Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The French appear to have encountered a foe in Africa more dangerous and more .deadly than the united force of the Kroutnir. Typhoid fever is playing havoc among the garrisons at the interior posts, and several have ;been abandoned because of its prevalence there. The hospitals are full, and the graves are being filled. A Turkish force of 1,000 men has arrived at Tripoli. Parisian newspapers think this a menace from tho Sultan. One hundred lives were lost and several villages were devastated by an earthquake m the Pashalik of Van, Armenia. * Czar Alexander 111. declined to grant :an audience to the publisher of the Moscow ‘Gazette. Not the first man in office who has ’refused to be interviewed. One hundred and ten persons in all were arrested in Ireland under the (Joercian act up to the 9th inst. Russian peasants are emigrating from the Government of Tomsk to that of Siberia, on account of their poverty. The large majority (250 to 70) in the French Chamber of Deputies against advancing the date of dissolution of tho Chambers ii •said to be a greater rebuff to Gainbotta than the rejection of the scrutiu de liste. The German Reichstag is alarmed at the immigration of Roumanian Jews into Germany, and that of German laborers to this country. The latter was allowed to bo due to the fact that the laborers were badly off in their own country. Iroquois, the American horse, has won another victory on the British turf, the same being the Prince of Wales stake at tho Ascot races. Twelve members of the royal family, including the Prince of Wales, attended in state. A Russian Socialist is said to have escaped from Siberia and reached Switzerland —the second event of the kind in history. Keogh, the first man arrested at Limerick under the Coercion act, has been released. In the Italian Chamber of Deputies a proposition for woman suffrage received one vote. On the question of universal suffrage the vote was 314 nays to 39 ye ■ The French troops are being gradually withdrawn from Tunisian and Algerian territory. The Governmental authorities aisert that tho reports of sickness in the aimy have been greatly exaggerated. England has refused to co-operate with Italy against Franco with regard to the Roustan and Tunisian diplomatic intermediary. The fact is England, with a large force in Ireland and troops in India and South Africa, has all she can attend to at present.

Tho Boy of Tunis has appointed his clown to the post of President of Municipalities and Administrator of Religious Corporations. The authorities of Switzerland, after a full and careful examination into the trichinosis scare, have decided that it is nothing but a scare, and that no prohibition or compulsory inspection of American moats will bo enforced. The steamer Tararua, plying along the coast of New Zealand, was recently wrecked, and 130 lives lost. Iroquois has a third timo been victorious. He beat Leon for the St. James Palace Stakes on the Ascot course. Foxhall, who contested for the gold cup, was beaten, coming in fourth. An insurgent tribe in Algiers has been annihilated by native troops, who captured 1,500 camels and found sixty-six dead men. In Uruguay, South America, a decree has been issued forbidding newspapers, on pain of a heavy flue, to discuss politics or to create obstacles for the present Government. Several Senators and Deputies have resigned on account of this threat, and the foreign legations are crowded with journalists hiding from the wrath of the powers that be. The Government, too, controls the mob which attacks printing-offices supposed to be hostile to its masters. H. M. S. Polyphemus, a torpedo ram of 2,610 tons, was launched at Chatham, England, tho other day. Her deck is only four and one-half feet above water. She is fitted with a twelve-foot ram, and has engines of 5,500 horse-power. , DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. XCa.st. •Over $2,000,000 worth ot property was destroyed in the vicinity of Pittsburgh by che r“cent flood in the Allegheny river The Chinese Government has established a school of telegraphy at Hartford, Ct., where Gorham B. Hubbell will instruct forty young Celestials in the construction and operation of lines. Z. M. Hewitt, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., a manager of Adams Express Company for twenty-five years, is dead. Brooklyn’s big bridge has so far cost $13,000,000. It will be completed within this year, and will be one of the wonders of the age. Robert Martin, an English machinist of Newark, N. J., shot his wife dead and inflicted a mortal wound on his child.

The Wavy iron firm of E. P. Cutler & Co., of Boston, has suspended business, with liabilities of $600,000. Two of the Pierrepont warehouses in Brooklyn were burned, causing damage to the amount of $300,000. One man was burned alive and another fatally injured. Silas M. Waite, ex-President of the First National Bank of Brattleboro, Vt., pleaded gudty to the charge of making false returns, and was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in the House of Correction.

The Adams white-lead works, near Baltimore, w ere destroyed by lire, involving a loss of $75,000. A passenger train on the Schuylkill and Lehigh railroad Was thrown off the track near Beading, Pa., causing the instant death of fireman Charles Matthews and injury to several passengers and the engineer. The accident was caused by a log which was placed across the track. Alexander C. Walker, a liquor-dealer of New York, lost a package of railroad bonds representing a value of SIOO,OOO walking along Broadway. West. As the Chicago express train on the Wabash railroad, going north, passed through Raymond, Montgomery county. 111., on the night of the 13th inst., it ran into a wagon containing seven persons, killing four of them outright, and more or less injuring the others. The wife of a respected farmer named Albert Creswell, her child and two nephews were the yioUmfr

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME V.

