Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eaxt. The total number of immigrants landed at New York from the Ist of January to the 17th of July was 261,143. For the corresponding period last year the arrivals were 187,418. A gold life-saving medal has been awarded to Mrs. Ida Lewis Nelson by Secretary Windom, in recognition of her heroic deeds off Lime Rock light. The assessed valuation of the State of Vermont is $163,391,893. Last year the valuation was $100,350,000. On the charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the star-route service, Thomas McDevitt and Le . Grand Ensign, of Philadelphia, have been held in $5,000 for trial. In spite of the unusually large immigration, the demand for laborers from all parts of the country exceeds the supply. The Superintendent of the Labor Bureau at Castle Garden has orders for 1,000 laborers which ho is unable to fillL A yacht containing six young men of Boston was capsized off that city, and all were drowned. VV ent. Greenleaf, near Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee nation, was lately the scene of a horrible tragedy. The Creek and Cherokee Indians were having a barbecue preparatory to nominating candidates for office. Whisky flowed freely. Two full-blood Indians became fighting drunk and made an onslaught on some of the party. Seven men were killed or mortally wounded. Jim Sattcrwait and his father were first shot and had their heads completely severed from their bodies by the crazed demons. Outlaws visited the camp of the Mills Lac Indians, near Atken, Minn., and murdered the Chief and four Indians. The murderers were arrested and taken to St. Raul. “Billy the Kid,’* the notorious~murderer and outlaw, who for several years has been the terror of New Mexico cattle men, was recently killed by Pat Garrett. Sheriff of Lincoln county, N. M. Garrett had been on his trail some time. He overhauled him hi a cabin at Fort Sumner, and shot him dead. The “ Kid" was a native of New York city. His rea name was McCarthy. A hotel proprietor at La Crosse, Wis., was robbed by a burglar of an iron box containing $415 in cash, S3BO in and $2,500 in certificates of deposit. The fastest three heats ever trotted or paced were made ar Chicago by Little Brown Jug, the time being 2:12%, 2:14%, 2:14%. The propeller Winnipeg burned at Duluth, Minh. Four men perished in the flames. Sitting Bull, the noted Indian chief, has surrendered. Accompanied by 200 of his people, he arrived at Fort Buford, where they all gave up their arms and ponies to Maj. Brotherton, without offering any remarks. Bull was sullen, cross and hungry, and refused to talk much until ho had eaten and rested. The Indian chief was induced to surrender by Louis Legare, a well-Known Frenchman of the f rentier. A loss of $55,000 arose from the burning of the wholesale drug-house of James E. Davis’A Co., at Detroit. When the flames had been suppressed the walls fell over on some firemen, one being killed and four severely injured. A freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad was thrown from the truck near La.wrence, Kan., killing one and seriously injuring another of the train men. It is believed that the accident was caused by the removal of part of a rail by would-be. robbers, with the intention of wrecking a passenger train, which carried about $40,000 from Pmrtflo in the express car The delay of the train at Topeka was the means of frustrating the designs of the robber*. Returns from Northern Minnesota represent the wheat prospect as quite flattering. The yield will be at least a full average. Throughout the Red river region of Dakota Territory there will be the largest and best crop of wheat that has ever been harvested. South. At Leesburg, Fla., J. J. Dickinson, Jr., shot a saloon-keeper named Beach, inflicting dangerous wounds. A band of disguised iiihi took Dickinson from jail and riddled him with bullets. Deputy Collector Brayton, a brother of the Collector of Internal Revenue of South Carolina,"with four men, went to a place near Central, in Pickens county, S. C., for the purpose of arresting John McDow and two other “ moonshiners" and seizing an illicit still. As the party approached the bouse of McDow they were fired upon, and Brayton was killed. The statue in honor of the Confederate dead in the cemetery at Culpepper, Va., was unveiled in the presence of about 10,000 spectators. WASHINGTON NOTES. An examination of the Christian Church, in Washington, where Guiteau states that he at one time contemplated assassinating the President, shows that the window from .which he had planned to shoot him was immediately at the iend of the pew where he sat, and that the assassin could have approached within three feet of the President’s head, and could have fired without being seen by any person. The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed a cattle commission to investigate all cases of pleuro-pneumonia along the Canadian border and on the chief lines of transportation. Its members are James Law, of Ithaca, N. Y., James H. Sanders, of Chicago, and E. F. Thayer, of West Newton, Mass. Internal-revenue receipts for the past fi: cal year amount to $135,540,339.19, an excess over last year of $11,329,850.58. Secretary Windom has decided that journalists are entitled.import duty free tojeertniti books for their libraries. p Guiteau has been placed in solitary confinement in the jail, by order of District Attorney Corkhill. He is to receive neither visitors nor communications, and the guards are not to talk with him. He will thus be held to await the resu't of the President’s injur es. The following are the receipts from customs for the year ending J uno 30, 1881 : Q jarter ending Sept. 30,1880? 56,395,113 Quarter ending Dec. 31, 18AI 42,241,041 Quarter ending March 31, 1881 48.747,010 Qua' ter ending June 30, 1881 50,0.16,920 T0ta15197,480,115 Guiteau complains of his prison treatment. He thinks be is a person of great im- ' portance, and that, his offense being of a political character, ho ought to be treated with more consideration than ordinary prisoners. He claims to be a gentleman accustomed to luxury, etc. The jail authorities do not take him at his onn estimate, however, and have commenced to treat him as an ordinary felon. This is having a good effect on him. U der it his vanity is diminishing somewhat, and he is not so lordly in his manners as during she first days of his confinement.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME V

