Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. There is great excitement in England •and Ireland over the impending prosecutions against the I,and League. A Dublin dispatch wnys that between Templcmore and Thnries signal fl ashes on tlie most-approved military system are carried on nightly, and answered by flashes from various points on the hills. There appears to be quite a system of communication by signals and flashes which is generally considered ominous of mischief; At a meeting of the Dublin Diocesan Synod a resolution was passed urging the Government to take measures to protect their Protestant countrymen. The Home-Rule Confederation of Great Britain and representatives of radical clubs of London have passed resolutions condemning the prosecution of Irish agitators. Spain promises to disband at an early •day 15,000 troops in Cuba. Great Britain and Ireland Lave been \ isited by a terrific gale, causing much damage <>u land and sea. Considerable loss of life is reported. Charles Harcourt, a noted English actor, bnH died from the effects of a fall t hrough the stage-trap of Drury Lane Theater. A railway collision in Belgium result* •<l in the death of seven persons and injuries to several others. The British Minister is advised of the murder, in South Africa, of a magistrate and two clerks, while witnessing a war danc •, and 4,000 more colonial troops have been called •»ut. A large and enthusiastic meeting of loyal Irishmen of the counties of Antrim and Down was held at Belfast the other day. Resolutions were adopted denouncing agitation and assassination. About 7,000 people attended the ’neeting. A life-boat capsized in the harbor of Wells, Norfolk, England. Eleven of the crew were drowned. The Socialists of Hamburg have resolved to evacuate the city and discontinue, their revolutionary printing enterprises. In consequence of the increased earnings of American roads, as shown by the return for several months past, American railroad securities have risen in the London money market, mid the tendency is toward higher prices. American securities of all kinds are engerly sought after by the moneyed men of England. Among the Nihilists soon to be brought to trial, in Russia, are those charged with the explosion on the Moscow railway and at the Winter Palace, those who attended the congress of assassins, and a man who is said to have given his large fortune to the Nihilist committee. The populace of Varna, Bulgaria, having assembled before the French Consulate, hooting and throwing mud at the French coat of arms, the French Ambassador has ordered a gunboat to proceed to that place.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ECast. A cheap lodging house was burned in New York city, and Joseph Connolly, a porter, and Jonathan White, a fanner, perished in the flames. The Ansonia watch and clock works in Brooklyn, N. Y., have been destroyed by Are. Hohh, SBOO,OOO. C. Risley A- Co., of No. 77 Wall street, New York, a firm which has bees engaged in Ihe coffee trade for thirty years, has made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities of the firm are placed at SBOO,OOO and the assets at $400,000. Three of the Pennsylvanians who, some months since, chased a gentleman into the Ohio river and stomd him to death for stealing a hunch of grapes, have been sentenced to 6 cents fine and three months in jail. Kenwood Philp was arrested in New York, Oct. 27, on a charge of forging the Gar-(iekl-Morcy Chinese cheap-labor letter. Philp is one of the editors of Truth, a daily paper in which the letter was first printed. Philp, who was arrested in New York on a charge of forging the Garfi dd-Morey letter, was arraigned for trial on the 28th ult. Hart, one of the proprietors of Truth, appeared on the witness-stand, but refused to produce the letter. He was handed over to a Police Captain for contempt of court. At the afternoon session the original letter was shown, but the prosecution demanded the envelope, and an adjournment wao necessary to secure it. Col. A. F. Rockwell, of the United States army; James McDer i ott, of Brooklyn, journalist; exSheriff Dagget, of Brooklyn ; and Daniel F. Arnes, an expert, testified that they believed Hie Morey letter was in the handwriting of Philp. G. W. Hayward & Co., wholesale coffee and dried fruit dealers, of Buffalo, have made an assignment. The examination of Kenward Philp on a charge of concocting the Morey letter was resumed in New York on the 29th ult. The opening feature of the day was the surrender of the envelope by Hart, the publisher of Truth, to Judge Davis, when testimony by experts in handwriting was listened to. Albert Southworth and William E Hagan, experts, testified that the writing of the letter was similar to the acknowledged writing of Philp. Mr. Leet, a newspaper reporter, also testified that the letter was in Philp’s handwriting. A number of postoffice employes, including Mr. Pearson, Assistant Postmaster at New' York, testified that the postmarks on the envelope were not genuine. On tho third day of the trial of Kenward Philp, at New York, Postmaster Ainger, of Washington, and one of his stamping clerks testified that the postmark on the Morey letter did not come into use until Feb. 15 of this year, and therefore that the envelope could not have been mailed in January. The prosecution also presented three or four witnesses who claimed to be familiar w'ith Philp's handwriting, and who swore to their belief that he wrote the Morey letter. X To offset this testimony the defense introduced ten witnesses, all attaches of different newspapers with which Philp had been connected, and all of them were perfectly positive that the Morey letter and the address were not in Philp’s handwriting. The young man, James McDermott, one of the State’s witnes es, was given an exceedingly bad character by eight of these associates of Philp, who united in saying that they wouldn’t believe him under oath. West. Our Goblins ” is a musical extrava- • ganza which was first produced in Chicago by William Gill, the music being composed by a Chicago composer. Ike entertainment has been on its travels since then, and has now returned, and is this week leing played at McVicker s. In the meantime it has improved in dialogue, in music, and in its cast, which embraces such people as Anna Teresa Berger, the coiDet player, Miw IXauche Corelli, Mj. Will-

the Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME IV.

