Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. TT.nnt. A terrible accident is reported from Phoenixville, Pa. Five boys were digging a •tunnel, when the earth caved in and buried them. Three of them were taken out dead, the other two nearly so. During a furious storm at Beading, Pa., a number of persons sought refuge in a shed adjoining the city reservoir, the wall of which was blown over on the shed by the force of the wind, and three people were killed, one fatally wounded, and two seriously injured. A Boston dispatch says that Mrs. Julia Johnson, a colored woman, left her home at Gayhead to go to a neighbor’s, leaving three children in the house, the eldest but 6 years. The house took fire in some unknown manner and the children were all burned to death.

Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, one of the sons of the late Commodore, shot himself at the .Glenham Hotel, in New York, and died within four hours. It appears that he has suffered for years from epileptic fits, and been constantly attended by a companion. It will be remembered that he contested the will of his father, and received 81,000,000 or so from his brother William to compromise the matter. He was 51 years of age. In the suit of the Keely Motor Company against Keely, at Philadelphia, the court ordered Keely to divulge to the stockholders his secret, and, in answer to his plea that the court could not compe him to open his mouth, said he would find a way to do it. A brother of Judge Stanley Matthews was arraigned in a New York Police Court as a habitual drunkard. He was ragged and dirty, and when arrested was begging for money to buy a drink of whisky. Henry Burroughs and Peter Eager were drowned in the canal feeder at Trenton, N. J. The Harmony mills, at Cohoes, N. Y., which sustain 15,000 people, have announced a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages. A strike is possible in consequence. Weak. The Chicago small-pox hospital has been handed over to the Sisters of Mercy. A fire at Stockton, Cal., burneds2oo,000 worth of property. During the month of March the sales f Chicago real estate numbered 1,260, the aggregate value being $5,165,861, exceeding any month for the past six years. The insane asylum at Yankton, Dakota, a temporary wooden building, was burned. It contained fifty-four patients, four of whom lost their lives by running back into the flames The people of Salt Lake county, Utah, assembled and chose fifteen delegates to a Constitutional Convention, of whom two are Gentiles, two polygamists, three women and eight monogamous Mormons. At Okmulgee, Indian Territory, two murderers named Lilly and Hany were shot dead in presence of about forty other red men. Bev. Dr. Max Lilienthal, of Cincinnati, a celebrated Jewish Rabbi, has passed away, leaving an honored name. An express messenger on a Fort Wayne train heard strange noises at night from a large box billed for Philadelphia. When he pried off the top; out stepped an old man named Jerry McAuley, who had been shipped from Chicago, in the most economical manner. The Western Iron Association met at Pittsburgh, and decided to reaffirm the card rate of $2.50.

The Chicago clothing house -which engaged Sergt. Mason as a salesman has also hired “Betty,” the wife. The trial of John Bugler and Creed Chapman for participation in the Blue Cut train robbery, came to a sudden and entirely unexpected termination, at Independence, Mo. When court convened in the afternoon, and while the defense was preparing to close their case, Prosecuting Attorney Wallace stated that during his visit to St. Joe, he had learned certain facts that convinced him that Bugler, as well as* the rest of the Cracker’s Neck boys were innocent of the charges, and he would therefore ask a dismissal of the indictments. This statement was like a thunderbolt f'-om a clear sky, and for several moments the court, the jury, attorneys and everybody else were perfectly paralyzed with astonishment. After being discharged the jury took a vote upon the case, and a unanimous verdict of guilty was agreed upon, which shows how narrow was the escape of the parties. Land made a new confession, in which he said that his former statements were false. He will be proceeded against for perjury. The body of Wood Hite, one of the gang of Missouri bandits, has been found buried in a spring near Richmond, Mo., owing to revelations since the killing of Jesse James. Dick Little and Robert Ford are supposed to have been the perpetrators of the murder. A tornado at Highland, Mich., on the Flint and Pere Marquette road, blew down a residence and killed Mr. Crandall and ene child *nd Mrs. Henry Taylor, and injured a little daughter of Mr. Crandall. Flames swept away St. Xarier’s Church, Cincinnati, which cost nearly $200,000. H. H. Greime, a laborer in St. Louis, formerly a private soldier in the Sixth infantry, caused the police to arrest a poor old tramp on charge of being the infamous John Bender, of Cherryvale. The unfortunate man gives his name as Jacob Balies, and says he lived at Uniontown, Kan., for twenty years. The Ford brothers, who killed Jesse James, have been threatened with the vendetta by the banditti of Missouri and Tennessee. The anti-polygamous Mormons held a general synod at Bidependence, Mo., which was presided over by Joseph Smith, Jr., son of the . false prophet of Nauvoo, HL South. At Chatham Court House, Pittsylvania county, Va., Dock Wright was hung for the murder of Cole Arthur, in 1881. AC. Weisenger and Bill Ledlaw were hanged at Selma, Ala., for the murder of Jesse B. Weisenger in December last The prisoners made lengthy speeches, protesting innocence. The committee appointed to investigate the accounts of Churchill as Treasurer of Arkansas will report a deficit of over SIOO,OOO. Maj. Charles W. Howell, United States Engineers, died at New Orleans of consumption, aged 40 years.' He was born in Indiana, graduated at West Point in 1863, and has been for twelve years in charge of Government works in Louisiana and Texas. The late Zenus Barnum, of Baltimore, left SIOO,OOO to his brother, on condition that he renounce the novitiate at Frederick City, and do not connect himself with any office of the Catholic church. POLITICAL POINTS. The Republican Congressional Committee organized by the election of Representative Hubbell, of Michigan, n Chairman, fha

