Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Eot. Heavy snow-storms are reported throughout the Eastern States. Mrs. Catherine Branch, the oldest person in Massachusetts, died at Boston, in the 112th year of her age. A snow-storm of extraordinary duration and great volume prevailed over the Eastern seaboard, The snow was about fourteen inches deep in most of the Eastern States including Virginis. Trains were abandoned in many places, particularly in New England. Jersey City, N. J., was visited by a $200,000 fire. About 100 students of the Rochester University, most of whom were Seniors, created a great disturbance at Oscar Wilde’s lecture in that city. They occupied seats mostly in the gallery, and during the lecture they kept up a running fire of hisses, groans and bootings which compelled the lecturer to pause more than a dozen times. When the lecturer had proceeded about a quarter of an hour, an old darky dressed with a swal-low-tailed coat, one white kid glove, and a bouquet of flowers as big as a peck measure, walked down the central aisle with many antics and grimaces, a la Bunthome, and took a front seat The intervention of the police was im yoked, the students beat a hasty retreat, and the esthete concluded his lecture in the presence of a small audience. A collision on the Pennsylvania road, near Altoona, Pa., killed a conductor, an en> gineer and a fireman. Near Newburg, N. Y., two men were blown to atoms by an explosion of giant pow* der. West. Joseph Mahan, of Cleveland, found a handsome powder-horn on the knob of his hall door, and hung it about the neck of his little son. An explosion soon took place, two children losing their eyesight. It is thought that the horn was an infernal machine placed by some enemy. Three burglars were instantly killed at Tunnelton, Lawrence county, Ind., while attempting to rob the saloon of Thomas Clark. The names of the men slain were Nicholas Vaughan, Virgil Wilson and 8. Whitted. They were all hard characters. A confederate named Willoughby, who had agreed to participate, betrayed them, and men posted in the saloon shot them down. Judge Charles Fox, the oldest member of the bar of Cincinnati, is dead. South.. A stage with eight passengers attempted to cross the Mayo bridge over the James river into Richmond, Va., when a span seventy-five feet long fell thirty feet to the water without tilting, carrying the coach and its load safely down. A negro named James Luckey, employed on the farm of Mr. Thomas Collins, in Randolph county, W. Va., fell in love with Collins’ daughter, a beautiful girl of 20 years, and induced her to elope with and marry him. The father of the misguided girl visited the miserable cabin where the twain were enjoying their honeymoon, for the purpose of compelling his daughter to return home. A fight ensued between the two men, and during the struggle the colored man drew a revolver and shot Mr. Colhns dead Friends of Collins overpowered Luckey, took him to the woods in front of his cabin, and hanged him to the limb of a tree. William Neal, one of the murderers of the Gibbons family at Ashland, Ky., has been sentenced to be hanged April 14. Craft has been convicted, and will probably mount the same scaffold. John L. Sullivan, of Boston, and Paddy Ryan, of Albany, fought a mill at Mississippi City, Miss., for $3,500 a side and the championship of the United States. Nine rounds were fought in twenty-six minutes, Ryan falling sen seless at the conclusion. Ho was terribly punished about the head, his upper lip being cut through and his jaw broken. Sullivan showed no injuries, and ran to his quarters at a lively gait. Large sums of mono)' were wagered on the result. Maj. D. W. Washburn, a prominent railroad man, together with a Mr. Stall, his wife and little boy and two negroes, were riding upon a hand-car, near Waco, Texas, when they were run down by a freight train, and all of the party, with the exception of the negroes, crushed to death. Maj. Washburn was Chief Engineer of the Pacific Improvement Company, the International Construction Company and the Mexican Construction Company. He was, in short, at the head of the construction department of the Gould system in the Southwest. He was about 37 year 5 * old, and held the highest position in his line of service in the world. He was from Elmira, N. Y. The Virginia Senate passed a bill abolishing the whipping-post. Guy Powell, a colored member of the Virginia House of-Delegates, has introduced a bill in that body which provides that the issue of unlawful alliances shall be considi red the legal heir of the male offender, and shall take his name. The aim of the bill is to break up the system of white men keeping colored mistresses. ' ’ .. I : Lewis Powell, si white citizen of Lynchburg, Va., has been sentenced to 156 lashes on the bare back for housebreaking and robbery.

WASHINGTON NOTES. At a meeting of the House Garfield auditing committee, last week, a communication was received from the doctors who attended the murdered President, saying they declined to set any value on their Ber\ - ices s . but' simply made a statement of their labors, and ’referred the matter of compensation to the discretion of Congress. The committee voted to adopt their view of the case, and will not require an itemized statement of their visits. The other expenses must be based ontitems. The physicians made no reference to the services and proper compensation of Dr. Boynton or Mrs. Edson. Rear Admiral Beaumont has been put upon the fist, after a service of forty years. *" ’ Thomas J. Durant, counsel on the part of the United States before the American and Spanish Claims Commission, is dead. The third of David Davis’ dinners was attended by Gen. Sherman, the Cabinet and Supreme Court and twenty Senators. Lieut. Danenhower and the other invalid members of the Jeannette survivprs in Siberia have been ordered home by the Secretary of the Navy. The Garfield 5-cent postage stamp will be issued March 1, and it is pronounced the truest likeness of the murdered President. The Hennepin canal project was advocated before the House Committee on Railways and Canals by ex-Gov. Carpenter, of lowa, and tha friends of the measure have

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JAS, W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

great hopes of favorable legislation. Capt. James B. Eads feels confident that the Senate committee will make a favorable report on the subject of his proposed Tehuantepec ship-railway scheme. If Congress, however, will not assist him in this way, he proposes to get foreign aid. His mail having been daily and duly dumped into the Potomac, and the visits of admirers stopped by authority of the Jail Warden, the assassin Guiteau is beginning to weaken. Floral tributes and requests for autographs being denied, the murderer has to fall back on the newspaper men, to whom he unburdens his soul as occasion may serve. A M. Soteldo, clerk of the Railroad Committee of the Senate, went with his brother to the editorial rooms of the Washington National Republican and demanded the publication of a manuscript explaining his connec tion with a disreputable affair, recently exposed in that paper. The managing editor, Clarence Barton, declined the manuscript, and immediately realized that he had a fight on his hands. Four pistol-shots were fired, and when the smoke had cleared away it was found that So" teldo was fatally wounded. Barton received two bullets in his body, but they inflicted only slight wounds.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Two young men of Kingston, Canada, sold the body of their dead mother to medical students for dissection. At Hamilton, Canada, an infant, which was left to sleep alone in a basement, was killed and partially devoured by rats. A wealthy English capitalist purchased 45*000 acres of land in Dakota of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and will locate an English colony there in the spring.

