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

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Lute tut vices from South Africa report that tho pp&cn negotiation* with llio Zulu* have niado no progress of late. There had been Home light Hkirmishing, but nothing like a battle. Turkey has refused permission to the United states steamer Quin nohang to enter tho Black sea, tho reason of tho refusal being that the voatfel'a tonnage exceo<lß 800. A cable dispatch reports the harvest a Hungary almost an entire failure. A general engagement was fpnght between tho British forces iiialpf ford and the Zulus under Hung GjjjjHrftyo on , the 4th of July. Tho Zulus, were variously estimated at from 10,(XX) to 30,000, surrounded the British troops, S,(XX) strong, who formed a hollow square. The Zulus charged tho square on all four sides. After the Zulus wore broken by tho British fire, they wore pursued by the cavalry and utterly routed. Lord Chelmsford burned and destroyed all the military kraals, and returned to his camp the amc evening. Lord Chelmsford estimates that tho Zulu loss could not have licen less than 1,000 men. The British loss was 10 killed and 53 wounded. Hir Garnot Wolscloy telegraphed from Durban to tbe British war office, on tho Bth of July, as follows: “I havo halted all the reinforcements here, as 1 believe the war is over. Do not send any more men or supplies till you hoar from mo. I expect to moot tho great Zulu chief about tho 16ih inst., and discuss terms of peace with him.” Incendiarism is still prevalent in Russia, in spite of martial law. At Kharkoff tho authorities requiro every house to have a special night wa f otimau, and keep thirty buckets of water in readiness for use. A Paris dispatch says that De Lesseps has issued tho prospectus of the Darien Canal Comtmny. The capital is fixed at 4tX),<HX),(KX) francs. Only 135 francs per share will bo called in the iirst instance. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent, will bo paid on tho actual money received during tho courso of construction. De Less ops estimates an income of 90,(XX),(XX) francs from tho canal, and reckons the shareholders will receiove 11 nor cent per annum. A London dispatch, referring to the battle of Utundi, says: “The official return f tho British losses does not include those among the nativo contingent. The Zulus were compelled to pause by tho heavy fire when they arrived within sixty yards of the British squrae. Lyo-witnosscs differ greatly as to the persistency with which the Zulus pressed the attack. This probably arises from tho various positions from which they witnessed it. Tho most circumstantial narrative shows that tho Zulus catno with a rush in dense masses in the rear of the square, and seemed determined to got to close quarters. Their attack on tho left llai k was not noarly so determined, as that, w as protected by a Gatling gun, which tlio Zulus greatly dread. The estimates of 11 10 Zulu losses vary so greatly as to show that they me pure guessing. The highest is 1,500. The dead were lying thickly all around tho square. ” The Scotch team won (he Elclio challenge shield at tho contest at Wimbledon, England. The Italian Senate has agreed to the bill abolishing the grist tax. The depression of the English cotton districts eon'inues. A lxmdon dispatch say* shorter time and no further reduction of wages are suggested as a remedy. Homo leading facts in connection with tho cotton trade show that in limited companies alone £!, (XX),(XX) has boon lying unproductive for three years; £I3O,(XX) debt lias accrued; 30 por cent, reduction has been made in operatives’ wages; mills arc running on short time, or are closed, and there have boon numerous failures, and a dccreaso of 50 por cent, in the valuo of house property. Protracted wet weather lias not only seriously damaged tho crops in Franco and other parts of Europo, hut flic rains have swollon tlio rivers, and great injury has resulted to property in tho French and Flemish v alloys. Some excitement was caused by an old woman, supposed to bo insane, flinging a Htono at the carriage containing tho King of Spain going to church in Madrid. More tlmn 500 incendiary fires were reported by the Bosnian authorities in the month of Juno. Home of them were very destructive, and one occurred within tlio precincts of the Kremlin, an old imperial palace at Moscow.

DOMB&TIU IN TEL LIU JENOK. 10n~ t. Ex-'J hx Collector K. G. Waldron, of North Arinas, Mass., has been arrested for the embezzlement of SIM),(XX) duriDg 1876 and 1877 while in office. Now Yotk has a largo number of cases of yellow fever at her quarantine, and one death from the disease has taken placo in Brooklyu and one in Hoboken. Tho war against the Jews, which was inaugurated aDd carried on at Saratoga a year or two ago, by Judge Hilton, continues at Coney island, tho famous watering resort noar New York city. This time it is in a quarter where tho Jewish residents of New York city are particularly aimed at. Tramps entered the house of Mr. Charles Crosly, a farmer of Ellington, Chautauqua county, N. Y , during his absence, murdered Mrs. Crosly by olioking her, and then robbed the house of S3O. Mr. Crosly, returning as the scoundrels were about loaving, was shot and beaten about the head, and loft for dead, hut will probably recover. The Empire, Reciprocity and Lake Ontario ilouring-mills, with elevator attached, at Oswego, N. Y., burned last wook. Boss, $150,000: insurance, $83,000. The decision of the lower courts in the case of Cove Bennett and Mrs. Smith, found guilty of murdering the latter’s husband, has been reversed by the Now Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals. The condemned pair will, therefore, have another trial The oil regions of Pennsylvania were visited by a rain-storm of unparalleled fury one day last week. At Butler the flood was the greatest ever known there. Boar creek rose twelve feet in less than two hours, inundating a very large portion of the country. The damago to the Parkor, Earns City and Butler railroad is estimated at $50,000. Several houses along tho creek were washed away. One of them oontained two children, who were drowned. Several railroad bridges were washed away. Along tho Pittsburgh, New Castle and Lake Erie railroad—narrow gauge—in Butler county, the damage was immense. Breakneck creek was swollen to the size of a large river, sweeping away 80!) feet of the road, houses, fences, trees and Jive stock. The wheat harvest had just been finished, and the shocks which had been left standing in the field were carried away by tho torrent and deposited, many of them, in the branohes of trees twelve and fif*

