Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Eut. The suit brought by Gen. Butler to stop the sale of the Sprague estate has caused the closing of, all its factories. The temporary injunction forbids payments to operatives or expenditures for the preservation of property, thus throwing 10,000 men out of employment. Orville Grant, brother of Gen. Grant, died at Morris Plains, N. J. f a few days ago. He was 48 years old. Announcement is made of the death of Gen. Robert Patterson, who with the rank of Major General commanded a portiou of the Union forces at Bull Ituu, on the 21st of July, 1861, and who was much blamed for a disposition of his command that permitted rebel reinforcements to reach the battlefield and decide the day agaimt the Union army. At East Taunton, Mass., the large nail and wire, mills owned by the Old Colony Iron Company were burned. The loss is nearly $200,000, and several hundred men are throwu out 6f employment Speculative insurance caused the murder of Joseph Miller, an old man of Montgomery, Pa., by his son Samuel. The policies on his life aggregated $40,000. Gale, the pedestrian, finished at New York, last week, the greatest feat ever attempted in pcdestrianism. He walked 6,000 quarter miles in 6,000 consecutive periods of' ten minutes. After finishing his task he offered to wager SSOO to SI,OOO that he could walk 500 miles in six days in addition. The main Exposition building at Philadelphia has been sold for $97,000 to an ayent, • it is believed, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The building originally cost $1,600,000. Judge James D. Colt, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, was found dead in his office at Pittsfield recently, having committed suicide. He shot himself through the head with a pistol. The residence William Bowen, of Scituate, R. L, was burned, a few nights ago. Flames subsequently appeared in his barn, which led to the- discovery of an infernal machine operated by clock work. The doctor has been very active in securing the enforcement of the Liquor law. The Lauglilin nail-mills, near Wheeling, W. Va., valued at $60,000, have been swept away by lire. Maud S. at Rochester lowered her record to 2:1(% heating by a quarter of a second the time sho made at Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. A lamp in the hands of the janitor fired the organ in St Paul’s Episcopal Church, at Erie, Pa., and caused a damage of SIOO,OOO. Gen. Grant has bought a $95,000 house on East Sixty-sixth street, New York. \V est.

The woolen mill cf the McLean Manufacturing Company, at Janesville, Win., totally destroyed by tire, causing a loss of $50,000. A frightful explosion, resulting in the death of five persons, occurred in St. Clair county. 111. Laborers on the farm of Henry Young prepared to return to work after breakfast, and were approaching the steam threshing machine, when the boiler burst, scattering destruction in every direction. Five men wore killed outright, aud five others were so seriously injured that their lives are despaired of. The machine was shattered in a thousand pieces, and the wheat took fire, which spread to all the surrounding property. The stock-yard and all its contents were consumed in the flames. The mercury in St. Louis one day last •week rose to 105 in the shade, the highest point reached for forty-five years. The killing of Spotted Tail by Crow Dog was a cold-blooded assassination, and the latter will be tried for murder. Hon. O. H. Browning, ex-Congress_-man and Secretary of the Interior during the administration of President Johnson, died at Quincy, 111., last week. E. R. Williams & Brother, a grain commission house in Toledo, are charged with issuing fraudulent bills of lading to the amount of $60,000 or more. Their suspension is announced, and belh have fled. Gray, the person who shot and killed Theodore Glancy, editor of the Santa Barbaj-a (Cal.) Press, some time ago, escapes with twenty years’ imprisonment. Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas, the distinguished Methodist divine, is to be arraigned for heresy next month, at Chicago. He is charged with denying the truth of the doctriues of inspiration and atonement taught by the church, and teaching the doctrine of probation aftor death for those who die in sin, thereby antagonizing the doctrine of endless punishment for the wicked. The trial will exfile widespread interest. Late advices -from New Mexico report great alarm in that territory over atrocities perpetrated by renegade Indians. A party of sixty or more killed seven persons near Elrita. Another band of twelve fired into a camp of Atchison railway men near Rincon. South. From Darlington county, S. C., there comes an account of a terrible and extraordinary casuaiity from lightning. A grorp of twenty men were standing close to a house, when a stroke of lightning killed four and wounded ten of the number. The com and tobacco in Central Kentucky are being killed by beat and drought. Oats and hay have done well, but only half a trop of wheat, barlqy or rye is expected. The peach crop in Delaware is a total failure. A training-stable on a race-course near Lexington, Ky., was destroyed by fire. Out of sixteen horses preparing for the fall meeting, Bowen’s Carrie Hanson and Eagle’s gray colt Knox were burned to. doatb, and the others were greatly injured by dashing madly around the course. Deputy Marshal Marks, of Arkansas, pursued an Osage chief, named Little Buck, for five days, and killed him because he resisted arrest. Several negroes were killed near Lexington, Va., by a slide in a cut upon which they were at work on the Richmond and Allegheny railroad, Six of tfie negroes were oon..victs. The Kentucky Board of Agriculture reports that there has been no such shortage in crops in that State since 1854. Not more than half an average yield of wheat will be harvested. WASHINGTON NOTES. Second Assistant Postmaster General Elmer reports a net reduction in the star-ronte and steamboat mail service during July amounting to $314,664, and that the total amount of si- vings by reduction and discontinuances since M rch 4 is $1,881,442. Mr, Heap, the Cfrtrge d’Affair o*

