Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. KmL W. M. Brown, of Masseville, Ohio, while riding on a train near Erie, Pa., drank from a wine flask handed bitn by two flashy yon ng men. When he was sufficiently drowsy they chloroformed him in a car full of passengers. They then escorted him to the platform for fresh air, and removed from his waist a belt containing, $8,050. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has withdrawn from the editorial management of the Christian Union. Pink-eye and pleuro-pneumonia are all the rage among the cattle and horses ic Philadelphia and vicini.y. The temperature on Mount Washington was 3 degrees below zero. Fire destroyed the large dry-goods ’store of Weschler Abraham, in Brooklyn N. Y., involving a loss of $250,000. WMt. Charles Jefferson, a convicted negrc murderer, obtained a new trial at Independence, Mo., by claiming that willful discrimination was made against the colored race in the seleclioE of grand and petit jurors, in violation of ths Federal constitution and State statutes. A saloon quarrel in St. Louis resulted in the killing of Tim Moran and the wounding of Ed Hardy by a brakeman named Joht Mahoney. Paul Boyton reached Yankton in thirty-five days from the head of the Yellowstone. J. K. Fisher, a stock-broker of Chicago, was married to Miss Annie Forsythe, anc set out for San Francisco on a tour of the globe. James E. Anderson, who became notorious in the Tilden campaign in Loui-dana, and has lately been editing a daily journal in Eureka, Nev., was beaten over the head with a revolver by W. J. Penrose, and badly injured. Senator David Davis told Acting Secretary of the Senate Shobatjthat he might be assured of his support; that'beshould certainly not vote to displace him. Mr. Shobei can therefore retain his place until there is s change in the political complexion of the Senate. Twenty thousand kegs of beer were spoiled at Aurora, Ind., by the burning of thf Crescent Brewery Company’s lager factory. Loss, $175,000 ; insurance, $55,000. Gen. A. B. Nettleton has become sole owner of the Tribune, of Minneapolis, and David Blakely takes charge of the Minneapolis office of the Pioneer-Press. Jacob Kitt died at Wabash, Ind., aged 102 years. He was born in Yorktown, Pa. The Mississippi River Improvement Convention commenced its cession in St. Louis on the 26th ult. Mr. Michael McEnnis, President of the Merchants’ Exchange and of the local Executive Committee, called the meeting to order, and, after the call had been read, delivered the opening address. ■ In it he eloquently stated the need of united action' and of energetic measures to induce the Government to improve the great river, not in parts, but as a whole and at one and the same time. The September fires in Huron ami Banilac counties, Michigan, burned out 2,05£ families, comprising 9,591 individuals, and their loss of property is estimated at $1,583,081. Thp losses on churches, schools, manufacturing establishments, etc., are estimated at $320,000. The aid received in money and it goods aggregates $1,005,632. Four cowboys for several days made themselves obnoxious at Tombstone, Arizona. The City Marshal demanded their arms, whet a street battle commenced, in which three oi the ruffians were killed and the other wounded in the shoulder. The Fire Relief Commission of Michigan had on hand, on the 28th ult., $175,000, with liabilities of $30,000. It was believed that $250,000 would tide the unfortunates over tc May. The Peoria (Hl.) Sugar Refinery has been destroyed by fire. The fire started in the drying-room, a wooden structure at the corner of the main building, which was a seven-story brick, and in one hour the entire pile was a mass of ruins. Loss $500,000. Two hundred And fifty men were thrown out of employment.

Boutn. In Richmond, Va., in the coremonies of the Centennial, the Declaration of Independence was read for tile first time since the days of secession. The Governor and troops of Connecticut, who were present at Yorktown, were entertained at Charleston, where business was suspended and a military review held. While riding together into Baird, Texas, James Ivy killed his cousin, George Wilford, for reflecting on tho character of his wife. The Connecticut regiment which participated in the celebration at Yorktown was escorted through the streets of Columbia, 8. C., by local militia, and given an artillery salute. The officers were banqueted at the City Hall. In a circus riot at Cartersville, Ga., a negro was killed and two circus employes shot. A bear and a lion escaped from their cages. Two highly respectable citizens of Montgomery, Ala., named Thomas J. Cox and J. W. Crawford, mortally wounded each other in an affray. Richmond closed its centennial celebration by a procession of troops and citizens which occupied two hours in passing. The British flag was hoisted owr the Capitol and saluted. The demand for Confederate bonds at Richmond, Va., still continues. A banking house has purchased about $5,000,000 worth, paying $3 to $5 per SI,OOO. Nine Governors attended the International Cotton Exposition at Atlanta. Gov. Colquitt delivered a speech of welcome, and several of the visiting Governors responded. A reception was given to the Gubernatorial visitors in the evening, when Gov. Colquitt and Gov. Bigelow wore cotton suits made from seed rriion picked at 7 o’clock in the morning.

