Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. Four colored men were drowned by the swamping of a boat near Layton’s Station, Pa. Sullivan, a mill operative at Dedham, near Boston, Mass., while intoxicated, brutally murdered his wife with a razor. Five men were killed by an explosion in a mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Arthur Chambers, the pugilist, has been sued for SIO,OOO damages for assault. With one blow he broke the nose and closed the eye of William E. Harding, the sporting editor of the Police Gazette. A boarding-house, kept by Mr. Nichol, at We.-t Ansonia, Conn., was destroyed by fire, and James and Eliot Bassett were burned to death. Several men and a lady and child leaped from a balcony. The paper mill of Richards & Co., Gardner, Me., burned. Loss, $50,000 ; insured for $32,000. Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, has again been arrested in New York on charge of swindling. A member of the New Jersey Legislature was given SSOO to vote for the passage of a railroad bill. The affair will be investigated. West. The St Louis directory for 1882 contains nearly 19,000 more names than its predecessor. Great excitement was caused at Columbus, Ohio, by the discovery of the attempt to bribe members of the Legislature to vote away the canal at Cincinnati to a railroad company. John Laird, who was arrested near Independence, Mo., last fall, for complicity in the “Blue Cut” train robbery, near Glendale, on the Chicago and Alton railway, has made a full and complete confession of the ent : re affair, giving all the details and naming lira companions so far as he knew them. He confesses to having participated in the affair, which was managed and led by the James • boys. The greenhorns who aided them were left out entirely when it came to dividing the swag. On a train near Medora, Ind., an intoxicated maniac killed A C. Wingate, of Lexington, Ky., without provocation. The murderer then leaped from the train and drowned himself.

On a ranch about eight miles from Tombstone, Arizona, in a battle with cattie thieves, Deputy Sheriff Gillespie was killed, and the desperadoes sought were both fatally wounded. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road reports gross earnings for 1881 at $21,324,150, and a net income of $10,257,635. The funded debt is $59,122,725, and the miles of track 2,924. The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned on the 30th ult., nfter being eighty days in session, passing 310 bills and appropriating for State pu eposes $ 675,253. The Ohio Legislature has passed the Pond liquor bill, by which saloon-keepers must pay an annual tax of from SIOO to S3OO, and give bond in SI,OOO. The Governor of Missouri has paid over to H. H. Craig, of the Kansas City police, and J. R. Timberlake, Sheriff of Clay county, the reward of $5,000 offered for the capture of Clarance Hite, one of the Winston trainrobbers. At a point sixty miles west of San An tonio the El Paso stages bound east and west were robbed by two men. South. The distressing condition of affairs in the Southwest has caused the abandonment of the project to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi by La Salle. At Richmond, Va., flames broke out in the Petersburg railroad bridge, and tumbled 1 hat structure into the river, extending to the tobacco factories of T. M. Butherford <fc Co. R, A. Patterson & Co., T. C. Williams A Co., the stemmeries of J. A Hutchinson, C. R. <fc F. D. Barksdale, and Aborn & Edwards, the Vulcan Iron Workdf twenty tenement-houses, ten freight cars, and L. P. Smith’s grist mill, all of which were destroyed. At the Manchester end of the bridge the Virginia Kaoline Works were burned. The loss aggregates $500,090. Dan O’Leary was beaten by amateurs in a pedestrian contest at Galveston. Kate Sothern, the famous Georgia murderess, who killed her husband's paramour, has been pardoned by Gov. Colquitt Several persons were killed and. two churches demolished in the southeastern portion of Alabama by a cyclone. A negro woman was picked up and carried 200 yards. A tornado at Monroe, La., did great damage to property and caused some loss of life. Col. John A Pratt?, a veteran in the politics of Kentucky, has become, insane. A distracted mother killed two of her children and then drowned herself and her infant child, in Lincoln county, Ark. The Governor of Maryland signed a bill which fixes the punlslffdent of wifo-beatera at forty lashes. • ,

The Republican Congressional Committee organized by theelepfijn <jf Representative Hubbell, of Michigan, as Chairman. The committee was enlarged to fifteen members. Hon. A. G. Curtin, Pennsylvania’s war Governor, is named as the probable Democratic candidate for Governor of the Quaker State next fall. WASHINGTON NOTES, A recent Washington dispatch says : Guiteau has raised his rates for autographs and photographs. He has stuck up a card at the door of his cell, with this inscription: “ Hereafter my autographs will be sold for ♦2.50 per dozen, or 25 cents each. No ektra charge will be made for adding religious sentiments to them, such as *ln God we trust’ or something like that. My large-sized photographs, with autographs on them, will be furnished for $1 each, or $9 per dozen.” The report of J udge Advocate General Swaim in the case of Sergeant Mason is to the effect that the accused is illegally in the penitentiary, because the proceedings of the court-martial were not strictly in aoc«r§fnce with the law. The Ways and Means Committee at Washington has agreed on a bill whichjvill make an annual reduction of' $23,000,000 in the internal revenue. It proposes the abolijibn of the stamp tax on bank checks, matches, perfumery, etc., of the taxes on banking' capital and deposits, and makes material reduefams in the pf liquor and tobacco dealers, t

The Democratic sentinel.

