Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Gen. Geo. E. Law, the defaulting County Treasurer At Portsmouth, N. EL, has been set at liberty, his defalcation of *20,976.51 having been made good. Charles Morris, after raising about *70,000 by forgeries, borrowing and raising money for suffirers of all kinds, has disappeared from Lynn, Mass., leaving a wife and children behind. Mrs. Nichols Smith, eldest daughter of the late Horace Greeley, died of diphtheria at her father’s homestead, Chappaqua, N. Y. She leaves three children, the youngest 4 weeks old. She was ill ouly one week. By a vote of 13 to 12 the Board of Harvard College declared its unwillingness to train female doctors in its medical school. The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed by a vote of 141 yeas to 24 nays a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, except for medical purposes. John F. Slater, a wealthy citizen of Norwich, Conn., proposes to give *1,000,001 toward the education of the negroes of the Southern States. R. B. Hayes, Gov. Colquitt, William E. Dodge and others are to act as trustees of the fund. The Connecticut Legislature hits passed a law limiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors. Flames destroyed the carriage factory of R. W. Slivers, in New York city. Lobb, *150,000. Wart. A Kansas City dispatch says: “The State of Kansas, throughout its length and breadth, has been visited by heavy and greatly needed rains, unfortunately accompanied, however, in some sections by stornls reviving the recollections of the great cyclone of May 30, 1879, though not nearly so destructive. A welldefined cyclone started on the evening of the Bth, south of Kansas river, first making itself felt in Stafford county, one of the new and sparsely-settled counties. The little town of Stafford Center, of a few houses, was damaged, but it is not known exactly to what extent. The storm proceeded, as is usual, from southwest to northeast, crossing the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad a short distance east of Raymond.. A dozen telegraph poles were torn down, indicating the width of the cyclone at that point. The country being more thickly settled here, destruction began to mark the track of the storm. In Davis, Butler and Dickinson counties there was much destruction of valuable property, and several people were killed. Notwithstanding the damages as stated, the great rainfall has been worth countless millions to the State, and no brighter agricultural prospect has ever been known.” Tucker Basham, a former member of the Jesse James gang, was assassinated near Great Bend, Kas. Basham was one of the parties engaged in the robbery of the Chicago A Alton train at Glendale in 1879, and when arrested made a full confession, naming his accomplices and giving full details. He was convicted, however, and sent to the penitentiary for ten years, but when Bill Ryan, also a member of the Glendale gang, was arrested, Basham was pardoned by the Governor in order that he might be used as a prosecuting witness. Thomas Fishburn, a farmer near Grafton, Ohio, who had been immured in the insane asylum, killed his wife with a stick of wood and disappeared. Next morning he was found dead in a neighboring field, having slain himself with a knife.

8. H. Laflin, a eon of the powder manufacturer, shot himself in the breast, at St. Louis, because of unrequited affection. All but thirty miles of the new railway between Chicago and Buffalo has been laid, and the gap will be closed by May 15. The last work will be the completion of the two great viaducts at Cleveland. The personal effects and household goods of Jesse James, the dead outlaw, were sold at public auction in St. Joseph. Mo. About $lO worth of old rubbish brought almost S2OO. The outlaw’s dog, a very common animal, brought sls; the chair on which he was standing when shot, $5; five other plain cane chairs, $2 each; a half dozen stone china plates, $1 each; a half dozen saucers, 50 cents each; knives and forks, $1 each; an old wash basin, $4.75; the duster the outlaw was brushing off the picture with at the fatal moment, $5; a worthless jackknife, $4; an old sachel, s2l; a washstand, $11; a crippled revolver, sl7; a pair of old mits, $2. Many other articles brought similar prices. William A. Hulbert, President of the National League of Base Ball Clubs, and also President and active manager of the Chicago Base Ball Club, died in Chicago of heart disease. The Northern Pacific road has met with complete success in its experiments with artesian wells in Dakota. Water nearly as pure as that from Lake Superior flows thirty feet abeve the ground at Tower City.

South. A passenger train on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road was robbed a few miles south of Cleburne, Texas. Six men, wearing masks and roughly dressed, entered the coaches. Two took position and guarded the doors at either end, the other two going through the car with cocked pistols. One carrying a pillow-slip ordered a missionary fund. All the passengers did as ordered. When they were about through with the passengers, the conductor entered the car, and, seeing what was up, rushed for the express oar. One of the robbers fired at him, but he escaped unhurt, the ball passing through the express-car door. All the robbers then jumped off and disappeared. The amount secured is not known. Several parties gave up large sums. The officers were notified at Fort Worth, and a posse with bloodhounds were put in pursuit. The residence of Gustav Burgess, of Madison county, Ark., was burned down during the absence of Mr. B. and his wife, and three interesting children perished in the flames. Southern farmers, as a general thing, are planting larger food crops and less cotton this yearthan ever before. At Wrightsville, Ark., a boiler explosion in a saw-mill killed three men. Mary Booth, aged 14, and colored, poisoned the family coffee of her employer, R. 0. Gray, in Surrey county, Va. Mrs. Gray and Travis E. Jones died of the poison. Dallas, Texas, was visited by a hailstorm that shattered every exposed window in the city. The haii-stones ranged in size from the dimensions of a walnut to a base-ball, and their falling sounded like the discharge of firearms. A jury at New Orleans awarded $ 20,000 damages to McNeil and wife for the death of their son on the Louisville and Nashville rood. The Texas Legislature has passed a bill reducing railroad fare to 3 cents per mile. The flood in the Lower Mississippi

