Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The convention concluded between the countries of the Latin Union provides that the coinage of gold shall remain free, and the coinage of silver, suspended indefinitely, cannot he resumed without the consent of all the members of the union. The convention requires the ratification by the chambers of the countries in the union. Gen. Grant was dined by the King of Portugal on the 7th of November. A Paris dispatch says that “ after a long and animated debate and many calls to order the Chamber of Deputies declared the election of M. Paul de Cassagnac invalid.” A Bombay dispatch states that the Afghans in Khybor pass are deserting largely in consoquenoo of sickness and hunger. Hopes are entertained that the Ameer will submit unecvadationally to the British. The mortality among tho Afghans at Jellalabad is from tliirty to forty daily. A telegram from Constantinople says Rus&ia is establishing a second line of defense at Adrianople. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the health of the Czar is becoming more and moro uncertain, and causes great anxiety. The recent storms in Europe have covered tho Alps, tho Apponnines, and tho Black Forest, as well as tho mountains and plains of Austria, with snow. Tho Emperor of Austria has granted a general amnesty to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Benhar Coal Company of Edinburgh, (Scotland, with a capital and stock debentures of ovor $0,000,(XX) lias suspended payment. The receipts of the Paris Exhibition, from the opening to the close, were 12,053,746 francs. A Constantinople dispatch says a Greek vessel was seized in the Dardanelles by pirates, who killed the sailors. The vessol was rescued by boats from tho British fleet, and tho pirates arrested and delivered to the Turkish authorities. Lord Beaconsfield, in an after-dinner speech the other day, unfolded somo of tho ideas of tho British Government regarding affairs in the East. Ho did not feel apprehensive of troublo on the Indian frontier unloss Asia Minor and the Euphrates valley were occupiod by either a very strong power or vory weak one; and ho hinted that England might take tho initiative and obtain control of that territory herself.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kant. The latest startling sensation in New York is the robbery of tho grave of the late Alexander T. Stewart Tho spoliation was discovered early in the morning, and the discovery was quickly followed by the issue of orders to the police of tho city for a diligont search of every precinct for tho lost body. Tho objoct of the horrible and revolting crime was, doubtless, to obtain money for tho return of the stolen remains—an object not very likely to be realized, for the dead man’s heirs declare that they will rather pay thousands for hunting down tho ghouls than dollars iu the way of bribery. It appears that an attempt was made to find the grave a month ago, but failed. The robbers wasted somo work in digging around the slab supposed to cover the vault, and discovered that there was no grave under the stone. They appear to have obtained better information before making a second attempt, learning, among other things, that a watchman who was employed for a few nights to patrol the place after tho first failure had been economically dismissed. A New York dispatch announces that Mrs. A. T. Stewart lias offered a reward of $25,000 for tho recovery of the body of her late husband, stolen from the family vault in St. Mark’s Church grave-yard, and the conviction of the thieves. Another of the audacious robberies which are becoming matters of almost daily occurrence in Now York, is reeordod. Six thieves took possession of a jewelry store, covered the proprietor, his clerk, a customer, and the passers-by with revolvers, packing all the portable jewelry that was within reach into Ja hag, and made off with it. The affair occurred at 6 o’clock in the evening, in a crowded thoroughfare, while hundreds of pedestrians wore passing to and fro. A portion of the immense brewery of Bergner A Engel, in Philadelphia, has been burned. Loss, $50,000. The famous summer resort on the Jersey coast, Capo May, has beon almost laid in ruins by fire. Nearly all the hotels and many private cottages wero swept away. Tho loss is placed at $500,000. Tho fire is believed to have l>eon the work of an incendiary. South. A lynching affair is reported from Arkansas, a colorod man being taken from the jail at Clarksville, tho other night, and hung. He was confined for an assault upon a white woman.

A painful accident lias befallen Gov. Waclo Hampton, of South Carolina. While ant hunting, the animal which ho was riding took fright and broke its bridle. The Governor leaped to the ground, and in so doing broke his right leg in two places, tlio bones protruding through tho flooh. Official reports published in New Orleans show that there have been no new cases of yollow fever since the 4th of this month. Tho Board of Health notifies absentees that there is no longer any danger. w. H. Anderson, Sheriff of Dallas county, Texas, pursued William Collins, a notorious highwayman, away out to Pembina, Dakota, and attempted to arrest him. Collins resisted him, a fight ensued, and each succeeded in killing tho other. West. By the explosion of a boiler in the saw-mill of Joseph Ents, at Savannah, Mo., two men wero killed and two others seriously injured. J ive two-story brick tenement houses on Corro street, between Eighth and Ninth streets, Bt. Louis, burned the other night. Loss about SB,OOO. Three persons lost their lives in the fiames. Nearly all the cabinet-makers in St. Louis, Mo., are on a strike for an advance of wages. POLITICAL POINTS. Returns from the November elections, as received by telegraph on the morning of Monday, Nov. 11, indicate the results noted below: Jllinoix. —Entire Republican State ticket eloeted, and the Legialature is Republican by a small majority. The Congressional delegation stands 12 Republicans, 0 Democrats and 1 Groenbackeer. Wisconsin.— The election in this State was for members of Congress and the State Legislature. The Congressional vote may be summed

