Bloomington Progress, Volume 18, Number 30, Bloomington, Monroe County, 24 September 1884 — Page 1

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8PASISH DAG4JER. BT JESSIE 8. JTJDSOX Oh! gHsteurag spike ot snow-white bells. Standing out pure where the moenUesms tall. Yon teach my heart a lesson to-night, Aa I see yoo from this dim old hP-

Toot beauty springs from shed of pe

which ruaety ortstie about your Tout home Is tmt the rough roartie, Yet how could you be more fJr, more sweet? Mr path, too. Men in a thorny way. Its stones, its dose are about me now; Yon tu me to Ulrunc lus course With bright, brave tMuhta and a cheerful brow. Paris, Di.

Maud Flying's Reverse,

pi H. STASIA GEORGE. Percy Hamilton was by all odds the handsomest and most dashing man in AylesvjUe, a fellow something like Ouida'd hero, Granville do Vigne, somewhat proud and somewhat vain, with a touch' of the old noblesse oblige about' him that accorded well with his tall, statuesque figure and his leonine type of beauty. He was 28 years old, and rich, so rich, that he conld follow bis profession the law or let it alone as Le chose; and for the most part he choee to let it alone. jfcrcy had lately returned from "a three years' travel in the old world, bearded and browned as an Arab, and wit the air of a grand prince. The pale, sickly gallants of Aylesviile fell back in Bad discomfiture at the advent of the gayand brilliant fellow, fall of his reminiiences of Egypt and the Golden aStrn, and of talk of Parisian soirees and of nights at Baden-Baden. He had always had his way in this old snrburban town, and it was quite natural that he should fall into the leadership again. The young fellow had excellent parts, but he had never used them, and did not know what work was. He bad been left an orphan at a tender age, and adopted by a miserly old uncle who alternately petted him and swore at him, which made him a little reckless and desperate. When he grew up handsome as young Adonis all the women went to work and spoiled him, as they generally do a handsome man. Then his tmcle died and left him a fortune, and so there was nothing for the yotmg man but to enjoy himself. He had a wonderful capacity for flirtations, and more than one woman's happiness was sacriffced to his vanity and recklessness. Against one fair girl lie had committed the very blackest of deadly wrongs, and Maud Fleming was glad to hide herself in obscurity from the scorn and reproaches of that consistent world which never forgives in a woman the sin it winks at in a man. From that hour she had never been heaid from. Bat Percy Hamilton held up his head and went on his way, and beautiful women, virtuous women they called themselves, smiled on him as sweetly as ever. Three years had gone by since that sad event, and many had forgotten it had ever happened. The fair beauties of Aylesviile were completely

fascinated by the face and manners of the dashing fellow; in fact, were mad over him all but one. And she, Agnes II ar court, was the most beautiful of them, and the one whom Percy was the most desirous to interest. Indeed, any man would have ' been charmed with Hiss Harcourt. They called her a flirt, but she was not one exactly, though she was much too haughty to deny the charge. Hearts and fortunes innumerable had been laid at her feet, but she quietly rejected them all, and passed on in her queenly way, gracious and charming,

but as unconquerable as ever. To do

her justice, she never appeared to seek admiration. She bad been but a short time in Aylesviile. Where she came from nobody could ever ascertain. The tirst they knew of her, she had come into their midst one gorgeous June morning, as if dropped from the clouds, her

self more gorgeous in her magnificent

areas ana glorious beauty than the brilliant sky above her. The next they heard she had purchased a handsome residence in the outskirts of the town and was refitting and furnishing it magnificently enough for a princess' villa. She seemed the possessor of marvelous wealth, and wealth everywhere has its adorers. Of course Hiss Harcourt soon met Mr. Hamilton. At the very first meeting he appeared to be completely fascinated, and soon became her most devoted admirer. It went on for three mouths ia the usual way. Parties, sleighrides, operas, etc, and Hamilton everywhere Miss Harcourt attended. It was evident that Percey had more than his vanity aroused; that his heart was touched and that he was in deadly earnest. As for Miss Harcourt no one conld teU. In February there was a fete at HareourtXjodge. All upper tendom was present. Th T.osf t -; magnificent in a Arc f of 1 lack et, with diamonds on her iK-s-k a::d rms. No one had ever soen Ii. r : graceful and I'lro' "v. Tb r- i flush on her ch'k' ami a spark ! ;:. her eyes, and t:.fn a- u rii.:mt r.. in her voice like the efho ! -jlls. Some of her i.'i.i lovers ft 1' ' j flame stirring nn-:v .:..! 1 k- i -iiurs at Hamilton, who seemed the hero of the hour. A few athers did not regard him with envy at all. "By Jove!" said young Bob Alcott, whom she had jilted some six months previously, "Mias Harcourt is on her high horse to-night, but there's breakers ahead. So you see how spoony Percy is?" "Oh, 111 risk Hamilton," answered Fred Cleveland. "He cut his eve teeth long ago, and Miss Harcourt knows it" "I don't care," said Alcott; "there's fun ahead, and don't you forget it. Look at him now while she is talking to him. Why, man, there's a flush on his cheek like a girl's blush at her lover's first kiss. And she I rather think 1 know the meaning of the steely gleam in those eyes of hers. Well, I rather guess I do." His companion laughed, for most people did not give Hamilton the credit of having any heart, although they regarded Miss Harcourt as a scientific coquette. Two hours afterward, if any one had been in the conservatory they might have heard that which showed plainly that Percy Hamilton had a heart and that it all belonged to this woman. They stood face to face in the dim, soft light, amid the perfume of the flowers, her face very calm and even cold, his full of earnestness and concentrated passion. , "Why will you not answer me, Agnes?" holding her hands m a fierce dutch. "For three interminable weeks yon have kept me in agony; a week more like this would kill mo." " ""V is exBwwTattrm Mr

tone would have not; "people do not die so easily," "Agnes, I love ytn he cried. "I love you passionately." "I am sure that is very kind, but is it just wise in you?" She said this very languidly, and looked at him with a quiet smile that ho thought had mockery in it. "Do you mean to drive mo mad, Agnes Harcourt ? I tell you this is the love of my life. My whole heart and soul are yonrs. You must hs my wife, my own, to hold against the world. Do you understand me; do you bolievc me" He flung out his arms to her, but she retreated a pace or two and raised net face to his. Every word she spoke was clear and distinct as the ring of a trumpet, and yet her voice was lifted scarcely above a whisper. And as she stood thero in her haughty triumph, it almost seemed to the man who loved

j her that she was larger by one-half in stature than ever before. J "Mr. Hamilton, I understand you and : I will answer you. You say that you : love me. So you told me once before, ' years ago, and you were recreant to ! your vows. How can I believe you

now? Ha, you start! I see yon do not know me, but do you not remember Maud Fleming? You never thought you were making love to her a second time. You thought yonr crime would go unpunished. It was fortunate for von. coward and hvnoerite. that

