Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A Dublin dispatch says: Although terrorism has not diminished in the West and South of Ireland, there is. in other particulars, a decided change for the better in all parts of the country. The Government is fully alive to the plans of the Fenians, and is prepared to defeat them. The tenants of several estates heretofore refusing to pay rents are now paying. Seventeen persons perished by an explosion in the Whitfield colliery in Staffordshire, England. The Home-Rulers have decided to carry into the great towns of England and Scotland the agitation against coercion. The steamer Bohemian, from Boston for Liverpool, was wrecked in Dunlough bay, and thirty-two persons drowned. She had a cargo of bacon and cotton. Orders have been given to treat Davitt with possible indulgence. He is to be kept »part from otner convicts, and will not be subject to prison labor, though he must wear the prison garb. in consequence of a serious disagreement with King Alfonso in regard to refunding the debt, the members of the Spanish Ministry have tendered their resignations. Brennan, Secretary of the Irish Land League, is coming to America to collect money. Walsh, another Treasurer, is going to Australia for the same purpose. The steamer Bohemian, which was wrecked off the coast of Ireland, was valued at $500,000, and her cargo was worth half that amount. The Skuptschina of Servia has resolved to close all the monasteries. The British troops have again been defeated by the Boers, in South Africa. The Archbishop of Dublin has replied to the Pontifical letter concerning the Irish agitation, claiming that pernicious laws for centuries have reduced the people to the extreme of misery, and the abrogation of the cruel statutes is demanded ; that while deplorable acts and speeches have blackened a just cause, it must not be forgotten that the people have despaired of justice. The publication of the Russo-Afghan correspondence reveals the fact that a secret treaty was made by which Russia bound herself to perpetual friendship with Afghanistan, and undertook to assist the Ameer against foreign enemies. Two months later the Russian Foreign Minister wrote to the Afghan Foreign Minister, advising him to make peace openly with England, but in secret to prepare for war. A plan for inciting the Mohammedans in India to rebellion is also revealed. It is a significant fact that the dates of the documents are all subsequent to the date of the Berlin treaty, which professedly settled the differences between Eng'and and Russia. At a fair in Killkeely, Ireland, the people stoned the police, and at Ballyhanis the police charged a crowd with bayonets. The distress is so great among the Ural tribes in Russia that they are selling their male children for grain and leaving their girls to perish. Twelve of the Home Rule party are to proceed to Ireland and hold meetings after the passage of the Coercion act, thus inviting arrest. News is received of the capture of Lima by the Chilians on Jan. 15, after two desperate battles, in which the losses are said to have been 16,000 men. The Chinese quarter ol the city was burned by the Peruvians before the surrender. The Christians of Macedonia are leaving on account of ill-treatment Baroness Burdett-Coutts and William L. Ashmead Bartlett were married last week, in Christ Church, London. Mr. Bartlett will assume the name of Burdett-Coutts before his own A great lawsuit will result from the wedding. Should the decision be adverse to the Baroness, she will still have about $lO,000,000 left An Irish Land Leaguer named Habon has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for making a treasonable speech. Eleven out of thirteen Socialists on trial in Vienna, Austria, for high treason were acquitted. The remaining two were sentenced to imprisonment one for four years and the other for six months. Several regiments of all arms have been ordered to Natal to take the places of the men killed by the Boers. Parnell and six of his associates in the Land League held a council in Paris in regard to the funds of the organization. Garibaldi was chosen President of a universal-suffrage convention at Rome. A leading French journal agrees with Secretary Sherman that the present proportion of 15X to 1 between gold and silver should be abandoned. Bismarc x has declared in favor of a double standard.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

JECastTiie arched roof of the old New York Central depot at Buffalo gave way beneath an accumulation of snow, and fell, burying in its ruins a large number of cars and several human beings. Henry Walters, private secretary to Superintendent Tillinghast, of the New York Central road ; William Wells, clerk of Car Inspector Howe, of the Lake Shore road; Capt. Byrns and two others were crushed to death, and several other persons received serious injuries. The clearings in New York in January were the largest ever known in any month by nearly $400,000,000. A new banking institution, to be called the United States Bank, is expected to commence business in New York early in the spring. Among the Directors of the new bank are Gen. Grant, Logan 0. Murry, late President of the Kentucky National Bank, W. R. Travers and it. Victor Newcomb. At Rock Hill, on the North Pennsylvania railroad, during a dense tog, * passenger train crashed into a freight just entering upon a siding. Two men were instantly killed, four fatally injured, and four seriously. The button shop of the Scoville Manufacturing Company, in Waterbury, Ct., was destroyed by fire. -The loss is estimated at $200,000. President Hayes was the guest of the Baltimore Press Association at its annual banquet Charles Edward Forbes, Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 1848, died in Northampton, aged 85. The venerable Judge Ezra Wilfcinson, of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is about to resign. The Canal-Boat Owners’ Association of New York has adopted a resolution urging upon the Legislature the abolition of all tolls upon west-bound freight

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME V.