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up as follows: First district, Republican; Second, Republican; Third, Republican; Fourth, Democratic; Fifth, Democrat; Sixth, Democrat; Seventh, Republican; Eighth, Republican. The Republicans elect a clear working majority of the Legislature on joint ballot Michigan. —Returns indicate that the Republican State ticket is successfully a large plurality, and that both branches of the Legislature are Republican. The Congressional delegation is solidly Republican. Minnesota.—Tho Republicans have about 15,000 majority on the State ticket. The Democrats elect one Congressman—Poehler, of the Third Missouri. Democrats and one Greenbacker are elected to Congress. Nebraska. —The Republicans elect their Governor and member of Congress by about 10,000 majority. Kansas.— The Republicans elect their State ticket by 30,000 majority, and every member of Congress. The Legislature is largely Republican. Pennsylvania. —Tho Republicans carry the State by about 15,000 majority. The Congressional delegation stands 16 Republicans, 2 Greenback Republicans, 8 Democrats, and 1 Greenback Democrat New York. —The Republican State ticket is elected by a small majority. That party also gains four or five Congressmen, while the Legislature is also largely Republican, thus insuring the ro-election of Mr. Conkling to the United States Sonate. In New York city Tammany Hall was overthrown, the combination ticket headed by Edward Cooper, anti-Tam-many Domocrat, being elected by over 15,000 majority. New Jersey. —The Republicans have probably elected fivo of tho sovon Congressmen—a. Democratic loss of two. Connecticut. —The Republican candidate for Governor leads his Democratic competitor 2,000 or 3,000 votes, but as the Greenback vote is about 8,000 there is no choice, and the election will bo decided by the Legislature. As that body is Republican by a large majority, the eloction of a Republican Governor and United States Senator is assured. Massachusetts. —The Republicans made a clean sweep, Bon Butler being defeated for Governor by upward of 20,000 majority. Only one Democrat elected to Congress—Leopold Morso, of Boston.

Rhode Island. —The Republicans elect both of the Representatives in Congress. New Hampshire. — I The Republicans elected their candidate for Governor, carried every Congressional district, and secured a working majority in tho Legislature. Vermont. —There was a special election for Congressman in tho Third district of Vermont, resulting in the choice of Barlow, Greenbacker. Virginia. —The election was quiet throughout tho State, and tho vote small. Gen. Joe Johnston was olected to Congress iu tho Richmond district. Tho Republicans elect ouo Congressman—Jorgensen—in the Fourth district. Georgia. —The election in Georgia was very exciting. Tho nogroes united with the Inde--1 pendents and the result is the election of two or three Independents to Congress. A. H. Stephens was re-elected without opposition. Delaware. —The Democrats elected the Governor and Representative in Congress. Maryland. —The Democrats elect all the members of Congress except in the Third district, where Umer, Republican, is chosen. Tennessee. —The Democrats elect their State ticket by a large majority, nine of the ten Congressmen, and secure a large majority in the Legislature. Texas. —The Democrats make a clean sweep, electing all the Representatives in Congress and a majority in the Legislature. Mississippi.— The Democrats send an unbroken delegation to Congress. Louisiana. —E. A. Burke, the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, is elected. The Democrats also carry all six of the Congressional districts.

Kentucky. —The Democrats oleet their Congressmen in every district. Arkansas. —All of the Representatives returned to Congress aro Democrats. Alabama. —All of the Democratic nominees for Congress xvere elected, except in the Eighth district, where Lowe, Independent, was chosen. Nevada. —The Republicans elect their State ticket and member of Congress, and have a majority in the Legislature. Florida. —Tho vote is so close that it xvill require all the returns to determine the result. South Carolina. —Tho Democrats carried every Congressional district and every county in tho State except one. The Legislature is consequently largely Democratic. North Carolina. —The Republicans elect txvo members of Congress in North Carolina, all tho other districts being carried by the Democracy. Dakota Territory. —Bennett, Republican, is elected to Congress by a small majority. Washington Territory. —The race between the Republican and Democratic nominees for Congress is so close that it xvill require all the returns to docide which has won. New Mexico Territory. —Otero, Republican, is elected Delegate to Congress. Idaho Territory. —Ainslee, Democrat, is olected to Congress by a small majority.

Utah Territory. —Cannon (Mormon) was reelected to Congress without opposition. Wyoming Territory. —Downey, Republican, is elected to Congress by 800 majority. The official canvass of the October election in lowa shows that Hull, candidate for Secretary of State, who headed tho Republican ticket, has a majority of 1’0,967 ovor his Demo-cratic-Greenback opponent, who received 123,577 votes.

WASHINGTON NOTES. At a recent Cabinet meeting there was a general conversation regarding points to be brought to the attention of Congress in the President's message. It was unanimously agreed that tho message should contain some recommendation for the enactment of legislation either to increase the weight of the standard silver dollar or to diminish its coinage, or to adopt both these means of preventing a further depreciation of its value. The money-order service the past year yielded a net profit to the Government of about $3,000. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The women of Salt Lake City who oppose the practice of polygamy have issued an address to the women of tho United States, reciting the melancholy facts connected with the base uses to which religion has been put in that region, and announcing the contemplated circulation of a petition to Congress, subjoined to which it is hoped may appear the name of every Christian woman in the country. The liabilities of Dodd, Brown & Co., of St. Louis, are $1,700,110; actual available assets, $960,869. The United German Bank, of Baltimore, has ' suspended payment to depositors, requiring thirty days’ notice. Nearly 200 persons have been indicted lor illicit distilling in the United States Court for West Virginia William Loeker, John Grant, Edward Yanibalt and William Richards were drowned

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15,1878.

at White Haven, Nova Scotia, by the upsetting of a boat The Secretary of State has addressed a second communication to the United States Minister to England on the subject of the Halifax fishery award. Mr. Evarts takes direct issue with the finding of the Halifax Commission, l>oth as to the amount of the award and the manner in which it was rendered, holding that the sum of $5,500,000 is an outrageous and utterly indefensible price to set upon the benefits of twelve years of fishing in Canadian waters, and that, if paid at all by the United States, it must be regarded as covering the value of those benefits in perpetuity, and not for auy term of years; and also making the objection that the adoption of this or any other award by the commission by a bare majority is not in accordance with the terms of that clause of the Washington treaty providing for such a commission, and that the award is therefore not binding upon this Government

Big Bank Robberies of By-Gone Days.