j I loved you as I did, else i should have killed you. But I swore to be re

venged, and JL have taken my own way to keep my oath. Percy, I loved you once better than my God, but that love has long since turned to hate. Sooner than wed you I would moke myself the wife of the lowest brute in the universe who could be called a man. There, you have my answer. Go !" She lifted her white hand with all the imperious grace of an empress, and pointed to the door. He obeyed her without a word. His face was pale as death, and his eyes had in them a sort of stony desperation like those of a man going to his doom. The next morning society was startled by the announcement that Percy Hamilton had shot himself and was not expected to live. A physician was summoned, who found him conscious but very feeble. "Doctor," said Hamilton, as he bent over him to probe and bandage his wound, "I meant to have done the job without bungling, but I failed miserably. X am sorry to trouble yon, but I do not wish to live," "No man has a right to throw his life away," answered the Doctor, solemnly. "Life is a holy trust " "You do not know the reason why I judged it better to die than to live. I ought to die, I deserve to die ; yet she might have changed the whole tenor of my life. I do not blame her; she was just; but. oh, Hove her so, Doctor. I must seo her before I die. I must see Maud Miss Harcourt. She must forgive me. Oh, will not the sacriace of my worthless life atone in port for the wrong I did her." There was no need of sending, for only a few moments after Miss Harcourt Maud Fleming herself came in. She went straight to the bedside, knelt down, and lifted Hamilton's head against her bosom. "My darling!" she said, in a tone whose wondrous tenderness made his weakened blood thrill like wine, "will

you forgive me? I had no right to take vengeance out of God's own hands. I had no right to spurn you as I did. And yet only heaven knows what itcost me, for, Percy, I love you as I have never loved any earthly thing. I have never ceased to love yon. In all my sorrows and in all mv triumphs you have been the dear one of my heart. And you must live to bless mo to be mine. Oh, my darling, my darling!" and, bowing her face on his, she gave way to a fit of sobbing which shook her from head to foot. Old Dr. Annesly stole out of tho room and left them together. When he went back there was a new and beautiful peace on both faces. "Doctor, I am going to live, and you must help me," said Hamilton, with a smile that lighted np his pale, handsome features. "I have something to live for now, and, God helping, I will retrieve the past." And Percy Hamilton did live, and, through Maud Fleming's love, became a happy, prosperous, honored man. The past they never recalled.

Introducing the Chaplain. "Speaking of troopers swearing," put in an officer of Van Cleve's old division of the Army of the Cumberland, "old Gen. Fred Knefler, of the Seventyninth Indiana, illustrated the idea to a nicety. He always made a full hand without raising the perspiration. He swore easily, earnestly, and eloquently, in season and out of season. When Gov. Morton sent a chaplain to Knefler's regiment the boys looked for rare fun. Knefler received the t-haplaoi very cordially, and asked him to mark out his programme, and he would see that it was carried out. "The next morning (Sunday) he ordered his regiment to muster for religious services. He formed the companies in column at half distance, doubled on center, in front of a stand which he had erected the day before, and then ho proceeded in his own way to introduce the chaplain. He told the men that lie proposed to stand by the chaplain; the chaplain was going to preach whenever he felt so inclined, and every blanked man in the regiment had to listen. He wanted his men to show proper respect to the chaplain and to religion, and if they didn't, so help him blazes, if he didn't send every blanked one of them to the guard-house. "The General warmed up to his work and in the course of his introductory remarks swore probably twenty times. The whole thing was so funny thut the regiment, thinking it over, burst into a roar in the midst of the prayer. The General put the officers under arrest, but made the men stand through the service. In the end the chaplain did great good. Knefler quit swearing and the men kept a good line of conduct Chicago Inter Ocean. Taste In Jokes; There are jokes and jokes. George Eliot says : "A difference in taste in jokes is very trying to the affections," which wise expression is put to the teat more frequently than yon would think, if you didn't take the trouble to think about it all. How often has a friend told you something that he considered a good joke, when the recital has betrayed a lack of sens, taste or heart of which you did not suspect before and which lowered him very much in your esteem. vrr-. ..rrt t . -

niMOtt. G- i Is Vcfy proud of his nneestry, and was exhibiting his gallery to his friends one day. "This warrior is one of your ancestors ?" asks ono. pointing to a mail-clad fignro beforo him. "Yes," he was in the crusades." "In which one of them?" "In all." Storekeeper "This piece is counterfeit." Customer "I know it I got it here." Storekeeper "That cannot be. We never take bad money." Customer "I am aware that it is your rule to give bad money, not to take it; but I trust yon will make an exception this time." "What aro you slowing up for?" yelled a freight conductor to an engineer on one of our Vermont road-:. "Why, we've run over a book agent." "Drat it all, then, why don't you keep on? Wo can't kill him unless the whole train runs over lain." Burlington Free JVcss. "Chaumiso Lucy," said an Austin gilded youth to the apple barrel of his expectation, "a kiss from your lips is heaven on earth." "O, give us a rest." "Have I offended thee, dearest one?" "No, but you bore me with your lack of originality. Hundreds of men have told me that samo old story until I am tired of hearing it Teras Silings. A PHii.osor-HKn who had borrowed some money to pay for his night's lodgings at a hotel woko up in the-night and saw a person climbing through the window. With admirable nonchalance he said to the intruder, "Look here, my friend, you'll get iuto debt if you rob me; for you won't find anything but unreceipted tailors' bills in my pockets." "Wake up!" exclaimed Mrs. Mulberry in a loud whisper, as she punched the slumbering Mulberry iu the short ribs with her elbow the other night; "wake up; I'm snre I hear burglars down in the dining-room." "Don't disturb them, then," said the drowsy Mulberry, turning over on the other side. "Be just as quiet as you can, and maybe they will eat some of that fruitcake you have in tho pantry." A scientist has discovered that codfish have germs that are liable to develop into form more terrible than trichina?,' and in the toothsome mackerel are hidden microci which cooking fails to kill This is becoming serious. Tho microscope reveals terrible wriggling monsters in our drinking-water; poison lurks in tho ice-cream can; canned fruits and meats aro sending their victims to the gravo; and pretty soon tho only article of food and drink that will be safe to indulge in aro early strawberries and whisky which we don't like. Xorrisioion Herald.

A Russian Wedding Feast. The banquet is ordered at sumo fashionable confectioner's. Nothing is wanting silver, crystal, flowers, and lusters laden with candles of the purest wax. The young married pair occupy seats about the middle of tho table, the parents supporting them on both sides, tho rest of the company take seats according to the degree of relationship or rank. If they want a grand dinner they order a "General's" dinner, which costs $30 more than an ordinary one. At this dinner, so ordered, the master of ceremonies invites a real old pensioned off General, who is received with all the reverence due to his rank and seated in the place of honor. He is the first to drink to the health of

tho young conple, and is always helped before any one else. He never speaks uxlcss it is absolutely necessary. He is thero only for sliow, and he does his best, in return for the $20 paid him. He never refuses a single dish of all the thirty or more served on such occasions. As the lost roast disappears from the table the champagne oorks fly, the glasses are filled to the brim, the mnsic strikes up, and huzzas resound from all parts. But here comes the bride's father with glass in hand, going up to her bowing and making a most woeful face, Raying that his wine was so bitter that ho could not drink it until she had sweetened it. After a great deal of pressing she rises and gives her husband a kiss; her father still pretends that his wine is bitter, and it remains so till she has given her husband three kisses; each kiss not only sweetens his wine, but is accompanied with roars of laughter and bursts of applause'.- After the din

