Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 27 April 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVII.

The democrat, Official Paper of the County. A. J. HILL, Edltar and Baaincm Maaacei-. ’ ' FIRMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CT NTS IN ADVANCE I TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DBCATUR, INDIANA, Tlili Bank is now open for the transw. lion of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf ~PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ( DSCATVB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adame and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No Varies Public and draw deeds and mortgagee Beal estate bought, sold and rented on reasonabls terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. C 0. F. building. 26jy79tf 1. 11. COVE RD A LR, ~ •Attorney at Law, —Jan»(— NOTARY PUBLIC, ONCATCN, INDIANA. Office over Welfley's grocery, opposite the Court Hosae.

KR. FREEMAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Hothouses’ Drug Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calle promptly attended. Nol 26, No. 34. ts. W. H, MYERS, frick Slot** Jlaaon Contract DKCATUB, INDIANA. solicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n460i3. “SEYMOUR WORDEN, Auctioneer. nrcatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUCUST KRECHTER ~ CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DNCATVB, - - 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 ? ncer. Deeds, Mortgaged, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Special attention to ditch and grave Toad petitions. Office over Welfley s Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Decatur, Indiana. 87-u>6 IVOTICE TO BUILDERS. STONE AND BRICK WORk, Cisterns and Chimneys contracted for, or buik to order, and workmanship guaranteed. Orders and coiresponden e solicited. F. W. SCHAFER.

AND SHOES. • One Door west of Niblick. Crawford and Sons. TTonvy 'Wiixncs, lIKCATVR. INDIANA. One of the best relectfil slock of Boots, Shors, new and Seasonable Goods, etc , including everything in line, and prices guaranteed as low as can be found in this mai ket. Come and see for yourselves. l^f^ Thousands of graves flare annually robbed RM lh eir victims, live, prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great • GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures Impolency- (caused by excesses es any kind ) Seminal WeiiknsM and all diseases that follow as a sequence of bolfAbuee, S 3 loss of energy, lose of memory, universal lassitude, pain in the back, dimness of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature Stoje. Send for circulars with testlmonals free by mail. The luvigorator is sold a fl per box, or six boxes for 86, by all frugfhU, or, will be eent free by mail, aecurely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J. CHEWEY, Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. *. A. Pierce & 00., Sole Agents at Decatur

Daughter*, «» !»'«« and Mothers. Dr. Marehim * < atholiion. Female Hemedy. Guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded « ill Femal '' ' ,l ’? Be ’ Ali ovarian troubles, inflamation and ulceration, falling and displacement, or bearing down feeling, irregularities, birrenn’ss, change of life, luccor.hoen be sides nary weaknesses springing from the above, like headache, bloating. P> weakness, sleeplessness, nervous debility, palpitation of the hut, etc. lor salehy Druggists 1-rice SI 00 and $1 50 per hot tie. Send to '>r. J. B. Marclnsi, Utica, N. Y., for pamphlet, free. For sale by Dorwin and 11. Ithouse.—No. 2m3 , Posit re Cure tor Piles To the people of this coun'ry we would ear we have been given the Agency of Dr MarcF.isi’s Italian Pile Oint nsnt-warr.t ed io cure or money refunded—lntel nil External, Blind, Bl.edlng or Itchmg Piles Price 50c a box Foi sale by Dorwin aud Holthouso. —No 2u>3. Rork < aniift Cough Cure. Wai ranted to cure or money refunded. Coughs, Co ds, Hoarseness, Throat ano l ong troubes, k »'sogo .d tor children , Hock Candy Cough Cure con '.”® s healing properties of pure white Kock Caniy with extrseta of Hoots and Hu - Onlv 26 cts Ltrge bot'les - 1 '''!' e ’ r ' 8 to buy. For sale by Doi w.p a® •> «■ Ith me No.

The Decatur Democrat.

. THE NEWS CONDENSED. . THE BA<f\ ■ James Trw«WWn, who killed Minnie » ° f J eal °W on June 20, Was executed at Morristown. N. J Concord and Lexington. Ma*s.,oSlebrated on the 19th of April the 108th anni- * J er>, ? r ' I?”* Evolutionary battles. At NewbiiHfh X the centennial anniversary Os the celebration by Washington’s army of the cessation of hostilities was observed! At New York, delegates from twent.vone telegraph, telephone Bud •‘lo6tric-l'ght companies favored buying their wires- but as no sat sfa»k#y system has been devised <te| roeottM hasty legislative action. A number of patrons of O'Brien’s circus at Dover, Del., took an emphatic manner of expressing their poor opinion of the performance. As a portion of the wagons were being driven to the depot to take the cars for the next MW n ott the circuit a crowd or men otsmeu fire Upon them w.th repeating rifles and revolvers. Ten <-r twelve of the circus men were bounded, one of the Proprietors, qhwlts Henderson, being shot C''" tnder the protection of the sueilff s posse the remainder of the vans Were loaded and driven to the depot without molestation. A numherof houses in the locality where the attack was made were riddled with bullets No arrests were made ....A Maying party of five Voung people were drowned i- Mcmlo.v pond, near Rochester. MnM ThE extensive cooper shops of E. L. Jewett, at Buffalo. N. Y., were wiped out bv fire. Ixiss, 375,000; insured for J 32,000. The New York Sun has a leading editorial article urging the nomination of lilden by the Democrats in ’B4. THE WEST. Reports in regard to the eonditiofi ' of the wheat crop, received nt Toledo, from over 1,300 place* in every- important wheat growing ebunty in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and Missouri, show that in about one quarter of the counties the present condition is very favorable in one-quar-ter fair, in on'e-thira poor, nnd In one-sixth very poor. In one quarter the present ’Condition Is sold to be much better than two weeks ago, ifi one-half it is slightly betted, In dne-sfxth about the same, and In one-twelfth worse. One-sixth Fay that the crop is bettor than it was a year ago, one-quarter say it is as good, nearly onehalf report it worse, and one sixth say it is much worse. The season is backward, and the acreage and reserves about the same as at a corresponding time last year.... A infield (Mo.) dispatch says the fishermen at Cape Augriß. Mo., have been in the habit of traminel netting in the bay on the Illinois Bide of the river, which is contrary to the laws of the State. A constable of Calhoun, 111, determined to suppress it Last night i with a posse he hailed a fishing partv of three and demanded their surrender. They called on the constable to read his warrant, which he refused to do. so they started down the bay. The constable then ordered his party to and the result was the killing of Wm Willoughby and the probable fatal wounding of Henry Engle, and slight ] Wounding of Johnson Hinman.

