Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENOE. Kant. A very rich vein of silver, two feet wide, lias been discovered at Moretown, Vt., on the top q( the mountain. Leo Hartmann, the noted Nihilist, appeared in the Superior Court in New York and renounced his allegiance to the Emperor of Russia, filing a declaration of his intention to become an American citizen. West. 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 the State, however, and it is probable that & larger area will be sown this fall than ever before. The jailer at Kansas City made the discovery that Bill Ryan, the Glendale trainrobber, had a bunch of burglar’s saws in his cell, and had cut three sides of a large square in the iron floor. Indian-Agent Hunt reports the discovery of extensive silver mines near Fort Sill, in tho Indian Territory. Adventurous miners have already made their way to the scene of lhe discovery, much to the annoyance of the Indians. Secretary of the Interior Kirkwood lias ordered troops to the place to protect the rights of the red men.

The report of the massacre by Indians of Prof. Snow and party, of the Kansas University, was a canarc’ The Western Newspaper Union (readyprint) office, at .Omaha, has been burned. A fire at Oconto, Wis., destroyed Anson Eldred’s large sawmill and lumbering establishment. The loss is plr.ced at $70,000. A party of Americans encamped in Guadaloupe canon, 100 miles from Tombstone, Arizona, near the Mexican line, were attacked by Mexicans and five of the number KilledWilliam Laug. Dick Gray, Jim Crane, Charles Snow and Thomas Clinton. Two others were wounded. The trouble arose from a cattle raid across the Mexican line some months ago, and a counter raid by Mexicans recently. The Mexican raiders were overtaken and the cattle recaptured. The Mexicans who killed Lang and Gray’s party are supposed to be some of the defeated raiders. A party of 200 Arizonians lias organized to avenge tho recent murders, and great fears are entertained for tho Americans living on the Mexican side, as a war of retaliation is sure to follow. South.

On the Memphis and Charleston railroad, near Tuscumbia, Ala., three negroes went to sleep on the track, and a train killed two and severely injured the third. A prominent physician of Cincinnati reports twenty well-defined cases of typhoid fever among the 400 English colonists at Rugby, T'cnn. A corps of physicians and nurses has been dispatched to the afflicted settlement. Bad drinking-water was tho chief cause of tho epidemic. The Temperance bill, which was reported on favorably by a special committee of the Georgia Stato Senate, was rejected by that body by a vote of 20 to 19. The Senate of Georgia has passed a bill forbidding any person to encourage tho violation of the laws prohibiting polygamy or bigamy, under penalty of hard labor in the penitentiary from two ■to four years. The blow is aimed at the Mormon elders new laboring iu that State. Lieut. Flipper, a colored graduate of West Point, is in the guard-house at Fort Davis, Texas, charged with defrauding the Government of SI,OOO while acting as commissary of subsistence. WASHINGTON NOTES. Reports received at the Agricultural Department in Washington indicate that the spring-wheat crop of this year will bo fully equal to that of 1879, and only 7 per cent, inferior to that of last year. There will be a heavy falling off in the yield of Illinois and lowa, and a slight falling off in Minnesota, Nobraska and California, while in Wisconsin and the New England States there are good prospects of an increased yield. The tobacco crop is not quite so good as that of last year. The condition of the corn crop is not as promising as it was last month, and will not be nearly so good as it was a year ago. Tho best reports have been from Wisconsin and Nebraska, and tho « orst from South Carolina, Kansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. A Washington dispatch says that a council with a delegation of Dakota Indians took place at the Interior Department. The. object of the consultation was to secure for the Poncas under Standing Bear permanent homes in Dakota on their old reservation or as near it as possible. The Omahas declined to sell any more land, and said they would rather sell to white settlers than Indians. The Wiunebagoes gave a like answer, but White Thunder, spoaking on behalf of all the Sioux tribes, said tho land the Poncas wanted was only a small corner of their reservation, and they would give it to the Poncas and welcome them as a part of their nation, having all the rights and privileges of the Sioux people. Secretary Kirkwood asked how much the Sioux wanted as compensation. This seems to he the final conclusion of the long-drawn-out Ponca controversy. The total values of exports for the past seven months ended July 31, 1881, were $82,708,977, and during the same period of 1830, $82,286,046. The total values of provisions and tallow for the nine months ended July 3, 1880Vwere $95,899,277 ; for the nine mouths POLITICAL POINTS. The Republican State Central Committee of California recommend Marcus D. Boruck for Secretary of the United States Sen ate. The Republican State Convention of Minnesota has keen called to meet at St. Paul Sept. 28.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The value of exports of petroleum and petroleum products for the two months ended June 30, 1881, was $40,315,596, against $36,218,625 the corresponding period the previous year. Prof, Parkhurst, the astronomer, asserts that there is no reason to fear a collision between the earth and the new comet, as the latter will not come within 50,000,000 miles of our planet. Henry W. Howgate, disbursing officer of the signal service, was arrested at Mount Clemens, Mich., charged with obtaining $40,000 of Government funds by'means of fraudulent vouchers, and taken to Washington. A collision of freight trains near Wooster, Ohio, caused the death of a brakeman named Joseph Whitaker, and the destruction pf two engines and fourteen loaded can.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME v 7.