ner comes the ball and "tho General's walk." They lead him through all the rooms once every half hour; everybody salutes him as he passes along, and he graciously replies by an inclination of the head. At last, at 3 o'clock in the morning, all the young girls and those who dressed the bride take her away to undress her and put her to rest; the men do the same by the husband. The next morning the house of the newly married couple is again filled with the crowds of the evening before. The young wife is seated in a drawing-room on a sofa with a splendid tea service before her. Ono after the other approaches her and salutes her. She then offers tea, coffee, or chocolate, according to the taste of the visitor. She is throned for the first time in all splendor as the mistress of the house. The most intimate friends remain to spend the day with the young pair. Brooklyn Eagle. Unnatural Natural History. Tho pelican feeds its young with the life-blood from its own bleeding bosom. This is a beautiful mistake that will live forever in symbol and legend. Tho "real live" pelican has a large bag under her unwieldy beak, and, digging with the beak toward the breast, she feeds her brood and soils her feathers with red-stained tidbits of fish from tho bog. The nightingale leans her breast against a thorn and sings in pain. In the old poets not only has she a thorn in her breast but she pets it there. Instead of being the voice of lonely love she ought to bo tho emblem of those discontented people who, in a position enviablo to others, first make their own troubles and then spend their lives in self-commiseration. Of course the nightingale is not such a fool as she looks in poetry. Swans are said to sing a death-song; this is poetry, too. But they are hatched during the thunder; and this is prose the belief of otherwise sensible folk. Crows and curlews hate each other so that their eggs put in the snrao nest will all burst. Talking of eggs, the cock of the south of England lays an egg when tho hen has ceased laying; it is a small, insignificant affair, with no yelk in it, clearly on amateur attempt. These cocks' eggs are to be found in Sussex, if nowhere else. As we have got to the poultry yard, lot Job's tuvkey have a word. The Americans have tho honor of discovering this ill-conditioned bird. They say "as t as Job's turkey, that had to lean nst a fence to gobble," but there must leave him, as he does not etly belong to us. Ml the Year , uivl,

NASBT AS AN ORACLE.

The Ex-Postmaster Devotes a Few Minutes to Answering Questions of Correspondents,

tFrom tho Toledo Blade. Cokfevbit X Roads, ) (Wich ia in the State v Kentucky), V Auk. 21, iss. ) I nev recccvcd sum thousands ot letters from my Dimocratio friends from all parts uv the kentry, wich, ez I cannot iind time, or postage stamps, to answer porsiiollr, I do thro the niojum uv tho pulilik press. I wood scjest that llimoomts wloh git thor (rendu to write me queries on politikle "matters snood enolose a stamp or two to enshoor an curly reply. Kancoin don't Hf stanios, but he kin sell em to Pollock, and Biplef, and (he iron mill over on the Hun, and he nee ho will toko cm nv me far drinks, fur to go to the triibble uv turnln uv em into money is bettir tlmn to cbargo up wat I consoom. Hereafter no letter will be answered wich docs not contano at least one 5-cent stamp. 1 kin yootilize cm, as Baseom lion aimed to make ono s-center tho price uv ono sustaner, I laytn down the stamp iist afore he sets ont the bottle, to prevent mistakes. Mr. Basocm bez a strong desire to sell hie likker, bnt he lacks iaith in koonmn i aohcr. He wants cash afore he sets the bottle out, wioh is tfonorally inconvenient, cs the man who hez the liveliest thirst is the identlcle teller wat never hez the cash. Thirst and cash seldom Koes together. Thirst is no respecter nv persons. It comes alike to him wich kin pay for asswai;crs and him wich can nob Credit is the mainstay of indivijjies ez well ez uv States. But liascom is not a politiklo economist and don't understand the principles nv things. But to mv answers : Young Dimocrat, Poseyvillo, Injeany: Pur Jim Blane to have his ton go about vlsltin Boards of Trade, and sich, and gittui bis name into the noosepapers, is takiu a unfair advantage ot our noble standard barer, ex-Sheriff Cleveland. It is not Bhlvelrous. Grovcr Cleveland hez a son, it is troo, that Is, ho is presoomcd to hev wnn, though hesez it isu'lccriaiu, precisely, ez wich nv the four its father reely wuz. Anyhow, Sheriff Cleveland's son isn't uv thatDcrtikeler kind tho father uv wieb would kecr to hev goln about the kentry clalmtn ti be bis son, owin to the unforchnit circumstance that he wuz born when ex-Sheriff Cleveland wuz a giddy, wild vootu uv only J summers and about tho same number uv very bard minters, and ho wiun't percisely married to his son's mother. The Rev. Henry Ward Beeoher doesn't mind a little thins like that, and, iu the interest nv purity icuorcs it, but ho isn't eggsactly quotable authority on sich delikit matters. Ho knows how it is himself, and his word don't count. While ex-Shcriir Cleveland is ondoubtedly innocent in this matter, Mariar Halpin is ondoubtedly guilty. Apuly to this case the same rool that Plymouth Church did to Mr. Bevcher. Stnmp-sp.'aker, Smlthviile, Injeany: From wat 1 Know uv the kentrv yoo live in, J shood advocate Tariff Reform, with a decided leenin to Pertcckshnn. 1 think yoo hev coal in your visiuity, and that yoor voters are larjtelv interested in mannfaktrin. Et 1 am kerreet that is wat yoo want to do. Ef, on t ic other hand, I am not kcrrect, and yoo arc purely ogrienlfciel, and yoor people are not pertikerly intelligent, insist that Dimocrisy means tariff reform with decided leeniu toward free trade. Yoo know wat yoor people want. Constroo the platform to soot em. The platform wuz made to bo constrood ; construktid, in fact, so that Henry Wattcrson and Sam Randall kin both stand on it. J. I, , Missoory : Wat part uv Missoory are yoo in? Et yoo areiu aseceshn nabcruood, insist that HendrU wuz a out and out seoeshnist, and reed his speeches duriu the war to yoor awjinccs. Ef yoo are in a Yankee nabwhood, insist that he wuz merely an upholder uv the constooshnel rites nv the South, but he wuz ez loyal ez anybody, only diflcrin with tho bvest liinklu ez to methods. Whether yoo reed bis speeches doorin the war to your awjinces or not depends entirely on the kind uv people yoo aro talkin to. However, insist upon reform strenuously. Strikt Purity, Eokomo, Injeany: Ex-Sheriff Cleveland hez no past but Mariar Halpin. His record is a boy ot about 11 yeers nv age, wich his name it is Oscar Folsom Cleveland. ExSherilf Cleveland wuz a tbotlia yootli uv ti yeers uv tet when this happened, it beta one nv the pardonable excesses uv a mere bov sowing bis wild oats. 1'ay no attenshun to the cxSheria'e p fit. In fact. I ain't shoor but wat it wood be well io assert 1 hat he never wuz a lUmoortit. In most seckstmns nv the kentry that wood be to his credit, and wood go a grate way toward inspiring confidence in him. I wnnst knowd a man wich hed too much respect for his wife to ever s;ay at home. Iet us be ekally magnanimous to ex-Hheriff Cleve and. He is comparatively noo, and thor alnt no yoose in saddlin our record o :to him. Persnel Liberty : Read ex-Sheriff Cleve!and"s letter uv tecep.ance and yoo will be satt(ied. The question uv HkVer don'; properly enter into thiscampane, but the ex-Sheri:! hez put himself on record cz inflexibly in favor uv everything in the way nv free whisky everywhere. I'rce this in the whisky shops and beer 'sloons, but aay nothin about it anywhere el.-e. Fiat Monev. rs. Pa. : The nossishen nv the

