Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

U W,«l Ni»u«,C»lilw. ft. Srvi>K»«tia,VH» t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK. DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for ths trsnssction of » genersl hanking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and CountF Order*. 25jy79tf ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUB, INDIANA. VVill practice in Ad mis and adjoining coHoiies. Especial attention given to coliecrions and lit let to real p*ta(r. Are No Uries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought. .iold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2,1. C 0. F. building. 25jy79tf “FRANCE & KING. ATTOTLVEFS AT LAW, t>KCA TUR. INDIANA. E. N. WICKS? - ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECSTUn, INDIANA. AH legal business promptly attended to Office up stairs in Stour s building dikdoor. »25n24 year 1. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. . Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, ®o o t £1 cles, Repairing done at lowest prices to guar anlee good and sound work Daughters, Wives, Mothers,. " N Dr. J. 8. MARCR9SI, UTICA. N. Y. M9COVBRBU or DR MARCHISPS UTERINE < ’ATIIOLICON A POSITIVE CURE FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS. Thi»* Remedy will ec In harmony with the Female system at ail time* ano nl«K* immt (Palely wpon the abdominal and uterine muscles and . restore the n to a healthy and strong condition. Dr. Marchit*i’« Uterine < athollcon will cure i falling of the Womh, L - accorrhcea, Chronic In- ' flamma ion and Ulceration of the womb, Inciden tai Hemorrhage or Flnodin-'. Painful. Snppre«*ed { au i Irregn*«r Meimtrnit’on Kidi ey Comp'a’nt. and t- e*pec ally adapted to P-r Change <»f Life. Send for pamphlet, tree. AH letter- of iiauiry Pfflr answered Addr< «•« a* a mv«* FOR WALK R« /ILL DRUGGISTS. Ft'se gt 5 ' per h jttlr. Be ante ;md a-k for hr. Mn list's Uterine Catholicnn Take no «»th« r. F - G % I& * V I I 1 I \\ ’IU HANDMADE. Jr // \K 4COPP£R_DiSTILLEDX H CORN r-J WLrackeK// X\ HAND MADE. // Both ofthese famous brands of Whiskey arc kept in stock for sale at THE “OCCIDENTAL.” J. H.

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rite Democrat, I•. ” ■ ' Official Paper ot the County — ■«, A. J. 1111.1,, F.dltor and Busiisraa Maaaaer. TERMS : OISE Pflt.l.Alt AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER | YEAR IF NOTPAID IN ADVANCE. HALLOWAY, M. p., 1 PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUB, INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co. think 2nd door. Wil altrud to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Resi deuce en north aide of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart s Mill. 25jy79tf ~Xv7h7myers7’ trick k Stone Mason t on tracer j DECATUB,INDIANA. i Joiieila work of all kiudawn bis line. Persons coniemplntit g building might make a point by consulting hitn. Estimates on applicslion, r25n45m8. K N WICKS, J. T. MKaBYMAN. ; ,Itlor>iey<e al Law AN‘l> Real Estate .1 gents. Deeds, Mortgsgrs Huntrncts and all Le- | gal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. I’aKuion. settlement of decedent's estates, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs in Stone s building—4th door. , sol 25, no 24, yl ~DR? KifCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of ••ch month to treat all t hronic Diseases. Consultation free Call and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqna. Ohio. will receive prompt attention. Write to him and make a statement of your case.—v2'>n36ly. £s9*?! 9 s of graves Ililfllßr ff fl ire annually robbed B V their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the groat GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures I 111 potency (caused by excesses of any kina.) Seminal Weakuegg and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse. tn loss of ett‘ »gy. Uss of memory, universal iassiiude, pain >u the b«ck, d mness of vision. prt iu> ure old age, and many other diseases That lead to insanity or consumption ami a premature grave. Send for circulars wi h testlmonals free by mail The Ini i&oratOf’ is sold at fl per iio.x,. or ax boxes for by all druggists, or, will U« sent frea by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J CIIEAEY, Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce & Co., Sole Agents at Desatur Ilsm7 Cleanest and | onucal Hairß R sm Kesters | . color to grey fc nd 4’ l sues at L i Cologne. | nl.iig perfume. B S ‘ I NIC Intoxicates. | •orn out with E. n.ly or house- F less man ex- E Cares do not ■ se Packer’s l IkJINUFK lUA4-. E If you have Dvspepsti. Rhemnatisin, Kidney or | Urinary Compl.unis, or if you are trot thia t with a»y E dtyonicr oAhc lungs ftotnacu ioweis. bkx>d <»r nerves . you can be cu?eu i y Parker's Ginger 1 OKtc. h It roti are wasting away front age, dissipation or f any disease or weakness and requite Astnnuiant ta»ce f. GINGE-K Toktd artnee: rtikil! luv'jdra-.e and bm.d t eu ttpfrrtm t:»e hist dosi Lm will niver intoxicate. • It has saved hunurc»;» of lives it way save yours. ► HisCOX A CO.. I<l Wtiliata St.. New York. 50c. sad | one «i»ilar »ixe», at ail neai«r* m incnrme,. 4 GREAT SAVING DOLLAR SIZE.

