Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1878 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The victory of the British forces commanded by Gen. Roberta over the Ameer's troops in Peiwar pass, one of the gates of Afghanistan, is represented as a most brilliant one. Tho enemy fought desperately, but were finally compelled to rotreat, abandoning eighteen cannon and a large amount of ammunition. The Afghanistan war has been the occasion of tho reassembling of the British Parliament, which met on the sth inst The Quoon in her speech says the assurances from all foreign powers are friendly, and there is every reason to believe that the arrangements for tho pacification of Europe, made by the treaty of Berlin, will bo satisfactorily carried out. The West of England Bank, with head office at Bristol, has suspended. It had a capital of *5,000,000. It is now hinted that England and Russia may divide Afghanistan between them after tho naughty Ameer has boon subdued. News comes from Cuba that the slaves in sevoral districts of tho island have notified their owners that, unless they aro paid for their labor, they shall stop work after the Ist of January. They claim that, undor the Amnesty act, they have boon most unjustly dealt with; that, whilo those of thair class who loft plantations to join tho insurgents have boon set free, those who remained at homo aro still held in bond ago. On account of this discrimination they have determined to liberate themselves at any cost Tho cable furnishes the substance of the reply of tho Ameer of Afghanistan to tho ultimatum of tho Viceroy of India. It concludes with the declaration that ho entertains no onmity toward tho British Government; that ho desires to rosumo his former friondly relations, and will not resist the visit of the British mission' to CabuL As the Hotter expresses no willingness to comply with tho Viceroy's specific demands, the operations will proceed, if possiblo, more actively in cousoquenco of tho Ameer’s irresolution, so as to acquire as much as possible boforo ho submits.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. A $50,000,000 lawsuit for the possession of city property is one of tho sensations of Row York. Mrs. Lo Bau, daughter of the late Commodore Vandorbilt, has just been married. Iler now husband is a German. Orville Grant, brother of Gen. Grant, who was some time ago placed in an insane asylum, has boon released, and is now at his homo in Elizabeth, N. J. His montal faculties aro still impaired. West. Advices from the West report that tho Indians in tho Niobrara river rogion of Nebraska are raiding tho ranchos and running off the stock of tho settlers. The Chicago and Northwestern railroad has dcolarod a dividend of per cent, •on preferred stock, and 2 por coni on common for tho past six months. Tho employes of tho three leading pork-packing houses in Chicago, 1,500 in number, struck last week for an increase of wages, suddenly bringing operations to a complete stand-still. The Grand Jury of the United States Court at Yankton, D. T., have found twelve indictments against Dr. Livingston, tho ex-Indian Agent of Crow Crook. The Washington county (Iowa) poorhouso was burned a few nights ago, and five of the pauper inmates were consumed in tho flames. James McMahon, a Chicago saloonkeopor, and a young medical student named John C. Hayward, sat down in tho former’s placo of business to play a gamo of cards for the drinks. A dispute arose, and McMahon ejected Hayward from the house. This so enraged the student that ho drew a pistol and shot tho saloon-kooper dead. Hayward is from Fond du Lac, Wis. South. Episcopal Bishop Wilmer, of the Dioceso of Louisiana, is dead. A fire at Macon, Miss., destroyed fifty houses, valued, with their contents, at *300,000. A correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal , who was sent to Breathitt county, Ky., to write up an account of the civil war raging there, reports that affairs aro indeed in a doplorablo condition, and that, instead of being exaggerated, tho stories about tho strifo there do not represent as bad a state of affairs as really exist. Tho law is overridden, and the county officers are powerless to even mako a single arrest. Prominent citizens who have been threatened have fled for their lives, and Jackson, tho county seat of Breathitt county, is almost depopulated.

POLITICAL POINTS. The members of the Executive Committee of tho National Greenback party met in Washington, last week, and organized by the election of F. P. Dewoes, of Pennsylvania, as Chairman, T. J. Durant, of Washington, as Treasurer, and Alexander Troup, of Connecticut, as Secretary. Tho Committee issued an address to the people of the United States reviewing the rise and progress of the party, predicting continned success and the rapid spread of its principles, and expressing confidence that the party will elect its candidate for the Presidency in 1880, with majorities in Congress and in nearly all the Legislatures. The address denounces tho action of the banks, speaking through the Clearing House Association of Now York, and says, “ the contest is not between the Republican and Democratic parties. It is between the money power and the people, between bank bills based on untaxed bonds and a Government legal-tender currency, and the people have no chance whatever of ever securing their emancipation from industrial thralldom, either through the party of the money power, the Republican party, or its ally, the Democratic party." An appeal is made for' organizations in the interest of the National parQr in ©very school district, city, town and ward. A conference of the leading members of the party was subsequently held, at whioh the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the National party, so far as it is represented by this conference, denounce the resumption of specie payment as a fraud and delu Sion impracticable In this or any other civilized country, yet if persisted in by the Secretary of the Treasury we insist that it shall be so carried out as to be equal in its operations in all sections and to all classes, and enforced for the redemption of national-bank notes as well as for legal-tender notes ued by the Government. A Washington correspondent of a Wostem journal says that a Southern Congressman, who lately called at the White House, states that “the President intimated that he entertains kindly feelings for the South, and haa a lively interest in ite prosperity. He considers that tho language he used in hia message as applied to Southern politics was tniid under the circumstances, and that he wae fulg|Unj? hi* ooMtituttonal duty in at .

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JAS. W, McEWEN, Editor.

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tention of Congress to wb&t he can only look upon as violations of constitution and law. He says he eould not be expected to remain silent when, in his belief, the laws which he was sworn to execute hare been disregarded. He says, as he has several times before remarked, he does not impute any want of good faith to either Gov. Nicholls or Gov. Hampton.”

