Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Eaet. The figures of the nationality of New York’s population, just completed, show 200,C00 of Irish birth and 165,000 Germans—-one-third of the total population. William H. Vanderbilt purposes building a mausoleum on Staten island, which will cover an acre and a half, the building, which will be seventy feet high, to be seen twenty miles at sea on a clear day. The Rev. Samuel 0. Fessenden, Representative from Maine in the Thirty-seventh Congress, died at Forth.'id. The trial of the Malley boys and Blanche Douglas for the murder of Jennie Cramer was commenced at New Haven on the 18th of April Charles Francis Adams, Since his adventure with the bunko men, has given entire control of his business affairs to his son, John Quincy Adams. A cyclone which ravaged the northern portion of Fayette county, Pa., killed three persons, fatally injured six others, and destroyed property valued at nearly SIOO,OOO. The Governor of Maine has appointed Nathan Cleaves for Justice of the Supreme Court, in place of Artemus Libby. The Rhode Island General Assembly has elected George M. Carpenter Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to take the place of the late Judge Potter. ♦ West. The distillery of Oscar Furst, located two miles south of Peoria, 111., and the bonded warehouse adjoining were destroyed by fire. The loss is $350,000, and the insurance $200,000. The institution will be speedily rebuilt A storm of unparalleled severity raged in the region of Deadwood for a week, almost destroying the telegraph lines. ’ A Chicago firm was fined SIOO and costs for manufacturing spurious Worcestershire sauce. Crop reports from Minnesota and Dakota show seeding well begun in most sections. Col. Ozro J. Dodds, of Cincinnati, exmember of Congress from Ohio, is dead. Six inches of snow fell in the region of Marquette, Mich., on the 19th of*April. Denver, Col., has a big sensation in a suit for separate maintenance, which has been instituted by Mrs. H. A. W. Tabor against her husband, Lieut. Gov. Tabor, of Colorado. The Legislature of Missouri has been convened in extra session for the purpose of redistricting the State. Arizona advices report an Indian outbreak at San Carlos agency. Chief Shreve, four bucks and thirty squaws and children left the'reservation. John Sterling, chief of the Indian po ice, was killed. Chief Laco, with thirty bucks (Warm Spring Indians), also left the reservation. There is a fine prospect for winter wheat in Wisconsin. Twenty-one counties in Kansas report crop prospects unsurpassed. Grass was never so promising, and cattle and sheep passed through the winter well. Capt. R ibert Baldwin, the oldest steamboat man on the Ohio river, died at New Albany, Ind. The annual report of the Santa Fe road shows gross earnings of $12,584,508 and a net income of $4,546,682. There were three cash dividends of 5X per cent, and a surplus remains of $1,132,071. South. A telegraph operator at Clyde, Texas, sent a message to the train-dispatcher to forward a doctor by a switch- engine, and then fell back dead at his table. The first of the election trials at Charleston, 8. C., resulted in a verdict of guilty. The jury was composed of six white men and six negroes. Three of the white men were Republicans. Two of the white jurors subsequently stated that they signed the verdict under threats. The trials are causing a good deal of excitement throughout the Palmetto State. A band of Arkansas convicts, encamped near Little Rock, made a dash for freedom. Eight passed the guards, but one' of them was shot dead, two were badly wounded, and five escaped to the woods. Capt. John W. Cannon, a veteran Mississippi steamboat man, and owner of the famous steamer Robert E. Lee, died at Lexington, Ky., aged 62. The prospects for fine crops in Arkansas and Texas were never so - favorable as this season. Gen. D. H. Hlil, a noted Confed-’ eratc leader, has resigned the Presidency of the Arkansas Industrial University. A Bohemian named Mosig has been arrested in Texas for having forged SIOO,OOO worth of bank paper in Austria two years ago. He will be extradited. At Tanner, Miss., a waterspout, which lasted twenty minutes, washed away cattle and did other damage. No lives were lost

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Committee on Education and Labor of the House gs Representatives has agreed to report favorably the bill of the Hon. John C. Sherwin proposing Government aid for the education of the people. A lot of old furniture, some of it dating back to President Jackson’s time, was sold from the White House the other day. The appointment of C. 0. Rockwell as Deputy Collector of the port of New York has been approved by Secretary Folger. Secretary Chandler took the oath of office as Secretary on the 17th inst, and at once entered upon the discharge of his new duties. John W. Guiteau reappeared in Washington last week for the purpose of obtaining from his brother a power of attorney. At an interview in the jail the assassin became furious in bis denunciations of his relatives. Scoville persists in remaining in the case, although Reed has been given sole charge. Secretary Teller took possession of the Interior Department, and attended his first Cabinet Council. 8. W. Dorsey made his appearance in the Criminal Court at Washington the other day in the star-route oases, and the forfeiture of his recognizance was erased from the record. He entered a plea of not guilty. President Arthur will probably sign the bill which parsed the House of Representatives restricting Chinese immigration, as it does not contain the provisions objected to by him in the other bill.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Ben Butler is out in a letter favoring the suppression of Chinese immigration both by 11 nd and water. A New York telegram of the 19th hist, says: “Sevenocean steamships landed 9,838 immigrants lit Qardea

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JAS. W. MoEWEN Editor

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Thia makes a total of over 41,000 landed this month. Officers at Castle Garden believe that the entire number of immigrants during April will reach 70,000, and that next month it will be fully 100,000. Those who arrived yesterday ard principally Garmans, Hollanders, Russians, Swedes and Irish. Superintendent Jackson siys that most of those who come this year as a rule are of a much better class than formerly; that is, they find fewer paupers and undesirable persons among them. Most of them are well supplied with funds. The Germans and Dutch seem to have the most most money.” A Quebec dispatch says the people on the Labrador coast are in a state of starvation. Two men named Lawrent and Pierre Crepeau, with some of their children, died from want of food. The Indians, having no means of subsistence in the woods, are swarming down upon the settlers. Oscar Wilde expects to spend a portion of the summer with Henry Ward Beecher on the Hudson, and the remainder with Julian Hawthorne. It has been discovered that the Osage orange is the best food that can be fed to silkworms. The heaviest srfbw-storm of the season prevailed on the 19th of April in the peninsula of Michigan. A party of 100 Danes and Norwegians, converts to Mormonism, have arrived at San Francisco from Australia. The United States steamer Iroquois, lying at the Mare island navy yard, in California, will be dispatched to the relief of the officers and crew of the Arctic steamship Rodgers, which was wrecked off the Siberian coast.

