Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Ekurt. Morrison’s extensive paper-mills at Tyrone, I’a., were destroyed by a fire due to spontaneous combustion. The loss is said to be fully $225,000. 4 Every seat in the Academy of Music at New York wan filled to hear an address by Michael Davitt, which was almost entirely of a personal character. The audience received him enthusiastically, and cheered until they were exhausted. There was an extensive conflagration at Brockport, N. Y. Johnson's harvester-works were destroyed. Loss, $500,000; insurance, $200,000. Michael Davitt had an audience of nearly 8,000 people in Boston, to whom he unfolded his theory of land tenure. The fifth great well in the Warren county (Pa.) oil-field was struck the other day, the yield being 1,600 barrels. One well caught fire, the flames rising to a height of fifty feet, and causing a loss of SI,OOO a day while it burned. Went. Tiie round-up in Dakota shows the cattfo to be found in the finest possible condition. The losses of the season will not exceed '£% per cent., and the crop of calves is over 90 per cent. Editor Cowles, of Cleveland, was fined the costs in the case for his assault upon the private secretary of Bishop Gilmour. The railway lines between Chicago and Omaha, which are working under a pool, have notified the Postmaster General that they cannot put on a fast mail. The cyclone which swept over lowa made two or three attempts at devastation in Nebraska, but fortunately in unsettled portions of the State only. Along the Platte river, in Butler county, is a stretch of country a mile long which was plowed up by the storm. Trees, grass, rocks and all else were torn up and scattered in every direction. Quite a number of cattle were killed. Their bodies were tossed into the air like feathers and torn to pieces by the fury of the storm. Two young men were drowned in Sangamon county, 111., while bathing, and two young men wore drowned the same day at Hastings, Minn., by falling overboard from an excursion boat. Advices from Indian Territory show that there are 71,000 head of cattle and 10,000 horses on the trail toward market. Hon. J. B. Grinnell appeared on the Chicago Board of Trade in behalf of the people of lowa made desolate and homeless by the recent cyclone. He was introduced by Mayor Harrison, all business was stopped, and promises of aid camo from all sides. After listening to bis touching recital of the devastation wrought by the tornado a committee was appointed to raise funds and supplies. John V. Farwell, the merchant prince, started the ball by subscribing SI,OOO. George Eddy, a well-known reporter of St' Louis. h»a "■ saloon i7vr and cut him slightly. The assailed man followed Eddy home, and fired three times through the door, inflicting mortal wounds upon Mrs. Eddy. By the explosion of a saw-mill boiler at Williamsfield, Ohio, four men were killed. At Danville, Hl., three young girls employed as servants in a boarding-house borrowed 26 rents of the landlady, purchased arsenic and poisoned themselves. The ages of the girls were 12, 14 and 17 respectively. On® of them, aged 17, was apparently actuated by the fact that her father was “living with a fancy woman,” as she expressed it in a note addressed to her little sister; and no reason is known for the suicidal decision arrived at by the other two girls. HoutH. The wheat crop in East Tennessee, the best for ten years, is nearly harvested. Three men were killed and two seriously injured by a bank of earth falling upon them in Baltimore county, Md. Nathan Lucid, a negro, charged with assaulting a white woman, was taken from the jail at Sardis, Miss., and hanged by a mob. The Kentucky Board of Agriculture estimates the wheat crop of that State as high as 13,000,000 bushels. Corn is in better condition than for years, and the acreage 10 to 15 per cent, greater than last year.

WASHINGTON NOTES. For the new Alabama Claims Commission provided for in the Geneva Award bill, President Arthur has selected ex-Benator Jas. Harlan, of lowa, and Judge Wells, a member of the former commission. At Washington, on June 19, Justice Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, to whom Guiteau’s counsel applied for a writ of habeas corpus, filed a denial of the application with the Clerk of the Court. Justice Bradley holds that the Court of the District of Columbia had full jurisdiction of the case, and that no reasons exist for granting the writ Envoy Trescott was again examined as a witness before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Shipherd Peru business. His testimony was unimportant This closed the investigation, and the committee will now prepare its report An elaborate addition to the Executive Mansion in Washington is contemplated. It is proposed to erect a new building directly south of the White House and connected with that structure by a corridor, the improvement to cost $300,000 to begin with. That amount has been appropriated by the Senate.

POLITICAL POINTS. ' The Canadian general elections took place June 20, and resulted in the choice as members of the Dominion Parliament of an increased majority of supporters of the national policy es the Premier, Sir John A. Macdonald. Rufus K. Garland has been nominated for Governor by the Greenbackers. The nominee is a brother of the United States Senator of that name, was a member of the Confederate Congress, and is a man of ability. Congressman Ladd has been renominated by the Greenbackers of Maine. The “regular” Republican Convention of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg. Judge Jessup urged the necessity of a new State Convention, empowered to take action for the success of the party, but was voted down. None of the 232 delegates bolted the State Convention, and Marriott Brosius, of Lancaster, was nominated for Congressman-at-Large. The Vermont Republicans have nominated John L. Barstow for Governor. The Democratic State Convention of Tennessee nominated Gen. William B. Bate for Governor. There was a split in the convention on the State-debt question. A portion of the delegates seceded and decided to call a second convention,

