Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. HILL, Editor and Buaincet Manager. ! — • TIRMH : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER TEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. Il B. ALU»o».Pre« , «. W. It sl.Llci.Ca.hUr B. Stvpai.l.l. Vice Pru t. THEADAMSCOUNTYBANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We boy and sell Town, Torrnsbip and County Orders. 25jy79tf ~ ' PETERSON * HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DCCATOB, IBPIABA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining eoanties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgagee Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0 0. f. building. 26jy79tf ~ FRANCE 4 KINGk ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BKCaTVR, INDIANA. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. | All legal business promptly attended to. Office up fllairs in Stone e building 4th door. v25n‘24 year 1. J T. MERRYMAN, Attorney at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. DICATUB, INDIANA. Deeds Mortgages. Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Partition, settlement of decedent s estates, and collections a specialty. Offick : —Up stairs in Stone s tuilding, 4lh door.—vol. 25, no 24 ts. ~E. H. COVERDALE, .Ittornry at Law, -RMNOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Welfloy’s grocery, opposite the Court House. B. R. FREEMAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouses' Drug Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe, Professional calls promptly attended. Nol 26, No. 34. ts. ' A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office ever Adairs Co. Bsnk 2nd door. Wi] attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence en north side of Monroe street, 4th bouse east of Hart's Mill, 25jy79tf ~ wTh. Fric/c A* Stone Mason I ontrac'i DECATUR, INDIANA. iolicits work of all kinds in his line. Persona contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n45m3. SEYMOUR WORDEN, .A-Ucticaieer. Ifrcatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUCU ST KR£ C H TER CIGAR MANUFACTURER. DECATUR, - - INDIANA. A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipes of all kinds always on hand at my store. G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey pneer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and al! legal instruments drawn with neatness and dis* patch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office ov*r \\ elfley s Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Deeattir, Indiana. 3.-an re Thousands of graves aDQuall - v robbed ■ t W t heir victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures Inipotency (caused by excesses of any kind.) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of belfAbuse. as loss of energy, loss of memory, universal lassitude. pain in the d mness of vision, premature old age, and it any other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption nnd a premature grave. Send for circulars with teetlmonals free by mail. The In vUorator is sold at fl per box, or six boxes for f 5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F. JCIIFATY, BriiKffist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce & Co., Sole .Agents at Desatur /T\ —y a week made at home by the industri- / fjous Best bueine ■.now Wore the pub.ic. ’ yCariul not needec . Ue will start job. I[J / /Men, women, boys and girls.wanted X. ercry xx here to work for no time, Yon can work in g®* whole time to the business. No other borine* pay you nearly as well. No one can fa. enormous pay, by engaging at once. ouim •nd t.rma trw. Monty num. fast.. IW. non ably, Addra. Tais A Co., AmuntA, Maim. DR. KiTCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Ivory second Tuesday aid Wednesday »f each month to treat all Chrouie Disease, Coniultation free. Call and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the home ol•ce at Piqua. Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write t# him and make a alateBent at your ea.e — v2nn36iy.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. At Philadelphia a master in an equity suit decided that the press rooms of Aafwrdaj/ Night were a nuisance, and recommends a decree that the presses be stopped between Bp. m. and 6a. m... .J. M. Portland, of New Haven, who had been convicted of theft, voted while disabilities were existing, for which he was sentenced to eighteen months in jail.... Charles H. Cute, a married man, fatally shot the Widow Anderson at Lawrence, Mass., and then committed suicide... .8. H. Fox A Co., of Oneida county, New York, extensive gass manufacturers, have failed lor $l5O,A car in the middle of a freight train, on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railway, jumped the track, but remained upright and rolled along for three miles, even safely crossing a long bridge, till Adams, N. Y., was reached, when the condition of affairs was discovered. Ties, spikeheads and fish-plates were damaged to a great extent John O’Neill, a liquor-dealer of Whitehall, N. Y., was nabbed for selling spirits in Vermont and imprisoned for trial He appealed in vain to the United States courts. He was arraigned before Justice Bailey, at Rutland, found guilty of 457 offenses and fined $9,140, with S.VX) costs, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment He took an appeal and gave SIO,OOO bail.... Walter J. Hostord, of Thompsonville, Conn, asked Belle Young to marry him, and when she refused he shot at her, aud then committed suicide. By the burning of an elevator at Albany. N. Y., four men lost their lives and three others were seriously injured. The money loss is placed at $200,000. The failure is announced of Joseph Myers 4 Son, cloak and suit manufacturers, of Philadelphia, with liabilities of $150,000 .... .Phares Cassidy, formerly a railroad contractor. died at Lebanon. Pa.. aged 102 year& THE WEST. A supplementary report has been presented by the Milwaukee Grand Jury which has been investigating the Newhall house fire. It declares that ill-fated hotel to have been substantially constructed, with wide corridors, ample me? ns of egress, etc., but does not explain how nearly 100 people were burned ui> in such a model building. The landlord of the hotel was given a dose of mild blame for his neglect to employ sufficient watchmen, and a plaster of praise for his uniform solicitude for the welfare and safety of his guests. The employes. with one exception, were found to nave neglected to make proper exertions to save life, and the Coroner was accused of harshness and brutality in his intercourse with relatives of those who lost their lives in the tire... .Geo. H. Taylor A Co., of Chicago, paper dealers and stationers, have failed. Liabilities between $.150,060 and $400,000, ... .Hank Monk, the stage-driver made famous by Horace Greeley, died at Carson. Nev. One of the most desperate personal renconters on record took place in a Chicago restaurant the other night, between Jim Elliott, the notorious prize-fighter, and Jerry Dunn, a well-known local sporting character. Dunn entered the restaurant and began firing at Elliott, putting a bullet in his stomach at the first shot The latter, who is a giant in size, and a Sampson in strength, seized a chair and attempted to brain his adversary, who tired another shot into his body. The men then clinched, Elliott at the same time drawing his revolver. Thev fought all over the dining room until finally Elliott fainted from loss of blood, and expired shortly afterward. Dunn was dangerously wounded. Each of the combatants in the sanguinary affair fired five shots, every one of which took effect Elliott was a desperate, bad man. having been engaged in fr-pient’ broils during the I'aft few’ years, and it was a common saying among the snorting characters that he would ‘’die with his boots on.” His death is a small loss to society.... .The Cleveland Furnace Company, operating leased works at Steubenville, Ohio, is insolvent Its liabilities are s‘.