Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 48, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 January 1884 — Page 1

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A. Republican Iater evotedto the Advancement of the Local Interests of Monroe County.

Established A. D., 1S35.

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 80, 1884.

New Serics.VOL.XVII,-N0.48.

BX . t. sun kjrily Crooodfle, Wast dwelt upon the Nile. Bethought Wmwll one day to give a dbussr. "Economy," said he, 1. chief it all with na.

And sbaU considered be-as I'm a

With paper, pern, sad Ink. He sat him down to think. Aad, first of an, Sir Lto he invited; Tie northern Wolf, who dwells la rackv luetic dens; Tbelaeopard aad the Lynx, by blood ualtcd. Then Mr. Fox, the vhrawtl So lover he of good And Madam Dock, with sober step and stately; And Mr. Frog, serene. In gvo-b of bottli mm, Who 'warbled bus, asd bare himself sedately. CToorodOe, eonteat, Tae invitations sent: The day was coma liii guests wan all assembled; They landed that some gn;le Larked Is his ample smile: Kachontha other looked, and somewhat trem-

A lengthy time they wai : Their hanger waxes great . And still Ui host in eooTersatioa dallten; At bat. the table's laid, 1 With covered dishes scraad. And oat, la haste, the hungry party sallies. But when the covers rais?d On empty plates tbrv (raxed. Each on tarn other looked with dire intention: Ma'am thick sat hut of all. And Mr. Frog was small. She aoftty swallowed him, and made no men-

Tins Mr. Fox perceives. And saying: By year leaves. Borne pnnfebraentls due for this tuiutf jrceston." Re cobbled her ra baste; Than, ranch to his distaste, By If r. Lynx was taken in puaataolcm. The Wolf, w thont a pause In spite of teeth and daws Left note ingot the Lynx to ten the story; The Leopold, ail irate At his relations fate. Made mince-meat of 1 hit wolfish monster hoaryThe Lion raised his head "Sence I am Stag.' h - said, 3 Ul bento the King to lack his dinner!" Then on the Leopard sprang With might of claw and fan?, and mads a meal apon that spotted sinner. Then saw in sodden fear Sir Crocodile draw near. And beard him speak, with feeftnaa of dtotrac-

4iaoe ail of too have dmed, wWl sotted to yonr mind. Son surely cannot grudge me satis faction.'' Xnd sootb, a deal of suite Lurked in his ample sm le. And down his throat the roaring Lion hast-d. 'Economy, with m . Is chief of all said he, Aad I am to see there's nothing waste:!."

. The Cruiseof the Jemima. Charlie, my young brother, had been tagging at his studies; I had just passed the S. C. S. E., and .was proportionately elate. We bal earned our summer holiday, we thought; and nothing loth was I when Charlie, with a map in his hand, pointed . out a spot on the Caithness coast and exclaimed: "Here we are! I here we go! What ay you, Prank?" "Very good choice. Plenty of ozone, fishing, and boating; fashion at a discount. Where is the time-table V A primitive fishing village call it Claahead was quickly fixed upon; and after the usual delights of railway traveling we found onrselTe3 in a place richly endowed by nature, but minus an inn. 1 A Highland cottage. however, proved a comfortable enough shelter; and after a nighfs rest and a hearty fish break fast, we strolled off toward the sea. In the one straggling street of Clanbead were yellow-haired children who stood in wide-eyed, innocent wonder and stared at us. Pernaps they were overcome by the sight of our hideous brown sand-shoes; or it might have been that they were bewitched by Charlie's handsome face. Charlie is the Adonis of our family; and I well, lam an ugly young man with, a marvelon.,ly wide" month, eyesight bo near that I cannot pick up a sixpence without the help of my glasses, and an expression, to say the least of it, scared. Such as we were, we stood the lads' and the lasses' scrutiny unabashed, plodding on till we perceived a middleaged man leaning on a gate, in, I imagined, a dofee far niente condition. He turned, however, and moved toward na. ' "Will ye no' be takin' asailthemorniu', gentlemen?" "Just what we want," cried Charlie. "Awed, tak ye the first turn to the reet, an' it'll bring ye to the head of the cliff. Some way bock ye'll eee the openin' to a ravine. Gang awa' through the gap. an' ye'll soon be where the sea washes the cliff foot. Be ye canny, for the tide's high the no; and the shallowest water there may droun ye. In five minutes IT1 be comin' roond wi' my boat an' my mate at tout service. " - The boatman touched his cap and moved off', we made for the ravine, passed down it, and came suddenly ' upon the most magnificent expanse of rolling water that oar eyes had ever feasted upon. Shortly from, I suppose, some shelt tering nook under the cliff, came along our little craft the Jemima, with her mainsail spread and her master at the helm, while Donald, his mate, kept watch at the bow. With a "Yo hoy!- Steady! Yohoy!" i she waa "brought to, and in scrambled we, seek or nothing'. We were scarcely seated before, emerging from' the ravine, toiling on with the help of a cratch over the loose earth and bowlders, came a girl with a sweet bnt very sad face. Evidently she was suffering in mind and body. "Ech, Hinny! Hinny ! said our boatman, with a softened intonation. "Ye .-' ehouldna act see, my dear! When gentlemen hire the Jemima they dinna expect to tak her master's family aboard. Gang awa hame again, Ma-

"Oh, by all means, take your friend aboard, Mr 7-" "Ben is ray name, sir, an' I thank ye for yonr kindness. Come, then, bairn ! an' look ye, dinna trust to your crutch when ye step aboord. Should the boat luff, it may slip frae under ye. Let me lay it doon at the stern, an' gie me your hand. Sow, steady, an' in ye are." Ben guided the boat off, then turned to the girl again. "Eh, my bairnie, not sae niicklc as a speck o' heal feurl an' they bits & fal-lal clot hie g ..yin' aboot ye. Yell catch your death ! ye maun hae my jacket on. Mebbe, sir, yell be ao kind as to hand the tiller whiles I dress her oop? There, now, Mamie, are ye no warmly buskit " Off we were before the wind, our swelling mainsail hiding the man at the bow. The grand sea and sky threw Charlie and myself into ecstasies; Ben, need to such scenes, was quiet, and, I thought, sad, while the lassie looked decidedly sleepy. "Eh, my doo," said Ben, "ye were ccp wi" the birds; I marked ye wendin' you way to the cliff by the first glint "the sun. yg 1 ken to a wraith, my dearie! Ys &( wwjderin'. Aweej, ley doon ymur head while on itfy

