Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

FOREIGN NEWS. The French Government has ordered the cloHing of al) Jesuitical CHtablialnnentH in France within three months. There is every prospect of a war between China and Russia. There is to be a meeting of the German and Russian Emperors shortly. Bismarck celel rated his 66th birthday on the 2d of April, and received letters and presents from all parts of Europe. A terrible tire occurred recently in Montaimont, a village of Savoy. Seventeen inhabitants perished, and thirty-one dwellings were destroyed. The result of the English ( lections is not regarded with favor by any continental government save the Russian. The extreme Radical press of France, however, are very jubilant over the matter. The health of the Emperor William is not good, and much anxiety is felt in German official circles in consequence. It is reported that 20,000 Chinese troops have crossed the boundary into Russian territory. Forty-two persons were killed by the late colliery explosion in Belgium. A body of Afghan soldiers under the h ad of Mohammed Jan has been defeated by the British, and Mohammed himself killed. Dr. Kenealy, who has been living for years on his Tjcliborne-trial notoriety, has been very badly defeated in his Parliamentary candidacy.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Two men were killed and several injured by a boiler explosion at Buffalo. A fire at Bradford, Pa., destroyed MOOJItX) worth of property, including the Academy of Music. The New York retail grocers have agreed to petition ('ongress to pass a law preventing the sale or manufacture of oleomargarine. A gang of marauders is stealing stock and burning barns in Chester county, l‘a. West. Mrs. Clem, the notorious Indianapolis woman, has been sentenced to four years in the Indiana penitentiary for forgery. A San Francisco man has gone crazy over the 15 puzzle. Mrs. Holloway and her infant child were burned to death at Warsaw, Ind. It is believed they were murdered. A party of twelve in a wagon were thrown over an embankment, near Terre Haute, Ind., drowning two ladies. Miss. Lavina Goodell, a well-known woman lawyer of Janesville, Wis., is dead. Two noted desperadoes undertook to release a murderer confined in the jail at Las Vegas, and, meeting with resistance, shot and killed the keeper, and fled. During the winter packing season— Nov. 1, 1879, to March 1,1880 6,950,451 hogs were slaughtered and packed in the West, against 7,480,618 during tlii' season of 1878 9. Chicago alone slaughtered 2,525,219, A violent cyclone passed over a section of Southeastern Kansas one day last week, demolishing houses and killing several people. A large white-lead establishment at Joplin. Mo., has been burned. The loss was •t , '}oo,ooo, and the insurance •'■<27,000. A boiler explosion near Rushville, 111., destroyed a saw-mill, killed three men. and seriously injure I two others. South. During Gen. Grant’s visit to Houston, Texas, somebody shut off the gas from the city, necessitating the use of candles, and spiked the cannons. The Mayor offers a reward of *SOO for the arrest of the miscreants. Two card-players in Bandera county, Texas, quarreled, adjourned to the street, and shot each other dead. The Brown county (Tex.) Court House and jail have been burned, with several prisoners. A bill doing away with public executions in Kentucky has passed both houses of the Legislature of (hat State. Ben Johnson, a negro, charged with rape, has been lynched at Winchester, Ky. Gen. Grant was created a Duke by the Carnival Court, of New Orleans. Died at Baltimore, Md., Hester I’resburg, aged 125.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The excess of American exports over ; imports for the year ending Feb. 2!) last was ■ $212,298,963. I In the contested-election case of Washburn vh. Donnelly, from Minnesota, the House Committee on Elections have decided to report that neither of them is entitled to the seat. Following is a statement of the public debt issued on the Istinst: Six percent. bondss 256,887,700 Five percents 498,',162,900 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 739,017,350 Kelunding certificates 1,830,450 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,760,698,400 Matured debts 9,922,965 Legal tenders 346,742,211 Certificates of deposit... 8,495,000 Fractional currency 15,625,297 Gold and silver certificates 20,145,420 Total without interest. 391,007,928 Total interest'.s 19,870,513 Total debt 52,161,629,293 Cash in treasury.. 201,106,983 Debt less cash in trea5ury51,980,392,824 Decrease during March 14,719,396 Decrease since J une 30, 1879 46,814,432 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid 2,518,642 Debt on which interest has ceased 9,922,966 Interest thereon 881,565 Gold and silver certificates 20,145,420 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 8,495,000 Cash balance available, April 1, 1880.... 159,143,388 | Totals 201,106,983 Available assets— Cash in treasury 201,106,983 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 969,352 Interest paid by United States 45,651,155 Interest repaid by transportation of mails 12,983,707 By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 32,012,249 The Cabinet has decided to recommend legislation looking to the establishment of a civil Government in Alaska. POLITICAL POINTS. Tlie New York Democrats have issued a call for a State Convention, to meet at Syracuse, April 20. The Tammany Democracy have also called a State Convention for the same time and place. The Kansas Republican Convention piet at Topeka on the 3fst nit. There was an

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME Iv 7 .

