Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The National Liberal party of Germany proposes to demand the reduction of the term of service in the army from three years to two. Turkish brigands have captured the manager of the forest works belonging to Baron Hirech, and demand £15, 000 ransom. Three children of Charles Moody, colored, perished by the burning of a tenementhouse at Duke Village, N. H. Four battalions of the Lyons garrison are preparing, to sail to Sfax to participate in the new African campaign. The German coal-mining companies have commenced conveying coal to the mouth of their pits by electric railways. The International Monetary Conference at Paris adopted resolutions proposed by the French and American members, expressing a desire that negotiations shall be opened between those states which took part in the conference, and that another conference be summoned to meet April 12, 1882, to perfect the work and its details. The conference then adjourned. A company has been formed in Paris, with a capital of $10,000,000, to develop the mineral resources of Canada. Lefroy, the murderer of Gold, has been arrested in the East End, London, and has made a full confession of his crime.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The Yale and Harvard boat race at New London, Ct., was won by the Yale crew by two lengths. Yale’s time for the three-mile course was 22:13; Harvard’s was 22:19. A cyclone in Tangier sound, Chesapeake bay, lasted nearly four hours, wrecked a number of schooners and fishing boats, and caused the loss of several lives. Two SIOO,OOO conflagrations took place one night last week—woolen mills at Adams, Mass., and stove works at Spring City, Pa. Gov. Cornell has vetoed the bill for constructing a waterworks aqueduct for New York city. The Governor says : “ The city is sufficiently supplied with water. Every effort should be made to liquidate the present debt of the city, $100,000,000.” At a spacial meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce it was decided, as a testimonial of appreciation for the noble character of President Garfield, to raise the sum of $250,000, to be invested in United States bonds, for the benefit of Mrs. Garfield and her children. Ex-Senator Conkling has written to the Attorney General suggesting that the would-be murderer Guiteau should be meted a punishment proportionate to the position of his victim. West From March 1 to June 29, this year, the number of hogs packed in Chicago wat 1,225,000 against 1,590,000 for the corresponding season last year. A duel was' fought near New Albany, Ind., between William Willis and Rebert Brunett, in which the former was dangerously wounded in the face. The Opera House at San Jose, Cal., valued at $30,000, and eleven other buildings were swept away by fire. In Cincinnati, flames broke out in Marquia’s carriage factory and speedily extended to and destroyed the Union furniture works, Closterman’s chair factory and Meader’s furniture shop. Charles Peat perished in the flames and five persons were injured. The loss will reach $500,000. The robbery of a stage-coach near El Paso'by twelve Indians has already been announced. It is now learned that Thomas K. Pugh, a son of the ex-Benator, was carried into captivity, and that John M. Comstock, of California, a representative of John W. Mackey, escaped in the darkness. A dispatch dated Los Cruces, Mexico, says: Advices received here state that the south-bound stage on the El Paso and Chihuahua line was attacked by Apache Indians about 100 miles south of El Paso, and its four passengers and two drivers killed. One passenger escaped wounded. A report has also reached Los Cruces to the effect that the entire surveying party—thirty persons—of the Mexican Central railway have been killed by Apache Indians in old Mexico. A company of Mexican cavalry has been sent out from Chihuahua to investigate the report South. Three children of Sheriff Micken, of Hernando county, Fla., aged 8, 11 and 14, were murdered by a negro in whose charge they were left. After robbing the house, the fiend endeavored to kill the father on his way heme, but, instead, was captured, confessed his crime, and was lynched in presence of 200 citizens. Two picnic trains on the Kentucky Central road collided near Covington, Ky., on the 4th of July, by which four persens of that city were killed and fourteen wounded. Two of tfae wrecked coaches took fire, and were reduced to ashes. Samuel Dnvias was hanged at Alexandria, La., for the murder of A. J. Hanna. During a thunder-storm near Decatur, Ala., lightning struck a barn where a number of people had sought refuge. Four were killed and eight seriously injured. James R. Keene gave to the poor of Paris 5,000 francs from the grand prize won by Foxhall. The flooring of a chamber in a barrack of Paris gave way, dropping 100 soldiers into the room beneath. Eight were seriously hurt

POLITIC POINTS. On the announcement of a ballot for the long term at Albany, on the Ist inst., the name of Thomas C. Platt was withdrawn, at his own request, and that of Crowley was substituted; The ballot for the long term gave Depew and Kernan each 48 votes, Crowley 20, nnd Cornell 15. For the short term Potter had 48 votes, Wheeler 88, and Conkling 28. The Bribery Investigating Committee held a meeting without reaching a vote on its report The attempt on the life of the President seem* to have Ijad no influence on the stalwart vote at Albany. Two ballots were taken on the sth, in which Potter had 47 for the short term, Wheeler 36 and Conkling 31. The vote for the long term gave Depew 48, Kernan 47, Wheeler 24, Crowley 19 and Cornell 15. Both houses of the New York Legislature, on the 6th inst., unanimously adopted resolutions of sympathy for the wounded President and his afflicted family, and of condemiiaßon of the murderous deed of his assailant. The ballot for Senator for the short term on that day was as follows : Potter, 53 ; Wheeler, 42; Crowley, f ; Bogers, 4; Conkling, 32;

