Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1890 — Page 2

democrat DECATL’H, IND. N. BLACKBURN, - - - „ Publisher. THE NEWS RECORD. / 0 A SUMMARY OF A WEEK’S EVENTFUL HAPPENINGS. Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized Wo*ld—Politic*!. Commercial, and Industrial News, Fires, Accidents, Crimea. Suicides* Etc,, Etc. ’ ' "'STRUCK A SNAG. ' * Federation of Railway Employes Refuse * to Join the Present Strike. ** A special fronpTerre Haute, Ind., dated T the 27th inst., says: The Supreme Council of Federation of Railway Employes hero just adjourned its session. Grand Master Sargent and Grand Secretary Debs have piade the announcement that thedeclsion arrived at by the conference is that no strike will be ordered by the Federation on the New York Central system. A manifesto has been Issued to the? public which sets out the views of the council fully. The council regrets that under the rules of the Federation no strike can be declared. The case in question as a grievance must be brought against,the road by one of the orders comprising the Federation, which does not exist in this case, the K. of. L. not being members of the Federation. * On the subject of financial assistance to the striking Kniglrts no final action has been taken. Another meeting will be held on this question. The manifesto warmly indorses the proposition of Powderly and the Knights of Labor in the present con\ test, and strongly denounces Vice President Webb for the course he lias pur--1 sued towards organized labor. The friends of organized labor everywhere are called upon to give every ass sistance in their power to the strikers moral, financial and otherwise. The decision o' the council was not unexpected. It notified Powderly of its resolve before it gave its decision to the public. The conclusion arrived at was based on the constitution and by-laws of the federation, which requires that before an order to strike can be given, the federation itself must have grievances. The Knights of Labor are now left to fight out the battle. The leaders say they will continue the battle and win or lose. A Siulden Summons. Congressman L. F. Watson, of the Twenty-seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania, died very suddenly in the .Whoreham'Hotel, Washington. Mr. Watson, accompanied by his private Secretary, were about to enter a carnage to be driven to the Capitol. On the way out of the lobby Os the hotel Mr. Watson complained ot»a dizziness in his head and sickness, of the stomach. He fell unconscious and was taken to the parlor, where stimulants were administered and he soon revived.' A physician was sent for, but before his arrival Mr. Wajson again became unconscious from which lie . never recovered and died in a few moments. t •The Rev. Dr. Richard Laloor Burstell, the late pastor of the Church of the Epiphany, at New York, who was rcmovetl from his charge on account of his expressed sympathy with Dr. McGlynn, has boon tempornrih suspended from the, ex»‘reis<’ of his functions as a Roman Catholic priest in the- diocejw of New York. The decision of t.lu-propaganda (which has.-».:« • heretofore been made public), Was in effect that the doctor should !.»• removed from-'his pastorate and make an apology or retraction for bis action to tin- archbishop. Northern Indiana Fair. The Northern Indiana Fair will be held at Fort Wayne, Ind., beginning Tuesday, Sept. 1G and concluding Friday, Sept. 10. As competition is open to the world, the display ot art), machinery, agricultural products, etc..\wiH be the finest ever on exhibition. Tuhpurses in the speed department are large, and the entries comprise some of the best horses in tlie country." Among the many features are the Roman races, which are very exciting and give the spectators any amount of ami|sement. ■j-, r Hroke the Bicycle Record. Edward Checkley, .of Brooklyn, rode into Chicago on a “safety wheel'* having broke the bicycle record from New York to that city by sixteen hours. The pre? vious record for the distance, which was established some years ago by Neilson, was fourteen days, twenty-three hours and thirty minutes. Mr. Checkley rolled his machine over the road in fourteen days, six hours and twenty-five minute's. Burned to Dentil, The Queen's Hotel, at.Sundridge. Ont.y withits contents, was burned to the ground. The guests, of whom there was a large numlxy, had great difficulty in escaping. ..Two, Thomas Powers and Herbert Layton, the latter from Ottawa, were hurried to death. Arthur Bowyer sustained slight injuries. J. McGuire, news agent, was badly burned about the hands and face. Loss not estimated; S . ' ' ■ i ■ ' 1 ' A Gas Explosion. There was a terrific gas explosion at tiny Crrfscent Paper Company's works at IL/rtford City, Ind., that shook the -tmilding to its foundation. William Beexton was terribly burned about the head and arms. He was taken to his boarding-house, and may recover. Tim. damage to the property was slight. The cause of the explosion was a surplus of gas in the furnape. • Starring in lowa. rSibfcy (Iowa) special:\ Investigation throughout the hail district has developed the facttWt a large number of families have been rendered utterly des*; xitutte, and steps arc'belng, taken to al- 1 leviate the sintering. The State of lowa has been appealed to, as a large sum of money will be necessary to furnish the farmers with the barest necessaries of life. > -- . Cholera's Scourge. Chbfera is Increasing in Toledo, Spain. There Were thirteen cases and five deaths ; » fn one day recently. THE PIONEERS. “ Meeting of the Maumee Valley Mon- - u men tai Association. The Maumee Valley Monumental Association 'held its annua! meeting at Napoleon, 0., and the meeting was an immense success. A large number of people were present from various points along the Maumee Valley, and the citl, /.ens of the pleasant little city of Napoleon extended a most hospitable and generous welcome to the visitors. The streets were decorated with flags and banners and In general the day was a gala one. As is well known the object of this Association is to plant monments bn the ’ site of every battle-field and Tort in the valley. For years th* organization has been laboring with this end in view And now it appears as. if its work would culminate successfully, as the Secretary’s report will show. =. The day was the anniversary ot the battle of Fallen Timbers which was

