Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Serious disturbances have occurred at Marseilles and Nantes, in France. AtNanteu the riot grew out 1 of a large procession marching through the Streets in protest against the recent decree , prohibiting religious parades; and at Marseilles a number of hostile encounters took place between French and Italian residents, in which several persons were killed, and the police and soldiers were called out to preserve the peace. Some gun-cotton exploded on the steam furnace ’of H. M. 8. Monarch in Tuniharbor, killing a Lieutenant and wounding eight men, one of whom died since. The Italian Government will obtain a loan of $120,000,000 to enable it io resume specie payment. It will be placed in London, Vienna, Paris and New York, a portion being reserved for Italian banks. The stewards of the Henley regatta are being well abused by the English sporting critics, the Sportsman especially, for their ungenerous treatment of the Cornell crew. The Sportsman hints that there is a spice of cowardice in refusing the American team the right to row for the Visitors’ Cup. A bill for the abolition of capital punishment, introduced in the House of Commons, whs debated in that body, and rejected by a vote of 175 to 89. Unless previously disposed of, the steamship Great Eastpfh will be sold at auction in October. [ The census of ttyo Kingdom of Great Britain (including England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland), recently taken, shows a total population of over 35,000,000, being a gain of a little over 4,000,000 in ten years. . A cyclone in the Blois district of France did damage to the amount of several million francs. The feeling between the French and the Italians, owing to the indignation of the latter because of the former’s occupation of Tunis, is of so intense a character that on the Paris Bourse the new Italian loan has been summarily ruled off the boards. A steamship collided with and sunk a Turkish man-of-war at the entrance to the Dardanelle*. This year the emigration from Sweden to America will reach 70,000, which is about one-sixtieth of the entire population.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eamt. It is said that Trenor W. Park, the late chief of the Panama railroad, is to found an orphan asylum at Brattleboro, Vt., with $500,000, as a memorial to his wife. An earthquake at Newburyport, Mass., very early on the morning of tlio 19th, must have suggested the end of the world to the citizens. No serious loss occurred. William Hoffman, his brother Frederick and Christopher Brash wore drowned in Long Island sound by the upsetting of a boat. Batavia, N. Y., has a sensation in the discovery of the supposed remains of William Morgan, the man who was alleged to have exposed Free Masonry, and was thought to have been drowned by order of the Masonic fraternity in the Niagara river fifty-five years ago. A New York agricultural paper, judging from 2,000 crop reports, draws the conclusion that the next harvest will show 20 per cent less wheat than last year, and 15 per cent less corn, an increase in rye and barley, and the largest crop of oats ever produced. The Midland railways of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, together with four other connecting lines, have been amalgamated under a load of $20,000,000 common and $lO,000,000 preferred stock. The consolidation has a line from New York to the coal-fields of Pennsylvania. The New York city directory f n ’Bl—’B2 is published. It contains 285,477 names an increase over the previous year of 11,7(11. It estimates the population of the city at 1,257,554. Silas C. Herring, the well-known safe manufacturer of New Jersey, is dead. West. The suspension bridge over the Allegheny river at Pittsburgh, which cost $300,000, and was considered fire-proof, took fire and was damaged about $40,000. Henry S. Bane, who died last week at Crawfordsville, Ind., at the age of 80 years, represented that district in Congress in 1841, and was elected Governor at the outbreak of the war, but resigned the office on being chosen United States Senator. On a Hannibal and St. Joseph train, near Chillicothe, Mo., J. M. Kiser, a commercial traveler, of Quincy, was fired upon three times by a stranger, who then pulled the bellcord, stopped the train and leaped off. The first shot took effect in the shoulder and the second in the right arm, inflicting mortal wounds. The assassin left a valise which showed that he was Col. Keith, of Columbus, Ohio, who is known to be insane. Milton Yarberry, Town Marshal at Albuquerque, N. M., gives the people something to gossip over. About four months ago ho killed a nephew of ex-Gov. Brown, of Tennessee. Last week he murdered a carpenter employed in the railroad yards. Some miscreant blew up the store of Dr. Conkling, at Centerville, Cal., with giant powder, nearly killing the owner. Thomas Garfield, uncle to the President, while out riding about twelve miles from Cleveland, Ohio, was struck by a passing train while attempting to cross at a railroad crossing, and instantly killed. Mrs. Alonzo Arnold, sister to Dr. Boynton, of Cleveland, and a cousin of the President, who was with Mr. Garfield in the buggy, was badly injured, and cannot live. Mr. Garfield was in his 80th year.

The Missouri River Improvement Convention, at Council Bluffs, has made a demand for $5,000,000 from the public treasury, $400,000 of which it wants for use next year iu extracting snags. Hon. John Hogan, of St. Louis, urged as the policy of the improvers that no vote be given by the Western men i;i Congress to a River and Harbor bill which faded to contain the above appropriation. The Town of Tombstone, Arizona, was burned last week, and a great portion of it was destroyed. A fire swept over 7,250 acresin Merced county, Cal., destroying the grain crops, farm-houses, outbuildings, fences, etc. Ata meeting of the Hereford cattlebreeders, held in Chicago, and which was largely attended by representatives from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, lowa and Wyoming Territory, it was determined to form an association to improve the beef cattle of the country by the introduction of the Hereford breed. A colored waiter named Stannard was murdered at the Owl Club, Madison street, Chicago, by a fellow waiter named Boss, The wm 4wk, Md the guaml, which

