Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Nihilist trials resulted in sentences of exile for three of the accused, and imprisonment for the other four. The siege of the Premontre Abbey at Marseilles was a brief one, as the fathers neglected to guard the door at which friends wore admitted. A London uispatch says the excitement in Ireland centers in Ballinrobe, where troops are being concentrated to protect the laborers engaged in harvesting crops for an agent of Lord Erne, and where the excited peasantry are also flocking in largo bodies. The cable brings advices of the death of the Marquis of Alvaido, a Spanish statesman, and of Zanuis, a Greek, who was for several terms President of the National Council, as also William Mure, of the British Parliament, who served in the Kaffir and Crimean wars. Southern Austria had a shock of earthquake which killed several persons and injured buildings without number. Gambetta has been challenged to tight a duel by M. Baudry D’Assen, Legitimist Deputy, who was temporarily expelled on account of unparliamentary language. The British Postal Department desires to stop the practice of sending postal-cards around the world, the experiment having been tried frequently enough to decide the question of time. Kelly, the Australian bushrapger, who for so many years was a terror to the scattered settlements, has been hanged. A remarkably disorderly and disgrace ful scene was enacted in the French Chamber of Deputies the other day. It grew out of M. Baudry D’Asson’s refusal to leave the Chamber when ordered by Gambetta. He had been excluded from the Chambers, but sneaked back in defiance of that body. A file of soldiers was brought in. M. D’Asson sat at his seat with folded anus, surrounded by a body-guard of Royalists and Clericals. A hand-to-hand fight ensued. The Deputies resisted the troops, and refused to Allow M. d’Asson’s expulsion. At last Col. Rin, the commander of the soldiers, caught the bellicose Deputy round the body, a soldier took hold of iris head, two more caught him by the heels, and he was earned kicking and struggling out of the house to a lock-ijp in the palace. The incident caused intense excitement. An Irish land agent .has been shot dead in the County of Limerick. A cablegram from St. Petersburg states that all the Nihilists implicated in the plots against the Czar hftve been convicted—five receiving sentence of death, eleven of hard labor in the mines from life terms to fifty years, and three women penal servitude for fifteen years. • A letter-carrier of Paris had a parcel containing bank-notes representing 600,000 francs stolen from him in the Rue St. Viune. Persuasion having had no effect, Der- i visch Pasha has ordered the Albanian leaders to surrender Dulcigno, and threatens to use force to compel them should they refuse. The Albanian leaders ask for a month’s time ■ in which to consider the demand and their ac- ' tion th ieo i. The origin of the disorder in Bftllirobe, Ireland, that culminated in the sending thither of a detachment of Orange volunteers is thus explained in a recent cable dispatch: “The j tenants on the estate of Lord Erne became in- I censed at the harsh treatment of Cn.pt. Boy- I cott, the agent, and refused to pay rents to ■ him. A process-server who was sent round was i surrounded, together with his police escort, by \ a dangerous crowd, and was forced to fly for i his life. After three processes had been ■ served and decrees duly obtained against the I three persons who were served, a memorial 1 signed by all the tenants was presented to I.ord : Erne. It recited the griefs against Capt. Boy- i cott, and appealed to the old traditions of the Erne family for considerate landlordism. It intimated that, while the tenants were perfectly willing to pay their rents, they had come to the conclusion never again to work for or hold communication with his present agent. The answer was a firm refusal from Lord Erne to change his agent at their dictation. The tenants asserted their readiness to pay rents to any other perron whom his Lordship might appoint. Lord Erne ended the correspondence by a curt note stating that he had uo intention whatever of changing his agent, and if they would not pay their rents to Capt. Boycott they might take the consequence. The policy of isolation was then entered upon.” A Dublin dispatch of the 16th says ; A meeting was held at Kockanrose Village, near Walshtown, yesterday, for the purpose of formally “Boycotting” thirteen landlords, land agents, and others, residing in that neighborhood. Five thousand people were present. ! James Malloy, a tenant farmer, was President. ; The following resolution was adopted : “That we pledge ourselves to ‘Boycott’ those thirteen men, and all who act like them, and will endeavor to follow the example sot to the rest of Ireland by the brave men of Ballinrobe.” A dispatch from Ballinrobe says: “The general opinion is that it will be absolutely necessary for Boycott to leave the country, as he will have to be protected if he remain in Ireland." Gen. August von Goeben, of the German army, is dead. For resisting the enforcement of the religious decrees in Paris, M. Cochin was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, and two Viscounts and a Marquis to a fortnight each. The Orangemen of Portadown, Ireland, have posted notices calling on Protestants not to work for or communicate with Land-Leaguers or Home-Rulers. The fight in Ireland is beginning to assume the old religious phase. The Irish Bishops in Rome have written to Dublin expressing a desire to contribute toward the fund for Parnell’s defense.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. EDast. Sarah Bernhardt’s appearance on the New York stage was the signal for prolonged applause and showers of bouquets. Among her auditors were Clara Morris, Senator Blaine, and Gov. Cornell. The testimony in the case of Philp, charged with forging the Garfield-Morey letter, closed at New York on the 9th, when Gen. Pryor asked the discharge of the prisoner. Judge Davis said he would render a decision on Saturday, the 13th. George Bfisstthen catfsed the arrest of 8. 8. Morey and Robert Lindsey for perjury, and they were committed for examination. Lindsey testified that for ten years he had not slept twice in the same place. Col. E. L. Drake, who drilled the first /lil-well at Titusville, and who has for years received a pension from the State of Pennsylvania, is dead. oiiuu.n b. fiiorey, who was arrested. 111 Xev. York for perjury in the Philp trial, has a lull statement of the manner in which