WASHINGTON NOTES. The President has appointed ex-Sen-ator Henry 8. Foote, of Tennessee, Superintendent of the New Orleans Mint, vice ex-Gov. Hahn, removed. The following appointments have also been sent to the Senate: Edwin A. Merritt, Collector of Customs; Charles B. Graham, Surveyor of Customs; Silas W. Burt, Naval Officer; ThomasHillhouse, United States Assistant Treasurer, all at New York. United States Consuls—Andrew Cohen, Pennsylvania, at Pernambuco; Henry Dithmar, New York, at Breslau; G. W. Fish, Michigan, at Tunis; John L. Frisbee, Michigan, at Rio Grande, Brazil; John 8. Mosby, Virginia, at Hong Kong ; Asa C Prindle, New York, at Para ; Henry Buggies, Connecticut, at Malta ; Eugene Schuyler, New York, at Birmingham ; Wm. Thompson, District of Columbia, at Southampton ; John C. White, Illinois, Secretary of Legation in Brazil; 8. Newton Pettis, Pennsylvania, Minister Resident and Consul General to Bolivia ; G. Harris Heap, Pennsylvania, Consul General at Constantinople. The public-debt statement for November shows an increase of nearly three and a quarter millions of dollars. Tho increase of the debt is accounted for by tho payment of the *5,500,000, Halifax award. Supervising Architect Hill will be suspended from office pending his trial on the Chicago indictment The commission having under consideration tho proposition of transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department met at Washington last week and began taking testimony. Dr. Barstow, Chairman of the Board of Indian Commissioners, was the first witnoss. He thought tho proposed transfer unwise, and that, if effected, it would work adversely to Christian operations now in progress. He thought it impossible for the body of the Indian Commissioners to work in harmony with army officials as it did with civilians, and gave as his reason that the army was formed for war, to subdue enemies and make peace, rather than to promote religion and friendship. E. M. Kingsley, a member of tho board, held similar views. He said we need an army with hoes and spades for tho Indians, rather than swords and rifles. Both of the witnesses defonded tho Indian Agents as a body, and said tho wholesale abuse was unwarranted. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, as presented to tho House, proposes to reduce the salaries of our Ministers to Groat Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, from *17,500 to $15,000 per annum; thoso of tho Ministers to Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and China from *12,000 to *IO,OOO, and thoso of our Ministers to Chili and Peru from SIO,OOO to *B,OOO per annum. The bill omits any provision for United States Ministers Resident at Belgium and the Netherlands, or for Charges d’Affaires to Donmark and Switzerland. The joint commission considering the transfer of the Indian Buroau to the Military Department, heard Secretary Schurz the other day. He disclaimed any personal dosiro to retain control of the Indian service under the Interior Department No branoh of the department’s business is so troublesome and thankless. He thought the Indians entitled to humane treatment, and that could only be tendered through the process of civilization, education and kind treatment This the military were not fitted to promote. The military arm of tho Government he did not consider gifted w'ith the pationt labor required to place the hoe in the Indian’s hand, and teach him how to use it The joint commission appointed* at the last session of Congress to mature a plan for the reorganization of the army has completed its labors, and made a report to both houses of Congross in tho form of a bill, the salient foaturos of which aro as follows: The army, exclusive of the signal corps, is limited to 20,000. The artillery service is changed from a regimental formation to batteries or companies, and is consolidated with the Ordnanoo department, under tho oontrol of the Quartermaster. The staff corps, as a distinctive branch of this service, is abolished. The Engineer and Medical Corps is not materially changed. The Adjutant General’s and Paymaster General’s staff aro abolished, and a system of interchangeability of lino and staff officers similar to tho European system is substituted. Provision is made for tho reduction of officers by the discontinuance of promotions and appointments until the numbor is reduced. The offices of General and Lieutenant General to terminate with the doath of the present incumbents. A new series of army regulations is to be published. Provisioais made for the education of cavalry. Adjutant General Townsend and Quartermaster General Meigs aro to bo retired.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. At the meeting of railroad Presidents of the great trunk lines, held in New York the other day, it was decided that the present pooling [arrangement on west-bound freights bo continned for five years from the Ist of January, the percentages to be determined from time to time by Commissioner Albert Fink, to whom absolute power is given in the matter. The percentage of the pool is at present: Erie, 83 per cent; New York Central, 38; Pennsylvania, 25 ; Baltimore and Ohio, 9. It was also resolved to maintain the jrates for east-bound freight and passengers.

FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Tuesday, Dee. a— Senate.— Mr. Paddock Introduced a resolution looking to the making of trade dollars a legal tender, and the enlargement of the standard silver dollar to 420 grains.... Mr. Beck submitted a resolution calling upon Becre tary Sherman for information as to what amount of silver coin has been received in payment of customs dues since the beginning of the fiscal year, and also whether or not he has applied the silver coin so received to the payment of interest on bonds. Agreed t 0... .Mr. Matthews called up the Texas Pacific Railroad bill, and made an address In favor thereof. House.— Bills were Introduced as follows: Recoining the silver trade dollars into standard silver dollars; repealing the Resumption act; for the appointmentof committees on yellow-fever epidemics; to give notice of the termination of the treaty of 1868 with the North German Confederation; to abolish the tariff on matches; to punish election frands; to authorize tobacco raisers to sell their product* without payment of tax; to prevent corruption in elections; for improvement of the Mississippi river from its mouth to its headwaters; in relation to the expulsion from Germany of the naturalized American citizen Julius Bauer; for the admission and registry of foreign-built ships; for the termination of the naturalization treaty with Prussia... .The Military Academy and Fortifications Appropriations bills were passed. Wednesday, Dec. 4.—Senate.—Messrs. Ferry, Davis and Randolph were appointed a committee to inquire about the omission of the Hot Springs clause from the enrolled Sundry Civil Appropriation bill at the last session... .Mr. Saulsbnry introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, in redeeming United States legal-tender notes, as required by the Specie Resumption act, to pay 75 per cent, in gold coin and 25 per cent, in itantUrd ifiver doil*r«.,,.J&, Barr].' molution

