Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

l The Democrat. 1 Official Paper of the County. A. J. HILL. Editor and Bu*in<*Hß Manager' TEAMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS FN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DKCATVR, INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, , night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence «n north side of Monroe street, 4th r house east of Hart’s Mill. • 25jy79tf ~w.Tr m yers" Urick Ss Slone Mason I ontrac’r DECATUR,INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his line. I’er*>nn contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v2sn46mS. E N. WICKM, J, T.MKRRYMAN. TVICKS & MERRYMAN, •Attorney* at Law AND Kcal Estate, •Agents, D<*eds, Mortgages. Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. PaXitiou, settlement of decedent’s estates, and collections a specialty. Ofiice up stairs in Stone's building—4th door. ▼ol, 25, no. 24, yl. drTkitch miller will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECAIUB, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday end Wednesday of each month to trent all Chrouic Diseases. Consultation free. Call and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua. Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write to him and make a statement of your case,—v2an3tily. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SpcctaclcH, c<?o Repairing done at lowest prices to guar antee good and sound work R R. Almacn. Prw*t. W. H NfßUCK,Cashier, b. Stupabaker, Vice Pree’t. THEADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. W’e buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy791f PETERSOHN A ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATVR. INDTANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial -attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2,1. C O. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE 4 KI NG. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATI'K, INDIANA. _ ' E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR, IMDIANA. All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone's building fithdoor. v25n‘24 year 1.

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The Decatur Democrat.

THE TERRY-BRODERH K DUEL. I A New Statement of the ('iiTuniHtauoes that Led to the Fatal Meeting. An old Californian lias related to The St. Louis < Hobe-Democrat what he claims were the true circumstances leading to the duel between Senator Broderick aud Judge Terry, of California, in 1851), which resulted in the death of the former. He says: “The men were warm personal friends, and both were Democrats when the vigilantes ran the town, in 1857. This was before Broderick's election to the senate, but Terry was on the bench. One day, while tlie vigilantes were arresting, trying, and hanging whoever they pleased, Terry happened to be in the United States naval agent’s place, when a sergeant aud a squad of the vigilantes came there to arrest some one. Terry protested against it. and in the talk that followed was jostled roughly by a man named Hopkins. What followed was done Very quickly, the judge whipping out a knife, and slashing Hopkins, half severing his head from the body. He escaped and went to the United States arsenal, where the vigilantes followed, with several small pieces of cannon, and threatened to attack unless the fugitive was given up to them. He was offered protection but preferred to surrender himself, and did so. He was held a prisoner about three months, and was repeatedly threatened with hanging. The officer in command of a few little war vessels in the bav, asserted that if he was executed he would bombrad the stronghold of the vigilantes, which was known as Fort Gunnvbags, but Hopkins recovering, much to everybody's surprise, Terry was tried and acquitted. Broderick during this time retained his friendship for Terry, aud did what he could tn assist him in his strait. The rupture occurred afterward with the split in the Democratic party, wlmn Bmderiek espoused the bolters and Terry remaim'd a straight Democrat. The “splits” held a convention and made nominations anti shortly after the “straights" did the same thing at Benton's church, which WUb, for lack of something belter, Used at that time for political gatherings. In the evening after the last convention a meeting was called, at which a number of the prominent politicians of the State spoke. Terry was not much of a public speaker, but being pressed to do so, made a few remarks, and to some extent ridiculed the opposite party, pronouncing it as of such diminutive pWipnrtions that Broderick, its oviginntor, could put it in his pocket. There was apparently nothing personally offensive intended; but a synopsis of the different speeches having lieen telegraphed to San Francisco. appeared in the papers there the following morning. Broderick had evidently read the reports before or on coming to the breakfast table, but made no remark concerning them until asked at the table by Daniel S. Perley, an Englishman, what his opinion was regarding them. Broderick replied something to the effect that he had until then always thought well of Judge Terry, and considered him a gentleman, thus intimating that his opinion had changed. Perley retorted that Broderick had no right to use such language in the absence of the judge and in the presence of his friends, adding that he considered himself one of the latter. Broderick made a harsh reply, of which several different accounts were given, and added something that Perley considered personal. He challenged Broderick in consequence, and the latter placed the matter in the hands of his friends, who decided that the social position of the senator was so much above that of Perley that a meeting could not be had. When this conclusion was made public, the judge's friends apparently looked to him for a continuance of the affair, and the papers in discussing it intimated a curiosity to know what he was going to do about it. Broderick waited several days without making any allusion, and then remarked, while in conversation at a political meeting, that he came from Washington to California to conduct a political campaign, and until that was over would not permit himself to be drawn into any personal difficulty. At its close he was ready for any of them, or something to that effect. This was made public, but was ignored by Terry until three months later. On the day following the election ho sent his resignation to Governor Weller, and at the same time challenged Broderick. The latter accepted, and a meeting was arranged, but the authorities interfered and arrested Broderick. Arrangements were concluded a second time, when Terry was arrested. His friends did not hesitate to assert that the interference was at the instigation of Broderick's friends, who feared a meeting, I and both parties were so incensed that I a third attempt was made, with a fatal result.

