Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Advices from India state that among ths principal points of agreement with Yakoob Khan are the British command of the passes, with sufficient territory to constitute a scientific frontier, the appointment of a British resident at Oabul, and the control of the foreign relations of Afghanistan. Among the stipulations of the treaty between India'and Afghanistan is the cession of Ali Kheyl (the Feiwar pass), Lundi Khotal (the Khyber pass), and the Pisheen valley beyond Quetta. The British will restore Candahar and Jeilaiabad, and ultimately Dakka. It appears that the late popular vote in Switzerland does not definitely restore capital punishment, but leaves the several canton* free to restore it or not, by local law. The Prince of Bulgaria has declared his intention of issuing a proclamation when he assumes sovereignty, discountenancing any agitation against the treaty of Berlin. There has been a sanguinary fight between Turks and insurgents in Thessaly, in which the Turks were badly worsted. The protracted coal-miners’ strike in the North of England is almost ended. The London Times severely criticizes the California constitution, and calls it “the most astounding instrument ever framed for the government of a community.” Greek brigands recently ambuscaded forty-six Turkish soldiers, killed fourteen, cut their bodies in pieces, and hung the pieces on trees. Queen Victoria emphasized her birthday (May 25) by abolishing the tolls on the London bridges. The British Government has ordered the prosecution of the Directors of the West of England and South Wales Bank, at Bristol, on the charge that they were guilty of misrepresentations in their annual reports. . The election at Limerick, Ireland, for Member of Parliament in the place of the late Dr. Isaac Butt, resulted in the choice of Gabitt, Home Rules, over Bpraight, Conservative Gen. Grant will leave Japan for San Francisco about the last of June. Two of the Nihilists lately-tried by couff-martial at Kieff, Russia, have been sentenced to be shot, and ten others—among them three women—to long terms of imprisonment —One hundred and eighty-six houses in a village in the Government of Ufa have been burned. The suspected incendiaries were arrested.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Want. Wesley W. Bishop, of Norwich, Ct., has l>een sentenced to the State prison for life for the murder of his wife. At Niagara falls, last week, a daredevil named Peer, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators, leaped from the Suspension bridge, below the falls, into the river, a distance of 196 feet, thus surpassing Sam Patch’s great jump at Niagara falls, of 142 feet, in 1829. In the center of the bridge, from which point Peer jumper!, or rather let go, was a small windlass on which was wound '.tM feet of light wire, fastened to his body in such way as to keep it in a perpendicular position during the descent. He struck the water with aloud thud, disappeared for ten seconds, and came out none the worse for his ducking. Horace Waters & Sons, piano dealers, New York city, have failed. The Nassau Linseed Oil Works, Brooklyn, N. Y, have been burned. Loss, •250,000. William Lloyd Garrison died at the residence of Mrs. Villard, his daughter, in New York city, on the 24th of May. The cause of death was nervous prostration, consequent upon paralysis of the bladder, and kidney trouble of long standing. The remains were removed to Boston for interment Mr. Garrison was born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1804, and was therefore 75 years old; began to write for the press when 15 years old, being then an apprentice in the office of the Newburyport Herald; established the Liberator, an anti-slavery paper, in 1831; in 1832 organized the New England Anti-Slavery Society, and in 1843 was chosen as its President, a position which he occupied until the close of the late civil war. Mrs. Jennie R. Smith and Covert D. Bennett have just been tried at Jersey City, N. Y., for the murder of Mrs. Smith’s husband, a policeman, in August last. The evidence was purely circumstantial, but so strong as to result in their conviction for murder in the first degree. Paige, the Boston commission merchant, who undertook to swindle his creditors out of 1100,000 by a fraudulent failure, has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at hard labor. The new St. Patrick’s Cathedral, on Fifth avenue and Fiftieth street, New York, was dedicated to public worship on Sunday, May 25, under invocation to St. Patrick, with grand, solemn, and imposing services. The new edifice is the largest and finest church building on the American continent. Pypus Walker, a fisherman and boatman at Niagara falls, was carried over the American falls the other day. ■ He was drunk at the time. His body was not recovered, and it is said that the remains of those who go over the American falls never are found. ' , West. A German gardener named Longi behm, living in Contra Costa county, Cal., killed his little boy and girl, aged respectively 8 and 4 years, by beating them with a club and cutting their throats, and then ended his own miserable existence by blowing his brains out with a shot-gun. Lieut. Charles M. Carrow, of the Seventh United States Cavalry, committed suicide in his room at the Planters’ House, in St Louis, Mo., by placing a large-sized army revolver to his head and sending a bullet through bis brain. Jay Gould has bought the St. Joseph (Mo.) railroad bridge over the Missouri river for 1600,000, as a private speculation. Every railroad car on the several roads crossing it win have to pay him from $4 to #5. Reports to the Chicago Inter-Ocean from several places in the Northwest indicate that winter wheat promises well except in Kansas; that spring wheat occupies a large acreage and is improving; that the corn crop bids fair to be the largest ever known; that less oats have been sown and the crop is backward; that the prospects for rye are not very flattering; that of barley there is an average acreage, and that the hay crop will be light A murderer named Orlando Cassler was hanged at Seward, Neb., on the 20th of May. At Terre Haute, Ind., a negro, named Nelson, has been sentenced to the penitentiary one year and fined 11,000 for marrying a white woman. John Jones, the leading colored citp