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regarding the prevention of epidemics was agreed to, with an amendment that the committee may sit with a similar committee of the House... .The motion of Mr. Matthews to take up the Texas Pacific Railroad bill was rejected—l 9 yeas to 22 nays—on the ground that it would lead to a long discussion. Hous*.—The session of the House was very brief. The bill providing for a Hot Serines Commission, with an amendment that free baths will be maintained for the ndlgent, was passed. ....Mr. Fort offered a resolution declaring that a refusal by any national bank to receive and treat as a legal dollar the standard silver dollar of 412% grains shall be deemed a defiance of the law* of the United States, and providing for the punishment of all banks so nullifying the law by the passage of a bill withdrawing their notes from circulation. Thursday, Dec. s.—Senate.—A resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the 'treasury for information as to the amount of deposits in the treasury to the credit of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company; whether interest should be allowed thereon; the expenses of the commission to settle the affairs of that company, and what legislation is necessary • close up the affairs of the company and have the Commissioners retire... .The Vice President announced as the special committee on yellow-fever investigation Messrs. Harris, Matthews, Lamar, Paddock, Conover, Garland, and Eußtis.:..The following chongos in the standing committees were made by unanimous consent: Mr. Eaton is to retire from the Committee on Appropriations, and Mr. Wallace is to take his place. Mr. Morgan Is to retire from the Committee on Patents, and Mr. Eaton is to take his place. Mr. Wallace to retire from the Committee on Foreign Relations, and Mr. Morgan to take his place. ... .Mr. Ferry was excusod from service on the committee to inquire as to Senator Conover’s connection with the omission of the Hot Springs clause from the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill at the last session.. . .Adjourned to Monday, House. —Mr. Singleton, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill. Referred to the committee of the whole, and made the special order for Tuesday next.... Mr. Clymer, from the same committee, reported the Naval Appropriation bill. Referred to the oommittee of the wh01e.... Mr. Harrison, of Illinois, offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information regarding the names, salary and duties of all the employes appointed in the Chicago Custom House since the appointment of the present Collector. Adopted.... Mr. Garfield, from the Committee on Rules, reported a concurrent resolution for the appointment of a Yellow Fever Commission, and said the committee had not considered the power of -Congress in the matter farther than to recognize the fact that, under even the strictest construction of the constitution, Congress had the clearest possible right to take care of tho quarantine regulations along the harbors and navigable rivers. In this instance the men of all parties and sections were absolutely in accord, and any light that could be thrown on tho history of the pestilence, and in direction of the splendid generosities and sympathies of the people, ought to bo shed upon it for future use. The resolution was adopted, and the House adjourned till Monday.

A MAN-BAKE.

Horrible Fate of Two St. Louis Workmen. An accident which is almost without parallel in the horror of its details occurred, a few days ago, at the Belcher sugar refinery at St. Louis, in which two men lost their lives, and their bodies were blackened and charred almost to a crisp. A local paper gives the following account of the horrible affair: In one of the departments of the refinery there are fifty sheet-iron tanks used as boneblack filters for purifying the sirup from which clarified sugar is made. These tanks are of similar size and construction, being eighteen feet in height and four and one-half feet in diameter. The lower ends rest on the ground floor of the building, and the other ends extend through the floor of the story above. At the bottom of the tank there is a small opening with an iron door, which in times of use is kept closed, and is capable of being made air-tiglit. At the top of the tank is a similar hole, both being just large enough to admit the shoulders of a man. These openings, or “man-holes,” as they are called, are only of use when it becomes necessary to clean out the tanks. During most of the time the tanks are kept filled with simp with the filtered sediment of bonedust, but it is the custom of the establishment to stop the machinery at least once a year for repairs. During this period of rest it is also customary to have the tanks cleaned, dried and painted with coal-tar on the inside for the purpose of preventing rust. In order to do this the workmen must crawl through one of the small openings (usually the one on top) and get inside of the tank. Each tank is provided with a small plank platform on the inside, which may be elevated or lowered by means of a pulley. In painting the walls of the tank the workman sits upon this rudely-con-Stracted elevator and raises or lowers himself at will. Contrary to the ordinary method of painting, however, the tarring process is begun at the bottom, and the brash passes over the walls as the elevator ascends, until the work is completed, when those engaged in the work crawl out of the upper manhole, thus saving their clothing as much as possible from contact with the tar. The inside of this peculiar man-trap is filled with the darkness of a cavern, and the tarring of the inside is done by the light of a miner’s safety lantern, which is generally suspended above tho heads of the workmen. Two men— John Leich, aged 32, and Henry Weise, aged 40—entered tank 50 with a lantern, two tar-brushes, and a bucket of tar. The elevator was lowered to the bottom, and the men had been inside about fifteen minutes when one of them was heard to exclaim, “ Oh! oh! oh!” and soon after a sharp tongue of flame leaped through the lower manhole. A man on the lower floor, who stood near the tank, attempted to pull one of the men out, but the flames drove him away. The Superintendent of the department, Herman Munsberge, was on the floor above, and, seeing the fire and smoke escaping through the upper opening, closed down the lid. This stopped the draught, but the fire continued to burn until the lower opening was closed, some minutes later. The fire burned altogether fifteen minutes, and when the tank was opened the bodies were burned black and hard. In order to get them out a hole about four feet by three had to be cut in the side of the tank with a chisel. Both men were in a sitting posture—one with his head bowed and shielded by his arms, while the other had his face turned upward, the back of his head resting against the side of the tank. Every stitch of clothing worn by the men, and all the tar in the bucket, was consumed. The lamp was broken. How the fire started is a mystery. The light in the lantern was protected by a globe, and the lamp was filled with lard oil.