In 1870 a man dressed in the uniform of a police officer went into the Kensington Bank of Philadelphia, and said to the cashier: “ I am Lieut. ,of precinct. There’s a plan on foot to rob your bank to-night. I want you to have your watchman here and I will have my men to assist. Do not say a word, and by to-morrow the game will be bagged.” The cashier extended his hand and thanked the officer, and left all in his charge. The night came, and the Lieutenant with his men were admitted to the bank. There was a parley, and three of the officers and one watchman of the bank were detailed to take a walk to shadow some of the men outside. The watchman was sent flack after a certain time had elapsed, and when he returned he found his partner handcuffed and tied, the vaults open, and $500,000 in negotiable paper and money gone. When the cashier came around he found out that there had been a robbery, and then he suddenly remembered that he didn’t know the Lieutenant —didn’t even know his name. The trick was very clever, and the Kensington Bank never recovered a dollar. In 1872 three men went to the owner of the Third ' National Bank, in Baltimore, and hired a room adjoining the bank. “Gentlemen,” inquired one of the bank officers, “ what are you going to do with it ? ” “We are speculators now,” they said, “ and if we succeed in our business we think of opening a bank. The papers were made out, the rent paid, and business commenced. In two weeks they did open a bank—the Third National Bank, next door—by burrowing under the vault. They left the country with $400,000, not a dollar of which came back. The vault of the Ocean Bank, of New York, was opened by one man—Maximilian Shinburn, and robbed of $700,000. He frequented the bank until his acute ears learned by the peculiar click of the combination precisely bow to work it. And he made it, after listening for jflfiHilis, the very first time. He fled toifeelgium, where he purchased a title, and is mow living there as one of the ncjbility. About eight years ago several men hired a room under the Boylston Bank, of Boston, opened business as the trio did in Baltimore, and dug up into the vault at their leisure. The amount which they dug out was $850,000. The Beneficial Savings Fund, of Philadelphia, was robbed of $1,G00,000, a few years ago, by “bolding up” the cashier, who gave the combination. Every dollar of the amount was recovered by negotiation, and the cracksman retired on a competency. The Northumberland (Pa.) vaults gave up their treasures on account of a visit which masked men made to the cashier’s residence, where he kindly handed over the combination, and went to the bank with them, because he couldn’t help himself. The First National Bank, of Wilmington, Del., was entered, and the attempt to rob it was precisely the same as that worked on the Manhattan on last Sunday morning. The cracksmen went into the janitor’s room and gagged him and his family. An old woman crawled under the bed, but forgot to pull her heels in after her. One of the men dragged her out. A door chanced to be left open, and through it she sped like a greased arrow’. She w’as chased almost to the police station, and her flight saved the institution.

Pierced by Red-Hot Wires.

A terrible accident occurred Tuesday afternoon at the wire-rod mill of the Cambria Works at Johnstown. Zelvin E. Fisher, 19 years of age, was employed at the reel, and his duty consisted in taking off, with the aid of a pair of tongs, the coils of wire which are reeled up as the material passes from the finishing rolls. He had been at work in that establishment since it first started, and was not only competent, but very careful. He was standing near the reeling apparatus, waiting for a coil to be wound up, when the wire caught at the finish-ing-rod, and the boy at the reel failed to slack up the wheel in time. The result was that the strand was snapped asunder, and the end was jerked around with lightning-like rapidity, striking Mr. Fisher on the right arm, between the elbow and shoulder, penetrating entirely through, entering his breast near the nipple, when it again passed out near the top of the breast-bone. The brachial artery was severed, the muscles badly torn, and the flesh seared by the hot wire. Everything possible was done for the injured man, but he died the same evening. —Pittsburgh Telegraph.

A Hoggish City.

During the twelve months ending Oct. 31, 1878, the packers of Chicago slaughtered and cut into product 4,594,000 hogs—equal to 14,720 during each working day of the year, 1,472 per hour, and 24£ per minute. The value of the hogs was about $40,000,000. The aggregate weight was about 965,000,000 pounds, and the product manufactured was equal to 382,000,000 pounds of sides, 154,000,000 pounds of hams, 131,000,000 pounds of shoulders, and 154,000,000 pounds of lard. —Chicago Inter Ocean

Egg-Flip.

Mr. Gladstone, the English statesman, has high appreciation of hen-fruit, as appears by the following, from his pen: “ When I have had very lengthened statements to make, I have used egg-flip—a glass of sherry beaten up with an egg. I thing it is excellent, but I have more faith in the egg than in the alcohol. I never think of employing it unless on the rare occasions when I have expected to go much beyond an hour.”

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles

BODY-SNATCHING.

