Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A. & B. Schroder, merchants, of London, have failed for £500,000 because of the suspension of their Amsterdam house. Cardinal Manning’s order forbidding the use of Catholic club-rooms for Land-League meetings has a caused great dissatisfaction among the Irish in London. Prince Rudolph, of Austria, was married to the Princess Stephanie, of Belgium, with all the pomp and circumstance befitting such an occasion. The ceremony took place in the Church of St Augustine, in Vienna. Alexander Jonas, a German journalist of New York, was recently arrested in Dresden, Germany, on suspicion of being a Socialistic agent, and his private papers were retained for nine days. Ho has applied to Minister White Tor redress, and the matter has been referred to the foreign office at Berlin. The losses of the Jews by the recent riot inElizabcthgrad, Russia, are estimated at 54,000, 000 rubles. Mr. Forster and Lord-Lieutenant Cowper are vigorously enforcing the Coercion act and the Disarming act in Ireland.

St. Hilaire, Minister of Foreign Affair#, has issued a “yellow book’’ on (he ’Tunis-Algerian imbroglio, defining the French view of the matter. France is only doing in Africa what England has done in India. Lord Dundale’s bailiff was fatally shot from behind a hedge in Dakeen, Ireland. Five men were arrested in Dublin under the provisions of the Coercion act. An electric railway from Berlin to Lichterfield has been opened with great success. Emmett, the American actor, has broken his engagement in Liverpool, England, and has been placed in a lunatic asylum. The Bank of France haa hitherto issued no notes of less denomination than 100 francs, but has decided to put in circulation some of CO francs. The persecution of the Jews in Southern Russia continues. At Cherson, shops were pillaged; also at Jenewinka and other cities. The destruction of Jewish property at Kieff amounted to 30,000,000 roubles. Bismarck lately telegraphed the French Government: “I am happy to say there is a prospect of the further undisturbed continuance of peace.” A treaty has been concluded between France and Tunis which gives the former power the right to occupy certain important military positions. The financial system of Tunis will be regulated by the French. The Bey is guaranteed security of person and dynasty. The anti-Jewish riots in Southern Russia seem to have had the effect of utterly disorganizing society and business interests in isome localities. Railroad traffic has been practically suspended in some places, as the mob will not permit engineers to work on trains carrying Jewish refugees. The German delegates to the Monetary Conference ask the representatives of Italy, France, Holland and the United States to decide whether or not they will indorse the unlimited coinage of silver in the proportion of to 1. Gen. Lorie Melikoff, Commandant at St. Petersburg; Dabaza, Russian Finance Minister; Nicolai, Minister of Public Instruction, and Giers, Minister of Foreign Affairs, have tendered their resignations. Fifty-three persons broke jail at Kuba, in the Caucasus, seventeen of whom were killed by the troops.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ICaet. The Governor of New York has issued a proclamation forbidding lotteries. The Pennsylvania State Senate has passed a resolution which provides for tho transfer of the remains of William Penn from their present res ting-place in Buckinghamshire, England, to Philadelphia. The United States Grand Jury at New York has indicted fourteen Captains of European steamships for carrying an excess of passengers, contrary to law. Two indictments are against Capt Brandt and Capt Meyers, both of whom committed suicide a few weeks ago. A fishing party of four persons were drowned at Trembly Point, Staten Island sound, by the upsetting of a boat. The limited express on the Pennsylvania road made the ninety miles between Philadelphia and Jersey City in ninety-five minutes. Immigrants continue to arrive at New York at the rate of 3,000 or 4,000 a day. West. A coal-shaft in Osage county, Kan., caught fire from a furnace in the air shaft Twenty-two men were at work at the time, but fifteen of them were rescued. The remaining seven, with three others who had gone to their assistance, were taken out dead. Troops have been sent to the Ute Reservation to protect the Indians from invasion by whites. George C. Harding, editor of the Indianapolis Saturday Review, is dead. A correspondent which the Chicago Tribune dispatched to the flooded regions of the Upper Missouri river sends to that journal a graphic description of the ruin wrought by the high.water in Dakota. The bulk of the suffering from the flood, he reports, is confined to the territory between Yankton and Elk Point. In the river bottom, between these points, hundreds of once fertile farms are now covered with five feet of sand. In addition to their present mournful condition the unhappy dwellers in the inundated districts have to face the distressing prospect of wholesale malaria, resulting from the decomposition of thousands of dead animals, and of future want, because it has been necessary to eat up all the grain and vegetable seed saved for this year’s crops in order to save life. The situation of these people is one that cries aloud for immediate relief in the way of donations of money and articles of food.—The, Quartermaster at Yankton has issued nearly 50,000 rations to the sufferers by the flood. Capt. Clagne, who was sent by Gen. Terry on a tour of investigation, reports that the officers at Fort Bandall saved 700 persons from possible starvation. / Trees by hundreds of thousands in Southern Wisconsin were destroyed by ground miie during the snow blockade. Reports from eighteen in Kansas indicate that the wheat crop this year will be the biggest ever known. Rev. John McMullen, of Chicago, has been appointed by t) Pope Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of i. enport, and Bev. Kilian C. Flash, of Mil' ikee, has been made Bishop of the f LaCrosse.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME v.