Dimoerisy on the money qnistion is tl.esumeez on the tariir. Ef you will tell me wat yoor voters want I will answer definitely. I shood cdge from your letter that voo bleevoin fiat money. Ef I am right then I hev to say that the Dimoerisy holds I hat a dollar is .anything yoo choose to call a dollar. Parer makes perlim tho best dollars, becoz printing is now very cheap, and paper still cheaper. Paper, sootable for money, kin now be hod for about Hi cents a pound. All we want is for the Government to buy paper and print onto it "this is a dollar," with the cut uv a dog watohin a safe to inspire conndense, and then pass a law compellin people to take it for a dollar, and tnar you are. Mannfakturer, Westerly, It. I.: The Dimoerisy hez never hed but one ijoe ez to money. Money means wat the world recognizee ez money, gold and silver. To print "this is a dollar" onto a piece uv paper don't make It a dollar, even though you put onto it a cut uv a do watcliin a safe. The printed dog and sate ain't no more a reel dog and safe than the paper dollar is a reel dollar. The Dimoerisy Is for honest money. "Honest Count," Ashtabula, Ohio: Tho Dimoerisy will insist that the colored voter in Misslssippy she hev the same rites at the poles ez his white brethren, Dimoerisy will pertckt the rites uv all, under the Constotooshcn, without regard to race, color, or previous condishn nvservitood. That's what Dimoerisy will do. Tho safety nv the colored man depends onto the eleckshun uv Cleveland. Shot-gun, Danville, Virgiuny: Uv courso an inferior race should not be liermittcd to exercise

cue rites uv irecmen. mat oeiongs to the prond Cawcashn. However, while your course nv ktlltn niggers to pervent ther takiu charge nv yoo is kerreet, it wood perhaps bo polisy to restrain yoorselves till the mornin uv the eleckshun, so that the report uv your shotguns shood not be heerd north .afore the poles wuz closed and the postoiHses be selsoored. Be yo ez wiso cz serpents, ef ye don't jist take to the dovo racket. Indignant Independent Republican. Bustvllle, Mass.: The President hez thesppoimin nv postmasters, and the refoozle uv the Republican party to give yoo tho offis in your vllluste wuz, I make no doubt, an outrage. After Cleveland is elected I will remember your name and addr.ss. Vv course you cannot support an impure man for President. Put in your best licks tor Cleveland. I hev many more to answer, but will reserve them for f ucher occasions. My correspondents will not forget to enclose stamps. Silver kin go by mail, but stamps will answer, Bascom, ez I sod, hevin agreed to take em uv me across his bar. Pi-ruoiJiUM V. Nasjjy (Instructor).

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Democratic Opposition to Any Inquiry Ito-g-arlinr Its iSxteitt ami Influence. (Washington special. 1 Secretary MoPhcrson, of the Congressional Committee, has prepared tho following synopsis of the history of the two parties on the alcoholic liquor trafllc. which may help to correct many errors ot statement in the existing campaign: a V. Jl Hayes, Esq., Big lipids, Mich.: Dear Sm: I havo your Inquiry of the soth inst. The question of legislation on the alcoholic liquor trattic has come up in various forms in Congress within the last ten years, but it was not until the Forty-seventh Congress that the creation of a Commission to examine into the subject in all its bearings came to the surface. In that Congress, in the winter of lRSl-'-i, it came to tho front. Mr. Conger offered in the Senate the lTtb of J unary. KSH'2, a bill for the appointment of a commission of seven iiersons, toaet not longer than two years, to investigate the alcoholic liquor traffic, its relations to revenue and taxation, its general economic, criminal, moral, and scientific aspects, in connection with pauperism, crime, social vice, publio health, and the general welfare of tho people; and also to inquire and take testimony as to the practical results of license and prohibitory legislation for the nrevention of intem

perance in tho several States of the I'liton. Tho expenses, not exceeding Jio.ooo, were to be paid out ot the Treasury, but the Commissioners wero to serve without salaiy. The report of the commission was to be transmitted to Congress by the President within eighteen mouths after the passage ot this not The matter came, up for action the 8th of March, when Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, made an unfriendly motion to refer the bill to the Committee on Fins That motion was defeated yea", 1; nays, Tho aillriuative vote was solidly Democratic, oxoeptone. Tho negative vote was solidlv Republican, except ono. Mr. Bayard then moved to extent! thoir jurisdiction over tho subject ot opium and other substitutes for aicohol:c stimulants, and to Inquire whether prohibition of the use of alcoholic beverages has beeu accompanied by an increase in the consumption of opium and other intoxicating drugs. This was voted down yeas, U ; nays, 25. The atlli inativo vote was solidly Democratic, except Mr. Cameron of Wisconsin, Republican, and Judge Davb? of Illinois, Independent. Tho negative vote ot 25 was solidly Republican. The bill then passed yeas, W: nays, H. But fi of tho 34 yeas wen; Democratic. All of the H nays were Demacrats save 1. While the bill lay on the Speaker's table in tho House Mr. Dlngley, of Maine, made repeat ;d efforts to take it up for reference or action, but that required consent and was always met by Democratic ohjeol ion, whioh detested consideration. BHn February, fjtifc

before tho passage through the Senate of the Senate bill, Mr. Joyco, of Vermont, a Republican, had offered a bill very muoh to tho samo effect as the Senate bill, and moved a suspension ot the rules and the passage of it. This was disagreed to vcas liSi navs 98. Of the 112 yeas but live were Democrats. The negative vote was Democratic with two exceptions. So that tho record of the Democratic party in Congress is against even an inquiry into the queston ot tho effect of th traffic. While the Republican record has been in favor of inquiry. In tho present Congress, the Forty-oighth.the only action taken upon this subject was in the House, when the ltith of Decomtter, isxi. Mr. Reed, of Maine, moved to add to the number of seleot committees a Committee ou the Alcoholio-Liqnor Traffic, which wat agteed to -yeas H2, nays so. The negative vote was exclusively Democratic eave tour. Very rcsicctfuHy, KDWAltl) McPnEitsoN, Secretary.

JAMES G. BLAINE.

What Another College President Thinks of Him Dr. Magoun, of Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa.