WASHINGTON NOTES. In the Criminal Court at Washington Capt. Howgate pleaded not guilty to the charge of embezzlement, and was committed to jail in default of $30,000 bail. The District Attorney stated that an indictment for forgery had also been found against him. The reductions on the star and steamboat postal routes have nearly reached their limit, the saving effected being $525,000 per quarter. * Judge Cox has assigned Leigh Robinson to duty as associate counsel in the Guiteau case. The committee charged with the work of raising funds for the Garfield Memorial Hospital at Washington appeals to all pastors (o deliver discourses and take collections Noy,

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

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5 and 6, and forward the amounts realized to the Treasurer of the United States. A Washington dispatch of Oct. 24 says that Assistant Postmaster General Tyner does not intend to resign until he has fully explained to the President how much abused he is; how he is the victim of circumstances over which he had no control, and how generally he is misunderstood by the public at large. Mr. Tyner says about his much-talked-of report on star-route frauds that he did not suppress that report; that, on the contrary, he presented it to Postmaster General Key, who told him to lock it up, as its publication might injure the party; that President Hayes was fully aware of its existence, but did not wish it published for the same reasoni which Judge Key put forward. Mr. Tyner alleges, moreover, that he presented the report to Postmaster General James soon after that gentleman’s appointment as head of the Postoffice Department, and that CoL James has based al his proceedings against the star-route ring on the report. The German citizens of Washington gave the Von Steubens a banquet, at which an unpublished letter from Gen. Washington tc Baron von Steuben was read. President Arthur escorted General and Mrs Grant to the Baltimore and Potomac depot when they took the train for New York. Gen. Walker has resigned the superintendency of the census. Guiteau’s attorneys have notified the District Attorney at Washington of their intention to ask a postponement of the trial tc November 21. President Arthur has accepted the resignation of First Assistant Postmaster General Tyner. Scoville, Guiteau’s counsel, stated in the Washington Criminal Court that he would not raise the question of the jurisdiction of the court, and Judge Cox postponed the trial until Nov. 14. It is believed that Scoville waived the point of jurisdiction in order that he maj raise it hereafter, in case of Guiteau’s conviction. He thinks if, after the trial, it is decided that the court had no jurisdiction Guiteau cannot again be tri6d for the offense, and maj thus escane the punishment of his crime. It is definitely decided that the Presii dent will not nominate an Attome yGenera until December. During the last fiscal year there were 461 persons arrested for tampering with the United States mails. Of these 110 persons were in the employ of the Postoflice Department. Frank Hatton, First Assistant Postmaster General, is Postmaster at Burlington, lowa, and proprietor of the Hawk-Eye. Ho was born at Cadiz, Ohio, in 1845, and enlisted at the age of 17.

POLITICAL POINTS. A Washington dispatch of Oct. 25 says: “Edwin D. Morgan has declined the treasury portfolio. Judge Folger is holding a consultation with several of the President’s personal friends in New York. Attorney General MacVeagh has practically vacated fail position by leaving for Philadelphia. The President notified Cabinet members that he was too busy to see them, and informed a Senator that he would not prolong the session beyond Thursday evening.” The Minnesota Legislature balloted for Senator, Windom receiving twenty-nine votes out of thirty-eight in the Senate and eighty-six out of 100 in the House. Ex-Gov. Morgan, it is said, was anxious to accept the Secretaryship of the Treasury, but his wife and his physicians strenuously opposed his accepting, and they succeeded in getting him to decline. The facts in the case of ex-Gov. Morgan’s declination of the position of Secretary of the Treasury are stated to be that, after he had accepted the offer of the President, he consulted physicians and his wife, and they, in view of his advanced years and the responsibilities of the office, persuaded him to decline. Following is the official vote cast for Governor of Ohio at the late election : Foster, Republican, 312,735; Bookwaiter, Democrat, 288,426; Ludlow, Prohibition, 16,597, and Seitz, Greenback, 6,330. President Arthur, in a talk with Gov. Foster, of Ohio, declared that he had no enemies to punish, and intended to take the advice of Senators and members of the House relative to Government appointments, thus making them responsible for the worth of nominees.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Exposito, the alleged Italian brigand who was captured at New Orleans, has been lodged in jail at Palermo. Dr. Arthur Edwards, of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, has returned tc Chicago after his bicycle ride through England and the European continent. Ho made 1,200 miles on the bicycle, the shortest day’s journey being eighteen miles and the longest fifty-nine miles. Rev. Dr. Burns, principal of the Wesleyan Female College at Hamilton, Ont., prints a letter indorsing the views held by Dr. H. W. Thomas. Patti, the great singer, accompanied by Signor Nicolini and other operatic singers, has sailed from England for this country. About midnight three men boarded a Fort Wayne train at Bucyrus, Ohio. The conductor saw them standing on the platform of a Pullman coach, and opened the door to inform them that the regular ears were forward. They endeivored to force their way in, and one of them fired several shots. The conductor shouted to the passengers, and the robbers rushed through the coach and sprang to the ground. Thomas Tiffin, a merchant of Montreal, who died last week, left $60,000 to Roman Catholic churches. Advices from the Chilian capital via Paris indicate that Gen. Kilpatrick, the American Minister to Chili, is seriously, and it ii feared hopek ssly, ill. Rev. Isaac L Stein, of Leavenworth, Kan., robbed some rooms in the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and was sent to the Tombs, He begged hard to be released, and declarer! that it was his first offense, although a set ol skeleton keys was found in his valise. He ii 52 years of age, and has a wife and eight children.

