Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Ea»L Small-pox has broken out in an epidemfc form at Paterson, N. J. Rowell, the pedestrian, landed at New York from England last week. The British team of riflemen, headed by Sir Henry Halford, reached New York the other day and were warmly greeted by the members of the American Rifle Association. A safe in the store of L. L. Crawford, at Greensboro, Pa, was robbed of 810,000 by burglars Fifty-eight lodges of the Amalgamated Association were represented at the District Conference at Pittsburgh, and the 116 delegates voted unanimously against any compromise in the scale, and in favor of continuing the strike until their demands were granted. Dr. A. O. Dickey, of Worcester, Mass., and Dr. John Marshall, of Lynn, N. H., were driving on the banks of Fairlee lake, in Vermont, and were thrown into the water by a runaway, where they lost their lives. West. The Hannibal and St. Joe road has been purchased by the Jay Gould syndicate, and will hereafter be under the control of the Wabash management The State of Missouri is now completely covered by the Wabash and its branches. At Mexico, Mo., George Green, who had been divorced from his wife, but was permitted to see his children occasionally, had the boy and girl, aged 4 and 2 years, respectively, brought to his place of residence, where he shot them dead, and, en being pursued, tired a bullet into his own brain. Billy Lynn, of Silver Cliff, Col., and Joe Silvers, of Albany, fought a prize-fight in the former city. Silvers was knocked senseless in the fourth round. Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, was arrested in Chicago the other day. He was charged with disorderly conduct, having been arrested while creating a disturbance in a concert-saloon. Two huge pistols and a belt of cartridges were taken from him, but these things he claimed he had a right to wear by virtue of his authority as a United States detective.

American residents have induced the authorities of Monterey to quarantine against Matamoras. The Pensacola denies that any case of fever has developed in that citflKfrVe the press dispatches report several deaths from black vomit The Flatheads have agreed with a Government commission to give the right of way through their reservation in Western Montana to the Northern Pacific road for 816,000. Miss Frengel, residing in North St. Louis, Mo., has taken no solid food for three months, and her stomach will retain no liquids. She moves about all day, discharging light household duties. The Knight Templar drill at Indianapolis, between St. Bernard Commandery, of Chicago, and Raper Commandery, of the former city, was witnessed by 10,000 persons. The prize banner was awarded to the Chicagoans. The steamer Peninah was recently confiscated at Bismarck by the Government for selling liquor on a military reservation. The other night a. crew overpowered the watchman, and got up steam and left the city. Two car-loads of sick Chinese railway laborers from Texas arrived at Bakersfield, Cal. Several being in a dying condition, rumors of yellow fever were started, and it was found to be impossible to obtain a Coroner’s jury for a dead Celestial. At Minneapolis, Minn., Judge Newcomb, a prominent citizen of St Louis, was induced to visit a bunko shop and pipy away 83,000. The victim subsequently captured one of the swindlers and held him until the police arrived. He proved to be the notorious Doc Baggs, and had considerable money on his person. The wheat yield of Kansas for 1882 is 35,000,000 and the corn crop is estimated at 150,000,000 to 190,000,000 bushels. While the military authorities continue to assert that the Northern Cheyennes are engaged in a peaceful hunting excursion, the cattle men of Western Kansas are being armed by the Adjutant General to protect their herds. The Mormon priesthood have been instructing their followers to disobey the law rulings of the Utah Commission. Bishops have also been appointed to oversee the registration of voters. South, Gov. Roberts, of Texas, has issued an appeal to his people for aid for the feverstricken city of Brownsville. Two sons of the late Gen. James S. Rains, of Dallas, Texas, quarreled over a division of the estate, when Samuel shot Hannigan dead and surrendered to the officers. A negro named Wade was hanged by a mob at Union City, Tenn., for assaulting a white woman. Western Texas has again been flooded by rains. At Eagle Pass the greater part of the business quarter was submerged. The recent heavy rains in Texas have caused widespread destruction, the Concho and Rio Grande rivers overflowing their banks and submerging miles of country.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The steamship Alaska arrived at New York the other day In seven days, two hours and six minutes from Queenstown. According to the Clearing House returns, the business of Chicago for the week ending Sept 5 was equal to that of StLouis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Louisville and Milwaukee combined. Gould has abolished the office of general manager of his Southwestern roads. H. M.Hoxie will have charge of the traffic, and land departments, and A A Talmage will be general transportation manager. In the estimates of the harvests of the world for 1882, just issued by M Etienne, an eminent French crop statistician, it appears that the yield of grain for the Northern hemisphere generally has been the most abundant ever known since these reports were first collected. All over the world there has been better than an average harvest, with no deficiency reported either in Europe or America, and cheapness and abundance of food will be the fortunate lot of the poor for the next year.

POLITICAL POINTS. Fulkerson, who failed to get the Readjuster Congressional nomination in the Ninth Virginia district, has declared war aga list Senator Mahone, and will run as an Independent

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It Is well uftiersfood in NWshlngtan that Secretary will be elected to- his oldseatMA hewfil accept it Arkansas woted for* State officers, Congressmen and meMbeft of the State Legislature, on Monday, Sept 4. An Associated Press telegram from Little Rock says “ the election passed off quietly in portions of the State heard from. An unusually-large vote was polled. The Democratic State ticket is evidently elected by about the usual majority. Indications point to a slight increase in the Republican and Greenback membership of the Legislature. Prohibition figured prominently in a number of counties ori.Jhe legislative and juf ci al-tickets. Six mSfeibsrs |f.the Bgjwiblicitn State Ce»tral Committee of Miiibsuri fceve issued a call for a State Convention at Jefferson City, Sept. 20. An election for State officers and members of Congress was held in Vermont on the sth of September. The Republicans elect all their candidates for State offices by majorities ranging from 13,000 to 15,000, and secure all three of the Congressmen. J udge Luke P. Poland was elected in the Second district. The Democrats and Independents gained some seats in the Legislature. Tlib region of the was shaken by a Revere earthquake, 4amagingmany ImildiX J • . The Philadelphia Medical News, in publishing the report of the microscopic examiners of Guiteau’s brain, says editorially that the criminal was in his proper mind and suffered a just penalty. It is reported by the United States Commissioners appointed to examine the Northern Pacific Jlajlroad that the portion,of the road now in cougsa of construction will be ready for the’Won by the end of the present season, and that within .twelve months from date t*e entire road wil 1 be completed and in ruining order from Ste Paul.tjo Paget Solin,L lOln IDt