The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company has leased the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad. 1 Eire in the. Missouri penitentiary destroyed $60,000 worth of property. Annie Myrtle, a young miss of Racine, died from the effects of skipping a rope over 100 times consecutively. In a battle with four thieves, near Sikeston, Mo., Deputy Sheriff Laforge and Albert Hunter were killed. One of the desperadoes was captured and bury?. The officers of the Northwestern Telegraph Company have signed a contract with the Western Union for a lease for ninety-nine years. South. Fifty negroes took from jail at Sparta, La., a colored lad who admitted having committed an outrage on a child, and killed him with shot-guns. Four negro laborers on the Alabama and Great Southern road were covered by a landslide and killed. In Dooley county, Ga., Joe Stovall was indulging in the pastime of beating his wife, when his brother Jeff interfered, whereupon Joe shot Jeff, inflicting mortal wounds. The ceremony of dedicating the tomb of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, and the unveiling of the statue of Stonewall Jackson, took place at Metairie Cemetery, in New Orleans. - Two men named Hart and Register fought a duel with knives in Snmter county, Ga., resulting in the death of both participants. Hart was disemboweled and died instantly, and Register died four hours after the affray. Lieut. Bullis, of the Twenty-fourth infantry, commanding a body of Seminole scouts, came upon the band of Indians who murdered the McLawrin family, in Texas. He attacked their camp near the Pecos river, killed four bucks and one squaw, and captured one boy, one squaw, and twenty-one animals. A picnic party near Talladega, Ala., had among its participants a child of 7 years, adorned with gold ornaments and a diamon 1 pin. On being missed, search was made, and she was discovered dead in the arms of a negro thief, who was about to throw her body over the falls. It took but a moment to hang the scoundrel to a tree, where his corpse was left to dangle in the wind. A ludicrous affair of honor is reported from the Carolinas, where two telegraph operators exchanged insults and challenges over the wires, and met half way between Columbia and Charlotte and fought out the fuss with lists. James W. Powell, of Owingsville, Ky., who suffered from a dreadful malady for more than a year, claims to have been restored to complete health by prayer.

Chairman Jewell invites Republicans through the country to suggest the best method for electing delegates to the next National Convention. The State Convention of the Green-back-Labor party, of lowa, has been called to meet at Marshalltown, on the Ist day of June. Secretary Blaine, says a Washington correspondent, admits that he threatened to resign should Robertson be withdrawn, and states that the Cabinet is now in unison with the President. WASHINGTON NOTES. A Washington dispatch says that “the evidence which is daily accumulating against the ring of fraudulent mail contractors, bidders, bondsmen, Postmasters and intermediaries is both direct, documentary and circumstantial. The prosecutions will be conducted in a dozan.States, and in nearly, if not all, the Territories. Besides this evidence for criminal prosecution the Postmaster General is empowered and in position to recover a very large amount of the money got from the treasury in the name of ‘ expedited* and increased mail service. On one route a contractor has already been fined $31,000, which will lead also tocriminal proceedings against a number of Government officers whose connection with the fraud is now clearly established.” The President h’ s withdrawn the nomination of W. A. M. Grier, the original Gai field man, to be Third Assistant Postmaster General. Grier declined the position. According to the census returns, the people of this country pay $26,250,100 annually for their daily newspapers. The Comptroller of the Currency has called for reports from the national banks showing their condition at the close of business Friday, the 6th. Postmaster General James has planned a saving of $75,000 per annum by discontinuing useless mail service on the Southern rivers, and is about to make still further reductions. A Washington dispatch says the extreme hot weather is beginning to tell on the Senators, and both sides are talking of an early adjournment. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a circular, embracing the 103 d call for continuance of 5-per-cent. bonds issued under acts of July 14,1870, and Jan. 20, 1871. Interest on these bonds at 5 per cent, will cease Aug. 12, 1881. The Postmaster General, warned by the perpetration of several frauds, has given orders that sample copies of new publications cannot bo mailed in large quantities until submitted to the department for its ruling.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. a mad dog in the streets of Spring Hill, N. 8.. bit seven children, three mien and ono woman. In the Palmer k Sullivan railroad camp, near Acambaro, Mexico, Engineer Saekerider, while laboring under an attack of insanity, killed Engineers Martin and Jones, when he was dispatched by Engineer Filley. The fifty-fourth annual meeting of the Home Missionary Society was held last week m New York. . Yearly receipts, $290,953 ; expenses, $284,414. There are 1,032 ministers in the employ of the society. Bev. Theodore D. Woolsey was re-elected President. The clearing-house reports from twenty of the chief cities of the country show that the exchanges for the first week in May were ‘he largest on record. The fifty-seventh anniversary of the American Sunday-School Union was celebrated at Central Music Hall, Chicago, May 12. There was a large and interested audience. Eloquent addresses were delivered by the Bev. Dr. John Hall, of New York, and others. The gross earnings for April, 1881, of forty-two railroads amount to $12,285,494. For tho same month last year they were $9,919,224. The brewers of the United States, who were in convention at Chicago last week, resolved to fight all prohibitory legislation and interference to the bitter end. With that view

