Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. l£a»t. Rev. Ralph Fothergill, a Methodist pastor of Fall Hirer, Mass., died of small-pox, leaving four cbiidren Ql with the same disease. He would permit neither himself nor his family to be vaccinated. John L. Sullivan the prize-fighter, was arraigned in the Police Court at Boston for knocking down Charles A. Bobbins in the street and fracturing his Jawbone. The pugilist was sentenced to three months in the Honse of Correction and gave bonds for an ap peal. Wert The city of St. Louis was visited by a terrific rain-storm, 1.56 inches of water falling in two hours. The main sewer of the city, known as Mill Creek sewer, became choked with debris, the surface gave way in several places, and a territory of thirty blocks of the southern portion of the city was inundated with six feet of water, rendering nearly 400 houses uninhabitable, and causing a damage of perhaps $260,000. A tornado swept through the streets of Cairo, 111. The colored Methodist Church and four other buildings were blown down, the gasometer and five loaded freight cars were overturned, and ten or more houses were unroofed. A destructive fire visited Lake City, Minn. The flames destroyed five solid squares of business buildings, leaving only three rows of buildings standing in the business portion of the town. The loss is roughly put at $400,000 and the insurance at $160,000. Flames broke out in Depere, Wis., and raged furiously among the wooden buildings until sixty were burned, on which the loss is estimated at SIIO,OOO. A Hollander lying in the stupor of drunkenness perished. Ohio’s new Sunday closing law went into effect Sunday the 22d of April. Nearly all the saloons in Cleveland remained closed throughout the day. The President of the Protective League was arrested for keeping his place open. Every liquor shop in Toledo and Columbus shut up at midnight on Saturday, and gave thorough obedience to the law. In Cincinnati about a third of the saloons kept open. Crop reports given by the Chicago Tribune from a large number of localities in the West present an almost uniformly gratifying and favorable showing. In the springwheat regions of Minnesota, Dakota, Wisconsin, lowa and Nebraska, seeding was begun, and is being pushed forward as actively as the weather will permit In Kansas a highly enencouraging outlook is reported, and the advices from Illinois points indicate that no very serious injury to winter wheat has resulted from the recent frosts.

Enu Claire, Wis., lias been visited by a disastrous conflagration, which resulted in the total destruction of no less than four blocks, located directly iu the heart of the business part of the city. Window, were blown out and smoko followed, which rendered it impossible to save any of the contents of many of the storeß. The total losses are variously estimated at from $150,000 to n 270,000. The Cincinnati Health Board reports 2,000 cases of small-pox there since January. At the comer of LaSalle and Randolph Btreets, Chicago, John A. Will, of Shelby, Ohio, put a bullet through the brain of Thomas Kelly, who had staggered against him. A man and a boy were killed in Chicago by the fall of a stone hoist or *' traveler,” and another man was severely injured. A man named Ed Murray tied his legs together at the ankles and jumped into the river from the St. Louis bridge. The tying converted his pantaloons into a life preserver, and he was buoyed by his breeches until rescued by a tugboat. The American Forestry Congress was organized at Cincinnati to encourage the planting and protection of trees. Hon. George B, Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, was chosen President, and D. D. Thompson, of Cincinnati, Secretary. The marital troubles of Congressman Clarke, of the Eleventh Missouri district, and his wife have been ended by a decree of divorce in favor of Gen. Clarke on the ground of “ incompatibility of temper.” One hundred masked men at Lake City, Col., took from jail George Betts and Jim Browning, the murderers of Sheriff Campbell, and banged them to a bridge. As the rope was being placed around his neck, Betts asked for a chew of tobacco. (Soutri.

In the United States court at Charleston, 8. 0., the canvassers of Sumter county pleaded guilty to refusing to count the votes of three precincts. Judge Bond announced that the Government only desired the vindication of the law, and therefore allowed the prisoners to go without sentence. A tornado near Selma, Ala., swept away houses, fences and trees for a length of twelve miles. Five lives are already known to have been lost. A negro woman was found in a cotton field pierced through the heart by a piece of plank. Fuller reports of the damage wrought by the tornado at Montioello, Miss., place the killed at fifteen and the wounded at thirty, several of whom cannot recover. One of the Texas and Pacific trainrobbers has been captured by rangers, and is mortally wounded. His father, a reputable farmer, divulged his whereabouts, and requested his arrest and imprisonment Eight miles from the soeno of the recent raid rails were removed from a high trestle, but the engineer saved tne train from a plunge into the Brasoe canon. The aooounts of Gov. Churchill, of Arkansas, while serving as State Treasurer, are found to be short about f 125,000. Dr. John P. Lipscomb and his father-in-law, Sterling E. Edmunds, quarreled at the breakfast-table, concerning the former’s treat, ment of his wife. Both drew revolvers and fired almost simultaneously. Lipscomb fell dead, but Edmunds escaped uninjured. The affair occurred at Danville, Va*, where both parties to the tragedy occupied a high socia position. At a log-rolling near Fairview, Ky., William and Bradford Courts (brothers) quarreled with James and John Smith about the shooting of Mrs. Smith’s cow. A fight resulted, in which James Smith was killed. The Courts brothers were jailed, but a mob took them out and hanged them to a tree. At Uvalde, Texas, John Mitchell was tied to a tree and unmercifully flogged, and his two sons shot dead. The crime was perpetrated by two neighbors. WASHINGTON NOTES. Persons intimate with Capt Howgate say be is in the mountains of Pennsylvania, and that be will not return fofr trial until be desires to, and that, in the meantime, he will