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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. A reform in the management of the Pension Bureau has been undertaken by Commissioner Dudley. He proposes to put a stop to the practice of expediting examination and action on certain claims which are backed by Congressional influence, and to put forward no case unless its necessities are so manifestly urgent that no objection would be made by anyother claimant. As a result of the enactment of the Pond liquor law, imposing a license of S3OO upon all the saloons in tbe large cities, at the recent session of the Ohio Legislature, the Republicans were badly beaten at the municipal elections throughout the State. The Democrats carried Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Dayton, Mount Vernon and other cities by decisive majorities. In Cincinnati the majority is about 5,000. Cleveland, which usually goes Republican by 8,000 or 4,000, gave the Democratic ticket 1,000 majority. Toledo elected the Democratic ticket by about 11,000 majority. Indianapolis, Ind., also gave a Democratic majority of 600, the German vote being generally cast against the Republicans. The House Committee on Elections by a vote of 10 to 2 decided in favor of seating Lynch, the colored contestant from the “ Shoestring ” district, Miss., in place of Chalmers, who is now in possession. The Democrats were successful in the Chicago municipal election, a majority of the Aidermen chosen being of that political persuasion. The Democratic candidates for town officers were chosen in the North Division by 4,5 ( '0 majority, in the West Division by 400, and in the South Division by 100. Minneapolis had an exciting contest on the saloon question, Ames, the representative of the liquor interest, beating Loring, Republican, for Mayor, by nearly 2,000 votes. In Milwaukee John M. Stowell, Democrat, was chosen Mayor over Ludington by about 2,300 majority. The Democrats made a clean sweep of Madison, Wis., carrying every ward and electing their Mayor by 908 majority. In Ripon, Janesville, La Crosse, Watertown and Oshkosh the Democratic municipal tickets were also elected, the Republicans carrying Berlin, Jefferson, Manitowoc, and Portage. Fort Wayne, Ind., elected a Democratic Mayor, while the Republicans were successful in Wabash, Elkhart and Madison. The Republicans made a clean sweep in the local election at Joseph, Mo., electing their Mayor by 1.036 majority. At Topeka, Lawrence, Junction City and Manhattan, Kan., tbe election resulted in the defeat of the Temperance tickets, the liquor q'ucstion being the sole issue at stake.

The municipal election in Kansas City resulted in a sweeping victory for the Republicans. Keokuk and Dubuque, lowa, elected Democratic Mayors. Leadville, Col., elected the Republican municipal ticket. In the Michigan locil elections Democratic Mayors were chosen in Niles, Marshall, Charlotte, lonia, Ypsilanti, Alpena, Ann Arbor, Ludington, East Saginaw, Saginaw City, Adrian (succeeding the Republican “kid”), Mt. Clemens and Greenville. In Lansing and Grand Rapids, the Demo-Greenback fusion tickets were elected. The Republicans carried Coldwater, Dowagiac, Flint, Hillsdale, Mason, Jackson, Poit Huron, Grand Haven, Big Rapids, Monroe and Pontiac. The Citizens’ Temperance tickets were successful in Battle Creek, Eaton Rapids, Marquette and St Clair. The Greenbackers carried Hastings. The Bepublicans of Bhode Island gave Gov. Littlefield a majority 4,583. There will be twenty-eight Republicans aqjl eight Democrats in the Senate, and sixty Bepublicans and ten Democrats in the House. Joseph S. Smith has been nominated for Governor by the- Oregon Democrats, and William D. Fenton for Congressman.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Mr. Jacques, an electrician of Boston, has so improved the telephone that the full tones of the voice can be transmitted. A current of quadruple strength, is required and the use of galvanized carbon. The immigration at Castle Garden for the past three months reached the unprecedented figure of 68,685. At an isolated ranch in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, a woman and four children were butchered for money. Gen. Grant reported himself unable to atteud an Irish indignation meeting in New York, but informed the committee that were he President he would certainly demand an immediate trial for American citizens charged with violating the laws in foreign lands. Announcement is made of the death on the 28th of March, at Lima, of disease of the heart, of Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, of Illinois, United States Minister to Peru. Gen. Hurlbut was born in Charleston, S. C., Nov. 29, 1815 ; was admitted to the bar in 1837 ; subsequently removed to Illinois, settling at Belvidere, which has since been his place of residence. De Lesseps contradicts the story that the Panama Canal Company propose to take up the Nicaraguan land concession if the American grantees abandon it. English steamship companies are obliged to put on extra boats for the emigrant trade. Returns at the National Bureau of Statistics show that 240,537,375 gallons of petroleum products were exported abroad from this country during the eight months ending Feb. 28, the total value of which was $25,363,391.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Guiteau has sold to a circus manager the suit of clothes which he wore when he shot Garfield, and a sculptor is making a bust of the assassin. Secretary Frelinghuysen has received a dispatch from Minister Lowell announcing that, in deference to the request of President Arthur, a respite of a fortnight has been granted in tne case of Dr. Lamson. Guiteau is said to be growing stout, and, it is asserted, has gained twenty pounds since the trial, and weighs heavier now than he ever weighed. He still receives visitors at the jail, and is said to be very affable when his callers treat him respectfully. Following is a statement of the public debt at the close of business March 31: Extended 6’bs 109,901,000 Extended s’s 401,50 <,900 Four and one-hair oer cent, bonds 250,000,000 Four per cents, 788,805,450 Refunding certificates 542.350 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt. 71,514,752,700 Matured debts 12,665,655 Legal tenders 346,740,851 Certificates of deposit... 11,140,000 Gold and silver certificates 73.522,290 Fractional currency..... 7,064,898 Total without Interest. 438,468,038 Total debt 51,965,886,354 'lotal intere5t....,,..,,, ~, 18,671,828

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1882.

Cash in treasury. 253,921,761 Debt less each in treasury $1,726,266,422 Decrease during March. 16.462.946 Decrease since June 30,1881 . 114,382,389 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid. $ 1,313,299 Debt on which intereat has ceased 12,655,615 Interest thereon. 612,275 Gold snd silver certificates 73,522,290 UnltedrStates notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 11,140,000 Cash balance available April 1, ......... 155,068.281 Total $ 253,291,761 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 253,291,761 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, Interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding t 64,623.512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 969,352 Interest paid by United States. 53,405,977 Interest repaid by companies— Ev transportation service' 14,887,476 By cash payments of 5 per cent, ot net earnings 655,198 Balance of Interest paid by the United States 37,863,391 Secretary Folger has called in $15,000,000 of extended 6 per cent bonds, payable June 7. The President is waiting to hear from the Supreme Court relative to the legality of Sergt Mason’s sentence, before he interferes. Mr. Alien’s bill to establish a branch mint at St Louis has been ordered favorably reported to the House.