shoulderv and be takin' a wee bit nap the noo. With his disengaged arm Ben supported the frail little body, and soon his charge waa dozing as restfully as any weary child. As she slept I espied a wedding-ring on her finger; and even in repose her face told a tale of mental and bodily suffering. Some heavy calamity, I thought, must have fallen upon her. Her childlike confidence in Ben and his tenderness toward her were pathetic; and, altogether, my sympathy was won. Presently 1 ventured to ask if she were not an invalid; and returned Ben, "Oo, yes, sir; an' she is my only bairn. Pretty doo! She married ower early. An' a week after, Tarn, her husband, sailed forth wi' his crew for the fishin'. Three months hae passed sin' the wofu' day, but nae word can we get o boat or men." "Then you think the vessel " "Went doun, sir, is what ye mean? .There is nae doot about it; for, miles awa along the coast, a piece of her sail was washed ashore. But my lamb knowsna that; an' sae, i'stead o' puttin' on widow's weeds, she aye says we's bound to find him; an' she -watches the sea, an' questions every flshermon she meets, till it's just pitifu' to hear her." "She is nearly distraught," thought L Then I gave Ben a warning note regarding the imperative need of trying to divert her mind from her trouble. Also I proffered a word of advice about her lameness, which, it appeared, rose from some recent injury done to the muscles, and which, I gathered, had been treated in anything but a scientific maner. Ben was delighted to find that I was a doctor, and most grateful for my interest in him. Indeed, he was so earnest in pouring out his thanks when I volunteered to take Mamie's case in hand while I was at Glanhead, that the man at the bow (as he afterward owned) became an absorbed and sympathetic listener; for Mamie and he had been playmates, and he felt rather-down hearted, Ben told me, when Tom carried her off. Deep in our subject, and entirely free from apprehension, we scudded pleasantly along. One moment all our thoughts were of healing; the next crash! crash! crash! over our heads, under our feet, everywhere! A swift glance at the mainsail, a wrench at the tiller, and a tremendous shout from Ben "Bow, there, bow! Are ye sleepin', nion?" The warning was too lata. A large vessel was down upon us; our mainsail was pierced through by her bowsprit; our timbers were shivering under her bows. I heard shouting on the deck above us; I saw a man leap from the vessel's side; I saw Mamie woke up in an agony of terror, and throw her arms round her father's neck; I heard Ben say, "Nae, dinna cumber me, bnt strike ye oot an' trust." I knew we were all m the water, for I saw Ben supporting his child as he swam vigorously toward the man who had leaped over. I saw Charlie going down (neither he nor I was a swimmer); I clutched at him fruitlessly; tben came confused cries of, "Keep your heads up!" "Here's a lifebelt;" "Catch this rope!" and so on. But soon the voices sounded far away and indistinguishable. I knew that salt water was in my nostrils and mouth; there was singing in my ears, roaring in my head; I felt a mad impulse to rise; I did rise; again for a moment only, I heard eager voices near me, and caught a glimpse of the efforts that were being made to save us. In an agony I made an effort to keep up ; it was futile. Then hiss! hiss! swish! through my very brain; after that, darkness, dense darkness ! a clear consciousness that the hand of death was on me, a cry from my inmost soul to heaven, and strange, deep calm. . The sun was going down in a flood of crimson glory. I lay upon a wellswabbed deck all alone. Where had I been? Where was I going? What had happened? I pinched myself and felt the pain, so I was still in the flesh. I tried my voice, "fii! hilloa! somebody!" No one came. I sat up and took a speculative survey. The vessel was taut and trim, and she smelled of timber, but she was not of British build. As I cogitated rather weakly, I must own a footstep sounded on the deck, and along came a good-natured-looking seaman, fair and bine-eyed ; he made his way to me and looked smilingly down. "What ship is this?" queried L A shake of the head. "Are you a German ?" Two shakes of the head. "Speak, man, in some tongue or other, will you?" The word "speak" he understood, and obeyed with energy. But no word of any language could I pick out from his strange jabber. Feeling, no doubt, that my understanding wanted arousing, he went away and shortly returned with six other men; some strong, fair, and blue-eyed, like himself, the rest shorter, darker, but powerfully built, and all chattering the most unintelligible jargon. As they bent their energies to make me understand something or other, I Med hard to discover their nationalities.

or certainly they were not all of one

nation, wnen happy thought came flitting through my brain the words: And then the bine-eyed Norseman told A saga of tee days of old. "Yon are from Norway," bawled I. "And you," to the darker men, "you are Swedes. Am I right?" "Ha! Norroway! Norge! Norge! Ha! ha! Norrike! Hat ha!" The words were taken up like a 'refrain with boisterous satisfaction. Had I only raised my eyes to the vessel's flag, I might have seen at first that she was called theJarl Hakon. Bnt just then my wit3 were scattered. They began, however, to disentangle themselves, and thoughts of Charlie, Ben, and the rest crowded upon me. Where were they? Where was the lame girl, and where the Jemima? It was useless to question, so I rose up and with rather unsteady step walked across the deck and found my way to the Captain's cabin. On one side lay Ben, with pain in every line of his face ; in the Captain's berth, lookjng absolutely dead, was Mamie; stretched out on a rug lay my brother. He, however, managed to moan out "Bravo!" when he saw me. I went to the girl's side and felt her pulse. Then, "Where's the Captain?" said I to -Ben's careless mate, Donald,

who was standing close by, the picture

of neipicss distress. "Here," came a ready answer from a

mellow voice behind me.

