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THE SILK DRESS.
"Thera'a Annie Beldon." said Aunt
Jane, looking up from her knitting aa
she bend the sound of footsteps on the plank walk which lay along the front fanes. "Poor soul! I never see her that I don't think of that Terse in the Bible
which says that "from him that hath not shall be taken even that which lie
hath; and she sighed deeply.
I looked from the window just in time to see Annie Beldon before she
turned the corner of the next street.
She was a faded, careworn looking woman, a little past middle age, with
dark-brown hair thickly sprinkled with
gray. Ber dress was a rusty black cashmere, her black shawl was decidedly shabby, and her crape bonnet was shabbier still. She looked neither attractive nor interesting, and I turned from the window and took up my
crocheting again, remarking only that
"she looked as if she had had her share
of sorrow." "Sometimes I think she hashed
good deal more than her share," said
Aunt Jane. 1 know dozens of women
would hare sunk into the grave under only half as much. And the beat of it is. she don't never complain. She's
the eheerf nlest sool that ever breathed."
"Does she live near here?" X asked, mine out of politeness than from any
real interest in the subject.
"No! but she was my next-door neighbor for- twenty-five years when this was a farm-house. The town lay
two mites off then, and we nerer looked
to see it grow up right to our very doors. Annie wouldn't be wear'n such
shabby clothes if there hadn't been a
mortgage on their place, one could
have sold every acre at a good profit if
it had been tree." "Tell me about her, Aunt Jane,'
aid. as the old lady paused. "YouH
hare plenty of time before supper.
"Dear me, child, there isn't much to
tolL V maybe the little there
wouldn't prove very interestin to you.
I knew Annie looks shabby, V old, 'n'
gray now, V not much like she did thirty years ago. We was girls together, V she was the prettiest an' Krettast little thing I ever saw. Her eyes was black as coals, V her hair hnnc in lone curls to her waist. She
had a laugh V a good word for every
body, 'n more beans than she could tend to. There was only two , of 'em, thowrh. that she favored at all. One
was Tom tayton 9 "The owner of the Layton Mills? interrupted.
"Yes; but he didn't own the mills
than. He was only superintendent
there, V though he was a Bavin', in
dustrious young man, no one looked to see him get to be a millionaire. But he bed a good salary, 'n' his father was well to do, V he was reckoned a good match for Annie. For a while folks thought she'd marry him; but he -wasn't a professor, 'n' Annie set a deal
by her chureh. She allowed that
she married a man who never went inside of one Bhe'd be false to her principleu, for the Bible says the righteous
shall not be yoked to the unrighteous,
you know. Tom took it real hard
first, but he didn't bear Annie no ill will, V when she married Luther Beldon he sent her a handsome present
XiUther, be was a real steady young man, but somehow or other he didn't nave no lack. He had a good farm, but, work as he might, he never made
nothin' off it moren a bare livin'.
Annie had to pinch 'n' screw to keep clothes to their backs. She was a mas
ter hand at managin', V she worked like a horse, but year after rear went
by, V they didn't get no better off.
Drought V early frost, V too much
rain, kep' 'em ailers behindhand,
jest when they was thinkin they was gain' to do better, there'd come some-
tiring that would put 'em back again.
"Luther he got discouraged, but Annie she never lost heart, Leastways
she never seemed to. When they'd
come over here 'n' Luther he'd get to tellin' - how crossways things ailers
went for him, she'd ailers have so
thine cheerful to say. She'd tell about
it was a long lane that had no turnin',
V a was ailers darkest jest before the
day, n' there was ailers a silver linin' to every cloud, till Lather he'd get pfeatant again V ready to laugh with her over their troubles. '.Ain't I got a treasure in my wife?' he'd say. "Long as frosts V mildew V floods don't take ber away from me, I gness I can get along.' "They wasjover here to take dinner the day I was thirty. I was wearin. for the first time, a new black silk dress which John had given me for a birthday present. It was thick V soft V mighty handsome, V Luther he didn't seem able to keep his eyes off it " 1 wander when I'll be able to give yon ii h ack silk, Annie T he said, putting his arm round her as she stood by bis chair. 'We've been married seven yearn, V I ain't been able to get yon nothin' better'n calico.' " 1 don't need a silk,' says Annie. 11 got all the dresses I ;ii ucc now.
"Luther looked at her real steady a
minute. Then he says, sorter slow n'
quiet, 'For all that, I mean to get you one, Annie. X want to see how you'd look in it'
No better'n I look now in my blue
delaine,' says Annie.
" 'We'll see "bout that,' sayB Luther, don't care how hard times are, I
mean to live till I get yon a black silk dress.'
She laughed, V told him he'd make
a peacock of her if he could ; but for
all her brave words-1 know she was
downright fond of pretty things, 'n' it
really hurt her to have to wear old, faded dresses, V bonnets five years behind the style. But she never said so, 'n' she'd walk into church Sunday after
Sunday in her old blue delaine V yel
low straw bonnet, lookin' as sweat 'n' happy aa if she'd been dressed like a queen.
"Well, Luther he never same over
here after that without he had some remark to make 'bout my black silk, 'n'
he stuck to it that he wonld give Annie
one like it before he died.
"But year after year went by, V my
silk was all wore out, V I'd got another, V still Annie's best dress was a cheap delaine, 'n' it wasn't often she could
afford to buy even a pair of cotton gloves to cover her hands. Things
hadn't gone better with Luther, n'
they had other things to sorrow for
than losing their best horses n cattle
n their crops. They lost their six
children, one after the other. Three
of em died in one week, of scarlet fever,
h' the others was sickly little things,
V went off in slow consumption.