) lought about eight miles up the Maumee < from the present city of Toledo, on Au- I gust 20, 1794.. The Indians were com- , Tnanded by the celebrated chief Turkeyfbot, and the array by Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne. The redskins were signalfly defeated; and, in fact, after this fight made no successful resistance against Wayne. Judge Cox, who was to have delivered the annual address, was detained by . sickness. He sent a long letter which ; was read to the association. A business . meeting was held at which the three old , directors were re-elected, Hon. J. A. Scott, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Judge J. S. Cateley, of Delta, and Gen. J. Lee, of Toledo. A picnic dinner was given in the fair grounds where the public exercises w«pre held. Ex-President Hayes delivered the address. Judge Hoag wel- ; corned the association to Napoleon. Y. 'FEAST OF FLESH. A Babe Devoured by Two Idiot Urchins. Montreal special: Cannibalism in the nineteenth century, and that, too. in the heart of Canadian civilization, is hard to believe, and yet the particulars of a most horrible deed is made public here which makes one creep with horror even to tnink of, so ghastlv is the story and so inhuman the crime. Two fiends devoring the living flesh of an innocent babe is the story. Paul Cote, a FrenchCanadian miner and Elisha Newton, a farmer, are neighbors living in a small settlement on the Du ( Livcre River, about two davs’ journey ' up from Buckingham. On the dav in question both men were away from home. The Cote family consisted of the man, his wife and their baby boy, about a year old. Newton is the father of two ( boys who are deaf mutes and of unsound mind. Occasionally .-the idiots had ex- ? .hibjted signs of a vicious disposition. But i as their parents were averse to sending tin unfortunates to an asylum, they • were kept at home and, being regarded as comparatively harmless, they were al owed the freedom of their neighbor’s house, which they visited frequently. After breakfast Mrs. decided to Fo out berry-picking and, intending to return in a couple of hours, most imprudently left her baby in charge of the deaf mutes. It must) have been very soon after her departure thatPthe maniacs commenced their brutish attack upon the child left in their care. No eyes but theirsswitnessed the revolting spectacle that follbwed l , vet the blood-bespat-tered floor, the confusion in wfiich the room WA 9 found, and, above all. the lacerated form of the dying child attested to the savage revelry which they held over their victim ere their brutal appetites were sated with flesh and blood. The mother was the first to break in upon the her feelings were as she gazed upon the mangled body of her cliiid and the grinning idiots, gory-mouthed and still grinning over their living prey can never be described. The babe was fearfully torn. It's cheeks had been literally eaten to the bone, and the flesh partly devoured from one side of its neck. It was dying when the mother drove the human wolves away and lifted the little bleeding bodv from the floor, and in a short time it expired. Carrying her dead babv in her arms, for she dare not trust the mangled corpse to the fury of the cannibals, Mrs. Cote ran to the Newtons’ home and told the miserable parents of the horrible ocurrcnce. Hardly could they credit her story, but on returning to fetch the wretched lads awav the evidences of the awful facts were but tdo vividly apparent, The maniacs will' probably be sent to the asylum. FIVE KILLED OUTRIGHT. Ten Others Moro or Less Mangled. Reading (Pa.) special: A terrible fatality occurred on the Mount Run gravity road. A through J.raJn going at a forty mile ar< hour run suddenly left the track and plunged down an embankment. The coaches, five in number, were well passengers, many of them sound asleep in their berths and chairs.' The cries of the frightened people who were awake and realized what had happened brought the sleepers to their feet only to be thrown against the sides of the cars amid crashing glass and upturned chairs. A second later the. crash in the tabyss came. Cars wore splintered and huge trucks pinioned the unfortunates in their terrible positions. When tire wreck was cleared away and the occupants of the coaches dragged to a place of safety, it was found'that five persons had been killed outfight" and ten probably fatally injured. A score or more suffered painful wounds from the fall of flying glass and timber- The cause of the accident is said to have been a broken rail. Rumors flew about thick and fast that discontented railroad men —strikers, or their “sympathizers—had caused the accident, but this was satisfactorily denied. Tile following were killed : Edgar M. Levan, 'Miss Rose Heiffer, Miss Harriet Hinckle. • ' * Wounded: Mrs., William A. 11. Siehmchl, death expected; William Siehmehl, fatal; Mrs. Schitler, terribly mangled; Miss Kate Homan, fatally; Misses Bessie aud Katie Kelly, badly; Cornelious