Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

roßßiGrar raws. Heavy rains have caused disastrous flood* in Donegal, Ireland. A church at ComYnicnon has been carried away and a number of people have been drowned. The German harvest prospects are very gloomy indeed. In consequence of the universally-poo# grain crops, an agitation for the prohibition of the exportation of grain is likely to be inaugurated. A French Colonel who, in presenting a new flag to his regiment, expressed a hope that the flag would soon become the banner of tbo United States of Europe, has been suspended for one year. Two Englishmen, brothers, have offered to wager A'l,ooo that Dr. Tanner will not fee ablo to fast forty days and forty nights. The betters want to be the watcbqrs also. Pleuro-pneumonia is spreading in England. A company just organized in London will lay another Atlantic cablo from England to .the Azores and thence to America. An open rupture between China and Russia is imminent. The Chinese Ambassador at St. Petersburg has been informed by the Russian a ithoritios that they will consent to no further negotiations with him. The Celestial representative waits inslrucrions from his Government. A cable dispatch announces the death of Ole Bull, the famous violinist, aged 70 years. Crops in certain districts of Silesia, Posen, and East and West Prussia have been wholly destroyed by floods, and famine is apprehended. Many lo mis are submerged, and property to the value of millions of dollars has been mined. Pope Loo lias accepted the office of godfather to the expected heir to the Spanish throne. The national liberal party of Germany has split, the wing supporting Bismarck and his tariff scheme numbering only fifty-five.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Miss Lillie Matcer, aged 18, was walking -with a gentleman near Mount Joy, Pa. A spark from liis cigar net liroto her dress and the girl wan fatally burned. There was a severe frost in the interior counties of New York State on the night of the Kith inat. Tender vegetation was killed and the growing grain somewhat injured. The naked and terribly mutilated body of Mary < assidy, nged 10 years, was found in a brush-lit up in the woods, near Barnstal 10, Mass. The head was noirly severed from the 1 odv, and in the child’s side was a large butcherknife. The ground about boro evidence of the struggles of 1 lie little girl to froo herself from the villain who so fearfully assaulted and cruelly murdered her. At Now York, the other day, Robert Donald on, a Scotch athlete, jumped from High Bridge into Harlem river, a distance of llti feet, and then swam to a craft near L>y At Elizabeth, N. .T. , a carriage containing Mrs. Mahoney an l four members of her family attempted to cross a railway track in front of a locomotive. The borne became frightened and ran away. The carriage was demolished and the colored driver killed. Mrs. Mahoney had her back broken, one daughter was fatally injured, and the other occupants seriously hurt. Twenty-one persons have died from injuries received in the May’s Landing. (N. J.) railroad disaster "W est. Col. Fred Grant was arrested at Galesburg, 111., for hitting a tardy waiter with a hot roll. Mr. and Mrs. Kellolier, of Oakland, Cal., and Mrs. King, aneighbor, got drunk together and set the house on tiro. Thrco of tho Kelleher.i’ children were fatally burned and the two women were severely injured. Bill Rodifor, one of the most notorious end desperate burglars in the West, was killed at Indianapolis, a few nights ago, while in the act of burglarizing the residence of Dr. Walker. All tho prisoners in the county jail at Mt. Sterling, 111., have escaped. They were as sisted by jiersons on the outside;. Eureka, Nev., which was almost wiped out a year ago by tire, lias had another great conflagration, extending over the same area swept by the previous blaze. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Many families are destitute. The Yaoger flouring mills and several adjacent buildings, at St. Louis, have been burned. Lo.-s estimated at $200,000. Heavy rains have fallen in the great wheat-growing section of tho Northwest, and some damage has been done to tho crop. About 30,000 people visited the Chicago Jockey Club Park to witness the prize tliill of the Knights Templar command erics. The Paper Commandery, of Indianapolis, took the first prizo, tho De Molai Commandery, of Louisvillcr, were given the second prize, and tho third prize was awarded to the Reed Coramandcry No. 6, of Dayton, Ohio. The weather was intolerably hot, and the accommodations at the park was wholly inadequate. Most of the spectators were compelled to stand for hours in tho broiling sun, and, although the dust was stilling, no water was to be had except for money. A cyclone devastated the country southwest. of Fargo, Dakota, a few nights since. One man was killed and tjiree injured. Sioux Indians are arriving at Fort Keogh in bands of scores and hundreds, and surrendering to the military authorities there, r>v whom they are treated as prisoners of war. Their arms and ponies, winch they are compelled to deliver up, are to be sold and the proceeds devoted to the purchase of supplies. The Indians will eventually bo turned over to the Interior Department and transported to some point west of the Missouri. Lewis Emmons, living nine miles north of Oshkosh, Wis., quarreled with his father-in-law, Mr. Huxley, over a business matter, and, going into the house, secured a revolver and sftot the old gentleman and himself dead. Monroe Robertson, one of the hardest criminals (hat ever stretched hemp, was hanged at Greenville, Ohio, on the ®Hh of August, for the murder of his brother-in-law. During tho war he belonged to a band of Missouri guer rillas, and boasted of having killed in cold blood seven negroes. Since the war he had killed three or four men. South. Gen. Bryan Grimes, an ex-Confederate soldier, has been assassinated in Pitt county, North Carolina. Southern papers announce the death of ex-Gov. Hcrscliel V. Johnson, who was a candidate, on the ticket with Stephen" A. Douglas, for Vice President in 1860. ]Juring q, circus parade at Winchester,

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JAS. W. MoEWEN Editor

VOLUME IV.

I Va., the keeper of tho hyenas was pounced upon and tom to pieces by his ferocious and treacherous pets. James A Sedden, who was Confederate Secretary of War, has just died at Rich- ‘ mond, Va. A mob at Sunnyside, Ga., seized a young man, charged with seducing a girl of 12 years, and cut hisJiead off.