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

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zen of Chicago, is dead. He was an old resident, had accumulated quite a large fortune, had held important public trusts, and was greatly respected by all classes. The jewelry store of Eugene Jacc&rd & Co., in St Louis, Mo., was robbed of over •3,000 worth of jewelry a few nights ago. A barn containing a collection of wild animals belonging to P. M. French, the circus manager, was burned down at Detroit, a few nights ago, and quite a number of the beasts perished in the flames. The gigantic perfoiming elephant, Sultan, five large performing lions, wo California lions, an ibex, three kangaroos, one tiger, one zebra that had been trained to trot in harness, a sacred cow and her sacred calf, and a Rocky mountain bighorned deer, were burned, besides an extensive collection of stuffed animals. The scene during the fire baffles description. Two of the lions fell upon each other and fought desperately, and the cries and struggles of the other imprisoned brutes was pitiful to witness. The statement made by the Assignee regarding the affairs of Archbishop Purcell shows the total amount of claims to be $3,697,651, and the assets of all kinds $1,181,566, of which 9418,536 are scheduled either as doubtful or worthless, so that there remains only 9700,000 out of which to pay the cost of liquidation and administration, and distribute dividends. At Kewakum, Wis., a shocking murder was perpetrated, a few days ago, by a crazy farmer named Altenhofer. He beat the brains out of a 6-weeks-old child by knocking its head against the wall and cutting its scalp open with a picture frame. He then carried the dead infant two miles to a priest, and acknowledged his crime. J. Phil Krieger, Jr., cashier of the collapsed Broadway Savings Bank, St. Louis, has been arrested on a criminal charge of malfeasance in office or embezzling funds from the bank. A fire at Dallas, Ore., last week, burned 9200,000 worth of property. In Chicago, the other day, a boy went on top of Haverly’a Theater building to recover a base-ball that had lodged on the roof. He lost his footing and fell to the earth, a distance of seventy feet. He was instantly killed, being crushed to a pulp. South. Buford, the murderer of Judge Elliott, at Frankfort, Ky., has obtained a change of venue to Owen county, and the trial has been set for the second Tuesday of July. The people of New Orleans are making giant efforts to put their city in a yellow-fever-proof condition. They have provided for the daily flushing of the gutters with river water, through the whole length of the city. Steam pumps are to be provided for the purpose ; street-sweeping machines are to be introduced, and boats prepared for the transportation of filth to a safe distance down the river. Near Odenton, Md., a few miles from Washington city, last week, John Stinchcomb, aged 65, shot and killed his brother Lewis, aged 55, and then shot himself. The two quarreled about a division of property. Great excitement prevails in Northern Texas over the discovery of silver at Brownwood, 120 miles southwest of Dallas. The assay of ore proves that the vein is a very rich one. A specimen of 120 grains of ore contained 70 per cent, of silver. A daily paper has been started, claims are being located, and hundreds of people are rushing there. Six persons were recently drowned in the Calcasieu river, near Lake Charles, La., by the capsizing of a small steamboat.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Massachusetts Greenback State Committee have made preliminary arrangements for a vigorous campaign in t[io fail The lowa Democratic State Convention was held at Council Bluffs May 21, 476 delegates being in attendance. Gen. A. C. Dodge presided. H. H. Trimble, of Davis county, was nominated for Governor;!. O. Yeoman, of Webster county, for Lieutenant Governor; R. E. Noble, of Clayton county, for Supreme Judge, and Irwin Baker, of Warren county, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The resolutions denounce the Republican party and indorse the course of the Democrats in Congress in insisting upon the repeal of the laws authorizing the use of troops at elections; favor the substitution of United States treasury notes for national-bank notes, and of the abolition of national banks as banks of issue, and favor free and unlimited coinage of the silver dollar of grains. Secretary Sherman has written a letter to Gen. Robinson, Chairman of the Ohio Republican State Committee, in which he says that he cannot, in the present situation, accept the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio, if tendered him. The Prohibitionists of Indiana met in convention at Indianapolis the other day, and nominated the following candidates for State officers: For Governor, Ryland T. Brown, of Marion county; Lieutenant Governor, Rev. J. V. R. Miller, of Monroe county; Secretary of State, Abraham Spainhower, of Greene county ; Treasurer, William L. Hubbard, of Marion county; Auditor, Jeremiah Leiter, of Fulton county.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Burned: The Flaven Printing Company’s establishment, St. Louis, Mo., loss, 9 35,000; a large number of dwellings and shops in Clinton, lowa, loss, >150,000 to >200,000; the flouring mills of H. P. Beattie, at Davenport, lowa, loss, >IOO,OOO. Hanged: Absalom Ford, at St. Charles, La.; Shelly, a wife-murderer, at Blackshear, La.; and Indian Jack, for the wanton killing of a Chinamanat Shasta, Cal.

WASHINGTON NOTBS. The President has nominated William J. Galbraith, of lowa, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana; John F. Morgan, of Illinois, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho; Norman Buck, of Idaho, Associate Justice of the same court Representative Atkins, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, expresses the opinion that an of Congress will be had between the Ist and 10th of June. During a debate in the Senate, last week, Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, conspicuously seated in the ladies’ gallery, enthusiastically applauded by thumping on the floor with her umbrella. The doctor became so noisy that the President pro tem. ordered her to be put out Three doorkeepers and a policeman surrounded her, but she refused to go, saying she had come to hear the speeches and proposed to stay, and stay she did. The report that United States Circuit Judge Dillon had determined to resign his seat on the bench and accept a position in Columbia Law School of New York is fully confirmed, and it is authoritatively announced from Washington that Secretary of War McCrary will be appointed as his successor. The House committee on the state of the w respecting the asoertainmen and declaration of the result of the election gs

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1879.

