Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Experts estimate th? losres of the farmers of the United Kingdom during 1871) at from .£100,000,000 to £150,000,000. Benjamin Moran, the American Minister to Portugal, is a'most a hopeless paralytic, and it is feared must abandon his post. The Italian Parliament opened on the 17th inst. The speech from the throne treats almost exclusively of internal affairs. The new Rassian expedition against the Turcomans will be divided into three columns, Gen. SkobelcfT commanding the main army, numbering 20,000 men. Reports from the interior of Ireland show that, while there is much suffering, thero is no stai ration. The ftAhuion House fund is being distributed without delay* "or* stint. Land meetings seem to have been abandoned. A Havana dispatch says the insurgent leaders Mariano Forres and Miguel Ramos have surrendered in the district of Bayomo, with four field officers, five line officers, and more than 200 armed men. No satisfactory clew to the authors of the late explosion in the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg has yet been found. The official reports of the desperate affair do not differ materially from the first advices concerning it, all agreeing that the imperial family had an almost miraculous escape. Throughout Europo the utmost horror at the enormity of the crime is manifested. The Turcomans are preparing to give the Russian legions a warm reception. A council of war has beon held at Merv, and messengers have been sent to Persia and other neighboring countries asking support. A Havana letter says that the Government has discovered a conspiracy among the Creoles for uprising in Vuetfa Abja, and secured six of tho ringleaders, who wore < m ployed on a railriad. Thioo thousand Remington rifles and a vast quantity of fixed ammunition, arms and munitions were smuggled in from tho United Htitcs, and the insurrection was to bogin on the first week of March.

Prof. Maskelyne, of tho mineral department of the British Museum, has examined Mr. Hannay’s artificial diamonds, and pronounces them a success from a scientific standpoint. Famine and diphtheria are thinning out tho population of tho interior of Ru s'a at a frightful rate. England, Franco and Germany have officially recognized tho independence! of Ronmania. A man believed to have been concerned in the plot to blow up tho Czar at Moscow has been arrested in Paris. A Dublin editor has been arrested for libeling the Lord Mayor. A six-days’ pedestrian match at London for the English championship lias been won by Blower Brown, who scored 552 miles. Russia has asked all European govornmonts to co-operate in the arrest of Nihilist rotugoos. A lady of high rank has been arrested in Ht. Petersburg on suspicion of being connected with the Winter i’alaeo conspiracy, and several high officials have been placed under surveillance Six more of the soldiers of the Palace Guard who wore wounded by the dynamite mino explosion in Ht. Petersburg havo died of their injuries. A St. Petersburg dispatch reports that tho Czar contemplates declaring tho whole Russian empire in a state of siege, as a preliminary to t io measures to bo taken to crush out Nihilism.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kust. Charles Lane, of Bainbridge, Pa., murdered liij wife aud three children by administering to them poison, aud then killed himself. Four men were killed at Randolph, N. H., by the explosion of a boiler in John F. Thom peon’s saw-mill. Joseph Lenox, a Now York millionaire, and founder of the Lonox library, is dead, aged 80 years. The spoon factory of Holmes, Booth A Hayden, at Waterburv, Ct., has been burned. The loss is estimated at 1150,000; insurance #82,000. Capt. Archibald Milliken, G. Addison ltoßo and E. \Y. Rose wero drowned at Providence, It. 1., while endeavoring to board a vessel during a gale A bill to incorporate the American Bell Telephone Company has passed the Massachusetts Legislature. The capital is enormous for a singlo corporation, being $15,000,000. The telephone business has developed marvelously within the last year or two. A fire in New York destroyed a large five-story building, Nos. 884 and 880 Broadway. Losses estimated as follows: Hazcn, Todds & Co., importers of silk, $400,000; Dickorhoff, Kuillaer A Co., tailors’ trimming 3, $250,0C0; James Wilde, Jr., it Co., manufacturing tailors, $150,000. Loss on buildiDg, $50,000. Two firemen lost their lives while fighting the flames. The Rev. Dr. Charles P. Bush, Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, has just died in Albany. New York papers charge that the bodies of patients who die in the Bellevue Hospital are used for dissecting purposes. An investigation has been ordered. Joseph Lewis, a wealthy octoroon, who died in Now York a year or two ago, bequeathed $1,000,000 to Uncle Sam, to be applied to the extinction of the national debt. A woman came forward, represented herself as Lewis’ widow, and put in a claim to the estate. She now confessos sho never saw him, and the money will probably be turned over to the Government.

West. Jim Somers and M. Somers, nephew and uncle, killed each other at Brule City a few days ago. Preparations are making at Fort Leavenworth for a lively campaign in the Ute country this spring. Douglass, Johnson, Sowerwick and Thomas, four of the Ute savages concerned in the Meeker massacre, were brought into the Los Pinos Agency, last week, and at ones started for Washington under a strong military escort. The statement that thousands of adventurers are gathering in Southern Kansas preparatory to a raid on the Indian Territory is confirmed by dispatches from that quarter. F. H. Bowen, of Dubuque, lowa, adopted a rather novel method of putting an end to his life. He asked for a pail of water that he might bathe his feet before retiring to bed. This was supplied him, and his wife retired to her own chamber, leaving him ftlpne. Next morning, on opening his room

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door, she was horrified to find him dead. He bad taken the pail of water and placed it underneath the side rail of the bedstead, then rolled back the tick, He removed two of the cross slats of the bed, climbed upon the bedstead, thrust his head through the aperture into the pail of water, and was discovered in this position. Mr. Bowen was a newspaper writer of considerable ability. Two Ohio men claim to have solved 'the problem of perpetual motion. A model of the machine which they have in operation has beon sent to Washington for a patent.

