Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

•DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kant. The failure is announced of the Norwich (Ct.) Pistol Company, with liabilities of ♦50,000 and assets of ♦20,000. One hundred men were thrown out of employment and * k>ss of $150,000 inflicted, by the burning at the piano factory of Pratt, Bead & Co.* »'c Deep Biver, Ct. Maud 8. and the Vanderbilt family were the particular attractions at the Buffalo races. Iq the face of a strong wind, the mad e one mile in 2:10%. A Persian rejoicing in the name of Mohammed Bagairali, who has been engaged In the' jewelry business in New York for the last six years, has made application for naturalization papers. He is the first Persian who has applied for naturalisation papers in this countr.v. Wert. A terrible explosion took place at the tlistillery of the Woolner Bros., Peoria, 111., by which eighteen persons were badly injured, nine of whom have since died and several more are not expected to live'. The distillery was binned on June 6, and the proprietors were engaged ia trying to save a tub of beer that was saved from the lire, and, through the defects o/f the machinery and the pipes, the stilltub 'exploded with fearful results. For the year ending June 30, 1881, 12,675 vessels entered the port of Chicago. ’The total receipts during the same period for imports was $2,700,707, and, with the addition from various sources, $2,739,030, making Chicago the sixth port in the United States. Two Mexicans and two miners have been murdered by. the Indians near Fort McCrea, Now Mexico, and a company of the Ninth cavalry is in pursuit of the butchers.

Peter Crowe, of Peoria, who confesses having made tho infernal machines shipped to Liverpool, was arrested on the order of Attorney General MacVeagh. Bail in SIO,OOO was (tendered, but was declined until an examinaition could be held in Chicago, The result of flax-seed threshings in Illinois, lowa, Missouri and Kansas has been rather disappointing to the flax-growers. In very few cases has there been an average yield. Four and seven bushels to the acre have been realized where ten and fourteen bushels were expected. Notwithstanding the largely-in-creased acreage the yield of this year throughout the country will not equal that of last year.

A San Francisco telegram reports the arrival in that city from Mexico of Ambrose Lomprax, of Natchitoches, La. Lomprax was with the party of surveyors that were attacked 3iy Apaches south of El Paso, State of Chihuailma, and thirteen killed. Ho says ho joined the party the day before the attack. The night before the massacre he lost a horse and a hired boy, and thought he saw Indian signs. Next day the party started on, and he lingered half a mile behind. When the party was among the ' Ilu •‘■Uiar began. Lomprax says itho party wero well maru bu , had no leader and did not know how to figut/ Indians. He tried to join the party, but was take,li prisoner by the Indians, and would have been killed hut his lost Mexican boy appeared ■and told the Indians he was wealthy and could bo ransomed. He was secured and could uot see tho tight. The surveyors fought desperately against tho Indians, who numbered forty-five or forty-six, of whom six were killed and nine wounded. All the whites were killed, six of them being dispatched while lying on the field wounded. Lomprax . says the Indians wore under command of Victoria, as he knew that chief very well by sight.

Sitting Bull wants to go to Washing (ton, but the Indian Commission have no use for Jhim there, and ho will therefore remain at Standing Rock Agency. It is announced that Jay Gould has purchased a large interest in the National stock-yards at East St, Louis, whose capital stock is $1,250,000. Intelligence has reached Denver from -Fort Craig that Apache Indians attacked the Mitchell party of ten Americans and twentybix Mexicans out from Chloride City on a trail in Rod canon. The fight lasted until dark. Three Indians were killed. Nine Mexicans and Americans were wounded and killed, with two missing. All their horses were taken by the Lilians. Bishop E. O. Haven, of the Methodist church, diod at Salem, Ore., aged 60 years. A fire broke out in a dance-house at Truckle, Nev., at an early hour in the morning and spread rapidly, destroying every business house in the place except three, and many residences. The total loss is estimated at h ; :is.'i,ooo. Only about one-third of the loss is tc< -vt rod by insurance.— A fire in the lower part of Deadwood, Dak., burned twenty-five buildings, involving a loss of SIOO,OOO. The Mescalero Apaches who left their reservation have orossed the Rio Grande near S n Jose. They killed two miners and a herder near San Marcial, and fired upon a party of thirty-six Mexicans and Americans who were in pursuit of them, Some California militia had a sham battle at Grass valley, and lost control of them selves in a bayonet charge, several officers and no less than twenty men being wounded by Vvayoneio and butts Of guns.

South. Perry county, Ark., has been placed under martial law by the Governor of the State. A perfect reign of terror exists. The Mississippi steamers Idle-wild and O ceola Belle burned at Memphis, Tenn. The Idlewild was worth $250,000, and insured for 116,000. Superintendent Davis, of the New Orleans Mint, reports to the Treasury Department that he will, during the movement of the cotton and sugar-eawe crops, put out from New Orleans $8,000,000 or $10,000,000 of biandard silver dollars. An extensive bed of bituminous coal has been discovered at a point twelve miles southwest of Marshall, Texas. The deposit lies but eight feet below the surface. The Commissioner of Agriculture has appointed a commission, consisting of Prof. Ililyard (colored), ex-Gov. Famaso of Nevada and T. C. Jones of Ohio, to visit the arid regions of tho West and - investigate whether they can cVcr be made to have any marketable Mr?. Dr.»W. H. Bird,- of Lonoke county, Ark., pve birth to a twelve-pound girl babe with it's rain on the outside of its cranium, which only by membrane. It is doing welU

WASHINGTON NOTES. Postmaster Gneral James has decided that clerk hire in jp.stoffices where the present rate is higher than fie sum authorized by law must he reduced. Tt dre are 150 offices to which Mr. James’ order v*U apply. Joseph E. Hayden Assistant District .Attorney at Waslingtou, puts forth a claim tfeat he saved ex-Presid*nt Hayes from assassi-

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME V.

nation, on the morning of his inauguration, by turning over to the detectives a lunatic who had carefully laid his plans for the murder. Forty-three Postmasters at Presidential offices have thus far failed to rendei their quarterly reports iu time, and are liable to punishment of a pecuniary nature. Dr. Tachmyntis, a Greek “ crank ” at Washington, has been arrested by Government detectives on the charge of sending threatening letters to Attorney General MaoVeagh. During the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1881, the receipts from internal revenue in the United States were $135,229,902, and the receipts for the past five years were $602,310,187. The entire sum was paid into the treasury without any loss by defalcation or otherwise.

