Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Russian provincial newspapers report ■deaths from starvation among the (>easantry tin various parts of the empire. Bismarck is suffering intensely from meuralgia, and only awaits the passing of important Government bills by the Heichstag to proceed to Luxembourg. A brother of the Turkish Minister to the United Htates goes into exile for life foi conspiring against the Sultan. Diplomatic relations between France and Mexico, suspended since 1862, have been resumed. In concluding extradition treaties hereafter, Germany will insist on the inclusion of regicides as among the offenders to be surrendered on demand. Tuesday, April 27, was observed as a national holiday by all ranks and classes of society in Madrid, the occasion of the celebration lining the official announcement of the interesting condition of her Majesty the Queen, an event over which all Spaniards, in accordance with ancient usage, insist upon becoming as merry as their monarch. A dispatch from Cabul reports an engagement at Hyderabad between Gen. Ross and large Isjdy of Afghans. The enemy was defeated with a loss of 1,200. The British loss is not given. The Chinese Government is reported to be making extensive preparations for war witli Russia. The Irish Lund League, at a conference held in Dublin, resolved in favor of pushing a bill in Parliament to suspend evictions in Ireland for the non-payment of rent for two years. At the opening of Parliament, April 29, lit. Hon. 11. B. W. Brand was re-elected Spe ik r of the House of Commons. The 62d anniversary of the Czar’s birthday was celebrated m Ht. Petersburg last week, and <>,ooo pardons were issued—to convicted or suspected criminals. A filibustering expedition is reported to have been fitted out at Bristol, England, to convey arms and ammunition to the insuigents in Crete, who, it is stated, intend to take the field. By a lire in Aldersgate street, London, six persons lost their lives. During a fire in a Moravian town some malicious scoundrels attacked the Jewish inhabitants, killing one of them and seriously injur ing several others. 'Die Chiliair squadron has bombarded Callao, Peru, without effect. Russia is reconstructing her frontier fortresses, especially those on the. west, and Kars.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Blast. The temporary repairs of the Erie canal are complete, and boats are moving again. Testimony before the Coroner’s jury in the cases of the victims of the Madison Square Garden disaster shows that the wall which fell wits built in defiance of law, and that the specifications were at first rejected by the Superintendent of Buildings, lint afterward approved. The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, which met in hot haste, to consider the cases of Kemble and the other convicted bribers, recommended executive clemency, and the Governor immediately released them from imprisonment. A New York carpenter, who made a large sum of money by a lucky deal in mining stock, scattered $10!) m nickels and pennies ! along the streets, for lie benefit of the newsboys and I ootblacks, who followed lain in crowds. Col. Thomas A. Scott has resigned the Presidency of (lie Pennsylvania Railroad Company, owing to ill-health, and will not trouble himself with business hereafter. He has been connected with the road for over thirty years. Mr. George B. Roberts, first Vice President, it is said, will be his successor. Ex-Congressman William Wirt Warren, of Boston, is dead. West. Dr. J. T. Webb, of Minneapolis, a brother-in-law of President Hayes and Stanley Matthews, is dead. Telephonic conversation has been successfully held recently over the Western Union Telegraph Company's wires between Rockford, 111., and Dubuque, lowa, a distance of ninetysix miles. A contested-election case in the Leadville (Col.) Common Council ended in a general drawing of revolvers on the part of members and spectators, but order was restored before any firing had been done. J. J. Hoover, who killed a saloonkeeper named Bennett, at Fairplay, Cal., was taken from jail and lynched. The seventh annual convention of the National Butter, Egg and Cheese Association held its session m the Chamber of Commerce, at Indianapolis. About 200 delegates were in attendance. A resolution favoring a tax of 10 cents per pound on oleomargarine was passed. Clement Shaw, a witness who testified before the Coroner’s jury that Charles De Young fired on young Kalloeh before the latter shot at De Young, has been arrested on a charge of perjury. A letter received in St. Louis from Las Vegas, N. M., reports the killing of exMayor Joseph Brown and a few other Ht Louisians by Indians. Mr. Brown left for the frontier some time ago, with B. Roodhouse and David Wright, of Carrollton, 111., and it is supposed that the gentlemen last named are the ones meant in the letter. Thirteen Mexicans were killed near Han Jose by a band of savages. Telegrams from Colorado show that prospectors are moving on the Gunnison country, in the vicinity of the White river Utes, in large numbers, and that trouble may occur at any moment. Ouray advises that troops be sent out at once to keep the peace, as he fears that bloodshed at this time weuld cause the repudiation of the agreement recently entered into at Washington. M. H. De Young, the surviving proprietor of the San Fraucinco Chronicle, has been arrested on the complaint of Mayor Kalloeh on the charge of libel. The libel consists in republishing in the Chronicle an editorial in the New York World which accused Kalloeh of inducing Clementshaw to swear at the inquest held on Charles De Young that young Kalloeh shot in self-defense. Dennis Kearney will be produced before the Supreme Court of California on the 11th hint., on another writ of habeas corpus. A destructive fire has occurred in the business portion of Jacksonville, Ilk Several houses, including the postoflice, were destroyed. The entire loss is estimated at SBO,OOO. Six miners, returning from a prospecting tour in Washington Territory, were droinied by the upsetting of their canoe. A fire which originated in a laundry joeated in the ba-.omen) <g the priiirip::! hotel

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME IV.

