Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

EOBEIGN NEWS. A number of tenant-farmers selected as delegatee from Scotland, England and Ireland sailed on the steamer Peruvian, which left Liverpool last week, for Quebec and Montreal The delegation goes to America, under the auspices of the Canadian Government, to investigate and report to their constituents the advantages which the Dominion presents as a field for settlement. A Bombay dispatch says : “Serious riots are proceeding in Cabul, and many traders and citizens have been killed. Messengers have reached Candahar from Cabul urging a general rising against the British. Similar messages have been dispatched toother Afghan cities.” The St. Petersburg Gazette advocates boldly carrying out what has been Called the secret Anglo-Russian programme in Asia. This is to divide Afghanistan on the line of the Hindoo Koosh mountains, Russia taking the northern section and England the southern. It has been hinted that England has been moving slowly in carrying out this programme, because the Government was not sure of popular support. But the massacre at Cabul gives the Government its opportunity. The industrial depression continues o grow no better in Great Britain, and wage reductions and strikes are of every-day occurrence in the manufacturing districts. A London telegram of the 13th inst. says: “ Dispatches to the Government oonflrm the apprehensions of an organized opposition by the population of Afghanistan. The Viceroy, however, is sanguine of speedy success. Reports from Mooltan state that Herat Badakslian and Balkli have all revolted gainst the Ameer. A holy war is being reached'throughout Afghanistan. The Hindoo attacliod to Maj. Cavagnari’s mission, who concealod himself during the attack by the mob, and who escaped at night, has arrived at Kiratza. Ho reports that the embassy was attacked in the morning, and set on lire at noon, but that it held out until evening. He believes all the others connected with the mision were killed.” t King Mtesa, ruling near Victoria Nyanza, Africa, has abolished slavery throughout Lis dominions. The deficit in the French harvest is estimated at about 15,(XXI,(XX)bushels. Twentyeight millions of francs’ worth of gold leftthat country last week for America. The St. Petersburg Gazette warns its readers against the treacherous assertion that it is necessary for England to oonqnor Afghanistan. It says England lias always been the deadly enemy of Russia. The policy of Russia in Asia can only consist of reprisals against England. It is necossary to expel the British from Central Asia. Gustavo llippnh te linger, the famous French tenor, win made the tour with J inny Lind in lie r flint vis it to England, is dead, aged 04. A dispatch from Capetown, South Africa, says the “pursuit of King Cetywayo continues hotly, 110 has split up his parly and taken to the hush. ”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. W out. A. 1). Langstaff, President of the Memphis Howard Association, is visiting the cities of the North for I tie purposeof ascertaiung what can be done in the way of securing financial aid for tho fovor-stricken Memphians, Destruefcive fires are reported at Longmont, CoL, and Marysville, Cal. Losses, SIO,OOO aud SBO,OOO, respectively. President Hayes and party arrived at Cincinnati on tho Oth inst., and domiciled thomselvos in the Grand Hotel. They remained in tho city until tho Kith, when they left for Fremont. A brief telegram from Santa Fo, New Mexico, mentions the lolling of seven military stock-herders by a war party, and a rumor to the effect that sixteen soldiers sont against the savages have mtfi death in a similar manner. No particulars are given. John Sliillito, for many years the loading dry-goods merchant of Cincinnati, is dead. Ho leaves a fortune estimated at $3,000,000. A serious drought prevails in New Mexico, and many cattle and sheep are dying for want of water. A number of Mexican war veterans met in Chicago last week, and had a pleasant reunion. President Hayes and family, Secreary Sherman, Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan have accepted an invitation to be the guests of Gov. Cullom at Springfield, 111., during tho State Fair, Sept. 20-Gct. 1. W. W. Keene, assistant cashier of the Northwestern National Bank, of Minneapolis, Minn., is a defaulter to the amount of $135,000. He acknowledges his guilt Seven soldiers, under command of a sergeant, were rocontly seht out with a herd of sixty-four mules from the military post of Ogocoliniente, iu Southern New Mexico, to allow tho herd to graza in the bottom lands N ucar tho post Wtiile thus ong&god they wore swooped down upon by a baud of Coyetore Apaches under a chief known as Victoria, and all murdered. The Indians escaped with the mules. South. For the two days ending at 6 o’clock on the evening of Sept. 0, thore were twentyone deaths at Memphis from yellow fever, forty-six new eaeos being reported to the Board of Health in tho Bame period. A fight between two revenue officers and a party of illicit distillers near Glasgow, Ky., resulted in tho killing of two of the moonshiners, and the wounding of two others. The officers were unharmed, although their clothes wore perforated by a number of bullets. A strange disease has appeared in Northwestern Georgia, which is fatal to all attacked. It appears to be a kind of typhoid fever, but it is much more fatal, and attacks tho young only. Fifty young men died in one neighborhood a week. The disease baffles tho skill of the physicians, and patients suffer terribly. Thero were fourteen deaths from yellow fover in Memphis for the two days, Bopt. 10-11, and thirtv-threo now cases were reported iu] tho same time. Now Orleans reports no eases of fever since Hopt. 3. A committee of the Georgia Legislature has roported in favor of the impeachment of Slate Treasurer Renfro. At DeKalb, Miss., the jury in the case of Henry J. Gully, charged with the murder of Miss Cornelia Chisolm, aft9r a trial lasting seven days, returned a verdict of not guilty. A Sioux Indian named Pockett was executed at Halletteville, Texas, in the presence of 1,000 spectators, for the murder of Frank Edwards, a negro, in February, 1878. He spoke from the gallows, warning young men against drink, and bade all farewell Robert Lancaster was hung at Batesyille, Ark., for the murder of Thomas John-