A Son Kills His Mother.

A terrible illustration of man’s capacity for crime when under the influence of rum comes from Allegheny city, Pa. Mrs. Fullerton, an old woman of 60 years, being on a visit to her son’s house, the latter, in the evening, sent out for a quantity of whisky, of which they both imbibed so freely as to become intoxicated. Toward midnight a quarrel arose between them, during which the som beat his mother on the head with a piece of wood, knocking her down and inflicting wounds from the effects of which she died two days after. The unnatural son, who is quite young, has been arrested and committed for trial.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

DROLL BLUNDERS.

By the insertion of one letter in place of another, a newspaper, net long since, reporting the danger that an express train had run in consequence of a cow getting upon the line, said, “As the safest way, the engineer put on full steam, dashed up against the cow, and literally cut it into calvesl” A Scotch newspaper, reporting the speeches at a Scott centenary meeting, made one of the orators exclaim, with more truth than accuracy: Oh, Caledonia! stem and wild, Wet-nurse for a poetic child! Never, perhaps, was the word “austere” more misconstrued than in the instance of a clergyman in Lancashire who got a wholesome warning in regard to pulpit articulation by discovering in one house which he visited, the day after preaching from Luke xix., 21, that the servant had gone home with the impression that his text had been, “I feared thee, because thou art an oyster man!” A Hampshire incumbent recently reported in the Pall Mall Gazette some of the blunders he had heard made in the marriage service by that class of persons who have to pick up the words as best they can from hearing them repeated by others. He said that in his own parish it was quite the fashion for the man, when giving the ring, to say to the woman, “With my body I thee wash up, and with all my hurdle goods I thee and thou.” He said the women were generally better up in this part of the service than the men. One day, however, a bride startled him by promising, in what she supposed to be the language of the Prayer-book, to take her husband,- “to ’ave and to ’old from this day fortni’t for betterer horse, for rieherer power, in siggerness health, to love cherries and to bay.” What meaning this extraordinary vow conveyed to her own mind the incunjfeent said it baffled him to conjecture. The stories told of the blunders made by Oxford and Cambridge under-grad-uates in the scripture examination are almost incredible. One of these, when asked who was the first King of Israel, was so fortunate as to stumble upon the name of “ Saul.” He saw that he had hit the mark, and, wishing to show the examiners how intimate his knowledge of the scriptures was, added, confidentially, “ Saul, also called Paul.” Another was asked to give the parable of the good Samaritan. He did so with tolerable accuracy till he came to the place where the Samaritan says to the inn-keeper: “ When I come again I will repay thee.” Here the unlucky examinee added: “ This he said, knowing that he should see his face no more.” A ludicrous story is told of a bailie whose studies in natural history seem to have been rather limited. The following case came before him one day: A man who kept a ferret, having to go into the country,left the cage with the ferret in charge of a neighbor till he should return. The neighbor incautiously opened the cage door, and the ferret escaped. The owner was very angry, and brought a claim against his neighbor for damages. The following was the decision of the learned bailie : “Nae doot,” he said to the man who had been left in charge, “ye was wrang to open the cage door; but,” he added, turning to the other, “ye was wrang too. For why did ye no clip the brute’s wings ? ” By the bad arrangement of clauses in composition ludicrous blunders are sometimes made. A Wisconsin paper announced that the Board of Education had “resolved to erect a building large enough to accommodate 500 students three stories high.” In an - English paper an advertisement appeared, under the heading of “To Let,” of “a house for a family in good repair.” Punch noted this, and conjectured that “a family in good repair” must mean one in which none of the members were cracked. “The brooches would have been sent before, but have been unwell,” was a note of apology sent to Dean Alford by his jeweler, and “Two sisters want washing” was an advertisement which appeared in the Manchester Guardian. An amusing style of blunder is the “bull,” for which the Irish get most credit. It was an Irish editor that exclaimed, when speaking of the wrongs of his country, “Her cup of misery has been overflowing, and is not yet full!” It was an Irish newspaper that said of Robespierre that “he left no children behind, except a brother, who was killed at the same time.” Irish also was the Cornet who, when writing home from India praising the much-abused climate as really one of the best under the sun, added: “But a lot of young fellows come out here, and they drink and they eat, and they eat and they drink, and they die, and then they write home to their friends, saying it was the climate that did it! ” Though not so numerous as those of the Emerald isle, Scotland is not without its specimens of this kind of blunder. Two operatives in one of the border towns were heard disputing about a new cemetery, beside the elegant railing of which they were standing. One of them, evidently disliking the continental fashion in which it was being laid out, said, in disgust: “ I’d rather dee than be buried in sic a place.” “ W-eel, it’s the verra reverse wr me,” said the other; “ for I’ll be buried naewhere else, if I’m spared.” A clergymanf walking oneday in the country, fell into thought. He was so accustomed to ride that when he found himself at a toll he stopped and shouted to the man, “ Here! what’s to pay?” “ Pay for what? ” asked the man. “ For my horse,” said the clergyman. “ What horse? There’s no horse, sir.” “Bless me! ” exclaimed the clergyman, looking down between his legs, “ I thought I was on horseback! ” Sydney Smith was not in general ab-sent-minded, but he says that once, when calling on a friend in London, and being asked by the servant, “ Who shall I say has called? ” he could not for the life of him recollect his own name, and stared in blank confusion at the man for some time before it cfme back to him. The first Lord Lyttleton was very absent. It is declared of him that, when he fell into the river by the upsetting of a boat at Hagley, “ he sank twice before he recollected that he could swim.” Some blunders arise from misapprehension. A Bishop of Oxford sent round to the church-wardens in his diocese a circular of inquiries, including the question, “Does your officiating clergyman preach the gospel, and is his conversation and carriage consistent therewith?” The church-warden of Wallingford replied: “He preaches the gospel, but does not keep a carriage.”

