Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XBMt. Three Swedes safe down to rest on a railroad track at Jamestown, N, Y. ( and two o f them were killed by a passing train In New York city there were 138 . deaths from heat in a period of twenty-fonr hours. The Reformed Roman Catholics, under the direction of Bishop McNamara, of New York, have been holding a camp-meeting at Atlantic Highlands, N. J. This is said to be the first Catholic camp-meeting ever held in the country. The flour-mills of Hecker & Co., Nos. 205 to 267 Cherry street, New York, and the spice-milis of Sawyer, Beers & Fisher, adjoining, were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of (1,250,000. During the progress of the conflagration several casualties occurred. Gen. Barstow, U. ft. A., retired, of Oakland, is dead. George Goodwin, the theatrical manager of Philadelphia, died at Boston recently. Forest fires of large proportions are ragingin the lower counties of New Jersey. While out riding, a party of pleasureseekers at Bar Harbor, Me., was robbed of (1,200 in cash and several gold watches by three highwaymea Wwt The assessment roll of Nebraska places tho value of property in tho State at (98,537,475. A petition bearing 200 names has been submitted to the Governor of Minnesota, asking him to pardon tho notorious Younger brothers ont of the penitentiary. The total number of deaths in Chicago last week was 371, an increase of 90 over the previous week. Cholera-infantum carried off nearly ono-third of tho victims. There are now stored in the Chicago elevators 3,698,004 bushels of grain. A whole family was drowned by a flood near Manchester, Ohio. A fight occurred at Phoenix, Arizona, between three cow-boys and effioors and citizens. One of tho lattor was killed and one wounded; and the cow-boys narrowly oscapea lynching at tho hands of the populaco. South. A negro named Isaac Turner was hanged at Lexington, Ky., for murdering Abo Bay, another colored man, in June, 1881. Fire at New Orleans destroyed four business buildings in Tchoupitoulas street and damaged three adjacent strncturcs, creating a loss estimated at (150,000. It is charged by inmates of the Soldiers’ Home, at Hampton, Va., that tho Supcrntendent, Gov. Woodfln, has within the last four years withheld over (50,000 of pension money paid to him in trust ; that he has in his employ an ex-rebel; and that in various ways his conduct is deserving of censure. Memorials embodying these accusations have been received by Congress. Col. Stephen R. Proctor, Assistant Adjutant General of the State of Louisiana, committed suicide. Tho death of his children, financial reverses and ill health impelled him to the deod. He was 65 years of age. Yellow fever has appeared in Brownsville, Tex., and the doath rate from the plague is on the increase at Matamoras. Nine persons were drowned in Mason county, Ky., by tho sudden overflow of a creek. Two Kentuckians named Emberton and Spoakman, who had outraged Mrs. J. B. Garrett, of Tompkinaville, while being taken to Glasgow for aafo-keeping, were shot to death. Yellow fever has again appeared at New Orleans. It still rages in a virulent form along the Rio Grande. Great alarm is felt in Texas over the spread of yellow fever, and a strict quarantine is kept up along the Rio Grande. It is also proposed to suspend communication with New Orleans.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Indianapolis and St. Louis railroad was sold to the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Company for $1,396,000. The second mortgage bondholders will contest the salo. An immigrant who recently arrived at Castle Garden writes to Superintendent Jaokson announcing himself a' a candidate for the Presidency, offering to perform its duties for $26 per year from each State. A steady, profitable business throughout the country is indicated by the clearinghouse returns for the past week. There were several deaths from yellow fe 'fir at Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoras, Mexico, and surrounding towns have established a strict quarantine. The revenues of Mexico for the last fiscal year amounted to $27,500,000. The coinage of the United States minis for July was $3,153,850. Of this sum more than two-thirds are standard dollars. The Licking river at Cincinnati rose over twenty-five feet in one day. Nearly twoscore barges were sunk, and the property loss Is placed at $50,000. John Raper, the Chicago embezzler, arrived at Glasgow, Scotland, on the steamer State of Nevada, and was at once arrested. A blaze on board the steamer Gallert while at sea caused a panic among the steerage passengers, mostly Polish Jews, which was with difficulty held in check. The flames were subdued after doing SIO,OOO worth of damage. A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says: The Prefect of the District of Montezuma, Mexico, sends the following to Gov. Ortiz : I have the honor to inform you that on the 24th, between the hours of 9 and 10 a. m., the Apaches attacked CoL Lorenzo Torres at Encino, eighteen miles from Here, who was accompanied by sixty Federal troops. The fight lasted three hours, resulting in the death of Viociente Provincio, the Diputado of the district, and all the troops except fire Federal* and CoL Torres, who was wounded. The Indians took all the horses, equipage and stores. They were strongly fortified and completely ambushed the troops. A force of troops has been sent in pursuit of the Apaches, who are moving toward the Arizona border. The Catholic National Total Abstinence Union held a three days' session at St. Paul. The Rt. Rev. John Ireland was elected President ■

POLITICAL POINTS. After casting 278 ballots the Democratic Congressional Convention of the Twelfth Illinois district, in session at Mount Sterling, Ang. 1, adjourned until, next morning. The final vote stood: Singleton, 26; Wike, 25; Withers.l2; Goodrich, 7. Col. Hugh S. Thompson was nominated for Governor of South Carolina by the Pemocratip Sift to Convention.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

