Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A mass-meeting to protest against the policy of the Government toward Ireland wan held in Hyde Park, London, on Sunday. Speakers held forth from three platforms. Resolutions were adopted urging the suspension of evictions, the liberation of those arrested, and the resignation of Forster as Secretary for Ire land. Parnell announced that serious responsibility will rest on the Government should evictions continue. Another conspiracy to assassinate the Cfcar has been discovered, attd twehty-one arrests made in St. Petersburg. A French telegraph-Construclion corps numbering iwenty-five persons were massacred by Arabs in Algeria. Rowell, the pedestrian, intends to surprise the world with a record of 600 miles in six days at London, and will wager something to that effect. Turkey has yielded the ceded territory to Greece, and that Government has sent a force of 7,000 men to take possession. The Russian autocrat is said to be almost as much a prisoner as if he were a Siberian exile. Soldiery guard his every movement, and his days t-re spent in efforts to frustrate the designs of would-be assassins. Another American victory in England. At Sheffield, Yorkshire, the Whit-Tuesday fair foot-race was won by an American—a Mr. Hmitlu of Pittsburgh, Pa. There wore sixty-two cotttpetitots. The prize was £10(1. Another priest, the Rev. Father Murphy, has been arrested in Ireland under the Coercion act; Much excitement and the committal of outrages was the immediate result. Advices from Russia chronicle the arrest of thirty officers of the army, including the Colonel of the Imperial Guard, during the past month. The last hatch of Communists have returned to Paris from Caledonia. The Right Hon. Sir W. Milbourne James, Lord-Justice of the English Court of Appeal, is dead. A mob at SkibbereenUreland, wrecked the branch Bank of Munster, and tore up the railway track. A party of fifty marines was stoned away from Ballydehob by a crowd of several thousand. At Dromoro a process-serv-er was beaten nearly to death. The village of Bradley, in Hampshire, England, has been almost totally destroyed by fire. The steamer Faraday, after various unsuccessful attempts, finally succeeded in landing the end of the new Atlantic cable on the Land’s End, Cornwall, Eng. Conservative members of the British Parliament and ex-Cabinet officers are very severe in their criticism of the Gladstone policyin Ireland. The centennial anniversary of the birth of George Stephenson, the originator of steam railways, was recently celebrated at Newcastle, England, by 100,000 persons. The King of Belgium tenders £SOO as a contribution toward a inemoriajl college. Nearly every railway in the United Kingdom sent a locomotive for the procession. An attempt was made by two Irishmen from the United States, named McKevett and Roberts, to blow up the Town Hall in Liverpool, but the only damage inflicted was upon the windows. It is alleged that Fenian documents, plenty of money, loaded revolvers and a quantity of dynamite were found on their persons. The Gladstone Government continues the arrest of potty officers of local Land Leagues in Ireland, but lacks the nerve to tackle the big guns like Archbishop Croke and the influential leaders of the league. Forty-three persons were arrested for participation’ in the riot in the city of Cork, Ireland. Sentences of imprisonment of from two to four months were passed on twenty-three of them, and the rest liberated on their recognizances.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. JEDaut. William Murphy, at Edgewood, near Pittsburgh, Pa., shot his divorced wife, and then fired a bullet into his own head. A check for $14,949,052.20 has just been given by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to a committee representing 2,700 shareholders of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore road, who reside mainly in New England. Nearly $2,000,000 more will be disbursed among the stockholders in Philadelphia. The Wilmington road will pass into the hands of the Pennsylvania on July 1. A reign of terror exists in the western part of Massachusetts, and in Little Compton and Tiverton, R. L, by reason of the ;prevalonce ofja series of outrages, such as poisoning and incendiarism. Twelve men were more or less injured by the explosion of a boiler in ah iron works at Pottsville, Pa. Four of the number cannot possibly recover. West. Evidence of the adaptability of the waters of Lake Michigan to the successful culture of the California salmon has been furnished by the capture of one of these noble firh weighing twelve pounds in the lake off Cedar Grove, Wis. Six years ago the experiment of salmon planting in Lake Michigan was made by the Wisconsin Fish Commissioners, and this is the first proof of the success of that experiment. A serious accident occurred on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad fair? miles west of Cedar Rapids, la. Owing to the neglect of the telegraph operator, two trains came into collision at full speed, and two brakemen were killed and several persons badly injured. A freight train on the Denver and South Park road jumped the track near Buena Vista, Col. The engineer, fireman and a brakeman were instantly killed, while the conductor’ had an ankle dislocated. A whirlwind in Deadwood, Dakota, killed one lady and severely injured three other persons. Four houses were destroyed, and trees and telegraph poles torn dp. Hailstones fell for two hours, one measuring- twenty-two inches in circumference. An important Indian conference was held at Lob Pinos Agency a few days ago, where nearly 2,000 armed Utes assembled to meet the Commissioners. Chief Sanavanaro was informed that the Government would enforce the treaty placing his people on a new reservation. Chief Shavano, in a towering passion, demanded to know who signed such a treaty, and declared that he and Ouray’s widow owned the Uncompahgre valley. Agent Berry notified five chiefs to accompany the commission to select a new home, the Utea having refused to name a committee. The Wisconsin Grand Lodge of Odd mellows was in session at Milwaukee last week. Secretary Hills reported a membership of 44.476. »gain U the th* 9t 1.800. . . .

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME V.

