Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1882 — Page 1

jgemacwtui £enHtitt 4 DEMOCRATIC VSWBPAPER PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY, WE JAMES W. MoEWEN Traits OF SDBSCRTPTIOIf. VJ» Doe copy atx month*. D"8 copy three month*... > «*• rate, on application

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. A Louisville jewelry store was robbed of $5,000 worth of diamonds by three men who got a chance at the goods under the pretense of a wish to mike some purchase* A coalslide in the Dodson mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, caused an explosion of fire damp, killing one man and seriously burning four others. A fire in Philadelphia destroyed the nine-story sugar refinery of Harrison, Ilavemeyer & Co., causing a loss estimated at nearly' $1,000,000. One thousand men are thrown out of employment by the calamity, and two men are missing. A gallery of the Exposition building at Pittsburgh gave way, and precipitated to the floor beneath, a distance of thirty feet, many persons, two of whom were fatally injured. About the same time, outside the building, on a temporary shed, were a number of people intently watching a display of fireworks, when that also collapsed, causing the serious wounding of two of its occupants. Wellington & Co., the oldest dry goods firm in Boston, has made an assignment Their liabilities are placed at $500,000. Maltby, Stevens & Curtiss’ factory, at Birmingham, Ct, burned, causing a loss of $150,000. The insurance amounts to $58,000. A colored miser of Philadelphia, sporting the name of Rev. Joshua Provine Bond Eddy, died in a filthy hut, leaving SIOO,OOO to a brother. He was bom in Virginia in the last century, traveled a circuit in New Jersey, married a daughter of Bishop Allen, and became soured against humanity on learning of her infidelity. The Ford brothers, who killed Jesse James, are on exhibition at a museum in Brooklyn, where they claim to-have seen the wife of Frank James, heavily veiled, and grew quite excited over it. A Philadelphia dispatch says that at a meeting of the Keely Motor Company, the Trustee appointed by the court stated positively that the motor would be completed . and patents applied for by December. A fire at Emporium, Penn., destroyed seventeen of the principal business places, causing a loss of $150,000. W. G. Whittaker, residing at Paselialviile, a Philadelphia suburb, has been arrested for poisoning his wife and family and a boarder named Co jper, by putting arsenic in the water with which tea was made. A runaway accident at Albany, N. Y., caused the death of Mrs. Lewis liathbone, wife of a prominent retired manufacturer, and the fatal injuring of ex-Assemblyman Amasa I. Parker, Jr. Mrs. Parker and another lady were slightly injured W “st. The Chicago Tribune says 'There lias been a great deal of frost damage to late com upon low lands in Illinois. The Vorn upon high and well-drained lands lias had the double advantage of being further advanced and of being more lightly touched by frost ” The Western Hardware Company, of Atchison, Kansas, has closed its doors. Liabilities, $250,(00. The annual report of the Bt. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad for the year ended June 80 shows the earnings to.be $4,507,052.55, and the operating expenses $2,695,500.76. A shock of earthquake, lasting from fifteen to sixty seconds, was felt in the region between St. Louis and Springfield on the 27th of September. Five persons attempted to cross tli9 Miami river at Lebanon, Ohio, and during a playful struggle for the oars the craft capsized and four of the occupants were drowned. Gov. Murray’s appointments to fill vacancies in Utah, caused by a failure to hold an election in August, are nullified by the Mormons, who refuse to give up the positions in obedience to the orders of church officials.

William Dyniewicz, the publisher and editor of the Gazctta Polska, a Polish weekly of Chicago, shot and killed an unknown man, who was attempting to force an entrance into his residence and business place, and who in a drunken frenzy attacked Dyniewicz and his family with a heavy piece of timber and threatened to kill them r.IL A Chicago detective lias bagged the fourth confederate in the Kewaunee bank robbery The show-case of C. Oskamp, in the Cincinnati Exposition was coolly robbed of SO,OOO worth of diamonds by two men who had keys to the padlocks. Helm rich & Hansen, well-known wheat and note brokers of San Francisco, have failed, with liabilities of $160,000. The Pacific Bank caused the arrest of Hansen on a eharge of grand larceny, and he gave bail in $20,000. George Ames, while insane and attempting to escape capture by officers and physicians, jumped from the third story of a hotel at Richmond, Ind., and sustained fatal injuries. He is a grandson of Bishop Ames, and his mother is a sister of Senator Booth. A load of . new corn was hauled into Dos Moines, lowa, by a farmer on the 29th ult., and attracted a large crowd of spectators. Soiitli. The Baltimore National Bank was relieved of $12,000 in bonds in broad daylight by sneak-thieves. The sugar-cane crop in Louisiana is in splendid condition, and all advices are favorable for a large yield. Five convicts escaped from the Texas penitentiary by crawling through the sewer. One was killed, two captured and one wounded. George Hallenbeck and William Stratton quarreled fifteen years ago at Palmyra, N. Y., and again met the other day near Carrizo . Pass, Texas, went into a darkened room and fought a dueL Stratton was brought out a corxi.se, but Hallenbeck was uninjured Mrs. Bush and her five children were drowned at Heathsviile, Va., by their house being carried off by a flood During the session of the Baptist Association at Hampton Cross-Roads, two young men under the influence of liquor began a pistol combat in the church, causing a panic among the worshipers. Levi Bryson was fatally shot by Jerry Cox, but succeeded in fatally shooting Cox. Both died in the church. Many were injured by being trampled during the panic. At a political meeting at Lancaster, S. C., at which CoL Cash was the orator, a row broke out, resulting in indiscriminate shooting between whites and blaoks, one of

