Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOBBIGN NEWS. The long-talked-of race between Edward Banian, the champioi oarsman of America, and John Uawdon, the British eculler, was rowed on the river Tyne, in England, on the sth of May, and resulted in an easy victory for the American by six boatlengths. The Britons, who gathered by the thousands in expectation of seeing their representative victorious, were greatly chagrined a the result The cable announces the death of Dr. Isaac Butt, M. P., the distinguished HomeBule leader. There have been serious riots in Dublin, Ireland. Gen. Felix Douay, Inspector General of the French army, is dead. Lient. Coyte, of the British navy, arrested on suspicion of being the author of a ridiculous story about a pirate ship off Fastnett light, on the 16th of January last, has been convicted of the offense and dismissed the service. St. Petersburg dispatches deny the reports of the terror-stricken condition of that city. Owing to trichina having been discovered in some hogs shipped from Philadelphia to Liverpool, England has issued an order, to take effect June 1, interdicting the importation of American swine. A dispatch from Lahore, India, announces that Yakoob Khan has accepted all the British proposals. These advance the frontier line so as to give the British the Kojuk pass, Pisheen valley, the Korum valley as far as the Bhuargadon pass, and the Khyber pass as far as Loargi. The British also gain the right to keep an agent at Candahar. King Alfonso, of Spain, is betrothed to an Austrian Princess.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Freeman, the Pocasset (Mass.) Adventist, and his wife have been committed to jail for the murder of their 5-year-old child. On the way to the prison both loudly proclaimed that the death of the child was in obedience to the divine mandate. A number of his Adventist neighbors sustain Freeman in his course. Many of them are well-to-do farmers. Some of those present at the meeting at Freeman’s house on the day of the murder will be arrested on the charge of being accessory to the deed. Three men are under arrest in New York for forging pension and bounty claims. The ring of which the rascals are members is supposed to have already robbed the Government of over 1100,000. One of the Manhattan (N. Y.) Savings Bank robbers has been arrested in Philadelphia while attempting to dispose of some of the stolen securities. A bill authorizing the State of Pennsylvania to redeem over 32,000,000 worth of certificates issued to sufferers from raids in the border counties of that State during the late civil war has been defeated in the Pennsylvania Legislature. By an explosion of gas in a coal mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa., last week, three men were killed and several wounded, some of them fatally, it is feared. Whittemore, Peet, Post & Co., extensive woolen dry goods commission merchants in New York, have failed for over half a million dollars. “ Bed ” Leary, one of the most notorious bank burglars in the country, escaped from Ludlow Street jail, New York, by digging his way, with the aid of accomplices, through the wall of his coll, and thence into the room of an adjoining building The trial of Dr. T. De Witt Talmage which has been in progress before a synod of the Presbyterian church at New York for several weeks, was brought to a close the other day, resulting in his acquittal. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has just decided the second suit growing out of the suspension of George H. Stuart by the General Synod of the. Reformed Presbyterian Church, for hymu singing and communing with other Evangelical churches. This decision sustains Stuart and his friends, at the same time condemning the action of the Synod, and continues the Rev. Dr. Sterrett and the Second Reformed Presbyterian congregation in the undisputed possession of their property, which has been in litigation for the past ten years. A similar suit was decided the same way not long ago. Robert Harris and Dell Shaw, while attempting to cross the Black river near Watertown, N. Y., in a row-boat, a short distance above the Big falh, were carried over, and drowned. We«rt. George C. Harding, editor of the Indianapolis Herald, and Calvin A Light, of the Indianapolis Democrat, a Communist organ, engaged in an ink-slinging duel, in which Light got the best of the fight, while Harding got fighting mad. He bought a huge Colt’s navy revolver and made a raid on Light’s office, and at once opened fire upon him, while standing at the imposingetone. Light dodged the first shot, and the ball struck a printer standing at his case, named Gerhard Lizins, in the groin. Harding fired a second shot, which missed Light, but hit another printer named Richard Walters in the leg. The latter, fearing further damage, at once jumped through a Window, and, in falling upon the pavement, suffered a fracture of both his ankles, which will lay him up for weeks and make him a cripple for life. Light escaped from his infuriated assailant by the free use of a good pair of legs, and fled to the police for protection. Samuel Pavey and his son Taylor Pavey, extensive dealers in live stock, were shot and instantly killed near Leesburg, Ohio, by John Link, Pavey’s stepson. The Government architects, contractors and builders engaged in the construction of the new Chicago Custom House were arraigned in the United States District Court in that city, last week, for trial on an indictment for conspiracy to defraud the Government out of 3850,(X.0. Crop reports from various portions of the Northwest are highly encouraging. The prospects for a bountiful harvest are exceedingly bright Dr. Ezra Rose, of Palmyra, Ohio, invited his friend, Sylvester Canfield, to try some new liquor which he had just received. By mistake they each drank about two ounces of aconite. The doctor died in a few hours. Canfield is in a precarious situation. Mrs. Lightner, the wife of a prominent citizen of Peoria, HL, was killed by an elevator accident at the Tremont House, Chicago, a few days ago. The new constitution of California, which was submitted to a vote of the people on the 6th inst, was adopted by about 5,000 juajority.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