WASHINGTON NOTES. A Washington dispatch says “there is good authority to state that the White llfiuse will have a mistress next winter. President Arthur is undoubtedly engaged, and the in<4rriagefwill -take place early in the fall Die name of the lady is for .the present, a state secret The engagement was made last spring, and the lady has this summer at • different watering places been the recipient of the choicest'tiowers from the White House conservatory. ■ - Public Printer Rounds intends to have the report of the Commissioners of Agriculture out on time this year. Commissioner Loring,i of the Agricultural Department, left the capital last week td fulfill engagements, te speak at State fairs at Dps Moines, Omaha, Topeka and Chicago. \ ' The report of the microscopical experts, Drs Arnold, Shakespeare and McCon- . nel I, containing the result of their invest!-' gations into the condition of Guiteau’s brain, was received-at Washington by last week, and received his indblsefcsjm" Dr. Lamb states that the position taken by Dr. Godding that Guiteau was insane wpuld { be materially supported' by this report.The investigation had' l beeir untiter peculiarly favorable cirquijistances,. and the result would form a complete ■ record of immensevalue- to brain students. The investigation, indeed, said Dr. Lamb, had been so complete and thor- | ough that the specialists would have great difficulty in finding cases which migfit prop‘eriy serve as. n basis Of bompai'ison. In con- ! elusion, he said he did.not believe the report would cause a change of-'opinions aS’ to I Guiteau’s sanity to any great extent, but that I the medical fraternity generally must draw ' their own conclusions, and this was the court I of. last resort. - . • | There was an exciting episode in the i star-route trials -at' Washington; just upon the conclusion of arguments by counsel. “ Judge Wylite said'it' had come to his-ears that members of the jury !-had been approached in a most disgraceful way in attempts to influence their action. He had first heard of it about a week ago, when he had received tHe- most atyt positive information of this character. He had then advised the jurymen to say nothing about, it, as he did not wish to Stop the progress of the ease. within i,h£.past, twenty-four hours, howevei, these wolves that surrounded the jury had becoifie fiercer and bolder, and, upon hearing of one attempt- more brazen and. villainous than others, lie had. felt such indignation that he had nearly advised the juror to shoot-down such a man on the spot.’ ’ He h'acl thought that but had not advised it. -He now abjured the jurymen to spurn such pjen with the toe of their foot, to turn from them with scorn. He wished to warn these men that they were not to commit such outrages without punishment;—' after, this ..trial perhaps an'investigatton would faJltiW? Gen, Henklelmme'diatjlly ssgqsnd safcl inuch feeling that in th® interest of -hte clients he shoiild dffnanif ah* cpjirt •said perhaps he would have it • All -the Other ebunsef fqr tire .Similar nptjqp. Foreman Dickson arose; and said that when the cases were he Ahould.lp.Jr q.ll the information in’ his. possession touching the subject before the court "

FORHQOEWA ■ t The entire bolicA force of Dublin left the forcte in a'-hdpvjtwsrrty-fiye officers remainihg. Those ijr dismissed held a mpg I'iienTope urged them tdoOTjjmit to the authorjtfesi There, was greatbxcitement |nd streets were patrolled by the Several collisions occurred, but nobody was killed. Several robberies Were committed, and fourteen persons wounded in street fights are in the hospital Five hundred special constables were BWQrn in, one of whom narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of a mob. The charged',on the crowds in the streets! After hours the old force sent a the Castle, confessing regret at their course, and offeririg' to return to theft post# _ The Superintendent of Poltee advited the dismissed men to send in » memorial asking t 6 be reinstated, and acknowledging that they had committed a breach of discipline; Two Parisian editors, and Demasses, fought a duel with %wbrds, the latter being killed. . ; . Three hundred peopleepe .dying of cholera daily at the commercial emporium of the South* seas for several centuries. The fitoy hag a population of from 150,000 to 200,000. *ln the last fourteen days 4,55 Q people liaye died in the Pro>. ince of O 101 l o' alone from the all huifi'an plagues . t : The tide of homeward travel to thp Uny«il Stated says a;L«nd»i>. telegfcta, has set iiij an.L is now so every city In Western Europe is full, and in Paris - ; . 741/r ;A . ,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1882.

