Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEM a Km*. In a colliery three miles from Shamokin, Pa, some sulphur exploded from contact with a safety-lamp, killing four miners. The week ending May 20 was the busiest ever known at Castle Garden, New York, 23,545 immigrants having landed. Previous to this the largest number of arrivals in one week was 20,178, during the second week of May, 1881. Moses Taylor, the Wall street banker, died in New York in his 77th year. He has been President of the City Bank since 1855, and was connected with the first Atlantic cable, the Lackawanna railroad and coal companies, and the Georgia Central road. He leaves to a widow, two sons and three daughters a fortune estimated at $50,000,000. An explosion in the Kohinoor colliery, at Shenandoah, Pa., killed eleven men. The victims presented a most sickening sight. The bodies wire beyond recognition. Several of them were brought to the surface headless, while others bad legs and arms blown off and their clothing burnt entirely off, then- flesh hanging in shreds from their bodies. Some joker climbed a pole of the Mutual Union telegraph, near Georgetown, Ct., tied a fine wire around each of the thirteen wires and run it to the ground, breaking communication between Boston and New York for two days.

The New York Senate passed a bill for the appointment by the next Governor of that State of a State Board of Railroad Commissioners. L. B. Frye, tkfe champion wheelsman of the United States, was thrown from his at Marlboro, Mass., and injured beyond recovery. The jury in the case of Gen. Curtis, Special Treasury Agent at New York, rendered a verdict of guilty on the first and eighth counts, Which charged the defendant with re-while-in the employ of the United Blates, money or other things of value for political purposes. A motion in arrest of judgment was made, and Juno 2 fixed for the argument. United States Senator John R. McPherson, of New Jersey, has. commenced suit against the Now York Herald to recover SIOO,000 damages for libel. The suit is based on the statement published by the Herald from its Philadelphia correspondent, charging the Senator with having been interested in Shiphcrd's Peruvian scheme.

Wert. Twenty-eight counties in the golden belt of Kansas report winter wheat in excellent condition, and farmers are confident of the greatest harvest for years. Corn has been injured somewhat by the cold weather. In the Chicago live-stock market there has been of late a steady and marked advance n prices. Live hogs last week were sold at $8.40 to $8.45 per hundred pounds. Mess pork for August delivery reached S2O Tier barrel on Change. Best grades of cattle are worth 8 cents per pound. A train on the Denver and Rio Grande road was thrown from the track in Marshall pass, and rested on the edge of a canyon 1,000 feet deep. Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, is said to be negotiating for the surrender of Frank James, whois now in Jackson county, and who desires to make the best terms possible. Cattle sold in Chicago last week at $8:70 per 100 pounds, being the highest figure obtained for several years. The highest price was paid for Colorado steers fed in Ifcwa. A Kansas City dispatch says that Mrs. Jesse James, widow of the late bandit, has signed a contract to furnish facts for a lecture on the life and adventures of her husband. She will accompany her lecturer, and, with her two children, sit upon the stage while the lectm? is being delivered. The funds so raised, it is stated, will be used to educate the children, one a boy named after his father and aged 7, and the other a girl aged 5. The Grant smelting works, at Leadville, Col., the largest in the world, were swept away by lire and 250 meh tin own out of employment Loss estimated at $400,000 ; insurance, $350,000. Fire at Tombstone, Arizona, destroyed a large number of buildings. The portion of the town destroyed comprises almost the entire business part of the place. The three principal hotels burned, and the office of the itaily Nugget was destroyed, and the Daily Epitaph office heavily damaged. The loss will probably reach $500,000 ; insurance, $250,000.

flkratb. Five thousand people witnessed the execution of Stephen G. Effter, a wife murderer, at Marion, N. C. It is stated upon unquestionable authority that Frank James and several of his most deVoted confederates are now in Texas, with headquarters at Dallas, and a point of rendezvous not many miles from that city. Eight members of Pinkerton’s detective force are said to be located in North Texas for the special purpose of capturing Frank and his friends. The monuments and headstones in the Jewish Cemetery at Columbia, S. C., were thrown down or demolished by unknown persons. Encouraging crop reports come from Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. In Tennessee the wheat yield will be 50 per cent above the usual average, countingthe increased acreage, and much of it has already been harvested in good condition. The outlook for corn, oats, cotton and crops in general in that State is better than for several years past at' this season. • Two desperadoes were lynched by masked men at Bolton, Texas. A vast section of territory below Helena, Ark., has again been overflowed by the Mississippi, and Commissioner Mangum solicits relief from the Government Senator Ben Hill’s physicians say his health has been greatly improved by drinking the waters of Eureka Springs, Ark., where he has been located for several weeks. If fie will not be permanently cored, his life will be prolonged. Portions of North and South Carolina enjoyed the rare phenomenon of a snow-storm on the 24th of May.. POLITICAL POINTS.' A friend who professes to know says Mr. Blaine will never go into the House again as a member, but that he will probably go abroad in July, to be absent about two months. The report that he would canvass Pennsylvania against the Camerons is emphatically denied. Hon. Thomas M. Marshall has declined the Republican nomination for Congress-man-at-Large in Pennsylvania. The Cabinet, at Washington, had a protracted session, May 28, devoted to the formation of the Tariff Commission, bat do