A doctor who had one day allowed himself to drink too much was sent- for to see a fashionable lady who was ailing. He sat down by the bed-side, took out his watch, and began to count her pulse as well as his obfuscated condition would permit. He counted: “One, two, three, four.” Still confused, he began again: “ One, two.” No; he could not do it. Thoroughly ashamed of himself, he shut up his watch, muttering, “Tipsy I decare—tipsy!” Staggering to his feet, he told the lady to keep her bed, and take some hot lemonade to throw her into a perspiration, and he would see her next day. In the morning he received the following note from the lady, marked “ Private: ” “Dear Doctor —You were right. I dare not deny it. But lam thoroughly ashamed of myself, and will be more careful for the future. Please accept the inclosed fee for your visit” (a £lO note), “ and do not, I entreat you, breathe a word about the state in which you found me.” The lady, in fact, had herself been drinking too much, and, catching the doctor’s murmuring words, thought they referred to her. He was too far gone to see what was the matter with his patient, and she too far to observe that the doctor was in the same condition.

A MODEL REFORMATORY.

A {Voted Indiana Institution. [lndianapolis Cor. St. Louis Post.] This afternoon, by invitation of Mrs. Governor Hendricks, I accompanied her to visit the most wonderful institution in the world. It is the Woman’s Prison and Reformatory for Girls. It has the honor of being the first of the kind in the world. There is another now at Sherborne, Mass., but it has only been in operation two years, while this has been in operation seven years, and the Sherborne prison was modeled after it. The institution receives all the convicted criminals of the State who are girls and women. All incorrigible girls are also sent here, where they are received and taught. Among the inmates are nearly fifty little girls under 12 years of age, who had already entered upon a life of crime. As the noble-looking Quakeress, Sarah Srrrith, who, with the assistance of a corps of eight or nine women, manages this whole institution, ascended with me the stairs to the chapel, she said: “ Remember these girls and women are from the very scum and offscouring of Indiana.” As I looked upon them I involuntarily exclaimed, “ Can it be possible ? ” . About 200 girls and women were before me. Their faces were so clean and their hair so smooth that they fairly shone. Their countenances beamed with interest, and I never for one moment would have imagined them to be criminals, but only a company of school girls of ordinary intelligence. There was not a suggestion of prison garb. They all wore neat calico dresses and a neat little white collar. Some had their hair braided, some wore it short, but every one showed the cultivation of neatness of person, which is one of the most refining influences which can be brought to bear upon and cherish the self-respect necessary to virtuous womanhood. In one corner sat the fifty or sixty little girls, all dressed in neatly-made calico dresses, and looking so interesting and happy that any mother’s heart would go out to them in affection. They listened to several short addresses, joined in singing (and, by the way, they sing beautifully, led by a young lady who, having passed her term of imprisonment of four years without ever having once been reproved, is free, and is now employed as an officer of the institution), and preserved the most perfect order. It was a sight never to be forgotten. I could liavo listened all day to Mrs. Hendricks and Mrs. Smith as they related incidents of their work. Of the inmates received, 82 per cent, have been permanently reformed. Only think of it! and it is all the work of women. Men were skeptical when the idea was proposed. They declared that women could never manage the hardened criminals who were then in the various jails and prisons. When this institution was opened, a number of the most hardened and abandoned women were brought there in chains. Sarah Smith ordered their chains off, and she controls them all with pure strength of morpl force. It is truly wonderful. Never have I seen anything that so inspired me with hope that fallen humanity may be reclaimed as this sight. Of the workings of the institution it would take several columns to tell. The only objection that has ever been urged to it is that the inmates are made too comfortable. But they are all kept industriously at work. They are taught the rudiments of education ; they are compelled to lead lives of purity and order, and if any one can show that they would be morally improved by making them physically uncomfortable, or by branding them with a prispn costume, or keeping them in manacles and handcuffs when they can be governed without, on him let the burden of proof fall.

Keeping a Man.

Within the past three months a singular wedding service was read to a couple in this city, both of whom are well known. The lady had a considerable fortune, which was so settled upon herself that her husband could not touch it. The gentleman, however, was not aware of this. The lady arranged the marriage service to suit herself, and when it was pronounced the gentleman swore to “ love, honor and cherish,” but did not add the words about endowing her with “ all his worldly goods.” The lady swore she would “ love, honor, obey and keep ” her husband, and thus the difficulty was solved. This reminds us of the wise saying of the Danbury News man, “ Girls, never marry until you can support a husband.” —Pittsburgh Telegraph.

The Leading Heavy Man.

The London Lancet announces as the champion heavy weight Mr. William Campbell, of Newcastle on Tyne. He weighs over 728 pounds; is six feet four inches high, measures round the shoulders ninety-six inches, round the waist eighty-five inches, and around the calf of his leg thirty-five inches. He is only 22 years old. It is with difficulty that he keeps his present “low” weight. He was brought up a printer, but his size compelled him to discontinue, the type cases being crowded too far away for the “ reach ” of his arms. The question of the day is: “What shall I give Jiimv for Christmas? "

A CHRISTMAS DINNER.