The Northampton bank robbers—Draper, Red Leary and Billy Conners—are constantly guarded by armed men. The bank will give the thieves SIOO,OOO for the return of the other securities. Gen. Herman Uhl, business manager of the New York Stoats Zeiiung, accidentally shot himself while cleaning a loaded revolver. He died within half an hour. Charles Colton, Treasurer of the Dollar Savings Bank at Hartford, Ct., whose death is announced, was the seventh in direct line from one of the pilgrims who came to Massachusetts bay in 1640. Peter Cooper’s 90th birthday received fitting celebration in New York. He sent a check for SIO,OOO to the trustees of the Cooper Institute. tank of the Standard Oil Company, at Bayonneport, N. J., exploded and took fire, several thousand barrels of naphtha being consumed. Wait. ’ Aunty Jackson, a negress, aged 112 years, has just died at Normal, 111. John Foerster, a 16-year-old boy, of Kossuth, WlB., committed suicide by hanging. A fire at Omro, Wis., destroyed onehalf of the business part of the town, including ten stores, a planing-mill, Thompson & Hayden’s carriage works and a large business block. The loss is not less than $260,000. J. C. Ferguson & Co.’s extensive pork-house, at Indianapolis, has been destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at $500,000 ; insurance, $385,000. A collision on the Ohio and Mississippi road, near Owaneco, 111., killed three laoorers and wounded several others. Sitting Bull is again located at his old camp at Woody Mountain, British Territory. The population of Indiana is classified thus : Total census, 1,978,362, of whom 1,010,676 are males and 967,686 females, and 39,268 colored, including 233 Indians and half-breeds, thirty-three Chinese, and four Japanese. Several Chicago grocers have been arrested and fined for selling bogus butter. A fleeing band of Apaches was thor>ughly whipped by a party of New Mexicans, vho killed eight and sent the remainder off in not baste for the frontier. Four men were swept into eternity by the explosion of fire-damp in Warner’s coalbank, Robbins Station, Ohio, and five other* were badly injuied. The details of a drunken tragedy come over the wires from New Mexico, where Julian Vigil chopped his wife and daughter into pieces, mortally wounded his son, and hanged himself to a rafter. • The interior of the “"Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, in Chicago, was destroyed by an incendiary fire. The loss was about $50,000. Six laborers were burned to death by an explosion in the Belmont mine, near Helena, M. T. Omaha is to have a grain elevator with a capacity of 600,000 bushels. The Union Pacific railway will subscribe $60,000 toward its construction and leading citizens have pledged $40,000. > ’ After an extended tour in “ furrin jarts,” the well-known comedians Baker and Ferron appear at McVicker’s Theater, in Chi sago, in a new comedy entitled the “ Emigrants.” It is said to be very amusing, and ias made a great hit abroad. The engagement of Sig. Tominas Salvini will »egin at McVicker’s Theater, on Feb. 11. The programme for the week will be as ollows: Monday, “Othello;” Wednesday, Hamlet; ” Thursday, “The Gladiator Saturday evening, “Othello.” On Tuesday and Friday evenings and Wednesday and Saturday natinees, the Boston Globe Theater company .vill perform, during the Salvini season, the atest London and New York success, “The Guv’nor.” South. The steamship Josephine, running between Havana and New Orleans, was wrecked near Ship island, the passengers and crew being rescued after floating in small boats for •even hours. The Southern Oil Works, in Memphis, •vere destroyed by fire. The loss was $125,000. A loss of $85,000 was incurred at Denion, Tex., by the burning of Kuhn’s grocery louse, Goodsell’s dry-goods establishment, a*d she Herald office. The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad was sold at auction at Richmond, Va., mder a decree of the United States Circuit Jourt. Clarence H. Clark, of Philadelphia, be. :ame the.purchaser for himself and associates or $8,605,009. The intention is to use the •oad as a section of a grand trunk line from the leaboard to the West and Southwest Green Jackson, colored, was hanged at Marion, Crittenden county, Tenn. A land-slide at the tunnel near Ashville, N. C., was being removed by a force of twenty convicts, when a large mass of earth ell into the cut, burying the whole number. Four of the men were killed, several others sustained serious injuries, and some of them ire expected to die. The murder of F. H. Petterson, of Jfadison, Fla., by a negro named Savage, created intense excitement The assassin was lent to jail, and the Governor sent two militia companies to keep guard over him. A volcano has been discovered in the Allegheny mountains, in Fayette county, Va. Steam rises in considerable volume, and stone 3 hrown in were heard plunging down the abyss for several seconds.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The official census footings for the State of Pennsylvania are as follows : Males, 2,136,635; females, 2,146,151. Native, 3,695,253 ; foreign, 587,533. White, 4,197,106; colored, 85,680, including in the State 16 Chinese, 8 Japanese, 168 Indians and half-breeds, and 2 East Indians. Total, 4,282,786. The Senate Committee on Territories authorized Senator Saunders to report with a recommendation for its passage the bill for creating the Territory of Pembina, to consist of the northern half of Dakota. It is reported that Speaker Randall is firmly opposed to any greater rate of interest than 3 per cent in the refunding measure, and that in the conference committee appointed by him no compromise will be thought of.

POLITICAL POINTS.

A Washington telegram says : “It now seems impossible that the nomination of Mr. Matthews can be gotten out of the Judiciary Committee. Itis learned positively that Senator Edmunds opposes his confirmation. This leaves Mr. Matthews with but two friends on the committee. Senator Thurman told a Democratic member of the House that this was the most painful public duty he had ever performed, but the growing sway of railroad corporations warned him

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1881.

that Mr. Matthew* should not be elevated to the Supreme bench, which is the last resort the people have against the grasping corporation*.”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

The steamer California brought to San Francisco specimens of gold quartz from Alaska which assay $3,000 to the ton. The new Eldorado is eighty miles north of Sitka. One man was killed and six injured by the explosion of a drill boiler at the Welland canal, near Humbertstone, Ont. Of the 85,855 immigrants who landed in Canada last year, 47,270 proceeded to the United States. The extraordinary weather of the current season culminated on Saturday, the 12th last., in one of the most furious snow-storms ever known throughout the Western States, and in heavy rains, consequent floods, and extensive damage in the Eastern States. The rains in the East, following the partial thaw, swelled the rivers, and all the principal cities along the Potomac, the Pennsylvania rivers, and other streams, had their streets turned into temporary canals. The extraordinary sight was witnessed in Washington city of tow-boats employed in transferring passengers along Pennsylvania avenue Three spans of Long bridge was washed away. At Toledo, Ohio., the water in the streets was five feet high. Boats, barges and schooners were caught in the ice gorges, and many of them were sunk. Trains could not leave, as the tracks were flooded or strewed with debris, the bridges dangerous or swept away. Several freight cars lying on the tracks were submerged and their contents damaged. From Trenton, N. J., it is reported that the’ ice on its way down the Delaware river crushed everything in its track. Bridges on country roads and railroad bridges were swept away by thousands throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. An iron span 200 feet long and weighing 400 tons, belonging to the Pennsylvania railway bridge at Toledo, was thrown by the ice directly into tho channel of the Maumee river. Reports on Monday are as follows : “The flooded districts report a material improvement in condition. The streets of Washington are again passable. The Maumee has fallen nearly two feet at Toledo, but trains are forced to take a circuitous route. The Ohio river touches the curb at the foot of Main street in Cincinnati. Gen. Cyrus Bussey urges., that 10,000 men be set at work on the levees at New Orleans. Deadwood reports three feet of snow and a blinding storm. On the Burlington road in lowa the snow is as high as the car-tops.” The police of Montreal have traced out several mysterious burglaries by finding a grocer’s wagon at the door of a wholesale house at midnight. The grocery proved to be only a fence for the stolen •• goods, of which large quantities were recovered.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS.

