Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Bait. The works of the Union Stove Company at Everett, Mm, have been swept away by fire, causing a loss of 565,000. Water has become so scarce in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania that it has been sold at 25 cents per barrel. The out-put of coal has been greatly interfered with. While planting mines in the harbor of Newport, Lieuts. B. L. Edes and Lyman G. Spaulding were instantly killed by an accidental explosion. A fire at Beaver Falls, Pa., destroyed Wellon & Son’s flour mill and partially burned the cutlery works and the trestle of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie road. The loss will reach ♦140,000. At Shortsville, near Rochester, N. Y., a Are destroyed the Empire Drill Works, by ■which 100 men are thrown out of work. Loss, ♦IOO,OOO. Horace Montgomery and Kate Bartholomew, both of Washington, Lawrence county, N. Y., were drowned while making a foolhardy attempt to run the Rapids du Platte in a small boat. By the explosion of a machine used in loading cartridges in the Winchester arms factory, at New Haven, a small building was blown down. Two men were badly burned and •even others injured Gen. Grant has declined for the. present the reception tendered him by the people of Asbury Park, N. J., in consequence of the condition of President Garfield. He says that he would consider it unbecoming in him to participate in joyous festivals while the life of the President of the nation hangs by a thread. 4 Farmers in New York State are digging their potatoes to save the crop whicn i» being ruined by the drought. «* The Grangers of Mary land, Pennsylvania and Virginia gave a picnic at Williams’ <G -ovo, Pa. Fully 20,000 persons were present.

The peaceful Menominee Indians have been driven away from the agency, and Agent Stephens and his daughter are held as prisoners. Federal troops liavo boen ordered to the scene. The town of Sierravillo, Cal., has been almost totally obliterated by lire. The loss is estimated at 5300,000. While a party of farmers from Lockport, a village a few miles south of Terre Haute, Ind., were fishing in the Wahasli river about twenty mih s south of that city, four of them —Henry Berkard, Marshall Ferrill, Emery Laspie and James llud.sell —were drowned. The corner in August wheat obtained by Cincinnati parties in the Chicago market was successfully carried out. The manipulators of the corner are said to havo cleared ♦3.000,000. Thomas H. Lowcrre, a compositor, was shot during a light with James It. Duncan, a photographer, with whom he hoarded on Wabash avenue, Chicago. Duncan was arrested, hut claims that he only acted in selfdefense. There is a scandal connected with the affair. When the east-bound express on the Central Pacific road reached Colfax, Cal., two engines and one car were thrown from the track, the rails having been removed by highwaymen. A fireman and the express messenger, who sprang to the ground, were ordered to keep quiet, hut just at that moment the robbers became alarmed and rode off in a wagon, leaving a large invoice of masks, powder and tools. The Convent of St. Francis, situated about five miles from Manitowoc, Wis., was struck by lightning and entirely destroyed by flro. There were over eighty persons in tho building, several of whom were injured in their efforts to escape. The loss on the building and furniture was $65,000, with insurance of only ♦5,000. A lunatic named Neil ran a-muck in tho streets’ of Chicago, at the hour of midnight, shooting five men whom he encountered in his wild race, two of whom, it is feared, cannot recover. He was himself shot by a polioeman. A dispatch from Deadwood announces the discovery, thirty miles from that city, of a vein which runs $150,000 to the ton. Reports as to the yield of the Minnesota wheat crop, telegraphed to the Chicago journals, indicate that the average yield per acre this year is about 11.40 bushels, and that the aggregate yield of the whole State will be about 33,771,511 bushels. Th : s is 3,600,000 bushels less than the yield for the last year. Toe crop was best in the western counties of t he State and poorest in the southern counties.

BollttL By the burning of John C. Alexander's house at Carter’s Creek, Tenn., five colored children were cremated. Three colored children were cremated at Boonville, Miss., by the burning of a cabin. At Forest City, Ark., Tate Wallace invited S. D. Apperson, City Marshal, to take a cigar. While standing at the counter of a saloon Apperson drew a pistol and said, “I belii ve I’ll shoot you.” Tate, thinking he was jesting, replied, “Shoot away.” Apperson fin d, killing him instantly. A family of seven persons, living near K uffnnn. Texas, has been poisoned by eating cooked peaches containing arsenic, and there is little Lope for the recovery of any of the party. At Plano, Texas, fire swept away fif-ty-one buildings in two hours, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The hurricane at Charleston caused a loss of $140,000. A son of Chancellor Lesebuc was swept from the sea-wall, and throe coded persons were drowned at Sullivan’s island. James Wolf, a wholesale merchant of L'ttle Rock, and his wife and child were enirhed to death in a steamboat accident at Savannah.

Ella St. Claire, formerly a variety tu tr* ss, in Mobile, married a negro, who was indicb d for miscegenation, whereupon she Bj r ng into the liver and ended her career. Ouo of tin mo&t destructive storms which ever visited the South Atlantic coast prevailed there. The loss of life and property is y<ay great. The wind blew'over Savannah, Ga., ai lie i-.ife of forty miles an hour, unroofing lrv.iMcs, sweeping the sea into houses along the wh»r es, mid playing havoc with shade and fm.l trees. All infirmary was wrecked, and the patients barely escaped. Many o 'h m were l-adly bruised. Sailing craft in Savannah bay suffered badly, and many perB' s <>u board perished. The loss of life among ti.» ci.loio l ,ieople on the rice plantations and along the river and bay is reported to have b en very great. All the people on one of the i i t.dx in the liv.'r perished. At Port lloyal, B ii ort and other points along the Sou'll C..rpd.iji eoabt hundreds of persons are believed to

