danger of Democratic ascendency. No, my couutrymen, I isay these things not in luikindness, but in humiliation. I but lecito the record. It is the fault of tho facts, and not of him who proclaims them. Doton ("xpeet by legislative enactment to make men good ? Oh, no; our Stiieis had no such hope. Ai tho

hearthstones we build the foundation of '

this republic, oaohour children tadhere t tho otermd principles of right, not because they are nd rocatod by our in"!! or .mother, but I'ocims thoy are right, aud lwcauao apmt from them

there can lax 11 tatvalion fur this re

public; lttviig ax it ih n Govern tucnt 01 the people; a Government in which virtue nd ijitclligeuco are, indispensably

necessary to the security of the rights ' bout way to attain the proposed change

INDIANA, rams.

and opportunities which belong to free'

men under the constitut ion. Legal enactments are of little avail to control the action of voters who aro so utterly corrupt as to make the highest

of tystem is foreordained to failure, i

Meanwhile the Republican party will not be tempted to surrender the trust confided to it by the people, and cou'd not be justified in doing so by auy Boph-1

ahd ntost sacred badge of oitiRehshia a 1 lstry l-nsed upon a pretense of civd-

service reform. Chicago Tribune.

Teh dwelling of George Langford, of

? abash, was swept away by fire. Loss, &2.WK).

j J ohm Gbiffith's residence, near Hun- , tington, was destroyed by fire. Loss, I fi,6M

The S8ath fcaroUifa W-t. f JVSto? tTl Mt. Samuel Dibble, who was recently reunion, ejeclea from a seat that he wrongfully I- Thb laniot family, of Madison, have held in ihe lower honse of Congress, ! generously given '$3,500 toward the is generally credited with the paternitv 1 building of the now dormitory building of the new apportionment in South I ,or Hanover College. Carolina, Mr. Dibble is a political . A ,tbe Dajn, , . .. . . ; . 1 living 111 Hart township, Warrick county, casuist of the type that has been de- ha8 npered from home. He was a vehiped In the South by the exigencies : large dealer in live stock, of tke fiohrbon dduse. He pretends to The State Bureau of Statistics is now

j be an honorable gentlemen, and grows i engaged in compiling niannfacturing

statistics, tne nrsc mat naie oeea gatn- ,, fill ill Tnliana ainna Ifi'O

winV fl f fnrcrarv rwrtiirr or theft la, nrt- 1 -mr t i . '

vnarn nndnr thn drAsa nf rwrtv tndpno id " r . , 1 JUAB dubhos, a promtueui larmer, jears nnaer uie uress of party maepe id-j con,pul)h the suppression of the negro r,j,iino. nnrth r fW,,.rw5ii

vote iu his State, aud believes that in danrously hurt falling from a load of so doing he is acting the part of the ' hry "across some machinery on his barn

pntta.ju auti true owirVDiunut kjuiuo v nio tlOOr

w . T) s.-.. av.J 2 it -

a t. a .1 ir ti.i.t f : jaJJb x Annua xjtrATi nt'i xutju jui wa debate iu the Mackey-Dibble case, were , Krmit . fil.awforjRlriH a nit for

subject Of barter aild sale; The wretch it'hti Amis iio trice Uf a higher and ' :ejU ei. law on ihe tablets of his heart will spit iipon and despise that printed in your statute-book. The hope of the republic is in the enlightenment and enuoblmg of our people. Teach men to aspire to the better things above rather than be satisfied in the contemplation of the fact that there are baser persons and meaner things below. To this service it 10 ottr duty to dedicate ourselves and our children.

Quixote in Politics.

There is a Democratio newspaper in I k'Rhlj indignant if his pretensions in , Chicago which has masqueraded several j t'l" Ttfl&it.. Jf J LU i

ence. JSvery once in a white, however, the cloven foot creeps out from under

tne political uomino'ana reveais ineiruo ; , , .; . -- - -- . chapter of the wearor. The latest i RepWicans in the Honsa, during the

frauds that h ive been practiced there.