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. There was an immense labor demonstration in Pittsburgh. Delegations were present from all the surrounding manufacturing districts, and there were 30,000 workingmen in procession, while the parade was viewed and cheered by 50,000 spectators. Fire caused a damage of $75,000 to the publishing-house of Hunter, Bose & Co., of Toronto, and a like amount to the saw-mill of O. ,P. Hazelton, near Wausau, Wis. Twentyfive houses were burned at Gadsden, Ala., the loss being $50,000. Michael Davitt landed at New York, June 18, and was quietly driven to a hotel, all the projects for a reception having miscarried. He expressed regret that he had left Portland prison, and will not again enter Parliament. Advices from Chihuahua city state that the Mexican troops liad another fight witn the Indians at Encinillos, in which fifteen Indians were killed and twenty taken prisoners. Five Mexicans were killed. A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico, states that twenty-seven Apache prisoners, captured in the recent fights with the Jesus and Maria bands, were taken out in a field and shot. They behaved with wonderful bravery, each one meeting his fate with wonderful coolness and looking defiantly at the executioners. Capt. Ross and his command of fifty Texas rangers followed the Apache trail into Mexico, where their arms were taken from them by Gen. Beyes for an invasion of Mexican soil, and they were compelled to make their way home without weapons. A farmer named Edward Carter, his son, his daughter and his son-in-law perished in their burning house in Channel, Newfoundland. Hamilton, Ontario, was the scene of a horrible triple tragedy, the other day. A man named Forbes, recently from Erie, Pa., killed his wife and a man named Balaton, because the former refused to live with him, and wound up by killing himself. The sixteenth annual session of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was held at Baltimore, with an unusually large attendance. A procession of 7,000 veterans was reviewed by President Arthur, Secretary. Lincoln and Gen. Sherman. The Grand Army now numbers 100,000 men, its muster-roll having received the names of 27,000 new names during the past year. The British ship Escambia was wrecked off the harbor of San Francisco, and of the crew of eighteen all perished except the Captain and three seamen.

FOREIGN NEWS. The new Egyptian Cabinet has been announced, and of course includes Arabi Pasha. The latter, in presenting prizes in the Italian school, said public security would be guaranteed, but meanwhile has given orders for the purchase of a large amount of torpedoes. Mr. Gladstone stated in the House of Commons that the Interjiational Conference will deal with the condition of Egypt, and not With the The police of London found in a stable in Clerkenwell 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 400 rifles with bayonets, and twenty-five boxes of revolvers. A Nihilistic lodging was discovered by the Russian police on Vassila island, and fortynine persons were arrested and a large quantity of dynamite was seized. The New York Herald's London correspondent telegraphs : The Government and the English press are evidently on the eve of one of their chronic panics about Fenianism. False alarms are the order of the day. Extraordinary precautions have been adopted at the arsenals and forts against imaginary attacks. Whether this is due to a real conviction of danger, or merely to a political dodge, it is impossible to say. Among the Irish members the rumors of an intended rising in Ireland are regarded as utterly unfounded. The Government, however, seems convinced that preparations for armed resistance are actually in progress. The British House of Commons refused to limit the operation of the Alien act to one year, but agreed to apply it to the whole United Kingdom. The Under Foreign Secretary said there were still some American citizens imprisoned in Ireland. The trichinee scare is still kept up in Franco for the benefit of .domestic producers. A bill for regulation of American pork imports had been prepared by the Government and was advocated by M. Tirard, Minister of Commerce, but the Senate rejected the bill on the ground that it did not offer sufficient guarantees against trichiniasis.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

One Owen, receiving teller of the Third National Bank of St. Louis —who was also engaged in the commission business—has been arrested for embezzling|slso,ooo of the bank’s funds. The bank’s officers give assurance that the stability of the institution is in no danger. James Fitzgerald, who played a bunko game on Charles Francis Adams, has been sentenced to five years in the Massachusetts penitentiary. Two murderers, a man and a woman, and two incendiaries, all colored, were hanged from the same scaffold at Kingston, 8. O. All died firm in the belief that they were “on the road to glory.” Luke Blackburn, Governor of Kentucky, is said to have succumbed to the appeals of Barnes, the mountain evangelist, and has become a member of the Episcopal church. J. Wilson Glover and his two children were killed by lightning near Charleston, 8. C. They were in their house on John’s island. George A. Woods was hanged at Durango, Col., for the murder of M. G. Buchanan. Large herds of cattle are arriving at Dodge City, Kan., and it is estimated that within a space of sixty miles there are 85,000 head. Mrs. Henrietta Randall, aged 33, hanged herself in the yard of her residence, at Springfield, Mo. By the uttering of a maledictioh years ago she believed the curse of God was upon her. Thomas J. Foster, editor and proprietor of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Evening Herald, shot himself through the head. The Coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of temporary insanity, superinduced by alcoholism. A wave nearly twelve feet high swept along the shore of Lake Erie, from Painesville to Cleveland, accompanied by a roar like thunder, the wind shifting from south to north. The undertow did great damage at Cleveland. A lot of steel rails weighing twenty tons were thrown back ten feet, and one man was swept out into the lake and drowned. The eight-inch hawser on the steamer Northwest was snapped like a thread. Five important firms in Moscow have organized to promote the cultivation of cotton in Central Asia, and will engage American superintendents. Fifty Irish peasants, drilling in the

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County Roscommon, were surprised by the police, and eight of the number were arrested, three of them being released suspects. In the House of Commons, John Bright said the condition of Ireland was made greatly worse by subscriptions from America, and that those subjects of the Queen who took part in the Chicago convention were traitors to the crown. Arabi Pasha informed an English correspondent that he will resist to the death any nterference with the affairs of Egypt by her enemies, and can regard no settlement as satisfactory until the fleets are withdrawn. He stated that he had no thought of ruling without the Khedive. Sixty thousand Chinese laborers who have finished a contract in Cuba applied for permission to go through the United States on then: way home. Secretary Folger placed the matter before the Cabinet, which decided that the request could not be granted, and the coolies will be compelled to return by way of England. The lowa Republican State Convention, to nominate candidates for State officers to be voted for in October, is called to meet at Des Moines, Aug. 2. The Michigan State Democratic Central Committee has issued a call for a State Convention, to be held at Jackson, Aug. 23, to place in nomination a State ticket. There is a noticeable falling off of late in the number of business failures throughout the country. Gen. Stoneman was nominated by the Democratic Convention of California for Governor. The platform denounces the Chinese, now in the State as an unmixed curse, and demands that the Democratic party, when it attains the power, shall take prompt steps fqr the removal of every Mongolian in the country.

