Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERIC AN ITEMS. Ea»i It Is understood that the estate of Ralph Waldo Emerson will inventory $200,000. Three inches of snow fell at Pottsville, Pa., on the 6th inat The Court House at Pittsburgh, which cost nearly *250,000, was partially destroyed by fire. Mrs. George Scoville appeared before a New York audience in company with a child, and remarked that family troubles compelled her to retire, after giving them an opportunity to see a sister of . Charles J. Gniteau. The money was then refunded to forty auditors. It is understood that Mrs. Scoville is to silo a bill for divorce at once. The Keystone Rubber Works, at Williamsport, Pa., were burned. The loss is *BO,OOO, and 200 operatives are thrown out of employment. West Newspapers in Arizona denounce President Arthur for bis proclamation against the cowboys, and insist that he has been misled by Federal Marshals. A complete survey of the crop outlook in Indiana is given by the Chicago Tribune, reports being received from every county in the State. In general, tho prospect is unfavorable as regards winter wheat, which suffered severely from heavy frosts and wintry weather early in April, but it will very likely be provod later on that the damage was overestimated and that a fair crop will be realized. A demand for an advance in wages causod the Cleveland Bolling Mill Company to lock out 4,500 men. A school-house near Lakefield, Minn., was lifted by a funnel-shaped cloud and scattered over the prairie. There were twclvo persons in the building, three of whom were terribly bruised. » The reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at St. Louis was called to order by Gen. Sherman, after which a floral tribute sent by Chicago was uncovered, Bishop Fallows delivering an address, and ex-Gov. Fletcher responding. Tho Secretary reported *9,000 on hand. Letters were read from President Arthur, Gen. Grant, Gen. McClellan and Samuel J. Tilden. The veterans were then escorted to the Merchants’ and Cotton Exchanges and to Shaw’s Garden. Orders have been issued for the abandonment of Forts Fetterman and Sanders, in Wyoming, which are now garrisoned by elevon companies. Buffalo Bill, who already owns an extensive cattle rancho near North Platte, Neb., is pressing a suit to recover lands at Cleveland belonging to bis grandfather, and has been offered *300,000 to compromise. Mrs. Frances M. Scoville has entered into a contract with Mr. Clark, of Gunnison, Col., and Mr. Nixon, a theatrical man, of Chicago, to deliver a series of lectures in St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha. She will present a petition for the commutation of Guiteau's sentence. The reports to the Department of Agriculture from all parts of Illinois indicate an improved condition of winter Wheat. On drained land tho wheat is much above an average ; that on wot landß has been injured by tho excessive rains. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee has.decided to hold its next reunion at Cleveland, Oct. 3 and 4, 1883. Bishop Fallows was selected as orator. Gen. Sherman was reelected President and Col. Dayton Secretary. South. For the first time since Ben Butler’s day, the Legislature of Louisiana met last week in Baton Eouge, the burned Capitol having been rebuilt. A bill was introduced to remit taxes in the overflowed parishes, and a resolution was presented that the Government be asked to tako control of the rebuilding of the levees.

Three colored men in jail at Brookhaven, Miss., fired the jail in order to and perished in the flames. A terrible cyclone passed over McAllister, a mining settlement in the Indian Territory near the Texas border. Seven people were killed outright, four fatally injured, elevon dangerously and thirty-nino more or less hurt. Fifty-nine houses were totally demolished and thirty more badly wrecked. The cyclone cut a path through the timber just as you would take a scythe and mow through grass. The 6torm swept over a wide section of country in Arkansas, Texas and Indian Territory, doing damage wherever it struck.

In the Methodist Conference at Nashville, Tenn., the Sunday-school Committee’s report showed that the Sunday-schools since 1878 to 1881 increased to 7,262; teachers to 62,442 : scholars to 462,321; making an aggregate increase of Sunday school population in fcur years of 78,603. Sunday-school periodicals show an aggregate increase of 400,000 in the same time. Three burglars met death in a peculy horrible manner at Salem, N. C. They had broken into a log smokehouse by prying up the logs with a lever, and were discovered by the fanner and one of them shot dead. The other two, in trying to escape, knooked the lever fNki its place, and were caught and slowly crushed to death by the settling of the logs. The Southern Baptist Convention, now in session at Greenville, S. C., proposes to publish a new translation of the Bible.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The new educational bill to be reported to the Senate appropriates $10,000,000 for distribution among the States and Territories where illiteracy most abounds. The Chinese bill is a thing of the past and is nOw a law and a part of the statutes of the country, the President having affixed his signature to it. In the petition for a writ of habeas oorpus in the case of Sergt. Mason, the United States Supreme Court decided that the courtmartial had full jurisdiction, and that the sentence pronounced was not in excess of its power. A Washington dispatch of May 11 says: “ The argument in behalf of another ohance for Gnitean to escape the halter was concluded yesterday, and the last word has been interposed between the assassin and his doom. From the expressions of Chief Justice Cartter during Mr. Beed’s argument the conclusion is inevitable that the motion to set aside the trial on the score of non-jurisdiction or for any other reason will be denied, and it will not be many* days before Gnitean is brought face to face with the inexorable certainty that his infamous career will end on the scaffold on the 80th of June.”

POLITICAL POINTS/ The Texas Democratic State Convention has been called for July 16. The Democratic Congressional Con-

