Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Ext A flea serpent, 800 feet long, wm recently seen near Nahant. It had a head like a horee. The New York Central road haa advanced the wages of switchmen, porters, etc., from $2.50 to f 5 per month. W. R. Garrison, the New York millionaire, who was injured in the railroad accident near Long Branch, has since died.* A tornado at Coalville, Pa., blew down about twenty houses, killed two people and wounded seventeen more. Ichabod Godwin, the first war Governor of New Hampshire, died at Portsmouth at the age of 88. Joseph Rogers, a Pittsburgh molder, inspired by jealousy, shot his wife in the breast and iired a bullet into his temple. Waafc. Bmail-pox has been ravaging Indian Territory, thirty deaths having occurred at Muscogee alone. In Cincinnati, Jaoob Wagner killed his wife with a revolver and mortally wounded himself. A constable and posse at Linkville, Ore., in endeavoring to capture two horsetbieves, killed one and mortally wounded the other. Many buildings were demolished and several persons injured by a tornado in Crawford and Cherokee counties, Kansas. Editor Cowles, of Cleveland, has entered snit against the Catholic Bishop Gilmour for malicious libel. Gilmour, it is alleged, charged Cowles with religious persecution of his (Cowles’) daughter, and the journalist thinks he has been injured $25,000 worth. Charles Colvig, chief of scouts at the San Carlos Agency, and four Indians were ambushed by a small band of renegades, Colvig and three men being killed. J. H. Plant, a wholesale clothing merchant of St. Louis, against whose stock several attachments had been filed, drowned himkelf in a slough. The incorporators of the Garfield Monument Association held a meeting at Cleveland and solected a board of trustees, who organized by elocting Gov. Foster President, and ex-President Hayos and Gov. Cornell Vice Presidents. The contributions so far approach ♦120,000. South. Edward Fulsom, a half-breed Indian, •was hanged aj Fort Smith, Ark., for a double murder committed in August last. John Bridges, was executed at Cadiz, Trigg county, Ky. Three colored men, named Turner, had been for several days visiting the village of Brooksvllle, Fla., and indulging in threats against some citizens, causing much bad feeling. This culminated, a few days ago, in a row in the Court House, started by one of the Turners entering tbo building just as the afternoon session of the court was being called, with an open knife in his hand. In the fight that followed the three Turners were killed and several other negroes participating wounded. Several whites were wounded, but not mortally. Gov. Blackburn was confirmed in an Episcopal church in Louisville, in the presence of a large and fashionable assemblage. He was snatched from the path of sin by the mountain evangelist. At Camden, S. C., Capt. Haile shot dead L. W. R. Blair, a prominent Greenbacker. The latter dubbed Haile a liar, aud refused to retract. It has been discovered that great frauds upon the Government by Texas United States Marshals have been perpetrated, and a large number of them will be arrested. The body of Kilgour, who murdered Gardner and shot Marshal Bryant at Belmont, Ky., was found in the woods, terribly mutilated by hogs and buzzards. POLITICAL POINT*. The Texas Greenbackers met in convention and indorsed Congressman G. Wash Jones for Governor. The platform indorses the platform adopted at Chicago in 1880, with the modification of a bond clause, whioh says no bonds shall be refunded, but should be paid at maturity with any lawful money on hand. The loiva State Register prints returns on the election for the prohibition amendment from all the counties in the State. In the ninety-nine counties the amendment has aggregate majorities of 50,824, and the aggregate majorities against it are 21,717, giving it a net majority of 29,107. The Democrats of North Carolina nominated Risden L Bennett for Congressman-at-Large and Thomas Ruffin for Supreme Court Judge. The Connecticut Greenbaokers nominated A. P. Tanner for Governor and H. O. Baker for Lieutenant Governor. Ex-Senator Powell Clayton presided over the Arkansas Republican Convention, at Little Rock. A full ticket for State officers was placed in the field, headed by CoL W. D. Slack for Governor, The Greenbackers, Independents and Republicans of Alabama have coalesced and resolved to support the same candidates. J. L. Sheffield heads the ticket for Governor.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Nathan Briscoe, a farmer of Emestown, Ontario, while handling bees, was stung on the forehead by one and died in fifteen minutes. The sixth annual meeting of the Mnsio Teachers’ National Association was held inHershey Hall, Chicago. The President, Mr. Arthur Mees, made the annual address, and the Rev. Dr. Thomas the address of welcome. The strike of the iron-workers at Bay View, near Milwaukee, was ended by a conference of two hours with the officers of the roll-ing-mill company, and work in all departments has been resumed. Watson k Co.’s mill and the Lcechburg mill, in the Pittsburgh district, signed the Amalgamated Association scale and also resumed work.

WASHINGTON NOTES.' It is said that John W. Guitean’s last interview with the President was rather stormy. JohD, finding the President firm, denounoed him for refusing clemenoy to the man who made him President, whereupon Arthur ordered him from the room. The anniversary of the assassination was commemorated at Washington by laying the corner-stone of the Garfield Memorial Church, on the site of the famous small frame chapel on Vermont avenue. Charles ±L Hartlee, a colored crank, warns the Washington police of a plot to assassinate President Arthur, Conkling and Grant, The body of Guiteau has been transferred to the Army Medical Museum in Washington, which is located in the building occupied as Ford’s Theater at the time President

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME. VI.