The Blackfeet and Crees had a battle near Fort Walsh, in which sixteen Crees war® killed.

A dastardly outrage was committed a few nights ago in the village of Chesaning, Saginaw county, Mich. A gang of men con nected with Hilliard &De Mott’s show, armed with clubs and revolvers, made a descent upon a crowd of citizens attending a Bowery dance, and commenced a wholesale attack, using weapons indiscriminately. Augustus Emery, a policeman, was pounded to death. Fred Wenzel was fatally injured. J. B. Griswold, Village President, was severely bruised. Charles Homer received a pistol ball in the side of the face, and a dozen others were cut and bruised. Five of the gang were arrested; ahd with difficulty the pedple were restrained from lynching thepiJay Gould and others have filed articles of incorporation for the Missouri Pacific railway in Nebraska. It is believed that they will build a river line from Omaha to Atchison or St. Joseph. Robbers took a bunch of keys from the pocket of the County Treasurer at Pawnee City, Neb., and obtained from his safe currency to the amount of $5,380. Clovernook, the former home of Alice and Phoebe Cary, near Cincinnati, has been purchased by Alexander Swift, who will preserve the homestead and dedicate a memorial to the dead poets. A most destructive hurricane swept over Dickinson county, Kan., in the vicinity of Salomon City. It swept over a tract six miles long and five miles wide, demolishing nearly everything in its path. The hail beat the corn and other crops into the ground. Some of the stones were ten inches in circumference. Six houses were torn into fragments, and, so far, seven persons have been killed. It is thought that other persons have perished also. Billy the Kid, the rising young bandit of New Mexico, has filled three more graves on his way to Mexican soil. Patrick Garritt, the Sheriff of Lincoln county, has been on the trail of this fiend since April 27, but has failed to come up with him. - According to the report of the Illinois Board of Agriculture, 50 per cent, of the fall wheat in the northern grand division of Illinois has been plowed up, 44 per cent, in the central division, and 16 in the southern, and the portion remaining gives indications of only about half an average yield. Houthi. 'The Supreme Court of Tennessee has rendered a decision which makes the taxing distaiet of Memphis liable for $5,000,000 of indebtedness of the defunct city, the process of collection being through the Federal courts by mandamus. Hon. D. M. Key, Col. J. B. Cooke and other Confederate officers of Tennessee have effected an organization to receive the Union Army of the Cumberland in September at Chattanooga. It is intended to have every seceding State represented In the welcome by distinguished soldiers. Nearly all the money needed by the forktown Association has been obtained, and the work of constructing the building for the accommodation of visitors to the celebration will soon be commenced. John B. Gordon has been elected President of the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company, which has a capital stock of $10,500,000. The line will be built from Atlanta to the Mississippi river as fast as men and money will avail. Three negroes wore lynched in Sevier county, Ark., for murdering an old man named Hall. A solitary robber stopped a stage near San Antonio, Tex., in which were four passengers, and forced one of them to bring the mailpouch near him, cut it open, and pour out the contents. Two of the passengers had cocked revolvers in their hands, and on the person of one was secreted $17,000, which fact was not ascertained by the robber. WhHo raoing with a rival packet near New Orleans, the steamer Hanna exploded a boiler, killing five men, and seriously scalding several others. Hays White, who killed Sheriff Beattie, was hanged at Warsaw, Ark., in presence of 2,000 persons. William Ryan, who was arrested at Nashville for robbing the Government Paymaster at Mussel shoals, on the Tennessee river, lias been fully identified as one of the party who took $30,000 in gold from a train at Glendale, Mo., two years ago.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Brady, of star-route notoriety, has retained Gen. Butler, Col. Bob Ingersoll, Hon. Samuel Shellabarger and Hon. James F. Wilson to defend him. It is expected that the deficit this year, on account of the payment of arrears of pensions, will reach $50,000,000. The surplus of unused silver in the treasury is now $21,733,733, an increase of 80 per cent, in five months. Not a single dollar of the coinage for the last two months has gone into circulation. Secretary Kirkwood has given permission to the clerks and other employes of the Census Bureau to work for the nation for nothing if they wish, and trust to the generosity of the next Congress for remuneration. Those who have means of their own or complaisant boarding-house keepers will accept. Commodore Jeffers, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau of the Navy Department, has tendered his resignation. Secretary Blaine has taken out a permit to erect a mansion on one of the finest sites in Washington, at a cost of $48,000. Assistant Attorney General Freeman has decided that express companies can carry such written matter as deeds, transcripts of deeds, etc., and any other matter not in the nature of personal correspondence. Secretary Windom issued a circular yesterday to masters and owners of vessels engaged in the foreign trade and to the masters and owners of steamers engaged in the coasting trade, informing them that, on application to the medical officers of the marine service, an examination of persons desirous of becoming seamen and a certificate in accordance with the facts will be issued. The purpose is to improve the character of men in the service of American steamship owners.

POLITICAL POINTS. Forty-eight members of the New York Legislature were absent on CtTO 4th Inst., and the fifth joint ballot for Senators was marked simply by a falling of the vote of the leading candidates. The Democratic candidates lost 20, Conkling and Platt 4. Cornell and Rogers 1, Miller 2, Lapham 3, Wheeler 4, and Dejiew 7. Some of the members of the Ways and Means Committee of the last Congress and some of the New York sugar refiners are conudeubly ejwtcd ths of QoL

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY. JUNE 17,1881.