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have perished, and millions of dollars’ worth of property was washed away. Dispatches from Charleston, Savannah, and other points along the South Atlantic coast, indicate even a greater loss of life and property in the recent gale than had been previously reported. Each sailing craft coming to port brings news of death and disaster. The loss of life will be in the .neighborhood of 200. The property loss cannot be estimated. The ex-Confederates at Chattanooga and vicinity are preparing to give the Society of the Union Army of the Cumberland a cordia reception on the occasion of the litter’s annual reunion, which will occur in that city Sep. 21 and 22. A train near Atlanta, Ga., struck a crowbar on the snoulder of a track hand. In an instant his chin was gone from the lower lip down, and his teeth scattered in every direction. A telegram from Little Rock, Ark., says: “ The worst feeling imaginable still prevails at Center Point, Howard county, between blacks and whites. Several riots have already occurred, attended with loss of life. On Monday a well-to-do negro named Anderson Smith appeared in town, got intoxicated, and was roughly handled by two white men. Next day he returned with a squad of thirty or foity negroes, and this foico was met by a body of white men on the outskirts of the town. A regular battle occurred. The negroes were driven into a barn and, after several hours, retreated to the woods. Several were killed. Center Point is off from the telegraph line and particulars are meager. Colored people have repeatedly threatened to burn the town, which is guarded day and night.”

WASHINGTON NOTES. Consul Grinnell, at Bremen, reports to the Department of State that during the past six months 1,290,000 bushels of Indian corn were imported into Germany, and that its use is growing. The duty is 6 cents per 100 pounds. Paymaster General Cutter, of the United States navy, having reached the age of 62, retires from active service. Secretaiy Hunt will appoint some one to act in his place until the President is sufficiently recovered to determine on a successoisto Cutter's position. Following is the regular public-debt statement issued on the Ist inat. Six per cent bonds, extended $ 178,055,150 Five per cents, extended 400,531,950 Five per cent, bonds 21,304,900 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four ner cent.bonds...s 738,793,400 Refunding certificates . (144,900 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin bonds $1,003,342,800 Matured debt 14,198,655 Legal tenders $ 34G,741,076 Certificates of deposit... 9,625,000 Gold and silver certificates 62,979,330 Fractional currency 7,098,554 Total without interest. 420,443,865 Total debt $2,043,9-5,330 Total interest 12,853,028 Cash in treasury 240,498,788 Debt less cash in treasury $1,816,339,567 Decrease during August 14,1'1.221 ilriinwas ■lnoo Ji.i.oUD, IUBI OX, 0r.0.0X X Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 2,426,370 Debt on which interest has ceased 14,198, 05 Interest thereon 800,948 Gold and silver certificates 62,979,230 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 9,025,000 Cash balance available Aug. 1, 1881.... 150,463,575 Total .‘ $ .240,498,788 Available assets— Cush in treasury .$ 240,498,788 Ronds Issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 646,235 Interest paid by United States 51,467,272 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation of mails 14,441,719 By rash payments of 5 per cent, of net earnings 655,198 Hit lance of interest paid by the United States 36,370.353 Capt. Howgate left Washington two or three weeks ago, leaving his family without a dollar, and, as nothing has been heard from him, it is believed that he has fled tho country with his mistress. Samuel M. Lake, Chief of Division of the Inspection Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, has been removed, and John W. Green, late of the Treasury Department, appointed in his stead. There were coined at the United States mints during the month $11,565,500, of which $2,300,000 were standard dollars. The Weather Bureau reports that the past month was the hottest August since 1872. The rainfall was less than any August of the decade.

POLITICAL POINTS:. The New York Republican State Central Committee met in New York city, last week, and decided to call a State Convention for Oct. 5, at New York city. Vice President Arthur, the Chairman of the committee, ivas not present at the meeting. The total number of delegates to the convention will be 495, of which New York city will send seventy-nine. The Republican State Central ‘Committee of Nebraska has called a convention at Lincoln, for Oct. 5, with 441 delegates.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Three hundred Germans of Leavenworth, Kansas, met the other day and resolved to place men at every poll to work against the prohibition candidates. • Lieut. Shoemaker, of the Fourth United States cavalry, has arrived at Fort Smith, his company being encamped across the river in the Choctaw Nation. He reports that the white intruders are leaving the Indian Territory peaceably, but he experiences great difficulty in determining the rights of those negroes who were held as slaves by the Indians be f ore the war. The champion hammer-thrower of America is Mr. McKinnon, of Belleville, Ontario. He threw a heavy hammer 98 feet 3 inches, and a light one 121 feet 10 inches, beat'ng all previous records. Mr. Robert R. Campbell and Mr. James C. Scott are lawyers of Warrenton, Va, Duving a heated political discussion Campbell called Scott a liar. Nothing but “goah” would satisfy Scott’.s wounded honor. Pistols were the weapons choseD, the distance was ten paces, the shots were exchanged, one of Scott’s hands was hurt. Campbell shook the other, and the two men of “ honah” made up. The dory Little Western, sixteen feet in length, has reached Hilifax from London. The colored Baptists have just held their forty-third annual convention in Chicago. Thirty-two churches were represented. President Barras, of Guatemala, has dispatched a special envoy to Washington with a message.of sympathy for President Garfield. After consultation with Secretary of War Lincoln the Governor of New Mexico has decided to recommend the formation of militia companies all over the Territory, which he will arm and equip, to prevent Indian raids. The continued dry weather has had a very disastrous effect on the crops in nearly t very part of the West and South. In Central Illinois and Indiana cattle are suffering much from scarcity of water. Drinking water has to I c hauled for miles,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1881.