"If it hadn't been that she had to
keep Luther up, I believe Annie'd have give way many a time; but for his sake
she didn't show one-half she felt. An'
she never lost faith in the Lord. She
said His war seemed hard, but that
He knew what was best for her.
"Well, time went on, 'n' about five
years ago things seemed to take a turn for the better with Luther. . His wheat crop turned out well, V he told it to good profit, n he got his corn eff the bottom lands before the river rose, V that was a great help to him. He seemed real eheerf ul, 'n' told John that he was jnst beginnin' to enjoy life, h' if things went well he'd soon have the mortgage cleared off the farm. The weather set in cold V stormy just after
Thanksgivin', 'n one afternoon I was
oat in the chicken yard shellin' corn to
the hens, 'n' all muffled up to my eyes,
when I heard a wagon stop at the gate.
'n' there was Luther a-noddin' 'n'
beekonin' to ma I went down to the gate to speak to him, 'n' before I'd got there he was tellin'me how he'd sold
Tom Laytcn a colt he'd been raisin', 'n was on his way at last to buy Annie that Bilk dress. He asked me 'boat the number of yards ho ought to get, V
where he'd best go to buy, V
he couldn't hardly wait to get it, now
ready. He was goin' to give
Annie a surprise, he said; she didn't
know what he was goin' after.
Well, the tears .was in my eyes as I
watched him drive off, pleased as
child at the idea of surprisin' Annie. Bnt I never guessed what the black
silk dress was to cost her, poor soul !
"It began to rain soon after Luther 'd
gone, V poured down for upward of four hoars. I was at the winder when he went by on his way home, n' I noticed he didn't have his overcoat on, V
I wondered what he'd done with it, for
I was sure he'd had it on when he
stopped at the gate. Annie told me
afterward that he'd taken the coat off
his back, 'n' rolled the black silk up in
it to keep it from gettin' wet. It wasn't even damp when he unrolled it 'n' showed it to her, but he was wet to the skin himself, V a few days later there
a doctor's buggy at the gate. John
he went over to see what was the mat
's' found Luther walkin' the floor
n' groanin' with pain. The cold had settled in his side, V the doctor couldn't
give him no rebel But he said he'd pull through all right 'n' there wasn't
no need to worry.
"Miss Parsons was makin' the silk up.
Luther wasn't satisfied till Annie had
gone to the village 'n' got some one to work on it 'n she thought lest to
humor him. He wasn't no better when
the dress came home, V the doctor was still 'tending him; but no one
lowed he was anyway dangerous. It
.was John who brought the dress home from Miss Parsons, V he said Luther was just too pleased for anything to
see the bundle.
" Tm going to have Annie dress
right up in it,' he says, ' 'n' you 'n' Jane must come over after supper 'n'
see how she looks.'
"Well, I heard afterward, John had
hardly gone when Luther began to tease Annie to put the dress on. She wanted to get supper first, but he
wouldn't hear to it
"'I've been waitin' nearly twenty
years to see you in that dress,' he says,
"n' I won't watt even an hour longer.
"Well, Annie she made him lie down
for he'd been walkin' the floor con
slant nearly all day 'a' she went into
her bed-room to put the areas on.
She'd got the skirt on, 'n' was fastenin
the waist, when sue heard a queer sound from the spare room, where
Luther was lyin'. She stopped
minute to listen, 'n' then called to him
to know if he wanted anything. There wasn't no answer, 'n' she crossed the
hall V hurried into the spare room.
Well, child, she found him dead, his
face turned toward the door, as if he d
been watchin' for her, 'n' the sound she heard was the death rattle in his
throat
"When John 'n I got there he'd been dead only a few minutes, V I toll you, child, it was a sad sight to see her
kneelin' down by that low bed in her new black silk, her arms 'round that
dead man, V moanin' 'n' shndderin'
over him, V beggin' him to speak to
her. -" 'He iant dead I' she says to me aa
in. He has only fainted. 0,
Jane I do something i'or him. Get
hot water, V you'll find camphor in the pantry, on the lowest shelf to the
right'
"But I saw that hot wo ter'n camphoi
wouldn't be no use, V I told her so at
gentle as I could, 'n' begged her tcj come away. She wouldn't listen to ma
at first, bnt after the doctor had come
he'd told her it was all over, n' pool
Luther'd died from apoplexy of the stomach, she let me tike her to her
own room.
"As we were crossui the hall wq
heard the dress rnstle, h' she stopped
short V looked at me pitiful.
" 'He never saw me in it, after all,
she broke down and oried as if hoi
heart would break.
"After poor Luther was buried, 'u
there was a stone put over biin, V hi debts all paid, there wi.sn't nothin' lef j
for Annie, V she was glad to take
place in the mills. Wi wanted her fcj
come here, but she wiis too proud hi
eat bread she hadn't earned, she said
About a week ago I wits out with Mist
Sniper, gettin' subscriptions for th
church carpet V we net Annie on the
street Hiss Sniper, she aint over sensitive herself, 'n' sha don't give ni
one else credit for being so, 'n' she uw
'n' asks Annie if she didn't ever wis!!
she'd said "yes' 'stead of no' to youn
Tom Layton.
"'Never.' savs Anr.ie. 'Had 1 nrf
life to begin again I would not alter i as far as Tom Layton is concerned.'
"'But it's pretty hard to have t
work for him, isn't it? asked Mist Sniper, 'n' I felt it in my heart to hatfc
her for asking such a ibing.
