Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOKEIQN HEWS. Tianquillity re'gns in Afghanistan, and Yakoob Kab n, of the late Shore Ali, has been fproclaimed Ameer.| A St. rg dispatch says “a freeh case of pUgne bas appeared at Wetli*n£*’ Gon. Melikoff bas returned to Wetliwhere it has been decided to burn sixtyhouses, valued at 45,216 rubles. The Minister ®f the Interior has ordered the Governors <ot the various provinces to co-operate VigiHutly against the spread of the epidemic <£®ting the spring." An unsuccessful attempt was recently made at BL Petersburg to assassinate Gen. Von Drentelen, Chief of the Gendarmerie. He was driving along the Neuva quay, when a man on horseback fired twice into his carriage window. The General was not hurt The would-be aseusin rode a short distance, then leaving his horse escaped. Amnesty has been granted to 100 more French Communists. Gaunt famine stalks through Upper Egypt, and the inhabitants are reported to be «&wig by the thousands. M. Tenaille de Vaulabelle, the French historian, is dead. it is reported in London that an alliance against England is about to be formed between China and Burmah. A letter received in New York from Brazil says that 18,000 people died in Tartaleza in December, or one-fourth of the population; tthat 27,000 recorded interments were made in •two months, while a number of bodies were sunk in the bay. In the villages round about, poor people were dying like sheep. A horrible stench arises from the cemeteries, and the black plague is feared. Starving refugees clamored at the barracks for food. The commandant attempted to arrest the ringleaders, but was shot down. Four soldiers and •several rioters were killed in the struggle that ensued. Finally the military were driven out Ktftbe town and the provision houses sacked. Prince Waldemar, the third son of the Crown Prince of Germany, has just died of diphtheria. The upper branch of the French Parliament is opposed to the removal of the seat of government from Versailles to Paris. The courts having finally determined that Passanante must die for his attempt to shoot the King of Italy, the King himself has commuted the sentence to imprisonment for Ji fa. The joint occupation of Roumelia has been consented to by all the great powers except France, which has not yet acted upon the proposition. Germany declines to furnish a force for the purpose, but Austria, England, Italy and llussia will have contingents.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eant. The Rhode la’and House of Representatives last week voted on the question of woman suffrage—twArty-five ayes to twenty-one noes—not the two-thir ‘h majority necessary for submitting an amendment of the constitution to the people. J. & J. Tyrrell, of Boston, dealers in hides, have suspended. Liabilities, *160,000. Stratton & Storms’ tobacco factory, on Pearl street, New York, was burned last week. Loss, *75,000. The losses of . other occupants make the total over *IOO,OOO. The city of New York will have to •come down with its proportion of the money needed to complete the great Brooklyn bridge, the State Court of Appeals having so decided. Nellie, aged 18, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of ex-Gov. Hubbard, of Connecticut, fell in love with the Governor’s coachman, a young man of uncommonly good personal appearance and pleasing manners. An elopement and marriage followed, whereat the social circles of Hartford are stirred to their very depths. Judge Edwards, a prominent lawyer of Albany, N. Y., and principal of the Albany Law School, recently committed suicide by disemboweling himself with a large carving knife. Ho was temporarily insane. Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out among the New Jersey cattle. A shocking calamity is reported from Claremont, N. H. A fire broke out in the Tremont House, the leading hotel of the town, and spread so rapidly that five inmates, two boarders and"threa employes, were overtaken by the flames and burned to death. Soutn. The New Orleans banks have resumed the payment of currency on demand There was a double execution at New Kent Court House, Va., on March 25. The victims were Patrick Smith and Julius Christian, both negroes, convicted of the murder of John C. Lacy, a white man, in January last Frankfort, the capital, of Kentucky, has been the scene of a diabolical assassination. Col. Tom Buford, brother of Gen. Abe Buford, who is well known in Kentucky, upon hearing that a case in the Court of Appeals, in which he was interested, had been decided against him, loaded a double-barreled shotgun with buckshot, took his position near the front door of the Capitol Hotel, and waited for the Judges of the court to come to dinner. Judge J. M. Elliott was the first to approach. As he reached the door Buford walked up to him and shot him dead. Twelve buckshot entered his body, some of them passing through his heart Judge Pryor made his appearance on the scene a moment later, when Buford leveled his gun to give him the contents of the other barrel, but, before he could get a satisfactory aim. Judge Pryor run behind a comer. A crowd collected, and the assassin was taken into custody. A wharf-boat burned at Hickman, Ky., last week, and four persons who were sleeping on the boat were burned to death. Buford, the assassin of Judge Elliott, has been placed in the jail at Louisville, Ky. Hon. H. Y. Riddle, a member of the last Congress from Tennessee, recently committed suicide at Lebanon, Tenn., while laboring under a temporary fit of insanity, caused by protracted illness. West. William H. Vanderbilt will begin, about the last of April, the construction of a tunnel for the Canada Southern railway under the Detroit river, at Grosse Isle. The tunnel will be 3,700 feet long, and, it is calculated, will cost *1,500,000. At Fort Scott, Kan., a few days ago, a negro named Bill Howard, having been detected in a horrible crime, was taken from jail and hanged to a lamp-post After the body had hung some fifteen minutes the infuriated mob took it down and dragged it to the square, in spite of the resistance and objection of the more calm and peaceable portion of the crowd, and literally roasted and burned the remains in a fire of dry-goods boxes and coal-oil, amid demonstrations that rivaled pandemonium. John Schreler, a prominent Western godtaUßt agitator, was arrested at>