WASHINGTON NOTES, During the seven months ending July 31, 1880, $151,411,463 worth of breadstufTs was exported from this country. The value of the breadstufTs exported during the corresponding period of 1879 was $109,331,153. POLITICAL POINTS, The Republicans of New Jersey have nominated Frederick A, Potts for Governor. Ex-Gov. James E. English has been nominated for Governor of Connecticut by tho Slate Democratic Convention. The New York Greenback State Convention, in session at Syracuse, nominated Thomas C. Armstrong forjudge of the Court <.f A peals and re-affirmed the Chicago platform, with the following addition: “Land and air, light and water, are free gifts of nature to all mankind, and every person is entitled to enough of each of thcsqto enable him to secure the necessary comforts of life; therefore, we protest against the further granting of large tracts of public lands by the Government to railroad corporations or individuals. We demand a tariff which shall protect American industry. Joshua N. Osgood has been nominated for Governor by the Prohibitionists of Maine. The Democrats of Colorado at their State Convention nominated John S. Hough, of Hillsdale county, for Governor, and R. 8. Morrison, of Clear Creek, for Congress.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Robert Wilkes, a wholesale jeweler, and liis son and daughter were drowned the other day nt Toronto, Canada. The lad, who wus in bathing, got beyond his depth and 'his father and sister jumped from a boat to save him, all going down together. The returns to tho Agricultural Bureau since the first of the month report the condition jf tho cotton crop of tho entire country 2 per cent, above what is considered favorable for a fu'l crop. Tho average for tobacco for the country is reported at 88 per cent. The freight sheds* with their contents, and six loaded cars on the Grand Trunk rail- , road have been burned at Richmond, Que. Loss, $75,000 ; insured. The Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar attracted an immense number •• of strangers to Chicago, and the festivities passed off with much eclat. More than a quarrel- of a million people witnessed tho grand parade of Knights. The streets through jvhicli the procession moved were packed, and thousands of faees were visible in tho windows and doors and oil the roofs of buildings. The day was excessively warm, and many of the Knights were prostrated by the heat. The column was seven miles in length, and contained a hundred bands of music and about fifteen thousand Sir Knights. Sixty thousand people attended the groat hall at the Exposition building. Frost is reported in several localities in Canada. Cadet Whittaker lias been given anunlimited furlough by the Secretary of War, for the purpose of conferring with counsel relative to the court-martial which it is expected ho will some time demand. A band of robbers recently captured $33,000 near the City of Mexico. The Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, at their meeting in Chicago, elected tho following officers to servo for the earning tbroo years : Sir Benjamin Dean, of Boston, Most Eminent Grand Master; Sir Robert E. Withers, of Alexandria, Va. ; Right Eminent Deputy Grand Master ; Sir Charles Roome, of New York, Very Eminent Grand Generalissimo ; Sir John P. 8. Gonin, of Lebanon, Pa., Very Eminent Grand Captain General; Sir Hugh McCurdy, of Corunna, Mieh., Very Eminent Grand Senior Warden ; Sir William La Rue Thomas, of Danville, Ky., Very. Eminent Grand Junior Warden ; Sir John W. Simons, of New York city, Very Eminent Grand Treasurer ; Sir Theodore S. Parvin, of lowa City, Very Eminent Grand Recorder. The next Triennial Conclave will be hold iu San Francisco, in 1883. Mr. Hickok offers to match St. Julien against any trotter or pacer in the world, mile heats, best three in five, for from $5,0G0 to $20,000 a race. Maud S. is looked upon as the only flyer likely to be put forward in response to this invitation.

Care of Trees and Shrubs.

In view of the di-ought which prevails i*} many parts of the country and its,‘unusual severity over extensive districts, the Rural New Yorker suggests to those who have planted trees or shrubs the past spring that there is one method, and so far as we know, says the writer, only one, by which they may be protected against injury or death from that cause. Surface watering has been shown to do more harm than good. The ground is made hard and compact, thus becoming a fetter conductor of heat while it becomes less pervious to air and moisture. A portion of the surface soil should be removed, and then pailful after pailful of water thrown in until the ground, to a depth of two. feet and to a width about the stem of not less than three feet in diameter, has become saturated. Then, as soon as the water has disappeared from the surface, the removed soil should be well pulverized and A covering of boards, straw, or hay, or even of sand or gravel, may then be applied, and the tree or shrub, thus treated, will pass through ten dayß of additional drought in safety. As sqpn as as the rain comes to wet the earth thoroughly we think it is better to remove the mulch. Nothing is then gained by permitting it to remain. Mellowing the surface soil about the trees, thus keeping it free from glass and weeds, is then the most that is - needed. We would repeat that the present is the season when the female borer deposits her eggs on the stems of fruit trees, nnd the wash of lime, potash, sulphur, etc. (darkened with lamp black), should now be applied.

Musical Jealousy.

A singular incident in natural history occurred lately at Chester, Englaud. A thrush, in a happy state of freedom, was trilling its notes in the orchard below the walls, near the “ wishing steps,” when its music excited similar efforts from a caged bird of the same species, which was suspended in front df the adjacent houses. These feathered songsters persevered in raising their melodies to higher and highejr if in earnest rivalry, wheffWddenly the bird among the trees darted from its perch upon the wicker cage of its competitor, broke the bars, entered it, and com-

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY; INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 18S0.

menccd an assault upon the musical captive—the owner of which, hearing the unusual noise, came out, took the aggressor prisonerjfjand, sold it into bondage. The ill-teittpMfed thrush had therefore paid the penalty of sacrificing its freedom to its jealousy. This anecdote is a fact, and ppt written, as it might seem to be, for the purpose of pointing a moral against musical jealousies among human vocalists.— Dura-, fries Herald.

A GRAND PAGEANT.