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ended in murder, was as to who should go on watch. The wound was a triangular one, inflicted with a dirk, most likely. The fire at Tombstone, Arizona, destroyed 160 buildings, rendering 800 people homeless. The losses aggregate about $250,000. The Common Council of Chicago passed an ordinance vacating La Salle street for the purpose of providing a site for the new Chamber of Commerce. The Michigan Central and the Lake Shore railroads have declared quarterly dividends—the former of 1 per cent., and the latter of 2 per eent Dr. McMullen, of Chicago, has been appointed Bishop of Davenport, lowa. South. No less than two-thirds of the business portion of Warrenton, N. C., has been destroyed by fire. The estimated loss is $40,000. Two stores and a cotton warehouse were burned at Greenville, Ala., the loss being $30,000. In an affray at Marshall, Texas, Robert Hill killed Is.tac Verge. The former fled to the cancbrakes in Louisiana, where a Sheriff’s posse riddled him with bullets on his refusal to surrender. A stage-coach on the San Antonio and Laredo hue was stopped the other night near Rice Station, Texas, about twenty-five miles from San Antonio, by a highwayman, who compelled two passengers to alight and assist him to rob the mail-bags. Henry and Joseph Reimkemper, two youths, were drowned at Spanish Fort, near New Orleans, by the upsetting of a skiff. Thirty-five persons who ate chickensalad at a picnic near Decatur, Ga., were badly poisoned -and suffered severely. Medical aid was promptly rendered, and no deaths occurred. The chickens from which the salad wan made had been boiled in-a brass kettle. A controlling interest in the Houston and Texas Central road has been secured by C. I*. Huntington, of the Southern Pacific. At Holly Springs, Miss., Wyatt Holmes was hanged for the murder of Andrew Scott. He acknowledged the crime and exhorted all to meet him in heaven. Five thousand people were present. Murderer and his victim were both colored men.

POLITICAL POINTS. The balloting at Albany for Senators, on the 18th inst., resulted as follows : For the short term : Wheeler, 29 : Conkling, 20 ; Jacobs, 24 ; Cornell, 5 ; Lapham, 13 ; scattering, 4. For successor to Platt: Depew, 44 ; Platt, 17 ; Kernan, 34; Cornell, 5 ; scattering, 5. In the Assembly, a concurrent resolution for final adjournment on June 20 was taoled, the Democrats only voting in its favor. Ex-Vice President Wheeler’s arrival there is regarded by the half-breeds as significant. He says, in an interview, that he is not in any sense a candidate for Senator ; that he is in favor of Depew, and will use his best efforts to elect him. Senators Conkling and Platt had a conference with Gen. Grant, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, which was attended also by Vice President Arthur, Senator Jones, of Nevada, and New York politicians of local note. The advisability of the ex-Presidont’s going to Albany was discussed, but it was deemed best that he should not. It is averred that Conkling declared that he would not go back to Washington except with Platt, and, though pressed by his friends to change his decision in this matter, he declared it final. In the monotonous balloting at Albany, on the 20th inst., Wheeler and Jacobs had 24 votes each for the short term, and Conkling 23. Depew got 37, Kernan 25 and Platt 21 for the long term. Ex-Vice President Wheeler said the only way out of the deadlock was the election of any man Conkling might select as his successor. Grant, Platt and Conkling conferred together in New York, and in the evening the candidates left for Albany. President Garfield repudiates the tender of the Marshalship of New York made by John I. Davenport to Senator Strahan. In the twentieth ballot at Albany for Senator, for the short term Elbridge G. Lapham, of Canandaigua, received 25 votes, Wheeler getting 38 and Conkling 33. In the twenty-first ballot Depew had 50, Kernan 51 and Platt 27, for the long term. Both factions remain firm, and promise to hold on, if necessary, all summer. Robertson continues at Albany, instead of taking his new office, which Merritt retains until the Senatorship business is settled. It is proposed to continue the nominations at Saratoga. Eighteen out of twenty-seven members of the Virginia Republican State Central Committee met at Richmond pursuant to call. In accordance with a resolution passed by the committee last February, that no member of the committee who acted with any other organization could continue as a member, John N. Lewis, the Chairman, and the candidate of the Mahone Republican coalition for Lieutenant Govcrner, was expelled, and Gen. A. C. Wickham was appointed Chairmanjin his stead. The committee then decided to call a convention for the 24th of August at Staunton, to nominate State officers.

There was a flurry of excitement in the New York Legislative Convention on the 22d, caused by rumors that the administration men intended attempting to secure one of the vacancies by declaring the votes for Jacobs unconstitutional and void, he being a member of the Legislature and ineligible under the State law, whenever any Republican should receive a majority of the remaining votes. On the second ballot. Mr. Wheeler’s vote reaching .50, before the vote was declared, a Democratic member mentioned the prevalence of the rumor, and hanged his vote from Jacobs to Clarkson N. Potter, and this was followed by a general change of Democratic votes, which were scat"tered upon sixteen or seventeen different candidates. After adjournment a Democratic caucus withdrew Jacobs and put up Clarkson N. Potter in his place. At a conference of the stalwarts Mr. Conkling made a long speech, varning bis followers to “beware of the corrupt group of politicians who are striving to destroy the true Republican party and its prestige,” and pleading with them to be steadfast in the faith of that party. He said a great deal concerning the ftnmense power of railroad corporations, that are unscrupulously using millions to “ debauch sworn legislators,” and hoped that his words would produce “the most profound impression of which they were capable.” Mr. Conkling’s opinion in the matter of “ Senatorial was not forgotten, and he insisted that “if two Republican Senators are elected, they must be pure stalwarts and men whose characters are above suspicion.” Two ballots were taken that day, with the following result: First—Depew, 52 ; Platt, 26; Wheeler, 40; Conkling, 32. Second—Depew, W; Flatt, 25; Wheeler, 50; Conkllag/ 83,