FOREIGN NEWS. The steamer Clan Macduff, from Liverpool for Bombay, foundered off the Welsh coast. Two boat-loads managed to make their way to tho shore, but tho others, thirty-six in number, are supposed to have perished. The chief of the Tunisian insurgents has written the Bey of Tunis that the religion of the natives will not allow them to tolerate the cession of the country to the French. A truly patriotic dogma. On conviction of perjury, Miss Mabel Wilberforce, of London, was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for nine months. Several arrests under the Coercion act

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were made in Ireland a few days ago, including that of a woman for keeping a “No-rent” manifesto in her window, and of Dr. Kinny, of the Executive Committee of the Land League, for intimidating tenants. Seven of the political prisoners will be transferred from Kilmainham to other jails, but Sexton and O’Bnen are not robust enough to be removed. Two Arabs caught destroying a French railway in Tunis were shot and their heads ex’ posed to the public. Keene’s Foxhall, ridden by a thirdrate jockey, won the Cambridgeshire stakes at Newmarxet, in which thirty-two horses started. In a fire which destroyed two Italian villages, Claudes and Valletta, three persons were killed, eleven wounded, and forty families rendered homeless. An interesting phase of the Catholic question in Germany arose in Breslau. In that city the Catholic citizens proposed to translate the remains of Bishop Foerster with grand ceremonies and a procession. The police prohibited the procession, and the churchmen appealed to the Emperor, who first approved the prohibition, but ultimately granted Lis permission. This was a question of Liberal vs. Ultramontane, in which the latter won. Baron James Rothschild is dead. The Interoceanic Canal Company have purchased the Grand Hotel ■at Panama, for $206,000, and will convert it into offices of the company. The French newspaper at Alexandria, Egypte, was suppressed for stating that Osman, the founder of the Ottoman empire, was the son of a false prophet. The meeting between the Czar and the Emperor of Austria, which was to have taken place Oct 26, at Krzesnovice, was indefinitely postponed on account of the massing of Nihilists at that place. The English ne vspapers say that the flight of some of Parnell’s lieutenants has convinced Irishmen that these lieutenants were not honest. They also charge that many of the lieutenants sought positions from the Government for their friends, and in some instances for themselves. The St. Gothard tunnel, which pierces the Alpine range at Mont St. Gothard, is to be opened for traffic Jan. 1,1882. The Russian Government, which has failed to protect its Jewish citizens, is now concerned that so many of them are emigrating to America. The Goverment will make another effort to settle them as farmers in the Provinces of Kherson and Ekateririoslav. Mr. Gladstone, speaking at Knowsley in response to a congratulatory address, said that he considered the “no rent” policy sheer rapine, and that the Land bill was not the outcome of the League agitation. The people who had been urged to pay no rent were all paying up, and the Land Court was working well. The elections in Berlin resulted in victories for the Liberals in five districts.

LATER NEWS ITEMS. The steamer Jennie Gilchrist, a sternwheol packet, left for LeClaire, fifteen miles above Davenport, lowa, with twenty-eight persons on board. She had in tow two barges heavily loaded with freight, and was struggling hard against the current. When about sixty rods above the draw of the Government bridge at Davenport, for some reason unknown, her engine refused to work. The boat immediately swung around and drifted helplessly against the bridge, was careened, filled with water, and the lights extinguished. The terrible screams of the passengers attracted the attention of the guard at the draw-bridge, who sounded the distress-signal. Skiffs were immediately sent out, and succeeded in picking up several passengers and the crew. Six or seven persons are known to have found a watery grave. In the Criminal Court at Washington Ch pt. Howgate pleaded not guilty to the indictment for forgery, and was formally surrendered by his bondsmen. In the annual report of Gen. Benet, Chief of Ordnance, U. S. A., lie states that $1,637,893.79 were expended, and wants the appropriation increased this year. He thinks the well being and efficiency of the army requires the retirement of officers at the age of 62. Six firemen at Danville, Hl., have been arrested for over three months, their evident object being the creation of a paid department. S ife-blowers took nearly $2,000 from the store of Brill <t Connelly, at Lockport, Ind., and sot fire to the building to conceal their crime. At Graham, near Dallas, Texas, the hanging of a man drew ah audience of thousands of people, who came from miles around with their lunch baskets, as if for a picnic. Allen Johnson, colored, was hanged at Charlotte, N. C., for the murder of a blind negro, named Crump, for a few cents. The safe in the grocery store of Abra ham Greenwood, at Hulton, Pa., was blown open and robbed of $3,000. Ezra P. Cook and wife, old people of Bellows Falls, Vt., were found dead in their house. The husband was evidently poisoned by his wife, who then killed herself with a kn-fe. She had been partially insane. As the Treasurer of Beaver county, Pa., Mr. William Dawson, was opening his safe, the other morning, he was knocked down by two unknown men, who took from the safe $13,000 of the county funds. The robbers had during the night conceited themselves in the court in which the safe was situated. The Pennsylvania road has put on a lightning train between New York and Chicago,, composed entirely of Pullman coaches, making no stops at meal stations, but furnishing al passengers with dining facilities. Along the route tickets will only be sold at Harrisburg Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne, the extra fare being $8 for the through trip. The train will leave New York at 8 a. m. and reach Chicago at 9:40 a. m. As soon as the, announcement of the death of President G irfield reached the coast cities of South America there were solemn demonstrations of sorrow and sympathy there. There was a funeral procession in Buenos Ayres in which 10,000 people participated. The German elect ions proved that the anti-Semitic parly is not the popular one. Henrici, a notorious Jew baiter, only received 800 votes out of 41,00 ’. nd Prof. Vircnow, a Progressist leader, deb ated the Rev. Chaplain Stoecker by a majiirv of 17,500. 'The British chanel squadron has left Gibraltar for Ireland. O'Sullivan, a leader of the Cork branch league, has been arrested for inciting tenants not to pay rent An armed band visited houses at Carrick-on-Shannon, threatening rent-payers with death. All the Ladies’ Leagues are to be suppressed. A parcel of nine pounds of dynamite was found in a train en route for Drogheda. Hbnri Ward Beecher says that God keeps a list of rich irien who cheat their poor neighbors.