Lincoln was shot by Wilkes Booth. The skeleton will be prepared and placed on exhibition at the museum. During the past fiscal year 46,632 agriculture patents were issued from the General Land Office. The body of Guiteau was buried in the northeast corridor of the jail at Washington. Under *the law, the disposition of the bodies o9riminalß who are executed rests with the discretion of the Warden. In the case of Guiteau, his sister, Mrs. Scovilla, was without means, and could not have undertaken his burial expenses even if permitted to do so. The only other relative who has appeared on the scene, his brother, John W. Guiteau, was unwilling to assume the risk of taking charge of the remains, believing he would be powerless to prevent “ body-snatchers ” from stealing them. Therefore, Gen. Crocker resolved to bury the assassin’s body within the walls of the jail, where it would be fc«yond reach alike of vengeance or speculation. The brick floor was removed, and a grave seven feet deep was dug The coffin was borne from the chapel upon the shoulders of six jail prisoners, and, without any service or ceremony whatever, was lowered into this grave and barred from sight. The coffin was closed and no one has since been permitted to see the remains. Mrs. Scoville, accompanied by Miss Chavalliere, arrived at the jail shortly before the burial took place, and importuned the Warden to be allowed to see the remains and witness the buriaL Gen. Crocker, however, remained firm in his determination not to accede to her request. Arriving at the grave, the little procession halted. Warden Crocker looked inquiringly, first toward Dr. Hicks and then to John W. Guiteau. K All right,” said the latter, with the same imperturbable composure he had exhibited all through the ordeal of the three days, and the coffin was at once lowered to its place. After the earth had been replaced and the top of tho grave leveled off, John W. Guiteau stepped forward and placed at its head a crown of white immortelles. Not a word was spoken, not a tear shed. An outcast from human sympathy when living, Guiteau had found an unwept sepulture in an unmarked grave. Following is the regular monthly statement of the public debt, issued on the Ist inst.: Extended B’s $ 58,957,160 Extended 5> 401,503,900 Four aud one-nai: per cent, bonds 250,000,000 Four per cents, 738,884,300 Refunding certificates 465,050 Navy pension fund 11,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,463,810,400 Matured debt $ 16,260,805 Legal tenders 846,740,711 Certificates of deposit... 13,320,000 Goid aud silver certificates 71,133,830 Fractional currency 7,047,247 Total without interest. 438,241,788 Total debt $1,918,311,994 Cash in treasury 1243,289,509 Debt less cash in treasury $1,688,914,460 Decrease during June.. 12,560,698 Decrease since June 30, 1881 151,684,351 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 1,435,158 Debt on whicn interest has ceased...... 16,260,805 Interest thereon .- 635,251 Gold and. silver certificates 71,133,830 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 13,320,000 Cash balance available July 1, 1882.... 140,604.474 Total 4 243,281),519 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 243,289,619 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding f 84,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States "63,405,977 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service 15,220,693 By casn payments of 5 per cent, ot net . earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by tbe United States . 87,530,085 Additional items to the corrupt practices of the star-routers have been discovered, and immediate steps have been taken to reconvene the Grand Jury and obtain another set of indictments. FOREIGN NEWS. Wholesale suspensions of Irish members were made in the House of Commons during discussion of the Repression biM. Some members were included in the Parliamentary evictions who were not present when the alleged obstruction was committed and who had not spoken on the amendments. Parnell claims the Ministry conspired to force the bill through committee at that sitting. Thera are said to be in Dublin 580 Irish-Americans without visible occupation. The Egyptian authorities are confining in the arsenal at Alexandria all natives who insult or molest Europeans. All but four of the Irish members of the House of Commons withdrew in consequence of the adoption of a motion offered by Gladstone declaring urgency for the Repression bill. A London dispatch says that England, when satisfied of the necessity of armed intervention in Egypt, will call out the militia reserve, comprising 50,000 trained men. It is rumored that Alexandria will be bombarded on the commencement of hostilities. The British gunboats Dee and Don have sailed from Portsmouth for the Mediterranean, and a battery has been ordered ready for Malta. At the Papal Consistory in Rome, Pope Leo, in his allocution, said the Italian Government was guilty of bad faith with the Vatican, and the position of the church was growing daily worse. A Dublin journal is authority for the statement that the Government intends to employ bloodhounds to track assassins. The Irish Bishops and Archbishops are determined to discountenance the Ladies’ Land League. A note to the priests has been prepared on the subject The Egyptians ceased work on the forti fi cations at Alexandria at the demand of the British Admiral Seymour, who threatened to bombard the city if the work continued. The French Cabinet decided to instruct Admiral Conrad to remain a passive spectator of the bombardment unless forced by some hostile act to take part Sir Hubert MacPherson will have command of the troops sent from India to Egypt

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Advance sheets of Poor’s Railway Manual show that in 1881 there were built in the United States 9,358 miles of railroad, the greatest in any one year, making a total of 104,813 miles. The gross earnings were $725,825,119, against $615,401,931 in 1880. Dividends in 1881 were $93,344,200, against $77,115,411 in 1880. The editor says: “It is certain that for a long time to come a much greater extent of mileage will be constructed annually than was constructed in the past or than will be constructed in the present year. The area of the United States (excluding Alaska) equals 8,000,000 square miles. The whole of this area presents an attractive field for the construction of railroads. In almost every portion of it these works are rapidly progressing. The railroad mileage of the United States rose from 62,914 miles in 1870 to 104,813 miles in 1881. At a similar rate the mileage in 1890 will exceed 200,000. The Chicago Time* presents reports

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, JULY H, 1882.