Frederick Conkling, of New York, that legislation on the sugar question was prevented last session by the corrupt use of money. In the Senatorial ballot at Albany on the 6th inst., only 100 votes were cast, of which Conkling received twenty-six for the short term and Platt twenty-three for the lonsr termThe Democratic joint committee issued a circular urging no pairing and no absenteeism from the iJoint convention. The Readjuster ticket placed in nomination at Richmond, Va., does not seem to please either the Republicans or the Readjusters. The probability is that the Republicans will nominate a ticket of their own containing some of the nominees of tee Readjuster Convention. A rumor is telegraphed from Washington to the effect that Minister Lowell and Secretary Blaine will sodn change places. The seventh ballot for Senators at Albany, taken on the 7th inst., resulted : For the long term—Kernan, 46; Platt, 28; Depew, 42; Cornell, 14; scattering, 16. For the short term—Jacobs, 45; Conkling, 34; Wheeler, 22; Rogers, 15; Cornell, 15; scattering, 10. Senator Erastus Brooks made a speech in reply to Senator Woodin, in which he said he hoped the Democrats would not heed the appeal of Conklingites, and that Conkling resigned to gratify a whim, and should be rebuked. He favored an adjournment in order that the people might have an opportunity to pronounce on the matter.

The eighth ballot for Senators at Albany resulted : Short term—Jacobs, 50? Conkling, 34; Wheeler, 21; Rogers, 15; Cornell, 19; scattering, 15. Long term--Kernan, 51; Platt, 29; Depew, 51; Cornell, 10; scattering, 14. The Ohio Republican Convention renominated Charles Foster for Governor by acclamation. State Treasurer Turney and Atty. Gen. Nash were also renominated. J. G. Richards, of Jefferson county, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor, and Nicholas ‘Longworth for Supreme Judge, and George Poul for member of the Board of Public Works. A resolution indorsing the administration of President Garfield was unanimously adopted. The ninth ballot for Senators at Albany gave Kernan 50 votes, Platt 29, Depew 53 and Cornell 8. For the short term Conkling received 34 votes, Jacobs 49, Wheoler 23, Cornell 16 and Rogers 14. In the Assembly, Mr. Bradley rose to a question of privilege and stated that he had received $2,500 to pay him if he would vote for Chauncey M. Depew instead of Platt, which sum he had handed over to the Speaker, and he asked for a committee of investigation. The Speaker corroborated the statement, aud said he had the money. The motion for an investigating committee was unanimously adopted. In the evening Assemblyman Bradley appeared before the committee, and, under oath, reiterated his story, saying that the money was paid him by Senator Sessions. The latter admitted having labored hud tn convert Bradley, but pointedly denied the money part of the story. Assemblyman Bisson testified that last January he was offered money to vote for Depew. The Republicans of the Second district of South Carolina refrained from voting at the special Congressional election to fill the vacant seat of Mr. O’Connor, claiming that Mackey was really elected last fall. In consequence, Samuel Dilable, Democrat, was chosen without opposition. It is understood at Washington that Mahone will have the active support of the administration in his attempt to break up the Democratic party in Virginia. The New York Legislature balloted twice for Senators on the 10th inst., with about the same result as the two preceding days. Gen. Spinola rose in the House and proposed that the $2,000 bribe money be devoted to the support of impecunious members kept in involuntary servitude at the capital. The Bribery Investigating Committee examined Speaker Sharpe. He testified to receiving the $2,000 from Bradley, and he handed the sum to the Chairman of the committee. Armstrong, Of Onoidn. county, testified that he had been offered money by Edwards, a lobbyist, to vote against Conkhng. It is denied by prominent Virginia Republicans that the President has indorsed Mahoneism. He is awaiting the Republican Convention before he decides on any indorsement.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Prof. S’. B. Evans, of the scientific party from Chicago in Mexico, in excavating tiniong the ruins of Tezcoco, has discovered the largest representation of the human figure ever found among Mexican antiquities. The Chinese have learned some American tricks. A party of 500 landed at Victoria, B. 0., and can reach California by coast vessels at their pleasure, in defiance of any fifteenpassenger act of Congress.

The President of Mexico has signed contracts for two roads from the Rio Grande to the capital, both schemes being backed by American capital. One line is to follow the gulf ; the other will be built between the Central and National tracks.

With regard to trichina, United States Minister Kasson, at Vienna, reports to the State Department at Washington that the Government has not done its best to have pork properly inspected, and Minister Noyes, at Paris, reports that foreigners exaggerate the extent of the evil.

The reunion of the Army of the Potomac was largely attended. Daniel Dougherty delivered an oration. Gen. Sherman, Robert T. Lincoln and others made speeches. Gen. Devens was elected President, and Detroit as the place for the reunion next year.

A startling revelation was made by the experts who examined the hull of the wrecked steamer Victoria, at London, Ontario. A large hole was found stove in the bottom, confirming the theory that she sank through pure leakage. Where the hole was knocked in there is no evidence, but it was probably on the passage to Springbank.

A disastrous fire visited the city of Quebec on the night of the Bth inst., and in the course Of eight hours burned over what is known as the suburb of St. John. Owing to the fact that most of the houses were of wood, to the utter lack of water and the inefficiency of the fire department, the conflagration had full headway and ceased mainly for want of mate" rial. Several persons were burned to death. Beside St. John’s Church, 657 houses and stores were burned, 1,500 persons rendered homeless, the loss amounting to about $1,500,000, insured to the exteilt of $650,000. The Provincial Legislature, being in session, voted the sufferers SIO,OOO.