POLITICALPOINTS.' 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 and Nebraska previous to settling in Colorado. The State Republican Executive Committee of North Carolina favors an alliance with the Liberal movement, and has called a State Convention for June 14. The Prohibitionists met in State Convention at Hartford, Conn., and nominated George P. Rogers for Governor. A delegation from New Albany called upon James G. Blaine and asked him to deliver an oration on Decoration day. He replied that bo expected to be in Europe before that time. FOREIGN NEWS. Garibaldi has returned to his island home, Caprera. Spain is suffering from an unusually long drought. The Government is helping the Andalusian peasants with work. Gen. Melikoff has been summoned to St. Petersburg to advise measures for securing the personal safety of the Czar during his coronation. In response to the request of President Arthur, Queen Victoria has respited Dr. Lamson to April 28, to await the arrival of documents from the United States. The Prefect of Police at St. Petersburg received a casket of eggs emptied of their natural contents and filled with dynamite. The expense of administering the Land act thus far is £90,000. Reductions of rent made by the Land Commissioners estimated at £30,000. Advices from Siberia are to the effect that the steamer Rodgers, which went in search of the survivors of the Jeannette, has been burned and sunk, and that Lieut. Berry and his officers and crew, numbering thirty-six, are near Cape Serdge. At Sunderland, England, an explosion in a coal mine caused the death of thirty-five persons.

Russia says we needn’t protest against her exclusion of the Jews, as we are playing the same game ourselves with the Chinese. A bailiff in the service of the Emergency Committee was killed while going from Limerick to Kiltealy. Forty tenants on the estate of Lord Clancarry, in County Limerick, have been evicted. There was a riot at the Camborne mines, Cornwall, England, caused by ill-feeling between the Cornishmen and the Irish miners. The former wrecked the Catholic Church and the houses of the Irishmen. The trial of McLain, the man who fired at Queen Victoria, was held at Reading, Berks (near Windsor Castle). Lord Chief Justice Coleridge presided, and Mr. Montague Williams defended the prisoner and pleaded insanity for him. The jury returned a verdict of “ not guilty, on the ground of insanity.” Bismarck caused the suspension for two years of a comic paper of Berlin, and the imprisonment of another journalist for inserting a blasphemous letter in regard to Gambetta. The French Cabinet Council has approved the scheme of De Lesseps to fill up the Desert of Sahara with salt water, and separate Tunis and Algeria from Tripoli. An American colt, Passaic, won the City and Suburban Handicap, an important English turf event. The King of Burmah has had another attack of delirium tremens, and the wholesale slaughter of relatives who have incurred his ill will is reported. One of his wives, two halfsisters, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and fifty relatives of these people have already been massacred by order of Thebaw. An angry debate occurred in the British House of Commons concerning the Government’s circular in the case of Clifford Lloyd, whose opposition to the no-rent movement has earned him the deadly animosity of the Land Leaguers. In the heated discussion that ensued Redmond denounced Forster as dishonest, and was punished by suspension by a vote of 207 yeas to 12 nays.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Brown Pierce, a farmer living near Richardson, Texas,going from a field to dinner, found his wife hanging from a door-knob and his three children lying dead on the floor, side by side. The supposition is that Mrs. Pierce strangled the children and then took a strong dose of laudanum and bluestone, after which she hanged herself. In the case of Hallet Kilbourne against John G. Thompson, to recover damages for imprisonment ordered by the House of Representatives while Thompson was Sergeant-at-Arms of that body, the jury returned a verdict for SIOO,OOO in favor of the plaintiff. The case rested upon the decision of the Supreme Court that Congress has no right to imprison a witness for refusal to answer a question. Thompson under this ruling had no defense. Upon him devolved the duty of executing the decree of the House, and in suing him Kilbourne virtually made the House a defendant to the action. The jury were instructed to bring in a verdict for the plaintiff and to regulate the amoupt gs damages iu due proportion to the

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 188-2.

suffering sustained by his feelings, person and property on account of the imprisonment. Gen. W. L. Burt died at Saratoga of paralysis. He was President of ’the Hoosac Tunnel road and one of the most active rail" road builders in the country. He graduated a Harvard, was Judge Advocate General of Massachusetts under Gov. Andrew, and Postmaster of Boston under President Grant. The Republicans of Oregon nominated F. R. Moody for Governor and M. C. George for Congressman. The platform demands the abrogation of the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, and condemns the attitude of the President in regard to the Chinese bill. Gov. Tabor and others have sold the Henriette mine at Leadville to a party of French and English capitalists for $1,500,000. Rev. Dr. Leroy M. Lee, a noted Methodist writer of Virginia, died at Richmond. Reynolds, one of the party who robbed the Hatton Garden postoffice in London, is a native of Chicago. Fitz-John Porter, claiming that his acts saved the Union army from disaster on the 29th of August, 1862, has made a fresh appeal to the president to remit the unexecuted portion of the sentence of the court-martial and carry ihto effect the recommendation of the Advisory Board. Four executions under authority of law took place on Friday, April 21, in different parts of the country. The persons upon whom the extreme penalty was visited were William Sindram, in New York city ; Bent Taylor, at Corning, Ark.; W. W. Ray, at Pulaski, Teno.; George B shannon, at Rolla, Mo. The bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired list has stirred the friends of Gens. Averill and Pleasoiiton to insist upon the same honor. Gen. Averill, the famous cavalry leader, is said to be in almost destitute circumstances.