It is time that Republicans should begin to call things by their right names' if they wish to respect themselves or be 1 respected by others. Nothing was ever

i gailiedl et by Compromising with a scion j

rf Mmtlittrn rthivalrv Mtmowl in mrt,v .

district is 250 miles long. ' It varies in j of Russiaville, Howard county,

width from 150 miles to ISO feet, except

for three miles, where it is an imaginary line. The act of the Legislature uses the following language in describing part of the Seventh district: "James island, Folly inland, Morris island axd islands lying between them and tho lower portion of Charleston har bor and the ocean coast line from and below high-water mark." " The ocean coast line froca and below lugh-water mark " is, of course, nil during- high water. The district is thiped lil:e a bat with cutbtretched wings, though, in the words of Polonms, " it is backed like a camel," and from one point of view is "very like a weasel". Such a configuration never was seen in this country before since Congressional districts began to exist. The other six districts, have been arranged with a view to returning Bourbon members, but all of them, with two exceptions, have colored majorities. The number of male persons over 21 years of age in tho new districts in 1880, according to the offic ial utatement of tlu-

census omoe, is as follows : fe

13.IHI

ley.leS i.voi 1'2,(9 U,ti8

Dintrict, Fiwt Second..... Third'.... Fonrth... 1'iftu Slith.... . Seven Hi...

Wkite. ...12,16 ..u,ne ..13,33s ...",810 ..iMtn ..12, MS ... 7,!M

6VJ 6t3

CWor! majority.

4,fl

861 9HS 28,19!

wearer.

manifestation o" partisan wile will be

found In the following proposition, suggest -d ostensibly iu the interest of civilgefvitJe reform i - "that in 18cU they (ilie Republican and Deniocrdtio patties) shall Unite in uauiiug one citizen as their, common choice for President,' upon the understanding aud mutual agreement that he bhall not act as !he President of either, but as an impartial, non-partisan Chief Magistrate of tha natitiu which contains both : lhat he shall not treat the nnbtio

oillees as spoils for the victors, nor as !

patron ige to be awarded to anybody ; nor farm out the appomting power to Senators, Representatives, or patty basses ; but that he shall call a Cabicet of the party which shrdl choose a majority of the Representatives: aud hold tuo Cabinet, responsible for the success or failure of the party administration." There is not much reason to douot that tbe Democratio managers would fasten upon such an arrangement greedily if they thought there were the slightest hope of obtaining the consent of t ie Republican managers. The Democrats have been making desperate attempts to electa President ever since they forfeited their claim to national trust by the secession, rebellion and war which their action forced upon the country. All MHiir machination to that end have failed. Thby declared the war a failure, and were beaten. They voted the w ir a buccuss, and were beaten. They took np as their candidate an old-time Abo.itionist aud original Republicau, but could not deceive the p ople. They r jturned to their vouiitj and thought by intrigue aud corruption to seize the Presidency, but they failed. They have tried civilians and military heroes, have flirted with the Green backers and swo.-n by hard money, have in turn reiterated and disavowed the State sovereignty heresy, which Is the distinctive mark of their existence, have followed the progress of the Republican party about four years lute, have experimented wit'., every expedient which political shrewdness has been able to suggest, but all to no purpose. No doubt, ttien, they would gladly agree to vote with the Republicans for -tome nonpartisan candidate (if it wore possible to rind such a person qualified to fill the office of Chief Magistrate), aud leave to the Congressional majority the privilege pf shapiug the policy of tne aduiicistiaiou. At all events, such a plan v.ould give t hem somo chance to control the

executive administration of the Government which the regular method of electing a President does not hold out to

them. With tbe aid of intimidation and fraud iu the Southern States, the Democrats 110 me time succeed iu securing control of Congress when they cannot choose a President, and they would doubtless be hanpy to avail them-selvi-s

of the same connivance with bulldozing and billot-box btutttiig as a means to

get central of the executive part of toe Government during lour years. Tluiy will have no such opitortunity. Of course the scheme outlined in the above paragraph is utterly chimeric:... There ia no inducement for the Republican party to enter into an alliauce with the Democrats io elect a so called " 11c 11partism," or more properly a compromise candidate for President The Democratic party would not listen to any such proposition if it were not so hopelessly moribund Political conditions are not favorable to any such arrangement lit is hard to conceive or a man of sufficient character and abili ty to servo as President of the Unit ad States who his not strong convictions as to the principles which divide t tie Democratio and Republican partita. Civil-service reform is lugged in simily as a pretense tor suggesting the scheme. Nothing in tho past history or present nmbinion of the Democratic party pro nisea any aid to this reform movement from tli e clique of politicians who control it, A helpless President who should give himself over into the hands o.1 a Democratic Cabinet, appointed at tbe dictation of a Democratic Cougre.is, would be unable to check the headlong rush of Democratic place-hunter wh oil would eet iu at once. There would be a revolution in the civil servhm ; but that is not reform, Tho people might just as well elect a Democru tie President at the start, and that they would not do. Civil-service reform is only to be achieved by the combined effort of law, public opinion and long-continued practice. The Republican party has loado considerable headway toward it in. its long tenure of power, which given a certain assurance of permanency to officers and employes who are competent and faithful. Tho next step ia one which would probably have bton takeu if Garfield had lived viz : to provide by law for fixed terms for the mtior officers and employes ofthe Government Until measure. shell l-e adopted to assure the retention of the skilled and: experienced ni'in now serving the Governnanf. t.riA iliToatniiAd rAvnltitioil in tha