Tlic Knights Templar Parade in (hl> cago—A magnificent Spectacle. From a Chicago paper we glean the following graphic description of tho Knights Templar parade in thlt city : At 7 o’clock it seemed as if every living thing ait bin the city was moving on the line of route, 1 nt especially on Michigan and Wabash avenues, frem Twenty-first street north. Every house sent forth its contingent, nnd the enormous, d< nse, surging ranks of the populace stretched along tho sidew.dks so overwhelmingly that a quick step was impossible to the most activo of mortals. Soon, indeed, even the sidewalks wou’d not, or could not hold them. They invaded the roadways, and not all tlireatenings apd imprecations of the stalwart peeler on foot could move them half an imh from their •nmid. They held on like bull-dogs. The American monarch, his wife and royal republic. n family were on their dignity, and insbteil on what they conceived, to be the r full rights. fi his was a,JI very wc fl 'during the earlier part of the proceedings, ns tho jirocession was, inevil ablv, about an hour late in starting. This enabled every person who desired to be a spechit or to take up some kind pf a position. Some adhered obstinately to the sidevyajjql,:. some hung half way out of windows, 'sfkfme climbed !hc trees and telegraph .poles. Every stoop was garrisoned to replotibn. Housetops .were ] crowded with boys and girls who defied the * ardent sun, as, emancipated from vaporish , thralldom, he made the rest use of jtfls osWi*-j tnnity and seemed resolved on converting humanity within his roach to roast meat. Sth'Jll toys distinguished themselves bv gettjug astride of lamp-post*. They hang like squirrels from frail branches, and' escaped with, (heir lives as none but a small boy can escape. Compared with this wonderful turnout, 4 all the other demonstrations were dwarfed of their fair proportions. Evon (ho reception of Grant seemed like a drop in the bucket. To aliyonc who could see the great vista of the avenues, for ari immense distance filled in almost every part with people, the Bight put in tho background every event that has gone before. It was the Valley of Jehosophat, without the goats or the judgment. The hour preceding the, grand mister was filled with the pre aratory notes of the display. Drums rattled on highway and byway. Bugles rang out clearly, and “ the flashing blade,” and “tho peighing'steed,” and' “ the trumpet-stir-ring" blast,” inspired one’ to sing with Torn Moore: Oh, the fight entrancing, V hen morning’s beam is glancing On li'es arrayed In helm and blade, And plumes in the gay wind dancing. How important everybody looked ! But most of all the countryman who had aequaintai c;s in his local commandery that was to inaich past where he stood, in the panoply of war, but with the spirit of peace. It was difficult to decide at any state of the proceedings which were the most* interesting—the Knights, or the people who came to look at them. Both were grand in their way, and, taken together, formed a picture of mammoth magnificence that must long remain impressed on the mind that contemplated the spectacles with tho judgment born of experience in such matters. . As a matter of course, there were several excellent places from which to obtain a good view pf the procession, hut the best, perhaps was at tho crossing of Wabash avenue and Twelfth street, where the stands for the Grand Master and the Grand Encampment were erected under tho anspiccß of tho Triennial Committee. The peculiar advantage qf the position was “"that it enabled the spectator to see the column afrits best, before long marching had produced the partial demoralization that generally succeeds the early enthusiasm of the day. Tho advance of the bead of tho column was heralded at. 9:45 o'do kby the drum corps of the Second Regiment Illinois infantry, which was assigned the post of honor. A squad of mounted police, under Major Heintzman, rode at the people, who thronged the thoroughfares to an almost impassable extent, a ltd caused them to fall back snd align themselves on the curbing. Then, from the elevated platform, far along the avenue to the northward, tho broad front of the mighty column, as it began to extricate itself from the cross streets on which the different commanderics were formed, was Reen. The picked nun of the police force on foot, iwo platoons, under Capt. McGariglo and Lieuts. Ward and Hayes, extended clear across the street, and drove everything before them as they advanced briskly, every man loot ing his l est. Then came the mounted escort of fortyfive Knights of the De Molay Commandery, No. 5, of Grand Rapids, Mich., whose steeds, all clean-limbed, spirited, and richly caparisoned, j danced under them in a lively manner. Following came tho carriage of tho Grand Master, drawn by thirteen noble horse-—seven white and six black—each with a groom at his head. Behind this imposing turnout came the carriages containing members of the Grand Encampment and other high officers, all brilliant with stars, crosses, ribbons and sashes. Passing through the s luting squadron < of the csqort ; tho cortege halted. The grand officers a sconced their platforms. The one on the west was selected by Grand Master Hurlbnt and his lieutenants. With them appeared Gov. Cnllom, Mayor Harrison, Grand Prelate Locke, and many other eminent dignitaries. Tho platform on the east was occupied by another crowd of high Templars, and by several members of the press. Some delay followed tho appearance of the Grand Master, and it was 17 minutes past 10 o'clock when the drums again struck np, and the column was fairly under way. The splendid monotony of tho nnifprms, all dark an<\ white, the former predominating, was relieved by the brilliant and over-varying colors of tho bandir.cn, who seemed to vie with each other in tlio matter of- costly costume. The drum major, who is the human prototype of the injEortant turkey gobbler, strode before each and, baton in hand, and with bearskin cap, black, white, or gray, that looked like a tremendous load for the poor fellow to carry. The banners, tho flluqidsi tho thronging co-; horts, or commanderics, maremng nfostly twelve-' abreast, made a stirring picture of modern chivalry. Their swords glit ered in the struggling sunbeams, and their pennons seemed to f ance in ecstasy. Tlic ostrich feathers'end: wlii’e sashes seemed like angry foam cresting a 1 lack and swollen stream, or, better perhaps, Ab the enow on the larch, when December appears. "What a winter of plumes On that forest of spears 1 It was remarked that all the orgnn’zntiona from the larger cities, such as New York, Ginci inati, Philadelphia. B ltim< re, Detroit, Louisville, St. Louis, and cloveland, marched with more precision than the Knights front the rural districts, presumably because they have superior oor or .unities for concentrating and drillinr. The D troit Commandery executed some be ’ltifui movements as they tramped along, rid were frequently rewarded by enthusiastic shou .*. J lie proces-ion closed with another display of mounted Knights, whose rear guard filed by the grand stand at 1:15 o’clock. Thus, the procession was three hours passing that point, but an hour may honestly be deducted from that time in account of baitings.

Strange Freak of a Cat.

A Brussels journal relates the following anecdote of a cat in that city, and declares it to be a positive fact : The mistress of the cat having drowned all its young ones, the poor animal suffered much from excess of milk, and was observed for some days afterward to make her appearance only at meal time. At last, an unusual noise having been heard in the cellar, the servant went down to ascertain the cajise, and found cat 5 lying on her sidfl and suckling ajjroibd; of eight- yol}njjg rats, which hfcd €topir4 en O7L by thei£ jbjhj For a week longer the cat conthlissd tlitfe to feed* her natural enemies ; but at tne end of that time, being no longer incommoded by her milk, she one mornng killed them all.

“ A to Correct Principles.”

READ ! READ ! !

Barfield’s Credit Molli tier Record. Republican Newspapers on the Republican Candidate’s Cor- * ’ 7 ruptions. [From Garfield’s sworn testimony before the Po’and Committee, Jan. 14, 1873.] I never owned, received, or agreed to receive any stock of the Credit Mobilier or of the Union Pacific railroad, nor any dividends or profits arising from either of them. [From Judge Poland’s Report, Feb. 18,1873 —Gar field’s testimony perjured ], The facts in regard to Garfield, as found by the committee, are that he agreed with Mr. Ames to take ten shares of Credit Mobilier stock, but did not pay for the same. Mr. Ames received tho 80 per cent, dividend in bonds and sold them for 97 per cent., and also received the 60 per cent, cash dividend, which, together with the price of stock and interest, left a balance of $329. This sum was paid over to Mr. Garfield by a check on the Sergeant-at-Arms, and Mr. Garfield then understood this sum was the balance of dividends after paying for the stock.

