Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

YOKKION NEWS. A Constantinople dispatch says that advicos from all sides represent that Eastern Koumelia is in a state of complete anarchy. There has been a series of massacres. There is a serious famine in Roumania, on acconnt of tho failure of the maize crop. Upward of 12.000 cotton operatives are on a strike at Ashton, England. A dispatch from Berlin says, the cattle plaguo having appeared in liussian Poland, Germany has forbidden importation across tho frontier of live stock from Itussia or Austria. Advicos from India say: It is believed in the best-informed circles that tne Ameer was undoubtedly in complicity with those who commitled tho assault upon tho British Embassy at Cabul, if lie is not guilty of directly instigating the affair himself. Suleiman Pasha, whose dcatli at Bagdad is announced, was a conspicuous figure in tho ltusso-Tiirkish war. His heroic hut illadvised assaults on tho liussian posts in the Balkans will he remembered as among the most brilliant exploits of that bloody struggle. When (ho Ilussians overrun lioutnelia he was deprived of his command and imprisoned. Later it was reported that he had been thrown into the Bosphorus by order of tho Hultan, but tho falsity of this was established soon after by his reappearance in banishment. The latest great engineering project, announced in a cable di-patch from St. Petersburg, is to unite tho Caspian and Black seas. The work, it is stated, has alroidy boon com monoed. The Emperor of Germany has been paying a visit to Strasbourg, where, a cable dispatch says, he was received with closed shops and barred shutters. News comes from Afghanistan thut tho native troops mutinied aud murdered their commander, aud subsequently fell upon and slew alt the English and military authorities at Herat. Tho news has caused the greatest excitement in England. Intelligence from India confirms the report of the outbreak at Herat, Afghanistan. Tho troops of the garrison plundered and burned the Governor’s house, and murdered the commanding General, who was a friend and supporter of the Ameer. Tho affair throws suspicion upon the loyalty of Ayoub Khan, the brother of tho Ameer. The Rev. Mr. Thompson, the oldest member of tho American colony at Berlin, died a few days ago of apoplexy. A London dispatch says the Chairman of the Strike Committee of Bradford mechanics has sailed for America, to make arrangements Co - t!io emigration of 750 men.

VO KB3TXC 1 N T ELt.I U I3N G2J, Ka-t. A New York dispatch says that a prominent «•■.-a 1 deal r assents that there is no hope of the coal companies at tho East being ablo to form ail cll< dive combination .this soason. The matter has boon discinml for about two weeks quite generally, but an ugroement is found to bo absolute!}' impossible. These negotiations, it is stated, aro now ended, and a bitter competition, highly satisfactory to coal-consumers, must ensue. Tlie public may look for cheap coal. A Boston dispatch reports tho burning of a three-story tenement lionso in Gold street, liy which some five or six people, mostly Gormans, lost t!*°u - lives. A Fall River (Mass.) dispatch reports a serious riot in that city. A number of Canadian operatives went to work in the milts, which so incensed tho strikuig workmen that they attacked and atoned them. Several of tho new-ooraors wore painfully injured before the polico came to their rescue. Seven seamen belonging to the American Hliip Sea Ring, of Richmond, Mo , are in jail at Philadelphia for tho murder of the second male, Charles E. brooks, whom they belabored to death "with belaying pins. The deed was committed at sea, on the I 2th of August last. The .prisoners claim that they were justified in taking brooks’ iife, in that they had been subjected to most cruel and inhuman treatment at his hands. James Reclpafch, the well-known proprietor of Rodpath’s Lyceum Bureau, is missing from New York, not having been heard from forsovcral weeks. New York papers chronicle the death of Daniel Drew, tiro well-known,financier and stock operator. He was Sri years old. Houth. There were eighteen deaths from yellow fever, in Memphis, and forty-two now cases, for the two'days, Sept. 15-10. Contributions to the Howard fund were coming in freely. The Medical Inspector at Helena, Ark., reports a number of cases of yellow fever at Carson’s Landing, Miss., sixty miles below Holona. The fever has also broken out badly at Ooncot jia, La., and all the surrounding country has quarantined against the afflicted town. Advices from Taney county, in the southwestern part of Missouri, say that two brothers named Burr and James Manus, living near Kirbyviile, got into a quarrel about a cow, and James Hhot and killed Burr. A younger brother thon went home, procured a rifle, and shot his brother James through the heart. There were fifteen deaths from yellow fever at Memphis and thirty new cases for the three days ending on the evening of Sopt lit A dispatch from that city says a review of the situation reveals tho following condition of affairs: There are about two hundred and tseniy-fivo people sick with yellow fever in and adjacent to Memphis, nearly all of whom aro being attended and cared for by the Howards. Their physicians and visitors aro daily abroad, seeking new victims for relief. They have one hundred and eighty nurses on duty and aro working under au expense of about fTOO per diem. The Masons, Odd-Fel-lows, Knights of Honor and other benevolent associations aro laboring hand-in-hand with the Howards in the noble work of relieving tho sick and distressed. There were only three deaths from yellow fever in Memphis during the two days Bept. 20—21, twenty new cases being reported in the same timo. x"West. John B. Ramer, 7 years old, died at Cleveland, Ohio, a few days ago, from hydrophobia, after having been sick for one day. He was bitten several weeks ago. The Wisconsin Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at Delavan, was destroyed by fire last week. With the exertions of the citizens of Delavan all the property it contained wag savod, including the library, safe, and tho contents of all the rooms. The institute had just commenced its yearly session, with an attendance of 155 pupils, a larger number than have everjbefore been reg-

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

is'ored. The first building was erected in 1854, intended to be a wing to the main structure, erected in 1856. This supplied the needs of the State until 1867, when the west wing was built The estimated cost of tho building is $250,000, upon which there is no insurance, the State having insured its own public buildings for eight years. Hastings, Neb., has been visited by a disastrous conflagration. Two hotels, one bank, one printing-office, ono elevator and nearly all the stores in the town were burned. The loss is estimated at $100,000; partly covered by insurance. Chicago elevators contain 1,344,102 bushels' of wheat, 3,057,732 bushels of corn, 490,658 bushels of oats, 165,554 bushels of rye, and 136,817 bushels of barloy, making a grand total of 5,203,863 bushels, against 0,855,371 bushels at this period last year. Henry D. Adama, better known as “ Hack” Adams, one of the oldeet and widestknown printers in the West, died in Chicago, a few days ago, of consumption, aged 54 years. He was for many years foreman of the Chicago Evening Journal office. President Hayes and party journeyed from Cleveland to Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 17, for the purpose of attending a reunion of the President’s old regiment, Twenty-third Ohio. Tho reunion was held in a grove near the town, and, after an address of welcome by Dr. McCurdy, the President delivered a speech of considerable length, in which he defended the financial policy of his administration. Ho was followed by Gen. Sherman in one of his characteristic talks, after which the party returned to Cleveland. President Hayes went to Detroit Sept. 16. Ifo was presont at the State Fair near that city, and delivered a lengthy speech, in which he reviewed the commercial and industrial situation, and dwelt at some length on the finances of tho country. Gon. Sliermau and Zaeh Chandler also made speeches. Gen. George B. Smith died at his homo in Madison, Wis., a few days ago. Mr Smith was one of tho most prominent ciizens of tho Badger State. Ho has held many positions of trust and profit, and has been a leading lawyer and active politician for over thirty years. He was 56 years old. A serious Indian outbeeak is reported in New Mexico. “ Doc ” Middleton, the notorious Nebraska desperado and horse-thief, has been sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Louis Guetig, who a year ago murdered Mary McGlew, a hotel waitress, because site refused to marry him, was hanged at Indianapolis Sept. It). President Hayes and party arrived at Chicago, over tho Lake Shoro and Michigan Southern railroad, on tho evening of Sept. 22, and were quartered at the Grand Pacific Hotel. After a private reception and a night’s rest at that hostelry, the distinguished party continued their journey westward over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road. A short engagement of ten performances is being given at Haverly's, in Chicago, by tho king of tragedians, John McCullough, this week, opening with "Jack Cade.” He presents a very comprehensive repertoire during tho week, a 3 follows: “ Virginius,” “ Othello,” “ Hamlet,” “ The Gladiator,” “ Richelieu,” “Julius Ciesar,” “Richard IlL,” “Damon aud Pythias,” and “The Honeymoon.” The same strong company he had before, except Mr. Barron, support him, including John A. Land and Miss Emma Stockman.”