The Republican Convention of the Eighth Ohio district renominated Speaker Heifer for Congress by acclamation. The Republicans of New York will hold their State Convention at Saratoga, on the 20th of September. WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. Walker, says a Washington telegram, 4s receiving pretty sharp criticisms for having projected so extensive a plan for the census, one which involves such a large deficiency appropriation. Senators very plainly say that it was never the intention of Congress to enter upon such a comprehensive census plan. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs in an elaborate report denounces the Venezuela Claims Commission, and declares its doings fraudulent. A collision occurred at Washington between the business manager of the Republican and the proprietor of the Sunday Chronicle. No blood was shed, but both combatants were deluged with writing-fluid from the inkstands used as weapons. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted a report respecting the results of the recent Chili-Peru investigation, which discredits Shipherd and exonerates Minister Htirlbut Tho testimony recently taken was reviewed at great length, and the attempt to uso the influence of tho United Staton to further the interests of a guano company censured. In the star-route trial, A. C. Buell, a Washington journalist, while on the stand admitted having received material financial aid from Gen. Brady and Mr. Walsh at various times, and acknowledged now being in the former’s employ. The witness and other writers who have denounced the prosecution were characterized by the court as “ hireling libelers.” Following is a statement of the public debt at the close of business July 31: Extended 6’s $ *7,807,100 Extended s’s i 301,50.),000 Four and ane-Hai: per cent, bonds 250,000,000 Four per cents 738,897,750 Refunding certificates 452,750 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt $1,452,661,500 .Matured d00r... $ 13,909,715 Lego I tenders. 346,740,711 Certificates of deposit... 12,730,000 Gold and silvsr certificates 72,137,150 Fractional currency 7,046,469 Total without interoat.' 438,645,330 Total debt , 11,905,225,546 Total interest 10,926,918 Cash in treasury....: 241,098,031 Debt less cash In treasury $1,675,054,433 Decrease during Jnly 13,860,027 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid ,f 2,338,709 Debt on wiuen interest has ceased 13,909,715 Interest thereon 553,334 Gold snd silver certificates 72,137,150 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 12,730,000 Cash balance available Aug. 1, 1882.... 139,427,072 T0ta1.... .jt V 41,0.18,031 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 241,098,031 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 323,117 Interest paid by United States. 65,344,682 Interest repaid by companies— Bv transportation service 15,231,036 By casn payments of 6 per cent, ot net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United Btatos 39,468,418 Judge Wylie, of Washington, refused to naturalize a Chinaman, because of the restrictions of the bill recently passed relative to Mongolian immigration. FOREIGN NEWS. The son of the Russian Consul in Ronmania has been arrested at Odessa for supplying dynamite to tho Nihilists. Archbishop Croke addressed a meetng in Tipperary and advised his countrymen not to emigrate. The Greek troops have occupied the Turkish village of Z irta, near the frontier. An explanation has been demanded by the Porto. A fire in St. Petersburg destroyed fifty houses on an island in the Neva. Cetewayo, the noted African chief, has arrived in England. Pollock Castle, the most ancient family seat in tho West of f Gotland has been destroyed by fire. Engineer Melville has given up all hope of finding Lieut. Chipp and his boat’s crew. The searching party are at Tobolsk. An Irish editor has been arrested for publishing an articlo written by James Redpath, which, the Government alleges, encourages the murder of landlords. During the festivities attendant on the arrival of the Archduke Charles Louis at Trieste, a petard was thrown into the crowd, injuring several people. In retaliation a mob broke the windows of the houses frequented by Italians. Parnell’s scheme for checkmating the operations of tho Land Corporation Company has assumed form. The Lord Mayor of Dublin will bo asked to call a meeting during the exposition, for the inauguration of a fund to aid evicted tenants. Parnell claims evictions will be increased if tenants are left defenseless.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Capt. Thos. Kirkman, living on a plantation near Grenada, Miss., murdered a negro woman with whom he had been cohabiting, and her four children. He beat their skulls in with an ax, and then took a large dose of morphine. A terrible accident occurred on the Cranberry Coal railway, near Oil City, Pa. A large train of freight cars was coming from the mines, and in descending the incline leading to tho depot the brakeman lost control of the train, which dashed along at a terrific rate and jumped the track, killing six men. Thirteen others, most of them miners, were injured, several of whom will die. The track was torn up and the debris scattered for about two miles. A melancholy accident resulting in the death of four persons oocurred at East South Park, Chicago. A party of people were picnicking in tho park, and five of them were in a boat in the canal connecting the artificial lake with Lake Michigan, when two of the ladies in attempting to change their seats capsized the boat, and four of the five were drowned. A loss of $60,000 was sustained by the burning of the Providence paper-mill at Elkton, Md. Four hundred and fifty-five blooded cattlo, at an average price of S3OO, were sold in Kentucky dining the season. CoL Cash, a South Carolina duelist, who killed CoL Shannon last year, is a candidate for Congress. William Walsh and J. J. Hely, of New Orleans, rivals for the hand of a woman, met before her residence, drew their pistols and began the bombardment. At the seventh shot Walsh fell dead with a ballet through his brain. Harrison Carter (colored) was hanged at Jacksonville, Fla. Waiter Hamilton Yeatis suffered the extreme penalty at Chatham, Ya.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1882.

Arthur Coleman was executed at West Point, Miss., and Merrick Jackson was strong up at Femandina, Fla. The county elections in Tennessee resulted generally in favor of the Democrats. Au overwhelming vote was cast against calling a constitutional convention. Limerick has been proclaimed under the Repression act Any one out after sunset is liable to arrest Discontentment pervades the ranks of the Irish constabulary. They demand increased pay and quicker promotion, and a strike is imminent Rains throughout Michigan resulted in much damage to crops, beside causing floods which have destroyed dams and bridges and overflowed low lands. Wheat in shock in the fields has been seriously injured. A court of inquiry has been ordered in the case of Col. Carr, Sixth cavalry, in reference to accusations growing ont of charges of insubordination preferred by Gen. Wilcox, commanding the Department of Arizona. The Hon. Artemus Hale died at Bridgewater, Mass., aged 98 years and 10 months. He was the oldest living ex-member of Congress, and had held that seniority for several years preceding his death.

FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

The Senate devoted the entire day’s session, on the 28th ult., in wrangling over the Naval Appropriation bill. An amendment by Mr. Beck was adopted, reducing to (400,000 the item for completing the Miantonomah and branching the other four monitors. The clause abolishing the grade of Commodore was struck out, as was also the provision for the condemnation and sale of unserviceable stores belonging to the several bnreans of the navy. The House passed the Senate bill making Kansas City and St Joseph ports of delivery, and a joint resolution providing for the expenditures of the Government te August X Mr. Townsend reported baok the bill regulating the carriage of explosive materials on steam passenger vessels. The Senate accomplished nothing in the way of legislation on the 29th ult The House was not in session. After passing the bill to prevent the counterfeiting of foreign securities, the Senate, on the 31st ult, took up tho Naval Appropriation bill. Several amendments were adopted looking to ttie abolition of useless navy-yards, the disposal ot worthless ships, and the making of tests and experiments. All laws were repealed providing for promotion and increase of pay on the retired list An attempt to strike out the Roooson contract job failed, and the bill then passed. The remainder of the day was devoted to a discussion of the sundry civil measure, In the House the Senate bill for tho retirement of U. S. Grant, late General and ex-President of the United States, came up. A motion to lay the bill on the table failed, and it was referred to the Military Committee. In the Senate an adverse report was received on the Ist inst. from the Finance Committee on tho bill authorizing the issue of 2 per cent bonds. Bevouty-six pages of the sundry civil measure were considered. The House passed a hill appropriating (678,624 for tho printiug and binding of the tenth census report A re-o’ution fixing a day for adjournment was promptly voted down. The veto of the River and HarLor bill was received with interest, and some portions of the message elicited laughter. A bill appropriating (100,000 for a public buildiug at Loavenwortb, Kansas, was passed by the Senate on the 2d inst The time in which tho Ute Commission shall complete its work was extended to Sept 15, 1883. The Sundry Civil measure, the last of the long list of appropriation bills, was passed. A message was received from tho House informing the Senate of the action of that body in passing the River and Harbor bill over the President’s veto. The pending business was suspended and the veto message read. A vote was immediately taken on tho question “ Shall the bill pass, the objections of the President to the contrary notwithstanding?” The result was yeas 41, nays 16. So the bill passed. The House, by a vote of yeas 122. nays 59,-v passed the River and Harbor Dili over the President’s veto. The House also passed a bill granting a pension of (£7 a month to soldiers who lost an arm at the shoulder. Commander Sigsbee and Jooeph R. Hawley were authorized to receive decorations from foreign potentates. The Senate passed a number of bills at its session on the 3d inst, among them the following : Authorizing Government buildings at St. Joseph, Mo.; in relation to land patents in the Virginia military district of Ohio ; to provide for deductions fi'om the gross tonnage of vessels of the United States ; extending to foreign steamships the provisions of the inspection laws now applicable to domestic vessels. The last two measures Mr. Frye declared “the first gnus fired in favor of a revival of American commerce.” A long debate ensued on the Tax-redaction bill “for the relief of banks, patent medicines and perfmnos,” but no result was reached. William Waldorf Astor was nominated by the President for Minister to Romo; Henry K. McCoy,United States Judge for the Northern district of Georgia; Olwer P. Shiras, United States Judge for the Northern district of lowa ; Wm. Lowbor, of Pennsylvania, United States Consul at Florence. The House adopted a resolution providing for a sine-die adjournment on Saturday, and passed a bill to establish diplomatic relations with Persia by the aid of a Consul General, who shall receive a salary of (5,000 a year. The bill to establish diplomatic relations with Persia was passed by the Senate Aug. 4. The remainder of the day’s session was devoted to a discussion of the tax-reduction measure. The House employed most of its time in going through the Sundry Civil bill as amended by the Senate, and refused to concur in all the important changes. The attempt to perpetuate the National Board of Health Dy aid of an appropriation was defeated after a bitter debate.

Oscar Wil de’s Story of Rosetti’s Wife

Rosetti’s wife—a beautiful woman, with a wonderful glory of red gold hair, had entered his life to mold and color it with her love and to shape all his work. One day, in the act of raising aVenetian glass filled with wine to her lips, she died. No one knew why. With her life passed away all his interest and his hopes, and the sonnets which he felt to be her work as much as his, he put into a leaden casket and had them buried with her in her cofiiin. Some years after his friends begged that he would restore to the world the poems, and, at last, they prevailed upon him to allow them to be taken from the grave. To do this, they applied to Mr. Bruce (a secretary and the authority, I suppose) who, Mr. Wilde humorously said, could understand a thing that was an export or an import, or that had a name on the stock exchange, but to whom the word poet conveyed nothing, and who was lost in amused astonishment that anyone could think that a poet’s works could confer honor upon England. However, in the end permission was given, the grave was opened, the coffin lid raised, and behold, the beautiful red hair had grown to great length, and wound about her grave-robe; the leaden casket had broken by weight of the earth upon it, and the wonderful hair had grown in and around the sonnets, and made a lace-like mesh on every page. The Chinese, it is said, have long been in the habit of printing “ sleeve editions ” of the classics to assist candidates at the competitive examination whose memories are not sufficiently retentive. Spain, with a school population of 2,606,266, has 28,117 elementary schools, instructing 1,410,466 pupils.

“A Firm Adherence ss* Correct Principles.”

THE FIELD OF POLITICS.