JAB. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

'resident Arthur held his first puoiic reception at the Executive Mansion last week. He was assisted by Geh. U. 8. and Mrs. Grant, the ladies of Cabinet officers and others. There was an enormous crowd of all sorts and conditions of citizens in Washington. Richard T. Merrick, the well-known •Democratic lawyer of Washington, has been Appointed by Attorney General Brewster as fecial assistant attorney to assist in the prose•ntionof the star-route thieves. Jacob W. Kerr, formerly paying teller a the Bank of the Republic, at Washington, dt hinlself through the heart, having lost money of others In stock speculations. The bill of exceptions in the Guiteau case will fill two quarto volumes of 1,000 pages each, and will be presented to the court April 24, the first day of the next term of the Crimnal Court of the District of Columbia.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The annual cost of the star-route service in the Pacific States and Territories under Gen. Brady was $2,844,165. Contracts for the same service this year have been executed for $1,125,149. •A merchant of New York complains that Chicago wholesalers are cutting on to secure tne Southern and Western trade. Miss Phoebe Cousins, of St. Louis, has applied to President Arthur to be appointed one of the five Commissioners to visit Utah. A hail-storm passed over Lexington, Ind., a town of 1,509 inhabitants, and in ten minutes 1,600 winiow-glass lights were shattered to atoms. Wheeling W. Va., experienced an extraordinary fall of hail that inflicted damage estimated at $25,000. Cleveland, Qhio, sustained the heaviest storm of the year, ceveral frame buildings were toppled over and shade trees uprooted by the hundred. D.’.ung agalo kt Evansburg, Pa., a three-story brick hopse in course of erection was leveled, and F. McDonald killed, John Houser and William Sbarle were fatally injured, and five others slightly injured. A similar accident occured in Pittsburgh, the wind blowing down a frame house and fatally injuring John Atkinson and Patrick Galvin, two workmen. In the vicinity of Macon, Ga., a tornado destroyed many houses and killed and injured severrl people. The Russian Charge d’Affaires at Washington returned the resolutions sent him to be presented to the Czar by citizens of Philadelphia, at a mass meeting, protesting against Jewish outrages in Russia, saying he could not receive them because of their language. Some Russian representatives are negotiating at Pittsburgh for the building of hulls and engines for a number of steamboats, to be shipped in sections and completed on the Volga river. We are told by astronomers that a comet with a tail 600,000 miles in length is approaching the earth and the sun. Stand from under. A heavy decline has recently taken place in steel rails, prizes having fallen $lO since Jan. 1. This gives opportunity for a saving of several hundred dollars per mile in railroad construction. The city of Toronto, Canada, suffered a loss of $60,000 by the destruction of manufacturing property by fire. The city of Havana, the metropolis of Cuba, is about to spend $9,200,000 for water works. A firm of New York contractors have secured the big job. , An International Sabbath Conference was in session at Pittsburgh. Papers were read advocating the abolition of Sunday mail service, and in opposition to running iron works and newspapers on that day. Thomas Murphy, formerly Customs Collector at New York, is said to be responsible for the statement that James G. Blaine is to become a minister in the Congregational church. When interviewed about the matter by a Washington correspondent the ex-Becre-tary remarked that the author of the story was a “ blanked infernal idiot.” Gen. Swaim is reported to be the authority for the statement that Dr. Susan Edson received SSO a day for giving bulletins to stock speculators from the late President’s sickroom. Two large British steamships, loaded with Chinamen, have left Hong Kong for Victoria, B. C., and 4,000 more Celestials are to come this season, for railfoad work.

———r ! FOREIGN NEWS. The English daily at Constantinople, the Levant Herald, has once more been suppressed. On the ground that a meeting at Rome would certainly offend the Pope, the Emperor of Austria has abandoned his intention to visit the King of Italy. At Havre, France, a life-boat, while | attempting to rescue the crew of a ship in dis- i tress, was capsized, and her crew of nine men ; drowned. An Irish and an English regiment are stationed at Galway, and are constantly at war. The pickets of the English organization were recently attacked by members of the other regiment, and several men were bayoneted. A newspaper correspondent named I Hofer was killed'in a duel at Pestb. Gambetta has gone into journalism. He is directing the ItepMique Francaise, and has also bought the France and the Petit Journal. The German Government will not permit German laborers to engage for work on ] the Panama canal because of the. unhealthy ' climattk • It is believed that the Nihilists are concentrating in Moscow, preparing for an •outbreak during the fair, which opens in a few weeks. American residents in London are making great efforts to save Dr. Lamson from the gallows, basing their claims upon the aleged insanity of the homicide, Dublin cablegrams announce that the residence.of the agent of Lord Clonbrook, in County Galway, was wrecked by dynamite. A shell was thrown into a house near Letterkenny, destroying two rooms. A desperate affray occurred at Cloghan, Kings cofinty, Ireland, between soldiers and “emergency men." The latter discharged their revolvers, and there were several arrests. The London Times calls our navy a phantom fleet. Spain, will permit no agitation for local self-government in Cuba. Two sloops and thirty persons were lost off the northeast coast of France. The French Chamber of Deputies has repealed the decree which prohibited the importation of American pork. Skobeleff is again to the front <m>behalf of the Slavs, and proposes to collect a find on behalf of the reunion chimera. Skobeleff, the pro-Slavic crank, has been named for a position which will take him away from Russia. Labo| riots, attended with destruction of properly, have occurred at Barcelona. An influential party in England are

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1882.