The United States Senate took up the letter of the Secretary of the Interior in relation to census frauds in South Carolina, on the moaning of Monday. Feb. 7. Messrs. Butler, of South Carolina, and Conkling, of New York, got into a rather personal altercation over the matter. Replying to the language contained in a speech by Mr. Conkling, during the campaign, Mr. Butler spoke of its charges and insinuations as being as malignant in their purpose against the South as the heart that inspired their utterance, axd asserted that, although the evidence of the correctness of the census figures was conclusive and overwhelming of rhe author’s charge, he had not had the honesty to make amends for his dishonorable perversions. Mr. Conkling replied to Mr. Butler that he inferred that the latter had designed his as an assault upon him for something he had said in a speech last September. He thought that Mr. Butler had taken a long time to reply. As for the vaporings of that Senator he had no concern. Mr. Butler—The swaggering insolence of the Senator from New York has no concern for me. Mr. Conkling—The Senator is a person with whom I do not choose to bandy words or epithets here or elsewhere, least of all here. The subject was then dropped. In a debate on the District bill, Mr. Thurman declared that he would vote for licensing the sale of liquor. Senators Hamlin and Thurman were appointed tellers for the Senate in the electoral count meetiirg. C< nsideration of the Pension Appropriation bill occupied the remainder of the session. The House refused to suspend the rules and pass a resolution to appoint a commission to report a basis for a reciprocity treaty with the British provinces. The River and Harbor bill received a similar refusal. Bffls were introduced: By Mr. . Washburn, of Minnesota, providing that railroid companies can occupy such public lands as they may need for right of way of any proposed line by making entry at the Land Office and paying the Government price; by Mr. Robeson, compelling railroad companies to provide all passenger coaches with axes, fire-extinguishers, etc., and to punish with fines such companies as violate the law;: by Mr. Ford, for distribution of the public lands; by Mr. Turner, a joint resolution that Congress has no power under the constitution to impose a tariff except for the purpose of raising revenue; by Mr. Gillette, a resolution of sympathy for the Irish. The Senate bill passed relative to the non-forfeiture of vessels for breach of the Revenue laws. Messrs. House and Crowley were appointed tellers to make a list of the electoral votes on the part of the House. Mr. Bruce made an adverse report to the Senate on Tuesday, Feb. 8, on the Joint resolution to provide for the enforcement of the eight-hour law. The Pension bill came up in committee of the whole, and an amendment by Mt. Plumb was agreed to, appropriating $200,000 for fifty examiners. Mr. Blair introduced a resolution for a constitutional amendment to prohibit, after the year 1900, the manufacture, sale or exportation of liquors except for medical or mechanical purposes. The credentials of Ptilletus Sawyer, of Wisconsin, and Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, were presented. Senator Conkling Introduced a series of resolutions calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for detailed information as to the administration of the New York Custom House and the working of the civil-service rules there. The resolutions were adopted. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was reported to the House and referred to the committee of the whole. The east gallery was set apart for the use of the families and guests of Senators and members desiring to Ire present at the electoral count. The House went into committee on the Legislative bill, which was considered but not disposed of. Appropriate resolutions on the death of Congressman Farr, of New Hampshire, were adopted. Eulogies were delivered by Messrs. Briggs, Hall, Ray, Bland, Bowman, Sherwin and others. In accordance with the constitution, the electoral votes were opened on Wednesday, Feb. 9, in the Hall of the House, in the manner prescribed by the concurrent resolution adopted a few days ago. Vice President Wheeler and the Senate filed into the Hall of Representatives shortly after 12 o'clock, the former taking a seat beside the Speaker, and the litter being given chairs in the front row of desks. The tellers having taken their places, the Vice President opened the packagei containing the certificates of election and handed them to the tellers, who announced the vote. When the Georgia certificate was read, the Vice President said that, as the vote was cast on a day other than that fixed by act of Congress, the result would not be recorded until it should appear whether the counting or would affect the general result All tho certificates having been opened and read, Senator Thurman announced in the language of the, resolution that if the vote of Georgia be counted the result would be, James A. Garfield 214 votes, and Winfield S. Hancock 155 votes; but if the vote of Georgia be not counted the result would be, James A. Garfield 214 votes, and Winfield 8. Hancock 144 votes. In either case James A. Garfieid had received a majority of all the electoral votes. He made a similar statement regarding the vote for Vice President The Vice President then declared Garfield and Arthur elected for the four years beginning on the 4th of March, and the senate retired to its chamber. The House and Senate passed a resolution setting forth that no further declaration of tho result of the election was necessary. In 'he Senate, Mr. Wallace submitted a resolution calling on the President for information in regard to me naturalization by the United States of natives of Spain. Mr. Windom introduced a bill authorizing the Mexican National Railway Company to construct a bridge to the center of the Rio Grande. The Pension Appropriation bill was passed. On motion of Mr. Voorhees, the joint resolution granting condemned cannon to the Morton Monumental Association passed. The House passed the Legislative Appropriation bill. A bill was passed by the United States Senate on Thursday, Feb. 10, appropriating $200,000 to purchase ground and erect thereon a depository of Government records. Messrs. J'endleton, Anthony and Bayard were appointed a committee to make arrangements for the inauguration. Ml . Blair introduced a bill containing most of the provision* of the “ Sixty-Surgeon*” bill, which