of Battle Creek, Mich., was not got under control until serious damage had been done. The two principal hotels of the town were completely destroyed, and some adjacent buildings suffered also. Two firemen and a woman who jumped from the third story of the hotel on the kitchen attached were seriously injured. The dispatches from New Mexico announcing the killing of ex-Mayor Brown, of Ht. Louis, and two Illinois gentlemen are contradicted. The Methodist Episcopal General Conference lx:gan its quadrennial session in Pike’s Opera House, Cincinnati, a few days ago, Bishop Hcott presiding. The delegates, numbering about RM), are entertained at private houses. The conference will be in session one month. Indians have run off’ail the stock from the Belle Fourche »nd Red Water valleys, Dakota. South. A large jiortion of the town of Macon, Miss., was destroyed by a cyclone, on the night of April 25. A dispatch from that point thus describes the awful visitation: “The day had been unusually sultry. At 8:30 p. m., two terrible currents of air, one from the northeast and the other from the southwest, bearing clouds charged with electricity, were hurled together right at the ill-fated locality. It was a war of storms. Besides incessant lightning, balls of fire were seen whirling across the clouds, varying in size from a chestnut to that of a man’s head. Right in the center of that part of town around the railroad station the storm met, and the work of destruction commenced, and in less time than it can be told the place was in ruins. The loss of life was fearful. Through a beating rain, and against pitiless winds, the citizens rushed to the scene to aid the sufferers. Through the night squads of men combined and went to work to remove the debris, gather up the wounded, dying and dead that were scattered everywhere. The scene beggars all human attempts at description. Eighteen were killed outright, and forty more or less wounded —some perhaps fatally. After the storm some of the ruins caught fire, but it was checked before spreading to any extent. About 10 o'clock a perfect water-spout visited the scene to render it more horrible. Men and women were found decapitated, limbs torn from bodies, and otherwise mutilated, a quarter of a mile from their homes. Htock was all killed in that vicinity. A bolt of goods from a store was found eight miles from town in a tree-top.” Outrages by moonshiners continue in Northern Georgia, and, as the United Htates Marshal is supposed to be inefficient, several special agents have been sent out with instructions to organize a campaign against the crooks. For having preached that the recreations as well as devotions miglrt be indulged in during the Sabbath day, the Rev. Mr. Moore, of Covington, Ky., has been declared guilty of heresy by the authorities of the Presbyterian church in that district. A duel between two Cuban cigarmakers, at Jacksonville, ‘'la., resulted in the death of one of the principals. Three shots were tiix-d. Five Georgia negroes have been sentenced to death for arson. An inmate of a lunatic asylum at Richmond, Va., killed his room-mate because he “ smelled like fried ham ” A Mrs. Houston, living near Austin, Texas, in a fit of insanity attempted to murder her five children, by driving knitting needles into their brain, through their ears. One was killed, and two others seriously injured. Three colored laborers were suffocated while digging a well near Charleston, 8. C.

POLITICAL POINTS. Referring to the report that Grant’s inline will not be presented to the Chicago Convention if there appears to be much opposition, to him, Senator Logan says the General is in the hands of his friends, and that he will not be withdrawn until he is beaten.

J. Madison Wells, of Louisiana, is of the opinion that there will be two delegations to Chicago from that State, one for Grant and the other for Sherman. He says the colored people nre unanimous for Grant, but politicians are for Sherman.

Three Republican and two Democratic State Conventions were held on the 23th of April. The Ohio Republican Convention met at Columbus, and was organized in the interest of Sherman. In the vote for dclcgates-at-large the Sherman candidates received about 400 and the Blaine candidates about 200 votes. Resolutions were adopted requesting the district delegates to Chicago to support Sherman for- President, indorsing the administration of President Hayes, and pledging the support of the Republicans of Ohio to the nominees of the Chicago Convention. The following ticket for State offices was nominated: For Secretary of State, Charles Townsend, of Athens; Judge of Supreme Court, Geo. W. Mcllvaine, of Tuscarawas ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Dwight Crowell, of Ashtabula; Member of the Board of Public Works, 8. R. Hosmer, of Muskingum. The Pennsylvania Democrats met in convention at Harrisburg, but did nothing dining the day beyond organizing and caucusing for the settlement of the differences between the Tilden and anti-Tilden men, led respectively by Speaker Randall and Senator Wallace, both of whom were present as delegates. A compromise was finally effected, satisfactory to all parties, committees appointed, and an adjournment for the day voted. In the Connecticut Democratic Convention, held at Hartford, a delegate offered an antiTilden resolution, which caused some confusion, and a good deal of warm talk. Thomas W. Waller, President of the convention, took the floor, moved the indefinite postponement of all resolutions and the adoption of one pledging the support of the Cincinnati nominee, then quickly regained the platform, put the question himself, and carried the motion by acclamation unanimously. It is said a majority of the delegates chosen to the Cincinnati Convention are favorable to Tilden. The South Carolina Republican Convention met at Columbia and adopted, with but few dissenting votes, a resolution “instructing and solemnly pledging” the delegates to the National Convention to “ vote as a unit to the end of the contest for the world-renowned and most available candidate, Gen. U. S. Grant, and that, upon all questions arising in said convention, they are earnestly recommended to vote in like manner.” The Republican Convention of Arkansas, held at Little Rock, was quite as emphatic for Grant as that of South Carolina. It adopted a resolution instructing the delegates to Chicago to vote for Gen. Grant, and use their individual and collective efforts to secure his nomination as long as his name is before the convention. The Democrats of the District of Columbia held a convention at Washington to nominate delegates to the National Convention. Cincinnati. William Dickson and A. A Wilson were chosen, and resolutions adopted instructing them to insist upon recognition by the convention.

The California Republican State Convention was held at Sacramento April 29. the

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I proceedings being harmonious. A resolution was adopted instructing “ delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote as a unitfirst, last, and all the time, for James G. Blaine, and to use all honorable means to secure his nomination for President of the United States.”