Three men werh killed, two fatally injured, and three others seriously burned, by the explosion of a boiler in a distillery at Peoria, 111. The Illinois Press Association held its winter session in Chicago last week. There was quite a la’-ge attendance. President 'Hrrlvrty, in his annual address, said that were it not for the increased price of print-paper he should be able to congratulate bis brethren upon an increase of prosperity. The association voted a -unanimous indorsement of the efforts now making in Congress to secure a reduction of tariff on paper and the admission free, of du'y of chemicals ent ring into its manufacture; and by a unanimous vote the association adopted a petition to Congrets setting forth thc< embarrassment and loss inflicted upon publishers by the present high price of paper, and praying for rolief from the burden by legislation which will be fa ; r and equitable alike to the manufacturers and consumers of paper.—A canvass of the members of the association, as to their Presidential preferences, shows that among the Itepubl cans lilaine is first, Grant second, and Washburne third choice; while amoDg the Democrats Tildon, Bayard, and Seymnur stand in the order named.

According to tho Cincinnati PriceCurrent, Chicago, Cincinnati, Ht. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and Louisville—the six leading packing cities of the West—have slaughtered, since Nov. 1, 1879, 4,172,000 hogs, against 4,905,500 hogs for the same time in 1878-9. The packing in the West during the present winter season is expected to show a reduction of some 0 0,000 hogs as compared with the returns for the winter sea-on of 187 s 9. A man has been arrested in San Francisco for viola'mg tho law forbidding the employment of Chinese. Tho Chinese quarter of Saa Francisco Las been officially declared a nuisance, and will probably be demolished. A Cairo dispatch statei that parties interes'ed in tho coai mines in Northern Illinois arc securing colored mineis to tako tho place of the strikers. Several hundred, cellectocl from various point} in Tennessee through their agency in Cairo, havo already gone forward.

South.. Floods in the Ohio, Cumberland and Barren rivers have caused great destruction of property. In convention, at Dalian, the negroes of Texas decided that, whatever may bo the condition of the race elsowhcro, no necessity for leaving that Htato exists, as the soil is fertile and cheap, and school facilities are ample. A family of nine women and children, livirg on tho bank of a creek near Mayfield, Ky., were surrounded by water and all drowned. Tho house was washed away. Tho printers and publishers of New Orleans, at a public meeting held the other day, unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the Louisiana Congressmen to support the bill reptaliug the duty on paper and the chemicals and materials used in the manufacture thereof. During the session of the Louisiana House of Representatives tho other day, Hpeaker Ogden’s parliamentary pistol fell from his hip pocket and was discharged. He has been cited to answer a chargo of carrying concealed weapons. Page Wallis was lynched at Leesburg, Va., for outraging Mary Marmon. He was first hanged aud then riddled with bullets. His victim was with the mob, and exercised the privilege of shooting the first bullet into his dangling form. A dispatch from Fargo, on the Northern Pacific railroad, iu Minnesota, says: “Winter is so sovero that railroad travel west of here is almost practically abandoned. It is costing the Northern Pacific sioo a passenger from Fargo to Bismarck. A dozen trains are now trying to get either way. The depression of the mercury, tho velocity of the wind and tho depth of the snow have all been unprecedented. The oldest aborigine has no recollection of any similar winter.” John Hall and Burrell Smith, the negro murderers of Maj. H. H. Pugh, were ex°cuted at Murfreesboro, Tenn., on the 20th of February. Tho hanging was witnessed by nearly 15,000 people, many of whom had choice reserved seats at $1 apiece. After hanging eeventeon minutes tho bodies of tho culprits were given ovor to a party of physicians, who tried by means of electricity and other agencies, to restore them to life, but the experiment proved a flat failure. The Maryland Senate lias passed a bill punishing by flue and imprisonment people speaking iu loud or unseemly tones, or using profane or obscene language. A fire at Batesville, Ark., has destroyed $75,000 worth of business property. Two mea were killed and several injured by a falling wall.

WASHINGTON NOTES. It is stated from Washington that the charges of bribery and corruption against Senator logslls, in connection with his re-elec-tion as Senator from Kansas, will be dismissed, the committee investigating them having decided that they have not been sustained. A decision has been rendered by the Attorney General of the United Btates to the effect that in case of a land-grant railroad deviating from tho line of construction as definitely located in the law making ‘he grant, the State is not entitled to the benefit of the lands granted; in other words, the railroad must as far as practicable follow the line as located, or forfeit the lands.

The Superintendent of Census, in a circular to the Supervisors, says the appointments of enumerators must be non-partisaD. He is aware of no reasons existing in the law for regarding women as ineligible for appointment as enumerators. Each Supervisor must be the judge for himseif whether such appointments in any number would be practically advantageous in his district.

Brumidi, the celebrated fresco-painter, long employed in the Capitol at Washington, is dead.. The allegorical circle in the dome, reresenting the progress of tho American reppublic, which the old man hoped to finish, is incomplete, and there is no one known who can take up the dead artist’s brush and complete the work, which by his own labor would have taken over two years more. Congressman Fort has addressed an* other letter to Fernando Wood imlHng Mm to set a time for the consideration by the Ways

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and Means Committee of the bill reducing the duty on print paper. Mr. Wood is understood to favor the postponement of the paper measure until the Steel-Rail and Hngar bills are disposed of, but Mr. Fort says if the committee permits a month to elapse without action he will call the matter up in the House under a suspension of the nT.es. No credence is given in administration circles to the charges preferred against Gov. Hoyt, of Wyoming Territory.