Hunting Up a Pedigree.

I live in a small country parish of 194 inhabitants, and our parish register dates from 1630. A young American gentleman came to my friend the Rector, and said that it had only come to his knowledge two days previous that it was from this village that his father’s grandfather emigrated to America about the year 1750, and there laid the foundation for the present wealth of his descendants. The gentleman, with a party of fourteen, had been fifteen months away from New York, visiting the chief places of the Continent, the Holy Land, Egypt, &c., and ending up with the principal sights in England and Scotland ; and they were to embark from Liverpool on the following morning. He had traveled specially to this little village. Would the Rector be good enough to refer to the parish registers, and see if his ancestors were therein mentioned ? The Rector did so— ’ the ancestors were there found in regular descent, from the very beginning of the register—and the gentleman, in less than two hours’ time, was set up with a pedigree dating back two and a half centuries, which he said he should have drawn up in heraldic fashion, and which doubtless now adorns some room in his American home. It was evident that the ancestors were of the humblest class, as in another book mention of “ Goody” was frequently made as being the recipient of a tenpenny charity. But the surname happens to correspond with one in the English Baronetage, and while the Rector was transcribing the numerous registers the American gentleman was busy copying from Debrett the coat of arms of the Baronet in question, bloody hand and all. I regret to add that the Rector never received a sixpence for his trouble, though he might have charged a heavy sum in fees ; but he was restoring his church, and he left it to the American gentleman to give some donation for that purpose, either in money or in the form of a stainedglass window or other memorial to his, ancestors.— Notes and Queries.

Stories of a Cat and a Hen.

Mrs. A. W. Brooks, of East Eliot, Me., has a cat 13 years old, for which he has been vainly offered SSO. This learned pussy will stand up at the word of command, bow slowly or quickly as directed, walk around the room on her hind legs only, dance, turn somersaults, go through the motion of holding a jewsharp in her mouth with one paw and playing-on it with the other, mew when ordered to speak, kiss her paw to visitors, hold a saucer of milk on her forelegs and lap the milk, and stand on her hind feet and with her forepaws catch bits of bread or meat thrown to her like a base-ball player. Her kitten, a year old, will turn somersaults. The same lady has a hen which always wipes her feet on the mat on entering the house, and, if asked % “ How do you get your living, biddvr’ will scratch on the floor, look to see if she has scratched eut anything, and then look at the questioner to see if the answer is correct. This hen despises the porcelain, wooden and chalk cheats which some people palm off on hens for nest-eggs, tumbling them out of her nest as often as they are put in.

Lager Beer in America.

The first lager beer shop in this city was opened by John Bechtel, in the basement of the Evening Post building, in 1840. The beverage proved popular, and in a couple of years Bechtel began to brew beer on Staten island. Previous to his time the little that was used came in bottles from Germany. To-day it is estimated that there are two quarts of lager beer consumed for every pint of all other alcoholic compounds dispensed over the counter to bibulous Americans. Fully 60,000 persons are engaged in brewing lager beer, and the business pays internal taxes amounting to over #14,000,000 per annum. Bechtel died at a ripe old age, which speaks well of the beverage he made ; that is, if he drank it himself. — New York Sun.

Iron Not Fire-Proof.

The American Architect says : The ordinary so-called fire-proof structures of a granite shell inclosing naked iron beams carrying brick arches supported by unprotected iron columns, in point of security against fire, are little better than frames of timber and plank. We have often noticed that granite and iron caught fire more readily and burned somewhat more rapidly than the dropcurtain and scenes of a theater. No iron can be considered really fire-proof until it has bfeen protected by a thick veneering of resin and pine.

The first instance where physicians are spoken of in the Bible is IL Chronicles, xvi. 12 : “ And Asa, in the 39th year of his reign, was diseased in his feet until the disease was exceedingly great; yet in his disease he sought not the Lord, but to the physicians.” The compiler coolly adds, as though a natural consequence ; “ And Asa slept with his fathers.”

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles”

THE IOWA TORNADO.