it is almost impossible to obtain bed room. Never Ixefore, it is the universal testimony, have so many Americans been in Paris as at the present time. More English is now spoken than French in the chief resorts at the French capital, and comical laments in Parisihn papers over the Americanizing of the city and driving of the native population Out into the remote suburbs do not seem so very much exaggerated. Atlantic steamers are so full that passage to New York cannot be got all through this month. The marriage of Mlle. Bertha Marie de Rothschild, daughter of the head of the Frankfort branch, and Prince Alexandre da Wagram occurred at Paris. The bride abjured the Jewish faith. The Emperor and Empress of Russia, after .witnessing military maneuvers at Ishora, drove over a bridge across a ravine, which fell immediately afterward. Is it possible Nihilism has permeated the ranks of the engineer service of the Russian army? One of the most terrible railway accidents of the age occurred near Hug-Stetten, in Germany, resulting in the killing of at least foo persons and the wounding of 300. An excursion train of twenty-four cars left the track, and nineteen cars were either nmashed outright or else rolled down an embankment into a swamp, where they sank out of sight in the mud. Earl Spencer, replying to the memorial of the dismissed Dublin policemen, said he had directed that a careful inquiry into the recent troubles be made, and those found to be deserving would be reinstated. E. pwyer Gray, the imprisoned Dublin journalist, having expressed a determination not to enter into recognizances at the expiration of his three months’ term, will consequently have to endure a further and similar period of confinement. A Dublin dispatch of the 6th inst. announces that Stephen J. Meany, who is alleged to be acting under instructions from the Government of the ■ United States, has notified the resident magistrate at Ennis, Ireland, that he surrenders his recognizances and holds himself under parole for thirty six hours. His bondsmen requested ‘to be' absolved from responsibility, and offered to hand him over to the police, at his request. The American Consul was among the 257 persons who fell victims to cholera in Manila. ► Henry George says he respects Michael Davitt, but maintains the latter’s proposition to pay the landlords for their property it a very wicked thing. The Lord Mayor of Dublin gave an entertainment in honor of Mayor Harrison The Mayor said' the sympathy of America, and especially Chicago, was with Ireland, and he hoped to see her freedom restored through the liberality of England, which had itself freed millions of slaves. A Dublin dispatch says that the persons arrested for complicity in the murder of the Joyce family near Cong recently have been committed for trial before the special commission here. The names of the prisoners are Myles Joyce, Patrick Joyce, John T. Joyce, Patrick 'M. Joyce, all of Cappanacreeha; Patrick Joyce, of Shanvalley; Patrick Casey, Michael Casey, John Casey, Anthony Philbin and Thomas Casey. Lord Spencer ordered the release of the fol-lowing-suspects: The two Whelans, at whose house; on Brabagon street, a large seizure of arms was made; Kavanagh, who was suspected of the attempted murder in connection.with the same affair; Mecla, who was arrested for participation in the murder of Bailey, an informer; Doyle, Davis and Keogh, implicated in the Seville place murder. Earl Spencer reinstated over 200 Dublin policemen after expressing regret at the revolt. The comparative increase in the British exports and imports for the month of August is £378,000 and £424,000 respectively. 4 T|ie Spanish Minister of Finance received from Barcelona a box which was found to contain four bottles of nitro-gly-cerine.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Northern Cheyennes are said to be making their way to Pine Ridge agency, Dak., on the advice of Dr. McGillicuddy, with' supplies insufficient to keep them from raiiljpg on settlers in Kansas and Colorado. Troops have been sent out to intercept them. During the temporary absence of the teller, the’ Merchants’ Bank at Winnipeg, UfahTtoba, was mysteriously robbed of SIO,OOO in bank notes by two strangers to whom ho particular attention was paid by the clerks. The losses by the earthquake at Panama* are greater than at first announced The cathedral and many large buildings were badly injured, several lives were lost, and communication with Aspinwall has been cuttioff. fhere were 121 business failures in the United States last week, eleven more than fqi. the week ended Sept. 1, and an increase of fifty-six oyer the corresponding week in 1881. Applications have been made for 600,000 shares of the Panama Canal Company. In settlement of the recent bloody outbreak Corea agrees to pay £500,000 to the Japanese Government and £50,000 to the relatives of her murdered subjects. While the Crown Prince was conducting cavalry maneuvers at Berlin two French officers of high rank, in civilian's dress, were arrested for making sketches of the ground. . There is good authority for the statement that Frank James, the Missouri bandit, is being harbored by friends but a few miles frojn. Leavenworth. A ten-mile equestrian race at Minneapolis between Belle Cook and “Little Cricket” was won by the former. Time, 20:02. At Cleveland, a ten-mile race between the Misses Burke and Williams was won by Miss Burke in 21 Mrs. Burns, who was injured by Barnum’s elephant at Troy, N. Y., some time since, died the other day; and Mrs. Langley and the husband of Mrs. Burns, who were also' hurt by the infuriated pachyderm, are dying. A man named Conlon, who was thrown across the street by the elephant, has brought suit for $5,000 damages. John Hurst, a fisherman living at Secretary Creek, *Md., came home drunk, whipped his 8-year-old boy mercilessly, and then seized the lad by the feet, and struck his head against the floor, kdling him instantly. The Republican Convention of the Eleventh district of Michigan, at Point St Igyace, nominated the Hon. E. Bre'tung, of Negaunee, to succeed J. A Hubbell in ConThe Republicans of Dakota have nominated John B. Raymond, of Fargo, for Congress.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