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JAS, W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

home in Evansville, Ind., and adjudged insane. He had previously attempted suicide, and a coffin ready for his use was found in his parlor. Every boat that arrives at St. Louis from the South brings a deck-load of negro emigrants on their way to Kansas. During the progress of a fire in the Fairchild block, at Madison, Wis., and while a large number of people were gathered around the flames, an explosion of gas occurred with terrific effect Some men were blown completely out of the rooms, while others were thrown to the floor. Thera was for a few seconds a frightful scare. All who were able rushed down-stairs for the streets; others had to be carried out At least thirty were injured. The block was injured to the extent of *20,000. WASHINGTON MOTES. It is reported f’iat ex-Congressman Rainey, the ablest co’ red man that ever sat in Congress, is likely to M appointed Third Auditor. Federal appointments: John B. Hamilton, of Illinois, to Supervising Surgeon of the United States F-eiHal Marine service; J. P. Kidder, Associa’i Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory; John M. Wilson, of Ohio. Consul at Pan The President has appointed Prof. Andrew D. White, of Cornell University, Minister to Berlin, and Dr. Cornelius A Logan, of Chicago, Minister to Central America. The demand for 4 per cent, bonds seems to have exhausted itself, and daily subscriptions of from *5,000,000 to *15,000,000, such as were received two months ago, have been reduced to from *50,000 to *200,000. The administration is agitated by the reports of the movements of Sitting Bull on the Northwest boundary, and has adopted the idea of holding the Government of Canada responsible for the conduct of that erratic and uneasy Indian. POLITICAL POINTS. Washington dispatches state that “the Republican leaders have become thoroughly alarmed over the unqualified assertions of leading Democrats that, as a result of conferences with the President and members of the Cabinet, the President would sign a modified bill repealing the Election laws.” A caucus of the Greenback members of the House was held at Washington last week, at which the subject of attaching political measures or any foreign legislation to appropriation bills was generally discussed. There was a unanimous expression of opposition to this way of legislating. The Greenbackers, however, expressed themselves as being m favor of all measures proposed by the Democrats, except the repeal of the law relating to Supervisors of Elections, whirii they are in favor of in a modified form. They are opposed to the test oath for jurors and favor its repeal They are also opposed to the nse of troops at the polls and to the Election laws which authorize Federal ''’’erference at the polls, and favor their repeal, but they ask that these repealing clauses be introduced as separate measures. A comr : ”ee of the caucus has been appointed to draft Snancial measures to present, to Congress embodying aH greenback ideas. The Ohio Democratic Committee have decided to hold the State Convention at Columbus, June 4. The Greenback-Labor party of Rhode Island held its State Convention at Providence last week, and nominated candidates for State officers, headed by Samuel Hill for Governor.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The widow of the late A. T. Stewart is traveling in the South. Visible supply of grain in sight in the States and Canada: Wheat, 20,985,000 bushels: corn, 13,342,000 bushels; oats, 2,153,000 bushels; rye, 1,195,000 bushels; barley, 3,099,000 bushels. George Slosson, of Chicago, has challenged Maurice Vignaux, of France, to play a game of billiards, 1,000 points, for *I,OOO a side and the world’s championship, the match to be played in Paris. A prize-fight for the light-weight championship and *I,OOO a side was fought last week on Canada soil, near Buffa '(.between two brutes named Arthur Chamben an John Clark, and resulted in a victory o the first named. One hundred and thirty-four rounds were fought, and both of the bruisers were severely punished. Recent deaths : Ex-Congressman William 8. Abert, of Baltimore, Md.; ex-Con-gressmau James K. Gibson, of Abingdon, Va.; ex-Mayor W. H. C. Johnston, of "Cincinnati, Ohio.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS. The Senate was the scene of a long and warm political debate on the 241 h, over the resolution of Mr. Wallace (Democrat) to proceed to the election of officers of the Senate. The Republicans opposed the removal of the old officers, and charged the Democrats, in pursuing such a course, with a violation of precedent and custom as old as the Senate itself. The Democrats urged the removal of the old officers because they had made themselves unusually conspicuous as partisans while the Republican party held sway in the Senate, particular stress being laid upon the case of George C. Gorham, the old Secretary of the Senate. A circular signed by him during the campaign of IMS was produced by the Democrats. This circular stated that “it is almost certain that the next Senate will be Democratic,” and asserts that, “ foremost among the schemes of that party is the intention to attempt the revolutionary expulsion from his office of the President.” The Democrats, during the debate, pronounced the circular false in every particular, and held that any man guilty of signing his name to it was unfit to be Secretary of the Senate. The Republicans defended Gorham, and claimed that the then existant facts justified the issuing of the circular. Alter a five hours’ debate, participated in by Messrs. Anthony. Hamlin. Wallace, Conkling, Bayard, Beck, Voorhees, Blaine, and Eaton, the Wallace resolution was adopted by a strict party vote, and all of the Democratic caucus nominations for officers of the Senate wese elected.—The Mouse was not in session. A communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to Mr. Wallace’s resolution calling for information in regard to fees paid Deputy Marshals in elections in October and November, was laid before the Senate on March 25. Mr. Hoar called up his resolution declaring the failure of one house to pass the appropriation Bills, except upon condition of repeal of the existing laws, is revolutionary, and took the floor for a speech. Mr. Hoar took the ground that there is no historical precedent for the refusal of the House to grant supplies except upon the conditions it has fixed. The notion that English history furnishes warrants for this action was a mistake. He went back into English history and made numerous citations. At the close of Mr. Hoar’s speech the Senate adjourned. In the House, Messrs. Harris and Cox asked leave to introduce resolutions, but Mr. Conger stated he would object to the introduction of anything unless it had reference to the appropriation bills, whereupon the House adjourned. The joint committee of the Senate and House Democratic caucus held another meeting, at which the report of the jointsub-committee was received and considered. The result of the proceedings was an agreement to attach precisely the same amendments to theDegis lative bill as passed the Hous-' at the last session, without the modifications suggested and favorably considered at the last meeting of the committee. They, however, agreed to provide for two Supervisors of Elections, after stripping them of every function except that of witnesses. Neither house of Congress did anything on the 26th, everything being postponed to await the decision of the Democratic caucus. This met in the afternoon, and their final determination was that they would incorporate in the Appropriation bills legislation like that of the last eessfop, w|tfi

