Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

EOBEIGN MBWS. Condon and Melody, Fenians, have been released from prison. Tliey sailed immediately for AfH&iM Turkey lias signified her willingness to cede Several islands of the Arcltlpelago to Greece, but not a foot of soil on the main land. L J .. r ' ' 'i The printer of a pamphlet libeling the Emperor of Germany has been sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment and SIOO fine, and the author in contumaciam to five years ffcie. Under a deeree of the Captain Gom oral of (Juba, all kinds of farm animals and isachinory and implement, ar« admitted dutyfree into two departments of tlie island. This exemption will continue for a year. A Circassia|i slave recently took refuge in the British Consulate at‘Constantinople. . The (Jbkisnl ordered her retention, and requested Minister Layard to urge the Porte to prohibit the»sale of slaves in Turkey.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ICa«t. The extensive dry-goods jobbing house of JS. 3. Jaffray & (Jo., of New York, has been robbed of over $50,000 worth of goods within a short period, through a conspiracy among some of its employes. West. A dispatch from Deadwood City says: “ The dead bodies of two men, named O. B. Davis and George W. Keating, well-known horse and cattle thieves, were found hanging to a tree five miles north of Spearfish. Undoubtedly the work of the vigilantes of Spearfish.” A Portland (Ore.) dispatch says Gen. Howard has been collecting the bands of surrendered Indians at Camp McDermott, and the whole of them, aggregating about 1,000, are l>eing transferred to Camp Harney. They are held as prisoners, and arc to wait the pleasure of the Government. Lieut. Bishop recently had a fight, in the northeastern corner of Wyoming, with a band of hostile Bannocks that have recently been raiding the Yellowstone Park, and succeeded in giving the red rascals a sound thrashing. The light was short and sharp. Owing to the excellent disposition of Iris forces made by Lieut. Bishop, it was a clean-up. The Kansas City Horse Bailway Company’s office was entered by a sneak-thief in broad daylight and relieved of SI,OOO in money, $21,000 in bonds, and a $25,000 life-insurance policy. A spirited fight occurred in Southern Kansas, near the line of the Kansas Pacific railroad, a few days ago, between some 300 Indians and al>ont an equal number of whites, composed of soldiers and cattle meii. The accounts at present at hand indicate that the Indians were badly warsted, bufr tho extent of their loss is not given. Houth. Xrispaicnes ox me mm from the plague-infected cities of the South indicate that the fever had rqaehed its height. The deaths in New Orleans for the preceding twenty-four hours numbered 03, and the new eases about 100. At Memphis 91 deaths were reported, but there was a marked decrease in the number of new cases. In Vicksburg there was a decided falling off in the mortality roll as well as in the number of new cases, the former figuring at 12, the latter about 50. Several stores had been opened, and the city was gradually assuming a more business-like appearance. Reports from the interior fever-infected towns were quite encouraging, nearly all of them reporting signs of an abatement of the disease. Ex-Gov. Sam Bard, of Louisiana, is dead. Advices from the plague-infected cities of the Mississippi valley to Sept. 1 show a marked abatement of the disease, both as to the number of now eases and tire mortality lists. The weather was growing colder, there were hopes of an early frost, and the sorely-stricken people were beginning to hold up their heads again. At New Orleans, Memphis, Vicksburg and other points the mortality roll showed a decided decline. At Grenada, Miss., the fever had run its course, the visiting doctors had all left, and business was being resumed. The Secretary of War has placed 40,000 rations, in addition to those heretofore distributed, at the disposal of the Relief Committee in New Orleans.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Commissioner of the General Land Oftice has decided that soldiers in the regular army may file claims and acquire homesteads on the public lands without intending to liecome actual settlers. POLI TIOAL POINTS. J. H. Slater, Democrat, has been elected by the Oregon Legislature to succeed John Hippie Mitchell asJJnited States Senator from that State. Mr. Slater is a hard-money man, but favors the abolition of the national banks. The Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts was called to meet at Worcester on the 17th of September, and, by the evening of tile 16th, the town was filled with delegates and lookeis-on. The State Central Committee decided to issue tickets of admission to the convention, and exclude all from the hall who did not hold the pasteboards. This incensed the Butler men, who looked upon it as a trick to defeat their favorite, and, before daylight of the morning of the' 17th, the friends of the Essex statesman took possession of the hall. The anti-Butlerites, finding themselves thus checkmated, appealed to the city authorities for help. The Mayor, however, declined to use force to clear the halt The State Committee then held a council of war, and decided that the only recourse left them was to declare the time of holding the convention changed. In pursuance of this plan, Edward Avery, Chairman of the committee, went to the hall and made three or four attempts to announce that the convention was postponed to Wednesday, Sept 25, and would be held in Faneuil Hall, Boston. He denounced the proceedings of the Butlerites as revolutionary and irregular. He then retired from the hall amid a scene of uproar rarely witnessed in a political body. Gen. B. F. Butler was then nominated by acclamation for Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Republicans of Massachusetts, in session at Worcester last week, nominated exGov. Thomas Talbot for Governor, John D. Lqng for Lieutenant Governor, Henry L. Pierce for Secretary of State, Charles Endicott for Treasurer, and George Marston for Attorney General. The Democrats of Montana have renominated Hon. Martin Maginnis for Congress. The Nevada Republicans have nominated John H. Kinkaid for Governor and R. M. Daggett for Congress. Gen. P. T. Beauregard declined the nomination of the National party for State

The Democratic sentinel.

