Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. TT! ant. The Secretary of the Treasury called for the resignation of Superintendent Davis, of the New Orleans mint, for inefficiency. Dr. A P. King and wife, of London, Ohio, were dfowned in Cbautanqna lako by the capsizing of a saillxjat in a squall. John L. Sullivan, of Boston, and Tug Wilson, England’s crack pugilist, had a bout wilh boxing gloves in the Madison Square Garden, New York, Wilson having made the voyage expressly to try conclusions with the American champion. After four rounds, during which Sullivan knocked bis man down twenty seven times, the Englishman’s remarkable capacity for enduring “ punishment ” enabled him to stand up, and he was declared w inner os the w ager of SI,OOO. The fight wa viewed by a multitude of 16,000 people. More than forty boys have died in the vicinity of Boston since the Fourth of July, of lockjaw, caused from wounds by the toy pistol A number of the striking employes of the Pittsburgh iron mills have accepted situations from a Colorado firm at an advance on the scale demanded bV the Amalgamated Association. Miss Fanny Parnell, a sister of the Irish loader, died suddenly at Bordentown, N. J,, from paralysis of the heart. She had been managing her grandfather’s farm. Wart. Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of Abraham Lincoln, died In Springfield, 111, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ninian Edwards, on Sunday evening, July 16. Mrs. Lincoln, as is well known, has been for a long time in very poor health, but recently she had grown rapidly worse, and on Saturday, the 15th, she suffered a paralytic stroke, from which she never rallied, but lay in a comatoso state until sho died. She was 64 years old. Secretary of War Lincoln is her only surviving child. ' Alfred H. Pease, the pianist, dropped dead on the street in St. Louis after a dobauch lasting over six weeks. lie was engaged to accompany Nilsson on her American tour this fall Blaine’s coal and iron syndicate, representing $75,000,000 es capital, has purchased tho Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo road. Eeports of yellow fever in the South are being put in circulation by unscrupulous speculators. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln was buried at Springfield, 111. Hor remains were put m the crypt of the Lincoln monument by tho side of her husband. Tho funeral services were simple and impressive. It was the special desire of Mrs. Lincoln that no sermon should be preached over her. The preacher was content, therefore, to say much of hor family and little of herself. John Springer, aged 108 years, died at Marietta, Ohio, and Georgo Imhoff passed away at Richmond, Ind., at tho age of 107 years. A band of White Mountain Apaches attacked a train about forty miles from San Carlos, killed one driver and ran off fifty head of cattle. Buutt^ Life in Texas: In Orange county John Goodwin killed W. Windham’s dog. Windham followod Goodwin and his brother-in-law, Moran, with a shot-gun. Ho shot and killed both, but was himsolf woundod and died in an hour. Near Whitesboro two farmers, Johnson and Ichor, quarreled. Ichor was fatally cut and Johnson killed. A boy on tho farm who interfered was badly cut. Fifteen Jives were lost by the sinking of tho steamer John Wilson in tho Atcliafalaya river, in Louisiana. WASHINGTON NOTES. Swaim, tho Judge Advocate General, in a report to tho Secretary of War on tho petition for tho release of Sergeant Mason, holds that the proceedings of the court martial wero irreguiar and illegal. The annual report of tho breadstuffs for the year shows a serious falling off in exports, tho fi<?ures for 1881 being 1*265,000,000, against ■'{■l7o,ooo,ooo for the year ending June a’). 1882. Mrs. Scoville has filed notice with the Probate Conrt of Washington that sho will Cavil for the bones of Guitcau, the assassin. POLITICAL POINTS. Mrs. Polly Mcßride has been chosen as ono of tho delegates to the Illinois Greenback Stato Convention from Feoria county. The negotiations looking to a compromise between the Camoron and Independent Be publicans of Pennsylvania have resulted fa failure. At a meeting in Philadelphia of the Cameron Executive Committee it was decided lo reject the proposition of the Independent for tho withdrawal of both tickets and the pledge of all the candidates not to accept a nomination from tho new convention. The Greenbaekers of New York held a convention, lasting two days, at Albany. Ephenetus Howe was nominated for Governor and James Allen for Lieutenant Governor. The platform reaffirms the ground taken at the Chicago Convention in 1880; denounces the contract system of prison labor as an outrage on civilization ; demands that all land owned by individuals or corporations in excess of what is required for their personal use or for the transaction of their business should be taxed so as to render its ownership valueless; pronounces in favor of civil-service refprm, and protests against monopoly of money, transportation, land and labor. The Texas Democratic Convention nominated John Ireland for Governor. Gov. Roberts, who has already served two terms, forbade his name being placed before the convention. Gen. Newton M. Curtis, a special agent of the Treasury Department in the New York Custom House, was oonvicted recently of receiving money paid to him as assessments by Federal employes to be used for political purposes. His counsel moved before the United States Circuit Court, in which the oonviction was had, for an arrest of judgment and a new trial. The court decided last week that tho law prohibiting political assessments was constitutional. On the other points raised tho court was also adverse to the accused, and the motion for a stay and for a new trial was therefore denied. Aloxandor H. Stephens was nominated for Governor by the Georgia Democracy, who, in their platform, entered a protest against armed raids by internal-revenue officers. The Ohio Democratic State Convention was presided over by the Hon. George H. Pendleton. The Hon. John W. Oakley was nominated for Supreme Judge, and J. W. Newman, of Portsmouth, for Secretary of State. John G. Thompson was defeated for member of the State Central Committee, but was Chairmau chosen of the Executive Committee.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W, McEWEN Editor

VOLUME vl

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Wallace Boss has accepted Hanlan’s challenge to row the latter five races during as may consecutive days for SI,OOO each. Twenty persons were killed and ten wounded by tire and falling walls daring the services at Buenos Ayres in honor of Garibaldi The Northern Pacific railway syndicate has concluded negotiations with two of the largest banks in Germany for the sale of $3,000,000 general mortgage 6 per cent bonds.