Toronto, Ont., is filled with a dense smoke caused by the brush fires raging throughout adjoining country. Two thousand one hundred and nineteen immigrants arrived at New York in one day, last week. Brush fires are raging in the region round about Montreal. The past month was the hottest August since 1872, and the rainfall was less than for any August during the past ten years. Jay Gould and Maj. De Gress have organized in New York the Mexican Oriental, International and Interoceanic Railroad Company. Three parties of engineers are now run Ding surveys. Work proceeds on the Panama canal under great difficulties. Yellow fever has played dread havoc among the workingmen. Most of the captains of the brigades have been stricken by the dread disease, and the men employed on lour sections have been forced to abandon the work. The mortality is very great among the sufferers. Two-thirds of those who have been taken to the hospitals have been taken therefrom dead. None hut persons accustomed to tropical life, its heat and rains, can venture to work on the canal with any degree of safety.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Queen’s speech on the prorogation of parliament expresses the hope that complete self-government in the Transvaal will contribute to the tranquillity of South Africa, and that the Irish Land bill may produce benefits commensurate with the care bestowed upon it. A meeting which was to have been held at Berne to protest against the expulsion of Prince Krapot Kine, the Nihilist, was forbidden by the police, who would not alio# the bill calling the meeting to be posted. • Tlios. Brennan, the principal Secret tary of the Irish Land League, who has already spent three months in jail, has been informed by the Government officials that he is to be kept there at least three months longer. The London Mark Lane Express says that the series of intermittent storms which culminated last Thursday in a general thunder-storm and very heavy rainfall brought “ruin and disaster to the English harvest.” Standing grain is “literally eaten up with mildew,” and “unthatched ricks have everywhere suffered.” There haH been a sharp advance in the price of all kinds of cereals and in the price of flour in the English markets, as might have been expected on account of the failure of the harvest. While a number of tenants on the estate of an Irish Baronet in Cork county were rejoicing over the marriage of their landlord, a disguised party of nearly a hundred men fired into them, Mounding ten of them, two rather seriously. Three fresh battalions of French troops have been ordered to North Africa. Great forest fires are reported in various parts of Algeria. It is believed that many of the natives have perished. A “memoir ” of the actual condition of Russia has been published by two prominent friends of the Czar. The memoir acknowledges the present sad condition of affairs, and advocates a popular administration of some kind. It is supposed to be published with a view of •bowing what the Czar might do if the Nihilists would give him a chance. John Givan, one of the Liberal members of Parliament for Monaghan county, has been appointed one of the Assistant Commissioners of the Irish Land Court. Givan is an attorney by profession, and has the confidence of the Ulster Presbyterian farmers, from whom he has sprung. His appointment is not by any means pleasant to the Irish landlords. The lowlands of Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire are completely submerged, and the crops on them are utterly destroyed. The rainfall in some localities is estimated at 150 tons per acre in eighteen hours. The report from other parts of England than those named are of an equally dismal and disheartening character. The steamship Teuton was wrecked near Cape Town, south coast of Africa. She had on board 227 passengers, of whom only twenty-seven were saved in two boats. A Bombay dispatch from Candaliar reports that the Ameer is rapidly advancing on Avoob Khan, who has only seven weak regiments to oppose his now powerful foe. The Welsh national festival, the Eisteddfod, was held at Merthyr Tydvil on the 31st nit. Resolutions of sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and with the American people, on account of the contiiiu d prostration of tho President, -were adm • '-,;h great unanimity.

LATER NEWS ITEMS. Forest fires in Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania have caused great havoc. The rubber works of Eugene H. Glapp, at South Hanover, Mass., valued at $75,000, have been burned. Ex-Congressman Hendrick B. Wright, of Pennsylvania, is dead. A strip of land in Nicollet county, Minn., four miles long and two wide, was visited by a hail-storm which beat the corn and grass into the ground. Nana’s band of Apaches are committing murderous depredations in Southern New Mexico. James B. Duncan, who killed Lowerre, the printer, in Chicago, has died from the effect of the injuries received in the fight. Cotton is dying of drought. Carefullycompiled reports from 166 counties show an average condition 27 per cent, worse than last year. Over thirty families in the neighborhood of Pembroke, Ont., have* been rendered homeless and destitute by bush fires. Bush fires continue to rage in the vicinity of Kingston. The air is filled with smoke, and river navigation is much interrupted in consequence, Gustave Richter, a celebrated artist and professor in the Berlin Academy of Art, is dead. The total number of lives lost in the wreck of the African steamer Teuton was fortyfour. At the annual meeting of the Property Defense Association, a sort of union of Irish landlords, held in Dublin, it was resolved to levy a tax of 1 percent, on the valuation of the properties of members in order to defray the expenses of fighting the Land League.

It is difficult to get the noise out of a boy. Of course you can get some noise out of him ; but you never can draw off his entire supply. Ten Fourth of Julys and three circus parades would leave him just as full as he was when he began.—New Haven Register. Emeralds, pure and beautiful, have been discovered in North Carolina. The cut stones set have sold for SIOO a karat, and are eagerly sought for by dealers. One gem, weighing two and a half karats, has been purchased by the British Museum,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

PRESIDENT GARFIELD.