civil service wdl always be a strong argument against the election of a Demo- j emtio President, aid any scheme ie- i signed to circumvent the popular '-rill heouse the pKiplo will not consent to elect a Democratic President -vill I

nl ways be obnoxious to good sense mid i and placed them 011. stumps in the fields

good morals. : in such a manner that wt.cn pulled the If tho proposition to which we h ivo stump would not interfer with the closrefcrrcd is based upon any genuine de- i ing of the noose. I shjod hidden at a s re to udopfe what i i known as the re-' oonverient distance, and would almost sponsible" system of government lhat ' invariably oatch theorow when he aligbtwhioh obtains in Englu d ".ho answer ! ed on the stump. I caught elevon in one is that tho American system as it is now : morning in this manner. Afontetuma constituted is not :in harmony with the . iOa.) Weekly, theories of a "responsible" Mia-s6ry, and that, whether desirable or nor, tho Tux gross receipts of the American ot-hT system cannot lie grafted upon j Patent; Office for tho year 1881 were our Government except thrrtah eoi sti- '; $85M,fifi5.89 ; the gross expenditure was tm ional aiueitduieuta adopt d by vol e. of SiW.'i. 1 Td, 28 leayiui; a wy; profit 9! f248.tie people, Any indirect and rouuda 4U2.IM,

1 1 A. - a. 1 a. j! 1 Ji J

" "ou8" 7"ovc" ' damages against Luther Garland, of fecord before them for kuowmg that he ! acr- , ,, . iw Sofe Cibblis has betm the manager ! , Mras Hannah Powmt. has filed before of the BonrrJoa cantpidgns in the 9cn Co L,?ailBP?rt Charleston district for man vears. and - complamt sgainst James F. ry, de-

I e is resDonsibie. if anybcaly is. for the mantling 9D,uuv

for breach of the

marriage contract Pap Diokebsom, of Madison, has sold his fine mare Bronze for $7,000, Pat bought this mare last fall from hie brother for $450, and his brother had bought htr for $176.

Tbb State Superintendent of Publio

work as to his personal responsibility j Instruction has returns showing 708.f96

ior ir. Dibble has himself thrown a strong light on his pretensions as "a Southern gentleman" by perfecting a new plan of apportionment for South Carolina, which iu its disregard of the requirements of decency and law dwarfs all previous efforts of the kind that have been made in this country. He had the plan of this apportionment in his pocket at the very moment when he was pro testing his purity aud innocence in the halls of Congress. But the least ex aminatiou of it will nhow that an honorable man could not have conceived it, sad cannot now countenance it the object of it in to nullify as far as possible the colored vote of the State. The colored majority in South Carolina is 32,000. Dibble's plan begins by

putting 25,000 of it in one district This

school children, of wham only 1,294 between the ages of 10 and 21 years are unable to read or write. . Hon. John F. Mobbtsok, one of the most prominent citizens of Indiana, died at Knightstown of heart disease. He was State Treasurer during the war, and a counselor of Gov. Morton, A 4-teab-old son of William Lewis of Bedford, out one of his feet with a rusty hoe. Lockjaw supervened, and the result was death within a few days after receiving the wound. BixvAKtrs Txst, whose disappearance on t'he day of the soap-vat accident at Terie Haute was coupled with the latter honor, has returned after a long tramp extending to the wilds of Arizona,' Cabd Bakes, a farmer, 55yearaof age, living three and a half miles northwest