President and Vice President have agreed upon a bill and authorized Representative Bicknell, Chairman, to report to the House with the approval of the committee. The bill provides, in effect, that in case of any contest between different sets of electors in any State, the Supreme Court of that State shall decide between them, and the decision shall be final unless it shall be overturned by the concurrent action of both houses of Congress.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 19th, consideration was resumed of the Legislative Appropriation bill, and Mr. Blaine spoke in opposition to the proposed legislation. He was frequently interrupted by Democratic Senators, and the debate at times grew quite animated. A communication waa received from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to a resolution of the 16th in«t., calling for certain information in regard to the operations of the Treasury Department. The Secretary writes: “There has been redeemed in coin since Jan. 1, 1879, of legal-tender notes, an amount of 94,133,513. As to the amount of coin authorized to be retained in the treasury for the purpose of maintaining the resumption of specie payments. I have to state that under the provisions of the Resumption act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, in order to prepare and provide for the redemption of United States notes, to use any surplus revenue in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. and to issue certain bonds of the United States, the coin reserve of the treasury has been increased to $130,000,000, that being about 40 per cent, of the note* outstanding to be redeemed, and believed to be the smallest resei ve upon which resumption could be prudently commenced and successfully maintained, as set forth in my last annual report. This reserve arose from the sale of $95,500.000 in bonds and from surplus revenues, as authorized by law. and it must, under the existing law, be maintained unimpaired for the purpose for which it was created.” The House was not in session. The Senate, after a prolonged and somewhat acrimonious discussion of the bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government for the next fiscal year, quietly passed it on the 21st, by a vote of 37 yeas against 27 uajs, and then adjourned over until the 23d. The bill, as passed, embraced all the amendments agreed upon by the Democrats in caucus. Mr. McDonald asked leave to introduce a bill authorizing the President of the United States to employ the inilitia and land and naval forces of the United States to enforce the laws whenever their execution is obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the judicial authorities, etc., and preventii g the military from being used as a posse comitatus except in cases as authorized by the constitution and laws. Mr. Edmunds objected to the introduction of the bill, on the ground that previous notice bad not been given. The House was engaged all day upon th* Warner Silver Coinage bill. The House devoted another day to the con. eideration of the Warner Silver bill, on the 21st, without reaching a final vote on the measure. The Senate was not in session. In the Senate, on the 22d, Mr. McDonald obtained leave to Introduce his bill regulating the use of the army, and Messrs. McDonald, Wallace and Edmunds gave notice of their intention to speak thereon. The bill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases was discussed at great length, without action. In the House, there was another warm day’s work on the Warner Silver bill. The bill to amend the laws relating to the transfer of cases from State to Federal courts wa« taken up. but the Republicans refused to vote on the demand for the previous' question, thereby blocking business. The Senate, on the 23d, passed the bill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases, by a vote of 34 yeas to 12 nays. The bill making subsidiary coins exchangeable for lawful money of the United States, and to make such coins legal tender in sums up to S2O, was discussed. The House concurred in the amendments to the Legislative Appropriation bill, after which the Warner Silver bill was taken up and discussed all day, and all night until 8 o’clock in the morning of the 24th. The long contest over the Warner Silver Coinage bill was ended on the 24th, and the measure was passed by 114 yeas to 97 nays. The Republicans and Greenbackers who voted “aye” were: Messrs. Belford, Cannon, Daggett, De La Matyr, Ford, Fort, Gillette, Ladd, Marsh, Martin (N. C ), Murcli, Russell (N. C.), Stevenson, Weaver, and Yokum. The Democrats and Greenbackers voting “no" were: Messrs. Bliss, Covert, Deuster, Hurd, Jones, Morrison. Muller. Poehler, and F. Wood. The Senate was not in ses-ion.

THE BUSINESS WORLD.

Big peach crops are reported from Delaware an’d New Jersey. The Baldwin Locomotive Works are busily filling home and foreign orders. An Italian firm has ordered a supply of 100,000 tons of coal from the United States. The Toronto Globe admits the unpleasant truth that there is no life in trade there. The sinall-grain crops throughout Georgia are reported as being in a very promising condition. The cotton mills at Wilkinsonville, Mass., have been compelled to stop some of their looms for lack of help. The new proprietors of the Atlantic Mills, in Providence, R. 1., intend to begin operations in a short time. The Canadian Government has offered SIO,OOO for ten years, on certain conditions, to the first sugar factory. In Indianapolis, Ind., the building outlook is exceedingly bright. A large number of new houses are going up. The Southern railroads, which at the close of the war were nearly all in bankniptcy, are now in pretty good condition. The Central City (Col.) RegisterCall is almost entirely devoted to mining news, giving over thirty pages of information on this topic. One of the South Carolina emigrants to Liberia has returned. He says nearly one-half of those who went out are dead, and the rest are anxious to get back. Many of the Massachusetts woolen manufacturers have contracted for a large amount of goods months ahead. The Middlesex, Washington and Manchester mills are working up to their full capicity. Brazil sells about three-fourths of her coffee crop, or, in 1877, 1,800,000 bags, to the United States, for which we pay chiefly in gold, the gold balance paid in 1877 for . Brazilian products amounting to $45,000,000. The Philadelphia North American says: The quantity of cheese made in the United States and Canada the past year was the largest ever known, and our export demand has increased correspondingly. Prices, however, have ruled low the entire season, which, with several sharp declines, kept business in this line quite unsatisfactory, both to the producers and middlemen. This branch of industry is no longer confined to the States of New York and Ohio, as in former years, but has been extended over the entire Western grazing country, and is now considered the second branch of industry of the United States. Authentic cases of living burial are put on record by the eminent French physician, Dr. Josat, at 162. The period of unconsciousness before burial, in these cases, lasted from two hours to forty-two. The causes of apparent death were these: Syncope, hysteria, apoplexy, narcotism, concussion of the brain, anaesthesia, lightning, gpd drunkenness.