FOREIGN NEWS. In a number of Russian interior towns obsolete statutes establishing Jewish residence quarters are being revived. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill inaugurating the scrutin de-liste system, and the Government will make its adoption a Cabinet question. Russia is accused, in spite of her assertions to the contrary, of having Inspired the Herzegovinian trouble by the Pan-81avic agitation in Bosnia and Herzgovina. France is purchasing a large number of repeating rifles from the Austrian smallarms manufactory. Coal containing dynamite having been smuggled into the Russian imperial palace, the Ozar has ordered the exclusive use of wood. The police of Dublin are inquiring into the source of a letter addressed to Secretary Forster, containing a damp substance which exploded on becoming dry. The British Parliament reassembled on the 7th inst. Lord Selborne read the Queen’s speech, which recommends the establishment of local self-government in English and Welsh counties, and the extension of municipal government over the whole metropolis of London. In the House of Commons, a motion by Sir Stafford Northcote was adopted that Bradlaugh be not allowed to take the oath, and the latter was ordi red to withdraw. Sexton gave notice of a bill to repeal the Coercion act. In the House of Lords, the Marquis of Salisbury made a violent attack on the Government. A further installment of details has been received regarding the cruise of the Jeannette in the Polar sea. The vessel drifted for twenty-one months along with her prison of ice, which at last closed in and crushed her hull like an egg-shell. Tho average winter temperature was 33 degrees below zero, and the coldest weather noted was 58 degrees below zero. By advice of her physician, Queen Victoria will next month go incognito to Mentone. During, the past year the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, Secretary of State for Ireland, received 400 threatening letters from Irish patriots. The death of Berthold Auerbach, the celebrated German novelist is announced. He was in his 70 th year. Mr. Stillman, formerly American Corsul in Crete, lately correspondent of the Times of London, was murdered in Albania.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

John W. Guiteau has left Washington. He says the assassin is very calm, and will go to the gallows with courage. Stories about doctoring the census statistics are pronounced false. D, W. Vandeihoff, first bookkeeper of the First National Bank of St. Paul, Minn, has been arrested for embezzlement of an amount variously estimated at from $20,000 to $30,000. At the residence of James Sweetman, on Michigan avenue, Chicago, George Robinson, employed as the driver of an ice-wagon, shot and mortally wounded Mary Beggan, who refused his attentions, and then blew out his own brains. The girl was serving as nurse for Mrs. Sweetman, upon whose enfeebled system the tragedy inflicted a terrible shock. Henry H. Hall was executed for murder at Tucson, Arizona. There is intense indignation at Berlin over the acquittal of a soldier who tired upon and killed two lads who were teasing him. Capt. Stone says Mr. Vanderbilt intends to make a road-horse of Maud 8. the coming sprite, Xid that she will never again trot against time. The report of the Mississippi River Commission shows that $144,000 have been expended for salaries, expenses] and preliminary surveys, while SIIO,OOO more will be required before June 30, and $400,000 for the succeeding fiscal year. This is asside from the $1,000,000 appropriated for actual improvements. The commission adheres to its plan of revetments, and approximately estimates the cost of the entire work at $35,000,000. Capt. Cowdon holds that it will reach $50,000,000. Sergeant Bush, of the Tenth cavalry, stationed in Texas, killed himself because he was reprimanded and sent to .the guard house. Jesse Barber, a negro, was executed at Winnsboro, 8. C., and Quirino Gaitau, a Mexican, at Brownsville, Texas. The surgeons at the University Hospital, in Philadelphia, removed from a lady a tnmor weighing 112 pounds. Hazing at Cornell is to be stopped, even if it results in the depopulation of the university; Several recent offenders have been expelled. The house of John Moreland, near Huntington, Ontario, burned a few nights ago. His wife, step-daughter and three children were bprned to decth, Simeon Rambaugh and Minard Huff, young men, were biuned so badly they will die. Too bashful —Mistress: “Bridget, I really can’t allow you to receive your sweetheart in the kitchen any longer.” Bridget : /‘Thank you kindly, mum, but he’js too bashful for the parlor, ”

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1882.

THE ASSASSIN.