An English corporation has made an offer to the Government of Nova Scotia for the entire railway system of the province, which can be taken on certain terms fixed in the charters of the respective roads, The Provincial Legislature will soon be called together to con*|der the scheme.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

HIGH-HEELED SHOES.

A Fruitful Source of Back-Ache and Kindred Ills. “Back-ache,” says a prominent New York physician, “is very common among women; more than two-thirds of them suffer from it. But there is one kind of this trouble, caused by a prevailing fashion, which women ought not to - allow themselves to suffer from. “ A few years ago a fashionable young lady called upon me, saying that her back was very lame and had been so for a considerable time; the pain had lately so greatly increased that she had become frightened about herself. She had been obliged to shorten her promenades, so she said, was almost incapable of dancing, and her life was gradually becoming a burden- She had ‘ tried everything,’ and taken medicine all the time, but—and then she broke down ih such a way that I began to suspect hysteria. , “ She looked tired, and her face bore an expression of pain and despondency which was not compatible with her years—she was about 23 —nor her evidences of constitutional force, which I judged to be strong. I confess I was at a loss to account for her trouble, aud close questioning gave me no indication for treatment. I at last prescribed a tonic—on general principles—and asked her to call in about a week. When she appeared again, a glance sufficed to show that she was no better, and I was much puzzled as I saw her .walk up and down the office in nervous excitement, exclaiming that she would never get well, she knew she wouldn’t, etc. As I looked, a certain peculiarity in her Walk led me to think that there might be some spinal trouble, and I commenced a cross-exam-ination, which she brought to a sudden close by saying: ‘ Why, doctor, several of my: friends are suffering just as I am, but they are not yet so worn out with the pain; we cannot all have spinal complaints, can we ?’ “ I thought it impossible, of course, and the interview ended by my asking her to call again on the next day, and bring one of her friends with her, when I would make another effort to discover the real cause of her trouble. I had, in fact, made up my mind that some peculiarity in dress was at the root of the difficulty. The ladies called, and had hardly traversed the office before I observed in patient No. 2 the same idiosyncrasy in walking that I had seen in the first patient. I was not long in discovering that the real difficulty lay in the high and tapering heels of my patients’ gaiters. Closer examination revealed the fact that there was a difference in the height of the boot heels of the two ladies, and I found that my first patient, who was the greater sufferer, was the one whose gaiters possessed the higher heels. There was nothing to do but to prescribe slippers and woolen stockings for a week, to be followed by the wearing of shoes having low, broad heels. “All signs of lameness disappeared within eleven days, and my first patient of this kind, together with many who have followed her, regained their health and strength. There are many physiological reasons why undue elevation of the heel must cause trouble. It will suffice to say that it tends to throw forward the contents of the abdominal cavity, and the muscles, nerves and cords, more or less connected with, or surrounding the back, are subjected to unusual strain in resisting the forward impulse. Of course, in such cases, lame back is not of itself a disease, but only the indication of a deep-seated trouble, which is sometimes difficult to deal with. Ladies should be warned that this fashion in heels is certain to bring them—sooner or later—great trouble. ”

Statistics of Color Blindness. The report of the committee appointed by the Ophthalmological Society of London, to collect statistics of cases of color blindness, presents many features of special interest. The Secretary of the committee, Dr. Brailey, with the assistance of sixteen colleagues, has examined 18,088 persons of all classes, of whom 1,657 were females. It is at on ie curious and suggestive to find that, while the average percentage of color defects among men is 4.76, and 3.5 for very pronounced defects, it falls in woman to the low figure of 0.4. This, if true, remarks the London Lancet, would seem to suggest a new sphere of labor for women. if women are comparatively free from color blindness, they are so far specially indicated for many of the less laborious occupations in which good color perception is desirable or absolutely indispensable. It is satisfactory to find that these last statistics confirm, in the main,' those collected by the late Dr. George Wilson, of Edinburgh, nearly thirty years ago. This is especially noticeable as regards the comparative frequency of color defects among members of tne Society of Friends, particularly among the poorer section of them. Though the members of the Ophthalmological Society seem either not to have known the fact or to have forgotten it, Dr. Wilson found a considerable number of cases of color blindness among the members of the Society of Friends, and he was of opinion that this was not an accidental circumstance. He further believed that the largest proportion of cases of color blindness would, on extended examination, be found among the less-accom-plished male Friends in thejlarger cities. —Scientific American.

Of Interest to Volunteers. A circular from the Adjutant General’s office, War Department, says: ‘‘There being now pending in tnis department great numbers of volunteer pension claims which cannot be satisfactorily verified for want of information which missing records of discontinued volunteer commands would afford, and it having transpired in many instances that officers of the late volunteer forces have still in their possession or under their control books and other records pertaining to their corps, divisions, brigades, regiments and companies, their attention is called to the fact that all such books and records should be deposited with this office, and they are earnestly requested to cause the same to be forwarded without delay to the Adjutant General of the army, Washington, D. O. No expense, other than postage or proper express charges (when packages exceed four pounds, the limit for mail parcels), can be paid by the Government. In the interest of the great number of widows, orphans and disabled soldiers whose claims are involved, the newspapers of the country are requested to give the substance of this circular the greatest publicity.” J

Don’t Constrain the Children. Why force them to do what they dislike? It is seldom that any good is gained by such a course. Why should your little boy be made to eat the fat of his meat if he loathes it, or anything, no matter what, that is repulsive to him? Or why make a child miserable by forcing it to wear articles of clothing which its taste does Dot approve, or at which other children laugh ? I think that little girls suffer more from this than from any one thing. Almost all of us have

some such memory. I know a lady whose childish life was made wretched for a year by an obsolete old bag in which she was forced to carry her books to school, and another whose mother forced her to wear some old lace, which, though costly, was laughed at by the ignorant children who made her world, and declares that she actually wished herself dead until that lace was banished from her wardrobe. If you can manage it, be wise, and consult your children’s tastes in these unimportant matters.