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DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1882.

SPEECH OF GOY. PALMER Upon Accepting the Clialrmalisliip of the Illinois Democratic Convention. Gentlemen of the Convention: This is an unexpected result of my presence hero to-day—so unexpected, indeed, that I have had no time to prepare an extemporaneous speech, thanking you for the honor; for until a moment ago I had no intimation that 1 would lie selected for this place. You will, therefore, have the satisfaction of escaping an infliction on account of the suddenness of this announcemeiA There are, however, a few things, gentlemen, that I may be allowed to say to you in connection with my thanks for the honor you have conferred on me. At present, when the conduct of parties and expressions of public men are spread broadcast before the country daily by telegraph and fast railroad mails, we may be assumed to be sufficiently informed as to the opinions of parties; that is to say it is not necessary now in a Democratic (invention to elaborately discuss or present the principles of Democracy; and, indeed, fellow-citi-zens, the issues between the parties are becoming so narrowed down in the course of the great events this country has witnessed within the twenty-five years that the formal lines of division are exceedingly plain and simple. Senator Harrison, of Indiana, now one of the leaders of the Republican party, and who is as likely at the next election to hfl the Republican candidate for the Presidency as almost any other gentleman in the country, in a speech at Indianapolis, a few evenings ago. said that the great questions interesting the people now are not so much those relating to the principles of parties as their and those are matters- that are Well w< >rth the attention of any assemblage of the people of the State of Illinois and especially at a Democratic Convention, The gentleman who presided over your preliminary organization stated with great (Ustinctness and clearness what may be regarded as the fundamental doctrines of the Democratic party, and I will not trouble Voii with a further reference to them, but I hold it bCcdmes material what is k has Heeii ami what Will be the practice Os the Democratic party. For almost «1 quarter of a century —no, from 1872 until now—the Republican party has been in power, because the Republican party that existed before 1872 acconlplished its mission and passed irtto history, but the organization of thrtt party was seized by bandits that then took possession of the ship ami who would ndw Pciittle it if they were allowed to do sO. What are the practices of the Republican party? They are extravagance and violation of every sound principle of republican government, until the Republican party leaders are an organized band of robbers that plunder the grave. Is there anything in the history of a free country like the highway process now beirig pursued by Hubbell and Ills committee? Rtaml and deliver; your life or your money; addressed td every officer in the cmintry. men wbifien and children. Every one who serves the country is addressed hy this cteW as a highwayman addresses ilis victim. That is one of the practices of the Republican party that as Democrats we warn the country of again. We have a treasury overflowing with money taken from the pockets of the people, ami this last Congress has scattered this money profusely all over the country fol' the mere election of members of Congress. They have been extravagant everywhere. 1 haven’t time to point the instances. Tell me, tell me, tell nie what principles of republican government Or republican econdmv havd not been violated by this party within the last four dr five years. What principles have been preserved. ‘ Why, your President, the accidental President of the United States, Arthur. Our Heavenly Father sometimes visits us with serious calamities; He gave us Garfield over Hancock, which was bad enough, but He cursed us with Arthur in place of Garfield How long, 0, how long shall we suffer from the afflictive Visitations of Divine Providence in this Wav? This President, Chosen iff the lottery of assassination, as has Imeii very forcibly said, elected by one single Republican vote, enforced by one single Republican bullet, has taken a Government ship, and is now navigating the waters along the Atlantic coast, followed by a horde of snobs and sycophants. M hat a departure from republican simplicity. It is even said that he has invented a President’s flag. Heretofore we have had experience only of the stars and stripes floating over our heads, but now we have the flag of the “ruler of the Queen's navees.’