Following is the last official publicdebt statement, issued on the Ist inst.; Six per cent, bonds $ 378,055,150 Five per cents 439,708,050 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four tier cents 788,693,950 Refunding certificates 6,538,504 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,621,111,000 Matured debt 9,959,015 Legal tenders $ 3+6,741,501 Certificates of deposit... 10,740,000 Gold and silver certificate, 57,733,800 Fractional currency 7,098,615 Total without interest. 422,313,946 Total debt $2,053,083,961 Total interest 14,015,017 Gash in treasury 236,878,190 Debt less cash in treasury $1,8:10,520,788 Decrease during July 10,078,023 Current liabilities—- .... '.i uc and unpaid $ 2,844,431 ii I t on which interest has ceased 9,959,015 ntercsl thereon.. io!il and silver certificates ; 0(,/<w,huu nited States notes held for redemption i q certificates of deposit 10,740,000 tush balance available Aug. 1, 1881.... 154,827,274 Total $ 236,878,190 Available assets — ash in treasury... 7 236,878,190 ‘lends issued to Pacific railway compan- . ;es, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 u tCrest accrued and not yet paid ... 323,117 idcrest paid by United States. 51,467,272 Interest repaid by companies— Merest repaid by transportation oi ;> cash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 ‘.•dance of interest paid by tho United States ! 36.385,428 It is denied by the Washington Health icpartment that the Potomac flats are now i using sickness in the White House. Tho lug inner Commissioner rather blame* the bad Irainage of tho White House. The Washington authorities have denied to allow no more telegraph poles to be reeled in that city. Guiteau has placed in the hands of ■ho. District Attorney at Washington a petition •-questing to be released on bail. Commissioner Raum has issued a : atemeut. showing by collection districts the mount of internal revenue collected within the ast fiscal year. The collections in Illinois, Inhana. Minnesota, Ohio, lowa and Wisconsin vere as follows: ILLINOIS. 905,157.60 Fifth' '.V.,. .$11,425,131.77 Joe-usd 237,243.89 Seventh .... 67,884.77 Third 566,405.64 Eighth 1,407,226.90 ’Mirth 1,203.221.52 Thirteenth.. 962,409.34 INDIANA. I'irst 261,762.5715eventh .... 2,253,760.27 ■’mirth 3,390,731.14 Tenth 174,925.19 sixth 1,094,927.90|E1eventh .... 96,156.41 MINNESOTA. First 116,126.831 Second 349,013.51 OHIO. •’irst 12,538,346.581 Tenth 10,89,563.12 bird 1,806,871.17|E1eventh.... 1,398,287.92 ■'mirth 513,582.861 Fifteenth... 195,071.89 .ixtti 852,210.02 Eighteenth . 806,538.82 uiventh .... 594,593.31| lOWA. Jecond 167.240.00|F0urth 168,047.00 bird ...... 281,317,00|Fifth 216,081.00 WISCONSIN. ■‘irst 2,373,693,00|T1i1rd 229,859.00 econd 169,932.00 j Sixth 136,559.00 he total internal-revenue collections, from all ourecs, for the past fiscal year aggregated = 135,229,902.

Guiteau’s petition to be admitted to bail, says a Washington dispatch, is in some aspects one of the most remarkable documents hat has ever been drawn up for the consideraion of a court of justice. It is now in the posession of District Attorney Corkhili, in whom Guitcau has the most implicit confidence, and to whom ho intrusts all - his secrets, if a man ■vlio talks so freely and unreservedly can be ■aid to havo any secrets. Guiteau is undoubtedly becoming anxious to escape the penalty of his crime. It is apparent that he has had enough of imprisonment, and that he has made up his mind ho will seek to escape the penalty of the law by a plea of insanity. Mis petition to be admitted to bail is drawn in legal form, although there is much in it that no lawyer would care to insert, while there is much also that a cunning man, who is determined to feign insanity, or a man really insane, would make a part of his application. Should a lawyer be appointed to onduct Guiteau’s case, this application will unquestionably be used as evidence of insanity. Guiteau, in asking for release on bail, expresses great sorrow that the President has suffered so much and so long from the wound ho inflicted Me asks his release because he fears that confinement will make him insane. He repels with scorn the idea that he is now insane, or that he was insane when he conceived or committed the crime. He insists strongly that he is now sane, but he says.that he feels ‘‘the nimbus of insanity playing around his brain.” He t hen goes on to recite some facts that indicate that there is insanity in his father’s family. He announces that he proposes to make his own defense, with competent legal assistance. Guiteau wants his temporary release, not only that ho may escape impending insanity, but that he may take a trip to Europe, where he wishes to remain a month or two. .

