Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1883 — Page 1
VOLUME XXVI.
It R Ailw’N Pr**’t XV. !1 Niflicr ,('a«hler t». Sft*rHi?AKtß, Vice Pr*» t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECA i UR, INDIANA, This Bink is now open tar the transaction of a genet* I banking business. We buy sml scU Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PET EIISONT 111 ’ F FMA N, attorneys at law. P ECAT UK, INDIANA. Will practice in Attains and adjoining counties. I'-pecial stiention give:, to col- I lections and titles to real estate. Are No tu ies I‘tihlir and draw deeds and mortgages Real es’ate bought. soil and rented on leasouablw terms Office, rooms 1 end 2, I. C (i. F. budding. 2ujy7‘Jtf FRANCE KINO A77WLVATS AT LAW, nKCaTL'R,INDIANA. K?N. wicks, I attorney at law, DECATUR. INDIANA. Al! legal business promptly attended tn Office up siairs in Stone's building 4th door. v2sn2s year 1. ~ D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, . JS e c t a cles, cf?o Repairing done at lowest prices to guar antee good and sound work Wises, Molhsis, i ta ■ A4' ’ v v ■’ -t? ■■ i ■ -4.. Dr. J* ’ B / svß AR O HIS!, »’T!Cb N Y, ri-covt kk . UK MXTCHISI’B LITEKIXErVnnH ICO' I A POSITIVE C'J?L FOR FEMAIE CWiMNTS. | Thi* Ileni’ly I ac in tewt ywuh ’he | Fe;.>a 'i if all bin**- and aw» hnmt d ately up iu the abdunji'iii and i’• rin m«:ec < - and rwt T‘- the n to a htHltby and »«’r>»ng cniwlh'nn. Dr. .Marchi-i’s Uterine < atholic* n wl:l enr I falbn.'of the Wmnn. L‘*ncc«»rrh<ei. Chronic In- I f.am'nn bmaud Ute* ration o’ th«* wo;uh. h.. »-!v Cal Uwn vrhaze or Flooding Pau- n . >nppr»—*•«■<! and Irrcgn ar XL-nstru it’on Kir! ry Cmi-p au t ( and t- enpec a !y adapted t*» Che Cha* g»* of t »fe. Send for piniph vi. ir-c. AI !• r- o' IQli y ! freely answered ViCr «• a* a <»v FOK SALIC 12% ILL DILI fr '-*ls t» r B-U 'i- .li.-Ki . 'la .vei'a Uterine (.’athol c*m Tthe ?<■ ■ -’U r c W c' / ’ I SUNNY SLOPE /I \\ *it~ handmade. T \X JCOPPER N \ f CORN . I \\CrackeK// XX HAND MADE. // Both ofthese famous brands of W hiskey are kept in stock for sale at THE “OCCIDENTAL.” J. 11.
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The Democrat. Official Paper of the County A. -J. HILL, Editor and Rusißi«*s*a Manngen J terms: one tollar and fifty cents IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HoTEoWAYTm. IX, _ PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR. INDIANA. Office ever A dates C< Bank 2nd door. Wil 1 attend to all calls promptly, night or day. Charge* reasonable. Re*i deuce sn north side of Monroe street, 4ib house east of Hart s Mill. 25jy79tf triefi Slone .Wa*OH f onlrac-r DECATUR, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kit L in his line Prisons conletnplatii g building might make a poiut Ly >nsul;ing b:m. Estimates on nj plication, v2sn4stnß. E N WICKS, J. T.MK4RYMAN. i WICKS & MEHRY.MAX, al L aw A N I> Real Esfalt' Deeds, Moitgages. Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and ukrmteh. P.iXition, settlement of decedent’s eststes, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs in Stone's building—4th , door. vol, 25. no. 24, yl DR. KITCHMILLER - will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of j •hc'i month to treat al! < hronic Disease*. Ons’iliniion free Call and see him. All lettevs of inquiry re.eived at the home office at Piqua. Ohio. wEI receive prompt attention. Write io him and make a statement of your case—v2snß6!y. je of graves prolonged, happiness and health restored i by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures ImpOienry (caused by excesses of any km-. ) svinit:a 1 Weakness «’> ! *ll disea-es that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse. a-» loss of enegy, Lbh of memory, ; universal lassitude, j » ! *i *n the Lack, dm- | ness of vision, |.rtia« u:e old age. and many other diseases that lead to insanity i or consumption and a premature grave. Send fore ircular* wi h tv-iliuonals free by mail ’lhe Ili % ig<>r«ll<»r ’9 sold at $1 per box, or six boxes lor by all druggists, or, will be sent frea by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, 1' J ( HEAEY, Prnssisl, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United Sta'es. R. A. Pierce & Co., Sole Agents at De>atui Sa: .ties the ir.vt fa,tlJjoa« M n perfe-1 lb r Rest n r and Dresssur. A i",-reJ f-»r >’s clean-n.es*a«id eh-s-y.: r>er uine. Never fails to Restore (.rejror Faded Hair to lhe youthful color. JO cts. and $ 1 s zea at all droggi.U. Get IHC > % cj - —.. l - j j j lirTTTrmT” iaauM « Ginger* Bucliu, Mandi ake. bimiMkia auu ■ many cf the best medicines known are here com- | bined into a medicine of such var ted and effective ■ powers, as to make the Greatest Blood Pus niera the I' Best Health and Strength Restorer Ever Used. 1 It cures Dyspewia, Rheumatism, Sleeplessness, Br’l -.i-esof ti.e'S:■ rr.ach. Bowels Lungs, Liver, G Kidneys, and all Female Complaints. I]f v tt are wasting away wiin Consumption or my <’ ;scasc, use the Tonic tc*-day. It wI I surely h-’.pyot:. Remember! it is far superior to Bitters, of Gineer and other Tonics, as it builds unthesvstem without intoxicating. 50c. and>i s'.-rs at all dealers in dnigs. None genuine without -nmtreof JL -coxKCo.,N Y. Send for circular H l. '• U SAVING IN BUYING TEE DOLLAR SIZE. -I IIIII■ 111
DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1883.
WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. THF EAST. Anna O’Brien and her mother were drowned in a cistern at Syracuse, N. Y. The latter perished in attempting to rescue ■ her daughter.... A wedding of extraordinary brilliancy took place in Newport, R. L. where Bishop (’lark united 0. H. P. Belmont, a sou of the New York capitalist, and Miss Sarah & Whiting. Oscar Wilde, just before sailing from New York, confessed to Police Captain Williams that he was decoyed into a residence and induced to throw dice until he lost SLIGO, for which he gave checks. Coming to his senses as he signed the largest one, he hailed a cab, made for the Madison Square . Bank and stopped payment on his paper. Tiie steerer said he was the son of the banker Drexel, but he turned out to be “Hungry Joe.” a notorious confidence man... .The savings banks of Massachusetts show r SIO,OOU,(XX) increase in deposits in a year, and over 48,000,000 in loans on personal securities. The New Y’ork Senatorial committee which is investigating the question of “ corI nets” had before it John D. Rockefeller, President of the Standard Oil Company, but he refused to answer any questions as ! to the names or number of Directors and I Trustees of that institution, or of the standard ; Trust Company, or of the National Transit Company. He'was equally uncommunicative with regard to the capital, amount of dividends, or other matters concerning the ' history and management of these institutions. and informed the committee that none of these subjects came within the scope of their power to investigate. The committee did not seem able to grapple with a witness of this character and appointed a sub-com-mittee to investigate... .An association was I formed at Philadelphia. Wayne MacVeagh 1 being elected President, for the purpose of : securing to the Indians the rights of citizen- • ship... .Mayor Grace, of New York, refused j Mr. Salmi Morse a license for his new’ hall in 1 which to produce his “Passion Play.” The Ford brothers, who attained to an unenviable notoriety through their connection with Jesse James and other gentlemen of the bush, aided to their reputation at Boston in a rather undesirable manner. Thev had been engaged of late in repeating on the stage, with toy pistols and dull knives, the life thev were wont to lead in the back counties o£ Missouri. They were delight >g the gallery in a Boston place of amusement when one of the audience ventured to remark that the dramatic efforts of the Ford boys were not quite up to the i Boston standard. The retired outlaws hear d I the remarks and at once returned to their j old profession. Jumping from the stage, they emptied their revolvers in true cowbov style, and cleared the house at once. Boston policemen, how Tever, proved more active than Missouri Sheriffs, and the redoubtable outlaws were marched off to the station-house... .While watch-night services were being held in a church at Reading, Pa, twenty young men backed a large cannon against the building and tired it The front wall was crushed in and every pane of glass was shattered down upon the congregation. Several of the I mischief-makers are in iail THE WEST. N. B. Jones, a Creek Indian, has keen interviewed at St Louts in regard to the cause of the warfare in progress near Okmulgee. He states that Chief Chicopee commands 70U voters who sympathized wuth the South in the late rebellion, while Chief Spiochee has 400 w’arriors who sustained the Union, and that ever since the war there has been a struggle between them for political supremacy. George IL Davis, a merchant at Wiewaka.’ says every Creek is armed, is a dead shot, and as brave as a lion.. ..Four horse-thieves were lynched at Prineville, Ore. A Christmas tree in a sch 01-house near Abilene, Kan., was ornamented with a jumping-jack intended for a Miss Foreman. Her friends resented it as an insult, and held Arthur Shodinger responsible, but were restrained by others. Several evenings after Christmas her three brothers, her lover and her brother-in-law went to a praver-meeting to meet the offender and. have it out. Twelve or more shots were tired Shodinger was shot through the left lung, the girl’s beau received two wounds, and cne brother was Shot in the wrist and clubbed with a revolver. The Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial have been consolidated, the allied journals to bear the title of the Commercial Gazette, without the hyphen. Messrs Halstead and Smith will be associated in the management of the paper, which will be Republican in politics... .Over a thousand meu have been thrown out of employment by the closing of the Bessemer Steel Dorks and Rail Mills at Cleveland, 0hi0... .The suit of Mrs. Slarback, of St Louts against Editor Cockerill for «S,(XW damages for the death of her husband was dismissed atthelnstanee of the plaintiff. The Friend building at Milwaukee, the largest mercantile block in that city, was swept away by tire. Ihe total loss is 9fiOO,(MKi, most of which was sustained by Friend Brothers, although the stocks of Land&uer A Co. and Straw, Ellsworth A Co. suffered to a degree not exceeding 5 par cent of their value. THE SOUTH, John Townsend, Bert Cowan and TV. Rain were killed during an affray In a saloon near Fine Hill, La.... Abner Webb, the oldest citizen of Baltimore, has passed away at the age of 100 years Near Beverly, W. Va., on Christmas ntght, Adam Currcnce and four children were burned to death..., Dave and Henrv Bullard attacked Thomas Jacowav at Lebannon, Ala, because he had instituted legal proceedings to close their cambling-honse, but citizens rallied to Janeway's support, and one of the Bullards was killed and the other wounded. Jacoway shot his brother dead at night, mistaking him for a friend of the Bullards... .Two blocks of frame stores in Frescott, Ark.. were swept away by Hames kindled bv an incendiary. The loss is estimated at JHM'.ow.... The’capsizing of the Fort Barrington ferryboat near Darien. Oa, resulted in the drowning of tive colored persons... .The Galveston and Houston railway will hereafter be operated as i*art of the Clould system, furnishing an outlet to the gulf. A race riot at Oconee, Ga., resulted In the killing of several white men . .Bluford Smith, a colored man, who killed Chas. Kenser. was taken from iail at Tazewell Court House. Va.. and riddled with bullets. Dave Roberts, a negro, charged wtih cotton stealing and murderous assault, was taken from the Abbeville (S. C.) jail by a mob and lynched. WASHINGTON. The Commissioner of Agriculture has prepared a revised table showing the grain production for the year ending Dec. L It is as follows: Bushels Corn 1,635,000, 0 Oat“ 47 ,000,01 » lu'v 4\oo .000 Rre Y . 20,0w,00c Buckwheat 12,000,000 Total 2,692,000,0 X Mr. Randall stated in the House the other day that for two years Capt John F. Trout, of the regular army, has had leave of absence with full pay, during all which period he has drawn 93,000 per annum from the Pullman Car Company. Tur recent auction sale at the Deoil Letter Office deposited in the treasury to the credit of the Postoffioe Department Gen. Sherman contradicts the rumor recently noised »bout that he Intended to become a Boman Catholic. Mfss Josephine C. Meeeer, who j w*s for acme day* a prisoner among the