HOW THEY VIEWED IX THEN. All Guilty—Differing' Only in Degree— Criticisms of the Leading Pliiladclplain Journals on Credit Mobilier in 1873. [From the PaSfic Ledger (Ind.), Feb. 20, 1873.] If Oakes Ames is guilty of bribing or otherwise his fellow-members (and the shows that he is), then some of them must have been bribed or corrupted. There is not One of them who made a public denial of his-Alleged connection with the “ Credit Mobilier ” who did not falsify the real facts by pre- > validation <sroy%nppressi’rig essential truth, or by false ‘ suggestion, or by direct falsehood — pirttved to be falsehood by the record evidenc'd. ■,* % * If these rfiepibcrs did not feel that CredifcMobilicr fninsactions were dishonomjto wby did they resort to prevarication and coHtaU.lmeni in their first denials ? THEIH MEAN, TBICKY, FALSE DENIALS. [From the Public Lodger (Ind.), Feb. 28, 1873.] *. * * * * Th'n came their mean, tricky, falkodenials, shifts, evasions and fast-following explanations of their explanations, every cliango -in which showed more and more their own sense of their own culpability. There never was an instance in which men holding a public trust were more thoroughly, covered with proof of malfeasance in office. Thie guilty knowledge of all these men was as visible as the plunder of the Government moneys was stupendous. And Congress punishes all this by passing its partial resolutions of censure, letting the guilty go free upon the false pretense of having no jurisdiction. This is so transparent a sham that it will command the belief of •no one possessing the commonest intelligence. NOT ONE FIT TO SIT AS A LAW-MAKER. [From tho Evening Te'egrapU (Rep.), Feb. 18. 1873.] *- * * * * There is‘not one man whom the testimony of Oakes Ames has connected with the Credit Mobilier who is fit to sit in the seat of the law-maker. .If Oakes Ames was the bribe-giver, they Hi tint have been the bribetakers. THE DELIBERATE AND WILLFUL LYING. [From the Evening Telegraph (Rep.), Feb. 26, 1873.] * * * The bribetaker is< as guilty as the bribegiver, and Mr. Ames decidedly objects to being made a scapegoat for the sins of other people. For him to work corruption with his Credit Mobilier stock there must have been corrupt material for him to work with, and, admitting that the accused parties, from tho Vice President down, were ignorant of Ames’motives in the first place, what can be said of the deliberate and,willful lying they have indulged in from the thnie an exposure of this infamous business was-first hiut«t through the whole progress pf tjbe investigation up to the present moment?-, ilk • ■■■StiS&VbftHHSit'- '■>. OAKES AMES' BRIBE-TAKEBS AND LIARS. [From the Evening Telegraph (Hep.), Feb. 27, 1873.] * * * * Andrew Johnson, whatever might have been saufrof his sins of commission or omission,angel of light fn comparison with Oakes Amos and his sneaking crew of bribe-takers and liars, from the Vice President down tp the member from Ohio who .spits his venom at-tbe press because the press has done its duty in exposing a gigantic wrong. DESTROYED ’SOME OF THE PEOPLE’S IDOLS. [From the Press (Rep.), Feb. 19, 1873.] * * * Its revelations shocked the moral sense of men of all. parties, and destroyed some of the people's idols. IDLE TO ATTEMPT AN IMPOSSIBLE VINDICATION. [Editorial Letter in Press (Rep.), Feb. 19, 1873.] * * * Their denial at the beginning has placed them and all those who desired to rescue them in the most embarrassing position, for that proved that they were ashamed of the transaction. And when the fact appeared that the accused had taken the stocks with a full knowledge of the exaggerated dividends, and when this fact was clinched and riveted by unfortunate contradictions before the committee, it was idle to attempt an impossible vindication. * * *

ALONE IN THE EXTENT OF ITS DEMORALIZATION. fFrom the Inquirer (Rep.), I'tb. 4, 1873.] So many prominent men whom the country delighted to honor have thereby been stripped bare of their good names and compelled to appear beforo the world covered with the shame of their crimes and misdemeanors. It is right that the hypocrites should be exposed. * * tb£ onus upon the country. [From the Inquirer (Rep.), Feb. 28, 1873.] • The responsibility of Congress is at an end in this business. It has been remanded to tlio country, and if again the convicted members are-returned to the places they have disgraced, the onus of it will bo upon the country. THE NOTORIOUS, DOWNRIGHT LYING. [From the North American (Rep.), Feb. 28, 1873.] * * * And it may be properly added in the same lines that much dissatisfaction exists in the community that all the arguments and debates in the case, have overlooked a point more unii’ersSltv Condemned than the crimes alleged and more susceptible of proof—the notorious, downright lying of some of the individuals inculpated. Comments of Buffalo Republican Newspapers. [From the Buffalo Commercial, Feb. 21, 1873.] The prominent Congiessmen whose names were first used in connection with the Credit Mobilier were Blaine, Dawes, Kelley, Bingham, Schofield and Garfield; and, beside these, Vice President Colfax. * * * Mr. Blaine comes out of it without a stain upon his record. His colleagues certainly did hold the stock and lied about it. [From the Buffalo Commercial, Feb. 22, 1873.[ Influential Republican journals mention that every one of the Congressmen who dabbled with Credit Mobilier stock ought to be publicly censured. [From the Buffalo Commercial, Feb. 27,1873.] Should Congress decide to let the culprits escape they must all know by this time that they have been condemned at the bar of public opmion. [From the Buffalo Commercial, March 1, 1873.] Now the case has gone to tho peop’e. They > ill not split hairs in finding out whetheir they can open the public record erf a man who has certain pages that he would like to conceal from examination. The people will preside at the ballot-box as their tribunal. When those who have betrayed the confidence reposed in them come up for trial— if they ever dare to do they will be rejected as wricked and unprofitable public servants. This is the decree uttered by the; voioe erf the press to-day. It says to Gs-ch ope of those who are afraid to punish corart weighed in the balance and I IFfcnithfßaffalo Express, Feb. (SO, 1873.] URU who ever Mobilier stock, or to make every man responsible for the guilt of others. Our own opinion, based on such hasty consideration as we have been able to give tl}e fapts, is, that Dawes js ip-

nocent; that Scofield and Bingham have been guilty of an impropriety which should subject them to censure ; and that Kelley and Garfield have so misrepresented the facts, and endeavored to disguise the transaction as a loan that a more severe punishment would not be out of place. [From the Portland (Me.) Argus.] Every member of Congress who deliberately bandied Credit MoLilier stock is unworthy of future confidence. [From the Indianapolis Journal, Republican organ, Feb. 26, 1873.] Garfield not only handled the stock but lied about it. Is he not “ unworthy of future confidence?’’

