Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. In the contest on the Thames for the Championship of England, the Sportsman cup, and £I,OOO, Hanlan defeated Laycock by four lengths. A joint-stock company has been formed in Brazil to run a line of steamers between Halifax and Rio de Janeiro, a subsidy of ♦50,000 having been granted at each end of the route. The Russian police have discovered a plot to blow open the arsenal at Kieff, and have made several arrests in connection with the conspiracy. The alarm which prevails in England receives fresh illustration daily. Sir William Vernon Harcourt announced in the House of Commons that James Stephens, the Fenian head-center, had arrived in Paris. It is rumored in Cork that the Fenians in America and the United Kingdom are sending men and money to the Boers. It is reported from Dublin that an attempt to ignite a large dynamite mine under the wall of the Beggar’s Bush Barracks was frustrated by a person passing by chance. The murder of a Christian by a Turk at Beyrout, Syria, has led to several encounters in the neighboring villages. In one of these affairs, ten persons were killed. Italy will participate in the International Monetary Conference to be held in Paris the 19th of April. A dispatch from London says it is proposed that that part of Transvaal to which . the Boers have a fair claim be declared independent, the remaining part to continue under British administration, and that a British Resident be appointed at the Boer capital. The Greek Chamber of Deputies passed the bill for the organization of the National Guard. Several French subjects in Algeria have been murdered by marauders from Tunis. The British Parliament is now over »ix weeks in session, and the principal business it has done is to pass the Irish Coercion act, which it did by a vote of 302 to 4-1. Ayoob Khan has declared war against Afghanistan, and has already occupied Malimund. The importation into France of salt pork, bacon and hams frpm the United States is prohibited. Germany has given its adherence to a plan for an international exhibition of electricity in Paris. The municipality of Marseilles, by a vote of 33 to 1, annulled the decision tq. grant a site for the erection of a statue to Thiers, on the ground that ho was an enemy to radical ideas. At a masked fete of the students ol the Academy of Painting, at Munich, Bavaria, the costumes of several caught lire. Four pupils were burned to death and eight seriously injured. News from South Africa is to the effect that the Boors made overtures for peace through the President of the Orange Free State, asking that the British evacuate the Transvaal and leave its future relations to bo settled by a commission. Gen. Colley agreed to the appointment of Commissioners on condition that hostilities were immediately suspended.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East F. A. McLain started from Bradford, Pa., for Aiken with 200 pounds of nitro-glycer-ine in a cutter. His horse evidently ran away, as after an explosion only pieces of flesh remained of the outfit. A committee of directors of the Permanent Exhibition at Philadelphia voted to sell the building, which was the main structure of the Centennial. The New Jersey oystermen report that the deep ice on the rivers and on the seashore has played havoc with many of the oyster-beds. In the Whittaker court martial, Dr. Alexander, Post Surgeon at West Point, expressed the belief that the negro cadet mutilated himself. The Maine State Senate has declared ’ against woman-suffrage. Jacob Schaefer defeated William Sexton, in New York, in the greatest billiard match ever seen in that city. The game was for *I,OOO, cushion caroms, 400 points up. The Palace Hotel of Buffalo, the most perfect structure of its kind in the United States, and perhaps in the world, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. It was erected three years ago by the Hon. R. V. Pierce, recently member of Congress from the Buffalo district, and cost *500,000. * Judge Charles E. Forbes, who died at Northampton, Mass., has left by will *220,000 to establish a public library. The Hungerford National Bank of Adams, N. Y., has gone into liquidation. William D. Howells will retire from the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly on the Ist of March, that he may be able to devote more attention to other literary work. He will be succeeded by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Wilcox Bros.’ chandlery store and warehouse, at Toledo, Ohio, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $40,000. Gen. Hancock has consented to be present at the inaugural ceremonies in Washington. New York has a police force of 2,579 men, but only 1,709 men are available for night and 1,885 for day duty. Mrs. Ann McCarthy and Mrs. Eliza Martin, of Brooklyn, were fatally burned. The former fell and broke a kerosene lamp, which set fire to her clothing. Mrs. Martin went to her assistance, when her clothing likewise ignited. A mass of ice in the North river carried away nearly seventy-five feet of the piers in New York. The beet-sugar enterprise, at Franklin, Mass., is a failure, and many farmers in that region are heavy losers. The mills will be leased for a term of years for the interest, taxes and insurance upon them. West. At Robinson, O®l., Deputy Marshal Mcllhanny was fatally shot by persons in' ambush. An electric light company, with a capital of $500,000, has been organized in Detroit. It proposes to furnish heat and motive power. Judge Gardner, of the Superior Court of Chicago, decides that Mrs. Rappleye, an illegitimate daughter of the late John 8. Wallace, is entitled to one-third of the estate of deceased. The Illinois Senate, by a vote of 43 to 1, passed the bill imposing upon telegraph companies a tax of 2 per cent, on the gross re-