I turned There stood a portly.

gray-headed man, with a trustworthy

face. He spoke E owlish; this was worth something just then. "Have you a wife a lady on board, sir, who will carry out my instructions respecting this patient?" ' "Are you then a physician ?" "I am a member of the College of Surgeons, and am anxious to do my best in this emergency." "I am heartily glad, sir. A lady no; there is not one on board. But there is a man who would lay down his life for this child. He is burly,, but docile ; let him be her nurse." "Oh, her father? But he is in sorry plight himself. I fear I shall find some broken bones when I have time to look at him." "No, not her father her husband." I glanced at Ben. "I knaw," said he; "there's a reet bright siller linin' to oor clood, thank God." "Bring him in," quoth I. He came, a young fellow having a splendid physiquo and six feet two of height, the very man who had leaped from the side of the Jarl Hakon to our rescue. I stretched out my arm in front of the berth as a warning or barrier. But Tarn had tact and caution. He stood mutely looking down on his ghostly young wife; then, in rosponso to a touch on his arm, ho bont his head to take my orders. While Mamie remained unconscious he was to keep his post quietly, using the prescribed remedies ; the moment she showed signs of consciousness he was to vanish. I turned to Ben, who I found hod a broken arm. "Splints," said I to Charlie, who was on his feet by this time. "Go to the Captain for thin wood, and tools to shape it, also linen for bandages a sheet will do. Now, Ben, you are a Briton, I know; will you trust me to set that bone?" "Trust ye? Ay, sir; I ne'er wince at sic like. I'd be poorly off an' it werena set." That business was got through, and Ben had scarcely uttered a moan from first to last, but cold perspiration stood on his forehead; and I was just dispatching Donald for a strong cup of tea to revive him when a sudden knock on my arm. I turned sharply. "Beg pardon, sir," whispered Tarn, as his great bulk rolled and stumbled into a dark corner beyond me. But Mamie's eyes were wide open; the whiteness had gone from her face; her breath came thick and fast; she even tried to raise herself on her elbow. "Father! father 1 Ye's foun' my Tarn!" Quaking with fear lest the remedy should be worse than the disease, I motioned Tarn out from his hidingplace. I saw the girl's face flush violently ; I saw her throw up her arms to clasp her husband's neck ; I saw the young giant turn white and weak with emotion; then away darted I, never halting till I reached the stern. Tyro as I was, I would rather have set half a dozen more bones than have stood out that meeting. The Captain was there, and very soon we got into conversation. Here is the substance of what he told me. The Jarl Hakon was doing a pine trade between Bergou and Aberdeen. On her last homeward voyage sho had picked up Tarn and auother seaman, who were beating hopelessly about in n small boat, half dead with thirst and exhaustion. Tarn's fine frame had battled through, and ho was working his way back to Scotland ; but his companion in peril had snccumed and was laid in a Norwegian gravo. Mamie walked without her crutch before I left Clanhead; and Ben's bone was doing famously. I was in high spirits at my success as snrgeon on my own account. I had gained friends, too, stanch and leal. Said Tarn at parting: "Ye's gien me a bonny wife for a sickly one, an' 111 ne'er thank ye enoo', sir." "All right, Tarn ; you saved my life when you leaped from the Jarl Hakon, yon know, so we're more than quits. And look here, lad, if you ever want a friend, send to me." "Sae I will, sir; and suld ye e'er need an act o reet willin' an' faithfu' service yell send to me." That compact was an honest one, and it will stand. Caxsell's Magazine.

Housekeepers' Measures. A great deal of poor food, especially rakes and other "recipe" preparations, is due to inaccuracy of measuring. "A pinch" of salt or pepper, or other condiment, may mean four times as much in one hand, as in another quite enough to entirely change the quality and flavor. Teaspoons, teacups and coffeecups now vary greatly. The old standard teacup held just half a pint, or four to the quart, and the coffeecup three-quartera of a pint, or two and two-thirds cups to a quart; but on testing several cups now in use we find that of one pattern of teacups three fill a quart; of another it takes five, and of another six; while of coffeecups, two of one set fill a qnait, and of another it takes nearly four. It would be a simple matter, and a great convenience, for any housekeeper to keep always at hand accurate measuring cups of earthenware or tin. Let a teocupful or a tumbler full always mean exactly half a pint, and keep a cup of that size. Or nso small tin cup one with a side handle being preferable. Spoon measuring is more important, especially in giving medicines. The top is so broad and it is so difficult to know when a spoon is evenly full, that a "teospoonful dose" of any medicine, or if a flavoring extract in cooking, may be double what is prescribed. The standard teaspoon, evenly full, holds one-eighth of a fluid ounce, or 128 to a pint; and a standard tablespoon just three times ns much, or forty two to the pint. Sixty drops of water equal one teospoonful, bnt drops of different liquids vary in size. Every family should have a "Minim glass" (minim means a drop). This is a little glass tube or cup having a broad base and a lip for pouring out the liquids. There are marks on the side and figures 10, 20, 80, 40, 50, 60, for so many drops the figure CO making just a standard teaspoon to 1. With this at hand one is alwayn able to measure off exaot teaspoonfuls of anything. In giving medicine, such regularity of doses may mean recovery of health. These glasses can bo bought at most druggists for 15 to 30 cents each.

Hers is a pebble whioh everybody is flinging at everybody else: Some people give according to their means, others ooTding to weir meanness.

THE SOLID SOUTH.

Fraud, Violence, and Murder Still Important Factors in Its Politics , Sixty Thousand Kepublioan Voters Disfranchised in South Caroli na Alone.

