Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1879 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

vouzair niwi. The South American war has at last been the occasion of a little bloodshed. A telegram from Valparaiso states that the Chilians have captured Pisagua after a desperate engagement, m which they lost 500 in killed and wounded. It is stated that 300 children were killed and wounded during the bombardment Afghanistan advices report that the suspicion which rested on Yakoob Khan, and which was temporarily removed by his joining Oen. Roberts at Kushi, is ag<in settling down on him, and he is now a prisoner under close guard. A correspondent at Cabul says it is rumored that a combined Russian and Persian force has been defeated by the Turkomans near Birako. The diphtheria epidemic has assumed alarming proportions in Russia. Thousands of adults have died of the disease since 1876, and it is believed that in many districts the deaths have greatly exceedod the births. An idea of the frightful mortality among the young may bo gained from the statement that in Odessa since the Ist of last May fully 75 per cent, of the children have died of zymotic diseases. The plague has become so general and the mortality so enormous that the Government has appointed a special commission to inquire into tho matter and adopt measures for the extinction of the malady. A dispatch from Cabul says: “The general bellt f of the complicity of Yakoob Khaq in tlio massacre of the British embassy gains in streugth. Tire Ameer and bis advisers, it is thought, did not anticipate a wholesale inassaoro, but only sufficient intimidation to induce Maj. Cavagnari to roport his position in Cabul as untenable. The affair, however, went Ueyoud their control, and they then acted on tho principle that * dead men ted no tales.’ ” The Spanish Government has become thoroughly a'aimod at the threatening aspect of the new rdielliou in Cuba. Capt Gen. Blanco has telegraphed Geo. Martinez Campos, Minister of War, that now bands of insurgents havo m do their appsarauce in provinces in tho center of the island, and has asked for reinforcements, chiefly of cavalry. The Government has decided to embark thorn immediately on a steamer at Cadiz, Bantandor, and Barcelona.

DOaUSTIO INTRLLIGHUrC®,

Km*. The creditors of Jay Cooke have boon authoritatively notified that his estate will pay in the aggregate $1,127 on every #I,OOO he owo I w lien bo failed. lie failed in September, 1875. The above rate of payment would be tho principal ai d about 2 per cent, a year lib ret t on bis ind< b'odi 0“S. The mint; at Philadelphia will hereaft r le tin ployed chiiily oil the coinage of small gold (J c s, for which there is great demand. lixlensivc Ir.imls on the revenue have been di covered in Nt w Ifork city, and the stock of a 1 inipnriii g I.oosj has boon seized. Charles H. Voorhi-s, member of Congress from the Fifth Pistriit of New Jersey, has bai n arrest d by a United Stat s Deputy Marshal on a charge of abstrac'iiig from tho First National limit of JI ickensnck, of which ho was Preside' I, coll Uoruls deposited to eecure a private loan. A shock it g tenement horror is reportrd from New York city. A tire took place on tho Bei'.' n l floor of toe tenement 80 C mon street. Mary Babb ki, who <o uipicdapartments on the third lloor, leaped to the street, and was probably fatally injured. Joseph Ila zkie, who lived on the fourth fl >or, unable toescap > by the roof or stairs, throw himself from a window and was killed. 11 is entire fam ly, consisting of his wife an I two children and modior-in-l .w, wore suffocated. Tho damage by fire will not exceed #SOO. Patrick Lynch, a fireman, Was fatally injured in tho attempt to rcscuo the women and children. Charles Drews and Franklin Stickler were hanged at Lebanon, I’a , on tho 14 th inst They wero concerned in the celebrated conspiracy murder of Baber, for his life insurance money. —At Oooperstown N. Y, on the same day, My '-on A. Buell, agoil 2d, wa < banged for tho murder, oi tlio 25 li laedp Jrtno, of Catherine May Richards, aged Ifi ■„ The well-known house of Morris S. Heyinann A Hons, importers of ostrich featlierp, No. 508 Broadway, Now York, have failed to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars. - A pedestrian named Johnson has j list acc implished, at Boston, the unparalleled feat of wak : ng 1,500 miles in 1,000 consecutive hours. Beuth. Mrs. John Donovan, of Memphis, Tenn ~ growing despondent on aocoi.nt of domes'io tronblos, saturated hor clothing with kerosene, set thorn on fire, and literally erematod hers If. She was tlio husband of Co'. Johu Done van, a wealthy and prominent citizen, who niado an unenviable renutation last year when his wife (a former ore) and children diod of the fever, by refusing to come to their bedside in response to appeals to him. A horrible tragedy is reported from Lan >aster county, 8 O. A while worn in, Mis. James Adams, out tho throrts of her five children, set flro to hor own clothing, and was burned to doath. It is supposed she was insane. A tornado in Crawford and Sebastian counties, Ark., destroyed nearly. everything in its track. Jordan Sheafs (colored) was hanged on the 14th inst., at Danielsvillo, Ga., for the murdor of John Ledbetter (white) on the 24tb of February last West. W. C. Van Horne, late General Superintendent of the Chicago and Alton railroad, has accepted the general sitpoiinteuden ry of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul road, made vacant by the resignation of John C. Gault A horrible double murder, followed by tho swift lynching of one of the perpetrators, is reported from Todd county, Minn. A feud sprung up between John Ooldale, and another man whose name is not given, living on a farm, on the one side, and two bachelor brothers, John and Michael Moede, who cultivated an adjoining farm, on the othor. One night Ooldale’s house was burned, and he and his fellow-workman were missing, with every evidence that they had been murdered. Suspicion rested on the Moedes. One of them fled, but John was arrested, confessed the deed, told where the bodies were concealed, and said that his brother Michael assisted in the horrible crime. Jbe bodies w ere lound, as stated by him, wrapped in a sheet and buried in the brush. The horribly-mutilated remains presented a most sickening sight. This was more than the enraged citizens could stand, and the prisoner was taken from the j«l by the mob and banged to a tre«. ha# authorized a denial

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME HI.