Party State Conventions, and What They Did. Liat of the Nominees, Platforms, Etc. NEVADA BEPUBUCANH. The Republican State Convention of Nevada was held at Reno, the capital, on Tuesday, Sept. 5. Enoch Strother was nominated for Governor, C. E. Laughton. for Lieutenant Governor, J. M. Dormer for Secretary of State, J. F. Hall for Comptroller, W. H. Davenport for Attorney General, O. R. Leonard for Supreme Judge, C. 8. Preble for Surveyor General, J. C. Harlow for State Printer, C. 8. Young for Superintendent of Schools and C. C. Powning for Congressman-at-Large. The platform adopted refers to the history of the. party, indorses Arthur, calls for the enforcement of the anti-Chinese laws, promises to defend the public-school system from sectarian influences, calls for postaltelegraph service, for silver coinage to be placed on the same basis as gold, for laws to secure the purification of the jury box, to reduce State expenses, and for codification of the mining laws. The railroad plank demands from Congress such legislation as will place the people of Nevada on terms of equality in respect to transportation charges with communities specially favored by the railroad monopolies, and pledges the Republican party of Nevada to such a course of legislation as will extend to railroad and other corporations doing business in the State the same protection and the same rights before the law as are accorded to individuals, no more, no less. A clause was calling for a Constitutional Convention to reduce the expenses of the State and to prevent discrimination by railroads. SOUTH CABODINA GBEENBACKEBS. The Greenbackers of South Carolina held their State Convention at Columbia on the sth inst. D. Hendrix McLane was nominated for Governor by acclamation, and R. D. White, of Charleston, for Lieutenant Governor, White declined, but the convention refused to accept his declination. After a speech from Judge Mackey, who pledged his last dollar and entire time to secure the election of the ticket, 8. Augustus Sanders was nominated for Attorney General. The convention made the following additional nominations: Secretary of State, Thomas Baskins; Controller, Gen. Simeon Corley; Attorney General, C. B. Farmer; Treasurer, W. H. Stanton; Adjutant and Inspector, Gen. J. F. Johns; Superintendent of Education, the Rev. J. D. Durham. J. B. Campbell, of Charleston, was nominated for Congress for the First district; T. T. H. Russell, of Anderson, for the Third; D. 11. Elkin, of Fairfield, for the Fourth; T. J. Mackey for the Fifth; and Dr. Bowen, of Marion, for the Sixth. The platform is an arraignment and indictment of the Democratic party for tyrannical actions, social proscription of opponents, murder, ballot-box stuffing and unjust tribunals of justice; charges violation of the Democratic pledges of 1876, the creation of useless offices and extravagant legislation ; attacks the eight-box system for elections as a political device to disfranchise thousands of both rates; says the Registration law has been shamefully abused; declares unconstitutional the Poll Tax law, which imposes a fine of $lO or imprisonment; demands ceaseless vigilance to guard against rings and monopolists, which have consumed the vitals of the State; condemns the threatened shifting of ballot boxes; calls for a reduction in salaries of the State officers of one-third; opposes the enactment of a prohibition law unless voted on by the people; demands thirty days’ notice from railroads of any change iu freight rates.

NEVADA DEMOCRATS. The Nevada Democratic Convention, in session at Eureka, nominated Jewett W. Adams as Governor and George W. Cassidy for Congressman, M. N. Stone for Justice of the Supreme Court The platform reaffirms the platform of thelastNational Convention; affirms that railroads should be made to pay their just burden of taxation; calls for the passage by Congress of the Reagan bill and of laws by the State Legislature to regulate freights and fares on railroads within the State; resolves that the financial condition of the affairs of the State requires the calling of a Constitutional Convention to reduce expenses in the State and county governments; that a board of equalization should be created; condemns the efforts of the Republican party to destroy our dominant interest in their attacks upon silver; that the maximum rate now permitted of 20 cents per mile for each ton of freight and 10 cents per mile for each passenger carried by the railroads between points within the State should be reduced at least one-half; that the Legislature should protect individuals and localities against unjust discrimination; that from all nominees to the Legislature a pledge be exacted to cany out the passage of laws to regulate freights and fares; and that Senator Fair and Congressman Cassidy are entitled to the thanks of their constituencies for their labors in Congress. NEBRASKA GREENBACKERS. The Greenback-Labor State Convention of Nebraska met at Lincoln Sept 5. CoL S. C. Pane, Chairman of the Greenback State Committee, called the convention to order and in a few words set forth the object of the meeting. Among other things, he said the people of Nebraska view with great alarm the increasing power of corporations, and their complete control over the legislative bodies of this State. The people have petitioned and pleaded in vain for redress, and now they are rising in every part of the State. The Farmers’ Alliance organization and the Anti-Monopoly organization have each called State Conventions, to meet at Hastings, to place a State ticket before the people. It has been urged that this convention adjourn, to meet at Hastings on the 27th of this month to unite with the two organizations mentioned in making a State ticket and electing the same. Other speeches were made favoring this course. It was finally decided to meet at Hastings, Sept 27, in joint convention with the Farmers’ Alliance and Anti-Monopoly tions. GEORGIA REPUBLICANS. The State Central Committees of the two wings of the Republican party of Georgia met at Atlanta for the purpose of harmonizing differences, and after several conferences harmony was secured. The wing known as the “Syndicate” surrendered to the opposition, withdrawing its candidates for State House officials and tendering its support to the candidates of the opposition. The two State Central Committees were consolidated into one active body of seventy-five members, and will support Gen. Gartrell, the Independent candidate, for Governor. ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS. The State Convention of the Democrats of Illinois convened at Springfield on Thursday, Sept. 7. The body was called to order by D. B. Gilham, Chairman of the State Central Committee, who introduced the Rev. A Gross, who as follows: “O, Lord, we beseech Thee to saye us from the devil. O, Lord God, we beseech Thee to save us from the star route and other thieves ■upon our public treasury. O, Lord Almighty, we beseech Thee to save us from Republicanism. For Christ’s sake. Amen.” William A. J. Sparks, of Clinton, was made temporary Chairman, and upon taking the chair declared that the Democratic party wanted no discriminating legislation; that it believed in the greatest liberty to the individual man, and would not attempt to dictate what a man should eat or what he should wear. This anti-prohibition sentiment was loudly applauded. The temporary organization was completed by the election of W. J. Mize, of Moultrie, as Secretary, and assistants as follows: J. J. Crowley and Joseph C. Mackin, of Cook; J. W. Howard, of Vermillion. After the appointment of tfie usual committees, a recess was voted. Upon reassembling, the Committee on Credentials reported no representation from eight counties, and a resolution was adopted authorizing any Democrat from those counties to cast the vote of the county. The Committee on Termanent Organization reported the name of ex-Gov. John M.