lOWA REPUBLICANS. The lowa Republican Convention convened at Des Moines on Wednesday, Aug. X William Larrabee, of Fayette county, presided, and J. L. Burdette, of Des Moines, acted as Secretary. James Hull, present incumbent, was nominated for Secretary of State by acclamation. For Anditor, J. L. Brown, of Lucas, received 513 5-6, and R. L. Chase, of Butler, 251 1-6. For Attorney General, Smith McPherson, of Montgomery, was unanimously chosen. For Judge of the Supreme Court, Judge Beevers was nominated by acclamation. For State Treasurer, E. H. Conger, present incumbent, was nominated by acclamation. Before the conclusion of the first formal ballot Pray’s nomination for Supremo Court Clerk was made unanimous. For Supreme Court Reporter E. C. Ebersole, of Tama, was nominated on the second ballot. The resolutions reaffirm the Republican platform of 1830; commend Congress for its action in the contested seats before it as “in vindication of an honest ballot and a fair count ;” characterize the administration of President Arthur as “ worthy all respect and commendation ;'* favor the creation of a department of industry; ask prompt measures to protect Western cattle from contagious diseases; favor an equitable revision of the tariff ; favor legislation to control inter-State commerce and pooling arrangements between parallel and competing railroad lines; advocate renewed efforts looking to practical and judicious improvement of internal water ways. INDIANA DEMOCRATS. The Democratic State Convention of Indiana met at Indianapolis Aug. 2, and was called to order by W. H. English, Chairman of the Central Committee. John R. Coffroth, of Lafayette, was made Chairman, and J. R. Simpson, of Orange county, Secretary. The following ticket was nominated: For Secretary of State, the Hon. W. R. Myers, of Madison county ; for Attorney General, Francis T. Hord, of Bartholomew county; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Simon P. Sherin, of Cass county; Superintendent of Public Instruction, John W. Holcomb, of Porter county; Judges of the Supreme Court, First judicial distriot, the Hon. W. E. Niblack, of Knox county; Second district, Judge G. W. Hawk, of Floyd county; Fourth district, Judge Allen Zoller, of Allen county. Ex-Gov. Hendricks, from the Committee on Resolutions, reported the following platform, which was adopted: The Democratic party of Indiana, in convention assembled, renews its pledge of fidelity to the doctrines and traditions of the party as illustrated by the teachings of Thomas Jefforson, its founder, and exemplified in the administration of the Government under Democratic rule, and we insist upon an honest and economical administration on the principle upon which it rests. Conceding to the Federal Government its just rights and full power as delegated in the Federal constitution, and claiming for the States and the people respectively tho power therein reserved to them, we arraign the Republican party at the bar of public opinion for its long-continued course of usurpation and misrule. It has disregarded the rights of tho people and the States. It has held on to its illgotten power in defiance of the popular will by the corrupt use of money in elections, and it has corrupted the public morals by elevating to high places men who are known to be dishonest. Wo condemn tho Republican party for enacting and enforcing laws designed to place the elections under Federal control, in violation of the rights of the States. We condemn it for the frauds and perjuries of 1876, by which the will of the people was set asido and a usurper placed in the Presidential office for four years. We condemn it for having kept up and maintained in time of peace an onerous and unjust system of taxation, by means of whiph large sums of money have accumulated in tho treasury which ought to have been left in the pockets of the people ; and wo condemn it for its wasteful extravagance in the expenditure of the public money. We condemn it for its shameless disregard of its pledges in favor of civil-service reform, and its corrupt use of the public patronage under the spoils system. We condemn it for the systematic levy of blackmail upon tho clerks and minor officeholders of the United States, in violation of law, to raise a fund for corruption of tho ballot-box, and wo call especially upon tho voters of Indiana to vindicate their honor and to erase the stain that was placed upon them by the Dorseyitcs in 1880. We demand that the present wastefulness and unnecessary expenditure of tho public money shall he stopped and that the surplus revenue shall be faithfully applied to the payment of tho national debt. Wo demand that Federal taxes bo roduccd to tho lowest point consistent with the wants of the Government under an honest aud economical administration of its affairs, and that such tolls bo so adjusted as to secure an equitable distribution of these burdens. We demand that there shall be such reforms in tho civil service as will again result hi the employment in the public service of those only who are honest and capable, and that no assessments or exactions of any kind shall be required of them for political purposes. We demand protection to our citizens, native and adopted, at home aud abroad, and we denounco aud condemn the present Republican administration for its neglect of duty toward those lately imprisoned as suspects in the jails of Ireland by the a rbitary action of the British authorities.

We demand a revision of the present unjust tariff. The constitution of the United States confers upon Congress the power to establish a tariff for revenue, and, as a just and proper oxerciso of that Dower, we favor such an adjustment of its provisions within the revenue standard as will promote the industries of tho country and the interests of labor without creating monopolies. The Democratic party is now, as it has always been, opposed to all sumptuary legislation, and it is especially opposod to the proposed amendment to the constitution of Indiana known as the Prohibitory amendment, and we are in favor of the submission of said proposed amendment, as well as all other proposed amendments, to the people, according to the provisions of the constitution for its own amendment, and the people have the right to oppose or favor the adoption of any or all the amendments at all stages of their consideration, and any submission of a constitutional amendment to a vote of the people should be at a time and under circumstances most favorable to a full vote, and therefore should be at a general election. That we fully indorse and approve the laws passed pursuant to the demands of former Democratic conventions, making provisions for the safety and protection of laborers and miners, and providing for the collection of wages, and are in favor of all other enactments to that end which may be necessary and proper. The free schools of Indiana are the pride and glory bf the State, and we will' see to it that they are not poisoned by the breath of sectarianism or destroyed by waste or extravagance in their management In the relations between capital and labor we favor such policies as will promote harmony between them, and will adequately protect the rights and interests of labor. We esteem (he Hon. D. W. Yoorhees as an able and faithful representative of our State in the Senate, and specially commond him for his active sympathy in behalf of the soldiers. ILLINOIS GBEENBACKERS. The Greenback State Convention of Illinois wag held at Peoria on the 2d insL Temporary organization was effected by selecting C. G. Dixon, of Chicago, as Chairman, and Norman H. Moss, of Jackson county, as Secretary. The Committee on Permanent Organization reported Hon. A. J. Streeter, of Mercer, for permanent Chairman; Norman BL Moss, of Jackson, for Secretary: W. F. Carroll, of Chicago, and W. F. Wallace, of Knox, for Assistant Secretaries; and 8. F. Norton, of Cook, H. M. Miller of Morgan, Dr. A. J. Graham of Stephenson. B. W. Dean of Bo Kalb, and C. G. Dixon of Cook, as members at large of the State Central Committee. The report was adopted. Upon taking the chair Mr. Streeter made a brief address, in which he denied most emphatically that the Greenback party was dead or even slumbering. They would yet show, not oniy that there is a Greenback party, bat a party of the industrial people, of temperance, of progress. He was followed by Gen. Weaver, who spoke briefly of the advancement the party was making, and predicted that in his State (Iowa) they would elect at least six Congressmen this falL The following persons were then named for State Treasurer : Daniel McLaughlin, Mayor of Braidwood, and Hon. A. J. Streeter. Mr. Streeter declined the honor, and Mr. Mo Laughlin was nominated by acclamation. For Superintendent of Public Instruction Frank H. Hall, of Kane oonnty, and Miss Frances E. Willard, of Chicago, were named. A delegate stated that he had received a telegram from Miss Willard stating that she would not serve, whereupon her name was withdrawn, and Mr. Bali was nominated by aoolamation.