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be supported by those who are connected with Wm in the frauds in the Weather Bureau, who are very anxious to keep the trial from taking place until after the adjournment of Congress, or the passage of a oertain bill m which they are interested. There is general surprise expressed at the verdict rendered in the Kilboome case. The prevailing opinion is that it is excessive and ought to beset aside. There is some sharp criticism of the manner in which the Government interests in this case have been defended, at, rather, been neglected. There are those who openly express the opinion that the Government case was given away, or allowed pretty much to go by default Guiteau received a letter from John B. Reynolds, of San Frandsoo, offering him SBOO for the clothes he will wear on the day he is to hang. The writer adds : “If yon won’t sell me or any one else your clothes, I’ll give S6O for your hat” Guiteau was very mad when he received the letter, and tore it ap. He bad previously had a quarrel with his sister, Mrs. Scoville, whom he drove from his oelldoor. In the Gnitean case, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia gave Charles H. Reed two weeks to prepare his argument m the bill of exceptions, and the hearing was set for May 8. Only that portion of Bcoville’s letter announcing his withdrawal from the ease was read.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A committee of the Cotton Exchange in New York has been investigating the charges of wholesale adulteration of cotton with sand, and have come to the conclusion that the alleged frauds have been greatly exaggerated. The American representatives in England seem to have accepted for their reports the ex-parte statements of the English brokers. The adulteration which has been discovered was not intentional, but incident to the handling of the cotton. The widow and daughter of John BrowD, of Harper's Ferry fame, are said to be living in destitute circumstances at Saratoga, CaL The steamer Corwin has sailed for the Arctic regions to relieve the crew of the Rodgers. Senator Hill, of Georgia, who is still suffering from cancer, has gone to Eureka Springs, Ark., in the waters of which he hopes to find relief. There is less damage in Ohio to frnit and wheat than was feared. Above an average crop of wheat is expected in Southern IndianaThe outlook for good crops in Kentucky is said to be very bright

POLITICAL POINTS/ Four hundred delegates attended an Anti-Monopoly Convention at Albany, N. Y. The resolutions ask that transportation charges be based upon the cost and risk of service ( denounce construction companies, urge the establishment of a State Railroad Commission, rod declare for free oanals. iAt Nashville, Tenn., the State Republican Convention commended President Arthur and renominated Gov. Hawkins for re-election to the Governorship.

FOREIGN NEWS. V* The dreaded Asiatic plague has appeared in Persian Kurdistan. Dorris, late Assistant Secretary of the Land League, has been released from Dundalk jail, with proper warnings. One thousand Jews have been expelled from Moscow. In the city of Kamenetz, Russia, hav ing a population of 22,000, the shops and th houses of all the Jews were destroyed by incendiary fires, the total loss being 600,000 roubles. In the Honse of Commons, says a London dispatch, great amazement was created by a formal statement on Irish affairs made by Mr. Gladstone. He announced that he would soon introduce a bill respecting arrears of rent in Ireland, making them a gift and not a loan to the tenant. He said this was necessary; the Government must do it- The Government must also, the. Premier said, make compensation to the landlords for losses ensuing to them from this policy from the ohurch fund. The remains of Charles Robert Darwin, the great philosopher and scientist, were interred in Westminster Abbey by the side of the select few of England’s distinguished dead who have gone before. Thc pall-bearers were United States Minister James Russell Lowell, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Derby, Prof. Huxley, Sir Joseph -Hooker, Sir John Lubbock, Alfred Bussell Wallace and William Spottiswoode, and there was present a large and notable collection of the eminent men of the day. An outbreak of the Zulus is feared in South Africa. The Russian Jews are being urged by the Nihilists to join them. The nuptials of Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's youngest son, and the Princess Helena of Waldeok oocurred at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, on the 27th nit., the Archbishop of Canterbury tying the royal knot, The city was decorated, shops were closed and salutes were fired.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Dr. John T. Hodgen, an eminent surgeon of St Louis, is dead. Resolutions indorsing the action o! Gov. Crittenden in regard to Jesse James were introduced in the Missouri Honse, and ruled ont of order by the Speaker. The annual round-up of oattle is in progress in Indian Territory, and grass-fed stock will be placed in market a month earlier than usual. At Minneapolis, Minn., Frank McManus, a tramp, shockingly mutilated a little girl of 4 years, for which he was arrested and imprisoned. About midnight a party of seventy leading citizens assembled in the central part of the city and made arrangements for swift vengeance. They proceeded in small squads to the jail, where Sheriff Eustis was promptly made a prisoner. All the cells np to the third tier were examined, and the door of the fiend’s oell was smashed in with hammers. He was handcuffed and taken to the scene of his crime, where three women positively identified him. After he had made a full confession be was banged to a large tree on ihe corner of Fourth avenne and Grant street. An anti-Ohinese convention in San Francisco decided on measures looking to the speedy ejeotion of the Chinese from the Pacific coast, peaceably or otherwise. Dr. Mary Walker, the little woman who likes to dress in a gentlemanly manner, has been appointed to a clerkship in the Interior Department. President Arthur, with the Secretaries of War aqd the Navy, attended the graduating exercises of the United States Artillery School at Fortress Monroe. Investigations by the customs author-

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ities at New Orleans and the Atlantic ports revealed the fact that the unprecedentedly large importations of oranges and lemons from Italy have been systematically entered at half their value. At Kingsville, S. 0., the United States steamer Marion, with a picnic party on board, exploded her boiler. One lady was killed, two others are supposed to be drowned and several others were severely injured. At Greenville, S. C., the hangman swung off three, negroes who had been convicted of arson. Each proclaimed his innocence, and prayed God to forgive the Judges, juries and witnesses. Dr. Lamson was executed in London on the 28th of ApriL He was so dejected and nervous that he could scarcely descend the steps of the prison, and was led with great difficulty over the sixty yards of space to the gallows. He dropped nine feet, expiring instantly, bnt his body remained hanging for an hoar. Dr. Lamson had been convicted of poisoning his brother-in-law that he might secure an inheritance of $17,000. He was born in America aad was 35 years of age.

