Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 31 May 1890 — Page 7

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THE REVIEW,*

SUPPLEMENT.

CRAWFORDSVILLE INDIANA

THE enormous number of 6,000,000 of letters sent to the dead letter office lost year is an instructive comment upon our habits of haste and carelessness as a nation and suggests that possibly the public is not altogether to blame in this matter.

THE amount of gold used in the arts is constantly increasing, while silver shows but a single increase. Silver has become comparatively nonprecious therefore, even our poorest people dospise jewelry unless it is made of gold.

THK Mississippi question seems to be too much for congress and the scientists. The government has spent immense sums in constructing levees only to And them entirely Inadequate and with a prospect that in the near future they will bo found oven more so.

BEN BUTLER was asked the other day what he would recommend as the best investment for a man's savings. In a letter of considerable length ho eays in substance that as 90 per cent of men engaged in business fail every year he has found the only safe investment to be realty.

THE reasons for the ever-increasing tide of American travel in Europe and the comparatively small volume of pleasure travel in the United States are beginning to inspire investigation. No one denies that upon our own continent nature has bestowed charms unsurpassed in any other part of the globe.

ANEW YOKK lawyer has proposed law to prevent newspapers from publishing reports of the trials of divorce cases. Some one may recommend a law that shall prevent them from publishing the decrees issued in such oases. This would compel persons to ^examine the records to ascertain if a man or woman had been divorced.

THB Pittsburg Dispatch says fair mill iron can now be laid down in Pittsburg from Alabama at about $14 per ton. The cost of this iron to the Alamama furnace is only $9.50 per ton, that leaves a good margin of profit that may be shaved to meet competition which under present prices of material the Pittsburg manufacturers cannot hope to offer.

SIB FREDERIC LEIGHTON, England's great artist, is said to have discovered a language derived from English, but no intimation of what that language is la given. Considering the dense ignorance of Amerioa which prevails in

Great Britain it ia Datura. t„ataSu,-

picion should arise that Sir Frederick's discovery is nono other than the Interesting patois spoken in Boston.

HERE are some interesting oriminal '.istatistics: In the last ten years 672 s? persons were committed for trial in j|England and Wales for the crime of wilful murder. Of these 299 were sentenced to death, 281 acquitted, and 142 adjudged insane. Of the 299 condemned to death 154 were executed and 145 had commutations of sentence of the 299 fifty were women, of whom ttfpe were' hanynd. -, grain growers of Russia is the want of adequate means for storing and transporting their produce. At certaiu

periods of tho year such quantities are oursi aay session .of the sub-coms -'V.Sbrought to the railways that a Bulll- •'f'' „ciont umber of wagons for transport

ID be had, nor are the railways

'^prepared to receive it. Piled up in fjsaolcs in the open, exposed to iin and snow, much of it becomes damaged and worthless.

THE Mcxican government is about •to introduce the graphophone in its postal service. Illiterates who can neither ro:id nor write will be enabled to talk into a graphophone, and for a fixed chargo have the cylinder containing their messages sent to the office near which their correspondents reside. Tbe correspondents will then be sent for, and be permitted to listen to Uie messago as It is ground out by another instrument. 1

As training schools In order, politeness, the rules of propriety and parliamentary procedure, secret and other societies have accomplished much good. They have prepared young men to occupy public positions. Every secret or select society exerts a restraining influence over its members. IMde in an order makes, to a certain sgexteut, every one his brothers keeper.

It o:\uses each member to take an in-

\J terest In the others and to prevent

them from conducting themselves iiuProperly.

THK medicine sharps have disoovcred so muuj' specifics they are inventing new diseases to work off the sur-

'"i Plu9, "Nannona" and "tornado poisoning" seem to be but indlffci-ent-ly successful experiments In that "MV1 direction, and will no doubt soon be replaced by more effective epidemics.

There was a disease known to our grand Of hers as "the go-backs." The

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

CJaetnaaU has 3,0ty saloons. There'* an •pldunflo of mad Awga around Brledls, la.

All the prisoners in Jail atSt.Clalrsvnie, O., escaped on Sunday. A melon syndicate was formed at Atlanta, Ga., on the 26th.