"But Annie only smiled. 'I conside
myself fortunate to be able to ears such good wages,' she says, n' then she
walked away, smilm' etilL
"I was glad Miss Sniper didn't knof
about that black silk dress. If she' l said anything about tbat, Annie woull
'a' broke down. She s got it packet
away at the bottom oi her trunk, poo
soul, 'n she never speaks about it, 4-
Flortmce B. HaUovsell, in Demaresti
THE DEBATE EXIU1D ABRUPTLY.
"Now, James, I think you are reel
mean; you don't more 'n get your din
ner down your neck than you get that
horrid cigar going, and read your oil paper all the evening. Why don't yo k
talk tome?"
"Well, my dear, what do you waul
to talk about?"
"I want you to talk to me like other
husbands talk to their wires. There
Mrs. Jones was here to-day, and sh
says that she and her husband spent many a pleasant evening discussing
one thing and another.
'AH right I'll put the paper away
there now what is it V
"Oh, you are nice when yon have
mind to be. Now, I saw in the paper this morning that a doctor said a woman
could not stand as much labor as
man. What do you thiak?"
"I think just as the doctor does."
"Well, I don't Now, I contend thijt
on the average a woman can stand tb
much work as a man ca i."
'Do you think you can stand as much
work as I can?"
"Yes, sir, I do."
"All right; you bring up the coal tit-
night"
"Oh, yon mean thing; dont get do
funny. I dont mean that kind work."
"Well, what kind ol work do yep
mean?"
"I don't know as I em explain whilt
I mean."
"Oh, you can't? Pretty argument yep
would make out of anything. Well, tb
turn the subject, suppose I ask you
you could stand the same hardship as la man could? Suppose you were cast ep
a desert island like Robinson Crusoe
how would you get alo:ig?"
"Humph; get along as well as lb
did. That's nothing; he had his map
Friday for company."
"Well, in that respect he would gilt
along better than a woman wonld."
I don't understand what you mean
"Why, if Bobinson Crusoe had beep
a woman, poor Friday would have beep
talked to death in twenty-four honrs.
The debate ended abruptly. Broom
Fender son, in Brook'.yn Times.
HONESTY 18 THE 31EST POLICY
Mr. Black, the eminent and weslthb
coal dealer, called one of his oldeilt
drivers into the office nnd tendered him
quite a large sum of rr.oney.
"What is this for?" asked the astoi
ished driver.
"Merely a token of appreciation for
services rendered," replied Mr. Blacl
kindly.
"But, sir, you've always paid me we
for my services, and tbat was appxeciij
tion enough."
"There is really more than that in i
John," continued the gentleman;
really owe you the money.
"I don't understand."
"Let me tell you," nnd he droppe
his voice to a whisper, "you have been
with me for twenty years, working 3CO days every year, and averaging three
loads a day ; that makes 18,000 load
You weigh about 150 pounds, Join
and we have never failed to weigh yon
in with every load of oc.r superior coal
that makes 2,700,000 pounds, or 1,35b
tons. This, at $3.50 per ton, John, ri
presents $4,725. The p ackage you hoi B
in yonr hand contains $472.50. or lb per cent, which we think is yours If-
right. We are honest men, John, an
don't desire.to defraud ivny man out what is justly his."
John bowed in hnmble submission and is now waiting for the next div
dend. Merchant Traveler.
A poor old rheumatic lady said her physician : "Oh, doctor, doctor,
suffer so muoh with my hands ana feet!" "Be patient, dear madam," bp
soothingly responded; "you'd probablr
suffer a great deal more without them.
A Matchless Story. One in which
there are so weddings.
Oreolatei Among the Beat Henree Coanty,
And is Read by Every Member. Each Family.
TBHMT8, In Advtmt Omlf, ?UMO Per Xem.
DEMOCRATIC FINANCIERING.
Reasons Why the People Will Cer
tainly Repudiate the Cleveland Administration.
Secretary Mannlnir and Treasurer Jordan Flaying a Game that Knriches Monopolists,
(Washington special to Indianapolis Journal. "Sooner or later this administration will be repudiated by the great masses of the people on account of its finan
cial policy," said a well known writer on financial topics, addressing your correspondent this morning. '! am a Democrat of twenty years' standing," continued he, "bat the acts of those people over there," pointing tow ard the Treasury Department, "are more than I can stand. Hero tho Democratic party has been denouncing the national banking system and howling against boud-bolders and coupon-clippers for upward of twenty-four years, crying down monopoly and all that sort of rot, and in less than six months it has done more for this class than the Republican party did during its entire reign. This demagogy would have been shown up by the Republican and horn st press generally if it had been understood." I wanted to know what lie meant,and the gentleman, who is one of ihe bestposted on finance in the country, said : " Why, you observed that Treasurer Jordan recently decided that there was really only about $25,000,000 surplus in the Treasury, did you not? Well, there is over $140,000,000, and he very well knew it. He threw out in liis statement $100,000,000, which he designated a sacred fund for the redemption of the legal tenders? He claimed the Government had no right to use that money. That act was in the direct interest of tho national banks. It has been a rule, if not a law, in the department for many years that when the reserve or surplus runs over $140,000,000 a bond call shall be made for $1 ,000,000 or over. You see by this decision of Jordan, whioh is approved by the Secretary, that it will be impossible to make a bond call for two or three years. This creates a stability and a rise in the bond market Seven-tenths of the threes are held by national bankers to secure circulation, or rather they own th m and have deposited them as security. Well, this decision has given them a rise of three and one-half per cent. This decision is a guarantee to national bankers, also, that they will not be disturbed by having their security bonds called during this administration. What better do they want?" "Do you think this was done at the instance of the national banks?" was asked. "Undoubtedly it was. Treasurer Jordan paid a visit to New York soon after rendering the decision, and he received the plaudits of the national bankers, and millionaires, and monopolists, and was given a great banquet at Delmonico's." "Does this impair the interest of common people?" "It does; and in tliis way: The one hundred millions set aside by this decision will now lie idle for au indefinite time. It might just as well be used in calling in bonds, which would save, at the lowest calculation, three millions a year to the people. Certainly, as the public debt is decreased the taxes are reduced and the masses are relieved of their load of taxation. There has been a decrease of the public debt every month under this administration, and not a single bond call lias been made. The work of reducing the debt and surely