of the story that he had been offered the Presidency of the Pennsylvania railroad. Dispatches from Los Pinos Indian Agency, dated Nor. 14, state that the Peace Commission was fully organized and ia faH blast Present, Gen. Hatch, Gen. Charles Adams, Chief Ouray, First Lieut Gustavus Valois, Ninth Cavalry, recorder end legal adviser; J. T. Townsend, of New Mexico, interpreter. Chiefs Donglass and Johnson were present, and quite nervous, notwithstanding their efforts to appear at ease. As the Commission sits with closed doors, nothing will be known in relation to its proceedings until the official report reaches Washington. A dispatch from Los Pinos Agency, in Colorado, says of the Ute peace council: “Tho Indians who testify before the Commission arc Bworn by Chief Ouray according to the custom of the Ute nation. Douglass was the first witness called at tho order of Ouray. He aroeo from his eeat, and, standing erect, with his arm raised, he administered tho oath to himself as follows: ‘By the heavens above; by tho earth that will receive me; by the Great Spirit that looks down upon me; I dare not speak anything but the truth.’ This was said with much force, and with appropriate gesture. He saw nothing, heard nothing, and took no part in killing Meeker and the employes and In the fight with Thornburgh. Chief Johnson knew even loss than Douglass. To the question, ‘Do you know whether there has been any fight at White river!” he answered, ‘No.’ None of his relatives were in the fight, so far as h* knew, and he could not give the name of a single Indian engaged in the killing of Meeker and the employes nor tho troops.”—lt is gradually becoming known that the liostilo Utes during their recent council determined at first to kill Commissioner Adams, but that they finally decidod on tho course they have pursued. This part of their proceeding was not translated to Adams, and he now only finds it out through Ouray and other Indians. Albert Woodward, of Jefferson county, Ind., attempted to drive across a swollen stream. In the spring wagon which he was driving were seated his wife and two daughters. The swift current swopt wagon and horses down stream, and Mrs. Woodward and the two daughters found a watery grave. The schooner C. G. Breed, from Detroit for Buffalo* with 24,000 bushels of wheat, capsized and foundered eighty miles oast of Poiut Au Felloe. The crew, consisting of the Captain aud seven men, are all supposed to be lost, with the exception of Frank Davis and David McAllister, who were picked up after being several hours in the water, llio lost schooner was commanded by Capt. Itoso, of Detroit; James Smith, of Buffalo, was mate. A coach bound for Leadville from tho railroad terminus rolled down a procipiee eleven miles from town, the driver having lost his way in a driving snow-storm. All tho fourteen passengers were severely injured, one, Rev. J. Pickett, a Congregational minister from Colorado Springs, being instantly killed. . Eugene Biddle, son of Alderman Biddle, of Milwaukee, committed suicide by placing the muzzles of two revolvers, one against each temple, and firing two bullets into liis brain. Hon. Benning W. Jenness, ex-United States Senator from Now Hampshire, lias just died at Cleveland, Ohio, aged 73. WASHINGTON NOTES. From Jan. 1 to Sept. <3O, 526 new buildings wore erected in Washington and 800 remodeled. Marshal Canrobert, who was recently elected a mombor of tlio French Senate as a Bonapartist candidate, is to be romoved from the Presidency of 'ho Commission for the Promoti in of Officers in tho Army. As an offset to the proposed British railway line to India, ceitain Russian financiers have under discussion apian for the construction of another road from Orenburg to Tashkend, and thence by way of Samareaud to the Ruseian front ior. Upon representations of numerous affidavits of special agents of the Poatofflce Department, Postmaster General Key has arrive d at the conclusion that all the lottery eompaui. s and l ittory agents are doing a fraudulent business within the purview of his statutory powers concerning “schemes to defraud the public.” Ho has, therefore, commenocd the issuance of special orders to Postmasteis at specified cities directed by name against all persons known to be emeernod in tho lottery business, forbidding Postmasters to pay any postal monoy order or to deliver any registered letter addressed to persons thus named. The money orders and registered letters are to be roturned to the senders, and the letters are to be stamped with the word “fraudulent. ” * The President visited New York last week, to attend the dedication of the Seventh Regiment Armory. Hon. Frederick Seward, Assistant Secretary of State, has resigned.The report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office shows that the gross proceeds of tho disposal of the public lands during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870, wero as follows: Cash sales, $804,840.03; fees, commissions, etc., $980,314.03; total, $1,875,155.86. The total number of acres of public lands disposed of during the fiscal year under the Homestead and Timber .Culture laws, and by the location of warrants and scrip, was 8,881,398.93.

XXSOBIiLANSOUfI OLBANINGt*. A fire occurred at McKeesport, Pa, recently, by which the Washington House, a large grist-mill and other buildings were totally destroyed, entailing a loss estimated at SBO,OOO. The wife of Hon. David Davis, United States Senator from Illinois, died at the residence of her eistsr, Mrs. Judge Rockwell, at Lenox, Mass., a few nights ago The remains were brought to Bloomington, IIL, the residence of Judge Davis, for interment. A gang of swindlers are operating through New England, semiring the notes of farmers in payment for wares that are never delivered, the notes being disposed of promptly at a discount. It is charged that the operations of the gang are directed by a wealthy business man in Michigan. Farmers throughout the West would do well to bo on the lookout, for they will almost surely be visited by those swindlers- as soon as they are driven out of the New England States. _ Recent deaths: Dr. Lovick Price, the father of Methodism in Georgia, aged 95; Richard Schell, a prominent financier and Dem - ocratio politician of New York city; William D. Blocher, for several years proprietor of the Little Rook (Ark.) Gazette; Robert Davis, the wealthiest man in Marshall county, Ill.; Rear Admiral A H. Kiltey, United States navy, aged 713; Mrs. McCook, mother of the famous fightng McOooks, of Ohio. A desperate fight is reported to have taken place on the 10th inst. at Candelaria mountain, fifty miles south of El faso, Texas, n the Btate of Chihuahua, Mexico, between & l*rge band of Indians, about 300, and a party