“A Firm Adherence t& Correct Principles”'

EXTRA SENATORIAL SESSION.

The President pro tern, laid before the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to the resolution adopted March 24, calling for a complete list of all books, papers, pamphlets, etc., published by the various departments from March 1789, to March, 188 L The communication, which states that the records of the Treasury Department fail to give the information called for, was laid on the table. The Senate confirmed W. W. Dudley, of Indiana, Commissioner of Pensions; Robert F. Crowell, of Minnesota, Deputy Sixth Auditor ; John Cromb, of Minnesota, Register of the Land Office at Crookston, Minn.; George W. Wilkinson, of Nebraska, Indian Agent Omaha and Winnebago Agency, Neb.; Frank M. Tracy, Postmaster at St. Joseph, Mo.; Capt. Montgomery Sicard, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department; Capt John G. Walker, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation ; Commodores James H. Spotts and JamesW. Nicholson, Rear Admirals; Capts. Samuel R. Franklin, Edward Y. McCauley and John C. P. De Krafft, Commodores. The I‘re.sident nominated John L. Kaine, of Wisconsin, to be Appraiser at the port of Milwaukee, and Edward F, White, of California, to be Coiner at the United States Mint at San Francis jo. Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution in the Senate, on Monday, Oct. 24, appointing Chief Clerk Bhober acting Secretary, which was passed. Ex-Gov. Morgan, of New York, was nominated for Secretary of the Treasury, and the Senate confirmed the nomination after a two hours’ discussion. Gov. Morgan accepted the position, it is understood, with the understanding that he can resign if at any time the duties of the office are too great for his physical strength. Gov. Morgan is over 70 years old, having been bom in Washington, Maes., Feb. 8, 1811, and is said to bo in rather feeble health. Among the President’s nominations were Rev. Henry Highland Garnett (colored), of New York, for Minister to the African republic of Liberia, and John M. Bailey, of New York, for Consul at Hamburg. The nomination of John L. Kaine, to be Appraiser of Milwaukee, Win., is withdrawn, the office having been abolished. Senate confirmations—Receiver of Public Money, Eben W. Cottrell, of Detroit. Registers of Land Offices—Charles M. Webb, of Wisconsin, at Deadwood; Charles W. Pierce, of Nebraska, at Lincoln ; Neb.; Alexander M. Eggett, of Wisconsin, at Eau Claire, Wis. Mr. James F. Meline’s report of the frauds carried on in the custodian’s division of the Treasury Department, and which Senator Sherman’s resolution called for, was presented to the Senate. '1 he report says that the office was created in 1876, ana one O. L. Pitney was ptf. in charge at a salary of $2,400. This iias increased to $2,500 the following year. There was no authority for the creation of the custodian's department, or the appointment of the custodian, and that both acts were illegal and unnecessary. Not only that, but the way in which funds were disbursed was contrary to law ; that only in relation to the purchase of ice, fuel and carpets was there even the semblance of legality; that in the purchase of supplies all tire precautions taken by an ordinary business man were neglected; exorbitant prices were paid; no inventory was ever made of the stock m hand; supplies which were paid for were never delivered, and two prices, drawn from two different funds, were in some cases paid for those undelivered goods. Thus 118 X yards of Wilton carpet and the cost of laying and making were paid for twice out of the contingent fund and once out of the public building fund, and the carpet was not delivered until the investigators had commenced their work. One Moses was paid for 637 X yards of carpet which he did not deliver until the investigation had commenced, and then it was of an inferior character. Cabinetmakers were paid out of the fuel, light and water fund ; fifty-two dozen of fileholders, which cost $502, were never delivered ; $132 was paid out of the gas fund for what was put down in the bill as candles, but Custodian Pitney said that no candles were bought, but that $132 was paid for lemons, sugar, etc.j to make lemonade for the Secretary, fifty-three and one-qnarter gallons of bay rum, which cost $350, was put m the bills as deodorized alcohol. A little entertainment gotten up for some of the friends of Mr. Sherman, who attended the Chicago Convention in his interest, was paid for out of the same fund which supplied the price of his lemonade. In the Senate the oath of office was administered to Acting Secretary Shober on the morning of Oct. 25. On motion of Mr. Sherman, a resolution was adopted authorizing the Librarian of Congress to receive and preserve the papers of Marquis de Kochsmoeau, to await their purchase for $20,000. Among the confirmations were those of Hans Mattson, of Minnesota, to be Consul General at Calcutta ; J. F. Winter, of Illinois, to be Consul at Rotterdam ; Willard B. Wells, of Michigan, to be Consul at Dundee ; and Howard M. Kutcbin as Collector of the Third Wisconsin district. Postmasters—Thomas S. Case, at Kansas City, Mo.; 8. H. Bauman, at Mount Vernon, lowa ; S. C. Glover, at Grand Haven, Mich. Mr. Ransom offered a resolution on Oct. 26, continuing the inquiry into the condition of the Potomac, which was adopted. Mr. Sherman called up the resolution for an investigation of the disbursement of the contingent fund of the Treasury Department, modified so as to give the committee leave to send for persons and papers, and it was adopted. Among the nominations sent iu by the President were those of Charles W. Seaton, of New York, to be Superintendent of the Census ; Frederick Knefler to be Pension Agent at Indianapolis ; Henry M. Cooper to be Revenue Collector for Arkansas ; and Mrs. Jt-re Baldwin to be Postmistress at Council Bluffs.