the work of relieving the country is
not fully carried out and cannot be felt
until bonds are redeemed, ihis single
act in other words, si nply gives the national banks at least two of the three millions every year, besides the incidental and direct advantages." This very correct and comprehensive statement will not carry much consolation to the good people who supported Mr. Cleveland under the bol.ef that their burdens were to be decreased. The government already pays an annual interest of upwards of $50,000,000 on her debt. She has outstanding 6, 5, 4 and 3 per cent, bonds, aggregating about $1,200,(100,000, and this truckling to the national banks does not give a hopeful outlook. It is said that Comptroller of the Currency Cannon is retained in his position, and is to be retained, simply because he is the national bankers' friend and servant
riqht regarding this great nation? As 1 near no response I will propound t ie
question and extend it back fifty years and ask you to name a singlo question where tho Democratic party has bem right Now, gentlemen, I ask you to consider this. It is rather a hard conundrum, because I hear no lesponse, and I ask you to lake the nit tter home with you." It would puzzle any Democrat to answer this conundrum. The Democratic party never is but always to 1 e right, and .its advocates prophesy o brilliant future on the score of on in
consistent and dishonorable pas t. ; Throughout its history it has filled tie I ,-inrt. fllA lilnini-tAn AauieriiAfl f.rt tllA Kf n
1'-- ' - and George, who was '"always inconsistent and always wrong." Tho Ilepublican party as such litis made :ic mistakes. Leading and influential m.m have been guilty of great blunders at times, but the acts were those of individuals, snd not of the party. Tiie gucat measures inaugurated by tie National Republican party stand so thoroughly justified that the enemies of that organisation do not openly assail theui, but only seek to induce the people to abandon common sense and
not attempt to judge tne lvituve uy tne past Senator Larrabee's comparison really comprehends the en tire logic of the "present political situation. T'le question between the parties is one of character, and this can only be judged by the record. In regard to matters in his own State Mr. Larrabee takes the same position. He points to the result of thirty yeaix of Republican rule, and asks the Den oorats where they expect to improve tae record. He refuses to believe that the flourishing condition of the State is th? result of chance, and ins'sts that "the prosperity and happiness of a people depend largely on the wisdom with which its government is administrated."
The great issues arising for many years past have been solved to the satisfaction
of the people through the agency of the
liepnblican party, un tne umi-eranee question Mr. Larrabee frankly says he is wedded to no theory, but regai-df it simnlv as a matter of experiment to de
termine what laws are best suited to the people and calculated to command popular approval. Mr. Larrabee may not be a great "stump speaker," but he is a man of clear headed views, and no doubt the people of Iowa will be glad
to hear from him frequently during the
campaign. Vhtcaqo Unbune.
I THE OFFICES.
3
Nearly (ieven Thousand New Postmasters a t , ft .1 V ,V a
Appointed, sinoe tae i ourtn
of Maroh
KILLED IN A CYCLONE.
WHITNEY'S WORKERS.
Washington sratfal
Secretary Whitney's new system for
filling tne navy yards alter an examina
tion seems to be working to the greatest satisfaction of those .who are interested. It is reported that every man who has thus far been been engaged is
an expert Demo ratio workman. In
some instances the expertness of the
newly employed does not mean that he knows anything about the work in the navy yards proper, but that he can work the "wards" for all they are
worth. That Mr. Whitney sho'ald have descended to audi email mi'ana lor gaining political ends has been a groat surprise to those who were disposed to
look upon him with favor, lie was mi-
ble. however, to resist the temptation
to wield the power which was within his grasp, and the political campaigns
this fall will, in conse.iuenco, lie large
ly run bj the navy yard inthieree wherever there is a navy yard to have
influence.
Mr.
Speech in
Larrsbeee's Opening
Iowa.
During the active canvass that prefoeded the nomination of Mr. Larrabee as the Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa no attacks whatever were made on him, and it wis generally conceded by Democrats as well as Republicans that his record was invulnerable. After eighteen years' service in the State Senate there was not even a suspicion that he had c rer been connected with any kind of legislative jobbery, nor could it be shown that during that long period of activity he was an advocate or supporter of unwise measures. There was nothing in his record that called for explanations or apologies. Throughout his public life he had been an honest, prudent and diligent servant of the jieople. The only thing alleged against him was that he was not a brilliant "rftump speaker" and could not tickle the ears of the groundlings with the sound and fury of electioneering oratory. It appears, hovever, from his speech of acceptance oefore the
Washington special.! Since the present administration took
charge of tho reins of Government no harder-worked ofBvials have been found i i
Washington than those employed in the
appointment branch of the Postoffico De
partment. During mo lasi six mourns nearly oue-fourlh of the rostmasterRbips of the first, second, and third cltsses, whose commissions are signed b.. the President, have been ohanyed. while over one-eghih of the ne.irly 50,000 fourth-class and crossroads offices, the commissions for which are signed by the Postmaster Genera!, have now a new Postmas er. The records of the
department show Hint the following changes
in rostmister-i have taken place in the
States and Territories named:
Disastrous Storm in Ohio Xt la Especially Damaging Near Washington.
