Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1881 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Twelve hundred Italians have left Marseilles in consequence of the Franco-Italian riots. Baron Magnus, late German Ambassador at Copenhagen, who was dismissed for attending a banquet given to Miss Sarah Bernhardt, who cherishes anti-German feeling, has become insane from brooding over his disgrace. In a financial article the London Times advises the withdrawal of the English representatives from the Monetary Conference. It states that England is firmly wedded to the single (gold) standard, and only entered the bi-metallic conference out of compliment to the United States and France. Cornell University crew has completed arrangements to row at Vienna, Aug. 5. Bon Amana, the rebel chief of Oran, Algeria, is said by spies to have murdered the French soldiers captured by him, and spared only thirty-three of the Spaniards whom he took prisoners near Saida. The French astronomers say that the comet has no head worth speaking of, but an immense tail which is 7,000,000 leagues in length. It is to bo visible about three weeks longer and then to disappear for seventy-four years. T. T. Gould, a retired business man, was murdered while traveling on an express train from London to Brighton, and his corpse thrown out at Balcombe tunnel. Herr Most, editor of the Communist paper Freiheit, was sentenced in the Central Crimiu 1 Court, London, to sixteen months' imprisonment, with hard labor, for having written an article inciting to murder. McAuliffe, a process-server who gave evidence against the President of a local land league, was shot dead at his residence near Castle island, County Kerry, Ireland. A land-slide is in progress above Lake Thum, Canton of Berne, Switzerland. On tin land are meadows and houses, and the whole is gradually sliding into the lake. In the Canton of Orisons 1,300 sheep with their shepherds were overwhelmed by an avalanche. The leaders of the Home-Rule party in the House of Commons, Messrs. Parnell, O’Connor and McCarthy, have appealed to Irish electors throughout Great Britain to remember “ the ingratitude of Liberal mem bers who are ardent in the cause of coercion,” and whose election was assisted by Irish votes. A Paris dispatch reports the appearance. of a new and wonderful contagion resembling leprosy at Toulouse. Russia wants more ships of war, and the Minister of Marine proposes to spend for them 216.000,000 roubles—about $160,000,000. In the Henley regatta, the Cornell crew were “ a bad third ’’ in the race for the Stewards’ cup. The Americans were said to row in a cramped, jerky, slow style. Coleman’s mustard warehouse, at Norwich, England, burned. Damage $150,000.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Ea»t. Edward D. Porter, a rejected suitor for the hand of Silora Knockardt, of Paterson, N. J., fatally stabbed her father and then attempted the life of Arthur V. Oapella, the favored lover. Rev. Moses Howe, who died in Cambridge, Mass., was not only one of the oldest ministers living, but became a Mason in 1811. President Garfield held an informal evening reception at Long Branch whi h la-te ! about an hour. Just as the time expired, Gen. Grant entered the room, extended his band, and conversed quietly for a moment. The sequel of a quarrel between Hugh Rigney and John White, at Pittsburgh, Pa., was that the latter, a colored man, knocked Rigney down with a paver, and then pounded him on the head, inflicting injuries from which he died soon afterward. The eight-oared race between the Harvard and Columbia College crews was won by Harvard by three lengths. The winners’ time was 21 minutes 45 seconds, the Columbias being 13 seconds later. Philadelphia had two tragedies in one day, caused by faithless wives. In one case George Hdlyer shot and killed Walter Fink for talking to his (Hillyer’s) wife, and an hour later James Goin ley, who was separated from his wife, broke into the house where she lived, ind tired at her and her companion, seriously wounding both. The sleeping Hungarian, who has been in a comatose condition for 135 days at die Lehigh (Pa.) peor-house, has spoken a few words, and may, therefore, be said to be awake. There are $31,000,000 worth of gold and rilver in the United States Mint at Philadelphia. The Bradford oil district is alive with excitement over two rich strikes across the line in New York, flowing 100 to 150 barrels per day. In a quarrel between two lads, aged 13 and 16, respectively, in Boston, the younger one shot the other, inflicting a fatal wound. Mr. Euler, a fireworks dealer, was lined five shillings in Philadelphia for a breach of the anti-fireworks act, passed in 1721 (“against the peace of our sovereign Lord, his most gracious Majesty King George the First of England’’). The magistrate insisting on the fine being paid ,in shillings, the defendant bought them of a broker. John G. Saxe, son of the poet, died at Albany, last week. By the capsizing of a yacht on Long Island sound, five of a sailing party of seven young people were drowned. West. The Michigan Central engine-house at South Haan, Mich., has been burned, causing a loss of 410,000. All the St. Louis gambling-houses have been closed by a law which passed the Missouri Legislature last winter making gambling a crime. The Board of Agriculture of the State of Ohio estimates the wheat crop this year at 44.000,000 bushels. The valley of the Kansas river, in Kansas, was devastated by a destructive storm last week. The farmers are the principal sufferers. ’ Four boys were drowned at St. Louis while bathing in the river. Piute Indians in the Dolores country, Col., attacked a party of fifty-four citizens and killed five of them. Capt. Carroll, with men of the Ninth cavalry, went in pursuit of the redskins. _ An accident on the Chicago, Burlingion and Quincy railroad took place near Bins* dale, 111, The lightning divided a stock train xotb*t» put wptimHri 9R IW way witfc toe