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the United States Legation at Constantinople, has informed the State Department at Washington that the order issued in the spring of this year against the importation of American meat is practically a dead letter. Gen. Dudley, Commissioner of Pensions, has issued an order forbidding the clerks reading newspapers during business hours. The Postoffice Department has a formal report from special agents that ninetenths of the mail-bags used in Canada belong to the United States. The febrile condition of the President for several days having suggested to the surgeons that the cause was the detention of pus in the cavity of the wound, they took advantage, on the morning of the Bth, ©f the patient’s improved condition to make another incision into the track of the bullet below the margin of the twelfth rib. This operation was successfully performed, the President having first been etherized. Although suffering some nausea from the anaesthetic, he soon regained his previous condition. The present incision, the physicians declare, can be left open and unobstructed as long as may be necessary, and the best results are confidently expected. The Treasury Department has received about $40,000,000 worth of bonds for continuation from English holders. The London agency will be c’osed at once. Secretary Blaine has been suffering from malaria and a tendency to chills. President Garfield performed his first official act since the shooting, on the 10th inst. He affixed his signature to a paper extraditing a criminal wanted by the Canadian authorities. Secretary Blaine has gone to Maine, where he will stay several weeks. During the last fiscal year there were 4,384 pilots examined by the Marine Hospital Service, of which number 118 were found colorblind. As soon as the President gets out of danger, Bays a Washington telegram, Dr. Bliss intends to publish a correct statement of the controversy that was made by Dr. Baxter just after the President was shot as to Baxter’s right to take charge of the case. Bliss' statement will be in substance that, in the first place, he was called to the President at the depot by a member of the Cabinet, Secretary Lincoln. He took charge of the case, and the next morning (Sunday) after the President was shot Bliss called the President’s attention to the necessity for some system about the treatment of the case. Meantime the President had reacted from the shock, and was capable of exercising judgment. Ho told Bliss that he wanted him to take entire charge and control of the case; that he felt complete confidence in him, and would surrender everything to him Bliss asked him who he wanted associated in the case, and the President replied that he would leavo that entirely to Bliss. Soon after Bliss saw Mrs. Garfield, and she ratified all the President had said, and requested Bliss to take charge of the case. A Washington telegram of tlie 11th inst says : “ To-day Prouideut fl-arfield wrote Lis first letter since the shooting. It was to bis mother at Mentor, and assured her of his confidence in recovery. Mrs. Garfield read to him considerably to-day, both from private letters and newspapers. The President is beginning to take much interest in public affairs.”

POLITICAL POINTS. One county in North Carolina, Heywood county, gave twenty-one majority for prohibition. Returns from seventy-three counties have already been received, and show a majority of 98,965 against prohibition. Gen. Chalmers, who represents the “ Shoestring district” of Mississippi in Congress, has taken a new departure. He announces himself a Greenbacker and the Greenback candidate for United States Senator from Mississippi, vice Lamar. The Alabama State Temperance Convention was in session at Montgomery two days. An executive committee for the State and each county was appointed. All attempts to mako the question a party one were voted down. The “Civil-Service Reform Association of the United States” met at Newport, R. 1., under the Presidency of George William Curtis, and adopted resolutions approving the Civil-Service Reform bill introduced into the United States Senate last session by Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, calling on members of Congress and Senators to aid in making the bill law; favoring competitive examination at various convenient points in the United States for those who might wish to be examined for positions in the civil service ; declaring it necessary that the Civil-Service Reform League of New York should be aided in its work by local organizations ; and declaring that the bill introduced in the House of Representatives last session by Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, provides practical and judicious measures for the remedy of the abuse known as political assessment; and urging uncompromising opposition to arbitrary removals from office, and the interference of members of Congress with the exercise of the appointing power.

The Republicans of Virginia met in State Convention at Lynchburg. The 1 ‘ Straights outs ” were in a minority, but their leaders, Congressmen Dezendorf and Jorgensen, and the Chairman of the State Central Committee played a sharp trick on the Coalitionists, shut them out from the convention hall, and admitted only those who would act under their instructions, Those who were shut out organized a convention of their own. A Committee of Conference was appointed. The Conference Committee failed to bring about peace. The Coalitionists, or Mahoneites, indorsed the regular Readjuster platform aud adjourned without making nominations. The “Straight-outs” nominated Gen. William C. Wickham for Governor, Samuel M. Yost, of Staunton, for Lieutenant Governor, and Judge Willoughby, of Alexandria, for Attorney General. All these gentlemen have declined, however, and it is probable that no other persons will be nominated in their places, in which case there will be a square, fair, stand-up fight between the Readjusters and the Democrats.

Miscellaneous gleanings. Two children of a Mrs. Fisher, a widow residing near Queenstown, D. C., aged respectively 7 and 10 years of age, were butchered by a negro with an ax. The older of the children, a girl, was so horribly mangled about the head as to be almost beyond recognition. The murderer fled. Francis Murphy, temperance orator, sailed for Liverpool last week. He intends to organize a temperance movement in England and Ireland. Experiments have been made in Canada with paper pulp made from sawdust, and samples sent to England for manufacture into paper. If the material proves to be satisfactory a manufactory will Wstarted by capitalists in Welland, Ont. The Bankers' Association was in session at Niagara Fall* last week. E, 0, Spald-

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ing, of Buffalo, presided. Every section of tbc country was represented. Recent deaths: Maximo Jarez, Nicarauga Munster at Washington ; Mrs. Millard Fillmore, at Buffalo, N. Y., aged 71; Bev. John H. Burton, Scotch historian ; CoL Henty B. Hayes, Pittsburgh millionaire; Benj. Jones, the founder of the city of Manitowoc, Wis., aged 87. The German Government has taken the Decessary measures to protect the Jews in Pomerania and West Prussia, where strong hatred exists.