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conclusion was reached. The fact was brought qut in the discussion that ex-Secretary Kirkwood was not eligible to appointment owing to his election as Senator to the Congress which finally passed the bill. Alexander H. Stephens will not accept an independent nomination for Governor of Georgia, but would run as the regular Democratic candidate. The Independent Republican Convention met in Philadelphia and placed the following ticket in the field : For Governor, Senator John Stewart; Lieutenant Governor, Levi Bird Duff; Secretary of Internal Affairs, Maj. Merrick ; Congressman-at-Large, Col. William McMichael ; Judge of the Supreme Court, George Junkin. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Legislature to submit to the popular vote the proposed amendment to the State constitution, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State. The Delaware Greenbackers have nominated John Jackson for Governor. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Grand Jnry at Washington has returned new presentments against Brady, the Dorseys, and their associates, for conspiracy to defraud the United States on star-route contracts. Senator Logan has arrived in Washton after his sojourn of several weeks at Hot Springs, Ark., and is said to be in excellent health. The Postmaster General has sent a letter to the House of Representatives recommending that postage on second-class matter (newspapers and magnzines) be abolished. He states that fourth-class matter (merchandise) is carried at a loss to the Government, and if the Government is to be taxed for the transportation of either class it should be for the second class. Senator Logan is again in his seat. He proposes to fight against Fitz John Porter with all his capacity, and to push forward the clause of the Army bill in regard to compu'sory retirement. Robert R. Hitt, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and was examined touching matters connected with the Chilian-Peruvian investigation. Witness arranged an interview between Count De Montferrand, the representative of the Credit Industriel, and Secretary Blaine, at which witness was present. The Count unfolded the plans of his company, which embraced a protectorate by the United States. Sir. Elaine said he could do nothing and promise nothing. The Senate Finance Committee will probably report favorably the House Bank Charter bill with some slight amendments. The sum of $900,000 left by a Mr. Lewis, of New York, to reduce the public debt, has been placed at the disposal of the Secretary of the Treasury. Comptroller of the Currency Kuox made an argument before the Senate Finance Committee on the House bill renewing the charters of national banks. He favored the main provisions of the bill, but suggested some amendments. The reports from South America show that the Peruvian Government is still clinging to the hope that the United States will come to the front to prevent Chili swallowing that republc. Secretary Lincoln has information that Payne and twenty-nine other colonists while attempling to invade the Indian Territory were captured by troops sent out from Fort Reno, and taken back to Kansas. The authorities have not decided what disposition to make of them.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The ship Western Belle, bound from Greenock, Scotland, for Quebec, was crushed by an iceberg. The Captain and thirteen of the crew went down with the vessel. Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” has been banned for obscenity by Attorney General Marston, of Massachusetts, and Osgood & Co. have suspended its publication. Later accounts of the burning of the lake propeller Manitoulin, in Georgian bay, prove the disaster to have been a dreadful holocaust. It is said that twenty to twentyfive persons perished in the flames or were drowned. Reports from Delaware show a prospect of the largest peach crop since the phenomenal peach year of 1875. Frost and snow made their appearance on the 23d of May in the region between Lake Michigan and the Missouri river, dojng great damage to tender vegetables and fruit buds. Garden vegetables and fruit suffered in some localities, but the injury yas not serious. The growing grain, according to all accounts, was not injured. Statistics from the Census Bureau show that Chicago is the third city in the United States in point of manufactures, its product being nearly equal to that of BL Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh combined.

FOREIGN NEWS. In a ruction at Limerick between the police and people, the former charged with fixed bayonets, injuring several persons. Some one attached crape to the door of the residence of Cardinal McCabe in Dublin, and left on bis doorstep a slip of paper with a sketch of a coffin. Michael Davitt said to a meeting of Manchester Irishmen that if Gladstone was intent on suppressing agrarian crime in Ireland he should first remove landlordism, then raze Dublin Castle, and repose as much confidence in Ireland as he did in Canada. The anti-Austrian revolt in Dalmatia is ended, the insurgents having surrendered. A cable dispatch states that at a council of the Russian imperial family it was decided ’ to defer the coronation of the Czar for one year. The German Embassy at St. Petersburg has been warned that Crown Prince Frederick William will be in great danger should he attend the ceremonies. In the House of Commons, May 22, Mr. Gladstone said he bad seen the protest of the Irish Judges against snopression of trial by jnry, but could only say tlfkt the Repression bill contains the deliberate conclusions of tho Government Chief Secretary Trevelyan stated that O'Mahoney, the suspect is not an American citizen ; that he was not prevented from writing to the United States Minister, and that the Government has offered no American citizen money to leave the country. The Arrears bill passed to a second reading in the British House of Copmons. May 23. It was decided that the Repression bill and the debate on the Arrears of Rent bill should have precedence over all other business. The Egyptian Council of War has decided on active military preparations. All efforts at an understanding between the Consuls and the Ministry have failed. Michael Davitt’s ticket-of-leave will be revoked should he indulge in any inflammatory speeches. Home Secretary Harcourt so an-