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•on, in Stone county, Ark., Dec. 24, 1877, at a country frolic, while intoxicated. He asked the Sheriff, after the rope was adjusted, how he felt. The Sheriff’s response was, “I feel worse, I expect, than you.” Lancaster replied: “If you feel as good as I do, you are all right” A chan named Bailes was sentenced to be hanged at Athens, Ala , on the 12th inst., but the case was appealed to the Supreme Court, and the sentence was suspended. Three thousand people assembled at Athens on the 12th, broke into the jail, and took Bailes half a mile out of town for the purpose of hanging him, but no one would tie the knot The Sheriff then jumped into the wagon, pistol in hand, and drove Bailes back to town and lodged him in jail. The crowd then slowly dispersed. On the 12th and 13th of September there were forty-four new cases of yellow fever and eight deaths at Memphis. On the 14th, however, there was a gratifying falling of in the mortality figures, but one death and four new cases beiDg reported on this day. WASHINGTON MOTES Secretary Evarts is said to be opposed to the appointment of Gov. Fenton as Minister to England, on the ground that he is not a lawyer. Evarts is said to believe that it is essential that all the important diplomatic positions should be held by good, if not eminent, lawyers.

POLITICAL POINTS. Washington telegram to Chicago Tribune : “Gov. Jewell met Gen. Grant frequently wliile in Europe, and is convinced that he would accept the Presidential nomination if it should come to him as a practical desire of the Republican convention, but that he would not seek the place.” The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention assembled at Madison on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Hon. Thomas R. Hudd was made temporary Chairman. After the appointment of the usual committees the convention took a recess. On reassembling the Committee on Credentials reported, after which the Committee on Permanent Organization presented the name of the Hon. James Doolittle, of Racine, for President, and that of one delegate from each Congressional district for Vice President After the report of the Committee on Resolutions and the adoption of the platform, Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, was nominated for Governor by acclamation. . The name of William T. Vilas was jironosed for Lieutenant Governor, with the understanding that if Mr. Mitchell declined tho name of Mr. Vilas should bo substituted. During tho roll-call Mr. Vilas entered the. hall and persistently refused to allow his name to be used. The ballot, therefore, wasdeclared informal, and a formal one was taken, resulting in the choice of George H. King, of Green county. Samuel Ryan, of Outagamie, was nominated for Secretary of State; Andrew Haben, of Winnebago, Treasurer; J. M. Smith, of lowa, Attorney General, by acclamation, as was also tho nomination of Edward Searing, of Rock, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Maine election, which was held on Monday, Sept. 8, resulted in tho election of Davis, the Republican candidate, by a small majority over both his competitors, Garcelon (Democrat) and Smith (Greenbacker). The Legislature is Republican in both branches. The Nebraska Democrats held their State Convention at Lincoln, Sept. 10, Hon. John Carrigan presiding, and Editor Smails, of the Fremont Herald , acting as Secretary. The following candidates were placed in the field : Regents of the State University, A. J. Sawyer and Dr. A. Bear; Judge of the State Supreme Court, Elizer Wakely. The Greenbackers of Maryland met in Stato Convention at Baltimore, on the 10th inst. F. P. Dewees, Chairman of the National Executive Greenback-Labor Committee, read a long address, giving- the history of tho Greenback party. The customary resolutions were adopted, and Howard Meeks, of Kent county, was nominated for Governor. The Executive Committee will name the remainder of the ticket. The following is a correct list of the State officers elected in California: Governor, George C. Perkins, Republican; Lieutenant Governor, John Mansfield, Republican; Secretary of State, Daniel M. Burns, Republican; Comptroller, D. M. Kenfield, Republican; Treasurer, John Well, Republican; Attorney General, ;A. L. JHart, Republican; Surveyor General, J. W. Shankin, Republican; Clerk of Supreme Court, Frank W. Gross, Republican; Superintendent of Public Instruction, F. W, Campbell, Republican; Chief Justice, Robert F. Morrison, Democrat and Workingman. Tho New York Democratic State Convention was held at Syracuse Sept. 10-11, State Senator John C. Jacobs presiding. Lucius Robinson was renominated for Governor on the first ballot. The other candidates nominated are: For Lieutenant Governor, Clarkson N. Potter; for Secretary of State, Allen C. Beach; for Comptroller, Fred P. Olcott; for State Treasurer, James Mackin; for State Engineer, Horatio Seymour, Jr.; for Attorney General, A. Schoomaker, Jr. The Tammanyites, headed by John Kelly, bolted the nomination of Robinson, left the hall, organized a separate convention, and nominated Kelly for Governor. Alexander Mitchell, whom the Democrats nominated for Governor of Wisconsin, and who is now absent in Europe, telegraphs to Milwaukee a positive declination of the honor. The State Convention of the Greenbackers of Massachusetts was held at Boston on the 12th inst. Gen. Horace Binney Sargent presided. After the adoption of a platform and the choosing of a State Central Committee the following ticket was nominated: For Governor, Benjamin F Butler; Lieutenant Governor, Wendell Phillips; Secretary of State, Jonathan Arnold; Treasurer, Wilbur F. Whitney; Auditor, David J. King; Attorney General, Horace B. Sargent. The Republicans of Maryland met in convention at Baltimore, Sept. 12. Milton G. Usher was chosen to preside. Ex-Postmaster General Creswell was nominated for Governor, but he declined, and named James A. Gray, of Howard county, for Governor. Mr. Gray was made the candidate for Governor by acclamation. Samuel Mollaber was nominated for Comptroller, Francis M. Darby for Attorney General and J. L McCulloghfor Clerk of Court of Appeals.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Capt. Goldsmith and wife, the cvew of the miniature boat Uncle Sam, from Boston for Europe, have arrived at Liverpool in a vessel which picked them up. They encountered a furious gale off Newfoundland, and for days were, dashed about like a top on the angry waters. To add to their other miseries, Mrs. Goldsmith wap taken seriously ill, and the husband was thus compelled to act as nurse, doctor and cook, in addition to his other duties of steering the frail craft and bailing out the water to keep her afloat. The man went three days and nights without closing his eyes. Altogether jt a perilous voyage and a narrow