A flock of 160 blooded sheep were killed by lightning on the farm of CoL D. A. Alkert, in Nodaway county, Mo. The villages of King City, Rosendale and Berlin, situated in Northwestern Missouri, were visited on Sunday night, the 12th inst., by a catastrophe of appalling dimensions. Early in the morning a cyclone swept down on the devoted villagers and their rural neighbors with resistless fury, aad marked its pathway with desolation and death. Scarcely had the people begun to comprehend the calamity that had befallen them, when a second cyclone appeared to complete whatever destruction the first had left undone. The resultant loss of property is placed at from $400,000 to $500,000, while the death list is large but not definite. A most destructive hurricane also swept through Central lowa on the afternoon of the 19th, killing and maiming a number of persons, causing immense damage to the crops, killing cattle and poultry, and demolishing many residences and outbuildings. The number of human lives lost has not yet been definitely ascertained, but it will not be much If any less than twenty. The storm at some points was of tremendous force, and there was no withstanding it. The hailstones which fell were of immense size, in some cases as large as goose-eggs, and caused great bavoc among birds, rabbits and game of all kinds throughout the storm area. The vicinity of Wells, in Minnesota, suffered from a cyclonic visitation on the 12th inst. Houses, barns and fences were prostrated, and two or three people killed.

A Breckinridge (Col.) dispatch says that near that town four feet of carbonates have been struck at a depth of 100 feet Tho ore assays 135 ounces of silver and five ounces of gold to the ton. Lee Chin, a Chinaman in Cheyenne, Wy. T., having been arrested for miscegenation, he being married to a white woman, was acquitted on the ground that the marriage was considered legal in Colorado, where he was mar riod. His compatriots, however, declare that Lee Chin has disgraced himself by marrying “ Melican” woman, and have “ cast him out.” Juan Monterea, of Taos, New Mexico, killed Lem Gallager with a hoe for interfering in a fight with his mother. A lynching party swung Monterea from the Court House railing on the same evening. Bob Ingersoll has struck it rich in his investment in New Mexican mines. The particulars of the recent great tornadoes in Northeastern Kansas, Northwestern Missouri, and Central lowa show that wherever the cyclone struck the earth the destruction of buildings, orchards, forests and growing crops was complete. Many persons \vere injured, but only a few killed, as far as can be ascertained. Scores of people lost their homes and all their property. ■ Tho terrific force and destructive effects of these tornadoes were similar to those which desolated the Western and Southern localities of former years. Eight, coal-heavers were drowned at Cincinnati by the overturning of a skiff in the middle of the Ohio river.

South. Ice-cream poisoned twelve persons in Atlanta, Ga., but it is believed that all will recover. A colored roustabout appeared before Commissioner Lane. at Monroe, La., and made affidavit that Charles Hancon, mate of th' steamboat D. Stein, lulled throe deck-hands with brass knucklesand buried their bodies under a tree. They have been having some excessively hot weather in the South. Many eases of sunstroke occurred at New Orleans. At Vicksburg the thermometer reached 101 in the shade. Highwaymen robbed the stage between Fayetteville and Alma, in Northern Arkansas. By the explosion of an oil lamp the Swepsoii nulls in Alamance county, N. C., was set fire to and destroyed. The mill gave employment to 207 operatives, and was valued at $200,000. Tho insurance was $70,000.

POLITICAL POINTS. 'There were only 104 members of the Legislature in tho joint convention at Albany on the 11th inst., and tho ballot for Senators showed no changes of candidates worthy of note. Assemblyman Trimble, a Now York lawyer, testified before the Bribery Committee that he had been offered money by a lobbyist named Edwards to change his vote from I’latt to Depew.

The balloting at Albany on the 13th inst. was of about the same monotonous nature as of the preceding days, and gave no indication of an early break of the dead-lock. The Bribery Investigating Committee examined and cross-examined Assemblyman Bradley at great length. He reiterated the story that Senator Sessions had tried to corrupt him, and detailed the circumstances. 'The friends of ex-Senator Thurman say ho will not accept the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio. He will remain in Europe a year or more. Associated Press telegram from Washington : “The Secretary of the National Greenback Committee, says that the Greenback members of the next Congress will stand solidly together on all questions. He says nine members of the next House are pledged to meet in Greenback caucus and determine upon and carry out Greenback politics. These nine members counted upon are Ladd and Murch, of Maine ; Bramin and Mosgrove, of Pennsylvania ; Bife, Hazeltine, Burroughs and Fort, of Missouri, and Jones, of Texas.” Judge Allen G. Thurman writes to his son from Paris that he cannot accept a renomination for Governor of Ohio, but will retire to private life on the completion of his duties at the International Monetary Conference.

The fourteenth ballot for Senators at Albany showed 55 votes for Depew, 51 for Kernan, 26 for Platt, and 10 for Cornell. For the short term Jacobs received 50, Conkling 31, Rogers 28, and Wheeler 23. The Bribery Investigation Committee had two more sessions June 14, Bradley occupying the stand in the forenoon, and Sessions in the afternoon. The former denied all knowledge of any conspiracy against Sessions, and corroborated portions of his previous testimony, introducing a few new incidents. He was subjected to a long crossexamination, and maintained the general features of his original story with politeness. President Garfield, says a Washington telegram, is strongly inclined to help Mahone in the Virginia campaign, but has informed Congressman Tucker that the Cabinet will decide the matter. . . _ The Pennsylvania Greenbackers held a State Convention at Pottsville, and nominated R. W. Jackson, of Mercer county, for State Treasurer,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA. FRIDAY. JUNE 24, 1881.