THE PERUVIAN INVESTIGATIGN.

Before resuming the testimony of Shipherd on the 15th inst., a letter was read from Mr. Blaine, signifying his wish to be heard by the committee in reference to Peru-Chili matters now under investigation. Mr. Belmont abandoned the witness (Sbipherd), saying that as he had refused to answer several Questions which had a special bearing on the case he did not see any use in wasting any further time on him. In reply te a question by Mr. Lord, Shipherd said the dealings he had with Mr. Hurlbut were by the advice of counsel Being pressed on this point, he testified in effect that in his dealings with Mr. Hurlbut he had acted wholly on the defensive. He said that at the time he had the long interview with Mr. Blaine his chief and controlling interest was to secure,if possible, the Secretary attention to the matter. He said that when Mr. Blaine used the remark, “That won’t fetch hi m, ” he referred to Bh> pherd and those he represented, and the expression was regarded by him as a jocose remark, and not specially significant. He would not state whether any Senator had received any stock in the company or not. Some amusement ensued when Mr. Wilson endeavored to discover what consideration was given Cochet for his.claim. Shipherd said he understood the consideration paid for tne claim was eminently satisfactory to all parties. Before the Peruvian investigation, on the 18th, J. R. Shipherd testified that he approached Walker Blaine as an attorney norder to learn the workings of his father’s mind in regard to the company’s schemes. The witness again declined to state the names of the Directors of the Peruvian Company or its stockholders. Representative Deuster, after stating that Sbipherd bad evaded every question of weight, moved that he be dismissed, but it was resolved to set him aside until next week. William Henry Hurlbert, editor of the New York World, and brother of the late Minister Hurlbut, appeared before the Foreign Affairs Committee on the Peruvian matter on April 20. The clerk read from Shipherd’s testimony his description of the interview between himself (Sbipherd) and Hurlbert, in which the latter is accredited with saying he had seen and held in his hands a dispatch from Blaine to Minister Hurlbut, ou which was written a marginal note, ‘ 1 Go in, Steve,” or “Go it, Steve.” The witness said : “The whole narrative of this conversation with me is an absolute and profound misrepresentation of facts. He sought au interview with me and stated his ca°e and gave me a long narrative of his relations with Blaine, and complained bitterly that he had not been well treated by the Secretary. There is no truth in the statement that I told him I had seen such a dispatch with a marginal note.” Witness said his relations with Blaine were of a friendly character. He had several conversations with him. The Secretary failed to convince witness that be (the Secretary) was carrying out the policy of President Garfield. He failed to convince him because of his ways and methods. Witness continued: “The Secretary always suggested to me something in the nature of a political flirt. As a Democrat I had never much faith in his methods, though personally I liked him, and my brother seemed to have great confidence in him.”

CONDITION OF THE CROPS.

Washington, April 17. A synopsis of the April report to the Department of Agriculture upon the area and condition of winter grain shows the increase to be nearly half a million acres, or 2 per cent. The estimated area of the previous crop was 24,346,000 acres. The States showing an increase are: Percent. Percent. Michigan 3 Georgia 12 Indiana 4 Florida 2 Ohio 1 Alabama 33 Kentucky 15 Mississippi 54 West Virginia 2 Louisiana 75 Virginia 3 Texas.. - 72 North Carolina 13| Arkansas 70 South Carolina 10 Tennessee 17 The average increase in the cotton States—26 per cent. —amounts to about 800,000 acres. In the Southern Atlantic States, from Connecticut to Virginia, the area is 4,053,000 acres, which is about 5,000 acres less than in 1881. In the Western States, from West Virginia'to Kansas, there is an average decrease of 2 per cent., the decrease being 10 per cent, in Illinois, 2 per cent in Missouri and 11 per cent, in Kansas. The estimated acreage in the eight winter-wheat States is 16,926,000. In California partial returns point to an increase of 10 per cent The Pacific coast is ndt included in the list of strictly winter-wheat States. The condition of winter wheat is high throughout the West (Ohio alone being below 100), in the cotton States, and in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Those below the average are: Connecticut 90 Pennsylvania 96 New York 87 Ohio 97 New Jersey 95 1 The following are the averages above 100: Delaware 10 Arkansas 12 Maryland 19 Tennessee 8 Virginia 4 West Virginia 6 North Carolina. 13 Kentucky 12 South Carolina 7 Michigan 8 Georgia 10 Indiana 5 Alabama 12 Illinois. 2 Mississippi 14 Missouri 10 Louisiana 15 Kansas 10 Texas...- 9 Winter rye shows an increase in area except in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri. The increase is relatively largest in the South.

Bloody Apaches.

A dispatch from Fort Apache, Arizona, says: The Indians who have broken from the reservation are mostly Warm Springs, the remnants of Victoria’s old band, and some few Cbiricahuas. They number probably ninety warriors. They killed Sterling, chief of the scouts, and one Indian at the agency, and then struck north, on the road to this post. Three prospectors were killed near the Gila river. They completely gutted three freight wagons, but the teamsters escaped, being absent hunting stock. The host lien, after tearing down and cut-* ting the telegraph line to Fort Thomas, struck east across Ash ergek valley, and are now intrenched in rocky strongholds in the vicinity of Eagle creek, about forty or fifty miles from the New Mexican kne, awaitihg recruits from the neigh oonng tribes, Ten men, sheep herders, are known to be killed in that vicinity, and many other settlers have not been beard from. Troops from Thomas and this post are pushing out rapidly on the trail.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE CASE OF FITZ-JOHN PORTER.