From tho Loudon Nonconformist and Independent.! I know Mr. Maine as the most eminent citizen of my nativo State. For his personal moral worth and unquestionably superior integrity, as well as his marvelous ability and versatility, I admire him. No more trustworthy statesman is to be found in American public life. I would say the samo of him as ot Gen. Garlield, who knew him and ttuste t him so thoroughly. Of the Old South Congregational Church of Augusta, Mo., he is an honored member, as Oarliold was of the "Campbeltito" Baptist Church at. Washington. Why should not English gentlemen and Christians be as just to the one as to theothcrV It they are really auxious that tho great Republican leader should be defeated, to which wc can make no objection, or to the expression of it in proper ways, why do they strive to dash with bitterness the zeal of his supporters? if there is anything in the "Monro doctrine they do well to opposo or fear, the English journals rcicrrcd to are only making it more to be dreaded by tho course they take, so far as it has any influence this side the water. Once before, during the Slaveholdt rs" Rebellion, I had occasion to notice an abnormal sensitiveness on your side as to the political faith here referred to. At that time Lord Brougham was about to make a speecn in the House of Lords, in which he must needs discuss the Monroe doctrine. He was, unfortunately, not better acquainted with it than some living English journalists seem to bo. Asking a friend if there was any one in London who knew al 1 about "the Monroe doctrine," the American Consul, Hon. Freeman H. Morse (formerly M. C. from Maine and a friend of Mr. Blaine's) was named. "Bring him to me." said the veteran peer. It was done, and the information obtained was so satisfactory thai the Consul was in the House by Lord Brougham's special invitation when the speech was nuvie. May I advise gentlemen who aro now attempting a scare, or a new international prejudice on this subject, to look np the spsecb in the debates? As to even the slightest peril of misunderstanding between you and us, it the man we vote for is chosen President, let mc remind you that Mr. Blaine's foreign policy was that of Uarhld, no more, no less: and the "peril" of tho next four years is just what it would hare been if the dead President had lived. Oarheld and Blaine are inscrarablc names' Do not let this, from any current misinformation, lessen the good feeling I was so happy to find in London and Manchester in lam. To put an emphasis on what I here most sincerely and kindly urge, let me add tho testimouy of the new Secretary of the American Peace Society, Rev. R. H. Howard, brotberof our Christian hero. Geu. 0. O. Howard (now in the Soudan', and formerly an editor of tho .Idtviue (both of whom 1 hope yon will soon see). Seoretary Howard visited Mr. Blaine the Saturday before the late session of the General Con gregational Association of Massachusetts, and s lid to that body that Mr. Blaine "expressed himsolt strongly against any course by our G rvomment that might tend to provoke a needless foreign war." I am old enough to remember how "tno Monroe doctrine," which Mr. Blaine holds as other statesmen and Presidents have held it, has kept us from hurtful foreign complications. Tnere is no need of any new panic about it. It will not be a bit weakened on this side the sea by such a panic, or by any pcrs m 1 abuse of Mr. Blaiue, or injustice to him iu these coming months by English writers. I pray you. good English friends, listen to one who has never misled you in twenty years'

varied corresiMmdeuce in these columns as to

American public opinion. aa quietly discountenance such an evil. Testimony, tor which there is no olace In this letter, has been civen

by two of Mr. Blaine's Augusta pastors as to his groat worth as a church member and a friend. Ono ot them is Rev. Dr. Webb, now of Boston, and the oldest orthodox pastor, I think, iu that city. It Dr. Vilon and Mr. Simon had given simitar testimony as to some English statesman, a parishioner of theirs, or Dr. Dale and Mr. Clarkson had done so in respect to Mr. t h'imberlain, we should lie slow, vers' slow, to apply to nun such epithets as a "Jingo, who has dabbled in dirty water," "a politician without character." 1 assure you that all Dr. Webb and Mr. Ecob say. In honor of this grand man, who U up for tho Chief Magistracy of 57,000,000 people. Is true. Years ago in the lower house of Congress, in refuting an atrocious slander most triumphantly, Mr. Blaine said; "I am now, Mr. Speaker, in the fourteenth year of a not inactive service in this hall; I have taken and I have given blows: I have no doubt said many things in the heat of debate which I would now gladly recall ; I have no doubt given votes which iu fuller light I would gladly change; but I have never dor.e anything in my public career for which I could bo put to the faintest blush in any presence, or for which I cannot answer to mv constituents, my conscience, and the Great Searcher of Hearts."

PATRICK GAfi The President ot the Irish National iie&gtte Repudiates Cleveland.

Id a rigorous Letter He Gives the Reasons That Impel Jlim te Such a Course.

The following correspondence of Patrick Kuan, the recently elected President of the Irish Land League, to the press ot Lincoln, Neb., explains itself: "Lincoln-, Neb., Sent. 4, 184. "To the Editor of tho State Journal: "Yonr contemporary, the Vaily Slate Ihmorral. havinir on two distinct occasions referred, as I consider most unwarrantahlv and unfairly, to my political opinions, now refuses, contrary to all recognized rules of decent journalism, to publish any but a garbled copy of my rcp.y, I send you herewith the letter which 1 addressed to that journal in lull, and beg you wilt do me the favor of placing it before the public. Yours truly, Patrick Koajj." "LlNCOUf. Nob., Sopt. 3, 1884. "Editor or the Dally State Domocrat. "Silt : For the second time within the last three weeks you Have dragged my name into the political campaign, although up to til ; present moment I havo never spoK n publicly or written a single word to give you as a journalist any ground for so doing. Beforo tho late Boston convention of the Irish National League I had as the result of close observation and careful research made up my mind that there existed no good grounds by which the Democratic party should hold any mortaaire ou my vote hecause I happened to be an Irishman. 1 weighed with care and deliberation the ni 'ilts of the two Presidential candidates, and I came to the conclusion that neither as an Irishman nor as an a lopteil citizen of America could Mr. Grover Cleveland have my support. The case of Mr. John Devoy, on which you so persistently harp, and which yon have aeoin and again referred to as the only ground ot my opposition to Mr. Cleveland, was only ono of the many objections whtoh I cntortainod to that gentleman. I did indcod consider the treatment meted to Mr. Devoy of the very barest kind, and as a strong evidence of cither the hostility and contempt of Mr. Cleveland for Irishmen of national opinions, but I objected also to Mr. Cleveland as tho pet candidate ot the London Times, the London Standard, the London ltaily Telegraph, tho London liailu A'er., the London .S'(. James' tlazette, the London Saturday liecieicin fact, of the entire English press. I objected to him as the pet candidate of Puek and Harper's Weekly, as the author of innumerable vetoes in the interest of the great monopolies, and as a man who had, as I believed, proved bin self the enemy of every just right of tho tolling millions. I objected to Mr. Cleveland because I felt that, in th words of the Boston Pilot, a straight out-and-out Democratic organ, ' he has not a single quality to tit him for the Presidency ot tho united States.' I bad made up my mind to support Mr. Blaine, because from long observation I bad come to regard him as the very opposite of all this, as an American of Americans, a man among men, as an able statesman fitted by nature and culture and experience to fill with credit to the country and to himself the position ot President of this great nation. These were a few of the grounds of ray objection to your candidate and my preference for Mr. Blaine, and, as I have before stated, they have uever, up to this present time, been made public by me, nor would they be now if you had not compelled me by your unfair comments and by your unworthy sneer at 'Irish wisdom' to state them. When, however, at Boston I accepted tho Presidency of the Irish National League, I considered that whatever my private opinion might be I was then precluded from taking auy active part iu American politics. Accordingly I have abstained from t iking any part, nor shill I as long as I hold the office. This is my position. I must beg yon. therefore, to spar me the trouble of auy further contradictions or corrections on this subje. t. With regard to your quotation from a speech of Mrs. arneil: I yield to no one on this side of tho Atlantic in the respeet which I pay to the honored mother of the man whom I am proud to be ab'o to claim as a personal friend, as well as a co-worker in th- cause of Irelan 1, Charles Sltjiu-ar,. Pni-ni.11 nnrl I any surn h tvili nnt.mfs-

j understand mc when I state my conviction that

mm wouw nest consult tno weirare ot tue groat movent-at in which sin and I are interested, and in my belief she w.mbl best consult tho desire ot her son.bv keeping his name entirely out of the present political contest. Yours truly, "Patbick Eoasj."

liEX. LOGAN.

BLACKGUARD AND SLANDERER.

Ben Itutlcr's Opinion or lieu.

Madison (Wis.)

A Brief lioport of Ills Speech.

