Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. A New York telegram of Aug. 22 says: A new clue to the resting place of the remains of the late A. T. Stewart is being worked. Some ten days ago a boy left at a detective agen* cy a crude oil painting, representing a scene In a lonely spot, with the words in one part of it: “ Stewart’s body lies here.” The following note accompanied it: “ This location is in Cy" press Hill Cemetery. Be very careful •when approaching the grounds. You will be watched. Don’t be seen making observations, for they will see you *md follow you.” After consultation with Judge Hilton, it was decided to make a search. The cemetery was visited on Saturday, the spot,indicated found, and four grave-diggers spent the afternoon at work. Nothing but a coffin-screw was found, though there appeared to be evidences that the ground had been dug up at the place indicated in the picture. The digging is to be resumed .to-day. The will of Mrs. Millard Fillmore, of Buffalo, disposes of an estate of SBOO,OOO, of ■which amount public charities will receive $50,000. West Advices from New Mexico report another encounter in New Mexico between the troops and the hostile Indians, in which Lieut. Smith and four soldiers were killed. George Daily, a well-known mining expert, was also killed in the action. The Ohio Board of Agriculture makes =an estimate for August of 72 per cent, of a full crop of whe%t 70 per cent, of corn, and 1,000,000 bushels increase of oats. The figures for wheat wero taken from measurements from 1,000 thrashing machines during three weeks. The Gaze stove works, located near fthe foot of Harrison street, St. Louis, were burned. The loss is SIOO,OOO, and the insurance $50,000. The tug-boat A. B. Ward blew up in the river at Chicago, the result being the loss of three lives and the destruction of $20,000 worth of property. The insurance men of St. Louis are at war with the fire department, claiming that by the inefficiency of the latter they are paying out 150 per cent, on premiums, while Chicago disburses only 40 per cent. Hon. W. H. Reagan, President of the Indiana Board of Agriculture, who has recently traversed the State, estimates the corn crop at less than half that of last year. Jesse Meliarry, a pioneer who recently died near Shawnee Mound, Ind., left funds to be given to namesakes, at the rate of $25 each, «>pcn to all comers for one year, the only condition being that the parents should be of good moral character.

Boutn. An incendiary tire at Irvine, Ky., destroyed the business portion of the town except three stores. The loss will be at least $60,000. A destructive fire on Gravier street, New Orleans, severely damaged several wholesale stores. Loss about $75,000. Au overheated journal set fire to the 'Houring-niill of Webster & Dillingham, on Peters street, Non Orleans, which was totally destroyed, the loss reaching $50,000. Wheeling, W. Va., suffered from a disastrous fire. Damage, about $60,000. The citizens of Orange, Tex., a town on the Texas and New Orleans road, grew weary of the acts of desperadoes, and have shot six and hanged two of them. Some time since Ben Blanton, exSherill of Cook county, Tex., and a desperate man, met James Todd, who had been a witness against him in a lawsuit, and abused and insulted him in a most outrageous mannor. They separated, each vowing to meet the other for a final settlement. The men__ met a few days ago in the road, and both drew weapons and Cued. Todd was shot through the heart and in the breast. The top of Blanton’s head was blown off. Both men were lying dead when discovered. Two negro murderers were taken from jail at Monroe, La., and lynched. A feud of long standing resulted in an affray at Johnston, S. C., in which J. W. Timmerman was killed, and J. W. Buzzard and his sou soriously wounded, with double-barreled shot-guns. Forest fires are raging in Arkansas, where no rain has fallen for ten weeks, and in many sections trees aro shedding their foliage as if struck by frost.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Postmaster General James lias issued an order that persons annoyed by postal ca ds rrom any particular place may have them destroyed by the TOstmaster by making the re(ffiest in writing. United States bonds held to secure national-bank circulation, Aug. 20, 1881, amounted to $363,320,000, as follows: Currency 6s, $3,504,000 ; 6 per cents, $52,000 ; 5 per cents, $3,715,450 ; 4% per cents, $32,265,000; 4 per cents, $91,164,300; 3% percents, $232,559,200. Tho developments in the Howgate investigation show' that the original amount of $40,000 will be ultimately increased to SIOO,000. The peculations are found not to have been confined to false telegraph but extended to nearly every branch of the expenditure of the $500,000 annual appropriation for the Signal Service. The rascal robbed the Government of a large amount of money through the fitting out of the Gulnare, which was ostensibly paid for out of his own pocket Gen. Leslie Coombs died a few days, ago at his home at Lexington, Ky., in the 88th year of his age. The decease! General served with distinction in the War of 1812 and in the Mexican war. He was a staunch Union man, and helped to keep Kentucky from seceding. Attorney General MacVeagh decides that, although the law gave preference to exsoldiers as candidates for Government positions, the right for preference could not be observed until they had passed the same examination prescribed for other candidates in the civil service. A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Times says that Capt. Howgate’s embezzlement bids fair to show up $400,000 on the i ooks. Tho Attorney General has caused him to be rearrested and held in s9o,ooobail. Gen. Hazen believes that Howgate has for lour years appropriated to his own use about one-fourth of the signal-service fund, over which he had absolute control. His private yacht on the Potomac was cdually constructed wiih Government money m the back yard of tho signal office. His met hod of securing signatures ta blank vouchers was audacious enough to entitle him to a premium. He owns real estate in Florida, Virginia and the District of Columbia, and is known to hold large quantities of stocks, from which the public treasury may possibly realize something. A special attorn ej for the Government

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has entered suit at Washington against Capt. 1L W. Howgate to recover $191,257, and all the property of the latte? has been seized on writs of attachment. George W. Riggs, the well-known Washington banker, is dead. Daniel C. De Jamette, a member of the Thirty-sixth Congress, and afterward a member of the Confederate Honse of Iteprer sentatives from the Richmond (Va.) district, has just died at Fredericksburg, Va. The value of the exports from this country during the month of July of this year was $10,699,460 in excess of the value of the imports. For the corresponding month of last year the value of the exports exceeded the value of the imports by $13,710,587. The value of the exports for the year ending July 31, 1881, exceeded the value of the imports by $250,691,591. The excess for the year ending July 31, 1880, was $171,750,150.

