Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Solicitor General for Ireland states that the Government has no intention to grant a new trial of the traversers. Gladstone’s residence in London is guarded night and day by policemen, and he is followed to the House of Commons by an officer. Michael Davitt, Secretary of the Land league, was arrested at Dublin on the 2d inst, for violation of the conditions of his ticket-of-ic-ave. The arrest caused intense excitement throughout Ireland. In the British House of •Commons, Vernon Harcourt refused to inform Parnell what conditions of his ticket-of-leave Davitt had violated to cause a his arrest, the Irish members shouting ‘•Shame!” and the others cheering. The Speaker refused to hear John Dillon, who continued, to talk, and a motion for his suspension was adopted, and he was forcibly removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms. When Gladstone rose to speak, O’Donohue moved to adjourn. Parnell propoled that Gladstone be no longer heard, whereupon the former’s" suspension was moved and earned, the vote being 405 to 7. On his refusing to leave-he was escorted out by six officers, the Home-Rulers waving their hats. Finnigan was then suspended, and, as twentyseven Home-Rulers refused to vote, they were suspended in a body and removed singly by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Gladstone then moved that the Coercion bill be declared urgent, which was carried. An English steamer, bound from Balbao to Middlesboro, foundered at sea, and thirteen ■persons were drowned. Michael Davitt was taken before tne chief magistrate at the Bond Street Police Station in London for a private hearing. The result was an order to finish the remainder of his sentence, which was inteirupted in 1877 by his release on a ticket-of-leave. It is generally believed, however, that ho will bo confined only until the agitation in Ireland shall have ceased. He was committed to Milbank Penitentiary, where he at once a ssumed the prison garb. France has renewed its proposal to Germany for an international conference on the silver question.’ Thomas Carlyle, one of the most celebrated of scholars, died at London on the sth of February. The event had been hourly expected for weeks, and brought the relief he long desired. His physical prostration for months past was almost complete, although the failure of his mental powers began but recently. Deceased was 85 years old. The Porte is preparing to increase the land tax, and hive it paid five years in advance. A forced loan from the inhabitants of Constantinople, on the ground of their exemption from military service, is also proposed. The King of Ashantee has declared war against England.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ’ Ka*tBy the burning of a store and tenement house at Union, Ct., Mrs. George Stone and her two children lost their lives. A manufactory of lamp-burners at Forestville, Ct., employing 300 men, has been burned to the ground, the estimated loss being $150,000. • Five large buildings in Philadelphia were destroyed by fire, causing a total loss of about $280,000. By the destruction of a house in Commercial street, Boston, Mrs. Johanna Hanlan and her son William were roasted to death. The boiler of the steam-yacht Carrie exploded in the harbor of Baltimore, four men being killed. The failure is announced of Loomis & McMaster, carriage manufacturers, of Bath, N. H., with liabilities at SIIO,OOO. George Smith and Catherine Miller were executed at Williamsport, Pa., for the murder of Andrew Miller, the woman’s husband. John Brown’s Sons, manufacturers of cotton goods in Philadelphia, have failed for $750,000. Mr. Wiliam H. Vanderbilt has paid the entire cost of transporting the obelisk, ped. estal and steps from Alexandria to New York, and erecting them in Central Park. John J. Berry, the embezzling bank cashier of Hackensack, N. J., has gone to the Rate prison for five years. Albert, who won second place in the recent pedestrian match at New York, has been selected by O’Leary to walk against Rowell, next month. We»tThe propeller St. Albans, bound from Milwaukee to Ludington, was so badly injured by floating ice that she sprang a leak and soon went to the bottom. The passengers and crew took to the boats and reached Milwaukee in safety. The St. Albans was loaded with flour, and valued at $50,000. Eight Chinamen were killed near Santa Cruz, Cal., last week, by an avalanche. They were cutting timber on the mountain side, when the earth came down and completely buried them. Ex-Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, has been indicted for the murder of Drury, of Napoleon, Ohio, but will be admitted to bail. Three of the Mexicans who murdered Col. Charles Potter, of the geological siuwey, were taken from jail at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and hanged by citizens. H. W. Fairbanks, of Petrolia, Ont., a student at tho university at Ann Arbor, Mich., shot himself dead in a hotel parlor in that city, in presence of two women who had gone from Detroit to see him, one of them claiming to be Iris wife. The reservoir back of Franktown, Nev., gave way and made a clean sweep of the place. The Sheriff at Battle Mountain, Nev., in blissful ignorance of the responsibilty he takes, is seizing C.ntral Pacific mail cars for delinquent taxes amounting to $24,000. The property of the company in California is assessed at $36,000,000, under the new constitution, but no taxes have been paid. A huge mastodon has been exhumed near Pendletoii, Ind. Thousands of sheep have have succumbed to the cold weather in Montana. Peter Pelkey was executed at Helena, Mont., for the murder of Charles Tackle. Hiram Hackett, who was stolen from his home, near Coldwater, Mich., sixteen years ago, has been found and restored to his parents. He had a strawberry mark on his shoulder. A review of the lumbering interests of Michigan, made by a commercial journal of New York, states that good timber lands range from SSO to $ JOO per acre, and are being so rapidly secured by syndicates that they will soon be controlled by a few individuals. A. McCarger, the acting Indian Agent at White River, expresses serious fears of an pqtbreak of the Utes in the early spring.

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME V.