-Congressman Emory Speer, of the Ninth Georgia district, has publicly expressed his purpose to vote with the Republicans in the organization of the next House. In the first ballot for Senator at Albany, on the 23d inst., Clarkson N. Potter had 53 votes for the short term, Wheeler 50, and Conkling 32. The vote for the long term gave Depew and Kernan each 53, and Platt 27. In the bribery investigation, James Tillinghast, of the New York Central road, explained what use he made of $20,000 la currency in his private business. John L Davenport testified that he was authorized by Henry E. Knox, of Washington, to tender a Marshalship to Senator Strahan. After a long discussion over the admission of delegates, the Democratic State Convention of Maryland nominated Hon. Thomas J. Keating for Comptroller. Nelson Dingley, Jr., ex-Governor of Maine, has been nffininated by the Republicans to occupy Frye’s vacant seat in the House of Representatives at Washington. Fifty white Republicans of Virginia gathered at Washington to express to the members of the Cabinet their desire for a coalition with Mahone and to protest against the re moval of John F. Lewis from the Chairmanship of the Republican State Central Committee. The ballot for Senator for the short term, at Albany, June 24, gave Wheeler 45 votes, Potter 44, and Conkling 30. For the long term Depew and Kernan got 45 each and Platt 27. The Republican Executive Committee of Mississippi met last week, and adjourned without ordering a State Convention, from which it is inferred no ticket will be put up.

WASHINGTON NOTES. President Garfield and family -went to Long Branch last week. Mrs. Garfield will remain there several weeks if the location is found to agree with her. The President will return to Washington soon. Leading Democrats who have been heard from say it will bo the policy of the party next winter to pass a 3-per-cent. Funding bill, and not to accept the Windom continuance policy. Auditor French, of the Treasury Department, says that he has yielded no part of the Government’s claim against the Central Pacifio Company, which he thinks will be promptly paid in full when he has reached the exact figures. Judge Cox, in charging the Grand Jury m the Criminal Court, of Washington, D. C., informed them they would have to pass upon the men charged with defrauding the Government, through violation of postal laws, and warned them to consider the cases without bias, but simply from a true and just basis. Charles H. Howard, brother of Gen. O. O. Howard, has been appointed Indian Inspector, vice J. L. Mahon, resigned. William H. Turner, a postal clerk, for several years in charge of star routes, is removed, and George M. Sweeney appointed in his place. Mr. Upton, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, has started for Europe, where he goes on business connected with the Treasury Department. Before leaving, he placed his resignation in the hands of Secretary Windom, to be acted on as might be deemed best by the President and the Secretary. Gen. Brady, ex-Assistant Postmaster General, has made application in the Criminal Court of Washington to have the charges of fraud made against him tried at once. The court (Judge Cox) held that he could not expedite matters, and Brady will have to wait until September.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Sitting Bull Ins left Fort Qu’Appelle, where he was negotiating for a reserve on Canadian territory. This was refused him, and he finally decided to return to Wood mountain, where he will consult his braves as to the advisability of surrendering to the American authorities. Edwin Booth and wife and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McVicker, of Chicago, sailed from Liverpool for New York on the steamer Bothnia. Frederick Douglass has returned to Washington from a trip to Wye river, Md., where he was raised a slave. The trip just ended is the first time he has revisited the scenes of his childhood for fifty-six years. James R. Keene is credited with the intention of organizing a telegraph company to send sac similes of handwriting. The Legislature of the Mexican State of Vera Cruz offers a reward of SIOO,OOO to the inventor of a preventive for yellow fever. George I. Seney, of New York, has given an additional $20,000 to the Wesleyan Female Seminary of Macon, Ga. This makes $70,000 as that gentleman’s contribution to the institution in question. He gave $45,000 for the building of the seminary. 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. Hartmann, the leader of Nihilism, has announced his intention of starting for New York immediately. Edwin Booth cleared SB,OOO as his share of the Othello engagement in London. Mexican dispatches state that a figt t occurred between Mexican soldiers and twen-ty-live smugglers near Cerraloo, in which the smugglers were defeated with a loss of their goods. An army of sixty Apaches invaded Chihuahua. Yellow fever is increasing in Vera Cruz. J. R. Dodge, the Special Agent of the Census Bureau for the collection of agricultural statistics, issues a report showing that the tobacco crop of 1880 was 80 per cent, greater than the crop of 1870, the amount produced in 1880 being 473,107,573 pounds, as against 262,735,341 pounds in 1870. The crop in 1870 was below the average, while that of 1880 was fully up to an average. Fifteen States now produce as much as all the States produced in 1870. Only four States—Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Massachusetts —produce less than they produced in 1870. Kentucky, which ranks first as a tobacco State, produced 36 per cent, of the whole crop. Virginia ranks second, and Pennsylvania third. The average yield per acre has been 731 pounds, varying from 1,599 pounds in Massachusetts to 471 pounds in North Carolina, Illinois produced 8,996,700 pounds, ar average of 699 to theaer*

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY. JULY 1, 188].