POLITICAL POINTS. At the First Assembly District Oneida Republican Convention in Utica, N. Y., two conventions were held, each claiming to have a majority of duly-elected delegatee One elected lioscoe Ccnkling, Garden Hackett, and J. P. Richardson as delegates to the U.ica Convention. The ether elected Samuel S. Lowery, 8. A. Millanl, and N. A Pierce. The latter adopted an anti-th rd-term icsolutioa. The Burlington (Vt.) Republicans have chosen an Edmunds-Grant delegation to the State Convention. In eighty-eight localities in Ohio, 1,821 Democrats are for Thurman for President, 1,097 for Tilden, and so on down till llie 4.581 who have been interviewed are aU placed. In the same territory 6,824 Republicans have expressed themselves. Of these 2,936, or 456 less than half, are for Sherman, and Blaine has 1,926. At a meeting of the Republican Central Committee of Massachusetts, the other day, Senator Dawes was selected to preside at the coming State Convention, and John E. Sanford for Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions. These appointments are in the interest of harmony. Dawes is a haif-hearted Grant man, while Sanford is an opponent to a third term. State Conventions have been called as follows: Michigan Republican at Detroit, May 12; Pennsylvania Greenback at Harrisburg, March 23; Massachusetts Republican at Boston, April 15; New York Greenback at Albany, March 15; Kansas Republican at Topeka, March 31. Senator Logan has written a letter, in which he discusses somewhat at length the question of the Presidency. He declares himself very decidedly in favor of Grant, and thinks the cry against a third term without sound reason. The Prohibitionists of Rhode Island have nominated a full State ticket, headed by Albert Howard for Governor. A Blaine club has been organized in Chicago. The North Carolina delegates to the National Republican Conven'ion arc said to be almost so’id for Grant, notwithstanding they were elected for Sherman.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A woman in Canada recently gave birth to five childron. Four of them have since died, but the mother is reervering. Weston has agreed to walk six days with O’Leary, naming San Francisco as the place and the second week in March as the time. Benj. Brandreth, the well-known pill-maker, is dead, aged 71. The horses in and about Montreal are suffering from small-pox. Gen. Grant and party arrived at the City of Mexico on the evening of Feb. 21. The city was illuminated, and the party were received at tho depot by members of tho Government aud escorted to the Mineral College by 5,000 infantry and 500 cavalry.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Monday, Feb. IC, Mossrs. Wimlom, Blaine and Withers were appointed a conference committee on the disagreement of tlie House to the Senate amendments to the Military Academy Appropriation bill. Nearly the whole session was consumed in discusßiou of llie 5 per cent. Military Land Warrant bill, Mr. Allison making a long argument in favor of the bill, and Mr. Edmunds opposing it.... In the House, the morning hour having expired while bills were being introduced, Mr. Weaver demanded the regular order, and the Speaker immediately recognized Mr. Voffrotk, as Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, to move to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution tor a session Wednesday night for the consideration of prnsion bills. This brought forth a protest from Mr. Weaver, but the Speaker adhered to his ruling. Bills were introduced: By Mr. Townshend (ill.), to repeal the duty on medicines; by M;. Henderson, reducing the duty on iron and ste ); by Mr. Richardson (S. C.), to return to the producers of cotton the tax collected by the Government which has beeen declared by the United States Supreme Court to have beon illegally collected: by Mr. Persons, admitting lree of duty machinery for manufacturing cotton fabrics; by Mr. Keifer, granting pensions to certain sailois aud soldiers of the late war who were confineel In the so-called Confederate prisons; by Mr. House, requesting the President to open negotia'ious with certain foreign Governments relative to the importation of tobacco into their dominions; by Mr. Baker, amending the statutes prohibiting the employment of convicts in the manufacture of such articles as may be brought in compeli ion with skilled labor; by Mr, Frost, to repeal certain sections of the acts relative to the use of Marshals and Supervisors at the polls. On motion of Mr. Bragg, the Senate bill for the removal of the body of the late Gen. George Sykes from Foit Brown, lexas, to Weßt Point, N. Y., was taken irom the Speaker's table and passed. Discussion upon the lottery bill, forbidding lotteries in the District of Columbia, occupied the remainder of the day.

Many petitions were presented in the Senate on the 17tli inst., from railroad companies, against the reduction of the duty on steel rails. Mr. Saulsbuiy presented a majority report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the Ingalls case. The report finds that bribery and corruption were employed to secure Mr. Ingalls' election, but that there is no evidence that Id trails authorized such Improper acts, or that they, in fact, secured his election. Mr. Cameron (Wis.) presented a minority report, signed by Hoar, Logan and himself! concurring in that part of he majority report which exonerates Ingalls, blit expressing the. opinion that, w! en the report states corruption was employed, it should in justice sta’e what was proved, that such means were employed in opposition to his election. The reports were ordered printed. Mr. liandolph introduced an amendment to the Fitz John Port r bill, authorizing the President to appoint Gen. Porter a Colonel of infantry, with commission dating from 18fik. Mr. Logan presented a resolution sending a naval vessel to Ireland with relief. Mr. Jones presented a memorial of the Union Soldiers' Ass, eiation of New Orleans, asking the Senate to unseat Kellogg as Senator from Louisiana. Bills were introduced and r> ferred as follows: By Mr. Thurman, for the construction of a building for use by the United States at Toledo, Ohio; by Mr. Vest, for the improv'ment oi the Missouri river at St. Cnarles. The bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior and tho Secretary of the Treasury to employ additional clerks to facilitate the transaction of pension and other business was taken up, and, after a long discttesiOD, passed. The 5 per cent. Laud Warrant bill was considered until adjournment. John S. Stidiper, Third District of lowa, was rejected as Census Supervisor Iu the House. the District of Columbia Lottery bill was considered and laid over. The House then resumed consideration, in the morning hour, of the bill regulating the removal of canses from State to Federal Courts, and Mr. Knott spoke upon the bill, which went over. The remainder of the day was passed in committee of the whole up n the revision of the rules.