The Death-Sentence PaMed Upon the Aeaiawin. In the Criminal Court at Washington, on Saturday, Feb. 4, Judge Cox overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of the murderer of President Garfield. Scoville thereupon filed a motion in arrest of judgment Judge Cox then asked the assassin if he had aught to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. The prisoner arose, pale, but with lips compressed, and desperate determination stamped upon his features, In a low and deliberate tone he began, but soon his manner became wild and violent, and. pounding upon the table, he delivered himself of the following harangue: I am not guilty of the charge set forth in the indictment. It was God’s act, not mine, and God will take care of it, and don’t let the American people forget it He will take care of it and of every officer of this Government, from the Executive down to that Marshal, taking in every man on that jury, and every member of this bench will pay for it, and the American nation will roll in blood if my body goes into the ground and lam hung. The Jews put the despised Galilean in the grave. For the time they triumphed, but at the destruction of Jerusalem, forty years afterward, the Almighty sot even yvith them. lam not afraid of death. am here as God’s man. Kill me to-morrow if you want lam God’s man, and I have been from the start.” Judge Cox then proceeded to pass sentencs, addressing the prisoner as follows: “ You have been convicted of a crime so tenable in its circumstances, and so far-reaching in its results, that it has drawn upon you the honor of the whole world and the execrations of your countrymen. The excitement produced by such an offense made it no easy task to secure for you a fair and impartial trial, but you have had the power of the United States treasury and of the Government in your service, to protect your person from violence and to procure evidence from all parts of the country. You have had as fair and impartial a jury as ever assembled in a court of justice. You have been defended by counsel with a zeal and devotion that merits the highest encomium, and I certainly have done my best to secure a fair presentation of your defense. Notwithstanding all this you have been found guilty. It would have been a comfort to many people if the verdict of the jury had established the fact that your act was that of an irresponsible man. It would have left the people a satisfying belief that the crime of political assassination was something entirely foreign to the institutions and civilization of our country; but the result has denied them that comfort The country will accept it as a fact that the crime can be committed, and the court will have to deal with it with the highest penalty known to the criminal code, to serve as an example to others. Your career has been so extraordinary that people might well, at times, have doubted your sanity, but one can not but believe that when the crime was committed you thoroughly understood tne nature of the crime and its consequences ” —[Guiteau —I was acting as God’s man]—“ and that you had moral sense and conscience enough to recognize the moral iniquity of such an act” The Prisoner—That’s a matter of opinion. “Your own testimony shows that you recoiled with' horror from tho idea. You say that you prayed against it. You say that your conscience warned you against it, but by the wretched sophistry of your own mind you worked yourself up against the protest of your own conscience. What motive could have induced you to this act must be a matter of conjecture. Probably men will think that some fanaticism or morbid desire for seif-exaltation was the real inspiration for the act. Your own testimony seems to controvert the theories of your counsel. They have maintained and thought, honestly, I believe, that you were driven against your will by an insane impulse. The testimony showed that you deliberately resolved to do it, and that your deliberate and misguided will was the sole impulse. This may seem insanity to some persons, but the law looks upon it as a willful crime. You will have due opportunity of having any errors I may have committed during the course of trial passed upon by the court in banc ; but, meanwhile, it is necessary for me to pronounce the sentence of the law—that you be taken hence to the common jaU of the District, from whence you came, and there be kept in confinement, and on Friday, the 80th day of June, 1882, you be taken into the place prepared for your execution, within the walls of said jail, and there, between the hours of 12 and 2 p. m., you be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on vour soul. ” During the reading Guiteau stood apparently unmoved and with his gaze riveted upon the Judge, but when the final words were spoken he struck the table vielently and shouted: “ And may the Lord have mercy on your soul. I’d rather stand where I do than where the jury does, and where your Honor stands. I’m not afraid to die. I stand here as God’s man, and God Almighty will curse every man who has had a part in procuring this unrighteous verdict. Nothing but good has come from Garfield’s removal, and that will be the verdict of posterity on my inspiration. I don’t care a snap for the verdict of this corrupt generation. I would rather a thousand times be in my position than that of those who have hounded me to death. I shall have.a glorious flight to glory, but that miserable scoundrel, Corkhill, will have a permanent job down below, where the devil is preparing for him.” After apparently talking himself out the prisoner turned to his brother and, without the slightest trace of excitement, conversed for some minutes before being taken from the court-room. George Scoville has returned to bls home in Chicago. He will not prepare the appeal papers in the case before March. Guards watch the assassin night and day. Guiteau was vaccinated in the jail on the day that he received his death sentence. A Small-Pox Letter. Deputy Warden Russ was opening Guiteau’s mail in the jail office, when all of a sudden the officials scattered in every direction. The cause of the excitement was the opening of a letter from Marietta, Hl., which contained the following message : “ Here, I send you some small-pox. It is worse than the sentence of Judge Cox. Rub yourself with the scab, and it will surely stop your gab.” In the center of the sheet was pasted something that looked like a black wafer. Mr. Russ at once scratched a match and burned the sheet of paper. “I don’t know,” he said, “but people think these letters go right to Guiteau. His letters have to pass through the inspection officers, and if there is any small-pox virus in them it might spread through the whole jail.” The prisoner’s mail will hereafter be handled very carefully. Mr. Scoville says hehas received four such letters, and has asked the Postmaster General to have his letters examined and fumigated. Mr. Scoville, upon the receipt of the first letter, had himself vaccinated. Guiteau, when he heard about Mr. Scoville’s letters, was very anxious to be vaccinated, ana his wishes were complied with.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

A resolution was adopted by the House, on the 4th inst., to pay John G. Thompson, ex--Bergeant-at-Arms, SB,OOO for expenses incurred in connection with the Garfield obsequies. In committee of the whole on the Postoflice Appropriation bill, it was agreed that SIOO,OOO may be used in establishing the freedelivery system at new points, and that $25,000 per year shall not be paid for carrying mails across the bridge at St. Louis. The Senate was not in session. The bill to grant lands in Alabama in aid of the Gulf and Chicago Air-Line railway was re' ported favorably to the Senate on the 6th inst A bill was passed directing the purchase of the Freedmen’s Bank property in Washington. Mr. Garland introduced an act for the erection or public buildings at Hot Springs. Mr. Ingalls called up his resolution declaring that the pension law ought not to be repealed. He stated that the rolls of the War Department showed 620,545 pensionable oases, and only 380,364 pensions had been granted by reason of death or disabilities. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate : CoL Daniel H. Rucker, Assistant Quartermaster General, to be Quartermaster General, vice Gen. Meigs, retired ; Maj. Win. B. Rochester, Paymaster General, vice Gen. Brown, retired. In the House, Mr. Belmont offered a resolution calling upon the President for a transcript of the letters of Jacob R. Bhiphord, of New York, and of the replies made by the State Department. Mr. Springer introduced a resolution that the President be requested to give his authority for calling a congress of the American republics. Mr. Cobb offered a resolution of inquiry as to the names of land-grant roads and the number of acres given them. A bill was passed providing thnt no person guilty of