A Truly Biblical BUI ot Fare. As a curiosity the annexed bill of fare is worth preserving. Taken wholly from the Bible, a right-royal Christmas banquet it would make. As will be seen, the courses, as at state dinners, number five. Each course is by its appropriate wine accompanied. Though in Palestine there is now no game, yet at this dinner quail and partridges are provided. With them the spiced wine of Canticle is prescribed. At such a dessert as this, with the sweet wines of the Prophet Amos, we should like to sit. Corresponding bills of fare from Shakspeare have been framed. This one from the scriptures is unique. Of preservation as a curiosity, as we have above remarked, it is worthy. It is as thus: A DINNER FROM THE BIBLE. Spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes and the spoons, and the bowls, with the bread in tho basket.—Num., iv., 7; and Levit, viii., 31. Salt, without prescribing how much, and oil in a cruise.—Ezra, vii., 22; and 1 Kings, xvii, 12. Bright shining of a candle giveth light— Luke, xi., 36. Tell them who are bidden I have prepared my dinner.—Matt, xxii, 4. They are strong of appetite.—lsaiah, vii., 11. Let us eat and be merry.—Luke, xv., 23. The feast is made for laughter; wine makes merry.—Eccles., x., 19. Ye hear all kinds of music.—Dan., iii, 5. Grace—Give ns this day our daily bread.— Matt, vL, 11. SOUP. Pour out the broth.—Judges, vL, 20. Feed me with pottage.—Gen., xxv., 30. Eat this rolL—lizek., iii., 1. Use a little wine for thy stomach’s saka—l Tim., v., 23. FISH. We remember the fish we did eat—Num., XL, 5. They gave liim a piece of broiled fish.— Luke, xxiv., 42. Bring of the fish which ye have now caught —John, xxi-, 10. Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine.—John, it, 10. ENTREMENTB. Hare.—Levit, xi., 6. Chickens.—Matthew, xxii., 37. Besides harts and fatted fowl.—l Kings, iv., 2a Kidneys.—Dent, xxii., 14. The wine is red.—Psalms, ixxv., 8. Olives.—Mic., vi., 15. Give me a little water, for I am thirsty.— Judges, iv., 19. ROAST. All manner of baked meats.—Gen., xi., 17. Ye may eat of the roebuck.—Deut., xii., 15, Ye shall eat of the wild goat and wild ox.— Deut., xiv., 15. Cause strong wine to be poured out—Num., xxvii, 7. VEGETABLES. Take unto thee wheat, lentils, and millet— Ezek.,iv.,9. They brought parched com and beans.—2 Sam., xvl , 29. After that the full com in the ear.—Mark, iv., 28. We remember the leeks and the onions, and the cucumbers, and the garlic.—Num., xi., 5. The manna was as coriander seed.—Num., xi. 7. GAME. Partridges.—Jer., xvii., 11. Two young pigeons.—Lev., v., 7. And he brought quail--Psalms, cv., 40. I would cause thee to drink spiced wine.— Cant, xvii., 2. . Carry these ten cheeses to the Captain.—l Sam., xvii., 18. DESSERT. Behold a basket of summer fruit—Amos, viii. 1. They brought the pomegranates and figs.— Num., xiiL, 23. Comfort me with apples.—Cant, ii, 5. The children of Israel brought dates.—2 Cbron., xxxL, 5, Two baskets of figs.—Jer., xxiv., 2. Then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill.—Deut., xxiii., 24. We remember the melons.—Num., xi., 5. They brought bunches of raisins.—l Chron., xii. , 40. Carry nuts and almonds.—Gen., xxii., 11. Sweet wines.—Amos, ix., 15. Royal wine in abundance.—Esth., L, 7. Drink thy wine with a merry heart.—Eccles., ix. , 7.— San Francisco Commercial Advocate.

As to Reporters.

The newspaper reporter is undoubtedly a peculiar person, and none know his peculiarities so well as those who employ him. As a species of the human family, presenting, of course, a certain proportion of abnormal exceptions to the general rule, he is a person of enthusiasm, enterprise and much endurance. He is not always or generally imaginative. His best types ran rather toward systematic accuracy as to facts, the tendency toward imaginative flights being usually crushed out by editors, who prefer facts to fancy in their news columns. The fancy reporter, of whom “Gath” is perhaps the highest American type, dwells wholly in the regions of imagination, and wins literary renown and reward at the sacrifice of moral reputation as a person mindful of the truth. But the regular, average daily reporter is a hard-worked drudge, for whom a great diversity of gifts is needed. He must be übiquitous. He must be of all parties, schools and creeds, or else of no party, school, or creed. He must be ambidextrous, and capable of living without food or sleep. He must “keep the ran” of a variety of things, past, present and to come, as incongruous and conflicting as the articles in a cyclopedia. He must never make a mistake. He must have the patience of Griselda, and, the sweet temper of a saint. He must return snubs with smiles, and when he is refused at the front door, he must get his information at the back gate. He must be intensely interested in the most intensely stupid people and things, and must frequently sit in the seat of the scorned at the feast which he is to glorify in the next day’s paper. He must be as methodical as a clock, and as versatile as a weathercock. He must be all things to all men, if by any means he may get an item. He must be a person knowing all things, and having no opinions about anything. He must contribute largely to his newspaper, and never have his individuality recognized. —Philadelphia Bulletin.

A Woman Who Was Afraid of Being Kissed.