Hanlon; Miss Hallie Bly, Miss Mary Guthrie, slightly; Mrs. Arnold Lewis, Miss Weiler, badly; Mrs. Smith, of Allentown, fatally. Superintendent C. M. DeHart gives as the cause of the accident the refusal of the brake to work properly. It was a new brake as an experiment. , PULLMAN’S PROPOSAL. The Millionaire Offers a Site for the World’s, Fair. GeO. M. Pullman has made a proposition to the directors of the World’s Fair in regard to the site. He offers to give the necessary amount of ground for ail exposition purposes “in Pullman or thereabouts,” and in addition will take up the $5,000,000 in bonds to be sold by the city. After the fair is over Mr. Pullman says he will dedicate the grounds to the public to be used for park purposes. This proposition was considered and discussed at length by ■ the Committee on Public Grounds and Buildings yesterday. After the adjournment it was said that the committee woitld probably report favorably on the offer to the meeting of Directors. . <?- Caught and Caged. Kansas City, Mo., special: A man giving the name of James L. McConkey, and who has been identified as the leader of the robbers of the Missouri Pacific train at Otterville, Is under arrest at Pacific, Mo. He is heavily ironed and closely guarded. Marshal Davis made , the capture. The prisoner says he is a cattto-man of Vinita, I. T. When searched a pistol pocket, filled with for- , ty-four caliber revolver shells was found onMcConkey, but the weapon was missing. 1 In one of his pockets were three soiled ; handkerchiefs; one a dark silk pattern, one a cheaper affair and the other a red bandana. They were all knotted and folded to form face masks and showed i recent usage. Jewelry supposed to have been stolen from the express car, a SSO i bill and S2O gold piece Were found on : him and fully Identified. The bandages were placed over the man’s head and he was made to climb upon the tender while f Engineer Frank Dreyer and, Fireman i Purcell of the robbed train took the i same positions as those they held on the i night of the hold up. “That’s the man, the same clothes, the same build- the r same eyes,” said Dreyer. The fellow grinned, “and the same teeth!” conclud-

ed the engineer m the crooked welfish incisors were shown. ’ Texas n Fever Frevaleift at Ashtabula,’ Ohio. 1 ‘ . Dr. A. W. Hopkins, health officer at Ashtabula, Ohio, calls attention to the existence of Texas fever in that neighborhood. He says that a butcher hast been purchasing steers, which he drives from the railroad to the slaughter house.’ Three cows belonging to citizens of the, town, and which have been daily driven across the path leading from the slaughter house have recently died from Texas fever. Fatal Boiler Explosion. By an explosion of a boiler in the gas, works at Lincoln, Neb;, Charles Deneen, engineer, and Columbus Maggard were 1 killed. Henry Leeding, wha was stahding in the boiler room when the explosion, occurred, was badly cut in the leg. The; explosion was caused by allowing the water in the boiler to run low and filling; in while very hot. Deneen was several feet away, and the top of Maggard’s head was taken completely off. Carnival of Crime. Cincinnati special: Ex-Convict Ed. McCarty, a notorious character, sh> * and wounded William Mitchell, and «*n killed Charles Netterman. Charles White, a married man, murdered Bob Burley over $5. James G.eghan, an agedr man. felled Robert Redd with a hatchet in self-defense, and Theodore Cardinal, of this city, was found murdered with ■his throat cut from ear to ear in the woods by the Akron fair grounds. Barnum’s Show in a RMlroad Accident. ° Kalamazoo special: BArnum & Bailey's circus train met with ah .accident near Shelbyville, on the Grand Rapids and Indiana road, by breaking a draw-bar which pulled out part of the platform on which were a number of men. Martin Foley, of St. Louis, was cut so badly that he died soon after reaching here. Wil»ljam Bungle, of Flint, and James Smith were severely injured. No damage to the train. Biff Hotel Burned. The big summer hotel at Thousand Island Park, St. Lawrence River, was burned, together with adjoining cottages and the large store owned by the park association. It is believed that all the people in the hotel escaped, though many of them lost all their clothing and personal effects. The guests- found shelter in the other cottages in the park. The loss is about $50,000; partially covered by insurance. , - Peace at Last. 'v , A cablegram has jbst been received at the Guatemala Legation at Paris to the effect that peace has been signed between Salvador and Guatemala, Vice President Ayali, of Salvador, has assumed the supreme executive functions and will arrange the details for an election for President. A Bad Wreck. A freight train on the Terre Haute and Peoria road went through a bridge on Sugar Creek, three miles from Atlanta, Ga. Five cars and the caboose fell into the creek. A brakeman named Reeves was fatally hurt. Ope or two passengers in the caboose escaped witli slight injuries. Over an Embankment. William Sands, Michael Allen, Polite Levy and Pansy Shelier, while riding in a surrey at Columbus, Ohio, wpre, by I careless driving, precipitated over an embankment twenty feet, all being severely injured. Miss Levy, perhaps, is fatally injured. . Quarryman Instantly Killed. Christopher Wolfe, the foreman of the Big Creek quarry; at Stinesville, Ind., one of the best-known stone monos the country, was instantly killed the breaking of a derrick. His cut almost off his body. He was la married man. - * Double James Matthews, of Calvine, a -mall village near Cassopolis. Mich., shot; and killed Mrs. John Matthews and then shot himself fatally. He had asked Mrs. Matthews