The Tomb of A. T. Stewart Plundered of Its Dead and Mystery Attaching to the Despicable Crime. * [New York Cor. Chicago Tribune.] The grave of the late Alexander T. Stewart was successfully robbed between midnight and sunrise this morning, and his remains carried off, evidently in the hope of obtaining a large ransom for their return. The scene of the outrage was old St. Mark’s churchyard, which occupies the irregular end of the block bounded by Second avenue, Stuyvesant, and East Eleventh streets. The church, facing on Stuyvesant street, divides the yard into two strips of green turf, dotted with small square marble slabs. These slabs indicate the vaults, which form a perfect honeycomb under ground. The Stewart family vault is about in the center, and is surrounded by a spiked iron fence ten feet high, and exceedingly difficult to climb. A more exposed position for grave robbery could hardly be found. The yard fronts on three streets, with houses opposite on all sides, and four street-lamps throw light into it. The Stewart vault entrance is covered by three stone slabs, all of "which had to be removed.

On the morning of Oct. 9, the sexton of St. Mark’s, George W. Hammill, discovered that the Stewart slab had been tampered with during the preceding night. Somebody had lifted it and evidently let it drop in a hurry. There seems to be no doubt, in the light of today’s discoveries, that an attempt was then made to steal the body, and that the robbers were frightened away just as they got fairly to work. Judge Hilton was notified, and made an examination of the premises. He had new locks put on the gates, and moved the slab fifteen feet south to mislead future spoliators. He also employed a private night-watchman, who was required to visit the yard once every hour. This watchman w T as discharged on Friday last, it being thought no further attempt would be made. This morning the sexton’s assistant found the vault opened and the body gone. The police and Judge Hilton were notified, and every effort is being made to ferret out the mystery. Only one man saw anything ‘unusual about the cemetery last night. A dentist, returning home at midnight, saw five men standing near the cemetery fence. The night was dark and stormy. Three patrolmen who pass the cemetery saw nothing suspicious. A deep feeling of indignation is expressed at the outrage.

Judge Hilton thinks there is something strange in Sexton Hammel’s actions. The Judge says he could imagine no reason why any one should steal Mr. Stewart’s body except to recover a reward. The silver plate xvas the only thing to tempt robbers. The Judge himself could not have accurately pointed out the vault entrance. The robbers must have had reliable information. The sexton and his assistant were the only persons who knew the entrance. When Hilton reached the vault he found a piece of tlie sexton’s rope which that person did not satisfactorily account for. The sexton and his assistant were taken to headquarters and examined. Their stories agree. While suspected, they are not under arrest. Judge Hilton believes the thieves went out the gate with the body, and must have had duplicate keys. The job was done with great skill, the robbers evidently knowing the location perfectly. A small shovel and lantern were found in the vault. There were five boxes in the vault, and one was crushed in, probably by stepping on it. This is the first time the Metropolitan police have ever had a case of bodysnatching reported. This time was chosen undoubtedly because the body xvas soon to be removed to a crypt in the Garden City Cathedral. Mrs. Stewart was very ill at the time of the affair. She is in her 75tli year, and has been ailing much lately. Judge Hilton did not break the news until a late hour to-day. He said it was one of the most painful tasks that had ever fallen to him. He put it off as long as possible. In the afternoon, when the newsboys began to cry the story in the streets, they seemed to loiter about the lady’s residence, and to cry more loudly and persistently than usual. Mrs. Stewart takes a lively interest in current events, and exhibited a singular interest to know what event xvas cried on the streets. Judge Hilton then related carefully the story of the robbery of her husband’s grave. Mrs. Stewart bore the shock xvitli heroism, but it proved at length too great a strain on her xveakened strength, and she sank perceptibly under the blow. 9 Judge Hilton said the terrible affair proved a cruelty to the estimable lady difficult to conceix-e. It is feared the result may prove \ r erv serious to Mrs. Stexvart.

The Liverpool Catastrophe.

There were between 4,000 and 5,000 in the Coliseum Theater when the terrible and fatal panic occurred. It appears that one of the performers was singing a comic song when a free fight commenced in the pit. The cry of “fire” was raised, and there was a general stampede for the box-office entrance, though there are said to have been five other doors open for the egress of the audience. The police inside and outside the theater vainly endeavored to control the crowd. The structure of the theater at the point where the crush occurred is intricate. The exits couverge into a narrow “well,” and it was in this well that the suffocations took place, and the dead were piled six or seven bodies deep. An upright partition in the center of the doorway stopped the passage until one of the men attached to the theater cut it away, enabling some of the imprisoned people to escape. A scene of the greatest excitement prevailed outside the theater. The fire-engines and fire-escapes arrived, and the firemen, joining the police, entered the building to reassure the people. The manager of the theater, upon the first alarm, rushed into the pit from the entrance, and shouted to the people to remain quiet, but all his efforts were ineffectual until the theater had been nearly cleared, when the dead and injured were carried to the Royal Infirmary. Two of the dead were women, three were boys, and thirty-two were strong, able-bodied men of the laboring class. —Liverpool paper.

What the Yellow-Birds Eat.

A farmer wanted to borrow a gun from a neighbor to kill some yellowbirds in his field of wheat, which were eating the grain. His neighbor declined to lend the gun, for he thought the

birds useful. In order to satisfy his curiosity he shot one of them, opened his craw, and found in it 200 weevils and four grains of wheat, and these four grains the weevil had burrowed. This was a most instructive lesson, and worth the life of the poor bird, valuable as it was. —Warsaw Union.

The Next Congress.