they will have a test case under the Kansas prohibitory law taken to the Bnpreme Court for adjudication. The United Brethren of Christ are holding their eighteenth quadrennial session at Lisbon, lowa. The denomination has a membership of 160,000 and 2,242 churches. Gen. Grant has returned from Mexico. He reports having signed a new contract with the Mexican Government embracing extensions of the Mexican Southern railroad. A compromise has been effected between the Villard and Billings interests, by which the control of the Northern Pacific railroad passes into the hands of Henry Villard, President of the Oregon Navigation Company. American silk manufacture was very profitable last year, and several new factories will be started. The lumber trade is very active in all parts of the country.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On the meeting of the Senate on Monday, the 9th ingt, Mr. Ransom called up the resolutions offered by him March 15, directing the Committee on Commerce to inquire into the condition of the Potomac river f ront of the city of Washington, the navigation of said river, and the effect of a bridge across the same with regard to navigation, floods and the health of the city, and to report at the next session what steps, if any, should be taken with reference thereto; Adopted. Mr. Kellogg offered a resolution calling on the Postmaster General, Secretaries of War, Navy, State and Treasury for the names of all clerks and other employes in their resi>ective departments, together with the date of their appointment, the State to which each is charged, and the persons on whose roi omnicndation each was appointed. On objection from Mr. Ferr,, .he resolution was laid over under the rules. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed Postmasters Henry Davis, of Bedford, Ind.; Benjamin W. Sholty, of Decatur, Ind.; George Z. Wood, of Mitchell, Ind., and Isaac T. Brown, of Colnmhuß, Ind. After a very short session a caucus of Republican Senators was held which remained in session about six hours. Senator Conkling instead of going into caucus, entered a com-mittee-room and remained there until the caucus sent a request that he would join in its deliberation. A proposal or suggestion to rule out Robertson’s case for action by agreeing to act only on nominations to fill existing vacancies was speedily discarded, as such a rule would include fully half the nominations made. However, a general discussion arose, participated in by Messrs. Biair, Hawley, Frye, Edmunds, Dawes, and, in fact, by nearly all the Senators present The discussion took a wide range, and embraced all the topics now of interest to the Republican party. Much of the time was consumed in debating the policy of continuing the fight for‘the' ejection of Gorham and Riddleberger. Some Senators opposed the polity of renewing the fight, and several v.ho are warm friends of the President declared that they would not again join in the fight for Gorham and Riddleberger; that new and more ac- < eptable nominations would have to be made to induce them to resume their former stand. Conkling made a speech of over an hour, stating his objections tor Robertson, admitting that Arthur and Platt carried his ultimatum to the President, and appealing to the Republicans to sustain him. Ho dwelt more particularly on what he called the “ Pre.-ident’s usurpation ar 1 invasir n of the Senate’s rights andprivi’eg.’c ”, and said: “If the Senate did not mainta.n ite rights, they would be taken from that body.” Edmunds and Dawes, it is understood, spoke, saying that, if the President attempted to usurp any functions of the Senate, they would resist, but their speeches were rather noncommittal, though some construe them as favorable to Conkling. The caucus adjourned finally without reaching any conclusion, to meet again next day. The Senate met at the usual hour on Tuesday, May 10, and at once went into executive session, and confirmed the following nominations: Gen. Longstreet, United States Marshal for Georgia; Absalom Blythe, United States Marshal for South Carolina; Samuel W. Milton, United States District Attorney for South Carolina; Philip H. Emerson, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Utah; and Albert R. .Woodcock, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third district of Illinois. 'J he President nominated Judge Thomas A. McMorris, of Colorado, Commissioner to accept and ratify the agreement submitted by the Ute Indians of Colorado. Also, the following Postmasters: Jerome H. Fee, of Adrian, Mich., and Joseph C. Dickey, of Waterville, Kan. The Republican Senators were in caucus again for nearly six hours, and, contrary to expectation, reached no conclusion. No committee wa. appointed to-day to wait upon the President, nor was any time fixed for an adjourned caucus. Everything was le!t to future consideration, and the caucus adjourned subject to the call of the Chairman, Mr. Anthony. During the protracted session near.y every Senator spoke. No speech exceeded five minutes in length. , The burden of all the speeches was a great desire to avoid a split in the party, and a consideration of the various propositions was of compromise. The Senate went into executive session soon after the hour of convening on Wednesday, May 11, and confirmed the following nominations: Michael J. Kramer, now Minister to Denmark, for Minister to Switzerland; George P. Pomeroy, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of the United States Legation at Paris: Thomas A. M. Moris, of Colorado, to be a member of the Ute Commission, vice J. B. Bowman, resigned; George W. Atkinson, United States Marshal of West Virginia; John B. Stickney, District Attorney for Northern Florida; Charles M. Wilder, to be Postmaster at Columbia, S. C.; and A. Newton Kimball, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Jackson, Miss. The case of Stanley Matthews, nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court, then came up. Messrs. Bayard and Edmunds made strong speeches opposing the confirmation, saying that Matthews had not the necessary qualifications for the exalted position of Supreme Court Jucfge; that he was only a mere politician. Mr. Edgerton, the new Senator from Minnesota, also spoke against Matthews, claiming that he was not acquainted with the circuit to which he bad been nominated. Ho held that the nominee should come from among the lawyers of that circuit. Mr. Ingalls made the principal speech in favor of Matthews. Senator Sherman put a few questions to the opponents of Matthews in order to reply to points made against him.

On the morning of Thursday, May 12, Mr. McDill called up the resolution directing that hereafter there shall be contained in the official register of the United States information as to the Congressional district from which each Government employe is appointed. Mr. Brown offered an amendment providing that it should also contain information as to whether such employes are white or colored. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution directing the Committee on Privileges and Elections to inquire and report at the next session of Congress what measures are needful to secure the ascertainment and declaration of the result of the election of President and Vice President, Adopted. There was a sharp discussion before going into executive session over Kellogg’s resolution for information about clerical appointments in the several departments. Stanley Matthews’ confirmation took un the whole executive session. This was effected, by a vote of 24 to 23, notwithstanding the adverse report of the Judiciary Committee. Nothing was done in open seeaion by the Senate on Friday, May 13. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the nomination of Don A. Pardee for United States Circuit Judge of the Fifth Judicial District, and George K. Gilmer for Postmaster at Richmond, Va., and Jerome H. Fee at Adrian, Mich., J. C. Dickey at Marshall, Kan., and W. W. Lambert at Bracketsville, Texas; Malachi Klebs, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Boise City, Idaho, and Moses M. Bane, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Salt Lake City, Utah. Col. Heury, of Ohio, was nominated for Marshal for the District of Columbia, and Fred Douglass was nominated for Recorder of Deeds for the District, vice George A. Sheridan, resigned. No vote was taken by tho Republican caucus on the Robertson confirmation. Despite the secrecy of executive sessions, it has transpired that Senator Hale endeavored to induce the Republican Senators to support William E. Chandler, and that Mr. Edmunds declared with spirit that if Chandler were confirmed he would resign from the Judiciary Committee. He then proceeded to pronounce the nominee an unscrupulous lobbyist, who had been involved in nearly every job brought before Congress, and that his success would be an insult to the Attorney General, who would leave the Cabinet.