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vention of (be Seventh district of Indiana met at Shelbyville and placed in nomination Will E. •Rngiish, of Indianapolis, son of the Hon. Wm. H. English. It is asserted by a Washington friend that Gen Chalmers, late the Representative of the “Shoestring” district of Mississippi, will head the Independent movement in that State, and that he has the promise of backing by the administration Gen. James A. Beaver was nominated by acclamation for Governor of Pennsylvania by the State Republican Convention at Harrisburg. William Henry Rawle, of PhiUdelphia, was nominated for Judge of tho Supreme Court. The convention favored civil-service reform, fair treatment of the Indians, and the inviolability of their lands. They heartily indorsed the administrations of President Arthur and Gov. Hoyt, and deprecated the untimely death of Gen. Garfield. At a meeting of the Republican State Central Committee of Indiana, Aug. 9 was fixed as the date of the State Convention. Ex-Secretary Kirkwood declines to be a candadate for Congress in lowa.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Over 2,000 Chinamen were within two days landed at Victoria, B. C., from Hong Kong. George Scoville, of Chicago, asked the aid of the police of New York in finding his wife. The return of John W. Gniteau to the writ of habeas corpus denies that Mrs. Scoville is in his custody, or that she is illegally restrained of her liberty. Mr. Scoville testified that his wife told him be had Ceased to care for hor; also, that J. W. Guiteau said he would resist all further attempts to prove insanity in the family. Incendiarism is rife at Winnipeg, and the city is patrolled night and day by 100 special polioe. The ninth annual session ■of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor, was held at Baltimore, and the fifth annual meeting of the watchmakers and jewelers of the United States was held in Dubuque. A fire which originated in Bradshaw’s furniture store at Ridgotown, Ont., destroyed twenty business places, including two banks and the express and postoffices causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The House Committee on Elections has docidod to report in favor of seating Lowe, the Alabama Greenbacker, and ousting Wheeler, a Democrat. The Committee on Education of the House of Representatives has reported a bill for the promotion of popular intelligence. It proposes to appropriate out of tho national treasury $10,000,000 annually for five years for the support of free schools, to be apportioned among the several States and Territories in the ratio of the illiteracy of their population over 10 years of age.

FOREIGN NEWS. The reported loss of thirty lives by the burning of the United States steamer Rodgers is contradicted in a dispatch from St Petersburg. Michael Davitt was released from Portland prison on the 6th of May, and proceeded by rail to London, accompanied by Parnell, Dillon nd O’Kelly. At Alexandria, in Russia, a mob of several hundred persons wrecked the houses of Jewish residents. During the next six months fourteen men-of-war capable of carrying 8,000 trOops will be stationed at Russian ports in the Pacific. The Princess Victoria, wife of the Crown Prince Frederick William, of Germany, has been safely delivered of a son. Mother and child are progressing favorably. Nearly 100 colliers were killed by a mine explosion in Westphalia. The advent of a son in the household of Prince William of Prussia makes Queen Victoria a great-grandmother. The Sultan of Morocco has imprisoned 600 of his subjects for stoning the English Minister. Egypt is in a turmoil. The Ministry are on a strike against the Khedive, and repudiate bis authority, but he has the support of the Turkish Sultan. Michael Davitt, in a letter to the London Standard, acknowledges the failure of the appeal to force on the part of the Irish, and states his willingness to advocate a peaceful solution of the questions at issue between England and Ireland. At a reception given by Mrs. Parnell in New York, she stated that her son framed in Kilmainham jail four amendments to the Land act which were recently introduced in the House of Commons, and would not accept a release nntil Gladstone agreed to present them. The funeral of Lord Cavendish at Chatsworth called together an assemblage of 80,000 persons. A special train conveyed from London the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, Mr. Gladstone and others, and 300 members of Parliament walked in the procession. The coffin was borne by tenants of the Duke of Devonshire, of whom 5,000 were present.

THE PERUVIAN AFFAIR.

The examination of Senator Blair by the Foreign Affairs Committee on the 6th inst. consisted largely of the reading of statistics from the “Statesman's Year Book” and ** Spofford’s Almanac " as to the condition and population of Pern and Chili, and catechising Mr. Blair with regard to them. Witness thought there could be no doubt but that English influence predominated commercially in South America, and that Chili holds commercial relations almost exclusively with European nations, particularly with England, from whom she has received substantial financial aid. Witness stated that Shipherd placed the amount of their claim at $135,000,000, and that of Cochet at $1,000,000,000. It was always clear to him (witness) that they would get a great amount of it. Shipherd indicated a readiness to take in settlement from Peru whatever might seem fair. In the Peruvian Company investigation at Washington, on the Bth inst, Senator Blair acknowledged he had accepted SIOO,OOO worth of Shipherd’s stock, bat had not been influenced by mere money considerations. He saw Pern “ the under dog,” and bis sympathies were enlisted in her behalf. This closed the investigation, except so far as the sub-com-mittee is concerned. The sub-committee of the Peruvian investigation began ita sittings in New York on the 10th inst., and opened business by taking the evidence of Robert Randall, who lay sick in a hotel. His testimony threw no new light upon the affair under inquiry. John G. Saxb, the poet, who is so afflicted mentally in his old age, has a competency which Was greatly increased some years ago by a fortunate speculation m Texas cattle-raising with his brother, Beter Saxe. The poet furnished some of the oapital, and his brother went to Texas to attend to the ranche. “My brother John,” Peter said some years ago, “ has made more money out of cattle in one year than he has made out of writing poetry in twenty years.”

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY\ MAY 19, 1882.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Republican State Committee of Illinois held a session at Chicago, and decided to hold the convention in Springfield June 28. They determined as the basis of representation one delegate for each 400 votes and fraction above 200 cast for Garfield and Arthur. Three or four inches of snow fell in Washington county, lowa, on the 12th of May. An excursion train conveying the Missouri Press Association to Galveston, over the Missouri Pacific road, collided with a runaway engine and caboose, near Oswego, Kan. The engineer and fireman leaped and saved their lives. Both locomotives were completely wrecked, but the journalistic party escaped unhurt Patsy Devine, the murderer of Aaron Goodfeliow, at Bloomington, 81., in August, 1879, found guilty at the end of two separato trials, was executed at Clinton, 111., on the 12th inst To the very last moment the condemned man protested his innocence of the murder, and asserted that if he had been given a chance he could have found tho man who killed Aaron Goodfeliow. He had led a life of continuous crime for seven years, and tho evidence given at his two trials left no room for doubt that he was concerned in the murder. The New York firm of Clark & Bothwell, dealers in mining stocks, has failed, and it is alleged the firm is defaulter to the extent of *60,000. Mr. Clark was formerly President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, while Bothwell is an old Chicago journalist. E. W. Kingsland, Treasurer of the Provident Savings Institution of Jersey City, shot himself fatally in the Trustees’ room. The deed was followed by a run by anxious depositors. The Treasurer’s aocounts are found to be correct. There were 117 business failures in the oountry for the week ending May 12, forty of which were in the West. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, in their national convention in Chicago, passed resolutions most indignantly denying the connection of their order with the Cavendish-Burke murder, which, “ on the contrary, they condemn and deplore.” The fourth trial of the suit brought by Cyrus H. McCormick against the Pennsylvania road, to recover damages for baggage burned in its depot at Chicago twenty years ago, has been ended in a New York oourt, judgment being given for *13,248. The litigation arose from Mr. McCormick’s refusal to pay $8 for extra baggage. He was first awarded $10,660, then $13,908, then 6 cents.