The Joint resolution passed the Senate, Feb. 18, which authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to employ a naval vessel or charter a ship for the purpose of transporting to the famishing and poor of Ireland Buch contributions as may be made for their relief. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported adversely the Senate bill extending the jurisdiction of the United States Circuit Courts, and the bill was indefinitely postponed. The Military Warrant bill was debated the whole day... .In the House,abill was Introduced by Mr.Morton.flxing the duty on malt at 25 cents per bushel. Mr. Wood reported the Befunding bill, and it was made the

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*l>ecial order for the' first Tuesday in March. Mr. Gibson introduced a bill to s cute a more uniform collection of duties on imported sugars. The bill to regu ate the removal ot causes from State to Federal courts was debated in tbe morning hour. Mr. Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submitted the unanimous report of the committee in regard to the charges made against Mr. Acklen, of Louisiana. The committeee found that Mr. Acklen did present snch a report as alleged, but they make no recomm.ndation, not having been instructed to do so by the House. Considerable d scussion ensued as to whether any furthtr action should be taken in the matter by the House. The House finally referred the Acklen matter to the Judiciary Committee, to investigate and report what further action, if any, is necessary.

The whole session of the Senate on Thursday, Ftb. 19, was occupied by Messrs. Morrill, McMillan, Saunders and Morgan In discussion of the “Five per Cent. bill.”. ...In the House, Mr. Bland, from the Committee on Coinage, Weights ind Measures, reported a bill to establish a mint at St. Louis, which vas printed and recommuted, Mr. B ackbura endeavored to dispense with the morning hour and consider the rules, b- t was unable to obtain the necessary tw.i-tl>irds vote, and the bill regulating tbe removal of causes from State to Federal Courts was taken up and discussed during the hour. Afterward, the discussion of the rules oc.upied the day. On the 20th inst., in the United States Senato, the {following bills were passed: Providing for the delivery of dutiable a: tides in the mails, and for indemnity for lost registered ar icles; to repeal the provisions of the Revised Statutes authorizing the advancement of navy officers thirty numbers in rank for extraordinary heroism, Ihe bill to authorize the Pjesident to appoint Sergt. John Dolan, of the Fifth Cavalry, a Second Lieutenant, and to place him on the retired list, was in eliuitdy postponed upon the reading of a telegram from the Secretary of War to Cockrell, statin.' that Dolan was killed in llie late battle with the Utes. Tte bill to authorize the compilation and printing of the naval history of the war was passed. Mr. Logan made a set speech upon the Five per Cent, bill, after which the Senate went into executive session. On opening the doors. Mr. Morrill moved to t ke up the bill admitting free of duty contributions for the Kansas refugees. Objected to by Mr. Pendleton. The President nominated Howland E. Trowbridge, of Michigan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Adjourned to Monday In the House, a resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the amount oi land subsidy granted the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company: the disposition made of those lands, and wl>y the said road has not been completed to a junction with the Union Pacific raiboad at Kearney, Nebraska. The Senate joint resolution was passed auth rIzlng the Secretary of tbe Navy to desig nate a vessel of the United States to carry, free cf charge, contributions for the relief of tlie suffering poor of Ireland. A bill was introduced bv Mr. Stevens, to place co-tain articles imported and used in tlie manufacture of paper on the free list. Mr. King Introduced a bill dividit g Louisiana into judicial districts. Tbe day was passed in committee of tlie whole upon revision of the rules. Adjourned till Monday.

SHERMAN.

His Replies to tlie Senate Finance Committee. Washington, Feb. 18. The statement of Secretary Sherman to the Senate Finance Committeo in secret session lias been printed from the stenographer’s norep. The following five questions were asked: 1. What reason, if any, is there for refusing to piss a bill authorizing the receipt of legal tenders for customs dutiesV 2. Why should not tho trade-dollar be converted into a standard dollar? 3 What has been the cost of converting the interest-tearing debt, as it s ood July 14, 1870, to what it is now, including double interest? 4. The effect of the abolition of the Jegaltender quality of greenbacks upon the paper currency. 5. Ihe necessity for a sinking-fund, and how it is managed. Secretary Sherman’s answers are contained in quite a iarge pamphlet, of which the foil ,w----ing io a briof nummary : To the first inquiry Secretary Sherman, in substance, answers: The United States, by act of Fel). 25, 180 ), provided that the duties cn imported goods shall be paid in coiD, aud that coin shall be reserved as a special fund for the payment of interest on the public debt and llie notes of the United Sta es. There is no obj ction to receiving legal tenders for customs so long as legal tenders remain at par. The department can keep up this practice only as long as parties holding interest obligations are willing to accept the same not s in payment therefor. If from any cause the legal tenders eiiould dept e< iite below coin, the Government would be required to pay the interest on the public,debt in coin, and if customs dues were payable in legaltender notes tho treasury would have no gold supply. Referring to tho statement in the annual report of December, 1878, that on tho Ist of Jammy he would reco ve United Slates notes for customs dues, Secret try Sherman says he now concludes that it would be better to leave the law as it is, 1 -aving the Government the right to demand payment in coin for customs dues, aud tlie individual the authority to demand coi i for interest of the public debt. In other words, he thinks that to pass a law authorizing ilio receipt of legal tenders for customs would bo to substitute for a fixed contract between the Government. and the holder of its obligations a mere order of tbe Treasury Department. He would have no objection to a law wi’h this provision: “As long as treasury notes are redeemable into coin at the sub-treasury in New York.” The Attorney G.-neral, it appears, lias expressed tbe opinion that the treasury t clinically could treat the note as a coin cirt fisate. The legal-tender notes are now only received in tl-.o naturo of a coin certificate. Inasmuch as Congress has not dissen’ed to this constructon of the law, Secretary Sherman consideis that he has a right to continue to receive tho legal lenders for coin. Secretary Sherman thinks a law passed in the following form would remove the objection: “That to receive legal-tenders for cu-toms dues would violate obligations to creditors. Notes thus received will in every instance be d-posited with the Treasurer or As-istant livasuter of the United Stales, as are other collections of such d ivies, to be redeemed from time to time in coin on Government account as the convenience of the service may demand.” In response to tbe question why the trade dollar should not be converted into a standard silvi r dollar, Secretary Sherman said: “There is no objection, in my mind, to provide for exchange of the trade dollar for the standard silver dollar. The only point is whether the trade dollar shall be treated as bullion or as a coined dollar of the United Slates. Now I am clearly of the opinion that it ought to be treated as so much bullion issued at the expense of the merchants for their convenience aDd benefit, and without profit to the United States, and, therefore, not entitled to any preference over other bullion; and we might say not so much, because it was issued to private parties for their benefit and at their cost, but stamped by the United States merely to enable the coins to be used to better advantage in a foreign market. I have not, therefore, any objection to the bill, if you allow tne United States to pay the same for these trade dollars as for other bullion.”