FOREIGN NEWS. Greenberg, a Nihilist of noble birth, has been arrested at Belgrade. Documents found on his person show designs on the lives of the Czar and Emperor William. For radical criticisms on the conduct of the Prince of Bulgaria and the exposure of disorder on board Russian men-ofjwar, the Golos, of St. Petersburg, has been suspended for six months. The striking laborers of the South of Ireland have triumphed. The farmers have been obliged to concede their demands. For the future the laborers will be paid 2 shillings (50 cents) per day during the harvest time, and will be given half an acre of ground and a house “rent free.” While leaving the port of Halifax, N. S., the steamer Cortes struck a rock and will be a total loss. A collision between two express trains occurred near Manchester, England, on the Yorkshire and Lancashire railroad. Many persons were fearfully injured, several fatally, and much property was destroyed. Ayoob Khan is in possession of Candahar, whence the Ameer’s Governor fled. The city received him with salvos of artillery and illuminations. John Dillon, M. P., has been released from prison in England. There are indications that there will be another famine in British India this year. The South African Republic has been formally proclaimed by the Boers, to whom the British have yielded the Transvaal. Systematic incendiarism directed against the Jews is the probable cause of the destruction of eighteen Russian villages by fire.

The British Goverment will, it is said, cease prosecutions under the Coercion act, and if, after the passage of the Land bill, there is a show of law r and order, the prisoners arrested under the act will be liberated. Anti-Jewish disturbances have also broken out again in West Prussia and Pomerania. The fortress at Puerto Plata, San Domingo, was destroyed by an explosion, and twenty-five lives were lost. British financiers are somewhat exercised over the commencement of withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England on American account. Italy has been drawing heavily of coin, with which to replace her paper money In tli« Edioon Department of tha Paris Electric Exposition a machine is exhibited, worked by four operators, which will send 1,200 words per minute. The drought in Swizerland has continued for nearly two months. The grass is burned, and in the mountain pastures beasts are perishing from heat. A commissioner of the London Times who has made a tour of the wheat districts of England estimates a yield of thirty bushels to the acre, and an increased crop of 3,000,000 quarters. The Cornell boat crew were defeated at Vienna. When half the course had been rowed over, and the Americans had a winning lead, one of their men sank exhausted and they relinquished the race. The prize, which was worth £250, was won by the Vienna crew.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Dliring a violent thunder storm at St. Louis, lightning struck the Atlantic mills, at the corner of Main and Plum streets, which were quickly destroyed by fire, five employes beiDg killed and several others burned. The flames then spread over two blocks of wooden buildings. The loss aggregates $200,000, on which there is SIIO,OOO insurance. The Supreme Court of Nebraska has rendered a decision to the effect that the highlicenso liquor law by the last State Legislature is constitutional in every particular. It compels saloon-keepers to pay SI,OOO license and give bonds in the sum of $5,000 in* cities o* over 10,000 people, and in cities of under 10,' 000 the license is SSOO. A terrible horse disease has broken out at Camden, Ohio. It comes on suddenly and proves fatal in nearly every case, Great lumps raise on the bodies of the animals after death. The wheat crop of Nebraska is pronounced a failure. Barley, oats, rye and flax will prove a fair crop. Owing to the excessively hot weather and the total absence of rain recently the corn crop will not be near an average. The fall-wheat crop of Illinois, according to the State Agricultural Department, shows a falling off of about 59 per cent, from the crop of last year, and is probably the worst in quality and quantity grown in the State for twenty years. The crop of this year will not dishearten the farmers of thq. State, however, and it is probable that a larger area will be sown this fall than ever before. George Griffin was executed at Birmingham, Ala. As his neck was not broken by the fall, his sufferings were terrible. Benjamin Bird, a negro, was hanged at Jacksonville, Fla., for the murder of Policeman Nelson. The noose at first slipped off his neck, and he fell to] the ground, bat the hangman’s second attempt proved successful, The drought has become so intense in the region tributary to Nashville, Tenn., that fire-screens have been placed on the locomotive smokestacks to prevent a wholesale conflagration. The Perry county (Ark.) troubles are at an end, and the militia have returned to Little Bock. , Washington telegrams of the 12th inst import the President’s condition, at that date, as fairly satisfactory. The pulse ruled rather high, but the attending surgeons seemed l o view this lightly, and asserted that the patient was steadily improving. Dr. Bliss was slightly poisoned by a cut from one of the knives used in removing the pus from the President’s wound. Dr. Blackburn, the Governor of Kentucky, expresses the opinion that Gnitean’s bullet was deflected to the spinal column, and that the President will undoubtedly die from his wound. The Treasury Department are making an effort to put a stop to the custom of punching holes in coins. They will invite-the public to refuse any clipped money. The deaths are announced of ex-Con-gressman Origen 8. Seymour, formerly Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut; of John Hanna, a railroad oootraotor of Indiana, and brother of KaJ, Hanna, of the United

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States army; of Eben Elliot Aldrich, Superintendent of the Troy and Boston railroad, and Steuben Bntler, the oldest inhabitant of Wilkes bar re, Pa. Mr. Gladstone is suffering from overwork and worry in his efforts to secure the passage of the Land bill. Dutch is to be the official language of the Republic of Transvaal. This will place native and British residents at a great disadvantage.