From the most remote ages the hat has been an emblem of liberty, and has embellished the coins of many nations. As a covering for the head it dates back to the time of ancient Greece. Eleven hundred years ago the quality and style of the hat worn bespoke the rank and taste of the wearer. It being the most conspicuous article of dress, and surmounting all the rest, it was natural that the beau monde should give to it special care and attention. That it still bears like significance is evident from the great demand for the Punlap hat<, which a discriminating public has accepted as the standard of the t>resent day. What utter nonsense to speak of stock reports! Every child knows the report does not come from the stock, but from the barrel.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1881.

S. S. Heath has been commissioned Recorder of Boone, succeeding Sanford Peters, deceased. There is a German woman in South Bend who dresses in men’s clothes and goes out as a day laborer. John Hahn, a German, aged 60, cremated himself in a brush-pile near Sunman. Domestic trouble is the probable cause. A lady residing in Evansville, some weeks since, swallowed a set of false teeth while asleep. She has experienced no trouble so far. Elder R. L. Howe has received the appointment as Postmaster at Charlestown, succeeding M. P. Alpha, who had held the office thirty-two years. George Siever, a German who had a huckster boat between Louisville and Bethlehem, was found in his boat with his throat cut. The murder was evidently committed for robbery. Elder Miller ' of the Baptist Church, baptized twenty-seven persons in the Ohio river, near the ferry dock, at Jeffersonville, Sunday morning. The elder was attired in a white robe and the candidates wore white turbans.

The Commissioners of Harrison county have ordered an election to Be held the 6th of June, for the submission to the voters of Harrison township of a proposition to appropriate $18,300 to aid in constructing a branch of the Air Line railroad. A young lady in Rochester, named Demont, aged about 20 years, attempted suicide by drinking two ounces of chloroform, because somebody twitted her of not being able to talk plain. A battety was used three hours before animation was restored. “Uncle Billy” Sparks, 75 years of age, died at Anderson', lately, of starvation. He had been in inlirm health for several years past. About seven years since he was partially paralyzed. He was paralyzed in the throat the 14th ult., since which time he has taken nothing. The veterans are preparing to bring suit against the Wayne county Commissioners to collect a bounty of SIOO, said to have been granted to each soldier who entered the service in the years 1863-4-5, by an old act. They claim that there is $500,000 due the ex-soldiers from the county. The famous Arabian ring-horse belonging to Prof. Rivers, the equestrian director of Van Ainburg’s circus, which was left at Cambridge City to be treated, died there. It was 26 years old, and had been around the world with circuses three times, and was valued a t SI,OOO.

An Indian burying-ground has been unearthed in tire northwest portion of Shelby county, some two miles south of London, on the farm. of Jordan Perry. A number of relics, consisting of stone hatchets, darts, etc., have been taken out. Several large skeletons, almost intact, have also been removed. Frederick Hartman died near Centerville, about a month ago, and the oil gentleman’s friends suspected that he had a large sum of money that could not be found among his papers or in any bank with which he did business. A search was made about the old homestead, and $3,000 in small amounts have been fished out of chinks and crannies about the house. Thirteen years ago Ed H. Weaver was interred in the old cemetery near Kokomo, and last, week his friends and relatives had his body taken up and removed to the new cemetery and interred there. Upon examination it was found that the casket and body was in a perfect state of preservation, and the friends say that his appearance was as natural as on the day of his interment. Wilson J. Williams, President of the Vincennes National Bank, died at his home in that city, last week, of nervous disease. Mr. Williams has been connected with the Vincennes National (formerly the old State) Bank about twenty years, and was well known through the State as an active Republican politician. He was a candidate for nomination for State Treasurer on that ticket at the last but was defeated by Maj. Hill.

As a freight train on the L. E. and W. was approaching a bridge between Redkey and Albany, the engine jumped the track. The engineer closed the throttle, and, with the fireman, jumped just as the engine struck the bridge.. Strange to say, the engine passed over the bridge on the ties, without jumping it, and ran nearly tliree-qaarrers of a mile on the ties. The bridge was severely racked. Dr. Holliday contributed to the Connersville art-loan collection a desk with a history. Gen. Herera, while President of Mexico prior to the annexation of Texas, had expressed an opinion averse to the coercion of that State, and was consequently set aside, but was again recalled to oppose the United States arms in the field after the declaration of war. He met Scott at Cerro Gordo and was defeated. Among other things captured in the tent of Gen. Herera was the elegant piece of furniture referred to. It was appropriated by Maj. Hamilton, who subsequently, in preparing to remove to California, asked Dr. Holliday to accept the writing-desk and materials as a present.