A man was once walking along one road, and a woman along another. The two roads finally united, and man and woman, reaching the junction at the same time, walked on together. The man was carrying a large iron kettle on his back; in one hand he held by the legs a live chicken, in the other a cane, and he was leading a goat. Just as they were coming to a deep, dark ravine the woman said to the man: “I’m afiaid to go through that ravine with you; it is a lonely place, and you might overpower me and kiss me by force.” “If you were afraid of that,” said the man, “you shouldn’t have walked with me at all; how can I possibly overpower you and kiss you by force when! have this great iron kettle on my back, a cane in one hand, and a live chicken in the other, and am leading a goat? I might as well be tied hand and foot.” “Yes,” replied the woman; “but if you should stick your cane into the ground and tie the goat to it, and turn the kettle bottom side up and put the ohjcken into it, then you might wickedly kiss me in spite of my resistance" f* Success to

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thy ingenuity, O woman!” said the rejoicing man to himself; “I should never have thought of such expedient.” And when they came to the ravine he stuck his cane in the ground and tied the goat to it, gave the chicken to the woman, saying, “Hold it while I cut some grass for the goat,” and then, lowering the kettle from his shoulder, imprisoned the chicken under it, and wickedly kissed the woman, as she was afraid he would.

The Indian Question.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles, the renowned Indian-fighter, was lately interviewed by a St. Paul reporter upon army matters in general and the Indian question in particular. On being asked his opinion relative to the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department, the General replied: “ I don’t think it will be transferred, from the simple fact that great influence will be brought to bear to retain it in the Interior Department. The army don’t want it—at least are making no effort to secure the transfer. There can be no question that the army should have exclusive control of the Indians. Such a policy would bo for their benefit as well as for the nation at large. In this matter the only interest that the army has is that, having control, they could and would prevent the recurrence of Indian wars.” To the suggestion that the Indian problem was a vexed question, the General entered an emphatic dissent. The trouble, he said, all rose from a mistaken policy, or, rather, want of policy. The savages must be subjected to some system of control. Man in no state was governed by moral suasion, even in our cities. Among civilized communities we require police. The unruly and untamed spirits of the Indians needed the wholesome menace of such force constantly before them until they are advanced in civilization. “ Civilization, General! Can an Indian be civilized ? ” “ Why not ? The trouble has been that our people want to smother him with it, and will not permit him to come at it gradually. Not taking it as we prescribe it, we have carried on a cruel, relentless war of extermination against the Indian. Since the days of King Philip, 200 years ago, we have followed the same plan and have learned nothing.” The General explained that his scheme for the accomplishment of this result was the pastoral plan. The Indian, he said, was a savage. The first step was to make him a herdsman. From that he could be inducted into agriculture and other progressive arts. This pastoral plan has been tried with eminent and unvaried success in several instances. It is no .degradation for an Indian to tend stock, but his soul revolts at the handling of the hoe.

Death-Rate in Cities.

According to a table prepared by the New York Health Department, in relation to the in proportion to population of the principal cities of the world, the two American cities that show the heaviest death-rates are Baltimore and Washington, the former being 25.41, and the latter 25.64 per 1,000. The death-rate in the principal foreign cities is considerably higher than in the principal American cities. We append a list of the cities, home and foreign: Death-Kata American Cities. Population, per 1,000. New York 1,089,302 24.50 Philadelphia 850,856 18.81 Brooklyn 527,830 21.53 Chicago 440,000 18.42 St. Louis 420,000 17.80 Boston 355,100 20.53 Baltimore 355,000 25.41 San Francisco 300,0( 0 18.85 Cincinnati 280,000 15.81 New Orleans 210,000 81.94 Washington 160,000 25.64 Pittsburgh 145,000 23.50 Providence 100.000 19.38 Charleston 67,000 81.81 Foreijn Cities. London 3,533,484 21.79 Paris (1872) 1,851,792 26.32 Berlin 991,343 30.08 Vienna 690,548 29.84 Glasgow 555,933 24.75 Liverpool 627,083 26.38 Hamburg 393.588 27.04 Birmingham 377,436 24.12 Manchester 359,213 27.31 Dublin (1871) 314,666 27.09 Belfast (1871) 182,082 27.07 Turin 225.664 26.84 Venice 140,251 29.26 Copenhagen 217,500 22.59 Calcutta 429,335 81.90 Havana 250,000 40.87 Melbourne 250,678 21.18 Alexandria 212,034 43.00

Notes on Afghanistan.

The greatest length of Afghanistan is 750 miles, the least 540, while its greatest breadth is 550 miles, and its least 370; so that it is rather larger than the whole United Kingdom put together. It is mountainous all through, with a series of elevated flat-bottomed valleys. It has no large rivers, and those it contains are generally fordable at all seasons. The climate varies; at Ghuzni it is extremely severe in winter, the thermometer sinking to 10 or 15 degrees below zero, while it always begins to freeze in October. At Cabul, in the middle of October, the thermometer is always below zero at night, while from June to September the climate is very hot. At Candahar it is also hot in summer, but in winter the climate is perfect, as is also that of Quetta. All the so-called roads are very bad, and there are no bridges. The population is about 5,000,000, entirely Mohammedans, almost exclusively of the Sunni creed. The regular army consists, for Cabul, of 31,000 men; Candahar, 18,000; Herat, 22,000. Total, 71,000, of whom 45,000 are irregular horsemen. —London Vanity Fair.

Fearful Accident.

