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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ZTfSMS. Eaat F. J. Moses, formerly Governor of South Carolina, pleaded guilty to petty larceny in New York, and was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary. Wort. At Red Eye, Minn., were found the bodies of a surveyor named Washington and his companion, Fred Fetherbach, who are believed to have been murdered by John Tribbet, 15 years of age. Ma-ked highwaymen robbed the Brookfi Id (Mo.) bank of $6,000, in broad daylight There were four of the desperadoes, all masked. Three marched into the bank with drawn revolvers, while one stood at a convenient corner and held their horses. One of the three who entered the bank remained at the door to guard it, while the other two walked up to the cashier, John Ford, and his assistant, Miss Nettie Scott, and coolly requested the cashier to hand over what money he had in the bank. This the cashier declined to do, but was finally compelled to comply, and the robbers were soon in possession of nearly 16,000 of the bank’s funds. They lost no time in getting out of the bank, remounting, and dashing out of town, firing their revolvers in the air as they departed. The Marshal gathered a posse and started in pursuit in a very snort time after the gang had left the bank. At Sedalia, Mo., Mrs. Jesse James and her children, with a lecturer, attracted an audience of thirty-nine persons, three of whom were ladies. Two miners of San Bernardino, Cal., quarreled in the streets about some unknown matter, when one shot the other dead and then wounded himself.

South. A party of masked men took George Ellis from the jail at Catlettsburg, Ky., and hanged him to a tree. Ellis had just been sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary for participation in the murder of the Gibbons girls at Ashland, Ky., in December last. There is widespread indignation in Virginia over the proposal to remove the ashes of Thomas Jefferson to a cemetery in Washington, and legal steps have been taken in opposition to the project. A furious hail-storm in Virginia and North Carolina wrecked houses, leveled trees and fences and ruined crops. Two children were killed by falling debris, and railway travel Was retarded by the fallen timber. The reports from the Southwest show that the crop prospects are unusually fine. The Mississippi ovei flow is not so injurious as was supposed. The shipments of stock from the Southwest to New York are unusually large. A daring attempt was made to rob a train on the Missouri Pacific railroad near Denton, Texas. A north-bound passenger train was flagged and stopped in a deep cut, when four marked men sprang into the mail car, and were greeted with a lively volley. They then started for the timber, and were hotly pursued, one of the robbers being shot. At Denton a posse was put on the trail, who soon discovered a dead raider. A huge pile of logs was found at a point a few hundred yards from the place where the train was stopped. The dead robber was identified as 8. P. Spelton, the son of a farmer living fifty miles away. Another member of the gang surrendered. His name is Joseph Carter, and he has recently served two years in the Texas penitentiary for theft. He says the raid was planned by the men still at large, who are strangers to him. A distressing accident is reported from Florida, tn Orange county a man and his wife and twin children were drowned in a small lake. The accident was caused by a horse becoming frightened and running away. At Butlerville, Lonoke county, Ark., a little girl named Annie Bridges, aged 13 years, was outraged repeatedly »by three negroes, who left her and fled. The fiends were pursued, overtaken and placed in jail. A mob broke open the prison doors and hanged all three of the negroes to a tree.

Another of the bandits who tried te rob a Missouri Pacific train at Denton, Texas, was overtaken by a pursuing party and killed. The fourth highwaymen is still at large. During a tornado in Northampton, Va., hailstones fell a foot long and weighing a pound and a half. The boiler of the steamer Evansville burst while she lay at Calhoun, Ky. Two firemen received fatal injuries, and several others were badly scalded. Charles Gallino was put off a train on the Hot Springs railroad, last summer, because his excursion ticket had expired. A Jury at Little Rock awarded him damages of ♦4,000. Two New Orleans editors—E. A. Burke, of the Times-Democrat, and C. H. Parker, of the Picayune—fought a duel in St. Bernard parish. At the fifth shot Burke was wounded in the thigh, and the affair terminated.

WASHIN&TON NOTES? Gen. Sherman has submitted to the Secretary of War the report of a board, of which Maj- J. C. Witcher, of the Pay Department, was President, appointed to investigate as to the number of people killed, property stolen, etc., during the recent Indian outbreak in Arizona. The people killed were forty-two persons, the wounded nine. The depredations committed, as reported by citizens, intotal loss of stock and other property of $30,250. Senator Windom’s investigating committee, at Washington, examined H. H. Shufeldt, President of the National Association of Distillers and Liquor-Dealers. He testified that he raised $4,000 from distillers in Kentucky to secure the passage of a bill to reduce the whisky tax to 50 cents per gaHon, none of which has been used. He deemed the extension of the bonded period an absolute necessity for distillers, as otherwise 34,000,000 gallons would in 1884 be unloaded on the market. Charles H. Reed’s last effort in behalf of the assassin Guiteau was an utter failure, the District Judges at Washington refusing to reopen the case for argument. It is said that Guiteau continues to cherish hope. It is rumored Reed will wait until the day set for execution before applying for a writ of habeas corpus to the Supreme Court, and thus delay the execution. Charles H. Reed appeared before Judge Wylie, in the Criminal Court at Washington, on the 6th inst, and asked to have the record in the Guiteau case corrected, especially the allegation that President Garfield died in the District of Columbia. The motion was denied, as the Judge had no personal knowledge of the record. It can now be stated upon authority, says a Washington correspondent, that Minister Lowell has neither resigned or been re-