POLITICAL POINTS. The vote of California for Governor, with a few scattering returns yet to come in, is as follows: Perkins (Republican),6o,2lo; White (Workingman), 41,925; Glenn (Democrat), 37,673. The official majority for Kalloeh in San Francisco is 1,528. Of the local officers the Republicans elect Tax Collector, County Clerk, CoroDer, Superintendent of Streets, Supeiintendent of Schools, Recorder, and Police Judge. Of the Superior Judges, the Republicans elect five and the fusiouistssix. Of the Supervisors, two are Workingmen and ton are Republicans. The official vote of Maine, with a few small towns to hear from, is as follows: Davis. Republican, 68,012; Smith, Greenbacker, 47,088; Garcelon, Democrat, 21,181. Tho Republican plurality over the Greenback ticket is 20,924; over the Democratic ticket, 46,831: The returns from tho remaining towns will not essentially change the voto. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention was held at Worcester on the 16th inst. A H. Bullock presided, and the convention was addressed by Senator Hoar. John D. Long, the present Lieutenant Governor, was nominated for Governor on the first ballot. The remainder of the ticket is as follows: For Lieutenant Governor, Byron Weston; Attorney General, George Maraton; Auditor, Charles R. Ladd; Secretary of State, Henry B. Pierce; Treasurer and Receiver, Charles Endicott The State Convention of the Butler wing of the Massachusetts Democracy was held at Worcester, last week. Geu. B. F. Butler was nominated for Governor by acclamation. The remainder of the ticket is as follows: For Lieutenant Governor, A. O. Woodworth; Secretary of State, Michael T. Donohue; Treasurer, D. N. Stallings; Auditor, D. J. King; Attorney General, William D. Northern! The convention of the Independent voters of Massachusetts, held at Woroestor Sept. 18, nominated Gen. B. F. Butler for Governor. The Colorado Republican Convention, in session at Denver last week, nominated William E. Beck for Supreme Judge. Congressman Bolford offered a resolution, which was carried with great enthusiasm and cheering, that, on Grant’s return, should he decide to become a candidate for the Presidency, Colorado will pledge him her votes. The convention was addressed by Carl Schurz. Tlie Wisconsin Democratic State Central Committee has substituted the name of James G. Jenkins, of Milwaukee, for Governor, in the place of Alexander Mitchell, who declined the nomination tendered him by the Democratic State Convention. WASHINGTON NOTES A Washington dispatch says that the demand for silver dollars is increasing every day, and the United States Treasurer is in receipt of large orders from banks and bankers throughout the country requesting him to honor their requisitions without delay. The principal demand comes from the Southern and Western States, though the country banks in New York State, and even in the cities outside of Now York, are sending for $5,000 and SIO,OOO at a timo. The silver certificate bids fair to take the place of the standard dollar to a great extent. In paying out 10 per cent of the checks in silver dollars, the United States Treasurer is generally asked for certificates in their stead. This is especially the case with banks. The banks then pay them out over their counters the same as greenbacks. In this way a large amount of silver certificates have got into circulation. -

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1879.

From 1873 to 1879, inclusive, the United States mints coined 376,024,340 pieces of money, aggregating in value 1419,071,313. A Washington dispatch announces the arrival of Mrs. Sprague and her three daughters at EJgewood, the former homestead of her father.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A Wheeling dispatch announces a farther advance in the pi ice of nails. The manufacturers are now asking $3, and have all the orders they can attend to. Reports have reached Havana from Santiago de Cuba that the slaves on plantations have demanded liberty, and that their masters have promised to give them freedom if they will engage in work three years for wages. Many of the slaves aro running away. V isible supply.t*f grain In the States and Canada. Wheat, 17,046,000 bushels; corn, 13,004,000 bushels; oats, 2,704,000 bushels; rye, 501,000 bushels; barley, 927,000 bushels. The new insurrection in Cuba has received an impetus which thousands of Spanish troops can not overcome, and from a quarter, too, which may always be depended on to furnish assistance at the proper time and plaoe. Seventeen officers who served against the Government in the loDg and bloody wars which were, to all appearances, brought to an eDd a few months ago, and who had not again taken up arms, were recently butchered in their homes by Spanish soldiers, acting, it is claimed, without orders. The dispatch which announces this massacre also mentions the rising of the slaves in Cienfuogos and their union with the patriot forces. Havana advices state that Capt. Gen. Blanco has issued a general order to the army announcing that tho insurgents have attacked tho village of Mayari in the provinco of Santiago de Cuba. A considerable number of Mayari volunteers treasonably went over to the enemy, enabling the insurgents to entor the village and surprise the small garrison of loyal volunteers. The garrison dofended the village for three days, sustaining considerable losses, when Gen. Velera arrived with reinforcements, routed the insurgents, and pursued them into the hills which surround the village.

Gen. Brant’s Arrival in San Francisco.