INDIANA NEWS.

A stone forty-two feet long, four feet wide and three feet thick was quarried near Bedford.

Con. IsoM Wray and Hon. William Patterson, of Shelby county, have recently purchased 1,800 acres of pine timber land in Angelina county, Texas. An attempt to blow up a saloon was made at Liberty, Marion county, by placing a bottle filled with powder under the floor. The flo’or wits torn up, but no serious damage was done. The National Camp Meeting for the promotion of holiness will begin s>t Warsaw, Kosciusco, Aug. 5, and last for ten days. Revs. J. S. Inskip, Wm. McDonald, J. A. Wood and others will be present.

Gov. Porter aud wife have been visiting Corydon. The Governor will soon deliver an oration at Asbury University on “The Early Governors.” His trip to Corydon was to get some data of Gov. Jennings. Gilbert Vertezen, a Frenchman, who has led the life of a hermit, dwelling in a cave at Frenchtown, Floyd county, many years, was lately found dead in the woods near his cave. Death was the result of exposure and neglect. He was 66 years of age. At Charlottesville, Hancock county, a boy named Pitts, 9 years old, set fire to a straw stack on his father’s farm, in which his little sister, 2 years old, was asleep, and she was roasted alive. Her remains were almost consumed when raked out with a pole. Wiltham Perkinsc% an old settler of Scott county, living three miles south of Lexington, was driving a load of hay. The wagon ran into a deep rut in the road and Mr. Perkinson was precipitated to the ground. His skull was fractured and he died the next day. The State Attorney General holds that residence in a county sufficienttime to be a citizen and vote does not qualify a man for the office of Superintendent, and that applicants must reside twelve months in the county before they are eligible for appointment. Albert G. Anderson, of Greenfield, has brought suit iu the Hancock Circuit Court, against Lucas & Lucas, druggists of Fountaintown, Shelby, charging them with carelessly putting up a prescription of three grains of morphine for a dose, instead of one-half Mrs. Anderson lost her life. <

Gen. Lew Waddace lately returned to his home in Crawfordsville, and his neighbors and friends, with a brass band, serenaded him. In behalf of his neighbors, L. B. Dillon made a “welcome home” speech, in which he reminded the General of the high regard and esteem in which he is held, and to which he feelingly responded. The largest crowd that ever gathered in Marion was present to witness the laying of the corner-stone of the new Grant county Court House. This event closes the fiftieth year of the settlement of the county and town. The new structure will cost, when finished, $135,000 or more. The Masonic and Odd Fellows’ fraternities of Central Indiana were present to perform the ceremony. Near Idaville, 13 miles west of Logansport, a man named Samuel Wilson desired to remove the remains of his wife, who died six years ago. Upon reaching the body the startling discovery was made that it was petrified. The arms and limbs had withstood the effect of the petrification, and nothing remained of them but the bones. The trunk of the body was as hard as flint, and, upon being taken from the grave, was found to weigh about 300 pounds, while the woman during her life weighed about 140 pounds. J. B. Gilbert, of Jeffersonville,’ the well-known livery-stable proprietor, went to die country with his hay wagon to bring in a load of hay. When nearly loaded he concluded he would slide down over the rear of the hay to see if the wagon was properly loaded. In the rear of the hay frame stood a sharp woode'i peg, eighteen inches long and five inches in diameter. This impaled him in the hip, penetrating seven or eight inches, producing a frightful wound. The seventeenth annual convention of the Indiana Sunday-School Union, held in Trinity Church, Evansville, was largely attended, and was a success in every respect. Rev. G. R. Curtis, D. D., of Indianapolis, delivered the closing •address. W. H. Levering, of Lafayette, was elected President; Charles S. Hubbard, of Knightstown, Vice President; Charles H. Conner, of New Albany, Secretary ; Charles D. Meigs, of Indianapolis, Treasurer; W. H. Ripley, of Indianapolis, Statistician. The place of meeting selected for next year was Crawfordsville.

A Richmond correspondent says. that horse stealing has become so common that hardly a night passes that one or more arc not taken from Wayne, Union or Preble counties, within ten or a dozen miles of Richmond. The thieves are experts, and notwithstanding the most expert detectives in the State have been working up the eases not one of them has been captured, and only two horses recovered. They operate on what is known as the “ Indianapolis” method, which is to watch a farmer drive up to a rack, and, after he has entered a store or church, to unhitch and drive away with his horse.