The whaler Abbott Lawrence, which was towed into Bc. Johns in a disabled condition, reports that during January and February the mercury ranged between 18 and 75 degrees below zero at Marble island. The whaling season was a failure, because the ice-packs prevented the whalers from moving a ship’s length. The Apache Indians are again on the war path in New Mexico, and are committing fearful depredations. Prof. Porter, Prof. Frank C. Snow, Prof. Herbert S. Smith, all of the Kansas State University, a son of Prof. Snow, and Lewis L. Dyche, a student, formerly a resident of Anbnm, Kan., fell into the hands of the redskins while making collections of specimens at Water canon, N. M., recently. The bodies of two men were found by troops at a ranch about forty miles from McCauley station some days ago. It is now believed that about 40,000 troops, of which 30,000 are militia, will participate in the military demonstration in commemoration of the surrender at Yorktown. The Governors of most of the States with their staffs will be in attendance, and a building for their accommodation is in course of construction. The celebration bids fair to be a success worthy of the occasion.

A report upon the salt manufacture of the United States, prepared by W. L. Rowland, special agent for the chemical industry of the Census Bureau, gives some highly interesting statistics in relation to this indispensable article. It shows a very large increase of production of salt in the past twenty years. The entire product in 1860 was 12,717,198 bushels: in 1870, 17,606.105; and in 1880, 29,800,298 bushels. In 1860 the State of New York furnished 7,521,335 bushels, or 59 per cent, of the entire production, while Michigan furnished bnt 2 per cent. Twenty years later Michigan outstripped New York and produced 12,425,885 bushels, an amount almost equal to tho production of all the States in 1860, and 41% per cent, of the supply of 1880, New York contributing not quite 30 per cent, of the aggregate production. The average depth of the Michigan wells is 881 feet, while those of New York are but 424 feet. The strength of the brine in Michigan is 91% deg. salimeter, while New York brine is but 69% deg. Railroad-building is progressing rapidly in this country at present. Thus far the present year 3,115 miles of track have been graded and laid, and track-laying is now progressing in various States at the rate in the aggregate, of about 200 miles a week. James C. Fargo, of New York, lias been elected President of the American Express Company, and Charles Fargo, of Chicago, second Vice President. Rust has done considerable damage tc the wheat crop in the Province of Ontario. The bugs are making havoc among the potatoes of that provinco.

FOREIGN NEWS. 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 tho probablo 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 iH a show of law and order, the prisoners arreste 1 under the act will bo liberated. Anti-Jewish disturbances have also broken out again in West- Prussia and Pomerania. A dispatch from Geneva, Switzerland, says that Prof. Roone Picket, who has been giving his attention lately to marine architecture, announces a discovery which, if anticipations are realized, will effect a revolution in the art of shipbuilding. The discovery consists of a new methoctiof construction and such ah arrangement of keel as will diminish the resistance of the water to the lowest possible point. Vessels built in the fashion devised by Picket, instead of sinking their prows in the water as the speed increases, will rise out of the water the faster they go, in such a way that the only parts exposed to the friction of the water will be the sides of the hull an 3 the neighborhood of the wheel. In other words, ships thus constructed, instead of pushing their way through the water, will glide over it. It is claimed that steamers built after this design will attain a speed of from fifty to sixty kilometers aa hour. An old building, four stories high* situated in the most frequented part of the city of Vienna, suddenly fell. The greater part of the house was occupied by offices and fashionable shops. Twenty lives were lost and thirty persons seriously injured. Signor Merinetti, a distinguished member of tho Italian Alpine Club, was killed by an avalanche on Mount Rosa. The Orangemen of Liverpool and vicinity have enlisted 400 laborers to reap and harvest the crops in “boycotted” districts of Ireland. Seven hundred men paraded the streets of Stettin, Germany, uttering cries against the Jews. Forty arrests were made. Yellow fever rages in the French colony of Senegal, in the West of Africa. The International Law Conference, in session at Cologne, adopted by acclamation a resolution introduced by David Dudley Field, that in extradition treaties neither assassination nor attempts thereat as a means of affecting a change of Government or redress of grievances shall be deemed a political crime, and that the privilege of asylum be denied the perpetrator of such deed.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

(Japt. H. W. Howgate was brought before the United States Commissioner at Washington to answer to the charge made by Gen. Hazen of embezzling $50,000 from the Government Bail was fixed at $40,000. Later investigations into Capt. Howgate’s accounts make the sum total of his alleged defalcation so far about $70,000. Twenty-seven persons were killed and 306 woundod at a bull fight at Marseilles. Messrs. Cowles, Lewis and Allen, ol the Cornell University crew, charge the other members of that ill-starred body with having sold the race with the Austrian crew at Vienna. The Bey of Tunis has his hands full at present, the whole country being in a state of panic arising from the excesses of roving bands of Arabs. Secretary Forster has analyzed the n'"scriplions to the Irish Land-League fund, and reports that, out of .£10,707, all but JE243 was received from the United States. A scheme has been proposed to the German Government to unite Alsace with Baden, and make the Grand Duke of Baden the first King., Lorrainais to be united with the province of Rhineland, and become a part of Prussia. Queen Victoria eagerly reads all the dispatches received in London concerning the President’s condition, and expressed great

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. AUGUST 26, 1881.