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Cornell, 6; Lapham; 11; Folger, 1. The vote for Platt’s successor stood : Kernan, 53; Depew, 53; Cornell, 18; Chapman, 4; Crowley, 19. Sixty-five members of the New York Legislature signed a call for a caucus of the Republican Senators and Assemblymen, to agree, if possible, upon candidates for United States Senators. Only sixty-three were present, however, and the meeting was deferred for one day. Majority and minority reports were made by the Bribery Investigating Committee, which are not conclusive one way or the other. The majority report submitted the evidence taken, but gave no conclusion, owing to the matter being in the hands of the court. The joint convention of the New York Legislature balloted twice for Senators, on the 7th inst, the closing vote for the short term giving Potter 52, Wheeler 43 and Conkling 30. For the long term Kernan received 52, Depew 49, Crowley 18 and Cornell 17. At a conference of the Republican members in the evening it was agreed to hold a formal caucus next day, fifty-nine signing the call. The supporters of Conkling held a secret conference and resolved to take no part in the caucus. Two ballots for Senator were taken at Albany on the Bth inst. The closing vote for the short term gave Potter 50, Wheeler 42 and Conkling 32. For the long term Kernan had 50, Depew 51 and Crowley 18. A caucus was held in the afternoon, at which sxty-four members were present Chauncey M. Depew seat in a letter of withdrawal. On the third ballot Warner Miller was nominated for the long term, and on the second ballot Eldredge G. Lapham was selected for the short term. Only one supporter of Conkling took part in the proceedings. The stalwarts, at a conference in the evening, resolved to stand firmly by Conkling and Crowley.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Auditor French, Commissioner of Railroads, was dismissed by Secretary Kirkwood. The reason for this action was a violation of the law which required him to repor, his action to the Secretary of the Interior, am not to the officers of the Central Pacifii railroad. Secretary Windom has just issued th< 104th call. It is for 5 per cent, registerec bonds, issued under the acts of July 14, 1870. and Jan. 20, 1871, which will be paid Oct. 1, 1881. The public-debt statement issued July 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bondss 196,378,000 Five per cents 439,841,350 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four ner cents 738,659,750 Refunding certificates 688,800 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt 51,639,067,750 Matured debts 6,723,865 Legal tenders 346,741,551 Certificates of deposit... 11,925,(MH) Fractional currency 7,105,953 Gold and silver certificates 56,949,450 Total without interest. 422,721,954 Total debt 52,069,013,569 Total interest 20,948,657 Cash in treasury 249,363,415 Debt less cash in treasurysl,B4o,s9 ■<,Bll Decrease during June 12,323,159 Decrease since June 30, 1880 101,573,483 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaids 2,125,544 Debt on which interest has ceased 6,723,86.” Interest thereon 718,681. Gold and silver certificates 56,949,451 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of depositll,92s,ool Cash balance available July 1, 1881.... 170,920,869 Totals 249,363,415 Available assets^— Cusb in treasury...'■s 249,363,415 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstandings 64,623,577 Interest'accrued and not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States 49,528,566 interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation of mails 14,426,121 By cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 34,447,241 The President, on the very day he was shot, made the following appointments : Hannibal Hamlin, Minister to Spain ; George W. Carter, of Louisiana, Minister to Venezuela ; H. H. Garnett, of New York, Minister to Liberia. During the fiscal year just ended our mints coined $106,788,940, of which $27,637,955 was in silver dollars. Blaine, son to the Secretary of B&de, has entered on the duties of Third Assistant Secretary of State. He was appointed to the position last week by the President Prof. C. V. Riley has been appointed Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, in place of J. H. Comstock, resigned.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Mercantile Agency of Dun, Wyman & Co. announce the extent of business failures for the first six months in 1881. In number they amount to 2,862, as compared with 2,497 in the first half of 1880, and 4,018 in 1879. The liabilities for the first half are stated to be $40,000,000, compared with $33,000,000 the first six months of 1880, and $65,000,000 in 1879. The semi-annual circular issued by Dun, Wyman <fc Co. contains reports from forty-four trade centers, nearly all of which indicate a highly-prosperous condition of business, with reports almost uniformly favorable as to the condition of the crops, not only of grain, but also of cotton, rice, sugar, tobacco, etc. The entire business outlook, as indicated by this authentic return, seems extremely favorable. The necessity of some caution is at the same time indicated. The Chicago Timea has obtained the views of the Western State Boards of Agriculture as to the growing crops. In Ohio the yield is expected to be about 80 per cent, of that of last year, the early sown being the best. The acreage in Michigan is about the same as in 1880, and only ten or twelve bushels per acre are looked for. Indiana expects a crop of only 30,000,000 bushels, as against 47,000,000 last year, the quality being excellent Wisconsin has a large acreage in spring, but a half breadth of winter wheat, and the crop is in fine condition. The lowa board estimates the spring-wheat crop at halt that of last year, and the winter sown at 44 percent. Fifty-four national banks organized during the last fiscal year, with an aggregate capital of $6,409,700. Nineteen banks, with an aggregate capital of $1,620,000, went into voluntary liquidation, and there has been no failure of a national bank during the year. The number of such banks now in existence is 2,122. The coinage of the United States mints for the year ending June 30, 1881, was as follows ; Gold, $78,733,864; silver, $27,649,066.75; other metal, $405,109.95, making a total of $106,780,966.70. Mexican official reports state that the results of the Morelos railroad accident were 140 persons killed and 112 persons wounded; lorty-nine persons escaped and about forty are missing. Seven engineers have been commissioned to examine the bridge.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY. JULY 15, 1881.