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he was induced to testify, declaring that he spent two nights before election in the rooms of the National Democratic Committee, from whom he received $l5O. Lindsay has confessed that he was coached by William M. Price, a Democratic elector in Maryland, and ■ that his testimony tliroughout was false. A fire at Petrolia, Pa., destroyed Blyrniller’s Hotel, the oflice of the United Pipe Line, Backus’ hardware store, Loomis’ meat market, and the Argyle Savings Bank, and several other buildings. Loss, $150,000. Solomon S. Morey and Frank Lindsey, alias O’Brien, were brought before the Grand Juiy of the New York Court of Sessions on the 11th int>t., .aftd made confession that they had perjured themselves in the hearing Of the Philp ease. Morey was held’as a State witness, and O’Brien was indicted for jx-rjury. A horrible' accident occurred, a few nights ago, at Bordell City, Pa. Several men employed in a saw-mill were sitting around a stove, in their boarding house, playing cards. The fire was low, and Joseph Heeps thought to revive it bj’ throwing a peach-can full of petroleum into the stove. The gas caught fire, and Heeps with an oath threw the can away. It fell into a bucket of crude oil, and instantly the structi ure was in Hames. The burning oil Hew over everything. The men ma.de a wild effort to es- ; cape, and five out of eight staggered out of j the building with their clothing on fire, and I were frightfully burned. Three men perished in the flames, and four others were fatally

burned. Heeps, the man who caused the disaster, escaped "without harm. The proposition of a New York paper to raise a Presidential pension fund is being briskly responded to in that city. Hon. Edwin D. . Morgan heads the list with *5.000, conditional that $250,000 i is subscribed before Jan. 1... John H. Starin ' places his name down for $2,500. OUpr subi scriptions are George Jones, $1,000; Anson G. ■ McCook, .*250 : Thomas L. James, $250, and A. J. Dittenhoefer, SIOO. jflfe 4 Two burglars entertuT the hotisfe o 5 ' * Thomas O'Brien, a Syracuse merchant, i.rid,: with a carpenter’s hammer, brained. Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien while they were sice in bed. O’Brien’s condition is' very precarious, and there is no hope of Mrs. O’Brien’s recovery.. . A littly -who went shopping in way with $20,000 in her offers onefourth of the roll to the tinder. Win. V. Gryv'-r, <if N. J., who is 50 years of age, six months ago married Jemima Chambers, aged 12. The other night he killed her while she was taking her effects to her Kenward Philp has been held for trial at New lork on charge of criminal libel, and remains at large on his bond of $5,000. Judge Noah Davis, in reviewing the ease, thought Hart.lhe publisher of the Truth, displayed reasonable caution before publishing the Morey letter, but the course of Hon.. Abram Hewitt he declared to be thoroughly rep- ' rchensible. The Judge regards the letter as i altogether a forgery. Mr. Hewitt, smarting ' under the reflections of Judge Davis, retorts that the letter was published, before he had ever seen Mr. Hart or the original, of which event Judge Davis must have been informed ; and that when a man becomes a Judge he ■ should cease to be a partisan. Hackensack, N. J., has been struck by a financial panic, and nearly all the banks have suspended. A wrestling-match between W. J. Farrell. of California, and John McMahon, of Vermont. for the championship of America and SI,OOO, took place at Pittsburgh, and result* d in a victory for McMahon, who succeeded in throwing Farrell twice out of threedimes. JVedt. The town of Batesville, Ohio, has been the scene of a most horrible tragedy. It seems that Frank M. Biedenbaugh, a wealthy young German, whtf three years ago married the daughter of a neighboring farmer, came ; home late at night intoxicated, and, entering the room where his wife, and child slept, assaulted them with an ax. His wife’s skull was crushed by a single blow, and then his son’s throat cut by the edge of the ax. He then went to a room where Mrs. Stephens, a visitor, and her child and servantgirl were sleeping, and killed Mrs. Stephens and child. The servant-girl, awakened, sprang toward the door, but was knocked senseless and left for dead. Upon recovering consciousness i she gave the alarm, and the neighbors came. ] It was not until morning that Was i found hidden in a tobacco-house, 'kith "his' ; throat cut, not fatally. Jealousy; insanitj’ and drunkenness are the theories advanced to ac- i count for the horrible crime. G. H. Day, a clothing manufacturer, j of Indianapolis, has made an assignment, with ■ liabilities of $45,000. Ailison, a scout scut to the camp of < Sitting Bull, in British territory, has returned I to Fort Buford. The savage chieftain has i about 000 warriors, who are nearly out of food and ammunition. He asks Gen. Terry to wait j until-Nov. 20 for the return of Maj. Walsh, who had offered mediation. The railroad war continues. The Wabash system, of roads last week reduced rates from St. Louis and Chicago to all Eastern points. The schedule adopted for hunted tickets is : Boston and New fork, $4.25 ; Philadelphia, $3.75 ; Washington, $3 ; Harrisburg and Buffalo, $3.25 ; Pittsburgh, $2.25. The rate between St. Louis and Chicago continued at $1 for tickets limited to twentv-four hours. A five-story building on Randolph street, Chicago, occupied by Dwight Bros. & Co., paper manufacturers, and Sammons, Clark & Co., furniture and picture-frame manufacturers, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, about SIOO,OOO. Six desperate characters broke jail at Las Vegas, New Mexico. A posse which pursued them killed two murderers and wounded another. Petroleum has been discovered at i Ponca, Neb., twenty-two miles west of Sioux ; CitV. The oil was found at 550 feet below the i surface. Two small children left alone by their ! mother in a house on Poplar street. Milwau- j kee, were burned to death. The Chicago Times is going to have ; its type set by machinery, several type-setting i machines for this purpose having been or- i dered from Brussels, Belgium. Mayor Kalloch having, in a recent ser- | mon, denounced the Grand Jury of San Fran- ’ cisco, and uttered bio qdy threat-', has cited him to appear fbr contoihpt. A railroad official at Cleveland says all the funds required for a now line from Buffalo to ChiMgf have beenrai|odjpid t£at wqrk will soop commence, f \ 1 j A St. Louis saloonkeeper, named Joseph P. Flannigan killed one man and mortally wounded another. South. The town of Keochie, La., has been demolished by a cyclone. One man was killed and ten persons injured. *