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waa excluded from the Pension appropriation bill on * point of order. Some minor matters having been disposed of, the Postal bill was taken up. An attempt was made to amend it by inserting an item of $1,000,000 to aid in the establishment of American lines of iron steamers. Mr. Voorhees presented a concurrent resolution of the Indiana Legislature for an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the improvement of the Kankakee river. Some private pension bills passed. In the House. Mr. Reagan succeeded in having the River and Harbor bill taken up, and appealed for its passage without amendment, A long del ate upon the provisions of the bill took place, lasting the whole session; which was enlivened by a “ flare up” between Messrs. Reagan and Cox. in which some hard things were said by both. Mr. Cox finally expressed regret at his show of temper, and the cloud blew over. Mr. Murch offered a resolution, which was adopted, ordering investigation into the “Influence” reported to have been used upon members of Congress by the Washington Gaslight Company in regard to their contract for lighting the city and public building*. The House bill granting public land* in Dakota, Arizona, Montana and Wyoming Territorie* for university purposes wu passed by the Senate on Friday, Feb. 11. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to take into consideration the danger arising from the presence of large bodies of armed State militia at Eresidential inauguration*. In a personal statement Mr. Dawes declared that Secretary Schur* hid stood in the way of all redress to the Poncas. Mr. Conkling submitted a resolution of Inquiry as to the collection of toll* on the Kanawha river. Senator Wa’lace urged a return to th a district system of voting for President. A test vote on the Postoffiee Appropriation shows that the steamship subsidy of $1,000,000 will pass. The session of the House was devoted to private bills, among them being one to make Indianap .lis a pe rt of delivery. An ineffectual attempt was made to put through the Chicago lake-front measure. The Committee on Appropriations reported in favor of the appropriation for the Jeannette search expedition. The credentials of Senators-elect Flatt, of New York, and Bayard, of Delaware, were presented to the Senate, on Saturday, Feb. 12. Mr. Morgan, ou behalf of the committee having charge of the matter, stated that no proposition re ative to the election of Piesidents and Vice Presidonts.would be reported this session. Mr. Kernan reported favorably the joint resolution inviting foreign nations to take part lu the international exhibition. A bill was paseed for the protection of officers of the Untied States in the performance of their official duties. Resolutions fixing the hour of meeting hereafter at 11, and limiting debate on motion to take up a bill or resolution to fifteen minutes, and five minutes to each speaker, were adopted. Tho postal bill was taken up, and Mr. Hamlin’s amendment, appropriating $1,000,000 for ocean mail service, was ruled out Tho bill was discussed until the discovery was made that no quorum was present The House of Representatives, by an almost-unanl-mons vote, tabled the bill in aid of the Tehuantepec Ship railway. The bill regulating the imports of materials used in the construction or repair of vessels engaged in the foreign trade was slightly amended and passed. 1 he Senate bill amending the charter of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank passed. The River and Harbor bill was taken up, and three of its forty pages were disposed of.

Church Keno.

While the most of our traveling men, our commercial tourists, are nice Christian gentlemen, there is occasionally one that is as full of the old Nick as an egg at this time of year is full of malaria. There was one of them stopped at a country town a few nights ago where there was a church fair. He is a blonde, good-natured looking, serious talking chap, and having stopped at that town every month for a dozen years, every-body-knows him. He always chips in towards a collection, a wake or a rooster fight, and the town swears by him. He attended the fair, and a jolly little sister of the church, a married lady, took him by the hand and led him through green fields, where the girls sold him teu cent chances in saw dust dolls, and beside still waters, where a girl sold him sweetened water with a sour stomach, for lemonade, from Rebecca’s well. The sister finally stood beside him while the deacon was reading off numbers. They were drawing a quilt, and as the numbers were drawn all were anxious to know who drew it. Finally, after several numbers were drawn it was announced by the deacon that number fifteen drew the quilt, and the little sister turnes to the traveling man and said, “My, that is my number. I have dram it. What shall I do?” “Hold up your ticket and shout keno,” said he. The little deaconess did not stop to think that there might be guile lurking in the traveling man, but being full of joy at drawing the quilt, and ice cream because the traveling man bought it, she rushed into tho crowd towards the deacon, holding her number, and shouted so they could hear it all over the house, “ZUeno/” If a bank had burst in the building there couldn’t have been so much astonishment. The deacon turned pale and looked at the poor little sister as though she had fallen from grace, and all the church people looked sadly at her, while the worldly minded people snickered. The little woman saw that she had got her foot into something, and she blushed and backed out, and asked the traveling man what keno meant. He said he didn’t know exactly, but he had always seen people, when they won anything at that game, yell “keno.” She isn’t exactly clear yet what keno is, but she says she has sworn off on taking advice from pious I looking traveling men. They call hei little keno.— Peck's Sun.

Cold Winters.