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JAS. W, McE WKN Editor

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valley, says a recent telegram from Helena, Ark., leaves behind a terrible picture of waste and ruin. The city in the overflowed district certainly shows signs of a terrible scourge having passed over it The suffering and unhappiness that have been experienced by the people of this region can never be imagined. The boiler of the steamer Planter exploded in Charleston harbor, killing a colored deck-hand and scalding the mate and engineer. WASHINGTON NOTES. Representative Allen, of Missouri, who has just died at the capital, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., Aug. 29, 1813. At 16 years of age he entered Union College and graduated in 1832. In October of the same year he went to New York and commenced the study of law. In 1834 he assumed the editorship of the Family Magazine, a position he held for two years. In 1835 he was admitted to the bar in New York. In 1837 he began the publication of the Madisonian, at -Washington, D. C., and was elected Public Printer. In the spring of the 1842 he took up his residence in St. Louis, where he married and has since resided. The House Committee on Education and Labor has ordered a bill drafted to appropriate *10,060,000 for schools throughout the United States in proportion to the prevailing illiteracy. In the star-route cases Judge Wylie decided the indictments sufficient. The re cognizance of Stephen W. Dorsey was declared forfeited and his arrest was ordered. Jail Warden Crocker says he has never seen Guiteau so enraged as since hearing of the move of his sister to have a Chicago court give her legal custody of his estate. Guiteau thinks all his sister wants to accomplish is to get tho profit of his book. He declares that, if he has to die, he will make a will which will keep her from getting a cent f|»m his estate. Scoville he positively rules out of ■the case, and Reed will hereafter have entire charge. Guiteau has obtained about *7OO from the sale of his pictures and autographs. His receipts average *lO daily. The assassin has issued the following “card :”

Mrs. Frances M. Scoville, according to newspaper report, has Impudently filed a petition in Chicago for a conservator of my estate. The absurdity of her pretension is apparent from the fact that I do not live in Illinois, and have not for nearly three years. Besides, lam not a lunatic. This was officially decided on my trial. I have lived in Washington for over a year, and this is my legal residence. The court had better dismiss the petition peremptorily. The Scovilles are nuisances, and I want nothing to do with them. Chaiii.es Guiteau. It is said the President will make the Fitz John Porter case the subject of a special communication to Congress at an early day. The Board of Managers of the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers has elected tho following officers for the ensuing year: President, Gen. W. B. Franklin ; First Vice President, Col. L. A. Harris ; Second Vice President, Col. J. A. Martin ; Secretary, Gen. McMahon. In order to mature a Chinese bill which would escape the objections urged against the vetoed measure, Senators Jones and Miller and Representative Page have been busily at work. They agreed to recommend the registration by American customs officers of every Celestial departing for home, and to fix the period for the suspension of immigra. tion at ten years. It is reported that Secretary Lincoln will be asked to retire from the War Department at an early day. Public Printer Rounds has reappointed Capt. T. H. Brian foreman of printing in the Government Printing Office—a position he held under Mr. Clapp. Bishop Brown, of the African M. E. church, accompanied by some of his ministers and the Hon. Fred Douglass, interviewed Attorney General Brewster with regard to the refusal of the United States Attorney of the Northern district of Florida to prosecute a railroad company who put Bishop Payne off the train at midnight, after the company had sold him a first-class ticket. Mr. Brewster promised to investigate the affair. For some months Capt. Howgate has lain in jail in Washington, being allowed by Marshal Henry to make an occasional visit to his family in charge of a bailiff. Deputy Williams managed to lose his prisoner the other day, and no traces of him have yet been discovered. POLITICAL POINTS. The Governor of Colorado has appointed George M. Chilcott, of Pueblo, as Senator to succeed Henry M. Teller. The appointee is a practicing lawyer, and was once a Delegate in Congress. He is a native of Pennsylvania, and had lived in lowa ana Nebraska previous to settling in Colorado.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Jumbo, the mammoth elephant, ate 100 pounds of onions on the voyage across the Atlantic and consumed considerable whisky. The freight bill was $2,500. It took eighteen horses to draw the animal up Broadway on trucks. The fund for the family of Sergeant Mason has swollen to $7,000, and Betty favors the purchase of a farm in Virginia on her husband’s release. Chicago Tribune: “ There is reason to fear that great damage asw inflicted on fruit in Southern Illinois by the recent heavy freeze. The exceptionally mild weather of the preceding month had caused an early blossoming, and the trees were in a condition most susceptible to injury by frost Reports of similar damage are received from Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc. It is not known to what extent the winter wheat has been injured, but it will probably be found that no great shortage in the yield will result.” Scoville, counsel for Guiteau, the assassin, thinks the Government should compensate him at the rate of $25 per day for the lime he devoted to the case. The Western Nail Association, at its meeting in Pittsburgh, resolved to make no change in rates. The schooners Thomas Parsons and Clayton Belle collided on Lake St. Clair. The latter was sunk and the former was towed into Port Huron in-a damaged condition. Capt Frank A. Colvin, First Mate Nathaniel Brotherton and his son and the female cook were lost from the Clayton Belle. The second annual convention of the National Land League began its session in Washington on the 12th inst Many Catholic priests were in attendance. Gen. Rosecrans made a speech, and a letter of sympathy from Wendell Phillips was read. Hon. Thomas Allen, of St Louis, who died the other day, leaves an estate estimated at $15,000,01)0. Mr. Jackson, the Superintendent of Castle Garden, New York, says the arrivals indicate an immigration of nearly a million this year. Through the efforts in Europe of the agents of new railways, a vast tide is being turned toward the Southwest The Treasurer of the National Land League reported to the convention at Washington that $180,589 had been contributed to the

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cau<e, of which amount *169 262 was remitted to Patrick Egan and Miss Parnell. The total ram sent across the Atlantic since the agitation recommenced is *272,810. The Mexican commander on the Rio Grande has stationed several companies of, infantry opposite Laredo, and Americans are not allowed to cross, of which fact both Governments have been apprised. It is alleged that tho United States authorities refuse to surrender a large number of Mexican cattle which strayed across the river.