tJt.e* in Colorado, died of pneumonia at Washington, where she was employed in the oitice of the Secretary of the Interior. GENERAL. The Spanish-American Claims Commission, after an existence of eleven years, i adjourned sine die. Awards were made in ! twenty-eight cases, amounting to about and eight cases, involving S’ UiS _ 1 (MK», remain in the umpire's hands for decision. .. .Oscar Wilde sailed from New York on the 27th of December. Two Kentucky farmers, a father and eon, named Begley, were enticed to New York to purchase counterfeit money, and paid S3OO for a $5,000 package of bank notes and gold. All parties were arrested by a Police Inspector, when Begley's bag was found to contain stones, paper and a small , bag of salt. In an article on mercantile failures for 1882, Bradstreet'» says that the business , disasters of the year numbered 7,571, against i 5,020 in 1881 and 4,850 in 1880, being sn in- 1 crease of 1,645 over the record of last year. , The paper says» The feature of these returns worthy of special comment is the 1 large increase during 1882. This increase , largely occurred during the last quarter of the year, while tne general readjustment of trade to a lower rango of prices has been going on. The numbers reported for ; the first, second, third and fourth quarters of the year were respectively 2,14(5, [ 1,503, 1,658, 2,267. It will be noted that the , number of trade disasters was exceptionally | larger in both the first and last quarters of i the rear, when the blunders of the twelve- ! month have had time to culminate. The re- | action that has been going on throughout the countay must ne regarded as a sign of 1 returning health. There is now good reason . for the “ belief that the country is re- ' turning, by gradual steps rather than ‘ Dy a violent kHuvemeut, to a point where the swelling tide of trade will bring a new excess of disasters.”.... . The Court of Queen's Bench at Toronto, j ( an., has unanimously decided that the laws ! of the Province place no ’restriction on the | carrying of passengers by land or water on | Hund iv. thus overruling a decision thirty years old which held that it was illegal for ferryboats to ply on the Lord's Day..., The' books at Castle Garden show the arrival of 155,450 immigrants for the past veir....A shock of earthquake swayed, buildings and churches at Halifax, in some ca«es enuring a panic among watch-night worshipers. Alus. Langtry hal for her opening night in Chicago an audience large in numers, but rather undemonstrative as to appreciation. Wide differences of opinion were expressed as to her gift of beauty, but her S ace of bearing was conceded by a11.... ary’ I. Martin, of Emporia, Kan., who poisoned Mrs Kuger in order to obtain insurance of $5,000, has been sentenced to the gallows, after a confinement of one year in the penitentiary’. POLITICAL. A DISPATCH from Hartford, Ct., says: j “The decision delivered in New Haven by Chief Justice Paik, of the Supreme Court of Errors, that the black ballots polled by the Democrats in that city in the November State election are illegal, has created a sens- j ation in political circles all through the State. The feeling is intensified to-night by the announcement that Mr. Cole. Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, » intends to take abtion calculated to place in • office Republican candidates for State offices, although they received the minority vote. The black ballots in New Haven counted for J the Democratic candidates were about 7,000, and throwing these out as illegal gives the J election to the Republicana ” I William H. Bulkley, the Bepubli--5 can candidate at the last election for GovJ ornor of Connecticut, has declined under any circumstances to accept the office in case the Democratic “blackballots” cast at ( New Haven shall be rejected. FOREIGN. The Pope has agreed to the proposi- [ tion of England to accredit a diplomatic s agent to the Vatican upon the same conditions as Prussia is represented : Persecution of the Jews has broken • out afresh in Russia The Senate has decided 5 that no court can authorize the transfer of ' land to Hebrews, and the Perfect of St Petersburg has ordered the punishment of ’ those found living in the capital ■without ‘ official permission.... .German and Austrian rivers nave again been overflowing their • banka Travel aud traffic were impeded, I and many bridges were wrecked. At Larrach, in Baden. twenty persons ! were drowned by the collapse of a bridge.... Russia has concentrated along the Kars ) frontier a force of 70,000 men and eighty ; guns.... A tall chimney at Bradford, England, 1 fell upon a building full of workmen, thirtyt. six of whom were killed and fifty seriously * injured The damage was £60,000. • The French Government has received i information from its Swiss Minister that » large quantities of dynamite have been shipped from Switzerland to France. Many , dynamite conspirators have been arrested in the Department of the Rhone. j Sir Charles Dilke, having been t opposed by the Queen on account of his f earlier radical tendencies, now announces a ■ complete change of front, and in his eagerr ness for official position declares that all those republican theories were but youthful follies which he has long since outgrown. i CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. r There was nothing done worthy of men. ' tion in either house of Congress at the ses- ) sion on Dec. 28. There was a little personal controversy in the Senate between Messrs. . . ... i,<. m v m.e the Paa on Civil vice bill was under consideration, f w-: -li caused a slight ripple of excitement at the moment, but it was soon forgotten. . Shortly thereafter both the Senate and j House adjourned over the holidays. r Upon the reassembling of the Senate, after the holidays, on Dec. 27, debate recoinJ menced on the . endleton Civil Service bill r Mr he would sooner «ee any son of j his breaking stone on the roadside than seek--3 ing a department office. Mr. Hawley's amendment to prohibit the solicitation of political contributions by one Government 1 officer from another was rejected br 18 to 27. A new section was adopted forbidding the i retention in office of any person habitually using liquor to excess. Th*' bill then passed r by 3'J to 5. The noes were Messrs. Brown, of Georg-a, Call, of Florida, Jonas, of Lom>MaPheison, oi New Jersey, uuu Morgan, of Alabama The bill provides for a - board of three Commissioners to pass upon L die qualifications of persons desirous of eni tering the public service. A chief examiner 1 is also appointed to act with the board and travel around the country, arranging n lhe preliminaries and conducting the exam inn ations. Appointments are to be distributed d pro rata among the States, according to i>opulation. Political predilections are to be ignored in making selections, and those appointed must not be addicted to the exe ceseive use of ardent spirits. Neither Senators nor Representatives are allowed to e recommend any one to the board, except in L the way of certifying to the character or residence of appUcanta There was no 9 quorum in the House, and an adjournment » to Dec. 3u was voted. c The feature of the Senate proceedings on he 2tnh ult. was the speech of Senator I ogan in opposition to the bill for the relief * of Gen. Fitz John Porter. He spoke for o three hours, and incorporated in his address Gen. Grant’s article iu the North e Review, and his (Dogan’s) long n replv thereto, published iu the Chicago Tribune. On motion of Mr. Hoar, the bill to e provide fo* the j erfonnance of the duties of h the office of President in case of removal by 11 death or resignation or inability of both the I’rt'sident ana Vice President was then taken up and discussed. Bills were passed by the House, at its sesn sion on the 31st ult., to extend for one year e the time for filing claims for horses or equipments lost by officers or soldiers; to pay the e Burlington. Cedar Rapids and Northern raild road $6,570 for carrying mails, and to anpro--11 late ♦75.010 to reimburse the States of Ore< on and California for expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostLattea The Senia ate was not in session.
BOSS MA HONE’S EGOTISM. c =— o Plotting of Political Harpies—An Exceedingly Disagreeable Contingency Confr nt- (i Ing the Republicans—lhe ih’ailjustet Skeleton Aspiring to the Senate’s i’resi- • a dency. (Washington telegram.] p Gossiping Virginians talk a great i j deal about Mahone, and what he is go- . f ing to do when the Senate meets. Will s he be content to elect Gorham Secreta- I ry of the Senate ? Mahone’s career in { the past has not created for him any c reputation for modesty or good faith. : J The Readjuster combination holds the i balance of power. It is entirely in , * r " r i keeping with the policy of Mahone to throw Gorham overboard at the very | last moment, and demand for himself , 1 the position of President of the Senate, * and the consequent succession to the * | Presidency. The Republicans woul Ibe obliged to take Mahone or a Democrat. ( 1 This embarrassing situation couid be obviated in one wav. If the Illinois I legislative factions should compromise | J iin the coming Senatorial fight and re- : elect David Davis, then it is certain , i that he could command th ■ vote in the ] J Senate for a re-election to the acting . 1 Vice Presidency. Mr. Davis has given j I great satisfaetidh to both sides. He , , has been uniformly impartial. It is the ( first time for many years that a Sen- | liter has sat as a Judge, in the chair of I the presiding officer. To look forward I Ito the reign of Mahone, and the possi- | ble ascendency of the R adjuster free- ■ boo‘er, is not a pleasant thought. The , Senate is made up of men who have i . peculiar codes for the government of ; their affairs. By a tacit unde standing, no Democrat speaks to Mahone , unless absolutely forced to do so. Not a single one of them would accept a soI cial favor from him. The Republican ' Senators do not treat him any better. ' i They do not speak to him unless t ey ' want something. No one ever gets up i at his approach to shake hands with J 3 him. He generally comes trailing iu i from the cloak room an hour after the Senate has opened, and goes direct to 1 his seat. He rarely if ever takes part ' in the proceedings. He is always the ' ! object of some whispered consultation. | Mahone s sole business appears to be j I plotting. When Editor Gorham is not j j ' with him, liis sole privileged Virginia < friend, Riddleberger, comes and goes, I rehearsing some part he is to play after I ‘ i the 4th of March. Thev are a strange | ( pair; Mahone, small and skeleton- I ( I figured, dressed in his odd flowingrobed coat, looks like a boy in size by ‘ I the side of the tall and stalwart Riddleberger. Mahone’s thin feet, bony hands and small head give him a look of frailty ‘ when he is standing up in the floor of ; the Senate. It is a wonder to the aver- \ age observer that t iese broomstick legs ' do not break, and that they are able to i ' sustain the weight of his puny body. If | Mahone were to cut off his hair, his ■ flowing mustache and beard he would at once lose his power. No man with a head as small as his could command respect, or even attention. His number ' six head is so adorned and padded out j with hair that you fc»get there are plenty of apes in the menageries that have larger heads. He crushes a white soft felt hat down over his tumbled gray hair; then, twisting out his long mustache, spreading his coat and walking ' very wide, snapping liis cruel black : eyes, and swearing as be goes, be m n- ! ages to impress his Virginia followers. I The i he has money oml patronage ' His followers are all hungry, and wo Id follow the devil for such pay as Mahone pan give them. Mihone is a tyrant, and t horoughly unscrupulous in i is Virginia dealings. It is not to l>e supposed that he would manage affairs much better if he succeeds in gaining the Presidency of the Senate, and just at present he has more of a call upon the pos tion than any ; one. Mahone is a political gambler, ' who never fears to take desper te I chance’. He is also a practical gam- | bier. It is related of him that his first j start in life came in a ambling-match I between himself and his father. The I elder Mahone owned a country tavern, I where the present Senator was brought j up. One day, when the old gentleman I was in hard luck, the fu ure Senator i won the tavern, and ever after