Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1879 — Page 1

P?J pmocrntH Sentinel ,-*1? — ? — ~f~~~ * A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER ■ 4',V PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, JAMES W. TERMS OF STTBSCRffTHW. One copy on* 7*er..h .......UJ* One copy «ix month*. I.M Oai copy throe months - > M tV~AdTerttrfag rate* <* application

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEW*. Nearly twenty miner* were killed by an explosion of blasting material in a mine in Wortembarg, Germany. A serious famine is reported in Armenia. r Much distress exists among the poorer classed in Italy. '*&'• 1 Intelligence from Afghanistan to Dec 18 represents the military situation about Urns: Cabal was in the bands of the Afghans, the British haring been driven from the eitadel of Bala-Hissar to a fortified camp two miles noith of the city. Here were sssembled 5,000 B ilisb troops, confronted and almost surroundod by 80,000 determined Af**7mts!de communication with the British had been almost entirely cut off, but reinforcements were going forward as rapidly as possible. The Czßr is using extraordinary precautions against any further attempts upon his life. An official decree pardons 150 French Communists. The evicted tenant who assaulted Lord Fermoy wiHi a bludgeon in Limerick, Ireland, lias been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. The severity of tho aanter.co causos much excitemont in Ireland, and will no doubt embitter the feelings of tho tenantry toward the landlords. The death-rate in London this seaeon is unpreoodontedly heavy. Details of the fighting at Oabul show that the people of the city and villages vied with each othor in murdering and mutilating stragglers and wounded men of tho British army, some being actually murdered within 200 yards of the wall of Shirpur. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the police cannot discover the Nihilists because they exist where the authorities do not venture to look. The real conspirators are to be found in tho drawing-rooms of tho rich and noblo. St. Petersburg advices indicate that Russian diplomacy is again being directed to tho re-establish mint of tho arrangement between tho three empires, which, if oonsnmmatod, would rendor them arbiters of tho affairs of Europe. Yakqob Khan’s buried treasure, recently recovered at Cabal, was all in Russian gold. Borne of tho Afghan regulars were dressed in Russian uniforms. The Russian police have discovered another secret printing establishment in St Petersburg, from which seditious prints were being circulated by the Nihilists. A international exhibition is to be held in tho city of Romo in 1882. The British Government has granted annual pensions of $2,500 to tho wife and SSOO to the mother of Oavagnari, who was murdered in the revolt at Cabul a few months ago. A cable dispatch conveys the curious intelligence that tho secret of making diamonds artificially his been discovered iD London. The situation in Bnssia is not at all hopeful. Nihilist conspiracies are discovered, revealing widespread ramifications and involving parties who should be above suspicion. It is rumored that soveral of the most aristocratic families in Russia are on the march to Siberia. The condition of the Czar Is not improving mentally or phyaioally. He is constantly apprehensive of assassination, and very suspioious. The servants of the palace are ohanged daily and the police closely watchod. Lord Carnarvon and others have been appointed.a commission to investigate the defenses of tho British colonies. The , French Ministry has resigned, and Do Freyoinet is to form a new one.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Stoughton Hall, one of the Harvard College buildings, has been seriously damaged by fire. Gen. Grant arrived at Philadelphia on the morning of tho 16th of December, thus fully completing his journey around the world. Ho was met at tho depot by the city officials and an immense concouree of people. After a speech of welcomo by Mayor Sfokely, he was escorted to the State House, where he reviewed tho procession, a monster affair that occupied several hours in passing. In the evening the General dined with George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger. Another body was cremated in the lato Dr. LeMoyne’s furnace at Washington, Pa., last woek. At Carlisle, Pa., a woman named Zell has been sentenced to be hanged for murder. She poisoned an old woman about six months ago, presumably at the instigation of a man who will be tried soon. New York papers report that Talmage has won another victory. The vote of the Synod resulted twenty-eight for Talmage, thirteen against him, and two who voted to sustain the appeal in part When the vote was announced, Talmage came forward and said he was not a fighting man, and wanted to mike peace with his brethren who had opposed him. The first train has just passed over the Boston, Hoosao Tunnel and Western railroad. The total value of exports of domestic provisions and tallow for November, §8,900,006; same month in 1878, §6,690,482. It is said that Edison will give a publio exhibition of his new electric light at Manlo Park, N. J., New Year’s day. Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent leoture, described the American Bible Sooiety version of the King James Bible as full of errors. Two brick houses fell recently at Wilmington, Del., and two men were lulled, soveral others being injured. Stone’s shoddy mill at Bennington, Vt, was destroyed by fire the other day, and the proprietor and one of his workmen had to rush through the flames to get out of tho mill Stone was so severely burned that he died soon afterward. Tho others were badly burned. When Mrs. Stone was informed of the death of her husband she became frantic with grief, and has sinoe become a raving maniao. West. Here are two deaths from remarkable causes which we find recorded in the telegraphic columns of a daily contemporary as occurring on the same day: In La Salle county, 111., a young man named Abies was standing in front of his horse while the animal was feeding. The horse coughed and ejected a kernel of corn, which flew into Abies’ windpipe, and he strangled to death before relief Qpttlfl be afforded him. The other case occurred near Kansas City, Mo., and the instrument of death was an aerolite whioh in falling obliquely passed first through the branohss of a tall maple tree, cutting them as though