FOREIGN NEWS. John Bright could not approve of the bombardment of Alexandria, and as a consequence resigned his post as a member of the British Cabinet A district Governor in Austria, while recruiting with an escort of twenty-five soldiers, was surprised by an insnrgont chieftain, who massacred the entire party. Heavy and almost incessant rains are threatening to destroy the grain and potato crops of Ireland, which, until recently, gave flattering promise of great plenty. England and Scotland are likewise troubled of late by too much rain. The corpse of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarries, which was some months ago stolen from the family vault in Abbottshire, was found, a few days ago, in the grounds of the estate. A servant has been arrested for connection with the theft. The city of Smyrna, in Asia Minor, has been devastated by a fire that raged seven hours. Smyrna is the most famous commercial city of the Levant, and has a population of 150,000. It is wretchedly built of wood, and is exceedingly filthy and noisomo. The Russian Col. Philipolon, charged with lcnioncy to Nihilist prisoners under liis charge, has been degraded and exiled to Siberia. Crops in the northwestern section of Ireland are in a deplorable condition. LATER NEWS ITEMS. The advisory trunk-line commission, comprising Messrs. Thurman, Washburno and Cooley, report that no evidence has been offered that existing differential rates are unjust, or that they operate to tho prejudice of any of the seaboard cities, and the commission can not advise their being disturbed until they operate inequitably or force trado in an unnatural direction. Tho rccomendatioii is made that tho roads should keep and submit to each other accurate statistics in regard to their business, and that no seaboard city should bo subjected to unfair charges or arbitraty regula" tions. Four mills and four factories at Fairfield, Mo., valued at SIOO,OOO, were reduced to ashes. John F. Walsh was executed in the jail at Brooklyn for tho murder of Barbara Groenthal. The knot slipped around to the back of Ins neck and he died from strangulation. Officer Reynolds, of New York, saved the lives of three women and eight children in a blazing tenement in Washington street, where they wero cut off, by holding onto a window and catching them as they dropped. Bradlaugh and three others connected with tho publication of tho Free Thinker, of London, committed for trial for publishing blasphemous libels. Destructive floods are reported in Bohemia. Many p3ople were drowned. A planing mill and a railway supply store, on Cass avenue, St. Louis, wero burned, causing a loss of $125,000. Tho crops in Bohemia have been nearly dostroyed by rains, ..and no less than forty-ioven lives have been lost in the storms.

FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

There was considerable discussion in the Senate, on the 15tb, on a resolution directing tho Secretary of tho Interior to suspond action on the payment of a double pension to Gea. Ward B. Burnett, but no action was taken. A resolution was adopted calling on the President for copies of the declarations of Buiwer and Clayton upon the ratification of the treaty. Mr. Anthony introduced a bill to repeal so much of the Army Appropriation law as provides for the retirement of Gens. Sherman and Sheirdan. The Pension Appropriation bill, covering $100,000,000, was taken np. An amendment calling for an annual list of pensioners borne on tho rolls was struck out, and the bill was passed. Tho Senate insisted upon its amendments to tho River and Harbor bill, and a conference committee was appointed. In the House Mr. Cannon reported the disagreement of the conference committee on the legislative appropriation, and the conferees were reappointed and instructed to insist on their views being considered. A resolution was adopted that the Committee on Civil Service Reform consider the inequalities of salaries of Senate and Hoiiso employes, and another that the President bo requested to furnish information in regard to tho pool recently entered into by the French Cable Company. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Senate amendments to the river and harbor appropriation, none of them being concurred in, even the Hennepin canal project failing. Consideration of the Internal Rovenue bill was resumed iu the Senate July 17. Mr. Beck urged his amendment to reduce the tax on manufactured tobacco to 10 cents per poundMr. Sherman sounded a note of warning in regard to the heavy appropriations, when the subject went over. Mr. Allison reported the disagreement of the conference committee on the legislative appropriation, and a new committee was appointed. Concurrence was given to the Houso amendment to the Senate bill to promote telegraphic communication between Europe and America. An executive session closed the proceedings. The House was the scene of another bitter personal altercation, the participants being Messrs. Hewitt, of Now York, and Robeson, of Now Jersey. Mr. Hewitt rose to a question of privilege, and called attention to a scntenco appearing in the Record as a speech by Mr. Robeson, reflecting upon him (Hewitt), which had not been uttered on tho floor, and asked to have the objectionable phrase stricken out. Mr. Robeson retaliated by words of ridicule. He upbraided Mr. Hewitt for his connection with tho Morey letter, and ridiculed him for his pretensions to be a greater man than his,father-in-law, Peter Cooper. Hewitt retaliated by saying that a man who would submit to be characterized by a fellow member a liar, perjurer and thief was so low that anything he might say was of no consequence. Tho Speaker declined to order tho offensive sentence to be struck from the Record. The House refused to fix a date for the consideration of the bill for the admission of Dakota. A Senate bill was passed for the sale of the site of the old Postoftice building in New York for $600,000. Mr. Robinson introduced resolutions in the interest cf American citizens in British prisons, and calling on tho Secretary of the Navy to report whether or not American sailors are performing police duty in Alexandria under the British Admiral. Mr. Bmgham reported a bill in regard to the pay of letter carriers. A petition of the Gnitean jurors, asking an allowance of $5 per day, was presented in the Senate July 18, and referred. By a vote of 89 to 20, an executive session was then held, daring which a long debate occurred over the confirmation of James E. Slaughter for Postmaster at Mobile, the nomination being approved. When the doors were opened, Mr. Sherman called up the Tax bill, a motion to adjourn being defeated. Messrs. Logan, Cameron, Dawes, Conger and Jones presented telegraphic protests from tobacco manufacturers against a chango in the rate of taxation, and asking for rebates if the hill passed, The House arranged