pleasure atihe receipt of a personal telegram from Mrs. Garfield. She has repeated her order that everything of importance concerning the President shall be sent to her at Wind sor as soon as possible. The total value of the domestic breadstuffs exported from the United States during the seven months ending July 31, 1881, was $131,962,709, against $153,586,362 worth exported during the corresponding seven months of last year. The Governor of the MexicanTrovince of Sonora will co-operate with the Governor of Arizona to prevent the invasion of Sonora by “cow-boys” and the invasion of Arizona by “ Greasers.” and thus protect tho lives and property of the* nhabitants of both countriesThe United States Marshal at Tucson will also assist. Military and citizens are endeavoring to maintain order at Orange, Texas, where Sheriff Mitchell was dangerously wounded by a party of negroes, of whom two were subsequently shot and a third hanged. News comes that the inhabitants of Rugby, Tenn. —the colony founded by Thomas Hughes—are suffering terribly from typhoid fever, the disease being caused by bad water. Ex-Congressman Martin F. Conway, who, some years ago, shot Senator Pomeroy, has been released from tho lunatic asylum, where he has been confined for several years. The American Bar Association at Saratoga elected Clarkson N. Potter President. The Executive Committee was chosen of the most eminent jdrists in the country. Three-fourths of the town of Yule, British Columbia, is a smoldering ruin, the loss being estimated at $300,000 to $400,000. The flames started in a room in a hotel occupied by an intoxicated man, who evidently paid the penalty by his life. The American Photographers’ Association, at their convention in New York, elected Joslyia A. Smith President, and J. E. Beebe Treasurer (both of Chicago), and John Cadwallader, of Indianapolis, Secretary. The Tilden Club of Pittsburgh have named Tilden as the Democratic candidate for President in 1884. The club represents the sage of Gramercy Park as in excellent health and spirits. Charles Stockley was executed at Batavia, N. Y., for killing John Wilker, who refused him the hand of his daughter in marriage. Stockley feigned insanity in prisom and it took four strong men to shackle him.

POLYGAMOUS LIFE IN MORMONDOM.

The Story Told by one of Bishop Bnlelgh’» Eiirlit Wives—A Biscriptlon of the Harem—How the Women are Compelled to Hustle for Themselves. [Salt Lake Tribune.] The story related by Mrs. Elizabeth Raleigh, of Salt Lake, is like that of a great many of the women who have married into the Mormon Church. She first went into Mr. Raleigh’s family as a nurse to his former wife, who was on a bed of sickness from which she never rose. She declined to accept the proposals of marriage when first made, but in obedience to the mandate of Heber C. Kimball, then one of President Young’s conselors, and to whom disobedience was worse than contempt of court, she at length acceded. Her honeymoon was not a particularly bright one, but she took upon herseif the care of her husband’s children by his first wife, and was a mother to them during many years that followed. She was allowed to work all she pleased, and sometimes more, from the beginning, and as stated in the complaint, aided in every way to build up the fortune of her lord and master. As a specimen of what was expected of her, one instance may be related alone : Shortly after their marriage one of the cows died, down in a pasture lot in the edge of the town, it was supposed from having in some way become poisoned. She was sent with a Danish boy to skin the body, which they did, and Mrs. Raleigh carried the hide to the house over her shoulders, her husband, meantime, standing by with a linen duster on and a walking cane in his hand, superintending the work. Iu the course of time new wives were added to the household, the numbei eventually reaching eight, and at one period six of them occupying one house, and working and eating together in one small room, which served as kitchen, dining-room, sitting-room and parlor. Each had a separate sleeping apartment. They were all expected to earn a living: and if they wanted anything special in the way of clothing, etc., they bought it themselves from money made at washing or otherwise. The head of the household bought his supplies bv the quantity, and kept them under lock and key, dealing them out with a sparing hand. He was suspicious always tliaf his wives were trying to rob him, and on one occasion, when he thought he missed a dress pattern off a,bolt of common heavy goods, he seaclied the apartments of his wives, examining the bed ticks, looking in small drawers that would not have contained the bulk of the dress, and, when urged sarcastically by the plaintiff, even peering into a pair of stockiugs which were hung up in the room. The plaintiff says the finest dress he ever gave her after their marriage was one of a common material which would probably cost about a tut a yard now.

One of his wives finally brought a suit for a divorce against him, which was settled by compromise, and the result of the present suit will be watched with interest by some of the others, who will follow suit *if Mrs. Raleigh succeeds. As an evidence of the love felt for him by his children, it is said that when he had been absent in England on a mission and was returning, they saw him, and one of the boys exclaimed: “There comes that old scoundrel,” whereupon they all hastened to conceal themselves. He was called by some less tender and respectful names at other times, and all his life as a husband and •father seems not to have been a happy one, judging by the respect inspired iu his family. Subsequent to the separation from her husband, Mrs. Raleigh was questioned as to the illicit distillery which he is said to have run in the cellar ol his house iu this city at one time, but of this matter she professed to be in ignorance. The story goes that one of the men in charge while drinking with some companions and not liking the quality of the tanglefoot offered him, told the crowd that if they would come to the cellar he would give them some that was genuine, as he had helped to make it himself. These are but the merest scraps from the history of the eminent councilman, who is so bright and shining a light iq the circle of Latter-day Saints,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