The following is a comparatix’e statement of the probable strength of the Republican and Democratic parties in the next House of Representatives: ~sg XI.V. XLVI. s•' CONGRESS. CONGRESS. STATES. S J S Si sg3 1 3 ?:: : ' n • Maine 5 5 2 3 New Hampshire 8 1 2 3 Vermont. 3 3 ..... 3 Massa»liu®tts 11 2 9 1 10 Rhode Island 2 2 2 Connecticut 4 3 1 1 3 New York 33 16 17 8 25 New Jersey 7 4] 3 2 5 Pennsylvania 2? 10 17| 11) 17 Delaware 1 1: j 1 Maryland 6 6 5 1 Virginia 9 8; 1! 8 1 XVest Virginia 3 3; | 3 North Carolina 8 7i lj 6 2 South Carolina 5 2j 3 5 Georgia 9 9! 9 Florida 3 1111 Alabama 8 8 8 Mississippi 6 6 6 Louisiana 6 4 2 6 Texas 6 6 6 Arkansas 4 4 4 Tennessee 10 8 2 9 1 Kentucky 10 10 10 Ohio 20 8 12 11 0 Indiana 13 4 9 7 6 Illinois 19 8 111 «. 13 Missouri 13 9 4 12 1 Kansaß 3 3 3 lowa D 9 2 7 XVisconsin 8 3 5 8 5 Michigan 9 1 8 9 Minnesota 3 8 1 2 Nebraska 1,.... 1 1 Colorado 1 1 1 Nevada 1 1 .... 1 California 4 2 2 ... Oregon 1 1 1 Total 293 156 137 154 135 Four members to be elected in California. There will be eight Greenbackers in the next House. Six of these—namely, txvo from Maine, one from Pennsylx’ania, one from Indiana and txvo from loxva — are classed in the abox r e table as Democrats, having been elected by a coalition of Democrats and Greenbackers. The other txvo—one from Illinois and one from Missouri—were elected by a coalition betxveen the Republicans and the Greenbackers, and are therefore classed as Republicans. The present Senate stands: Republicans, 39; Democrats, 36; Independent,!. Total, 76. Counting the changes already made and those indicated by the late elections, the Democrats xvill gain for the nexv Senate one in each of the States of Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Ohio, Oregon and South Carolina ; total, 7; and the Republicans will gain one in Connecticut. This will leave the new Senate: Republicans, 33; Democrats, 42; Independent, 1. Total, 76.

Thrilling Adventure.

There is one English lady who has had enough of Alpine climbing. Mrs. Wainwright and her brother-in-law undertook a month ago the ascent of the Piz Palur, a mountain of the Bernina group. They took xvith them two guides, brothers —Haus Grass and Christian Grass. The climbers xx’ere corded together. Christian Grass went first, ne*t to him came Mr. "Wainxvright, then came Mrs. Wainxvright, and the rear was brought up by Hans. A thick fog came on. Christian went too near an edge, when the snow suddenly gax’e way under his feet, and he fell doxvn a precipice, dragging with him in his fall the English lady and gentleman. But the rope xvas strong, and Hans Grass was a man of gigantic strength. As he saw his brother disappear he threw himself instinctively backward, and, by sheer force of muscle and will, held the three lost ones suspended in the air. He was not strong enough to drag from the abyss two men and a woman. To stir, to yield an inch even, might be certain death to all—and they were far beyond the reach of human aid. He shouted to his brother, dangling at the end of the rope, ice on both sides of him, snow above him. The brother answered ; he xvas alive, unhurt, and ready to help if means could be devised. Hans told him to cling to the icy slope’ cut steps in it and mount, and be quick about it, for he did not think he could hold on more than half an hour longer. Mr. Wainwright had kept his ax. He handed it to Christian, and the guide set about cutting the steps as Hans had suggested. After almost superhuman exertions, he contrived to crawl up to the edge of the crevasse; his brother gave him a hand; then the two, uniting their strength, pulled up Mrs. Wainxvright and her brother-in-laxv.

Railroad Building.

During the last four years, accordiug to the Director of the Bureau of Statistics, we have been building railroads at the rate of 2,224 miles per year. The importation of railroad bars, both iron and steel, fell from 595,321 tons in 1871 to twelve tons in 1877; but the production of iron and steel bars in the United States increased from 2,058,141 tons during the five years from 1867 to 1871 to 4,056,340 tons during the five years from 1873 to 1877, an increase of 37 per cent. The supply of iron and steel railroad bars necessary to meet the demand of our 79,000 miles of railroad already in operation, for renewals of track and for the extension of track facilities, in order to meet the necessary requirements of traffic, is now about three times as large as the supply required for track-laying on new roads. This production of bars to supply railroads in operation has, in fact, mainly sustained the iron and steel rail interests of the country in their present state of efficiency.

A Long Train.

On the Northern Central railroad of Pennsylvania, lately, engine No. 4 drew from Clark’s Ferry to Sunbury, a distance of thirty-one miles, a train consisting of 183 empty cars, one loaded eightwheeler, two cabooses and a dead engine. It was up-grade work, but the trip was made at the rate of ten miles an hour. The train was 6,200 feet long, or 920 feet more than a mile, and, it is claimed, was the longest ever drawn by a single engine. —Scientific American. One of the numerous class who ask foolish questions is answered by Figaro. He wants to know “if grapes are healthy,” and is informed that Queen Elizabeth, Christopher Columbus, Noah, Napoleon I. and Mary Queen of Scots ate grapes, and they are all dead now; but then again there are grape-eaters who still live. He must draw his own conclusions.

THE WHEELBARROW MAN.