Fifteen or sixteen years ago the store of Albert H. Johnson, in Mitchell, Lawrence county, w'as burglarized one night and several thousand dollars in money and bonds taken. Mr. Johnson employed detectives to work up the case, but nothing satisfactory was ever accomplished, and the matter was finally allowed to drop, and had almost become forgotten. Recently, however, the Bedford Bank received a SIOO Lawrence county bond for collection from the Bank of Bloomington. It proved to be one of the three bonds of that kind that were stolen from Johnson. It is now, however, worthless, as duplicate bonds were issued to Johnson some time after the burglary, which were paid nt maturity. It may be that this old bond will be the menus of disclosing the names of the burglars and bringing (o light the whole affair,

the Mahone Movement.

Mahone’s convention at Richmond has carried out the programme originally intended. The main idea of the whole movement is open repudiation of one-third of the State debt, without any honest provision for the remaining twothirds, as prescribed in the now-notori-ous Riddleberger bill, which is the basis of the platform. The rest of the programme is mere claptrap, brought in with the hope of misleading Northern opinion, and of securing aid and comfort from the administration.

John F. Lewis, who is nominated for Lieutenant Governor, with the promise of the next Senatorship in case of success, is now United States Marshal for the Western district of Virginia. Charges of fraud, or extortion and of corrupt collusion were made against this officer. The Attorney General sent a special agent to find out the truth of the accusations. That agent made a careful investigation as to every charge, and reported as follows, with the testimony in detail covering each case : “ Upon consideration of the above facts, but one conclusion can be drawn, and that is that the Marshal’s office is responsible for grave irregularities and corruption. The manner in which the office has been conducted for the last eighteen months has been a disgrace to the Federal judiciary, and a great hardship to the citizen; for the Deputy Marshals have engaged in regular traffic of Government processes, apparently recognizing no superior but their greed for fees.”

Mr. Lewis became a Republican Senator in the days of reconstruction, and, in the regular course of events, became an office-holder when the people regained possession of the State. He joined hands with Mahone in the repudiating movement, and visited Mentor, at the head of a committee, to procure recognition and support from Gen. Garfield. There is hardly any doubt that he came away with the promise of succor, and that the President subsequently favored the coalition which gave the Republicans the committees of the Senate aud nominated Gorham and Riddleberger. In testimony of his good will, Gen. Garfield sent Mahone a floral tribute from the conservatory of the White House on the day after his speech, together with a gushing note. The attempt to cover this coalition scheme with a pretense of reform aud of liberal ideas is already a failure. It is known to be a selfish sham, under the lead of a cunning Confederate Brigadier, who told the Senate he had no apology to make there or elsewhere for his endeavor to destroy the Union. The regular aud respectable Republicans of Virginia will hold a convention in August and nominate a full ticket, and they cannot be repudiated at Washington without danger elsewhere.

The Question at Issue.

Amid the fury and clamor of the contest at Albany, it may be well to recall the principles involved on the one side and the other. President Garfield contends for the right of the Executive to coerce the consent of the Senate to appointments by withdrawing nominations which Senators approve, until they agree to vote for nominations which they do not approve. The Senate, under this novel theory, may not consider each nomination separately, and dispose of it according to its merits, but may be forced, at the pleasure of the Executive, to consider any number of nominations together. This certainly is doctrine of a very startling kind. \ Mr. Conkling, on the other hand, contends that the, previous advice and con ■ sent of the Senate are necessary, not merely to an appointment, but to a nomination, and for this purpose the two Senators from a State are the Senate so far as appointments within that State are concerned. They name and they confirm ; nobody else has anything to do in the premises. Mr. Garfield would make the President a great national political boss, using the offices for political rewards and punishments. Mr. Conkling would make the Senators the bosses, divided into pairs, and having absolute control of the Federal patronage within their respective States. Neither of the two parties regards the letter or the spirit of the constitution ; and neither looks upon the purity and efficiency of the public service as a thing of any special importance. As a matter of constitutional principle, it would be difficult to make a choice between them. Both positions are radically false and alike unsound. Perhaps neither the President nor the Senator ever thought, at the outset, of the real nature of his contention, or would care much about the precedent in comparison with the temporary success of the one machine over the other. The struggle is not for principle but ior spoils; for the control of a party which has outlived the sense of constitutional responsibility, and has become profoundly corrupt. It is much to be hoped that in due course of time the people will determine to bury both factions in a common grave, and return to the Jeffersonian plan of dispensing with useless officials altogether, and filling the necessary places with men who are better fitted for the public service than for the private service of any political boss, whether President or Senator.— New York Sun.

The Savior of Indiana.

Stephen W. Dorsey in himself would not merit much discussion. Knaves of his sort are passing through obscure courts and into the penitentiary in wellregulated communities daily. But Dorsey is the agent of a great party—the honored and feted agent. He was chosen in February last as the one man meet to be worshiped by all that is regarded as of repute and influence in the party that elected Garfield President. He is the man, it should not be forgotten, -who “carried Indiana.” How he carried it Vice President Arthur with a broad wink declared it inexpedient to tell at that famous dinner, because there were “reporters present.” Some of the ways in which he carried it are now breaking surfaceward. One of the patriots whom he neglected to placate quotes his instructions. This evangelist, one S. P. Conner, Chairman of a county committee, says : “Dorsey demanded that Newton should give 600 majority. I told him we could not give it. He then said he would give me money to help us, and that being on the Illinois line we could thus colonize and make the 600 majority, X told him

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frankly I was not zealous enough in the cause to engage in such disreputable business. As autocrat, he seemed greatly incensed, and dismissed me from his artgust presence with a promise to see me later.” Conner now avers that Newton secured the 600 majority without colonizing, and that, having achieved this in? possibility, he thought himself entitled to a Postmastership, but it was ungraciously refused. Hence Conner’s contribution to the rapidly accumulating evidences of Dorsey’s handiwork in postal thefts and electoral corruption. No wonder, with the postoffice mine in hand, he could declare a little while ago that he would stand a lawsuit sooner than take an office. Meanwhile Dorsey is the agont-in-chief of the Republican party organization. He has not secured his letter from Postmaster General James, exonerating him, as he modestly asked, but he need have no fear. His is a party that stands by its rogues. He will have opportunity of getting even with the marplots who have uncovered liis rascalities. What a President he Would make, as Gorham said of Brady. —Philadelphia Tinies.