The courso of the Democratic party was in delibly impressed on the history of tho country

The Democratic party represented tho English

interests as against tue American interest, its monuments were built to free trade, rttate banks, a rotten and depreciated curroucy. State rights, and slavery. The Democr.its of tho South w rote their nrlncitiles in blood. The Demoarats

of the North united with the South alter the rebellion had been crushed, and formed the same party as before, upholding the same platform and supporting the samo candidates for

omce. ine uemocracs uavo opposed every advance measure for the last twenty-five years. Their monumeuts were raised over false creeds, failures in statesmanship, the putrid carcass of secession, and the dry bones of State sovereignty. Their platform would have to be referred to the Supremo Court for a denned construction. The letters of acceptance of the candidates on the Democratic ticket gave no clew to their views on the living Issues of the day. Tho Republican party threw tkj light ot scrutiny upon its principles, and Invited inspection. The monuments of the Republican party represented wholesome laws, happiness, prosperity, intelligence and advanced civilization, ono flag, one Constitution and a preserved nation. The Republican party had freed the slaves, made the currency of the I'ntted States that was worth 9H cents on tho dollar equal to gold, reduced the publio debt to half slnco 1SGS, increased the value of p:operty J30,000,000,ooo since IBOO. Where in I860 there were 3l,oo miles of lallroad, to-day there aro 120,000 miles. Under Republican rule foreign commeroo had increased $4oo,ooo,000, All exports prior to I860 aggregated $9,000,O00,0oo; since isoo they aggregated $12,000,000.ooo. Under Republican administration the number of farms in the United States had increased from over 2,000,000 to over 4.000,000, tho increaso in valu being iUo.'i.osi.VOS. The increase in value of manufactured products was neatly $3,50o,,ooo, anil the population had increased fus per cent. Gen. Loiran dwelt noon Mr, Hendricks' record, bringing out tho fact that Mr. Hendricks, with two other Senators, had voted during the days of reconstruction for an amendment requiring a property qualification in the rebel States. This, Gen. Logan declare I, was intended to prevent the frecdmen from voting. Gen. Logan discussed tho tariff, taking local Industries and interests to demonstrate tho national prosperity acquired through the protective tariff.

TUE POLITICAL MAVXp. Reu Duller, on a snmmcr's day. Stood in a convention making hay; The hay was sweet and tho hav was dry, lint it wasn't as cocked as old Ben's eye. For old Ben saw on a gelding guy Judge Nomination ride that way. When the Judge saw Ben in the hay at work, Ho stopped his horse with a sudden jerk. And rolled hi eyes on the winsoma face And the buxom form and the airy grace And the wealth of cheek and the mesh of hair

Of sweet Beu Butler a-worklng there. "Oh," sighed the Judge, "that fato were mine To wed with a creature so divine! With Ben for a mate, mv life would seem Like a poet's song or an artist's dream ; Hut, when they heard of my marital pick, How like a steer my folks would kick!" So fearful of what his folks might say. Judge Nomination rode away. And left Ben Butler standing there With her wealth of cheek and her mosh of hair;

And of all sad words of fonguo and pen i Tho saddest are those "Ho wouklu UiavcBcn.'V

The Democratic workingmnn, unable to support Cleveland, should not stop at the Butler half-way house. Better oast a voto thnt wtH couut in sinking the friend of New Viitk Gitv monopolists. Cleveland's veto of the" mechanic8' "cu hill and of tho bill fixing twelve hours 8 8 day's work ought to and will soundly ;dofcat him. Let every friend of labor air in burying htm so deep that he will never 1' beia l ah

In 176 Gen. Butler, at North Vernon, Ind., delivered the following scathing speech in reply to a remark made by Hendricks in a speech at North Vernon. Butler followed Utudricks, and, lrum the same platform, said: "i had come into the State; I had made somo

seven or eight speeches; I had never mentioned the name ot mortal man in the State; I had apologized, as I did here, to every audience that I addressed for annearing before the

people ot Indiana in connection with a State election, and I had ilono nothing of which I

should complain at the nanus or any gentleman, and yet Mr. Hendricks degrades the position he seeks and the one he has held so much as to say to the people of North Vernon : '(ion. Butler is coming over here, ami you must look out for your spoons." Now, that is slander: the

Democracy, thank God, can tind nothing else

to use in the way of argument. My record has

been closely examined for tno last ten years, and this this is the culmination)

I have been the peisoiml friend and honored guest of every Democratic President since 1845:

nay, I was the friend, neighbor and family guest of President Pierce, who appointed Thomas A. Hendricks to a subordinate office to pay tor his vote. fApplauseJ If Mr. Hendricks wants any more of that I can tell a good deal more about that transaction. (Tremendous cheering and cries. "Go on. Give it to him. Tell it all' etc. I

I do not come here to bear false witness against

my neiebhors, or true witness abont transactions that should be confidential and ought not lie told. I am not here for that purpose: I oulvsav

that Mr. Hendricks makes a very large draught

on my gentlemanly instincts, tuina applause.

ana ones 01 uo on. j "Ono word about this, and let's have done with it and go on to something that may be ot some profit to mortal man or woman. Every creature on earth judges according to the standard which he has, which is his own capability, his own sense of propriety, or his own powers. The fly that lights on the dome ot St. Paul's Cathedral looks around him to the distance of eight feot, the extent of Ids vision, and thinks it a fair, sliithtly piece ot work. The pig that feeds out ot the trough thinks it a very excellent piece of architecture. That is the best he can do with his Instincts ; that is as much as he ran understand. He does not understand that mansion at the book of whose barn his trough is, at all. Every man, therefore judges every other man by himself, and whoever believes that I, a Major General of the United States, with life and death at my Angers' ends, exercising that unlimited and despotic power given me by the war, wont round picking up spoons, knows that he would have done it If ho had oecn in my place. tTremondous auplause.) That is his conception ot the orfiee of a major-general. That is his idea of what a man should do, and what he would do if ho had the courage to go where he could do it, as 1 have. Choers. "But Mr. Hendricks said In his speech made aga'nst the enfranchisement ot the black men that he had never volunteered himself nor encouraged anybody else to volunteer, and, therefore he can be excused. But what must be the depth of a man's heart who can belittle and demean himself so far as to utter this sort ot thing? If some drunken whisky-soak, some loafing rascal should say it, I could pardon him. God knows he does tho best he knows how; but here is a man who lived awhile with gentlemen, a man who has been in the Senate of the United States, and a man who, since my administration in New Orleans, has taken my hand iu friendship, the hand he knows to bo the hand ot greed, or else he lies. ICrles of " Ho does lie: of course he does." Cheers. "1 havo done with this once and forever; but I want to lay two or three facts beforo you tor the uso of your Sentinels and your Hendricks. They say I took $3,600,000 from tho people at New Orleans. There aro my accounts at the War Department; they havo been examined by every rebel and every rebel symiiathlzer from that day to this, and no hdlo has been found In the account, Great oheeiing.) Go through and look, and when you have looked throngh, tell the other side of the story. Don't putdown a partand leave out the rest, lest God treat you as He did Ananias and SapplUra. I ted 33,oo starving men and children, must of them the wives of rebels In tho army. From the Oth day of Juno to the ith day ot September, lflitt, I employed 1,100 men in cleaning up the streets. In cleaning the canals, and making it healthy lor the widows, children, and wives of the Confederate soldiers. 1 gave thorn 400 feet square of land at tho Custom House that since has sold for 2.60 a fo.it.