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

bigamy or polygamy shall be eligible to a seat in Congress as a Delegate from any Territory. A resolution was adopted directing the Secretary of State to investigate the imprisonment in Mexico of three citizens of the United States for breach of civil contract. The bill to create a liquor commission was defeated. Mr. Garland introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 7th inst., to grant the right of way through the Indian Territory to the Mississippi, Albuquerque andlnterooean railway. Apetition was presented asking unobstructed navigation of the Missouri in the construction of bridges. The bill to donate bronze cannon for a statue to Garfield was amended to authorize the Secretary of War to pay s7ooto the Society of the Army of the Cumberland out of the sales of condemned ordnance. A report was made on the claims for depredations committed by the Utes at the White river massacre. In the House a resolution was adopted calling on the Postmaster General for information concerning the sub-letting of mail contracts. Majority and minority reports were presented on the bill to extend national bank charters. Mr. Ryan reported the Indian Appropriation bill, setting aside $1,920,203, ana reducing the number of Agents to sixty. The Apportionment bill was taken up, and six amendments were offered, fixing the number of representatives at 819 to 865. Mr. Prescott asked that the wealth of the various States be taken into consideration, for which sentiment he was sharply rebuked by Mr. Horr. Mr. Blair, of New Hampshire, proposed in the Senate, on the Sth inst, a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture or sale of liquor after 1900. Mr. McCall offered resolutions directing the Secretary of State to negotiate for a reciprocity treaty with the Central and South American states. Messrs. Vest and Maxey, in a deuate on the matter of arrears of pensions, warmly eulogized the present law. Bills were passed to establish ports of delivery at Kansas City and St. Joseph. The President nominated Commodore John C. Febiger to be Rear Admiral, and Capt. John L. Davis to be Commodore. In the House, Mr. Randall gave notice of an amendment to the Tariff Commission bill, making the body consist of two Senators, three Representatives and four experts. Mr. Lacey reported a bill to establish a postal-sav-ings depository. The Sherman Funding biU was taken from the Speaker’s table, and referred to the Ways and Means Committee. After eulogies upon the late Representative O’Connor, of South Carolina, the House adjourned. The House Banking Committee made a favorable report on the bill to extend the charters of national banks. President Arthur sent a special message to both houses transmitting letters from Secretary Kirkwood and the acting Governor of Arizona in regard to lawlessness in that Territory, and urges the amendment of the posse comitatus act to permit the use of troops in assisting the civil authorities. Mr. Pendleton presented in the Senate, on the 9th inst., a petition from leading citizens of ■Pittsburgh asking that competitive examinations be held for appointments to offices, and that no removals be made on partisan grounds. A favorable report was made on the bill for the sale of portions of the reservation at Fo rt Leavenworth. Mr. Saunders introduced a bill for a bridge across the Missouri near Omaha, and Mr. Grover an act for civil government for Southeastern Alaska. Neil Brown, of Tennessee, was nominated tor Secretary of the Senate, but was defeated by the vote of Mr. Brown, of Georgia, who voted with the Republicans, much to the surprise and indignation of the Democrats. Eulogies were delivered upon the late Representative O’Connor, of South Carolina, during which Mr. Bayard paid a glowing tribute to the Irish race, lu the House, Mr. Hewitt introduced a bill to regulate the meeting of electors and the counting of the votes for President and Vice President. With Mr. Aldrich in the chair, some hours were spent on the Apportionment bill. Mr. McCoid advocated the Seaton plan, which fixes the number of Representatives from each State without regard to fractions. General sentiment seemed to favor provision for 319 members, which will divide the gain equally between the political parties. A bill was introduced to retire M. 0. Meigs with the r ank of Major General. Tne measure tor placing Gen. Grant on tne retired list came up in the Senate on the 10th, but was laid over because Mr. Logan was absent. Mr. Maxey urged the enlargement of the Mexican-war list, and Mr. Beck expressed his willingness to aid needy and deserving veterans, but not to others. lu the House Mr. Guenther reported a resolution of inquiry as to the practicability of lowering the dam constructed for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. The House went into committee of the whole on the private calendar and took up and passed the bill authorizing the President to appoint to a Captaincy in the army T. D. Kirby, who was cashiered for di-unkennoss when a brevet Brigadier General. The Secretary of the Treasury submitted a report showing that twenty-nine employes of the Internal Revenue Department Liaa been killed and fifty wounded while enforcing the laws against moonshiners. Both houses adjourned to Monday, 13th. At a caucus of Republican Senators, held after adjournment, it was determined to resist any motion to bring up Harris’ resolution for the appointment of Neil Brown as acting Chief Clerk of the Senate.

THE UNKNOWN WORLD.

Record of the Observations of the Crew of the Jeannette—-Capt. De I.ong’s Party in a Narrow Wilderness Eighty Miles Long, Destitute of Habitations and (Same. Lieut Danenhower sends from Irkutsk, Siberia, the following interesting dispatch to the New York Herald: De Long’s party is between stations Bulcur (Bolinoi ?) and Sisterouck, in a narrow wilderness eighty miles ■ long, devoid of habitations and game. Jerome J. Collins volunteered to stand by a dying seaman, Hans Erickson, and let the other of De Long’s party push south. The new search builds huts and goes over every inch of a region which is plowed by heavy drift ice every spring. We visited Nordenskjold’s winter quarters, and found he was safe before we entered the ice near Herald island. The general health of the crew, during the twenty-one months’ drift, was excellent. No scurvy appeared. We used distilled water, and bear and seal meat twice a week. No rum was served out. Divine service was regularly held. We took plenty of exercise. Everybody hunted. Game was scarce. We got about thirty bears, 250 seals and six walrus. No fish or whales were seen. All possible observations were made during the drift, the result showing a northwestcourse. The ship was keeled over, and heavily pressed by ice most of the time. The mental strain was heavy on all the ship’s company. The result of the drift for the first five months was forty miles. There was a cycloidal movement of ice. The drift lasted six months, and was very rapid. , Soundings were pretty even. They were eighteen fathoms near Wrangell Land, which' was often visible seventy-five miles distant. The greatest depth found was eighty fathoms and the average thirty-five. Bottom, blue mud. Shrimps and plenty of algological specimens were brought up from the bottom. The surface water had a temperature of 20 degrees above zero. Extremes of temperature of .air were : Greatest cold, 58 below zero ; greatest heat, 44 above zero. The first winter mean temperature was 33 below zero ; second winter, 39 below zero. The first summer mean temperature was 40 degrees above zero. The heaviest gale showed a velocity of about fifty miles an hour. Such gales were not frequent The barometric and themometric fluctuations were not great There were disturbances of the needle coincident with the auroras. The winter’s growth of ice was eight feet The heaviest ice seen was twenty-three feet The engineer states that the heavy truss saved the ship Nov. 21 from being crushed. The telephone wires were broken by the movement of ice. The photographic collection was lost with the ship. Lieut Chipps* 2,000 auroral observations were also lost The naturalist’s notes were saved. Jeannette island was discovered May 16, in latitude 76 deg. 47 min. north, longitude 158 deg. 56 min. east It was small and rocky, and we did not visit it. Henrietta island was discovered and visited May 24, in latitude 77 deg. 8 min. north, longitude 157 deg. 32 min. east. It is an extensive island. Animals scarce, elimiera plenty. The Providence Press says there has been enough written about the American ship to sink that forgotten relic of bygone glorv if the unfortunate craft could be loaded with it.