As an answer to the question “ What effect the legal-tender quality of the greenbacks will have on our paper currency ?” Secretary Sherman refers the committee to liis last aunual report. The expense of refunding $500,000,000’0f 5-per-cent, bonds was $2,500,000. Mr. Sherman’s answer to tho inquiry as to the sinking fund contained nothing new on the silver question. He referred the committee to his interview with the House Commerce Cora mittee last year.

Kleptomania.

About eight years ago an alarm reached the chief police office in London that jewels of great value had been stolen from a lady of high rank while a guest at a quiet Northern country house. A handsome reward was offered, and not long afterward it became known that the property had been recovered. Astounding as it may seem, it is nevertheless true that the temporary appropriator of these fine things was a millionaire peer, who, albeit in no wise penurious, is singularly simple in his personal habits, and does not spend one-fourth of his income. The matter was all hushed up, and very few persons outside of the family knew who the thief, if we can so call him, really was. This was a genuine case of kleptomania, and proves beyond doubt that it really exists. An English Earl of high distinction had this weakness from boyhood, and it involved his leaving Eton. "When, in after years, he entered the Cabinet, it was rumored

that Lord had entirely conquered the propensity, “except that at a Cab inet council he never could resist ’ Dizzy’s’new green kid gloves.” The alarming disappearance of wax candles at the Travelers’ Club, London, some years ago, caused some dismay. The myetery was at length solved by a member of the committee seeing the old Duke C. (with a clear §750,000 a year) ambling along the corridor with a can die sticking out of each coat-tail pocket. His family were communicated with, and his Grace ceased to come to the club. Possibly, a similar tendency may perhaps explain an untoward incident which occurred at Newport, aud has lately been recalled by a concatenation of carious circumstances. There is doubtless a good deal of sham kleptomania, but it is not the less true that sopaetimes it is perfectly genuine. It is, however, unfortunate to be at orej kleptomaniac and impecunious. —New York paper\

SENATE EXODUS INVESTIGATION.

Synopsis of tho Testimony Elicited by the Voo:-hees Committee. Green Ruffin, a middle-aged colored mm, from Wilson, N. C., and formerly the slave of ex-Member of Congress Thomas Ruffin, testified that he left North Carolina early in December and went to Indianapolip, and was now “aimin’ to cet back and jis die dar.” This exodus “was ’bjmiuarion on his race.” J. B. Sykix, who resides near Arlington, Va., aud who was once a member of the Vrginia Legislature, was called, and state 1 that in the tes imony which he intended to give ho would charge Senaror W.ndom with originating the exodus, but as the Senator was abient he requested the committee to p n-tpone the examination until the Senator could be present.

R. C. Badger, of North Carolina, a prominent Republican politician, slated that he had made a close study of the negro character before and since emancipation; that the race was slowly and gradually improving, and growing more thrifty and self-reliant. When the war ended both whites and blacks were bankrupt; but they have since slowly emerged from that condition cf poverty. The blacks do no’ get strict justice in the courts, as the;are more easily ccnvic'ed—convictei on weaker testimony, for larcmy than tho whites. He did not believe there was any good reason for the exodus from North Carolina; that the blacks could not compete with the white laborers of Indiana, and he felt satisfied they were going to a state of starvation when they emigrated to the State of Indiana. Referring to the educational facilities in North Carolina, he said the black i were afforded the same common-school facilities as the whites. John B. Syphax,' a Virginia colored politician, who had promised to show that Senator W;ndom was the originator of the excdus movement, was placed in the witness chair, and, eomewhat to the surprise of the committee, he absolutely knew nothing, except that Mr. Wirdom introduced a bill iu the Senate to encoursgo the emigration to the North o° Southern negroes. Mr. Windora asked the witness if they had a lunatic asylum in Virginia, and, being informed by Syphax that they had, inquired further, “ llow did you escape from it?” After comiderable badinage had passed between the Senator and witness on the subject of lunacy and lunatics, Syphax retired.

A B. Maynard, editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, corroborated tho statement of previous witnesses in regard to the destitute condition of emigrants who had reached Indiana, their desire to return to North Carolina, their assertions that they had been deceived by Perry, and the absence of any demand for their labor in Indiana.

