Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

TORBIOIT VIVA The British troops have been defeated in an engagement with the Afghans. The new British Arctic expedition ■will sail in May. The General Postoffice at Capetown, Booth Africa, was recently robbed of all the diamond* awaiting shipment by mail, valued at £75,000. The winter sowings of wheat in the (South of Russia have suffered greatly from frost There are 73,000 people in Donegal, Ireland, who need relief. A censns is being made of the city of Bt. Petersburg, and all persons without fixed occupation or means of subsistence will be driven from the city. - Gen. Roberts, commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, lias received a letter signed by all the chiefs at Ghuznee, intimating that, being assured of the friendly intentions of the English, they are ready to negotiate. Many arrests of Nihilists are being made at Ht. Petersburg and Odessa, in Russia, Mr. Parnell has reached his native land. H'j was warmly welcomed at Queenstown with bands of music and large crowds.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ICast. The workingmen of Chicago have resolved, iu public meeting assembled, that the Chinese must go. The coal managers have agreed to another advauoe of 25 cents a ton. William D. Hilton, formerly Superintendent of tlio Providence and Worcester railroad, confesses that ho has issued forged paper to the amount of $8 ',O(X>, purporting to bo indorsod by William S. Klator and Lyman A. Cook. His operations have been going on for two yoars. A bill repealing the law prohibiting the intermarriage of whites and blacks has been defeated iu the Rhode Island Legislature. Prof. Sawyer, tlio rival of Edison in the achievement of a practical, economical electric light, claims to have solved the mighty problem. A public exhibition of his new lamp was given in Now York a few nights ago, and those who witnessed it are of tlio opinion that it will prove a big success. The lamp is based upon the incandescence of a pencil of carbon immersed iu nitrogon gas, and is not different iu principle from the old Saw-yer-Mann lamp. Tlio pencil is contained within a globo two inchoa in diameter and ten inches high, soalod at the bottom by means of a eetnout, which, while adhering perfectly to tlio glass and metal, is sufficiently elastic to compensate for the unequal expansion of tho two, and softens only at a temperature of 501) degrees Fahrenheit. This cement is a compouud long sought for unsuccessfully. Tho coat of the lamp is less than |1 25. Tlio light is readily lowered to a glimmer by simply turning a button. Fros. Sawyer estimates tho cost, compared with gas at $2 per 1,000 feet, in the proportion of two to ten. The light is a trille stronger than gas, but steady, soft, and pleasant, and very much like gas. The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed a bill granting female suffrage on liquor-license matters. William Pearson was executed at Genesee, N. Y., on tho 10th of March for the murder of Bradley Witliey. The Connecticut Legislature has refused to pass the bill giving women the privilege of voting on the lio3nse question. The office of the Boston Journal has been destroyed by fire. A firo in Troy, N. Y., burned nearly $300,000 worth of property. While a servant of J. H. Haverly, the well-known Chicago theatrical manager, was checking tho manager’s valise at a Boston railroad depot, a thief snatched it and fled. Tho contents are valued at $5,000. West. News of a terrible Indian massacre oomes from Colorado. The victims wore a party of prospectors, including Joe Lacomo, Joe Chaves, Pat Kano, Bill Trinbrom, Dave Btockliammev, and several others. The affair ooourred in the vicinity of Blue mountain. At a meeting held in Chicago in behalf of the negro emigrants, it was decided that Kansas wan not large enough to take care of all the refugees, and a resolution was adopted inviting 50,000 of them to settle in Illinois.

In liis telegram to military headquarters in Chicago announcing the presence of Sittiug Bull ou United States territory, Gen. Miles states that he is reliably informed that, wliilo Sioux war parties have been depredating on the settlements, their camps have been obtaining supplies from no less than four Government trading establishments between the Missouri liver and the boundary line. A San Francisco dispatch says the nnmber of Chinese departure* to the Eastern States has been greatly exaggerated. Dennis Kearney has been sentenced, by a San Francisco police magistrate, to six months in the work house and to pay a tine of *I,OOO. The Wisconsin Legislature has adjourned sine die. The Leavenworth Times prints reports from County Clerks of various counties n Kansas in regard to the condition and acreage of fall wheat from every point in the State, by which it appears that the acreage is 20 por cent, greater than last year and the condition fully 50 per cent, better, so that the yield this year will exceed 80,000,000 bushels. A dangerous S2O United States reasurv note has made its appearance in the West. It is of the scries of 1875, letter O, and printed on imitation fiber-paper. The shading under the words “United States'’ is darker than in the genuine note, but the general appearance of the bill is good. Forty- two mercantile firms in Chicago have petitioned Congress for the passage of a uniform Bankruptcy law. Julius De Boer was hanged at Pontiac, HI, on the 16th of March for the nrarder of Miss Ella Martin, a beautiful young girl, on the 19th of Ootober last The culprit was only 18 years old, and a native of Germany. A murderer named Fields, confined in the jail of Winchester, 111., for a oold-blood-ed murder, was shot dead in his cell by a mob of masked men, a few nights ago. Martin Power, of Chicago, quarreled with his wife at the breakfast table, and became so enraged that he drew a pistol and shot her three times, winding up by pointing the weapon at his own head, and blowing out his worthless brains. The woman may possibly recover. j A convention called for the purpose of promoting the construction of a shill-canal connecting the great lakes and the Mississippi river was held at Ottawa, 111., last week, about 600 delegates being present. Resolution i were ad ptad favoring the enlarging of the Hinois

