Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN KEWS. Excellent accounts are received of the crops in the French of the central prbvin<fe/i t the.gjsat wheatgrowing region'"of the beautiful country, count on good average crops, and ft is believed that the vintage for this year will be the best for fifteen years. Favorable reports of the Spanish crops have also been received. - ’ ’ In England cold weather has had a very unfavorable effect on the crops just now maturing. There was a white frost on the 9th of July. It is asserted in Turkish official circles that Midhat Pasha attempted to cut his own throat recently, but was prevented by the Warders. Father Sheehy, who has been several weeks in jail, declines to allow bis friends to intercede to secure his liberation or any other privileges not allowed to other “ Coercion-act" prinoners. , *

Edmund O’Brien and John Hyde, members of the Middleton (Cork) Land League, have been arrested under the Coercion act. It is understood that an agricultural laborer will be put forward as the candidate of the Land League for the county of Cork. A band of swindlers operating at Geneva, Switzerland, has, within twenty years, shipped to Egypt and other Eastern countries from 10,000,000 to 40,000,000 francs of false coin. Seven prominent personages have Wen arrested in connection with the swindles. Experiments with suspended electric lamps were made in Paris the ‘kther night. Four lamps covered with shades and burning naked electric lights, were strung across the streets at intervals of about 100 yards by means of light, wires connected by poles forty feet high. The light was fairly diffused, but so intense as to be unbeaEabl«’stJ the >&. The experiment ffara failure. * The anniversary of ; the. taking of the Bastite, the national holiday of France, wap celebrated July 14, in Jparis and other French cities, and by French' citizens ip various qwta of the werld, by ilhitnihitfons, decoration®, pyrotechnic displays, patriotic musfe • and oratory, free theatrical entertainments, etc., and in such a manner as only Frenchmen can celebrate. < — —-

Bismarck demands Turkish Government refund tne ransom money recently paid to Boumeluwi brigands for theyeleaftt of two captive Germans. The complications between France,and Turkey are on the increase. The former power accuses Turkey of fomenting the rising -in Tripoli. - - A terrible disease, known as the Siberian plague, has appeared m St. Pete&bUrg, ■Where it is spreading, with Marmih'g“r.ipiaity» Horses are dying by .scored and many persons are affected. A want of efficient’ medical attendance and the fact that the peasants sell the hide < of the diseased animals render the local ’ authorities helpless. It is stated that the Ozar has determined to commute the sentence of Hessy Helfmann, the female Nihilist concerned in the murder of the late Czar. In the race for the Thames CJlmMe?ge Cup at London, the CotudUcteW Was defeated, coming in third. Th® • Thames- etew Wot-e the winners. The London crew came in secondThe Americans made a gallant effort, but to.no purpose. , f : . i' J 1 A steward in the province of Koorsk, , Russia, shut up nineteen men and girts in a barn because they'refused to work for- him. A ; Village mob then set fire t 0... the .barn, and the ‘ unfortunate occupants were burned alive.-, •' ’ DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eaat The wife of Col. Frank Bridgman, of Gen. Sheridan’s staff, fell dead of heart disease in New York. John A. Appleton, of the famous New York publishing house, is dead. Judge Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, underwent amputation of the foot for gangrene. Ralph E. Richards and Edward F. Gross, two young ruffians, the one 14 years of age and the other 11, drowned a companion, Willie Carr, a boy of 10 years, near Portland. Me., because he refused to give them 25 cents which he had. A fire at Bradford, Pa., destroyed SIOO,OOO worth of business property. Pittsburgh reports a great boom in the iron trade. Mills are sold from three to i ix months ahead Gen. Pemberton, who commanded the rebel forces at Vicksburg, died recently. at Pean Yan, Pa., aged 64. IV A brewer’s clerk and an office boy in New York drove down from Ninety-erdnd itreet to deposit 49,300 in currency and a bag of silver dollars. At Forty-seventh street their wagon was run into by a peddler’s cart, containing three men. TnC latter' soon seized the package of bills and drove off ingtou avenue, lettirig flic bag of silver fall into the street. • '* . At tlts fonclusßii of Ilia hUtt of a race at Pittsburgh, the well-known trotting stallion Bonesetter, owned by H. V. Bern’s, of Chicago; dropped dead. He was valued at 415,000. ' ' * As a passenger train fair speed through 1 the streets of Madison, Wis., the engineer saw two little children spring out of the. grass upon the-'track, a fewv-ods ahead. The air-brakes were applied and the locomotive reversed,' but the children went under the tender. It was found'that'one had lost two teeth and the other received only a few scars.

j?liineas W. Hitchcock, ex-Senator frem Nebraska, died in Omaha, the direct cau§e being over-exertion in the* sun. He was boi® in New Lebanon, N. Y„ fi 1881, and: classmate of jPresident Garfield ’iw WMlianfc College. A hail-storm broke thousands of windows at Winona, Minn., and a cyclone swept away the repair-shop bf the Northwestern road. The Williams brothers, fugitives "from jnslicein Illinois, killed Deputy Sheriff man, of St. Croix county, Wjs., aud CharW Coleman, formerly Sheriff of Pepin couml?* The slaughter occurred at Durant, twenty-two l milci south of Menomipee, while the officers were at tempting to arrest the outlaws. Gov. Smith offers SSOO reward for their capture, anfl ha® authorized the use of the»Ludington Guards in running them down. * ‘ il The Illinois and Mississippi River approvement ' Commission are busily eitgaged* in prosecuting their effort for an appeal to Congress at its next session for the needed appropriations for the improvement of the rivers Qt the Wert, *ud also tor th« «owtructiou o f