THE NEGROES AND THE SOLID SOUTH.

A Candid Statement by an Alabama Conservative Democrat. [From the New York Sun.] The recent election in Alabama, in which the Democracy won so signal a victory, has again called the attention of the pt*lio to the solid South. The comments of the Republican press on the Alabama election, in the main, are bitter, violent, revolutionary and absurdly false. It has been suggested to me that a plain, unvarnished statement of the “true inwardness” of the matter would not prove unacceptable to the readers of the Sun, and might do some good. At least, as I humbly conceive, it can do no harm. It is true I am a Southern man and a Democrat. This is unfortunate, to begin with; for is not every Southern Democrat a bulldozer and an outlaw ? Can any credence be given his statements by the “loyal” Republican mind ? We shall see. While I am a Southern man and a Democrat, I am not a Bourbon, so called, and never was. In 1860 I was a Douglas Democrat; in 1861 I was for compromise - and conciliation; in 1862 and until the close of the war, like hundreds of thousands of others who had opposed secession, I was a soldier of the lost cause, and shrank from no sacrifice in its defense. Since the surrender of Lee I have known no flag but the flag of the Union, and have honestly labored for a restoration of constitutional liberty and the Union of Our fathers. While opposed to the reconstruction acts and the methods ot' their enforcement, I have never been regarded as an ultra man, and have always advocated moderate measures. In 1875, when the people of Alabama determined to call a convention to enable them to rid themselves of the odious constitution forced upon them by Congress, and to form a new constitution more acceptable to the masses, I advocated the election of a non-partisan delegation to the convention, believing that a Constitutional Convention should | know no party, and .that partisan | politics ought not to enter into the can- ! vass. I offered myself to the people as ! a candidate upon that platform, and had ! opposed to me, as the regular Democratic nominee, the Hon. W. M. Lowe, tho present Greenback Congressman from this district. I was defeated, simply because tho Republicans r< fused to | support me. At that time they were nn wit ling to vote for a Democrat under any circumstances. They have grown more liberal since, and are very eager now to vote for independent Democrats under any and all circumstances. In | 1875 they had not realized to its full exI tent how damning was the record they had made in this State, and that the scepter of power had departed from i their hands forever.

During the eight yean they held control of our State Government, they succeeded in nearly bankrupting our State and people, adding to our State debt nearly thirty millions of dollars. For this they had little or nothing to show. In 1874, thanks to the Civil Rights bill, the taxpayers of the State succeeded in electing a Democratic Governor and Legislature. At that time our State bonds were utterly worthless, and our State money was selling at sixty cents on the dollar. Now our bonds are at a premium, our State money has been redeemed at par, our people are prosperous in a remarkable degree, both white and colored, and the latter have at last realised that the Democrats are the best conservators of the peace, the best promoters of the interests of all classes, and the safest guardians of the public credit. Do not understand me to say that all the colored people have realized this truth ; what I mean to say is that multitudes of the more intelligent ones among them have done so. Consequently, they vote with the Democrats, freely, intelligently, and oftentimes in despite of shameful bulldozing on the part of the ignorant masses of their own race. It is no “ shotgun policy ” which has effected this revolution. The simple truth is, the negro has proved himself to be more of a man than his heretofore ! would-be Republican masters believed ! him to be. Let me furnish the readers of the Sun j a little of the evidence I have at hand I to support this statement. There are now published in the State i of Alabama several papers edited and j owned by colored men. Two of these, i and by far the two ablest, are edited in I the interest of the Democratic party, j The Herald, of Huntsville, is one of the two. It is edited by W. H. Councill, who is also the principal of the State Colored Normal School at Huntsville. Councill is not yet 30 years of age. He was bom a slave, and has educated himself since the war. During the days of carpet-bag rule he was a violent Republican. He is a man of rare gifts, however, and is, besides, possessed of great force and independence of character. It took but a few years of Democratic rule to convince him of his early political blunders. He not only had the good sense to see that the State had been benefited by the downfall of his party, but he also had the manliness to confess as much. When he first .began to give public expression of his change of sentiments his life was repeatedly threatened by his colored opponents. I have myself seen him, on the stand, face a howling mob of ignorant blacks with the dauntless courage of a Roman gladiator. This brave colored man is a bom orator, and but few white men of his own age can surpass him as a stump speaker. During our late canvass he was on the stump constantly for the Democratic ticket. Among the counties visited by him was Lowndes—a county reported to be controlled by the “shotgun policy.” The following is taken from his paper of Aug. 6, giving an account of what he did and saw in Lowndes. Let the Republicans of the North who are declaiming so furiously about the solid South read and ponder it well: * We went to Lowndes county week before last to assist in the canvass. On the night of our arrival we spoke to a small audience in the

Court House. We never met kinder people than we found in Lowndes. The white people of the county are laboring earnestly by acts of kindness to convince the colored people that the tales circulated by their vicious leaders are untrue. On Wednesday of last week a barbecue was given, to which all were invited, irrespective of party or race. It was the nicest affair we ever saw. The first people of the comity were out, and the olive branch of peace was offered the. colored people, and we are proud to say that the better class of the colored people at Lowndes were willing to forget the past and “clasp hands over ttie bloody chasm.” Up until last month colored men never voted their sentiments, because of the bulldozing carried on by the Radicals. If a colored man voted the Democratic ticket he was afraid to confess it or let it be known. Dozens of colored men in Lowndes will testify to this. There may be places where the Democrats bulldoze, but we have yet to visit a place that comes np to this. This iso ring to the wicked teachers in politics that these poor people have had among them. A young man, Frank Hamilton, said in our face, at Burtisville, last Saturday, that any man who would vote a Democratic ticket “is a * ,” evidently endeavoring to provoke a fuss. Austin Chappcl, at the same time and place, said that if the other colored men were of his mind ihey would take the traitors (meaning colored Democrats) into the wools and liang them. It is a prominent fact that colored men in that county have been bulldozed and frightened into sticking to ttie Radical machine, and until recently dared not vote their sentiments and make it known. Let Mr. Hayes send soldiers down there to protect these honest citizens in the exercise of ttie elective franchise. But, thank God, the sun of liberty has arisen in Lowndes, and more than a thousand colored men voted ttie Democratic ticket there last Monday, and will hereafter be protected from the assaults of the bulldozer. I might furnish the readers of the Sun column after column of tho same sort, but I deem the above sufficient. Yes, the South is solid to-day for honest money, honest the constitution as it is, and the Union as it was ; and *.olid it will be on next November for Hancock.