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Pierre Lorrillard has shipped nine thoroughbreds to reinforce his stable at Newmarket, England. James A. Grinstead, of Kentucky, has entered two colts in the English Derby of 1883 and two fillies in the Oaks. The Apaches attacked the railroad construction force at Chihuahua, Mexico, killing six of the party, including a young American, and then mutilated the corpses. They then attacked the construction train of carts, killing two persons. Nine buildings of Redbank, N. J., including the Redbank Register office, were destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at $75,000. The lard refinery of E. Ring & Son, of East St. Louis, valued at $70,000, and insured for $60,000, was burned down. Bush & Denslow’s extensive oil works at South Brooklyn, worth $50,000, were burned. The acreage yield of potatoes in the United States this year is 2 per cent, greater than last year. In Missouri the increase is 6 per cent., and in New York and Michigan 5 per cent. Ohio shows a decrease of 2 per cent. The crop is reported to be in splendid condition in nearly every section of the country. The acreage of tobacco is largely in excess of last year. Burned: The Wieting Opera House and several stores at Syracuse, N. Y., loss $460,000, insurance $275,000; Pearson’s saw mill and Pearson’s salt manufactory at East Saginaw, Mich., loss $160,000, insurance $70,000; the Cincinnati Coffin Company’s coffin manufactory at Cincinnati, Ohio, loss $225,000, insurance $220,000; several stores at Irvington, N. Y., loss $40,000; the Irving House at Long Branch. It is estimated that the increase in the amount of business transacted through the postal money-order system ot the United States during the last fiscal year will amount to from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 more than in the previous year. The lawyers of Washington declare that Col. Corkhill has no authority over Guiteau, and that there is no lawful reason for placing him in solitary confinement. During the last fiscal year over $12,000,000 worth of gold and silver were used in the arts and manufactures in the United States.

FOREIGN NEWS. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the number of men and girls burned in the barn in the province of Koorks, Russia, was 119 instead of nineteen. England and Franco have been experiencing some of the most torrid weather on record. By an imperial ukase, granted at the suggestion of Gen Ignatieff, the sentence of death passed on Hcssy Helfmann, one of the assassins of the Czar, has been commuted. • For disturbing the funeral procession of Pope Pio Nono at Rome, six men’have been fined and imprisoned. There was great disorder at the trial, and a storm of hisses followed the sentences. A large crowd cheered the prisoners, and the soldiers dispersed the mob. , Don Carlos, the claimant for the Spanish throne, has been ordered to leave France on account of bis having boon concerned in manifestations against the republic. It is estimated that Germany will lose by emigration this year at least 250,000 of her subjects. The German and Austrian authorities nre reported to' be seeking to effect a triple alliance between France, Austria and Germany. The scheme is regarded as chimerical. The death is announced of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, the celebrated Dean of Westminster. He was only in his 66th ye ir. The Russian Nihilists have transferred their operations from the cities to the country districts, and have met with considerable success. Government detectives sent to watch them are having a hard time. An ocean cable is to be laid from some German port to Valencia, and thence to the United States, at a cost of .£165,000. The Catholic Presbytery at Roxton Falls, Que., was destroyed by fire, and Father Larne perished in the flames. The National Educational Association met at Atlanta, Ga. Gov. Colquitt delivered the address of welcome and ex-Superintendent Smart, of Indiana, delivered the inaugural adfl r< SB. The war between Chili and Peru is not vet over. The Peruvians how content themelves with attacks on isolated bands of thcii .■ .imury’s enemies. - and in this desultory modi In y le.em to obtain more success than they did ii pitched battles. Ir land will this year have a crop of potatoes large enough to supply the home demand and a liberal margin also for exportation. A Land-Leaguer named Gordon has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for inciting to murder after he was arrested under the Coercion act. Diplomatic correspondence between England and France on the Tripoli question will show, when published, that England informed France that, if she attempted the “protection” scheme in Tripoli, which is Turkish territory, it would raise the whole question of European guaranty to the Ottoman empire. Egypt is suffering from a destructive worm which has attacked the cotton crop. Several cases of sunstroke have occurred in Berlin as the result of the heated term. Lefroy, who is charged with the mur der of Gold on the Brighton railroad June 27, has been committed for trial in London. Lord Colin Campbell, son of the Duke of Argyll and brother to the Marquis of Lorne, was married to Miss Gertrude Blood, an Irish heiress. England, Austria and Holland have addressed a note to the Russian Government, in which other European powers will unite, objecting to her harsh laws against the Jews, as illustrated by the case of Lewisohn. LATEST NEWS. The mills of the Pennsylvania Pulp and Paper Company, at Lock Haven, Pa., have been burned. Loss, $160,000; insurance between $60,000 and $70,000. About 8,000 persons witnessed the execution of the Talbott lads for the murder of their father, at Maryville, Mo. John W. Patterson was hangod at Clinton, Mo., for killing James G. Clark, and George Green was executed at Greenwood, Ark., for the murder of his wife. The Chicago Times presents its readers with what it claims to be “ one of the most complete and accurate crop reports ever issued, nearly every county in the spring-wheat region being represented. It is evident that the yield will not exceed half the usual amount. Corn bids fair to prove a full crop. Oats have been destroyed in many localities by the armyworm, which is still engaged in devastating the fertile fields.” A pedestrian statue of Gen, J, B,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY. JULY 29, 1881.