Washington, Aug. li There was a slight improvement in the President’s condition yesterday. He slept well last night, the pulse has shown a steady diminution, and there has been no recurrence of the vomiting. The fears of blood-poisoning have been dismissed. A teaspoonful of beef juice and a few drops of muriatic acid were given twice in the afternoon, and a spice blister put on the stomach. The patient’s weight has lessened seventy pounds since the assassination, and his face is represented as haggard and blanched. The physicians have decided not to administer food in the natural way for some time to come. Tventy ounces of nutritive substances are daily injected into the President’s system. It appears clear to the medical attendants of the President that his critical condition was caused simply by a form of dyspepsia. While the effort was being made to increase the vitality of the body and fortify it for the exhaustion attending the sufferiug and constant discharge from the wound, the diet was too rapidly increased and produced the relapse. The discovery of this fact will be productive of beneficial results in the immediate future. More patience will be exercised, and the building up of the system will be slower and surer. Dr. Bliss believes that by the time the President recovers from the gastric attack the wound will bo healed. It is already far advanced in the healing stage, and the resumption of the I unctions of the stomach will be the only thing needed to bring the patient to the long-looked-for convalescence. Mrs. Garfield bears up bravely, and her confidence iu her husband’s recovery remains unshaken. A citizen of New York, describing himself as in robust health, has offered his blood to save the President by transfusion. Dr. Baxter, who has been the President’s physician for ten years previous to the shooting, says that, although of stalwart physique, Gen. Garfield suffered much during the time he attended him from chronic dyspepsia and a delicate stomach, brought about by his sedentary habits and mental strain. He said that the President was in the habit of eating too rapidly, without proper masticatiou, and also made’s practice of sitting up late at night over his books or in considering public business. These habits had the effect of increasing his dyspeptic condition. Dr. Baxter thinks that the’ attending surgeons have not given these facta as much attention as the circumstances called for. Among the vast number of dispatches received ai the White House was one of a personal character from Queen Victoria, which was answered by Mrs. Garfield. Secretary Blaine, who was in Augusta when ho first heard the news of the last unfavorable change in the President’s condition, returned to Washington yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, while McGill, employed as a guard in the jail, was passing Guiteau’s cell he noticed the-occupant employed apparently in paring his nails. McGill approached the cell and asked Guiteau what he was doing. Guiteau said Le was doing nothing, and oil McGill asking what he was doing with the knife the scoundrel mado oath that be had none. The guard, called on him to drop it, whereupon the murderous ruffian jumped up and attempted to stab him. McGill pulled his revolver, Guiteau grappled him, and in the struggle the revolver went off. This brought other guards, and Guiteau was secured. The knife, which he swore he had not, was found under his foot. It is made of steel, is five or six inches in length and rather sharp. Guiteau, after being disarmed, raved and affected insanity. How he came in possession of the knife has not beeD ascertained. Washington, Aug. 19. A stronger pulse, a better feeling of the skin, retention of nourishment derived from enemata, and the excellent tone of the President’s mind, are mentioned aa unmistakablo indications that the crisis is past and the road to recovery again regained. The fact that the President is able to procure refreshing sleep without the use of anodynes is pointed to as one of the most favorable features of his case. The irritation of the stomach has entirely ceased, and it is thought the patient’s thirst will be entirely satisfied by snpp’ying him with fluids in the ordinary way and by enemata. The wound is considered in a very healthy condition. Some alarm was created yesterday among the unmedical by the appearance of a swelling of the parotid gland near tho right angle of the jaw. This, however, occasions no uneasiness among the professional men, being merely regarded as an indication of a debilitated system, the result of a low tone of the blood, and not figuring in the case one way or another. Agnew informed Mrs. Garfield that the only thing needed for the rapid recovery of the President was the improvement of the digestive power of the stomach. Warden Crocker, of the Washington jail, yesterday handed Guiteau a postal-card from his sister, Mrs. F. M. Scoville, of Chicago, asking about his health. The assassin requested that she be informed that he was praying daily for the recovery of the President, and regretted his deed. Washington, Aug. 20. The President continues to improve slowly, and is much better this morning than at any time since the recent relapse. His sleep last night was of a refreshing character. Yesterday he j artook of twenty-two ounces of liquid food through the mouth, and there were no symptoms of gastric disturbance or nausea. The inflammation of the parotid gland has subsided, and the fear of suppuration ■therefrom has disappeared. The wouud continues to secrete healthy pus, though iu daiiy diminishing quantities. The temperature and pulse are in a much better condition. The physicians believe that, the patient is gradually recovering his powers of digestion, when Ins general improvement will be more marked. Thus, with the close of the seventh week, there is a brighter prospect for the sick man. The physicians have given hopeful assurances to the Cabinet Ministers that unless other serious complications should arise the President will continue to improve. Col. Waring, a sanitary expert, is giving the Wnite House a thorough examination. Among the late letters of sympathy received yesterday was one from the Patriarch of Armenians in Turkey. A haudsomo young woman giving her name as Mrs. Mary L. Remmger,of Brooklyn, appeared at the White House yesterday, and demanded an opportunity to cure the President for which purpose she had come from Pans. She was sent to the insane asylum, where it was found that she wore the costume of a ballet-dancer under her dress.

Valne of Ammonia.