The Pension Appropriation bill has been completed. It sets aside $100,000,000 for the next fiscal year, of which nearly all is on army aocount. The bill provides that the income from the navy pension fund shall be devoted to the needs of that branch of the service, so far as it goes. Several English detectives have sailed for New York, and the force at Queenstown has been increased. Nangle was confronted at Dublin with the boatman who he said offered him £IOO to assist in the assassination, and was shown to be a liar. Fresh arrests are continually made. A Dublin dispatch says the “ police and people are beginning to discredit the theory that Irish- Americans were imported to commit the murder of Cavendish and Burke. This leads, further, to the deduction that some Ribbon lodge was implicated in the crime. The great hope is, the reward offered will induce some ..'.ember to become an informer. Parnell, O’Kelly and Davitt have gone to Paris to confer with Patrick Egan, Treasurer of the Land League.” Iroquois, the American racer in England, will be kept off the track a long time by reason of the rapture of a blood vessel.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

After having engaged the attention of the House of Representatives more or less for six weeks, the bill authorizing a Tariff Commission passed that body on the 6th inst., by a vote of 151 to 86. The following Democrats voted in favor of the bill: Morse of Boston, Bliss of Brooklyn, Scoville of Buffalo, Harris and Ross of New Jersey, Ermentrout, Curtin, Klotz, Mosgrove, Mutchler, Randall aDd Morgan R. Wise of Pennsylvania, Chapman and Talbott of Maryland, Barbour and George D. Wise of Virginia, Hoge, Eenna and Wilson (the whole delegation) of West Virginia, Speer of Georgia, Goldsmith W. Hewitt and Shelley of Alabama, Upson of Texas, Ellis and Gibson of Louisiana (representing the sugarplanters), Cleardy of the Carondelet distri:; in Missouri, and Atherton of the Tuscarawas district in Ohio—total 27. The Bepablicans y lio voted against the bill, were : Belford of Colorado, Cutts, Farwell, McCoid and Upiegraff of lowa, Dunnell and Washburn c<f Minnesota, and Orth of Indiana—total, 8. No Greenbacker voted against the bill except Jones of Texas. A resolution was adopted giving Mr. Matson leave to withdraw hn papers in the Alabama contested-election case. Air. Hnbbell introduced a bill to create a department and Secretary of Agriculture. There was no session of the Senate. A bill was introduced in the Senate, on the Bth inst,, authorizing the President to appoint Fitz John Porter a Colonel, or place him on the retired list with that rank. A bill was reported appropriating $300,000 to extend tfi’e Executive Mansion. The chair named Messrs. Windom, Hawley, Harrison, Cockrell and Pagh as the committee to investigate the charge of corruption in connection with the bill relative to distilled spirits in bond. Mr. Bayard urged early action on the Tariff Commission bill, and Mr. Edmunds objected to any further proceedings on the measure. Mr. Groome presented a joint resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to Chief Engineer George W. Melville. The Court of Appeals bill came up. Mr. Jonas’ amendment was lost by 21 to 27. Mr. Morgan suffered defeat in an attempt to strike ont the clause making findings of the Appellate Court conclusive as to facts. In the House of Representatives, Air. Calkins introduced a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for Arctic exploration, with Master Lucien Young as Commander. Air. Bragg introduced an act for the relief of Fitz John Porter. On the bill to enlarge the scope of the Department of Agriculture, speeches were made by Messrs. Carpenter, Geddes, Rich and Muldrow. The Speaker called to the chair for two days Mr. Borrows, of Aiichigan. The House Tariff Commission bill was passed by the Senate, on the 9th inst., by a vote of 35 to 19. The Committee on the District of Columbia was instructed to inquire into the management of the jail, it being alleged that a notorious prisoner holds daily levees. The bill to establish a Court of Appeals was discussed, without action. The Superintendent of the Census petitioned for a farther appropriation of SBO,OOO to defray expenses. A batch of House bills were passed donating condemned cannon for monumental purposes. Air. McDill introduced a bill for a wagon bridge betwoen Council Bluffs and Omaha. The President nominated H. C. Miller, of Minnesota, Consul at Guayaquil; F. W. Oakley, Marshal for the Western district of Wisconsin, and P. B. Corbett Marshal for Nevada. In the House of Representatives, on the bill to enlarge the powers of the Department of AgrCulture, after half a dozen speeches, Mr. Townshend offered an amendment, which was adopted, that the Secretary of Agriculture shall be an experienced agriculturist Mr. Dunnell offered an amendment providing for a division of forestry, which was adopted. A substitute for the original bill, offered by Mr. McKenna, was rejected. The previous question was ordered, and an adjournment was taken. The bill for intermediate Appellate Courts was taken np in the Senate on the 10th inst. Mr. Jones, of Florida, opposed the section limiting the appellate jurisdiction of Circuit

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Courts. Mr. Davis urged its retention as necessary. A joint resolution was passed appropriating *60,900 to BUpply the deficiency for fuel and lights in buildings under the control of the Treasury Department. , A bill was passed to establish an assay office at Dead wood, Dakota. The House, by a voe of 172 to 7, passed the MU creating an Executive Department of Agriculture. The conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to. By a vote of 184 to 18, tho District of Columbia Appropriation MR was passed. Borne debate on the Geneva Award bill followed. The United States Senate passed a bill on the Uth inst. for the relief of L. M. Day, of New Orleans, who purchased mortgaged laud under the Confiscation act, when the Government officers represented that it was free from incumbrance. When the bill for intermediate Appellate Courts came up, Mr. Morgan said it had been hinted that the President would appoint a number of Democrats to the new Judgeships, and he spurned the overture. Messrs. Dawes and Ingalls expressed the opinion that snch negotiators deserved to be impeachod. Mr. Davis proposed an amendment, which was adopted, that the juridiction of Circuit Courts shall reunchanged. The Indian Appropriation bill, as reduced by the confer ence committee to $455,200, was passed. In the House, Mr. Sherwin reported a bill for tho annual appropriation of $10,000,000 for the next five years, to aid in the support of free schools, the amount to be apportioned on the basis of illiteracy. Mr. Rice made an adverse report on the biU to shorten to two years the period required in homesteading. Mr. Steele reported favorably a biR for a retired list for non-commissioned officers who have served for thirty years. The Speaker presented a communication from the Secretary of War, stating the expenditures of the Signal Servioe Bureau for the past seven years. The Intermediate Appellate Court bill was passed in the Senate, on the 12th inst, by a vote of 32 to 18. It creates nine intei mediate courts, or one in each existing circuit, and eighteen new Circuit Judges, who are to be appointed by the President The first teipn will begin in November of this year. A bill was also passed to authorize the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company to bridge the Arkansas river at Van Buren. Reports of conference committees on the agricultural and fortification appropriations were adopted. The House passed a bill to provide for the removal of the remains of Minister Kilpatrick from Chili to the United States. The Geneva Award bill was passed by 132 to 66. Conference reports on the Agricultural and Fortification bills were agreed to. Mr. Crapo endeavored to call up the act to extend the charters of national banks, but the Democrats refused to vote.