*',ooo; assets, about one-third. By order of the Mayor of Chicago the wires of the Mutual Union, Board of Trade and Chicago and Milwaukee telegraph wares were cut just inside the city limits. The time during which the pole nuisance could be maintained by the Mutual Union expired March 1, and the other lines are alleged to have had no right at all to come into the city. Some inconvenience was caused by the summary method of enforcing the ‘ordinance, and now* the question arises in that city as to what will be done with the Western Union wires when their limn at i< >n is reache 1 two months hence J. I). Walson. a lobbyist, was found guilty at Columbus, Ohio, o attempting to bribe Rep- ; resentative Block at the last session of the Legislature. The jury suggested between 1 three and ten years in the penitentiary as a proper penalty. Two flouring-mills and three other buildings ow ned by the Red Wing Mill Com- , pany, of Red Wing. Minn., were burned. 7he lossisplaced at $200,000, with $90,0 insurance... .It has transpired that Senator Tabor and wife w r ere privately married at 8t Louis on Sept. :-0 last, by a Justice of the Peace, and' the reasons for the second ceremony recently at Washington are causing comment.... ; A Mexican woman 111 years of age died at New Laredo... .The jewelry store of C. Kinbolt, at Springfield, HL. was burglarized of $20,000 worth of jewelry. After serving twenty-eight years under a life sentence for murder, Samuel Ulman has been pardoned out of the Michi- ’ gan penitentiary, his innocence of the charge against ’him having been fully established. THE SOUTH, M. T. Polk, the defaulting Treasurer of Tennessee, informed the Legislative In- I vestigating Committee that he had ♦4,500 : when he left Nashville, that no one holds , propertv or monev in trust for him, and that he has >45,000 invested in a mine m Mexico, to be repaid out of the first receipts. W. M. Davidson, a member of the Legislature of Arkansas, sprang into the river at Little Rock and w as drowned. The constitutionality of the act ere- | ating the Railroad Commission of Kentucky ; has been maintained by a decision from the Supreme Court of the State. The Mississippi river steamer Yazoo, en route from New Orleans to Tensas, sunk at Bonnet Carre, and sixteen persons of those on board were drowned. Os these five were officers or hands of the boat, eight were colored roustalxmts and three ''ere passengers, one of the latter being a Mrs. Lewis, of Chicago. The boat and cargo are a total loss. At Nashville, Tenn., Judge Allen, the new Judge of the Criminal Court, on petition of counsel of ex-Treasuxer Tolk, reduced the latter's bail bond to Th .® bond previously required hr Judge Allen s predecessor had been $59,000. The floods in the Lower Mississippi valley, while not so high as a year ago, have done'great damage. The “sunk lands” on the St. Francis river are submerged, and several lives are reported to have been lost. Tlie people are living in the upper stones of their houses or tinaling about in boats or rafts. At New Madrid there is not a house but is inundated, and the same troubles also exist at Arkansas City. Several persons are reported drowned in the vicinity of Helena, Ark. Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Governor of Georgia, died at Atlanta, Ga, on the morning of the 4th inst., aged 4 J years. -Mr. Stephens was elected to the Legislature of Georgia in 1836 and was reelected for five successive terms. In i >42 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1843 he w’a 5 elected as a Whig to Congress ardjjexi hit seat until 1559 l In February I>4 . ue submitted a series of resaludons in re ari m to the Mexican war which afterward J .med the platform of the Whig party. He optha Gtafoa £ompromiae in l&to, iftd

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIAN A,. FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1883.

took a leading part iff tfie cbmpTcMnWeß of 1850. The passage of the Kansas and Nebraska act in 1854 in the House of Representatives were strongly supported by him as Chairman of the Committee on Territories. After the breaking up of the Whig party he acted with the Democrata At the close of the Thirty-fifth Congress Mr Stephens declined to be again a candidate, and on July 2, 1859, he made a speech at Augusta, Ga. announcing his retirement from public life. During the Presidential canvass of 1860 he sustained Douglas and denounced those who advocated a dissolution of the Union in case of Mr. Lincoln’s election; and in November, 1860, he made a speech before the Legislature of Georgia against secession, on which subject he had an interesting correspondence with Mr. Lincoln in December. He was, nevertheless, elected to the Secession Convention at Milledgeville, Jan. lb, 1861, and there spoke and voted against the secession ordinance. He was a member of the Southern Congress which met in Montgomery. Ala. in February, and was elected Vice l*resident of the Southern Confederacy. He frequently di tiered from the policy of the Richmond Government After Lee’s surrender Stephens returned to his home at Crawfordsville, where, on May 11, 1865, he was arrested and sent t» Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, but, on Oct 11, he was released on parole. On Feb. 22,1866, he delivered a speech before the Legislature favoring the reconstruction policy of President Johnson. In the same month he was elected to the United States Senate, but, as the State had not complied with the conditions of reconstruction, he was not permitted to take his seat In 1872 lie was elected to Congress, where he remained until elected Governor of Georgia in 1882. WASHINGTON. During the star-route trial the other day a sharp remark by Col Ingersoll roused anger in the breast of Counselor Merrick, who called Ingersoll “a puppy,” the latter retorting bv asserting that Merrick was “a dirty dog/ The Judge interposed, order was'restored, and the matter was settled by striking the passage from the record. In the first star-route trial, Cd. George Bliss, special counsel for the Government. was paid $15,C00 beside hotel and railway expenses, and since then has rei ceived several thousand dollars. Merrick was given about the same amount, and Ker has extracted from the Federal treasury $17,600 or more within the past year.... Senator Tabor, of Colorado, and Mrs Lizzie B McCourt, of Oshkosh, were married at Washington in one of the parlors of Willard* Hotel The groom