FOREIGN NEWS. The university boat race at London was won by the Oxfords, by six lengths, in twenty minutes and twelve seconds. The Czar, upon being apprised of the murder of Gen. Strelnikoff, ordered the two assassins who were arrested to be executed within twenty-four hours. They were promptly hanged. Smythe, a rich landlord of West Meath, Ireland, was fired upon while driving home from church, and a lady accompanying him received the bullet. A package of dynamite was exploded on the window sill of the police barracks at Limerick, destroying the adjar cent warehouse. The Spanish steamer Yrurao Bat and the English steamship Douro were sunk by colliding off Capo Finnisterre. The Hidalgo rescued seventeen persons from the latter and sixty-seven from the former, landing them at Corunna. Thirty of the crew of the Spanish vessel were drowned. In the aquatic contest at Newcastle, Hanlan beat Boyd by four lengths. The spectators numbered hundreds of thousands. Sarah Bernhardt and a Greek gentleman named Damalya were married in an Episcopal church in Wells, England. Gladstone mills, at Ashton-under-Tyne, England, containing 100,000 spindles, were destroyed by fire, the loss being .£IOO,OOO. An American company is still negotiating the concession for a railroad from Stamboul to Bagdad. The German police force are considering means for separating Socialists from Russian Nihilists. The latest anti-Jewish outrage was the murder of a family cf nine persons by the Russian soldiers. The American Board of Foreign Missions at Boston has been advised by cable from Constantinople that in a region of Turkey three times as large as Massachusetts the people are starving on account of the ravages of locusts. An urgent appeal for succor is made. A Swedish paper says that Sweden intends to invade Finland in event of a RussoGerman war.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The New York Senate has passed the resolution in favor of submitting a constitutional amendment to the people making the canals iree by a vote of 22 to 10. As the same resolution had already passed the House this important measure will now go before the people. Adam M. Dundore, late County Treasurer at Reading, Pa., proves to be a defaulter to the amount of $30,000. Gen. Jack Wharton, United States Marshal at New Orleans, died of apoplexy, the other day, in the office of Surveyor Pinchback. In the jail at Greenville, S. 0., Richard Bates, colored, was married to a woman of his own race. The next morning the bride was transported to the penitentiary, while the groom will be hanged for arson on April 28. Atcer a desperate fight with the Sheriff and turnkey at Arkadelphia, Ark., four prisoners broke jail, three of them securing their liberty. They were followed and fired upon for miles. By the explosion of the boiler of a towing steamer near Brownsville, Minn., several persons were killed or drowned, and a large number of the crew injured. Howard Newland, of Viola, lowa, while being taken to the insane asylum by his wife, sprang out of a car window near Marion, and lost both feet Samuel Gibson, who was County Treasurer at Muncie, Ind., went out of office a defaulter for $14,220, most of which is said to have gone into the hands of Chicago grain, brokers. A corporation has been formed at Leavenworth to build a hotel costing SIOO,OOO. Mr. Teller enters upon his duties in the Interior Department at once.- Secretary Kirkwood goes to lowa, and expects to make * tour of the Southwest for his health. The Mexican Cable Company will make Galveston the terminal point of 5,000 miles of wire. Eleven sailors at Toulon were about to throw a torpedo into the sea, when an oxplosion killed three of them and wounded eight.

Gladstone’s Intensity.

Mr. Gladstone is a man who, having once put his hand to the plow, npt only will not look back, but frequently disdains to glance to the right or left also. Although one of the greatest men this country has ever produced—a financier of consummate ability, a statesman of rare parts, and a patriot of unblemished renown—he somehow lacks that genial sa voir faire which drew all men to such leaders as Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Palmerston. As a lively French friend of mine remarked, “ I can- not understand your Jfr. Gladstone; he is so terribly in earnest?’ The Premier’s ends are always good ends, but he is so “terribly in earnest” about reaching his objects that he is apt to overlook not so much the principal means of obtaining them as the small details, which, though individually insignificant, are frequently collectively of the utmost assistance to statesmen and statecraft Mr. Gladstone belongs to the Church of England, and is fond of a fine ritual; but there is a good deal of the old austere Puritan spirit in his composition. Unlike Palmerston, I doubt if he ever made a political convert from the enemies’ ranks, and is inclined to despise those small social amenities outside the walls of St Stephen’s which so often facilitate business within.— London Correspondence Philadelphia Telegraph.

DOUGS OF CONGRESS.

The House ot Representative®, at its session on the Ist inst, passed th® Senate bill to facilitate the payment of dividend® to the creditors of the Freedman’s Savings Company. An act was reported for an additional nXember of the present House from Nebraska. A bill was passed to make St. Vincent, jfinn., a port c. entry. A bill wxa reported appropriating $l5O. 000 fcr work on the iWishtogton monument. The army appropriation- was taken up in committee of tbe whole, and Mr Cajkins offered an amendment excepting from' compulsory retirement the General and Lieutenant' Genei al of the army. The Senate was not in session. The bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua was favorably reported upon in the Senate, on the 4th inst. Mr. Conger obtained leave to visit his mother in Illinois, who was dangerously ill On the bill to grant right of way to the St. Louis and San Francisco road, Mr. Ingalls moved to require the consent of the Councils of the Choctaws and Chiekasaws. Mr. Teller was courteously given an opportunity to pass the bill admitting free of duty articles for tlje Colorado Exposition. In the House, Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill to amend the Apportionment law, providing that iixno State shall the difference in the population, of Congressional districts exceed 20,000. Incdtnmittee of the whole the Army Appropriation bill was taken up. Mr. Henderson moved to insert a proviso that whenever an officer has served thirty-five years he may Apply to the President and be placed on the retired list, and if he has served forty years, or is 62 years of age, he shall be retired. An amendment was adopted providing that any supernumerary officer may be honorably discharged at his own request on receipt of one year’s pay and allowance. The committee then rose, when a communication was received from the Secretary of State with regard to American citizens imprisoned in Ireland. A message from the President setting forth his objections to the AntiChinese bill was received and read in both houses.