Ex-President Graut arrived at Man Francisco on Saturday, the 20th day of Soptember, thus completing his tour around the'world, after an absence of two years and four months. We glean from the Associated Press report the following account of his arrival and reception at San Francisco: Darkness had fallem aud it was 20 minutes past 7 when the lights of the ferry-boat were seen approaching the Blip. She moved slowly into position. The platform was lowered, the band struck up “ Home Again,”and, amid the roars of applause from the waiting crowd outside, who realized that the moment had arrived, Gen. Grant stepped once more upon the shore of Lis native land. After a welcoming speech by Mayor Bryant and a brief response by Gen. Grant, the latter was conducted to his carriage, Ms yor Bryant accompanying him, while the various committee and other gentlemen in attendance repaired to their own carriages. The gates of the dock were then thrown open, and the vehicles moved forward and took their places in line. As the carriage containing Gen. Grant made its appearanco cteer after cheer went up frem thousands of throats, while the surging crowd pressed forward and swayed from side to side in efforts to obtain a passing glance of tho familiar lineaments of the groat captain. With tho greatest difficulty a passage was opened, the procession formed, and the line of march taken up. The procession moved rapidly along Market street to Montgomery, passing through Montgomery, up Montgomery avenue to Kearnoy, along Kearney to Market, along Market, countermarching to the Palace Hotel, which was reached at a late hour. Rockets and blue lights were fired along the route, and bonfires and torches abounded. Ail the streets leading to the Palace Hotel were packed with dense throngs, through which the procession forced its way with great difficulty. Thousands were clamoring for admittance, but cordons of police at all the entrances denied ingress to all but those holding special permits to enter. Within, the immense court presented a scene of surpassing beauty. Electric lights and 500 gas jets lit up the vast interior with a brilliant glow, and the dense throng that packed the court and filled the Bpacious balcopies and corridors surged to and fro in anxious expectation of ilie coming guest, whom the packed streets had detained. At 10 o’clock the wide doors were thrown open, aud the barouche containing Gen. Grant was driven within the building. He immediately dismounted, and, crowded his way through the packed mass of human beings, was hurried to his room. As he alighted, Madame Fabbri, and a’chorus of 500 voices opened from one of the balconies with the “Ode of Welcome.” The crowd rushed after Gen. Grant when he dismounted, leaving the singers for a moment almost without an audience, but, being stopped by thß force of police who blocked the way, they returned to the qourt, being reassured by the announcement that the General would appear on oDe of the balconies after he had had time to lay off his overcoat. In a few minutes Gen. Grant appeared, amid deafening and long-continued shouts. Mayor Bryant called the crowd to order, and the General, mounting a chair which was passed over the, heads of the surrounding crowd, was again greeted with a succession of cheers. When the noise subsided he addressed them as follows: “ Fellow. Citizens of San Fbancisco : After twenty-five years’ absence, I am glad to meet you, and assure you of my cordial thanks for the kind greeting you have given me. I shall stay in your city long enough to greet you more fully. ” The General then withdrew, amid prolonged and tremendous cheering, and the crowd at length reluctantly scattered. Grant looks exceedingly well, but has lost twenty-eight pounds in~weighf Since leaving Philadelphia. He expressed his great gratification at the reception awarded him, saying it surpassed all his expectations. He spoke of his pleasure at- returning home, and bis satisfaction that his acceptance of the Nicaragua canal Presidency had been received favorably here.

Secretary Sherman’s Coin Disbursement Order.

Treasury Department, ) Washington, D. C., Sept. 19. ) Gold coin beyond the needs of the Government having accumulated in the treasury of the United States by deposit in the several public assay offices of fine bars and foreign coin, for which depositors have been paid, at their optioD, in United States notes, the Treasurer of the United States and the several Assistant Treasurers at Boston, New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans and San Francisco are hereby authorized to pay out gold coin as well as silver coin and notes upon current obligations of the Government and upon advances to disbursing officers as may be convenient and practicable. Transfers of coin for this purpose will be made to any Assistant Treasurer, wheD necessary, by the Treasurer of the United States by application to him. The Treasurer of the United States in this city, on receipt by him of a certificate of deposit issued by the Assistant Treasurer at New York, stating that there has been deposited with him legal-tender notes in the sum of SIOO, or multiples thereof, will also cause to be shipped from the mint at Philadelphia to the depositor, at his risk and exponse, a like amount of gold coin. Standard silver dollars may also be obtained as heretofore. The exchange of gold for United States notes at the several sub-treasury offices, except at New York, appears to he prohibited by section 3,651, Revised Statutes of the United States, but it is believed that payments of coin, as above authorized, will enable persons to secure all that may be desired.

JOHN SHERMAN,

Seoretary of the Treasury.

Wealth of the Napoleons.

“The First Napoleon,” remarks the Continental and Swiss Times, “endowed all his family splendidly, as the master of Europe might have been expected to do. The records of St. Hel-

U A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

ena show that a sum variously estimated at from $20,000,000 to $100,000,000 of money was at the command of the exiled Emperor in Amsterdam, Frankfort and London. Notwithstanding the idle stories which have been current for years as to the pecuniary embarrassments of Napoleon 111. before he became ruler of France, it is absolutely certain that at the death of his father, the ex-King of Holland, at Leghorn, in 1846, he inherited a very handsome property.”

The Crops in Europe.

Mr. Dans, of the New York Hun, sends from London the following result of his observations of the crops in Great Britain and the continent of Europe: + This year nature is against the British farmer. The season has been disastrous from the beginning, and there is now oo hope that it will end in anything but calamity. Rains have fallen incessantly. The crops, even the best of them, havo nowhere attained more than a middling growth, and now the continued floods destroy all expectation of an average product in any part of the British islands. Ireland is much better oft; yet even there, in many parts, the people are likely to suffer severely for want of food during the coming winter. On the continent the situation is much less gloomy; but in France, in Western Switzerland, in Southern Germany, and in Holland it is still a bad season. The general state of the different crops may be summarily described as follows: Hay—lnferior in Ireland, very bad indeed in England, poor in France, better in Switzerland, ana in Southern Germany and Holland about the same as in France. Oats—A wretched crop in every country where I have been. In Ireland and in England they are hardly worth harvesting; in France and the other parts of the continent to which I have referred, perhaps good enough to pay the expenses of harvesting. Lucerne and millet—Poor everywhere. Potatoes—Quite as poor as the oats—everywhere a bad crop. In Ireland especially, and in France, poorer than any other crop. A good potato will bo a rarity in all these portions of Europe for a year to come. The failure of the Eotato is, in fact, as nearly complete as possilo and leave any potatoes at all; and this is the case wherever my observation has extended. Wheat—Poorest of all in England and Ireland, whore I should say the yield cannot pay more than half its cost. In France there will be perhaps three-quarters of a good averago, and that country will bo able to furnish its own bread for the coming year. The same is true of Western Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Holland. But the United Kingdom will have to seek for its supplies elsewhere. The only crop that seems to me at all satisfactory is that of vetches, of which, so far as I can judge, the yield is likely to bo tolerable. In Russia, on the other hand, an immense wheat crop is reported, and heavy purchases have been made there on Western account. Yet one whoat harvest or a dozen of them will not ruin Eugland. TIIE MAIIK LANE EXPRESS’ REVIEW. The Mark Lane Eupr/ sx, of London, in its last review (Sept. 17) of the British grain trade, says: The few samples of now wheat exhibited in Mark Lane have been wretchedly poor, both in quality and condition. A groat deal of barley is a'so so stained as to be unavailable for malting. From two and one-half to three quarters per acre seems to bo the average yield of wheat, with, perhaps, some reservation in favor of oats. All spring crops are, to a great extent, failures, and peas most especially, while the root-crops are but little better. Trade has been quiet. Sellers have shown little desire to press sales, being encouraged by the certainty that the home crop is lamentably deficient, while ihe visible supply iu America is diminished. Though a rise is hoped for by sellers before long, it is impossible to ignore the fact that America must control the prices for the present cereal year, although it is more than probable that the continental requirements will absorb a largo proportion of the available surplus which at present-threatens to glut the United Kingdom markets

Gen. Sherman and the South.