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. MoEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

the latter being killed and many on both sides being wounded [The quality of the tobacco crop in North Carolina is of high quality and the yield is very abundant The acreage is larger than usual, and curing is now in progress. Two young women of New Orleans fought with butcher-knives on account of the attentions of a man. Melissa Power was killed by a thrust in the breast, while Addie Johnson is in a critical condition.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Senator David Davis, it is announced, will in November lead to the alter Miss Annie Green, a famous North Carolina 1 telle. French influence is being brought to bear on the Mexican Government to prevent the negotiation of a reciprocity treaty with the United States. A permanent exhibition of Mexican products is to be established in New York and in-several Eurox>ean cities. The observers at Cambridge, Mass., have computed the orbit of the comet, and find that it fairly grazed the sun’s surface and that it will be Sfeen in the northern hemisphere of the perihelion. Mexico has adopted a constitutional amendment declaring that in event of death or removal of the President his successor shall be the Chairman of the Senate, or, if that body be not in session, then the President of the Permanent Committee. Cholera of a virulent type lias broken out in the Mexican city of Uxtla. The boundary line between Mexico and Guatem ala has been definitely established by treaty, t£e proposition made some years ago by tiie former Government having been accepted. N The failures reported for the week ending Sept. 80 were 178, an increase of thirty-two over the preceding seven days. A dummy car used in conveying passengers between Erie, Ont., cn l Blackrock, over the International bride, fell through an open draw into Niagara river, idling two persons and wounding three others.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Anti-Monopolists of Nebraska, held a State Convention at Hastings and nominated E. P. Ingersoli, President of . the State Farmers’ Alliance, for Governor. There were 400 delegates present. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the encroachments of railroad and other monopolies, and calling for a reduction of the tariff. The Democratic Territorial Convention in Dakota nominated W. R. Steele, of Dead wood, for Congress. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines became a member of the Women’s National*. Labor League at Washington, and announced a determination to labor unceasingly to secure the ballot to women. James Oakley, who formerly represented Queens county in the New York Senate, stages that Blaine’s friends offered him SIO,OOO and his campaign expenses to run against Terry Belmont for’ Congress, with SIO,OOO additional if the latter be defeated. The California Prohibitionists met in conv< ntion at San Francisco and nominated for Governor, R. 11. McDonald, of San Francisco, and for Lieutenant Governor, William Sims, of Yolo county. WASHINGTON NOTES. Juryman McCarthy, who voted for the conviction of all the star-route conspirators, Las been appointed to a position at the Government A-ylum for the Insane. McCarthy was simply an honest cobbler before lie got on the jury. Secretary Teller has decided to reopen for settlement a tract of 10,000,090 acres of agricultural land in Northern Dakota which was withdrawn by Secretary Schurz to await a decision on the claims of the Turtle Mountain Indiana One of the first acts of Gen. Sherman as acting Secretary of War was to sign tiie acceptance of the resignation of Gen. George Stopeman as Colonel on the retire'd list of the army. Gen. Stoneman is the Democratic candidate for Governor of California. The value of imports of merchandise into the United States during the twelve months ended Aug. 31, 1882, was $741,983,917; for the preceding twelve months, $(443,248,555. The value of exports for the twelve months ended Aug. 31, 1882, was $737,(38,772; preceding twelve months, $894,717,454. Gross receipts at the Postoilice Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, have been $11,265,317.10, against $36,217,511.55 the previous year. Receipts from the sale of postage stamps, postal-cards and envelopes, $39,533,317, against $34,678,812 the previous year. The is*ue of Rtamps, etc., for 1872, amounted to $40,078,053, an increase over the previous year of $6,352,617. FOREIGN NEWS. Dillon will retire from Parliament on account of ill-health. The representatives of 20,000 English miners met at Rotherham and voted to demand an advance of 15 per cent, in wages. The military and police of the County Mayo evicted fifty families in the barony of Erris, and the people were ordered not to shelter them. A scheme is propounded by Davitfc for the formation of a gigantic organization whose leading object shall bo the improvement of the social and political condition of the Irish and the prevention of emigration by obtaining profitable employment tor laborers and evicted tenants. The schema will be discussed at the convention of the Irish Nationalists, soon to be held in Dublin. Parnell refuses to sanction the project on the ground that the formation of such an organization would be impossib’e under tbe existing Coercion act. Egan, Dillon, Brennan and Kettle desire a. discussion of the subject. Cetewayo, the Zulu King, arrived at Cape Town. Emperor Franz Josef lias contributed 100,000 florins to aid the sufferers by the floods in the Tyrol. Three members of the Salvation Army were arrested at Calcutta, as their street preaching had occasioned disorders, and rioting was imminent. A grand reception was given by the Khedive at Cairo, nearly 1,000 representatives from the different villages being present. He refused to receive many persons implicated in the recent troubles, and warned the Ulemas that they would be severely punished if they relapsed into disloyalty. An Alexandria dispatch says; The Khedive has decided to grant amnesty to all officers from Captain downward, except those who participated in the riots or donned uniforms Bince the campaign commenced. Th* Minister* have framed decrees for a

