Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS G. W. M. Reynolds, the widely-known writer of sensational fiction, is dead. The anti-landlord agitation in the West of Ireland is causing some apprehension n England. Bismarck has forbidden circulation in the empire of the Mtonn-7jiu t * Russian revolutionary organ, published, » n Geneva. The insurrection in Algeria is ended, and 4,000 insurgents are > the hands of the French. The committee jo which the Divorce bill was referred ) >M pronounced in favor of re-establishing 'jivoroe in France. The Bahian last week signed a firman deposing Khedive of Egypt in favor of his son, Pr ajca Mohammed Tewfik, and the Khed*ve signified his compliance with tho demand fhr his abdication. This arrangement was afterward carried out, and Tewfik was saluted sas Viceroy of Egypt The ex-Khedive, his Finance Minister and Prince Hassan leave for 'Constantinople. He is to receive a pension of . .£5,000 a year. The Indian Government has received information that Abdul Itapman, pretender to tho Afghan throne, who has hitherto lived under Russian protection, has invaded Badakshan, and the Afghan troops in Balkh have revolted.

Arson is rife in St. Petersburg, and in every part of Russia. The town of Bzyran, on the Volga, has been nearly destroyed by . fire. A number of persons have been arrrested at Kieff, Bt. Petersburg, and Moscow for clandestinely trading in explosives. Lord Laurence, formerly Viceroy of India, is dead. Advices from Buenos Ayres report that Chili had concluded a treaty with the Argentine States containing a clause which gives tho whole of Patagonia to the Argentine Republic. The French Prince Imperial, in his will, appoints Prince Victor Napoleon as his The French Government has determined on tho occasion of the distribution of new colors to tho army to require the Generals to take the oath of allegiance to tho republic. This aotion is owing to the fact that a number of Generals attended the requiem mass for the Frinco Imperial. Dispatches from South Africa report that tho Zulus are sning for peace. Lord Beaconsfield is suffering from .•a sevore attack of the gout. A Berlin correspondent reports tluit thero is a mysterious coolness between Russia and Germany, and the Czar, in const quenee of it, will not visit the empire. A Paris dispatch states that the editor of the Tribnnlct has been sentenced to six months’ imprison mont and B,(XX) francs fine for caricaturing President Grety, Ministers I’erry, and Lepero, and M. Gam bet ta. Bad weather is reported in England, seriously damaging tho hai vosl, prospects. Fortunately America will be able to supply all •deficiencies in tho British markets. Crops in all parts of France havo also been in jured hv rainu.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Must-. The mystery which has surrounded the killing of Mrs. DeForest Hull, ill New York, has been cleared up by the arrest o! tbo murderer in Boston. The capture was brought about by a negro man selling to a pawnbroker in the latter city a cameo set, and at the same tinjo exhibiting a gold watch. Two days later a description of the jewelry stolen from the Hull residence was received, and tho set was Hater identified by two ftionds of the murdered ■woman, who canto from Now York for the pur■poso. Meantime the man had disappeared, but tho description of Chastino Cox, a negro who formerly lived opposite Hull’s residence, was sent on, which described him pretty well as nearly as the pawnbroker remembered hint. Tho city had been watched night and day by Boston detectives, but the game was finally nabbed by a newspaper man, who suspected a negro whom lie saw on tho street, followed hint to a church, and thon informed the police, who arrested him. Cox was found to have Mrs. Hull’s watch, and made a free confession, in which he stated that, having lived opposite the Hull mansion and been occasionally employed there, tie knew the place and the habits of the inmates. Ho entered tho honso to rob, but, Mrs. Hull awaking, lie put his hand over her mouth until she was qiret, and thou tied her in tho way she was found. She revived again, when ho gagged her with the sheot, and discovered that he had overdone the work, and that Bhe was not breathing. Then ho loft the lioueo, and had boon skulking ever sinco.

Tho Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has sustained the decision of tho lower count in the case of Pete Maimers and John O’Neill, Mol'.y Maguires, convicted in Northumberland county and sentenced to be hanged for tho murder of Coroner Hesser in 1874. A collision occurred the other evening 01 tho Metropolitan elevated railway at Franklin Street station, in West Broadway, New York. Tho up-town train was delayed thore for a short time, and another train ran into it. The hind carriage of the first train and the engine of the second train were badly wrecked. Tho New Jersey Court of Appeals has dismissed the writ of error in the case of Mrs. Smith and Covevt Bennett, convicted of the murder of Policeman Smith, and it seems certain that the guilty pair will die on the scaffold. A very seriou3 railroad accident occurred a few days ago on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, near Buffalo, N. Y. A funeral car attached to the regular express tram jumped the track, and, after dragging along a short distance, turned on its side and was wrenched from the train. The other cars held to the track. The coupling broke. The special coach left the track at tho side toward the lake, and the body of the car, wrenching away from tho trucks, landed almost bottom up. The car was badly wrecked. Of the cloven passengers, not one escaped uninjured, and two or three of them were so badly wounded as to render it douotful if they will recover. Albert Weber, the piano manufacturer, died in New York last week, leaving an estate valued at over 11500,000. An immense tabular boiler in a Philadelphia sash and planing mill exploded a few days ago, killing the engineer and three other persons. The annual boat-race between the Harvard and Yale crews, for the college championship, resulted in an easy victory tor Harvard. The “long strike” in Pittsburgh has come to an eud. The workmen employed in making glass chimueys havo agreed to resume work, after continuing their strike fpr two years,