of the crops in the chief grain States. Popular expectation in regard to wheat proves to have been almost a prophecy, as the yield is large and the area extended. Com will not be an average crop in any State, and not more than a half yield seems to be generally expected. Bye, oats, potatoes and hay are in exceptionally good condition. The.number of “ suspects” still languishing in Irish jails is 172. Twenty thousand pounds is now offered by the British Government for the discovery of the murderers of Cavendish and Burke. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone said the Government had taken measures against the secret societies in Ireland unknown to Parliament Skobeleff, the famous Russian General, died in Moscow, of heart disease, in his 40th year. A Government amendment to the Repression bill in the Honse of Commons, that the right of search be limited to the daytime, except in cases of secret societies, was defeated, notwithstanding that Gladstone declared he “ would have to consider his personal position.” The bill passed the Commons and was read for the first time in the House of Lords. The Comptroller of the Currency has called for a report showing the condition of the national banks at the close of business on Saturday, July 1. The Crow Indians in Northern Wyoming are killing cattle and destroying the wheat fields. Fears of another Indian war are expressed by the settlers. Advices to the National Board of Health from New Orleans state that no case of yellow fever and no doubtful or suspicious case has occurred since the one reported case of June 26. A Pittsburgh dispatch says “itis now certain that the total loss of life by the Ohioriver disaster will exceed 109. It becomes clearer and more conclusive every day that whisky was at the bottom of the collision, some of the officers of the Scioto and many of the passengers being almost helpless from intoxication at the time. There is a rumor to the effect that a party of girls were in the pilothouse of the Scioto, and one of them answered the signal of the Lomas and did it wrongly.”

FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

A bill to establish the Territory of Pembina was reported to the Senate on the Ist inst. by Mr. Saunders, of Nebraska. A bill was passed to permit the investment of the Pacific railroad sinking-fund in first-mortgage thirty-year bonds of the Union and Central Pacific roads. The Legislative Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations : Joseph R. West, of the District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of that District; Lewis W. Wallace, of Indiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey, a reappointment; Henry C. Hall, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Central American States; John R. Halderman, of Missouri, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Siam; John M. Francis, of New York, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Portugal; J. P. Wickersham, of Pennsylvania, Minister Resident and Consul General to Denmark; Michael J. Cramer, of Kentucky, Minister Resident and Consul General to Switzerland James Biley Weaver, of West Virginia, Secretary of Legation and Consul General to Vienna ; Lewis Richmond, of Rhode Island, Secretary of Legation at Rome ; John T. Robeson, of Tennessee, United States Consul at Beirut; A. T. Sharp, of Kansas, United States Consul at Manila; Lorin A. Lathrop, of Nevada, United States Consul at Bristol; William W. Spaulding, of Minnesota, Receiver of Public Moneys at Duluth; John R. Carey, of Minnesota, Register of the Land Office at Duluth ; William A. Swan, of Pennsylvania, Indian Agent at Cheyenne River Agency, Dakota ; Francis M. Darby, Assistant Treasurer of the United States at' Baltimore ; Thomas A. Henry, Collector of Customs for the District of Pamlico, N. C.; Horace McKay, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sixth district of Indiana ; David Bennett, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Seventh district of Kentucky; John F. Kumbler, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Tenth district of Ohio, In the House, a joint resolution was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue 2 per cent, bonds to the amount of $200,000,000, in exchange for securities bearing a higher rate of interest The Naval Appropriation bill was then taken up iu committee of the . whole, discussed, amended, and hid over. Tne Senate bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Sault Ste. Marie was passed. The Speaker presented a message from the President vetoing the bill to regulate the carriage of passengers by sea. * The Senate passed a hill, at its session on the 3d inst., to authorize the sale of timber on the Menominee lands in Wisconsin. A charter was granted to Robert Garrett and others of Maryland to lay a cable to Europe within two yearsThe general deficiency appropriation came up The amendment creating a board to audit, the Gaifield funeral expenses, and limiting the amount for medical service to $52,500, was earnestly fought by Mr. Vest After a general exchange of sentiment, it was agreed to reduce the entire appropriation to $57,500, and to allow the surgeons $35,000. The bill was then passed. The President nominated Col. C. H. Crane to be Surgeon General, John Davis to be Assistant Secretary of State, and Eugene Schuyler to be Minister Resident to Roumania, Servia and Greece. In the House, Mr. Berry introduced a bill to abolish the State of Nevada and attach the ts rritoi yto California. Mr. Robinson, of New York, after stating that the British Minister had called upon Secretary Frelinghuysen to raise questions about words spoken in debate by tbe New York member, introduced a resolution inquiring of tbe Secretary of State whether tho appointment of a British censor bad been suggested in the interview. Bills were parsed for publio buildings at Oxford, Miss.; Poughkeepsie, “N. Y.; Terre Haute, Ind.; St. Joseph, Mo., and Harrisonburg and Abingdon, Va. The rules were suspended and a bill passed to correct the error in the statutes concerning the duty on knit goods. A bill to ratify the railway treaty with the Crow Indians was passed. Mr. Hiscock reported a •übstitute for the sundry civil appropriation. The act to create the Territory of Pembina came up In the Senate on the sth inst, and provoked a hot debate, Mr. Vest insisting on the repeal of the Dakota law in relation to the repudiation of bonds of Yankton county. The River and Harbor bill was reported. It was voted to postpone for the session consideration of the National Bankrupt law. The bill for the relief of Ben Holliday was briefly considered. The House went into committee of the whole on the naval appropriation. Mr. Atkins moved to reduce the item for the Bureau of Construction and Repair to $1,500,000. Mr. Robeson thought tl is would be a declaration that we have no n:tvy. Mr. Ellis pointed out the war-clouds on the horizon, and pronounced for a reconstruction of the navy. An amendment by Mr. Harris was adopted, that any portion of the item of $1,750,000 not wanted for the purposes specified may be applied to the construction of two cruisjug vessels of war. The committee reported the till 10" the House, the previous quesii ’n was seconded, and an adjournment was effected. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill, covering $19,463,975, was taken up iu the Senate on the 6th inst. Mr. McMillan briefly reviewed the amendments made by the Senate committee. The item of SIOO,OOO for surveying the Hennepin canal called out speeches from Messrs. -Butler, Beck, Yest and Allison. The former gave notice of a proposed modification, of the amendment. In the Houso a joint resolution was passed authorizing the President to calx an International Conference to fix a common prime meridian. In closing the debate on the Naval Appropriation bill Mr. Robeson indulged in harsh reflections upon Mr. Whitthome, the hdter responding by branding Robeson as a falsifier and perjurer. The naval appropriation passed by 119 to 75. Objection was made to the bill for a pension to Mrs.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