Columbia (8. 0.) Cor. Oblcaco Tribune. Northern Democrats claim that the grist for the Southern "outrage-mill" is a product of the fertile imagination of fiepublican editors. Even large numbers of Stalwart Republicans evince but a languid sentimentalism, which is based on half incredulity; they think that all that sort of tiling disappeared "long, longogo." Recent oven' s, however, show that the shotgun, the pistol, and the lush arc still important factors in the politics of the ''Solid South." Within but a few weeks there have been the Danville massacre, the Kentucky tragedy, and the Mississippi SheriUkilling. Those thrco affairs, however, are completely put in the shade us to cold-blooded barbarity by tho raid of Georgia Ku-Klux last Jnly. The poor negroes who were dragged" out of their beds and lashed and shot at had committed no offense beyoud voting for the Hon. Emory Speer "for Congress last November. There was 0 1 ecomin ; fitness in tho fact that Mr. 'Speer was tho Nemesis who avenged the wrongs of the negroes, he having been appointed United States District Attorney. These shocking cruelties occurred in a State whose proud boast is, that she is the most progressive and most enlightened of all the Southern States. Unlike many political outrages, thoy were not committed hi the heat of passion, but coolly, deliberately, in the j-earof grace 1883, six or seven months following the election. Mr. Speer convicted eight of the Ku-Klux. This fact has intensified the hatred of the Bourbons of South Carolina, engendered by his coming here from Georgia to assist District Attorney Melton in the election trials now in progress. As to South Carolina KuKluxism its history has never been written, except in sketches. What has been made public of its operations warrants the statement that as thugs and torturers the Ku-Klux have never been surpassed. When Chief Justice Waite was down there a few years ago he declared that he could not preside at another Ku-Klux trial. Tho details made him deathly sick. Here is a representative case : A band of Kn-Klux made a midnight raid on the rosideueo of an old colored woman and her nephew. Despite the piteous pleadings of the old woman, they dragged the nephew ont of bed. "Gentlemen," ho cried, "I've done nothing. I've not 'loctioneered since you whipped me three weeks ago, aud I'll never lectioneer any wore!" "Why, you black son of a b ," mockingly replied one of the Ku-Klux, "we've not come to whip you. Don't be afraid of that. We've onlv come to kfll you that's all." Then out into the darkness they dragged him. They made him wade into the middle of tho Broad river and kneel down on what they called "the holy fitone." The leader chose several of the gang to sho:t at him from the bank. After enjoying the fun for some time one of tho' 8)100 tors got impatient and jumped into the river and rushed at the victim. Tearing his mask from his face the Ku-Klux shouted, "You d n black dog, I want 3-011 to see who killed you;" and then he literally shot the face off the negro. "Now, auntie," softly inquired one of the Judges at the trial a pin could be heard drop in the court-room "how did you recognize these men who came to your house and took vour nephew out and killed him?" "Why, Lor", mos'r, I orter know 'em I nnssed 'em P And it was God's truth. Those 'men hod suckled at that black breast! Of course she recognized them. It may seem a hard thing to say, but it is a fact: While Ku-Kluxism may not exist now as a regular organization (and then, again, it's quite possible that it does), its spirit is still abroad in South Carolina, stalking through tho cotton fields and the pine forests at election times. An address has been issued by the State Executive Committee of the Union Republican party setting forth to their brethren of the nation how it came to pass that in a State having between 40,000 and 60,000 Republican ma ority the Hancock and English electors were awarded 54,241 majority over the Garfield and Arthur electors. That address has never leen replied to. What happened at the last Presidential election will probably happen in the next, unless the Republicans of South Carolina receive substantial support from the North. It should be borne in mind that ever since 1876 the election officials have been Democratic exclusively. The United States Supervisors in manv places were driven from the polls by violence. It would be tiresome to even enumerate the methods of fraud. But one Democratic paper in the State, the Beaufort Crescent, raised its voice to protest. It said: "There is one thing to be said of tho Democracy of Beaufort county that unfortunately cannot be said of some others, and that is, they have not as yet learned to make one Democratic vote count as five, and five Republican votes as one. Nor liavo we yet adopted the system by which ballots are substituted in the boxes for these which were originally placed there. Upon these little matters we are sadly deficient, which will account for tho small show-

Ling we are able to make with 300 votes.