THE Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

it were a cannon-ball, and then struck a man and passed through bis body, and buried itself in the ground two feet deep. The fearful m'ssile is described as being of a rongb, round shape, in size about like a Wooden pail, and in substance a metal resembling iron pyrites. Buckner S. Morris, one of Chicago’s oldest citizens, and a lawyer of considerable note, bas just died at the age of 80. Louis Trumbull, his two sons and two other persons, were killed at Collinsville, Ind , by the explosion of the boiler of a sawmill. Mrs. Sol. Barney, of Spenccrville,lnd. f was awakened by the presents© of two burglars in hor room, She opened fire on them, and they returned it, until thirteen shots had been exchanged. They then fled, leaving traces of blood after them. One ball passed through Mfs. Barney’s night dress. ■* A firo at Bismarck, D. T., destroyed a large portion of the business part of the city. The loss if about $50,000. The smelting works at Omaha, Neb., have been partially destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $20,000. Charles H. Oakes, who was a sutler’s clerk at Fort Dearborn (Chicago) in 1821, died a few days ago, at St. Paul, aged 76 years. An explosion of nitro-glycerine on the Canada Pacific, near Ratportage, Winnipeg, killed four men and wounded three. A schooner, supposed to be the Mary D. Pomeroy, from Crescent City to Ban Francisco, has been sighted bottom up off Point Reves. There were on board eight officers and seamen and twelve passengers, all of whom are supposed to be lost. Gen. Adams, of the Ute Commission, lias just arrived at Denver. He thinks the twelve selected Indians will be delivered, when they will be taken to Fort Leavenworth and tried, and the ones found guilty will bo hung. The Wisconsin State Board of Charities, after investigating the Milwaukee House of Correction, find tho charges of cruelty and improper dieting sustained, and recommend a change in the management of the institution. Soutlo. The Virginia public schools have closed for one month for want of funds. The negro exodus from Texas to Kansas continues. Numerous cases of grave-robbery have caused intense excitement in Georgia. Three medical colleges were searched, and several corpses in various stages of d sseotion, but all unrecognizable, were discovered. Four Southern murderers were exterminated on Friday, Dee. 19—three in Virginia and one in Georgia. Mary A. Murray was removed from a position in the Baltimore postoffice, and has brought suit against Postmaster Tyler, claiming $20,000 damages, forjaesault Houston, Texas, is without money or credit, and heavily in debt. All tho city officers have resigned, aud th' prisonera in the jail are unguarded. Tho liabilities of the municipality amount to about $2,000,000. The steamboat Maggie Barker, laden with 1,100 bales of cotton, burned at tho wharf of Mobile, Ala., a few days ago, the loss aggregating $75,000.

WASHINGTON NOTES. It is announced from Washington that tho abolition of tho Department of Agriculture is among the probabilities. Senator Eaton’s bill creating a Tariff Commission provides for nine members, to be selected from civil life by the President and approved of by tbe Senate, whose duties are to investigate all questions relating to tbe agricultural, manufacturing, and mining interests of the United States, so far as may be necessary to tho establishment of a judicious tariff, and report to Congress. A resolution rescinding railroad land grants has been introduced in the Senate by Mr. Morgan, of Alabama. It would, if adopted, restore to the public domain about 120,000,000 acres, granted to various corporations which have failed to comply in time with the conditions of the grants. The national-bank currency has been increased nearly $5,000,000 within the laßt two months. President Hayes has transmitted to Congress a draft of tho bill submitted by the Commissioners of tho District of Columbia providing for tho reclamation of the Potomac marshes, wnieh have long been an eye-sore and a danger to the capital, and in an accompa - nying message warmly urged its passage. Frank Hatton, of the Burlington ITawk-Eye, has been appointed Postmaster ot Burlington, lowa.

POLITICAL POINTS. A Democratic club in Chicago nominates Horatio Seymour and David Davis for President and Vice President. Augusta (Me.) dispatches of the 15th inst. assert that a count has been made by the Governor and Council of tho election returns, which results in delivering certificates to a sufficient number of Democrats to give that party a majority in both branches of the Legislature. Tho dispatches state that “ tho Governor and Council count out three Senators from Cumberland, one each from York, Lincoln and Washington, and two from Androscoggin. The Democrats Lave a majority large enough in the House to give a quorum if none of the Republicans should appear and take their seats. They have thrown out Republican Representatives from Portland, Bath, baoo, Rockland and Lewiskm, and other towns enough to make vacancies in fourteen Representative districts.” The dispatches assert .great feeling among the Republicans owing to this condition of affairs. A Washington dispatch says the Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections have privately decided to report in favor of unseating Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana. Tho Virginia Legislature has chosen Gen. Mahone United States Senator. He will succeed Gen. Withers. Mahone is a Democrat and “Readjuster.” An Associated Press dispatch from Me., says: Full details of theoount made by the Governor and Gouncil show the following results: In the Senate the Fusionists are given twenty members; the Republicans eleven. In the Honse the Fusionists have seventy eight; the Republicans 61. Five cities with twelve Bepublioan Representatives— Portland, Bath, Lewiston. Rockland and Saco—.are without representation. The House will thus be twelve members short at its organization. The actual result of the election, according to the official returns before changed by the Council, was as follows: Senate—Republicans, 19; Fusionists, 12. House—Republicans, 90; Fusionists, 61. Net change in the Senate, 16; in tiie House, 46. By the election returns the Republicans had a majority of S 6 on joint ballot As counted by the Governor and Council the Fusionists have a majority of 20 on joint balloi The Republicans claim the rejections nd ohangee were wholly on teohnioel grounds.