presented his bride with a diamond necklace that cost $75,0001 The following appointments were made by the President just before the adjournment of Congress: Russell Errett, Pension Agent at Pittsburgh. John Bissell, Register of the Land Office at Kerwin, Ka« S. Hollister Dodge, Register of the Land Office at Concordia, Kas. Edward O. Graves, of New York, Chief Examiner of the Civil Service Commission, vice Silas W. Burt, declined. Lew Morrill, of Indiana, Surveyor of Customs at Michigan City, Ind. James 13. Edmonds. of lowa, Commissioner of the District of Columbia Paul Stroback, of Alabama, United States Marshal for the Southern Middle District of Alabama Max Polacheck, of Illinois, United States Consul at Zanzibar. Edward L. Curtis, of Idaho, Secretary of the Territory of Idaho. Charles F. Babcock, Receiver of Public Moneys, McCook, Neb. Christopher Hostetter, Register of the Office at Grand Island, Neb. Gilbert L Laws, Register of the Land Office at McCook, Neb. Norris Marks, Receiver of Public Moneys at New’ Orleans. Joseph Bookwaiter, Collector of Customs for the District of Minnesota Following is the statement of the public debt for March 1: Bonds at 5, continued at 3)4 per cent $54,339,950 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 738,971,350 Three per cents 297,1' 8,600 iiur certificates 385,950 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest -bearing debt 51,354,89 >.750 ‘ y •ore.idcbt 13.3i1.fM5 Lc- 1-tcndvr notes 846,740,190 Oi tificates of deposit 11,340,000 Gold and silver certificates 148,147,710 Fractional currency 7,016,498 Total without interest $513,243,404 Total debtsl,B <1,451,099 Total interests 11,091,763 Total cash in treasury 300,2'>6,748 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,585,270,114 Decrease during February 9,630,678 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1882. 102,638,346 Current liabilities— Pit- rest due and unpaids 1,968,218 D. bt on which interest has ceased.. 13,311. 45 I: merest thereon 405.889 , Gobi and silver certificates 148,146,710 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 11,340,"00 Cash balance available March 1,1883. 131,09 >.986 Total $306,266,748 Available assets— Cash in treasurys 306,266,748 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful I money— Pi incipal outstanding 64,623,512 1 Interest accrued, not yet nald 646,23$ Interest paid by United States 67,283,388 Interest repaid by companies—i Bv transportation service 16,370,190 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 655,198 I Balance of interest paid by United States 40.257.993 The United States Supreme Court ! has decided that under the Federal constitution one State has not the right to sue another State by any method of indirection, and that the attempt which has recently I been made bv the Legislatures of New Hampshire and New York to authorize creditors to pie in the name of the State for the purpose of bringing suits is not to be successful 1 The decision is made in what is ■ known as the Elliott case, which came up from New Hampshire.... A decision was also rendered in the case of Andrew Antoni against Samuel C. Greenhow, i Treasurer of the Citv of Richmond, Va, brought heie bv appeal from the Supreme Court of Virginia This was the suit to test the constitutionality of the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Jan. 14, 1882, entit'ed “An act to prevent frauds.” etc., popularlv known as “the Riddleberger I bill,” which forbade Tax Collect- | ors to receive in payment of taxes ' anV coupons of State bonds of 1811 aud I 1819 until the genuineness of such coupons i should be esi abllshed by judicial jr. eeedinga The court holds that the obligation of the contract between the State and its bondholders has not been impaired by the law in controversy, which does nothing more than make a change in the nature of the remedy I for its enforcement The judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia is affirmed.... United States Treasurer GilSllan, has tendered his resignation. Mr. Giltillan has accepted the position of Treasurer and Manager of the Mutual Trust Company of New York. POLITICAIThe Maine House has passed the bill restoring the death penalty, with amendments for “recommendations to mercy, and giving the prisoner's counsel the closing arguments. .. .The Legislature of Missouri has received 8,231 petitions and 47.581 remonstrances on the question of submitting a probibitorv amendment to the people, and will take no action in the matter.... For the sixteenth consecutive year the lower house of the Massachusetts Legislature has rejected the bill granting women the right to vote at municipal elections. The vote against the third reading stood 127 to ik>, which is a much larger opposition than in previous years... .The Republican State Convention 'of Michigan assembled at Saginaw on the 2sth ult, and made the following nominations: For Justice of the Supreme Court, long term. Austin Blair; short term. Thomas J. O'Brien. Regent of the i'uiversitv—Full term, Harry B. Hutchins; short term, Joseph C. Jones. No platform was adopted Orville H. I’latt takes the place in the Republican National Committee made vacant by Marshal Jewell .The Texas Legislature defeated the prohibition measure. The Massachusetts Legislature passed the constitutional amendments proriding for Biennial elections of State officers and biennial sessions of the General Court .The eightv-fint vote for United States Senator in the Michigan Legislature resulted in the election of Tnomas W. Palmer as Ferry’s successor. Appointments by the President: James L Benedict, of New York, Surveyor Os Customs to: the District of New York.

Charles R. Graham, of New York, Naval Officer for the District of New York. Andrew J Percy, of New York, General Appraiser of Merchandise for the District of New York. Albert G. Edwards, of Missouri, United States Treasurer at St Louis. Elihu Root, of New York, United States Attorney for the Southern district of New York. A. C. Tate, or New York. United Slates Marshal for the Eastern district of New York Thomas B. Keogh, of North Carolina, United States Marshal for the Eastern district of North Carolina. W. H. DeWitt, of Montana, United States Attorney for Montana. Silas W. Burt, of New York, Chief Examiner of the United States Civil Service Commission.* John Irwin, of lowa, Governor of the Territory of Idaho. Robert J Fisher, Jr., of Illinois, Examiner-in-Chief in Patent Office. Thomas M. Kilpatrick, Collector of Internal Revenue for tiie Eleventh district of Indiana George W Post, Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Nebraska. Collector of Customs, William Hartsutt. District of Huron, Mich Surveyors of Customs, Geo. Frazee, Burlington. lowa. Rob’t Armstrong, Dubuque, lawa DavidV Stevenson, of Nebraska, Surveyor General of Nebraska and lowa Postmasters —Daniel T. Hunt, Rochester, N. Y.; Washington B. Merchant, New Orleans; Edward N Talbot, Ixjgansport, Ind.; Thomas Jones, Jr., ( levelana, Ohio; Noah N. Tyner, Fargo, ] >ak., Aug. H. Hamilton,Ottumwa, Iowa; F. J. M W user, Tama Citv, lowa ; Lee Clow. Presort, Ark.; John W. Marshall, Plattsmouth, Neb. FOREIGN. A secret society known as the “Black Hand* is committing murders and outrages in Andalusia, Spain. They have partially destroyed many plantations.... Conservative candidates have been elected to Parliament from the County Dublin and Portarlington. Eleven prisoners at Espera, Spain, confessed that they and 223 others pledged themselves to murder, burn and rob at the command of their leaders... .John Walsh was arrested at Rouen, France, for complicity in the Dublin murders. In his house at Rochdale were found many criminating letters and papers and a photograph of “No. l.