The Indiana Greenbackers were in State Convention at Indianapolis April 29, and nominated Richard Gregg, of Dearborn, for Governor; Lieutenant Governor, Thos. Defender, of Silencer county; for Secretary of State, J. B. Yeagley, of Marion; Auditor of State, Geo. VV. Demaree, of Johnson county ; for Treasurer of State, John F. Ullery, of St. Joseph county; Attorney General, John L. Miller, of Tippecanoe ; Reporter of the Supreme Court, Thomas Marshall, of Delaware county ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Capt. Wessler, of Vanderburg county; for Superintendent of Public Instruction, L. E. Pleas, of Howard countv ; Judge of Supreme Court, W. A. Tipton, of Fountain county. Delegates were appointed to the National Convention, among whom was one lady, and a platform adopted. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention concluded its business on the 29th ult., the only contest being upon the unit rule for delegates to Cincinnati. The vote upon this resolution was very close, but finally a resolution “that delegates to the National Convention be, and they are hereby, instructed to oppose the abrogation of the two-thirds rule,” leaving out the portion for unity, was adopted. Delegates-at-large were appointed, two being proposed by Senator Wallace and two by Speaker Randall, and the district delegates are understood to be about half for Tilden and the remainder for Hancock for the Presidency. George A. Jenks was nominated Supreme Judge, and Col. R. I‘. Dechert, of Philadelphia, Auditor General. Andrew H. Dill was elected Chairman of the State Central Committee bv acclamation.

The Democratic members of the Senate have decided to support the joint rule regulating the counting of the electoral vote proposed by the special committees. This provides that the concurrent action of both houses will be necessary to count or reject the vote of any State. A conference of anti-third-termers from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York has been held in New York city to adopt a line of action for the future. A New York dispatch says it was finally decided to nominate a third candidate if Grant is placed in the field at Chicago. The Independents claim a large following in the East. A Republican Senatorial caucus has decided to second the Democrats in every effort they may make to secure an early adjournment, and to refrain from any political discussion. The Wisconsin Greenhackers will have a State Convention on May 27.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives providing for a tax of 10 cents per pound on oleomargarine. Postmaster General Key is to be appointed Judge of the United States District Com! for Tennessee. D. W. Middleton, Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, is dead. He had been connected with that tribunal for over fifty years. James H. McKenney has been promoted to the vacancy caused by the death o f Mr. Middleton in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States. At a Cabinet meeting the threatened invasion of the Ute Indian Reservation for mining purposes was the subject of a somewhat protracted discussion. It was decided to send Gen. McKenzie and his forces into the reservation to prevent a collision between the whites and Indians. Maj. Gen. Heintzelman, who commanded a division at Bull Run, died in Washington one day last week.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The long negotiations between the United States and Great Britain relating to the Fortune bay (Newfoundland) attacks on American fishermen ended, a few days ago, in the refusal of the British Government to recognize the justice of the American claims. Lord Salisbury replies to the demand of the United States for $193,003 damages by a positive refusal to pay or to recognize the justice of the claim.— A Washington dispatch states that two men-of-war are to be sent to Canadian waters to protect American fishermen. The bill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife’s sister has been defeated in the Canadian Senate. The bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, which passed the lower branch of the Canadian Dominion Legislature several days ago, was defeated in the Senate. The Canadian Minister of Agriculture has beeirpersuaded by a large number of porkpackers at Montreal to rescind the absurd order, recently issued, prohibiting the importation of hogs from the United States. Pauchot, the postman, won the six-day pedestrian match at Buffalo, covering 406 miles, and dropping bruised and exhausted at the end of the race.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Discussion occupied the morning hour in the Senate on Monday, April 26, upon a proposition directing the President to appoint colored cadets to West Point After the expiration of the hour, debate upon the Kellogg-Spofford election case took up the whole day.... In the House, bills and resolutions were introduced: By Mr. Brewer, amending the statutes relating to the erection of public buildings; by Mr. Dunnell, placing .chains, trace-chains, and halter-chains made of wire or rods, wrought bound nails, spikes, rivets, cut nails, ana spikes, cast-iron butte and hinges and horseshoe nails on the free list; by Mr. Cox, a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for Information as to the number of persons connected with the life-saving service disabled, or who have lost their Jives ; by Mr. Vance, to relieve the distillation of fruit from the taxes now imposed by law; by Mr. Bayne, for the erection in Washington of a statue of Gen. Custer; by Mr. Thomas, to tax the manufacture of oleomargarine; by Mr. Loring, a resolution calling for correspondence relative to the interference with American fishermen in Fortune bay, Jan. 6, 1879; by Mr. Singleton, for the relief of Maj. Reno; by Mr. Morse, a resolution directing the Committee on Naval Affairs to inquire whether any officer of the navy is on the active or retired list without having been legally appointed. Mr. Blackburn was appointed Speaker pro tem., Mr. Randall leaving the city for three days. The bill passed for the relief of certain homestead and pre-emption settiers in Kansas. Mr. Coffroth, Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported back the resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the cause of the delay in paying bounties and back pay. Adopted. The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole. The amount appropriated in the Mil is $3,423,697. of which one-half is to be paid out of the treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the district The bill was passed, but, no quorum being present, was laid over. Messrs. McMahon, Cobb and Monroe were appointed a committee of conference on the Special Deficiency bill, and Mr. Claflin was appointed on the Springer-Manning committee in place of O’Neill. Mr. Deuster introduced a resolution for a special committee on the revision of the Naturalization laws.

The joint resolution authorizing the President to reappoint Stephen A. McCarty Lieutenant Commander in the navy, at the foot of the list, was passed by the Senate on the 27th of April The House bill to authorize and equip an expedition to the Arctic seas, to establish a temporary station for the scientific observation of Lady Franklin bay, etc., was passed. When the morning hour expired, the Kellogg resolutions were temporarily laid aside and the Indian Appropriation bill was taken up and discussed until adjournment. The President nominated Felix Coste Marshal of the Eastern District of Missouri.... In the House, the resolution calling for information

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

upon the Fortune bay outrages was adopted. The session of the 15th of May was set aside for the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Education and Labor, particularly the bill to restrict Chinese immigration; to enforce the Eight-Hour law, and to apply the proceeds of the sale of public lands to education of the people. The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was passed. A bill for a commission of seven upon orthography in public documents and schools of the District was introduced. This bill was introduced at the instance of the spelling reformers. The bill for the registration of trade-marks was then passed.