D. R. HUNDLEY.

Moobesville, Ala., Aug. 13, 1880.

JUDGE STALLO’S LETTER.

A German Jurist’s Hensons for Supporting- Hancock. The following letter from Judge Stallo, of Cincinnati, the most eminent and most cultured German in the United States will bear to reprint. Judge Stallo, is an old Republican, and, though not as famous as an orator as Carl Scliurz, has a stronger hold upon the hearts and affections of his countrymen than Carl has. The letter will bear reading carefully, and more than once : My Dear Sir : I cannot attend your ratification meeting. But you may savfor me that I regard the nomination of Hancock and English as of good omen for tho republic, and sincerely hope and trust that this nomination will he ratified at the ['.oils by an overwhelming majority. You are aware that for mqny years—from 1856 to 1872 —I acted with tho Republican party. Bit the very purposes for which that party was founded now demand, as it seems to mo, that the men who have control'cd it, and through it the Government, during the last fifteen years shall l;e dislodged from power. Tho persistent usurpation by the National Government of powers beyond its constitutional sphere, and its conversion into an instrumentality of robbery and oppression, are not. in niv judgment, conducive to the maintenance of its supremacy within its constitutional limit*. I do not think that respect for and obedience to this Government can bo enforced by using it to foster monopolies or to subsidize private enterprises at public expense. Moreover, I find it difficult to believe that the equalcivil and political rights of our citizens and tho purity of our elections are to bo secured by placing the ballot box under the exclusive control of the party in power—even if this control be not immediately exercised by ruffians, hired for the declared purSose of suppressing adverse majorities—or by le methods countenanced and promoted bv Gen. Garfield after the last Presidential election in Louisiana. And I am wholly unable to understand that the appointment of Madison Welts and his compeers to office as a reward for the most infamous political crime recordel in the annals of our country; or tho attempt to place Chester A. Arthur in tlm chair of tho Senate, afford very striking evidence of a sincere purpose to reform and purify the Government' service. Whether or not the Demo ratic party will make a worthy use of the opportunities ‘which the control of the Government affords remains to be seen. For tho present it is enough to say that I very much prefe r the platform and its nominees to ttie platform and nominees of the Republicans. The Republican platform (which is, of course, to he interpreted in the Republican nominations), so far as it is more than mere senseless fustian and rodomontade, is simply an audacious sneer at public morality ; and the Republican candidates appear to have been chosen for the express purpose of compelling the voters of the Republican party distinctly to indorse and approve the iniquities which have driven so many of its members from its ranks. Or in what other sense is James A. Garfield offered to us as the representative of Republican detestation of bribery and corruption, and Chester A. Arthur as an index of Republican enthusiasm and civil-service reform ! The Democratic platform on ttie other hand is, in the main, an accurate statement of my political creed, and, if your party will henceforth live up to it more faithfully than has been its wont in the sad days of its degeneracy and confusion, I shall feel proud to be enrolled among its members. Of the Democratic nominees it is hardly necessary to say that they command the respect, if not the admiration, even of their political antagonists. Mr. English is distinguished by tho courage with which he has stood up with and against his party for his convictions. And what American is there, native or adopted, Republican or Democrat, whoso eyes do not glisten when he Foks np to Hancock, the intrepid soldier, the patriotic champion of the indissolubility of the Union, the man without fear and without reproach, the citizen who is illustrious, not only by his public services, but by the unsullied purity of his life, whom 1, for one, honor even more for his fearless vindication of the principles on which the American Union is founded than for his heroic defense of the Union itself. The nomination of Gen. Hancock, however, is not only fit as a grateful recognition of his merits, but is peculiarly auspicious in view of the exigencies of the time. It is the most trustworthy assurance that the results of the late war are at least as safe in tho keeping of Democratic as in that of a Republican administration. And, what is equally important, it is an augury of the restoration of peace and good will among all the citizens of (his Union. The men of the South, who once bore arms against the Union, have not only laid them down, but they have renewed their allegiance to our common country with demonstrations of affection whose very sadness is the best proof of their sincerity. They have been for years struggling against the disorders necessarily consequent upon the complete subversion of their social and industrial system and the misfortunes entailed upon them by the war, misfortunes which certainly have not been alleviated by the practices of a majority of the men who came to the Southern States as the agents and representatives of the Republican party. And I cannot conceive anything more despicable than the attempt of certain Republican politicians who aspire to the highest honors and trusts of the republic to fabricate partisan capital by a constant reference to the inevitable incidents to the reorganization of our Southern communities as evidence of the continued disloyalty of the whole Southern people. With the election of Hancock all this will come to a speedy end. The insane vociferations about a “ solid Bouth ” will be silenced, and I am not without hope that at the Presidential election in 1884 we shall have two parties at the South as well as at the North whose lines of division are no longer the line of color or of race. Truly

yours, Hon. John F. Follett.

A Notable Hancock Recruit.

Mr. George W. Vinton, of Moline, HI., who, in 1876, came within an ace of being the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the State, has come out fyjr gaqcqck, because he “is dis-

gusfced with the recent corrupt tendencies of the Republican party management and with the wholesale abuse of the South, which section he has lately visited. ” He says the ticket nominated at Chicago was “ a compromise on one whom his- own party friends have convicted of perfidy and corruption, with a second whose only fame in the nation is of having been discharged in disgust from the public service by the head of his own party. ” He is confident Illinois can be earned for Hancock and lowa made a good deal closer than ever before. It will now be in order for the Republican papers to allude to Mr. Vinton as a sorehead, a blasphemer and a horsethief.

HE LOVED HIS GENERAL.