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

Two children of Mr. Wiswall, of the Harlem Railroad Company, were killed by lightning, one afternoon last week, in front of their*bo«ne in Morris# nix, N. Y. South. Official reports from the Mayors and Presidents of the Boards of Health of the following cities and towns: Memphis, Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss , Shreveport, La., Collierville, Tenn., Hickman, Ky., Grenada, Miss., Helena, Ark., Holly Springs, Mies , Decatur, Ala., Tuscumbia, Ala, bring the gratifying intelligence that in none of the places mentioned has the health outlook been more favorable. In no instance has there been any indications of a return of fever. Better health than usual at this season of the year prevails, and every precaution tbit eanitarv regulations can suggest has been accomplished toward preventing the recurrence of last year’s epidemic. Quarantine regulations have been established, ready to be enforced should an exigency arise. A Frankfort (Ky.) dispatch says: “On Sabir day night at Sand Rifle, twelve miles distant, a party of unknown men attacked tne house of Samuel Faulkner, severely wounding Faulkner as he ran from tho house, and then setting fire to the dwelling, which was consumed with its inmates—Harry Russell, aged 17 (who was also shot), and two children of Faulkner, aged 11 and 3 years. No cause is given for this brutal affair.” The Crescent City Oil Works, at Mechanicsville, near New Orleanß, La., burned the other day. Loss, #125,000; insurance, #115,000. One of the most remarkable feats ever accomplished in railroading was performed on Saturday, June 28, by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, in a change of gauge on 700 miles of road. Heretofore the gauge has been five feet. The regular business of ttie road was interfered with only about six or seven hours. The cost of tho change will not fall short of #2,000,000. West. Investigation of the reports concerning cattle disease in Colorado have proved that thero was needless alarm, no new cases having been developed for some time previous to the examination. The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that Guetig, the Indianapolis servant-girl murderer, must hang Sept. 19, which will be the first anniversary of his enme. The plea of the prisoner’s drunkenness at the time of committing the murder was of no avail, tho court holding that this was an aggravation, rather than a palliation, of the offense. Nine hundred feet of snow sheds on the Contral Pacific were burned recently. Ex-Congressman Robert M. Knapp, of Jerseyville, IIL, died at his home in that place, a few days ago, aged 49 years. Last week’s great rain-storm in Central and Western lowa and Eastern Nebraska did very serious damage by flood and lightning. The drowning of the wife and two daughters of a farmer at Stuart, lowa, is reported, their house being washed away by the sudden rising of a small stream.

R. S. Taylor and Robert Taylor, brothers, and B. C. WreD, all farmers, between whom au old feud existed, mot iu Wellsville, Mo., a few days ago, and renewed their quarrel. The Taylors fired four balls into Wren’s body, mortally wounding him, and Wren killed R. S. Taylor instantly and fatally wounded Bob. The earnings of the Central Pacific (OaL) Railroad Company for May were #1,541,(K)0, and for the first five mouths of the year $0,200,100, against $0,410,800 in 1878. A Fort Wayne (Ind.) paper reports that tliero is groat excitement at Coesae, fifteen miles west of there, over the attempts of a Baloon-keeper named Jerry Owen to murder his four motherless children, the oldest of whom is aged 9. He first assaulted a son, aged 7, whose ear he tore nearly off, seized a large butcher-knife and stabbed a daughter of 9 years three times, each wound penetrating to the skull. Bhe can hardly survive. He took a large, thick club, four feet long, and beat all four children, the youngest a babe of 2 years, until their bodies were literally a mass of wounds. I’he fiend was arrested. The boiler of a Government steamboat exploded at Nebraska City, Neb., last week, blowing the boat to atoms, killing two persons, mortally wounding two othors, and badly scalding several moro. By the explosion of an upright boiler in an iron-mill at Youngstown. Ohio, a number of persons were badly injured, some of them, it is feared, beyond the hope of recovery. The pleasure steamer May Queen exploded a boiler on Lake Minnetonka, Minn., the other day, fatally wounding four persons, and seriously injuring some half a dozen othors. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has revoked the licenses of several of the disreputable dens of iniquity in that city, and threatens to close up many others if their owners do not mend their ways. A seventy-five hours’ pedestrian contest for SIO,OOO, at the Exposition building, iu Chicago, between Daniel O’Leary, of Chicago, and Peter Crossland, of London, was won by the former. O’Leary made 250 miles and tbo Londoner 225 miles. In the Chicago Directory for 1879, just issued, there are 161,212 names, being 7,605 more than were shown in the same book last year. Supposing that these names, most of them heads of families, represent an average of four persons each, the population of Chicago would be 644,848. WASHINGTON NOTES. The excess of exports over imports of merchandise in twelve months ended 81,1879, was $269,709,876; for twelve months onded May 31, 1878, $241,859,939. The excess of exports over imports of gold and silver coin and bullion was for the twelve months ended May 31, 1879, $5,284,615; for twelve months ended May 31, 1878, $7,243,901. The receipts from internal revenue during the last year amount to $110,033,988; for the fiscal year, over #113,036,000, an increase of over $3,000,000, despite the reduction of the tax on tobacco. POLITICAL POINTS

The convention of Nationals, who withdrew from the Columbus Convention, was held at Toledo, June 24. The convention was called to order, by M. N. Odell, of Lucas, and J. T. Throckmorton, of Ross county, was elected temporary Chairman. Charles Coughlin, editor of tho True Nationalist, of Toledo, was made Secretary, with two assistants. The following is the substance of the financial planks of the platform adopted: That the United States should exercise its most vital function, the coinage of money, independent of the action of any foreign power; that it is the duty of the General Government to supply the entire currency medium; that all bank issues of currency should be suppressed; that “ the so-called specie resumption is a fraud and a swindle; that the locking up. in the treasury of tho United States of the larger part of the scauty volumo of the people’s money we denounce a$ an atrocious crime, without excuse

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 4,1879.