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for the expenses of the Government by extending the provisions of the joint resolution of June 30. The Committee on Elections made reports on the Yirgini* and Mains contested seats, pronouncing in favor of Cabell and Reed, and the resolutions were adopted. Mr. Calkins called up the South Carolina case of Smalls vs. Tilman, on which Mr. Bandall raised a question of consideration. The House proceeded to vote, all but two Democrats declining to answer, the result showing fifteen less than a quorum. The doors were closed, and several roll calls took place, a quorum being obtained at sp. m. Mr. Waite opened the discussion in behalf of Smalls, when an adjournment was taken. Resolutions adopted by the Fifth Army Corps at Detroit, asking that justice be done Fitz John Porter, wero presented to the Senate July 19, by Mr. Sewell Mr. Logan Introduced a bill to so modify the Chinese law as to permit them to pass through the country without stopping. It was laid aside without action, and the tax bill was taken np. Mr. Williams denounced the measure as a temporary expedient by the Republican party to quiet popular clanor. Mr. Beck’s amendment to fix the tobacco Tax at 12 cents per pound after January next was agreed to. A motion to retain the stamp tax on bank Checks and drafts for over SIOO was rejected. The house joint resolution to extend tho appropriations to July was passed. The President nominated William Hale, of lowa, to bo Governor of Wyoming ; J. Schuyler Crosby, of New York, for Governor of Montana, and W. W. Hoover, of California, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Conrt of Arizana. Tho House resumed consideration of the South Carolina contested-election case of Smalls vs. Tillman. Mr. Horr stood in front of the Speaker’s desk, and with a small cane pointed out the boundaries of the new Congressional districts of South Carolina, and denounced the work as downright villainy. Messrs?Moulton and Simonton argued in support of tho sitting member. Mr. Evins, after arraigning the Republicans for corruption and gerrymandering, objected to their lecturing the people of South Carolina on political morality. Mr. Tillman, speaking in his own behalf, expressed the fear that his State would be reconstructed for the purpose of plunder, and announced that he would be returned to Congress by negro votes. Mr. Smalls was then seated by 141 to 5. Tho Democrats abstained from voting. Tho Alabama case of Smith vs. Shelley was taken up, Mr. Rauney obtaining the floor. The Tax bill was discussed at length in the Senate on July 20. Mr. Yoorheos denounced the measure as favoring a privileged class. Mr. Harrison claimed that his colleague was not in harmony with other leading Democrats. Mr. Jonas submitted figures to show that the sugar interests could not stand a reduction in price. Amendments to strike out the provision repealing bank taxation was rejected. It was agreed to fix the tax on tobacco at 12 cents per pound. Mr. Dawes reported an amendment to the Sundry Civil bill appropriating $250,000 for additional purchases of beef for (ho Indians, to be distributed by the Secretary of tho Interior. The House, after arguments on the Alabama contested-election case by Messrs. Rauney and Calkins, declared vacant tho seat for tho Fourth district, Mr. Smith liav.Lg died recently. Mr. Reed called up a resolution to amend the rules, to which Mr. Blackburn objected. A voto, in which the Democrats remained silent, showed the House to bo devoid of a quorum. An exciting debate took place in the Senate July 21 over the report of the conference committee on tho River and Harbor bill. Mr. In-, galls, of Kansas, bitterly attacked the report of the committee, and was answered by Mr. McMillan, of Minnesota, in charge of the bill, very warmly and earnestly. Tho report was adopted. The House Revenue bill was then ink'.n up. An amendment by Mr, Bayard to retain the tax on matches was rejected—B to 45. A bill to authorize 8. L. M. Barlow and others to lay a cable to Europe waR referred. Tho President nominated Charles W. Pavey to be Collector of Internal Revenue for tho Thirteenth d strict of Illinois. In the House, Mr. Page rabmiltcd a disagreeing conference report on the River and Harbor bill, and a new committee was appointed. Mr. Hiscodc presented a conference report on the General Deficiency Appropriation bill, on which an agreement had been reached on all clauses except that relative to the mileage of Senators, and tho House decided not to recede from its disagreement on that issue. A bill to modify tho money-order system was passed, in which provision is made for the issueof postal notes for less than $5. Another measure was passed to fix the salaries of railway postal clerks, dividing them into five classes. The Senate bill to authorize the Postmaster General to extend post routes twentyfive miles beyond terminal points, amended to permit the employment of necessary temporary aid at the expense of a derelict contractor, was passed. A bill to fix the compensation of fourth-class Postmasters inside of SI,OOO per annum, exclusive of money-order commissions, was passed.