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nonneed in the British Parliament. Arabi Bey and the rebellious army officers positively refuse to quit Egypt. He maintains the country is with him, though the French Consul tried to disabuse him of. his error. In the debate on the Repression bill in the House of Commons, Gladstone severely denounced Dillon for indorsing the outrages by refusing to assist the Government in carrying the bilL Dillon declared he had always denounced the outrages. Gladstone replied thaj inciters to illegalities were responsible for the consequences. Dillon affirmed that Gladstone had declared “boycotting” legal. The evic' tions were more culpable than the outrages. Gladstone spoke with great passion. He said the Dish must confine themselves to agitating for changes in the Land law, or whatever they may desire, by means respecting the private judgment and the liberty of the people. The Official Messenger announces that the Russian Government is resolved to punish inexorably all outrages against the persons and property of the Jews. Kief, the ancient capital of Russia, has suffered devastation by fire. The flames raged fcr several days. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland said the other day that an improvement in the condition of the country was visible, and trusted it would become unnecessary to put in force the harsh powers oi the Repression bill. The Egyptian Chamber of Notables having declared that it is of interest to the country that Arabi Bey should depart and the Ministry resign, England and Fiance have sent an ultimatum to the President of the Cabinet slating it is their intention to exact the fulfillment of these conditions. They claim to have no other object than the maintenance of peace.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A breeze of excitement was created in the Presbyterian General Assembly at Springfield, 111., touching'the answer to be sent to the friendly and conciliatory greeting from the Southern Church. Dr. Dickinson presented a minority report of the Committee on Correspondence (he was the only signer), declaring the Assembly should not stultify itself by retracting the Union principles adopted by the Northern Church at the outbreak of and after the Southern rebellion : but the feeling prevailed among a majority of the members that the olive branch of peace sent from the South should be accepted, and a greeting fraternal and peaceful in tenor was dispatched to the Southern Assembly. The May Festival in Chicago was a big success. The gross receipts were $57,000. Hon. Russell Errett, Congressman from Pittsburgh, in attempting to alight from a coach at the entrance of the House of Representatives, was thrown head first against the granito steps under the archway, cutting his cheeks and breaking his nose. Senator Don Cameron declares that there will be no compromise or fusion with the Independents in the Keystone State. The will of Ralph Waldo Emerson makes no public gifts. James Eiliott Cabot is appointed literary executor. Albert Young, who wrote a letter threatening the life of Queen Victoria, has been sentenced to ten x cars’ pen.il servitude. The representatives of England and France in Egypt were summoned to the palace at Cairo and informed of the rejectio n of their ultimatum and the resignation of the Ministry. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone stated that it was impossible to give a pledge that force will not be employed in Egypt, but he saw no reason to fear a resort to arms. A warm debate arose in Parliament touching the evictions on Lord Cloncurry’s estate in Ireland. Two hundred and fifteen families were turned out; and the question was whether they should be allowed to build huts for shelter or go to the poor-house. On Dillon pledging himself that no violence would result if permission to build cabins was granted, Trevellyan, Secretary for Ireland, gave consent to the project, but said intimidation would be sternly repressed.

FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

The House at its session on Saturday, May--20, agreed to the Senate amendment to the bill to authorize the receipt of United States gold coin for bars. Mr. Calkins called up. the contested election case of Mackey vs. O’Connor, from South Carolina. Mr. Randall raised a question as to consideration, and on the division the Democrats refused to vote, the result being 118 to 1, lacking 27 of a quorum. A call of tfle House was ordered, and 214 were found to be present. The doors were closed, and the Sergeant-at-Arms was ordered to bring absent members to the bar. A second vote on the question of consideration resulted in 119 yeas to 2 nays. Mr. Hiscock reported the General Deficiency bill, appropriating $6,425,317. After another fruitless call of the House, Mr. Calkins moved an adjournment, which was carried. Tho Senate was not in session. In the Senate, May 22, Mr. Platt opposed the House bill increasing the pension of CoL D. 0. Thomas S2O per month in excess of his grade, and it was indefinitely postponed. Mr. Miller introduced a joint resolution to authorize the President to declare martial law in Alaska, The Geneva Award bill was taken up, on which Mr. Hoar addressed the Senate. Mr. Garland moved a substitute for the payment of the insurance people. A communication from the Secretary of War asked a special appropriation of $25,000 to dispatch a relief vessel to Lady Faanklin bay. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate : Louis Dupont Lyme, of Pennsylvania, Consul at Funchal ; John W. Stone, of Michigan, Attorney of the United States for the Western district of Michigan; Fred Rosencrans, Postmaster at Tecumseh, Mich. In the House Mr. Calkins called up the South Carolina contested-election case. Mr. Randall moved an adjournment, which was lost by 82 to 112. He then raised a question of consideration, the vote showing no quorum. A call of the House disclosed the presence of £23 members. The doors were closed, and the Ser-geant-at- Arms was ordered to arrest absentees. He soon captured one offender, who made a speech. After another useless vote on consideration and a second call of the House, an adjournment was effected. By a vote of 38 to 12 the Geneva Award bin was passed by the Senate, without amendment, on May 23. Mr. Logan reported a provision to be inserted in the Army Appropriation bill, to establish an army and navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. Mr. Pugh moved to reconsider the final vote on the Five-Per-Cent Land bill, which prevailed. Mr. Groome objected to the consideration of the bill for the admission of Dakota, and it was laid aside. The Hou?a resumed its struggle on the South Carolina contested election. The first vote on consideration showed seventeen less than a quorum in at endancefand the second revealed two more absentees. The bill for the relief of the officers and crew of tho Monitor, which destroyed the rebel ironclad Merrimac, involving about $200,000, was passed by the Senate, at its session on May 24. Mr. Logan put through the House joint re: olution api ropriating $16,000,000 to supply the deficiency in army pensions. In the House, Mr. Calkins caused to be read extracts from a letter written by Mr. Hewitt, alleging that the Elections Committee refused to investigate the charges of forgery in the South Caolina contested-election case. Mr. Calkins said the committee had never failed to inquire into the truth of any charge made before it, and Mr. Atherton denied the latter statement Nearly every member was on his feet, many speaking at once. Mr. Hewitt asked an investigation of the charge of forgery, after which he promised not to participate in