or palliation; and that we demand the unlimited coinage of the silver dollar of grains.” Letters were read from Peter Cooper and others. The convention refused to nominate a State ticket, and after several speeches the meeting adjourned. Representative men of the Butler wing of the Democratic party state that the General will receive and accept this fall a Labor Reform and Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts. At a meeting of the Ohio Democratic State Central Committee, at Columbus, June 26, J. Frank McKenney was made Chairman of the Executive Committee, in place of John G. Thompson. The Maine Republicans, at Bangor, June 26, nominated the Hon. D. F. Davis, of Corinth, for Governor, on the third ballot. The platform adopted asserts that this country is a nation, and not a confederation of States; that it is the right-and duty of the Government to protect the citizens and insure an honeet and pure ballot; that the action of the Democratic majority in Congress is a revolutionary attempt to coerce the Executive, and that President Hayes should be supported in his resistance to such attempts; and that it is a mat er of rejoiciDg that the Government promises to pay are kept, and the dollar of the laborer is as good as the dollar of the capitalist The Ohio Democratic State Committee have decided to formally open the campaign early in August, with speeches by Pendleton, Thurman, Ewing, Steelman, and others.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. D. L. Moody will conduct revival services in Cleveland, Ohio, in October. The six distillers known as the Chicago “ first batch ” have at last received a full and unconditional pardon Of all assessments, penalties, damages or claims of the United States against them, President Hayes having signed tho document which sets them free. Joseph Roelle, Anton Junker, Burton M. Lord, Walter W. Oliver, James Conner and Roswell C. Mersereau are the fortunates, and their assistance as witnes-es for the Government in the whisxy prosecutions is cited as having earned for them an equitable right to pardon. The Rev. Henry C. Reilly has been oonsecrated Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Mexico. The ceremony took place at Pittsburgh, Pa. The schooner Cummings, arriving in New York from Para, reports the loss of the Captain and two seamen from yelloYv fever. An item is going the rounds of the press stating that “ all surviving soldiers who were imprisoned in Andersonville for a period of six or more months are entitled to S6O per month.” There is not a word of truth in this statement. No provision has ever been made by the Government for those who suffered at Andersonville. The above canard was doubtless started by some swindling claim agency, and ex-soldiers are warned against paying any attention to it. The steamship City of New York, bound from New ,York for Havana, ran into and sunk the iron bark Helen, of Dundee, Scotland’, on the coast of New Jersey, on the night of the 28th ult. Five of the crew of the *unken bark, including the Captain, were lost.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The Senate confirmed a number of appointments on tlie 23d. Th*t of D. T. Corbin, of South Carol!' a. as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah Tenitory, was reported from the Judiciary Committee adversely and placed upon the calendar for consideration by the Senate hereafter. In the House, the President's Secretary deliverid a message in writing, vetoing the Supplementary Judicial bill; also, announcing that he had signed the Army bill. At the conclusion of ilie reading of the veto message, the House proceeded to vote on the question whether the bill should ho i assed, notwithstanding the objections of tho l’re< dent, and it was decided in the negative —yeas. IU4; navs, 78: not the necessary two-thirds , nting in the affirmative. in the Senate, on the 24th, the proceedings were tame and of no general interest. In the Homo, a resolution providing for adjournment June 25 was voted down—lo 3to 82. The Political Assessment bill was taken up, and the Republicans availed themselves of the parliamentary privilege to prevent action upon it. Mr. Burnside introduced in the Senate, on the 25th ult., a joint resolution to the effect that, the people of this country having for fifty years adhered t. j tho Monroe doctrine, they “ would not view without serious Inquietude any attempt of the powers of Europe to establish, under th> ir protection and domination, a ship-canaljacross the Isthmus of Dr.rien, and such action could not be regarded in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward these United Mates.” llie resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. Vest introduced the following joint resolution, which was ordered printed: -l That the complete remonetization of silver, its full restoration as a money metal, and its free coinage by tike Government of the United States, are demanded alike by tho dictates of justice and wise statesmanship.” Mr. Windom read what he stj led a political apt ech, reviewing the record of ihe Republican and Democratic parties for the past twenty years. A long political debate ensued, which was participated in by Messrs. Wi 'dom, Saulsbury, Davis (W. Va.), Ilgalls and Beck, The House occupied the day in debatii g the Senate bill exempting irom license and other fees vessels not propelled wholly by sail or by internal motive-power of their own.

In the Senate, June 26, Mr. Vest called up the silver free-coinage resolution, but, objection being made, it went over. After a short executive session, the Judicial Expenses Appropriation bill was read twice and referred. The reeular order was resumed, being the joint resolution relating to the extra pay for Congressional employes. Messrs. Davis (W. Va) and Allison engaged in a short discussion upon the financial questionsleave of absence granted to members was made by Mr. Armfield, and objected to. The bill making appropriations for certain judicial expenses and the bill making appropriations to pay the tees of Marshals' and their general deputies, were reported lrom the Committee on Appropriations and ordered printed and referred. The bill prohibiting political assessments came up as business of the morning hour. Mr. Garfield sought an opportunity of speaking against the bill, but was cut off by the previous question, whereupor dilatory tactics were resorted to by the Republicans. Tho Senate, on the 27th ult., passed, by a strict party vote, the Judicial Expenses Appropriation bill as it passed the House. Mr. Vest’s silver resolution was debated without action. The House, after a sharp debate, passed the hill appropriating SOOO,OOO to pay the fees of U. S. Marshals and their deputies. A resolution was passed, by a party vote, providing for an adjournment on Monday. Juno 30. The Benate, on the 28th ult, discussed and again postponed the resolution of Mr. Vest declaring in favor of the free coinage of silver. The bill making appropriations to pay the fees of United States Marshals and their deputies was passed after a brief discussion, Mr. Logan making the principal argument against the bill. The House passed the bill exempting from license and enrollment fees vessels hot propelled wholly by sail or Internal motive power of their own, and the joint resolution providing for a further treaty with Mexico. The Senate, in executive session, rejected the a noraintion of D, T. Corbin as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah.