IRELAND.

Provision* of Gladstone’s Repression Act. In the British House of Commons, Harcourt, Home Secretary, in introducing the bill for the repression of crime in Ireland, characterized the prevalence of crime there ai a national disgrace. He said: “The time has arrived for the entire House to unite in taking steps to repress it. The case we deplore to-day is not solitary. Crime is a plague-spot on Ireland, and I believe the Irish people desire this removed. It springs from secret societies, and must be extirpated. The mainspring of crime is the expectation of impunity, which is only too well founded. The Government has, therefore, concluded it is necessary, in those places where the ordinary «w is not observed, to create special tribunals, consisting of three Judges to be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant, to try cases without jury. Tho judgment of the court must be uuanimous. Appeal can be made to the Supreme Court, judgment of the latter to be given by a majority of Judges. The Supreme Court may diminish but cannot increase the severity of the sentences. Parliament will be asked to provide special remuneration for the special Judges. The bill also contains the following provisions : It gives power to search for secret apparatus of murder, such as arms, threatening letters, etc.; power to enter houses by day or night, under warrant of the Lord Lieutenant ; power to arrest persons prowling about at nigfit and unable to give an account of themselves, who are to be dealt with summarily ; power to arrest strangers, as the crimes are generally committed by foreign emissarios, the hospitality of England not being for such persons as the agents of O’Donovan-ltossa ; and power to remove foreigners considered dangerous to peace. The Government, tberefore, intends to revive the Alien act. Secret societies will be dealt with summarily, and membership thereof will constitute an offense under this act. Cases of aggravated assault will be treated in a summary manner. Power is given to repress intimidation and unlawful meetings, the latter to be dealt with summarily. Newspapers containing seditious and inflammatory matter will be suppressed and the proprietors required to enter into recognizances not to repeat the offense. Justices can compel the attendance of witnesses about to abscond, and the Lord Lieutenant can appoint additional police where necessary at the cost of the districts concerned. Compensation for murder and outrage will be required of the districts where they occur. Outrages will be dealt with summarily by the courts, which are to consist of two stipendiary magistrates. The Government reserves for consideration any further alteration of the jury system.” The Homo Secretary admitted that tho bill was extraordinary, but necessary to meet extraordinary circumstances. The operation of tho bill will be limited to three years. The Government would do all in their power to prevent innocent persons suffering from the action of tho bill. He added that tue bill placed almsot unlimited authority in the hands of the Lord Lieutenant, and concluded by stating that the measure would shortly be followed by one dealing with arrears of rent. Harcourt stated that the Government had considered the question of instituting a military tribunal, but had come to the conclusion that a resort to such a measure was undesirable. After a brief debate the bill was passed to its first reading by a vote of 327 to 22. The minority was composed entirely of Home Rulers. Parnell said it was the most stringent measure ever proposed, and that it would result in a nundred fold greater failure than what had gone before. Dillon said the act would bring disaster, destroy all faith in ultimate justice, and play into the hands of assassins.

FITZ JOHN PORTER.

Executive Order Pardoning the Convicted General. In reply to Fitz John Porter’s application for a remission of a portion of the sentence of the oonrt-martial being executed, the President has issued the following order, and has thus removed the only legal obstacle to Congressional action and exhausted all his powers in the case under existing laws: I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States of America, to whom these presents may come, greeting: Whereas, On the 10th day of Jann&ry, 1863, Fitz John Porter, Major General of Volunteers in the military service of the United States, and also Colonel of the Fifteenth regiment of infantry and Brevet Brigadier General in the United States arm}’, was, by general court-martial, for certain offenses of which he had been thereby convicted, sentenced “to be cashiered and to be forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United Statesand Whebbab, On the 21st of Janaary, 1863, that sentence was duly confirmed by the President of the United States, and by nia order of the same date carried into execution ; and Whereas, So much of that sentence as forever disqualified said Fitz John Porter from holding office, imposed upon him as a continuing penalty, is still being exeented ; and Whereas, Doubts having since arisen concerning the guilt of said Fitz John Porter of the offense whereof he was convicted by said court-martial, founded upon the .result of the investigation ordered on the 12th of April, 1878, by the President of the United States, which are deemed by me to be of sufficient gravity to warrant a remission of that part of the sentence which has not been completely executed; . Now, therefore, know ye, That I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by Ihe constitution of the United States, and'in consideration of the premises, do hereby grant to said FitzJohn Porter a full remission of the hereinbe-fore-mentioned continuing penalty. Chester A. Arthur. These men who are so lavish with advice are generally giving away that which they should reserve and make use of themselves.

TARIFF TALK.