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leon feet from tho ground. Two streets in Fetrolia, also in Butler county, wore flooded to the depth of several feet. The* Oil Exchange and Postoffice woro badly damaged. On Bear creek, in tho suburbs of the town, twenty-five oouses were washed away, nearly all of them containing families, who were saved with great difficulty. The scene at this point was very exciting. Hundreds of people were compelled to make to the highlands, a distance of several hundred yards. Mother* with infanta in their arms, men with clothing or articles of furniture on thtir backs, children of both sixes and nearly all ages, all struggling through the raging torront to reach a place of safety, presented a scene seldom witnessed. Strange to say, of this struggling mass of humanity, only two small childron were drowned. Tho total loss by the flood is now estimated at $500,000. West. . , There were 274 deaths in Chicago last week, that number being 131 less than the figures for the corresponding week of last year. Three men were drowned in the bay at San Francisco, last week, by the upsetting of a boat One of the most deplorable and tragic cases of self-slaughter that lias occurred in many days is recorded by tho Chicago papers. Elizalieth, Hannah and Nona Trowbridge, throe maiden sisters, aged respectively 43 40 aud 30 years, lived alone in an elegant mansion in Hyde Park, a suburb of Chicago. Through much brooding over exaggerated or imaginary wrongs and misfortunes, they became so despondent in spirits that tlio three spinsters resolved to end their troubles iu death. The two eldest hanged themselves, Nona assisting in the execution of the job. The latter, however, failed to carry out the final act of the terrible tragedy, which involved the taking of her own life. Instead of this, she set up a pitiful moaning and crying, which attracted the attention of some neighbors, who, upon entering the premises, discovered the two sisters hanging to ropes attached to large ton-penny nails that had been driven into tho walls for the purpose. The Indian news from the West is of a rather lively nature. A Fort Keogh dispatch says an engagement took place near the mouth of Beaver creek, between two companies of troops and Lieut. Clark’s Indian scouts of Miles’ command and 300 hostile Sioux. The troops lost four Indian scouts killed and two soldiers wounded. When Gen. Miles’ main column, which was twelve miles behind, came up, the Indians were pursued a distance of fifteen miles, but made their escape to Sitting Bull’s camp. Joseph Lambert, a woodman, and family, living six miles above Wolf Point Agency, on the Missouri, was attacked by Sioux Indians. Lambert, wife and four oliildren were kilted and scalped. Two other children were seriously wounded, and I cannot recover, and one little girl carried into ! captivity. Lieut. George H. Wright, of the Seventh Infantry, had a brush with the I Indians above Muscleshell, and killed ono Indian.

Chicago elevators contain 3,580,375 bushels of wheat, 3,529,953 bushels of corn, 244,8C4) bushels of oats, 48,804 bushels of rye, and 80,808 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 0,384,799 bushels, against 1,585,262 bushels at this period in 1878. In the case of the suicide of the two Trowbridge sisters, at Chicago, the Coroner’s jury have rendered a verdict to the effect that tho two womon woro insane when they planned and executed the double taking-off, and that tlio surviving sister, being also of unsound mind, is not accountable for her knowledge of anil participation in tlio suicidal preparations. It is reported lhat Sitting Bull, at the iio.vd of B,(KXJ warriors, had left Canada, and moved over to the American side of the line. Old soldiers and frontiersmen are of the opinion that he means mischief, and predict lively times out West this summer. Tho blind horse Sleepy Tom, in a pacing-raco at Chicago last week, glided around the mile track in the remarkable timeof thus proving himself tho fastest pacer iu tho world. One of the most appalling disasters that have ever happened on tlio Milwaukee branch of the Northwestern railway occurred at Warren's Crossing, near Waukogan, 111., on tho 26th of July,^resulting in tho death of live men and the serious injury of several others. As a gravel train, composed of ton flat cars, which had. been engaged in ditching, was backing into the sta'inn to make way for the regular 5:10 express, the flat car iu front of the train struck a cow at the crossing, partially throwing the car from the track, and telescoping Iho balance of the train, with the eqception of one car and tlio engine, which remained upon the track. Nineteen men woro employed open, the train, nearly all of whom were seated or standing upon the car which struck the obstruction. The men were thrown from tho cars, and many of them buried beneath the debris of the wreck. One by one the bodies of tlio dead men woro removod, amid the pitiful cries of the frionds who had assembled at the scene of tbe accident. As they were takon from beneath the cars, the following named were found to bo cold in doath : Anthony Joyoe, section boss; John DugaD, Pat Conners, and Michael Sheridan. The wounded were found to be: Austin Dugan, in a critical condition; Thomas McNulty, recovery doubtful; Henry Burns, Thomas Halligan, conductor, recovery doubtful ; Patrick Sullivan, and Johnny Joyce,