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escape, and will probably cure the couple of their mania for crossing the ocean in a dory. A steamer arriving at New York the other day brought the Captain and crew, eleven men, of the Norwegian bark Columbia, which was sunk Sept 4, on the voyage from Loudon to Quebec, by coming in collision with a whale or some other huge sea monster. Visible supply of grain in the States and Canada: Wheat, 15,749,000 bushels; corn, 13,165,000 bushels; oats, 2,493,000 bushels; rye, 355,000 bushels; barley, 761,000 bushels. A Havana dispatch says the insurgent bands in the districts of Holguin and Santiago de Cuba have been broken up into small parties. Twenty persons surrendered in Santiago de Cuba. The rest of the island is perfectly tranquil. The price of nails has been advanced by the Wheeling manufacturers. William M. Hunt, a well-known artist, and probably the most accomplished painter in America, committed suicide at the Isle of Shoals, by drowning himself, a few days ago. Mr. Hunt had attained celebrity in several classes of work, but his latest and best woik was the decoration of the New York State Capitol, at Albany. Col. Thomas A. Scott, President of the Pennsylvania railroad, has come home from E rope much improved in health Wii iam H. Williams, manager of the Bullock Printing Press Company, is dead. Mr. Albert Pell and Mr. Clarence Sewell Read have arrived in this country, bearing the official signatures of her Majesty the Queen of England as Commissioners to inquire into the cause of the agricultural depression in England, and, if possible, find a remedy. Secretary Evarts has been visiting Canada, where he was tho guest of Governor General Lorne. Generous Jay Gould has contributed another $5,000 for the relief of the yellow-fever sufferers m Memphis.

Renewal of the Underwood War.

Dispatches fromGraysoD, Ky., state that “the Underwood war is ragiDg more fearfully than even two years ago, when nothing but the State militia could finally check it, after four men had been killed. Until two months ago matters seemed to be quiet enough, but then one of the Underwoods was foully murdered by the opposing party. Strang6 to say, the Underwoods withheld from taking rovenge. Two weeks ago George Lewis Underwood died from his wounds received in tho war two years ago, and it seems that, in order to revenge his death, Squire Holbrook, the leader of the anti-Underwood party, was shot while going to his pasture Friday morning. Holbrook’s sons and clan then turned Jhemselves loose, and the next report was the killing of Will Underwood while peaceably at work in his field Monday morning. Now the news reaches us of the shooting of George Underwood, Sr., the father and chief of the Underwood party, who was killed at his home morning. “Tho woods up in the Upper Tygart portion of Garter county are full of the' men of the two opposing parties, who propose to fight it out among themselves without the interference of the officers of the law, who do not interfere in the least. “ Later reports from the Underwood war confirm the shooting of old George Underwood, who was literally ricTdled with rille balls when ho stepped out of the door of his house, known as Fort Underwood, yesterday morning. Sixteen shots were fired at him simultaneously, six of which penetrated his body, and one, entering his forehead, tore his skuii all to pieces. Three balls pierced his breast and one of them his heart. “This is tho ninth murder enacted on the stage of the Underwood war, and the Lord only knows how many more will have to bite the grass.”

Bob Ingersoll’s Convention.

The “National Liberal League,” organized at the instance of Col. Bob Ingersoll and other nonbelievers, met at Cincinnati, last week, about 200 delegates being in attendance. A preliminary declaration and platform was adopted. It is very long, and resolves that the general motive of the National Liberal party is to realize more fully than has ever yet been done the main object of a government by the people as expressed in the declaration of independence and the preamble to the constitution of tho United States; that to secure these purposes a new party is necessary to administer and reform the whole national and State governments. The principles onunoiff.tocl are: Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever State or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliance with none; the support of the Stato governments in all their rights as the most competent administrators of our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor; freedom of religion, of tho press, or persons •under the protection of habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected; labor reforms of various kinds are asked for; legislation against tramps condemned; reforms in the currency; in the use and occupation of land; female emancipation; universal compulsory secular education; condemning creating corporations except [for the public good, and present methods of legislation, advocating the election of all public officers directly by the people, and favoring the repeal of all Sabbath, sumptuary and temperance laws.

The Cabul Revolt and Massacre.

The British Mission to Afghanistan consisted of Maj. Cavagnari, his secretary (Jenkins), Dr. Kelley and Lieut. Hamilton, commanding the escort, conissting of twenty-six cavalry and fifty infantry and Sepoy guards. The troops of the Embassy were lodged in two houses in the city, joined by a quadrangle. The nouses were spacious, but, unfortunately, chiefly constructed of wood. The mutineers finally burned down the doors of the Embassy and swarmed in. The party made a very stubborn defense. The loss of the rioters killed in the fight is estimated at ovor 100. The British are advancing on Cabul in three columns. A dispatch from Calcutta says: “ From the imperfect information so far obtainable, there seems to be good reason to favor the view that the disaffection has not spread all over Afghanistan, but that tho affair is merely a local emeute which will speedily disappear when the British troops arrive at Cabul. The Government apparently does not doubt the fidelity of the Ameer. Badshah Khan’s adhesion to the British cause is valuable as removing what might have been a serious obstacle to the advance from Kuram to CabuL The fact that the insurgents did not wait until tl.e winter snows had blockaded the passes, or even until the British had evacuated Candahar, seems to indicate that the rising was wholly unpremeditated. *

Army of the Cumberland.