Mr. Saunders, of Nebraska, reported a bill to the Senate, oh the Sth inst., for the admission of Dakota as a State. Mr. Miller, of New York, introduced a measure to suspend Chinese immigration for ten years. A motion by Mr. Farley to take up the vetoed Chinese bill was adopted by a vote ot 29 to 25. After a prolonged debate, Mr. Morgan’s motion to refer tbe bill to the Committee on Foreign Rela tions was lost On the question of- passing t lie bill over the veto the vote was 29 ayes to 21 noes, the measure failing for lack of a. two-thirds vote. A resolution was adopted asking the number of pensioners on the roll and the amount paid them. Mr. Morgan offired a resolution, which was paised, to place trade with Mexico on a more reciprocal basis. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, reported a bill appropriating $200,000 for the relief of the officers and crew of the Monitor which participated in the battle with the Merrimac. Tne President nominated James R. Partridge, of Maryland, to succeed the late Gen. Hurlbut as United States Minister to Peru, and Henry C. Hall as Minister to the Central American States. Th® House went into committee of the whole on .the Army Appropriation bilk In regard io claims pending in the Quartermaster's Department, Mr. Blackburn stated that he held evidence to show that clerks in the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments had exacted blackmail of 5 per cent, for recommending claims. An amendment was adopted increasing to SIO,OOO the appropriation for the army (medical museum. The committee rose, when an amendment was agreed to, forbidding an expenditure in investigating .claims by the Quartermaster General’s office. The. bill then passed. In the United States Senate, on the. 6th inst., Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, presented a memorial from the "Good Templars of. his State! against using the liquor revenues as an educational fund. A bill was passed appropriatingsso,ooo for the immediate relief of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians. Mr. Farley introduced a Chinese bill suspending immigration for sixteen years. Mr. Miller t®-' ported a bill for ocean mail service toforeign ports. The bill to regulate tbe’ counting of votes for President and Vice President was passed. A recommendation from the Secretary of War was received for an additional appropriation of $501,331 forajmy transportation.- President Arthur nominated Henn M. Teller, of Colorado, to be Secretary oi the Interior; William E. Chandler, of N’ew Hampshire, to be Secretary of the Navy, and William H. Hunt, of Louisiana, to be Ministei to Russia. Teller’s nomination was confirmed, the others being referred to committees. For the Federal offices in Boston Roland Worthington was nominated for OdMector of Customs, Aden B. Anderson for Surveyor and Daniel Hall for Naval Officer. John J. Knox, of Minnesota, was named as Comptroller of the Currency. The Senate adjourned till Monday. In the House, Mr. Calkins reported in favor of Seating Mr. Lynch from the Shoestring district o' Mississippi, in place of Gen. Chalmers. A bill was passed appropriating $20,000 to purchase seed for sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi. Mr. Page ask-d consent to introduce a bill to carry into effect the treaty with Onina, but Mr. Springer objected. A bill was passed appropriating $150,000 to continue work on the Washington monument. A bill was reported to grant the right of way through the Choctaw nation to the St. Louis and San Francisco road. Mr. Page was then permitted to introduce his Chinese bill, which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, as were also similar measures presented by Messrs. Willis and Berry. The House of Representative® on the 7th passed a bill to relieve from the charge of desertion volunteer soldiers who served faithfully through their term and failed to be mustered out The Committee, on War Department Expenditures was directed to inquire into alleged abuses in the adjudication of claims in the Quartermaster or Commissary Department Mr. Washbum submitted a conference report on the bill to bridge the Missouri at St Charles, which wap agreed to. Mr. Haskell made a speech on thb Tariff Commission bill. An evening session was held to consider pension bills. The Senate was not in session.' >", . '?

The Senate passed a resolution, at its session on the 3d inst, appropriating SIO,OOO for a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Va. A bill, was introduced for a bridge across,the Missouri river near Harrison county, lowa, and to compeb the Kansas Pacific road to. pay the cost of surveying its lands. Mr. Voorhees submitted a ment of McSweeuey and other Amerfcaq citizens in Ireland. Mr. Garland reported a bill to secure the safe keeping ot money paid into the Federal courts. The President transmitted a letter frdm the bf. the Intorior asking provision for, the payment, of the Utah Commissioners and election .’and. recommended that thejsaJaries of the Commit--sioners tie fixed at -ssyooo per, annum. A; biH was passed authorizing, the redemption of outstanding sl6 refunding certificates at the iKirket price;.. In executive:.session the Senate rejected,' without 'debale, the nominations of James G. Watmough to be Paymaster General of the navy and Samuel Seabury as Constructor, In the House, Mr. Singleton presented a petition from 5,000 citizens of Illinois for the uqprpvement of the Mississippi levees. BillsV ere introduced to authorize the constriction ol a ’bridge across the Mississippi at Memphis, and to apply the surplus revenue to tne payment of the public debt. A hot debate took place on a resolution to fix a date for taking up the bill to extendjthe corpprifete existence of national banks, which. was voted down by 122 io 77. Under suspension <ff the rules, bills were passed to readjust- salaries of Postmasters, to extend the bond, period for distilled spirits, and to erect public*.buildings at Louisville, Rochester, Columbus and Minneapolis.

Mr. Harris’ Back Pay.

A Washington correspondent .sfcys that a very, good story of back pay is told by ex-Representative Harns. -df‘ Virginia. “I voted against the bill,” said he, “ but I took the money. When I was up for re-election they threw it up at me on the stump. I told them that I had tried to beat the bill, but had taken‘the money, yet I thought that they would forgive me when they heard what I had done with it. ‘ I took that money down into Virginia,’ said I, ‘ and gave it to a poor woman with seven chil-

dren, and I told her to use it for herself and the children, and the thing is not a bit worse because that woman is my wife.’ I don’t think that I lost a.vote by that back-pay business.”

MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.