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

At the meeting of the National Republican Committee, at Washington, on the 17th inst., it was decided that the convention in 1880 should be held at Chicago on the first Monday in Jane, the vote standing: Chicago, 24; Saratoga, 14, and Cincinnati and Indianapolis each 2. Senator J. Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania, was elected Chairman over Mr. Averill, of Minnesota, who developed considerable strength; and Thomas B. Keogh, of North. Carolina, Secretary, in place of Gov. McCormick, resigned. The Central Committee of the Green-back-Labor party of Illinois met at Chicago last week and selected delegates to attend the Greenback-Labor Conference, to be held in Washington on the Bth of January. The National Democratic Committee will meet at Washington on the 22d of FebThe irrepressible newspaper reporter has invaded the qniet home of ex-Gov. Seymour, at Utica, and interviewed him ‘upon the Presidential question. In reply to the question, “If it should be thought by the National Democratic Convention that your nomination would be necessary for the party's sutC3sa, would you accept the candid icy ?* Gov. Seymour replied: “As for myself, I do not think there is a general disposition to nominate me, nor do 1 think it would be wise to do so. For many reasons I should not bo a strong candidate. * * In a time of political uncertainty, in the face of what I have said, it is absurd to suppose that I shall be nominated. I have no idea that I shall to named by any convention for the Presidency, even if I sought the nomination. I should bo guilty of a self-complacency which would be ridiculous if I thought a great party were anxious to mako me a candidate against my wishes. Even in that improbable event, I should do my friends a very great wrong if I should go upon a ticket with the knowledge that I was not the right man to be placed in that position.” A conference of the State Central Committee ard Democratic editors of Hlinois was held at Chicago last week. The question of establishing a first-class Democratic daily newspaper in Chicago was discussed and referred to the Central Committee. A resolution condemning the action of the Governor and Council of Maine, for their action in going behind the face of the returns, was discussed at length, but the conference adjourned without reaching a vote. It was resolved to fix the headquartora of tho State Executive Committee at Springfield. At a separate meeting of Democratic editors, an organization was formed, to be known as the Democratic Press Association of Illinois, to bo composed of all tho Democratic editors, publishers and proprii tors in the State. W. T. Dowdall, of the Peoria Democrat, was chosen President, and W. H. Snyder, of the Champaign Times, Secretary. An Augusta (Me.) dispatch reports an indignation meeting o’s Republicans in that city. Delegations from various parts of the State were present. Ex-Gov. Connor presided. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the action of the Governor and Council, and Senator Blaine then made an address, reviewing the situation in detail* A very large meeting was held at Bangor, Me., Dec. 19, to express tho indignation of the Republicans at the action of tho Governor and Council in the matter of tho canvass for members of the Legislature, at which Senator Hamlin made an outspoken speech denouncing the proceedings of the canvassers. The following course for the Republicans to pursue is reported to have been recommended by prominent politicians at Washington: “To exhaust every legal means to prevent those persons who have illegally been declared members of the Legislature from taking their seats in that body, and, in case the courts furnish no remedy, proceed to the Capitol and take possession of the chambers, leaving the Fusionists to meet elsewhere, if they choose. The matter would then come uri3er the notice of the National Government, and the administration could decide which of the State Governments was entitled to recognition.”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. There is trouble with the half-breeds in British Columbia, which promises to result in considerable bloodshed. Three hundred people have been killed by Indians in Chihuahua, Mexico, during the last two months. Gov. Tiias has offered a reward of SIOO for every Indian scalp brought to him. The corn crop of the Unite! States this year, according to the latest report of the National Agricultural Department, oxeeeds that of 1878 by 150,000,000 bushels. In the States and Territories west of the Mississippi river the increase over last year is more than 100,000,000. Gen. Grant and a party of capitalists interested in the Nicaragua canal project dined together and discussed the matter in a general way, at Philadelphia, last week. Trenor W. Park, George W. Hoyt, J. W. Burt, S. C. Thompson, Nathan Appleton and Oapt Tetten have loft New York for Aspinwall, where they will meet M. De Lesseps, and proceed with him over the proposed route of the canal. Dan Rice, the famous circus clown, has been converted by Mr. Moody, at St. Louis, and will a t onoe enter the field as an evangelist. Wheeling nail manufacturers have advanced the card rates for nails to $4.25. From trade statistics it appears that the value of the files exported from Sheffield to tho United States was only one-twelfth as great in 1879 as in 1873. Five hundred cattle shipped from Chicago have been exhibited in London, and attracted great attention and much admiration on account of their size and excellent condition.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The Senate reassembled after a short recess on Monday, Dec. 15, whon Mr. Yoorliees presented a petition of 7,000 ex-soldiers and sailors, praying to be paid the difference between the value of greenbacks in which they were paid for services to the Government and the value of gold at the time of payment. Sir. Butler introduced an amendment to the Bayard resolution on the currency. Bills introduced: By Mr. McMillan, to authorize the St. Paul and Chicago ShortLine Bailway Company to construct a bridge across Lake St. Croix; by Mr. Vest, organizing of the Territory of Oklohoma ont of the present Indian Territory; by Mr. Saunders, making Omaha a port of entry. Mr. Sannders, from tbe Committee on Territories, reported a substitute for the bill to extend the northern boundary of Nebraska....ln the Honse, among the Mils Introduced were two by Mr. Morse for the encouragement of American shipbuilding and manufactures, a?d for the appointment of a commission to ascertain and report a basis for a reciprocity treaty between the United States and the British provinces; by Mr. Mitchell, to prohibit “omnibus” legislation, providing that no bill except the General Appropriation bill shall oontatn more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed In its title, and that no Appropriation bill shall embrace legislation not directly relating to the subject-matter of the appropriation; by Mr. Glardy, providing for the payment of arrears of pensions to the widows and to minor chlldien of persons who died of injuries received in the late war; by Mr. Be La Matyr, for the establishment qf