.¶ After a careful examination, a committee of physicians have pronounced Mark Gray, the young man who shot at Edwin Booth in McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, crazy. .¶ Mrs. Nancy Gray, a pioneer of Jo Daviess county, Ill., aged 108 years, on the 1st of January last, died at her residence in Galena last week. She was a native of County Cavan, Ireland, and retained her full faculties almost to the last. .¶ A fire in the “ lumber district" of Chicago, located in the Southwestern part of the city, destroyed a lumber yard and planing mill and a number of frame dwellings. Loss estimated at $200,000. .¶ The office of the Detroit Post and Tribune, was damaged by fire, a few nights ago, to the extent of $15,000 or $20,000. South. .¶ Two prisoners attempted to escape from jail, at Overton, Texas, by setting it on fire. The jail was burned and both perished in the flames. .¶ Five men were lately killed in Calhoun county, Texas, by stock owners. The five men had a bunch of cattle in their possession and were sleeping at the time the stockmen rode up and commenced looking at the stock. The men woke up and commenced firing, when the stockmen killed all five of them. .¶ Two negro incendiaries, Johnson Spencer and Nevlin Porter, were recently hanged by a mob of infuriated citizens at Starkville, Miss. .¶ The trial of Cox for the murder of Col. Alston, at Atlanta, Ga., resulted in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, accompanied with a recommendation to mercy, as provided under the new law of Georgia, framed by Col. Alston, himself. This recommendation commutes the death sentence to imprisonment for life. .¶ Tom Jones and Henry McLeed (both colored) were hanged for murder in the presence of 8,000 people at Appling, near Atlanta, Ga., last Friday. Richard Lee, a negro burglar, was publicly hanged at Fayetteville, N. C. He confessed his crime on the scaffold, and said that he deserved death. .¶ A fire at St. Louis, Mo., last week, burned out Gauss, Henicke & Co.’s wholesale hat and cap store (loss $75,000), Goldstein Bros.’wholesale dry-goods house (loss $75,000), and A. Frankenthal & Son’s wholesale notion store (loss $90,000). The loss in buildings was $45,000, making a total loss of $285,000. .¶ The Louisiana Constitutional Convention has adopted an article prohibiting the General Assembly from contracting any debt or liability on the part of the State except for the purpose of repelling invasion or insurrection.

POLITICAL POINTS. At the charter election in Indianapolis, last week, the entire Republican ticket was successful by majorities ranging from 1,500 to 2,000. At Lafayette the Republican ticket was also elected. In Fort Wayne, Terre Haute and New Albany the Democrats elected all their candidates for city officers.—William Dawson, Democrat, has been elected Mayor of St. Paul, Minn. * The Richmond (Va.) Southern Intelligencer publishes a picture and a sketch of the life of Senator David Davis, and nominates him as the “Presidential candidate of the great combination to be formed against Grant in 1880.” The Maine Greenbackers will meet in convention June 3 to nominate a candidate for Governor. A Washington dispatch says that “ Secretary Sherman has returned from his Ohio visit, and entered upon his duties at the treasury. He again reiterates the statement that he has no desire or intention of becoming a candidate for. Governor of Ohio. ”

WASHINGTON NOTBS. The United States Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the law passed by Congress in 1878, known as the “Thurman act,” creating a sinking fund to pay the interest and principal of Government bonds loaned to the Pacific coast roads. The entire force of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Washington is kept busy every day in the week, including Sunday, printing the #lO refunding certificates.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A railway car laden with dynamite exploded with frightful effect in the Grand Trunk freight sheds at Stratford, Ont. The sheds were badly damaged, several houses near by were leveled to the ground, and long strings of freight cars utterly destroyed. The damage done to property is estimated at half a million dollars. Two railway enwloyes were blown into fragments. The fooF of one was found 200 yards off. Other persons’were injured. Wife-murders: At New Preston Hill, Ct, Egbert Cogswell, while drunk, killed his wife and himself. Lewis Coons, of Toghkanic, N. Y., in a fit of jealousy, cut his wife’s throat and then his own. The woman is dead, but Coons will live. Both were young, and recently married. A considerable number of the Southern negroes who emigrated to Kansas are returning to the South. They are making this move through a St Louis commission house which has large Southern connections. It is stated from Washington that arrangements to check the emigration scheme for the invasion of the Indian Territory have been placed by the Secretary of War, through Gen. Sherman, in the hands of Gen. Sheridan. Sheridan’s orders are imperative to prevent the emigrants from crossing the boundary of the Territory, and to remove without parley, delay, or argument all trespassers upon the soil of the Indian Territory. Visible supply of grain in the States and Canada: Wheat, 16,972,000 bushels; corn, 12,246,000 bushels; oals, 1,865,000 bushels; rye, 978,000 bushels; barley, 1,646,000 bushels. A largely-attended Southern Labor Convention, called for the purpose of devising measures to check the exodus of colored people, has just been held at Vicksburg, Miss. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the interests of planter and laborer are identical; that the colored race has been placed by the constitution and laws on a plane of legal equality with the white race; that the blacks shall be accorded the enjoyment of their civil and political rights; that the credit system, so prevalent in the South, based upon liens or mortgages on stock and crops to be grown in the future, has disturbed the entire laboring population, and should be discountenanced. A national conference of colored men was held at the same time in Nashville, Tenn. It was called for the purpose of presenting the grievances of the colored race to thq country. Representatives were present from nearly every Southern State, and from half a dozen Northern States. Ex-Congressman John R. Lynch, of Mississippi, presided. The National Women’s Suffrage Association held its annual convention at St Louis last week. Nineteen States were represented. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Cor-

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1879.