“jl Firm Adherencedo Correct Principles ”

A TRUE TALE OF HORROR.

The Condemned Cell, the Gallows, the Dissecting-Room, the Electrical Machine, and the Escape. [From the New York Evening Pest.] Dr Lambert, the man who restores drowned people to life by the application of heat, while leaving this office yesterday afternoon, stepped into the reporters’ room. Busy as were their pencils, their scent for news was keener. “And if a man has been hanged, doctor, can he, too, be restored by heat?” asked one of the most inquisitive among them, upon whom the new method for resuscitating the drowned had made a deep impression. The doctor, who had never looked better in his life, answered mildly: “Why not?” “But what if his neck is broken?” asked a muscular reporter. “Hanging doesn’t break a man’s neck.’ “Did you ever see a man hanged?” demanded the youth, with the intonation of a man who had devoted a century or so to sight-seeing of that sort. Several times,” answered the man slowly. “What does a hanged man hang his head over on one side for, then—so?” “Not because his neck is dislocated. The ligatures of the neck are stronger than any rope. Hanging never yet broke a neck. It’s the shock that tends to kill the man—the shock and, then, the suffocation. You. know how it shocks your brain to make a misstep when going down stairs. Well, there are 50,000 springs that your head rests on from the neck to the feet, But when you jerk a man up by the neck the shock comes without any intervention of springs.” “I have heard doctors say that a man’s neck was broken by hanging,” persisted the muscular man. “So have I—young doctors. But surgical science does not report such a case.” “O, well, now you’re on science, I’ll give in,” and the modest muscular reporter withdrew a step and filled his pipe. His forte is facts straight. “ Did you ever see a hanged man come to life, doctor? ” asked a doubting Thomas. “Yes, I have.” All ears bent perceptibly toward the speaker, and there was silence as in death. “A young fellow,” began the doctor, “was condemned to be executed. During his incarceration he promised his body to the prison physician in return for the tobacco that he used. When he was dead the physician determined to try an electrical machine on him, but, never having handled one, called me in to help him. I went. We applied electricity to various parts of the body, and wherever it was applied the body moved. At length we sent a current along the spine from end to end. The fellow was lying on a long table—as long as—well (looking around the room), rather longer than any you’ve got here. He sat up; opened his eyes slowly; shut them; then opened them wide. The physician, who owned the body, and two young men who were helping’him started affrighted for the door.” “Did the man come ’round all right ? ” inquired the Thomas reporter, earnestly. “He didn’t lie down again. In half an hour he spoke—asked where he was and what we were doing with him. In a couple of houis he was on his way out of the villa as fast as his legs could carry him.” “ Did they catch him again ? ” “No. The inhabitants to this day think that he was dissected.” “ Ought he to have been hanged if he had been caught? ” “Well, there’s a difference of opinion about that. Certainly the physician owned him—had bought and paid for him.” “Would it have been wrong, doctor, for the physician to kill him, when he saw him coming to life and robbing him of his property?” The reporter who asked the question is one of the most bloodthirsty persons in this city. The doctor wisely replied by saying that the answer belonged to the department of morals, in which he was not a professor.

Cautious Congressmen.

Since the Cameron scandal the Senators and Representatives at Washington are exceedingly careful how they talk with strange women. Old Zach Chandler and Gen. Butler are constantly on the watch. The former will never allow a woman to whisper to him, and women applicants for office always want to whisper. He will say: “Speak out, speak out, madam, so my secretary can hear. We have no secrets here.” A correspondent writes: I was at Senator Chandler’s house the other day, and the servant brought a card to him. “What does this lady want?” he asked of the servant. “See what she wants.” The servant returned with the common message: “She wants to see you personally, sir. She says it is very important.” “Does she want an appointment?” The servant went to inquire, and soon returned with an affirmative answer adding that the lady said she had just lost her position. “Tell her to meet me in the Senate reception room to-morrow, at 1 o’clock,” said the Senator, “and say that she need not call here again, as I do not receive lady visitors,” and, turning to me, he added: “I won’t talk to a woman except in the presence of half a dozen witnesses. It’s getting to be a dangerous business.” Senator Jones is equally careful, as he has frequently been made the target of blackmailers. He says to the servant when a woman applicant for office calls to solicit his influence: “Tell her to wait till half a dozen more come, and I’ll see them all together.”

Standard Railway Ganges.

At the last meeting of railway engineers, four-foot eight and a half inch gauge was adopted, it being considered the most practicable, and at this date over 43,000 miles of railroad in the United States are of this gauge. The narrow gauge is three feet, and there are over 9,000 miles in America, not counting the private lines. The total number of miles of railway in the United States is put down at 73,000, nearly as much as all Europe. The longest line (not counting the branches) is the Union Pacific—l,o33 miles. The smallest organized road in the wpjld is

the Wood River Branch railroad, of Rhode Island, which is six miles, and has eight daily passenger trains.

INDIANA ITEMS.