Helena, Ark., April ,3. The flood with all its inconvenience ib still upon the people, and it will still be four or five weeks before th® ordinary business of life can be staried. The water falls so slowly that it is barely perceptible, and then where it has fallen it shows tbe terrible destraction that he® been wrought by the water. The levee np and down the river on both sides is a perfect wreck, and in many places there is a total disappearance of all the smaller houses. A gentleman just in 'from the Oldtown region' gives a terrible account of the suffering. The buffalo gnats are becoming the most terrible plague ever known in. tips country. They -are killing and destroying animals by the wholesale. It is a common eight to see In the- upper portion of the town, mules drawing a wAgon with a tin bucket of smoking coals, a method taken to dnve the gnats away. The smell of the dead animals is something appalling, and there are hundreds of animals that ought to be killed and put out of: their misery. The buzzards are flying in thousands, and have become as tame as chickens. In Tunica county the situation is terrible. There is no chance of starting a crop for many weeks yet to come. There must elapse many years before the effect of this disaster will pass away. Ths colored families, which numbered about sixty persons, who were in such a destitute condition, have been relieved by the rations shipped on the steamboat- John 8. BrAnsford. At Laconia Circle the present report is that the people will be unable to start a new crop on the present limited number of stock, and there is no possible chance for them to procure any more. In Lee county most of the ground is covered with seven feet of water, and the cattle are dying very fast There is a fairer outlook along White river. The water is falling faster and there are some spots of groufid to be seen. There is reason to hope that they begin plowing in about three weeks. A Memphis dispatch says: “The river continues to decline steadily fit has fallen twentyseven inches from its highest point Between here and Helena, Ark., land on both sides of the river is coming gradually to view. Above the decline has bepn greater and the prospects are proportionately brighter for the farmers.” A New Iberia (La.) dispatch says ; Father Coughlin,, parish priest at Lorenaville, on the east side, eight miles from here, reports 1,200 persons now homeless on account of the flood, and application® for shelter in his church and 'stables ar® numerous; He is asking for local contributions. Their distress is' represented as appalling. Tbe water of Red river through Bfeyou Cour Tableau, as well as that of the Mississippi through Atchafalaya and Grand lake, will certainly bring us to the level of the lake. We are now past the high-water mark of 1874. and will proßabiy exceed it two feet or more.”

THE PERUVIAN INVESTIGATION.

Jacob R. Shipherd reappeared before the House Peruvian Investigating Committee at WAsbington, on the sth inst, and the taking of testimony was resumed. Chairman Williams read a letter from the late Minister Hurlbut, stating that he would sail April 6, and that the United States had a bad reputation in Lima, ihipherd read a postscript to his letter of May 20, in which he announced that his clients had ©considered their intention of Offering Gen. Grant the Presidency of the company. He then -x pressed the opinion that Minister Hurlbut lad obstructed and frustrated his purposes, <nd was seconded by his chief, the lace Secretary of State. The examination of J. R. Shipherd was continued before the Congressional committee, on the 6th, when he testified concerning an interview jvith Minister Hurlbut, May 30, as follows: “ I think I can give Hurlbut’s exact languagein speaking of our claim he slapped his hand upon his knee, with some emnhasis, and said : • Mr. Shipherd, I did not come all the way down nere from Washington to assure you how ininitely our Government would prefer to <ettle all this matter through the opportunity your company offers.’ ” He also bought Minister Hurlbut did not help the ■ompany owing to the fact that he was paid by Credit Industrie! not to call upon him a second ime. Sbipherd stated that Blaine laughingly <a d the Peruvian company had an. American itle and the French company possessed plenty >f cash, and asX£>4 why they did hlpt jpiq mter*»ts. t ‘ ■

Th® Peru-Chili inquiry was contihtied on the 7th. Shipherd testified that the prospectuses of the Peruvian Company were chiefly sent to Senators. Being further pressed about sending copies of the prospectus to members of Conrgess, Shipherd, at first declining to give the names, finally stated that the only member of the House of Representatives whom he recollected as sending a copy was to Hewitt, of New York. Ho mentioned his name, as that gentleman had already stated the fact in the House, and his distinct recollection was that from Hewitt he had only a verbal response. He had recognized Hewitt as being among the capitalists whom he desired to approach, and, as a capitalist, he had sent him the documents with a note, stating that, if he wished to look into the matter, he (the witness) would be glad to confer with him. Hewitt sent him a very courteous verbal response by the young man who took tbe papers to him, and to the best of his recoll.iction that was the totalty of all the negotiations that he had with any member of the House of Representatives.

A Reformed Robber’s Confession.

Kansas Citv, April 3. Dick Liddel, one of the old James boys gang, who has been in the custody of the officers for some time, has made a full confession, and told everything connected with the gang, and ’ given full details of all their operations since the olpse of thdwwy* The officers refuse to make t statement ’i public, but it 1 is knowns that he, tells all about who harbored and fed and protected then! during their raids into Missouri. The officers have all the names, and when known they will create a grand sensation. Other arrests will come. After the Blue Cut train robbery, the gang went to the home of the mother of the James boys, in Clay county, where a quarrel took place, and Jesse James killed Ed Miller. Then they went to Kentucky, and stopped with the father of Jeff and Wood Hite. Old man Hite had a young wife, and Dick Liddel became enamored |of her. , Thw led to ■a quarrel between Wood Hite and Liddel, and the former was killed. Wood Hite being a cousin of Jesse James, the latter swore vengeance, but Liddel escaped, and through his Wife opened negotiations with the authorities to surrender. He was promised immunity if he would tell all and assist in looking up the gang. The first result was the arrest and sentence of Jeff Hite to twenty-five years in the penitentiary, for which a reward of $5,000 was paid. Of this reward it is believed the officers have 'given Liddel SSOO. / . ’

Boniface.

Innkeepers have gone by the name, of Boniface for many yfearfcv yet fewof the class could tell where the name originated. It first appeared as the name of an innkeeper in the -comedy of the “Beaux’ Stratagem,” written by George Farquhar, an English dramatist, m 1(678, who Was’t-he author of sevetal other comedies that were very populjtr-ini. his day. Lady Bountiful, often alluded to, was.another character in the abovenamed play. It was Farquhar,that first introduced the expression. “ Necessity is the mother of invention.’’ Shakspeare didn’t start all the terse and popular expressions going. — , II 1. , , Says the Detroit PreC Press: ‘ One of Detroit’s wealthiest men says that fdter he got his first thousand dollars lie nevetsawthe time when tie failed to make money with the greatest ease. ” It is usually the first thousand dollars that bothers a man, but why he is accumulating it he js liable to form habits of industry and economy which he cannot shake off in after years, and he goes right on making money all his life as though he was wound up.