Total. ..66,900 11S.K89 1,337 33,:.'Jli Thl ie Ihe only d!trtut whloU contain no (raoUona ill ooitntiea. The population of the neven districts is aa follows: First, 118,803 ; Second, 138,7.18 ; Third, 131,569 : Fourth, 167.230; Fifth, 121.30(1; Sixth, 132,383; Seventh, 187,536. Tbe Fourth and Seventh districts hs.ve a population of 35i,?r36, or one-third the population of the Siato ; whereas the First dtbtrict has 32,000 less than the ratio, and three other districts 10,000 to 20,000 less. Ii is a rerx.arbable fact that the Bourbons profess to be able to carry the four distriotnin which the colored people have majorities ranging front 800 to 4,800, though it is admitted that all the negroes and a considerable number of whites in- these districts t,r; Republicans. Dibble has thoughtfully put himself and Mackey in tbe First Distinct, where tho colored majority is 1,439. It would not be agreeable to Dibble to go to Congress honestly, if he eould ; so he has left himself n good colored majority to overcome by fraud. But ha will easily dispose of 1,500 majority against him aud prosei-vo his reputation for "honor" among his neighlwrs and friends. Mackey is so satisfied of this that be .will not contest the district with Dibble, but will run in the Seventh district where the colored peoplu have 25,000 majority. It will be the duty ot Congress if the Republicans shall have n laajority in the next House to investigate, carefully the e'eetions in all colored dititricti of South Carolina, and to unseat any member whose certificate Khali appear to' bo tainted with fraud. 11 Mr. Samuel Dibble snail lie one of the number so muoh the better. The whole apportionment might properly be rejected, if the point should be raised, on the ground that the districts are not composed of "compact and contiguous territory," nor are thoy "nearly equal in population," lis tha low requires But it will lie for Congress to determine what courete it shall pursue ia this respect attar the elections have been held.

Hew to Catch Ciwwtu A gentleman write us tliat he has succeeded in catching tevoral crows in his ccrn field in the following novel manner : " I arranged a number ot lame

twine utiings with a shji-nooso in each,

struck and instantly killed by lightning.

He was in a field plowing corn when a storm came up and he took shelter under a tree, Wahben Coxbtook and Henry Tyner coirreyed the children ot the PnbTterian Hun day-school to the picnic grounds, three miles from Greenfield, in wagons drawn by a ponderous traction engine. The novelty of the proceeding drew a crowd all along the line. Thb officers of theLogausport National Bank have discovered that the absconding cashier, Oscar Goodwin, stole 81.r, O.K) by manipulating the account with the Merchants' National Bank of Gbioago. He also carried off his bond of 125,000, and the signers are unwilling to stand tne loss. Sbvkbaij lads of Newcastle, whose ageii range from 12 to IS years, were shooting at a' mark and had kept it up for some time, bat were unsuccessful in hitting the mark, whereupon two of them, youngDennins and Odin, remarked to young Gordon, who was standing on the bridge : " We will shoot you," and, suiting the action to the word, both fired, their guns, shooting him through the heact, resulting in instant death. Mas. Maob, of Lafayette, died, leaving a will so worded that her con's wife,, whom she hated, should have none of heir property. The. son had the will broken, but died soon after, and the other heirs were trying to have the decree set aside by which the will was made void. About $30,000 were involved Judgct Hammond has just decided, however, that the son's wife, who has since remaiTied, and her son are the lawful heus. A. 8PEOIAX1 train on the Evansville and Terre Haute road collided with a freight near Vtncennes. Both engines were ruined, four cars were mashed into splinters and fire men were seriously injuivsd. No horror is without its hero. W. E. Guyton, a brakeman, who bad both hands frightfully crippled and breast bruised, snatched np a flog aud walked half a mile north of the wreck to sig nal tlie down-coming passenger train, thus bravely avoiding a horrible calamity After performing his duty he fainted from sheer exhaustion, The damage is estimated at $75,000. Cnmpnlg-n'ric rtftr Yonr Aa, These military days recall to the old settlers the first days of glorious war in this place, now just fifty years ago.. -The great chief of the Sacs and Foxes, Blackhawk, threatened our north wen tem frontier settlements, and there was un iversal dread that he might overrun them and destroy us. So (fov. Nolle called for 500 volunteers to niai'ob for tho frontier. They were to be mounted infantry, armed with rifles, tomahawks an.l butcher-knives. Each man was to furnish a horse, arms, aooouterments; no uniform was prescribed. The btaoksm ith made the tomahawks and butoh srkuives, and the gunsmith the rifles, bullet-molds, shot-pouohes and powdorhoma, when needed. Many soldiers bad th sir own arms and acooutermorits, bein;; hunters and Indian-fighters. Oaut H.uiry Brenton brought a company from Johnson county; Cspt Thomas Niobolii one from Hendri is county; Oapt John W. Redding, Capt A W. Russell laid Ot.pt James P. Drake, of Marion, tlso bad companies in the regiment Ool. Goorge L. Kinhard commanded it. William Counor, of Nobl?ille, vas guide and interpreter. The State furnished ammunition and commissary stored, which were hat lei in five ox-wagons, each pulled bv dye yoke ot cattle. Gen. Ribcrt Haunt wits the Commissary and Quartermastei'. The rations conaiited of flour, bacon, txffee and sugar. Dr. Mitchell was the Surgeon. The Rev. James Armatrjng wia Chaplain, Tho regiment encamped on the 6th of Je.ne, 1832, on the Mili aiy Pirkground, near the ooraer of Went and Washington t-treets. They marched on the 7th, and isueaiupod on the flrit night near Trader's point, on Big Eitg e oieek. Tho next day's march earned tl.em to Kirklin (or rather Kirk's prairie) on a stream. This prairie was an almost iiipassable bog. The next night tho camp was at Thorn town, then a flie situation, high and dry nn old Irdiin town site, celebrated for ite healthfidn.988, Tho next oamp w between