FOREIGN NEWS. The Chief of Police of Rome has been dismissed for neglect of duty on the occasion of the riots over the remains of the Pope. Czar Alexander has entered Moscow, the ancient capital of Russia, safely, and was received with enthusiasm by the inhabitants. His first public act was to offer prayers at the Cathedral. Bismarck has received a threatening letter, and his organs ascribe it to the influence of the Radical press, and warn the Radical editors to beware of the consequences which will follow if a German Guiteau should *• turn up.’’ Thaßfrdical press insinuates that the threatening lei ter is “ a weak device of the enemy” for the purpose of exciting hostility to the Progressist or Radical party. An explosion in a mine at Lourches, France, killed ten persons and seriously injured twenty. ! The London Standard says there is an average crop in England ; the root crop is ba.d, but the potatoes good. Another plot to assassinate the Czar lias been discovered by the police of Moscow. This time a lady of high rank was to be the agent. She has escaped, but her accomplices have been arrested. In the British House of Commons, for persisting in raising the question of Irish po-

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litical piisoners, in spite of the Speaker’s ruling, Parnell was “named” for offensive language, Gladstone moved his suspension for the remainder of the sitting; Parnell quitted the House, and the suspension was carried by 133 to 14. A committee has been formed in Faria under the direction of Gambetta few the purpose of furthering the Bepublican cause in the approaching general election. Prince Napoleon, writing to the Bonapartisl Electoral Committee, urges that a provision be inserted in the constitution providing for the election of the head of the nation by a popular vote. On behalf of the World’s Conference of the Young Men’s Christian Association, in session at London, Lord Shaftesbury sent a dispatch to Mrs, Garfield recording its gratitude to God for the preservation of the President’s life and its prayers for his recovery. Mrs. Garfield returned a suitable response through Secretary Blaine. Ayoob Khan entered Candahar on the 30th ult. His infantry and artillery occupy the citadel. Sheikh Mahomed was arrested in Constantinople for plotting against the French in Algeria, placed upon a man-of-war and sent to Franco for trial. > The Coercion act continues to be enforced against the Land-Leaguers in Ireland. But the League continues to be as aggressive as ever, and promises to furnish additional subjects for Mr. Forster’s attention. At a meeting of the central body the other day, on motion of Parnell, it was decided to hold a National Convention at Dublin on the 15th of September to decide “ the best means of obtaining Irish lands for Irishmen.”

Bradlaugh, the free-thinking M. P. for Northampton, made a strenuous but ineffectual effort to tako his seat in the British House of Commons in spite of the order to the contrary of tho Speaker. In his struggle to pass the police and officials his coat was tom, and he then went to Bow street to obtain a summons for the police, but it was not granted. In the House, John Bright, Henry Labouchere, Sir Wilfred Lawson, and other prominent Liberals made strong appeals for his admission, but were unsuccessful, a vote being passed indorsing the action of the Speaker. The French Government having invited the Americans to send officers to witness the autumn maneuvers, Secretary of War Lincoln has designated Gen. John M. Scofield, Lieut. Col. Bobert S. Lamotte and Capt. James Chester to represent the United States. Blight has destroyed thousands of acres of wheat in Eoumania, and the yield will not be over 50 per cent, of the average. The infanta Eulalia, sister of the King of Spain, is engaged to be married to an Austrian Archduke. It was a love-match, A Natal dispatch states that the American ship Calcutta, Capt. Smith, from Cebu, Philippine islands, of and from Boston, was wrecked on the coast of Africa. Only three men were saved. The anti-Jewish agitation has been revived in m&nv districts oi Prussia. Synagogues arfd the stores of HeDrews. umi, attacked by mobs in various places. In Pomerania many houses have been wrecked, and tho mobs had to be dispersed by the police.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The census of Canada shows a population of 4,350,933, an increase during the decade of 680,498. In an interview with a representative Df the New York Tribune Guiteau expressed a desire to be defended by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler or State’s Attorney Mills, of Chicago. At the election in Kentucky Senators and Representatives were chosen favorable to the re-election of James B. Beck to the United States Senate. The Yorktown Centennial celebration will begin on the 13th of October, and will continue until the 18th, when the national ceremonies will begin. Among those who will deliver addresses are Secretary Schurz, Frederick R. Condert, Prof. Charlier of New York, and Congressman Goode. Emancipation day was generally observed by the colored citizens of the United States and Canada. A fearful accident is reported from Mazatlan, Mexico, in which over seventy persons lost their lives. The Government magazine at that point was blown up through the carelessness of the guard, an ember from whose pipe caused the calamity. Beside the magazine many houses in the vicinity were destroyed, Over seventy dead bodies were taken from the ruins. The New Hampshire House of Representatives has passed a bill redistricting the State into two Congressional districts. This anticipates the action of Congress on the National Apportionment act, and shows that New Hampshire expects only two Representatives under that" act. The recent census of Canada shows the population of Montreal to be 140,862 ; Toronto, 86,445 ; Quebec, 62,447 ; Halifax, N. S., 36,102 ; Hamilton, Ont., 35,965 ; St. Johns, N. 8., 26,128 ; Ottawa, 24,107. At Paso del Norte, Mexico, on the 3d inst., Gov. Terrazas drove a silver spike into the first rail ever laid from American to Mexican soil, and the first locomotive to ctobs the Rio Grande passed over. The Conservative Democrats of Virginia, at a convention held in Richmond, nominated John McDaniel for Governor. The Democrats of the Second district of Maine have nominated Franklin Reed for Congress, flatly refusing to follow Gov. Garcelon’s advice and indorse the Greenback candidate, Washington Gilbert The prohibitory constitutional amendment was defeated in North Carolina by sn overwhelming majority. The Prohibitionists did not carry a single county in the State. The vote was very light. The colored voters voted against prohibition almost to a man.

“ Ah ! Then.”

He rapped at the chief clerk’s window and put on a brow of sixteen years in State prison as he began : “Sir, several days ago I dropped a letter into this office directed to Pontiac —to John Smith, of Pontiac.” “ Yes, sir, I presume so. ” “That letter contained a ten-dollar bill.” “Yes, sir.” “Audit never reached Pontiac.” “ Ah 1 it didn’t ? ” “No, sir 1 That letter, sir, was doubtless sto —” “ Wait a minnte,” replied the clerk, as he stepped away. When he returned he exhibited the letter, which was not only unstamped, but simply addrt ssed : “John Smith, Michigan.” “ Is that it ? ” he asked. “Yes, sir — that is—ahem, sir—yes. sir, that’s the letter, and I’m an ass, sir, and good-day, sir ! ” —Free Press. The drivers of street-cars say new koases will learn to start and stop at the sound of the bell or whistle in ft single day,

"A Firm Adherence to- Correct Principles.”