What They Think of the Peripatetic Potter in San Francisco. (From the San FraneißCO Chronicle.] The long-protracted agony is over, and the genuine wheelbarrow circus has arrived. The celebrated pedestrian was met in the suburbs yesterday about noon by a band of music and escorted doxvn Mission street to Woodward’s Gardens, where an eager crowd of from 12,000 to 45,000 people xvere gathered, all on the qui vix r e to catch a glimpse of the famous tramp. A Chronicle reporter sought an interview with the peripatetic traveler immediately after his arrival and was introduced to a mildappearing, blue-eyed, tired-looking individual dressed in a gray-worsted jacket, dark pants, rusty army shoes and a travel-stained helmet. His beard is sandy and voluminous, his hair long and curly. His name is R. Lyman Potter, and he resides in Albany, N. Y., where he has carried on the upholstering business at 103 Dox r e street for many years. He is a widower, xvith two children, and dependent on his trade for a livelihood. The idea of this novel journey xvas first broached in a store in Albany, where were congregated several persons, among them Mr. Potter. The topic of conversation was the recent pedestrian feats of O’Leary. Mr. Potter hazarded the remark that he could equal O’Leary in endurance. Some one facetiously suggested that he walk from Albany to San Francisco as a test. Mr. Potter immediately offered to undertake the task, and, "furthermore, agreed to wheel a barrow tho entire distance. What started in a joke began to be seriously considered, and, before the party separated, a purse of SI,OOO had been subscribed, a contract xvas draxvn up, and all preliminaries arranged. He left Albany on tli§ 10th of last April and commenced liisweary journey. Hemet with courteous treatment until he reached Omaha, of w’hich he entertains a most unfavorable opinion. At Big Springs, Neb., a desperado called “Asliliollow Bill ” put a pistol-ball through the barrow in lieu of his card. Mr. Potter was also shot at in Sacramento, and did not tarry long in that city. He also relates that somewhere along the road he xvas presented xvith a bottle of beer, and that after drinking it he became alarmingly ill, and did not recover for several days. He ascribes these persecutions to the agency of individuals who have bets pending and desired his failure. He has averaged txventy-six miles per day since he started, and is far ahead of the schedule time. According to his contract, xvliicli calls for 4,085 miles, he is obliged to walk an additional ninetysix miles. The wheelbarrow, which appears to be of light construction for so rough a journey, is a rather small affair, weighing about seventy-five pounds, is box-shaped, and covered with business cards and tags collected at different places along his route. These cards have been a considerable source of revenue to Mr. Potter, as lie charged a certain amount for every one tacked on bis barrow. He has also acted as a mail-carrier, and charged 25 cents for every letter delivered. He has about thirty letters for residents of this city. Mr. Potter has paid his oxvn expenses, xvliicli amount is about S4OO, and xvill receive the check for SI,OOO as soon as he completes his journey. He is in good health at present, having gained txx r elve pounds since his departure from Albany—weighing at present 146 pounds. He xvas sunstruck txvice on tlie plains, and obliged to rest a few j days. He complains of the bitter and ; sarcastic comments of the Eastern ; press, but says lie is becoming accustomed to hear himself called a fool and a lunatic. There is some method in his madness, for he xvill probably realize a snug sum before he is relegated back to the privacy of life in Albany.

Honor Among Thieves.

Beilew, in his account of the mission which he accompanied into Afghanistan, tells a most remarkable story, which may be quoted as illustrating not only the determination which the race is capable of, but of a sense of honor—such was the word the relator used; and, although it is only honor among thieves, there was mixed w T ith it a desire for the honor of the family to which the hero of the story belonged which would be creditable anywhere. The person who tells the tale was called Khan Gul, and he was one of the actors in it. The whole of his family had, at a former period, became a band of robbers, which occupation they practiced, seemingly on the sly, and their neighbors were kept in the dark about their doings. They had determined on robbing a house at some distance, and, going there during the night, they made a hole through the mud Avail. Khan Gul’s brother, like Oliver TAvist, Avas passed in, and he began to hand out whatever Avas within his reach. The people in the house chanced to waken up, upon which the brother tried to make his escape, but, while in the act of returning through the hole in the wall, those on the inside caught him by the feet. Now began a tug like the “ tug of Avar; ” fiercely they pulled to get him out of the hole, but it was useless; those within had one or two holding on to each leg, and the burglar was held as if in a vise. The fear that they would be recognized and detected became at last the dominant feeling, and, as they could not possibly pull him out, they determined on an extreme measure, and one 90 very extreme that it is hard to belieA'e it could have occurred to any others than these knife-using Afghans. The only plan left to prevent identity was to cut off the head, carrying it away, and leave the body, and the very striking part of this tale lies in the fact that it was done at the suggestion of the man himself, and, as he expressed it at the instant, so that the “ honor of the family might be preserved undefiled.” This was done. They fled Avitli the head only, leaAdng all the spoil which hud been throAvn out, and, as Khan Gul ended the story, he thanked God that the honor of his house had by these means been preserved. There is something heroic in such acts. Neither Agamemnon nor Achilles, as described by Homer, suggests a character capable of such self-devotion.— Cor. London Times.

Recipe for Hog Cholera.

John M. Price of Buffalo Grove, lowa, gives the following recipe for the cure of hog cholera, and states in a communication to the Dubuque Times that he has .used it successfully for thirteen years: Tincture of aconite root and nnx vomica, three and one-half ounces each; tincture of belladonna, rush toxicodendron (poison oak), secale, baptisia, one-

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eight of an ounce each; white arsenic, ten grains. Mix. As a preventive, give five drops once a day to each hog in swill. When a hog is down with the cholera, give ten to twenty drops, pouring down the mouth or nostrils, some claiming that one method and some the other is the best. Label the bottle “Deadly Poison,” and keep in a safe place.