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and Michigan canal to the dimensions of a ship canal by means of Government aid, and a committee was appointed to urg* upon Illinois Congressmen the importance of moving in the matter forthwith. Three attempts to fire the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce were made in one day last week. The object of the incendiary is a mystery. Ten children, seven in one family and three in another, have died of diphtheria, at Zanesville, Ohio. The notorious Mrs. Clem has been convicted at Indianapolis of po jun and grand larceny iu connection with ono of her peculiar business transactions, and will lie sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. Peter Stout, a wealthy farmer living near Stoutsville, Ohio, fatally shot his brother the other day. Gannon,a co-laborer of Dennis Kearney in the labor agititions in San Francisco, has been sentenced to SI,OOO fine and six months’ imprisonment for having used indiscreet language in a public speech. Bartley Campbell’s “Gdley Slave” is continued at HaverlyV, iu Chicago, another week. The engagement has been one or the best of tlio season, tho play seeming to have taken a fast hold upon public favor. The stage settings have attracted considerable attention and excited applause. They are varied in character, handsomely finished, and marked by a c ire of detail highly commendable. South. A large section of Texas has been visited by a severe “norther,” which kilted the fruit and necessitated the replanting of corn. Heavy rains and damaging floods are reported in Virginia and Georgia. Cowboys recently captured, a town in Baylor county, Texas, shot the (Jonstable, and dispersed the Justices of the Peace. The lower house of the Kentucky Legislature lias refused to give Henry "Ward Beecher permission to speak ?n its hall. A child with two well-developed heads, four hands, two trunle, twenty-four ribs and two spinal columns has been born in North Carolina. S. T. Myers, a boy of 18, was hanged at Dallas, Texas, March lit, for llie murder of his step-mother. Edward C. Palmer, of New Orleans, lias been sentenced to the penitentiary for three years for embezzling the funds of the Louisiana Bank, of which li) was President. A negro child-murderer was lynched by the people of Page county, Va., last week.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Missouri Democratic State Committee met at 8b Louis, last week, and decided to call tho Stato Convention on May 20. A strong sentiment in favor of Seymour for President was manifested by tlio members of tlio committee. A State Convention of Illinois Greenbackers will be held at Springfield April 21. Levi Z. Leiter, the great Chicago drygoods merchant, is prominently mentioned in connection with tho Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois. The Michigan State Greenback Convention, held at Jackson March 10, chose the following delegates-at-large to the National Convention : H. 8. Smith, Grand Rapids; M. W. Field, Detroit; Walter Childs, St. Joeeph county; Hubbard Taylor, Bay City. The Michigan Republicans will meet in Stato Couvention at Detroit on May 12. At a meeting of the Illinois Democratic Committee, at Springfield, it was decided, after considerable discussion, to hold but one State Convention for th^. selection of delegates to the Cincinnati Convention and for tho nomination of candidates for State offices and Pre-i----dcntial Electors. This will be held at tho Stite capital on the 10th of June. The Republicans of Rhode Island have nominated Alfred H. Littlefield for Governor—the present incumbent, Van Zindt, declining a renomiuation—and sent a delegation to Chicago said to be unanimous for Blaine. The Pennsylvania Democratic Commit’ee met at Harrisburg last week, and fixed upon Harrisburg, April 2S, as the time and place for the meeting of the Stato Convention. The friends of Ti’den wanted the convention called later, but, being largely in the minority, they were defeated. The New Hampshire Democratic State Convention has been called for May 5. A Washington dispatch says that Tilden stock went down on the news that the Democratic Committee at Pittsburgh had manifested a strong dislike to Tilden’s nomination, and that the Democratic Stato Committee of Louisiana is opposed to Tilden and favorable to Gen. Hancock. Rhode Island men say that it is not true, after all, that the delegation from that Stato to the Chicago Convention will vote for Blaine, as it is uninstructed. So says a Washington dispatch. It is reported that the Hancock managers are attempting to organize a strong movement from Washington for their favori'e. Southern men are at the head of the scheme. The first State expected to pronounce for him in Louisiana. Then some of the Gulf States are expected to follow. The Democratic primaries in Allegheny county, Pa., were swept by Tilden, his opponents securing only thirty delegates out of over 500.

JCISOELLANEOTTS GLEANINGS. A new Atlantio cable is to be laid down the coming summer. Hon. Isaac P. Christiancy, United States Minister to Peru, and late Senator faom Michigan, has asked for a leave of absence of six weeks. It is stated in recent dispatches from Washington that he comes home to participate in the pleasant details of a divorce suit, his young wife, formerly a clerk in the Treasury Department, having applied for a separation on the ground of ill-treat-ment Another statement is to the effect that Mr. Christiancy has evidence that his youthful partner in matrimony has, since her return from Paris, been conducting herself in an improper manner, and that the husband will make application for divorce. The Western Iron Association, in session at Pittsburgh, has refused to lower the card rates established a few months ago.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. Sherman recommends that Maj. Reno shall be suspended for one year, deprived of six months’ pay, degraded five files in the rank of Major, and confined within the limits of the post where his regiment is stationed during the period of suspension. The President has confirmed the sentence of dismissal in the case of Maj. Marcus A. Reno. It is stated in a dispatch from Washington that “a oareful canvass of members of the Ways and Means Committee develops the

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fact that a majority will vote in favor of the removal of the duty on all articles used in the manufacture of paper. In connection with the suggestion that an early adjournment of Congress is impossible, it can be said (says a Washington correspondent) that an early adjournment is not probable, and would be contrary to all precedents in Presidential years. The fo’lowing are the dates at which Congress has adjourueJ in such years: 1832, July 16; 1836, July 4; 1841, July 21; 1844, June 17; 1848, Aug. 14; 152, Aug. 31; 1856, Aug. 18 and Aug. 30; 1860, June 28; 1864, July 4; 1868, July 27; 1872, June 10; 1876, Aug. 15. Ex-Senator Christiancy’s friends state that there is not a particle of truth in the charges made by his young wife against his honor and eobriety, and claim that she makes them for the purpose of lettiug herself down easy, as the evidence of her unfaithfulness is of such a character that no court can refuse to grant ari unconditional divorce.