POLITICAL POINTS. At Worcester, Mass., the State Greenback Convention in their platform adopted a plank favoring universal suffrage ’‘without regard to race, color, sex or taxes.” Israel W. Andrews was nominated for Governor by acclamation. In a State Convention at Elmira, N. Y., tho Greonbackers placed in the field Epictus Howe for Secretary of State, and John Hooper for Comptroller. The platform strikes at excessive railroad charges. The Mississippi Greenbackers met in convention at Jackson, and nominated Col. Ben King for Governor. Gen. Wm. G. Wickham, the leader of the “ Straightout” Republicans in Virginia, publishes a letter giving reasons why he cannot support the Mahone coalition ticket, and in whiyh he also states that he intends to vote for the Democratic State ticket. Gen. Wickham denounces the Readjuster programme.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Capt. Hooper, of the steamer Corwin, which was sent in search of the Jeannette and the missing Arctic whalers, in a report to Secretary Wiudom, announces that he arrived at St. Michaels July 4 from the Arctic ocean, where the Corwin party discovered relics of one of the missing whalers, probably the Vigilant; that nothing was known of any one belonging to the Jeannetto along the Siberian coast, i !apt. Hooper also reports the discovery of an island near Cape Serdze. Reports from the harvest in Europe give France a better wheat crop than last year, while Great Britain falls 10 per cent, below the average, and Austria yields something above. Tho wheat crop in the Turkish provinces on the Danube is classed as medium; in Germany, good ; in .Switzerland as very poor in quality, and in Belgium as far below the average. Russia reports barley as the best crop of the year. In Holland all cereals are in good condition, while m Spain the reverse is the case ; in Italy the crops are of medium quality and below the average of last year. Fire losses : At Evansville, Ind., nine wholesale stores and their, contents valued at $250,000 ; the chief buildings of Arkansas City, Ark., loss SIOO,OOO ; the shops of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio railroad, at Harrisburg, Texas, loss $200,000 ; the business portion of Daingerfield, Texas, loss $28,000. The Yorktown Centennial Commission and the citizens of Washington and Baltimore decided to entertain the invited guests of the nation in Baltimore on Oct. 10, 11 and 12, and u Washington on the 13th, 14th and 15th of he same month. It is expected that twenty 1 stinguished guests from France will be present on the occasions. It is also expected that the French Government will send over two targe war-vessels with troops.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Spanish elections resulted in heavy gains for the Liberals. The quantity of grain available for export from Austria to Hungary which may be relied on is valued at over 160,000,000 florins. This is almost as much as in 1868, when the export was the largest on record. Parnell moved in the House of Commons for the release of Michael Davitt, characterizing his arrest as tho most contemptible act ever committed by any Government. The motion was defeated by 62 to 19. The French elections resulted in a sweeping victory for the advanced Republicans and in a crushing defeat for the Bouapartists and Clericals. Tho result of the elections will strengthen the present Cabinet, and free the members from the dictatorship of Gambetta. Queen Victoria has given her assent to the Irish Land bill, which now becomes a law. The Marquis of Hartington, Seci-etary of State for India, stated in the House of Commons that the Ameer had not asked the British Government for either arms or money, and that the Indian Government did not intend to interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan. The elections in France gave the Republicans 403 districts and the Monarchists and Bonapartists 80. Gambetta obtained a petty majority in Belleville. The defeat of the Bouapartists in Corsica is regarded as an event of -reat political significance. Paul de Cassagaac was elected at Mirande. The continued rains in Irelan I have greatly damaged the grain crops, aud apprehensions are felt regarding the harvest. Bangkok, the capital of Siam, is being ravaged by Asiatic cholera. From 100 to 300 natives are dying daily. The Europeans have mostly fled to Singapore and Hong Kong. The cost of the trial of Parnell and his associates was £9,800. Parnell is going to issue the United Irishman daily in the interest of his agitation schemes. The long continuance of wet weather has ruined the prospects for an average crop in England. There are indications fast accumulating that the tenantry of England and Scot" land will make a Parliamentary effort to secure the passage of a land bill of a somewhat similar character to that passed for the benefit of Ireland. Shch a movement will be indorsed by Gladstone and a large proportion of the Liberal party.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Mueller’s brewery, at Philadelphia, was swept away by flames, the loss being $60,000. Several firemen were injured by a falling cornice. The failure is announced of Jackman A O’Hara, manufacturers of cloakß and suits’ of New York city. The failure was due to the losses of Jackman, the senior partner, on Wall street. The Union Stock Yards, near Chicago, has been visited by a very destructive conflagration. It was confined to the packing-house of J, C. Hately, which was entirely consumed. The loss will exoeed $750,000, the tusupvAPfl beta* about 39 per cask

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1881.