iam Gill, formerly of the Colville Folly Troupe, Miss Emma Carson, Mr. Francis Wilson, and Mr. William Forster. Since the opening of the current season they have proven themselves one of the strongest attractions in the country. Robert F. Johnston, of Detroit, for a quarter of a century editor of the Michigan Farmer, is dead. De Witt county, UH., has a female horse-thief, only 16 years of age, who has already acquired a reputation in her profession and suffered several terms of imprisonment. A horrible tragedy is reported from Wabashaw county, Minn. Robert Lowe shot his wife and infant child, mid then went into the bush about a mile from his residence and killed himself. The ball passed through Mrs. Lowe’s heart, killing her almost instantly. The child, 2 years old, was shot in the head, a little above the temple, and survived about an hom- and a half. The murderer shot himself jn the back of the head, at the base of the brain, and no doubt died immediately. Domestic trouble was the cause of the traged It will be remembered that a few weeks ago Dr. Talbott, a Missouri Greenback editor, was assassinated ata window of his residence. Thorough investigation of the crime has led to the arrest of his wife and two sons as the murderers. By the fall of a scaffold at the Cincinnati Public Library two painters were precipitated eighty feet to the ground, killing them instantly. Four railroad employes were killed by a collision between two passenger trains on the Panhandle road at Burgettstown, Ohio. The Chicago Tribune says a careful recapitulation of the ravages of the great storm of Oct. 16 on the lakes shows that upward oi $500,000 damage was done to vessels and cargoes, and that ninety-three persons perished. There were seventeen total wrecks, involving a loss of $153,900, and in all sixty-six vessels were damaged to a greater or less extent. A Republican meeting in St. Louis just before the election, in which Republican clubs participated largely, wound up in a desperate riot, in which a negro named Brown was killed and several other persons were seriously wounded. It required nearly the whole police force of the city to quell the cmeute. The Chinese issue led to a serious riot in Denver. A raid was made on the Celestials at noon on Sunday, the last day of October, many of their homes were torn down and one occupant killed with bricks. The police were powerless, and in an effort by the firemen to quell the rioters two of the former were badly wounded; One Chinaman was put in jail for safety, and the mob yelled: ‘'Lynch the leper ! ” At dark the rioters gutted Chinese houses at will, one Celestial having suffered the loss of his queue. Three hundred special policemen were sworn in and the fire department held in readiness to meet the torch of flip incendiary. Denver has a Chinese population of about 150, and no instances are mentioned where they undertook to defend themselves. The workingmen of Omaha had quite a commotion over a false report that the waterworks for that city were to be built by Chinese brought from the Pacific coast. The labor union ordered arms and ammunition and laid the city off in fighting distiicts to await the advent of the Celestials. The great storm of Oct. 16, 1880, will remain memorable in the annals of lake navigation because of its violence and the destruction of property on the lakes, more particularly on Lake Michigan, caused by it. The Chicago Tribune prints a resume of the damage inflicted on the lakes by the great blow, from which it appears that ninety-three lives were lost, fiftyfive vessels stranded, eleven dismasted or waterlogged, and seventeen totally wrecked. Dispatches from the West state that Capt. Hauggins has reached Fort Keogh with Rain-in-the-Face and 559 hostlies, who readily surrendered. Sitting Bull sent word to Gen. Miles that he was negotiating, through Maj. Walsh, with some Canadians to exhibit himself in Canada and the United States. It is authoritatively announced that in January next the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road will be completed to a junction with the Southern Pacific. The real-estate market at Chicago is reported in a condition of almost feverish activity. There is a remarkable demand for inside business property. F. R. Chadwick and E. M. Grant, both prominent in the business and social circles of Cleveland, have been arrested on the charge of illegally voting the, Republican ticket last month. South. Louisiana planters are said to have perfected arrangements for bringing Chinese laborers from Cuba, notwithstanding obstacles thrown in the way by the Chinese Consul in Havana. Matthew McKnight. of Belton, Tex., quarreled with James Derrick, of that place, and used his revolver. The bullet passed through Derrick’s neck, and then struck John W. Kemp under the right eye. Kemp died instantly, and Derrick’s wound is mortal. A strange and fatal accident occurred in a church in Rock Hill, N. C. The collection plate was being passed around. An earnest exhortation had been made for money to help the Christian cause. James Gooch, a young man in the congregation, did not have a cent, and, being moved by the minister’s appeal, he atempted to borrow 10 cents from a man next to him. The man refused. Gooch then took a pistol from his pocket and offered it as collateral. The man took the pledge, and, while examining the weapon, it went off, sending a ball through the brain of Gooch, killing him instantly. Peter Wright, a negro, has been hung at Liberty, Va., for the murder of Con Maupin, a white man. E. F. Bland, a colored member of the Virginia House of Delegates, sent a challenge to W. H. L. Combs, one of his own race, who declined it on the ground that he was a lawabiding citizen. The town es Bayou Sara, La., about 200 miles above New Orleans, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $300,000.’