special commission to prosecute all acts of rebellion, a court-martial at Cairo to try cases for the- commission, and another at Alexandria to act upon cases submitted* by tribunals. The powers expect to be solicited by England to express their views on the situation in Egypt Lorillard’s Aranza won the Great Eastern Railway handicap at Newmarket by six lengths. The betting against her was twenty to one. Minister Wallace has procured from the Sultan the release of several Greeks, arrested last year at Janina for engaging in a political demonstration against Turkey. Fawcett, the British Postmaster General, “speaking at Hackney, said England had no selfish object. Her chief concern is to secure to the Egyptians the best government and the greatest amount of liberty possible. The abuse connected with the late control well be avoided in the future. The Egyptians will not have to submit to the injustice of an unduly large part of their revenues being appropriated by foreign officials. A train from Benlia had just arrived at Cairo with the Sixtieth Rilies on board, when an ammunition wagon in the station exploded, killing several persons. The flames which arose soon destroyed the train, the depot and a large amount of commissariat stores, the loss being £IOO,OOO. The Porte has thanked England for re establishing order in Egypt, and hopes the friendship of the two countries will not be disturbed. A Vienna newspaper publishes a story in effect that the Emperor and Empress were secretly crowned during their recent visit to Moscow. There are indications of further trouble in Europe. The Turkish Government has ordered the hasty manufacture of 200 Berdan torpedoes, and Russian officials arc taking. soundings at Ivilia, near the mouth of the Danube, notwithstanding a remonstrance by the International Commission. A farmer named Hickey, in Tipperary county, Ireland, has been murdered for paying his rent in violation of the local Land League and for assisting in the defense of some men employed in gathering crops on the farm Of an evicted tenant named Carroll. Tile Carroll family have been arrested. The British have decided to keep 12,000 men in Egypt to hold the Khedive in power. Advices from Presbarg report antiJewish riots there. The mol) broke the windows of many houses occupied by the Jews. The military finally restored order after making forty arrests. The military were confined in the barracks. The floods in the Austrian Tyrol reduced hunclre Is of wealthy land-owners to poverty. The laboring classes are in terrible distress, and the approach of winter .greatly aggravates tiie situation.

EGYPT.

Egypt is now again entirely under the authority of the Khedive. Accompanied by his Ministers, he was escorted by the Bengal Lancers to the railway station at Alexandria, to the music of the Egyptian national anthem, and left for Cairo on the 25th of September. Arriving at Cairo they were received by the Duke of Connaught and Gen. Wolseley, and driven through crowded streets to Ghegireh Palace. Abdellal Pasha. Suleiman Bey and others were sent to Cairo under military guard It is learned that Aralii l’asha "declined the services of French, German and Russian officers, lie is heartily sorry he fought the English, as (hey have shown such magnanimity to the prisoners and wounded He thinks all the notables and prominent men connected with the rebellion should be sent out of the country. A general amnesty will be decreed by the Khedive, except to about six persons connected with the Alexandria massacre. Baker Pasha will effect the reorganization of the Egyptian array.

Women in Convention.

The annual meeting of the National Wom-an-Suffrage Association was held at Omaha. There was quite a large attendance of the advocates of the ballot for women. Resolutions were adopted thanking Congress for the appointment of a select woman’s-suffrage committee in each house; thanking Senators Lapham, Ferry, Blair and Anthony for theii report in favor of an impartial-suffrage amendment to the constitution of the United States; that it is the paramount duty of Congress to submit a Sixteenth amendment which shall secure the enfranchisement of woman; declaring that the association should labor for the submission of an amendment to the national constitution x>rohibiting the States from disfranchising on the ground of sex; that the action of the State conventions of Republicans in Kansas and Indiana, the Democrats in Massachusetts, the Anti-Monopolists in New York and the Prohibitionists in Chicago indicate a recognition of the strength •of our cause and the near apiiroaoh of the full recognition of woman’s political rights; that it is-the duty of the Legislatures of lowa, Oregon an 1 Indiana to ratify the xiroposel woman-suffrage amendment; and that the enlargement of woman’s political freedom in Ireland, Scotland, India and Russia is encouraging, while the refusal of these privileges is the more inconsistent in our republic. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was elected President for the ensuing year.

Our Earnings and Savings.