opposed to the submarine tunnel, connecting the “ tight little island” with France. Nihilistic placards sentencing the Czar to death have been posted in St Petersburg. The Empress of Russia has quarreled with her husband. He was too attentive to a circus-rider. Emigrants are arriving at Winnipeg, Manitoba, at the rate of 1,000 a day. The man who defrauded Mr. Evans (the American dentist at Paris) out of 1,000,000 francs has been extradited from Brussels.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. Streelnekoff, the public prosecutor of the Kief military tribunal, was shot through the head and instantly killed while riding on the boulevard at Odessa, Russia. Two of the assassins were stopped while fleeing from the scene in a carriage. They offered violent resistance with their revolvers and poniards, and wounded three persons, but were finally overpowered and conveyed to the police station. A third person escaped, and he was the actual assassin. The Czar ordered the commutation of the death sentence of the Nihilists recently convicted, except Lieut. Sucharoff, who wa s shot by soldiers. The new liquor law that has just passed the Legislature of Ohio imposes a license of S3OO for saloons in all cities of the first class, and requires heavy bonds. Pueblo, Col., has been the scene of a wholesale lynching affair. A mob of sixteen men quietly took from the county jail two notorious cattle-thieves, W. T. Phoebus and Jay W. McGreu, and hung them to a tree within 100 yards of the jail. The vigilantes did not end their work here, but struck out to dispose of the rest of the gang of cattle-thieves and treat them in the same manner. Proceeding to Chastine’s ranche, ten miles distant, they surrounded the house, and, after careful preparations, entered and captured three men, S. P. Chastine, Berry 'Chastine and Frank Owsby. With hands securely bound, the vigilantes on horseback drove the men to a thick patch of timber a short distance away, and without much further delay strung them up, waiting long enough to be sure that they were dead. Cyrus W. Field erected a monument to the British spy, Maj. Andre, whom Washington hung opposite to Tarrytown, N.Y. It has been an eyesore to divers and sundry greatgrandsons of Revolutionary sires, and one of them, a few weeks ago, defaced it, and has been sued for damages by Field. Somebody, the other day, concluded to settle the quarrel over the monument by laying a chunk of dynamite at its foot. The dynamite went off, and so did a big slice of the monument. Neither of them has been seen since. Minister Hurlbut writes to the Peruvian Investigating Committee that Alexander Cochet was always a French subject, and any rights he possessed descended to his sisters in France, as there is no evidence of the legitimatizing of his bastard son through whom the Peruvian Company claims title. The claim was decided adversely, in 1861, by a mixed commission of French and Peruvian citizens appointed under a treaty.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

Neither house of Congress was in session on March 25. The House Commerce committee listened to the arguments of ex-Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, representing the southern railroads, and of Chauncey M. Depew, of Vanderbilt’s staff, in opposition to the Reagan bill. The latter claimed that the real foes to the productive and consuming classes were the speculators in food ; that the interstate commerce act would place the carrying business of the West in the power of a Canadian railway system, and that any evils might bo remedied by the creation of a national advisory commission. A resolution was adopted by the Senate, at its session on the 27th ult., instructing the Committee on the Revision of the Laws to report what legislation is needed to define the phrase “ Indian country." A bill-was passed to grant pensions to the widows of Presidents Garfield, Tyler and Polk. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was reported back, with amendments. The President nominated Sterling P. Rounds, of Chicago, to be Public Printer; Irwin A. Treland to be Marshal of the Eastern District of Utah, and Miss Virginia C. Thompson to be Postmistress of Louisville. In the House Mr. Haskell presented a bill authorizing the Department of Justice to audit claims of the medical experts in the Guiteau trial at not over $25 for each day of actual attendance. Mr. Williams offered a resolution, which was adopted, requesting the President to inform the House whether a protocol for peace in South America had been signed by Envoy Prescott. The Postoffice Appropriation bill was referred to the committee of the whole. Mr. King offered a resolution for a committee of five Senators and ten Representativeo to proceed to the overflowed section of the Mississippi and report what measures are necessary to prevent a recurrence of the floods. Mr. Caswell introduced a bill for the issue of $25,000,000 in fractional currency in exchange for legal tenders. A bill to incorporate the Garfield memorial hospital gave rise to considerable debate over the liability assumed by the Government, and was recommitted. Mr. Byrne introduced a resolution requesting the President to secure an additional treaty with Great Britain for the ex-, tradition of such fugitive criminals as are not subject to the present treaty. Mr. Phelps introduced a bill for a Department of Industry. Mr. Thomas asked an appropriation of $6,863,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi. Mr. Harris put forward a measure for an Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Cox introduced a bill to repeal the iron-clad oath. The Secretary of the Interior sent in estimates of $65,380,480 for Mexi-can-war pensions, and of $28,201,632 for survivors of Indian campaigns prior to 1846.

The bill to facilitate the payment of dividends to creditors of the Freedman’s Savings Bank wks passed by the Senate on the 28th ult. The Committee on Pensions 'reported a bill fixing the rate for total disability at $72 per month. An adverse report was made on the resolution to retire Cob Crittenden as a Brigadier General. Several hours were spent in debate on the Tariff-Commission bilk Five amendments were Voted down, when the bill passed, 38 to 15. The bill provides for a commission of nine members to b.e appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, who are to receive as compensation for their services $lO per day when actually employed, and traveling and other necessary expenses. They are to investigate all the various questions relating to the agricultural, commercial, mercantile, manufacturing, mining and industrial interests of the United States, so far as the same may be necessary to the establishment of a judicious tariff or the revision of the existing tariff and the existing system of internal-revenue laws upon the scale of justice to all interests, and is to report to Congress from time to time, and to make a final report not later than lhe first Monday in January, 1883. The President nominated Isaac D. McCutcheon, of Michigan,to be Secretary of the Territory of Montana. ’ The House, after a contest in regard to precedence, went into committee of the whole on the Tariff Commission bill, on which lengthy speeches were made by Messrs. Carlisle and Kasson. The correspondence between Secretary Frelinghuysen and Envoy Ti escott was submitted. In response to a call for information the Secretary of War reported the necessity of issuing 80,000 more rations for sufferers by the flood. Mr. Cockrell offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 29th ult., directing the Secretary of State to make inquiries respecting the imprisonment of American citizens in Ireland. Mr. Pendleton’s Civil Service bill was favorably reported. A bill was passed to establish the Ea tra judicial district of Kentucky. The Indian Appropriation bill, amended by the Senate committee to set aside $5,160,003, was taken