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A Deputy Marshal in Florida arrested five citizens for violation of the election laws, but a body of masked men boarded the train at Madison and released them. The epizoot has reached Texas in its travels, and is proving more fatal to the horses than in the Western and Eastern States. , 1 One of the most revolting tragedies on record is reported from Loudon county, Va. : Merriß Nott, a small farmer, quarreled with his wife. His sister-in-law took his wife’s part, which so enraged Kott that he went | into his barn, where he obtained a arae knife, with which he made a silage attack our' the sister-in-law, in- ' flirting wound* which he seemed to think ! i were fatal. He then took down his gun, fired ; its contents into the air, coolly reloaded it,.and ! placed it under his own chin, and fired. The i ' shot blew away the loWef part of his face, tear- ! hig away the tongue, but did not prove in- ' ' stantly fatal. While lying in a pool of blood, j he noticed that his sister-in-law began to show | signs of life, and, with demoniac purpose, he i I dragged himself toward the prostrate body, i I lifted a large stone, and’ allowed it to fall on i ; her head. He was about to repeat the fiendish ' act, when his wife came on the scene. She | I wrenched the stone from him, and used it on I his own head, quickly dispatching.him.»’The ! •: sister-in 1 ! aw died a few minutes after. Col. Lucien C. Gause, for six years i Congressman from the First Arkansas district, j i is dead.

The election in Tennessee had a marked effect on State bonds, which have men ! from 830 to $45. ■ There was a heavy snow-storm in : ’'arts of Texas on the 6th inst. One man was found frozen to death near Fort Worth. Texas, upon unofficial returns, shows a population of 1,565,433. Hon. Fayette McMullen, a prominent I Virginia politician for the last thirty-five years, < was recently run over by tne cars ana Kiuea at Wyfhovilfe, Va. He was one,of the Beadjuster ’ candidates for Congress from that State at the recent election. He was once United States Senator from Virginia, and was also, a member of the Confederate Congress. Libby prison went to the auctionblpck in lljchniond. yesterday, under a deed of trust, -a tobacconist making the best bid, $6,725. Four of the five prisoners who were rescued from the United States Deputy Marshal at Madison Court House, Fla., have surrendered to the authorities. Yellow fever claimed two victims at Key West, last week, one being an Episcopal clergyman named Gilbert. An army surgeon reports ten cases at that point. Daniel C. Potter was executed at! Newport, Tenn., for the murder of Willis Me- 1 Mahon. The crowd around the gallows was j drunken and noisy. Warren Sheppard, a colored man, was : hanged for minder at Montgomery, Texas.

POLITICAL POINTS. With one county estimated, Garfield’s i .plurality in India na is 6,520. I Returns from all the counties in New j York, official and reported, give Garfield 21,536 | majority. Returns from all the couu ties of Oregon except two show that Garfield has a majority of 547. The full returns will increase the majority to 600. The result of the California election is so close that it is now probable that some of the Garfield and some of the Hancock electors will be elected. David S. Terry, one of the Democratic electors, has been so badly cut that he is certainly beaten. Terry is the man who shot Senator Broderick, of California, in a duel, a nd hence runs behind his ticket. Gov. Foster, in a frank, interview, declared that Garfield not attempt to curry favor with the South By t<;uderjng jj? any. Cabinet positions. The latest aspirants to the Indiana Senatorship are President Burgess, of Butler University, Gen. A. D. Streight, Congressman Tom Browne, Hon. John Ceburn, and J. M. Shackleford. Secretary Sherman announces himself a Candidate for United States Senator from Ohio. Returns from all of the 102 counties in Illinois show the following result for Prosideht’i SGfarfield and Arthur,.318,205 : Hancock 25,821’; Dow and otlferA (about), 500; Total ! vote, 621,980. Garfield over Hancock, 40,751 ; ; Garfield over all, 14,430. Secretary Sherman disclaims any un- ‘ derstanding with Gen. Garfield about the ; future, and declares that he would not be unwilling to retire to private life for the next four ■ years. All the Hancock electors in California, ' except Judge Terry, arc elected by majorities : of between 200 and 300. The Republicans have > a majority in tiie Legislature on joint ballot. ' Official returns from all but six towns , and six plantations of Maine, the returns from which will not materially change the result, . show that the vote for the Garfield electors in 1 the State is 74,005 ; for the Hancock-Weaver i electors, 64,832 ; for the straight Weaver-elect- j ors, 4,076. Gen. Garfield’s majority over the ■ combined opposition is 5,019. B. L. Claypool, of Connersville, is announced as a candidate to succeed Judge Me- ■ Donald in the United States Senate from In- ' diana. Tliis makes an even dozen Richmonds in the field, with the woods full of dark horses. The official vote of the November election in Ohio has been canvassed, and shows the following result: Garfield, 375,048 ; Hancock, 310,871 ; Weaver, 5,456; Dow, 2,616. Garfield’s plurality, 34,177; Garfield over all. 26,105. The official result of the Indiana elec- ■ tion gives Garfield a plurality of 6,540. Porter, : in October, received 6,952. Gen. Garfield having resigned his seat in the .House, Gqv, Foster, of Ohio, has or- , dered a special election oh Nov. 30 in the coun- ' ties composing the original Nineteenth Ohio district. The chief aspirants for the California i Senatorship are John F. Miller, of the Alaska Fur Company, A. A. Sargent, and Judge David Belden. Newton Booth is making no effort for a re-election. Congressman Conger, Gov. Bagley, Gov. Baldwin and James F. Joy are in the field : for the Senatorship from Michigan. Garfield’s majority over Hancock in Michigan is 53,504. His majoritv over all Is ! 33,544. At a meeting of the Democratic National- Conliniclee in New York, last wfeek, ah address was issued denying that they ever took any action in reference to the Morey letter, or even saw it until after its pubheation. A resolution,; was parsed, recommending that- in States' ! whA'e election frauds 'hlfve Ijfeen perpetrated the Democratic committees investigate with a view to exposure and punishment, but declaring that the National Committee cannot