Garfield, on'the ground that it would give rise to debate, and the House went into committee of the whole on the Snndry Civil Appropriation bill. Mr. Hiscock explained the items in the act Mr. Blackburn criticised the majority for not having already disposed of the general appropriation bills. Mr. Bayne said President Arthur had violated bis promise to stand by the civil-service plank of tho Republican platform. The entire session of the Senate on the 7th inst. was devoted to work on the River and Harbor bill. Mr. Logan urged the importance of constructing the Hennepin canal, stating that the cost would not exceed $4,000,000. Mr. Vest claimed that the national Government had no right to assume jurisdiction over the enterprise, and stated that manufacturing towns along Rock river had entered protests against the canal. Mr. Hawley reviewed canal management in the Middle States to show the difficulties encountered. Sir. Sherman thought the matter should be considered as a separate measure. Mr. Morgan said the purpose of the scheme was to divert traffic from New Orleans to Chicago. Mr. Hawley gave warning that SIOO,OOO would be but a drop in the bucket. Messrs. Allison and Windom spoke in favor of the project and Mr. Butier in opposition. The House, in committee of the whole, was considering the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, when Mr. Butlerwortb, of Ohio, made a savage attack upon trie Democratic party. Having been interrupted by Mr. Cox, Mr. Butterworth indulgod in an allusion unfit for publication, and it was omitted from the records. Mr. Cox retorted by calling Mr. Butterworth a blackguard. Mr. Deuster introduced a bill to regulate the carriage of passengers by sea, drawn iu accordance with the President’s suggestions. The Republican Senators held a caucus after adjournment, and the following agreements were reached with substantial unanimity. That the House bill for the reduction of internal-revenue taxation be taken up, aud that all its provisions as amended by the Finance Committee shall receive Republican support; that the Fiuanco Committee prepare additional amendments providing for a restoration of the tariff duties on sugar to the rates in force before the last tariff changes in regard to this article were made, for a reduction of $8 per ton from present duty on Bessemer steel rails and for a reduction of duties on hoop iron, in accordance with the provisions of the McKinley bill now pending in the House.

Good and Bad Table Manners.

Some people eat instinctively with great elegance ; some never achieve elegance in these minor matters, but all should strive for it. There is no more repulsive object than a person who eats noisily, grossly, inelegantly. Dr. Johnson is remembered for his brutal way of eating almost ss much as for his great learning and genius. With him it was selfish preoccupation. Fish and fruit are eaten with silver knives and forks; or, if silver fish-knives are not provided, a piece of bread can be held in the left hand. Fish corrodes a steel knife. Never tilt a soup-plate for the last drop, or ostentatiously scrape your plate clean. A part of table manners should be the conversation. By mutual consent, every one should bring only the best that is in him to the table. There should be the greatest care taken in the family circle to talk of only agreeable topics at meals. The mutual forbearance which prompts the neat dress, the respectful bearing, tbe delicate habit of eating, the attention to table etequitte, should also make the mind put on its best dress, and the effort of any one at a meal should be to make himself or herself as agreeable as possible. No one should show any haste in being helped, any displeasure at being left until the last, it is always proper at an informal meal to ask for a second cut, to say that rare or underdone beef is more to your taste than the more cooked portions. But one never asks twice for soup or fish ; one is rarely helped twice at dessert. These dishes, also salad, are supposed to admit of but one helping.

Life’s Spring Blessings.

He came out of the side gate with a kangaroo motion to his legs, and an expression of countenance that would have frozen a tramp into a solid block of ice in six seconds. Then he turned, and while he held to the fence with one hand he shook the other at the house in a wild, strange manner. Then he stood on one foot and felt of the other as tenderly as if he was caressing a new-blown rose. “ Wes it all there ?” He seemed to doubt, and that, same wild expression floated over his countenance again, and again he waved his arm around his head and shook his fist at an unseen enemy. A white, scared face appeared at a window, and the man danced up and down on His leg and cried out: “ Never ! Never again on earth !” A white Land behind the glass beckoned to him, but he waved his arm and replied: “ I won’t! I’ll send up six men with blocks and tackle!” The white face was pressed against the pane and the blue eyes had a beseeching look, but the man hobbled along on the grass and growled out: “ I’ll smash the infernal thing with an ax!” Then a lady appeared in the door and seemed to want to explain something, but he threw down his hat with an awful whack aud interrupted her with : “ I tell ye I’m going down and have this foot amputated, and when you see me clumping around with an old wooden pedestal you’ll remember that I told you we ought to turn the house around instead of trying to move that old cookstove into the back kitchen !”—Detroit Tree Press.

The National Postoffice.