The Extent of the Calamity—-An Appeal for Aid. Dks Moines, lowa, June 20. The following appeal for aid has been issued: To the* Public : After two days and nights spent in traversing the track of the tornado that swept over this State with such fearful havoc last Saturday night, and having reports from scores of the reporters of the Dea Moines .Register and Associated Press sent to all parts of it, I find the condition of the stricken people so piteous and so needful of instant and generous help that I send this appeal to the people of the United States in their behalf. The tornado made a swath of destruction through the thickly-settled portion of lowa some 150 miles in length, and an average of half a mile in width, extending from a point south of Ames, in the center of the State, and swept in the shape of a crescent to South English, in Keokuk county, in the Southeastern part of the State. We have the names now of sixty-nine dead and 500 wounded, half of the latter greviously hurt, and probably a fifth of them fatally. Over 300 families have had their homes totally destroyed, and there are now at least 1,500 homeless and in want. The loss in property will exceed $2,000, • 000 and may reach $3,000,000. In the town of Grinnell alone over $400,000 in property was destroyed, on none of which there was a cent of insurance, as in the case of fires. It will take at least $300,000 to put the people there beyond need and distress. It will take. SIOO,000 at once to put the wounded people in condition to be cared for. It will take $1,000,000 at the lowest to keep the sufferers from want and to help them to put the humblest of roofs over their heads. The people of Des Moines and of lowa are responding generously. The citizens of this city have subscribed SB,OOO this morning, and will make it $20,000 before night, m money, and are also sending provisions and clothing beside. But it will take the help of every humane city and town in the West and every liberal city and town in the East to put comfort and safety between these stricken people and further suffering and fatality. Grinnell is a town of New England people, a thrifty, intelligent people, and with the lowest rate of crime and illiteracy in the State and the highest rate of intelligence and morality. The rich towns of the East may well help these sons and daughters of New England in the distress and need of the utter calamity visited upon them so cruelly by this Moloch of the air, which has killed fifty of their people, destroyed 150 of its homes, maimed and mutilated 200 more of its people, many of whom will soon die, and all of whom must be cared for for months, and wiped out totally nearly $500,000 in uninsured property. lowa College has had all its buildings destroyed. its 400 students made homeless, and has suffered a loss of $75,000 in uninsured property. The condition of other towns and farming communities is fully as pitiable and helpless. All that the people of lowa can do will be done to alleviate the condition and repair in part the losses of the sufferers. But it will take $1,000,000 to do it, even to half-way comfort and recompense them ; and the people of the State* who have always borne their share and done their part in all national calamities, may fitly ask the people of other communities to help them in this hour of great calamity to many of the worthiest of its people, and to this I end ask my fellows of the press through the United States to place these facts before their readers, and to give their timely help to its sufficient purpose of raising and providing aid at th® earliest moment possible. The fury and power of this utter calamity were as indescribable in their mightiness of strength as their havoc and power were cruel and complete. Many people have left of their houses not a splinter as large as a finger, not a shred of furniture as large as a skein of silk, and hundreds have no clothing left except the night-clothes they had on. Cases of exceptional horror add exceptional pathos to the piteous whole. Women in pregnancy were killed outright, others forced to premature delivery, and little children had both parents killed and left maimed and wounded tbemEvery condition exists that most tenderly appeals to the pity of the human heart. The wounds inflicted by the debris that filled the air like chaos, by the electric balls of fire that seemed to traverse every inch of space and that exploded with fearfullyfatal effect, will, many of them, defy all skill and nursing even with the tenderest care. The fury of the storm, which was clearly of electric origin, and which, indeed, may be described as having been electricity itself, precipitated in chaos, may be understood from the statement that, in various places, it took up in its greater spirals or funnels houses a thousand feet high, and took up and carried large herds of cattle through the air for thousands of feet and dashed them down dead in heaps. Many thousands of cattle, horses, hogs and other animals now lie in the track of th® tornado, already rotting, and adding, in the hot weather, the horror of putrefaction to the foul and pervading odors that are being given off by the millions of tons of decaying matter left in the wake of the tornado. The horrors of the storm, the unspeakable cruelties that it inflicted, the pitiless woe of its coming in the night, when the dead were not known and the wounded could not be found, and the piteous state in which it has left hundreds of families, before prosperous, may not be described in words, but once known to generous hearts must command the instant sympathy of the liberal, and immediate help. Remittances may be made to Hon. J. B. Grinnell, at Grinnell, or the Mayor of Grinnell. I write from the knowledge of two whole days and nights spent on the scene of desolation and among the dead and wounded, and tell the facts of the multitude of horrors simply as they are, feeling that they will themselves best appeal to the country and most effectually aid the sufferers. J. 8. Claiikso.v, Editor Des Moines Register.

Terrible Power and Extraordinary Freak* of the Cyclone. No person would believe vere they told of the marvelous caprices of a cyclone, writes a correspondent of the Des Moines Register. It can only be realized by observation ; even then the senses are staggered. Prof. Myer, the old Signal Service observer, has given a theory of their movements which is confirmed by facts. It moves in funnel shape, with gyrating motion, making a large or small circle, and then performing a loop or quarter circle each 300 foet, and in this quarter, or small circle,'lies the terrible power defying everything on the face of the earth to withstand. The cyclone which struck Grinnell started apparently seven miles northwest, and with a rocking motion came bounding m a large swirl until it struck the northwest part of the city, when a leop was formed, which sucked everything into its vortex for a space of fifty rods wide and onefourth mile long. Whatever lay in this track was demolished. Houses, large and small, with everything in them were torn up and crushed to splinters and fragments, and strewn over the earth along the track. There was no wind to carry them away. Buildings standing just at the edge of the loop were lifted from the foundation, twisted out of shape or turned over. The contents were sucked out and the rooms left bare, even the carpets being torn from the floors. People were forced out of their houses with terrific force. One man was carried across two streets, over houses, through a window, and landed on a bed. Another was sucked out of his bouse, carried several rods, and lodged in a tree. A man named Bice, outside of Grinnell, and his little boy were blown out of the house and into a deep well. He climbed out, pushing his little boy before him. One house was whirled around, and a heavy timber forced completely through it, the furniture and contents torn out, except a glass lamp and globe, which hung unharmed in the parlor; not a vestige of anything else being left in the room. At another house, wrecked and devastated, tho clock alone stood on the mantel, the hands pointing at 8:48, the probable moment the blast struck it, and this time is confirmed by the watch of the student who leaped from a college window, and which stopped at 8:45. At another place where there was nothing left to denote a residence but tho cellar, a mirror unharmed was standing against the cellar wall, the only unbroken article that could be found. At L. C. Phelps’ house, himself and family of five persons attempted to go down cellar, but the suction closed the doors so they could not open them, and although the house was demolished except this room they escaped. Mrs. F. Taylor was carried from her own house and landed in the debris of the house of Mr. Graham. Her house was little damaged, but she was fatally hurt. Mrs. Griswold and her son were blown from their house, but in opposite directions. Mr. Foster, a farmer northwest of Grinnell, had twenty-five cattle lifted from a herd, carried sixty rods and dropped dead. One family in Grinnell were sitting to-