responding Secretary, Mr. 8. A Spencer, Washington; Treasurer, Mrs. J. C. Spofford, Washington. A serious accident occurred on the Grand Trunk railway, near Carleton, Canada. An excursion train containing about forty very prominent men of Toronto was run into by an engine and badly smashed. Nearly every person on the train was more or less injured. One has since died, and it is believed two or three others cannot recover. A prize-fight took place the other day, between two New York bruisers, on Long Point island, in Canada—the battle-field occupied by Heenan and Morrissey in 1858. The contestants were a pair of New York boxers named Dwyer and Elliott The latter was knocked senseless in about twelve minutes, which terminated the disturbance mnch sooner han the mob of spectators wished or expected. Both of the brutes were badly punished. The homeopathic physicians have just held their annual meeting at St Louis, Mo. A large number of delegates were in atendance. Minneapolis was chosen as the next place of meeting. The National Woman-Suffrage Convention, lately in session at St Louis, elected Elizabeth Cady Stanton President for the ensuing year. The American Medical Association has jnst held ite yearly session at Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Lewis Sayre, of New York, was elected President, and New York city was chosen as the next place of meeting. In the Sanitary Council, which was also in session at Atlanta, one of the speakers denounced sleeping-cars as vehicles of epidemics, and the council recommended that they be investigated as to their ventilation, etc. The American Bible Society, in New York, has just celebrated its sixty-third annual anniversary. The annual report shows that during the last year there were 1,266,958 Bibles manufactured, and of these 949,814 were issued at home and 238,040 abroad. The issues of the society during sixty-three years have been 36,052,169 copies. Over 3,445,000 families wer* visited during the year.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Under the call of States a bill was introduced injthe House, on the sth Inst., by Mr. Ladd to prohibit military interference at elections, and it was 'eterred to the Committee on Judiciary. This is the bill agreed upon by the Democrats in caucus, and is as follows: “ Whereas, The presence of troops at the polls is contrary to the spirit of our institutions and the traditions of our people, and tends to destroy the freedom of elections; therefore. “Be it enacted, etc.. That it shall not be lawful to bring to or employ at any place where a general or special election is being held in the State any part of the army or navy of the United States, unless such force be necessary to repel the armed enemies of the United States, or to enforce section 4, article I 4, of the constitution of the United States, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, on application of the Legislature or Executive of the State where such force is to be used, and so much of all laws as are inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed.” Mr. Eaton offered a similar bill in the Senate. There was a joint caucus of tho Republican members of both bouses, at which it was unanimously resolved that the proposed bill should be defeated, and Messrs. Edmunds, Frye, and Robeson were appointed a committee to prepare a substitute to be offered. The Senate had a long discussion, on the 6th inst., of the proposition to authorize the Committee on Privileges and Elections to take testimony’ showing that Senator Kellogg obtained his seat by bribery, but no decision was reached in- the matter. The bill to prevent the use of troops at the polls was reported, with amendments, from the Judiciary Committee by Mr. McDonald. Mr. Beck also reported thorn the Committee on Appropriations, with amendments, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. In the House. Mr. Knott reported buck, without amendment, the bill to prohibit military interference at elections. Mr. Robeson offered a subst.tute prohibiting the use of troops at elections except under the provisions of the constitution and laws made in pursuance thereof. This was rejected—yeas, 90; nays, 121. The bill, as originally introduced by Mr. Ladd, was then passel by a strict party vote—yeas, 124; nays, 90. All the Greenbackers who voted (11) voted yea, those not voting being Barlow and Russell. After a protracted debate, the Senate, on the 7th inst., passed by a strict party vote the resolution of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, authorizing them to take testimony in the matter of the memorial of Spofford, contesting the seat of Kellogg, of Louisiana. In the House, the bill relating to coinage and bullion certificates was discussed. Mr. Chalmers' resolution to appoint a committee to investigate his connection with the Fort Pillow massacre, was laid on the table. During the debate on the resolution a sharp personal colloquy occurred between Mr. Chalmers and Mr. Burrows, of Michigan. The latter, in the course of a speech,?made some remarks not complimentary to Mr. Chalmers'conduct in the Fort Pillow affair. The latter arose and said that he regretted what Mr. Burrows had said, but he would remind him that his (Burrows’) record in the war was not clean and unspotted. Mr. Burrows, advancing down the aisle, demanded to know what Mr. Chalmers meant. Chambers, amid much confusion, said that he had been told that Burrows had resigned because his superior officer thought he was not competent. This announcement was received with derisive laughter on the Republican side. Burrows said that the statement was infamously false, and this was the first time that he had over heard it. Chalmers said that he did not believe the statement, and would withdraw it. In the Senate, on the Bth, consideration was resumed of the House bill prohibiting military in terference at elections, and Mr. Morgan advocated its passage. The House discussed the bill to enforce the Eight Hour law and the Silver bill. The former was defeated by a vote of 11’3 nays to 52 yeas. No vote was reached on the Silver bill. In the Senate, on the9th inst., the House bill providing for the payment of the money heretofore appropriated to James B. Eads and his associates for the construction of jetties and other works at the South pass of the Mississippi river was passed. Consideration of the bill prohibiting military interference at elections was then resumed, and Mr. Edmunds delivered an elaborate argument in opposition thereto. Messrs. Blaine and Chandler also spoke against the bill, after which it was passed just as i t came from the House—yeas, 33; nay s, 23. In the House, the bill reported from the judiciary Committee to remove the political disabilities of J. C. Pemboiton. of Philadelphia, gave rise to an amusing colloquy between Messrs. Conger and Cox, which Mr. Knott cut short by movirg the previous question, and the bill was passed. Tiie House resumed the consideration of the Warner Silver bill: and was addressed by Mr Weaver in advocacy of tho bill, and in favor of the double standard. In the Senate, on the 10th inst, consideration was resumed of the bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1880, and for other purposes, and Mr. Hill, of Georgia, delivered a long speech in favor of that part of the bill in reward to jurors and Supervisors of Elections. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Hill quoted from a letter written by Zachariah Chandler in ltd to the Governor of Michigan, in which he (Chandler) said there must be a little blood-letting; that without it the Union would not be worth a rush. Mr. Hill asked if Chan dler had lost any blood in the war. The latter wanted to know how much blood Mr. Hill thed in the late war. Mr. Hill—The difference between us was I was not in favor of shedding anybody’s blood. Mr. Chandler—Nor I. except to punish treason and traitors. The Senator from Georgia is not the man to talk about other men saving their own blood. He took good care to put his blood in Fort Lafayette, where it was out of the way of both rebel and Union bullets. In the Honse, Mr. Kelley occupied nearly the whole day in an elaborate speech on the Warner Silver bill.