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1879.

of fifty men from Cariza, New Mexico. Thir-ty-two of the latter were killed and eighteen escaped, wounded. The Indians were the same party that Maj. Morrow waa after. The party after them was ambushed by the Indians behind rocks. The light lasted all day. Tho importation of “ neat ” cattle from Canada into the United States has been officially prohibited by the autheritiee at Washington, <n account of the pleuro pneumonia now prevalent in Canadian herds. The following is the condition of wheat, tobacco and corn, as reported by the Department of Agriculture at Washington: Wheat—Returns show an increase in the wheat crop of 26,000,000 bushels over last year. This great increase is the result of a large yield in all the States bordering on the Ohio river and the Missouri The Northwestern States show little variation from last year. Kansas and California both decline in yield. Texas, of all the Southern States, is the only ouo that falls off in the yield this year. Tobacco—The indicated product for the, entire country is 98 per cent, of that of 1878. Corn—The crop promises an increase of over 200,000,000 bushels, or nearly 15 per cent, over last year. The Atlantic and gulf <x ast States note some decrease, but other sectio is of tho Union have greatly increased their yield. The Southern inland Stater ncrease nearly 30 per cent over other section r; Mississippi valley nearly 20. The Pacific State j report about the same yield as last year. Advices from Cuba received in New York by mail show that the insurrection in that island is a formidable one. The patriots have defoated the Spaniards in one pitohed battle, and are gathering in force for an advance on Puerto Principe It is expected by their leaders that thousands of slaves will join them, and that by the time reinforcements from Spain arrive the insurgents will be prepared to deal with the augmented army of the Captain General.

POLITICAL POINTS. The following is the total vote cast in Now York city for Governor and Lieutenant Governor: For Governor— A. B. Cornell, Republican, 46,135; L. Robinson, Democ at, 64,906; John Kelly, bolter, 42,270. For Lieutenant Governor—George G. Hoskins, Republican, 50,024; Clarkson N. Potter, Democrat, 98,675. The vote of Allegheny county, Pa., containing Pittsburgh, was for State Treasurer: Butler, Republican, 17,913; Barr, Democrat, i 1,199: Sutton, Greenback, 1,435; Richardson, Prohibition, 78. A call has been issued for a meeting of the National Republican Committee to bo hold at Washington, Dec. 17, to tako appropriate action upon the death of tho Hon. Zach Chandler, and to consider the time and place of holding the next national convention. Advices from Lansing, Mich., indicate that the vaoaut seat iu the United States Senate vacatod by the death of Mr. Chandler is likely to be filled by the Legislature instead of the Governor’s appointment, as Gov. Croswell expresses himself as decidedly in favor of calling an extra sossion to consider this and other matters of pressing importance. Stilson Hutchins, proprietor of the Washington Pont, has purchased the Manchester (N. II.) Union, And will hereafter run two papers, both daily. It is stated that the President, in his message to C .ingress, will recommend the retiring of all grcenbicks in circulation.

Not “ Slippered ” Ease.

One of our printers, returning home the other evening after a hard day’s work, concluded he would have a quiet smoke, and proceeded to incase his feet in a pair of slippers. He slipped off his shoes and put one foot in, but that foot hadn’t been in the slipper but a half second when it was jerked out with such force as to knock the table over and demolish five chairs; at the same- time he let out a howl of anguish of such intensity that several gentlemen rushed in, expecting to find some one in the clutches of a foul murderer, but instead found the printer dancing one of Strauss’ select waltzes on one foot, while his arms were going round like a windmill. They advanced on him to investigate the phenomenon, when a wasp took one of the gentlemen behind the ear, completely routed the relief committee, and settled the question then and there. There was a whole family of wasps in that slipper, fortified for winter. —Clarksville (Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf.

A Woman’s Constancy.

A young physician in California was engaged to be married to a young lady in a Southern State, and as a keepsake sent her a small nugget of gold. He was prosperous, and the wedding was set for an early date, but a sudden fall in his circumstances reduced him to poverty. Too honorable to hold the young lady to her promise in his altered circumstances, he reluctantly and with many a heart-pang wrote releasing her from her engagement. But the young lady had a brave heart, and resolved on keeping her promise, in spite of the change in her lover’s position. She took the little nugget of gold and had it made into a ring, which she sent to the young physician. On the ring was the inscription: “Entreat me not to leave thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and whither thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.” (Ruth ii., 16.)

Army of the Tennessee.

At the annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, in Chicago, last week, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President—Gen. W. T. Sherman. Hecording Secretary—Cob L. M. Dayton. Correspond ng Secretary G n. A. Hickenlooper. Treasurer-Gen. M. F. Force. Vice Presidents—Gen. J. S. Reynolds, Illinois: Gen. Ben Spooner, Indiana; Col. Frank L>nch, Ohio; Capt. W. E. Ware, Missouri: Capt, C. C. Chadwick, Michigan; Maj. M. A. Higley, Iowa; Gen. L. F. Hubbard. Minnesota; Col. George E. Bryant, Wisconsin; CM. W.J. Landrum, Kentucky; Gen. Amaaa Cobb, Nebraska; Capt. J. B. Raymond, Dakota; Gen. M. M. Banc, Utah. It was decided to hold the next meeting in Cincinnati

Tossing Upon a Bed of Agony,

Tortured in every joint with inflammatory rheumatism, is a prospect which may become a melancholy fact if the twinges of the dread disorder are not checked at the outset Persons of a rheumatic tendency find Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters a useful remedy, nor do they encounter the rißk in usiDg it they do from resorting to that active poison, Colchicum, which is often employed to arrest, the malady. The use of the Bitters is equally as effective in its results, and is attended with no risk. There is ample testimony to ptove that the medicine possesses blood-depurating qualities of no common order, besides those of a tonic and general alterative. It stimulates the action of the kidneys, and promotes the removal from the system of impurities which develop disease, and are fraught with serious danger. Fever and ague, dyspepsia, debility nervousness, constipation, etc., are remedied by it,

—— ; : —; * t I A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.” ■ ■ ;•: .. A. . W.- J

THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.