Chioagn hotel and restaurant waiters are striking for $30 per month. The National TVmperanoe Congress will moot in New York June 11 and 12.

The street railroad lines of Buffalo hare been sold to syndicate of capitalists. The Presbyterian General Assembly on he 20th, appointed acommittee on revision.

An extensive cave, with spacious apart meats, has been discovered near Wheeling. W.Va.

Twenty-seven cities and towns have given the eight-hour system to 98,855 oar renters.

George Franois Train went around the world in 67 days, IS hours, 3 minutes, 8 seconds.

A brood mare belonging to William Barnes of Marshall Mo., dropped three liealthy colts.

Six female barbers contesting for a prize is one of the attractions in a Chicago znu^ soura this week,

Warrants were issued at Grand Rapids. Mloh., for the arrest of persons who played base ball on Sunday.

Hundreds of acres of fine tobacco were destroyed by tho storui in nortuern Kens tucky Saturday night.

Breaks in the levees of tho Sacramento and San Jiaquin Rivers have flooded four thousand acres of grain.

Mrs. D. A. Pruin. Herriclc Falls, N. Y., is dead. The druggist gave her powdered opium instead of ipecac.

Sullivan has accepted the offer of the new Virginia Athletic club ($25,000) to fight McAulifTe and Jackson.

Guiseppe Carusi, Count di Montorcolo, wa» sentenced at Philadelphia to six months'imprisonment for libeL

Alabama conviot named Crawford blew himself to pieces with dynamite. He had escaped and been recaptured.

The hrst barley of the season was harvested at Tulare, Cal., on the 2Sd. The first wheat was marketed May 18th.'

Two Vandalla freight trains oolllded at Troy, 111., on the 24th. A fireman was killed and five other train men injured.

Kilrain, arrested in Mississippi for his "mill" with Sullivan, has served out his term of imprisonment and has returned north.

A vote in the Louisiana legislature indl cated the strength of the lottery faction to be flfty-three in a house of ninety-oight members.

A heavy storm swept the northern oountles of West Virginia on the 24th, doing heavy damage. A portion of Kentucky was visited also.

MDB. WM. Phelin and her twelve ohildren, half of whom were twins, arrived at New York Saturday, 03 her way to join ner husband at Port City, Pa.

The Journeymen Horseshoers' National Union, which met at Cleveland, O has decided to use u° Mes, rasps, cigu'rs or hats that do not bear labor union stamps.

It is reported that the late Chicago striking carpenters have received informa-

the strike.

During a severe storm near Cbarlestonw. Va., a carriage oontaining six men was taken up by the wind, turned completely over the horses, and landed In front of them fifty yards away.

A man under arrest at dayton, Mo. confessed that he is the man who, about a year ago, made President MotUt, of the

Kank

of Denver, give up

$20,000 at the point of a pistol. Chioago has (another Cronin sensation A man's body was found in a oatch -basin Tuesday morning. Wagon tracks were found leading to the basin, and a box cjyer in the vicinity wasalso discovered. jP" -HI, fill hiM and lighted was placed under it, but a" heavy rain extinguished the fuse, and the monument was saved.

The first day's session [of the sub-com-

on tho 84th, developed the fact that nearly all the m'nors at Spring Valley, 111., were foreigners, most of them coming there in violation of the contract labor law.

The John Charles Block in Lucas, six miles east of Mansfield, O., was struck by lightning ada large number of people were killed or injured by the explosion of dynamite 'n a hardware store. The killed are John Smith, aged fifty-five, and Jeremiah Jones, aged fifty.

Hundreds eould not get into the big armory in New York, Saturday evening, en the occasion of the fair in aid of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary. Mrs. Qrovor Cleveland was there selling roses at 91 a piece, and tbe roses were sailed for faster than she oould hand them oat.

The Cbeyennes, Comanches and other tribes of the Indian Territory are dally •xpeoting the appearance of an Indian Messiah. He promises to restore the •ountry to tho Indians in its original state, with its forests, its prairies, its buffalo and wild game. The white man will have to retire. l%e AtUntas, the crack New York eight, were jasily bsaten by the Yale crew at New Haven on Saturday, even though the latter loet their Captain and stroke after )he flv4 mile and a half, breaking his oar tnd tumbling over the boat into tho water leaving his boys to finish without him. This is t'ne first defeat ever suffered by the A.t)anta crew.