Interesting Statistics.

A member of the English Parliament has had the curiosity to give the following statistics relative ta the state of matrimony in the city of London and county of Middlesex: Wives who have left thair husbands 1 872 Husbands who have fled from their wives... 2.371 Married people divorced 4 720 Married people living in perpetual warfare’ Those who hate each other but dissimulate in pub1ic...162 300 Those who live together in perfect in- ’ differenceslo.ls2 Those who are apparently happy 1101 Those who are relatively happy ’igK Those who are really happy ’" g

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE SUPREME COURT.

Three Years Behind in Its Business—A Review of the Work Done. A review of the business transacted by the Supreme Court of the United States during the term just ended, says a Washington correspondent, shows that the court considered since last October 293 cases, in addition to twenty-nine passed and continued and six ordered for reargument. One hundred and seventy-six of the cases brought before it were argued orally and 117 submitted upon printed briefs. The number of cases finally disposed of, including those brought over pending decision from the previous term, is 379. In 201 of these cases the decisions of the lower courts were affirmed, and seventy-nine i eversed, the remainder having been docketed and dismissed or settled by agreement between the contending parties. It thus appears that two cases out of every five actually decided have resulted in the reversal of the judgments of the courts below. The number of cases on the docket has been steadily increasing every year since 1840, until it has reached, including the cases considered this term, 1,250. The court is now more than three years behind in its business, but it is hoped that the operations of the new law limiting appeals to cases involving $2,500 or more, instead of SI,OOO, as heretofore, will relieve the hard-worked Justices to some extent, and enable them to keep up with the constantly-accumulating appeals. An analysis of the docket for the present term shows that, of the 1,250 cases decided and pending, one-half, come from the five States of New York,’ Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, and Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia and Court of Claims. New York heads the list with 146 cases, followed by Illinois with 86; the District of Columbia, 80 ; Louisiana, 78; Missouri, 73; Pennsylvania, 56, and the Court of Claims, 53. Every Slate and Territory in the Union is represented by- at least one case with the exception of Delaware. An examination into the personality of the litigants shows that in twentyone of the 379 cases- disposed of this term the United States was a party, and that 183 involved railroads, States, municipalities and other corporations, leaving only 105 cases in which the contending parties were private individuals. Among the salient features of the business of the term is a large number of municipal-bond cases considered and decided. Twenty-four cities, counties, and towns seeking to avoid the payment of obligations have brought their cases by appeal to this court of last resort. In twenty-three instances out of twenty-four the court has held that the bonds must be paid. Of these twentyfour cases, all but four came from Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, lowa, and Louisiana. A comparison of the work accomplished this term with that of the last shows a decrease of thirty-two in the number of cases finally cleared from the docket. The number of opinions delivered, however, is about the same. The court is now seventy-two cases further behind in its work than it was at the close of the October term of 1877.

“Fifteen Cents Off.”

A Detroiter, who dresses well and has a reasonable share of good looks, had occasion last week to make a trip in the country, and one night he found himself at a farm house at which a party was to come off. He was invited to participate in the festivities, and, after he had consented, the old farmer took him around the corner of the house and said: “The young folks are mighty fond of any game with kissing in it. They’ll get up something and fix it to make you kiss the handsomest girl in the room.” “Well, I’ll kiss her,” was the prompt reply. “Yes, but hold on a little,” continued the o.’d man. “There’s my gal, Emma. We think she’s as purty as any of ’em, but certain folks around here kinder sniff at her ’cause her nose crooks a bit and her hair is a trifle high-colored. Now, I want you to kiss Em for the handsomest gal in the room. It’ll do the ole woman good, do Em good, and kindei' set these sniffers back a little. I don’t ask you to kiss her for nothing, but, if you’ll do it, I’ll throw 15 cents off’n your bill in the morning. What d’ye say?” The young man said he’d do it, and the father continued : * That’s the checker. Don’t have any make-believe about it, but kiss her right pop out, so that we kin all hear the smack! ” The game was played, the Detroiter was “fixed,” and he kissed “Em” like the pop of a pistol. He felt all the happier for it that night, seeing how greatly the old woman was pleased, but next forenoon as he jogged along he had to run the gantlet of a score of farmers’ sons waiting in fence corners to lick him because he passed their “ gals ” by for “Em.” He was struck by thirteen stones, six clubs and about a, bushel of potatoes before he got out of the neighborhood, and, when he came to figure up, he realized that 15 cents was no inducement at all.— Detroit Free Press.