to marry him. She refused; and ho became so enraged that he killed her. , , Y Negro Hanged. ~ The negro, John Henderson, who was confined in the county jail at Versailles, Ky., for killing Gilbert Satterthwhite. was taken from jail by a large number of masked men and hanged. Henderson did not deny having killed Satterthwhite. An Entire Crew Massacred. Advices received from ijew Hebrides islands states that the natives of Amba Island masacred the crew of a German labor vessel. A French war ship subsequently shelled the villages on the island. ' . . ‘'3o.” * j ' Stephen S. Scandlon, for many years with the United Press, and well known throughout the country as an expert telegrapher, died at his hohne in Woonsocket, R. I. A Powder Mill Accident. An explosion occurred in one of the outhouses of the government powder mill at Waltham, England. Two men were blown to fragments and several injured. > A Kentucky Desperado Captured. The mountain desperado, Joe Damo„ron, a ringleader in the French-Eversole war, has been captured, and is in the Perry County (Ky.) jail. THE MARKETS. CHICAGO.' CtCTTM Prime 4.75 @ SA". Fair to G00d.7... 4.00 #5 4.75 Common 3.00 @ 4.00 Hods—Shipping Grades 3AO @ 4.23 SHKZP 3.00 @ 475 Whmat— No. 2 Red Conn—-No. 2 4S @ .40 Oats—No. 2.....36 @ .37 Bwfc—No. 2.61 & .62 Butter—Choice Creamerylß @ .21 Chbf.be—Full Cream, hats 07 v,® .08% Egos—Fresh... .16 @ .17 Potatoes—Early Ohio, per bu.. 1.10 <0 1.25 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping... 3.00 @ 4.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 4.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 95 @ .95»£ Cobn— Vp. 2 White 51 & .51 ’ s Oats—No. 2 White .36)j@ .37’-. ST. LOUIS. d Cattle... 4.00 @ 4.75 Hogs.. 3.50 & 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 96 @ .97 Corn—No. 2 Red. 44 & .45 Oath—No. 2. SiUw® .37 '/j Rye—No. 2 .59 @ .61 CINCINNATI. Hogs; 3.00 & 4.00 WHEATiNo. 2 Red 98JA@ .9916 Corn—Nb. 2. k?..? 55 .56 ~ Oats—Noi 2 Mixed 39 & .40 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1.00 (9 1.02 Cobn—No. 3. 49 ® .51 Oats—No 2 White..'37 <g) .38 Rte-No. 1 62 & .63 Barley— No. 2. 67 @ .68 DETROIT. Cattle s.OO & 4.50 Hogs 3.00 & 3.75 5heep......... j.oo & 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red. & .99 Corn—No. 2 Yellow .55’/.g> .555/ Oats—No. 2 White 39 .40 TOLEDO. Wheat .99 .99U Corn—Cash 51 @ .52 Oath—No. 2 White 39 40 BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime.,, 3.75 @4.75 Hogs—Medium and Heavy....*.. 3.50 @4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 @ 1.03 Corn—No. 2.......51 @ .52 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.25 @ 4.75 Hogs—Light.... 3.50 @ 4.25 Sheep—Medium to G00d...;.... 4.00 & 5.00 NEW YORK. Cattle.. 3.00 @5.00 Hogs 4.0 Q 4.25 Sheep. <25 & 5.50 Wheat-No. 2 Red.,............. i.Qtj g u* Corn- No. X............... .55 @ , w Oats— Mixed WMtarn M h .«•

1 1 .. .1 LAW NEW METHOD OF CASTING THE B|ALLOT. ' ' < - A Complete Synopslaiof the Re«iulr»nieate «t » Voter at the Foll»-How PoUlng Flacea Maa* Be Arranged—DuUea eT Sheriff and Deputises—Electioneering Prohibited—Bow a Challenge Must Be Made and the Vote Coasted. On March 6, Isß9, the General Assembly of the of Indiana passed an election' law wKichi is now in force. The first election whiA will occur under the provisions of law takes place ) on the |th \of *? November next. The law is very cumbersome and' liable to mislead those not familiar with its provisions. The law does not require the repeated registration of ciH? zens who reside continuously in the samo county, but it does require the registration of every person who moves into the county within six months preceding an election, whether he ‘previously resided within the State or not. and also of every person who, having once been a citizen of Indiana, shall have voted in another State -or gone there with the intention of voting, or who shall have been absent from the State for six months. The important features of the new law are the registration of voters and the secrecy of depositing the ballot. The reader may get an idea of the arrangement of the polling place the diagram given below, and as the plan shown is the simplest and most Convenient it will probably be the one most genetaily used. I Jel Ibl [bi r J w , ■ L.w LM MJ as. ) ■ .. d D. B.—Deputy sheriffs stationed at the ends of the chute. C.—Challenging window. D.— Door where the voter enters election room. E. B. —Election board. B. B. B.—Booths for elector to, prepare his ballot in. W.—Windows. The cmite is a passageway, with a railing, rope or wire on each side, and it must extend fifty feet away from tile challenge window. All persons except election officers and challengers arc prohibited from coming Witliiii fifty fegt of the polls, except as they, eohie through 'this chute to enter the /‘lection roihn. The election sheriffs are special deputies appointed by the County Sheriff to act as officers at the polls. The sheriffs must be at the polls when they open and remain until the count is con-, eluded. They must make arrests on the demand of any member of the; Board, and jilsp on affidavit made beforq the inspector by any qualified voter that any person who has voted is not a legal voter, ’ ' ! The new law puts a stop to needless I and indiscriminate challenging, a IR I but one challenger and one poll book holder, designated by each party Organization, are entitled to stand at the side of the chute next the challenge window. When a person is challenged he must stand aside or make affidavit that he is a legal voter. If he makes affidavit that he is entitled' to vote, unless the challenger or s<ime other person makes affidavit that lie is not a legal