FOREIGN NEWS. It is stated that the attacks upon the Jews in Southern Russia have recommenced. In one city the Jewish shops were set on fire with petroleum. Because of the activity of Nihilists of Moscow, the question of holding the coronation of the Czar elsewhere is being seriously discussed. After a diplomatic career of sixty years, and having for twenty-six years held the important post of Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Gortschakoff has, at his own request, been relieved of the duties of that office, and De Giers is made his successor Gortschakoff, however, remains Premier of the Russian Government, and retains the dignity of Imperial Chancellor and Member of the Council of the Empire. Parnell was released on parole for a week, to visit his sister in Paris, whose child has just died. Lord Macdonald undertook to evict twenty tenants on the Isle of Skye, but the process-server was warned away and the summonses burned. A London dispatch announces the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the famous poet and painter. Two thousand Jews were recently expelled from Moscow. France has addressed a note to the powers asking for a reopening of the monetary conference. The Czar of Russia is anxious to meet the Austrian Emperor, but circumstances prevent his naming the date. Ten Polish District Marshals have been appointed by the Czar, the first so declared for nineteen years, who will participate at the coronation. Jewels to the value of £20,000, belonging to the ladies of the imperial family of Brazil, have been stolen. Three persons perished ascending the Alps Ea-ster Sunday. The bodies were not recovered. The Minister of the Russian imperial household announces that the corouation of tho Czar will take place in Moscow in August. The festivities will last two weeks, and their expense will bo 10,000,000 roubles.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The business failures throughout the country for the seven days ending April 15, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.’s mercantile agency, number 122, as follows: Southern States, 38; Western, 34; Middle, 19; Eastern, 22; Pacific and Territories, 8; New York city, 6. 'The Poughkeepsie Iron and Steel Company suspended, as also the New York tfnd Boston Manufacturing Company. Other failures in the city unimportant. It is announced that the well-known firm of A. T. Stewart & Co. have determined to discontinue their dry-goods and manufacturing business, and that they offer for sale their entire stock of merchandise and all their mill properties. The announcement will cause general surprise in the mercantile world, although it has been known for some time that the sales of the firm were not as Urge as when Mr. Stewart was at the head of the Abuse which he founded. •

Two negroes who, by their own confession, were implicated in the murder of J. B. Weisinper, near Selma, Ala., last December, were seized, the other day, and lynched by forty masked men. A fire at Titusville, Pa., destroyed the Hotel Brunswick, the Parshall Opera House and hotel, and the Watson stables, on which the loss is estimated at $250,000. A fireman was fatally burned, and a colored cook probably lost her life. In the suit for libel brought in the New York courts by Rev. Samuel D. Hinman against Bishop William H. Hare, the jury rendered a verdict of SIO,OOO for the plaintiff. Counsel for Bishop have moved for a new tnal. On the first ballot by the jury ten voted in favor of $25,000 for plaintiff and two voted for a ver diet for defendant. Next morning they compromised on SIO,OOO for the plaintiff. Scoville lectured on the Guiteau trial to three policemen, eight reporters and twenty others in Jersey City, N. J. John Land, the Blue Cut (Mo.) train robber, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for psrjury. At Sedalia, Mo., fellow-soldiers -with Jesse James in the Confederate service have raised $250 for his widow and children. Eighteen Nihilists have escaped from Siberia. Among them is Mikaloff, one of the assassins of Gen. Miezenthoff. Ben Halliday’s famous claim has been approved by the Senate Committee on Claimsit amounts to $380,000, and has been before Congress for ten years. The Senate Committee on Territories will report Mr. Butler’s bill to create a Territorial Government in Alaska, the present officers to constitute a Legislative Council. The Canadian Senate has passed a bin legalizing marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. Its opponents give notice that they will appeal to the Governor General for a veto or to the Queen to disallow the bill.

Honor Women.

There is nothing manly in making light of women. Never use a lady’s name in an improper place, or at an improper time, or in mixed company. Never make assertions about her that may be untrne, allusions that she herself would blush to hear. Shun men who do not scruple to make use of a woman’s name in a reckless and unprincipled manner. They are the very worst members of the community—lost to every sense of honor, every feeling of humanity. Many a good and worthy woman’s character has been forever ruined and her heart broken by a lie concocted by an unprincipled villian, but believed by people of good principles who are too ready to believe slander or condemn imprudence and crime. The smallest thing derogatory to a woman’s character will fly on the wings of the wind, and magnify as it circulates, until its weight crushes the poor unconscious victim. Remember this if you are tempted to repeat or listen to a scandalous lie.— Alice Hodges. Gun chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE PERUVIAN INVESTIGATION.