According to Mr. Edward Atkinson, but half of the 52,000,000 people of the United States can be reckoned in the working force of the nation. The earnings of this working force, male and female, cannot exceed an average of $1 a day each, for the 365 days of the year, so that the annual income of the people, in round numbers, is $10,000,000,000. He estimates that the sustenance of our population averages 45 cents a day for each man woman and child,, so that 90 cents of every dollar earned is consumed, leaving but 10 per cent, of the annual earnings to maintain existing capital and increase the nation’s wealth. His opinion is that the increase in wealth is less than $500,000,000 annually. His purpose in this exhibit is to encourage economy. Learn to work more horoughly, Vioro savingly; to raise as much as possible with as little wfts'o as possible, is his injunction. The lesson which lie teaches is the one which of all peoples on earth the people of file United States need to learn. — Exchange.

A Queer Hammer.

Among the queerest hammers in use is a magnetic hammer. There was once a Yankee peddler who used one of these to great advantage. He was peddling a fancy soap. He would go into a store, pull out his advertising card, “Buy my unequaled soap,” and before the aston- | islied storekeeper could remonstrate he : would tack up one of his cards on a rafter or wall where it could not be taken down without a stepladder. The way he did it was to hold up his card to the required spot with an outstretched | arm, standing on tiptoe. He had a I magnetized hammer with a long handle

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER-6, 1882.

and in his mouth a few tacks. He put one tack on the hammer, point outward, and with one tap sunk it into the required place to secure his ea'rd out of reach. Recently, in South Brooklyn, a tall bill poster pursued this plan of posting advertisement cards on tele graph poles so high that it required the line men to climb np the poles to get the cards down. —Neir York Sun.

The bait used for cod fishing is the squid. It is, says a Newfoundland correspondent, a smaller edition of the huge devil fish, or octopus, wonderful specimens of which have of late years been found on the Newfoundland Coast. The squid, take him concretely, is a .revolting looking creature. But a section, say ten inches long, from a common eel, transform its flesh into a tough jelly, give it a cruciform tail at one.end and eight short sucker-armed feelers at she other, conceive the suckers, each armed with a circle of small teeth, and the feelers converging to a cruel, hawklike beak—then we shall have a weak likeness of the squid. The creature’s mode of progression is original. It lias within its body an elastic suction tube by drawing water through holes in its mantle, the squid, by a sudden squirt, drives itself backward as fast as a fish can swim, and by inverting its tube caw move with equal velocity in an opposite direction. Jigging for these squids in a rare spectacle. The “jigger” is a red stick of wood, circled with sharp but barbies hooks. The hook is let down, the squid, which enters the Newfoundland bays by myriads for food, is attracted by the red -color, clasps its arms over the hooks, and is drawn up to its death. But as it. reiclies the surface the novice must be on guard, for the squid shoots straight at its captor his charge of water, followed by another squirt of an inky fluid, which on light garments is almost indelible. The fishermen know the creature’s trick, and by a skillful movement induce the squid to deliver, his charges, upon one side, then by a quick invertion of the hook drop the squid in the boat. A squid fishing fleet of boats, closely grouped, so as to keep the schools of young octopi collected, is an animated sight. Each ’man tends three or four lines, and has all lie can do when squid are around. The bustle of the fishers, the thumping of the squid in the boats, and the incessant squirts of water to a bight of several feet in all directions through the fleet, make up a- most picturesque sea spectacle. The flesh of the squid has some poisonous quality that makes even, the tough skins of the fishermen sore by long handling. . On the codfish lioolr it's flesh grows white and tough, making, very alluring bait.

We need not assume that perjury if more prevalent than it ever before was. It is well known that, in spite of the natural character for downright veracity the commonness of this crime in English courts was always a subject of lamentation among our moralists. The pillory was especially reserved for it until recent times. The bishops actually met in 1751 to take counsel how to cope with this crying sin. The professional perjurer with the straw in his shoe is as prominent a figure as any in our legal history. In view of all this, we are not disposed to strand the remarks of Lord Coleridge and Lord James Bagallay, and say that things are worse than they were at any previous time. There is nothing to show that the alterations first largely introduced into the law of evidence in 1851, and «x----tended, with misgivings in many minds, to the Divorce Court in 1860, have led to an increase in perjury. After thirty years trial of a liberal system of evidence, no clear reason for retracing our footsteps can be adduced. But no one can be acquainted with the inside of our courts without being aware of the enormous amount of pptty perjury which is perpetrated there and which passes unpunished. Men perjure themselves because they wish to make good their claims or escape liability. They do so because they are friendly to one of the parties, or because they have once incautiously .out of court told some one a certain story and resolve to stick to it when they are subpoenaed by an enterprising solicitor, or because they are vain and wish to figure in public pr&ceedings. These motives will always operate,and cannot be effectually resisted. But men commit perjury also because they assume, with too much reason, that they will not be punished, and this is a temptation which might be diminished by means too obvious to require explanation.—London Times. A State Legislature repealed the charter of a street railroad company and transferred its franchises and the track to another street railway corporation, and, as the company refused to attack this statute in, the courts, one of its stockholders filed his bill of complaint in the United States Circuit Court, at Boston, Greenwood vs. Union Freight Railroad Company, and from a decree in his favor the defendant appealed to the Supi’eme Court of the United States, which, in May? affirmed the judgment. Judge Miller, in the opinion said: “The stockholder’s bill is maintainable, and if there was in the act incorporating the old company no reservation of the right to repeal it, a repeal cannot be sustained, for the obligation of contract of' the -barter is hereby impaired, in violation of the provision of the Federal constitution. The Judge added that the rights of the shareholders to the real and personal property acquired by the corporation aud the rights or contract and other valuable rights, are not taken away from them by the repeal, and if tiie Legislature has not provided a specific mode of enforcing and protecting these rights the courts will do so by the means. within their power. And the new company, under the right of eminent domain, must compensate the old corporation for any valuable property belonging to it which is taken.” In crossing a railroad track a traveler must be as careful as a prudent man, and in approaching it lie must exercise the caution which is ordinarily used by careful men "for the prote«r tion of their lives; but the mere fact that a traveler on stepping on>, the track does not look to ascertain if a train is approaching is not comdusive evidence of a want of due cautiofls on his part, in the opinion of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, in Plummer vs. Eastern Railroad Company, decided on June 12.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles —■' .sm. ' - ——