There are prospects for a full crop of winter wheat in De Witt and adjacent counties in Illinois, and farming operations show’ great activity. In California an average crop is anticipated, the increased acreage in the State offsetting the damage done by drought Glowing prospects are received from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebra-ka. lowa and Dakota, where the present seeding time conditions have never been excelled.... A Hermosillo (Mexico) dispatch says: A courApaches imports seven*: running fights with the Indians from I res to Gamblez, and claims that they have killed nearly the whole band. After losing the trail of the balance some of the soldiers visited Gamblez, where one who was in the campaign last year recognized a white who was with the Indians at that time, the acting chief in one of the fights.... The wife of Judge J W. Stephens, of Missoula. Montana, was awakened at night by a burglar attempting to enter her room, her husband being absent from home She warned the man to leave, but he defied her, when she tried to shoot him with a gun, which missed fire. She then procured a revolver, with which she fired twice, one ball taking effect in the burglar’s breast, killing him; Mr. L. B. Benton, of the typefounding firm of Benton, Waldo A Co., of Milwaukee, has invented a type which, it is claimed, will levoluHonize the type-setting business. Each letter is a multiple o! a certain unit of space, and correct spacing in all classes of work is thus reduced to a certaintv. The facility with which the type can be used will greatly increase the amount of work performed by each compositor. A package of dynajnite, without distinguishing marks, weighing twenty-five pounds, arrived at Milwaukee bv the Adams Express, consigned to the Milwaukee Cement Company. It was handled carelessly both there and at Chicago, and the escape from a destructive explosion is wonderful Kate Kane, Milwaukee s only female lawyer J thr ?y r n a class of water in the face of Judge Mallory, of the Criminal Court of that city, and was fined 850. She claimed the Judge insulted her bv word and action. Pat McHugh was matched to fight Frank Steele lor the championship of Wisconsin and 81.000 but was fatally shot in the back at a saloon at. Stevens Point.... Gen. Crook has enlisted 200 Apache scouts, who will at once take the field against the hostile*, co-operating with the Mexican forces... .At Sacramento, CaL, the wall of a building fell upon a saloon, killing six men and possibly more, and wounding twelve others. Flames swept away twenty-six business houses and their contents at Aurelia lowa, causing a loss of 175,000, upon which there was an insurance of $30.000 Ihe Medringhaus Stamping Works, or avenue, St. Ixouis. were damaged by fire to the amount of 880,000... .Fire destroyed the honpe in Cincinnati... Aauglian A Co. s agricultural implements store, at Newton, low a, was reduced to ashes, causing a loss of 9M,COO The wheat acreage of Minnesota this spring is placed at 2,500,000. while in Dakota tlm a^ea'under wheat will be increased •>ii i mvi acres over last years planting.... Mitchell, the English pugilist, and Slade the New Zealander, have made an agreement to KA °XIe anS A Ci tv the stakes being 82,500 a ” snow-storm of great seventy occurred Ap.U w to Wyoming and Western Nebraska Telcraph lines were prostrated, and trams on tfieVnion Pacific railway were blockaded The schooner Two Brothers < apcd off Bodega head near san Fran isco. All hands, including the < aptain and five men and a passenger, were lost

THE SOVTH. At Annona, Tex., Deputy United Marshal Lavman, of the Western Arkansas district, was killed by John S. Lennox, a Texas desperado. for whom he had a ''lit released the prisoners in their possession .... at. Huntington, W. Va. destroyed S M’.OCO worth of property and rendered twenty families homeless. Booth Edwards, a colored murderer awaiting execution in jail at Munfordville, Hart county, Ky.. made an attempt to esU °" dining the P^"« tiO the titfreception, was he- & (1 his partv took Se“ day, for Washington. . . A too free indulgence in shrimp ralad by President Arthur at Savannah produced results that for a short time caused U y FO buVue%ro/e^Snal lt vffi%s of the

sWa sWif eon brought him relief. Secretary l handler is reported to have been much alarmed, and was disposed to telegraph to > Washington for medical assistance. > Robt. M. Douglas, lately United States Marshal fflr the Western district of North Carolina, having refused to surrender I TvVfT’i'll 0I " llle °® ce to his successor, the District Attorney has been directed to bring action against him for abstracting official records. The case is somewhat complicated by the fact that ths Judge before whom the I suit should I’ojffought is Douglas father intaw .. I lames swept away 3200,000 worth of business property on Common street New Orleans, I' BKDERicK Gebhardt, notorious as the constant companion of Mrs. Langtry quarreled at Baltimore with John A .Shriver,' an American reporter, and the presence of officers alone prevented a Conflict Geh. hardt assorted/Wvflr wSs ho gentleman, hnd claimed that the reportorlal fraternity with few exceptions, was composed of , scalawega ... .A fierce hurricane did considerable damage at Chattanooga Tenn. Mrs. Stover sister of the late President Johnson, died at Greenville, Tenn. A gentleman largely interested in cattle, who lately returned to St. Louis from an extensive trip among the Texas ranches says ninety-five herds of cattle, averaging j £SOO each, Will *>e t'rivSn out of the State i this sprtng. The entire ‘-drive” is ediI mated at 240,000 head, against 350,10 J h-ad - last year. Most of these cattle will go to Dodge City, Kan, and Ogalalla, Neb.. . Wyatt Banks the murderer of Add Wisner after being permitted to address a crowd of . '■ I 2,tK,0 people, was executed by the Sheriff di ’ Robertson county. Texas. WASHINGTON. It has been decided by Attorney ■ General Brewster that the laW making re- i tiremsnt from the army compulsory on ofli- ’ '■ j bers who have reached 6a years repeals the ’ law which limited the number on the retired ' list to 400. In accordance with this decision 1 thirteen additional officers have just been 1 retired, and a permanent Increase of the list ] will follow.