Xavier Wilhelms, a saloon-keeper of St. Louis, murdered his mistress, Agolia Margot. and killed himself. August Schultz, a 15-year-old lad of Milwaukee, hanged himself through fear of punishment for having stolen $5 from his parents. At Grantsville, Nev., Matias Salmon, a bad character, killed 8. Missel, a miner. Salmon was arrested and hidden by an officer to pres rve him from lynching. Salmon’s hiding place was discovered, and he was taken out and hanged to the framework of a wind-mill. Five of the murderers of Col. Charles Potter have already been lynched. Fausteno Gaticnis, another of the party, has been captured, and will be sent out from Albuquerque, under strong guards, to point out the hiding place of others involved. w South. Tom Buford has been locked up in the mad-house at Anchorage, Ky. Wiley Embrey, a respected farmer of Butler county, Ky., and six of his children were burned to death, Mrs. Embrey and daughter escaping. The fire broke out in an upper room after the family had retired. The town of Plymouth, N. C., was devastated by, fire, originating in a kerosene explosion. Only a store and freight warehouse were left standing. Three children of the Rev. Manning Hunter,, a colored preacher, of Sumter county, 8. C., were burned to death by a fire caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. Col Bayler, with a squad of Texas rangers, a band of twenty Apaches near Quitman, and killed six and captured three of their number. A party of citizens of Augusta, Ark., lynched three men who attempted an outrage on a worthy young lady. The mob rallied at the jail at midnight, gagged the guards, and took the prisoners across the river, hanged them to a tree until life was extinct, and com pleted the ghastly work by cutting the bodies down and cast ng them into the river. Rush Bennett, a colored man, was executed at Eldorado, Ark., for the murder of Col. A. C. A blood-curdling horror is reported from Owensville, Ky. George Preiat, bachelor, aged 70 years, and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Goodpaster, years older, lived alone together. The sister has for a long time been paralyzed and bedridden. Before retiring at night, Preait started to throw on a back log and build up the fire. He lifted the log, and, in throwing it on the fire, fell with it, and, being unable to rise, was burned to death. His sister was laying on the bed, but was unable in her condition of health to get to him or render him any assistance. At last, by an almost superhuman effort, she got out of bed and dragged her brother’s body out of the fire, and managed to get back in bed, and there was compelled to lie, being completely exhausted and unable to turn over, with her brother’s dead and burned body lying in full view on the hearth. Nothing was known of the affair until the following day, when Mrs. Goodpaster’s son went to his mother’s to help his uncle feed the stock. As he stepped into the door the horrible and blood-curdling scene was opened to his view. There in bed lay his mother, with eyes widely extended and she looking wildly with them, while on the hearth lay the body of his uncle, stiff and stark in death, badly burned, and with eyes, cheeks, ears and a portion of his neck eaten by cats, the whole presenting a ghastly sight. Mrs. Goodpaster had never closed her eyes during the whole night, and was lying there facing the body of her dead brother, and unable to move at all or make any noise whatever, and was compelled to see the cats eating the flesh from the face of her brother. A woman with considerable money stopped for lodging at the house of a negro named John Demos, in Charlotte county, Va. She was put in a room with Demps’ wife, but in a different bed. Demps determined to murder the woman, and entered the room at midnight with an ax, and, with two fearful blows, he killed his wife, supposing her to be the visitor. The screams of the other woman informed him of his mistake. She fled ; and he, after burying his wife, was arrested while burning the bed-clothing to conceal his crime.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The House Committee on Commerce has fixed the figures for the improvement of the Mississippi river at $1,090,000 from Cairo to the Gulf, and $600,000 from Cairo to tho head waters. It is proposed to make the inaugural ball the most elaborate affair of the kind in tho history of the country. No complimentary tickets will be issued except to Gen. Garfield and his family. The following is the public-debt statement for January: Six j>er cent, bonds.....s 202,266,550 Five per cents 469,651,050 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 738,480,550 Refunding certificates 867,250 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,675,265,400 Matured debts 7,272,285 Legal tenders 346,743,726 Certificates of deposit... 8,630,000 Fractional currency (sls,- efty. 520,433 Jess amount estimated us lost or destroyed $8,375,934).... 7,144,499 ' Gold and silver certificates 53,341,100 Total without interest. 415,857,925 Unclaimed Pacific-railroad Interest.... 7,927 Total debt 52,098,390,610 Total interest 15,077,492 Cash in treasury 221,674,535 Debt Jess cash in trea5ury51,891,799,568 Decrease dui-ing January 7,382,167 Decrease since June 30, 1880 50,152,727 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaids 3,059,712 Debt on which interest has ceased 7,273,285 Interest thereon.* 7'?3,389 Gold and silver certificates 53,341,700 United States notes he’d fqr redemption of certificates of deposit. 8,630,000 Cash balance available Feb. 1,1881 118,616,447 Totals 221,674,535 Available assets— Cash In treasury.s 221,674,535 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstandings 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 323,117 Interest paid by United States 49,528,566 Interest repaid by companies— Interest retttid by transportation of mails 14,052,966 By cash payments of 5 per cent of net learnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States'. 34,820,401

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Kansas Legislature has resolved to place a statue of John Brown in the National Art Gallery in Washington. The sudden spread of small-pox in New York causes alarm among the health authorities. There are over sixty cases under treatment at the hospital on Randall’s island. The black small-pox, which is supposed to have been introduced by Mennonite immigrants, continues its ravages at Jefferson, Dakota, which has been quarantined for over a month, thirty-two deaths having occurred. Fifty-two patients are under treatment in Chicago,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1881.

Four men were hanged at New Westminster, B. C., for a murder •ommitted about a year ago. Thirteen million five hundred thousand dollars has been subscribed to build the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railway. Burned: The Bijou Theater, at Fort Wayne, Ind., loss $6,000; Independence Hall Chicago, loss $20,000; the fine residence of Morris Auerbach, fit Paul, Minn., loss $30,000; tho Webster-school building, Quincy, 111., 10-s $80,000; the Court House at Charles City, Floyd county, lowa, loss $25,000; Wilder’s plow works, Toledo, Ohio, loss $10,000; the paper mill of L. Lincoln & Co., Taunton, Mass., loss $23,000 ; the Capitol Hotel, Dover. Del., loss $12,000; Leisy A Co.’s brewerv, Cleveland, Ohio, loss SIO,OOO ; the works of the Wando Manufacturing Company, near Charleston, S. C„ loss $63,000. Three hundred Indians from New Mexico have invaded the State of Chihuahua, creating a panic among the Greasers. A mortgage for $45,000,000, covering all the property of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, is being prepared for record in each count}’ of tho three States. Burned: The extensive wholesale grocery house of Greeley and Burnham, and two or three adjacent stores, in St. Louis, loss $450,000 ; Aldrich’s cigar factory, Rome, N. Y. loss $40,000 ; stores and dwellings on Halifax street, Pensacola, Fla., loss $30,000; Gent’s machine shop and Savage & Love’s model establishment, at Rockford, 111., loss $30,000 ; the Reformed Church, at Utica. N. Y.. loss 465,000; Bourland’s printing office, at Montreal. Can., loss SIO,OOO ; a mill of the Springfield Blanket Company, at Holyoke, Mass., loss $25,000.