Ammonia -will remove finger marks from paint, where there would otherwise have to be a good deal of scrubbing with soap, which takes the paint off too. Ammonia is useful to wash all the brushes that are used in a household. Nothing will cleanse greasy sinks, pans or scrubbing brushes so well. A teaspoonful in a basin of warm water will make hair brushes beautifully white. Take care not te let the back of brushes dip below the surface ; rinse them with clear, warm water, and put them in a sunny window to dry. A small bottle of ammonia is also useful for the wardrobe. Keep a little sponge with it, and when woolen dresss are stained or soiled thev are easily cleaned by passing a little diluted ammonia over the spots. Fold a towel, and place it under the spotted or soiled portion while you are cleaning the dress.

Children of the Silver Spoon.

Sometimes I favor limiting bylaw the amount of money a man shall leave his sons. Twenty thousand dollars apiece is plenty for them. Above that it might profitably escheat to the State. The consequence would be that rich men would do good while they lived with their enormous profits, ft is common to hear boys educated by bounty to begin the battle of life say, ‘ ‘ Oh ! I think I ought to have been a rich man’s son ! ” Look around you at the young women in the hotel. In every pair of ears is a pair of big diamonds, the aggregate being right here as many diamonds as a palace contains. Yet nothing seems to accompany the diamonds but a novel. You see nobody reading anything but that. A young womau in big diamonds hearing me mention Franklin, yesterday, said “Mr. Brewster, who was Franklin ? He was the inventor of printing, was he not ?”

“Yes, dear,” I said, “of printing and of thunder and lightning.” She said, “Oh, thank you!” and never knew ft was a reflection upon her. Now, her mother would have known who Franklin was.— Hon. Benjamin Brewster.

INDIANA NEWS.

Richmond is to have a brass foundry. The Jennings county fair has proved a great success. The publication of the 72d volume of the Indiana reports has been delayed until Sept. 14. Fakmers in Putnam county along the railroads are having much trouble with burning fields. Two little negro boys have been sentenced at Madison to three years in the penitentiary for setting fire to barns. New Albany will soon be asked to vote the sum of SIOO,OOO to secure the location of the Air-line shops. Alfred Bbattin, who murdered Douglass Hester, near Nashville, Brown county, is now a fugitive from justice. Thomas Carter died at Greenfield, Hancock county, the other day, from drinking lemonade colored with aniliue It is estimated that there was a crowd of 20,000 persons in attendance at the old settlers’ meeting, in Hendricks county. Dennis Lynch set fire to the Rochester (Fulton county) calaboose, while being held for drunkenness, and barely escaped with his life. The annual meeting of the old settlers of Fayette county was held at the fair grounds in Connersville. About 4,000 people were present. When the Seymour telephone exchange is in working order, it is proposed to connect with Brownstown, Courtland and surrounding villages. Three highwaymen attacked Capt. Swift, a well-known stock trader ot Orange county, and, putting revolvers at his head, robbed him of $450. The Indiana Bureau of Statistics is about to send out a blank for the purpose of ascertaining the different avenues of business' already open to women. in Delphi, Carroll county, w. V® poisoned by eating butter which had been covered with a cabbage leaf upon which paris green had been used to destroy bugs. Leonidas Robertson, a farmer living near Madison, who has never shown the slightest tendency to insanity, put on liis wife’s clothes and sun-bonnet, and hanged himself. Two alligator gars were recentlykilled in Cicero creek, near Noblesville. They measured fifteen and twenty inches respectively. They are the first ever seen in these waters. Workmen employed in making an excavation near the river, at Mishawaka, St. Joseph county, unearthed a number of Indian skeletons, some of them comparatively near the surface. E. B. Lewellen committed suicide at a hotel in Shelbyville, by taking strychnine and whisky. He was a well-to-do young man about 27 years old, his liome being in Randolph county, North Carolina. William R. Hougham, a young man of Per kins ville, Madison county, was killed at the hands of one James D. Powers, a notorious outlaw, who began a riot and was being quieted by Hougliam. A large meadow of hay had been cut near Corydon, Harrison county, and, a bumble-bees’ nest having been stirred up, the boys thought to burn out the bees. The result was the whole meadow was burned over.

Perry Barngrover, of Fail-land, Slielby county, was indicted at the last session of the Grand Jury, and is now out on bail, for the crime of barratry. This is the first case of the kind ever indicted by a Shelby county Grand Jury. Miss Emma Beeves, daughter of a prominent citizen of Harrison county, went crazy at camp meeting over the subject of sanctification, which was there being laid down as the law of God, and when taken homo she committed suicide. Benjamin Pierce, of Sullivan county, w hile at work in a clearing, was pinned to the earth b> a burning tree that fell upon him. It was nearly an hour before his little boy could summon a rescue, and the poor man, then burned nearly to a crisp, lived but a short time. A 10- year-old son of Todd Henderson was hauling logs in the upper part of Clark county, when, in driving down a hill, the lock-chain broke, the horses started to run off, the wagon upset and the log fell on the boy, crushing him so terribly that he died immediately. A boy, 15 years of age, by the name of Charles Sutton, living at Smithfield, Delaware county, caught his fingers in a cog-w-heel while doing duty as assistant miller at the flouring-mills of that place, tearing his right arm off at the elbow. Mart Stevens, an honest farmer living near Glen wood, Rush county, was victimized by a rascally lightning-rod agent to the tune of $235. He was induced to sign a note, before he knew what he was doing, for said amount, for a poor job of rodding his buildings. A Columbus man has a horse in his stable that is said to be 48 years old. He served through the war, on the Union side, and was 28 years old in 1861, when he enlisted or was drafted into the service. He bears the U. S. brand and is still a very good animal for light harness. Dr. Biddinger, of Harrison county, had several horses die in quick succession, and suspicion attached to Samuel Ewing, a farmer in the neighborhood, as the poisoner. Ewing was then hanged to a tree to extort a confession, and was finally forced to sell out and leave. Chemical analysis now shows tli at the horses died of botts. Driven - well owners in Jackson county denounce as a swindle the demand made upon them for $lO royalty for each well. Some, rather than litigate, have acceded to the demand, but the greater majority declare they will spend double the amount in defending any suits that may be brought against them. As Reuben Baker was leaving Geneva, Adams county, for Fulton county, HI., he displayed all his wealth, amounting to $l4O, at the depot, and, before leaving, was robbed of his money by Joel Weaver and Alfred Sharpe. Sharpe jifts been apprehended, and confessed