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some modifications. The law authorizing the presence of troops at elections is to be repealed, as is also the jurors’ test-oath law. The sections of the Revised Statutes which bear upon elections are not all to be repealed outright, but are to be greatly modified. Two Supervisors are to be allowed in each election precinct, and they are to be of different political parties, and all distinctions bfetween Supervisors in suburban and in rdral districts are to be abolished. The Mupervisore are to be shorn of their power to make arrests In advance of voting. Numerous bills Wert introduced in the Senate ■A the 97th; none of them, however, were of any considerable importance. Mr. Hoar's resolution declaring the course of the majority revolutionary, etc., was taken up. In a running debate, Mr. Hoar charged that the majority had usurped the functions of legislation by maturing measures in caucus, thus anticipating constitutional forihs. Messrs. Beck, Bayard and Voorhees replied, ■Aying that the Democrats were acting With caution and circumspection, which was more than the Republicans had done when in the majority. Without oisposing of the subject, the Senate adjourned until the 3(;th.——ln the House, Mr. Sparks introduced the Army Appropriation bill. He stated that it was substantially the bid which passed the last House, with the reorganisation features stricken out. It retains the clause prohibiting the use of troops at the polls. A caucus of the Republican members of the House was held for the purpose of discussing the aituation in regard to the political clauses which the majority has determined to incorporate in the appropriation bills. The subject was very generally d'senssed, and it was finally agreed that every endeavor should be made by the minority to prevent the passage of the appropriation bills unless they shall be relieved of the provisions in question, lhe sense of the caucus was that if the Demo-rnt* should insist Upon carrying out the plan already adopted by them, the effect would ke the stoppage of the wheels of the Government, and tho majority would be responsible for the res alt. The following resolution was adopted without opposition: "Mtsoloed, That it Is the sense of this caucus that hereafter, and until the appropriation bills are. disposed of. no pairs by Republicans shall, tv der any consideration, be made. 1 ' This resolution appears to indicate a determination on the part of the Republicans to resort to filibustering rntiu'r than recede in any manner from tho position they have taken. The Senate waa not in session on the 28th ult. In the House, Mr. Springer presented the memorial of J. J. Wilson, claiming to be elected from the Kinth Congressional district of lowa oh the sth of November, and offered a resolution to refer the memorial to the Committee on Elections when appointed. All the sitting members from lowa were elected on the day claimed on the other side, but not on the day legally fixed for the election. The resolution was adopted. The Army bill was taken up. Ths consideration of the bill having been concluded, with the exception of section 6, repealing the statutes allowing the mill-, tary to preserve the peace at the polls, that section was read. A long debate ensued, but no vote was reached, About thirty members of the House, including Reagan, Jones (Texas), Springer, Stevenson, Ewing, Murch, Ladd, Kelley. De la Matyr, Weaver, Warner, Wright and Wise, met in the evening to consider the subject of the presentation of financial measures at the present session. After a general interchange of views, the following resolution was adopted: “.Resolved, That we will ask the co-operaUon of our fellowmembers of all parties in endeavoring to pass at this session bills for the following purposes: First, to Increase the coinage of silver to the capacity of our mints, and to issue certificates receivable for all pnblic dues, and the purchase of silver bullion at market rates. Second, to reissue the greenbacks now held for the redemption of fractional currency’ or hereafter retired for the pay ment of arrears of pension and in extinguishment of the bonded debt. Third, providing for the substitution of legal-tender notes for national-bank notes. Fourth, to stop all further Increase of the national debt. Fifth, to provide for a tax on incomes of over *2,C00.” The amendment to the Appropriation bill forbidding the use of troops at the polls gave rise to a warm partisan debate in the House on the 29ih ult. Mr. Stephens argued that public sentiment, North and South, was against the employment of troops at the polls. There was no nqSd of such a thing. The country hadgotalongwithoutitforthree quarters of a century. There would be no harm done, therefore, by a repeal of the law. Mr.. Garfield argued against the policy- of the Democratic. party in Congress, declaring it to be utterly revolutionary and tending to the subversion of the Government.' '■ We pick up the g.-jge of battle which you have thrown down,umd. .will appeal to our common sovereign—the people—to say whether you shall break down the principle of free con sent in legislation at tho price of starving the Government to death. Wc are ready to pass these bills for the. support ot tho Government at any hour when you will offer them in the ordinary way, and, if you offer these other measures as separate measures, we will meet you in the spirit of fair and fraternal debate. But you shall not compel us; you shall not coerce us, even to save this Government, until the question has gone to the sovereign to determine whether they will consent to break down any of its voluntary powers, and on that ground we plant ourselves.” Mr. McMahon said it came with ill grace from any Republican to say that the provision was improper because it was put upon an appropriation bill. The Republicans themselves had passed many measures in the same way. It had never been considered revolutionary, but, on the contrary, as a protection against arbitrary power to attach legislation on appropriation bills. The Democrats wanted the jury-box purified, the use of troops at the polls prohibited, and the repeal of that most infamous of all measures which put it in the powet of Marshals and their deputies to corrupt the bal-lot-box and intimidate voter*

THE ELECTION INVESTIGATION.