Cod Fish Bait.

Perjury.

NEW YORK.

The Political Situation—Jubilant Democrats and Despondent Republicans. [New York Cor. Chicago Times.] The political contest opens in this ! State with 'union in the Democratic I ranks and with bitter feeling and much i dissension among the Republicans. For j once a Democratic convention did a wise ! thing at the critical moment, and there ; is every prospect that the device adopted at Syracuse to secure harmony will ; serve its purpose for the present canvass, and bring to the ticket the united Demj oeratic vote of this city. The immense ’ vote of the State of New York is so | evenly divided between the two great i parties when both are united that a contest between them on equal terms is al- ! ways doubtful. Unfortunately for the j Republicans it can not be claimed that | they are at present heartily united and | in a position to exert their full strength, i There is a very ugly feeling among the j Cornell men, who urge that they were | defeated by forgery and bribes. The Albany Journal and the New York Times all but bolt the nomination, and the Buffalo Express, it is said, will sitp--1 port Cleveland. The Utica Herald, the Syracuse Journal and the Rochester Democrat can not give very enthusiastic support to the ticket even if they pre- ! tend to swallow the dose. The Times and the Tribune of this city say more in praise of the Democratic ticket than they sajd of the Republican nominations. The Times says: “The nomination of Mayor Cleveland, of Buffalo, for the 1 office of Governor, is likely to prove one of exceptional strength and popularity. He appears to represent not only the better element and higher character of the Democracy of the State, but, partisanship apart, some of the best qualities i of onr civic and political life. He seems to belong to the type of rising public men of which Comptroller Pattison, of Philadelphia, is another Democratic example, and Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, is one of whom the Republicans are justly proud. It will be as well to admit his merits and his strength, face the fact that he will be a hard man ! to defeat in such a canvass as is now ; fairly opened in tills State.” The Tribune says: “The nomination | of Mayor Cleveland means hard work ; for the Republicans. Yesterday's con- ; vention means a united Democratic party with all that that implies. There | must be a united Republican party to face it, if the Republican ticket is elected tills fall.” many Republicans are disgusted with the part Jay Gould took in the defeat of Cornell. As a political boss | they have even a less liking for Gould than as a Wall street speculator. They believe that Folger owes his nomination mainly to Gould’s influence, and 1 they look upon this fact as so significant ; and dangerous that they will either vote i for Cleveland or will not vote at all. The Democrats are jubilant over the situation. They claim that Cleveland will draw a great many Republican votes in the western part of the State. His is the section of the State that has been strongly opposed to Coakling. Nearly ; all the Western New York delegates, with the exception of the Buffalo city | representatives, were strongly in favor | of Wadsworth ov Cornell, and hot 1 against Folger. Folger's own home went against him.. It is argued, therefore, that the Democratic candidate will make large gains west of Cayuga, in a region that goes strongly Republican. ! Many Republicans say the administration has made a grave mistake, and that if Folger is defeated, as he probably will be, it will be the death-blow to I Arthur’s aspirations for a second term. Despmnlcnt Wall from a Kepubli an Organ. The Albany Evening Journal, the old Central Republican organ of New York, t ikes a despondent view of the political situation in the Empire State. It says: The result at Syracuse has considerably increased tli’e responsibility of the | gentlemen who controlled the Saratoga I Convention. While Grover Cleveland may not be the man who could poll the | biggest Democratic vote next November, he is certainly the one Democrat of ! all named at Syracuse whose candidature would best appeal to Independent Republican sympathy. From a purely partisan point of view measured by the test of getting out the whole Democratic vote—his nomination does not seem so strong. If to fire the Democratic heart was the thing lesii ed at Syracuse, G en. Slocum was the man. If to insure splendid party organization with well-greased cogs was the aim, Banker Flower was the man. Both of these important considerations were put aside, and their representative candidates laid on the shelf to make room for the theory of capturing Republican votes, and for' "the candidate judged most likely to effect that capture. It is wise to look at the nomination in this light. The Democrats have explicitly invited the Republicans who do not relish the machine outcome at Saratoga to vote for a reform Democrat who was nominated by smashing the only semblance of machine existing in his party. It is idle to shirk this question. Nothing but sheerest folly could prompt the course'of pretending not to know that Cleveland’s nomination is a direct bid for Republican votes, and that there is danger of the bid being widely accepted. This is not the year for a “rally-round-tlie-flag-boys” campaign. The old fife and drum literature will fall very fiat and cold this autumn. The situation must be looked in the face and frankly discussed. All the results to be desired may not be reached bv this discussion, but there is at least a chance of it. ’To “go it blind” in this crisis would be as certain destruction as to walk with-bandaged eyes on the brink of Niagara’s chasm. Judge Folger i 3 at the head of the department at Washington which has been the most reckless agent of a chance administration’s crusade against Republican sentiment and selfrespect in this State; and, although he j is the nominee of tht? convention, lie is in a position which is condemned ontspokenly by ten of the chief Republican dailies in the State, and repudiated by almost all the great Republican dailies outside. If tlipre are means by which these loads can be lifted from Judge Folger’s candidature, they cannot be adopted too soon. -If it is possible to restore Judge Folger to the position he occupied iai the heart, of, Republicanism two years ago—to wipe' from the mem-