The Bell-Punch in Missouri.

Missouri is preparing to adopt the bell-punch for bar-rooms. T-he advocates of the bell-punch system of taxing liquor-sellers claim that it will be more equitable than the present arbitrary State tax of SSO a year, and that it will cause the number of low whisky shops to decrease, and the consumption of beer to increase. The St. Louis Dispatch estimates that every year 600,000 barrels of beer are brewed in St. Tonis, and that one-third of this product is sold in the city at retail. Two hundred thousand barrels at 1 cent a glass—s 3 a barrel—would yield $600,000. The amount derived from alcoholic liquors at 2 cents a would probably be as much more, making a total of $1,200,000. The Dispatch adds that this is a large income, but the question is, would it ever be collected?

She Got Even.

A sanitary policeman who was viewing the back-yards on Hastings street yesterday came across a woman who seemed to have been at some vigorous work, being out of breath and red in the face. He thought it his duty to lean over the gate and ask her if there had been a row in the house, and for answer she beckoned him to follow her into the back-yard and there pointed to about fifty square feet of old cans and bottles which had been thrown over the line fence by a neighbor. “It is a burning shame, and they ought to be arrested I” exclaimed the indignant officer. “Pon’t you arrest nobody,” was her

cool reply. “These things were flung over here last night, and for the last four hours I have been hard at work getting even. Look over the fence.” The officer looked. He counted two dead cats, a dead hen, an old mattress, a bushel of old boots and shoes, four broken jugs, two old coats, three hoopskirts, and dozens of used-up tin dishes, and four tow-headed children with pale faces were waiting for further developments.—Detroit Free Press.

INDIANA NEWS.

Efforts are making to arrange for an old settlers’ meeting at Connersville, in the near future. The enumeration of the children of school age at Fortville shows 226 in a total population of 685. The Indiana State Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was in session at Indianapolis last week. The Vincennes Driving Association will hold its summer meeting on July 2, 3 and 4. Purses amounting to SSOO for each day are offered. Scarlet fever is raging among the children of Evansville. A number of those attending the public schools have been stricken down with it. Strange N. Cragan, of Whitestown, has received the appointment as cadet to West Point. Thirty-one young men from five counties were examined. The Indianapolis physicians indulge in a “black list,” and keep the profession in other cities informed of the advent into their midst of medical dead-beats. Smith Barron, living at Clayton, has a natural curiosity in the way of a cow with six feet and legs. She has perfect use of them, is well developed and healthy, and gives good milk. A bag of Mexican dollars was found in a cellar at Indianapolis, by the workmen who were cleaning it out. They were of various dates, some as far back as 1702, but they were bogus. The body of a boy named Newman was found in a well at Mount Vernon recently. The boy had been missing for several days. He was 8 years old, a nephew of the former Sheriff of the county. Lewis Edwards, Sr., of Alquina, Fayette county, died a few days ago, the remote cause of his death being a bite from a rat, received early last winter, and from which he has constantly suffered since. A young man named William Morgansen, of Smyrna township, was terriribly injured, while out gunning the other afternoon, by the accidental discharge of his gun. Several of the shots entered his throat and breast. Geo. Hazzard, the ex-Auburn banker, who was arrested at Logansport last fall and gave bail for highway robbery in abstracting some papers belonging to himself in the possession of others, has been tried and aeqiitted in the Circuit Court. Gen. George K. Steele, for many years a prominent Republican in Indiana politics, and who represented Parke county a long time in the Legislature, died at Terre Haute a few days ago, 70 years of age. Harrison and Riley Stone, brokers, charged with various robberies committed in the vicinity of Eaton, Ohio, were arrested near Terre Haute one day last week, after both had been shot by officers while running t Riley has two balls in his arm and Harrison was shot in the back. The lattePwill probably die. A spiritual idiot named Valentine Kelly is engaged in digging for gold on Silver creek, two miles east of New Albany, being directed in his work by a female spiritual medium at Louisville, to whom he pays $2 jjgr day for instructions. He proposes to keep on digging till his money is exhausted. Mrs. Eleanor B. Whitesell was buried at Knightstown a few days ago. She was one of the pioneers of Henry county, having resided at Knightstown continuously for forty-seven years. She was a native of Springfield, Ohio, and was 68 years old when she died. Her father, Hon Waitsei M. Cary, settled in Henry county in 1825, and three years after laid out the town of Knightstown.

About Teeth.

Teeth have been both a source of trouble and vanity to their possessers from all time, as they still continue to be. Dentists were common among the Egyptians, on the authority of Herodotus, and the extraction of teeth was known to the ancient Greeks. Sprengel, in his “History of Medicine,” says: “Even surgical instruments are bequeathed by the inventors to these sacred shrines of medicine. Thus, Erasistratus presented to the Delphic Temple of Apollo an instrument for extracting teeth.” The Romans were acquainted with the use of false teeth, and they are mentioned both by Horace and Martial. Among the ancient Jews it was a violation of the Sabbath to wear a false tooth on that day. Teeth which have been found at Pompeii were very sound, a discovery which led to the supposition that the people of that ancient city did not indulge in the luxuries which have attended the progressive march of civilization. Artificial teeth became known in England, it is supposed, about the fifteenth or sixteenth century. They are mentioned in the “Mathematical jewel,” 1585; and Ben Jonson, in the “Silent Woman,” refers to them: “Otter (speaking of his wife) —A most vile face! and yet she spends me £4O a year in mercury and hog’s bones. AU her teeth were made in the Black Friars.”— All the Year Round. Benedict Arnold once wrote a letter begging the aid of the British Government for reason of the sacrifices he had made for it. This letter was sold for S3O at an autograph sale in Boston the other day. At the same sale a letter of Bulwer brought $3.25; one of Byron, s3l; one of Victor Hugo, $7.12; one of Samuel Johnson, $25; and one of Charles Lamb, $19.50. • A bright boy was walking along the street with his mother, and, observing a man with a peculiar hitch in his gait approaching, he droUy exclaimed: “ Look there, mamma I See how that poor man stutters with his feet.”—Chicago Commercial Advertiser. The oldest ex-Representative of Congress living is Mr. Artemus Hale, of Bridgewater, Mass., who is 96 years old.