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locomotive ; the part remaining behind was run into by another advancing stock train, and two men were killed. The members of the national and the State Boards of Health met at Chicago and discussed the question of preventing the spread of small-pox. The congregation of the Rev. (Mayor) Kalloch, of rian Francisco, Cat, have written him a letter asking him not to run for office again. He responded that he would net. Cincinnati is to have new stock-yards, for which $500,000 capital was subscribed. South. William McMullen, a desperado of Newport, Ky.,, was killed by Police Officer Sauerbrey for a desperate assault. The patrolman was badly hurt. Hon. Henry Stanbery, Attorney General during Johnson’s administration, died last week at Covington, Ky. Mrs. Miller and her young son were instantly killed by lightning, at Sturtevant ■Station, Ala. The infant in her arms was unnjured. Mrs. Antony, wife of a clergyman at Shelbyville, Tenn., fatally shot herself while xttempting to shoot a hawk. Five persons were killed and five injured by the bursting of the boilers of the steamboat Phaeton, near Maysville, Ky. The boat was racing when the disaster occurred. Dick Wood, a notorious character in Western Texas, was taken from the Sheriff, near Cariso, and shot to death. A fire destroyed five buildings at Dyersburg, Tenn., the other night. Hiram Warner, formerly Chief Justice of Georgia, died at Atlanta, after a long illness. He was born in Williamsburg, Mass., in 1802. Henry P. McGrath, the well-known Kentucky breeder and owner of running horses, is dead.

POLITICAL POINTS. In the ballot at Albany, June 25, for Senator for the short term, Potter and Wheeler each received 32 votes and Conkling 22. For the long term Depew and Kernan each had 34 and Platt 20. It was reported that a determined effort for a Republican caucus would be made, in the hope that the deadlock might be ended. Colliding gave the people of Washington a surprise by his sudden appearance in that city. In the balloting at Albany for Senator, on the 27th ult, for the short term, Wheeler had 32 votes, Potter 31 and Conkling 24. For the long term, Depew led off with 35, Kernan 32 and Platt 21. Mr. Conkling has given up his rooms at Washington. An Inter Ocean special gives currency to the rumor that the President is about to ask Attorney General MacVeagh to resign, and that William E. Chandler will probably bo offered the position. Twelve indictments were presented by the Grand Jury at Albany, seven of which were sealed. In the ballot at Albany for Senator, on the 28th ult., for the short term. Potter got 19 votes, Wheeler 42, and Conkling 31. Foi the long term Depew had 50, Kernan 49, and Platt 27. The fact has developed that State Senator Sessions was indicted for bribery, and he has been held to bail in .$3,000. A long conference between the Republican factions was held in the evening, and it is stated that the administration men refused to trade on the basis of Depew for the long term and Conkling for the short one. The Republican State Committee oi Virginia met in Richmond, June 28, with full ranks. John F. Lewis took the chair, but soon called upon State Senator Early to preside. A resolution calling upon Lewis and Gen. Wickham to resign was finally adopted. It was resolved that a convention be held in Lynchburg on Aug. 10, to which no person would be eligible as a delegate who had participated in the Beadju ter Convention. J. W. Cochran (colored), of Rockingham, was elected Chairman. The Green backers of the Second district of Maine have nominated W. R Gilbert for Congress. The lowa Republican State Convention, held at Des Moines, June 29, called to tin chair Hon. James Wilson. The delegates in attendance numbered 1,019. Hon. John Y. Stone was made permanent Chairman. An informa ballot for Governor gave Sherman 416 votes. Lirrabee 368, Harlan 146, Campbell 76 and Kimball 17. On the twelfth ballot Sherman was nominated, receiving 509 votes, which was made unanimous. On the third ballot O. H. Manning, of Carroll county, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. Austin Adams, of Dubuque, was selected as candidate for Supreme Judge, and John W. Ackers for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The monotonous balloting at Albany shows little change. For the short term, on the 29th ult., Potter had 52 supporters, Wheeler 41, and Conkling 32. For the long term, Kernan got 52 votes, Depew 50, and Platt 28. In the ballot at Albany on the 30th ult., for Conkling’s successor, Potter had 53 votes, Wheeler 43 and Conkling 32. For the long term, Kernan had 53 supporters, Depew 51 and Platt 28. A motion in the Assembly to adjourn sine die on Saturday was tabled, the Democrats voting in the negative. The Grand Jury indicted A. D. Barber for paying E. R. Phelps $12,500 with which to bribe State officers, and Charles A. Edwards for receiving from Joseph Dickson $7,000 for the same purpose. Phelps was also arraigned, and all three gave bail It is said that fifty signatures to a call for a caucus were obtained, but sixty-five were required. The latest sensation at Albany is a scandal involving the name of Platt.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A great slaughter of soldiers on the Moreles railway, In Mexico, occurred near the village of Mailpois, on the river San Antonio. After the tram had been plunged into the water by the destruction of the bridge, a consignment of alcohol in a froight-car took fire and exploded. No less than thirteen officers and 192 privates were killed by the fall or roasted alive, while fifty others sustained serious injuries. The engineer and fireman were scalded to death. The road is a narrow-gauge, was built by native engineers, and had been opened only a wi ek. The international pigeon race was flown from different parts of the United States and Canada, the distance to their homes being 250 miles ; the winners made that distance at the rate of a mile in two minutes. Later particulars of the Mexican railroad accident add rather than detract from its horrors. Nearly 250 persons were killed, and for:y dangerously wounded, only sixty escaping. Americans are the largest consumers of Japan tea, Out of 14,210,078 pound* ex* porM from Biogo aioaein 18TC, 9,699,699 won

