Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

voßEiav nwik The leading German, French, Ruseian and English papers are making Gen. Grant’s remarks before the Peace Society at Philadelphia the subject of considerable com - ment. The majority of them treat bis views with favorable consideration, as worthy tbo attention of thejf own statesmen and Generals. As the King and Qaeen of Spain wore driving tbrongh the gate of the royal palace, in Madrid, a young man fired a pistol at the former, bnt, as bis aim was characteristically poor, no damage was done. The would-Lo assassin, who is but 19 years of age, waspromp - ly arrested. Alfonso attended the opera later in the eveniog. Gen. Sir Evellyn Wood, who figured in the Zulu war, will accompany ox-Empress Eugenio to Bouth Africa on her mournful visit to the spot where her son was killed. Many people are perishing from hunger in Southwestern Russia, and in one district the famine is aggravated by typhus fever. A St. Petersburg dispatch confirms the statement that a number of Russian officers have recently been imprisoned upon charges of complicity in tho Nihilistic movement, and cites various instances of the arrost of officers. Polish newspapers report the recent arrost of over 100 Nihilists in Warsaw. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ' East. The loss by the Boston fire is now placed at $1,000,000, a largo portion of which tho insurance companies will be compelled to make good. Chastine Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull, has beon denied a new trial by the Supremo Court of New York. George Jones, known as the “Count Johannes,” a very eccentric New York character, is dead During 1879 there wore in New York 460 failures, with liabilities amounting to $16,383,932. Parnell and Dillon, the Irish landreform agitators, liavo arrived at Now York. The annual statistics of the trade of .Baltimore show an increase in the value of exports over 1878 of $28,480,0(H). The imports, on tho other hand, decreased $7,580,000. The roceipta of wlioat increased 12,500,000 bushels, and of corn 5,000,000 bushels. Tho transactions of the Clearirg House show an increase of $01,000,000. Bishop Gilbert Haven, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his home in Malden, Mass., on the 2d inst. He had been sick sevoral weeks, primarily with neuralgia of the stomach, bnt latterly of a complication of diseases affecting all the vital organs. He was born at Maldou in 1821, and was therefore 50 years of ago. Charles Parnell, the Irish agitator, spoke to an immense audience in Madison Square Garden, New York city, on Sunday, JaD. 4. Mr. Parnell stated that his mission was political as well aB charitable. Ilis answer to the suggestion of certain well-meaning Americans, that he should confine his efforts to soliciting alms for the starving tenants, was that tho only hope of rescuing them from their wretchedness lios in destroying tho land system which brings it on.

We»t. Springfield, 111., was given a lively Blinking up, the other day, by a boiler explosion. The shock was felt all over the city, and much damago was done to buildings, plateglass, and mirrors. Tho enginoor of the ilour-ing-mill in which the disaster occurred was buried in tho ruins and killed. Another bridge is to be built across tho Mississippi rivor at St Louis, six miles below the prosont structure. Died at Lansing, Mich., Lucy Karnoy (colored), aged 118 year#. Embry, editor of a Sunday paper at L avonworth, Kan., who sonic years ago shot and seriously wounded D. It. Anthony, was killed a few days a o, in a saloon, by his partner in business. At Alliance, Ohio, on New Year’s day, a party of eight boys skating fell through the ice. Throe woro drowned —Harry Coates, Charles Dorman and Charles Rankin. The value of the mineral product of California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, CJtab, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Dakota during 1878 is placed at #72,688,888. Thus far about a thousand colored immigrants from the South have arrived in Indiana. Noarly all have located in Putnam, Clay and Vigo counties. The clearings of the associated banks of Chicago, on the first business day of the now year, ar.iouuted to #12,300,000, a sum larger by #2,000,000 than ever before recorded in that city.

Dispatches from the West state that Gen. Hatoh, of the Ute Commission, left Lake City for Fort Garland on the 2d inst, having experienced no trouble since parting with the Indians at Cline's rancho except from the snow. He believes that Ouray was sincere in all his negotiations, and that tho murderers wonld have been surrendered on demand if they had not been convinced that the people of Colorado intended tp lynch them* before trial. Tho Utes have all left Los Pinos and no further developments are expected until tho chiefs now visiting Wasliington have returned. A Washington telegram of the 4th Inst, says- “Ex-Gov. Hunt, of Colorado, last night received a dispatch confirmatory of the story already darkly hinted at—namely, that the females captured by the Utes were outraged by their Indian captors. The Pueblo (Col.) Chieftain of New Year’s day contained a card, signed by Mrs. Meeker, in whioh this orime is charged npon the Utes." Washington dispatches state that it is practically settled that Senator Edmnnds is to succeed Justice Hunt on the United States Supreme bench. The appointment has been tendered and accepted, and, as soon as Congress passes an act retiring Judge Hunt, Mr. Edmunds’ nomination will be made public. South. Four negroes, charged with murder, were taken from jail at Amite, La., by a mob of fifty men, and shot to death. A lire at Paducah, Ky., last week, destroyed property valued at #IOO,OOO. At Sherman, Texas, the Opera House and an adjoining building were burned. Loss, #40,000. More than 100 colored emigrants from Goldsboro, N. 0., passed through Petersburg, Va., last week, bound for Indianapolis. The contract for the construction of the Texas Pacific railroad from Fort Worth to El Paso, a distance of 750 miles, has been signed. United States Senator Houston, of Alabama, died lately at his home in Athens. Young Mosby, son of Mosby of guerrilla fame, now Consul at Hong-Kong, has be?n indulging his fighting propensities, and

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor.