gether in a low room when tue house was taken from over their heads, carried off and crushed in one direction, and in a moment after they were whirled away in another direction. Prof. Magoun, nephew of the President of the University, was in front of Prof. Chamberlain’s house with a span of horses and carriage. He grasped a tree and held on. The carriage was whirled away and torn in splinters, the harness stripped from the horses, the horse® lifted into the air, and one dropped dead several rods away. The other has not been found. Large trees were broken near the ground, and the upper twisted one way around the trunk while a few feet distant the process was exactly reversed. Prof. Buck was in the southeast chamber. He started with his son to go down cellar when the whole of that side of the house was carried off, leaving the remainder but little damaged. He and his son leaped to the ground. In the tops of some trees was forced a new phaeton so tightly that it can only be cut out. It was doubled into a roll, and must have dropped there when the trees were bent downward. Horses and cows had timbers and splinters driven into their bodies. Felloes and tires of wagon wheels were to be seen with the hub and spokes gone. At one place where only could bo seen the mudcolored debris of a dwelling which had evidently been one of refinement and culture, the only thing left to evidence the fact was a beautiful untarnished rose in full bloom, a marvel in such surroundings. One man who was hurrying to protect his home, but too late, threw his arms around a tree, and while there a hors® and carriage were thrown over him and dashed to the earth beyond. Twenty-seven loaded cars on the Central road which had just come into the station from the north were struck in a loop of the whirl and turned over into the ditch toward the west, or face of the storm. The locomotive was lifted from the track and set on the ties right side up, while one mile east, a west-bound freight-train in motion was keeled over to the east, and the conductor and brakeman were killed. In some houses every inmate was killed or hurt, yet the house left, while the next house and its contents were utterly destroyed and broken into fragments, yet the inmates not seriously hurt. Between Mr. Roberts’ house and barn, which were totally demolished, was a large pile of stovewood, not a stick of which was moved. Mr. Roberts had about $75 in his house, including a SSO bill. After the storm he saw a piece of paper fluttering on the ground, and found it was the SSO bill, held by a little sliver of wood. The rest was not found. One of his buggies was taken, and another by the side of it left Thousands of instances of the marvelous caprices of this gyrating storm could be related. The victims know nothing of anything except their ewn experience. It was all over in three minutes, or before one could stop to think or act. It is discovered that over a space of four blocks, where every vestige of habitation is ground to pieces, the people saved their lives by fleeing to the cellar before the cloudburst came. The most of the dead were found where there were no cellars or they did not go to the cellar. It is therefore safe to assume that the cellar will be the quick resort hereafter on the approach of one of these besoms of destruction, beyond the power of the most fertile brain to describe. There is no safety in any building ejected by man. Nothing on the face of the earth can withstand the force of one of these monsters. A gentleman who witnessed the movement of the cloud, which could be done a few rods away, says it was a black mass, funnel shape, whirling along with a terrible rumble, but no wind. At the upper and in the center was a continuous lurid flame of lightning, and constant explosions, like hand grenades. Behind this was'a mass of water and mud. Every person lolled was so covered with mud that they could mot be identified until they were washed. The houses were plastered with mud, and mud covers every foot of the track of the cloud.

Tne Cyclone Described—Singular Incident® and Hair-Breadth Escape®. Much has been written with regard to the appearance of the cyclone, but I can not refra’n, in this connection, from reproducing, as nearly as 1 can, a description given me with unconscious eloquence by an eye-witness to the descent of the boreal monster upon the fated town. “The sun went down,” he said, “behind a bank of peculiar clouds. They were of fantastic shapes, and the last rays of the setting sun imparted to them a crimson, angry hue. I couldn’t help, for the life of me, thinking of the ferocious red eyes of an untamable bull dog, when I looked at the lurid spectacle. Night came on, and with it the storm. Incessant -lightning illuminated the northern and western heavens. The clouds grew blacker and the atmospheric agitation increased. The balloon-shaped cloud about wirch you already know could be seen approaching a quarter of an hour before it reached the town, and for at least five minutes before its arrival the roaring sound, which has been aptly likened to the rumbling of fifty freight trains across an iron bridge, filled the air with its ominous echoes. It was preceded by a violent wind, which blew down trees and drove people into the house. I was standing in an open space on one of the western streets of the town, and, feeling that I was safer there than I could be in a house, I determined to stay there, though I admit- I was frightened half to death. The rumbling roar came nearer, and the lowering mass seemed to reach out black arms to the earth, when, with a horrible, whistling shriek, the monster swept by within a hundred yards of the spot where I was rooted with amazement and fear. The raging thing swooped down upon the place, licking up everything in its path. Some of the houses were mashed down and swept along, whfie others were picked up bodily, torn to pieces, and the furniture and occupants lifted into the air, either to be hurled to the earth again or blown the Lord knows .vhere. '•The dreadful giant pursued its way, crushing, crunching and destroying with cruel wantonness. In the unearthly glare produced by the blazing lightning, which flashed wickedly and incessantly, and by the balls of fire with which the gyrating mass seemed to be alive. I could see the air filled with flying objects of every conceivable form, from scraps of paper to sections of roofs and floors, to the height of 400 or 500 feet, and I don’t know, how much higher. A house would be crushed like an eggshell and in less time than it takes to tell the materials that composed it would be climbing skyward with incredible rapidity. The air was charged with electricity, and where I stood the atmosphere was of a ghostly pallor. The whirling monster threw out flashes, and sparks, and balls as it passed along. Mingled with the frightful roaring of the cyclone could be heard the shrill, blood-curdling shrieks of women as they were caught up and borne away to their death. The demon concert is ringing in my ears yet The cyclone was probably a minute, or a minute and a half, passing me. It seemed an age. Nothing ever filled me with such unspeakable awe as this relentless riot of the elements—this merciless march of death.”