Gen. Phil Sheridan, President of the Societj of the Army of the Cumberland, has issued the following call: To the members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland: Gentlemen : Having received notification that the arrangements for the unveiling of the statue o! Gen. Thomas in Washington would be completed early in the month of November next, in pursuance of the resolution of the society adopted at the last meetirg, the next annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland is hercbj c died to in Washington, X). C„ Nov. 19 ant, 20,1879, the anniversary of the battle of Missionary Ridge. All memb‘ rs are urgently requested to be present at the meeting. P. H. Sheridan, President of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland.

The Negro Exodus.

A Washington telegram says: “Prominent colored men just arrived from the South re port that the attempts to dissuade- the blacks from going West and North this fall are futile, and (hat nothing remains but to let them go and give the matter & practical test. They report that the exodus will set in in dead earnest the latter part of October, and where one went this spring five will go this fall. The movement, however, will not be confined to Kansas, bu all Western States will receive accessions.’’ A farmer in South Georgia has rescued his cornfield from cows by steeping some grain in alcohol. The whole flock became drunk, and since they have avoided that field.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

ADULTERATED FOODS.

Some Astonishing Statements by I*l-06 Angel 1. At the recent meet irtf of the Social Science Association, at Saratoga, N. Y., a paper was read by George T. Angell, of Boston, on the “ Manufacture and Sale of Poisonous and Dangerously Adulterated Articles,” in which there are many statements calculated to astonish even the most careless and indifferent. We reproduce some extracts from Mr. Angell’s highly interesting essay: The common and wide sale in American markets of poisonous and adulterated articles which endanger the health and lives of those who use them is a fact established beyond all possibility of honest aeniaL They are found in our food, our drink, our clothing; in the cooking utensils used in our kitchens, in lhe pipes that carry our water, in the carpets and wall-papers that beautify our houses, in the colored papers and toys which aro tho playthings of onr children. In the fierce competition of trade the dangerous and cheaper articles are gradually driving the safer and more expensive out of our markets. And this process seems likely to go oh and increase without limit, unless organized action shall be taken to stop their manufacture and sale. Take our groceries, for instance. In the report of the Canadian Commissioner of Inland Rr. venire, published in 1877, it appears that out of 180 articles analyzed ninety-three were found to be adulterated. In the 1874 report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health many of these adulterations are given, some dangerous. In the “ Grocer’s Manual,” a book recently prepared exuressly for the use of grocers, I find many named, some of which I will give. For instance, cream of tartar, seldom found in the shops over 30 per cent, pure, the balance being terra alba, or white earth (a dangerous article tending to produce kidney complaints and various diseases of the stomach), and various other adulterants. Cayanne pepper, debased with red ochre, cinnabar, vermilion, and sulphuret of mercury, and usually the color preserved by red lead and Venetian red ; chicory, dangerously adulterated. In cocoa, rod lead, ochre, red vermilion to color, and sulphate or carbonate of lime to give weight. Pea flour, colored with Venetian red, used to adulterate coffee Essence of coffee is made of various articles which color the cups of our cheap restaurants. In confectionery, reds and pinks are produced by cochineal, red lead, and bichromate of lead; yellow by chromate of lead, gamboge, turmeric, and Naples yellow; blues by litmus, indigo, Prussian blue, carbonate of copper, etc.; greens by acetate of copper, arsenate of copper, emerald green, Schule’s green, Brunswick green, etc., terra alba, chalk, etc., being used to give weight. Curry powder is made with lead and mercury. Out of ten pounds of pure honey is made a hundred of a fine-looking compound, some of the samples of which will turn tea inky black. Liquors and wines, as a rule, manufactured from cheap rums and whiskies, very little pure liquors being now sold. Sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), used in making port wine, also in making sherry wine, also malt ale, also in making Madeira wines. Milk, debased with water, flour, starch, gum, turmeric, chalk, sugar, carbonate of soda and cerebral matter. Cream made by the use of gums. Mustard, seldom sold pure in the shops (and, I would add, often poisonous). Olive oil, falsified by oil from hemp, cotton, rape, peanut and mustard seed. Pickles made green with acetate of copper, a deadly poisoD. (I would add that all bright-greeu pickles are said to bo poisonous.) Preserved meats are colored with ochre and red lead. Bottles bearii.g the b.’ ands of well-kuown sauces, as Worcestershire, etc., are filled with stuff bought by the gallon and flavored with dangerous chemicals. Soaps aro made with poisonous coloring matters which produce diseases of the skin. Teas are doctored and colored with arsenate of copper, verdigris, mineral green, Prussian blue, talc, clay, soapstone and a variety of other articles. This coloring process is carried on largely in New York and Philadelphia. Tho Japan teas are about as bad as the Chinese. Tobacco is made out of the leaves of other plants, to which are added, in cigars and snuff, chromate of Usad, oxide of leadancTother articles. Vinegar is made from preparations of lead, copper and sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol.) [1 would add that it is asserted upon what seems to be pretty reliable authority tiiat probably half the vinegar sold in our cities is rank poison ] These are only a few of the adulterations stated and referred to in this book, which is written for, and in the interest of, grocers and giving the methods by which they can detect these articles.