WASHINGTON NOTES. The annual report of the Postoffice Department for the past fiscal year shows that the total cost of railroad transportation of mails for the twelve months was nearly $lO.500,000. The first statue for the national Lincoln monument, that of Chief Justice Chase, has been cast at Washington. A Washington telegram says there is some embarrassment relative to the capture of the Victoria band in Mexico. The indications from the information already received at the War Department are that the Mexican Government does not desire to retain these Indians, claiming that they belong to the United States, and certainly our Government does not wish to provide for them. The Treasury Department reports

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that for the first nine months of 1880 our exports were $73,760,430 in excess of our imports, while for the same period of 1879 they were $161,498,336. A Washington dispatch says the War Department it somewhat embarrassed by the application of Sitting Bull to surrender, of which there is no doubt. The probability is that Gen. Terry' will be given discretion to arrange terms. The Postmaster General has partially completed his annual report, which shows receipts of $33,316,479.34 and expenses aggregating $36,101,820.38. There are 60,479 names >dhe roll of employes. Chief Brooks has reached Washington, after an interview with Doyle, the counterfeiter, at Chicago, and reports that counterfeit SI,OOO 6-per-cent. bonds, of the issue of 1861, have been hypothecated by Brockway and others, and are now in use as collateral for loans. The Treasury Department sends out a warning to dealers in Government securities.

POLITICAL POINTS. The total vote of Ohio for Secretary of State, at the October election, was 714,444, divided as follows : , Townsend, Rep 362,013 Lang, Dem 343,014. Lloyd, Greenbacker 6,702 Daan, Prohibitionist 2,715 Townsend’s pluralitylß,999 The vote for Judge of the Suprome Court foots up as follows : Mcllvaine, Rep 364,044 Follett, Dem 341,003 Ross, Prohibitionist 2,651 Lounon, Greenbacker 6,578 Mcllvaine’s plurality 23,041 In 1879 the total vote in Ohio was 669,170, including a Republican vote of 336,261, a Democratic vote of 319,132, Greenback 9,072, Prohibition 4,145.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Col. Terrassas, the officer who commanded the Mexican force that put an end to the career of the notorious Apache chief Victoria, in his official report of the affair says : “ On the 14th, in the afternoon, I attacked Victoria’s band in the Castillo mountains, and I surrounded him on the next morning. By a simultaneous attack we took his position, leaving Victoria and sixty warriors and eighteen women and children dead, with sixty-eight women and children, and two captive prisoners recovered. One hundred and eighty animals of different kinds and all the arms and plunder were left in my possession. 1 lost three men dead and twelve wounded.” Sara Bernhardt, the eminent French tragedienne, arrived at New York last week. The death of two millionaires is announced—William Cawthrow, a Toronto capitalist, with $6,000,000, and John Duff, of Jamaica Plains, N. Y., the builder of the Union Pacific railroad, who loaves a fortune of $4,000,000. Fifty-five thousand emigrants arrived in the United States during the month of Septi mber. Among the deaths recently announced are those of Bishop D. 8. Daggett, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at his home in Richmond, Va.; Hon. E. D. Mansfield, of Morrow, Ohio, widely known as a political writer; and Hon. John S. Brasee, a leading member of the Ohio bar, residing at Lancaster. The seventh annual convention of the Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union was held at Boston, last week, eighty-seven delegates from various parts of the United Slates being present. Miss Frances E. Willard, of Boston, presided. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has returned to this country after a residence of several years in Europe. Hayes is destined to rank as the most economical of our Presidents. A Washington journal declares that, while his trip to the Pacific cost him nothing worth mention, the saving in household expenses will be SIO,OOO. It is also asserted that he saves most of his salary. The following statements, which were furnished 1 y the Census Office at Washington, exhibit the results of the first count of the population of the State of Rhode Island and the District of Columbia : Rhode Island—Total population, 276,530 ; males, 133,034 ; females, 113.-196 ; native, 202,600 ; foreign, 73,930 ; white, 269,533 ; colored, including 67 Indians and 27 Chinese, 6.597. District of Columbia—Total yoj illation, 177,638; males, 83,594 ; females, 94,044 : native, 160,523 ; foreign, 17,115; white, 118,236; colored, including 13 Chinese, 5 Japanese and 6 Indians, 59,402. Burned : Several factories at Lynn, Mass., loss $150,000 ; the lumber yard and planing-mill of J. T. Rogers Co., at Peoria, 111., loss $30,000 ; the railroad depot and a number of otiur buildings at Vinton, lowa. The United States revenue-cutter Walcott lias seized the English sloop Alert near Port Townsend for cruising in American waters without papers. The President has issued the following Thanksgiving pi oclamation: At no period In their history since the United States became a nation bas this people had so abundant and so universal reasons for joy and gratitude at the favor of Almighty God, or been subject to so profound an obligation to give thanks for His loving kindness and humbly to implore His continued care and protection. Health, wealth and prosperity throughout all our borders; peace, honor and friendship with all the world; firm and faithful adherence bj- the great body of our population to the principles of liberty and justice which have made our greatness as a nation, and to the wise institutions and strong frame of government and society which will perpetuate it—for all these let the thanks of a happy and united people, as with one voice, ascend in devout homage to the Giver of all good. I therefore recommend that, on Thursday, the 25th day of November next, the people meet in their respective places of worship to make the acknowledgment to Almighty God for His bounties and His protection, and to offer to Him prayer for their continuance. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this first day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and of the independence of the United States the hundred and fifth. R. B. Hayes.