The Chinese Government having requested the services of an experienced naval officer to organize a marine corps on the same plan as the marine corps of the American navy, First Lieut D. Pratt Manning has been given permission to enter the Chinese service for that purpose. The Chicago and Rock Island Railway Company has declared the usual quarterly dividend of 1% per cent., payable Aug. 1. The earnings of this company increased the first fortnight in June SBO,OOO over last year. The astronomers all over the world are excited over the sudden re-appearance of the brilliant “ comet of 1812,” in the northeastern heavens. Henry Villard announced to a meeting of subscribers to his Northern Pacific and Oregon Company pool that he had united the two companies. He proposed now to form a new company to be called the Oregon Transcontinental, with a capital of $50,000,000.

The skin of a boiled egg is the most efficacious remedy that can be applied to a boil. Peel it carefully, wet and apply it to the part affected. It will draw off the matter and relieve the soreness in a few hours. To take out tea stains, put the linen in a kettle of cold water; rub the stains well with common castile soap; put the kettle on the side of the stove and let the water get gradually warm; wash it thoroughly in warm soap suds, then rub the stain again with soap; then rinse. Chicken Cheese. —Boil two chickens till tender; take out all the bones, and chop the meat fine; season to taste with salt, pepper and butter; pour in enough of the liquor they are boiled in to make moist. Mould it in any shape you choose, and when cold turn out and cut into slices. It is an excellent traveling lunch. , Home-made Yeast. One pint of mashed potatoes, with the water they were boiled in, one cupful of salt, one cupful of flour, one cupful of strong hop tea; add four quarts of boiling water; when cool add one pint of baker’s or other yeast; Jet it stand and work twentyfour hours; then skim, strain and put in a jug. Pan Doddlings.—This is a New England dish, and is nice at the places where appetites are expansive. Take three cups of fine rye meal, three cups Indian meal, one egg, and three tablespoonfuls of molasses; add a little salt and allspice and enough rich sweet milk to make a batter stiff enough to drop from a spoon. Fry to a good brown in hot lard. The bridges across the Missouri River at Council Bluffs and Omaha comprise eleven spans, each span is 250 feet in length, or in all 2,750 feet. There are three spans to the St. Louis bridge, the center being 520 feet, and the other two each 502 feet in length. The bridge cost about $9,000,000. Orange Salad.—Peel eight oranges with a sharp knife, so as to remove every vestige of skin from them; core them as you would apples, and lay them either whole or cut in slices, in a deep dish; strew over plenty of powdered sugar, then add four red bananas cut in small round slices, the juice of a lemon, and a little more sugar. Keep the dish covered close till the time of serving.

Excellent Coffee Cake.—This is one of the best of plain cakes, and is very easily made. Take one cup of strong coffee infusion, one cup molasses, one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one egg and one teaspoonful saleratus. Add spice and raisins to suit the taste, and enough flour to make a reasonably thick batter. Bake rather slowly in tin pans lined with buttered paper. For Chapped Hands.—The nicest preparation for chapped hands is composed of quince seed and whisky. There is no rule as to proportion. Put the seeds in a bottle, and pour in enough whisky to cover them. As this thickens add more whisky until it is of the right consistency. This healing preparation is far superior to glycerine, as it dries off quickly and leaves a most agreeable odor. Corned beef left over for the next day should be put back in the liquor it was boiled in. Instead of the hard, brown woody substance that is sometimes, served as cold corned beef, kept in this way, it will always be juicy, as it reabsorbs much of the richness from the liquor itself. Skim the liquor, of course, before setting it away, and it will keep as well in the pot it was boiled in as anything else.

Much has been said in praise of Grecian beauty, and the men are hand som in every sense of the word. We might well imagine them to have been the models of Phidias and Praxiteles. Their large eyes, black as jet, sparkle with glances of fire, while the long, silky, eyelashes soften the expression and" give a dreamy appearance of melancholy. Their teeth are small, white and well set; a fine regular profile, a pale-olive complexion and a tall, elegant figure realize an accomplished type of distinction. As to the women, they seem to have left physical perfection to the men; some possess fine eyes and hair, but as a rule they have bad figures, and some defect in the face generally spoils the good features. It is among them, however, that the old Oriental customs are most strictly preserved; while the men are gradually undergoing the process of civilization they, in a moral point of view remain stationary, and are just as they were fifty years ago. It may, indeed, be said that, with the exception of Athens, the women possess no individual existence, and count as nothing in society. The men have reserved every privilege for themselves, leaving to their helpmates the care of the house and family. In the towns, where servants are kept, they are of the poorest class of peasants, who know nothing, and receive miserable wages. The families are generally large —seven or eight little children demand a mother’s constant attention. The morning begins by directing the work of each servant, repeating the same thing a hundred times, scolding, screaming, even beating them, to be understood. In the evening, when the children are sleeping, if there remain some little time, the poor, worn-out mother sits down to her spinning-wheel to spin silk, to sew or knit, if it be summer-time, to look after her silk-worms and cocoons, happy if she has not to do the work of her incompetent servants over again.