THE BAYONET PARTY.

The Record of the Radical Revolutionists on the Use of the Army. [From the Louisville Courier-Journal.] When the Republicans first began to unfold their opposition to the repeal of the section of the Revised Statutes authorizing the use of the army at the polls to manipulate elections in the interest of the dominant party, they based their objection on the method of repealing the obnoxious law, which was that of attaching the repealing clause to the Army Appropriation bill. They were speedily dismounted from this position upon the fact being proven that during the thirteen years in which they controlled legislation in the House they legislated and repealed previous legislation by the rider method not less than 388 times. Finding themselves adrift, they then boldly took the ground that the bayonet law was a righteous enactment in itself, and that the Federal army was absolutely necessary to “keep the peace at the polls;” that the State authorities had nothing to do with this process, and that the Federal Government, being supreme over all the States, and, in fact, absolute iqjts authority, the bayonet, being the symbol of its power, must always be an auxiliary to elections. During the debate- the Republican Senators and Representatives, ignoring history, frequently stated that nobody had ever been interfered with at elections; that no soldier had ever been seen at the polls, and that the Democrats were “making a fuss about nothing.” Of course Senator Beck and other Democrats very speedily showed the mendacity of the Republican asseverations, as the history of this country’ is very well written in the public records and in the minds of the people. The States of Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania are among the Northern States which have been so invaded by Federal troops after the war was over, and when there was no reason why the troops should appear, except the very palpable one that it was a “party necessity” of the Republican administration. It is “party necessity” whiuh makes the Republican leaders so earnestly desirous of retaining that bayonet law on the statute book to-day, and only “party necessity.” What that party has done it will do again to obstruct the liberties of the people, and as long as that law stands to, be executed under the transparent pretense of “keeping peace at the polls,” so long will it be utilized for party purposes if the Republicans retain control of the Government.

Few people have forgotten the use of Federal troops at New York in 1870. Secretary of War Belknap, after discussing the matter with Grant and the Republican leaders, issued orders for troops to invade New York city “in view of the apprehension that there may be opposition to the United States laws in connection with the coming election in the city of New York, Nov. 8, 1870.” That is, without any call for troops from the Governor of the State, the troops must go to New York because there may possibly be some opposition to the United States laws. The real purpose, under this language, can easily be read. The troops—all the available men at Willet’s point, New York harbor, all the available men and artillery at Forts Hamilton, Wadsworth and Wood—were ordered to “hold themselves in readiness for service at literally a moment’s notice,” at their stations near the polls where American citizens were to exercise the right of suffrage, while several ships of war were anchored near the city. This great military demonstration in a time of profound peace was protested against by Gov. Hoffman, but was fully in accord with the principles of the Republican bulldozers. Mr. Blaine, who has laughed at the idea of any Federal taoops ever being so employed, is strangely oblivious of the facts of history. The New York Tribune itself, which has taken the ground that the bayonet law is a sacred one, described the military bulldozing at the polls in November, 1870, thus: The troops came on Monday night and disembarked silently to their quarters. During the day perfect order reigned. The headquarters of the departments, at the corner of Houston and Greene streets, presented a quiet appearance. The stairways, however, leading to the two upper stories of the building were packed with troops. The Engineer Department from Willet’spoint, numbering 200 men, with companies H and I, of the Fifth United States Artillery, from Fort Trumbull, New London, Ct., all under command of Coh Kiddoe. were quartered in the halls and on the stairs. Their arms were stacked and the men were scattered around on benches and on the floor, or stood in groups engaged in conversation. All were armed with the latest improved needle-gun and furnished with forty rounds of ammunition, with 100 rounds a man in reserve. At pier No. 28, North river, Companies A, B and L of the United States Artillery, from Fort Adams, Newport, were quartered on the steamer Miles. In addition to these was Dupont’s light battery of four guns. None were allowed to leave the boat or to enter without a pass. The men were in the lower part of the boat and the officers were in the cabin under Coh Hunt Companies B, 0, D, H and M of the First United States Artillery, Coh Vogdes, from I’orts Hamilton and Wadsworth, New York harbor, were stationed in the three upper stories of No. 294 Broadway. At No. 161 Avenue B, near Tompkins square, there were stationed the first five companies of the Eighth Infantry, CoL Bomford in command. This regiment came from David’s island, and was armed with the needle-gun. They were quartered in the hall over a lagerbeer saloon, and Company A was kept under arms ready for marching orders. The remaining five companies of the regiment were on Forty-fifth street, between First and Second avenue, in the large room of a brewery. Guards were, as in all cases, stationed at the top and bottom of the stairs, and all who applied for entrance were taken under guard before Col. Edie. Long rows of stacked arms extended the whole length of the halt An ample supply of ammunition was brought to the place, amounting in the aggregate to 140 rounds for each man. In the river and harbor the.frigatesGuerriere andNaragansett were at anchor at the foot of Chambers street. North river, and Wall street, Fast river, respectively. The port-holes were all closed, however, and every appearance of warlike preparation on board was avoided. None other thau the troops regularly stationed there were on Governor’s island.’’ All this was done, be it remembered, without the request of Gov. Hoffman for troops, as required by the constitution. As long as that bayonet law stands on the books Republican administrations, under the pretense of “keeping the peace,” will execute it, as in 1870, whenever “party necessity ” suggests it It is an infamy in the shape of legislation which makes our boasted liberty a mockery. It is a sword which will be brought out in the future, as it has been in tbe past, to intimidate voters from the polls, or, perhaps, to dose the polls