invoiced to New York, 2,422,295 to Chicago, 80,980 to San Francisco, and only 2,167,171 to other countries. Buffalo reports the arrival of the largest tow of lumber from Michigan which ever passed through ths great lakes. It Contained 3,250,000 feet Russia thinks that if England can protest against the action of Fenians in America, something should be done by European powers to limit the conspiracies of exiled Nihilists. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Booth and Mr. J. H. McVicker arrived in New York on the steamship Bothnia from Liverpool. The American Protestant Association held its thirty-first annual convention in Philadelphia. Samuel Liggett, of that city, was elected Grand Master, and John Pike, of Chicago, Deputy Grand Master. A furious wind and rain storm prevailed over a large section of Ohio, causing much injury to life and property. The storm also extended into Pennsylvania, and in the vicinity of Pittsburgh several houses were un roofed and otherwise damaged. Thirty-seven women and five children were among the killed by the recent railway disaster m Mexico. Col. Obergon, who was commissioned by the Mexican Government to inquire into the cause of the Moreles bridge disaster, has reported that the sole cause was the defective construction of the b ridge. There are 44,496 postoffices in the United States. During the year 2,894 were established and 1,408 discontinued. The number of Postmasters commissioned is 10,441. Work on the Yorktown centennial monument, which is to coet SIOO,OOO, will be begun at once.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Ex-Senator Spencer declares that he would not accept the position of First Assistant Postmaster General. Judge Tyner announces that he has not tendered his resignation, and does not expect to do so. The death is announced of Moses Pitcomb, who for a quarter of a century was superintendent of the document-room of the United States Senate. He watched over Calhoun’s death-bed and prepared for the coffin the body of Henry Clay. A Mr. Christinas, the son-in-law of the famous Myra Clarke Gaines, shot and instantly killed Mr. Whitney, the son of Mrs. Gaines by her first husband, in the Catacazy mansion. The murder was the result of a business dispute between Whitney and Christmas, who were partners in a mattress factory. Col. W. W. Dudley, of Indiana, has taken possession of the office of Commissioner of Pensions. Attorney General macVeagh insists that there will be no “ let-up ” in the starroute prosecution, the President and the Cabinet being determined to go to the root of the business.

Tobacco Production in the United States.

The report of J. R. Dodge, special agent for the collection of statistics of agriculture, showing the tobacco product of the United States for the census years 1880 and 1870, has been issued from the Census Office in Washington. The comparative statement presented in the report shows an increase in production of 80 per cent, during the decade, the product in 1880 being placed at 473,107,573 pounds, ana that of 1870 at 262,735,341. This apparent increase, Mr. Dodge says, exaggerates the real advance in tobacco cultivation, as the preceding census crop was a small one, and the fear of taxation may have operated to prevent a full census of the tobacco in 1870. The crop reported in 1880 was one of good production, and not in excess of present requirements of home consumption and exportation. Fifteen States produce nowj as in 1870, more than 99 per cent, of the tobacco of the United States, though it is reported in twenty-two other States and Territories. Of these only Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Massachusetts produce less than in 1870. Kentucky occupies the first position, producing 36 per cent, of the total product of the country. Virginia holds the second place, Pennsylvania has advanced from the twelfth to the third, Wisconsin from the fifteenth to the tenth, and North Carolina, Connecticut and New York have each gained one point in thu rank of the tobacco States. Those that have retrograded, relative to production, are Massachusetts, Maryland, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee. The average yield per acre is shown to be 731 pounds, varying from 1,599 pounds in Massachusetts to 471 pounds in North Carolina. This variation in the rate of yield, the report states, is due, in a differing degree, to the use and neglect of fertilizers, habit of growth of the different varieties and vicissitudes of the seasons. The following table shows the total product in pounds and the yield per acre, in 1880, in the fifteen leading tobacco-growing States : Pounds. Per acre. Kentucky 171,421,134 706 Virginia ; 80,099,838 573 Pennsylvania 36,957,772 1,340 Ohio 34,725,405 10!) Tennessee.. 29,365,052 707 North Carolina 26,986,448 471 Maryland 26,082,147 683 Connecticut 14,044,6>2 1,629 Missouri 11,994,077 773 Wisconsin 10,878,463 1,234 Indiana 8,872,842 742 New York 6,555,351 1,327 Massachusetts 5,369,436 1,549 Illinois 3,936,700 699 West Virginia 2.296,136 564

The Pension Office.