Congressman Perry Belmont, who was so conspicuous in the cross-examination of Mr. Blaine in the Foreign Affairs Committee, is a very young man, having passed his thirtieth birthday only last December. He is the elder of August Belmont’s two sous. He has always been a hard student, and the time that most youug men of his class gave to the dissipations of fashionable life he has largely devoted to books. He is a lawyer by profession, and, considering his youth, his legal attainments are said to be very creditable. He has always had a taste for politics, and has contributed several articles on public questions to periodicals like the International Ilexnew. His mother was a daughter of Matthew Galbraith Perry, who opened the Chinese ports. There were 105 business failures last week in tho United States, being three less than for the corresponding week last year. Earl Cowper has resigned the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, and Earl Spenoer has been appointed nis successor.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

A resolution was adopted by the Honse, at its session on April 22, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to report whether any portion of the country is adapted to the growth of the cinchona tree. On the bill for the judicial ascertainment of private claims, speeches were made by Messrs Springer, Bragg and Stephens, and several amendments were defeated. A vote on the proposition to recommit the bill showed that no quorum was present. There was no session of the Senate. A bill was passed by the Senate, at Its session on April 24, to allot lands in severalty to Indians on various reservations, and extend the protection of the laws of States and Territories. Mr. Cockrell introduced a bill to facilitate the negotiation of bills of lading and to punish fraud therein. Mr. Morgan presented a measure to encourage closer commercial relations with South America, including a rnilway to Chili. The bill for a public building at Quincy, 111., was favorably reported. Mr. George introduced a measure lor dhtributing among the cotton States, to support common schools, the proceeds of the cotton tax now in the treasury. Mr. CocUrell presented a resolution for the appointment of a special commission to promote commercial intercourse with Central and South America. The House passed a bill appropriating $50,000 for the removal of obstructions from Hell Gate, New York. Mr. Buckner presented a resolution calling for information in regard to the Monetary Conference wv* \t- Cox a similar inquiry respecting the Congress of American Nations. Mr. Dezendorf introduced a bill appropriating $1,000,000 to erect a Presidential mansion. Mr. Ford, by request, presented a scheme to issue $75,0u0,000 in treasury notes and expend it in improving the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers. A bill for a uniform system of bankruptcy was reported by Mr. Humphrey. A hot debate occurred on the measure to appoint 100 additional policemen for the District of Columbia, but the bill passed by 117 to 66. A joint resolution was adopted by the Senate, April 25, granting the use of tents for the soldiers’ reunion at Belle Plaine, lowa. Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution of inquiry whether legislation la necessary to secure an impartial determination of cases triable in the Federal courts, more particularly in the South. A till was passed to permit the grind ng of grain brought over by Canadian farmers. The River Improvement bill, giving $5,000,000 for the Mis issippi and sl,000,000 for tho Missouri, was passed without objection. The. Anti-Chinese bill then came up. The lourteenth section, prohibiting the naturalization of Celestials, was retained by a vote of 82 to 26. The fifteenth section, relating to skilled laborers, was stricken out. The President seut to the Senate the following nominations : John C. Montgomery, Surveyor or Customs at Denver, Col.; Benjamin J. Morey, of Louisiana, Assistant Appraiser of the District of New Orleans ; Andrew J. Chapman, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Ninth district of Pennsylvania; John S. Wise, Attorney of the United States for the Eastern district of Virginia; Rutlege P. Hughes, Marshal of the United States for the Eastern district of Virginia. The House passed a bill authorizing the Sioux City and Pacific road to bridge the Missouri river. A resolution was adopted inquiring about the monetary conference .in Pans. The Judiciary Committee were instructed to look into the validity of the Speaker's action in removing Mr. Devine, an official stenographer. A communication from the Third Auditor annonnoed that $234,000 was due the State of Missouri for payments to her m litia during the war. Wtien the con-tested-election ease of Lynch versus Chalmers came ap, the House refused to consider it, by 121 to 99. Mr. Robinson called ap his resolutions in regard to the imprisonment of American citizens abroad, and addressed the Honse. Mr. Cox offered a substitute, which was adopted, calling on the President for additional information and urging the continuance of efforts for the prompt release or trial of American Bnspects in Ireland. The attention of the Senate, at its session on the 26th of April, was directed almost wholly to the Chinese bill. Speeches were made by Messrs. Hawley, Edmnnds and Slater. A bill was passed for a publio building at Fort Wayne. The Senate in executive session confirmed Judge Taft as Minister to Austria. Wm. L. Dayton ss Minister to the Netherlands, and George B. Armstrong as Registir of tho Land Office at Huron, Dak. In the House the contested-election case of Lynch versus Chalmers was called up, and its consideration was ordered by 155 to 99. Tho reading of tho report consumed ninety minutes, and at its conclusion Mr. Pettibone, of Tennessee, took the floor in support of the case of the contestant. Lynch. Mr. Atherton, of Ohio, made a long argument in favor of the minority report, dec aring Chalmers entitled to the seat. Mr. Moore, of Tennessee, in advocating the seating of Lynch, protested against the shilly-shally milk-sop policy of the managers of the Republican party m tiie House, if it had any managers. He insisted on a vigorous policy in regard to the contested-election caa-_B. The President sent a message to Congress on the 27ih nit., relative to the lawless condition of Arizona, and suggesting the use of the military as posse comitatus. In the Senate Mr. Sherman introduced a bill repealing the law which forces tho coinage of $2,000,000 standard dollars per month, and directing the manufacture of silver dollars when the Secretaiy o; the Treasury deems it necessary for pubiie convenience. A motion to take up the bill to punish the unlawful certification of bank checks was lost by a tie vote. On a measure to repeal the section of the statutes prohibiting Confederates from holding positions in the army there occurred the most bitter partisan debate of the session. Mr. Edmunds led the opposition, and Messrs. Vest, Garland, Maxey and Hampton took a hand in favor of the proposition. The customary wrangle took plaoe on the Chinese bill, without action. Hie conference report on