Rhipherd, in his examination by the House. Investigating committee on the Bth inst., detailed an interview he had with Secretary Blaine in Washington on the evening of Oct. 13, 1881 The witness adverted to Hurlbut’s singular conduct in withholding documents he had been requested to deliver. Blaine retorted sharply: “ What business had you to make an srbandboy of an American Minister ? He would have done right if he had thrown all your papers into the fire.” The witness then told Blaine what was reported of Hurlbut’s intimacy with Suarez ; that they had gone out together on the steamer; that, on arriving at Lima, Suarez had placed at Hurlbut’s disposal one of the finest residences in Lima, with a wine-cellar exceptionally well stocked, and that Hurlbut was occupying it free of expense to himself, and all had been furnished by the Credit Industrie!. Blaine laughed incredulously, and said : “ Oh, they don’t catch Steve in that way. If he lives in a fine bouse he pays rent for it.” The, witness then said further: “ Well, Mr. Secretary, their intimacy is a matter of public comment in Lima. They are always together. Suarez is virtually an inmate of the American Legation.” At this Biaine exclaimed, with great emphasis : “If all • his be true he must have sold out to the Credit IndustrieL I will go to the bottom of this.” Then, after a moment, turning to witness, he said : “ What do you want me to do, Shipherd?” The witness handed him a draft of a dispatch and said: “ Send that to Hurlbut’’ * Blaine read It, and replied: “No, not that, it would raise a howl in Congress.” He (Blaine) then wrote, resting on the arms of his chair, a dispatcu in substance as follows : “ The report reaches the State Department that your conduct is such as to lead to suspicion of improper relations with the Credit IndustrieL You must stop it.” The witness continued: “I heard afterward, through Senator Blair, that the dispatch was sent; but the dispatch, which it appears from the correspondence furnished by tne State Department was sent, was very different from the dispatch which the Secretary wrote in my presence and read to me." In his testimony before the committee, on the 10th inst., Shipherd said he had a talk with Gen. Grant concerning the affairs of the Peruvian Company, and that he (Grant) declined to consider any proposition to become pecuniarily interested in the company, although he looked upon it in a favorable light. Witness said that ex-Senator Conkling agreed to accept a retainer for professional services if the occasion should arise. Shipherd declined to tell with whom he had been “holding confidential correspondence ” upon pension affaire, intimating that the committee was exceeding the range of their investigation and obtruding upon purely private matters. The witness was then asked if he had anything further to offer in justification of his charge that Minister Hurlbut had been influenced against the Peruvian Company by the Credit Industrie!. „ Shipherd replied at some length to the effect that he had already been charged with pursuing an attack upon the reputation of a dead man, and he did not care to go further or say anything that was not directly in the line of his own justification. He had read from newspapers and had heard reports connecting Hurlbut with the Credit Industrie!, and these reports he (Shipherd) had repeated to Secretary Blaine at their interview Oct. 14. Shipherd, at his examination on the 11th inst., positively refused to tell who was the author of the sealed letter sent by him to Arizola, under cover of Minister Hurlbut, and to be delivered by the latter. Mr. Blount continued to quote from the printed correspondence and endeavored to extract from the wit ness a categorical answer to each question, reading from the letter sent to Arizola through Minister Huilbut, but obtained nothing but evasive replies. He ask'd : “ Was not that letter written by the Venezuelan Minister?" Witness declined to reply. Witness wan asked if Senator Blair, as counsel was conferred with in relation to the letter to Hurlbut in which he (Shipherd) tendered him *250,090 in stock, and replied: “ Senator Blair did not see the letter to Hurlbut.” Witness, however, told him about it some time after it was sent. It was discussed by all the counsel; none of them even found fault with it on its face, but the remark was frequently made: “ Shipherd, that letter will bear a double construction, and may get you into trouble.” The Shipherd examination was resumed on the 13th. Witness refused to produce a list of the stockholders of the Peruvian Company. He testified that Wm. H. Hurlbert saw a. dispatch to Minister Hurlbut on which Secretary Blaine had penciled the words: “Go in, Steve! ” Shipherd’s examination on the 14th inst was dry and uninteresting. He stated that he presented a letter of introduction from Gen. Grant to President Arthur, but declined to repea*' what occurred at that interview with the President. He assured the committee, however, that nothing occurred that could have any reference to the allegations of the House resolution which led to the investigation, although the conversation had some relation to the Peruvian Company. Witness voluntarily denied the published statements that he had certain correspondence with Secretary Blaine, and that there were certain letters which Blaine would not like to have published. He said he never received an autograph letter from Secretary Blame.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

The House, in committee of the whole, devoted the day, at its session on the Bth inst., to debate on the Tariff Commission bilk The Senate held no session. » The Senate passed a bill, at its session on the 10thinst., to fix at $5,000 per annum the salaries of the election Commissioners under the Anti-polygamy law. Mr. Saunders introduced a bill to appropriate $20,000,000 in trust fvt the Wichita and other bands of Indians, the income to be paid them semi-annually, on | condition of their relinquishing their right to 40,000,000 acres of land in Kansas and Indian I Territory. The death of Representative,Allen was announced. In the House, Mr. Butterworth introduced a resolution calling upon the Secretary of State for information m regard to the cattle trade with England and pork shipments to France. Mr. Thompson submitted a majority report on the contested seat of the Second district of South Carolina, admitting Mr. Mackey. Mr. McLane introduced a bill to abrogate the fifth and sixth articles of the Burlingame treaty with China. Mr. Ray presented a measure to make the fees on postal money-orders sto 10 cents. Mr. Richardson handed in a concurrent resolution to inquire into the cost of a Suitable site for a residence for the President A bid to restore Capt. Ctfrbin to the active list of the navy, with restitution of the differ, ence in pay for nine years, was passed by the Senate on the 11th inst., Don Cameron and McDill voting in its favor with the Democrats. Mr. Vest introduced a general bridge law, designed to secure reasonable protection to navigation. Angus Cameron reported a bill anpronriatine $320,153 for losses sustained by Ben Holladay on account of Indian hostilities. An executive session was held, at which 8. P. Rounds was confirmed as Public Printer. The following nominations were sent in by the President: John R. G. Pitkin to be Marshal for the East district of Louisiana; Samuel M. Jackson so be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-third district of Pennsylvania; Edward F. Burton to be Superintendent at San Francisco, Cal.; Stephen W. Duncombe, of Michigan, to be Register of the Land Office at Aberdeen, D. T.; Thomas 8. Allen, of Wisconsin, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Aberdeen, D. T.; John F. Gawey, of Ohio, to be Register of the Land Office at Olympia, W. T.; Vincent W. Bayless, of Wisconsin, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Eau Claire, Wis. The House passed a bill appropriating SBO,OOO to feed the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas and three other tribes in Indian Territory. In committee of the whole on the Postal Appropriation bill, a Senate amendment was ’ concurred in to increase by $500,000 the allowance for fast mails, but the proposition to restore the franking privilege was defeated. Mr. Henderson reported a bill for the construction of the Illinois -nd Mississippi canal. Mr. Sewell presented a petition in the Senate, on the 12th inst., from 978 officers of the army, praying for the passage of the bill for compulsory retirement at the age of 62 years. The bill alloUng to the Southern Utes agricultural lands in Utah was amended to allow the Indians to receive their annuities in cash or stock, and then passed. A bill was passed to refer to the Court of Claims the bill of George E. Payne for alleged wrongful seizure of his sugar plantar