The President Decide* that Be Bae No Power to Review the Sentence of the Court-Martial. Washington, April 17. The President has notified Gen. Fitz-John Porter, in answer to his petition for relief from the sentence of the court-martial, that he can do nothing in his case, as it is entirely beyond his power. This action is based upon an opinion by Attorney General Brewster, and received the unanimous concurrence of the Cabinet. The opinion of the Attorney General, after reviewing the history of the court-martial, the approval of its sentence by the President and the later action of the Advisory Board, considers the question whether it is competent for the President to afford the applicant the relief he asks under existing law and the circumstances of his cane. The Attorney General, after citing numbers of legal opinions and decisions, says: « When the President performs the duty of approving sentence of a court-martial dismissing an officer, his act has all the solemnity and significance of a judgment of a court of law, as it has to be performed under the same consequences. Now, one of the consequences is that when judgment has been regularly entered in a case properly within judicial cognizance, from which no appeal has been provided or taken, and it has been followed by execution, it is final and conclusive upon the party against whom it is entered. And this effect attaches, in my opinion, to the action of the President in approving the action of the court-martial dismissing an officer after that approval has been consummated by actual dismissal. Here it is proper to add that the very inquiry now under examination has been resolved in the negative by the deliberate decision of a former administration, as appears by the message of the President of June 5, 1879, transmitting to Congress the report and proceedings of the board of army officers upon the case of Gen. Poiter. The conclusion then reached was that the President was without power, in the absence of legislation, to act upon the recommendation of the report further than submitting the same to Congress. , “This conclusion is a denial of the existence of any power in the President to review and to annul and set aside the findings and sentence of the court-martial in that case, as recommended by the board, and it is entitled to great weight as being the view pot only of the President himself, but, presumably, that of his Cabinet, among whose members were men eminent in the profession of law. These opinions of my predecessors and the Supreme Court all go to establish this proposition: tuat where sentence of a legally-constitu ed court-mar-tial, in a case within its jurisdiction here, has been approved by the reviewing authority and carried into execution, it cannot afterward, under the present state of the law, be reversed and set aside. The proceedings are, then, at an end, and action thus hiu? upon the sentence is, in the contemplation of - the law, final. I am unabje to arrive at a different conclusion, and I accordingly hold that, in case under consideration; ■' the President has no power to reverse the proceedings of the courtmartial and annul its " sentence. It follows from this view that the President can afford the applicant no relief through . revision of sentence in his case. That sentence involved immediate dismissal from lhe army and disability to hold office thereafter. The dismissal is an accomplished Tact, and so far the sentence is completely executed. The disability is a continuing punishment, and in regard to that the sentence is being executed. The latter may be remitted by exercise of the, pardoning power, but the former cannot in any way be affected thereby. “ Thus a pardon would not restore the applicant to office in the military service from which he was dismissed. This could only be done by appointment under special authority from Congress, since by the general law of the military service appointments to the rank of General officers are to be made by selection from the army, and all vacancies in established regiments in corps to the rank of Colonel are to be filled by promotion according to seniority, except in cases of disability or other incompetency. “ In’this connect*! A I remark that the act of 1868 referred to by Gen. Porter in his letter of request was, as its title imports, only meant to be declaratory of the law, namely: That an officer cashiered or dismissed by sentence of court-martial cannot be otherwise restored to military service than through new appointment, with the consent of the Senate. The law is the same as to officers of the army who cease to be such in any other way. Power to appoint is not conferred by that statute. This power remains subject to general law, and in the absence of special authority from Congress it.can only be exercised with respect to a person who has ceased to be an officer in the manner above stated where it might be equally well exercised if such person had never been an officer in the military service. “Upon the general question considered, the conclusion arrived at is that it is not within the competency of the President to afford the applicant the relief he has asked for ; that is to say that it is not competent for tbe President to annul and set aside the finding and sentence of , the court-martial and nominate him to the Senate for restoration to his former rank in the army. I am, sir, very respect fully, “Benj. Harris Brewster, “ Attorney General ”

CHARLES R. DARWIN.

Death of thv Author of the Theory of Evolution. Charles R. Darwin, the well-known scientist died at London on the 20th of April, aged 73 years. He was born at Shrewsbury, Feb. 12, ’.809, son of Dr. B. W. Darwin, F. R. 8., of the t amo place, and grandson of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, F. R. 8., author As the “ Botanic Gardens,” “ Zoonomia,” etc., and was educated at the grammar school at Shrewsbury. In 1825 he went to Edinburgh, attended the lectures at the university for two years, entered Christ's College. Cambridge, 1827, and took his degr/c in 1831. Capt Fitzroy, R. N., having offered to give up part of his own cabin to any one who would volunteer to accompany H. M. 8. Beagle as naturalist, Mr. Darwin tendered his services, and sailed Dec. 27, 1833, in that vessel, for the survey of South America and the circumnavi«gation of the globe, returning to England Oct. 2, 1836. Mr. Darwin published “Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries, etc.,” which appeared with 1 general account of the voyage by Capt. Fitzroy, but has since been published separately. In 1839 Mr. Darwin married the granddaughter ot Jo.uah Wedgwood, F. R. 8., the well-known improver and manufacturer of earthenware. In addition to numerous papers on various scientific subjects, Mr. Darwin edited the “ Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle,” and wrote three separate volumes on geology—viz: “The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs,” published in 1842 ; “Geological Observations on Volcanic Islands,” in 1844; and “Geological Observations on South America,” in 1846. T.e most important of Mr. Darwin’s subsequent works are a “Monograph of the Family Cirrhipedia,” published by the Ray Society in 1851-’53, and on the “ Fossil Species,” by the Paleeontographical Society. His “ Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” published in 1859, which has gone through several editions at home and abroad, has given rise to much controversy. It was followed by “Fertilization of Orchids,” in 1862, and “Domesticated Animals and Cultivated Plants; or, the the Principles of Variation, Inheritance, Reversion, Crossing, Interbreeding and Selection, under Domestication,” in 1867. In 1871 he published the “ Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex,” two volumes. In this work the author inferred that “man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits.” Mr. Darwin was elected a member ot various foreign and English scientidc bodies, received from the Royal Society the Royal and Copley medals tor his various scientific works, and from the Geological Society the Wollaston Pailadian - medal. He was created a Knight of the Order Pour la Mer.te by tue Prussian Government; and in June, 1871, he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Vienna.