POLITICAL POINTS. Four low-tax Democrats in the Tennessee Legislature joined the Republicans in electing James Nolan Comptroller and D. A. Nunn Secretary of State. The Woman’s National Anti-Polyg-amy Society met at Salt Lake City and passed resolutions urging Congress to sustain Gov. Murray in unseating Cannon.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the United States Senate, on the morning of Monday, Feb. 1, Mr. Baldwin, of Michigan, took his seat, and the credentials of Mr. Conger were presented. Mr. McPherson Introduced a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO to fit out a war vessel to search for the steamer Jeannette. Mr. Dawes, commenting upon the killing of Big Snake, the Ponca chief, by white soldiers, presented a protest from Standing Bear and others against the sale of the old > eservations. Senator Logan defended Secretary Schu z in thii matter. The severalty bill was taken up, and an amendment adopted to allow allotments to be taken by individual members of a tribe which does not .onsent to take lands. Mr. Voorhees introduced a bill to pension the survivors of the battle of Tippecanoe, fn the House. Mr. O Reilly presented a bill providing that no telegraph company shall charge more for messages thau the rates ot the American Union Company at the commencement of this year. Mr. Springer put forward his postal telegraph measure. A. b.ll was pissed to enable the Utah Northern Railrood Company to construct branches in Utah, Idaho and Montana. Among the bills introduced was one to prevent food adulteration; one to compensate railway mail clerks for injuries receive I while on duty; one providing that two members of a firm cannot serve as Directors of the same national bank ; that no money broker, private banker or Din ctor in any private banking house or savings bunk shall serve as Director of a national bank in the same city as that in which the private bank or savings institution with which he is connected is situated; and that when a Director has ess than ten shares of the stock of tho bank he becomes disqualified, and cannot continue to serve, i’he lowa contested-electio i cases were settled in favor of Messrs. Sapp and Carpenter, the contestees. At a caucus of Democratic Senators it was resolved not to consent to the principle established by the ingalls resolution, but to hold a continuous session t > force the passage of a resolution that the Vice President has no constitutional authority to count electoral votes. Mr. Morgan reported from the Electoral Committee, on Tuesday, Feb. 1, as a substitute for Mr. Ingalls’ resolution on that subject, the concurrent resolution adopted by the Democratic caucus. It was laid on the table to be printed. Consideration of the case of Big Snake, the Ponca chief who was killed wTiile resisting arrest, .'as resumed. Mr. Kirkwood replied to the .emarks made by Mr. Dawes on Monday, and defended the Indian Agent and the Interior Department from the charges preferred by that Senator. Mr. Dawes reiterated his previous statements, and tho subject was droppeel. Gen. Logan gave notice hat he would next day call up the bill placing Gen. Grant upon the retired list of the army. The Pension Appropriation bill was under consideration. Two amendments were adopted. One limits the fee of the examining surgeon to sl, and tho fiber provides that the money paid inmates of Soldiers’ Homes shall be ) aid through the Treasurer of these institutions. The District of Co r.mbia b.ll occupied the attention of the House of Itepresentathes. No action was taken. Senator Cockrell introduced a bill in the Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 2, providing for an appropriation of $5,000 for the publication of a descriptive catalogue of all public documents from July 4, 1876, to date. A message was received from the President transmitting the report of the special Ponca commission and outlining an Indian policy for the future. Mr. McPherson made a favorable report cn the bill to appropriate $ 100,000 to equip a vessel ti starch for the Jeannette in the Arctic regions. The Morgan electoral-count resolu lions occupied a large portion of the day, and were finally adopted. The House passed the District of Columbia appropriation. The Legislative appropriation, retting aside $17,181,000, was reported favorably. Tho Speaker presented a message from the President, accompanied by a recommendation from the Secretary of the Navy, that j $200,000 be appropriated for naval stations on the American isthmus. The Apportionment bill coming up. Mr. Cox entertained the House with flowery tributes to our institutions and our progress. The concurrent resolution ou the Electoral count, introduced by Senator Morgan on tire l’>th of l June of last year, was discussed in the Senate on Thursday, Feb. 3. The resolution declares that the President of the Senate is not invested by the constitution with the right to count the votes of Electors for President and Vice President of the United States. Senator Edmunds was opposed to the consideration of the resolution at the present time, and moved to lay it on the table, which was negatived by a vote of 32 to 22. Hoar, Windom, Booth and Conkling were i opposed to the considerate n of tlie question, as im- ■ portant and pressing business awaited the action of , the Senate. During the discussion Conkling , said he agreed with Morgan that the Vice I President had no" power in the matter of the ! count, and that the Senate and House had quasi-judicial authority over ft. Senator Edmunds ; moved an amendment to the effect that neither the Senate, House nor Piesidtnt of the Senate were invested by the constitution with the power to make the count, but the amendment was rejected by a party vote of 28 to 18. The Republicans then absented themselves to prevent a quorum, and there was no final action on the resolution. The House took up the Apportionment bill. Mr. Oox offered an amendment fixing the number of , Representatives at 307, while Mr. Sherwin, of the , Census Committee, favored 301. The debate then | assumed a political cast, Mr. Thomp- I son, of Kentucky, declared that the I second section of tlie Fourteenth omond , "ent conld i not be practically enforced by legislation. Mr. White denied that there was a property qualification in force in Pennsylvania. The bill went over without action. Mr. King introduce 1 a bill appropriate- ' Ing $20,000 for the distribution of cane seed. The Indian appropriation was reported with the Senate amendments, which were agreed to. .The River and I Haibor bill, which appropriates about $11,000,000, was reported. A motion to take np the bill to retire Gen. Grant was defeated in the Senate on the 4th inst. The Morgan resolution in regard to the Electoral count was passed; also the House bill appropriating $26,000 for a national museum, as weU as a measure setting aside $175,000 to equip a vessel - to search for the Jeannette. In the House, a bill was reported, authorizing the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to prosecute suits against the Government in the Supreme Court of the United States. An act for the sale of Indian, lands in Kansas was passed, the rate being fixed at $3 per acre. In the debate over a pension bill Mr. Atkins expressed the belief that the Arrearages act would cost the Government $1,000,000,000. The United States Senate was in session a short time on Saturday, Feb. 5, and passed a Joint resolution inviting the Government and people of France and the family of Lafayette to join in the Yorktown celebration. Bills were passed for the erection of a public building in Quincy, HL, and to erect a monument at Wyandotte Mission, in Ohio, The House passed both the Senate joint resolutions in regard to the electoral count Some hours were spent in debate op the apportionment question.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. Monday, Jan. 81.—Senate.