Ac important decision has been handed town \fy tbe Albany (N. Y.) Supreme Donrt. During the strike of 188S, Luke Cox was erne of those engaged to take the ylace of the striking employes of the fclbany Brewing Company,being put under I Tergal agreement to work for one year, kiea^warda, when the strike was settled, kf was discharged, and sued fof wages for «£balance of die year. Judgment was in U» ftr/^r.

The American Medical Association met session at NasbvU'e, Thursday. Committee on diettths contended that the

droa were the greatest sufferer* from ttila esnsa. The us* at ltqatd feed caused defeotlv* Jaws and teeth, whioh ^s the first step downward, and unless slopped would ultimately end in oblivion.

A New Ywk Sheriff's Jury found a •erdtot ef 110,000 against Franois K. Harto the son of Bert Harte, the writer* In a suit by James Smith for damages for the alienation of the effections of hie wife, Eleve B. Smith. The suit had been al-. ready '.vied in the Supremo Court, where Judgment by default was rendered, Harte failing to appear. The Judge ordered damages to be assessed by the Sheriff'i jury. The verdict was for the full amount claimed.

A North Carolina mob ou the 20th, tore Job Starling from the side of his wife, while on his way home, tied him to a tree and shot him to death: He had become troublesome and a terror to his neighbors, and there was a suspicion that he was responsible for the murder of his mother-ins law, whioh occurred some t'me ago. On the trial for tho crime there was not sufficient evidence to convict. Immediately after tho barns of two of tbe witnesses against him were burned.

The German Catholics in their General Assembly at Milwaukee passed resolutions condemning the Bennot law and pledgingl themselves to vote for such candidates only as will work for Its repeal. They declaro it violates the divine and natural law that parents arc bound to educate their children and have therefore the right to select such schools as they may consider will best promote the welfare of their children, that it curtails thoir religious liberty and that as they make no claim on the State for the support of their parochial and private schools, they deny the right of the State to exercise any oontrol over their schools.

The heaviest rain and electric storm known in years passed over a large sec«, tion of Western Pennsylvania on the night of the 33d. Houses were blown down, trees uprooted, and hailstones as large as walnuts poured down in shoetS. Lightning also struck several buildings and others were submerged while streets were converted into rivers in many of th« towns. Several persons were killed by the electrical bolts and railway traflje was seriously imperilled by washouts and the carrying away of bridges. Northern Indi ana was also visited by the storm and thousands of dollars of damage was dona by the burning of buildings, by washouts and by despoilment of cropB.

Three big ooean flyers hurried into New York harbor Sunday evening, after a race of 8,000 miles from Queenstown. They were the City of Rome, Anchor Line, Al* aska, GUion Line and Aurania, Cunard Lino. The giant City of Rome won, van* quishlng the Aurania by only thirty-nine minutes and the Alaska, once the proud bearer of the ocean record, by more than two hours. None of the racers were QYOI in sight of another after leaving Queenstown. They were run at top speed, and all made much better time than they usually make at this season, when tho low lyhtg ice compels them to take long southerly courses.: The City of Rome beat the Aurania by making a shorter oouraie across tho Atlantic rather than by showing superior speed. The Aurania covered 4,885 miles, or soventy-four more than tho Anchor line,

FOREIGN.

Havana, Cuba, is in the hands of outlaws and murders and incendiary fires are daily occurrences.

It is said that every worklngman in the provinco of Catallna, Spain, is a socialist and the government Is alarmed at the situation. |||I' %.

Report has Just been received of the wreok of the steamship Oneida in Behring Sea. Seventy-seven Chinamen were drowned on the way to the canning facs tories.

The magistrates of the oourts of Belgium recently demanded increased remuneration and'baoked their claims with a strike. The workingmen of the town enjoyed the occasion.

water, and sixteen of the occupants were drowned. At Suplinger five persons were killed by lightning.