“Mother, I shouldn’t be surprised if our Susan gets choked some day.” “Why, my son ?” “ Because, young Smith twisted his arms around her neck the other night, and if she had not kissed him to let her go, he would have struxgled her/'

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

Grecian Beauty.

Judging from Appearances.

BOGUS REFORM.

Big Cry and Little Wool, [Washington Telegram to the Chicago Times.] It has been stated with great emphasis from time to time that this is a reform administration. Great shouts of approval have gone up throughout the country over the vigorous exposures of the wrongs and evil doings of the wicked star-route contractors. There were cynical people who desired to check the mad flow of this fervid enthusiasm by suggesting that it might be well to wait for the punishment of the rogues before the joy of honest men should reach the point of perfect ecstasy. It was suggested that the course of District justice never did run smooth; that robbers of the Government had been discovered before, time out of mind, and that the precedents were all against the punishment of influential thieves who had stolen enough to protect themselves. The presence of two vigorous and honest men in the Cabinet, however, encouraged the witnesses of this latest reform revolution to believe that something really might come of it, and that the penitentiaries of the United States would inclose some of the most corrupt of the conspirators; but the very first move in the courts to-day verified the e ally predictions of those who refused to believe that rich and influential rogues can ever be brought to justice iu the courts of the District. Judge Cox’s announcement to-day that the court has no time during this session of the Grand Jury to hear the star-route cases is regarded as the beginning of the end of the whole affair. Said a prominent lawyer this evening, who has had large experience in the trial of cases involving the interests of the Government, and who has no interest iu the star-route prosecutions : “Do you suppose for a moment that Judge Cox would not have sat on his bench all summer if the administration really intimated to liim that it desired to have these prosecutions pushed ? There is the whole case in a nutshell. The investigators have several cases all ready to present. They ask for no time. Who, then, gains by time? Why, I tell you the whole affair is a farce. You may think the cases will be tried in September ; perhaps, but I will bet all I have on earth that there will be other continuances until Congress gets here, and then in the hurly-burly of the season the cases will go to the devil the usual way. A few poor men of no account may be indicted and rammed into the penitentiary—l dare say that may be done for effect—but not a single man of any importance will bo hurt.” This opinion is shared by other lawyers in town. Said one : “ The Attorney General himself could have prevented the postponement of these cases by going into court and having them tried now.” No doubt tremendous influences 1 ave been brought to bear within the lasi two or three weeks to secure the postponement. The star-route people are very happy. They have weathered the preliminary hurricane and now feel con ident to ride out the storm. Secretary Windom’s treatment of the treasury investigation does not have a tendency to increase the general reputation of the growth of a reform element at Washington. He deliberately sup presses the report of his special investigating committee and makes a scape goat of the subordinate, Pitney, who only thrived in his plundering of the treasury fund through the connivance and support of his superiors. The investigation was made by trembling treasury employes, who only skimmed over the surface of their real work and did not dare to charge the responsibility anywhere for fear of losing their own heads through a misfire. The result is that Mr. Windom, acting upon his own judgment, without acquainting the public with the facts, tables the whole matter. Reports indicate that the party ring is more strongly intrenched than ever. Mr. Upton is sent to London for his summer vacation. He is ordered to be back by the Ist of next August, and then Secretary Windom takes his vacation. If Upton is changed then he will probably be given something else. Last summer Upton got himself detailed to inspect some Western mints, so that the Government could be made to pay his expenses while he spent the most of his time visiting a brother iu lowa. All these surface indications are at present very much against the triumph of the reform element at Washington.

Is It Not a Total Failure.

When Senator Allison disturbed Mr. Blaine’s pleasant dreams of power, in the early hours of the 4th of March, to decline the Treasury Department, which he had accepted the night before, the whole programme of the Cabinet was dislocated, and a hasty reconstruction became necessary. Windom, Kirkwood, James and Hunt got seats by this unexpected retreat. Foster, who had been booked for the Postoffice, dropped out, anil Indiana lost a place by the jealousies of small politicians. This change in the scheme of organization, as it was settled after Garfield reached Washington, has deranged the plans that were previously formed, and caused discontent that is likely to be a source of serious trouble. The elements have never fused. There are seven Secretaries, but there is no Cabinet, in any proper sense. It is a sort of go-as-you-please concern, with every starter for himself and the devil to take the hindmost, in the race of rivalry. The close intimacies, the natural confidences and the warm friendships which usually grow out of Cabinet connections do not exist at all, and are not likely to take root hereafter. Each of the seven looks after his own department as if he were a head clerk, reports progress, and is punctual in attendance on pay-day. Even the interchange of ordinary civilities is limited among them. All the great expectations that were formed of Blaine have been grievously disappointed. The numerous and faithful friends who stood by him with exceptional devotion for eight years, and who made two Presidential campaigns in his behalf at a large cost of precious time and of much money, are loud in complaints of neglect and of non-recog-nition. The demand for office exceeds the possibility of supply. He cannot fulfil his promises, and he is unable to repay even a fractional part of his obligations. He is afraid to face the men to whom he owes his prominence, and, therefore, he hides from public view, and closes his private door against old associates who used to carry a latch-key in their pockets. If by accident he is found, and a friend asks for a common clerkship in another department, he tells him truly that he has uo influence there, aud

occasionally he proves it by applying and getting an indefinite answer. Thia experience of a few months has cost Blaine dearlv in popularity, and has exposed his weakness to followers who staked everything on his advent to power, either as President or as Premier. The jobbers who made and bought delegates right and left for two conventions, and who in the event of success expected to fiUl their pockets with quick gains, find their game blocked bv the star-route explosion, and some of tnem, who manipulated the Territories for Blaine and big contracts, are threatened with indictments and with the penitentiary as a consoling residence. Blaine will go out of office with few to lament his departure. A similar fate is reserved for Garfield, who has already squandered a chance to acquire distinction, and sacrificed all opportunity to blot out the dark spots on his legislative record. Trickery, falsehood and deception may succeed for a time, but when discovered they always react upon those who employ such base instruments in politics or in private lite, — Washington letter.