McPherson was unveiled at Clyde, Ohio, in presence of twenty-one posts of the Grand Army, the audience numbering 18,000. Gen. Sherman was present, and ex-President Hayes delivered the address. Copper and silver-bearing ore has been discovered near Fort Laramie, Wyo. Ter. Surface assays vary from S6O to $l5O. A town is being built on the spot, and a big emigration has set in from Cheyenne. Editor J. W. Matthews was assassinated at Perryville, Ark He was standing near his printing office, and fell riddled with buckshot. The total value of the domestic breadstuffs exported from the United States during the twelve months ending June 30, 1881, was $265,561,328, against $282,132,618 worth exported during the twelve months ending June 30, 1880. There are held by individuals in the New England States $70,972,050 worth of registered United States bonds, in the Southern States $13,139,800, in the Western States $54,418,750, in the Middle States $279,008,250, and by banks, insurance and trust companies $227,451,550. Postmaster General James warns Postmasters that their accounts must be forwarded to the Auditor of the Treasury immediately after the close of every quarter. The new chieftain is intent upon making his department self-sustaining, when he proposes to advocate a reduction of letter postage to 2 cents. The deadlock at Albany was broken July 23, and the Legislature adjourned the following day. The administration men made some concessions by entering into a conference or caucus in which Lapham was nominated by a unanimous vote. He was afterward elected to succeed Roscoe Conkling in the United St ites Senate by the full Republican vote, the Democrats voting for ex-Congressman Potter. When Mr. Conkling received the dispatch advising him of the election of Lapham, he immediately sent the following telegram : New York, July 22. To the Hon. James Armstrong, Member of the Assembly, Albany: The heroic constancy of the Spartan band which so long has stood for principle and truth has my deepest gratitude and admiiation. Borne down by forbidden and abhorrent forces, and agencies which never before had sway in the Republican party, the memory of their courage and ilianhood will long live in the brightest honor. The near future will vindicate their wisdom, and crown them with approval. Please ask them all for me to receive my grateful acknowledgments, Roscoe Conkling. Two employes of the Spanish bank at Matauzas robbed the institution of $200,000 in specie, and sailed on the steamer Alicante, which they had previously chartered under pretense of bringing cattle from Mexico. The Nihilists held a great meeting at St. Petersburg, at which it was resolved to give the Czar and his Ministers one more warning, which if they do not heed they will be assassinated.

THE PRESIDENT.

Washington, July 21. President Garfield passed a very comfortable lay yesterday. Ho took a little solid food in lie morning m addition to the usual quantity >f liquid food, and gained considerably in ■•tren;.;tb. He continued to gain during the veiling, anl the afternoon fever has ibsided. A piece of cotton cloth about a pcirter of an inch square, with woolen fibers ■iliermg, eame away spontaneously with the uis from the deeper part of the wound. Dr. levlnu n said the discharge of this piece of ; ith indicated that the wound is drained to the ■ ttoni ; the wound, he said, continued to heal icely inside, and that, at the present progress, lie patient would be out of danger in a few days. The President has taken to reading the daily joiit'n.'’is, and listens to the telegrams and Jeters of sympathy which have accumulated since he shooting, in which he takes the deepest interest. He is well enough to laugh heartily at the cuts in the pictorial weeklies. Washington, July 23. The President continues to progress favorl>'y. He is gradually gaining strength, and he physicians are now all but confident of his recovery. The wound continues to discharge healthy pus. Yesterday a fragment of bone •ame with the pus, which indicates that the depths of the wound arc being drained, still the President is very weak. The physicians sav that tho food which he receives is now efficient to add a little to his strength, and to supply the waste which is constantly going on through the wound, but it is found that ho is not jet capable of resisting any unusual excitement, and, for this reason, tho surgeons in charge insist upon as perfect quiet as can be secured. Hon. George B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, had an interview with the President, ni which the latter recalled his promise to visit the Wisconsin State Fair, and declared that lie had not yet given up the trip.

An Interesting Bit of Unpublished History.

The following curious dispatches, never before printed (says a Washington telegram), were sent by Mr. Stanton to the Hon. Edwards Pierrepont about a month after the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. They are interesting as evidence of a very different phase of the excitement in Washington at that time from any which has been caused by the attempt on the file of President Garfield : War Department, May 12, 1865.—10:05 p. m. To the Holl Edwards Pierrepont, New York : I have written to-night to retain you and Cutting and Brady, or any one else you may desire to have associated with you, to prosecute Horace Greeley and the owners of the Tribvne for Gree ey’s persistent elf. rts, the last four week 4, to inc te assassins to finish their work of murdering me. Please give the matter your immediate attention on receiving the letter, and secure copies of ail the Tribunes printed since the night of the President’s murder, and get the names of the owners. I propose to prosecute criminally and also by civil suit, for I shall not allow them to have me murdered and escape re-ponsibility without a struggle for life on my part. Edwabd M. Stanton. War Depatment, May 13—5:20 p. m. The Hon. Edwards Pierrepont and the Hon. E. B. Cutting, New York: I have proof of express personal malice against me by Greeley, and believe I can establish a combination between him and others which may end in accomplishing my de .th, as it did against Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Si-ward. 1 his is my reason for distinguishing his case from others cf general vituperation. Edwin M. Stanton. The second telegram was sent in reply to ono which contained an int mation that it might be indiscreet to make meh au arrest as the oue suggested by Mr. Stanton

American Coin in Foreign Countries.

The American $1 is worth five francs (95 cents) and a trifle over 30 centimes in the coin of France. One Austrian florin is equal to two English shillings, or about 46 cents, and the rix dollar to $1 American. In regard to German coin, there are about as many different kinds as there are different kingdoms in the Empire. The crown of Baden is valued at sl.lO, the thaler of Saxony at sl, the thaler of Prussia at 70 cents, the thaler of Brunswick and Hanover at 80 cents, and so on ; the 20-mark (gold) is equal to an English sovereign, which is equal to $4.83 American money. The Swedish cronor, or crown, is equal to 26 4-5 cents, and the Danish rix dollar is about 60 cents. In the ladies’ cabins of the Hoboken ferryboats the following notice has recently been posted : “The seats in this cabin are reserved for ladies. Gentlemen will please not occupy them until the ladies are seated.” That strikes us as reversing the proper positions,—Boston Post,

“A Firm, Adherence to Correct Principles.”