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filibustering. A motion by Mr. Randall that the House adjourn to Friday showed that there was no quorum. A call of the House disclosed a quorum. Mr. Walker, of Pennsylvania, fell to the floor in a fainting fit. After filibustering had gone on for throe hours, Mr. Calkins advised members to bring five days’ rations with them, and moved to adjourn, which was carried. The session of the Senate on May 25 was dull and uneventful A bill passed appropriating $15,000 for a light-house at Little Traverse harbor, Lake Michigan. The Japanese Indemnity act was taken up, Mr. Morgan warmly advocating repayment, and Mr. Jones arguing against any return of money. In the House, Mr. Calkins called up the South Carolina contested-election case. Mr. Randall raised a question of consideration. Mr. Kenna moved to adjourn, on which there were 133 nays and no yeas. The Speaker submitted a request by Mr. Curtin for leave of absence, and Mr. Randall demanded a yea and nay vote, leave being refused by 13 to 134. Motions were then made to adjourn to Saturday and to Monday, both being lost, Ben Wood voting with the Republicans. On a motion for a recess, the vote showed no quorum and a call of the House was ordered. At 5 o’clock a recess was t; ken until 8. At the evening session the galleries were well filled, and the attendance of members was larger than usual. The call of the House was several times intenupted by votes on motions to excuse members for the evening. A proposition for an adjournment to Monday received only 118 votes, less than a quorum. Mr. Bayard reported in the Senate, May 25, a modification of the measure recently introduced by him as a substitute for the BondedSpirit i bill, the change referring mainly to brindies and warehousing bonds. A bill was passed to provide for the removal of obstructions to free navigation, ani requiring bridge companies to erect sheer Dooms. When the Japanese Indemnity bill was taken up, Mr. Saunders moved an amendment to pay George 8. Fisher, Consul at Kanagawa, . $15,000 for the destruction of his property. Mr. Jones proposed that the President communicate with Great Britain, France and tjie Netherlands and secure their co-operation in snaking full restitution to Japan. The House took up the South C rolina contested-election case, Blackburn raised a question of consideration. ’ Dilatory motions were made by Messrs. Converse, Carlisle and Randall, and the roll was several times called. Mr. Blackburn, in order to break the diallock, submitted a resolution that a special committee investigate the charges of irregularity in handling the testimony in the Mackey-Dibble case. The confusion then became very great, scores of members talking simu tmeously, ana Mr. Calkins secured an adjournment. The resolution offered by Mr. Blackburn was the fruit of a secret session of the Democratic caucus committee. Immediately after the adjournment the Republicans held a caucus, with Mr. Robeson in the chair. Mr. Calkins explained that he had intended to offer a counter proposition to that of Mr. Blackburn, but debate was cut off. A resolution was then adopted to submit to the Democrats a proposition to open the case for discussion for six hours, the time to be equally divided, wbe.i a motion Jwill be entertained to recommit the report to the committee.

Wolves on a Railroad.

A Toledo man, formerly of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, left a good position with a good salary "on the Northern Pacific, and returned to Toledo to take the chances of getting smashed up on one of the railroads here, for less money. When pressed for his reasons for coming back, he rather reluctantly told the following tale : He said that as soon as he got his train he started out on his run, and one night at a certain station was side-tracked for a train that was following him. He ordered a brakeman to go to the rear and flag the expected train. The brakeman turned pale and refused, but declined to give a reason. He tried to induce other train men to go, but all refused. He took a lantern and torpedoes himself and went back some hundred paces. He soon heard a pattering of feet around him in all directions, and thought he had got into a sheep pen, until suddenly his ears were assailed with a chorous of snarles and howls, and he concluded he must be near a farm house well supplied with dogs, but ou raising his lantern, he saw the snow almost black with savage forms whose eyes glared at him like balls of fire. For the first time he realized that he was surrounded by wolves. His hair stood erect ahd his tongue cleaved to the roof of his mouth. He hastily placed the torpedoes on the track and began to beat a retreat. The howling pack circled round him and he yelled to the engineer to back the train down to him, but his voice was drowned amid the demoniac howling of the gaunt savages which were snapping at his coat tails.* He kept them off with his Iml tern, whirling round like a Dervish, till he reached the train. In a few minutes he heard the torpedoes explode and the howls grew more furious. He said the whole prairie seemed alive with the brutes. He conceived a brilliant idea. He began to toss torpedoes to them, and could hear them explode, and by the sounds judged they were doing good execution. He said he threw out about 2,000 torpedoes, when he got orders to run to the next station. "When No. 5, the train following, got to the station he had left, she was thrown off the track by an obstruction. When daylight had arrived about LOOO dead wolves were found in the cut, all frozen stiff, find it was this that throwed No. 5 from the track. “So,” said he, “I made my runback, and told the Superintendent I guessed I’d have to get him to excuse me.”

The Five-Per-Cent. Bill.

The bill which recently passed the Senate of the United States, known as the “Five-per-cent. Land Act,” provides that lands entered bytnilitary scrip or bounty land warrants in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado, including Virginia military and United States military land warrants located in Ohio, shall be construed to come within the provision of the law for payment to States of 5 per cent. of the proceeds of public lands disposed of within their borders; lands to be estimated at the rate of $1.25 per acre, and payments to be made in cash. It is also provided that money remaining on the books of the treasury to the credit of nny public-land States undtr the act of 1836, which distributed the treasury surplus, sha’l not be charged as an offset against any part of the amount coming to the Slate under this bilL The bill prohibits States from paying any part of the money received by them to agents or attorneys for services in procuring the passage of tbe act or in connection with the c'auns of a State, unless stteh payments are authorized by State laws passed after the date of this act.

Characteristics of a Fashionable Neighborhood.

A gentleman who was inspecting a house in a fashionable neighborhood, complained that the location was too dull and lonesorpe, that there was no life. “It may seem a little dull now,” said the owner of the house, “but wait till the first of the month, when the grocers and the butchers are trying to collect their bills, and you’ll think there is a fair or circus out in this part of the town. I know it’s a little dull during the day. That’s the way it is in all fashionable localities, but just wait till about twelve o’clock at night when these high-toned roosters come home drunk and pound on their front doors and whoop. You won’t think it a bit dull and lonesome.”