THE SHERMAN BILL.

Full Text of the Three-per-Cent* Funding Act. The following is the full text of the 3-per-cent Funding bill, as passed by the Senate of the United States. Be it enacted, etc., That tho Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to receive at the treasury and at the office of any Assistant Treasurer of the United States, and at any postal Jnonef-order office, lawful money of the United States to the amount of SSO, or any multiple of that sum, or any bonds of the United States bearing per centum interest, which are hereby declared valid, and to issue in exchange therefor an equal amount of registered or coupon bonds of the United States, of the denominations of SSO, SIOO, SSOO, SI,OOO and SIO,OOO, of such form as he may prescribe, bearing interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum, payable either quarterly or semi-annually at the treasury of the United States. Such bonds shall be exempt from all taxation by or under State authority, and be payable at the pleasure ot the United States. Provided, that tbe bonds herein authorized shall not be called in and paid so long as any bonds of the United States heretofore issued bearing a higher rate of interest than 3 per centum, and which shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, shall be outstanding and uncalled. The last of said bonds originally issued and their substitutes, under this act, shall be first called in, and this order of payment shall be followed until all shall have been paid. The money deposited under this a,ct shall be promptly applied solely to the redemption of the bonds of the United States bearing 8X per centum interest; and the aggregate amount of deposits made and bonds issued under this act shall not exceed the sum of $200,000,000. The amount of lawful money so received on deposit as aforesaid shall not exceed at any time the sum of $25,000,000. Before any such deposits are received at any such postal money-order office under this act, the Postmaster at such office shall file with the Secretary of the Treasury his bond with satisfactory security, conditioned he wil! promptly transmit to the Treasurer of the United States the money received by him in conformity with regulations to be prescribed by such Secretary; and the deposit with any Postmaster shall not at any time exceed the amount of his bond. Seo. 2. Any national-banking association now organized, or hereafter organized, desiring to withdraw its circulating notes, upon the deposit of lawful money with the Treasurer of the United States, as provided in section 4 of act of June 20, 1874, entitled “An act fixing the amount of United States notes, providing for redistribution of nationalbank currency, and for other purposes,” shall be required to give thirty days’ notice to the Comptroller of the Currency of its intention to deposit lawful money and withdraw its circulating notes; provided, that not more than $5,000,000 in lawful money shall be deposited during any calendar month for this, purpose ; and, provided further. that the provisions of this act shall not apply to bonds called for redemption by the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 3. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize an increase of the public debt

The Treasury Investigation.

Ex-Custodian Pitney, of the treasury, has revived interest in the contingent-fund investigation by adding something to his former testimony. Pitney, says a Washington telegram, asked to be recalled, and when he appeared he stated that he had been informed that Upton and Lamphere had contradicted his testimony with regard to employes of the treasury having done work for Secretary Sherman, for which they were paid out of the contingent fund. He asked that that portion of the testimony of Upton and Lamphere referring to his evidence be read to him. This was done ; it showed that Pitney had been correctly informed. Upton and Lamphere had contradicted him, and had testified positively that no employe of the treasury had ever been paid out of the contingent fund for work done for Mr. Sherman. Pitney then reaffirmed his testimony, that they had done such work, and had been paid for it out of that fund, ana said he was prepared to prove it, and also to prove that Secretary Sherman and Mrs. Sherman knew that this work was so paid for. Senator Hale sprung to his feet, and, with some show of indignation, asked : “ How dare you charge that Mrs. Sherman knew this ?’’ Pitney replied: “ Because I received notes from her asking me to send men to do certain work on certain occasions, and I have the notes here now.” He then produced certain notes purporting to have been written by Mrs. Sherman, and requesting that workmen be sent to the Secretary’s assistance. Pitney added that lie had received notes of the same kind from Secretary Sherman, and also produced them. Pitney then entered into details with regard to this work, and maintained that he could prove by the books and records of the treasury that the work was paid for out of the contingent fund. The committee finally decided to call U pton and Lamphere and confront them with Pitney; also to have the books and records of the contingent expenditures present for examination in connection with the testimony.

Apportionment—The Pending Bill.

Washington dispatches state that indications point very clearly to the rejection of the pending Apportionment bill in tho House in the present shape. The Democrats are generally against it, and many Republicans are openly opposing it. Representative Blackburn says that it is au unjust measure, that it ignores the rapidly growing Western States, and gives an increase in the representation to the Eastern States that are declining in population. He says it will be rejected. Page, of California, says it is founded upon injustice, and it will be beaten badly. Blount says it is infamous, and the method of apportionment on which it is based is outrageous. He is satisfied it will be beaten. Pound, of Wisconsin, feels sure the bill will be rejected. Sparks, of Illinois, is opposed to it, and predicts its defeat. It was supposed that as the bill conferred the increase proposed upon the larger States it would get the support of the delegations from thesd States, but this is not so. Several members from Pennsylvania now do not think the bill ought to pass. One substitute that will be offered for the pending bill will propose to fix the membership of the House at 321, as that would distribute tbe representation, it is claimed, more equitably among the factions than any other number. Democrats generally favor the smaller number, and it will be proposed from their side to keep the House at its present figure, 293. Some of those who have studied the drift of opinion think 307 will be the number finally adopted.