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

Advices from Alexandria of Sunday, July 16, were to the effect that Arabi Pasba was awaiting reinforcements from Cairo, and intending marching in force on Alexandria. Admiral Seymour was taking precautions to meet the attack. Arabi bad been deposed as War Minister by the Khedive. The fire continued, and incendiaries were shot daily. It is believed that whole families of Europeans were thrown into tho - flames. Five of Arabi’s soldiers were captured by marines and handed over to the Khedive, who gave orders to have them shot by loyal troops. English sailors flogged many Arabs who were guilty of arson, pillage, or rape, and four men 'were publicly shot for murder, and one as a spy. The grain market had reopened, but hundreds of people were starving and houseless. The bombardment is known to have almost exterminated the Egyptian artillery corps. American marines were the first to land at Alexandria tc aid in restoring order, and were speedily followed by Germans, neither receiving’ instructions from their Governments. In the identical note presented by the powers to the Porte Turkey is urged to dispatch an expedition to Egypt to occupy the country three months, the term to be extended upon the demand of tho Khedive, and no European Commissioners to accompany the Turkish troops. Admiral Seymour issued a manifesto at Alexandria, on July 17, announcing that he had undertaken, with the consent of the Egyptian Government, the restoration of order. Nobody was allowed to leave town after sunset Some improvements were noted in the aspect of Alexandria. The rains bad been cleared away in some qnarters, and dangerous buildings demolished by dynamite. The lire had almost entirely ceased. One hotel was opened, and provisions had begun to arrive from tho country. Though incendiaries and robbers were being shot when captured, pillaging still continued to some extent. In the provinces anarchy was reported to rale, and a massacre of eighty Europeans was said to have occurred at Mantah. Refugees from Cairo reported that a holy war was being proclaimed, and an outbreak among tho natives of that city was believed to be imminent. Tho situation at Alexandria was practically unchanged on the 19th. Order was being gradually restored under the surveillance of the British marines. An unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the building occupied as the headquarters of the American marines. Arabi Pasha continued to issue orders and make appointments in the name of the Khedive. It was rumored that Europeans to the number of 205 had been massacred at Kafer-el-dwar. Attempts had been made to fire Cairo, and it was feared that the European quarter would bo burned by the people. Dervisck Pasha had been summoned to Constantinople to give his views of the situation. The Egyptian question was debated in the House of Commons and the French Chamber. De Freycinet ann .uncod the French policy as an alliance with England and action in concert with the behests of the powers. In Parliament it was announced that the identical note sent to the Porte was still unanswered ; and the character of the Government’s replies to questions was criticised by the Conservatives. Gladstone assumed fall responsibility for Admiral Seymour’s actions. Cable dispatches of July 21 state that Turkey, in consideration of the deference shown by the powers to the sovereignty of the Sultan in Egypt, has consented to participate in the international conference. France and England have requested that some of the powers he designated to protect the Suez can&l De Lesseps informed Admiral Seymour that the passage of tnen-of-war through the oanal would

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Frincivles”

be a breach of neutrality. Spain has sent four ironclads to Alexandria. The Governor of Alexandria had returned from a trip to Cairo by way of Port Said. He reports having seen Europeans massacred and their houses pillaged at Damanhonr and other points. The scoots of Arabi Pasha were seven miles from Alexandria, bnt he had been ordered by the Porte not to move on the city. His last act was to divert the waters of the Mahmondeh lantl. News received at Alexandria from the interior of Egypt confirm the reported assassinations of Europeans. Numerous massacres occurred in the outskirts Of Cairo. Arabi Pasha has published a special report of the Alexandria bombardment for the natives, alleging that eight ironclads were sunk, two burned, and four captured by the Egyptian troops. He also issued proclamations denouncing the Khedive, and maintaining that an “ irreconcilable war exists between ns and the English. The notables met in Cairo, declared the Khedive to be a traitor, and deposed him, and issued a proclamation declaring war with England, and inviting all good Moslems to take up arms. British troops have sailed from India for Egypt. All the French war-ships have left Alexandria. Italy has ordered forward a permanent squadron of four iron-clads. Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley will command the British expedition about to be. dispatched. Turkey is said to have agreed to send troops. De Leaseps telegraphed to Paris that immediate action was necessary to protect tho Suez canal The French battalions for Egypt are to rendezvous at Toulon. Ninof, a notorious Swiss adventurer, is aiding Arabi, and will bo executed if caught by tho British.

VIGILANTES.

A Desperate Flglit with Three murderers in Arizona. A recent telegram from Albuquerque,' N. M., says : Arizona vigilantes are again at work, and last week Bill Mulcahy, Jack Kingsbury and Nevada Jim, who killed two Mexicans and mortalty wonnded two Americans at Calabazas, were pursued by an organized party of fifteen. Tho pursuit was kept up with vigor during Monday, and at 4 p. m. the fleeing murderers were sighted iu the distance, the animals they rode being nearly fagged, heading for a precipitous poak. With a yell the pursuers spurred their horsos onward. The doomed desperadoes succeedod by & superhuman effort iu reaching the goal of their hopes, where they dismounted and sought refuge iu the recesses of its rocky sides. As tho pursuers approached they were received with a voiley from the Winchesters with which the fugitives were armed, and one of their number .named Hennessy was wounded in the shoulder. The avengers then withdrew and held a hasty consultation, determining to kill or capture the villains at all hazards. Tho party dismounted and cautiously advanoed, keeping as much as possible under cover until the base of the rocky elevation was reached, when, with a slJowti&f detiiiaoe and a volley from their sixshooters, a rush was made. With the coolness of desperation tho murderers awaited the onset, and once more the Winchesters were brought into requisition. The battle lasted but a few minutes. The ambushed cutthroats fought with a fury born of despair. Two of them were quickly killed, and the third, Nevada Jim, was brought down by a shot through the thighs. The vigilantes spared his life till a rope could Be procured to hang him. He suddenly seized a revolver belonging to one of his dead comrades, which was lying near, and fired at Fallehy, who fell, pierced through the lung. Laughing derisively, ho then sent a bullet crashing through his own brain.

How He Struck a Bonanza.

We had been roughing it around for a couple of months when we found ourselves one evening camped outside of Monterey. Our finances .were very low. There was only a few dollars in the whole crowd, and we felt rather blue. Wo hail been for several days discussing what was best to be done. We knew little of the languago of the country; there was no work that suited us, or that we were capable of doing, and stages in that country wouldn’t pay the wear and tear of robbing them. We were sitting around the camp-fire in a very despondent frame of mind when Mclnnis came in from town. “Hello, boys,” be shouted; “I’ve found it—struck a bonanza. We are well fixed; cheer up. We are all right now, and don’t you forget it.” ‘ ‘ What is it ?” we asked. “ You nover mind,” he replied; “you follow me and I’ll show you.” We filed after him into town. He led us through the main street, across the plaza, and down into the poorest part of the town. Stopping in front of a small adobe store, he marched us all in. Mclnnis stood looking from one to the other as if waiting for applause. We could see no sign of the bonanza, and in chorus we impatiently demanded that he should explain. “How much money have we in the crowd ?” inquired Mclnnis. “ Seven dollars and a half, all told,” replied our Treasurer. “ Well, didn’t I say we were all rich?” “Yes, but we can’t see how we can be rich on $7.50.” “You can’t, eh?” said Mclnnis. “Can’t you read?” and he pointed proudly to a card hanging above the cotmter, on which was printed the legend: “Four drinks for a quarter.” —San Antonio (Tex.) Gazette.