amounting to quito a million ot dollars. 1 maintained tho hospital of tho Sisters of Charity at an oxvenso of $'.',000 a month, and another Catholio hospital at an expense of Sr,ooO a month. 1 inide their children go to school, ami tufmshod the teachers. ICheers. I I policed their city, kept it in order, so that from that flth

day of June forward a child or a woman could Vwalk through tho city of Now .Orleans with

more safety than they could go up tho stairs Into tho Sentinel office. ILaughtcrand cheers.1

I thought it was not exactly right to tax tho

people of Hie North, who alrcay had so much tu bear, to pay for all this, and bo I made tho rich men aud the proporty of New Orleans pay for it. This is a nart of the history of this conn-

try that is notorious, and has been printed and

puDilsiiod for years, and mon who can read and understand ought to know it. You can go to the Treasury Department at Washington and Hud that I sent from New Orleans, in good, hard, sound dollars, about $.100,000 to the Treasury of tho United States, Well - .w, with that power of administration for or evil, suppogj Thomas A. Hgndrtekjiii " do

ing what I was, how much ttme would !m have had left to look after spoons? "Well, now, I have done with this forever. For tho lirst time in my life have I alluded to it, except last night at North Vernon. I hang the man who tore down the American flag on the spot where he desecrated tho emblem f his country's power, and lost night I pilloried th blaokgnari who struck my character on the 4a0t where he committee the crime." THE NEWS FROM MAINE.

The State Went for Robie as She Did few Gov. Kent Many Years Ago;

Arid Piled Up a Republican MaJorlty (if Over Seventeen Thousand.

Congressman Boutelle telegraphs to the: Chttaga TrVmne, from Bangor, the result of the glofiotw victory In Maine: Tho rcttifn for Monday's el.ictlon continue to show astonishing Republican gains until the aggregates now indicate 17,000 to 18,000 majority in tho State. The full significance of those figures will be found by recalling the facts that prior to tho lat election the Republicans Wer in a minority in Maine at the election for Governor In 18s, 1:, and 178, the opposition majority against Gov. Connor for this latter year rea-niag more than l:i,w00, In 187? the Republican majority was bat .1,000. In the Presidential election of WO it was about 18,000, in 175 only 4,000. and in 1S7 fov. Dirtgley had but 7,voo. In 1873 he had lo.iton. Gov. Perham had 16,001) in 1872, 10,000 in 1871, a litfilo over 8,000 itt l.slo, and Gov. Chamberlain's last majority in 1879 was only 7,500. The majority this year is therefore the largest since 1808, and tho Republican voto is the largest ever cast in the State. Another phenomenal feature is tho carrvine of every one of tho sixteen counties bv the it 'publicans, so that the State Senate will lie unanimously Republican, and only a handful i f Democrats will find seats In the other branch of the Legislature. For the Democrats to seek to disparage or break the force ot this remarkable uprising of the people of Mr. Blaine' State in bis behalf will be as idle as trying to check Niagara with a feather. The voice of Maine has not found such earnest expression beforo since the days of Abraham Lincoln, and it gives an impetus and energy to the national campaign that will bo Inestimable. The Maine victory cannot fail to have a decisive effect upon the national campaign, and if Ohio and West Virginia respond in fair proportion in October the ballot ot H84 will be practically over; the Cleveland campaign will utterly break down and the November States will elect Blaine and Logan by an overwhelming majority of the electoral votes. C. A. Boutelle. Congressman Diugley, from Lewiston, Bends the following dispatch: The majority for the Republican ticket in Maine is 3,000 to 5,000 larger than was oxp, eted. Considering that four years ago the Democrat! and Grcenbackers carried the State, and that two years ago the Republican majority was only i'.,70j on a very large vote, the doubling of that majority now shows the great popularity of Blaine In Maine, for it is the prestige of his name that has increased our majority. A very large numlier of men who have not recently voted ttra Republican ticket supported our candidate for Governor in order to help Mr. Blaine. A very large proportion of the Irish vote and a majority ot tho worklngmen are with us in the campaign. Tho phenomenal majority of the Republican ticket In Blaine's own city and county indicates the great respect iu which he is held by those who know him b'st. There is much indignation among' Mr. Blaine's friends, without distinction of tarty, at the unjust charges that have been made against him, and this feeling has aided in increasing the Republican vote. Tho campaign just closed has not been as exciting as many which have preceded it, but the discussion of the pending Issues, particularly the tariff question, has been unusually thorough. A very small amount ot mon lias been u-cd In the campaign, nothing having been contributed by the National Committee or by outsiders. Indeed, the people have been so Intent in furthering the cause of ,'laine and Logan that the campaign has lareelv run itself. There is the utmost confidence in Blaine's triumphant election in November. Nelson Dixoiei, Jb. WALEEB BI-AINE'.S REPORT. An Augusta dispatch says that SS towns give Robie 0:,87.t, Redman 3l.'J17. Ths complete official returns will not be in for several days. Mr. Walker Blaine sends a teleeram to Senator Logan in whioh he describes the situation as follows: Returns from remote sections of tho 8tato increase th majority beyond all expectations. In 3.m towns the Republican majority over Redman (Dem.) for Governor exceeds 18,000, and the prospect Is that, with the eompleto returns, the majority may reach I9,ooo, and possibly !o the largest ever given In the history of the Republican party in Main?, with two exceptions at the close of the war. The latest re turns show that the Republicans have carried every county in the State, and have elected every member of the State l-ecate. The magnl ude of the Republican vote is a surprise to both parties. It shows that a large number of Democrats Joined our ranks.

BLAINE TO THE FARMERS. The Flnmed Knight Speaks of Husbandry and Congratulates Its Followers.