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WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. THE EAST. Charles E. Upton, President of the City Bank of Rochester, has wrecked that institution by speculations in petroleum. Id which he is believed to have sunk <350 U)Q. He has surrendered property valued at $.50,1 000. The bank held the funds of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, and large deposits bv the county and the savings banka ... .A draft purchased at Cincinnati on the Manhattan Hank, of New York, for 917.03 was presented bv the owner to the Manufacturers’ and Traders’ Bank, at Buffalo, calling for 95,679.48. The bank paid the money and officers are now inquiring as to the whereabouts of the expert forger.... Goldsmith's Hall. Library street, Philadelphia, was burned. Loss, >100,000; insurance, 950,000. Eastern manufacturers of all descriptions of iron, at a meeting at Philadelphia, while not approving the changes proposed by the Tariff Commission, expressed the belief that She reductions would not paralyze the industries affected. Alexander Jefferson, a jealous negro, fired a double-barreled shot-gnin through a window in Brooklyn, killed one man, seriously wounded another and then entered the house and cut a woman’s throat from ear to ear, and badly gashed his inamorata across the breast... .A fire in Bus falo gutted the Commercial Advertiser build ing and burned two floors of the Masonic Temple, the loss being estimated at 93,<W.000... .The block owned bv the United States Insurance Company at Oswego. N. Y., and the Union Hotel were burned, involving a loss of 985,000. Charles E. Upton, the President of the wrecked Rochester bank, was arrested charged with embezzling and was released on 9*30,000 bail The affidavit upon which the v arrant was issued by a Police Justice was signed by five directors of the bank, Thomas Leighton, Rufus A. Sibley, George B. Smith. L P. Ross and A. T. Soule. ... .Capt AC. Nutt, State Cashier of Pennsylvania, was shot dead at Union town by N. Lyman Dukes, a member-elect of the Legislature. The affray took place in the ro« »m of the latter at a hotel, and it is believed to have been caused by a domestic wrong suffered by the deceased. Dukes walked to the police statiod and surrendered. He is a graduate of Princeton College, and had borne an excellent character. .. .James Smyth A Co., manufacturers of yarns and cotton goods, Philadelphia, have failed for about s.VK>,ooo, the assets consist ing principally of stock, machinery and the reai estate belonging to the firm. THE WEST. Ida Sloan died of delirium tremens in the Home for Fallen Women at Des Moines. She is the woman who escaped the gallows in Chicago after killing a female room-mate and hiding the corpse in a closet ... .Representatives of the brewing interest in Chicago, Milwaukee, St Louis and other Western cities met in Chicago and decided upon advancing the price of lager beer 91 per barrel The brewers allege that the price of the various ingredients used in the manufacture of beer has advanced to an extent which justifies this action. A brewers’ association, including the entire trade west of Rochester, N. Y., was formed at the meeting... .By the burning of a farm house in Linn county, Kansas, three children lost their lives. Louis Stroy, a powerful young butcher of Indianapolis, was assaulted on the street with brass knuckles and almost instantly blinded. He got the robber’s fin ger in his teeth, but released it on promise of being let alone. Then he was pounded until be became unconscious, and waa stripped of >74 in cash and some rings which he had purchased for Christmas presents.... F. N. Briggs, chief clerk of the Denver postoffice, and nephew of the Postmaster, has been arrested for rifling registered letters. .Rear Admiral James F. Schenck died at Dayton, Ohio, aged 75 years... .Flames swept away the building at 571 Washington avenue, St Louis, occupied by W. H. Hagerty & Sons, auctioneers. Loss, $150,000. The Michigan Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroads have declared a quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, payable Feb. 1. Theresa Sturla, of Chicago, who killed Charles Stiles, was arraigned before Judge Gardner and sentenced to one year in the Joliet penitentiary. She replied that Fhe needed eleven months to cure her disease; that two jurors favored her execution, one of whom had kept a brothel and the other was put on the jury to convict her. ....A pitiful story of death and heroism comes from Brookings, Dakota. While Mrs. Barker was absent from her house, engaged in doing some work at the bam, her three little children were left alona It is presumed they were playing with the fire, for upon the mother’s return two of them were burned to death, and the clothing of a third, an infant 6 months old. was on fire. , The heroic mother's efforts to nave the little one nearly cost her life, as the baby died of its injuries, and the mother was so badly burned that her life is despaired of. THE SOUTH, A suit for divorce has been entered at Richmond, Ya, by Mrs. Henrietta Pigeon, who was married in London in 1864. This was the former name of Mrs. Labouchere, R-nd. as she recently spent two days in Richmond, it is believed that the action was brought in her behalf by her next friend.... A hail-storm at Huntsville. Ala. blew down a milling-house, killing a white man and four negro women who had sought shelter. Seven men attempted to rob a Texas and Pacific train at a water-tank 150 miles this side of El Paso, but a squad of State rangers on board opened lire and drove the robbers to the bush. I. I. Jones was hanged for murder at. Louisville, Miss. Before his execution he asked the use of his liberty’ and two good pistols for about an hour, and then he would cheerfully meet death. Will Smith, a lad of Covington, Ga., while Intoxicated, killed two white men and a negro who attempted to arrest him... .8. H Sanders, a resident of Arkansas, was arrested in Dallas on suspicion of being a trainrobber. Concealed about his person were found eight pistols, two pairs of brassknuckles and a large bowie-knife.... Near Millsboro Station, Va., a freight and passenger train on the Chesapeake and Ohio road came in collision, killing five persons and wounding two others. The victims were all railway employes. WASHINGTON. The bill introduced in Congress to permit the construction of a wagofi bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs is supported by the merchants of the latter city. dux a hard fight is being made by the Union pacific, which has a monopoly of car ferriage. Tha titlmatad ocit of the work is 92.000,(w0, which can be readily obtained.