A dispatch from Salisbury, N. C., says: A grand reunion of the survivors of the Confederate and Federal armies has been arranged to take place here on the 3d of October. Invitations wero sent to both armies. Lieut. Gen. Sheridan politely ref used on account of pressing business engagements. He expressed his hope of the success of the movement. Gen. W. T. Sherman wrote a letter which has created no little excitement. The letter is as follows: The timo is too remote for me to make a promise, hut 1 assure you that it would be most agreeable to me personally and socially to meet you on any suitable occasion—there is no use in my minciug terms—whenever and wherever the honest men of North Carolina seek to allay sectional and party animosities, and to cultivate feelings of fraternal respect for their fellowcitizens of tho United States. It will he to me most tempting to come to Salisbury. I would far prefer to come alone than, as before, wtih a vast army, leaving desolation behind, but I must not be construed as assenting to the proposition that the Confederates and Union men were alike worthy of celebration for the terrible history of 1861-65. I would much prefer to come on some civic occasion, when all are absolutely equalall alike interested in the present and future glory of our common country. There were le w Union soldiers from North Carolina during the war, though we believe the people generally were opposed to secession, ana I will say that your meeting, if confined to the surviving sol diers of North Carolina, will be, in fact, a Confederate reunion, where I would certainly be out of place. All soldiers, in their social reunions, glorify their dee is of heroism, and this reunion will hardly be an exception, and it would be a strange sight for Gen. Sherman to cheer the victories of his enemies and respond to the claim that, becauso the soldiers of North OaroliA were brave and true to their State and section, their cause was as sacred as ours, which finally triumphed and made our Union more glorious and more resplendent than before. Were I present, and you should suppress this natural feeling, I would feel myself an intruder, marring the natural happiness of the festive occasion. I know that the soldier element was the first to lay aside the angry partisan feelings of the war, and are now leaders in the new epoch which is soon to add wealth and prosperity to our whole country; and when some.occasion arises when we may all meet on common ground m North Carolina to celebrate some Revolutionary event, or to encourage some modem enterprise, it will give me great pleasure to come to Salisbury, to Raleigh, to Guilford Court House, or to any other place in the old North State.

A Trooper’s Story of the Cabnl Massacre.

A dispatch from Simla, in India, says: “One of the troopers of Maj. Cavagnari’s escort has arrived at Lundi Khot&l. He says that the roof of tho British Residency at Cabul was commanded by other houses, and was con' sequently untenablo by the besieged, who made a, trench outside. At about l o’clock in the afternoon on the day of the massacre Maj. CavagDari received a wound from a ricocheting bullet in his forehead. Mr. Jenkyns, Maj. Cavaguari’s assistant, who arrived at the residency during the attack, wrote to the Ameer for help; the Ameer’s reply was. “Good will. I am making arrangements.” A previous request for aid from M ij. Cavagnari had met witn the same reply. Mr. Joukyns wrote again when Maj. Cavagnari was wounded, but the bearer of the letter was cut to pieces by the mutineers. “ The trooper then started, but was disarmed and imprisoned. He succeeded in esc i ping at daybreak on the 4th of September, and visited the residency, where he saw the corpse of Lieut. Hamilton, commanding the escort of Ihe British mission, lyiug across a mountain gna He says that Mr. Jenkyns was with a person called Yahyah Kahn, . and was, therefore, presumably alive. The escaped trooper saw no troops on the road from Cabnl to Jelallabad and Dabka, and, so far as he knew, none were coming. A comrade who was confined in Cabul informed him that Lieut Hamilton shot three of the mutineers with his revolver, and killed two with his saber. Dr. Ksiley, who was oonnected with tho mission, was lying dead inside the residency. Maj. Cavagnari was in a room which wasjburnt, and which had fallen in. His body had not been fouod. Three native officers of the guides were burned to death near the residency."

REPUBLICANISM ARRAIGNED.

speech: of HON. DANIEL W. VOOBHEES, At Hamilton, Ohio. You all heard the furious outcry of the Republican press on the subject of the recent extra session of Congress. There was a simultaneous, prolonged, agonized, hysterical scream from Republican sources all over the country against the Democratic party, because we asserted our faith in the capacity of the people to govern themselves, and our determination that they should do so without let or hindrance from military power. This was the head and front of our offending, no more and no less. We were true, absolutely true, to the bed-rock principles of the constitution, while the leaders of the Republican party, as all the world knows, proclaimed on the floor of both branches of Congress doctrines so subversive of tho very life of civil liberty that the Tories of tho Revolution would have been ashamed to own them. Does this sound to some of you as an exaggerated statement made merely for political effect? If so, let us examine for a few moments the extent to which the Federal Government has already arrogated to itself the right by law to seize upon every species of local elections, control them by force, aud maufacture majorities out of minorities. Are you aware that there is now a law of Cougress, enacted by the Republican party, in full force at this hour, which assorts the control of the Federal Government and the jurisdiction of the United States courts over every election of every description that can possibly occur in any State or Territory, in any district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial subdivision, if any other can be found? Such is the fact. Federal-power-has clutched control of every voting precinct in the States and Territories. * In proof of this allow mo to read in your herring section 5,5 6 of tho Revised Statutes of the United States: - Every person who, by any unlawful means, hinders, delays, prevents or obstructs, or combines aud confederates with others to hinder, delay, prevent or obstruct, any citizen doing any act required to lie done to qualify him to vote, or from voting in any State, Territory or district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality or other territorial subdivision, shall be liued not less than SSOO. or be impri-ocod not less than one month, nor more than one year, or be punished by both such line and imprisonment. What kind of an election escapes the provision of this section ? It has been asserted o ver and over again, in Congress and elsewhere, by the Republican leaders and newspapers, that the power of the Federal Government has been applied only at times and places where members and delegates in Congress were chosen. This is all false, as the section just read conclusively proves. If you were holding an election for Mayor of this city, or for Councilmen in i s various wards, and one person should by any unlawful means, such, for instance, as a quarrel on the street, hinder or delay another m voting, the person so offending is, by express terms of this section, made liable to a tine of not less than SSOO, or to imprisonment not less than ono month nor more than one year, or to both such flue and imprisonment. If you were engaged in electing a Clerk, an Auditor, or Sheriff, or any other county officer of Butler county, the same insolent interference by the Federal Government is provided for by this law. You are not free from its aggressive and inquisitive power, even in the humblest details of your local affairs. -In the language of the law itself, an election in a township "or a school district is subject to the domination of Federal rule, Federal Marshals, Federal arrests and the monstrous and disproportionate punishments of Federal courts. Are you in favor of this law? Are you so poor and contemptible in your own view of yourselves that you feel the need of the restraining and penal influences of such an enactment as this ? Are you willing to admit that you can not trust yourselves; that you cannot even elect the Justices of the Peace, or the trustees of your townships, or the officers of your school districts unless tho supervision and threatening authority of the Federal Government is extended over you ? Have the American people, in fact, sunk so low as this? Have the people of Ohio consented to this servile doctrine? The leaders of the Republican party say you have; Charles Foster says you have; John Sherman says you have. They say that this usurpation against local self-government shall stand; that tnis legislative insult to you, this enactment, of distrust of your virtue and intelligence, shall remain permanently in the statutes of your country. I say it ought to be repealed, expunged, torn from the pages of the law with every circumstance of indignation ati(? abhorrence. What do you say? Do you believe in yourselves, or do you want a master ?