The Chicago Times prints exhaustive reports from the chief com centers of the Western States. The crop of Illinois promises to be about three-fifths as large as last year. The yield in lowa, Missouri and Kansas will be cut down from 25 to 50 per cent, by drought. Black ants have appeared at Emerson, Manitoba, in heavy clouds, and they cover Red river to the depth of an inch. Four horse-thieves, belonging to a gang operating along the Rio Grande, were taken from officers near Dolores, Tex., and put to death. A negro named Ben Perkins was hanged at Livingston, Ala., for the murder of Gif Roberts, four years ago. An immense crowd of colored people joined in singing hymns around the scaffold. Andrew Sanders (colored) was executed at Covington, Tenn., for the murder of Michael Miller, and John Mnndy, also colored, was hanged at Edgefield, S. C., for the murder of his wife. The loss to Great Britain from the late rains, says the London Times , is to he reckoned by millions. It is impossible to gather com, and it will soon cease to be worth gathering. A London dispatch says that a Scotch herring-fishing fleet is reported to have been caught in a gale off Peterhead, Scotland, and it was feared that many of the fishermen perished. Advices by way of England indicate that Ayoob Khan is in a perilous position, that his force is gradually diminishing, and that he has failed to recruit cavalry companies in the Duruni country. The Marquis of Ripon, the Viceroy of India, seems to think that Abdurrahman is fully able to cope with his doughty antagonist. But the Marquis of Ripon is hardly unprejudiced authority.

PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

Washington, Aug. 26. The President is growing weaker, and it is expected that the end is nigh. Hope still remains in the breasts of those nearest him, but it is the hope which exists as long as a spark of life remains in the prostrate form. The patient is losing strength, and tho liquid nourishment administered seems to have no strengthening effect whatever. His mind wandered nearly all of yesterday. The trouble appears to arise from the condition of the swollen parotid gland. The pus has accumulated in at least half a dozen cells in addition to the one in which tho incision was made on Wednesday, and the inflammation is spreading, it is feared, in the direction of the brs.in. All these indications point to blood-poisoning. One who is in a position to know says that the pus which flows from the wound is no longer of a healthy character, but has become thin and watery ; that it is the exception now when tho President’s mind is clear, and that for a greater portion of the time his mind is in a wandering, partiallystupid, condition; that there is no longer hardly a possibility that he can live, and that the final result/ it is feared, may be expected Saturday or Sunday. He has vitality enough, it is believed, to last at least forty-eight hours. Mrs. Garfield, either blinded by her hope or misguided by the physicians, has not until within a few hours realized that the President was in so low a state, or that it was possible that he would die. She was very much overcome when informed how very low he was, and that the physicians feared the worst. P.laine’s midnight dispatch is almost hopeless. The only hope he has is in tho fact that the stomach retains a small quantity of liquid food. Beside that, all is dark. The President lias lost, not gained ; had symptoms have appeared. The swollen gland is red and angry. Other symptoms excite alarm. The mind is wandering and somewhat beclouded. His strength is failing. That is the startling story. Washington, Aug. 27. Twenty-four hours have elapsed since hope of the President’s recovery was abandoned, and he still lives. He may continue to live for three or four days, the doctors say, but the mournful conclusion remains that each day draws him one day nearer to the grave. The capital is in mourning. The outward signs of grief have not been yet put on, but all hearts are as deeply stirred as though the end had come. The nation is watching at the bedside of a dying President, and the vigil is nearly finished. To describe the painful anxiety with which every word uttered by the physicians to-day, every look and gesture by the men who are fighting with death, has been received, would ,be impossible. The most encouraging words which they could utter conveyed so little hope that the worst would almost have been preferable. When the President was shot, and the physicians could not tell whether he would live out the night of the 2d of July, all hearts were gladdened by the news that he had one chance to live. Twice since then has he been down almost into the depths of death, and stout hearts trembled, but did not fail. Even now he has a chance for life —the chance that a glimmering spark of vitality always holds out—but too feeble aud uncertain for human hearts to grasp. Tho thought of the grief which prevailed in the sick-room was sufficient to bring tears to many eyes. A strong, true and patriotic man, faded and wasted almost beyond recognition, lying upon his couch, at times his m;nd wandering and his nervous fingers nodding in accord with some unfathomable symphony of an unsteady brain, the face disfigured by an ungainly swelling, from which the accumulated poison slowly dropped; departed strength. visible in shrunken features and motionless limbs; his stricken wife seated by the bedside performing, with loving hands, every comforting ministration. She who has been the great supporter of her husband in his trouble, feeds him as she would feed a child, and gives no evidence of the agony which is tugging at her heart. The physicians are constantly by the sick man’s side watching anxiously for some new danger to be met, or eagerly looking for the first manifestation of a favorable change. In this manner the hours fly by and flight falls without a sign of hope or a ray of comfort. While it cannot be said that there was much improvement in the patient’s condition yesterday, it is at the same time true that he did not lose ground, and that he held his own better than was anticipated by the physicians. He took more than the usual quantity of liquid food, and assimilated it, and no symptoms of gastric disturbance followed. His mind was clearer than on the day before, due, doubtless, to the fact that the suppuration through the ear of the parotid gland removed the pressure from the braiu. The patient rested more easily and slept more than 'on the previous day, and the color of his skin and his general appearance was more healthy. The pulse and temperature were somewhat higher than on the previous day, however, and the character of the pus flowing from the wound was not as healthy as it had been. There was less of it, and it appeared to have a watery appearance. Dr. Boynton thinks that this is owing to the President’s enfeebled condition and the thinness of his blood. Mrs. Garfield has not yet lost hope. She firmly believes that her husband is going to recover. There was a very touching episode in the sick-room last night. The patient recognized his wife sitting by his bedside, and, addressing her in a weak and trembling voice, said: “ Crete, you had better go to your room and get a little rest.” Mrs. Garfield begged to be permitted to stay a little longer, whereupon the President remarked that he feared the time was at hand when they should separate forever. Mrs. Garfield was severely shaken by this last remark, but, like the brave, good woman that she is, she mastered her feelings and appeared composed. Col. Corkhill, District Attorney at Washington, Jias been summoned home from Cape May. He says a secret organization has plotted to take Guiteau from jail and inflict upon him torture which will be a warning to assassins. Even the jail guards await an excuse to shoot the fiend, who has had scarcely any sleep since the first relapse of the President.