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles

Chalmers, to encourage the education of the colored race; by Hr. Bun, granting bounty lands to soldiers of the United States who served in the war of 1861: by Mr. Bamford, to regulate the manner of counting the votes for President and Vice President of the United States. A 1 ng discussion ensued upon the bill for the settlement of outstanding claims against the District, but no action was reached. A bill to donate twelve e ndemned bronze cannon to the Francis P. Blair Monument association at Bt. Louis passed the Senate Dec. 16, as did bills allowing for loss by leakage on spirits withdrawn from warehouse for exportation; the bill limiting the time for prosecutions for desertion from the army; and the bid allowing applications and affidavits required for the obtainment of patents for mineral' lands to be made by agents of non-residents. Bills were introduced: Placing the names of all disabled soldiers oa the pensionroll; declaring the Utc Indians public enemies, ani their treaty rights forfeited, unless within thirty days they surrender the persons engaged in the White river murders; to appropriate certain unclaimed pay and bounty to the education of the colored people; to relieve the Treasurer of the United States from the amount now charged to him and deposited with the several States. Mr. Booth introduced a hill appropriating $20,000 fer a statue to Prof. Joseph Henry. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the appointment of Edward Qutbrldge, .United 'States Attorney for the Eastern district of Texas, and Joseph B. Leake for the Northern diet! ict of Illinois; also Charles Lehman, Collector of Customs for the district of Vicksburg... .In tlie House a resolution for the appointment of a committee upon the inter-oceanic canal was adopted, bills were Introduced: By Mr. Willet, prohibiting the Impaneling of polygamists on juries in trials for offenses against the anti-polygamy law, and prohibiting men and women who ere prac tiring polygamy from voting; by Mr. Bragg, revoking the findings of the court martial in the case of Fitz John Porter, and restoring him to tlie array as Colonel, with all arrearages as Major General until Kept. 1,1866, and as Colonel (hereafter. 1 Ilia passed: Restoring to the public domain part of the military reservation of Fort Ripley. Minn.; confirming grants of swamp lands to Minnesota; abolishing the military reservations of Forts Abercrombie, Seward and Ransom, Dakota Territory. Mr. Eaton introduced a bill in the Senate, Dec. 17, to create a tariff commission; Mr. Morgan, a resolution in favor of maintaining the present volume and le;;al-tender quality of greenbacks, and providing that the coinage of silver shall be equal to that of gold; Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, a bill to repeal certain permanent appropriations. Mr. Morgan made a long epoech In support of his resolutien on introduoirg it. Mr. Ihurman presented a memorial upon tlie subjoct of con’agioua diseases of stock. Mr. Pendleton, from the Committee on CeDsus, reported a bill upon the tenth enumeration. Resolutions were presented by Mr. Morgan restoring railroad lands to the public domain; by Mr. Call, to repeal the section of tho Revised Statutes prohibiting the payin' nt of any claims against the Government which occurred prior to ltd in favor of any person who engaged in the late war; by Mr. Groome, authorizing the appointment of a Panama Cana 1 Committee. A bill was presented by Mr. Eaton, author. ziDg the appointment of a Tariff Commission. The Senate then held a short-execu-tive session, and, when the doors wero reopened, passed, among others, the bill to authorize the free entry of competitive prizes won by American citizens to foreign countries... .In tho House, Mr. Ballou offered two bills, one making gold and silver tbe only legal tender, and the other repealing the stamp tax on bank checks. Mr. McCold, from the Committee onManufactnris, reported a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment giving Congress tlie power to grant, protect and regulate the exclusive right to adopt and uso trade-marki, which was discussed at great lom th ■ and referred to the Judiciary Oommilt* e. Bills were passed: Exempting postal employes from serving ou ]uriei; for the appointment of a joint committee of three Senators and five Representatives 1 1 investigate tho present system of salaries, f f s aud emoluments allowed to officers of the several United States courts; providing for Unled States courts at Columbus, Ohio; and tee Military Academy Appropriation bill. Mr. Conger offered a resolution, which was adopted, asking for Information respecting the operation of the life-saving service on the great lakes. A communication was laid before the Sonata from the Secretary of the Treasury, on the 18th, concerning the effect upon the revenue of the repeal of the duty on tea and coffee in 1873. A resolution was adopted for an attachment for the persons of witnesses who refused to testify before tho Election Committee in the Ingalls case. Petitions were presented for a monument in memory of the battle of Yorktown, and for the appointment of a labor' commission. The resolution instructing the Agricultural Committees of both houses to consider the subject of agriculture. and report what ought to bo done by the Government to protect tlie agricultural interests, was adopted. The Pension Appropriation bill was passed. A discussion then occurred upon Air. Voorhees’ resolution to investigate the negro exodus, with Mr. Windom’s amendment. After a four hours’ debate, Mr. Windom’s amendment was voted down and the resolution adopted, by a vote of 27 to 12. Bills introduced; By Mr. Coke, to ascertain losses by Indian depredations; by Mr. Hereford to continue the Court of Alabama Claims and for the distribution of the money of the Geneva award: by Mr. Logan (by request), to declare the legal effect of the permits granted by the President of the United States to purchase of the products of the insurrectionary States.,.. In the House, Mr. Weaver de. ied the truth of an article in the New Tork Tribune alleging him to have been the author of petitions praying that soldiers be paid the difference between the value of gold and greenbacks at the time of their payment. A resolution was adopted authorizing the Committee on Mississippi Levees to make a personal examination of the river.- Bills were introduced: To create permanently a deep, wide and straight channel through Sandy Hook, in New York harbor, for the purpose of forming an Improved commercial outlet; by Mr. Gibgon. to authorize national banks to loan money on real estate, and taklr g lax off bank circulation; by Mr. Ackley, regulating Inter-State traffic. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, introduced a resolution, calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for Information as to the number of licensed dealers In leaf tobacco, and the amount of Internal revenue collected from them during the present fiscal year, which was adopted. Several committee reports upon a number of bills relating to agriculture were referred. The remainder of the day was passed in committee of tlie whole upon the bill authorizing tbe Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the Ute Indians for tbe relinquishment of their reservation in Colorado, and their removal and settlement elsewhere, without reaching a conclusion. A very short session of the Senate was held on the 19th inst., no quorum being present. The Vico President appointed Messrs. Voorhees, Vance, Pendleton, Windom and Blair a committee to in vestlgate the causes of the negro emigration from; Southern to Northern States, and the Sen. ate then adjourned to Jan. 6, 18S0 The Secretary of War transmitted to the House a c mmunication from Maj. Houston, of the Engineer Corps, recommending an apporpriation of SIIO,OOO for the improvement of Waukegan (Ill.) harbor. Mr. Blackburna, from the Committee on Rules, submitted a report on th 6 revision of the rules. The consideration of the report is made the special order for the 6th of January. The Speaker appointed tbe Committee on the Interoceanic Canal: King (Chairman), Singleton, Whitthome, Martin, O. Turner, Nichols, Hutchins, Page, Conger, Frye and Haskell. Commit ee on the Yorktown Celebration: Messrs. Goode. Hall, Loring, Aldrich, Hawley, Muller, Brigham, Dick, Martin, Talbot, Davis (N. C.), Richardson (S. C.) and Persons, The Speaker made the following committee appointments: Hutchings, Committee on Education and Labor and Expenditures in the Treasury Depaitment, in place of Morrison, resigned; Berry, Committees on Public Lands and Miners and Mining; Davis (Cal.), Committee on Coinage and Expenditures in the Navy Department, in place of Neal (Ohio); Pacheco, Committee on Private Land Claims and Public Expenditures; Thompson (Iowa), Committee on Mines and Mining and Enrolled Bills; Page, Committee on Education and Labor and Expenditures iu the Department of Justice; Dufhi, Committee on Public Lands, in place of Steele; Steele, Committee on Counting the Electoral Vote. In place of Dnnn; Belford, Committee on Mines and Mining. Mr. Konna, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill known as the “Steamboat bill,” which was made the special order for the second Tuesday In February. Adjourned to Jan. 6.