Third Assistant Postmaster Oeneral Hazap has completed a statement of the issues to Postmasters by his office of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882. Tho total number issued was 1,740,571,038 pieces; aggregate value, $40,077,953; increase over tho issuo of the preceding fiscal year, 236,259,406 pieces, or 15.7 per cent., equal in value to $6,352,517. The appropriations for supplying the articles amouuted to $1,036,000, or which $875,836 were expended, leaving an unexpended balance of $160,163, or 15.4 per cent, of tho appropriations. Over 1,000,000,000 3-cent stamps and 350,009,CO3 pos’al-cards were sold tho past year, as a rosult of these figures department officials feel warranted in asserting that when the final statement of receipts and expenditures for the year has been completed it will be found that the postal service is self-sustaining. Of the deficiency appropriation of $2,152,253 made by Congress last year to meet the expected deficiency in the postal revenues not 1 cent was drawn from the treasury. This is the first year since 1851 in which the receipts of the Postoffi ;e Department balanced its expenditures, with the exception of one year during the War of tho Rebellion. There were 46,222 postofficcs in the United States on Juno 33, 1882, an increase of 1,710 over 1881. During the Franco-German war both armies declared that the other used poisoned bullets. A scientific explanation throws light on the accusation. The construction of the modem breechloader is said to carry with it into the wound a portion of the hydrocyanic acid which the explosion of the powdfir causes to be accumulated in the barrel, and this is a blood poisoner, in any case retarding recovery. Webb we eloquent as angels we should please some men, some women and some children much more by listening that by talking.— (7. <7. Colton,

PINKIE.

Mr. Dimmit’s D«f and Mia Dan(bter. [From the Brooklyn Eagle.] “I can’t imagine what ails that dog! ” observed Mr. Dimmit, surveying his canine with considerable apprehension. “ Here, Pinkie ! Well, I’m blest! Look here ! I’m dumbed if she hasn’t got a whole patchwork quilt in her mouth ! Look at these pieces ! All good cloth,” and the old gentleman spread them out on the parlor carpet. “ That comes of hoisting up a family,” continued the old gentleman. “ I claim that no fellow can keep a daughter and dog with any safety to the dog ! Look atthese pieces of pantaloons! There’s been another convention of admirers here tonight, and ft quorum of it has gone home with its backs to the fence. Yon Pink ! I wonder some of ’em don’t take a night off and spark that dog with a shotgun ! ” ‘ * What is it all about ? ” asked an innocent Eagle reporter, who had dropped in to get the old gentleman’s views on the Egyptian question. “ I don’t know,” sighed Mr. Dimmit, “ but about twice a week I have to unpack that dog’s month, and every other goung fellow I meet walks considerably panish as he goes past here. You know, they will call. The whole family is popular and—you see that quilt on my bed? That represents intelligent admiration. Every patch there had a hero fastened to it once, but the dog sort of separated ’em. They come in squads, and keep coming. I’ve seen from a dozen to four gross here and on the fence at one time. All smitten clear through, and each clamoring to be heard first. Why, sir, I’ve got the nicest dressing-gown made of summer trousers goods, and the nobbiest overcoat composed of winter cassimeres that you ever saw ! ”

“ I shouldn’t think the same fellows would care to come twice,” suggested the reporter. “I don’t know,” ruminated Mr. Dimmit. “ They are so thick around here that yon can’t tell the new ones from the stagers. Yon should drop in some night and see ’em. They have caucuses, and committees, and delegates, and all that. You know where there are so many they have to organize so as to keep some kind of order, and then Pink constitutes herself a committee of ways and means, and takes up an impartial collection of coat-tails, trousers-legs, collar-bands, and such to defray the expenses of the campaign.” “ Your daughter must be very popular,” observed the reporter. “ She’s the prettiest girl in Brooklyn,” rejoined the old gentleman, with just pride. “And that’s the best dog in nine counties. Pink likes society, and she’s made the best collection of autographs, as she regards them, to be found in the possession of any dog on Long island. Was that the bell ? Here, Pink ! Hi, you!” But he was too late. ** There, ” he continued, as the dog returned after a short excursion; “ that is —I don’t believe I know this one,” and he put on his spectacles and examined the piece of cloth the dog laid at his feet. “ The color iB familiar, but I don’t place him. Perhaps my daughter will know when she come in. Well, sir, it is the dumbdest sight you ever looked at to see her come from the theater and go over these patches to find out who called. Knows every one of ’em ! Can’t stick her on a patch, and she’s very neat in making ’em up. Look at that sofa pillow ! Just take a look at that pianocover ! And see this chair, how easy it is,” and the old gentleman bounced up and down while the reporter looked on admiringly. “But you said that a man couldn’t keep a daughter and a dog with safety to the dog,” hinted the reporter. “I say it,” affirmed Mr. Dimmit, solemnly. “Think of the dye that dog swallows! Here you I down, Pink! Lie down It’s no use!” sighed the old gentleman. ‘ ‘Some fellow has j ust come home with her, but he won’t come in here.” There was a smothered squeal at the outside door, a quick bark, and a longdrawn groan. Then a glorious vision swept into the parlor. “Is this all?” she asked, in a disappointed tone, glancing at the trophies, “Didn’t Claude come?” “He may be around under the furniture, darling, or Pinkie may have swallowed him. Are you sure he hasn’t got mixed in the shuffle?” and Mr. Dimmit turned the pieces over and regarded his daughter with loving anxiety. “There’ll be fourteen or fifteen new ones here to morrow night, papa,” murmured the beautiful girl, rumpling his hair. “Ah!” ejaculated the old man, rubbing his hands. “I may get a summer suit, after all. ” And the reporter left the good old man and his radiant daughter, and went away reflecting on the value a loving and popular daughter could be to a kina and indulgent father, if the volume of mashers should always be equal to tbe demands of the dog.

A Candid Land Agent.