Republican and Democratic Outlooks. [Washington Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.).] The giants of the Republican party have already begun the battle in a quiet way for the mastery. The first move is to secure the place of holding the next National Convention. Secretary Sherman’s friends want it to go to Cleveland. Blaine’s friends prefer Philadelphia, though they are not averse to Chicago, while Grant’s friends favor Chicago. It seems to be conceded by common consent that A. B. Cornell, of New York, will be Zach Chandler’s successor as Chairman of the National Committee, and Col. Tom Keogh, of North Carolina, the successor of young McCormick, Thurman’s son-in-law, as Secretary, although W. E. Chandler’s’ friends put in a c’aim for him. If Cornell is chcsen it will be a starter for Grant. Just how it got abroad there is no telling, but within a day or two there has cropped out an impression that Grant, after all, will not be a candidate. The fact that Sherman preferred to let the Ohio Senatorship slip away from him to remain in the Presidential field indicates that there will be a contest for the nomination, and in such an event the wiseacres say that Grant will not suffer his name to go before the convention. J. Brisbin Walker, an timate friend of Secretary Sherman, called in at the Enquirer bureau tonight, aud, in the course of conversation said that he recently had a talk with Sherman, during which the Presidential topic came up. Said Walker: “I cannot see, Mr. Secretary, how Gen. Grant can permit his name to go before the convention in a case of a contest,” to which the Secretary quickly responded : “Of course there will be a contest.” This goes to show that Secretary Sherman is not going to step aside so easily as the Grant managers had hoped, but will keep in the race with a view to make Grant contest for the place rather than that the Presidential plum should, unsought, be dumped into his lap. I hear it, too, from Sherman’s friends that he is not so much afraid of Blaine as he is of Conkling—that is, he has no idea that Conkling 3an himself get the nomination, but that if Grant should get out of the way, in that event Conkling would turn in and throw his influence (tho vote of the New York delegation) for E. B. Washburne, of Illinois. The sixty-six votes of New York, added to tho foTty of Illinois, Which Washburne could count, would give him a good start, and the Grant influence in the South would also be likely to go for Grant’s candidate, who would undoubtedly be Washburne. Again, Washburne is outside of the jealousies and bickerings which exist between Conkling, Blaine and Sherman; and if, with Grant out, the convention should degenerate into a political throat-cutting affair, it would be the history of the Cincinnati Convention over again—the selection of a candidate upon whom the discontented elements could rally. Blaine aud Sherman might as well make a chalk-mark of it now that Conkling is going to have a delegation sent to tho convention from New York, and he may himself head it, which in no event will voto for either of them. Conkling is now here. One of his enthusiastic admirers, who is with him, said to-night that the Presidential nominee on the Republican ticket would be a candidate acceptable to Conkling, and that he will have more to say than any one man as to whom the nominee will be. This same enthusiastic admirer likewise adas, with a flavor of sarcasm, that the administration removed three Federal officers in New York— Cornell, Sharp, and Arthur—and gloats over the fact that Cornell has been elected Governor, Sharp to the New York Legislature, of which he will probably be the Speaker, aud that Arthur stands a very good chanco of succeeding Kernan in the Senate should the next Legislature be Repnblicau. This would indicate that to those lie speaks with in confidence Conkling feels that he has paid President Hayes and Secretary Sherman back in part, but that ho has yet more retribution in reserve. The Democrat'c outlook is still mixed. All the Democrats concede that the man wanted is one that can carry Indiana and New York. The Bayard boom has met with a check, so to speak, because no sensible Democrat believes he could carry Indiana. “If Tilden would only die,” say some staunch Democrats, “the situation would be simplified, for the reason that it is believed here that he is as much a candidate as ever, and is, after all, the most promising.” Now, and again, there is a little boom started in hotel circles for David Davis, of Illinois, but it is ephemera], aud soon loses its wind and force.

Gen. Grant Tells a Story.

Now. as to telling stories, I have no particular gift in that way. Sometimes, conversing about the affairs of the war, something that is said calls up au anecdote or a good story where something occurred of a ridiculous, pathetic, amusing or illustrative character. I might tell, if I could happen to think of them, of some things that occurred that Mr. Lincoln told me at times when he visited me in the field, and I will tell you one thing that occurred juit after the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. I have often heard the same story attributed to Mr. Lincoln in different ways, but this is the way it occurred with me: “I hurried back to Washington with all haste, to stop the enormous expenditure the Government was making at that time in the way of purchases, enlistments and drafting. While I was not positive that there would be further hostilities or any further efforts made on the part of the rebel armies, yet I thought it wasnot unlikely there would be, and that it was better to take proper precautions, so I ordered the army of the James back to Burke’s station, to remain while we could go over to Washington and do as I say—stop expenditures that were being made. As you ail remember, the authorities in Richmond had taken flight, and they never stopped till they got to Danville. Finding we were not pressing, they did not stop there. Supposing I was at Burke’s station. Extra Billy Smith, as he was called, who was Governor of Virginia at that time, sent a letter through by a flag of truce to me, which Gen. Meade received, and, without letting them know I was not there, telegraphed to me at Washington. The letter was to this effect: That he ww Governor of the Commonwealth of

Yirginia, and as such he had temporarily rexiioved the seat of Government from Richmond to Danville, and he was de sirpus of knowing from me whether he would be permitted to exerciee the functions of his office in. Danville unmolested, or, if not, if he and a few friends would be permitted to leave the country. I was iu doubt about the best way to answer it, when I happened to meet Mr. Lifiooln on the sidewalk, and told him about it. He supposed I was asking him for instructions, and bis answer was thus: * I will tell you,’ he said. ‘ It’s like an Irishman I once heard of who was in the habit of drinking whisky. He had done so for a long time. At last he joined a temperance society, but the habit of drinking was strong upon him. He wanted to take something, and so for a time he took soda water, but one day he put his glass around and said, ‘ Doctor, can’t you put a drop of brandy in that unbeknownst to me? ’ Mr. Lincoln couldn’t have said any plainer that Extra Billy Smith could have gone and taken as many of that sort of drinks as he pleased.”