“ Evidence of the connection of P. J. Sheridan, of New York, and Byrne, arrested in Paris the other day, with the Phoenix Park assassinations is said to be in possession of the British police... .The British Government has asked of France the extradition of John Walsh, who was arrested at Havre. Henri Rochefort urges Victor Hugo to use his influence to secure the release of Byrne, now imprisoned at Paris. James Carey, the informer upon the alleged assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke, has been expelled from the Dublin Town Council and hiR seat declared vacant... .The editor, proprietor and printer of the London Freethinker w ere found guilty of blasphemous libel, and sentenced to, respectively, twelve, nine and three months’ imprisonment.... The memorial tablet in the house at Rome formerly occupied by Prof. Samuel F. B Morse was unveiled the other day. Speeches were made by Minister Astor, the Italian Director General of Telrgrap r, and others. ....Lord Chief Justice Coleridge will visit this country late in the summer, on invitation of the New York bar. The following nominees of the President failed of confirmation: Thomas B. Keogh, United States Marshal of the Western district of North Carolina; Paul Strobach, United States Marshal for the Southern and Middle districts of Alabama; and William Youngblood, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second district of Alabama GENERAL The Rev. Dr. Chapelle, the Catholic priest who married Senator Tabor and Mira McCourt at Washington, says he would not have officiated had he known thev had gone through the divorce courts. He avers he was misinformed by the contracting parties. ... .An assignment has been made by Humphrey A Co., hide and leather of New York, through overtrading. Their liabilities are $600,000, but their assets are so large that creditors expect to lose very little... .The failures of the past week numbered 272, an increase nf forty-two over the previous seven days. These figures include thirty-six collapses in the British provinces. Fabulous stories are told of the finding of numerous silver mines by a prospector returned from Kootenay, British Columbia He states the ore deposits already discovered are worth $50,660,000.... An Indian camp in Chihuahua, Mexico, was racently surprised by ranchmen, who killed ten bucks and captured twenty-five squawa The engineer officer who was detailed to survey and locate the Hennepin canal has presented his report to the Secretary of War. He offers a choice of three routes, varying in length from Rixty-four to seven-ty-five miles, and providing for a canal and* feeder eighty feet wide on the water line and seven feet deep, with locks 170 feet long and thirty feet wide. The cost of these works ranges from $5,811,468 to $7,207,640. The estimate for the enlargement of the Illinois and Michigan canal to the same dimensions as are proposed for the Hennepin canal contemplates an expenditure of $2,298,919. A singular death occurred at Derby, Eng. A servant girl was found dead, suspended by the neck from a rollertowel behind the kitchen door. She had been seen in good health and spirits a short time before, and the supposition is that, while wiping her face, her neck was caught in the towel, and she was suffocated. This, at least, was the finding of the jury. Fifteen hundred Erie canal horses are left in West Troy, annually at the close of the season. They are distributed among the farmers of the adjoining towns, who receive $1 a week for the care of each horse. THE MARKETS. NEW’ YORK. P T 'V T ’C <J $ 6.00 6.90 IM Flour —Superfine 3.70 4.05 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.16 1.17 No. 2 Red 1.22 @1.25 Corn—No. 72 @ .74 Oats—No. 2 - 5 1 PORK-Messl9.2s @19.50 Lard 11/4$ .11 CHICAGO. Beeves —Good to Fancy Steers. 5.55 @ 6.50 Cows and Heifers 3.50 (Rt 4.60 Medium to Fair 5.25 5.50 Hogs*. 4.50 @ 7.80 Fiouß—Fancy White Winter Ex. 5.50 (<5 5.75 Good to Choice Spr’gKx. 4.75 0 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1.08 0 I.o® No. 2 Red Winter 1.10 0 1.11 Corn—No. 57 @ -5® Oats—No. 2 43 Rye—No 2 64 -65 Barley—No. 2 78 0 .80 Butter—Choice Creamery3s 0 .38 Eggs—Fresh 19 0 -20 Pork—Mess 18.00 018.25 Lard .11*6 FORT WAYNE. Flour—No. 1 Red Family « 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red, new 193 9 1 05 Oats 33 0 85 Corn—la ear 45 0 4< Ryk 60 BARI-EY 65 0 70 Butter—Freeh is 0 20 Eggs 15 0 16 Potatoes 60 0 70 Lard 12 liA x—Per tonlo 00 011 oo Hogs—Dressed 7 00 0 V 60 C INCINN AU. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.10 0 1.11 Cornss 0 .56 Oats 43 0 .45 RVE67 0 .68 PORK—Mess 18.50 ifi 18.75 Lard 11 0 UM TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.13 0 1.14 Corn 59 0 .W OATS—No. 245 0 .46 DETROIT. Flour 4.25 0 4.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 1 io (<?> i n Corn—No. 259 0 .60 O ATS—Mixed4s 0 .47 Fork—Meas 18.50 019.00 INDIAN APOUS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.09 0 1.11 Coen—No. 253 0 .54 0at5—Mixed.............41 0 .12 EAST LIBERTY, PA Cattle—Best 5.55 C 6.25 Fair 5.85 0 5.65 Common 3.75 0 500 Hogs 7.25 0 ~85 buEEP 8.50 0 625

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. The investigating committee on the new State House made two reports to the Senate on the 27th ult., the majority recommending that the Legislature take no action on the matter, and the minority favoring the passage of a bill to allow the Commissioners to employ the old contractors, Howard anil Derig, to complete the building, with the $2,000,000 limit provided by law. The claim of Mrs. Edwin May for SIO,OOO for services rendered by her late husband as architect of the new State House was allowed. The Senate passed, by 30 to 10, Representative Aikin’s bill requiring the State Superintendent of Public last ruction in his next apportionment of the school fund to set apart SIO,OOO, and semiannually deduct the same amount and set it apart, to be known as a normal school fund; also. Mr. Shirley’s bill making mechanic’s liens good on all classes of structure and including attorneys’ fees. The Senate also passed House bills to enable counties to dispose of certain lands for the benefit of the school fund; to relieve the flood sufferers by allow ing then? to pay but 6 per cent, penalty on delinquent taxes instead"of the heavy penalty allowed by law. The Senate Road bill, reviving the old law, was concurred in by the House; also the bill to prevent and punish the assessing and collecting of illegal or constructive fees. The House, with only five dissenting votes, passed the State House Appropriation bill. It levies a yearly 2cent tax and appropriates SIOO,OOO from the general fund. The biU relating to the Bureau of Statistics, as amended by the House, left