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Nathan Orlando Greenfield, who murdered his wife in October, 1875, _at Oswell, N. i., waa executed at Syracuse on the sth inst. He clung to the claim that he was innocent He was three times tried for the offense, at a cost to Oswego county of $50,000, and spent nearly six years in prison under the shadow of the gallows. The Northwestern road, warned by the experience of last winter, has established commodious coal stations along its new lines in Minnesota and Dakota, and will commence at once to supply that region with fuel. A similar plan has been matured by the St. Paul road. Five tried to escape from the Folsom (CaL) jail by overpowering the guards and securing their weapons. They were pursued, oue of them was shot dead, another was shot through the leg, a third was drowned in attempting to swim across a river, and the two others surrendered,

John W. Green, of Petersburg, Va., and W. F. Lee, of Littleton, N. C., both under the influence of liquor, had hot words in a barroom in the former city over a refusal by one to drink with the other. They crossed tho street to a foundry yard to settle the matter. Lee struck Green four times, when the latter fired. Lee then jumped upon Green and stabbed him in the throat. Neither lived over five minutes. Gen. Robert Lowry, of Rankin county, received the nomination of the Mississippi Democratic Convention for Governor. Washington dispatches represent President Garfield as progressing favorably toward recovery. He now partakes at regular intervals of goodly quantities of solid and liquid foods, and sleeps quietly without anodynes. His tongus has begun to assume its natural appearance, and there is considerable improvement in the process of digestion and assimilation. The discharge from the wound is in every respect satisfactory, and there is a very strong probability that the wound round the ball is' healing. The hypodermic injections of morphine have been omitted by the physicians. Admiral Porter will command the war vessels which will participate in the Yorktown centennial celebration, by order of Secretary Hunt. Gen. Hancock will command the troopa

A financial journal of London thinks that American bonds to the amount of $15,000,000, instead of cash, will be used to liquidate English debts in the United States. The Em perors of Austria and Germany had a conference of half an hour at Gastein. They parted at the railway station, Francis Joseph taking his departure for Munich. Hamyah Agah, who headed the Persian Kurds during the late insurrections in Kurdistan, one of his brothers, some of his nephews and a number of his servants were shot at So-Uj-Bulak. Their heads were sent to the Provincial Governor. The Czar, a few nights ago,' found a letter on his table threatening him with death. The Czar’s room is thoroughly guarded, and ted to enter. His attendants, the officers who were on guard at the time and four servants, have been arrested. The incident has pro duced great excitement, and tho Czar must no doubt be in an extremely nervous state.

The Wagon-Load of Bread.

A party of soldiers, during the late civil war, found themselves one night on a battle-field in charge of a great many wounded soldiers, who, by reason of the sudden retreat of the army, were left wholly without shelter or supplies. Having done their best for the poor fellows—bringing them water from a distant brook, and searching the harversaeks of the dead for rations—they began to say to themselves and to one another: * ‘ These weak and wounded men must have food or they will die. The army i 3 out of reach, and there is no village for many miles; what are we to do? ” “Pray to God to send us bread,” said one. That night, in the midst of the dead and dying, they held a little prayermeeting, telling the Lord all about the case, and begging Him to send them bread immediately; though from whence it could come they had not the most remote idea. All night long they plied their work for mercy. With the first ray of dawn the sound of an approaching wagon caught their ears; and presently, through the mists of the morning, appeared a great Dutch farm wagon, piled to the very top with loaves of bread.

On asking the driver where ho came from, and who sent, him, lie replied: “When I went to bed last night I knew that the army was gone, and I could not sleep for thinking of the poor fellows who always have to stay behind. Something seemed to say to me : ‘ What wili those peor fellows do for something to eat?’ It came to me so strong that I waked up my old wife, and told her what was the matter. We had only a little bread in the house, and while my wife was making some more I took my team and went round to all my neighbors, making them get up and give mo all the bread in their houses, telling them it was for the wounded soldiers. oath e battle field. When I got home my wagon was full; my wife piled her baking on the top, and I started off to bring the bread to the boys, feeling just as if the Lord Himself were sending me.” Kind Words.

Walter Scott’s Kindness.

Sir Walter had then lost his old vivacity, though not his simpl/ dignity; but for one moment during course of the evening he rose into animation, and it happened thus : There was talk among the party of an excursion which was to be made on the following day, and, during the discussion of .the plans, Miss Scott mentioned that two elderly maiden ladies living in the neighborhood were to be of the number, aud hinted that their company would be a bore. The chivalrous kindliness of her father’s heart xxas instantly aroused. “I cannot ce 11 that good breeding,” he said, in an eat-est and dignified tone—a rebuke which echoed the old-fashioned teaching on the duties of true politeness he had heard from his mother half a century before. —Good Words.

Voting in Canada.

There arc some good objects to be att allied by the secrecy pt the ballot, but they are defeated by the system of conducting elections, under which the polls are surrounded by partisans from whom the voter has to obtain his ballot and in whose presence he has to cast it. The method of voting in Canada, where the voter, passing from public sight, enters a room where he is furnished by an official with a ticket of each party, thence passes to a second room, where, unobserved, he selects the ticket he wishes to vote aud destroys the other, and then, enteruig a third room, deposits his ballot and passes out, ig the best method

extant for securing not only a secret but a free and independent ballot. It ought to be adopted everywhere. —Trenton American.

A DARK MYSTERY.