The Committee on Resolutions reported in favor of the platform adopted at the Chicago Convention held Jane 9. 1880, to which were added clauses in favor of submitting the prohibition and woman-suffrage questions to a vote of the people, against supporting or voting for any candidate who will not pledge himself in advance not to accept railroad passes or the equivalent therefor, and that no title to public or railroad lands shall rest in any alien until he shall havo declared an intention to become a citizen. The report was adopted, after a lengthy and heated discussion. A resolution offered by A. J. Grover, of Chicago, denouncing in strong terms England’s echemo to subjugate Egypt, and expressing hearty sympathy for Arabi Bey, yras unanimously adopted, and the convention then adjourned. The following State Committee was chosen : First district, L. L. Page, of Chicago ; Socond, James Donnelly, of Chicago; Third, R. "S. Heath, of Chicago ; Fourth, C. G. Whipple, of Chicago ; Fifth, E. F. Reed, of Elgin ; Sixth, Andrew Ashton, of Ro -kford; Seventh, M. B. Lloyd, of Orion; E ghth, F. Plumb, of Streator; Ninth, R. T. Wiley, of Gibson City; Tenth, A. H. McKeighlan, of Yates City ; Eleventh. J. P. Dunsworth, of Rock Island ; Twelfth, F. M. Grimes, of Milton - Thirteenth, T. S. Knowles, of Petersburg; Fourteenth, James Freeman, of Bloomington : Fifteenth, C. R. Fentou, of Danville ; Sixteenth, H. B. Lutes, of Robinson ; Seventeenth, J. 11. White, of Shelbvville ; Nineteenth, John R. of Mount Vernou ; Twentieth, R. J. Staples, of Murphysboro. SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS. The Democrats of South Carolina held a State Convention at Columbia and nominated Hugh S. Thompson for Governor, J. P. Richardson for Treasurer, Ellison Capers for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and A. M. M nigault for Adjutant and Inspector Gonoral. The resolutions adopted treat at length of the poliev pursued by tho Republican party in the South, and charge it with the responsibility for various outrages on justice and decency. CIVIL SERVICE REFORMERS. The National Civil Service Reform Association mot at Newport, R. I. George William Curtis delivered an address severely criticising the President. Resolutions embodying the views of those present were adopted. Thoy condemn the political assessment now in progms under tho auspices of the Republican Congressional Committee, and instruct tho President of the League to bring the legality of tho Hubbell circular to a judicial test. Measures were taken for the prosecution of active work among tho people. Carl Schurz, Dorman B. Eaton, John Jay, Josiah Quiucy and other Civil Service Reformers participated in the proceedings. WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS OF OHIO. The State Convention of the Woman Suffragists of Ohio was held at Columbus, Gideon T. Stewart, of Norwalk, prosiding. The constitution and by-laws of 1861 were adoptod, and a series of resolutions setting forth that suffrage follows taxation, and an invitation to co-opera-tion by all, irrespective of party. It was decided to organize the Stato by counties and townships, the same as tho other parties. A letter was read from Lucy Stoue, of Boston, giving tho progress of tho work in different States. GEORGIA REPUBLICANS. Two State Conventions of Georgia Republicans were held at Atlanta. Both indorsed L. J. Gartrell for Governor. The Blaine faction nominated R. D. Locke for Congressman-at-Large; George S. Thomas for Attorney General; R. R. Wight for Secretary of Stato; Wm. A. Pledger for Controller, and Gen. F. F. Pitney for Treasurer. The opposing element, or Arthur faction, placed the following ticket in tho field : Congressman-at-Large, Gen. Jas. Longstreet; Secretary of State, William J. White; Attorney General, John D. Cunningham ; Controller, Floyd Snellson ; Treasurer, W. F. Bowen. Two of the candidates on each ticket are colored politicians of prominence in Georgia. OHIO PROHIBITIONISTS. A State Convention of the frionds of prohibition convened at Columbus, Ohio. The attendance was unusually large. The following ticket was nominated : Secretary of State, Fordinand Schumacher, of Akron ; Supreme Judge, John Rosen borrough, of Fulton county; member of Board of Public Works, Car mi Alderman, of Lawrence county. The following resolutions were adopted: That the manufacture and sale of liquor is a crime ; demanding total prohibition and denouncing as wrong any license or taxation; that the policy of taxation is a perverrion of the principles of our Government; repeating and reaffirming the principles of the party; prohibition of gambling in every form ; probil idou of all speculation; prohibition of class legislation and prison contract labor; prohibition of star-route swindles; demanding a reduction of salaries; asking frequent investiga'ion of Government affairs ; opposing adopting candidates ‘from other parlicH ; favoring woman suffrage; approving the Woman’s State Temperanco Union; congratulating the people of lowa on the adoption of the prohibition amendment ; approving tho Smith law as a stop in the right direction, and promising to assist its enforcement.

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

Gladstone announced in the British Commons on the 29th nit. that the Turkish Ambassador had sent a communication to the Government that the Sultan had decided to immediately send troops to Egypt. Arabi Pasha will provide for the safety of the Suez Canal so long as England will respect its noutraltty. The cotton and wheat crops of Egypt are in a woful state from neglected irrigation. The Sultan informed the Secretary of the British Legation that Euglaud’s action with regard to Egyptian affairs irritated him ; that he would do nothing for that country, but would be observant of the wishes of the powers. De Leeseps, on learning that the British troopship Orion intended to land men at Ismallia, started Rt onco for that point, declaring that the English should only debark after passing over his dead body and that of his son. The French Admiral tolegraphod to Paris grave complaints about Do Lesseps’ behavior. He is said to be in daily communication with Arabi Pasha. The British forcos in Egypt have destroyed the fort at Gabari and blown up the large powder magazine at Mekhuron. Dispatcher of Ang. 1 state that the nnmbet of Christians murdered Dy the adherents of Arabi is placed at 550. The attitude of the European powers is now believed to be hostile to English aggression in Egypt, Russia being particularly dissatisfied with tho course taken by the Gladstone Ministry. The Governor of Assioot, the largest city in Upper Egypt, with 2,000 men at hu back, has declared for the Khedive. The Coldstream Guards have embarked at Dublin en route to Alexandria. A.-tivo measures are being taken at Constantinople to accelerate the departure of Turkish troops for the seat "f war. A company of the Sixtieth Rifles occupying an ontpost of the British, outside Alexandria were charged upon on the morning of the 2ci :ust. by infantry and calvary of Arabi, and fled in great disorder, throwing away their rifles and ammunition, which the enemy secured. Nineteen Cairenes who refused to recognize Arabi’s authority have been shot An official statement is published at SL Petersburg that Russia nover indorsed the Anglo-French naval demonstration, but her purpose is to induce Great Britain to “combine her action with that of the Porte,” based on the decisions of the conference. Lord Dufferin explained to the conference that England's sole object was to restore peac9 and the authority of the Khedive in Egypt, and to secure free navigation of the Suez canab and that she would accept the co-operation of any power to effect these results. A reconnoissance was made by the thirty* eighth and sixtieth regiments of British troops on the 3d inst, afid the enemy’s position in front of Alexandria discovered to bo almost totally abandoned. Suez was occupied by marines, and at their approach the Egyptian troops fled. The archives of the American consulate, which it was feared had been destroyed, were found at Cairo. A further massacre of Christians was feared. Seventeen Pashas unfriendly to the Tebel leader were imprisoned at Cairo. De Lesseps dononnees the occupation of the canal by British vessels as an act of war and a flagrant violation of neutrality obligations. A collision between England and Turkey is predicted as the outcome of the present troubles. Bismarck has officially expressed regret at the retirement of De Frevcinet from the French Ministry, and intimated a willingness to support his Egyptian policy. Make the last car an hour later and there are meq who would miss it.