- “dPirm Mlietence to Correct Principles.

up in committee of the whole. Mr. Hou offered an amendment appropriating $2,000,000 for the support and education of Indian children from outside the five civilized tribes, but no action was taken thereon. The President nominated William Williams, of Indiana, to tee Charge d’ Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay. The House accepted the Senate -amendment to the bill for a pennon to Mrs. Garfield, so as Co include Mrs. Polk and Mrs. ‘Tyler, giving each $5,000 per year. Mr. Stephens submitted a resolution instructing the judiciary committee to inquire into the legality of the removal of Mr. Hayes, an official stenographer, by Speaker Keifer. Mr. Lord reported back a bill for a ship-canal across the State of Michigan. Bills were reported for the erection of public buildings at Clarksburg, W. Va., and New Albany and Terre Haute, Ind. While in committee of the whole on the Tariff Commission bill speeches were made by Messrs. Carlisle and ErretL The Army Appropriation bill was reported back. Mr. Fisher reported an act to perihit any owner of gold bullion or coin to have the same coined for his benefit. The United States Senate passed a bill on ths 30th ult authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to report the amount expended by the State of Kansas in suppressing Indian hostilities. A resolution favoring reciprocal trade relations with Mexico was reported favorably. Mr Mo l Millan reported, with an amendment, the House bill for bridging the Mississippi at Keithsburg, HL The Indian Appropriation bill was taken up, and an amendment adopted giving $5,000 for schools, lands and seeds for the Seminoles in Florida. Mr. Hoar urged the appropriation of $2,000,000 for the education of Indian children, but gave notice that he would compromise on $500,000. Mr. Williams introduced a bill prohibiting the importation of neat cattle from Canada. The House adopted resolutions for the printing of 90,000 copies of the first volume of the census. Mr. Updegraff reported a bill to carry into effect constitutional provisions in regard to the election of President and Vice President In committee of the whole on the Tariff Commission bill speeches were made by Messrs. Dunnell and Hewitt, the latter giving notice that at the close of the debate he should move to recommit the measure with certain instructions. The Senate, at its session on the 31st ult, passed the bill to reimburse Mr. Ingalls for expenses incurred in defending the title to his seat Bills were passed for the erection of public buildings at Erie, Columbus and Hot Springs. A joint resolution was adopted appropriating SIOO,OOO additional for the relief of sufferers by the recent overflow. Mr. McMillan reported a bill to incorporate the proposed Garfield Memorial Hospital. Mr. Hill, of Georgia, was > ranted indefinite leave of absence. The Indian Appropriation bill was taken up, and $250,000 was set aside for the education of young savages. The item for the expenses of the Indian Commission was reduced to $4,700, when the committee rose and the bill was passed. The House passed an additional appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the distribution of rations in the Southwest. In committee of the whole on the Army Appropriation bill, Mr. Butterworth stated that the clause for compulsory retirement at the age of 62 would take 119 officers from the army within six years.

A Horrible Beast in a Sewer.

One of the most remarkable incidents that has yet come to light—or rather to darkness—in North St. Louis is recorded, and although the hero in the case escaped with his life, he is not particularly anxious to go on any more exploring expeditions, even when they are in the interest of home comforts and requirements. Billy Prant is a well known meat-shop keeper, doing business on Ninth street, near St. Louis avenue. He resides at Elliot and Sullivan avenues, and the Rocky Branch sewer carries away the offal and refuse of the locality. For some time Mr. Prant has had trouble with hi* sewerage, and the other afternoon he took his younger brother with him to investigate matters. The se wet is a natural one, and large enough. to allow a wagon with a double team to drive through it. From the surface the depth is something over twenty feet, and a rope arid a ladder was brought into requisition. Mr. Prant descended through the main hole, which was barely large enough to allow of his descent. He had scarcely entered the sewer when he heal’d a rushing through the rushing stream es water and offal, which sounded as one might imagine the breaking out of a menagerie, and by the uncertain light he saw plunging toward him a monster dog, with eyes bloodshot and emitting sparks of phosphorescent fire. The animal was about two and a half feet high, and was heavy set, of the bloodhound species with a crossing of mongrel blood, and probably weighed as much as a deer or a colt. He was howling madly, and his white, gleaming fangs were bared in a manner which evidently meant business. The 1 beast was covered with short white and black hair, and was endowed with other characteristics which were peculearly interesting and wprthy of research. Mr. Prant, however, remembered an important end of the ladder, and, after breaking the paralysis of fear, he moved up the rungs as quickly as possible, and not a moment too soon, leaving the beast howling fiercely at the foot, and expressing its rage in canine shrieks, which were fairly blood-curdling. The younger Prant heard the noise below, and felt the ladder shaking violently, and his heart stood still until his brother appeared in daylight, looking blanched and agitated. Mr. Prant soon got back to terraftrma, and postponed investigations of that nature. Mr. J. Kurtzelom, a gentleman who is particularly well posted in matters in that locality, expressed his opinion that the dog must have been carried into the sewer when a pup, and had lived there all of its life. It was too large even to get in through any man-hole, and as for its getting out at any time, that is simply absurd. The only exit is by way of the river, and the animal would be drowned instantly if he ever attempted to get out that way.— St Louis Post-Dispatch.

Values of Different Coins.