The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the reduction of 16 to: 0 per cent, made in 1876 by the Postoftico Department in the rates for railway mail service from the sum agreed upon when the contracts were signed for the four years from 18«5 to 1879, was not authorized by law, the contracts being binding upon both parties for the full period covered.... The hearing of testimony in the second trial of the star-route conspiracy cases, at Washington, was concluded April 18, having blasted five months, and counsel began their arguments to the jury. Dur.ng the day the Grand Jury returned two additional indictments, one charging William Pitt Kellogg with corruptly receiving-money while United States Senator, and the other alleging a Similar offense against Thomas J. Brady while Second Assistant Postmaster General The Secretary of the Interior has made a,demand upon the Union Pacific Railroad Company for 81.727,742.-M, claimed to be due the Government The company disputes >600.917.(Ki of this amount, and the Secretary pi omises that the payment of the uncontested 81,036,824.88 will* not be construed as a waiver of any rights by the company... .President Arthur returned td the White House on Sunday, April 22, in good health and excellent spirits... .ThePostoifice Department has under consideration the printing of a 4-cent postage-stamp, to take the place of the 6-cent stamp in the payment of double letter postage. The Chicago Tribunes correspondent telegraphs from Washington: The State Dej artment officials as a rule are nnt. nnm Jud-’-e O’Connor, of lowa, the law officer of tba; d-paitiuent, is quoted as saying that, under existing statutes, the United States is p. werless to prevent the secret meetings of the dvnamite party or to generally interfere wi h the couise which they seem to have adopted Trie only steps, he thinks, which would not infringe upon some constitutional right, would be to pass rigid laws against the possession and sale of explosives.

POLITICAL. Leading Ohio Republicans are talking about changing the time of holding the State Convention until after the Supreme Court renders a decision as to the constitutionality of the Scott Liquor Tax bill. Ex-Gov. Hendricks missed an invitation to a banquet by the Brooklyn Free Trade Club by saving, in a recent interview that he was in favor of free tiade or a tariff for revenue, always provided due regard was had for the manufacturing interests of his own State. The Saloonkeeper’* Association of Cincinnati have formally determined to oppose, by every legal method available, the operation of what is known as the Scott law, which imposes a tax of S2OO a year on all saloons where spirituous liquors are sold and »10U where only beer and wine are sold It is understood that the brewers and whisky dealers will join in the opposition to the law. The plan will probably’ be to get a tert case before the Ohio courts as soon as possible, and try the constitutionality of the law .... There is an unexpected unanimity in the opinions of the committee of fifteen Republicans appointed to harmonise the differences in the party in New York. The influence, of presid nt Arthur and Secretary Folger has been brought to bear in that direction, with the promise of a redistribuUon of Federal patronage in the State... .The Ohio Demoratic State Central Committee has decided to hold the next State Convention at Columbus, June 21. , _ , r . , A hill recently passed by the Michigan House gave villages the power to license saloons, taverns and eating-houses When it reached the Senate the word ‘■suppress wi substituted for “license.” and the House unwittingly concurred when the bill was sent to the Governor and signed, rhe House discovered its error, and demanded a return of the act, which the Governor complied with causing much dissatisfaction. .ln the PennsvlvaniE Legislature a prohibitory amendment to the constitution was voted dow n by 27 yeas to 151 nays general. Fire destroyed the village of Oakville on the lake shore, twenty miles from Toronto. Canada The loss will amount to SIOO,OOO or more. When the fire reached a dnis store two barrels of whisky were rolled out on the street, and the members of the village fire brigade all got drunk and helpless otherwi-e the fire might have been controlled in its first stages.. The United States Supreme Court has affirmed a decision disbarring a lawyer who was reported to have participated in a lynching There was nothing but rumor to establish the attendance of the attorney at the Ivnehinsr. and vet Judge Locke, ot iQO Federal district in Florida, threw him overboard. Parliament House, at Quebec, was destroyed by fire, the flames first appearing in an lipper story. Many public documents and cop es of acts of Parliament awaiting executive sanction were burned. The water pressure was delaved fifteen minutes, which allow ed the fire to gain groat headway.

The business failures for the week ending April 20, as reported to R G Dun ,t Co.'s mercantile agency, New York, numbered io. as against 189 for the preceding week distributed as follows: New Fnglun_d State. 29; Middle States. 31; Western, •>.: Southern 44- Pacific States and Territories, 20; Canada. 14; New York city, 10. Among the recently announced deaths are those of Charles P. Kellogg, a lead ng merchant of Chicago; Edward Nock, at Youngstown, Ohio, the first man in the United States tr puddle iron: Roswell Hart, ex- Congressman, at Rochester, N. 1 . and Solomon S. Gray, of Natick. Mass . tile pioneer manufa trirer of paper collars. Jay Goeld has issued a circular to the stockholders of the Wabash, St Louis and Pacific Railway Company, giving notice of the creation of a collateral trust loan of $10(0.1000. hearing 6 percent interest and , running thirtv j ears, to meet the obligations of the Car Trust Company and relieve the ; Wabash Company of its floating debt wiffi--1 out drawing upon the net earnings ot the i company. The loan will be guaranteed by the fit Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern Raiiwav Company, and secured by mortgage » I bonds, real estate, stocks, etc.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1883,