VOLUME 111.

has just fought a duel near Amherst Court House, Ya. Bis antagonist was a student named Lee, from Louisiana. Nine shots were fired, but neither party was hurt WASHINGTON NOTES. Gov. Yan Zandt, of Rhode Island, declines the Russian mission, tendered to him by the President. Secretary Sherman has written Senator Morrill a long letter on tho subject of the bonded indebtedness of the United States. He takes the ground that it would be unwise to attempt to refund the s’s and 6’s falling due in the next eighteen months in per cents., and states as a reason why the issue would be unsuccessful that the improved condition of the mercantile and manufacturing interests of the country will afford better opportuni ies for investments than even a bond bearing a higher rate of interest than those about to be refunded. He says in regard to Fernando Wood’s bill providing for a cent, loan that the bonds would not sell at par, and that he has grave doubts of the Government’s ability to borrow money much longer at 4 per cent. To mike the trial, however, as early as possible, he recommends that action be taken by Congress for the immediate issue of another 4-per-cent. loan. The following is a statement of United States currency outstanding at tho end of tho year: Old demand notes $ 61,c60 Legal lender notes, all 155ue5......... * 1146,681.0 IB One-year notes of 1863 47,825 Two-year notes of 1863 13,1159 Two-year coupon notes of 18(13 23,35(1 Compound-interest notes 252,570 Fractional currency, all issues 15,074,308 Total $302,754,069 The monthly debt statement, issued on the Ist inst., is as follows: Six-per-ccnt. bonds $273,400,550 Five-por-cent. bonds 508,440,350 , Four-and-a-half-per-cent. -y. bonds 250,000,000 Four-per-cent bonds 738,490,550 Iteiundlng certificates.... 2,855,400 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,786,680,850 Matured debt $ 14,691,926 J,cgal tenders 346.742,306 Certificates of deposit... 10,245,000 Fractional currency.... 15,674,303 ./ Gold and s Ivor certificates...' 21,050,010 Total without interest $ 893,711,679 Total debt $2,195,0!*,455 Total interest 24.691,953 Cash In treasury 207,983,908 Debt less cash in the treasury $2,011,798,504 Decrease during December 4,251,217 Decrease since June 30,1879 15.408,751 CURRENT LIABILITIES. Interest due and unpaid $ 291,718 Debt ou which interest has ceased... 14,691,925 In'erest thereon 997,660 Gold and Bilver certificates 21,050,010 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 10,245,('00 Cash balance available Jan. 1, 18*1).. 158,307,590 To'al $ 207,983,903 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Cash in treasury $ 207,983,903 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 61,623,512 Interest accrued aod not yet raid.... 1.938,705 Interest paid by United States 43,712,450 Interest repaid by transportation cf mails, etc j 3,5211,474 The Indiana Republican State Convention will be held at Indianapolis on the 17th of June. The receipts from internal revenue for the first six months ending Dec. 31,1879, the first six months of the current fiscal year, were $61,500,021, and from customs $87,713,750. The following is a statement of the coinage executed at the United States mints daring December, 1879: Gold, 590,869 pieces value, $6,487,000; silver, 2,384,200 pieces—value, $2,358,032; minor coinage, 3,103,250 pieces—value, $31,433. Total coinage, 6,078,310 piecee—value, $8,878,406. During December the Treasury Department paid $1,727,520 on account of arrears of pensions.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. So sanguine are the capitalists who compose the Edison Electric Light Company of the success of the professor’s experiments, that they will not sell a share of the stock for loss than fifty times its nominal value. Iron is now higher than it has been for many years. Bteel rails are quoted at #7O, and iron at #56. Gen. Grant and party left Washington on the evening of Dec. 30 for the Son li and Cuba and Mexic >. The entire party on tho trip consists es Gen. and Mrs. Grant, Col. and Mrs. Fred Grant, Gen. and Mrs. Sheridan, and Mra McKinley and Mias Felt, of Galena. The New York Public compares December, 1870, with December, 1878, and also compares tho two years. Tho comparison shows that ihe volume of business has increased at every city except San Francisco and Providence, and at tho latter tho gain? for the last two months have noarly overcome the losses of all the other months of'the year. Two young Americans, traveling by stage-coach in Mexico, the other day, encountered a band of thirty robbers, and in a desperate engagement gave them such a drubbing as the survivors will never forget. After five of the highwaymen had been killed and many wounded t those able to beat a retreat did so in a very precipitate manner. One of the American lads received painful injuries. Mr. Parnell, the Irish member of the British Parliament and the leader of the landreform movement, reached New York on the 2d inst. He will make a tour of the oountry, visiting the principal cities. Compulsory education of all children between the ages of 6 and 10 has been ordered in Cuba.

POLITICAL POINTS. Senator Logan, who dined with Gen. Grant, in Washington, says there can be no doubt of the General’s willingness to accept a nomination for a third term. The Pennsylvania Republican Convention for choosing delegates to the National Convention has been ealled to meet at Harrisburg, on the 4th of February. The naming of so early a date is regarded as a triumph for the friends of Gen. Grant Several wagon-loads of arms and ammunition were removed from the arsenal at Bangor to Augusta, Me., on the 80th ult In response to the protests of a committee of .safety Gov. Garoelon said he had ordered the transfer for the purpose of testing the loyalty of the people of Bangor. Hb would not call out the military unless forced to do so by disturbances which the police cannot control The Fusionists held a meeting at Portland in the evening, at which Congressmen Murch and Ladd made speeohes approving tne acts of the Governor and Council Gov. Cornell, of New York, was inaugurated in the new Capitol at Albany, on New Year’s day. Chief Justice Appleton, of Maine, summoned all the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court to assemble In Bangor to consider the qneetions propounded by Gov. Garcelon, and the court met on the 2d inst Following is the call for the National Republican Convention: A National Convention of the Republican party