An Important Factor.

Retailer—“ Yes, sir, incivility costs nothing, but it is a very important factor in business success. Treat a man gruffly, and he is almost certain to return to your store. Keep a lady waiting as long as you can, and then ask her rudely what she wants. In nine cases out of ten she will go home and tell her husband, and then he will come and clean out your

entire stock. Only be rude enough, and you are sure to rise—at the business end of a boot”— York Commercial.

DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO.

A Cyclone Sweep* Over tbe Town of Brownsville, Mo., Leveling Buildings and Killing and Wounding Many Person*. Ixdkpendbnck, Mo., April 19. A terrible cyclone swept over the town of Brownsville, Saline county, Ma, at 4:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The entire business portion of the town was demolished and seven persons killed and between twenty and thirty others badly injured. The storm came from the southwest and was very similar to the one which destroyed the town of Richmond four years ago. The s.orm came up so suddenly that the first intimation the people had was a sudden roaring sound, which was immediately followed by the appearance of a large black funnel-shaped cloud coining from the southwest at the rate of at least 100 miles per hour. When the cloud was first noticed it was apparently about two miles distant, and hung perhaps fifty yards above the earth. When it reached the western part of town it dropped down almost to the ground, and seemed to draw everything within a radius of several hun-lred yards up into the mouth of the funnel. It swept through the town, laying everything waste in its path. Two-story brick business houses were picked up like straws and whirled and twisted into shapeless ruins. Frame dwellings were carried some distance and dropped, smashing houses into fine kindling wood. Heavy timbers were earned several hundred yards through the air, and, falling end downward, stuck several feet into the ground. Occasionally the funnel seemed to strike the earth, and would rebound some distance into the air, duly to fall again and continue its work of destruction. The storm lasted less than two minutes, but during that short space of time about twenty business houses and dwellings were leveled to the ground. The storm came up so suddenly that the people had no time for preparation, and m fact scarcely any one knew wbat was coming until the storm was upon them. The people in the streets wire picked up and carried various distances and hurled to the ground dead or bruised almost beyond recognition, while those in the buildings were buried by the falling walls and debris. For some time after the storm passed the people who were uninjured were so terribly excited that nothing could be done. When they at last recovered tiom their consternation search for the dead and wounded was commenced. It was at first supposed that at least fifty persons had been killed, but a thorough search revealed that only seven were killed outright, lourteen mortally wounded, and sixteen Seriously injured. Those killed were : J. 8. Scruggs, a farmer. Claude Meyers, dry-goods merchant. T. K. Arthur, clerk W. M. Williams, clerk Con White, City MarshaL J. 8. Payne, minister. James Mi.ler, clerk. The storm’s path was about 150 yards wide, and every house, tree or shrub m that path was leveled to the ground. After leaving Brownsville the funnel pursued a northeastern dnection, and was next heard of near Marshall, where several 1 armhouses were destroyed. All the telegraph lines* leading out of Brownsville were broken.

TERRIFIC EFFECTS OF THE CYCLONE BEFORE IT REACHED BROWNSVILLE.

The tornado struck Montrose at 3:30 p. m. yesterday, destroying eighteen dwellings and four churches. No lives lost. A school four miles east of Montrose was blown down, and all the inmates were more or less injured, two little sous ol John Farr, it is supposed, latally. One little child was blown across a twenty-acie field and lodged in an app.e-tree uninjured. Two men in au adjacent Oeld were blown over a hedgofence ten feet high, and both seriously injured. The storm is said to have reached as far as Appleton City, and blown down houses. At Clinton a heavy hail-storm prevailed. All the windows facing the west were damaged. Hail fell s.B large as goose-eggs. At Holden a number of houses were blown down, and others badly damaged.

STEPHEN A. HURLBUT.

Particulars of His Death—Rumors that He Had Been Poisoned Lead to a Post-Mortem and Analysis. The Lima correspondent of the Panama Herald describes the distressing incidents in connection with the death of Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, United States Minister to Peru : Up to the morning of his death the deceased gentleman had been enjoying the best, of health ; had been visiting his friends and taking leave of them prior to his departure for the United States, fixed for the 6th proximo, and nothing indicated his sudden demit e. He awoke and dressed as usual early on the 27th, played for some little time with his two grandchildren, of whom he was exceedingly fond, and then, while washing his face, was suddenly seized with such intense pain in the region of the heart as compelled him to give vent to agonizing cries, which aroused every one in the house. He was soon surrounded by Mrs. Hurlbut and his son, Mr. George Hurlbut, and iiis wife and servants, but for some minutes remained m strong agony and totally deprived of all power of articulation. A doctor was almost instantaneously in attendance, but no appliances were at hand to render assistance, even if such could have been of service against the acute attack from which the General was suffering. He was placed upon the bed, where he momentarily recovered consciousness, his first exclamation being : “ God bless you all. I am dy.ng. Oh, my heart!” A few more disjointed phrases were all he uttered, and in less than twenty minutes from the first attack he ceased to exist. Ti.e suddenness of the death of Gen. Hurlbut gave rise to numberless rumors. At first it was assertea he died from the effects of poison. Extravagance followed extravagance in such form that the authorities considered it their duty to recommend that a post-mortem beheld. The family strongly opposed any examination, since all were thoroughly satisfied as to the cause of death. But public grounds were urged upon them by friends, and finally Mrs. Hurlbut reluctantly gave consent. The examination took place in the presence of ten surgeons, of different nationalities. Drs. Schofield and Baldwin, of the Pensacola, performed the operation, being assisted by others. It was most carefully executed, and almost all present agreed in declaring death had arisen from aneurism of the heart. Minister Hurlbut was greatly beloved and respected by the Peruvians, and at the funeral there was a great outpouring to do honor to his remains.