A Believer.

“Do yon really believe that an ass ever spoke to Balaam ?” queried a man who prided himself upon his intellect. Coleridge, to whom the question was put, reflected very calmly for a few moments, and then responded: “My friend, I have no doubt whatever that the story is true. 1 have been spoken to in the same way myself.” Honor never giyes alms bqt awards justice.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

VETO MESSAGE.

Full Text of the President’s Objections to the Judicial Expense# Bill. To the House ot Representative#: , After a Careful examination of the bill entitled “ An act making appropriations for certain judicial expenses,” I return it herewith to the Houee of Representatives, in which it originated, with the following objections to its approval :

The general purpose of the bill is to provide for certain judicial expenses of the Government for tho fiscal year ending June 30, 1680, for which the eum of #2,690,000 is appropriated. These appropriations are required to keep in operation the general functions of the Judicial Department of the Government, and if this part of the bill stood alone there would be no objection to its approval. It contains, however, other: provisions to which I desire respectfully to ask your attention; At the present session Of Congress a majority of both houses, favoring a repeal of the Congressional Election laws, embraced in title 26 of the Revised Statutes, passed a measure for that purpose as part of a bill entitled “An act making appropriations for the legislative, execusive and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purpose#.* Unable to concur with Congress In that measure, ou the 29th of May last, I returned the bill to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, without my approval, tor that further consideration for which the constitution provides. On reconsideration tne bill wa# approved by less than two thirds of the House, ftnd failed to become a law. The election laws, therefore, remain Valid enactments, and the supreme law of the land, binding not only upon all private citizens, but also alike and equally binding upon all who are charged with duties and responsibilities of the ’ -islative, executive and judicial departments of ihe Government It is Dot sought by the bill before me to repeal election laws. Its object is to defeat their enforcement The last clausa of the first section, is as follows: “And no part of the hereby appropriated is appropriated to pay any sa aries, compensation, fees, or expenses, under or in virtue of title 20 of the Revised Statutes or any provision of said title.” A,.. Title 26 of the Revised Statutes, rex . - red to in the foregoing clause, relates tqiibrA. lective franchise, and contains the laws D. , m force regulating Congressional elections. The second section of the bill reaches much further. It is as follows: Section 2. That the sums appropriated In this act for the persons and public service embraced in its provisions are in full for such persons and public service for the fiscal year ending June 80,1880, and no departin' nt or officer of the Government shall, during said fiscal year, make any contract, or incur any liability for the future payment of money under any of the provlsiohs of title 2(5 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing the appointment or payment of general orspecial Deputy Marshals for service ih cohuection with an election or oh elefctibli day until an appropriation sufficient to meet such contract or pay such liability shall have first been made by law.

Tlii 8 section ot the bill is intended to make an extensive and essential change in the existing laws. The f illowing are the provisions of the statutes on the same subject which are now in force; Section 2.679. No department of the Government shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of the appropriations made by congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any Contract for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriation. Section 2,732. No contract or purchase on bn'nalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law, or is under an appropriation adequate to its fnlfillmefft, except in the War and Na; y Departments for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters or transportation, which, however. shall not exceed the necessaries of the current year;

Ihe object ol these sections or the Revised Statutes is plain. It is, first-, to prevent any money from being expended unless an appropriation has been made therefor; and, second, to prevent the Government from being bound by a contract not previously authorized by law except for certain necessary purposes in the War and Navy Departments. Under the existing laws, the failure of Congress to make the appropriations required for the execution of the provisions of the election laws would not prevent their enforcement. The right and duty to appoint general and special Deputy Marshals, which they provide for, would still remain, and the Executive Department of the Government would also be empowered to incur the requisite liability for their compensation. But the second section of this bill contains a prohibition not found in any previous legislation. It* design is to render the election laws inoperative and a dead loiter during the next fiscal year. It iB sought to accomplish this by omitting to appropriate the money for their enforcement, and by expressly prohibiting any department or officer of the Government from incur i ing any liability under any of the provisions of title 26 of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the appointment or payment of general or special Deputy Marshals for service on election days, until an appropriation sufficient to pay such liability shall have first been made. The President is called upon to give his affirmative approval to a positive enactment which, in effect, would deprive him of the ordinary and necessary means of executing the laws, still left on the statute book and embraced within his constitutional duty to see that laws are executed. If he approves this bill, and thus gives to such positive enactments the authority of law, he participates in a curtailment of his means of teeing that the law is faithfully executed, while the obligation of law and of his constitutional duty remains unimpaired. The appointment of special Deputy Marshals is not made by the statute a spontaneous act of authority on the part of any executive or judicial officer of the Government, but is accorded as the popular right of citizens to call into operation this agency for securing the freedom of elections in any city or town having 20,000 inhabitants or upward. Sortion 2,021 of the Revised Statutes puts it iu the power of any two citizens of such city or town to require of the Marshal of the district the appointment of these special Deputy Marshals. Thereupon the duty of the Marshal becomes imperative and its non-performance will expose him to a judicial mandate or punishment, or to removal from office by the President, as the circumstances of his conduct might require. The bill now before me neither revokes this popular right of citizens nor relieves the Marshals of the duty imposed by law, nor the President of his duty to see that this law is faithfully executed. I forbear to enter again upon any general discussion of the wisdom and necessity of the e ection laws, or the dangerous and unconstitutional principle of this bill; that the power vested in Congress to originate appropriations involves the right to compel the Executive to approve any legislation wnich Congress may see fit to attach to such bills under the penalty of refusing the means needed to carry out essential functions of the Government.