TRAIN ROBBERY.

Highwaymen Attack a Train on the Chicago, Kock Island and l*acifi« Kailroad, Shoot Down the Conductor, and Rob the Express Car, The most danng robbery ana wanton murder that has occurred in the Southwest for many years took place on the night of July 15, near Winston station, Mo. The express train of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, from Kansas City, was boarded at that point by a gang of men variously estimated at from ten to fifteen,who shot down the conductor and another employe of the road, displaced the fireman and engineer by knocking them off the locomotive, put two of their men in charge, and plundered the safe of the express car of its contents. Mr. C. H. Murray, the express messenger, gives the following circumstantial account of the affair : *• We pulled out of Winston, Conductor William Westfall jumping on the head end of the smoking-car to go through the train for tickets, as he always does. We left Winston about ou time, 9:3o‘o’clock. Being in the express car I did not see what transpired in the smoker, but a passenger told me as follows : A masked man ” arose from his seat, and, approaching the conductor as he came along, said: ‘You are my prisoner.’ The conductor had not time to make a word of reply when the stranger pulled out a revolver and shot him. The conductor reeled against the seat, and attempted to go out the rear- door of the car, when the robber tired again. Westfall managed to get out on the platform, where he fell down and rolled off the car to the ground dead. After the report of the shots the train suddenly stopped. We, that is, I and the baggage-man, Frank Stampes, were standing between two trunks in themiadle of the car at the time. Just after the train stopped Baggageman Stampes stepped to the north-side door to see what was the matter. The door was open to admit of ventilation, as the night was very warm. Without warning Stampes was grabbed by the legs by four masked men. Their spokesman said : ‘ Come out, you of a —, come out.’ At this they pulled him out. When they got him down on the ground they told him if he moved or spoke a word they would kill him. The robbers then shot into the express car twice. Knowing pretty well what was coming, I had ensconced myself behind the sample trunks. The four men then jumped into our car and put the lights out. As they did this I got out of my place and wont over toward the locomotive end of the car. The robbers were looking for me, as I heard them say especially, ‘ Where is the other of a ? Shoot the cuss.’ Th& robbers, thinking probably I had left the car, also deserted it for the time being. I jumped up and barred the end door next to the smoking-car and shut the south-side door. Then I barred the door next to the engine. There was some firing done at the car while I was locking the doors, but how many shots I don’t remember. One ball went through the door, missing me by about three inches. After running about half a mile the train came to a stop, as it was started immediately after the road agents pulled the baggageman out. Just as I was barring the outside door, the last one of the four, the robbers came to that side. Four of them rushed into the car and began shooting again. How many shots they fired I don’t know, but afterward we counted twelve btillet-holes in that end of the car which were shot on the inside. At almost every shot they would keep up the yell, ‘ Comeout, you of a -.’ I kept my place, squatting on the floor till I thought they had ceased firing ; then I rose up and said, ‘Here I am.’ They grabbed mo and whirled me around several times and demanded the key. I gave it to them. One fellow went toward the safe, then turned around, handed me tho key and told me to unlock the safe. I did so at the point of four revolvers, threw the cover back, and leaned up against the side of the car. The one who appeared to be the leader nulled out of his coat-pocket a sack two feet long by a foot and a half in width. He took the money and all the contents of the safe and put them into the sack. While doing this he asked me several times bow much money there was. I told him I didn’t know, but there was quite a little pile of it. Then he demanded, ‘ls that all you have got? Give me the rest of it.’ I told him it was all the car contained of value except the seven silver bricks on the floor. He answered, ‘ I want the rest of it or I’ll kill you.’ Alter I had again told him I hadn’t another cent ho continued, saying, ‘ You might as well give up, We have killed your conductor and engineer, and we are going to kill you, so get down on your knees. There are twelve men in this gang, and we’ve got full possession of the train.’ Ho then struck me on the head and another blow on the back with his revolver. After this the men left tho cars.” A stonemason residing at Wilton, who boarded the train at Cameron, was shot and killed as he stood on the platform of the first coach next to the smoker. None of the passengers were molested. The robbers only attacked the engine, express and «n< king-car. The spot where the robbers had their horses tied in the woods was discovered. The men wore in such haste to leave that their halters were cut, not untied, aqd the trail was in the direction of Clay county. The Sheriff of Daviess county, Mo., with 100 men, at once started on the trail. It is the general opinion in the vicinity of the scene of the robbery the gang is the same old oue headed by Jesse and Frank James. Sheriff Timberlake, of Clay county, started out with thirty men after the robbers It is thought the latter divided near Lawson, aiming for Clav county.

FRIGHTFUL TORNADO.