The Greenback-Labor party of Ohio met in convention at Columbus and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, John Sietz, of Seneca ; Lieutenant Governor, Charles Jenkins, of Mahouing ; Supreme Judge, Joseph Watson, of Knox; Attorney General, E. M. Tuttle, of Lake; Treasurer, W. F. Lloyd, of Montgomery; member of Board of I’ublic Works, H. L. Morrison, of Ashtabula. The ballot for Senator at Albany on the 15th inst. showed no change in the situation. The Bribery Investigating Committee finished with Senator Sessions and heard two or three new witnesses Sessions maintained his version of the interviews with Bradley to the end. Assemblyman Young related his experk neo with the lobbyist Edwards, and the latter’s attempt to bribe him. The moot significant fact of the day was given by the President of the National Commercial Bank of Albany, who testified that on June 4 his bank cashed for Edwards a draft on New York, signed A. D. Barber, for $2,000. The sixteenth ballot for Senators from New York gave Depew, for the long term, 54 votes. Kernan 52, aud Platt 27 ; while for the short term Jacobs polled 51 votes, Wheeler 88> and Conkling 32. The Central Committee of the anti-Conkling Republicans met and adopted resolutions declaring that, inasmuch as Depew bad received tho votes of a majority of the Republican members of tho Legislature, it was the duty of all the Republican members who desire that the State shall be properly represented in the United States Senate to concentrate their votes on him, and thus throw the responsibility of defeating an elect ; on on the friends of the Senators who created a vacancy. In the bribery investigation, Orsino 8. Jones was examined, and corroborated Bradley’s evidence. The lowa Democratic State Convention mot at Des Moines June 16, 350 delegates being in attendance. Judge L. D. Kinne was nominated for Governor, Capt. J. M. Walker for Lieutenant Governor, Hon. H. B. Hendershott for Judge of the Supreme Court, and Prof. W. H. Butler for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The ballot in the New York Legislature, Juno 17, for Senator for the short term gave Conkling 27 votes, Wheeler 36, and Jacobs 47. Platt had 23 supporters for the long term, Depew 53, and Kernan 48. In the bribery investigation, Senator Strahan testified that John I. Davenport offered him the New York Marshalship if he would vote against Conkling, which trade was declined with thanks. A Virginia Republican delegation, headed by Gen. Wickham, was told by President G arfield that he was emphatically opposed to a violation of public faith and credit; that no one was authorized to promise appointments or threaten removals, and he would not give the patronage of any State to one man.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Chin Lan Pin, the Chinese Minister at Washington, is to be recalled. His successor, Chiang Tsan Yu', has been for some years a prominent revenue officer.

Miss M. M. Gillett, a Wisconsin woman, has been appointed a notary public for the District of Columbia. She has the honor of being the first .lady notary ever appointed by a President of the United States.

Depositors of the Freedmen’s Bank have $3.40 each due them on unclaimed dividends. As soon as the bank property is sold the final dividend will be paid, making a total of 60 per cent, paid each depositor.

Owing to the fact that the appropriations for gaugers and storekeepers for the present fiscal year are very nearly exhausted, Collectors of Internal Revenue have been directed to inform the gaugers and storekeepers employed under them that they will be only paid to the 20th of June.

Brady and Dorsey, it is said, will be the first batch of star-route operators to be prosecuted by the Government. No indictments against other alleged criminals will be asked when the prosecution is uncertain of procuring conviction. It is reported that Auditor French is satisfied with the condition of the Central Pacific railroad and its capability of daily settling with the Government.

Rear Admiral Rodgers, President of the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, has submitted the report of the board to the Secretary of the Navy. It favors the inhibition of tobacco by the cadets, the substitution of tho latest kind of ordnance for the old-fashioned weapons, aud the raising of the standard of admission.

During the month of May of this year 117,482 immigrants arrived in this country, and during the eleven months ending May 31, 534,294 arrived. Of the latter number 175,306 were Germans, 110,611 came from Canada, 61,796 from Ireland, 57,861 were English and Welsh, 12,628 Scotch, 7,443 Chinese, and 138,649 came from all other countries.

The digging of the Panama canal does not progress iu a very satisfactory manner. The stations have been abandoned, brigades of workingmen have been disbanded, engineers have given up the work and returned home, and affairs generally are in a very mixed condition.

W. N. Dudley, United States Marshal of Indiana, has been appointed Commissioner of Pensions, vice J. A Bentley, resigned ; Judge Noah C. McFarland, of Topeka, Kan., was appointed Commissioner of the General Laud Office, vice Gen. Williamson, resigned. . . ' - Secretary Lincoln has issued an order declaring that the whole number of enlisted men allowed for clerical duty shall be thirteen sergeants, twenty-one corporals, 107 privates and sixteen topographical assistants, and the Generalof the Army will regulate their distribution. Secretary Windom has dismissed O. L. Pitney, the “crooked” treasury Custodian, andhas abolished the office.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Goh. Joseph T!. "Johnston has been interiuWrtxlin.reference to thnstrietnres On him sw&«»htary manmade by ’JWferson Davis in ins recently published work; In reference to Davis” st'Stbment Chat hie ought to have taken Washington after the victory at Bull Bun, he saidhit jwAs tossed on the hue-and-cry raised in ’after the victory, and intimates that Davis is either ignorant of the true state of affairs or willfully misrepresents the facts. To take Washington at that time he declares was impossible. Other statemerits fflt DaviS JOhnston pronounces utterly false. Other parts of the book which refer to him he pronounces as misleading, unjust, without foundation, and without justification, except in the ignorance of the author as to matters ot which he professes knowledge.

“A Firm, Adherence to Correct Principles.”

Prof. Riley says the thirteen-year and seventeen-year locusts have appeared simultaneously in the West and South, for the first time in two centuries, and will soon suddenly disappear.