and delivered to the Justice his half of the money. The other escaped. A young married man went to Connersville, Fayette county, and purchased furniture to go to housekeeping. On his road home with the goods, he accidentally let fire fall from his cigar into the straw and combustibles. The blaze sprang up fiercely, and it was with difficulty that the horses were extricated from the wagon. The furniture and wagon were consumed. At Muncie, Delaware county, one of the men connected with a side-show attached to Coup’s circus was badly bitten on the hand by one of the snakes. He had his hand in the case for the purpose of learning the temperature, when the reptile very suddenly caught his finger. The man went to a drug store and filled himself with whisky and will survive. An analysis of the stomach of Sarah Lewellen, whose murder by her husband, William Lewellen, at North Vernon, has been charged, found strychnine in quantities sufficient to have killed half a dozen persons. The husband is in jail, with excellent chances of being the second man hanged in Jennings county. Lewellen’s neighbors have believed him guilty from the beginning, and frequent threats of lynching have been heard.

The First Battle with Corporations.

Fifty years ago the Bank of the United States was a mighty power in finance and politics. Mr. Biddle, its President, was ambitious of still-greater influence, and he desired to spread it all over the Union, through agencies which he established. He succeeded in gathering around him many of the foremost leaders of that time, and, when the renewal of the charter was proposed, majorities in both houses of Congress promptly passed the bill. Gen. Jackson had openly and formally opposed the renewal, and he, therefore, vetoed the bill. Not satisfied with this signal disapproval of that measure, he determined to crush out the bank ; and, soon after his re-election in 1832, he removed the public deposits from that institution and put them in certain State banks. This act brought down upon him the most violent opposition, and “ the great trio,” Calhoun, Clay and Webster, for the first time, were cordially united against the administration. A resolution severely censuring the President, and declaring this act to be unconstitutional, was carried through the Senate ; but in after years it was expunged from the journal of that body. This was the first memorable contest against corporate power. The President stood heroically against the seductions, the social and political influences, the wealth and the menaces which the bank was able to command. Mr. Duane, Secretary of the Treasury, resigned his office rather than execute the order to remove the deposits. Other friends deserted Old Hickory, but he did not move a hair’s breadth from his original purpose. His courage increased, or, rather, it was more signally manifested as the opposition became fiercer. Jackson knew what power the bank had exercised outside of its legitimate sphere, and he believed another charter would enlarge its capacity for evil. Therefore he took the responsibility, which after half a century can hardly be appreciated, of compassing its overthrow. And he succeeded, as he did in most of his undertakings. The people rallied around the President. They sustained him against the great corporation, as they did against the nullified after he had threatened to hang Calhoun as high as Haman if he persisted in his treasonable designs against the Union. He had fought their battles gallantly and victoriously, and their gratitude was great. In the midst of the struggle Gen. Jacksou wrote a letter, full of the spirit of Jefferson, his great exemplar, which is illustrated in the following extract: “The ambition which leads me on is an anxious desire and a fixed determination to return to the people, unimpaired, the sacred trust they have confided in my charge; * * * to persuade my countrymen, so far as I may, that it is not in a splendid Government, supported by powerful monopolies and aristocratic establishments, that they will find happiness, or their liberties protected, but in a plain system, void of pomp, protecting all, and granting favors to none. It is such a Government that the genius of our people requires.” These truths made a lasting impression ; aud until the demoralization incident to a great civil war corporate power was restrained within proper limits. Its strides within the last twelve years, protected, strengthened and encouraged by Grant aud Hayes, and by corruption in Congress, have been gigantic. Step by step, corporations have seized upon the avenues leading to possession of the Government. They put one President iu by fraud, and another by the scandalous use of money. The present administration is virtually composed of monopolists and the champions of corporate power. The contest between the people who are oppressed and the corporations that impose the burdens cannot forever be postponed. It is hastened by new aggressions. The greatest of opportunities is offered to a leader fit to conduct this grand cause of the many against the few. We have faith that he will be found.— Neon York Sun.

Making Texas Republican.