• JAS W. McEWEN, Editor.

VOLUME 11.

Treasurer of Louisiana, and Dr. Johp 8. Gardner, of Baton Rouge, was nominated in his stead. The gubernatorial vote of Maine, foots up as follows: ; CoDuku’, Republican, 56,4 W; Hmitli, Greenback, »£O4 ; Garcelon, Democrat, 27,872. Last year the total vote was 101,191 for Governor; this year it was 125,720 votes. ‘

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The election in Canada for members of Parliament, held on the 17th inst., resulted in A signal victory for the Conservatives, under th* leadership tof Sir John A McDonald. The question most prominently at issue was tariff or free trade, and by their action the Dominion vote# have declared for more stringent protection of home industries. The New York Public says the clearings in seventeen cities during the second week in September, including the previous week for San Francisco, compared with last year, show a total decrease of 10 per cent. A heavy robbery was perpetrated in Baltimore the other day. Col. Boone, President of the Mount Vernon Cotton Mills, was the victim, and his loss is about $65,000 in cash and bonds. The robbery was committed in bread daylight, and the robjiers did their work so clean as to leave no clew* behind them.

THE SOUTHERN PLAGUE.

Deplorable Condition of Memphis. Moved by an incoiTect report that the Associated Press reports were exaggerating the deplorable state in Memphis, Tenn., the Appeal of that city, in its issue of the 10th inst. says: “To lose over 1,200 men, women and children in twenty-seven days, out of a population of 15,000, white and black, and to be expending over SIO,OOO for 1,200 nurses and 40 doctors, and for medicines, and food for more than 3,000 sick and 10,000 indigent, is to us a sad reality, enough to move even a stoic to tears. But besides this, there come the tales of individual sorrow; of whole families swept away in a week, leaving not even one of the name; of nurses dying at their posts; of priests and ministers and good sisters following those they succored so fast as to appall the stoutest heart and ‘ give us pause ’ amid the general wreck and ruin. No peo cando these scenes and sights justice; no tongue exaggerate them. Lisping childhood, hoary and venerable old age, the vagrant and the merchant, the plan of God and the unbeliever, all are taken, claimed alike by the awful pestilence. The cry of the fatherless is heard every hour, claiming the pity, the sympathy, and the tears of the most hardened veteran. In this office, as we write, there are but ' two left of all who a month ago were employed in the editorial, counting ami composing rooms, and our pressman is down with the fever. Strangers to the office, as to the business, are attending to our affairs, while the only editor left on duty alternates, through sixteen hours a day, between his desk and a case. This is our personal measure of the dreadful epidemic, and surely it is a sad one. Our experience is one we will never forget, and it is a common one. The fifth epidemic we have passed through, this surpasses them all in the horrors it lias uncovered. Parents have deserted children, and children parents, husbands their wives, but not one wife a husband. Men have dropped dead on the streets, while others have died neglected, only to be discovered by the death-spreading gases from their bodies. Ministers of the Gospel, carrying messages of peace, hurrying from house to house, have had their weary feet arrested ami their work stayed by the pestilence that walks in the noonday as at night. The priest administering the extreme unction, and the bride of Christ, wiping the deathdamp from the forehead of those whose friends and kin-folk are far away, are almost paralyzed in the sacred act, and die even before we know they are sick. The business of the hour is the succor of the sick, the burial of the dead, and the care of the needy living. The last words of those who are well are at night farewells to the dead, and the first in the morning, “Who lives’ and who has died ?’ All day, and every hour of the day, tliis question is repeated, and the soul grows weary over the repetition. And yet there is no relief nor any release. Worse and worse the epidemic has grown, until to-day it has capped the climax, and the hearts of the brave men who have stood in the breach are blanched with fear, with a dread that annihilation awaits us, and that we are destined to be blotted from the earth. Fear sits on every face and dread on every heart. We work not in the shadow, but in the very face of death. We meet him on every hand and at every moment in the names of his victims and in the desolation he has spread about us. Hope, we have none. We despair of any relief, but we are nerved for the end. We pray blessings upon the generous who have helped us in all the States; we pray for the safety of those who have come among us to nurse the sick and minister to the dying, and we ask that the names of the w omen and the men who have laid down their lives for us shall be handed down forever as among the brightest and the best of earth.”

Curiosities of Yellow Fever.