DOINGS IN CONGBESS. Bills were introduced and referred to committee* of the Senate on Monday, March 15, as follows: By Mr. Johnston, for the suppression of infectious and contagious diseases among domestic cattle; by Mr. Plumb, to amend section 3,&S'J of the Bevised Statutes, relative to public lands. Very little business of importance was transacted by the upper house, the time being occupied by reports ot committees and other miscellaneous business. The President nominated Jacob Kendrick Upton, of New Hampshire, to be Assistant Secretary of I lie Treasury; Arthur Edwards, of Michigan, to be Agent for the Indians at the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, Nebraska; and Edward H. Bowman, of Illino.s, :o be Agent for the In iians at the Pawnee Agency, Indian Territory.... In the House, tills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Singleton, making telegraphic communications ss ioviolable as letters In the mail; by Mr. Daggett, to reduce the price of public lands within railroad limits; by Mr. Covert, to create a scientific commission to establish legal tests for the protection of dealers in butter, oleomargarine, etc.; by Mr. Scales, for an allotment of lands In severalty to the united band of Peoria Indians; by Mr. Whittaker, reducing tho expenses of taking pre-emtions and homesteads; by Mr. Kelley,a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to turnish a statement of tho bonds purchased between the Ist of Jauuary, 1841, and the Ist of January, 1359; by Mr. Ward, to reduce the expenses of collecting the revenue: by Mr. Young (Tenn.), for the appointment of a commission on the method of, settling claims against tho United States; by Mr. Tucker, appropriating $25,000 for the relief of the daughter and graud-daughter of Zachary Taylor; by Mr. Downey, appropriating $25,000 to protect and Improve the TellOwstone National Park; by Mr. Fort, calling on the Secretary of War for information as to the distance and the cost of a can ai for the commerce between ihe navigable waters of the Illinois river and the Illinois and Michigan canal, by way of the Kankakee river; by Mr. Acklen, a bill proposing a constitutional amendment. The amendment declares that the Union of these United States shall be perpetual, aud all acts or attempts to separate or destroy the Union shall be treason against Ihe Federal Government, and be punished as such; the States’ limits and boundaries to be inviolate, and the rights of the State to mako and enforce its local laws shall never be interfered with by the Federal Government; by Mr. Buckner, for an adjournment of Congress on the 24th of May. A bill was passed to abolish tolls on tha Louisville aud Portland canal.

On the morning of March 16 Mr. Davis (Ill.) resented in tho Senate a memorial from citizens of Chicago, praying the enactment of a uniform bankruptcy law, and made a speech supporting the memorial. On motion of Mr. Thurman, the resolut on offered by Mr. Kellogg for a committee to investigate the newspaper charges against him was laid on tho table. Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to fix the day for tho meeting of the Electors of the President and Vice President, and to provide for and regulate the counting of votes for President and Vice President, and the decision of questions arising thereon. Deferred to a select committee on the subject. The afternoon was devoted to consideration of the Star Route Deficiency bill, the Senate remaining in session till 6 o’clock without reaching any conclusion... .In the House, a debate on the Funding bill was ordered for next Saturday. Ihe morning hour being dispensed with, the House went into committee of the whole upon the Deflciciency Appropriation bill. This was discussed the whole day, but not conc'uded. Mr. Dibrell, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to withholding pensions allowed to soldiers of the War of ISI2. Adopted. The first business transacted in the Senate on the 17th inst. was tho passage of a bill removing the political disabilities of Rogor A. Pryor. Mr. Hampton, from the Military Committee, reported a bill to survey and mark the Gettysburg battle-field. After discussion for nearly Ihe whole day, the Btar Service Deficiency bill was passed. The President nominated Matthias C. Osborn, of Alabama, to te Tl nited Slates Marshal for the Middle md Southern District of Alabama. ...In tho House, Mr. Taylor offered a lesolstion for tho appointment of a special committee to investigate the present method of settling claims against the United States. All the day’s session was consumed in discussion upon the Deficiency Appropriation bill, no conclusion being reached. Debate was the order of tho day in both houses on Thursday, March 18. In the upper house, after a few committee reports, the Benate proceeded to consider the House bill for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, the question being on the substitute reported by the Senate Committee on Public Landß. The bill was explained by members of the committee, and, after debate, the Senate went into executive session and soon adjourned... .In the House, the morning lour was dispensed wi'h, and that body went immediately into committee of the whole upon the Special Deficiency bill. Debate continued till adjournment, without action.

The Hot Springs bill was taken up in the Senate on the morning of the 19th inst., amended and passed. Mr. McDonald introduced a bill refunding certain duties paid on imported articles by the University of Notre Dame, St. Joseph county, Ind. Mr. Anlhony presented the memorial of Susan B. Anthony asking for a removal of her political disabilities. Miss Anthony complains that, while the prayers of men for the removal of disabilities have been granted, such prayers have been denied to women. She asks that her petition receive the same consideration as if her name were Samuel B. Anthony. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to provide for an allotment of lands in severalty to the United Peoria and Miami tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory. In executive session the nomination of Bev. Thomas Simmons to he Census Supervisor for the Fifth district of Georgia was rejected. The President nominated Charles Adams. of Colorado, Minister to Bolivia, and the following to be United Sta'es Consuls: Bret Harte, of California, at Glasgow; George L. Catlin, of New Jersey, at Stuttgardt; P. Lange, es lowa, at La Itochelle; W. P. Mangum, of North Carolina, at Tien Tsin; Alex. C. Jones, of West Virginia, at Nagasaki; Harry A. Conant, of Michigan, at Naples; William L. Scruggs, of Georgia, at Cantou; Victor Thompson, of Mississippi, at St. Thomas; Henry C. Marston, of Illinois, at Malaga; John A. Holderman, of Kansas, at Bangkok; a'so, Henry C. Snowden, to be Supervisor of the Census for the Second district of Pennsylvania. Adjourned to Monday... .In (he House, the morning hour was dispensed with, private business laid aside, and the bouse went into committee of the whole (Carlisle In ihe chai ) on the Special Deficiency bill. Political discussion was resumed upon the measure, many amendments being offered, but the bill was finally passed. The proposition which was finally adopted was this: That the appropriation for the payment of Marshals and Deputies should be made, and the validity of the Election laws recognized, with this addition: “ Provided, that hereafter Special Deputy Marshals of election for performing duty in respect to any election shall receive *5 a day in full compensation, and that all appointments of snch Special Deputies shall be made by the Judges of the United States Courts in the circuit or districts in which such Marshals are to perform their duties, the Deputies to be taken in equal numbers from the different political parties.” A. bill appropriating SIOO,CUO as a deficiency to the public printing was passed. A resolution in regard to the abrogation of the Chinese treaty was offered. The Senate was not in session on the 20th inst., and the House held a meeting for debate on the Funding bill. Judge Kelley opposed the bill, because he thought the debt could be wiped out soou, one-four h of it having been paid off in the last fifteen years. He attributed the revival of prosperity to the facls that silvet had been re monetized, and the cancellation of greenbacks had been stopped. Mr. Frye eulogized the Republican party for reducing the interest. Mr. Felton spoke in favor of a substitute of his, which provided for the monthly coinage of 4,000,000 silver dollars, and for the application of the coin reserve in the treasury, in exctss of 25 per cent, of the outstanding greenbacks, to the purchase of bonds for cancellation. Mr. Orth favored the bill because a reduction in the interest charges would enable the Government to indulge in internal improvements, such as the improvement of the Wabash river and its connection with Lake Erie by canal. Mr. Dunnell took occasion to compliment Secretary Sherman,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles A