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI

called, and that the name of no one is under consideration as his successor. The Interior Department has recently issued a patent in favor of ex-President Harrison, for 160 acres of land in Southern Ohio, purchased in 1805, under the credit system. In response to a resolution recently introduced in the Senate by Mr. Plumb, Public Printer Rounds has addressed Acting Vice President Davis a letter to the effect that the worifof his office is in accord with the Typographical and Bookbinders’ Unions, and should he refuse to abide by their regulations a general strike would be ordered, involving loss of time, although he would act Congress might direct In the International Typographical Union, in session at St Louis, a telegram was received from the Washington Union, stating that Senator Plumb was fighting the union through the United States Senate because the union refused to allow one of his political followers to work in the Government printing office as proof-reader, as he was not a printer, and asking the convention to protest against Senator Plumb’s procedure. A resolution in accordance with this telegram was introduced and adopted. Mr. Varbec, who was summoned to Washington from Chicago as an expert to examine the bond-plate turned in by Felker in Doyle’s interest, declares that a scrap of plate shown him was genuine, but has no idea of the manner in which it came into the counterfeiters’ hands. Treasury officials maintain that the rumors of the existence of spurious bonds are utterly groundless.

Several thousand influential Republicans of Maine united in requesting James G. Blaine to be a candidate for Congressman-at-Large. He replied that, while he cannot turn aside from his private affairs, he will contribute to the campaign his full share of labor. Oregon held an election for State officers, Congressman and members of the Legislature on Monday, the sth inst. George, Republican candidate for Congress, was elected by a majority of 1,500 to 2,000. The Republican State ticket is also elected by about the same figures. The Legislature, at this writing, is in doubt. The Michigan Greenbackers will hold their State Convention at Grand Rapids on Wednesday, the 3d of August. The Republicans of Ohio met in State Convention at Columbus, and nominated Charles Townsend for Secretary of State; John 11. Doyle, of Toledo, for Judge of the Supreme Court; and C. A. Flickinger, of Defiance, for member of the Board of Public Works. The resolutions express approval of the course pursued by President Arthur, and cite the financial reforms brought about under the administration of Gov. Foster. It is urged that the liquor traffic should be made to bear its share of the public burden, making necessary the amendment of the State constitution at the earliest date allowed by law. The Greenback State Convention of Ohio was held at Columbus. A long series of resolutions opposing monopolies were adopted, and a ticket nominated: Secretary of State, George L. Hafer, Miami county: Supreme Judge, L. G. Tuttle, Lake county; member of the Board of Public Works, L. B. Stevens, Lucas county. A Greenback and Anti-Monopoly Convention met at Emporia, Kansas, and nominated D. J. Cole for Congress from the Third district, and S. H. Wood, of the Kansas State Journal, for Congressman-at-Large. The State Convention of the lowa Greenbackers, at Des Moines, was composed of nearly 600 delegates. The following State ticket was nominated: Treasurer of State, George Dorr, of Union county; Auditor of State, G. W. Wyant, of Ringgold; Attospey General, J. H. Rice, of Mahaska; Judge of the Supremo Court, M. H. Jones, of Mahaska; Clerk of the Supreme Court, E. M. Clark, of Allamakee; Reporter of the Supreme Court, J. H. Williamson, of Buchanan. After two days’ balloting, the Alabama Democratic State Convention nominated E. A. O’Neil for Governor. The Democratic State Central Committee of Illinois met at Springfield, and decided to hold the State Convention in that city September 7.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Bradstreet’s advices from over a thousand correspondents in'the cotton-growing regions show that the total Acreage of cotton planted this year is about 15,214,396 acres, which is 6 per cent less than last year’s acreage. Counterfeit $lO bills on the Bank Nationale are said to be in the possession of westbound Canadian immigrants. All the iron manufacturers west of the Allegheny mountains, representing a capital of $35,000,000, gathered at Pittsburgh and resolved to stand firm against an advance in wages. The Superior rail mill, in Allegheny City, started up with a force of green hands, who ruined four tons of good material. Five hundred head of cattle were poisoned by eating a noxious weed on a farm near Montreal, Canada, and a large number died. They were brought from the West en route to England. A party of well-to-do Mississippi negroes are en route to Chihuahua, Mexico, for the purpose of prospecting the country. If they can secure properly cheap they intend to establish a colony. The Mexican Congress, desirous to encourage the investment of American capital in mining, has repealed the export duty on silver coin and bullion, which has been in existence ever since Spanish rule, to take effect Nov. 1.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Sultan’s confidential agent in Egypt has established an understanding with the military party. The Sultan informed the French Ambassador that the Porte is able to remove the difficulties in Egypt without a conference. The Sultan said he expected his Commissioner to be obeyed. He felt quite confident of being able to restore Egypt to her normal state. The will of Gen. Garibaldi orders the cremation of his body and the preservation of the ashes in an urn near the tomb of his child at Caprera. Brennan, the Secretary of the Land League, after his release, addressed a large assemblage at Kilkenny. He said his real jailers were Gladstone, Bright, Chamberlain, and the whole crowd of pseudo humanitarians and renegade Republicans who composed the British Cabinet. He hoped that if the 800 suspects were called upon for real sacrifices they would be ready, if necessary, to die for their country. They had seen the Government acknowledge Michael Davitt as a conqueror. Much remained to be done. They must tear up the very roots of landlordism. For monuments to Garibaldi, the city of Verona appropriated 10,000 francs, Genoa subscribed 20,000 francs, and Rome voted 80,000 francs.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1882.

