Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

EOBEIGN NITS. Information comes from the American Minister at Berlin that Bismarck has been converted to bi-metalism, and is determined to use his influence and authority toward the restoration of the donble standard in the German empire. The Egyptian steamer Samanoot, bound from the Mauritius islands to Alexandria, was recently lost at sea; twenty-five lives were lost Diphtheria is now raging as a terrible epidemic in Bessarabia, and a dispatch from Berlin announces that the Asiatic cholera has made its appearance in Smolensk; so that what with the Nihilists and the evils resulting from an almost bankrupt treasury, Russia is having more than her share of afflictions. The question of the emancipation oi the Jews in Roumania has reached its dish through the resignation of the Ministers, who state that they cannot obtain a majority in favor of the measure demanded by the powers. It is intimated that unless the Roumanians recede from their position on this matter the nations which have already recognized the independence of the countries will recall their Ambassadors. Several disturbances have occurred at Lyons, France, caused by the Bonapartists. A number of officers are implicated, and will be punished. Advices from South Africa state that the King of the Zulus had made fresh overtures for peace, which the British military authorities had met half way. The purser of the steamer Etna, which arrived at New York the other day from Portau Prince, liayti, reports as follows: At Port au Prince Monday, June 30, Petit Canal, brother of the President, shot DeLorme, a member of the Legislative Chamber. A general shooting affray ensued, in which forty other mombers and some of Canal’s adherents were killed. Owing to the rot which has attacked the potato crop throughout France it is estimated that the deficiency in the same will amount to 15,000,000 sacks. Bismarck and family have gone to Kissingen. Advices from London state that E. P. Weston will leave for New York with the Astley belt on the steamer Arizona in the last week of August. Sir John Astley intends to accompany him, and several distinguished pedestrians, Corkey, Rowell, Brown, Vaughn and Hazael will follow to compete for the trophy in New York in September. It is reported that tho mental condition of tho ox-Empress Ca lolta is much im]>r ivod. Hurry Palmer, of the firm of Jnrrett A P. m ir, New York tLmtti -al managers, died h i. n on, mi the‘Alb of July. A Mo-tcmv journal has just been supI'lossod lor arguing in favor of larger li:.criy fin the pices.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kn»t. Postmaster General Key and family »re on a pleasure tour through New England. Several Tennessee colonies are being formed in tho region of Lowell, Mass. They will settle in East Tennessee. The Duke of Argyll and his two daughters arrived at New York last week, and were privately entertained at a dinner party by Cyrus W. Field. Among those present were Secretary Evarts, Teter Cooper, JamesG. Blaino, and Mayor Cooper. A furious tornado visited Boston, a few days ago, causing tho destruction of a vast amount of property and considerable life. A yacht was upset in the bay, and five of its occupants found a watery grave. Several smaller crafts wore wrecked and the occupants drowned. In the city, numbers of houses were unroofed, chimneys and signs blown down, and thousands of dollars’ worth of window-glass broken. The storm swept over Fitchburg, Springfield, Pittsfield, Worcester and other towns in the interior, playing havoc wherever it struck. It was the most furious and destructive visitation of tho kind ever experienced in New England. Pitts’ Agricultural Works, at Buffalo, one of the oldest and largest manufacturing establishments in Western New York, has been destroyed by fire. Cox, the negro who murdered Mrs. Hull, iu New York, has been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged on the 29tli of August. Gov. McClellan, of New Jersey, granted a reprieve in the case of Covert Bennett and Mrs. Smith, for the murder of Police Officer Smith, until Aug. 15. The storm in New England, heretofore mentioned, was more wide-spread in extent and destructive in its effects than first reports indicated. A yacht capsized off Nat.tasket beach, and four persons were drowned One man, two women and two children were lost ofT Governor’s island. The rain-fall was vory heavy in various places, and some of the hailstones measured seven inches in circumference. Lightning caused tho loss of a few lives. Two boats capsized off Scituate, and three persons wore drowned. Near Montreal, Mrs. Peter Robertson was killed by lightning. Round about Kingston and Baugerties, N. Y., the crops were ruined, and barns and outhouses blown down. The hailstones resembled large chuuks of ico. Gen. William F. Barry, commandant at Fort McHenry, and Colonel of the Second United States Artillery, died last week at Baltimore, after a brief'illne=s, of bilious dyeeutery. John Hope, convicted of the,robbery of the Manhattan (N. Y.) Savings Bank of $3,000,000 securities and cash, has been sentenced to the Slate prison for twenty years. A “Granger law” has been passed by the lower house of the New Hampshire Legislature. A board of commissioners will have power, under this act, to regulate the charges of all railroads in the State. In the case of Chastine Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull, of New York, a stay of proceedings has been granted by Judge Noah Davis. The case will come before the New York Supreme Court in Ootober. Vvesfc. Daniel Rouser, a well-known temperance lecturer, was receiltly drowned in the Miami river, near Dayton, Ohio. Chicago elevators contain 3,649,080 bushels of wheat, 2,578,278 bushels of corn, 367,127 bushels of oats, 61,689 bushels of rye, and 81,377 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 6,789,552 bushels, against 1,203,137 bushels at this period last year. Milwaukee warehouses contain 1,397,060 bushels of wheat, 7,654 bushels of corn, 13,880 bushels of oats, 3,794 bushels of rye and 92,817 bushels of barley. Stock of lumber, etc., in the hands of ninety Chicago yard-dealers: 282,282,633 feet of lumber and timber; 1.35,755,C00 pieces shingles; 21,891,790 pieces of lath; 539,351 feet Qt pickets, and 306,273 pieces of cedar posts.