that ’ made the old gentleman pay rent. Riddleberger, the associate boss of the Senate after the 4th of March, is tall, broad-shouldered and heavy in figure. His face is sharp-featured and I red, his eyes blue, while a sharp red goatee elongates and sharpens the appearance of his angular face. He has the look of a hard rider and a bard liver. Mahone is spurred on in his present ambition to fight for the succession to Arthur by the fact that Mosby j ! is coming home, all the way from China, to contest for supremacy with him in ■ Virginia. Mosby is very popular. He . ! won the first Republican victory in AirI ginit after the war, S' d afterward I ■ basked in the hearty friendship of Gen. I ■ Giant Mosby hates Malion . and his I ! I announced his intention of coming : I back, so as to be here, at least, when ’ I the next Presidential canvass is on. II All this promises unusually interesting ’ i developments when the Senate meets > I in special session after the 4th of next - March. i ' DORSET’S SERVICES TO GARFIELD. j [From the Chicago Daily v ews.l , r No <we can read the letters of Gen. ■ Garfield to Senator Dorsey without . I feeling that the General regarded the ’ Senator as the very wheel-horse of his campaign, his chief of stuff, confidential I ' adviser, and most trusted friend. If i Dorsey’s methods were “ring metho Is” r ; then Gen. Garfield knew it, and fully ; believed in them. If Dorsey’s mode of ( carrying Indiana was to take a census • of every purchasable Democrat in the > State, find out his lowest price, and buy ; i him, then Garfield knew that fact, a.d i applauded it. If Dorsey was making > the campaign breezy with funds, which ; no one else was willing to supply with > like freedom becau eno one ebe ha Iso ■ much plunder which needed the proj tectionof a stanch friend high in power, i then Garfield was wilting to nss the card, provided he cwiu’.d sweep the k st ;kes. If Dorsey had made his m nev r by the questionable mc’bods now being subjected to such searching prosecution e at Washington, nothing is more reasonably certain than that Garfield, in view ~ of the relations in which these letters '- place him to Dorsey-, would have been bound in honor to resign his office 1 ‘ I rather than allow any criminal prose-
eution to be maintained against Dorsey, or to follow the precedent set by Gov. Seward, of New York, in the dueling case against James Watson Webo, and pardon the criminal peremptorily, in adv nice of conviction. These letters exhibit Dorsey as the engineer in Garfield’s campaign—a relation as close as Seward ever sustained i to Weed, and far more intimate than any he ever sustained to Webb. That * ip which he counsels Dorsey to come to d Mentor and sleep for two or three days c from Ids arduous labors is particularly I affecting. Dorsey was doing no open g work. He was making no speeches; r he was not hunting Democrats with a t brass band. What was he doing that j was both so arduous and so important ? e The reputation of the Indiana cam- * paign is that of being a campaign of , bargain and sale. More D mocratic } votes were contracted for and paid for in Indiana in that campaign than were 1 ever before bought in any State. Republicans openly assert this from , one end of the country to the other, j What else, then, but this was there for I t Dorsey to do? Whit else so Well ' adapted to his character and capacity ? c This was the work which Garfield regarded as so peculiarly etlective. This t was the work which Garfield begs t Dorsey to go on to New York and there ■ perform. Garfield says: “Your work t in Indiana has vindicated itself and i r silenced all cavilers. ‘Nothing suC- ' < ceeds like success. ■ These words indicate that there had j i een conscientious spirits who had at- j tacked Dorsey’s work in Indiana on the I ; ground of the manifest disgrace it 1 would bring on the party. Nobody ’ could cavil at speeches, documents and | ( meetings. But Garfield thinks “noth- | j ing”—not even talent, honesty, integ- i rity or character —“ succeeds like sue- ’ cess.” This is the cant phrase with which confederates in doubtful enterprises have expressed the idea that sue- i cess condones for all the irregularities arid “crookedness” by which it has been 1 obtained. Swaim goes to New York to-day. Give nun your interior views of the whole situation after you have reconnoitered the field. Swaim can be trusted. Swaim understands “division and silence.” You can tell Swaim what you could not tell I a man who would blurt all he knew from the house-tops. How little Garfield cared for the speeches that were being made by Roscoe Conkling— I indeed, how little hope he had of winning through any other methods than those of Dorsey, whatever they were—is apparent from all these letters. And now it devolves upon those who have apotheosized Garfield into a gentleman, the latchet of whose shoes Dorsey was not worthy to unloose, to explain to us exactly what great things Dorsey was doing in Indiana and New York to deserve all this fund of gratitude on the part of the candida’e. The general words “organizing” and “bossing” and “inspiring”and “stimulating" may conceal much meaning or much chaff. Garfield’s gratitude did not go out in this style to a man who was merely running a circular bureau | and m king appointments for spouters and brass bands. If we are right in onr diagnosis of the exact moral quality of the buglehorn with which Dorsey was cornetmg in Indiana, and every blast of which was worth 1,000 men, then it follows that, had Garfield lived, no power on earth could have secured the prosecu- , tion of Dorsey, innocent or guilty. Garfield owed tod much to him. As well expect a conviction of oneof the Siamese twins of an offense punishable with death, when the court consisted of the other. Shipped. On a very dark June evening I listened to an awful story of the incorrigible badness of a young man who was dragging an honored name through the mire. I said. “But what will they do | with him?” The answer was: “Oh, : lie’ll have to be shipped.” Though the phrase was new, the imagery was expressive and one was aware what was I meant. Ah, get the black sheep out of sight, somewhere beyond the great sea! My friend went on to sav, speaking of a certain great city: “When you get there you will hear people saying, 'Mr. Smith has two sons shipped,’ and the like, just as a matter of course.” Too much pocket money, and young lads getting their own way, result in this. And the poor father and mother sometimes, though not by any means always go about broken-hearted to life’s end. Some take it quite