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altogether if it remains a law. As long as it so remains scenes like that in New York in 1870 are possible.

The Meddlesome School of Politics.

I belong to that school in government which believes it is best to mind your own business and let other people do the same as to theirs. I belong to that school of politics which trusts the people of the United States under their various political organizations. I belong to that school of politics which believes that the*people of a State have certain duties that you cannot limit here, and that they are competent to perform them, and I believe in their virtue and their intelligence to discharge them. The Senator from Maine belongs to that meddlesome school which is never happy except in some missionary colporteur enterprise, going abroad to correct people’s morals and politics a long ways from home. The Senator from Maine is disturbed about the people of South Carolina, much disturbed about the people of Louisiana. I am not. There is the difference between us. I believe that the people who have sent the two Senators from South Carolina to this body are as competent, in their intelligence, their virtue, and their patriotism, to regulate their own affairs according to the highest standard of civilized morality, as the people of Maine or the people of Indiana. I have faith in the American people. All the people of this country are my countrymen. The trouble with the Senator from Maine and those who train with him on the other side of the Chamber is that they have a deep distrust, that they have had a long hatred, they have had a long acrimonious spell of political hatred toward the people of the South. It is not possible for them to trust that people; and however well-behaved and disposed the people of the South may be, however upright in their motives, however determined to disarm hostile criticism, they may sit up nights, spend sleepless nights as well as vigilant days to show the propriety of their conduct, it will not disarm criticism on that side of the Chamber, it will not disarm distrust, because the political party represented by the Senator from Maine feeds, thrives, prospers, grows fat, and spreads its branches broad and wide on every trouble and every speck of lawlessness that occurs under the Southern sky. You deceive nobody. I have for years in the other end of this Capitol seen the Republican party build itself up upon disturbances alleged, sometimes real, but most often unreal, throughout the South; and it would be contrary to human nature if the leaders of the Republican party had not sent, as they often have, their emissaries, those carpet-baggers, to stir up strife between the two races down there because of the political capital that it would bring to the Republican party in the North. Consequently the Senator from Maine distrusts the people of South Carolina, and wants thirty-eight States to rush down and take charge of their affairs. He distrusts the people represented so well upon this floor by the Senator from Louisiana in my rear (Mr. Jonas), and he wants to spread his broad mantle of care, parental guardianship and protection over them. Mr. President, that was not the Government our fathers made. I say here on this floor that that was not the Government that the fathers made when they framed this constitution. They made a Government and allotted its powers to different localities, trusted the people to carry out and discharge their duties under these powers in good faith, and the trouble with that side of the Chamber is that that lesson of our Government has escaped them, and they have had their hands on the necks of the Southern people and they are reluctant ever to withdraw them. I think I have answered the Senator from Maine whether he and I and the rest of the States shall gather around and preclaim a protectorate over the people of any other State. When the people of a State, if such a thing should happen, become outlawed from civilized government, that raises a different question. But while their State is represented on this floor, while all the machinery of the State Government is in operation smoothly and harmoniously, no greater outrage, according to my notions of government, can be proposed than for us to invade their local affairs and tear from them the control of their own matters. —Hon. D. W. Voorhees in the U. S. Senate.

Victoria’s Fear of Assassination.

Queen Victoria was strangely moved when she heard the news of the attempted assassination of the Czar. She has a morbid dread lest somebody, shall take it into his head to put an end to her happy reign by shooting her. She never travels even from Westminster to London without an escort of from three to twelve stalwart gentlemen. Four of these attendants went to Italy with her to enjoy the scenery and to protect her from assassins. A cotrespondent of the Cardiff Times relates an incident of the Queen’sjpassage through Edinburgh a few years ago. She had gone thither to unveil a -statue of the Prince Consort. The city was full from gate to gate with a loyal and enthusiastic population. AH went well with the procession, till, just as it was about to turn into the square in which the statue is erected, a sudden stoppage occurred. The Queen, who was sitting in an open carriage, seemed struck with a sudden terror. She started, clutched the side of the carriage with her hand, and, with every vestige of color fled from her face, hurriedly asked what was the matter. It was nothing but a cavalry horse performing maneuvers not included in the programme, but it seemed as if she thought that another brainless boy had been caught with his obsolete musket loaded with red pocket-handkerchiefs, and his head filled with designs on the life of the Queer]* of England. The latest. old thing which every fashionable London lady thinks she must have, if she is to remain anybody at all, is an old watch. It is not for the hands, or face, or works, that these are prized, but for the case. These are taken off their hinges and converted into stoppers for the glass bottles on the dressing-table. Saratoga is to have a new opera house in correction with the Grand Union HQteJ, capable of gating 1,200 people. ' v

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TYPICAL OCCURRENCES.