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

John Charles Adrion Hamilton, grandson of Alexander Hamilton, died at Merced, Cal, a few days ago. Arthur Townsend was murdered by Indians in Tulare county, CaL, last week. The Indians were lynched by white settlers. It is currently reported in Milwaukee that Alexander Mitchell, President of the Milwaukee and St Paul railroad, has gone to Europe to negotiate for the control of the Northern Pacific road. Advices from the West report that “Gem Miles is in the neighborhood of the Bear-Paw mountains, where lie expected to find a large party of Sioux. The General’s fighting force does not exceed 600 men. Tho wood-choppers and hairbreadth-escape fellows along the river say that he will be cleaned out if he strikes the main body of Sitting Bull’s followers. Old officers on the frontier who fought the Indians before Miles entered the army say he will get caught. They predict for him the same fate that befell Custer.”

Houth. In one day last week there were fifteen deaths from sunstroke in the city of Charleston, 8. C. Southern lynching: John Breckenridge, a young mulatto, who committed an assault upon a respectable young woman near Carlisle, Ky., was taken out of jail at a late 'ionr of the night, carried by a mob beyond the city limits, and hung to a tree. A negro named Lucius Weaver, charged with a similar offense upon a married lady at Strawberry Plains, Tenn, was taken from the guards by a mob, carried into the woods and shot to death.

A party of Indians have been murdering and robbing near Fort Davis, Texas. The meager accounts of the outrage do not indicate whether the raiders were from across the border, although the nearness of the locality to the lurking ground of the Mexican cut-throats makes it likely that such is tho case. Five new cases of yellow fever were reported to the Memphis Board of Health on the 17th. The cases occurred under one roof in the southern part of the cUy. A general panic ensued, and citizens began to flee from the pestilence as fast as they could get a way. Five new cases of yellow fever and one death were reported at Memphis on the 18th inst. There was great excitement in the city, and everybody was leaving that could get away. The relatives of the late Mrs. Dorsey, who bequeathed $350,000 worth of property to Jeff Davis, will contest the will. Davis was the guest of the lady before her death, and the contest will doubtless be made on the ground of undue influence or the insanity of the testatrix. There were five new cases of yellow fever, and one death, in Memphis on the 10th of July, and on the 20th seven new cases and four deaths were reported to the Board of Health. A Memphis dispatch of the 21st says: “ Business is dead. The wholesale merchants have nearly all made their arrangements to continue business at other points. Many retailers have closed their stores and left the city. The city authorities recommend the immediate evacuation of the city, and a number of prominent citizens have paid tho passage of all their employes to other points. The officers of the Hebrew Hospital Association to-day distributed about SO,OOO to 100 poor Jewish families, thus furnishing them the means to leave tlis illfated city. The city authorities are sending the poor people out of the city, having made arrangements to get half-faro rates over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Dr. Dudley D. Saunders, acting President of the Board of Health, states that the fever is not so malignant as last year, and yields more rapidly to treatment. Citizens continue to leave in large numbers. The Memphis and Paducah railroad has ceased running trains. Tho Avalanche, Aj>peal and Ledger will, from date, issue only half-sheets.” In New Orleans, last week, according to the report of the sanitary director, there were eight fatal cases of malarial fever, the whole number of deaths being goventy-one. The health authorities are still confident that there is no yellow fever in the place.

WASHINGTON NOTES Commissioner of Internal Revenue Raum has sent a circular to all Collectors of Internal Revenue in the “moonshine ” districts informing them that, although the usual appropriation for the fees of the United States Marshals has not been made by Congress, his office will not relax the efforts to suppress fraud by the seizure of illicit distilleries, and the prosecution of offenders. He directs Collectors to relieve as much as possible the Marshal from the embarrassments of his situation, and informs them that he proposes to give the necessary force to execute the laws. An Associated Press telegram from Washington says: A memorandum of the financial operations of the Government has been issued from the Treasury, Bhowing that the reduction in the interestbearing debt from the highest point, Aug. 31, 1865, to July 1, 1879, amounted to #583,886,594, and the reduction in the annual interest charge, when the present funding operations are completed (Aug. 1, 1879), will be #67,203,919. The total debt has been reduced #729,224,315, and the reduction since March 1, 1877, is #61.553,886. The bonds refunded under the acts of July 14,1870, and Jan. 20, 1871, amounted to #1,390,022,000, on which the annual interest charge was $81,673,947. In place of these bonds there will be issued when the present refunding operations are completed, which will not be later than Aug. 1, 1879, bonds on which the annual interest charge will be #61,765,880, making an annual saving hereafter in interest charge, on account of the refunding operations, of #19,907,607, of which amount #14,207.177 arises from transactions bince March 1, 1877. Bonds have been sold for resumption purposes since March 1, 1877, the interest on which represents the annual cost of coin reserve, as follows: Rate Annual int. Title of loan. p. c. Amount. charge. Funded loan of 1891..4)4 $65,(100,000 $2,925,000 Funded loan of 1907..4 25,000,000 1.000,000 Total $90,100,000 $3,925,000 Making a net annual saving in interest through the refunding and resumption operations since March 1,1877, of #10,372,177. In addition to the above bonds, there were issued in 1878, to replace the coin used in payment of the Halifax award, 4 per cent, bonds of 1907 amounting to #5,500,000. Two vessels on the Eastern coast, one at New Orleans and a fourth on the lakes, are enlisting boys for the United States navy. A Washington telegram says that on account of the extreme bad condition of the I low lands or flats, and eastern shore of the Potomac river lying directly sonth of the Executive Mansion, President Hayes has arranged to absent himself from the city during the month of September, in order to escape the malarial atmosphere which will necesearily rise from the quarter mentioned. The President intends spending the greater portion of the month at his home in Fremont, Ohio. Since the Ist of July the Treasury Department has issued warrants for arrears of pensions to the amount of $4,840,000, igalting

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 25,1879.

the whole amount paid under the appropriation of $25,000,000 for that purpose $10,219,000. At the present rate the appropriation will be exhausted in a few months. Under the provisions of the Thurman act, the Treasury Department is baying bonds to be applied as a sinking fund for the final redemption of the bonds issued m favor of the Pacific railroad by the Government Every month an amount due those roads by the Government for transportation is withheld, and to that amount purchases are made. The bonds are 5 per cents., as prescribed by the act. So far $318,500 in these bonds have been placed to the credit of the fund.