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the Hoiocpta M mission will be held in Chicago some time in August. ——- . The chinch-bug has seriously damaged the wheaj; er°P. of Northern lowa. All other kinds of crops except wheat are good. A recent dispatch from Leavenworth says the Prohibition law continues'to be a dead letter in Leavenworth, Atchison, Topeka and other large Kansas towns. There w«te 363 deaths froth the excessive heat in Cincinnati in one week. . The lowa farmers expect to have an ptcellent corn crop this year, except in those "portions visited by hail-storms recently, where the yield will be scarcely half an average. The . wheat crop is now being harvested, and will yield a fair average. Oats, barley and other crops will be fully up to the average. The wheat crop of Kansas is estimated at fully 20,000,000 bushels. That of Michigan at 17,600,000. A train robbery occurred on the Rock Island road, at Winslow Station, near Cameron Junction, Mo., on the night of July 15. When the train which left Kansas City in charge of Conductor Westwall reached that point, at 9:30 p. m., a gang of desperadoes appeared, and side-tracked the tri - ). Every car was boarded. The conductor was killed and the passengers robbed. Oregon promises a wheat yield of nearly 100,000 tons from the territory east of the Cascade mountains, a gain over last year of at least 30 per cent. In Pemiscot county, Mo., James Atkinson killed his wife and child and then threw their bodies into the Mississippi river. A native of Japan, while traveling through New Mexico with a team, was robbed of his hdrife and money and tied to a tree near Engle’s station, on the Santa Fe railway. A Sheriff’s posse went out from ( Socorro, shot both the robbers dead and restored the stolen ■fWpWWWrtbv owner.

Hou tlx. All boatajeaching Memphis from the SrifftD Wi'S'j faired th stop at President’s island far inspection. . ■ ■ Thomas K. Pugh, a son of the exSenator frtom Ohio, who was taken by the remMint of Victoria’s band from a stage near Ej Paso, wrote and left on' thc( roadway a note stating jhat he was a prisoner., Ria mutilated corpse was afterward found by a scout of Mex- ' 'cahTroops near OarrezaC ’" ' Frank anil J«sse Myers, two spring,. Wer, figged at Sikeston. About 5,000 persons gathered to witness the execution. Willis l|^vcs ( a npgro, was; hanged at Van Buren, Ark., for the murder of Joseph Drake, ateo 6(rt6jed. Rreyesjmade three de- ' terenined efforti to’cscape from the' platform of the gallows, the Sheriff falling through the ' trap with him. At Marianna, Ark., Isaac Green and John Hardin,. two negro murderers, paid the Slty of flieir grimes 'on gallows, in presof 8,1 O') Hpect itors. WASHINGTON NOTES. trf T) TreetoFEurc-hard has left WashSecretary Kirkwood has decided that when an 'withdraws from a soldiers’ home hgcgn receiyj his pension directly. . - Guiteam'; continues to manifest the-most, cpolness, and now'proposeJ'Uj-xfcrite “The Life of Charles Guiteay, 'written by fi£mssf, with an esposition ofifiis of -Ttieol^ry,” -for which the puljikiOTs' ohght te>>j|iay him 20 per cent. Gen. Haze^te^brfe the issue for the | yearV f. $4,135.519 in pos tags stamps, envelopes, and Windom, eayff - a Washington dispatch, is so much 'annoyed by officeseekers- that he can attend to little other business. He Relieves that) tfe of civil-ldrvice rules Is the only remedy for this “tffaHtilUuJllil places the average of the wheat crop at 83 per cent, of a full yield. Tixe area of corn planted has increased 2 per ceht., blit the crop promises to be only 90 per cent, of that of last year. | F^,it|c aj| p&jOs. j | for shorttejpn thVOtti insfe,-lPoftef' received 50 votes, Lapham 67, Conkling 31 Whoeler-L fTh(ww)|erf(te<ttiii® ilqng- term pave Miller^6ft ’votes,’ RCT-rtarfuCtiina ffrlie'eler 19. ine baUpt ai.AiUauy.-on.the 11th inst. for a Senator for the short term gave Lapham 60 vo.tes, with 7.6 necessary to a choice ; Potter ’ 48, . and Cohkling 1 28. "For the long term Miller an appeal to the joint caucus committee to a jcall for-a caucus, arguing that jthe-efeetiontof tlie pfesbnt Lapham kind Miller. Would Qausa tffo vacancies in committee replied to the effect that the Conkling faction neglected the opportunity to participate Iff just such a gathering as they now asked, for, In the ballot for Senator for the abort term at Albanjf, “n thd 12tb inst,, Lapitaai had 68 votes,.,Potter 52, aud Conkling 32, with 78 •necßssaity to a choice, tor the long term Miller received.: 70, er 21’. -i ■ The Wisconsin Greenback State Convent ioa wfrif Qefd Wktfi^tgwa' on 111® I2th Inst. The following State ticket was nominated by Acclamation; Governor, E. P. Allis, Milwaukee; Lieutenant Governor, David Giddings, Fond du Lac; Secretary of State, Wilson Hopkins, Chippewa; 'treasurer, Gerhart Lammers, Sheboygan; Superintendent of Public Instruction, X A. Gaynor, Wood;’ Attorney General, Joel Foster, Pierce; Railway Commissioner, T. G. Brunson, Crawford; Insurance Commissioner, L. Merrill. Dodge. u j ; In the balloting at Albany, on the 13tH inst., Lapham led for the short term with 69 votes, Potter long term. Miller had 71, with 78 necessary for a choice ; JC&ukn had 51 and Wheeler 23. Conkling told a New York reporter that undei s no circumstances would he withdraw. » The Ohio Democratic State Convention, in session at. Oolumbue, chose Gen. Thos. cEI Powell/ as permanent Chairman. John W,‘ BJokwalter, of was nominated for Goverjicr ; Edgar M. .of Cincinnati, for Lieutenant Governor ;• E. F. Btagtyapa, of, Franklin, for Supreme judge Al F.' of Cleveland, for. State. Treasurer ; Frank C. Doughty, 6f Highland county, for Attorney General, and John Crowe, of Defiance, for Superintendent of. Public Works. The Gubernatorial nominee is a man of vast wealth. Frank H. Hurd’s tariff views are reflected in the platform,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA. FRIDAY. JULY 22, 1881.