ory of Republicans the things which have happened since July 1, 1881 —the work cannot be begun too swiftly or vigorously. We confess we do not know how it is to be done. Doubtless the gentlemen who went to such lengths at Saratoga to procure Judge Folger’s nomination will be able to suggest some way of turning the hands of the Republican clock back fourteen months, and restoring to the Republican nominee the prestige he enjoyed when lie last carried this State." We await their announcement of a solution of this lem with profound anxiety.

THE TREASURY STATEMENT.

Tlie Great Extravagance of Republican Congresses Clearly Shown. [Washington Telegram to Detroit Free Press.] The Chief of the Warrant Divis on of the Treasury Department recently completed the statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Government for the fiscal year 1882. The figures in detail have just been verified by the officers of the Register of the Treasury, and they will now stand on the books of the department as the official record, which will be transmitted to Congress next December in the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury. These figures are embodied in the statement submitted below: NET KEVENUE FOK THE FISCAL TEAK 1882. Customs $220,410,730.35 Internal revenue 140,4!) ,505.45 Direct tax ’ 100,141.09 Sales of public lands 4, 53,140.37 Miscellaneous 31,703,042.52 Total $403,525,250.28 The customs receipts were over four millions larger than during any other year in the history of the Government. In 1872 they were $216,370,286.77. Only twice previous to 1882 were they over two hundred millions. Tiie internal-revenue receipts during 1882 were larger than during any year since 1870, when they reached siß4,800,756.49. The receipts from the sales of public lands were about one million larger than during any year since 1856, when they amounted to $8,917,644.93. Exclusive of the receipts from premiums on gold and the sales of gold coin, which were quite large a few years ago, the receipts from miscellaneous sources during the year 1882 were larger than during any other year in the history of the Government. • NET ORDINARY EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, 1882. Civil aud miscellaneous $ 57,219,950.98 War Department 43,570,494.19 Navy Department 15,0 2,046.26 Indians 9,736,747.40 Pensions ..... 61,345,193.95 Interest on public debt -71,077,206.79 Total v $257,981,439.57 A Democratic House of Representatives voted the appropriations for the six fiscal years beginning with 1877 and ending with 1882. Your correspondent lias tabulated the official figures, showing the expenditures during those six years, and comparing' them to a similar statement covering the six preceding yearn for which the appropriations wore voted by a Republican House of Representatives. This comparison has never been made before, and the results will be found interesting and suggestive, and will be found worthy the serious consideration of the people-during the Congressional campaign throughout the country. For convenience and brevity the two periods of six years will be called the Republican period and the Democratic period. In the first place, the comparison shows that, while the expenditures during the Republican period were $1,680,257,459.59, they were only $1,528,909,504.20 during the Democratic period—a difference of $151,347,955.39. That is to say, the average annual expenditures during the Democratic period were $25,224,662 56 less than during the Republican period. The extravagance of Republican Congresses as compared to the management of Democratic Congresses is even more clearly indicated by a comparison of the details of expenditures. - The civil and miscellaneous expenditures, which inc’ude the salaries of the civil list and all such expenditures as those provided for in the Sundry Civil bill and private bills, were $424,951,508.53 during the Republican period and $355,377,500.31 during the Democratic period—a difference of $69,574,008.22, or an annual average of sll,595,668.03. T'Uis is a remarkable contrast, the significance of which no one at all acquainted with public affairs can fail to understand. The War Department expenditures during the Republican period were $239,000,7.89.17, and during the Democratic period, $231,816,415.44, a difference of $7,184,373.73 in favor of the Democrats in spite of the increased, expenditures in recent years for internal improvements. One of the most significant contrasts was that noted in the expenditures in tho Navy Department, which were $135,600,617.50 during the Republican period, as compared to $91,706,066.23 during the Democratic period—-a difference of $43,894,551.27, or an annual average of $7,315,758.54! The Indian expenditures were $49,484,108.22 during the Republican period, and $37,308,762.16 during the Democratic period, a difference of $6,175,346.06. It thus appears that, exclusive of the pension expenditures and the interest on the public debt, the excess of expenditures made during the Democratic period was as follows: Excess. Civil and miscellaneous $ 69,.971,008.32 War Department. ,r 7,184,373.73 Navy Department...... 43,8)1,651.27 Indians 6,175,340.06 Total $126,8.-8,479.08 A comparison of the two periods in regard to the amount of levenue received by the Government and the surplus revenue gives a very striking result. The revenue during the Republican period was $1,956,129,862.85, and during the Democratic period $1,818.425,803.61, or, in other words, the receipts of the Government during tho former period were $57,704,039.24 larger than during the latter. But despite the fact tli it the Republicans had the advantage of the larger revenue the Democrats during the pei-iod they had control of the House secured to the Government by their economy a much larger snrp’us revenue. The surplus during the Republican period was only $275,802,403.26, as compared to $36),516,299.41 during the Democratic period, or a difference of $93,053,890.15 in favor of the latter, although the receipts during