[From the Boston Journal.] * Yellow fever is a mysterious, and, in many respects, an incomprehensible disease. The few general facts that seem to have been learned about it, after close and varied observation, are not infrequently contradicted by new experience. One of its widely-supposed peculiarities is that it cannot live at certain elevations, 2,500 feet above sea level being sufficient, it is thought, to exclude it completely. Yet, long before Cortez invaded Mexico, the natives of the country suffered terribly from an epidemic which was, beyond all rational doubt, identical with what is now known as yellow fever. This epidemic—it was called matlazahuatl— prevailed repeatedly, with great virulence and mortality, during the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, on the table lands of Mexico, 7,200 to 7,800 feet above the sea. If it has raged at that height it may rage at an equal height agajn, and thus the favorite and now universally-accepted theory is overthrown. It is surprising how very little is known of the yellow fever, as to its symptoms, consequences, general course and treatment, for, while it has been recognized only about 200 years as a distinctive disease, it has. been a fearful scourge at least since the beginning of the fifteenth century. It used to be called the plague, and it is little less hideous and destructive than that frightful pesti-

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,. 1878.

lence, now happily confined to the hot and filthy East Although yellow fever is regarded as a very fatal disease, a great many people do recover from it, and where there is recovery it is usually complete, and the patient is not, as too often happens in the case of <hose suffering from other fevers, an ailing man afterwards. An old surgeon in the United States navy, who haul on more than one occasion to fight this dreadful malady, tells of a remarkable recovery which came under his notice. Accommodations being very limited on board a fever-stricken ship, he desired that a patient whose condition seemed quite hopeless should be laid in one of the boats which hung from the divats. The man had sunk •into insensibility, and, attention, being urgently demanded for cases less desperate, he was left during the night to his fate. Meanwhile, a terrible thunderstorm, with a deluge of rain, came on, which latter fell upon the patient in the boat like a tremendous shower-bath. When they went to look at him next morning he had come to his senses, was wonderfully better, and from that hour began to recover.

“Only Me."

[From the New Orleans Picayune.] A boy came up in the Picayune office to insert a death notice last night. He said to the gentleman having charge of the advertising department: “ Another one gone; that makes eight.” “ What do you mean?” asked the gentleman. The boy answered: “ I mean that is the eighth one of my family that has died —five brothers and three sisters. I wonder who will come next?” “ How many are left ?” “ Only me,” he replied, as he went out.

A Mother’s Mournful Death.

The closing ’pages of East Lynne, wherein the novelist aptly pictures the sad finish of the wasted and blackened life of a woman, among her children, almost find a parallel in the death of Mrs. Kate Moynahan, on the West Side, last night. There is one difference, and an important one, namely, the causes leading to the separation of mother and children are widely dissimilar. In the case of the mother depicted by the novelist it was crime, in the present case it was a vice—intemperance. Mrs. Kate Moynajian was 38 years old, and the mother of three children. Awhile back her husband, James, after years of useless pleading, was compelled to apply for a divorce from the mother of his children, owing to her uncontrollable passion for strong drink. The decree was granted, and the pair went various ways, the father being awarded the custody of the children. Perhaps it was thought by the dissevered pair that they would never meet again, but the mother’s love for her children was such that, after a brief absence, she souerht the husband she had sinned against, and begged one boon, that she might be allowed to call and see the little ones at intervals. The request was granted, and she called at. times at their home, 222 Aberdeen street, and spent an hour with the dear ones. It was noticed that her spells of drinking .were becoming less, and the possibilities of a brighter future began to glimmer. But that dream is over now. Between 6 and 7 o’clock last evening Mrs. Moynahan went to the home, and, after being there a brief while, sadly conversing with and weeping over her little ones, she fell back in her chair dead.— Chicago

Mistaken.

The roads of Wyoming Territory, in the region of the Black Hills, are infested with stage-robbers. A correspondent of the Louisville CourierJournal, writing of their recent villainous exploits, says: “ Some amusing incidents occurred in these robberies. On one occasion, when the treasure-box yielded little or nothing, the passengers were robbed. Among them was a female from Deadwood, who had a large amount of money, nuggets and jewelry on her person, and one of the gang informed her she, too, must disgorge. With a gallantry much more commendable than the language he used, another robber announced that he did not go into this thing to rob women, and it could not be done. A wrangle ensued, which finally resulted in the female proceeding unplucked. Soon afterward another coach passed down containing another female, and the passengers thought themselves very sagacious in loading her down with their gold watches, jewelry and money. As was expected, the stage was stopped; but, as was not expected, this female was plucked, and one of the robbers remarked that in future he thought he would devote his entire attention to attractive female passengers.

A Thrilling Accident.

Not many days ago a student named William Folwell, who accompanied one of the eclipse parties to Denver, met with a thrilling and most wonderful adventure on the craggy side of Pike’s Peak. He had climbed swiftly away from his companions, and was endeavoring to mount an almost precipitous rock, so that he might the more easily sweep the valley before him, when he lost his footing and fell. Turning three somersaults in the stone-like downward dash, the climber found himself with a broken arm and bruised body in the top of a cedar forty or fifty feet down the mountain side. The branches of the trees were so thickly clumped that the fall had been cut short. There, in the top of the cedar, the student swayed to and fro, lustily using his lungs. When the party got vdthin ear shot they hastened forward, and being unable to approach the tree from below, threw a rope, which was caught by Folwell, and •successfully used to make his escape.

Pleasures of Anticipation.