Michael Davitt, replying to a pam phlet issued by Arthur Arnold Foster (son of the ex-Irish Secretary), which inveighs against the methods employed by the Land League in Ireland, answers that the document is put forward as an instrument to engender hatred and foster ill-will between the two nations; and that it contains reports of alleged incendiary speeches and acts. The crops in the central counties of Ireland are in an excellent condition. Rents are being paid, and fair reductions are granted by the landlords. , Harcourt has consented to slight modifications in the Repression bill. Prompt trials of the accused, and the selection of the Judges of the commission by ballot, are among tho changes permitted. Intelligence from South America is to the effect that Ecuador is in the throes of revolution, Peru in anarchy and disorder, and Chili smitten by epidemics and cursed by brigandage. Michael Davitt, in a speech at Liverpool,' said the soil of Ireland could be purchased for tenants for £140,000,000 in Government bonds, payable in fifty years. Dublin Cas.le rule he denounced as a monstrous failure. In the debate on tire Repression bill, in the British House of Commons, Cowan asked the same treatment for Irish tenants as for English trades-unionists. Dillon declared that, but for boycotting, moonlight outrages would have begun a year earlier than they did, although he admitted that the system had been grossly abused to gratify private malice. J. R. Keene’s American horse Foxhall won the Ascot gold cup at the English races. The Austrian troops in Dalmatia suffered two defeats at the hands of the insurgents recently. About one hundred and twenty Austrians were killed. Bismarck’s influence decided the Sultan to send the pacificatory commission to Egypt. The German Chancellor was opposed to a resort to war. In debating the Repression bill in the Commons, Thomas Power O’Connor charged Gladstone’s Ministry with imbecility. Objection was made to the language, but the Chairman, amid some laughter, ruled that it was not unparliamentary. At Andrahan, Ireland, a landlord named Bourke was riding beside a dragoon escort, when both were killed by rifle shots from behind a walk Bourke had amassed a fortune in India, and owned estates at Curaleagh and Rahasane. He had several disputes with tenants, and recently left London to carry out evictions.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Brookfield bank-robbers were surrounded m the woods northwest of Kirksville, Mo., and surrendered. Their names are Frank and Burt Ward, Winfield Allen and Ben Fox. They had recently rented the farm on which they were arrested, and their house contained sixty revolvers. Gov. Crittenden sent a complimentary telegram to Miss Carrie Scott, the brave lady employed in the bank. Michael Davitt, before embarking for New York, said the Irish cause was to be won by a strong appeal to justice. An incendiary fired Davies Castle, near Mallow. In one daj three farmers, in different sections of Ireland, were shot at and seriously wounded by ambushed assassins. The British Government has offered £2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderers ol Bourke and the dragoon near Gort. The new union depot at Hannibal, Mo., which cost $150,000, was opened by a banquet and balk Near Crawford, Ohio, was celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the burning at the stake of Col. Williams by the Delaware Indians. Fred W. Newburgh, who secured $20,000 from the Ohio State treasury by forgeries, pleaded guilty on two out of fiftytwo indictments, and was taken to the penitentiary for six years. The friends of the Hennepin canal are more confident of success than ever, the Senate Committee on Commerce having agreed to report a bill for $500,000 to begin the work. The House Committee on Judiciary has authorized Representative Humphrey, of Wisconsin, to report a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy.

John S. Prince, of Boston, rode a bicycle fifty miles in 2 hours, 59 minutes and 15 seconds, beating the American record. The Democrats of Ohio will hold their State Convention at Columbus on the 20th of July. Iron-workers in Pennsylvania are organizing fishing clubs to camp out for the summer.. The mills are undergoing repairs, and have sent their horses to pasture. Jarrett, President of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, was at Cincinnati last week, where he heard the statements of the strikers, and decided that they were bound to continue at work under their contract of last October. The Harmony mills, at Cohoes, N. Y./ have been closed for seven weeks, and will not resume business until September. Cotton for summer delivery has been ordered sold on arrival at New York. Last week’s business failures, 106 in number, were twenty-nine less than those recorded for the preceding week. James McHan, formerly of East Saginaw, Mich., killed John Graves in an affray at Pecos, N. M., and was soon afterward hanged to the railroad bridge by a party of forty men. Quirino Gaitan was executed- at Brownsville, Texas, in the presence of thousands of Mexicans, for the murder of Luiz Contreras at a fandango. Armstead Gray, colored, was hanged at Powhatan Court House, Va., for killing his son for stealing molasses out of a can. A negro named Daniel Lucky was executed for murder at Talequah, in the Choctaw Nation. At Perham, Minn., a crowd broke into the jail and dragged out John Tribbetts, the boy murderer. They took him to the railroad track, and, putting a rope around his neck, hung him to one of the rungs of a ladder placed against a telegraph-pole. Tribbetts was about 16 years of age. His crime, of which he made a full confession, was the double murder of Edward Washington, a surveyor, and a young German named Frederick Fehrback. A dispatch from Portland, Ore., says “ the average Republican majority on the State ticket is 1,800. George will have no less than 8,000 in the State, the largest majority ever given a candidate. Moody, for Governor, will have about 100 less. The Republicans have the Legislature by a certain majority of ten, which may be increased to thirteen. A Tbxas boy shot arabbit witha rifle. The ball passed through the animal, killed a sheep, struck a stone, and glanced 200 yards and buried itself in a negro’s leg.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE SPURIOUS TREASURY ISSUES.

