Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

foreign ifxwa. August Rosenberg, editor of the ondon Town Talk, having pleaded guilty to the charge of libeling Mrs Langtry and Mrs. Wost, the English professional beauties, has been sentenced by Justice Hawkins to eighteen months’ imprisonment, and to give bonds in $5,000 for good behavior for eighteen months after the expiration of his term of seclusion. The presiding Judge, in notifying the prisoner of the penalty, said he regretted that the law would not pormit him to add to the sentence hard labor. Servia and Montenegro have again form*d an alliance for offensive and defensive purposes, the present movement being directed chiefly against the Albanians, who threaten their neighbors with invasion. The terrible Peruvian iron-clad Huascar has at last been captured by the Chilians. Austria’s finances are in a badly dilapidated condition. The Ameer of Afghanistan has abdicated. The Universal Peace Congress at Naples broke up in a row. John Blackwood, Sr., the famous Edinburgh publisher, is dead. The Cleopatra Needle, which was presented to the city of New York, has been seized by the creditors of Egypt. Humbert, the Communist, whose late election to the Municipal Council occasioned such a stir in Paris, has now been made a candidate for tho Chamber of Deputies. Madrid advices roport heavy rains throughout Hpain. At Malaga a water-spout uprooted trees aud injurod many persons. At Vera,. in Alnioria, the river overflowed and flooded tho mines, throwing 1,500 men out of work. Twenty-one persons were drowned and thirty horses, and 500,000 posotas’ worth of ore carried away. Advices from Afghanistan report that Col. Kennedy mot and defoatod a noted freebooter of Cabul, after a sovero engagement, in which the British lost thirty-three men. Bix thousand (iliilzam attacked Col. Hughes’ force, who repulsed them witli heavy loss. Gen. Huberts was preparing to go into winter quarters. It is reported from Romo that Italy has entered into an alliance with Austria and Germany against tho excessive preponderance of England and France. John Baldwin Buckstono, the famous comedian, and many years lessco of tho llaymarkot Thoator, London, lias just died at the ago of 77 years. , Ex-Empress Eugenie has returned to Chisel burst. An official return laid before the French Chamber of Deputies shows 3,065 Communists amnestied, 1,300 being prisoners and 1,7(Kl comb lnuod by default. About 1,000 romaiu excluded. Don Carlos, tho Spanish Pretender, has been driven out of France. The Cuban emancipation movement is rapidly gaining strength in Hpain. Capt. Carey, the valiant warrior who ran away wlion the Zulus dissected the l’rince Imperial, announces that ho will resign his commission in the army. Tho truth in regard to the Russian (lofoat'at tho hands of the Turcomans, at GeokTepo, in Central Asia, on tho Sikh of August last, is beginning to leak out at last. It turns out to have been a genuine Waterloo for the Czar’s troops. A St. Petersburg paper admits that “tho affair resulted in an indescribable piinic,” aud tho percentage of the Russian loss was “enormous and unprecedented. ” Letters from Russia state that unlisual activity prevails in all the arsenals and ship-yards of the empire. Heavy contracts have been made in Germany for guns of every description and the belief at Moscow and 8k Petersburg is that tho Government has in contemplation some movement which will again plunge Europe in war. It is stated in a cable dispatch that tho “creditors of the Egyptian Government liavo not soizod the obelisk, but threaten to do so. It seems there is no court in Egypt of competent jurisdiction to issue a writ for tho seizure. Mariett Pasha, who lias charge of the Egyptian monuments, cpposos tho removal, and urges the French Consul to protest to the Khedive on the ground that such a removal will be a violation of tho convention between Egypt and the European powers, by which it is provided that no E yptiau monument or work of ait shall leave ih-j country. Commander Gornnge has In i,tod the American flag over the obelisk, and surrounded it with a guard of po from tho Consulate. Ho declares that ho will i\sist with force any attempt to interfere with him.”

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. H2ms. Mrs. George Frauds Train was found dead in hor bed at ber mother’s house in Now j York, a sow mornings ago, the cause being ! parahsisof the heart. The business portion of Parker, a town ill the oil regions of I’onuevlvanis, Ims ] been almost destroy d by fire. The loss is estimated at SOOO,OOO, and the insuranc) at $200,000. There have been tierce gales on the North-Atlautie coast and throughout Now England, accompanied by snow, sleet and rain. On Mount Washington tho wind lnow at the rate of 130 miles an hour. Mr. Bonner, of the New York Ledger, has sold eighty-six young trotting horses for a total of $34,740. Tho sales were made by auction. Jacob Abbott, a well known author, died at Farmington, Me., last, week, aged 7(3. He was a brother of John 8. 0. Abbott Thomas J. Jackson, of Albany, N. Y., was a passenger on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway train that broke through tho bridge at Ashtabula, Ohio, Dec. 29, 1876. By that accid- lithe rociived injuries from which ho has never recovered. He sued the railroad Company, and an Albany jury has just awarded him $24,000 damages. West. Intelligence comes from tho West of a serious outbreak among Spotted Tail’s band in Southwestern Dakota. It appears that a warrior shot an employe of the agency, Henry Young, the only excuse being because his heart was bad from mourning his sister’s death. Ag nt Nowell arrested him for trial. That night tho warriors fired on the camp from surrounding heights till morning, obliging tho Agent to release the prisoner. On obtaining his liberty he was presented with thirty ponies and a wife. Tho nearest troops are 178 miles distant. The remains of W. 8. Bodie, the oiiginal discoverer of the Bo<jio mining dis tries, and who pern-hod in a snow-storm Nov. 14, 18.7.), were < Hoovered the other day about a mile hoiuli west of tint town of Bodio, Cal. The Wabash pail way, of Ohio, Indi-