The little Paul, aged 8, passes the day at his uncle’s. At the dessert they serve the tart to the cream. “Ah, my uncle,” says the child, “why didn’t you tell me this morning that there was going to be pie for dinner ?” “Why?” “So that I could have expected it all day,” replies the infant, passing his tongue around his ears. Two British soldiers in Ceylon recently died of cholera—theirs being the only deaths in the regiment. The dead men happened to be teetotallers, and this fact so impressed their comrades that of 188 temperance men in the regiment 136 immediately broke the pledge. The income of the ex-Empress Eugenie is stated to amount to $500,000 per annum.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRIES.

Some Interesting Statistics of Labor and Manufactures in the Bay State. From the Massachusetts State report on labor, says the Chicago Tribune, we find that there are 10,395 private establishments and 520 corporations engaged in manufacturing industries in Massachusetts, and there are besides 11,313 minor establishments classed as engaged in occupations related to manufactures. In the private establishments there are 15,733 partners. These establishments produce $351,325,814 worth of manufactured goods annually. They employ $135,892,712 capital, employ 166,588 persons, and pay $79,015,095 wages, or an average of $474.37 to each person employed. These establishments use of materials $201,122,575, leaving a gross profit after paying for materials and wages of $71,188,144. In the 520 corporations there are 26,058 stockholders; they produce SIBO, 810,519 worth of manufactures; they employ 101,337 persons, paying them $38,860,174 wages —an average of $383.47 each person. They have $131,182,090 capital invested, use $93,841,000 of material, and the gross profits are $48,109,345. The whole number of persons employed in both classes of establishments is 267,925, and the total wages paid them is $117,875,269, or an average to each person per year of $439.95. The gross profits are $119,297,489. The average capital invested by each proprietor or stockholder is $6,390.72. From the sum of gross profits are defrayed the expenses of interest, insurance, rent, etc. The value of the leading manufactured products of the State may be thus given: Boots & 5h0e5.,559,375.000 Carpets $ 0,190,000 Clothing 29.340,000 Machinery 16,300,000 Food prep’ions 44,633.000 Paper 15,603,000 Leather 23.680.000 Worsted 3.000,000 Metallic goods. 37.884,000 Miscellaneous. 62.850.000 Woolen 39.566,000 Building 8,656.000 Wooden 7.208.000 Liquors 8,967,000 Total all inCotton goods.. 77,934,000 dustries.. $532,136,333 Furniture 8,422,000 The State contains 631,131 nativeborn females, and of these 190,311 have become mothers, while, of the 222,825 foreign-bom females in the State, 119,209 have become mothers. Of the 330,792 native-born females over 20 years of age, 57 per cent, are mothers, and of the 181,543 foreign-born females over 20 years, 66 per cent, are mothers. The report states the average number of births to Massachusetts mothers, 3.55; to Irish mothers, 5.03; to Canadian mothers, 4.78; to other British mothers, 4.40; to German mothers, 4.23. There are 325 native and 115 foreignborn mothers who have never been married; 37,106 native and 23,379 for-eign-born widows; 1,040 native and 129 foreign-born women divorced. Whole number of married women, 398,759, of which 254,531 are natives; whole number nf married women who have not become mothers is 64,220 natives and 25,019 foreign, or a total of 89,239. Twenty-five per cent, of the nativeborn married women and 17 per cent, of the foreign-born have never been mothers. The number of farm laborers in the State in 1875-’6 was 16,040, of which 11,000 were born in the United States, including those bom of foreign parents. There were 1,718 of these laborers classed as illiterate, of whom 340 were natives.

Of the skilled workmen in forty-seven branches of industry in the State, male and female, 136,503 are native born, 40,868 are Irish, 15,225 English, 24,437 Canadian, 4,011 German, 4,028 Scotch. The total is 316,459, of whom 233,252 are males and 83,207 females. The whole number of unskilled laborers in the State is 52,170, of whom 13,076 are natives, 30,800 are Irish and 3,251 Canadians. The products of manufactures, agriculture, fishing and mining in the State, for the year 1875, reached a value of $643,478,277. This value w'as produced by the labor of 450,742 persons, of whom 70,945 were engaged in manufactures. The productive population of the State was 41.48 per cent, and the unproductive 58.52 per cent. The latter are clas'sed as housewives, retired from business, infirm, children and dependents. The result of these tables shows plainly the presence and the influence of the foreign-born element in the productive industry of the State. When that part of the population descended immediately from those of foreign nativity are added to the foreign-bom, the number and influence of the foreign-bom element in the State can be understood. Happily, however, the descendants of foreignbom parents become rapidly assimilated and blended with the general population of the country.

Never Caught Napping.

The Erie (Penn.) Dispatch describes as follows a scene'in one of the courts of that city: “An elderly gentleman was on the witness-stand, and seemed to be exceedingly anxious to convince the court and jury that he possessed uncommon watchfulness at night, declaring that he was always aroused from slumber by the slightest noise in his room. One of the attorneys, in cross-examining the witness, asked if it was not a fact that he was not a great and sound sleeper. ‘ I don’t think I am,’ was the reply. ‘ But do you not sometimes fall asleep at the dining-table ?’ ‘ Sometimes when I am tired I fall into a doze,’ was the reply; ‘ but that does not prevent my going on with the dinner, as I know what is going on all the time ?’ ‘Well,’ said the attorney, ‘you are the most remarkable man I ever heard of. I suppose you sometimes sleep when you are walking?’ ‘I don’t know that that I can say that exactly,’ rejoined he, ‘ but I will tell you what I have done. When I was a boy and used to go to spelling-school, I used to get into a sleeping fit, but would keep right along, and spell the whole school down in the end.’ ‘Possible!’said the attorney. ‘Tndeed it is; and many a good nap have I had when I have been milking my cows. So you see that, although asleep, it is hard work to catch me.’ ‘ I should say so,’ replied the counsel. ‘ I think we don’t want anything more of you; you seem to know a great deal more when asleep than when awake.’ ”

To Europe by Balloon.