A resolution for the payment of extra compensation to employes was adopted on the 27th ult A communication was received from Gov. Colquitt, tendering an invitation to the Cotton Exposition at Atlanta. The President sent m the nominations of Charles J. Folger for Secretary of the Treasury. Thomas L. James to be Postmaster Genera), and Frank Hatton to be First Assistant Postmaster General, all of which were confirmed. John L. Beveridge was named as Sub-Treasurer at Chicago, and John S. Harris, of Louisiana, for Su'. veyor General of Montana. Charles W. Seaton, of N.w York, was confirmed as Superintendent of Census. Seven hours were spent in debate over the nomination of Stralham to be Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va., without act on.

The Senate, immediately after going into executive session on the 28th ult, resumed th< contest over the nomination of Clifforc Stratham as Postmaster at Lynchburg, Va. Hill, of Georgia, spoke in opposition to confirmation two houi-s. The debate was ther continued by Morgan, Morrill, Hoar, Shermar and others at great length. The speeches were interspersed with a number of roll-calls on motions to adjourn, and other dilatory proceedings, and wore also diversified bj a spirited colloquy between Logan and Voor'lieps as to which of the two had heretofore shown himself the better friend of the. Union soldier. Tho session Closed at 2:50 in the morning, without any decided action being taken on the nomination. Most of the time after midnight was taken up calling the roll on various dilatory motions.

Potatoe Cultivation.

The potatoe was discussed at a meeting of the Central New York Farmers’ Club. The facts developed in the experience of farmers present were that though soil and season unquestionably have much to do with the flavor of potatoes, the late potatoes retain their flavor over winter and into spring better than early sorts. Professor Roberts found that under the same conditions, small potatoes for seed gave the poorest result, the middle part of large potatoes next, the seed potatoes next, Mid .-the seed snd the best A whole large potato with a single ‘eye is the best possible seed. More work is needed, but a better crop secured by cultivating in rows or drilling, rather than in hills.

A Salutary Law.

The laws of Denmark contain, among other wise provisions, one which it would probably be as difficult; to find in the criminal code of Other nations as r» our own common law, or any other statute appending the same, It provides a pun-

ishment for that especially revolting form of cruelty which consists in allowing a fellow-creature to perish without extending to him a helping hand. A mere act of omission in certain cases is indictable. “Whoever has refused,” says the Danish law, “to help another.. person in mortal danger, when he could have done so without peril to his own life, and that person has perished in consequence, is liible to either imprisonment or fine. ”

The Scared Professor.

There is no use of disguising the fact that the boys who attend our colleges are pretty tough cases on general principles. Not that they would commit crimes, or do things that are particularly dishonorable, but they are as full of tho old Nick as they can hold. You take the best boy you can find in the public schools, one who has had a religious training, and seems to have a pious turn of mind, and who is so good that all the other boys think he is booked for heaven, and send him off to college, and you want to watch him. The chances are that he will come back with a knowledge of draw poker that will paralyze an old gambler, and he will be sure to be a leader in all the deviltry that is going on. An illustration of this was furnished a short time ago in one of .our state colleges devoted to turning out. pious young men. The class in elocution was furnished with a professor from a distant city, who was very thorough in his methods, but he didn’t amount to anything at handling boys. He seemed to look at them in the class room appealingly, as much as to beg them not to play any monkey work on* him. The boys saw he was afraid of them, and they laid for him. They got into a discussion over the proper way to render a passage from the poem, “The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck,” when one of the students called the other a liar. The professor held up his hands in horror, and begged them to be seated, when th.e young man who had been called a liar drew a revolver and shot at the other student, who fell to the floor an alleged corpse. The professor was wild, and at this point the lights went out and every student drew a revolver and began firing blank cartridges in the air. Some were armed with putty balls and eggs, and at each discharge something would strike the professor, and he thought he w.. 8 full of holes. A window was raised-, and by the light made by the exploding cartridges a pair of coat tails and legs could be seen going out, and the professor landed head first on some lilac bushes. They rushed to the window and the poor man, bruised and bleeding, and as scared as it was possible for a man to be, was running for dear life. The next morning he took the train for home, with a black eye, and clothes that looked as though something had been scraped off of them, and the faculty of the college will not know what has become of their profession of elocution till they read this. The boys go about their studies as though nothing had happened, but they are trying to think up some new deviltry. Boys will be boys, and there is no way you can prevent it, unless you break their backs. —[\<ks Sun.

Skilful Lock-Picking.