. A new orphans’ home is soon to be built at Jeffersonville. Henry Thompson was fatally hurt at Salem the other day by a bull. The Indiana Methodist Conference is to be held at Evansville, Sept. 10. A fire occurred at Osgood, a few days ago. Loss, $14,000; insurance, $9,500. The Council of Franklin has elected W. T. Gordon (colored) Chief of Police. Gen. Ben Harrison is suffering with ivy poison. His face and eyes are badly swollen. James Morlatt and wife, of Brookville, recently celebrated their golden wedding. A large hall, dedicated to the cause of temperance, has been opened in Evansville. The Commissioners of Marshall county have let the contract for building a new jail. There are from 600 to 1,000 women employed in the Government sewingrooms at Jeffersonville. A farmer tells the Indianapolis News that the prospects for fruit, in spite of discouraging reports, were never better. At the seventeenth Woman’s State Suffrage Convention, held at Kokomo, a large number of delegates were present. The enumeration of school children in Madison township shows a small decrease compared with the last enumeration.

The Blue-Ribboners and Good Templars of Sullivan county are arranging for a grand celebration at Sullivan on the 4th of July. The scarlet fever is raging at North Vernon to such an extent that parents are sending their children to the country to escape it. Katherine Pussy, of Vincennes, has just been awarded a verdict of SI,OOO in a breach-of-promise suit brought against Perry McCray. The saloons of Colfax have suspended business on account of the Town Board fixing the license fees at SIOO, with $lO additional for every gaming table. The annual conference of the Congregational ministers of the State, at Terre Haute, was one of the most harmonious and satisfactory meetings held in many years. At Old’s spoke factory, Fort Wayne, a large iron pulley broke into four pieces, one of which struck a workman named Martin Golden in the head, producing fatal injuries. Mark S. Reeves, of Richmond, having declined the appointment of - State House Commissioner to succeed Prof. Collett, Gov. Williams has appointed William B. Seward, ex-President of the State Board of Agriculture, to fill the vacancy. The bridge over the Muddy fork of Silver creek, on the J., M. & I. R. R., near New Albany, has a bloody history. The upright timbers covering the track are very low; so low, in fact, as to render it very dangerous for one standing upon a car to pass under the structure. Sixteen men have been killed at this bridge. The Catholic Total Abstinence Society of New Albany has resolved not to celebrate the Fourth of July by a picnic, for the reason that Bishop Chatard has prohibited dancing at all picnics of the church. The Bishop also prohibits beers or liquors at all picnics held by members of the Catholic Church. The sportsmen of Wabash have organized the North Lake and River Association of Northern Indiana, with Judge John U. Pettit as President. They have bought five acres of ground on the north side of Turkey lake, Kosciusko county, and will at once set about improving it, the improvements to embrace a club-house. The other night some unknown persons at Liberty attempted to blow up a saloon owned by a man named Fallons. An ale bottle was filled with powder and placed beneath the house with a fuse, and when it went off it knocked the foundation out and dug a hole big enough to bury an elephant, but, strange to say, did not hurt the house. At the late Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows, at Indianapolis, the Grand Secretary’s report shows a better condition of the order than in 1878. Two encampments have been suspended, leaving 141 in existence. The resources of the encampment amount to $54,816.10; receipts, $9,610.94; relief and chasity, $4,486.94; total expenses of the encampment, $8,390.92. The Grand Encampment of the Independent Champions of the Red Cross of the State, in session in Fort Wayne, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Grand Commander, I. W. Campbell; Grand Counselor, W. H. Caulkins; Grand Secretary, George W. Jones; Grand Treasurer, Capt. C. Emery; Grand Senior Champion, Ralph James; Grand Junior Champion, Samuel M. Coddington; Grand Captain of the Host, A. I. Ball; Grand Chaplain, Mason Long; Grand Mistress of Ceremonies, Miss Mary Pritchard; Grand Sentinel, A. A. Davis.

America’s Fifteen Inventions.

An English journal frankly gives credit to the American genius for at least fifteen inventions and discoveries which, it says, have been adopted all over the world. These triumphs of American genius are thus enumerated: First, the cotton gin; second, the planing machine; third, the grass mower and grain reaper; fourth, the rotary printing press; fifth, navigation by steam; sixth, the hot-air or caloric engine ; seventh,. the sewing machine; eighth, the India-rubber industry; ninth, the machine-manufacture of horse shoes; tenth, the sand-blast for carving; eleventh, the gauge lathe; twelfth, the grain elevator; thirteenth, artificial ice manufacture on a large scale; fourteenth, the elect] o-magnet and its practical application; fifteenth, the composing machine for printers. It is not often that American achievementin this direction receive due credit from such a source.— New York Sun. Notwithstanding the advantages offered by California to immigrants, foreign and domestic, she has not been settled belt sp rapidly as is desired,

FOR 1880.