Prof. Samuel A. King, the aeronaut, proposes to start from New York on a balloon voyage to Europe. His balloon will be the largest in the world. It will average about ninety feet in diameter, and will hold between 300,000 and 400,000 feet of gas. The material employed will be Pongee silk, coated with a substance known to the professor only. The silk will be doubled throughout. Pure hydrogen gas will be used, and the

cost of the inflation alone is approximated at $5,000. The car will be a combination of boat and basket, a wicker frame-work, covered with a heavy rubber substance, which can be used as a boat in case of emergency. The professor will start early in June next.

KILLED BY A SERPENT.

Terrible Encounter With a Deadly Blow ing Viper in a Dark Boom. [From the Altoona (Pa.) Tribune.] A terrible colamity befel Dr. Paulliamus and his lovely and accomplished daughter Eleanor, Tuesday evening, in Williamsburg, Pa. It seems that a couple of weeks ago two tramps captured a pair of enormous reptiles, which the doctor pronounced to be of that deadly species known as “ blowing viper.” The doctor having a desire to contribute something that would commend itself from this district, purchased the reptiles, intending to forward them to the Zoological Garden in Philadelphia. Biding their transportation the snakes were placed in a large glass jar, the top being carefully secured by a covering of wire gauze. The jar was placed on an elevated bracket in a remote corner of the doctor’s office. Last evening the doctor and his daughter w r ere returning from a visit to the country, and, the doctor having occasion to make up a prescription, they both entered his office, the doctor lighting a lamp. And now comes the terrible denouement. A large owl swept in through the transom above the door, and flew with the speed of an arrow against the lamp, knocking it over, and scattering the oil and broken glass in every direction. The bird seemed frantic, flying and dashing in every direction, while a general crushing of bottles and glasses was heard on every side. Meantime the doctor had lit another match, but just in time to receive his daughter, who sprung with a wild cry into his arms. In the darkness he gathered his darling in his arms, and in a moment realized the situation. The owl had dislodged the jar from the bracket, and the vipers were at large. Speedily he groped his way, calling loudly for help, which, the hour being Lite, was slow to put in an appearance. They seemed slow, but scarcely five minutes elapsed until full a dozen ladies and brave men were on the spot. No living hand can indite the horrors of the next few minutes. Miss Eleanor, who had been insensible since she sprung to her father’s arms, was now being cared for by the ladies w’hen one simultaneous shriek almost froze the blood and paralyzed each nerve—yet not all! It was Thomas Lutz’s hand that seized the glittering reptile by the neck and choked its fearful fangs apart. It had bitten the lady midway between the ankle qnd the knee. She was now carried immediately to her home, where every known antidote for poison was administered by her frantic father, but all to no avail. She died at 6:30 o’clock this morning. After taking’ the poor unfortunate young lady home, one of the men, knowing there had been two snakes, returned to the office and soon dispatched the other. An examination showed its two large fangs missing. This led to the conjecture that possibly the doctor had been bitten. A hasty return and close examination resulted in finding the fangs ip the thick leathers of the doctor’s boots, who, being so alarmed for his daughter, had not the slightest knowledge of being struck. The corpse of the young lady hass w'ollen to enormous dimensions, while her complexion is in harmony with the spots and general coloring of the snake.

Wanted to Save the Country.

A man whose every look betrayed anxious thought knocked softly at Bijah’s door. By his air One would know he was a Stranger therP. “Mr. Joy, this country is in an awful way,” he began as he took a chair. “Is—that—so?” “Yes. I can’t sleep nights for thinking of it. We must save her. We must effect a compromise between capital and labor, creditor and debtor, officeholder and elector, and thus save this glorious old nation from destraction. Tell me what to do, sir?” Bijah looked him over from head to foot, made a mental guess at his age and weight, and finally replied: “Mister man, my advice to you is to begin to lay in turnips, ’taters and beans for winter use, and to let this country strictly alone. It’s none o’ your business to save her, sir—none o’ your business what becomes of her!” “But w’on’t you advise me, sir?” “Yes, you bet I will! Go home, or somewhere, and get a clean shirt! Go and. get your hair cut and your face washed! Go and fill up your lankness with a free lunch, and you might hire a boy to hoe the mud off them boots! Save this country! Why, sir, you couldn’t save the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section one of a mud-hole!” “Mr. Joy, do I deserve this?” “Yes, and more, too! There are a dozen more just like you around town. They are always talking about this poor country, and wanting some one to save her, while their wives and children go hungry for bread and shiver all winter for the want of clothes. Git right out of here, sir. Go and wash up and then go to work! When this dear suffering country wants your services, I’ll drop you a postal card.” “Mr. Joy, won’t you let me save this country ?” “No, sir!” “Can’t I be a patriot?” “No, sir!” “Can’t I ?” “No, sir!” The man paused for a while, and then in a sad voice he asked: “Mr. Joy, I believe you could lend me a quarter if you tried awful* hard!” The old man grew black and blue in the face, but, suppressing his emotion, after a moment he forced a smile and replied: “Please come out into the back yard. I keep my silver buried out there for fear of thieves.” He started out, a diabolical grin on his mouth, but the man who wanted to save the country made a sudden break for the street and got away.— Detroit Free Press.