CHOP PROSPECTS. Summary of Reports from the Entire Country to the National Department of Agriculture. Returns to the Department of Agriculture at Washington of the eotton crop show that the condition of June, which was ninety six, has not been maintained, and is, for July 1, ninetythree. Figures indicating the condition compared with June figures are: Condition. Gain. Loan. North Carolina IU4 0 South Carolina Si .. 13 Georgia 86 .. 7 Florida 91 .. 4 Alabama 96 .. Mississippi 92 .. 7 Louisiana 93 .. 8 Texas 90 .. 4 Arkansas 103 8 Tennessee 101 1 The condition of the other crops is thus stated: Corn—The area planted in the whole country exceeds tbat planted last year. Carolina, Misissippi, Arkansas and Tennessee show the largest gain in the South. Ohio and Indiana show some decrease, while Illinois increases 7 per cent The States west of the Mississippi river make the largest gains as a section, Nebraska, Kansas, lowa and Missouri all ranging from 104 to 118. The condition in all the Southern States is low, on account of drouth in Texas—not over half a crop. The Northern States show a fair condition, while those west of the Mississippi river show a very high average, over 100.

Tobacco—The acreage for the whole country shows a decrease. In the four States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania, in which the bulk of seed-leaf tobacco is grown, there is an increase in average of about 13 per cent, as compared with 1878. Of the States producing shipping, manufacturing and smoking tobacco, which constitutes ninetenths of all tho tobacco grown in the United States, North Carolina alone shows an increase in area planted. All the others indicate material decrease from the acreage of last year. The condition for the whole country is slightly below that of July 1, 1878. Massachusetts alone, of the States bordering on the Atlantic, shows increased condition; and Tennessee, in the West, places her condition at 94, against 89 last year. Spring Wheat—Returns for July give average condition of spring wheat at 91 against 106 on July 1, 1878. The Northern New England States range nearly up to the average. A few counties in Northern New York average 89. Texas, the only Southern State producing it to any extent, roports but 61. The Northwest spring-wheat States range from 92 to 96, but lowa falls to 88. The spring-wheat crop of Kansas is but 6S. On the Pacific coast most of the California crop is returned as spring wheat, and the average 93. Tho small spring wheat crop ot Oregon is full average. The condition of the crop in the Southwest and Northwest was largely affected by drouth. In some sections the Hessian fly was injurious. In the Northwest local storms were more or lews destructive.

Winter Wheat—July returns show an average condition of winter wheat of 91, against 101 on Jnly 1, 1878. The New England States average 99. The crop here was small and late, but promising. Middle States, 86. Complaints of drouth, 'nildew, Hessian fly and local storms. In the Sortth Atlantic States the condition is 95; stands thinned by winter killing and growths stunted by drouth in many northern counties, but farther down the coast the condiiion is greatly improved. This section would be a full average but for injuries in Virginia, bringing the State average to 85. Georgia reports 108, with au excellent quality of grain. Commercial authorities report an almost entire cessation of the movement of North-

em wheat to Georgia, the local mills finding materials sufficient in their home growth. The Gulf States) report an average of 75. The small crops of Alabama and Mississippi are in high condition, but the crop of Texas is a third below the average, through drouth and local storms. Southern inland States, 98; grain of remarkably fair quality generally. States north of the Ohio river, 101; straw short, but grain plump and heads heavy, and greatly improved by recent rains. States west of the Mississippi, 89; injuries by chinch bugs in southern parts, and by storms in northern portions. Pacific States, 108. The winter wheat of Oregon averages 112. POLITICAL POINTS. A Washington special to the Chicago Tribune says : “A gentleman here who received a letter by the last steamer from one of the persons accompanying Gen. Grant’s party, says that the report recently started that Gen. Grant does not intend to return to this country until next spring must certainly be a mistake, for in this letter the announcement was positively made that he expected to return about Sept 10 next.” The Wisconsin Greenback State Convention was held at Watertown on the 15th of July. Col. R. May, of Yernon county, was nominated for Governor; Col. W. L. Utley, of Racine, for Lieutenant Governor; George W. Lee, of Grant, for Secretary of State; P. F. Griffith, of Oshkosh, for State Treasurer; George B. Goodwin for Attorney. General, and Mr. Searle for Superintendent of Public In struction. The pith of the resolutions adopted by the convention is as follows: They denounce the money despotism that has grown up in this country; demand the payment of the bonds in greenbacks; convict labor to be abolished; the rate of interest on money should not exceed the rate of profit; denounce all efforts of both parties to make a solid South or a solid North; denounce the coinage of gold and silver dollars; the issue of greenbacks may be limited to the demand of trade; demand the abolition of the national banking system; denounce all fusion or coalition with either of the old parties, and invite all honest men to join them; a man may deduct his indebtedness above nis credit when listing his property for assessment; the public lands must be kept for actual settlers, and no more grants to corporations. The Greenbackers of Pennsylvania also held their State Convention, on the 15th. A full ticket for State offices was nominated, headed by Peter Sutton, a wealthy farmer of Indiana county, for State Treasurer. The Pennsylvania Democrats held their State Convention at Harrisburg on the 16th inst D. O. Barr, of Allegheny county, was nominated for State Treasurer by acclamation. The platform “favors a constitutional currency of gold and silver and of paper convertible into coin,’l upholds Congress in its fight with the National Executive, and denounces the latter as a usurper and conspirator agaiqst the people’s liberties.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles

The lowa Prohibitionists met in Convents at Cedar Rapids, the other day. After considerable noise and confusion, a resolution was adopted that it was inexpedient to make nominations for State officers, and then an adjournment was voted. Subsequently about forty delegates met and nominated the following State ticket: For Governor, Prof. G. T. Carpenter, of Oskaloosa; Lieutenant Governor, Frank S. Campbell, of Newton; Supreme Judge, J. M. Beck; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Prof. J. A Nash, Des Moines. Washington dispatch: “A telegram from Si Panl anc ounces that the President has stood by his original intention in offering the position of Secretary of War to ex-Henator Ramsey. The appointment is to take effect when McCrary can assume the lowa judgship. A letter has been received by the President from Mr. Ramsey, accepting the office.” The Chicago Daily News prints a sensational dispatch from Washington, announcing that President Hayes has concluded to be a candidate for a second term; that Senator Logan is to be Secretary of War; that Hon. E. B. Washburne is to be appointed Senator in Logan’s place, and that Gov. Cullom is to be appointed Minister to Russia. A call has been issued for a convention of the National Greenback-Labor party of New York at Utica, Aug. 28, for the nomination of a State ticket

mSOELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Friends of the United States yellowfever Commission may be interested in learning tbat its members are busily prospecting for fever-germs in Havana, where there were 117 victims of the yellow pestilence last week. Information has recently been received by the Treasury Department at Washington, which shows that the entire coast of Alaska, including the islands, and embracing 2,600 miles of sea frontage, is a vast reservoir of fish. This report to the Treasury discloses the existence of a new store of wealth for American industry. This information is contained in a report from Special Agent of the Treasury Morris, who spent two years in investigating the resources of Alaska. From this report it is apparent that as fine cod-fisliery banks as exist anywhere in the world lies along the coast of Alaska, from the peninsula of Unalaska, through Norton’s and Kotzebue’s Sounds into Behring Straits, and tbat the fish in quality and size are equal to those caught off the banks of Newfoundland. Capt. White, of the United States revenue marine service, who was on the Alaska waters last year, reports that he sounded along the shores of Alaska for 700 miles, and found the entire length a codfish bank, with plenty of halibut The growing crops, and the demands for the same, continue to excite comment from all sections of the country. The hot weather and abundant rains, with the large acreage, seem to indicate that the coming crop of corn in the United States will be the largest ever grown. There is a good report of this crop from nearly all sections. Of wheat there is more fear. In many sections of lowa the chintz bugz have done great damage. Storms of wind and hail in other localities have seriously injured the crops. And yet, notwithstanding all, if the weather is propitious for threshing during the next month, a great crop will be gathered. The steamer State of Virginia, bound from New York for Glasgow, was wrecked on Sable island, 125 miles out from Halifax, N. 8., during a dense fog, on the night of July 11. The passengers and crew took to the boats, one of which was capsized in attempting to land. The rest of the passengers and crew were safely put ashore. The Secretary of War, upon the recommendation of Gen. Schofield, commanding at West Point, has dismissed six cadets for hazing. A few days since Gen. Hazen wrote a long letter to the War Department complaining of Gen. Sherman’s order promulgating the proceedings of the Stanley court-martial, taking the ground that the reflections contained in said order were ui just and uncalled for, as he had not been under trial, and, in concluding, requested an investigation into his conduct, etc., at the several engagements mentioned in the Stanley trial. The request has been refused by Gen. Sherman, and Hazen, who is now at Estelleville, Ohio, is ordered to join his regiment now in Dakota. A frightful accident, occurred last week at Point aux Trembles, twenty-one miles from Quebec, Canada, caused by the overturning of a yacht A party of fifteen put out from the village, composed of people from Quebec and Point aux Trembles, and about half an hour afterward, when about the middle of the river, were met by a gale of wind which completely overturned the yacht, and of its occupants eight sank to rise no more. The steamer St Antoine, which chanced to be approaching, quickly steamed to the spot, and, by putting out her boats, succeeded in saving seven of the fifteen. News was received in New York of the total loss of the English screw-steamer Burgos, in St Mary’s bay, during a dense fog, while going from Montreal, Canada, to Liverpool. No lives lost

Cost of doing Round the World.

A correspondent of an Eastern paper writes from Adelaide, South Australia, showing the cost of travel in these days of improved transportation, as follows: Saloon. Steerage. Boston or N.Y. to Liverpool.... #75 S3O Liverpool to London (rail i 5 3 London te Adelaide 225 100 $305 $133 If by steamer from London to Adelaide, SIOO must be added to the saloon passage, and say S4O for second cabin in place of steerage. For those who have money at their command, the route via San Francisco is the most pleasant as well as the shortest. This will cost for a first-class passage: New York to San Francisco *139 Sleeping car _ 22 Meals (18 at $1) 18 San Francisco to Sydney by steamer 200 Sydney to Melbourne ’ 25 Melbourne to Adelaide ..." 25 T .... $429 In addition to which the cost of living at the various ports must be taken into account. This may be estimated at about $4 a day, or as much more as the traveler feels inclined to st>end. The round trip from New York to*Adelaide, and thence to England and home again, may be done very comfortably in about six months. I will give figures for first-class and second-class: Ist 2nd V, Da//«. Class. Class. N.Y. to San Francisco.. 7 $139 SIOO Sleeping car 22 00 Meals jg jg San Francisco to Sydney 28 200 150 In Sydney 10 40 30 Sydney to Melbourne... 2 25 25* In Melbourne 10 40 30 Melbourne to Adelaide.. 2 25 25* In Adelaide 40 49 39 Adelaide to London 100 225+ 150 London and England at $4 per day England to New York... 11 75 50 A , 180 $849 S6OB ♦First class. (Sailing Ship.

NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS

Modifications in Rates of Postage and Classification of Matter. [From the New York Times ] By the provisions of recent acts of Congress, as construed by the Postoffice Department, various important modifications have been made in rates of postage and in the classification of mail matter. As the changes will largely affect the mercantile, insurance, and other interests, and as they are at present but imperfectly understood, the subjoined detailed information upon the subject has been obtained through inquiry at the Postoffice. It may be relied opon as being in accord with the latest official rulings and decisions of ■ the department, and as absolutely correct. The rate on commercial papers, insurance documents, papers in legal proceedings, etc., when partly in print and partly in writing, has heretofore been the same as on letters, viz.: 3 cents per half ounce. All such articles have now, with the exceptions mentioned, been assigned to the third class of mail matter, and as such are chargeable with postage at the rate of 1 cent for each two ounces when sent in unsealed envelopes or wrappers. The exceptions are: If such articles contain writing in the nature of personal correspondence, or are in themselves the representatives of a monetary value. In these cases they become first-class mail matter, and as such are chargeable with the letter rates of postage. According to the latest rulings of the department (which reverse a number of those recently made under the same law), the specific examples of the exceptions to thirdclass matter are: Insurance policies signed and in force, daily insurance reports, insurance transfers, notices of premiums due, assignments, transfers, appheations for insurance, promissory notes, attached to premiums or not, and all notices from local agents to policyholders respecting renewals, cancellations, receipts, or other kindred matter; also, all signed notes, checks, drafts, deeds, Bonds, bills of lading, receipted bills, and signed receipts of all kinds. Insurance policies, canceled or incomplete; unreceipted bills, ir voices, and monthly statements may all be sent at third-class rates of postage. The former restrictions as to writing in books have been removed, to the extent of permitting a simple manuser pt dedication, or form of presentation, to be written on the covers or blank pages. Manuscript for publication, when accompanied by proof-sheets, may be sent at third-class rates; but unless so accompanied, is chargeable at letter rates. Architectural and other drawings made by hand, heretofore charged at letter rates, are now assigned to the fourth class, and may be sent on payment of postage at 1 cent per ounce, as may also original paintings in oil or water colors, etc. Chromos #re rated as thirdclass matter unless mounted on cloth or pasteboard, in which case they belong to the fourth class. Postage and revenue stamps are now in the fourth class. Articles of glass, formerly excluded from the mails, may now be sent at fourth-class rates (1 cent per ounce), provided they are secured so as to guard against injury to other mail matter in caso of breakage, and are boxed in accordance with certain* instructions contained in the United States Postal Guide. Original packages of tobacco, and boxes of cigars, and other articles sealed by internal revenue stamps, which were formerly charged at letter rates, are now placed in the fourth class by a decision of the department, which states that they “will regard the stamp placed over the cover or opening of such packages as evidence that no matter is contained therein which is subject to letter rates of postage.” All persons who desired to avail themselves of the concessions noted above will understand that they involve certain drawbacks. For examble, with the single exception of the packages sealed by internal revenue stamps, all mail matter not sent at letter rates must be left open to inspection by the postoffice authorities. No articles, other than letters and postal cards, can be returned to the senders on request; nor forwarded to other offices, unless again fully prepaid, in case the persons addressed have removed; nor can they be advertised; but, if found undeliverable or uncalled for, they will be sent to the Dead-Letter Office. Mail matter of the third and fourth classes is not assorted and put up with, or in the same manner as letters being placed loose in canvas sacks and not in locked pouches; and, of course, whenever it is necessary, on account of unusual accumulation of mail matter or other reasons, to give preference in dispatch, it is always accorded to letter mail.

An Experiment in Opinm Smoking.

Opium smoking, it seems, falls far short, after all, of those many delights which it is popularly supposed to afford. One Herr Maclay, in the course of a stay at Hcng Kong, has made an experiment upon his own body which should be considered pretty conclusive. After fasting eighteen hours, he smoked twenty-seven pipes, holding in all 107 grains of the opium used by the Chinese. It is interesting to know that after the third pipe he ceased to feel hungry, that the fifth left him unable to walk about comfortably, the seventh brought his pulse down from eighty to seventy, the twelfth caused singing in the ears, and the thirteenth a hearty fit of laughter. Twenty-five pipes affected his hearing, but witnin an hour after the trial, which had only lasted about 160 minutes, he was able to walk home and go to bed, where he slept so soundly as to wake up fairly fresh and hungry next morning. The point especially to be noted is that during the whole experiment he had no dreams or hallucinations of any sort whatever. Opium smoking is accordingly a failure in this respect. It does not even equal the study of politics as a producer of illusions.—London Telegraph.

The Three R’s.