The Germans, not satisfied with their achievements in East Africa, are endeavoring to gain a foothold In Morocco, and are conducting quiet negotiations with the Sultan to that end. Tho news has created much feeling in Prance and Spain.

The French government is sounding other European States In regard to an international movement against Anarchists, the objeot substantially being a mutual agreement among the nations of Europe and of America also, if they can be induced to join, to deliver up all persons guilty of anarchist violence, and to spare no effort to suppress sncb offenders. In this respect the Frenoh and Germans are for onoe agreed, the French .ministry expressing accord with the views of the German Emperor that if tbe condition of the common people Is to be Improved anarchy must be extinguished.

President Diaz, speaking of the filibustering movement in Lower California says that he placed little Importance in the movement He knew that the United States.government would not, allew neutrality to he violated and the Mexican government would protect ber territory. It has suffloient forces in Lower California te repel any Invaders.. The Secretary of the Interior, Emanuel Romero Rubio, sa.ys, that a'.l statements that the natives in Lower California are in league with the filibusters are false, and he has advic that the natives are ready to operate against any invaders.

The Normannia, the new steamship of the Hainbug-American line, has sailed for the United States on her maiden trip in charge of Captain Hebioh, recently of the Columbia. Great expectations are entertained of the Normannia. She is expected to beat the record of the City of Parts. An engineer concerned in the construction the Normannia, saya he believes she will make a run equal to abtrat fire and a half days from Queenstown to New York, and he bases his prediction on the fact that

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Washington wants a street rallriray. Brazil claims the best drilled band In the State

Splendid cblack bass fishing at Lake Maxintuckee. Vincennes will have a ball game by female teams June 4

State Convention of Farmers' Allianco at Fort Wayno, June 4. General Lew Wallace of Crawfordsyille, has patented a steel railroad tie.

Lightning killed Henry Admire, ah old citizen of Greenwood, on the 26th. Twenty«flve horses in a Logansport livery stabie are ill with la grippe.

George Miller was fatally crushed In the Columbus ceraline mill on the 24th. The oldest native Hoosier is Rev. Geo. owartz, of Jeffersonville. He Is 87 years old.

Another gas well has been struck at Marion, with a daily capacity of 10,000,000 feet.

Patrolman James Haids, of Madison fatally shoo Carlos An tie, his daughter's lover.

By reason of the strike of carpenters at Fort Wayne a great amount of building is tied up.

Captain W. R. Meyers of Anderson, ani nounces that he will be a candidate for Governor in '92.

Mrs. A. B. Dickey, of Northwest Township, committed suicide by banging. Cause, ill health.

A storm did heavy damage in Grant county on the 34th. Also In parts of Montgomery county.

Park county commissioners are making it warm for persons who dump trash on the public highway.

Hiram Stanfield, convictcd of vote-buy-ing, who escaped from tha Dhbols county Jail, has been recaptured.

There is a dog at Crawfordsville that chews tobacco like a man, and even hunts in the gutter for cigar-stubs.

Tlnnie W. Nolting, a Columbus belle, climbed from her window on a rope ladder and ran away with Rich Duncan.

Charles Bell, aged fourteen, of New Providence, was bitten by a copperhead snake and isn't expected to live.

M. F. Lee lost control of red hot wire he was handling in the Anderson rod mill, and it passed completely through his wrist.

Greencastle undertook to collect taxes on $3,830 in greenbacks held by H. C. Rudisell, and has been beaten in the courts.

Bishop Dwinger, of the Fort Wayne Diocese, has again become precarious in health, and vyill take an extended trip to Mexico. |||t

The new police4 regime of Anderson, has ordered the closing of saloons at 11 p. m., and on Sunday and the Jestopal of all gaming.

Owen Record, of Kokomo, has lain 83 days with scarlet fever without taking nourishment of any kind. He weighs 15 pounds.

The chief signal officer is making ars rangements to open an observatory at South Bend, with Prof. A. A. Stonebur*. ner in charge. .'

Thomas Rhodes, of Covington, has been convicted at Lafayette of criminal mal practice, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

Magnificent deposits of blue, buff and brown oolitic limestone have been discovered near Mitchell, and a company has been organized.

Greenfield colored man drew 1300 in the sothern lottery and now the citizens of that town want to buy every ticket the institution issues.