A miller in England, who had beaten his wife and threatened his children because summoned for not sending the latter to school, was last month seized by forty women, who flogged him and then dragged him to a pond, where, while drenched with water, he implored pardon for his misdeeds.

THE IRON HORSE.

New Railway Projects at Home ami Abroad [From the Railway ’World.] It is evident that very little improvement in the financial affairs of the world, or rather in the willingness of capitalists to advance money for railway construction, is needed to establish another era of great activity in railway building. The proposed fields of exertion have to some extent changed, and a good many of the enterprises seriously contemplated at this time have not yet quite reached the stage in which large expenditures are made, but nevertheless the work of conceiving projects, and advancing them so far that final success is only a question of time, still goes on. Temporarily the most rapid progress will, from present appearances, be in the New Dominion, India and other British colonies, France, Italy, Switzerland, South American countries, Bussia and portions of Asia, bill indications of a desire to resume construction, on a somewhat extensive scale, are by no means wanting in some sections of our vast republic, and these aspirations are not all unaccompanied with the ability to provide the necessaiy financial ing,.The Canadian Government seems to be thoroughly in earnest in its indorsement of the project for completing an all-Tail connection between the British North American possessions on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and, as work is progressing at several important points, the final success of this gigantic undertaking can scarcely be considered doubtful. Meanwhile great activity is being displayed in connection with schemes that to some extent hinge upon this movement by our northern neighbors, and it would not be surprising if construction in the region south of Manitoba, and identified with the Bed river valley and various portions of Dakota and Minnesota, should soon be commenced on an extensive scale. In the central Bocky Mountain districts the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe is busy with extensions, which are alleged to have as their objective point a connection with the lines of the Southern Pacific; the Denver and Bio Grande is pushing its lines south toward Mexico with considerable vigor, and there have been many evidences or premonitions of activity in various portions of Central Colorado, Utah and districts contiguous to the Black Hills. A number of projects for the construction of local roads, or Hie completion of extensions deemed desirable by some of the long-existing railway lines, are now showing an increasing amount of vitality; but, in view of the large number of completed miles of railway in operation in this country to each 1,000 inhabitants, as compared with the corresponding relation in many other countries, it is scarcely to be desired or expected that the outlays for new railways here will soon again, if ever, greatly surpass those of all other nations, especially since a number of foreign Governments are at this moment so liberally supporting new railway projects, while there is a strong disposition here’ to antagonize our entire railway system with Government hostility.

At the close of 1876 there was in the United States one mile of railway to every 576 6-10 inhabitants, while in the world at large the number of inhabitants to each mile of railway was 7,253 7-10. With an estimated population of less than 45,000,000, this country has 77,470 miles of railway in operation, out of a total of 194,836, or about twofifths of the entire mileage of the world, which has an aggregated estimated population of 1,412,933,693, or more than thirty times the population of the United States. After all due allowance is made for the progressive character of the American people, and the special needs for transportation facilities, it is evident that either we have built too many railways, or other nations too few, or that, perhaps, there is considerable truth in both these propositions. To supply the entire globe as liberally with railways in proportion to population as the United States is now supplied would require the construction of about 2,400,000 miles, or more than twelve times the present mileage ; and a number of nations heretofore inshrouded in the trammels of conservatism, or lacking the means, intelligence and enterprise necessary to put forward great works of construction, are now beginning to realize more fully than at any former period the desirability of such efforts.

It is a significant sign of the times that the Governments of France, Russia, Italy and Germany are either making at this moment very large expenditures for railway purposes, or that they are committed to such action at a comparatively early period. Even Switzerland decided recently to make another considerable advance to the great St. Gothard tunnel project, which is considered vitally essential to her future prosperity; and, as compared with the United States, either one of the nations named would be obliged to construct many railways before they would approximate the present relations between mileage and population in this country. Thus, in France, there is only one mile of railway to every 2,860 5-10 inhabitants; in Switzerland, one mile for every 2,286 8-10; in Germany, one mile for every 2,346 9-10; and in Russia, one mile to every 5,265 6-10 inhabitants.

Horrible Murder in Texas.

The wife of George Lynch, a respected citizen of Berkley, Tex., died some weeks ago, leaving an infant. Lynch had seven other children, the oldest, Clemie, being 17 years of age. On Friday night the family retired as usual, a lamp being left burning in the main room. At midnight the father was awakened by a pistol shot and a ball striking him in the breast. He sprung up and saw a masked man standing in the middle of the room pointing a pistol at him. The assassin fired again, the ball entering beneath the collar bone. Lynch fell back unconscious. When he recovered consciousness he found himself lying in a lane outside the premises. The assassin, thinking Lynch dead, seized a hatchet, and put the children, who were witnesses, out of the way. He assaulted Clemie and buried the hatchet in her head; also crushed the skulls of three other children, and then set fire to the house.