Daughters.

There are tew greater mistakes than the prevailing disposition among people in middle-class life to bring up their daughters as fine ladies, neglecting useful knowledge for showy accomplishments. The notions, it has been justly observed, which girls thus educated acquire of their importance, is in an inverse ratio to their true value. With just enough fashionable refinement to disqualify them for the duties of their proper station, and render them ridiculous in a higher sphere, what are such ladies good for? Nothing, but to be kept like wax figures in a glass case. Woe to the man who is linked to one of them! If half the time and money wasted on music, dancing and embroidery were employed in teaching daughters the useful' arts of making shirts and meud>ng stockings and managing household affairs, their real qualifications as coming wives and mothers would be increased fourfold.

Do Robins Get Intoxicated.

A New York sporting paper some time since stated that the robin does not show himself much in Southern latitudes until the berry of the China tree is ripe, and then partakes of it liberally, becomes intoxicated from the alcoholic quality of the berry, and often falls to the ground in an unconscious state. The Atlanta Constitution defends the bird against this slander, as follows: Observation has convinced us that the antics of the robins are the result of

suffocation, and not intoxication. The cenfonnation of the. bird’s neck is such that food must pass directly across the windpipe to reach its destination, and in the case of a china berry this journey is rather troublesome to the bird. The berry lodges against the windpipe, and the attempts to swallow it result in suffocation. It is then the bird falls from the tree, and his efforts to swallow the berry have the appearance of drunkenness. Generally the bird recovers, but sometimes it is choked to death. The suffocated birds may be relieved by merely pressing the berry past the windpipe.

Bombastes Blaine.

Mr. Blaine has plenty of leisure, and plenty of money, and an inexhaustible stock of assurance. Just now he is engaged in the active business of keeping himself before the public as a supposed candidate for the Presidency in 1884. The rings, the jobbers, the lobbyists and the schemers who cluster about Washington, and who call themselves Republicans and Democrats for convenience, are ardent advocates of the plumed knight, who, being on the retired list, has nothing to do but to set up windmills and attack them furiously. No former Secretary of State ever wasted as much dispatch paper, in the same space of time, as this enterprising aspirant for the White House did in the eight months that he blustered and fumed about that department, to the terror of all Europe, Asia and Africa, and the Chilian part of the American continent. And he appears to have kept the clerks under him employed night and day, for he was so satisfied with his performances that he had copies of all the dynamite dispatches made, and carried them off, claiming, as he did in the case of the Mulligan letters, they were his private property. This Bombastes Furioso of diplomacy got up a project for a congress of “all the American nations to assemble in the city of Washington” next November. Not satisfied with a general circular, to make sure of the proposed guests he instructed Mr. Trescott, on his return to the United States, to call on some of them, and to repeat the invitation in person. Mr. Frelinghuysen thought his predecessor too hospitable by far. and revoked the instruction to Trescott. Whereupon the belligerent Blaine, with a blast of his war trumpet, calls the ringster clans to muster and to save this country from a surrender to the despots of the Old World. In the midst of the terrible commotion caused by the alarming letter of the formidable ex-Secretary * * To the President of the United States”—no longer “My dear Mr. President”—comes the news from Panama that the Congress of South American nations, which was to have met there on the Ist of December, had"failed, and tbe few delegates who did meet had “returned to their homes much disgusted at the apathy displayed by their neighbors among the various republics along the coast.” These South American states of Latin origin evidently do not appreciate projects for a general congress. The splurging Secretary who invited them to come to Washington, to discuss terrapin and canvas-backs between the sherry and the champagne, must have known of this disinclination when he ordered Mr. Trescott to persuade them to accept his hospitality, for which Congress would be expected to foot the big bill. Mr. Blaine is a very smart man as the world goes. The trouble with him is that he is much too smart for the common run of mankind. He is never content with being smart enough. This is a great misfortune for a patriot, a statesman, a hero in time of war, and a trading politician at all times. Amid ail’the noise and confusion of this South American business, gotten up to divert public attention, the Jobbery at the bottom of it may be said to stick out palpably to sharp eyes. Mr. Blaine made his Roman virtue manifest to all the world when he instructed his faithful minister, Hurlbut “not to extend the good offices of this Government in behalf of the Cochet claim” for a trifle of a thousand millions, more or less. That demand shocked him. He investigated it carefully, as be promised Shipherd’s Peruvian Company to do. With the best intentions, he could not stand a thousand millions.

But when the same enterprising firm came in with the Landreau claim, modestly asking a few hundred millions, Mr. Blaine’s “ policy” was vigorously developed. He would allow no intrusion on this continent. The Monroe doctrine meant Landreau in full, and woe betide any European power, potentate or Prince that would deny it. Disinterested “Democratic” organs that had magnanimously defended Brady rushed to the support of the Secretary. First of all they were Americans, and politics must be discarded for great principles, and for Kemble’s noble trinity of addition, division and silence. Mr. Blaine therefore directed the in genuous Huribut “to use his good offices with the Peruvian Government, to the end that it would designate one of its own courts or tribunals before which Landreau could appear and have the justice of his claim tested.” Calderon was Provisional President, and he had been “seen.” He was ready to do what the Commissioner of Venezuela did in making the ring awards. He would sign away all the territory the Landreau patriots wanted on afixedday, and then retire, rich andcontented to Paris.