CROP REPORTS.

The Minneapolis Tribune prints estimates of the yield of wheat in every county of Minnesota, showing as follows : Total yield, 49,856,685 bushels ; average per acre, a fraction less than fourteen bushe s ; excess over last year, 1,484,880 bushels. Nearly all the grain in the State will grade No. 1. Oats and barley are a fine yield. Com prospect nnequa led crop. A telegram from Des Moines, lowa, says : “ The reports so far gathered at this point from most of the counties are rather discouraging for a good crop. Wheat, taking the State over, will hardly yield the seed used in planting. Thousands of acres have not been touched, and others harvested which left the farmer in debt for the cost of harvesting.’ - - A gentleman who lately returned to Lincoln, Neb., from the western part of the State, reports corn in a very bad condition. He says that some fields are “ all dried up,” and that, Ks there is rain soon, the crop will be ala total failure in Western Nebraska. A Kansas City paper prints reports from nearly every town in Kansas reached by telegraph giving the condition of the crops. “Considerable alarm has been caused by the continued dry weather, but the reports are in the main cheering, showing that the damage up to the present time has been much less than feared here. Taking into account the increased acreage and the failure of the crops in the western portion of the State last year, it seems fair to estimate that this year’s crop of both wheat and corn in Kansas will be nearly up to the amount produced last year, provided rain comes in a week or so. Some sections have suffered severely, while others will produce an average 'yrop. In localities which suffered last year, with some exceptions, there is a cheering prospect at present. Taken all in ail, there is as yet no cause lor s< nous alarm. Reports from Southwestern Missouri are much the same as from Kansas.”

The Assassination of Kotzebne.

Augustus von Kotzebue, a famous dramatic writer, author, among a number of other plays, of “ The Stranger” and “Pizarro,” lived a life full of strange vicissitudes, and expired in the following tragic manner : The Emperor of Russia was extremely anxious to influence or forestall opinion in Germany. For this purpose Kotzebue was employed. He established a journal, in which he opposed all progress and the liberty of the press. A paper intended only for the eye of the Emperor Alexander, in which Kotzebue described one of his opponents in journalism as ‘ ‘ the most detestable instrument of hell, ” at length, in 1818, revealed the full treachery of this literary hireling, and raised a cry of indignation against him throughout Germany. The exposure compelled him to quit Weimar. He next took up his abode at Mannheim, wlinro ho his perfidious work; and, at a time when all Germany was ringing with echoes of the French revolution, proclaimed himself the enemy of liberty and the friend of despotism. This alone would have been sufficient to have brought down upon him the indignation of the enthusiasts ; but when to this was added the knowledge that he was the mouthpiece of a foreign despot, who was desirous of establishing an authority over the country, indignation rose to ungovernable hatred. He had made himself particularly conspicuous in applauding the dismissal of 1,200 students from Gottingen, on account of a brawl between them and the citizens, and a morbid young student, named Charles Louis Sand, took upon himself to avenge, a la Charlotte Corday, the cause of liberty and the Fatherland. On the 9th of March, 1819, he left Jena on foot for Mannheim, and arrived there on the 23d. Dressed in old German costume, and assuming the name of Henricks, he presented himself at Kotzebue’s bouse, un the pretense that he had brought letters from Weimar. After two ineffectual attempts, he at length gained admission, and was shown into a private room; scarcely had the victim crossed the threshold when Sand plunged a long poniard into his breast, and when he had fallen, to make his work sure, inflicted three more wounds upon the body. The noise of the scuffle speedily brought servants and family to the tragic scene, and the assassin was found, dagger in hand, quietly contemplating the dying man. Yet no one attempted to arrest him, and he descended the staircase, and presented himself before the throng of people, whom the cries of ‘‘ Murder! ’’had already gathered about the spot, and, still flourishing the poniard in one hand and a written paper in the other, exclaimed, “I am the murderer, and it is thus that all traitors should die. ” Then he fell upon his knees, and clasping his hands raised them to heaven, exclaiming, “ I thank Thee, Oh, God, for having permitted me successfully to fulfill this act of justice. ” Upon the paper were inscribed the words, “Deathblow for Augustus von Kotzebue in the name of virtue. ” No sooner had he spoken the last words than, tearing open his waistcoat, he repeatedly plunged the weapon into his own bosom, and fell to the ground. He was now, in a swooning condition, conveyed to prison, but as soon as he recovered he tore off his bandages and made the most desperate efforts to put an end to his life. At the trial his handsome person and his calm exaltation excited the utmost sympathy, and he went to the scaffold devoutly believing that he had performed an act of noble self-devotion, and far more pitied by the populace than was his miserable victim.

A Novel Idea.

A farmer in lowa sends the following novel proposition respecting telephone facilities to the lowa State Register: “Will not some of those smart patent right men invent us a cheap insulator ? Then we can utilize our wire fences for telephones, and have the whole country connected and in speaking distance of each other. At the road crossings insulated cables can be run under ground, or regular poles can be planted to raise the wires above travel. In riding around I notice we have a continuous wire on the fences already. All we need is an insulator, costing a small sum and which is so arranged that the wire can be tightened, and held firmly and securely, and we shall have the line already strung that will do away with a telegraph monopoly (if there is one.) Then make each postoffice a telephone exchange, and business for farmers will be expedited, saving many trips to town to order parts of machinery, or to learn if some important letter has arrived. Visiting friends can notify us of their arrival on the train; hasty trips for medioal assistance may be dope away with, and many other things pot now thought of." '

HIS HAIR TURNED WHITE.