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles”

the Postoffice Appropriation bill was adopted, the item foi fast mails for the principal cities being made $600,000. In the Honse Mr. Townshend submitted a conference report favoring the pension feature in the bill to promote the efficiency of the life-saving service. When the Mississippi contested-election case came np, Lynch, ihe colored claimant, made a speech in defense of his claim, and Chalmers presented bis side of the case. Mr. Randall offered resolutions calling on the Comptroller of the Currency for his correspondence with the Second National Bank ot, Cincinnati as to its reorganization. When the anti-Chinese MU came np in the Senate on the 28th nit, a motion to strike out the section in regard to skilled and unskilled laborers was lost by 20 to 25. After the rejection of several amendments, the biU was passed by 32 to 15. The Honse bill to fix the time for holding elections in West Virginia was passed. Mr. Conger reported a bill repealing the tonnage-tax on vessels trading with Canada, as also to reduce the hospitaltax to 40 cents per month on eaoh sailor. The Houso adopted a resolution that the Secretary ot War furnish information as to the number of United Slates soldiers iu Arizona, and whether legislation is necessary to guard life and property from destruction by Indians. In the Mississippi contested-election case, Messrs. Hooker and Tucker supported the claims of Mr. Chalmers, while Mr. Robeson argued against the decision of the Supreme Court ot Mississippi. Mr. Calkins demanded the previous question, but no vote was taken.

The Arizona Indian War.

Saw Francisco, April 26. A Lordsburg (N. M.) dispatch says a fight occurred on Saturday at Horse Shoe canor, between Indians and Indian scouts and troops. The latter were victorious. Four Indian scouts were killed and three soldiers; eleven soldiers were wounded. A small band of hostiles was seen going south over the Sansimon flats. A band of twenty or thirty crossed the Southern Pacific near here early this morning, going noi th toward the Burro mine. McDonald, a well-known contractor of this section, arrived from the Gila river this morning. He assisted in burying tho bodies of twenty men yesterday, and reports that several persons are missing. Among the killed are J. P. Risque, a rising voting attorney of Silver City-; Capt. John L mining superintendent ; Mr. Trescott, Alex. Knox, S. D. Pinkardand Pinkard’s herdsman; (uame unknown). The Indians number , .qvelr 300 bucks, squaws and children, as shown "by actual count while passing York’s ranebei The Indians are completely surrounded and oorraled in Doubtly canon. All the male citizens of Lietendorf, Shakspeare and Lordsburg are under arms.

The present Indian outbreak in Arizona is the most disastrous which has ever oocurred in that Territory. Over sixty people have been killed by them so far. Loco, a noted chief and son of the once-dreaded Cochise, are with the band, which is composed of Chiricahuas and the remnant of Victoria’s band of Warm Spring Indians, and numbers about 200 buoks aud 300 squaws and children. They declare their intention of slaying every paleface that crosses their path, in retaliation for the three Indians recently executed at Fort Grant. According to a telegram (April 26) from Shakespeare, New Mexico, the town of Gualleysville in Arizona, just over the New Mexican line was burned and completely destroyed by the savages. Thirty-five white people were killed. Hie Indians were scattering into small bands and making for the Cbiricahu* mountains In Mexico. Forsythe, with his entire command, was in pursuit. The pursuing force numbered fifteen companies of cavalry, but the chances of overhauling the murderous wretches was regard?d as very email, unless the Mexican Government acted promptly in driving them back. Ayers, a small mining camp iu Arizona, was surrounded by 150 hostile Indians, and three whites had been killed and one wounded. Stanislaus Mestas, aged 9 years, who escaped the massacre at Stevens’ sheep-camp, tells the followtug story of that ghastly affair : “ Before daylight the Indians attacked the camp while we were all asleep. My father and five other men attempted to get their guns, but too late. Tue Indians rashed in from all sides and overpowered them before a shot could be fired. The work of slaughter then began. An Indian put the muzzle of his gun against the head of one man and fired, blowing his brains against the floor and wall. I saw them kill my mother and two little brothers by beating their brains out with stones. They killed five. Tbey tied my father and tortured him most dreadfully. He begged uhem to spare him, but they only tormented him the* more. When they tired of torturing him, one of them split his skull with an ax. An Indian squaw, wife of one of the four friendly Apache sheep-herders, whe worked with us, saved my life by holding me behind her and begging them to spare me. When all the Mexicans were dead except me, the Indians left.”

Intelligence from Arizona, conveyed through a Tucson telegram of April 27, is to the effect that CoL Forsyth’s command encountered a band of the hostiles near old Camp Rucker and killed six of them. Four of the men were wounded and oue killed in the skirmish, after which the Indians scattered. The Mexican Gen. Fuero was marching north from Janos to attack the Indians going into the Cbiracahua mouutains. A fight occurred between Mexican soldii rs and Indians near the frontier in which nine of the latter were slaughtered. The American mining camp at Bachnachi, in Sonora, was raided, and all valuables carried away. At a large meeting in Tucson, resolutions were adopted to inform the President and Congress that nearly 100 pioneers had been murdered by Apaches within a few days. Gov. Bheldon ordered the militia of New Mexico under arms, and Gen. McKenzie, has gone to El Paso to arrange for the co-operation of the Government of Chihuahua. A fight occurred at Stein’s Peak between Indians and Capt. Tapper, of the Sixth Cavalry, and his Indian scouts. Fonr of the latter are reported killed, and two private soldiers. It is claimed six of the hostiles were killed. The Indiansfwere routed and took to tho mountains. The troops were unable to follow.

