Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1879 — Page 1

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CALENDAR FOR 1880.

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THE ECLIPSES OF 1880.

In the year 1880 there will be six eclipses, lour of the sun and two of the moon. A total eclipse of the sun, January 11, invisible in the eastern portion of iho United States. The partial and total phnscß may be visible, though under unfavorable conditions, through portions of Utah, Nevada and California. A total eclipse of the moon, June 22, invisible in the eastern portion of the United States. Observers on the Pacific coast may see the eclipse for about half an hour before the moon sets. An annular eclipse of the sun, July 7, invisible throughout North America. It will be visib’e in South America and the southern part of Africa. A partial eclipse of the sun. December 1, visible only in the southern hemisphere. A total eclipse of the moon, December lfi, invisible In the eastern portion of the United States, but some of its phases visible on the Paoilic co st. A partial eclipse of the sun, December 81, visible In the eastern portion of the United S'.ates and at Chicago, from 8:15 to 7:44 in the morning.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOHEIGN NEWS. A battle was recently fought between Montrncgrius and AU>ania»s,(wLicliißdescribed »h ouo of tho moot, sav:g», stubborn and bloody conflicts of modern times. Both eirtos fought with a ferocity unparalleled, aud left thousands of dead on the field. Tho Kashgar war has been ended, with a victory in favor of the Chinese. A new Ministry lias been formed in Bpaiu. The Captain General of Cuba has offered amnesty to all insurgents who will surrender. The general depression in Germany continues, and, indeed, appears to bo daily becoming more severe. There have been upward of 200 ar rests made in Mosjow and its neighborhood for supposed connection with tho at'empt upon the life of tho (’ z ir. France is ou the verge of a Governmental crisis. The Ministry and Chambers are tom by discordant and cent* nd ng facti an, and theso <1 ssensions extend to and aro partici pated in by all clas 'es of people. The Governor of St. Petersburg has ordered overy householder in that city to hereafter display at liis fiout door a red light bearing tho number of liis house. Destructive floods aro again reportod In Hungary. Destructive floods, caused by overflow of tho rivers, aro reported in Transylvania, in Southeastern Austria. Indictments have been returned against Killon, Daly and Davit', tho lush agitators, and they v ill bo tried for eediti >n at Dublin. Advices from Afghanistan report a battlo between a liody of Bi itish troops anil a largo number of Afghans, neat- CaLul, in which tho latter woro defeated with heavy loss. The British loss was eighteen killed and twenty-five wounded. An assassin made an unsuccessful attempt, at Calcutta, on the life of L ird Lytton, Viceroy of India, firing two shots at him. The political situation in Spain is extremely eeriou*. lu Berlin stock gambling has bpcome an irrepressible mania, and fortunes are won nd lost daily. It is stated that the prosecution against Davitt, Daly, and Kilien will not bo pressed. In Afghanistan the natives have again been defeated by the British; in South Africa, also, the natives have teen worsted in a series of encounters with the British troops: and in South America the Chilians have been disastrously defoafed by the Peruvians and Bolivians. Gortschakoff is said to have presented to tho Czar a programme of his future policy, which has for a basis friendly relations with Austria, Hungary and Germany. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Platt. The United States Hotel at Sharon BpriDgs, N. Y., was burned last wrok. L >ss 860,000. The door keeper of the Grand Opera House, New York, has been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury, in that city, for violation of the Civil Rights law, in refusing admission to the theater of a colored man. Sub-Treasurer Hillhouse and the bankers of New York aro strongly urging the removal of the mint from Philadelphia to that city. Bed Rock, a town of 1,000 inhabitants in the oil region of Pennsylvania, has been almost totally destroyed by f^je. The Eastern railroads are advancing the wages of their employes. Hon. Amos Tuck, ex-member of Congress from New Hampshire, is dead. West. There was an exciting scene, and almost a bloody tragedy, at Dos Pinos Indian Agency, m Colorado, on tho 6th of December. Twenty-five Ute savages presented themselves before the Adams Peace Commission to bear the demand for the surrender of the ringleaders in the Meeker massacre. A council was held in the agency bnildiDgs, at which Gens. Adams and Hatch stated their orders with great perspicuity and emphasis, the savages meeting' them with complaints and equivocations, in which Ouray, the supposed friendly chief, was not behind any of the others. At last, when the discussion had assumed aii aDgry phase, a “pipe of peace” was passed from one barbarian hind to another, untasted, and knives and revolvers appeared instanter. The white*, outnumbered five to one, seized their rifies and made ready for hoattliiiee, but, after a few momenta of silence, the negjtiatljna were returned. The Indiana