Poetic Paper.

An exchange tells of a merchant who has no sentiment in his soul. Young poetesses have to meet a good many such men in this world. He keeps a variety store, and among his customers was a young lady who was looking for some letter-paper. “That is not quite good enough,” said tho lady, after examining the goods lie first displayed. “Have you any better quality?” “Oh, yes,” ho replied, taking down another box. “I want something still better than that,” she said, looking at him'smilingly. “Something good enough to write poetry on.” “Why, my dear madam,” said the shopman, as if greatly surprised; “that paper is plenty good enough for that purpose. Why, I sold a man some of that same quality yesterday to make out dog-licenses on!” She dropped the goods and swept out of the store as if a Western zephyi had struck her, while a very indignant smile rested upon her poetic features.

Long Words.

“Rob,” said Tom, “which is the most dangerous worl in all the English language to prouounce? ” “Don’t know,” said Itob, “unless it is a swearing word.” “Pooh!” said Tom; “it is stumbled, because you are sure to get a tumble between the first and the last letter.”

“Ha, ha! ” said Rob, “ now I have one for you. I found it one day in reading the paper. Which is the longest word in all the English language? ” “Valetudinarianism,” said Tom, promptly. “No, sir; it’s smiles, because there’s a whole mile between the first and last letter.”

“Ho, ho! ” cried Tom, “that’s nothing; I know a word that has over three miles between its beginning and ending.” “Now, what’s that?” asked Rob, faintly. “Beleagured,” exclaimed Tom, triumphantly.

The Hartford Courant, referring to the Annual Statement of the JEtna Life Insurance Company, says: “It shows the continued prosperity of that exceptionally well managed and strong institution. No life company iu the country, as to the solid character of its assets and investments, can make a more convincing statement. It is to be particularly observed, in this fresh announcement of the condition of the company, that, during the past year, the assets have been increased $513,391.17, while the surplus above all liabilities has added the sum of $230,838.09. The receipts for interest alone have been $1,856,710.46, and this amount has paid all death losses and the running expenses, and left a balance over of $64,129.07. A few words in this general way cover the case for the 2E tna as well as colnmns of commendations. It is a model company in its financial standing.”

In England there are over 300 kinds of bicycles. There are in that country more than 300 makers, who have invested $5,000,000 in machinery, and who pay out $6,000 a week in wages. There are in England 250 bicycle clubs, with 7,000 members, and there are in use more than 150,000 bicycles.

UNHAPPY REPUBLICANS.

How the Third-Termers Captured Pennsylvania Against the Sentiment of the State —Significant Letter irom Horace White to the New York Nation.

Senator Don Cameron’s exploit at Harrisburg is still the principal topic of conversation here [Washington]. Opinions differ as to its effect upon the Republican Conventions of other States, but some facts are settled and agreed upon as regards the event itself. One is that the Pennsylvania Convention did not want to renominate Grant, but that Cameron compelled them to do so. Another is that Blaine could have beaten Cameron —that is, could have prevented the adoption of the Grant instructions—if he had had the spirit or the wit to fight for his rights. A third is that the leaders of the third-term movement are going to nominate Grant at Chicago, even by a majority of one, if it is possible to do so. and that they would do this even if they apprehended he would be beaten at the polls. Consequently, evidence offered to them that Grant is a weak candidate—and there could be no better evidence than the Harrisburg Convention itself —weighs not a feather in their calculations. They do not want another Republican administration that they cannot control, and in preference to it they will take a Democratic one cheerfully, and tiust to the chances of the next four years. Conkling would have preferred Tilden to Hayes before the latter was installed into office, and he went so far toward bringing the former in that the Democrats conceived that they were betrayed by him when, at the critical moment, his nerves gave way. Party rage, which has so often served his turn, appalled him in that instance, but it did not prevent bim from disclosing that he wants no more Republican victories of that kind. As for Cameron, he has introduced himself to the public as a sort of Barbary Corsair or Roman Proconsul entertaining a well-grounded contempt for the people whom he slashes— that is, for his own party in his own State. It is spoken of as a remarkable thing that 113 delegates out of 246, although stoutly backed by public opinion at home, dared to call their souls their own in the presence of this terrible fellow. For there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your Cameron living I Blaine really represented tho vestiges and remains of popular sovereignty in party government at the Harrisburg Convention. I doubt if there will ever be so strong a show of opposition to personal government in Pennsylvania again, until the party has been soundly thrashed at the polls. It is a ludicrous waste of energy to send sixty or seventy able-bodied men to Chicago to m ike a unit and to cast one vote. That this is done is but another instance of the survival of forms after the substance has vanished. Perhaps the most startling sign of the times is the ease with which such things are done—the facility and abandon with which the State of Pennsylvania is lowered from the attitude and character cf a Commonwealth to that of a province under the government of a Pnetor. Doubtless Mr. Blaine was an unfit man to bear the standard of the Commonwealth in tho recent engagement; nevertheless lie did bear it, and when the wheels of tho “machine” rolled over him it was tho Commonwealth’s blood that gushed out.