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ana and Illinois, and the Bt. Louis, Kansas City and Northern railway, of Missouri, have been consolidated, aud will herea'ter be operated under one corporation. The Northwestern Transportation Company’s steamer Amazon, from Milwaukee, carrying twenty-eight passengers and 875 tons •f flour, and sundries, struck on a sand-bar while entering the harbor of Grand Haven, Mich., on the morning of the 28th uli She grounded fast within a hundred feet of the pier, and was placed completely at the mercy of the waves. At last accounts she was badly broken, but it was hoped she would bo saved in a damaged condition. The passengers and crow were all rescued and removed in the car of the lifesaving station. At a meeting of the Chicago Division of the American Paper-makers’ Association, held in Chicago Oct. 30, the price of print-paper was again advanced from to 1 cent per pound, making the price of first-class paper 8 cents per pound at the mills. The limit of credit was reduced from ninety to sixty days. Advices from Arizona Territory report that the Navajo Indians have broken out, and that the troops at Fort Wingate have been dispatched against them. They stole all the stock, including the_train mules. It is also reported that the Apaches captured a station on Jornado del Nierto, near Port Craig, and killed thirteen persons. Mrs. and Miss Meeker and Mrs. Price and her two children, late captives among the Utes, have arrived in Denver. Mrs. Meeker is very feeble and ill. It io stated that Gen. Edward Hatch, Gen. Charles Adams, Special Agent, and Chief Ouray have been appointed a commission tj investigate the Uto outbreak. Since the beginning of the Indian troubles in New Mexico, in September, over sixty white settlers have been murdered by the savages. Gen. Joe Hooker was buried in Cincinnati. Marimus A. McLean died in Chicago last week from hydrophobia, produced from a dog bite inflicted several months r.go. Chicago has a phenomenon in the sliapo of an honest aud conscientious policoman. He found a pnrso containing 11,100, and straightway restored it to the owner. Where— O where is Barnum? The San Francisco Grand Jury has returned a true bill against Charles De Young, of the Chronicle, for assault with intent to murder. De Young will bo remembered as the man who shot and nearly killed Rev. J. 8. Kalloch, some weeks ago. Mrs. Lydia Young, the widow of Bill Young, who was lynched at Luray, Mo., has caused warrants to be issued for the arrest of all porsons known to have boon concerned in her husband’s sudden taking off. Big Snake, a Ponca Indian chief, and brother of Htauding Rear, was recently shot and killed at tho Ponca Agency whilo resisting arrest. Advices from Los Pinos, Col., chronicle the safe arrival there of Gen. Adams and Count Dooulioff, the peace commissioners who negotiated the reloaso of tho Meeker familyThey made a narrow escape from being shot when they came in sight of Merritt’s command. They were mistaken for hostile Indians, and the soldiers had covered them wi Ji their rifles and were in the act of firing, when the timely display of a white flag averted the impending calamity.—Geo. Adams reports to Secretary Hchurz that bo had another long council with White River Utes at Grand river; that they aro willing that tho guilty parties bo surrendered and punished; that he has faith in Ouray’s alnlity to compel the surrender of those found to bo guilty, and that in order to assure this ho (Adams) recommends the appointment of a commission of three (one of tho number to be a military officer) to make thorough investigation to find out the guilt y and determine thei punishment. Secretary Schurz approved tho plan, and ordered Gen. Adams to go ahead.—Gen. Adams telegraphs Secretary Schurz that Chief Ouray has ordered the. White river Utes to come to Uncompaligro, where a commission is to sit to investigate the White river massacre, and where those found guilty aietobe surrendered. South. All the male members of the Underwood family, of Carter county, Ivy., having been killed by the Holbrooks and their allies, the latter now issue a proclamation making war on the Underwood women and children, and commanding them to leave the country under pain of death. There were 1,521 cases of yellow fever in Memphis during the prevalence of the epidemic, of which 473 proved fatal. Advices from Wheeler county, Tex., sty a good deal of feeling exists there, owing to arrests of persons by United States Deputy Marshals ou blank warrants to suit the cases. Tho arrested parties were released on writs of habeas corpus in the State courts, but were rearrested by the United States officers. The Marshals also swore out warrants for officers of State courts for interfering with Federal officers. A squad of soldiers from Fort El iott lias gone to make arrests. Trouble is anticipated.

POLITICAL POINTS. The four proposed amendments to the Stato constitution, voted upon at the recent election in Ohio, were rejected, not one of them having received a majority of all the votes cast.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The actual cost of the postal service of the United States for the last fiscal joar, as shown by the official figures, was a little over $30,000,000. The* total expenditures were more than $33,(00,000, being a reduction as compared with ihe preceding year of over $1,000,000. Of this three-quarters was effected by the operation of the law reducing the compensation of Postmasters. The greatest item of expenditures was $9,100,706 for railway postal service. But the old-fashioned horseback and stage-coach transportation yet holds an important place in the postal service, no less than $5,537,345 having been paid for i during tho year. The compensation of Postmasters for tho same period was over $7,000,000.

MUSGELIiANEOUB GLEANING*. The United States mints have coined nearly $50,000,000 of the standard silver dollars authorized by the “Silver bill” which passed Congress in February, 1878, and of theso only $12,221,010 are now in circulation, the remainder being piled up in the Government’s vaults. The Province of Nova Scotia has Seen visited by a storm of unusual violence. Bridges and wharves were swept away, buildings demolished, many vessels wrecked and some lives lost The fire fiend begins to boom with the first advent of cold weather. Tho following is the reoord for one day (Nov. 2): At Ohi-

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cago, the large furniture factory of A E Andrews was destroyed, and the Wheeler A Wilson building*segously damaged, losses respectively $70,000 and* $15,000; one-third of the town of Mound City, IIL, burned, loss $70,000 to $80,000; at Logansport, Ind., a large wagon factory, and at Michigan City. Ind., the depot of tho Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad were destroyed, losses *4o*ooo ana $20,000 respectively; at Bridgeton, Ma, several buildings were burned, involving a loss of $26,C00, and at Greenville, Mich., a shingle-mill valued at $14,000 was destroyed.