The Solid Negro Vote.

The Republicans would like to break the solid South, but not the solid Republican negro vote in the South ; yet there is danger of their losing a part of this vote, owing to the negro’s frequent disappointments in his eflforts to secure office from the party with which he has acted uniformly since he was made an eleetor. The colored editor of a North Carolina paper counsels the negroes that the time has come for self-interest to show them that independence in politics will best serve their future, and that they will never get office so long as the Republicans can lump the negro vote as a dead-sure thing. The negroes find, notwithstanding murmuring# that have taken the shape of formal protests, that while they are doing all the voting for the Republicans in the Southern States, the few white Republicans step into all the offices. In several States conventions of colored men have been held, and the powers that be have been notified that loyalty and hunger are not compatible. Unless the loaves and fishes are dealt to Southern negroes with a generous hand, there is likely to be an alarming bolt before the next general election.— Chicago Times.

The Moral of It.

None knew better than Mr. Conkling, before the late Presidential election, that James A. Garfield is a man of vacillating character, a statesman of variable views, a politician of unscrupulous methods, a trimmer and a trickster who blows hot and cold in the same breath. Now that Mr. Conkling finds that he has been cheated and betrayed, let him reflect how well he understood, when he made his famous pilgrimage to Mentor last fall to bargain for the control of the Federal offices in New York, that he was about to deal with a man whoso insincerity, tergiversation, and infirmity of purpose were the marked characteristics of his public career. Let him remember that he undertook to play with edged tools and then thank himself for the unkind cuts he has received. He has simply been the architect of his own bad fortune, and on that account forfeits the sympathy which a generous public might otherwise accord him.— Harrisburg Patriot.

The Shingle Product.

The Northwestern Lumbmim has given elaborate statistics of the shingle product of the Northwest, the amount of which is something stupendous, as will be seen in the following recapitulation of the output for eight years, allowing 5,000 shingles to each 1,000 feet of logs: 1873 2,277,433,650 1874 2,473,216,565 1875 2,515,838,240 1876 2,900,530,725 1877 2,668,856,755 1878 2,561,400,750 1879 2,859,112,750 1880 2,972,912,160 T0ta121,229,391,486 It is estimated that something between 800,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 feet of logs are yearly made into shingles in this country. Previous to 1845 the manufacture of shingles in the United States was almost, if not wholly, confined to the article of “ rived ” or “ breasted,” terms applied to shingles made by hand with a drawing-knife, involving a waste of fully three-quarters of all the timber which it was intended to convert to this use. The shingles were eighteen inches long, one-half inch at the butt, and oneeighth inch at the point, and were made only from the finest pine, cedar, or cypress, the latter being wholly manufactured in the swamps of Virginia and other Southern States. About that date steamed cut shingles had been introduced, but never attained a wide-spread reputation or market, because of imperfections in the manufacture. Not far from 1845 sawed shingles were introduced, and their claim upon public favor was based upon the fact that coarser timber could be utilized in their manufacture and the cost of the product cheapened. They were not at first received with favor, but have rapidly grown in public estimation until they have almost wholly superseded all others. With the cheapening of the manufacture and in the use of coarser timber, hemlock was utilized for some time in the East, but has in late years been but little used.

The shingle cut of the Eastern Micliigan and Huron shore is almost wholly confined to an 18-inch shingle, the product being shipped to the East and Southeast, where no smaller size is salable. A thousand feet of logs is calculated to yield from 4,000 to 5,000 marketable shingles, beside the coarser grades which have no market value to warrant their shipment. The cut of western Michigan, Wisconsin and the Mississippi district is wholly of 16-inch. for the demands of the Western market and the less-stringent inspection as to quality enable the manufacture of from 7,000 to 8,000 shingles from. 1,000 feet of logs.

A Taste for Art.

“Ah t husband, do you see this beautiful carving ? How delicately cut is the pure white stone 1 ” “ Yes; very pretty.” “ But, William, you have no taste for art, and you don’t enjoy these things as I do. Just notice this slender column of immaculate marble, with the touching question so beautifully carved: 'Do they miss me at home ? ” “ Yes; I see. And here is her name on the footstone: ‘G. A. B.’ Yes; I guess they miss her —if that was her name I ”

Pabtixii records of the live-stock interests of Texas show a yearly yield of something over 400,000 head of cattle. Eight dollars per head is about the SY•rag® price at Baa Antoni®,

gltmocratiq JOB PRINTINB OFFICE Km better foaUltiM than any ofltee in Morthwritor* Indiana for the exeouttea of all branches of JOB mUSTT ING. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. inytMnf, from a Dodger to a FrteefJot, er from t pamphlet to a RW*to, black or colored, plain or fanqy. SATISFACTION tfVABANTEED.