I exciting contest over the manner of choosing 1 the delegates to the National Convention, the I Grant partisans insisting upon the district plan, ■ while the friends of Blaine wanted them chosen ■ by the convention. The latter, being in the I majority, carried the day, and ten delegates, all j of them said to be Blaine men, were elected. The Grant delegates from the Second and Third ■ Congressional districts subsequently met and | selected a delegation to Chicago, to contest the i seats of the Blaine men. Secretary Sherman delivered a speech .at Mansfield, Ohio, on the 31st ult. He admitted that he was a candidate for the Presidential nomination, but declared that if the Republicans i of Ohio did not, in th< ir convention, express a i preference for him and support it with substantial unanimity, his name would not he presented to the National Convention. The local (flection in San Francisco has resulted in the triumph of the anti-Kearney t : cket ( The Nebraska Democratic Convention, held at Omaha, chose delegates to Cincinnati said to be friendly to Tilden, and resolved in favor of the two-thirds rule in the nominating convention. The Democratic Central Committee of Vermont is in favor of Hancock for President. United States Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, whose term will expire next year, is a candidate for re-ele :tion. The Republican Convention of Utah Territory selected a Blaine delegation to the Chicago Convention. A State Convention of the Greenback party of Missouri has been called for May 20.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The daily papers of Montreal refuse to print Bob Ingersoll’s advertisements. Two hundred English farmers have arrived at Montreal, on route to Manitoba. More than 21,000 immigrants landed at New York during March. Bob Ingersoll was refused a public hall at Brookville, Canada, to lecture in. The gallows claimed eight murderers on Friday, the 2d. Three of them were wonienkillers. The victims were Samuel Holer, James Brown and Andrew Macon, all negroes, at Macon, Miss.; Robert Anderson (white) and Chas. Webster (colored), at Louisville, Ky.; Edward Tatro, at Windsor. Vt.; Gustave Brieux (colored), at Baton Rouge, La.; Jo.:eph Walker (colored), at East Carroll, La., and James Madison Stone (colored), of Washington, 1). C. 'The execution of Stone proved to be a shocking affair, the force of the fall completely severing the head from the body, to the intense horror of the spectators. The great Egyptian obelisk is on its way to New York. Count de Lesseps lias gone back to France. The New England Methodist Conference refused to admit women to deaconships, but the members express themselves as favoring their, admission to the pulpit as lay preachers, believing that their influence over members of their own sex would be salutary. The Spanish Minister at Washington has communicated to Secretary Evarts his suspicions that a filibustering expedition against Cuba is being or has been fitted out at Lewes, Del. L. E. Hanson, President of the Wheeling (W. Va.) Hinge Company, is a defaulter to the extent of .*31,000, and has left his home. A steamship lino between New York and Mediterranean ports has been started.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On the meeting of the Senate on Monday, March 29, Mr. Kirkwood presented a memorial from the lowa Legislature protecting innocent users of patent articles, and Mr. Cameron presented a memorial of the Wisconsin Legislature recommending an appropriation to enable the Secretary of War to construct improvements of the Upper Mississippi river. Several bills were introduced and referred. Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill in the Senate on the 30th ult., to provide for the sale of the Miami lands in Kansas; also, providing for the proper punishment of crimes on Indian reservations; also, a bill for the relief of settlers on Shawnee lands in Kansas. The Senate rejected the following nominations of Census Supervisors: Thomas H. Sher\vood, First district, Pennsylvania; Charles P. Jadwin, Fifth district, Pennsylvania... .In the House, the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was passed. Mr. Clymer reported the Army Appropriation bill, and it was referred to the committee of the whole. The report states that, after the deliberate study of estimates and full inquiry of the various officers of the War Department, the committee had concluded that the estimates of the department con’d be reduced $1,201,(575, leaving the sum of $2(5,425,800, which is recommended in this bill, and which is $317,500 less than the amount appropriated for the present fiscal year. The Senate Elections Committee had printed the testimony and reports in the Kellogg-Spofford case, in which was included the testimony of Webber, a witness whose testimony was discredited by the committee and ordered omitted, therefore Mr. Cameron (Wis.) rose in his place on the morning of the 31st ult and made an explanation. After some talk the report was recommitted for the purpose of expurgation. The bill providing for an International Exhibition in New York in 1883, was amended and passed. The Committee on the Judiciary reported adversely on the bill making Feb. 22 a legal holiday in the District, and it was indefinitely postponed. Tlie bill introduced by Mr. Paddock to equalize homesteads by allowing locations in more than one place, where necessary to make up 1(50 acres, was passed. The Immediate Deficiency bill was taken up, and a long and rather sharp debate ensued between Messrs. Blaine, Edmunds, Eaton, Beck, Allison, Davis, Carpenter, Whyte and Dawes. ....In the House, a large number of bills were reported from committees, most. of which were placed on Um calendar. The Post-lloute bill was passed. Consideration was resinned of the contested-election case of Bradley vs. Siemens, from the Second district of Arkansas. The report of the committee, in favor of Mr. S'.enions, was adopted, by 149 to 21. Mr. Wallace, on behalf of a majority of the Senate select committee on alleged frauds in the. late elections, submitted to the Senate, on the 2d inst., a special report and a bill concerning political assessments. The Vice President laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of War recommending an appropriation of $50,000 for the new military post between Forts Custer and Assiniboine. A pension bill for a scout was discussed and opposed, but no conclusion reached. The Senate adjourned to Monday. The President nominated John R. McFie, of Coultersville, Randolph county, 111., as Supervisor of the Census for the Eighth district of Illinois, and George 8. Houghton, of Tabor, lowa, Supervisor of the Census for the Third district of lowa In the House, the Star Service Deficiency bill occupied the day; the Senate amendments were concurred in, and the bill was passed. 'l'he Senate was not in session on Saturday, the 3d inst., while the House met for general debate only. Accordingly, the meeting resolved itself into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, and a number of members “spoke their little pieces’’ upon whatever subject they were primed for.

Leave Your Money at Home.

A woman with a practical turn of mind is Mrs. Brownsmith. When Brownsmith had been knocked down and robbed, and was brought home in a dying condition, this wonderful woman didn’t go into a faint or hysterics. Not she. She remarked, with a coolness and self-possession worthy of herself, “There, I knew it would bo so ; I told John he’d better leave some of his money at home.” A few months ago a colored woman in Hayti began to grow white, and now there is not a trace of color in lier skin, and she is much displeased at the change.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 18S0.

HOME INTERESTS.