Breman, a Chicago groceryman," being unable to collect a grocery bill from a widow, kidnapped her child and held it as security. He'll go to Jail.

The little green bug (aphis avenae), which gave such uneasiness to wheat growers in Knox county last season, has again mad6 its appearance.

The different brotherhoods of railway employees met in convention at Indianapolis on the 26th and adopted a scheme for the federation of all of the organizations.

The farmers' Alliance, of Spencer county, have concluded to nominate a a county ticket, which shall include two Republicans, two Democrats, and two Prohibitionists.

Fort Wayne Jealously eharges that Evansville is absorbing all the suburban territory within its corporate limits in order to make a big showing in the next census returns.

Three men of Crawfordsville, Thomas S. Hughes, J«dge T. F. Davidson and H. S. Watson, have boon completely cured of smoking by having the grip. Now they can not bear the smell of a pipe or cigar.

The late differences between the mer chants of Warren and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association are comparatively at an end, and the business of the town has resumed its usual proportions.

Secy .Heron has sent more than four thousand six-ounce packages of beet seed over the State. They have been well distributed, and if beets can be raised successfully a sugar refinery will be estab*

Isbed in the gas belt A savage sow attacked Mrs. I Samuel Minnus, of Elkhart county, while she was crossing a field, 'and lacerated her arm. She was rescued by a sow in the same field, which took in the situation and charged upon the sow.

Eighteen players belonging to the Kokomo and Fort Wayne ball clubs were arrested at the lattey place for Sunday playing, and were each fined $1 and costs altogether $90. That ends Sunday ball playiug in Fort Wayne.

Lightning struck the residence of E. H, Guy, at La Grange, on Saturday, and Mrs. Guy was dangerously injured Joseph Smalley, emyloyed at the La

White tb«

$1. His paid the money and took the seat, bathe afterward filed tho necessary papers and libelled the show for $200 damages.

Thad Butter, editor of the Huntington Herald, who recently resigned the position of postmaster because the office interfered with his newspaper work, is suing the Wabash Plaindealer, claiming $10,000 damages for libel, because the Plaindealer charged that he had been removed for incompetency.

An unknown man watched a ball game at Fort Wayne for some time, and wheth-. er influenced by the poor playing or what, ho suddenly placed a pistol at his head and blew out his brains. The body was first identified as George H. Short, an exsoldier, but Mr. Short afterward rep orte in good health.

William Armstrong of Montgomery county has been paroled by Gov. Hovey. He was sent to tho northern penitentiary for assault and battery for a term of four years, and has served all of his sentence but three months. The parole was issued on condition that Armstrong abstain from tho use of liquor.

Mrs. James Carter, colored, ef New Albany, in attempting to extinguish the flames in which her two daughters were enveloped, was terribly burned about tho waist and one of her arms was so badly roasted that it will have to be amputated. One child died, and there is doubt whether the mother and remaining child will res cover.

Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday as follows: T. Briggs, South Bend, pulley Christian D. Cowgill, Terro Haute, permutation padlock T. Darnell, Indianapolis, gate Henry Hollensbe, Kingston, wire fence B. Langraf, South Bend, mechanism for reversing motion and overcoming dead oenters Wm. N. Rumely, Laporte, friction clutch.

Stock to the amount of $15,000 has been subscribed to establish a sorghum cane syrup, canning and preserve factory at Mooresville, with a capacity of 1,000 per day. It will be one of the largest sorghum factories in the country, and will be known as the Leitzman Sorghum, Syrup and Canning Co. Mr. Leitzman is the present President of the Indiana Cane Growers' Association.

A drowned man found on the falls Saturday evening, has been proven to be Wiley Bryant, of Jeffersonville, For six months he had been mysteriously missing, and the drowned man was identified by a button in his collar. At the time he disappeared he was affected with typhoid fever. Without donning his street apparel he fled from his bed chamber and bad since been unheard from.

On last Thursday night tbe house of W. C. Walkup, of Crawfordsville, was robbed of $55. Suspicion was at once directed against two men who claimed to be horse traders. These men were followed to Frankfort, where they wore arrested on Saturday night. They gave the names of Johnson Garret and Clarence Hudson. The sum of $6 and two watches were se cured, and a horse which had been bought with part of the stolen money.