'Hot ourselves, we had rather be afflicted with years of Republican misrule, trusting to the justice of our cause, finally asserting itself, than to steal an eleotion." With the reigns of government firmly in their hands, and with complete control of the election machinery, the Democrats at the last election called in their bloodhounds; but, as before, resorted to every imaginable form of fraud and intimidation. In South Carolina no Republican has any right of citizenship that a Democrat is bound to respect. Tho Republican majority was wiped ont in 1H82 first, by intimidation and fraud in connection with the registration, and the Registration law itself is grossly unjust; secondly, by intimidation and fraud at tho polls; and thirdly, by "counting out" an art in whioh Southern Democrats are exports. The Democratic Bloody Shirt. It is not the Republican editors who are waving the "bloody garment;" the iolid South is waving it, covered with the blood of a score or more colored Republicans shot at Danville W, Va. ;

with the life-blood of "Print" Matthews, of Copiah county, Miss., H. C. Ellett. of Yazoo, Miss., and scores of others through the South who dared to vote, or express their intention of voting any ticket in opposition to the regular Bourbon nominees. They are flaunting it In the faces of every Northern Republican, saying, "What are you going to do about "it?" and the Republican editors are only pointing it out to the people of the North, that they may sec how loathsome the thing is. Versailles Sep ublican. AS AUtiRESSlYE CAMPAIGN. Important Caucus of Kepubltcans to Organize A fconBslol!al Cainpalsn. Washington Telegram to Chicago Inter Ocean.) A very full caucus of Republican Senators and Representatives was held in tho House chamber, for the purpose of selecting a Congressional Campaign committee. Senator Edmunds prosided. On taking the chair, he made a brief but forcible speech, in whioh he said the Republican party had not for fifteen years entered upon a campaign under more favorable auspicos or with brighter prospects of success. He expressed the utmost confidence in the result, believing that tho party would present an unbroken front, with harmony and good fueling all along the line. In offering the resolutions Senator Hoar also made a few remarks of a similar purport. The cnti:e committee was not announced, some of the State delegations not being ready to report, but all existing vacancies will be filled at once. A meeting of the committee for organization will bo held this week. It is proposed to take active measures at the very outst t and make the campaign an aggressive one. The committee, as for as made up, is composed of gentlemen of the highest personal and political standing, and tho important interest confided to them will be wisely and safely administered. Two Iwues. Commenting on the defeat of Senator Pendleton because of his position on civil-service reform, the Philadelphia Presd says : Judged, therefore, by its own acts and the sayings of its own organs, the Democracy stands to-day for free trade and the spoils of office. It has made its position upon these two issues so plain that he who runs may read. It must go before the people on these two planks, the most important ones which will lie incorporated in the political platforms of the year. No party but the purblind Democracy would imagine that this Nation is now really to have its industries broken down after being laboriously built up, and to see a return to the spoils systems which, for fifty years, disgraced American politics. More reasonable than that these events should happen is it to suppose that the Democracy will find, as tho Charleston News says, that, by its own acts, its fate in the Presidential battle has been "settled before the spring-time came." Republican Committee of Arrangements. Senator Sabin, Secretary Martin and Mr. John C. New are the committee of arrangements for the Chicago convention. Thej' have already decided that the next convention shall not be hampered by such a crowd as filled the immense galleries on the last occasion. Then accommodations were provided for about 15,000 visitors. It has been decided to limit the seats in the galleries to about 3,000. The body of the hall must give room for fS2iJ delegates and the same number of alternates. It is the purpose of the committee to portion off a part of the Exposition hall in such a way as to afford room for the platform, the space required in front of it for the press, the delegates and alternates, and the gallery room included. This will allow a total attendance of about 5,000. The Yazoo Tragedies. No one believes the Fagon brothers, at Brookvillo, or those four Africans, at Yazoo, would ever have been punished had they been white. It was the hellish hatred of their color that doomed them to death. These atrocities are but fresh illustrations and proofs that in the South there is one law for the white man and another for the black man ; or, to put it more correctly, there is no law at all it is impunity for the whites and assassination for the blacks. And yet, when these in. "amies are mentioned and commented on, the Democratic doughfaces of the North join their allies "down on the Yazoo" in raising the old screed and yell about "waving the bloody shirt." .Forf Waym. Gazelle. When the Democratic party gave over the Treasury of the United States to the Republicans the vaults were empty, and money difficult to borrow at 10 and 12 per cent. They groan now over the miseries of the people because the Treasury has its maty hundreds of millions and money is easy at 3 per cent, interest. But is that a good reason to declare "the Republican party must go ?" Leaf Copying. Take a piece of thin muslin, and wrap