Palmer for Chairman. Gov. Palmer was declared the unanimous choice of the convention for permanent Chairman. A committee escorted Gov. Palmer to the chair. He delivered a fifteen minutes’ speech, denouncing the Republican party and applauding the Democratic party. He appealed for a straight-out position on the prohibition question—yes or no. He wanted no doubledealing—no word meaning two things. Alfred BL Orendorf, of Springfield, was then nominated for State Treasurer by acclamation. Henry Raab, of St Clair county, was nominated on first ballot for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The following platform was reported by the Committee on Resolutions. The reading was followed by cheers, and it was adopted with a hurrah: 1. That the Democratic party of the State of Illinois, in convention assembled, reaffirm the great principles which are the foundation of free government, among which are equal rights to all and exclusive privileges to none; protection of the weak against the encroachments of the strong; equal taxation; free speech; a free press; free schools, and, first of all, a free and incorruptible ballot. 2. That we favor honest reform in the civil service, and denounce the extortion of large sums of money from officeholders to corrupt the ballot and control elections as the most threatening, as it is the most insidious, danger that besets a free government, and the shameless resort to such methods by the National Republican Committee and by the Republican repudiation coalition in Virginia evinces utter abandonment of principle, and meets our unqualified condemnation. 3. That we denounce the reckless extravagance and profligacy of the Republican party in the appropriation of the public treasury, as manifested during the last session of Congress, which increased the appropriations for the current fiscal year over those of the past year, made by a Democratic Congress, to the enormous extent of $78,000,000. 4. That we extend our heartiest sympathy to the Irish people in the struggle for their rights in which they are now engaged, and recognize in their persistent efforts to obtain their freedom, despite the dungeon and all the other infamous appliances characteristic of British rule over Ireland, a love of liberty which is unparalleled in history and sheds a ray of glory upon the Irish national character, commending it to the respect, admiration and support of freedom-lov-ing people throughout the world. 5. That it is incumbent our Government to protect its citizens, native-born and naturalized, at home and abroad, and we denounce and condemn the present Republican administration for its neglect of duty toward those lately imprisoned as suspects in the jails of Ireland by the arbitrary action of the British Government. 6. That we are in favor of the reduction of Federal taxation to the lowest point consistent with the wants of the Government under an honest and economical administration of its affairs, and that such taxes be so adjusted as to secure an equitable distribution of the burdens. w 7. The Republican party of the State has proved false to the pledges it has made to the people; with not a cent of bonded debt against the State, taxes for the past year have been onethird greater than the preceding year. The various boards of the State institutions have been used more to advance the interests of the Republican party than for the care and comfort of the unfortunate men, women and children committed to their charge. The various Radical State officials are surrounded by numbers of unnecessary clerks and attendants, whose salaries are paid from the State treasury. The humiliating spectacle is presented of the Governor of the State saying in his annual message that the sum of $3,000,000 would be ample to pay all the expenses of the State for two years, and the same Governor approving bills passed !>;,• he Republican Legislature appropriating nearly $7,000,000 for such expenses, and the large fund received annually from the Illinois Central Railroad Company under the wise provisions of a law effected by a Democratic Legislature, instead of being utilized co relieve the people from taxation, has been misused as a stimulus to increased extravagance and increased taxation. 8. That the officers of the Warehouse and Railroad Commission, now filled by appointment of the Governor, should be filled by election by the people. 9. That we demand a revision of the present unjust, and in many respects prohibitory, tariff, which is framed in the interest of capital, and, while it favors and fosters iniquitous monopolies, is unjust and oppressive to the laboring man in all the relations of life. The constitution confers on Congress the power to raise revenue by duties on imports, and as a just and proper exercise of that power we favor a tariff based on the principle of revenue, which will deal justly with existing business relations and with all legitimate industries, and at the same time discourage monopolies and remove the burdens imposed by the present tariff upon all the laboring people of the country. And we hereby declare that there is no power given by the constitution to Congress to levy a tariff or tax on the people for the purpose of protection, without reference to revenue. 10. That, while we have no purpose to interfere with just laws in force in Illinois for the regulation of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, and conceding the right of the people to an amendment, if necessary, of such laws, to prevent or correct the evils to society growing out of abuses in the use of intoxicating liquors, this convention declares that it is not the legitimate province of government to control the habits, tastes, appetites and liberties of the people so long as they are peaceable and orderly, and do not encroach upon the rights of others or of society; and we therefore declare that prohibition, by constitution or by general laws, of the manufacture or sale of vinous, spirituous or malt liquors would be in violation of individual and personal rights, and contrary to the fundamental principles of free government 11. That we appeal to the people of this State, without regard to former political affiliations, to unite with us at the ensuing election in carrying into effect the foregoing principles. The State Central Committee at Large was announced as follow: W. G. Mize, of Moultrie; J. H. Oberly, of McLean; S. Coming Judd and Gen. Herman Lieb, of Cook; William H. Green, of Alexander-; and J. W. Coppinger, of Madison. The following was announced as district members of the State Central Committee: First Congressional district—J. C. Mackin, of Cook. Second—J. H. Hildreth, of Cook. Third—Theodore T. Gurney, of Cook. Fourth—S. B. Chase, of Cook. Fifth—R. W. Corbett, of Kane. Sixth—W. H. Mitchell, of Stephenson. Seventh—J. M. McConihe, of Bureau. Eighth—A. J. O’Connor, of LaSalle. Ninth—E. B. Buck, of Kankakee. Tenth—W. T. Dowdall. of Peoria. Eleventh—C. H. Whitaker, of McDonough. Twelfth—F. M. Bridges, of Greene. Thirteenth—J. B. Irwin, of Tazewell Fourteenth—William Fuller, of De Witt. Fifteenth—A. J. Fryer, of Cole. Sixteenth—G. W. Fithian, of Jasper, Seventeenth—W. E. P. Anderson, of Macoupin. Eighteenth—W. S. Foreman, of Washington. Nineteenth—S. L. Dwight, of Marion. Twentieth—T. F. Bouton, of Union. CALIFOBNIA GBEENBACKEBS. The Greenback State Convention of California, in session at San Francisco, placed in the field the following ticket: Governor, Thomas J. McQuiddy; Secretary of State, Robert Summers; Treasurer, R. 8. Buell; Controller, M. E. More; Attorney General, Mrs. Marian Todd; Surveyor General, W. J. Cuthbertson; Superintendent of Public Instruction, E. J. ScheHous; Justices of the Supreme Court, W. C. Stratton and John Clark; Clerk of the Supreme Court, J. T. O’Toole; Con-gressmen-at-Large, Stephen Maybell and Warren Chase; Railroad Commissioners— First district, G. T. Elliott; Second, H. Redstone; Third, J. P. Holloway; Congressmen— First district, G. C. Irwin; Second, F. Woodward; Third, W. 0. Howe; Fourth, Isaac Kinley; Board of Epualization—Dirst district, Leonard W. Kind; Second, Thomas McConnell; Fourth, J. 8. Loveland. After choosing a State Central Committee the convention adjourned sine die.