[From the New York San.] The Republican programme for 1880 is fully revealed in the united and obstinate resistance of the leaders to the section of the Army bill as first passed, forbidding the use of troops at elections, and to the separate bill, where the objection raised by the fraudulent President to the inclusion of civil officers in the repeal was met by striking out that word, and by confining the operation of the proposed act to the army and navy specifically. Instead of resporicliiig to this concession of the majority in Congress, made to relieve every pretext for opposition, the hostility of the Republicans became more bitter because their motives were now exposed, and the hypocrisy of the veto was unveiled. Like men in a violent storm of passion, they lost balance, and the wild utterances of Zach Chandler expressed the real feelings of the party for which he spoke. The cooler and more sophistical Mr. Edmunds sought to furnish reasons for a second veto, by misrepresenting the statutes, and with a full knowledge, too, that until 1865, in the midst of flagrant war, there had never been an enactment of any kind which in any way, or under any construction, permitted the presence of troops at elections. In framing the constitution, the fathers kept in view the example of England, which, for more than a hundred years before, had expressly prohibited the military from, being at or near a polling-place. The Republicans are desperate, and they mean to hold the Government by force of arms, if necessary. They are to-day in a minority of more than a million of votes throughout the Union, the great States of New York and Pennslyvania and Illinois and Ohio having been carried by them at the last elections only because their opponents were divided. The figures are instructive now, when the plans of the Presidential campaign are taking form and shape: NEW YORK— IB7B. Republican v0te.391,112 | Democratic v0te..35'*,451 National 71,133 Prohibition 4,294 Tot 1 4*1,878 Deduct Republican vote 3a1,112 Republican minority 40,766 PENNSYLVANIA— IB7B. Republican v0te..319,490 | Democratic vote. .297.137 National 81,7.38 Prohibit on 3 75J Total ...........................3^2,651 Deduct Republican vote 319 49l Republican minority 63,164 Ohio— lß7B. Republican v0te.274,120 | Democratic v0te...270,966 Natinal 88.832 Prohibition 5,682 Total 314.981 Deduct Repub’ican vote 274,120 Republican minority 40,860 ILLINOIS— IB7B. Republican v0te.215,283 | Democratic vote. .169.965 Nat onal 65.673 Prohibition 2.1t>2 Total 237,830 D< ducting Republican vote 215,283 Republican minority 22,547 These four States cast 107 electoral votes, much more than a fourth of all the colleges. Measured by the elec tions of last fall, the Republicans are in a minority of more than 167,000 in these States alone.

The Republican managers are fully aware of these facts, and they know that other States are in the same condition. Their policy is narrowed down to a small compass, and it may be expressed in the words: Divide and conquer. They propose to divide by raising an immense campaign iund from the pet banks, the officeholders, the syndicates and the great Government contractors, all representing special interests whose future success depends upon a continuation of Republican ascendency. This money is to be applied mainly in keep up the National or Greenback organization separately in every State where a fusion with the Democrats would endanger the Republican ticket. The experiment was tried on a large scale in Indiana in 1876, under the direction of the late Senator Morton and of his henchman, James N. Tyner, now First Assistant Postmaster General. One Greenbacker withdrew as a candidate for Governor, but another was found ready to take his place. A million or two of cash will go far to remove the scruples of patriots who may be in market. Having thus divided the opposition, 'according to the programme at least, the next step will be to conquer remaining difficulties by the use of the army at the polls. This element is essential to complete success, for without it the first part may fall, because of a latent belief among the managers that one cannot succeed without the other. The stalwarts have captured Hayes, and henceforth they will run him and overcome all resistance in his Cabinet, if any there be. Hayes has been made to believe that the danger of impeachment is past, and that he is now in secure possession of an office to which he was not elected, and of what to him is far more valuable, $50,000 a year and a free living. He desires to reinstate himself in favor with his own party, the leaders of which recently discarded and denounced him. The humiliation of a surrender to Conkling, Chandler, Hamlin and their associates costs him nothing. He has no honorable pride to wound and no manhood to defend. It is thus seen that the army at the polls, as it was used in 1870, in 1872, in 1874, and in 1876, consecutively and openly, is needed to carry out the plan of the Republicans for 1880. Allow the law of 1865 to stand, and vote appropriations for the present army, and what is there to prevent the fraudulent President from massing thousands of troops in this city and ships of war in the harbor, as Grant did in 1870, under that authority? A pretext can easily be invented, and a thousand will be found, if necessary, to excuse such interference. He may scatter the whole army among the great cities and supplement the troops with another army of Supervisors, Marshals, general deputies and special deputies at $5 a day. Let Congress, then, stand firm. Better disperse the army to the four winds than submit to the dictation of a fraudulent President and his party keepers. We want no standing armies to manage our elections. In the race for the 2,000 guineas at Newmarket in which Uneas was engaged, a hare was started, and instead

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of making for the heath got in among the running horses and raced "with them for a good spurt.

IOWA DEMOCRACY.

Meeting of the State Convention —A Fine Body of Men —The Proceedings Harmonious, and a Strong Ticket Nominated —The Candidates and the Platform. Council Bluffs, lowa, May 22. The Democratic State Convention, held here yesterday, was beyond donbt the largest Democratic political gathering evoz held in lowa. Besides being largely attended, the personnel of the body was good—so much so that it was noticeable by everybody. Even the delegates themselves were congratulating each other on the improved membership of the body over former conventions.