On turning over his office to his successor, CoL Dudley, Mr. Bentley, Commissioner of Pensions, made the following statements as to the condition in which he would leave the office, and as to the future of the pension service : “ The number of new pensions granted during the year will be about 25,000, exclusive of the War of ) 812 pensions. This is an increase of more thaw 6 per cent over the number granted last year. A portion of this increase is accounted for by the fact that we have handled a very large number of new claims during the year, many of which were for gunshot wounds, or for some disease of which there was a record. This element will enter more largely into the work of next year, and continue to increase the number of annual settlements until the claims that are pending but not yet reached for adjustment have been fixed. After that the work will again fall back into its usual course. The settlements next year ought to reach from 45.000 to 50,000. First, there are probably from 5,000 to 7,000 cases on the files ready, or nearly so, for the issue of certificates. Second, there will be an increase of the examining force, including that relieved from the work upon the new records, equal to nearly 50 per cent. Third, there will be a large increase in the number of special agents, which, under t ie law as modified last winter, ought considerably to increase the number of claims that will be settled. These advantages, together with the character of the claims before referred to, ought to nearly if not quite double the number of allowances. We have exhausted the pension appropriation this year, $50,802,806.68, and ‘have been compelled to carry over into July nearly all the May and June settlements. I think they will require for the first payments about 450,000,000. This, added to the expected increase in the settlement next year, will bring the amount for next year up to nearly or quite 490,000,000, so there will be required for the pensions next year an appropriation of $40,000,000 in addition to the $50,000,000 already appropriated. New claims continue to come in very rapidly. There have been filed this year upward of 8Q ( Q00 MW eMne*'*

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY. JULY 8, 1881.

A Few Anecdote* of the Man Hi* Western Reserve Experience. [From the Cleveland Herald.] Memories of 1840 are to-day like the history of an almost unknown or forgotten time. That was practically before the day of the newspaper squib and paragraph, and before the day of rapid transit; and Tom Corwin, the king of stumpers, was the first man to introduce ridicule and sarcasm on the stump and make them a success. Pretty soon thereafter George D. Prentice, the great founder of the Louisville Courier- Journal, began the work of political paragraph writing and transferred the Corwinian style of discussion to his paper. Many were the fights that came from Prentice’s jokes. He kept a revolver constantly loaded and cocked in the right-hand drawer of his desk, and whenever a stranger darkened his editorial sanctum he instinctively grasped the handle of the weapon, and ten times in a dozen his precaution was entirely pertinent. The people had to be educated up to this new idea of freedom of the press, and the border mind was the first to be worked upon, and by the florid genius of a Prentice. The fund of stories which the older class of politicians continue to tell of Corwin will never be exhausted. I struck one of these men of 1840 recently, and the relations which he gave me are well worth repeating. A mass-meeting in the central portion of the State was addressed by Corwin and the elder Tom Ewing. Ewing spoke in the forenoon and Corwin was to follow in the afternoon. Ewing delivered a carefully-prepared speech on the issues of the campaign. There was not a single stroke of fancy or wit in the whole talk from beginning to end. The people seemed to be restive under it, and desirous for Corwin to appear. At dinner Mr. Corwin said : “You made a great mistake, Ewing, in your speech this morning. ” Mr. Ewing looked exceedingly surprised and annoyed, and sagely asked : “What could it have been, Mr. Corwin ?” “ Why, you talked to those people’s brains. They hain’t got any brains. Lord, wait till I get up this afternoon and talk at the pit of their stomachs ; then you’ll see them give attention. They’ll appreciate that. ” When Mr. Corwin’s son, the late Dr. W. H. Corwin, was attending Dennison University, his teachers became alarmed at his sitting up too late nights, and thought he was overstudying. They wrote to his father in regal’d to the matter. Mr. Corwin addressed his son as follows on the subject : My Son : I understand that there is danger of your injuring yourself by over-mental exertion. There are so few young men these days that go that. way that I desire to say that, should you kill yourself from too much study, it would give me great pleasure to attend your funeral. Corwin spoke less on the Reserve, perhaps, than in any other portion of the State. He was fond of relating anecdotes in regard to the peculiarities of the people in this portion of the State. One of these ran something as follows : “ I was unfortunate enough on a certain occasion to speak in the little town of D., on the Western Reserve. You have all heard of the Western Reserve, I presume, and so I need not particularly describe it. Weil, the meeting was to be'held in the Presbyterian church. I was escorted to the house by one of the very respectable citizens, and took my seat in front of the big, high pulpit, which was boxed up on the side of the wall half way up to the ceiling. Finally, after a prolonged, deathlike stillness, a man arose back in the center of the room and said: ‘ I nominate Mr. Jonathan Edwards for Chairman of thismeeting.’ Another man got up in another part of the room and said : ‘ I second the motion.’ After a while another man got up and said: ‘ You hev all heered the motion and the second. You that favor it say aye, contrary no. Mr. Jonathan Edwards is elected President of this meeting.’ Mr. Edwards came solemnly forward, and, after being seated a few minutes, arose and said: ‘ Ladies and gentlemen, you hev come together tonight to listen to Hon. Mr. Thomas Corwine on the political issues of the day. If M Cor wine will come forward I will introduce him to the audience.* I went forward. The Chairman said further: ‘ This is Hon. Mr. Thomas Cor wine, who will address you.’ “ I thought I would break that dronishness or kill myself. I told my funniest stories. I cracked my best jokes in profusion. I lavished remarks that would lay a Southern Ohio audience up with the pleurisy. But all were as solemn as though I was pronouncing the funeral oration over Cock Robin. Occasionally I would see a fellow put his hands to his face and bend down as though in devotion, but when his face came up it was again solemn. “At length I gave up in despair. After we were all out of the church one of them came up to me, and, doubling himself up with laughter, he said: “ ‘ Mr. Corwine, you said some of the (te-he-he) funniest (te-he-he) things I ever heered (te-he-he). I du declare yon come pretty near making me laugh right out in meeting. ’ ‘ ‘ What a terrible calamity that would have been. But to the Western Reserve Yankee a laugh in the house of worship or ‘ meetiu’-house,’ as he calls it, would be an unpardonable sin.”