In the window of Messrs. Bramah’s shop in Piccadilly, London, had been hanging for nearly half a century a padlock of their ordinary make, to which was appended a painted board, offering a reward of two hundred guineas to any one who would succeed in making an instrument that would pick or open it. The exact size of this memorable lock was as follows: Width, four inches; thickness, one and a quarter inch; over the boss, two and three-quarter inches. The cylinder was two and a quarter inches in length by one and a half inch in diameter. Negotiations were opened in proper form, and an agreement was drawn up, binding both parties to the following conditions: The lock was to be enclosed between two pieces of wood, and secured to a wall in such a position that only the keyhole and the hasp were accessible. The true key was to be' sealed up, and not used until Mr. Hobbs had either picked the lock or abandoned his enterprise. An iron band, sealed by himself, was to cover the keyhole when he was not at work. Thirty days were allotted him for the performance of his task, and three gentlemen of eminence in the scientific world—viz., Mr. George Rennie, Professor Cowper, and Dr. Black—were appointed to act as arbitrators between the parties. All these preliminaries being adjusted, the lock was removed from the window to an upper room of the establishment, and Mr. Hobbs commenced his operations on July 24th. Some little misunderstanding as to the terms of the agreement, which rendered necessary an appeal to the arbitrators, caused a suspension of the work for some days; but on August 23d Mr. Hobbs showed the lock with the hasp raised, and shot the bolt backwards and forwards in the presence of Dr. Black and Professor Cowper. The true key, being afterwards applied, was found to work as usual, which proved that the works had not been injured and the lock had been truly picked. The time actually occupied was spread over sixteen days, and Mr. Hobbs was in the room with the lock exactly fifty-one hours.

A Boy Who Squirmed to Wiggle.

“My son,” said a Mulberry-street mother. “ go down to the grocery and get me a can of condensed milk.” “I should squirm to wiggle,” answered the boy. “jGo on, I tell you.” “I should limp to jump.” “If you don’t go this instant I’ll tell your father when he comes home. ” “Ishould blow to tattle.” “ Never mind, sir.” “ I should whoop to squeal.” When the father camo the mother said: “I wish that you’d whip Tom. He positively refused to go down to the grocery, and told me that I was a tattler and that he would jump on me if I didn’t mind.” “Tom.” “ Yes, sir.” “ What was that you said to your mother ? ” “ Never said nothin’.” “ Then I am a story teller and you are a pretty boy,” said the mother. “ Look here, young man; if you don’t behave yourself I’ll thrash you. Do you hear ? ” “ I should titter to snort.” “Dome here to me, sir,” and the young man squirmed to wiggle, limped to jump, blew to tattle, whooped to squeal and tittered to snort. It is a popular fallacy that leeches and mosquitoes take only the bad or impure blood from the body. They take just what • they can get, whether good, bad or indifferent, n .

A Brahmin Who Moves Materials by Will.

Dr. Peebles, who was formerly Cpnsulat cesl the powers of tha average SpiritTrebizond, tells the following, which exualist: The old man said : “If you will take vour seats I will say my prayers ; then I think I shall have power to move any object in this room. ” He prayed most devoutly. I saw on the table a manuscript book; over on the corner weie some peacock plumes or feathers. He went through with his prayers, and burned incense. He then prayed again. “Now,” said the old man, “ I have r the powertomoveby my will. If you please to call it, I will command anything in this room to move. ” I said, “ Will you please to move that book on the stand, command that book and he pointed to it, and said, “ Come this way,” and the book trembled, fell to the floor, and slipped along the floor to his feet. He told the feathers to come out of the case. They leaped around the room. I was astonished. I was surprised. I said, “Tell me how you do this.” He said, “You, an enlightened man, ask a poof Brahmin heathen how ho does this. I believe ifi Brahm, the one living and true God, as you say ; and Bra Gin is powerful. He moves all material things, and just, so fat I become Brab in-like or God-like,, just so fiir as I control my passions, subdue my earthly nature and live in tlie divine, in the same ratio do I have power to move anything within range of toy voice or my radiations. Andso,” said he, “by prayer, by the holy life, I have obtained this divine power from Brahm.” And then he told me how he lived ; about-his bathing, about his food, about his prayers, a most devout life. Before I rosb to go, I said to him that in our country we ate considerable- animal food; He replied, “Ihave so heard.” He said furthermore, ‘‘ I have heard,(hat ip your country you actually eat swine’s flesh. Is it so?” I told him ‘ ‘ Yes, we ate swine. ” Said he, “As the lobster is the scavenger of the sea, swine are the scavengers of the earth. They eat the filthiest food, they are unhealthy and full of scrofula, forbidden by the Vedas. And I have heard you actually kill these hogs, and bury them and eat them when they have beefi six months dead ! Gbbd day,,” said he, and the old man ■would not snake hands with me.

Inmates of Almshouses.

There is a prevalent idea that the almshouses, for the most part, shelter the unhappy and guiltless poor, whom unmerciful disaster. has followed fast and followed faster,until it has chased them into this last, refuge--people whohave come from vine-covered cottages, or tidy rooms up one flight of stairs jin tenement houses,, with a big Bib|e on the table* and-a pot of flowers ,in the window ; or even from luxurious homes' desolated by commercial panics, As

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matter of fact, the great majority of American indoor paupers belong to what are called the lower classes, and seek the almshouse not because of commercial disaster, but because of very common vices.

Driving with the Parasol.