A Nation in Mourning,

The Siamese Nation was recently plunged into mourning by the death of “His Sublime Grandeur the Court and Body Elephant of the King. ” Says the Indian Herald: “We regret to learn that the animal departed this life in a highly sensational manner, fraught with irreparable disaster to the staff of his household. One morning, after a hearty breakfast, he went mad quite unexpectedly, and trampled five of his attendants to death. To shoot him would have been sacrilege. An attempt to tranquillize his perturbed spirit by encircling him with a hnge ring of holy bamboo, specially blessed by the Holy Priest of his own particular temple, proved worse than ineffectual, for he broke throngh the ring and all but terminated the High Priest’s career upon the spot. He was then with great difficulty driven into a close coart of the palace, where, after several furious endeavors to batter down the walls with his tusks, he suddenly toppled over on his side, and uttered a last cry of rage. Naturally enough this heavy calamity was attributted to criminal carelessness on the part of one or other of the attendants in trusted with the sacred elephant’s feeding. The King thereupon interrogated the members of His Sublime Grandeur’s household in person with respect to their treatment of the illustrious deceased, and failing to elicit any individual confession of delinquency, decreed that they should one and all be punished. Having thus vindicated propriety, his Majesty assumed the garb of woe, and is understood to be still inconsolable for his loss.” —New York Tribune. “I’d have you know that my uncle was a bannister of the law.” “ A fig for your bannister 1” retorted Mrs. Partington, turning up her nose ; “ haven’t I a cousin as is a corridor in the navy? ”

INDIANA ITEMS.

The Baptist sisterhood of the State will endow a chair in Franklin College. Thc Fort Wayne City Council is now tussleing with a new jsow and hog ordinance. Bx sawing two bars frpm a window, five prisoners escaped from the jail at Wabash. Mtbh Sadie Small, at Jeffersonville, is working on a quilt which is to contain 15,000 pieces. Thebe are 7,358 dogs in Indianapolis township, and taxes have thus far been paid upon 2,400. Dean Cbdme’s fine residence near Wabash was damaged by fire to the amount of $2,500. Fabmebs of Rush county are pasturing their wheat fields on account of the haves played by the frost. The Indianapolis Exposition track was measured the other day, and found to be a fraction over one-balf mile. Dr. J. W. Salteb, of Richmond, a microscopist of ability, has discovered gold in the Kansas coal measures. At no time during the past ten years has the spirit of improvement been so apparent in New Albany as at present. Thebe was discovered in a vat at the Terre Haute soap factory, the other day, the bones of a man thought to have been one of the employes. Lina Higgins, about 14 years old, attempted suicide at Bedford by jumping into a cistern. After striking the water she cried for help and was soon rescued. Robert Jefferson, a prominent and intelligent negro of Indianapolis, who has always claimed to be an illegitimate son of Thomas Jefferson, has just died in Indianapolis.

Habby Beggs, a Fort Wayne harnessmaker, in a fit of despondency, swallowed laudanum with fatal effect. He had been drinking, and was arrested twice, which made him desperate. An -Indianapolis man, whose wife has property in her own right, gave her a beating because she refused to divide, and the court fined him $25 and costs, which the wife is expected to pay. At the Vigo woolen-mills, Terre Haute, can be seen a bale of genuine silk from native cocoons. The silk was raised there by Asenath Bishop, in her 80th year, shortly before her death. New Albany Ledger : Formerly the farmers brought the wagons to the city loaded with corn. Now they bring them in empty and return with them loaded with corn, which costs 85 to 90 cents per bushel. Almeda Cubby, for thirteen years a domestic in the family of David Trester, of Indianapolis, has been awarded judgment against him in the sum of s3uo for unpaid services. Her claim was for $3 330. George Higgins and Aaron Malone became involved in a quarrel over a game of billiards in a saloon at Carlisle, when Higgins cut Malone across the abdomen, lettmg his bowels out, from the effects of which he will die. Higgius is uuder arrest.

The little village of St. Joseph, in Clark county, had a sensational array of accidents in one day. A boy named Penn was killed by a saw log ; another another boy named Lee was terribly in jured by the failing limb of a tree, and a third boy, while watching the doctor dressing Lee’s wounds, fainted and fell in an open tire. Furman Stout <fc Son, of Indianapolis, have entered suit against twelve insurance companies for an amount aggregating $64,200. The companies had ret”sed to pay the insurance for the deftr lotion of the business house of jlaiitiffs on the 12th of January, 1882, uaim ug that it fell down and was not destroyed by fire. Joseph Bogabdus, who eloped from Wabash with his sister-in-law, Miss Susie Grant, was arrested at Dennison, Ohio, where the two had been stopping as man and wife. He confessed. The girl also acknowledged her guilt, and, when asked by the Mayor why she had done such a naughty thing, said : “Joe fell in love with me, and 1 fell in love with Joe. ”

George Sipes, of Pleasant Run township, Lawrence county, died recently at the advanced age of 91 years. He was born in Kentiu ky iu 1791, and was a soldier in the war of 1812, being present at the battle of blew Orleans, Jan. 8, -1815. Mr. Sii es was one of the pioneer ettlers of Li wrence county, and had ived fifty-five years upon the farm he sieared when first coming there. Danjel Callahan, a well-known farmer living near New Providence, Clark county, was arrested at New Albany the other day, on a telegram from his wife and son, accusing him of robbery. The family has not been a happy one, and the old man said he knew they were capable of treating him shabbily, but lie did not expect to be arrested on such a charge, which proved to be wholly malicious.