The Blaine men here in Washington, however, prefer to bo considered cunning fellows rather than victims. They say now that the course of the Harrisburg Convention ran parallel with their intentions; that it was not their purpose to kill the Grant movement suddenly, because that would have drawn all the anti-machine fire upon them; that they prefer to have the batteries of the Independents directed against the third term during the next four months rather than against their man; that the moral effect of the Harrisburg massacre must tell in their favor throughout the country; that Cameron’s victory was virtually a defeat because his majority was so small, etc., etc. The third-term people, on the other liaud, say that all they wanted at Harrisburg was all the votes ; that they were not so grasping as to claim any more than the whole number, and consequently they are satisfied. What they expect is that the impetus gained in Pennsylvania will produce an exactly similar result in New York, and that the momentum of these two States will carry Illinois and Massachusetts—perhaps also Indiana—and that anything more which they need they can easily obtain from the South. If the Blaine men have any programme as well defined as that, I have not heard of it. They talk vaguely about Illinois as the bulwark and breakwater that is to roll back the third-term flood. Gen. Logan, however, is quoted for the third term, and Gen. Grant, as it happens, has a nominal residence in Illinois; the supporters of Washburne do not oppose the third-term movement, but do serve to divide the opposition to it. Gen. Logan’s machine in Illinois is not the same thing as Cameron’s in Pennsylvania, or Conkling’s in New York. It is less subject to the one-man power. It was wholly in the hands of the Blaine men four years ago, and it dragged Logan along with it. It would probably do the same now, but for the adventitious circumstance that Gen. Grant has a house in Galena, where he occasionally spends a week’s time. Something will really depend, as regards Illinois, upon public opinion. Any such demonstration of hostility to the third term as took place at Harrisburg would be fatal to it, because it would point to the loss of the State in the election, and the managers there have not reached the state of mental equipoise which can look calmly upon such a contingency. Illinois is not a sure State by any means, and an adverse result in Ohio in October would be likely to deluge it. Meanwhile it is among the possibilities that Blaine may surrender to the third-term movement and become as good a Grant man as anybody. But the third-term men will never surrender to him. They have the great advantage of knowing exactly what they want, and it is a mistake to suppose that they have any second choice. * * * *

Returning to the Harrisburg Convention, I remarked that the third-term leaders know what they want. They have no set purpose to undermine the republic by paving the way for Grant pr a future President to go in for a

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fourth term or any other number of terms. But a third term happens to fall in with their system of prsetorship. Gen. Grant gave that system full swing, and he was the only man who could do so with tolerable safety, having a military reputation to fall back upon to serve as a screen for civil disorder. They know perfectly well what they can do with him, because they have tried him. His methods are their methods. Given four years more of this species of license and they calculate that they will not bo troubled again with the presence of 113 dissenters at a Harrisburg Convention. As regards the election, they set much store upon the pride and self-reliance of the American people, v hich leads men to say, “Who’s afraid? If we don’t like a President can’t we change him every four years?” The answer is: “No, unless you can get more than 113 delegates into your nominating convention ”

POLITICAL NOTES.

If it be true, as various Republicn j journals have asserted, that the Secretary of the Treasury has sent a score of agents down South, at the expense of the Federal Government, to advance his Presidential aspirations, many curious persons would like to know what has become of the order issued by the President in 1877, which is in these words: “No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions or election campaigns. This rule is applicable to every department of the civil service.”

In 1843 Lord Brougham laid it down that “ the publicity with which every department of the American Government is administered makes peculation impossible. It is an offense which in such a country can have no existence.’’ “ These words,” says the January Quarterly Review, “ have a strange sound to ears accustomed to the disclosure of such scandals as disgraced the second Presidency of Gen. Grant.” Thebe are 107,931 persons in the employment of the Federal Government. Each individual member of this obedient army has an average of five persons dependent on him, and through him, on the Federal administration. We have here an army of 540,000 persons in the pay of the administration and working to perpetuate the party in power. That is a machine uliicheountsa free ballot as naught, and sweeps away opposition majorities with a stroke of the pen, and is ready to work out any fraud conceived by the Republican leaders. Ouk army is composed of 2,187 officers and 24,262 enlisted men. At West Point Academy there are twenty-four musicians, eight professors and 212 cadets. There are 388 retired officers. The active or combatant force of the army numbers 20,566 men, eleven Generals and 1,559 officers, or one officer for every fourteen men. It would appear that there is altogether too much officer in our army. Tecumseh Sherman wants more men and more officers. He would like 200,000 men, but he will die without being gratified. Sherman is more of a Mexican than Grant. He would “pronounce” for himself in a minute if he had 200,000 men under him. At present there is not war material enough in the Government’s hands to fully equip 50,000 men. If Maine had been a Southern State, says the Boston Rost, and the parts played by Chamberlain aud Blaine had been taken by ex Confederates or Democrats, in the time when the Republicans were in the majority in Congress, what a difference there would have been. Washington would have been stirred to its center; the lobbies of the hotels would have been crowded persecuted carpet-baggers, pale with fear over the prospective loss of public swag; each one would have an investigating committee busy at work inquiring into State, county and town elections; a band of statesmen would have gone to the State capital to give assurances that troops would be ready when ne;ded, and both houses of Congress would have rung with speeches on the revolutionary tendencies of the Democratic Southern States, and all to make party capital, for your first-class Republican politician cares nothing whatever for the peace and harmony of the country when his party ascendency is endangered.

A stanch Republican paper, in discussing the present aspect of public affairs, employs the following language : “ There is no denying the statement that the best thought of the country favors a stronger Government than the nation has yet enjoyed.” What is the meaning of “a stronger Government?” “A stronger Government,” says our contemporary, “than the nation has yet enjoyed.” Stronger than Washington’s. Stronger than John Adams’. Stronger than Thomas Jefferson’s. Stronger than James Madison’s. Stronger than James Monroe’s. Stronger than John Quincy Adams’. Stronger than Andrew Jackson’s. Stronger than Abraham Lincoln’s. A stronger Government does not mean merely a stronger administration of our present form of government. It cannot mean that. There would be no significance to the phrase if employed in that sense. It would be impossible that the Government could be administered more strongly than it was administered by the great first Presidents, who were among its original founders; more strongly than by that iron man, Andrew Jackson; more strongly than by Abraham Lincoln, who abolished slavery. No; those who speak of a stronger Government mean a different form of government, in which greater power is reposed in the Executive. They mean a monarchy, and they can have no other meaning. Born free, they would become comparative slaves 1 Such men have no fit place on American soil. Degenerate sons of worthier sires, they have not the manhood to stand erect, but would voluntarily bow their necks to the yoke and hail Grant as King! —New York Sun.