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then presented their ultima l nm, which was to the effect that the savages to be surrendered by them should be taken to Washington for trial, the tribe fearing that justice would not be ’done near the scenes of their crimes. Gen. Hatch promised to communicate with Secretary Schurz regarding this proposition, and Onray agreed to bring in twelve of the more conspicuous participants in the White River massacre. The Indians were extremely arrogant in their demands. The action of Onray was a surprise to the Commissioners, who had reckoned all along on his cooperation in any step they might choose to take. Gen. Grant left Chicago after a six days’ sojourn, on the morning of Tuesday, 9th inst., and journeyed to Indianapolis, where he received a cordial reception. At Logansport a halt of an hour or so was made to give the people an opportunity of paying their reap to tne General. He was escorted to one of the hotels, and mounted upon a flimsy platform that had been hastily constructed. Of course all the local celobrities crowded on tho frail structure, and the result was a crash and a fall, just while the Mayor was in the midst of “ihe greatest e Tort of his life’’—the delivery of a long-winded reception speech. GeD. Grant was precipitated a couple of feet, but coolly picked himself up, looked around to see what had become of the man who was talking to him, and grimly remarked: “Well, tho platform’s gone, what shall 1 stand on?” Fortunately tho fall was slight, and the Mayor at once resumed. The invasion of the Indian Territory by squatters promises to be repeated in a few weeks, and the invading band seems likely this time to be a larger one than that receutlv expelled from the Territory by United States troops. It is reported from Bt. Louis that, about the first of February, nearly 4,000 men will start for the Territory in different parties, and from different points. The Grand Lodge of the lowa State Grange met at Des Moines last week. The following officers were elected for tho year: Worthy Master, E. N. Gates, Jasper; Overseer, J. E. Blackford, Kossuth; Lecturer, J. W. Murphy, Jasper; Chaplain, D. B. Clark, Pottawattamie; Steward, T. A. Giaque; Assistant Steward, Robert McCanl, Decatur; Treasurer, M. L. Devins, Polk; Secretary, W. L. Carpenter, Blackhawk; Gate-Keeper, C. H. A. Davis. Story. The Adams- Hatch Peace Commission ended its sittings at Los Pinos, Col., last wo k. It rccommenls, among other things, that the White River Agency be abolis’ ed, and the Utes of tho agency b<? distributed between Los Pinos and the Southern Agency; that the loss of property occasioned by the outbreak be paid for out of the Ute fund now on deposit at Washington, and the portion of tho reservation formerly occupied by the White Kiver Utes be ceded to tho Government. Five Chinamen were recently burned to death at Lovelocks, Nev. They were drunk with opium smoking. Cincinnati’s reception to Gen. Grant, though failing short of Chicago’s demonstration in the number of people participating and the splendor of the appointments, was, according to all accounts, a really creditable affair. The reception at the big Music Ha!, the entertainment at dinner of tho General and Mrs. Grant at the residence of Mr. Washington McLean, and tho banquet in the evening crowded the day as full of attractions and compliments as it could well hold. Gen. Grant left Cincinnati on the morning of Friday, tho 12th iush, and journeyed to Columbus, Ohio, where he was accorded a most enthusiastic reception, the day’s festivities winding up with a grand banquet. At 12 o’clock tho General bid the Columbians good-by, boarded a train and sped away toward tbe East. Ihe city of Pittsburgh was reached on the morning of Saturday, tbe 13rh, where another big reception was ten lered the distinguished traveler. At Plattsmouth, Neb., nine railroad laborers were buried beneath a bank of earth they woro excavating. Two were taken dead, and all the others were more or less in j ured. For the year ending on the 31st day of October last, the enormous amount of 115,710,000 bushe’s of grain were received and inspected at Chi :ago. Solatia. Ex-President Grant arrived at Louisville, Ky., on his travels, on the morning of tho 10th inst, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception. The city was gayly decorated with bunting and mottoes, and in the evening was brilliantly illuminated. The Governor of the State and the Mayor of the delivered addresses of welcom ■, and the ex-President responded briefly. The General gave a reception in iho parlors of the Louisville Hotel, and in the evening there was a grand ball at the Gault House, in which he participated The cotton crop of the South this year is estimated at 5,250,000 bales—the largest ever raised.

WASHINGTON NOTES Hon. A. M. Lay, Representative in Congress from the Seventh district of Missouri, dird suddenly at Washington last week, of paralysis. Senator Jones, of Nevada, is docketed for a big speech in opposition to the na-tional-banking system. The Cabinet, at a meeting held last week, concluded to grant the request of the U.es that the savages engaged in the White river massacre should be tried outside of Colorado. Gens. Adams and Hatch were at once notified of this decision, and ordered to communicate it to Ouray. The President has tendered to Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, a seat on the Bench of the Supreme Court whenever the resignation of Judge Hunt, of New York, shall create a vacancy. It is said there is no dout that Senator Edmunds will accept The House has passed the Pension bilL The appropriations for pensions amount to #32,404,000, an increase over the last of #3,038,000. Besides introducing resolutions of sympathy for the people of Ireland, members of the House of Representatives have subscribed several hundred dollars for their relief. The lottery men are represented at Washington by a strong and influential lobby, the object of which is to defeat the bill of the Postofflce Department relative to lotteries. POLITICAL POINTS. Nearly a thousand women cast their ballots for members of the School Committee at the election in Boston last week. Boston’s municipal election, has resulted in the re-election of Mayor Prince, Democrat. The Board of Aldermen stands nine Democrats to three Republicans, while the Republicans have ten majority in the Common Council. Th« Advisory Committee of the mu*