A glib-talking land agent was presenting the merits of a certain tract of land. After he had exhausted himself, and could think of no more yarns to match what he had spun, he remarked, with a sigh, “ I won’t deoeive yon, gentlemen; there is a vegetable that cannot be grotfn there, and that is the pumpkin.” “Why not?” they exclaimed. “Well, in the first place, the pumpkin is a great runner. It can distance the cucumber and the squash. To grow pumpkins it is necessary to build a high board fence around a ten-acre lot to prevent the vines from escaping into the next county, so rapidly do they grow on that soil; and if they be fenced in, they race around the lot all summer, trying to get out, and, of course, wear out the pumpkins dragging them over the ground,” That was enough. If any agent supposes that he can sell a New Englander land that will not raise pumpkins, he mistakes.—Providence Journal.

How One Phrase Originated.

The phrase “acknowledge the corn” is variously accounted for, but the following is a true history of its orign : In 1828, Andrew Stewart, M. C., said in a speech that Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana sent their hay-stacks, cornfields and fodder to New York and Philadelphia for sale. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, called him to order, declaring those States did not send haystacks or cornfields to New York for sale. “Well, what do you send?” inquired Stewart. “Why, hor.-cs, mulps, cattle and hogs.” “Weil, what makes your horses, mules, cattle and hogs? You feed SIOO worth of hay to a horse ; jou just animate and get up on top of your haystack and ride off to market. How' is it with your cattle? You make one of them carry SSO worth of hay and grass to the Eastern market; how much corn does it take at 33 cents

a bushel, to fatten a hog?” “Why, thirty bushels.” “Then you put that thirty bushels into the shape of a hog and make it walk off to the Eastern market.” Then Mr. Wickliffe jumped up and said: “Mr. Speaker, I acknowledge the corn,”

Swords.

One of the most clearly-marked differences between man and the brute beasts lies in the fact that with his own unaided strength man is seldom able to take the life of his fellow-beings. Consequently, when we wish to put ourselves upon a level with the tiger and the wolf, and to qualify ourselves for the shedding of blood and the taking of life, we are obliged to find some other weapons than those nature has given us. Here and there may be a man who can kill another man by the exertion of his unassisted strength, but it is very seldom indeed that human life is taken by human beings without the use of an artificial weapon. The first weapon used by man was probably a club; and it is also likely that in time this was made of very hard wood, and somewhat sharpened on one or more sides, so as to inflict a more deadly wound. Wooden weapons of this kind are now in use by some savage races. Then it was found that more effective weapons of the sort could be made of a harder substance, and short, unwieldy swords were hewn out of stone, very much as our Indians make their arrow-heads of flint. But a sword of this kind, although a terrible weapon in the hands of a strong man, was brittle and apt to break; and so, in time, when the use and value of metals came to be understood, swords were made of these substances. The early Romans, and some other nations, had strong, heavy swords made of bronze. But, when iron and steel came into use, it was quickly perceived that they were the metals of which offensive weapons should be made. By a careful study of the form ami use of the sword, from its first invention until the present time, we may get a good idea of the manner in which, in various ages, military operations were carried on. At first, men fought at close quarters, like the beasts they imitated. But as the arts of warfare began to be improved, and as civilization and enlightenment progressed, men seemed anxious to get farther and farther away from one another when they fought, and so the sword gradually became longer and longer, until, in the Middle Ages, a man’s sword was sometimes as long as himself. But there is a limit to this sort of thing, and when the use of projectiles which would kill at a great distance became general, it was found that a soldier was seldom near enough to his enemy to reach him with his sword, aud at the present day it is seldom used in actual warfare except by cavalrymen, and these frequently depend as much on the firearms they carry as upon their sabers.' It is Baid that cavalry charges, in which the swordff of the riders are depended upon to’rout the enemy, do not frequently occur in the warfare of the present day, and those naval battles of which we all have read, where tho opposing ships are run side by side, and the sailors of one, cutlass in hand, spring upon the deck of the other, and engage in a hand-to-hand fight, are now seldom heard of. Our ironclad ships fire at one another from a great distance, or one of them comes smashing into another with its terrible steel ram, and a sword would be a useless thing to a modern sailor. Our armies lie a mile or two apart, and pop at each other with long-range rifles and heavy cannon, and to the great body of the opposing forces swords would be only an incumbrance. —John Lewees, in St. Nicholas.

Preserving Eggs for Winter.

For family use, in the cold months of the year, when most kinds of fowls lay but few eggs, and when the price at retail ranges from 50 to 60 cents per dozen, it is well to have a supply on hand, and we receive frequent inquiries a» to how eggs may be preserved for this purpose. A friend who has practised the following plan for many years informs us that he has had no difficulty through this simple method in preserving eggs the year through. In the summer, after the hatching time is passed, collect from thirty to fifty dozen (or buy them fresh, when eggs are 15 to 25 cents a dozen) and prepare a liquid, thus: One pint of common salt, one pint of lime, dissolve in four gallons of boiling water ; let it settle, and put the eggs into the liquor in stone jars when cold. Cover the eggs entirely in the liquid, and use “stone,” and not soft crockery-ware jars. On no account use casks, wooden firkins, tubs, or anything but stone vessels. Thus imbedded, eggs will keep for twelvemonths, and come out in good shape. —Poultry World.

Worse Than Blowing Out the Gas.

. Did you hear the story of the man in a hotel, who, meddling with the old style of bell-rope in bedrooms to see what it was, rang it unknowingly, and a servant appeared ? “ Why, how do yon do ?” he said, extending his hand to the astonished servant, whom he thought a visitor, “ sit down ; what can I do for you ?” * ‘ Did you ring ?” said the servant. “Ring? Why, no. What? There ain’t no bell here. ” Then the servant explained the bellrope and left. After he had gone the man thought he would try the bell-rope jnst for fun. He gave it a terrific pull, and just then the gong rang for dinner, and, thinking he had created an awful catastrophe down-stairs, he was greatly alarmed, locked and bolted his door, and sat up all night expecting the arrival of the police.—Hotel Mail.