That is the exact issue. It is a very old one, and yet it sounds new in our times. " Those of you who think you are not competent to manage your local affairs, unless the club of the Federal Government is wielded overyour heads by United States Marshals, District Attorneys, and partisan Judges on the Federal bench, will, of course, and with entire consistency, vote the Republican ticket—vote for Foster, who has the same opinion of yon that you have of yourselves. Who do you suppose would vote with you if they were here? Every Tory of the Revolution. Not one of them believed in the natural rights of man to govern himself without a master. The odious Lord North, Prime Minister to George 111., would be a stalwart Republican in this contest, and the old imbecile King himself, if alive and a citizen of Ohio, would, on the well-known principles of his long and tyrannical reigD, be for Foster, and a strong centralized Government. If yon could resurrect from their infamous graves all those who sided with Great Britain against the principles of Jefferson in the days of the Revolution, not one would fail to sustain the high prerogative of the Government in stamping out local and popular sovereignty. If every perfidious Stuart who ever sat upon the Scottish or English thrones could be exhumed to- day, they would, on this issue, zealously support the Republican party. All such, in all ages, as have disbelieved in human freedom, and individual responsibility: all the blood-stained monsters who have cursed the earth with war to crush the aspirations of the people for home rule and civil liberty, would, if here, contribute to the campaign fund of the Republican party, subscribe for its newspapers and vote for its'candidates. All this and more would follow in the logical order of things. It was reported not long ago that a very rich man of New York, by the name of Jay Gould, blurted out his willingness and desire to pay millions for a Government cf high centralized powers; a Government not dependent upon the popular will; a Government which would govern, coerce and hold in subjection the people, instead of allowing them, according to the constitution of their fathers, to govern themselves. This was simply a somewhat indiscreet but very accurate proclamation of the spirit and purposes of the Republican party. It has the sanction of ail such leaders of that party as are without faith in man’s capacity and right to govern himself; of all such as are rich and prosperous, and desire no possibility of a change; of all retired capitalists, whose investments are eating up the mortgaged lands and labor of the people, like incurable cancers wreaking the human body. There was a hard struggle at the very beginning of our Government over this very question. There was a party then very formidable in talents, and very considerable in numbers, which had no faith in the people, and boldly declared its infidelity to popular institutions. The Republican party, with its Supervisors, its Marshals, its Commissioners, its spies, its Federal courts, and its deep distrust of the American people everywhere, in township, county and State, is the revival* of the old despotic Federal party under a different name, but with similar ideas. The circle is almost complete, and the enemies of free government in this country have almost reached the point at which they began their nefarious schemes nearly a hundred years ago. We more frequently see and hear Alexander Hamilton now quoted as an acceptable authority on the principles of government than ever before. If he could arise from his premature and bloody grave to-day he would have a following such as he never had in his lifetime. How refreshing his doctrines would new be to Jay Gould, Charles Foster and John Sherman! They are all afraid to trust the people. Hamilton was a delegate from the State of New York to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. He drew up the plan of a constitution in all its details and presented it to the convention. By its provisions the Chief Executive of the United States, by whatever title known, was to hold office for life. How regal and permanent that sounds! Nine-tenths of the holders of interest-bearing Government securities, national bankers and capitalists, out of trade generally, will indorse that position now—not all of them openly—-

W. T. SHERMAN.

rather than risk their investments to a change of administration. They are fixed comfortably, and what they want is permanency. They are on top, and they want to stay there. They have the advantage of the millions below them, and they want to keep it By the plan presented by Hamilton the Senators were also to hold office for life. This was intended to create an aristocracy in the management of tho Government similar to the House of Lords in England. As to the States, and the people of the States, they were to ,be trusted with nothing. The National Executive Committee, with thejPresident, was to appoint the Governors of the various States; the Legislatures of the States "were to be permitted to enact laws, subject, however, to revision and entire repeal by Congress; and all the courts of ihe State, “for the determination of all matters of general concern,” were to be created by act of Congress. And even this vast scheme of consolidation fell short of the wishes of Hamilton and his followers, as it does now, perhaps, of the more advanced and stalwart leaders of the Republican party. Hamilton boldly stated that it by no mean's came up to his conception of a model Government. In discussing the proper executive head of a Government he said: “The English model is the only good one on this subject. The hereditary interests of the King were so interwoven with those of the nation, and his personal emoluments eo great, that he was placed above the danger of being corrupted from abroad, and at the same time was sufficiently independent and sufficiently controlled to answer the purpose of the institution at home.” In presenting his draft of a constitution, he also said, speaking of the American Senate, that it should be on the same model as the House of Lords in England, and that no temporary Senate would have “firmness to carry out its proper functions. ” These principles .of Alexander Hamilton, and of the Federal party at the formation of our Government, show the foun’ain from which have descended the principles of the so-called Republican party of our times; principles monarchical in their tendencies, repugnant to the self-respect of the people, offensive to every sentiment of manhood, and in opposition io the spirit and the letter of the constitution. 1 have heretofore foretold some tilings in the political world which have come to pass I predict now that the coming issue in tho near future is to be between the broad principles of Jefferson on the ono hand, and the monarchical doctrines of Hamilton on the other; tho latter supported by all the monopolies, banks and hoarded interest-gathering wealth in the land. Jefferson announced that he who feared to trust the people was a Tory by nature. That was his mode of describing an enemy to free government, and we are rapidly finding out now who are Tories, or enemies of free government, by the same rule.