A recent letter from Evansville says: Reports from all parts of the First Congressional district show wheat holding out good ; stand very large ; heads a little light; straw heavy. The chinchbug doing no harm. The prospects for a crop are 15 per cent, more than the average. Farmers satisfied so far. Corn-planting proceeding well. Some bottom land wheat has been plowed under and com put in place of it. Hon. J. W.Bobden, Judge of the Allen county Criminal Court, died suddenly at Fort Wayne of chronic heart-disease. Ho was about to take a buggy-drive, the day being pleasant, but was seized with a sudden pain in the region ol the heart, reclined on the sofa, and died shortly after. Deceased was in 1857 appointed Minister to the Sandwich Islands under Buchanan’s administration. “ In 1863 he returned, and has occupied judicial positions in Allen county ever since, once running for Congress against Samuel Benton. He was born in 1813, near Beaufort, S, C., and was a man of great legal ability. Travel in foreign lams had made him a polished and cultured gentleman.

Presence of Mind.

It is said that if you have presence of mind enough to face a raging bull and look straight into his eyes he is powerless to do you harm. “We tried the experiment once,” says an agricultural contemporary, “and found it worked admirably. The fierce animal tore the ground with his feet and bellowed with all his might, but something seemed t° hold him back like magic, and he did us no injury. Perhaps we ought to add, in order to be coriect historically, that the bnll was on the other side of a fence. We never try an experiment of

that kind without taking proper precautions beforehand. ” Philadelphia News.

Charlotte Cushman's Grate.

The famous tragedienne, Charlotte Cushman, is the most distinguished woman buried in Mount Auburn. Her monument is modeled after the Egptian obelisk recently erected in Central Park, the shaft being twenty-five feet in height. This rests on a suitable foundation, and the entire structure is nearly thirty-four feet. The only inscription is the name “Charlotte Cushman,” which, indeed, is all that is required. Miss Cushman was a native of Boston, and was the oldest of five children. Her father was bankrupt, and she went on the stage for the purpose of affording a support for those she loved. She developed an extraordinary dramatic genius, which was fully appreciated by the public, and her role included the highest range of Shakespearean characters. Hence she drew immense audienoes, and as a result her professional emoluments were of an unparalleled amount. She was always highly liberal to her relatives, and left them an estate estimated at a half million. Miss Cushman was the only distinguished tragedienne that went through life unmarried. The reason of her celibacy is unknown, but it may be supposed that her bold, masculine manners were too repulsive. She had one admirer, however, but no one knew the reason why he was unsucessfuL Perhaps he shrank at last from offering his hand to one of such hauteur aud autocratic disposition, or some pique may have led her to reject him in hope of a more distinguished match. Whatever be the reason she remained Charlotte Cushman, and gave a noble example of the dignity of maiden life. She selected a lot in Mt. Auburn some time before her death, and showed her usual taste in the preference of locality. Is is prettily situated at the base* of a gentle eminence, and has a fine view of Boston, with the Charles River in the distance. The tragedienne remarked at the time of making the purchase, “Here I shall be m Bight of dear old Boston.” Immediately after her death (February 18,1876) a small headstone bearing her name was erected, which eventually gave place to the above mentioned obelisk.

Movements of Leaves.

Leaves, Mr. Darwin says, when they go to sleep, move either upward or downward; or in the case of the leaflets of compound leaves, forward—that is, towards the apex of the leaf or backwards, that iB, towards its base; or again, they may rotate on their own axis without moving either upwards or downwards; but iu almost every case the plane of the blade is so placed as to stand nearly or quite vertically at night. Moreover, the upper surfaoe of each leaf, and more especially of each leaflet, is often brought into close contact with that of the opposite one, as the upper surfaces appear to require more protection than the lower. The evil effects which result if sleeping leaflets be prevented from pressing their upper surfaces together, so as to protect them from radiation, were well seen in experiments of Mr. Darwin, in which he pressed down the leaflets of oxaliß, marsilia, etc., so that they could not bring their upper surfaces into contract; the result was that the leaves were killed. Thus of twenty-four leaves of marsilia extended horizontally, exposed to the zenith and to obstructed radiation, twenty were killed and one injured, whilst a relatively very small proportion of the leaves which had been allowed to go to sleep with their leaflets vertically dependent were killed or injured. Mr. Darwin noticed that the difference in the amount of dew on the pinned-open leaflets and on those which had gone to sleep was generally conspiouous, the latter being sometimes absolutely dry, whilst the leaflets which had been horizontal were coated with large beads of dew. Another fact observable was that when leaves were kept motionless they are more liable to injury than when they were slightly waved about by the wind, and thus got a little warmed by tba surrounding air.

As to Napkin Etiquette.

The napkin etiquette question has been discussed by several newspapers lately. It has been claimed that tho guest should leave his napkin in negligent crumple beside his plate. At hotels and public places he may do thus, though ’twere better otherwise, or do anything he pleases with the napkin, except put it in his pocket; but in a private house the guest will fold his napkin neatly by the side of his plate, if he wishes to show his appreciation of the hostess’ care and neatness in arranging the table. A writer in the modern Athens says it is vulgar to tuck the corner of a napkin under the chin, and calls men who practice it unweaned babies with bibs. Queen Elizabeth did not use napkins. She tore the meat from the roast with her fingers, and had a hand-tub behind her with an ewer of water in which she rinsed her fingers. Sainte Beure fell into disgrace at the Court of Napoleon 111. because he spread his napkin oyer two knees and cut his egg in the middle, while he should have used the napkin unfolded on one knee, break the end of the egg, the big end, and drained with the tip of the spoon. They cut his acquaintance after that. What would have been the result if be had drawn and spread on his knees his pocket handkerchief, as they do at modern picnios? “To the guillotine with him” would have been dessert for them and just desserts for him. —Providence Journal.