Numerical. My first gives heed to great and grain, My second is in row and rowdy ; My third comes twice to see again. My fourth contributes to pan-dowdy, And without my fifth con’d lie no stain. Now take the whole, which you all have heard, Behead, and leave but empty words; Yet, within those words, an insect lies; Within than insect an indefinite tries To break away from a letter, which Is found in thimble, in thread and stitch. Camden, Ohio. Puzzler.

The True and the False. If anybody, man or woman, stands up and says that-“ the man docsnot live who can be trusted,” I say they speak a plaiu lie, or else are not acquainted with their subject; or, perhaps, possess so little of true manhood or womanhood that they cannot recognize the same when seen in others. It makes me mad that such a thought is entertained of men generally. It’s true there are low-minded men whom ’tis best to be guarded against—in whose company a young lady is misplaced to her grief; but, thank God, are there not thousands of men whose hearts in their nobleness throb with compassion | for the fair young girl (yet foolish) who is about I to throw her life away for a mere fop, whom she has selected for her husband, in preference to the man who tndy loved her? And this same true lover held nothing more sacred, during their courtship, than the innocence and purity of her he Imped to win for his wife, but whom he lost because she could not discriminate between a trustworthy man and a rascal. And Olive Logan says: “Men will not do to trust.” No! Neither are all women to be trusted. 11l not be so hard on the fair sex, by using “all." ’ How many a true and noble-hearted boy has come to ruin and degradation through the in--1 fidelity and worthlessness of woman! I hold the thing is pretty well divided. Show me your untrue men, and I’ll point out as many women ; yet, notwithstanding there are many such, the ; world is still full of noble and trustworthy humanity ! In our millions of currency to-day , there are, of course, many counterfeit coins and bills afloat so well executed that they pass for months from hand to hand without detection. Yet sooner or later the deceit is found out, and usually a poor man must bear the loss. Then what is found ? Why we find, though the coin is faultless in its “get-up,” that the metal is alloyed, and not from the United States mint,'and therefore counterfeit. Oh, counterfeit, did you say ? Then we must admit that there was a genuine coin to copy from, or there could be no counterfeit, as we all know. So-are there imitations of the true man. We meet and converse with them every day, but, owing to their fine cut and outer semblance to a gentleman, we, perhaps, never know their worthlessness ; and, if the revelation is made, it is always with an allotted amount of misery and unhappiness to parties concerned. (1. L. Marion. Bloomington, 111.

Flower-Gardening for Beginners. Among the many pleasant letters which have come to me recently I have laid aside two as especially worthy of a detailed reply through these columns. One of them is from a young man who, by force of circumstances, is separated from the outside world, yet he is an enthusiastic Hower lover, and begs the paper that he may read my letters about flowers. The other epistle is written by a school-girl, the daughter of a farmer, and she wants the pleasure of raising a nice bed of flowers all her own. She thinks these letters have helped her thus fig, so I will tell what was accomplished by three daughters of a farmer, some few years ago, under my directions. They took hold with a will, were apt and studious pupils, and all are now quite expert in gardening, considering they are only amateurs. They have taken four out of five premiums offered for flowers at the county fair. At this time of the year, when the trees are just beginning to put forth their leaves, it seems as if one gets the gardening fever upon them. Advertisements in the leading newspapers are perused, catalogues sent for, and, after they have come, long lists are made out; for we think of all the pretty flowers we saw in our travels last summer, and determine to have them. When the lists are footed up they stagger one with their enormity, for some "of the seedsmen who issue expensive catalogues, with highly-colored plates, do charge extravagant prices. I can remember, when I was a novice, after the first selection, the bill would be ¥lO and over; then I would reluctantly weed out this and that item until it came within the reach of my purse. A beginner is very apt to be led into buying high-priced seeds because the flowers she I expects them to produce are made to appear very beautiful in the colored plates. It is better policy for a novice to start with the hardiest seeds, then, as experience is gained in their management, she can go on step by step until the finest greenhouse seeds will grow and thrive under her care. There is one dear sister who has encouraged the children to save their pennies until they get twenty-five, and then send them to me for twelve kinds of hardy annual seeds, suitable for beginners. She’ teaches them it is a better investment than purchasing candy, because the flowers will endure and give them pleasure a whole summer and fall, while the sweets would only afford a temporary gratification. It teaches them habits of patience and industry, too, and one rarely sees a child fond of flowers who is not of good disposition. It is a source of pleasure to me that many who never cared about flowers until reading ‘these letters are now enthusiasts. I Suppose you have the seeds now. Don’t get the planting fever because there happens to come a spell of warm weather. Wait until the ground gets thoroughly warmed up first. Select a piece of ground for a seed bed looking south, if possible. Spade it well and rake smooth; now mark it off in drills about an eighth of an inch deep. Sow the seeds in these drills, covering the larger seeds deeper than the small ones; write the name of each kind on a wooden label previously oiled to withstand effect of weather, and place these at the end of the drills, so you will know when the seeds come up just what vou have. While the seeds are growing, and until they get strong enough to transplant, vou can be making the beds where they are to flower. My preference is for beds cut in the lawn, because they retain moisture longer. Some few years ago I boarded at a farm house where there"were three young ladies in the family. They liked flowers, but had no experience in" raising" them. After determining upon having a garden, the first step was taken in preparing the seed bed. We located the proposed garden, but the ground was a stiff clay; so, after marking out three circles by means of stakes driven around them, fresh green sods were cut by me, and laid against the stakes by the ladies. While thev | were at work I wheeled leaf mold from the ad- ; jacent woods. Meanwhile the Asters, Zinnias, ■ China Pinks, etc., were ready to transplant, so we took advantage of the evening of a rainy day for the purpose. After the beds were filled up and all the plants growing nicely we found we had abundance left in the seed-bed, so the neighbors for two or three miles around got a share. The grass edgings were trimmed every ; week with a sharp sickle. After awhile I made I other beds, filling them with Phlox, Petunias, ■ Candytuft and Portulacca. In front of the house we had two beds of Geraniums. All that summer we had bouquets in every room, on the kitchen table at meal times, gave every visitor a bouquet, decorated Floral Hall at the county fair and still had abundance of Howers. If I remember right I think $2 was all we expended |in procuring both the seeds and plants. Very I briefly stated, success to the beginner will de- | pend on getting good seed, not being in too big | a hurry to plant it, keeping the seed alwavs moist after it is put into the ground; and when seedlings and plants are growing keep the weeds ou t- Mr. Rennie. Ainsworth, lowa. A ICusk Hat. Mu. Editor : It is a question in my i mind whether it is not our duty to impart any information we may be able to when it will be a | pleasure or benefit to others. The public can i do as well without us, but there is one place | where we are in demand every day, and coni stantly; when mothers’ hands are still, then 1 things go wrong. We find it takes a great amount of patience to answer to all the little calls; but if the little ones only grow to be good doing their best, we may see in their good deeds the reward of our striving. To color Easter eggs, you can sew them in printed calico and boil them a long time, they will have the figure of the cloth. To make a husk mat : Take the best of the husks, pick them off the butts and dip them in water and shake so they will not ’-e wet, onlydamp; it is best to have all your husks ready before you commence braiding. If your mat is to be oval take three strands, airs aqc| husks op