Houses Swept Awaj Like Chaff, and Many People Buried Beneath the Euins,
anTE.
State.
Alabama
Alaska ArUonn ArU ansae. California Colorado
Connecticut . . Dakota. lielaware. Florida.
Ceorguv Idaho Illinois
Indiana Indian Ter.... Ioa Kansas. Kentucky Louisiana
Maine.
Itiarvland
Massachusetts'
Michigan.
-Minnesota..... Mississippi....
'3
gj a
is.
8.
12j fi 3
10 3 31 43 1 40 29 a
121 Missouri 1 M. ntana. 7 Nebraska 171 Nevada 39 N Hampshire.
o."fte-jersey....
tat-Now Mexico...'
11 New York I 21 North Carolina; Sii.Ohio 131;Oregrn 2Pennsylvanla .j 3-:) liaorio Island.. i
15 South Carolina;
12 Tcr.ncsuee IfSTeias. 131;i;tah. 181 Vermont. 73 VIrjinta 60 Washington T. newest Virginia.
a, as wis.'onsm 22 Hi Wyoming 10! Ml 9: 108! Totals
3til 1 68 11 101 78 8 S8 271 618 28 41S
9, 78 6 U8 10 1 2 127 10 116 M' 43S i: 13 1 US 23 147 3j 1 621:630
The number of Presidential offices in the
country is 6,809. while the fourth-class offices amrreeite 48.121. The table shows
that the greater number of changes thus far have' been made in Ohio, where the
number is 641. New York comes next with 593; then Indiana with 508; Virginia with 435; and Pennsylvania with 449.
LUMBERMEN FRIGHTENED.
Mullen's Return to Oflke.
Mullen, tie scamp who used his power as a Cincinnati police oflicer to disfranchise colored citizens by illegally imprisoning them until after the election, was pardoned out of jail in time for him to act as a delegate to the
Ohio Democratic Convention, and vote
for the renomination of Hoadly. Im mediately thereafter he was reappoint
ed to his' old place on the police forise.
Thus this scoundrel, who ought to be serving his term in ja 1, ha? been placed
in a position to repeat tne crime ; or which he himself ought to have been disfranchised for 1 fe. It is nothing new under the present order of things to find men appointed to office while the smell of the jails is still fresh upon them. Usually, however, they have been honored in ignorance of their true character, and it is not yet customary to issue pardons one day and commissions to office tho next Why, then, should there be such a marked exception in favor of this scoundrel Mullen? According to every demand of justice he should remain with his head cropped and be clad for several years yet in the btriped suit or a convict, but instead lie is arrayed in a blue cont and struts the streets as a protege of Cleveland aad Hoadly. No one has suggested any recompense for the 100 colored citizens who were deprived of their votes through this man's dastardly abuse of power, but they are permitted to see him released from the punishment which the courts tried in vain to inflict and again armed with authority to outrage the lights of law-abiding nun. Surh a spectacle as this suggests a id will support only one conclusion. Returned at once to his place in the councils of the Democratic party, as well as to his post on the police force, there would seem no reasonable doubt that Mullen is desired to ontinue his labors in disfranchising colored voters. Whv should this not be the fact ? The success of the Democratic party rents on the suppression oi the colored vote; and if it were not for the Mullens in the South Mr. Cleveland would not to- . r . i i xr-.ll . 4.1.n..nA..
speech of acceptance oefore the ! W resmeni, ,iu, i,0iu.D,
convention that he is able to talk sound was m a P"-n us summing im.. sense in a very instructive and forcible r01?"80 fr,om H- In Mition manner. This brief speech shows Mr. 1 to this he demanded and secured an mLarrabee to be a man of ripened judg- mediate restoration, to las place on the ment and sound views -one whose or- , police force and prompt, readnnssion to guments ought to command the respect j the ofhoial councils of the 1 emooratio nf all who ai-fl canable of understand- party. Ho had followed the only hue
ing them. i Mr. Larrabee's brief speech was devoted mostly to State matters, but. it
leib liu uuuub vuat jiu 10 n nuiiuu .national Republican. He asked his hearers whether they expected to strengthen the nation or increase the prosperity of the people by an advocacy of tho State-sovereignty heresies that have given rise to the worst evils ever known in the United States. Testing the Democratic party cither by its theories or its acts, he was willing to submit the folitieal conundrum whether it bad evtr een right in a single instance. He said: "Has the Republican party ever been wrong upon one question? Can you name to me a single instance where the
Some 10,000,000 Worth of Public Lands
Dflclared Public Domain. Washington dispatch. I Secretary Lamar has rendered a decision in regard to the Ontonagon land grant, which is calculated to make a commotion among a number of prominent capita'ists in tho West For several years efforts have been mode in one guise and another to get a confirmation by act of Congress for the title to a large amount of lands in Northern Michigan. This land i as withdrawn from sole because it was granted to the Ontonagon & Brule River tiailroad. In spite of repeated directions from the General Land Office the land agents at the Marquette Land Office sold these lands right along to lumbermen at 1.2 per acre. For years these purchasers have paid taxes on these lands. Settlers who could defy the purchasers went and built houses and cleared farms on the iraet. trusting to time to civo them title. The lumbermen
claim they bought in good f uth and should be given patents. 'I he lost bill before Congress proposed to confirm titles only where there was no counter-olaim by settlers. Theproperty is worth from $16,000,000 to $20,OOO.dO i, and covers a number of mines and several fine, growing villages. The question of title was argued recently by ex-Senator McDonald for the settlers, and Assists t Secretary Jenks wrote the decision which Secretary Lamar has, after careful consideration, approved. It simply upsets the cash-entry men and throws into the public domain the greater porhoa of the land in. question.