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will meet at Chicago, Wednesday, the 2d day of June next, for the nomination of candidates to be supported for President and Vice President at the next election. Bepublicanß, and all aho will co-operate with them in supporting the nominee of the party, are invited to chooie two delegates from each Congressional district, four at large from each State, two from each Territory, and two from the District of Columbia, to represent them in the convention. J. D. Cameron, Chairman. Thomas B. Eeooh, Secretary. A Washington telegram says: “Prominent Democratic politicians who have recently returned from New York say that the belief is growing there that Horatio Seymour would not only accept the Democratic Presidential nomination, but that be really is a candidate for it The interview which was recently telegraphed all over the country is regarded as an indication that Seymour would accept he Democratic nomination, if tendered him with unanimity. The attitude of Senator Kernan, Seymour’s intimate friend, is referred to as strengthening this belief.” Col. Tom Keogh, Secretary of the Republican Campaign Committee, expresses the opinion that Senator Blaine will receive the nomination if Gen. Grant does not,

FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.

Harrowing Particulars of the Scottish Railway Accident- Not a Single Survivor Rest to Tell the Awinl Tale. The recent bridge disaster at Dundee, Scotland, was one of the most appalling in the long list of railroad accidents. That a train of five coaches, carrying ninety passengers, should plunge from a bridge into a river, and not a living soul escape to tell the story of tho accident seems almost incredible. Cable dispatches give the following account of tho affair: During a terrific gale several spans of the bridge crossing tho Firth of Tay were blown down. This happened at 7:14 o’clock in the evening, while tho express train from Edinburgh to Dundee was crossing. At the time the train roached the south end of the bridge the signals indicated that everything was in safe condition. It was seen to pass upon the bridge, and soon after the gloom was illuminated by a flash of fire; then communication by wire was broken. This interruption alarmed the railway officials, who ventured out upon the structure, notwithstanding the storey only to find a hugo gap, through which tho tram had plunged into the water. Tho loss was made certain, at the same time, by ilie drifting ashoro of mail-bags, baggage, clothing, fragments of the coaches and portions of the bridge-work. The whole country was aroused by this catastrophe, and thousands of people came in from the surrounding districts to obtain news of the accident. Steamers and small boats wont to tho scene of ihe accident for the purpose of rescuing bodies. Tho bridge at which this frightful calamity took plvce was, until the erection of that over the Firth of Forth, the largest in tho world. The Firth of Tay, across which tho bridge is built, is simply an arm of the sea, and vessels of 500 tons burden run under tho structure. The Tay- is a principal river and estuary of Scotland, running from 120 to 160 miles. The cities of Dundee and Karl are on the north side of t':c estuary, and Newburg on its south side. The bridge was commenced in 1874, and has only been completed withiu a few years. It forms a connection between the town of Dundee and the North British railway system in Fife, and crosses the Firth of Tay about a mile and a half to the west of Dundee. The length of the bridge exceeds two miles. For the first five spans the bridge is on a curve of a quarter of a mile radiui; it is then straight for a distance of a mile and a half. At the south end of the bridge the rails aro seventyeight feet above high water. Over tho navigable part of the river the rails are 92 feet above high water. There are three spans of 60, two of 80, ten of 120, twelve of 136, thirteen of 230, one of 150, eleven of 120, twen-ty-five of 60, one of 155, and six of 27 feet; total number of spans, B’4. The piers are founded on rock, and are double cylinders of brick work. Tno superstructure consists wholly cf wrought-iron girders; the bracing is of double lattice form. The girders for tho 230 feet spans and tho bow-string girders have wrought-iron cross-girders resting on and riveted to the lower timber on which tho roadway is placed. It was supposed that the bridge was as strong as iron, wood and brick could make it, and was looked upon in the United Kingdom as ono of the finest specimens of engineer art that had ever been produced. The gap created in the bridge through which the train was precipitated is not less than half a mile in length. It includes eleven spans of 245 feet each, and one of 145 feot. The great height from which the cars fell, together with the fact that the passengers were all looked up, according to practice on British railways, rendered the destruction of all on board possible.

THE MAISE COUNT.

Opinion of (lie Supreme Court Justices Following is a synopsis of the answer of the Justices of the Maine Supreme Court to the series of interrogations^submitted to them by Gov. Garcelon: ’ 1. The Governor and Council have no authori y to order a new election when no proper return is made. The House may seat members who have in fact been elected, even if no return at all is made to the Secretary of State. A Representative is not to be deprived of has seat because municipal officers nave failed to do their duty. 2. The constitution calls for returns which shall be regular in all easential particulars, and which truly represent the facts they purport to set forth. But much of the constitutional requirements is merely directory'. 3. While towns may have seven Selectmen, most of them have but three, and the signature of two of these is sufficient. In the case of Boards of Aldermen, a majority of a qaorum, though not a majority of the whole, is competent to act. 4. It is immaterial whether the returns from a city show the vole by wards or not It is not necessary that each candidate’s name should be on the returns, provided that the votes returned as scattering, however added or subtracted, do not affect the result Votes returned as scattering may have had that word printed on them for all the Governor and Council know. Where a plurality elects, an election is iot to be defeated because the whole number of ballots is erroneously stated, or not stated at all. 5. Returns are not valid unless signed by the Town or City Clerk, but a Deputy Clerk or Clerk pro tern, would answer the purpose. 6. Tne Governor and Council must act on the basis of the returns as they are sent to the Secretary of State. If they purport to be made, signed and sealed in open meeting, the Governor and Council have no right to ascertain whether they were so made or not. 7. If returns are signed by two Selectmen, the Governor and Council are not to inquire whether the town had but two Selectmen or not The signatures would be enough in certain cases, and the presumption is in favor of the return. 8. A person not a citizen may be a Selectman dc facto, and bind the town as completely as if he were a Selectman de jure. So far as the public are concerned the acts of a de facto officer are as valid as those of a de jure officer. 9. In the case of marked ballots, Selectmen have the right to reject them when offered, but the statute forbids the rejection of a ballot after it has been received into the ballot-box. The Selectmen have no business to report the matter of marked ballots to the Governor and Council, and the latter have no right to pay any attention to such report or reference. 10. There can be no ground for rejecting the word “ditto” or “do” or disregarding the dotß or marks that are in oommon use aa their substitutes. 11. The Governor and Council have no right to reject returns on the ground that they are not genuine, unless objection in writing is presented to them declaring that any or all the signatures are not genuine, or that the return had been altered since it was made; then notice should be given to the parties interested, and in investigating the case the Governor and Council should be governed by the usufcl rules of evidence. 12. In case of duplicated returns, both in proper form, the first received must be the uasas of the action of the Governor and flnnnp.il If defective, they can be corrected according to the statutes. Returns must have their full effect if they are intelligible, in spite of trivial irregularities.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