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

both sides as you braid till the braid is as long as you want the center of the mat, leaving about two inches of the butt end of the husk out, then add only on the right-hand side every time you lap that strand. You will soon see that in this way you will have a nice, smooth mat with the husks all turning to the outside. If you were here, I could have braided your mat while it takes me to write this. Aurinda. Chapman, Neb.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

The required amount of food for a horse for ordinary work is twelve pounds of oats or any other kind of grain food, and fourteen pounds of hay. A horse weighing 1,000 pounds, and- fed eight , quarts of grain or oats, which is equivalent to eight pounds, should be fed 1 eighteen pounds of hay. Hay is the nerve food for a horse, cattle or sheep, ' and grain is the muscular and adipose or I fat-producing food. Coffee is said by Dr. Gnillasse, of the French navy, to be almost a specific in j the early stages of typhoid fever. He gives to adults two or three table-spoon-fuls of strong black coffee every two hours, alternating with one or two teaspoonfuls of claret or Burgundy wine. The beneficial effect is immediate. A little lemonade or citrate of magnesia | should be given daily, and after a while quinine. Tea drinkers nowadays will do well to apply the following sample test to the tea purchased of their grocers : Turn out the infused leaves, and if they are found a good brown color, with lair substance, the tea will be wholesome ; but if the leaves are black and of a rotten texture, with an oily appearance, the tea will not be fit to drink. The purer the tea, the more the distinctively brown color of the leaf strikes the attention. The mixing that is frequently adopted to reduce prices results in the two kinds of leaves being supplied together. It is important to see that the leaves have the serrated < r saw-like edges, without which no tea is genuine. The choice of a lubricant is frequently ill-made. Common kerosene is too often injudiciously used in place of a thicker or more bland oil, because the heat produced by the friction rapidly vaporizes the oil and leaves the journals dry. Crude petroleum for the same reason is fitted only for very slowly revolving journals, such as water wheels. For very heavy machinery, or for gearing, tallow and black lead rubbed up together is the best lubricant, and also the best for wagon and carriage axles during hot weather. For light-running machinery sperm oil is the best; good olive oil that has not become rancid and acid is perhaps the second best, and for winter use lard oil is excellent, but is rather too drying to be a first-class lubricant. Castor oil is better for axles in winter time, and black lead with it is a help at any time. Very beautiful baskets for holding flowers can be made of the longer and more feathery kind of mosses. A light frame, of any shape you like, should lie made with wire and covered with common pasteboard or calico, and the moss, which should first be well picked over and cleansed from any bits of dirt or dead leaves which may be hanging about it, gathered into little tufts and sewed with a coarse needle and thread to the covering, so as to clothe it thickly with a close and compact coating, taking care that the points es the moss are all outward. A long handle made in the same manner should lie attached to the basket, and a tin or other vessel, filled with either sand or water, placed within to hold the flowers. By dipping the whole structure into the water once in three or four days its verdure and elasticity will be fully preserved, and a block of wood about an inch thick, and stained black or green, if placed under the basket, will prevent all risk of damage to the table from moisture.

Chicago as the Poor Man’s Paradise.

It is astonishing how cheap a man can live here. This city swarms xvith onehorse restaurants at which a man can subsist—the word is used advisedly—on an amount that would not keep him in toothpicks in some places. I fell in xvith a veteran skirmisher (a bad actor), xvho volunteered much valuable information on the subject. “Come to a pinch,” said he, “ a fellow can xvork up a free-lunch route, but a gentleman don’t like to do that, you know. A certain amount of ‘ shape ’ must be maintained or you will lose respect for yourself. One time I was reduced to a quarter of a dollar, with no prospects. What do you suppose I did ? Why, I bought 15 cents’ worth of rice, took it into a restaurant where I was slightly acquainted, told the proprietor that my doctor had ordered me to diet for dyspepsia, and obtained his permission to parch and cook the rice in one of his pans. I xvoidd come in twice a day and dip a spoonful of rice out of the middle of the dish, eat it and depart. It wasn’t very fillin’, but it served as a basis to build on. Talk about the widow’s cruise ; why, that was nothing to my pan of rice. Every time I dipped out a spoonful what was left would swell and fill up the hole. You wouldn’t believe me if I were to tell you how long that rice lasted me. I kept up the dyspepsia racket till I was ashamed to look a street-car mule in the face, and when I quit coming the pan looked as full as ever. It was the greatest scheme I ever worked. ‘ ‘ When I first came here I thought the proper thing to do was to buy a commutation ticket, and I hunted around till I struck the restaurant that offered the greatest inducement. Then I invested my last $4, and went away feeling self-satisfied with my shrewdness. Come what might, I was sure of about S3OO worth of indifferent provender, and I could afford to stand in front of the Grand Pacific every sunny afternoon and pick my teeth. The next day the refectory closed. That was the last investment I made in commutation tickets. When I get pressed and have to economize, I patronize those retreats where you can get a piece of chuck-steak for 10 cents, with bread and potatoes throvni in. Palmer House cuisine is better, but then you can’t expect the luxuries of a Delmonico for 10 cents. You can chew just as long on a 10-cent chunk of bullneck as on a $1.25 porter-house. If it were simply a question of taste, I should probably take the porter-house.”-—C%i----ca</o Cor. Indianapolis Journal.