The Hero Boy.

Is this boy a hero ? Let us see. He lies stretched across the master’s knee and whimpers not. Every second the cruel rattan rises and falls; every second there is a dull sound, as if somebody were threshing mud. The dust flies, but the victim utters no sound. The perspiration stands out on the master’s brow, and he begins to wonder if that boy’s basement is constructed of sheet iron. Nothing of the sort; it is a wild, foolish conjecture. The lad’s life has been passed in the full blaze of the nineteenthcentury civilization. He is no fool. He knows that nobody knows what a day may bring forth. He doesn’t venture across the dark gulf between the now and the may be unprovided against contingencies. The lantern that guides his footsteps is the ligh t of experience. There is a great future reserved for this boy. The rattan goes up and the rattan comes down ; who cares for rattans ? When he left home in the morning he took his father’s last remaining liver pad with him. It’s the right liver pad in the wrong place. Yes, this boy is a hero.

Origin of a Phrase.

To the philological mind a whole history is oftentimes suggested by the simplest, most commonplace expression. Here, for instance, is an example, treated synthetically; When the chief priests and Pharisees were at a loss how to proceed some one of them, with a keen knowledge of Immiin nature, suggested, “Buy

Judas ! ” This simple phrase from that time forth became a prominent landmark in the domain of language, and even to this day no exclamation is more common than this same “By Judas!” — Boston Transcript.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Another flour mill is to be opened in New Albany—making the fifth. A fibe at Lawrenceburg swept away $25,000 worth of property in the business section. The number of successful pension cla.ima.nte in the Second district is 1,367, and they have secured $281,899. A telephone cable connecting Evansville with the Kentucky shore has been laid and is now in working order. A citizen of Wabash sustained severe injuries from a fall, caused by a defective sidewalk, and has sued the city for $3,000. The project of building a railroad from Indianapolis to Lagansport along the old Wabash and Erie canal towpath is revived. Ay Muncie, Charles Carter, a farmer, was shot by burglars who attempted to enter his house, and will die. The burglars fled. No clew. • William Daily, a farmer of Lagro township, Wabash county, about a month ago left home, since which time no tidings have been received from him. Evansville needs sloo’ooo to run the government till September, and the banks refuse to loan her $15,000 because she has already reached the legal limitation. A Wabsaw man has been sent to jail to work out. a fine of S7OO and costs for Keeping a disorderly saloon. It will take him 733 days to liquidate, unless he sooner pays down the money. The Madiscn Brewing Company turned out twenty tons of beautiful block ice the other day, as a result of their first run in the process of icemaking, and were quite successful. The Marion county Commissioners have passed an order to place at the disposal of the City Street Commissioners of Indianapolis all prisoners confined in the jail, that they may do service on the streets. A committee of citizens of New Albany have given notice that they will contest in the courts the payment by the city to the Gamewell Fish Alarm telegraph of the $2,100 for three bell strikers. Db. Solomon Stough, of Waterloo, pension examiner surgeon, has been bound over to the United States court in the sum of $4,500, on the charge of demanding and accepting bribes from pensioners.

Gabriel Godfroy, a chief of the Miami Indians, has been elected Superintendent of Roads in Butler township, Miami county. Godfroy is worth $150,000, and is one of the leading residents of the township. Father Weichman, formerly pastor of one of the Catholic churches in Fort Wayne, has gone into the ice business on an extensive scale at Warsaw. In company with one or two others, he owns four large ice-houses. A stranger bought a suit of clothes at Fort Wayne, and paid for them with a $62.25 money order, receiving $49.25 in change. The order proved to have been raised from $2.25, but the fellow escaped with his clothes and money. George H. Austin has been sent to ihe Jeffersonville prison from Madison for five years, for forgery. He was a licentiate in the ministry, and but for his unfortunate fall might have been admitted into the regular ministry this year. An egg, about the size of a goose egg, with with a thin, but not soft shell, with a perfectly-formed egg of ordinary size and ordinary shell within the large egg, was layed by a Crawfordsville hen. The larger egg was full of white, but no yelk outside of the inner egg. Levi Driller, a prominent farmer living near Huntington, while driving home in his wagon and crossing the track of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, was run into by a freight train, thrown out and very seriously injured about the head and shoulders. Mrs. Ida Bailey, of Columbus, who has for the past few weeks been ill, and pronounced by two of the best physicians as hopelessly sick, has, since their visits have been discontinued, been steadily improving, and her friends have reasonable hopes of her recovery. It was decided, at a meeting of representative Methodists at Indianapolis, to celebrate the semi-centennial of the first Methodist Conference in Indiana, which met in New Albany in 1832, by holding a State Methodist Convention in Indianapolis for three days, June 27, 28 and 29. X?Dr. Vinnedge has been expelled from the Indiana Medical Society. He has for many years been the foremost physician in Tippecanoe county, and still remains so ; but he committed the crime against professional ethics of advertising a prescription, and refused to say he was sorry.