Edison at Work.

The following is from an article in Scribner for November, entitled “A Night with Etlison There is nowhere such another ingenious mind, but there is also nowhere such a worker. When in search of some special object lie allows himself absolutely no rest. At Newark he mounted to the loft of his factory with five men, on the occasion of. the apparent failure of the printing machine he had taken a contract to furnish, and declared he would never come down till it worked. It took sixty hours of continuous labor, but it worked, and then he slept for thirty. The routine of his day is a routine of grand processes and ennobling ideas. Nowhere else, probably, would such a day be possible. There are not fortunes, if there were capacity, to carry on the business of pure scientific research on such a scale. His whole great establishment is occupied not in manufacturing, nor primarily in projects for profitable returns—though theso follow' —but in new reflections, new combinations, in wrestling from nature, inch by inch, the domain she w r ould have kept hidden. He comes in the morning and reads liis letters. He overlooks his men and the experiments of Iris assistants. The element of hazard enters into these somewhat. There are a great number in progress—the action of chemicals upon various substances or upon each other, or the phenomena of substances subjected to' the various forces at command. Strips of ivory, for instance, in a certain oil in six weeks become transparent. A globule of mercury in water, then with a little potassium added, takes various shapes for the opposite poles of the battery, retires coquettishly or is attracted, forms in whirlpools, changes color, or becomes immobile. There is no use at once for these results, but they are recorded in voluminous note-books. When the proper time comes they are borne in mind; some V>ne of them may form the connecting link in the chain of an invaluable discovery. Then perhaps he tests for the thousandth time his carbon telephone for new perfections, and then goes on carrying forward a step each of the works in progress, or becomes wholly engrossed, according to his mood, in one.

In spite of the fact that the motive of his retreat to Menlo Park w r as in good part to escape them, numerous visitors arrive. It is the Mecca of a continuous pilgrimage of scientists, reporters for the journals and curiosity-hunters. Yesterday a troop of 175 persons were brought by a gentleman who had asked the privilege of presenting a few friends —to-morrow' a special train of visitors from Boston is announced. He receives all affably, submitting himself and his inventions to be gazed at without reserve. One wonders, next to his phonograph, at his good humor. “ Still, I shall blow' up somebody yet,” he says, laughing. “ I am considering the idea of fixing a wire connecting with a battery that knocks over everybody that touches the gate.” He sits down at the phonograph, fixes a double mouth-piece to it, and summons one of his assistants, w'liile another places himself at an organ in the corner. They sing in two parts “John Brown’s Body.” As the sonorous music rises and fills the long apartment, one gazes musingly yet with a secret thrill. It is like assisting at some strange, new rite —a martial chant of rejoicing in the greatness of a new era full of sublime promise and the dissipation of mysteries.

Bradlaugh on Beaconsfleld.

Charles Bradlaugh, the English radical, has been delivering a lecture in Northampton on “ India and Afghanistan,” in which the Beaconsfield administration is unsparingly condemned. He contends that, in a Country where the G eneva arbitration stands out as one step in a new course of life, there should be no more Avar until Parliament says “ Yes ” or “ No.” “ When I say Parliament,” he added, “ I mean our Parliament elected at a general election. The Parliament now sitting has no right to determine upon it. It was selected under the influence of our national church and our national beverage. It has nothing to do Avith the grave questions of this nature. Let there be a dissolution. The Parliament is old and dying. The Prime Minister is old and dying. The Government, if it is not dying, ought to die, for it is rotten from one end to the other. We have never had, in the whole history of our Parliamentary records, so many falsehoods deliberately stated by Ministers from their places in Parliament as have been stated during the last three years by the present Ministry. If anybody thinks I am too hard let him challenge me after I sit down, and I will name lie after lie uttered by men like Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury, and make good every word that comes from my mouth.”

Farm Life.

It is a common complaint that the farm and farm life are not appreciated by our people. We long for the more elegant pursuits, or the w f ays and fashions of the town. But the farmer has the most sane and natural occupation, and ought to find life sweeter, if less highly seasoned, than any other. He alone, strictly speaking, has a home. How can a man take root and thrive without land? He Avrites his history upon his field. How many ties, how many resources he has; his friendships Avitli his cattle, his team, his dog, his trees, the satisfaction in his growing crops, in his improved fields; his intimacy Avitli nature, with bird and beast, and with the quickening element forces; his co-operations with the cloud, the sun, the seasons, heat, wind, rain, frost. Nothing will take the various social distempers which the city and artificial life breed out of a man like farming, like direct and loving contact with the soil. It draws out the poison. It humbles him, teaches him patience and reverence, and restores the proper tone to his system. Cling to the farm, make much of it, put yourself into it, bestow your heart and your brain upon it, so that it shall savor of you and radiate your virtue after your day’s work is done! —John Burroughs , in November Scribner.