A Talented Family. The McSplilkins family is one of the most fashionable in Galveston. The old man, however, .is not as nice as he ought to be, but the rest of the family are highly accomplished. Somebody was speaking of them the other day, and he remarked how they all played on some instrument. J*What does the old lady play?” asked a bystander. “She plays on the piano.” “ And the youngest daughter ? ” “She plays on the harp.” “ And the next daughter ? ” “ She is very proficient on the guitar.” “And the boy?” “He plays on the fiddle.” “ Well, does the old man play ? ” “ You bet he does. He plays the stavinest game of draw-poker on Galveston island.”— Galveston News.

As old citizens of Lexington know, the Sage of Ashland for a long time occupied the brick law office on Short street, next to the alley, and now occupied by L. P. Tarleton, Esq. In front of the office are several locust trees. The one at the corner is decaying rapidly, and the brick-pavement near its roots is sunken below the general level. ’ Under this tree Mr. Clay was in the habit of sitting always with his feet elevated and

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

INDIANA NEWS.

Henry Clay’s Heel Marks.

his heels resting against the tree about four feet above the ground. Few men could sit in an ordinary chair and reach so high on a tree, but Mr. day had long legs, as well as a long head. So constantly was he in the habit of sitting in this position that the pavement was sunken, and hii heels gouged a deep hole in the bark and outer wood. The spot has since decayed some in consequence of the abrasion from Mr. Clay’s boot heel. Who can tell what thoughts passed through the mind of the great commoner when thus sitting and ruminating ? Perhaps iiL front of that modest office, with his heels elevated, he formed some of his great plans, and forged some of the thunderbolts that shook the American continent. It was in this same office, too, that Mr. Clay was sitting when the news was brought to him of James K. Polk’s nomination, and he exclaimed, “I am beaten!”— Lexington Transcript.

Casts from Animals.

“Takes it easy, don’t he?” said a sharp-eyed man, patting a long, winding mass of clay hanging over a bench. “ You don’t mean that it is alive ?” “ Well, I should say so. Look here,” he replied, and picking away a little clay at one end a bright, bead-like eye appeared, and a forked tongue that darted out for a second belonged to a rattlesnake. The cast-taker was Joe Palmer, employed by the Smithsonian Institution to restore* animals, etc. ( The qualifications of the animal sculptor who works from life models are varied. Artistic talent, a cool head and steady nerves are indispensable, especially when the subject is a rattlesnake or a copperhead. Reproducing a snake in clay in former times, and preserving lifelike proportions, was an immense work, many of the scales having to be worked over and over with instruments for the purpose ; but now the operation is much more simple, although dangerous. A living snake is chloroformed, and, after it is completely under the influence, placed on a iimb or in a coil, and plaster quickly put on. If it shows signs of conscicusness before the clay has hardened properly, more chloroform is given, and finally the cast is cut off and ready for the mold, which, when completed, is painted, making a perfect sac simile. The operation is not always conducted easily. A copperhead “ came to” one day suddenly, and, throwing the clay aside, made a dash for liberty that created a stampede. He was recaptured later. Among the larger animals are dolphins, porpoises, grampuses, and the white whale that was in the New York Aquarium. Twenty or thirty heads standing on the top of the cases in the Archaeological Holl attract considerable attention from the variety of expression shown. In one the lips are drawn tightly together, and determination is shown in every lineament. Another looks as if it had lost all hope ; while in others, fear, rage-, astonishment, disgust and dogged imperturbability are seen. They are the heads of a band of Indians that visited Washington several years ago, and were coaxed by the sculptor to undergo the process of cast taking. They all declined at first, but, the chit f finally consenting, the others followid suit, and their different emotions as they sat for an hour with their heads and faces plastered with clay (breathing through straws), are accurately recorded.— New York Sun.

Practical Information.

“What is rack rent, dad?” inquired a young Comstocker who had been reading the news from Ireland. The patient parent laid down the stock list and replied: “Do you know how much I charge Mr. Boggarty for his room up-stairs?” •‘Yessir; sl2 a month.” “Well, now, suppose Mr. Boggarty should take it into his head to have, at his own expense, new paper put on the wall, the ceiling whitened, and all the furniture mended, the room would look a heap sight prettier, wouldn’t it ?” “Lor’l” murmured the intelligent boy. “Well, if the minute Boggarty had got all these improvements made I should go up, and look around, and smile, and jingle my money in my pocket, and remark, ‘ This is a pretty good sort of a layout for a single man, Boggarty, and you have altogether too soft a thing; your rent will be S2O a month hereafter,’ what would you think of it ?” The innocent child giggled and said, “That would be cheek, wouldn’t it, dad?” “Bet your money on it, my boy,” replied the father, beaming kindly upon his offspring. “That would be ravkrenting Mr. Boggarty, and if he kicked and claimed that all the improvement* had been made by him without costing me a cent, and I should fire him out, that would be eviction. I will now,” continued the parent, warming up, “ briefly review the history of Ireland for the past 700 years. When Brian Borhu— ” But his son had fled.— Virginia City Chronicle.

Matrimonial Methods.