After the storm came a blinding, drenching rain. It was dark as the bottomless pit—so dark that the blackness could almost be felt—and through this inky air groped hundreds of men and women trying to find the mangled remains of the victims of nature’s cruel revolt The City Hall was converted into a morgue and the other public buildings into hospitals. Relays of doctors hastened to the scene of butcherv from all quarters. Mr. Moffatt, who had charge of the dead-house, tells of the spectacle that was presented there Sunday morning: “We worked half the night and all Sunday forenoon getting the bodies into shape for burial. There were forty of them ranged about in the room, nearly all women and ebudren. It being Saturday night, the men were mostly down in the business part of town making purchases for Sunday. The bodies when first brought in were unrecognizable. Dirt, sand, plaster and cinders were ground into the flesh, and in many instances it could not be washed or scraped off. It was as though the victim had been mashed into an ash-pit and rolled about under tremendous pressure. I can think of no other simile that will convey my idea of how they Koked. “The clothing was torn from the bodies in a few cases, but only a few. The shreds that were left clinging to the forms had to be cut away, however. That was the only way it could be done. Every single person brought to the morgue was mutilated in a shocking manner. Forms were sometimes hammered and beaten into shapeless masses. Spines were driven into the skull, protruding through the top of the head; backs were broken, or telescoped ; skulls crushed like egg-shells; eyes hanging down the cheeks; arms and legs torn from the bodies and hanging, disjointed, by shreds of flesh ; entrails protruding from frightful gaps, and vitals scooped out and detached entirely from the bodies. The picture was sickening. It took me two hours to lay out the mutilated remains of what had once been a beautiful young girl. Her head had been crushed down into her trunk and could only be

extricated by cutting away the flesh in a manner that tseemed almost barbarous. There was only one way of doing it, however. I pray God I may never be called upon to see another such a sight,” Astonishing stories of the freaks of the tempest are told, and I am in a fit frame of mind to berieve almost anything after having gone over the track of the cyclone for a dozen or more miles, and seen witn my own eyes the havoc wrought Who has not heard of the wind blowing hard enough to take the hair from a dog’s back ? That is one of the things 1 never believed. Neither could I quite swallow the statement that, out in Nebraska, the inhabitants have to wall up their wells to keep the hurricanes from blowing out the holes. The story about chickens having been denuded of feathers is scarcely less difficult to believe than the dog story ; yet to-day there is an olu nen and brood of chickens in Grinnell literally stepped by the wind of every feather, and as clean as the day they broke through the shell of the egg that gave them life, and lam told that flocks of prairie chickens have been seen plucked in a similar way. In Malcom a stable belonging to Bradbroox, a noted sportsman, was lifted from the ground, transported over the tops of a grove of trees, and landed at the foot of a hill an eighth of a mile away, and none of the three horses m the barn were killed, or even seriously injured. One of the animals was thrown through an open door, alighting “ right side up, with care,” in the mud. On three of the four corners of the two main streets in Malcom are flimsy frame buildings, and on the remaining corner stood a strong two-story brick block. The cyclone spared the wooden buildings, and knocked the brick structure into flinders. Up the street, half a block, was located a three-story iron and brick building owned’by J. H. Duffus. It was crushed like a shell, and pieces of the corrugated iron veneering blown to the outskirts of the town. A farmer living seven miles away brought in a piece of Duffus’ iron, weighing several pounds, it having been dropped in a field near his farmhouse. A one-armed student jumped from the third story of the brick dormitory and was carried a considerable way before he struck the ground, without a scratch. The student immediately ran down town and rang the alarm bell. Mud and dirt were blown into the sides of buildings still standing with such force that the disfiguring blotches cannot be removed. Gravel was not splashed up against the buildings, but driven in, as though discharged from a mortar. I saw a delicate mantel ornament taken uninjured from a mass of mortar and other rubbish in Grinnell, and within twenty feet of the place was a dark spot, showing where a young child had been driven into the earth ana crushed out of shape. A large house, owned by Lucius Sawders, in Grinnell, waslifted clear of the cellar, in which were concealed ten persons, and hurled upon the ground 150 feet distant, while a barn in the rear of the same lot was pitched the same distance in an exactly opposite direction. A young woman living less than a block from the Sanders residence was drawn through her bedroom window on the second floor, and gently wafted sixty yards away and deposited softly on the ground unhurt. Other members of the same household were treated with equally delicate consideration, having been blown to the same place without the infliction of serious injury.

THE PARTY TAX.

An Enormous Corruption Fund Beinfj liaised by tlie Republican Eeaders—An Infamous Farty Programme, [From the Chicago Times.] The President’s party vicegerent in Pennsylvania (Mr. Cameron) has levied upon the income of each of the eleven Bessemer steel companies in that prov - ince a tax of SI,OOO for the purposes of the party campaign. The companies, it is said, have all paid, or given notice of their readiness to pay the tax, which, by comparison to the party tax which has been levied on the stipends of Government officers and employes, is a light one. The party tax on official stipends is 2 per cent. This rate, levied on the $1,200 salary of a one-legged assistant door-keeper, amounts to $24; on the SSOO and $750 stipends of house pages (who are generally the sons of depend ent widows) the amount it requires each youth to pay into the party treasury is from $lO to sls. But the party tax of SI,OOO on the profits which any one of the Bessemer steel companies derives from the operation of the “protective” tariff of about 100 per cent, on that commodity represents a rate of taxation not exceeding one-half of 1 per cent. That is to say, the rate of party taxation which the President, by his party Lieu - tenants, levies on the public income of the Bessemer steel monopolists is only one-quarter the rate which he levies on the public income of Government officers and employes. There manifestly is a most “ unjust discrimination.” By “ public income ” is meant income derived from public revenue, or from the effective operations of the revenue laws. The income of public officers trom their official compensations (on which the party tax is levied) is paid out of the public treasury. The same money comes into the public treasury from duties on imports. Thus the party tax levied on the stipend of the officeholder is levied on an income which he derives indirectly from the operation of the Tariff law. The same law gives to the Bessemer steel manufacturer a large part of his large income. He derives it not indirectly but directly from the operation of the Tariff law. The money he gains by that operation is not transferred from the earnings of the people into the public treasury, and thence into his pocket, as in the case of the officeholder, but passes directly from the earnings of the people to his pocket. The principle is the same, however, in both cases ; for in both cases the income derived from the operation of the Tariff law is money taken from the earnings of the people by the authority and power of Government And it is on this ground that the President’s party lays its taxes on the income of both the officeholder and the Bessemer steel monopolist, and on this ground that both of them pay the tax. The officeholder knows that if he refuses to pay the tax the party will stop his income by dismissing him from his place. Rather than lose all his income, he pays 2 per cent, of it to the President’s party tax-gatherer. The Bessemer steel monopolist has reason to believe that if he refuses to divide with the party the profit which the party, by its tariff policy, has enabled him to get, the party will reduce his income by changing the tariff duties which are the bulwarks of his monopoly. Seeing that the party has taxed his tariff gains only one-quarter as heavily as it has taxed the poor officeholder’s income from the Tariff law, he pays over the amount without grumbling. Thus, the exchequer of the President’s party in Pennsylvania is repleted with SII,OOO by a tax of rather less than one-half of 1 per cent on the tariff gains of eleven “protected” Bosse mer steel monopolies. It is understood that the Presidential party plans for the fall campaign include the levying of taxes on the tariff profits of other great “protected” monopolies, and that payment of the tax of 2 per cent, on official salaries-will be enforced with the greatest vigor. Both a blacklist of those who refuse to pay the tax and a white-list of those who pay it are kept; and those whose names shall be found in the black-list are warned that it will be prudent to arrange their private affairs with a view to an early discontinuance of their relations to the