SYNOPSIS OF TESTIMONY TAKEN BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE. The Senate committee inquiring into the alleged frauds in the late election, of which Senator Wallace is Chairman, and heretofore known as the Teller Committee, resumed the taking of testimony at Washington last week. George C. Goihtm, laie Secretary ofthe Senate, and also Secretary of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, was tne first witness examined. He said that during the Congressional campaign of 1878 about $106,000 was raised for Renublican camp lign purposes; $93,000 from Federal officers aud employes by voluntary contribution, and the remainder from friends of the party not holding office. Perhaps $7,000 or SB,OOO came from Congressmen. No contributions were asked from national banks, as such. A canvass among wealthy friends of the cause in New York city resulted in obtaining about $13,001. There may have been some bankers contributing. Some lady employes of the Government insisted on contributing. Of $106,000, about $25,000 was expended for documents, about $12,000 was paid employes of the committee, and SB,OOO for furniture and general expenses. This left $55,500, of which $54,000 was sent to different States, and $1,500 was paid to speakers for expenses. Of the balance, $5,700 was lost by the failure of the German-American National Bank, and S3OO remains on hand. Ex-Secretary of the Senate Gorham was before the committee again ou the second day of the siting, aud produced the books of subscriptions in the departments, aud the list of moneys sent to different States. The National Committee aided nineteen Southern Congressional districts with an average of *663, and fifty-eight Northern districts with an average es *712. No aid was given to 212 districts. The policy was to devote the money to close districts. About nine districts iu Oh«o were thus helped. The witness thought the subscription in the Treasury Department might amount to $12,000 or *13,000, instead of $7,000 or *B,OOO, asstated the day before. About $2,000 was subscribed in the Postofflee Department. Very little was got from the Interior Department James M. Kerns, United B’ates Marshal for the Eastern district ot Pennsylvan’a, testified that he thought, as far as United States Supervisors and Marshals * are concerned, Philadelphia could do without thorn very welt The expenses of United States Supervisors in 1878 amounted to *27,440. Special attention was paid to Randall’s district, because it was in a bad part of the city, where riots frequently occur. THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH. A sub-committee of the Wallace-Teller Investigating Committee, consisting of Senators Wallace (Pa.), Garland (Ark ), McDonald (Ind.), Hoar (Mass.) and Cameron (Wis.) have been examining witnesses at Philadelphia. R. C. Howell, of the Eighteenth ward, testified that Deputy Marshal Charles Oliphant was drunk on election day, and insulted every Democrat that came to the polls to vote. His testimony was corroborated by other witnesses, who also testified that Oliphant used every means to drive away Democratic voters. John Warner, of the Twenty-ninth ward, testified that Thomas Herr, the United States Marshal in this ward, had a bad reputation. He arrested a man for trying to vote, notwithstanding that parties were ready to vouch for him. Arthur Vance, of the Fifteenth ward, a United States Marshal, was also charged with intimidating voters.

It is stated that two men who have lived within three miles of each other in the seacoast town of Rye, N. H., for fifty years never saw eiuih other until last November.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

AN ATROCIOUS CRIME.

The Murder of Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky Court of Appeal*. The killing of Judge J. M. Elliott, of the Appellate Court of Kentucky, the highest judicial tribunal in the State, by CoL Thomas Buford, a litigant who was displeased at a decision of the court in which he was interested, appears to have been as cool and deliberate an act of cbwardly barbarism as ever led a ruffian to the gallows. The murderer is a membet of the well-known Buford family, a wealthy and prominent clan. A double-barreled shot-gun was procured, the intention being to kill two of the Judges, but the fortunate passing of a troop of children saved one of the intended victims. A letter from Frankfort, Ky., furnishes the following particulars of this sensational tragedy: Shortly after the adjournment of the Court of Appeals Judge Elliott and Judge Hines, his associate, were walking up Ann street on the way to dinner, the former at the Capitol Hotel and the latter to his residence in South Frankfort. They parted at the ladies’ entrance to the hotel. A few moments after they had separated Buford came up with a double-barrel shot-gun in his hand and a game-bag over his shoulder. Judge Elliott, being on very intimate terms with him, remarked that it was very pleasant and a fine day for snipe hunting. Buford replied: “ Y'es, Judge, come and take a drink with me,” Before Judge Elliott could reply Buford raised his gun and fired the contents of one barrel containing twelve buckshot into Elliott’s right side, killing him iastantly. When the fatal shot was fix jd Judge Hines was a few yards away ? nd immediately ran back and knelt be Ade and raised the murdered man’s Lead. While the lifeless body of Judge Elliott lay on the pavement, the murderer walked up and said: “Now, die like a man.”

Judge Elliott’s body was carried into room 4 of the Capitol Hotel, where a large circle of his friends had assembled, and the scene that followed beggars description. The grief and lamentations of Mrs. Elliott over- the remains of her murdered husband were heartrending. Buford surrendered himself to Deputy Sheriff Mace Williams and was taken at once- before Esquire Gwynn, who remanded him to jail. While in the magistrate’s office he took the gun from the hands of the officer and kissed the empty barrel. In an interview he said he did not regret his act, and that he had loaded both barrels of his gun with picked buckshot and intended to kill Chief Justice Pryor, but after considering the matter he changed his mind bn account of Judge Pryor’s, wife and children. He carried his game’bag to avoid suspicion. On seeing Judge- Elliott he followed him, fully intending to kill him, and was not sorry that he committed the deed. When taken to the jail he was searched, and a large five-shooter pistol found on his person*, which he intended to use until it was-emptied, on any person that came to Elliott’s assistance. Buford is about 55 years old, a brother of Gen. Abe Buford, of Woodford county. He talks freely about the murder, and exhibits no sorrow over the affair. He assigns ashis reason for the tragedy, that Judge Elliott had decided a case against him. Buford was involved in a heavy lawsuit amounting to a large sum of money, and the case was decided against him three times, once in the court below aud twice in the Court of Appeals. He says his intention was to kill the Judge who tried the case in the lower court, and also Judge Wm. Lindsay, who was Judge of the Court of Appeals when the case was first decided in that court. Buford, seeing that all hope to gain his case was lost, determined as a revenge to murder every one of the Judges. His victim was loved and esteemed by every one who came in contact with him. He was 59 years old. He had served in the Kentucky Legislature and also in Congress for several terms. He was elected Judge of the Thirteenth judicial district, and in 1876 was elected for a period of eight years as Judge of the Appellate Court.

Important to Farmers.