New < lm, Minn., Devastated by afyclone—l Sit nd reds of Strong Huild- ■ ngs t'nt Down to the Ground and Many People Killed and Wounded. A terrible tornado devastated New Ulm, Minn., a beautiful little city of 3,500 inhabitants, on the afternoon of July 16. Six hundred buildings were more or less damaged, some of them being totally wrecked, among them the finest business blocks in the city. Thirteen people were killed outright in New Ulm, and some twenty or more wounded more or less severely, several of them fatally. The storm made its appearance at 4 o’clock, and it could be distinctly seen approaching in two separate columns, one moving upward while the other appeared to descend from the clouds, whirling with terrible rapidity. One instance is told of a man and his wife and child who were in his dwelling adjoining his place of business when the storm struck. Both buildings were swept away, and, whew the man found his wife and child, twenty minutes after, both her legs were broken and the child’s foot was crushed. Numbers of buildings struck by lightning caught fire, and the town would have been destroyed in this way but for the rain, which descended in torrents. Eye-witnesses state that the scene during and immediately after the storm was fearful to contemplate and beyond the descriptive powers of the most graphic pen. People who were out on the streets at the time were literally blown away ; and numbers were wounded by the flying debris. Whole sections of tin roofing were sent sailing through the air by the fury of the storm, and twisted and crumbled up like paper. There is scarcely a building, public or private. that did not sustain some injury, while manv residences and business houses are total wrecks, the timbers being broken into kindling and scattered over the prairie. Not less than 100 horses were killed, many lifted bodily and carried long distances. The farm machinery depot was totally wrecked, and the machinery, including fifty self-binding reapers, were shivered into splinters. A new two-story brick building was carried away so clean that not a vestige remained except the cellar and foundation walls. A boggy was carried completely over the twostory si one jail. The county is peopled almost wholly by Germans, forty-eight of whom were in Minneapolis at the time attending the Tumfest, and none of them knew of .the catastrophe until next day, when all left immediately for their ruined homes, with no knowledge as to whether they would find family, friends or property. A correspondent who visited the scene of the disaster gives the following description of the terrible ruin wrought: The first p'ace any effects of the storm were seen was about three miles west of New Ulm. Here it tore down a house and killed a number of cattle and horses. The family saved themselves by going to the cellar before the storm struck. From where the storm struck the railroad track the ground is lined with bedding and furniture, wagon wheels, farm machinery, etc. Thfi heads of wheat were cat off as clean and

smooth as though done with a heading machine. From theplaca where the storm first ■truck into New Ulm everything was swept for a width of about one mile. The sight was sickening in the extreme. Trees were torn up by the roots and carried no one knows where, and not a house or bam was left standing in the line of the storm from where it first struck until it reached New Ulm. A gentleman, who stood on the bluff two miles north of New Ulm and witnessed the cyclone, says it was the grandest, yet most terrible, sight he ever witnessed. He says one cloud came from the northwest and one from the northeast When they met it appeared to him to be a contest as to which should have the right of way. The storm struck New Ulm at 4:48, and lasted just twenty minutes, and in that brief time not less than $300,000 worth of property was destroyed, and a number of persons killed and many wounded. During the storm there was a perfect blaze of fire balls. It would have been almost as dark as midnight bad it not been for the continued flashes of lightning. The storm extended through Nicollet county, through the towns of West Newton, Wellington and Severance, devastating a tract of country a mile wide and forty miles long. Six lives were lost at West Newton and six at Wellington. The property damaged at West Newton alone was estimated at $500,000. A dispatch Horn New Ulm says the rebuilding of tne town “ is now under way, and every man, woman and child is taking part in the great work of rebuilding. A great many of the buildings which were unroofed are being repaired so as to afford protection to the hundreds of citizens whose homes were entirely swept from the earth. “Henry Villard has given $1,500 totho relief fund. SI,OOO has boen raised at Milwaukee, and Sr. Paul and Minneapolis have pledged $5,000 each. The number of deaths by the cyclone has swollen to thirty-four.”

A TOUCHING LETTER.

Mr. CJladMone to Mrs. Garfield. London, July 22, 1881. Blaine, Secretary, Washington: 1 oafa'e text of note, date 21st, from Mr. Gladstone to Mrs. Garfield. Original by dispatch to-morrow: London, July 21,1881. Dear Madam: Yon will, I am sure, excuse me, though a personal stranger, for addressing you by letter to convey to you the assurances of my own feelings and those of my ci tin try men on the occasion of the terrible attempt to murder the President of the United States, in a form more palpable at least than that of messages conveyed by telegraph. Those feelings have been feelings, in the first instance, of sympathy, and afterward of joy and thankfulness almost comparable, and, I venture to say, on y second to the strong emotions of the great nation of which he is the appointed head. Individually I have, let me beg you to believe, had my full share in the sentiments which have possessed the British nation. ’They have been prompted and quickened by what I venture to think is an ever-growing sense of harim ny and mutual respect and affection between the two countries, and of the relationship which from y ear to y ear becomes a more and more practical bond of union between us. But they have ilso drawn much of their strength from the cordial admirat.on of the simple heroism which has marked the personal conduct of the President; for we have not yet wholly lost the capacity of appreciating such an example of Christian faith and manly fortitude. This exemplary picture bus been made complete by your own contribution to its noble and touching features, on which I only forbear to dwell because I am directly addressing you. I heg to have my respectful compliments and congra’iilations conveyed to the President, and to remain, dear madam, with great esteem, your most faithful servant, w. E. Gladstone. SECRETARY BLAINE’S REPLY. Washington, D. C., July 22. Liweil, Minister, London: J hate aid before Mrs. Garfield the note of Mr. Gladstone, just received by cable. I am requested by her to say that, among the many thousand manifestations of interest and expressions of sympathy which have reached her, none has more deeply touched her heart than the kind words of Mr. Gladstone. His own so icitude and condolence are recciti'd with gratitude ; but, far beyond this, she recognizes that Mr. Gladstone rightfully speaks for the people of the British isles, whose sympathy in this national and personal affliction has been as quick and sincere as that of her own countrymen. Iter chief pleasure in Mr. Gladstone’s cordial letter is found in the comfort which it brings to her husband. The President is cheered and solaced on hir painful and wcaiy way to health by many messages of sympathy, which, in his returning strength, he safely receives and most gratefully appreciates. Blaine, Secretary.

Losers of Money.

“Pardon me for troubling yon, sir but did you drop a S2O gold piece ?’ asked a man with an earnest lock on liis face and a memorandum-book in his hand, of a well-dressed individual on the corner of Jefferson and Woodward avenues. The man addressed ran his hand nervously into various pockets and replied : “ Well, now, I declare ! Can it be possible that I was so careless as to drop that coin? Yes, it’s gone. I must have lost it right here, near where we stand.” The man opened his memorandumbook, took from his vest pocket the stub oi a lead pencil and said : ‘ ‘ Will you favor me with your name and address?” They were given, and the questioner started on, when the well-dressed man cried : “Hi, there! Where’s tne money? Give me my gold piece. ” “ Oh, I didn’t find any money. I took a notion this morning that in a city like this, where thousands and thousands of dollars are handled every hour, there must be great losses, and started out to investigate the matter. Between here and the river I found seven men that lost S2O gold pieces, and I expect to run the list up to 200 before I reach the City Hall. Good-day, sir.”— Detroit Free Press.