A terrible accident recently occurred at a Rochester brewery, which resulted in the probably fatal injury of two men and the very serious injury of five others. A number of workmen were at work on a scaffold against a newly-laid wall, when a portion of the wall gave way, carrying with it the scaffolding on which the men were working. Five of the twelve men at work contrived to save themselves by jumping on the portions of the north wall that were not torn away. Seven of them were carried down with the scaffolding, bricks, mortar and trusses, the distance of thirtysix feet to the ground floor below. One of them was plunged into a deep cellar, thirty-six feet lower still, his entire fall being, therefore, about seventy-two feet. Strange to say, however, he was not so badly injured as some of his companions, and there is hope of his recovery. Two others received injuries from which they died, while the remaining four were terribly bruised, but will probably recover. ’ Cotton factories and cotton-seed mills are constantly ihcregging ip jhe South. > " l ~' til

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A BLESSING ON THE DANCE. BT IBW'IN RUBBKIX. tSS Oh Maher! let dis gatherin'! fin' a bleatin' in yo* aight! ***"* Don’t jedge us hard for what we does ; —you knows it's Chriamus night; An' all de balunce ob de yeah we does as right’s we kin— E£ dancin's wrong—oh, Mahsr! let de time excuse de sin! We labors in de vineya’d—workin’ hard, an workin’ true— Now, shorely, youjwon’t notus es we eats a grape or two, An’ takes a leetle holiday—a leetle restin’ spell— Bekase. nex’ week, we’ll start in fresh an’ labor twicet as well. Remember, Mahsr—min’ dis, now—de slnfuln ob sin Is ’pendin’ ’pon de sperrit what we goes an’ does it in; An in a righcbls frame ob min’, we's gwina to dance an' sing; A-feelin’ like King David, when he cut de pigeonwing. It seems to me—indeed it do—l mebba mout be wrong— That people raly ought to danoe, when Chrismus comes along; Jes dance bekase dey’a happy—like de birds hops in de trees; De pine-top fiddle soundin’ to do bowin’ ob do breeze. We has no ark to dance afore, like Isrul’s prophet King; We has no harp to soun’ de chords, to holp us out to sing; But, ’cording to de gif’s we has, we does de bos’ wo knows— An’ folks don’t ’spise de vi’let flow’r bekase it ain’t de rose. You bless us, please sah, eben es we’s doin’ wrong to-night; Kase den we’ll need de blessin’ more’n es we's doin’ right; An’, let de blessin’ stay wid us, untell we comes to die. An’ goes to keep our Chrismus wid dem sheriffs in de sky! Yes, tell dera preshis onjuls we’s a gwiue to jino ’em soon; Our voices we’s a-traiuin’ for to sing do glory tune; We’s ready when you wants us, an’ It ain’t no matter when— Oh, Mahsr 1 call yo’ Chillon soon, an' take ’om home! Amen.

WIT AND HUMOR.

Hang up your stocking. A scratch race —Hens. A close calculation —The tailor’s. A fixture —A repaired wash-pitcher. Suspending business The hangman’s. A lean lover may still be a man of great sighs. Heap on more wood! The wind is cliill; But, let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still. Economy is wealth. Even the stovepipe is coming out with its last winter’s soot. “ I don’t like winter,” said one pickpocket to another. “ Everybody lias his hands in his pockets.” What did Delaware when George Washington crossed over her.— Boston Post. An ice dress, to be sure. Ypsilanti,' Mich., is one of the few of the immortal American towns that can’t poke fun at the Afghanistan war names. —Oil City Derrick. A Kentucky editor says that in one week he was addressed as “ Governor, “General,” “Colonel,” “Major,” “Parson’’and “ Old Hoss.” a conundrum. Why is it men will scorn a maid Of thirty-two or so; But, if in crape or cap arrayed, Pronounce her comme ilfaut f The Grecian navy is composed entirely of tug-boats. This is historical. “When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.” — Boston Transcript. William Augustus to sleepy roommate—“ Come, John Henry,why don’t you get up with the lark, as Ido?” John Henry, grimly—“ Been up with him all night.” . “ Doctor, my daughter seems to be going blind, and sbe’s just getting ready for her wedding, too! Oh, dear me! what is to be done? ” “ Let her go right on with the wedding, madam, by all means. If anything can open her eyes, marriage will.” “Beggars can’t be choosers,” says an old adage. We take notice that a beggar got into the hall the other day, and chose from the hat-rack forthwith three hats, one umbrella, and our best sealskin overcoat. This knocks the sawdust out of that adage.— Exchange. If Edison will turn in now and invent some kind of a calcium light that will light up all the street except front gates, and leave them in a somber shadow that will prevent an old man in an upper bedroom window from telling whether two people are close together or wide apart, it will do. Otherwise it will be exceedingly unpopular. “What !” said a young lady to a sister companion, “you are not going to marry that tall, lean, slender, consumptivestricken fellow, are you?” “ Yes, she is,” volunteered the young lady’s little brother, looking up from his broken cartwheel ; “ she’s going to marry him and use him for a carpet-stretcher!” The boy and the cart-wheel passed out through the same door. A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Christmas is soon to be with us, And I have been racking my brain For something’to give to my husband. I have it! A gold watch and chain; A ring with a set of real diamonds; Slippers, and dozens of socks, Embroidered with everything pretty; Handkerchiefs, too, by the box; Books by his favorite authors; A gold-headed cane On consulting my purse I discover That a necktie must answer his need; So I’ll give it to him, and say, “ Dearest, For the rest take the will for the deed."

The Apple in the Bottle.

On the mantelpiece of my grandmother’s best parlor, among other marvels, was an apple in a vial. It quite filled up the bottle. Childish wonderment constantly was, “How could it have got there ? ” By stealth I climbed a chair to see if the bottle would unscrew, or if there had been a joint in the glass throughout the length of the vial. I was satisfied by careful observation that neither of these theories could be supported; and the apple remained to me an enigma and a mystery. One day, walking in a garden, I saw it all. There, on a tree, was a vial tied, and within it a tiny apple, which was growing within the crystal. The apple was put into the bottle while it was little, and it grew there. More than thirty years ago we tried this experiment with a cucumber. We laid a bottle upon the ground by a hill of cucumbers, and placed a tiny cucumber in the bottle to see what would be the result. It grew till it filled the bottle, when we cut it off from the stem, and then filled the bottle with alcohol, and corked it up tight, We have it now, all as fresh, with the little prickers on it, as it was when first corked up.—Exchange. Hindoo scientists claim that the earth is 4,000,000 years old.