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! be charged with responsibility as to the duties of courts or of Congress. Official returns from the ninety-nine , counties in lowa show the following result: For Garfield, 183,954; for Hancock, 105,928: for ! Weaver, 33,590; scattering, 470. Tne total vote • cast was 323,832, an increase of 30,953 over the i vote of 1876. . The official vote of Pennsylvania gives Garfield a plurality of 37,276 and a majority of i 14,625.- The total vote is 874,783, against 758,993 !in 1876. Following is the vote for President: ■ Garfield, 444,704; Hancock, 407,428; Weaver, i 20,668; Dow, 1,939; Phelps, 44. The official vote of Alabama, with four counties to hear from, is : Hancock, 88,309; Garfield, 55,794; Weaver, 4,551. The counties to hear from will add about 2.000 to Hancock’s majority. Official vote of Maryland for Presidential electors: Hancock, 93,706; Garfield, 78,515. Tranquilimo Lana, Republican, has been elected. Delegate to Congress from NewMexico by 1,500 majority. Official returns of the late election from all the counties of Missouri show the foliowing result: Hancock, 208,589; Garfield, 153,587; Weaver, 35,135; Hancock’s plurality, 55,002; majority, 19,867. In 1876 Tilden received 202,687: Hayes, 144,398; Cooper, 3,498; Tilden’s plurality, 53,289; majority, 54,791. Total vote of the State, 397,311—an increase over that of 1876 of 53,272. M. E. Post, Democrat, has been elected Delegate to Congress from Wyoming Territory by 150 majority. WASHINGTON NOTES. Erasmus Cole has been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, and J. B. Cassoday, of Janesville, sue- ; ceeds to the Associate Justiceship. A new town in Illinois, on the border of Kane and DeKalb counties, has been chns-| tened Garfield. Secretary Schurz has advised the rep- , resentative of a railway project, who wrote hnn I in regard to a right of way through Choctaw lands, that both legislation and treaty stipulations must precede action by the Interior Department Gen. Sherman is to be chief marshal cf the inaugural ball, which will be held in the National Museum Building.

MISCELLANEOUS. GLEANINGS. The Census Bureau has made the following official returns of population: Per Cent, 1880. 1870. Increase. Delaware ]4(>,654 125,015 17 South Caro ina 995,306 705,606 41 Rhode Island 276,530 217,353 • 27 District of Columbia. 177,638 131,700 36 Total ..1,596,128 1,179,674 30 If the same average rate of increase should be maintained throughout, the population by the tenth census would be 50.125,882, which is not far from tne true number. Thirty-three leading raik./ays show earnings for October averaging 21 percent, over last year. The British bark Macedonia, from Pensacola, Fla., for Berwick, England, has been abandoned at sea, waterlogged and dismasted.' Nine of the crew were drowned. During the ten months ending the 31st of October, 290,000 immigrants have arrived in the United States. The prediction is made that Gen. Ord is soon to bo retired and Gen. Miles given the Department of Texas, and that Gen. Hazen will be chief of the signal service. The propeller Zealand, of Toronto, was wrecked on Lake Ontario in the gale of the Bth inst., and all on board, sixteen persons? found a watery grave.

- The National Council of the Congregational Church met at St. Louis last week. Lucretia Mott, the well-known philanthropist and abolitionist, is dead. Another severe gale swept over Lakes Erie and Ontario on the 12th hist., doing considerable damage to shipping. The schooner G. W. Mowbray, with forty tons of nitro-glycer-ine on board, drifted on a pier at Erie, Pa., and was abandoned. Her cargo was valued at $50,000. A frightful calamity occurred in a mine near Stellarton, Nova Scotia, last week. By an explosion of gas at least forty, perhaps fifty, coal-miners were buried under heaps of debris, suffocated, and burned to a crisp, and not one of their companions survive to tell the story of the catastrophe. Tbiity of the unfortunate victims were married, and in most instances were the chief supporters of large families. Small-pox is said to be sweeping off by hundreds the Canadian Indians along the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Those not afflicted flee from the dead and dying. It is believed that the barge Morning Stat—Captain, J. W. Thompson—has been lost on Lake Erie, with all hands. Special postal arrangement have been made between the United States and France by which, after the Ist of January, packages of merchandise not exceeding twelve ounces in weight, and of dimensions not exceeding twelve inches in length, eight inches in width, and four inches in thickness, can be sent from one country to the other through the mails.

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Washington, Nov. 16, 1880. The annual reports of Gens. Pope and Ord have been made public. Gen. Pope, commanding the Department of the Missouri, gives a det tiled history of the troubles with the Indians in Colorado and New Mexico, which, he states, have not yet been wholly settled. Of the situation in the country, Gen. Pope says:. “ Witli the present military arrangements and prpvisiops of the agreement with the Utes, there will certainly be no trouble this winter.” He attributes the outbreak of Victoria to the determined purpose of the Interior Department to effect the removal of bis band to the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, and says: “I do not know the reasons of the Interior Department for insisting upon the removal; hut certainly they should be cogent to justify the great trouble and severe losses occasioned by the attempt to coerce the removal.” One serious trouble with the Indians has always been in relation to their food, and Gen. Pope recommends to the Secretarv of the Interior that he forbid Indian Agents to punish or seek to control the actions of Indians bv withholding provisions from them. In relation to the attempt of Capt. Paine to colonize in the Indian Territory, Gen. Pope says : “ It is certain Capt. Paine and his followers fully believe in their right to malic such settlement in the Oklahoma District, and are anxious to test the question in the United States courts.” Gen. Ord, commanding the Department of Texas, reports nine men kil’ed, two wounded, and one captured by the Indians, since Oct. 1, 1879. The casualties are three less than the previous year. He reports that the number of desertions has increased. The General recommends that a strong force be maintained on the Rio Grande to preserve order. Gen. McCook recommends that a law be passed by Congress authorizing the enli tinent into the army of 150 competent young meu (one for each military post), to be rated as schoolmasters, with the raids and p-v of commissary sergeant.

USEFUL HINTS.