tion in Louisiana, by Gen. Butler, in 1862. The President sent to the Senate the names of George Maney, *»f Tennessee, as Minister Resident and Consul General of the United States in Bolivia; William L. Scruggs, of Georgia, Minister Resident of the United States of Colombia; and C. C. Andrews, of Minnesota, Consul General of the United States at Rio de Janeiro. Consuls —Joseph F. Swords, of the District of Columbia, at Trinidad; Samuel Spackman, of Pennsylvania, at Cologne ; Geo. E. Bullock, of Indiana, at Annaberg, Germany; Theodore Canisins, of Illinois, at Apia : Thomas Adamson, of Pennsylvania, at Panama. Tne Senate confirmed the nomination of William E. Chandler to be Secretary of the Navy by 28 to 16. The appointments of W. H. Hunt as Minister to Russia and J. R. Partridge as Minister to Peru were also approved. In the House, bills were favorably reported to appropriate *500,000 for the purchase of torpedoes and to. make experiments therewith ; for the construction of the Delaware ana Maryland free ship canal, and to prevent na<tional banks from issuing notes exceeding 90 per cent, of the value of the . bonds dejwsitod in the treasury. An adverse report was made in regal'd to the taxation of legaltender notes by States. Mr. Page introduced a Chinese bill providing for the suspension of iimnigration for ten years. The Committee on Appropriations was instructed to report what further measures of relief are necessary for the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi. Mr. Cameron presented in the Senate, on the 13th inst., a protest from the Land League against the imprisonment of American citizens in Ireland. A bill was passed for the adjustment of the claims growing out of the destruction of the private armed brig Gen. Armstrong m 1814 at Port Royal.' Mr. McMillan made a favorable report on a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to prevent the obstruction of navigation by bridges by requiring additional safeguards, at the expense of the bridge corporations. The House bill to rectify duties on products of the Netherlands was amended and passed. The bill for a right of way through Indian Territory was passed, an amendment to require the consent of the Indian Council being rejected. The bill was passed to appropriate 480,000 to supply the deficiency in the subsistence of Indian tribes, as also acts to bridge tho Mississippi at Keithsburg, 111., and to establish an assay office at Omaha. The House paused a bill to ratify the agreement between the Shoshones and Bannocks and the Utah and Northern railroad for the sale of lands in Idaho. The Tariff-Commission bill was taken up, and speeches were made by Messrs. Updegraff, Turner, Brumm and Arm field. A bill was passed appropriating SIO,OOO for the erection of a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Maxey made a favorable report to the Senate, on the 14th inst, on the bill renewing the appropriation of March, 1877, to pay Southern mail contractors. A bill was passed to pay the claims of 1,359 loyal citizens, aggregating *291,148, for small supplies taken for the use of the army during the War of the Rebellion. Mr. Voorhees spoke on his resolution condemning the Secretary of State for his neglect of American citizens in Ireland, and on motion of Mr. Sherman it was sent to the Committee on Foreign Relations for further inquiry. In tne House the minority report ou the antiChinese bill was read. It declares against a fifteen-year suspension, and in favor of Mr. Page’s motion. The private calendar was taken up in committee of the whole, and the bill for the relief of Edward P, Armstrong, of Missouri, was debated for an hour and defeated. At a caucus of the Republican members of the House it was agreed that on Monday, 17th, an effort should be made to pass the anti-Chinese bill (Mr. Page’s) under a suspension of the rules; and that on Tuesday and for the remainder of the week the Committee on Elections should have the floor for the disposal of contested-election cases, the Utah case to be diap«*ed-of first, and then the Lynch-Chalmers Mississippi contest.

WAYNE MACVEAGH.

Gariicld’s Attorney General Without Hope of Any Good Coming Out off the Republican Party. At the annual meeting of the Civil Service Reform Association, at Phila delphia, on the 13th of April, Wayne MacVeagh presided. In discussing the resolution condemning the letter of First Assistant Postmaster General Hatton, exempting postal employes from the provision of the civil-service order, MacVeagh said President Hayes had consulted him in the preparation of his celebrated civil-service order, of a portion of which he (MacVeagh) was the author. When, however, Hayes was put to the test, practically, he failed. There had been questionable political services rendered by officeholders m the South. Hayes allowed himself to be overpersuaded, and the authors of these questionable services in Louisiana and Florida were rewarded with public office. After that all hope of civil-serv-ice work was gone, and the closing days of his administration witnessed Sherman trying to elect himself President by the aid of the Treasury Department. Then came the short-lived Garfield administration. Whatever hope was in that was cut short by Guiteau’s bullet. What Arthur was in the New York' Custom House he is to-day in the President’s chair. Personally, he is a kindly, welldisposed gentleman, and my intercourse with him was of the pleasantest character, as it was with Hayes. But men rarely change their political training after arriving at the age either gentleman had attained. My party leaves me in this predicament., It has but three principles, and I find myself opposed to all three. Its first great principle is the spoils system; the second is opposition to civil-service re form ; and the third seems to consist of repudiation in Old Virginia. The “boss” system is degradation; it goes from the gutter to the White House. It subsists on the spoils of office. The duty of this association and of the country is to supplant these bosses. Until that be done your work will not be executed. You cannot pretend to be interested in the degrading spectacle of Mahoneism in Virginia—the deliberate prostitution of the Government powers to aid repudiation of a State’s obligations. If we could cnarge that upon the Bourbon Democrats it would be some relief; but, to our sorrow and humiliation, these things are clone in the name of the party of Abraham Lincoln. Instead of going forward, the Arthur administration makes a retrograde movement.