To show that the habit of declaiming against the beautitudes of matrimonial life and protesting that the nation is to be ruined if a period is not put to fashion is no new thing, we extract the following from the Connecticut Herald, printed in the year 1823: “As it is idle to hope for reformation in those who are possessed with the fashionable mania, and as the want of cash seems to be the obstacle to matrimony, I would beg leave to propose a plan, which may prove beneficial to both sexes. It is not a new one, but has been so long ont of date that it will at least possess the charm of novelty. Let all marriageable girls, young and old, be assembled annually at one place. Let them be put up by an auctioneer one after another. The rich will pay a high price for the handsomest. The money tlius received should be bestowed as a settlement on the more homely, whom the auctioneer should present in regular order, asking if any one would accept such an one with such a sum. This plan was practiced with great success among the Assyrians and several other nations of antiquity, as any one of our ready-made archaeologists will admit. By it the rich will be able to support their bargains, of course, and the second-chop wives—to use a flowery and celestial idiom—will bring something to support their husbands and their own extravagance; no one being obliged to accept a damsel if she has nothing but love and duty to offer.” Teacher, to boy who nas to be corrected frequently: “Can you tell me where Blue Ridge is ? ” Boy (rubbing his shoulder); “ No; but I can tell you where the black and blue ridge is.” He is treated more vigorously than ever now.

THE STAR ROUTE FRAUDS.

How Senator Beck in the Senate More Than a Year ago Exposed Brady’s Methods—And How His Colleagues in the Senate, Now James’ Colleagues in the Cabinet, Have Changed Their Views. [Washington Telegram to the New York World.] Ex-Senator Dorsey and Gen. Brady protest against all allegations as to their complicity with the “ Star route frauds” in so vehement a fashion that it would seem as if these frauds were of fresh development ; whereas the recent action of Postmaster General James and President Garfield in pushing Brad/ and his confederates to the wall ought to have been taken by both Postmasters General Key and Maynard and by President Hayes last spring when those frauds were fully exposed by Senator Beck in the Senate. Page 1,214 of the Record for Mareh 1, 1880, shows that Senator Beck opened what proved to be a severe campaign against the star routes by procuring the passage of a resolution asking Secretary Sherman to state the payments made for those routes during the two years before, the times of payments and what amount was needed to meet the existing star-route liabilities according to any existing increase of rates. Having obtained this information, Senator Beck a fortnight afterward, when the Postoffice Deficiency bill came up for discussion, followed Senator Wallace’s explanations of its purport with an analysis and exposure of the star-route swindles, which no one undertook to answer except by generalities. The pending amendment when Senator Beck addressed the Senate was for appropriating $1,000,000 toward the deficiencies in payments on star-route account, the $6,000,000 originally voted having been exhausted. It was explained that the phrase “Star routes”—originating from the star mark placed against them in blue books comprehended all mail service not done by steam, and that it included a service of 215,000 miles, against 21,000 miles by steamboat and 79,000 miles by railway. Senator Wallace had called the attention of the Senate to certain inconsistent requests of the Postmaster General and his subordinates as to the star-route deficiencies and had remarked that “ either they did not know their own needs, or they had some purpose to serve.” Senator Beck forthwith proceeded to demonstrate the nature of the purposes that had been served. He caused to be read the letter from Gen. Brady to the Committee on Appropriations, datjd in the autumn of 1879, in which that official asked a turning over to the credit of the star route the Hinn of $2,000,000 which remained unexpended to the credit of the other routes; and Senator Beck showed that Brady was attempting a nullification of law, because the Democrats succeeded to the control of Congress before all unexpended balances were systematically turned over from one to another account at the will of Cabinet officers until a law forbid such methods. Senator Beck next invited attention to the fact that the statutes required from the Postoffice Department a blue-book every September, which was to contain all possible details as to contracts, contractors, service, and increases of speed or money, yet that the book, although partially published at that time, was silent as to details of star routes, and that six months had passed without additions as to these details having been made to the blue-book. Senator Beck then read an answer from Gen. Brady to a committee request for explanation of these delays, in which the Second Assistant Postmaster General had said: “I should be compelled to investigate before lean answer. ” In connection with this the Senator read a statement from Mr. Cranstoun Lawrie, of the Statistical Bureau, in which he stated he had every week regularly furnished to Gen. Brady in person all the facts which were kept out of the bluebook, which Gen. Brady wished to “investigate.” Senator Beck next indicated how all this led to investigation and to a refusal of the committee to permit any transfer of the $2,000,000 —which in consequence of the investigation had dwindled to a demand for $1,000,000 of deficiency. Senator Beck then denounced the consequent process of coercion that the Postoffice Department at once began. He read a letter from Postmaster General Key, by which he informed Congress that because of its refusal of Brady’s request he must reduce all the star-route service to one trip per week and must cease all extensions of postal service. Mr. Key was immediately summoned before the committee to answer by what authority he had already expended the whole of the $6,000,000 appropriated for star routes ; or by what authority he proposed to cripple the postal service by reducing it on at least 10.000 routes, but he escaped answering by immediately withdrawing his proposition fdr the reduction. These postal officers, Senator Beck pointedly said, “ did not exceed the appropriation by accident; they did it by design. Thus we are coerced. Road agents order us to stand and deliver—to furnish them with money, or the mails shall be stopped.” This brought Senator Beck to a sharp analysis of three star routes in order to show how the plundering was done. The route from Fort Worth to Fort Yuma was let for a contract price of $134,000, but $165,000 was soon added because a mile—one whole mile—per hour had been added to the contract speed, yet without one additional mail being carried or one additional office established along the route—and all without competitive bids. When another route from Prescott to Santa Fe. benefiting only fourteen postoffices, was let for $13,000 the first contractor threw up his service, and Gen. Brady, at an increase of $78,700, payment for supposed “expedition.” put it into the hands of a man named Walsh upon Walsh’s own unsupported statement that such increase was absolutely essential. When summoned before the committee for an explanation of this extraordinary conduct Gen. Brady was forced to admit that he had himself theretofore, upon his own sworn testimony, procured in New Orleans while a revenue officer the indictment of this very Walsh for defrauding the Government. Indeed, upon the indictment in the Department of Justice, Senator Beck found Brady’s name indorsed as the principal witness against Walsh. Gen. Brady having absolutely no explanation to offer for presenting $78,700 to a man whom he had under oath pronounced dishonest, Walsh himself was summoned, who brazenly said, “If I had been longer in mail service I would have made the extra claim $200,000, and you would now have been investigating me at that figure. ” The third route to which Senator Beck paid attention extended from Vinita to Las Vegas—a service done on