The fine siftings of coal ashes are ex- ’ cellent to scour knives with. Drive two large nails through two . spools, as far apart as your broom-handle is thick, and hang your broom on, brush up, to keep it straight. i Brooms should always be hung up, • and kerosene cans should always be ! set in an old tin dish which is past using for baking purposes. To Raise the Pile on Velvet.— When the pile is pressed down, cover a hot smoothing-iron with a wet cloth, and hold the velvet firmly over it; the vapor I arising will raise the pile of the velvet with the assistance of a light whisk or i clothes bnish. Wintering Flower Roots. The i roots of many useful and ornamental plants, such as cannas, dahlias, : and gladiolus, may be safely wintered in dry soil by means of external coverings. ■ But, as they do not require light during the winter, it is safer to lift and store i them in a dry cellar or building from : \vhich the frost is excluded. We find them to keep best, says an agricultural writer, packed in a soil just moist enough to keep the roots from swelling. The following oil is recommended as in excellent compound preparation for restoring and strengthening the hair : Take of purified beef marrow, say four ounces ; purified lard, two ounces; concrete oil of mace, four ounces; oil of aloes, lavender, mint, rosemary sage and thyme, each two drachms; balsam of tolmu, four drachms; camphor, one drachm ; alcohol, one ounce; place the alcohol in a glass mattress, and with the heat of a warm-water bath dissolve therein the balsam of tolmu; add the camphor and essential oil. On the other hand, melt together the marrow, lard, oil of mace, and as it congeals add the alcoholic solution made, and stir the whole until it is entirely cooled. Lubricate the head with oil once or twice every twenty-four hours. Repairing a Scratched Mirror.— Remove the silvering from the glass around the scratch so that the clear space will be about a quarter of an inch wide. Thoroughly clean the clear space with a clean cloth and alcohol. Near the edge of a broken piece of lookingglass mark out a piece of silvering a little larger than the clear space on the mirror to be repaired. Now place a very minute drop of mercury on the center of the patch, and allow it to remain for a few minutes; clear away the silvering around the patch, and slide the latter ■from the glass. Place it over the clear spot on the mirror, and gently press it ■ down with a tuft of cotton. This is a difficult operation, and we would advise j a little practice before trying it on a large mirror.— Scientific American. Fancy Scrap-Bag.—Take two medi-um-sized, three-ply wooden plates ; bore i in each twelve holes near the edge and at equal distances from each other, leaving a space where there are no holes for the opening of the bag. Paint or draw with India ink on the bottom of each i plate—which is to be the outside—some p.-etty design. Take a piece of satin about three-quarters of a yard long and ove r an eighth of a yard wide; hem each end and run in a short piece of elastic. Gather each side and draw up till it makes a puff just long enough to reach between the two end-holes of a plate. Bind the edges of the puff, i Then make twelve little slits in each binding corresponding *to the holes in the plates. Take two yards of satin ribbon, half an inch wide; put it through the first hole on the outside of I the plate and through the first slit in the binding, through the second slit and i second hole, and so on till it comes out through the twelfth hole in the plate. | Tie the ends together in a bow. Take two yards more of ribbon and do the same with the other plate. By careful cutting, three-eighths of a yard of satin is enough for the puff and binding.

One Hundred Wives.

Anew play bearing the above title, J written by Mr. J. B. Runnion, a Chicago journalist, has made a great hit in Philadelphia and other Eastern cities, and will shortly be reproduced on the stage of McVicker’s Theater, in Chicago. The Philadelphia North American comments as follows on this new play : If it has the success which rt deserves, and which its reception promises, the ■ play entitled “100 Wives” is likely to exi ert a powerful influence in stirring up public feeling against the continued toleration in the United States of the Mori mon abomination. On this account, if for no other reason, we hope that the i piece will be supported by the public, . and go the rounds of the country. It | not only gives a vivid picture of the mis- | eries which spring from Mormon prac- ' tices, but it indicates by implication the ' precise way in which the work of sup- ■ pressioi? should be begun. The heroine i of the piece, whose wretched situation | furnishes the ground-work of the plot, i is one among a large party of deluded ; people brought over to this country at ■ the instance and under the direction of ; Mormon emissaries. She has been inI duced to leave her home under false pretenses by the suppression of the truth and the suggestion of what is false, and, I once in Salt Lake City, it is a physical impossibility for her return. There is i more truth than fiction in this story. No ; one whois at all acquainted with the ' subject can doubt that such has been the experience ’of hundreds or even thousands of unfortunate women who have sailed across the Atlantic expecting to find an earthly paradise at Salt Lake, and havingno power to help themselves or to make known their wrongs when they are placed in possession of I the wretched truth. The question is, how long will the American people allow this plague spot to disfigure the fair face of the land. Every one will concede that our condonation of Mormonism is a national reproach. The practices pursued by the abandoned inhabitants of Sait Lake City are contrary to the laws of the’United States, and the validity of the bill looking toward their suppression, which Congress passed i some time ago, has been certified by the , highest tribunal in the land. President Hayes, in his message to the Forty-sixth Congress, adverted to the matter, and urgently advocated immediate energetic and appropriate action. Some spasmodic attempts have from time to time been made to enforce the law and punish the offenders, as well in Salt Lake City as in any other c : ty of the Union, but for a variety of reasons these attempts have come to naught, and for some time past it seems that nothing whatever has been done. The Mormons continue to break the laws both of God and man; they still defy the Government of the United States to make itself respected, and the immu- > nity with which the defiance is attended justifies its seeming foolhardiness. Many reasons are assigned io" our

’ failure to carry cut the law, and it is certain that the undertaking is attended with enormous difficulties. But it seems to us that a beginning ha? been made at the wrong end. Instead of attacking the enemy in his stronghold, we should cut off’ the supplies by which alone he is enabled to maintain his resistance. The Mormon polygamists cannot gain any recruits in this country. They are obliged to bring the new material from Europe, where thousands of people are so sorely driven by poverty and so benighted by ignorance that they are ready to believe all the lies that are told by the Mormon “apostles.” Every month or so we hear of a fresh consignment of 300 or 400 unfortunates being sent over to swell the Mormon population, and it is m this way that the evil is perpetuated. There is no reason why the landing of these Mormon immigrants at any American port should not be forbidden by the United States authorities, and when that has been done, the first step in the solution of the problem will have been taken.