Washington, Aug. 30. The favorable symptoms la the President’s condition which manifested themselves on Sunday continued all day yesterday and up to thti morning. His pulse and temperature showed decided improv«ment, the glandular swelling reduced considerably, and the wound presented a healthy appearance. The patient took more than the usui amount of nourishment, which he aj peared to assimilate without difficulty. Tli stomach is in good condition, and all the inuications poiut to continued improvement. The physicians, who had nearly lost hope, are once more almost confident. A slight incision in tho gland was attended with favorable resultr." Tho bullet-wound continues to heal, and the swollen • gland has diminished. The administration of stimulants to the patient has been discontinued. Heretofore there has been administered in each enemata four drams of whisky mixed with tho yelks of eggs. The phvsioians felt at the time liquor was first giveD in large doses that it was absolutely necessary that his system should be quickly stimulated. The President’s mental faculties are clear, and, acting wiih his improved condition, aid the work of recovery. While recognizing that the President is still in a dangerous condition, Dr. Bliss said he felt no hesitation in saying he thought tho chances now are in favor of his recovery. Dr. Bliss Says that the hall is moving deeper info tho cavitv of the pelvis, probably in the direction of the rectum. This downward movement he regards as a rather favorable circumstance. The ball, he says, will have to betaken out sometime, and can he taken from that part of the body toward which it is going as easily at least as it could he taken from its original location. Dr. Agnew doe 3 not believe that tho President has lost as much weight as Secretary Blaine’s telegram to Minister Lowell represented last week. Dr. Bliss agrees with Dr. Agnew, and adds that the patient has not reached the dangerous limit oi emaciation. A man, he adds, can lose two-fifths of his weight without endangering his life. As hope returns,’more"is learned in detail of the terrible anxiety of last Friday. It appears that the surgeons, after the alarming symptoms of the morning, decided that it was useless to longer continue the struggle, aud two of their number were selected to wait on Mrs. Garfield and inform hor that medical science could do no more, and that she must prepare for the worst. The interview which occurred between theso 6urgoons and Mrs. Garfield will,-if reports are true, be regarded as one of the most dramatic incidents in this extraordinary case. Capt. Henry Marshal, of this District, a friend of the President and his family’, says that Mrs. Garfield heard the news with groat composure, and that, smothering her emotion, she arose and said: “Gentlemen, you shall not give him up. He is not going to die. He is going to live. I feel, I know it. Go back tfl your [lost, every one of you, and leave it not until every remedy is exhausted—until death itself has sot its seal upon him—for I will not believe he is dying. Go back and do what you cau. You cannot do more, but do not give up. I am his wife, and 1 say that we will not give up until the end itself is upon us.” Mrs. Garfield has never surrendered more than a moment or two at a time to her grief, aud then she has retired to her room, and after a brief absence has returned to her post of duty at the President’s bedside.

Washington, Aug. 31. The President is no better aud he is no worse. He remains upon the dead level, where one of his physicians said last night that they hoped he would not remain many days. They, of course, hope and are confident, that, when a change does come, it will be for the better, but this confidence is not as strong as might he desired. The situation is still one of uncertainty, and there are a few pessimists who fear that the prospects are not as good for his recovery as they seem to be. Another incision was made in the parotid gland, which resulted satisfactorily and perceptit ly decreased the swelling. Tne wound remains unci' nged. There was a slight rise in the pulse, due to this incision. The patient took his r ourishment, consisting of koumiss, milk porridge, and beef tea, quite freely and with appareut relish. He ate a small piece of milk-toaH. His stomach continues healthy, and the phys'cians seem to be rather confident that there will be no more trouble from that source. The condition of tho wound is healthy. The fact that the ball has changed its position and is moving lower down is considered a favorable feature of the case by the surgeons, and by some is supposed to account for the rally made a few days ago. That the President i 3 feeling better and his mental faculties are clear are considered signs of improvement The police yesterday arrested another “crank” at the White House gate. It was a poor colored man, manifestly insane. He was bent upon the sanguinary mission of killing every man who was not a Garfield man, and had a long tin can into which he proposed to place their heads. He was arrested without resistance. Dealers in nostrums which they claim will be of benefit to the President are very numerous here, and Secretary Blaine is visited by so many of them that it has become necessary to station a policeman in citizen’s clothes near his house to relieve him from tho annoyance to which he is subject at all times of the day and night Some of these persons are so persistent that it is necessary to remove them by the police. The assassin, Guiteau, has written another letter to District Attorney Corkhili, in which ho claims protection from the mob. At the conclusion of his letter he plainly shows that he is well acquainted with the President’s condition, for ho says : “ While the President is in this precarious condition, I have confidence in no one. I look to you. See that I am securely protected.” Tho wretch has also indicated a desire to marry some wealthy Christian lady of good family. About 100 letters a day are received at the White House, addressed either to Mr. or Mrs. Garfield. During the early stages of the President’s illness the letters were mostly to him. Now they are generally addressed to Mrs. Garfield, and express the writers’ sympathy with her. Most of them bear the evidence of being written by persons of inferior attainments, but at the same time they testify to the genuine sentiment of the people in their distress.

Washington, Sept. 1. The President’s condition during the past twenty-four hours has been highly favorable. Ho rested quietly, slept well, and for longer periods of time than for several days. His temperature and pulse showed decided signs of improvement, tbe pulse falling as low as 95 —lower than at any time since the Bth of August. He took rather more than the usual quantity of liquid nourishment, and swallowed the juice of a piece of beefsteak which he chewed. His wound looks healthy, and the condition of the parol id gland is as good as could be expected". The physicians feel greatly encouraged at the decided improvement in Ihe patient’s general condition. Last nighc the fever was less than on any night since he was wounded, and his temperature was about normal. The most hopeful symptom seems to be the improvement of the President’s appetite and the excellent condition of his stomach. The parotid gland was found to have another opening into the mouth, and its appearanoe showed that it was rapidly diminishing in size. Tbe wound was discharging more freely and the franulatiug process is proceeding favorably. 'he President is anxious to leave the. White House, and the physicians will, as soon as ne is able to move, send him either to Long Branch by rail, or for a trip down the river on the Tallapoosa. The patient begins to express disappointment at being unable to keep his engagements for September. One of the attending physicians says the public has been deceived as to the President’s condition at the time he was wounded. At the time he was shot his physical condition was bad. He was like a grass-fed hoise. He had been suffering from dyspepsia, hemorrhoids, and had borno an operation for fistula on the lower bowels. This, with the great mental strain and the anxiety on account of his wife’s illness, had rua him down so that his physical condition was very unfavorable to meet the shock and subsequent treatment for a gun-shot wound. His loss of flesh has been overstated, and cannot be more than forty pounds. Guiteau wrote a letter to District Attorney Corkhill yesterday, expressing great regret that he did not kill the President in the Vermont Avenue church when he went there for that purpose. The villain says he is sorry the President suffers so much, but a great deal more sorry that the President is not dead.