1 Springfield (Ohio) special. A terrihlo cyclone struck Washington Court House, a city of 4,( 00 inhabitants, twenty-five miles from here, at 8 o'clock this evening, and almost sweut it from the earth. Tho storm came from the northwest, and broke upon the town vary suddenly, carrying everything before it The tornado w iirled up Court street, the main business thoroughfare, and ruined almost every business block in it at least forty or fifty in all Hardly a private residence in the town escaped, f ally four hundred buildings going down. The Baptist Presbyterian, and Catholic churches all suffered the c immon fate. The Ohio Southern. Panhandle, Narrow-(i rage, and Midland liailroad stations were blown to smithereens, and every building in the vicinity was carried away, making ingress or egress almost impossible. As every wire within a circle of two miles is down, if. is utterly impossible to get accurate deta Is of this catastiophe. The only reports tbat can be had are through an operator who tapped a wire two miles west of the town, and is silting in a heavy rainstorm to T,-ork his instruments. The panicstricken people were taken completely unawares, and tied from the tumbling buildings in every direction through the murky darkness. A mad frenzy seemed to seize them, and they harried hither und thither in their wild distiaction. little knowing whither they weie flceiug. After the whirlwiud, wh ch lasted about ten minutes, a heavy rainfall set in, whioh still continues unabated at this writing. As soon as a few of the cooler heads recovered their senses searching parties were organized, and the sad work of looking for
the dead uegan. so xar nneen comets have bee l recovered from the debris of
various rained buildings. It is probable as many more will be found before morning. The glimmer of lanterns procured from farn houses in the vicinity and from the few houses left standing is the only light they have to work by. Two or three bodies have been stumbled upon in the middle or the street where they were strickea down by flying bricks or timbers. The cellars of houses and every sort of refuge were filled with shivering people, huddling together in the vain attempt to keep warm. One baby in arms has died trom exposure. Advice i from Bloomingbnrg say that town was strork by a funnel-Bhaped cloud and almost entirely demolished. Three or four persons were killed. 8l6AiiWG"swrHDLir
OUR INDIANA BUDGET.
Frna-iHeats of Sen fironv the Ste ut sparge, Reported tmr This Paper.
Indiana Township Trustees Issue Illegal Orders to the Extent of $100,000.
NOT SNARES, BUT FIRE. A Liquor-Crazed Man Sees an Imaginary Fire and Iap from a Window, Fala JjInjuring Himself. IBostOR special. Peter MeCary, who had been drinking, awoke about 1 o'clock this morning with the idea that the house was on fire and that it was his duty to save the lives of the inmates. After having conducted a number of imaginary persons to a window and sent them to the ground, as he imagined, by a safety chute, he decided to save himself in the samo manner. His wife, by this time being awakened by the noise, was horrified to see him making preparations to dive out of the window, head first With , bound she landed upon the floor and sue. ci eded in giasping one of her husband's legs just as he shot out of the window. Shrieking for help, she still hung on, but before the arrival of aid her strength gave out and she was obliged to let go her hold, her husband falling to the sidewalk below, where he was picked up unconscious and conveyed to the city hospital. On acoonnt of the terrible injuries received, there are but slight hopes of his recovery.
COURT OF ALABAMA CLAIMS.
The Salary of
Counsel
of labor that made Democratic snort ss
possible, and the President's pardau appears to have been furnished h-i as an award of merit rather than a token of mercy. Mullen no doubt made a very elese appeal, both to Hoadly and Cle' eland. The suppression of the colored vote was tho only thing that made Democratic success possible, and Mullen's plan for carrying it out had some points of merit To arrest colored men by the hundred on trumped-ip charges on the eve of an election aid hold thoin in jail uutil the polls w re closed was a method fully as ffeotive as tho shotgun and somewhat simpler thau making false couuts of the vot.es actually oast. It wis not possible tl.at
i-inni,UAan nart.v bn htwn wi-miir ? On the l'resident was deceived ni regard
the other hand, can you name a single to this matter. Mullen's guilt wai, -l ar instance where the Democratic partv leyond el'spute, and the conclusion has been right? I put the question to reached by the President was that the you, my Democratic friends, as I see a ' punishment provided by law should few of you here to-day. Has there been ' not be inflicted on a Democrat who disa question for the last thirty years franchised colored Republican voters where the Democratic party has been j Chioase Tribwnti.
the Ooverameat
Stopped.
(Washington telegram.) First Controller Durham to-day stopped a requisition to pay the salary of J. Al J. Creswell, Government counsel before tho Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, for the month of August until it is settled that there is any balance due him. The First Controller takes the gound that Mr. Creswell is not entitled to a fixed salary of $8,000 per annum, but that that sum is named as the limit of the fees to be allowed him for tho trial of eases. He says that the law organizing the court provided that the Government counsel should receive a reasonable compensation for each case tried, and that subsequent laws limited suoh compensation to $8,000 per annum. The court, however, he says, neglected to fix the amount of a "reasonable compensation," and has illegally treated that item as a fixed salaiy.