Impurity in ice.

The popular delusion that water in the process of freezing somehow elimi- ■ nates any impurity it may contain, or ■ that the vitality of animal or vegetable germs is destroyed by the cold, is now ' very generally exploded. Now, howi ever, that the season for gathering ice is i once more approaching, it will be just I as well that attention should be again | drawn to the dangerous nature of the i fallacy alluded to. An American natj uralist has been microscopically examinI ing fragments of ico taken fronl various : canals and ponds. He took only such i specimens as appeared clean, and were I quite transparent to the eye. On melti ing them and subjecting them to magnifying powers, varying up to 900 diameters, he says that vegetable tissue and confervoid growth were in most cases observable-at once. He found no instance in which animalculie were pres- ■ eut in an active state after freezing, but i after being allowed to stand for a while in a moderate temperature the water presented monads whose movements were easily distinguished with a magnifying power of from 200 to 400 diamei ters. After a while confervse were grow- ; ing and taking form similar to the nests ' occupied by the young of the Paramecium, common in stagnant water. The result of the observations is to prove beyond question.that freezing does not in any way eliminate impurity or prevent the subsequent development of animal or vegetable germs. This is ' merely a confirmation of what has already been asserted and proved before, but the matter is of such importance that it is not likely to be urged with unnecessary frequency. Many persons who will look askance at a glass of unfiltered water will not hesitate to cool their drink by dropping a knob of ice into it. Thqt from ponds and canals is, of course, ostensibly gathered for nondietetic purposes, but it is to be feared that in hot weather ice is ice, and that ! much risk of mischief is often incurred. It may be questioned whether tliis industry should not be looked after a little.—London Globe.

The House of Representatives.

The following tabic indicates the number of members of Congress elected, by States, compared with the membership of the Forty-sixth Congress . Forty-sixth Forty-seventh Congress. Cong i ess. States. R. D. G? Fi. D. ~G. Alabama 8 .. .. 8 .. , Arkansas 4 .. .. 4 .. Ca’ifornia 3 1 .. 2 2 .. C .lomdv 1 .. .. 1 .. .. Cminecticut 3 1 .. 3 1 .. Delaware 1 .. .. 1 .. Florida 2 .. .. 2 .. Georgia 9 .. .. 9 .. Illinois 12 6 1 13 6 .. Indiana 6 6 1 8 5.. lowa 7 .. 2 9 .. Kansas. 3 .. .. 3 .. Kentucky; 16 .. 1 9 .. Louisiana 6 .. 1 5 .. Maine 3 .. 2 3 .. 2 Mavy'and 1 5 .. 1 5 .. Masriu bu etts 10 1 .. 10 1 .. Mi.’bi.au 9 .. .. 9 .. .. Minnesota 2 1 .. 3 .. Mis i-fippl 6 .. .. 6 .. Missouri 12 1 19 3 Nebraska 1 .. .. 1 .. .. Nevada .................. 1 .... .. 1 .. ?ew Hampshire 3 . . .. 3 .. ■.. New Jersey.' 4 3 .. 4 3 .. New York. 21 9 .. 20 12 1 i North Carolina 1 6 1 1 7 .. j Oregon 1 .. 1 .. .. Pennsylvania 17 9 1 19 8 .. Rhode Island 2 .. .. 2 .. .. South Carolina 5 .. .. 5 .. Tennessee 1 0 .. 3 7 .. Texas 5 1 .. 6 .. Vermont 3 . .. 3 .. .. j Virginia 1 8 .. 2 7 ..j West Virginia 3 .. 3 .. Wisconsin 5 3 .. 6 2 .. Totals. 1.2 151 10 148 139 6

The United States Senate.

The Senate, after the 4th of March next, > classing Davis, of Illinois, and Mahone, of Vir- i ginia, as Democrats, will be composed of thir-ty-seveu Republicans and thirty-nine Democrats, as follows : Dem. Rep. •Vlabama _. 2 0 Arkansas ’. 2 0 California 1 1 Colorado 0 2 Connecticut 0 2 Delaware 2 0 F orida 2 0 Georgia 2 0 11 inois 1 1 Indiana 1 1 lowa 0 2 Kansas 0 2 Kentucky 2 0 Louisiana 1 1 Me ne i 0 2 Maryland 2 0 Massachusetts 0 2 Mulligan 0 2 Minnesota 0 2 Mississippi 2 0 Missouri 2 0 Nebraska 0 2 Nevada...< 1 1 No v Hampshire 0 2 New Jersey 1 1 New York 0 2 North Carolina 2 0 Ohio 1 1 Oregon 2 0 Pennsylvania 0 2 Rhede Island 0 2 South Carolina 2 0 Tennessee 2 0 Texas 2 0 Vermont 0 2 Virginia 2 0 West Virginia 2 0 i Wisconsin 0 .2 Total 89 37

How to Make Pencil Writing Ineffaceable.

It is said that pencil drawings may be rendered ineffaceable by this simple process: Slightly warm a sheet of ordinary drawing paper; then place it carefully on the surface of a solution of white resin in alcohol, leaving it there long enough to become thoroughly moistened. Afterward dry it in a current of air. Paper prepared in this way has a very smooth surface. In order to fix the drawing, the paper is to be warmed for a few minutes. This method may prove useful for the preservation of plans or designs, when the want of time or any other cause will not allow of the draughtsman reproducing them in ink. A simpler plan than the above, however, is to brush over the back of the paper containing the charcoal or pencil sketch a weak solution of white shellac in alcohol.

$1.50 uer Annum.

NUMBER 41.

INDIANA NEWS.