■ The American public has paid $229,- ( 663.58 to see Mrs. Langtry the past twentyfour weeks... Since March 1 Chicago packs ers have slaughtered 217,000 hogs, being , 155 Ouo less than for the corresponding period a year ago. Sir John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada, was arrested at.tbe wedding of hts son, !h Toronto, on a charge of perjury preferred by a person who claims tc have written political pamphlets for the Premier, the services being estimated to be worth 85,000, in payment of which Sir John, i is alleged, promised him a position in the Civil service at a salary of 82,500 per annum, a promise which has not been fulfilled The alleged perjury is said to have consisted in swe ring that certain of the claimant’s affidavits were false. foreignl Curley, the second of the alleged assassins of Lord Cavendish md Mr. Burke to be put on trial at Dublin, was convicted and sentenced to be hanged on May 18. The prisoner, when asked if he had anything to say. avowed himself a member of the Invincibles and the Fenian brotherhood, but denied that he was m Park, the nighs of the minders. He had expected no mercy from the court, and, loving lieland, was ready to die for her. Oajielng led from the dock he shouted ‘•God Save Ireland!”..., A leading Berlin journal states it is probable that if a monarchy is restored in France war would be declared, under certain conditions on Germany without warning... .Over 5( 0 houses were destroyed by a fire in the Russian village of Katow-Iwanoskow. Eighteen Nihilists were convicted the other day at St Petersbuig, Russia. Os these six were sentenced to death, two td life imprisonment, and the remainder to terms varyirg from fifteen to twenty years. The men sentenced to capital punishment aie IL ganovitch, who was one of the party Implicated in constructing the mine in L ttle Garden street, St. Petersburg; Zlatopolis, an i associate of Hartmann; M. Gratchersky and Klimenko, who participated in the assassination of the late Czar , Telaloff, who tried to blow up the imperial train in 1881; and a retired naval officer named Boutsevitch, whose special crime is not stated. Timothy Kelly was the third of the alleged murderers of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke to be put on trial at Dublin. The testimony was in the main similar to that in the cases of Brady and Carlev, upon which thus men were sentenced to deatn. Several witnesses swore that Kelly wa«* not in Phnen x Park on the day of the murder. The jury failed to agree. ' The examination of the dynamite conspirators proceeded at the Bow Street Police Court, in Londoh, April 20. The evidence showed the connection of Wilson and Whitehead with the manufacture and distribution of nitro-glyoerine. Without concluding, the examination was continued until Thursday, the 26th. The Fall Mall Gazette, recalling the political intrigues of Mazzini in England against the Government of Italy, and the refusal of Great Britain to extradite him, has doubts if the United States will give up O'Donovan Rossa should his extradition be requested An English and Spanish steamer collided off Bilboa, Spain, resulting in the drowning of seven persons.... .The ( Madagascans are busy making weapons, and ■ are determined not to surrender an inch of ' territory to France. There was a mysterious explosion at 1 the Government manufactory of small-arms j at Enfield, England, which is supposed to have been occasioned 1 peror'oFkussia will take place May 27. The ; iestivities will be kept up until June 8.... A i report has been received at Baris from C asro | , that El Mahdi, the False Prophet, has been ; . captured in the town of Khartoum, in Sou- ; dan Suleiman Pasha, wel. known or m 3 defense of Shi ( ka pass durin/the late war . between Russia and Turkey, is dead.... Iwo of the Nihilists sentenced to death at St Petersburg were execute I. one bv hanging and the other by shooting.... A' destructive lire occurred inTaverpool, causing a loss of over Jst>l>,i 00 in dock property... .At Milltown Malbay, County Clare, there were twenty arr Sts for murderous conspiracy, two of the arrested parties turning informers. In the English House of Lords, Lord Dunraven and the Marquis of Lansdowne, leading representatives of the landed aristocracy, urged the immediate adoption of a Government f-cheme of immigration on a large scale as a remedy for Irian distresa The startling statement was made that there were a quarter of a million tenants in Ireland whose holdings were insufficient to support them and their families even if they were not called upon to pay any rent whatever.

The Ostrich Kick. When a farmer goes into a savage bird’s camp he takes with him a thorn pole, with a branch or two of the thorny bush left on the end. This is called a i “tuck,” and when the tuck is applied to the ostrich’s neck or head (his tender points) he is almost invariably subdued, and. after one or two efforts to escape, bolts furiously off to the other side of the camp, where he races up and down to vent his baffled rage. If. however, the bird gets near enough to his opponent to give the so-called kick, he lifts his bony leg as high as his body and throws it forward with demoniac grotesqueness, and brings it down with terrible force. His object is to rip The enemy down with his dangerous claw, but in most cases it is the flat bottom of his foot which strikes, and the kick is dangerous as much from its sheer power as from its lacerating effects. It is a movement of terrible velocity and power, at all events. Several instances may be mentioned of herd-boys thus either wounded, maimed, or killed \ outright. One case occurred near Graaff : Reinet, in which a horse had his back i broken by a single blow. In this case I the bird had endeavored to kill tlie rider, but missed him and struck tne horse. , . , Many persons have been set upon by birds when there was no shelter, not i even a tree to run to. In such a case, if the pursued were acquainted with struthious tactics, he would lie down ! flat on the ground, where the bird finds it impossible to strike him. But even this is no light matter, for some birds in their rage at being baffled of their kick, | will roll over their prostrate enemy, ’ bellowing with fury amj trampling upon : him in the most contemptuous fashion. One man who thus attempted the lyingdown plan found that every time he at- | temted to rise the bird would return ' and stand sentry oyer him, till at last, after creeping a distance he got out onlv by swimming a pond that bounded ■ one side of the camp.—Century Maga9. i M.

A Small Story of Two Sons. “Lemme tell yer,” exclaimed old Nathan, arising at an educational meeting and addressing the assemblage, “dar ain’t half as much in eddycation as a man in a moment ob ’thusiasm mout promulgate. I raised two sons. Jim went to school an’ got a good eddveation, but Tom stayed at home an' neber looked inter a book, but yit he made a quicker showin’ dan Jim.” “How?” asked a chorus of voices. “Why, he beat him inter de penitentiary by two days,” exclaimed the old man as" he sat down with the air of a man who feels that the weight of evidence is in his favor.— Arkansaw Traveler. - The monument at Yorktown, Va., is to be built of Maine granite, by a Maine company, and to cost $66,927.

DEMOCRACY. : As Expounded at the Club Banquet, in Chicago. I Speeches of William f. Yilw H. Harrison. Col. Vilas. There must be a change, and a great i change—a change of sentiment and a change ' of The controversies and passions ; begotten of the war ore things of the past x ; nsi ful only in tfaehlng of errors to I hvoitt ide As purjjffhgs, nets issues and new political associations are before us. Mr. President and gentlemen, the change has already begun. To your credit and honor, the keynote of that change, most fruitful to our hope, was sounded at your tahquet last year, and resounded with cheerful melody in the elections of la t fail. JTo overthrow the gigantic forms of error and wrong which have intrejicfied and fortified, almost unobserved, for twenty ye.irs, will require the concentrated energy of a 1 the be t of every no’ltical complexion. There must be political association to an te them, without animosities to prosecute or revenges to gratify; its face set folward td do the m’ghty work incumbent on the'people of to-day. All philosophy and reason te ich that its germ must lie with the paity in opposition, for the evil is roo ed in the party In administration. But its blossom and fruitage will spring from the hearts and minds of the whole people. Y ur conference last year invited recurren *e to the teaching of th j fathers for light and inspiration on he path ahead. It is the dictate of wis lom. It will reyive a party of the p<;< p’e, instant and zealous to demand and secure thei rights and privileges. Ihe count y needs renewal of the faith and doctrine *< f the old Democr icy 9! Jefferson Now, as then, it is ade juate, and nothing less is a J equate, to maintain constitutional liberty. Now, f a then, it will prove the road to happiness and prosperity. We want it, to defend against the nation's most insi liou< peril, centralization of power unnecessary to the c mmon welfare of the Union. We want it, to reform our civil service and restore honesty, capability and fie ity to supremacy as qualificati ns for office. We want it, to give again purity, integrity. simplicity and economy to the administration of Government. We want it, to sup| ressthe tyrmny of “bossism’’ and open the ways of political ervice to self-respect-ing raanhoi d; to pui a period to the cant ng Pecksniffianism in office, which so long has openly prated virtue and secretly practiced iniquity, and give us again the plain and sturdy servants of ta< olden days, who are what they seem.