Closing Up the Stalwart Lines.

Speaking of general politics last night, a leading Republican said: “The administration is doing all in its power to strengthen the Camerons in Pennsylvania, Logan in Illinois, and the stalwarts in New York. Shrewd politicians look upon the internecine fight in these States with great apprehension, and the fear is openly expressed that the future of the Republican party is overcast with ominous clouds. There is no doubt that Senator Cameron wields great influence with the President, but he has recently committed some blunders which may seriously affect his political power. Gov. Hoyt is on the war-path, and is organizing an independent Republican faction, composed of persons tired of the Cameron rule. Senator Mitchell is said to be fully in accord with this movement, and open rebellion exists in Allegheny county, led by Mr. Bayne, of Pittsburgh. There is trouble ahead for Cameron ; there is trouble ahead for Arthur, and if things are not speedily arranged there is danger of a split in the party as disastrous as that of last year in New York. To placate his

opponents Senator Cameron has tried a liberal application of patronage, but the anti-Cameronians object to his exclusive handling of the loaves and fishes, and are anxious to be consulted about future appointments. They are gaining strength rapidly, and the President must either frown publicly on Cameron or be prepared to accept the consequences of his too-open recognition of the senior Senator from Pennsylvania. “The trouble in Illinois springs also from too much Senatorial influence in the matter of appointments. Senator Logan has been running things very much in the same way as Cameron. At an early period of the present administration Gen. Logan assured the President that if he were permitted to control the leading appointments in his State, he would so arrange matters as to insure an administration party strong enough to be depended upon in every emergency. In other words, that by taking the matter in hand at an early day he could hold that State, secure the election of a Republican Senator in place of Judge Davis, and that in 1884 there would be no contesting delegation in the National Convention.

“This fact in a measure accounts for the all-powerful influence which Senator Logan is known to have with President Arthur. In several instances, where important nominations have been pending which really belong to the Representatives of tfie different Congressional districts, Senator Logan has invariably defeated their recommendations and secured one of his own friends. “ With reference to New York the President has a difficult and embarrassing situation to deal with. Gov. Cornell, who was formerly closely allied politically with Gen. Arthur, has been organizing a strong Cornell party which threatens to become very troublesome. He evidently aspires to wrest the control of the State from the administration party proper and to secure his renomination as Governor. A council of administration Republicans was called, at which it was agreed that under all the circumstances the action of Cornell toward Conkling and Platt was of such a character that it could not be forgiven, and that Cornell should be fought with all the power of the administration. President Arthur was appealed to and was requested to exert himself in behalf of some candidate more acceptable to the stalwart branch of the party than Cornell. As a result, Judge Folger’s name was decided upon, and it is not unlikely that he will be the choice of tho convention. This will make things serene for the administration in one respect, but it must make trouble for the party generally, and if the Democrats are wise in their generation they can make things whoop in New York this fall.”— Washington Post. .

The “ Courtesy of the Senate.”

“No matter whose suggestion it may have been, it was a shrewd movement upon the part of President Arthur to select for the Ijoston Oollectorship a worthy person against whom the Massa chusetts Senators had a harsh feeling, and against the prospect of whose appointment they had zealously protested. By this maneuver he has placed these Senators in a more embarrassing situation than Garfield placed the New York Senators who resigned because Robertson’s appointment would be confirmed, though excessively distasteful to them. The President thus effectually pricks the bubble of the Garfield-Conk-ling fight, and compels the omission of that episode from the rhetoric of future stump-oratory and organ editorials. Arthur was careful to make his position stronger than Garfield’s was. He did not remove Beard in the middle of his term and upset the diplomatic service abroad in order to make decent bestowal of him while he slapped the Senators of the State in the face with a conspicuous appointment conspicuously distasteful to them. Arthur is too shrewd to weaken his case that way. He waits until the duty of making an appointment in the Boston Custom House falls to him in the official course ; then makes selec tion without reference to the wishes of the Massachusetts Senators. He does not delude these Senators with false hopes. He simply exercises the Presidential prerogative, and for the maintenance of that prerogative, when Garfield was the executive and Conkling the victim, no Senators were so zealous as these Massachusetts statesmen. Then they denounced “the courtesy of the Senate,” which now they would fain in voke. The tables are completely turned upon them. Their ox is gored. And as they squirm in a trap of their own handiwork the executive has the soothing knowledge that he has used so much of Garfield’s tactics as were necessary to confound the Senatorial enemies of Conkling, and ’show the country how little of real merit there was in the administration’s tremendous battle over the New York Custom House. Arthur has given the finishing stroke to that elaborate humbug.— Chicago Times.

Conkling’s Pride Humbled.