In the Senate on the,morning of April 28, Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, presented a report ol the select committee to investigate the accounts in the Treasury Department, and submitted some remarks thereon. Mr. Ingalls presented a report of the minority. Mr. Blaine submitted a resolution calling on the President for copies of the correspondence between the United States and Great Britain relative to the outrage on American fishermen at Fortune bay. - Adopted. Bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Maxey, for the relief of D. C. Burnett; by Mr. Morgan, to enforce the observance of the constitution in regard to the election of President and Vice President; by Mr. Vest, for a public building at St Louis. After the morning hour, the Indian Appropriation bill was taken up and discussed till adjournment... .In the House, bills were reported from the Committee on Public Buildings, and referred to the committee of the whole, for the erection of public buildings in the following cities: Marquette, Mich.; Leavenworth, Kan., and Frankfort, Ky. A resolution was adopted appropriating $3,000 to defray the expenses of the Committee on Mississippi Levees. A bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of War to lend certain arms, etc., to the Soldiers’ Reunion Committee of the Northwest. The House then went into committee of the whole upon the bill amending the internal revenue law, known as the Carlisle bill. This measure was discussed all day, no action being had. The House met in the evening, and immediately went into committee of the whole on the bill establishing the municipal code for the District of Columbia. No action was taken.

The Senate indulged in a little verbal sparring on the morning of Thursday, April 29, on the proposition to have the President appoint two cadets each year for West Point. Senator Conkling made a most stalwart sjieech, while Senator Hoar opposed the amendment as recognizing differences in race and assuming that there is not at West Point perfect equality before the law. Amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were made, and the bill was passed. The following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Teller, to grant titles to lands patented by the United States; by Mr. Ingalls, to facilitate the business of the Treasury Department. The joint resolution authorizing the President to call an international sanitary conference at Washington was passed. The report of the conferrees upon the Immediate Deficiency bill was agreed t 0... .In the House, Mr. McMahon submitted a conference report on the Special Deficiency bill, and it was agreed to. The Senate amendments to the Post Route bill were concurred in. The House went into committee of the whole on the bill amending the Internal Revenue laws. The bill was not disposed of at adjournment. The House met at 7:30, and immediately went into committee of the whole on the bill organizing a Court of Pensions. After some time spent in general debate, the committee rose and the House adjourned.

Mr. Allison made a speeqli in the Senate, on the morning of the 30th ult., upon his amendment to the bill to establish a retired list for non-commis-sioned officers, the amendment being to direct the President to appoint two colored cadets-at-large to West Point yearly. The morning hour having expired, the Naval Appropriation bill was taken up and passed. Mr. Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to any recent changes in the rulings of the department affecting the entries of town sites on pub ic lands, and requesting him to suspend action thereon pending Congressional action on the subject. Adopted. Mr. Vance then spoke upon the Kellogg case, but before the conclusion of his remarks the Senate adjourned for the purpose of allowing Senators to attend the funeral of Mr. Middleton, late Clerk of the Supreme Court, which was about to take place from the Capitol. The President nominated Orange Ferris, of New York, to be Second Auditor of the Treasury, vice French, deceased:... In tha House, bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Chalmers, extending the letter-carrier system to cities of 10,000 inhabitants; by Mr. Welle, to establish an assay office in St. Louis. The House then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Stevenson in the chair) on the private calendar. The committee rose, and a number of bills granting pensions passed, and the House adjourned.

The Senate was not in session on Saturday, May 1... .In the House, the bill passed for the relief of Notre Dame College, at South Bend, Ind. On motion of Mr. Price, the bill passed providing that the oath of affirmation in verifying returns made by the national banks may be taken before notaries public. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, offered a resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to send 4,000 rations to Macon, Miss., for the use of the sufferers made destitute by the cyclone of April 25. Adopted. May 13 was set aside for the consideration of the bill to establish additional training schools for Indian youths. Mr. Blackburn, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the Postoffice Appropriation bill. Ordered printed, and recoinmeitted. The bill recommends an appropriation of $38,600,000. The House then went Into committee of the whole on the bill amending the Internal Revenue law. All day was passed on this bill, no action being reached.

FEDERAL FINANCES.

The statement of the public debt for the month of May is as follows : Six per cent, bonds .....$ 249,961,300 Five per cents 492,889,300 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents .' 739,322,850 Refunding certificates 1,524,950 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,741,698,400 Matured debt ,'....$ 8,877,635 Legal tenders 346,742,106 Certificates of deposit... 8.760,000 Fractional currency 15,604,587 Gold and silver certificates 20,274,320 Total without interest. 391,381,013 Total interest $ 19,822,099 Total debt $2,147,957,048 Cash in treasury 199,464,393 Debt less cash in treasury $1,968,314,753 Decrease during April 12,078,070 Decrease since June 30, 1879 58,892,502 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid .. 8,320,083 Debt on which interest has ceased.....» 8,877, t>3s Interest thereon .... 849,404 Gold and silver certificates 20,274,320 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 8,760,000 Cash balance available, May 1, 1880 157,382,951 Total $ 199,464,393 Available assets— Cash in treasury 199,464,393 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, Interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,292,470 Interest paid by United States 45,651,155 Interest repaid by transportation of mails 13,084,619 By cash payments of 5 per cent of net earnings.... 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 81,911,337 The official statement of the coinage at the mints for the month of April is as follows : Double eagles, $1,320,000 ; eagles, $3,173,100; half eagles, $2,317,600 ; silver dollars, $2,300,000 ; cents, $21,200 ; total coinage, $9,131,900. The Comptroller of the Currency report s the net increase of national-bank notes for the year ending May 1, 1880, is $15,900,390. Increase ol legal-tender notes on deposit for the month of April, $525,993, and the increase for the year ending May 1, 1880, was $5,770,501, and the amount of legal-tender notes now on deposit, $19,126,740. The total amount of na-tional-bank notes outstanding on May I, 1880, is $343,579,300, not including the national gold bank notes amounting to $1,351,350. Amount of called bands now held on security for the circulation of national-bank notes, $1,760,700, of which $1,722,700 are 10-40 s, and $38,000 5-20 s. Amount of 6s of 1881 held by the banks, $54,075,150, and the amount of 5 per cent, funded 81s, $134,703,250. The National Bank Redemption Agency reports national-bank notes disposed of for the month of April amounting to $3,100,800. Following is the statement of United States currency outstanding this date :