My views on these subjects have been sufficiently presented in special messages sent by me to the House of Representatives during its present session. What was said in those messages I regard as conclusive to my duty in respect to the bill before me. The argument urged in these communications against a repeal of the electicn laws and against the right of Congress to deprive the Executive of that separate and independent discretion and- judgment which the constitution confers and requires are equally cogent in opposition to this bill This measure leaves the powers and duties of the Supervisors of Elections untouched. The compensation of these officers is provided for under the permanent law, and no liability for which an appropriation is now required would, therefore, be incurred by their appointment; but tne power of the National Government to protect them in the discharge of their duty at the polls would be taken away. States may employ both the civil and military power at the elections; but by this bill even the civil authority to protect Congressional elections is denied us. The object is to prevent any adequate control by the United States over national elections by forbidding the payment of Deputy Marshals, the officers who are clothed with authority to enforce the election laws. The fact that those laws are deemed objectionable by a majority of both houses of Congress is urged as a sufficient warrant for this legislation. There are two ways always to overturn legislative enactments. One is their repeal; the other is the decision of a competent tribunal against their validity. The effect of this bill is to deprive the Executive Department of the Government of the means to execute the laws which are not repealed, which have not been declared invalid, and which it is, therefore, the duty of the Executive and of every other department of the Government to obey and to enforce. I have in my former messages on this sub{ect expressed a willingness to concur in suita>le amendments for the improvement of the election laws, but I cannot consent to their absolute and entire repeal, and I cannot approve

legislation which seeks toprevent their enforce, men! RuthebFobd B. Hates. Executive Maksioe, June si, 1879.

EDISON’S LATEST.

A Practical Test of His Loud-Speaking Telephone. [From the Philadelphia Times ] Edison’s latest invention, the electrochemical or loud-speaking telephone, was exhibited last evening for the first time in this country at the closing spring meeting of the Franklin Institute. Its operation had never been shown in public before except once, within the last few weeks, by Prof. Tyndall, at the Royal Institute, in London. A paper treating Upon the principle involved in the Construction of the instrument was read by Henry M. Bentley, President of the Philadelphia Local Telegraph Company, who then conducted experiments with the improved telephones. The instrument, he said, was simply an attachment of the electromotograph receiver to the Edison carbon transmitter. He Would use for this occasion the rude box which Mr. Edison had used in experimenting. If necessary, a coil to counteract induction could also be attached. Tile operation about to be exhibited, he said, would Uflt be so satisfactory as what would be Mown in the early future when an open and perfected instrument would take the place of the rude box which he had brought from Mr. Edison’s establishment on the previous evening. Mr. Bentley slipped a wheel of chalk upon an axle inside the little box, and, as the transmissions were received from the office of the telephone company, he continually turned a small crank projecting from the box. This caused the transmissions, which, under other circumstances, could not be heard at a distance of more than two or three feet from the receiver, to be audible in all parts of the hall. The speaking was as distinct as if the speaker were just at the other side of a board partition, with wide interstices between the boards, and the sound had all the characteristics of his voice. To show a comparison of Voices, Mr. Bentley several times called a different speaker to the transmitter. Whistling of such airs as “ Yankee Doodle,” “ Sweet By-and-By,” and “ Poor Little Buttercup” was particularly distinct and accurately transmitted. The sound heard by the audience, Mr. Bentley said, was two or three timeß as loud as that sent into the transmitter. The playing of a cornet came rather harshlj and irregularly at first, but, when Mr. Bentley had requested the performer not to hold the horn so close to the transmitter, the music was almost as satisfactory as if the player, instead of being nearly five squares away, were on the spot where Mr. Bentley stood. As in the case of the speaking, whistling, and other transmissions, it would seem that only a partition full of holes or wide cracks intervened between the performers and the listeners. Mr. Bentley saw no reason why people, in the near future, could not enjoy a lecture or concert going on at the Academy of Music by staying at home with their “electro-chemical” telephones. Being asked how far such performances could be satisfactorily transmitted, he replied that the question could not yet be definitely answered, but he believed that they could be heard at a distance of 100 miles as well as they were heard now. As a finale, a cornet performance of some of “ Pinafore’s ” liveliest airs came with astonishing distinctness and accuracy, sounding almost as well as if the performer was on the platform, and putting the audience in the best of humor.

ITEMS OF INTERESTS.

A writer in the London Times estimates the expenses of the Zulu war at near $2,500,000 a week 1 It will probably surprise most people to learn that a temperature of 100 degrees has no official record in New Orleans, and that year in and year out 94 may be considered the maximum. The word coolie is not of Chinese origin. It is the name of a hill tribe in India,, whose able-bodied men were accustomed to descend into the plains for harvest work, and these were the men, who, after the negro emancipation in 1834, and the demand for laborers in the West Indies and the Mauritius, went thither as such under British protection.

Db. Keyser, in a paper read before the Pennsylvania Medical Society, said he had ascertained that per cent, of the train hands on three of the railroads in that State were color blind, being unable to distinguish the colors of the various signals, and fully 80 per cent, had eyesight more or less defective in that respect. The examinations were made with colored glass, by daylight and gaslight. The sleep of winter and that of night are different in those animals which are torpid for months. The bat, the hedgehog, the tawrie, the marmot, the hamster, tortoise, the toad, snakes, mollusca, spiders, bees, flies, bears, badgers, etc., retire to their closed holes, and in various degrees undergo a temporary death of four, five, six and even seven months of the year. They usually roll themselves up, but bats suspend themselves in caves. Those who Jay Up provisions use then! before they become torpid, and on reviving before they venture abroad. Their temperature lowers; their respiration is less frequent, and at times their circulation is reduced; they lose their feeling; the digestive organs are inactive and they suffer loss of weight. The confined air in which they shut themselves, added to the cold, is one cause of their torpidity. Facts lead to the belief that some birds hibernate.