A PLAIN TALK TO WORKINGMEN.

[From the lowa State Leader.] The farmers and the laborers have the votes which change elections. They are also the men upon whom falls the heavy burden of taxation, for it is conceded that wealth has a faculty for eluding the assessor. It follows then that when the real workingmen—the men whose sweat kneads the dough for their daily bread—once learn how unjustly the tariff' presses upon them there will be a revolution. The following clear and powerful statement of their case is from the pen of Mr. E. M. Turner, of West Virginia, in reply to some musing sophistries of the Wheeling Intelligencer. It is the most complete answer and thorough annihilation we have yet seen : Mr. Editor : In reply to your criticism upon me in the Intelligencer of the 26th of June, and your inquiries as to the position I assume upon the tariff in reference to the farmer and other unprotected classes in this country, I bog leave to say: My position upon the tariff question is based upon the following propositions, which I hold to be essential truths in all popular government, and necessary to the maintenance of free institutions, namely : That all government is instituted for the purpose of securing to the people who live under it the equal enjoyment of life, liberty and property ; that all taxation should be equal &Dd uniform, so far as the nature of human government can make it so ; that every man has a natural right to the fruit of his own labor, which fruits no government can rightly takeaway from him without reward, except for the maintenance of government itself ; that every law which takes more than this is tyrannical and wrong. A protective tariff is an enactment which, in our case, compels the larger number of our population to surrender a large part of the profits of their labor to a smaller number without compensation ; which restricts the right of the producer of wheat and corn, or the labor for hire, to exchange his product or his wages for the greatest quantity and best quality of things which he needs, because it forbids his trading, except under heavy penalties, where these things may be had most cheaply. The object of a protective tariff is to raise the price of manufactured articles of various kinds, upon the ground that tley cannot be produced here as cheaply as abroad on account of high wages, and the employer must theiefore be allowed to add to his price the additional cost of labor. The consumer of Alio article pays the increased prico and is the loser of the difference between that and the natural price, or the price without the tariff. For example, if he is compelled by the tariff to pay $1.40 for an article which without the tariff be could buy for sl, he loses 40 cents. But you assert that this is made up (to tho farmer at least) by the increased price he gets for what he has to sell, either productions or labor. But if he makes it back again he must make it back from those whose industry is protected ; for it is their demand for the farmers products which you say has increased the price of them. But this destroys the object of protection, for if the protected workman has to pay out his increase of wages for increased puce of farm products, how is he protected? He simply pays out of one pocket what he puts into the other. And so with the farmer. He pays out for what he buys all the increased price he gets for what he sells. I fail to see how anybody is profited by such an operation. Protection therefore cannot protect the workman unless it takes from some one else a part of that other’s earnings and give it to the workman. The other person is injured to the extent to which this is done, and no one can make it up to him. The largest unprotected class in this country consists of farmers and farm laborers. They are also the largest consumers and therefore most injured by a protective tariff. If we did not produce more agricultural products than our people could consume, the case would not be so hard upon them. But producing a large surplus, as we do, of agricultural products, they must find a market in Europe and other countries. As a matter of fact, our foreign market is mainly England, a free-trade country, and the price of our surplus is fixed by England, and the price of the surplus determines the price of the whole crop. So that, as matter of fact, our farm laborers and farmers sell their labor and their products in a free-trade market which you say is a cheap, pauper-labor market, while your protsetive tariff compels them to buy at home in a market which you acknowledge to be a dear market. What are tho facts? The average price of wheat in New York from 1846 to 1861, a period, as you know, of low tariff in this country, was $1.66 ; from 1861 to 1880, a period of tho highest tariff this country has evor had, the average price was $1.51. The average prico of corn was, from 1846 to 1861, seventy-three cents ; from 1861 to 1880 it was sixty-six cents (see report of Director of the Mint for 1880, page fifty). What has become of your increased price under the high tariff ? The numbor of the country’s working force in 1880, supposing a pro-rata increase from 1870, was fifteen millions, and divided as follows : Employment. No. Per cent. Agricultural 7,050,003 47 Professions and personal services.3,3oo,ooo 22 Trade and transportation 1,385,000 9 Manufacturing, mechanical and mining 3,300,000 22 This moans, protected workers, 3,300,000, including mechanics, many of whom are not protected, and miners also; unprotec'.ed, 11,700,000. Why should 11,000,000 of workers be taxed at the average rate of 40 per cent on nearly everything they consume and wear in order to give high wagos to 3,000,000? What was the amount of that taxation in 1880? Let us see. The consumption of manufactured articles was not less than $1.50 per head, including their families,-making $1,650,000,000. The extra cost was $470,000,000 ; deduct SIOO,000,000 for tariff on foreign goods imported and we have $370,000,000 as the price which the unprotected classes paid to the 3,000,000 protected workers—more than SIOO to each man. This estimate is a very moderate one (but I prefer to be entirely within the truth). And yet the farmer has no cause of complaint aocording to yonr doctrine ! And yet with all this bonus your protected workmen find employment in onr protected industries, notably the iron industries, only about nine months in the year, and have to strike every year or two to live! Where does all this bonus go, then, if not to the proteoted worker? Let the census report on the iron and steel industry made by yonr pet statistician. Mr. James M. Swank, President of the American Iron and Steel Association, answer. Yonr iron industries made a profit in 1880 of 20 per cent, on a capital of $230,000,000. The Pennsylvania Steel Company (a part of the Bessemor steel ring) divided profits in the last three years of 213 per cent, on a capital of $2,200,000 ; the extra tariff rates on spool thread amounted to $6,000,000, divided among three firms in Ibis country ; census bulletin 289 shows tho profits of manufactures from wool to have been 35 per cent on a capital of $150,000,000; this is where that $370,000,000 exacted from the unprotected people of this country went. And yet you ask me in derision if these are the people whose interest I am assuming to defend in calling attention to this question of tariff ! I answer most emphatically, they are, and they are beginning to get their attention directod to tho injustice of this so-called protective tariff which is transferring a large part of the earnings of this country into the coffers of a few capitalists under the pretense of protecting the American workingman. If yon will allow me the use of yonr columns I shall be glad to give you further reasons for the faith that is in me. Yours respectfully, E. M. Turner.