Two adventurous men, named Traynor and Olson, sailed from Bath, Me., in a dory fourteen feet long and five wide, to cross the Atlantic. They are provisioned for sixty days, and are skillful seamen. Capt. Thornsby, of the schooner Eustace, from Ban Francisco, was killed by his cook off the coast of Mexico. While in chains the latter fired the ship, and oniy four sailors escaped. Reports are received of massacres by hostile Apache Indians in New Mexico and Northern Mexico. A stage coach was attacked south of El Paso and its four passengers and two drivers killed, and there is a report of the killing of a surveying party ol thirty persons on the Mexican Central railroad. The steamer Proteus has just left St. Johns for the Arctic regions. Giuseppi Esposito, a remarkablyhandsome Italian, the so'e survivor of a famous band of brigands, for whose arrest a reward of 25,000 lire was offered, was caught in New Orleans, where he had been quietly running a fruit schooner. He is in irons on board a steamer bound for New York, where an Italian war-vessel is waiting to take him home. King Kalakaua has reached London on his tour westward round the world. Gould and Sage have captured the Metropolitan elevated railroad in New York, and will probably put an end to the arrangement by which the Manhattan company is compelled to pay 10 per cent, to the other roads. Cyrus W. Field manages the New York elevated road, and a lively struggle impends.

GARFIELD.

Washington, July 9. CONDITION OF THE SUFFERING PATIENT. Yesterday was another day of favorable symptoms in the condition of the President, the most favorable being the discharge of “ laudable” or healthy pus from the wound. This gives the physicians great confidence that there is no danger from blood poisoning. The yellow color of the skin has to some extent disapjieared, and with it all fear of the effects of jaundice. The President partook of more nourishment than on any day since the shooting. The weather was very favorable to the condition, and the work of producing artificially a better atmosphere in the sickroom ..is being pushed. The quickened pulse arises from the process of suppuration, which was expected, and which in the opinion of the physicians is progressing very favorably. The President maintains his courage and hopefulness, and the chances of his recovery increased 100 per cent, yesterday. The only message of sympathy which has been shown the President is the one sent by Gen. Grant. He has also been shown the resolutions adopted by the Williams College alumni. He has been told, however, that the public anxiety in his regard has been intense, and that telegrams and letters of sympathy were coming from all parti of the civilized world. SEEKING NOTORIETY. It is stated that a number of prominent Washington lawyers are anxious to defend Guiteau on account of the notoriety it may give them. Some of these persons have sought access to Guiteau, but have been refused on the instructions of District Attorney Corkbill. Insanity will be the ground of defense, but it is quite certain that the prosecution will try to show that Guiteau is sane and entirely responsible for his acts. . NO CONSPIRACY. Chief Brooks, of the Secret Service Division, who has been investigating with a view to ascertaining whether Guiteau was a member of a conspiracy, has come to the conclusion that there has’been no conspiracy, but that Guiteau acted alone. Chief Brooks does not think Guiteau is insane. He is only eccentric, but his eccentricity is of a fanatical and exceedingly mean variety. CONCERNING GUITEAU. “When will the matter be laid before the Grand Jury?’’ asked a reporter of District Attorney Corkhill. “No action will be taken regarding the case until the result of the President’s wound is finally determined.” “ What can be done with Guiteau if the President lives?” “If the President lives, the crime will be assault with intent to kill.” “Are you ready yet to give out the papers taken from Guiteau?” “That question is asked me by everybody, as if there was something very grave contained in them. These papers are not so very important. The only very important thing' I have is a full detailed history of the crime from its inception to its culmination, which I believe is accurately true. That, in due time, will be given to the public. I will say in addition that I think it exceedingly cruel, considering the fervid state of the public mind on this subject, and the horror with which every man regards the assassin, that any man’s name should he mentioned in connection with him. He is an egotistical, presuming, dishonest man, attempting to borrow money of people ; claiming acquaintance with persons whom he only knew by the fact of his going to them and speaking to them; speaking of persons as his friends whom he had no acquaintance with at all; attempting to obtain'money by representing himself as a man of great political influence, both here and in New York. To mention the names of these citizens in connection with this man at this time is improper and unjust. While everybody who has known anything about this man at all has been perfectly willing to detail to me his entire relations with Guiteau, still thei'e is scarcely one of them but has requested that his name be kept from the public.” “He was in the habit,” continued CoL Corkhill, speaking of Guiteau, “of going to the Riggs House, to the Arlington, and to Willard's, occupying the reading-rooms and conversing with people occasionally, although he was not generally communicative.” “ I would like to hear more about that detailed statement.” “ The statement to which I refer is a detailed statement of the crime, why it was done, when it was done, and just how it was done, given by the prisoner himself after I had told him certain facts that I had ascertained. I then got from him what I believe was a correct statement. He was so solicitous about its being correct that he even sent a messenger to me to return to the jail, as he wanted to say to me something that had escaped his memory. He was afraid I would learn it somewhere else, and then think he had concealed something from me.” LETTER FROM EX-SENATOR CONKLING. The following correspondence between exSenator Conkling and Attorney General MacVeagh has been made public ; CONKLING TO MAOVEAGH. Fifth Avknuz Hotel,) New York, July 5. J My Dear Sir : In the abhorrence with which all decent men alike shudder at the attempt to murder the President. I have given thought to a matter to ■which your attention may or may not have turned. Our criminal code treats. premeditated homicide in all cases alike, irrespective of the victim. Murder being visited by the greatest penalty, perhaps no distinction between one case and another could be founded on the public relations held by the person slain. But, in the case of an attempt to murder, a broad distinction can be made between assaßtng the life of an individual and an attempt to take life of special value to the whole people. The shocking occurrence of Saturday demands that the definition and punishment of assaults aimed at high executive officers, whether successful or not, should be made thoroughly rigorous. The man who attempts the life of a President, if morally responsible, commits an offense which the nation ought to guard against and punish by the exertion of all the power civilized nations may employ. I suggest this as deserving of consideration. My profound sympathies are with the President and with all of you every hour. The conflict of report* keeps hope and. fear striving with each other, with nothing stable except the facts and trust that the worst is past I wish you would express to the President my deepest sympathy in this hour, which should hush all discords and enlist prayers for his safe deliverance. Please, also, give to Mrs. Garfield my most respectful condolence. Trusting that all will be well, cordially yours, Roscoe Conkling. MACVKAGH TO CONKLING. Washington, D. C., July 7. The Hon. Roscoe Conkling, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York: Thanks for your letter of the sth, which ha* just reached me. Its suggestions will be carefully considered, and its kind message of sympathy will be conveyed to the President and Mrs. Garfield st the earliest opportunity, Wayne MaoVmagh.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