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a buckboard, and the mails of which filled only three sacks, yet for which service Gen. Brady had of his own will increased the compensation from $6,330 t 05144,260. “Here are three star routes,” repeated Senator Beck, “ increased $430,000 when there is only an increase of $300,000 on 10,000 of the other routes throughout the United States.” Senator Beck passed by Brady because, as he said, Brady was a subordinate and he must fasten the complicity in the transactions upon Judge Key, in regard to whom he showed by testimony from Judge Key himself that with a full knowledge of a statute providing that no head of department could exceed the periodical quotas of appropriation for his department, Judge Key had suffered the star-route appropriations to become exhausted in half a year, so that at first $2,000,000 and at last $1,000,000 of deficiency had been impudently demanded. When, two months later, the regular Postoffice Appropriation bill for the approaching year came before the Senate, Senator Beck renewed this contest, and repeated all his previous statements and arguments, and on each occasion without success. The Record shows how Kirkwood —now Secretary of the Interior—defended the claims for deficiency and for the huge appropriations on starroute account, and even referred to Gen. Brady as “a faithful, honest and capable public servant.” Senator Blaine then added his voice and vote in championing the requests of Gen. Brady for deficiency moneys. A stringent restrictive amendment’offered by Senator Beck was lost by a vote of 28 to 32—there voting with him such representative men as Bayard, Eaton, Edmunds, Hamlin, Kernan, McDonald,. Morrill and Voorhees, and there voting with Blaine and Kirkwood and for Gen. Brady such allies as Allison, Cameron, Dawes, Hoar and Windom. Conkling had been present at the first debate, but had said nothing, and his name is absent from the roll on each occasion. Of the Senators who voted for the fraudulent deficiencies and appropriations after Senator Beck’s exposure Blaine, Kirkwood and Windom are colleagues of the successor of Key and Maynard, who has practically turned out Brady and Brady’s principal, Dorsey. It becomes an . interesting question why Garfield, Blaine, Kirkwood and Windom when in Congress did not upon Senator Beck’s exposures do what they now approve when it is done upon Mr. James’ motion.

Patriotic Mission of the Republican Party.

It is a Republican quarrel. It is a Republican war. It is a Republican wrangle. It indicates that there is nothing left of the Republican party but petty wrangling. The great national question under the guidance of the Republican party is suddenly shifted. A few days ago the national Republican party stood before the country on a pecular platform of twins, Gorham and Riddleberger. The Republican position was that the only patriotic business of the United States was to make Gorham, Brady’s partner, Secre tary of the Senate of the United States, and Riddleberger, who only became notorious because he was a notorious Repudiator and the next friend of a traitor, Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate. The Republican party has been compelled to abandon this position by the splendid tenacity of the Democratic Senators ; and the liepublican attitude is changed. The Republican party is no longer fighting for Gorham and Riddleberger as, great national issues, but it is quarreling with itself as to a Custom House officer. The question is still one of small and local spoils. The jump from the national issue, which related to two servants of the United States Senate, to the national issue which relates to a Custom House officer, is not a change of character. A few days ago the fuss was about two small offices. The Senatorial agents of the Republican party obstructed the public busi-* ness two months in the endeavor to put two worthy men out of office and to put two unworthy men in their places. When the Republican party abandoned this small position it immediately began quarreling with itself about one office—a Custom House office. These simple facts seem to indicate the length and breadth and thickness of the patriotic mission of the Republican party at this moment.— Cincinnati Enquirer.

“My Dear Hubbell.”

The explanation of Gen. Brady’s organ, the National Republican, touching the Garfield letter to Hubbell, is this: Gen. Garfield was a member of Congress when the star-route investigation took place in 1880, and was fully cognizant of all that has recently been paraded by Detective Woodward and his subordinates of the Postoffice Department as cause for Brady’s removal. His confidence in Brady’s integrity, and of the proper and honest management of the star-route service, is abundantly proven by his letter in reply to Chairman Hubbell, of August last. Hubbell had asked Brady to solicit subscriptions. The latter declined, unless advised to do so by President Hayes. This advice was sought for, and refused. Brady was asked if Gen. Garfield’s approval would overcome the obstacle. He assented. Hubbell wrote Garfield on the subject How, then, could Garfield be ignorant of what was wanted ? He knew that mail contractors were the only persons with whom Brady had any official contact. There was no other aid he could render. When appealed to by Hubbell to write a letter to encourage Brady in the work he replies: Mv Deab Hubbell : Yours of the 19th inst received and contents noted. Please say to Brady, I hope he will give us all the assistance he can. I think he can help effectively. Please tell me how the departments generally are doing. What Gen. Brady shrunk from doing Gen. Garfield pushed him on to do. That is plain English and plain truth. An honest official might well hesitate to even place himself under implied obligations to contractors of the performance of whose work honestly contracted for he was to judge. Unwilling to refuse absolutely to do as requested by a campaign committee, he agreed to comply only upon condition that the candidate for President would say that he considered it right and proper. The * please say to Brady ’ letter was Gen. Garfield’s ready response. It was all anxiety for help, ana not a word as to the methods.” Miss Posigush says she should love to be a soldier—they have so many engagements. She should remember that where there are so many engagements a follow has to be on guard.