A singular and fatal accident occurred adUrbana, Wabash county, Tuesday evens ing. Mrs. Lucy Berger and her sister-ins law, Mrs. Berger, were out driving, each with her two children. The horse, heretofore a gentle one, suddenly began kicking, and its hoof, striking one of the children, who sat Just behind the dashboard, on the skull, crushed it in, causing fatal injuries. The second kick of the animal struck the two-yeaiNold child of Mrs. Bergen on the temple, and it also is mortally wounded. Both are now lying at the point of death. The viciousness of the animal is inexplicable.

The Grand Lodge F. and A. M. convened at Indianapolis in 69th annual session on the 27th, Thos. D. Long, of Terre Haute, in the chair. Tho report showed continued prosperity. The Grand Treasurer, Martin H. Rice, reported a balance of $13,175.67 on hand. Wm. H. Smythe, Grand Secre-

n...un tary, reported cash receipts, including fionnlrt JJ. Hinjyhnni rinnntr nil iaimnn ..j. jiiMii 1

Mrs. John R. Ennis, near Martinsville, has given birth to triplets, two girls and a boy. The mother herself was a twin, and so was her mother and grandmother.

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$8,705.85. There are at present 22,896 affiliating Mastijr Mason sin the State. The present number of chartered lodges is 464, and the average membership 51. Terre Haute Lodge, No, 19, has 325 members, and is the largest lodge in the State.

Five weeks ago the Rev. G. W. Jeffrey, pastor of a church at Yankeetown, was married to Miss Minnie Wheeler,a teacher in the public schools. Minnie was pretty and popular, and the wedding was tho event of the season. Three weeks after marriage, to the horror of the young husband and astonishment of the whole neighborhood, the bride gave birth to a baby boy. Jeffrey became frantic and charged several of the young men of the place with conspiring to ruin him, and the disgraced wife swore out a warrant for the arrest of Lewis Taylor,the best man at the wedding, charging him with the paternity of the child. He proposed to call In all the young men ol the place to prove the girl's lack of virtue. Many have fled others are going.

Taylor is under $1,000 bond and will fight to the bitter end to prove his innocence. Among the prisoners received at the Prison South, on the 26th, was David M. Cavender, of Versailles, one of the promi* nent men of Ripley county, and still quite wealthy. A strange story !is .connected with his trial and condemnation. In February last he visited Versailles, and at the supper hour it is claimed that he entered the apartments of Charles Johnson,County Recorder,and concealed himself under the bed, his purpose being to rob him. Johnson discovered his presence shortly after he had retjred, and upon attempting to strike a light to identify the intruder

Cavender assailed him with knife, and there was a desperate struggle, during which Cavender was himself wounded by his own knife. After Cavender made his escape he was identified by the injuries Belfsinfllcted in his struggles with Johnson, and he was also charged with the theft of a pocket book containing $40, Influential friends came

to

his assistance and on trial he claimed that Johnson was attacked by a tramp and even Johnson tried to shield him, but

the Jury

returned a verdict of guilty, and

placed the punishment at two years im prlsomtent. Cavender served two terms as Surveyor of Ripley county, and ho was nlod.

oncea candidate for the Legislature. B« la noted as a mathematician being oon-» aidered second only to Prof. Jordan, of th State University, and be Is an excellent musician. He belongs to an old Quaker family, and was reared in affluence, res ceiving a classical education.

ODD-FELLOWSHIP.

The Grand Lodge at the May moetlngnominates officers to be elected at theNovember communication. Tho following nominations were made on the 22d:

Grand Master—W Leedy, Indianapolis. Deputy Grand Master—U Wiley, Fowler.

Grand Warden—George Ford, South Bend Williamson, Fort Wayne A Beeks, Russiaville A Chipman, Anderson W Talbott, Orleans Slooum, Jeffersonville Livesly, Now Castle Robert Loveland, Peru William Whitson, Austin Mann, Decatur Paluss, Greenfield James Byran, Fulton William Fowler, Laporte RH Vancleave, Farmersburg LaFollette, Portland.