$1.50 oer Annum.

NUMBER 36.

that time were nearly $58,000,000 less than during the Republican period. In other words, if the revenues had been as large during the Democratic period ns during the Republican, the surplus revenue would have amounted' to over $427,000,000, or $151,000,000 in excess of the surplus during the Republican period. Such is the story told by the official figures of the Treasury Department.

Fifteen Hundred and Ninety New Offices.

The profligate Congress at the late session created 1,590 now offices, among which several were revived, like the Assistant Secretaries of War and of the Navy, that had been abolished as superfluous at the close of the Rebellion. This enormous increase of patronage was made principally to satisfy tho constant and pressing demands of politicians. Pretexts of various kinds were manufactured as an excuse for such soindalous prodigality. Among others it was alleged that pension claims would be rapidly advanced and decided by an additional force. Twelve hundred and ten clerks were given to the Pension Bureau, to the Adjutant General and to the Surgeon General for this purpose. These raw recruits have all to be educated in the duties to which they are assigned, and instructors have been appointed to teach them the rudiments of official routine. Many of them are hopelessly incompetent, as were others in the increase made last year for the same professed purpose. In this latter case the teachers were, incumbents who were displaced by ignorant successors that are not more fit for service to-day than they originally were. These appointments and all others arc controlled by politics. Even in the scientific divisions, where technical knowledge is essential to successful administration, partisan influence claims recognition, asserts authority, and in nine cases out of ten prevails over merit, however conspicuous. And now, after creating this army of officeholders, it is found no provision was made for housing them properly. They actually stand in the way of each, other in the different bureaus, and cannot be seated for warn, of desk room. In order to keep up appearances, some of them are detailed for night service, to take the places of others who occupy the seats during the day. But this is a mere sham, invented to cover the pay of clerks who have nothing to do, and who were appointed as a reward for political service alone. Sometimes this sort of patronage is sold by the “influence” which stands behind it. Office brokerage is said to be a regular business at Washington, and the organs contain daily advertisements offering liberal premiums for situations in the different departments, the bounty being graduated by the value of tho 2>lace. This traffic could not be carried on, and certainly would not be prosperous, if thero was not collusion between the insiders and the outsiders. The actual and the prospective vacancies, tlio causes for removal and the opportunities for admission, straight and crooked, are known better to the appointment clerks than to the Secretaries themselves, This information has a merchantable value, and it is not infrequently sold to brokers, to applicants and to others interested in getting it quickly. The condition of a public service subject to this corrupting contamination must be deplorably bad.— New York Sun.

"My God! What a Party!”

In his speech before the Republican Convention, last Saturday, B. F. Hegler grew so eloquent over the glories of liis party that he was led to exclaim, “My God! what a party!” He remembered it as the party that had struck tho shackles off of 50,000,000 human beings; lie remembered it as the party that had carried the old flag in triumph over a hundred fields of battle; lie remembered it as tlie party that prevented the spread of slavery over the Northwest Territory; he only remembered it as a party whoso glories were in the dead past; as the party that lives on the name m ole for it by its founders—like a young libertine and spendthrift living off of the accumulated wealth and posing behind the good name of an honored father. But he failed to remember the Republican party that stole the poor freedmen’s hard earnings through the agency of a bureau; a party that stole a Presidency ; a party that murdered its President; a party that robs women and children by a system of assessments to perpetuate itself in power; a party that went on a big drunk while attending the funeral of its martyred President, and appropriated money from the public funds to foot the bill for whiskies; a party that saluted the British flag and washed down the shame with whiskies paid for out of public funds; a party of Credit Mobilier; a party of jobbery and corruption; a party that hung an innocent woman; a party of whisky thieves; a party of star-route thieves; a party of Robeson, Keifer & Co.; a party with a Saint Guiteau—but why enumerate? Its crimes would fill volumes, while its virtues—well, there are none to Bpeak of. —Covington Friend.

Lincoln’s Title of Rail-splitter.