I it tightly round a ball of cotton-wool as

big as an orange. This forms a dabber, and should have something to hold it by. Then squeeze on to the corner of a half-shout of foolscap a little color from a tube of oil paint Take up a very little color on the dabber, and work it about on the center of the paper for some time, till tho dabber is evenly covered with a thin coating. A little oil can be used to dilute or moisten the color if nceessaiy. Then put your leaf down on the paper and dab some color evenly over both sides. Place it then between the pages of a folded sheet of paper (unglazedis best), and rub the paper above it well all over with the finger. Open the sheet, remove tho leaf, and you will have an impression' of each side of the leaf. Any color may be used. Burnt or raw sienna works the most satisfactorily. Knowledge. Treatment of Bulbs. An ounce of nitrate of soda dissolved in four gallons of water is said to be a good stimulant for bulbs, to be applied twice a week after the pots aro filled with roots and tho ilower spikes ore fairly visible. A large handful of soot, or about a pint, tied up in a piece of old canvas and immersed in the same quantity of water for a day or two, will give an excellent stimulant; also good and safe is a quarter of a pound of fresh cow-dung mixed in a large garden pot of water, and used as required. Any of these stimulants will do good, as the whole of them applied alternately will benefit bulbs that need more sustenance than the soil aSbrdH. F loral World.

ONE HUNDRED PERISH.

Loss of the Steamer City Columbus Off Martha's Vineyard

of

Passenger Summoned from Sleep to Face Their Death in the Raging Sea.

Of One Hundred and Twenty-fire Persons en Board, All bnt Twentyfour Lose Their Uvea,

Toe steamship City Of Columbus, bound from Boston to Savannah, with flfty-Bino firstrolass and twenty-two steerage passengers and a crow of forty-five, strvek a rook aad gunk off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mttsa. One hundrod and four lives wei-o lost. Only twenty-two persons wsre saved. The ill-fated vessel struck on the outside of BerU's Bridge buoy at 8:80 In the morning, the wind at tho time Mowing a gale. Tho vessel immediately filled and keelod over, tho water breaking in and flooding the port-side saloon. All the passctiners, oxcepttag a few women and children, cams on deck, nearly all wearing life-preservers. All the boats wore cleared away, but were immediately swamped. A majority of tbe passengers were washed overboard and drowned. Seven left the vessel on a llforaft and about forty more took to the rigging. At 10:80 a. ni.tkoGayheadlilsooatputoff ttdd took seven persons. Another lifeboat put off between 12 and 1 o'clock. The revenue cutter Dexter came along about 12:30 p. m., and sent off two boats. Twenty-one persons, one of whom Is dead, were placed aboard tho Dexter, and, after all persons had been taken from tho vecsel, the DeUer proceeded to New Bedford. Three persons died after going aboard the revenue ouWer. The total ndm ber saved Was twenty-three. Five dead bodies were recovered and 110 souls aro Unaccounted for. Capt. Wright, the commander of tho lost steamer, says he passed Cross Rip lightship at 12 o'elook, and eontinued by east and west, with a strong breeze west by southwest. "After passing Nobska, the course being west southwest," ho says, "I stepped into my room to warm myself, as it was very cold. Everything was working well. After being below a short time I heard the second mate, who was in the pllot-honse with tho mate, sing out to the quartermaster to port ho'm. I jumped out of my room, thinking wo had come across some vessoi bound down the sound. I then cried out 'hard aport,' not knowing but it was a vessel, and in the moonlight I saw the buoy on Devil's bridge on the port, about two points forward of the beam and about 300 yards distant. The vessel Immediately struck. I ordered the engtno reversed, and alio backed about twice her length. The steamer Immediately stopped, and I ordered tho jib hoisted and endeavored to head her to the north, but sho ailed forward and listed over to port, so that her planks were about four feet under ater. 1 went aft and told tbe passengers to keep cool and get life-preservers. I next told the officers on tho do"k to get tho boats ready. The steamer settled down aft and righted. It was blowing very hard, and a heavy sea was running. Wo launched on the port side. No. 6 boat, which Immediately capsized. The sea was breaking over the steamer's deck, and her stern being entirely under the water, we were forced to go upon the top house. I staid there awhile, but we were finally obliged to take to the rigging. Tbe mate, second mate, the chief engineer, and fourth engineer took to a raft. I think the steamer struck on a lone rook. The Captain Is positive bo struck outside the buoy, and In backing drifted insldo." Officers of the cutter Dexter furnished tb following statement: About 12:30 o'clock w sighted a vessel ashore on a reef near 0 ayhead. Tho wind was blowing a gale, and a terrible sea was running. As we approached we saw the vessel was a steamer, and that the waves were breaking over her. We anchored on hor starboard quarter, two ot three hundred yards away. The cutter's boat was at once lowered and manned with Uvo men in charge of Ueut. Rhodes, who brought off seven men. A return trip was made and one man brought to the vessel. Lieut. Kennedy was then dispatched in the gig, with four men, and took off four or five men. Meanwhile tho lifeboat transferred several men to tbe cutter' and at length the rigging was cleared of survivors. Tbe vessel sank in about four fathoms of water, and the ratling of ber bow was theonly portion of her hull visible. We found men In the fore and main tops and rigging. It was impossible to row over to the rigging, as the boats would have been pounded to pieces. The men in the rigging were forced to jump into the sea, and we caught them ai they arose to the surfaoe and pulled them into tbe boats. Some of tbe men could not swim, but nearly every one in tho rigging was saved. Eugene HcGarry jumped from the rigging, Lieut. Rbodes jumped for him, but the boat was lifted fifteen feet on the crest of a wave, and-lt was necessary to go to tho starboard to avoid being crushed. HcGarry was not seen afterward. At nearly tbe same instant McGarry's brother was pulled into the boat. Capt. Wright waa among tbe last to leave the ship. Two men were frozen so stiff that thoy were unable to relinquish their hold on tho rigging. Thoy were at length the only persons remaining on the steamer except the Captain. Lieut. Rhodes asked him to jump, but ho shouted, "Save those men first.' "Thoy aro frozen," was the Lieutenant's answer. The Captain tbon jumped, and, although he could not swim a stroke, he was rescued by Lieut. Kennedy. Lieut. Rhodes performed a heroic set, wbieh elicits hearty commendation. Two men hung in the rigging, unable to move from exhaustion. The officer determined to savo them at the peril of his life. Returning to tho eutter, ho asked Capt. Gabrielsen to give him a man to steer, that ho might swim to the wreck and rescue the unfortunate men. Tho Captain granted the request, and Lieut. Rhodes was placed on tho boat. But on nearlng the steamer it was found it would bo folly to attempt to go alongside. Lieut. Rhodes refused to abandon the attempt, and sang out to the men in the life-boat to take him to the wreck. Lieut. Rhodes boarded the life-boat, and, tying a rope about him, waited until within about thirty feet of the vessel, when he sprang Into the sea. Rhodes had nearly reached the wreck when he was struck by a piece of timber, and sank. Ho was pulled aboard the boat and taken to the cutter. His leg was found to be cut, but after changing his clo'hlng, as tho sea was smoothor, he determined to make a lost attompt. He again set out for tho wreck, and this time the men were reached. One was hanging by tho feet and arms through the ratlins, head down. Lieut. Rhodes put a bcw-llne about him, when he murmured; "For God's sake, don't touch me." Tho man, who was found to be Mr. Richardson, was placed in a boat, but died before reaohing the cutter. About $100 was found In a wallet in bis pockot. Tbe second man, the last person removed from the wreck, was In the ratlins in the weather-rigging, and, although breathing u-hen placed la tho boat, also expired before reaching tho onttor. All tho resouod give the highest praise to the ofllcors of tho revenue cutter for tho brnvory manifested in saving thorn from the wreck. The City ot Columbus was one of tbe linest vessols on tho coast. Sliq was valued at $300,000, and insured for $250,000.