In these days, when a business man, be he merchant, farmer, or aught else, sits down and deliberately counts the cost of running his business or farm, insurance is a very important item in his calculation, and naturally he asks himself, Where will I find a company offering the best inducements, combined with perfect security? Amongst the many annual reports made to insurance departments, in compliance with law, by the various insurance companies of our country, we would notice the twentieth annual statement of the American Insurance Company of Chicago, which shows a degree of solvency and volume of business most highly gratifying and satisfactory. In the States of Illinois, Missouri and Indiana, its cash receipts for premiums during the year 1878 are in excess of any other company doing business in said States. Of the twelve companies reporting to the Illinois department whose premium receipts exceed $75,000 for 1878, the following is the list in order of receipts: American, of Chicago, rac’d $201,822.65 Home, 44 New York, “ 181,412.90 2Etna, 44 Hartford, 153.82U.42 Hartford, 14 Hartford, 44 162,060.87 Rockford, 44 Rockford, 44 132,865.00' Phoenix, 44 Naw York, 44 125,824 22 Traders’, 44 Clii-ago, “ 117.301.00 Phoenix, 44 Hartford, 44 97,953.16 Continental. 44 New York, 44 94.492 58 Fire Association, 44 Phila.. 44 9L 416.99 Agricultural, 44 W’atertown, ‘ 83,935.02 Springfield, 44 Mass., 75,460.53 When it is understood that the American confines its business to the insurance of dwelling-houses, private barns, their contents, farm property, churches and school-houses—writes no policies in any of the large cities, and insures but $5,000 in any one risk—the immense number of patrons of this old “farmer’s company ” is easily comprehended. It has nearly 150,000 policies in force; has cash assets amounting to $912,763.62; cash surplus, as regards policy-holders, $502,386.13; has done business twenty years, and we say, therefore, to our readers, most emphatically, the American is a safe company in which to insure your homes.

Jefferson’s Home Sold.

Monticello, the former home of Thomas Jefferson, was recently sold at public auction, with 218 acres, about two-thirds of the original estate, under decree of court to effect a distribution of the property of the late Commodore Uriah P. Levy. The purchaser was Jefferson M- £evy, of New Yorlj pity,

one of the heirs, and the price paid was SIO,OOO. Asabel S. Levy, of New York city, was a bidder. No other foreign bidders were present. The purchaser has already acquired by purchase from the other heirs six-sevenths of the property. He proposes to put it in repair for a summer residence.

PERSONALS.

Ex-Senator Eustis has resumed the practice of law in New Orleans. B®lva Lockwood, the leading woman lawyer, is tall and has blue eyes. Senator Hill, of Georgia, is 6 feet in height, and Weighs 181 pounds. Ex-Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, is 6 feet in height, and weighs 162 pounds. Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is 5 feet 9 inches in height, and weighs 160 pounds. Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, is 5 feet 11 ; inches in height, and weighs 155 pounds. Gen. Garfield lives in a story-and-a-half farm cottage—a regular Cincinnatus. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, is 5 feet 10| inches in height, and weighs 180 pounds. Jefferson .Davis is living at Mississippi City, on the New Orleans and Mobile railroad. Senator Hereford, of West Virginia, is 5 feet 9 inches in height, and Weighs 167 pounds. Mrs. Miller, of Portland, Ore., has given birth to her twentieth child, which is strong and well. That is the way to build up a Freddie McDonald, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., cried a few weeks ago because his pet chicken swallowed his only penny. Last week the chicken was killed, and the penny, worn thin and smooth, was found in its gizzard. “ He died in his boots ” is not true of Col. R. A. Alston, of whom Atlanta makes a martyr. While he was in the last throes his friend, Ed. Mercer, thrilled the bystanders with: “ Poor Bob! poor Bob, he shall not die in his boots ” —and pulled them off. During the performance of “Unknown,” in an Indianapolis theatre, the other night, one of the actors, T Z. Graham, staggered and fell as though drunk. The audience hissed and grew demonstrative. His character was the rollicking, laughable one of “ Pat.” He got up and went through the piece, not disconcerted. When a doctor called at his hotel, he was told that he was actually dying of consumption. He expressed the desire to die at home, and the next morning he was placed in a sleeping-car andsent towards New York. There died in Jacksonville, Fla., a few days ago, a colored man, John R. Scott, whose history is a notable one. He was in all the great battles of the war, not a combatant but as the slave and servant of Gen. A. P. Hill. After realizing that the war had left him on a higher plane, he began to study and soon became a scholar. He took to the pulpit and filled it creditably until his death. He was in the Florida Legislature twice, a Collector of Customs at Jacksonville for a number of years, and altogether a man of wonderful influence among both whites and blacks. Elihu Burritt’s sister, Eunice, is the wife of Prof. A. J. Sawyer, cf the Chicago University, and is now living in that city. In talking of her deceased brother the other day, she dwelt with great zest upon what Elihu did in his childhood. He was not interested in languages then, but performed astonishing feats in mental arithmetic. Often and often would he figure up in his head how many seconds old he was, calculate how many yards of cloth it would take to reach from the earth to the sun, and the number of barleycorns it would require to reach around the world. Senator “Bob ” Hart, the New York minstrel and popular man of the footlights, has been converted and baptized, and will become a clergyman. His real name is James M. Sutherland, and his age 47 years. He has been before the' world as a stump orator in the minstrel halls for twenty-three years, and his name and fame spread far and wide. Whisky began to creep upon him several years ago, and three weeks since had nearly submerged him. Then he heard that Billy Dwyer had signed the pledge, #id thought that all was not lost. He made a great effort, got the whisky out of his system, and the Rev. John Quincy Adams, of New York, performed the ceremony of immersion in the midst of a large congregation.

Throat Parasites.

The Elmira (N.Y.) Advertiser gives a strange account of a little girl afflicted with the diphtheria. In looking into the child’s throat, the mother saw a micrococcus moving, which she removed, together with another, which are now on exhibition in a city drug store, and being discussed by the medical fraternity. They are easily seen by the naked eye, though a glass helps one to the “true inwardness” of the critters. The largest one is fully one-quar-ter of an inch long, covered with hair, with a head something like a caterpillar, tapering body, and long, hairy tail. Its body is formed in rings; its color is about that of one of those dark yellow “thousand-legged” worms found under old boards and stones. The smaller one is about one-sixteenth of an inch long, being whitish in color, and requiring the glass to bring out its “beauty” of conformation. It is not a pleasant thought to imagine such things in your throat, but they get there, and from there into the blood, heart and other organs, producing paralysis and sudden death when least expected. They are vegetable parasites, and exist in large colonies in the diphtheretic membrane.

Stamping Ont the Plague.