voter, the'; voter must then bring a qualified voter of the precinct, as a witness. Who must swear that of his own knowledge the claimant is a legal voter. According to law the voter must be screened from view while marking and folding his ballot, and for this purpose election booths are to be used. These are nothing more than little stalls pro'W' —L All I / rnnkww . H!i| L' // It I r/ “WBi vided with a small shelf or counter and with chrtains or doors which . the vote | closes after him. These booths contain I three apartments, or enough for three voters at one time. accompanying illustration shows a voter in the booth with curtain drawn. The County Board of Election Commissioners will prepare and distribute ballots for the election of all officers who are to be voted for in their county other than those to be voted for by all the electors of the State, and the names of all candidates of their respective jurisdictions wRI be printed on one ballot, all nominations of any party being placed under the title and device adopted by such party. The ballot shall be of tfhiform size and of the same quality and color of paper, and sufficiently thick that the printing cannot be distinguished from the back. The ballots prepared by the State Board of EleqAn Commissioners will be printed on paper and put up in blocks of Breach, while those prepared by the County Board Os Election Commissioners are to be printed on white paper. The arrangement of the ballot is to be after the manner shown below: IWR3 1 6 iD in 11 si I I'M L 11? WMJ] 1- W VIIH F lil |il F (it *■ — -ini —X

The device adopted and list of candidates of the Democratic party must occupy the first column on the left hand /ide qf the ballot, that of the Republican |] srty in the second column and that of the Prohibition party in the third column. .The list of candidates of any ether party shall follow in such order as the Board of Election Commissioners may decide. Samples of the ballots plainly narked “Sample ballot,” and printed on different colored paper from, that on which the genuine ballot is printed, wilt be posted in the vicinity of the polling place for the instruction and informa- ■< ion of voters, but no voter is supposed rq see the genuine ballot until it is given him by the polling clerks after he enters the election room. < If the printer of the ballots shall give, or knowingly permit any one other than the Board of Election Commissioners to take, any of the ballots, he then, according to the law, has committed a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for a term not less than 1 hrec nor more than ten years. v If you are subject to registration, as before stated, you must register at the County Clerk’s office at least three months before the election. On going to he polls on election day passthrough the chute to the challenge window, and f challenged, swear in your vote or stand aside. The necessary forms for 1 affidavits will be supplied at the chalenging window. If riot challenged, or after swearing in your vote, pass on hrough tfie chute to the door, where you will be admitted in turn. When you enter the election room announce your name to the poll-clerks, who will furnish you With a red ballot ; - UJi . jrr ■ containing the names of all candidates for State offices, a white ballot containing the names of ail candidates for local •ffices, and a stamp for marking them. If you do not understand how to mark your ballots ask the poll clerks. If you annot read English, or are physically unable to mark your ballots, the poll clerks will riiark it for you, and on request will read over the names marked. Go alone iftto one of the unoccupied booths and mark your ballot with the stamp. If you wish to vote a “straight ticket” mark thd square in front of the title of your party at the head of the ticket. If yon wish to vote a mixed or •scratched” ticket mark the square ip front of the name of each candidate for whom you wisli to vote. If by accident you tear, mutilate, deface or spoil your ballot, go at once to the poll clerks,.explain how the accident’occ'urred, and ask for another ballot. Before leaving the booth fold each of ! your ballots so that the initials of the i poll clerks on the back will show, but so that no part of the face of the ballot can' be seen. , i When your ballots are marked and ; folded come out of the booth. Give the stamp to the poll clerk from whom you received it and hand the folded ballots to tlie inspector, who will put them in the ballot box in your preseuce. Then leave the room. \ When you have voted, and before you are ready to vote, remain fifty feet away from the polls. As the voter doubtless now understands pretty well what to do it is right that he should alike understand what he ; must do. Do not attempt to vote if you are not a I-gal voter. You are not a legal voter if you have “not lived in the State six months, the township sixty days and the precinct thirty days. Yon are not a b'gal voter if you have lived in the county less than six months and have not registered. If registered you must have j our certificate witli you. I Do hot accept a ballot from any person outside of the election room. Any ballot I obtained outside is fraudulent, and it is a j penitentiary offense to have such a ballot ; in your possession whether you attempt j to vote it or not. Do not attempt to hold any conversation in the election room except with the members of the election board and the poll clerks. . It Is a penitentiary offense tp declare that you cannot read English or cannot mark your ballot if in fact you can. Do not mark the ballot With the stamp at any place except the squares in front of the title of the party, or thb names