The leaders of the Republican party insist that you ought to surrender the principle of < self-government, aud of free elections in the Nortu, in order that the bayonet may be used, according to the forms of law, at the polls in the South. For every piece of wicked aud villainous legislation, inspired by the hearts of designing men, who believed in despotism and not in the people, the South is held up and railed at as an all-sufficient cause. If the people #re to be shorn of their most sacred rights; curtailed of their froedom, and insulted in their homes, you are told that something in the South imperatively demands it. If, indeed, it was true that to govern the South we had to give up the constitution, deprive ourselves and our posterity ot its protection, our condition would be most deplorable; but I deny that any such necessity exists. We cannot, nor are we called on to, govern one part of this country one way and the other part another way. A Southern State is in this Union exactly as Ohio is. Whenever distinctions are made between States, or the people of States, the Union and the constitution are both destroyed. But you are told by the great political Pharisees of the times that the people of the different Southern States are not conducting themselves properly on certain subjects, and therefore you should cast away your own liberties in order to regulate by force their domestic affairs. You are also stimulated to this course by a constant stream of slander poured out on au entirely helpless and submissive people, a people who have submitted to every constitutional amendment, and to every other condition of reconstruction which the Government has imposed upon them. It is to the interest of the Republican party to Blander them. Every fault they have is not only set down in malice and conned by rote, but it is magnified and multiplied by all the lens power of party machinery. Au actual offenße agaiust the laws in the South, such as have happened every day and every hour since the human race began, is a sweet morsel, a delicious item, a savory paragraph, over which the Republican editor rubs his hands in keen enjoyment. A thousand murders may- and do occur in the Northern States, but how flat aud insipid they appear when dished up in our morning papers at breakfast in comparison with any act of crime, however commonplace its motive, that comes to us, hot and sensational, upon the breezes of the South! You live in a law-abiding State, as much so as any other in the Union, and more so than some of the loud-pretending States of New England; yet I doubt if there is a county in Ohio in which bicod has not been unlawfully shed in tho last twelve months. The same may be said of the great State of Indiana, and perhaps of every other Northern State. Crime is inherent in the heart of man, and it prevails every where. It is without quarantine. It penetrates every latitude, every longitude, and every climate. I hold that the people of tho North, and the people of the South, on the average of conduct and motive, are neither better nor worse than each other; alid, in this opinion, the statistics of crime, in proportion to population, will amply sustain' me. The trouble, however, is that the leaders and newspapers of a powerful party in the North are deeply interested in making you believe the Southern people are worse than they are. When actual offenses do not occur frequently enough to answer the purposes of an approaching election, fictitious ones are manufactured for the occasion. Recently two prominent Democrats in Mississippi, both candidates for office, became involved in trouble and Mr. Dixon was shot and killed by Mr. Barksdale. This is a I deplorable event, and I sincerely hope that the survivor will be punished, if he took the life of his adversary without cause. But is a homicide of this kiud so great a novelty to the Northern mind that we are to bo thrown into convulsions ou its account ? About three-quar-ters of a century ago there was a very uoted homicide in the streets of BostoD. It grew out of a political quarrel iu which Mr. Selfridgo, a Federalist, killed Mr. Austin, a Democrat, and from that time to this more than twice ten thousand cases of killing have been occasioned in tho Northern States alone by political feeling and animosity. There is hardly a man in my presence who era not recall one in his own recollection. Yet such events have caused but brief comment, for the reason that heretofore no political party has been so debased as to thrive on crime, fatten on murder, and hence been interested in proclaiming its prevalence where it did exist, and iu forging its calendar wherfl it did not. But a few days since I saw in a leading Republican paper of your State the following jubilant announcement: “The best Rennblican speech of the campaign thus far—the shooting of Dixoa, ‘ in Mississippi” That editor wants- any number more such Republican speeches made in this and subsequent campaigns. He wants moro killings to take place in the Southern States. It matters not on what provocation a man is killed south of the Potomac and the Ohio rivers, every such item will be so much party capital to that editor; he will make suicide from financial embarrassment a political murder. And when actual murder runs short he will supply the political market; he will meet the demand; he will kill them himself; he will transform himself inio a monster of murder on paper, for the sake of party success at the approaching elections. I once heard it said that iu whatever direction a man’s interests lay there you ought to look for his tracks. This is certainly a safe rule by which to judge a political party. The Republican party is the only party on earth whose interests are advanced by riot, violence, disorder, resistance to law. bloodshed, and murder in the South, and I therefore charge that how, as heretofore, iu the supremacy of carpetbagiem, every plan, scheme, prayer’ hope, and purpose of that party is on the side of lawlessness and crime in the South; on the side of their own manifest gain, if they can thus inflame the Northern mind. Would you believe a witness under oath in one of your courts on a question of contractor damage, if he was as much interested on ono side of the case as the Republican leaders and newspapers are iu making you believe that the people of tho South are a horde of savages, who need military force constantly at their throats? Ido not think you would.

A Queer Old Man.

An old gentlegnan of 90 summers, Irving in a town m the interior of the State, had himseif measured for his coffin a few days ago. After its completion he was asked why he had so acted. His reply was that coffin-makers charge th ;ir own price after a man is dead. He had also selected his burial place, which

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has been staked off. He never goes to church—does not believe in the resurrection, yet reads the Bible more regularly than anyone in the place, having faith only in the first nine chapters.— North Carolina Presbyterian .

John Sherman and the Democrats.

In his speeches in Ohio, John Sherman, not content with revamping the old stuff, distinctly charged that the Democrats, after starting out well in the Forty-fourth Congress, had latterly increased the appropriations, while he aud his associates were engaged in reducing expenditures. There is no possible excuse for this falsification of the record. A comparison of the appropriations for the same objects, taking the last four years of Republican ascendency in Congress, with the four past years when the Democrats had possession of the House of Representatives, will effectually expose this misrepresentation. Hero are the figures, taken from the statutes at large: KHIB YEARS OF 11E1*UBL1CAN CONIiiIKSS. 1873—Regular appropriations for support of (iovermuent $ 180,328,174.10 1874 189,026.793.04 1875 164,304,787.08 1676 177,870,027.81 Total * $781,029,382.08 The Democrats came into a majority in the House in the Forty-fourth Congress. but in accordance with law the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, bad already been made. Therefore they began with that of 1877, as follows: FOUR YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC HOUSE OF RFURESEKTATIVES. 1877—Regular appropriation for support of Government $154,090,948.53 1874 153,544,745.56 1879 ,\ 160,292,750.58 1880 * 160,919,095.82 Total $628,848,135.49 RECAPITULATION. Four years Republican Congress... .$731,029.382.03 Four years Democratic House 628,848,135.49

Excess in favorof Democrats... .$102,181,246 54 There was an appropriation of $26,867,200 for arrears of pension made for 1880 which is not included in the foregoing, because it was an exceptional item and had no connection with the regular expenditures. It is thus seen that the difference between the four last fiscal years under the Democratic House and the four preceding years under Republican Congresses exceeded $102,000,000 —a retrenchment of more than $25,500,000 a year. The appropriations for the years 1879 and 1880 are larger than those for 1877 and 1878 by several millions; but this difference is partially explained by the wiping out of old deficiencies in the and other branches of the public service that the Republicans had bequeathed as legacies, by the payment of the fishery award for $5,500,000, and by other items. While this record is creditable to the Democrats, as far as it goes, it might have been far better. They have not gone to the root of the -evil by any means, either in the civil branches or in the army and navy, and they will deserve to be held to account, if, with both branches of Congress, they fail to make a thorough retrenchment in the public expenditures. The increase in the cost of carrying on the Government has been ©ut of aU proportion to the increase of population. In 1860 the civil and miscellaneous expenses were about $28,000,000 in round numbers. In 1876, the last year of complete Republican rule in Congress, they were $73,000,000. In 1867, at the beginning of reconstruction, when the Republicans had full swing, the cost of the United States courts was $1,629,536 for Marshals, District Attorneys,United States Commissioners, Clerks of Courts and miscellaneous expenses. In 1878 the cost reached $2,870,754 for the same service, except that the Marshals under the Davenport law for carrying elections had risen from $1,203,214.74 in 1867 to $1,931,244 in 1878. This extravagance, this plunder of tlie people’s taxes, is found wherever the surface is scratched. It is organized plunder protected by law, and the party which tolerates it, votes for it by indirection, or refuses to abolish it, deserves to go under in defeat and disgrace, whether it be called the Democratic or the Republican party.