There seem to be no such winters now as there were seventy or eighty years ago, owing, no doubt, to the cutting down in tins country of the native forests, the planting and growth of the towns and cities, and the general development of the land. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, there were il) the Old World some winters bitterly memorable. In Britain, in 1664, the Thames was frozen to the deptii of sixty-one inches, and nearly all the birds in the United Kingdom perished. In 1692 the cold was so intense in Southern Europe, especially in Austria, that wolves were driven by hunger into Vienna, where they attacked beasts of burden and even human beings. Three years later many persons were frozen to death in various parts of Germany. The Cold Winter, as it was called for distinction, occurred in 1709, when all the rivers and lakes in Europe were compactly frozen, and even the sea several miles from shore, and the earth itself from seven to eight feet deep. Birds and beasts fell dead, and thousands of men, women and children perished in their houses. In Southern France nearly all the vineyards were destroyed. The Adriatic was frozen, and much of the Mediterranean in the neighborhood of Genoa and Leghorn, and the lemon and orange groves were blighted in many parts of Italy. During 1716 persons crossed the straits from Copenhagen to the Province of Senia (Luden) on the ice, and horses and wagons likewise. Snow lay ten feet deep in Spain and Portugal during 1740, the Zuyder Zee was covered with ice thick enough to bear a multitude of people, and four years after snow measured on a level twenty-three feet in Portugal. In 1771 the Elbe was frozen to the bottom, and in 1776 the Danube showed ice below Vienna eight to ten feet thick.— New York Times. In pulpit eloquence the grand difficulty lies here : to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too. highly of his Prince, nor too humblv of himself. This is that secret art which captivates and improves an audience, and which all who see will fancy they could imitate, while most who try will fail.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Satubday, Feb. 6.—Senate.—Bills were introduced : Appropriating $’20,000 annually to Pardue University; looking to the establishment of homes and school* for children now in the poor-house; increasing the pay of the Speaker of the Houte to $lO per diem ; Creat ing a board of thirty inspectors for the benevolent institutions, to serve without pay. and six members to be women ; providing that ail ministers of the gospel of good moral standing, and graduates of a reputable theological college, shall have the right to preath in this State, and any minister of reputable character, but not a graduate, who has preached for ten consecutive years, may continue to preach. A committee was directed to inquire into tho feasibility of selling University Park. House.—The House fought for several hour* over a resolution admitting Meuser to the Soldiers’ Home. It was finally adopted. A strong pressure developed for tbe passage of what is known as the Bridge law, permitting cities to issue bonds to insure construction, etc., but no definite action resulted. A bill was introduced requiring courts to commit girls under 16 years of age to the Female Reformatory, instead of the county jH.iL. Monday, Feb. 7.—Senate.—The Senate passed the session wrestling with the bill providing for the resubmission of the constitutional amendments. The bill, however, was ordered engrossed, and made the special order for to-morrow afternoon. House. —About twenty new bills were introduced, among which were: Abolishing the Grand Jury system, and bringing prosecutions before Justices of the Peace, and thence on appeal to the Criminal Circuit Court; establishing a whip; ing-post for wife-beaters; providing lor the separation of the Department of Geology from tho Bureau of Statistics ; enacting a homestead exemption law, for $1,500 in real estate and SI,OOO in personal property where the debtor is the head of a family, and in other cases S3OO in books or tools when the debtor is not a family man. Tuesday, Feb. 8. —Senate. Th* Senate passed the day considering bills on second leading. A resolution was adopted fixing on Friday morning to take a vote on the bill calling a Constitutional Convention, and resubmitting the amendments. A concurrent resol vtion was also adopted calling a joint convention on Friday for the election for a Prison Director. House.—A considerable and somewhat heated debate was developed upon Ryan’s Compulsorv Education bill. It abolshes separate schools for colored and white children. The Legislature will visit the Normal School at Terre Haute on Thursday. A resolution was adopted enlarging the scope of the investigating committees of the several benevolent institutions so as to inquire concerning the selection of officers thereof. Wednesday, Feb. 9.—Senate.—The Senate passed the bill authorizing counties to establish homes and schools for dependent child ren otherwise confined in poor-houses, and rejected the measure empowering the Governor to appoint the Trustees and Directors of the various benevolent and reformatory institutions. A bill passed authorizing counties to construct free gravel roads by issuing bonds not exceeding SIO,OOO, running eight years at 6-per-cent. interest, the bonds to be redeemed by an assessment on the property along the line of the road. The Insurance Commission submitted a lengthy report and bill making au entire change in tho law concerning the organization and management of home insurance companies, the effort being to favor the organization of home companies at every point. A bill passed limiting the time that cities may contract with water-works companies to five years, and authorizing a tax levy for water purpose* of 20 cents on the SIOO. House.—After debate on the Compulsory Education bill, the House rejected the minority report unfavorable to its passage, and recommitted the bill for further amendments. The vote on rejection stood 47 to 35. The Bix-Per-Cent. Interest bill was considered in committee of tbe whole, and was made the special order for Friday. The bill giving women the right to vote al Presidential elections was favorably reported upon and ordered engrossed, and the one making women eligible for School Trustees was set down for Friday. The House declined to abandon the one long session for two each day. The Governor gave notice of the reappointment of Marcus R. Sulzer, of Jeffersonville, as Ohio River Commissioner. He was first appointed by Gov. Williams, but removed by Gov. Gray. Thursday, Feb. 10.—Senate.—The Senate unanimously passed the bill relating to guardians and wards. The report of the Revision Committee on tho civil code was made the sp-jcia! order for Wednesday, and the resolution consolidating the two prison boards went over indefinitely. Bills were passed: Abolishing capital punishment; giving the wife of an insane husband control of their property, and authorizing cities and towns to vote aid to manufacturing and mining interests upon petition of two-thirds of the residents. Tho bill for preventing stock running at large failed to pass. The Educational Committee was directed to inquire into the necessities of Purdue University. Senator Brown presented a bill regulating the cost of transportation of freight in this State. House.—Tho Attorney General reported to the House that the suits against ex-Auditor Henderson had been removed to Johnson county, and would be pushed to trial. The State Auditor reported the total cost to the State for the past six years of Perdue University school was $353,665.27. A bill passed giving three months’ additional time to perfect the transfer of railroads purchased iu good faith. A number of bills of minor importance passed. The proposition to exempt indebtedness from the tax-schedule was laid on the table. A lively time was had over the bill for the relief of Silas T. Brandon, Trustee of Jackeon township, Jackson county, but the bill finally passed. A bill also passed,-authorizing counties to appropriate 25 cents per day for the maintenance of children in orphan asylums.

Friday, Feb. 11.—Senate.—The Senate passed the bill providing for the resubmission of the constitutional amendments by a vote of 28 to 22. All the Republicans voted for it. together with Senators Poindexter and Davis, two Nationals, and Senators Woods and Vu he, two Democrats. Then Senator Brown’s bill providing for a Constitutional Convention was taken up and defeated by a vote of 28 to 22. The same Senators voted against it that voted in favor of resubmitting the amendments. Monday, April 4, is the date of the election on the amendments. House.—There was some debate in the House over the bill authorizing the election of women as school officers, and a resolution was adopted in the committee of the whole recommending its passage. A bill was introduced authorizing notaries public to perform the marriage ceremony. The 6 per cent, interest measure was called up, and an effort made to increase the rate to 7 per cent., and also providing against interference with existing* contracts, but the amendment failed, 45 to 39. The Female Suffrage bill was made the special order for Wednesday, and the freetoil road scheme went over until Thursday. Bills were introduced protecting wild game, tinkering with the fees of Clerks and Recorders, and relinquishing the title of the State in the bed of Beaver lake, in Newton county. Bills were passed : Authorizing the Auditor of Dearborn county to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction in relation to school funds ; establishing a Superior Court in Vanderburgh county ; authorizing the sale of State lands in Porter county. In the afternoon both branches met in joint convention, and by a party vote elected Joel J. Finney, of Wayne, Director of the Prison South, and A C. Belson, of Randolph, W. T. Horine, of Lake, and Leopold Levi, of Huntington, for the Prison North. Satubday, Feb. 12.—Senate. —The Senate engrossed the bill increasing the per diem of the Speaker of the House to 810, and indefinitely postponed the proposition making all judgments collectable without relief from valuation or appraisement law’s. Senator Wood’s resolution calling for a survey of the Kankakee swsnip lands for drainage purposes was recommended to lie on the table, but was afterward taken up. A number of bills were advanced a stage, and adjournment followed until Monday afternoon. House.—The Hohse engrossed the wifewhipping bill after voting down an amendment by Lindley, of Hamilton, that the wife injured

shall do the whipping. A bill was introduced recognizing the public school, as suggested by the Revision Committee. Adjourned.