Ed Campbell, Jr., Chairman es the State Central Committee, called the convention to order, • and, on his motion; Hon. J. B. Hagerman, of Keokuk, law partner of Secretary of War McCrary, was made temporary Chairman. He made a speech eulogizing the Democrats in Congress for their patriotic position in demanding the repeal of the election laws, and forcing upon Hayes the responsibility of denying American people the right to go to the polls and deposit their ballots unintimidated by the presence of Federal bayonets and partisan Supervisors and unscrupulous United States Marshals and their deputies. His remarks were vehemently applauded. Gen. Augustus C. Dodge, of Burlington, at one time a United States Senator from lowa, was made permanent Chairman. He, too, insisted that the issue before the people was one against bayonet rule, centralized power and a corrupt ballot, which the Republican party is nursing and relying upon to override the people and perpetuate its own power. Hon. H, H. Trimble, of Davis county, one of the ablest lawyers in lowa,was nominated by acclamation for Governor. CoL Trimble not only fought in the Mexican war, but he made a brilliant record in the late unpleasantness between the sections. At the battle of Pea Ridge he received a rebel pea in his head which is there to this day. He is a strong man with the people, and will poll several thousand more votes than any other man that could have been named by the convention. Capt. J. A. O. Yeoman, a gallant crippled soldier, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor amid yells and hurrahs that made some of the stalwart Republicans present feel and believe that the revolution had actually begun. Yeoman was ushered hastily to the platform, where he made a ten-minutes’ speech that f«,irly brought the whole body of delegates to their feet, and created the wildest enthusiasm. The remainder of the ticket was a mere formality and was made up in a hurry and a hurrah. Reuben Noble, of Clayton county, was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court, and Irwin Baker was made the candidate for Superintendent Ed. Campbell, Jr., was re-elected Chairman of the State Central Committee, and L. G. Kinne, of Tama county, was re-elected Secretary of the committee. The following platform was adopted: Reso ve.d, That the Democratic party now, as in the past, insists that oar liberties depend uponMie strict construction and observance ot the constitution of the United States and all its amendments. Resolved, That the States and the General Government should be sternly restrained to their re spective spheres and to the exercise only of the powers granted and reserved by the constitution. Resolved, That the policy of the Republican party, by which it inflates the Importance of the States when necessary,to cover the theft of the Presidency, and in turn magnifies the functions of the General. Government to cover the coercion of the States into indorsement of the partisan will of the fraudu'ent Executive, is a policy full of evil and fruitful of danger. Resolved, That such policy is intended to array section against section, the States against the General Government, and it against the States in turn, for the purpose of destroying the freedom of both, and teaching the people‘to look to a strong government as shelter from the anarchy its advocates have planned. Resolved, That evidences of these nefarious purposes arc furnished by the present attitude of the Republican party, which is arrayed against a free ballot, on which depends all the liberties secured to us ny the constitution. Resolved, That we view with alarm the determination of the Republican party, through its fraudulent Executive, to deprive this republic of its army, so necessary to the defense of its frontier, and its protection from foreign and domestic enemies, by vetoing appropriations for the pay and support of our soldiers unless they can be used to force voters to record the mere will of the Executive. Resolved, That we hail the Democratic Senators and Representatives in Congress as worthy the heroic lineage of American citizens in standing firmly for the American idea in government as against the despotic theory from which our Revolutionary fathers revolted, and we ask all lovers of liberty to join us and them io protest aga nst the change in our form of government proposed by the Republican party, which will substitute the will of one man for that of the majority of all the people. Resolved, That we are in favor of the substitution of United States treasury notes . for nationalbank notes, and of the abolition of national banks as banks of issue; that the Government of the United States issue the money for the people; and, further, that we favor a reduction of the bonded debt of the United States as fast as practicable, and the application of the idle money in the treasury for that purpose. Resolved, That we favor the free and unlimited coinage of the silver dollar of 412)6 grains, and providing certificates for silver bullion which may be deposited in the United States treasury, the same to be a legal tender for all purposes. Resolved, That we favor a tariff for revenue only. Resolved, lhat we are in favor of economy in public expenditures, including a reduction of salaries, local and general, whenever they may be deemed excessive, and also a reduction in the number of officials. Resolved, That the Democratic party of lowa is desirous of promoting temperance, and, being opposed to free whisky, it is in favor of a judicious License law. Resolved, That we favor holding all public servants to a strict accountability, and their prompt and severe punishment for all thefts of public moneys and maladministration of public office.

Destructive Fires in Cuba.

It has just leaked out that a fire has occurred in Cuba which is likely to have a serious effect upon the price of sugar. All that got into the Havana papers about it was the statement that eleven estates had been damaged, but Charles A. Meigs, a prominent New Yorker, who happened to be in the heart of the region swept over by the flames, had heard before he left for home of no less than sixty-eight large sugar plantations which had been destroyed. One of these plantations, which may be taken as a type of the class, employed between 400 and 500 persons, and was expected to produce several thousand hogsheads of sugar, averaging about 2,000 pounds in weight. Not only was all the machinery of this plantation, upon which about $500,000 had been expended within a few years, destroyed, but the fields of growing sugar-cane were laid bare and the whole crop wiped out. Mr. Meigs met several Cubans who had suffered the loss of plantations, and from his own observationsand their estimates thinks that the total loss cannot fall short of $100,000,000. — Philadelphia Times.

A Remarkable Suit of Clothes.

The Emperor of Austria has just been presented with a remarkable suit of clothes. The wool from which the garments were made was upon the sheep’s back eleven hours before the suit was completed. At 6:08 in the morning the sheep were sheared; at 6:11 the wool was washed; at 6:37 dved; at 6:50 picked; at 7:34 the last carding process was finished; at Bit was spun; at 8:15 spooled; at* 8:37 the warp was in the loom; at 8:43 the shuttles were ready; at 11:10 seven and three-quarters ells of cloth were completed; at 12:03 the cloth was fulled; at 12:14 washed; at 12:17 sprinkled; at 12:31 dried; at 12:45 sheared; at 1:07 napped; at 1:10 brushed; and at 1:15 pressed and ready for the shears and needle. At 5 o’clock the suit, consisting of a hunting-jacket, waist coat, and pantaloons, was. finished. In the Mississippi penitentiary there are over 200 convicts whq gre unprifr oned for life.

glemotrafq JOB PRINTING OFFICE Baa better .facQitiea than any office tn Northwesters Indiana for the executise of an brsnebee of aTOB FRIKrTIKTG, PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from a rampblot to a Potter, black or colored, plain or fancy, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