Foster.

We suspect that Mr. Charles Foster, the administration candidate for Governor of Ohio, will find his race anything but an agreeable one. There are a great many open accounts outstanding against this active and meddlesome little man, and the present may be deemed a very good time for settling some of them. The stalwarts have a number of them on hand, old and new. The trade with the Southern Democrats by which those eminent stalwarts, Packard and Chamberlain, w'ent overboard, in order to get for Hayes the office of Mr. Tilden, was something to which they could never become reconciled. Notwithstanding the sweet words which John Sherman uttered at Cleveland, that cold-blooded and wily statesman is also known to cherish a strong hope of revenge. His relations wutli tlie parties who supply the bulk of the money to carry the elections for the Republican party are such that at a nod from him those sources might be instantly dried up and nobody be the wiser. Whether he will consider it for his interest to sink Foster and Garfield now, or wait lor some other occasion, when lie may not only destroy them but gain something substantial by their demise, nobody can foretell. His speech at Cleveland is no evidence whatever of his intentions. But with the stalwarts the case is different. They owe Garfield and Foster nothing but blows, and they make no secret of their desire to pay them squarely and fairly. If they can muster force enough in Garfield’s own State to knock down his peculiar candidate, and show that the convention which indorsed him did not represent, the true Republican sentiment, they will have given the administration a mortal wound. And they neetj not go out of party lines to do it; they have only to follow the example of the administration at Albany in its fight upon Conkling, and refuse to let the party lines be drawn at all. But the honest voters of Ohio have a bigger and blacker score against Foster than the politicians. We think we see yet the picture which Mr. Handy, then of the Philadelphia Times, drew of Gov. Foster emerging from a comfortable dinner the day after the October election last year, chuckling over the “business scare ” and the “ tariff swindle ” by w hich the people hail beeu defrauded oi their votes. He admitted that there was no foundation for either of those partisan cries, and for that very reason he was all the more amused aud delighted by their success. Perhaps some of the voters who were cheated out of their ballots then, and have since come to so clear an appreciation of the fact, may think it worth while to teach Mr. Foster a lesson in political honesty and sincerity at the coming election. — New Yerk Sun.

INDIANA NEWS.

There are 523 convicts in the State Prison South. The number is decreasing. The new Hoad law of Indiana is presenting many knotty points to the Auditor of State. Ex-Senator Henry S. Lane, of Indiana, died at his home in Crawfordsville, last week, at the ripe age of 80 years. Charles Hubbard, cx-Mayor of Columbus, and once Republican candidate for Treasurer of State, died there lately. The annual meeting of the old settlers of Tipton county will be held Saturday, Aug. 1. N. R. Overman will deliver the address. The New Albany forge-works has received a 36,000-pound pair of shears, capable of cutting a four-inch square cold bar of iron. A Mr. Drake, living near Shelbyville, fired at a cat and lodged a charge of shot in a small boy, who loses one eye in consequence. Over 100 new buildings are under contract in Seymour, and more are talked of. Seymour has doubled in size and population in ten years. William Ramsey was instantly killed at Marion, while coupling cars on the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railway there. He leaves a wife and one child. Jesse Elmwood bought forty acres of land in Harrison county, about one year ago, paying 8400 for it. Last week he sold the white oak timber alone, on the land, for S7OO cash. The wheat crop around Bedford is in a much better condition than it has been reported to be in. Intelligent farmers say that the crop will be a full average, and perhaps more. Jesse Randall, a very small boy, was attacked by a vicious horse, at Butlerville, and when rescued it was found that, aside from internal injuries, one ear had been bitten entii ely off. Daniel Everhart, aged 28 and married, living two miles east of Elwood, Madison county, was instantly killed while hauling logs. He was hit on the head by a rail which was being used as a pry. St. John’s Lutheran congregation, at Fort Wayne, have decided to speedily erect a church to cost $40,000, on the site of the old edifice. Emanuel Church will also tear down the old parsonage and build a new one. While climbing out on the end of a limb to rob a bird’s nest, Willie Snyder, of Fort Wayne, fell to the ground, twenty feet, so badly injuring and paralyzing his spinal column that the physicians pronounce his recovery very doubtful. The Abbey of St. Meinrad, in Spencer county, with its colleges, is the most extensive educational and religious establishment iu Indiana. The recent oonp