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The house of Fred Lanyon, on the River Sioux, fifty miles from Sioux City, lowa., was destroyed by fire, and a 10-months-old baby perished in the flames. * Loran V. Kennedy, Postmaster at Fairview, Neb., was lodged in jail at Omaha, pn the charge of robbing registered letters. He has confessed his guilt A loss of $50,000 was incurred at Denver by the destruction of a number of buildings on Cliff street. Mrs. Irene Crandall and her child were found dead in the road near their home in Grant county, Minn. It is thought they were murdered by her husband. Twenty days were consumed in San Francisco in obtaining a jury to try Isaac Kalloch for the murder of Charles DeYoung. Hoxatlx. The Pope has appointed Vicar General Janssens, of Richmond, Bishop of Natchez. J. C. Neerez is to bo Bishop of San Antonio. A tornado sweeping through the pines of North Carolina crushed a rude hut occupied by turpentine makers, killing ten of them and seriously wounding three others. A loss of $50,000 was sustained at Charleston, 8. C., by the burning of two bag factories. The cotton warehouse occupied by Allen & Crawford, in Columbus, Ga., was burned. The loss is estimated at 670,000. A number of Swiss farmers of the better class have determined to settle on land in Eastern Kentucky. A number of the colonists have arrived. The bulk of them will come in April. ' Frank Twiggs, convicted of the murder of William Driscoll, in Burke county, Ga., last November, has been hung at Waynesboro. The wife of William Fowlkes has been found guilty of the murder of her husband and sentenced to be hanged, at Petersburg, Va. Frank Twiggs has been sentenced to death at Waynesboro, Ga. United States Deputy Marshal W. F. Gary, was killed in Ricking county, 8. C., by an illicit distiller named Kelly. A large eagle attacked a boy as he sat at Breakfast iu hii father’s house near Milton, N. C., dragged him out through the open window and tried to carry him off. The fight was a desperate one, and would have ended in the death of the boy had not the bird fatally injured itself by striking its neck upon a sharp stick which stood upright in the ground. The father was attracted to the scene by the boy’s cries, but, thinking the eagle was the devil, ran away as fast as his legs would cany him. The boy -was terribly mangled.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives chose John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, to fill the Chairmanship made vacant by the death of Fernando Wood. The President nominated D. L. Bash, of Illinois, as Major and Paymaster of the Army. The Auditor of Railroad Accounts has sent a communication to the Secretary of the Interior, recommending that the Thurman act be so amended as to compel the Central Pacific railroad to pay into the sinking fund 50 per cent., instead of 25 per cent., of its net earnings. The President has withdrawn the nomination of George H. Forster for District Attorney of New York. It is denied that Senator Grover, of Oregon, is so seriously ill as to prevent his attendance at important sessions of the Senate. The Hon. Hiram Barber, member of the present Congress from Chicago, has been nominated by the President for Receiver of the Land Office at Mitchell, D. T.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Philadelphia municipal election has evidently resulted in a victory of several thousand for<the Citizens’ candidates, Samuel G. King (Democrat) being chosen Mayor and John Hunter (Republican) Receiver of Taxes. Pittsburgh chose for Mayor Robert W. Lyon, the only Democrat on the Citizens ticket, by a majority of 1,500, and elected the Republican candidates for Comptroller and Treasurer. In Allegheny City the Republican nominees -were triumphant. The Greenbackers of Michigan met in State Couvontion at Lansing and nominated Jobnß. Vhipman, of Coldwater, for Justice of the Supreme Court. An unsuccessful attempt was made to remove Moses W. Field from the State Central Committee. A resolution of sympathy with the serfs of Ireland was passed.* The Greenback Congressmen are said to be figuring to organize the next House of Representatives. According to their calculation, the Republicans lack one of a majority, and the Greenbackers propose to vote solidly for their own candidate until the Democrats join them in order to defeat the Republicans. The Bev. J. Hyatt Smith, who was elected to Congress from one of the Brooklyn districts as an Independent candidate, has written to a Republican Congressman to say that he will act with the Republicans in organizing the next House, and on political questions generally. A Civil-Service Association has been organized at Boston. Among the Vice Presidents are Charles Francis Adams, Jr., John M. Forbes, George William Bond, Senator Hoar, President Seelye of Amherst College, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Henry P. Kidder and Martin Brimmer. It will advocate that the work t>f the Government be conducted on business principles: that competent employes shall bo retained in office during good behavior; that office shall not be used to reward political •‘workers,” and the non-interference of Congressmen and Senators in the matter of patronage. Mr. Elliot F. Shephard has been nominated for United States Attorney of the Southern district of New York, in the place of Gen. Stewart L. Woodford. The Republican members of Congress held a caucus to consider the Apportionment bill, and it was developed that the majority favored 319 as the number. A resolution was offered that they insist on the adoption of this number, but it was not pressed to a vote.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Hon. Fernando Wood, of New York, expired the other night, at Hot Springe, Ark. He was born in Philadelphia, of Quaker parents. When but 28 years of age he was elected to Congress, in which he has served ten terms. In 1850 he retired from mercantile pursuits with a fortune, and in 1854 was elected Mayor of New York. He went to the Hot Springs last month, in an enfeebled condition. The ship Nonnanton was lost off the coast of Newfoundland recently, and Chief Mate MoCrtwby and hmiw Dooley were the