Allen’s barn was burned at Sonora, Ohio, and it was believed that Minnich and Willis kindled the fire. Allen and some of his friends dug a grave, carried the suspected men to it, made them kneel at the side of the hole, held guns to their heads, and commanded them to confess. However, this treatment did not extort a confession, and Allen was subsequently fined SIOO for outrage. A few Dayton boys, having heard of the Sonora affair, took even more ernei measures to make a playfellow confess some trifling offense. They held his bare feet close to a flame until the soles were badly burned. The Land Office in Washington is kept busy night and day with the increasing demand for public lands. In the four months ending with April as much land was taken up as during any yeii? heretofore,

HOME INTERESTS.

My LMt Day ot School. The clock ha* struck four, the scholars hare left iue, And over the hilltops so far, far away, I watch the last rays of sunlight receding, And wonder whether this was a well-spent day. Moments, and hours, and days have departed, I wake to remember that this is the last; The lessons.are done, the pieces recited, And now my “ first term " is a thing of the past. Just four months ago I came to this district, Joyous and cheerful, without one thought or care Of the cares that lay like mountains before me; For all disappointments I tried to prepare. Fresh from the High School, I did not consider That study and teaching were different things; But alas, I’ve found to my satisfaction, The care and tbs trouble that school-teaching brings. Ah! the thoughts of girlhood will never leave me; ’Mong the bright sides of life they Will have a share; ’Twas a merry school-girl that grew to a woman, And assumed a teacher’s trouble and care. What will I do with the girl that will whisper, Is one of the puar.les that bother my brain; And sometimes I think their troublesome questions And bothersome queries will drive me insane. And yet when I think of those sunny faces, And pause to remember I’ll see you no more; The smileß and the kisses you lavish so freely. The footsteps that cease to resound on tne floor, I stop to drive back the tears that are coming, And try to believe it is foolish to cry; Wondef if now they are thinking of “ teacher," Wonder if they're sorry the term is past by. Oh, my heart is heavy, my soul is sadder Than e’er it has been in the years that have flown, To think my darlings have all departed, And left me to mourn their absence all alone, Good-by, dear school room, alas! I must leave you; Good-by, my dear scholars, I, too. must go home; God grant that some time I’ll reap a bright harvest In the field of knowledge for the seeds I’ve sown. I would like to propose an improvement for the tidy to be Made of bleached muslin. ’Tie this: After having made the circles as before described, take bright-yellow zephyr, cut in strips about six inches long, double until the strips are a little less than one inch, sew ly in the center of each circle, cut and trim center, and you have a perfect daisy white border and yellow center; sew the circles together and crochet loops of white cotton all around these loops of yellow, then another row of white finish, with tassels of white, with one thread of yellow, and you now have the daisy tidy complete. „ Jassamine, The School-Teacher. The Wand of Beaaon. I beheld a maiden young and fair, stepping forth in the world; going to Father Reason. She entreated him to allow her to take his magic wand to help her discern that which was right. He placed it in her hand, warning her at the same time never to let it leave her side. I thought I would follow closely and see how the world used her. I beheld her surrounded by friends, and she the center of attraction, a model many an artist might covet. Drawn back from that noble forehead were those' tresses of gold; but gradually she is letting slip from her grasp the wand that Father Reason had Intrusted to her care. Again I see her, but for a moment i she stands at the altar pledging her life to one scarcely worthy of so fair a charge. Years roll on; once more I am allowed tne privilege of beholding her. When I last saw her she was young and fair, lines of care now mark that once beautiful face. Fortune has turned; in place of the luxury and ease that has surrounded her since childhood, I find pevetty sfaring her In the face, and this question arises in my mind' What is the cause of all this? and, as if to answer mo, she puts on her faded shawl, scarcely enough to shelter her from the storm that is raging without. Stepping from the door, she draws her tattered wrapping more closely around her shivering form and hastens down the stree noiselessly. I again follow; on she goes until she arrives ftt some of the lowest places of vice. I look and exclaim, Can this be possible? For here I behold human beings, that would bo called men Those who, by their might and will could put down these dens of misery, fathers, brothers, and husbands, all are found here; those that have been reared in luxury, as well as those who have always known poverty; all, all are there. My eyes rapidly go from face to face to see if one is there, the one who, when I first beheld him, stood at the altar pledging to sustain and love the woman at his side while life doth last. But not Until she stepped to his side could I recognise that haggard face. Earnestly did she plead with him, but all to no purpose. She returned alone. True to her promise she had kept close to his side, even when scarcely better than a dumb animal. As 1 passed away from this place, I asked, Can this be a dream ? Can it be possible that such places of vice exist? No, it is no dream! What I have just seen oceurs everywhere; our large cities are thronged with just such places; aud yet justice winks at them. Again I see the form I have been watehmg for years. Come with me while we gaze on that once-loVely form; ho less lovely now to my eyes, because it has been the love that woman only is capable of possessing that has kept her so close to her murderer. Yes, it is the last time we shall see her, for she is dead! lying cold and still in a little attic room of a crowded tenement house. The room is bare of any furniture; the bed she lies on is a pile of straw; no one to minister to her in her last moments of suffering! God help all such poor creatures who cast aside the wand of reason! Ivt. Hinsdale, 111. Pockets. Dear Ladies of the “Home:” Did it ever occur to you, when called upon to “put a few stitches in that pocket,” how many different things different pockets contain ? I mean things that are of no earthly use to anyone, and the mystery to me is why men and boys carry them. Men have from eight to twelve pockets, all full; while women never have more than one, and it is often empty! The contents of men’s pockets often determine their occupation without any further evidence. The pocket containing a handful of shingle-nails, two or three stubby lead pencils, a piece of chalk, a bit of paper bearing these mystic figures: “Studs, 14 2x6,18 ft. long; joists, 30 3x5,12 ft long,” you may know belongs to a carpenter! If you turn a pocket inside out and scatter wheat all over the carpet, drop a few grains of corn, a broken harness buckle, a bit of leather strap, four or five inches of twine and a horse-shoe nail, be very sure the owner is a farmer. The grocery man carries crumbs of crackers, peanut hulls, a few cinnamon drops, and maybe a dried apple or raisin or two. The “ man about town, who has no particular avocation, carries in his pockets his hands generally, and jingles a bunch of keys that unlock nothing. A match-box rattles with two or three dice, a poke:-check and two or three buttons in one pocket, while another contains cloves and cardamon seeds. I speak of the trifles carried around daily by our male protectors—not of pocket-books, pearlhandled kDives, ladies’ photos, bundles of letters and various other valuables, for men’s pockets are the receptacle of many useful and valuable articles, as well as loads of things neither useful nor ornamental Some men carry everything in their pockets, from a watchkey to an iron wedge! And, boys! Here language fails! A quire of papdr would not suffice to enumerate half the contents of their pockets. As for our own meager share in the contents of pockets, I reserve that subject for