“Gath” writes: Conkling is one of the most changed men you ever saw. He has the profound conviction that he is the most unpopular man in the United States. The fact is that he has trod on the toes of so many people in the elation of his power that every cue of them has had a chance during the last year to kick back at him. He is now attending strictly to his law practice, but I think has some fond hope of being returned to the Senate at the next vacancy. New York State is now represented by one drunkard and one mediocre Senator. The time may come when the business class here will want a man of Conkling’s capacity in the Senate. He thinks, however, that the people hate him everywhere, and it has very much modified" his behavior. He will sign a recommendation now to make a man a sieep-ing-car conductor or a night watchman, bnt he would not have bothered with such business two years ago. His usual style in those days was to flare up at the least opportunity. On one occasion a man went to him with a letter on some important piece of business. Conkling read it, heard what he had to say, and said: “I will attend to the matter, sir, for you.” As the man took his hat to go he turned and said: “Then I may rely on you, Senator?” Immediately Conkling began to shoot his eyes and execute his peculiar grimaces, and he handed the man back his letter, and said: “Rely on me for nothing, sir.” Don’t you think a man like that, with no intention to offend, rejoiced to see a man like Conkling tumble? Conkling has been reviewing these exasperations, and he is very quiet, comparatively.

$1.50 ner Annum.

NUMBER 12.

INDIANA ITEMS.

A fire at Looza, Montgomery coiuity, burned three buildings. About 300 men are at work on the new State House, in Indianapolis. Charles Ogan’s residence, near Wabash, was destroyed by fire. Loss, ,$2,000. The new small-pox hospital at Lafayette was burned by an incendiary. No lives lost. There are 344 pensioners in Tippe canoe county, and they are paid annu ally $128,352. Lafayette is soon to have an exten sive match factory if pending negotia tionrf do not fall through. Mike Madigan, formerly of Terre Haute, lost his life by the burning of a hotel at Leadville, Col. Gen. Fred Knifler will be appointed commander of the camp for the July encampment at Indianapolis. Six hundred and forty dogs have been registered and tagged in New Albany township under the new law. Twelve inquests were held by the Indianapolis Coroner during the month of March, at an expense to the county of $282.30. The jury in the case of Maggie Briscoe agaiust Omri Thompson, on trial ar Sa lem, assessed her damages at SB,OOO for breach of contract to marry. Rev. George H. Austin, of Madison, pleaded guilty to forging a note for $2 >O, and was fined $lO and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. While driving in Indianapolis, with three small children, Mrs. R. ,L. Boyd overturned the buggy at a comer, and all its occupants were taken home insensible. A company, composed mainly of resi - dents of Wabash, has purchased the old woolen mills at Warsaw, and will begin the manufacture of patent store furniture at that point. Anthony Stingley, one of the pioneers of Tip ton county, is 87 years old, father of fourteen children who are all living, and owns orie of the largest farms in the State. Wm. P. Morton and Mary E. Poe, paupers in the Madison county poor - house, were married recently, and start ed West to seek their fortunes, going on foot. They were given sufficient money to help them out of the State. The Attorney General of Indiana says i that Road Superintendents should be I paid out of the township and not out of the county fund, and that constables are entitled to 50 cents a head for killing untagged dogs, but are not entitled to I any mileage. John W. Keener, proprietor of the ■ Premont House, at Muncie, in a row j with Peter Kirke, drew a revolver and I tired three shots, all taking effect, two i lodging in the abdomen and one in the i left elbow. Attending surgeons think j recovery probable. Kerner was arrested and gave bond. On a farm near South Bend, a large, healthy calf was born the other day per feet with the exception of being blind and having two sets of eyelids and eyelashes. One set is in the usual place, I while the second set is directly underj neath and rests down about lialf way i over the eyes. i John Rodawald, a well-to-do farmer I residing in Adams township, Allen conn ; ty, committed suicide by shooting him* ! self through the bowels with a rille in a • patch of woods nqar his residence. De I ceased was 60 years of age, and leaves a ' large family. Temporary insanity is asi (. ribed as the cause. A citizen of South Bend found a strange freak of nature, the other day, in removing the peel from an orange. At the top of the orange was a cup-like depression, and in this rested another perfect but small orange. On top of this one was also a depression, and in this I w as a still smaller orange, making three j under one cover, John Campbell and William Ritteni house broke into a hardware store at North Manchester, Wabash county, and, • while packing valuable goods prepara--1 tory to taking them away, were surprised I by about tw’enty business men, who, ! having heard that the raid was to be ' made, had stationed themselves near • the store. They wore lodged in jail. I Rittenhouse, who is in very bad odor at 1 North Manchester, narrowly escaped beI ing lynched. The annual collegiate oratorical contest of the State, in English’s Opera i House, Indianapolis, was witnessed by | a large audience. The contestants were • G. L. McNutt, of Wabash ; Miss Lillian ' Thompson,.of Franklin ;J. W. Emison, of Asbury ; Martin A. Morrison, of Butler ; C. L. Goodwin, of the State University ; and Walter L. Fisher, of Hanover. The representative of the State University, W. Goodwin, was awarded the honors, the referee deciding for him as against McNutt, the two being tied 'by the judges. Goodwin is from Bow- ! ing Green, Ky.