A MUNIFICENT GIFT. Postmaster General James received a telegram from George Wilson, Secretary of the New York Chamber of Commerce, requesting the Postmaster General to say to Mrs. Garfield that the members of the New York Chamber of Commerce have subscribed $250,000 to be presented to her, both as a token of their sincere esteem and sympathy and as a means of relieving the mind of the President entirely from anxiety with respect to the future of his family. To this telegram Postmaster General James sent the following reply : Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.,1 July 7. f George Wilson, Esq., Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, New York City: Your dispatch hs* been.handed to Mrs. Garfield. On receipt of it she remarked that there was so much that waa touching and beautiful in the sympathy of the people of the whole country that she did not dare trust herself to think of it Thomas L. James, Postmaster GEN. SHERMAN. “In your opinion, General, is there any foundation for the belief that the shooting was the outcome of a conspiracy, however small or insignificant, political or otherwise?” asked a New Ybrk Herald correspondent. “Not at all; not at all,” said the General, with evident impatience. “To talk of a conspiracy of any kind in any way is to talk the wildest bosh. Tne dreadful act was committed by a fooL He don’t even rise to the dignity of a crazy man ; and if he is what may strictly be termed insane, he is so because of his wonderful self-conceit and consuming love for notoriety. Conspiracy ! Not at alt It was simply the act of an individual more or less out of his mental gear, and, therefore, partially responsible for his act. From what I have heard and read, this is my opinion of the miserable wretch ana his motives?’

“Shooting” Oil Wells.

“ Moonlighting” is a peculiar industry that owes its existence to the Patent laws. The late Col. E. A. Roberts introduced the use of nitro-glycerine torpedoes in increasing the yield of oil wells. When the great flowing wells of Oil creek, after draining the petroleum pools of the lower field for three years, had exhausted the supply, as was supposed, Col. Roberts experimented on an abandoned well with a quantity of nitroglycerine, confined in a tin shell and exploded by concussion. The explosion was followed by a flow of oil, and the old well yielded thirty barrels a day for several years afterward. The nitro glycerine had shattered the oil-bearing rock and opened the paraffine clogged veins. While serving in the army, Col. Roberts noticed that a bombshell exploding beneath the water invariably spent its force on the bottom of the stream, throwing up mud and stones in great quantities. This was due, he supposed, to the solid fluid tamping above the explosive. It was this idea that led him to try the experiment of nitro-glycerine at the bottom of oil wells, beneath hundreds of feet of fluid tamping—oil and water collected in the well. He obtained patents on his device. The validity of the patents was questioned, and nitroglycerine torpedoes were used by others without paying royalty to Roberts. He brought nearly 5,000 suits to protect his rights. One of these, as a test, was carried through all the State courts and to the United States Supreme Court. Roberts won in every court, and nearly sl,000,000 in royalties was recovered. The monopoly in nitro-giycerine torpedoes led to the illicit use of them in wells. Men without fear of death or regard for law went into the business of “shooting” wells for producers who did not care to pay tribute to Roberts. Any one has a right to manufacture nitro-glycerine and to place torpedoes in wells. In the exploding of them lies the liability to prosecution and penalty. The moonlighter is always ready to contract for the shooting of a well. He carries his nitro-glycerine in wagons made especially for the purpose. They are buckboards, with cushioned apartments under the seat, into . which the cans are placed. The roads of the oil regions would scarcely be called roads elsewhere. When not hub deep with mud they are stretches of deep rut and gulleys and projecting rocks. Drawn by powerful horses, these wagons, loaded with sixty or a hundred quarts of one of the most destructive explosives known, and which a sudden jar is at any moment likely to explode, are driven by their reckless owners over these roads in the darkest nights at the top of their horses’ speed. The men work at night always. They are called moonlighters, but the absence of the moon does not prevent them from undertaking a job. The Roberts company has a wonderful detective system, which is constantly employed in ferreting out the trespasses in the torpedo patent. It frequently happens that a moonlighter is spotted as he starts out on one of his nocturnal missions. The moonlighter rarely fails to be aware of the fact when he is followed by one of Roberts’ men. Then it is a race between the two. If the moonlighter cannot evade the detective and finish his job, he manages to secret his nitro-glycerine in the bushes, old buildings, barns, or other outbuildings of farms, or in any place where he is most likely to be able to recover it for use on a more auspicious occasion. Thus it happens that these dangerous storehouses are liable to be come upon at any time by people passing through the woods or along the streams, or by the farmers whose premises have been utilized. The cost of torpedoing a well under the Roberts patent averages $250. The moonlighter will shoot it for less than half of that Thus the saving effected if the work is not discovered is a great temptation to a certain class of producers. If detected, however, the penalty is heavy. The Roberts price for the torpedoing must be paid, and whatever damages may be assessed. If the well is an old one, and has been shot to increase its yield, the value of the increased yield up to the time the damages are assessed is added to the cost of detected illicit torpedoing. —New York Sun.