Grand Secretary—B Foster, Indianapolis. Grand Treasurer—Theodore Haughey, Indianapolis.

Representative to the S L—C Brinkley, Richmond. Trustees of Grand Lodge Hall—William Wallace, A Furgason, John W McQuiddy, Indianapolis and Harding, of Fort-'• Wayne.

Some of the nominations, it is seen, are equivalent to elections since but one candidate is named in several instances The lodge adjourned on tho evening of the

DEBTS OF STATES ANU BOUNTIES

Preliminary Report of Oue ltrancli of tlie Census Work—A Comparlaou of Figures.

The Census Office on the ti~th made public the first results of the eleventh census in relation to State and local finances. It consists of a preliminary report by T. Campbell Copoland, in charge of local finance, on the indebtedness of tho 2,809' counties in the United States. The reports show that the principal of the State debts at the present time is $238,679,817. Of this amount$194,954,206is bonded debt, and. $33,725,610 floating debt, This shows a net decrease in the total debt during the last. ten years of $54,459,484, the bonded debt' having been decreased by $64,083,249, and the floating debt increased by $9,623 764.

The changes in the same debt, by gee.' graphical divisions, have been as follows: Decrease

Total in 1C90.

Eastern Stales Jt 39,074,006 Middle States.....^.,. 33,498,412 Southern States 107,616,077 Western Spates 47.591,201

Since 1380. *11,290,117 11,387,482 28,022,984 3,752,920

Totals $*28,679,817 $51,459,484 The States have reduced their debts to this extent, says the report, mainly by applying to the redemption of their obligations the revenues not needed for current expenses. In a few cases, however, a: reduction of the debt has been effected by

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the enforced redemption of obligations at a discount, but the amount of reduction through this process cannot bo ascertained until the statement of outstanding debts in those States has been compared with the cash receipts and expenditures on ac* count of the debt for the same period, and the differences noted. Tho total bonded debt of tho United States is shown to have been $1,709,993,100 in 1880. and $719,178,570 in 1890, The bonded debt of the several States in 1880 was $259,037,456 and $194,954,206 at the present time, making a total decrease of $1,054,897.780, iStato and national.

As to the county indebtedness the report shows the total bonded debt of the 2.80U counties in the United States and Territories to be $130,734,959, as against $104,-" 493,752 in 1880. The floating debt of these counties in 1880 was $16,745,331, while their present floating debt is $14,958,881, at decrease of $1,786,460. This shows an increase in the total debt of tho counties of the United States during the last ten years of $24,454,756.

The Supreme Court of the United States on the 23d denied the application for a writ of error in the case of Kemmler, un-

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der*sentence of death by electricity. Chief-Justice Fuller delivered the opins ion denying the motion for the writ of or an ha be as or us pi on is lengthy one and gave evidence of careful preparation. It called attention to the fact that the Constitution of the State of New York and that of the United States are almost identical. The Legislature of New York, after a careful examination of all questions connected with the proposltion for the utilization of electricity as' a method for produoing death, had decided that it is not more cruel than methods here tofore employed and recognized by law but a more humane method. The Legislature has aright to determine the method ot punishment which shall be inflioted upon those violating its laws, provided the method does not interfere with tho rights of persons under the Constitution of the

United States. After the matter had been fully examin.: ed and acted upon by the Legislature the case was taken up by the courts, and exv amined in detail in all its features in the light of the best expert testimony tha could be had. It had been carried from ono court to another, and reached the highest judicial bodies of tho State with the same opinion in each court sustaining the constitutionality of the law and finding that the method of execution is not cru«^

The Chief-Justice discussed the relation of the fourteenth amendment to tho con* stltution to the rights of citizens, but held that it does not warrant interference.^ Such Snusal and cruel punishment as? burning at the stake, disemboweling or torture would not be recognized by the law of civilized nations, but there seems to have been no evidence before the courts or the Legislature to warrant the con« elusion that this form of death proposed was cruel in a greater degree than that recognized by the constitution and accept-^ ed as the law of the land.

As Kemmler's crime was eommittod after the date at which the act was to tak« effect no sufficient reason is urged or found for a writ of error, and it is therefore da