easy, out of sight being with them out of mind. Or, as the schoolmen said: “De non apparentibus et non existentious eadem est ratio.” Some folks merely think of getting the trouble away from here. They are able to forget that the shipped one lives on still, though far away. Out of sight with them is tanamount to having i ceased to be. I suppose we have all ’ some vague feelings that when a human goes out of your door, or turns | the corner of the street and passes out ! of sight, he disappears wholly; in any i ease that there is a marked break in his ■ life. Ah, to the man that lives, life is ' continuous, whatever is may be to those | that look at him or talk of him. your i brother is you brother still, though I starving on the streets of Trisco. And to say it serves him exactly right is not much comfort. All that can be said is that the shipped black sheep goes to ; destruction where is does not so conspicuously disgrace those at home. It is not quite so real that he is cold and hungry in Colorado as if he were so in the street before your windows and in hearing of your hospitalities. All the I same, I used to wonder how some fathers and sisters managed to live at all, knowing the facts I know. I wonder yet. Has it come to this that the best you can desire is quite to forget the bright little boy whose childish ways bring the tears to your eyes when you remember them; who is dead, dead utterly, in the sodden, hulking scamp, liar, and cheat whom you dare not hope to see again in this world or in any other ? It is a bitter world to many; but one might find heart to bear nearly anything but that.— Eraser's Magazine. A German Emperor made a visit to one of his towns, and was received at the gate by a long row of deputies. Just as they were about to address him a neighboring donkey set up a terrible bray. “Gentlemen.” said the Emperor, “if you wish me to understand you, you must speak one at a time.” According to a modern Greek legend, quoted by Count de Gubematis. all the I Rees except the holm oak deci ed not to lend their wood to.the crucifixion, and when they were tried broke to pieces. Os the holm oak the cro. => was made, and the tree is accursed.
INDIANA STATE NEWS, f ' c State 'l eat hers’ Association. J ’ f The Indiana State Teachers’ Association f held its'29th annual j session in Indianapolis y contemporary with the State College meet- \ t ing. Prof. Jacobs, after welcoming the f teachers in a few appropriate remarks, said: » Tins association Was organized for the I purpose of presenting new and advanced < methods of instruction, and awakening» ’ deeper interest in the cause of popular eoil-; 1 cation in the State. And well it has accomplished that purpose. Indeed, it has been a central element in the development of cur school system. The intluenoe has been farreaching. even touching toe boundaries of l the State in its sweep. It has f-'ivon an un- j ' pul.'e that lias been most m.-tked in all our | , education ;’ interests L-iadmg school men . outside of this State willingly accord to In- , diana the credit of making more real progress in school work, in the last twenty , years than any other State in the Union. ’ What our schools most need now is better teachers, and abler and more conscientious class of school officers, especially the latter. Our meetings heretofore have been spent in discussing methods of instruction and subjects to be taught, but We hare almost entirely overlooked the teacher, the person . who is to assume the important and campli- < cated task of the moral and mental training , of pupils. „ , , Instead of discussing longer what to , teach,” may we not profitably spend some , time in considering “what not to teach. ” It ■ does not matter so much how few or what , branches are set down in the curriculum. If the teacher be broad and skilled in the art of teaching, the pupils will be kept employed so that they may acquire habits of close application, and they Will receive all the instruction necessary to discipline and develop their mental faculties. . , The speaker then gave a systematic and practical talk on the elements of a good teacher, and concluded: “Give us more broad liberal and enthusiastic teache.s, who know how to teach upon the gospel of wonders who can invite their pupils to intellectual banquets, and lead them to wonder at the beauties of language; to wonder at the Intricate combinations of numbers; to wonder at the heavens above and the earth beneath, and at themselves: teachers who can lead their pupils to push out the boundaries of their thoughts and enlarge their mental capacities, and who can create a thirst for investigation and knowledge.” mor. tarbell on imagination. I wish to speak to you to-night of the imagination, that greatly slighted and muchabused faculty. Our schools neglect It almost wholly. No other change so easily made will effect such a transformation nl the intellectual lite of our pupils as a wellsustained and intelligent effort to develqpe the imagination. The power of the mind which is able to operate upon elements furnished by the memory, so as to form new wholes from their parts, we call imagination, and a royal faculty it is. The imagination is the faculty which takes the concepts existing in the mind, and selecting, according to its own laws, elements from several, combines them into new wholes. It may also like a lens magnify any object it chooses. It is the faculty of ideal'creativeness, the power of recombination, the magnifying and the magnifying power. It gives us the unknown in analogy to the known; it reprerents the future in ternis rtf the past, the distance in resemblance to the near. In short, amplifies our mental life, and gives it range in time, space ami intensity By its power of introducingaddition al qualities, it gives life and interest to inanimate objects and makes nature vocal with harmony and truth. It makes intelligible truths descend into the forms of sensible nature and so dwell in habitations convenient to our visits. It is one of the earliest of I faculties to blossom and beerfruit. Percep- | tion and meinofy put forth their leaves earlier, but judgment and reason are plants I of later growth. Imagination gives the best development to the sense of delight in action. Imagina--1 tion. the clear-sighted eye of the mind, sees through the transput-’.it • .'vernig of the tiling the thought i-nibi.lined mil. When we see a man's race we re nl there :i history i we see his struggles, and know whether he has warred with sonsuaiitv. selfishness or ambition, and whether be lias lost or won. It is the torch of