—The Senate reconvened this afternoon, and Senator Van ’ Vorhes introduced a biU abolishing the office of the President of the benevolent institutions. The Committee on Education was instructed to report ou the feasibility of cjnsolidating the various educational institutions unfit r one management. The tall to prevent marriage of drunkards, insane people and felons was referred. Senator Briscoe’s joint resolution “tuat the sympathies of the people of Indiana are with the masses of the people of Ireland in their present legal straggle to reform the system of land laws at present existing in that country,” was adopted. House.—The House lacked a quorum, and spent the principal time in voting on motions to adjourn. Tuesday, Feb. I.—The Senate did not meet to-day, and the House remained in session only an hour. It heard reports, received new bills and then passed the Semite concurrent resolu- i tipn of sympathy with the people of Ireland, j with the’ addition of an amendment by Mr. | McSheehy thanking Congressman Calkins, of . this State, for his championship of this i question in the lower house of Congress. ! Bills were introduced : Amending the act regulating general elections ; authorizing owners of wet lands to drain and reclaim the same ; prohibiting minors from loitering in saloons, and providing no exemption for married women from taxation. Tho bill to enable nine of a jury of twelve, seven of a jury of nine, and four of a jury of six to return a verdict was reported from the Judiciary Committee with a recommendation that it pass. It was made a special order for Friday at 11 o’clock. Then the House adjourned to the Union Depot, and, ■ joining the Senate, set off for Lafayette and Purdue University. Wednesday, Feb. 2.—Senate.—A number of I bills on third reading were taken up and < passed, principally legalizing and amending j acts. When Senator Van Vorhis’ bill for the establishment and maintenance of a State Board of Health and Bureau of Vital Statistics was called up, considerable opposition developed, the Senators arguing that it was a useless measure, md likely to prove expensive. The bill failed by a vote of 19 to 26. Later in the day, however, the vote by which its passage was defeated was reconsidered, as was also the vote on engrossment. and tlie bill was inferred to the Health Committee. Representatives and Senators in Congress were instructed to use all the means n their power to secure an appropriation of SIOO,OIO for widening and deepening the channel of the Kankakee river, so as to make it navigable in Indiana. The bill providing for the licensing of engineers of stationary engines i was discussed, and referred with instructions to make its provisions cover portable as well as stationary engines. Tho vote by which the bill amendatory of tho Railroad Bridge law was engrossed was considered, and it was recommitted. The consideration of various measures relating to a constitutional convention on the resubmission of the amendments to the people was made the special orddr for to-morrow afternoon. House. —Among the new bills introduced was a liquor-license measure and a bill for the election of County Superintendents and teachers in district schools by a popular vote. The_ deoate upon compulsory education was postponed until Tuesday. The bill for refunding city .indebtedness was referred for amendments. The bills for vacation of cemeteries within tho corporate limits and for the I election of a Police Judge in Indianapolis J passed. Among the provisions of the Liquor i bill, licenses are reduced to SSO per year, but I cities and towns are permitted to increase to I to any amount, and it is made a misdemeanor j to sell to habitual drunkards. The Deaf and I Dumb Asylum investigation was ordered to be- , gin next week, and the investigation of the i • rison, south, matters is set down for Tuesday ; next. Thubspay, Feb. 3.—Senate. —James F, Har- I ney, Trustee of the Feeble-minded Children ■ Institute, came before the Senate, demanding ; an investigation of his official acts. Senator Hart’s amendment authoiizing the deduction of indebtedness from the assessment list, came within an ace of acceptance, but was finally referred. The House resolution ordering an investigation of the Insane Asylum was adopt- • ed. Bills were introduced prohibiting the sale ; of firearms to children under 15 years of age, | and providing for payment of expert witnesses, j The contested-election case of W. R. Brownlee vs. Chas. L. Henry, from Madison county, was settled by the acceptance of tne committee report, that the last named retire from his Senatorial seat. A resolution was introduced expressing the sentiment of the Senate that the ridiculous sea Hires of Senator Cadwallader’s famous Whistling bill, passed two years ago, was due to careless enrollment and engros-ing. Senators Shaffer, Bell, and Jayne were placed upon the joint committee to investigate the Insane Asylum, and Senators McCartney and Howard were appointed to look after the House of Refuge. House.—The joint resolution ordering an investigation of the Insane Asylum was passed, and Representative Bemman appointed Chairman, the resolution pasting by a strict party vote. Lloyd’s bill, authorizing the purchase an 1 conversion of toll roads into free routes, was favorably reported upon, but was afterward recommitted, with instructions to amend so that a majority of the legal voters of the county are necessary before purchase is made. A sharp political debate was had over the passage of the bill establishing a Superior Court in Vigo county, the Democratic members of the committee reporting adver-ely, because the b 11 abolished the Criminal Court. The bill finally passed, 54 to 33. Clark county presented a claiffi of $4,000 for the prosecution and conviction, in 1874, of Wm. Kennedy, a convict who killed one of the guards in the prison South. Fbiday, Feb. 4.—Senate.—The bill providing ; for the establishment and maintenance of pub- [ lie libraries in connection with public schorls in ; cities of over 10.000 population passed. Sena- I tor Menzies introduced a bill establishing a I commission of five lawyers to be appointed by ! the Supreme bench to aid the court in bringing | forward the immense legislation now on the docket. The afternoon was occupied with discussion of the resubmission of the constitutional amendnunts, and the proposed constitutional convention. House.—A number of bills were reported from committees, including the measure pro- j j posing the abolition of city and town Asses- ! i sors, which was amended by omitting the city i ’ of Indianapolis from its operation. The bill 1 : was then engrossed. The Fish Commies on I bill was reported favorably, with amendments ! reducing the number of members of the board ■ to six, and the proposed appropriation from $5,900 to $2,000. After discussion it was referred to a special committee for further consideration. Several road bills were considered, but no definite action taken. Mr. Thompson’s bill repealing the act authorizing counties and townships to vote aid to the construction of railroads, was reported favorI ably from the Committee on Count y and Tow n I Business, but the bill was referred to the Raili road Committee. Upon the motion to engross ! Mr. Meredith’s bill to establish a board to mani age both the State prisons, a motion was made to have the Governor’s nominations of Directors confirmed by the Hou-e instead of the Benj ate, but the House voted it down. An amendment proposed by Mr. Floyd, that the nomino- ■ tions be confirmed by the House and Senate in i joint convention, was referred, with the bill, to i the Prison Committee. The bill for the , payment of non-resident witnesses in State cases, was referred to the Committee on Fees ; and Salaries. I An Active Man. I .Col. Thomas Scott’s activity has been : great enough to wear out three ordinary i men. Some idea of it may be gathered from the loquacity of a man who supplied him in Washington with horses and carriages. “Itis no unusual thing, ” . he said, “ for Col. Scott to keep a car- ■ riage for twenty-four hours. He would order the team and drive i s if he was behind a pair of iron horses. How they would fly ! Then he would make ft stop i of perhaps two or three hours in front i of some prominent man’s house. Then 1 he would be off again, and so keep it up for a whole day and night We got to know him, and kept an eye about, and 1 after the horses began to get jaded a