The New York Time advances at somewhat startling doctrine : “ A Democratic paper in Massachusetts boasts that ‘ Texas, the most solidly Democratic State in the Union, will soon have a school fund of $100,000,000, the largest by far of any State. ’ This looks like a large estimate of the value of the public lands ; but its devotion to school purposes will destroy the boasted Democratic solidity of Texas just as soon as a new generation has been educated.” By this (says an able contemporary) we are to understand that the education to be given to the children of Texas, with the help of this splendid school fund, will make the children Republicans in their politics, and turn Texas into a Republican' State. Twenty years ago, when the Republican party stood against the extension of slavery into the new Territories, and nominated Abraham Lincoln for President, a simple, upright man, who believed in Democracy and was ready to' devote his life to the maintenance of the Union, any man might well bring his children up to be Republicans. A child could easily lie made to understand* that the extension of slavery was wroug, and that the Union was not to

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be broken up because a political party hail been beaten in an election. When men believed in these principles, and could show it by voting for such a man as Lincoln, they could without Invitation or reserve instruct their children to give their support to the Republican party. But now things have changed. Slavery is gone. There is no motive of humanity that can be appealed to in favor of one party over another, and the natural relic of the war—the opposition to the solid South, which has for so long been a veil over many men’s eyes—must die out; in fact, it has died out alreadv. The country has entered upon a different era, and to make a child grow up a Republican at the present time, the oldfashioned style of education must be radically altered. He must be taught that democracy, or the rights of the people, should be curtailed; that the country is in need of a more arbitrary control than seemed good to the men who made the constitution, and, above all, he must thoroughly understand that common honesty, though necessary in the other affairs of life, affords no fundamental rule for politics. Will the extended system of public education which Texas is destined to enjoy produce such an effect as this ? We trust not. But this is by no means all. To convert the majority of the future citizens of Texas into Republicans they must be made to feel that a Republican thief is better than an honest Democrat; that a man whose weakness and corruption are notorious and indisputable must be supported without flinching if he receives a regular Republican nomination for high office; that the bad points of his record and his character must be winked at or ignored or disbelieved ; and that honest men must go to the polls and vote for a villain if his name stands on the Republican ticket, even if the opposite party puts up a candidate who merits the respect and confidence of all. And finally, after all this, when the Republican party is defeated in the election, if by any means the result can be falsified and the Repuolicans kept in power, the minds of the young must be instructed to give their approval to the act. They must stick to their party, though the majority of the whole people be in this way disfranchised. Bucli are the political ideas which the people of Texas must teach to their children if they would have them grow up Republicans. They are very simple ideas ; but, unfortunately, simplicity is not their only quality.

No Progress in Education.

In picking up a bundle of school books the other day, and carelessly glancing through them, we were struck with the almost Pagan darkness that seems to envelop education. Journalism, photography, telegraphy and the electric arts—everything, in fact, has made the most wonderful progress during the past fifteen or twenty years, but education, or the study of the sciences, is about the same old succotash that it always was. We see that there are still two grand divisions of the earth, and they are composed of land and water. That was the case twenty years ago. We turn over a few pages and find the following questions: “Where are the Mountains of the Moon ? ” ‘ 1 Where are the Himalayas ! ” “ Between what two bodies of water are the Philippine Islands situated ? ” “ State where the river Dneiper rises, what course it runs, and into what body of water it empties.” Well, it has been many years since we left the dear old school room, and our teachers who were so kind, and we are positive that at that time we knew where the Moon Mountains were, the Hymalayas, the Phillipine Islands and the Dneiper River, but we can place our hand upon our heart to-day and say truthfully that we do not know where one of them are, and we don’t believe we have heard one of them mentioned m the last fifteen years. Still, it must be remembered that we are in the newspaper business. If we were dealing in groceries it would probably be different, and we should use the Moon Mountains every day in our business. Customers would expect it, and while they would appear to be looking at the cheese to see if there were any skippers before buying a wedge of it, they would in rea'ity be making up their mind whether we knew where the Phillipine Islands were, and the general . course of the Dneiper. Some customers are very particular. People have expressed astonishment at the success of some of the leading dry goods merchants of Milwaukee, and have attributed it to the merchants’ knowing how to buy goods cheap down east and sell them for less than other merchants. This shows how ignorance is stalking through the land. If one could peek over the shoulder of the most successful merchants, when they are burning the midnight oil and clawing into their hair with both hands, they would be found poring over a geography, trying to find some little river in Asia Minor. Then there is algebra and cube and square root. Only last week we wrote an editorial and did not know really whether it ought to be published or not. All at once the words of our teacher came to us—“ Prove it; if it is correct it can be proved.” We threw a radical over it, raised it to the fourth power, extracted the cube root, and having x and y given to us, we easily found the unknown quantity z, and the thing was a bird. One of the most successful grocers in Milwaukee, a man who has accumulated a handsome fortune from a very small beginning, told us only the other day that he owed all his success to the use of algebra and a few theorems in geometry when picking a mackerel out of the kit with the hook and slapping it against the side of the barrel to get the brine off, and to buying just as close as he could for cash. Where would that man be to-day if he had only learned to add and multiply fractions, and had stopped there, and had bought his goods on time, with ten per cent, added. Teachers have a great duty to perform.— Peek's Sun.

Skull Measurements.

Prof. Fiower, the well-known English anatomist, states that the largest normal skull he ever measured was as much a* 2,075 cubic centimeters, the smallest 960 cubic centimeters, this belonging to one of those peculiar people in the center of Ceylon who are now nearly extinct. The largest average capacity of any human head he has measured is that of a race of long, flatheaded people on the west coast of Africa. The Laplanders and Esquimaux, though a very small people, have very large skulls, the latter giving an average measurement of 1,546. The English skull, of the lower grades, shows 1,542; the Japanese, 1,486; Chinese, 1,424; modem Italian, 1,475; ancjtqit Egyptian, 1,464; Hindoos, 1,306,

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The Native Michigander.