There is a married couple in Milan County, Texas, who have a strange mixture of names, and are now about to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. On the 16th day of October, 1830, in Caldwell County, Ky., Drury Mitchuson Kevil married Lucretia Kevil Mitchuson and she became Lucretia Kevil Mitchuson Kevil. They were not at all related. He was born in 1779, in Kentucky, and named for the father of his future wife, and she was born in South Carolina in 1810, and named for the mother of her future husband, and they hava been mixed generally ever since. A recent visitor of Thomas Carlyle was disgusted at finding the venerable sage engaged in killing a rat with a poker.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Princivles.”

OUR YOUNG FOLKS. MICHAEL’S MALLET. Long ago in the olden dav, On a slope of the Tuscan trills there lay A village with quarries ail around And blocks of marble that pilei the ground; And scattered among them, everywhere, With wedge and hammer, rule and square With the dust of the marble powdered white, Sat masons who chiseled from morn to night. The earliest sound that the baby heard Was neither the whistle nor song of bird, Nor bleating of lambs, nor rush of breeze Through the tops of the tall old chestnut trees, Nor the laughing of girls, nor the whoop and shout Of the school of the convent just let out, Nor the tinkle of water splashing sweet From the dolphin’s mouth in the village street. But foremost and first, that sharp and clear Arrested the little Michael’s ear When lie waked from sleep, was the mallat knock On the chisel that cbipned the rough-hewn Hock; From the dawn of the day till the twilight came, The click of the tools was still the fame; And constant as fell the fountain’s drip, Was the tap-tap-tap! and the chip-chip-chip! A nd when he could crawl beyond the door Of the cott ige, in search of a plaything more, Or farther could venture, a prying lad, What toys do you think were the first ho had? Why, splinters of marble white and pure, And a irtallet to break them with, be sure; And a chisel to shape them should he choose, Just such as he saw’ the masons use. So Micfiael, the baby, had And hammered and chipped, and would not play With the simple and senseless sort of toys That pleased the rest of the village boys. They laughed at the little cburchrs he Would daily build at his nurse’s knee; They scouted the pictures that he drew On the smooth, white slabs with a coal or two; They taunted and teased him when he tried To mould from the rubbish cist aside Rude figures, and screamed “Scultori!” when His bits of marble he shaped like men. But who of them dreamed his mallet’s sound Would ever be heard the earth around? Or his mimic churches in time become The mightiest temple of Christendom? Or the pictures he painted fill the dome Of the Sistine—grandest of sights in Rome? Or the village baby that chiseled so Be the marvelous Michael Angelo!

Tom Meade.

Tom is thirteen years old, and he is big and strong for his age. His three brothers are young men, but his only sister, Grace, is not yet eleven years old. Grace and Tom go to school together in the autumn and winter, but in the beginning of June every year they go to the farm of their uncle, Mr. John Meade, near the city of Frederick, which is also in Maryland. Uncle John is not only a farmer, but he is also what is called a nurseryman, or a man who raises young trees and plants to sell. It was always such a surprise to the two children when they would visit their uncle for a day or two during the winter, to see a house full of flowers in bloom, and of leaves that were as green as the leaves of summer time. Indeed they fell in love with flowers, and their mother took great pains to make them interested in cultivating them. So when Gracie and Tom went to Uncle John’s, last spring to spend the summer, Uncle John gave them each a corner of his garden. The little gardens were easy to attend to, and as the children watered their plants every night, the plants were soon in a thriving condition. Gracie’s pets were geraniums, of which she had many kinds and colors. Tom was fond of roses, fuchias and verbenas, and he sent a number of letters to his mother about them. “Uncle,” said Tom. one day in the latter part of June, “I was reading in a life of General Washington this morning, about the way his father once spelled the name of “George Washington” in letters made of plants. Don’t you think that was a funny idea?” “Yes, it was,” replied Uncle John, “but was easy enough to do, and if you would like to try the same thing, I’ve no doubt you’ll succeed, just as Washington’s father did.” “But can’t I spell Gracie’s name in flowers in her garden ?” continued Tom. “We could ask the Ross children and the Williams boys in, and have a regular surprise. It would be as good as a picnic. ” Uncle John agreed that it would be very nice if the flowers could be made to grow quickly, but flowers are creatures of sunshine and rain. He said, however, that Tom might have all the flowers from the hot-house he wanted, which pleased Tom, because such pertnissioii was exactly what he wanted. He told Uncle John not to say a word to Gracie about the scheme, for he wanted Gracie to be surprised as well as the other children of the neighborhood. As Tom thought, over his scheme in bed tjiat r night, he concluded to get everything*ready by the morning of the Fourth of July, and on that day to have a regular garden party. He went to the hot-house alone as soon as he had eaten his breakfast, and examined the flowers that looked as though they would blossom on the Fourth. He saw that by placing a number of verbenas of different colors in small pots, he could sink the pots into the soil of Gracie’s garden and so spell whatever words he pleased. As the Fourth drew near the verbenas began to bloom, sure enough, and by the first day of July the ones that Tom had selected were in flull flower. “Yes,” said Tom to himself, as he stood and looked at the verbenas, “here they are—white verbenas, red verbenas, blue verbenas—just what I wanted—red, white, and blue. ” On the evening of the 3d of July, after Gracie had watered her garden, Tom took several basket-loads of verbena pots from the hot-house to the garden and set to work. As his plan had all been thought out, she work was easy to do, and, having sent the invitations around, Tom fell to tleep a very happy boy. When the children met at Uncle John’s on the morning of the Fourth, they made a jolly party. Tom led the way to the garden* saying that he had something to show everybody, and Uncle John and Aunt Marv walked behind. As Gracie’s eyes fell upon the wonderful letters, that looked as though they had sprung up in one night, her breath was almost taken away. She didn’t say a word at first, but, like her play-mates, stood still and looked and looked. “How in the world did you do that, Tom?” said Horace Williams. “Just look here Mr. Mead, Tom has spelled out ‘Fourth of July’ in red, white and blue flowers.” Sure enough. There were the letters growing out of the ground, each letter being made of several verbenas put together in order like the following: Fourth of July—lßßo. The letters, six in number, which composed the word “Fourth” were in red flowers, and the two little letters of the word “of’ were in white flowers, and the four letters of the word “July” were in blue flowers. The matter of arranging the colors was not hard to do, as verbenas are of many. The figures used in making the year “1880” were in pink. But while the visitors were looking at the “Fourth of July” motto, Tom was watch-