The distracted father saw the burning house fall in on the bodies of his eight children. The bodies were 'afterward exhumed and an inquest held, when the hatchet-wounds were discovered upon the skulls of the children. It is thought Lynch will recover. A young man

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named Boatware, with whom Lynch had had fliflicnltv, is suspected of the crime. —Houston \Te.ras) Telegraph.

Windom’s Wasted Millions.

It is not often that a public man whose whole Congressional career has been illustrated by extravagance, and who is personally responsible for a large part of the reckless appibpriations of the Senate, sets up a claim to l>e an economist;’wnd seeks to deprive others who have done their best to effect some retrenchment in the loose public expenditures of their fairly earned credit. Mr. Windom, who has long been Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, where, backed by a majority of his political friends, he has exercised absolute control over all the regular bills for carrying o» the Government, has undertaken this new character.

The Republican Congressional Committee has issued a “ supplement ” and spread it broadcast, over the West, in which Mr. Windom assumes to explain away the reductions made in the last and present Congress, and do deny the results which were achieved after the House of Representatives had passed out of Republican hands through the tidal wave of 1874. Every observer of affairs in the last three years, when, owing to the general distress, attention has been more fixed on these subjects than usual, knows that an immense saving has l>een effe«»ted in all branches of the public service since the power of the Republican party was broken in Congress by the loss of the House; and, if one cause more than another contributed to that remarkable change, it was the abuse of power in voting away the people’s money, and the corrupt objects to which it was appropriated. The people in their wrath took the first weapon they could find to break the head of the party that was guilty of these wrongs, and* Massachusetts was more conspicuous than any other in electing the Democratic ticket, in order to emphasize her indignation at the prodigality and open venality of successive Republican Congresses. It was no love for the Democracy that led to that phenomenal change in politics, but a resolute purpose to sweep away into disgrace and exile the men who had prostituted their trusts to selfish uses, and to admonish the party which had tolerated them that there must be an end to that sort of corrupt rule. These facts are familiar to the whole country, and yet Mr. Windom tries to break their force by misrepresenting the actual good that has been accomplished, in spite of his constant, bitter, and unqualified opposition, which the majority of the Senate always sustained, and which the departments supported with false and exaggerated statements.

Take a few illustrations, which are fresh, and easily disproven if any way erroneous. A comparison of the last three years with a Democratic House, and the preceding three years when the Republicans had full swing, will show the difference in the appropriations actually made, as follows: ilepublii-an I Democra/.h-. 1871$1 SI ,587,054.61 1877$ 145.997 ,956.72 1875 177,979,478.77 1878 140,384,606.95 1876 172,600,205.53 1879 157,213,983.77 Total.. $531,866,733.91 Total.. $443,596,497.44 Here is a plain reduction, which no sophistry can destroy, of $88,270,236.47 in the eleven great bills for the support of the Government. But these figures, imposing as they are, by no means represent the economy sought to be achieved in the last three years. The bills for these same objects, as they passed the House, were: For the fiscal year 18775138,080,856.68 For the fiscal year 1878 131.309.307.37 For the fiscal year 1879 147,687,739.94 T0ta15417,077,903.99 It is thus seen, by deducting the bills passed by the House from the appropriations actually made, that if the Senate had accepted them there would have been a further reduction of $26,518,593.45. When these bills went to the Senate, Mr. Windonf and his political associates increased them as follows: 18775157,419,767.36 1878 148.988,885.75 1879 191,852,299.41 T0ta15468,260,922.52 Deduct saint- bills aa passed Houne for these years an above 417,077,903.99 • Increase by Senates 51,183,018.53 There is no possible escape from this showing, which proves that after the lesson of 1874, and the hard times since 1873, the Republican party has either learned nothing, or is unwilling to run outside of the old ruts. But for the Senate, led in this matter by Mr.-Win-dom, there would have been a great reduction and a corresponding diminution of public burdens. As it was, the House was unable to carry out its policy, and consequently more than $26,500,000 were added to the expenditures, every dime of which and much more, too, by a reduction of the army, ought to have been saved. It is evident that, in the role of an economist, the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate is not a great success, and he will not succeed in deceiving many people this year with his million or more of manufactured “ supplements.”

The Grant Movement Frosted.