Wasinoton, Sept. 2. The President has not improved much in the last twenty-four hours. He held his own, how. ever, the physicians say, and although, he did not gain strength enough to help himself, he looked better, his voice was stronger, and he talked more. The condition of the wound did not improve, and the physicians think it will not until the gland is better. The patient chewed a piece of chicken yesterday and swallowed the juice ; he also swallowed the juice of a niece of beefsteak, and took a little oyster soup in addition to the usual amount of liquid nourishment. The fluctuations of the patient’s pulse are attributed to weakness. When he grows weary or his wound is dressed there is an immediate rise in tho pulse. The question of the President’s removal was discussed by the physicians yesterdav, but no action was detennined on. There is one disquieting feature of the case which accounts possibly for this high temperature, and that is, that the stomach is not doing its work, the food does not t similate, and there is consequently no increase in strength. It is said that the members es the Cabinet have several times discussed the feasibility of calling upon Vice President Arthur to attend to executive business until the President recovers, but no one is yet ready to advise this «tep. Washington, Sept. 3. The President gained slightly yesterday. His symptoms last night were somewhat more favorable than on the previous night, and through the. day his pulse was less frequent and more steady than it nad been the day before. He relished his food rather better than at any time since his relapse. The patient is still very weak. The parotid gland continues to suppurate and has not yet commenced to heal, and the Wound has not improved much. The most hopeful symptoms are the patient’s growing appetite, the. healthy condition of his stomach, and the readiness with which the lood he partakes of is assimilated. Yesterday he took some soup, and chewed a piece of stewed squirrel, and asked for more, but it was not deemed well to accede to his request. The patient evinces a great desire to be removed from tho capital, and, though the physicians do not think it safe to comply with his wislios in that matter just at present, they are free to say that as soon as it can he safely done they will advise his removal, probably to Long Branch.

What Causes the Blood to Circulate?

To what degree the heart is aided by other forces is yet a matter of investigation. Probably there are several forces assisting. The elasticity of the arteries increases their carrying capacity. They are firm, elastic tubes, which expand under the pressure from each heart-contraction, and then by their own elasticity contract and help the onward flow of the blood. In the smaller arteries the flow loses the intermittent character it possesses in the larger arteries, and becomes a steady stream. The elasticity of the arteries serves precisely the same purpose Us the air chamber of any force-pump, that of equaliz-, ing the flow, and so increasing the amount delivered. The whole force is derived from the heart; the arteries cause the force to- act continuously. The veins are lax tubes somewhat larger than tb e arteries, and capable of holding all the blood of the body. They convey the same amount of blood as tliq latter, but more sipwly. In the larger veins, however, near the auricles, the velocity may be 200 milimetres per second. They are provided with valves which effectually prevent the blood from flowing backward toward the heart. Any compression, produced by muscular contraction or otherwise, will therefore assist the forward flow of venous blood. This is one explanation why exercise hastens the circulation. The movement of the chest in breathing probably aids the pulmonary circulation, the blood, as well as the atmosphere, tending to fill the vacuum during inspiration. Physical capillary force is not generally regarded as an active force in the circulation. But there is an admitted force in the capillaries, resulting from the attraction of the tissues for the arterial blood, containing the required oxygen and nutriment. “The vital condition of the tissue becomes a factor in the maintenance of the circulation. ” It is this force, primarily, which adapts the amount of blood to the varying needs of any organ the nervous system regulates the supply by varying the caliber of the vessels. The force in the capillaries, or some other force, carries the blood after death, from the arteries, where the heart leaves it, into the veins. Finding the arteries empty after death gave rise to the idea that they conveyed air; whence the name. It was this belief which Harvey overthrew in 1620. —Popular Science Monthly.

The Value of Life.

One of the interesting speculations recently started in England has for & subject the present value of life as compared with its value when mankind did not spend half of its time in studying the problem of prolonging life. One of the leading London physicians declares that men were happier and better, and lived nobler lives, before the pursuit of health and the yearnings for longevity became a craze almost amounting to madness, and before the questions what to eat, drink and to avoid, and what to wear, and how to live, by what means to avoid infection, to keep off disease, and to escape death for a few weary and wearied years, were the all-engrossing ones. Another urges that the “ survival of the fittest,” so far as the race is concerned, is a great mistake ; and that humanity in general would be a great deal better off if there were less of the loving labor new expended in prolonging the lives of the weak, diseased and crippled. There is no danger that either of these views will find general acceptance. The world has become so accustomed to studying the laws of health and long life, and enjoys the study so much, that it is not likely to abandon it, even for the purpose of bringing back the happy days when men didn’t care anything about diet and drainage and pure air. There is just as little danger of any retrogression in the matter of caring for the sick and helpless. It may be worse for tlie race, in one aspect of the case, to prolong lives of suffering and to interfere with the natural process which extinguishes the weaklings in a few generations. But what the race loses in this way it is repaid an hundredfold in the cultivation and expansion of its finer emotions. —Detroit Free Press.