ing Gracie. Gracie’s eyes had found something of interest in another part of the garden, and she was looking that way. “See,” said Gracie after awhile, “there’s my name spelled in geraniums. ” Running over to the spot at which Gracie had pointed, the children saw the following pink letters: “Gracie.” Everybody admired the geraniums very much, and soon afterward everybody had a good laugh, when Tom sho ived them how he had spelled his own name in green cabbage in the garden. He had taken the cabbage plants up from his uncle’s garden and transplanted them. After admiring the gardens a part of the morning, during which, clumsy Will Ross stumbled over some of the verbenas. and knocked the blue letter “y” off of “July,” they all went to the grapearbor—in the shade of which they played until dinner time. Tom got a great deal of credit for his work, and was a hero all day. He felt that he was repaid for his trouble, but when evening came, there was a treat in store for them. Uncle John had sent to the city of Frederick, after seeing the flowers in the morning, and had bought some fireworks. The fireworks, crackers, Roman candles and sky-rockets, were very pretty, and the children shouted until they were almost hoarse. But uncle John kept the best till the last. “Now, Tom,” said he calling the children together on the lawn, “you have spelled Gracie’s name in flowers, see how I will spell your name in the sky.” Every eye was turned upwards. By and by uncle John touched the thing in red paper, and the word “Tom” appeared in letters of fire away up toward the stars.— Golden Days.

INDIANA NEWS.

James Vogus, who murdered his father at Kokomo, last June, has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Union District Medical Society of Eastern Indiana and Western Ohio will hold its annual meeting at Rushville Oct. 28. James M. Ray is the only living citizen who voted at the first election held in Indianapolis in 1822, when he was chosen County Clerk. Mbs. Emily A. Roache Jias resigned as manager of the Female Reformatory, and Gov. Williams has appointed Mrs. Eliza J. Dodd to the vacancy. The National Association of Railway, Omnibus and Transfer Lines will hold its next meeting in Indianapolis, third Tuesday of next April. In jumping out of a wagon while the horses attached were running aw ay Wm. Butler, of Bedford, fractured his pelvis bone, a rare and painful accident. Walnut stumps, knotted and curled, are being dug from the ground by farmers and sold at big prices to Eastern dealers who are in New Albany to purchase them. George Benner challenged the vote of Lark Wills, at Muncie, and the Wills brothers broke his head. His brains were exposed, and the wound is pronounced mortal. C. W. Janverin, a young chemist from Davenport, lowa, fell in the streets of Vincennes, the other evening, under an attack of delirium tremens, and was at last accounts in a critical condition. At Fort Wayne, the case of Julia Roney vs. the Pennsylvania Company, for killing her husband in an accident a year ago last March, was decided in favor of the plaintiff, to the amount of $5,000. The annual report of the Treasurer of State will show a total receipt of $3,130,180.69 from counties for the December and May settlements. The amount is about $120,000 less than it has been for the past six years. The Governor of Indiana appointed one Marshal from each Cogressional district to collect the vote for Presidential electors. These appointments were made in accordance with an ancient act of the Legislature. The gate receipts of the State Fair, this year, were about $14,000 ; last year they were over SIB,OOO. but, owing to the decreased expenses this year, the net receipts are as great as those of 1879, viz —54,000. F. M. Compton, of Claypool, Kosciusko county, was robbed of $l,lOO on a Ciucinnat, Wabash and Michigan train, between Warsaw and Claypool. His pocket was cut entirely out. The car was full of passengers, and he don’t know when it was taken or by whom. A saloon in Richmond was cleaned out a few days since by Mrs. Frank Early, whose husband had been lying drunk in it for nearly a week. She shied beer glasses through the large mirrors, smashed the bottles with a bung-starter, and splintered the plate-glass windows with cracker dishes. The place was completely gutted, and presented the appearance of having gone through a hundred days’ siege. The Sate Council of Red Men at their meeting, in Madison, elected E. G. Darnall, of Lebanan, Great Sachem; John F. Sanders, of Muncie, Senior Sagamore : J. C. Suit, of Franklin, Junior Sagamore ; John W. Verry, of Madison, Keeper of Wampum ; Geo. F. David, of Indianapolis, Chief of Records ; Mark C. Smith, of Frankfort, Great Prophet; M. A. Marks, of Madison, Representative to the National Grand Council. A party was out coon hunting in Adams township, Hamilton county, the other night, when it became necessary to fell a tree to secure the game. As it was about to fall, several of the party ran under it to break up a dog fight, and save the dogs, but were themselves caught, Merrill Losey, a stepson of Gus Venable, being so hurt about the head and internally that he died next morning, and Robert Stevenson Having a leg broken and receiving other injuries. Archie Kelley, of Cincinnati, an employe of the American Union Telegraph Company, while engaged in carrying the wires of the company across the Ohio river bridge, at Louisville, fell from the north end of the bridge, a distance of ninety feet, to the naked rocks below, and was instantly killed. In his descent the unfortunate man turned two somersaults, landing on his back on the jagged rocks below. His bones were literally crushed into fragments. His death was instantaneous. A monster sewing machine, weighing over four tons and run by steam, has been constructed for a manufacturing firm in Liverpool. The machine is the largest in the world.

INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.

BY PROF. A. C. PAYNE.

This subject is attracting a great deal of attention just now among the reading and writing world, not omitting the publishing, who, if possible, are more deeply interested than either. It is a growing question, and, large as are its present proportions, it promises further and more serious development. The result sought to be obtained by this law is the power of securing to himself by an author, iik this country for example, the pecuniary profits arising out of his productions in foreign countries as well as at home. And trice versa, of course. And, as matters now stand, notwithstanding strenuous opposition from many quarters, the tide of opinion seems to be settling toward tho affirmative, and, if something else of great importance does not retard or detract attention, this law may be looked upon as soon to be accomplished reality. Let us glance into the matter a little and sift its arguments pro and con. But to do this systematically, I shall lay down the following propositions, following them by what I conceive to be their correct demonstration, viz.: A free and perfect interchange of thought and experience among themselves is essential to the welfare and intellectual advancement of mankind. Proposition first. (This is almost an axiom.) In primeval times mankind were enveloped in complete intellectual darkness and degradation. But in time, by the survival of the fittest, and more favorable surroundings, a few became intellectually superior to the great mass about them, becoming, as it were, preceptors—lights at whose blaze the rest alighted their darkened- tapers, and whose light, transmitted from father to son, in the lapse of time illuminated the world. Now, suppose that these. superior intellects had confined.' their light to themselves, or the masses had been debarred from approaching it, what would have been the result, and where the boasted enlightenment of to-day ? The answer is obvious to every thinking mind. The Egyptian priests adopted this practice, and for ages, while they were comparatively well informed in the sciences of astronomy, philosophy, and mathematics, the great horde of the people were totally illiterate, off of whose credulity and superstition the favored few waxed fat. Suppose, too, that the prophets and seers of old and the apostles of later days had kept their great revelation of light to themselves or to their own race and country, what would have been the moral state of tho world even now ? Demonstration one.

The diffusion and interchange of ideas and experiences is j>rincipally effected through the medium of written and printed language. Proposition second. This proposition there are few but who will concede. Suppose that word of mouth or tradition had been our only means of exchanging and preserving knowledge. How puny would have been its benefits ! Even as it was with parchments and stylus, how little diffused was the lore of those days. Written upon bulky and inconvenient material at great labor and expen-e, few books were to be obtained and those only at fabulous prices. Confined, as they necessarily had to be, to a favored few in temple, palace, or convent, all the rest of the earth were enveloped in midnight darkness. Even the word of God was trans-' mitted to them only by word of mouth, and obviously distorted to suit the purposes of the relators. What wonder, in view of these facts, that for nearly a thousand years all the known world was relapsed into primeval ignorance, and murder, rapine, lust, superstition, and misery only marked what we style truly the Dark Ages, Only with the advent of the printing press was knowledge at all diffused. With its appearance dates the beginning of our millenium of enlightenment. Seeing the inevitable result of a diffusion of Bibles and general knowledge as the annihilation of their supremacy, .most bitterly did priest and King oppose its progress, demolishing its forms and putting its disciples to the rack, and poisoning the minds of the masses w'ith superstitious horror for it as the preparation of the devil, and its invention as an emissary of that dark monarch. But truth and right are mighty, and printing presses continued to bo and to act, and volumes of history, biography, philosophy and theology were scattered among the illiterate masses, and we behold a comparatively enlightened world. I say comparatively enlightened, for, with ail our boasted education, our present knowledge is but as a drop to tho ocean, an instant to eternity. Had there always been the present medium oi diffusion of light, crippled though it be, how would our present knowledge have compared with what • would have been ? Demonstration two.

Copyright is a restriction and barrier to the dissemination and interchange of thought and experience among mankind in the form of literature. Proposition third. Those at all conversant with the nature and workings of the Copyright law cannot take candid issue with this assertion. By its virtue the diffusion of literature is so restricted as to make possible the confining of it, virtually, to one country, or the placing of it beyond the reach of the great masses by an extortionate purchase price; It necessarily makes scarce books and costly books, by a royalty to be paid to the author or original publisher by all other publishing firms, and an optionary estimate of its purchase price necessarily follows. The great mass of the people, ground down by unjust laws and usages, and scarcely able to sustain life, have no money for dear books. And this crying want our second-hand book shelves and our circulating library does not appease, and consequently myriads go down through ignorance to lives of superstition and crime. What is wanted is cheap books and plenty of them. To supply this want was the one fond lifelong dream of Knight, the meditation of Chambers, and the hapless experiment of Constable. But owing to the great illiteracy-of their days, although Knight's Penny Magazine and Chambers' Journal for a time flourished marvelously, these dreams and exneriments were never substantially realized. A step in this direction to-day has been taken by the issue in London of Dick’s cheap classics, and, thanks to a . want of this international copyright, in this country by the issue of our cheap-pamphlet libraries, and in New York by a new firm issuing more substantial works for a comparatively nominal price. That such a want is a reality, and the endeavors to appease it are appreciated, the avidity with which these works are bought up proves beyond a doubt. With all the modern facilities for printing, these pub-