Sophisms of the Proteciionlats ExA posed -A Rattling Speeds by Cois-1 gremsaan Cox. Among the many speeches delivered in Congress during the discussion of the Tariff Commission bill, that of Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, deserves especial attention because of the lucid way in which he proceeded to expose the sophisms of the high protectionists. Mr. Cox first referred to the snr] Ins in our Federal revenues and the dangers ol over-taxa-tion. Excesses in anything, he said were very bad. Excessive cost for fuel, sheltq, clothing and food are worse. But all are embraced in an excessive tax or tariff. The lai test drain made on this patient people is the d ain made on their credulity. They are expeol id to believe that these surpluses are bene cent and needed. t I do not believe that these excesseawould be permitted for a day bat for the clam irons fallacy that these high taxes are intends! to help labor by keeping up higher wages. \ In reply to the wages fallacy Mr, Cot said : The usual thing is an elaborate talle, professedly comparing wages in Englandjand the United States. It exhibits a low scale if wages for England and a high scale for thiUmted States. And thus runs the wondeml syllogisms : I L Major premise: England has fre* trade. Minor premise : England has low wftgesl Conclusion : Free trade produces low wages! 2. Major premise: The United Stata has Eroteotic-n. Minor premise: The United \tates a 8 high wages. Conclusion: ProtectionWoduces high wages. Really, Mr. Speaker, this sort of logio is lery easy. There is no end to the propositionwre might prove. Thus: V 3. Major: England has a Queen. Mint: England has low wages. Conclusion : Queek make wages low. X 4. Major: The United States is infested witl snakeß. Minor: The United States has high wages. Conclusion: Snakes make wages high.\ “ But this is nonsense,” says the protectionist “ Exactly so,” responds the free trader; “as pure nonsense as the stock protection argument about wages.” The thing you pretend to do is to prove that the alleged low wages of England result from free trade, and you simply assert it You are asked to prove that the high wages which exist in the United States are the result of protection, and again you simply assert that such is the case. Why do you not carry out your pretense of reasoning? Of ail the advanced countries of Europe, England pays the highest wages. Wages are higher in England than in France; higher in France than in Germany. Why do you not treat your followers to this sort of argument: In England, free trade and high wages. In Fiance, protection and low wages. Therefore, free trade makes wages high and protection makes wages low. What country in the world has more protection from the outer barbarian than China? If protection can make wages high, the Celestial diggers should be Vanderbilts and Astors. Why do not our friends “appeal to facts” in this" direction, and blazon the result before “free-trade fanatics” and their deluded followers?

Do I, therefore, maintain that comparison of faets are meaningless ? Not at all, I say only, first, get yonr facts; and secondly, put them fairly on grounds of comparison. Everybody admits that this country is prosSsrous.' Every American glories in the fact. ut when the protectionist calmly ascribes our magnificent progress to his patent process of invisible taxation some of us object. Has the fertility of our soil done nothing? Has the wealth of our mines gone for naught? Does ■ the cunning skill of our artisans count for nothing in industrial development? Has American genius in mechanical invention been spent in fruitless vagaries? Protectionists are compelled to acknowledge that prosperity has followed free trade in England. How could they do otherwise ? Between 1805 and 1825, while England was yet under the protective policy applied to the uttermost, her exports rose from $190,000,000 to $194,000,000—a gain of only $4,000,000, or about $200,000 per annum. Between 1825 and 1842 under a tariff somewhat reduced, the rise was from $194,000,000 to $237,000,000 ; gaiu per annum, $2,400,000 ; rate of increase, twelve times as great as before. Between 1842 and 1846, a period of partial free trade, the increase of exports was $52,000,000; rate of increase sixty times as great as under the system of ultra protection, five times as great as under the reduced tariff. From 1846 to 1876, a straight free-trade period, the exports rose from $289,000,000 to $1,00(1,000,000, showing an annual gain of $33,700,000 ; rate of increase, three times as great as under partial free trade, twelve times as great as under moderate protection, and 160 times as great as under stringent protection. As to the United States, the census valuations show, in round numbers, that during ten years of low tariff, from 1850 to 1860, the wealth of the country increased from $7,000,000,000 to $16,000,000,000, while from 1860 to 1880, twenty years of high tariff, tho rise was only from $16,000,000,000 to *35,000,000,000. In 'other words, under low tariff property doubled in ten years ; under high tariff it took twenty years to double. In iBSO the average of wages per year was $248. After ten years of low tariff the average had risen to $290, an increase of about 20 per cent. Then came tei years of protection, and the paper rate of wages was $377, for which the gold equivalent vas about $250, a decline under protection of more than 13 per cent., bringing wages to just about the point at which they were left by a for revenue ” twenty years before. The statistics for 1880 are not yet compiled, bu, if the indications of the advanced bulletins are sustained, protmtion had better speedily change its tactics—flu-swear “ facts,” and onco more, as of old, turn its attention to theory. The census of 1879 divides the working population of the country as follows: Pr. ot. Agricultural 47 Professional and personal services 22 Trade and transportation 9 Manufacturing, mechanical and mining industries 22 The division of the tribute will obviously be confined to the latter class. So that, at the first examination, we find that the proposition “protection increases wages ” must at least be denied as regards four-fifths of the working popI ulation.

One man in five probably has increased wages, under the theory we are considering. But investigate further. The class of manufacturing, mechanical and mining industries includes a host of arts not touched by the tariff, except to burden them by additions to the cost of their materials and tools. Blacksmiths, carpenters, engineers, masons, milliners, painters, plumbers, printers, and so on through the alphabet, where is the protection for theso ? Not a thing they make is protected, nor could be protected; yet all their tools and all their materials are weighted with taxes for the benefit of the protected few. Again, there are scores of mechanical arts nominally protected, but really beyond protection. Who speaks of protection to American sewing machines ? American clocks ? American tools ? American wagons ? If reckoning be made among all these, and the workingmen counted out from the general class under consideration, we shall find the 22 per cent, dwindle to something like 5 per cent, We must seek among this 5 per cent, of the working people of America for those whose wages, on our supposition, may possibly be advanced. That is *to say, under the protection theory we are discussing, the employers of 5 percent, of our workmen aif enabled by the tariff to pay better wages than the market rate —if they choose to do so. Now, I wish to offer here a curious bit of figuring. Suppose that this reasoning from protection premises is correct, and that the 5 per cent, of our working people do actually get the higher wages. The number of working population is not far from 15,000,000. Five per cent, of these gives us 750,000. Now, the lowest estimate I have ever been able to make of the total tax paid by consumers on protected goods is $750,000,000 per anuum. Bat $750,000,000 among 750,000 men would be just SI,OOO apiece. Whence it would appear that we might just as well have free trade and pay the “ protected ” workingmen SI,OOO a year for remaining idle. Wages are said to be 50 per cent greater here than in Great Britain. This is a mistake. From 1815 to 1875 wages in Great Britain in many trades were higher than here. Immigration actually went home. When we have higher wages they are accounted for on other grounds. Onr natural advantages and ingenious maehinery and skill beget high wages. They always did from the first The wages depend on the product In farming we pay higher wages than formerly, and yet we outsell foraign-