NATIONAL FINANCES. THE REDEMPTION BUREAU. Following is a statement of the operations of the National Bank Redemption Agency for October and the four months endmg Nov. 1, compared with the corresponding periods of last year: National-bank Notes Four Disposed of. October. Months. Notes fit for circulation assorted and returned to bank of issue $1,76-1,800 $13,020,700 Notes unfit for circulation, assorted and delivered to Comptroller for destruction and replacement with new notes 1,640,000 9,453,501 Notes failed, liquidating and reduci banks deposited in tre sury 359 500 1,831,200 Totals 1 i 79 3,771 200 24.311.400 Tota s for 73 12,478,fin0 07,022,350 Decrease 8,707,450 42,711,450 NOTE CIRCULATION. The Comptroller of tho Currency reports the whole amount of additional circulation issued since the publication of bis annual report in November, 1878, as $15,435,375. The total average amount issued the past twelve months has been at the rate of about sl,300,000 per month. The increase of circulation for tho year ending Nov. 1, 1878, was $4,216,684, and tho total decrease? from Jan. 14, 1875, to tho Ist of November, 1877, was more than S3O,OOO,<XH). The total amount issued for the month of October was $3,602,050, and during the months of September and Octobor $7,514,170, or about one-half of the whole amount issued during tho year. The increase in logal-tender notes deposited for the purpose of retiring circulation during the year ending Nov. 1, 1870, was $3,270,001, leaving the not increase of national-bank circulation issued during the year at $11,484,582.

HON. ZACH. CHANDLER.

Sudden and Unexpected Death of the Michigan Senator. Hon. Zacliariah Chandler, United States Senator from Michigan, who had been making a sorioi of Republican speeches in Wisconsin, stopped over at Chicago, on route homo, and add essed a large meeting of Republicans at McCormick Hall in that city,on tho night of the 31st of October. Ho spoke nearly two hours in his usual vigorous, slam-bang, sledge-hammer stylo, and uearly the last words uttered by tho spoakor on the platform were (referring to the Republican party;: “Wo ain’t agoing to die yet; we have made other arrangements.” After the delivory of his fierce philippic against the Democracy Mr. Chandler was driven to tho Grand Pacific Hotel, where some time was spent in conversation with personal and political friends. He seemed to be in his usual robust Real lb. Between 12 and 1 o’clock he retired for the night, remarking at, the time that he felt tired. About 8 o’clock tho next morning (Nov. 1), Mr. Chandler not yet having risen, a knock on his door for tho purpose of awakening] him elicited no response. The knocking was repeated several times by the servants with the same result, when the stato of affairs was reported to the office. The hotel officials, uow alarmed at the ominous silence of Mr. Chandler, entered the room by means of a pass-key. Their worst fears wore. realized. Seuator Chandler lay prone upon the bod, in the cold embrace of death. At what hour the dread messenger camo is not exactly known, but it is conjectured that it was not long after Mr. Chandler retired. The doctors declare that heart disease was the cause of his death. The dead Senator, when first discovered, was half-sitting, half-lying upon the bod, his legs hanging over tho side, the right foot on tho floor, and the left foot raised a foot or so above it. The death had evidently been a peaceful one. The eyes were closed, and an expression of calm repose lay on the features. The appearance of the room was indicative of a man who had lain down to rest for a few hours in the full rush of an active career. His watch was lying under a pillow and still going. His dressing-case was open, a clean shirt was laid on one side, and his clothing carefully placed upon a chair. A consultation of eminent physicians was called to decide upon the causes that produced death. It was ascertained that Mr. Chandler had exposed himself greatly during his speaking tour in Wisconsin, particularly at Janesville, where he Spoke twice in one day in a tent, where the temperature was very low, and that he had been disturbed for a day or two by pains in the chest and stomach. One or two of the physicians were in favor of a post-mortem examination, but, in deference to the feelings of the family and friends of the deceased, they were overruled, and the council of medioal experts decided to simply examine the body exte nally and submit their views to the Coroner’s jury. After a careful examination of the body, and an inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of the deceased, they gave a written opinion to the effect that Mr. Chandler “died from natural causes—probably cerebral hemorrhage.” The Coroner’s jury accordingly rendered a verdict to the same effect The stem demands of the law in cases of sudden death having been complied with, the body of the deceased was again taken charge of by friends, and arrangements made for tho funeral. A committee of tbirty prominent citizens was delegated to accompany the remains to Detroit. On Sunday morning, Nov. 2, the body was escorted to the depot by a large civic and military procession, and dispatched to Detroit over the Michigan Central railroad.