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fishers can scarcely keep apace with the demand. In nearly every household all over the length and breadth of our broad land these works have an abiding place and are read and have a vast influence where before, when protected by copyright and issued by millionaire publishers at unreasonable prices, not a book was to be seen. People read who never read before, and their ranks are increasing rapidly. Now most of these cheap works are reprint of foreign literature, made possible by the lack of an international copyright law, which makes them accessible to any printing firm, and old standard works of our own country whose copyrights have expired. Should an international copyright law become established, upon the instant, a greater part of these cheap works would have to cease to be, their publishing falling into the hands of grasping firms, who would issue them at exorbitant prices, denying them to any other firms to be published, except by the paying of a large royalty, making it impossible for them to be printed at a less price than their own. That publishers and authors would scruple not to carry out this law to its fullest extent, none who knows anything of human nature and the fierce opposition and persecution to these “ cheap ” publishing firms will for an instant doubt. It would make a monopoly possible of the food for the sustenance and development of the soul, as our merchants and dealers make such a combination in our corporal food ! Demonstration three. Now, from these facts I oppose an international copyright law. Instead of making such a law, abolish our home copyright laws. While conducing to the welfare of the individual or the few, the rights of the great masses are ignored. It is inherent in nature that the few must be governed by the desires of the many ; the few are the rich publishing houses and authors, the many the great reading masses whose wants must be supplied That authors and publishers have rights which the masses are equally bound to respect I don’t seek to deny. That they suffer certain wrongs which deserve to be righted is equally self-evi-dent. But to the proposed plan of righting these wrongs and securing these rights by an international copyright law I object. Give to an author a copyright law by which the fruits of his labors, than which none are more arduous, equally with the inventor of more material wares, may be enjoyed by himself. That patent-right laws are just and beneficial alike to both inventor and public is patent to all, rewarding, as it does, the inventor for his labors and insuring to the public more useful inventions in the futiwe by encouraging his exertions. Equally just and beneficial would be a copyright law for the author as an inventor of yet more important and lasting works. Moreover, let not the law stop with securing to inventors and authors the control of their labors for ten or a dozen years, but let it be for their life and descend to their children and children’s children through all posterity. How unjust would we regard our laws were they such that a man, after toiling and depriving himself to buy up a little home for himself, should bo able to retain it for only a few years, and should forfeit it to his children at his death I As arduous are the labors of an inventor and author, yet this very law is their protection to-day. Give instead a wiser, more just and natural law; as emanating from themselves, the creaatidn of the exertion of their own brain, equally with the home secured by the manual toils of the laboring man, is it wholly and everlastingly theirs and their descendants’. Yet that the rights of the masses may not be infringed upon, restrict the control of their inventions to a reasonable and legitimate use. Let them have only such a royalty as may be just, consequently placing it within the reach of the humblest purchaser, yet give them this royalty always. As it is, knowing that their inventions are to be under their control for but a short time, and that what is to be made out of them by them must be made quickly, they resort to an extortionate purchase price as the means to secure this. In consequence, for years the great mass of the people are deprived of their just-ly-entitled use of an author’s or inventor’s works, while the author or inventor themselves do not really reap the full and just benefits of their labors. This was illustrated in the sewing-machine which at first was beyond the reach of those who really needed it by reason of its purchase price, but who could have enjoyed it all these long years without injustice to the inventor had our patentright laws been more equitable. This same short copyright, as I have above asserted, is the cause of our high-priced and scarce books of to-day. A medium course by which none are wronged, but all righted, is inherent in the nature of things, and let us apply its principle to our laws, particularly our copyright laws. Only founded upon this principle am I in favor of an international copyright law. Chicago. HL

Chinese Soldiers.

Capt. Gill, of the British army, in his narrative of a journey through China and Eastern Thibet, gives the following estimate of the military capacity of the Chinese : “With European officers, as under Col. Gordon, we know how well the Chinese have fought, while, unlike most Orientals, they have not been utterly demoralized by a check. Properly led, they would make magnificent troops, for by nature the Chinese are singularly obedient to authority, and would not question the commands of those who had once established an influence over them. In this they are like other Easterns, but more than others their national character renders them particularly incapable of military combinations. A Chinaman can learn anything, but he can conceive nothing. He may readily be taught any number of the most complicated military maneuvers, but place him in a position slightly different from what he has learned, and he will be found utterly incapable of conceiving any modification to suit the altered circumstances. This national characteristic is the growth of centuries of a narrow education; its roots are deeply seated, and lie in the insane reverence for antiquity, which is almost the beginning and end of a Chinaman’s belief. Prompt action, readiness of resource, ability to seize on the smallest advantage, or to neutralize a misfortune, and the power to evolve fresh combinations—these are the qualities that make a soldier, and these are the very qualities that cannot coexist with the Chinese want of originality. This is no unimportant matter, for it proves that the Chinese cannot be feared as a military nation, but that, with a large number of European officers, their almost unlimited number, their obedience to authority and personal bravery, when properly led, would make them almost irresistible.”

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THE THIRST DANCE.