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only members of the crew of eighteen who were saved. The exports from New York since the Ist of January, exclusive of specie, are valued at <51,000,000, against $42,000,000 worth during the corresponding period of last year, and $41,000,000 during the same period of 1879. Four desperate convicts escaped from the penitentiary at Kingston, Ont, the other night, after a hot fight with the guards. They obtained civilians' clothing at the prison tailorshop and walked across the St. Lawrence to Cape Vincent, N. Y., where two of the number were recaptured. President Gonzales, of Mexico, has made a grant of 1,500 leagues of land in Sonora to Samuel Bannan, formerly of California, on which to colonize 1,000 families, who are understood to be ready to move into the country from the Eastern and Western States. John Ennis, of Chicago, defeated Rudolph Goetz, of Milwaukee, in a 100-mile race on skates in New York. A race for 61,000 a side has been arranged. Seven thousand men are at work on one section of the railroad from the City of Mexico to Toluca. Seven American prisoners in jail at Paso del Norte, Mexico, shot their guard and made their escape. They were pursued, and a fight took place, in which three of the Americans were killed and two of the guards badly wounded. The other four Americans surrendered. The recently-discovered relics of Sir John Franklin have been offered to the British Government. Detroit seems to be going into the ship-building business. One hundred aud four" teen Glasgow ship-carpenters have come there, and will work in a shipyard. The stock of the Western Union Telegraph is to be watered to 680,000,000. The prospectus of the World’s Fair estimates that 2,500,000 visitors will be attracted to New York, and that they will spend sls each.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Numbers of petitions from temperance organizations in various States praying for a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors were presented to the Senate, on Monday, the 14th inst. Mr. Saunders reported back the bill establishing the Territory of Pembina, and it was placed on the calendar. Mr. Booth reported with a favorable recommendation the resolutions authorizing the payment of prize money to the officers of the Farragut fleet. They were adopted. The postal bill was then taken up, and the steamship subsidy amendment further discussed, and finally laid on the table by a vote of 34 to 14. The bill was then reported to the Senate and passed. The refunding bill waa taken up and informally laid over. The cattle disease bill waa under consideration when the death of the Hon. Fernando Wood was announced, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Stephenson presented the resolutions of the Illinois Legislature relative to railroad discrimination and commerce between States. The Senate amendments to the joint resolution inviting France to join with the United States in celebrating the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown were concurred in. Mr. Hill reported back the resolutions declaring the policy of the United States in regard to the inter-oceanio canals. The House went into committee of the whole on the Senate bid to provide for funding the 8-per-cent. certificates of the District of Columbia, but took no action on the matter. Bills were introduced, fixing the first Monday in November as the time for the assembling of Congress, and to admit free articles intended for the International Exhibition of 1883. Resolutions respecting the death of the Hon. Fernando Wood were passed, and the House adjourned. On the opening of the Senate on the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 15, the Military Committee reported favorably the bill to place Thomas C. Crittenden upon the retired list of the army with the rank and pay of a Brigadier General. Mr. Hereford presented a resolution of the Legislature of West Virginia favoring a law for the regulation of Inter-State railway traffic. Mr. McDonald introduced a resolution relative to the equalization of taxation, which was laid over. The Cattle Disease bill, which was the regular order, was laid aside, and the Funding bill taken up. Mr. Bayard spoke in explanation of the amendments made by the Finance Committee. He advocated a 5-20 bond at 3j< per cent, interest, and opposed the clause making only the new bonds receivable as security for national-bank circulation. The principal debate was in reference to the rate of interest, and it continued without result until the adjournment. The Committee on Elections reported to the House upon the contestedelection case of McC »be versus Orth, from the Ninth Indiana district, confirming Orth’s title to the Beat. It was concurred in. The morning hour was occupied principally by a discussion on a point of order, which was left unsettled. Brief addresses were made on the acceptance of the statue of Jacob Collamer, of Vermont The House then went into committee of the whole on the River and Harbor bill. Several amendments were proposed and rejected, and finally, without action on the bill, the committee rose. As less than a quorum had voted on the last amendment, the Ser-geant-at-Arms was dispatched in search of absent members. Two or three hours passed in a vain attempt to secure a quorum or reach an agreement by which the session mi ,ht be dosed. Finally a recess was taken until morning. The Committee on Foreign Relations reported to the Senate, on Wednesday, Feb. 16, a resolution that the United States Government insists that its consent must be obtained as a condition precedent to the construction of a ship canal or any other work for the transportation of sea-going vessels across the Isthmus of Panama. The Fortifications bill was reported and placed on the calendar. It was resolved to hold night sessions hereafter for the consideration of measures on the calendar. Mr. McDonald, of Indiana, made a speech on the inequality of taxation. He condemned the present tariff system, and defended the freetrade p’ank of the Democratic platform adopted at Cincinnati. A prolonged debate on the Funding bill was next in order, in which Mr. Hereford, referring to the issue of silver certificates, said Secretary Sherman was neither a competent nor a trustworthy adviser. Mr. Allison thought the Secretary of the Treasury should not be restricted to sales at par. Mr. Bayard announced that he would press the measure to a vote next day. The House of Representatives devoted the entire day and night to the consideration of the River and Harbor bill. The opposition to the measure was led by Mr. Updegraff, of lowa, who criticised almost every Item as it was read. Innumerable amendments were offered, but nearly all were rejected. Those which were agreed to were, in most cases, merely explanatory of the manner in which certain appropriations contained in the bill should be expended. In the Federal Senate bills were favorably reported on Thursday, the 17th inst., for Government buildings at Terre Haute, Ind., and Columbus, Ohio. In the debate on the Funding bill, Mr. Logan favored a fixed rate of 3% per cent., and Mr. Cockrell expressed his belief that a 3-per-cent. bond could be floated at par. By a vote of 22 to 33 an amendment favoring 3# per cent, was lost. 'lt was voted that the bonds run from five to twenty years, and that public subscriptions be received. Mr. Kirkwood offered an amendment, which was adopted, providing that the general public be given an opportunity to sut scribe for the new bonds, for thirty days before any c< ntract should be mado with a syndicate. Mr. Voorhees introduced a resolution, wh ch was passed, calling on the Judiciary Comm.ttee to introduce a bill immediately to protect farmers and others from imposition at the hands of patentright swindlers and others of that ilk. The joint resolution was adopted authorizing the placing of books and ornaments in the possession of the Government relating io the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in the Memorial Hall of the national Lincoln Monument atWpringfield, 111. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution authorizing the payment of $3,300 to Frank Hurd, as counsel in the case of Hallett Kilbourne vs. J. G. Thompson, J. M. Glover and others. The River «nd Harbor bill was then taken up and passed by a vote of 163 to 94. The conference report on the Consular and Diplomatic bill was agreed to. The Apportionment bill ckme un. and. after a. short debate, was temporarily laid aside. Mr.' Cox had intended to move the previous question, but, at the request of the Republicans, who wished to consider the bill in caucus, he consented to let the debate run on until Saturday. The conference report on the Pension bill was adopted. A message from the President asking an immediate appropriation to provide for the proper representation of the United States at the international monetary conference was read and referred. $$ The Senate resumed consideration of the Funding bill on Friday, the 18th inst., and agreed to all the amendments adopted in committee of the whole. Mr. Bayard asked action on the Finance Committee amendments, and a vote on that striking out the Carlisle section resulted in ita retention. The amendment increasing the rate from 8 to 8# per wpt, wm voted down. The bill wm than read »