The Counterfeiters in Collusion with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing—Other Plates Still in Their Possession. [From the New York Sun.) Whatever may be the outcome of the present investigation at ,the treasury regarding the spurious issues of Government bonds, it is now known that other plates than those from which the bonds found on Doyle were printed are in the hands of a dangerous gang of counterfeiters and forgers wh® for years past have deflect justice. Different plates have from time to time been surrendered to the treasury as a condition of immunity when the holders or their confederates were arrested or indicted. They were considered more valuable than the imprisonment or punishment of the criminals. But it seems the stock has not been exhausted. The condoning of these felonies has operated as a stimulant to new crimes, and has extended the business of the class engaged in them. The officials of the treasury, in dreading to make an exposure of facts that could not always be concealed, have given indirect encouragement to the very crime they sought to prevent. The escape-of plates from which false issues of bonds and of other Government paper were made from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing makes it certain that there must have been collusion between some of the persons employed in the bureau and the professional.counterfeiters. The severest tests of the highest skill outside this bureau have demonstrated conclusively that these issues were printed from plates exactly similar to those used for the treasury, and absolutely indistinguishable from them when compared by the best experts. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, like the Government printing office, has long been a sort of political hospital, where the friends and the peculiar favorites of members of Congress are nourished at the public expense, with much unsavory scandal. A. loose mode of appointment, and too often the bad antecedents of the appointees, have exposed the treasury to such costly experience as is now made known unwillingly. This danger is constantly imminent while the existing vicious system is permitted to continue, and to taint the integrity of what should be unimpeachable securities. It is now an open secret tha' Govern ment bends and treasury notes have been largely counterfeited and successfully issued. It is also known that such bonds were printed and uttered from plates identical with those of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. And it is believed, though not yet established, that copies of the plates for silver certificates are in possession of the counterfeiters’ combination.

These are serious matters. They have naturally perplexed the present Secretary of the Treasury, though they did not occur under his administration of the department. Some of them have just come to light, and Judge Folger is striving to unravel the mystery by following the threads that have fallen into his hands. The question naturally rises to every lip, How were these counterfeits and fraudulent issues that were redeemed at the treasury provided for without appropriations by Congress ? Who redeemed them, and to what extent ? flow did the books of the treasury balance without any statsment of this redemption ? Why was the truth concealed from Congress? No satisfactory answer may now be given to these pregnant inquiries. But the day is not far distant when a full exposure must come from a change of administration. The long career of fraud, of corruption and of robbery by the Republican party is drawing near to its close. When the collapse comes, there will be nothing left of it but a record of shame and of outrage unparalleled in the history of free government. And the names of some conspicuous leaders who have grown into great wealth from officeholding will go down in the history of these times blackened with disgrace !

Republican Thievery and Jobbery.

There is something remarkably strange about the Howgate fraud, or, more properly speaking, theft. The signal service costs over a million of dollars annually. Of that amount Capt. Howgate stole $140,000, and, as the records show, all within the space of one year. He drew the money from the fund on vouchers regularly passed, and, as it appears, with evidences of fraud upon the very face of many of them. They were passed and approved without objection. Nearly one-third of the annual grant, not including the pay and maintenance of the soldiers connected with the signal corps, was stolen. Notwithstanding this theft the work of the corps went on without any apparent difficulty. There was plenty of money to meet every demand of the service. But, in the face of the costly experience through which the country has passed in that particular, Gen. Hazen, the present Superintendent of the service, has made his requisition tor a much larger sum of money thah heretofore appropriated, without even assigning any reason for his excessive demand. It is not improbable that Gen. Hazen understands the character of the Forty-sev-enth Congress, and that he knows all that is necessary is to ask for any amount and it will be appropriated. The manner in which this Congress has appropriated money warrants the head of any department or bureau to ask for millions with the full confidence that it will be granted. Rings and jobbers control Congress, and the determination appears to be to get the idle millions out of the treasury vaults. If Secor Robeson and John Roach, together with their sympathizers, could only manage to get Holman of Indiana, Sam Randall and a few other Democrats out of the way the vaults of the treasury would soon be empty. But these men stand in the way with all the force of their strong character. But the Republicans have a working majority in Congress, and when the records of the Forty-seventh Congress are made up and published to the country it will be found that a more profligate legislative body never before convened. During the entire session the Republicans have been trying to fasten upon the House a new rale which will allow the majority to ride rough shod over all opposition of the minority. Thus far they have not succeeded. • With the adoption of the rule proposed, the road to the treasury would be entirely clear and the opposition of the minority to the wholesale squandering of the public jnoney would be of no .avail. It is about time that public opinion

should be thoroughly aroused to the enormous expenditures which have been and will be voted by this Congress. Men who have watched the course of legislation in Washington for the past fifty years, men of both parties, say that never in the history of Federal legislation has there ever been such reckless appropriation of moneys. Men seem to have gone to Washington to see how much of the people’s money they could spend and appropriate without reference to the objects. It is high a change in the political management of the Government should take place. This change cannot possibly take place too speedily. It is time the books were balanced, and that balancing must be done by those who desire such balances, And not by those who are opposed to them. — Grand Rapids Democrat.