Dlaffuatlnr Ceremonies by Wfclelt the. Indiana Propitiate the eroat Spirit and Drive Away Evil Demon*. (Prince Albert (British Territory) Cor. Chicago Times.] Each dancer was provided with a whistle made from the wing bone of a goose, ornamented with feathers and colors. As they jumped about they sounded shrill notes upon their instruments, which, blending with the whoops, yells, and monotonous drumming, fell upon the civilized ear with startling effect. Hour after hour the dance was kept up, the only intermission being at the will of the drummers, who were relieved at intervals. At times the surging and noise subsided, and a wise man in a see-saw tone recited tales of heroism for the edification of the young. The warriors gave many exhibitions of their power of endurance. A muscular warrior stood unconcerned while a couple of chiefs stuck long skewel's through the flesh of his shoulders. The lines of a horse were attached to the skewers, and the warrior was told to lead the animal around until the flesh gave way. With blood streaming down his back and breast and mingling with the paint upon his dusky body, the enduring savage walked around for a couple of hours without a murmer. Though the flesh upon his shoulders tore in the direction of the neck yet it did not give way, and the medicine man, with much ceremony, unloosed the hero, who sauntered off with a grunt of satisfaction. The next act on the programme was more startling than the last. A young buck was introduced, and allowed two skewers to be thrust through the [flesh on his breast without wincing; two lariats suspended from the roof-pole of the tent were fastened to the skewers. He then began to swing around the tent as far as the lines would allow him, throwing his whole weight upon the lines in his endeavor to break loose. The dancers danced and the drummers drummed with renewed vigor while this exhibition was in progress. After several hours’ exercise he demonstrated to the satisfaction ■ of all that he was a tough young man, and was loosed, amid grunts of approval. Another heroic scalper had three pegs driven into him—two in his back and two in the back part of his arms. Four guns were hung upon the pegs, and he walked around and flirted with the girls as if nothing bothered him. A party of Assiniboines, painted to the eyes and armed to the teeth, appeared and gave an exhibition of how they killed their enemies. They throw their knives and guns about so carelessly, and attacked each other so fiercely, that the few white spectators began to think that the fight might spread, and felt uneasy for their scalps. The cock of the walk was a young Assiniboine chief. Over his shoulders he wore the skin of an American lion, killed single handed by himself. Pendant from the skin were ten lariats, showing that he had captured or stolen the horses. He strutted proudly around with his ten tails dragging behind him, and received with composure the admiration of his companions. Horses, blankets, knives, fire-arms, fancy lariats, skins, and other articles were given as offerings to propitiate the Great Spirit, many giving all they possessed that their children might be brought into the tent and blessed. The dance was kept up from Thursday night until Saturday, when the medicine man made “medicine” for rain, and in an hour it came a perfect downpour—testifying that the Great Spirit was pleased with the festival. After the dance came the dog feast. It is supposed by the innocent roamers of the plains that the eating of a dog’s liver, without regard to the quality of the dog, makes them strong-hearted. The temple used in the “thirst” dance was taken down, with the exception of the centrepole, around which the warriors seated themselves in a circle and enjoyed a social smoke. Suddenly a cry was given and the warriors sprang to their feet and commenced circling around to the dismal beating of a drum. The quivering carcass of a dog was thrown within the circle by a woman, and the men whooped in ecstacy. The carcass was cut open, the liver torn out, and hung by a thong from the pole. The warriors, one by one, stepped up and took a bite of the yet warm liver, and marched off happy. As soon as one liver was consumed a fresh dog was thrown into the circle and the stock of liver replenished.

Snow-Shoeing in Norway.

Of all the bodily exercises I know of, there is none in my opinion that can come up to snow-shoeing, as it is done in Norway. Skating is nothing compared to this sport. What can equal the splendid sensation of flying across the deep snow at the rate of many miles an hour, without hardly moving a muscle? And then, going down hill, staff in hand, no exertion necessary other than to keep the balance, while gliding softly but swiftly onward. Unlike the Canadian snow-shoes, these ski (pronounced shec) of the Norwegians are often fully twelve feet long, curving upward at the prow, and are not broader than three or four inches. Tliroughout the whole length they are provided with a groove for the purpose of keeping them from slipping when going at an angle down hill. Although by no means slow when used across level ground, it is yet downhill that they are most effective, for their long length and their polished undersurface on the frozen snow cause a speed more like flying than any other motion I know of. The inhabitants of Telemai ken, in the South of Norway, are most efficient ski runners, and at the annual competitions at Christiania generally bear off ihe prizes. At the competition there in 1879, one of these men leaped, according to a local newspaper, a distance of thirty Norwegian alcn, or fully sixty feet! Into this country it will be impossible to introduce them, as of course there would be little or no opportunity for using them—the snow never lying long enough or becoming sufficiently deep. — Blackwood.

Read Newspapers.

The man who does not read the newspaper is a man who may be suspected of ignorance. There is a vast amount of trash in newspapers, but they grow better and better every year. If a man takes a bad newspaper it is his own fault, for he has his choice among plenty of good ones. Every young man should read the newspapers. — Henry Ward Beecher.

The Sin of the Pharisees.

A school of poor children, having read in the Bible the denunciations against hypocrites who “strain at a gnat and swallow a camel,” were afterward examined by a benevolent patroness as to their recollections of the chapter. “ What, in particular, was the sin of the Pharisees, children ?” “Aiting camels, my lady,” was the prompt reply. It is asserted that half of Thoreau’s manuscripts have not yet been published,