Indianapolis telegram. The discovery that certain Township Trustees of Daviess Connty.this State, had issued illegal township orders to the extent of $100,i)U0 or more, and then fled to Canada, has caused much excitement in business circles here, where many of the orders we is disposed of, and there is a well-founded belief that the swindle bos been extensively praotic d in other parts of the Slate. It is already known that such spurious obligations hive been issued in Posey, Fountain, Vermillion, and Shelby Counties and at the present time it is impossible "o estimate their extent, although it is probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. Investigation made to-dav develops that
E. B. PoJard. until recently a resident of
Indianapolis, is at the head or the scheme, which was both original and daring. He was agent of various school furnishing houses in Chicago and ehewhere, and his business was almost exclusively with townshin trustees. With some of these he made
oconspimcy by which they were to issue to him township orders in large amounts in alleged Jpaymeut for school-supplies, and these he was to sell, dividing the proeseds
with them. As he stood well financially,
having c constant balance in bank of from $10,000 to $-20,000, and the orders bore on
their race evidences or weir genuineness, ha had comnarativelv little trouble in dis
posing of them, especially as he sold them at from 10 to 15 per cent, discount and they boi-e 8 per cent, interest They were
sold nrmninallv to Eastern capitalists, al
though Pollard'disposed of $4,360 worth nf thm to a diamond and iewelry house.
said to be Coon & Co., of Cincinnati, for diamonds and $2,300 to D. Van Wee, of
tlria -iif hoeides unknown amounts to the
Third National Bank of Greansburg, and
other nat onal bank-s at .N orth vernon. m addition to this ho paid for a large consign
ment of school furniture to a Chicago
hnnia u'ith tltnm. receiving his commission
for them in cash. He and his family left here last week, ostensibly for Boston, but recent a ivices say that he is at Linn, Out Thr m i: rumor, which cannot be troeed
down to definite sources, that before te&V'
ina VinVnrrnwed &20.000 m cash from a
ih, ivnk nnttino 11 n $35,000 of these ille
gal orders as collateral security. The dwindle hi the most extensive one known
in tho h story of the State, ana hs ran extent is cot yet known.
Soldier's Kennlona. A general reunion of Indiana soldiers of the war for the Union, especially of tbeFifteenth Indiana, will be held at Princeton, on the 13th, 14th, and 16th of October. The railroads are granting excursion rates for the occasion. The commissary and sutler departments will be under control' of the local G. A. B. post, nnd no speculation in supplies will be permitted. A reunion of the soldiers of the old La fayetta Congressional District will be held at 'Lebanon, on Thursday and Friday, September 17 and 18. The order is signed by 0. A. Miller, Seventy-second Regiment; lames M. Bragg, Fortieth Regiment; Felix Shumaie, Tenth Regiment; R. W. Harrison, One hundredVand-sixteenth Regiment; J. P. McCorkle, Eleventh Regiment; A. L. Howrd, Eighty-sixth Regiment, and 3. B. Snlert. Eleventh Cavalry. The members of the Eleventh Indiana Regiment have decided to hold their next reunion at Franklin. The third annual reunion of the Seventyfifth, and One hundmd-aud-firRt Indiana . Regiments will take place at Wabash, en October 1 and 2. There will be a reunion of the Brigade . composed of the Eighth and Eighteenth Indiana Regiments, and First Indiana Batter-, at Franklin, on Friday, September 18. One More Unfortunate. On the morning of August 91 a poor homeless wanderer was found lying sick is a gravel pit near Montezuma. He was unable to speak intelligibly, but investigaticra of his papers found him to be a bookkeeper by profession, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. His letters also showed him to have been in the employ of the Pullman Car Company, at Pullman and Chicago, and he had high recommendatory' papers from that company. He had told before he was taken down that he had been
in ill health for about eighteen months, and out of money. He was trying to make
his way to friends at Indianapolis. He was
well taken care ot, but died ine same emy. From papers found, the correct name of lite stranger was found to be John Eedie, a Scotchman, and without family, his wife having died in Scotland some years ago.
His general appearance ana papers pro him to have been a man of good character,
and also show that he was in search of
friends and employment when taken lit
The Way They Prohibit. Irate citizens at MarkleviHa broke open
the drug store of Harry Irish and knocked the heads out of three barrels of whisky, spilhngths contents on the floor. About
eighteen months ago Irish embarked m
business at Marklevflle. and has been run
ning a disreputable place ever since, dispensing whiskv mdisOTminatery. Drunken fightB and brawls have been numerous of late, and the better class of citizens have become heartily tired of his saloon.
A Grand Oeeaatoa The Indiana State Firemen's Tourna
ment, to be held at Michigan City, Tues
day and Wednesday, September 89 and 30, will be the most successful tonrnament
ever held in the West. Fifteen hundred dollars in cash and trophies, mduding a
nickle-plated, oil-finished hose cart, are of -
fereuoytne manageiaem. Jtne o Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois will be largely represented.
Darkey and Calf in a WeiL A calf belonging to Mrs. L. Roseman, of Greensboro, fell into a well twenty-five
feet deep. A negro was in the well at tne time with a lantern, and, strange to say, neither the negro nor calf was hurt though
the lantern was siaasnea. a, is rappwew that the calf saw the light and, looking
over to investigate the cause, leaned urr over and tumbled in. Physician In TMoUb. In the Superior Court atEvansville suit has been filed by G. A. Roherschille, aged 21, against Dr. Einil Knapp, a prominent surgeon, for $20,000 damages for malpractice. The complaint alleges that in MfJO the defendant, in locating a compound fractnre of the leg of plaintiff, treated the limb so unskillfully as to make him a cripple for
life.
Laurels for Teem Kaatot 1
GERMANY AND SPAIN.