South. Thirty-six new cases of yellow fever and four deaths were reported at Memphis on July 21. The panic-stricken citizens were taking their departure as fast as they could obtain means of conveyance. It was estimated that up to that date over 15,000 people had left the city. The Secretary of War had ordered 1,500 tents to Memphis, and the issue of rations for 10,000 persons for twenty days. St. Louis and other cities and towns along the Mississippi river were thoroughly alarmed, and were taking steps to prevent the introduction of the contagion. Josepli Standing, a Mormon preacher, was recently Bhot and killed by a mob of ten men in Catoosa county, Ga. Five new eases of fever and seven deaths at Memphis on the 22d of July. The exodus of citizens was going on at a rapid rate. Two colored military companies volunteered their services to protect the property of the city. At Memphis nineteen new cases of yellow fever were reported to the Board of Health on the 23d of July. City very quiet, and people leaving as fast as they could get away. It was estimated that there were less than 5,000 people in the city liable to the fever, and this number would be vastly reduced only for the brutal conduct of the railroads in demanding full fare from all refugees. The entire South is now quarantined against the illstarred city. At Owenton, Ky., the jury in the Buford after being out eighteen hours, brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. Memphis had eighteen new cases of fpyer and five deaths on July 24,

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D. A. January, one of the oldest merchants and most influential citizens of Hi. Louis, Mo., is dead, aged 65. Tlio Directors of tbe St. Louis Mereliauts* Exchange have adopted a resolution according members of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce tho privilege of transaeting business on tho floor of the St. Louis Exchange for ninety dayA The number of new eases of.' yellow fever reported to tbe Memphis Board of Health on July 25 wan eleven; number of deaths, ten. A telegram from Memphis of that date says: “The weather continues warm an! fair, and there is little change in the deep gloom and death like stillness that has prevailed in this community for the last day or two. With the exception of the little hustle attending the departing of steamers and tho few persons quietly making their way to the Memphis and Charleston depot, bow tho only outlet left open, there is but litile evidenco of life are to be seen. The drug clerks, doctors, telegraphors and undertakers alone are kept busy. The fever, at first confined to the Jones avenue and Clay street neighborhood, is now gradually spreading to all parts of the city, and it is only a question of material to work upon for it to appear n any unexpected spot. Of 16,(XX) people remaining in that city, over 12,(XX) are colored.' The colored people are not in favor of the proposed camp scheme, not liking the idea of being removed from tho city.” A Cincinnati dispatch says: “Passengers on steamers from Memphis speak of tho quarantine along the route as the most rigid over heard of. The people are wild in their determination to keep out Yellow Jack. At Hickman, Ky., a passenger on the Vint Shirkle, from Memphis, being fbrbiddon to land, gave tbe officers the slip and got ashore. The people spotted him out and chased him to tho woods with shot-guns.” ASt Louis telegram says the Mayor of that, city had “telegraphed the National Board of Hoalth that yellow-fever refugees from Memphis are arriving in such large numbers that the establishment of a quarantine became necessary. Ho asks that tents and rations for 1 000 persons for thirty days be forwarded at once.” At Memphis, on the 26th of July, thirteen new cases of yellow fever and three deaths were reported to the Board of Health, and on the 27th there were fourteen new cases and nine deaths. The President of the Board of Health had gone so far as to write a proclamation declaring the fever epidemic, but, at the solicitation of a large number of business men, decided not to issue it,. A committee of safety had been appointed to devise measures for the good of the city. The health authorities of Illinois and Missouri are considering the feasibility of maintaining a floating quarantine for refugees. There wore three well-developed eases of fever in New Orleans on the 37tli of July, all of them iu the upper part of the city.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Republicans of Wisconsin held their State Convention at Madison on Wednesday, July 28. J. B. Cassidy, of Rock county, presided. The following candidates lor State offices (all of them being the present incumbents) were placed iu nomination: Por Governor, W. C. Smith; Lieutenant Governor, Jas. M. Bingham; Secretary of State, Hans B. Warner; Treasurer, Richard Guenther; Attorney General, Alexander Wilson; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Wm. C. Whitford. Tlio convention wound up with a jubilee in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of tho Republican party in the State, at which speeches of the stalwart order were delivered by Senator Zaoh Chandler, of Michigan; Gen. Garfiold, of Ohio, and others. At tho State Convention of the Republicans of Pennsylvania, held at Harrisburg last week, Samuel Butler was nominated for Treasurer. ? Secretary of tho Treasury Sherman delivered liis inaugural speech iu tho Maine campaign at Portland on the 33d of July. He confined himself almost exclusively to financial topic*. The Grecnbaokers of Mississippi met iu convention at the State capital last week, adopted a platform, appointed an Executive Committee and adjourned. The Republican State Committee of New York met last week, aud fixed upon Saratoga as' the place for the State Convention. Sept 8 was chosen as the time. Kentucky holds an election this year on Aug. 4; California follows suit Sept 8; Maine drops in Sept. 8, and lowa and Ohio, Oct. 7. On Nov. 8 the followingStatos will east their ballots: Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey. New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia aud Wisconsin A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Journal says: “ Senator Blaine writes hero that he will have to cancel his engagements foV Ohio. It seems that the pampaign in Maine promises to be very activo on all sidos, and the Republicans feel that they are far from boiug sure of a victory. Another reason that Mr. Blaine lias for not going to Ohio ie that Gen. Ewing is his cousin, and there exists between them a warm personal friend ship.” The Wisconsin Democrats will hold their State Convention at Madison ou the 9th of September.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A Washington dispatch says the recent order of Secretary Sherman instructing Assistant United States Treasurers to make no discriminations against the silver dollar is undoubtedly intended on the part of Secretary Sherman as a departure from the theory which the treasury from the outset has followed with respect to that coin. The following is the text of this confidential letter to Assistant Treasurers, which has never before been published: Treasury Department, ) Office of the Secretary, I Washinoton, D. C., June 17.1879. j The Bon. James QUjUlan, Treasurer of the United Stales Dear Sir: You are hereby authorized and directed to pay out on public obligations and on advances to disbursing officers, the standard silver dollars the same as other coin or lawful money of the United States. For yonr information and guidance I inclose herewith a copy of a circular on the same subject this day addressed to each national-bank depository. Very respectfully, John Sherman, Secretary. The following is the text of the circular referred to: Sir : You are hereby authorized and directed to pay out on public obligations and on advances to disbursing officers standard silver dollars the same as other coin or lawful money of the United States, a full supply of such dollars being now in the treasury. To secure your bank a full supply for such purpose, the Treasurer of the United States, upon receipt from you of a certificate stating that the sum of SSOO or any multiple thereof has been credited to his account, will send you free of charges for transportation a like amount of standard silver dollars. Very respectfully, John Sherman, Secretary. Gen. Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, says that the most careful and extensive arrangements have been made to secure absolute accuracy in the taking of the statistics, both of population and of the various industries. He is of opinion that the coming enumeration will show an increase of