A Young Man.

Rat—“ Well, Dan, and have ye heard the news—have ye heard that Rory, the miller’s, dead ?” Dan—“ Rory, the miller, is it, that’s dead now? Jabers, but ye don’t say so, and he was a young man, too.’ Pat—“ Faith, an’ that’s three for you, Dan; he was such a young man, now, that I expected to see him at my own funeral instead of me going to his.” The city of Boston ftlwmt $25,(MM), 000 in mortgages.

LET US HAVE PEACE.

The Spirit of Sectional Hate Soundly Rebuked Speech of Congressman McMahon, of Ohio. The Deficiency Appropriation bill being under discussion in the House of Representatives, Mr. McMahon, of Ohio, spoke as follows in reply to Mr. Garfield: I wish in all good faith to ask my colleague from Ohio, who has read us all, and me particularly, a lecture, why it is that on every political proposition upon which he undertakes to alarm the country and lecture the Democratic party we find that in the past he advocated the very propositions we now make, and pursued the very course which he now pretends so much to reprobate? Why is it? Will my colleague look to the history of the Republican party in the country, and particularly in the State of Ohio, with its long record of nullification on the question of the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave law? Gentlemen on the other side are amused. Why? Do they object to my reference to those days ? Is it because the Republican party was then only in its infancy and that it pleads minority for xvhat it did then ? In those days actual resistance to the enforcement of the law was one of the cardinal prints of the majority of the Republican party, a policy we have never advocated nor practiced nor indorsed. Or, do gentlemen claim that the great public men of their party in that day xvere unsound statesmen, dangerous to the country and enemies to the Government? The judgment of an impartial public would be to-day in favor of the Republican leaders of twenty years ago in preference to those of to-day. When the record of gentlemen has been so different in the past from their present position, on the questions of the effect of decisions of the Supreme Court, the supremacy of Federal law, and riders to appropriation bills, are we to look upon them as reformed statesmen ? Does my colleague desire to appear in that role ? Has my colleague seen the error of his ways ? Has he become convinced that in those days he and his party was wrong? Are you willing, gentlemen, to admit that to the country now ? Or are we to draw the proper conclusion that you can change your side as the necessi- , ties and emergencies of party demand ? In 1860 the Republican party was as powerful, as strong, as brainy, as full of leaders, and as intent upon great purposes as it ever was in the history of this country; indeed, more so; for it had not then been debauched as it has been since by the unlimited possession of power; it had not been corrupted by the handling of millions or rather of thousands of millions of the public money without accountability except to itself. It was then a party for the equal rights of men; 1 a party which a man might well respect although he might not agree with it in its aims and purposes. In those days one of the corner-stones of the party was placed in the Chicago platform of 1860. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic in- I stitutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is egaential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends; and we denounce the , lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes. A similar enunciation of doctrine today by any Democrat would be denounced as hatred of the Federal Union and hostility to the Federal Government. Will you admit that in 1860 you were for the rights of the States because you possessed a majority of the State Governments, and were not in possession of the Federal Government ? Do you admit that you were wrong then, but right now ? I leave gentlemen to decide that before the American people. A party which can maintain both sides of the same important question, with equal vigor, depending only upon where its party interests may temporarily lie, is not well qualified for the position of ■monitor to any other party, nor are its teachings deserving of- the attention of a serious people. Mr. Chairman, the ingenuity with which our friends on the other side evade the discussion of all economical questions that look to the real interests of the people is remarkable. When the Belknap investigation was first ordere’d the cry went all over the country that the “ Rebel Brigadiers ” were assailing an honest Union soldier who had helped to put the Rebellion down; and, although he was proven to have been guilty beyond all controversy, Republicans did all in their power to protect him. This is only one instance in the past. When we have now under discussion the question of how much money shall be appropriated for the printingoffice—because the Public Printer has violated the law in using up in eight months an appropriation intended for the whole fiscal year—when we discover that the appropriations for that department, if voted as the demands of the office now require, will make an increased expenditure of $400,000 over former years, when charges of extravagance, inattention to public interests, squandering of the people’s money are made, how are we met ? Why the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Garfield] rises, and, in his dilettant way, says that he will not waste any time on the discussion of the Printing Office. That seems to him to be only a matter of a few hundred thousand dollars to the American people ! I suppose, in view of the history of his party, he considers such a deficiency a very small matter. Perhaps it is. But it is the mission of the Democratic party at this time—and for that reason it has been kept in power—to look into the expenditure of the money of the people, no matter how small, and save wherever we can, no matter how small the sum may This purpose of the Democratic party to economize expenditures and expose the extravagance of the administration cannot be evaded by side issues. It does gentlemen no good at this late day to flaunt the bloody shirt before the American people. It might do, Mr. Chairman, in the days when our people were distressed, when men were out of employment, when there was no work to do, when our manufacturing establishments were stopped, when every interest and industry in the country were paralyzed, as the result of the policy of the party of the gentlemen on the other side. But now if men are out of employment it is simply because the exigency of the occasion authorizes them to demand 10 or 20 per cent, over the wages of hard times. I say to gentlemen on the other side, when they come before the American people with that same worn-out, tattered, faded, bloody shirt, they mistake the temper of the American people. They will find that the people will put the seal of conderpna-