A SONG OF THE FOUR SEASONS.

BY AUSTIN DOBSON. When spring comes laughing, by .vale and hill By wind-flower walking and daffodil Sing stars of morning, sing morning skies, Sing blue of speedwell and my Love’s eyes. When comes the summer, full-leaved and strong, And gay birds gossip, the orchard long; Sing bird, sweet honey, that no bee sips; Sing red, red roses and my Love’s lips. When Autumn scatters the leaves again, And piled sheaves bury the broad-wheeled wain, Sing flutes of harvest, where men rejoice; Sing rounds of repears and my Love's voice. But when comes winter, with hail and storm, And red fire roaring, and ingle warm, Sing first sad going of friends that part; Then sing glad meeting and my Love’s heart.

An imitation for floor boards, etc., has been made in this country of compressed straw. It is said to resemble a hard, close-grained wood, can be planed, holds nails well, etc. It has no flaws, is not subject to dry rot, is water proof, will not warp and has greater tensile strength than wood. If all this be true we may shortly be making houses out of straw boards. He who has nothing to do has no business to live,

JUSTICE IN AFRICA.

The Ors*taal Slupe the Riled Ooddeui Sometime. Aaeame* There. [Holubb’s “Seven Years in South Africa.”] A Barolong, quite advanced in years, had set his affections upon a fatherless girl of fifteen, living in the town; she peremptorily refused to become his wife, and as he could not afford to buy her, he devised a cunning stratagem to obtain her. He offered his hand to the girl’s mother, who did not hesitate to accept Kim ; by thus marrying the mother, he secured the residence of the daughter in his own quarters; the near intercourse, he hoped, would overcome her repugnance to himself; but neither his appearance nor his conversation, mainly relating to his wealth in cattle, had the least effect in altering her disposition toward him. Accordingly, he resorted to the linyaka. Aware of the pains that were being taken to force her into the marriage the girl carefully avoided every action that could be interpreted as a sign of regard. As she was starting off to the fields one morning to her usual work, her stepfather called her back, and if her own story was true, the following conversation took place: “I know you hate me,” he said. “E-he, e-he !” she assented. “ Well, well, so must it be !” he answered, but he stamped his staff with rage on the ground. “Yes, so must it be,” replied she. “But you must promise me,” he continued, “that you will not marry another husband.” “Na-ya,” she cried, bursting out laughing; “na-ya.” “ Then I’ll poison you,” he yelled. The girl, according to her own account, was alarmed and went and told her mother and another woman, who were working close by the river. They tried to reassure her, telling her that her stepfather was only in joke, but they did not allay her apprehensions. That very evening, while she was taking her simple supper of watermelon, he called her off and sent her on some message ; when she returned she finished her meal, but in the course of an hour op two she was writhing in most violent agony. In the height of her sufferings ■he reminded her mother and the friends who had gathered round her of what had transpired in tl\e morning. Her shrieks of pain grew louder and louder, and when they were silenced she was unconscious. Before midnight she was a corpse. The stepfather was, of course, marked out as the murderer; the evidence to be produced against him seemed incontestible; th& old man had actually been seen gathering leaves and tubers in the forenoon, which he had afterward bpiled in his own courtyard. The accused, however, was one of Molema’s adherents ; he had served him faithfully for half a century, and Molema accordingly felt it his duty to do everything in his power to protect him, so he sent over Moshaneng for Montsua to come and take the office of judge at the trial. He was in the midst of the inquiry when I arrived. Meanwhile, the defendant had complete liberty; he might for the time be shunned by the population, but he walked about the streets as usual, trusting thoroughly to Molema’s clemency and influence, and certain that he should be able to buy himself off with a few bullocks. The trial lasted two days; after each sitting the court was entertained ’with bochabe, a sort of meal-pap. The evidence was conclusive; the verdict of “guilty” was unanimous. Montsua said he should have been bound to pass a sentence of death, but Molema had assured him there were many extenuating circumstances ; and taking nil things into account, he considered it best to leave the actual sentence in his hands. Molema told the convicted man to keep out of the way for a few days until Montsua ceased to think about the matter, and then sending for him, as he strolled about, passed the judgment that he should forfeit a cow as a peaceoffering to the deceased girl’s next of kin, the next of kin in this case being his wife and himself.

A Good Place for Sale.

“I want to sell my place, ” said a retailer to the publisher of this paper. “Is it a good place?” the publisher asked. “Well,” the retailer replied, “we used to have a saying when I was a boy, that there are two kinds of good. Good, and good for nothing, and I guess my place is one of those kinds of good. ’’ “I’ll tell you what kind of a place it is,” he continued. “It’s a place where you are expected to crop your hair and stand behind the bar and spit over onto the tables once in a while. You are expected to swear like a horse marine, and fight like a bantam cock. “The customers bang you in the nose for ‘good morning,’ and pelt you iu the stomach on leaving. They address you as a , and tell you if you don’t fill the beer glasses up to the top with clear beer they’ll lay your liver over your eyes and clean the sidewalk with your hide. Very few of them have any money, but the trade ain’t allowed to suffer on that account. They hang you up for everything, tell you to put the account in your head and they will come around on Saturday and kick it out. “Still, I ain’t complaining. I’m only giving it up on account of my health. The doctor has ordered a change of air, that’s all. You can put it down as a good place, but for heaven’s sake don’t get in the address, or my customers will insist on celebrating the event, and the few sound chairs, tables and things I have managed to keep together will go without selling. Put it down as a good place, doing a lively trade. Satisfactory reasons given for leaving.— New York Retailer.