Shocking Disaster.

From the Boston papers we glean the following particulars of a heartrending accident, by which five people lost their lives: The occupants of the tenement 120 Gold street, which was burned last night, were: On the first floor, an aged couple whom no one in the vicinity seems to have known, and one Gillespie and wife. On the second floor, a German family, consisting of father, mother, and three children, named Pfeiffer. Ou the third floor, Ferdinand Merotb, wife and two children, and George Holdreid, wife and two children, making fifteen persons asleep in the house when the incendiary kindled the fire. When the fire was discovered by a policeman it was a quarter to 12, and the flames were breaking out on the first floor, having burned away tlie stairs, making them impassable. The smoke was rollihg up the narrow staircases, and the awakened inmates, before the firemen could arrive with their ladders, bad either leaped from the windows, gone to the roof in hope of safety, or dropped suffocated in the hall. Tlie old couple on the first floor made their escape, and wore not heard of during the night. The Gillespie family escaped, with the exception of the wife and mother. The latter, 50 years old, might have escaped by walking six feet, hut became bewildered and swooned in hc-r room. She was found by the firemen in an apparently-dying condition, and was taken to the station with the other victims of the fire. Her injuries are terrible, the burns being both external and internaL Rosa Pfeiffer, aged 23, was found in the hall of the second floor. Mrs. Pfeiffer and two children jumped from a window and were but slightly hurt, but Pfeiffer’s father was lost Meroth, on the third floor, lifted his son, Charles, aged 14, out of tho window and allowed him to drop to the ground, a distance of forty feet, and then instructed his wife and daughter, Rosie, to jump, which they did. Last of all ho himself jumped to the ground, and in falling met instant death. Mrs. Meroth is at the City Hospital, with fractures of both legs and one arm, and her face is bruised beyond all recognition. The daughter Rosie sustained no serious injuries, but Charles is badly hurt. Holdreid took his wife to the roof, and then went down stairs, where he was caught by the flames and burned, probably fatally. Mrs. Holdreid’s body, charred beyond recognition, was found on the roof. Charles Holdreid, the son, is at the hospital, internally injured from jumping to the ground, and with an arm broken.

September Crop Report.

The following is the last monthly report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, showing the condition of the cotton, corn, and tobacco crops: Cotton returns to the department, Sept 1, show a heavy decline during August Tne general average is 85, against 1)1 the month previous. Corn—The average condition for the whole country, Sept. 1, was 95, against 93 in August Tobacco—The average condition of this crop for the wholo country, Sept. 1, was 87, an advance of 10 per cent from the condition Aug. 1; an advance of 6 per cent, over the condition at the same time last year.

fjPf gj}emocratit{ mlinef JOB PRINTINB OFFICE Km better facilltlea then any office la Northwesters Indian* for the execute* of an branch** of JOB PRI3 NTTIJNTGr. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anythin;, from a Dodger to a Prioe-Uet, or from • a’amphlet to a Foster, black or oolored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

INDIANA NEWS.

Preaching Appointments for Next Year. INDIANA CONFERENCE. Indianapolis District. —J. 8. Woods, Presiding Elder. Meridian Street, W. C. Webb; California Street, T. G. Beharrell; Ames Church. J. V. 11. Miller; Blackford Street, W. Megmnis; Putnamville, M. Woods; Monrovia, J. V. Moore; Moorsville, H. Hays; Brooklyn, J. Wharton; Green Castle, Locust Street, W. H. Grim; Waverly, C. W. Woods; Martinsville, H. J. Talbott; Morgantown, J. D. Crane; Bellville, A. F. Briggs; West Newton, C. Lee. Bloom tuff ton Jtistrict. —T. D. Welker, P. E. Bloomington,'J. W. Webb; Bloomington Circuit, supplied by G. N. Puett; Gosport, F. A. Eller; Spencer. J. W. Culmer; Worthingtou, L 8. Kuotts; Bloomfield, R. B. Martin; Newark, John Laverty; Linton, T. W. Jones, l’leasautville, John Bruner; Elletsville, S. C. Ken - nedy ; Rowling Green, supplied by J. McLaugh lin;’Center Point, J. M. Baxter; Lockport, supplied by John T. Smith: Harrodaburg, J. L. Cooper’; Ltd cash r, A. R. Julian. H. B. Hibben, Chapla’n of the United S'atrs army. Vincennes District. —B. F. lliwlins, P. E.; Vincennes, F. A. FrUdley; Brncevifle, T. 11. Willis; Carlisle, E. Giskins; Sullivan, J. A. Ward; New Lebanon. F. A. Hutcherson; Graysville, G. W. Stafford; Ascension, J. F. Sinclair; Prairieton, W. E. Davis; Washington, W. Al. Hester; Washington Circuit, It. A. Kemp; Alfordsville, S. O. Dorsey; Wheatland, J. M. Harbin; Hymear, W. 11. Cornelius; Freelandsville, M. Rose; Deckertcwn, J. H. Maddox. Kvanssviltc Jtistrict. —J. E. Brant, F. E.; Trinity, F. Iglehart; Kingsley, ,T. N. Thomp son: Ingle Street, J. A. Scammaborn; Penusyl ■ vania Streot and ridge, Wm. Telfcr : Mt. Vernon, M. AI. Ci Hobbs; Mt. Vernon Circuit, B. CaQer; Newburgh, G. H. Hoavenridge; Blue Grase, T. G. Danks; Foit Branch, John Tansy; Oakland City, J. M. Hilliard; Owensville, W. T. Davis; Pakota, E. Hawes: Princeton, W. M. Zarring; New Harmony, G. F. Cuimer; Springfield, J. W. Kincaid; West Franklin, Joseph Rawlins. Rcckpttrl District. —A. Turner, P. E. Rockport, John Poucher; Rockport Circuit, l>. I’. Davis; Boonville, H. N. King; Center, W. 11. Davidson. Lynnvillo, Dayton Harvev; Augusta, supplied by Geo. Whitman; Yankectown, F. A. Lester; Tailorsville, B. F. Julian; Petersburg, J. W. Jiiliau; Union, J. MoGrognr; Atwell, A. A. Godle.v; Huntingburg, J. T. Woods; Gentryvillo, W. F. F. Smith; Grandview, W. \V. Ramsey; Troy, S. W. Trover; Gannelton, W. B. Collins; Romo, supplied by J. Turner; Newtouville, J. F. Woodruff; Oil Creek, L E. Mann. JVew Albany District.— John Kigor, P. I 1! ; Wesley Chapel, J. L. Pitner; Centenary, G. D. Watson; John Street. E. T. Curnick; Main Street, S. W. McNaughtcn; New Albany Circuit, F. Walker; Lanes ville, G. W. Fausler; Elizabeth, J. B. Holloway; Corydon, N. V. Moore; Mauckport, W. H. Davisson; Hardinsburg, to be supplied; Marengo, supplied by F. M. Hodden; Fredericksburg, SValter Underwood; Salem, J. W. Asbury; Leavenworth, J. H. ltood; Greenville, J. M. WatsoL: New Philadelphia, suppli d by A. N. Etrod; Little Yoik, to bo supplied; N. E. Boring, Chaplain to State Prison South; W. 11. Halsted, President Do Pauw College. Mitchell District. —John Walls, P. E. Mitchell, J. H. Ketcham; Bedford, W. W. Webb; Springfield, L. Johnson; Paoli, M. 11. Ileavcnlidge; Orleans, John Spears; Erie, E. P. F. Wells; Tunnelton, J. I'. Allen; Shoals, J. B. Hamilton; Loogootee, 11. J. Barr; Dover Hill, D. Morden; French Lick, suppl ed by W. W. Rundell; Clark’s Prairie, J. W. Payne; Wiokliffe, O. H. Tansy; Bartlettsville, supplied by G. Payne; Campbellslmrg, 11. O. Chapman; Rush Creek, Robert J. Easly; Orangeville. W. H. Wright. NORTHWEST INDIANA CONFERENCE.