A Kitten Freak in Georgia.

A most wonderful freak of nature and living curiosity may be seen at the home of Mr. Dennis Brosnan, in this city. The family cat gave birth to four kittens which are all joined together, Siamese twin fashion. Each kitten is perfectly formed, but they stand abreast, and are joined together by a substantial artery or a double skin extending from the side of one to the other. Tliere are two males and two females in this wonderful family of kittens, and they are as lively as kittens of their age can be. Won’t it be fun when they get large enough for business and try to dive into the same rat hole!

THE MODERN HAT-RACK.

Diabolical Character o* Tills Heathenish Contrivance. - [From the New York Time*.] No candid man can examine the modem hat-rack without feeling that it is explicable only on the theory of its demoniacal origin. Indeed, the human mind is so constituted that it instinctively refers all the contrivances ostensibly intended for holding hats to the devil, and most of us would confess a belief that the devil makes hat-racks did we not fear the derision of so-called philosophers. Is it reasonable to suppose that any human being seriously designed for a good purpose the combination of braes rods which is to be seen above the tables in certain restaurants ? Ostensibly these rods are intended for temporary storage of hats; but when a man tries to put his hat on a brass-rod rack it instantly falls down again, and brings with it two other hats and a pi’e of newspapers, the former of which upset the caster, while the latter diffuse themselves over the butter and the beefsteak. Nothing but the theory of the active influence of evil spirits can account for this style of hat-rack, and yet it is really inferior in ingenious malignity to the common hat-rack of private houses. This diabolical contrivance is always placed in the dark corner of the hall—a fact which shows that evil spirits are concerned not merely in manufacturing but in placing it. The consequence is that the visitor gropes for it, and, in so doing, infallibly knocks down the overcoats and hats which are already hung upon it. When he is able to perceive it with his eyes, he can find no satisfactory peg. The malicious manufacturer never fails to make the pegs so short that to induce a hat to balance itself upon one of them is a task requiring both time and dexterity. Not content with this, tho manufacturer places the pegs so close together that it is impossible for two adjoining pegs to support each its own hat at the same time. The ordinary visitor learns this truth only by sad experience. He persists in trying to hang his hat on the peg next to that which bears the hat of the head of the house, and it is only after he has knocked the original hat down with his own hat, and then knocked his own hat down by trying to restore the other to its original place, that he perceives the fell purpose of the maker of hat-racks. Only the ingenuity of demons could have combined an umbrella stand with a hat-rack. The object of this unholy combination is obviously to tempt the visitor to deposit his overcoat on the protruding handles of half a dozen umbrellas and canes. The prudent man rarely attempts to hang his overcoat on a peg, for he knows that in so doing he will knock down all the hats. Moreover, it is the practice of the satanic manfacturer to put in the pegs so loosely that the weight of an overcoat when put on any one of them will pull it out. He, therefore, folds his overcoat up and lays it gently on the umbrella handles. In-’ stantly these delusive supports give way. A rattling avalanche of canes and umbrellas strikes on the marble floor, and the betrayed overcoat gathers to itself all the available dirt that has accumulated in the bottom *»f the umbrella stand, while the startled and indignant visitor breaks into language which might well till listening demons with fiendish joy. So notorious has the character of the combined hat-rack and umbrellastand become that wise men never meddle with it. but uniformly place their folded overcoats on the floor in a corner of the hall, and put their hats on their overcoats. Now, if we attempt to account for the hat-rack on any theory which excludes the supernatural, we make a complete. failure. It is in vain for us to ask ourselves why men should make an article of furniture that can accomplish no conceivable end except the exasperation of mankind. The moment we assume that hat-racks are the work of evil spirits they become coherent and intelligible. Is it not, then, a j»ity that the abolition of faith in evil spirits leaves us without any method of accounting for the existence of liat-racks, and compels us to say that we do not know, and cannot conceive, for what purpose they are made ?

The Newest Thing in Suicide.

The latest novelty in attempts at suicide comes, of course, from Paris. A workman, having quarreled with his wife, withdrew to his room, seized a poignard, the blade of which was ten centimetres long, took a hammer, and, putting the point of the poignard to the top of his head, drove the blade home with a blow. Instead of dropping dead, as one would suppose,'the Frenchman,-it is declared by the Siecle Medicals, experienced no unusual sensation, either mental or physical. He thereupon endeavored to extract the poignard, but, though he tugged hard, he tugged in vain. Doctors were sent for, who found themselves unable to extract the poignard. “The man,” we read, “was ultimately taken to a workshop in the neighborhood, accompanied by the medical gentlemen, and here he was seated on the floor, held down in a sitting posture by two persons, whilst mechanical force was used to draw the weapon from the skull. ” This operation having been successfully performed, he was sent to St. Louis Hospital and kept there a week. He was then sent home to muse, perchance, over some surer means of taking his own life than burying a poignard in his brain. Scientific men are racking their heads over the problem this singular case presents.

That Little Hatchet.

“ Come heah, George Washington, you black ape,” exclaimed Rev. Aminidab Bledsoe, of the Austin Blue Light Colored Tabernacle, to a Sunday-school scholar who had just removed a big wad of something or other from his mouth. The boy’s trembling limbs carried him into the immediate presence of the irate sheperd. “ Yer was chewin’ terbacker in de house ob de Lawd.” “I owns right up, parson. I was chawin’ terbacker, but I won’t do so no moah.” “George Washington, chawin’ terbacker am bad enough, Lawd knows; but when yer has got so shameless yer don’t eben try ter he out ob it, hit am time ter take ver in hand, so you won’t grow up and disgrace de fodder of his country. Lean ober dat knee, George. ” And for about ten minutes people living several blocks off imagined their neighbors were preparing tough beefsteak for dinner with an ax.