In regard to teas. I have the most conelusive evidence that, while they are usually adulterated before they reach this country, still they are largely adulterated and poisoned here; a friend of mine, partner in one of the largest importing tea-houses in Boston, and one of whose partners has resided several years in China, said to me, “I will not drink, nor will any member of my firm drink anything but the natural uncolored teas, noi would I advise any other man to do it, but we find it difficult to sell them. Public taste demands teas colored and faced, which I consider more or less poisonous, and some of them contain prussic acid.” I would add that the danger of adulterated teas in this country has recently much increased, because they are now shut out from England. In regard to coffee, not only is the ground article adulterated, but machines have been invented and used in this country to mold adulterations into the form of coffee-berries. It is frequently adulterated witli chicory, which is itself adultered with articles more dangerous. Now take sugars and sirups. The whole value of glucose imported into the United States in 1875 was *2,353; its importation in 18< i, two years later, amounted to *233,360, in addition to which vast quantities are now manufactured in the United States. This glucose is made by boiling corn starch with sulphuric acid (cil of vitriol), and then mixing it with lime; the glucose almost always retaius more or less of the sulphuric acid, and sometimes copperas, sulphate of lime, etc. To make it more salable it is called “grape” sugar, though no grapes are used in its manufacture. o .~ r - C. Kcdzie, President of the Michigan State Board of Health and Professor of Chemistry in the Michigan State Agricultural College, analyzed seventeen specimens of common table sirups, and found fifteen of them made of glucose; one of the fifteen contained 141 grains of oil of vitriol and 724 grains of lime to the gallon, and another, which had caused serious sickness in a whole family, seventy-two grains of oil of vitriol, twenty-eight of sulphate of iron (copperas), and 363 grains of lime to the gallon. I have evidence that glucose is used largely not only to adulterate cane sugars and sirups, but also maple sugar, candies, jellies, honey, etc., and that it is supposed that Bright’s disease of the kidneys is one of the results of its increased use. It appears also from Prof. Kedzie’s report that cheap sugars sold iu Michigan are generally adulterated, and that poisonous articles are used to color them. I have much evidence that a large portion of the sugars sold in New York city contain not only glucose, but also another insidious poison muriate of tin—which has been largely used for bleaching them. At a meeting of the United States Board of Trade, held in New York Nov. 13, 1878, Mr. Fuller, a retired sugar-dealer, declared that sugars, molasses and honey are now so adulterated that, although very fond of those articles, he did not dare to use them except in small quantities. In regard to “baking-powders,” the New York Evening Post of Jan. 6,1879, states that much alarm is felt in that city on account of their adulterations; that eminent phvsicians had been consulted; that more than’ 500 kinds of these baking-powders are now manufactured in America; that the price of alum is less than 3 cents a pound, while cream of tartar costs more than 30 cents; that the makers of these powders substitute alum for cream of tartar in part or altogether, and the result iB griping, constipation, indigestion, heartburn and dyspepsia; that the eminent New York chemist, Dr. Henry Mott, Jr., had recently analyzed sixteen of these powders, and found alum an important ipgredient in every one. An article by Dr. Mott in the Scientific American of Nov. 16, 18<8, states that these powders often contain, in addition to alum, terra alba, insoluble phosphate of lime, etc. In connection with the adulteration of groceries, I would state, also, that mills in various parts of the United States are now grinding thousands of tons of white stone into a fine powder, which sells for about, half a cent a pound, and that in some of these mills they grind three grades, called soda grade, sugar grade and flour grade. In regard to milk, it was estimated a few years since by a Boston sanitary commission that in a single year was paid in that city nearly *500,000 for water mixed with milk, and that this water was probably taken in many instances from dangerous sources, and was liable

to contain and carry germs of disease. It a-p pears from this year’s report of the Boston Milk Inspector, and Prof. Avery, who is employed to analyze milk seized by the Inspector, that probably the city of Boston paid during last year more than $680,0 0 for water mixed with milk How much of that water contained lead poison, or was taken from wells which receive the drainage of cesspools, it is of course impossible to determine. I have evidence that in at least two of our large cities from 90 to 95 per cent, of all milk sold is adulterated before it reaches the consumer, and that the deathrate of infants in my own city has been found to be in a given time more than four times what it was in a given population outside the city. I have evidence that both tho lactometer and creamoter are entirely unreliable to detect adulterations; that cream is made from white glue, and that various articles are added to milk to conceal the addition of water. Now let us take up oleomargarine butter and cheese. Move than 90,000,000 pounds of these articles were manufactured in the United States in 1878, much and probably most of it so carefully disguised that it is sold in the markets without detection. Mr. John Michels, an eminent microscopist of New York city, says that in the process of manufacturing tlie oleomargarine butter and cheese tho fat used is never subjeced to a higher temperature than 120 degrees Fahrenheit; that such butter may be still considered to be in a raw state; that any germs of disease, morbid secretions, or embryos of parasites in the animals from which the oil was obtained are liable to be transferred in a living condition into the systems of those who use this butter; that animals used for food are subject to the attacks of internal parasites that lodge in countless multitudes in all parts of their bodies; that some of the most dangerous forms will also live and thrive in man; that the trichinaj which enter the bedy at once breed by the million, and invade tho whole system from head to foot; that it is well known that living organisms have withstood a temperature much higher than that which caul fat is subjected to in the preparation of oleomargarine, and that even 190 decrees have been resisted by these germs; that it would not be strange if the caul fat from diseased animals, whose meat is not used for food, should often be sold fer this purpose; that he has found in oleomargarine animal tissues, with fragments and cells of suspicious nature; that ho has reason to believe that refuse fat of at least one pork-packing establishment is used in its manufacture, and that he views .with anxiety its introduction as an article of food. Prof. Church states that he has found in oleomai garine, "by analysis, horse fat, fat from bones, and waste fat, such as is used for making candles. _ in regard to drugs, an eminent medical gentleman of Boston skid to me some time since: “ The adulterations of drugs in this country are perfectly abominable.” In regard to our meats 1 have the most overwhelming evidence that thousands of tons of the meats of diseased animals are annually sold in our markets, and that the detection of these meats, after they have been dressed, and put into the stalls, is in most cases impossible.Now let us consider tho subject of .poisoning by arsenic. Tho amount of arsenic imported into this country during the year ending Juno 30, 1875, was two million, three hundred and twenty-seven thousand, seven bundled and forty-two pounds (2,327,742). Each pound contained a fatal dose for about2,Boo adult human beings. It is sold in our markets almost as freely as wood and coal, at a wholesale price of from a cent and a half to two cents a pound. What becomes of it?