A Strawberry Patch in a Barrel.

Persons who live in cities, and only have a small yard where the snn shines, can have nice berries enough for family use without being troubled by weeds. Take a hogshead, or cask, and commence six inches from the bottom, and with a two-inch augur bore it full of holes six inches apart. Then fill up by degrees with rich dirt, and as you fill up set a strawberry root in the dirt, with the crown or leaves out of the augur hole, and when it is filled to the top you can set a row around the top; but leave a hollow in the center, so that when yon wish you can pour in soapsuds or liquid manure, so that you can force them to grow very large, and they will be nice and clean. It would be more durable to have two or three iron hoops on the hogshead. Parsley can be raised the same way. The above is more useful than a rustic stump in the yard.—Farming World. A German-American citizen entered it drug store in Germantown, Pa., and asked for “ something for mine teeth, dey’s much bad.” This young man in attendance sold him a box of tooth-pow-der. The next day he excitedly told the druggist that though he had swallowed the whole of it atone dose it hadn’t done his toothache a bit of good. -

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NUMBER 14.

A Fraud of the Last Campaign.

One of the still-remembered features of the last Presidential campaign was the Okolona States, a newspaper, socalled, which was published in Okolona, Mississippi. It had no merit. It displayed neither genius nor talent. It was notorious only upon two grounds. The first was its indecent persistence in keeping alive the sectional spirit and appealing to the worst passions and prejudices of the Southern people. The second ground was the irrational and meaningless but grotesque subdivision of its vituperations into short jerky lines which gave the columns the appearance of having been struck by lightning. This paper was first heard of at the North through the quotations from it iu Republican newspapers. The suspicion was at once excited that it was inspired by the Republican managers. Nobody but Republicans subscribed for it or made any use of it. It was shown, over and over again, that, in its own locality and State, the paper had no support or sympathy, and grossly misrepresented, or failed to represent, the spirit of the people. These facts strengthened the suspicion which ripened into a conviction when Kernan, the chief vituperator of the concern, transferred His affections and his depraved pencil to a paper which frankly doated the Republican colors, the Lemars (Iowa) Sentinel. We have recalled attention to this unclean bird Kernan, not because he is of any consequence, but because his persistent denial of his being a Republican hireling when he was publishing his foul travesties of Southern sentiment has brought out a statement which puts the Republican leaders themselves on denial. In the last issue of Chaff in thft city, it is distinctly charged that letters from Kernan to Don Henderson were found in the possession of the latter, and that in these letters Kernan acknowledged the receipt of money from the State Republican Committee, and inquired into the effect of what he called his * ‘ editorials ” in Michigan. We invite the attention of the Allegan Journal and the Republican State Committee to this charge. We invite the attention, also, of Senator Frye. It was he who most frequently and coarsely, in the House, “ rung in ” the Okolona States as a representative Democratic newspaper, and taunted his Southern fellow-members with entertaining the sentiments which found vent in its columns. Yet he must have known all the time that this foul sheet was a Republican instrumentality, that its utterances were ir spired by Republican partisanship and paid for with Republican money wrung by assessment from Republican officeholders. He must, have known this, because he was in all the inmost secrets of the Republican managers. Had he known it, and kept Bileuce, he would have had no special responsibility for the contemptible device ; but by his malicious attacks upon the Democracy, for offenses of which he knew them to be innocent, he made himself personally responsible—as much so as if he had paid from his own pocket the wages of the hireling Kernan. And therein he showed himself a fitting successor of that other fraud from Maine, the late Secretary Blaino. —Detroit Free Press.

The Three Republican Principles.

The three animating and controlling principles of the Republican party, says ex-Attorney General MacYeagli, are the spoils, the boss system and repudiation. Was there ever a party so poor, so banklupt, so abject and so disgraced as to be so reduced ! Is it necessary to do more than simply to mention the fact that such is the condition of the once great Republican party? Mention the name of Guiteau and the mind at once reverts to the man who sits in the Presidential chair and the party who fought the then bloodless victory in Chicago. Say but Guiteau, and the ghastly phantom of the Republican party stalks in dead silence before you. The snoke of the assassin’s pistol silantly curls to heaven, and the spirit of the great Republican party silently sinks to the other place. A great man in many respects quit earth forever at the report of the murderer’s pistol, but he was one man. Millions who followed his victorious banner bow their heads in shame and humiliation and confess that the doom of all connected with his fortune is sealed forever. The mad and demoniac yell of the assassin" that he was a stallwart is the keynote to the sad requium of the departed spirit of what was once Republican. He declared that Ihe God of our fathers had commissioned him to harmonize the party, the Republican party. It is harmonized (?) with a vengeance; it is really a delirium of harmony. It is spoils on spoils, bosses following bosses, all resting upon spoils, with repudiation as the chief corner stone. What right have we to dispute Mr. MacVeagh ? He was Garfield’s Attorney General; and he says the party has but the three principles named. The arraignment of the party by MacVeagh is the most severe possible. The trouble is he tells the truth. He admits thht Hayes was a fraud. That the party robbed the people out of their choice of President, and that Samuel J. Tilden was fairly and honorably elected President, and * that he was defrauded out of his seat by leading Republicans. He not only does this, but he goes back to the election of 1876, and in words that burn says that Hayes rewarded with honors and emoluments the men who robbed the people. Instead of Hayes and the whole gang of thieves and villains serving their country in the penitentiary, they were given places of honor and trust. This is the testimony of Mr. MacVeagh. Take it, Republicans; read it and inwardly digest the sayings of one of your clearest and most conscientious partisans. He knows whereof he speaks, and no prominent Republican has yet had the hardihood to deny the statement This is the party who claim the honor and virtue of the country, and now let any one prominent and intelligent member deny or take issue with Mr. Mac Veagh if he dare. —Grand Rapids Democrat.