BATTLING WITH DEATH.

Thrilling Stories of Shipwreck and Suffering, Told by Survivors or the Lost City of Columbus.

BOLDLY DEFYING THE LAWS.

The Union Pacific Refuses to Pay Money Into the Sinking Fund. (Washington Dispatch. The attention of Concrrcsstnan Anderson, of Kansas, has been eallod to tho faot that the Union Paclflo railroad bus nover paid a cent in dish to tho sinking fund, as required under the Thurman aot, which provides that not a dividend shall be paid upon tbo stock of tho road until tho claim of the sinking fund Is satisfied. Over a year ago the Soorctary of tbo interior directed suits to bo brought against tho road to compel it to pay what was due. goon after Sidney Dillon called upon tho t ttornoy General, and had a long Interview with him. It Is not known what took place at this interview, but no suit was ever brought. A little over a week ngo tho Union I'aeiflo brought suit in the Court of Claims to reoovor over $1,000,000 alloyed to bo duo to It for transportation. The Government sot up a oroFS-bill, showing that the road was Indebted to It for the sinking fund of the Thurman ac ooftnao. This is a matter whioh - sudstolook jnto,t ' ' e 1- , , y to compel

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(Compiled from Various Sources.1 Of tho horrors that followed the first shook there Is abundant testimony. Capt. Wright had been on duty ever sinoe they left Boston, and, having takon tho ship safely through the most dangerous part of tbe sound, he wentte his state-room for a few momenta to get warm. He loft three mates and a quartermaster In the wheel-house, with Instructions to follow tho course ho had marked out. He had been below perhaps twenty-five minutes when there wag a bump. It was not a crash or severe shock. Every one near the pilothouse heard tbe raata give the wheelman the order to "port." Cnpt. Wright felt sure, at he Jumped to tba wheel-house, they bad run down some tailing craft, and, without stopping to look, ho shouted to tho man at the wheel "Hard aport." Instantly realizingthe actual situation, he endeavored to work tbe vessel off, first by steam power and then by setting tbo jib. Neither experiment was of any avail, and within fivo minutos Capt. Wright knew that his ship was doomod. The first blow on the rocks did not arouse more than half of those on board, but repeated pounding and nolsn of cxoltomcnt soon brought nearly all from their state-rooms. When the captain abandoned his efforts to get her off, the vossol had already settled enough so that the sea began to break over her. Then every thought wo turned to the means of saving life. Capt Wright rushed into tbe saloon cabin, whore more than half the passengers, hardly awake, were trying to rcali.o the cause of alarm. The commander sharply, but without excitement, bade everybody keep cool, but to drees and put on their life-pre-e-vcrs. Even as he entered a wavo followed him, and there was a terribly distressing scene. But the crowd seemed half paralyzed Instead of frenzied In their terror. Ladies beggod for help, but most of them obeyed the orders of the officers and the calmer men in the room. Nearly everybody present had on a life-preserver, properly adjusted, before going oa deck. Nearly all hnd parlly dressed before being driven from the state-rooms and cabin by the water. There were a few exciting incident at thitstage of the catastrophe. One lady begged Capt. Wright to save her two children, but thefulloxtentof thedangerwaa not realized, so that there was no great panle. Tho water filled the state-rooms and cabin slowly, and there was tho continual pounding of the vessel on tho ledge. But within twenty minutos all below decks became untenable, and then the real horrors of the night began. Just as the passengers reached the deck a tremendous sea struck the ship. A great white mass of roaring water fell upon the stranded vessel. Sixty terror stricken passengers stood upon the gale-swept deck, seeking which way to turn in the darkness. A moment, and thoy were gone. So sudden was It that not a shriek or a prayer came from the little company ere the great wave engulfed them. Every woman and child on board died at that moment. Those in the rigging and upon the house had only time to clutch tighter tbelr supports when tbe tall or water waa upon them. There was no opportunity to assist the women and children to the rigging, where thoy wou d have been for a time sa e, and it Is woli thero was not time, for death would have been just as ante, though perhaps more slow and moro agonizing. About siity souls remained on board after this first stroko of death. Tho fate of more than half of those was still more terrible. Half a dozen succeeded, after great struggles, to launching a boat, and wh--n they got a few feet away from the ship their beat capsized, and thoy, too, were drowned before the eyes of those remaining in the rigging. With tho shipwrecked men it became a test of endurance. Soon alter daybreak tho emokostaok was carried away. A few were ollnging to the stays, and most of these wore swept off. Thon the house broke up, and the few thereon succeeded in reaohing the ringing, they being in all sorts of positions. Two were supported oa a loose swinging rope between the masts. They dangled there in the wind for 'hours, with tbe rope supporting them under tbo armpits. The gale swung them back and forth like clothes on a line, while tho spray of every wave breaking over the ship drenched thorn. They were soon benumbed, and probably died as thoy hung, tho stiffening of the muscles la the cold holding them. One of them was swept away about 9 o'clock and tbe other disappeared about 11. Ken clung one above another to the cross-trees. Those close together could exchange a few words occasionally, and sad, hopeless words they became as tho hours wore on and no help appeared. Those who, putting their legs through tbe cross-trees and partially eat upon the rope, were soon benumbed below the hips and tost all control of their limbs. John L. Cook, of Portland, Mo who with Capt. Wright left the wreck last, says that among the confused moss who were struggling and screaming when tho ship first struck the roer ho noticed a middle-aged man and his wife. Their conduct was in marked contrast with that of the othor passengers. The panlo which had seized the others was not wared by them, but thetr blanched faces told that they roalled tho peril whioh surrounded them. The only movement of muscles or nerves was that produce! by the chilling atmosphere. They stood close together clasping oach other's hands, as If about to contemplate suicide, together, and thus fulfill the marital vow of standing by each other in the varying tide of life's fortunes and misfortunes. As the wreck careened with tho galo from one side to the othor, and while tbo spray and waves drenched tbera at every moment, the husband turned and Imprinted a kiss upon the companion of his lifo, and while thus embraced a heavy sea broke over the wreck and both were washed away and not seou afterward. Mr. Cook remembers particularly two men one a seaman and the other a passengerwho held on in the rigging for five or six hours boforo thoy surrendered to tbe elements. Hp to the last moment they were conscious, and, as they relaxed their hold from the ropes and went down, thetr last words were ot their families and homes. One man who had hold out against the stormy eloments was killed by the falling smokestack just as ho was about to be resouod, and by the same event a couple of the crew wore so disabled that they only survived tho tempest a few moments longer. Second Assistant Engineer Henry Colllnsi states he was aleep in his stateroom when awakoned by the shock of the vessel's striking. He hastily dressed mi hurriedly ran on deck. Passengers from the main saloon who were crowding on deck were wasl ed overboard as fast as they came up the companionway. "I wont, to the engineer's room and saw no one there, thon returned to the deck, and, seeing the sea bi eaking clear over the ship, I rondo for tho mizzen rigging, whore I watobed everything and waited for a chanco to oscapa. 1 saw passengers drop out of the rigging- frozen stiff. All tbo women wore completely helpless. Tho shrieks of the men in tho rlgRing were awful. I prayed that I might die and be relieved of my terrible agony, fomo men cursed and swore, but tho majority prayed for death. All the sufferings of alUC-tlme wore crowded into those few terrible hours in the ringing." Not ono woman on the ill-fated steamer was saved 1 Tbo survivors saw ono boat, eouta ntng foven women, upset. The sea soon demolished the boat. It was fearful the way the women wero swept away. Some rushed on deck with their husbands, and, as tho lull force of tho storm broko upon ttieui, realizing that all was tort, they threw tholr arms around their husbands' nooks and bftdo them good-hy. A low momoits Inter thoy wore swept overboard. A mother with a child held tight in hor arms was borne away by the waves almost before reaching tho deck. Not one woman reached tho rigging. The majority wero washed overboard by tho waves. A number were probably smothored in tboir berths. In tbe lap of one woman was found a pair of baby s shoes. Nearly all of tho bodies had on 11 o-preserv-crs, and wero floating on their baoks. The faces of five vlot ma were badly cut and disfigured. Two boys are among the survivor George W, and Herbert W. 1'aruBwortb, 19 and 17 years of age, ot Townecnd, Mass. Tbo passongor list of the lost etoamor, corrected, foots up eighty-one, oabin aud stoorase. Tboro were forty-five ollloora, foamon, aud waiters. Tbo total death l'st is ninety seven. The passengers wre in tho main consumptives on tbelr way to a warmor climate. Tbe wealthy Taslci family, the Hands, tbe Beals, and a number of other rep-