I answer ,it is used in wall-papers, paper curtains, lamp-shades, boxes, wrapping-papers for confectionery, tickets, cards, children’s kindergarten papers, artificial flowers, dried grasses, eye-shades and numerous other articles. Among the articles frequently made dangerous by this or other poisons may be named also ladies’ dress goods, veils, sewmg-silks. threads, stockings, gentlemen’s underclothing, socks, gloves, bat-linings, linings of boots and shoes, paper collars, babies’ carriages, colored enameled cloths, children’s toys, various fabrics of wool, silk, cotton, and leather in various colors. Arsenic has been found also in toilet powders and candles. Fros. Nichols, of our Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found oight grains of arsenic in each square foot of a dross. Another chemist found ten grains of arsenic in a single artificial flower. A child in Troy, N. Y., some time since, died in convulsions by taking the arsenic from a veil thrown over its crib to keep off the flies. A case has been recently brought to my knowledge of a Boston gentleman so severely poisoned by wearing poisonous underclothing that for several days he could hardly see. Possibly the largest use of arsenic is in the preparation of our wall-papers. The Massachusetts Stato Board of Health, in their report for 1872, gave twenty-five pages to this subject. These poisonous papers are of a great variety of colors—green, blue, red, yellow, pearl, and other colors. Some aro cheap, some costly, some figured, some plain, some glazed, some unglazed. There is but one way of surely detecting them, and that is by chemical analysis. It has been estimated that fully three-quarters of all our wall-papers now manufactured contain arsenic. The Michigan Stato Board ot Health has rocently published a book containing seventy-five specimens of these papers, and, by order of that board, it has been put into every important public library of Michigan, as a warning to the people of that State. It bears the very appropriate title of “Shadows from the Walls of Death.” This book states that these papers are sold in every city and important village of tnat State, and their use is increasing. It advises (l) the use of no wall-pa-per at all ; (2) never to use wall-paper without first Laving it tested for arsenic; and (3), if arsenical paper is already on the walls, and can not well he removed, then (as some protection) to cover it with a coat of varnish. There can be no doubt that thousands of people in this country are now suffering, and many have died, from the effects of arsenical wall-papers. Yet their manufacture and sale are_ permitted to go on without restriction. “ When I was in Germany,” said an eminent Boston chemist to me, “ I discovered arsenic in two specimens of wall-paper, and the manufacturer was in jail before night. Here I have analyzed hundreds of specimens in a single year and found arsenic in a large proportion of them, but nobody was prosecuted.” As a remedy for this wholesale poisoning, Mr. Angell recommends the organization in every city and village of a protective health association, whose duty it shall be to test and analyze all articles of diet offered for sale, publicly commending the good and condemning the bad. He thinks that Whenever such an association gets fairly at work in any city or town, it will become almost impossible to sell adulterated and poisonous articles without detection. 80 far as that city or town is concerned the demand will cease, and dealers will require of those from whom they buy guarantees that goods are pure and harmless. The purchaser who finds he has a poisonous or adulterated article will return it to the retail dealer, the retail dealer will send it back to the wholesale dealer, and the wholesale dealer to the man who manufactured or adulterated it, and demand not only his money, but full damages. And the guilty party will be glad to pay and stop the manufacture or adulteration. In cities, chemical and microscopical bureaus may be organized under the direction of eminent chemists and microscopists, in which one will analyze a certain class of articles, another another class, and so on; young chemists taking charge of those easily analyzed. When these things come about, poisonous articles of food and clothing, ana poisonous wall-papers and cooking utensils, will vanisM from our markets. m

The Enfant Terrible.

The speeches of Venfant te his first appearance at church and singular—not to be Iria|flSßß —and they have not all either. This time his bright little nephew of he lived in Illinois — oyster, as Thatcher ■ ■ad taken him to a comjfl ■ a at M'da, J vln •')' most eapti'^H fancy was “Capt.®_ ."■‘V.*',: ■t reat . ■ fellow. The ■lav at chulß- .*.*'■ ' ■>flv ■' ; - j;* Jj m IS fl 1 ill Drawer

FORTY YEARS AGO.