Old demand notes $ 61,090 Legal-tender notes, all issues 346,681,016 One-year notes of 1863 47,155 Two-year notes of 1863 13,000 Compound-interest notes 247,340 Fractional currency, all issues 15,604,591 T0ta15362,677,545 The receipts from customs for the month just closed were $17,546,560, against $12,940,052 for April, 1879. and the receipts from internal revenue were $10,767,478, against $7,846,513 for the corresponding month of last year. This showes a net increase for the month from these two sources, compared with April, 1879, of $8,527,473, and a net increase for ten months closed May 1, compared with the corresponding ten months of 1879, of nearly $53,000,000. The receipts from sources other than customs and internal revenue do not vary much, and are not included in the above figures.

INDIANA NEWS.

Logansport has been sued for $20,000 on interest account. There are now over 100 men at work on the State House foundation. Rev. Edward Swem has received the appointment of Chaplain in the State Reform School at Plainfield.

The Hope and Greensburg railroad has received its quietus by the refusal of Clay township to vote the requisite $24,000. Ex-Congressman William H. English, of Indiana, is building for Indianapolis a Grand Opera House that will seat 4,000 persons. Pneumonia is prevailing in an epidemic form among the colored citizens of Carthage and vicinity, almost every case proving fatal. The contested election of Trustees, at Shelbyville, has been settled by counting out the Republican—the Democratic candidate having first been counted out. Ex-Gov, Hendricks, of Indianapolis, has been allowed a claim for $157.55, based upon damages to his carriage wrecked by running into a bad hole on North Illinois street last January. Mrs. Joseph Ramsey, living about four miles from Vevay, gave birth to triplets last week. Two of the children are dead, and the other was not expected to live. Mrs. Ramsey was, however, doing well.

The question in Indiana now is, whether it is necessary to call the Legislature to assemble in extra session to pass a Registration law, as required by one of the constitutional amendments just adopted. The new owners of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad, through their Directors, have ordered the issue of $3,000,000 first-mortgage bonds on the road, the proceeds of the sale of which are to be used in improving the road. . The County Commissioners of Grant county have refused to award the contract for the Court House. When the plan was adopted it was upon the guarantee that the building would not cost over $112,000. The amount asked by the contractors was $136,000. A well-to-do farmer named Savage, living at West Florence, eleven miles southeast of Richmond, shot his daughter through the head with a revolver, and then tried to blow his own brains out. Both are injured beyond recovery, and there is no explanation of the affair.

A terrible double tragedy occurred recently at the magistrate’s office of Esquire Boston, in Blue river township. Harrison county. The litigation and neighborhood excitement had grown out of a quarrel between John Dicklocker and Henry Long over a case of cow stealing. The trial of Long began at 10 o’clock at night, and lasted until 4 in the morning, when a masked mob of from seventy-live to 100 vigilantes rode up to the magistrate’s office, and, dismounting from their horses, a part of the mob rushed into the Office in order to seize and hang Long. Henry L. Otte, a citizen of Long’s neighborhood, headed the mob, and seized Long, who immediately drew his revolver and shot Otte through the heart, killing him instantly. A dozen men at this rushed on Long, and, in his efforts to escape them, his pistol was knocked out of his hands. The infuriated mob fired six or eight shots at Long as he retreated from the office. Gaining the yard he ran around into the kitchen of the house and secreted himself under or behind a bed. An eye-witness says that when he entered the kitchen Long had two pistol shots in the face and one in the neck, and was panting for breath. The mob threatened to burn the house. The beleaguered man again sought escape by Hight, and, as he reached the door in his flight, six shots were fired at him. A trail of blood marked his flight to a strip of wood near by, and there is a great pool of gore as if some one had lain bleeding on the ground, and this was the last trace of Long. He was, no doubt, overcome by llie mob at this point and killed, and nis body carried away to be secreted. The mob then went to the residence of Long, and notified his wife to leave the neighborhood immediately or she would be killed. Joseph Bruner, a neighbor of Long’s, was also notified to leave immediately or sffuer the penalty of being hung. Other citizens of the neighborhood have also been warned away.

The Amendments.

The official vote on all of the seven constitutional amendments submitted to the people on the sth of April is published below. The following summary shows the vote in favor of and against each amendment, the total votes cast, and the majorities: First amendment—Yes 169,483 No 152,251 Total vote 321,734 Majority 17,232 Second amendment—Yes 177,304 No 138,985 Total vote 316,289 Majority 38,319 Third amendment—Yes 173,921 No 144,897 Total vote 318,818 Majority 29,024 Fourth amendment—Yes 176,145 No 137,716 Total vote 312,861 Majority 39,429 Fifth amendment—Y'es 181,684 No 136,175 Total vote 318,859 Majority 44,509 Sixth amendment—Yes 175,626 No 141,318 Total vote 316,944 Majority 34,308 Ninth amendment—Yes. 176,943 No 126,953 Total vote 303,896 Majority 49,990

Same Thing with the Ancients.