The Director of the Mint has estimated the values of the str.-idard coins in circulation in various pj».rts of the world, and the Secretary of the Treasury has declared such estimates official. They are to be taken in estimating the values of all foreign merchandise made out in any of the currencies in question imported: ESTIMATE OF VALUES OF FOREIGN COINS. t'alue in U. 8. Monetary unit. Standard. tnoney. Austria. .. ..Florin Silver 1.40.6 Belgium Franc Gold and silver .19.3 Bolivia Boliviano Silver 82.3 Brazil Mil’s of 1,000 rs. Gold 54.6 Brit. Pos in N.A Dollar ...Gold 1.00 Chili Peso Gold and silver .91.2 Cuba Peso....- Gold and silver .93.2 Denmark Crown Gold 26.8 Ecuador Peso Silver 82.3 Egypt .Piaster ;...Gold .04. St France ....Franc Gold and silver .19.3 Gt. Britain... Pound sterling.. Gold .. ..4.86.6% Greece Drachma Gold and silver .19.3 German Empire Mark ... Gold .23.8 Hayti Gourde Gold and silver .96.5 India .Rupeeof 15 an’s Silver 39 Italy ...Lira. ......Gold and silver .19.3 Japan.. Yen....'.,.... Silver 88.7 Liberia. Dollar .... Gold 1.00 Mexico D011ar.... Silver .' 89.4 Netheriands..Florin Gold and silver .40.2 Norway Crown.. Gold .26.8 Peru Sol Silver 82.3 Portugal Mil’s of 1,000 rs. Gold. 1.08 Russia .....Rouble of 100 OOSilver 65.8 Sandwich Islands Dollar- ............Gold 1.00 Spain PeaetaoflOOcen.Gold and silver .19.3 Sweden Crown —..Gold .26.8 Switzerland.. Franc —Gold and silver .19.3 Trip01i........ Ma’bubof2opias Silver 74.3 Turkey Piaster.!..—...^.Gold ........... 04.4 U. 8. of Colombia... Peso -..Silver .82.3 Veneaueja...801ivar.............G01d and silver .19 8

THE CASE OF CADET WHITTAKER.

[From the Chicago It is now two years since the memorable day on which the ears of Cadet Whittaker were out; it is about a year and a half since they were entirely healed and since the last traces of the bungling tonsorial operation performed at the same time disappeared. His case has just been decided by the court of last resort —namely, the President of the United States. The sentence of the court martial was dismissal and imprisonment for self mutilation and perjury. The President saves the feelings of the frenzied philanthropists, who have been insisting that Whittaker ought to be allowed to mutilate himself because his people were formerly enslaved in this- country, by setting aside the finding of the court on a technicality which the Attorney General was fortunate enough to discover, but secures substantially the ends of justice by dismissing him from the academy for deficiency in his studies. Dr. Cuyler and the Rev. Congressman Hyatt Smith, and those whom they represent, will probably reply that, being a colored vouth, Whittaker had a perfect right to be deficient in his studies, and that, as negroes were kept in slavery in this country for many years, Whittaker was not deficient in his studies. But it would seem that about enough has been conceded to those gentlemen, and Whittaker will be allowed to depart Self-mutilation is so rare in Europe and America that the public was naturally indisposed to believe that Whitaker could have committed it The fact |hat he is a colored brother, and that he was at West Point, will continue to convince a certain class of persons, who are hunting up reparation to be rendered to the negroes, that his story was perfectly true, and that three white cadets did perform the outrage charged. As these persons start with a complete theory on the subject, there is no use in calling their attention to the evidence. Some fustian about the atonement that the white race should make to the colored race and some sneers about the “snobbery of West Point” are to their minds overwhelming refutation of all the evidence that could be brought forward. When Whittaker was found in his room after the alleged outrage he ap - peared to be insensible, but he resisted when the surgeon attempted to raise his eyelid, and when he did recover consciousness he recovered it all at once; not for a moment was he dazed, or bewildered ; the condition of his pulse and his skin was not indicative of a swoon. The surgeon who examined him, and two other persons, testified that in their belief he was feigning insensibility. He made no outcry while the alleged outrage was committed; some locks of his hair were cut off, but the work was done awkwardly and incompletely; his hands were not tied, according to his story, until after his hair and ears were cut, and when they were tied it was in front instead of behind his back. He said his nose bled as one of the results of the outrage, but no trace of such bleeding was found. He said a looking-glass was broken over his head, but Iris scalp gave no evidence to corroborate that statement. There was some blood on an Indian club, but there were no bruises on him serious enough to suggest that they were made with the club. There were on his head and in his ears some small cuts, and nothing more. The letter of warning found in his room was written by himself, or by some one who imitated his handwriting; there is no reason why his enemies should have sent him any warning, or why a friend should have tried to imitate his chirography. The letter was written on one part of a sheet of paper on another part of which he wrote to his mother that he had received this note of warning. His testimony on various points was confused and contradictory. The note of warning and specimens of the writing of all the cadets was submitted to five experts, and the overwhelming weight of testimony was to the effect that Whittaker wrote the note himself. The expert who was most certain of this was selected by Martin I. Townsend, the District Attorney, who informed the Court of Inquiry that West Point was on trial, and demeaned himself throughout toward all the officers of the Military Academy as offensively as possible. The ground on which the finding of the court was set aside was one that does not in any dfegree impair the convicting force of the evidence. The Attorney General is of the opinion that the specimens of the writing of the student cadets, which were submitted to the experts, not being a part of the evidence, ought not to have been submitted. But there is no question about the fact that they were specimens of the writing of all the cadets, that the experts did compare them with the note of warning, and did, as a body, come to the conclusion that Whittaker wrote the note himself. Immediatefy after the discovery of Whittaker, an investigation was made by the Commandant and the Surgeon, and they arrived at the conclusion that Whittaker did the work himself, or was a party to it. When the result was reported to him he demanded, as it was proper that he should, a Board of Inquiry. The three officers composing this board arrived at the same conclusion. In order to give him another chance, a courtmartial was ordered, and to protect him from that bugbear, “West Point prejudice,” half the members of the court were officers who were not graduates of the Military Academy, but had entered the regular from the volunteer army. The court-martial reached the same conclusion as the Surgeon and Commandant and the Board of Inquiry. Whittaker’s motives were not so obscure as some would suppose. The year before he had been found deficient in philosophy, but had another chance given him by being dropped into the next class. He was in April, 1880, likely to fail at the examination to occur two months later. He knew the kind of fuss that would be made over him by a large portion of the community if he could pose as the victim of “West Point prejudice.” One of the first persons who knew of the alleged outrage was a colored friend of the cadet, who immediately afterward announced that “ this would make a great fuss, and Whittaker would graduate.” It did make a great fuss, and it gave the cadet —what Guiteau so hankered for—a national reputation, but he will not graduate.