IJlographical. Mr. Chandler was nearly 66 years old at the time of his death, having been born at Bedford, N. H., on thelOthof December, 1813. His education was limited to that of the common schools and academy in his native State. Iu 1833 he removed to Detroit, and shortly afterward engaged in the dry-goods businoss. Ho was elected Mayor of Detroit in 1851, and in 1852 was the nominee of the Whig party for Governor of Michigan. He made an active canvass and ran far ahead of his ticket, but the Democratic party was then in ascendancy in the State. In 1857, the Republican party having come into power in Michigan, Chandler was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Lewis Cass, and took his seat March 4, 1857. He at once took prominent and radical groun d in hostility to the encroachments of slavery. He was re-elected in 1863, and again in 1869, thus serving in the Senate eighteen years. Mr. Chandler was made Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, and held that position until the expiration of his third term, March 3, 1875. In the Senatorial election by the Michigan Legislature in 1875, he was nominated by the Republicans for a fourth term. The Republican Legislative Majority that year was but ten on joint ballot 1 and on the first vote by both houses Jan. 21, 1875, Mr. Chandler lacked threevotes of being elected, owing to a very decided opposition of a few Republicans opposed to him. On the second ballot the Democrats, with one exception, voted with six bolting Republicans for Isaac P. Christiancy, one of the Supreme Court Judges, and the latter was thus elected by one majority. Oct. 19, 1875, Mr. Chandler v'as appointed Secretary of Interior by President Grant, holding the position until after tho inauguration of Pre ident Hayes. On the 10th of February last, Kenator Christiancy resigned his office to accept the position of United States Minister to Poru, and on the 18th of the same month Mr. Chandler was elected to fill the va cancy. , Mr. Chandler left a will. His estate, consisting principally of valuable real estate in Detroit, and an interest in a large mercantile establishment in the same city, is estimated at about $1,800,000. Mr. Chandler’s only immediate relative, besides his wife and only daughter, Mrs. Eugene Hale, the wife of the well-known Maine Congressman, and her three children, is an aged sister, Mrs. Lee, who lives at Bedford, N. H. His brothers are all dead. Littleton Smith, of Edgefield, S. C., tow 87 years old, claims to have the largest posterity of any man living. He

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has eight children, fifty-five grand children, 128 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grand children, besides enough who have died in each generation to make the grand total of his descendants 241. The old man is still so lively that he can jump up and strike his feet together twice before touching the ground;

LYNCH LAW. The Shooting and Hanging of Bill Young by a Mob in Clark County, Mo. A dispatch from Keokuk, lowa, dated Oct, 30, says: “Bill Young, who was tried at Cahoka, Mo., for the murder of the Spencer family, was lynched at his home near Luray, Mo., yesterday. The raid was very systematically planned and carried into execution with desperate determination. The mob, to the number of 200 or more, met near Cahoka and arranged the details. On Sunday, the day following his acquittal, Young was married at Oahoka to Mias Bray, of Ohio, who has been in this locality most of the time since his arrest. They came to Keokuk Monday, and remained here until this moruing, when they left for Young’s home, near Luray. Young was warned along the line that a mob was assembling to haDg him, but he refused to turn back. He said he had beat t iem once, and could do it again, and that he aid not propose to run away or be frightened away. The plan was to take YouDg from the train at Cahoka, but owiDg to a delay in a telegram the train got past that city before the mob assembled. They hastily followed to Luray, however, surrounded Young’s house, and demanded that all but YouDg leave the buildiDg. J. C. Coffman, of Toledo, Ohio, one of Young's attorneys, and two ladies who were there came out, but Yoimg insisted that his wife and children remain. Firing was then opened, but it ißnot known who fired the first shots. Young would open the door, fire into the crowd, and dodge back. This was kept np until Young had received four wounds—one in the wrist, one in the lung, one in the scalp, and one in the abdomen, which disabled him so that he ceased firing. The mob then piled hay around the house preparatory to burning it, when Young’s children came running out and said that their father was dead. A number of men theD entered tho house, brought Youug out, placed him iu a wagon and drove under an arched gateway. They then called upon him to make a confession, but he is said to have asserted his inuocence to the last. They proposed to him that if he would pay the costs of tho prosecution, confess the murder and leave the country they would not hang him. He offered to pay the costs and leave, but refused to confess. His last words were that he was an innccent raw. They allowed him to make his will, then drove the wagon out, and loft him hanging until ho was dead. The mob is variously estimated at from 200 to 500 men. They wore no masks, and made no attempts to disguiso themselves. Many of them aro wellknown citizens of Clark county. Others are said to have been from Illinois and lowa. Detective Lano was in the mob, and took an aclive part.

OBITUARY.

OEN. JO HOOKER. Gen. Hooker was born at Hadley, Mass., in 1815, and died at Gardon City, L. 1., Oct. 31, 1870 He graduated at West Point in 1837, served in the Florida war, and in tho war with Mexico. Ho resigned his commission in the army in 1853. Ho re-entered the military service at the beginning of the late civil war, and took an activo part in McClellan’s peninsular campaign. Ho commanded a irrand divisibu under Burnside at. tlio battle of Fredericksburg. He succeeded to tho command of the Army of the Potomac. Jan. 26, 1863, aud fought tho battle of Chancellorsville. He resigned shortly after, and was succeeded by Gon. Meade. Ho was transferred to tho West, where lie distinguished himself iu tho series of battles fought around Chattanooga iri November, 1863, hi.s«best-Uuown and most highly apprec aied exploit being the storming of Lookout mountain.

History of Hats. • How few of us ever trace the history of the hat. The felt hat is as old as Homer. Tho Greeks made them in skull-caps, conical, truncated, narrow or broad-brimmed. The Phrygian bonnet has an elevated cap without a brim, the apex turned over in front. It is known as the cap of Liberty. An ancient figure of Liberty in the times of Anthonius Livy, A. D. 115, holds the cap in the right hand. The Persians wore soft hats; plumed hats were the head-dress of the Syrian caps of Xerxes; the broad-brim was worn by the Macedonian Kings. Castor means a beaver. The Armenian captive wore a plug hat. The merchants of the seventeenth century wore a Flanders beaver. Charles VII., in 1469, wore a felt hat lined with red and plumed. The English men and women in 1510 wore close woolen or knitted caps; two centuries ago hats were worn in the house. Pepys, in his diary, in 1664 wrote, “September, 1664, got a severe cold because he took off his hat at dimier;” and again, in January. 1665, he got another cold by sitting' too long with his bare head, to allow his wife’s maid to comb his hair and wash his ears. And Lord Clarendon, in his essay, speaking of the decay of respect due tho aged, says, “that in his younger days he never kept his hat on before those older than himself except at dinner.” In the thirteenth century Pope Innocent IV. allowed the Cardinals the use of the scarlet cloth hat. The hats now in use are the cloth hat, leather hat, silk hat, opera hat, spring-brim hat and straw hat.