We want it, to stop the pltinder of office* h >lders by assessments, and to put down that secret treason of distrust which resorts to corruption as better than argument to win the judgment of the people. W'e want it, for its equality and philanthropy, for its broad faith and intrepid confidence in humanity, for its love of justice to all, for its abhorrence of class favoritism in legislation, taxation and administration. There rest the principles which must animate and sustain the people's cause in the tremendous conflict immediately pending. I need hardly name it No man can longer shut his eyes to the open fact There must and will *be aggressive and relentless war against the dominion of monopoly and the oppression of iniquitous taxation and unjust laws. Many forms of this tyranny beset us. But one overshadows all the rest, demands the earliest redress and challenges the greatest effort Its long, felonious tentacles have bound their prehensile gnp upon every mode of primary’ production, every’ source of wealth. They are fastened upon all parXiefij all classes and conditions. It is a con- " people, so comprehenmore CL _ e ry community holds its agents, enemy, there lies viw —L* . the battle is at hand! I give you joy in the prospect of it! The foe is* sturdy and defiant. From their ramparts* of riches, piled in menacing mass, the lords of the tariff proclaim their purpose and power to maintain that sum of financial villainy, protective taxation. With skillful ingenuity they have lightened other burdens to make this more secure, and they fail the air vsitli sophistries. The simple question is: Ls it right, or is it wrong? For, If wrong, it robs the industrious, wealthproducing workers of this country of more than 850,00).000 of their earnings every year, to fill the chests of a favored class. If wrong, it is a stupendous wrong. All the doctrines and traditions ot Democra :y, springing from the soil of liberty, cry out against it It is heresy, false and pernicious that our millions must labor in forest and field in counting-room and office, to maintain'any class of manufacturers, under pretense of pampering any foim of indus.ry. The spoil enriches only the few masters, enervates labor, and .‘trikes enterpri-e with | pa: alysis With every material native to our fo’l our manufacturer s. with profitable adventure, ought to fill our own ships, manned bv our own hardy seamen, with products for every buying country on the glol e. But what do we see? Our exports are mostly from the farm and mine, carried in the ships of free-trade England. Our manufacturing industries, fitted and limited only to oir fictitious market, with prices upheld by force of legislation, are in a state of intermittent fever, now stimulated to overpr. duction, then gasping with stagnation, while the excellent avocations of shipbui ding and navigation, which ought to furni-h manly industry to hundreds of thousands, languish in decay. The tariff is a form of slavery, not less hateful because the whip is not exposed. No free people can or will bear it There is but one course. The plan of protective robbery must be utterly eradicated from every law for taxation. With anilinching steadfastness, but moderately, without destructive haste or violence, the firm demand of freedom must be persi«’ently » »<• ed until everv dollar levied in the name of Government goes to the treasury and the vast millions now extorted forTSs are left in the pockets of the people who earn the’ money. Regflute to defend the sacred rights of property, we must be resolute to redress the wrongs of property. God forbid that the rights and liberties of this people be laid at the feet of Mammon! . It matters not that this controversy sh ill divide present houses or break the bonds of past association. Such distresses must not be set in contrast with the welfare of a great nation; they must not stay the deman I tor justice of a mighty people. Nav. they cannot Nor any curbs be long appli Jtl 1 only bind up wrath to burst in greater violence in a day of wrath! There is fearful menace to peace and happiness in the spectacle of injustice with its f( ot upon the n < cks of men. W’ho can fix his conbenip4ation on the glistening splendv rs of our future without a 1 angles: our responsibilities undis. harged shall sprinkle the robes of liberty with blood or hamper her limbs with Ch Fiant the old st andard of constitution d Democracy and beat the long roll. Summon the hosts ot liberty and set your ranks in order! It any feai the battle, iend him tn the rear! If any will not serve God but prefer Mammon, give him safe conduct to the enemy! Invoke in the house of counsel the faith and philanthropy of Jefferson; bring again to the field the daring alacrity of Jackson! u , Audio the sunlight of our nation s destiny go "where Democratic principle leads 1 the wav” to light the people's enemies and win the people’s victories!

Mayor Harrison. Political philosophers, in searching for the origin of government, trace it back to pater familias. to that authority which the father acquires in rude society over his children and their descendants. Taking human nature as our guide we have a right to believe that such a theory is true, but, after a l. it is the imaginings of men that give such origin, and does not come from a historical or traditional narration. Our earliest knowledge. as portraved on the pages of history. blows us well-defined nationalities, a strong Government, whose rulers c aimed to govern bv reason of the possession of divine attribute-. Victoria signs herself Queen of England and impress by the giace of God Here in America, however, the rulers of tne land govern bv the will of the people. If we were to follow down to the earliest ages known to historv. through the long successive ages down to the present; ma 1 othrt countries than America, we wiU find that either legallv c*r bv prejudice or trad....on men haveneld office net in trust for the gov eraed, but as the custodians of tne pcs.uons which were attached to the prerogatives of the crown. Here in free America, however, no such traditions exist and all men con-