* The flag of the President floats over the republican ship, we are told, and this is your republican simplicity. And the Secretary of ♦he Navy has another national ship navigat ing the seas and expending your money. All this is the result of Republican practices. It is said we have become a nation—a nation with a big N. Yes. my countrymen, the big Nis directed against you and t. The power of the Government is constantly invoked against well-meaning, public-spirited citizens. The American people at Yorktown salute the British flag, while the British Government is confining American citizens in its dungeons—while the big N is invoked against you and me for disloyalty to Arthur or his minions. lam told it is a nation with a big N, and after the bombardment of Alexandria an American ship circled about and cheered the victor. That is the sort of big Nit is, God knows nothing could be smaller than that, but it is invoked by these men against all that oppose them. Whatever you (io against them is disloyalty. No matter.if you wore the blue of your country and followed its flag in battle, the big N is invoked against you unless you vote their Republican ticket. The Republican party, in partnership with Mahone, of Virginia, furnishes money wrung from the fears and toil of men and women in the employ of the Government—money turned over to the Virginia thief that he may compel honest people to follow his commands. And lam told that Gen. Chalmers, of Fort Pillow notoriety, after being turned out of Congress, goes back home and gets down on his knees to J. Hubbell and his crew, and these worthies take him up into their embraces. My Democratic friends, do you know what is necessary to be saved by these men? Do like Chalmers —kiss the rod. Kiss the rod. vote the Republican ticket, and all your sins may be forgiven; and that isn't all,’for you, yourself, may sit in company with these miserable sinners. The great point then is. What shall be our practices? Gentlemen of the convention. I said before, platforms are of no great consequence, but we shall have a platform to-day that will declare Democratic principles, and let us have no faltering, no double-dealing, no two words tn express the same object. If we mean yes, the English language furnishes no letter word than yes; and if you mean no, the old Saxon no is worth all the phrases you can find. When you mean yes, say yes; when you mean no, say no; and let us go before the country upon the yes and no of this thing. Gentlemen of the convention, I thank you again for the honor of allowing me to preside over this convention. In these few observations I have intended, more than anything else, to indicate to you my belief that if the Democratic party will be true to itself and denounce these abuses in no doubtful terms, but in language plain to the people, che people will be right if they have an opportunity to lie right; but when Democratic leaders are found to l>e faltering and hesitating, and seeking compromising alliances, that the people should be bewildered ought to surprise nobody. God knows, I get Ecared myself when I see it Gentlemen, I await your pleasure. JAY HUBBELL’S ASSESSMENTS. How tlie Money Is Used—More Assessments to Be Maule Before Election. I Washington Telegram. 1 This is the way department clerks talk. “My salary,” said one, “is $1,600. Mv assessments thus far amount to $l3O on the $1,600. lam expected to go home to vote, which will cost about SSO. Further assessments may come. I have not yet got over the drain of the Presidential election of 1880. What lam to do I don't see, unless I resign. But I am bettei- off than many others, especially the new appointees, who have earned nothing, are in debt, and who are already hounded by Jay Hubbell's minions.” This is a plain and true story. There are thousands of others, some of them more harrowing. The tendency toward rebellion is decided. The Hubbell iuqui-

sition is managed by an Executive Com- ‘ mittee consisting of members of Congress, every one hi need of money to reelect himself. Hubbell is pouring out money in Michigan in his endeavors to i get himself into Ferry’s seat in the Sen- ; ate. Where does it come from? He is not a rich man. As needs of this description increase, the vigor in assessing ; Government employes increases. Then Mr. Henderson, the incapable Secretary whom Mr. Allison injected into the organization, is running for Congress. He wants money to put himself through. The clerks must pay. Every member of the Managing Committee is in a necessitous condition. | There are complaints from Maine that, notwithstanding the great sum Hubbell j has collect' <l, aud is still collecting, he gives that State very little. Similar i complaints come up from other quarters, and still the drag-net is drawn through the departments and wherever else an appointee to tax can be found. It is only the beginning. Hubbell’s campaign of itself will absorb a vast sum. Henderson’s is proving unexpectedly expensive. Allison needs more help than he supposed. The rest of them are none too well off. Another 2-per-cent. call on the departments is imminent and may be expected for a certainty. Beside Hubbell at large, there are State Hubbells imitating his practices by calling on the holders of places under the Government for money. Tliis is now iroiug on. How unmistakably does this tend to corruption in the Government! It is hot necessary to say that Government employes are more or less honest than tnankind in general to reach the conclusion that in many instances the money Hubbell squeezes out of them will ultimately come out of the Government. A tendency to demoraliza- I tion and stealing is superinduced by the j Hubbell practice. Nor will it be for a Single sedsdh. til the Treasury Department alone not less than 500 clerks and others, taxed to the point of desperation, are engaged in examining accounts and edaims under circumstances that afford opportunities for dishonesty. On j