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

third time and passed by a vote of 43 to 20. The River and Harbor bill waa read * second time and referred to the Committee on Commerce, after a vaih effort by Mr. Edmunds to have the committee instructed to reduce the aggregate appropriations to $7,000,000. The District bill appropriating $3,500,000 was passed. The Cattle Disease bill waa taken up and the committee’s amendments adopted, with no action. A bill passed for the construction of a fire-proof building at Columbus, Ohio, to cost $400,000. An attempt waa made in the House of Representatives to take up the Fitz John Porter bill, but it was defeated by a vote of 117 to 114, which disposes of it for this session. A resolution granting to the family of the late Congressman Farr the balance of salary which he would have" received as a member of. the Fortv-sixth Congress, and requesting tbe Forty-seventh Congress to. appropriate SO,OOO on the same plan, was adopted. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Agricultural bill, and Mr. Hurd made a speech in opposition to protection and in favor of a revision of the tariff. Judge Kelley replied, and was followed by Mr. Fulton. The bill was then read and some debate ensued, but the House adjourned without acting upon it. ' A bill was passed constituting Atlanta, Ga., a port of delivery. . In the United States Senate, on Saturday, Feb. 19, Mr. Saunders presented a resolution for the insertion in the River and Harbor bill of $1,138,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi river. The Cattle Diseases bill was taken up, and Mr. Ingalls denounced it as the worst he had ever read on any subject, while Mr. Maxey pronounced it the longest stride toward centralization he had ever seen. In tbe House, Mr. Carlisle reported a bill repealing all laws imposing taxes on bank deposits, checksand drafts, as well as on matches and medicinal preparations. In committee of the whole on the Agricultural Appropriation bill' it was voted that SBO,OOO be eet aside for the purchase and distribution of seeds. An early adjournment was effected in order that members might attend the funeral of Fernando Wood ~ -

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Monday, Feb. 14.—Senate.—The Senate held a short session, and the consideration of the bill authorizing the purchase and maintenance of full-toll roads elicited a spirited discussion. So, also, the bill appropriating 66,000 for the improvement of the Calumet river. Both were engrossed. The customary amount of new bills were introduced, the only one of importance being an act repealing the law enabling counties to aid in the construction of railroads. House.—The House concurred in the Senate amendments to the bills resubmitting the constitutional amendments, and changed the date of popular election from April 4 to March 14. The investigating committee made a report commending the general management of the House of Refuge, and favoring an appropriation of 645,000. A petition was received from numerous mechanics asking that the laboring men be protected from competition with convict labor, as it is impossible for honest labor to survive when contractors can employ convicts at 45 cents per day. Tbe Prison Committee was given permission to’visit the Northern Prison on Wednesday. Tuesday, Feb. 15.—Senate. —The Senate session was interesting to-day, owing to the spirited discussion of several measures, notably the bill providing for the care and maintenance of abandoned children. The bill providing for non-payment of notes secured under false pretenses was engrossed. This measure is specially applicable to notes secured by “ hay-fork ” agents. The bills removing disabilities of coverture were made the special order for Tuesday. The resolution looking to the perpetuation of the memory of Indiana soldiers by a memorial in the State House corner-stone went over until Wednesday of next week. Consideration of semi le suffrage went over until Thursday. The committee made a favorable report on the measure providing that hunting and fishing on the Sabbath shall be considered a special misdemeanor. By a decisive vote the Senate declined to concur in the House resolution to petition Congress to legislate in favor of the Wabash and Erie canal. House. —Forty-four new bills were introduced.' The committee reported favorably on the bill reorganizing the management of the benevolent institutions, and the same was engrossed, A resolution passed calling for an itemized report of receipts and expenditures of the Terre Haute Normal School and the Bloomington University. The new criminal code and insurance bills were introduced. Also bills compelling railroad companies to transport freight in the order in which it is offered for shipment; reducing salaries of Trustees of benevolent institutions to SIOO and prison Directors to $l5O per annum ; authorizing the appointment of a Superintendent and Board of Managers to prepare for the World’s Fair in 1883, and appropriating 620,000; preventing and punishing the adulteration of food, drink and medicines, and constituting the Governor and State officers a Commission en Claims. A resolution favoring the taxation of United States treasury notes was adopted by 43 to 82. Among the claims presented was a demand from Clarke county for money expended in convicting William Kennedy, a prisoner in the penitentiary south, who murdered his keeper. A joint resolution passed asking Congress to open to settlers that portion of Oklahoma not belonging to Indians. Afterward, however, the vote was reconsidered, and the resolution referred to the Committee on Federal Relations.. Mr. Berryman, of Shelby, introduced a bill giving the right to advertise legal notices in whatever paper the person desired, at such prices as are mutually agreed upon. Wednesday, Feb. 16. —Senate. —The Senate was occupied largely in considering the amendments to the code, as reported by the revision committee. The amendatory sections were accepted as a rule. The House joint resolution calling for Government aid to the Wabash and Erie canal was withdrawn from the table and adopted unanimously. The bill establishing a State Board of Health was ordered to be taken up to-morrow. During the session ex-Vice President Colfax appeared upon the floor, and was accorded an exceedingly-flattering reception. House.—Bills were introduced: To appoint State examiners of county office books ; constituting a State board of visitors for the benevolent, penal and reformatory institutions. A resolution calling for a reform of national shipping laws was referred. A recess was taken to enable Mrs. Dr. Haggait and Mrs. Helen M. Gaugar to advocate the passage of the bill granting women the right to vote at Presidential elections. Upon reassembling the friends of the bill attempted to cut off debate and crowd the passage, but were voted down, 49 to 35, and further argument was made the special order for Tuesday night. The Compulsory Education bill went over until Wednesday. Thubhday, Feb. 17 —Senate.—The Senate gave the female-suffrage advocates a hearing to-day, and Mrs Mary Haggart and Mrs. Helen M. Gougar presented the claims of the ladies. A motion for immediate consideration of the bill was peremptorily voted down, and, by consent, it went over until the 25th. A greater part of the day was taken up in considering the amendments to the Civil Code. House. —The Tax bill was taken up by the House, and 145 sections accepted, with little amendment, as proposed by the codification committee. The bill for the purchase of roads was made the special order for Monday afternoon. A night session was ordered, but not held for want of a quorum. Friday, Feb. 18.—Senate.—The Senate frittered away several hours with the introduction of resolutions intended to expedite business, .but which had a contrary effect, in that the Senators mado them an occasion for filibustering. The amendment of the House, fixing March 14 for a vote of the whole people on the constitutional amendments, was accepted by a vote of 24 to 20. The bill passed establishing a State Board of Health, and, after a short consideration of the proposition to reform and reconstruct the present system of State Road laws, an adjournment was had until Monday afternoon. House.—The House engrossed the bill creating a State Department of Geology and Natural History, and also the measure proscribing consanguinity as a bar to marriage. Bills were introduced : Providing for the annual distribution of the surplus dog tax ; authorizing Indianapolis to levy a special tax for the construction of a city hall and market house; making keepers of houses of ill-fame guilty of felony with from one to three years’ imprisonment, and the inmates from six to eighteen months, and legalizing theacts of the Blackford County Commissioners in draining wet lands. A resolution passed calling for reports concerning the soholastio and financial condition of each benevolent institution. Consideration of the Tax bill consumed the rsmtinder the day