THE BOY ALCHEMIST, BY B. J. BUBDETTE. Radiantly on the village fence Shineth the bill of the circus; Dolefully counting his scanty pence. Leas thana quarter by 19 cents, The small boy drank in the pictured fence, And said, I must take in the circus.' Speeding away with lightsome feet, Hurrying down the alley. Into the back lots, over the street. Sulking and lounging, slow and fleet, Boys and yet boys in conclaves meet— What do they seek in the alley? What does he want with the great tin-pan (Siding itunder the wood-shed)? No one knows how many blocks he ran, Scudding away as only bad boys can, As though he was under some awful ban, Some daring crime of bloodshed. What could he do with that great tin-pau, Now ho had gone and got it? Will he unfold his deep-laid plan? Never; his secret you may not scan; He even lies to the old junk-man, And tells him, ’pon honor, he bought it. Something is wrong with the kitchen pump; What has got into the sucker? Jerk till your arms ache—thump, thump, thump, Eight feet of pipe in a single lump Gone to the junk-shop—hardly a stump Left to amuse the sucker. High sits the boy on the circus day—- “ These be thy pans and thy kettles; This is my art,” they heard him say; “This is the secret for which men pray; This is the art of the alchemist—yea, The transmutation of metals."

WIT AND HUMOR.

A polite fish—A gent eel. A shirt-front is a thing to be stn dded. Playing with dice is shaky business. A mad dog is a pronounced instance of cur-rage. The successful farmer trusts a good deal to the fates—phosphates. Colors are fast when they don’t run, and run when they are not fast. A nice little boy calls himself Compass because he is boxed so often. A pair of ears that go on a head of civilization—Pioneers and frontiers. What is the best way to prevent the night from going too far? Put on the break of day? A good many men would have more than at present should they earn half that they yearn. When a gardener throws orange-skins on the side-walk, can he be said to be setting out slips. Coal dealers will be careful about sending you short weight if they think you will give it a weigh. Il is very dangerous to make up your judgment concerning a young lady’s weight by measuring her sighs. When a man marries through the medium of correspondence, it may be appropriately styled a pen’s ketch. A sewing-machine girl in Dubuque has eloped with a married elder of the church she attended. Woe, hemmer! A good horse, Rarus for instance, makes his mile in 2:15. We know a man who takes his smile much oftener than that. The Nihilists could never flourish in Chicago, as there are no nigh hills for them to rendezvous in.— Chicago Commercial Advertiser.

I want to be a coachman, And with the coachmen etand, And win the boes's daughter, And drive my four in hand. —CMxq/o Inter Ocean. How doth the little busy bird Improve each shining hour, And gather cotton and thread and feathers and pieces of cloth and straws and bits of cord and a whole lot of other things, all the day, To make its summer bower. —New lorl Mail. He was a Senior, and, as he fetched up at the bottom of those slippery steps, he ejaculated : “ Hell—(just then a professor came [gliding around the corner) is paved with good resolutions.” The professor smiled blandly, went to his room and gave that Senior ten. —A m hers t S tu dent. Instructor in German, after astonishing the division by the announcement that the German words for “heaven” and “shirt” have the same root—“ Mr. X., can you see any resemblance?” Mr. X., hesitating—“ Well, sir, they are both good things for a man to get into.”— Yale Record. A gentleman who once called at the rooms of Senator Sumner in Washington, was told by his young negro servant : “ Massa Sumner, he gone to de Senate to make him speech.” What speech! ” asked the gentleman, in surprise. “ Why, dat ar speech he’s been hollering out in bed ebery morning dese free weeks.” A couple of Canuck printers employed on a morning paper had lots of fun yesterday morning. Just for fun they kicked down a pile of oyster shells at the door of an Italian restaurant on State street, and, just for fun, a policeman who witnessed the malicious act made them come back and pile them up again, in the meantime standing over them with his baton. Knocking oysterbanks into “pi ” is played out, and both will hereafter be content with sticking type instead of oyster-shells.— Chicago Tribune. A DISSYLLABIC TRAGEDY. A fat Tom whined When that Buck rat And pined Tom cat Lived In For that Crawled in A bin. Buck rat, That bin Tom cat And grew For that Saw that Thin. too. Buck rat, Big fat One day The trap Buck rat; That way Let drap “Ah, me,” A man On that Said he, Once ran— ’Ere cat. “i’ll store Did slap He died His gore A trap Inside Within Right in The trap. My skin! ” That bin, Sad hap! But that For that But that Tom cat Buck rat Buck rat Could not Stole corn Stole corn Him spot. Each morn Next mom. —St. Louie Times-Journal.

Death from a Decayed Tooth.

D. W. Clark, of Dixon, Cal., died recently of pyemia, or blood poison, resulting from an abscess in the jaw. It originated from caries, or ulceration of a decayed tooth, and had been coming on for five months. He was canvassing Yolo county for a patent flat-iron, and returned from there less than two weeks ago. The abscess was lanced, and discharged a large quantity of foul matter, but death resulted from the cause mentioned above. Had the tooth, which created the abscess, been extracted at the proper time, he need not have lost his fife.

Prisoners of War.

During the late war, some ciiildren were talking of their fathers and brothers who had been made prisoners of war- Many tales were told of the sufferings of their relatives, the youngster! evidently priding themselves upon it. One boy, who was silently listening, at length said, “That’s nothing; Fve got an uncle in prison, and ®ip’t to no war, neither-”