Holland S. Miller, a brakeman on the construction train on the Fort Wayne road, was killed at Fort Wayne by being run over by a passenger engine. The remains were horribly mangled, and he lived but a short time. He was 35 years of age, unmarried, and had been on the road twenty years. Sam Sanders, who for some years has been a terror to the people of Windfall, Tipton county, in a drunken row, the other night, had his head pounded with stones, and was supposed to be dead for a while, but rallied and walked three miles to the country. The next day physicians were called, who pronounced him fatally injured. Cracksmen blew open the safe in Britton & Brewer’s drug store, at Waynetown, Montgomery county, and secured a small sun of money. A thousand dollars, held by Mr. Britton, Treasurer of the town, had just been removed. This makes the fourth time in the past three months that safes have been robbed in that county. It is the work of home talent. A monster locomotive has just been finished at the Fort Wayne shops of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railway. Its dead weight separate from the tender, and without fuel or water, is 73,700 pounds. The empty tank weighed 22,400 pounds. One day last week the giant was fired up and was run into the yaid, where it scaled the surprising weight ot 82,950, The tank, with its supply of coal mill water, 45,900 pounds.

$1.50 ver Annum.

NUMBER 13.

OUR IMPRISONED CITIZENS.

Their Cause Pleaded upon the Floor of the Senate—TheCourse ol the (Government and the Conduct off minister (.owe 11 Most Farnewlly Denounced. In the Senate of the United States, on the 14th of April, Mr. Voorhees made a speech upon the resolution recently introduced by him declaring that the conduct of the State Department, in relation to the arrest and imprisonment by the British authorities of Daniel McSweeney and other American citizens, is in violation of American law, inconsistent with the value of American citizenship, and derogatory of the honor of the United States. He said the Secretary of State failed to respond to the Senate resolution of M%fph 9, peremptorily instructing him to report upon McSweeney’s case at the earliest day possible, until March 20, although every item of information transmitted on the latter date was in the hands of that officer when the resolution reached him, and could have been sent in within twenty-four hours thereaf er. The American State Department, he asserted, of late years, had always proceeded very slowly when appealed to in behalf of an American citizen in a foreign prison. He continued: “Is the attitude of the American Government at this time on this momentous question one that inspires feelings of satisfaction and pride in the American heart? I appeal to the record. McSweeney, a naturalized American citizen, while temporarily residing in Ireland, was dragged from a bed of sickness by British constables, in the presence of his wife and children, and imprisoned, on the 2d of June, 1881—ten months ago. He has suffered in prison from that day to this. He was guilty of no crime, not even the shadow of a crime. If the Republican party has a friend on the floor of the Senate .who will risk his reputation in trying to point out the guilt of McSweeney, I want him to step forth and defend the policy of that party toward foreign-born citizens.” Detailing the history of the case, and calling particular attention to dates. Mr. Voorhees said that in her letter from Ireland of Aug. 3, 1881, to the Secretary of State (received at Washington on the 16th of that month), Julia McSweeney, the brave, high-spirited wife of this man, told how four years before she had come to reside temporarily in Ireland on account of her husband’s failing health ; that, although aware that England claimed the island, she thought that Americans might venture to travel or reside abroad under the protection of their flag, but that in this she had been mistaken. She then described the brutal arrest of her invalid husband, and added that it was not' pretended he was charged with crime ;that he immediately forwarded his naturalization papers, together with a solemn protest against the outrage, to Mr. Lowell, the American Minister at London. His answer was that the letter would be laid before one Granville, and that inquiries would be made as to the grounds of the arrest. She protested that she knew nothing of Granville; that she did know that she was entitled to the protection of the great American republic, and exclaimed, with all the lofty grace of the ancient appeal of a citizen of Rome when Rome was greatest. *‘lam an American. My husband is an American citizen, and he lias committed no crime.” But this cry of distress found no Roman spirit in Washington. It fell still-born in that department where American rights have so long been held cheapest. It was never answered. She also stated in the same letter that one Olphert, a tax collector of Donegal county, had sent his horses and ca’ts and carried away a poor woman’s crop, grown on her land from seed obtained from charitable sources ; that the same Olphert refused permission to erect school-houses on his 20,000 acres to educate his 6,000 serfs, alleging as a reason that if those people were educated a landlord could not walk out of his house; that her husband had expressed the opinion that these things were wrong, and for that expression of opinion was cast into a British dungeon. She added that she entertained the same opinion, and that, as this fact was known to the enemy, she was liable at any moment to be cast into a dungeon; and that, having eight American orphans on her hands, she appealed for protection. There was no response to this appeal. The un manly and pusillanimous silence of the State Department throughout the whole case was such that every American head would be bowed, and every American heart filled with humiliation as the facts became known. He (Voorhees) felt de graded in his pride as a citizen when compelled to state, as he now did, with the communication of the State Department in his hand, that for six months after this Government had received the letter of Mrs. McSweeney not a single step was taken by the authorities here for an inquiry into the circumstances of the arrest, and they were only then influenced to take action by considerations other than a just appreciation of the claims of McSweeney to protection.

Mr. Jones, of Florida, asked whether McSweeney was in prison now. Mr. Voorhees said he understood that he was, as no notice had been given of his release. He added that a letter from McSweeney, published on June 23, in the San Francisco Examiner, accom panied by an editorial statement that the correspondent was for many years a well-known and esteemed resident of that city, doing business in the cattle trade, was the first intimation to hi« former friends and neighbors of his incarceration. The letter, written from Dundalk jail, asserted the writer’s innocence of any crime; that he had been in jail for seven mouths; that his health was precarious; that he still held the certificate of citizenship he received upon renouncing allegiance to any foreign power; that the American Minister was snubbed and insulted when he asked any question about the imprisonment, and that the American Government took no more notice of it than would the King of the Sandwich Islands. A copv of the letter and an urgent appeal for the intervention of the Government was at once sent to the President by Mr. John Cuddy, a citizen of California; but there was no evidence before the Senate that the slightest attention was paid to this, nor to a subsequent note from a California Representative to the Secretary of State, calling special attention to the inhuman treatment of McSweeney in the Dundalk jail. ‘Meanwhile the California friends of the prisoner moved in the matter, and the Congressional delegation joined in a note to the Secretary demanding action. The fact that McSweeney had violated no law, and was not apprised of any charge against him, iipp< uied in Mr,' Lowell’a poyrespon-