fresh pair would be run to the place where he alighted and a change made. Why, a SSO job was always certain with Cot Scott. He was a wonder.”

A YEAR’S FAILURES.

The Dun Mercantile Agency has issued its annual circular of failures for the year 1830. The following table shows the failures for last year and the year before, with the amount of i liabilities:

1880. I 1879. states. Ao. i So. F'il- A mount of F’il- A mount ur’n. Liab’litiu. ur’». Liabhtie*. Pastern— Maine 73$ 687,230 87 $ 796,600 New Hampshire... 32 151.684 62 417,748 Vermont 32 251,725 63 859.736 Massachusetts.. .. 223 1,385,554 335 4,820,594 Boston city 106 1,951,400 170 3,613,200 Rhode Island 79 958,707 9> 3,094,562 Connecticut 178 1,073,817 158 2,474,844 Total 723 $ 6,460,117 970 $15,577,282 Middle — New York 461 5,617,766 785 8,389,378 New York city.... 415 19,459,744 519 13,303,969 New Jersey 89 984,556 143 1,201,086 Pennsylvania 291 3,943,50. 522 8,242,649 Philadelphia. 131 3,842,222 180 3,086,116 Delaware 18 127,400 14 186,137 Maryland 53 820,163 85 916,874 Ditto! Columbia. 14 157,939 33 207,982 Total 1,472 $33,953 t 202 2,290 $35,534,191 Southern— Virginia 85 708,180 84 848,666 West Virginia..... 14 96,105 27 124,000 North Carolina.. . 53 41P.658 100 1,000,290 South Carolina... 48 393,230 73 2,497,740 Gedrgia 77 1,018,763 86 574,323 Florida 12 104,500 19 120,077 Alabama 47 759,694 24 202,109 Mississippi 55 700,549 76 991,374 Louisiana 54 706,262 90 4,752,557 Texas 155 1,493,210 159 1,223,892 Arkansas 26 340,072 48 425,427 Kentucky 104 1,030,000 138 1,546,577 Tennessee 105 1,051,219 152 1,569,671 Total 835 $8,813,442 1,076 $15,876,703 Western— Ohio. 152 1,326,318 260 3,230,176 Cincinnati 38 514,241 74 1,17 ,699 Indiana 89 842,847 122 1,509,791 Illinois 91 483,802 194 3,396,480 Chicago 43 780,154 83 2,237,300 Michigan 153 2,285,266 179 2,063,894 Wisconsin 74 560,207 145 1,886,345 lowa 92 495,655 152 1,121,900 Minnesota 82 1,807,969 128 1,241,697 Missouri 85 429,972 83 284,894 St Louis. 54 1,186,2161 56 2,444,000 Kansas 112 446,9581 66 392,043 Nebraska 106 359,919 66 221,800 Total 1,171 $11,519,4191 1,608 $21,207,519 Pacific Staten and Tei ritories— Oregon 71 674,342 55 438,045 California 181 1,123,700 I 251 2,650,736 San Francisco city 111 1,795,71>0 I 221 5,317,118 Colorado 78 541,500 47 335,661 Nevada 41 541,900 34 425,100 Utah 9 64,000 10 383,854 New Mexico 5 35,800 8 26,639 Wyoming 4 9,000 12 25,400 Idaho 3 49,000 Dakota 4 19,000 11 63,000 Montana. 5 27,500 3 90, (XX) Washington 13 80,588 58 171,305 Arizona 6 44,700 4 21,500 Total 534 $ 5,005,730 714 $ 9,953,358 Grand totals 4,735 $65,752,000 ii>,658\?98.149,053 Canada 907 7,988,077 ] 1,902 ! 20,347,037

The tables indicate that the mercantile failures in the United States, during the year 1880, were in number 4,735, with liabilities aggregating nearly $66,000,000. The failures lor 1870 were in number 6,658, with liabilities of $98,000,000. The decrease, therefore, for the past year is 1,923 in number, and in liabilities $27,000,000, thus showing an improvement equal to 40 per cent, in number, and a saving in losses by bad debts in the same proportion. While the comparison of the last year with the previous one is so extremely favorable, the comparison of 1880 with 1878 is even more remarkable. In 1878 the failures numbered 10,478, while in 1880 they numbered only 4,735, indicating a lessened number of casualties by 5,743, equivalent to nearly 60 per cent But in the amount of liabilities the change for tho better is even greater, for in 1878 the indebtedness of those who failed was $234,000,000, while in 1880 it did not reach $66,000,000, a lessened amount by $168,000,000. When it is remembered that the number of pei-sons now engaged in business as compared with 1878 is nearly 10 per cent greater, and that the extent of the transactions during the past year at least trebled those of 1878, the significance of the lessened number of failures and the reduced loss by this cause will be apprehended. The following table sMbws the failures for twenty-four years: Amount of LiaYear. Failure*. bilitie*. 1857 4,932 $291,759,000 1858 4,225 95,749,0(10 1859 3,913 64,394,000 1860 3,676 79,807,<00 1861 6,993 207,210,000 1862 1,652 23,049,(MX) 1863 495 7,899,900 1864 520 8,579,000 1865 530 17,625,000 1866 1,505 53,783,000 1867 2,780 96,666,000 1868. 2,608 63,694,000 1869 2,799 75,054,054 1870 3 546 88,242,000 1871 2,915 85,252,000 1872 4,069 121,056,000 1873 5,183 228,499,930 1874 5,830 155,239,000 1875 7,740 201,<!00,000 1876 9,092 191,117,000 1877 8,872 190,(169,936 1878 10,478 234,383,132 1879 6,658 ' 98,149,013 1880 4,735 65,752,00 0