There was an expression of unusual pleasantry on the face of the wrathful Achilles that morning, and the crafty Ulysses accosted him with more than his wonted heartiness on that account. “You’re out early this morning,” remarked the wily one. “ Yes,” said the sulky one, “but then I was out late last night. You see, I had a pretty good thing on my mind, this morning, and I was afraid if I slept too long, I might forget it. I was out last night, went down to see Briseis, in fact, and sat up pretty la+e. Fact is, I’m clear gone there. No use talking, she just breaks me all up. Well, when I came away somebody had sat on my hat, new Broadway style, and we had a time straightening it out. I says, say»s-I

never thought of it before, either, just popped into my head at that minute, ‘Briseis, dear,’ I says, and I clapped it on her head, ‘both mashed; both mashed on BrWeis,’ see ?” “ Mashed ?” repeated Ulysses, in some wonder. “Mashed? I don’t see. You weren’t mashed. You great giant, why all the cavalry in Diomedes’camp might run over you and not—” But Achilles, with a look of wrathful disgust settling down over his face, strode away to his tent. “ Patroclus!” he cried, and when the young man appeared he said to him: “Take a conch shell and two bass drums and go down behind Ulysses’ tent and practice overtures all day. And, if he says anything about it, send him to me.” And he told his armor-bearer that there wasn’t enough intellectual culture in all Greece to-day, to go around a Phoenician primary school in the holidays. — liurlington Ha irk-Eye.

BITS OF INFORMATION.

In the manufacture of tobacco, molasses, licorice, paste, a decoction of figs, and glycerine are used to impart a sweet taste. Common salt and other salts are used for flavoring, and nitrate of potash or soda is added to increase its combustibility. Anise and other aromatics are added for their flavor, and smoking tobacco has its odor, if not its taste, improved by the introduction of cascarilla bark. Cabbage and other leaves are often used to adulterate chewing tobacco. In cold weather, horses which have been driven rapidly, or have become heated from exertion, throw off great quantities of steam or vapor. The reason of this is that the heat thrown off from the body on coming in contact with the colder air is condensed in the form of vapor. The principle is the same as that which causes the windows of a close room to become covered with ice on a cold day in winter. The warm air of the room becomes condensed on the cold glass, and it is congealed in the form of ice.

Previous to the time of Queen Elizabeth stairs were all constructed on a circular plan, and were called turret or corkscrew stairs. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries staircases with wide, straight flights were first introduced, and were made the leading features in mansions of the Elizabethan style. They had usually massive oak balusters with carved panels and pendants. Staircases of this description are still in common use, but are lighter iu style, light cast-iron being used instead of oak balustrades.

The geographical center of the United States is at 95 deg.-471 min. west longitude, which is about the vicinity of Omaha. The center of population, con sidering the United States a plane surface, itself without weight, but capable of sustaining weight, and leveled with its inhabitants, in number and position such as they are found, and each individual being assumed to be of equal weight, and consequently to exert pressure on the pivotal point, directly proportioned to his distance therefrom, both north and south and east and west, is at a point forty-eight miles east and a trifle north of Cincinnati.

Mercantile Risks.

The risks of mercantile life are hinted at in a notice of John Shillito, the late Cincinnati merchant, published in the Neiv York Timex. It maybe that farmers’ lads will ponder on the facts suggested, and conclude to stick by the old farm :

The late Cincinnati merchant, John Shillito, had been the leading retail drygoods dealer there for more than forty years, and in all that time, it is said, had never failed, suspended, compromised or asked to compromise with his creditors. He always paid dollar for dollar, always did business on strict business principles, and was almost the only merchant in that city who had so long weathered the financial storms said stress of a verytrying period. Merely to reason about it, it would not seem remarkable that a merchant should, for forty years, carry on business with uniform success. But facts and statistics show that such instances are extremely rare in any part of this country.

Few business men in the. United States go on, it is said, for fifteen or even twelve years without failure or suspension ; these, on an average, get into serious pecuniary embarrassments every ten years, most of them being hopelessly crippled thereby. One might easily count, we suspect, all the merchants, even in this great city, who hold together forty years, half that time being sufficient here to give a firm the reputation of age and extended credit. Mr. Shillito attributed his unusual prosperity to dealing in cash wherever it was practicable, and to giving personal oversight and attention to his affairs. Unless out of town, he spent a certain number of hours every day at his establishment.

Woman’s Tears.

Stop this scientific business where it is, and don’t let it go any further. It is robbing life of all that is worth living for. Only a short time ago one of these scientific joskins analyzed a tear that had trickled down upon the cheek of a lady who wanted a new dress, and he found it to contain phosphate of lime, chloride of sodium and water. Ever since reading thqt analysis we have lost faith in tears, and, no matter what a person is bellowing about, we can only look at the tears as they flow over beauty’s cheek and think of the phosphate of lime, chloride of sodium and water. The infernal analysis has knocked all the poetry out of tears for us, and we feel as though we wanted our money back. If the scientist will refund what he has taken from ns he can have his old analysis. We would like to throw him in a corner and jump on him. He has robbed us. Oh, give us back them other days, when tears were tears and not chloride of sodium and other nauseating drugs ! — New York World.

Gold and Silver Product Annually.

The quantity of silver produced annually in the world amounts to not less than 6,000,000 pounds troy, and that of gold may be estimated at more than 600,000 pounds troy; the value of the silver being above £16,000,000, and that of gold not less than £28,000,000. The labor expended in mining for the silver ore in the deep recesses of the mountains, and that which is devoted to the washing of alluvial deposits—the relics of the cataclysms of former age —and to the tedious exploration of quartz reefs, represents a vast expenditure of vital effort. Even then we have still to draw upon the trained skill of the metallurgist before either gold or silver becomes fitted for use op ,»rnam-nt. Th>'

$1.50 uer Annum.

NUMBER 13.

MR. THURMAN AT HOME.