The Beanties of Protection.

The two propositions that a protective tariff does not “protect ” and that it acts as an export duty on protected manufactures are sustained by the facts disclosed by the trade reports of the United States, We give, in the first place,

the value of the exports of the principal articles of American production which are not protected during the fiscal year of 1881: Bread and breadstuffß $270,332,519 Cotton, raw 247,895,746 Provisions 151,528,268 Mineral oils ............. .. 40,315,609 Tobacco . 20,800,000 Oilcake 8,200,000 Fursand fur skins.... 5,600,000 Naval stores 2,650,000 Agricultural implements 2,400,000 Hops -. 2,100,000 Animal and vegetable oils 2,700,000 Hides and skins 903,000 Others 5,100,000 Total (unprotected) $783,687,142 The total value of all the exports of the United States during the same year was $883,925,947. Admitting that all the exports not included in our list of “ not protected ” were of the protected class, which is by no means the case, these figures show how the protective tariff prohibits the export of American manufactures. On the other point, that the protective tariff does not protect, we give the list of values of American manufactures exported, and the values of the same classes of goods imported, despite the enormous protective duties levied thereon : Imported. Exported. Sugars and molasses $93,4 4,228 $ 2,673,897 Silk manufactures. 32,056,000 none Wool and manufactures... 40,860,000 350,000 Iron and steel 46,439,000 14,608,700 Chemicals, dyes 36,500,000 3,850,000 Cotton goods 31,219,000 13,571,000 Tin and manufactures... . 18,191,000 200,000 Flax and manufactures.... 17.521.000 none Leather manufactures 10,500,000 975,000 Grass and jute goods 8,984,000 none Earthen and china ware... 6,500,000 123,000 Glass and glass ware 5,870,000 756,000 Straw goods 4,360,000 none Hemp 4,244,000 1,186,000 Salt.?. 2,100,000 14,752 We might extend this comparison indefinitely through the entire list of manufactures which are “protected” by the tariff, showing that the protection does not protect; that, despite the heavy duties, we import an average of $lO worth of protected merchandise to the $1 worth we sell to other countries. That, though the American people are taxed 60 per cent, on all the silk used in the United States for the benefit of our silk mills, which get their silk free, they do not sell a yard of it abroad, and still we import far more than tbese mills produce. The higher the duty the less it protects, but the severer is the prohibition against exports.— Chicago Tribune.

Treason in the Senate.

Senator Jones is a traitor to his country. There can be no doubt about it. In his late anti-Chinese speech he proved it in a way that ought to be satisfactory to “all loyal men.” He has trampled down the late gospel of “ God and Humanity ” and the amendments to the constitution of the United States that were forced into that instrument at the point of the bayonet in the Southern States, without so much as an apology for this kind of high treason. Speaking of the negro he said : 1. Every educated man would admit that this country would have been better off if the negro had never been brought here. 2. Mr. Jones said that the experiment of forcing the negroes, even where they were in supremacy in point of numbers, into the position of the ruling class had long ago failed. 3. He claimed that the negro, unguided and supported by the whites, would soon relapse into barbarism. 4. Mr. Jones predicted that the African race would never be permitted to dominate in any State in the South, “ because laws away above human laws have placed our race superior to and far above the other.” And has it come to pass so soon that one of the eminent headlights of the Republican party can stand up in the Senate and denounce the constitutional amendments, as so many “flaunting lies ?” Where are the noisy partisans and frauds who used to shout treason! whenever honest men dared to protest against the monstrous doctrines which are now denounced ill such deliberate and sweeping terms in the Senate by Senator Jones, the next friend of Grant and Arthur?”— Omaha Herald.

Romance of a Poor Young Girl.

A lady correspondent at Genter White Creek, Washington County, sends us the following romance of real life. It concerns a native of Washington County. She says: Five years ago a poor and modest country girl of twenty-one summers, following the path of duty, enlisted in the holy wars and sailed with a band of brothers to a far-off heathen shore, leaving behind her two rejected aud likewise miserable lovers ; one a lad of low condition, the other a regular patrician. But the heathen have souls to be saved, and for four years our self-sacrificing heroine followed the noble calling she had chosen. Early in May, 1881, our fair toiler in the vineyard, deeming that the heathens were sufficiently converted to admit of a visit to her' native shore, resigned her charge for a period and sailed, via England, for her own home and harbor. An English nobleman who chanced to be among the passengers became interested in the poor American, and ere the good ship anchored at Liverpool had offered his hand, heart and fortune and been accepted. *At London the lovers parted soon to meet again, to receive a father’s blessing and part no more. The bride of the future continued her journey alone with her trousseau, and was soon welcomed in New York by a host of admiring relatives and the forgotten lovers. Preparations were commenced for the reception of the noble, and the disappointed lovers sighed for the things which “might have been.” But alas! the nobleman met with a financial misfortune. Tenderly did he break the news to the distant fair one, nobly releasing her from promises which might become irksome. The humble ana faithful suitor (who chanced to be nearest), soon became dearest, and the weary heart, taken on the rebound, surrendered gracefully, and they were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, at the residence of the bride’s parents. —Troy Times.