rManehoster tN. H.) dlspatch.1 James G. Blaine, cx-Gov. Smythe, George B. Loring, and Mayor Port man entered the wounds of the New England Fair at noon, followed in other coaches by many distinguished oitizeus, Mr. Blaine was rceivo J with cheers. When tho party had been seated. President Loring introduced Mr. Blaine, who spoke, say hi: It is pleasant to tind ourselves in an assemblage where all bear th.' name of a hUlur honor than that of any partisan designation, an assemblage in whioh we meet on the broad plane of American citizenship and rejoioe In the title as in itself constituting a civic distinction ot priceioss value. The agricultural fair is tho farmer's parliament. On this day and on this occasion the most independent class of citizens speaks to tho world by word and bv deed tor that treat fundamental interest on which tho Republic rests for Us security and Hs prosperity. It has become a trite saying that agriculture is the b .sis of all wealth. But the full measure of the statement mav be comprehended when wo rem-.'mber that, in this year of grace 1881, tho total value of products from the farm and nock iu tho United States will exceed 3,o. 0,500,000, an amount brought forth In a single year vastly in excess of the national debt at its highest point. We aro not in the habit ot considering New England as specially distinguished for agriculture, and yet the annual product from her soil Is greater In value than all the gold taken from the mlues of California and ot Australia in the richest years ot their fabulous yield. The farmer is tho true and always successful miner in the extraction of money from tho earth a tact most strikiugly shown in the history of California, whose splendid march to wealth and power only fairly began when tho energies of her people were turned to the production of bread for the world Instead of gold. The prodigious cousnmptl n of e,000,0i)0 of people ia brought strikingly before us when we realize how vast a proportion of our aggregate product is used at home, and how small a share is sint abroad. A hundred and odd millions ot the New England farm product does not support her own people, and they are compelled to exchange tho fruits of their mechanical Industry to an enormous amount annually for the means of subsistence so lavishly outpoured from tho granaries of the more fertile West; and this fact is but one of the many which show the independence ot our people and the vast extent of our internal exchanges. This scene to-day has an eahftnecd interest, when we reflect that, throughout tho gorgeous autumn upon whioh we have just entered, will bo reproduced in countless communities throughout our land, from ocean to ocean, from the northern lake to the southern gulf, a richness of harvest and the contentment and happiness ot tho people will be shown on fields as fair, by displays as brilliant, as those which now delight onr eyes and gladden our hearts. Nor will this autumn exhaust the inspiring scenes. When the chill of winter on tho northorn harder of the union-shall make the southern sun seem genial and welcome, our brethren ot tuo cotton region will continue the wondrous story. They Invito us to witness the commercial emporium ot the South, the great triumph of southern agriculture In the produotion of that single plant which has revolutionized manufactures. They have the finest of the world ot that which has enriched tho United States beyond tho reaoh ot Imagination, and has added Incalculably to the comfort, health, and luxury of the human race. Standing as I do in a fair New England State, it is an agrecablo duty toext.n 1 0 ngratulatiuus to the New England farmers on tho results ot tills year's labor and on the general and more Important fact that at no period in tho history of New England husbandry has intelligent labor boon blessed with more profitable rcs'ilts than during the pres. nt generation. It there be any one that doubts title, I wish he were here to-day and conld hear what I have heard and sec what I have seen. I heartily congratulate the New England Society on tho brilliant success of this exhibition, and 1 !eg to return my sincere thanks to all tor tho personal kindness and cordiality with which I have been honored. In counting the voto of the recent election iu Arkansas, Democratic judges have in a number of cases "counted ont ' ltouub-

licnns who had been elected to county offices and to tho Legislature. Notwithstanding

this fact the liopubucau vote lias been so increased that their representatives in the Legislature will be double tho number in the last session Irishmen with patriotism and independence enough to vote for Blaine can do so only at the expense of being dubbod dynamiters by the Democratic press, BfJ they can stand it Bulldozing $ rd" force,

. INDIANA STATE NEWS. Ten prisoner escaped from jail South Bend by sawing the bars of a furnace register in tho floor. Mr. A. C. Bockwell, an old citizen of Owen County, died at the residence of John SI. Stewart, in Spencer, aged 81 years. The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Road has applied to the New York Stock Exchange to list $3,000,000 6 per cent, bonds. C. C. Hopping, whose desertion of him wife nt a hotel in Mnneie, last fall, was the subject of much remark, has turned up in the regular army. The Johnson House, at Mount Jackson, four miles west of Indianapolis, one of the oldest hotels in the State, burned the other night. Loss, $6,000. A colored citizen of Logansport; named Noah Wilson, who recently participated in a prize-fight, woe killed by Policeman Griffin for threatening the officer's life on being placed in jail. James Howell, a grape-grower near Indianapolis, fired a shot-gun toward somo lads whom he saw among Us vines, and soon afterward found one of the thieves nearly dead on the roadway. Hon. Robert Miller, one of the pioneers of Indiana, died t his home. t:n miles northwest of Wabash, recently. He served several terms in the Indiana Legislature, and was well known throughout ihj Stats. He was 81 years old. Jacob Velton, of Lafayette, attempted to jump from ji baggage car, and a largo ring on his right hand caught on the door, and bis weight falling on the finger it was literally pulled in twain and jerked off. His sufferings were terrible. The golden wedding of Mr. Ambrose Phelps and wife took place of their pioneer home in Pittsburgh, Carroll County. Many distinguished guests from distant States were present, and the aged twain were the recipients of marked attention. William Dunn, formerly deputy prosecutor of Delaware County, deserted his newly married wife at Moncie leoently. The lady is now recovering her jewelry, placed in pawn by her runaway husband, and says that he took with him $1,0C0 of her money. Dr. John Charles Waters, at one time intimately connected with the Irish revolutionary movement in Ireland, died recently at Indianapolis. He was a man of soma literary attainments, and had a quasi-coii-nection with journalism in Dublin and Indianapolis. The city of Wabash has sold bonds of the face value of $13,800 to K. W. Harris & Co., formerly of Ciwginnati, but now of Chicago. The VjtrthematW. The debt of the city is now $35,000, nearly all of which has been expended in reel estate d iring the past two years. Andrew Bobinson, who came to Decatur County in 1823, and has lived on tho same farm, near Kingston, ever since, died recently. Although he was 92 years old, his mind was unimpaired until the lost week. He was a soldier of 1812, and for the past eight years had been blind, bnt always cheerful. Hardy Scott and James Trimble, farmers residing in Union Township, Madison County, indulged in a shooting affray, in which the former received two shots, one in the face and the other a shot in the back, none of which, however, is dangerous. The affair grew ont of a debt whioh Scott alleges is due him. George Miller, who had been a hand drinker for a year or more, was found dead near Princeton, in an old, unused stable. From the condition of the body it is supposed he had been dead several days. When last seen alive he was drunk. It is supposed he committed suicide, as he had often threatened to take bis life. At Pern, Edward Williams and William Stark have been bound over to the Circuit Court for highway robbery, their bond being $1,000. Their victim was William Yard, a citizen of Clinton County. They were employes of a concert saloon, where they art alleged to have succeeded in working themselves into the graces of the old gentleman, and enticing him into an isolated place, knocked him down and relieved him of $163. The town of Dehtny, in Warrick County, was almost destroyed by fire. The buildings destroyed were as follows: Large

frame wagon and plow factory aud black

smith shop, owned by Corley Ketcham;

loss, $1,500. General store, owned by

Gresham Linn; loss, about $000. Postoffice building, together with all the maQ matter for the week, whioh had arrived the

previous day. Building owned by Corley

Ketcham; loss, about $400. Several small

buildings were also burned. The total loss

is about $3,000, with not dollar of insur

ance.

A special from Oreencastle says: A west-bound freight-train on the Indian

apolis and St. Louis Railroad caught fire

this morniug, about 6 o'clock, a few miles east of this city. In the train were several Union oil tanks, one of which ignited, and

a terrible explosion followed, scattering the

oil on the adjoining ears and setting fire to

them instantly. An emigrant named H.

Clark, of Anderson, lad., on his way to Kansas, perished in the flames. He occu

pied one of the cars, with three horses, a 4

cow, and household goods, all of widen ' were destroyed, together with two oil and ' six freight cars. His body was brought here to be forwarded to his friends. An unusual sensation was caused at

Monticello by the arrest of Sol Spencer, a wealthy farmer of the county, and Thomas .

Keever and wife, living six miles east of

that place, on an indictment for the mur

der of Alva Spencer, a brother of the first

named, who died at the house of Keever, who was then a tenant on Spencer's place -two years ago last spring. Spencer's death occurred suddenly after the attending

physivuan had left him as convalescent, and a growing suspicion of foul ply resulted in the present investigation. The body was exhumed two weeks ago, and

found to be in a perfect stvto of preservation. The stomach was analysed and the presence of anionic discovered in quantities sufficient to have caused death. Spen

cer was unmarried, and left considerable

property at his death.