Republicanism Gone to Seed.

During the first ten years of its existence the Republican party created and endowed with princely wealth at the expense of the people two of the richest and most powerful monopolies the world ever produced. It gave these men absolute control over the two great agencies of exchange, money and transportation, clothing them with power to fix and determine the wages of every man’s labor and the price of every article of production. It not only clothed them with special powers and privileges to go forth and tax and toll the labor and production of the country, but to the legal powers thus granted it added the power of wealth which it gave outright with a lavish hand. To the money monopoly it not only gave exclusive control over the volume of circulating medium, but a bonus of $350,000,000 of national-bank currency for twenty years without interest, and now proposes to continue the loan and its privileges of monopoly for an indefinite period. To the transportation monopoly it gave as follows. Acres. Granted In 1862 to railroads 23,504,001.61 Granted in 1863 to railroads 3,915,200.00 Granted in 1864 to rai1r0ad546,848,600.00 Granted in 1865 to railroads 328,0 0.00 Granted in 1866 to railroads 34,061,297.77 Granted in 1870 to railroads 1,000,000.00 Granted in 1871 to railroads 17,903,218.00 Granted in 1872 to railroads 327,903.60 T0ta1127,688,221.07 This is an amount of land equal to the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania ; more land than is embraced in the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and the republic of Switzerland. Not only this, but Congress has given $64,623,512 of its bonds to this monopoly, and bound the people to pay 6-per-cent. interest on them for thirty years, and, after that, the principal. Congress has not only given vast sums of wealth to these monopolies, but has exempted them from taxation, compelling the people who have been robbed by them to bear all the burdens of theif protection. They have also usurped the reins of government, have, in fact, become the governing power, while those who produce the wealth and bear the tax-bur-dens of the Government are compelled to spend their strength and devote their lives to the business of adding to the wealth of their oppressors.— Chicago Express.

The Republican Highwaymen.

One hundred and fifty millions of dollars more than are necessary to pay the expenses of the Government are to be taken from the taxpayers this year. Part of this sum will be used to decrease the national debt, and part will be devoted to the most reckless, extravagant and unwarranted appropriations. The Republican majority that now control the national legislation will not listen to the idea of adjusting the revenues with any reference to the needs of the Government. They have jobs on foot, and they want the money to carry them through; and by peculiar fortune, at the time when the country pours out an unprecedented revenue, the leader of the controlling party rises to the top in the gross figure of the most shameless of all plunderers, Secor Robeson. Not one dollar of the unnecessary surplus will be remitted so long as such men as he are permitted by a debauched and corrupted party to be its spokesmen and managers in Congress. For the disgrace of upholding such men, and for the refusal to consider the readjustment of the revenue by deliber - ately burying the question in the hidden and uncontrolled procrastination of a commission, the Republican party is responsible.— New York Sun.

Canada and the Queen.

I remember a curious incident that happened in Canada in connection with the British national anthem. In one of my lectures I describe the pathetic bandonment of state ceremony at Sandringham, while'the Prince of Wales lay sick there of what threatened so formidably to be a fatal illness. The audience listened spell-bound. I uttered the sentence : “The Queen strolled up and down in front of the house, unattended, in the brief interval she allowed herself from the sick-room.” Suddenly came an interruption. A tall, gaunt figure in the crowd uprose* and, pointing at me a long finger on the end of a long arm, uttered the word “ stop ! ” Then, facing the audience, he exclaimed : “Ladies and gentlemen, this loyal audience will now sing ‘ God save the Queen !’ ” The audience promptly stood up and obeyed with genuine fervor, I meanwhile patiently waiting the finale of the interlude. When it had finished, I proceeded with my narrative, and, as a contrast to the sorrow of Sandringham, depicted the happy pageant in St. Paul’s Cathedral on the thanksgiving day for the Prince’s recovery. It is the custom in Canada to propose a vote of thanks to the lecturer, and the chairman rose aud uttered the usual formula. Again the tall, gaunt figure was on its legs. “Ladies and gentlemen,” said he, “ I rise to propose an amendment to the motion. I move that the lecturer be requested to repeat that portion of the lecture referring to our gracious sovereign.” And repeat it I did.— Archibald Forbes. If a man means what he says he will be deliberate in his speech, and state his purpose in plain, simple fashion. Intending suicide, he will not make motions at himself with a razor in the presence of his family five or six times a day. Mr. Micawber’s style of speech is associated with his style of action. All difficult, vaporing, tragic, superlative words exhaust the speaker. His strength all goes out through his mouth, and he is thus left helpless to do anything. Lyman Beecher said that when he had not much of a sermon he always thumped the pulpit and “hollered."

FARM HINTS.