4 Veteran’s Admiration and Affection for Hancock. [From the Whitehall Times.] Yesterday our sanctum door opened and a man entered. He had but one arm and on his forehead was a deep scar. He said : “ Are you the editor ?” We answered in the affirmative. “Well, sir,” said he, “I am a veterar of the late war. I was with Hancock at the battle of the Wilderness. I was three years in service altogether, never getting a scratch or being sick a day until then. You see, my regiment belonged to the Second corps of the Army of the Potomac. At the hour of daylight we pounced upon the enemy, and drove him away with much loss of life. Unfortunately for me, a shell dropped over by me and burst. Then it sent its death-dealing fragments all about us. I was struck on the arm and forehead, Of course I dropped. How long I lay there I cannot tell, but when I awoke I was in the hospital in a cot-bed. The first words I heard were : * Poor fellow, he has revived.’ Then ho quickly called to a nurse. ‘ Bring water, quick, to wet his parched lips.’ He knelt down, and, with a kind voice, said, * My poor boy, have courage ; you will, yet see your Mends. ’ Turning, he left my cot, and as I listened I heard kind words spoken by him by the side of other cots. I could see men grasp his hand and cover it with kisses. I could hear many a ‘God bless you, General,’uttered as if coming from an overflowing heart. That visiting angel was Gen. Hancock. Sir, lam a Republican. I never voted any hut a Republican ticket, hut I can toil you that Gen. Hancock will receive my vote, as well as the votes of four members of my family, all of whom are Republicans, for a man with such a tender heart cannot but make a good and wise President. Excuse me for troubling you, sir, but there is such love for the good and noble Hancock in my soldier heart that I must speak. ” The poor war-worn veteran then grasped our hand, and, looking into his face, we observed his eyes filled with tears. This is but a single specimen of the enthusiasm the soldiers have for tlieir old commander.

Cliairinan liar mini on the Political Outlook. In speaking of the campaign in Indiana, Chairman Barnum, of the National Committee, said to an interviewer the other day : “I am not one who believes in running a campaign on wind merely, and so I seldom say much ; but on this subject I know what I am talking about. We shall carry Indiana without any question. The news I had from Indiana was not satisfactory, and so I determined to go over the ground personally. I did so, and the result, in my mind, is perfectly satisfactory. ” “Is the State well organized ?” “ You would be astonished to know bow thoroughly it has been and is being done. Mr. English is earnestly at work. He is a man of great executive ability, and he is exercising it most effectively. He hires a man for each county, who goes to work as a matter of business and canvasses the county house by house. The position of every voter is put on record, and the information thus obtained is simply a matter of fact. In the cities, like Indianapolis, the canvass is made, not by wards, but by blocks. • One man is assigned to each block, and makes it his business to know just the position of every man in the block.”' “How about the importation of negroes ? ” “The means which we have taken will prevent any of that. Then beside the colored vote will be largely neutralized by the white vote along the river. There has been of late a large demand for white labor along the river and there has been a large increase in the population in the shape of boatmen and men in that line of business.” “ What do you think of the prospects in Maine ? ” “ The news from Maine is highly encouraging. There seems to be no reason why we should not carry the State. The people there are hard at work. They raised a very large sum of money themselves on the start, and have been going ahead all the while.”

Mr. English’s Mortgages.

A Garfield neAvspaper prints two columns in display type of the mortgages which Mr. English has owned and foreclosed in Indiana during the lakt few years, with the names of the mortgagors and the amounts claimed or realized. Foot-notes are added in which an attempt is made to show the unfeeling manner in which Mr. English has taken his due. If there is any moral conveyed by the catalogue in question it is, that whoever owns a mortgage and forecloses it when it is due and obtains a judgment for any deficiency is a rogue. These make very hard lines of financial doctrine for the national banks and for the ten thousand Republicans all* over the country who loan money on bond and mortgage. A supplementary moral in this interesting tale maybe thatit is criminal and socially outrageous for a .candidate who is a mortgagee to take his lawful interest and debt, while it is praiseworthy for another candidate to take $329 of dividends by way of -a loan to which he was not entitled, or to sell his vote and influence for $5,000. — New York World.

Garfield—Ames, can you let me have a small sum this morning ? Ames—Willingly, my boy ; how much do you want ? Garfield—Well, I don’t know; what you can spare. Ames—All right, I can work out that sum. There are ten shares Credit Mobilier, Dr. 80 cents on the dollar, Cr. by rise in value. Ditto by dividend, §0 is

J. B. STALLO.

$1.50 Der Annum.

NUMBER 29.

SUCCESS ASSURED.

Hardly Ever.

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80; 97 is 97; 81,000, $1,400; $2,400; stock all paid for, balance of dividend due Garfield, $329; there, sir, that is just what you want. Three hundred and twenty-nine dollars. Here is your check. Garfield—Thank you, thank you ; but mind this must be considered a loan. Ames—Oh, yes, and its fast as the stock rises and dividends accrue (which, between us, you can help amazingly by voting right in Congress) I’ll “lend” you some moie. You never took a bribe. No, sir! Garfield—Never ! Never ! Ames (aside) —Hardly ever. — Ypsilanti Sentinel ( Dern .).

INDIANA NEWS.