The Yery Old Lady of Skye. There is a remarkable old lady in Skye. Widow Macpherson entered upon her 106th year last Christmas. She was born there in the same year that Dr. Samuel Johnson and Boswell visited Syke, and met with Flora Macdonald, the Jacobite heroine, who befriended Prince Charlie after his disastrous defeat at Calloden, in 1746, when the Government reward of £30,000 offered for his surrender did not induce her to betray her trust and. yield up this sole survivor of a fallen dynasty. During this 105 years of Widow Macpherson’s life she was living in a turf hut, the smoke from the peat fire on the hearth finding its way out by every crevice, and giving a luster, as if varnished, to the rafters which support the thatched roof. She has survived six Lords of the Isle, the present being the seventh, Lord Macdonald. She has never been out of the island, and does not understand one word of English, but converses freely in Gaelic. She has been blind ten years, but her hearing and memory are both good, and she is nursed by her daughter Kitty, who is unwearied in her attendance upon her old mother.

A Velocipede Race of 106 Miles. A velocipede race was run recently round the lake of Geneva, Switzerland. The distance, 106 miles, was done by the winner in ten hours and forty-one minutes, which, considering the hilly character of a gieat part of the road, and that a strong north wind was blowing at the time, is regarded as a very creditable achievement. As the entrance fee to Masonic lodges in Turkey is so high that only the richest can join the order, the Turkish officers in Connecticut have unitod with a lodge m the land of steady habits.

DOWN IN THE BONANZA MINE.

Gen. and Mrs. Grant, in Miner's Garb, Go Down and Inspect the Wonderful Bullion Lode. [Letter f om Virginia City, Nev.] After breakfast at the Savage mansion the party were driven over the high bluffs of the town and down to the immense building covering the “C” and “D” shaft. Here, after being shown, by Mackey and Fair, the pump which throws eighty gallons at every stroke, and which alone cost $500,000, and the hoisting works, with their gigantic wheels and iron cables, we were sent to onr apartments, the ladies in one and the gentlemen in another. Here we were ordered to remove every shred of onr clothing, and then attire ourselves in coarse stockings, cowhide boots, a pair of blue flannel pants and jacket. And that was all. When the General appeared outside in the miner’s suit, with his pantstucked in his stocking tops, and with the oldest slouched hat in the building on his head, the party greeted him with “bravos” and a hearty laugh, and Grant, looking with amused astonishment on himself, declared he was ready for Flannigan’s ball. When the ladies appeared in men’s suits the laughter was turned upon them. Mrs. Fair had been down before, and Gov. Kinkead declared significantly that we all knew the reason why, for in her jaunty sailor’s suit she made a pretty picture. The General saw the point, and, stepping np, cigar in hand, he said: “ I want to offer this young gentleman a cigar.” Who has said that Grant is reserved and silent ? On the summit of the Sierras and sailing over the blue depths of Tahoe, he was always appreciative and asking all sorts of questions, and to-day, in his miner’s suit, and when sure he had escaped curious crowds, 2,100 feet under the ground, he was chatty as a boy, and with a dry humor which did not need Grant behind it to make it good. He was sure that Mrs. Grant would not go down the mine until finally Mackey offered to bet SI,OOO that she would go. In the same joking way the bet was taken by the General, but he did not have the money. It would be useless to apply to a newspaper man for money, he said, and no one else would loan it to him; so, offering some old Japanese coins for security, we started down. But Mrs. Grant did go; and, descending swiftly in the iron cage, wo commiserated the General on his loss. “Well,” he said, “a thousand dollars is a good deal of money to lose, but I guess it will stop Mrs. Grant’s shopping a while, and it is the first bet I ever heard of where both sides were winners.” Down we glide as smoothly as in one of your hotel elevators, to the first level, 1,800 feet below. Here wo leave our ovorcoats, which we had put on for the cold ride down the shaft. As the General starts off he calls back to his son: “Bud, bring some cigars.” “You caunot smoke here,” says Mrs. Grant.

“Well, I’ll try,” answers the General in so emphatic a tone that some one raises a laugh by adding, “If it takes all summer.” Through subterranean and devious paths we follow Mr. Hugh Lamb, the obliging foreman. We examine the vast bodies of ore which we encouuter, and Gen. Grant splashes through the water, knocks pieces of the ore off with a pick, and is full of curious questions about the cost of mining and milling, the character of the rock, the yield per month, etc., etc. We are getting so far down now that the natural heat of the earth is becoming unpleasant, and Mrs. Grant does not seem to enjoy it. Mrs. Grant wants to go back to the surface, but the General says she must not put them to that trouble, and, as all good wives should, she yields, and we leave the ladies in the cleanest place we can find, and go on down. We are soon where the thermometer marks 95 deg. Fahrenheit, and the sweat pours off us. We examine the immense system of timbering, and learn that it has required over $2,000,000 to put this gigantic mine of gold in shape for work. We examine the pumps, and the steamdrills with their noisy clatter are stopped and run so that the General may see how they work. Mr. Mackey, who has been through this many times, says it is not warm, but the rest of us sweat and gasp. The General is delighted w r ith the “good sweat” he is having; and, getting the attention of the crowd, he says to Mr. Fair: “ There are two newspaper men here and plenty near at hand. Find the hottest place you can and let us leave them there and let them get used to what they must come to.”