MACKEY VS. DIBBLE.

The South Carolina Contented Case in Cougvens—The Position of the Democrats Explained. [Washington Telegram to the Chicago Times.] The position of the Democrats in reference to this case is stated by Congressman Springer as follows : There was a caucus of Democrats held in the hall of the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon, May 18, at which a resolution was adopted simply declaring that the adjudication of the case upon the testimony now filed would be an outrage upon the sitting member, etc. This resolution did not state all that was tacitly agreed to in the caucus. There was a universal understanding that Democrats would resist by dilatory motions the taking up of this case or the consideration of it upon the evidence which is now presented. There was some difference as to whether the case should proceed to discussion before dilatory motions were resorted to, but a majority were of the opinion that its consideration should be resisted from the beginning. The grounds for this course are, from a Democratic standpoint, as follows : At the election in November, 1880, Mr. Mackey was the Republican candidate and Mr. O’Connor was the Democratic candidate, and the latter was returned as elected by a majority of over 5,000. Mr. Mackey gave notice of a contest. Mr. O’Connor was then a member of Congress and desired to remain in Washington until the 4th of March before going on with the taking of testimony. Hence an agreement was entered into that the testimony might be taken out of time or beyond the time required by law and as agreed to by. the respective parties. After the 4th of March the taking of evidence was begun, but on April 26, 1881, Mr. O’Connor died. The-Governor called a special election, which was held June 9, 1881, at which Samuel Dibble, the present sitting member, was elected, the Republicans making no content. After Mr. O’Connor’s death the contest was proceeded with by Mr. Mackey up to the time of the special election, he having the taking of testimony entirely in his own hands. All of the evidence taken, both by Mr. Mackey and Mr. O’Connor, was in his custody, and some of it was not returned to Washington until long after the special election. After the evidence was printed, Mr. Dibble discovered that it was of a most extraordinary character, and immediately proceeded to examine the original manuscript. It must be remembered that Mr. Dibble was never a party to the contest between Mackey and O’Connor so far as the taking of evidence is concerned, and took no notice of the case until after Congress met and the Committee on Elections were proceeding to consider it. Upon examining the manuscript forwarded, Mr. Dibble discovered that it was not the evidence which was originally taken in the case, and immediately presented a memorial to the House asking that the interlineations, erasures and suppression of evidence be investigated. This was referred to the Committee on Elections, and that committee refused to consider Mr. Dibble’s petition. He presented numerous affidavits before the committee in support of his statement, notably that of Mr. Hogarth, who was the notary public before whom the evidence was taken, and of Mr. C. Smith, a copyist employed by M.-. Mackey, who was also a Republican supervisor of elections and one of Mr. Mackey’s witnesses, together with several other affidavits. From these and other indisputable evidence appearing by the record itself, Messrs. Moulton, of Illinois, and Atherton, of Ohio, members of the Committee on Elections, summed up the facts as they appeared, which were conclusively established, as follows : The depositions of the contestant, with one or two exceptions, were taken before E. H. Hogarth, who was a stenographer as well as a notary public. All of the testimony taken before this notary, except three or four depositions, was transcribed from the stenographic notes in his own handwriting, and delivered to the contestant. These depositions so taken before and written out by the notary were never forwarded to the Mouse. They are not now and never have been on file, either in this committee or in the House. Some of these depositions were burned, and some of them were torn up by the contestant. The rest fvere retained or otherwise disposed of by him. In place of these depositions the conti stant sent to the House certain papers written by himself and his agents, which papers are now in the custody of this committee, and have been printed as the contestant’s depositions in this case. The method adopted by the contestant in the preparation of these papers was this: He took the depositions in the handwriting of Mr. Hogarth and remodeled them by interlineations, by erasures, by cutting out portions of the original sheets, and either omitting such portions altogether or substituting other sheets in their stead, by erasing sometimes nearly a whole page at once, and by inserting entire pages in the handwriting of the contestant, of which there was no original in the depositors written by Mr. Hogarth. The interlineations were in the handwriting of the contestant. The contestant deliverel the most of the depositions so remodeled to C. Smith, who wrote them over, including all interlineations and insertions, and excluding all erasures. Some of the depositions so replaced were burned, and others torn up. In some cases, after Mr. Smith had reproduced the paper in the form required by the coptestant’s erasures, insertions and interlineations, the latter corrected the remodeled paper by fresh interlineations, and it was then rewritten in full by Mr. Smith, to meet the full requirements of the contestant. None of the papers were written in the presence of the notary public. After these papers were so prepared they were never examined by the notary or compared either with his stenographic notes or with his manuscript before he signed the certificates. The certificates were presented to him ready for signature by Mr. Smith. These certificates, although signed in some cases several months after the testimony was concluded, were dated, respectively, as of the days. when the depositions for which the certified papers were substituted were taken. Mr. Smith, the employe of the contestant, sent these papers to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, not by mail but by express, taking a receipt therefor from the express company in the name of Mr. Hogarth. In view of these facts, which are not disputed by Mr. Mackey, the Democrats hold that there is not a line of testimony in the case which has been taken according to law, or which would be received in any court of ■justice in the land. The statute - expressly points out the manner in which