Chili got word of the intended job and carried oft the Provisional President just before he could sell the remains of his unfortunate country. Then it was that the wrath of Huribut became absolutely heroic. And when the news of this “treachery” reached Washington the great pi’< of granite which the profane Mullett had dedicated to the hating architecture gods shook as if convulsed by a South American earthquake. Chili had dared to interfere with the “ Ameri an policy ” of the Secretary, who stands alone. Chili had carried off Calderon. Chili wqjdd appropriate the guano and the nitrates that were intended for the Landreau party to indemnify her war expenses. Chili had committed a great “ offense ” against the United States and against Mr. Blaine in particular. We are free to admit that Mr. Blaine has a grievance, and he is not to be blamed for ventilating it every day in the week. Any man’s feelings would be hurt at a Probate Judge who threw him out of a big share in a will of several hundred millions for want of a good codicil. Mr. Blaine’s indignation was natural, and from his standpoint he h id no other recourse than to threaten Chili with war for seizing Calderon before he executed the deeds to Landreau and'Company. If Chili had politely waited for a single day to paw away, and thus have

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put Mr. Blaine’s self-sacrificing friends in possession of the nitratofceds and the guano deposits, his son would never have escorted Mr. Trescott on a special mission, there would have been no eructations from the war stomach of the belligerent Minister, and the remainder of poor Peru would have been transferred to the pockets that are now gaping in emptiness.— Washington letter.

A Disgraceful Union.

The Cincinnati Gazette looks with some concern upon the division of the Republican party. By way of advice to the fictions which threaten to nullify its strength altogether, it points to an interesting bit of history : “ He is no friend of the party or of its principles who encourages dissension. It will require a united party to succeed in 1884, as it did in 1880 and 1876.” The Republicans were barely successful in 1880, no more. If the stalwarts had persisted in their idea of being sulky, New York, and with it the Presidency, would have been lost. In 1876 the party were successful only because they were united. But what a union ! The votes went against them, and their boldest, most shameless leaders conceived the plan of changing the result by fraud. The idea took. Some of them hesitated at the unheard-of enor raity of the plan, for instance Senator Conkling and his friend Senator Jones ; but they shrank from the responsibility of upholding truth and right against the passions of their party. Zach Chandler managed the project, and Stoughton, Sherman, Garfield and all the other visiting statesmen went down to Louisiana and Florida and perfected it. Even then, if there had been any brave, outspoken Republican to condemn it, it might never have been con summated. The foulest stain ever put on a people would not have made its mark here. To the undying shame of the Republican party, it was as much of a unit in the determination to make Hayes President after Tilden had received the majority of the electoral votes as it was in voting for Hayes in the first place. With regard to the crime of 1876, the Republicans seem now to be a unit on one other point. They have no other feeling than that of disgust for the base creature they put in the White House. Zach Chandler, the chief actor in the drama, was loudest in his expressions of contempt for Hayes. When even a Republican newspaper mentions him now, it is always with a slur, showing that his true character and position are receiving only a clearer recognition. They all turn from him as a horrorstricken criminal turns with rage and loathing from the instrument with which the crime was done. The Republicans were a unit all through 1876, but now the two chief factions of the party have become so sharply defined and so hostile toward each other that our Cincinnati contemporary is alarmed for the unity of the party. It will be a fortunate thing when it is broken up. When a party is so perverted, so unflinching in its determination to keep the control of the Government, that the introduction of fraud as a party measure is not enough to break it up, but it requires the development of two ambitious and irreconcilable factions before there can come even the faintest souud of remonstrance or disapproval, that party is not worthy the support of honest, patriotic men.— New York Sun.

A Life-Saving Lesson in Physics.

It is a well known fact that any per- ! son of average structure and lung caI pacify will float securely in water if care is taken to keep the hands and arms subI merged and the lungs full of air. Yet i in most cases persons who are not swimI mers immediately raise their hands above I their head and scream the moment they i find themselves in deep water. The i folly of such action can be impressively I illustrated by means of a half-empty ' bottle and a couple of nails; and the I experiment should be repeated in every i house-hold until all the members—- ! particularly the women and children—- | realize that the only chance for safety ; in deep water lies in keeping the hands j under and the mouth shut. Any shortnecked, square-shouldered bottle will answer, and the nails can be easily kept ’ in place by a rubber band or a string. | First ballast the bottle with sand, so that 'it will just float with the nails pointing i downward, then by turning the arms up- ; ward, the bottle will either be forced uni der water at once or will be tipped over so that the water will pour into the open mouth, and down it will go. To children the experiment is a very impressive 1 one and the moral of it is understood. | The vital value of this precaution was I strikingly illustrated near Accomac C. ' H., Virginia. A niece of the Hon. John ' Neely, while bathing, was sweptoff into I the ocean by a strong current and soon | disappeared in the high breakers. As i she could not swim her companions gave j her up for lost. Two young fishermen j-who were employed some distance away thoughtfully set out with a small boat in search of her, and when a mile or more from shore, found her floating on the water. She had been drifting nearly an hour and was greatly exhausted, but soon recovered. Unable to swim she had pluckily floated, thereby making her I rescue possible.— Scientific American.

The Windiest City.

A citizen of Buffalo, who had been reproached with living in the windiest city in the land, wrote, some years since, to General Myers for the statistics on the subject. In reply he received a table which he has just published in the Buffalo Courier, showing the quantity of wind, measured in miles, which passed over the principal cities of the United States during the year ending November 30, 1874. The following is the table: Names of Cities. Miles. Names of Cities. Miles. Augusta, Ga 35,703 Indianapolis, 1nd...49,374 Baltimore, Md 53,563 Louisville, Ky 56,385 Boston, Ma55.66,6:34 Milwaukee, Wis... .90,482 Buffalo, N. Y 80,314 Montgomery, A1a...44,007 Charleston, 5.0... .65,484 Nashville, Tenn... .39,931 Chicago, Ill 80,673 New Orleans, La..... 69,076 Detroit, Mich 61,572 New York, N. Y... .82,621 Duluth, Minn6l,3oß Norfolk, Va 70,779 Eastport, Me 79,803 San Francisco,Cal..34,B96 Erie, Pa 84,883 Savannah, Ga 56,943 Galveston, Tex 86,731 St Louis, M 0.81,646 Philadelphia, over. .81,577 Washington, D. 0...64,619 Note.—The record for Philadelphia was incomplete, but it showed 81,577 miles for less than eleven months. Milwaukee has the doubtful honor of being the windiest city in the land. One thing that is injuring the health oi smokers is the paris green which farmers put on their potato vines to kill the potato bugs. Either some law will have to be passed to prevent the use of paris green on potato vines, or else a law will have to be made compelling manufacturers to use tobacco in making cigars,— fioonuronp,