Population of Indiana.

The following statement exhibit* the results of the first count of population according to the schedules returned to the Census Office by the enumerators of Indiana by counties: Counties. Tcf»l. Female. Foreign. CoVd. Adam* 15,985 7,445 1,400 2 Allen 15,766 26,481 9,182 205 Bartholdtnew... 22,777 11.265 1,282 188 Benton 11,108 5,054 1,490 5 Backford 8,021 3,909 193 17 Boone 25,922 12,674 414 237 Brown. 10,264 4,984 121 .• • • Carroll. 18,347 8,896 640 36 Cass 27,610 13,524 2,403 199 Clarke 28,038 14,003 2,450 2,531 C.ay 25,853 12,287 23148 298 Clinton 23,473 11,289 323 69 Crawford 12,356 6,160 210 2 Daviess 21,552 10,601 1,021 302 Deartxirn 26,656 13,230 4,112 54 Decatur 19,779 9,797 994 235 DeKalb 20,225 9,794 1,194 Delaware 22,1/23 11,152 467 215 Duboi* 15.UV1 7,861 2,11® 68 Elkhart 33,454 16,570 2,123 29 Fayette 11,394 5,617 681 240 Floyd 24,590 12,619 3,295 155 Fountain 20,228 9,640 1,191 107 Franklin 20,092 9,995 2,414 11 Fulton 14,301 6,916 605 22 Gibson 22,742 11,134 1,136 1,030 Brant 23,618 11,429 404 864 Greene 24,996 11,400 278 257 Humi.tou 24,809 12,149 316 762 Hancock 17,123 8,379 512 72 Harrison. 31,3'26 10,601 1,048 349 Hendrick* 22,975 10,978 488 403 Henry 24,016 11,894 351 680 Howard 19, >B4 9,647 342 398 Huntington.... 21,805 10,677 1,155 16 Jackson 23,059 11,.188 1,506 312 Jasper. 9,465 4,547 814 .... Jayl? 19,282 9,332 5.58 155 Jefferson 25,977 13,314 2,455 942 Jennings 16,453 8,115 1,2-Jl 402 Johnson 19,937 9,598 344 355 Knox 26,323 12,624 2,091 629 Kosciusko 26,493 12,829 665 45 LaGrange. 15,630 7,570 630 14 Lake.. 15,091 7,239 4,008 1 Laporte 30,976 14,767 7,174 253 Lawrence 18,543 9,095 327 3il Madison 27,531 13,302 • 654 127 Marion 102,780 51,420 14,715 8,015 Mar5ha11....... 23,416 11,301 1,305 9 Martin 13,475 6,51>7 235 16 Miami 24,083 11,717 1,240 240 M0nr0e........ ■ 15,875 7,941 298 345 Montgomery.... 27,316 13,237 7>9 423 M0rgan....... 18,899 9,318 297 Hl Newton 8,167 3,867 . 837 86 Noble 23,007 11,257 1,512 47 Ohio A Orange 14,363 7,108 48 154 Owen ...... 15,991 4,913 303 126 Parke 19,460 9,416 406 290 Perry 16,997 8,372 2,324 207 Pike «... 16,384 8,125 368 27 Porter 17,2'29 7,993 *3,476 29 Posey 20,857 9,919 1,889 953 Pulaski 9,851 4,743 1,122 6 Putnam 22.502 11,053 586 574 Randolph. 26,437 12,896 539 564 Bin ey 21,627 10,470 2,929 150 Bush. 19,238 9,447 500 542 St Joseph...... 33,176 15,957 5,507 285 Scott 8,343 4,673 ■ 155 1C Shelby 25,256 12,2711 775 286 Spencer 22.122 10,819 1,767 1,492 Starke 5,105 2,393 556 .... Steuben 14,644 7,*264 370 8 Sullivan 20,336 9,884 392 146 Switzerland.... 13,336 6,708 380 214 1 ippecanoe.... 35 906 17,507 4,491 306 Tipton 14,402 6,981 295 61 Union 7,673 3,776 290 136 Vanderburgh... 42,193 21,151 8,508 3,833 Vermillion 12,025 5,744 202 74 Vigo 45,656 22,324 4,789 1,501 Wabash 25,242 12,382 945 268 Warren 11,497 5,476 450 19 Warwick 20,162 9,620 1,269 617 Washington .... 18,954 9,397 267 3 Wayne 38,614 19,371 2,878 1,711 Wells 18,442 8,882 585 5 White 13,795 °> 543 828 3 Whiteley The State 1,978,362 907,68 G 143,765 39,268 Including in the *tate 33 Chinese, 4 Japanese and 2»1 Indians and half-breeds.

Something Missing.

On a train going up the river was a young man in farmer’s dress, who had his overcoat pockets full of purchases. After inspecting two or three parcels he took the wraps off a 25-cent thermometer and examined the instrument with the closest interest. He looked at the face, then at the back, and the longer he looked the more puzzled he seemed. A gentleman who had been observing him finally remarked : “ Been buying a thermometer, I see ?” “Yes ; I bought her for a neighbor of ours.” “ What’s the temperature in this car just now ?” The young man took a long squint at the thermometer, turned it over two or three times, and then answered: “ It’s about middling, I guess.” Nothing further was said for ten minutes, and the gentleman was busy with his paper, when the other touched his arm and said : “ Say, are you used to thermometers?” “Yes; slightly.” “ Well, I’m a little green, and I’m willing to own up. Seems to me there’s something wrong about this ’ere.” “I guess not; it’s a cheap instrument, but it seems to be all right ” “Well, it maybe, but I had made up my mind there was something missing. I can’t find any keyhole, and if it ever had any hands on the face they’re gone now for sure !” It took about five minutes to enlighten him, and, when he realized “how she worked,” he put it in his pocket with the remark : “I’m going home and tell the old man that none of us know enough to tell when we git chilblains I”

Tom Corwin’s Welcome to His Son-in-Law.