“Dear Jolui” Dear John, he wants to marry me— He told me so to-day: It made me glad, it made me sad I knew not what to say. I answered “Yes,” I answered “No”— The words they ran together: I said “John, stay, I said “John, go,” And shook like any feather. Dear John, he wants to marry me— I saw it long ago; It made me glad, it mad ■ me sal, For, O he loves me so! I put him off, I led him on, Whene’er we met together: I changed my fickle mind for John With every change of weather. Dear John, he wants to marry me, Ana bids me now decide; It makes me glad, it makes me sad— I’ve laughed, and then I've cried; For John he waits, and Bob be waits— They want me both together; Bure never maid was in such straits i'efore on holm or heather.

A German Discovery. * A German physician who has given mnch attention to the subject has come to the conclusion that the only way to preserve peace among the women of a household when, as in weather like the present, they are kept within doors, is to oblige them to absolute silence. When women are much thrown together their tongues, he says, should remain in a state of perfect quiesbence. They may converse with each other, if necessary,by means of signs and symbols, but should on no account utter a word. He has found by experience that this regimen, when strictly adhered to, produces the happiest results. In one or two cases he has actually known feelings of mutual regard and esteem to arise between women who could not open their mouths previously without disagreeable consequenoes. Their appetites also improved in so marked a degree that they could go on eating luncheon till tea time. —Pall Mall Gazette.

Stumbling Into a Marriage. A comely young maiden, fresh from the shores of Old England, arrived in this city on her way West to join her brother, who lives in a small town in Ohio. When she arrived here she concluded to stop over one train and visit her cousin, who is employed at the coke-ovens on Mount Washington. After the greetings were exchanged she went to the depot aiid found that she had missed the train. As she was a stranger in the city she determined to return to her cousin’s boarding-house and await the next train. She again ascended the mountain, and while on her way she passed around the corner of a stable and stumbled against a stalwart puddler, who is likewise a German, and bears the name of Latherbaugh, and who was coming from the opposite direction. He apologized for tho aooident, and, being struck with the English maiden’s appearance, stopped for a moment. Then a conversation was had, which ended by Latherbaugh accompanying her to her cousin’s house. In half an hour after they had reached the boarding-house they were betrothed. The happy German immediately started out in quest of a minister, and in a few moments the silken knot of matrimony was tightly tied.— Pittsburgh Gazette. Not a AValkist. It is a shame to give the Oakland girls away in this manner, we know, but our chief object in printing the following truthful story is to warn them of the danger they run when they venture to wear short walking dresses on this side of the bay. The other morning a belle from the city of water-sprinklers stepped into a Market street car, and was at once the object of the most profound attention on the part of all the other passengers. “Make room for this lady,” shouted the conductor, with unusual alacrity. “Move up there, gentlemen. ’Bout time you sat down for awhile, ain’t it, miss ?” he added.

“She’s just put up to go—ain’t she?” said one man to another, admiringly. The young lady thought these city men were getting more impudent than ever, but then they had pretty good taste, after all, so she looked out of the window and sa : d nothing. “Doesn’t look quite as much pulled down as I expected,” said another man, critically. “Poor thing, I wonder if she liad to do it?” said an old laly, compassionately, as she took out her spectacles, “and whether they paid her a big share of the money ?” “Don’t suppose she’ll get over it for a month,” remarked a man on the platform; “the way it blisters and bunions them up is just awful.” “Madam,” said one of the kind of young men who suck the heads of small canes for a living; “Madam, may I ask what your score was?” “Sir,” said the Oakland siren, frigidly, “are you addressing me?” “Yes, ma’am—l—jou are one of the female walkers, aren’t you?” “Do you wish to insult me, you brute? Is there no police officer araund?” screamed the objeot of so much comment. “Beg v’r parding, mem,” put in the conductor. “It’s all a mistake, mem; but you see y’r feet misled us.” And the young lady flounced out like a hurricane on its last lap. She will wear a trail over her nnmber elevens after this, however. San Francisco Post.

Mrs. Grant. A lady writer in the Denver Tribune g ves a somewhat lengthy account of the early married life of Gen. and Mrs. Grant that puts the lady in a very favorable light. “There was a time,” she goes on to say, “when the Captain had a bad run of lack. Things went wrong, and he was pretty poor, so Julia—Mrs. Grant- -and the children were home at her father’s. We were all going to a hop given by the officers, and, of course, wanted her to go, too. She wished to go, I know, but she had no dress she good enough to wear. * * * We did all we could to coax her to get ready. Her eyes filled with tears, and to hide them she picked up her baby, who was playing at her feet, and began to caress him. ‘ Never mind, Ulie,’ said she, turning to us with a smile, ‘ papa may be President of the United States one of these days, and then we will have plenty of dresses.’ Nothing was more unlikely then, and yet it has all come to pass. * * * She was always one of the sweetest-tempered, sincere, single -minded girls among ns, and now, for all the difference that has grown up between herself and some of us, it really does not make a particle of difference in her. She never comes here without hunting ns all up, and for any change in her manner toward ns she is just about the same os she was long ago when we all played together as girls.