tion on that party which inaugurates these sectional discussions, tending to disturb the business of the country and to increase discord between the two sections. The business of the country demands quiet, and the people will have peace. Who teach the rising generation that they should hate their fellow-country-men ? If you put into the hands of the boys of our day the speeches of Republican politicians, they are taught that their natural enemies lie in the South, and the seeds of future civil wars are planted by designing politicians for a mere temjxirary party advantage. Is this statesman-like? Is this taking a broad view of the present needs of .our country? Is it patriotic to foment divisions at home, to perpetuate sectional hatred, to weaken our country by intestine quarrels ? Oh, I wish there was a statesman upon the other side. I hope gentlemen will permit me to finish my sentence. I know that we are all apt to imagine ourselves to be statesmen, and therefore gentlemen rebel when I seem to take away the right from any of them. I was going to qualify my statement, if the gentlemen had given me time. There are statesmen on the other side of the House. I am not disputing that proposition, either as to my friend from Maine or my colleague from Ohio. I was about to say to you what kind of statesmen I wish you had on the Republican side. I wish you had a statesman who was able to rise above fomenting nil this jietty political strife between the North and South. I xvish you had a statesman who Mould wave the banner of peace, as the President did, for a -while, until resistance in his own party became too powerful. I wish there was one who could overlook the past and let this country prepare itself for the great difficulties through which it may have to pass in the next few years. They are difficulties growing out of our increasing greatness. There are gentlemen on both sides of the House exceedinglyanxioustopass decided resolutions on the subject of the interoceanic canal. It is proposed that we shall lay down on that subject a doctrine which may involve this country in an unequivocal assertion of its rights, and lead us no man can tell where. It is proper for us to consider the situation. Are we preparing ourselves, in fomenting civil discord at home, to proclaim the act of any foreign nation setting foot on any portion of the soil of this continent as a declaration of Mar ?

What must the people and the rulers of other countries think M’hen they see our so-called leaders, or those mlio claim to be such, endeavoring to keep alive sectional hate? If the people of this country M ant to learn any lesson rapidly it is that we are becoming not only the great poM-er on this continent but a standing menace to the world. The success of our free institutions is a constant argument against the despotism of the Old World. Our products, our commerce and our manufactures have almost brought Great Britain to her knees. Do you think, Mr. Chairman, that this can long be the case M-ithout forcing some combination against us? And is cur country to be benefited by the appearance of division at home? Are we likely to have continued peace if M'o proclaim to foreign nations that we are divided; that, one-half of our people are against the Government; that there is no peace between the North and the South, even though the Mar has been over for fifteen years? A party that foments and proclaims these internal divisions and troubles, and asserts that one-half of this country means to overthrow this Government, only invites an attack which some day sooner or later will come from the combined forces of foreign governments. In what position will Me then I>e ? Read the reports of your Government officers, and they will tell you that in the Boston harbor there is not a single gun Mhich can keep out the iron-clads of Europe ; that the harbor of NeM’ York is in the same condition; that there is not a harbor in the United States into M’hich the iron-clads of Great Britain, of France, and of Spain cannot go and take possession of your cities. In the midst of ih ’se possible dangers, in the midst of th l prosperity of our country, in the midst of the increase of business, in the midst of a desire on the part of the people to bury all sectional issues, M’hen M - e ought to be shouting peans for our prosperity, and uniting in common energy that nothing shall retard it, the Republican politician comes to the front with his shouts of hatred to the South, his denunciation of the Democratic party as an enemy to the country, as intending to seize the Government by force, if not duly elected by the people ; and, as proof of his assertion and the propriety of his hate, he points to the remarkable fact that his pet special Deputy Marshals of Elections who controlled the polls in San Francisco are not to be paid the $7,600 M hich is said to be due them. The attempt to unsettle the confidence of the people is atrocious. If successful it would paralyze business everywhere. And the pretense that the Democratic party intends to seize upon the Government under all circumstances comes with bad grace from a party Mhich robbed us once of our rights and seems disposed to do so again. Our submission to law is proven by the peaceful inauguration as President of one m lio Mas not actually chosen by the people.

A Demand for Men Eighteen Feet Long.

A Federal soldier who served in the swamps of South Carolina, during the war, tells the following story : Among the officers whom I remember well at Morris island was Col. Sewell, of New York, a most excellent officer and an accomplished engineer. Col. Sewell was engaged on the Swamp Angel, and, being very energetic himself, he was not afraid to enter the swamps. His surprise can be imagined wh m one day one of his Lieutenants whom he had ordered to take twenty men and enter the swamp said he could not do it. “And why, sir, can’t you do it?” said the energetic Sewell. “The mud is too deep, Colonel,” replied the Lieutenant. “You can at least try, sir,” said Sewell. The Lieutenant did so, and in an hour returned, his men covered with mud from head to foot. “ Here, now,” cried Sewell, on seeing them, “ what brings you back ?” “Colonel, the mud is over my men’s heads. I can’t do it. ” “Oli ! but you can make a requisition for anything that is necessary for the safe passage of the swamp, and I will give it to you, but you must go through it!” The Lieutenant did make a requisition in writing, which was as follows: “ I want twenty men eighteen feet long to cross a swam]) fifteen feet deep.”