It rained pitchforks: The shower came up, or rather came down—a shower never comes up—so unexpectedly that nearly everybody was taken by surprise,and Jefferson street was in a panic. Young Masher, who never goes without his umbrella, saw his opportunity, and, sailing up to the prettiest girl with the prettiest hat in all Burlington, made a bow that is warranted to kill across the street, and said: “May I offer you my umbrella?” “Oh, a thousand thanks,” she said. “Papa will bring it down to his office in the morning;” and she sailed away dry-shod, leaving him desolate and soaking in his loneliness, like a pelican i n the wilderness, and as a weather-vane upon housetop. There are few people more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.— La Rochefoucauld.

THE FARMEE AND THE TARIFF.

The Outrageous Manner in Which Fanners are Fleeced Under Pretense of Protecting American Industries. [From a speech in Congress by Hon. Oscar Turner, of Kentucky.] Sir, is it just ? Is it right that the agriculturist of this country should be discriminated against in this manner ? Where is the protection given our labor ? There is none. The honest farmer asks none; but he does demand equality under the law, and he has a right to it. Sir, I have been a farmer all my life, and 1 have felt and understood the burdens under which we labor, and the injustice done the farmers of the country, and the doctors, lawyers, artisans and laborers of the land. Here is a statement showing a few of the burdens of the farmer: Under this tariff he rises in the morning, puts on his common flannel shirt, taxed 95 per cent.; his coat, taxed 57 per cent.; shoes, taxed 35 per cent.; and hat, taxed 92 per cent.; takes the water from a bucket taxed 35 per cent., and washes his face and hands in a tin bowl taxed 35 per cent.; dries them on a cheap cotton towel, taxed 45 per cent. He sits down to his humble meal and eats from a plate taxed 50 per cent, with knife and fork taxed 35 per cent.; drinks his coffee with sugar taxed 68 per cent.; seasons his food with salt taxed 69 per cent.; pepper, taxed 61 per cent. He looks around on his wife and children all taxed in the same way; takes a chew of tobacco taxed 199 per cent., or lights a cigar taxed 118 per cent. And, sir, even the sunlight from heaven that pours into his humble dwelling must come through window glass taxed 59 per cent., and yet he thinks he lives in the freest Government under heaven. Then he starts to work; puts a bridle taxed 35 per cent, on his horse, and takes liis horse that has been shod—the nails used in shoeing being taxed 59 per cent.; driven by a hammer taxed 20 per cent.—and hitches him to a plow taxed 45 per cent., with chains taxed 85 per cent.; and, after the day’s labor is closed and his family are all gathered around, he reads a chapter from his Bible, taxed 25 per cent., and kneels to God on an humble carpet taxed 51 per cent.; and then he rests his weary limbs on a sheet taxed 45 per cent., and covers himself with a blanket that has paid 104 per cent. Nor do these grasping manufacturers stop here, but even the broom with which his good wife sweeps the floor is taxed 35 per cent.; and the cooking vessels used in preparing her husband’s frugal meal are taxed 42 per cent.; and the soda used to lighten his bread is taxed 59 per cent. She sits down to her sewing with a needle taxed 25 per cent., and a spool of thread taxed 74 per cent., to make a calico dress taxed 85 per cent.; or, if she wishes to knit warm socks to protect her husband and children from the bitter cold, she uses yarn taxed 120 per cent.; and thus, daily and hourly, must the hard earnings of the laborer go to satisfy the manufacturer and add to his ill-gotten wealth. But, sir, we are told that this tariff system is necessary to protect American labor and industries; under what clause of the constitution of our fathers do gentlemen find the power and the right to tax the honest farmer—to take from him the fruits of his hard labor and put it in the pocket of the manufacturer—to enhance the value of his labor? Give us equal rights. You have no right to tax 45,000,000 of our people to enrich 5,000,000; no, only one and a half million, for the operatives do not get the profit or bonus. You live in a country abounding in the raw material—the iron, coal, cotton at your very doors. The broad ocean, across which the manufactures of Europe have to come, gives you all the protection you need or ought to have. You have been protected in your infancy, you have grown to manhood, and do not keep up your cry for “protection.” You have got most of the banking capital; have got the bonds; you got them for 40 cents to 60 on the dollar, and in God’s name you ought to be satisfied. If manufactories will not pay, why you have no right, legal or moral, to tax others to keep them up; but, gentlemen, you know that they will pay, you know that they ship plows to England and machinery of various kinds and sell them lower than they do here, and then make a fair profit. You know that while we only make 3| to 4 per cent, in agriculture your iron lords are realizing 30 and 60 per cent., and that you are making an average of over 30 p*er cent, on all manufactured commodities; but you are not satisfied, and the American people will have to rise in their might and assert their birthright to be free. The shackles of slavery have been struck from the African, yet you hold in slavery the white men of the country, the toiling masses, and compel them to pay you tribute on the necessaries of life, and deny to them the right to exchange the fruits of their labor for the commodities they need in the markets of the world. It is an outrage. [From the Detroit News.] Notwithstanding the doleful forebodings of a few weeks ago, when the Michigan and Indiana wheat was sprouting, the wheat crop this year is going to be enormously greater than any preceding one. The State of Illinois alone will produce 50,000,000 of bushels, or about one-quarter of what would have been considered a fair crop for the whole country a few years ago. The total crop is estimated at 600,000,000 bushels by some good authorities, and none at less than 500,000,000. It will be safe to rest half way between these figures. The crops of corn, oats and barley, fruit and roots of all sorts are also greater than usual, and it looks as if we should have such a quantity of food to export as would feed the whole earth and tax our railroads and lake shipping beyond their capacity. General prosperity will prevail, and the Republican party and the tariff monopolies will claim the whole credit of it, but nothing could more clearly prove that it is not the protected manufacturer, but the unprotected farmer, that makes our country smile with abundance. While the farmer who produces all this wealth will be compelled to compete in the markets of the world against the pauper labor of Russia, of India, of Egypt, of France, of Germany, of Italy, of Great Britain and of Ireland—for his wheat will meet rival wheat from nil these countries when it gets to market —he will have to pay tribute to the steel maker of Pittsburgh and Chicago in increased freight over protected rails; he work, on every nail m his buildings; the cotton monopolists will squeeze him on