A Blind Witness.

In an assault and battery case before a Wayne county Justice, the prosecution introduced a blind man, who had to be led to the witness-box. “Is this a legal trial or a farce ? ” demanded the lawj er for the defense as he sprang up. “This is a legal trial,” replied the other lawyer. “And you want a blind man sworn to tell what he saw, do you ? ” “ I don’t claim that I saw the fight,” replied the witness as he turned around. “Then what do you know about it?” “ Well, sir, I’m going to the stand to swear to what I heard. I’ve been blind and lame and had corns and boils for the last fourteen years, but when I hear the splinters fly from a rail fence I don’t want any eyes to tell me whether the plaintiff hit the top rail with his head or feet! I heard the * kerchug’ of the. blow, and when the plaintiff came down and hollered: ‘Oh! lads, but I’m a licked man ! ’ I knew by the way he hung to his words that he’d lost half his front teeth. I’m ready, your Honor I ”—Detroit Free Press.

Some Varieties of Kissing.

To steal a kiss, that’s fair. To buy a kiss, that’s stupidity. Two girls kissing, that’s waste. To kiss not at all, that’s bad taste. To kiss another man, that’s nasty. To kiss your sister, that’s necessity. To kiss your wife, that’s punishment. To get caught kissing, that’s dreadful. To kiss the baby, that’s unsatisfactory. To kiss an ugly woman, that’s courage. To kiss the chambermaid, that’s dangerous. To kiss your mother, that’s the purest kiss of all. ■ To kiss the girl your are engaged to, that’s expected. To kiss a rich l old maiden aunt, that’s hypocrisy. To kiss a blooming girl, that’s peaches and cream. To kiss another man’s pretty wife* that’s nice but naughty,

SECOR ROBESON.

Public Career of the Republican Leader In the Howe, [From The Hour.] Robeson’s management of the Navy Department has made the two administrations of Gen. Grant memorable in our history. In unblushing corruption, abuse of power and general rascality there is nothing to compare with it in this country. It was worse and more infamous than even the robber rule of Tweed in New York. Rings of favorite contractors made enormous fortunes at the expense of the Government; millions of dollars were spent on ships which at the end of his eight years in office proved to be in no better condition than they were before. Mr. Robeson was a poor man when he drew the first installment of his salary of SB,OOO a year as Secretary. Seven years afterward, when a Democratic committee of Congress put him through the fire of investigation and overhauled his bank account in five different banks, it was shown that he had in this short space of time deposited the enormous sum of $467,546.63, or more than eight times his salary for the whole seven {rears. It was also proved that one of lis intimate friends had made in commissions alone on the purchase of clothing for the navy the sum of $150,000. The records show that this favored speculator made Mr. Robeson a present of a Long Branch cottage without one cent of consideration. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were squandered in foolish experiments testing so-called guns ; coal contracts proved to be more valuable than gold mines to their possessors, and alleged shipbuilders made fortunes in repairing and building vessels which a distinguished naval officer said could neither fight nor run away from the enemy in the event of war. The more money Robeson obtained to spend on the navy the less navy we had, and it is very probable that if he had remained in office under Hayes there would not have been even a Captain’s gig left in the service when Garfield was inaugurated. Robeson’s record in the Navy Department may be summed up in a very few words : He destroyed mors ships of war than any naval commander in the world, from Lord Nelson down, and in seven years of peace created more havoo in the American navy than the British in tho war of 1812, or the Confederates in the late “unpleasantness.” * * If Robeson had been at the head of the British Admiralty for the past four or five years, Arabi Pasha would be able to solve the Egyptian problem in twenty-four hours, for it is very cert iin that under his management Admiral Seymour’s guns would be far more dangerous to those who served and manned them than to the Alexandrian forts. [From the Sun.] WHERE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS TO-DAY. A public man, who, in presence of the House of which ho is a member, and substantially in presence of the whole country, quietly submits to being branded as a liar, a thief and a perjurer, must be deserving of the stigma thus fixed on his front. No invective, no recrimination, and no noisy hurling back of epithets can relieve him from the scorn of his fellow-men. Six years ago, in a formal report, Mr. Whitthorne officially exposed the corruption and jobbery of Secor Robeson. The public judgment was formed on the facts then established. He is universally regarded as the most successful plunderer yet seen in this country. During that investigation, and when the testimony had been made clear that the naval service was prostituted to the personal gain of the Secretary and of his confederates, every effort that a diabolical ingenuity could contrive was employed to impair the moral force of the report then about to be made, and to injure Mr. Whitthorne in the public estimation. At that time W. J. Murtagh was the ostensible proprietor of the Republican , at Washington, and one of Robeson’s most pliant tools. Robeson gave him an interest in jobs and loaned him money. Murtagh was a daily visitor of Robeson’s, and was in his closest confidence. He was also the President of the Washington Police Board. It was proven before a committee of the House that a conspiracy was organized in the police force to intrap Mr. Whitthorne into a house of ill fame, and then to silence him by a threat of exposure. The scoundrels mistook their man, and the plot fell through. It has never been doubted by those familiar with the facts that this infamous scheme was hatched between Robeson and the best Droof of their dread of the exposure made by the Whitthorne investigation, not because either of them cared for the disgrace, but because it would cut off their profits in contracts and their opportunities for public robbery. When this conspiracy became known, it—was intended to make the Police Board inquire into the facts. But Robeson was sufficiently powerful at the White House to prevent this movement. Gen. Grant requested the resignation of all the members of the board except Murtagh, who alone was criminated in this foul business. No wonder Secor Robeson stood unabashed when Mr. Whitthorne branded him in the House. Though smarting with a ooward’s pain under the lash of justice, he was all the while counting his share of the spoili in the monitor job, and calculating when it might go into effect. He would have tranquilly borne more punisnment if there had gone with it a promise of increased profit. This rotten politician whose name is a byword, and whose character is a burning scandal in decent society, stands forth to-day as the leader of the Republican party in the House of Representatives. He made the Speaker. He is Chairman of the Republican caucus. He is Chairman practically of the committee to decide what measures shall be considered at this session. He is second on the Appropriations, second on Naval Affairs, first on Expenditures of the Navy, and second on Rules of the House. No other man in the House enjoys the same distinction, and no other man exercises an influence approaching that which Secor Robeson exerts. Many personally upright Republicans, who shun him as a moral leper, and who denounce him as venal, follow his lead in the party and vote for his jobbing bills, knowing them to be outrageous. The party which is willing to Carry this disgraceful burden, and to sustain a leader whose touch is pollution, and whose pqblio career is th*t of tt reckless