session. An amendment was adopted in effect that County Auditors shall compel all companies, organizations, partnerships and persona loaning money In the State to report to him on April 1 of each year, under oath, the amount of money loaned and held by parsons m his county, that the same may be luted for taxation. A night session waa held to clear away the sections of this bilL Saturday, Feb. 19.—House. —The House passed a bill repealing section 12 of the game law, prohibiting railways from transporting game outside the State at any tinm. The section had always been practically inoperative. Mr. Schweitzer’s bill also passed, compelling hotels to provide all possible arrangements for escape from fire, but the bill abolishing attorney fees in the taking of contracts failed for want of a constitutional majority. Bills were introduced: Encouraging the improvement of live stock; enabling married women, when abandoned by their husbands, to convey their separate real estate : making the keepers and inmates of houses of prostitution guilty of felony, and providing that the former shall be liable to a punishment of one to three years’ imprisonment, and the inmates of six to eighteen months. Further consideration of the Tax Mil went over until Monday, and the Educational bill was made the special order for Wednesday.

Edward Everett.

The late Dr. Chapin waa once asked what he lectured for. “Fame,” he replied, “SSO and my expenses.” Those were in the days when lectures were becoming popular. Since then Mr. Beecher and Mr. Gough have been paid from S2OO to SSOO for a single lecture. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, gossiping about the pecuniary success of Edward Everett’s lectures, says : Everett was hardly a lecturer in theordinary sense of the term, and yet his address on the character of Washington, delivered in behalf of the Mount Vernon Association, was of this nature. The amount cleared by the various deliveries of this address averaged S4OO for each occasion, and it was repeated 130 times. In fact, Everett’s oratory has done more for charity than that of any other speaker on record. Including the Mount Vernon effort, the aggregate is nearly SIOO,OOO. I may add, as a special feature, that his address on the early days of Franklin, which was repeated five times, yielded $4,000 for charitable objects. Another address which was repeated fifteen times brought $13,500 for similar purposes. The eulogy on Thomas Dowse, delivered twice in behalf of two institutions, brought $1,500. Everett was the most accomplished man of his age, being at home in statesmanship, literature, oratory and the highest walks of learning. His versatility was such that it deserved the expression which Johnson applied to Goldsmith, that there was nothing in literature that he did not touch, and nothing that he touched that he did not adorn. Everett’s memory was really wonderful. As a preacher he frequently memorized the hymns to be used of a Sabbath, because it aided in reading them to the congregation. He committed to memory almost everything that came under his attention for many years ; in other words, what entered the eye was fixed upon the brain. To this is to be added rare personal beauty, statuesque dignity, and charming power of oratory. How surprising that this admirable concentration of gifts never inflated their possessor, who was through life so marked by simplicity of character!

It Went Up.

There is a man in this city who once lost $20,000 through a twist of the English language. He was then a resident, of California, aud San Francisco was wild with excitement over mines. The “Blue Ledge” was then blooming. Shares had gone to thirty times their face value, and brokers reaped a golden harvest. At length, almost within an hour, “Blue Ledge” began to drop, and it went down —or rather the shares did—over 200 per cent, before there was a breathing spell. At this crisis the New YorKer went to a broker and asked : “What is your candid opinion about Blue Ledge?” “I think it will go up,” was the prompt reply. “When?” “Well, within a fortnight.” The would-be buyer knew of stocks for sale, and before night his entire fortune had been invested. Quotations remained the same for two or three days, and then “Blue Ledge” shares, $lO each, fell to ten per cent, of their face value. The New Yorker rushed to the broker in consternation, and gasped out: “Didn’t you tell me that Blue Ledge was sure to go up ?” “I did.” “And now—now ! —’ “It’s gone up, just as I predicted. I heard two weeks ago that it had worked out its veins, and it was only a question of a few days when it would go up. ” “But, great Heavens! It has gone down.” “Ye§; I understand. Yes, it has gone up, and hundreds of people will be ruined.”

Novel and Interesting News.

The Boston Globe has made a happy deal. In an extraordinary special edition dated Jan. 1, “ 1981,” it presents the news of 100 years from now, in a highly interesting and elating manner. The Phonograph in Divorce Suits— Sunday-School Excursion in Air Cars— Terrible Accidents in Mid-Air—lnven-tion of a Burglar Bouncer, are respectively treated from the standpoint of the advanced journalism of that day. News by the Taikogram and Photophone from all parts of the world is fully presented. To show the progress of those times, it is only necessary io state that “ Hiram Grant’s bay mare Broad S. trots a mile in 1.37 J.” Every one should secure from his newsdealer or from Messrs. A Vogeler & Go., of Baltimore, Mi, by whom this edition is exclusively controlled and owned, a copy of the Boston Globe for “1981.” Mailed on receipt of price—five gents. To read it is to have grace and flexibility imparted to the intellect, and a strong desire to live on—as the poet would express it.

Strengthening the Voice.

For putting the voice in good order for singing or speaking, the following recipes have been given: A teaspoonful of compound tincture of cinnamon beaten up with a raw egg. A raw egg beaten up with a large cup of black tea and good milk or cream. For troublesome hoarseness chew a piece of horseradish. For hoarseness arising from over exertion of the voice, dissolve in the mouth a piece of gum catechu about the size of a pea. To jfreserve the voice in good order, practice daily without fatiguing the voice,' Over exertion and want of practice are the chief causes of disorder in the voice. Rest cures the results of the fonner, and practice thoee <4 the latter,

A FAREWELL ADDRESS.