The department estimates for the ap- j propriation bills in course of preparation by > the House of Representatives are in amount i as follow s: For jiensions, 9101,575,000; fortifications, $1,000,000; navy. $23,481,078;legisla- j tivq, executive and judicial expenses, 921,-840,170;-sundry civil expenditures, 934,181,376; District of Columbia, 9775,149. GENERAL. At a cdhference of iron | era held in Pittsburgh, reports were presented showing a fair outlook for trade. An agreement was reached in regard to the price of bar-ifott, which fothis the basis on which wages are reckoned. No change is proposed to be made, but it is believed that In some production will be limited. The manufacturers, while not fully satisfied with the findings of the Tariff Commission in regard to scrap, pig and heavy bar iron, yet indorse the report as a wh01e.... The Copeland Hotel at Pembroke, Ont., was burned, two boy servants and a guest perishing in the flames. Many of the guests had narrow escapes with their lives... .Trenor W. Park, a native of Vermont, well known throughout the United States as a brilliant financier, died on a steamship bound for Aspinwall He was President of the Aspinwall Railroad Company ... .Forty brigands invaded the town of Ahuac'atlan. Mexico, and bound and carried Bway the Mayor. Justice and Aidermen, whom they will hold until ransomed. The business failures in the United States for the week ending Dec. 22 numbered 23C. an increase of six over the week ended Dec. 15, and ninety-one more than in the toolresponding period in 1881. Prof. Frisby, of the Naval Observatory at Washington, has completed a calculation of the orbit of the great comet of 1882, and finds the orbit bfbe a verv lengthened ellipse, having a period of about 793 years, and probably identical with a very large comet seen 37! B. C. and 363 A D., just about the time of the death of Constantine. Its perihelion distance is only about 700.000 miles from the center of the bud. and it extends outward at its aphelion to about ninety times the sun’s distance from the eorth Time of revolution, 798,689 years, so that it is not likely to be seen, after it f lasses from sight, by any one now living.... t is alleged that the Junta of Guatemala, the committee which at present adminusters the affairs of that country, desires the admission of their land as a State of the American Union. The statement is also made that the Foreign Affairs Committee of Congress have knowledge of this fact, and that arrios’ recent visit to this country’ was for the purpose of helping the scheme along. ... .During the five months ended Nov. 30 244,611 immigrants landed in the United States. POLITICAL. Joseph E. Acklen, who claims the seat in Congress for the Third district of Louisiana, has gone to Washington for re- | venge. He states that William Pitt Kellogg levieds3o,ooo on Federal officers in Louisiana, obtained large sums from the railway companies and distributed bags of money among plantation hands, through the medium of Lewis Boner, Appraiser of the port of New Orleans, and George Drury, of the mint ... .Gen. Curtis, of New York, paid the 91,000 imposed for collecting political assessments and was discharged from custody. FOREIGN. Davitt, in a speech at Stalybridge, declared that the outrages in Ireland must be suppressed... .Michael Flynn, the last the three men arraigned for the murder ™ the two llutldv< at Lough Mask, w;:is convicted and sentenced to be banged Jan. 17. After Flynn received his sentence he said to the Judge: “Thank you, sir, lam as willing to go there,” looking upward, “as to go home. I wish you all good-day. ”.... Bontoux, President, and Feder, manager, of the collapsed Union Generale Bank, of Paris, have been sentenced to five years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of 3,(i00 francs, respectively... .Forty voung Irish faimers have been arrested in connection with a proclaimed meeting at Ballymena, Antrim. Bail was refused... .Ex-Empress Eugenie has written to M Rouher to convey to the city of Marseilles the park and castle decreed to her by the court.... Oberdank, who was arrested* for conspiring to take the life of the Emperor of Austria, was executed at Trieste... .Eighteen dear ha resulted from an explosion in a cartridge factory’ at Paris... .Joseph Reichardt, a leather merchant of Vienna, has failed for 92,u00,u0u. The Berlin National Gazette states that movements are being considered for the stationing of larger garrisons on the Eastern frontier and the laying of an extra ' track on some of the railways... .A passen- ; ger train on an Italian railway was stopped and robbed near Naples by an armed band, for whose apprehension the Government offers a liberal reward... .The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs thinks the removal of the bodies of De Long and his men impracticable at this season of the year. The famous Bernays murder trial in Belgium has resulted in the conviction of the brothers John and Armand Peltzer and their sentence to death... .A Dublin dispatch says the signs of distress among the small | farmers and laborers are becoming more vis- . ible in some districts, and the Government is being pressed to establish relief works.... I Popular demonstrations have been made I in many Italian cities over the execu- I tion of Overdank at Trieste, particularly at Rome, where the deceased had been a student in the School of Engineers. ....A Leipsic dispatch says that of the twelve students who died here last session at the University, one was Kiuea in a duel and six committed suicide. Davitt, in a speech at Bermondsey, England, said emigration was no cure for the discontent in Ireland. A system of public works, he said, would be far more creditable to English statesmen than forcing thousands into the workhouses, and then forcing them to quit the country’. But. if during the winter and spring 50,000 families quit Ireland, they would go to swell the ranks of the New Ireland, which was growing beyond the Atlantic, where they would be trained in republican ideas. From his knowledge of New Ireland in America he could tell Lord Derby that English statesmen before long would have to take into account the Irh h element in America in the settlement of the Irish question... Pope Leo XIII at a reception of the Cardinals at Rome said the j apacy Mas recognized as a great moral force and that the powers were reknitting their relations with it.... The Government has determined to prosecute O’Brien, editor of the Vnited Ireland, Dublin, for seditious libel uttered in an article entitled “Accusing Spirits.”