Jay Gould has filed at Atchison articles of incorporation for the Missouri Pacific railroad, of Kansas, with a capital of $500,000, to lay a track from Atchison to Omaha. Tho Chicago, Burlington and Quincy managers have been threatening that in this event they would construct a line from Beatrice, Neb., to Salina, Kan., which would cut three Gould roads, and divide the live-stock traffic of the Union Pacific. It is probable that the Southwest is to have a lively war of construction parties over the violation of an agreement A laborer who was recently injured on the Canada Pacific railway, and is now lying in the hospital at Winnipeg, confesses that he is the lost Sir Boger Tichborne. In the Province of Quebec farmers fear they will lose then hay crop in consequence of the drought. At Thetford Township, P. Q., Canada, thirty-six houses, two saw-mills and much lumber were burned near the Asbestos mines. Lieut. James B. Lockwood, United States army, sailed from Baltimore for St. John’s, Newfoundland, to join tho steamer Proteus, of the Greeley expedition to Lady Franklin bay. The verdict of the London (Ontario) jury who investigated the steamer Victoria disaster was that she capsized on account of water in the hold and striking a snag or rock in the river. They attach blame to the engineer, Captain, manager, and the Government inspector.

•Some railroad lines not having maintained the tariff on grain, Commissioner Fink has authorized a general reduction of the tariff on the basis of 20 cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to New York. A further reduction will be made if this rate is not maintained.

The Department of Agriculture at Washington has issued the following crop report: Spring Wheat—The acreage shows a large decline since last year. In the area reported to the department, only 86 per cent, of that sown in 1880. The condition is, however, fully equal to that of last year at the same time. Winter Wheat—The condition is reported at an average for the whole country of only 76. The principal complaints are from Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, where, added to most unfavorable weather, there is great damage by chinch-bugs and the Hessian fly. California reports a very low condition, caused by cold weather and drought. A lady of San Francisco has written to Lieut. Berry, asking to be taken on the Arctic expedition, with the proviso that if found an incumbrance she may be thrown overboard to the whales. It is officially stated that 612 houses were destroyed in the Quebec fire, making homeless 1,211 families, consisting of 6,028 individuals, two-thirds of whom lost all, and without insurance. Burned: A woolen factory and a chair factory at Appleton, Wis., loss SIOO,OOO.

CROP REPORTS FOR 1879.

Washington, Juno 14. The census for the cereal product of 1880, which is the crop of 1879, has been completed. It shows the constantly-increasing prosperity of the country. The total wheat and corn crop is 3,232,679,681 bushels. The total rye, oats, barley and buckwheat is 481,905,000 bushels. The total product of the country aggregated 2,714,603,681 bushels. This is a remarkable increase in the productions of cereals during (lie last decade. During the last ten years Indiana and Illinois have nearly doubled their wheat production, lowa has quadrupled hers, Minnesota doubled, Wisconsin suffered a loss of about 1,000,000 bushels. Kansas increased eight-fold, and Nebraska and Colorado sevenfold. The following are the complete returns of wheat and corn as complied by the Census Bureau for 1880:

Wheat, 1880. Corn, 1880. Ohio 46,014,869 112,681,046 Indiana 47,288,089 117,121,915 Illinois 51,136,455 327,706,895 Michigan 35,537,097 36,844,229 lowa 31,177,225 276,093,295 Wieconein 21,884,680 35,991,461 Minnesota 34,625,675 14,979,744 Missouri 24,971,727 203,464,620 Kansas 17,324,141 106,791,482 Nebraska 13,846,742 65,785,572 Colorado 1,475,559 455,988 Dakota 3,018,354 2,078,089 Montana 469,688 5,794 Wyoming 4,752 65,000 Idaho 540,564 16,408 Utah 1,167,268 164,244 New Mexico 708,788 650,954 Arizona 189,517 36,246 Washington 1,921,382 39,906 Nevada 70,404 12,891 Oregon 7,486,492 127,675 California 28,787,133 2,050,007 Total 272,647,511 1,303,188,529

Total for the country: Wheat and corn, rye, oats, barley and buckwheat, 481,905,000. Total, 2,714.602,681.

Cultivation of Self-Respect.

A child that is uniformly treated wish courtesy, with consideration, with justice, will unconsciously deem himself worthy of such treatment, and will become worthy of it, unless he is by nature wholly base; and he will unconsciously treat others as he is treated. It is a fearful thing to give a child the lie, to accuse him of stealing, to accustom him to unexpected and unmerited blows and cuffs. He may merit punishment, but the wise parent never will admit into the household vocabulary the terrible words ‘ ‘ liar” and “thief,” and will never permit in himself or others the hasty blow, the bitter taunt, the stinging epithet. The refined and educated parent can never tolerate such language as we have indicated. Bitter words are more cruel than blows and inflict more lasting injuries. Care in the choice of associates will do much to foster self-respect in a child. Some mothers think their sons and daughters can go where they choose and play with whom they please, and come out all well in the end. There never was a greater mistake. As well might one think it no difference what air we breathe. Children are quicker than we to catch the tone of associates, to pick up slang words, bad grammar, vulgar ideas—these often seem to be taken in through the very pores, as typhoid poison is, when least expected. Care in the choice of reading will do much to foster due self-respect in a child. The boy who grows up with a familiar knowledge of Washington, of Franklin, of Lincoln, and other great men who have been the" glory of the nations in which they have been conspicuous, will be far more likely to find his mind filled with noble images, with high ideals, with lofty ambitions, than one who reads sensational newspapers, dime novels, and the comic almanac. Any soil that yields abundantly must contain in itself elements of fertility, and barren soil may have elements artificially supplied to them.