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cus of Republican Benators,consisting of Messrs. Morrill, Conkling, Hamlin, McMillin, Booth, Kirkwood, Logan, and Carpenter, has decided to recommend that the party in the Senate commit itself to the policy of non-action in regard to any and all legislation affecting the currency, whether gold, greenbacks, or silver, daring the present session. The Chicago Tribtme, in a leading two-column editorial (doable-leaded) headed “President Hayes’ Idiotic Scheme,” makes a savage attack on the President’s legal-tender retiring policy, which, if carried out, tbe Tribune thinks, would “bring loss of confidence, panic, and ruin, on the country.” Regarding the reports ol the appointment of Senator Edmunds to the vacancy which might be created by the resignation of Judge Hunt, tbe latter gentleman is credited with saying that he did not expect to resign at present. Those who know Mr. Hunt’s physical condition best, however, say that ho never can return to service on tho Supreme Bench.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The report to Congress of the national commission appointed to investigate whatever pertains t f the yellow fever ia Cuba makes public the startling fact that the fever prevail^at * *-ery point on tho island, so far as inquiries 1. ve expended. No place in Cuba seems to have been discovered which is exempt from the plague, its ravages depending mainly upon the number of unacclimatcd persona within tho influence of the infection. The National Board of Trade held its annual session at Washington last week. By the explosion of dynamite at Tangeer, Nova Scotia, Georgo Ferguson, his son James, and nephew, Joseph Ferguson, was instantly killed. Delegates to a convention called to organize the American Agricultural Society met in New'Yo:k city last week. There was a large attendance, and a variety of in’eresting topics were discussed, and a number of valuable papers read. Jobu MerrimaD, of Maryland, was elected permanent President of the society, aod a list of Vice Presidents, representing every State in the Union, was chosen. A Board of Directors, consisting of nineteen, five of them to serve for one year, seven for two years, aud seven for three years, was elected. Several of Ihe Canadian cities are afflicted with an epidemic of small-pox. The Western Union Telegraph Company refuses to deliver copies of the messages sent and received by Mr. Ingills during the late Senatorial canvass ip Kansas. At the International Dairy Fair, just held in New York, Illinois led all competitors in the display of butter, while Wisconsin made the finest display of cheese. A party of engineers have just left Now York for Mexico, to locate and superintend the construction of a railroad across the 1-th-mus of Tehuantepec. The promoters of this enterprise have formed a company, and hope by completing their work at an early day to defeat the canal project. Gen. Grant’s receptioa by the people of Pittsburgh was a big demonstration—only little less in the numbor of the people and tho length of the procession than the Chicago affair, but f.r exceeding it in gush and enthusiasm, according to all accounts. The notable feature of the Pittsburgh reception, and tho one most likely to be remembered and recalled, was the speech of Gen. Grant in reply to some remarks of Prof. Fulton, the spokesman of tbe principals of the public schools, who called upon him in a body. The General’s speech, which was much longer than usual, and which is apt to become as memorable in a certain sense as the famous Des Moines speech, was as follows: Gentlemen: There is r o int rest in our country which I feel deserves more to be fostered than tliat of ti e public school. Intelligence is the se" curitv of the republic, as ignorance is the upholder of monarchy. To insure ourselves against the disaslers of war, particularly of civil war, we want education diffused, that the minds of our youth may be sufficiently taught to read and to distinguish between right and wrong, and with such education universally diffused the republic can never be in danger. I only regret that tho statistics show in our country as much illiteracy as is shown. I was surprised at Some figures that I h ard repeated within a few days; but, when we consider the infancy of our public-schocl system, it is probably not so much to be wondered at. My hop) i»t'at the day will come, and that not far distant, when the school facilities tverywhere will be so that every child may have the opportunity of receiving a common-school education at the expense 6f the State, and, if it should be necessary, that there should be In every State of the Union a compulsory education. It would be impossible, I suppose, with our views of Biate rights (which I would separate altogether from State sovereignty)—lt would be impossible for the General Government to demand, a compulsory school system in the States. But the General Government, so long as it has public lands, might, if it chose, contribute public lands, or in any other way might contiibute to the support of the free schools in the country, and make any condition that the General Government thought advisable before a State could receive the benefit which the Oeneral Government was going to bestow, and in that way indirectly have a part in the compulsory education tha'. I sp ak of. Of course, you understand that I say the State could be the only authority to compel education within the State, but the General Government, giving its assistance, could come in on condition that the State afford the facilities which every child requires for a common-school education. Gentlemen, I hope your efforts here in Allegheny county will be imitated all over this broad land, and that in a few years we may see, if not a universal, at least a very general, attendance of the children upon our public schools. DOINGS IN CONGBESS. Immediately after the reading of the journal on Monday, Dec. 8, in the Senate, Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution declaring that the Senate had heard with deep regret the proposition of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury, in their messages, to inaugurate a new and uncalledfor financial agitation and the destruction of the most necessary currency now la circulation ; and that the interests of the country reqnlre the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver on conditions of exact equality, and that it Is the part of a wise financial policy to maintain the present volume of greenbacks in circulation, and to preserve their legal-tender quality unrestricted and unimpaired as to legal effect. Laid on the table, to be called, np hereafter. Messrs. Vest, Kirkwood and Walker were appointed to co-operate with the House committee, in arranging the funeral of Representative Lay. The Senate then adjourned as a mark of respect for the deceased. Billsjlntrodnced: By Mr. Paddock, improving the Missouri river; by Mr. Teller, removing the Ute Indians from Colorado: by Mr. Hoar, in regard to the Ponca Indians. Presidential appointments: Receivers of Public Moneys—F. J. Burton at East Saginaw. Mich.; George B. Folsom, Tavlor’s Falls, Minn.; Thomas H. Pressnell,Duluth, Minn.; Paul C. Sletten, Crookston, Minn.; Robert B. Harrington, Beatrice, Neb. Registers of the Land Office—Soren Ustoe, Fergus Falls, Minn.; Alexander I Backworth, North Platte, Neb In the House, Mr. Cla k, of Missouri, announced the death of his colleague Alfred M. Lay, and offered resolutions of respect, which were adopted, and Messrs. Clark Morrison, Hill, Bingham, Chalmers, Calkins, and Ryan were appointed a committee to arrange the sum ral. Adjourned. Mr. Bayard, from the Senate Finance Committee, on the 9th inst, recommended the indefinite postponement of bills for the interchange of subsidiary silver coin sad for the issue of #10,090,000 4-psr-osnt, bonds to psy arrears of pensions. Bo ordered, A eommanloetion from the Post-