Why the New Revision Will Be Accepted.

Of course, the translation will receive criticism. It asks it and can endure it. We have sometimes been thought too much in haste to accept it without hesitation in advance. We have been willing to do it, and the reason is simple. We do not set ourselves up against the most competent scholars of the world. Their conclusions will have to be accepted at last. Now the twenty-five English and the thirteen American revisers were, in the first p’ace, picked out as the best men known in the English-speaking world, the most competent to form and express a wise opinion on the subject of the new translation of the Greek Testament. They have now devoted their most patient study to the subject for five years. They have with the utmost patience studied every word and weighed every consideration that will occur to the more hasty critics of their work. The result is that of their united wisdom. Put now against the judgment of all the rest of the English-speaking wrld the judgment of these forty men and the opinion of these forty men is worth more than that of the 100,000,000 beside. The conclusion of one wise man is worth more than that of a thousand fool. Is this the surrendry of private judgment? Not at all. It is the mei e recognition of the trust that we must all put in competency. We hold that if is now the duty of every wise preacher immediately to" introduce the

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

TOM CORWIN.

new version into liis Sabbath ministrations, and of the private Christian to use it for his devotions. — The Independent. __________

Freaks of the Telegraph.

Names are always a great stumblingblock to the clerks, and addresses are composed of names. Most of us have tricks of writing names in any but a distinct fashion; and, although the postoffice persistently reminds us, on the forms given us to write our telegrams on, that the writing should be plain, this advice, like most other advice, is but too often neglected. Hence many telegrams get altogether astray, sometimes to the not slight discomfiture of those into whose hands they fall, and who, unwitting that any error has been made, forthwith act upon them. It is related that a woman residing in some small street in Manchester once received what appeared to be a summons from her husband to come up to him in London. Very much alarmed, she at once started. On her way she got in conversation with another woman who was in the same carriage, and who she found was also going to see her husband, who was in London ill. This womau had been expecting to receive a telegram from her husband, and, not hearing, had grown anxious, and had finally set off without the telegram. Further parley revealed the fact that their names were the same; that their husbands’ names were the same ; that they both lived in the same quarter in Manchester; and it finally transpired that the telegram which had been delivered to the first woman was the very one which the second had been waiting for—the error in delivery having been caused by some such mistake as “ Hamilton street ” for “Henrietta street” a mistake very likely attributable to want of distinctness in the writing. Another curious case of coincidence of which we have heard was that of a telegram addressed, “John Stillingwise, Brookdean, nr. Mirkby Lonsdale,’’from Robert Stillingwise, his brother, begging him to come at once to him at a hotel which he indicated, in Leeds. The address “ Brookdean ” was in some way altered, and the telegram was delivered to another John Stillingwise living somewhere in the neighborhood of Kirkby Lonsdale. This unfortunate man, who had not iieard from his brother Robert for some twenty years, at once started off. in stormy, wintry weather, reached Leeds in the evening, and was told by the landlord that he could not see his brother that night, as he was very far from well, and had gone to bed. The next morning he was ushered into Robert Stillingwise’s room, expecting to see his long-lost brother, when, to his extreme astonishment and disgust, he found himself confronted by an utter stranger ! Hlackivood's Magazine.

An Explanation.

The reason why snow at great elevations does not melt, but remains permanent, is owing to the fact that the heat received from the sun is thrown off into the stellar space so rapidly by radiation and reflection, that the sun fails to raise the temperature of the snow to the melting point. The snow evaporates, but it does not melt. The summits of the Himalayas, for instance, must receive more than ten times the amount of heat necessary to melt all the snow that falls on them, notwithstanding which the snow is not melted. And in spite of the strength of the sun and the dryness of the air of those altitudes, evaporation is sufficient to remove the snow. At low elevations, where the snowfall is probably greater, and the amount of heat even less than at the summits, the snow melts and disappears. This we must attribute to the influence of aqueous vapor. At high elevations the air is dry, and allows the heat radiated from the snow to pass into space ; but at low elevations a very considerable portion of the heat radiated from the snow is absorbed in passing through the atmosphere. A considerable portion of the heat thus absorbed by the vapor is radiated back on the snow ; but the heat thus radiated, being of the same quality as that which the snow itself radiates, is on this account absorbed by the snow. Little or none of it is reflected, like that received from the siui. The consequence is, that the heat thus absorbed accumulates in the snow till melting takes place. Were the aqueous vapor possessed by the atmosphere sufficiently diminished, perpetual snow would cover our globe down to the seashore. It is true that the air is warmer at the lower level than at the higher level, and by contact with the snow must tend to melt it wore at the former than at the latter position. But we must remember that the air is warmer mainly in consequence of the influence of aqueous vapor, and that were the quantity of vapor reduced to the amount in question, the difference of temperature at the two positions would not be great.

A Humane Judge.