.... The J/m A- iMite Express says it is now beyond doubt that the acreage of wheat in 1883, in Great Britain, will be extremely limited.... The arrest of a German editor at Vienna, who had fled thither to avoid being imprisoned for libeling Bismarck, has caused a great commotion among journalists at Berlin... .There was rioting at limerick < iriM night between civilians and the soldiery, in which the latter were rougldy handled. The Empress Eugenie is reported to lw? very wealthy. Her property really consists of three houses in the Rue de I'Elysee, valued at $120,000 but mort- | gaged for $l(M).000: two houses in the Rue d’Alba, valued at S’KO,O(M), but mortgaged to the Credit Foncier for sl6<>,ooo; the estate of Les Jucheres; I the Solferino estate, valued at $300,000, l»ut on which there is a charge of $200,0<X): a small estate at Arnes in the r v renees, valued .11^8,000; the Palais de j PElysee, at Biarritz*, valued at $200,000; a small mansion in the Rue Courcelles; aclnletat Vichy; the palace at Versailles, valued at $315,000; a life annuity oi sls 000; and the estate she lately bought from Mr. Longman. Absent-mindedness has been considered the mark of a great man, but a fel--1 w never feels very big about it when he lugs a napkin away "from the table in hia handkerchief pocket.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The State House Matter. Cincinnati Commercinl: I'lio next Legislature han a lively time in prospect over the question of the new State House, il'lie contractors, Messrs. Howard and Denig, .although they have not yet formally or informally notified the Commissioners whether they will continue work next sesson, have submitted te an Jnteirview, in which they declare their intention of asking the Legislature to indemnify them against the loss they have sustained, and in case of refusal talk of throwing up the contract. They estimate they have lost $200,000 upon the work as far as it has gone, and cannot see their way out of the job witlloht a further loss of $75,000. They declare that the State cannot compel them to complete the contract, and insist that there have been changes enough made from the original plan to make their bond of no value. The Commissioners, however, will be able to prove that the changes made have not been to the disftdvantage of the contractors, and that for every alteration they have in writing the consent of the contractors and their bondsmen, with an agreement that such change shall not vitiate the bond. Another ground of complaint of the contractors is that they have been held too strictly to the conditions of their contract, and this is the cause of their loss. The real fact is, however, that they have no one to thank or to blame but themselves, and they are deserving of little sympathy, although, perhaps, it may be good policy for the State to partially accede to their demands. Their loss is really the result of miscalculation and of making too low a bid. They did not ; take into consideration, as the compet- 1 ing bidders did. that there might be a rise in the price of material and in wages. Heuce they find themselves out of pocket $209,000, with a little less than half of their contract work performed. There is likely to be a wide difference i of opinion in the Legislature as to [ what should be done. The contractors have indited the fol- I lowing communication to the Board of State House Commissioners: Gentlemen: —In reply to your communi- t cation of the 24th ult", we would say that ( during the working season just closed we have completed the first story of the dome, . and all of the first story walls that remained | unfinished at the close'of the year previous; [ have completed the second story walls, and have carried up the greater portion of } the outside walls to the top of the window j sills of the third story. We have been en- | abled to do this only by reason ot our large equipment and by using the electric light to enable us to run much of our machinery day and night. As to the quality of the materials furnished and labor done, we confidently assert that it is unequaled in excellence by any similar work in any public building in the country. Our plant, consisting of stone saw-nnll, stone planers, traveling engines, derricks, steam powers and brick elcvatoi s, lias proved itself adequate to the handling, working and setting of this large amount of materia, with a degree of rapidity and economy rarely attained. ' The heavy outlay f< r the purchase of much of this machinery was made in the hope that the greater economy effected by its use would enable us to do the work inside of our contract prioe: but, the great advantages gained by this machinery. instead of regaining a part of oui previous losses, as we had hoped, the low i has continued until now we Inn-e expended of our private funds, since the beginning of the work, about $ over and above the amount received from the Slate. This loss is due to differences in the inter- i pretation placed upon the speclficat ons, as well as to the large advance m the priei s of labor and materials of all kinds. These ad- j vances have been 50 per cent, on cominor i labor, per cent, on stone-cutters, 41) pel I cent, on brick-layers, and we are now paying for stone 55" per cent, more than the prices quoted to us at the letting. The sum stipulated in the contract would have been ample for the completion of the building at the prices then current, but with the prices now ruling that sum is entirely inadequate. We have given the subject careful study, and can Bee no means of further economy m the methods of doing the work, as we believe we are now working at a minimum