Speech of the Ohio Senator at Columbne, Ohio. My Friends and Fkixow-Townsmenj If any one of you were far from home, and should receive a warm and cordial welcome from strangers whom you had never seen, you would feel deeply, profoundly grateful for that kind attention. But, grateful as one may feel for the welcome of strangers, there is something much nearer the heart in the welcome to his home by one's friends and neighbors. We may be grateful for politeness from those we have never seen, but when we are welcomed home by those with whom we have dwelt, whom we recognize as onr own townsmen, and with whom we expect to live as long as life shall be spared, there is a feeling more deep than gratitude, more powerful than respect So I feel to-night at this welcome which you have been so kind as to give me, and I but feebly express my emotions when I thank you for it with all my heart, and when I also return to the orator who has spoken for you to-night my sincere appreciation of his too-flattering remarks. Mv friends, as I passed through Newark today I purchased a Columbus paper, and to my great surprise I found that I was expected to make a speech here to-night. I speak in all sincerity and truth when I say that that surprised me, for it was only yesterday morning that I knew I could come and visit my home, and I had no certainty at all that you would know that I was coming, and, if you did know it, I had no idea I would be expected to make a speech ; and this being the case, my friends, I have no prepared speech to deliver you. I did not come to Ohio charged with a speech. I did not think a speech from me was at a Unnecessary. I came here to get a little rest, after five months’ intense labor without any recreation at all. Although enjoying.fine health, I needed some rest; some repose; and I came to get it among my friends at Columbus; but, since you have been told that I would speak to-night, and have been kind enough to come to hear me, it would be unjust in me not to say something, at least, upon the political questions, or some of them, that agitate the country. You will pennit me, however, my friends, to be very brief. At no ||me am I a long speaker, and, therefore, it is but seldom that I am tedious. I shall speak to you, therefore, very briefly indeed, but what I do say I commend to your careful and thoughtful consideration.

My friends, it has been said that every Presidential election is a crisis in this republic, and, though it might be doubted whether in the past that remark is so absolutely true that there was no exception to it, yet it would be admitted that in later years every Presidential election has in fact been a crisis in our affairs, and no one can tell how long it may thus continue to be. But of one thing I think wc may be absolutely certain, and that is that this Presidential election will be regarded, as long as the history of this country shall be read and studied, as a crisis in the affairs of the republic. And why do I say this? lam not ac-i customed, it is not my wont, to magnify things. Why, then, do I say that this is a crisis in public affairs? Because, my friends, in my serious judgment the election this year will go far to determine whether substantial liberty, substantial free institutions, shall longer exist in America.

Judge Thurman then spoke for some minutes upon the phrase so often repeated bv the opponents of the Democratic party, that “We need a strong Government.” The meaning of the phrase was that we should have a stronger National Government to rule over the whole people of this country. The people should be content with the Government as it has existed for three-quarters of a century, under which we have flourished as no other people have flourished. There are but two modes of giving strength to a Government; one mode is fraught with beneficence to the people, and safety, security, and prosperity to the state. The other mode means despotism over the people, and means ruin and ultimate destruction to the state. The firrt is .to so constitute your Government, and so administer it that it will challenge and receive the affection of the people who dwell under it, that they shall not merely obey, but that they shall revere, esteem and love it. A Government thus supported by its people, whatever may be its form, however few may be the powers expressly conferred upon it, is one of the strongest Governments upon the earth, if not the very strongest. Such a Government our forefathers thought they had ordained for the people of the United States, and such a Government the Democratic party has always advocated. The other mode of strengthening a Government is to strengthen it merely by force —by great standing armies. The point was dwelt on at some length, and the illustrations of the results of such kind of government were given by reference to the rule of Great Britain over Ireland, the empire of Russia, etc. The application made of the principles underlying the two forms of Government was that the former mode was that by which the Democratic party sought to administer the Government, while the Republican party resorted to the latter mode. He concluded as follows : “ Now, my friends, in my judgment, the great question which is to be solved is whether or no the strength of our Government in the future shall come from the affections of the people, or whether it shall be that strength that despots, and despots alone, employ. There is much more that I might speak to you about, of the necessity of reform, of the necessity of economy, of the necessity of lowering taxes, and all these subjects with which you are more or less familiar; but I promised you that I would not weary your patience, and I hope you will not allow me to weary myself.” Again thanking the crowd, he retired, amid enthusiastic applause.

Btabie and the Credit Mobilier. The defiant attitude and “moral heroism” presented by James G. Blaine, when, in the sessions of 1872-3, he left the Speaker’s chair and boldly asserted his innocence of any complicity with the great Credit Mobilier scandal is well remembered, as a dramatic picture in American politics. A letter in the Springfield Republican recently reviews this matter for apparent edification of Mr. Blaine:

Recently the writer had a conversation with a near friend of Mr. Ames, who has always defended his memory and challenged any proof of the assertion that he was an untruthlul man. I had not asserted to him that I thought Mr. Ames untruthful, but 1 told him that I always had great difficulty in reconciling the alleged testimony of Mr. Ames before the, Poland committee relative to Mr. Blaine with the facts as shown by Mr. McComb’s statements and the memorandum book itself. “You, yourself, well know,” I said to him “that Mr. Blaine’s name was on Mr. Ames’ memorandum book with the other names, and that he was a sharer with the others in the distribution of the Credit Mobilier stock ?” The reply was as follows: “If you knew what I know you would say that Mr. Ames was a perfectly truthful man. I was in the committee room when Mr. - Blaine made his statement, and I know all that happened. The record makes Mr. Ames corroborate Mr. Blaine. It is not true. He did not do it. I was standing by Mr. Ames when the question was asked him whether Mr. Blaine’s i statement was in accordance with his recollection, and I trembled for him I then, but he never opened his lips—no 1 matter what the report of the evii dence may say —he never opened his lips 1 ” The gentleman who made this statement is a man whose word will be taken anywhere, and his testimony that Mr. Ames’ lips were closed when the record made him vindicate Mr. Blaine startled me. The statement has been made by friends of Mr. Ames that Mr. Blaine, when offered a share of the Credit Mobilier, scouted the bargain on account of the smallness of the amount and demanded SIOO,OOO worth of it. Whatever may ,be the facts his name stands in Mr. Ames’ memorandum book with the figures “ 3,000” against it, and Mr. Ames’ remark: “You have heard Mr. Blaine’s testimony and my acquies-

