Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1882 — THE INDIANA MUDDLE [ARTICLE]

THE INDIANA MUDDLE

Eighteen months ago $4 would pay as much as $5 will now, and yet the price of labor has not advanced very much. 'I » ■ The Cincinnati Commercial is counting the days till “the bloody dead ,beat” in the jail at Washington shall be hanged. The New York World predicts that tho next House of Representatives will contain 183 Democrats, 137 Republicans au J 5 Greenbackers. An exchange queries: “What de fence has a witness, who is a gentle man, against a brow-beating lawyer?” Easy enough to answer. Let the “gentleman” become at once a browbeating witness. The Washington Post tells Senato r Manone that he has “been guilty of a deliberate and intentional falsehood.” And now the question is: Will Mahone and Hon. Stilson Hutchins fight? Not much.

Two sets of players at cards comparing note. First table: “We are two to two.” Second table: “We are two to two too.” Now isn’t it just a little too awfully too too, to two two to two people in that way? Gen. Grant is sixty years old, and he expects to be a public beggar about twenty more. If the country has anything left to give away after that time the General will make pro vision in his will for its disposition. Ex-Attorney General MacVeagh •ays that the Republican Party has but three principles left; one of which is ’’the spoils system,” another the “doss system,” and the third, Virginia repudiation of State indebtedness “Protection” costs this country about $120,000,000 per year in ocean freights paid to foreign ship owners, it not for our “protective” nav* igatlons Americans would own their own ships and the freight money yyould be kept and used in this country.

Senator Voorhees’ bill, which is pnder consideration, proposes to pay |o divers states 5 per cent, upon the government value, $1.25 per acre, of the lands located on military warrants within their limits. If it passe?, which is very probable, Indiana will get SBO,OOO. Inter State: Both independents and democrats want Stephens for governor of Georgia. There is no occasion for a quarrel then; let both parties nominate him. Such a man truly belongs to his country father than to party, and no faction be permitted to monopolize him. Lafyette was astonished by a di*' vorce the other day, in a family where ail had been serene to the outsid e observer. Isabella Gesh obtained a divorce for cruel treatment, and SI,OOO alimony from her husband, Christain. the application, hearing, decision and payment of alimony all occurring in one c ay.

Chicago is the greatest lumber market in the world. The single item of sawed lumber received there in 1881 would lay an inch flooring four teen feet wide around the earth a’ the [equator. The amount of lumber manufactured in the three States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota during 1881 would lay such a floor

The Postmaster-General has sent a communication to the House of representatives recommending thatpos tage on second-class matter (papers *nd ‘ magazines) be abolished. He stated that fourth-class matter( merchnndlse) is carried at a loss to the Government, and that if the Govern* ment is to be taxed for the transporta* tiunof either it should be for seoosd O|tSS.

Washington, May. 27. —Circuits frOtn the Nation 1 ttepu J ca i Cong* fessional Campaign Committee were re- ' Migad by employes at the Cap tol t May,. iu wnich each employe is solioied to contribute 5 per cent, as his annual sal* ary toward the campaign fund to b e Uicd next tai'.

Valparaiso Messenger: Major Calkins will stand for Congress in the Thriteenth District. The Major, personally, is a royal good fellow, but politically, he is as slippery as an eel. Let h m take the chances, and then let the Democracy of bls District relieve him of his slippery skin.

The R< pub:i an wii j» .» c to-tiiig General Shelley’s seat in Cmgre- | j st di •.. but u Uer t e <i»» riue advanced in a South Canonia iase the Re publican House will find no difficulty iu seating the couti tant'a heirs administrators <<r assigns—New York World. “It was as & journalist,” said Si mon Cameron recently to the Births day Club, “that I began making the first steps out of obscurity. I can tonight readily call to mind the day when I first began, at twenty dollars a year, to learn the printing business when that profession was new, when that business was in its infancy, when it took a day to do that which is now done in a minute.”

Terre Haute, Ind. May 24th.—Hen. D, W. Voorhees was tendered a wel come at Oriental Hall by the Irish Land League, McKeen Cadets, Hager Veterans and the G. A. R. of this city to-night. Col. R. Hudson made the Senator an address of Welcome in be half of the Land League, and Col. McLean on behalf of the G. A. R. and Soldiers of this city. The S*nato r responded in his happy strain to both addresses. The hall was filled to orerflowing, and fully one thousand could not get admission. The Sena*, tor leaves here tosnight for Spencer, to engage in the defence of John W, Beatty for murder.