their action millions depend. Is it right i that they should be pushed so hard that j some of them may yield to temptation ? The will to get even is everywhere. Having yielded to temptation and got Oven with Hubbell, where will the crime cease ? The Horrified Party of Great Moral Ideas. Some part of Arabi Hubbell's campaign funds will be expended on a map of South Carolina, showing bow that portion Os the till ited States has been carved to make a “black district,” so called. Mr. Horr. of Misi ligan, flaunted such a map in the presence of the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, and again in the presence of the faithful constituents who have nominated him for re-election. Mr. Horr said ho was horrified in the Contemplation elf Shell iniqtiity. The “black district” of South Carolina wires in and wires out, and scoop-nets 155,760 African fellow-citizens, to whom the census adds 31,'536 fellow-citizens less colored. It would not be quite true to say that Mr. Horr, of Michigan, was horrified at the thought that no white man could stand any show of election in that black district. Mr. Horr’s horror did not spring from such a contemplation. He had voted to seat a flat-foot from the South Carolina penitentiary, us a member of the House, in the place of ft white man. The horror to which he gave expression arose from the fact that so many valuable blacks were to be squandered in one district, when they might have been spread over more territory and made more of. He was horrified, in fact, that any white man (unless it be Mackey, with a black wife) should have a show in South Carolina. Mr Horr’s horror is expressive of the feelings of a party of great moral ideas. Such a party has had the apportionment of Congressional districts in a number of States wherein white men predominate. Some of these white men had the misadventure to vote for Hancock. It is needful to guard the country from such as these. The party of great moral ideas, therefore, w here it had the power to do so, faithfully provided that the other fellows, whose ideas are presumably not great and moral, should have as few representatives in Congress as possible. Witness the deal: Moms Mm Co»- All other Con~ States. rotes. grass. rotes, grass. Michigan 185,000 . 11 166,000 None Massachusetts. 165,000 11 117, <»«> 1 lowa '. ist.ooo 11 i:w,<ioo None Kansas 121,000 7 80,000 None In those four States, where great moral ideas are uppemost, 506,000 white men are to be allowed one member of Congress, on the basis of political calculation. That one comes from the unfortunate Democratic city of Boston. To save the State, and to prevent the sending of two Democratic members from Boston districts, the great and general court of the commonwealth made a “white district.” in which there should be 6.000 Democratic majority, and carved the other portions of Boston into four outlying districts, in which the suburban vote should stifle the city. That is fair, as it goes with the party of great moral ideas. Mr. Horr, of Michigan, is not horrified at the contemplation of one white district in Massachusetts; it is the black district in South Carolina that tills him with horror. Let the party of great moral ideas look at the map and be horrified. — Chicago Times. The Use* of the Hiili'icll Fund. The following editorial from the Chicago Tribune will give an inkling of the uses to which Mr. Hubbell’s 2-per-cent. “voluntary” contributions are being put. As the Tribune is a good orthodox Republican sheet of the halfbreed persuasion, it ought to be a good Republican authority in this section : “Not long ago the details of a plan to purchase the votes of the Laborunion organizations in support of tlie Cameron ticket were made public, and now comes a still more extraordinary exposure of the Cameron methods in Pennsylvania. Over the signature of A. K. McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Times, appears a distinct and specific charge to the effect that a corrupt bargain has been entered into between Senator Cameron and Edward O'Meagher Condon for the delivery at j w holesale of the votes of the Irish Laud Leaguers of Pennsylvania for Gen. Bearer, the Cameron candidate for Governor. According to Mr. McClure's statement, which he stands

ready to make good in any court of law, the bargain stipulated, first, that Cameron was to secure through President Arthur the removal of James Russell Lowell as Minister tn England, as a means of exciting Irish gratitude and enthusiasm for the “machine!” second, that Edgar O’Meagher Condon was to receive an appointment fts ppfecial Agent of the Treasury, and was to be sent on an official tour among the Irishmen of Pennsylvania, clothed w ith Government authority and traveling at Government expense, and Condon was to receive in addition a large sum of money from Senator Cameron, presumably out of the “ voluntary-contribu-tion ” fund extorted by the Congressional Committee from Federal employes, in payment for his services in fienring tbs» delivery of the Land league voters to the Cameron machine. One part of the bargain has already been consummated; O’Meagher Condon w as appointed an agent of the Treasury Department, and has been assigned to a tour among the Land League headquarters in Pennsylvania. Mr. McClure asserts that he has in his possession letters