Of 60,000 acres devoted to the growth of hops in this country, according to the New York State census of 1875, Otsego county had 7,570 acres, Oneida 6,600* and Madison 6,557, making in all 20,712 : acres. These figures have not materially changed sinoe that time. The annual i value of the orop in these three ocmntisfc i i» over $700,000, i

“d Firm Adherence to Correct Principles*”

ESCAPE FROM SIBERIA.

Four Thoound Jilin on Foot - !•«««■ that Hu Only One Parallel. [Genera Correspondence London News.] M. Mokrievitch is about thirty-three years old. He is the Bon of a country gentleman and highly educated. In 1873 he joined a secret political society, and for six years was actively engaged in what he calls the revolutionary propaganda in Southern Russia. Although constantly tracked by the emissaries of the Third Section, it was not until 1879 that he fell into their hands. In January of that year he was in Kief, conducting a secret printing office, which one day during his absence was entered by the police. Three of Mokrievitch’s companions,' Brandtner, Ossinsky and a third who died without disclosing his name, drew their revolvers and made a vigorous resistance, but were finally captured, and Mokrievitch was taken the next day. All four were tried by court martial. Brandtner, Ossinsky and the unknown were hanged, and Mokrievitch was sentenced to fourteen years penal servitude in Siberia. In June following he and some other state convicts were sent to the central jail of Mtzensk, whence early in July they set out on their long journey for Oust Kara, where they had to undergo their sentences. They traveled part of the way via Nijni Novgorod by railway, steamboat and on horseback. The remainder of the journey, 1,450 miles, had to be done on foot and in chains. They marched at the rate of about fifteen miles a day, the night being passed in so-called etapes, small houses swarming with vermin and unspeakably filthy, where all classes of prisoners of both sexes were compelled to sleep huddled together on bare floors. Between Krasnoyarsk and Irkoutsk M. Mokrievitch and two of his companions, Izbitzkey and Orloff, changed names and dresses with three ordinary convicts who were undpr sentence of perpetual exile. This, *M. Mokrievitch assures me, is a very common expedient, and can be effected at a cost of a few rubles. His destination was now that of the peasant whose name he had taken, a settlement in the province of Irkoutsk. Izbitzkey and Orloff got away before reaching Irkoutsk, probabably by the connivance of the guard. Orloff was recaptured. Izbitzkey has never been heard of since, and is supposed to have perished of hunger or been devoured by wolves in the trackless forests of Eastern Siberia. On November 12th, 1879, a few days after leaving Irkoutsk for Balaganask—his final destination—M. Mokrievitch also gave his escort the slip. As soon as his flight was discovered a number of Bouryats, half savage Mongol horsemen, as keen as sleuth hounds and as cunning as red Indians, were sent after him, but he succeeded in evading their pursuit and reaching Irkoutsk. To avoid recapture, which, had he gone west, would have been almost certain, he made off toward the Chinese frontier, and after a walk of 700 miles in the depth of a Siberian winter, he doubled back in the direction of European Russia, which he reached after a journey of 4,000 miles, performed mostly on foot. He underwent terrible hardships and met with many adventures. Without the frequent aid and generous hospitality of the country people, who are noted for their kindness to fugitive convicts, he could not possibly have made good liis escape, and lest he should expose those who helped him to the vengence of the Russian Government, he does not desire to make publicly known the exact direction which he took. M. Mokrievitch’s journey across Russia, though not un at - tended with difficulty g.ncl risk, was child’s play compared with his walk through Siberia. Furnished by his friends with false papers, he succeeded in getting safely out of the country, and reached Switzerland, Except Wiotrowsky in the last century, M. Debagorio Mokrievitch is the only state prisoner condemned to hard labor that ever escaped from Siberia. Lapatia, who escaped from Irkoutsk, was an unconvicted exile, and Bakounine, an iuyoluntry settler on the Amoor, was taken away ov an American merchant ship.

Preferred the Hospital.

Zach Chandler was not only a strong man and expert boxer, but he had the sand to back his muscle, and it didn’t take all day to rile him. Just at the close of the war, and the day before the grand review in Washington, the Senator came out to Bladensburg to visit the Michigan cavalry. The boys were in high spirits, and many of the Sixth were interested spectators of a boxing match, or rather of a series of set-to’s with the gloves. Zach took his place in the circle unknown to all and attracted no attention until one of the boxers was driven back upon him. Leaning forward the Senator whispered: “Young man, I saw a dozen good chances for your left in there. ” ‘ ‘ Say, old coon, maybe you’re on the box ! ” called the other, as he overheard the remark. Zach peeled off his alpaca coat, put down his hat, and took the gloyes from the one who had been worsted. The other man was the best boxer in the regiment, and there was intense excitement as the two squared off. Not a pass was made for a minute, and then the Senator found an opening and sent a left-hander so straight and solid that his opponent went down like a log. He got up slowly and in a dazed condition, and, removing the gloves from his hands, approached the Senator and asked : “Say, did you hit me with a brick hospital ? ” “No, I struck with this,” replied Zach, as he held out his left. The man surveyed it, felt of it, run his baud up and down the Senator’s arm, and turned to the boys and observed : ‘ ‘ That settles me. I prefer the brick hospital! ” — Detroit Free Press.