In a class of little girls at school, the question was asked, “What is a fort ?” “ A place to put men in,” was the ready reply. “What is a fortress, then?” asked the teacher. This seemed a puzzle, till one of the answered, “ A place to put women in.”

CARFIELD.

Digging His Own Pitfalls—The Stalwart Split—The Rejection of the Caucus— MacVeagh Versus Blaine. [Washington Cor. New York Sun.] There is at least one Ohio Republican remaining in Washington who did not feel interest enough to go home to help renominate Foster, and who is not likely to do much toward his election. “ I’m not particularly a stalwart,” said he, “ but I am of the opinion Garfield is behaving very much like a crazy man. If ever he possessed wisdom, he certainly does not show it. Just see how he’s cut his own throat in half a dozen ways. Take the anti-caucus, the go-as-you-please rule his supporters have invented that he is backing up at Albany. Why it’s just what the Taft men and other stalwarts in Ohio want, and what they will smash Garfield’s and Foster’s heads with next October. Thousands of Republicans then who wish to rank as party men will hide behind this precedent to lay out Foster. If Garfield at Albany may refuse caucus and set up the go-as-you-please rule, Ohio Republicans may do so at home, aud they will do it, as the game now stands. Garfield has just begun to see this, and wants to escape from the consequences of his own folly. You ask me if I credit the report from Albany that Garfield has written a letter crawfishing about Conkling and Platt. I can say that it accords perfectly with much I have heard of him lately ; in fact, he said nearly the same thing to me and another, and I am prepared to believe he has written it according to the report. I really believe he would embrace Conkling in genuine earnest were he to present himself at the White House and if that would heal the breach. There is no fight in Garfield except as Blaine spurs him to it. He has fairly wilted of late. There seems to be something more the matter with him than who shall be Senator. He acts like a man that somebody has got a twist on in a secret way like.” We were here joined by an Indiana Republican of some repute as a politician. At first he was not disposed to talk, save about the weather and the like. When railed about it, he said : “I don’t feel much like talking ; it’s too much like a funeral. It seemed so for a good while to me. You ask who’s tho corpse? Why .Garfield, of course. And he’s so changed, too. But that’s making light of what may be a serious fact, as it appears to me. I only meant it was a political funeral. He’s going to catch it badly in Ohio, where he might have had a good thing. There’s just one chance, and that’s fast running out. Were he to stand from under in the fight Blaine has got him into, and call the dogs off in all quarters, he might save himself. I suppose yon will think me almost as crazy as Garfield when I tell you it is yet possible to get Conkling and Grant to put their shoulders under to save Foster, even to the extent of making speeches, but I tell yon I’m not crazy at all. If Garfield wasn’t worse than crazy, this, or something like it, would go into history before the Ohio election. Somebody or something seems to be killing Garfield by inches.” And here the Indianian stroked his beard solemnly and thoughtfully. “ I like Garfield, aud worked hard for him," he continued, “ and I’m distressed to see him go down hill so. He’s no longer the buoyant, jolly good fellow he used to be when he went behind the Speaker’s chair up in the House to smoke and crack jokes. You would not know him, he’s so altered. He tries to be joyous, but it’s a distressing exhibition lie makes of himself, it’s so unnatural. He may come out all right. He would, perhaps, if his way could be made easy for him. By the way, what sort of a fellow is Arthur ?” I answered that he was very much of a mar, a clever gentleman in the estimation of his friends, with more than average of general ability. “ Why do you ask ?” said I. “ Oh, nothing special,” said the Indianian, with a serious air; “ only I was thinking when I left Garfield yesterday how it would be if anything should happen. The warm weather is coming on, things are crowding worse and worse every day, and sometimes, you know, men not used to such things give out rather sudden, and I was just thinking how it would be if Arthur should be President in less than a year.” Turning the conversation, I inquired what was the feeling in the West and Northwest, where he had recently been. “Well,” he answered, “ I was in Wisconsin the other day, where I found the feeling among Republicans setting in favor of Conkling, rather because they couldn’t see why there should be any quarrel at all. What in Tophet did Garfield get into a fight for? It was his business to have no fight. “This an average Wisconsin Republican put to me, and it appears to reflect the general idea wherever I have been. I told Garfield so only yesterday, and he laughed at it, but the laugh was more like a maniac’s than asane man’s.”

At this point a Pennsylvanian joined the circle. After observing that his was Monongahela clear, he said : “ Blaine’s not the only man that’s giving Garfield trouble. MacVeagh’s as full of mischief as Blaine, and he’s got a contract on his hands to protect Don Cameron’s interest from all harm. He won’t hold out long, though ; but for the present Don’s safe for all that Blaine can influence Garfield against him, for the wily Attorney General is as nigh as anybody to the President when he wants to be. Don’s helping Conkling, and there’s something going on with MacVeagh for a medium. I think it’s the reason Garfield is said to have weakened in the Conkling fight. Just you listen a minute,” said the Pennsylvanian; “just you look at it; there’s something going on, and MacVeagh’s yet standing square for Don, and Don’s standing square for Conkling—l might say for Grant, for with Don Grant’s everybody and everything. You should know Don—everybody should know him—for I tell you, gentlemen, there’s nothing in the new version truer than Don is to his word and a friend. He cculdn’t be otherwise, being Scotch, and I’m Scotch. Well, I was saying, Don at Albany, and MacVeagh here, why, Garfield couldn’t do otherwise than weaken, except when Blaine was around. I spoke of MacVeagh’s giving Garfield trouble; this is the way he’s doing it— making trouble with Blaine. Don’t you forget it, gentlemen. MacVeagh’s going to be top of the heap here pretty soon, if he ain’t already. Going to try the star cases ? you ask. He never tried anything he could settle. You don’t know him, let me tell you, Don and he haven’t hitched - for some time before the late alliance, on account of JJill