I John Fisher, an old Quaker gentle- ; man. voted in Union at his seventeenth ; Presidential election. I The receipt of lumber in New Aibany from the northern pineries was never heavier than during the present season. The German Count Frantz Wilhelm I Ferdinand von Wekier, who stole sev- | era! saws at Fort Wayne, has been sen- | tenced to the penitentiary for one year. Harry Yost and Buddy Collins, boys of 14 years of age, residing at Mitchell, had a quarrel over an apple, which resulted in Yost stabbing Collins twice in the abdomen and once in the back. The November term of the State Supreme Court begins the fourth Monday of the month, when a new Chief Justice will be elected. The newly-elected Judges will not take their seats until January. The wife of Captain John A. Meek, of Galesburg, ex-Sherifl', presented him with triplets on the evening of the election. The two boys he has named Garfield and Arthur, respectively, and the girl he lias named America. Epizootic has assumed a very virulent type in New Albany. Three horses died of the disease in one day, and many teamsters were compelled to suspend business. The street-car company reduced the trips made one-half. The establishment of the free postal delivery in Richmond is a fixed fact, the Postoffice Department having sent a special agent to examine the claims for one and received a satisfactory report. The service will go into operation on the Ist day of January. The building, at an early day, of the long-ago proposed Evansville, Seymour and Lake Erie railroad, which is to traverse the counties of Vanderburgh, Warrick, Dubois, Orange, Washington, Jackson, Decatur, Franklin and Union, is likely soon to be consummated.

The tax-levy in aid of the Local-Trade railroad for this year, in Perry county, is $11,476. The people of Cannelton, Tell City and Troy expect to hear the toot of the locomotive next year. The road is now completed from Gentryville, Spencer county, to Evansville. A telephone exchange for Union City was organized last week, by the election of a board of six directors. The capital stock is $3,000, divided into thirty shares. Fifty instruments are taken, and lines will be put up, and the exchange established in working order inside of thirty days. Miss Anna Hoffman, of New Albany, who lost both her arms by being run over by an engine on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad, sued the Pennsylvania Company, lessee of the road, by her father, for SIOO,OOO damages. The case has been compromised, the company, it is said, paying Miss Hoffman SII,OOO. Herman Engler, of Fort Wayne, and a comrade were out hunting in a spring wagon, and while getting out the trigger of the gun caught, shooting both of them. The ball lodged in Engler’s right arm, severing the main artery. He lost so much blood before his companion could get him home that he died soon after. His companion was not seriously injured. The fire which destroyed the Bloomingdale Brewery, near Fort Wayne, was the work of an incendiary. * Several hogsheads had been filled with kerosene oil and fired. A bucket used at the brewery was found half full of the combustible liquid. A pair of pants, saturated with oil, but which were not burned, may possibly lead to the discovery of the guilty wretch. A duel with pistols at Madison, the other night, growing out of political animosity, had a tragic termination. There was a great deal of yelling on the streets by young men who were excited over the election. There were shouts for Garfield, for Hancock, and for Jeff Davis. The shouts for Jeff Davis came several times from a crowd of six or eight young fellows one door below George Glass’ saloon. Capt. Fred Trenck, near by, was heard to remark that no one could halloo for Jeff Davis in his presence, and •tarted over for the crowd, followed or accompanied by George Watson. Trenck said, “I want to find the traitor who yelled for Jeff Davis. ” In response to this remark, Glass, who was nearly face to face with Trenck, struck Trenck with his fist on the right cheek bone. Then followed an interchange of seven shots between Glass and Watson, both men standing up bravely to the fierce work. During the firing the crowd dispersed and sought safe quarters. When the last shot was fired, Watson retreated across Mulberry street to Hargiu’s corner, and Glass started back into his saloon. As he entered the door he was about to fall, when he was caught and laid on a table nearest the door, where the wounded man died with a few gasps, uttering the words, “I am shot.” The ball passed through his lungs and heart. Watson was severely wounded in the leg. School Superintendent’* Report. James H. Smart, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, has made up his annual report, the statistics of which are given below: From the reports of the county superintendents on enumeration it appears that there are 703,558 children of school age (between 6 and 21 years) in the State, of which 354,761 are white males, 334,249 white females. 7.162 colored males, and 7,386 colored females. Between the ages of 10 and 21 there are in the State 1,090 males and 957 females who can neither rdad or write. The children attending school during the past year numbered 511,283, namely, 265,872 males’, 237,395 females, and 8,016 colored. The daily attendance was 321,659, and schools have been taught in 9,383 out ot a total of 9,425. The colored schools numbered 104, the graded schools 339, the township graded schools 153, and the average length of school term within the year was 136 days. In the work of teaching there were employed 13,578 persons, of whom 7,731 were white’male teachers, 5,732 white females, and 115 colored. The table showing the compensation of teachers is interesting, as it shows that there is a wide margin between the payments for the same description of service in the several counties. For instance : In townships the per diem for male teachers vanes from $1.35 in Newton to $2.29 in Vanderburg, and for females from 93 cents in DeKalb to $2.23 in Vanderburg. In town schools male teachers are paid for their daily service all the way from SI.W in Howard to $5.33 in Lawrence, and female teachers from 75 cents in Fayette to $2.33 m Parke county. In city schools the payment of male teachers ranged from $2 in Posey to $7.50 in Knox, and of female teachers from $1.65 in Posey to $5 in Floyd. There are in the State 9,647 school-houses, of which 85 are built of stone, 2,189 of brick, 7,288 are frame, while 75 of the original log school-houses still remain in the service. During the year 359 new school-houses have been erected, and these are valued at $410,972.86, while the total valuation of school property, including buildings, apparatus, etc., is $11,817,954.53.

township Trustees were paid during the ye.tr for managing educational matters, §77,-

democratic §?utlner JOB PRINTING OFFICE has better facilitiM than any office In Northwerier* Indiana for the execution of all branches of J"0 33 FRIWT X3XTCSV, PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prloe-IJst, or from a teuuphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