The English language is about the only one that spells the name of God with but three letters. The usual rule is to use sou in Latin, Dens; French, Dieu; Old Greek, Zeus; German, Gott; Old German, Odin; Swedish, Gode; Hebrew, Aden; Dutch, Herr; Syrian, Adan; Persian, Syra; Tartarian, Edga; Slavonian, Belg or Boog; Spanish, Diaz; Hindoo, Dsgi or Zeni; Turkish, Abdi; Egyptian, Aumn or Sent; Japanese, Zain; Peruvian, Liau; Wallachian, Zene; Etrurian, Ghur; Tyrrhenion, Eber; Irish, Dieh; Croatian, Doha; Margarian, oese; Arabian, Alla; Dnialtaam, Bogt.

Before marriage a man ia generally greeted by his sweetheart with “My darling, is it you?” But after marriage she generally rushes to the door ana shouts, “ Hugh Henry, wipe your boots r

LAND TENURE.

Tlie American System Compared to En gland’s—Wliy American Farmers Are Bet ter Off Than Those of Other Nations. Dr. George B. LoriDg, member o Congress from Massachusetts, delivt red an exceedingly interesting and valuable address before the Great Dairy Fair recently held in New York city. Hissubject was “ The American Problem of Landholding.” He said the question of land tenure was of fundamental importance, one upon whose solution, in a satisfactory manner, depended the very existence of agriculture as an industry to be cheiished and developed by free, enlightened, ambitions people. The tenant farmers of Great Britain, the peasantry of Bnssia, the farmers of Germany, c&MmaU landholders of France, and the agricultural citizens of the United States, he said, all represented one industry. Yet how widely they differed in everything that goes to make up man’s condition as an intelligent being and a member in some form of the state and of society. The great question now occupying the minds of those interested in the welfare of civilized men was, how the comfort, prosperity, and intelligence of the agricultural population could be best subserved. The American people went further than other nations, and inquired how could the American farmer with a farm of small dimensions discharge his duty to the State as a voter and tax-payer, and gratify his desires with regard to the education of his family and the comfort and culture of his home from the iocome he could derive from cultivating the land. That was the American problem to day. The prosperity of agriculture had manifestly kept pace with the prosperity of every other industry here, and he bejieved personal effort was well rewarded, and that the small farmer would find even from the slow and reduced local markets a compensation nearly as great as when his expenses were greater and labor higher than now. He was aware that great discouragement had fallen upon that class of farmers, in whose hands rested the system of agriculture which must prevail as our country increases in population. Yet the condition of farmers here was looked upon as so satisfactory in every point of view as to attract the attention of foreign statesmen. The American system of landholding -they recognized as the foundation of great popular content. Accompanied as it is by social and civil opportunities, surrounded by free institutions, attended by the school and the meeting-house, it constituted the foundation on which rested great mental activity, dignity, enterprise and ambition. So great was the agricultural prosperity here that, with taxable lauded possessions, higher wages and increased social requirements, the American farmer could compete in the world’s grain markets even with those who were furnished free land and- whose necessities were small. The skill of the American farmer, supplied with the most effective machinery, was the object of admiration and imitation, and his well-organized home was looked upon as a raodei. The place filled by the American farmer was so important and honorable that other nations inquired how it had been obtained. He compared the social condition of American farmers with farmers of other countries. It was to the division and subdivision of the land, as well as to their devotion to the institutions of learning and religion, and their determination to secure social and civil rights, that our farmers owed their success in establishing a free Government. Our system of landholding had attracted the attention of the English statesmen Bright and Gladstone, and had been discussed in the famous controversy between Lords Berconsfield and Hartington. The English Parliament Commission, now here, would do well to study our system of landholding, and report on it accurately. The agricultural interests of England would find more relief in this system than any yet proposed The question of the capacity of this system to support a great rural population on American soil was the American problem to-day. Tenant farming iu England had failed; peasant-farming in France offered no temptations. Would our own system of citizen-proprietoi-ship continue to prosper? He saw no reason to doubt that the ingenious application of labor to a small homestead would meet with ample reward. Methods, advantageous localities, markets might have changed, but not the opportunities for success. Agricultural education and societies were to be encouraged by every means. In closing, Dr. Loring urged a constant spirit of inquiry and respect for every form of agricultural education, accurate knowledge being the best legacy they could transmit to their successors as the citizen proprietors of the American soil.