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

10,000,000 of people during the last decade, or an aggregate population of 48,000,000. The computations made at the Bureau of Statistics, but not yet published, for the eleven months ending May 80, 1879, disclose tho fact that for the first time in the history of the country tho exportation of breadstuffs has exceeded in value that of cotton and tobacco, tbe two staples of the South, combined, Tho following are the figures: Breadstuffs $ 192.(KX),«X Cotton 169,100.000 Provisions 107 000.(00 Tobacco.. 27.0' 0,000 Figures furnished by the Commissioner of the General Land Offico show that the amount of public laud entered for homostead settlement in the year ended Juno 80, 1879, was a trille over 6,000,000 acres, or an area a little greater than that of tbe State of New Hampshire, and considerably larger than that of New Jersey. The averago number of acres taken by oach homestead settler, as shown by the entries of the last ten years, is 120. Unsettled public lands iu tbe United States, therefore, x-eceived a population of at least 50,000 during ihe last twelve months under the operation of the Homestead law alone. Tho real accession probably far exceeds 100,(XX) persons. From an unpublished statement made by the Commissioner of tho General Laud Office, it is claimed that the whole number of homestead settlers from tho time the Homestead law wont into operation to June 30, 1878, a period of sixteen years, was 884,848. Allowing 120 acres to each settler, the whole amount of land thus occupied was 46,181,760. This immense domain would make fifteen States as large as Connecticut, is larger by nearly 3,000,000 acres than all Now England, and it exceeds the combined areas of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut,! and New York by an area about equal to that of Delaware. In the number of homestead entries Kansas takes the lead, with 61,034. Minnesota stands next, with 54 ,■ 575, and Nebraska third, with 49,962. Mr. Stoughton, Minister to Russia, has tendered his resignation to the Secretary of State. Secretary Scburz has disposed of the iong-pending quarrel between McGarraban and the New Idria Company for the possession of the great California quicksilver mine. Mr. Schurz holds that tho company’s claim to a patent for the lands known as the Panoche Grande grant, 480 acres, containing the' mine, can not issue, because no one person or company can enter more than 160 acres. The McGarraban claim is cast aside with the remark that the Supremo Court has pronounced it fraudulent. According to Mr. Schtirz, therefore, the magnificent property belongs to the United States. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Jules Jack’s house at Courtright, Ontario, was bixrned, a few nights ago, and two children perished. Gen. Grant books himself for arrival at Sau Francisco on the Ist day of October. Letellier, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, has been dismissed from office. A London dispatch announces that, in consequence of domestic bereavements, Mr. Welsh, Minister of the United States, has resigned, and will sail for home about Aug. 20.

JOHNNY DAVENPORT’S DEVILTRY.

Tho Work Before tlio Wallace Committee. ' [Washington Cor. Chicago Times.] Senator Wallace has just paid a Hying visit to Washington to make ready for the summer work in looking after Johnny Davenport. He says it is the intention of the committee to overhaul Davenport and his past conduct in connection with elections, thoroughly and completely. Several committees have investigated Davenport, and, though each of them discovered fraud and rascality committed by him, a great deal has been left undiscovered. Senator Wallace, says he has the names of men who were appointed Supervisors and Deputy Marshals by Davenport at the last election, together with their residences, and ho intends to investigate their characters and records. Ho thinks enough is already known to warrant the statement that Davenport’s hirelings will he proven to belong to the worst criminal classes in New York. These men were employed because of their bad character and their willingness to commit any act required of them. Crimes against citizens and against laws were contemplated, and criminals were employed to execute them. United States Marshal Payne, of New York city, refused to furnish a list of names and residences of the men who had been employed under him as Supervisors and Deputy Marshals, until he was forced to do so by the Wallace committee. Wallace says the Tammany Society employed a firm of reputable lawyers last winter to prosecute men who, as Supervisors and Deputy Marshals, had outraged voters at the polls and deprived them of their right of suffrage. These attorneys called upon Davenport for the names of the men he had put at the polls, and by him were referred to the United States Marshals The lawyers then requested from Mr. Payne the information needed, and, after being put off for weeks, they got a list of names simply, and this was all they ever could get. The efforts to obtain the residences of United States election officers were entirely fruitless, notwithstanding the energy they displayed. All sorts of dodges and subterfuges were resorted to by the Marshals to avoid giving information that would enable the prosecution to lay hands upon the Davenport hirelings, and finally, when there was no longer any chance for evasion, the attorneys met with a downright refusal. Payne and his chief clerk were summoned to appear before the Wallace committee in Washington, and to bring with them a copy of the roll of Supervisors and Marshals, together with the residence of each one. This summons, of course, could not be disobeyed, and it was only the power of Congress that finally compelled Payne to disclose the habitations of his election employes. It is to follow out this line of testimony that the committee has laid out its summer work.