[From the New York Jun.] Kellow-Chtzens : About t> laydown the great trust which your suffrages conferred four years ago upon another person, it seems proper that I should address to you a few words of affectionate warning. It has been customary heretofore only tot the great Presidents, who were conscious of the love and veneration of the people, to take leave of their country in this solemn form. But, inasmuch as I can hardly be ranked among the Presidents at all, and history will probably take note of me only as an intruder in that illustrious line, I do not feel myself bound by those precedents. My situation in the administration of this office, to which I was not elected, has been one of singular embarrassment I had borne arms for my country, if not with distinction, at least with moderate credit My fellow-citizens of Ohio, deeming me an inoffensive sort of person, without sufficient force of character to engender enemies, repeatedly raised me, like a wooden image, to tbe place of Governor—an office in that State of no power and influence. But I was gratified with these apparent tettimcuials ofipublic favor, and, believing that no man of realabilities could receive the nomination at Cincinnati, I was not surprised when the battte of the Titans ended in the choice of the pigmy. And it was well so. A standard bearer of larger stature would have been struck, oerhaps fatally, by many missiles which passed harmless over my head. My defeat was a cruel disappointment, and the very largo majority of my opponent added greatly to the weight of the blow. But T owe myself the justice to state, in this, doubtless, the last communication tbe public will ever receive from me, that I had no thought then of resisting or reversing the popular will. Had I consulted only the promptings of my own heart I would have refused to be a party to the memorable conspiracy which was immediately formed to substitute the candidate rejected by the people for the candidate whom they had elected. So innocent was lof the design subsequently executed that I publicly acknowledged my defeat in a candid address from my own doorstep, and I confess that I was profoundly shocked when I saw Mr. Chandler’s celebrated dispatch boldly announcing my election hours after my defeat had been universally known and conceded. But, as the plot developed, and only the most agreeable features were communicated to me, while the dark details of crime and corruption were carefully hidden, the scruples which I soon came to regard as mere personal weaknesses gradually melted away, and I finally accepted the fruits of conspiracy and forgery with complacency and even pleasure. I will not recall the history of my induction into office. I wish, indeed, it might be erased from the memory of men, and I would cheerfully return to the conscience fund of the treasury, or make over to my defrauded competitor, all that had been saved of his four years’ salary, if that act could restore me to the state of innocence I enjoyed while yet the harmless Governor of Ohio. My position after the assumption of the Presidency, as before said, was one of peculiar delicacy and difficulty. 1 had read attentively the powerful letter of acceptance by the great statesman nominated at St. Louis, and inasmuch as the people had, by a large majority, expressed their approval of its contents, and I was in the occupation of the office to which its author had been elected, I conceived it to be my duty to effect some of the reforms therein recommended. But I found myself powerless; I was not a free agent. The Government was administered in my name, but I was little more than a passive instrument in the unscrupulous hands which had forged the various links in that so-called chain of title to the office I held. Those men were not reformers ; they had not brought me into power to forward the measures enunciated by my late opponent It was some time before I fully realized my abject dependence upon the secrecy and fidelity of the numerous agents employed in the great fraud, and meanwhile I was permitted to amuse the country with certain promises of reform, which were, however, confined to the civil service. At length even this pretense grew ridiculous. What I had intended for reform Mr. Sherman calmly converted into the simple process of turning out his political enemies and putting in his friends,’ and Mr. Sherman, as I was early made to mnderstand, was one of my masters. I loathed in my heart the leprous criminals who had conceived and executed the daring frauds in Louisiana and Florida. But no sooner had I taken the oath of office than I ascertained that my nearest friends and sponsors had promised them not merely protection, but high promotion and other rewards, and I was compelled to execute those promis?s under penalty of complete discovery in every shocking detail of the stupendous crime of which I seem to be enjoying the fruits. It is needless to pursue the narrative. It is enough to say that, except one Cazenave, who was paid in cash, they were all—visiting statesmen, Returning-Board knaves, forgers, thieves, secret negotiators and counsel before the Electoral Commissionpensioned upon your treasury. The last of these nominations, that of the notorious Stanley Matthews, for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, is even now pending in the Senate. But there was a still more grievous humiliation to be endured. When I realized my defeat • on the day after the election, I declared truly that the sharpest pang I then felt arose from apprehension concerning tbe fate of the colored Republicans in the contested Southern States. I now learned that in order to secure the completion of the fraudulent count, nij friends bad pledged me to abandon those colored Republicans, and to hand over those States to the Democrats, who claimed them, on precisely the same grounds as Mr. Tilden might have claimed the Presidency. I had no resource but to comply. This step, however, was only less fatal to me than would have been a refusal. It lost me—l will not say the respect, for to that I had no claim -but the support of the earnest Republicans, who declared that if I was elected, so were Packard and Chamberlain. It was soon plain that they, too, regarded me as a fraud in a new sense. This defection left me practically without a party, and I sought to supply the deficiency by an alliance with the Southern Democracy. I outlined a magnificent and dazzling scheme of internal improvements to be carried out in the South at the general expense, and I blew, with all the breath that was in me, the trump of resurrection over the tomb of the old Whig party. But nobody would trust a Fraud, and but ojjc solitary Whig emerged at my blast, in the person of the late Alexander H. Stephens. Having lost my own party it was evident to them that my ability to execute was less than my inclination to promise, and they prudently declined a coalition which on my side was based on nothing more substantial than the few offices which had not already been distributed. Under these circumstances it will be seen that the total failure of my fraudulent administration was a foregone conclusion, and I long 'since discovered that I must content thyself with drawing the salary of the Presidency in advance and hoarding what could be saved from it by rigid economy and a sordid affectation of temperance. This, with a scrupulous provision for a few personal friends, such as my family physician and my son Webb, at the public expense, has been my only solace under the sad humiliations of these later months of my residence in the White House. Conscious that all parties, and even men of no party, looked forward with a grateful sense of relief to the period of my final departure for Ohio, I have felt that some explanation was due to myself and to the public, of the difficulties which inevitably environ a fraudulent President. Had I been honestly elected, I could, no doubt, have done much for the reformation of the public abuses pointed out with such emphasis by Mr. Tilden, aud mildly alluded to by Mr. Carl Schurz in my own letter of acceptance. But I was the slave of my political creators ; the paralysis of the original fraud pervaded my entire administration. If, in what is here written, my countryman shall find anything to extenuate my failings, oranything to soften the judgment which must follow me into history, the object of this, my farewell address to the swindled people of the United States, will have been accomplished. Rutherford B. Hayes.