semocrntiq JOB PRIHTIKB OFFICE Um better farilftlM than any ofltes in VorthwwtaaS Indiana for ths irirmti— of sfl tnaibM of JOB FRINTINa. PROMPTNESS A SAEOIALTY. Anythin*, from a Dod*sr to • MoaUrt, ar tnn • nmphlet to a Boater, black or oolorad, plain or fane*. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Twelve leading cities of Indiana have bonded debts of $6,958,700 and floating debts of $315,948. A widow near Shelbyville, aged 43, induced her daughter to discard a Jover aged 23, and then married him herself. The wholesale dry goods firm of Evans, McDonald & Co., of Fort Wayne, has suspended, with liabilities of $150,000. The Commissioners of Clinton county have awarded the contract for building the new Court House to Farman & Pierce for $169,999. Shelbyville butchers charged with selling unwholesome meat have been acquitted, and have sued their accuser for $5,000 alleged damages. Some of the students of the Indiana College dressed up a gawky, long-haired comrade as Oscar Wilde, accompanied him on a lecturing visit to Crawfordville, and dined with an aesthetic villager. Returns to the Indiana Bureau of Statistics refute the general idea that the lands of the State are gradually absorbed by capitalists, showing to the contrary that the number of owners is increasing. Mrs. Sparks, of Hensley township, Johnson county, is nearly 100 years old, and states that she has twelve children, eighty-five grandchildren, about 160 great-grandchildren, fifty great-great-grandchildren, and a few great great-great-grandchildren. J. M. Walter, who carried the mail on horseback between St. Meinrad, Spencer county, and Leavenworth, was arrested for stealing several registered letters from the mail-sack. He escaped by jumping from the horse and dashing into the underbrush. A somewhat singular proceeding was witnessed at Lafayette a few days ago. A man named Gillespie, who died from small-pox, had been conveyed to (he burial spot on a dray, the body being in a coffin and the latter placed in a care-fully-sealed box. The drayman’s next load happened to be some bags, and, when the owner discovered the fact that the bags were on the dray which had been used for the small-pox patient, he threw them all into the canal. Fort Wayne has been convulsed by a big social sensation. Miss Nellie Fleming, daughter of William Fleming, exState Treasurer, and Director of _ the Chicago, New York and St. Louis road, eloped with Tony Trentman, and wont to Detroit, where they were married. Trentman is a notorious gambler and hard character generally, but is a member of a highly-respectable family, being a brother of Augustus C. Trentman, a well-known wholesale grocer of Fort Wayne. Miss Fleming is a beautiful brunette, and has for several years been a leader in Fort Wayne society.

A correspondent sends from Bedford the following particulars of the killing of Nicholas Bawn, Zachariah Whitted and Virgil Wilcox, at Tunnelton, Lawrence county : For a long time Tunnelton and its vicinity has been infested by a baud of thieves and burglars, who have done pretty much as they pleased. Travelers have been .■•topped on the highways and robbed, and farmers have had stock and feed stolen from them. Yet such was the horror the robbers created in the community that but few if any could be found who were willing to prosecute for fear of arson or bodily injury at the hands of the band. A few days ago, according to the story that Ben Willoughby, the man who betrayed his confederates, tells, four persons—himself, Nicholas Bawn, Virgil Wilcox and Zachariah Whitted—entered into a conspiracy to carry out a plan which embraced burglary, arson and murder, and but for Willoughby weakening and making a clean breast of the affair they might have been to a great extent successful. He says, in the first.place, they were to burglarize the saloon of A. Myers on the supposition that a large amount of money was concealed in the building. From the saloon they were to go to the residence of Mr. Thos. Clark, a wealthy citizen, call him out if possible, kill him and then rob the house. If successful, after this the next thing on the programme was to fire a vacant building that stands on the outskirts of the village, and, while excited people were drawn to the scene of the conflagration, break open the store and office of Messrs. A. Guthrie <t Son, pork-packers and merchants, and rob the safes of their contents. Then they were to leave the country. They did leave the country, but not as they intended. On Sunday morning Willoughby for some cause or other revealed the whole affair to Mr. Clark, Mr. Myers and one or two others, and measures were at once taken to capture or kill the burglars. It was agreed to place a number of men armed with shotguns in such a position tha‘ they could see the window of the saloon the thieves were to enter, and not be seen themselves. Promptly at the hour named the burglars appeared at the window, Willoughby with them, as agreed upon, wearing a pair of white pantaloons that he might be known and not injured. Bawn whistled, and •Wilcox soon bad the window opened and entered, then Willoughbv stepped around the corner of the building out of the way. A pistol was fired by one of the citizens in ambush, and in a second almost the three frightened burglars got out of the window onto the platform, which is about three feet above the ground. They were “no sooner out than a volley of shots was sent at them, prostrating all of them, but not preventing them from getting off and crawling under the platform. The citizens then called upon them to come out, throw away their arms and surrender. They agreed to do this if assured they «ould not be shot. It is said this assurance was given, and they came out and threw away their pistols some distance from them. No sooner had they done this than a perfect hail of shot and bullets was sent at them. Whitted dropped dead on the spot, Bawn fell mortally wounded, and Wilcox, although badly wounded, ran some distance, when he received another shot which brought him to the ground in a dying condition. It is asserted that just after he fell a young man stepped up, placed a shot-gun against his head and blew the top of it almost off. Bawn died next night. He was but a boy, being only about 18 years of age, but was a bad character. The other two, especially Wi'cox, were noted for their lawlessness of character. Willoughby is by no means a saint, and was a few years ago |in jail here charged with murder, but was acquitted. It is reported that Willoughby has fled the country through fear of vengeance on the port of the ■dead men’s friends. The verdict of the Coroner is, “Came to death f om the effect of gunshots fired by unknown persons,"