Mahone’s Boss-Ship at an End.

The Mahone programme in the Virginia Legislature has fallen through, and the boss suffers both in prestige and in material resources. He had a scheme for gerrymandering the State, for reconstructing the judiciary, whereby all the Democratic J udges would be turned out to make way for Readjusters, and for creating in each county a lucrative office to be called a real-estate Commissi >rership. When he found opposition to these schemes in his ( own ranks, he

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called the national administration to his aid. The Republicans at the capital backed him heartily. Mr. Hubbell, Chairman of the Republiban Congresional Committee, personally visited Riohmond and endeavored to have the Mahone programme carried out. The President gave the assurance that possession of the Federal Joffioes in Virginia was to be had only through Mahone, and that no Republicanism not indorsed as genuine by this Confederate Brigadier would be reoognized at Washington. Bribes and threats were all alike impotent. Mahone and his Republican allies at the Federal oapital could not oarry out their soheme. In this dilemma he proposed an adjournment until June, but the Legislature adjourned sine die, and the Governor would hesitate to call a special Hessian. The result of the failure to make a reapportionment leaves the Congressional districts as they are, and necessitates the eleotion of the additional member at large. Mahone, of oourse, does not give up the fight. He has every incentive to oontinue it. He will have the manipulation of the Federal offices, and can beg money in the North. But he has had a check that will take from him his prestige and leave him in a bad plight before the people of the Old Dominion.

The Rights of American Citizens Abroad.

The Republican newspapers, whioli have frothed so furiously over the complaints of ill-treatment accorded American citizens in Irish prisons, may loarn something by reading the following, from an English paper, the St. James Gazette: “No foreign Government can be expected to suffer any of its subjects to lie kept in prison for a political or any other offense (or because it is thought that they intend to commit crime) for a long and indefinite period without trial. If with the sanction of the Legislature our own Government ohooses to keep any of her Majesty’s subjects in this condition, there is an end of it, so far as they are concerned. But we really do not seo how a foreign Government can be resisted when it says to us, ‘ Considering your difficulties, we do not object to your keeping in jail for a month or two, on suspicion, A and B, subjects of this state, but they must not be imprisoned untried for a quite indefinite time, and after six mouths of it we must ask you either to put them to trial or release them.’ It might be kinder, it might be more considerate not to prefer such a request. But we cannot regard it as unreasonable, and no people are entitled to resent such a demand less than the English, and, we should hope, none are less disposed to do so. As for our Government, we hope they may be relied upon to deal with these American remonstrances without anger or irritation. ”

The Mahone Roses.

Mr. Wayne MacVeagh, who was the Attorney General of the United States under President Garfield, has just read himself out of the Republican party. It was easier to do this than it will be for him to obtain admission into any other. In his speech to the Civil-Service Reform Association ( at Philadelphia, ho said the Republicans had only three principles, and he was opposed to them all. One of these principles he characterized as “ the degrading spectacle of Mahoneism in Virginia;” and he condemns the administration of President Arthur for aiding that political movement for the repudiation of the State debt. • Bat who was at the head of the administration when the Republican party was first committed to this policy which Mr. Wayne MacVeagh now so aptly terms the deliberate prostitution of Government powers? Who was President of the United States when a magnificent bouquet of roses was sent from the White House and placed on the desk of Senator Mahone, of Virginia, in token of satisfaction at the first act in fulfillment of the unholy alliance ? Was Chester A. Arthur the man. or was it James A. Garfield ?—New York Sun.

Advice to Sir Charles.

When Sir Charles Lyell, the eminent geologist, was in America, he seems to have had some curious advice given to him about traveling on the Mississippi steamboats. “Never pay your fare until you are compelled to,” was the first of wisdom thrown at him. “And pray why not?” he queried, with English straightforwardness. “Because,” was the almost whispered reply, “your ohanoes are better in oase Df trouble.” “ Will you kindly explain yourself, sir?” said Lyell, astonished, beyond measure. “ Well,” answered the American, with a veiy significant leer, “when I was traveling up the river last March, somebody cried out, ‘Passenger overboard!’ The captain hurried to the office, and saked, ‘Has the man overboard paid his fare?’ On being answered in the affirmative, he turned to the pilot, and said, indifferently, ‘Go ahead; it’s all right.’” Of Mb. Longfellow's method when Professor of Modern Literature at Harvard, Dr. Edward E. Hale, one of his pupils, has given this account: “As it happened, the regular recitation rooms of the college were all in use, and we met him in a sort of parlor, carpeted, hung with pictures, and otherwise handsomely furnished, which was, I believe, called the “corporation room.” We sat round a mahogany table, which was reported to be meant for the dinners of the trustees, and the whole affair had the aspect of a friendly gathering in a private house, in which the study of German was the amusement of the occasion. He began with familiar ballads, read them to us, and made us read them to him. Of course we soon committed them to memory without meaning to, and I think this was probably part of his theory. At the same time we were learning the paradigms by rote. His regular duty was the oversight of five or more instructors who were teaching French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese two or three hundred un-der-graduates. We never knew when he might look in on a recitation and virtually conduct it. We were delighted to have him come. We all knew he was a poet,, and were proud to have him in the college, but at the same time we respected him as a man of affairs.” It was Washington Irving who said of a conceited man that whenever h$ walked toward the West he expected the East to tip up.