cede that the offices are for the good of the people and not Xorthe office holders; that the officer Is a servant of the people, bound to obey them ag his aovereign, with no rights inherent *0 bls nftiee ntgner than the right he holds as 4 and that the office itself and its power* are for the people and their good. This is certainly true theoretically, and yet to <L<y parties battle against parties,orators thunder in thC earl of others,Jipt for the high princi-* pies of government, Diit fdf vte Privilege of dividing the spoils of office and ot the spoils as rich as possible, and the labor of office as light as is consistent with its holding. But a little while ago a man crazed with the greed of office struck down a President, made a madman bv the bowlings of the newspapers over the division of Spoils Won by 2 party success. Newspapers talk of feh” principles of the i but the dispatches frOui tHt Sea* of i ment daily, filling their news columns, flrd full of lists of appointments, and of the dissensions of Senators and Representatives among each other over an appointee to a postomce, a custom-house gauger, or some other paltry position. United States Senators meet in tne State capital, gather around them the magnates and Legislators of a State, discuss and arrange, into the small hours of the night, not the principles of government or the policy of the party to which they are attached, but the equitable distribution of the spoils among their adherents, with an eye to the perpetuation of a Senatorial to£a oti the one.ot the building up of the hones of itie ofhTt for ft Prost- ! dential candidate. I said a while ;go thdfy ' theoretically, in America officers are servants of* the people, while in England men yet held to the traditions of the past that offices are the prerogatives of the crown, yet in England the 'office holder is the servant of the people, while in America he is yet the people’s despoiler. The Democratic party, the birth of whose founder in AiiletiCa we* ar° this night cele-

brating, has ever held that man is capable of self government, and that the office-holder is a servant of the people; that a public office is a public trust. Thomas when asked for the appointment of an officeholder, inquired if he was capable, if he was honest, if ne was true to the constitution. To-day a President of the United States, or his advisors, makes no such inquiry, but demands what he did for his party at its last election, or what he will do for it at the next. The mission of the Democratic party is to restore the Jeffersonian princißte, and to have men in offi e who not only .knowledge themselves to be but are In fact the people's servants. It is a singular thing that, while the United States Government may have 70,000 to 100,000 office-holders, that while these 70,800 to 103.000 are but a handful compared with the 25,000,000 or thereabout of people who support the successful party, yet these 70,000 or 100,000 so blind the people that they get wild with excitement over the chances of patronage, and a delegate in a national convention assembled can boldly stand up and a«k “If it is not for the offices, then in the name of God what is the convention assembled for?” and this inquiry, which ought to have driven such a delegate with con empt from the convention's door, makes 25,000,100 people applaud him for his outspoken honesty. An-easy thing it is to be honest in expression, when no expression is so black as to bring shame to the face. It has been thrown in the face

of the Democratic party that within that I party was originated the damnable doctrine j that “to the victors belong the spoils.” Such ( an expref siou may have been uttered by a | man claiming to be a Democrat, but so apt a I t scholar has been the Re: üblican par v that | to day, in no single Republican State in this ( Un on. is there any disagreement over party I « principles, over the principles of govern- I | meat; but the tight over | atr< nage is so in- I ‘ tense and bit er that one faction prefers to | 1 see the p riy defeated rather than that the I 1 other faction should hold the patronage. If ! the Democratic party be true to itself and I will show whenever a Democratic official 1 1 guts into a position that such official consid- ! < ers his office as a trust for the people, then ( phxtv may lay down no planks j Government of the people anu iur p— I pie and not a Government tor the office- ; } holder; and with such a premise can win ; the support of the people. Ihomas Jeftei- i sou believed that man was capable of self- ] government, He was one of the people, ( sympathized with the people, and as such rode his horse to Washington on inaugural | daw whereas now Republican I residents, 1 j when inaugurated, have to have ad the | parapharnalia of royalty, with national and | volunteer soldierv marching to do them ■ 1 honors, making this Government a Government not of the people with the simple tastes i that the people are accustomed to, but a j Government flattering to the rich man and 1 pandering to the vitiated taste oX piiitourAa- ; cv. Our present President, who holds his office at tne price of the most dastardly i crime of modem times, when he goes■ upju I an American ship is not satisfied with the bunting which floated over a Decatur or a | Farragut, but must have the stars and . stripes floating over him emblazoned with I

embroidery and silks. I The Democracy wishes to get nd of rnese | things. Democracy believes that the omceholder in all matters of trust, never thinks . of his own interest, but the interests of those who placed their trust in him. Inis, I at least, is and should be the true principle ; of the Democratic party. The Democratic i party believes that that government is the best which governs least; that those *aws i are the most beneficial which incumber the , fewest numtier of pages of the statute books. Democracy believes that the individual man should have the largest liberty , which is compatible with the safety of the . others and of the whole. It believes that men should be left as untrameled by laws I as is possible for the safety of the nation. It i believes that the funct.ons of the Govern- | meat are exhausted when it protects and fosters the material interests of the Government. It believes that the moral and religious duties of the individual I should be left to himselt It beheves ’ that when a man enters the threshold of his home he is then in his castle and that no i minion of the law has th; right to invade j that castle except when armed with a proper warrant. It believes that wherever a man goes the freedom of the home g >es I with him so long as he does not violate public decency or infringe up n the rights or , others. It believes that personal libert. is J as to the happiness of man as civil , liberty is essential to well-organized society. > It believes that the laws should not interfe c in matte s of religion, and that the | thunder of the pulpit may pour down upon I the commission of sin, but that no liw , guided by narrow-mindedness < r fanatr ism I Zhould interfere with the personal liberty of others, who arc unwilling to be cutdownto 1 fit a I rocustianbed. Democracy believes in . the 1 nguage of Thomas Jefferson, that all men are created free and equal, and that the poorest man in the land, who wic.ds a pick or drives a plane, is as proud anti erect in his lowly citizenship as is the owner of countless millions rolling in a padded chariot or in a railroad palace. Our enemies say that our party is a party of Bourbons and that It learns uothingand forgets nothing; it is the cheap literature of the partisan press but we are willing to acknowledge that in one respect we are Bourbons though out of power for upward of two decades; like Bourbons feeling the blood of old Democracy flowing iu our veins, though cast out from our patrimony, yet we ever look steadily aloft, believing in the honesty if the people and trusting to the people, we have never folded our garments about us and laid down in death, but have had an abiding confidence in the future, and know that while there is a Lord in Israel and a warm heart in mankind our partv must and will succeed They have talked about third parties and told us that we could never win while we held the name of Democracy, yet with unfaltering tru-t we have held mi the chart that Jefferson gave us. and will keep our flag constantly unfurled to the breeze, and will battle until we shall have planted it on the national battlements, and we will 1 then guarantee to the pe: p’.o a Government . of honesty, economy and liberty.