the geological and statistical departments separated, and the Senate concurred therein. The following Trustees of the various State institutions were elected by the Legislature, in joint session, all of them being Democratic nominees: President of the Board of Benevolent Institutions, Thomas H. Harrison, of Boone county; Trustees Insane Asylum, Philip Gapen. Indianaj/olis; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 8. E. Urmiston, Franklin county; Blind Asylum, Howard Briggs, of Putnam; Trustees of the Feeble-minded Institute, John M. Gore, of Henry: Richard J. Wilson, of Washington; Robert D. Brown, of Dearborn. The Senate, February 28, passed a number of local and legalizing bills, and also the following : Authorizing the State Auditor to map and sell lands forfeited to the State in the various counties for the benefit of the school fund; to regulate the business of express companies; of supplemental to the drainage law; fixinr terms of court in the Forty-third circuit; requiring legal advertising to be made in daily papers in cities of over 16,000 inhabitants. The House passed the specific appropriation bill; the additional insane asylum bill; regulating the sale of oleomargarine; relating to voluntary political associations; taxing foreign telephone oompanies and legaltzirg town-plats and additions. About 4 o’clock the Senate took up and passed the Metropolitan Police bill—ayes, 27; nays, 21. Senator Youche (Republican), who voted in tte affirmative, moved to reconsider the vote, and upon his motion made an extended argument against the bill He was follower by Mr. Graham and others, and without diking a recess the Senate continued in session until the present time, with the prospect cf consuming a good part of the night. A near 11 o’clock a scene of intense excitement occurred. The Lieutenant Governor had call Senator Spann to the Chair and Senator Hillegass, springing to his feet, declared that the Senate had no presiding officer and moved that Senatr Willard be elected President pro tem. He put the motion and deflared it carried, and amidst the greatest excitement Senators rushed towards the Chair and Mr. Willard called for the Sergeant-at-Arms to place him in the Chair. At this mo .nent the Lieutenant-Governor returned and took the Chair. Several Senators de m.mded that the Chamber be cleared, and full half an hour was spent in getting the crowd out. This gave time for the feelings of the members to cool off, and the disewsdon of the Metropolitan Police bill was quietly proceeded with. The Senate passed the sundry civil appropriation on the Ist inst. The Democratic Senators refused to have anything further to do with the tariff business. After Messrs. Bayard and Beck had given their reasons for refusing to BL<ve on the conference committee, the Prosiu nr protrm. successively appointed Mes rs. Voorhees and McPherson, Morgan and Gorman, Davis and Jonas and Butler and Maxey, each of whom declined to accept the honor. The chair then turned to the Republican side and called Messrs. Ingalls and Miller to the bread), but they refused. Messrs. Mahone and Mcl’iil were induced to accept. The House passed the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. While t his measure was under consideration a scene of the wildest excitement occurred. The item appropriating $60,000 for the improvement of the Sacramento river was read, whereupon Mr. Van Vorhis, of New York, said nobody but a gambler and a cut-throat would think of tacking to the bill such an item. This was a thrust at Mr. Page, of California, whom he had called a mule-driver the previous evening. The words wer? taken down, at the request of Mr. Horr, and Mr. McLane offered a resolution of expulsion. After several members had spoken, Mr. Van Vorhis disclaimed all intention of being personal to anybody, withdrew the offensive words, and apologized to the House. Mr. Herbert insist d on expulsion, on which the vote stood 66 to 70. The Senate passed the bill for the endowment of the State University on the 2d inst The Johnson-Overstreet contest was discussed during most of the day. The vote was taken at 4 o’clock. The majority report, declaring Overstreet entitled to retain his seat, was adopted by 24 to 22, Senators Hill, May and Rohm voting with the Republicans. Senators Bell and Fletcher were absent. Upon reassembling this afternoon Senator Benz stated that he had been corruptly approached by parties who wanted him ‘to vote for the Metropolitan Police bill, and a committee was appointed to inquire into the matter. The House passed the bill regulating the business of mutual life insurance companies, and the bill requiring the State Treasurer to give bond m t?ie sum of $600,000. The bill for reletting the State House contract was postponed until to-morrow, which, it is believed, will have the effect of killing it The House rejected the claim of Mrs. May for $16,000. A number of other bills were passed, but none of special importance. The medical bill failed to appear. Both (houses were in session throughout the evening on March 3. It soon became know that the Governor refused to send in his veto of the Metropolitan Police bill until Monday, and all interest centered in the a i n of the House on the appropr a ion b ils. The house went on parsing bills of an ordinary character, and this interest deep-e-ed and became nainfuilv intense. At 11 o'clock Senators Magee, Brown, Willard and others came upon the floor of the House and talked earnestly with the members, but to no avail. The ‘Marion county ring was in control, and under the leadership of such men as Moody the Speaker favored every dilatory motion, and as the time became shorter the filibustering increased. At half past 11 Mr. Heffren protested against the delay in acting on the Appropriation* bills. and said those who were thus tiifling away the time of the House would have to answer to the Democratic party. Moody retortod by asking if he (Heffren) had not himself made the motion which was responsible for the present condition of affairs? The calling of the roll on dilatory matters went on, and the Democratic Senators and members paced the floor with lugubrious faces. Finally just before 12 o’clock Mr. Jewett appealed for a decision on his motion to take up the Appropriation b l], and the motion was tabled while an excited discussion of the ruling was going on. Thus the session ended \»itn both the appropriation bills unpassed by the House, both having passed the Senate. Governor Porter had emphatically given notice beforehand that lie would not call and extra session. There is much bitter feeling between the Democratic leaders. The Senate this evenng parsed the Voyles resolution cutting off (he debate on the vote on Monday. Governor Porter stated tc-night after the action f the House became known, that he positively would refuse to call an extra session of* the Legislature. Will A. Peelle was elected Chief of the Bureau of Statistics by the joint convention to-day. Both branches of the Legislature adjourned sine die March 5, at half-past 2 o'clock. The Senate passed the Metropolitan Police bill over the Governor’s veto by a vote of 26 to 21, all the Democratic Senators voting in the affirmative but Senator Benz. Before adjournment the House passed the Appropriation bill by a vote of 53 to 32. The Appropriation bill had passed both houses last week, nut a vote in tne lower nrancn to re consider their action wa - passed and the bill laid on the table till to-dav, which, it is claimed by the Demo, rats, makes the law valid. The Constitution provides that all bills must be in the bands of the Governor for his approval three days before the finaj I udje urnment