Somebody mourns because he has nothing but the three R’s to teach. Poor soul! From the very depths of our feelings we pity you. Nothing to teach! The world is before you. Sun, moon and atoms, stars and comets, a whole universe full, and nothing but the three R’s left you. But after all we suspect you have not taught those branches very much. Can you read? We should like to examine you. How we would try you all the way up from Mother Goose to Milton. Can you write? We would give you a pen, and ten minutes in which to write a thought worth remembering one gecond, Then

arithmetic! Why, my dear, ignorant soul! do you not yet know that arithmetic is the science of sciences, that even the highest calcnlus is only an expanded arithmetic? Go home! Leave your work to others who will honor the grandest of all studies, reading, writing and arithmetic. There are those who understand that to know these well is to be well learned. God bless the teacher who knows the three .It’s! God bless the child who learns them!— Educational Monthly.

USEFUL INFORMATION.

Castor oil, besides being an excellent dressing for leather, renders it vtrmin-proof. It should be mixed, say hall and half, with tallow or other oil. Neither rats, roaches, nor other vermin will attack leather so prepared. Many persons dislike lettuce as a salad. They may not be aware that, when boiled, minced, and properly prepared with butter, salt, and pepper, it is a very pleasant addition to the dinnertable, and finer than cabbages, which are a great deal more expensive. A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. Pyroligneous acid may be used with subcess in preserving leather from the attacks of mold, and is serviceable in recovering it after it has received that species of damage by passing it over the surface of the hide or skin, first taking due care to remove the moldy spots by the application of a dry cloth. As far as real beauty is concerned a plaster figure is as satisfactory as marble, but the cheap material shows its inferiority by turning yellow and gathering dust to an extent that makes it very unlike the thing of beauty which it is meant to be. A coating of whiting and very thin glue, applied with a brush, will restore its whiteness and make it once more £i real ornament. To repair a damaged mirror: Pour upon a sheet of tin-foil about three di’achms of quicksilver to the square foot of foil. Rub smartly with a piece of buckskin until the foil becomes brilliant. Lay the glass upon a flat table, face downwards; place ihe foil upon the damaged portion of the glass; lay a sheet of paper over the foil, and place upon it a block of wood or a piece of marble with a perfectly flat surface; put upon it sufficient weight to press it down tight; let it remain in this position a few hours. The foil will adhere to the glass.

To Clean Pictures : Wash with a sponge, or a soft leather, and water, and dry by rubbing with a silk handkerchief. When the picture is very dirty take it out of its frame, procure a clean towel, and, making it quite wet, lay it on the face of the picture, sprinkling it from time to time with clear, soft water ; let it remain wet for two or three days; take the cloth off and renew it with a fresh one. After wiping the picture with a clean, wet sponge, repeat the process till all the dirt is soaked out; then wash it well with a soft sponge, and let it quite dry. Finally, rub it with some clear nut or linseed oil. Spirits of wine and turpentine may be used to dissolve the hard old varnish, but they will attack the paint as well as the varnish, if the further action of the spirits is not stopped at the proper time.

Boy Heroes.

[From the Terre Haute (Ind.) Express.; Charles Gibbs, his brother Ed, and George Rouse, all colored boys about 12 years of age, were taking a bath in the Wabash river. Suddenly Ed Gibbs and George Rouse got beyond their depth and were unable to swim, when Charles went to their assistance and succeeded in saving them both. He was so exhausted that he sank and was swept down stream, drowning before he could be rescued— a sad ending to a brave boy. [From the Pekin (Ill.) Republican.J A coal shaft is being sunk j ust north of Hollis, and the other day a workman by the name of Harland lighted a slow match leading to a blast and then signaled to be drawn up. The depth of the shaft was seventy feet. When he had been raised forty feet he struck the bottom of a board partition and was thrown back to the bottom. Thomas Crandall, a stepson of Harland, was a witness to the accident, and promptly slid down the rope, seventy feet, and tore the match from the fuse in time to prevent an explosion. The act was a brave one, scarcely to be paralleled. The boy’s hands were terribly lacerated by the friction of the rope. The stepfather was rescued with a broken rib and other severe bruises.

He Fell.

Hugh Fell lives uptown. A funny man stopped at his house one day and asked for him. . Mr. Fell appeared and made himself known. “You fell? ” said the funny man. “Yes, sir,” was the reply. “Did you hurt yourself? ” “Sir?” “You say you fell? ” “Yes-.” “Well, if you fell, did you hurt yourself? ” asked the joker, with a serious phiz. The man saw his drift now, and fell into a passion, and struck straight from the shoulder, and the joking fellow fell into the gutter, while the feller, Fell, cried: “Now you fell Into the hands of Hugh Fell, so let me ask you were you much hurt when you fell? ” The bona fide Hugh Fell walked into the house, while the fellow he fell picked himself up, felt both sore and sheepish, and no longer felt any desire to learn whether Hugh Fell or any other feller hurt himself when he fell.— Philadelphia Sunday Transcript.

A Maori Fast Woman.

She wore a tall, black hat and dark veil, a dark-blue well-fitting riding habit, a dainty pink and white necktie; I afterward saw she wore a pair of French-looking boots and black and white stockings. She was, in fact, a “real dark swell.” She talked a little English, and, after hearingof my plight, she made the third rider, an ordinarylooking native, dismount, and give me his horse, he remaining to do what he could for mine. We rode on to a native village, and there had some boiled potatoes and dried peaches for lunch. My fair riding companion soon afterward appeared without the riding habit, but with a dirty clay pipe in her mouth. I fear her civilization, like her dress, was only a new habit, whose greatest charm was the ease with which it could be discarded .—Trazer's Magazine,

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NUMBER 24.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