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master General, asking for an additional appropriation of #2.000,000 for inland mall transportation for the present year, was received. A report from Gen. Sheridan was lait before the Se ate in regard to stations for troops to prevent Indian raids. Mr. Davis’ (W. Va ) resolution calling for a statement of payments >ince the war on claims growing ont of the r be'lion was considered, bnt not decided. In executive s ssiou, Secretary McCrary was confirmed as United states Circuit Judge for the Eighth cbv cult,. Lncien B. Crooker and Alfred M. Jones were confirmed Collectors of Internal Revenue for the Second and Third district’ ofrillinois Iu the House, a constitutional amendment wa3 offered by Mr. Pound, of Wisconsin, providing that after the 4ih of March. 1885. the President and Vice Presi dent shall hold their offices for six years, and shall be ineligible for more than one term consecutively, and that members of Congress shall, be elected for three years. Tills ware introduced: By Mr. F, Wood (by request) to amend the law relating to internal revenue, proposing a drawback < n all manufactured tobacco of the taxes paid beyond the rate of 16 cents j>er pound prior to the Ist of May, 1879; also, exempting from import duty classical antiquities an t ancient -eotaa and medals; also, relating to ti.e treatyrfiaking power, making the consent of the House necessary to confirm treaties that effect the revenue: by Mr. Myers, to re iretbenati, n 1-bank circul tiou; lig Mr. N wb' rry, to authorize tbe issue of #50,000,000 gold and silver eeriificates, and to pr vide a redemption fund therefor; by Mr. Jones, < f exas, to repeal tbe Resumption act; by Mr. Price, of lowa, requiring n tioLal-bank reserves to hr in coin; by Mr. Wells, to abol’sh reports of Congressional debates. Two sets of resolutions were offered, by Messrs. Myers aud G.l’ette, sympathizing with the suffering in Ireland, and a joint resolution to adjourn from the lilth i®st. to the 6th of January. Mr. Warner offered a bill taxing legal-tender uotes. There were 2‘ifi bills Introduced In the House on that day. Mr. Davis’ resolution, calling for information in regard to war claims, was passed by the Senate on the Kith; also, the*jolnt resolution for a recess from Deo. 19 to Jan. 6; also, a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for Information in regard to the effect on the revenue of the repeal of the duty on tea and coffee in 1872. In executive pension, the nomination of Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota, for Secretary of War, was conermed without, reference. Bills introduced : By Mr. Davis, of Illinois, to authorize Die erection of a statue to ex-Chief Justice Tom Mai shall; by Mr. Cockrell making St. Louis. Kansgs Citv and St. Joseph ports of entry. On motion of Mr. Ingalls, the bill for the relief of the C< ntral Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad Company was indefinitely postponed. Mr. Morrill offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a talmlat d statement showing the to at amount or claims growing out of the late war pre ented to and rejected by the Treasury Department f;om March 4,1861, to March 4,1879, and also of all like claims now theie pending, 'ihe nomination of Charles Beardsley, of lowa, to be Fourth Auditor of Treasury, was confirmed: also Horatio G. S ckel, Pension Agent, Philadelphia; William H. Hays, . United States District Judge for Kentucky; Charles P. James, Associate Just ce of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; Albert Johnson, Surveyor G neral for Colorado.... In the House, an amendntt nt to the constitution was introduced declaring that polygamy shall not exist in the United Stat s. Mr. Gillette introduced a bill eslablisliing a Government for the District of Columbia. Mr. Wait, from the Committee on ; Commerce, repotted a bill amending the Revised Statutes so as to allow any vessel not of the United States to unload at any port of delivery in a customs collection district after due entry of said vessel and cargo at'the port of entiy in said district. The House discussed the bill relative to tho publication of Supreme Court reports, and, after a good deal of talk, it was passed. Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Indian Affair , reported to the Senate, on the 11th inst.i the resolution that the Secretary of the Interior be authorized to negotiate, through a commission of five persons, with the Ute Indians for their removal from Colorado. The resolution passed, with an amendment by Mr. Cockrell that the Indians shall not be settled In tie Indian Territory. In executive session, John Hay, of Ohio, was confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State, and Henry Harmon, cf New Hampshire, as Deputy Seeoml Auditor of the Treasury. The President nominated ex-Represen- | tatfivo James B. Sener. of Virginia, to be Chief Jtutioe of Wyoming Territory. A memorial was pre sented, from a Commodore of the navy, | proposing the establishment of a confederacy of I all the Governments on this continent. The bill j appropriate g #200,000 for military posts on the Rio Grande was passed. The Senate I adjourned at 2 o’clock until Monday.... j In the House, the bill allowing for loss, by leakage j or casualty, of spirits withdrawn from distillery : warehouses for exportation was passed. The Invalid Pension Appropriation bill was reported and recommitted. It calls for #52.400,000, or #3.000.Ct0 more than last year. Mr. Townsend, of Illinois, offered a resoluiion calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the rn.mber of licensed dealers in leaf-tobacco, and the amount of internal revenue collected from them during the fiscal year ending June 5.0, 1879; and Mr. Manning called for information in re gard to fraudulent claims paid by tha treasury, Mr. Converse, from the Committee on Public Lancs, repor ed a bill amending an act to grant I a ditional rights to homestead settlers on public I lai ds within railroad limits. Under that act I homesteaders who occupied eighty acres were I auihorized to select eighty additional acres with- | out payment of registry fees. The present ■ bill simply provides that the registry fees j should he paid for. The bill was passed, i Mr. Shelley offered a preamble and resolution | reciting that a large number of citizens of certain I States have been induced through false represepta- : tions and machinations to leave their homes for the purpose of emigrating to other States, »Dd that, they have failed for want of funds to reach their destination, and are without food or proper clothing, and providing for the appointment of a select committee of five to invi 6tigate tho causes of such emigration, to sit during the recess, and report such measuren as the exigency may require. Bills were introduced in the House (the Senate not being in session) on the 12th inst.: By Mr. Gibson, for the appointment of an inter-oceanic commission to determine the best plan and route tor the establishment of a communication for j trade and commerce between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the isthmus of Darien ; by Mr. Gillette, in opposition to the retirement of greenbacks, an i in favor of substituting them for national-bank notes, and for the free coinage ot silver. Mr. Morton presented a memorial from sugar refiners for the re vision of the sugar tariff. Mr, Baker, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the Fortificition and Pensions Appropriation bills, and they were passed. The remainder of the sfssion was consumed upon private bills. Adjourned till Monday.