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his clothes and on his blankets, and the luml>er maker will have a share out of him for every piece of wood worked on his farm. These are all protected by the tariff at his cost. He is not protected at anybody’s but his own, and if the soil were not so rich and so cheap, enabling him to pay all these exactions, he would be poor indeed.

POLITICS IN OHIO.

Extracts from Senator Pendleton’s Opening Campaign Speech at Mt. Gilead, Ohio. I hold in my hand a carefully prepared speech made by the Chairman of the Committee of Appropriations of the Senate (Senator Allison, of Iowa), on the last night of the session. It shows that the grand total of appropriations for the current year is $294,243,097, and that the excess of the appropriations over the last year is $77,532,621.24. This is more than onefourth more than the annual interest on the public debt. And yet. while Mr. Allison was felicitating himself that the increase of appropriations was only so much, a Republican Senator reminded him that there would certainly be a deficiency in one item alone of $20,000,000 at least, probably of $25,000,000. And another Senator, a fellow member of the committee, and well advised on the subI ject, declared that, notwithstanding the unusual amount of the appropriations, j there would be the usual deficiencies everywhere. If that should be true, the expenditures for this year would be at least $50,000,000 more than stated by Mr. Allison, and the excess over last year would be more than $127,000,000. This is fairly appalling. In time of peace, with an army of less than 25,000 men, with almost no navy afloat, an annual drain on the industries of the country of $350,000,000! And, as ii this were not enough, Senator Sherman ] took up the tale, and showed that in addition to these amounts t here are certain permanent appropriations established by law, not renewed every year, making a total of $126,202,934.22. Now, add these sums together.. Appropriations, according to Allison, $294,000,000; estimated deficiencies, $50,000,000; permanent appropriations, $126,000,000, and you find they reach the enormous sum of $470,000,000—59.40 apiece for every man, woman and child in the United States. Ido not care to characterize such extravagance. In the presence of such figures the language ' appropriate to public discussion would seem tame and meaningless. The River and Harbor bill appropriated $18,743,875. Seven millions more than were ever appropriated before in one year. There are many very proper and reasonable items in it, but there are many more which are absolutely indefensible. I will venture to say that there are more than fifty rivers and creeks of which not one man in this audience ever heard the name, which cannot be found on any public map, and very many more whose .improvement can in no sense be called of general or national importance. In speaking of the Hubbell “voluntary” campaign fund, Mr. Pendleton said: An immense sum has been collected in this way this year. It is to be used for a corruption fund in the Congressional districts. You will meet and feel and fight some of it in every Congressional district in Ohio this year.' It is used for the organization of train-bands and office-holders, who, having thus bought and paid for their offices, intend to keep them by fair means or foul. It is the source of demoralization to every man to handle it—to him who exacts and collects it, to him who is forced to ’ pay it, to him who receives it as the wages of political prostitution. Gen- j tiemen, that money came out of the public treasury, and is as much filched . from it as if it had never j the hands of the employes. ' cratspay one-half of it; for they pay ! their proportion to supply the treasury. | There is something pathetic in this tele- j gram from the Cincinnati Gazette, from i its well-informed correspondent, which | I read, notwithstanding its length: “The Hubbell Campaign Fund Com- I mittee has put into operation a new I scheme for extracting .* voluntary’ contributions from the pockets of Government employes. Agents of the committee have been detailed to visit each.of the several departments and personally solicit the required amount. This forces an answer from every individual, and has brought many to terms who have heretofore quietly ignored the invitation in the Hubbell circulars. “The Star says the collectors of the Republican Congressional Committee were working the Army and Navy Departments to-day. They had all who had not responded to the request for ‘voluntary contributions’ down in their books, and the delinquents w ere seen. Nothing less than 2 per cent, of their salary is received.” Are you willing this should continue ? This amazing fact was developed in debate last session: that there are in the Treasury Departmen tjat Washington 3,400 employes and only 1,300 are authorized and paid by law—l,Boo are put on and off at the sole pleasure of the Secretary and are paid out of funds and balances not appropriated for that purpose. You see whence comes that innumerable horde employed in the work I of setting up Presidential conventions and carrying elections for the party in power at the public expense. You pay the expense —are you willing this state of things should continue? It has been stated and never denied that in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing it was found that, out of 958 persons, 539 had been appointed to please political “bosses,” and could be and were dismissed without regarding the bureau. ‘ , You pay the expenses. Are you grilling this-should continue, and the system on which it rests should have your approval? A Secretary went to the Committee on Appropriations at the last session and said: “There are nineteen ladies in my department, and I can find nothing for them to do. If you will give me one competent clerk and make no appropriation, I can dispense with them all; but if you make the appropriation J shall be constrained to keep them on the rolls.” You pay the expenses. Are you willing tliis should continue ? Certain dress reformers "are suggesting’ the advisability of discarding the vest entirely; us they consider it a usesports who wear their watch chains across the outside of their coats.