highwayman, is doomed to crushing defeat, and it cannot be long deferred.

The Republicans Alarmed.

The revolt against Cameron in Pennsylvania, the reaction against Mahone in Virginia, the reckless prodigality jof the present Congress, the corrupt leadership of Secor Robeson, the prevailing discontent with the party in power, and the general indignation at the failure of Congress to give any relief to the taxpayers, have seriously alarmed the Republican leaders in the Senate and House. When the old party hacks of the Sen - ate, like Mr. Morrill, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Anthony, Mr. Windom and others, who are ordinarily indifferent to the demands of public opinion, come to the front with an effort to save the party at the approaching elections of Congressmen, the situation must indeed be desperate. After nearly seven and a half months they have discovered that nothing has been done by Congress but to pass jobs and to squander the people’s monov beyond all precedent. A disgraceful race to grab and to steal the $150,000,000 of surplus has been the distinguishing feature of this session. An act was rushed through Congress creating a Tariff Commission, intended to postpone indefinitely any reform of the existing abuses. Mr. Allison admitted in the Senate, what everybody knew to be true, that this commission at least postponed any change until after the next Presidential election. The House of Representatives recently contrived a shtpn measure under the pretence of reducing the internal revenue. By this sham some $17,000,000 of taxes were lifted from special interests without the in slightest degree benefiting the people who have to carry the burden of taxation. After the passage' of the bill murmurs of dissatisfaction were heard from every part of the country. Its real character was at once understood. . It was seen to be nothing but an ill-disguised attempt to trifle with the gravest interests, a trick of legislation deliberately contrived with dishonest purpose. The intended deception not only failed of effect, but it has brought the Republican leaders of the Senate to a sense of the situation. They are threatened with a loss of the next House of Representatives, They have not forgotten what Grantism and extravagance did in 1874, and they dread what Robeson and rascality may do in 1882. Under this panic the men who carried through the Tariff Commission measure have suddenly changed front, and now Mr. Morrill reports an amendment to the sham from the House, which, if adopted, will reduce the duties on Bessemer steel and on sugar. Only recently, he held that any revision of the tariff must go to nine wise politicians with $lO a day and expenses; now he has all at once discovered that changes are necessary. Hear the ingenuous millionaire, John Sherman, on the same subject: “If this Congress shall adjourn, whether it be hot or cold, without a reduction of taxes now imposed upon the people, it will be derelict in its highest duty. There is no’ sentiment in this country stronger now than that Congress has neglected its duty thus far in not repealing taxes that are obnoxious to the people and unnecessary for the public uses; and if we should still neglect that duty we should properly be held responsible by our coiiwfcuents.” The sentiment that Congress has neglected its duty has been as strong in the country for months past as it is to-day. John Sherman and his associates never thought of “repealing taxes that are obnoxious to the people and unnecessary for the public uses” until they were brought face to face with the fall elections. The conversion was remarkable all along the line. Here is what Gen. Hawley said on behalf of the Republican side, and his sentiments were echoed by Mr. Windom and by others, who made haste to change front: “ I have also known that the great majority of the Republicans in Congress believe there ought to be a serious reduction in taxation before we adjourn. The surplus is monstrous; it is enormous ; it is dangerous; $150,000,000, and I do not kuow but what it will be more next year. It has already led us into unwisdom iu the shape of an excessive and monstrous River and Hsrbor bill, and into other expenses that, I think, can scarcely be justified by the otrictest economy.” The Republicans have complete possession of Congress. Why did they not propose reduction in taxation months ago if they believed it ought to be made ? At the eleventh hour they begin to try to pose as revenue reformers. They are badly frightened.— Washington telegram to New York Sun.

War Taxes in Time of Peace.

J. 8. Moore, the well-known freetrader, has written to the New York Evening Post the following letter on a few of the atrocities of the protectionists and their tariff * Fell monopoly, with its hydra head, is actually beginning to work for tariff I reform. Perhaps at no time dnring the ! last twenty years have tariff reformers ! seen a brighter prospect than in the miserable, and we may justly say cowardly, surrender of monopoly advocates. Senator Morrill suffered the humiliation yesterday of stultifying himself and his high-tariff party by tacking an amendment upon the Internal Tax bill which | is intended to reduce the duty on two i articles of the tariff—sugar and steel i rails—notwithstanding the Tariff Commission in session. But the monopolists may as well understand that this miserable concession is worse than a sham. It acknowledges that the majority in Congress have betrayed the rights of the people. The people have demanded and demand the reduction of war taxes in time of peace. I They have just reason to do so, because j the war ended seventeen years ago. The ! proposed reduction of $8 a ton on steel j rails is as big a sham as ever was coni ceived. The cost of steel rails in Enj gland is on a 5 average £6 a ton—say i S3O. A duty of S2O a ton is as effectually | prohibitory at present as one of S2B. ! This very morning we see that the ; Brooklyn Bridge contracted for steel rails at $45.25 a ton. Therefore it will I be seen that S2O a ton duty is equal to i SSO, without freight or charges. Where- ! as a reduction to sls a ton will still j make the cost of foreign rails at present ! over and above the selling price here. We shall see, if such a sham passes, how much good it will do the monopolists in power. 1 In the meantime the consumers would i like to know why the following articles of necessity should be taxed as follows : | Bice, 105 per cent. Chloroform, 85 per oent Aoetate of soda, 2X6 per cent,

$1.50 uer Annum.