Mark Twain’s Plagiarism.

Even Mark Twain, whose individuality was supposed to be decidedly marked, is a plagiarist. He admits it. He even boasts it. At the breakfast given to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Twain made an open confession: “ When my first book was new a friend of mine said: ‘ The dedication is very neat.’ Yes, I said, I thought it was. My friend said : ‘ I always admired it, even before I saw it in the “ Innocents Abroad.” ’ I naturally said, ‘ What do you mean? Where did you ever see it before?’ ‘ Well, I saw it first some years ago, as Mr. Holmes’ dedication to his “Songs in Many Keys.’” Of course my first impulse was to prepare this man’s remains for burial, but upon reflection I said I would reprieve him for a moment or two, and give him a chance to prove his assertion if he could. We stepped into a hook-store, and he did prove it. I had really stolen that dedication almost word for word. I could not imagine how this curious thing had happened. For I knew one thing for a dead certainty: That a certain amount of pride always goes along with a teaspoonful of brains, and that this pride protects a man from deliberately stealing other people’s ideas. That is what a teaspoonful of brains will do for a man; and admirers had often told me I had nearly a basketful, though they were rather reserved as to the size of the basket.” Twain gave an explanation, the usual one. He had read Holmes’ poems until he was entirely saturated with their flavor, and he unconsciously stole the dedication. “Perhaps,” adds Twain, “ I unconsciously stole the rest of the volume, too, for many people have told me that my book was pretty poetical, in one way or another.” The offender wrote to Dr. Holmes explaining his feat of grand larceny, and received a much kinder reply than Dr. Parker gave Dr. Lorimer. “ I afterward called on him,” Mark adds, “ and told him to make perfectly free with any ideas of mine that struck him as being good protoplasm for poetry. He could see from that that there wasn’t anything mean about me; so we got along right from the spot.” —Chicago Times.

STEALING MESSAGES.

Interesting Gossip in Regard to Such Thefts. [From the Philadelphia Telegraph.] In several instances portions of President Lincoln’s messages were published, and the matter was attempted to be investigated by the Judiciary Committee of the House. When it wa3 fonnd that the inquiry would be likely to lead to a good deal of scandal connected with the ladies of the White House, it came to a very abrupt termination by the President going to the Capitol himself and directing that the investigation should be suspended. The next instance was in the time of “Andy” Johnson, when, through the obljvious condition of his son Dick, a copy of tbe message was handed to a correspondent to read over and see what he thought of it. The correspondent took advantage of the opportunity and had a stenographic copy made, returned the manuscript and pronounced it an excellent message. The next morning the President was considerably astonished when he found the document in print. President Grant’s military methods were too much for the ingenuity of Washington correspondents, and in no instance did the text of his messages appear before their submission to Congress, except what he gave to one or two of his confidential friends or a correspondent. It waa.the custom of the General, when he had completed his message, to take his private secretaries —Pruden, Sniffin and Lucky—nito one of the most remote apartments of the Executive Mansion, and there set them to work to make six manifold copies for the use of the press, which, when finished, were taken by the President, placed in an envelope, and held until the committee of Congress reported the two houses. organized. He then submitted the manuscript copies for the use of the two houses, aud, upon the return of Private Secretaries Gens. Porter or Babcock, he authorized the disposing of the six manifold copies. While Mr. Boutwell was Secretary of the Treasury, on one occasion his annual report was made public in advance of its transmission to Congress. Upon investigation it was shown conclusively that the copy was given out by his private secretary. He was immediately dismissed and placed on the black list, and subsequently died in this city in absolute poverty, as the punishment of his breach of faith to liis superior. The present administration seems to have been very unfortunate with respect to the premature publication of the Preside! t’s messages, each message having been made public in advance of its transmission to Congress. Although, ns a rule, all the important features of the messages are anticipated, the eagerness to secure the text always makes the document a good marketable commodity. As high as $1,500 was offered for President Grant’s messages. The last message, however, was sold for SSOO, while Secretary Sherman’s report brought $450, the proceeds being divided between three parties, the purloiner and two middlemen who effected the sale.

Immensity of the Stars.

It is known that the stars are true suns, that some of them are larger than our own sun, and that around these enormous centers of heat and light revolve planets on which life certainly exists. Our sun is distant from us 38,000,000 leagues, but these stars are distant at least 500,000 times as far —a distance that, in fact, is incommensurable and unimaginable for us. ‘ Viewed with the unaided eye, the stars and the planets look alike; that is, appear to have the same diameter. But, viewed through the telescope, while the planets are seen to possess clearly appreciable diameters, the stars are still only mere luminous points. The most powerful of existing telescopes, that of Melbourne, which magnifies 8,000 times, gives us an image of one of our planets possessing an apparent diameter of several degrees. Jupiter, for instance, which, seen with the naked eye, appears as a star of the first magnitude, with a diameter of forty five degrees at the most, will in the telescope have its diameter multiplied 8,000 times, and will be seen as if it occupied in the heavens an angle of 100 degrees. Meanwhile, a star alongside of Jupiter, and which to the eye is as bright as that planet, will still be a Bimple dimensionless point. Nevertheless, that star is thousands of times more voluminous than the planet. Divide the distance between us and that planet by 8,000, and you have for result a distance relatively very small; but divide by 8,000 the enormous number of leagues which represents the distance of a star, and there remain a number of leagues too great to permit of the stars being seen by ns in a perceptible form. In considering Jupiter, or any of the planets, we are filled with wonder at the thought that this little luminous point might hide not only all the visible stars, but a number 5,000 fold greater—for of stars visible to our eyes there are only about 5,000. All the stars of these many constellations, as the Great Bear, Cassiopeia, Orion, Andromeda, all the stars of the zodiac, even all the stars which are visible only from the earth’s southern hemisphere, might be set in one plane, side by side, with no one overlapping another, even without the slightest contact between star and star, and yet they would occupy so small a space that, were it to be multiplied 5,000 fold, that space would be entirely covered by the disk of Jupiter, albeit that disk to us seems to be an inappreciable point— Prof.J. Vinot.