Judge Seymour D. Thompson tells tho Missouri State Bar Association that “the failure of the law” is due in part to the character of the bar. He thinks that admission should be made less easy, and that the bar itself should take this matter in hand, somewhat as in England, where barristers and solicitors are not created by the courts. Liberalism is creeping into all the churches, but the poor preach-rs notice that it has not yet struck the contribution box. Lamp-wick dipped in hot vinegar before using is said to prevent offensive smell from lamps.

>| INDIANA STATE JEWS. I W. C. Hendricks, an oM citizen of Elkhart, ' ! died, aged 82. __ , A new school building and city hall will a£ 1 ’ once be erected in Wabash, the two to C 0& ! *30,000. I’osTorncES have b—m established in In- • liana nt Corner, Sullivan ctfattlfi Wellman. Crawford county. 'TntWvth District Woman’s Christian Teni- [ erance Unioii Cl7*ed a three-days’ seession at Newcastle last week. ~ Prop. H. Whey, of Purdue univeislf+- *#* accepted the position of chemist-in-chief ot the United States Agricultural Department Ma. and Mbs. Philip Manchester recently i celebrated Hie fiftieth anniversary of their marriage at ElkWt Thf'y came to St Joseph county in 1847. New Albany Division No. 5, Unfrhrta itank K. of P., will compete for the *7OO in gtfid and prize banner at the Southern Cotton Exposition at Louisville. Miss Janv. Grow, an accomplished young lady of Montgomery, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment ill the Davlesd county jail for stealing silks front 4* si«re. Mbs. David Joyce, of Moral township Shelby county, gave birth to triplets, all boys, MW other day. Two were still-born, and the third lived otfly one day. J. L. Emmerson, of Gibson county, Blissed one of his hogs, recently, and last week found it in a hollow log, whtfre ft had been imnrisoned four weeks without food. Tub Northern Indiana Conference of the

Methodist Episcopal Church was held at Noblesville Bishop Bowman, of St. Louis, presided. Postmaster General Gresham has planed the Industrial Works at New Philadelphia, Ohio, and the Union Trust Company, of St Louis, on the fraud list of the Postoffice Denartment The father of Postmaster General Gresham was at one time Sheriff of Harrison ebuety. and was killed in the discharge of his duty while attempting the arrest of a citizen for whom he had a warrant. The other afternoon Thomafl Lindsey, a well-to-do farmer living nea? Muncie, while in the woods with his gun, accidentally fired it, lodging the c intents in h ; 8 right breaStt Death followed in a few hours. Sabah Bell, of Terre Haute, has sued the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad Company sot #IO,OOO damages for injuries sustained while endeavoring t« hoard a passenger train on that road on March 27. At Terre Haute, one day last weeK, nel W. H. Spencer filed papers for divored in the suit of Benjamin Taylor ys. Lizzie Taylor, and in twenty minutes afterward a

decree of divorce was entered. This is regarded as the quickets time on record. David Taylor, the negro who so viciously assaulted Mrs. Barrett in her home at In- I dianapolis, several weeks ago, injuring her I Bo badly that her life was despaired of for a time, has been found guilty and sentenced j for ten years. Mrs Barrett fully identified ■ him. George FoRGf, .t B. Shultz, Milton Shirk and E. A. Shirk, of Logansport, have just closed a contract for the purchase of 200,- ‘ 000 acres of Mexican land. The purchase was made through John M. Tticker at Chi- . residence of his son near Crawfordsville and then went in a church near by, took off his coat, vest and neck-tie, and then sat down on the step outside and with a penknife severed the carotid artery, and died in a few minutes. 8. Fearns & Son, of Madison, largely engaged in business in that vicinity, operating a large flourlng-mill in Milton, Ky., and conducting a farm on a large scale, have made an assignment. In a circular letter they place their liabilities at >52,000, assets, ><X),000. mostly real estate. Charles Quinn, a Greenfield baker, while getting out of bed, the other morning, fell heavily to the floor, sustaining internal injuries from which he soon died. He had been sick and did not have strength to support himself, and attempted to get out of bed unknown to his attendant Applicatinos for relief by sufferers from the Ohio river flood are still being made to the Relief Committee at New Albany. At the meeting on Monday night one claim was presented which included cost of moving, ’ board w hile away from his flooded house, i cleaning, repairs, loss of provisions, including two boxes of yeast powder and a barrel of kraut spoiled, etc. It was rejected. The Jeffersonville correspondent of the Louisville Commercial says: “A child of Mrs. Henry Clay (colored) died on Tuesday, and the remains were consigned to the vault at the Eastern cemetery. The woman dreamed that her child had turned over in the grave on the night following, and on examination Wednesday morning, it was found that her dream had come true. When the coffin was opened the child was discovered to be dead, but the evidence is conclusive that the child was alive when it was put

into the cofiin.” The ninth annual contest m oratory of the Indiana State Oratorical Association was held at English's Opera-house, Indianapolis, recently. Six institutions were represented I by speakers, viz: Wabash College, Franklin ■ College, State University, Butler University, Asbury University and Hanover College, and the successful contestant will represent In- I diana at the inter state contest at Minneapolis, next month. The contest was generally considered to be the best In all respects i that has ever been held in the State. It was presided over by C S. Bridges, president of the association, who introduced the speakers in order. The prizes were awarded as j follows; First place, Mr. Asher, of the State I University; second. Mr. Fisher, of Hanover College; third, Mr. Anderson, of Wabash College; fourth, Mr. Brengle, of Asbury University; fifth. Mr. Smith, of Butler University; sixth, Mr. Stevenson, of Franklin College. Captain J. B. Connob, of the Indiana Farmer. since the Bureau of Statistics has abandoned the crop report statistics, under the management of the new chief, has been gathering information upon the subject, simply as a matter of enterprise, and reports have been received upon the condition of • the crops during March, which show- that i the acreage of wheat averages 100 per cent. The per cent, of the condition of crops is as ' follows: Wheat, 75; rye, 86; barley, 82; clover, 91; timothy, 96; horses, 100; cattle, 99; sheep, 97; hogs, 98; peach buds. 36; api pie buds, 32. The per cent, of wheat now in the producers’ hands is 17. The wages of farm laborers, as reported in connection with the statistics, are now *l7 per month. In the suit of Helen Bloom vs. Franklin j Life Insurance Company, at Indianapolis, for the value of a policy on her husband’s life, Judge Taylor returned ■ verdict for »he defendant, holding that, “as a conclusion of law upon the foregoing facts, the court finds that the said August Bloom came to his death while in the known violation of the ' laws of the State of Indiana, to wit: while committing said assault and battery upon the said Wilhelmina Bloom, and by reaeon thereof and policy became null and voidand so the court finds for the defendant"