INDIANA STATE JOTTINGS. Liuhtning-bod agents have been swindling the farmers in Hancock county by their contract method. The strike of the coal miners at Sullivan is at an end, but the miners at Shelburn are idle. John Colter, of Laurel, lost his only remaining aim by the accidental explosion of giant powder at Connersville. The boiler in at Westville, Ind., exploded, killing O. A. Hatton and Beecher Hilton. Congressman Lowry telegraphed from Washington that a commission of one to three will visit Fort Wayne and Terre Haute this week to locate Government buildings. The forty-one miles of main and ten miles of side-tracks of the Terre Haute and Southeastern lines have been leased by the Bee Line. By this transaction the Bee Line will become the possessor of over one thousand acres of coal land. A. H. Rice, a harness-maker of LaPorte, aged 76 years, and an old resident of that city, suicided by hanging in his shop. He leaves a wife, aged 36, and four children. A son suicided in the same manner aud place some years ago. Cause, melancholy. Mr. Wm. Hawkins, of Shoals, the person whose right arm va4 torn off on the 6th day of last January, by being caught in the machinery in Johnson & Chenoweth's stave factory, has filed his complaint against said parties, setting his damages at $.20,000. Island Park Assembly Session of 1883, July 11 to 24, is out with a prospectus announcing a long list of noted lecturers and speakers. Justin D. Fulton, D. D., will deliver the oration on the 4th of July. Reduced fare on all roads has been provided for. A gentleman who is in a position to know, says that the earnings of the Indianapolis Street-Car Company last year were $146,000, the operating expenses $75,000, and the cost of improvements, new lines, etc., $30,000» leaving a net profit over all expense of $41,600. The LaPorte County Timet, published at Westville, has ceased to exist, and the office material has been sold to R. H. Chandler, of Rochester, who proposes starting a paper at that place. He also purchases the type and presses that were used in printing the late defunct LaPorte Daily Times. It is positively asserted that the Hon. Jacob 8. Slick, Judge of the Forty-first Judicial Circuit, is to tender his resignation before the 15th. He will accept the position of general attorney for the State for the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad Company. William B. Hess, John W. Parks and ex-Judge Sidney Keith are aspirants for the position. The United States Marshal was in LaPorte recently, serving papers on citizens for infringement on the drive-well patent. His presence there has created a good deal of excitment, and a general prosecution is threatened. But a few have paid the $lO royalty exacted, and an organization has been formed to carry another case to the Supreme Court. An Industrial Association has been organized at Columbus, with B. B. Jones, President; J. P. Gent, Vice President; William Wickler, Secretary; Richard Thomas, Corresponding Secretary, and George Pence, Cashier. All the leading citizens and business men arc members. The object is looking to the future prosperity of the city, and inducing manufactures to locate at that point George W. McKee, of Busseron township, near Vincennes, has brought suit for $5,000 damages against the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad Company aud its detective, William E. Dwyer, alleging that the latter falsely accused and arrested him, in December, for placing obstructions on their tracks near Emison Station. It afterward transpired that McKee was innocent, and the real culprit was sent to the penitentiary last week. A statement having been made by the Rochester Sentinel that Governor Porter was pardoning more convicts out of the penitentiary than any of his predecessors, the Peru Republican wrote to the Executive Department for information. The figures show as follows: Governor Hendricks, in four years, pardoned 206. Governor Williams, in a little less time, pardoned 297. Governor Gray, in six weeks, pardoned 14, and Governor Porter, in two years, pardoned 48. The average of Governor Hendricks is 4 a month, of Williams over 6, of Gray 10, and of Porter 2. The town of Glenwood was somewhat tartled over the news rfl the sudden and unexpected death of an old man by the name of Samuel Dawson, who has lived alone as a hermit within two miles of that place for some twenty-fiv years. His nephew, Robert Dawson, and a neighbor forced their way into the miserable hut to find the old hermit lying in bed dead. Searchers found in the woods west of Delphi, the body of Henry W’elker, a young wood-chopper. No marks of violence, and much excitement over the mysterious death. Indianapolis Journal “A special to th. Journal from Elkhart gives the particulare of the recently reported “faith cure” at that place. It seem that the “procuring cause” was a devout person in Boston, who fixed upon 3 o’clock of a certain day when prayer was to be offered, and that it was “precisely” 8 o'clock at Elkhart on the day named when the cure was effected. There is a difference in time between Boston and Elkhart of about sixty-five minutes, so it would seem that the “faith cure” is limited, as it were, by human circumstances and conditions. We do not quite grasp the matter, but it would appear as if a cog were < ut of this miracle somewhere ” vhakj.es a. jjEAitD eiopea irom iNew Al Daily with Miss Lily R. Lasch, going to Louisville in search of matrimony ;but the couple, being too young, were refused a license. Idie young couple returned home, Board taking the girl to his father's house, fearing to take her to her own home. Application for license was made to Clerk Mitchell, but he refused to give it unless he could be satisfied by affidavit that the parties were of age. Here was a dilemma. The family of Mr. had purchased tickets for Branham, Texas, and expected to Icavo last night, but the girl could not be found. I,ate last night, by the advice of the Clerk, Beard called at the house of the father and begged his consent to the marriage, as he did not wish to part from the idol o*’ his heart Mr. Lasch said frankly he ha< no objection to the marriage, except on the score of the parties being under age. After a consultation with the mother of the girl, consent was given, and the pair were united in marriage at 10 o'clock last night Mr. Lasch and the other members of his family left for Texas the day following. Thf latest move in the matter of party organization is that of a party whoso platform consists of one plank—the extermination of the English sparrow. Those persons "ho think all the political issues are dea I might join this party and nominate a President. A Maine w oman, Miss Ellen Lord, of Portland, has held for several vears the chair of Greek at Wellesley College.