A Horse’s Stomach.

A learned writer makes the following notes about the horse which many can read to their profit. He says : The horse has the smallest stomach in proportion to his size of any animal. Fifteen or sixteen quarts is its utmost capacity. The space is completely filled by four quarts of oats and the saliva that goes into the stomach with them. Horses are generally overfed, and not fed often enough. For a horse in moderate work, six or eight quarts of bruised oats and ten pounds of fine hay a day are sufficient. This should be fed in at least three meals, and is better if fed in four. A horse’s digestion is very rapid, and therefore he gets hungry sooner than a man. When lie is hungry he is ineffective and wears out very rapidly. ¥ou can never entirely disoourage a New Jersey man. When he comes down to his last dollar he kicks up a spade and goes out to dig up some of Kidd’s boned treasure.

$1.50 Der Annum.

NUMBER 24.

INDIANA ITEMS.

It is estimated' that the wheat crop in Sixteen southern counties of the State will reach over 10,000,000 bushels. During the last month the Lafayette car works have used 135 car-loads of lumber, amounting to 1,000,000 feet. Lightning struck Robert Frnzeo and Charles Watson, of Frankfort, killing them ihstantly. M. V. House was injured. During a drunken row at Terre Haute, Goorge Blake, a puddler in the rollingmill, was fatally shot by Frank M. Martin. Some well-informed farmers express the opinion that there will be a larger surplus of wheat and Irish potatoes in Orange county this season than was ever in it before. A Miami county jury has found a verdict for El Clauve in a suit against the Peru Fair Association for the killing of a horse by a target gun within the grounds. Indiana, by the census bulletin, is credited with 498,437 voters, of whom 10,739 are colored, the 487,698 white voters being divided into 414,262 native born and 73,446 foreign born. John Seipp, foreman of Busch’s foundry at Columbus, in atlempting to take the lindfrom under the horse’s tail, was kicked by the horse, breaking his neck. He fell out of the buggy dead. Two shots were fired at David W. Keil, proprietor of the Fort Wayne Daily Gazette, at 2 o’clock in the morning, while approaching his residence. He narrowly escaped being assassinated. Phil, Stonehour, a German resident of Wabash, while drunk fired seven shots at his daughter, without injuring her. Stonehour disapproves of the young man the girl has chosen as her lover.

It is charged against J. F. Williams, Superintendent of the Martin county Schools, that lie has been selling to the teachers the monthly questions for their examinations, and realizing handsomely thereby. While Policeman Cravens, of Terre Haute, was pumping water, a girl pulled his coat, causing the discharge of his revolver, which killed a boy named Roberts, about 6 years old, who was standing near by. ' Forty-five County Auditors of Indiana have made their annual agricultural report to the State Bureau of Statistics. The acre ge for the year is fully up to last year, judging from reports already received. Weed Patch, Brown county, heretofore enjoying the proud reputation of being called the highest point in the State, has been dethroned by a point in Randolph county, which is a few feet higher than the Weed Patch. Mrs. Noah Tyron, of Connorsville, had her leg fractured by the breaking of a seat in Cole’s circus. Her husband at once instituted a suit in attachment for damages, which was compromised, the .circus man paying $175. A statement that W. C. De Pauw, of New Albany (now in Europe) had proposed to give to the Asbury University, at Greencastle, $1,000,000 provided the name of the institution was chauged to De Pauw University, is denied. Two Cass county farmers had a dispute about a monkey wrench and went to law. The case has just been transferred to Miami county, and is being pushed with vigor. The costs have reached $l5O, and there are three lawyers to be paid beside. A gentleman from Boone county, who is raising 130 acres of wheat this year, says his crop will average twenty-eight bushels to the acre, and the grain is heavy and large. Altogether, lie regards it as the best crop he has ever made, and it is the same with his neighbors. The first new wheat of the Season was received in New Albany recently. It came from Boone township, Harrison county, and weighed sixty-two pounds to the measured bushel, and was a part of a crop that will average thirty bushels to the acre. It sold at a premium, bringing $1.30 per bushel—the regular price being $1.25. A little daughter of Thomas Price was horribly bitten by a vicious sow on her father’s farm at Xenia, Miami county. It seems the little child approached tiie pen in which the sow, with her litter, was confined, carrying a small kitten. It is presumed the animal mistook the kitten for one of her brood and attacked her. The poor child was terribly mangled before the parents could reach the scene. The dog harvest in Indiana is reported as showing very favorable results. The dog law which was passed by the Legislature last winter is being enforced, and it has resulted in such security for sheep that the flocks in the State are being rapidly increased. The dog census showed a total number of 164,906 animals within the limits of the State, about 75 per cent, of them being properly registered and taxed. The remainder are being rapidly disposed of by means authorized by law, and the slaughter within the last six months has been 7,958. The court of inquiry appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Vincennes University to investigate into the Haight-Adams scandal, now so notorious throughout the country, made their final report, and the board unequivocally exonerated Miss Adams from entertaining any impure motive whatever, but that she was the victim of the indiscretion of Prof. Haight. The professor is severely criticised for the false entry on the hotel register. There was no evidence of love-making on the train, as charged, and no foundation for the rumor that there had been criminal intimacy between them. The Indiana Slate Bureau of Statistics some time ago organized a thorough system of crop reports, which has worked successfully, and is of marked value both to the producers and to the market men. Nearly all of the 1,011 townships in the State are heard from promptly on the last day of each month, and the summary is published in an intelligent form by Mr. John B, Conner, the chief statistician. The report for July 1 shows that the winter-wheat harvest in about completed in the southern part of the State, and is progressing favorably in the northern and central portions. The crop is very fine, and will aggregate between forty-five and fifty million bushels. The acreage shows an increase of 2 per cent, above the average, and the yield will be nearly 8 per cent, above the average. Considering the cold aiul wet weather the corn looks favorably and shows an average of 98.3 per cent for acreage, and 87.5 for condition. The oat crop is exceedingly promisiug, and will be tliq largest harvested for many