Chandler, ~ but they are together now and will be till MacVeagh can set up for himself. He never stops long with any one. You may discount clear down the stories about Garfield’s getting after Don Cameron, unless Blaine gets a new hold of him, when there will be a row.” Said he, suddenly! “ Who’s going to be Speaker of the next House of Congress ? ‘ Don’t know,’ you say. I can tell you. Wm. D. Kelley is his name—the father of the Housa, they call bim, because he’s been there longest. Nobody’s got the majority, and let me just inform you that the little band Kelley belongs to—call them Independente, Greenbackers, or what not—they are going to have the Speaker. He’s my sort of Republican, and isn’t mixed to hurt anybody. Neither administration nor anti-adminis-tration is going to win in that fight. The Independents are going to decide it. I’m not going to let out the particulars now, but don’t you forget his name is Bill Kelley.” Here the Pennsylvanian said he had a little office matter to look after down at the department.

EX-GOV. SEYMOUR’S VIEWS.

Decadence of the Republican Party. Ex-Gov. Seymour was interviewe d on the political situation. He looks upon the Albany contest as affording evidence of the disintegration of the Republican party. “ I see in it,” he said, “ a conflict between elements whose struggles foretell the early dismemberment of the party. Recent exposures of corrupt practices at Albany prove what the people have long suspected, and I would not be surprised to hear of still further aud more damaging disclosures before the investigation is concluded. “ The Republicans are tearing themselves to pieces, and, as you may imagine, we Democrats do not feel like interfering. The result of the wrangle that is now going on will, in my opinion, be the redemption of the State from the control of the Republicans. New York is naturally Democratic ; it is traditionally Democratic. Its greatest and most distinguished men have been Democrats, and the best part of its history is that part which was made while it was under Democratic rule. Last fall the State was taken from the Democrats by false pretenses. The tariff issue was raised to frighten short-sighted men, and the Democratic party was considerably divided. Prospects are brighter now.”

The venerable ex-Governor was quite free iu the expression of opinions about President Garfield. He thinks that the President has made a great failure thus far. “I have very little faith in men who quit preaching for politics,” he said, “and Gen. Garfield is no exception to the rule. He has carried with him much that is impracticable. It was a great mistake for him to have left the Senate. There he would have made a better impression than he can hope to as President. He is a man of very fair general information and education, and a ready and forcible talker; yet he is a very yielding man by nature, and since he entered upon the discharge of his duties as President that side of his character has been turned to the public oftenest. It is best for a man iu public life to be himself at all times, and not try to be like somebody else. Some men are firm aud self-willed and accustomed to having their own way. Gen. Jackson was that kind of a man. Garfield is entirely different. He is weak and anxious to please everybody, and, when he sets out to be a second Gen. Jackson, the effort is unnatural and must end in failure. It'was natural for Jackson to command obedience ; it is not so with Garfield. More men have been ruined trying to belike Gen. Jackson than from all other causes combined.

“ Since Gen. Garfield lias been prominent in public life, and more especially of late years, his constant and unceasing prayer has been that he might be led into temptation. He is the first man I ever knew who is praying all the time that he might be tempted. Every speech he has made is full of that prayer. He is oppressed yvith a great fear of centralization; yet he invites the growth and development of the idea by his every act. “After the war there was a strong reaction against State rights ; nevertheless States have rights independent of the General Government, and it is in the recognition and preservation of these rights that the safety of the people lies. While recognizing the danger of an increase of centralized power, Gen. Garfield has been and is doing all in his power to centralize the governing power in Washington city. One of these days the people will take the Republican statesmen who are struggling to obliterate State rights at their word. To-day one-half of the population of the United States is embraced within the boundaries of nine States. These nine States have eighteen Representatives in the Senate, or less than one-fourth of the whole. New England, with a population of 4,000,000, has twelve Senators, and New York, with a population of 5,000,000 of people, only two Senators. The great States of Illinois and Ohio, with a population as large as New England, have one-third the Representatives. Some time the people will become so infatuated with the idea that the Republican leaders are preaching but not practising that they will take into their heads to change existing forms and have a uniform representation in the Senate. Then where will Maine and the other little States be ? They will be swallowed up. This is just what the Republicans are inviting, if they could see it. The constitution protects the States ; but the constitution has been changed, and it may undergo additional modification when the people want it. The Senate is the controlling body, and the Senate, influenced largely by the New England representatives, has put a heavy burden on tne West, and, for that matter, upon the whole country, by subsidizing monopolies and giving them growth. The great producing regions may become tired of this and make a change. ”

IOWA DEMOCRATS IN COUNCIL.

’l'lie State Convention at Des Moines. The Democratic State Convention of lowa assembled at Des Moines on Thursday, June 16. Col. E. D. Fenn, of Story county, was chosen temporary Chairman, and T. O. Walker, of Davis, temporary Secretary, with assistant secretaries. In taking the chair Mr. Fenn returned thanks for the honor conferred, and made a speech which was well received. Committees on Credentials, Permanent Organization and Resolutions were appointed. The following were appointed members of the State Central Committee: First district, Edward Campbell, Jr., of Jefferson ; Second, A. W. Richardson, of Jackson ; Fourth, G. It.