ers in tneir own market The average annual wages of men, women and children employed in manufactories in 1850, as taken from the United States census just after taxation was reduced on the necessities of life, was *247.3? ; average annual wages in 1860, after fourteen years of a low tariff for revenue, *289.02 ; increase of *42.65. Average annual wages in i gold in 1870, after ten years of a high tariff, ' *283.23; decrease, *5.79. Difference in favor of the lower tariff, *48.44. Protectionists say that wages are higher here than in Europe. So they are now, but in 1875 they were lower. Many skilled mechanics went back to England and Scotland then. The tariff was nearly the same. But the high tariff raises the pnoe of everything workmen have to boy. Beef cost in 1860, 10 oents; now 16. Mutton then, Bto 10; now, 9to 14. Corned beef then 8 ; now,. 11. Baoon then, 10; now, 13. Lard then, 12 now, 15. The same is true of rent, clothing, and all the necessaries of life. Mr. Cox then cited the ease of the American silk manufacturers and the Massachusetts null operatives to show that protection did not make h|gh wages. Supposing, said he, that the silk manufacturers of Paterson were able to pay their operatives *lO per day; does any one dream they would doit? If the market rate were *1 a day they would pay the dollar and shake hands with each other over the $9 as profit They would probably use it to go on to Washington and petition for more protection. It is the unprotected industries whose steadiness of profits and products enables them to pay the best and steadiest wages. When we tax expenses and not income, it is the workingmen wno suffer, not capitalists. In short, the protected industries, like ell other industries, take the rate of wages as they find it, and the rate obviously can not be fixed by a demand which oovers only 5 per cent of the field. Wages are made high in this country by the 95-per-cent, demand—by the unprotected grain of the West, the unprotected cotton of the South ; by the wonderful bounty of nature to this fruitful land, and by the intelligent brains and cunning hands of all onr people. Value he considered the true basis of taxation, and specific duties, wherein the poor man’s tea might be taxed the same as the rich man’s, which cost twice as much, had no oh&rm for him.

The argument for free raw material Mr. Cox considered valid, and if good it was good for \the manufactured article. \ I join, he said, with all in the attempt to reSeve raw material, but let us not forget the iVoduct. I should be glad to vote in the dilution of freedom, even if limited. It would bea great relief; but if it stops there it might as Veil never have begun, for its modicum of relief only adds clamps to the system of protection} Aluding to the burdens of protection, Mr. Csx!said : Protection is insectivorous. It feeds oi} the larger body. It is parasitic. It was said by Prof. Riley, a naturalist of the Smithsonian, in a humorous illustration, that there are birds of ill-omen who tear holes in cows and sheep and deposit their eggs therein. (These hatch out lizards. They fatten on the animal just as protectionists fatten on agriculture. But the animal does not die at once. The lizards in time are driven off the body and buried in the ground, and come forth again in me form of birds, like their parents. It is the ipalogue of protection. It may not kill, owing to the native strength of the cow or sheep, but it'is very troublesome. This clamor of protection is a croak; it is not a rational speech. It began after developing its infantile ways as a tadpole in search for worms and insects. It grew so in damp weather, in the land, that peoplo thought it rained frogs. After a surfeit, the infant began to appear in public as a leader of fashion ; he works out of his old skin deftly and swallows it., then he begins to croak again at the satisfaction of consuming a part of himself. “ Every pr duct of the farm is protected, ” sings a sweet chorus here. One member picks out oats, another grain, another, of a gentle turn, sheep ; another, of a rude type, hogs, and so they say that the farmers are protected, and that, too, with their great crops and big surplus, the price regulated by the foreign demand for the surplus and the independence of the farmer assured by the demand! Farms protected! Why, if there be anything that neither has nor asks for Government aid in the way of bounty, it is the farming product. There is a perpetual vendue for him at home and abroad. Look at his list. Take the typical American wools, the great staples of beof, pork, corn and wheat, butter and cheese, cotton and hay, lard and tallow, fruits and vegetables—fresh and canned. Who asks to protect petroleum, turpentine, resin, ordinary hardware and agricultural implements, coarse cottons, starch, and scores of other articles, which, if the tariff were off, wonld not be increased in importation, and which, if we had free trade, would seek foreign markets ? If the market for agricultural products havo not had a better market under protection than under a revenue t&riff tho question is settled. For twenty years the farmers who produce tho great bulk of our product have wailed for a better home market. Have they had it ? In

1860 our agricultural exports were $295,000,000, or 78.81 per cent, of the whole amount; in 1870 they were $391,010,000. or 79 per cent, of the whole amount; in 1880 they were $685,867,000, or per cent, of tho whole amount; in 1881 they were $790,000,000, or 83 per cent, of the entire amount. To secure this home market they paid at least 25 per cent, more for domestic goods than they would have paid but for protection. On $5,000,000,000 worth of goods $1,125,000,000 mere have been paid than tfiey could have been imported for, and all for tbe home market. To secure, this home market the little surplus of *733,000,000 was foreign export. It requires much patience to argue this over and over again. It is enough to make every pig on every farm grant in derision ; every bull in every pasture bellow in laughter! A protective tariff to prevent Canada and France competing with us in bread and meat-stuffs! Ha! lia ! he! he! ho ! roars out universal nature! No wonder the Mississippi lost its channel at the ridiculous suggestion. Old ocean, bearing on its bosom to the needy of Europe onr immense surplus of the farm, from the cheese and apples of New York to the cotton and com of the South and West, thundered its ironic fun at the ridiculous suggestion. Farming in New England and New York does not pay! Who asks to protect them against the rich soil of the West? Their farms are in some places deserted, and what is cultivated is running into larger farms ; but tbe little tubs thrown to the whale in the shape of protection against foreign potatoes and Canada grainl The idea ! It would make Adam Smith or even Horace Greeley turn over and laugh in their graves.

The Old Guard.