SOLDIERS’ BOUNTIES.

The Classes Untitled to Bounty Under the Tarious Asts of Congress. The Second Auditor of the Treasury Department has issued a circular specifying the classes of volunteers and regulars, daring the War of the Rebellion, who are entitled to bounty under the different acts of Congress. Following is an abstract thereof: 2. A 1 volunteers who enlisted prior to July 22, 1861, for three years, and who were mustered into the servic3 before Aug. 6, 1861, are en'itled by act of April 22, 1872, to SIOO bounty if they have been honorably discharged, and have not received ibe same for such service. Thore discharged by way of favor, or to accept promot oD, are not entitled. Bounty under this act is not payable to heirs, nor to men who were enrolled for two years only. 3. Those two and three-years’ men who enlisted between April 12, 1861, and Dec. 24, 1863, or between April 1, 1864, and July "8, 1864. are entitled to SIOO bounty under act of July 22, 1801, provided they served two years or more as eulisted men, or were honorably discharged as sueb on account of wounds received iu lino of duty before two years’ serv'ce If a soldier was discharged before serving two year 3, on accouut of disease, he would not, as before shown, be entitled to any bounty; but if, after such discharge, he died before •July 28, 18(56, of a disease contracted iu the service, his heirs, iu the order named in the law,' are entitled to the additional bounty under act of July 28, 186«. 4. If a soldier died in the service his heirs became entitled to any bounty which tho soldier would have been entitled to under the terms of his contract. If the father, mother or more remote heirs of a deceased soldier were not residents of the United States at the date of soldier’s death, they are only entitled to such installments of bounty as had acciu *d and relnaintd unpaid at the time of his death. 5. Tne act of July 28, 186(5, gave an additional bounty of sllO to moti who enlisted and nerved for three years from April 19, 1861, and SSO to men who onlis'ed and seined for two years from Aoril 14, payable to the soldiers on substantially the fame terms as i i section 3 This bounty is not given to any one if the soldier was entitled to receive at any time a greater bounty than SIOO under auy other act or aets. 6. Drafted men, enrolled rrotn March 3,1863, to Sept 5,1864, for three years, or men who, from March 3, 1803, to Sept. 5, 1864, enlisted for three years as substitutes for drafted men, are only entitle 1 by act of Mtrch 3, 1863, to ’sloo bounty, if they served two years or more, or were discharged by reason of wouuds received iu line of duty before two years’ service. 7. All volunteer recruiis who eniated between Oct. 24, 1863, and April 1, 1864, for three years, in an chi organization already in the field, or who enlisted between Dec. 24, 18:53, aud April 1, 1864, for three years into a new organization, were entitled to S3OO bounty, payable in iastallm nts during the term of service, as follows: $<K) in advance, and S4O alter each two, six, twelve, twenty-four and thirty-six months, respectively. It the soldier servo" 1 his full term, or was discharged prior thereto hv reason of wounds, or under any of the general orders for the reduction of the army because of tennination of tlio war, he was enti led to the full amount. If discharged by re,s.m of diecaae, or by way of favor, or to accept promotion. he was ouf.itlel only to the aociued unpaid installments actually due him at the time of his discharge. 8. Soldiers who wore discharged after niuo mouth-*’ consecutive service in the army wi re permitted, after Jan. 1, 1863, a- d prior to April 1, 1864, to re-enlist and become veterans, atid were entitled to $4 It) bounty, payable in installments curing the teim of service, as fol--1 iws: Aiivanee, $25 (or S6O after Sept. 28, 1863), aud sso■‘after each two, six, twel. e, eighteen, twenty-four and thirty months, and tlio I alance at expiration of term of service. If they woro discharged to re-enlist into tho snnte regiment, they must have previously served two years iu order to become veterans, aud these were probably paid all bounty duo for first service. Those whose service entitled them to become veterans, but who have only received the bounty of s3oo, under section 7," because they were not borne as veterans, cannot receive any more unless they first procure a veteran musti r from tho Adjutant General, U. 8. A., War Department.