another letter. Alamo, Ind.

An Album Quilt.

My lady friends are piecing me an album quilt The pattern is a hexagon composed of seven email hexagons and six small diamonds. One solid white hexagon forms the center, which is surrounded by six others of the same size, but of two different colors; the whole surrounded and completed by six small diamonds. Now, some one tell me how to have it put together—whether with solid hexagons, same size as pattern, or with solid diamonds, and what color. Wish I had the names of the “Home ” ladies on some of my pieces. You who love flowers should see Texas in the spring when she has on her floral robe. I do not think I exaggerate when 1 say a hundred varieties may be seen at one glance of the eye. There are numerous varieties of Cactus, some of which are very pretty and curious. Bachelor. CLEBUBKE, Tex. The widow Ashlock, aged 48, lived on her own extensive farm at Elizabethtown, Ky., and one of her employes was William Lewis, aged 18. She fell in love with him, and he doubtless fell in love with her money. The relatives

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opposed a marriage, and drove William away from the place with guns, but the determined widow joined him in Indianapolis, bought him a new suit of clothes, married him, and took him home.

PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Secretary Thompson has just passed his 70th year. President Hayes and Gen. Grant are the same age—s 7. Oliver Wendell Holmes writes of a kiss as a “ lisping consonant.” George Bancroft, the historian, is able to drive about New York. Lesseps, the great civil engineer, has planned to.visit America next winter. Congressman Bouck, of Wisconsin, wears a dark-green coat with buttons of pure gold. Senator Matt Carpenter smokes only half as many cigars as last month, and is feeling twice as well. It appears that Mark Twain has not had the mumps in Palis,after all. What the foreigners took for the mumps was only Mark’s natural cheek. Garibaldi is like the manufacturers of Massachusetts— having trouble with his hands. Only his is not the result of a strike, but of rheumatism. Dr. “Bull-Run” Russell has severed his connection with the London Times, after thirty-eight years’ service. His age is 62 years, and he has gone to South Africa with Gen.Wolseley to correspond with the London Telegraph. Victor Hugo was talking about age, and confessed, in a charming humor, that the most disagreeable advance to him was that from 39 to 40. “Oh, that terrible 40! ”he said. “ But,” remarked some one, “ I should think it a great deal better to be 40 than 50.” “ Not at all,” replied Hugo; “40 years is the old age of youth, while 50 years is the youth of old age.” Pope Leo XIII. is tall and spare, with a patrician air. He has a fine head, crowned with white hair, stronglymarked features, the aspect of an ascetic, with something marble-like in the general appearance of the figure. His face is lighted by a piercing look, and his smile is very winning. His voice is sonorous, not so mellow as Pope Pius’, but more powerful. Though he is moderate in his opinions, he does not lack firmness.-

Courtship in the Olden Time.

The Norfolk Virginian of a recent date says: As an illustration of the stately courtesy and somewhat grandiloquent style of our grandfathers, the following letter may be of interest to many of our readers, and an example of the etiquette of courtship in the olden time that may be commended: i. JOHN WISE TO GEN. CROPPER. [Without date.] Feeling myself irresistibly impelled by inclination, and prompted by a sense of propriety, I have presumed now to address you upon a subject of importance and delicacy. Having conceived an affection for your daughter (Miss Sally), I beg leave to solicit your permission to make my address to her, and at the same time let me express the hope that, should I be so fortunate as to succeed in gaining her affections, my first wishes may not be frustrated by your disapprobation. I have thought proper to make this application to you on the subject in this manner, rather than in person, because my character (if I have acquired any), my condition, and my situation in life are not altogether unknown to you, and if objections are to be made they can be more freely communicated in this than in any other way. I have heretofore proceeded no further with the lady tiffin merely obtain her permission to make this application, and, sir, I now pledge you the honor of a gentleman that, in case you have objection of an insuperable nature to the proposed union, whatever may be the chagrin, regret and mortification which I may feel on the occasion, I will not disturb the quiet of a parent, extremely solicitous, no doubt, for the happiness of a beloved daughter, by persisting any further with her. Permit me to assure you that I am, with much consideration and respect, your obedient servant, John Wise. ii. GEN. CROPPER TO JOHN WISE. Bowman’s Folly, 11th May, 1797. Sir : Although the application made by your letter of this day was unexpected, yet my reflections heretofore on the subject have prepared me to answer: That however solicitous I may be for the temporal felicity of my daughter and future respectability of my child, she is the only proper judge of the person best calculated to make her happy. Respect and impartiality ought to be shown by me to you or any gentleman that might make his address to my daughter, and I confide in your candor and judgment. I am, sir, with due respect, your obedient servant,

The Prime of Life.