Cheap Bread in England.

A London journal congratulates the country that, for the first in the history of the nation, a time of general business distress is not made worse by highpriced bread. It says: “The loaf which, thanks to American corn, the people can put on their tables, to-day, is a bigger and better loaf than they have ever been able to put on their tables under similar circumstances before.” Thebe are 30,000 colored members in the Methodjst churches of Baltimore,

THE NATIONAL AUTHORITY.

f From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The Republicans of Congress, tho Republican in the White House, the Republican newspapers throughout the country, have been exalting the national authority in the recent political discussions. The veto messages were sent to Congress ostensibly in defense of the national authority. Tho speeches of tho Republicans in the House and Senate were full of tributes to tbe national authority. Day after day the Republican press teems with articles lifting up the national authority, aud, by the same token, belittling the authority of the States. A large portion of the Republican party is anxious to make this the sole political issue in the elections of 1b79. It is charged that the Democratic party is determined to destroy the authority of tho nation when it asks for a destraction of the test oath for jurors, for the banishment of the army from the polls, and when it would forbid tho use of the Federal purse at the ballot-boxes. It is the theory of one party in this country that because it is determined forever in this country that a State has no right to secede from the Union a State has no rights at all. The war negatived forever the right of a State to leave the Union. Does it therefore follow that a State has no rights whatever? The right of secession was only asserted by a few States. Must all of the States lose all of their rights because it is settled in blood that these few States bad not this right? Because it is fixed that this Union of States is perpetual, is it fixed that there are no States —as the constitution knows States —in the Union?

Let us analyze this “national authority ” for which the Republicans so universally and vehemently plead. Do they really ask for the authority of the nation or for the authority of the Republican party ? The Federal Government is divided into three co-ordinate branches. These three are independent, distinct, separate, and together they compose the “ national authority.” The balancing is so delicate that supreme power rests nowhere; for the Executive may be impeached and removed from office, the Justices of the Supreme Court may also be impeached and removed, laws may be passed in spite of the refusal of the signature of the Executive; and, on the other hand, the laws of Congress may be declared null and void by the Supreme Court. It is, however, these three departments or bi. aches of Government that constitute the “ national authority.” Is it for these, for this “ national authority,” that the Republicans shout? Not at all. Upon the leading questions now at issue between the two parties, between two branches of the Government, the Supreme Court has already decided against the Republican party. That party does not plead for a national authority that includes the Supreme Court; and here is one of the three great branches of that autfiority that is ignored, ruled out, when these men hurrah for the nation with a big “N.” Do they shout for the legislative branch of the national authority? Not at all. They howl against it. This great coordinate branch of the national authority they specially curse and despise. It is clothed by tho constitution with larger powers than either of the other branches of the Government, but it has no place in the national authority for which our Republican friends now cheer. We find, in short, upon examination, that tho only part of the national authority of which the Republican orators and organs are really in favor is that part of which they happen to have control. It is not the national authority, but Republican authority, party and partisan authority, which they are anxious to maintain. It is not constitutional authority of the Federal Government, but the unconstitutional authority of a Republican Executive to which they are devoted. The executive department of the Government was designed by the constitution to be the most modest of' its three great branches. It was intended to bo in fact as in name the executive department. The Executive was to execute the laws, not to make or interpret them. We have roccntly heard the strange doctrine that the Executive is part of the legislative power of the country ; we have recently seen the Executive ignore or defy the department of the judiciary; and we now behold a great party shouting night and day for the national authority, meaning the one man in the White House in accord with itself. He, or his party, is become the national authority, and his party goes before the country on this issue. Driven from power in the national legislature, the Republican party would make the President the nation. “ I am the state,” said the imperial Louis XIV. When, therefore, the Republican journals and the Republican statesmen declaim in favor of the “ national authority,” they are only in favor of that part of it which they chance to control. They denounce and defy the legislative part of it, for it passed measures in harmony with civil liberty in time of peace, and they would have none of them. They ignore and defy the decrees of the Supreme Court, and the Executive alone is the national authority. Upon this proposition they appeal to the people, and denounce their opponents as traitors. Is the President the nation or not? Can men be opposed to the Republican authority and yet be in favor of the national au thority ?

The Story of a Needle.

About thirty years ago Mrs. Butner, motner-in-law of T. L. Montgomery, proprietor of the Rose City baking-pow-der factory of this city, was seized with what she termed rheumatism. The pain was located in the left hip, and was at times very severe. Finally it became necessary to perform a surgical operation, which was done, part of the hip joint being taken off. Physicians held the opinion that the joint was affected, and that the operation would afford relief, but, contrary to their expectations, the lady did not improve very much. For years she had to use crutches, and at one time she was confined to her bed for over a year. This was while the family lived in Kentucky. After removing into this State, Mrs. Butner did not improve very much, and it was only by the use of crutches that she could walk any distance. Last Saturday morning a small needle, of the old-fashioned “cambric” style, made its appearance, the point protruding from the diseased section. Small pieces

of bone having from time to time worked but, the needle was thought to be another fragment, aud it was ouly after being withdrawn that the truth was discovered. Mrs. Butner says that she' remembers once, when si girl, riding horseback, she was stuck by a needle which happened to be in her dress. The needle was broken off just below tbe eye. The description answers to the one spoken of, and there cau be but little doubt but that it is tho same. Since tho needle made its appearance the lady is much improved and can now walk without the aid of crutches. — Little Hack {Ark.) Gazette.

LIFE IN SING SING.