NUMBER 26.

Caustic, 63 per cent. Strychnia, 81 per oent. Cotton prints (valued at 14 oents per yard), 68 per cent. Spool thread (that gigantic monopoly), 78 per oent. Window glass, 80 per cent. Plate glass, 109 per cent. Boiler iron, 74 per oent. Hollow ware, 82 per cent. Castor oil, 85 per oent. m Woolen goods, from6B to 140 percent Many woolen goods bear a prohibitory tax. In short, the above is only a modicum of our abominable tariff. We shall see at the polls what the Solons who want to be re elected will have to say—why they delegated tariff-making to a commission during seven months, and found at the eleventh hour that the country is paying war taxes and the tariff should be modified. With the thermometer at ninety-five, and the Erospect before them, the tariff monoposts may well be pitied.

Garfield and the “Visiting Statesmen.”

A correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Democrat writes: A strange story comes to me from the death-bed of the late President Garfield. It is to the offect that while yet in his full senses, but "convinced that he could not recover, he expressed not only regret but deep contrition for the part which he had borne in depriving President TiMen of the office to which he was elected in 1876It will be remembered that Mr. Garfield was one of the “visiting statesmen” who thrust themselves into the canvass of the vote of Louisiana in that year, bringing out “evidence” of “bulldozing” in some of the rural parishes, and in particular that of the old colored woman whom Mr. Garfield examined, “ not,” he said, “as a Judge, but as a lawyer.” It is now related that, feeling that he could not recover, that his death must take place within a few days, he talked with his attendants about his public career as well as his personal affairs. It is said, on authority that I have no reason to doubt, that he showed himself sincerely penitont for the part which ho took in the great .fraud of 1876. Ho regarded that as the one great stain upon his public caroor, and ho made some reference to documents which he felt sure would serve to mitigate the judgment of posterity upon him. He expressed the greatest apprehension that at "no distant period an avenging Nemesis would visit upon his party and friends a terrible revenge for that wrong. Thoso who listened to him were his personal and political friends ; they regarded the words and emotions of Garfield due to the effect of physical weakness and long suffering, and agreed to be silent regarding them. But in the quarrels that have arisen between the Stalwarts and Half-breeds they have been repeated, and*at length the subject of discussion in private circles. At no distant day some authorized publication on the subject may be expected.

American Manners.

While American manners are doubtless susceptible of much improvement, they are not nearly so black as they are frequently painted by foreign fools and native snobs. If by good manners are meant the “ small, sweet courtesies of life,” then ours will bear comparison with the foreign article. Am American may not bow as gracefully os a Frenchman, but he will sacrifice quite as much personal convenience and comfort for a stranger as the Frenchman—perhaps more. An American may not bo so elegant at a dinner party as an Englishman, but he will not ride half a day in a railway car without speaking to the fellow passenger at his elbow, as the Englishman, will. A lady—whether young or old, pretty or plain—may travel from Boston to San Francisco without an escort, and receive all tho needed attention from men whom she never saw before and will never see again. Would the same lady be equally fortunate in a trip from London to Paris or Paris to Rome ? In our street cars a laboring man, wearied out with his day’s toil, will give his seat to any woman who eateis. How many European gentlemen would do as much ? There is more chivalric respect shown to women in America than anywhere else on earth, and such respect is ‘inconsistent with “ vulgarity of manners.” In drawing-room accomplishments and the graces of the dancing-master, and in those indescribable products of high breeding found in the circles of hereditary aristocracy, America must now —and always, perhaps—yield tho palm to Europe; but in genuine courtesy, unaffected and unselfish politeness, disjiosition to accommodate, readiness to go out of one’s way to help others—Europe has much to learn from America. Our manners are “in the rough” and need polishing; but the material of which they-are made is gold, not pinchbeck. Vulgar manners are bad, but artificial worse. Let us hope and believe that, by diligent minding of our own business and making the best of ourselves without servile copying of European models, we shall some day reach a point in education, manners and morals which will meet the demands of the most fastidious taste, foreign or domestic. — St. Louis Republican.

How Americans Are Said to Have Talked.

Mr. James Greenwood, in his English grammar of 1711, says many pleasant and suggestive things. Ho says : “One ought not promiscuously to write every noun with a great letter, as is the fashion of some now adaies.” He says : “Our ancestors mislikt d nothing more in King Edward the Confessor than that he was Frenchify’d.” Ho says: “Hern,’ ‘ourn,’ ‘yourn.’ ‘hisn,’ for ‘hors,’ ‘ours,’ ‘yours,’ ‘his,’ is bad English.” Ho says: “ ‘Yes’ is more us-uni and mood is h than ‘yea. ’ ‘I ’ for ‘ yes’ is used in a hasty or merry way, as ‘ I Bir, I Sir ; ’ and sometimes wo use ‘ay,’ but this way of affirming is rude and ungentile.” He says: “They say that the Americans bordering on New England * * * cannot pronounce an * 1 ’ or ‘ r,’ but use ‘n ’ instead of it; so for ‘ lobster ’ they say ‘nobster.’” Ho says, in respect to dialect at home : “Whereas Ihe inhabitants about London would say, ‘ I would eat more cheese if I had H,’ a Northern man would speak it, ‘ A and eat mare cheese gyn ay Lad ct,’ and a Western man. ‘Child eat more cheese an chad it.’ ” —All the Year /'ound. There are between twenty and thirty potato-starch factories in Aroostook county, Me. Each one of these consumes from 1,000 to 3,000 bushels of potatoes a day. This locality has but few railroads, and the expense to the farmers of marketing the potatoes is very great. The first factory for the manufacture of starch was erected on the Aroostook river in The scarcity of eggs is attributed to the fact that the country people find it chcaj>er to eat them than to market Mid buy meat with the prooeeds.