evidence shall be taken and transmitted to Washington, all of which provisions have been disregarded in this case. An unbroken line of judicial decisions in the country is to the effect that depositions taken and prepared and transmitted in the manner indicated can not be received and read in evidence in any case. These interlineations and erasures are in many cases of the most material character and change entirely the evidence of the witnesses. In one case a witness testifies that he refused to sign his deposition after it was read to him because it was not the one that he had made. Mr. Dibble has also additional testimony in reference to the falsification of the evidence in his case by Mr. Mackey, the contestant. In one of the cases now being tried in South Carolina for frauds in the elections, a witness who was a United States supervisor of elections testified that the return appearing in the evidence now on file before the Committee on Elections, which was shown to him over his signature, was not made by him, and that he made no such certificate of the number of votes cast; and other evidence shows that this return was in the handwriting of Mackey, and not in the handwriting of the supervisor. In view of these facts, which are not disputed,' the Democrats insist that it would be a manifest outrage to permit any member to be unseated upon such fraudulent testimony. Their position is that the case should be recommitted, and that Mackey be permitted to serve a notice upon Dibble to take evidence iu the case anew according to law, and when such evidence is received that the contest should proceed upon that evidence. A further fact is shown by an examination of the record in the ease —namely, that Mr. Mackey not only caused all of his own testimony to be rewritten, erased and interlined generally, but that he tov.k possession of the evidence taken by Mr. O'Connor in his lifetime, and caused that to be dotted full of interlineations and marred with erasures aud changed im many particulars, amounting to hundreds of alterations. The Democrats say that it would be strange, if Mr. Mackey was permitted not oniy to write his own evidence but to change, modify, and erase the evidence taken by Mr. O’Connor in his lifetime, that he could not appear here with a prima-facie clear right to the seat; but they will not permit the case to be adjudicated upon this evidence. Even if the Republicans obtain a quorum of their own members, the Democrats will still resort to dila(O y motions, such as motions to adjourn, for a call of the House, and to adjourn from day to day, until they force tins case back to the committee, and compel the contestant to come to the House with evidence taken anew in pursuance of the statute. They will not permit him to forge his own evidence aud claim a seat iu the House of Representatives through his own writing. This is the Democratic position in this case, and they propose to adhere to it to the end, no matter whether any other business is transacted or not. They are ready to go on at once with the appropriation bills, or any legitimate business of the House, but to permit this outrage to be done will not be tolerated for a moment, and iu this there is no difference of opinion among them. There will not be a break in the line on this programme until the case as now presented to the House upon forged evidence is abandoned by the majority. The Democrats insist that they are not filibustering against the taking up of a legitimate contest, nor will they do so, believing that the House should judge of the election, qualifications and returns of its members, but the extraordinary facts connected with this case, undisputed by the contestant —that the entire evidence taken by him was rewritten by him and his clerks, and that the evidence of the deceased contestee W3S altered in a material manner by tbe contestant—present a different case from an ’ ordinary election contest—a case in which a man endeavors to obtain a seat through the aid of the majority of the House upon testimony which he forged himself, and which would not be received in any court of justice in the land. If Democrats must be unseated, they must be unseated according to law, and not otherwise.

The People Pay.

Secor Robeson, who leads the House of Representatives and directs the Speaker’s decisions, boldly declares that the Republican programme of this Congress is to antagonize the economy of Democrats in the last three Congresses. The treasury is full, and can be kept full by taxation on a war basis. Some Republicans may wish to deny his authority, fearing the odium of a corrupt and characterless leadership; but the record speaks louder than insincere protests, and shows a perfect accord in the party on every scheme of spoliation or of reckless expenditure since the beginning of the session. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial bill for the next fiscal year exceedsin the aggregate the present law by $2,650,368; and the Committee of Appropriations pretend to excuse this large and unjustifiable increase by saying that it is less by $1,484,855 than the estimates, which were purposely excessive, and made so by the different departments and bureaus for this very use. The Pestoffice bill, the Indian bill, the Army bill, the Agricultural bill, the Deficiency bills, and others thus far reported or passed, are without exception loaded down with additions to the usual grants that will foot up millions. Multitudes of new offices havcf been created ; and yet the public service swarms with old sinecures and idlers. In the House of Representatives the Committee on Appropriations consists of fifteen members—nine Republicans and six Democrats. Frank Hiscock is Chairman, and Secor Robeson is second in order, but first in consequence and in management. Of the whole number there are but three Democratic members who in any proper sense can be called economists. This important committee was packed by Robeson to do the very work it has been doing and will yet do. Randall, Holman, ana other Democrats, who had proved themselves the efficient friends of economy, and whose experience is of great value in legislation, were excluded * intentionally from this committee because they would be stumbling blocks in the way of jobs. Mr. Whitthorne was put off the Committee op Naval Affairs, where he had saved millions to the treasury, and had exposed the venality of Becor Robeson, because his presence there would have checked the schemes of plunder which are held back to wait a favorable chance in the House, Prodigality is visible in every direction. The policy of retrenchment, introduced in the Forty-fourth Congress by the Democrats, and by which the

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expenditures were reduced $30,000,000 2a the first year they controlled the appropriations, has been radically reversed. The Republican rule is extravagance, loose legislation and jobbery. These fr ets cannot be concealed from the v. rulry, and others like them, eo/i *■ uumning, will enter seriously into the elections next fall. No arts, of the demagogue, .no misrepresentations of the lying politician, can mislead the people, with this record to convict the Rs publican party of willful waste, of organised raids on the treasury, and of the matured schemes of plunder. The Republicans have possession of every branch of the Government—legislative, executive and judicial. They have the committees to shape legislation in their own way. They are responsible for every dollar of expenditure and for every job that may be passed ; and they will not be permitted to escape that responsibility.—New York Sun.

An Unquestionable American Citizen Abroad.