4 Narrow Escape front Death by Burning Oil. [From the Philadelphia Times.] “How did my hair turn white ? Well, sir, if you will sit down on that new bull-wheel shaft while I turn tiff the gas at the boiler and slack the sand line in the derrick, I will tell you.” A young man of Bplendid physique and handsome features paused long enough in his work of detaching the walking-beam from the shaft crank at a drilling-well to ask his visitor to be seated and wait till he was through with his work before explaining why his hair w as of a color so out of keeping with his *ge. “And so you want to know how my hair turned white? Well, I don’t know; 1 don’t tell the story very often, but if Boylston sent you here to see me I guess it’s all right. I was originally a Bostonian, having been ‘ raised ’ at the Hub. I don’t look as though I were faint-hearted, do I ? About two years ago I was in hard luck for some reason or other, and, as it never rains but it pours, I had all sorts of misfortunes, the most remarkable of which turned my hair from a color moderately black to the silvery whiteness you see now. There had been a heavy storm one night at about midnight, and, as usual with the oil-country residents, I arose and looked from the window to see if any tanks had been struck by lightning. A bright glare in the sky convinced me that a large tank of oil was on fire a few miles distant, and I went back to sleep, determining to go to the fire at noon and see the first overflow. You kpow that when a 25,000-barrel iron tank of oil has been on fire for twelve or fourteen hours the burning oil will boil up and flow over the sides just like a kettle of soap. Well, about noon, in company with three or four young fellows, I went to the fire. It was a beautiful day. The sun shone mellow and subdued on the earth, the hills were robed in brightest green after the rain, and the birds were having a happy time in the trees. Hundreds of feet in the air hung a grand pillar of blackest smoke, and from out the huge tank fierce flames were shooting upward, as if to burn the vault of heaven. “At 2 o’clock the first grand overflow occurred. As I stood on the hillside picking wild berries, I heard a man shout, ‘ she’s coming,’ and saw pipe-line men running away from the tank for their lives. I heard a rumbling sound inside the tank and didn’t know what it meant, but a few seconds after I saw fully 500 barrels of burning oil shoot up from the tank and boil over the sides. It was grand beyond description, and I stood and watched it in silence. The burning oil floated down a creek for a mile, burning a saw-mill, numerous oilwells and tanks, buildings and everything within reach of its devastating breath. “ When the flow had partly subsided it was found that a second 25,000-barrel iron tank had been set on fire by the overflow of burning oil. Being somewhat inquisitive I ventured down behind the tanks to get a better view from the lower side. While trying to avoid a pool of burning oil I fell into a mud hole or sort of quicksand and stuck fast. My utmost endeavors were of no avail in extricating myself from the hole. I yelled at the top of my voice, but so great was the roar of the burning tanks that my voice sounded weak and far away. I struggled until exhausted and then I lay back and rested. “ Suddenly I heard the sound of a cannon and saw a column of flame and smoke shoot up from one of the tanks. The truth came upon me like a bolt of lightning, and I was almost stricken senseless by the thought. The United Pipe Line men were firing cannon balls through the first tank to draw off the oil and prevent a second overflow. Great God! What a conviction came upon me ! The burning oil would flow down upon me ! It was a matter of seconds. I tried to shout, but the words would not come. With the strength of despair I straggled to get free. The quicksand held me with the grip of 10,000 devils. All at once I saw a little stream of burning oil run slowly down toward me. My time had come, I thought, and I must be burned to death by inches. The earth was dear to me then—dearer than ever before and I turned to get a look at the sunlight and the bright world once more. horror and fear passed away and I was ready to die. The stream of burning oil, now grown larger, was upon me, but I did not seem to care. I saw it as in a dream. The earth and all things earthly faded away, and all was dark. “ When I came back to consciousness I was lying in my own room with my friends around me" The boys said that in following the supposed course of the overflowed oil they came upon me and rescued me just as the burning stream was about to push upon me. I was sick a long while, and when I got well I found my hair was as white as you see it now. The doctors said it was caused by horror and fear.”

The Seat of Emotion.

I must give here as my opinion, founded on what I have observed, that lips become more or less contracted in’ the course of years, in proportion as they are accustomed to express good humor and generosity, or peevishness and a contracted mind. Remark the effect which a moment of ill-humor and grudgingness has upon the lips, and judge what may be expected from an habitual series of such moments. Remark the reverse, and make a similar judgment. The mouth is the frank part of the face; it can the least conceal its sensations. We can hide neither ill-temper with it, nor good ; we may affect what we please, but affectation will not helpjus. In a wrong cause it will only make our observers resent the endeavor to impose upon them. The mouth is the seat of one class of emotions, as the eyes are of another ; or rather, it expresses the same emotions, but in greater detail and with more irrepressible tendency to be in motion. It is the region of smiles and dimples and of trembling tenderness, of a sharp sorrow, of a full breathing joy, of candor, of reserve, of a carking care, erf a liberal sympathy. —Leiah Hunt.

A Phenomenal Memory.