The joint ballot for United State* Senator at Albany, on the 14tb, gave, for the short term, Lapham 70, Potter 54 and Conkling 32. For the long term Miller had 73 and Kerrian 54. The Assembly subsequently adopt- ' ixi a resolution to adjourn on Saturday, July 16, by a vote of 62 to 61. There was little or no change in the political situation at Albany on the 15th, the ballot proving almost a repetition of the one recorded on the previous day. The Senate refused to concur in the House resolution for an adjournment on Saturday, July 16.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS, A daughter of William Morgan, the exposer of Masonic secrets, lives in Mirion county, Ore., and is the wife of Capt. William Smith. She states that five men took her father into the lake and drowned him, and that one of them recently died in Portland, Ore. There has been unparalleled suffering from the heat at many points in the country. Many cases of sunstroke are reported. Large amounts of grain have been harvested by moonlight, the harvesters dreading the sun’s rays. The mercury at St. Louis, Cincinnati Pittsburgh and other cities ranged from 98 to 105 in the shade. Guiteau, the assassin, was a member of Henry Ward Beecher’s church some twelve years ago. There were twenty-three deaths from yellow fever and fifteen from small-pox in Havana last week. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has greatly improved in health—is able to ride out and receive callers. The news of the attempted assassination of President Garfield almost prostrated het and induced a renewal of illness which lasted till next day. At Tongue Point Asylum, near Montreal, two insane women named Porter and Roberts were confined in the same cell. During Monday night Porter fancied the other woman was a dragon come to attack the inmates, and pounded her on the head with a board, causing her death. The Vigilant and Mount Wollaston, the missing Pacific coast whalers, were found by Indians near East cape. Three corpses were discovered on the former, and some money and a spy-glass. American Hebrew congregations, in session in Chica.’o, last week, decided to en deavor to induce their race to become agriculturists, and to help .them to buy farms and implements.

Guiteau was in Jefferson, Texas, in 1873, aud was arrested there and fined for drunkenness and vagrancy. Wherever Guiteau has been he left behind a reputation for meanness and rascality. Twelve thousand persons visited the Pittsburgh race track, the other day, to see Maud 8. trot against time, and were rewarded by witnessing a diminution of her record to the greatest achievement of the turf. Several deaths have taken place in New York from lockjaw, occasioned by explosions of toy pistols on the Fourth of July. Thirteen deaths from the same cause have occurred at Baltimore, and three persons are beyond hope of recovery. Several deaths are also reported from various towns in the vicinity of New York. Senor Commancho, the Venezuelan Minister in Washington, who witnessed the assassination of the President, says Guiteau looked like a coward after he had fired and his victim fell. The experiment has been made of steering a steamship by electricity. It worked well enough for steering purposes, but affected the compasses so as to make them useless. Thomas Bayley Potter, the well-known English Liberal member of Parliament, has forwarded to Mrs. Garfield from the London Cobden Club a letter expressing the abhorrence of the club at the attempt on the President's life, and assurance of deep sympathy with his family and with the American people. Guiteau, the assassin, says he is very sorry he shot the President. His object was not to cause him any pain—simply to kill him outright He further says he will not do it again. The Mexican Central railroad has been opened from the capital to Tula, a distance of .about fifty miles.

When They Died.

A fraction more than one-third of all the Presidents of the United States (not counting the two ex-Presidents now living nor President Garfield) have died in the month of July. Those who met their fate in this month were Jefferson and Adams (July 4, 1826), Monroe (July 4, 1831), Van Buren (July 24, 1862), Taylor (July 9, 1850), Johnson (July 31, 1875). Four others—Madison, Jackson, Polk and Buchanan—died in June. In those two months, therefore, exactly half of all the Presidents the republic has had departed this life. The following list may be of interest in this connection : Piesident. Died, Age. 1. WaßhinglonDec. 14, 1797 67 2. Adams July 4, 1826 91 3. Jefferson July 4, 1826 83 4. Madison. June 28,1836 85 5. Monroe July 4, 1831 72 6. Adams ..._ v Feb. 23, 1848 81 7. "Jackson June 8, 1845 78 8. Van BurenJuly 24,1862 80 9. ktarrisouApril 4, 1841 68 10. ts lerJan. 17, 1862 72 11. June 15, 1849 54 12. T>ylorJuly 9, 1850 66 13. Fillmore.Marchß,lß74 74 14. Pierce Oct. 8, 1869 65 15. ffuchanan.June 1, 1868 77 10. Lincoln..*...April 14,1865 56 17. Johnson ..July 31, 1875 67 The oldest President at .the time of his death was John Adams, and tne youngest James K. Polk. Next to him was/Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated. The average age of the seventeeq. Presidents' on their death was 72 j yearq, aud.pt the sixteen who died from n atuval cdli ses years. ’ ' ——

Work for Reputable Citizens.

There \pe enough reputable citizens in every community, however, and more than/fefiough, who, if they choose to take a littie,trQuble about election time, could putT ,.iM’ Wd to “boss ’ practices and purily all elections. For instance, the priiSi©.ee are asu&Uy taken possession of by the lowest grade of corrupt politiciawet'’the- henchmen of the “bosses,” and handed citizens and votersand taxndkersgaiefolfy give them a ivide -berth because of their foulness. There is noypcegsity thus to surrender primary or nominating coventions to the birds of of citizens deterupboridean business can take postiiese bodies, as they are in duty bound to do, and compel them to be representative of voters. The French Government intends to establish an observatory at Cape Horn for the purpose of accumulating' data regarding terrestrial magnetism. Those who are to take charge of the establishment will sail in the same vessel which is to bring out the astronomers who will try to make what use they can of the Approaching transit of Venus,

(t A Firm Adherence to Correct PrirbdT)les. ,>

THE PRESIDENT.