and documents to establish the truth of every assertion he makes regarding this sickening scandal. If be lias libeled Senator Cameron, Assistant Secretary New (who is by implication shown to be a party to the transaction) and O'Meagher Condon, the Pennsylvania law of libel can promptly reach Mr. McClure and put him in jail. It will be interesting to see whether Mr. McClure is imprisoned as a libeler." They All Do It. The President appropriates the United States steamer Despatch to his personal use in traveling by sea. That vessel is at his beck and call like a private carriage on land. As in duty bound, she broke down to keep up the fair fame of our inagniffeeut navy. The Secretary of the Navy appropriates the United States steanlet Tallapoosa for his personal use on a pleasure excursion, which is ingeniously described as "inspection of navy yards.” He began by inspecting the voters of Norfolk, who are ordered to support Mahone, He inspected the voters at League Island and in Philadelphia, who are ordered to sustain Don Cameron in Pennsylvania and Secor Robeson in New Jersey. He inspected tile voters nt Brooklyn, who ate ordered to stand by the stalwart ticket. He will inspect the voters at Kittery in behalf of Blaine. And if there were a yard in Mississippi, the enterprising Secretary would run down there to inspect the Voters for Fort Pillow Chambers, with whom he has formed a political partnership. Mr. Folger appropriates to his personal tise tile revenue Ciitter Grant tor a trip from Jfew York to AVashingtoU; and his First Assistant appropriates her on the return voyage. These public vessels are treated by the President and the Cabinnt as personal cons eniences. A ship of war is ordered about as the chief of a bureau or a head clerk orders a carriage or a brougham fraudulently procured as a “wagon” for carrying the mail. This practice began under Grant and Secor Robeson. It was continued by Hayes and bv John Sherman, and we are sorry to see Arthur and i'olger tollowing in such footsteps. Nothing better was to be expected from William E. Chandler, w’ho organized the villainy by which the vote of Florida was stolen in 1876.— New York Sun. Dickens at His Best. The critics are still busy with Dickens. This, froth the London Spectator, is not without interest: Dickens, as we think, was at his best, when he was freely inventing humorous variations and caricatures of the effects w hich his quick and laughing eye had seized, variations and caricatures which were not in the least dramatic, bnt rather imaginative extensions of his wide and quaint experience. Directly he tried to tie himself down to tolling a story in dialogue, he became either poor, feeble and conventional, or disagreeably excited and melo-dramatic. It is said that as an actor he was marvelously “earnest,” which means, of course, that he threw his whole mind into the attitude of the moment. And that w e can well believe. But then he so often threw his whole mind into a thoroughly unreal and affected attitude that this is no evidence at all of dramatic capacity as an author. When, for instance, he makes Florence Dombey throughout a whole conversation insist on personally addressing the old mathematical-instru-ment maker as “Walter’s Uncle.” the reader is positively outraged by the intolerable sentimentality of this melodramatic “earnestness; and, no doubt, if Dickens could have acted a girl’s part, he would have insisted on this odious conceit with supreme “earnestness." Alexander the Great. Alexander, son of Philip, King of Macedon, was born at Pella, 356 B. C. His early education was intrusted to the philosopher Aristotle. When 16 he acted as regent, during the absence of his father, and two years later he fought at the battle of Chaeronea, that scaled the fate of Greece. At the age of twenty he mounted the throne, and immediately prepared himself for the conquest of Persia. Crossing the Hellespont, in 834, he met the Persians at Granicus, and there won his first victory over the Persian king, Darius. He then marched through Asia Minor, conquering as he went until lie reached Gordium, where, unable to loose the famous Gordian knot, which, it was said, only the conquerer of Asia could untie, he ent it with his sword, as a proof of his future success. In 333 he defeated Darius at Issus. He next beseiged Tyre for seven mouths, until that city was forced to surrender: then he entered Egypt, and was gladly received by the people as their deliverer from the Persian yoke. While there he founded the great city of Alexandria as a monument to his own power. Soon after his return to Asia Miuor occurred the battle of Arbela (B. C. 331), which ended in the final defeat of Darius and the subjection of all Asia Minor to the rule of Alexander. It also opened the gates of Babylon and Susa, but having robbed them of their gold Alexander passed on toward India. During this campaign he married Roxana, a daughter of one of the conquered chiefs of Punjali. His plan to invade India failed through the insuliordinatiou of his troops, and he returned to Babylon, which lie designed to make the capital of his Asiatic empire, but while planning improvements for the city, be was attacked with a fever which proved fatal, and he died B. C. 323, in the 13th year of hjs reign and the 83d year of bis life.