The Elective Franchise in Ireland.

In order to enable a few wealthy Tories to exercise an undue political influence in Ireland, the qualification for the elective franchise is fixed so high that not more than one man in eight to ten is a voter; whereas in England, in the cities and towns, four out of five men are allowed to vote. This unjust discrimination is pointed out by a writer in the London Spectator, from whose letter we make the following extract: When the numbers of electors in places of equal population in the two countries are compared, the effect of the restricted Irish franchise is immediately apparent. Thus: Population. Electors. Dublin 267,717 12,117 Leeds 259,212 49.545 Cork 100.518 4,618 Leicester 95,220 13,365 X-iimerick 49,853 1.781 Middleborough 46.621 11,824 Wexford 13 112 498 WhUby 13 091 2,103 Kinsale 6.955 191 Elpon 6,806 1,096 The Reform bill that is required is one that will remove this great inequality and place the Irish franchise in exactly the same position as’ the English. Such a measure was introduced on several occasions daring the present Parliament, but was on every occasion voted down by the Conservatives. The Liberals, who have supported these bills when in opposition, will be expected to pass them when they return to power. Fussy About Dress. Talk about women being particular and fussy about dress—did you ever watch a man buy an ulster? He strays in apparently by accident, lookß over a pile of coats, and the gentlemanly clerk puta one on him It’s too big plaid, Hackman's overcoat; the next one is too

big stripe, college student’s; the next too fine, regular parson’s gown; then one fits too much, one fits too little; one has arms too long, buttons too big; another has arms too short, buttons too small. And he keeps up this straying all over town, sampling every clothing store, filling clerks with higbjhopes and subsequent disgust, till at last he buys (he first coat he tries on, wears it a week, and thinks it “immense,” and the rest of the winter spends his spare time in -trying to trade it off for a secondhand coal-box buggy.

USEFUL INFORMATION.

To drain land in level places sink a well down to the first porous stratum. The water from the upper soil will flow readily into the well, especially if draiu pipes or tiles be lai l in its direction. AN astronomical day commences at noon, and is counted from tho first to the twenty-fourth hour. A civil day commences at midnight, and is counted from tbe first to the twelfth hour. A nautical day is counted as a civil day, but commences, like an astronomical day, from noon. It is quite commonly supposed that before the time of Columbus the true form of the earth was not known. This is an erroneous notion. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher of the fourth century beforo our era, gave many of tho now-accepted reasons for believing the earth to be a sphero. Elevated situations are most suitable for the growth of coffee; the trees are raised from slips, which are allowed four or five years to grow before they are cropped; they attain the height of ten feet, and bear from thirty to fifty years. It is chiefly cultivated in Arabia, the southern states of North America, South America, Java and Ceylon. The saying “ Let the cat out of the bag” originated in England in this way: Formerly dishonest countrymen practiced the trick of substituting a cat for a sucking pig, and bringing it to market in a bag, so that he who, without examination, made a hasty bargain was said to “ buy a pig in a poke,” and might “ get a eat in a bag.’ Aud the discovery of this cheat originated the expression “ Letting the cat out of the bag.” Carat is a weight used by goldsmiths and jewelers. Originally tbe Kaura bean was used for this purpose; hence the name. A carat is a weight of four grains, w ben used iu weighing diamonds, and when used in reference to the fineness of gold, pure gold is supposed to weigh twenty-four carats of twelve grains each. Coin is usually twenty carats fine, while gold used for ornaments and jewelry varies from eighteen carats down as low as twelve and even ten carats. The alloy is usually silver. The first railroad in the United States was a short road built from the granite quarries of Quincy, Mass., to the Neponset river, for the purpose of conveying the blocks of granite that were used in building tho Bunker Hill monument, at Boston. It was a small affair, with wooden rails. It was constructed about 1M27, and was a single-track road three miles long. The ties were of granite, seven and a half feet loDg, placed eight feet apart, and the gauge was five feet. The rails were of pine covered with oak, on which was placed wrought-iron plates. To rid a well of foul air, bqild a furnace of stone, brick or sod, to hold a bushel or two, ten feet from the mouth of the shaft Let there be a closed channel, or arched-wav connecting with the furnace, to within a foot or so of the shaft or well. Attach to the end of the channel, near tho shaft, a hose three or four inches in diameter, to reach within five or six feet of the bottom of the shaft. Build a fire in the furnace of dry wood, and you can have all the fresh air at the bottom you please. If you please, you can add slush or kerosene to the fire until the well digger will say: “ Hold on; Ido not want so much wind down here.” As the shaft deepens, add new sections to the hose. If you have to make hose, light cotton duck will be sufficient.

A Bear Fight.