Washington, July 14. The condition of President Garfield, this morning, is better than at any time since he was shot, and the hopefulness of his surgeons almost amounts to confidence in his ultimate recovery. The fever has decreased. At 2 o’clock this monring his pulse was below .100, and his temperature about 100. Dr. Bliss said at 10 o’clock last night that he was satisfied the culminating point had been passed, and that the condition of the President will steadily improve from day to day. Suppuration is progressing, naturally, the wound has a healthy appearance, and there is little to dread now from secondary hemorrhage or blood-poisoning. The patient continues to take more nourishment each day, and there has been no gastric disturbance recently. Yesterday, in addition to eating a slice of toast, he chewed the breast of a woodcock, but did not swallow the fiber. Dr. Woodward, one of the physicians in attendance, stated yesterday that the patient has suffered from “circumscribed peritonitis’’ since the second day, but that its extent his been reduced each day until now it is scarcely perceptible. Ho says the abatement of the inflammation shows that the bullet is doing no harm. On being asked if there were other signs of improvement, he said that persons without any medical knowledge could not fail to recognize a great improvement in the President’s condition during the past few days by simply-looking at him. “His eye is brigliter, his color better, and he moves with less difficulty. An increased amount of nourishment has been given with good results, and the wound is doing well,” said the doctor. Dr. Bliss said : “If no new complication arises the President will be substantially out of danger by Saturday.” Dr. Hamilton said that for his part he expects the President to recover, and that he finds added cause for confidence every hour. “The President,” he says, “is doing as well as can be expected, and his chances of recovery are excellent.”

The refrigeration apparatus constructed in the basement of the White House works admirably. It supplied the President’s room with 18 000 cubic feet of pure dry air at a temperature of 54 degrees yesterday. The coolness of the sick-room has an excellent effect on the patient. Before he went to sleep last night the President asked Dr. Reyburn what was the news, and the doctor replied by telling him that “the Governors of several States had in view to issue, when the President should be out of danger, a proclamation for a general day of thanksgiving and praise to God for the answered prayers of the nation.” The patient seemed to be greatly touched and gratified at this information. Col. Rockwell remarked to the President that “ the heart of the nation was in his room.” The words seemed to impress him greatly, and afterward he murmured in his sleep: “ The heart of the nation will not let the old soldier die.” Washington, July 15. Each day the President’s condition shows steady improvement. There is no reason to doubt his continued progress. He raised his bill of fare yesterday by eating a roast-beef sandwich half the size of his hand. He said that ho was beginning to tire of baby food. Ho would have eaten another sandwich if the doctors had thought it best. The temperature of the President’s room and of the ones adjoining was kept down to 75 degrees. The President did not indulge in any despondent talk. He seemed to realize, more than he has any day this webk, his improvement The nourishment taken by the President is slightly increased from day to day. When he can take a fair amount of food without causing fever, or overtasking his weakened system, a rapid gain in strength may be looked for. Until then he must, of course, remain very weak, but the abatement of his fever, the diminution of pain and the favorable changes in other directions indicate that it will not be long before he can take an amount of solid food that will have a marked effect on his strength. There is no truth in the statement published that the doctors in charge proposed to see if they could locate the bullet by electric appliances. They are quite oontent to let the bullet alone for the present, and have no idea of having the President worried with experiments of this kind. The Cabinet people are so well satisfied with progress that tbey begin to thiuk they will be able to take their families away within the next week or ten days. Postmaster General James telegraphed to New York last night: “The President is doing splendidly. He is surely out of the woods.” Ex-Senator Conkling called at the White House yesterday. He did not enter, but sent his card to Mrs. Garfield, saying that he knew it would be impossible for him to see the President, and he did not wish to bother her with an interview. He expressed cordial sympathy and his wishes for the speedy recovery of the President. The flood of false statements about Guiteau and his crime have prompted District Attorney Corkhill to give to the public an accurate account of his movements. Guiteau arrived in Washington March 6 and put up at the Ebbit House, where he remained only one day ; he thereafter roomed at various places in the Capital City. On the 18th of May he determined to kill the President, but had not money enough to buy a pistol. Toward the end of May he visited O’Meara’s gun shop in Washington, examined several pistols, and remarked that he wanted one of large caliber. Soon after he succeeded in borrowing sls from a too-benevolent Washington gentleman. Of this sum he spent $lO in purchasing the pistol with which he attempted to kill the President. Having provided himself with the pistol and with sufficient ammunition, he began to practice with it, firing at a board and at other marks. On the Sunday of the 12th of June he followed the President to the Christian Church with the intention of killing him there, but he saw that, on making the attempt, he would be most likely to shoot somebody else beside the President, so he left. Before leaving, however, he noticed that the President sat by an open window. Guiteau examined this window, and came to the conclusion that he would shoot the President from it through the head on Sunday, the 19th of June. He learned, however, that the President was about to ieave for Long Branch with Mrs. Garfield on Saturday, the 18th, and went to the depot, after having practiced with his revolver that morning, his mind fully made up to do the deed. Mrs. Garfield, as she leaned on the President’s ai m at the depot, looked so very weak and pale, however, that Guiteau says he had not the heart to shoot him in her presence, and, feeling that he would have another opportunity, he left' the depot. On Wednesday, the 22d of June, the assassin followed the President, who went out riding with his son and United States Marshal Henry, but as the carriage did not stop the fiend was foiled that night. On the evening of the Ist of July he followed the President to Secretary Blaine’s residence, and then dogged the President and Secretary Blaine as they walked from the latter's residence to the White House, but got no opportunity to carry out his murderous purpose that evening. The following morning after breakfast be went to the Pennsylvania depot, loitered around for a considerable time, examined his pistol to see that all was right, and, when the President entered the ladies’ waitingroom, he walked up behind him and Cred two shots. Washington, July 16. The President continues to steadily improve. The physicians are sanguine that the worst is passed, that pyemia need not be feared, and the recovery of the President is only a matter of a few weeks. His appetite is becoming normal, and the increase in strength is the result of his diet. Surgeon General Barnes said this morning that, all though the attending physicians did not feehke throwing up their hats and saying the President was out of danger, they could yet say that he was practically so, unless unforeseen complications arise, and there were no signs of such. “One need only look at the President to be assured of his continned improvement,” added Dr. Barnes. Dr. Bliss says that the President is about out of danger, the crisis may be said to have passed, and on the whole he is pretty safe. “ The case progresses nicely.” he continued, “ and every one about the White House feels as if hope may well be buoyant.” Dr. Reyburn is equally hopeful. Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, of New fork, bas written to a friend saying that he feel® convinced that a mistaken diagnosis was made in the President’s case—that the ball instead of passing through the liver was deflected downward by striking the eleventh rib, and then lodged in the muscles within the pelvis. Dr. Hamilton’s opinions are shared by uwny eminent Burgeons through the country.