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public service. Should all of them pay the tax—and it is not believed that any considerable number will refuse to pay it—the party coffers will receive no less than $2,000,000 from the officeholders alone. With this enormous corruption fund the President’s party Lieutenants believe they will be able to break down the formidable revolt in Pennsylvania, get the “ verdict of the people” in all the doubtful provinces, and secure control of the next House to the President’s party by a large majority. There are just two ways in which the execution of this virtuous programme can be prevented. One is in the hands of the people ; but its successful application depends on the manifestation of a canability and a willingness of the politcal people to do what free representative Government requires to be done to keep it standing which has not been manifested in this country during a very long period. It is in the power of the electors to break down and cast out the party machine and party bosses who seek to control their political action by means of vast bribery funds exacted from the pay of their public servants and contributed by monopolists who have taken the Government for their partner in business. Will the electors exert their power ? Will they break away from the appliances of the machine ? Will they resist and overcome the corrupting potency of enormous bribery funds ? There is not a single fact in our past political experience to encourage an opinion that they will. The other way to defeat the programme of bribery is in the hands of the President. By a word the President can stop the-coll ection of the party tax which his party Lieutenants have levied on the stipends of his administration subordinates. He is the head of the administration. Every officer and employe of the Government is an agent of his authority, dependent on his will. The power to remove and the power to appoint are his, directly or indirectly, from the highest tq the lowest member of the vast official establishment. He has but to declare his displeasure with the taxing of their salaries for party purposes, to express his wish that no person connected with the administration shall pay the tax, and let it be known that none will hazard the loss of his place by refusal, to bring the programme of controlling the expression of the country by means of * bribery to a sudden and complete stop. Will the President exert the power and influence of his great office to stop this infamous programme ? To indulge the notion that he will do so would betray imbecility. To doubt that the party tax on all official salaries has been levied with his knowledge and consent, to doubt that he wishes it to be paid, or that he will exert the power of his office to enforce its cbllection, would be a display by adult men of the innocence ot babes. The party tax on official stipends has been levied because its levy was the will of the President. It will be collected because it is the will of the President that the officers shall pay it. It is a party programme, the most corrupting and infamous it is possible to imagine ; but it is a party programme which has its source in the desire and its fulfillment in the power of a party President. It is one of the worst phases of the spoils system. And yet there are alleged civilservice reformers who affect to believe that the spoils system, which has its source in tiip desire of a party President, can be discontinued without disturbing its source.

That “Pauper Labor."

The Cleveland Leader is delivering lectures to the striking workingmen, suggesting a return to the mills and resumption of work. Among other things it says: Another matter to be seriously considered by tIiOHO engaged in mechanical production is the large amount of skilled labor now arriving from Europe. Emigrants are coming by thousands and tens of thousands, and in their ranks are to be found men of almost every conceivable h ade and occupation. They come from Great Br.tain, France, Germany and other parts of continental Europe. The newcomers, as a rule, have served long apprenticeships and are masters of their respective trades. They have fled from starvation wages and dull times at home, and the very lowest wages against which our own operatives ' are striking will prove attractive to them. They have come hither in search of labor, and they will not fail to step into places made vacant by striking trade-unionists. The Labor Bureau of New York is constantly on the lookout to secure employment for arriving emigrants, and the managers of that institution will not hesitate to forward skilled European workmen to manufacturing centers where strikes prevail, or may be inaugurated. Even the trade-unionists themselves are beginning to apprehend difficulty from this source, and tbeleaders are taking steps to place them*Jveg in communication with foreign wo-kmen on their arrival, with a view to enlisting their sympathies. But “ self-preservation is the first law of nature,” and the new comers will doubtless consult their own interests by getting to work as soon as possible and at such wages as may be offered. The surest way to provide them places is for our own workingmen to make vacancies by going out upon strikes.

As a matter of fact, the Barons are gloating over the influx of “ pauper labor,” as they call it. They do all they can to encourage it, because they can keep wages down and sell their goods at a larger profit. These workingmen who are “fleeing from starvation wages” are nearly all of them from countries where protective tariffs are in full force. As a rule they are the poorer classes of workingmen in Europe, and will work 50 per cent, cheaper than American workmen will work. The Barons say they are well prepared for strikes, as they have a big overproduct (usual in a protective tariff country), which they can sell leisurely. They do not care a straw for their workingmen, as is evident from the cold-blooded tone of tfie Cleveland organ from. which we have quoted The Barons, in fact, who in 1880 told the workingman that a protective tariff always gives permanent work and permanently-high wages, now say to them : “We propose to reduce wages and running time, and if you don’t like it you can go. We can get all the pauper labor we want dirt cheap. We know we made a great howl about the evils of ‘ pauper labor ’in 1880, but it was only a little trick on our part to deceive you and get you to vote m favor of keeping up our power to tax our fel-low-citizens.” This is the position of the Barons to-day. Will the workingmen allow the Barons to deceive them in 1884 ?— Louisville Courier-Journal.