CAB-SICKNESS.

A Piec« “ Work. I.ike « Chsrltl" in Preventing It. Many persons, especially ladies, are great sufferers from that form of nausea and headache known as “ car-sickness. A journey by rail has for them all the discomfort and suffering that an ocean voyage has to the majority of travelers. The effects of the motion of the car range from a mild disturbance of the stomach and accompanying headache to “deathly sickness,’’with intense nanseu and complete prostration, according to the condition and sensativeness of tho victim. In its lightest form the sensation is sufficiently unpleasant to make travel by rail thoroughly disagreeable ;, in its worst, and by no means uncommon type, it^invests this necessary and convenient method of journeying with dread and despair. A simple and harmless preventive of car-sickness has recently come to the knowledge of the writer, under circumstances that leave no doubt of its efficacy with some persons ; and if the device' will work equally well in other oases, a knowledge of it ought certainly to bo spread abroad. It is at least worth a trial by all who suffer this inconvenience in traveling. A lady who had occasion to take a short trip on the Lowell road —and she never travels by rail for pleasure—was, as is usual with her, as thoroughly siok as ever a landsman is on tho “heaving deep,” by the time she had ridden a dozen miles. The conductor of the palace car, who was apparently familiar with such cases, told the sufferer’s companion that a sheet of writing paper, worn next to the person, directly over the chest, was a sure preventive of the trouble in nine cases out of ten. He had recommended it to hundreds of travelers and rarely knew it to fail. The prescription seemed very like n “ charm,” a horse chestnut carried in the pocket to ward off rheumatism, or a red string around the neck to prevent bleeding at the nose. But it was simple, and could at least do no harm. For the return trip a sheet of common writing note paper was fastened inside the clothing, as directed. Result—a perfectly comfortable journey, without a hint of the old sickness that had f< >r years made travel by rail a terror. It was so like a superstition, or a happy accident, however, that the lady would not accept it as real until subjected to a more severe test. This camo in a day journey to New York, and that hardest trial of all—a night trip in the “alleged” sleeping.car. Both, wore taken in triumph. The “charm” worked. And the lady writes : “ The day journey was a perpetual wonder and delight tome. I could stop and read, and look at the landscape through which wo whirled, and do as other people do. And still I didn’t feel ready to confess to a cure until I had tried the sleeping-car, which has always been a horror to me. But even here the ‘ spell’ worked. I ate a hearty supper in the dining-car-*-add kept it 1 Slept soundly all night, got up as comfortably, and dressed with as level a head and as steady a hand ns though I had been in my own room. Read until breakfast time—a thing I have never done on the cars—and was hungry for my morning meal. It is really wonderful, almost too good to be real. For the first time in my life I have experienced the pleasure of traveling. I wish that conductor to be especially thanked.”— New York Daily Times.

The Rapid Telegraph. The capacity of a single line of telegraph wire has always been limited by the quickness of the operator. The electricity passes from end to end of the longest line without appreciable loss of time. A sender of average ability can transmit twenty-five words a minute, or fifty messages an hour. This being the limit of a single wire, many lines have become necessary between large cities, to provide for the constant increase in pie use of the telegraph by all classes. A few years ago, Mr. Etlison discovered and applied the quadniplex system. By this invention, four messages can be sent at one time over the same., wire, two each way. As its name implies, it increased the carrying capacity of a wire four-fold. But the new system of the Rapid Telegraph Company is even more wonderful. By this method the messages are transferred to a paper-tape which is perforated by a machine with a key-board, operated like a type-writer. Many persons are kept busy at these machines preparing these messages. When the tape is reaily it is wound on a wheel. Now, instead of the operator making each letter by successive clicks of the telegraph key, he /imply turns the wheel, and steel points, like the nibs of a pen, trace their way over the perforated tape, and wherever there are holes the circuit is completed and the electric current reports at the other end of the line, in dots or dashes, long or short, as the perforation may be. The messages are then translated from the telegraphic code and printed in full by the aid of the type-writer, ready for delivery. By this invention, the capacity of a wire is increased thirty-fold. In a minute 1,000 words may be sent, involving 500 pulsations a second of the electric current. All these improvements are in the direction of cheap and efficient telegraphy.

Our Bad Manners. We are endeavoring to lift the people to the plane of intelligence and material comfort, and even luxury, in the matter of education, food, apparel and dwellings. While doing this we are. perhaps, neglecting our manners and getting to be somewhat too brusque and careless of each other’s feelings. Every age, even the worst, has had its good point, its redeeming feature, which has been its reason for being what it was. The comedies of Shakespeare, which are full of a delicate social aroma that is exhaled by its charming heroines, and is subtle and fragrant as the odor of “a bank of violets,” show that the feudal times, bad and dark as they were in mosts respects, had at least a commodity of good manners in their upper circles which are worthy even •f our imitation.— -Boston Herald.

Borrowing and loaning stocks—When a party has sold stock short and not bought it in by the time delivery must be made, he “borrows” the stock for the purpose of making a delivery, paying the owner the market price at the time, and agreeing to return it at the same price on demand or at a fixed time, the lender of the stock paying the borrower an agreed rate of interest on the money, or the borrower paying the lender an agreed premium for the use of the ■took, as the case may be.

Many a man who thinks himself a great gun is nothing mor® than a big