Bismarck Iielluiiulsltes ilia Claim to the Island Seized by the Teuton Xorce Paris diepatch. News has reached Paris that the Emperor of Germany has decided that, owing to tho Spanish ships having arrived threil days before the German gunboat, the island of Yap shall bo given up to Spain. Thus the Spanish-ticrman episode may bs aid to have ended. (Madrid divatch. Dispatches just received regarding the German occupation of Yap state that the Spaniards on the island had hoisted tba Spanish flag and had lowered it at sunset for tho night, as is customary with all nationalities, and that immed ately afterward the German gunboat ran in, landed marines and sailors, hoisted the German colors, and formally occupied the plane, despite the protestations of the Spaniards. The Base-Ball Championship. The rice for the base-ball championship is becoming interesting to the lovers of the game. The other clubs are so far in the rear that they are out of the question, and the contest has narrowed down to the New York and Chicago Clubs, with tho latter slightly in the lead i i games won, but with lhi advantage about offset by the fact that the Chicago's future games are with stronger clubs thin New York has to p'ay. Russian girls are learning trades in order to eain their living. Book-binding, trpe-settitig, book-keeping, and sk'oeniakTug are tjo trades wrfeiviug the largest number of fe'oiuits.
IRON AND STEEL.
An
Anilvs Market for Thoae Staple at
Philadelphia NuiU Advanced. rPhiladnlnhia dlsnatch.1
The pant few days have been active in
iron and steel oi an sinas, neuvy mucs
of fowf, havo been made at 815 to Slh.oU,
and foundry at $16.50 to $17.50 for 2 and 1. Traniiaolious will foot UP 2,000 tons.
Several lots of muck bars have been sold at $26.50. Over 2,000 tons of merchant bar have been sold at $1.60 to $1.75 for
rnilned and S1.40 to 1.60 for common
Nails have been advanced to $2.30, t
which small lots are selling, but large lots
are selling at S2.15 to $2.20. Heavy snip.
ments urs being made to the West owing to the strike there, aud a further advanca is not improbable. Several lots of SO to
inn tons of nlate and tank iron have been
ordered for delivery durine October. Tank
in firm in small lots at 1.1)4 cent to 2 cents,
Fifteen hundred tons of structural and
bridge iron have been ordered at 3 cents
for beams and ohaunels. Last weeks busi
ness in iiteel rails foot up between 20,000
and 25.UUU tons, m small lots ana mojer ato-sized lots, at $28 to $29.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Perry Whlttock Kills His Wife, Three Sis tatra-in-Law, aad Then Himself. Danville (HI.) telccram.) Pivrrv Whitiock. aoed 28 vears. of Ridse-
farm, a town in the southern part of this oountv. went to the residence of his father-
in jaw, E. G. Coe, who lives two miles east of Riddei'arm, and there shot his wile
Emily, need 23 years, and her sisters Maggie and Tinchie Coe, aged 28 and 22 years, respectively, mortally wounding all of them, and then shot himself, dying almost instantly. At the time of the shooting Mr. Coe, who is a widower, was in thh c ty, and as Whitlook had threatened to kill the whole family it is supposed he took advautage of Mr. Coe's absence to do the horrible deed. Wh tlock and his wtfe had not lived happily together, on account of his dissipated habits, and only a short time ago she had left h m and gone to her father. Whitiock came frein the Indian Territory about four years ago, and after a short acquaintance iiirr ed Mies Ccfe against the wishes of hei parents.
Miss Laura Moore, the young American vocalist, who carried off the first prise at the Paris Conservatorie, and who is recog
nized as the rising musical star, is claimed
as a Terre Haute gin. ner iatner, ua H. Moore, prior to the war, was for a number of years snpermtendent of the Terre Haute public schools. TUto Supply Ueconinc Bihanitea1' Michigan City fishing interests arealarmed at the decrease in die supply of whiteflsh from year to year. The spawn and young fish are destroyed by the big-mouthed perch, which are becoming more pfeutifnl all the time. Minor Xiatoa. North Madison is building a new Odd Fellows' hall. Hon. O. F. Blown is the largest land owner and the richest man in Parke County. When Coffey, the Crawfordsville murderer, was told that Gov. Gray had respited him until Oct 16, he said: "WeB, that is good," and wept Then engine of a thresher belonging to Alonzo Ingersoll exploded on the farm of David Livergood, near Waynetown. No one was seriously injured. In the northeastern partof Montgomery . County the grasshoppers have destroyed the second crop of clover, and in some places have attacked the com. George D. Drisohei, of Greenfield, dropped dead while in an ont-bnilding. He had been in apparent good health, and no cause bnt heart disease can be assigned. Joel Wolf Post G. A. R., the membership of which is of Rush and adjoining counties, will hold its first annual campfire, at the Rushville fair grounds on Sept 29 and 30. John N. Gillespie, grocer, considered one of the stanch business men of Greensburg, has assigned. He owns real estate valued at $32,000, mortgaged- for $7,500. His grocery stock is worth about $3,000. His indebtedness is from $90,000 to $85,-
000.
At Muncie, after a night of carousal, John Galbrai'h and Will Collins quarreled, and, in an exchange of shots that followed, Galbraitfa received a bell in his breast He afterward accidentally shot himself in the leg. The entire loss by the horning of the flouring mill of Montgomery & Elder, at Greensbnrg, is now placed at $30,000, with $8,600 insurance, distributed as follows : Phoenix, of Brooklyn, $2,000; Western, of Toronto. $1,610, Phoenix, of Hartford, and Germanis, of New York, $1,500 each; Franklin, of Indisaapobs, and the Lancashire, of Manchester, England, $1,000 each.