of : cost. I We are, therefore, constrained to ask of you, and through you the Legislature, tc add to the amount to be paid us under eon- I tract a sum sufficient to cover the cost of the building, that we may go on with the work and push it rapidly to conpietion. The walls have now reached a height which requires a large outlay in the immediate future for fitting top-masts to the derricks or building new ones providing additional rones and rigging, raising the. derrick al the dome to a greater height, or substituting for it some other form of machinery. This additional outlay we do not feel encouraged to make unless the compensation is made proportional to the cost. If the contract for this work were to be make now instead of four years ago. it would cost the state a much larger sutt than the contract price with our losses added. We believe we have shown our good faith in this matter by doing bettor work with greater expedition than has ever been accompliehod on similar buildings, and by persevering thus far in the face of discouraging losses, and we think these facts should earn for us favorable consideration when we ask the. Stat ■ to relieve us of the burden of the change in the markets and largely increased expenses caused by interpretations put upon the contract which seemed to us oppressive. Should this difficulty and these differences . be satisfactorily adjusted, we will be prepared with our present plant and the ad h tions contemplated, to push forward the work during the coming season, so as to | finish the main walls ready for all of the roof, except that portion over the corridor, | around the dome, and. possibly, the cast and west central projections. By running all machinery night and day. working a large force of men as well.it may be possible to build both the second and third stories of the dome, in which case we would be ready for the roof surrounding the dome also. The preparation of the iron work for tl.e roof can be in progress at the same time, so that, as fast as the walls are ready, the erection of the roof trusses may follow By continuing this work during the winter, the j building may begot under roof early in the | year 1884. Respectfully submitted. Kanmacheb A Denig, Contractors. Concerning Gov. Hendricks. The statement made in a Washington dispatch, that Governor Hendricks is anxious to l e the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1884, with the view to a possible position in the Administration to be chosen that year, has been the main topic in political circles to-day; and the friends of McDonald, whose j stumbling-block Hendricks has al wavs been, received the rumor with much favor. In conversation with the editor of the Democratic organ to-night. Governor Hendricks dropped a wet blanket on the story. In answer to a query as to whether the dispatch had any foundation in fact, the Governor replied: “None whatever. A year ago a good friend of mine asked me if I w ould consent, iu case it shall be thought expedient, to be a candidate. I told him then, as I would now, that I could not consider it as possible. It cannot become a auestion of duty Governor Gray, Judge Turpie, and other* of our really

able men, can achieve a certain victory in 1884. To me an election as Governor could not be made a steppingstone to any Federal Secretaryship. It would be stepping downward. An Indiana Governor consults but the law and the people in respect to his duty. He experiences none of the humiliation to which an officer is exposed who holds at the will and subject to the approval of another. A faithful Governor is in no danger of losing his character, or being placed in the equivocal position of one who is Hable to be called upon for resignation without further explanation. I will be obliged if you will correct the error of the Washington correspondent. It is not agreeable to be misstated to promote the fortunes of any person." Governor Hendricks is steadily convalescing, aud expects at au early day to be attending to business.— Cor. Cincinnart Entyiirer. Additional to State Auditor'* Report. Some additional points have been made public in connection with the State Auditor’s annual report. The total valuation of real and personal property in this State, iu 1857, was $317,932,598. The increase was steady until 1874, save and except the years 1861, 1862, 1867, 1871 and 1872, and in 1874 the valuation was $954,857,475. Since that time there has been a marked decline, the valuation for .1881 showing only $805,202,792. The Auditor recommends that Plate-glass Insurance Companies be permitted to do business in the State on an invested capital of SIOO,OOO, and he reports gross receipts of flye and life companies in the State, for the year closing .Tune 29. • IKS-’, $3,111,622.52; losses paid, $1,567,253.30; tax, $48,093.77. During the year 692 convicts v.ore taken to prison; Sheriffs’ mileage tliereon. $19,975.35. Os the convicts eighty were from this county; Slieriti's’ mileage, $3,587.90. Total polls reported, 321.800; total tax of 1881, $1*0,627,014.75; delinquent of 1880 and previous years, $1,773,521.45; grand total, $12,400,536.20. Sale of the Lafayette Journal. The Lafayette Journal has been purchased by H. J. Wilson, of Crawfordsville. The concern was owned by Septimus Vater and A. B. White, the former holding two-thirds and the latter onethird. The consideration is understood to have been $13,000. The Journal establishment consists _f complete appointments for printing a daily and weekly newspaper, executing every kind of job work and the manufacturing and binding of all styles of books. Wilson will take possession at once and assume the general superintendency of the whole concern. Mr. Vater will remain for a few months, or until the new proprietor has familiarized himself with the work. Unseen Helpers. “Take, oh boatman, thrice thy fee, Take—l give it willingly, For invisible to tbee Spirits twain have crossed with me. “Can you give me a day’s work?” asked a poor woman of a well-to-do matron. “You look very delicate,” said the lady. “I need some one to wash, but you do not seem strong enough for the