A lively bear fight in the Adirondacks is described in a letter from Indian river to the New York Saratogian. It occurred at about six miles from that place, at a shanty which is owned by a number of gentlemen who visit that region about twice a year for the purpose of hunting and fishing. The party consisted of Mr. Parker, of New York, Mr. Pulver, two gentlemen from Conklingville, N. J.,and a guide named Bonnie. Returning from their day’s hunt, the two Conklingville hunters went back with a stretcher for the purpose of. fetching a deer that had been killed. Bonnie started from the shanty to get a pail of water, some little distance away. Parker, who is in poor health, and Pulver were left in charge of the cabin, and the latter wa3 engaged in making a hot sling for his invalid friend. All at once Pulver heard his friend give a fearful scream, and, upon looking up, found a huge black bear growling and snarling in the most savage manner. The bear ad vanced toward Pulver as though to take him in its embrace. Pulver, acting upon the impulse of the moment, dashed the now-boiling water full in the animal’s face, at the same time endeavoring to make his-es-cape to the loft overhead. He had barely time to reach the top round of the short ladder when the exasperated bear caught him by the leg and held him as in a vise, lacerating his limb. Pulver cried lustily for help. Parker, nearly frightened to death, caught the bear by the short tail, and prevented him"from making further advance on his friend. They now both cried piteously for help, and it came quickly in the form of Bonnie, the guide, whose experience in the woods had taught him that coolness and decision were the things needed in such an emergency. This he showed in his quickness in getting a gun and shooting the beast. Odds and Ends. No sooner has one learned how to live than one must die. Everybody gives advice; few take it, and none act upon it. Beware of a religion that pays its ministers large salaries. All women consult their mirrors; very few listen to them. All death’s heads grin. Can they have read their epitaphs? No one ever admits his defects if it is not to insist upon their compensations. From the moment that a defect can no longer be concealed tre exaggerate it*

$1.50 per Annum.

NUMBER 46.

DARK DESIGNS

Desperate Republican Games —Determined to Win by Fair Means or Foul, and Count In the Next President Whether Elected or Not. [Washington Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer ] There is no donbt whatever that the Republican leaders are already beginning to lay their plans for the execution of some desperate schemes to carry the country for the Republican party next year. The most strenuous efforts are being made to disguise their movements and blind the people of the country as to their intentions; but some things have leaked out which have excited a good deal of apprehension among Democrats, and which giveoolor to the belief that they mean to inaugurate another Republican President regardless of whether the majority of the peoplo of the country want him or not. It has unquestionably been determined that no effort shall be'made to carry any Southern State; and, more than this, steps bavo already been taken to prevent any Southern State from being carried. A part of this programme was carried out in the recent election in Louisiana. It will be remembered that the talk which prevailed at one time of sending Northern Republicans to canvass that State was suddenly stopped; that no Republicans went there except Mr. Stewart L. Woodford, of New York, and that after his arrival there there was a sudden and inexplicable apathy on the part of the Republicans ; and that when the election returns came to be counted it appeared that in certain parishes where there is a very large colored population no Republican votes at all were cast. The Republican newspapers are already citing this last fact as an evidence that there was intimidation and bulldozing by Democrats in those parishes. The Democratic members of Congress who represent these parishes declare positively that the charges are absolutely false. There is more than reason to believe that the failure of the negroes in those localities to vote was in obedience to the instructions carried to Louisiana by Mr. Woodford, who, it will be remembered, has had a good deal of reputation as an intriguer in politics, and was prepared to play a pretty important figure in the election of 1876 if the much-talked-of scheme of inaugurating Mr. Tilden in New York had been attempted. In plain English, it is charged, and there is reason to believe that the charge is true, that Mr. Woodford went to Louisiana for the" purpose of informing the Republican leaders of that State of the plan which had been determined upon by the leaders of the Republican party to keep the South solid and make the North solid; and that in certain parishes the negro vote was kept at home purposely by the Republican leaders in order that there might be no possible chance of the Republicans carrying that State; and, also, for the purpose of furnishing a pretext for just such assertions of intrigue and bulldozing perpetrated by Democrats as are now being printed in the Republican newspapers throughout the North. A similar series of this Republican programme may be expected to develop in New York, which State, there is grave reason to apprehend, the Republicans propose to seize, through the instrumentality of the present. Legislature, which may be expected to exercise its undoubted prerogative under the constitution to change the method of choosing Presidential electors in New York, and pass a law that they shall be chosen by the Legislature, and then itself choosing Republican electors, in spite of the fact that New York was Democratic at the last election by 40,000 majority, and without giving the people of the State a chance to express their preference upon the subject next year. The charge that the Republicans intend to do this thing will doubtless be denounced as sensational. But some of the shrewdest observers in politics, and some of the longest-headed politicians here, are confident that the Republicans have really determined upon this plan of action, and really mean to seize New York in this way. Several things which have already happened are explainable upon this hypothesis. It will be remembered that a few weeks before Congress met Senator Matt Carpenter delivered himself of the opinion at some length that the Democrats intended to inaugurate the next President, whether they elected him or not. This sensational opinion of Senator Carpenter was set up in type here, and slips of it were sent to all the leading Republican papers throughout the country. It appeared simultaneously in nearly all of the largest cities in the country. Its appearance created very great surprise at the time, inasmuch as no Democrat had hinted or thought of such a thing. The only reasonable explanation of Senator Carpenter’s act is that he meant to prepare the public mind for extraordinary proceedings in the next Presidential election, and desired to create the impression that the Democrats contemplate seizing the Government by fraud or force as an excuse for what the Republicans had already determined upon. The journey of Mr. Woodford to Louisiana, otherwise inexplicable, is easily understood in the light of this programme. And now the Republicans are following out a line of procedure in regard to Maine which also squints in the same direction. As is well known to all who have watched the situation in Maine at all seriously, neither Gov. Garcelon nor any one of the Council have performed any act or used any word wnich gives the slightest ground for the suspicion that they intended to do anything in that State contrary to the laws of the State and the constitution, or that they had any ulterior object in view, or 'meant anything else than to issue certificates of election to those State officers and members of the Legislature to whom they were authorized to issue such certificates by the law. Nevertheless, Senator Blaine, the entire Republican delegation from Maine, and the Republican newspapers .in Maine, and elsewhere, are charging daily that Gov. Garcelon and the Democratic party in Maine mean to seize upon the Government of that State wrongfully, and that the Legislature, after they have thus wrongfully seized it and possessed themselves of it, mean to change the law in that State and choose Democratic electors next year. The purpose of this is very plain. Senator Blaine is exceedingly anxious that the Maine Pemocrats shall do just