The Way Things Were Done in 1840 or Thereabouts. [From the New York Graphic.] “ Yep,” said the man who wasn’t afraid of telling his age, “ .you young fellows of 35 don’t really know how old we of 45 are. You can’t realize the changes which have come over this land in so short a time. Look at our railroad system, even that in our neighborhoods. Forty-one years ago I traveled with my father up the whole north side of Long island from Greenport in a carriage. The mail was three days getting to New York. A single railroad track extended from Jamaica into Brooklyn. We crossed from Brooklyn to New York in a horse-ferryboat. They , were playing ‘ King John ’ in the old Park Theater. Fanny Ellsler was the star of the ballet, and one-horse cabs, with a step and door behind, plied on Broadway. The Astor House was in its glory, and I saw the unfinished walls of Trinity Church. My father took a paper called the Express and the Journal of Commerce, out of which I vainly sought for something to interest a 4-year-old boy. I can recollect but one sentence in either of those papers. It read at intervals in very big letters, ‘ Arrival of the Great Western from Europe,’ and it seemed to me as if no ocean steamer, save the Great Western, crossed the Atlantic for years and years. Beside these headlines, they used, on each arrival, to get out a wood-cut of the vessel. A man who had been to Europe in those days was somebody. Noted ministers used to go, and they always on returning wrqte books of their travels. It would be a good plan to compile a ministerial library of travel in Europe and Asia. A man with beard and mustache then was at once a curiosity and monstrosity. I well recollect hearing one of our village magnates gravely advising a young New York doctor to shave off these appendages. They were clean shavers in those days, and almost everybody shaved themselves. The razor-case and strop formed part of every man’s traveling equipment. Illinois was the farthest Western State, letter postage was 10 cents, the Knickerbocker was the sterling magazine of the time, Sam Slick’s and Maj. Jack Downing’s letters the only very funny reading, gentlemen wore swallow-tailed coats at all hours, tomatoes were called ‘ love apples,’ and suspected of being poisonous, all temperance people were known as ‘Washingtonians,’ circuses traveled with very small negro-miustrel bands who sung ‘Jump, Jim Crow,’ fiddles made a row among the older people when introduced in the country church choirs, the Methodists wouldn’t tolerate a cross in evergreens on Christmas, or anything else, or at any other time, everybody chewed and spit, and built their houses with Grecian porticos, photographs were daguerreotypes, and would rub off the plates, whale oil was the only lighting fluid, all shirt-collars stood up, doctors bled and giwe calomel for almost everything, lung-fever hadn’t turned into pneumonia, everybody had a barrel of rum or hard cider in the cellar, nobody had put a caudal appendage on our first parents, all schoolmasters came from Connecticut and licked with a cowhide, girls hadn’t learned to skate, a man worth a million was rich, the Democrats were called ‘ Loco-focos,’ and so were the matches, the Presbyterians preached sown the Methodists and Episcopalians, the country papers abounded in advertisements of runaway apprentice-boys bound out to serve until of age, represented pictorially by a young man makiug tracks, with his bundle slung on a stick over his shoulder. Good butter was only a, shilling a pound, good cigars 3 cents apiece. Rum was the favorite drink, the best of liquor 6 cents a glass. Infant damnation, predestination, and election were the favorite pulpit topics, Eclipse the fastest horse in America, Bunker hill monument a big thing just done, nobody lectured, round dances hadn’t come over, lager-beer was unknown, general trainings were held yearly, the muskets had flint locks, every householder was required by law to keep two leather buckets in case of fire, ladies wore bustles, gentlemen strapped their pantaloons under their boots, trousers were cut with horizontal instead of perpendicular flaps in front, and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were the greatest men in the United States. I tell you those were times, now.”

The Very Best.

Yesterday a lady stepped into a bird store on Kearney street to purchase a parrot for a household pet. Having critically examined the collection, she turned to the proprietor, and, without otherwise designating her selection, simply said: “I will take Honesty.” “Beg your pardon, ma’am,” said thgj dealer, “which one is it you saiddß will take ?” “I said I will take have him sent round tafl street.” " 111111 “Honesty ?” rcneaJM. rinnki-. ".UKI uiuchi^B “ Why, that -si M [Mi jjj I |||: 111 I necessdß

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induced to make another trip by that boat. He had “done” it, and had no more worlds to conquer in that direction. He had reasoned out a plan of action, and had found his reasoning correct.— Col. Geo.E. Waring, in Harper’s Magazine.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Richard Arkwright, of England, a hair-dresser, invented the spinningframe in 1768, by means of which an immense number of the finest threads are spun with a very little hand labor. Wire rope for mines, elevators and the transmission of power is now being made of the comparativoly-new alloy, phosphor bronze. These ropes are said to retain their pliability after long use, and to resist the action of the corrosive waters found in mines. An unuspal scene for Europe—that of the sun not setting, but shining through the whole night—is to be witnessed from the summit of Mount Aavax, in Finland, near Torneo, at 66 deg. northern latitude. Every year, on June 23, a multitu le of people of different nations visit that mountain to witness the interesting spectacle. The process of making cigars is simple and easy. A sound piece of leaf, shaped like one of the gores of a globe, is placed on the work-bench. A bundle of fragments of leaves is placed across the center of this gore and rolled up in it by placing the hand flat over it. The point of the cigar is shaped with a pair of scissors, and secured by means of a solution of gum and chiccory. The cigar is next placed against a gauge, and a portion of the broad end cut off. A German journals speaks of the description of a storm that is often found in novels in more or less varied terms, but usually somewhat like this: “ The waves rose mountain high over the frail vessel, threatening every instant to ingulf it. Then suddenly they lifted it to the clouds, only the next moment to let it sink again into a watery abyss,” etc. This is poetic, but by no means accurate. Careful scientific observations have established the fact that ocean waves seldom attain to a height of twenty feet, and never rise higher than twenty-seven.