It Has Been Too Long In Power—A Change N< ed'ed for the Good of the Country. During the closing hours of the recent extra session of Congress Mr. Charles Nordhoff sent the following significant dispatch to the New. York Herald: The course of the Republican leaders in the Senate this week has been atrocious. They have fought the army bill as though they were the rump of the Grant movement fighting for the last chance to secure an el ction; or as though, as is commonly conjectured, there were some secret motive in their opposition. The importance of what they have Baid has by no means justified their intensity and desperation of purpose. They’ have transcended all regular and legitimate opposition, and they have not shown any reasons that the bill ought not to pass. Their conduct has afforded a curious spectacle of men who have been too long in power for tiieir own or their cqpntryTs good—who have become intolerant of opposition from any source, either outside of, or withiD, their party, and who have forgotten how to submit to defeat, and are capable of seizing on power by any means, however violent. The display which they have made is of a spirit entirely and dangerously evil, and no thoughtful man can read the Senate debates of the last week and consider the tone, the temper, the spirit and the wide disparity between the subject and the Republican treatment of it without perceiving that it would be well for the country if these gentlemen could be for awhile retired from power, and that it would be an extremely hazardous thing to lease of it, which they seem determined at all hazards and by any means to seize. It is the Grant movement which has displayed itself in the Senate in these days, and has, with extraordinary arrogance and intolerance, insisted on troops at the polls. If nothing else justified the Democrats in insisting on their extremely mild prohibition of the use of troops for election purposes, the language and spirit of the Republican leaders in the Senate this week would give them abundant justification, and it is not too much to say that rather than trust these Republicans—Senators Conkling, Blane and others—with troops at the polls, it would be far better and safer to the country to disband the army. In this aspect the Senate debate of this week may and ought to serve a useful and important purpose. The Grant movement has its center m that Senatorial coterie which has aimed to control the House, has tried and is now trying to intimidate the President -"horn it hares, and which, with unerring .ostinct makes its desperate stand for troops at the polls as the true ground for the Grant movement to maintain. The Democratic determination to keep troops away from the polls has seemed hitherto to be inspired by foolish and ridiculous fears, but the apparition of the Grant movement in the Senate justifies them and ought to secure for their aims the support of all judicious voters. The spirit of the Republican leaders in the Senate shows that it is high time for the security and peace of the country to have a change of parties. Like the Democratic party in 186 J, these men have been too long in power. They are drunk with an unpatriotic ambition. They show plainly that they do not mean to let go of the Government; that they regard the country as their possession, and a political defeat as a personal wrong and robbery of themselves. The impression which this debate has made upon many thoughtful attendants upon it is -that no party can be so dangerous to the country as a patty led, inspired and controlled by these men, and that if the Republican party appears in the Presidential canvass under their leadership, it will be the duty es every man who values the country’s safety and peace to oppose it and them, no matter who is on the other side. The Republicans uttored a foolish cry of revolution early in the session, but your correspondent, whose duty it has been to watch all the tedious debates of the extra session, and who has not failed to expose to you the folly and weakness of the Democrats, has seen nothing on the Democratic side, when among the worst elements of that party, which at all compares for wickedness of purpose, for desperation and evil spirit, with the course and temper of the leading Republican Senators during this debate.

Assess the Army for Foster’s Benefit. Under the protection of Mr. Hayes and his fraudulent Cabinet, the Republican strikers are levying a tax upon the department clerks at Washington for money to be used in Foster’s campaign in Ohio. We are informed on credible authority that already more than $20,000 has been raised in the departments for this purpose. But $20,000 is not enough. At least five times that sum is needed and expected from Washington by Mr. Foster. The tax on the assistant auditors, clerks, doorkeepers, messengers, janitors, copyists and floor-scrubbers, has, therefore, been apportioned on a basis of something like SIOO,OOO. Yery few of the officeholders who are approached and requested to contribute to the Foster fund feel a lively interest in the political fortunes of the beneficiary. The majority of them, it is safe to assume, do not care a copper how Ohio goes provided they are allowed to remain in their little offices and draw their salaries in peace. Even the clerks who hail from Ohio would prefer to keep their money for their family expenses, or to provide innocent summer amusement for themselves and their wives and children. But they dare not send away the collector emptyhanded. They know that the request for “ voluntary contributions” is a demand which they cannot afford to refuse. They have plainly been given to understand that the demand is backed by all the power of the fraudulent administration, and that that power will be pitilessly employed. They submit to the blackmail because they know this.

The remarkable thing about the assessment is that no attempt is made by Mr. Hayes and his Secretaries to conceal, excuse, or palliate the outrage. The robbery of the clerks proceeds openly, in the face and eyes of the whole country. Yet it is only two years since the following letter announced Mr. Hayes’ determination to reform the civil service: Executive Mansion, ) Washington, June 22, 1877. f Bik— l destre t:> call your attention to the following paragraph in a letter addressed by me to the Secretary of the Treasury on the conduct to be observed"by officers of the General Government in relation to the elections: No officer shall be required or permitted to tike part in the management of political organizations, caucuees, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed. This rule is applicable to every department of the civil service. It should be understood by every officer of the General Government that he is expected to conform his conduct to its reauirements. Very respectfullv, R. B. Hates. The sham, the cowardly hypocrisy of that order, and of all the snuffling professions that accompanied it, were lo ag ago exposed. It is too late in the day to waste words over it. In the interest of the civil service clerks who are to be forced to supply campaign-funds for Mr. Charles Foster, we desire to make a suggestion to the managers of that candidate’s cause. The issue made in the platform on which Foster stands is the old issue of the bloody shirt. Mr. Foster’s campaign is to be an aggressive war upon the late Confederate States of America. Of course Foster was deeply concerned in the fate of the Union, during the period between 1861 and 1865, although the exacting requirements of trade kept him away from the scene of actual hostilities. Now that he is about to that war oyer ag§jp, and is