Tliorntowii and Lafayette, in tbe woods. The next diiy the regiment censed the Wabash' at Lafayette and encampe.! at )?arrish' grova. The next night the camp was just beyond the Iroquois river, ir. Iliiaois. Tbe next Camp was a big spring in the Grand Sraifie, The next camp was at the snkakee river, on this ude. The next camp was at a grove sixteen mil mi beyond the &snkakee. After several days' further march the regiment raanhod Chicago, irhereooesmaU sohoonerlnyat anchor oliout two miles from shore, tJae water being shallow near shore. That schooner had brought a ganriwn Of soldiers froai Detroit Tbe waii a emnll bl.ock-hoase near the mouth of tbe river, in which were about fifty to seventy-five soldierB. There was no town here, except a store and reeidendey and aogood placx) for one then. The regiment stayed thsra three days. About Uie time Blao chawk surrendered. The ordun there were received to return home by the wily of South Bend, because supplies coul i be got on that route. The regiment marched biok by South Bend and Logaasport At the Iroquois there wae an Indian town. The only inhabitants visible were women and children. These were some scattering Indians at Hyde Park aitd on the Calumet Here the regiment encamped. The marshes between the Calumet and South Bend were almost impassable. A few peaceable Indiana Were als seen at Loganaport The country through which the regiment marched was almost a wilderness, especially beyond the Wabash river, and the horses were fed upon the wild grass, uo forage bo ng hauled in the wagjoafcr them. This account is given by the soidier who was .Milled the "baby of the teri.ment," well-known citizen, JsmetrH. Stapp, Ei q,, then 18 years old. Tbomae H. Shanie. Thomas Chill Wilikoi

Stuck, H inry Brady and Mr. Stapp fire

the surv.vors now iu tft's county ot hub

old-time campaign, which was aoeomplished ir thirty davs, and in which the genuine h ardships ef a soanh. tlirottrb

swamps, -wet prairies and wilu woods.

without bnclgea, and upon toe scaaiuisc supplies, were endured. India&apoli Journal. j The Telephone in Qerxtaay an Frajioe.

So far back as Sorembor, 1877

cording to a naoent statement by Ketr Unger), did tho German postal an telegraph aut aoriues begin the use of th telephone in small places ; and tbtre ana now 1,280 suoh telephone ofBeefbt

tli-a conutiy. The pi olio was alow-w adopt the telephone for local traffic in large towns. Mualh tnsen was th, fEt to act, and a few months later, in April laat year, telephone traffic was begun in Berlin with eighty-seven subscribe!!. The nunilier of cnversati(ms by- telephone in Berlin ia now increasing by .bout 6,000 a montli. Telephope rrfateais are now at work in Hamburg, Frankfort, Breslaa. Cologne, and Matnhelm ; and! m Altoua, Barmen, EtUir-

fieid, Hanover, Leipsie, Magilebttig, Stettin, Strasburg, Bremen and Drealeu thev are enntemmeted. In tbe first '