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mencement exercises were very grand. The minor orders were conferred on fourteen young men. An election has been ordered by the Commissioners of Henry county, to be held July 16, to vote a subsidy of $39,000 for the Evansville, Knightstown and Toledo railroad; also, an election in Ripley township, Rush county, has been ordered for the same road. As the midnight freight on the Fort Wayne road, west, was passing through Bourbon, at night, Daniel Staley fell between the cars. Both legs were cut oft'. He was also injured internally, and cannot recover. He has a wife and two children. He was stealing a aide. Mr. Kennett, of Osgood, went coon hunting, taking with him his 6-year-old son. While crossing an open field the child was set upon by a large and ferocious dog, biting it about the face and body so terribly that the little fellow’s life is despaired of. Mr. Kennett shot the dog. At a dance at New Amsterdam, Halleck Mathers and Clay Cunningham quarreled and fought about a woman, and Mathers cut Cunningham’s hand nearly off at the wrist with a knife. A free fight followed among the crowd, jn which Charles France was stabbed in the shoulder by an unknown party, and it is thought fatally hurt. The discovery of what really appears to be gold-bearing quartz near the little village of Harrodsburg has created a great excitement in that neighborhood, and every land owner imagines he is in possession of a ‘‘bonanza.” The discoverer, a Mr. Wright, found several specimens, which a number of old California miners examined, and united in the opinion that they contained gold. Some of the quartz has been sent to an assayer, for the purpose of ascertaining its value. Wright says he first discovered the quartz in isolated and detached pieces that had been broken off the main ledge. He will not reveal the locality of the discovery. The city of Logansport is agitated over the late decision of the Indana Supreme Court in its ruling that the territory known as the South Side was never legally annexed to the city of Logansport. The annexing process, so called, occurred in 1871, and up to 1877 the taxpayers ot the South Side paid their share of the public burden without grumbling. In the latter year, however, they began kicking, and, after much delay, brought suit in the Circuit Court to enjoin the Treasurer from collecting taxes from them. This case came to trial in 1879, and resulted in a verdict against the city. It was then appealed, and a few days ago was affirmed by the Supreme Court. The territory embraces all that portion of the city lying south of the Wabash river, and contains 500 inhabitants and $50,000 worth of property. The move to get out of the city was made because the inhabitants thought they were not properly treated as to police and fire protection and street work. Wm. Branum, of Martin county, who was reported as being the victim of an assassin, it is now reported was killed in an affray with his son-in-law, John Huff. Ever since Huff married Branum’s daughter ill-feeling has existed between the two, and frequent quarrels had taken place. Branum even went so far as to visit Huff’s residence during his absence and force his daughter to return to her old home. This made matters worse, and a few days ago they agreed, after a bitter quarrel, to meet at Ward’s Chapel, a secluded country church, and fight the matter out. At the hour named both of them were on hand, Branum armed with a revolver and a pair of brass knuckles and Huft having a double-barreled shot-gun. Business commenced at once and Huff got in his work first, literally riddling Branum’s body with buckshot and killing him almost instantly. Huff made his escape.

How a Boston Woman Voted.

A very amusing comment upon a certain phase of the woman suffrage question is told by one of the tellers at a Boston city election, and vouched for by him as absolutely true. A woman well known in strong-minded circles camo to the polls vote in hand. Upon being asked her name she hesitated a little, but finally concluded on the whole to give it. She. seemed to have similar misgivings about answering an equally impertinent question in regard toner place of residence, but in this matter also she decided to yield. The name being checked upon the list, the voter was told to deposit her vote, which, after examining the ballot box with some curiosity, she did. She stood a moment in an attitude of expectancy, and then asked : “ Is that all ?” “Yes, madam,” answered the teller. “ Then, if that is all,” she asked with some asperity, ‘ ‘ why do men make such a fuss about it?” The tide of voters kept waiting by her delay became at this moment too strong for her, and she was swept forward with her question unanswered. She lingered about, however, and in the first lull came back to the ballot box. “ If you please,” said she to the teller, * ‘ I’d like to see that vote I put in there.” “But cannot,” he said. “A vote can’t be taken out of the box.” “ But I want to see it very much,” she persisted. “What do you want of it, madame,” he asked politely. “ Oh,” was the naive answer, “I want to know who I voted for.”— Boston Courier. As he sat on the steps on Sunday evening he claimed the right to a kiss for every shooting star. She at first demurred, as became a modest maiden, but finally yielded. She was even so accommodating as to call his attention to flying meteors that were about to escape his observation, and then got to “ calling ” him on lightning bugs, and at last got him down to steady work on the light of a lantern that a man was swinging about a depot in the distance where trains were switching. People who think China is a small power are surprised to know that the tonage of her mercantile marine is 4,100,000, exclusive of the inland junk traffic. The tonnage of the United States, including all the canal boats in the country and all the river boats, is but 4,500,000. Even England’s tonnage is only 6,100,000. So that China is pressing close after England as a sailor power. Wealth may not bring happiness, but it ooumauds rwpeotih » pouoa offloor,

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BLACK DIAMONDS.