I ought to except from the category of the common place a long, lank citizen of the United States whom I meet at Casino and almost everywhere else, surveying things in general with an inimitable air of philosophic interest and serene complacency, undisturbed by the entertainment he affords to those about him. He wears a suit of coarse and heavy black, evidently ready made, and much too large for him. The coat is a shapeless sack, very long in the skirts and the sleeves. A fumbled black silk neckerchief is wound about a high limp collar, of which it is impossible to say whether it is meant to stand up of turn over; and the figure is crowned by a black felt hat, at whose stupendous breadth the effete population of Europe are never tired of wondering. Our friend has a tangled bear'd of iron gray, and a stiff pollard mustache which does not conceal the subsatisfied expression always playing about his mouth. He carries his hands behind him, he treads with emphasis, he throws his head back that his shrewd twinkling eyes may better view the world from under the broad felt. He loves to talk when he can find anybody who speaks our language. The first time I saw him at Monte Carlo he had fastened upon a young Englishman, reserved, irresponsive, fresh-faced, carefully clad, buttoned up extremely tight, his very antithesis in everything, and to this silent and somewhat astonished auditor he was imparting his impressions of the Casino, the Mediterranean, the concert we had just listened to, and in particular the manners and customs of the British visitors, occasionally throwing his jaws wide open for a short and vigorous laugh, and bending his stiff form in the middle like the shutting up of a jack-knife. “Now, I,” he exclaimed in a confidential parenthesis, “I ain't an Englishman !”

“Ah, just so,replied the young man, “ I did not suppose you were.” It was the only remark of our countryman which called forth a cordial response. I saw him treading the Corso on the morning of the carnival, wearing the same black clothes, and quite as much at his ease in the midst of dominoes, devils, and pages as in the gay throng at the gambling rooms ; and I thought, What a target for confetti! Later in the day I saw him again. He had been through the battle. The great hat in particular had suffered. But the calm spirit was unruffled. Erect, deliberate, observant, amused, self-pos-sessed, taking in everything, and assimilating nothing, he was an odd figure indeed, but not a ridiculous one. He had begun so late in life to see the world, and had brought to the enterprise so little preparation, that you could not help wondering how he found his way to this place from his farm on the prairies, and what sort of adventures must have befalleif him on the journey ; yet neither could you help respecting the independence, self-reliance, and good nature with which he illustrated so much that is estimable in the American character. —Mentone Correspondence New York Tribune.

Dumas Pere as a Financier.

When Dumas the elder brought out his play of “Monte Christo,” he made an engagement with the manager of the Theatre de la Port Saint Martin, under which he was to receive 10,000 francs extra if the first fifty performances produced an average of 3,000 francs. On the night of the fiftieth performance, Dumas arrived at the theatre to settle accounts. “Well,” said the manager, “It is just nine o’clock now, and we are not likely to fake in anything more. You see that the total receipts only foot up 149,980 francs, so that there is no extra premium coming to you.” “You are right, I suppose,” replied the author, with a sigh, “but it’s deuced unfortunate, as I had invited some friends to supper with me, making sure I had the money, and I haven’t got a sou about me.” “My purse is at your disposal,” said the manager, “how much,do vou want?” “A hundred francs will suffice. Thanks," said Dumas, pouching the five louis and walking away. Half an hour later the treasurer qrought the manager forty francs additional receipts- Dumas had slipped out, taken two boxes, and made 10,000 francs by the operation.

Mr. Vanderbilt’s Joke.

[London Times.) A number of friends invited Mr. Vanderbilt to take dinner at the League House, and when the champagne had been reached and the party had come to that state of jollity which begets familiar pleasantry, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to bet any or all the gentleman present that they could not guess within five dollars of the price of the suit of clothes he had on. Of course there were plenty of takers. Most of the gentlemen out of politeness and for other obvious reasons named a high figure, from $75 to $125. “Well,” said Mr. Vanderbilt, leisurely, after the bets had all been made, “I guess I’ll take this pool. My suit cost me precisely $25.” The party laughed this unexpected denouement, and Mr, Vanderbilt’s economical tailor was heartily toasted. All this goes to show that Mr. Vanderbilt is a man of cheerful disposition and fond enough of fun to lay down some of the cares of buisness and enjoy himself as a man of his means should. . It broke the fisher all up. He was fishing and a fish-warden stood and watched him and a.man came along and said to that warden : “ It’s out of season to catch fish. Why don’t you arrtet that man ? ” And the warden rephed : “ True, it’s against the law to eaten fish, but there’s no law against a man’s holding a pole with a cord attached dangling in the water. That’s all he hw done, or is likely to dot" * «

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INDIANA ITEMS.

Mbs. Cohn, of Fort Wayne, fell from a carriage and broke her back, dying immediately. The Indiana Democratic State Convention, called to meet Aug. 2, will contain 1,121 delegates. Flames swept away the large gristmill of Nelson & Co., fifteen miles south oFWabash. Loss, SIO,OOO. A gang of boys, the oldest not 16, have been arrestpd at Richmond for breaking into cars and stealing goods. Work has been commenced on the $25,000 wagon bridge across White river, in Freedom, Owen county. Warren county is greatly excited over alleged discoveries of gold, silver, copper and lead, three miles east of Independence. Wabash College will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary on the occasion of the approaching “commencement” exercises, June 28. It is stated that bog cholera has made its appearance in Fulton county, and some alarm is manifested by farmers. One man has lost forty head of hogs. The probabilities are that a suspension bridge will be adopted by the Louisville and New Albany Bridge Company instead of the structure originally designed. The postoffico and three stores at Somerset, Wabash county, and the ticket office of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad, at Jonesboro, were burglarized a few nights ago. The Tippecanoe county Court House contractors, it is understood, offer $lO,000 in addition to the balance due them, and the material on the ground, to cancel the contract for building that edifice. Levi Hepler, aged 40 a well-known farmer of Putnam county, in getting off a Vandalia freight, ten miles west of Greencastle, fell from the bridge thirty feet on a pile of stone and was killed instantly. The mystery attending the burning of buildings last summer at Richmond, has been unveiled by a confession of one of the incendiaries after he had been converted in Cincinnati by the boy preacher, Harrison. A citizen of Five Points received a warning that an attempt would be made to steal the body of his young sister in the cemetery. He therefore kept watch at night ana captured one of the ghouls in the attempt to open the grave.