Tile Strange Disappearance of Kdilo# Walls, of Paris, 111. The mysterious disappearance in Chicago, July 23.0 f Mr. C. N. Walls, the editor of the Paris (Ill.) Republican-Beacon, and which at the time excited much comment both from the press and the public, has finally come to be looked upon by the friends of the missing man as a case of murder for purposes of robbery; The police of Chicago have not ceased in iheir efforts te find a clew to Mr. Walls’ whereabouts, but, so far, they have been eminently unsuccessful. The Chicago Inter Ocean, commenting editorially upon this dark mystery, says: A body was found in the lake on Thursday which was thought at one lime to be that of C. N. Walls, editor of the Paris (Ill .) Republican, '"wfeefc disappearance two weeks ago was widely chronicled. The circumstances connected with this disappearance are among the strangest on rejord, and rival in mystery the stories of Charles Reade or Wilkie Collins. About ten days ago, while thousands of excited men and gayly-dressed women were cheering and waving their handkerchiefs over a closelv-contested race at the Jockey Club Park, a gentleman in a prominent seat of the grand stand fell suddenly, back in an unconscious condition. There was a bustle and stir in the dense crowd immediately surrounding him but the great mass knew nothing or paid little attention to one man in a simple fainting fit. The bell struck sharply, ordering up the dripping horses for another heat, and the unfortunate man, removed from the immediate presence of the crowd, was left to work his way back to consciousness, while the gay thousands again turned their attention to the races. Stranger though he was to those surrounding him, there would have been plenty of assistance rendered without doubt had there not appeared, in the bustle and excitement immediately following the fainting fit, two men, who seemed to be the stranger’s friends, and who took charge of him. It is now known that these men were unacquainted with Mr. Walls, that they were without doubt villains of the worst type, and that under the guise of acquaintance they took the unconscious.man away with them, robbed him, and ' jT?3fiasly ended the matter by murdering him. That such a thing should be possible in this day, and in this city, seems too horr* ble to believe, and yet this conviction is forced upon us. From the moment they disappeared all trace of these men and their victim was lost, and none has as yet been found, unless the silent, floating body found in the lake proves to be the missing man. It is understood that Mr. Walls had a considerable sum of money with him, and, if murder has been committed, it was undoubtedly done to cover the crime of robbery and prevent all efforts on his part to identify or capture the robbers when he should recover. That murder was necessary to accomplish the robbery is, of course, improbable. The man was unconscious, and it is quite likely that He continued in this state for some time, as his fainting was thought to have been the result of sunstroke, from which he had once before suffered. It is not unlikely that the man was coolly murdered as the shortest way to get rid of him, and the lphumanity and fiendishness of the arime scarcely has a parallel. Thieves are generally content to get away with plunder, without bearing the blood of a victim on their hands, and even the worst of men usually proceed to extremities only as a last resort. But if this man was killed, as is generally supposed, it was a needless and causeless crime, even from the highwayman’s standpoint, and is so shocking as to be” incredible without the evidence which *Wnat oecrared after the fainting man was carried from his seat and placed in a carriage at the Driving Park may never be known ; but, on the theory that he was carried to his death, it may be imagined. Helpless in the hands of fiends, no one in the busy streets dreaming that tho passing carriage contained a friendless man in the power of cutthroats, the hprrible scene was enacted. Perhaps the body, breathing but still unconscions, was dumped into the lake, to be floated ashore after days had elapsed, and identified; or, if the body discovered in the waves on Thursday proves to be some one else, then the victim may have been carried far into the country, murdered and bidden forever from sight in a rude syid hasty grave. The fact that the men who carried the helpless man away cannot be found is of itself strong proof that their work was villainous beyond description. [Note.— The body referred to by the Inter Ocean was not that of Mr. Walls, and bore no resemblance to the missing man.]

Native and Foreign-Born Population.

The following table, compiled from the census returns of 1880, shows the native and foreign-born residents of each State and Territory of the United State*: State. Native.. Foreign. Arizona 24,419 16,022 Arkansas 792,269 10,295 California 572,006 292,68 ■ Colorado 151,869 39,780 Connecticut 492,879 129,801 Dakota 83,387 61,793 Delaware 137,182 9,472 District of Columbia 160,623 17,115 Florida 257.631 9,720 Georgia 1,528,733 10,315 Idaho 22,629 9,982 Illinois 2,495,177 583,592 Indiana 1,834,597 1)3,705 lowa 1,363,132 261,488 Kansas 886,261 109,795 Kentucky 1,589,237 59,471 Louisiana 885,164 54,139 Maine 690,076 58,869 Maryland 85 1, 881 82,648 Massachusetts 1,339,919 443,093 Michigan 1,247,985 388,346 Minnesota 513,107 267,699 Mississippi 1,122,424 9,168 Missouri 1,957.564 211,240 Montana. 27,642 11,515 Nebraska. 355,043 97,39 u Nevada 36,623 75,612 New Hampshire 300,961 46,923 NewJcrsey 909,398 221,585 New Mexico 108,408 9,932 New York 3,872,371 1,211,438 North Carolina 1,396,368 3,6.9 Ohio 2,803.496 394,743 Oregon 144,327 3',440 Pennsylvania 3,695,253 587,533 Rhode" Island 202,598 73.930 SoutVt Carolina 987,981 7,641 .ateH-tTeO 1,525,881 16,582 TexißV 1,478,058 114,516 Utah£ 99,9T4 43,932 Vermont. 291,340 40,916 Virginia 1,498,139 , 14,667 Washington 59,259 15,861 West Virginia 600,214 18,229 Wisconsin 910,061 405,417 Wyoming. 14,943 5,845 Total 43,475,506 6,677,360 The Death Rate. Tli? National Board of Health Bulletin recently made the following report of the death rate hi every 1,000 in foreign cities: London 19.1 Vienna 35.2 Liverpool 25.0 Kingston, Canada.... 71.7 Paris 26.5 Montreal 28.6 Havre; 33.9 Havana 46.2 Lyons 27.4 Matamoras, Mexic0..78.4 Geneva 12.5 Rio de Janeiro 29.0 Amsterdam 25.0 Leith, Scotland 26.2 Fraiilefort '.....20.6 Dundee 17.8 Hamburg ‘25.5 Glasgow 22.0 Brussels. ~ .20.7 The death rate in cities of the United States was as follows: New York 49.4 Portsmouth .46.1 Brooklyn 37.3 Indianapolis 27.3 Philadelphia 27.2 Richmond 8.2 Pittsburgh 62.7 EvansviUe 26.3 Washington, D. C... .33.5 Chicago 48.0 Newark 30.5 Peoria 17.8 Providence 23.7 Aurora. 8.8 Low-aif 21.1 Elgin 35.7 Richrafod, Va 50.4 Moline 7.4 V heehq* 31.2 Rock Island 65.8 CharleaMm 45.8 Lake 43.1 Atlanta,. 41.3 Quincy 22.8 Savanqih ....32.3 Milwaukee. 21.9 Mobile., 40.3 St Paul 15.0 Selma 55.7 Minneapolis 33.4 New Orleans 34.2 East Saginaw 22.0 Little Bock 35.6 Flint 12.4 Nashville 27.0 Lansing 12.7 Memphis 69.0 Dubuque 21.2 Clarksville 28.4 Keokuk 25.8 Murfreeaboro 40.8 Davenport 28.7 Trenton., 37.2 St Louis 37.2 Louisville 24.5 Omaha 23.9 Bowling Green 40.8 Lawrence 18.4 Cleveland 21.8 Salt Lake City 35.2 Dayton .22.8 Los Angeles .27.7