A life-long California Republican writes to a friend in Indianapolis as follows: “The veto has killed us all for the present, and the Republican party on the coast etern lly. As a life-long Republican. I think it is killed none tc soon. I only uish it was equally dead • hronghout every State in lhe Union, It has been, the past ten or fifteen years the especial advocate of lhe rich few against tne poor many, and has become corrupt from the President up to pound master, No more of it in mine, thank you."

James Vick, the seedman and florist, Whose death was announced recently, was born in Portsmouth Eng., and in his youth was a play* mate of Charles Dickens. He came to this country in 1833 and set type with Horace Greeley on the Knickerbocker. He subsequently became editor of the Genesee Farmer and Horticulturist, and was for a long time Secretary of the American Pouological society, and member of the Royal Horticultural society. He went into the seed business, and was one of the most charitaole men. It is reported his gifts averaged SIOO,OOO yearly. During the Kansas grass hopper plag he s«nt $25,000 worth o f seed to the sufferers, and sent $lO,000 to Michigan sufferers-

The widow of the noted outlaw* since the “removal” other husband* has been so besieged by reporters and publishers that, In self-protection* she had been compelled to publish a sworn statement denying that she authorized the use of her name in connection with any pretended history of her husband’s life. In this connection it may not b e out of place to suggest that persons desiring to get at the facts in the lives of all ths great American high way men wo aid do well to examine Col. J. Blue’s famous “Border Outlaws,” which has just been revised and a new edition published from new plates throughout. See advertisment elsewhere in this paper.

On Sunday, April 30, while Allen J, Cuming, of West 11th street, was arranging a boquet on his dinnertable, he eratched his thumb on one of the thorns on the stem of a rose* bud. At the time he did not notice it nor were the three trifling scratches on tae thumb discovered until he began to feel pain some few hours afterward. Within twenty-fours of the time of the infliction of the wound in. fiammatlon set in, and was followed by abcesses of the hand, and the lower third of the forearm. The absces ses were lanced; but though every treatment that modern surgical and medical science has devised in such cases was tried, blood poisoning re** suited. Pneumonia, combined with a slight attack of pleurisy, followed, and Mr. Cuming was relieved from his* intense suffering on Friday by death.

Ths Indianapolis Sentinel: The Mew York Times has an Indianapolis correspondent who is a lineal descendent of Ananias, and possesses traits of character similar to those which have made the name of Judas very generally infamous. In a recent let ter to the Times this representative to falsehood and treachery says of the coming campaign in Indiana that the Democratic leaders have thoroughly committed the party to the policy of opposition to allowing the submission Of the prohibition amendment to a vote of the people, and they expect success by reason oi large gains in the cities and because of generous contributions by the liquor men to the campaign fund. Here we have a lie mal>

(clous and deliberate—clean cut -and flagitious -a lie known to be a lie wh< nit was penned. The Democrat-j io*leaders K and the Democratic party Instead of opposing the submission of ( the prohibition amendment to a vote | •t the people demand that it shall be submitted to the people in November* The Republican opposes the gubmis. sion of the prohibition amendment to the people in November. It wants the legislature uninstructed upon the question of prohibition, and any as* sertion to the contrary Is something worse than misrepresentation-it is au unblushing falsehood.

The facts relating to what the Res publican press c, lied “Democratic obstruction” in Congress should b° fairiy understood b, the country. The action of Democrats in the House of Representatives had for its pur. pose the prevention, if' possible, cf one of the most flagrant outrages ever contemplated or perpetrated by the Republican party. And now what are the facts about the South Carolis na election case? Here they are as concisely presented by the Hartford Times. It says that “Mackey, the Republican contestant, claims to have been elected to Congress in Novena*’ ber, 1880, from the Second District o. South which includes Charleston. He says the Democrats, acting on the example of the Republicans after Tilden was elected, counted him out, and counted in Mr. O’Con-> nor. Mr. O’Connor’s election having been duly declared, and death overtaking him before he took his seat, the State authorities duly ordered another election. At this election Mr. Dibble, Democrat was elected without a show of opposition, and to him was given the cetificate. But Mackey, who had noteven been voted for at the second election, wanted the seat, and thought he could rely upon the Republicans in Congress to sustain him if he resorted to fraud to bolster up his case. Events have proved that he judged them correctly, and the same party who counted out Tilden in Louisiana and Florida, and counted Hayes, the fraud, are ready now to vote a fraud into a seat in Congress to which snother man was elected.” Nor is this all. “Mackey,” says the Times, “is a proved forger and a fraud.” This was known to the Committee which had the Mackey case in charge. “It is a matter of sworn testimony and record proof that Mackey fraudulently altered the testimony that had been taken before a Notary in regaid to the election of 1880, and that, after having erased interlined and altered the sworn testimony from top to bottom to suit himself, he took it to the clerk and made him make a clone copy of the forged testimony, and, having done so, sent him with it to the Notary fo r his signature, giving that officer the assurance that it was merely a copy of the original testimony. The deception on the Notary was successful, he signed the document without stop.’ ping to read and compare it with the facts. And it is on this forged testimony, supported by a signature taus obtained, that Mackey’s entire •claim’ rests. On this fraud the Republicans in Congress are united in trying to put it through, to the delay and injury to the public service, for important bills and appropriations, which would have passed soma time ago. have to await the result of this partisan action.” To prevent the consummation of this act of perfidious in-> famy, Democrats “filibustered,” a s they had a right to do, and as it was their duty to do: and thus it happened that the Republicans themselves are responsibl for all the obstruction to public business that h; s occurred. If Mackey is seated, as he doubtless will be, It will be done on what has been proved to be peijuries as black as those tnat seated Hayes.