Applied Theology.

At a meeting of the Woburn Conference, Farmer Allen, of Wakefield, related the following anecdote : On Sunday morning, while a certain deacon was preparing for church, a wandering wayfarer, or, in modern par lance, a tramp, appeared at his door, pleaded his hunger, and begged for something to eat. The descon looked solemn and frowniugly, but reluctantly got a loaf of bread and began to cut it; but while doing so took occasion to admonish the beggar concerning the error of his ways. After reminding him that it was the holy Sabbath which he was desecrating, he asked him if he knew how to pray. “ No,” was the reply. “Then,” said the deacon, “I’ll learn you,” and he commenced to repeat the Lord’s prayer. But just as he uttered the first words, “ Our Father,” the beggar interrupted him with the question, “What, is He your Father and mine, too ?” “ Yes,” the deacon replied. “Why,” exclaimed the beggar, “we are brothers, then, ain’t we? Can’t you cut that slicea little thicker?” — Albany Argus.

“Eight out of every ten men who walk the streets of New York wears some mechanical appliance or other; and women too, for that matter, though they look so fine,” says a surgical instrument dealer to the Sun. “Persons are very reserved about their wearing an appliance for an infirmity. We are generally requested to deliver our parcels without our address on them, so that their contents may not be suspected even by their dearest friends and relatives, and those who wear anything for the improvement of their figures are even more secretive and mysterious. ” I’ve had enough of kisses, I’ve got enough of love ! Oh, give me back my ! old slouch hat! my comfortable glove ! take off this coat that fits so tight ! oh, let me muss my hair ! there’s a balm in Gilead yet I hope, “ God bless the happy pah - J”

The Republican Party.

The Republican party is this year unfortunate in its relations to various public questions. The elections in three States are likely to become interesting, and differing difficulties will beset the Republican party in each of these States, and in each of these States the embarrassments in the others will prove embarrassing. The three States whose elections will attract curiosity are Ohio, New York, Virginia. In Ohio the relations of Republican campaign to the temperance advocates are not altogether lovely. The late Republican Legislature, aided by Gov. Foster, succeeded in alienating, probably, about 20,000 or 30,000 votes from the Republican party of Ohio. The Republican managers will reap the reward of insincerity, of hypocrisy, of unfair dealing. The plank in the Cleveland platform concerning this subject is an insult to all voters in Ohio who have convictions of any kind upon the temperance topics. It is cowardly, dishonest, a trick. It cannot win a liberal vote touching this subject. Placed alongside the behavior of the late Republican Legislature it will inevitably drive away many thousands of voters who have been in the habit of voting the Republican ticket. The relations of the Republican campaign in Ohio to the subject of caste are not encouraging to that organization. The Republican managers have all along laid special stress upon this idea in relation to caste. They have ostentatiously denounced the spirit of caste. The greatest men of the Republican party made their fame by antagonizing the spirit of caste. But the Republican Convention at Cleveland insulted every Israelite in Ohio. It refused to nominate for the small position of Lieutenant Governor a gentleman thoroughly competent, honored in his own city and beyond it, for the sole reason that he was an Israelite. Verily, they will receive their reward. The attitude of the Republican party toward public virtue at this moment is peculiarly unfortunate for it and for public virtue. The star route swindles, which will not be any too rapidly made known to the public—which would have been more rapidly and thoroughly made known had Democrats access to the books—have really caused some men to believe that “ a change” would not be a national calamity. The hope of public virtue does nob confidently rest in or upon the Republican organization. If we look to Virginia we find that the Republican organization is become an ally and supporter of what it has vociferously called repudiation, and the alliance is not gratifying to Ohio Republicans. If we look to New York we find the Republican house divided against itself, and such a house can not stand. The greatest living men in the Republican party are hostile to this administration, opposed to the Republican organization as it is. These things are not unknown in Ohio, and naturally lead the friends of Democracy, of a better Government, of a change, to thank God and take, courage like Paul at the Three Taverns. The preponderating probabilities are JJjat the three States, named above, will all file notice upon the Republican machinery as now organized, and on the Republican methods as now known, that they are not liked.—Cwicdmiari Fnquirer.

They Would Make Him an Elective King.