Potatoes in Wet Soil. There is no plan equal to planting potatoes on the surface and covering the sets with soil obtained from lietween the rows, which, in this case, should be three and a half or four feet apart It is surprising what fine crops are obtained by this method of culture in cold, wet soils.— Mark Lane Express. How to Kill Quack Grass. Here is the plan adopted in Suffolk county, N. Y., for killing this pest Run a farrow two inches or two and onehalf inches deep; follow in thesame furrow to the required depth with another plow, always turning the soil on the top of the first furrow. Then with the ordinary use of the harrow, cultivator or horse hoe there will be no furthei trouble from quack.— Cor. Rural New Yorker. The Artichoke. The one great drawback on the growing of the artichoke is the difficulty of eradicating it when once in the ground. Careless cultivation will do it, but thorough cultivation for a single season will destroy it. It is more nutritious than the "potato, being very rich in sugar, is readily eaten by sheep, cattle and hogs. It grows -best on a rich loam, where it yields a large crop, even if the land is partially shaded oy trees. In fact, it seems to grow better in an orchard where the soil is kept loose by shade, than in the open field, producing crops year after year without any labor except the first planting.—Massachusetts Ploughman. » Exterminating; Canada Thistle. Mr. G. A. Green writes to the Western farmer from New York State : We have found but one reliable method of extirpation, which is to plow thoroughly early in the spring, and as often thereafter during the' growing season as is necessary to prevent the appearance of a single shoot above ground, say every two weeks. If the roots are thus smothered for one season (they cannot breathe without leaves) they will rot and be converted into plant food, leaving numerous small drains through the subsoil greatly to the benefit of the land. Though this method is laborious, who can doubt that it will prove profitable, considering the long years of loss and annoyance that must otherwise follow. Sorghum for Feed. Sow as early in spring as ground will work well, on ground well plowed and harrowed, one to one and a half bushels of seed per acre, broadcast and harrow in well; when as the machin e will handle well, <mt with a side-delivery reaper. Let the gavels lie one day as thrown off, then turn to cure on the other side, after which bind and shock, and when thoroughly cured stack for winter use (but be sure to let it cure thoroughly before stacking). Your stubble will throw up a crop of shoots that make excellent pasture through August and September when everything else is dry, or if not needed for that another crop as heavy as the first may be cut off and saved for winter, by which means you have got from eight to twelve tons of prime feed per acre of your land. For mules, which, however, are not much used in this country, I would plant in hills three feet apart each way, with twelve or fifteen seeds per hill. Cultivate well until about three feet high, when it will take care of itself, and when the seed is in the dough cut and shock in large shocks to stand until wanted. This will keep mules in prime condition without any other feed, and they may be worked hard all the time.—Correspondence of the Farmer.

Farmers’ Clubs. Farmers’ clubs are proving themselves to be of very great value to tillers of the soil. And this is a natural result. Is it not as necessary that farmers exchange their knowledge and experience in improved methods of agriculture as that members of the professions should hold meetings to consider various questions of importance to their professions, or that business men should associate to promote business interests. The experience of a year with an active and careful farmer will develop many things to him which would be valuable to others. There are many ventures on experiments which would be made needless, or would become no ventures at all if each farmer would keep a careful record of his experiences, his successes and his failures. The successes are most likely td be made known, but the failures would many times be the most instructive. Farming experience is made up through practical results and the application of well-tried principles under varying conditions, which if noted and given with the results may be of benefit to others. Farmers’ club meetings should not all be held in winter. It is then a good time to relate and hear experience and views, but during the working season a half day «pent in exchanging views in regard to the cultivation and handling of crops will be profitable. Such meetings should be mostly out of doors—practical meetings. The object should be,to increase knowledge so as to do away with uncertainty and make the business of the farmer of that character which will insure against failure in every respect except the calamities that come at times through the higher agencies.— Detroit Post. Potatoes. The high price of potatoes for years past should stimulate production to an extent at least to prevent the necessity of importations. Although the seasons have been unfavorable, one great difficulty in obtaining good crops is from lack of thorough cultivation. Soil for potatoes should be worked deeply, making it mellow at least six inches in depth. For this purpose on sod the disk harrow is without a peer. If the soil is rich and made thoroughly mellow to this depth, it will go through a long drought and still produce a fair crop of potatoes. As a rule plant early. Potatoes grow best when the weather is cool and moist, and, if they have a good start early, will usually go through the best. Do not use too much seed; this is a common fault. The best crops we have ever seen were raised when the seed cost $1 per pound, and, consequently, it was made to go as far as possible in planting, using but one eye to the hill. It is possible that extra care was given the crop because it was new and costly, but from the yield it is evident that the smaller quantity of seed answers as well, and without doubt better than a large quantity. While the potato plants are small keep the soil well worked up to the time the potatoes begin to form, and then, stop. If the soil is rather wet we prefer hilling with the plow; and for this purpose a steel shovel with wings does the work perfectly. On dry soil level culture is the best, but should be thorough and deep. The difference in

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quality as well as in yield in favor of good cultivation will pay for the whole cost of producing leaving a handsome profit instead of barely paying for growing. -‘-Detroit Post.