Besides shelving Blaine as a candidate for President, driving little Eugene Hale to the shades of private life, waking up ancient Hamlin from a Rip Van Winkle sleep, and demoralizing the Republican party on the eve of the fall elections, the result in Maine has had another effect, which has not been taken into account. It has blasted the Grant movement with an early frost, from which recovery is hardly probable. Mr. Blaine recently declared for it, as reflecting the sentiment of a present majority of the Republican party, and other men of prominence have been helping it with all their influence in the most effective way. That a regular campaign for a third term was organized and directed with skill on their side, seconded by Grant’s efforts in Europe, no longer admits of the least doubt. If the scheme was not planned before he went abroad, it has certainly taken shape and been industriously worked up in the last eight or ten months, with the artful appliances known to shrewd politicians. Grant himself is cunning, and did not require much instruction after the general plan was marked out. A part of the programme was that he should come home by way of California, and be greeted

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with a series of preconcerted receptions, on the largest possible scale, from San Francisco to New’ York. Though quite willing to take any ordinary chances promising success, Grant, has an innate dread of defeat, and has no inclination to be the scapegoat of others, or to lead a forlorn hope. He will npt need to be told that with the foundation of the Republican party in New England undermined by a defection that cannot be repaired in time for 1880, if ever, he would be beaten as no other candidate has ever been, if nominated two years hence. The popular repugnance to a third term, and the corruption, ring rule, and robberies of Grantism, would have crushed him in any event, had he possessed far more strength than his friends have ever claimed. But this upheaval in Maine, which is the first blast of an angry storm that will carry all before it in other States, is an admonition which no man like Grant is likely to disregard. He will be told that the capitalists of the country, the national banks, and the railroad corporations will all unite upon him, and that their union means an election at any price. His instincts and his personal associations and his tastes being all in this direction, he will accept this assurance as in the main true, the wish being father to the thought. Tempting as the suggestion is, it has drawbacks. A combination of wealth and corporate pow’er would lead almost necessarily to a union of popular elements, against which they could not stand, ami might provoke a condition oi things which all good men would deplore in any political contest. Capital is naturally conservative, and would depart from safe moorings if it ever consented to engage in a struggle like that proposed. National banks depend upon Congress for their charters, and on the people for their support. Railroad corporations have no strength to sacrifice in politics, and are in no condition to invite risks.

When Gen. Grant comes to reflect on the surroundings of the next Republican candidate, lie will be very apt to conclude that discretion is the better part of valor, and refuse to be put up merely to be knocked down like a ninepin. Should he, from any weakness, yield to the temptation, and allow himself to be conquered by the politicians, his career will probably close in clouds, like those which darkened it before the great opportunity came that rescued him from ruin, and worse. The next Republican candidate will be the last under the existing organization. An overwhelming defeat will lead to a new’ formation, out of which may grow a great party in the future, when their opponents shall have run in the beaten track of success and proven their incapacity to bear it.— New York Suu.

Robeson to the Front.

The brazen and notorious Robeson has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First district of New Jersey. Tn his speech of acceptance, the man whom Whitthorne’s committee has apparently demonstrated to be the biggest corruptionist of the Grant corruption period said “ the Republican party has been the bread and meat of my political life ” —which is an undeniable truth; but when he added that he was ready to vindicate Grant’s administration, those who nominated him must have had doubts in their minds about the possibility of even Robeson carrying out that contract. If he is elected, the fact will have to be taken as evidence that “ Jersey justice is altogether as eccentric and astonishing as “Jersey lightning.”— Chicago Times.

A Fight With a Bass.

The Norwich (Ct.) Bulletin tells a story of a remarkable struggle with a giant bass, caught in a seine, at Niantic. One escaped by breaking the meshes. A second they got upon the beach. They had hardly dropped the cords before he broke from the meshes, and, springing high in the air, plunged down the shore toward the sea, ten or twelve feet away. The men dashed excitedly after him, and vainly sought to stop him with desperate kicks from heavy fishing-boots, arid blows from such implements as they could pick up on the beach. No one dared to grasp the monster, as a bass of large size, armed with its sharp fins and razor-like teeth and gills, is one of the fiercest and most dangerous of sea fish. The shore water was already reached, and the bass was splashing furiously in the desperate endeavor 1 to gain water that would float him. An instant more and the prize would be lost. At this moment Mr. Winship threw himself on the struggling monster, clasping his arms around its neck, with one foot under its body, and shouted for help. The struggles of the fish and its captor had carried them into deep water; but the stout arms of the other fishermen were quick to the rescue, and both man and bass were rolled up to the shore, and the bass was secured. The whole party at the end of the struggle were breathless with exhaustion, bu 1 escaped with scarcely a wound. ‘ Th c fish weighed 46f pounds.

Eight Persons Killed by an Infernal Machine.

Infernal machines have been employed of late with fatal effect in several cities and towns of Mexico. At San Angel, a little town five or six miles from the capital of the country, a party of six ladies and three gentlemen assembled to open a box assuming to have come from Southern France, and to contain Lourdes water and a number of rosaries that had been blessed by the Pope. One box opened, another was disclosed, and, as they were trying to get into the second, a tremendous explosion took place and every person but one was instantly killed. The box contained nitro-glycerine, and was evident ly prepared for assassination, though why any of the party mentioned should have incurred any such deadly enmity it is impossible to telL The terrible box, it is said, was sent to one of the ladies, remarkable for her amiability and benevolence. She was unmarried and a great favorite, and it is surmised that a semi-adventurer who had proposed to her and been rejected had adopted this method of revenge. Such a thing scarcely seems credible to us; but in Mexico anything criminal may happen, with or without provocation. There are men there who appear to practice assassination lest they may grow rusty in their murderous art. The Californians have a proverb that a mongrel Mexican is half-brother to the devil.