Secrecy.

You have trouble, your feelings are injured, your husband is unkind, your wife frets, your friends do not treat you fairly, and things in general move unpleasantly. Well, what of it ? Keep it to yourself. A smouldering fire can be found and extinguished ; but when coals are scattered, you can't pick them up, Bury your sorrow. The place for sad anil disgusting things is under the ground,

sLsA*uer Annum.

NUMBER 3.

A cut finger is not benefited by pulling off the plaster and exposing it to somebody’s eye. Charity oovereth a multitude of sins. Things thus covered are cured -without a scar; but, once published and confided to meddling friends, there is no end to the trouble they may cause. Keep it to yourself. Troubles are transient; and, when a sorrow is healed and passed, what a comfort it is to say, “ No one ever knew it till it was over I ”

CUSHING’S CAPTURE.

One of the Most Daring- Exploits of the Late War. William B. Cushing in many respects can justly be classed as one of the most extraordinary officers who ever saw service in the United States navy.. The writer was Cushing’s shipmate in the closing scenes of the Rebellion. At the close of the war Cushing was barely 22 J years of age, rather slight of figure, about five feet ten inches in height, boyish-looking, with large gray eyes, a well-shaped, prominent, aquiline nose, yellowish hair, worn long, and, withal, a rather-grave expression of countenance. Cushing was in command of the gunboat Monticello, off Wilmington, N. C., when he conceived the daring idea of entering the river, penetrating to Smithville, and picking up whatever he could find or the fortunes of war might throw in his power. On the 29th of February he left his vessel with twenty men, passed the forts at the entrance of the harbor, and proceeded up the river without experiencing the slightest trouble or molestation from the enemy. A bright lookout was kept for steamers, especially blockade-runners anchored in the stream, which it was his intention to surprise and take out of the river. But Smithville hove in sight without even a boat being sighted. Cushing effected a landing almost opposite the hotel. The men were hid under the overhanging bank of the river, finding a secure place of concealment among the grass, weeds, and thick underbrush. Hearing voices a short distance off, Cushing with e couple of his men crept cautiously forward and discovered some negroes at work making salt. Their capture was quietly effected inside of fifty yards of an armed sentinel, who in the bright moonlight was plainly visible as he slowly paced up and down on his beat. From the negroes Cushing succeeded in gleaning considerable information, on which he formed Iris plans accordingly. Leaving most of his men to guard the boats, Cushing, accompanied by Acting Ensign J. E. Jones and Acting Master’s Mate Howorth and one seaman, boldly left their cover, and walked rapidly across the green to Gen. Herbert’s house, a large, imposing mansion surrounded by a piazza. The barracks were nearly opposite, containing 1,000 men. It was close upon 11 o’clock. All was quiet and tranquil throughout the little town. Maj. Hardman and Capt. Kelly, of the General’s staff, were down stairs, on the eve of retiring, when a heavy step was heard on the piazza. The Major, supposing it was his servant, threw up the window, when the muzzle of it navy revolver was thrust in his face, followed* by a demand to surrender. The Major pushed the revolver aside, and escaped through a back door, calling upon Capt. Kelly to follow him. The Major was the Adjutant General, and, laboring under the idea that the troops had mutinied, took to the woods with great scarcity of clothing, neglecting in his haste to turn out the garrison. Unfortunately the commanding General had gone to Wilmington, aud Cushing was forced to content himself with Capt. Kelly, who was the Chief Engineer of the defences, and the negroes captured in the salt works. The boats were now regained, and the word given to pull down the river with all speed, as an alarm could not be long delayed. The moon was high in the heavens, yet the boats effected their retreat without receiving a shot. They passed within thirty yards of the Smithville forts and were abreast of Fort Coswell before, the signal light announcing the fact that the enemy had been among them was fired. The steamer Scotia passed down the river and steamed by the boats. Cushing had no opportunity to board the vessel, much to his disgust. He turned the Confederate Captain over to the Admiral, and resumed his duty on the Monticello.

How They Traveled in the Good Old Time.

In the sixteenth year of the reign of Charles IL of England was established the first turnpike-road where toll wai taken, which intersected the counties of Hertford, Cambridge and Huntingdon. Until the middle of the middle of the eighteenth century, however, most of the merchandise conveyed from place to place was transported on pack-horses through short distances. Between distant places a cart was used, a pack-horse not being able to transport a sufficient quantity of goods to pay the cost of the journey. The common carrier between Selkirk and Edinburgh, a distance of thirty-eight miles, required a fortnight for his journey, going and returning. In 1678 a coach for passengers between Edinburgh and Glasgow, a distance of forty-four miles, wap drawn by six horses, and the journey to and fro was completed in six days. In 1750 the coach took thirty-six hours to the journey. In 1849 the same route was made, by a route three miles longer, in one hour and a half ! In the year 1763 there was but one stage-coach between Edinburgh and London. This started once a month from each of these cities. It took a fortnight to perform the journey. In 1835 seven coaches started daily between London and Edinburgh, which performed the journey in less than for-ty-eight hours. In 1763 the number of passengers by the coaches between London and Edinburgh could not have exceeded about twenty-five monthly. In 1835 the coaches conveyed about 140 passengers dailv. • Until the close of the last century, the internal transport of goods in England was performed by wagon, and was so expensive as to exclude every object except manufactured articles and such as, being of light weight and small bulk in proportion to their value, would allow a high rate of transport. Thus the charge from London to Leeds was st the rate of £l3 a ton, being 13}d. per ton per mile. Between Liverpool and Manchester it was 40s. a ton, or 15d. per ’ton per mile. Between Liverpool and Manchester it was 40s. a ton, or 15d. per ton per mile. Heavy articles, such as coal and other materials, could only be available for commerce where their position favored transport by sea, and, consequently, many of the richest districts of the kingdom remained unpro&wttv*,

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PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS.