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INDIANA ITEMS.

The public schools of Indiana have 13,049 licensed teachers. The National Bank of Franklin has been organized with a capital of $50,000. Miss Minnie Vinson, of Summitville, Lee county, was run over by a train and killed. The State Board of Agriculture are endeavoring to make the forthcoming State Fair a grander mlcoess than any yet held. George Hazzard, the notorious Indiana banker, who is now in jail at Auburn, has been arrested twenty-seven times, apd escaped nearly as often. Simon Kynf.s, of Union township, Shelby county, has been sued by Mrs. John Victor, his granddaughter, for assault. She claims $5,000 damages. Peter Rippetoe was seized by a fit while riding a horse on a road near his father’s house, at Terre Haute, and fell from the animal, breaking his neck. A cloud-burst in the northeast! rn part of Washington county, near Little York, literally destroyed miles of fencing and hundreds of acres of growing corn. It is reported that a brother of the late Gov. Williams, of Indiana, for many years a Justice of the Peace at Jacksborough, Tex., has been adjudged insane, and removed from office. The Internal Revenue Commissioner has rejected the off r of a compromise made by Jacob Boos, the brewer of Huntingdon—s3,ooo and all the costs in full settlement of all the charges against him. Daniel Seabrook, one of the advance party who made the first settlement of New Albany sixty-eight years ago, is still living in that city at the age of 92 years, the sole survivor of the pioneer band. Peter Lehnen, residing in Lafayette, at the ripe age of 73 years, has been notified that liis interest in a Belgian estate is not less than $1,750,000, and it is said that a first installment of $300,000 is on the way.

Arthur Brooks, of Washington, fired fouFbullets into because thp doctor informed Brooks’ Wile' that her husband was Intimate -fyith another woman. Brooks quietly left the village for parts •urfk+iown. Louis Miller, a boy of 8, was playing with another boy on the bank of the canal, in the western part of Fort Wayne, when his companion threw Miller’s hat into the water. The little fellow went after jt and was drowned. The vacancy in the agricultural department of Purdue University, Lafay«tt<k beaanioned by the resignation .of Prof: Ingersoll, has l>een filled by the appointment of Prof. William C. Latta, of the State Agricultural College of Michigan. AmoNq the donors to the building of an Evangelical Church at Decatur is a lady of whom it is said that she has given money tow ard the erection of every Evangelical Church which has been built west of Philadelphia within the last forty-eight years. The* beautiful shade trees which adorned the front of Hon. J. H. Mellett's residence, at Newcastle, Henry county, were maliciously girdled the other night by some miscreant who had become offended at the plain talk of the owner concerning '< SaMUEL CuRREL%. aged. 58 years, an old resident 6f KfwHnwwo county, was crushed to death while engaged in loading a saw-log at Packer’s saw-mill, near Warsaw. He was alone at the time, and the log was still lying on him when he was found several hours after ward. The barn of Adolphus I. Kerd, four miles east ggfeedford, Lawrence county, was strucWßy lightning and burned. The contents, consisting of three horses, two mules, a wagon, buggy and harness, agricultural implements, and all of his wheat and oats, were destroyed. The loss is $2,000; no insuraneq. A terrible accident occurred at Lake Maxink'uckee, in Miami county. A large number of Peruvians were present, and among them Lyman Beans, of Peru, and Saul Reynolds, of Rochester. It seems the two young men were quarreling in a boat, which capsized/and both of the boys fell in the lake mid, were drowned.

Walter Shanks, of Mitchell, Law-' Ijence county, has sued the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad Company for SIO,OOO damages on account of injuries sustained by his little daughter by a trunk, being hauled on a truck of the company over the platform at Mitchell, falling on her. Carelessness of the company is alleged. The elevator on the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railroad at Ijamsville, Wabash county, was recently burned by an incendiary. Five thousand bushels of wheat w ere in the warehouse at the time, and was consumed. The elevator, which belonged to the railroad company, was valued at $5,000, and the total loss will approximate SII,OOO. The celebrated pacing mare Flora Belle, that has quite recently been astonishing the pegpie of some of the Eastern cities, was foaled and raised in Law rence county. Her first owner sold her when a colt to William Neal, of Washington, for the small sum of sls. It has only been- about a year since Neal discovered the mare was gifted with such wonderful pacing speed, and a fewmonths since he sold her to Wilson & McCarthy, of Vincennes, for $4,(M10. A few days since she made a mile in 2:12|, the fastest pacing on record being 2:10j. Her owner has been offered $20,000 for her. * Mrs. Paran Stevens, one of the bestknown of AmericaffWomen, occupies a spacious brown-stone front on Fifth ■avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets. Now York—a house so crowded with rare paintings and statuary, and objects of art of all kinds, as to denote not only her vast wealth but a highly cultivated taste. Mrs. Stevens converses, indeed, very fluently alibut art, as she doe* about most subjects, whether they concern politics, religion or science. She is not only a well-bred,,. but she is a very brilliant w oman. k, • ’ ' ,„... i / „ j111Oji'.L Macon county, iG a., has a citiaen who has buried six wiy** ott«y teamed and 1 attending funerals that he only weighs ninetyeight pounds. ~ :