A Washington Correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports an interview wish ex-Senator McDonald on the Indiana muddle as follows: Meeting Ex Senator McDonald, of Indiana, at the capital to-day, your correspondent asked him: “Has your attention been called to the subject of the election laws of your State, so far as they effect the election of the members of the legislature, under the recent amendment to your constitution?”

' “Yes,” replied the ox senator, “I , have examined the act relating to i general and special elections pass- • od by the last legislature, and also ■ the opinion of Judge Frazier, given i in response. I think I have a very fair conception of the question.” “Will you please state your view of the question for the Enquirer’s readers?” “The constitution of 1851 under? took,” said Mr. McDonald, “to substitute in our state biennial for annual elections, fixing the time on the second Tuesday in October, and the section in the act of June 7, 1872 passed to carry in to effect those provisions of the constitution, provided that a general election should be held biennially on the secend Tues* day of October, at which election ‘alj existing vacancies in office, and a[] offices the terms of which will expire before the next general election thereafter, shall be filled,Sinless otherwise provided fop by law were such as Were filled by the appointment of the governor, or by the senate on thj nomination of the governor, or town ship officers, as was afterward provi-, ded by election at the April election • but no other provision was made by law for electing Senators or represent tatives except tn case of vacancies in those offices otherwise than by expiration of the term of office; so that the election of senators and represent, tatives under this law was required 1 to take place at the general election 1I

in O-Mobor pr ceding the expiration ts their terms of office. At the same session of the legislature an act was passed relating to special elections* the first clause of the first section of., which reads as follows: ‘When a vs- | cancy shall occur iu the office of senator or representative during the session, or when the legislature will be in ssssion after the occurancy of a vacancy and before a general election* I the same shall be filled,’ ect. But, as , I have already suggested, this section did not apply to vacancies occurring by experaiion of the term, as these were expressly provided for by the section first quoted.”

“When the constitutional amendent took effect, the legislature in terms simply re enacted these sections; and us to the first section amendment it only so far us jto provide that the general election should be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in the year 1882, and biennially thereafter. Fulling to take notice of the fact tnat the terms of senators elected in 1880, at the October election, would expire before the general electiop of 1884 and con sequdntly, at the general - lection of 1885, would be ‘offices the terms of which would expire before the next general election thereafter, and con* sequen lly, under the letter of the law as amended by lhe last legislature would have to be filled by the elections of November, 1882. The constitution expressly limits the terms of offices jof senators and representatives to four and two years, respectively, from the day after their election, and it the act providing for the general election under the amend ed constitution is executed according to its terms, it would have a tendencA to break up the constitutional divi sions of the senators into the two elas.es. But as there is no other pro* vision of law now in force by which senators and representatives can be elected for reg liar terms, it will be necessary either to have lhe election under the law, and leave the legislature hereafter to adjust the election to the constitution, or to disiegard the law and treat it as inoperative. In other words, judiciously legislate lor the corrections of the errors of the last general assembly. This I understand also to be in effect the view taken by Senator Voorhees in the interview published in. the Enquirer, which I have examined.”