Boiler explosions are becoming so numerous that vaccination appears necessary to keep them from breaking out. —Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald. A Chicago restaurant keeper advertises “roast turkey and cram berry sans,” and yet a hungry man might go where they spell better and fare worse. —jVctc Orleans Picayune. “ Dost love met Tell me once again, My little pootsy toots!” With fore-lit eyes she sweet replies: “Dolt You bet your bootai” —Modern Argo. Th® Cleveland Herald has published some verses entitled: “Why do I sing?” and written by a young woman. It is grobably because her father paid five undred dollars to a music teacher for spoiling a good stocking darner. At an undertakers’ conference in New Yorkrecently, one undertaker complained that the sextons were getting “all the crehm of our business.” What for Heaven’s sake, is “the cream” of the undertakers’ business? In olden tinies, when people hoard Some swindler huge had coino to grief, They used a good old Saxon word. And called that man a “ thief." But language such as that to-day Upon too many feelings grates, So people smile and simply say, “ He— • rc-hypcthecates.’ ” Th® man who journeyed long to spit upon the grave of his enemy found that the said enemy was drowned in a lake and his body not recovered. There are lots of things in this world to make a man mad.— Detroit Prce Press. Th® Galveston News says a man in that city who had a mule for sale, hearing that a friend in Houston wanted to buy a mule, telegraphed to him: “ Dear Friend—ls you are looking for a No. 1 mule don’t forget me." An exuberant youth hails a supposed acquaintance with “Hello, Joo,” but, finding his mistake, adds: “O, excuse me; I thought you were another man !” Laconic stranger answers: “lam.”— Buffalo Express. No Adolphus, newspaper men do not have duplicates of the last straw that broke the camel’s back. They are useful, as you say, but new spaper men are so accustomed to d—k—g the other way, they don’t care a straw about them! A minister overtook a Quaker lady and politely assisted her in opening a gate. As she was a compartivo stranger in town, he said: “You don’t know, perhaps, that lam Mr. . Haven’t you heard me preach?” “I have heard you try,” was the quick rejoinder. “As for me,” says Mme. Z., whose husband is a member of the Assembly, •'I always do my shopping when the Senate is discussing the appropriation bills. Then, you see, my husband is accustomed to such large figures that my bills look small to him.”— French paper. This is the particular time of the year when the citizen is attacked with a severe case of economy, and immediately cuts off his entire list of newspapers. There is one paper he does not relinquish, however. It is his paper of tobacco.—llockland Courier. The man who works in a factory, his pay day comes once a month; but the man who works at ditching has his spado day oftener than that.— Marat Item Independent. Hoe! Hoe! Fork conscience sake shove ’long this pun, and don’t harrow up our feelings in tins way. A Yankee tobacco chcwer was in the habit of declaring about once a month that he would “never chew another piece," but broke his pledge as often as he made it. On one occasion, shortly after he had “broken off,” he was seen taking another chew, “ Why,” said his friend, “ you told me yon had given up that habit, but I see you are at it again.” “Yes,” he replied, “I have gone to chewing and left off lying.”

Obtained What He Wanted.

The Philadelphia Times contains an account of a young man employed in a large iron manufacturing house in that city, who became dissatisfied with’ the wages he was getting —(this alone gives the story a fisliy look) —and he went to his employers and told them frankly that he would like more pay. Some young men, if they had wanted more pay, would have died sooner than let it be known, but this young duck didn’t seem to care for anything. So he told them he must have more currency, and they said they would raise him from S6O a month to $75. He was a shipping clerk, and had few equals as an artist with a camel’s hair brush and a pot of lamp-black. He could not, therefore, accept $75 a month, and he told them so. Then they humbled themselves before him and asked him what he would take to say nothing .more about it. The shipping clerk said he wanted a partnership interest, having read of such things probably in a novel. As soon as the members of the firm could recover from their astonishment, they promptly kicked him out. All this occurred eight years ago. “ To-day,” says the Times, “he is the leading member of a firm which employs nearly three thousand men and boys, turns out fifty thousand tons of iron a year, pays out over a hundred dollars a month in wages and salaries, and does a business of $4,000,000 a year.” And we suppose if any one of those three thousand men and boys should go into his office and ask for a partnership interest in the concern they would get it, would they? Or would he stand them on a spring-board and fire them through the roof ?— Peck's Sun.

Curious Way to Decide a Dispute.

Two young men of Hawkinsville settled the ownership of a double-barrel gun in a novel way. The gun was won in a raffle—the two young men being joint owners in the chance that won it. Qne of the men proposed that they should go down to the river at a shallow place and wade into it, and the one that waded the furthest or held out the longest should take the gun. The water was freezing cold, and the margin of the stream was lined with ice, and the icicles were pendant from every limb, from every bush. Partly divesting themselves of their clothing they entered the water and waded out. One of them went until the water reached his armpits, but his companion went a little further, and was allowed to come out and take the gun. Hawkinsville (Qa.) Dispatch. Slav* Trade. Th* slave trade in Africa is still enormous. Dr. Livingstone estimated the traffic for all Africa at 500,000 yearly. CoL Gordon puts the loss of life in the Soudan alone at 30,000 to 50,000 annually. Raouf Pasha, who was left to carry out the work begun by Col. Gordon for th* suppression of the slave trade, is proving its active abettor, and the iniquity is encouraged by the Egyptian Government. “The sale and purchase of human beings continues to be practiced on a large scale in the Hedgey Yemen, Nubia, Abyssinia and at various points on the coast. Men, women and children ar* sold a* blasts of burden.