REVENUE REFORM. VVLat Tariff Tax Reform Did for Workingmen in Great Britain —Protection the Gospel of Plunder and the Enemy of American Industry —Speech Delivered by Henry Watterson Before the Members of the Legislature of Tennessee, at Nashville. Senators and Representatives: Upon the southernmost coast of Spain, not far from Gibraltar, there is a little island connected with the mainland by a causeway, and upon this island stands an old town called Tarifa. It once belonged to the Moors, who made it, when they were a power in the world, a port of entry to the Mediterranean sea. They ; knew nothing about Custom Houses and schedules, and cared less about home industries and international exchanges. A few junks and flintlocks sufficed to collect the tribute thev exacted from the “pauper labor ! of Europe?’ Hence the origin of the word I “tariff.” Ido not find, however, in any his- , tory that they levied bounties upon their I own people. They were rude and honest , pirates, who did tiieir pillaging in the old- | fashioned way, having enjoyed none of the j advantages of that modern" economy which 1 has discovered a gentler method of scuttling I ships and cutting throats. Doubtless, however, the natives of Tarifa thought they were doing a good thing for their country in exacting tribute of the stranger. They were subjects of an empire whose splendor and whose squalor existed side by side. | The Moors have gone. Their temples and ' their palaces are a mass of decaying stuff. | The little town of Tarifa scarcely appears i upon the map. It is the vantage ground no ■ longer of protection nor tne home of I monopoly except in shrimps and anchovies. | But the system which it originated and the name it ghvd to that system survive to-day, and “tariff, ” the science of plunder, is making its last stand for tenure and privilege in the United Stares. The object of protection, which is, in the end, repressive and depressive, is to consolidate enterprise and wealth. It is a Federalist in origin and a centralizer in practice. Its effect is not to enlarge the happiness and open a vista of opportunity to the many, j but to build up the fortunes of a few. ****** The truth is, under the protection system I which shuts us out from the markets of the world and turns us loose upon one another, the manufacturing interest and the agn- | cultural interest are arrayed in direct antag- ' onism. It is not alone that the agriculturist ! is taxed to support the manufacturer. It is hat but for the extent of our arable lands ' and a natural preference in man for the freedom and sweetness of agricultural pur- I suits, the cheap labor of the unprotected farm hand—whom the protectionist would ! turn over perpetually to the tender mercies j of the pauper labor of Europe annually pouring in—would be found to-day snatching bread from operatives who are’ lucky if they earn a dollar a day. This brings us to the fallacy that high tariffs make high wages. The exact reverse is true. Labor depends on supply and demand, just as prices are regulated by the foreign market, which enters our home market and takes what excess of production we have to offer it. A high tariff increases the profits of the privileged, or protected capitalist, who adds to the cost of production the rate of duty and the cost of transportation, and then a little private tax of his own as a sort of fee to his patriotism, and gets of the home buyer, who has no option, the maximum price demanded. But this same high tariff ,by limiting production to home consumption, takes from the operative what he might get through the excess of his work if the world were open to him. 1 cite a passage from Faw ett, a leading writer on political economy, which is very clear on this point. The eminent political economist says: “In any given case the more that is taken in form of profits, the less will be given in wages. If wages take a larger share of the produce, profits must take a smaller share. {Suppose, however, that industry, by the introduction of new machinery, is rendered mere productive, there will then be a greater quantity of produce to be distributed and more may be apportioned to profits without the slightest reduction in wages.” This is based upon the law that wages are labor’s share of the production, and it is fully sustained by experience. The example of England, which has tested the efficacy of free trade to the fullest, cannot be disregarded by any one who would thoroughly investigate and fully compr hend the doctrine of international exchanges. In 1849 England let loose her grip upon the old feudal idea of commercial restriction and adopted the policy of freedom of trade. The statesmen who led the movement had literally to take a leap in the dark. J here were no precedents to guide them. But they were sure they were right, and they went ahead. They said, in effect: “Production, if left to itself, will seek its levelCommerce is a simple interchange of com. modifies. England is afraid of nobody in the line of her own handicraft. We will go into the market of the world with our wares, and we will sell them for what we can get for them, and we will buy the products of other countries win h w*e need with the proceeds, and we will trust the result to make us a profit. We will put an end to protection which stimulates artificial enterprises,which lures men by the hope of privilege into paths not mapped out for God and nature, and we will at one and the same time extinguish subsidies and force our whole people into fruitful pursuits by withdrawing from them Governmental support and compelling them to rely upon their own exertions applied to resources better suited to them than those to which the state invited them by its mistaken bounty.” This was the idea on which the Peels, the Cobdens, and the Brights founded a new school of political economy. They were met by precisely the same outcry which at thispresent moment rallies to the side of monopoly in this country. But they kept < n undaunted, and what was the result? It reads like a fairy’ tale I know that the protectionists contend that tne cases are different betwixt England and us; but there, as everywhere else, as 1 shall presently show, they are at fault. To give some idea of the wonders worked by the free-trade experiment in England, r b-w ynnr to run over a few’ facts which stand out in bold relief. The statistics to which I wish to draw your attention were collected by Ernest Mongredien, whose authority will net be gainsaid by the most captious protectionist They institute a compaiison between the state of the country in 1840, nine years before the new policy was adopted, and 1878, t.uA»i.v-nin« veju-s after it xvent into effect. In 1840 the foreign trade of England was a little in excess of SS*.iO,OUO.OOO of bur currency. In 1878 it was nearly four thousand millions. In 1840, under a high protective tariff, the public revenue was about two hundr ed and sixty millions. In 1878, upon a customs list embracing fifteen articles, and yielding only $100,0u0,0(M)on import duties, the entire revenue aggregated nearly five hundred millions which pressed less hardly upon the people than did the former sum. In 1840 the tonnage of the registered vessels of England was 2,571,000 tons. In 1878 it was 6,236,000 toms. In the improvement in the condition of the poorer classes the figures are equally startling. In 140 the deposits in the savings banks, which are Government institutions organized to receive small sums, amounted to $75,000,000 of our curr ency. In 1878 they were nearly four hundred millions. In 1840 the convictions for criminal offenses of all kinds in England were 84,000, with a population of 26,000,000. In 1878 they were 17,000, with a population of 83,1 n 1840 about 200,000 paupers were supported by charities, public and private. In 1878 less than 100,000. These figures show a remarkable improvement of conditions—a revolution, in fact, for the better—and I cannot more fitly close it than by quoting a table prepared by Mr. Mongredien to show the consumption i>er head of the English people during the years named of certain articles of living. This table is conclusive as showing the mmense advance of the working classes in comforts and luxuries, for the wealthy and middle classes must have consumed as much sugar, tea. etc., in 1840 as they do now, leaving the largely-increased consumption to the poor, to whom the purchasing power of wages has been steadily increasing. Here is the table: 1840—lbs. 1878—lbs. Tea 1.22 4 60 Sugarls.2o 48.56 Coffee 1.08 0.97 Rice: 0.90 7.50 Currants and raisins 1 45 4.49 Tobacco 0.86 7.45 During the same period the consumption of flour increased from one barrel per annum to one and a half barrels for each lalniter and his family, while the consumption of beef, p rk. mutton, poultry butter, cheese and eggs more tnan doubled per head These figures tell a story of then own, though it is not bait the story that ought be told, of ho v the emancipation of the people at large and of the working classes m particular. from the semi-barbarous system