When Brother John Jasper, the Richmond divine (whose famous argument that “de sun do move ” still booms), had launched forth in a funeral sermon on the Rev. Scott Gwathmey, colored, there came a terrific crash and then uprose the shrieks and groans of some 8,000 persons. The steps in front of the building had given way under the weight of the crowd and precipitated its hundreds to the ground. The Rev. Mr. Jasper, who was standing in the doorway of the church, felljorward in the wreck. When order had been brought out of the chaos it was found that two persons were seriously injured, and several legs were broken. “Wanted—Five hundred fat cats” lately appeared as an advertisement in a Jacksonville (Fla.) paper. The cats were used to feed the largest alii gator that has been caught since 18(50. The alligator was seen in Indian river'one day in the early part of the month. When J. J. Seymour and two strong darkeys, armed with rope and boathooks, reached the shore, he Was 200 yards out in the stream. The three men attacked and fought him for an hour, not seeking to injure but to subdue. Finally he was hauled ashore. He weighs 800 pounds, and is fourteen feet long. His mouth is two feet in length. The nails on his feet are an inch long. His hiss is as loud and noisy as that of escaping steam from a locomotive. Hefi was named “Sweet By-and-By.” Five hundred cats were bought in Jacksonville as his rations during the voyage to New York. Jacksonville boys amused themselves by passing in full-grown house cats. “Sweet Bye-and-By ” swallowed them whole with great relish. When Corporal S. E. Bull, an Ohio soldier, was struck down in the storm of shot and shell at Antietam, he dug a hole with his hands that were already growing numb in death and buried his pistol, dear to him because with his name inscribed it had been presented by the ladies of Salem, his native town. Near him was a comrade named Henry, who is now a teacher in the public schools at Coshocton, Ohio. Henry made a note of the surroundings, was taken to the hospital, recovered, fought the war out and hurried home. A few days ago, after the lapse of sixteen years and six months, Henry visited the Antietam field and soon found the pistol. The name S. E. Bull was plainly engraved on the stock. The weapon was shown to President Hayes, and sent on to Bull’s father, who is now Postmaster at Salem.

While Mr- Hiram Robb, a farmer living near Webster, N. Y., was walking quietly along in the woods near his house he was suddenly and unexpectedly attacked by a huge bird, which he- soon recognized as an eagle. It came at him so savagely and appeared so large that at first Mr. Robb attempted to run away, but it pursued him and compelled him to fight for his very life. The encounter was fierce for a few minutes, and Mr. Robb was thrown down in the struggle. The eagle tore a piece out of his boot and also a piece out of his coat. Finally Mr. Robb threw himself bodily upon the eagle and held it down the best he could. It struggled away from him, however, and evidently began to see that it had found a foe worthy of its cruel beak. By this time Mr. Robb’s blood was up, and, discovering from the actions of the bird that its wing had been injured, he made up his mind to take the bird alive if possible. The affray finally resulted in a complete victory for Mr. Robb, who secured the discomfited eagle and took it to his home alive. There it was found to measure seven feet from tip to tip. It is supposed that the eagle was rendered so savage by hunger that it attacked the first living thing that came in its path. Traces of the war are sometimes vividly brought out in episodes of Southern life. Two occurrences were particularly striking. There appeared in Petersburg, Va., a few days ago, a stranger, who carried across the back of his ragged coat a rusty, time-worn musket. A“ C. S. A.” cartridge-box and knapsack, both empty, were strapped beneath the gun. The man’s naked skin could be seen through his rags. Long, unkempt whiskers swept to his waist. He told the Index that he was the last armed soldier of the Confederate army. His story was that, since the close of hostilities, he has lived inJMassachusetts, preserving the arms carried by him through the war, and that now he is tramping to his former home in Georgia. Whether he will find it after the lapse of thirteen years is not certain, but the following, from the Sumter (Ga.) liepublican, shows that some of the ex-Confederates are having a hard time in regaining the riches of the past: “ A gentleman of the new Twenty-sixth district of this county informs us that on last Saturday, as he was riding through the country, he witnessed the most novel sight of his life. It was nothing more nor less than a white lady plowing, her husband acting Us the horse, mule or steer, as the case may be. He was regularly harnessed, and dragged the plow as complacently as an ox. The plowed ground was well broken up, and showed that the woman was expert in the use of the plow, and that a man can be a horse when he will.”

Five Thousand Dollars for an Eye.

Charles Weihman’s suit for damages against Gottlieb Knoedler and Jacob Schneider was ended yesterday. On July 5, 1875, the plaintiff in this suit, then a lad about 10 years of age, was passing a tavern at No. 823 Callowhill street, and, dropping some money, he was in the act of stooping to pick it up when a wad from a toy cannon, which had just been fired, struck him .in the eye and pui it out. The accident happened on Monday, the day on which the Fourth of July was celebrated in that year, the 4th falling on Sunday. It was in evidence that the cannon, a brass weapon about ten inches long, was placed in the doorway, pointing out toward the street, and was not visible to parties on the sidewalk, and in this position it was fired off by the defendants named above. Suit was brought to recover damages, both compensatory and exemplary, for the gross carelessness and reckless disregard of the rights of persons passing by. There was no defense in the case, and the jury rendered a verdict of $3,500 against Knoedler and Schneider and $1,500 against Futsdfer, judgment against the 1 latter being entered because of nprv appearance.— Philadelphia Tidies.,