of the candidates for whom you wish to vote. Do not put any mark of any kind on your ballot except with the stamp. Do not tear, mutilate, deface, or mark your ballot in any way sb that it could be identified; and if you should do so acj cidentally do not attempt to vote it. | Dp not show the face of your ballot to any person; you will lose your vote and be subject to tine and imprisonment if you do. Do not attempt to see the ballot of any other per Son. Do not attempt to vote any ballot except the one given you by the poll clerks. Do not injure or interfere with any of railings, posters, booths, or any of the furniture used in conducting the election. f Do not advise, counsel, or abet any vote buying, bribery or other violation of the election law. Severe penalties are provided for doing or attempting to do any of these acts. Any voter who attempts to leave the election room with a ballot or stamp in his possession shall be immediately arrested, and any person having in his possession outside the election room any ballot or stamp, whether genuine or counterfeit, during the election shalhbe guilty of felony, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years, and shall bo disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years. Immediately on closing the polls the Board shall count all the ballots remaining unvoted, record the number of the same on the tally sheets and destroy all of such ballots by totally consuming by fire. The Board shall then proceed to canvass the votes, beginning first with the State ballots, and eompleting them before proceeding with the local ballots, by laying each ballot on the table in the order in which it is taken fronr the ballot box, and the inspector and judge of the election, differing in politics from the inspector, shall view the ballots as the names of the persons voted for are read therefrom. In the canvass of the votes any ballot which is not indorsed with the initials of the poll clerks, and any ballot which shall bear any distinguishing mark or mutilatioiL shall be void and shall not be counted, and any ballot or part of a ballot from which it is impossible to determine the elector’s choice of candidates shall not be counted as to the candidate or candidates affected, thereby; provided, however, that on protest of any Member of the Board such ballot, and all disputed ballots, shall be preserved by the inspector, and; at the close of the count placed with thw | seals of the ballot packages in paper

bags, and so delivered tc the Cler < of the county, with notification to him < f tuie number of ballots so placed in such oaks, and of the condition of the seals of tire ballot packages. The poll clerk also record on the tally sheets memoranda of such ballots and the condition of the seal of the ballot packages, and in any contest of election such ballots and seals may be submitted in evidence. On completing the couqt and recording the same on the tally sheets all the remaining ballots, except those marked, mutilated or otherwise defective, shall be destroyed by the election board by totally consuming by fire before adjournment, and thereupon the election board shall immediately make a memorandum of the total; vote cast for eabh candidate, and deliver a cony thereof to each member of such board. ’ By this it will be observed that the practice of petitioning courts for a re-o count of the votes, as was frequently the case under the old law, is abolished under the mandatory clause to burn the ballots. The only ground left for contest is the disputed tickets uncounted, which will require almost a tie vote to be available. The new law contains stringent provisions against the use of money or anything of value to influence voters diI rectly or undirectly. either in nominating conventions or in -elections. As they are equally stringent* as to hiring persons to do electioneering, or t 6 use their influence in any way, the occupation of the professional “worker” is gone. Any vioor indirect, subjects the candidate to fine, imprisonment > and challenge as a voter. It also prevents him from holding the office to which he is nominated or elected, disfranchises him and makes him liable to the person hired or bought in the sum of S3OO. It is not safe for a candidate to enter a campaign without carefully examining the new feiws, and it will be found advantageous to know the provisions, as the penalties prescribed will be sufficient answer to the parasites who will demand money of him. Woman’s Power Over Man. Eccentric bachelors, if you want to be cured of your oddities and become polished Christians, marry! You, sir, with the slouching gait, the pocketed hands, the ill tailored frame, just pair off vrith a neat, smart little damsel, who has an eye for the picturesqnes, and before the honeymoon is over she will so transfigure you that you will scarcely know yourself in the looking glass, according to a writer in the New York Ledger. “Beauty and the Beast” is no fable. Many a monster” has been transformed into a gentleman by the necromantic influence of a pretty woman. You. Sir Nimrod, whose talk is of double barrels and setters, of deer shooting on the Adirondacks, or moose hunting in the Canada wilds, do you wish to,be civilized and socialized ? Doubtless you do. Then many a true gentlewoman, and she will soon make you as gentle and gallant a cavalier as ever shawled a lady at tall or opera. Even the miser may be won from his golden pagoda by a generous wife, though it must be confessed that of all eccentricities the greed of riches is the most difficult to eradicate. The fact is that every eccentric bachelor is like a helmless ship that has yawed more or less out of her proper