Lafayette District.—A.. A. Goo, P. E. Lafa'yeito Trinity, J. Stephens: Ninth Street, J. W. T. McMullen; Congress streot and Ohauncy, A. Kummer; Wea, to be f unplied; Shawnee Mound, H. A. Alerrill; Newton 1). Handley: Attica, J. C. Reed; Williamsport, 11. N. Ogden; West Lebanon, T. Alason; Marshfield, Wm. Buck; State lane, J. B. Combs; Pine Village, li B. Beatty; Montmorency, T. B. MoAlams; Oxford and' Templeton, C. B. Mock; Boswell, to be supplied; Lafayette Circuit, W. Crapp; Battle Ground, C. E. Lewis; Brooks ton. to be supplied. O. E. Lambert, professor in W Barnette University, membor of Salem (Ore.) Quarterly Conference; L. Tayior, agent Preachers’ Aid Society, and member of Congress Street and Cha’unoy Quarterly Conference; B. W. Smith, agent Indiana Asbury University, and member of Trinity Quarterly Conference. Frankfort District.— 8. Beck, I’. E ; Frankfort, Wm. Graham; Micbigautown. J. M. Stafford; Burliugtou, A. Lewis; Rossvillo, S. B. Town; Bringburst, T. F. Drake; Camden, .J. A. Cullen; Delphi, W. H. Hickman; Pittsburg, J. C. Martin; Transitville, to be supplied; Dayton, to be supplied; Romney, E. W. Law I ion; Stockwell, J. L Boyd; Colfax, E. A. Andrew and J. Matthews, supernumerary; Tborntown, L, C. Bucles; Lebanon, F. M. Pavey; Lebanon Circuit, E. Alason; Wliitestown, 11. F. Whitsett; Zionsvilto, J. E. Newhhuse; A. Wood, moral instructor Soldiers’ Homo, Knigbtstown, Ind., and member of Tborntown Quarterly Conference. Green castle District.— College Avenue, I. W. Joyce; Bainbridge, W. A. Smith; Ladoga, J. H. Siddall; Morton, to. be spppliod; Clermont, D. W. Rislitr; Pittsboro, I. P. Patch; Jamestown, W. F. Clark; Mace, E. It. Johnson; Crawfordsville, J. W. Greene; Crawfordsville Circuit, J. E. Steele; Yountsville, W. W. Jones; Pleasant HilJ, J. Harrison; Hillsboro, C B. Heath; CjviDgton, J. W. Harris; Plainfield, N. G eene; Danville, J. H. Claypool; Coatsville, Jesse Hi 1; Carbon, to be supplied. P. Wiley, Professor Indiana Asbury University, W. C. Davison. T. Wakiyama, K. Kosaka. missionaries to Japan, all members of College Avenue Quarterly Conference, Greencastlo; T. B. Wood andJ. It. Wood, missionaries to South America and members of Crawfordsville Quarterly Conference. Terre Haute Jtistrict. —C. A. Brooke, I’. E. Terre Haute—Asbury, W. McK., Darwood; Centenary, J. N. Beard; Montrose and Third Streets, to be supplied; Sandford ; J. 11. Hollingsworth; Clinton, J. E. Wright; Summit Grove; J. F. McDaniel; Newport, M. L. Green; Perrysville, I. Dale; Terre Haute Circuit, D. 8. Morrison; Catlin, J. B. DeAfotte; Rockville, T. Meredith; Bell more, T. C. Webster; Annapo lis and Montezuma, D. P. McClain; Harveysburg, S. M. Ilays: Waveland, J. Johnson; Itus sell ville, H. C. Neal; Brazil, W. R. Mikels; Harmony and Knightsville, T. M. Guild. La Porte, Jtistrict. —J. H. Cissel, P. E.; La Porte, N. A. Cbamberlain; La Porto Circuit, T. C. Stringer; Door Village, G. R Streeter; Westville, 1). M. Wood; Union Mills, J. T. Stafford; Rolling Prairie, H. M. Middleton; Now Carlisle, W. P. |McKinsey: South Bend, First Church, H. A Gobin; Michigan Street, R. I). Utter; North Liberty, O. 11. Beebe; Walkerton, R. 11. Saunders; Plymouth, G. W. Bower; North Judson, J. M. Jackson; Argos, E. B. Woodson; Rochester, F. M. Rule: Kowana, E. B. Bruner; Marmont, W. H. Mahaffie, Winam&c and Star City, A. J. Clifton; Logai,sport Circuit, F. Cox. Valparaiso District. —B. Godfrey, P. E. ValSaraiso, N. L. BraKeman; Michigan City, G. [. Boyd; Chesterton, J. B. Smith; Wheeler and Hobart, G. J. Vaught; Crown Point; O. C. Haskell; Lowell, Henry Veneill; Hebron, L S. Buckets; Konts, supernumerary by G. W. Wesselius; Medarvville, J. J. Thompson; Rensselaer, A. W. Wood; Beaver Lake, supernumerary by S. B. Shaw; Morocco, to be supplied; Brooks, H. B. Bail; Bradford, W. Hall; Wolcott, J. N. Harmon; Goodland and ltomiugfon, J. A. Clearwater*; Kentland and Itaub, W. G. Vessels Fowler and Earl Park, D. G. LeSonrd; Monticello, C. 8. Burgner; Burnettaville, It. H. Calvert.

State Items. The Grand Lodge of Colored Masons, in session last week at the capital, elected Charles E. Bailey Grand Master. A new shoe-peg factory will be started at Richmond in a few weeks. It already has orders for 100,000 bushels of pegs to be delivered inside of a year. The large ice-house at Cambridge City, owned by the Talmage Ice Company, was totally destroyed by fire the other night. Loss about $5,200. A victim of whisky at Richmond applied to the town trustee the other day. and asked that officer to issue an order forbidding saloon-keepers from selling him strong drink. Geo. W. Helm, living two miles east of Edwardsport, while going home under the influence of whisky, fell under a passing freight train and was instantly killed. Jacob Steinberg, of Lafayette, was Handling a revolver, when the weapon went off, the ball striking Airon Huljkrifi’er in the right breast, inflicting a probably fatal wouud.