Vocabulary of the Indian Sign Language.

An important and interesting work is being doue by the Bureau of Ethnology in collecting and publishing the vocabulary of the Indian sign language, which is a common means of communication for both the red and the white inhabitants of the plains. It will be one of the most remarkable contributions to ethnological knowledge, and will suggest also a common language like that which perished at the Tower of Babel, if that structure can be said to be any longer tenable against the assaults of science. The signification and form of sign communications are not identical with all the tribes of Indians, but they have this in common, that they all derived from the natural pantomine of the object to be described, and in many instances are as graceful and beautiful as they are graphic and expressive. They are the more readily learned, as they are not merely arbitrary like the sounds of a spoken language, but have always been treated with reference to the thing which they indicate, and a person of quick eye and vivid intelligence can readily interpret much the Indians are saying to each other with deft gestures,* or at least can very rapidly learn their i meaning. Some of the signs are new i revelations of the power to express mean- ■ ing by gestures, which would be valua- ■ ble to a Delsarte in teaching the gram- ! mar language of dramatic art. One cannot see a pair of Indians carrying on an animated conversation by means of free, rapid, and graceful gestures without getting a better idea of the expressiveness of the human heads and arms, and i what are used merely as the illustrations I to spoken eloquence than if he had witl nessed the dramatic action of a Fechter, I or the most accomplished and animated i actor of the stage, and he learns how ! much disuse can detract from or use give to that means of expression.—A T . Y. Commercial Advertiser.

Coloring Canaries.

At a bird show in Berlin, Germany, I green canaries were exhibited. Others were red, light brown and gray. The variations of color had been caused by the daily use ot cayenne pepper in the food. The pepper was at first given in small quantities, and the birds appeared to like it, but the feathers soon fell, giving them a moulting appearance. In a short time new feathers of divers colors sprouted. The variations were ascribed to the different qualities of the pepper and to the quantity giveq.

THOUGHTS FROM DICKENS.

“That heart where self has found no i place and raised no thorne, is slow to , recognize its ugly presence when it looks I upon it.”— Martin Chuzzlewit. “If you had the abilities of all the i great men, past and present, you could do nothing well, without sincerely meaning it, and setting about it.”— Bleak House. “There are days in this life worth life and worth death. And oh! what a bright old song it is, that oh! ’tis love, that makes the world go round.”— Our Mutual Friend. “Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a comSound of two cardinal virtues—faith and ope. ” — Nicholas Nickleby. “Men who are thoroughly false and hollow seldom try to hide those vices from themselves; and yet in the very act of avowing them they lay claim to the virtues they feign most to despise.”—Barnaby Budge. “The old, old fashion! the fashion that came in with our first garments, will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled Up like a scroll. The old, old fashion— Death!”— Dombey and Son. “It always grieves me to contemplate the imitation of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants: It checks their confidence and simplicity—two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them.”— The Old Curiosity Shop. “Neklix, verily, travelers have seen many idols in many countries; but no human eyes have ever seen more daring, gross and shocking images of the Divine nature, than we creatures of the dust make in our own likenesses of our own bad passions.”— Little Dorr it. “Some happy talent and some fortunate opportunity may form the two sides of the ladder ou which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand the wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere earnestness. ” The Pickwick Club. A silent look of affection and regard where all other eyes are turned coldly away—the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us—is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase or power bestow.— David Copperfield. Alas ! how few of nature’s faces are left to gladden us with their beauty! The cares and sorrowings, and hungerings, of the world change them as they change hearts; and it is only then those passions sleep, and have lost their hold forever, that the troubled clouds pass off and leave Heaven’s surface clear.— Oliver Twist.

References.

The name of a well known Quaker (this was at the end of the last century) was once given as a reference by a young man of good character who was just entering business. The Quaker emphatically recommended credit, but the young man almost at once fell into bad habits, neglected his business, and became insolvent. The injured creditor met the Quaker and complained that he had been deceived by his representations and thereby lost £SOO. The Quaker replied that what he had stated was then true, and he also had been deceived, but as it was on his recommendation that credit had been given he wou|d pay the debt, and then and there dia so by a check on his bankers. Now this is a very pretty little story, and the good Quaker in the then existing state of the law could not have been legally compelled to make good the loss. There is a commercial moral, however, with which all our readers may not be acquainted, and it is this: If in these days a man on being applied to for a reference makes a broad and positive statement in writing, or even verbally, that so-and-so is perfectly solvent, and that credit may be safely given, and on this declaration credit is given, the person or firm who foolishly gave so unqualified a reference is leguliy liable for the resulting loss in case of bankruptcy. Some firms on this account make a rule of refusing, under any circumstances whatever, to lend their names as references—but this seems a somewhat strained, if not cruel, proceeding. The best plan is to state honestly and fairly what is known, the amount of credit—if any—that is being given by the firm applied to, coupled with the intimation that the firm applying must use their own discretion entirely as to whether credit be given at all, as it is against rules to guarantee the commercial status of any one.

A Porky Story.