Between the ages of 45 and 60 a man who has properly regulated himself may be considered in the prime of life. His matured strength of constitution renders him almost impervious to an attack of disease, and experience has given soundness to his judgment. His mind is resolnte, firm and equal; all his functions are in the brightest order; he assumes mastery over his business; builds a competence on the foundation he has laid in early manhood, and passes through a period of life attended by many gratifications. Having gone over a year or two over 60 he arrives at a stand-still. But athwart this is the viaduct called the turn of life, which, if crossed in safety, leads to the valley of “ old age,” round which the river winds, and then beyond, without boat or cause way, to effect his passage. The bridge is, however, constructed of fragile material, and it depends how it is trodden whether it bend or break.

M. F. B.

Gout and apoplexy are also in the vicinity to waylay the traveler and thrust him from the pass; but let him gird up his loins and provide himsblf with a fitter staff, and he may'trndge en in safety, and with perfect composure. To quit metaphor, “ the turn of life” is a turn either into prolonged walk or into the gravet The system and powers having reached the utmost expansion now begin either to close like a flower at sunset oi break down at once. One injudicious stimulant—a single fatal excitement, may force it beyond its strength, while a careful supply of props and the withdrawal of all that tends to force a plant will sustain it in beauty and vigor U&til night has entirely Bet in.

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Knight’stown is to be made a moneyorder office. A man in Scott township has four young pet skunks. At Indianapolis scarlet fever is increasing among the children. Henry Felger was drowned near Evansville, while swimming. The I. O. O. F. will ei-ect a new hall, at Plainfield, at a cost of $4,000. Brookville is making arrangements to supply itself with water-works. Work has commenced on the bridge over White river at Worthington. This season gives the most bountiful wheat harvest ever garnered in Indiana. A blue racer snake, nine feet and eleven inches long, was killed near Wabash the other day. David Patton, of Hanover township, Jefferson county, is 101 years old, and Sarah Moseby, of Madison, is 104. A young son of C. E. Magee, of Fort Wayne, was attacked by a savage dog the other day and seriously injured. About 100 dentists of this State were in session at,* Indianapolis, last week, forming a State Dental Association. James Hallett, a resjde#t of Vincennes, was fatally prostrated by heat while harvesting on the farm of Andy Purcell. A skeleton was unearthed at Logan sport which is now found to be that of the old Chief Aubeenaubee of the Pottawatomies. Prof. John M. Coulter has announced his resignation of the chair of natural sciences in Hanover College to accept a chair in Wabash College. E. M. Higgins, a convict sentenced to State prison for two years from last February for grand larceny, has committed suicide in his cell by hanging himself with a cord. There are twenty-two prisoners in Wayne county jail. One is making a handsome model of a ship. Another makes watch-guards and other fancy work out of horse-hair. In Terre Haute a traveling horsedealer named Edward S. Cooper was killed in an affray with a colored rough named Albert Evans, who struck Cooper on the head with a heavy chair. A German passenger on the steamer Lytle, giving his name as Susman, committed suicide, by drowning, when the boat was near Garrett’s Landing, on the Ohio. He was probably 40 years old. An infant belonging to Frederick Boub, of Versailles, was seriously scalded, the other day, by falling into a pot of soup. The mother had carelessly placed it on the floor, and the child sat down in it. Eddy Yocum, a 12-year-ohl son of Jack Yocum, of Carbon, was instantly killed the other day by the accidental discharge of an old musket while out hunting. The load entered his right eye, tearing through the brain. The State Millers’ Association held a session last week, at the capital. The principal business done was the adoption of a resolution ratifying the compromise between the Executive Committee of the National Association and the Consolidated Middlings and Purifier Company, after a long discussion. Swindlers are going through various parts of the State, claiming that parts of farm machinery are infringements of patents owned by them, and threatening prosecutions if royalty is not paid. The farmers, rather than suspend work in the busy season to defend suits, generally come down with the $5 or SIU demanded. The agitation of the locomotivewhistling nuisance, recently inaugurated by a new law of the Legislature, has been kept up so frantically that the matter has finally ended in the courts. A man asked an injunction on an engineer on the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western railroad, enjoining him from “blowing” his whistle so much, and the Judge granted it, holding that the law is unconstitutional. A colossal grape-vine is groit.ng upon the farm of Mr. John Copeland, near HagerstowD, Wayne county. A few feet above the ground it measures fortytwo inches in circumference. This large trunk grows upward thirty feet, and separates into two branches, each of which is eight inches in diameter. The vine has spread itself over the tops of two large beech trees which stand near, and during the grape season the trees are overloaded with the fiuit. A fabulous number of bushels of grapes is said to hang on the tops of the trees, seventy feet above ground, quite out of the reach of the fruit-gatherers. Mr. Henry Pohlman, of Montgomery county, was awakened by hearing a noise in his back yard, and his dogs barking as though they had something at bay. As he got up he took his gun with him, and, on opening the door, he saw that his smoke-house door was open, and some one close by it. He asked who was there, but got no answer; he asked again, still no reply; the third time he demanded an auswer or he would shoot. The person addressed made no answer, but advanced toward Pohlman, who raised his gun and fired with fatal effect. On going up to the Eerson he had shot, to his great surprise e found that it was his uncle, Joe Brinker, who was living with him at the time. The unfortunate roan lived but a short time after he was shot^

JOHN CROPPER.

One has only to die to be praised. Handsome apples are sometimes sour. Little and often makes a heap in time. It is easier to blame than to do better. It is not enough to arm; you must hit. Would you be strong, conquer yourself. To change and to be better are two different things. Everybody knows good counsel except him that hath need of it. Better free in a foreign land than a slave at home. Better go to bed supperless than run in debt. There is no good in preaching to the. hnngry. Charity gives itself rich, but covetousness hoards itself poor. Speak littie, speak truth; spend little, pay cash. A new way of suicide is reported in the Caucasus A Russian pea-aut poured kerosene over himself, then lit a match and set himsejf oil fire—he blazed like ft torch.

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German Proverbs.