There are seventy-three postoffices in Indiana to which a salary of SI,OOO or more is attached. Ralph Waldo Emerson has written a letter congratulating the Indiana Bureau of Statistics on its first nnnuul report. David Foutch, a boy living in Brow township, Washington county, died from “damps” in a well on his father’s farm last week. Vinncenes will shortly boast of starch works. The factory of J. A. Cuuniugham, now located at Danville, 111., will be moved there. Mr. Ruel Custer, a well-known Jefferson county farmer, aged 90 years, died at his home last week. He had resided on the place for sixty years. Mrs. John P. Reynolds and Miss Ella Sheridan, of Madison, ure heirs to an estate in England valued at £200,000, and an annual income of £4,000. At the annual meeting of the Wabash Association of Detectives, in Crawfordsville, a few days ago K eighty-three local associations were represented. A fisherman at Madison, a 4ew days since, caught a blue catfish weighing 100 pounds. It is said to he the heaviest of the species ever caught in the Ohio river at that point. The starch works now being built at Columbus are by t«r the largest of the kind in the United States, and cost near SIOO,OOO. They will be completed late in September or early in October. A “ blast” was made at Black Diamond cement mills, at Jeffersonville, a few days ago, which took thirteen kegs of powder. It, dislodged enough of rock to make 13,000 barrels of cement. The shock was felt for miles around. A 3- year-old child of N. W. Graves, of Galveston, Cass county, has lost ilslife. The child being sick, a pill was given it, which lodged in its wind-pipe. Death came to the relief of the little sufferer before medical aid could be rendered. Roger Russel, an old man of 70, fired two barrels of a shot-gun into the face and breast of his son-in-law, John Norman, four miles from New Albany, inflicting fatal wounds. Norman had been ill-treating his wife, Russel’s daughter. Diphtheria in its most malignant form-lias been raging as an epidemic in Waynetown, Montgomery bounty. Over fifteen deaths have occurred in the village alone, and a number not reported in the vicinity. The disease is spreading to adjoining towns. Rev. George Chainey, of Evansville, formerly a Unitarian clergyman of some, prominence, but now a denouncer of Christianity—for which cause lie has been deposed from the ministry and expelled from his Masonic lodge—is now on the lecture platform. A movement is on foot, projected by property-holders along the bank, to make Pigeon creek navigable five miles from its mouth. This is proposed in the interest of manufacturing establishments, and if done will be of incalculable benefit to Evansville. Jesse Worthington, a farmer of Warrick county, wotuided his forefinger while cutting grass with a sickle. A few days afterward the finger inflamed and suddenly the arm swelled to three times ils normal size and was a mass of putrid flesh. The doctors were sent for and found the poor man writhing in agony. They hail intended to amputate the arm, but they found his left side in a horrible state of mortification, and saw that death was a matter of very short time. He lingered in most intense agony for two weeks, when he expired, and had to be buried immediately. AMNCMMincnt on Ititilroad I'roiicrtf. Following is a table of main track, side track and rolling stock of railroads in Indiana for the year 1880,"* as assessed and equalized by the State Board of Equalization :

> NAMES OF ROAPB. <5 "T 2 J 2.= 2.i S.'" J.'” £ ~ ■ •* ft" , Anderson, L. & St. X.... 19.37 1.36 19.37 $ 49,110 Balt. & Ohio * Chicago. 146.33 15.(13 140.35 1,473,305 Bedford, S-., O. &B. .. 41.00 9.00 41.c<) 63,30(1 Bloomfield N. Gauge... 9.00 9.00 13,500 Cleveland, C., C. & 1... 83.84 27.32 83.84 399,065 Cincinnati, 11. * 1 78.03 8.08 78.63 f 0,710 Cincinnati, H. & 1 85.89 3.63 85.85) 399,005 Cincinnati, K. & C 5.98 .85 5.98 56,716 Cincinnati, W. & M.... 109.51 5.48 109.51 500,495 Cincinnati, L. & C 23.77 3.26 23.77 184,795 Cincinnati, 1., St. 1.. & C 153.69 30.77 153.69 1,521.595 Lawreneeburg branch.. 2.57 5.05 2.57 34,515 Cincinnati, It. * H 37.14 .99 37.14 125,211 Cairo* Vincennes 6.92 6.92 31,140 Chicago & Eastern 111.. 19.61 4.74 19.61 127,140 Chicago, Cin. & L 71.47 5.01 71.47 293,395 Chicago & Block C0a1... 12.75 .13 12.75 26,268 Chicago & Canada K 54^846 Eel River 93.84 7.79 93.84 501,990 Evansville &T. H 108.40 2 '.87 108.40 1,082,795 Evansville, T. H. & C... 62.68 10.13 52.68 396,340 Frankfort & Kokomo.. 25.55 1.08 25.55 60,925 Fort Wayne, M. & C... 104.17 5.66 104.17 396,749 Fort Wayne * Jackson. 52.39 5.46 52.39 320,021 Fairiand, F. * M 38.30 1.82 38.30 79,798 Grand Rapids & 1 52 27 2.52 52.78 346,055 Havana, R. & E 8.50 .14 8.50 14,534 Indiana (C. &G. T.)... 79.00 5.70 79.00 682,900 Indianapolis U. It. C... 3.23 129,200 Indianapolis, P. & C... 72 87 11.73 72.87 656,007 Indianapolis, D. & H.... 74.77 5.04 74.78 471,63,8 Indianapolis* St L.... 79.42 15.50 79.42 832,950 Indianapolis, D. * C.. 26.42 .66 25.42 53,170 Indianapolis, B. & W... 78.61 15.33 78.15 848,008 Joliet* Northern 1.... 15 40 1.94 .... 192,560 Indianapolis * Vicennesi 116.44 5.25.116.44 511,392 Jeffersonville, M. & X.. 110.28 22.331110.28 1,234,032 Mad’n branch same road 45,90 5.63| 45.90 202,957 Columbus & Shelby vilie 23.28 .98 23.28 88,671 Sheibyvilie * Rneliville. 18.45 .98 18 42 70,447 CambridgeCityExtens’u 20.97 .72 20.97 79,645 Kingan 421 .46 3,480 Louisville & Nashville.. 28.411 3.85 28.41 198,817 Louisville, N. A. * C... 288.26j25.45 288.26 1,054,979 Louisville, N. A. * St. L. 26.00 i 26.00 58,500 Little Miami 4 19| .94 4.191 29,115 Lake Shore A Mich. S’n. 167.70 (59.42 '67.7(i| 3,800,640 Lake Erie* Western... 157.89|14.14 157.89 1,086,705 Lake Erie, E. *B. W’n. 17.00 .45 17.0n| 49,840 Michigan Air Line 5.62 1.01 30,120 Mich.City*l usdianapolis 12.75 506 12 75 58,084 Michigan Central 42.41 24.72 42.41 989,490 Ohio* Mississippi 1171.89 28.32j171.89 1,769,482 O. * M.—L. Branch... 53.31 6.251 53 31 375.008 P. C. & St Louis 410.64 45.72J416.64 4,074,408 P., Ft. W. & Chicago...U.s2 57 44.10 152.571 3,896,370 T. H. & Logansport.... 115.07 9.50 115.07 421,745 T. H. * Indianapolis... 79.88 74.82 79.88 1.467,6(91 T. H. * Southeastern.. 40.00 2.37 40.00 152,518 T. D. & Burlington.... 37.30 .66 37.30 37,960 U. R. T. &8. Yard 12.10 6.07 12.10 502,620 W., St L. & Pacific.... 166.00 46.00 106.00 2,0743810 White River 61,40 4,00 61.40 . I'ljfLo RECAPITULATION. Milek. Value. Main track 4,275.47 $29,785,260 Sidetrack. 687.54 1,932,102 Rolling stock 0,7141,273 Canada Southern right of way 54,846 ' Total $88,142,941