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Irish harp was about four feet high. It was without pedals, and was • carried slung to the back. Some firm in Germany is attempting to substitute paper for wood in the manufacture of lead-pencils. The paper is 3teeped in an adhesive liquid, and rolled round the core of lead to the required thickness. After the paper'is dry it is colored, and it resembles, when finished, an ordinary cedar pencil. Wicis made of spun glass have been tried in lamps, and it is said they do very well. It is said that they supply the petroleum, oil or alcohol to the flame with more steadiness than the ordinary wick; that they secure a clear and pure light at a less expense of fuel, and that they diminish the usual unpleasant odor. The peculiar pebbles known in Austria as the traveling stones have long been regarded as great curiosities. Similar ones have just been discovered in Nevada, almost round in shape, and as large as a walnut. The cause of these stones rolling to a common point from distances of three or four feet is the lodestone or magnetic iron ore of which they are composed. The strangest news coming to us from Germany—even stranger than that the effeminate Viennese should welcome the man who conquered them at Koniggratz—is that a learned doctor has discovered a means of dyeing human eyes any color he likes, not only without injury to the delicate orbs, but, as he asserts, with positive advantage to the powers of sight. He can not only give fair ladies eyes black as night or blue as Orient skies by day, but he can turn them out in hue of silver or of goid. He says golden eyes are extremely^becoming. Nothing goes down without a grand name; therefore the German doctor calls his discovery “ Ocular Transmutation.” Ho declares himself quite ready to guarantee success and harmlessness in tho operation. How a Mosquito Bites.— The bill of a mosquito is a complex institution. It is admirably calculated to torment. The bill has a blunt, fork at the head, and is apparently grooved. Working through the groove, and projecting from the center of the angle of the fork, is a lance of perfect form, sharpened with a lino bevel. Beside it the most perfect lance looks like a handsaw. On either side of this lance two saws are arranged with the points sharp and the teeth well-defined and keen. The backs of these saws play against the lance. When the mosquito alights with its peculiar hum, it thrusts with its keen lance and then enlarges the aperture with the two saws, which play beside the lance until the forked bill with the capillary arrangement for pumping blood can be inserted. The sawing process ia what grates upon the nerves of the victim and causes him to strike wildly at the uawer. The irritation of a mosquito bite is undoubtedly owing to these saws.

Brain-Work and Skull-Growth.

The London Medical Record sums up as follows the results of some very interesting measurements of heads by two French physicians, Messrs. Lacassagne and OJiquet: Having the patients, doctors, attendants and officers of the Yal de Grace at their disposal they measured the heads of 180 doctors of medicine, 133 soldiers who had received an elementary instruction, 90 soldiers who could neither read nor write, and 91 soldiers who were prisoners. The instrument used was the same which hatters, employ in measuring the heads of their customers. It is called the conformator, and gives a very correct idea of the proportions of the heads in question. The results were in favor of the doctors, the frontal diameter was also much greater than that of the soldiers, etc. Nor are • both halves of the head symmetrically developed. In students the left frontal region is more developed than the right; in illiterate individuals the right occipital region is larger than the left. The authors have derived the following conclusions from their experiments : First, the heads of students who have worked much with their brains are much more developed than those of illiterate -individuals, or such as have allowed their brains to remain inactive. Second, in students the frontal region is more developed than the occipital region, or, if there should be any difference in favor of the latter, it is very small, while in illiterate people the latter region is the largest.

An Eccentric Hunchback.

About 1725 one of the most remarkable characters in the public haunts of Paris was a hunched-backed gentleman of the name of Benardot. He was a man of a droll turn of mind; cared nothing for his own deformity of person? and delighted to tease tßose who, equally unfortunate in this respect, were not possessed of the same philosophic indifference. In walking the streets of the boulevards it was his constant practice, when he perceived another hunchback, to step up and whisper in his ear, pointing at the same time to his own protuberance, “If you are conteut, sir, so am I.” The frequent repetition of this salutation soon made him as universally known as hated by all the other hunchbacks of Paris. He was their common pest, and there was not one of them who would not at any time have gone a mile out of his way to avoid the ingenious tormentor.— Journal ,

POLITICAL DISCUSSION.