Au Affecting Scene.

“ I shall never forget her last words—her last sad, sweet words,” said the sorrowing son-in-law as he turned away from the grave and followed the procession of mourners to the little cemetery gate. His friends tried to comfort him, but felt how inadequate is all earthly consolation to a heart bereaved of a mother-in-law. “What were her last sweet words?” at .length he ventured to inquire. The poor sufferer raised his tear-stained eyes to his friend’s face and answered: “Take good care of Mary, you freckled faced galoot. ” What is homo without a mother? The three great ports of the world are London, Liverpool and New York. During 1880 they reached their highest trade figures, the imports being at London about $700,000,000; Liverpool, $500,000,000; and New York, $539,000,000.

$1.50 dot Annum.

NUMBER 10.

TEXT OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

U— HrarM >■■■*! Mm****, DceMsber «. MM. “ With the governments which have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, after great consideration and on just principles, recognized, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any manner their destiny by any European power, in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition towards the United States.” It has been asserted that Huskisson, Franklin’s friend, wrote this declaration and transmitted it, with the consent of Canning, his chief in the Cabinet, to J. Q. Adams, who was Monroe’s Secretary of State. The precise language, confining the doctrine to the States recognized by the United States, and excepting from it all not free—including Canada, Cuba, indeed the whole West Indies, Brazil, Buenos Ayres favor this view. We do not know whether it has ever been denied. J. Q. Adams did subsequently, in a special message to Congress, say: “ Most of the new American Republics have declared their entire assent to them (the Monroe and they now propose, among the subjects of consideration at Panama, to take into consideration the means of making effectual the assertion of that principle, as well as the means of resisting interference from abroad with the domestic concerns of the American Governments.” The italics are in the message, and he added subsequently: “The purpose of this Government is to incur in none which would import hostility to Europe, or justly excite resentment in any of her States. “ Our views extend no further than a mutual pledge of the parties to the compact to maintain the principle in application to its own territory, and to permit no colonial lodgments or establishments of European jurisdiction upon its own soil.” This may be called Adams' addition to the Monroe doctrine, Clay being his Secretary of State. Adams’ addition, rather than Monroe’s verbiage, has remained in the popular mind as the Monroe doctrine; and even Congress, in including that of the Confederation at Richmond, 1862-4, has always so treated it. The Panama Congress, called by Bolivar, never adopted either Monroe’s or Adams’ text. It indeed adjourned without fairly considering the doctrines. The members were, in fact, disappointed that the United States had receded from Monroe’s declaration, and now proposed “ that each State should, for itself, on its own soil, resist European interference.” They wanted an American Conrederation organized for the purpose of driving out European jurisdiction. The project turned out to be impractical, and was dropped even by South Americans.

Oddities in a Sculptor’s Gallery.

“I meet some very curious persons, - ’ said a sculptor to a Sun reporter. “F. -r instance, you see me now trying to make a broken nose. This is the bust of a Southern merchant who died about n year ago, and his widow insists that, as he had a broken nose, this portrait of him should faithfully show the infirmity. But that is nothing. Look, see here !” In the corner stood a model of a prepossessing young face, except that it was cross-eyed. “ I spent three days iu trying to convince the mother of that girl that the omission would be proper and artistic, but all to no purpose. She insisted that it could not be a portrait without that peculiarity. I pleaded that the Grecian and Roman sculptors did not even represent the eyeball in its natural state, but the only answer was: ‘ Them fellers could do as they pleased. I want my darter’s eyes jist as they wuz.’” “Not long ago a lady who came to criticise her husband’s bust, said that although he was advanced in years, he had a rosy complexion I “A friend of mine rushed in here one day and breathlessly recounted how he had seen in Cavalry Cemetery a profile with two eyes, one of which was almost over the ear. Did I doubt his word? No, sir. I sat him right down here and showed him a line of infirm busts. He went away happy. “ There you see a bust that has no lips, I was going to say. That was made in obedience to the desire of a Wallstreet broker. He insisted that his brother’s lips were so thin that the red didn’t show. I altered them a dozen times, and finally, to save my reputation, traced a light line to show where nature and myself know there must have been the contour of the lip. “No, my experience has not been that people desire their friends’ portraits idealized. The true artist can, and should, disguise what nature has overdone or not properly done without distroying the resemblance. But the majority of persons won’t have it. In this, if nothing else, they enjoy realism.*’ —New York Sun. . -

Married Folks Would be Happier

If home trials were never told to neighbors. If they kissed and made up after every quarrel. If household expenses were proportioned to receipts. If they tried to be agreeable as in courtship days. If each would try and be a support and comfort to each other. If each remembered the other was a human being, not an angel. If women were so kina to their husbands as they are their lovers. If fuel and provisions were laid in during the high tide of summer. If both parties remembered that they were married for worse as well as for better. If men were as thoughtful of their wives as they are of their sweethearts. If there were fewer silk and velvet street costumes and more plain, tidy house dresses. If there were fewer “ please darlings ” in public and more common manners, in private. , If wives and husbands would take some pleasure as they go along, and not degenerate into some toiling machines. Recreation is necessary to keep the heart in its place, and to get along without it is a big mistakes.— Sunday Courier.