Hunting Wild Geese with Oxen.

Shooting wild geese was, in the early days of California, an important industry with those men who hunted for the market, and was very attractive to the few amateurs that indulged in the sport. In those days goose shooting was a profitable business for the hunter, and it was no uncommon thing for a skillful one to make from SIOO to $l5O a day, even when he obtained but four or five shots (a shot in hunter’s parlance meaning the discharge of both barrels). The system pursued by the market hunters in shooting the geese was as follows: A docile ox was generally selected by the hunter for his attendant. Then the geese were sought on the large open plains, where they fed all through the day, going to water and returning morning and evening. The hunter marked a flock a half or threequarters of a mile away, and then put his ox iu motion, allowing him to feed as he went along, in order to

make the geese remain unconscious of the lurking figure that moved behind the ox’s body. Old goose-hunters affirm that these oxen seemed to take-a delight in' assi'tincr the shooter to work up to his game. They would approach the geese in an indirect way, never going straight toward them, apparent ! y feeding as they went along. It is also asserted that the geese used actually to know, after being shot at once or twice, the hunter’s oxen. As soon as the hunter got within shot, he discharged both barrels, one at the geese on the ground and the other as they rose, bagging from, thirty to sixty geese. He either rested the gun on the ox’s back, or allowed him to pass on, and then raked them in with his small caDnon. The gun used was generally a four-bore, and never less than six, weighing from fourteen to sixteen pounds, ahd the charge was from eight to ten drachms of powder, an 1 two or three ounces of shot. There were at le?st half a dozen engaged in this business, wli se wealth might be computed at from $40,000 to $50,000, altogether the result of goosehunting.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

Some Notable Things About Its Business Methods. [From the Good Comjiany.J A few steps further on was the powerful institution whose influence is felt in finances and trade all over the world—the Bank of England. Bounded on all four sides by the street, all its windows prudentially open into a central court, and, since the riots of 1780, it has been occupied every night by a detachment of soldiers. Its business requires a working force of 1,200 men. its bank notes are printed within the building. The same note is never paid ont ovt r the counter twice. The new bill that is issued this morning is retired as soon as it returns, no matter if the same man pays it in again this afternoon without a wrinkle in it. It is allowed to issue notes to tLe amount of £15,000,000 on the security of its standing loan of a much larger amount to the Government, which constitutes a part of the public debt. For every note issued above that-and it has a circulation of over £40,000,000 —bullion of an equal amount must be paid into the treasurj’, and must be kept there for the redemption of the note when it returns. The traveler on the continent often finds *its notes at a premuim in gold. No note is issued of a less denomination than £2. Eveiy note is numbered, and the name of the party to whom it is paid out is carefully recorded. The practice of kef ping a memorandum which xvili slioav from whom he receives every bank note that passes through his hands is common also with the painstaking London tradesman. It proved a foriunate thing for a friend of mine on one occasion. He had given his wife a £lO note. Their little child got, hold of the porte-mon naie and destroyed the note, as they supposed, by throwing it on the open fire. There would have been no hope of realizing on a greenback under such circumstances. But SSO was wort It trying for. The number of the note vas ascertained from the parties through whose hands it came to my friend, a sworn statement of the facts was filed at the bank, and after a ye<ir or so had passed without its having been presented for redemption the bank paid over the money. Tbe bxnk takes in and pays out its gold coin by weight. Sometimes it sends out a sealed package and receives it again before the seal is broken, and yet deducts qqite a sum from the amount at which it paid it out, to make good the loss—detected by the unerring scales—which Occurred by the abrasion of the coins iu transportation.

A Boy Who Resembles a Frog.

Five miles southwest of Kenton, Tenn., on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, is the greatest monstrosity of the age—a human being who resembles a frog. He is the son of R. Newell, is twenty-six inches high, weighs fortyeight pounds, and was born iu Obion county, Tenn., ‘March 12, 1875. His body and arms are regularly formed and well developed, his fingers are short, and the manner in which they are set on his hands gives them the appearance of a frog’s feet; his legs are small, and are set at right angles with the regular line of walk; his fee' are small and badly formed; his face is eight or nine inches long, and makes an angle of 62 deg. with the base of skull—facial —angle; his head is almost conical; his eyes are small and without expression; his upper jaw projects far over the lower one; his lower jaw is small and has a superabundance of flesh attached, which renders him quite froggy. He can’t talk. If you throw' a nickel on the floor, he will light on it like a chicken on a June-bug. He can’t walk, but what is wanting in walking is made up in jumping. I saw him jump eight feet after a dime. If a tub of water is placed near him, he will jump into it like a duck. In rainy weather he goes to the door and leaps out, and remains out-doors until the rain is over. Obion counly has given birth to the following: The female dwarfs, the mud-negro, the sleeping beauty, and the frog-chil I. She is justly entitled to the appellation, “Mother of Monstrosities.”— Troy ( Tenn.) News.