TO THE POOH-HOUSE. A Good Word For A Much-Abused (From Peck’s Sun.] Almost every day we see something in a paper about a county poor-ltouae, or some one has died there, or another has committed suicide rather than go to a poor-house, and it has occured to us that we make a mistake, aud are cruel in calling the place where the aged and destitute are sent, tn be eared for, a “Poor-House.” There is something in the name of “Poor-House,” that grates harshly on the ears of those who never expect to go there, and much more harshly on the ears and hearts of people who are compelled to I go there. Why is it not just as well to j call the poor-house a “Home,” and make it attractive, so people will not 1 feel that they are going to exile and to death, when they are compelled to go there. There is no tax that is more cheerfully paid by men who have hearts in them, than the tax that goes to support the poor, and there is no sense in treating them like cattle, as is done in many places, and the placing of men with brutal instincts in charge of poorhouses is a groat wrong. Every city and country that is populated by people w ith hearts, should Intve a comfortable “Home” for those who become destitute, where they go and live as happy as possible, and die in peace, when they hifUe to die. If such a “Home” conhi take the place of every poor-housy, and charitable people would occasionally visit the home and see that it is made pleasant, and talk to the unfortunate inmates, and cheer them, and take drives, with their families to the home, and make the poor creatures feel that they were not forgotten by the world, much more happiness would be known, both by the unfortunate people and the people who do the visiting. As it is now in most places, the poor-house is spoken of as we would speak of a jail or pest-house, and many persons who ought to have many years of happy life in store for them, though destitute of means, will commit suicide before they apply for admission. They are despised as “paupers”—which is another cruel word —ynd they feel as though they liiiil note, friend on God’sgreatbigearth, especially if the man who runs the poorhouse is a brute, who depends on his salary and what he can steal to keep him out of the poor-house. We presume if half the business men of the country would give the matter a thought, and knew how the poor in many poor-houses were treated, and kow heavy their hearts are, and how hopeless they look at the future, they would feel like taking a shot-gun and blow ing the alleaged heart out of the keepers, and take the management of the pooi‘=hnuses into their own hands. It is not a crime to be without a dollar, and those who are so circumstanced, from no fault of theirs, should be looked upon rather as the guests of those who are well to do, than as criminals. We would not advocate the making of poor-house summer resorts, for people to go to who were too lazy to work, or a eamp-meeting for “cranks,” but the honest man or honest woman, who is destitute, should hate a home where they can live and die in decent style, honored and respected, and those who are above want should pay the expense, and they would do so cheerfully. Make a “Home” for them, appoint a superintendent who would call an old person “Uncle” or “Auntie,” and who would speak pleasantly to them, and whip any understrapper who would speak or act otherwise, and make it a religious duty for citizens to visit the “Home” and strew smiles and flowers in the pathway towards the tomb of the destitute people, and give everything to them freely, instead of throwing things to them as yon would throw a bone to a dog, hoping it will kill him. and everybody will be happier, and it w ill not cost' much more money. And then we shall not any of us be ashamed when we get to heaven and see some of those poor-house inmates occupying good seats at the right hand of the Great Ruler, who has said—well, we have forgot what He said, but it was something about being kind to the poor anyway. Overworked Farmers. We once heard a good farmer say that when he got behind with his work so that it seemed as if he could not catch up again, he made it a practice to leave everything for a couple of days and take a recreation. When he returned again, he said, work seemed less perplexing, and it progressed seemingly much faster than before. The plan would perhaps seem ridiculous to taMiy, and certain to occasion loss if not entire failure, yet from experience we are inclined to credit the plan with favor. AVlint is true of farmers in respect to overwork is also true of persons in other fields of labor. Nearly all of us remember with what renewed energy and strength we began our work on Monday morning after our Sabbath’s rest, which proves the value of needed recreation. We would advise farmers who can possibly do so to devote a day or two to recreation of some sort before beginning the heavy work of spring, summer and fall. Take a jaunt to some relative’s or friend’s in another locality, or make a short tour of observation to some large city, or some thriving farming district and thereby learn some valuable lessons and experiences.—£l- - Free Press. The Dignified Harney. The following story is told of General Harney when he was in command at Camp Verde, Tex. He was an intensely dignified officer, and if there was one thing he detested more than another, it was undignified haste. One evening, just as he was about to hold dress parade, he perceived that he had forgotten his handkerchief, and as the weather was very hot, he said to his orderly: “Goto my quarters, quick, and bring me my handkerchief. ’ The orderly touehei! his cap and started for the quarters, several hundred yards distant. After he had proceeded a short distance, remembering that there was no tune to lose, he broke into a trot. “See that scoundrel running ns if the Indians were after him. If there is anvthing I hate to see it is to see a soldier running instead of marching properlv. Here, my man” Continued Harney to another soldier, “go after that man and tell him I say to walk.” The second soldier started after the first, but as the first one kept on running. the second one saw his only chance to deliver the message was to hurry up, so lie, too, broke into n run.