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Miller, of Grandy; Fifth, J. J. Snouffer. of Linn ; Sixth. P. G. Ballingall, of Wapello; Seventh, J. P. Hall, of Decatur; Eighth, Hoyt Sherman, Jr., of Shelby ; Ninth, John Dowd, Jr., of Webtiter. The Committee on Credentials reported seventy-five comities represented. The Committee on Permanent Organization reported W. A. Stow, of Fremont comity. as President, with Vice Presidents and Secretaries from each Congressional district. On taking the chair Mr. Stow made a strong speech, which was enthusiastically applauded. A letter from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of lowa, asking action favorable to the prohibitory amendment, was referred to the Committee on Resolutions. The Committee on Resolutions reported as follows : The Democratic party of lowa, assembled in convention, reaffirms the national platform of 1878 and 1880; demands strict economy in all public expenditures, the strict accountability of all public servants, and declares: 1. For tariff reform, ultimating in a simple revenue system, with commercial freedom as its issue. , 2. That we oppose all sumptuary laws, and the proposed prohibitory amendment to the constitution, in all its steps and stages, as the most offensive form of sumptuary legislation. 3. That the great agricultural aiid producing interests of the country should be emancipated from the burdens of monopoly put upon them by Republican rale, and as a feature of such relief for the cheapening of transportation by Government appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi river, with its navigable tributaries and other water-ways. 4. That we execrate the constant official corruption grown into an invariable Republican practice, and that the demand of our national platform for civil-service reform is fully emphasized by the immense spectacle of Republican factions, disturbing the public peace, not by agitation of great measures of statesmanship, but by a vulgar quarrel over a partition of public spoils, and a squabble for the opportunities of official theft. THE NOMINATIONS. Nominations for Governor being declared in order, the Hon. John P. Irish presented the name of Judge L. G. Kinne, of Tama county, as a candidate for Governor, and his nomination was made by acclamation by a rising vote of the convention. Justice Clark, of Montgomery county, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor by James Hageman, of Lee county, and G. M. Walker, of Polk county, was nominated by Mr. Yeoman, of Webster county. . The first ballot resulted : Clark, 199; Walker, 212. Mr. Walker’s nomination was then made unanimous. H. B. Hendershot, of Wapello county, was nominated by acclamation (or Judge of the Supreme Court. Walter H. Butler, of Delaware county, was nominated for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The convention then adjourned.

BITS OF INFORMATION.

The gauntlet which was commonly thrown down as a challenge to an adversary was an iron glove. It was part of the full suit of armor.

John Carboll, who was born at Upper Marlborough, Md., in 1735, was the first Boman Catholic Bishop in the United States. He was appointed to that office in 1789.

The saying, “ Nine tailors make a man,” is a perversion of “ Nine tellers mark a man.” A toll of a bell is called a teller, and at the death of a man was tolled three times three times; hence the expression, “Nine tailors make a man.” Wyckliffe, the “ Morning Star of the Reformation,” is supposed to be the scholar who, with the aid of learned Associates, made the first complete translation of the Bible into the English language. This great undertaking, it is believed, was completed about 1383, not long before the death of the great reformer.

It is stated upon what is believed to be good authority—William 8. Patterson —that, while the date of the introduction of printing into America is uncertain, yet it is believed that the art was introduced into Mexico by Viceroy de Antonio de Mendoza, probably after his arrival in October, 1535. The same authority states that the first printer was Juan Pablos.

UmbbkTjLAS are an invention of great antiquity. They are seen in the sculp tures of ancient Egypt and Assyria. They are also seen on early Greek vases. They were used by our Saxon ancesti>rs as a shelter, or mark of distinction, for royalty. In an Anglo-Saxon manuscript of the tenth century, preserved in th< British Museum, is the drawing of a King, who has an umbrella held over his head by an attendant, in the same way as it is borne over modern Eastern Kings. The form is precisely similar to those now in use, though they were an entire novelty when reintroduced in the last century.

The expression, “ Don’t crowd the mourners,” is said to have originated in this way: The Mier prisoners in Mexico were compelled to draw lots. A number of beans were placed in a hat, every tenth bean being a black one. The man who drew the black bean was to be executed the next morning. Gne of the unfortunates, who had already drawn a black bean, was jostled accidentally by a fellow-captive, who was crowding up to try his luck. The jostled person, whose fate was already sealed, laughing ly remarked : “Go slow; don’t crowd the mourners, boys.” Chocks were first used in monasteries, and the word originally meant bell, and the two—clock and bell—in calling their inmates to their devotions, performed the same office. They were, however, tower clocks ; not small ones for apartments. One was set up in Prance in 1734, and created a great excitement, being the wonder of the age. The maker of it was made a nobleman for his services in constructing so great a piece of workmanship. The first one in En gland was during the reign of Edward I , and was placed in the tower opposite Westminster Palace. The hour-glass and sun-dial had long been in use, but this was the first thing that could be called a clock except the water-clocks, which had been taken from France to England by Richard Occur de Lion. The word “watch” is from the Saxon word “to wake.” At first a watch was as large as a saucer, and had weights, and was called “ the pocket clock.”

An Indian Bride’s Devotions.

There are but few instances of devotion that prove the existence of love in a higher degree than that given by Kit Carson’s Indian wife to her brave and manly lover. While mining in the west ho married an Indian girl, with whom he lived very happily. When he was taken ill a long way from home word was sent to his wife, who mounted a fleet mustang ponv and traveled hundreds of miles to reach him. Night and day she continued her journey, resting only for a few hours on the open prairie, flying on her wonderful little steed as soon as she could gather up her forces anew. She forded rivers, she scaled rocky passes, she waded through morasses, and finally arrived, just alive, to find her husband better. But the exposure and exertion killed her; she was seized with pneumonia and died within a brief space in her husband’s arms. The shock killed Kit Carson, the rugged miner—he broke a blood vessel, and both are buried in one grave.