seven towns the telephone wirea, -hsv reached a total length of 3,147 kUoihetoBTl (sayl,90(i miles). Berlin, .onii..tEl:-8t with 1,55-t kilonveteri;, then come Haoibnrg with 911 kilometers ; Breslaa; with 200 kilometers; Frankfort and Mataiheimeaclt with 163 kdoraetere; Mui!hauseu, with 87 xilometers and Cologne with 69 kilometers. The total uiimtec of applicnnts in thesa seven towns ih'fbd end of Decemlicr was 1,694, and the number uicreaace nvery week. 1,113 had been put in. .minuniition ; Ber,n bad 668 raid Hamburg 623 applicants. There are three central stations in Berlin, io Fnmsosnehe, Mauer, and Orauienbarger streets respetitive4y. From data in the flint three weeks in Decembe?, it appears that, on an aiiirage, 1,650 oonuectaoiis were made daily (on the Sunday 720, 540, and 833). Frcm 12 to 1 is tha busiest time'; during that hour 150 oonneetionHon an averagil were made in the office in Frrt0ib strasse, or five every two minuta's. From 3 to 11 there is a little rest, aid from 5 to 7 fresh activity. The telephone chambers in the Exchange h-ive double wale, with ttshes, clay or s;idust betwtnen ; the inner walla have intervening a layer of thick pasted loartl. then eottoa-eovered felt on frames, Mai on this tbe paper. These chamber answer vory well and are much lre-. queuted. There are again publio todophone roo ns (ao pre seat twe in Batlitk and one in Hamburg,) into which mo ' may enter nd on payment of 50 pfennig (say 5d), have live minutes talk by telephone with any one whose hoine or office is bi Uie s;rstem. Turning to Franiee, wi learn tl.at the number of lines supplied by the Soctete Generals des Telephone ot tlte Slat of JanusTy was 1,411, instead of 62f at the ecd of the corretjionding week in 1881 ; and the communica tions in tho last week of January this year amounted to 80,534. In Lyons she number of lines has'' increased firom 07 in January, 1881, to 285 in January, 1882 : in MamalVw. from 32 to 153 ; in Nantes, from 14 to 70; Bordeaux has continued with lllti ; Havre with 100 ; Lille with &.Ltmiin Timet. How te Escapo MmtWBftM.. The flrit preemption is an iimrie supply of pure, fresl and oow air. Til, nerves will always be weak if the gseuter part of tie day and night be pawed in close, ill-ventilated and OTecfcentsd . apartments. The narves, more, thf few . rest of the body, to be properly niK ished, reqaire a full supply ot oxygen,,. , They will : lot endurtvritiated air, w hot tier the imi uritiea come from aewers, gaslights, subterranean furnaees or the individual's own person, without making an energatic protest A gaa-bnitaar ' cousuminu four cubie feet an hour, produces more carbonic aoid in a glvon tune than is' evolved from the irewpiration of ei jht human, beings. Bear this in mind ; oa wh eufTer from neryusaess, that when yen have abut yourselves up in your rooms and lighteil in argand bamer (which consumes about . twelve cubic feet oii gas per hour) yon are to all intents and purposes. untuurKt with twe lty-three other persons, all taking oxygen from tbeatmosphero. Is itawonder that ia several hoam'exfosure to the deipravod air your nerves a'aould rebel, as :lr as thovi ijoak state petnuts, and that your head should acne, yovv hands tremble, and that your daixgh tor's playing on the pi mo aunost drives yon wild? As ovEirheated a pertinent alwaB ouervates ills oocupantij. It is no uucocimon thin; to tind looms heated in' wikter by an undorgroiud fu)maoe v-p to M degrees. Fights and murders are wore numerxHiB in hot weather than in cold weather, and the artifloially'heatetl ir that rushfis into our room, deprived aa'it is of ita natural moitituro by the baking it has undergone, is even more productive ot vicious passions,' It ia no surprising eircuntstanoei, theMfiire, to Hud the worn a wbo swelter, all lay ia auuh a tempei'Htnre, and alda to it at night by superfluous bed ci -thing, crea anil lia agreeab'ai from litt e every day tronlloa that would soai-oely i-ufflti. her tompt r it she kept her room at OS degree .-Mid opened windows every now and thenl ' &r, Mammmti; in OUr hHtvmt, . .

Amtiiuii PoBTBit'ii office at Wb fW.

000 houte in Washington quite sa tical curiosity shoo. There are Bom.) oe

nieces of Srurnituw. s. tew books in easel

. nnmhw nf dwn and uaotoerrarjiia

on the walls. In erne corner are . ball a hundred models of toirpedoes, with ve'iy harmlets tin tubes and pine stews, (hot a stand Mi one side of the room is a working model of the steamer Alan a. Little lirsss gnus tnd bite ( ships pa pers and doc uments and bo cattnsd over tbrext desks, ease of studied btrds and coittitlesu (huif's of iiiter eS Wieeyt), ' "