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Parker House Rolls.—One quart of flour, one cup milk, teaspoonful salt, table-spoonful sugar, two table-spoonfuls yeast, one table-spoonful shortening. White Fbuit Oaks.—One pound of butter, one and one-quarter of flour, whites of eighteen eggs, one pound sugar, one teacupful of milk (sweet), one teaspoonful baking powder, two ounces almonds, half pound citron, or the almonds may be left out if preferred. Leave ont the fruit and this is delicious white cake. Coffee Cake.—Two teacups of brown sugar, one of molasses, one of butter, one of strong coffee, four of flour, four eggs, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, two of spice, two of soda dissolved in the coffee, half pound raisins well seeded, half pound citron well cut up into small strips, half pound currants. I always brown my flour for this. How to Cook Rice.—Rice is becoming a much more popular article of food than heretofore. * It is frequently substituted for potatoes at the chief meal of the day, being more nutritious and much more readily digested. At its present cost, it is relatively cheaper than potatoes, oatmeal or grain-grits of any kind. In preparing it only just enough cold water should be poured on to prevent the rice from burning at the bottom of the pot, which should have a close-fitting cover, and with a moderate fire the rice is steamed rather than boiled until it is nearly done; then the cover is taken off, the surplus steam and moisture allowed to escape, and the rice turns out a mass of snow-white kernels, each separate from the other, and as much superior to the usual soggy mass as a fine mealy potato is superior to the water-soaked article.

Amber Soup.—Fry a large chicken with a small piece of pork and a large onion. Put them into the soup-pot with two or three pounds of veal or beef and a gallon of cold water. Let them simmer slowly for four hours, skimming very frequently. Add then a small carrot, a turnip, one stick of celery, two sprigs of parsley, four cloves, half a teaspoonful of small pepper corns and a little salt. Let it simmer slowly for another hour, strain and return to the pot. Season it to taste with cayenne pepper and salt. Add the slightly beaten whites and shells of two eggs, stirring well to the bottom of the pot Let it come to an active boil, then set it upon .the back of the range. When boiling ceases and it becomes perfectly still, skim it well, add a “table-spoonful or more of caramel and serve. Sweetbreads. —Throw them into cold water the moment they come from market and let them remain an hour. Then throw them into salted boiling water and let them boil about twenty minutes, or until tender. Throw them into cold water and let them remain two or three minutes. After blanching them in this way remove the skin and little pipes, and let them remain on ice until you are ready to cook them. Put a tablespoonful of light-brown sugar and a teaspoonful of water into a porcelain saucepan, and let it melt and assume a rich brown color, taking care, however, not to let it blacken or burn. Then add a teacupful of water and a pinch of salt. Stir this caramel well for a few minutes, then pour it boiling hot over the wellbeaten yelk of an egg. Brush the sweetbreads over with this and let them dry, brush them again and let them dry, and repeat this the third time. Then put them into the oven, with a little of the water in which they were boiled in the bottom of the pan. Let them bake until nicely browned, basting frequently. To fry sweetbreads, cut them into pieces the size of an oyster, or fry them whole. Season with pepper and salt, egg and bread-crumb them and fry them in boiling lard. Tomato sauce, stewed mushrooms, asparagus, green peas, macaroni, etc., are favorite accompaniments.

Defending the Sex.

Clara Belle, in her last letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, says “there seems to be a vast difference, to men’s eyes, between the tweedle-dee of an out?r dress and the tweedle-dum of underclothing. I can’t understand why, but it is so. Nine men out of ten will rush wildly to a window to see a woman in flowing white across the way and turn away disappointed when they find that the snowy garment is a wrapper instead of a chemise.” We rally to the defense of our sex. We scorn Clara Belle or anyone who believes the above statement. An equally false and wicked notion prevails relative to bald-headed men who go to the ballet and sit next to the musicians, within seven feet of the stage. The cruel charge that bajd-headed men sit on the front row of seats at this class of literary exercises from any wrong motive, has done an incalculable amount of harm. It has hurt our own feelings many times and caused the ready tear to unbidden. start. It has cast a gloom over our whole lives and embittered the cup of our joy many times.

Bald-headed men are dealt with unjustly in this matter. So far as we are concerned we are free to say that we sit on the front row so that we can hear the soft low notes of the bass viol. We are madly, passionately fond of the musical throbs of the large fiddle, and shall we be hooted and jeered on the public streets for this cause? Shall we be named mockingly by the mob because we yearn for the glad snort of the bass tuba and the mellow notes of the triangle? We hope not Clara Belle is a'little too harsh and too anterior. She writes sarcastically and does not regard the feelings of those she thus cruelly stabs. We should never speak disrespectfully of the bald-headed. We do not know how soon we may be bald-headed ourselves. There is a case in history somewhere, although we have not the leisure at {iresent to turn to it, where some hoodurns had a whole menagerie turned loose on them for speaking lightly of a bald-headed gentleman. Wo should learn from this never to attack the man who parts his hair with a towel, for in an unguarded moment he may climb us with a lawn mower and knock us beyond the purple hills.— Nye'e Boomerang. “Fbulow citizens,” said a Western murderer to the crowd around the gallows, ** this is the saddest moment of my life. It isn’t that I mind being jerked out of Dakota at the end of a rope, but I am sorry to think I shall never see any of you again. I feel I’ve got a through ticket straight up into Abraham’s bosom. "—Brooklyn Eagle.