She is not one of the changeable sort; in fact, she never was. When Capt. Grant was poor, the poorest day he ever saw, she seemed jnst as proud of him, just as admiring, as she does to-day. What would spoil another woman doesn’t change her one bit. She will come back after visiting the * high mightinesses’ around the world precisely as she went away, and quite as ready to fall back into the old groove as though nothing of the kind had happened.”

INDIANA NEWS.

Kokomo has $4,213.47 in her treasury. The Winchester banks have given notice that they will pay no interest on deposits. The people of Bartholomew county are vigorously discussing the question of free turnpikes. The New Albany and St. Louis Railroad Company will locate its extensive machine shops, and car-repairing works at New Albany. Rev. Db. W. H. Goode, who had been a prominent minister in the Methodist Cburch for fully half a century, died at his residence in Richmond, last week. The State Music Teachers’ Association was in session, last week, at Fort Wayne, with a fair attendance. Papers were read by members on various topics connected with music. Among the recent exodus arrivals in this State is an old colored woman who claims 108 years, and there is one family of ten, young and old, four of whom are deaf and dumb; and another family of fifteen, lour of whom are also deaf and dumb.

At BrookvilJe, while a little son and daughter of Charles Lacy were playing with a revolver, it was accidentally discharged while in the hands of the little girl, the ball striking her little brother and passing through his body, inflicting fatal injuries. The Fort Wayne Gazette reports the abandonment of a healthy infant on a railroad train from that city, the other day, by a young mother, whose dress denoted wealth and refinement, and who, at a way station, stepped off to do some telegraphing. The valnable white oak timber of Southern Indiana is being rapidly exhausted, and the trails of the portable saw-mill and stave “ bucker ” cun be traced all through that portion of the State. When the timber is exhausted in one neighborhood they pull up and move into another. Balthazer Bescheb, proprietor of the Germania Hotel, at Richmond, slipped on some ice while ascending a stairway in the rear of the hotel, and fell headlong over the low banisters into the paved court-yard below. He alighted on his head, and, being very corpulent, the force of the fall broke his neck, causing instant death. The Jeffersonville, Madivon and Indianapolis Railroad Company, through its attorney, Col. S. Stansifer, has forwarded to the Secretary of War three Morgan raid claims against the State, aggregating nearly $24,000, for destruction of bridges and railroad property generally by John Morgan on his raid through Southern Indiana. A fire in the Jeffersonville prison, the other night, destroyed the building occupied as a working machine-shop by Perin & Gaff, prison contractors. The building was filled with various kinds of wood-working machinery, the property of Perin & Gaff, and valued at about $5,000. The loss to Perin & Gaff will amount to between $4,000 and $5,000, while the State loses the building, not of much value. Mbs. Jane B. Smock, of Greenwood, Johnson county,died recently. “Mother” Smock, as she was called, was born in Mercer county, Ky., Jan. 15, 1793, and moved with her husband, tho late John B. Smock, and two other families, into the neighborhood of Greenwood, in September, 1823. Jt was at her house, then a rude log cabin, that Rev. Isaac Reed, on Dec. 31, 1823, organized the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwood.

Gov. Williams has appointed to the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court, John T. Scott, of Terre Haute, a warm, personal friend, and, like himself, six feet three inches in height. Judge Scott is a Kentuckian, aged 68. He came to Indiana in 1853, as a civil engineer on the Indiana and Illinois Central railroad. He began practicing law in 1856, at Montezuma; was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1860, and moved to Terre Haute. He was on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas from 1868 to 1874. One and a half miles northeast of Newcastle, the county seat of Henry county, along a tributary of the Blue river, is a most remarkable collection of mounds, of such construction and arrangement as to strike any beholder with astonishment. No one can see them and doubt for a moment that they were constructed by men who were far more advanced in civilization than the North American Indians. The principal mounds number ten, and border an open space of about forty acres. They are all snrrounded by what seems to be a ditch and a wall.

The Pottery Tree.

One of the most remarkable of those trees which bear a stony or silicions bark is the “pottery tree ” of Para, on the Amazon, termed “Caraipa,” by the Brazilians, and known to botanists as the Moquilea utilis. It is a magnificent tree, and sometimes rises to a hundred feet before branching. The wood is exceedingly durable, being largely impregnated with flint, but the principal value of the tree lies in its bark, which is used by the Brazilians for furnishing the raw material of pottery. It is not that vessels are made from the bark itself, as they are sometimes, made from gourds and calabashes; but the bark is burned, and the silicions ashes, mixed with a proportion of river clay, make a strong and serviceable ware. New prosecutions of the Jews are to be apprehended in Russia. Russian official correspondents are openly inciting them by insinuating that the Jews are mediators between Internationalists abroad and the Nihilists in Russia, 08 well as being concerned in circulating forged Russian bank-notes made in London by Internationalists expressly for Nihilist purposes. As a smoker, Secretary Thompson is almost a rival of Gen. Grant.

THE CANVASS IN MAINE.