Praise of Women.

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that wherever found they are same civil, kind, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like men, to perform a hospitable or generous action ; not. haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, but full of courtesy and fond of society ; industrious, economical, ingenious, more liable, in general, to err than man, and performing more good actions than he. I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a. decent or friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, drv. cold or sick, woman has evej* been friendly to me f

and uniformly So ; and; to add to this virtue, so worthy the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry, ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.— Jared Sparks.

The Wealthiest Chinaman in New York.

Tom Lee is A short, slender man of modest manner* and of an eitremely retiring disposition. He wears a stiff Derby hat, into the crown of which he pokes his queue. This causes the hair on the back of Iris head to stand out like the quills of an angry porcupine or the hair on a cat’s back rubbed the wrong way. He has a tiny blacK mustache, and a sparse growth of wiry black hair on his chin. He wears a diamond pin in an old-fashioned scarf, and an eight-ounce gold watch-chain dangles from the third button of his waistcoat. He is well-to do ; owns three tea farms in China, and is worth a few thousands, perhaps. He is a very influential man among Chinamen. He is a Christian, a citizen, a deputy sheriff, and is married to a girl who was born down town somewhere in that neighborhood. She has borne him a lovely little daughter, of whom Tom Lee is justly very proud. He talks pigeon English, but he dresses as you and I do, except that he wears his queue. Very many among the 3,000 Chinese in New York retain their pigtails, not because they cannot go back to China without them, or because of any heathen notion about them, but because a good many Chinamen who were cigarette or cigar-makers in China have come here from Cuba without their queues. They were rid of those appendages in Cuban prisons, where they were sent for wrong-doing, and it is considered best by respectable Chinamau not to cut off the queue, so as to obviate the necessity of explaining where and how it disappeared.

Donlevy’s Door.

“ I want a piece av a board sawed off, planed on the outside,” said Mr. Donlevy ; “ we’d a few friends in at the house last night to a christenin’, and the lower part av the dure got kicked out in the merriment. ” “How wide do you want the piece cut ?” asked the carpenter. “ The width av the dure, av course,” replied Mr. Donlevy. “ And how wide is the door ?” “ Well, it’s as wide as a chair is long, jist. Ye kin jist lay a chair across it to keep the childer in an’ the pigs out, an’ it fits as though it war matched fur it.” “But all chairs are not the same size,” said the carpenter. “Aw, thundher an’, turf ! yer thikerheaded nor a railroad spike ; tlie chair comes up jist even wid the edge of the windy-sill. ” “But how high is the window-sili?” asked Mr. Chips. “Bother the badgerin’ tongue o’ ye,” growled Mr. Donlevy; * ‘ it’s only the widness av me hand, barrin’ the thumb, higher than theTain-watlfer that sthands outside; an’ av ye can’t make it from that ye can lave the job, an’ I’ll take it to some carpinther that understliamls his business aud knows tlie measure av a dure in his head widout making a chatychism av himself. Say, can ye cut me a piece ass the size av that, ye leather-headed wood butcher, ye, or will I go find a man av yer craft that has half the sinse he wur born wid?” And he had to go find one.

The Opera-Glass in Paris.

There is not a city in the world opera-glasses are more extensively used than in Paris. The first thing thal strikes a stranger visiting a French theater is the perfect coolness with which the pit, hat on head, aims its glasses at the galleries and how the galleries bravely respond. And not in the theaters only. No man can stare at you more audaciously than the boulevardiar. In the House of Commons it is not considered “ good form ” to look at the representative of the nation with an operaglass, and the practice is generally avoided. At the Palais Bourbon, in the Chamber of Deputies, the case is different. In the diplomatic gallery and in all galleries you see a regular battery of operaglasses turned on M. Gambetta as he enters, or towards M. de Cassagnac as he speaks. No oue objects. This habit oi staring with the naked eye or with the opera-glasses, seems to have always been prevalent here. “Paris is full ol those unpitying lorgneurs who post themselves before you and fix upon your person a steady gaze.” This is the testimony of old Mercier. This habit is no longer considered indecent because it has become so common. Women do not take offenso at it, provided they are looked at in the theaters and in their promenade. But if any one were to eye them in such a manner in private company, the lorgneur would be taxed with insolence aud treated as impolite.

Butler and Terrapin.

During Hayes’ administration, Butler, Blaine and Evarts sat together in friendly confab at a dinner company. Secretary Evarts—a high liver—smacked his lips over the terrapin stew, and, turning to Butler, asked: “ General, how much would it cost a year to have terrapin for dinner every day ? ” An estimate was made. ‘ ‘ But, General, I cannot afford so expensive a luxury, and yet I would exceedingly like to treat myself and my friends to this delicacy daily. You, who are so experienced in framing bills and engineering them through Congress, can you not smuggle through an appropriation providing the Secretary of State with funds sufficient to supply his larder with this delicious viand?” “The terrapin is a slow animal, is it not, Mr. Secretary ? ” “ Yes, General, proverbially slow.” “Well,” said Butler, musingly, “I think we might introduce and pass such a provision under the head of stationery.”—Hayes' Administration Archives. A foreion journal mentions the case of a lady suffering with cramps in the stomach, and to whom something less than a drop of a 1 per cent, alcoholic solution of nitro-glycerine was given, In two minutes the pulse fell from 140 to fifty, a clammy sweat covered the patient’s features, and she became senseless. Stimulants to the nose and brandy were quickly given, and in about three minutes more she began to recover—the pain was completely gone, and did not return all that night or the following day. The patient said she felt like two persons, and so strong was this impression that, though perfectly rational in her conversation and unexcited in her manner, Bhe could not shake it off. The London Daily News says that Americans will p a y $6 per pint for a wine which English laborers wouldn’t (brink at a shilling a bottle.