A TARIFF ILLUSTRATION.

[From the Detroit Free Press.] The pretense is made by the hightariff people that the American farmer derives greater benefits from the large additional home market which the “ protection of home industry” gives him than he sustains loss in the restrictions which are placed upon his power to buy where he can get things the cheapest. We purpose, by a simple illustration, U> show not only how unfounded this is, but the heavy pecuniary loss which the American agriculturists and the entire Community suffer by the imposition of onerous restraints upon the freedom of trade. . The American farmers raise annually many million bushels of wheat beyond what is needed for their own consumption. A certain quantity of this has to be sold to prov ; de them with cotton goods. We will assume that 35,000,000 bushels are required for this purpose. The farmers go to the American manufacturers and they are informed that enough cotton is not manufactured in this country to supply the wants of our people, and that therefore they must expect a good price in wheat for the cotton goods. “ We have too little of our commodity,” say the manufacturers; “yow have too much of yours. ” The farmers appreciate the force of the arguments, and are about to• haul in their, wheat for the goods on the manufacturers’ own terms, when a corpulent old gentleman who lives across the ocean and who has a great many cotton factories, in which he employs “pauper' labor,” appears. “ Hi, there 1” he says; “I want some of that wheat; I have too many cotton goods and too little wheat;” and so he makes a bid which is so much better than that which the American eot’ton manufacturers offered at the beginning that the American farmers rub their hands with delight, and nod to each other, and say that competition is the life of trade, Uind that it is a “bang up” thing for them that John Bull wanted wheat and a good thing for him that they wanted cotton goods. Finally, after some negotiation, a bargain is struck, and John Bull agrees to take half of the 35,000,000 bushels of wheat, paying therefor $15,200,000 in cotton goods and $5,800,000 in cash. The American cotton manufacturers say they will take the other half, and give as much as the farmers get from John Bull. John brings his cotton and his cash over here, but is met at the landing place by a representative of Uncle Sam, who tells him that in order that the free labor of the United States may not be ruined by competition with his pauper labor hs must pay a duty averaging 381 per cent, on the value of his cotton goods, and John Bull this will take precisely th 9 cash which he had for the American farmers. John did not bargain for any duty on his goods, so he tells his customers that if he pays the duty they will be minus the cash, and that if they pay it they will be simply taking the money from him with one hand to pay it to Uncle Sam with the other. Whichever course is taken, the farmers get from John Bull what was but $15,200,000 worth of goods ; Uncle Sam gets $5,800,000 in revenue ; and the goods, after they get into the United States, are worth $21,000,000, because they have cost that much. So much for the present for the transaction with John Bull.

■ The American farmers take the remaining half of their wheat to the American cotton manufacturers, and get from them precisely the quantity in goods which they get from John Bull, the value of which is called $21,000,000. And as they deliver their goods to the farmers (he home manufacturers pat their customers on the shoulder and say : “ See how beneficent are the operations of the tariff. It has enabled you, without feeling it, to contribute nearly $6,000,000 to the support of the Government, and.it has secured good prices to us, by which we are enabled to keep the wheels of industry in motion, employ thousands of persons and maintain a ceaseless whir of activity.” The farmers go home and begin studying the, question. First it occurs to them that they received more for their wheat because John Bull wanted it, and then they begin to figure how they would be affected provided there was no tariff. Clearly they would have received the same quantity of goods and $5,800,000 jn cash from John Bull, and the American Cotton manufacturers would have had to pay them the same price in order to get the wheat, or they would have sold it to John Bull, who intimated that he would be glad to take all the wheat they had on the same terms. Now if they had obtained the John Bull price for the entire 35,000,000 bushels they would have received precisely the same quantity of cotton goods as they did under the operation of the tariff, and sll,600,000 beside. They could pay $5,800,000 for support of the Government, and still be $5,800,000 in pocket, equivalent to about 16 2-3 cents per bushel on their wheat.

The farmers lay their case before the | cotton manufacturers and want to know why they, should be deprived of this f 5,800,000. Oh,”" reply the cotton manufacturers, “ this is for the benefit of home industry. We pay omj workmen tod wbrkwom'en such high wages (please don’t say anything about the Pacific mills strike and the beggarly wages which the owners of those mills want to cut down) that we have absolutely no profits ourselves. If we sell any cheaper—that is, give you any more goods for your wheat—we shall have to pay wages as- low as those which John Bull gives his pauper labor.” ' The farmers return home for a further investigation of the question. Just about this time the census returns come out. “Stow,” say they, ‘‘we will see wh»t this wages question amounts to,”' Examining all the statements they find that the price paid, for labor in the manufacture of $21,000,000 worth of cotton goods is less than $4,000,000. A light dawns upon them/ “ What a colossal fraud this system bf so-called protection*iM,” say they. “If we are permitted to buy and sell where we can do both to the best advantage, we can with our 35,000,000 bushels of wheat obtain all the cotton -goods which we do at present, pay the Government the full equivalent of the duties it now receives, pay out of our own pockets every dollar to the American workingmen which they now receive for the manufacture of goods to the value of $21,000,000 —that is, we can support them in absolute idleness at the magnificent wages which the cotton manufacturers pay them—and still ba $1,806,000 ahead.’’

The Wise Man.

The wise man makes no attempt to do the trailing act after marriage, but allows himself to be trained, submitting as he does to death and the

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tax gatherer. Knowing that it is impossible to work his wjfe up to a certain model which is the ideal, he determines to let his wife do that work for him, and, however inconvenient it may be at times, he is the happier for it, appears better for it, passes muster in society and held up as an exemplar for refractory husbands who kick in harness or have the temerity to dispute authority.—Chicago Turibne.

LETTER FROM GOV. TILDEN.