“On this day seventeen years ago,” remarked a New Yorker the other day, “I shipped 1,000 barrels of pork to Washington. I was an army contractor then, and wherever I heard of a barrel of pork I went for it and bought it at some price. I remember this particular shipment because a serious mistake was made.” “How?” “ Well, I counted the barrels at the depot myself, and there were only 990, when there should have been an even thousand. Men were ready to rail the barrels into the freight cars, and to make my number good I took ten barrels of lard from a stock ready to ship to Baltimore. They mixed in all right, and, of course. I expected to pay for ’em. A whole day went by before I* saw the ov ner. These were stirring times, you remember. He had found himself slfort, and he cribbed ten barrels of beef to make good his number of barrels, and hustled the shipment away.” “And who did the beef man crib from ? ” “Well, his beef was for the soldiers, and he made himself good by buying three barrels of vinegar, two of crackers, and stealing five barrels of apples from a lot in the depot. ” “ And did it go any further ?” “ Yes. The most curious thing of all was that the man I took the lard from sued the man who stole the apples, and got judgment against him for the worth of the lard, and none of the rest of us were out a cent”— Wall Street Daily News.

How to Treat a Frightened Horse.

A man who has had much experience I m managing horses, says : “ Whenever nevous horsemen notice their horse directing his ear to any point whatever, or indicating the slightest disposition to liecome afraid, let them, instead of pulling the reins to bring the horse toward the object causing its nervousness, puli upon the other side. This will instantly divert the attention of the horse from the object which is exciting his suspicion, and in ninety-nine cases out of 100 the horse will pay no m< re attep-

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tion to the object, from which he will fly away if forcibly driven to it by pulling on the wrong rein. The practice mpst persons have of forcing a horse up to the object frightening is dangerous and useless. ”

A. T. Stewart.

I was talking with a gentleman who had been an intimate friend of A. T. Stewart, the greatest merchant perhaps that this country ever knew, and he threw new light on his history. Contrary to general belief, Stewart started with a comfortable fortune, and did not work his way from the ground up. He came to this country as a young man, sent on a pleasure trip by his father. He was a close observer and leisurely traveler, and went home thoroughly posted as to this country. Having to return to America very soon, he recalled the fact that there was a tine margin of profit between the prices of laces in the old country and this. He, therefore, invested $25,000, his patrimony, in laces and brought them over on his second trip. This speculation turned qpt so well that he had another lot sent over, and opened a shop from which he might dispose of them. This was the beginning of his mercantile business. Stewart was a man of confirmed superstitions. He would never eat at a table at which thirteen people were seated, and on one occasion, when a guest had declined coming to his usual Sunday night dining and afterward came when his place had been filled, he declined to receive him as he made the number thirteen. He finally determined to overcome this superstition, and dined at a table at which thirteen were seated. He died a few weeks afterward, but I very much doubt it that was what killed him. He never wanted to have his photograph taken, saying : “ People who buy goods from me think I am a noUIe-looking man with flowing whiskers and a gray beard. They’d lose faith in my prestige if they became familiar with my insignificant face.” He was a shopkeeper all his life, and the shopkeeping instinct never left him. He once dropped into Tiffany’s and saw a friend examining some pearls that he was thinking of buying for his wife. Stewart caught hold of him and hurried him out before he had time to close the trade. Once down stairs he got him into his coupe, and insisted on his going to his store with him. He hurried him up-stairs to the lace department, took out an especial pattern and said: “ Now, that’s what you want to buy for your wife I ” and he sold it to him. At this very time Stewart was worth millions, and would have given the friend he had cajoled into buying, twenty times the price of the lace, but the selling instinct was stronger in him than anything else. I learned from my informant that Stewart’s body had never been recovered. Judge Hilton could have had it at almost any time, provided he would have paid the required ransom. He refused to do this, however, on the ground that if he did so the business of grave-n bbing, having proved profitable, would have become popular among thieves.— 2Vew York letter.

What the Moon Does.

'‘Professor Legate, of this city,” says the Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise, “has been experimenting for some time for the purpose of ascertaining what effect the moon has upon fish, and the result of his investigations goes to substantiate what old fishermen have always said, namely, that it spoils them. The rays of light, or something carried in the rays, cause the fish to decay very rapidly. Even catfish, all alive and kicking when exposed, were in a bad state in a few horns. Professor Legate is a firm believer in the influence of the moon on man or all things mundane. The atmosphere being attracted by the moon the same as the waters of the ocean, only to a much greater extent, he is of the opinion that effects are produced by the aerial tide which are generally attributed to other causes. A gentleman in this city, hearing of the fish experiments, says that some years ago, while on the west coast of Africa, he one night slept on the deck of a vessel under the rays of a full moon, and the result was that he was totally blind for three days. The bad effect of the rays of the moon appears to. have been known or at least suspected ages ago. In the Bible, in Psalms, we read: ‘The sun shall not smite thee, by day, nor the moon by night.’”

An Effective Poem.

It is a common saying in Washington that the most eloquent speeches in Congress influence no votes. Each member votes with his party, and is indifferent to facts, or logic, or pathetic appeals from the leaders of the other side. Oliver Wendell Holmes, however, enjoys the rare credit of changing the policy of the Jackson administration, not by a speech, but by a poem. The frigate Constitution, the most famous vessel in the American navy in the war with England, 1812-15, was an old hulk in Boston harbor, and it was decided to take her to pieces, and put any good timber in her to other uses. Boston patriotism was roused by this report, for the Constitution was looki d upon as a specimen of New England skill, and a monument of Yankee courage. Dr. Holmes, then an enthusiastic young man, fresh from college, shared the general fervor, and put it into a ringing poem, called “ Old Ironsides.” The poem became very popular, and was copied in all the papers of the land. It was struck off on hand-bills and circulated freely in Washington. The administration did not care to resist the popular feeling, and the orders to break up the old frigate were countermanded.

The Queen of Home.

Honor the dear old mother. Time has scattered snowy flakes on her brows, plowed deep furrows on her cheeks, but is she not sweet and beautiful now? The lips are thin and shrunken, but those are the lips which have kissed many a hot tear from the childish cheeks, and they are the sweetest lips in the world. The eye is dim, yet it glow’s with the soft radiance that can never fade. Ah, yes, she is a dear old mother. The sands of life are nearly rim out, but, feeble as she is, she will go further and reach down lower for you than any other upon earth. You cannot enteri a prison whose bars can keep her out I you cannot mount a scaffold too high lor her to reach that she may kiss and bless you in evidence of her deathless love when the world shall dfespise and forsake you; when it leaves you by the wayside to perish unnoticed, the dear old mother will gather you in her feeble arms and carry you home and tell you all your virtues until you almost forget your soul is disfigured by vices. Love her tenderly, and cheer the declining years with holy devotion,—■/’cople’s Journal.