supernumeraries (non-commissioned officers) mustered out prior to April 28,. 1865, if veterans or veteiau recruits, are entitled to accrued installments of veteran bounty only; if musterid out after April 28, 1865, they are entitled to the full bouuty under whatever law they w< re carolled. !>. Volunteers who enlisted between July 18, 1801, and April 80, 1805, for one, two and three years, were, under act of July 4, 1804, promised *IOO for one year’s service, $2 )0 for two years’ service, and S3OO for three years’ service, if the soldier was discharged “because of wounds received in the line of duty,” he thereby became entitled to the full amount of bounty; but if he was discharged “because of servico.-* no liDger required,” or by “close of the war,” he has no claim for the balince of this bounty. Nearly all those enlisting under this act (J uly 4, 1804) were paid all due them at the time of discharge. If the soldier is dead, this bounty goes only to his widow, minor children or his motner, if she was a widow at the time of her son’s death. 10. Colored soldiers, nnder act of Mlrch 3, 1878, are enti.led to the same bounty as white sokliei s. 11. Ail soldiers discharged by reason of wounds received in battle, or in line of duty, are entitled, by acts of March 3, 1803, March 3, 1865, and joint resolution of April 12, iB6O, to receive the same bounty they siould nave received if they had served tht'ir full term of enlistment. The word wound as used in the foregoing is j held to mean any injury fiom violence received \ in line of duty. Tne bounty does not depend j upon the wound, but upon being discharged by I reason of the wound. 12. Tho loss of a soldiei’s discharge certificate does not prevent the collection of bounty, provided its loss or destruction is j roven. A duplicate discharge is not accepted as evidence to establish a claim against the Government. If a certificate of service is desired, application must be made to the Adjutant Geneial, United States Army, and not to this office. 15. No bounty is paid for enlistments or reenlistments in the Veteran Reserve Corps, but men transferred thereto from other regiments are entitled to the bounty they would have received in their old regiments, when discharged after two years’ lervice, or by reason of wounds. 16. No bounty will be paid upon a dishonorable discharge, or in any case where the soldier is borne on the rolls as a deserter, unless the charge of desertion shall have bean first removed by the War Department. 17. Soldiers who enlisted into the regulararmy between July 1,1861, and June 25, 18013, were enti led to sloooriginal bounty, under the same conditions as volunteers; but if they enlisted between April 14, 1801, and Apiilli), 1861, they would be entitled oniv >o $5 ', tne aduitioEal bounty of July 28, 1866; if after April 19. 1801, *IOO. " ’ 18.. Alt men en’isting into the regular army for five years, within nintly days from June 25, 1808 (ihe da'e of general order, No. 190, A. G. O.), were entitled to a bounty of s4oo| payable ini .Bailments as cited in Sec. 8. 19. All soldiers who enlisted or re-enlisted into the regular army for three years, under joint resolution of Jan. 13, 1804, aud general order No. 25, are entitled to S4OO boAmy. By act of June 20, 1804, regulars serving under enlistments made prior to July 22, 1801, and reenlisting between June 20,1804, and Aug. 1, 1804, under this act, into their old regiments for three years, are also entitled to S4OO bounty, payable in installments. Blank fotms of application will only bo furniahel at claimant’s request. Applications for blanks should bo made separately for each case. If tde claimant is an neir, the relationshij) to the soldier ehould be given. In filling out the blank care should be taken to give the full name of the soldier, the company and number of his regiment, and State to which it belonged ; the date aud period of each enlistment; the date and cause of discharge—if "for disab 1ity, state when, where, ar.d how contracted; what bounty is claimed, and how much bounty has been paid in all. In all caee3 when the soldier did not die while in service, the discharge certificate should be sent or accounted for. The lull postoffice address of the claimant must be given in ail cases.

How to Water Horses.

In cold weather give one pailfnl at a time three times a day. This is enongh unless yon are working them regularly; then give a little more, but not to exceed four pailfuls a day. In warm weather when they are brought in, first sponge out the month and nostrils well with cold water. After a few spongings they will wait for it to be done.

Then give them not to exceed a paiifnl apiece, and after feeding give one more paiifnl before you commence work. Don’t let them go without long enough to make them want more than this. If allowed, a thirsty horse, when warm, will drink too much. A common twelve-quart pail is the size referred to above.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Ti rbi; Haute is to have a hub and spoke factory. The people of Terre Hante are petitioning for a Government building. Gen. Ben Harrison will deliver the oration at New Albany, on Decoration day. The machinery for lighting Wabash with the electric light will be put up soon. Two new gravel roads will be built out from Danville this season, both running northward. The Presbyterian congregation of Wabash will build a church this summer to cost $17,000. Evansville nas 100 miles and 830 feet of streets, of which nine miles arc bowldered and graveled. A bold thief smashed in a SSO plate glass at a store in Madison, and grabbed a fine revolver, with which he skedaddled. A child of John Stephenson, living near Richmond, died from the effect of a piece of dried apple becoming lodged in its throat. A woman living near Sullivan, by the name of Lizzie Boon, was the other day suddenly struck speechless. The case seems to be a curious one. Thirty applications for executive clemency have been received by the Governor since the Ist of January of the present year, making 1 330 since Jan. 13, 1873. Benjamin Meredith, of Jeffersonville, went duck hunting. He leaned on the muzzle of his gun while getting over a fence, and the fool thing went off, killing him instantly. Mrs. Mock, an aged lady living on Otter creek, near 0.-good, nhile passing near a stove iguited her clothing, and while running to a neighbor’s for assistance received burns which caused her death. A skeleton was unearthed lately in the garden of William Baldwin at New Harmony. There was a string of beads around the neck, and a number of Hint arrow-heads were taken up with the bones. J. F. Miller, proprietor of the Richmond street railway, lias purchased six chariot omnibuses for use on the streets while the burned street-cars are being rebuilt, and to run to Hawkins’ springs daring the summer. Forty persons have stepped overboard from the Cannelton wliarfboat and been drowned. The forty-first walked overboard the other night with his hands in his pockets, but was fished out with a boat-hook and saved.