Home Life for the Blind.

In an address before the College for the Blind, at Upper Noiwood, Henry Fawcett, the blind Postmaster General of England, said that, speaking of his own experience, the greatest service that could be rendered to the blind was to enable them to live as far as possible the same life as if they had not lost their

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sight. They should not be imprisoned in institutions or separated from their friends. Few who had not experienced it could imagine the indescribable joy to them of home life. Some persons hesitated to speak to the blind about outward objects. There could be no greater error. The pleasantest and happiest hours of his life were those when he was with his friends, who talked about everything they saw just as if he was not present; who in a room talked about the pictures, when walking described the scenery they were passing through, and who described the people they met. When with the blind, people should talk with them about and descrilie everything they saw. The speaker concluded by remarking that there was plenty of good will to assist the blind, but what was was better organization.

He Conld Not Enlist.

“ No, I am not one of the veterans of the war,” he slowly replied to the inquiry, “but it is not my fault. I wanted to be there, but something always held me back. ” “ That was too bad.” “ Yes, it was. When the war broke out I offered to go, but I was in jail on a six month’s sentence and they would not take me. I was innocent, of course, but as I was in jail the recruiting officer had to refuse me. Lands ! but how J did ache to go down to the front and wade in gore !” “Aud when you got out of jail?” “Yes, I got out, but then my mother died. I was on my way to enlist when she died, and, of course, that altered my plans. No one knows how bitterly I wanted to be down there and wade around in blood and glory.” “Well, you didn’t have to mourn all through the war, did you ?” “ Oh, no. Bless your soul, but I only mourned for thirty days, and then I started out to enlist in the artillery. I was just about to write down my name when a constable arrested me for breach of promise, and it was four months before I got through with the suit. Ah ! sir, but if you only knew how I suffered at being held back when others were winning glory on the field of carnage you would pity me !” “But the suit was finally decided?” Yes, finally, and within an hour after the jury brought in a verdict I started for Toledo to enlist in the cavalry. ” ‘ ‘And you enlisted ?” “Almost. I was being examined by the doctor when I got a dispatch that the old man had tumbled into the well, and of course I had to go home. I had not got the undertaker paid before lightning struck the barn. Then some one sat fire to the cheese factory, and soon after that I had three ribs broken and was laid up for a year. When I finally did get around to enlist, the doctor rejected me because I was color-blind, near-sighted, lame, and deaf. I tell you, sir, when I think of the glory lost and tilt) gore I didn’t shed, it breaks me right down and I don’t even care for soda water.”

Housekeeping Hereafter.

Housekeeping, as now conducted, is too big a job for those who undertake to doit—a fact practically realized in all households. Not even the most favored are free from danger of periodic breakdown in the over-taxed machinery of domestic administration, and the common experience is that the gearing runs anything’but smoothly at best. The one matter of trouble with servants is becoming such a crying evil that it is talked of whenever housekeepers meet, and the public prints are burdened with discussions of remedies and plans for obtaining better “help.” This agitation will presently make plain that the servant trouble lies too deep to be reached by changes in the personnel of the service. It is not that cooks and chambermaids are so greatly at fault as that tod much is demanded from them. The work to be done requires greater intelligence and ability than can be induced to enter domestic service at present. Necessity commanding and opportunity inviting, an attempt to institute better methods of housekeeping cannot long be delayed. The centripetal force of society, potent in commerce and arts, will be permitted again to modify the conduct of household affairs ; acting, as heretofore, by removing certain kinds of work from the home, and making them the basis of a new business. The kinds of work to be transplanted are those which bring dirt and litter into the house, those which require and which produce heat, and those which demand a man’s strength or an expert’s skill. In plain words, the household is to be relieved of the heavy and gross labors, and also the difficult and trying operations connected with cooking, washing, ironing, heating and cleaning. —Atlantic Monthly.

A Tramp and His Drink.

A dilapidated-looking tramp, with sixteen distinct patches on his clothes, and a plaster over his eye, went into a saloon, slapped down a worn-out dime and bawled out in a voice loud enough to be heard in Ogden: “ Give me a soda-water cocktail with the North pole in it.” A crowd outside, thinking free drinks were to be set up, crowded into the saloon and watched and waited. The man of rags, who had ordered the North Eole in his drink, ate up all the lunch e could find, chewed up the coffee and cloves, and was tackling the mint, when the bartender quietly asked: “ What did you say you want in your drink, Mr. Gould?” Mr. Gould steadied himself a moment, grinned on the crowd and at himself in the looking-glass, and replied: “ H you please, sir, I’ll have the North pole in it. ” The bartender remembered an old {>iece of gas-tubing, about three feet in ength, had been left around; he got it and blew some cayenne pepper down the inside, put one end of it in the cocktail, and smilingly handed it to Mr. Gould. Mr. Gould took it, gave a first preliminary pull, and then a hurricane arose. It seemed as though the combined tornadoes of eight Eastern States had broken loose. An immense conglomeration of legs, arms, hats, canes and bodies was observed piling out of the saloon a few moments after; and to-day, when the saloonkeeper reckons up the losses of a broken head, cracked mirror, scratched and stained counter, and liability of being sued, he will sadly remember the last words of the tramp as he closed the door and shot up the street.— Salt Lake Tribune. The Hotel reports an interview with an old waiter, in which he makes the statement that “waiters seldom grow old. As a rule, they’re sassy until they’re 28. They begin to be weak when they touch 30, and at 40 they are but little good, as indigestion kills them.”