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HUMORS OF THE DAY.

Bad buy words—“ Charge it to me.” Men who work all night getting out morning papers are well posted on the snooze of the day. An aged Philadelphia colored woman has been married seven times. She is a sad example of how a woman can black male. The maple tree in an emblem, of Christian forbearance. The more it is bored, the more sweetness it exudes. —• Boston Transcript. For music by the glass or keg, Well malted, not too vatiy. Or bottled for the export trade, Apply to Cincinnati. _ Murat Halstead. The Tombstone Gossip, printed at Unlucky Cuss, Arizona, is sending polite requests to its esteemed contemporaries to “exchange or else gravitate to Old Nick.” Now doth the busy funny man Improve each stolen squib, And gather humor all the day, And dip, and paste, and fib. —Central City (Arb.) Item. The Legislature of Michigan will make hugging a girl against her will a penal offense, but will say nothing about hugging her against the front gate.— Boston Globe. The new settlers in Texas will find plenty of elbow room, if nothing else. One of them writes that he has “the Rio Grande for a bath-tub and all Mexico for a back-yard.” A Philadelphia woman asked another for charity, and when she opened her purse to give her some assistance she knocked her down. It is very hard to please some people. A double experience: “Shall I read you a pretty story, Effie?” “ Has it got a moral to it?” “ Yes, darling. ’’ “Then, Mumsey, I’d rather not. A story with a moral is like jam with a powder in it. ” “ I declare, John, I never saw such a man! You are always getting some new wrinkle. ” And the brute calmly replied, “Matilda, you are not, thank fortune. If you had a new wrinkle, you would have no place to put it, dear.” “The thruble wid the counthry, sor, is absenteeism,” said an Irish car driver to the tourist. “But there ore not many absentees in this part, I hear,” was the reply. “Not many absentees, is it? Well, thin, let me tell ye the counthry’s jistfullof absentees!”— London Punch. The process of depriving a tuber of its cuticle differs according to the manner of of cooking. If it be baked, you take the potato from the skin; if it be boiled, you take the skin from the potato; if it be hashed, you take—no, you don’t take any!— Danbury News. A story is told of an old gentleman who always took notes of his minister s sermons, and on one occasion read them to the minister himself. “ Stop, stop!” said he, at the occurrence of a certain sentence; “I didn’t say that.” “I know you didn’t,” was the reply; “I put that in myself to make sense. ”

Possibly a mistake: “James,” said a motherly woman to a young man whose first sermon she had just heard, “James, why did you enter the ministry?” “I had a call from the Lord,” said the young man, and then came the reply: “But are you sure it wasn’t some other noise that you heard ?”— Hartford Courant. If a young man in a street car gives up his seat to a pretty young lady he will be accused of partiality; if he gives it np io an ugly old lady, it will be said ho does it for effect. The average mean plan for him to adopt is to keep the seat himself, and see nothing but the paper he is reading.— New Orleans Picayune. “You ain’t taking any stock in woman’s love, eh?” “No,” he answered, despondently, “it’s all flummery.” “Very strange,” added his friend; “you didn’t use to talk that way. ” “Perhaps not,” he replied, “but I’ve been married nearly two years and there are four pairs of trowsers hanging up in my closet waiting to be patched, and not a stitch taken in them yet. ” — Brooklyn Eagle.

Who Should Bow First?

Who should bow first ? Some authorities insist that a gentleman should not bow to a lady until she bows to him. The author of the “ American Code of Manners ” says that this is all wrong. “A gentleman should always bow first to a lady, no matter whether she returns or not. If he sees by her face that she does not wish to return it, he can refrain from bowing the next time. ” This is on the ground that “a lady, particularly an elderly lady or a society leader, perhaps, has so many acquaintances that she does not remember all the young men who have been presented. ” This, however, does not seem to settle the question conclusively, for it may be that the young man has quite as many acquaintances as the lady, even if an elderly one. He may liimself, too, very likely be a society leader; in fact, a very large number of the leaders of society at the present time are of what would have been considered fifty years ago a comparatively-immature age. Our own opinion is, and it has been arrived at after reflection, that both persons should bow simultaneously. Perhaps in the case of very near-sighted persons a little latitude might be given, providing tho fact of myopia can be clearly proved by medical evidence. There is, however, always danger in these exceptions to social rules, and, therefore, it may be safer for near-sighted persons to bow in all cases of doubt, accustoming themselves to do this with uniform courtesy whether they are themselves recognized or not.

A celebrated and somewhat eccentric preacher in London played a little trick on his people in order to get them to come to church early. They had been in the habit of coming whenever it suited them, thereby causing him much annoyance. This minister one Sunday told the people that he would on the next Sunday have something of unusual importance to communicate to them, but that in order to avail themselves of the benefits of it they must all be in their seats at the very moment appointed for beginning the service. It turned out that all he had to communicate was the expression of his pleasure at finding them all in their seats in season. Only two persons were late, and the others grinned at them as they came in on tiptoe and took their seats. It was the iin-’ {iression of most of those who were thus ured into a spasmodic punctuality that the minister had sold them very cheap. Surveyor of taxes (to literary gent)— “ But surely you can arrive at some estimate of the amount received by you during the last three years, for example. Don’t you keep books?” Literary gent (readily)—“ Oh, dear, no. I write them. ” Surveyor—“ Ahem! I mean you’ve got some sort of accounts—” Literary gent —“Oh, yes, lots”—(Surveyor brightening up)—“ unpaid,”