Miles V. McCunk, a brilliant but invalid attorney,' of Seymour, went to Stafford City, Arizona, for his health about a year ago. Be invested in mining stocks, and a letter written to a friend says he has just sold his interest for $75,000. The Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church choir, of New Albany, is rehearsing for a telephonic concert. The singiDg and orchestral parts are to be performed at a distance of a quarter of a mile from the church in which the concert is to be given, and the sound transmitted through eight telephones. At Fort Wayne, the Grand Jury, which has b.en investigating the alleged abuses at the County Asylum, submitted its report, setting forth that the charges made by the Sentinel are true, and that the greatest cruelty has been used in the treatment of unfortunate inmates, who have been starved, tortured and beaten in a shocking manner. Dr. W. R. Nofsinger, for many years a prominent resident of this State, died at the capital last week, aged G 5. His death was sudden, resulting from an apoplectic stroke. In 1854, in the Know Nothing excitement, he was elected Treasurer of State, aud after leaving that office engaged in large financial operations. Goy. Williams has pardoned James P. Smith, who was convicted of assault and battery by the Delaware county court iu 1879, and sentenced to two years’imprisonment. Smith’s wife secured his release by Aval king over fifty miles to obtain signatures to the petition. While on one of her journeys in his behalf her babe was frozen to death in her arms.

H. M. Orbison, a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne, was recently married, at Sturgis, Mich., to Mrs. M. S. Orbison, his former wife, who obtained a divorce from him in 1869. The parties lived together over twenty years, and raised a large family of children. In 1869, however, they had differences which resulted in a divorce, and for eleven years they have lived apart. The Supreme Court has decided the case of the State vs. Douglass, reversing the decision of the lower court. It appears that defendant was arrested and, on being taken befoie a Justice of the Peace, gave bail on Sunday. The lower court said that the action of the Justice was void, as violating the Sunday law, but the Supreme Court held that the Justice was serving the public good and therefore sustained his action. A fire was discovered in Union Block, at Crawfordsville, the other night. It originated in the room occupied by John L. Miller, dealer in boots and shoes, from which it quickly spread to the adjoining store-room of Bryant & Son, hardware dealers. The stock in each of these rooms was totally destroyed. The fire company, by energetic work, prevented the flames from spreading iurther. The total loss is $15,000, on which there was an insurance of $9,000, The Indiana Bureau of Statistics has the following figures in relation to the churches: They show the approximate number of churches in the State to be 4,857. The membership comprises onethird of the entire population, and increased during the past year 10 per cent., while the increase of the population was but 3; so that, according to arithmetical progression, if the increase continues at this rate it will comprise the entire population in about fourteen years. The increase in the value of church property from 1870 to 1878 was 14 per cent.

SCANDALS OF GRANTISM.

The Formation of the District of Columbia Ring. [From the New York Su".J Gen. Grant was no stranger in the city of Washington when he was called to the Presidency. From the close of the war to the time of his inauguration, a period of nearly four years, he had lived there, in a house presented to him by some of those admiring friends whom he subsequently rewarded with offices. He had found a* a >ciatea by that natural law of selection which brings together those of a kind. A fiber of honesty ran through Andrew Johnson’s character, and, although he was susceptible to flattery, he could not be used by the promoters of the scandalous jobs. But with the coming of Grant they saw the promise of ample rewards for their nefarious industry. The city of Washington was governed for many years with reasonable economy by its own people. It got its charter from Congress and was subject to the Federal Government instead of to a State, but otherwise it did not differ essentially from olher municipal corporations. Most of its inhabitants derived their incomes from the strangers within their gatep, but they countenanced no intermeddling with their local affairs, and the majority of them were rather parsimonious in the matter of public expenditures. The Mayor of the city for the six years preceding 1868 was Richard Wallacb, a war Democrat and an honest man. He was swept from power by the introduction of negro suffrage in the District of Columbia, and Sayles J. Bowen, a Republican of large officeliolding capacity, was elected to succeed him. Under his rule the expenses of the city were doubled, the resources of the treasury exhausted, and the pay of teachers and laborers withheld because all the public money had been diverted to illegitimate purposes. Bowen was Mayor when Grant came to the Presidency. The floodgates of extravagance had alleady been lifted, but the methods of plunder w’ere not perfected. The first scheme' for tapping the public till was audacious but grotesque A compauy was formed in September, 1869, w’liicli proposed to hold a “ Grand Universal Exposition of All Nations’’ in the city of Washington in 1871. Congress was asked to make an appropriation of $3,000,000. The Government was also expected to provide End for the buildings, to furnish from the navy ships for the free transpsrtation of exhibits, and to beslir itself, through its foreign Ministers and Consuls, in puffing into success this great international swindle, Ulysses S. Grant ,vas chosen President of the General Ex< c utivo Committee aud ex-officio Cha r man of the Local Execntiv'O Committee. He accepted tin so dubious honors and openly consorted with the vulgar knaves who originated this absurd scheme. In December, 18C9, the bi 1 charter ng the company- and making the appropriation of $3,0 0,000 was in'r » need in the Senate by Mr. Patterson, of New Hampshire. This Patterson was the full flower of that plant of Christian statesmanship which bloomed and rotted tinder Grant. He had been a professor in Dartmouth College before lie was made a Senator in Congress.' His success was hailed by cultured flunkies as a recognition of the “ educated classes,” and as the advent of the “gentleman in politics.” But. under the cloak of hypoerisy, this “ gentleman” carried the weapons of the public plunderer. He was driven into disgraceful retirement at last by reason of his connection with the Credit Mobilier. But, in truth, hi 3 most shameless acts were wrought as the apologist and confederate of the District of Columbia ring. While Patterson was working for the success of this exposition steal, he was secretly engaged in real-estate speculations xvith the lobbyists and spoils-seekers who had it in ebarge. Senator Thurman denounced the job as “a humbug, imposing an expense of $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 on the treasury of the United States.” But it Avas dragged iu and out of Congress till near the end cf the session (June, 1870), when it was permitted by its sponsors to die, because largar plots monopolized their attention.