work.” “Oh, yes’m; only try me, and you will see. I have been sick and got behind, and mv children need bread; besides, Charlie will help carry the water and lift the tubs," concluded the woman eagerly. “Who is Charlie?” asked the lady of the house. “Aly husband, ma’ma,” was the low answer. The woman was engaged, did her work well, but there was something that troubled the mistress of the house greatly. As soon as she left the kitchen the woman would call Charlie, and she would hear her voice talking and laughing, and holding conversation with some one, but when she went into the room there would be no one there. The water was carried, the tubs all lifted into their places, but the slight woman who washed was the only person who was visible. When the lady of the house paid her she said: “Callyour husband; I would like to see him.” “He wouldn’t come, ma’ma,” said the woman, simply. “Noone ever sees him but me.” “What do you mean,” asked the lady, in astonishment. “Why, ma’ma, Charlie is dead himself, but his spirit comes and helps me; how could I work this way if it didn’t? I could no more lift one of those tubs of water alone than you could, ma’ma. He’s come ever since I was sick and helped me that way.” The compassionate lady placed another coin with those she had already given, “For Charlie and the children,” she said, with tears in her voice, and she saw afterward that the sick mid wearied mother was helped by living hands. But there must be many persons bearing greater burdens greater than they are able to, who are helped and made stronger by invisible guides—the memory of some dead Charlie, who lifts unseen the heavy load, with whom they commune as they work! How would the dull routine of daily life be glorified, could we for one moment see the angel-helper at our side! When the pious monk left his duties to go out on a deed of mercy, he returned to find all bis homely work done, and for one moment he found in the door of his cell his Blessed Master smiling upon him! It may be only a vague theory, the delusion of a sick brain—and there is an infinite sadness in it but surely "It Is a beautiful belief That ev r round our beads Are loveringon akget wings The spirits of the dead. “To feel that unseen hands w clpsp. While feet unheard are gathered round; To know that we in faith may grasp Celestial guards from heavenly ground." - —Detroit Free J‘res... Avarice is said to be the son of old age. and Byron, who grew old prematurely. acknowledged its power. He says, in one of his letters, written two years before his death: “My notions of money coincide with those of all men who have lived to see that every guinea is a philosopher’s stone. The noble fe»ling of cupidity grows upon us with years. ” Mr friends, we can’t all be Washingtons, but we cun all be patriots and behave ourselves in a human and Christi u manner. When we see a brother gc ingdown hill to ruin, let us not give him a push, but let us seize right hold of hie cost-tails and draw Lrm back to sjcraiity,—Artemus Ward.

GAKFIELD AND DORSEY. Some (ampaltxn Secret* Divulged—> Senator Cause* a I’o’lt.icai Sensation I>J PubliCdnißr Letters Received from the L««te DnrinK the Canvass of 1880. [New York Telerrarfl to (hicajfo The New York Herald publiKhes a mass Os etters from Gen. Garfield, L. P. Morton, D. G. Swaim and Marshall Jewell'to Ex-Senator Dorsey durinjr the campaign of 1880, all of which go to show that Dorsey was the lead- | Ing spirit of that struggle. The list opens • with a long l€tt**t Written hr Garfield t.o Gen. ' ; Arthur, Aug. 30, 1830, a copy of which Gar- j field furnished Dorsey, and iii Which, after enumerating the difficulties that would have to be surmounted, he said: “From 25,000 to 30,(XX) voters of Indiana are members of the denominations dt Disciples, anti at least I half of them are DemocraiA 4 quiet but . very correct nwvement, wholly outeide of ; the’ Blate Committee, has been and is‘ x'lgorously and judiciously pushed, with the strongest probability that at least 2,500 change* in tne vote in our favor will result. 1 Ciftwlude this summary by saying that, from thehuiicfr* w Lof reports , and interviews which I have had, liiirdlv one admits a doubt that we can carry the State, and this brings me to the chief point. It is indispensably necessary that the means for putting these plans into vigorous execution . be forwardea at once. The work has i been started and must be supported promptly to insure success. I have written thus fully because I understand that our friends in New York are in doubts about the ; Wisdom of making much effort for Indiana , lam certain that this is erroneous. Hnccew 1 in Indiana will be an immense help to New l York and other close States. Please read this letter to Morton, and, if you concur iu the views I have taken, urge him tb act as promptly and vigorously as possible. I went over the whole ground with Senator Dorsey, when he was here on route for Chicago, and his letters since his arrival there strongly confirm my opinion. He told me that Senator Conkling would make his opening speech in the West at such time and place as you and I thought best” To show whether the charges are true that | Dorsey thrust himself on Garfield, and vol- | unteered his advice, a large number of letters are given. As early as July 28 he wrote from Mentor regarding the proposed conference. Aug. she wanted Dorsey’s advice as to whether it would be politic to attend, inasmuch as it might alienate some of the independents, who were getting restive under reports that he was falling under the influence of the Grant-Conkling wing of the party. While waiting for a reply from Chairman Jewell, he said: “Go ahead with the preparations.” “If I go there must be a general gathering. Blaine should he there by all means. Logan and some other prominent Western men 1 I should go down with me. If Gen. Grant can j get back in time, it would be an excellent I thing for us to have him meet with us. It will be a mistake and a failure to attempt i any quiet meeting. The more public and ! general the better, if it is had at all. But I want you to think of the danger we run of hurting our independent allies. In case the trip is agreed on, let me know if you need to nave me send any invitations.” Dorsey favored the conference, and Garfield came to New York. The next letter is dated Mentor, Aug. 31, in which Garfield “concurs” with Dorsey regarding “the necessities of the campaign,” ! and asks the latter if he “does not think that Indianapolis would bp a better point for your headquarters?” Hept. 2he writes Dorsey, asking for “frequent reports.” Sept. 9 t he wants Dorsey to tell him what he thinks of having Mr.’ Evarts speak in Indiana. “Let me hear frankly your view of the case,” he says. On Sept 17 Garfield wrote about the defeat in Maine. “It is the Bull Run of the contest,” he said. “Let us win ar. Appomattox. I am somewhat disappointed, but not discouraged. You will have more helpinconi sequence of it Push the light in Indiana.” • The next day he wrote Doi ey ag<ain urging 1 him to push the rampnigTi in Indiana “with the utmost vigor.” and asking him to call on Gov. Foster, “stating your apprehensions j about special effort' to be made in Ohio, and i giving him yyur ground*. I am glad,” he ’ concliides, '-you are fflovfng your headquarters into the . immediate field of ! acrioif.” The was Cx- ; plained in a letter to Dorsey announcing that I 9RXJ,OUO was to be sent to Indiana Sept 21 I he tele graphed to Dprsey not to fail to meet ' him in Toledo on Wednesday, Sept. T>. He | tells Dorsey he had better come to Mentor . “for consultation.” Sept 29he wrote: “Don’t relax any grip anywhere. There are touches ■ of panicky talk iu various quarters, which ! arise naturally from the anxiety and earnestness of a close contest I rely greatly on I your calm equipoise which has shown itself so often and so well hitherto. I know how you are hurried, but I hope you will find time to write me a few words on the outlook ” Oct 6 he wrote asking how the battle was going, and promising a good account of Ohio the next week. After the October election he wrote in this highly-etilogistic way to Dorsey: “I have firmly believed in the effectiveness of our organization and work in that State, and have expected good results, but the crushing defeat that has been inflicted I upon the Democracv at all points has far exp 91991 Aftuapigns on? noX uoqA\ pun ‘SAUp io o.wj doers pun paq qng oqi jo sqo9A\ oav; isiq aqi Un? -mp sioMod mo jpa paou pnqs uo a,UOJ> oj uoos 9jfiJ3ni)s iuuq aqj joj jibsiuoa sabs pun 5S9i papaau-qonm ouios oqui 04 mou no a ; |9Bunoo 9Ui 'ja'j qqJfij oqa jo sQuapimu pun BBB*}ap ©qi [p.’ paqayuM eABq no.< qr-iq.w qiuw ssouqSnoioifi aq; pun oSinduißO aq; jo -aSnuTnu injia'jwßui iuoa uo uoa oqrqnquxS -uoo A’qnioadsa y -suonTrioodxa aui papoao come here and make me a visit; or, better ’ still, come here and sleep. “You and your associates must continue the Indiana work to final victon-, but I want : you also, while in New York, to look over the ■ other contested points of the field and let j me know the situation as it appears to you. i Your work in Indiana has vindicated it- ' self and silenced all ctfvilers. Nothing suc- | ceeds like success.’ You had better call here jon your return from the East By that time | we shall all see the lines of the fight more i distinctly.” j After the November election the corre- i ’ spondence seems to have gone un as briskly j as ever. Dec. Garfield writes to Dorsey | asking for information, which “just now is a 1 valuable commodity.” Jan. 25, 1881, he says there is no danger of antbodv being i “trampled under £ood and ignored;” that no , one is running him. and that he will treat i everybody fairly. “What you say about ! Judge Folger,” lie declares, “makes me wish jto know more about him. Where does he j live, and where is he now staving?” In this i letter he indicates that Murton cannot be | made Secretary of the Treasury, and asks: “Do they—our New York friends—seek a col- ' lision? Your letter is frank, strong and 1 breezy, and I thank you for it” : Dorsey has succeeded in showing very I conclusively that be was Garfield's most in- ■ timate and trusted adviser during the past 1 Presidential campaign. From the published j letters and dispatches President Garfield is seen leaning upon Dorsey as his strong staff. i Naturally, these documenta have made a I sen-atioii in political circles, because it is : not every day that the public is allowed per- ' mission to take a step behind the curtain and learn how campaigns are won. Over i 910 'JXM) were sent by Le vi P. Morton to I h >rsey I for the expenses of the campaign in Indiana. , Dorsey even contributed 920,w0. He was running up and down the country advising with Gen. Garfield before the election, and | seeking to help him make uu bis Cabinet afterward Some of these and i letters, particularly those relating to money, will be unpleasant to meet in a campaign. The next effect will be, however, in creating in the minds of the public a distrust of the ways of politicians, as if there were anything needed to increase this suspicion. All of this showing, however, has no bearing upon tne question ot guilt or Innocence in the star-route cases. It merely shows that Dorsey did not thrust * himself upon • Garfield. Had Garfield lived, Dorsey would have been protected, no matter how great were his offensea 1 Dorsey, with his array of letters and diss patches, could certainly have secured a pardon before publishing them. The scandal i caused by the Printing of these letters would I be greater if tney related to pending issues. Gai field is de;id, and few care to talk about his campaign. The desperation of Dnrsey ie ' m'ide apparent by hit giving these letters tc the public He feels himself deserted, and h- turns about with as savage a weapon of retaliation be can and. ’ The Democrate, of eourse. axe vary gleeful ovex these djk