heaven showing the way to reason. It is the current ot electricity, which, carried to the platinum points Os the senses, irradiates the dark worb i. All moral terms, all forms of spiritual thought, will be found to be boirowi d or appropi laled from the world of sense. It is the imagination which thus finds the dwelling places for our : ideas, and becomes the organ .: ngpowpr I which establishes our language and gives words their contents. It> is the imagination which gives, foresight. Foresight is possible only wiien the imagination gives the mind bolorimand the images of the things that axe t ■ be. Looking at these images the min. I cun st inly their details and determine ti e req o- t-< tor their realization. Those who v uld deal successfully witli others need the jiower of entering into their thoughts, fvi .ing- and gurposes. Only when you put yourself in is place by the transporting tori of imagination can you judge b. s care o or reach ills heart. There arc tour tvpe-- in mind among men—those where tliom-'ht nxo occupied witli sense perceptions, i.nd their mental associations those of contiguity ot time and space. A second class with lively imaginations, but no depth, play among these surface things and group them into shapes, fantastic, odd, iniereslingand irresistible. 1 hen there are those who see the general truth involved in every particular, who look beneath the surface of things, whose mental habits of association are those of cause and effect These are broader minds. John Stuart Mill and Sir William Hamilton are examples of the deeper men of this class. The fourth and highest class arc those who com- , bine the clear sense perception of the first class and the lively imagination of the second with the profound generalizations of the third, and hence are able upon the plane | of the common mind to emboclv in sensible forms their deep philosophy. Examples ot snch minds are Parwln. Shakespeare and) I mean no irreverence) Jesus Christ. The common people bear them gladlv, and the philosophers study them with profit.” The speaker ref erred to the development of the imagination and of the several faculties of the mind, and the necessity of competent teachers who can understand .and properly train the minds of the young “I be great secret of success in instruction is to be able to think the pupil's thoughts, to put yourself in his place and work from ids standpoint.” Then followed pertinent instructions in detail, which were practical advice to the corps of te' hers in the audience. lie concluded as follows: “To enjoy best the beauties of a sunset, a painting nr a poem, we must not curb our fancy by the fetters of criticism. It i- what we think or feel that gives us most tion am’ the best relish is obtained from those objects which excite in ns pleasurable activities. There is. therefore. a criticism which has its liasis in the general impression left by an object, and a more minute criticism, which is concerned with structure and details” Our State Fdncaters. STATE COLLEGE ASSOCIATION. The Indiana College Association held its fifth annual session at IndianapoH* recently, and had a very full attendance — Among the members present were I*resident- Lemuel Moss and Professor D. 8. Jordan and Amzl Atwater, ot Indiana University; President D. W. Fisher, of Hanover College; Professor Jacob Norris and J. M Coulter, of Wabash College; President Scott and Professors C. II Hail and J. W Moncrief, of Franklin College ; President Everest and Professor A. R Benton, of Butler University; President I Joseph Moore, of Earlham College; Profes- ‘ sors H. W. Wiley and L. & Thompson, of Purdue University, and C. H. Kiracofe, of Hartsvil’e University. THE SCHOOLS OF THE rNTTED STATES. 1 The President. Dr. D. W Fisher, of Han- ’ over College, delivered the annual address. I His subject was “The Schools of the United States.” and tn his remarks he discussed the svst-eni in all of its grades, from the lowest to the highest. “The system of schools which ’ ex sts in anv country.” Dr. Fisher said, ! “ought to constitute a single organic whole. 1 Ido not mean by this that every pert -Lt , must he under' the same general control > Who gqld« *is a matter of secondary importance. nrdvlded alw'avs that guidance Is ’ wfce and eSie.eM. Ihere be not a mere mechanical union between the differ-
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ent part", but a perfect articulation like that which exists In aliving crentnre. There on"l>t to he the le.,«i possible overlaimmg Fiction at everv point ought to be reduced to n fnlnirnnm. fr ~ word, tire entire system f ,„ f ,iit i.. bo one great organism in every T> P ?i living and moving together. lam ot the opinion that, this ideal in a large degree, ha» been already realized in our American schools. Our system of schools Is unquestionably i"'< amu-r-'s It hoe it* own peculiarities wliicli distinguish it from'he ß ™ t ‘?m <,f .- nv other pe<y«e This Is the spontanoon< growth of onr rireumstoncee, and for i’ v reason It is the be“t of which an Ameri- ■ ,-moan avail himself, unless in very exmptional Oases. Transplant i* to a*™™?. ortoF.nglDlJ ”o'l « would utterly failto ili- new-s’l'ie* Os the people The kumrienn schools are tf>" host tor she AmerIrni, Let ns try to transfer the English nniversftv or the German gymnasium to our shores They are irood fortlmse who have them, but they are not best for us. “However, let ufl not suppose that because our Svatem is the best tor us there is no room for imlitoveraent. f ontmuedgrowth is an inseparable attendant of continued life Though I do not think that the best place for an American boy to an education is in a German gvmn astnm or an English university, from either of those quarters r- e mav draw ideas which can be applied most advantageously in America, even if somewhere a new departure in education is made. let us not condemn!it unheard and untried. Between the college and the special school there is no veryclose connection. The articulation of parts is loose. In most of our schools of law and medicine students are admitted without adequate e videucr that they possess either the ,ll “''lbline of mind or the broad information which axe indispensable for the Work demanded In the profession to wnfch they are looking. In the schools of law there 1: hut a comparatively small number of .