Glucose.

Prof. H. W. Wiley, in the Popular Science Monthly, records the amazing progress of the glucose industry. There are twenty immense glucose factories either built or in course of construction. Already a capital of over $2,000,000 is invested in the business. The daily consumption of com for the manufacture of glucose is about 35,000 bushels, and the annual amount about 11,000,000. All these factories have sprung up in the last twelve years. They are ran day and night, Sundays included, to meet the demand, and still fail to supply it. Notwithstanding these notorious facts, it is almost impossible to find anybody willing to admit that he buys glucose or uses it for any purpose. Its existence is never made known by newspaper advertisements or placards. It is never bottled, boxed or barreled under its own name. It is as carefully screened from public view as nitro-glycerine. There is no doubt that glucose is largely used m the preparation of table sirups and candies, for brewing, and for artificial fioney. Nine-tenths of the cheap

candies are made of glucose. It is hard to find a table sirup free from this adulteration. Glucose is said to be present in most of the beer now brewed. The bee himself is not as busy as the glucose manipulator. The latter puts up a “honey” of which the waxen cells are made of paraffine and the contents consist of snow-white glucose. The fraudulent comb and honey are handsomer than the finest white clover “Vermont,” and can be sold at half the price at a great profit. This story would be deemed incredible but for the positive assurance of Prof. Wiley. To the question, “ Is glucose wholesome ? ’’ the professor replies that it all depends on the presence or absence of sulphuric acid, lime and copper, which are apt to find their way into the article through imperfect chemical treatment.

INDIANA NEWS.

Improvements to the Clinton county Court ifouse will cost $5,000. Aldrich’s livery stable, in Logansport, Cass county, has been burned. The Jefferson county grange jubilee will take place at Madison Sept. 1 and 2. A mortgage for $3,500,000 on the Illinois and and Indiana railroad has been recorded in Decatur county. A new and careful canvass of Clinton county shows that the wheat crop is much better than was expected. A little daughter of George Atchinson, of Wabash, Wabash county, died of what appeared to be hydrophobia. Christina McKay, a well-known music teacher, fell down stairs at Madison, Jefferson county, and killed herself. Dr. A. Martin, of Asbury University, will start to England in a few days, to be in attendance upon the Methodist Ecumenical Council. The estate of the late William H. Morrison, of Indianapolis, was paid $20,000 the other day on a policy of life insurance held by the deceased. Five members of the faculty of the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute have tendered their resignations, because of difficulty with President Brown. The people of Franklin, Johnson county, incensed at the high price and poor quality of gas furnished by the gas company of that town, talk of introducing the electric light. There is a farm in Fayette county, settled away back in Territorial days, on which no death has occurred since 1818. Twenty different families have lived on the farm since that date. Adolph Winters, son of Louis Winters, of Shelbyville, Shelby county, while playing, was pushed over in a school-yard, receiving internal injuries, from which he died soon after. The Government has interfered to compel the parties building the railroad bridge over the Wabash river, near Merom, in Sullivan county, to construct it according to the act of Congress. Dr. L. O. Bunker, of Greensburg, Decatur county, administered chloral and extracted a tooth for Addie Elder, the 9-year-old daughter of D. C. Elder, and the child died shortly thereafter. After several earnest efforts and a series of lawsuits, the city of Frankfort, Clinton county, has been successful in extending her limits. The new additions will add about 600 to the population. Mrs. Jacob Vogle, of Plymouth, Marshall county, while ironing, turned from the stove with a hot iron and struck the point of it in the eye of her little 4-year-old son, completely destroying the sight. Notwithstanding the hot weather, which is severe on the operatives, the New Albany factories are kept running to their full capacity. This is made necessary by the heavy orders upon them. Geore W. Barker fell in love with Nora Brassier, an attractive domestic, at Terre Haute, and, when she repelled his advances, he fled for refuge to cyanide of potassium, but the stomach pump was too quick for him, and he still lives. It is said that an Adams county school teacher, who also preaches in the neighborhood in which he teaches, whipped a couple of his pupils recently with a buggy whip. The doctor who was called to see one of them counted fifteen welts as thick as a man’s thumb. Charles Cook, one of the original settlers of Marshall county, and a farmer of some prominence, was killed by being gored by a vicious bull. He was crossing a field, when the animal attacked him. He was 80 years of age, and leaves a large family. Mrs. McCoy, of Charleston, Clark county, who recently lost SI,BOO, and created a sensation by causing the arrest of her own daughter, afterward discovered the money, SBOO in one, abd SI,OOO in another place, where she herself had placed it, but had forgotten the circumstance. A mass-meeting of the citizens of Greencastle was held at the Mayor’s office to pass resolutions regarding the departure of the Japanese students to their homes. Appropriate resolutions were passed, and speeches made by the citizens, to which the Japanese boys replied in suitable terms. They spoke feelingly of the many kindnesses received at the hands of the citizens of Greencastle. The following is a copy of a message from William Henry Harrison to the Legislative Council and House of Representatives, under date of Dec. 6,1810. In the early history of the Northwest Territory, before legislation by the Territorial Legislature, the poor debtor had nothing exempt from execution, and the rich creditor might insist upon having the last article of furniture sold away from the poor, leaving wife and children helpless, without food or bed. This injustice was early called to the attention of the Legislature by Gov. Harrison, as the message below will show. The document is an old one, but the writing is legible. The paper is an imitation of parchment: Gentlemen of the Legislative Council and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I have lone; thought that our laws are unnecessarily rigorous to insolvent debtors. If I do not mistake, there is scarcely an article, even of the greatest necessity, that is not subject to execution for debt. To take from the debtor those articles which only contribute to his ease and convenience is, no doubt, proper, but I should suppose that justice ought with these to be satisfied, and humanity strongly pleads in favor of leaving a distressed family a few articles which are indispensable to their existence. I recommend to you, gentlemen, to take the subject under your consideration. A bed, a cow and a few cooking implements are no great matter to a rich creditor, but are all important to a familv which has nothing else. William Hex by Harrison. December 6, 1810,

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NUMBER 23.