course. A good wife’s advice is the tiller that he needs to bring his head round and steer him safely and happily over the sea of life. . o ' T Jail Religion. A man who was under the sentence of death sat in'his cell singing, “I would not live alway.” A negro in another cell, being disturbed by the plaintive song, called: “Say, kain’t yer let up on dat singin’ erwhile? We boys in heah is got er little game on han’, but de way yesse’f is carryin’ on a pusson doan know whether ter fling his jedgment on de ten spot or de ace.” “I would not live alway,” the doomed man sang, paying no attention to the negro. “Nor, sah, it do ’peer dat way. I heard’em say dat yer wan’t gwine ter be wid us much longer.” “I ask not Jto stay,” continued the condemned man, singing in pitiful strain. “Nor, sah, an’ it show yer good sense, bercase da wouldn’t let yer do it. Takin’ all things un’er ’sideration, cap’n, reckon yer’ll hafter leabe us.” The sheriff came in. The murderer stopped singing. The .. gamblers put the cards aside. A door grated. Numerous feet “stuffed” upon the paved floor. A trap fell. He would not live alway. Some Mistake. Sharpwit—l have a neighbor whom I want to drive out, so I can get his property cheap. I have tried keeping chickens, dogs, and parrots, but without success. A. neighbor of yours, however, tells me you have a pet which he will warrant to clear a neighbor! ood of inhabitants in less than no time, but I forgot to ask what it was. Have you any particularly noisy parrots or anything of that kind? Suburban Woman—lndeed, I haven’t anything at all except a little kitten. There must be some mistake. Jane! Jane! The baby has waked up. Go to him quick. “ — Good News. Why the Fire Went Ont. An Irishman, in addition to his duties ar gardener, had the care of the furnace which heated the house. To the irritation of the household c there came a : morning bitterly cold when the furnace gave forth no heat, for the very good • reason that an investigation showed ’ there remained not a spark or ember in ’ the grate. “Mike,” cried the angry paterfamilias, “the furnace fire went I out last night.” “So did I, sort,” re- , turned the culprit serenely, John Was Se Literal. Her Girl Chum, (sweetly),—What did / John;get you for a birthday present? Mrs. Youngwife (mornfully)—Not a i thing. 1 6 1 H. G. C. (emphatically)—Why, how did that happen ? Mrs. Y. (weeping)—Well, you see, he ’ asked me (sobs) what he should get for 1 me, and—and —I (more sobs) told him \ I’d love him just as—just as well (sobs) if he didn’t g-get me anything, and—he . —he —didn’t. — West Shore. ' Blifl’ers’ Escape. ) Whiffet's —Narrow escape Bliffershad I yesterday, wasn’t it? 1 Miffers—l didn’t hear of it. 1 Whiffers— Why, that bore, De Gab- ’ ble, button-holed him on the street and • began telling him all about* that first 1 baby of his; but fortunately just as h, ' got started, a runavray horse dashed 1 into them and Bliffers was killed.— I Good News. 1 Man is a ggeat cleal more exacting [ than God. The vilest sinner demands that God shall be absolutely good. 1 There is no sense in weepiog ov«t r spilt milk whep it is two-thirds water.

IRE NATIONAL SOLONS. SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Otrr National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Proposed* Diseussed r and A.cted Upon. The resolution offered by Mr. Plumb, instructing the Committee on Rules to issue orders that will prevent the sale or drinking of spirituous. vinous, or malt liquors In the Senate wing of the Capitol was taken up in the Senate on the 19th Inst. Mr. Butler moveto adopt a resolution authorizing and did recting the Sergeant-at-arms to make daily inspection and examination of the committee rooms and other apartments in the Senate wing of the Capitol and to report to the Committee on Rilles whether he has found spirituous, vinous, or main liquors therein. Mr. Gorman moved the reference of the resolution and amendment to the Committee on Rules. The agricultural college bill was passed by the House. r Representative' Stockbridge of Maryland, from; the Committee on Commerce, re-’ ported favorably to the House the Senatebill io provide for the inspection of live cattle and beef products intended for export to foreign countries. The accompanying.reporV says the object sought to be attained by theproposed legislation is the increase of the exports of American cattle and at the same time to increase their value to the American farmer and stock-raiser in the prices which they will command. The report refers to the discrimination made by European countries against American meat products upon, the pica that by reason of the complete absence of inspection of such products before shipment diseased meats were liable to be brought in and to an implication by those countries that when effective inspection 5 was provided by the United States the restrictions would be removed. The establishment of such inspection is provided by this bill. t ■ ’ Mr. Quay's resolution, fixing the time for ‘ voting on the tariff bill and designating the other legislative business to be taken up at , this session, was laid before the Senate on. the 20th. Mr. Hoar demanded the yeas and nays on agreeing to the resolution, and thew offered as a substitute for Mr. Quay’s resolution his own proposition making it 'in> order “when any bill or resolution shall have been under consideration for a reasonable time” for any Senator to demand that debate thereon be closed. He also moved to amend Mr. Quay’s resolution by adding toit a provision to include in the business to be taken up the Federal election bill, and to have the vote on it taken Sept. 4. No vote on it was reached. The House amendments