The universal heart of a man blesses flowers. He has wreathed them around the cradle, the marriage altar aid the tomb.

Another Reformer.

Mr. Windom has himself advertised as a reformer. In this respect he follows in the tracks of Mr. Sherman, who did more to debauch the public service than any of his predecessors in the treasury. He not only rewarded the infamous creatures who, under his personal supervision, at New Orleans, did the work by which the Presidency was stolen, but he openly used the patronage of his department to purchase delegates to the Chicago Convention. The Secretary who did these things and others equally bad was very rntteh shocked at the management of the Custom House under Gen. Arthur, and after dismissing him and Gov. Cornell upon serious charges proved his sincerity by supporting one for Governor and the other for Vice President, for no better reason than that they were regularly nominated as candidates by the Republican machine. Regularity gave them absolution, and the stains of selfish accusation were wiped out. What has the present Secretary done to recommend him to favor? It became notorious that the contingent fund of the treasury, averaging about $125,000 a year, was squandered and stolen by a ring in the department; that the public property was carried off and appropriated to personal uses ; that col*, lusive contracts were made for the profit of corrupt officials and their confederates ; that skilled labor employed a,t the public expense was utilized in pri vate, and that the whole system of expenditure was rotten and disgraceful. That organization was illegally made by Mr. Sherman, who has been repeatedly charged with having been one of its direct beneficiaries. He created the office of custodian, so called, and ap-« pointed an Ohio man to fill it, who at the same time served as the personal agent of Mr. Sherman’s large property, at Washington, acquired from the economies of his salary as member of Congress. When Mr. Sherman went out of the treasury, clerks who did not dare to utter a word about this corruption while he was Secretary, on the pain of dismissal, were emboldened to speak out, and the facts were made known to liis successor. Mr. Windom could not avoid the form of an investigation without inviting suspicion and criticism. He ordered a committee of his own subordinates to examine the charges, and it is known that their report substantially confirmed all that had been publicly alleged, with cautious reserve in language to obviate vengeance. That report was suppressed because it implicated prominent Republicans in office and out. Mr. Windom contented himself with abolishing the custodian's place, while he protected liis political friends against present exposure, and retained some men in office who had shared in this plunder and are possessed of troublesome secrets. This is Mr. Windom’s method of reforming the most scandalous abuses in his own Hefore many months have passed away Pitney, the former custodian and John Sherman’s agent, will, no doubt’, be again on tho pay rolls. But it is said the House of Representatives will investigate these transactions and expose the guilty beneficiaries. Experience does not justify confidence in any remedy from that quarter. Republican Speakers and Republican committees have hitherto uniformly whitewashed their official partisans when charged with corruption, and have condoned their crimes.

There is no reason to expect an exception in the present case. No matter wiio the Republican Speaker may be,- he will pack the committee if an investigation should be ordered ; and every member of that committee will either have friends in office to protect or he will have friends wluX want places. The public patronage wsl be used, as it has been for twelve years past, to cover up fraud and venality, and the old story will be repeated. And when Mr. Windom shall have silenced the treasury scandals by these means, and by others equally reprehensible, he will bloom forth as a reform Republican candidate for the Presidency, and will doubtless be supported by professional reformers and professional politicians with zeal and pertinacity.— New York Sun.

The Pulpy Miller.

Senator Warner Miller signalized his first political utterance since his election by delivering a speech before the Paper-Makers’ Association at Saratoga, in which he showed that he has not severed, and does not propose to sever, the thrifty ties which bind his private interests to his public duties. In other words, Mr. Miller boldly aud frankly announces that he is “on the make,” and intends using his Senatorial office to help himself to all the money that comes in his way. He was struck with the fact “that it seemed natural for paper-makers to go iulo polities,” a remark which has the merit of truthfulness rather than of novelty. A wood-pulp man whose profits are guaranteed him by a tariff of 25 or 30 percent naturally “takes to politics,’ in order to see that that, happy condition of things remains assured to him. He goes into politics exactly as the James boys go into a railroad train, not for the pleasure of an excursion on the rail, but to burst open the express Safe and rob the passengers; or as a fishhawk goes naturally into the water, for the sake of picking up the unlucky fishes. He, moreover, remarked further that he would like to sell his paper in South America, but, owing to the United States tariff on ship-building materials and the absurd navigation laws, there are no steamers by which he can send bis paper there; so he further announced that from his seat in the Senate he should vote enough money out of che pockets of the people of the United States, to enable him to sell his paper at a profit in Brazil. That so impudent a'^raider on the public treasury should think it “as well for the Government to pay for prompt and perfect mail lines to foreign ports as for star routes in Western Territories,” may be accepted as a matter of course. Steamship subsidies and star routes are all of a piece, and a man capable of voting tiie one to aid him m his private business caunot be greatly disturl>ed at voting in favor of the other, and giving Brady as clean a certificate of character as that treasury raider could well ask. Mr. Miller begins well aud will bear watching, for when such a Miller is done grinding his grist, as in the old story, one horse can take, home what it took two horses to brir-g to the mill.— Detroit Free Press.