The moral which the Republican leaders and press have drawn from Guiteau’s attempt to kill President Garfield is peculiarly worthy of attention. It was, perhaps, to have been expected that Gen. Grant, who is a standing candidate for a third term of the Presidency, and is so far forth a standing menace to liberty and constitutional order, should improve the occasion to suggest changes of an imperialistic character. He has never appreciated the principles upon which our institutions are founded, and he very naturally turns to force, which he would wish to have substantially irresponsible, as the remedy for every evil, whether inherent or accidental, which the working of the system may disclose. • But Mr. Conkling is another sort of man. He is neither the blind creature nor the blind worshiper of organized force. He is a scholar and a lawyer ; and political science, especially political science as successfully illustrated by our republican experiment, has been the study of his life. Yet Mr. Conkling has deliberately proposed that the whole theory of the Federal constitution be subverted by a law making assault upon the Chief Magistrate treason—in other words, a law which would make the President the state. It seems hardly possible that he was in earnest or that he appreciated the scope of his proposition. He spoke under very distressing circumstances, and, feeling the necessity of exhibiting a special horror of the crime of Guiteau, he may have said more than he meant; and, if he stood alone in. the inclination expressed, we should look to see him correct himself at some future and calmer moment. But others have been as swift and as extreme as Mr. Conkling, including his political chief and many powerful Republican journals of both wings of the party. Some, like Grant and Conkling, wish the President to be made an elective King, to compass or imagine whose death shall be treason. Others desire to nave irim surrounded by a body guard, and to move about with perpetual magnificence. Others still would have the entire administration, at least so far as appointment to office is concerned, committed to a Ministry, as in England, to be followed, of course, by the maxim that the President can do no wrong, because he has no direct responsibility. But even these notions, unrepublican as they are, do not form the worst features of the discussion. From one end of the line to the other, the administration newspapers have raised a concerted howl that the attempted murder was the natural and inevitable consequence of the stalwart arraignment of the President for what they considered abuses of his power. This, if it means anything more than mere brutal spite, means that the liberty of controversy ought to be abridged; that the President must be placed beyond criticism ; and that the infamous Sedition law, which disgraced and ruined the administration of John Adams, ought to be revived and enforced in our day. In short, all these measures or suggestions of measures tend toward the separation of the President from the people and his identification with (he state. Instead of a public servant, with a few limited and defined functions, accountable to public opinion and to the

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representatives of the people, tney would make of him a great personage, distinguishable from other sovereigns only by the circumstance that the tenure of his office would be theoretically terminated at the expiration of certain periods. Is it not about time to stop the flow of this monarchical nonsense?— New York Sun.

Bruin’s Kindness to a Little Outcast. In the winter of 1709 Pierre Traivant, a little fellow of about 10 years, having no longer parents or a house in Savoy, wandered to the province of Lorraine in search of a relative whom he heard lived near the palace of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine. One bitter night he applied to a poor woman for shelter. She told him she had no room for him in her house, but he might go into the barn. Adjoining the barn was a hut, where was kept a tame bear owned by the Duke. Ready to perish with cold in the empty barn, Pierre resolved to trust himself to the mercy of Bruin. Timidly he entered the hut and slowly approached the animal. Bruin, however, instead of doing him any harm, drew the shivering child between his paws and gently pressed him to his breast, till warm and comfortable he fell asleep. The next morning when he awoke, he found himself still held by the bear, his head resting on the animal’s warm fur. When he arose to go away the bear allowed him to leave, only following him with caresses as far as the chain would permit. The young Savoyard wandered all day about the city, but, finding no trace of his relative, returned in the evening to Marco’s hut, that name having been given to the bear. Marco received him with the same kindness, and for some time that was his nightly retreat. What was more remarkable, and added not a little to the poor boy’s joy, the bear regularly reserved part of his food for him. A number of days passed without his being discovered, then one of the servants came to bring Marco’s supper later than usual, and saw the sleeping child clasped to his breast. The bear refused to move in order to take the food, and rolled his eyes in a furious manner whenever the man made any noise that might waken the sleeper. The report of this extraordinary conduct soon spread at court, and reached the ears of the Prince. Some of the courtiers, in order to prove the truth of Marco’s hospitality, passed a night near the hut, and saw -with astonishment that the bear never stirred as long as little Pierre showed an inclination to sleep. When he awoke at dawn of day and found himself discovered, he was very much frightened and feared he would be punished. But the bear, caressing him with great fondness, tried to coax him to eat what he had saved from the previous night. Pierre was at first too alarmed to comply, but finally did so at the request of the courtiers, who afterward conducted him to the Duke. When Leopold heard the little Savoyard’s whole history, and how long the bear had befriended him, he ordered that the child should have a home at his court, and the best of care and training given him. No doubt he would have risen to a high position, if sudden death had not terminated his career a short time after.

Pie.

A young man, whom we will call Dudley Ashton, went out to the North Park to write up the mines, and otherwise to whoop up the country and make it blossom as the rose. After he had been there some time he thought that the miners didn’t live high enough. He had been accustomed to luxury and pie, so he said ho would show the boys how to make pie. Every one was glad that a professional pie-promoter had struck the camp, and there was a general good feeling all around. So Dudley took off his coat and took a chew of tobacco, and laid the foundations for six fire-proof pies. He made some plaster of-Paris dough with amalgam filling, and proceeded to put in the “works.” He got some canned blackberries that were on Jack Creek when the Indians invaded the camp years ago, and that were so hard even then that the Utes would not touch them. These he kiln-dried and laid in the pie, holding them in place with tenpenny nails, and trimmed with overskirt of the same. After that he was ready to put on the sheet-iron roof. This he did, fastening it down with wroughtiron rivets. Then he got an engraver to put his monogram on the top, and put the whole six pies in the retort of the assayer’s furnace. The following week the pies wore taken out, still at a white heat They were gradually cooled, and after the mid-day meal of bacon and coffee, every man put his napkin under his chin and smacked his lips, while Dudley took a pie out to the blacksmith shop to divide it up for dessert. Only one man ate any pie that day. He was the man above whose lowly tomb the blue-eyed poison weed is waving, and where in the quiet midnight, the soft-voiced coyote coos a mellow requiem. The boys in the Park feared that they would have to kill a man in order to start a cemetery, but when that pie penetrated the system of its victim, death entered the new metropolis, and on the plain white slab, erected over the new-made grave, they simply wrote : Turn, sinners, turn ; why will ye die From eating cold, cast-iron pie ? Laramie City Boomerang.

A Lesson to Graduates.