An Oversight.

A French physician has discovered “ two cases of locomotor ataxy in women employed on sewing machines.” We suspect the sewing machines had not been vaccinated. Of the 947 different patent medicines advertised and warranted to go right to the spot—ask your druggist for it—we don’t remember to have seen one that has cured a case of “locomotor ataxy.” This is an oversight which should «be remedied in all the new advertising contracts,—- Worrit town Herald,

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INDIANA ITEMS.

The “county history” took over $3,000 out of Whitley county. Martin county is the first county to make its return of agricultural statistics to the State Bureau of Statistics. Frank Felger was struck by a freight train and fatally injured, near Fori Wayne. He leaves a .large family. Dr. Solomon Stough, of Waterloo, has been fined SI,OOO for accepting bribes for issuing false pension certificates. George Rosselle, a tramp, was killed near Shelbyville, while attempting to get on a moving freight-train. Both legs were cut off close to the body. A -water-spout burst about one-half mile below Connersville, washing down fences and completely submerging the road, so that travel was impeded for some time. Paxton Wilhite, an old farmer, residing seven miles south of Crawfordsville, was robbed on the streets of that place, the other day* during the parade of Cole’s circus, of SI,OOO cold cash. The lightning-rod sharps boast that they can stand the newspaper breeze, considering the fact that they bled about $5,000 out of the farmers of Cass and adjoining counties in the space of two weeks. A little boy at Richmond swallowed three arsenic pills that had beeii carelessly left in his way, and the frightened mother sent for a but before he came the boy had vomited up the poison. In consequence of dullness in the building line, the Hinsdale-Doyle stonemills, at Bedford, have shut down for the present, throwing out of employment a large number of stone-cutters, carvers and laborers. The Board of Commissioners of Jackson county have just made their annual settlement, struck a balance, and find the county does not owe a cent, and has $32,089.13 in the treasury. The levy is one of the lowest of any county in the State. Hanover College has conferred tlie degree of LL. D. upon Miss Marin Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy at Vassar College. She is the sister of the late Gen. O. M. Mitchell, and as a woman and scholar deserves the honored title. Joseph Spurgin, a 10 year-old boy, got on a rock-car at the quarry, in Salem, and unloosed the brake, which threw him down upon the track, and the cars started and ran over one of his legs, crushing it to almost a jelly. It was amputated about four inches from tlie body. Mbs. Yutzler, of New Albany, cherishes the traditional feminine dread of a man under the bed. The other evening her apprehension was justified by the discovery of a concealed intruder, whom she, with commendable presence of mind and steadiness of nerve, knocked insensible witirthe lamp. Annie King, a handsome young schoolmistress and daughter of a prominent farmar living near Wabash, eloped with a fellow named Daily, whose home is in Newcastle, and who has a wife and two children. The affair has created a big breeze at Wabash in consequence of the prominence of Miss King. Joft Snyder, living near Georgetown, Floyd county, having some wet powder, placed it in an oven of his stove to dry, and apparently forgot it, as an explosion occurred soon after which blew thingsin all directions. His two children, who were in the room at the time, were struck by pieces of the stove and fatally wounded. The employment of experts at high wages by the County Commissioners of Lawrence county to examine the books in the County Treasurer’s office, which occasioned so much excitement a short time since, has resulted in a personal quarrel between Commissioner Alex. Glover and ex-Treasurer F. A. Bears. Through the columns of the local papers they are gradually telling all they know-.

Mrs. Henry 8. Lane left Crawfordsville, last week, for New York, where she will be joined by Mrs. Gilman, of Boston. The two ladies will sail for Europe, to be absent till next spring. They will spend the summer traveling through the different countries of the Old World, will join Gen. Lew Wallace uufl wife in ConstantinopJp and will spend the Nd Palestine. Oscar. Goodwin, cashier of the Logftnsport National Bank, is misteriously missing. The bank officers report that, so far as they have been able to examine, alt his Accounts are perfectly correct. Goodwin stood well in business circles, although he was addicted to drink. The bank of which he was cashier is the leading one in Logansport, and had probably SBO,OOO in its vaults when he left. John Carmony, the engineer of the railway train which was wrecked near Bedford, died every inch a hero. Fastened under the locomotive, and his legs and the lower part of his body actually cooked by the boiling water that deluged him, he was asked by the fireman what could be done for him, and, witlj the courage and self forgetfulness of a martyr, he replied: “Let me go—don’t stay here; but, for God’s sake, go and help those poor women and children in the coaches 1”

The Dandelion.

Those who have been pestered to death by the irrepressible dandelion on their lawns may now take heart. The pest will pester them no more. Eastern markets have begun to utilize them for greens, so that gardeners will cultivate them for sale. The plant having thus become useful, the bugs will eat it off above ground, the grubs will saw its roots in two, the sun will parch it to death, the rains will drown it out, the wind will thresh it to strips and bovs will dig it out and steal it. Thus the dandelion, which tas been among the first of weeds to coax its way into human favor in the spring by throwing out its golden blossom as a sort of flag of truce and peace offering combined, will retire from the field and the lawn, to the seclusion of the guarded greenhouse.

No Loss.

Schomberg, upon returning to his store on Galveston avenue from dinner, found his clerk very much excited. The clerk said a stranger came in and after asking and paying the price of a cravat, which was sl, picked up the entire box, containing a dozen, and went off with them. “ Did he pay you the dollar? ” asked Mose. ‘ ‘ Yes,” responded the clerk. “Veil, then vo makes, anyhow, 50 per cent, profit on de investment,”—. Galveston Newt,