It was said of Napoleon’s old guard that they knew how to die, but did not know how to surrender. The Grant Guard do not know how to die. They still live, and will continue to survive as long as there is a cob of com left in the public crib. The handsome thing has been done for Effigy Sargent, for the ancient Taft, for Biographer Badeau, for Fish, for Francis, for Dayton and for others. They are to ornament the diplomatic body in foreign lands and to illustrate the glory of Grantism. But several of the shining lights that adorned the two terms of the expectant third-termer have not been provided for, and they are on the anxious seat. Belknap is yet to be booked. Babcock wants to be vindicated by a higher place than the one ho now holds. Boss Shepherd longs to return to the scenes of his former greatness. Landaulet Williams sees the Senfltorship in Oregon fade away by the veto of the Chinese bill and the votes of Republican Senators, and therefore wants a mission or something cheerful to console his heart. If Badeau and Sargent and Taft and the like have got soft places for their loyalty to the third-term candidate, why should not Belknap, with whom Grant regretted to part company, and Babcock, whom he saved from the penitentiary, and Williams, whom he tried to make Chief Justice, and Shepherd, whom he made Governor, be taken care of ? That is the question of questions, and what is President Arthur going to do about it ? -New York Sun. Ann the original MSS. of Longfellow’s works, both in prose and vsrse, have been preserved and bound by him.— New YvrJt Evening Pott.

$1.50 ner Annum.

NUMBER 16.

CYCLONE.

Horrible Destruction Wrought by Two Cloud-Funnels Twenty-Ono People Killed and Forty Wounded. A dispatch from Denison, Texas, says s “ A terrific cyclone struck the town of McAllister, in the Indian Territory. From the meager information thus far reoeivod it seems to have destroyed the entire place, killing and wonnding many people." A later dispatch from Dallas, Texas, gives additional particulars of the cyclone: “ News from the MoAllister cyclone says the deaths added to those killed outright increase the fatalities to twenty-one up to to-night. Forty-two more are wounded, but it is not thought fatally. Half the killed and wonnded are women and children. All possible aid from physioisns, nurses, etc., is being rendered the sufferers. Fifty-nine houses were totally demolished and twentyseven partially. Settlements Nos. 5 and 7of the Osage Mining Company were the ones visited. They had contained about 400 people. No. 6 was entirely wiped out. No 7 reoeived only the partial foroe of the storm. The mines were only slightiy damaged, and will be worked again next week. Belief subscriptions are being taken up at various points. A mass-moot-ing to-night at Denison realized several hundred dollars. “At Paris, Texas, great damage was done to Eroperty. Joseph Hill, a farmer, was killed by ghtning. Your correspondent was giveu the following description to-night by a survivor of the McAllister storm : Two horribly black-look-ing clouds, one from the southeast and one from the southwest, came with a rush and met at camp No. 6. An appalling elemental carnival ensued there. “ The two olouds appeared to rend and to tear each other like wild beasts. A continuous flash of blinding sheet lightning made the scene brighter than day for over an hour. Above the wild roar of the wind oould ocoaionally be heard the shrieks of dying men, women and children, and when tho storm subsided no aid was at hand, and none nearer than three miles away from the railroad station. All was in a state of chaos, and no help could be got until next morning. “ The fall of rain was terrific, and it was accompanied by a great quantity of hail-stones, which fell as far north as Fort Gibson. A washout occurred on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, near Armstrong, in the Territory- A locomotive went down the embankment and the engineer was killed. Travel is generally suspended on most of the Texas roads, caused by the fury of the storm.”

The Astounding Figures of Extravagance.

The rush for special legislation iu the present Republican Congress, of which Secor Robeson is fitly the leader in the House of Representatives, exceeds all former experience. Nothing approaching in magnitude the proposed spoliation of the treasury has been heretofore known, or even suggested as possible. By a close computation, made by officers of the House, it appears that 5,664 bills and 185 joint resolutions have been introduced, involving an outlay of $643,811,936, without counting qhe allowances that may be made in 1,190 pension bills !

These appalling figures seem to make no impression on the majority. They have initiated a carnival of prodigality and of plunder which throws the revelries of Grantism into the shade, and they mean, if it be possible, to make it end in a wild debauch of appropriations. A surplus of $150,000,000 invites the rings, the jobbers, the corruptionists and the universal lobby to a feast, at which eadft of them struggles for the first place and for the tidbits, and to which all go with keen appetites for whatever can be got. Exclusive of these direct grabs and steals, many of which will be kept back for the the closing days of the session, when, by concerted management and the previous question, they may be driven through with railroad speed, there are other schemes which aggregate enormous sums. The lapsed grants to railroad corporations, allowing them the equities, foot up over $210,000,000, at the minimum price of the land. The Judiciary Committee of the House has these land grants under consideration, and from all the signs, outside and inside, the question is likely to remain in that unsettled state for this session, and perhaps for this Congress. Corporations which claim a territory covering an area as large as New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with their 6,000,000 population, are unwilling to surrender such an empire without a desperate struggle. They have employed conspicuous counsel and other persuasive influences, which poor settlers and struggling industry cannot do. Corporations have the ear of this Congress, and they intend to be felt in legislation before its career closes in ignominy. But there are sharp eyes watchiug these big jobs, and the votes that will be given upon them, to make up a record for the fall elections. Candidates for re-election will do well not to forget this notice. — Washington telegram.

George Eliot’s Mental Vitality.

[Boston Post.] Nothing, indeed, was more remarkable in this last period of her life than her intense mental vitality, which failing health did not seem in the least to impair. She possessed in an eminent degree that power which has led to success in so many directions —which is ascribed both to Newton and Napoleon—of keeping his mind unceasingingly at the stretch without conscious fatigue. She would cease to read or to ponder when other duties called her, but never (as it seemed) because she herself felt tired. Even in so complex an effort as a visit to a picture gallery implies, she could continue for hours at the same pitch of earnest interest, and outweary strong men. Nor was this a mere habit of passive receptivity. In the intervals between her successive compositions her mind was always fusing and combining its fresh stores, and had her life been prolonged, it is probable she would have produced work at least equal in merit to anything which she had already achieved. I may perhaps be allowed to illustrate what has here been said by a few words as to the occupations of her last days on earth. On the Friday night before her death, Mrs. Cross witnessed a representation of the “Agamemnon,” in Greek, by Oxford undergraduates, and came back fired with the old words, thus heard anew, and planning to read through the Greek dramatists again with her husband. On Saturday she went as usual to the concert of classical music, and there, as it seems, she caught the fatal chill. That evening she played through on the piano much of the music which had been performed during the afternoon; for she was an adprirable executant, and rendered especially her favorite Schubert with rare delicacy of touch and feeling. And thus, as her malady deepened, her mind could still respond to the old trains of thought and emotion, till, all unexpectedly to herself and those that loved her, she passed into the state of unconsciousness from which she awoke on earth po more. Indians smoke the pipe of peace, while white men smoke the piece of a Pip*