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INDIANA NEWS.

Bedford, Lawrence country, has a citizen who recently drunk 100 glasses of beer in a day. The wife of Mr. Doyle, a Decatur county farmer, is the mother of triplets, two boys and a girl, all doing well. The police of Warsaw, Kosciusko county, arrested six pickpockets while engaged in plying their vocation near a wandering circus. Iron for the Newcastle and Rushville railroad is being delivered at Newcastle in large quantities, and track-laying will commence in a few days. Over 100 new buildings are under contract in Seymour, Jackson county, and more are talked of. Seymour has doubled in size and population in ten years. James K. Chamberlain, a citizen of Sharpsville, Tipton county, while walking on the railroad track, in a state of intoxication, was run over and killed by an express train. William Deckman, aged 5C> years, a deaf-mute, and a tailor by occupation, committed suicide, at New Albany, Floyd county, by drowning. He stated that life was a burden to him. Work on the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad has begun west of Claypool, Kosciusko county. A largo force of men are at work, and the grading will be pushed rapidly. A farm laborer named James Bedsen, living in Warrick county, was found dead in an old well. He had been missing for several days, and his body was in a bad state of decomposition when found. It is supposed that he committed suicide. The good times and public improvements have caused much activity in real estate in Newcastle, Henry county, and several additions to the town have been made, and lots sold to those who will build houses. Jacob Blume and John H. Emily, two old and highly-respected farmers of Harrison county, between whom an old grudge existed, engaged in a fight, in which Blume, who is quite an old man, had his jaw broken, and was so injured that he is reported to bo in a dying condition. Vanderburo county has a woman with two husbands living. The first one wandered away some years ago, and she, thinking him dead, married again. He now returns, and is enjoying the hospitality of his successor. The affair has been amicably arranged, ho being given charge of his own children.

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union is making strong endeavors to oust the whisky element in Colfax, Clinton county. The oldest saloon Keeper withdrew his application for license through their endeavors, and one if not two drug-store keepers have been indicted before the Grand Jury. They say the other saloons must go.

A couple of Danville (Ill.) infants made application to the County Clerk ol Montgomery county for a marriage license, but, ' after looking at them over his desk for a minute, the Clerk took them up, one in each arm, and gave them a little fatherly advice but no license. The fathers of the infants followed them to Crawfordsville, ami returned with them to Danville.

Gaab, Scott A Co., of Richmond, Wayne county, have discharged 120 men from their shops on account of the unfavorable crop reports they have received from their correspondents. They manufacture farm engines and threshers, and employ a force <tf nearly 500 men. All the manufacturers of agricultural implements in Richmond have advices from their agents indicating short harvests. The grave of Jonathan Jennings, the first G overnor of Indiana, is on the farm of Mr. W. S. Ferner,' of Charlestown, Clarke county. There is nothing to mark his grave, and, indeed, no one knows where his grave is. The Masonic Grand Lodge once had the matter before it as to the propriety of erecting a monument to his memory, but the grave could not be found. The matter was once sprung in the Legislature, but for the same reason it fell through.

A personal encounter between Col. Charles Denby and George W. Shanklin, of the Courier, growing out of a lawsuit and certain editorial utterances of the C’owrZcr, occurred in the streets of Evansville. Both men are considerably above average size, Col. Denby being about six feet two and Shanklin six feet six or seven inches in height, and both are stout, in proportion, Aho first weighing about 235 and the other about 250 or 260 pounds. Both were slightly punished, “and blood (’twas from the nose) flowed free.”

An accident occurred near Crawfordsville, Montgomery county, winch resulted in the instant death of Corwin Mote, of the firm of Moto & Bro., millers. Mote had come to town with a load of lumber, and was returning near dark with a load of dressed lumber, and in an intoxicated condition. After passing through the toll-gate, his team became frightened and ran against the fence, throwing him out against the fence and breaking his neck. He was a married man, and leaves a wife, and three children.

A 2-yeak-old son of Joseph 11. Kibbey, of Richmond, Wayne county, ran away from his nurse ami was not heard of until a telegram was received from Cincinnati, saying that a boy baby had been found in' the depot there who said that he lived in Richmond and was the son of Joe Kibbey. An answer was returned, and the infant runaway was sent home on the next train. He had slipped in the cars and taken a seat, where he remained so quiet that the conductor thought he belonged to one of the passengers sitting opposite, and let him ri<le to the end of his run.

Geo. W. Ameh, who lately died at Greencastle, Putnam county, was a younger brother of the late Rev. Bishop E. R. Ames, of the M. E. Church. Their father was Judge Sylvanus Ames, of Massachusetts, one of the pioneer settlers of Ohio. George W. entered the Methodist ministry and came to liidianaat an early day. He was an eloquent and forcible preacher. In 1853 be was appointed Superintendent of the State Institution for the Blind, and from this time his active ministerial work closed. He was chaplain of an Indiana regiment during the war, and a Special Agent of the Treasury Department in Louisiana for several years after the war. Of late years his time was devoted to active business when his health permitted. He married a sister of Senator Booth, and was the father of Mrs. Winsor, State Librarian. He was a man of strong character, marked ability and genial disposition,