A CELEBRATED CASE.

One of the Meet Famous Hank Robberies on Record. When Jonathan Edwards was preach ing the doctrine of original sin in the quiet and peaceful town of Northampton, Mass., says the Detroit Free Pre»3, he probably little dreamed, in spite of his doctrine, that in less than a century and a half one of the most skillful and daring robberies would be committed in that town, forming “ a celebrated case” in the annals of crime, throwing final suspicion upon the bank managers, some of whose ancestors, in all probability, listened to the famous New England divine. The bank itself, a massive building, is the receptacle of the surplus money of the rich and thriving population in the Connecticut valley. Individual securities, trust funds, cash, bonds, running up into the millions were deposited in its solid vault. To unlock the outer door of the vault several keys are required, and these keys were distributed among as many bank officers. Inside of the bank also the obstacles to burglary seemed insuperable. There were two inner doors, each with its combination of four sets of figures; there was a new and solid safe with double doors, each also with its combination of four figures; finally, a watchman stationed within the bank kept guard until after 4 o’clock each morning. People believed in it, as the Israelites believed in the ark of the covenant. What, then, was the consternation of this community when one morning it was announced that securities and cash, to the extent of a million and a quarter dollars, had dis-

appeared ! The originators of the daring robberies were three famous “cracksmen” who had already succeeded in breaking open several banks and plundering them of their riches. But, the bank-safe constructors getting ahead of them, they persuaded Edson, one of the workmen employed by the Herring Safe Company, to join the gang. It soon after happened that the locks of the Northampton Bank were out of order and Edson was sent to make the repairs. Intrusted with the keys, he made false ones from wax impressions and persuaded the bank officials that it would be safer to intrust all the combinations with the cashier, Whittlesey. All being in readiness, the robbers, at 1 o’clock in the morning, January, 1876, visited Whittlesey’s house, bound and terrorized him and his whole family, ho being ordered at the point of th*) pistol to surrender the numbers of the combinations. He gave wrong numbers. But the thieves were more cunning. After taking down the numbers and proceeding to converse on other subjects, they suddenly ordered him to repeat the figures. He could not recall them, and was pounded, kicked and choked until he furnished the correct ones. After the watchman had left the bank at 4 o’clock in the morning, the robbers proceeded thither, opened the vaults, took away the booty and escaped from town. It took twelve hours to open the locks, which the robbers had damaged, the unsuspected Edson being employed for the purpose. Search was made everywhere, including Northampton itself, for the missing bonds. The schoolhouse where the robbers had concealed themselves, and where they left their lantern and remnants of their luncheon, was explored—all but the platform on which the children stood at the blackboard. The bonds and securities were lying there while the searchers were in the room, but the robbers had, with colored putty, hidden the screw heads which they had disturbed, and no trace of their proceedings was observable. After the excitement was over, the thieves returned one night and took possession of their booty. Edson, being refused liis share of the plunder, turned State’s evidence and saw two of his confederates begin a twenty-years’ sentence in State prison. Other members of the gang were arrested at the end of four years, and those already in prison, with the hope of a pardon, threatened to expose the whole conspiracy unless the securities were returned. All but $150,000 were brought back, and the prosecution was dropped. Tliis was accomplished at the expense of the reputation of the bank officers, who were charged with compounding a felony in order to get possession of their treasure. In many of its features it was the most cunning and daring of schemes in the history of crime.

Something in the Bed.

Judge Pitnam has a habit of slipping his watch under his pillow when he goes to bed. One night, somehow, it slipped down, and as the judge was restless, it worked its way down toward the foot of the bed. After a bit, while he was lying awake, his foot touched it; it felt very cold; he was surprised, scared, and jumping from the bed, he said: “By gracious, Maria, there’s a toad or something under the covers; I touched it with my foot.” ” Mrs. Pitnam gave a loud scream, and was on the floor in an instant. “Now, don’t go to hollering and waken up the neighbors,” said the Judge. “You get me a broom or something, and we’ll fix the thing mighty quick. ” Mrs. Pitnam got the broom and gave it to the Judge with the remark that she felt as if snakes, were creeping up and down her legs and back. “Oh, nonsense, Maria! Now turn down the covers slowly while I hold the bioom and bang it. Put a bucket of water alongside the bed so we can shove it in and drown it. ” Mrs. Pitnam fixed the bucket and gently removed the covers. The Judge held the .broom uplifted, and as the black ribbon of the silver watch was revealed, he cracked away at it three or four times with the broom, then he pushed the tiling off into the bucket. Then they took the light to investigate the matter. When the Judge saw what it was he said: “I might have known—it is just like you women to go. screeching ana fussing about nothing. It’s utterly ruined. ” “It was you that made the fuss, not me,” said Mrs. Pitman. “You needn’t try to put the blame on me,” then the Judge turned in and growled at Maria until he fell asleep.

A Tough Story About Chittenden.