jfftf HHmocruti { JOB PRIBTIHB OFFICE 11m better {adlitlM (tea any ottaa In Forthwaateatf Indiana for the iitcmtea of aU Uunfhaa of ros PRisrTXiaro. PROMPTNESS A SPEOIALTV. .Inythli*, from a Dodger to a frina fht, ar town t mnpkM to a Boater, hteek or colored, plain or laacg* SATIBFACTTON GUARANTEED.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Totaii population of 1,978,301; native, 1,834,123; foreign born, 144,178. Edward Rebvas was fatally injured at Lafayette while getting off a fast-moving train. Db. Bubke, of Lafayette, is a brother of tho murdered Under Secretary for Ireland. Mbs. Coward, colored, said to be 107 years old, was recently batpizod at Jeffersonville. A Columbus men is repotted to be suffering from hydropliobiu, caused by a skunk bite. At New Corner, Delaware county, a $3,000 school-house was demolished by the recent gale. The deficiency of Samuel Gibson, exTreasurer of Delaware county, now foots up over $15,000. The finest elm in Riohmond, near the Indiana yearly meetinghouse, was ruined by lightning in a storm. By actual count, there aro 235 persons in Wabash at the head of and conducting business on their own aocount, W. S. ‘Culbertson, of New Albany, paid bis $6,453.57 taxes the other day, and W. C. DePauw came down with $5,226.51. The Rev. Dr. Bartlett, of Indianapolis, has accepted a call ns pastor of tho New York Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York city. Lightning-bod sharps victimized Huntington oounty farmers to the extent of S7OO. The victims in every case came down with the cash. Charles F. Hudson, proprietor of a sawmill at Lagrange, was almost instantly killed by a board being hurled across the building, striking lum in the stomach. During a storm at Bedford, a veritable shower of stones fell. They were of various sizes and shapes, some being ns largo as a man’s fist, and others quite small. Gov. Pouter has appointed John L. Campbell, of Wabash College, Civil Engineer on the improvement of the Kankakee regioß, tho work to be done iu conjunction with the authorities of Illinois. Edwabd Young, local freight agent on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Bt. Louis and Chicago railway, disappeared from Lafayette April 30, since which time nothing lias been heard of him. It is believed he committed suicide. A serious railroad accident, caused by a broken tie, occurred at Metftmora. Jacob Miller, American Express messenger, was killed, while P. E. Brittingham, postal clerk, and Charles Gleaner, baggage master, were seriously injured. Manson, a 3-year-old child of A. Hunt, of Clinton county, was playing in the yard near a hole which its father had dug for the purpose of holding rainwater, foil into the hole, and was drowned. The hole was two feet deep and contained only eight inches of water. W. W. Poland, a school-teacher at Royal ton, Boone county, has eloped with tho wife of James Pixley, who took $4,000 in cash and jewelry. The couple were accompanied by Miss Mary Warner, to whom Poland was supposed to be paying attention with a view to matrimony.

Jacob Bobden, who kept a Baloon at Ossian, Wells county, was recently warned by the temperance people to close up or they would annihilate the place. He paid* no attention to the threats. A tew nights ago a dyftamite cartridge was thrown down the chimney and the building wus demolished. Tiie saloon keepers of Bedford have Refused to pay the #IOO town license assessed against each of them, aud will take the matter into the courts. In case a decision is made in their favor they will sue the town for ali licenses paid by them in the past years, the sum total of which is a large amount. Mbs. S. J. Dalzell, a fashionable young milliner of Fort Wayne, had trouble with her landlord, Benj. Sanders, and a rival tenant, Geo. lteater, which was brought to a sensational issue. The two visited the apartments of the milliner and were greeted with a pot of scalding hot water, which deluged them completely, so badly scalding them that medical aid was sought. No arrests. David Hunn, an old man, took a room at a Terre Haute hotel, and fired a bullet into his forehead and another into the temple. Next morning, being still alive, he fired two more shots into his abdomen, £\p 1 then sent for a physician, to whom he said he was tired of living. He died within a few hours. He had been separated from his wife three years, and had recently visited her with offer to roturn, yrhich she declined. The gale played a queer freak at the • residence of Mr. Dale, at Logansport. The members of the family, seeing that a crash was imminent, ran out in a blinding rain-storm just as the north wall caved in. Almost at the same instant the south gable end was blown out, leaving the roof supported by the side walls. The lower part of the house was almost completely gutted, doing heavy damage to the carpets and furniture. Many horses in Wabash county are afflicted with a disease which apparently is a kidney affection. When the sick auimals are neglected death ensues in a comparatively short time after the disease is contracted. Several horses have died and others are sick. When treated promptly the* animals usually recover. The veterinary surgeons arc puzzled and cannot understand the nature of the malady.

A young man by the name of William Seniors, a telegraph operator at Metamora, went to the river for the purpose of killing fish with explosive cartridges. He ignited the fuse of a cartridge and held it in his hand until it exploded, tearing his hand entirely off and shattering the bones of his arm badly, and is otherwise badly injured by the shock; but, strange ns it may seem, was not knocked off his feet, and walked home, a quarter of a mile distant. The attending physicians think his life can be saved by amputating the arm. It has been discovered that Emil Grill, elected to the Vincennes Council, is not eligible. A section of the constitution provides that, wlionever any officer fails to acoouut for and pay over, according to law, all moneys that come into his hands, he shall hereafter be ineligible to any office of trust or profit. Mr. Grill, who was City Clerk until two jearti ago, was fouud to l>o short in Ins accounts something like SSOO, which yet remains in, litigation. Mr. Grill protests that he is not a defaulter, but lays his shortage on Charles W. Jones, ex-Treasurer, who went out at the ftnati time $29,000 short