“Knowledge Is Power.”

A few days since a lady asked us the origin of the phrase “Knowledge is power,” and we replied by mail that it was attributed to Lord Bacon. She now replies by an extract from Bulwer’s “My Novel,” in which the expres ion is quoted, accompanied by a statement that no such sentence is to be found in all Lord Bacon’s works. We saw Bulwer’s statement when the novel appeared in Harper’s Magazine, and smiled complacently over our own superior knowledge, as we had traced the quotation to the treatise of Bacon on sects and opinions {de Hceresiis), where it occurs in parenthesis, and reads. u nam et rosa scienta potest as est.” Bulwer and others naturally looked for the thought in Bacon’s “Advancement of Learning,” and, not finding anything like it there, gave up the search. In the connection, Bacon is describing a sect which hold peculiar views on the subject of predestination. He says that they give wider limits to the knowledge than to the power of God (implying that He may foreknow acts without necessarily preordaining them), or, rather, they restrict His power of doing more than His power of knowing, “lorknowledge itself is a power.” This does not mean that knowledge ooniers power,

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but that the oapacity to know may be termed a power.— New York Journal of Commerce.

NO BULLDOZING IN THIS.

More Colored Pupils Ilian Will to in South Carolina Schools; also, More Colored Children Now in Attendance Than Under Carpet-bag Rule. [Columbia (8. C.) Cor. New York Sun.] The persistent assertions made that the negroes of the South are systematically oppressed and terrorized is certainly disproved, so far as South Carolina is concerned at least, by facts taken from the annual report of the State Superintendent of Education. Many who give no credence to the blood-curdling tales of horror so industriously circulated on the eve of important elections are nevertheless inclined to believe that, while the Southern Democrats yield obedience to the Reconstruction acts and re pect the political and civil rights of the negro, they studiously refrain from taking any steps to ameliorate his condition or elevate his intellectual status. An examination of these educational statistics conclusively proves that the Democratic party of the South heartily lends a helping hand to the newly-enfranchised citizen. By the report in question it appears that the total school attendance for the years 1878-’9 was 122,463, of which 58,368 were white pupils and 64,095 colored, an excess of 5,727 colored pupils. During the period of reconstruction, between the years 1868 and 1876, the average colored attendance in the State was 41,691. The average colored attendance during the three years of Democratic rule has been 60,723, an increase of 45 per cent. Every s hool district in the State contains separate schools for white and for colored children. These run for an equal period of time, and are alike paid from the treasury. The first colored school in Charleston, the Morris Street School, was established by a Democratic City Board in 1867. In 1868, a Republican Board was elected, and during its term of two years the attendai ce at the school never exceeded 900. In 1871, the schools of Charleston were closed, and teachers’ salaries for six months remained unpaid A Democratic lj oar d, elected in 1871, found empty schools and an empty treasury. The schools, including the colored one, were reopened. Since then the attendance in the Morris Street School has steadily increased. During the past year it had an enrollment of 1,404 pupils, under twenty-six teachers. Other first-class colored schools in the city run up the attendance to 3,568, while the entire county shows a colored attendance of 7,800. This favorable showing is by no means confined to Charleston, but is general through the State. It will be sufficient to cite the returns from Edgefield, Aiken, and Barnwell counties. These are given only because, in bloodyshirt harangues, the names Edgefield, Hamburg, and Ellen ton are synonymous with shot-gun Democracy, bulldozing and blood. Edgefield reports 2,150 white and 1,980 colored pupils; Aiken, 2,220 white and 1,533 colored, and Barnwell 2,173 white and 2,514 colored. In Aiken the white population predominates; in the other two the blacks are somewhat in excess. If in these much-slandered counties the colored people, instead *>f fleeing terror stricken to the woods, are quietly pursuing their peaceful avocations, and raising cotton to sell for 11 cents a pound, while their children freely attend schools supported by a tax of which seven-eighths is paid by Democratic property holders, it is convincing proof that those tales of terror are fabrications out of whole cloth. Again, in the whole State there are 2,090 white and 1,076 colored teachers. This is a most favorable showing for the colored race, and also for the Democratic officials who employ colored teachers for colored schools wherever they are found competent. The only institution of higher learning in the State receiving State aid is the Claflin University and Agricultural College, devoted solely to the education of the colored race. Its President, Rev. Dr. Edward Cooke, is a Northern eminent minister of the gospel, and a teacher of large experience. The faculty consists of seven instructors, two of whom are natives of the "State. Over 200 students were enrolled last year. Here it may be added that native white teachers, bearing honored names in South Carolina, are engaged in the task of instructing -the colored race. The Rev. P. F. Stevens, formerly Superintendent of the State Military Academy, a Confederate Colonel during the late war, and now Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, is the School Commissioner of Charleston county, and devotes himself with zealous ardor to the intellectual and spiritual elevation of the colored people of the -eeacoast. The principal of the Morris Street School is a distinguished graduate of the State Military Academy, and most of his assistants are graduates of the Charleston Normal School. This school building is the handsomest in the city, and was erected at a cost of $30,000. The distribution of the Peabody fund may also be taken as an evidence of the educational facilities of the blacks. It is given only to a thoroughly graded school, containing at least 100 pupils, continuing in session ten months, and deriving a support from other sources of at least twice the amount contributed by the Peabody fund. During the years 1878-9 five white schools received $1,950, and five colored schools $2,250, the difference being due to the larger attendance in the schools of the latter class. To secure this fund a liberal support by the State was required by the terms of the Peabody trustees. In addition to the schools maintained by the State there are several excellent colored schools supported by missionary funds from the North. When statistics show that the South raises 5,000,000 bales of cotton yearly, chiefly by colored labor, while colored children secure equal benefits from a school fund contributed principally by Democratic property-holders, it is easily seen why Liberia exodus associations and Kansas immigration societies alike fall still-born. Much needless sympathy is wasted upon the “oppressed negro” in the South. South Carolina does more for the colored population than many of the States who thank God that they are not as she is. Pine B lvwt, Ark., has a public school building worth $20,000.