When the great Russian plague of 1771 had carried off three-fourths of the people of Moscow it was checked by the frost. Expecting that it would break out again in the spring, Catherine 11. commissioned Count Orloff to destroy all the Clothing and rags left by the scourge. The Count knew that even despotic power could not compel the people to obey this order properly, so he set up in the rag business. “ The highest price paid for cast-off clothing f “ Clothing bought and no questions asked,” were among the tempting official advertisements of the day. Thieves and scavengers were his industrious allies. Bonfires of clothing were made, and the houses and streets were cleared and disinfected. Next yeap was po plague in Moscow,

SUPERVISORS AND MARSHAIS

What They Cost the People They Perform. [From the New York SenJ The resolution of the Senate calling for a detailed statement of the accounts of United States Marshals in the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts and Maryland, sot the payment of wages or lees charged for services performed 4 J them or their special deputies in relation to the conduct of elections in November, 1878, showing the amount claimed by, ot paid to, each of said special deputies and the aggregate claimed by the Marshals for services, does not cover the whole grounds by any means. There is no mention of the Chief Supervisor’s accounts for Southern and Northern New Yqrk, which had been I kept back by these officers, and were not in possession of the department three months after the election, for reasons which may be easily supposed. This resolution is also defective in making no mention of the Marshal’s “ general deputies,” the number of which is only restricted by his partisan discretion, and which are specifically named in the odious Election laws, and especially in section 5,522 of the Revised Statutes, under which they ate clothed with tho arbitrary power to make “ instant arrest without process” of any person who “refuses or neglects to aid and assist” them in the work of carrying elections by intimidation and threats. The Comptroller of the Treasury furnished a statement to the Committee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice in the last House, covering the accounts of Supervisors and Deputy Marshals iu 1878, which had been settled up to the middle of February, “except for Chief Supervisors in Northern and Southern New York, which have not been sent to the department, those of New Jersey, Eastern New York, and Pennsylvania not fully adjusted.” According to that report, excluding the accounts which had not been returned or closed, over $202,000 were expended for Supervisors and Deputy Marshals at the elections last fall. An analysis of the localities in which these expenditures were made shows conclusively that this public money was used to aid the election of Republican candidates for Congress, and that the Deputy Marshals were electioneering agents at the polls. The whole scheme was organized at Washington by the Republican Campaign Committee, with an understanding in the Department of Justice by which the Deputy Marshals were assigned to doubtful and close districts, North and South, in the hope of capturing a majority in the present House of Representatives. To aid that object, the assessment of officeholders was openly made in all the departments, upon Chandler’s model of 1876, with agents who personally visited every incumbent, tariff in hand, fixing the amount to be paid from the salary. Hayes, Evarts, Schurz and the whole fraudulent Cabinet, all the chiefs of bureaus, aud the bulk of the 4,000 or 5,000 subordinates, subscribed to this campaign fund; and when a clerk, who was deluded with the belief that there was something in the profession of civil-service reform and in the executive order forbidding assessments, refused to be taxed, John Sherman ordered his removal instantly. More than one-half of the whole expenditure for Supervisors and Deputy Marshals in 1878 was made in this State, as follows: Southern district $ 59,267.95 Eastern district ; 33,092.33 Northern district 18,00C.00 Tote! ... $111,360.28 Chief Supervisor Davenport and his colleagues in Northern New York withheld their returns, and the accounts of the chief of the Eastern district were “not fully adjusted ” when the Compi troller of the Treasury furnished these figures. Davenport’s operations here are well known, and the Congressional delegation in the House would seem to prove remarkable efficiency on the part of the other Supervisors and Deputy Marshals throughout the State. Over in New Jersey more than $13,000 of this fund we»e put where they would do the most good for the Republican candidates, and with sufficient effect to change the political complexion of the representation in the House. Pennsylvania got $44,000, chiefly applied to the Eastern districts, on the Cameronian plan. In Maryland, some SB,OOO were successfully concentrated on the Sixth district with a knowledge of a Democratic defection to weaken the hold of the regular nominee. To defeat Gen. Williams in the Detroit district, all of the force of the administration was applied to that point; so in Virginia in the district now represented by Jorgensen (Republican), of which fears were entertained; also in South Carolina, to prevent the election of Mr. O’Connor, who got through in spite of the Deputy Marshals and the notorious Mackey; so in the two Cincinnati districts, which will soon be investigated; so in the Eighth district of Alabama, where Lowe (Greenbacker) was elected over the regular Democrat; and so in Louisiana, where the Republicans expected to carry two districts. These spots were all deliberately chosen at Washington, after correspondence with the Republican managers. The campaign fund was raised by drafts on the treasury for the Supervisors and Deputy Marshals, by assessments on the officeholders, and by contributions from the pet banks, to say nothing of the local subscriptions and donations. A round million, at least, was used in doubtful districts, and, if the result could have been foreseen, a million more would have been raised to make a Republican majority in the House sure. If the Democrats mean to go to the bottom of this business, another resolution to include the cost of “general deputies,” omitted by Mr. Wallace from his inquiry, and to bring in every account of Supervisors, and for contingent expenses of the elections of 1878, ought to be passed. The country wants the whole truth, and not fragments of it.

Japanese Wheat.

English newspapers announce with considerable interest the discovery, made by the Paris Acclimation Society, that Japanese wheat, planted in April or May, is ripe and ready for the harvest quite as early as European-grown wheat, sown some five or six months earlier, and the yield js equally large