Republicans Advocating Repudiation* The Republicans’ bargain with Mahone, made last March, gave them control of the committees of the Senate. In return for his aid, Mahone was allowed to name the candidates for Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, in order that he might control the patronage attaching to these offices. An attempt was made to covet tip this disgraceful alliance by the pretence that Mahone, the repudiator, was leading a liberal movement in Virginia; Influenced by this example* and by the efforts of officeholders asserting that they spoke for the administration, the Republican Convention at Lynchburg surrendered to Mahone and adopted his candidates. The first joint discussion between Mr. Cameron, candidate of the coalition, and Mr. Daniel, candidate of the Democrats, for Governor, took place at Harrisonburg last Monday. The Baltimore Sun reports Mr. Cameron’s words as follows: He and his party were before the people as advocates of the financial measure known as the Riddleberger bill, passed by the last Legislature, and vetoed by the Democratic Governor, Gen. Holliday. He claimed great credit for the Readjustee in defeating the provisions of the bill known as the McCulloch bill, for paying the debt by agreement with the creditors, when brought before the people in the Legislative canvass of 1879. His estimate of the public debt of the State was based upon the figures published some time since in tho Richmond Whig, which fixed the sum upon which the party was willing to pay 8 per cent, at $19,400,000. When Mr. Cameron was editor of the Petersburg Index-Appeal he put the amount of the debt at $50,000,000, and said that, in order to pay it, he would ‘ ‘ take the last pound of flesh, the last drop of blood.” On the same day Mr. Blair, candidate of the coalition for Attorney General, spoke at Fairfax Court House. He said that he was a Democrat, but “not that kind of a Democrat that made him a Fuude- -that is, a debt-payer.” This is the same Blair who, after the passage of the P ddleberger bill, wrote in a public letter as follows : Having achieved a great triumph in the State on our viewof the debt issue, I now favor a vigorous application of the readjustment principles to the national debt In other words, he wanted to strike off about $800,000,000 of the national debt by applying to it the Riddleberger scaling process. When Mahone started the Readjuster movement in 1879, to revenge himself upon the Democracy for refusing to make him Governor, he made an elaborate speech in Richmond. The following extract has interest now : I would use my best endeavors to secure a vote of the people sanctioning a settlement at 3 per cent., for forty-five years, on tho basis of $32,977,090.02. He was particular even to the cents. Well, a Readjuster Legislature was elected, and made him a United States Senator. It passed the Riddleberger bill, which proposed to steal from the creditors of the State one-third of the debt acknowledged by Mahone. Concerning that scheme, we are glad to have had the opinion of our esteemed contemporary, the Times, on the 4th of March, 1880, after the bill bad passed the Legislature : The time between Saturday and Monday was used to the best advantage by the leading lteadjusters, and on the latter day, much to the surprise of those who, from their success on Saturday, had predicted the complete triumph of the debt-payers, the Repudiaton bill was passed by the aid of the colored members. By the provisions of the measure in question, the principal of the debt is reduced to $20,000,000, and tlie interest to 3 per cent. Further than this, it is provided that the bonds shall be taxed, that the interest coupons shall not be receivable for State taxes, and, worst of all, that the sinking fund, established under the constitution for the ultimato payment and extinguishment of the debt, shall bo abolished. In other words, the bill repudiates nearly onehalf of the just and legally contracted debt of Virginia, and makes no provision for the payment of that portion of it which remains. The only hope of the bondholders is that the Governor will veto the bill. That he will be lirave enough to do so, thereby inclining the lasting hostility of the Readjusters, there is, it is feared, some reason to doubt. The present Democratic Governor, Gen. Holliday, vetoed this repudiation bill, but he got no thanks for that act from the professed friends of the creditors. Mr. Cameron publicly proclaims that this plundering project is the vital issue of the campaign; and the Republican party sustains him, and respectable Republican journals advocate his election.

Paper-making Politicians.

In his recent speech at Saratoga, Warner Miller said “it seemed natural for paper makers to go into politics.” He did not tell the association that William A. Russell of Massachusetts and himself both members of the last House, both re-elected to the present Congress, and both manufacturers of paper on a large scale, went before the Committee of Ways and Means to prevent any change in the tariff which would disturb the price of paper. Petitions had been sent in from every State in the Union asking that the onerous and unjust duties levied on wood, straw and other pulp, and upon soda ash, principally made abroad, should be abolished, so that the door of competition in the manufacture of paper might be opened wide to enterprise and industry. Miller and Russell, who were then, as now, enjoying special privileges and enormous profits by heavy taxation on newspapers, school books and Bibles, exerted all the political and the personal influence derived from membership to defeat this popular dem ind. In order to accomplish their object, combinations were formed with different interests by threatening them with hostile legislation unless they made common cause to prevent any change in the duty on paper. Other persuasive arguments, too common at Washington, may also be imagined. The existing tariff favored huge monopolies. It was passed in the confusion that followed a civil war, when schemes of reconstruction were agitated. In war or in peace, the interested parties never lost sight of the main chancej and their patriotism was stimulated in proportion to the increase of their privileges and of their profits. With this success in the last Congress, Mr. Miller now finds it “natural for paper makers to go into politics.' at is a paying business—far better than officeholding or any other that he can now engage in, with money wanting permanent takers at 3 per cent, a year. By' adroit management in a House of 293 members, Messrs? Miller and Russell, representing a rich monopoly in the manufacture of paper, were able to stop the desired change of duties which yield only a nominal revenue and are maintained solely to exclude competition in that branch of industry. Mr. Russell is a member of the present House, with a Republican majority