The other evening the Jester was bathing his eyes in cold water, and suspended the operation long enough to remark : “If a woman can’t take her parasol to heaven when she dies, she won’t be happy there. She will come back after An impressive quiet followed this dogmatic statement, and the parasols of the court knew some of them where in for it, “We were driving this afternoon,” the aggrieved Jester resumed, “ and the Erincess kindly shaded my head with er parasol. It was very '.kind, indeed. It limited my view of the country, at times, to my knee and the dashboard oi the wagon. Whenever we met a team, especially if the road was very narrow, the princess lowered her parasol between myself and the passing wagon, so that 1 turned out by faith, or stood on my head to catch a glimpse of the colliding wheels. When we started down a steep hill, she dropped the parasol between me and the horses, and?! trusted to the good sense of the animals to keep out oi the ditch. When we met any acquaintances to whom I wished to bow, she knocked my hat into my eyes. When she would point my admiring gaze to some exquisitely tinted autumn leaves, She jabbed a projecting parasol rib into my eye. When she turned to speak to any one in the rear.seat, she rasped, the back of my neck. Oft as the carriage struck a stone or lurched over a ’ hit., she prodded my long suffering head with vicious little jabs. I drew, my/.head down between my shoulders and sat crouched and bent, tut the remorseless parasol still pursued me. 1! I have been pelted and rasped and prodded, and all from a mistaken sense of kindness. A woman’s unselfishness and kindness of heart always prompts her to hold hei parasol over the man who drives. And, if the man who drives is allowed to choose 1 for himself, he will choose sunstroke in preference to the parasol every time. 1 do not complain, mind you. I merely make a simple statement of plain fact. Any man who has to driv.e a pair ol horses while some gentle-hearted woman holds a parasol over him knows what 1 have suffered. And when she holds an umbrella it is infinitely worse. Then the man is utterly and hopelessly ex tinguished, and the material world is tc im only a wild, blank chaos of alpaca and whalebone.” But here her little serene highness closed the debate by deciding that the nose caught it. but the eyes had it, and without appealing from the decision ol the chair the house adjourned.—Burdette.

Journalistic Abuses.

There ought to be a law making it a penal offence for the newspapers to use certain phrases and expressions, unless the proprietor pay a royalty to the State for the use of such language. Quite a number of respectable bld men have tried it, but none have ever succeeded in dying, without being subsequently • denounced as “an old landmark.” Why not call the late respected citizen “ an old mile post,” for variety ? If a respectable old citizen dies, why should he not be allowed to pass away ? Is he expected, after his relatives have gone to the expense and trouble of having him ostentatiously planted —is it still required of him that his remains loaf about his old haunts, and frequent saloons just about the time lunch is set out ? Why should he not pass away, without the local paper indulging in personal flings and meaningless taunts ? We have shown how the census was kept down by the marriage notices that are put in the papers, how there is more skirmishing than regular engagements, and how, amid all the popping, the question is never popped. In this connection we may mention the term : “ High contracting parties,” which is flung in the teeth of every couple that has the reckless hardihood to commit matrimony. What are high contracting parties, anyhow? Unless the fair bride is seven feet in her stockings, and the noble-looking groom has a contract to shingle the roof of a shot tower, we fail to perceive what possible justification a reporter has to call them high-contract-ing parties. And even if the bridegroom is a carpenter, and has a contract to build a shot tower, that is no reason why his trade should be flung in his teeth. How would the reporter like it if the insulted bridegroom were to publish a card stating that the reporter’s mother took in washing, and his father was a hotelkeeper, who took in strangers ?— Texas Siftings. ‘

The Mormon Women.

Bill Nye, the editor, of ,thq Laramie Citv Bbomertihg} recehtly paid a ( to &alt Lake City, where he attended the. Church of the Latter Day Saints, ‘ and in a letter to Jhf v jy*per,. srespecting these people, . “ I thought I had seen homely ‘WbtAen before, but to-day was revealed to nje sr spectacle of Morarnm will haunt' me always. *’ Th my opinion, poly gamy carries' Its - own* * pMWshifitent, along with it. It iarjuflicient punish-' meat for the to stay.ifl {the bo^se 1 with the wafty toads'*they call cnetr; wives, and the wffintn get enough suffer«| ing out of* living withj ja<.lipibßti<l wh<r deals out Ip ß affections }jn instidyiHits 1 and allows his piultitutjinous wife/ to herd the progeny. ’I have*'said some mean things aboutthb MonhohAfbut the more.J kncny about them, the more I despise myself for the weak. and inefficient way I have attended ‘to this matter. ' ‘' ‘ * I ought to go to bed now us the hour is late, but I don’t daye to get into bed and turn off the gas, because I kiioy I shall lie tortured all night by visions of a crooked-necked old Mormon woman who sat in the seat neat me to-day and' ate peanuts.”

Lodger at Long Branch hotel upon being presented with his bill—fifteen dollars for two days! Polito 'Clerk—< Correct, sir; you read figures like a banker’s clerk. Lodger—Do you take me for a bonanza mine pn its travels? Polite Clerk—Far from it; but you had one of the best rooms in the house. Lodger—One of the best rqpms in the house! Why, it wasn’t bigger’p a coalbin, and l had to sleep with my legs Out of the window. Polite Clerk—-That's! just it, you see. When a guest sleeps with his iegs out of the winapw we Always charge him two dollars and a half a' day extra, b ' ■ -;.>*<•• _,' •’'> THEComposer of “ The Watch on .the Rhine ” receives a pension of SI,OQQ 9 -.year. ■ • uod . • ■ v

Z* £}> z* • JOB PRIHTINB OFFICE Km better tecillUee then eny offlee tn ItorttiVMW Indiana foe the executiM of all bcancbM of JOB PBINTING. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. .inythlnc, fraa a Dodger to a Prteo Met, or from • yamphlet to a footer, black or colored, plain or fane*. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

INDIANA NEWS.