Fitz John Porter has addressed a communication to Senator Sewell and Representative Bragg in connection with his appeal to congress for such legislation as will enable the president to renominate to “tho position and rank in the army of of the United States of which I was so unjustly de prived.” He says: “I can not doubt the re suit of this appeal to congress fo r special legislation. Four ex-Presi* dents ct the United States, after a careful examination of my cape, have joined in my vindiction. Publi men of all parties, lawyers and jurors of national fanae, tfie press with large accord, the historians—European and National—distinguished military authorities at home and abroad, including the late general of our armies, who, after carefully giving months to the careful investigation of my case generously and justly revoked his previously expressed opinions, and concurs in pronouncing me wholly innocent, and finally my comrades-hi-arms, who have ever been my un* failing defenders, found their judgement, faith and fidelity rewarded by a decision of the board of officers, whose military knowledge and personal character never has been questioned and who after th e most careful delib ’ eration have reported that my conduct was obedient, subordinate, faith ful and judicious. It saved the Union Army from disaster-on the 29th of August, 1862. Surely I may safely appeal to the congress of my country for justice so long deferred, conscious there is not uct of my military life but what was performed for the, honor, integrity and the union of our country and especially in the events of August, 1862, tnat as the advisory Board declared, my conduct was not subject to criticism, much less deserving of censure or condemnation.”

Richard King, known all over Texas and the West, swarthy Irishman Hie flocks of sheep and goats, his beards of cattle and his troops of horses and mules are eslimatod at 500,000 head in all. His rancho, the Santa Gertrudas, is seventy five mi les in length, and includes nearly the whole of two counties in Southwestern Texas. A German traveling on the Fort Wayne Hoad, kindly volunjeereed to find some ice “sum hlace on der drain” for a set of jovial, wide-drink-ing commercial tourists. When thsy wanted more the accommodating Tueton went to find it and returned with sad announcement: “Der pag gagemeister will let me has no more. Ho Say mein trudder-in-law’s pody von’t keep till ve ged to Philaduifa us I dake any more ice von der coffin.”

Darius Brimmer, of Berlin, N. Y. is the owner of a very valuable cat. A trout brook runs through Brimmer's farm, and the cat brings jq fj oe mrp 8 of trout about -three times a week* Tommy will go to a place in the creek’ where the water runs between tw° rocks very close together. Here h e will watch for his prey, and the first trout that attempts to go through the narrow place is bounced on by the cat and carried in triumph tj the house. He then returns for another, and has b ought in as many as six good sized trout in one afternoon.

Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks of In- ' dlana, visited the Springs and the . “boys” determined to take him into camp at all hazards. Witu this end in view, none but the shrewdest bun ko men were permitted to make the attempt to work him. After consider able trouble, they got him out and begun operations. The lay-out was spread, and the scheme was explained to him by vne of the most adroit gamblers and brilliant conversational;Brß in the country. He talked tor some time, but in vain. Hendricks could not be induced to tempt fickle

fortune, and. at length in response to a more and usual eloquent oppeal to try his cbanoe just once and see what he could win, he said: Gentleman you are wasting your time wi h me. If you had $50,00 in genuine Government bonds with you, and were to offer them to me as a gift, I would not accept them. J hen what foolishness to try to tempt me with the prospect of whining a few hundred dollars? Good day. With that he walked away from his would-be tempters. After he had gone, one of the bunkoists ooserved. “My God, I have dealt with a good many men in my time, but old Tom Hendricks is the most honestest one I ever met.

A rather good story is told by the Deutsdlies M ontagsblatt. The servant of the newly-married wife of a Berlin banker had remarked that regularly every afternoon in the nbsence'of hran-_ -’s husband, a shabby looking indivi dual, ugly, ill-bred and suspicous called at the Louse ard remained closet, ed with her mistn ss for an hou.. Suspecting so me intiigue, she one day listened at the keyhole, and horrified to hear a voice say, “KisS me,” and another apparently r eplying to the tender in vita ien by play fully exclaiming, ‘,Oh Don Juan! You good-for- othing!” The next time that shabby man c lied the servant managed to let the husband know. A violent scene between the •‘happy pair” was the consequence. The pres nee of tie suspicious visit r was, however, soon and satisfactorily sxplaiued. He was a bird fancier who had been requested by the gushing bride to teach a few amorous phrases to a pet pairot, with which she intended to surprise her husband on his birthday. Vorv German, isn’t it.