The Ground of Action—Report Upon Which Returns Were Rejected. Foliowring is an abstract of the report of the committee on Maine election returns, made in the Council: Your committee, in submitting this report, deem it neceseary to state specifically certain facts connected with returns from many of the towns, cities and plantations which have materially affected the result of canvassing the votes returned. There are many returns which, owing to fatal'defects, cannot be counted; but we shall specify only those which have affected the result Article IV., part L, section sos the constitution regulates the manner of ifctiDg Senators and Representatives to the Legislature, and also the process of transmitting to the Governor and Council the process by which they are to determine who have been elected. This section provides that in case of towns and plantations municipal officers shall, in open town and plantation meeting, at the close of election day, sort, count and declare the votes cast, and form a list of all persons voted for. and after the name of each person thus voted for shall write the number or votes received by him. This list shall be recorded in open meeting by a clerk, and a copy of this recorded list shall be signed by the Selectmen and attested by the Clerk and sealed up in open meeting. This copy of the recorded list thus attested is to be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State within thirty days thereafter. A section of the Revised Statutes requires that, in addition to the foregoing specific and mandatory provisions of the constitution, the return ’ shall state the whole number of ballots cast at the election. The same section of the constitution requires that the Governor and Council shall open and compare the returns thus, transmitted and from them determine who appt&rs to be elected, and the Governor is to issue to such persons as thus appear to bo elected summons to take seats in the Legislature. Oficourse the first requirement is that the returns shall be made and sealed up in open town or plantation meetings. We understand this is required in order thst the electors may be present and s e that the returns are made in accordance with the facts, and we are of opinion that returns not made np in open meeting are not legal returns and cannot he counted; and we have acted upon this belief in makmg our tabulations. Several protests accompanied with affidavits to support them against the counting of returns specified therein have been considered by us. These Erotests allege that said returns shouid not e counted because they were not made up in open town meeting, but were made after the meeting olosed, in some private office or store, when no one hut a portion of the municipal officers were present, and in some cases only the clerk. This condition of things in sevoral cases has beon proved to our entire satisfaction, and we have rejected returns thus defective in our tabulations. In the case of the town of Stoneham an affidavit, signed by two Selectmen, establishes the fact that they signed re-. turns in blank, and tho Town Clerk took them home and filled them up, and the Selectmen have no knowledge of what the returns contain. For the foregoing reasons we have rejected in our tabulations Representative returns from the town? of Jay, Stoneham, Lisbon, Webster and Farmington. Toe return from the town of Searsport has also been rejected, because it was not sealed up in open town meeting. By means of these rejections a few persons will receive seats in tie Legislature who would not have been thus seated bad the roturns from the aforesaid towns been made up as the constitution requires. These are: James O. White, of the Jay district; Louis Voter, of the Farmington district; N Tired bury, of the Stoneham district ; Joshua E. Gordon, of the Searsport district, and Leonard H. Reale, of the Derham district The Supreme Court has held that municipal officers shall sign return? with their own hands or make their marks; otherwise the retains cannot be counted. We have found several returns fatally defective in this particnlar, and have accordingly rejected them. By this rule, laid down by the court, the New Sharon returns have been by us rejected. This rejection offsets the election of one Representative. We found several returns fatally defective because they were not attested by the Town Clerk. The Supreme Court held that such are not returns, and we have rejected them. They are quite numerous, but we shaU specify only such as affect the result of the eleotion. The Representative return from the town of Lebanon is one of them. Its rejection affects the election of one Representative, viz, Stephen V. Lord. Vanceboro and Albany are like case*, and the rejection of returns from these towns affects the election of two Representatives.

Representative districts, in most cases, are composed of several towns. In some of the towns the full Christian names of candidates seem to have been used, in others only initials, and wo hesitated as to whether we could count initial names with full names. On examination of the law we find the Supreme Court Sil. 64, p. 56] has held that the Governor and ncil must count them as distinct and separate persons. By adopting this rule laid down by the court elections of five Representatives seem to be affected, viz.: F. W. Hill, of Exeter; Alex. Woodcook, of Dauforth district; J. H. Hart, of Newcastle; John Brown, of Hagden district, and John W. Brighton, of district The Revised Statutes require that in the case of plantations, in addition to the forms required by towns, a list of voters of plantations be sent into the Secretary of State; otherwise, that returns from such plantations shall not be counted. We found returns from seven of tli6 plantations irregular in this particular, and we have specified them on our tabu ation. It will there appear that rejection of those returns affect the return of two Representatives. The State requirements of sotting forth in returns the whole number of votes in many cases was Dot complied with. We find it has been the practice of llie Governor and Council for many years to reject such returns, and we have not deemed it safe to deviate from this long-established interpretation of the law, so fully recognized by our predecessors; and in making our tabulations have omitted all such returns. It will be perceived these rejections affect the election of several Representatives in the county of Washington. One candidate for the Senate seems to have been voted for in some of the towns of his connty by the name of John T. Wallace. Jr., and in others by the name of John T. Wallace, but we have tabulated the votes as thrown for two different meD, as we have no legal knowledge that the same person is meant. Two sets of returns were sent on to the Secretary of State from the town of Fairfield, each of which oontradicta the oilier, and it was impossible, from the contradictory character of the returns, to determine the result of the election in that town. We have, therefore, rejected the returns from that town in our tabulations. The rejection affects the election of one Representative.