Yesterday afternoon Louis Grabson was tried before Justice Cary on the charge of breaking into a house near the railroad track and taking various articles of household furniture. “It appears that you took about everything in sight,” said the court, sternly. “Do not think me wholly depraved, your Honor,” said the prisoner with the tears starting in his eyes. “I left a fine red-hot stove, worth at least twenty-five dollars. ” “Where are you from, my good man?” asked his Honor, kindly. “Reno,” replied the man, reluctantly. The court was buried4n thought, and then, leaning over the desk, said: “Sheriff, release the prisoner. A man from Reno, who would decline to take a red-hot stove when he had such a good show is not, in my opinion, wholly bad. Considering his associations, I think he deserves much credit.” “Let him go,” shouted the spectators, throwing up their hats, and the man was taken out of court on the shoulders of the crowd. Later in the day, when slightly inebriated, he acknowledged that he had only lived in Reno six months, and his popularity waned.— Carson City (Jvev.) Appeal.

Marrying in Ill-Health.

A prominent Eastern physician has related that he was consulted by two consumptives as to the propriety of marrying. They were both weakly in constitution, but intellectually brilliant, and their tastes were harmonious. They loved each other ardently, and could not be happy apart. He counseled them to marry, and they did so. They lived together most pleasantly for about a dozen years, and died at about the same time. According to the physical school of thinkers, they should have remained single, each dragging out the twelve years in solitary discontent. Of course there can bp no general rule for cases in which disease exists; each instance must be judged on its own merits, ftati (/Witte,

New York and the Administration.

Whether or not the relations between the administration and New York will appear as a political influence in Ohio — and how Republican skill or Democratic silence can keep them out it is impossible to see—those relations will inevitably become a political factor in New York. Some of the reasons which will make the relations of New York to the administration imperious in the Novemlier election in that State will also be potent in the other States, and specially in Ohio. This cannot be prevented either by political ingenuity on the one hand — which the Republican managers will certainly exercise, or, on the other hand, by the proper desire of the Democrats of Ohio to make their State contest in fact what it is in name, a State election, a local election. The administration is deeply interested in tlie Senatorial contest pending in New York. It has given to the enemies of Grant, and to the enemies of Conkling, and to the enemies of the influences which elected Garfield, the control, practically, of all of the Federal patronage to break down Mr. Conkling. Mr. Robertson, appointed Collector at New York, is one of the most powerful men in the Government in respect of patronage. He represents nearly the entire power of the administration in respect of the bribery of patronage in the greatest of States. Though long since appointed and confirmed as Collector, he still remains in the Legislature of the State to exercise over the Legislature the tremendous power of bribery at his command, and to intimidate the Legisla ture of New York at the bidding and in the interest of the administration, and the famous and infamous Marshal tyrant of New York appears with Federal appointments in his right hand to use as bribes—for what purpose ? Not to accomplish a great, patriotic purpose, but to break down the United States Senator who has been most useful of all in recent years to the Republican party. Mr. Conkling could have defeated the inauguration of Mr. Hayes, and was almost on the point of doing it His silence prevented the inauguration of Mr. Tilden, the elected candidate. Without Mr. Conkling, Gen. Garfield could not have been elected President. New York, the chief of the States, could not have been induced to vote for Garfield had not Grant and Conkling pounded the drum. Those thirty-five electoral votes were absolutely necessary to Garfield’s election, and, though Garfield was nominated by an accident, by treachery —of which Robertson is but one of the representatives—there are many Republicans in the land, many in Ohio, who will not believe that such treachery should be ostentatiously rewarded by the whole Federal Government, by the notorious distribution for that purpose of the most potent of known bribes, the bribes that are daily and lasting in their operation —the offices. When this is done by an administration that takes the people of the United States into its confidence, when it kisses its family, immediately after having made, in the presence of the country, the most solemn protestations in favor of civil-service reform, hypocrisy is added to political ignominy aiid political suicide. The relations of the administration to the State of New York are, therefore, of interest, and will command notice in all of the States, Ohio not least among them. There is another aspect in which the New York contest will be viewed by the thoughtful politicians of the Republican party. The Republican organization had already driven out of its ranks all of its great men of sentiment; it now proposes to drive away its greatest man of spoils. Its sentiment gone, its spoils system broken up, demoralized, at logger heads—what is left of it? The Trumbulls abandoned the Republican party. The Chases left it. The Julians deserted it. The Sumners denounced its later methods. The Coopers divorced themselves from it. The Greeleys turned their faces from it. The Sewards died feeling that they had seen the youth, the glory, the decay of the Republican party. The men who sat by its cradle really followed its hearse. And now, under the new, decaying, destroying school of Republicanism, the school of spoils, a spoils administration has succeeded in driving away its greatest and most honest commander in that school. The apparent censure of a State upon an United States Senator, we may remember in the meantime, is not final with the people of that State. Charles Sumner was censured by the Legislature of Massachusetts, and the censure was not revoked till Mr. Sumner lay on his deathbed. What is left of the Republican party when all of the strong men of sentiment, to whose names the suspicion of corruption was never attached, and the men representative of the spoils system, who have never been charged with having stolen a dollar, are driven out of it ?— Cincinnati Enquirer.

The Case at Albany.