The physicians have decided not to try on the President the Bell electrical mstrument for locating the ball. They say that the ball is all right, and doing very nicely, and that there is no reason or necessity of disturbing the President by an experiment to locate it. The instrument may be used when the President gets well, but not before.

USEFUL HINTS.

Drive two large nails through two spools, as far apart as your broom handle is thick, and hang your broom on, brush up, to keep it straight. Woodwork strongly impregnated with tungstate of soda or silicate of soda—by treatment in strong aqueous solution of these salts—will be found to be quite uninflammable. A lump of bread about the size of a billiard ball, tied up in a linen bag and placed in the pot in which greens are boiling, will absorb the gases which oftentimes send such an unpleasant odor to the regions above. When water has onoe been made to boil the fire may be very much lessened, as but little heat is required to keep it at a boiling point. There is no advantage whatever in making water boil furiously; the heat will escape in steam, without raising the heat of the water. Do not put carpets in your closets; oil-cloth or matting is much better, and can be easily kept free from dust. Matting, after being swept, should be wiped with a damp cloth. Hot salt and water will thoroughly cleanse it and will not discolor it If one could afford to do it, it would be a healthful plan to lay aside the carpets of sleeping-rooms during the summer, and substitute the cool, fresh mattings. The most economical and easiest way of making coffee is by filtering. The French coffee biggin is valuable for this. It consists of two cylindrical tin vessels, one fitting into the other and the bottom of the upper being a fine strainer. An- , other coarse strainer, with a rod running from the center, is placed upon this. Then the coffee, which is finely ground, is put in and another strainer is placed at the top of the rod. The boiling water is poured on and the pot set where it will keep hot, but not boil, until the water has gone through. This will make a clear, strong coffee, with a rich, smooth flavor. The advantage of the two extra strainers is that the one coming next to the fine strainer prevents the grounds from filling up the fine holes, and so the coffee is clear and more easily made. When milk or cream is added to filtered coffee it does not turn a rich yellow as in the case of that boiled with an egg. Filtered coffee is very nice for an after-dinner drink, and when taken without milk and sugar is said to aid digestion. Fatty oils have a greater surface tension than oil of turpentine, benzole or ether. Hence, if a grease spot on a piece of cloth be moistened on the reverse side with one of these solvents, the tension on the greasy side is larger, and, therefore, the mixture of benzole, or fat or grease will tend to move toward the main grease spot. If we were to moisten the center of this spot with benzole, we should not remove it, but drive the grease upon the clean portion of the cloth. It is, therefore, necessary to distribute the benzole first over a circle surrounding the grease spot, to approach the latter gradually, at the same time having blotting paper in contact with the spot to absorb the fat immediately. Another method—namely, to apply a hot iron one side, while the blotting paper is applied to the other—depends upon the fact that the surface tension of a substance diminishes with a rise of temperature. If, therefore, the temperature at different portions or sides of the cloth is different, the fat acquires a tendency to move from the hotter parts toward the cooler.

A French Story.

A man was arrested for arson at Villeneuve, a provincial French town, aud, in the absence of any calaboose, was clapped into the lower story of the Mayor’s vacant villa, which, having grated windows, kept him safe. He had hardly lit his pipe to indulge in a smoke when along came a stout looking gentleman with wife, children and maid who stopped to admire the villa. “What a nice house 1” said the stout gentleman. “I should like to buy it.” “That’s easy,” replied the prisoner, from the inside, “ I am the proprietor, and will sell at once, provided you pay cash. ” The negotiations began, the price was haggled about and agreed upon. The prisoner said : *‘ My svife has locked me up and gone to Paris for the day ; if you fetch a locksmith from Joinville, and after an inspection of the premises the building pleases you 2,000 francs down and the rest in three months will conclude the bargain.” Three-quarters of an hour later the locksmith opened the door and the prisoner had disappeared with the stout gentleman’s money in his pocket, while the stout gentleman’s family congratulated each other and said : “How nice it is to be one’s own landlord !” The appearance of the police about nightfall asvakened them from their dream. Their dismay and the rage of the Mayor, who will probably have to restore the money as punishment for not sending the prisoner to the nearest police station, can be imagined.

The Undecided Man.

The undecided man is, perhaps, the greatest bore in existence. He is a trouble to himself and every one with whom he comes in contact. For instance, there is Thistledown, who lives half-way between two avenues by which horse-cars convey passengers down town. When he gets out of doors of a morning he stands on his doorstep and looks first up the street and then down to see if there are any cars coming, which is perfectly useless, as he couldn’t see them, on account of intervening buildings, if they were. Then he goes to the corner of one avenue, and, not discovering the necessary vehicle in sight, he walks the full length of the street to the other main thoroughfare. By the time he gets there he sees a car passing at the other end of the block and he hurriedly retraces his steps. He is too late, however, to catch the conductor’s eye, and he makes a dive down the street in the opposite direction only to miss another car. Thus he spends his morning like a kind of human pendulum, and gets to his place of business about noon. As a waster of his own and other people’s time he is undoubtedly a great success. — Boston Courier.

Died with His Hat On.