Hjemoirutif <§mtinef JOB PRINTING OFFICE Hm bettor facilitiea than any office In Korthweate*» Indiana for the execution of ail branchea ol job pujeut iintg. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prioe-Uet, or from a Pamphlet to a Porter, black or colored, plain or fancy, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

WHO ? Who is it that wakes with the first peep o£ day. And stirs all the house with its chatter and play. And "koo-roos," and talks in ito own happy way* Who has just the. rosiest, velvety skin. With dimples all round and small, dumplinß-whitc cliiu. And lots of sweet ways that art 1 surest to win? Who tumbles about and goes bumping its nose. And cries and says “ mum-mum,’' then laughs and then crows. And blinks at the sunshine across its pink toes? Who wants to play ■* peek ” with papa at the door? Who drop* the red ball fifty times—yea. and more—•‘To see where ’twill roll, ’way, ’way off, 'cross the floor? ’’ Who likes to go riding on grandfather’s knee, The woman •• with rings on her fingers ” to see. Till grandpapa, oh dear! is as lame’s he can be? Who knows how to sing like the “ big bumble-bee.” And makes litUe pat-a-cakes all marked with ” T." And toss in the oven for you and for me? Who knows where its two eyes and two ears all are, And which is dear papa and which is mamma. And where the black sheep in the book says ” Baa! baa? ” Who waits at the window in lily-white dress. So fresh and so holy, to kisß and to bless— So dainty, for papa’s big hand to caress? Who’s cradled asleep on a fond mother's breast. With lullaby words and a sweet song of rest— Then tucked up all sung in its warm, oozy nest :

WIT AND HUMOR.

Late music—Over-due notes. No quarter —A 20-cent piece. The first ruin of terror was the deluge. A wide-spread evil — A big umbrella in a crowd. Every dog lias its day, but the nights belong to the cats. Bulgaria asks for a ruler. The schoolmaster should go abroad. When a hatter fits a cap to your cranium he cap sizes you, doesn’t lie ? Burned at the steak—The fingers of the hired girl who was cooking it. “Into the chaws of death,” said the man who fell among the teeth of a buzzsaw. Economy is wealth —Even the stovepipe is coming out with its last winter’s soot. A chicken’s crop never bothers the average agriculturalist. It’s the yield of wheat that interests him. “ I never,” said Voltaire, “ was ruined but twice; once when I gained a lawsuit, and once when I lost one.” “ I’ll take another yard of that binding, if you please,” said a woman to a counter-jumper. “ Beg pardon,” said the clerk, “ but I understood you five yards.” “ That’s right,” replied the customer, “ but another yard will make it more binding.” America may grow, enlarge and expand until its emblematic bird is able to perch itself on the highest point reached by the most sublime imagination, but her sons will never be weaned from the habit of spitting on their bait, if they expect to cateh any sish — Fulton Times. “ Doctor,” said a lady, “ I want you to prescribe for me.” “ Tliei’e is nothing the matter, madam,” said the doctor, after feeling her pulse; “you only need rest.” “ Now, doctor, just look at my tongue,” she persisted. “Just look at it—look at it! Now, say, what does that need? ” “ I think that needs rest, too,” replied the doctor. One afternoon, while a tight-rope walker was going through his performance, a boy about 12 years old turned to an acquaintance of the same age and remarked, “Tom, don’t you wish you could do that? ” “Yes, I do,” sadly replied Tom, “but my folks make me go to school, and are determined that I shan’t never be anybody! ” “ Ever since,” said Mr. Smiley, at the breakfast table this morning, “ ever since that little fellow, Jimmy Puck, put a griddle cake round the earth —and it only took him forty minutes to do it— I have always held that a buckwheat flap-jack, with a little sprinkling of honey, was fit food for a fairy. Hannah, pass us a hot one.”—-New Haven Register.

PATTY. All. none wo neat and natty Jtw can compare with PattyPretty Patty ? A stew, a fry. a broil is well. A pearly raw on the half shell, Ilnt words are weak the charms to tell (if dainty Patty—Oyster Patty! Now' Hattie, Kattie, Mattie, Must all Rive place to PattyPretty Patty! Each in my heart had shone a star. Had not the year advanced so far. And reached the months each with an It. And brought me Patty—Oyster Patty.

“ Suppose you were out in a jungle somewhere,” said Strobel to Billikins, Avhile walking through the Zoo, “ and should see a tiger come charging down upon you, Avitli fur up and mouth open, what would be your first thought?” “ Well, I rather think,” replied Mr. 8., “ that for about ttvo seconds I : <1 conclude Marthy Ann’s mother had just got back from her trip to camp-meeting. It Avould be a comfort, though, when 1 found out I’d been mistaken about it.’ —Cincinnati Breakfast Table.

Love for the Beautiful.

A woman went into a barber-shop on C street some weeks ago and wanted to know how much it would cost to dye a man’s hair and mustache. The price was named, and she then asked the barber to get his dye and follow her. “Why can’t the man come here?” asked the barber. “ He’s dead,” replied the woman, “ and the last thing he said when he Avas passing away was: ‘ Sally, fix me up pretty for the funeral.’ His hair curled beautifullv, but was a little gray. It won’t look well to see a woman crying round a coffin with an old gray-bearded man in it. So I want him fixed up a little. He was always a beauty Avlien he had his hair dyed. I know I’d want mine fixed that Avay if I was gray and dead.” The barber dyed the dead man’s hair in the highest style of the ail, and th e Avidow remarked, when it was all o\ r er, that “He was the loveliest corpse ever buried on the Comstock.” —1 irginia (Nev.) Chronicle.

Population of Indiana.

According to the State Superintendent of Instruction, the population of Indiana is now 1,915,679, including 612,089 school children. The principal cities of the State are peopled as follows : Cities. Population. Cities. Population. Indianapolis 1/7,734 Evansville 30.573 Fort Wayne 24,194 Terre Haute 23,701 Lafayette... 10,080 Madison 1 0,009 Logansport. 15,199 New'Albany 13,098 Laporte... 11,581 South Bend 10,960 The Richmond Religious Observer wants its subscribers who are in arrears to pay up, even of they have to borroAv the money to pay with.