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with that produced from any. of the varieties of European wheat If the same result can be obtained in other places, says the Tokio Times, the use of Japanese wheat, it is presumed, will become universal, though no explanation of the phenomenon is yet supplied.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Monday, March 24.—Senate.—About 100 House bills were read the first time. The Metropolitan Police bill came up in the lot, and wis killed by being indefinitely postponed ; .. .■ The following House joint resolutions were adopted: Requesting a modification of the National Banking law so as to subject banking associations to regular rules of law; creating a commission to codify the insurance laws, and appointing a committee on the part of each house to ascei tain what amount, if any, is due Marion county foi gas, heat, water, etc., used by the General Assembly... .Senator Reeve introduced a bill providing for the appointment of five attorneys to make a revision of the laws of the State now in force and publish them.... The House Homestead bill was taken up, and a substitute forty acres of land Ih country and one-half acre in city as a homestead, provided it is not worth more than S7OO. It also exempts S3OO worth of personal property from sale on execution. The bill as amended was then passed. House.—Bills were passed : Including railroad tickets in the articles that may be embezzled ; authorizing patrons of district schools to select the teachers, and the Senate bill declaring certain patents for swamp lands evidence of title to such lands... .Conference committees were asked for upon the Specific Appropriation and the Fee and Salary bills... .The House passed a resolution to adjourn sine die next Monday, provided that the Fee and Salary and Specific Appropriation bills have been passed. Tuesday, March 25.—Senate.—A large number of House bills were read a second time and placed on the files for a third reading to-mor-row... .Bills were passed as follows: Giving laborers a preferred claim of ss44—on the property of an insolvent corporation which is indebted to them; allowing appeals from County Commissioners in cases of annexation of territory to cities and towns; creating a commission to revise and codify the laws of the State and report JJie same'to the next General Assembly, with such recommendation of changes in the existing laws as they may deem necessary... .The report of the Conference Committee on the Specific Appropriation bill was concurred in. House.—Bills were introduced: Providing for the more speedy determination of causes in Circuit and Superior Courts; prescribing the duties of the Attorney General... .Bills passed: Providing for the appointment of receivers by Judges of courts during vacation; providing for the erection and management of workhouses : protecting the purity of the ballot-box by disfranchising persons found guilty of selling their votes; providing for appeals in cases of changes of highways; permitting notaries public to solemnize marriages... .The conference committee • on the Specific Appropriation bill reported certain amendments agreed on, which were agreed t 0.... The committee appointed to investigate into the affairs of the Attorney General's office reported, and were instructed to continue the investigation, and report what.steps should be taken to recover the money illegally taken for fees ... The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the Homestead Exemption bill. Wednesday, March 26. —Senate.—Bills passed: For the transfer to the United States of the title of Indiana to the Antietam National Cemetery; authorizing a loan to pay the temporary loan debt; in relation to the transaction of business before ign express companies; amending the Fidlkw; to prevent the sale of adulterated fertjflßßs; regulating the practice of medicine and surgery; amending the act authorizing street-car companies to use certain highways; authorizing incorporated towns to contract for lighting streets with gas; providing for issuing letters testamentary and of guardianship; and several legalizing and relief bills... .The bill repealing the Railroad Aid law was indefinitely postponed... .The Senate resolution to adiourn sine die on Saturday was returned from the House with an amendment fixing Monday as the time. The amendment was concurred in, and the Legislature will without doubt adjourn at that time. > House —The House adopted the Senate resolution authorizing the transfer of the Morgan raid claims from the Governor’s office to that of the Adjutant General, and allowing their owners to withdraw them.... The bill fixing railroad passenger rates at 3 cents a mile failed to pass.... The bill for the revision of the laws was passed... .The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the bill creating a bureau of statistics, and it went to a conference committee.... Bills regulating elections in towns and defining the duties and powers of town officers, regulating the levy of taxes for school purposes, prohibiting courts from garnasheeing wages of laborers and providing for redemption of real estate in certain cases, were passed... .Mr. Osborne offered a resolution creating a commission consisting of two Senators, two Representatives, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to investigate and report whether the three State educational institutions cannot be consolidated. The consideration of the resolution was postponed for the present. Thursday, March 27.—Senate.—The Senate on assembling to)k up the bill codifying the School law, and its consideration occupied the entire morning session and a portion of the afternoon. Amendments were adopted, after considerable discussion, limiting the examination fee to sl, and prohibiting changes in school books or furniture oftener than every ten years, except by unanimous consent of the School Board. The bill was then passed.... The conference committee on the Fee and Salary bill then reported, and the report was concurred in without debate. ... .The conference committee on the bill creating a Bureau of Statistics also reported, and their report was adopted... .All the'House bills on second reading were taken up, read a second time, and passed to a third reading.... Several Senate bills were read a second time and indefinitely postponed... .The conference committee on the Homestead Exemption Pill reported that they could not agree. They were discharged and a new committee appointed. House.—Bills passed: Legalizing “patentinside” newspapers; amending the act concerning guardian and ward: amending the code; for the publication of legal advertising in any paper of general circulation in the county; amending the Voluntary Assignment act; amending the law of descent; to prevent double prosecution in misdemeanors; exempting the property of wives and children from sale on execution fcr husbands’torts; to prevent the transfer of county orders by persons owing taxes; permitting towns to collect license from retail liquor-dealers; amending the code; requiring railroads to have whistles sounded at road crossings; specifying what persons shall be admitted to the House of Refuge; requiring attorneys to submit charges to Judges for rejection or acceptance before argument.... The conference committees’ reports on the Fee and Salary and Bureau, of Statistics bills were concurred in.

Friday, March 28.—A bill passed to do away with Coroners’ juries, making that official to examine and report alone upon the cause of death submitted to him... .The report of the conference committee on the Exemption bill, fixing the amount at 1690, an increase of S3OO over the present law, to be taken in real estate or personal property at the election of the debtor, was adopted... .The Bureau es Statistics bill has been adopted, and now there are no other important bills to be acted 0n.... At the close of the evening session of the House, the committee charged with the investigation of Messrs. Jameson and Evarts, of the Insane Asylum, submitted their reports and ordered tnem laid upon the table till morning. The majority report, signed by Senators Smith and Treat, and Representatives Hubbard, Saint and Thornburg, is very long, and, in the main, favorable to the respondent The minority report, signed by Senator Foster, Chairman of the committee, and Representatives Reiley, Edwins and Handy, nnds Dr. Jameson guilty of not turning over to the State treasury moneys received for farm and greenhouse products, and for receiving, as Treasurer of the Commissioners for the new Asylum building, $1,400, without warrant of law. Following this report, Messrs. Edwins and Handy submit a resolution censuring Drs. Jameson and Evarts for malfeasance in office, and requesting the Attorney General to institute suit for the recovery of $1,400 wrongfully appropriated by Dr. James. Saturday, March 29.—Senate.—The pro? ceedings in the Senate were unusually dull, nothing but confusion interrupting the dry routine of pasting bills, and that was the only business transacted, with tbs exception of the