\ Thrilling Moment in the History of the Great Fllson. Sing Sing prison came as near liav ing a sudden revolt among its 1,600 prisoners, the other day, as is possible *for a great prison to come and avoid the danger. A correspondent of a New York paper gives the following account of the affair: “John Barrett, a desperate and powerful young burglar, from Now York, created the trouble, and was killed in cousequence. The cause of Barrett’s desperate conduct was a severe flogging he had received Wednesday. He had been unruly, shirking work, burning his feet several times in the foundry to escape duty, and being punished on several previous occasions. The burning of feet became so common among the molders as to show it was evidently done purposely. Sometimes forty cases were reported in a day. Barrett pretended inability, and made two applications to tbe prison physician to be excused. Tbe physician refused him, and, Tuesday morning, he threw down his tools and said he would not work. For this he was locked up in a dark cell. The following morning, when the slop-buckets were collected, Barrett refused to put his outside his cell, and when, a few hours later, Dr. Smith visited his cell, Barrett threw the contents of his bucket over the physician’s face aud breast. Dr. Smith was stunned by the act, and the acids contained in the bucket blinded him completely for several hours. For this, Thursday morning, he was brought out, and in presence of Dr. Smith aud others subjected to ‘ paddling.’ This is a very severe punishment, much dreaded. The prisoner is handcuffed, and without any clothing in the way, flogged with a strap of sole-leather two inches wide and about two feet long. The authorities were very reticent as to how severe Barrett’s punishment was. However, it made him desperate, and he swore he would have somebody’s life. This morning, while being taken to Dr. Smith’s office by Keepers Mackin and McCormick, he suddenly struck twice at Mackin with a knife, cutting him severely in the thigh. McCormick knocked him down, but he sprung up again and ran into the yard. Getting on the foundry roof, he threw chunks of iron at his pursuers, and succeeded in getting into the foundry, where he called on the 200 workmen to join him and get freedom. The officers had kept him at bay in a corner half an hour, wishing to get the other men out to dinner before they tried to disarm him. When tlic men were drawn in line to march out Barrett tried to join them, but the officers prevented him. The other men broke the line, rushed to their comrade, and surrounded the five keepers with many menaces. For a few minutes there was every prospect of an outbreak, and the keepers feel sure that, had the riot gained any headway, they would never have got out of tlio building alive. Three of them dyove the convicts back, the other two covered Barrett with their pistols. Barrett, after threatening the principal keeper, Biglin, turned upon Keeper Good, with his hammer raised above his head. He was about to strike, and the blow must have been murderous. Good had his revolver in his hand, and, when Barrett came too near, with the hammer still over liis head, fired. The bullet entered Barrett’s left breast, and penetrated tlio top of bis heart, killing liim almost instantly. The other convicts scattered at the sound of tbe shot, but rallied again and mado a rush for the keepers. Three of the latter, however, kept them at bay, while the two others carried out the body. Barrett was one of the most powerful men physically in the prison. He was sentenced October, 1877, to three years and six months’ imprisonment for burglary. The Coroner’s jury gave a verdict justifying the shooting in self-defense.”

Bottling Air.

During the Centennial summer samples of air were collected on various occasions upon the exhibition grounds at Philadelphia, and in different buildings; also in this city, in Brooklyn, Hoboken, and on many of the Adirondack mountains, with a view of transmitting them to the chemists of 1976, to determine whether the path’s atmosphere is undergoing change. That the atmosphere has undergone enormous changes since the earlier geographical ages, is beyond a doubt. The present question is whether such changes are still slowly going on, and what their nature may be. The ordinary statement that the air has an invariable composition is not strictly true, since samples of air collected at different times and in different places are never found to be absolutely identical. The difference may be slight; but an apparently insignificant decrease in the percentage of oxygen became of grave importance when the deficiency, as is usually the case, is made up of less beneficial elements. —Scietdijic American.

A Nevada Whirlwind.

Jim Anderson is getting in his work on the Reno (Nev.) Gazette. A recent number of that paper contains the following report of a recent freak of a whirlwind: During the high wind which prevailed yesterday morning, J. Moorman Cutter started out with a half gallon of whisky to take to his sick mother, who lives out on Virginia street. He was found some four hours afterward lying behind a fence on the hill in an inarticulate condition. Later in the day he recovered sufficiently to explain the catastrophe which had overtaken him. He said that he stopped around a comer to fix the cork in the jug, and while he was taking the measure of the orifice of the jug a tremencums wind came down on him. It sucked the liquor clean out of the jug, blew it down his throat, and turned the jug inside out. He could remember nothing more of the occurrence,

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EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

Two Maitlen Lsulics, Ifesjwilwl of Their Property, Kesolve to Hang Themselves— The Horrible l)e«l Deliberately Executed. | From the Chicago Times.] The cli'gaiit three-story brick residence at No. 12(1 Langley avenue, in the village of Hyde Park, was on last night the scene of one of tue most shocking suicides ever perpetrated. The place was the house of three maiden ladies named Annie, Elizabeth and Emma Trowbridge, the eldest 42, the second 40, and the youngest *SO years of age. Some time ago the.r mother died, leaving them, by will, a handsome property in the shape, of down-town lauds and houses. The rental of this gave them an income sutlicient to supply all their wants and enable them to move in the best society. They were members of a fashionable church, gave liberally to the cause of missions, and donated in an unassuming manner in response to the calls of charities. They were, in a word, three Christian ladies of means and culture, who strove as best they might to make the world better for the fact of their having lived. lint, hardly had they come into full enjoyment of their heritage when trouble arose. Their father, a well-preserved old man, remarried, and from the moment of the wedding he aimed to break his dead wife’s will and gain control of the property. In this, it is said, he was abetted and encouraged by his spouse. The result was a long and tedious lawsuit, which ended last week in the defeat of the sisters and the triumph of the father, who at once took possession of the entire income, leaving his daughters absolutely destitute. They sought their lawyer, and he told them there was no use of longer continuing the fight. They looked around them and could fee the future barred across by a great wall of despair. Tenderly nurtured, with those accomplishments which make women ornaments of society, but leave them destitute of resource to earn their daily bread, the sisters saw no avenue open save that leading down to starvation. They spent nights in planning and weeping. They laid out impracticable schemes which could avail naught, and finally, on last Saturday, they spent their last penny to pay the hired girl, discharged her, and came face to face with utter pgnury. Their house was elegantly furnished, but they knew that a sale would leave them not even a straw tick after the immediate wants of nature were for a time supplied. And so, with grim, gaunt hunger staring at them, their courage gave away. What, indeed, could three modest, retiring, shrinking women, already past the age of attractions, do against a busy, remorseless world? “We can,” exclaimed the eldest, “at least die.”