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dence. Upon this history of the case. Mr. Voorhees charged, there had been a gross and flagrant violation of the act of July 27, 1868, for which somebody ought to answer at the bar of the Senate under articles of impeachment. Mr. Voorhees then quoted the terms of the law, which retires the President to take action in such cases, and declared that a more monstrous i iolation of the law, a more deliberate betrayal of the value of citizenship, or a more complete degradation of the national honor than was here disclosed could hardly be found in the history of any first-class power, ancient or modern. Mr. Voorhees then sharply criticised the action that was finally taken by the State Department, and the pusillanimous conduct of Mr. Lowell. Mr. Voorhees spoke of the mother of the Irish agitator Parne’l as a daughter of Stewart of Old Ironsides, who saluted the British flag in 1812 with far greater propriety than the State Department recently saluted it at Yorktown. He said it was reported that this lady intended to visit her imprisoned son in Ireland, and he supposed she would be arrested as an American suspect, inasmuch as it was known she sympathized with the cause of liberty and good government. He predicted the early settlement of the question m accordance with American honor, as the sense of justice of the people of the United States, and their confidence in their glorious destiny, were too profound to permit them to submit longer to the policy of a party which permits the American name to be outraged with impunity by foreign nations. Mr. Voorhees’ speech was frequently applauded in the galleries.

OHIO.

The Republicans off Tliat State Figuring on ffGettiug I.eft at the Next Flection. [Cincinnati Telegram to Chicago Tribune, Rep. J The weight of opinion in this part of .the State is that the Republican Legislature, which adjourned yesterday with pressing business undone, has turned Ohio over to the Democrats by a majority that will range anywhere from 39,000 to 50,000. The Pond bill, which puts an indiscriminate tax of S3OO each upon all saloons, and the “ St. Smith bill, which closes them on Sundays, has done the work. Until satisfactory amends are made, the Germans and the several branches of the liquor interest will fight with the Democrats. The Germans as a rule have been Republicans, and in Cincinnati the saloon-keep-ers, being usually Germans, have been Republicans. To array this class with the Democrats will therefore mean a dead loss to tho'Republicans of a very large vote. A prominent Republican leader said to day that, though the State had- just been redistricted eo as to give the Republicans sixteen of the twenty-two Congressmen, he doubted if they would get more than three. He estimated that there are 10,000 saloonkeepers in Ohio who have heretofore been Republicans. He thought it more than probable that in the present state of feeling each of these Republican saloonkeepers would carry with him over to the Democratic ranks at least five Republican voters. If his estimate is a true one, the majority of nearly 25,000 which was given for Foster over ayear ago will be changed toa Democratic majority of three times that number. There are those who hope that the stoim will have spent itself before another electiou-day comes around, but the indications are that in this they will l:e disappointed. There are published in Cincinnati four daily German papers. Three of them have been Republican n politics, and one Democratic. Within th- last three or four days all three of t ee Republican dailies have advised t eir readers to vote the Democratic cket at the next election, and state that hey will give that ticket their best support. In the opinion of Mr. Richard Smith, editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, which was chiefly responsible for the obnoxious bills, the Republicans will gain in the country districts fully as many as they will lose in the cities and German localities. Some votes undoubtedly will be gained among temperance and religious people, and perhaps the entire support of the Prohibition element can be secured. But, as the Prohibitionists have never been able to get together more than 16,000 votep, it is hard to understand how they are to offset a change of three or four times that number. Beside, experience has taught that, where there is a contest at the polls between the strictly-moral class and those who have license, the moral people shrink from going to the polls, while the lessscrupulous voters are found there early and sometimes often. Public opinion may change before October rolls around, and the Republican party be saved, but if such is the case it will be through a return of the Germans to their first love rather than by a grand uprising of the better classes. But those who know the Germans know that they are obstinate and tenacious of their rights, and that, under the present circumstances, the Republicans have nothing to expect from them.

BOLD BANDITS.

A Train on the TeiM and PacMlc Hobbed—Train Robben Foiled on the Santa Fe Road. An enat-bonnd passenger train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road was ditched near Rineon, N. M., and five heavily-armed men attempted to rob the express, but got into the baggage instead of the express car. and before they could rectify their mistake and get into the right car the train men and passengers appeared in such numbers that the robbers fled. The engine and baggage and express cars were thrown from the track. The fireman was killed, and the engineer and Wells, Fargo & Co.’s messenger badly wounded. The express is supposed to nave had $200,000 in silver from the Arizona mines, bound for New York, and it is thought the would-be robbers were informed of the fact by telegraph, and that they belofig to the band of desperadoes which has been committing all kinds of depredations in New Mexico and Arizona for mon! bs past. At Ranger Station, on the Texas and Pacific road, five unmasked robbers, armed to the teeth, sprang upon a train which had slowed un. The officers were oorraled alongside the engine and held captive while the leader of the gang leaped into tho express car and forced the messenger to give up his treasure. Meantime a colored porter had warned three Texas rangers in a passenger coach, and when they appeared a hot fight took place, the express car being riddled with bullets. The robbers did not have time to rob the passengers or rifle the mails. They retired in single file, making the train-men follow them for half an hour, the rangers being in the rear. The express messenger states that less than SSOO was secured, but it is believed that the plunder was quite heavy. _____ It is an uncommon thing in Lapland for a person to have two Christi in names. One is all they can live under. Thirteen hundred year? ago there were but pine books in tail England.