Bribery has come to be regarded as only a venial offense at Albany. There is probably not a man in either branch of the Legislature who does not believe Sessions guilty of attempting to bribe Bradley ; not one who has not all along believed him capable of such an act. There is not a Senator or Assemblyman who is ignorant of the true character of the notorious lobbyists, Barber, Van Vechten, Edwards and others who haunt the capital, or who doubts that they are ready to use money corruptly in carrying candidates and bills, or that they make their living in that way, A number of members of the Legislature have testified or made formal statements w ithin the past two weeks concerning attempts and offers to bribe that have fallen within their own personal knowledge. And yet we observe no marks of strong indignation at the prevalence of this form of corruption. Sessions, Barber, Van Vechten, Edwards, all are treated with the same degree of good nature and friendliness as if they were men by whom the thought of bribery would be spurned with loathing. A frequent visitor at the headquarters of the lobbyists has been Mr. Chauncey M. Depew. Bribery is made by positive law a criminal offense, but it is evidently not considered at Albany a moral offense in itself, or an evidence of degradation. Some degree of meanness may be thought to attach to the man who accepts a bribe, but evidently none to him who offers it. That Sessions himself feels this, is shown by the good humor and complacency with which he has conducted himself under the accusation that has been investigated, For these reasons it is taay to believe

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a mere charge of bribery, though really a pernicious and wicked offense, when made against a Senator of questionable antecedents, especially when he acknowledges with the greatest coolness that he has for yearn been an expert at lobbying, and deliberately swears that he does not remember the name of a single person for whom he lobbied, nor the character of a single measure that he tried to put through. A false accusation of bribery, however, would be a crime so detestable and degrading that there is no man in the Legislature, not even the most corrupt and tainted log-roller, whom we should be willing to believe guilty of it. Even against the notorious lobbyists, who hang on the outskirts of the Legislature, the charge that they were endeavoring to convict an innocent man of a statutory crime by perjured testimony would seem in the highest degree improbable. Even in Albany, or in any of the most corrupt of modern legislative assemblies, there is no difference of opinion as to the baseness of such a crime. For these reasons it would be impossible, even if there were no corroborative evidence in the case at all, to believe that Mr. Bradley’s accusation is false. — New York Sun.

INDIANA NEWS.

“ Bio John,” a trotter with a record of 2:25, owned at Greensburg, is about to be sold for $16,000. Jimmie Finan, a lad, was drowned in White river at Anderson, in attempting the rescueof a comrade who was sinking. Three young men of Wabash have started to float down the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers from there to New Orleans. Some papers struggle for years and never have any fun; but the Fort Wayne Herald has a libel suit on the strength of the first issue. The Indiana alumni of the University of Michigan are invited to a reunion at Island Park, thirty-five miles north of Fort Wayne, on July 12. . Cart. M. A. Gelwick, of Bedford, has already been appointed to a position in the Pension Oflico at Washington, under the new Commissioner, Dudley. There is a -family of professional snake charmers living in Richmond. They have twenty-three snakes in their boxes that they handle as fearlessly as kittens. John Goopman, living near Richland, Spencer county, was instantly killed by lightning while wrestling with Jesse Pape under a tree. Pape was partially paralyzed. Frank Jennings, of Washington, a boy 17 years old, was shot through the leg by some unknown person. He will be a cripple for‘life. No cause is known as to why the shooting was done. Five hundred and three men are now employed in the Jackson railway machine shops, and ten new locomotives are now being built, and will be run out of the shops about Oct. 1. Friends of Havover College contemplate erecting a commodious hotel at Hanover, keeping it in first-class style for a summer resort, and as a home for students during other seasons of the year. Samuel Gould, of Osgood, died of dyspepsia and old age, while sitting in a chair in his son Erastus’ factory. Mr. Gould was in his 85th year. Death has visited five members of this family the past year. A majority of the Board of County Commissioners of Cass county has ordered a tax levy for the purpose of building a bridge over the Wabash river at Georgetown, at a probable cost of from $16,000 to $20,000. A case to be decided at Connersville involves the point whether a sale of liquor to a boy, who was sent for it by his father, and who delivered it as directed, was a sale of liquor to a minor and punishable under the statute. Frank Fetterer, cf Utica, 111., assistant foreman of the Smith Bridge Company, of Toledo, was instantly killed by falling from the new bridge on the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad, over Eel river, near North Manchester. James Wilder, a noted character, better known as “ Elephant Jim,” died, the other night, in Terre Haute. He served in the Mexican war and the “late unpleasantness,” but was finally conquered by too much alcoholic stimulation. The funeral of ex-Senator Henry S. Lane was held at Crawfordsville, and was attended by nearly all the noted men of the State. On the same day, Mr. Lane’s law partner and lifelong friend, Col. C. Wilson, died only a few doors away. The geological, mineralogical and natural history collection of Dr. Joseph Gardner, of Bedford, has been purchased by the Trustees of Purdue University, for the use of that institution. It is probably the largest and most valuable private collection of the kind in the West. Mrs. Charles Higginbotham, of Liberty, Union county, demolished a saloon at that place, the other day, because its owner persisted in selling her husband whisky. Her husband was in the saloon when she entered, but found it convenient to retire at an early moment. A bold robbery occurred near Charlestown recently. Mrs. Mary McCoy, a widow, was robbed of $1,900. At the time the money was taken the family were at supper on the porch in the rear part of the house, and the thief entered by the front and escaped before the theft was discovered. Some sacrilegious wretches tore the corner-stone from the Lutheran Church, pear Wabash. The church had been built about six years, and when the corner-stone was laid, coin to the value of about §5 was placed under it. As the money was missing, it is supposed that was the object in tearing out the stone. At the recent Teachers’ Institute at Marion, a rule for using “ ie ” and “ei ” in spelling was called for. One worthy teacher arose in a dignified manner and stated that the best rule he nad found lor the use of those vowels in spelling was to write both letters nearly alike and put the dot over the middle. In that case it would be difficult to catch him in a mistake. The Board of County Commissioners of Vigo county have employed a firm of architects to draw plans and specifications for the construction of a new Court House, The board reserves the right to reject any or all plans presented, and no plans are to be paid for unless accepted by the board, nor are any plana to be paid for unkss the building can he erect’ ed wjthiu ilic turn ol S3QO,OQO»

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MOSAICS.