Will He Do It?

Of Mr. Conklin g’s solemn promise—by telegraph—to renew the struggle in the near future, and to vindicate the

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stalwarts by the promulgation of facte in his possession, the New York 6'un say*: We do not in the least doubt that Mr. Conkling might, if he chose, make a terrible exposure of lialf-breed duplicity, greed and corruption. But will he ever do it ? He has a bad habit of mysteriously foreshadowing great things which never occur. He was going to blast the conspiracy which reversed the verdict of the ballot boxes and 1 ut Hayes in Mr. Tilden’s office ; but be never did it. He was just about to tell the whole story of the treaty at Mentor ; but we have not got it yet. He has been from the beginning of the contest at. Albany on the very eve of making disclosures which would startle the country, and reverse the whole order of things ; but nothing has come of it. We have learned from these experiences to place but little faith in Mr. Conkling’s proclamations, and prefer to wait for the performance. But the public will agree with us that in his last declaration—the telegram above—ho has voluntarily undertaken a duty which he cannot shirk without personal disgrace. With no more delay than may be necessary for reasonable accuracy and pru dent preparation, he is bound to expose those “ forbidden and abhorrent forces and agencies ” which elected Lapham and Miller.

A Life Saved.

He wanted legal advice, and when the lawyer told him to state his case he began: ‘ ‘About two years ago I was fool enough to fall in love.” “Certainly—l understand.” “And for a year past I have been engaged to her. ” “Of course.” “A few months ago I found, upon analyzing my heart, that I*did not love lior as I should. My affections had grown cold.” “Certainly they had—go on.” “I saw her pug-nose in its true shape, and I realized that her shoes were No. 6. ” “Exactly, and you made up your mind to break off the match? That was perfectly proper.” “Yes, that was my object; but she threatens to sue me for breach of promise. * ‘Certainly she does, and she’ll do it, too. Has she any love letters from you?” “That’s the hang of it. She tallies up 326.” “And do they breathe your love? ’ “I should say they did; but I think I’ve got her tight. All them letters are written on wrapping paper and with pencil, and I’ve come to ask you if such writing as that will stand law?” ‘ ‘Of course it will. If you had written with slate and pencil she could hold you.” “Great hokeyl but is that so?” “It is.” “And she’s got me fast?” “She has.” “Well, that settles that, and I suppose I’ll have to give in and marry her?” “Unless ” “Unless what ?” ‘ ‘You can buy her off. ” “Egad! that’s it—that’s the idea, and you have saved my life! Buy her offwhy didn’t I think of it before? Say, where’s the Dollar Store? I’ll walk in on her with a set of jewelry, a flirtation fan, a card case and two bracelets, and she’ll give me a quit-claim deed and throw in all the poetry I ever sent hereto boot!” —Detroit Free Press. f

Talking to Heaven.

A mother living not very far from the postoffice in this city, tired with watching over a sick baby, came down stairs for a few seconds’ rest. She heard the voice of her little 4-year-okl girl in the hall by herself, and, curious to know to whom she was talking, stopped a moment at the half-open door. She saw that the little thing had pulled a chair up in front of the telephone, and stood upon it, with the piece pressed against the side of her head. The earnestness of the child showed that she was in no playful mood, and this was the conversation the mother heard, while the tears stood thick in her eyes, the little one carrying on both sides as if she were repeating the answers: “Hello'” “Well, who’s there?” ‘ ‘ Is God there ?” • “Yes.” “ Is Jesus there ?” “Yes.” “Tell Jesus I want to speak to him.” “Well?” “ Is that you, Jesus ?” “ Yes, what is it?” “ Our baby is sick, and wo want you to let it get well. Won’t you, now ? ! ’ No answer, and statement and question again repeated, finally answered by a “Yes.” The little one put the ear-piece back on its hook, clambered down from her chair, and, with a radiant face, went for mother, who caught her in her arms. The baby, whose life had been despaired of, began to mend that day and got well. —Elmira Free Press.

Counties in the United Mates.

The number of counties in the United States, by States, is shown in the an nexed table: Alabama 67 Miaaourl 115 Arkansas 74 Nebi aaka 62 Calilornla ?? S ova ?, a Colorado 30 New Hampshire .... 10 Connecticut 8 New Jersey 21 Delaware 3 Nev York 66 j? :or i<ia 89 North Carolina 94 Georgia 187 Ohio 88 Illinois I SB w * m V"; X 1 Indiana 92 Pennsylvania 67 j owa 99 Rhode Island. 5 Kansas.".". ... 76 Smith Carolina 33 Kentucky 117 Tennessee 94 Louisiana Texas 151 Maine 16 Vermont 14 Maryland 23 Virginia 103 Massachusetts 14 West Virginia 5 Michigan 76 Wisconsin 69 Minnesota 71 „— — Mississippi 75 Total 2,214

Practical Engineering.

An engineer examined not long since in an arbitration case was asked : “How long have you been in your profession ?” *“ Twelve years.” “ Are you thoroughly acquainted with your work, tbeoreticall v and practically ? ” “ Yes.” “Do you feel competent to undertake large constructions?” “Yes; most certainly.” “In what engineering works have you been engaged during the last twelve years 1” “The manufacture of iron bedsteads.” A new celluloid is said to be obtained from well-peeled ’potatoes, which are treated for thirty-six hours with a solution of eight parts of sulphuric acid in 100 parts of water. The mass is dried between blotting paper and then pressed. It is further stated that in France smoking pipes are manufactured out of this new material which are quite equal in appearance to the meerschaum. By heavy pressure the material acquires such a hardness that billiard balls cap be manufactured from it,

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INDIANA NEWS.