(P? §lemocratiii mtitw JOB PRINTIN6 OFFICE better fecllittM than any office in Worth wtMer* Indiana for Ute execution of all branches of JOB PRIRTTINTa. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from * rxmpblet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Logansport has fifty-nine licensed saloons. Nearly 200 telephones are in use in Evansville. Six divorces were granted by the court at Winchester the other day. Great numbers of hogs are dying in Dearborn county, cut off by the lug cholera. The old canal bed at Worthington is being filled up, and the space will be used for depot and tracks. John Buskin, one of the pioneers of Henry county, has died; also Absalom Poor, another pioneer. William T. S. Manly, County Treasurer of Cass county, and a prominent citizen of Logansport, has died. It is contemplated to havo the cornerstone of the new State House laid next summer, with imposing Masonic ceremonies. Elsie Johnson, the Randolph county farmer who swallowed two of his artificial teeth recently, suffers no inconvenience from the accideut. Three children of Robert Craig, at Union City, have been poisoned by eating cabbage over which Paris green had been sprinkled while growing. . Frank T. Thomas, a merchant of Winslow, was thrown from a buggy near Owensville, Gibson county, whiio driving at a break-neck speed along the road, and, falling on his head, was killed. John Rowe, a wealthy farmer, living three milesuortli of Hagerstown, Wayne county, wa3 poisoned by inhalation of vapor from red-oak timber, with which he was working. After suffering terrible agony for a time, he died. Brower Ludlow, at his homo on the Manchester pike, two miles from Lawrenceburg, a few days ago accidentally swallowed a pair of lady’s scissors. There is slight hope of his recovery, as he has been bleeding internally since the accident. The architect who was given the contract for supervising building a new Court House at Frankfort, Clinton county, seven years ago, lias now got a verdict for $10,325 damages, because the work was enjoined, and he was thereby deprived of expected commissions. The State Superintendent of Publi Instruction decides that, when a school has been established for colored children, none such can be found to attend it unless they reside within convenient distance, and that, in every case, the same rule is to be applied in deciding this matter as would be used in the case of white children. At Logansport, Nancy I. Faucett, has been found guilty as an accessory to the murder of John R. Jackson, in September last, and sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. Five others, inclu ling two daughters of Nancy, are yet to bo tried. Nancy has been married live times, and is now engaged to be married to one of tho prisoners, Jack Me Mill en.. The Indiana State Grange, at its late session, elected the following officers: Grand Master, Aaron Jones, South Bend; Overseer, Nelson Pegg, Randolph county; Lecturer, Harvey D. Scott, Terre Haute; Steward, Moses Poindexter, Clark county. The reports of the grand officers show a decided growth of the order and a favorable condition of the subordinate granges. There h is been a great exodus of squirrels from Indiana to Kentucky, across ihe Ohio river, near New Amsterdam, in Harrison coun y. Heretofore the movement has been from south to north, and was attributed to the failure of the mast in the mountain region of Kentucky and Tennessee; but this year the squirrels are leaving Indiana when there is no failure of the mast.

George Eliot’s Earnings.

For “Scenes of Clerical Life” she ro ceived but $1,500; for “Adam Bede” she got, all told, $15,0(10; something less for “Mill on the Floss.” “Romola,” perhaps the most artistic and one of tho most interesting of her novels to cultured people, has never been fully appreciated. Its earnings have to date, I am told, not been over SIO,OOO, and for “Daniel Deronda” about the same. “Silas Marner,” one of her strongest stories, was not very profitable, while “Felix Holt,” not at all equal to it, gave her six times as much money. George Eliot’s poetry—she has issued six volumes—has not been liked, nor does it deserve to be liked in any measure with her novels. Still, she prefers her poetry r , and would rather be ranked as a poet than a tictionist. Her entire earnings have been about $250,000, and she could make a contract any day for a new story for which she would be guaranteed $40,000. Her money-making powt r is not excelled by that of any writer in Great Britain. In her case genius has been rewarded. —London letter.

The Hottest Spot on Earth.

One of the hottest regions on the earth is along the Persian gulf, where little or no rain falls. At Bahtin the arid shore has no fresh water, yet a comparatively numerous population contrive to live there, thanks to the copious springs which break forth from the bottom of the'sea. The fresh water is got by diving. The diver, sitting in his boat, winds a great goatskin bag around his arm, the band grasping its mouth; then takes in his right band a heavy stone,, to which is attached a strong line, and, thus equipped, he plunges in and quickly reaches the bottom. Instantly opening the bag over the strong jet of fresh water, he springs up the ascending current, at the same time closing the bag, and is helped aboard. The stoDe is then hauled up, and the diver, after taking breath, plunges again. The source of the copious submarine springs is thought to be in the green bills of Osman, some 500 or 600 miles distant. The Earl of Seftan would be to-day almost the wealthiest man in England if his ancestor had not sold, for a comparative trifle, his harbor rights, held under an anoient grant, to the town of Liverpool; and the Marquis of Donegal would to-day be thrice as rich as' the richest mah in Ireland bad he not recklessly leased the to wn of Belfast on perpetual leases at nominal rents, receiving, in so doing,Tieavy “fines,” or payment*, Almost the whole town is nominally hi* property.