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committed to special interests. Any Speaker on that side, East or West, will pack the Ways and Meana adversely to reform of the tariff. If there Bhottld be a close vote, Mr. Russell knows how obstacles may be removed. Places on that important committee are openly sought, because they may be turned to valuable account by corrupt members. It has been publicly charged that SIOO,000 was paid by sugar manufacturers in the last Congress to prevent adverse legislation. If Mr. Miller should be allowed to take a seat in the Senate without question, he will have a much smaller sphere for his active ability as a manipulator of legislation. He will be sure of a hearty welcome by the corporation Senators. The Finance Committee organized at the recent extra session excludes any reasonable hope of escape from existing tariff abominations. With the Senate and the House of Representatives in Republican hands, corporate power and manufacturing monopoly will have full swing. And with the Executive and the Supreme Court standing behind this combination the country may know what to expect. Therefore, without any reference to political considerations, it is of the first consequence that the rights of Messrs. Miller and Lapliam should be investigated before they are allowed to take Beats in the United States Senate. If their credentials are smirched, that fact should be examined with care. —New York Sun.

Spurgeon’s Preaching.

In the vast throng the eye soon recognizes the central figure of the whole. If he were not there, the pastor of this immense dock, one might speculate* ignorant of his absence, Is not that perhaps he, or the other ? But, being there, no doubt can exist. The one figure comes out, to which all others are a setting—a full, pallid face, with thick iron-gray hair and a fringe of dark beard. As the clock overhead shows the half-hour the pastor comes forward, and at once the confused sound ceases—the shuffling of feet, the frou-frou of dresses, the nervous cough that runs over the area like the rattle of file-firing —and a profound stillness greets the first words of prayer. The voice is worn with much service, even husky in the higher notes, but admirably managed and modulated so as to reach every corner of the wide arena. We feel at once that we are in the presence of a born orator. Without book or scrap of paper, there is, from the first, a confident, easy flow of well-chosen words. Some distinguished orators put you in a cold perspiration till they have fairly warmed to their work but, with Mr. Spurgeon all is easy and self-conscious power which inspires confidence in the listener. It is part of the preacher’s system not to spare himself in any way, but to give the whole service the emphasis of his own unaided powers. His reading of scripture is accompanied by a running commentary that is a kind of preliminary sermon, and he gives out each verse of the hymn with appropriate feeling and action. There is no organ, and it excites a certain feeling of disparity of means to end, when an elderly precentor leans forward from the tribune and sounds a timing fork to lead off the psalmody—the assemblage is so big and the tuning fork so small. But the singing itself is disappointing. There is not that grand outpouring one might expect fronl such an assemblage. A great deal of tffe charm of Mr. Spurgeon’s discourse—and there is a powerful charm about it, causing time to flow on unperceived, and the risk of losing a train to be disregarded—is due to the ease and certainty of delivery, and the good old English in which it is expressed. If the preacher in former days sometimes sacrificed good taste to force of expression, time and experience have toned down such exuberances. But much of the ancient fire still smoulders beneath the surface, and, perhaps, the expectation of the breaking forth of some sudden flash of electric nature still further increases the before-men-tioned charm. But, really, the time one likes Mr. Spurgeon best is when he metaphorically descends altogether from the platform, and, taking his audience by the button-hole, so to speak, recounts some telling little story or epigrammatic saying. —AU the Year Round.

Ruined by a Spider.

Spiders crawling more abundantly and conspicuously than usual upon the indoor walls of our houses indicate the near approach of rain; but the following anecdote intimates that some of their habits are equally certain indication ot frost being at hand. Quartermaster Disjonval, seeking to beguile the tedium of his prison hours at Utrecht, had studied attentively the habits of the spider, and eight years of imprisonment had given him leisure to be well versed iu its ways. In December, 1794, the French army, on whose success his liberty depended, was in Holland, and the victory seemed certain if the frost, then of unprecedented severity, continued. The Dutch envoy had failed to negotiate a peace, and Holland was despairing, when the frost suddenly broke. The Dutch were now exulting and the French Generals prepared to retreftt, but the spider warned Disjonval that the thaw would be of short duration, and he knew that his weather monitor never deceived. He contrived to communicate with the army of his countrymen and its Generals, who duly estimated his character, and relied upon his assurance that within a few days the water would again be passable by troops. They delayed their retreat. W thin twelve days frost had returned —the French army triumphed. Disjonval was liberated ; and a spider had brought down ruin on the Dutch nation.

Couldn’t Really Wait for the Hanging.

“What’s all this crowd around for?” asked Mr. Mclver, of Texas, when the captain of the regulators caught up with him. “They’ve come to see the hanging,” said the Captain; “man going to be hanged in a minute; better wait and see it.” “ ’Fraid won’t have time,” said Mr. Mclver, walking sideways and keeping his hands down. “Got a horse out here in the brush 1 want to look after; ’fraid she’s got a spavin cornin’.” “ That’s it,” the Captain said. “ Little sorrel mare, with blaze face and two white feet—my mare and you’re the man. Guess you had better stay for the hangin’.” “Can’t,” said Mr. Mclver, “I’ve got to go to the shootin’. ” So saying, he got his hand on his gun, filled a couple of regulators full of holes, and, with the sardonic laugh of a man who was disappointed because he couldn’t stay M to the bangin',” he disappeared in the brash to look after that spavin.