At the marriage of his oldest daughter, Eva, to Mr. George R. Sage, a young lawyer of Cincinnati, Corwin manifested so much feeling that the occasion took more of the aspect of a funeral than of a wedding. During the ceremony he shed tears, and at the supper, after a •prolonged and solemn silence, he suddenly broke out: “Now I want it distinctly understood that this thing is never going to happen again in this house. There will never be another wedding here. I will get a nigger six feet tall, and give him a pole ten feet long, and post him at the front door, and instruct him to knock any young man in the head who comes to see my daughters. ” Gen. Garfield relates that, shortly before Corwin’s death, when he returned to Washington from a flying visit to Lebanon to attend the marriage of his youngest daughter, he referred to this marriage of Eva, and said that he shut himself up in his room for three or four days before it occurred, and could not be persuaded to take any part in the preparations, and only on the most earnest solicitations did he come down to witness the ceremony. He said: “I could not endure the thought of my daughter loving another man betterthan myself; and yet she married a noble fellow. And now the old feeling has returned. I tell you I had a horrible time of it until the ceremony was over.”

The Match Tax.

The cent-a-bunch tax on matches yields the Government a daily income of nearly SIO,OOO. Any one who desires can figure from this, approximately, how many matches are used per day. On the insignificant little bunch of matches is levied by far the heaviest tax known to civilized governments. Your grocer will charge 50 cents for a quarter-gross package. Of this sum 36 cents stands for the tax of a penny a bunch, while 14 cents represents the first cost and the manufacturer’s, jobber’s and retailer’s profits.

$1.50 ner Annum.

NUMBER 2.

POLITICAL NOTES.

It appears that Hayes has been in the habit of drawing his salary monthly in advance, in order to have the use of the monev, and the matter has been kept secret until recently, when somebody at the treasury gave it away. Mr. Hayes was very angry when he found his weakness had been exposed, and has been hunting up the person who told on him with a view to bouncing him out. Whereupon a Washington paper remarks? “And this is the civil-service reformer! This is the man who has prated long and loudly for the need oi greater purity and stricter compliance with the laws in all the departments. This is the psalm-singer who affects the societv of godly men, and whose sycophantic admirers laud him for the * purity’ of his administration. This, in short, is R. B. Hayes.” The same.— Peck's Sun. It is hardly worth while to call an honorable Senator to account for words spoken on the stump, otherwise Butler, of South Carolina, is on the right track in attacking Conkling for his malignant, outrageous and gratuitous attack upon that State with reference to the census enumeration. Conkling was echoed by the whole partisan press, which was joyous in the mere excuse for firing the Northern heart with the cry that the South was endeavoring to falsify the record in order improperly to increase its representation in Congress. The Superintendent of the Census deprecated any statements of the kind, but his word, which, in ordinary times, would have been received with some regard, was brushed aside and the cry of fraud passed from stump to stump. Since the No vember election it has been found that the enumeration was wholly correct, a special recount having been made to ascertain. The best-provided man in this country just now appears to be Ulysses S. Grant. He starts wittf an admitted income of from $7,000.t0 SIO,OOO, which is enough to keep a moderately-temperate man in toothpicks. Then comes Gen. John A. with his bill to retire Mr. Grant with the full pay of a General; and backing the illustrious “sprout” of Illinois is the Assembly thereof, “instructing the Senators from Illinois and requesting its Representatives ” to go and get that General’s pay for Grant, and no mistake. Comes then the more tangible Philadelphia cash subscription of a round SIOO,000, which will pay import duty on cigars, while the George Jones fund of $250,000 may be employed in the purchase cf those very few meals which the hospitality, the gratitude, and the Ijondevouring instincts of the American people permit him personally to arrange for at his own pecuniary cost. Then there are those Arabian stallions, the gift of the Sultan of Turkey. They are better than a Leadville mine as a source of income. People ambitious to cross their stock with the famous strain are also willing to pay roundly for the chance, and so it happens that the receipts from that source are sufficient to pay the limited amount of transportation for which the General has personally to provide. Altogether, it can’t be said that he’s suffering.— Chicago Times. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, having been aske dby a committee cf Howard University graduates to contribute his mite toward the sum now raised to procure a painting of President Hayes, to be placed alongside of those of the Adamses, replied very savagely to the applicant: “ I decline to join in such a subscription.” He goes on to say: “lam notwilling to do anything that may be designed or construed as a compliment to Mr. Hayes, or that may recognize his tenure to the Executive office at Washington as anything other than an event of dishonor. He was not chosen President. He was defeated in the elections, and then a band of conspirators, Mr. Hayes himself conspiring and contriving with them, setting aside the constitution and the laws, and making use of forgery, perjury and false counting, secured for a time possession of the Presidency to which another man had been elected, and, when he got possession of it, his most sedulous care was to repay with offices and emoluments those authorized managers and agents of the conspiracy to whom he had been chi', fly indebted for its infamous success. Sooner than honorably commemorate such an event, or do public homage to such a man, I beg you, gentlemen, with your own hands first to destroy the portraits of John Adams and John Quincy Adams in Memorial Hall, and then raze to the ground the hall itself. ”

The story that Gen. Garfield had promised to select the Pennsylvania member of the Cabinet from one of three names furnished by Senator Don Cameron is denied by the Lancaster New Era, which says it is able to produce the best sort of evidence to the contrary. This implies that Gen. Garfield has written a letter to somebody on the subject, and the somebody is understood to be Mr. Barker, “the original Garfield man.” The removal of Rutan from the post of Collector at Pittsburgh was one of Hayes’ parting kicks at Cameron, who, by the way, made Hayes by suppressing the Blaine vote of Pennsylvania ; but it is not believed that poor Hayes would have thought of giving the kick just at. this time without some prompting from Mentor. The treaty of Mentor having been negotiated liy Don Cameron, it was surmised for a while that his footing with the new administration would be better than that of some of the other leaders of the Grant forces. It is unfortunate for him that the members of the Pennsylvania Legislature should be undeceived in the very pinch of a struggle for the maintenance of his dynasty. It is Mr. Blaine’s turn now. He has the power to revenge a long list of wrongs ; and if he does not remember 1876 and 1880 it will be a | marvel. The Republicans of Pennsylvania were in both those years heavily for Blaine ; but the Camerons had decreed that he should never receive the votes of the State, and he never did.