In the St. L mis postofficß is employed a man with a phenomenal memory. He was taken on in the mailing division about eighteen months ago and given the lowest position. He was several times promoted on account of his good record, and at his last examination gave evidence of his close application and phenomenal memory. It is customary for the examiner to name the postoffices in a certain amount of territory and require the examinee to give the location. In this case the employe was examined on the poptpffices of Missouri, of which fchpre are 1,790. He did not need to be

questioned, but, without prompting, named every postoffice in the State and the county in which it is situated, and without missing or mistaking a postoflice or a county, and did this in thirty minutes.—New York Commercial Advertiser.

The Curiosities of Politics.

The most marvelous thing about the Republican party is the control which is has obtained over the public sentiment of the North. In 1860 it was fashionable to consider a debased suffrage the great danger of the country , in 1870 manhood suffrage was the first article in the creed of the infallible political party, and whoever denied it was anathematized; in 1880 a broad tolerance was in fashion, and a good Republican might hold either doctrine and defend the enfranchisement of the negro in South Carolina and the disfranchisement of the foreign-born citizen in Rhode Island. Sometimes it is expedient for Republican purposes that temperance should be the keystone of political reform, and then again it may be denounced as mere fanaticism. In 1863 paper money was a sacred thing, and in 1873 gold was the god of the nation’s idolatry. When it is necessary to install a carpet-bag Governor who had been defeated at the polls, a State has no rights which the Federal Government is bound to respect. When it is necessary to count into the Presidency a man who was not chosen by the people, the rights of the States are so sacred that Congress cannot go beyond the official seal on the certificates as to the electors’ votes, even to correct fraud and forgery. Right and wrong, as the needs of the party dictate, seem to become almost inconvertible terms. There are times when it appears to be a greater crime for a Democrat to have red hair than for a Republican to steal SIOO,OOO. In regard to the individuals within the Republican organization, this curious power to alter standards, to make and unmake heroes, is singularly exhibited. The facility with which a commonplace little man like Woodford can be exalted to fame as one of the foremost orators of the world, and cast down again to the level of an incompetent attorney neglecting his official duties, is amusing. We have seen Woodin hooted as the underling of Tweed, and then metamorphosed into a great reformer. We can remember the time when Schuyler Colfax was held up as the model of American manhood, and we are by no meaiis sure that he won’t come into fashion again. The moment Seward abandoned Republicanism he sank from the foremost statesman of the age and the associate of Lincoln to a mere drunken office-holder. When Chase turned Democratic, he turned also, in the eyes of the public, into a mere office-seeker. The hate of the party converted Horace Greeley from the champion of human rights into a driveling old pro-slavery idiot. At present we are enjoying the most astonishing exhibition of the ability of the Republican party to set up and pull down national heroes that was ever exhibited. A little more than a year ago, the country, under the influence of Republican fascination, was crazy about Gen. Grant. As the Chicago Times puts the case, “He was the greatest warrior of the world. He was the first citizen of the republic. He was noble, modest, gracious, the guest of Kings, the lover and savior of his country.” So-ber-minded people dreaded that the popular folly which treated him as a sort of demigod might prove dangerous to our institutions. New Gen. Grant is metamorphosed into a dull and stupid fellow with an indecent idea of his own importance. He smokes too much ami he has been altogether too fond of liquor. To be sure he won some battles, but then lie had able subordinates and no end of odds ; and all these campaigns were full of costly blunders. It lias been discovered that lie went on a spree after Donelson; that he was badly whipped at Shiloh ; that he lingered for months about Vicksburg without a plan; that he botched the Beige of Richmond; that he tried to prevent Sherman from marching on Savannah ; that he wanted to remove Thomas ; that he was a wretched President, and consorted with thieves and bosses ; and that lie is a very disreputable person generally, at whom any political cur may snap. Verily, a history of the effect of the necessities of the Republican party upon received moral, social aud historical standards would be an interesting work. —Buffalo Courier.

More Democratic— Less Monarchical.

So-called Republican journals assert that the true way to reform our Government is to make it less democratic. They propose to get rid of what they are pleased to call the “ spoils system,” by introducing a permanent civil service. They would give the President a body guard, aud make assaults upon his person treason. They would hold him responsible only through his ministers, and they would restrict the liberty of criticism. Tn short, as Hamilton expressed it, they would “go into the British form.” Our constitution requires no such tinkering. It needs only an honest administration, faithful to the spirit and true to the letter. A good President, more devoted to country than to party, or even more devoted to party than to faction, would speedily set to rights all that is amiss. He has law enough ready made on the statute book to institute every desirable reform. Jefferson, coming into place after a high carnival of years, found no difficulty whatever in reducing the Government to perfect simplicity, economy and efficiency, without any special legislation, until he came to the army, when Congress granted all he asked. If we are to have any changes, let them be in the direction of democracy instead of monarchy. Let us give the people more voice, and no' less, in the management of their own affairs. Mr. Henry Clay Dean, of lowa, insists that the only way to eliminate the evils complained of is to make every officer of the Federal Government, except heads of departments, from President down to Postmaster, elective, and so responsible directly to the people. He would include the judiciary and the Senate. The latter he declares is now a mere refuge for the tools of corruption, and the former has been prostituted to party and to corporate power until it has well nigh lost public respect. What chance under this system would Laphapi tuid Miller have had

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of an election to the Senate, or Joe Btadley and Stanley Matthews to seats on the Supreme bench ? We commend these views of Mr. Dean to professional reformers. It is cnnous that all their proposed innovations are against the people. As this one moves in an opposite direction it may be worthy of consideration.— New York Sun.