Some Recent Public UDenaiioes of Prominent Democrats. Gov. Seymoub on IJasmony in the Party. —ln the course of my long political experience I have seen and felt so much of the evils which men bring upon themselves by discord, that I cannot refrain from warning you, to whom I am under so many and great obligations, against dissensions iu your own ranks. Men are apt to think that the results of an election chiefly affect candidates for high offices. This is a great error. They fall upon the mass of voters in a tenfold grea'er degree than upon those who are called leading men. As a rule, these are advanced in life. In a little while they will pass away. Personal controversies among the young and active may live for many years, to harm and embarrass them. It may be in the power of men to gratify some pacing prejudice or iuterest by defeating those of their own political faith, but it never fails, in the course of time, that such things como back to barm aud plague those who indulge personal prejudices. New York is by right, by tradition, by interest, a Democratic State. This county, in its better days, upheld the principles of Jefferßon and Jackson. A majority of the citizens of Utica hold to the same faith. If the young and active members of our party will be true t > themselves they will recover that power which jußtiy belongs to thorn. If they allow themselves tft fall into dissensions they will destroy their own heritage, and when it is too late will regret their folly. lam now an old man, and so far withdrawn from ao’ive life that I don’t think I am governed in my views by mere partisan prejudice. I feel deeply mv obligations to my political friends, aud 1 hold my principles as sacred because I believe thorn best fitted to promote the welfare of my country. Yet I respect the earnestness and sincerity of those to whom I am politically opposed. It is uncertain if I shall ever again stand before an audience in Urica to speak about public affairs. I wish, therefore, in the light of a life-long experience, to say that I believe parties are necessary for tho prese vation of our form of government, for the education of our people in political truths, and for liberalizing and enlarging their minds. We hear a great deal of cant about the corruption in polities. There are no corruptions in public affairs which are not generated and nouushed by other influences at work among the people as a people. All efforts, all zeal for a cause, if it is a worthy one, to;d to lift men above mere personal objects, and by exertions for others and by dwelling upon considerations outside of themselves, tend to make men better and more generous. We havo selfish men in our public life, but they were not made selfish in their positions, for these, dealing with general interests, tend to liberalize men’s purposes. There are corrupt men and bad men in parties, but they have been made corrupt aud self-minded in other relationships of life than those which grow out of their association with others in the promotion 'of a common cause. There arc many ignorant men to be found in all political organizations, hut they are not so iguorant as they would have been if there wero no public discussion of matters which concern the public we’fare. As a rule, those who clamor against selfishness of parries are those too selfish to perform tho duties of citizenship. Those who shake their heads at corruption are noted for their greed of gold, gained by speculative schemes, and who mourn over the cost of carrying out their own corrupt measures. I have been an actor in public affairs during a pel i id of great bitterness and excitement in the minds of tho American people. I have felt more than most men tho warmth and kindness of party support, and I have felt, too, the sharp aud angry criticisms of opponents excit .d by passions and prejudice. I must in fairness say that those opponents most active and earnest in their zeal for their parries have been in tho end more ready to do justice than men who satisfy themselves that they are right, and that all who differ from them are wantonly wrong, and who aro too selfish to learn in the sharp conflict of parties that there aro two sides to all questions, and that honest differen e of opinion should always be respected by honest men. I am a believer in zeal, even in those who hold views in conflict with my owd, for I never yet knew an active, honest man, whatever his errors may be a< the outset, who did not in the end become a useful, just and liberal member of society.

Speaker Randall on National and Local Debts. —Now let me show you what is expected from taxing the people iu this country. The Federal debt exceeds $2,000,000,000, the State debts amount to $400,000,000, and the city and county debts are beyond $1,000,000,000. Of this enormous city and county debt Philadelphia has a very large part. Here is $3,500,000,000 upon which the people must pay interest. You thus see the importance of compelling public servants to pay not a dollar unit es there is absolute necessity for doiDg so. The tendency of the Republican party has been toward extravagance ever since I last had the honor to represent you in a public capacity. Figures prove this beyond all controversy. We are led by history to believe that there are two great dangers to a republic—taxation and a tendency to grasp pmve unduly. The Republi an party has moved in the d rect way of centralizing the Government—that is its tendency to-day—in opposition to the rights of tho people. We have seen how the power of the army has boon us<d. The Republican party, by sending soldiers to intimidate voters, has given expression to its policy o; keeping in force in time of peace tho laws that authorized tho sending of an army into certain States in time of war. Not only in distant and adjoining States has this policy been enforced, but in this very district the use of the marines has been witnessed. Yc s, and at one of my elections I was sorrow-stricken to see that the votes of freemen bad to be given under the point of tho bayonet. We triumphed, but we should bear iu mind that there are not many districts like this. The Republicans have claimed the right to use Marsh.-. Is at elections—Marshals all for one side, a horde of unnecessary electioneers paid out of the common treasury. There were 750 of these Marshals in the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, not because any Republican vote was in danger, but because it was the aim to influence this Congressional district, and, thank God! they got a rebuke that they won’t forget in an increased Democratic majority. Republican extravagance was extended further than the public treasury. Between the close of the war and the advent of a Democratic House of Representatives the Republicans gave away not less than 130,000,000 acres of the public domain. Why, ihe thirt en colci;i j s had only 218,000,000 acres. Think of it! Territory equal in extent to four States of the size of New York presented to six corporations! The result is that any of you who may be disposed to take Horace Greeley’s advice and go West will have to buy your land from corporations, paying them $lO an acre for ground that rrrght Wliad for $1.50 an acre but for the extravagance and injustice of the Republican party.

Senator Wallace on Sectional Hate.— Ought pasßion aDd prejudice to control us in our judgment? Are we to be blinded by hate and sectional antagonism to our own wrongs and true interests? Is this the form of mind in which we ought to approach consideration of the grand issues of 1880? What of the republic as a whole? Has not your dejt increased? Are not your expenses lessened l ? Are not economy and thrift ihe rule? Has not crime decreased ? Are officials as corrupt as they were ten years ago? Do you long for that era of corrupt rule aud vicious administration that the country saw from 1869 to 1873? Ha 9 not civil power replace! military in the whole land, and 'he mild and strong government of law supplanted that of tbe bayonet ? Ten years ago three of the great States of the South— Virginia, Texas, and MississipDi—were yet under military rule. Is not their condition better now than "then? Then Virginia had twentyseven military districts, aud elections were held'by military order. Texas had ihirty counties without civil organization. Fifty-nine cases were tried before military commissions in one year: there were 884 murders between Jauuary and September, 1869 While Mississippi was • under m litary control military commissions were found unable to cope with crime that courts and juries now successfully meet. Local government in the South has given us the measure of peace and order they now have. Without it all would be still disorder. Individual control and oversight in every department of your Government are as necessary as they ate ia our own affairs. It is this that brings order out of chacs, and gives society > ni governments their force and puii'y. Pts man for c tizensl.ip, unites him to society by h s personal interest*, compels, him to govern nimself. Ninety thousand officials with their power and money are part of the machinery that is wielded now tr perpetuate the rule of agents. Troops at the po h and F rieral Itc'ion laws are further; proofs of added power to the agents at tbe expense qf the principal. Troops

$1.50 per Annum.