-lud-ntT Die “ ou ’ j se J’* nrenaration varies widely, and In the Jesuits tha profession* are unfavorably affected. tn some way the State should require that the candidates, as a condition ot admisFion to those fecial either nresent the diploma" of a chart* college or pare, before a disinterested hoard, an examination sufficient to indicate whether he is qualified to begin his proposed rtudies For those, who offer to enter by more private doors there also ought to be rigid examinations before members of the profession which they seek Htv owes to itself such safeguards asrainp't incompetency. ‘‘Probably the ultimate outcome of the past-graduate courses of some of our colleges will be special schools of science and philosophy, in connection with several inItitntions'which ore now not t hus f ' in '' If so, let us welcome the uay of Rn 1“. ,, .5 h1 "’- U On the whole the best form which such schools Clin assume in this coqntry would be an institution entirely separate front all colleges, and. as to iW "mrse. so “rtanged that from all of them it ™" < ’£ra»the graduates who wish to perfect Uiemselvre h special departments. IheJohn Hopk.na University is, in the main, an admirable precursor in such a movement. “Next below the special school is the college. We have bv no means too large a number. The total of all kinds only amounts to about 400. For the present state of things the fault is notin the number, but in lack ot men and means to do the work. The colleges should be scattered over our territory to suit local necessities. To concentrate them after the fashion of Oxford or Cambridge would be fatal. The greatest defect in the internal management of our colleges seems to be an attempt to do too much in the time allotted to the course and with the students and teachers at our command. There arc great excellences in the old fashioned classical course, which consisted, tiiainly, in the study of mental science, the ancient languages and mathematics. Indeed, there are so many advantages in this course that in no highly civilized country has It been largely abandoned as the basis of 3 liberal education. But, on the other hand, the new learning is upon us. We may as well yerr iuze the tact that we cannot in the four years of a college course, cover rhe vi hole tic’d human knowledge, even as to its <1 i-mtarv principles. If we attempt it; v ’1 impart no more than a smattering of a hundred things, even to the best of our students. It is vital to an education that in truction shdttld be given m such away as to develop and di**dphne the mental power®. Disciplinary Ftudfe** without those which impart information, are tike athletic trai « ing tor the body without good wholesome food. In either way von m:iv exercise the powers of death. The .]><■'(!'fie function of physical science in a col'•>D:e course is to do a certain work in educar tion. not to cram with seedhd-hand knowledge, unr to make specialists in some department but to train the mmd to find out I faers of nature for i seif, so that it- may be capable of h gher work of this sort in future life. There is a science of mind as well as of matter, and of the two, that of mind is comparably the higher. What we ought to aim to develop in the college is full round men, and we can do this only by preserving the proper balance in the studies wlrch we empJoy. We must be careful neither to spread our work over too large a surface nor to concentrate it too much on any one special line. No matter what reconstruction may be desirable in our curricula the time has come when we must call 1 halt as to the tendency to occupy more ground and to mult ipl v courses, unless this S done by thorough differentiation into ■mecific and separate schools, so as to cover •Ac new fields of science. i Indiana’s Manufacture®. The statistics upon the manufacturing interests of the State, which the Statistical Bureau has been engaged in gathering for several weeks, have at last been compiled, ■ ind, although not as complete or accurate is may be desired, the statement is the beet that can be obtained under the present sysI em of gathering such information. The I -.able is compiled from the returns by county superintendents, and in counties where they failed to report, estimates are made according to the most reliable information that could be obtained. A comparison of lhe figures with those given by the various returns of 1880 shows in some instances a considerable difference, while in others it is only slight, and in speaking of this the Chief of the Bureau says: u We are led to believe, therefore, that this table is not far from correct” The census report shows that in 1880 the figures upon the various iteum relative to the manulactui ing interests of the State were as follows: Number of establishment®, 11,198; amount of apital invested, <05,742,962; average number of employes, 69,508; value of iron material used, SIOO,26«\892; value of the manufactured products. sl4B,oot>. 411: amount of wages paid, 5’.’1.960,888. “The difference between the census returns,” says the Chief of the department, “and the table given here on capital, might, for instance, be found in the vaI rious methods of reporting real estate beonging to the several establishment®.” The value of the manufactured products of last vear, according to the statistics gathered by :he bureau, is about $19,000,009 more than shat reported by the census for 1880. The value of raw material used during the year cy manufacturers was $94.»' < . 0.417. The average number of males employed wr-®(i9.273, 1 tnd females 3,698. making a total of 72,971. i'be aggregate amount of the wages paid 1 ihesc employes was •ounty the ra w material used for manufac--1 ’uring punwi-es cost $17,005.:UM», and the number of‘males given employment was s,4V»; females, 3i 5; total, 8,745. The wages • paid peojde amount<‘d to $4.1 ll.’j’ u - In an explanatory note the Chief of tbede--1 partment says, in peaking of the statistics gathered: “There were other expenses inci- • •nt to manufa Turing, such as taxes, in“Urance, wear of machinery, losses upon . manufactured articles by reason of new rat- • ent*, improvement’-., rova ties, etc., which - could not I t and. therefore, no f approximation to net profits could be made. It is well known that, by reason of new pat- ’ ents and improvement . manufacturers are vearly found with large remnants of manufactured goods on Jheiy hands which are not saleable, although tney are counted in the " ovluinn of goods manufactured.” 1 /—;• . "* . ? An in Australia bits a • in the window of hi bhop on the 1 .'idee of which, in g<*id 1 ttAib. *s the ’ inscription, “Let me hide myself in t Thee.* Many inis+ook this f u trademark until they disco* ered it was Z the eeeond liy.e 01 a verso, the fir.-t of a which, “Kock of agru cleft for tue,* was • on the other side of the eotfin.