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years. The same is true of potatoes ; and all the others are either equal to or above the average for the last ten years. The Evansville Argus relates the following: The people of a little town in Warrick county have been liangingright over the brink of a church scandal, but are not aware of the fact, nor will they be until this copy of the Argus reaches its readers over there. Just before the close of the services last Sunday a good brother walked forward to the pulpit, handed the minister an announcement, ns he thought,and asked him to read it to the congregation before he dismissed them. Just before time was called on the doxology the minister said: “ Brother Brain - loy has handed in the following,” and in a clear voice he read the note, which ran as follows: My Own Pkt Bram : Are you never coming to see mo again V I am dving to woe my darling once more and gaze into liis beioved eyes. 'I lie old mummy that calls herself your wifo will never find it out. How can you endure her / Come, darling, to one who truly loves you, Your own and only Mary. The good brother had handed in the wrong announcement. At tfce close of the reading the minister looked horrorstricken, the corgregation stared at Bramley with cold, hard stares, and his wife rose up ill her seat and glared at him like a tigress. Ho was equal to the occasion, however, and, rising calmly and with a look of perfect resignation on liis face, he said : Brothers and Sisters : It may ams ar strange to you that I should ask our beloved pastor to read such a terrible from the pulpit, but the best way devil is to fight him boldly, face Tim writer of that vile note is unknown to mo, till, is evidently some dopraved child of am who h endeavoring to besmirch my Christian reputation. I shall use overy endeavor to ferret out the writer, and, if discovered, will foark ssly proclaim her name and hold her up to the contornpt of all good Christian people. He sat down amid murmurs of approbation and sympathy.

Sex and Contributory Negligence.

The Supreme Court of Michigan ganted a new trial in an action for damages against the Michigan Central Railroad Company, which, in the ground taken by plaintiff, presented a novel question. A young girl was killed by a train of cars of the defendant company, and tho plaintiff contended that contributory negligence could not be alleged l>y the company to invalidate the claim for damages, since the same degree of care was not required from a child as from an adult, and, furthermore, that the law did not expect or demand as much prudence in a woman as in a man. Tho jury gave a verdict to the plaintiff, allowing for tho youth and likewise for the sex of the victim. The court held that the instructions of the court below were correct, so far as concorns tho directions respecting > the age of tho doceased, but that it was an error to charge the jury that the sox of tlio plaintiff affected the rule as to reasonable care and prudence. The same care is expected on theimi±ggji ja woman as on that of a man. The court dwelt upon the fact that the difference in sex has much to do with the application of legal principles in many cases. Police regulations make distinctions. Words and conduct whioh in the presence of men would bo condemned in bad taste, may be punished as criminal when women are present. The law makes allowances for natural differences between men and women, and for the results of their varying modes of life and occupations. A decision in Michigan was quoted which declared, with obvious propriety, that the samo skill in driving a horse could not bo attributed to a woman as to a man, and that a person meeting a woman on the street when a collision was threatened should remember her possible deficiencies. While this is all true, the law nowhere has laid down the general principle that less care is required of a woman than of a man. Moreover, a greater degree of caution is expectod on a woman’s part, timidity and inexperience producing a care which is absent from the conduct of men. The court held that it, therefore, is uuphilosophical and unreasonable to establish a rule of law which necessitates less caution on the part of a woman. The Humanities of women are not to be gainsaid, and the deference and loniency which are due them must not be withheld. This decision of the Michigan court, however, excludes any excessive allowance for the errors of judgment and conduct, based on the element of sex, and shows that while women are less likely than men to expose themBelves to danger the faet of their being women is not to excuse negligence when the risk is assumed. If this decision is to stand for good law, as it probably will, the equality of tho sexes is established in an important particular. Women must be as careful as men when they are in physical danger. They may be on a different footing when standing at the ballot-box, but when crossing a track before an oncoming train, that equality, as shown by this decision, is indisputable. —Boston Advertiser.

Perry Belmont and the Georgian.

Mr. Perry Belmont came down from New York. As the train moved out of Jersey City he attempted to pass a burly fellow, half intoxicated, who, cigar in mouth, poured forth smoke and profanity. “ How many more times arc you go ing through here ? ” he growled; “ you’ve been through twice.” “I may go through a half dozen times more,” said Belmont, coolly and calmly. “ I shall go through as often as I please. ” “ Well, the next time you go through,” said the big Georgian, “I’ll choke you.” “I think not/’ said Perry to the swelling bully. “And, by the way, what are you smoking in the ladies ’ car for ? ” By a dexterous movement, without waiting for an answer, he knocked the Georgian’s cigar from his mouth, and then passed quietly on with: “Wo don’t want any more smoking or swearing in this car.” Tho Georgia bully was speechless with astonishment. When he recovered himself he whistled softly, and, turning to a friend, said: “Game, ain’t he? ” and went in the smoking car.—Philadelphia Record ,

Thh economy in horse-power obtained by using the hardest and smoothest roads is clearly shown. If one horse can just draw a load, on a level, over iron rails, it will take one and two-thirds horses to draw it over asphalt, three and one-third over the best Belgian, five over ordinary Belgian, seven over a good cobblestone, thirteen over a bad cobblestone, twenty over an ordinary earth road and forty over a sandy road. —Scientific American. Psoras to whom thunder and lightning cause excessive fright can avoid danger by going out of doors and moving about. A five-minute walk in the rain will oure the fright also.