Thisllepod’s Dog with Rattles on His Tail.

“ Say,” said old Mr. Thistlepod, chewing his morsel of navy plug with the rapid intonation of a man who was in earnest. “Say, you know that spotted coach dog of mine that bit his leg with a rattlesnake nigh onto three weeks ago ? Well, ever since he’s been trvin’ to coil himself up all the time, and has eleven rattles growed out on the end of his tail Has for a gospel fact. Nights, when he was around the house, it sounds like a drum corps goin’ by. I declare to goodness I wished I’d brung him in to let you see him. Nero, the dog’s name is,” he went on. “Nero; 6 years old this spring. Raised him myself; you’ve seen him hundreds of times under my wagon.” Surprised that no astonishment was expressed, the old man added : * * You probably remember that shaggy, rough-haired Scotch terrier of Ben Martin’s ? Well, sir, Ben he sent to Philadelphy and got a couple o’ dozen Bilk worms and fed ’em to the dog, an’—ye liain’t seen that terrier since last Saturday, have ye ? Well, Bir, I hope I may die some time if that dog’s hair liafn’t come out the softest, finest silk fringe ye ever saw in your life 1 Silk fringe, with a braid two inches deep along his back, an’ a ball of chenille hangin’ from the end of each ear. Ben’s goin’ to buy up a couple o’ hundred cheap longhaired dogs, feed ’em silk worms and shear ’em every spring.” The editor thought there would be money in it. “ Better’n a gold mine,” the old man said; “an’do you know, while he was feedin’ of him, Ben forgot to take off the dog’s collar, big leather collar.” "And what happened to the collar?” the editor asked, a little wearily. “ Velvet, ” said the old man enthusiastically. “It grew Lyons velvet, with a celluloid buckle. ” The editor promised to make a note of the fact under the head pf “Latest Inventions,” and Thistlepod went away perfectly contented with himself and the rest of mankind.

Nine Years Waiting for a “Thany You.”

While in Detroit ho noticed the gentleman at whose house he was a guest looking wistfully out of a window which commanded a view of the road for a long distance. The side of the gentleman’s face was disfigured by great scars, which told of his having received serious wounds. Mr. Hammond asked him what he was thinking about, which he answered by a touching narrative. “About nine years ago” he said, “I was looking out of this window when I saw a horse galloping up the road. There was no one in the carriage but a little, girl. I ran down stairs and out on the road just in time to stop the horse, but in doing so I was knocked down and almost killed. The father of the girl, coming up, jumped into the carriage and drove off. For three days I remained unconscious between life and death. “On regaining consciousness the first question I asked ‘Where is the little girl ?’ but they could only say she was unhurt. For these nine years I have been confined to the house with chronic neuralgia. My physicians say I will not recover. I would have died for that little girl, and yet she never camo to thank me. I often look out over the road to see if she isn’t coming, for you can’t imagine what satisfaction it would be to me to have that little girl come and thank me.”— Rev. E. P. Hammond.

Frontier Criminals.

The different kinds of criminals in New Mexico and Arizona are given distinguishing names. “Rustlers” are thieves who steal cattle on the United States side of the line, run them into Mexico, sell them there, and then load themselves with Mexican plunder for the return trip. “Cowboys ” are those who earn an honest living by herding, and behave well enough when at work, although when in the towns for a holi day they commit all manner of outrages forfun. “ Card jerkers ” are professional gamblers who cheat those with whom they play. “Dinglers” are stage robbers. ‘ ‘ Notcliers ” are men who wantonly take human life, apparently with the sole object of gaining reputation as desperadoes. They are the terror of the border, and little is even done to bring them to punishment except by sudden resentment of a mob. Silver City, however, is an exception in this respect among border towns, for it has a District Attorney who prosecutes vigorously and a Sheriff who does not let his prisoners escape. The trials are queer, the jurors often being unable to undestand anything but Spanish, while the speaking is done in English ; but that does not seem to hinder convictions, for sixteen condemned murderers were in jail under death sentences only ten days ago. Virginia {Nev. ) Chroniele.

Ripe and Sweet.

It will not take many years to bring one to the period of life when men, (it least the majority of writing and talking men, do nothing but praise. Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. It is a fact that most-writers, except flour and' unsuccessful ones, get tired of finding' fault at about a time when they are beginning to grow old. At 30 we are all trying to cut our names in big letters upon the walls of this tenement of life ; twenty years later we have carved it, or shut up our jack-knives. Then we are ready to help others and care less to hinder any, because nobody’s elbows are in our way

Peace to His Ashes.

Not long since Gus De Smith took astroll through the Austin graveyard. When he came out of the graveyard hq looked very serious. Gilliooly meeting him asked him what was the matter. “Nothing, only I Was thinking that' the Austin husband must light idl' the fires in the mornings. ” “ What makes you think so?” ■ rt “Well. I see no many of them are burned to death* I noticed on three or-' four tombstones ‘Peace to his ashes.’ *’i —Texas Sifting. . , ... Gan any body tell us why a woman,, emerging from a crowded car, always makes believe she is going to get out at one side of the platform, until two-wi three men have jumped off in the much and then steps off at the other side? She always does it; and want to know the reason why.