On the 20th of May, 1870, an act was passed turning over Public Reservation No. 7, on Pennsylvania avenue, between Seventh and Ninth streets, to the Washington Market Company for a term of ninety-nine 5 ears. The value of the land thus disposed of was $500,000, and the franchise carried privileges worth $500,000 more. In return for this royal grant the Market Company was to build a magnificent City Hall, and was to pay an annual rental to the poor fund of the district. But the rental was evaded, and an appropriation was smuggled through Congress to pay for the City Hall which was not built. In 1870 Mayor Bowen was defeated as a candidate for re-election, and was succeeded by Mr. G. Emery, who ran on the Citizens’ ticket. This ticket was supported in the main by men who desired to check the abuses and stop the reckless extravagance of the city Government. But it was also used by certain tricksters to promote their selfish ends. Among the men elected to the Board of Aldermen on that ticket was Alexander R. Shepherd, who was destined to figure in history as the friend of Grant rnd the boss of the District ring. Shepherd deserves all the notoriety he has attained. He was a plumber by calling, but not by trade, for he had never served an apprenticeship. He was not a natural leader of men. The qualities which enabled the late William M. Tweed to rob the metropolis were net despicable qualities, albeit tiiey were put to a despicable use. He would have gained prominence in any sphere of life, and under almost any circumstances, by reason of his quick grasp of affairs and his intuitive knowledge of men. But Shepherd was of different stuff. If his promotion bad depended on the votes of the people, he would never have risen above the office of Alderman. Even to secure that place he resorted to false pretenses, professing to favor the reforms which he sought to defeat. He was brutal to his workmen, patronizing to those whom he considered his equals, but obsequious to fcbe dispensers of public favors. As soon lie enti rrd the Oexn-

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mon Council lie began to plot for the overthrow of the municipal Government. As Chairman of ihe Finance Committee he recommended a reduction of appropriations from a million and a quarter to a million dollars, saying: “These taxes will bear heavily upon our people, and it therefore becomes our duty to administer their affairs with rigid economy.” At this very time he had an agent on the road to negotiate for the monopoly of certain wood pavements, which were laid at a price which enabled their owners to di vide evenly with the ruling powers. During the spring and summer of 1870 the Common Council of Washington directed that Pennsylvania avenue be paved with wood, and that Louisiana and Indiana avenues be repaved. The property-owners on Louisiana avenue protested so vigorously against wood that stone was substituted for that portion of the work which was made a direct tax on them, but ttie center of the street was paved with wood, which quickly rotted away, leaving for years a suggestive contrast between honest work and jobbery. After three months’ delay the contract for paving Pennsylvania avenue was let in four sections to the highest bidders, under that form of competition which flourished during Grant’s administration. On the Ist of November, 1870, the contractors who had secured the job gave a fine champagne supper to invited guests in an improvised building near their shops. Wormley furnished the viands and wine, axul the crowd that gathered saw the population of Washington doubled before their stimulated vision. The glory of wooden pavements was extolled by intoxicated blockheads hired for the purpose. The pavement was quickly laid, the surplus profit of $150,000 fairly divided among the embryo ling, and in February, 1871, on tke birthday of George Washington (shade of the mighty dead forgive them!) the people of the capital turned out en masse to participate in a cartii val and fete which the ring rascals had arranged for tlieir delectation. These preliminary paiing jobs served a double purpose. They diverted comfortable sums from the city treasury into the pockets of their promoters, and they frightened conservative citizens at the possible excesses of a free Government in a place where the newly-en-franchised negroes held the balance of political power. The ring played upon this fear, and gradually unfolded its plan for erecting a Territoiial Government in the District, in which the President of the United States should be vested with the appointing power, and Congress should ultimately be made responsible for all expenses. The plan, viewed from the standpoint of pure selfislinesp, was quite plausible, as a means of lightening the burdens of direct taxation. Twoyears of Bowen had made the people ready for almost any change, and when old Hannibal Hamlin introduced a bill in the Senate, in February, 1870, “to provide for a Territorial Government for the District of Columbia,” it was received with more local favor than opposition. It passed the Senate in May without much discussion, and went to the House, where it slumbered in the District Committee till it was supposed to have died. But, on Jan. 20, 1871, Burton C. Cook, of Illinois, Chairman of the committee, reported back the bill with numerous amendments, which made it virtually a new act. This was crowded through a thin House by a vote of 97 to 58. On the same day Boss Shepherd, who had foreknowledge of the event, rushed off to the Board of Trade and offered a resolution “hailing with joy” the passage of ihe bill, “as the beginning of a new era in the development of our business interests ” —which indeed it was. The board appointed Shepherd, Hallet Kilboume and three others a committee to urge the Senate to accept the House substitute for the original bill without alteration. The Senate, however, demanded a conference committee, and in that committee the bill underwent a number of changes, all made in the interest of the ring. The bill finally passed on the 14th of February, 187 i. Grant withheld his signature a week. This delay was not a concession to decency. He had no hesitation about approving the act, but he wanted to give the knaves who had the carnival in charge a double cause for rejoicing—at the incubation of a monstrous swindle, as well as over the completion of a paving job. The Territorial Government of the District of Columbia consisted of a Governor, a Secretary, a Council, a House of Delegates, and a Board of Public Works. The Governor was clothed with all the powers of the most favored State Executives; he could veto bills, grant pardons, appoint officers, and posture as the center of a military staff. The Counci*, which was a sort of mock Senate, was appointed, as were also the members of the Board of Public Works. The House of Delegates and a Delegate in Congress were to be elected by the people. But the Delegate in Congress had no vote, and the House of Delegates might as well have had none, for the members were powerless for good and superfluous for evil. Mayor Emery was induced to favor the abolition of his office, in the belief that he would be made the first Governor of the District. He had for a backer the Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman, of whose church he was a member. Dr. Newman held himself in readiness at all times and under all circumstances to certify to Grant’s sobriety, honesty and innate piety. He- was moderately certain that he had never seen the President drink, absolutely certain that he had never seen him steal, and profoundly convinced that he would be a devout Methodist, if he were any sort of a Christian. In return for bis services, Dr. Newman asked only an occasional office for himself, his wife, and his immediate flock. Boss Shepherd was also a candidate for Governor. His chief advocate was Henry D. Cooke, of Jay Cooke & Co. This Cooke was the President’s banker, and in his opinion was the wisest financier of modern times—wiser even than Boutwell or Richardson or brother-in-law Corbin. That he might not be forced to take sides between Shepherd and Emery, Grant rejected them both and conferred the office of Governor of the District on H. D. Cooke. With this action Parson Newman could find no fault, for Mr. Cooke was loud in his religious professions. It was he who negotiated for the Young Men’s Christian Association of Washington a large loan from the Freed men’s Savings Bank on worthless i econd-mortgage bonds. As the*e bonds weye never paid, the loan