Accompanying and attached to the Representative returns from the town of Skowhegan, there was a statement signed by the Selectmen, that a certain number of ballots were protested as illigal, under section 29, chapter iv., of the Revised Statutes. One of the ballots objected to was attached to the returns. The Selectmen in their certificate alleged how many of the ballots were thrown, and in this certificate they informed the Governor and Council that they make the return subject to the legality or illegality of that kind of ballot The ballot was in the form of an ordinary sheet of paper folded to make two leaves. On one of the pages half the candidates’ names were printed, and on the next page the remainder of the names of candidates appear. We are fully satisfied that that kind or ballot is clearly in violation of the letter aud spirit of the foregoingnamed statute, and we have accordingly rejected a number of ballots in making our tabulations. A protest was filed against counting returns from the town of Cherryfield, on the ground that the officers who attested the returns were not legal officers. Affidavits presented with the protest establish the fact that not one of the legal Selectmen presided at making out returns and receiving votes. One of the Selectmen was a foreigner, and could not legally hold the office of Selectman. The Superior Court has held that a Board of Town Officers consisting of less than three is not a legal board. Acting upon this opinion we have rejected returns from the town of Cherryfield. This affects the election of one Representative. Several protests and affidavits to support them were referred to us, asking the rejection of returns on account of bribery and intimidating voters, and on account of legal defects in calling the town meeting, also on account of an improper check list The copy of the record presented to us from the town of Skowhegan shows that for the election in that town only one copy of the warrant was posted, and the reoord does not show that one was posted in the town. Objoction to counting the vote of the city of Auburn was made because voters’ names were added to the check-lists in three of the wards,

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in violation of the law, while voting was going on, on eleotion day. Affidavits filed fully establish that fact Other affidavits plainly show the same condition of things in other cities. We consider these facts as not legally cognizable by the Governor and Council as a canvassing board, and we have disregarded them in our tabulation. We recommend reference of all such papers to the Legislature. The returns from Portland are defective because they do not oomply with the constitutional requirement, which provides that the names of all persons receiving votes shall be stated in the returns. A large number of votes were returned from said city as “scattering,” and there was no possible means afforded by the returns to determine for whom such votes were thrown.. The returns from the cities of Saco, Lewiston, Bath, and Rockland are fatally defective, because they were not signed by a majority of the aldermen. Under the statute) and by decisions of the court such returns cannot be counted, and we have been obliged to reject them. It will devolve on the House of Representatives to determine in the first instance aud finally who has been elected to the House from these cities, as we have no legal evidence before us to determine that question.

USEFUL INFORMATION.

The influence of arnsal respiation on the ear is illustrated by Mr. George Gatlin in his history of “The North American Indians.” Among 2,000,000 Indians he found not one who was deaf or breathed through the mouth, except three or four deaf mutes: and, in the memory of the chiefs of 150 tribes, not one case of deafness could he remembered to have occurred. This is explained by the mother always closing the mouth of the child whenever it attempted to breathe through it. It is known that ozone, when properly applied, is a most effective and convenient agent for restoring books or prints which have become brown by age, or been smeared or soiled with coloring matter—only a short time being required to render them perfectly white, as if just from the press, and this without injuring in the least the blackness of the ink. An example given of the results produced in this way is that of a book of the sixteenth century, upon a page of which several sentences had been painted over by the monks of that day with a black, shining coloring matter, in order to render them illegible, and of which no trace of a line couldbe detected. After thirty-six hours’ treatment with ozone, the coloring matter was entirely destroyed the most careful scrutiny of the page failing to disclose the fact that any of the lines had once been painted over. Writing ink may readily be discharged by ozone, especially if the paper be subsequently Ireited with very dilute chlorhydric acid to remove the oxide of iron.

The Cause and Cure on Snoring.— A wiiter in the Scientific Monthly tells how the habit of snoring is acquired, and, better, how it may be cured: And, first, the cause: We all know that the air reaches the lirngs through two channels, the nose and the mouth. The two currents meet in the throat below the soft palate, the end of which hangs loose and swings backward and forward, producing the snoring. If the air reaches the lungs as it should, through the nose, no noise will be made, If it reaches the same through the mouth, the palate will make more noise, since it is not the natural channel, but when it' rashes through both channels then it is that the sound sleeper banishes rest from the pillows of his companions by bis hideous noise. The remedy for snoring is to keep the mouth closed; and for this purpose Dr. Wyeth, the wiiter of the article referred to, has invented an article so cheap that any one can make it, and no snorer should be without it. It consists of a simple cao fit iug the head snugly, and a piece ’of soft material fitting the chin. These are connected by elastic webbing, which is connected with the heal cap near the ears. This conti ivance prevents the jaw from dropping down, and thereby renders snoring impossible. Tho great trouble will be to get people to adopt this invention, since the most honest and upright people rarely, if ever, admit that they snore, and will be very indignant if accused of it. As a further inducement to this contrivance of Dr. Wyeth, it may be added that breathing through the mouth is very detrimental to the health, and that many diseases of the throat and luDgs are contracted or aggravated thereby. Splitting Paper.— lt is one of the most remarkable properties of that wonderful product, paper, says Design and Work, tnat it can bo split into two or even three parts, however thin the sheet. We have seen a leaf of the Illustrated News thus divided into three thin leaves. One consisted of the surface on which the engravings are printed; another was the side containing the letter press, and a perfectly blank piece on each ?ide was the paper that lay between. Many people who have not seen this done might think it impossible; yet it is not only possible but extremely easy, as we shall show. Get a piece of plate glass and place on it a sheet of paper; then let the latter be thoroughly soaked. With care and a little dexterity the sheet can be split by the top surface being removed. But the best plan is to paste a piece of cloth or strong paper to each side of the sheet to be split. When dry, violently and without hesitation pull the two pieces asunder, when part of the sheet will be found to have adhered to one and yart to the other. Soften the paste in water and the pieces can be easily removed from the cloth. The process is generally demonstrated as a matter of curiosity, yet it can be utilized in various ways. If we want to paste in a scrap book a newspaper article printed on both sides of the paper, and possess only one copy, it is very convenient to know how to detach the one side from the other. The paper when split, as may be imagined, is more transparent than it was before being subjected to the operation, and the printing ink is somewhat duller; otherwise the two pieces present the appearance of the original if again brought together. Some time ago the information of bow to do this splitting was advertised to be sold for a considerable sum. We now impart it to all our readers gratuitously.

Anagrams.