To say that Harney swore is to use a mild expression. “Here, Sergeant, go after that man and tell him if he don’t stop running I’ll hang him up by the thumbs.” The Sergeant started out in a brisk walk, but as his predecessor had a good start he, to, began to run as hard as he could. “If all three of the scoundrels ain’t running like jack rab bits,” ejaculated Harney. “I’ll show ’em. And tucking his sword under, his arm he started in pursuit as fast Us he could run ; but suddenly remqaibering his dignity he came to a halt, and walked stiffly and slowlv/back to the place where the parade was to come off. Bishop Clark on Incorrect English. Though the schoolmaster holds his receptions m idmost every nook and corner of the land, there is a great deal of incorrectAhlking even among educated people. Bishop Clark gives a few apecimenXof these popular errors of speech iii/the form of a dialogue between a Careless talker and his critical friend : “Good afternoon, John,how long have you been ‘setting’here?” “I have been ‘sitting’ here for about an hour watching to see these men ‘set’ the stones in my wall.” “It ‘kind of ’ seems to me that the the work is done rather ‘illy.’ ” “Perhaps it is not done quite as ‘welly’ as it might be.” ' “I ‘kind of’ think that word ‘welly’ sounds odd.” “It is as good a word as ‘illy.’ But why do you say: ‘lt kind of seems," and ‘I kind of think,’ when you might just as well sav: ‘lt seems’ and ‘I think’?” “I’ve got ‘sort of’ used to talking in that way.” “It is a very poor sort of way.” “I never had nobodv to ‘learn’ me any better.” “Yon mean that you have had nobody to teach you.” “I am getting tired, and think I will ‘lay’ down on the grass for a ‘spell.’ ” “You can lie down, but it would lie well for you to lay your cloak on the ground for you to lie on.” “ ‘Be’ you going to ‘stop’ here for long?” “I stopped here when I arrived, but shall not ‘stay’ long, Are you going home soon ?” “I be.” “Why not say‘l am?’ Be you’ and ‘I be’ are very raw and disagreeable phrases.” “All right; O K; but the master always says to the scholars: ‘Be you ready to write?' ‘Him’ and ‘me’ met at the deacon’s last night.” “What did ‘him’ and ‘you’ do after you got there?” “We looked at ‘them’ things he lias just brought from New York.” “Were them’ things worth looking at?” “ ‘Tolerable.’ By the way, the deacon must have ‘quite’ a fortune.” “What sort of a fortune? Quite large or quite small ?” “Quite large, of course.” “Why did you not say so?” “My next neighbor has just put up a fence on either side of his front yard.” "I suppose you wish to say that he has put up a fence on both sides.” “Between you and I ” "Please change that to ‘Between yon and me.’ You would not say: There is no great difference of opinion ‘between you and he.’ ” “I usually say: 'Him and me agree pretty well.’ ” “Then you speak very bad English, and you probably say ‘lt is me,' instead of ‘lt is I.’ ” “Os course I do, and so does ‘most’ of the people I know. My boy is just going to school, and as he is a ‘new’ beginner I suppose he will appear to be rather green.” “Did you ever hear of any beginner who was not new ?” “I wish to simply state —” “That is, you wish to state " “That our ‘mutual’ friend ” “Please say our common friend. You would not call him a ‘reciprocal’ friend. “ Why do you interrupt me so often ?” “Because vou make so many blunders.” t'nrlyle’s Married Life. Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh did a great life-work together, after all. That she was unhappy is clear; that he was not happy, as commonplace people use the word, is equally certain. Theirs was a joint life in which labor took the precedence of love, and a record of achievement, great, solid and marvelous achievement, stands where one of affection might have stood, ami t ie literary harvest of the century is immensely the richer for this mutual martvrdom. Let it lie remembered, to his honor at least, that he recognized, though not while she lived, the vastness of the debt he owed her and toilers: that, unrequited and unacknowledged, she, nevertheless, was his faithful helpmeet to the last. In the homage that aftertime will pay to Carlyle, the woman who lost her identity in his will not fail to be accorded her full share. She will stand out always as the incarnation of Oliver Wendell Holmes’ portrait of the trm wife: “Oftentimes,” says Dr. Holmes, “I have seen a tall ship glide by against the tide as if drawn by an invisible tow-line with a hundred' strong arms pulling it. Her sails unfurled, her streamers drooping, she had neither side-wheel nor sternwheel ; still she moved on stately in serene triumph, as with her own life. But | I knew that on the other side of the ship, hidden beneath the great bulk ' that swam so majestically, there was a little toilsome steam tug, with a heart of fire and arms of iron, that was tugging it bravely on; and I knew that if the little steam tug untw ined her arms and left the ship, it would wallow and | roll away, and drift hither and thither ' and go off with the effluent tide, no I man knows where. And so I have known j more than one genius high-decked, full-freighted, wide-sailed, gay-penoned, | who, but for the bare toiling arm. and ' brave, warm-beating heart of the faith-1 ful little wife, that nestled close to him j so that no wind or wave could pari them, would have gone down with the I stream and been heard of no more.”— I Boston Traveller. “The first intimation we had of it was i finding stores secreted aliout the house,” <o stinueil Mr. Sanderson. “He plugs up the rat boles with lemons, and I’d find salt stored away in my clean seeks. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when I found the piano full of cheese, and tried toplay the “Maiden’s Prayer’ through a bushel of limbergcr and hard tack, I remonstrated with