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The widow of Ex-United States Senator John Caflisle, of Clarksburg, W V<, was taken suddenly ill at Madison, Ind., and Aedat the residence of her son-in-law, Captain Sam ML Strader, w hom she was visiting. AT Evansville, Willard X Dunn, aged 13 years, shot Juste Mondell, aged 6 years. The statement is made that Mondell, with several children, was in the? Dunn apartment em a bed, when young Dunn told Mondell if he didn’t get out of the room ha would shoot hint. Little Joe said: “Oh, Will, you won’t shoUtr inc. would you?” The word* ware barely out of the little fellow’a mouth Dnnn fired-, and the ball entering directly dtW the bridge of the nose and between the eyes. There is but little hope of the child’s recovery. Indianapolis Journal: “The Journal has from time to time alluded to the many ‘assessment’ or ‘trust’ companies doing business in Indianapolis, and has taken pleasure in announcing lb* death of the Marion Trust and the Amicable Investment Company. A reporter called yesterday at the headquarters of the Capital Aid Association in the Vance block and made some inquiries conC< tning its financial standing. The individual in tfhffrge of the company’s effects, which seemed to consist of a plain deal table, a desk, two (it. three chairs and a couple of cords of paper us various kinds, answered the reporter’s question as to whether that was the office of the company with the vague remark that ‘it was where it had been” and when asked for an explanation, vcra*>bwkfed the additional information that the company was ‘winding up its affairs and going out of bUSit»*w». ’ The ‘company’ manifested an unwillingness to be interviewed, and assured the reported that Mr. Pearl, its head center, would very much prefer that nothing should be said about it in the papers,’ and some pretty close questioning was necessary in order to elicit the following information concerning the extent of the Capital Aid’s operations and the reasons fUr ite quitting business. The only difference between the Capital Aid and the Marion Trust is that while the latter assessed early and often, eVety few minutes, the former made no assessments until policies matured, and the certificate-holder took his chances on the number responding to the call, receiving a pro-rata division of the funds thus received. At one time it had 4,895 certificate holders, but when the time for settlement came onlj r 500 of the members paid. ‘There was an understanding originally,’ remarked the clerk, *that in case there were less than 500 paying members at the time of the first assessment the concern was to go out of business at once, but it so happened that there were just even 500 who had paid up, so we had to continue.’ The certificate holders and the public generally may consider it rather remarkable that the number chanced to be exactly 500. The first month’s members Were paid exactly >l5O for an investment of >9.75—50 the clerk remarked—but this was not exactly according to the company’s ideas. The assessments ought to have amounted .to >81.50 each, and the benefits to about >BSO. This was prevented by the refusal of certain members in Illinois, who refused to settle more than >9.75. ’The clerk explained further that the W<r iiino,~’w f *x>au f T>f intended for the pavpayment arrived the pro rata division otthe funds ou hand netted just *5.65 per member for an investment of *9.75. Since then nearly all the members have allowed their certificates to lapse, until now but twentysix remain. ‘What will these twenty-six receive?’ asked the reporter. ‘They will get —left, was the laconic reply. ‘They will receive about #l9 on an Investment of *54 if everything goes on right from now on; or. In other words, they will be out *35.’ It is very evident that the affairs of the Capital Aid have been conducted in a very slipshod manner, and as members are now receiving about 30 per cent, of their money back it is still more evident that the concern is busted.’ Gradually but surely, one by one the trust companies are yielding to the inevitaI ble, and the too confiding innocents who have been hoodwinked into taking out certificates are being left in the lurch for their money.

Ensilage. The discovery that grass, corn and other fodder can, by compression and the exclusion of air, be kept during the winter months, is likely to work a great revolution in farming and raise the price of land in this country. If cattle can be fed bv cheap and nutritious food t» during the long winter months, then will it be possible to keep herds in the North and East almost as cheaply as in the South and Southwest. The fact that compressed fodder would last from one grass season to another was discovered simultaneously by a Frenchman and two Americans'. The principle is the same as that taken advantage of m canning fruit for human uses. The cost of ensilage bears no comparison to its marvelous economy. It is said the growing of turnips in England sown on wheat-fields that have just been harvested had nearly doubled the price of farm lands in England, as the roots could be fed to cattle during the winter. I So, hereafter, in the Northern States, wherever grass or corn can be grown in . quantities during the summer, an abundance of cheap fodder can be se--1 cured on which cattle can be fed during the winter months. This is a fact of the greatest moment to owners of farm lands in the Northern and Eastern States, and puts an end to the monop- : olv of cattle-raising heretofore enjoyed by the West and Southwest, and utilizes millions of acres east of the Mississippi which for some years past have ' been well-nigh worthless. From this time forth we may look to a steady enhancement of farm values throughout the Northern States. — Demorest’s Monthly. A Seng Without Words. Neither of them said a word. The ! passenger came out on the rear platI form of a Third avenue car, staring at a sijn that was being rapidly left behind and grasped the dashboard rail. . The conductor, seeing that the passenger was about to step off with liis back i toward the horses, with his left hand clutched at the bell-strap and with liis I right seized the passenger’s arm. The passenger, with a look of indignation, as if repelling an unwarrantable liberty, shook off the conductor’s hand and jumped off—with his back toward the horses. Perhaps his feet touched the ground first, but there are doubts about that among those who sr.w the. per j formance. Any way, in less than half a second he was standing on the back of his neck, with be th feet up, as if he was trying to kick the skylight out of the dome of heaven. The conductor grinned until the top of his head looked like an island, but said nothing;—New York Sun. I — — Love is the most effectual prayer.—. Dujnet.