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which flourished in England prior to 1849, widened the areas of trade, broadened the opportunities of men and diffused the blessings of an enlightened commercial freedom throughout those parts of the British realm included in its operations. Already the noble words of Sir Robert Peel, who did not live to see the fulfillment of the policy which he had made such sacrifices of power to confer upon his country, have come true, He said: “I shall surrender power severely censured, I fear, by many honorable men who, from no interested motives, have adhered to the principles of protection because they looked upon them as important to the in- . terests and welfare of the country. I shall leave a name, execrated. I know, by every monopolist wno would maintain protection for his own personal benefit. But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with the expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labor and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened bv a sense of injustice.” So much for the example of England. Now can any man explain why it is that, with our vast resources and our peculiar aptitude for special pursuits, our inventive genius, and our enterprise, we may not repeat the experience of the mother country? England is able to undersell all other nations, because, though she pays high wages, she gets skilled labor and has the world for a market. We are unable to compete with her because we have taxed our machinery, surrounded ourselves by a Chinese wall, seduced capital by excessive bounty into unprofitable cnannels, and increased the price of everything. We have only to stop this short sighted policy and devote oui energies to the natural resources of our soil and climate, unaided by Government—in other words, to fling away the crutches of protection and step bravely into competition with England—to vie with her, yea, and to beat her in every neutral market in the world. It is not, as I have shown, the pauper labor of Europe that we have to contend with, but the high-waged labor of England, which Is able to underbid us becauethe cost of production in England has been reduced to its minimum by cheap machinery and cheap raw material There has never been a high tariff in this country that did not curtail, nor a low tariff that did not increase our exportation of fabrics. The more protection we give the manufacturer the more he w’ants, and the more he gets the poorer his employes grow. Before the present era of extreme protection, now twenty years old labor strikes were unknown in tne United States. The war tariff and the tramp came in together and they have been playing a game of blind man’s buff with each other ever since. The reason is not far a-field. American manufactories have been so stimulated by bounties that they are able to produce more than the home market can consume. Unless a foreign market can be obtained for the excess of production the mills must stop. A foreign market can only be got by reducing the cost of production, and tliis can only be done by cheaper machinery and raw material, or cheaper labor. The tariff steps in and forbids the cheaper machinery and raw material, so nothing is left the manufacturer but to cut wages, which he proceeds to do whenever it suits his purpose. A very moderate duty would cover the difference between wages in England and wages here. But as Mr. J. 8. Moore, the I’arsee merchant, shows in his admirable paper read before the Tariff Commission, “protection begets protection.” Every article entering into manufactures being taxed, competition with England becomes impossible, and either a glut of the home market or the stoppage of work inevitable. This is the spectacle which we see at the present moment; mills closing; wages lowered; and a lobby at Washington clamoring for “more protection.” This after twenty years of trial This after many years of unexampled general prosperity contributed by agriculture to enrich tne protected classes. It will continue as long as protection continues. There is a dreary monotony in the history of all high tariffs; first, an excess of manufacturing enterprises, then the swallowing of the little fish by the big fish, then depression, starvation, ruin, and cries upon the Government for help. Think of a system which, in a free and healthy countrr, depends for its success, not upon God’s bounty and man’s labor, but upon an act of Congress! Such is protection, which, nretending to be the poor man’s friend, is slowly out surely starving him to death. The time has come when this freedom of trade which, restricted to the States of the Union, has been as sunshine to the industries of the United States, should be enlarged. Those industries arc as able now to stand alone as ever they will be. The longer thev arc protected the more they will ueed protection And I stop a moment to ask why. if protection is to be such a good thing, the protectionists do not advocate it between the States so that cotton fabrics in Georgia maybe protected from the cotton mills in New England, and the coal and iron of Tennessee from the ore beds and furnaces of Pennsylvania? That would be logical, at least, though it is not what we want We want the open markets of the world. We want more consumers to take our surplus products. We want more partnerships and fewer corporations. We want cheaper production; and, to get it without cutting wages, we want cheaper machinery and cheaper raw material. It is never high-priced labor that seeks protection against low-priced labor. It is exactly the reverse. No man can study the question, even in the light of tne arguments advanced by the protectionists, without seeing that they answer and defeat themselves. It is the only question I have ever encountered in which the greater the research the more extreme and positive the opinion. Usually inquiry begets moderation. But it Is impossible to be tranquil and patient in the presence of enormities that lurk beneath and rally about this system of gigantic rapine and wrong. The Blood-Stanching Weed. During the Drench expedition to was informed by a native that a plant grew inms aisu-rce which was largely used in the domestic surgery of the Mexicans, and he advised the General to lay in a stock of it for use in the French camp. It goes by the name of the “blood-stanching weed” - the exact native word has not been placed on record. This plant has the property, when applied after being chewed or crushed, of almost instantly arresting the flow of blood from a wound. Gen. Martroy brought home some specimens of this plant to France and cultivated it in his garden at Versailles. where it has thriven excellently ever since, blossoms every year, and produces a sort of fruit. Meanwhile, its transplantation to European soil has not robbed it of the quality for which it was originally recommended to its introducer. Its recognized botanical name is Tradescantia ereeta. Although it is quite the reverse of an ornamental plant, and is not distinguished by any beauty of shape or color in its flowers, it fully deserves, if we may trust our informant, to be widely cultivated, on account of its rare medical value. The practicability of its acclimatization is now placed beyond all doubt. Its effect in stanching bleeding is said to surpass all means hitherto applied to this purpose, and it is, in any case, to be produced cheaply and easily. Experiments have been made with it in Vienna, and the Neue Freie Prease, of that city, advises its regular cultivation for medical use.— London Globe. tacks. A tack is a simple, unpretending sori of a young nail, noted for its keen repartee when pressed for a reply and possessing the peculiar power, ’when standing on its head, of causing the cold shivers to run down the back of a mao in mere anticipation ot what might ba —Detroit Free Preus. Maj. Burke, of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, went to work in a stone yard as a common laborer just i after the war. He is now supposed to ■be worth $500,000, and to be looking 1 toward the United Rtftte* Renat*.