It is reported that oil in paying quantities has been discovered at a depth of 600 feet in Washington township, Carroll county. The alleged “strike ” was made on the farm of a Mr. Appleton, and the people in the neighborhood have a bad attack of oil-fever. A black bear in the zoological garden at Richmond broke from its quarters and joined a picnic party from the primary rooms of the schools. It played with the children until the teachers saw it and called men, who chased it into an inclosure with pitchforks and then shot it. It has been discovered that the ground upon which the Huntington county Court House stands was deeded to the county on condition that no Indian or negro ever be allowed to live within the city limits of Huntington. So far the conditions have not been violated. Dr. Stemen, of Fort Wayne, formerly a Method st minister, preached from a pulpit in that city the other Sunday evening, and thought he discovered his bitter enemy, Dr. Sweringer, making faces at him. He walked down the aisle, and ottered thrash him at once. Sweringer retaliated by having Stemen arrested on a charge of provoke. When they met in the Justice’s office, Stemen put in three stinging blows on his adversary’s face, which drew blood, and the cote was adjourned. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction has just completed the summing up of the school enumeration of the various counties, together with the school revenues. The following are the totals: School children in the State 700,4*24 Interest derived from tax 5787,894.32 Amount collected on common school fund since last apportionment; 104,189.00 Aim lint derived from unclaimed fees.... 810.86 Total amount reported by counties ready for apportionment 892,894.27 The enumeration of 1881 showed 714,223 school children in the State. The decrease in the number for 1882 is attributed to the more reliable plan of making the enumeration.

Not long ago a resolution was adopted by Congress calling for a statement of the number of persons drawing pensions in the United Btates, by counties and States, and the amounts paid. The following is the statement so far as it relates to Indiana. It will be found of great interest, as it shows the number of pensioners residing in each county of the State, and the amount of money disbursed for pensions in each county: il h rt H il.il il.il Gibson 186 $37,833 Marlon 116 $23,869 Perry 172 34,846 Shelby 196 89,864 Pike. 206 41,876 Clay 177 36,054 Posey 136 27,461 Fountain... 140 28,477 Spencer.... 182 37,057 Montgom’ry 188 38,152 Vanderbnrg 228 46,376 Parke 187 27,824 Warrick.... 118 24,062 Vermillion.. 148 30,126 Davleaa 160 32,558 Vigo 380 77,079 Dubois 91 18,430 Warren 79 16,069 Greene 290 59,037 Boone 209 42,438 Knox. 159 32,308 Clint n..... 15 3-,991 Lawrence... 219 44,528 Hamilton... 175 8 ,6,9 Marin 162 32,92-) Madison.... 161 32,771 Orange.... 162 82,923 Tippecanoe. 344 69,981 Sullivan... 161 36,594 Tipton 158 32,<>26 Clarke 218 43,236 Benton.... 61 12,416 Crawford... 184 37,331 Carroll 91 18,4 8 Floyd 167 34,033 Cana. 196 39,908 Harrison... 159 32,361 Fulton 104 21,189 Jackson.... 212| 45,190 Jasper 78 15,785 Jennings... 155 31,464 Lake 75 15,299 Scott 75 15,230 Newton 52 15,018 Washington 161 32,619 Pcrter 103 21,044 Dearborn... 189 38,365 Pulaski .... 104 21,212 Decatur.... 162 33,007 White 147 29,777 Franklin... 128 26,069 Adame 67 18,794 Jefferson... 232 47,112 Blackford.. 48 9,789 0hi0........ 64 10,518 Grant 16 32,710 Ripley 185 87.567 Howard... 183 37,179 Switzerland 109 22,200 Huntington 112 22,868 Union 43 9,872 Jay 147 99,838 Barth’lom’w 229 46,520 Miami 157 31,943 Brown 75 15,2 !8 I Wabash ... 199 40,538 Haudricks.. 130 26,357 I Welle 101 20,528 Johnson.... 160 26,212 Alenl 249 50,624 M0nr0e..... 128 26,19. DeKalb 34’. 70,270 Morgan 158 32,057 Lagrange... 15 30,780 Owen 162 32,999 Noble 234 47,432 Putnam.... 194 39,573 Steuben.... 196 89,885 Delaware... 172 34,937 Whitley 7b 15,41$ Fayette 61 12,441 E.khart..... 172 34,907 Henry 202 41,109 Kosciusko.. 162 32,802 Randolph... 226 45,965 La Porte.... 16<' 32.-.05 Rnah 110 22,29> Marehall.... 149 30,332 Wayne...... 246 50,023 St. Joseph.. 173 85,370 Hancock.... 138 27,155 Ifttarke ,| 4f 8,178 A charaater in “ Oddities of Southern Life ” thus describes himself : “ I am a fighter from Bitter creek ■ I’m a wolf, and this is my night to howl. I’ve three rows of front teeth, and nary tooth alike. The folks on Bitter creek are bad; the higher up you go the wuss they are, and I’m from the headwaters,’’