The Executive Committee of the State Board of Agriculture was recently in session at Indianapolis, and the members were interviewed concerning crop prospects and the effects of the late frost H. 0. Meredith, of Wayne county, reported the effect not so disastrous there as elsewhere. The cherry aud apple trees had been touched, but the wheat was not forward enough to be hurt. Robert Mitchell, of Gibson county, said one half of the peach buds have been killed. The apple and wheat crops had not been injured at all. The early strawberries, which were as large as peas, were entirely destroyed. Cherries were safe. The potato vines had been nipped, but the crop was not hurt. Pie-plant, and clover had been blackened, but no harm has been done either. Mr. Barnes, of Madison county, said the fruit - crop in general was well nigh destroyed. He did not think jointed wheat was seriously injured. The apple trees suffered. Capt. O’Neal, of Tippecanoe county, said the thermometer there fell to 28 deg. He was of the opinion that only a small per cent, of the peaches had been killed. Grapes and pears were badly injured. Capt. O’Neal said there was before the frost, in his part of the State, the most promising wheat crop ever planted in Indiana since the county was settled, and did not think it had been seriously injured. In a general conversation with the members of the committee the reporter found the opinion to prevail that, while the fruit crop was very badly hurt, harvest wonld show that wheat had not been as seriously affected as is popularly supposed. At Fort Wayne, a negro tramp named Squire C. Maybury shot a white vagabond supposed to be named Patrick O’Meara through the heart. The two met on the railroad track. O’Meara had

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been drinking and was quarrelsome. He insisted on the negro drinking. The latter took a pull at a whisky bottle to avoid trouble, when the white man grew more abusive and kicked the negro. Maybury then drew a revolver and fired with fatal effect. Maybury was arrested.

A Question of Gerrymandering.

Republican journals published along the line of the Mississippi and in dose relation with Missouri are frantic in their denunciation of the Governor of that State because he called the Legislature together to reapportion the State. Granting that it was an unnecessary proceeding, since the added Congressman might ns well have been elected at large, what more sense is there in abusing Gov. Crittenden than in defaming Gov. Cullom ? The latter has called the Illinois Legislature together for the self-same purpose. It is true that the apportionment in Illinois is to be for more than Congressional purposes, but the Assembly districts should have been made last winter. It is charged that the Democrats of Missouri desire to gerrymander the State. No doubt this is tnie. But, with the incentive of a Senator to gain next winter, as well as the strengthening of the party Congressional lines, pan it be said by the journals critcising the Missouri Democrats that the Illinois Republicans are devoid of a purpose to gerrymander Illinois ? Some suggestive figures may be grouped in this connection: Missouri voted : Hancock 208,600 Garfield 153,567 Weaver 85,185 Delegation elected : Democrat* H Repub leans j Illinois voted: Hancock 277,821 Garfield 31H,0..7 Weaver 26,858 Delegation elected : Deiuoerata ♦' Republican* W Total : Voten. J>elrv«ten. Democrats 455,028 14 Republicans 471,594 14 Gri'enbaekers 61,593 4 Taking the States together, the Republicans have nothing to complain of. Numerically smaller, they have unequal delegation in Congress, and the Greenback representation, which practically is Republican; and the status of the two States is such as to discover the motive of the Illinois Republican journals in furthering a gerrymander by their party in Illinois and in denouncing any change in Missouri.— Chicago Times.

The Spring Elections.

The recent elections ui the Western States show something of a reaction against the Republican party. In Ohio and in Indiana the license question lost the Republicans the German vote. Indeed, this secession bids fair to be permanent, unless the Democrats blunder even worse then usual. Constant meddling with personal rights and privileges has alienated from the Republicans in several Western States a large following that hitherto had been faithful to the party, even to the sacrifice of material interests. Many of the prominent German leaders in the West have openly declared that their last vote has been given to the Republicans. This determination is the result, not of momentary passion, but of a belief forced by long experience that intolerance, arbitrary methods, and offensive theories, contrary to the spirit and the intention of free government, underlie the political action of that party. Any concerted movement among the Germans would determine the votes of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin at the next Presidential election, to say nothing of its influence in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Events may come'to pass in the next two years to prevent this concert, but, at present, the indications point to a bitter and irreconcilable feud between the German voters and the Republican organization.— New York Sun.

Horrible Explosion. He Had Recovered His Sight.

Madame Blank was a woman remarkable for her social and tout-a fait industrial assiduity. She utilized every moment of her time in such a way as was best suited to herself. Among her many admirers and visitors she numbered one old friend who was totally blind, and whom she always entertained in her own boudoir. Oftener than not, when her pressing duties demanded a rapid change of attire, she would call in the services of her maid and proceed with her toilet, the while conversing with her blind friend, who, it is needless to say, was all unconscious of the mysterious wonders being transacted in his presence. Upon one occasion when he called he inquired whether he would be received upstairs, and sent a message to the mistress, stating that he had a piece of good news for her. “ Lead Monsieur, as usual, to my boudoir,” was the lady’s order, which order was immediately complied with. She was not cn toilette iot visitors, to be sure, but he could not see, and the maid was busy enough repairing the ravages of time for the benefit of those who could see. “Ah, my dear madam,” exclaimed the gentleman, as he entered, “ I have had a stroke of good fortune and he was hastening to tell her in what way when she interrupted him with some social jottings of her own, and kept up such a stream of conversation, and was so occupied with the gleam of her white arms in the mirror, that she neither observed her friend’s evident confusion nor gave him an opportunity to speak. Finally an interval came ; she turned to him, expectantly, and said : “ Now, my friend, for your good news.” He lowered his head and assured her it was nothing. “ Nothing 1” she exclaimed, at the same time noting his perturbed manner. “Nothing," he answered, “ except that, my dear madam, I have recovered my sight.”

Points of Manifest Destiny.

Why 1 an ox hide in Honduras can be obtained for a pair *>f shoes ; you can get nux vomica enough to fill a drug store for an ax ; you can obtain sufficient quicksilver to load a mule with stone jars of it for a few cheap mirrors; what, then, will bo the result when the engines of the American Railway reach into th© country where Cortez and Vasco carried away two thousand millions of treasure ? —Boston Transcript. Thb importation of eggs into Great Britain last year was 750,000,000, or about two dozen for each man, woman and chilfl in the country. Their money value was over $10,000,000.