And then and there the sisters sat down and calmly discussed how and when they should put an end to their existence. They talked until the day had dawned, and the first glad Sabbath chimes rang out on a morning of perfect beauty. Then they slept for a little while, and, arising, donned their best attire and attended the last church service they were ever to know on earth. The remainder of Sunday was spent as had been the night before, anu yesterday saw them fully settled in their resolve. The two older sisters would die by hanging. Emma should live to tell their story, and be a witness to their awful end. There was no food in the house, but that mattered not. They cared for none. Finally, as the afternoon settled down in the somber gloom of the night, they made their preparations. Annie and Elizabeth bathed with all the neatness and nicety born of aristocratic habits. They then put on their clothes, as white and pure as those of a nun. After this the three read aloud from the Bible the Sermon on the Mount, and, kneeling down together, prayed. They besought their Creator to forgive what they were about to do; they asked the pardon of the mother dead and gone; they begged forgiveness for the father. This done, they closed all the blinds, nailed up the windows and doors with great “ten-penny” nails, and drove two spikes in the wall—one just over the center of the folding hall-door, the other in a similar place above the open double doors of the connecting parlors. There was another prayer, the three met in a last embrace, and Emma retired to her room in the story above. There, shivering, sobbing and moaning like one bereft of reason through grief, the poor girl sat from 7 o’clock till !). She listened with that sense of the horrible upon her which, in her case, was unique. She heard the preparations completed, heard the chairs drawn out of place, heard the same chairs fall, heard a choking, final protest of life against suicide, and then came silence—silence so awful and torturing as to more than parallel the suffering inflicted on the damned. She went down stairs, and her straining eye-balls met the hideous sight she knew awaited her. The two loved ones hung suspended and inanimate from ropes tied to the spikes driven in above the door. Two chairs lay beneath them, and the open Bible, wet with tears, was on the center-table. Neither face was distorted, although each wore a purplish hue, and the tongues protruded somewhat. The poor girl saw all in an instant, and then fell fainting to the floor. But mercilul oblivion was not granted to her long, and she awoke again—awoke to moan and cry out, and try to call back the dead companions of a lifetime. She crawled to where they hung, and kissed their feet, and begged them to speak to her. Neighbors heard the unusual noise and broke in. Never, they say, shall they forget the sickening spectacle. The ropes were at once cut, and the forms of the dead women neatly composed on the floor of the parlor it had been their pride to adorn and beautify. The one still alive, now nearly a maniac, it was found necessary, as a matte r of common humanity and precaution, to take to the Hyde Park police station. She, too, wanted to die, and the solemn imprecations she called down upon the heads of relatives responsible for the calamity were blood-curdling in the intensity of their hatred. The news of the suicide soon spread, and people of the vicinage gathered about to gape and wonder and comment. Then the night grew denser, and the hours passed by in procession, until all was again silence, and the lonely house stood like the abode of lost souls, with its flickering gas, its dead inmates, and its solitary blue-coated guardian. The Empress of Austria likes a solitary ljunting expedition. With

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favorite rifle in hand, she goes deep into the wooded mountains and solitary valleys which stretcli around the Imperial domain in every direction. Dressed in the rough costume of the Tyrol, she will often make excursions of two or three days’ duration, staying at night at some distant cot, where the fare, besides the game she brings with li3r, is goat cheese and milk, with black bread.

INDIANA ITEMS.

John llii.l a 10-year-old negro, shot and instantly killed his sister, aged 10, in a family quarrel, at Economy. A bov by the name of Dewit, working for Mr. Madison Hill, a farmer of Winchester, was lately dragged to death uuder a hay-rake. The Merry Bowman Archery Club, of Crawfordsville, are preparing for the great national archery contest, to be held in Chicago in August. In Richland township. Rush county, one day last week, and within a radius of two miles, tluee men were injured by newly-pa ten ted labor-saving harvesting machinery. One sustained a few broken ribs, another a broken leg, amlthe third a broken arm. A few miles south of Cloverdale, two boys named Smith and Sims were playing with a shot-gun. Smith pointed the gun at Sims, “playfully” remarking that he would shoot him. He pulled the trigger, and discharged the contents of the gun into Sims’ abdomen, killing him instantly. Gen. Ekin, of the Quartermaster’s Department at Jeffersonville, has received orders for the manufacture of 25,000 array-blouses, 41,000 shirts, 30,000 pairs of drawers, 7,500 pairs of overalls, 7,500 stable frocks, and 10,000 single bed-ticks. The work will be commenced in about five weeks. A wild beast is roaming in the country near Shelbyville. It has been seen by a number of parties lately, and one man had his dog literally torn to pieces a few nights since by the animal. It came into the yard and the dog began the attack. It made no noise, and in a moment * silenced the dog. The residents say it is a panther or a leopard. The Board of Trustees of Asbury University have elected Prof. John M. Mansfield, of Mt. Pleasant, lowa, to the chair of Natural Sciences, and passed a resolution vacating the Greek chair next June of the college year. This is now held by Prof. Wiley. Prof. J. C. ltedpath was elected Tice President of the Faculty, vice Prof. Lingley, resigned. The organization of the Indianapolis Mercantile Association was perfected last week by the election of tho following officers: President, Wm. M. Davis; First Vice President, A. L. Wright; Second Vice President, H. Bamberger; Treasurer, H. Lieber; Secretary, D. W. Girard;, Executive Committee, Joseph R. Perry, J. T. Brush, W. H. Craft. The organization starts with a good membership, and will have in view tho general business interests of the city.