A Very Uncommon Mania.

Burton, the traveler, tells us that a melancholy Duke of Muscovy fell ill if he but looked upon a woman, and that another anchorite was seized with a cold palsy under similar circumstances. Here is a case of a lady having an aversion to the opposite sex ; it appeared in the obituary of a newspaper some fifty years ago: “Lately, at Gray’s Almshouses, Taunton, aged 82, Hannah Murton, a maiden lady. She vowed several years ago that no he-fellow should ever touch her, living or- dead. In pursuance of this resolution, about ten jwu

,(£//» fflemocratin a&nfiner JOB PRINTING OFFICE Km better (mOUIm than in, offica tn Vortb*e«tei» Indiana for the execution at aH branchee oi JOB FRINTINTO. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anythin*, from a Dod*er to a Prtoe-Uat, or from • nmphlet to a Footer, black or colorad, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

since she purchased a coffin, in which, whenever the felt serious illness, she immediately deposited herself, thus securing the gratification of her peculiar sensibility." There are many similar cases to this lady’s on record, though they are manifested in a more imperfect way.— Chambers’ Journal.

The American and English Cabinets.

In both the United States and England, the Cabinet, as a body, is unknown to the constitution, and is net officially recognized by the law. Tile name “Cabinet ” never occurs in formal documents; it has gradually come into use, from the fact that in England the King’s advisers were wont to meet and consult him in his private cabinet Each Cabinet officer, however, is officially recognized in both America and England—not as a Cabinet officer, but as the chief of one of the great departments of the executive administration. In this country, such an officer is known as “Secretary ” —the Secretary of State, of the Interior, and so on. In England, the title of Secretary is used for the five highest administrative officers, those of Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs, the Colonies, India, and War. The office corresponding to our Secretaryship of the Treasury, on the other hand, is in England divided between two high officials—the First Lord of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the officer known to us as the Secretary of the Navy is called in England the First Lord of the Admiralty. In England, moreover, there are several Cabinet officers unknown to our own < Cabinet. These are, the Lcrd High Chancellor, the President of the Board of Trade, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the Council, and the Lord Privy Seal. In the United States, the members of the Cabinet are nominated by the President, and are approved or confirmed by the Senate. The President con also remove any one of them at any lime. But in England, the Cabinet is really selected by the Prime Minister, subject to the approval of the Queen; and, though he can remove them, the English Cabinet usually comes in and goes out of office in a body. There are other notable differences between the two Cabinets. In the United States, no Cabinet officer can sit iu either house of Congress. In England, no man can sit in the Cabinet who is not a member of either the Commons or the Lords. With us, the Cabinet officer has two, and only two, functions—as the chief of an executive department, and as an adviser of the President on matters of general policy. With the English, the Cabinet officer adds a third function to these two; for he is a Parliamentary leader, and in the Commons or Lords defends either the policy of his own deSartment, or the general policy of the [inistry of which he is a member. While in the mother country a Cabinet always goes uut of power in a body when the House of Commons casts a vote adverse to its proceedings, in the United States the position of the Cabinet, as a. whole, is quite '(maffected by any vote of either or l>oth houses of Congress. Each English Cabinet officer has his own rank and dignity, while the American Secretaries are officially equal. The salaries of these officers, moreover, differ widely in the two countries. Our Secretaries get SB,OOO a year. The English Prime Minister receives $25,000 a year; so do the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the five Secretaries of State. The Lord High Chancellor has $50,000 a year, and a pension, when he rctjges, of SIO,OOO a year for life. The lowest salary received by an English Cabinet member is SIO,OOO, which is the sum received by the President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the President of the Board of Trade, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. From these differences some idea may be derived of the contrasts which appear between the institutions of the ancient monarchy of England and our own still youthful republic.

Anecdote of Lord Redesdale.

Early one morning he made his way to the mansion of the Earl of Lucan. He had started for the races, and was dressed in sporting garb, his cap put on awry and a cigar between his lips. He rang at the front door, and the Earl’s best man —an exqusite of the first water -answered.the summons. “ Is the Earl at home?” “ No, sir! The Heart is not at ’ome.” He mistook the caller for a sportive servant, very likely seeking Aemployment. “ Do you know if ho has gone to Windsor, my man!” “ No, I don’t know his e as gone to Windsor. But 11l tell you what I do know: You’d be a doin’ of yerself a wast deal o’ credibhif you’d honly just run around to the sign o’ the Bell an’ Crown, hand fetch me a pot of ’glf-an’-’alf.” “ Hall right, where’s vour money? “Wy bless you! I don’t find money for them as I has to hanswerthe bell for. ‘Aren’t you got a sixpenny bit of yer own?” „ , „ . . “I guess I can find one. And away his lordship went, really enjoying the thing, and shortly returned with a tankard of foaming half-an’-half. The valet drank it with a keen relish —emptied the pot—and then offered to return it, with: • , “ There, my good fellow —I m much— But the visitor put the pot bock, and cut the speech short with: “Return the tankard yourself, my man; and when your master returns, bo kind enough to tell him that Lord Redesdale called.” His lordship left the dazed and confounded valet supporting himself against the door-post, the porter-pot fallen to the floor, his face the picture of horror and despair, looking for all the world like one who wished he had never been born!

A New Jury System.

We would suggest that twelve jurors be appointed by the Governor for each circuit, and paid a reasonable salary for a fixed and definite term. This jury would travel about the circuit in the same manner as the Circuit Judge ; they would generally be totally disinterested, and, holding office by appointment, would never decide for political purposes. By experience, such a jury could learn to sift the true from the false testimony in almost every instance ; by practice they would become expert in weighing testimony and judging of the credibility of witnesses. Their verdicts would be sooner rendered, and more often in the right; for their judgment would lie the result of the deliberations of twelve men whose every-day business and study was such as to make their judgment peculiarly quick and accurate in such mat* ters.— Kentucky Reporter.