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INDIANA ITEMS.

Dr. Theophilus Parvin has resigned his chair in the Medical College of Indiana. William Peake, of New Albany, lately married, has mysteriously disappeared. Lizzie Smith, a servant girl at Roann, Wabash county, fell down a flight of stairs and sustained injuries. The New Albany School Board reelected all the old teachers and seven new ones for the coming year. State treasury receipts during May, from all sources, $1,417,401.12. Same month last year, $1,464,029.42. New Albany dealers in harvesting machinery have been having a heavy trade the past two or three weeks. Word has been received that new military companies are being organized at •Lebanon, Seymour, Francesville, Mulberry and Bluffton. David Cramer, living at Belden, Wabash county, jumped off a moving train and fractured his skull. It is thought he will die. The infant daughter of J. M. Brown, of Fort Wayne, fell into a cistern, and the mother, unable to rescue her child, was compelled to stand by and see her drown. The new paper-mill at Lafayette will bo in operation within a few days. The machinery is all in position, and soon this valuable institution will be turning out from 8,000 to 10,000 pounds of paper per day. Miss Sarah Bassett, daughter of Prof. Bassett, of Wab ish College, who six years ago went ns missionary to Persia, is on her way home, having lost her health. She was to have remained ten years.

Burglars effected an entrance to the residence of Rev. Miller, a preacher of -the Dunkard church, at North Manchester, Wabash county, and stole sls in. money, a gold watch and a largo amount of jewelry. A. D. Brandriff & Co., an old and reputable hardware firm of Fort Wayne, are in the hands of tlie Sheriff. Their liabilities are placed at $85,000, and their assets at $55,000. Members of the family hold notes for SB,OOO. The usual average rain-fall for a year, at Lafayette, is about forty inches. Up to this time, from Oct. <1 .last, there has already been a fall of than fortytwo inches, and more than three months yet to go on to complete the year. The new city directory of Evansville contains 15,339 names, against 14,089 last year, and an increase of 1,244, indicating an absolute gain of nearly 3,500 in population. Allowing three persons to a name, it gives Evansville a population of 46,017. Much excitement was caused at Wa bash because of an assault made by two agents of a plow company upon Lee Linn, editor of the Wabash Courier. The Courier denounced them as swindlers, and one of the gang attacked Mr. Linn with a knife. He drew a revolver, but no gore was spilled. An Indian mound has been discovered at the old town of Clarksville. Four Indian skeletons have been unearthed, one with wampum in his skeleton hands. The bones are in a fine state of preservation. Saws made of bones, pipes and various Indian tools were found, and are in possession of Mr. Rusk, the discoverer.

Thb insane asylum drew from the State treasury, for current expenses during the month of May, $19,168.96, and for clothing, $664.36. The institution paid in on account of earnings for the month $74.78. There is but very little of the $7,500 appropriated by the last Legislature for repairs of the asylum left in the treasury, it nearly all having thus far been expended. Rbturns continue to be received at Peru concerning the operations of the lightning-rod sharpers in that vicinity. A Mr. Miller, of Clay township, signed a bogus contract and compromised by paying S2OO. Mr. Kuight, of Santa Fe, is a victim to a considerable amount. John Springer, an estimable farmer, donated $208.66 to the sharks. There seems to be no end to the rascalities e of these fellows, and, as most of their dupes prefer to grin and bear it, the sharpers are comparatively safe. Miss Kittv Almm had a nrarow escape at Cliffy Falls, near Madison. She was among those who attended a picnic at that place, and, while searching for a path to descend the declivity west of the falls, the soft earth gave way beneath her and she shot downward almost sixty feet. There was nothing to break the fall save some small underbrush, and these were clutched at by Miss Alling as she descended, but so great was her velocity that nothing she grasped checked her speed. Bho was unconscious by the time she alighted, but prompt medical attendance restored hei. She is doing well and will soon be about, but her escape from instant death was very close.

Measure of Things.

We measure from ourselves, as things are for our use and purpose, so we approve them. Bring a pear to the table that is rotten, we cry it down; it is naught. But bring a medlar that is rotten and ’tis a fine thing; and yet, I’ll warrant you, the pear thinks as well of itself as the medlar does. We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves. Nash, a poet, poor enough, as poets used to be, seeing an aiderman with his gold chain, upon his great horse, by way of scorn said to one of his companions: “Do you see yon fellow ? How goodly, how big he looks! Why, that fellow can not make a blank verse.” Nay, we measure the goodness of God from ourselves ; we measure His goodness, His justice, His wisdom by something we call just, good, or wise in ourself. And in so doing we judge proportionabty to the country fellow in the play, who said if he were a King he would live like a Lord and have peas and bacon every day, and a whip that cried “slash!”— John Belden.

A Candidate's Pressure.

“Well,” remarked Jones, “I see by the papers that Jenkins is having a strong pressure brought to bear on him to allow his name to be used as a candidate for the office of—” • “ I guess,” remarked Simpkins, as he tilted back in his chair, tilted his hat over his eyes and spat on the stove, squinting reflectively the while at the last man who had dropped in to purchase a two-for-five Havana, "I guess he’s like the rest of the boys. The pressure’s mostly internal.”- Qil City Derrick.