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INDIANA ITEMS. South Beno, has been placed upon the list of froe-delivery postoffiees. The Scott county treasury safe was blown open by burglars and about .?•>.- 000 taken. Robert McConnell was crushed to death by a falling mass of coal at Toronto, Ohio. John Swooncy, a Swede, was run over and killed in the, yard of the Wabash Railroad at Lafayette. Father Someb, of St. Mary's Church Michigan City, has resigned as assistant priest, and will remove to Fort M ay ne. The Hatfield House, the principal hotel in Owensburg, was destroyed by fire. Loss about $3,000; insurad for $1,700. The postoffice at Huntington, was robbed of 35.000 postage stamps and several hundred dollars. I otal loss $2,000, No clue. An old man named Isaac Houge, w ho was struck by a train on the Indianapolis and St. Lonis Road, at Oakalla, died of his injuries. James R. Lee, of Putnam conntv, was arrested on a charge of criminal practice on Matilda Cooper He was held in SI,OOO bail. It is thought the woman will die. A FIRE at Bower Station destroyed the stores of Griffin & Seifert. The stocks are a total loss; insured for $5,000 in the Phrenix; the building was destroyed; uninsured. Wright Clapp, an old resident of South Bend, and a contractor and builder, but for the past three years a terrible sufferer with rheumatism, committed suicide by hanging while suffering with a rheumatic attack. John Brown, Jr., found the skeleton of his brother Watson in the rooms of the Knights of Pythias at Martinville, identifying it by a bullet hole in the backlione, and w ill inter it in the family cemetery at North Elba, New Y’ork. The Indiana State Holineee Association will hold its second annual eampmeeting on the fair grounds, near Hartford City, beginning on Thursday, September 21, and continuing two weeks, or more, as the interest of the meeting demands. Riley Clevenger committed a rape on a colorist girl, 14 years old, named Margie Jones, at Kokomo, Ind. He enticed her into the woods near the fair grounds and tried to get her to drink whisky, which she refused. Clevenger made his escape. Miss Clara Eckstein, of Peru, who has been for years a sufferer from spinal complaint, was recently severely scorched and shocked by the lightning, which struck the house during a storm. She has now entirely recovered from her spinal difficulty, owing to the effects of the electric fluid. The Shively block, Indianapolis, a large four-story brick budding, was badly damaged by the second floor giving away. On the ground floor is a grocery, owned by George Hammel, and occupying two rooms. For the purpose of connecting these, archways were cut through, several weeks ago, and the weakening of the wall thus produced the accident. Tire block is owned by Mrs' W. H. Morrison and is damaged, probably to the amount of SIO,OOO. Hammel's loss is $2,000. A masked mob from the country gathered nt Washington with the intention of lynching John Hunter, who murdered William Lentz. The Sheriff had quietly garrisoned the jail with thirty armed men. The vigilantes displaced the ropes of the fire and police bells, tired volleys to frighten citizens, and sent fifty men over the jail fence. Three attempts to force the doors were unavailing, and the appeals of the Sheriff and Prosecuting Attorney caused the mob to disperse. Hunter lay crouched in his cell all day. The contract for the building of the shops of the Chicago & Atlantic Railroadin Huntington has been let and a large force of men are now at work. The road is to be completed by Dec. 1 if possible. The work at that point has been greatly delayed by frequent and heavy rains which have caused much damage on the deep cuts, but it is thought that this part of the work will lie finished shortly. There are now three steam shovels at work along the line in the gravel pits for ballasting, and two more are to be added. At the animal election of Directors of the Chicago and Atlantic Road, held at Huntington, the following Directors were chosen : E. E. M illis, Samuel b. Smith. O. Child, of New York: Thomas Espy, T. T. Hunt, of Kenton, Ohio; S. S. Terry, of Rochester. Ind., and J. M . Purviance and George J. Bippus, of that city. The board met and selected the following officers; S. B. Smith, President; T. P. Milligan. Secretary ; O. W. Child, Assistant Secretary: E. E. Willis, Treasurer; George J. Pippins. Assistant Treasurer, and Smith, Willis, Child, and Espy Executive Committee. The long and vexatious lawsuits that have been in progress for the past five years tietween the Bedford & Bloomfield Railroad Company and a number of taxpayers at Bedford who have heretofore refused to pay their portions of the tax voted by this township in aid of the road were amicably compromised. The taxpayers agree to dismiss all suits at their own -ost, and pay the amount of their tuxes, with 5 per cent, penalty added, the company not charging interest on the amounts. These suits have been the cause of much bad blood and estrangement among some of the best citizens, and there is great rejoicing over the compromise. The railroad company also paid Samuel Gardner $750 as a compromise. Gardner's son was killed in a bridge accident near Bloomfield about one year ago, and he ; had sued the company for damages in the sum of SIO,OOO. The sending of medical women from England to India is likely to be an established custom. The Indian women are averse to treatment by physicians | not of their own sex. The statistics of j the British medical service iu hidia show that women have rarely availed themselves of prescriptions or attendj ance. A staff of trained women vypro--1 posed as a part of the public service in I India, a department co-ordinate and not i subordinate to the existing medical 1 bureau.