An Ohio paper says that a young lady who graduated in a calico dress a few years ago is now married to a railroad superintendent who has an income of $500,000 a year. This may be taken as a basis for the regulation of graduating dress hereafter. Had she worn alpaca she might have done even better, and caught the general manager of the road. On the other hand, had she bloomed forth in white swias, she might have captured the President of the concern, with his untold millions, while had she worn silk, with point lace and diamonds, she mighthave scooped in the conductor of a passenger train, and had onyx staircases and alabaster walls to her house, and cut the wives of the officers of the road as society altogether too thin for her style. This thing ought to be a lesson to girl graduates and a sharp warning to patronize their tailors liberally.—Brooklyn Eagle. “A solid mountain of fine red, brown and white sandstone” is said to have been discovered near Regan, on the Texas and Pacific Railroad.

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INDIANA NEWS.

A stock company to start a swimming bath has been organized at Richmond. The Brazil Hey inter is offering the revised New Testament as a premium to subscribers. At a public gathering at Young America, Cass county, William Green killed Enoch Brumbaugh for endeavoring to keep him quiet. A farmer near Albany, Delaware county, named Frederick Stoner, having been sued for Sf>,ooo for libel, hanged himself in his barn. The railroads in Shelby county have lately set several wheat-fields and meadows on fire, causing losses aggregating from $2,000 to $3,000. The shops of the Dodge Manufacturing Company at Mishawaka, St. Joseph county, valued at $30,000, were struck by lightning and burned. The Rush county Commissioners have purchased two acres of ground, and will build a commodious house for the pauper orphan children of the county. Jeremiah Helm, a prominent citizen and rich farmer of Delaware county, was sunstruck in the harvest field, and died before he could be taken to his house. Rep foxes are very numerous in the neighborhood of Frenchtown, Harrison county. One farmer reports that all his chickens and other fowls have been destroyed. Herman Archbukg was instantly killed at Bedford, Lawrence county, by a train of cars loaded with stone running over him. His head and one arm were severed from his body. A?Connersville Justice decides that a fine of one cent satisfies the law against assault and battery when a man is knocked down for' saying Guiteau did well in shooting Garfield. Engineer Kingsbury, of the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railroad, was knocked from the engine near Chickasaw. Ripley county, by a projecting post. He died the following day. Mrs. Jane Stephens, whose husband sat on the Supreme bench of Indiana from 1831 to 1837, died lately at her home in Madison, aged 83. She had lived in that place sixty years. A cat at Evansville gave birth to six kittens that were all joined together at the hips, forming a sort of garland of cats. Two of them died, and then the whole string was flung into the river. There will presently be opened in Bloomington, Jackson county, a dispensary for treating persons addicted to the practice of opium-eating, of which there are said to be a large number in that vicinity. A fire in the State prison at Jeffersonville destroyed the malleable-iron foundry belonging to Ferrin <V Co. The loss on machinery and fixtures is $2,000; fully insured. There was no panic among the convicts. A little 4-year-old daughter of Benjamin Richards, living near Sj> ncer, Owen county, was probably fatally studded by the upsetting of the suppertable. on which was a pot of hot coffee, scalding the. face, neck and chest. Harry Foxwell, a saloon-keeper of Knightstown, Henry county, who is serving a life term for murder, seeks a pardon through the efforts of prominent citizens of Washington and Baltimore, but Gov. Porter turns a deaf t ar. A young man named Stansbury was run over and killed by a train near Carlisle, Sullivan county. When discovered his body was lying on the track with his head severed and his arms folded, which leads to the belief that Im laid down on the track for sell-destruc* tion. Mrs. John Brahmin has been arrested at Fort Wayne for the murder of her 11-year-old daughter Annie, who died June 2. The remains being exhumed, their appearance proved conclusively that the child hud been beaten to death by its unnatural mother. Robert Hendricks and his jour sons, living near Columbus, Bartholomew county, got into a family row about watering some stock. Fists, clubs, stones and everything in reach was used, and the battie raged until all were disabled. The old man has a broken head, one of the sons a fractured leg, and the others were variously injured. Bad whisky was the prime cause of the trouble. An explosion, presumably of accifmulated gas, startled the citizens of Elizabeth, Harrison county. Upon investigation they found that in the bed of Buck creek there had la on an immense upheaval, throwing up many tons of stone and earth and leaving a heavy ledge of flat rock at the bottom of rhe creek broken for a space of some twenty feet, and the edges thrown up until it stood up like a house-roof. Thomas J. Ewing, of Seymour, aged 21 years, a son of Columbus Ewing, one of the most prominent farmers of Jackson county, has been adjudged insane and sent to the asylum. He has always been a hard student, and his insanity was probably caused by hard study. Ho is master of six or seven languages. A pair of tramps stole Rev. Burton's horse and buggy while he was attending church at North Vernon, Jennings county. The officers and a number of men pursued and overtook them, and, after a desperate struggle, in which one of the thieves received what is thought to be a mortal wound, they were overpowered and thrown into jail.

John W. Bookwaltkk, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio, was reared on a farm in Fountain county, this State, and his inventive talent brought him into connection with the Leffel Manufacturing Company of. Springfield, Ohio, where, by marriage with a member of the Ij< ffel family, he obtained an interest in the concern, and has grown immensely wealthy. Jhe Book waiters were always stam h Republicans, but John \V. w< nt out with Greeley and did not return. For some m< ntbs it had been known that two or more panthers were roaming through the hills and valleys <f Dubois and Orange counties. Recently a party of hunters organized, and. with a pic i of dogs, st rtcil < lit Io s cl. the S.V.U'O beasts. The dogs, on the seioiid day ul the hunt, struck the trail of ore ol the pantheiH, and followed it up fol' seveial ndles, finally coming upon the, animal in the depths ol an uliuoit-primitive for est. The hunters, coming up, discovered the beast crouched in the fork of a tree, and soon half a dozen bullets went crashing through his head and heart. He was a large and splendid fellow—a male. Then the hunters pushed on northward, the dogs the next day getting on the trail of another panther. The trail was followed far into Orange county, tint wits finally