The Jeffersonian Club, of New Haven celebrated.the anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Jefferson. A large num ber of guests from various jmrts of the State were present. An eloquent eulogy on the life and character of Thomas Jes ferson was delivered by William Patterson, editor of the New Haven Register. The affair and proceedings were interesting on account of the number of prominent Democrats present. Aletter of regret from Samuel J. Tilden was as follows: Graystone, March 30. Gentlemen : 1 have received your letter in behalf of the Jeffersonian Club, of New Haven, inviting me to be present at their commemoration of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. Although I am obliged to deny myself the pleasure of meeting with you on this occasion, I share the feelings which biiug you together. Mr. Jefferson has many titles to the reverence of the American jieople, and of all lovers of liberty throughout the world. He was among the earliest, most resolute and most steadfast of the patriots who upheld popular rights in the incipient struggle of our Revolution, when the part he took required a higher order of courage, of self-denial and of genins than were necessary at any subsequent period of our history. He penned the immortal statement of principles that led our ancestors to assert the independent existence of our country, and which has been substantially adopted as a model for every people who have since attempted to establish national independence on the basis of human rights. He was the first in his day to completely emancipate his own mind from monarchical and aristocral traditions, which still enslave most of the best intellects of the country But the obligations of the world to Mr Jefferson do not end here. On the completion of the Federal constitution, Gov. Morris, being asked what he thought of it, answered: “That depends upon how it is construed.’’ After the organisation of the Federal Government, a powerful class sought to impress upon its practical workings the similitude of the Biitish system. Mr. Jefferson was a great leader of the paity formed to resist these efforts, and to hold our iulitutions to the popular character which was understood to belong to them, when the constitution was ratified by the people. By his inflexible adherence to free principles, by his untiring efforts, by his counsels, by the magic of his pen, he was’ the principal agent in rescuing from its greatest peril, and while yet in infancy, government by the people. The 'arduous contest resulted in a political revolution, which brought Mr. Jefferson into the Presidency. He put the ship of state, to use his own expression, upon the “republican tack." He arrested centralizing tendencies. He i nvigorated local self-government, restored the rights of the State, and protected and enlarged the domain of individual judgment and conscience. For eight years he administered the Government, and for sixteen years it was administered by his pupils under observation and advice. Thus was established a habit which largely shaped the standards Tor the guidance of popular judgment, the modes of thinking statesmen and the general course of the Government for sixty years. How important such habits wi re will be appreciated when we consider that usurpation has often been accomplished in other countries by men wielding executive power, and when we are reminded that Jefferson sincerely feared Hamilton, who thought our Government a “frail and worthless fabric, ’ would change it if he came into power ; and when we recall the fact that Hamilton himself left on record his belief that Burr would have wrought personal usurpation if he could have grasped the Presidency. Mr. Jefferson gave to our administrative system an aspect of republican simplicity ; repressed jobbery, as well as all perversions of power, and by his precepts, his influence and his example elevated the standard of political morals. Io his personal practice be was not only pure, but, to make h s example more effective, he refrained, while administering the greatest of official trusts, from all attempts to increase his own fortune, even by methods open to every private citizen. In a period when there seems to be little respect for the limitations of power prescribed by our written constitution ; when tne assumptions of ungranted authority are rife in all departments of the Federal Government ; when that Government is gradually changed into elective despotism, meddling in everything belonging to the States or to the individuals ; when every new assumption of ungran'ed power creates new opportunities, new facilities and uew incentives to favoritism and jobbery ; when the civil service has been converted’into the balance of power to determine elections by pecuniary and other illegitimate influences ; when the perversion of public trusts to the private gain of the official is frequently committed with apparent unconsciousness of wrong, and passes almost without rebuke, it is time the teachings and example of Thomas Jefferson should be invoke!, to keep alive the glimmering spark of official virtue and public honor. Your fellow citizen, Samuel J. Tilden.

LIVE STOCK AND CROPS.

Encouraging Heportai as to Their Condition in Indiana. . Reports furnished in the Indiana Bureau of Statistics show the following concerning the condition of live stock and crops in this State: Returns have been received from 802 Township Trustees, an intelligent class of officers, ijepresenting about equally the whole number of counties in the State. The reports of crops are given on the basis of the following instructions to reporters—viz : “Let 100 represent the acreage of a year ago. The acreage of the present growing crop should be expressed by the same number if it is of equal extent, or by a higher or lower figure if it has been increased or decreased.

‘ ‘ The comparative conditions should be noted in the same way, except that the comparison should not be made with the condition at the same time last year, but with a fair average condition for any year, which should be represented by 100, by a lower number, if not a fair average, and higher if above an average condition.” With rare exceptions the reports were intelligently made, and the tables show the acreage and condition by per cents. It will be noticed that the condition of wheat especially is most excellent, equaling if not exceeding that of any previous year. The reports respecting condition of meadows and pastures show these not so good as. that of wheat. The reports from many of the counties state that the brought cf last year damaged the meadows and pastures, and give this as the reason for low per cents, of acreage and condition. This was more general ly true of the Southern division of the State than of the others. The reports in regard to the condition of apples and peaches are very favorable. The surplus wheat and corn from last year’s crops in farmers’ hands is reported to be very small—viz.: Percent. Per eent. of Wheat of Com Diviaione. on hand, on hand. Northern division, twenty-sev-en counties, average 22 29 Central division, thirty-one connties, average 21 22 Southern division, thirty-four counties 21 IS Total average for State.... 21.03 22 HOBSBS are reported in fair to good condition; in the Northern division of the State, twepty-seveq couptieß, the per eept, as-

fflemocratiq gentinti JOB PRIMTINB OFFICE UM bettor taomttoa than any oAaa in Mortbweetow Indiana for the executtoß of all branebM of JOB miNTING. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Bodge* to a Prim-Lie*, er front a ramphlet to aPootar, Nook or ookmd, pain or fan* SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