Its curative Properties for Bright’s Disease and Tyhoid, and Other Fevers. General Robert C. Schenck, «x-min-ister to England, instead of being very decrepit, as has been represent ted in news papers, appears to be in good physical condition. He stated to your correspondent that he had been about giving up some months ago as incurable with bright’s disease of the kidneys, when his physician told him to use skimmed miik as his only diet. He says: “I tackled the skimmed milk, stuck to it and here I am almost a new man, I believe the skimmed milk is a specific for Bright’s disease.” As to the milk plain, or unskimmed, in the treatment ment of typhoid fever and other fe. vers, and of the treatment of tyhoid with buttermilk, successfully the writer had heard before. Surgeon General Barnes, about three years ago, heard of an old allopathic physi • cian in Virginia who. it is alleged, never failed to cure tyhoid fever. As there were many patients in the United States army dying with that disease,General Barnes concluded to visit the ancient Virginia doctor and learn how he treated bis typhoid patients. When he met the old gentleman General Barnes inquired: “ What is the mode of treatment by which you succeed?”/ Why,” replied the venerable physician. '‘lt’s the simplest tiring in the world; all you’ve got to do is to gat the patient’s stomach and bowels in good order, and then fill them up with buttermilk, and keep their stomach filled with that alone. That’s all. I never lose a patient if he isn’t already in a coljypsed condiction when I am callefi.” Surgeon General Barnes tells yoqr informant that he adopted the buttermilk treatment atytiog tfie soldiers in the army, and has found it most efficacious. It appears that some ten years ago the medical societies of France and Russia compared notes as to the use of plain sweet milk in the treatment of their hospital typhoid patients, and concurred in their statement that milk not only is of wonderful efficacy in typhoidal cases, but in the treatment of fevers generally.

There are a large number of persons out of employment in every country. Such -as want employment and are willing to go to work with energy, can make from SIOO to SSOO a month working fdt Os. amount made by our agents varies, according to their eneragy and ability, some mak ing SIOO, while others make as high as SSOO a montn. With an article of great merit, that should be sold to every house owner who sees it paying 100 per cent, profit to the agent, with no sale less than $4.00. Any man with energy enough to move himself about to show it cannot make less than $1,500 a year—while alive, pushing man working for the most that can be made will m tke $6,000. We only want one man in each County, and to him will give the exclusive sale as long as he continues to work faithfully for us. There is no compe

titfon irom any source, as there is nothing made by anyone but oursel ves. Parties having from $250 to SI,OOO to invept can obtain a General Agency of from 10 Counties to a State. We want good workers to act for us, and such will obtain not only a very pro itable business' but one that will be permanent and We ate not paying saleries, and request that think of receiving such terffis from us that they do not write us, for we only want men who are willing to work for the profits of their eneregy and abilitylet that be what it may. We w(ll mail our descriptive circulars to all out of employment, on rt O dpt of 3 cent stamp- The first to comply wiih our terms will secure the county op counties they want. Address, Renner Manufacturing Co., 116 Smithfield street, Pittsburg, Pa.

That quaint old proverb manufae turer who wrote, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” forgot to add that all play and no work makes Jack a professional sport at twenty years of age, and lands him In the penitentiary at thirty.

The South Bend Times refers to submitting the proposed amendmen s to the people and the Demo ratio p< - sition on the subject as follows:

Tne Democratic position on the Question of the pending amendments to the constitution will be what they have always been on questions of paramount importance—that the people should determine for themselves whether they desire a change in the Constitution of their State, and that they shall vote squarely on th .t ques ton at the coming election. Hence, when you here the Repu lieans prating about the Democrats being opposed to the people voting on the question of adopting the amendments to the Constitutions, you can t ‘ll hi tn such is not the fact, but ou the contiary it is the Republicans who a e . tempting to dodge the question

I y deiUdug that the issue not b* - fore the people, when (he ve-y object of having pending ameudm. n ; s tut e Constitution agreed to by two su< •» cessive sessions of the General At> sembly, was that the amendments might be discussed before the peop.e in order that their Representatives might vote intelligently upon them. Let us have done with this howl ol the demagogues and let it be understood now, once for all, that the Dem ocratic party favor the submission of .the amendments to the people at the approaching -‘lection, as c mtemplated by the Constitution of rtie State.

When an Austin; Texas schoolmns ter entered bis temple of learning a few mornings ago, he found on tl e blackboard t e touching legend; “Our teacher is a donkey.” The pu pils expected a combined cyclone am earthquake out the philosophic ped agogue contented himself with adding the word “driver” to the legend and opened the school as solemnly as usual. The camels set adiift in the Arizona deserts about twenty-five years ago have greatly increased in numb, er and have gtown to a very large size. The Indians, whose horses ai frightened by them, are captu'ing these camels and selling them tomeknageries for trifling sums. *A fifty gallon bottle.—A bottle of flfry gallons capacity, the largest ever blown la this country, was lately made at Millville, N. Y.