The 10-year-old son of C. Coffman, a farmer, living near Mnnoio, was kicked by a horse and killed. Thomas B. Weston, an old printer, died at Kendailville, aged 82 years. He settled iu Noble county in 183(5. Both the window and bottle departments of DePanw’s glass-works at New Albany will resume on Sept. 1. Geoboe Newoomb, of Newcastle, a brakoinan on the Muncie road, was run over by a switch engine and killed. A Henry county cow gave birth to a fully-developed, go d-sized calf two months ago, and last week repeated tho performance.

John Garrett, a young man living in Muncie, while fooling with a pistol accidently discharged it, and shot his left hand to pieces. Thomas Hibbh’ saloon at Cambridge City was partly demolished by a dynamite torpedo that wan exploded iu the cellar by unknown parties. The stores of Mack Bros, and Morris Jones, at Muncie, were burglarized a few days ago. Over &1,000, chietly goods, rewarded their nefarious labors. The flouring-mills of George Gamble, near Muncie, were totally destroyed by tire. Five hundred bushels of wheat were burned. Loss, $5,000; insuiauce, $3,000.

The church furniture works of Haynes, Spencer & Co., at Richmond, Cary & Roulette’s planing-mill, aud Hugo’s en-gine-governor factory were burned, tho loss being $50,000. A little daughter of Thomas Williamson, of Jefferson county, had one foot cut entirely off by a mowing machine, she having stepped in front of the sickle while it was in motion. While Willard Douglass Shanks, son of the Clinton county Treasurer, was driving a team of horses in Frankfort they ran away, throwing him against a fence and killing him instantly. The geodetic survey of the Slate was commenced at Now Albany last week. The observatory is four miles north of the city, on the knobs. The survey will extend through the central part of tho State and to South Bend.

At Muncie, while Sol Yeneman, a lad 17 years of age, was loading an old pistol it went off, sending a ball into the breast of a boy named Smith, who was standing liy causing a fatal wound, the ball passing entirely through the breast bone. Clifford Cronk, of Washington county, got mad at one of his horses, hitched to his mowing machine, and got off to switch the horse, and got in front of the reaper, when the horses sprang ahead, cutting off one foot at the ankle. A tramp tried to force an on trance into the house of Mrs. Mol lie Hurt a widow, residing near Franklin. Mrs, Hurt sent a bullet through the panel ot the door, and it lodged in the brain of the would-bo burglar, who died immediately. Solon Russell, a well-known lawyer of Charlestown, was run over and killed at Jeffersonville. The locomotive wheels severed the body in twain, cut, off' ouo arm and horribly mutilah d tho lower extremities. Death was instantaneous. Sherman Nelson, aged 15, was sent by his parents for tho cows, at Grooneaffle, hut instead stole a ride on top of a freight of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago. At PuUmanville his head came in contact with a bridge, and ho was fatally injured. Mrs. Jacob Mansdoerfeb was burned to di nth at Fort. Wayne by her elolln s catching tire from the stove while she was in the kitchen alone preparing supper. Children discovered her whdo she was burning, but were poworl ss to assist her in time.

Mrs. llabkikt Coe, doughti r of Mi*. W. B. Langston, Connorsville. has be* n taken to the insane asylum. Her insanity ran in the direction of attempts at killing her children, and dates from the grief occasioned by tlio death of her husband, some years ago. The Do Pamv American Plate-Glass Works are now turning out an immense plate-glass fermenter for one of the largo distilleries at Owensboro, Ky., to be used in the manufacture of sour-mash whisky. It is seventeen feet in height, eight feet in diameter, aud the. first plate-glass fermenter ever manufactured. Bad whisky and mean jealousy caused George MacElfresh, of Muneie, to go to the houso of his long-divorced wife, kick the doors in, seize her, and threaten to brain her with a huge stone. Her sister, Mury Lee, at this critical moment fired at him and inflicted a dangerous and perhaps fatal wound. Near North Vernon, Jennings county, a team of Irorses at tached to a reapingmachine ran off and threw the driver, John Hulsc, in front of the sickle-bar, which, before the horses could bo stopped, cut both his arms off, one above the elbow and the- other above the wrist, and cut gashes in his breast and shoulder. The nest span of the iron bridge on Clinton street, over the Ht,. Joe river, Fort Wayne, gave way, fuliing4ti the river, caused by the pier settling on a quick-sand bottom and throwing the bridge out of line. Henry Hanna was crossing in his buggy, and went down with it. Although he fell in such a way as not to show apparent injury, death resulted in a few hours, caused by nervous excitement.

Some time ago a Tipton attorney received for collection a claim on a worthless fellow who has lived in Georgia since the close of the war. He wrote a letter to the fellow, stating the amount due and advising him to avoid trouble and cost, etc. Judge of the lawyers surprise when lie received by express a package of bills to the full amount of the debt, and his greater surprise w hen he saw that the lulls were all Confederate not* s. The Brazil Enterprise says: “At present the lightning-rod swindle is being perpetrated in this county. They goto a man and say: ‘Wo will put lightning rods on your house or burn at. the rate d 87$ cents per loot; the bill will probably be S2B or s3o.’ ihe prison ap, rone! od with such a pr. position, with*-tit making any < slim, to of tie numb* r of feet neecssuiily required, will contract to have it done at (liesliphlat. d rate per Coot. Then the light ning-rod fiends will climb upon his buildings and put up the r. d*, using as many f* ct as can ik) siblv be put on, e ven to the extent of running the rod ten or twelve feet iu the ground. Wlieu- the work is ended the bill w ill be found to be $l3O or sllO at the rate of S7J cents per foot, anil there has been no such misrepresentation on the i>art ofdiie lightningrod man ns wi 1 defeat t.lje cuUtiifjpD of his bid.”