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introduction and reference to the Finance Committee of a resolution appropriating $450 to defray the expenses of the Insane Asjlum investigation .../I'he following bills were passed: Regulating the practice of dentistry; concerning the Opening of streets and alleys; regulating the running at large of animals; relative to claims against counties; regulating the punishment for contempts; amending section 817 of the code providing for the prompt publication of the acts of the General Assembly; requiring petitioners for the opening of streets to file a bond for the cost; punishing embezzlement of railroad tickets, and authorizing the vacation of public squares in certain cases... .The Senate then took up the message from the House announcing the passage ot the Medical bill over the Governor’s veto, and, the question being on the passage of the bill by tho Senate, it failed for want of a’constitutional majority—ayes, 22; noes, 15. House.—The House, as tarns noise was conoerued, was worse than tho Senate, and it was impossible for the Speaker to keep order.... The Senate resolution providing for the payment of Marion county fur gas, water and fuel used by tho Legislature was amended so as to allow SBOO, and then passed... .The bill reducing the pay of members to $5 per day and reducing the suhuies of Judges (ailed to pass. ....The message of lito.Governor vetoing tho Medical bill was read. He objects to the bill for the reason that it contains an emergency clause and that it bars from practice all female physicians and midwives. An attempt was made to pass the bill notwithstanding the veto, but it failed. Later i:i the day tho bill was passed by a vote of 52 to-30... .Tho Senate bill regulating the inspection of petroleum was passed and tho bill abolishing the Cass Superior Court was promptly laid on tho table.... A local-option temperance bill was voted down and the bill to abolish concert saloons and prevent the playing of billiards, etc . in saloons, which had been stolen from iho tiles, wis reintroduced, but a motion to suspend tho rules and pass the bill was not agreed t 0... .The committee to which was referred the subject of woman’s suffrage made three reports. Guo decides that tho constitution gives women tho right to vote; second that it does not, but ought to, and tho third, signed by Maurice Thompson, thinks women too good to vote, almost to good to live and too swoet for anything; therefore that they should not vote.

A Woman and a Burglar.

Mrs. Bruce, of • Racine, Wis., was awakened one night not long ago, by the noise of the thief, and got out of bed, thinking it was a cat, and commenced calling; but, upon looking into the front room, she was somewhat startled at beholding a man crouching behind a large chair. She did not faint away, as would have been the case with most ladies, but she sprung forward and caught hold of the thief. A lively encounter ensued, the. culprit using all his strength to get away, but Mrs. B. clung to his hair with a vengeance, and the thief, in order to free himself, dropped the stuff he had in his hands and arms, consisting of S2OO worth of clothing, a gold watch, and $74 in money. After he got free from her grasp he struck her a powerful blow and knocked her down, and threw a chair on top of her. He then made his escape by unlocking the front door, and just in time, too, for Mr. Bruce, who slept in the back room, came rushing to the scene, having been awakened by the noise. An examination was made, and it was found that the thief had managed tc* get away with S4O. Mrs. Bruce is entitled to much credit for the plucky manner in which she fought the thief, although he escaped.

Another Wonder of the Age.

A British engineer, Mr. E. A. Cowper, has invented a real telegraph—the first, indeed, considering the etymology of the word, that has ever been made. It is a genuine writer-from-far-off. "We have for years communicated from far off, but to write actually and autographically beyond the point of one’s pen has heretofore been impossible. A description of the details of the process is impossible without diagrams. The result is enough. You write on a board on which is an endless piece of paper rolled off by clockwork, and your writing, reproduced identically in shades and shape, appears on similar paper at whatever place yon are writing to. At present the operation is moderately delicate. One cannot write very hastily. But a sac-simile is given in the .Engineering of a message taken forty miles off, which shows the complete success of the process, and nothing but h little attention to details is needed to bring the thing into common use.

The New Minister to Berlin.

President Andrew D. White, of Cornell University, the newly appointed Minister to Germany, was one of tho United States Commissioners to the late Paris Exposition, and has written some valuable chapters on exhibitions in general, and especially up >n the subject of education as therr illustrated. He has long been an intimate friend of the President. Two of the President’s sons have gone through Cornell, and one of them is now at that institution. The new Minister is in his 47th year. In his youth ho was connected for a short time with the United States Legation in Russia. He studied at the University of Berlin in 1854-55, after his graduation at Yale. He has been a New York State Senator, and was sent by President Grant to San Domingo, to study the question of annexation, in 1871. He lias been a prominent advocate of civil-service reform, and has written much on that subject.

“[?]ome, Sweet Home.”

“There’s no place like home,” exclaimed a married man with a sigh of relief, as he threw down his hat, pulled off his coat and boots, slipped his feet in his slippers, and flung himself down on the sofa. As soon as he was comfortably settled, his loving wife ordered him to go out and get a pail of water, bring in a scuttle of coal, lock up the hen-house, feed the pigs, and split some wood for morning. Then he angrily gathered himself together, spitefully kicked off his slippers, savagely drew on his boots, hastily climbed into his ulster, jammed his hat over his eyes, and, as he went out of the back door, he muttered, “ There is no place like home.”— Hackensack Republican.

Advice to Drinkers.

Barkeepers in this city pay on an average $2 per gallon for whisky. One gallon contains an average of sixty-fiw drinks, and at 10 cents a drink the pooi man pays $6.50 per gallon for his whisky. In other words, he pays's2 for the whisky and $4.50 for handing it over the bar. Make your wife your barkeeper. Lend her $2 to buy a gallon of whisky for a beginning, and every time you want a drink go to her and pay 10 cents for it. By the time you have drunk a gallon she will have $6.50, or enough money to refund the $2 borrowed of you, to pay for another gallon of liquor, and have a balance of $2.50, temperance lecture.