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INDIANA NEWS.

Oil has l>een struck in Shelby township, Jefferson county. New Albany has two rival school boards and a legal tight on hand. There are a great many S2O counterfeit gold pieces in circulation in Indianapolis. Out of twenty of the larger cities of the State, only three have no city license tax for saloons. David Hadley, a farmer near PlainHeld, lost thirty-five sheep at the hands of dogs on Sunday night. Within three weeks there have been fifteen burglaries committed in South Bend, and not a burglar caught. Winchester is the center of an extensive ash-growing region, which is to be utilized by the new handle factory. President Beattie, of Bedford College, lias accepted the chair of mathematics in the college at Oskaloosa, lowa. Money enough lias been subscribed for a new First Presbyterian Church building at Crawfordsville, to cost sll,* 000. . James Miller, a young farmer living near Rusliviile, was strangled to death by a bit of wheat beard lodging in his \vindp ; pe. There are now thirty-one fully equipped military companies in Indiana, and two more are about to bo organized at Richmond. Parties from lowa are in Southern Indiana buying young stock cattle cheap, to ship home and feed with their surplus grain. Joseph Ramp, employed in his father’s saw-mill at Columbia City, was caught in the belting and whirled around the Bhaft and instantly killed. Near Hagerstown, Wayne county, ft son of Daniel Pollard fell off a loaded wagon, and the wheel passing over him tore the whole scalp from liis skull. Dogs entered the Northern Cemetery at New Albany, the other night, and killed six of the fine ducks the sexton had lecently placed in the lake. Julius Parnin, a lad of 8 years, residing with his parents on a farm near Monroeville, was fatally injured by a gate fulling on him, crushing his skull. The Adjutant General of Indiana is changing the caliber of all the State arms, so that but one kind of ammmunitiou will be needed for the State militia. . . David Stegleii, a well-known citizen of Clay county, was thrown from a buggv near Reelsvillej Putnam county, and sustained a spinal injury, which resulted in his death. Ralph Isaacs, while bathing, was drowned in the Ohio river, at Evansville. Three other boys who were endeavoring to save him camo near having a similar fate. David Hadley, of Plainfield, Hendricks county, had thirty-five tine sheep, valued at about S4OO, killed by dogs in one night. He will lose all because the dogtax money is all paid out. The young girls and boys of Richmond whose parents have forbid the delivery of their mail at the postoilico have established a private postofiice at a eonfed ionary where they leave and call for their notes. Dogs have nearly depleted the tine flock of blooded sheep owned by I. P. Seyden, near New Albany. Over three hundre I sheep have been destroyed by dogs in Floyd county in the last ten months. The wife of Morris Epley, Jiving near South Bend, went into the field barefooted to gather roasting ears, and was bitten by a rattlesnake. Antidotes and medical attendance proved unavailing, and one hour after giving birth to a child Mrs. Epley died. At Richmond, Chief of Police Fleming has destroyed SSOO worth of faro and tools, captured in the recent raid on Stout’s club-room. The law required that they should be burned in the presence of the Mayor, and he was therefore present, with several other gentlemen, to witness the act.

Geo. Hawkins, of Shelby county, wan lately relieved from the Hospital for the Insane on a thirty days’ furlough,If he showed no sign of returning insanity at the expiration of his furlough his release was to be made unconditional ; but the other morning he went wild and attempted to kill his mother. Phoe. Gilheut, of the Indiana University, Bloomington, while ascending tlie Matterhorn, in Switzerland, with four other Americans, was struck on tlie head by a piece of rock which became detached, and rendered insensible. Zermalt doctors attended him, and ho will probably recover. August Bubo, of St. Joseph county, had got through feeding a thrashingmachine, and attempted to jump on top of it. His In ad struck a beam iu the barn, and he fell feet first between the cylinders. His right log was torn to pieces and jerked out of its socket, until it hung to the body by a shred of skin. The teeth tore his bowels open, until his entrails protruded, and his left leg was broken. Berg lived about an hour after the accident. A case of most inhuman cruelty to an animal occurred near Kokomo. L. Ramsey, who lives in that city, and who runs a threshing-machine, was engaged in threshing wheat. He finished up the job in the afternoon and hitched his horses to the engine to move it to the next job, when one of his horses balked. He then tied a line around the poor animal’s tongue and set three or four strong men to pull at it. The beast, of course, hung back, and the brutes at the other end of tlie line pulled the tongue out by the roots. The inhuman owner was arrested and fiued $1 and costs. The Evansville Tribune says: “Orange county has a cave that, for extent, rivals Wyandotte and the Mammoth. It is about three quarters of a mile from the E., D. k E. lino and the same distance from Valeen. It has not been explored more -than ten miles into the interior, but is believed to be twice as large as the present exploration has disclosed. In it is an abyss so deep that a stone thrown into it is rive minutes in falling, so that the sound of its striking the bottom returns. The cave is very little noticed by tlie people in the vicinity, who, like those near Mammoth cave, don’t seem to consider it anything uncommon, because they have become familiarized with it; but strangers visiting Valeen, and hearing of it, frequently visit it, and Hpeak glowingly of its wonders. The entrance is very narrow, but is not long, and terminates in a chamber of only moderate height, but leads to vast chambers and labyrinths that greatly interest the visiter, When the E., D. & E. road is opmpleted it is expected to beoom* a «-rent resort.”