§7/f jgtmomtiie j| mfmei ■ JOB FRUITING OFFICE Km better tecillttM then iny office in Nortlnretters Indiana tot the execution of all brandies at JOB PBXUTXXJ CSr. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prloe-Uet, or from • runpk let to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

this very thing. He and all his allies in the Republican party are trying by every means in their power to goad the Fusiouists in Maine into changing the law in Maine in regard to the choioe of electors, and enaot a law whioh shall give that choice to the Legislature. The object of having the Democrats in Maine do this is to give the Republicans an exouse for doing the same thing in New York, The Republicans realize that they can afford to have this thing done in Maine, even if it should be carried to completion, and the Maine Legislature should elect Demooratio electors, because the Republicans could lose Maine, and still carry the country, if they can secure New York and Indiana and the other Northern States. It is proposed to carry Indiana by the means of the negro-colonization scheme, which has already been inaugurated. The Democratic majority in that State is only about 5,000. The law of that State allows any man. to vote after a residence of six months. Between this and spring the country may expeot to see 100,000 negroes transported to Indiana from North Carolina and other Southern States. This, in brief, is the desperate scheme which eomo of the most sagacious political leaders here firmly believe the Republican party is determined upon, and which they seem to be already preparing to carry out.

INDIANA NEWS.

Boonville has the telephone. Dr. J. R. Mclntyre, of Richmond, has accepted a chair in the College o Physicians and Surgeons, St. Louis. The Wabash shops at Fort Wayne have just finished one of the largest and finest snow-plows ever turned out. William Weumcusetter, an old man of about 80, living near North Yernon, committed suicide by taking arsenic. Henry Jacobs, aged 85 years, a prominent farmer of Sullivan county, and one of the pioneer settlers of Carlisle, is dead. A colored woman in attendance at a revival meeting in Evansville, became enthused and began a series of antics, when she fell over a bench and broke her back. The Board of Directors of the Northern Indiana Piison has adopted a rule to tLe effect that hereafter no convict will be allowed to work outside tlie prison walls. During a thunder-storm a short time ago a new and unoccupied house, owned by Bobert Deane, at Sullivan, was struck by lightning. An adjoining barn was also struck, and a horse killed at the same time. The heirs of the late W. S. Hillycr, a member of Gen. Grant’s staff during the war, who died in Washington city in 1874, have entered suit in tho Floyd Circuit Court to obtain SIO,OOO left their father under the will of the late Elias Ayers, an uncle of Gen. Hillyer. During the heavy rain-storm which prevailed near Brazil, on the 9th inst., Abram Winn was struck by lightning and instantly killed. The startling and unexpected character of the event, expecially considering tho season of the year, created a decided sensation. A most distressing accident occurred the other day at the farm of Mr. William Hodgen, four miles east of Vincennes, resulting in the death of two boys, the support of a widowed mother. The boys, whose, names were Walter and Eddie, aged respectively 18 and 12, were felling a large sycamore tree, and, after chopping into the trunk until it was nearly ready to fall, made their plans for getting out of the way. /They expected the tree to fall into a field, and they were to run into the road, and had taken down the fence to allow them time te reach a point of safety. When the tree began to sway and crack they ran, but unconsciously ran into instead of out of danger, the tree falling upon them, killing Walter, the elder, instantly, and so injuring Eddie that death relieved his sufferings an hour afterward.

Obituary

Samuel E. Perkins, Chief Justice of the. Supreme Court of Indiana, died at midnight, Dec. 17, at his residence in Indianapolis. Judge Perkins was born in Braltleboro, Vt., Dec. 6, 1811. He came to this State, locating at Richmond, in 1836, and was admitted to the bar in 1837. In 1843 he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for the Richmond judicial circuit. In 1844 ho was one of the Presidential electors on the Polk ticket, and was appointed ono of the Judges of the Supremo Court by Gov. Whitcomb. The Whig Senate refused to confirm- the nomination, and he was appointed in 1845 with the same result. After the adjournment of the Legislature, however, the Governor again appointed him, and two years later he was regularly confirmed. He succeeded Judge Sullivan, and remained on the Supreme bench for nineteen consecutive years —until 1865. In 1872 Gov. Baker appointed him Judge of the Marion County Superior Court, which office he held until again elected to the Supreme bench in 1876. Two of Judge Perkins’ acts while on the Supreme bench were the cause of wide and varied comment. One of these was his decision against the collection of the tax for school purposes as then provided for. The result of this was that for several mouths, until provided for by a following Legislature, the public schools were closed and the children deprived of educational privileges. The other decision was that in the case of Beebe vs. The State, in which Judge Perkins decided that the prohibitory liquor law, then in force but a short time, was, so far it prohibited tho manufacture and sale of liquors, unconstitutional. He was the editor of the Sentinel in 1865-’66. when it was known as the Indiana Herald. In 1858 he prepared an Indiana “ Digest,” and the following year published “The Indiana Practice.” In addition to this he filled the law chair several years in the Northwestern Christian University. His service on the Supreme bench is longer than that of any other Judge, and when ho entered upon the office he was probably younger than any one who has filled that position-in Indiana. He was twice xuarried, first in 1838, and again in 1856, eaoh time to a daughter of Joseph Pope, of Richmond. He had but two children. At the bar he has achieved the reputation of a sound and upright jurist.