The newspaper men say never a word. Again we take the cage, where it seems cold as a winter’s day, and down 200 feet deeper into the earth we go. Here it is 120 Fahrenheit. Workmen, bare to the waist, come forward, saying: “General, we have got you here, and you will have to shake.” “I like to shake a healthy man’s hand,” the General says, as he looks at their muscular development. The water coming froiA* the, earth is so hot here that you can not bear your hand in it, and men can only work a few minutes, when they are cooled off with ice. The General thinks it would be a good plan to sentence convicts to work eight hours a day down here. “Anyhow,” he says, red in the face from heat, and mopping his face with the sleeve of his blouse, “this is the place to leave the newspaper men.” “Would you not leave the politicians, too?” asks Gov. Kinkead. “Yes, but there ain’t room for all that ought to be put here,” the General replies, without a smile, and maybe he meant it.

Poor Caesar’s Fall. Caosar is the name of a large dog that belongs to Henry Armbruster, of Forest City, in the county of Sierra, in tho State of Nevada. Caesar was a fat dog —a very fat fellow—until about one month ago. At that time he disappeared. One week passed away and Caesar was still missing. One week and three days—ten days in all—went by. Then, as Mr. Armbruster stood near the mouth of a shaft, or a deep hole made by miners in their search for gold, he heard a whine, a low, piteous whine, come up the shaft. “ Caesar! ” called Mr. Armbruster, stooping down, “ heiglio! ho, ho, ho, Caesar, old boy ! ” Caesar answered with a faint bark. He was 125 feet under ground, in a dark, damp place, 'indeed. Mr. Ambruster

4»n borne, got a rope and fixing a noose as one end, dropped it down. Before long he had fished Ciesar out. Ciesar had fallen into the shaft and remained there ten days without so much as a bone. He was as poor as Job’s turkey, and many times poorer than a church mouse, but he is now gaining flesh nicely.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Beceipts of the State fair aggregate $23,000, and leave a profit of SB,OOO. Bepobts ceme in from the Kankakee that some fine salmon are being taken. Ten years ago, Oct 23, snow was ten inches deep on the streets of Lafayette. The Fort Wayne water works will cost $233,033, if completed at contract prices. The State House foundation will reach the top of the ground before winter. The Lower Ohio has not been as low, and navigation as difficult, in the past thirty years as at present. The City Council of Vincennes has resolved to purchase another steam fire engine, one not being deemed sufficient. Gbape vines at Lafayette have not only taken the second growth, but the grapes themselves are out with the second crop. Vebnon Tingley, son of of Dr. Tingley, of Greencastle, has gone as clerk to Col. J. B. Weaver, Consul General to Austria. Samuel Welland, residing at New Paris, lost one of his imported Clydesdale stallions, valued at $2,500, by lung fever, a few days ago. It is probable the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago railroad, now building, will find an entrance into Indianapolis over the Bee line. The long warm spell has brought late corn out wonderfully, and it is now thought that the crop in Northern Indiana will be the largest known. Evansville Courier: Traffic on the river is sadly impeded by the low stage of the water. The boats spend the greater portion of their time on the sand-bars. Fabmebs report that the fly is injuring their early-sown wheat. Borne of the Shaker Prairie farmers are plowing under their earliest-sown wheat aud resowing. An apple tree in Indianapolis bore fruit an. inch in diameter, the second crop this year. Cherry trees bloomed also, but show no cherries. Several pear and other fruit trees bloomed quite profusely. Gbeat excitement prevails in Catholic circles at Evansville over a revolt which as sprung up against an order issued with the approval of Bishop Chatard to remove 1,000 bodies from the old Catholic Cemetery to the St. Joseph’s Cemetery. Hon. William H. English, of Indianapolis, has purchased an elegant monument in Europe, to be placed over the grave of his father, Col. English, at Crown Hill Cemetery. It is forty feet high, and cost $7,000. The lot and fence cost $6,000. Stanfield B. Fbazieb has resigned as Deputy Clerk of the United States Court at Fort Wayne, the legal fraternity of the “Summit city” having made the position unprofitable (by sending their • cases to Indianapolis) because an outsider was selected to fill it. A Jennings county farmer negotiated with a stranger for the sale of his valuable farm in exchange for certain alleged property near New York city, and title deeds were transferred without further examination. He now finds that, while the New York deeds are worthless, the title of his own homestead of 420 acres has been transferred to third parties, and that the sharper is not to be found. Judge John G. Davis, of the Circuit Court at Jeffersonville, has decided that negroes and whites coming into the State and marrying cannot be convicted under the act of 1852, defining certain felonies and prescribing the penalties therefor, on the grounds that they are not residents of the State. This case has been excitiDg much interest, Howard (colored) having come from Louisville and married a white woman by the name of Leona Evans, three weeks ago Howard was consequently discharged. Indiana has a larger school fund than any other State. It now amounts to considerably more than $9,000,000. This all loaned—nearly half of it to the State, drawing 6 per cent, interest, and the remainder to individual borrowers at 8 per cent., and the latter secufed upon lands valued, without the improvements, at twice the amount loaned. No one loan exceeds SI,OOO. The fund is constantly being increased from $40,000 to $50,000 yearly by fines and forfeitures under the penal laws of the State. In addition to this permanent fund, the school property of the State was valued last year at $11,536,647.39. This year Prof. Smart, Superintendent of Public Instruction, estimates that it will amount to $12,000,000.

The Wrong Roll In the Right Place. A gentleman at Darien who had been on a collecting tour returned home the other night with about $1,200 in his pocket. He locked every door, and was so nervous that he didn’t know whether he was a foot or a horseback. After he and his wife had undressed and got into bed, he got up and put the roll of money into his, wife’s stocking. In the morning when he got up he found his money in his pantaloons pocket, and asked his wife if she wasn’t astonished when she found that roll of money in her stocking. She said she didn’t find any roll in her stocking. He told her that he put it iu her stocking the night before. She insisted that if he did he must have got up in his sleep and taken it out. He insisted on examining her stockings, to see if any of the roll had remained there. She thought she felt something kind of binding around her toes. Finally she took off her shoe and stocking, and found a half-pound roll of tine-cut chewing tobacco nicely jammed in alxmt her toes. He said that beat the deuce, and she said it had taken the skin off her toes. That day the man was very free with his tobacco, giving anybody a chew who wanted it. When the people of Darien, who accepted his hospitalities, read this, and know that they helped chew that tobacco that the lady had worn in her shoe for a couple of hours, they witl say words that they ought to be ashamed of.— Milwaukee Hun,

$1.50 uer Annum.