The following are a few of the bestknown anagrams: Napoleon Bonaparte, “No. Appear not at Elba;” telegraphs, “great helps;” astronomers, “moon starers;” Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, “Arouse, Albion! An open plot;” elegant, “neat leg;” matrimony, “into my arms;” Old England, “golden land;” penitentiary, “Nay, I repent;” revolution, “to love ruin;” Presbyterians, “best in prayer;” catalogues, “got as a cine;” and “there we sat,”

(P? §jemacratie j| mthm JOB PRIHTIN6 OFFICE Km better teoillUM than tny office in Northwester* Indiana for the executtea of all branch#* al •TOB PHINTING. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from • yamphlet to a Boater, black or oolored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

WIT AND HUMOR.

A lover’s duet. “ Oh cay not that my love is bass— That treble might ensue In tenor twenty joars—but grace Affection alto true. “ Then Dio try to answer yes,” He whispered her fo:o; “ Oh dut t, dearest, and confess The love thy blushes show." Ihe dimpled haud fell by her side; He quartet iu his own; He pressed it to his lips snd cried, “I’ve major mine T nor.”

QUIPS. “Shake,” as the medicine bottlo said to the invalid. A grave yard—Thirty-six inches of black crape. If time is really money, any man ought to be worth his wait in gold. If women had the ballot, wbat would she do with it? It isn’t long enough for a belt or big enough for a bustle. How rapidly a man loses all interest in politics and national finance when he shuts the door on his own thumb. Precocious boy (munching the fruit of the date tree) —“ Mamm.a if I eat dates enough will I grow up to bo an almanac!” Little Johnnie says: “ Talk about your patent base-burning stoves, my ma’s old slipper is a hot enough baseburner for me.” Will the coming man walk? If ho will he is liable to be murdered in cold blood on the first lap, amid cheers of the entire country. Note from the diary of a swell: “I have observed that my habits are very elastic in one direction; I suspect I could live up to almost any income.” “My darling,” said he, “what a delicious taste your lips have.” Then she sprang up and yelled: “ Goodness, John, have you been eating my lipsalve?”

Professor —“Now, I ask you, as a practical miner, what spade do you think is the very best?” Three-year man (scornfully)—“Why, tho ace, of course.” The Galveston News says that Shakspearo was married when ho was 18, Dante at 23, Brigham Young when he was 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and so on. Governess —“ Now, Jack, if I were to give twelve pears to Maude, ten to Edith, and three to you, what would it be?” Jack (aged 6) —“It wouldn’t be fair.” A man who sat up four nights wrestling with it asKs this conundrum: “What is the difference between a sailor and a fireman?” Now, hold your breath. “One plows the water, and tho other hose the water.” The English nobility must ceriainly be a very dirty set of people. It is stated that the Duke of Portland has thirty farms on his hands, and Lord Willoughby has thirteen. Why don’t they wash themselves? A new use has been found for many a youth’s headpiece, tho utility of which has heretofore been questionable. It is discovered that young men’s heads jire primarily intended to keep their neckties from slipping off. A witness in a case at Nashville was asked whether he had much experience in and knew the cost of feeding cattle, and to give his estimate of the cost of feeding a cow, to which he replied: “My father before me kept a dairy. I have had a great deal of experienco in buying and selling and keeping cattle, as a man and boy, in the dairy business for fifty years. I think my long experience lias qualified me to know as well as any man can the cost of keeping and feeding cattle.” “Well,” broke in the attorney,impatiently, “tell me the cost of keeping a cow.” “Well, sir, my experience, after fifty years in the business, is that it costs —well, it depends entirely on how much you feed tho cow.”

Kicking Over the Matrimonial Traces.

On Tuesday a stranger named Isaiah Bennett, who claimed a residence iu New Jersey, and a young lady, named Hattie Coleman, from Louisiana, entered the office of Justice Monahan, and expressed a desire to be united. Tho ceremony was duly performed, the customary fee paid, and the couple departed apparently happy in the consciousness that they were man and wife. Half an hour afterward Isaiah returned alone, with a look of intense sadness on his countenance, and inquired for tho Justice. The latter had gono homo and Mr. Beck, his clerk, was engaged in writing at his desk, when the following dialogue ensued: “ Where’s the ’Squire? ” “He’o just gone out.” “Well, sir (excitedly), I want to git divorced.” “Divorced?” queried Beck, in astonishment. -“ Why, man, you’ve only just been married.” “Can’t help it. I wint ter be divorced.” “What for?”

“ Well, because I’ve been to see a parson, and he says that marriage won’t stick; that it ain’t no good, that’s all; that we ain’t married right.” “Well,” replied Beck, rather sharply, “you tell that paison that he don’t know what he’s talking about. There never was a stronger marriage made in this office than yours, and you can bet that it’ll stick, and stick tight, too.” “Well, he says it ain’t no good,* and I wanter git divorced.” “I can’t divorce you. If the marriage ain’t good why just let that parson marry you over again.” “Yes, that would be fine, wouldn’t it. Git married agin, an’ git myself in a box for committin’ bigamy. Oh, no! I ain’t no such a fool. I’ll git divorced fust, an’ then I’ll git married agin.” “ Well, you’ll have to go to a higher court for your divorce. You can’t get it here. You’re - married, and that settles it.” “We’ll see about that,” said leaiab, as he hurried out of the office. As he did not return, it is supposed that the state of affairs was explained to him. — St. Louis Republican.

A Smart Thief.

“You are all alone here?” asked a man of the clerk in a Cincinnati cigar store. Receiving an affirmative answer, he continued: “What would you do if a thief should grab this box and run away ? The clerk replied that he would let the rascal escape, rather than abandon the money-drawer to a possible raid. “Then I’ll be going,” the man finally remarked, as he tucked the box iindey bis coat and departed.