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INDIANA ITEMS.

Thr oat crop is a failure in Decatur county. Thkrk is to bo a big harvest-homo festival at Orawfordsvillo. Young quails are plentiful ir. Northern Indiana, so the 'armors report An Indianapolis wife, less than 40 years old, is the mother of thirteen children. Sarah Hartrouoh, of Hartford City, Blackford county, suicided by taking arsenic. Anderson is going to build a new Court House, and will lay the corner stone Aug. 17. Many farmers in the vicinity of New Albany claim that their jiotatn crop wdl average 180 barrels to tlio acre (his season. Thr Indiana Bureau of Statistics lias information showing a large falling off in livo stock in the southern part of the State. Thr peoplo of Muncio have before them another ofter looking to the location of an extensive manufacturing establishment. Oscar Gooijwin, the Logansport bank cashier, who so mysteriously disappeared not long since, was recently seen at Hot Springs, Ark. A young daughter of Henry SoMiuers, a wealthy farmer living iu Jackson township, Miami county, was terribly injured by a readier at work iu her father's field. A daughter of Zaclisrmh ltobinson, a woll-known and respected citizen of Clark county, took strvohniue ami died because of disnppoiutmcut in a love affair. Raidroad mon are bringing a strong nrcssifre to bear upon tho Indiana State Hoard of Equalization to induce them to roduco the assessment, for taxes to those of 1880. llenky Landwkhr, of Richmond, was showing a loaded shell for a*bioichloading Hhot-gun to a friend, when tho shell cxplodod, lacerating his hand terribly, and, a pieeo striking him in the month, cut his upper lip in a frightful manner. Alonzo D. McCarthy, formerly a bright and promising attorney of the Grant county bar, shot himself through tho brain at Decatur, Adams county. The young man was about to have been married, but, believing that tho appetite for strong drijik had the mastery of him, he committed suicide. Thirty years ago Warren Rude, now of New Albany, ran a needle into his right foot. The wound was quite painful for a few days, but Mr. Rude did not suppose tho needle remained in his foot, and soon felt no further inconvenience from the perforation. A few days ago it worked its way out near tho shoulder blade. Some time ago tho Street Com mis sionerof Franklin, Adams county, warned the citizens of the town to work upon the streets, but took, in lieu of such services, $1.50 in cash. Quito a number did the required work, while others paid the money ; but some thirty citizens refused to do cither, and a test ease has been made up for tho courts. Frank, an 11-ycar-old son of the Rev. James Campbell, of Frankfort, Clinton county, accidentally hanged himself on a trapeze which he had placed in tho barn on tho premises. It is supposed that lie became caught in the rope while performing, and, being exhausted, was unable to release himself, and choked to death. W. D. Riokle, of Rochester, Fulton county, instituted a novel method to collect bad debts by placing the names of the debtors and tho amount# due in the window of his store. Charles and Sam Swartwood, the former one of his debtors, attacked and beat Ricklo severely. Tho Swart woods were arrested and fined #26.25 each.- Ricklo lirh abandoned liis method oC collection. An ancient colored woman named Fanny McKinney, who lias lived in Evansville since slio has obtained her freedom, lias just applied for a pension as the only practical recompense for tho loss of her second husband, who died in tho war. She regards, however, as her strongest claim upon tho bounty of her country tlio fact that she is the mother of twenty-three children, and is indirectly responsible for seventy-five grandchildren. One of her daughters is herself tiic mother of twenty children, and entertains confident expectations of beating the old lady’s remarkable rt oord. J, W. Haddock, of Ilonryville, Clark county, had a wife. William Cook loved her. Haddock found it out. Did ho kill Cook? Nay, by tho beard of the prophet, nay. Ho took his rival into his confidence, bemoaned w'itli him the destruction of his domestic felicity and persuaded him to fly with him upon the wiugs of arsenic to the great beyond. They visited a neighboring town, purchased and swallowed a mixture of arsenic and opium, took too much and were easily brought back to tho cold, unfriendly world. The little glimpse of futurity thus obtained scared them iuto a desire to prolong their future lives, and now they will try to so livo that when the summons comes, etc., etc., they will sco fairer sights than thoso they once beheld. A wise man has como out of Indiana. A frightful railroad accident occurred nanr Vincennes. A heavilyladen freight train was steaming its way toward the city, propelled by two locomotives, one heading the train the other in the middle. Between tho two engines the train broke apart. The engineer of the first locomotive slowod up somewhat, ami the second division, running rapidly down grtule, crashed into tlio first division, causing a terriblo wreck. Three men were stealing a ride and comfortably emjfeonscd between two flat oars loaded with' lumber. When tho accident occurred the lumber was dislocated, and, colliding together, crushed two of the men into!a mass of horrid pulp, from which death ensued instantly. The thini victim had unarm crashed and was ottherwise so badly bruised that his recovery is impossible. It is supjKiscd those Unfortunate men had beou out harvesting and woro bound for their homes,

Licence in Dress.

The following clause Was found in the will of a Yorkshire rector: “Seeing that my daughter Anne has not availed herself of my advice touching tho objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare up to the elbows, my will is that, should she continue after my death in this violation of the modesty of her sex, all the goods, chattels, money, lands, and all other things that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the eldest son of my sister Caroline. Should any one take exception to this as being too severe, I answer that license in the dress of a woman is a mark of a depraved mind."