JOB PRINTINB OFFICE Km better (acOltiee then any office In Korthweelen Indiana for the execution of all branchee of JOB PRINT INO. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, firm a Dodger to a PriMUet, or from ■ runphlet to a Porter, black or oolored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION

Viva Voce Voting.

To establish a system is a service not more distinguished than to prevent its subversion. “ I desire no more illustrious fame,” said Tully, “than to have inscribed on the tablets of the republio that Cicero preserved it” When the subversion of a political fabric is threatened by practices repugnant to the theory of its existence and incorrigible without superseding the agencies which make them possible, is it not wise to consider the possibility of averting the peril by £be substitution of agencies less capable of such perversion? The political system of the Constitution is theoretically founded in popular consent, whence its vitality and vigor arc supposed to be drawn through the free and fairly ascertained expression of public opinion. The agency employed for collecting this expression is the ballot box. The facilities which experience has shown it to furnish for thwarting and defeating the electoral will are multifarious. Among them are the following: The seizure and destruction of ballots prepared for the use of voters; false ballots printed in the similitude of genuine; the stuffing of ballot boxes; the fraudulent exchanging and substitution of ballots after they have lieen cast; colonization and repeating; the destruction of ballot boxes; the objections of ballots and returns on purely technical grounds; the fraudulent counting of ballots and false returns—these are some of the methods incident to the ballot which are employed to defeat the popular judgment. They are not all common to, yet some of them are possible, in every locality. The opportunity is greater in some than in others.. The disposition to practice is commensurate with the disregard of right. . „ , , Statutory restraints are ineffectual. Rejecting false ballots only disfranchises the elector, which but half corrects the wrong. The crimes against and frauds upon the ballot box may be detected and punished, but their consequences are generally without remedy. They can rarely be corrected, except upon the testimony of the perpetrators, which is, as unreliable as the crime is flagrant. Hie possibility and unrestrained continuance of these practices must sooner or later bring elective government into merited contempt or terminate its existence in violence. With a view to elicit popular discussion, the inquiry is suggested whether in national elections an approximate, if not a complete, remedy for these practices may not be furnished by the substitution of viva voce voting for the ballot. Hoary custom is obstinate, innovation regarded with disfavor. The wisdom that shall devise and the courage that shall give effect to elective methods free from the possibility of these subversive practices will merit the distinction which Tully deemed illustrious.— Cincinnati Gazette.

Fonetik Reading.

The komparison ov the fonetik method ov reading with the old romanik iz almost Kk the komparison ov evrithing with nuthing. In the fonetik sistem wo kan read eni word we f£nd with perfekt eaz. In the romanik sistem wo are not shure ov the pronunsiashu ov even the komon wurds ov the langwaje. It takes seven long years tu learn tn bo but a poor speler, az it wer, in the romanik sistem; and but three dayz, after mastering the alfabet, tu learn tu be a kompleto speler in the fonetik sistem. Kompnir three dayz with seven yearz. This reprezentashn iz not overdrawn; but tu fairli understand it, it iz nesesarktu not konfound speling with pronnnsiashn. Pronunsiashn iz wun thing and speling iz another. If wun noez how tu pronouns the wordz ov the langwaje, he may learn tu spel them fonetikali in a few onrz after mastering the alfabet; but in the old sistem it rekwXrz about az long tu learn the speling az the pronnnsiashn. If the langwaje wur printed fonetikali the speling wud oknpjf skarsli eni tAin at all, and the pronunsiashu mXt be loarnd three t.fmz az fast az at prezent. This wud be a saving ov more than has the tAm now uzed in learning the langwaje, nearli all the in speling, and nearli wun forth the spase in print. In point ov ekonomi, nashonah konsidered, it wud be a saving ov milyonz ov dolarz annuli. Enuf tu reprint all ov the valubl old books meni t.fmz over. The importaiis ov speling reform shud not be overlookt, and no wun shud refuze tu nsXn himself praktikali tu the moovment. Each siibskr.fber for a paper shud rXt, s£n and send the soloing petishn tu its editor. “We rekwest the editor ov the paper for which we subshrub tu insert az much az wun kolum ov fonetik print, in each number, for the purpus ov teaching pronunsiashn and asisting in the jeneral in trodukshn ov a true sistim ov orthografi.”—W. 11. Gra-am.

Comfort Ahead.

A Detroit lawyer was waited upon by a woman about 45 years of age, who announced that the time had come when she would no longer put up with the conduct of her husband, and she had decided to secure a divorce. Some inquiries were made and questions answered, and she promised to return at certain time and pay a fee and set forth her petition. She appeared before the attorney on the appointed day, and announced her intention of withdrawing all proceedings for divorce. “Has your husband promised to do better ? ” inquired the lawyer. “ Oh, yes. I think he’ll lead a very different life hereafter.” “ Well, I’m glad of it. What has he promised to do? ” “ Well, I told you I was earning $4 a week at the wash-tub, and he was using up every cent of it in cards and drinks ? ” “Yes.” “ I had stood it as long as I could, sir, and so I came to you. When he found what I had lieen up to, he was willing to make promises.” “ And how did you fix it?” “Well, sir, I keep right on washing and earning $4 a week, but, instead of taking all my money away, he has promised to get along on 82.50 a week and leave me 12 shillings to run the house and buy clothes I 80, sir, you will stop the divorce, and I think I see happiness and comfort ahead. ”

Likewise and Also.

Judge Thatcher, who succeeded Mr. Quincy on the bench in Boston, was a man of stern and unbending temper. One of the prisoners, in addressing the court previous to sentence, used the words “ also” and “ likewise ” in a way which implied a difference of meaning. “Do you know of any difference, prisoner, between ‘also* and ‘likewise? asked the Judge. “Yes, your Honor,” replied the criminal. “ Judge Quincy, your predecessor, was patient, kind, courteous and gentlemanly. You are a/Judge, also, but not likewise," . ,