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k -- ■*-- clostirns. and exclaim: "Does not this prove what we have always claimed, that money ; beat us in the last election?” CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC. SoWe French chemists have succeeded > soldifving petroleum, in which state it burns like tallow. This solidification ie effected by adding to distilled petroleum IS6 pet cent, of the purified juice of plants belonging to the family of the Euphovbunece. A Boston genius has invented a stonecutting machine that was shown capable of performing in twenty-two minutes what a small army of met could not have accomplished in the same time. The invention will, it is thought, work a revolution in the granite-cutting trade. As to restoring frozen bodies, Knowlj edge says; “Laptchinski has made a series of very careful experiments upon dogs. With the following results: Os , twenty animals treated by the method of gradual resuscitation in a cold room, 1 fourteen perished; of twenty placed at once in a warm apartment; eight died; w hile of twenty immediately pnt into a hot bath, all recovered.” A Munich professor has invented » bracelet that will remedy the affliction known as “writer’s cramp.” The penI holder is fastened to the bracelet in such a manner that it can be used to write with ease and without bringing the fingers into use at all. The hand can rest on the table, moving easily along as the letters ar* traced, and it is said that little practice is required to give expertness in the use of the invention. UutL gold may be cleaned in this way: Take eighty grams calcium hypochlorite, eighty sodium bicarbonate, and twenty sodium chloride, and treat the mixture with three litres of distilled water. It ftmst be ke >t for use in wellcorked bottles. Goods to be cleansed are put in a basin and covered with the mixture. After some time they are taken out, washed, rinsedin alcohol, and dried in sawdust. The articles then have the same appearance as if new. A priest named Luigi Galimberti, residing at Milin, Italy, is said to have discovered the means of photography iu natural colors and the process for enlarging such photographic productions to life-size. Another process said to have been invented by him gives what he calls phosphorescent pictures, visible at night. The priest is so hampered by poverity that his experiments thus far have been made at the expense of and for the benefit of a few personal friends. The number of manufacturers of telescopes who are able, even at the present day of scientific advancement, to produce the largest-sized glasses is very small, and even these instruments have an imperfection which has thus far proved insurmountable, namely, that of bringing the tavs to a focus; they still have a little deflection, like the telescope of old. and though experiments innumerable have been made to meet this fault, It remains still unremedied. As, however, the difficulty is of a purely mechanical nature, it is presumable that it will be overcome in the telescope of the future. At the Munich Electrical Exhibition one of the curiosities was a telephone transmitting music performed at OberAmmergau, over a distance of sixtythree miles. At the palace a huge telephonic arrangement brought., over music from the English Case, so that the whole immense audience could hear the pieces quite distinctly. But perhaps the most significant exhibit was a single wire m hicli conveyed electrical energy a distance of thirty-seven miles from the coal mines of Miesbach, where it was generated. This augurs a future for the economical use of labor which may have far-reaching results. Wfi confess that the two points which have always struck our mind as distinguishing the nature of brutes from that of men, has been their inability to worship God, and to kindle a fire. It would be folly to deny that brutes can reason. A sheep dog who ryants to head a flock in a narrow lane "'ill jump over a w all and run on the other side until he has reached the exact p. int occupied by the sheep at the head of the flock, and then jump back in order to drive them home. A colley, who was fond of going out with the carriage, would go and hide himself as soon as he heard the order for the carriage given, so that he might not be tied up. If we analyze these many other instances of sagacity, we cannot help admitting that a brute’s mind is capable of two or three steps cd reasoning. On the other had, no animal ever manufactured a tool or weapon, even of the simplest kind; and it ia doubtful whether a gorrilla himself, who is supposed to be our nearest neighbor, uses a walking-cane.— London Spectator. The Horse and the Man. The man has cut away the frog liecause he thinks that the animal will lie injured if the frog touches the ground. He has then cut a deep groove at the base of the frog. This is to give a “wellopened heel,” as he is pleased to call it. He has scooped away the sole to “give it spring.” He has scored a deep notch in the toe for the purpose of receiving the “clip” of the shoe. This is evidently a conservative relic of the time when nails were not used, and the shoe attached by three-pointed clips hammered over the edge, one in front and one on either side. Then he has improved the whole of the outer surface of the hoof. As the Creator has furnished this part of the hoof with a thin, hard, polished plate forming a sort of varnish which is impervious to wet, the farrier, as a matter of course, rasps it all away np to the crown. And as the Creator has placed round the crown a fringe of hair which acts as a thatch to the line of junction and throws off the rain upon the waterproof varnish, he cuts this away with his scissors. Lastly, the Creator having given to the horny hoof a mottling of soft, and partially translucent, brown, gray-blue, yellow ,’black and white, never ' exactly the same in two hoofs, much 1 less in two horses, the farrier takes a blacking-pot and brush, polishes up the hoofs until they look like patent-leath-er boots, all four exactly alike, and then comtemplates his work with satisfaction. In his own words, he has “turned out a finished job of it.”-— Good Words. ..' , .;. A Sioux City young man left his - boarding house 1 eevuse the daughter ' of the landlady, under the pretense of I caressing him, pinned a doll-baby to I the back of hi: coat and allowed him to . promenade around town all Sunday with ' th* articl* attached.