Astounding Figures.

Extravagance has ran mad at Washington. Mr. Beck declared in the Senate that the books of the Appropriation Committee showed, “ even if the' Senate should adjourn to-day, and not increase any of the bills we have yet to act upon,” an aggregate of $419,202,939.22, as having been voted since Congress met in December, or at the rate of $60,000,000 a month. Nor will these huge appropriations foot the bills by any means. In three or four remaining weeks of the session, $5,000,000 or $10,000,000 will be added to this enormous total. It is safe to assume, in any event, that the excess of ordinary appropriations for the current

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year over that which has just expired ■will be between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000. ' ' Mr. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, puts the difference at a still higher figure than - Mr. Beok, and he explains it in part by saying, “ increase in general deficiency made necessary by the inadequate appropriations of the preceding Demo- • cratic Congress, $7,265,054.96. ” But how do such deficiencies arise ? The Senator from Rhode Island knows that existing laws forbid contracts being made beyond the appropriations, and; forbid the appropriations from being diverted from one objeqt to another. The heads of departments defy the statutes. They pay no more heed to these restrictions than if they were • obsolete. They expend the money voted, and go on to expend more without the least color of authority. They are liable to impeachment, but a Republican Congress would never think of impeaching Republican officials who help to run the party machine, and who extort from subordinates the payment of Hubbell’s political blackmail. Twenty-nine millions of deficiencies have been voted at this session, and some of them for stale and suspicions claims that have been before Congress or a generation. The Republicans came into this Congress with the avowed intention of making up for a long absence from the public crib, during six years of Democratic ascendency in the Homo of Representatives. They have lived, up to this promise. Nothing since the, day% of Grantism compares with their prodigality at the present session. —New York Sun. '

About Gerrymandering.

An Illinois Postmaster, who is also an editor —atad who is, moreover, one of those specimen editors always -to. be found on the free and oasy route called an annual excursion of the Illinois press—calls attention again to the South Carolina Congressional apportionment, and holds up to scorn an editor /rs the same locality (who, of course, being a Democrat, could not be a Postmaster), for his denunciation of the Republicans of lowa, Michigan and Minnesota for districting those States so that no Democrat could be elected from them tb Cbnrgress. Those Illinois editors need not go to South Carolina, or to lowa, Michigan, or Minnesota, for a specimen of the downright political villainy called a Congressional apportionment. There are rival newspaper shops in Springfield, and the reoords of the State House are accessible to them. These records show that a Republican Legislature, speeially convened by a Republican Governor to make a Republican apportionment of the State of Illinois, did, by the dictation of a majority in Republican caucus (some Republicans still protesting, and yet finally consenting to the outrage), confer upon a stagnant Republican population of 129,000, which had increased but 9,000 in ten years, the franchise of a Congressional district; and upon another portion of the inhabitants of thp State, numbered in 1880 as being 185,614, and whose locality had in ten years, gained 85,933, the franchise of a Congressional district. The apportionment of Illinois, made a few months ago, was intended to confer upon 51 per cent’, of the voters of the State the election of fourteen Congressmen, and upbh 49 per cent, of the voters of the State the choice of six Congressmen. Nagreater outrage has been designed in any State or perpetrated in any. When the- Springfield Postmaster and the other editor -at Springfield who is not a Postmaster have heard the returns in November, they may not need to look outside of Illinois for a scheme that has miscarried.—Chicago Times. No Silks for Workingmen’s Wives. . So the object of protection is to compel “the working classes” of the tJnited States to wear serge and hodden-gray instead of cloth and silk. Certainly this is the effect of protection. Rift it is rather startling to find the Tribune avowing this as the object of protection in such a paragraph as the following : “ Considering that it is only the well-to-do who can afford to buy silks, it will not be considered oppressive by the working classes that the Government derived a revenue of about $21,000,000 from the import-silk trade of the year. This taxation did not fall upon them. ’* Pray, why should not the wives and daughters of the “ working classes” buy and “wear silks?” In order to secure monstrous profits to thirty silk manufactuiers the Republican framers of the tariff have so closed the markets of the United States against the enterprise of mankind that “it is only the well-to-do who can afford to buy silks.” Were the protective duties levied to .secure these monstrous profits removed “tho working classes of this country” could “afford to buy silks” in this year of our lord 1882 as they used to do before this “taxation” was imposed. The “taxation” of which the Tribune prates so glibly falls directly upon them in the form of a practical discrimination against them in dress. —New York Werld. •*

Glamis Castle’s Mystery.

Many have heard of the mystery of Glamis Castle. The story goes that there is a secret chamber there, and that in some way the chamber is associated with the mystery. It is known only to the owner, to the fader and to the heir apparent. Guests at the castld have vainly tried to solve it. One day* when the owner went out shooting, they all agreed to hang towels out Of the windows of every room, in order to arrive at the whereabouts of the mysterious room, through no towol appearing at the window. The experiment, however, was not successful, and it seems to have been agreed that the chamber had no window, and that it was approached by a trap-door opening into the room bpneath, which itself was reached by a secret staircase. It is now believed that the mystery has been in part solved, and. that the room contained some person who died a week or two ago at a very advanced age. But, if this be so, who was this prisoner ? Why was he incarcerated ? If he really was shut up for long years, surely the family might now reveal the cause; and if not the authorities mighrinaist upon knowing. It may be that this modern “man with a mask ” preferred to remain isolated; but on the face of it some explanation i* requisite, for, when an individual is hidden away in this mysterious fashion until he is taken out a corpse to be buried, the presumption is that he Was not a free agent. —London Truth. Miss Alice, who has just finished saying her prayers with her little brother—“Mamma, Ally wasn’t thinking *abor*t God at all. He was thinking about his sled.” Master Alfred, indignantly—- “ How do you know, miss? you can't see down my stomach.” *

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INDIANA ITEMS.