to the Agricultural College bill and to the meat inspection bill were laid before the Senate and concurred in. These billsnow go to the President for his signature. In the House the meat inspection bill was taken up. Mr. Funston (Kan.), Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, said that it was proposed by this measure to open foreign ports to American meats. By open- - Ing those ports millions and millions of foreign gold would be brought into this country and would relieve the embarrassed condition of all classes of industry. The bill was thefi passed. The House then proceeded under the special order to the consideration \>f thejjill defining lard, but without disposing of “the measure the House adjourned. The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Plumb to prevent; the sale of spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors in the Senate wing of the Capitol was laid before the Senate on the 21st, the pending questions being on Mr. Blair’s amendment to add the words, “And drinking,” and on Mr. Butler’s amendment directing a daily search for liquors in committee*tooms and other apartments. Mr. Gibson suggested jokingly the extension of the amendment so as to direct the search of Senator’s desks. Mr. Plumi> objected to both amendments as calculated to belittle the resolution, which he had offered seriously and in deference to public opinion. After debate the matter went over until the 22d. In the House the compound lard bill was taken up. Mr. Allen (Mich.) supported the bill,. The agitation of this question had been provoked by the careful,* thoughtful action of the farmers in their various assemblies and organizations. Whether they were right or wrong they called for it. It was not true that this bill tn any way, shape or form affected the men who produced cotton-seed oil. The evidence of Fairbank & Co. and of experts all over the countrywas to. the effect that cotton-seed oil was superior to hog’s lard. If that were so it was absurd that a tax of two mills a pound would * prevent the people who desired to use compound lard from purchasing that article. • If it was true, as stated by Mr. Fairbank, that compound lard could be made of 20 per cent, of lard and 80 per cent, of cotton-seed oil why not brand it as “cotton-seed oil compound?” Why attach the word “lard” to It? It was done for the purpose of selling the ojgmmodity as “lard” and by so doing defrauding the farmers of the market which they would otherwise possess. No vote was taken on the bill. The paragraph, 178, of the tariff bill relating to wood screws having been reached in the Senate on the 22d, Mr. Carlisle said that that was an article which American manufacturers were selling abroad very much lower than they were selling them at home. He produced price lists in support of his statement; also a letter from the American Screw Company of Providence, >R. I. That was another illustration, he said, of the policy adopted by the other side—in allowing drawbacks on exported articles. Mr. Stewart said that the assumption that" there was anything wrong in the sale of American manufactured goods »in foreign countries cheaper than at home arose from a want of information. There was nothing wrong in it, and nothing injurious to American consumers. That was the policy which Enggland had pursued for the last century and .which English statesmen had advised on all occasions. In the House Mr. Henderson (Ill.) submitted the report of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors on Senate amendments to the river and harbor bill, recommending non-concurrence in these amendments and agreeing to the conference asked by the Senate. Mr. Kerr (Iowa) raised the point of order that th a. amendments must first he considered lb committee of the whole. This point was sustained by the Speaker. •The Senate devoted the 23d to eulogies on the late Senator Beck, of Kentucky. Senaator Blackburn speaking of the religion oi the deceased/ said: “His had been the religion of humanity. He had believed that a man who helped his fellowmen was doing God’s service. His life had been molded in that faith. If there were one soul at whosa approach the pearly gates of the celestial city would open widest and offer freest entrance to its eternal glories, it would certainly be to one which ini its life on the earth strove hardest to aid the weak, tc shelter the defenseless, to lighten theburdens of the heavy-laden, and which brought the most smiles and the fewest tears to the children of the world.” The compound lafd bill was taken up in the House. Mr. Hitt (III.) said that for the last ten years oui whole diplomatic service had been trying to vindicate the American hog and prove that American pork was pure and wholsesome. While our diplomats had been doing this pur citizens had been sending through the world an adulterated pork product. It s was time for Congress to enfore honest dealing. When it came to a vote it was found that there was no quorum and the House adjourned. a SOME SNAP SHOTS. They say Mr. Powderly never smokes. He must be the smokeless powderiy we hear so much about nowadays. Conscience is that within us that tells ns when our neighbors are doing wrong. Whatever may happen to P. T. Barnum in the next world he can’t say that he has had no show in this. If a man should tako as much interest in his work as he does in his sport there would be no need of abolishing poverty. Investigate a man closely who talks a s good deal about a lack of opportunity and yon will find a shoemaker who wants to become president >of a bank. A misnomer: ( “How foolish ’twas,” the lapib exidalmed One day, ' ' ' “When Gould’s fond parents christened him a jay.”