William Weller, a prominent citizen of Hinkletown, died suddenly on Thrtrsday morning, about 10 o’clock, of consumption. He arose in the morning, but immediately fell over and expired. He was 42, remarried, and eccentric. He would never take off his hat to eat, and died with it pn,— Lancaster

OHIO DEMOCRATS.

Vleetiaff «f the State Convention—A Laurgre and Enthueiawtic tJaUhcring —Strong Ticket Placed in Ute Field. The Ohio Democratic State Convention, which met at Columbus, July 13, was Ohe of the largest, finest and inost enthusiastic delegate political gatherings that ever assembled in the Buckeye State. Gen. Thomas E. Powell, the Chairman, spoke as follows, on taking the chair: Gentlemen of the Convention : It is with feelings of the deepest obligation that I thank yon for the honor just conferred on me. In return I promise to detain you only to congratulate you upon the auspicious manner in which we are about to enter upon the old struggle. We are about to enter upon the old fight. It is one in which we have been sometimes defrauded, often defeated, but never snbdued. The smoke of the last contest has just cleared away, and here we are on our feet again, fresh, fearless, and, in the coming contest, I trust, invincible. The very cause for which we fight gives ns additional assurances of success. It is the cause of civil liberty; it is the struggle to preserve free institutions ; it is the struggle to preserve the States and their vested rights against the proud spirit of centralization ; to protect individual rights against the encroachments of corporate power; it is the effort to reestablish the landmarks of the government of our fathers; to reaffirm their teachings and their principles; to replant the corner-stone of individual rights and individual liberty. To this cause we present to-day a united and determined party. Within our borders there are no factions and dissensions. Our rank and file are filled with enthusiasm and are full of hope and confidence.

We ask for a nice, able and faithful leader, and then we can and will go forth to take possession and govern the great State of Ohio. As agents of the people we now tmst not only the success of our party in this State, but its ultimate fortunes in the nation. Wise and right action here to-day will be seed received upon good ground, which in October will return a arvest of at least an hundred fold. I have but one word more. L»t us enter upon this campaign with new hope and new courage, and then, with union and firm faith and firm accord, we can carry it back to the ancient landmarks and principles, and send it forward upon a new course of greatness and glory.

John W. Bookwaiter, of Springfield, was nominated for Governor on the second ballot, amid great cheering and enthusiasm. Other nominations were made as follows: For Lieutenant Governor, Edgar M. Johnson, of Cincinnati; for Supreme Judge, E. F. Bingham, of for State Treasurer, A. F. Winslow, of Cleveland; for Attorney General, Frank C. Dougherty, of Highland county; for Public Works, John Crowe, of Defiance. Mr. Bookwaiter, the nominee for Governor, is a native of Fountain county, Ind., and is 43 years of age. He was known there in young manhood as “Saw-log John.” Being of an inventive turn of mind, he was brought to Springfield, Ohio, by the manufacturers of a water-wheel, and, by his inventions and improvements in machinery,. rapidly accumulated wealth. He is a millionaire, is extremely liberal to his employes, and very popular everywhere he is known. Edgar M. Johnson, the nominee for Lieutenant Governor, is a law partner of Judge George Hoadly, of Cincinnati. He is of English-Hebrew parentage, and is a man of superior ability and culture. The following platform was unanimously adopted : The Democrats of Ohio, proud of their citizenship in this great State, for the purpose of maintaining the prosperity of the commonwealth and to promote the welfare and happiness of the whole people, submit the following declaration of principles, upon which they ask the Kuftrages of the people : The equality of the people before the law. Equal taxation. Unpolitical legislation and a free and pure ballot as the corner-stone of free institutions. Opposition to monopolies and subsidies of all kinds. The strictest economy in national, State and local administrations, that labor may be lightly burdened.The maintenance and advancement of the common-school system. Hesolved, That the abuses of the present contract system in our State prison, by which the products of criminal labor are brought into a competition with the products of honest labor, to the great injury of the latter, is vicious and unwise and should be corrected. liesolved, That the course of the last Republican Legislature deserves the condemnation of the people for its incompetency and hypocrisy, its unnecessary and heavy increase ih the burdens of taxation, and for.the passage of unconstitutional acts, and for its reorganization of the benevolent institutions of the State solely for the purpose and as a medium for the distribution of spoils. Resolved, That, as the humanities are nonpartisan, and as the treatment of criminals should be non-political, the management of the charitable institutions of the State should be free from partisan change or appointments. Resolved, That we are in favor of a civil-ser-vice reform, whereby offices shall be held to be public trust, to be administered for the public good, not spoils, to be enjoyed as the reward of partisan zeal or service. Resolved, That the Democrats of Ohio, in ‘ this year, as in all years, xre in favor of the largest individual liberty consistent with the public order, and are opposed to legislation merely sumptuary. Resolved, That the recent discovery of enormous peculations in liigh Federal places, and the Republican attempt to purchase votes by corruption, should convince the country that Republican organization is not worthy of public confidence. Resolved, That the power delegated to the General Government “to regulate cotnmerce among the State*,’’ as well ah the power reserved to the States to regulate commerce within their own borders, should be bbin’ exercised to prevent unjust discrimination and unreasonable charges by our railroads. A tariff for revenue, levied and adjusted in its details with a view to equity in the public burdens and the encouragement of productive industries, without creating monopolies, aod we favor the appointment of a commission to suggest a method of revision which shall accomplish this recult . The following resolution w&s received with a tremendous burst of applause, and unanimously adopted: Resolve<l, That we deeply deplore the recent attempt upon the life of the President of the United States by an assassin, and denounce assassination m a republic as the highest and most revolting of crimes ; and we extend to the President and his family our deepest sympathies and our earnest hopes that a speedy recovery be vouchsafed, to him. Jonn G. Thompson was re-elected Chairman of the State Central Committee. . ■

A Uniform Marriage Law.