Fob the first time in the history of Seymour, corn is 10 cents higher per bushel than wheat. A man in Greensbuvg imagines that he has beßh called upon by God to whittle flesh off the- bones of a living child. Thb blackberry crop of Jennings is immense. The finest of berries are a drug on the rtiarket at 3 oents per quark Gov. Portbb has been invited to address the National - Locomotive Firemen’s Convention • 'at Terre Haute, Sepc. 11. *• A young man, son of Finley Cartor, while unloading hay at Milroy, caught his hand in a pullr on the hay-fork and the hand was crushed. , Thkbk is a steadily increasing demand for real estate in New Albany. It is next thing to impossible for ono to find a house for rent in the city. Mk& Nbllie Colkman took the morphine route 1 to eternity, at Fort Wayne, becauso the man to whom she was engaged to be married was very attentive to another woman, Jvhn MoLAfiatuJN, of New, Albany, who was aliyo at last accounts, has suffered fernt years with cancer of the face, and during the past thirty-seven days has eaten scarcely anything. A good -deal of packman wheat will be sown in Floyd county the coming fall. This.wheat is propounoqd far superior in quality 'by the millers,' as it flours better tbah Other kind and produces well. *«»•'. *.« '■ Mbs. Henry Williams, of Bedford, swallowed five grains q! morphine in mio dose witji suicidal intont. The timely arrival*ll physician AaVed" her life. The- cAmte or the* attorn p t was despond-» enoy. • * * > Map. Jlakhv HUvmond, whose parent* live in an interior Indiana town, and Who has beeta married only four months, was deserted at a Chicago liotel* by her husband> who Carried, away her clothing and j«wplry.

As soif * ( parties wore prying out stumps with a teqm of horses in tli,o. vicinity of Milroy, the lever, flying out, struck Ehdoh Spurgeon, breaking his log and dislocating fin*hip and ankle and severely injuring him. , . LiOHTi*iN« 4iot-rtro to a. big« barn belonging to A. It. -Starbeck, a .prpmjnent farmer residing near Wabash. Many valuable* impimnofits, twenty tons of hay, and ‘.several bushels of corn and wheat were destroyed.' k .». , ; t Jlabt-Ab V strong,-of Lawrence coun *- tv, harvested 1,012 bufehels of wheat off thirty six acros» of ground, being an average of over twenty-eight bushels to thC'acife! He allowed stock tb run over the field Until th/f 10th Vrf April; - Thomas N.- SraVffNs; ,architect and builder, of Bedford/ While examining a building be w«w» remodeling! was crushed in a most fearful manner by a heavy stair Way fallfng ‘on him. One of his 1 broken ribs-penetrated-his lungs. Mrs. Summkbb, ft resident of Fulton obunty, was--visiting friends m Gass county same days .ago, when.- she at-i teipppfd,filicide by taking morphine. ‘She was iu a critical condition, but may refcoVfcr. She is nr widow, aged 60. BVdkY On VNjt, a young woman of malodorous reputation, was - found dead near Wabash, Ind., near the grounds where Forepaugh’s circus exhibited the day befofo. Morphine, * whisky and Abuse by tlife oanvasmen caused her-death. A living hi Enir- township, near Preu, h id a most horrible ride the other day. His horses,’ attached to a hay-r%ke, beQsate unmanageable and ran away. He became entangled in the rfeins and was dragged fully half a mile. AnNte Horuff, bf Madison, was contending with- a little boy for the- possession of a buttonhook, and he. finally threw it At liqt, catching the hook in her eyelid. TlieMsliild pulled it down, instead* of up, and aevowly lacerated the flesh. * . . »

Tqp. Eogansportr National Bank has brought suit to Recover SIO,OOO from a gambler name?! John Condon, who is alleged to have induced Cashier Goodwin to wager and lose that amount at faro. An action for a like amount was instituted against Goodwin’s bondsmen. New Albany's air-lino, railroad, for which she paid a mint of good money, will bjing her coal from the Pike county mifies at a total oost of 9 cents per bushel, allowing nothing for haddfing; when good Pittsburgh coal can be had by the" barge-load for 8 cents. There is vigorous kicking. *■ ' While dlemeht Heeter, son of George Heetur, a prominent fi r nor living near NortlV Manchester, Wabash county, was at work oh a straw-stack, he slipped and fell, alightiDg upon his back. Both of his lower lhnbs are how completely paralyzed, and dhe physician thinks lie will * die.,. „ i Tpq county pfpeers throughout Indiana ere this year answering the quest tibdrfbifoftonnded't© them by the State BtMMfi of Equalization • with* more promptness than, during any prpvipup , ! *ear, and the chief of the bureau thinks hiWepdrt tii*# year will be mu'ch fuller ‘ than ever before. • •*. ' J It is alleged that.a half-witted youth, ?eho was recently adopted by a farmer tn Caxrdlft county, wan*- cruelly tortured by his foster-father in order Jo cqmpol a 1 Confession of tliefC .’fbpsuiu of $lO had been stofert from tnfe house, and the boy * was hanged By the farmer and a neigh* 1 bor until ho fonfesapd bis guilt. The , bqy’s injuries ! afo saul to be serious. • Al BußTqy, Muncie, aas unload- ( ing a carboy of caybolic acid when It brokfc? flrdberring his leg from ‘the knee* down. His trousers were .burned from . his Ipg in jin instant, and the. acid run-, ning into his boot burned him,terribly. Fortunately' tliero Wok soihe solla at" hand, an# the application of it relieved him at once, butjiot till l»e was seriously , Plainfield Progress : tt ferny not bd : unltatferesfibg to our readers to know that blue grass, aulquous in Kentucky, -was .first raised in Indiana at a little‘lndian villsge called Jrfinmi Village, on White river, in Hitmilton county, lu tlio ypar 17,81 John and William Connor were Stolen by thenndians. from Pittsburgh, Pa.', .and’brought 4o tliis village. . John here became the chief tnan among the Ipc^ians,antfthrough Ifim we learn that blue grass Was a native of wbat is ' mow‘Hamilton. 'ln, 1810,.as Gen,: Harrison’a army Was returning south, they, took quantities of it to' Vincennes and - Tleniucky, and from t there it spread. •Judgß Piheh.'of IndiahapoWs, has often |bebn heard jto jcorsqburate ibis statesmen!. that blue grass wgf,first raised in what ’was then known dk the Northwestern Territory, Mo# Indiana, »