A Batimore inventor has a patent for a suit of flying clothes. By working the arms the man in the clothes mounts heavenward. Waterproof pantaloons and jacket are in one piece. To this is fastened a reservoir made of oiled silk, and stretching from shoulders to waist. To each arm is attached a wing made of silk, with steel ribs. After the mortal has essayed the flight of a bird, and is high in the air, ho hoists a sail. A mast four feet long is jointed with his back, and a triangular sail is set so as to be regulated by his feet. When the sail is raised the arms are motionless, and the gentleman in the air booms along like a center-board yacht under a spanking breeze.

Italian Railway Enterprise.

Feeling sure that I should never climb another mountain, I had brought from Cortina—as a trophy to hang under my Mosel oar—the alpenstock with which I struggled up Tofana—value, 22 cents. For convenience I would send it as freight to Havre. To allow for the slowness of the clerks we assigned an extra three-quarters of an hour for the business of getting it off our hands, besides a half hour for buying tickets and registering the baggage. In front of the station stands a little guard-house, with the deluding legend, “Expedizione.” “Might I send this stick to Havre?” “ Nicuro.” “How much will it cost?” We must ask. The expeditor goes with us to the freight clerk, who answers, “More than it is worth.” “Probably, but how much?” “How much does it weigh?” “I don’t know. Weigh it.” The expeditor hung it to the hook of a steelyard which another man held up. “One kilo” (two pounds;. Then, after sc calculation, “Two francs.” “Very well; I will stand 2 francs. No matter about the receipt. Here is the money. Mark it ‘ Paid,’ and send as soon as possible.” But they manage these things better in Italy. I must go back and see what “ Expedizione” really means. I must give the details very clearly, and the offieial- must make out the papers. I might go and get my tickets and my baggage through, and back. I came back, at hour and of all writinejaSß icTttjfrffl

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INDIANA NEWS.

Mrs. Kate Chase Spragite owns a tract of land in Warrick county. Hon. J. W. Smith, for several years County Clerk of Rush county, died recently. Efforts are being made for the establishment of another extensive ship-, yard at New Albany. William Handy, aged 76 years, living in Brown county, lately dropped dead of heart disease while feeding his stock, Joseph Zints, of New Albany, died recently from stoppage of the bowels, caused by swallowing the seeds while eating water-melon. W. C. De Pauw, of Now Albany, has made his tenth annual donation of sl,000 to the Preachers’ Aid Society of the Indiana Conference. Richard T. Keightly, ex member of the Legislature, and a prominent member of the Masonic Lodge, died a few days ago, at his home in Acton. The residence of Hiram Hyatt, a banker, burned at Washington the other morning. Loss, $6,000; insured for $4,000. Origin of fire unknown. Mr. John G. Newkirk has been elected Professor of History in the Indiana State University. Prof. Newkirk is a graduate of the Union Law School at Albany. The Eighty-fourth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry reunion will be held at Newcastle on the 20th inst., the seventeenth anniversary of the battle of Chickamauga. Scarlet fever is so prevalent that the City Council of Indianapolis has ordered a white flag to be placed in a conspicuous place at every house where the fever rages.

A new election is to be called in those townships in Crawford and Pike counties that recently refuted to voto aid to the completion of the New Albany and St. Louis Air-line railroad. Kinder Ferguson, the Scott county centenarian, aged 108 years, died at the residence of his son-in-law, W. Goben, near Holman. He was the oldest man in Northern Indiana, if not State. The State House cin tractors will begin laying 2,000,000 brick next week. They are also employing 300 men on the building and in the quarries, the latter furnishing twenty-five car-loads of stone per day. A night or two since, during the absence of Sheriff Hay, of Monticello, some person, as yet unknown, became possessed of the keys of 1 the county jail, which had been left in charge of the Sheriff s wife, and a general jail delivery was the result. A party of two girls and two young men while crossing White river at Morgan’s ferry, twenty miles south of Vincennes, were thrown into the river by the horses attached to the wagon in which they were seated becoming scared and backing off the boat. Alice Cottrell, aged 17, Ellen Dellenger, aged 16, and John Summit, aged 22, were drowned, together with the horses. The other young man succeeded in regaining the boat.

Conference Appointments.

The following are the appointments made at the recent session of the Southeast Indiana Conference of the M. EChurch, held at Lawienceburg: Indianapolis District. —T. If. Lynch, I’. E. Indianapolis—Roberts Park, S. M. Vernon; Fletcher place, G. 1.. Curtis; Central Avenue, R. Andrus; Grace, J. W Duncan; Third Street, J. K. Pye; Patterson, J. H. Reager; Coburn Street, V. W Tevis; Edwin Ray, G. B. Young; City Missions, P. S. Cook; Cloona, Alex Campbed; Bean B ossom, A. E Walker; MalottPark and Sugar Grove, J. W. Early; Southport, F. S. Potts; Greenwood, Jesse Miller; Franklin, R. D. Black; Waldron, J. C. Gullett; Nineveh, J. S. Alley; Acton, Win. Nicole; Hopo, W. M. Grubbs; Hartsvillo, A. Murphy; Palestine, G. W. Winchester; Fairland, G. Clouds; Castleton and Lawrencp, A. Jamison; Brightwood, A. Hanway. P. McNutt, Professor Indiana Asbury University; J. A. Maxwell, instructor of Latin and history. Purdue University. Conncrsvillc District. —F. C. Hollidav, P. E. Connersville, E. L. Dolpli; ltushvilie, A. N. Marlatt; Glen wood, E. A. Campbell and Charles Heustis; Brookville, T. B. McClain; New Trenton, D. T. Hedges; Fairfield, G. 8. Conner; Mt. Carmel, J. C. White; Shelbyville, J. G. Chafee; Milroy, W. H. W. Turner; Liberty and College Baldwin ; Brownsville, EverUnaggfl more; Brownsville, Abit-gb.n, C. :