Speaking of the necessity of a uniform marriage law the Observer says editorially: “Here a great reform is, urgently required. The iriterests of morality, humanity and social economy demand a reform. The subject, is of sufficient importance to justify aeon vention of Christian philanthropists; an international convention, certainly an inter-State convention in the United States, to put before the civilized world, and particularly the American people, the importance of uniform legislation on the subject of marriage and divorce. ; In this country divorces are granted and marriagep made legal under circumstances abhorrent to morality and social policy, but they are' recognized as sufficient in States that will not of their own motion incorporate such laws into their own statutes. Hence a conflict of laws in the same nationality, where by travel and change of residence the population is constantly

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commingled. We know that ministers of religion, when called upon to perform the marriage ceremony, are frequently troubled to know when the parties are disabled by law from contracting marriage ; and when one or both of the par ties hate been divorced by Connecticut law the minister is at * loss to know that this law is so recognized in New York as to hold him harmless if he proceeds.

INDIANA NEWS.

The colored people have been having a big Baptist camp-meeting at Muncie. There was in the State Treasury of Indiana, on the Ist day of July, $1,065,055.44. A rocket set fire to the opera house at Fort Wayne, totally destroying it. The loss is about $20,000. The Rev. Mr. Harrison, the revival preacher, has been holding a series of meetings in New Albany. Lewis Smith, a soldier of the war of 1812, died recently at Cambridge City, in the 98th year of his age. In a quarrel between two engineers at Terre Haute, Eugene Brittany killed William G. Dunn with a hammer. Mrs. Nelson Thornburg, of Hagerstown, Wayne county, was thrown from her buggy and fatally injured. William Schroeder, employed in a spoke factory at Fort Wayne, committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree. The hot Weather at New Albany is killing off the caterpillars rapidly, without any assistance from the sparrows. Mr. Franz Huelzmann, a respected German citizen of Tell City, fell into the river at that place, while fishing, and was drowned. A blacksmith in the Vandalia shops at Terre Haut e, named Simeon A. Stone, aged 35 years, and married, wits drowned while bathing in the river. The prospectus of the Fort Wayne College of Medicine is out. The regular session of 1881-2 will be begun on Tuesday, Sent. 13, 1881, and close March 1, 1882. Mr. Skiles, of Decatur county, deposited $1,117 with Mrs. Brown, and when Mrs. B. went to look for the money, shortly after, it was gone—no one knows where. Oliver Rhoades, a young man of Colfax, Clinton county, has become a raving maniac over the loss of S3OO, which he invested with his brothers in the butcher trade. Bernard Brogan, near Tipton, while binding wheat, bound up in a sheaf a blue-bellied snake, which bit him on the finger. His finger has since swollen, and turned the same color of the snake. J. C. Fouts, of New Washington township, Clark county, has an old clock which is a curiosity, from the fact that it is one of two marie on Camp creek, by one Thompson, and set up May 12, 1816. William Willis and Robert Prunett, living three miles west of New Albany, agreed to settle an old feud an<J actually faced each other and emptied their revolvers. Willis was dangerously wounded in the face. Prunett was unhurt. J. C. Richardson, Clerk of Spencer county, has a brick-mold made by the father of Abraham Lincoln in 1828. It is ah oak mold, put together with wooden pins, nails at that time not having come West. Mr. Richardson bore oil brick from this mold in his 12 th year, near Gentryville. Three years ago last Christmas, in a fight at Wallace, Fountain county, W. H. Miller struck Henry Elmore on the head with an ax-handle, the blow killing Elmore in a few days. Miller escaped arrest until the 4th inst., when he was attending the celebration in Crawfordsville, and was recognized and arrested. Oscar Muther, of Shelbyville, received a large African milk snake, some eight feet in length, and as large round as a lamp post. The slimy monster was placed in a box and set in the back room of a saloon. Some one raised the lid to look at the reptile, when it escaped. It has not yet been recaptured. It is said to be venomous.

Franklin, Johnson county, has an artesian well of more than ordinaryvirtue. It was sunk by the Jefferson Railroad Company, and, at a depth of only thirty-four feet, the water flowed out at the top of the well, and still continues to flow. The medical properties of the water are said to be good, and many citizens are already’ using it. Robert A. Richey, a grain and cattle buyer, who did business in New Paris and in the country around Richmond, has disappeared. He went with his wife to the home of her father and told her that he had forged the names of his friends to notes and checks, and would have to leave the country before they liecame due. He bid her good-by, kissed his children and drove away. His forgeries, unpaid checks and debts of honor will amount to over $25,000. The assassin Guiteau figured at Logansport three years ago. He applied at the American Express office for a C. O. D. package, upon which $3.50 was due. Guiteau was “busted.” He importuned the agent to allow him to take the package, stating that it contained several hundred copied of his lecture on the “ Second Coming of Christ,” which he wished to'sell. He was regarded as crazy, and was given the cold shoulder. Afterward he went back to the agent and renewed his petition, and, promising to remit as soon as be got to Chicago, Was allowed to take out the package. He did not remit.

Altogether Too Sudden.

The young man had expended as much for theater and concert tickets as he thought his purse vould warrant, and, as the excursion and seaside season was just coming on, he made up his mind to—to. Well, this is what he said: “I’ve been thinking tnat yoa are very dear to me, Louise; and I've been thinking th ft—that, Louise, I—that is, I think lots of you, and— and—what do you think ?” “ Oh, George, this is too sudden. How is your bank account?” “Well, this is a little sudden, too. I had hoped you would consider your bank account large enough for both. ” The parting kiss that night sounded like the breaking-of a pipe-stem, and it will never be repeated.— New Haven Neaister. > - • A loving heart and a pleasant conn tenance are commodities which a man should never fail to take home with him. They will best season his food and soften his pillow. It were a great thing for a man that his wife ana children could truly say of him, “He never brought an angry or ill-tempered word across his threshold. ” The best likeness of heaven ever seen on earth is a well-conducted, pappy home. Let all our peftdejs resolve jo make their* guch.

fflemocratif gtnfinef JOB PRIRTIRB OFFICE ~ hM better (bcIUUm than any ofltee tn Vorthwwtejf Indiana for the axaouttan of ail brancbM te FOB IJJQ, PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. . Inythine, frcto a Dod<w to a Mm-Uat, ar ftona • mnphlet to a Boater, black «r colored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GVABANTEED.

HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

(From Detroit Free Prom Houaehold.) Broiled Steak.—Never put salt on a steak until after it is cooked. After trimming on each side equally, dress to taste with sweet fresh butter, pepper and salt, and add, if preferred, a teaspoonfnl of lemon juice. Shredded Codfish.—Mix it for fishballs or cokes and it is excellent; use it with egg sauce and milk and it will make a dainty dish, or combine it with Iwaten egg, adding a spoonful of flour and frizzle in a little butter and it will make a savory and nourishing kind of omelette. Sliced Smoked Beef.—Mince it fine and sprinkle it into a salad, or mix it also ■< with potatoes and egg for a cake, or use it with a spoonful of flour and eggs for an omelette, or heat it by steam through and eat it with a can of warmed up peas or a dish of stewed onions and potatoes. Lemon Pudding.—One lemon grated, rind and pulp, one cup of sugar, one cup of water or sweet milk, four eggs, three tablespoonfuls of melted butter, two tablespoon fuls of flour. Line a deep dish with pastry crusts, pour the custard in, bake thirty minutes. Beat the whites of three or four eggs to a stiff froth, sweeten, spread over the top of the pudding, and let it brown slightly. To Cook Rice.—To cook rice so that the grains will be whole and tender, wash it in cold water until the water looks clear, then cook it rapidly in boiling water for fifteen minutes, after which drain and place the covered saucepan on the back of the stove to steam until the grains crack open and are tender, which will be about fifteen minutes longer. Breakfast Herring.—Place the herring over a steamer and heat them well through, touch them up with a little butter and have a dish of well steamed potatoes ready, and it will make a meal. Chop the herring very fine, mix with mashed potatoes and a beaten up egg, and fry in a little butter, and it will make a nice potato cake. Potato Croquettes.—Take six boiled potatoes, pass them through a sieve; add to them three tablespoonfuls of ham grated or minced finely, a little grated nutmeg, pepper and salt to taste, and some chopped parsley; work into this mixture the yolks of three or four eggs, then fashion it into the shape of balls, roll them in bread-crumbs, and fry in hot lard, and serve with fried parsley. Lyonnaise Potatoes.—Boil the potatoes with their jackets on and allow then, to cool in order to have them solid. Peel and cut into slices about a quarter of an inch thick, slice an ordinary sized onion for 1. «*!*-? dozen potatoes. As soon as a tablespoonfui of butter has melted iu the pan, and the onion begun to colv. put in the slices of potatoes. Stir them a little. Season with salt and pepper. Fry the potatoes until they are a golden brown, and then chop up a tablespoonfyJ f parsley and sprinkle it over th tn just before taking them out. Potato Salad.—Take some cold boiled potatoes and slice very thin; add to them three hard-boiled eggs, also sliced thin; chop one small, fresh onion. In a glass bowl or salad-dish put a layer of potatoes, then a layer of eggs, and sprinkle over them a little chopped onion, salt and pepper. For dressing, take the yolk of a raw egg and stir into it half a teaspoonfnl of made mustard. Beat into it, drop by drop, three tablespoonfnls of sweet cream; add one tablespoonfuls of strong vinegar and the white of the egg beateu to a stiff froth. If needed for supper make at noontime. Flakes of cold boiled salmon, cod of halibut, substituted for the eggs, or added w ; ‘h them will improve th* a. dad.

Sunstroke.

1. Carry the patient carefully, but promptly, to the nearest shade. 2. Secure for him as much circulation of wholesome air as may be possibly obtained. 3. If the skin is hot, sponge with cold water or ice. 4. If the head is very hot, and the arteries of the neck pulsate violently, apply ice. 5. Give two teaspoonfuls of good brandy or whisky every ten or fifteen minutes. The addition of two or three drops of laudanum to each dose of the stimulant prevents vomiting or purging, which is liable to occur ana often prove fatal. 6. Don’t give large draughts of cold water or any other fluid, even if the patient is able to swallow them. 7. Don’t allow the patient to be moved or raised from a recumbent position until sufficiently recovered to render it safe to do so. This seldom occurs for hours, and often not for days, after the attack. 8. Send at once for a doctor, not for half a dozen. Othetwise valuable time may be lost by differences in opinion as to whether the case is one of congestion or exhaustion. It is always safer for non-professional prescribers, and generally safer for doctors, to pursue methods of treatment calculated to relieve more or less profound exhaustion of vital powers.

The Pay of Teachers.

The Rutland (VL) Herald and Globe says very wisely in regard to the pay of teachers : “ The low wagee that admit of no savings, if the teacher has a family, is the blight upon a profession that contains within its exercise more possibilities for good, in multiplying the best manhood and womanhood through the unceasing manipulation of character in its plastic immaturity, than even the pulpit, for the teacher comes Into closer contact with the growing youth of the country than even the parent. Three-fourths of the teachers who serve for meager wages have no call to their profession, for the very reason that they take no permanent interest in it; they never expect to follow it for a life-calling, so they cannot give it the necessary pains, the essential enthusiasm; but once let it be understood that good work and exceptional gifts for teaching are sure of a reward that did not by its meagerness compel celibacy, or the domestic economy of a church-mouse, and more men of exceptional tact, talent and manhood would follow teaching for a life-work.” The Tribune has for many years advanced these very arguments, and is glad to see many indications of a growing public sentiment concerning better wages and stricter requirements.— New York Tribune. I,l ' The Parisian method of cleaning black silk is to brush and wipe it thoroughly, lay it oh a flat table with the side up* which is intended to show, and sponge with hot coffee strained through muslin. Allow it to become partially dry, then ■iron. ■How independent of money peace of conscience is, and how much happiness can be popdei)se4 in the humblest home.