NUMBER 39.

GOV. HENDRICKS.

Synopsis of His Indianapolis Speech. Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks recently delivered -a speech of an hour and a quarter in length, at Washington Hall, Indianapolis. After a few preliminary remarks, he referred to the Bepublican victories of this year. Begarding Maine, he said that Grant carried it by 30,000, but this year the Bepublican s were less than the Democrats and Nationals. In California the party lines were broken down by the Chinese question, and Ohio, which was a Bepublican State, had simply gone Bepublican. The Bepublicans were elated over the latter, because without carrying it they could not look for any national success whatever. “ Will you Democrats,’ he said, “who never faltered or never feared for the future be discouraged? Seven years ago I was the only Governor elected in any Northern State. This State went Bepublican in 1864 by 27,000 majority. We have reduced the majority again and again, until now, with whatever hesitation I may speak of other States, I understand the State of Indiana and have no fears.” Gov. Hendricks charged that the Bepublicans had an organization called the Emigration Society in Washington city, which had for one of its purposes the importing of colored voters into this city, and dwelt upon the cheapening of the labor of the State by this process. In regard to State sovereignty, he said: We Democrats stand by the Union with all the powers that the constitution delegates; by tlio States withjall the rights that the constitututioa reserves to them. You all know that during the progress of the war at every political meeting you heard the appeal made to the citizens to volunteer to preserve the be st Government in the world—that Government which received the sanction and blessing of the great men that established it. Madison and Mouroo; and such mighty men Ss Jackson; and in the war, wherever a national gun was fired, its moaning was that the Government was to be preserved, witli all the rights of the States delegated to them by the constitution. Eeferring to the Grant boom, Gov. Hendricks said: I don’t want a man on horseback to represent the ins itutions of our country. They want to reverso the idea teat our institutions rest upon ike consent of the people, aud establish in its stead the idea of physical force. If there is a dispute among us, how shall we dfcoide it? Shall we invoke the sword and bayonot to decide, or shall we, according to the civil idea, bring our controversy into court and have it settled there? Is it not strange that this Republican party, that claims it is so sure of victory in the future, has now appealed to this idea for success? They tell us they aro going to nominate Grant. Of that I have no doubt. To succeed they ha vo to tread underfoot the traditions of all generations since Washington loft the Presidential chair. The Republicans are very mad about tbo Brigadiers in Congress. They are not mad because Hayes has a B igadier in his Cabinet, or that there are five Bi igadiers in the United States courts, administering the laws pf the country. The Brigadiers in Congress have abolished the test oath, restored the silver dollar to its place in the currency of the country, have stopped the enormous payments to fraudulent loyalty and of fraudulent claims, and reduced the expenditures $30,(00,000 a year, and have made the issue that elections must not bo controlled by troops. What havo the Brigadiers done that any man can find fault with? In referring to Hayes’ veto of the Supervisors bill Gov. Hendricks said that a man who got into office the way Hayes did ought to wear his official robes modestly, and ought not to veto a bill involving no constitutional question. One Congress ought certainly to havo the right to repeal a law passed by another. In conclusion Gov. Hendricks said: After all, the only place where the American citizen expresses his acts, his opinions, and his power is at the ballot-box, and that little ballot that he drops in there is the written sentiment of the times, and is the power that he has as a citizen of this great republic. It must not bo interfered with. It must be preserved. I think you will preserve it. It is not always that Hayes will do vetoing things—at least wo have got a subject for effort. We have got something to work for. We havo got tho freedom of the ballot, the freedom of legislation, and the maintenance of the institutions of our country as our fathers framed them, and as modified by the amendments to tho constitution, to assert, defend and preserve; and I am proud to know that, in 1370, the great army that rallied around that banner representative of American liberty was more than 4,000,000 strong. The greatest army that was ever organized on earth was the army of American freemen that voted for Tilden and Hendricks. It was 230,000 majority over all, white and black, votes of this couutiy. It was more than a million of a majority, and more majority than was ever given in the history of the United States, that was ever given for the candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. You, my fellowcitizens, that know my sentiments almost as though you could read with a glass—you men know that I did not want to become a candidate for the Vice Preridency of the United States, but when the word came over the wires that there were 4,000,000 men voted for me for the second office in the Government, for that compliment—for no man conld be more highly honored—l felt honored; but if I had not received the votes of the people, and oould have slipped in some other way, as the scriptures explain it, not going in at the straight gate, but had climbed up over the wall, and round about—in that way had I sneaked into the office—then indeed would 1 expect no man to honor me, for I ould not honor myself. That is the condition of the two gentlemen that got in there. There may be demonstrations apon the streets, and there ma.y ho shouts and Hurrahs as they pa e by, but history wiß write this story, and what she writes will never, never be obliterate 1. It goes to history, and down along all generations of men that one President and one Vice President came in without election, and it is the last time that story is to be written in the history of America.

The Pernicious Agitators.

A Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune reports the assertion of a Federal official in Texas that “the Democratic party in that State is rapdly breaking up.” And the Boston Herald (Rep.) receives impressions from Southern journals that “in the next State elections there will be a division in the Democratic party, and such a division as will be likely to improve greatly upon the solid front hitherto presented, and which has been productive of so much miechief.” We have no doubt there is truth at the bottom of both these statements. To prevent that result, and to keep the South solid, is the present work of Foster, Blaine, Zach Chandler and other Republican managers at the North. They wave the bloody shirt, make dire threats against the South, aud strive in every way possible to keep open old sectional sores and intensify sectional prejudices. They know that that course is eminently calculated to knit the South together as a unit. The South is solid because self-pro-tection to life and property enjoins it. The Republican leaders will have it so, and work to keep it so. They could, long since, have divided the South into two great parties, or more than two parties, for that matter, had they pursued the proper fourse to win adherents, and divide (he Pmocracy in that section,

glemouittic JOB PRINTING OFFICE b*e better facilities than any office In Northwester* Indiana for the execution of all branches ol job iixrct. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from a pamphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

In the first place, by their reconstruction policy, which is acknowledged by themselves to be a failure ns to the expected uses of the negroes ns a political factor,'they put upon the Southern whites the greatest humiliation it was possible to inflict on them they made their former slaves, their masters. In the second place, for the sake of securing the Federal patronage to Northern Bepublicans at the North, they sacrificed the Bepublican party at the South, and thereby give up tho South, negroes and all, to the Democracy. And now, in order to secure power at the Nolrth, which is the lar stronger section, they threaten, if successful, to put new chains on the South, aud put them again under negro rule by means of the standing army. Who need wonder at the South being: a political unit? These political agitators are the enemies of the peace and prosperity of t he country, and patriotic citizens should vote them down at the polls. They have their counterparts at the South, and between them the country is kept in turmoil and hot water. It is time the two classes were frowned into obscurity by all good citizens, North and South. —Cincinnati Enquirer .

The Next Electoral College.

There are a few doubting Thomases among the Democrats of this vicinity who seem to regard the loss of Ohio by the Democracy, on Tuesday, as fatal to the prospects of that party in tho Presidential contest of next year. Such men have evidently paid but little attention to the aspect of affairs as presented by the latest elections held in the North and West. A careful survey of the field shows that the Democrats are not as liable to defeat as'wonld appear at first glance, but stand more than an even chance of success. Iu tho North the Democracy can safely lay claim to the States of Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, and New York. There may be some who will dispute tho possibility of carrying New York. The present split in the Democratic ranks may lose the State for the Democrats at the election next month. But a year hence this dissension will be healed, and the Democracy will present a solid front. With a united Democracy the State is certain to cast its electoral vote for the candidate of the party, whoever he may bo. A look at the complexion of the next Electoral College presents the following as the probable and almost positive status of that body after the election of November, 1880:

REPUBLICAN STATES Electoral Vote. California o Colorado 3 Illinois 21 lowa II Kansas 5 Maine 7 Massachusetts 13 Michigan II Minnesota 5 Nebraska 3 Nevada 3 Now Hampshire 5 jOiiio ‘.2 ■ Pennsylvania 20 Itliode Island I Vermont 5 Total 15 i

DEMOCRATIC HTATEH. Electoral Vote Alabama 10 Arkansas <• Connecticut ti Delaware 3 I lorl da 4 Georgia 11 Indiana 15 Kentucky IS! Louisiana 8 Mai .viand S Mississippi 8 Missouri 15 NovJersy 11. New York 35l North Carolina 10 South Caroliua 7 Tennessee 12 Texas 8 Virginia 11 West Virginia 5 Total 203

DOUBTFUL STATES. Oregon 3 Wisconsin 10 Total 13

In the above computation we give the Bepublicans the States of Illinois and California, which may fairly bo considered doubtful, and, granting them both Oregon and Wisconsin, it will bo seen that they can not, by any method of figuring, command more than 166 electoral votes, which is nineteen less than a majority. With a candidate for Vice President from Illinois—such a man as Gen. J. M. Palmer, for instance —that State could easily be carried by the Democrats, and in that event the party could afford the loss of New York. Bat, as we have said, the existing breach in the party in that State will, no doubt, be healed before the Presidential election, and with a united Democracy the Empire State will be Democratic to the core. We can afford to allow the Bepublican party to take Ohio, and yet win the battle in 1880. There is margin enough to work upon, provided no grave blunders are committed. In fact, tlio result in Ohio settles all dissensions on the financial question, and cleaves the way for a rousing Democratic victory in 1880. — St. Paul {Minn.) Globe.

A Letter-Carrier Who Couldn’t.

One of the letter-carriers, who has a district in the northern part of the city, was yesterday bustling along Woodward avenue at his best gait, when he met a portly, motherly woman, who halted him and asked: - “Be you acquainted all around town?” “ Yes’m,” was his hunied reply. “ You know where the City Hall Market is, then ?” “ Yes’m.” “ Well, I’m in a peck of trouble. This morning I sert down by my old man after tomatoes, onions, red-pepper and cauliflower, to make chow-chow. He sent up everything but the onions, and I can’t go ahead until I get ’em. Nov, you look sort o’ honest, and if you would only take 15 cents and run down for the onions I’d take it as a great favor indeed.” “•Why, ma’am, I couldn’t think of it!” he replied. “ Couldn’t do just that much to obligo a woman who has always been kind to boys ?” “ I’m a letter-carrier, you see, and—” “I’ll hold the sack while you are gone. Come, now, that’s a good boy. Remember to get the small white onions, and if there’s any chaDgeleft over yon can keep it.” He tried to convince her how utterly impossible it was, but as he hurried on slie called after him: “ I never saw such'a disobliging young man 1 I don’t believe you’d even bring in my ice if I should promise you a fried-cake \—Detroit Free Fresa. “Well, my son,” said a good-natured father to an 8 year-old son, the other night, “what have you done to-day that may be set down as a good deed V” “ Gave a poor boy 5 cents,” replied the hepeful. “Ah, ah! that was a charity, and charity is always right. He was an orphan boy, was he?” “I didn’t stop to ask,” replied the boy. “I gave him the money for licking a boy why upset my dinner-basket!”