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The joke was a good one, but Sewell, who was terribly in earnest, could not just then appreciate it, and he promptly arrested the Lieutenant for disrespect to his superior officer. Another Lieutenant was detailed, and he went into the swamp, felled the timber and accomplished what his unfortunate predecessor had failed to do. Col. Sewell built his battery with the aid of wheelbarrows and sand, and the remains still stand as a monument to his energy and skill as an engineer.

INDIANA NEWS.

The city of Seymour is now lighted with gas for the first time. Mb. and Mrs. P. B. Kennedy, of Kokomo, have celebrated their golden wedding. An invoice of 500 barrels of flour was shipped by a Richmond firm to Liverpool, England, for the East India trade. An incendiary fire nt Nashville, Brown county, destroyed four buildings, entailing a loss of si,Boo, on which there was no insurance. The freight bills of the shipments of glass from Jeffersonville by the Plate Glass Company will nearly reach $125,000 per annum. Mrs. Mary Sands, of Leavenworth, Crawford county, claims to have been ■ cured of cancer by the constant application of bruised garlic and salt. The old Wabash county jail is being torn down, thus destroying one of Wabash’s oldest landmarks. The new structure wlLch will take its place is to cost $17,000. Orange county appeals to the Governor for protection against a band of out- ; laws who go about the country at night and administer a castigation to the worthy people of the county. Columbus boasts of a “ bar-keep” who can smash a two-inch board with a blow of his fist. That man is wasting his talents in a peaceable place like Columbus. He should go to the frontier. The State oratorical contest will be held at the Grand Opera House, Indian- • apolis, April 15. Wabash, Asbury, Bloomington, Butler, Hanover, Franklin and Purdue Colleges will take part. A 4-year-old girl, only child of Nani cy J. Collins, a widow who keeps tollgate near Morristown, was shot ami instantly killed by Willie Green, a boy about 16 years old, who was fooling with a revolver. A nugget of gold about an inch square was disclosed by accident to Alexander Wilcox, of Freetown. In falling he caught hold of a bush, which, giving way, overturned a huge rock under which the gold lay. A horse in Crawford county had an unsightly swelling on its cheek, which was rapidly increasing. Its owner cut into it with a knife and found a piece of limestone three inches long ami one ami a half inches thick. The Fort Wayne, Warsaw ami Brazil railroad, which proposes to run from Fort Wayne to Terre Haute, through seventeen counties, a distance of 185 ■miles, has filed ' articles of association with the Secretary of State. Mr. Lewis Kern, a resident of Kokomo, and Mrs. Miller, of Alto, Howard county, think they are prospective heirs of an immense fortune, now in the eon- ; trol of the Government of Holland. The alleged fortune amounts to $200,000,000. ' Augustus H. Turner, the oldest colored resident of Indianapolis, died lately. For more than forty years he has kept a barber shop and accumulated a comfort- ! able competency which, during the flush days of 1872 and 1873, was accounted a large fortune. A Connersville cow, the property of j Stat-? Senator Milton Trusler, has given I birth to a calf which takes high rank j among the monstrosities, having two ■ separate and perfect heads, joined to I one pair of shoulders, with two sets of ' fore-legs, two spinal columns, with two | sets of ribs, one pair of hind legs and two tails. Prof. Collett has transmitted to Washington a report showing the extent so which tobacco is cultivated in Indi- ■ ana. He shows that in seventy-three i townships, situated in nineteen different ’ counties, tobacco is more or less grown, ‘ ami he does not include any counties I with less than fifty acres, or any town- i ship with less than live acres devoted to its cultivation. Jacob Zitz, commission merchant of ■ Boonville, ami his two daughters, Kate, ' aged 16, and Mamie, aged 8, were poisoned by eating pokeroot grated by mis- { take for horseradish. Two little sons sent into the garden to get horseradish . brought in the poisonous root, which i was prepared for the. table. Fortunately only the three mentioned partook of it. The physician pronounced them in a dangerous condition. A fire broke out at Fort Wayne in the four-story brick block occupied by H. J. Trentman & Bro., wholesale crockery; Noll Bros. <t Co., wholesale millinery ; and Hanna, Wiler & Co., wholesale notions and fancy goods. The block is valued at $130,000, and the stock of goods contained therein at $120,000. The total loss will probably exceed SIO,OOO, a large portion of which is covered by insurance.

The Hospital for the Insane.

The thirty-first annual report of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane has just been filed. The following is an abstract of the report: Inventory of property, $1,391,462.96, of which $88,451.96 is personal; receipts for the year, $195,559.81; expenditures, $161,653.28; of the balance, $30,455.55 was covered into the State treasury. The disbursement for improvement and repairs were $20,011.03. Patients admitted during the year, 615; discharged, 532; deaths, 69; numberremaining, 629; cost of maintenance, per capita, sl9l. In a medical point of view the results attained were highly satisfactory. Of the 1,229 patients treated, 23.6 per cent, recover 'd, and 5.6 per cent died. There are about 2,200 insane persons in the State, of whom 1,500 are in jails, county asylums and private domiciles. These figures show the urgent necessity for additional facilities to care for this class of unfortunate s. During the year but one case of failure of self-control on the part of an attendant was brought to the notice of the Trustees, which was followed by prompt discharge. A comparison of expenditures for the past two years is favorable to the new management. During the year ending Oct. 31, 1878, the average monthly expenditure was $12,032.82; during the same period for 1879, $8,211.88. This reduction was not made in food supply, which was 14 per cent, greater in cost than for 1878. No mention is of course made of the recent charges of cruelty in the institution, as they occurred this year.