721.93. The township libraries contain 241.824 books, and 3,774 have been added during the year. The State account of revenue fbr tuition stands as follows > Un hand Sept. 1,1879 .$1,9?8,433.02 Amount received February, 1880 1,417,549.35 Amount received June, 1880 1,412,777.55 Miscellaneous receipts 125,147.05 Total revenue for tuition $4,883,906.07 Amount expended since Sept. 1, 1879.... ojxxi 432.07 Amount on hand $1,877,174.90 The special school-revenue account stands as follows: Amount on hand Sept. 1, 1879 $ 927,903.70 Amount since received 1,461,891.15 Total $2,389,794.85 Amount since expended 1,485,418.81 Amount now on hand $ 904,376.04 Election Keluriis>. The following counties show Demacratie gams over the Qctpl >er vote given Mr. Porter : Allen 487 Monroe. 59 Bartholomew 129 Noble 94 Blackford 47 Orange 65 Boone 15 Owen 64 Brown 137 Petry 108 Cass 8 Pike 2 Clark 89 Porter 114 Clinton 81 Posey 69 De Ka>b 68 Pulaski 137 Dubois 84 Rush 19 Floyd 101 Shelby .' 53 Fountain 20 Spencer 79 Franklin 6 Starke 7.5 Gibson s'Sullivaii 46 Hamilton 36: Switzerland 33 Hancock .66 lipton...'. 50 Harrison Hi. Union 7 Huntington 13 Warrick 73 Jasper 128'Washington !>8 Kosciusko 40l Wayne 30 Lawrence lOiWeri 29 Madison 185'White . 2 Marshall 201 Martin 110 Total 3,465 The following counties show Republican gains : Adamg 6!|Lak<> 58 Benton 24:Laporte 13 Carroll 68' Marion 271 Clay 81 Miami 67 Crawford 2|Mont ornery 138 Daviess 60|Morgun 35 Dearborn 53|<;hio 3" Decatur 112|Parke 33 De aware 86:l’utnani 80 Elkhart 1251 Randolph 67 Fayette 15 Ripley 16 Fulton 33‘Scott 20. Grant 48 St. Joe 252 Greene 68 Steuben 5 Hendricks 62'Tippecanoe 233 Henry 84 Vanileiburg 41 Howard 1 to Vermillion 12 Jackson 17: Vigo 45 Jay t 51 Wabash Hl Jefferson.. .’ 45 Warren 11l Jennings 14, \\ hitley 70 Johnson 44 Knox 531 Total 3,070 LaGrange 55

THE MOREY LETTER.

Address* of the National. Democratic Committee. , New York, Nov. 13. The Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee held a private meeting last evening, which was not over until nearly midnight. The members present were W. H. Barnum, Frederick O. Prince of Massachusetts, Abram S. Hewitt, William W. Armstrong of Ohio, and William L. Scott of Pennsylvania. Hiram Atkinson, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Vermont, acted as proxy for Bradley B. Smalley, of Vermont; Charles J. Cauda, Treasurer oi the National Committee, as proxy for Alvah W. Sulloway ; and William C. Whitney, Corporation Counsel of this city, as proxy for Outerbridge Horsey, of Maryland, Barnum presided. The committee issued the fallowing address : In response to inquiries the National Democratic Committee makes the following statement in reference to the so-called Morey letter : 1. Neither the committee nor any sub-com-mittee thereof has ever taken any action in reference to the letter. 2. It was first called to the attention of the Chairman of the committee on the night bes ore its publication in Truth on the 20th of October. 3. The Chairman thereupon requested Mr. Smalley, a member of the committee, to examine the letter, but permission to do no wan refused at the oilice of the Truth,. 4. No member of the committee ever saw the letter or any copy or portion thereo rntil after its publication, or was in any wise concerned therein, or gave any advice in reference thereto. 5. Hart, publisher ot Truth, brought the original letter to hcadquarti rs. No. 138 Fifth avenue, on the afternoon of the 20th of October, where it was seen for the first time by any member of the committee and other persons not members. All those who wi re familiar with the handwriting of Gen. Garfield came to tl conclusion that the letter w; s genuine. 6. The committee decided to purchase a reasonable number of electrotype plot, sol the facsimile, which had already been prepared by Truth,. 7. No denial having come from Gen. GarHeld of the authenticity of tho letter, notwithstanding the telegraphic demand ot the Nev. York Herald and a very sharp leader in that paper, the committee decided to give out the electrotype plates, which was accordingly done. The propriety of this action was not doubted by the committee, as the letter seemed to be m harmony with Gen. Garfield’s vi- ws upon the subject, covered by a letter gathered from the public records, Of undoubted genuineness. 8. The first complete demal was not published until four days after the original publication in Truth, and to this denial, unsupported by any other evidence, the committee, in view of Gen. Garfield’s connection with other scandals, attached no weight. 9. Therefore, when evidence was offered to show that Morey was areal person, and not v myth, the committee called lor its production, as’ they were bound to do, in order to arrive at the truth. 10. if the letter had been forged, or any fraud committed in reference thereto, or any false evidence been given, it has been done without the knowledge, consent, or privity of the committee, or any member thereof. Finally, the committee approves of all honest measures to punish any and ail persons who have committed any violation of law, and have rio interest in this matter but to arrive at the very truth of the affair. That there should Lie doubt as to the authenticity of the letter is largely due to the failure of the prosecution to put Gen. Garfield on the stand. [See eighth paragraph.] Wm. H. Barnum, Chairman. By order of the committee. Frederick O. Prince, Secretary. A resolution was passed tendering the thanks of the committee to W. H. Barnum, Chairman, to the Advisory Committee, and to the ofiicers of the committee for the efficient and faithful manner in which they performed their respective duties.

“ Couldn’t Help It.”

William B. Barrington, of San Francisco, was possessed by a desire to take life. He went before the Lunacy Commissioners and asked to be sent to an asylum; but they decided that his mental trouble if he had any, was brought on by drink, and refused to incarcerate him. He declared that he had murder in his heart, and some day he would l>e unable to resist it. One evening he was drinking amicably at a bar with an intimate friend. Without warning he drew a revolver and killed his companion. “I couldn’t help it,” he said; “ I had to take somebody’s life.” A military guard accompanies every train on the Mexico and Vera Cruz railroad, and at every station a guard is drawn up under arms on the arrival of every train. A young man died of heart disease at St. Paid while asking a girl to marry him,