Simon B. Chittenden, the Brooklyn .millionaire, could tell you a good comet story. He had- a dry-goods store in Hartfqyd, and vas a Millerite. When the comet came he imagined the end of the world was coming, too, and so he opened his store and gave his goods away to anybody who would yalk in and take them. He smiled serenely as a lady walked off with a piece of lace, and cried: “Oh, vanity!” when another lady walked off with a piece of silk velvet. He noticed that nis free customer? chose the most expensive ar-

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tides; but, having no use for them in the next world, he laughed and let them So. The appointed day came, but not re end of the world, and Chittenden found himself with a stock reduced to a few cheap calicoes*,‘and the whole town grinning at him. This was more than he could stand, so he gave away the calicoes also and fled to New York, where he and his foolishness were then unknown. It was a lucky move for him, however, for in a ffiw years he was worth his millions.— New York Star.

Incident of Lincoln’s Murder.

“Those are not cheerful-looking things, are they ?” said Counselor M. A. McDonald, as he sauntered into the office of the United States Marshal, and pointed to a pair of handcuffs which were lying upon the table. “Not especially enlivening,” replied a deputy, picking up the rogue’s bracelets and examining them thoughtfully. “There was a timq jwhffn-,1: thought they were the most cheerless and terrible things in the world. ” The deputy looked up in surprise. “ Yes,” continued Mr. McDonald, “I had them both on my hands and feet at once for a number of hours. I assure you they are not pleasant things to wear. ” “ Were they put on to keep you a prisoner ?” queried the deputy, wondering if his friend could have done anything criminal. ” • “ You would have thought so had you been in my place. I was arrested by officers who thought I was J. Wilkes Booth.” “No!” ejaculated the deputy, more as an expression of surprise than an intentional reflection upon the veracity of Mr. McDonald. “It came about in this way,” began the lawyer, whose dark hair and eyes,even now that sixteen years have passed, bear a striking resemblance to the assassin of Lincoln : “ Lincoln had been murdered but a few days, and the entire country, plunged in grief, was wild with desire for revenge upon the murderer. My home was in Titusville, Pa., and I was on the way to it from Washington, where my father was then a Government contractor. The route was by way of Erie. The train had left Eno and gone perhaps a dozen miles, when a couple of officers surprised me by putting me under arrest and clapping handcuffs on my feet. In vain I protested. They would not believe that 1 was not Wilkqs Booth. To add to the unpleasantness of the thing, and a fact which also gave color to the belief that I was the President’s assassin, it was well knowp that Booth had interests in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and had been there a number of times. The men who arrested me did so upon the strength of my great resemblance 'to a picture of Booth which they had in their possession. When it became known on the train that the assassin of Lincoln hud been arrested and was on that very train, the excitement was intense. The officers who were guarding me had all they could do to prevent the infuriated passengers from doing me bodily harm. It had been telegraphed along the line of the road that Lincoln’s murderer was under arrest, and would pass through on his way to Titusville. At every station the train was met by infuriated men who climbed upon woodpiles to get a glimpse of me, and many tunes on that journey I feared that the mpb would get possession of me. When the train reached Curry there was a man boarded the train who knew me. > But the officers would hot*listen to.him, and it was not until Titusville was reached, where every man, wbman and child knew me, that the handcuffs and manacles were removed Jrom my wrists and "ankles, and I was allowed my liberty. I have the photograph which furnished the clew to the officers who arrested me in my possession now.”-— Denver Tribune.

What a Woman Gained.

A woman in Newburyport, Mass., in losing one husband and gaining another, made a profit of $2,000. She was the wife of a soldier, and believed herself a widow, as her husband was reported dead. She was entitled, as a soldier’s Widow, to a pension, and for some years received it. Then she concluded to take a second husband, and, in doing that she of course had to give up the pension But how the first husband turns up alive, And the result is that the supposed widow’s second marriage has lieeu pronounced null and void, and she gives ub husband No. 2, but is deelareA»to bo entitled to about $2,000 of arrearages of pension money, which would have been pkid to her in place of her first husband, supposed to be'dead, if she had remained iri her supposed widowed state. She fares pretty well, anyhow, bad two husbands, and now, by surrendering the new and resuming the old relation, she gets back the first husband and his pension, and the arrearages into the bargain.—

A Long Bridge.

Quite a notable engineering undertaking has just.peen completed in Russia, in the shape of a long bridge over the Volga, On the Syoran and Orenburg railway, connecting the cities of Hyora, in the Government of Simbirsk, with that of Samara. The width pl the river its .nearly a mile, and, as it is liable to the occurrence of heavy spring floods, the piers, of which there -are fourteen aliojgether—had to be built 100 feet above mean water level, the depth of thp water being more than fifty feet. The great girders, 364 feet long and twenty feet wide, riveted and put together on the right bank of the river, and then floated to their position. The whole cost of the structure, which is regarded as a model of its kipd, was 7,000,000 silver ruble*. . w Greek brigandage is a regularly organized business. A little capital for the purchase of arms is required. ,Fiq>nrs arq drawn up, in which the shares of the captain and the men are specified. Sometimes routes are let by one baud to another for a per centage. It proving exceptionally good in one. case, the parties came very near bringing the affair into Court on a law suit. Death to the captive is almost certain if the ransom is not paid. A-. ransom which wad once on its way from Constantinople wadstolen from the messenger by another bhnd, but the captive was killed all the same. A farmer having two children captured could send the money onl y for one, and the boy was returned. He begged a little delay, blit the band , on the move and could not wait. The little girl was found afterward with ei' sUb in the heart and wild flowers in her hand. These robbers never drink wine, never neglect thqir religious , duties, always cross themselves before eating, and never omit the numerous fast days the Greek Church insists upon. Some are well read, one leading scoundrel always traveling about with a small library.