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INDIANA NEWS.

Luther Forward, of Pleasant Lake, Steuben county, was drowned at Angola while bathing. Flotd county tends more jnsaue persons to the asylum thau any other county of its size in the State. A firjJ at Muncie destroyed Boyce’s bngging and handle "factories and fiaxmiUs, causing a loss of $30,000. Henrx a farm ialaxrr, 20 years of age, was kicked by a horse, and instantly killed, near Fort Wayne. Greensboro, Decatur county, can boast of several trees growing on her Court House tower, 120 feet above the ground. Thomas M. Carter, of Pendleton, Madison county, was fatally poisoned by colored lemonade served at an old settlers’ meeting. Frank Russell, of Rockford, 111., fell thirty feet from a telephone pole at Evansville, and broke his skull, shoulders and arm. jAMtffl Bakf.R, a farmer living near Fort Wayne, killed William Howell with a ride, and shot at a son pf the latter. Baker is in jail. A flock of sheep belonging to Oth Lloyd, which were pastured in Ripley county, Were attacked by dogs, and twenty-eight killed or wouuded. A fire at Clayton, Hendricks county, burned Courtney’s livery-stable, with contents, including horses, hgggies, harness, etc. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $2,000. There is an entire failure of mast in Southern Indiana this year, and farmers say that this lack of mast, and the short corn crop will greatly reduce the hog crop ami largely enhance prices. The congregation pf the first Presbyterian Church at tjrawfprasville have decided to erect a new church edifice to cost, SIO,OOO. Nine-men.liers have subscribed $7,000 of tlio required sum. Mrs. D. RuAn, of Fort Wayne, tlm widow of a rabbi, shot at Dr. G* T* Bnp'btiah, a. prominent German physician. but missed him, and tvas disarmed by her son. The cause waa her objection to a •Christian son-in-law, but the doctor has her daughter, the widow of Joseph Lindman. A train oh the Delpnos narrow-gauge road jumped the track lißat Kokomo, Engineer Blinn held his hiqfci on the throttle pntil his engine turned over, and was fatally scaldecl. Fireman Glen ■pi ning out as the locbihotive careened, and was dangerously injured* Conductor Bull was. bruised b.y falling against the exyresß safe.

Swindlers at Work Among Indiana. Farmers.

l Indiana] Jitter to CiLioliuiaU JSiwjulrer.] city seems to be the headquarters of a number of scoundrels engaged in swindling the unsuspecting, and covetous grangers throughout the State. They deal mostly in pabetit-right frauds of various kinds,' from pitchforks to machines of more valuo on the farm. The fayiiers have often been warned against these gentry by the press, but they rend ily change their tactics and assume all sorts of protean forms for, intrapping tho unwary, njid scarcely a di\y passes that some countryman is not made the victim of the wicked Wiles of the übiquitous scamps. The latest board of is a gang who go aboqt selling an alleged seeding machine, and these have victimized a number of people. The reader is hereby presented with a toe simile ot the “ contract” drawn by these paten t-scediug-muchiuu fellows, which they induce farmers to sign, aud'which sliArtly afterward turns up as a plsin m»W of hand in the possession of some paper* shaver in his uu'ghborhood who has purchased the same ot thoswiudl is as follows:

India*apous, 1nd.,........ 1881. One yasir date. I promise to pay to JobnSmiihor .hearer Thirty Dollars when I sell by Order, Three Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ■ worth of Patent Seeding Machines for value receiv j, at six per cent, per annum, fsaid Thirty Dollars when due. to be 1 payable at lidianapoLis, Ind. "* \ tt - : for Company.

The swrindlsrs got a a well to-do farmMMHtidittil ‘him-«lie has been .recommend ed ns* gooiknum to sell their uiacliine*, apd ask him to beacon* their-, agent. He is persuaded i that they sell rapidly, and that h«. can m%Kp » large per cent, profit. He is told thfit.hp will not be ecxpeahal to ;.»i*k any,, money or pay saytldug (gritil he iiu? (S<>s #■*2s w,oi th<»f the machines. He is qtyhiocd to sign the conduct ab<>vq jgfjpty tylpch, it will be »een,jsqts forth thisAigre*nmut \ hen read straight across. looks fair aiid hiuqccnt enough, iiud. spoil the farmer, .typified In tlyo Ipregbiiig document as Jphn puts his nulue lit the blank space just before the words “Sole Agent for' 3 • iy* CptepimV, Afterward tpe ' scamps chaffgfi thtf'doeurnqrft frptn it contract t<V sell into a promt&’drjf * notfc" by tearing off tftai part to tbe rigid, of the Hue drawn through the agreeiWiht as printed. 1; 111 - tlfn original pretexted to tiic iftirmers of course no line appears ; kud i it is.given here simply .to sh<rw tyhepodho diyiMOW takgs plnee..find pnrn.*xoii at 'vluen point so radically Midhgu.l the nit turf 1 <of me' docMnfeitt. seen at> .vglftiiSe- tluit tills is liaUb to deceive ap-y .uuu-without close inspection, and a mimW m Indiana farmers have been ctieiiteii with ihCm this sunimer. Tl\e hiflttheanl of the gang they,were operating. nxteiiHiyely. gi Bartholomew countv. Alta, the farmers’ notes get into {.ho hand's of ‘'irindeeht purchasers,” there is jio recourse but to pay them off, as they emmet well go back on the ».