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A FLYING-MACHINE.

| Prof, KitcheU's Proposed Aerial Voyage to the North Pole. [From the New York Herald.] Prof. Ritehell made a flying-machine about two years ago that would really fly.. It went up or came down at the I wish of the operator, went forward ami backward, turned around, remained in one place, or went to any desired point in short, it proved that a flying-machine was possible, although it fell far short of realizing what its projector hoped for, and that, while navigation in the air was possible under certain conditions, there were circumstances when it was not practicable. The machim 1 was exhibited at Philadelphia at the Permanent Exposition, at Hartford, and subsequently at Boston. Its performances excited wonder and surprise, and indicated the correctness of the principle upon which its construction was based, even if it did not go further. But even the flying-machines lose their novelty as a show-pice.', and Prof. Ritehell is now in the field with a j new project, suggested, perhaps, by I Commander Cheyne’s grand scheme of reaching the North pole by aeronautic voyages. Prof. Ritche.il says: “ I will 1 go to the North pole in my air-ship, and the very reasons that will keep Capt. | Cheyne from reaching there will be the j ones by which I will be able to succeed. In carrying out this idea, he has built a working model of the air-ship he proposes to send to the Arctic regions. It i does not materially differ from the' one exhibited a few months ago. The lifti iug power is in a horizontally-placed cylinder of gossamer cloth—line linen coated with india-rubber. It is charged : with hydrogen gas, made by the usual process from iron turnings and sulphuric acid. Broad bands extend over the cylinder, which is about twenty-five feet 1 long and thirteen feet in diameter, nar ■ rowing toward each eml. The bands are fastened to a light, strong rod, from ■ which the ear is suspended. The ma- ; chine is shaped something like the skel - I eton of a cutter sleigh, on the top of which is the operator’s seat. j In front of the seat is a cog-edged steel wheel about ten inches in diameter, with double handles, geared to a i four-bladed fan, moving horizontally be- ! neath the operator. It can bo turned 1 2,500 times a minute. Tin 1 blades ol the fan are of strong wood, and each has a superficial area of about fifty square inches. The blades are set like those of a propeller—that is, at a. small angle , with the screw which turns them. This | constitutes part of the lifting and draw-ing-down power. The gas raises ninety - nine pounds of every 100 to be lifted; ! the fan takes care of the other pound. The operator, wishing to descend, reI verses the wheel. From the front of the i frame reach out two rods, carrying j at their extremity a vertically-working ! fan, revolving 2,800 film's a minute. It i is exactly like the propeller of a stenm- ; ship, except that it can be turned by the ; operator’s foot from right to left, ami ! vice versa, and thus it becomes a rudder as well. It will send the machim' I forward dr take it backward, and also j change its direction. The two fans can be worked together or separately, the | machinery being simple, ami quite with in the control of the operator. Such is I tlie plan in the diminutive by which | Prof. Ritehell hopes to reach the North ' pole. The machine he now has will . carry one man. - It has been tried, and, : although much like the one exhibited before, it has many improvefnents, is 'more.easily controlled and perfectly lad : aueed. Instead of worsted bands around ! the gas cylinder the professor proposes to have steel adjustable bands on the bag ship, which will compress the gas in the bag or allow it to expand at will. This arrangement will, he says, counter- : act the influence of the cohl weather in the high latitudes. He believes he can 1 make headway against wind blowing at the rate of ten miles an hour. The ma- ■ chine, has already traveled against a six mile wind at a fair speed. Further details of his proposed pleasure tri]) to the pole the professor has not vet formulated.

A Remarkable Discovery.

The old residents of {Southern Illinois recollect very well Gen. Al. AT. Rawlings, a prominent man in the State and the founder of Mound City, and his son, Frank Rawlings, in his time th • most brilliant young attorney and orator in tin’s part of the State. The latter died a comparatively young man, probably about 3K years of age, over twenty years ago, and his father died some years later. They were buried side by side at Villa Ridg<. A few days since relatives of the d< ceased raised and removed the bodies to a situation thought more desirable and pleasant. The coffin of Frank Rawlings was found to be unaccountably heavy, six stout men being required to handle it. The friends thought they would open the casket to discover the cause of this, when they found the corpse apparently as natural in every line* of form ami feature as when interred, even the beard being preserved. The body was petrified, but the pallor of the corpse was retained. There are several witnesses to verify these facts, including a physician of reputation residing a.t Villa Ridge, who was called to examine the corpse. This is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable cases of its character on r< <•- ord, and, for the benefit of science, should be thoroughly investigated in detail. It promises to upset the general theory in regard to petrificatiolis, as we understand the coffin was both water and air tight.— Mound City (III.) Art/iinJournal.

A Paradise for Sportsmen.

The country all through Northern Minnesota almonds in. lakes and la!-< - lets from an eighth of a mile to ten mid twelve miles in length, and there are said to be 10,000 of them in the State, and a large proportion of them are said to abound with fish and game. Those w ho have traveled through it tell me it is a perfect paradise for the sportsman, and, indeed, large parties of gentlemen from other States, as well as from Europe and the provinces, visit this section annually in pursuit of game and sport and health in consequence upon such pursuits. The first evening 1 arrived one of those sportsmen came into the hotel, follow'ed by two men carrying strings of birds, compost d mainly of ducks, but a few prairie pheasants, chickens and partridges, and a few woodcock ; but the great weight of the game, of which there must have been over 250 birds, were of the mallard duck ; with a few red-heads and canvas-backs, and 1 ere and there sprinkled through the string w ere a green-wing or red-w ing teal or diver. These, as I was informed, were the result of a day’s shooting from one gun. The birds art* easily reached by those who are experienced in shooting them, and so abundant are they that you can get a brace of splendid mallards in prime condition, for 30 cents, or a dozen brace for $2.50—-Cor. Montreal Herald..