How Alligators Eat.

An alligator’s throat is an animated sewer. Everything which lodges in his open mouth’ goes down. He fs a lazy dog, and, instead of hunting for something to eat, he lets his victuals hunt for him. That is, he lies with his great mouth open, apparently dead, like the 'possum, Soon a bug crawls into it,

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then a fly. then several gnats, and a colony of mosquitoes. The alligator don’t close his mouth yet He is waiting for a whole drove of things. He does his eating by wholesale. A little later a lizard will cool himself under the shade of the upper jaw. Then a few frogs will catch the mosquitoes. Then more mosquitoes and gnats will alight on the frogs. Finally a whole village of reptiles and insects settle down for an afternoon picnio. Then, all at once, there is an earthquake. The big iaw falls, the alligator blinks one eye, gulps down the entire menagerie, and opens his great front door again for more visitors. ”

INDIANA ITEMS.

The store of Connor & Loftins, at Spencer, was swept away by flames, the loss being $25,000. A new postoffice has been opened on the Toledo, Cincinnati and St Louis Narrow-Gauge, in Grant county, named Sims. The discovery-of a case of small pox in the Fort Wayne jail caused a big sensation among the prisoners and jail attendants. The corner-stone of the new Court House at Warsaw will be laid with appropriate .ceremonies on or about the 14th of May. A physician in Fort Wayne claims to be able to cure small-pox in three days. He was sent to experimentalize at the Chicago pest-hoiise. Mb. Leege, of Shultztown, Cass county, on waking from sleep, a few mornings ago, was horrified to find his wife dead by his side. Robebt E. Fooo was crushed to death by a train, between Lafayette and Muncie, while coupling cars. He had been married but a few weeks. Jonathan Wooley’s dwelling house and its contents, near Bedford, were destroyed by fire. The loss is fully $2,000, upon which there is no insurance. It cost a New Albany man twenty-five years’ suspension from Friendship Lodge, No. 10, Knights of Pythias, for being fined for having a keno apparatus in his possession. Thebe are five coal mines in Fountain county which employ 402 men, and which yielded 187,880 tons of coal last year. The capital invested in them aggregates $113,000. Pebu is to have a new opera-house, the funds necessary to erect the building having been subscribed. Work will be begun at once, and the house will l>e ready for use in September. HebeaeTeb the convicts in the State prison at Jeffersonville who behave well are to receive chevying tobacco. The Warden has refused them permission to use tobacco for four years past. N. J. Climeb, a prominent physician of Bloom ingsburg, Rochester county, was lately prostrated with small-pox, having contracted the disease while visiting two patients who died. Mbs. Maby Abchbb, of Terre Haute, widow of the late Samuel Archer, will shortly institute suit against the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company for SIO,OOO for killing her husband, The divorce case of Dodge vs. Dodge, Ligonier parties, was settled by the plaintiff agreeing to pay the handsome sum of $7,500 alimony. The divorce was granted without the formality of a trial.

A tree in Huntington county was struck by lightnirg, and, although a sturdy oak three and a half feet in diameter, it was torn to pieces. The ground for a distance around tl|e tree was covered with splinters. J. H. Lewark, of Pendleton, has a Jersey cow that recently dropped the second pair of twins within twelve months, a bull and a heifer each time. At this rate the dairy herds of Indiana will rapidly increase. A negress called at the house of William Shouse, in Evansville, and asked to look at the corpse of his wife. The request was granted, and after she had gone it was found that she had taken the crape from the door with her. Edward McNarnev, a farmer in good circumstances, while walking on the track of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pa cific railway, at Lafayette, was instantly killed*. He was <Jeaf, which it is thought was the cause of the catastrophe. William Isley, a farmer, started from his home a few miles south of Veedersburg, Fountain county, saying that he was going to see a neighbor a half-mile distant on business. He has not been seen or heard from since. A farmer’s boy signaled a Wabash passenger train, near Wabash, just in time to prevent its striking a stick of timber fastened into a bridge by wreckers. This is the third desperate attempt of miscreants in that region within six weeks.

Wesley Maury, of Glenwood, Rush county, dried dynamite cartridges before the fire. When about fifty pounds of powder were thus laid out an explosion occurred, completely wrecking the house. The building and furniture were blown to atoms. P. D. Fields, a farmer residing near Geneva, Adams county, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Insanity is the alleged cause. He attempted the same twice before without success. He leaves a large family comfortably situated. Simon Lanfkrty, traveler for Kohn 4 Co., Rochester, N. Y., was killed by a Wabash train at the depot in Fort Wayne. Lanferty was trying to cross the track. He was literally cut to pieces. He wai a nephew of aprominent banker of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Bower, of Jeffersonville, were divorced. Mr. Bower, who had been the complainant, went to the woman with an offer of marriage. She consented with pretended gladness, and there was a gay wedding, immediately after which she disappeared with $1,600 taken from the bridegroom’s pocket. Lafayette Journal : We understand that ex-Mayor Kimmel, of our city, has received a letter from Washington tendering him the important position of Governor of Alaska, and that he has telegraphed his acceptance of the position, ’rhe Governor of that Territory will be compelled to remain there only from May to November each year. At Tunnelton, Lawrence county, while a boat-load of cattle were being ferried over the White river, the boat was overturned by a high wind, Hon. Alfred Gnthrie, to whom the fetoftk belonged, saved his life by clinging io the boat One of the men with him seized the tail of a steer, which swam ashore and landed him safely, while the other, a'young mon named Ikend, was drowned.