Of “Tara’s Halls,” of which Moore sang, nothing but the outline cf the walls remain. Tara, the traditional palace cf Irish Kings, is in Meath, eighteen miles from Dublin, and belongs now to Mr. Preston, whose uncle, a Union Peer, was created Lord Tara. Tara is on very high ground, two miles from Beliuter, the spendid seat 0- the Prestons,

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INDIANA ITEMS.

The sportsmen are all of the opinion that there will be plenty of fish in the Wabash river this spring. The brick-yard for the new State House will be locate! in Morgan county. William Horstman, a farmer living near Edwardsport, committed suicide while suffering the pangs of inflammatory rheumatism. At Fort Wayue the saloon-keepers have secu.ed the indictment of a large number of druggists who have beeu selling liquor without license. A Fort Wayne “he,” dressed ns a female, recently tried to get into the employ of a family, evidently with intent to rob the house. The rise in the river at New Albany has been something remarkable. Jn the short space of sixtj-five hours the river rose more than thirty-five feet. Miss Nbllie Brown, a prominent young lady of Vincennes, was severely burned by the explosion of rose oil, with v.'hich she was cleaning kid gloves. A boy 17 years old, named AV. E. Bates, Jr , has been discovered at Columbus, who wields a cornet in a manner that gives promise of future fame as a soloist.

The question has been raised whether F. C. JohLson, the Census Supervisor of the New Albany district, can hold the office without surrendering his trusteeship of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.

General Erin, of the Quartermaster’s Depart ment, has received an order for the manufacture of a large amount of a: my clothing, and will give out w T ork to more than a thousand sewing women.

Mrs. Sarah Jameson, aged about, 83 years, and one of the oldest, if not the oldest, citizen in Harrison county, died at Corydon a few dajs since. She was a citizen of Corydon at the time it was the capital of the State. It is believed by some very couqjetent lawyers that the law which allows 35 cents per description for publishing the delinquent-tax list is void, on account of a defect in its title, and that 20 cents is the maximum that can bo collected.

One of the large coal-pits in Pierceville, Ripley county, containing sixty cords of wood, exploded the other night, and the shock was felt for two miles around. Bricks were thrown 390 yai ds, and the large iron door, weighing about 400 pounds, was thrown 250 feet. In an altercation occurring at Plymouth between Mrs. AVood, a woman of 50, and her grandson, the woman attempted, to shoot the boy with a shotgun, but was frustrated by the father of the boy shooting his mother in law witii a pistol, the ball taking effect over the right eye. Judge Britton, in the Circuit Court at Crawfordsvillc, has decided, in accordance with a recent ruling of the Supreme Court, that no prosecutions can be made against. licensed saloonkeepers for selling liquor to minors or for keeping open on Sundays or legal holidays, or alter 11 o’clock at night. The decision practically removes all restraints upon the sale of liquors.

The Board of State House Commissioners have decided to lay the cornerstone of the building in the first week in May, the occasion to be made one in every respect worthy the structure to be erected. The programme is not yet completed, but it is known that the Masons will have charge of the cert monies; that all the Governors of the States will be invited, and that no pains or expense will be spared to make it the grandest day in the history of the city. The wife of El ward Fisher, living three miles north of Belle Unicn, Putnam county, was burned to death the other day, by her clothing igniting at on open file. On the same day Mrs. McCammack, who lived almost in sight of the Fisher residence, placed her 2-year-old girl in a chair near tire stove and left the room ior a few minutes. The child, being restless, and endeavor ing to get down from the chair, overturned it in such a way that its face was caught between the chair and the stove and held there until one side was literally roasted. One of the child’s hands was also burned to the bone.

The Connersville Examiner says: “A Docatur county farmer named Pruitt is the possessor of a monstrosity in the calf line that is attracting a great deal of attention. The calf is a reddish color, 6 weeks old, and has two heads, four eyes, four cars, four nostrils, two mouths and two tongues. One of the heads has front teeth in the upper jaw, while the other head has teeth only in lower jaw, the upper jaw being padded and adapted for grinding. It takes all fluids in on one side or head and all solids on the other side or head. Another strange feature noted in this double-headed calf is that it has only one esophagus, which is bifurcated at the top, running to each head. This strange freak of nature seems to be healthy as any ordinary quadruped is, and as frisky, too, at that age. Mr. Pruitt values his curious poseossiou very highly, and has refused quite a large sum which was offered by a Connersville showman for the purpose of exhibition.”

Food for Fat People.

There are three classes of food, the oils, sweets, and starches, the special office of which is to support the animal heat and produce fat, having little or no influence in promoting strength of muscle or endurance. If the fat, there; fore, would use less fat and more of lean meats, fish and fowl, less of fine flour and more of the whole products of the grains—except the hulls—less of the sweets, particularly in warm weather, and more of the fruit acids in a mild form, as in the apple, shep less, be less indolent, and labor more in the open air, the fat would disappear, to a certain extent at least, with no loss of real health.

In food we have almost a perfect control in this matter, far better than we can have in the use of drugs. If we have too much fat and too little muscle, we have simply to use less of the fatforming elements and more of the muscle food, such as lean meats, fish and fowl, and the darker portions of the grains, eto., with peas and beans —Medical Journal.

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