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was equivalent to a gift from the poor negroes to the assoc : ation. Some of them had worked very long and hard for the little sums which they deposited in the bank, in the hope, by-and-bv. of owning a home, or of giving to their children advantages of which they themselves had been deprived by slavery. Gov. Cooke was the vain, pretentious figurehead of the District ring. Shepherd was quick to see that under this quack banker he could plunder the treasury with greater ease and safety than he could if he himself had been placed at the head of the Territorial Government. His own religious professions (for Shepherd also managed a Sunday school and “ran” a church) had failed to deceive anybody, while his financiering bad been limited to a few paving jobs and to bulging his bills for plumbing and gasfitting at the Capitol. But Cooke was a certificated Christian and the Government’s pet banker. Under his wing it was safe to steal. Boss Shepherd was made a member of the Board of Public Works. This board consisted of four members besides the Governor, who was ex-officio its President. What the Beard of Audit was in New York under the Tweed ring, the Board of Public Works was in Washington under the Grant ring. Shepherd was its Vice President and controlling power. Ho was permitted to dictate the appointment of other members. The first of these was A. B. Mullett, then Supervising Architect of the Treasury. This appointment w-as a stroke of genius. Mullett was the man of all others whose favor venal Congressmen courted. If they wanted new public buildings in their respective districts, they must first of ul>, Mullett’s recommendation, and, after the new structure was authorized, they counted on him to award fat contracts to their friends. Mullett met these advances in a gracious spirit, but gently reminded each importunate Congressman that he, too, had a nest to feather; that favors should not.be one-sided; that the beautifying and regenerating of the national capital was his particular hobby, and that a liberal appropriation would be gratefully appreciated by. the Board of Public Works. Thus the ring and the Supervising Architect of the Treasury played into each other’s hands in making Congress subservient to their purpose.

The third member of the board, and its Treasurer, was James A. Magrudor, better known as Stubb Magruder. He worked with great diligence to confine his accounts, so as to make it difficult to tell w'hat part of t] <j public money was spent and what was stolen. The records show that $1,000,010 which lie claimed to have paid out in his official position was entered on his books. S. P. Brown was the original fourth member of the board. He was a dofauloing navy agent, but not acceptable to the ring. They finally crowded liim on!, on the exposure of the fact that, lie was interested in a contract. Grant appointed the members of the Council at the dictation of Shepherd. It was necessary for the ring to coc trol the Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds. Gen. Micliler, the incumbent of that office, was an honest man, but, he possessed an unfortunate fondness for liquor. The ring deliberately arranged a round of social gayeties to keep him perpetually in a bewildered state. But, finding that they could not make him absolutely subservient to their will, they arranged to rid themselves of him, and in June, 1871, the President ordered him to the Pacific coast. Orville E. Babcock, Grant’s private secretary, was immediately detailed as Gen. Michler’s successor. Between him and Boss Shepherd a perfect understanding existed. Babcock, as Commission* r of Public Buildings and Grounds, was to guard the rights of the people against the excesses of the ring. Shijiherd, as chief of the Board of Public Works, was at liberty to go as far as Babcock permitted. And these two—one iqqiointed nominally to check the extortions of the other—were purtners in spsculation, bound together by the cohesive power of public plunder and equally interested in making tinexpenditure as extravagant us their mingled greed and audacity might suggest. With other preliminaries arranged, it was deemed essential to buy back the followers of ex-Mayor Bowen and conciliate the negroes. Accordingly. Bowen’s chief counselor, William A. Cook, an unscrupulous lawyer, was made attorney to the Board of Public Works, and a colored man named Johnson evas appointed District Treasurer. Johnson had failed as a barber and restaurunlkeepir, but was considered competent to keep the public money. Nothing remained but to buy the loeil newspapers, and this was an easy task. The editors of the leading organa in Washington were given a slice of the spoils, and while the ring lasted they sang its praises continually, and pocketed their share of the plunder. It will be seen that the ring at its inception embraced: 1. Ulysses 8. Grant, President of the United State*; 2. Henry D. Cooke; 3. Alexander It. Shepherd and the whole gang of disreputable characters, including the Washington journalists whom he controlled; 4. Orville E. Babcock, who sold himself for a price and betrayed liis trust as guardian of the Government’s interests; 5. A. B. Mullett and the Representatives in Congress whom he influenced ; 6. Senator J. W- Patterson, of New Hampshi re, and De Golyer Garfield, of Ohio; 7. A gang of Pennsylvania contractors, who taught the lessons of addition, division and silence. It remains to narrate the acts by which this comprehensive ring robbed the people of $43,000,000.

Unsatisfactory Arithmetic.

Parson—“l wish to complain, Mrs. Diggings, of the conduct o* your daughter at the Sunday school to day: it was rude in the extreme.” Mrs. D.—“Ah, it’s what they taches her at that theer board school as dun it; yesterday she come home, and she says, ‘Mother, they are a-tachmg of me vulgar frax*huns.’ What can you i x pex after that, sir?”

Mules.

More mules are raised in Missouri than in any other State in the Union. Texas tikes second place in the number of mules raised, but they are much inferior in size to the Missouri-grown mules. Kentucky comes third in the production of mules, and for size and quality ttands first.