Statistics of Coal Production. The coal trade has about it no suggestion of antiquity. The old Romans cut aqueducts through coal fields with the loftiest contempt for black diamonds, and it was not until 1240 that coal was used in London. Sixty years later there was considerable trade in coal, and in 1880 the production of coal in Great Britain was 184,008,288 tons. The United States, with a coal area of 192,000 square miles, produced 66,200,934 tons of coal in 1880, while Great Britain, with a coal area of 11,900 square miles, produced 184,000,000 tons, and Germany, with an area of only 1,770 square miles, produced 46,953,002 tons. In the same year France produced 17,104,485 tons; Belgium, 15,446,531 tons ; Austria, 15,447.292 tons ; Russia, 2,588,604 tons; Spam, 775,000 tons; Nova Scotia, 788,000 tons; Australia, 1,750,000 tons ; India, 4,000,000 tons; Japan, 750,000 tons; Vancouver’s island, 250,000 tons; Chili, 50,000 tons ; Sweden, 90,000 tons ; Italy, 220,000 tons ; China, 4,000,000 tons. Increase in the production of coal in England has not been rapid. But in countries like the United States, Russia and Australia, the growth in business is astonishing. Ten years ago Russia mined only 829,745 tons of coal, and in 1829 Australia produced only 780 tons. In 1858, the output of the whole German empire was 4,383,585 tons of coal, ami 1,417,420 tons of lignite. In the United States the production has been more than doubled in the last ten years. The following table shows the production of coal in the different States of the Union in 1869 and 1880 : Z Tohh. 1859. Tonx, 1880. roiiiiHylvani*, anthracitel3,B66,lßo 23,437,242 Pennsylvania, bituminous 7,798,51 7 19,(KH),(HH) Illinois 2,629,563 4,000,900 Ohio 2,326,285 7,(HHI,(MHI Marylandl,Bl9,B34 2,136,16(1 Missouri 821,930 1,500,000 West Virginia 608,878 1,400,000 Indiana ' 437,870 1,196,490 j OWB 263,487 1,600,000 Kentucky.' 150,682 1,000,000 Tennessee 133,419 641,042 Virginia 61,803 I(H),oihi Kansas 32,938 550,000 Oregon 200,0(H) Michigan 21,150 85,009 California 600,000 Rhode Inland 14,000 15,(HH> Alabama 11,900 340,000 Nebraska 1,425 1(H),000 Wyoming M),(H)0 225,000 WaHhington 17,844 175,000 Utah..., 5,8(H) 275,000 Colorado 4,SIH) 576,(H)0 Georgia 100 0(H) Total 31,116,593 66,200,934 It will be seen by this table that while the older of the coal-producing States, like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, have about' doubled their output, the newer States like lowa, Kansas and Nebraska have increased their production ten and twenty fold. The consumption of coal at Pittsburgh for 1880 is about 2,000,000 bushels; New York, 5,250,000. The receipts of coal at Chicago were 2,686,748 tons; St. Louis, 1,675,000 tons; New Orleans, 3,187,400 tons; Cincinnati, 1,787,230 tons ; Cleveland, 1,750,000 tons. The United States stands next to Great Britain as a coal-producing country, but, while Groat Britain exported 18,702,551 tons last year, the United States exported 614,000 tons, more than half of this going to Canada.

Twigs and Leaves.

Dryden has aptly remarked: “What the child admired, the youth endeavored, and the man acquired.” No need of spurs to the little Handel or the boy Bach to study music, when one steals midnight interviews with a smuggled clavichord in a secret attic, and the other copies whole books of studies by moonlight, for want of a candle churlishly denied; no need of whips to the boy painter, West, when he begins in a garret and plunders the family cat for bristles to make his brushes. There was an intimate connection between the miniature ships which Nelson, when a boy, sailed on the pond, and the victories of the Nile and Trafalgar, between the tales and songs about fairies, ghosts, witches, etc., with which the mind of Burns was fed in his boyhood, and the tales of Tim O'Shanter. Michael Angelo neglected school to copy drawings which he dared not bring home. Murillo filled the margin of his school books with drawings. Le Brun, in childhood, drew with a piece of charcoal on the walls of the house. Pope wrote excellent verses at fourteen. Madame do Stael was deep in the philosophy of politics at an age when other girls were dressing dolls. So Ferguson’s wooden clock; Claude Lorraine’s pictures on the walls of a baker’s shop; Chantrey’s carving of his schoolmaster’s head in a bit of pine wood; Napoleon pelting snow balls at Brienne, were all hints of the future man. It is said that when Rachel, the actress, threw a table cloth round her person she was draped, on the instant, with a becomingness which all the modistes that ever fractured stay-lace, or circumlocated crinoline, never imparted to the femide figure before. She had a genius for it, as Brummell had for tying his cravat. Thousands choked themselves in imitating the Beau’s knot, but in vain; the secret died with him, and is now among the lost arts.”

Insanity as a Disease.

Some sagacious observations on this point may be found in the report of the Commissioner of Lunacy in England, 1880. One extract will not lie out of place : “The disease of lunacy, it should be observed, is essentially different in its character from other maladies. In a certain proportion of cases the patient neither recovers nor dies, but remains an incurable lunatic, requiring little medical skill in respect to his mental disease, and frequently living many years. A patient in this state requires a place of refuge, but, his disease being beyond the reach of medical skill, it is quite evident that he should bo removed from asylums instituted for the cure of insanity, in order to make room for others whose cases have not yet Ixjcxime hopeless. If some plan of this sort be not adopted, the asylums admitting paupers will necessarily continue full of inerrable patients, and those whose cases still admit of cure will be unable to obtain admission until they become incurable, and the skill and labor of the physician will thus be wasted upon improper objects. The great expense of a lunatic hospital is unnecessary for incurable patients ; the medical staff, the number of attendants, the minute classification, and the other requisites of a hospital for the cure of disease are not required to the same extent An establishment, therefore, upon a much less expensive scald would be sufficient.”

A precocious boy of 6 years, listening wearily to a long-winded tale related by a prosy relative, took advantage of a short pause to say, slyly, “ I wish that story had been brought out to Buwbws,"