A peach orchard of 50,000 trees is in litigation at Madison, the terms of a lease being in dispute. • The supply of coal in New Albany is about exhausted. The dealers are selling at 22 cents per bushel- <; A young man who wandered away from Seymour, in July found in an insane asylum in Ohio. Charles Lewis is in Rushville jail for obtaining money under false pretenses with which to elope with a school-girl. Miss Louisa Waimier, of Vincennes, has sued Fred Spangle for damages in the sum of 85,000 for breach of promise of marriage. Calvin Fletcher, State Fish Commissioner, will go to Washington to secure a quantity of carp to be planted in Indiana waters. Thomas Butler, an inmate of the county poor-house, near New Albany, for twenty-seven years, died there a few days since, aged 69. Julius Coleman, who is a term in the J effersoih vile, prison, is arranging to translate** “ Virgil’s JEneifl ” into quatrain verse. The State House contractors are making every effort to complete all the brick-work of the first story before the building season closes. Track-layers oh the New York, Chi cago and St. Louis railroad are at a point this side of the farm of. Wm. Mclptdeh, —2*ur< VFayne Sentinel. , Julius Hoehru, on trial at Evansville 'for rape, left the dourt House and efin not be found. He walked out before* a crowded house, Judge, jury and officers. A Mite. tcPWhHSe two Bloomington salood keepers 1 bad sold wbisJiY|«Qt PYW:l>X#np**l»‘h&the miijors ana Seymour, though divorced from her vagabond husbaiid, went to New Albany tne day wheA she heard he wim witlij paralysis, and took him home.. 1 , Thad Withers.-a Brookville miller, was .looking mtojhe dust box at his mill when a shaft caught his flowing beard, and iKlld Oh till every hairwas pulled out by thd roots. • ’ * .. The ( weight of coal in Indiana has been fixed ,at eighty* ppquds to the bushel, and a law of the last LegisWiye makes a penalty for selling Any less pounds for a bushel. A farmer: near Pera, Mlaini county, increased the weight of -fifty head of hogs 4,000 pounds in thirty days by actual weight, thus realizing $1 P or bushel on 268 bushels of corn. Prof. Blobs has suggested, by rc,quest of the Statistical Biircau, thirteen competent persons in as many counties not ‘.heretofore provided for, to take charge of the State weather service. Miss". Addie Hay, of Charlestown itownship, Cltirke county, has sued John King for 810,000 for breacji of promise, and again sued her towpship (Trustee for a place afe school teacher, lin'd has had trouble all along the’ libej- ' ' Some excitement was created in Madison, the other djty, vliy ithe mrnonneeinent that the sTyear-olj,s T year-olj, son of Franz Schrinfer had difcd of 'black malignant small-pox, iind that a 7-ybitf-oW‘daugh-ter was.down with the same Klixirtso. Mrs. W. Houok, of Sullivan, attempted suiejdv, by, taking lophine. By the timely airriyal of physicians she was but it ndeinS ’that The trouble in the family is still unsettled. A few days after her husband, while in a drunken papsiop, lattempted to take her life by shooting her, but failed in the attempt, and w.iS At once lodged in Jail. Richard White* and his ‘wiftf, who live on a farm some fourteen WiilekWeet of Seymour, went out to ent down a tree one day last week. }Vfiep they had the tree nearly sawed in tw'Oj they noticed it was tottering, and ran in-bpposite directions. Before Mrs. White could escape the tree fell and struck, ipflicting such injuries that she died in a few hours.

The Sheriff of Morgan county attempted to take a boy to the Home of Refuse one day last week, wlpm- the boy’s grandmother, mother apd swter attacked him, the mother boating' him with an umbrella, while the others struck bfin over the head, tearing lus clothes,-flbe. The Sheriff finally, however, came out victorious with the boyin Ins charge. The case of Berry McCrary against Jonatharf WWwltrWftff*fct Rusliyille. last week, und flie'jdfy- brought in a 875 verdict for the. plainkiff.;. T^es- plaintiff sued the defendant fpr.saying been stealing. He wanted $-\OOTto patch over hfe ,J fifH<rated chrfrfirtcr. The parties are.weli-to.’do farmery <ud> will light, {pr. yefirsi as th? ( 'W C IPH 89 h/ tye Thebe was a great celebralion at New Albany, 06t. ikying- the potmar-Momv drlw niqr aUfce great tpidge that is. -..torfftn fiOOyOOD; On-file UAi#‘dhy ! urationj-of hw track layfag' westWiffd * Alipipthto caljed.out to. Jus fellow-workman.. ‘ I 'There ‘t&d been a ghostly legend of some old dtittr who buried his wwilth in -that neghborago, wad, r 'S«cad that Pat. had lomul a pot pf money; and, ’as’TatiieK Opiit work on 'ftie rAilrdad’a vhe* ot'tWo later, taatff ¥c»ny”WlieiM that hb had fotfmLß6.-000;iu.iij; ■ ■■.■ J Fo# years the *Wabash,. 8t Louis and Ruciijc assed , "by the City Govcrrynent at XTiuit-ingtbn-J Whenever there was the slightest vitiation of any ordinance of thlt little burg, the railroad employes would I>6 hauled up .before the Mayor, ami made to contribute to the town’s elcharpier. •To escape €liesd pWsHutioßc thf poippany now ppdfuecfclkiovji'ibih ß depot to .the crossing of- Wm.phicago w 1 Atlantic road, a quarteEnf a mile cast of Ittiprt&lFlt&itrM * e ,'J MJ t ,IJW >ll should 'smile-. Jf/rst look at • the ruddy ‘ fHces qf iheopdlidaitmDidkr jSau Antonio and other r itnwfrvta wiMlb«u>dhWent. Hedikek’tiie lAfigUkge es ‘ twe ifountry to whadj hd ia u! irxol