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are few, but they wield the p jwer of the who'e people. One blue coat represents the majority of the law, to which we bU bow. Tho excuse for Federal laws is fraud in the large dies. If in three wards dishonesty runs riot, all people are stigmatized and their right of free election supervised and controlled Dy Federal powor. The erv of fraud is the cry of a thief when pursued No man smirched with fraud can have the leadership in a contest for popular rights. The Democracy will strip for the contest and discard every weight. Fraud in Oregon or fraud ill Philadelphia, frauds in Louisiana or frauds in Now York are equally to be eliminated from tho race. Real issues must bo made luminous and wolj-deflned They must staud out bold, clear aud sharp. We can not and we will not t>e handicapped to suit the ambition of any man. The manipulations of primaries, o f presses, of bureaus, of conventions, are not methods of organization. Wo are about to join in a death-grapple for the rights of the people. Direct methods, clean hands, a spotless record, are the marks of the man who is to lead us in tho coming race. Whether it. he Bayard, fearless a d pure, over the ohampion of home-rule against corrupt government, a third term and consol deteA-power; or Hancock, the soldier advocate of civil rule, Pennsylvanian by birth and clean of hand; or Thurman, or MoOiellan, or Hendricks, issues of principle will be sharply defined and personal issues relegated to private life. Are our business interests advanced by the policy of division and distraction, or do wo gain by advocating peace and unity? Why docs each recurring Presidential election harass the businass man? We want business and a market. Can we insure these best by widening our commercial field and encouraging production, or by 11 stinting the bloody shirt and crying, “Down with tho Confederate Brigadiers?” Our national markets {ire in the South; their prosperity is our gain. It cannot be true that bloodshed and murder are the normal condition of the people Sou’h, for they send us this year over 5,000,000 bales of cottou—a larger crop than over before. Our interest consists in continued* prosperity, in increased production, in a contented people, in unity and peaco. To encourage and stimulate production in every section is purely the teaching of selfish economy. Every manufacturer and distributor of merchandise is directly interested in stability and increased production in the South. Changes felt and changes feared are the bane of industry everywdiero. Especially is this so am mg people wiio recognize that they have erred and been punished. They are sensitive to our opinion. Every change of political sentiment North is a terror to t em, unsettles confidence, and dostroys their belief in future prosperity It is our interest to make them feel that they have passed their probation, and that we want the larges 1 possible production of rice, cotton, sugar and tobacco to be exchanged for ottr manufactured goods. Have we not paid their proportion of public expenses, aud tho public debt out of our surplus earnings long enough? It is time that we should 800 that, their prosperity is our gain from every point of view. If you would divide a solid South politically, cease to falsify aud vilify them. Persecuted men cling to'ether. Appeal to their selfish interests upon administrative questions, drive out sectionalism and recognize the truth that this country is ono, that tho States are united, and that as such iti s tho interest of every section to restore peace, unity aud good government everywhere.

Unsurpassed “Cheek.”

Exhibitors of “ cheek,” if they could be materialized, would command considerable attention at fairs. At one of these exhibitions a Bohemian printer who to this city some ti»e ago, and who “ subbed ” a while on this paper, would never fail to receive the first premium. This is a specimen: Going up to the State House, he inquired for the Governor. The Governor had gone to dinner. He asked’ for Secretary Frolich. That gentleman was in his office. “ Col. Frolich,” he began, “you are a printer; s«am I. Just now it is highly essential that I should have a dollar. Lend me the amount and I will pay it back to-morrow.” The Secretary happened to possess the amount, and, moved by the “ stick-aod-rule” spirit, passed it over. The printer smiled, bowed and left. Going down and passing out into tho street, he hailed a hackman ; “What will you charge to drive me to Gov. Miller’s residence and back to the Capital Hotel?” “ One dollar.” “ All right.” *’ Give mo the dollar.” “Certainly; Fd just as lief pay in advance. I’m a gentleman.” He didn’t pay over the dolhVr, but as-sei-ted that he was a gentleman. Arriving at the Governor’s residence, the “ comp ” jumped out, ran up the steps and rang the bell. “ I must see the Governor,” he said to the servant. “ He is eating dinner.” “ But I must see him immediately. Tell him to come here quick.” The servant flew to the dining-room, and the Governor hurried to tho door. “Governor,” said the visitor, “ I dislike to disturb you, but it is of an important matter that I would speak. I want to borrow five dollars!” In history there may be an account of a door closing more suddenly, but the committee appointed to search the annals hasn’t reported. —Arkxnsaa Gazette.

The Methodist Bishops.

The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church have just concluded their annual meeting for 1879. The following is the plan of episcopal visitation for the spring of 1880: Conference*. Place*. Time. Bishop*. Arkansas Russsellville. ..Feb. 4.Merrill. Baltimore Baltimore Mh. 3.Andrews Cen. Pennsylvania. Altoona Mh. ll).Haven. East German Biooklyn Apr. 7.Scott. Florida Fernandlna... ..Jan. 7.Simpson Kansas Topeka Mh. 10. Foster. Kentucky Danville Mh. 21. Haven. Lexington Paris Mh. 31. Haven. Liberia Jan. 21 Little Rock Jacksonport.. .Feb. 11 .Merrill. Louisiana New Orleans.. .Jan. 14. Harris. Main’ Saco Apr.l4.BowmaD Mexico City of Mexico. Feb. 4.Harris. Mississippi Macon Jan. 7. Harris. Missouri Trenton Mh. 24. Foster. Newark Phillipsburg... .Mh. 24. Wiley. New England Boston Mh. 31. Andrews New Hampshire.. .Great Falls Apr.l4. Andrews New Jersey Camden Mh. 10. Scott. New Yoik New York Mh. 31. Wiley. Ntw Y’ork, east... .Brooklyn Mh. 31 .Bowman North Carolina... .Highpoint Feb. 4 Simpson North'll New York.llion Apr. 14. Peck. North India Cawnpore Jan. 7 North Indiana Unibn City Apr. 7.Haven. Philadelphia Philadelphia... .Mh. 10 Merrill. Providence Norwich Apr. T.Bowmaa Bt. Louis Sedalia Mh. 17. Foster. Sou hCarolina....Cbaileston .... Jan.2l.Simpson Southern Central.. Concord Jan. 28. Simpson South India Allahabad Jan. 7 Sou li Kansas Ottawa Mh. 3.Foster. Troy Burlington Mh. 31 .Peck. Vermont Barton Landing. Apr. 14. Wiley. Virginia Norfolk Mh. 3.Merrill. Washington Washington Mh. 3.Peck. Wilmington Dover Mh. 17. Andrews Wyoming Scranton Apr. 14. Harris.