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in need of funds, instead of putting his hand at the throats of the department clerks at Washington, whose functions and sympathies are not at all military, and demanding their money, let him appeal to the patriotism of the officers and privates of the army, and to the volunteer veterans who were at the front when he was behind the counter of his shop in Fostoria. Let him assess the various encampments of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Foster has become a soldier, in spirit if not in record; he ought to look to liis military brethren, and not to the civilian clerks and copyists, for the sinews of war. What a wild wave of enthusiasm would sweep over the veterans who served in the Union army, if Mr. Charles Foster should turn to them and eloquently request contributions for the purpose of defeating Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Ewing and Brig. Gen. Americus L. Rice !—New York Sun.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Pneumonia has broken out among the horses in Harrison county. The Johnson county Agricultural Fair will be held Sept. 10. Alonzo Blair, a prominent lawyer of Shelbyville, died recently. There are now about 700 convicts in the Northern prison, mostly working on contracts. The Tipton county Fair will be held on the 23d, 24tli, 25th, and 26th of September. The Commissioners of Johnson county have decided on building a new Court House. Hubbard Gray, aged 90 years, and Mrs. Fiddler, aged 104, died at Vienna on the morning of the 9th inst. J. B. Barnes, general foreman of the Wabash shops at Fort Wayne, has received a patent on a new-style locomotive whistle. Abel Shields, aged 65, an old and respected farmer of Washington county, was found dead in his pasture, resting on his hands and knees, on his farm near Salem. J. D. Swan, for a Jong time a railroad conductor, residing at Indianapolis, has bought a mine at Tucson, in Arizona, and has gone there and is now working it. William Thasher, for sixty-two years past a resident of Terre Haute, died last week at his home near that city. He was one of the pioneer settlers of the State, and one of the first printers in the West. Dr. Fisher, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Madison, has been chosen to succeed Dr. Heckman in the Presidency of Hanover College, and Harvey Young was elected Professor of N atural Sciences. At New Albany the cholera-morbus epidemic continues; over 100 severe cases and several deaths have occurred in the past week. Among the seriously sick reported were Dr. E. Newland, formerly Treasurer of State, and Capt. M. M. Hurley, Postmaster. A New Albany paper says: Ten families of skilled mechanics from England arrived here, last night, to work at the DePauw American Plate Glass Works. In all, about 150 English and French families have been brought here from Europe to be employed at these works.

Three colored boys, Charles and Ed Gibbs and George Rouse, all aged about 12 years, were taking a swim in the Wabash, at Terre Haute, last week. Ed, the yonngest of the Gibbses, and Rouse got out of their depth. Neither could swim and they were in peril, when Charles, who could swim, came to their aid and succeeded in getting them into shallow water; but the gallant effort exhausted him so that he could not maintain his foothold, and be was swept away and drowned. His body was recovered, but too late to be resuscitated.

Statistics of Taxation. W. O. Foley, Deputy State has recently been at consuls..ble trouble in compiling a statistical statement as to the value of the taxable property—lots, improvements, personal property and railroad and telegraph property—in the principal cities and towns of this State. The figures are from official returns made by the several County Auditors, in December of 1878; but hitherto, although the taxable value of the several counties was easily ascertained, it has been difficult to arrive at a correct conclusion as to the amount of the various kind of property taxable in the cities and towns. The full statement in regard to the cities whose taxables are valued at more than $3,000,000 is as follows: Fort Wayne—Lots, $4,739,920; improvements, $3,862,035; personal property, $2,524,215; railroads and telegraphs, $608,970; total taxables, $11,795,140. Logansport—Lots, $2,358,615; improvements, $1,580,940; personal property, $1,382,355; railroads and telegraphs, $317,'925; total taxables, $5,617,835. New Albany—Lots, $2,261,505; improvements $2,172,475; personal property, $2,838,010; total taxables, $7,271,790. Vincennes—Lots, $1,017,775; improvements, $1,307,630; personal property, $1,072,345; total taxables, $8,307,750. Indianapolis—Lots, $86,419,435; improvements, $20,043,715: personal property, $lO,916,545; total taxables, $67,379,695. South Bend—Lots, $1,638,710; improvements, $1,462,125; personal property, $1,749,270; total taxables, $4,850,105. Lafayette—Lots, $3,535,045; improvements, $2,879,875; personal property, $3,855,860; railroads and telegraphs, $107,410; total taxables, $9*277,690. Evansville—Lots, $7,004,415; improvements, $1,684,285; personal property, $5,598,210; railroads and telegraphs, $175,065; total taxables, $17,461,975. Terre Haute—Lots, $5,453,005; improvements, $3,810,860; personal property, $3,518,955; railroads and telegraphs, $408,0u5; total taxables, $13,190,215. Richmond—Lots, $r, 535,910; improvements, $2,509,980; personal property, $3,326,955; railroads and telegraphs, $40,502; total taxables, $7,411,357. Madison—Lots, $662,040; improvements. $1,252,145; personal property, $2,114,560; total taxables, $4,028,745. The cities and towns whose taxable property is valued at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 are as follows: Jeffersonville, $2,523,442; Muncie, $2,002,984; Elkhart, $2,025,639; Laporte, $2,356,000; Crawfordsville, $2,175,005. The towns having a valuation between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 are: Columbus, Frankfort, Washington, Lawrenceburg, Aurora, Greenaburg, Goshen, Princeton, Marion, Knightstown, Kokomo, Huntington, Seymour, Franklin, Warsaw, Michigan City. AndersoD, Peru, BloomingtoD, Martinsville, Valparaiso, Mount Vernon, Greencastle, Union City, Rushville, Wabash. Out of ninety-fivg cities and towns sixty-Dine have a valuation of personal property considerably in excess of tlie value of ]ots.