The native Michigander is a good fellow at heart, but he has his eccentricities. “Yes, I struck this State over fifty years ago,” he said to me the other evening, as he hunted in his hind pocket for his plug tobacco. “I’ve heard the wolves howl, the b’ars roar, and the panthers scream.” “ You have, eh ?” “You bet I have? Yes, sir, and I’ve lived all winter on acorns, slept in Bummer in a tree top, and walked forty-two miles through the woods to prayer-meet-ing. ” “ Then you must be pious ?” “Pious? Dura my old hide to ballyhack and gosh all fish-hooks to thunder, but I raytlier reckon I am. Pious ? Why, how in thunder and blazes and tea-ket-tles could I have borne up if I hadn’t been pious! Say, did you ever live in the woods forty miles from the nearest human hyena, black or white ?” “Never.” “ Did you ever have to go barefoot in snow four feet deep ?” “No.” “Ever shake with the ager right along for 284 days, Sundays included?” “No.” “ Dod rot your pampered countenance, of course you never did! What did you ever do towards making Michigan the great and glorious State she now is?” “Well, I’ve run a lawn-mower.’* “ Run a thunder to blazes 1 How many acres of forest do you ’sposo I’vo cut down?” “ Two.” “Two! Why, you onery hyena, my old woman has slashed down over forty herself, and she’s left-handed, at that ! I calkerlate, sir—l solemnly calkerlate that I’ve cleared off at least 800 hundred acres of the toughest kind of forest. How much tea do you suppose I had in my house the first ten years of our pioneer life ?” ‘ * Twenty-five chests. ” “ Twenty-five h—lls !” he roared as he hunted for more plug, “we had just two drawings and no more !” “ Couldn’t you get trusted at the corner grocery ?” “Get trusted 1 Corner grocery ! Why, you infernal young lunatic, wasn’t I located forty miles from the nigliest grocery ! That’s what I’ve been telling you all along. None of you spiled children of luxury kin have any idea of how we had to get along in them old days.” “ I presume not.” “ One winter when the old woman was sick I had nothing to feed her but salt coon and corn-dodgers. ” “ Oyster soup would havo been nice.” “ Oyster thunder ! Don’t I keep telling you that I was fifty miles in the wood ?” “ Yes, but why didn’t you got out ?” “Git out? What fur?” “ Why, you might got out and lived on your motlicr-in-law and hod a trotting horse, a plug hat, a diamond pin and high living. You were vory foolish to stay in the woods, where they had no ward caucuses, or military parados, or circus processions, or ginger boor, or banana puddings.” We generally end here. The old native chokes and gasps and jumps up and down and kicks his hat into the street and goes away saying : “Them durned pampered idiots of luxury wouldn’t keer two cents if the hull State was growed up to jack-pinos so thick that a rabbit couldn’t squeeze through !” But next night he comes again to wrestle mo for the championship.— M. Quad.

The Betting Young Man from Chicago.

jWe had on board, as a matter of course, the betting young man from Chicqjgo. No steamer ever sailed that did net have this young fellow aboard, and tlfere are enough of them to last the Atlantic for a great many years. Ho knew everything that everybody thinks he knows, but does not, and his delight was to propound a query, and then when you half answered it to very coolly and exasperatingly remark : “Bet yer a bottle of wine you’re wrong.” The matter would be so simple and one of so common repute that immediately you aocepted the wager, only to find that in some minute particular you were wrong, and that the knowing youth had won. For instance : “ Thompson, do you know how many States there are in the Union ?”

Now, any citizen of the United States who votes, and is eligible to the Presidency, ought to know how many States there are in his beloved country without thinking, but how many are there who can say off hand ? And so poor Thompson answered : “What a question 1 Of course, I know. ” “ Bet yer bottle ye don’t.” “Done.” “There are—,” And then Thompson would find himself figuring the very important problem as to whether Colorado had been admitted, and Nevada, and Oregon, and he would decide that one had and the other hadn’t, and finally state the number, with great certainty that it was wrong. The Chicago man’s crowning bet occurred the last day out. The smoking room was tolerably full, as were the occupants, and everybody was bored, as everybody is on the last day. The Chicago man had been silent for an hour, when suddenly he broke out: “Gentlemen—,” “ Oh, no more bets,” was the exclamation of the entire party. “Give us a rest. ” “ I don’t want to bet, but I can show you something curious.” “Well?” “ I say it and mean it. I can drink a glass of water without its going down my throat.” “ And get it into your stomach ?” .“Certainly.” There was a silence of considerable more than a minute. Every man in the room had been victimized by this gatherer of inconsiderable trifles, and there was a general disposition to get the better of liim in some way if possible. Here was the opportunity. How could a man get a glass of water into his stomach without it going down his throat ? Impossible 1 And so the usual bottle of wine was wagered, and the Chicago man proceeded to accomplish the supposed impossible feat. It was very easily done. All he did was to stand upon his head on the seat that runs around the room and swallow a glass of water. It went to his stomach, but it did not go down his throat And so his last triumph was greater than all his previous ones, for every man in the room had lieen eager to accept his wager. From that time out had he offered to wager that he would swallow his own head he would have got no takers. —7'Toledo Blade.