A Wild-Cat Whips Two Dogs.

On Wednesday night last, about midnight, the oak tree on Kirby street, situated on the suburb of the town, was the scene of a terrible fight between a wild-cat and two dogs. The tiger-like growls of the cat made it appear more like a Bengal than anything else. Alter a ten minutes struggle, the cat ran up the tree, but not to stay, for it immediately returned to the conflict, and fought with more desperation than ever. Just at this moment a party appeared on the scene and the cat made its exit. Judging from the rapid disappearance of the cat, and the severe wounds the dogs presented, we imagined the dogs had got the woist of it.— Palatka (Fla.) Herald. The watermelon receipts in Augusta, Ga:, are wpfth to thgt city 00,000 a year.

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INDIANA ITEMS.

The negro exodus is shaping toward Indiana. The cost of the reservoir repairs at Lafayette aggregates $8,443.69. The Spencer County Agricultural Society has recently been reorganized. The ooal famine has eansed the suspension of work at the Aurora rolling mills. Work will now cease until spring on the foundation of the new State House at Indianapolis. Kingan & Co.’s meat house, at Indianapolis, was damaged about $15,000 worth by fire the other night. A huge bald eagle was shot in Union county, a day or two ago, while in the act of flying away with a goose. New Albany chums to lead any other point in that region as a horse and mule market, aud reports prioes on a boom. Real-estate transactions in two days at Richmond involved more papital than all the transfers during the past twelve months. Official inquiry is made in regard to toll, free gravel, and common roads throughout the State for each year from 1875 to the present time. Princeton has $34,000 in church property, and has a church for every 333 persons of its inhabitants. Eleven stated preachers are engaged. Rev. G. D. Watson was elected President of the State Camp-Meetiug Association for next year, at the aunual con ference, held at Warsaw last week. R. H. Picket’s saw-mill and the drygoods store of G. W. Corwin wore consumed at Carpentersville one night last week. The loss reached about SIB,OOO. The “ pigeon-roost ” in Scott county, a famous rendezvous for pigeons, is now so full that men are flocking thither with teams to gather and haul away the game. The 9 year-old daughter of Stephen Araey, residing six miles east of Vincennes, was fatally burned by her dress taking fire from the grate while she was alone in tho room. Gov. Williams has appointed Wm. H. English as Indiana’s representative upon the committee to arrange for the centennial anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Dr. James It. Lewis’ stable was fired a second time, and totally consumed, one day last week. This makes the twenty-fifth conflagration, mostly incendiary, that has occurred in Madison since April. A farmer of Lynn, Randolph county, swallowed some false teeth the other morning, and has been very sick ever since, although the best physicians in the country have been summoned. It is thought he will die. AT a charitable fair in Fort Wayne, last week, the most profitable feature was a contest for the popular verdict on beer. By the sale of Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Fort. Wayne varieties, over S6OO was netted for the cause. The Supreme Court has decided that Vincennes University has the right to raise money by a lottery. The college was chartered by the Territorial Legislature, and a clause to that effect was incorporated into the original charter. The Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railway was sold at Wabash recently for $1,100,000, to G. H. Wade and associates, of Cleveland. They held the greater portion of tho first mortgage bonds. There will be no change in the management. An interesting quarrel has arisen at Indianapolis between the Coroner and an undertaker as to the disposition of the body of a suicide, claimed by a medical college for dissection. The undertaker reports that the clamor for dead bodies is great, and at times nearly overwhelming, but he thinks he is justified in using every possible endeavor to find out the relatives. The Supreme Court has rendered a decision upon an appeal favorablo to the notorious Whistling law of the last Legislature. The old English axiom that “the King can do no wrong ” is in this decision applied to tho Indiana Legislature, the court holding substantially that, although the continuous whistling of locomotives might, under ordinary circumstances, be a nuisance, when it is done by virtue of the act of the General Assembly no nuisance is committed in the eye of the law, and that the Jaw cannot, therefore, be set aside upon that ground.

Never.

Three old gentlemen are sitting around a table on a steamboat, waiting to get another party to a game of cards. Presently they espy a nice-looking young fellow. One of the party goes up to him and says: “ Pardon me, young man; we want somebody to join us in a game of cards; would be happy to have you with us.” “ Thanks; I never play cards.” “ Take a drink with us.” “ Thanks; I never drink.” “ Well, have a cigar.” “ Thanks; I never smoke.” “ Eh! Now X rather like that in a young man. Come into the cabin, and I’ll introduce you to my wife and daughters.” “Thanks,” said the demure young man; “ I shall never marry.”

Spittoons for Two.

Everybody has heard of the ready wit of Douglas Jerrold. The following is a specimen: “At a club of which Jerrold was a member, a fierce Jacobite and a friend as fierce of the Orange cause were arguing, noisily, and disturbing less excitable conversationalists. At length the Jacobite, a brawny Scot, brought his fist down heavily upon the the table and roared at his adversary: ‘ I tell you what it is, sir— I spit upon your King William!’ The friend of the Prince of Orange rose, and roared back to the Jacobite: ‘And I, sir, spit upon your James II.!’ Jerrold, who had been listening to the uproar in silence, hereupon rang the bell, and shouted : ‘ Waiter, spittoons for two!’ ” — Chambers’ Journal.

The Great Eastern steamship, which has been long laid up at Milford Haven, is about to be overhauled* provided with new machinery, and adapted to the conveyance of live cattle from Canada and United States. She will be ready for operations next March.

There are 30,000 deaf mutes in the United States, and fifty places of worship where services aro conduoted in the sign language.