fected by disease is 1.4; in the Central division, thirty-one counties, 1 percent., and in the Southern division, thirty-four counties, 3.3 per cent, are affected by disease. Harrison county, in the Southern division, reports that 21 per cent, of the horses are affected by “ pinkeye, ” and Crawford county, in the same division, reports 20 per cent, so affected. The other bounties in that division run from nothing up to 8 per cent. Thia division suffered greatest last year from the drought and short crops, and in many sections feed was scarce. cattle. Northern division—Three townships of Marshall county report 3-10 per cent affected by disease “murrian ” and " black leg.” All the other counties in this division report cattle in good condition. Central division—ln Morgan county 7-10 of 1 per cent, of the cattle are reported “starvation poor,” and the balance in good condition. In Owen county 1-10 per cent, affected by “ murrain.” and in Parke county, 2-10 per cent, by “ black-leg - ” Southern division—Lawrence county, 2 10 per cent, affected by “ black leg; ” Orange county, 1-10 per cent,, by * * hol-low-horn,” and Pike county, 7-10 per cent. “ very poor for want of food.” BOOS. In the Northern division of twentyseven counties, 3.3 per cent, of the hogs are affected by “swine plague or cholera ; ” thirty-one counties in the Central division, 2.4 per cent., and in the Southern division of thirty-four counties, 8.2 per cent, are so affected. Otherwise hogs are in good and healthy condition. SHEEP. The sheep affected in any way by disease is: Northern division, 2-10 per cent.; Central division, 2-10 per cent., and Southern division 4-10 per cent. It will lie noticed from this that live stock is in good condition. The Southern division of the State reports the lowest conuition, and it must be remembered that it was here that the severe drought of last season did the most damage. WINTER WHEAT AND RYE. The comparative acreage of 1882, as given here, is based on the crops of lasts year, 100 representing the acreage o last year, and a greater or less number showing the per cent, of increase or decrease. One hundred represents a fair average of condition of any year at this date, and a greater or less number the comparative condition. WINIER WHEAT. WINTER BYE. Condi- CondiCounties. tion Hon Acree, of crop, Acree, of crop, per per per per cent. cent. cent. cent. Northern Div. Adams 94 82 88 Al'en 101 «3 100 72 Benton 92 133 103 117 Carroll 102 104 100 106 Cass 107 100 100 100 De Kalb «« 69 100 88 Ekhait 102 95 80 00 Fulton 94 91 70 105 Huntington 97 68 83 91 Jasper 117 150 125 125 Kosciusko 97 87 92 90 Lagrange 11'3 101 Lake... 98 HI 84 100 1 a porte 105 99 72 50 Marshall 103 92 97 108 Miami 90 97 Newton 92 92 111 100 Nobe I's 89 100 100 P0rter.......... 98 133 87 187 Pularki 90 99 108 98 Stark 107 »8 86 88 St. Joseph 104 112 100 100 Steuben 95 192 .... Wabash 103 «1 94 89 Wells 113 78 100 100 White 119 90 ISO 112 Whitley 75 «« Average 100.4 95.0 96.1 97.8 Central Div. Blackford 108 I 116 77 83 Boone HI HO 107 96 Clay 105 120 100 125 C In ton 97 101 70 97 Delaware 105 * 108 70 100 Fountain 107 117 100 117 Grant 109 101 62 80 Hamilton 106 108 100 100 Hancock 108 126 97 100 Hendricks »7 H 3 100 100 Henry 108 124 75 100 Howard 1«5 99 82 99 Jchniwn 101 121 80 10« is in » ’■» S":---- 3 IS 3 IS Putnam 108 ™ 90 1 25 B„d o Tph 109 100 103 P 102 123 100 107 SfadbY 100 114 " 109 Th, on 118 106 1 00 1 " # Union 100 228 98 108 VermPlon .... 208 112 Vigo 94 109 100 100 warren::::::::: 98 *'« 97 97 Wsvne 87 98 100 100 Av’lage..lo4.2 1139 • «8.8 104.1 Southern Div. Bartholomew... J 99 J 23 99 110 Brown 200 108 88 100 “ark « 239 87 126 Crawford 112 J ••• Daviess 98 108 94 97 Dearborn 122 212 78 81 Decatur. 99 238 100 100 Dubois. 72 J} 8 78 87 Favette 97 1,8 ‘ 100 HO FfoyT::::::::: 229 j?’ 200 92 Franklin 99 222 93 92 Gibson 192 J 3 } 125 100 Greene 98 J J J 94 102 Harrison 97 ?! 7 JOO 114 Jackson 98 } 8 102 85 Jefferson ,?« } 2B 93 Jl2 Jennings. 229 J 32 95 108 Knox... 97 J B7 100 152 Lawreaco 198 242 95 117 Martin 79 118 87 80 m™::::...:: j 92 j 34 100 w Ohio 103 112 98 100 Orange 99 227 15 10 Perry 98 128 100 105 Pike......:.... 202 224 p llw y 106 120 100 100 Ripley H» 23 < 90 108 Scott 85 125 85 120 Spencer 97 106 82 81 Sullivan 104 108 90 100 , Switzerland 133 H» 100 115 Vandeiburg.... 96 100 99 ]OO Warrick...... . Hl 106 88 112 Washington.... 103 125 88 112 Average. 101.5 120.5 89.8 100.5 General average of State 102.1 111 101.7 101.1

A Popular Error Corrected.

It is a popular error to suppose that ivy growing on the walls of q, house makes it damp. The attachment of ivy to walls, so far from injuring them and causing dampness, is an advantage. If the walls are dry when planted, ivy will keep them so. If. damp, as the plant overspreads their .surface the dampness will disappear. Where dampness prevails ivy sucks out the moisture, and its thick foliage will prevent the access of rain to the structure, and thus it is not only a remover but a preventive of dampness. The only danger attending the planting of ivy on buildings is where fissures occur in the walls, in which case the shoots tod roots will enter, and, if left undisturbed, their growth will soon begin to tell upon the building, and will, by increase of growth, push against the sides of the opening, thereby enlarging it, and eventually so weaken the wall as to cause it to fall, Where the wall is sound there is no such danger, for the plant does not make fissures, although quick to discover them. A telegraph—man went to a concert. The violinist played very nicely, holding his audience spell-bound, until suddenly a string snapped. The telegraph-man VhoqM, “ wires dqwn, by George 1”