County ami District Fairs in This State. So far as announced, we give below tho dato of fairs in Indiana for thocoming fall: COUNTY FAIRS. Allen, Fort Wayne, Sept. 22-25. Bartholomew, Columbus, Aug. 29-30. Blackford, Hartford City, Hopt. 22-25. Boone, Lebanon, Sept. 8-12. Carroll, Delphi, Sent. 9-12. Cass, Logansport, Sept. 22-27. Clay, Brazil, Auer. 18-22. Clinton, Frankfort, Sept. 15-10. Daviess, Washington, Oct. 7-11. Delaware, Muneie, Hept 11-12. Elkhart, Goßhen, Hept. GO to Oct 2. Fayette, Connersvillc, Hept. 2 5. Franklin, Brookville, Hept. 22-25. Fulton, Rochester, Hept. 25-27. Gibson, Princeton, Hept,. 15-111, Grant, Marion, Hept. 17-20. Green, Linton, Oct. 7-1 i. Hamilton, Cicero, Aug. 25-211. Harrison, Corydon, Hept. I -5. Henry, Newcastle, Hopt. 15-111. Howard, Kokomo, Hept. 1-5. Huntington, Huntington, Hept. 17-20. Jackson, Brownstown, Aug. I*s-211. Jasper, ltonssolaor, Hopt. 0-12. Jay, Portland, Hopt. ISO to Oct. 2. Jefferson, Madison, Hept. 17-20. Knox, Vincennes, Oct, lit 18. Kosciusko, Warsaw, Hopt 2-1 27. Lake, Crown Point, Hept. 30 to Oct. 2. La Grange, La Grange, Hept 24-25. La Porte, La Porte, Hept. 21 25. Lawrence, Bedford, Hept. It Hi. Madison, Anderson, Hept. 2 5. Marion, Valley Mills, Hept, 1 112. Marion (colored), Indianapolis, Aug. 25-20. Miami, Peru. Sept. 15 JO. Monroe, Bloomiugton, A tig. 25 20. Morgan, Martinsville, Bent. 2-5. Noble, Ligonier, Oct. 8,11. Orange, Paoli, Hept 23-27. Perry, Home, Hept. 20 to Oct. 3. Pike, Petersburg, Hept. 1-5. Posey, New Harmony, Hopt. 11-13. Randolph, Winchester, Sent, 10-10. Ripley, Osgood, Aug. 12-1 <•. Bush, Rushville, Bept. 11-12. Shelby, Shelbyville, Sept. 2 0. Starke, Knox, Hept. 25-27. Bteuben, Angola, Hept 23-25. Tippecanoe. La Fayette, Hept. 1-0. Tipton, Tipton, Hept. 23 25 Vigo, Terre Haute, Hept. 11-12. Wabash, Wabash, Hept. 11-12. Warren, West Lebanon, Hept. 8 12. Warrick. Boonville, Oct 7-11. Wells, Blnffton Oct. 6-0. Whitley, Columbia City, Hept. 30 to Oct. 3. DISTRICT FAIRS. Bridgeton Union, Bridgeton, Aug. 25 30. Cambridge City Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical, Cambridge City, Sept 15-111. Dunkirk Union Agricultural and Mechanical, Dunkirk, Hept. 2-5 Edinburg Union, Edinburg, Hept. 22-27. Fountain, Warren and Vermilion, Covington, Sept. 23-25. Henry, Madison and Delaware, Middletown, Aug. 19-22. Knightatown UuioD, KniglTstowD, Aug. 25 211. Loogootco Agricultural and Mechanical, Loogootee, Hept. 2-6. Middle Fork, Middle Fork, Aug. 25-20. Northeastern Indiana, Waterloo, Oct. 6-10. Prairie Farmer, Francesville, Hept. lb-10. Russellville Union, Russellville’ Aug. 25 IF 1 . Remington Agricultural Association, Roming ton, Aug. 26 20. ■ Southeastern Indiana, Aurora, Hept. 3-7. "Switzerland and Ohio, East Enterprise, Hept. 9-12. Tbomtown Union, Thorntown, Hept 22 26. Union Agricultural and Mechanical, Union City, Hept 23 27.

Pure Coffee.

This is an age of adulteration, and the practice is carried so far that articles used for adulteration are themselves adulterated. Coffee suffers as much as any other single article from tliis contemptible deception. Almost every kind of seed large enough to roast is used for this purpose, and various roots, from parsnips to dandelions, are called into the service. Ground coffee will float on cold water, and not soon color the liquid; the adulterations will sink, and discolor the water at once. It is best to buy the coffeo in the “beriy,'’ and grind it at home, or see that it is properly done. Even then one may be defrauded, as there are machines for making artificial green oQffee.