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INDIANA STATE NEWS. AinwMOif expended $S00,009 In ooaetroe

tton of new buildings in lsstt

Nsootiatioks are pending for the reaaovat

of the Methodist College from Fort Wayae

Wabash. Mb. WnxtAX Nixoh, of Jetreraoevffla, whe was reported drowned off the atesaaar Carrier, I alive and welL Ths Bauer libel suit against the Tone Haute ExprcM, damages being laid at $,- 000, resulted In a verdict for plamtuY for WOO. Mrs. Epps, of Huntington, convicted of

tbe murder of her husband, has been

a new-trial and sentenced to

for life. Thk editor of the Greenfield J" thus acknowledges a courteay extended : "Oair thanks are due Mrs. S. W. Wray, of Wee Main street, for a liberal allce of a IM1W pumpkin." Rbpbesbktativb Stocmlaohs expects ee early consideration of h!s but now before the House Military committee, removt-s; the

charge of desertion from the army by Alexander Nugent, of Seymour. Probably a better plan to prevent naobe from breaking Into jails than tbe election ef brave Sheriffs, would be to provide evety Jafl with a full-blooded Siberian bloodhound. We believe Marlon county stands atone tavtt country for such a humane provision to preserve Us prisoners from all danger from sae violence. lndiauapolit Journal. The Hon. Pliny Hoagland, one of Part Wayne's oldest and wealthiest dtizene, dtet after a short illness of disease of the heartMr. Hoagland had for yean been closely

identified as a Diraetor with the loteresaa

luu riiuuunra. ion narm w wn

the Grand Rapids railways, and Vtoe Praet-

dent of tho Tort Wayae National bank. Be bad served In tho State Senate. Bes Battles, a noted Pike county desperado, was captured in Illinois by ex-SbaruT Hargrcsve and George W. Gulllok, two detectives, In some obscure place In TffiooJs, and lodged in the Pike county Jail. It is rumored that Battles was connected In the recent murder of Henry Custin, at Petersburg, for which outrage Charles Harvey was lynched. Tea Board of County Comtesloners hare taken a very proper step In the matter of building a work house, and bare advertised for ground, not km than fifteen nor ajote than twenty acres, upon whioh to 'eeate the proposed structure. The county is annnatbr paying out large sums of money to support able-bodied men and women In Idleness! The measure should be pushed to as rapid corn pletion as possible. This would dc away with the necessity for a new jail, and in this way. too, there wonld be a great saving to the people. Indianapolis Sentinel. The will of the late William J. Wise, the bachelor millionaire of Vlnoennee, creates consternation among the disinherited nephews and nieces. Of the thirty nephews and nieces three got the bulk of the propertyThey are Mrs: William B, Miles, Mrs. Edward L. Ryder and Mrs. Frank X. Fay. The property consists of $150,000 In Government bonds, real estate In Vincennea, and farms, all over the adjoining territory, valued at $900,000. Aa effort win he made to baeak toe win. Tbe ro'atives ere scattered ever Indiana, Ohio and adjacent States. Philip Daklx has been arrested at Torre Haute charged with Maekmafl. Some day previous to the arrest, J. L. Somes, a dreggist, received a totter signed "J. J. Courtney," saying that the writer bad i-r-iu :r.,. Somes Invited a young lady into 1 - -- room of his store and kiaael hor - ;&'- counter, and that unless be save U. ntor $100 he would divulge all to Ws (So one's) wife. Mr. Somes wrote a letter telling "Courtney" that a registered package for him was la the postolBee. Dahlen inquired for tho package and was arrested. He waa sent to jti' if dofault of $1,800 batt. Quarterly report of George W. Cobb, Geeral Secretary of the Indianapolis Railroad Christian association: Attendance ot readers 10M Attendance at service. M Total Number services held. U Number letter writers Number viaits and calls en sick aad Injured. 31 Number funerals attended Number vistte to office. Tarda, aad ahopa, . . ST Number papers distributed S7 Ninety cabooses have been famished with packages of aurgeons' plasters and 000 yards of bandage. Donations were raoelTed 04 follows: Papers .80 Magazines S Tub apportionment of the oojsuaon-seboot revenue has been made by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The amount col. leoted from counties during the year wee $727,838.84; from semi-annual Interest on mm negotiable bonds, $UT,liS.tS; balance in treasury at last apporttonsaeet,- i$S,tris.N. aud from other source , $H,S3L.S7, making a total ot $81,TS1.M. The amount apportioned is t84a.Ml.80, and $870 .IT Ht added to tbe shares of different counties on account of errors In the enumeration of aabetil children. Tbo State Normal school la given 110,000, and there is a balance of $,969.81 iaft In tbe treasury. The apportionment par capita is $1-19, and it is shown by the enumerattou that there are 719,035 school children in the State. , The jury In the case of The State vs. CSaoa Keyes, Indicted for the murder of 8am t Stewart, of Fiord, CanoU county, returned a verdict ot not guilty. Alex. Keyee, sen ef the defendant, is alleged to have seduced Sion art's daughter. Being tfTed for bastardy, young Keres married Miss Stewart, but afterward refused to reeoeelae, live with, as support her, though reaidtag'ta the same, town. Stewart, tbe SSd of July last, told' young Keyes that be meet either live with his wife and support her as 1w should or leave the county. Young Keyes urmed himself and sought out his father, i!n hint what bad occurred between him a . . .-tewajt. The elder Keyes dees notaeem to b-'. noa that his eon had a weapon, and ton-l-or bej started out to find Stewart, as ...r- fntttec claims, to fix the matter up. The elder Ke e and Stewart engaged in animated on vernation, in which young Keyes jolnl. eaUSitg his father-in-law a liar. The totter U'"n-Md to strike Alex. Keyes with a chair, when the father sought to slop hltn. At th same moment Atexander drew his pistol and killed Stewart. The State sought to hold the father as a principal equally culpable with tbe soa. The eon' trial will come .up soon.

Nativity and ages of the Indiana deiegatfee In Congress, as given In the CiurreMel Directory: ssKAioas. Name and birthplace. , Ajra. T). W. Voorbe s, Butler county. Onto. a Bent. Harrison, Hamilton county, (Rue St

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Thomas M. Browne. New Parts, Onto Tlx mas J. Wood, Athena connty, Ohio.. Wm. II. Oa kins. Pike county. Onto... John J. Klein r. West Hanover,? Robert Lowry, Ireland.... J..., Thomas R. Cob 1 aw ence oounty, Ind. . ,. Strother M. Stotkslager, Harrison county, Indiana Wm. 6. Hoi man, newborn oonntr, led.... , . ConrUand O. Mataon, BroosrvlUa, bd Stanton J. PeeUe, Wayne oounty, lad. John B. 1 amb. Terra Haute, Jad. . . OearnW. tl,kyeMeoosnty,Ad. ...... TWBMS B. Ward, shjfc...v.,Y.yj... ..;..

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