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cence in it, ” is certainly a remarkable one. He does not say that Mr. Blaine’s statement is true, but only that he acquiesces in it. Mr. Ames was in a very difficult position at that time. He knew that he would be threatened with expulsion, and the Speaker’s influence was very valuable to him. Besides, he felt "kindly toward Mr. Blaine, while he did not feel so toward Mr. Colfax and some others who were trying to place him in a false attitude. So he let Mr. Blaine’s statement pass with his “ acquiescence.” But this does not prevent numbers of people who believe themselves conversant with the facts from saying and believing that the memorandum book was correct, and that Mr. Blaine did receive the dividends on thirty shares of C. M. stock. Mr. Blaine recently, when squarely confronted with the statement that there was proof in the possession of the heirs of Oakes Ames to show that he (Blaine) was interested in the Credit Mobilier, did not deny the fact, but replied, “Do you suppose the children of Oakes Ames are going to make public anything that will cast everlasting disgrace upon the name of L. ir father?”

Illinois Democracy—No Longer Lethargy in the Ranks. There is no longer lethargy in the Democratic ranks in Illinois. The rank and file of the party in our State have already begun to' enlist in the contest with the determination of rescuing Illinois from Radical rule; and. with a com plete union, under courageous leaders, we shall accomplish the good work next November. Experience has taught us some dear lessons, and we shall now reap our reward. Dissensions have been buried, and the old Jacksonian spirit of Democracy is now cropping out all over the State. Under its inspiring influence we shall march to victory. Our cause is the cause of the people, and the people will sustain it. The seal of popular condemnation will be put upon all attempts to turn the Government over into the hands of men who would change it into a central despotism. The people are opposed to the increase of the power of wealthy corporations and to a wealthy aristocracy. The Government must be preserved as our forefathers intended it should be. Equal rights, equal justice and fair reward for labor can only be obtained when -the Government dispenses its blesssings and bounties to all alike. Subsidies and rings have been eating up the vitals of the-country, and we can no longer be blind to our interests. Let the people push the glorious work of a grand revival in the Democratic ranks. Victory is within our reach, and, when she perches upon our banners, the plaudits of a saved country will be our reward.— Belleville (III.) Democrat.

CO-OPERATIVE LIFE INSURANCE.

A Western Official Opinion. Hon. T. B. Needles, State Auditor, and Insurance Commissioner for Illinois, speaks as follows upon the subject of assessment life insurance: State or Illinois, Auditor’s Ornes,) Sprinofield. April 20. f In my judgment co-operative life insurance, as offered by the various mutual-aid societies now in operation, is unsound and fallacious, full of errors, and sure to bring disappointment and loss to those who trust to its protection. When the benevolent feature is attached t<> secret societies and organizations in which there are other and paramount interests to bind the members together, it may no doubt be productive of great good in rendering assistance in misfortune and relieving the families of de ceased members; but this cannot take place or perform the office of life insurance proper. The independent co-operative societies, however, do not possess even this element of cohesion. They are money-making concerns, intended to benefit their originators, officers and managers, while their real object is dsiguised under various benevolent and mutual-aid titles. Their membership consists of persons who have no community of interest, who are not acquainted with one another, who are not actuated by benevolent motives in joining or paying assessments, but who are governed solely by self-interest. The bond of union is so weak that, should the societies fail to fulfill the large promises of their agents, should the mortality increase and the assessments multiply more rapidly than was anticipated, and the members find that it did not pay to remain and there is no loss attending withdrawal, they will drop out in large numbers. The indefiniteness of the contract, the misrepresentations and large promises of agents, and the uncertainty of benefits in case of death, depending upon the voluntary contributions of an uncertain number of are productive of dissatisfaction and disappointment. There are not the benevolent considerations which exist in various orders, societies and brotherhoods to hold th< members together, and these societies do not have the obligations of a definite mutual contract, as in regular life insurance companies, to compensate them for withdrawals. The success of these societies cannot be. predicated upon the experience of a few years. The rate of mortality changes from year to year. The average age of the members advances, and cannot be offset by the accession of new members ; and, in consequence, the rate of mortality is certain to increase. The assessments for death losses soon become a burden which the members, disappointed in their expectations of cheap insurance, will no longer bear. Those who are insurable will withdraw and seek insurance elsewhere. Those whose health has become impaired, and who are no longer insurable, will be compelled to remain or forego the benefits of any kind of insurance. The result is, the insolven cy of the society, and irreparable loss to those who are most in need of insurance. Without interest income, guarantee capital, or accnmu lated reserve, these associations cannot fulfill their promises of cheap insurance and large benefits. I do not regard these associations as fit to be compared in point of responsibility and likeh hood of fulfilling their agreements with the organizations founded upon the scientific ap pheation of carefully-collected statistics, whose ability to pay the last surviving policy-holder remains, should all the others withdraw. I have no statistics to enable me to determine the relative cheapness of the two plans, for when the element of certainty of lienefits is wanting, as in the case of co-operative life insurance, it is valueless, and I consider it dear at any price. I cannot see wherein there is less opportunity for dishonest management in this system than in that of regular life insurance, while I believe, as a fact, they have been managed with less honesty. T. B. Needles, Auditor, etc.

Nigh Unto Death. One day a mother who had been to a country house, near Marseilles, returned with her son to Marseilles. It was twilight. The child, 8 years old, had been put into a peach basket, borne by a donkey, and the mother, fearing the child might catch cold (it was in November) had covered the boy with a thick brown shawl. Tired with running around the country all day, cozy and warm under the thick shawl, the child was soon asleep and hidden by the sides of the basket. Although the city gates were neared (there is a local custom house at the gates of Marseilles), the mother, forgetting all about the child, walked a distance behind the donkey and did not make him stop at the custom house to be searched. The custom officer seeing the donkey jog on without stopping, suspected he was laden with smuggled goods and ran after him to thrust his sharp steel probe through the basket. Luckily the mother observed him, ran forward and screamed: “Don’t use your probe! My child is in that basket!” That child Thiers.