Ambition is the evil shadow of aspiration.—George MacDonald. You become more the viler for dispraise.— Thomas a' Kempis. It takes a bold man to roll his own idea into the world.—A.*S’. All up-hill work when would do; all down hill when we suffer. — Bailey. No man is more miserable than he that hath no adversity.—- Jeremy Taylor. No life can be utterly miserable that is heightened by the laughter and love of one little child. ’ Youth is the tassel and silken flo'ver of love ; age is the full com, ripe and solid in the ear. Succbhb in like climbing a mountain, ’Tis hard to roach the tip-top ; Who would catch the bright gem of the fountain Muut watch for the water to drop. Education, begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. — Locke. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on year past misfortunes, of which all men nave some.— Charles Dickens. Some men with swordn may reap the field, And plant with laurela where they kill; But tbeir sti’ong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another atill. Though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.—Thomas Baine. The best die and the cunning live. Courage goes ahead and scales the ramparts and falls in the ditch. Cowardice skulks and populates the earth. If he really thinks there is no distinction between virtue and vice, Why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.— Dr. Johnson. A good book and a good woman are excellent things for those who know justly how to appreciate their value. There are men, however, who judge of both from the beauty of the covering. Two tiling* thou nbult not long for, if thou lovo a mind nerene: A woman to thy wife, though *he were a crownod queen; And the weoond, borrowed money—though tho amiling lender Hay Thvthe will not demand the debt until tho judgment day. Emerson.

Pet Superstitions.

Nearly every man, bo he ignorant or educated, has his pet superstition. Some great men have believed in omens, while others have thought that to omit a certain act was to invite mischief upon themselves. Napoleon was an example of the first class, and Dr. Johnson of the second. M. Passy had the following anecdote from Gen. Rapp himself, who, on his return from the siege of Dautzic, having occasion to speak to the Emperor, entered Iris cabinet without being announced. He found him in such profound meditation that his entrance was not noticed. The General, seeing that he did not move, was afraid he might be indisposed, and purposely ifhide a noise. Napoleon immediately turned round, and, seizing Rapp by the arm, pointed to the heavens, saying : “Do you see that ?” The General made no reply. Being interrogated a second time, he answered that he perceived nothing. “What!” responded the Emperor, “ you do not discover it ? It is my star! It is immediately in front of you—most brilliant!” And, becoming gradually more excited, he exclaimed: “It has never abandoned me ; I behold it on all great occasions. It commands me to advance, and that to me is a sure sign of success. ” The illusion of the sense may lie explained by some as a symptom of one. of those impending epileptic attacks lo which it is well known he was subject. Lord Nelson had a belief in omens, we know, by the horseshoe he had nailed to the mainmast of the Victory, of which his coffin was made. To quote another and very different class of mind from that of either of tho great men mentioned, as influenced by the same consideration for the ruling of trifles, we may refer to the singular habit of Dr. Johnson. As described by Boswell, he never entered a doorway without counting a certain number of steps, and so judging the distance that the last step should fall upon the threshold of the door with a certain foot. So particular was Johnson in this respect that, on more than one occasion, when he had failed to time himself, he returned to correct his stepx

A Plucky Bride.

Once upon a time a spinster lady lived in Airth who could count uh many golden guineas as ever “Tibby Fowler ” did. Beside this spinster lived a bachelor of somewhat parsimonious habiUipttnd passionately fond of the “yellow Geordies.” The two made it up and agreed to get married. Before the wedding, however, the man opened his mouth too wide, and boasted what he would do after he got possession of his wife’s tocher. A good-natured friend —there are always plenty about—conveyed this information to the bride, who opened her eyes and at once made up her mind how to proceed. When the minister came to perform the ceremony, and at the usual stage requested the couple to join hands, what was the astonishment of both clergyman and company to see the bride offer her pocket instead of her hand. Thinking there might be some mistake, they were again requested to join hands, but this, as well as a third request, met with the same pantomimic reply. The reverend gentleman was at last under the necessity of asking for an explanation, to which the bride at once replied : “It’s not me he wants, it’s the pouch. He can marry it if he likes, but he’ll never marry me.” Then she slowly curtseyed and left her astonished bridegroom in a state of complete bewilderment. Some of the spectators expressed themselves in words akin to those of the Glasgow bailie when he said : * “My conscience 1 but women are strange customers.” There was only one passenger on board the ship, and the Captain and mate contrived to get the most and best of what was on the table. One day there was a rollypoly pudding with the sweet-meats in the middle. “Do you like puddin’ ends, sir ?” asked the Captain. “No, I don’t like pudding ends, dr,” said the passenger. “ Well, me and my mate does,” said the Captain, cutting the pudding in two and putting one- half on the mate’s plate and the other on his own. And the two soon made an end of both. Do that which is assigned you, and you ciwnot hope mucj) or dare tpo