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INDIANA NEWS.

Hog cholera is prevailing to quite an extent in some parts of Johnson county. Decatur county fair, at Greensburg, was a success, financially aud otherwise. , . J. T. PoiiK, an extensive packer of canned goods, at Greenwood, Johnson couuty, has failed. A recent sale of 1,200 acres for $lB,000 is the largest land sale that has been made in Crawford county for several years. Near Greencastle a spark from a locomotive ignited 500 acres of grass, aud it required the labor of 800 citizens to subdue the flames. D. Boss, a resident of Somerset, Wtvbash county, aud father of Sheriff Ross, was thrown from a buggy while driving and fatally injured. The barrel and wagon factory of Andrew Johnson, at Piercoton, Kosciusko county, was entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, $6,000. Mrs. Carrie A. Wolfe, the wellknown newspaper correspondent, has filed her petition in the Crawford county Circuit Court for a divorce from her husband, Dr. Scott Wolfe. The residence and mill of T. S. Roseberry, at Delaware, Ripley county, were burned in the absence of the family at camp meeting the other day. Loss, from $7,000 to SB,OOO. Coroner Kersey, of Richmond, occupies a house owned by E. G. Potts, a Cincinnati druggist. The latter had the roof torn off while the Coroner was asleep, and got caned for it. A large barn on the farm of the heirs of Col. Pierce, in Shelby county, was accidentally set fire to by two children, and was entirely destroyed. Loss, $3,000, with no insurance. It is now conceded that the “small boy” caused all of the recent incendiary fires in Jeffersonville. The fires generally have occured in day time, and those in the evening have been before bod time. While a young son of a widow named Talkington, residing in Shelby county, was carelessly handling a revolver, the weapon was discharged, killing instantly a little brother, 6 years old, who was standing by. The railroad election held in Shelby county, to decide whether an appropriation of SBI,OOO would bo donated to the Knightstown and Toledo Company, resulted hi a severe defeat to the railroad, every township going heavily against it. The extensive flouring-mill of Charles Rapp, in Terre Haute, has been totally destroyed by fire. In the mill were 325 barrels of flour and 4,000 bushels of wheat, all of which wus consumed. The loss on building aud stock will aggregate SIB,OOO. Insured for $5,000. John Small, a wealthy farmer living near Knightstown, Henry county, was sued for professional services rendered his daughter, Ida, during a spell of sickness, and on account of his daughter being of age he refuses to pay her debts. The case was decided in his favor.

A mTTTjK 5-year-old girl died at Evansville from the effects of having swallowed two nickels. The nickels weie swallowed several weeks ago, and three or four days later she began to lie ill, and since that time has pined, and all the physicians could do for her was of no avail. Two men named Davis, who recently came to Wabash county from Kansas, mysteriously disappeared a few days ago, arid have not since been heard from. The clothing of the mis-ing men was found in a piece of woods whore they had worked. Foul play is feared. John Bkitton, who fatally stabbed James Hester at a picnic, in Brown county, some weeks ago, was lately captured near Union City, Mich., after a long and tedious search by the Sheriff of Brown county. Britton is a notorious and dangerous character, and the murder was most cold-blooded and unprovoked. ( W. W. Metoauf, an agent for Dun s mercantile agency, has absconded from Roekport with considerable money belonging to that concern. The cause of this strange action is attributed to bad associates and indulging too freely in wines. Mr. Metcalf has heretofore been considered one of the leading attorneys in Roekport, and his fall has astonished the citizens of that burg. A dihtiieshing accident happened on the farm of Albert Dobbins, near bhelbyville. About 3 o’clockin the morning Mr. Dobbins was awakened by some noise near the back-door which he supposed was a predatory dog, owned by one of his neighbors. Picking up his shotrgun lie went to the threshold, and, seeing something white, fired a heavy load of shot at the object, which proved to be little Daisy Burns, a 10-ycar-old girl who visiting the family, and who hnd gone out during the night unaware. The child was shot through the left shoulder, producing quite a serious wound. In a recent speech at Indianapolis, says the Journal of that city, Gov. Porter referred to the old law for the confinement of debtors within certain limits. A poor fellow in this fix was said to be “in the bounds,” but lie dared not go beyond them, or if he did he was liable to arrest and imprisonment in jail. Not a few residents of Indiana can recollect the time when this law was in force, and some few are yet alive who were sufferers from it. But it may fairly be presumed that at that time such a law was not so onerous as it would be now. There are fewer inducements and facilities for travel. It was not the habit then to take a summer vacation or to go junketing a thousand miles away. In fact, to horrible were the old corduroy roads that the whole population was “ in the bounds” ex necessitate most of the time. Reference to this old law reminds us of our wonderful progress. Now not infrequently the creditor is “in the bounds,” hard at work to repair his losses from bad debts, while the debtors roam around the country careless, happy and free. Another law which our hard-hearted fathers enforced is also referred to by Gov. Porter. It was that providing for the sale of paupers. It is a question yet whether those shrewd old fellows did not know a thing or two, primitive as were their habits and notions. We do not hear ol atiy tramps in those days. There were no poor housescrov ded with unfort unatesor vagrants. Evidently in those days the people of Indiana had less of the milk of human kindness about tin m, but yet a rugged sense of justice and right which saved them much annoyance. They had prompt measures for criminals, and were not shocked when a horse-thief or murderer was hung. Justice was stern and prompt, and crime was not profitable as now. Juries were not given to sentimentalism. If thev pitied anybody it was the people who suffered, not the outlaws that lived upon them.