Mr. Seward was nominated in tho convention by Mr. Evarts, of New York. Mr. Lincoln was nominated by Mr. Judd, of Illinois. The nomination of Mri. Lincoln.was seconded by Mr. Delano, of Oh'o, who said: “I desire to second the nomination of a man who can split rails and maul Democrats —Abraham Lincoln.” This probably originated the term “rail-splitter,” which immediately became popular.. Decorated and illuminated rails surrounded the newspaper offices, and became a leading feature of the campaign. “Rail-splitter Battalions” were formed in the different cities and minor villages of the North. At the great ratification meeting at Cooper Institute, June 8 r after speeches by Messrs. Evarts, Blatcliford, G. W. Curtis, Gen. Nye, and Judge Tracey, of California, the last named said: “We wage no war upon the South, we harbor no malice against the Soaith. We merely mean to fence them in” (pointing significantly to a rail exhibited on the platform); “this is all we propose to do to stop the extension of slavery, and Abe Lincoln has split the rails to build the fence.” —The Century. It is not proper to speak of a milk man’s watering his milk. You should say that he expedites his eream,-*-2to«" ton Transcript,

JOB PRINTIKB OFFICE tito better faeOltiM than *mj ottee la BuittwaiW Indiana for the execution of el) branches of JOB PRZNTXUa. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. .inrthlnc, front a Dodger to a Mea-Uat, or frees • remplnet to a roeter, hlaofc or colored, plain or fanc» SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

INDIANA ITEMS.

There are 2,252 women engaged in farming in the State of Indiana. The present season has been a prolific one for honey with bee-raisers in Floyd county. The soldiers’ reunion at Orleans, Orange county, was a great success, over 7,000 persons being present. The County Treasurer at Wabash lias levied upon and closed the gas-works for taxes amounting to S3OO. The contract for completing the Tippecanoe county Court House has been awarded to Charles Pearce for $241,000. Near Eldwood, Madison county, Patrick Kinsella was run over and cut to pieces by a train on the Lake Erie and Western road. At Wabash, a Miami Indian got drunk and laydown to sleep on the railroad track. A train ran over him, inflicting fatal injuries. Seven young ladies recently assumed the vows of a nun -and retired from tho world in tho chapel of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital at Lafayette. Oscar Wiley, a brakeman on tho Vandalia railroad, foil between the cars at Kuightsville, causing his decapitation aud the cutting of his body in twain. The largest sale of beef cattle ever made in Putnam county was closed last week, contracts being made for 4,400 head, at prices estimated to amount to about $445,000. John Ball has sued Job M. Nash, a wealthy citizen of Tippecanoe county, for SIO,OOO for slander. It is alleged Nash impugned the character of the plaintiff for honesty. Charles Wolf, a brakeman on a Bee line freight train, fell between the ears while his train was passing through Muncie and received injuries from which lie died within an hour. C. Hettler, a prominent Democrat of Allen county, was recently expelled from the party by tho County Committee for accepting a nomination on the Independent ticket. The total receipts of the Harrison county fair aggregated $2,400, and, after all premiums and expenses are paid, will leave tho association with a net balance of over S7OO in the treasury. Mrs. David Woiiden, of Fort Wayne, set fire to her house and threw herself in tho flames because she bad been beaten by her husband. She wr,B rescued, but was pa nfully burned. At Briant Station, Allen county, Benjamin Goodson and liis daughter were struck by lightning and instantly killed. Another man was also stricken down, but liis injuries are not serious. At Hartford, Crawford county, a drunken white man and a drunken negro got into a wordy altercation, when the negro drew a knife and made a rush at the Caucasian, who shot him, inflicting a serious wound. A few weeks since Dr. J. S. Smith, of Warsaw, was divorced from his wife; then followed an apparent reconciliation and a promise to remftrry, but the other day he led to the altar another lady, and the gossips are much excited at tho turn events have taken. The utter uselessness of tho English sparrow as an insect destroyer is shown at New Albany in the immense number of caterpillars that now cover all the acidulous-leaved shade trees of the city, and tho total absence of native birds that destroy these pests—driven away by the pugnacious sparrows. Calvin Fletcher and his son started the other day to their bluff farm, in Morgan county, with a large drove of cattle. When three or four miles from home, a vicious steer turned and drove one of its horns seven inches into tho breast of a fine young horse Mr. F. was riding, killing it and hurting Mr. Fletcher considerably. At Lafayette a child of Ambrose Mitzger*, while toying with a bottle containing carbolic acid, worked tho stopper loose and spided the liquid over its face, breast, and fearfully burning its mouth. . When found, tho child was unconscious, and it was thought would die at once, but it subsequently has revived, and there are some hopes that it may recover. An older child had taken the bottle from the mantel and given it to the babe to play with. Three men, named Keller. Stevens and Taylor, living near Nashville, Brown county, attended a show in that town, and, while returning home at night, passed by a watermelon patch owned by James Harding, who, in company with his son, was hid in the field armed with shotguns and revolvers. While Keller and Stevens were selecting a melon Taylor heard the click of a gun and knew some one was preparing to shoot. He cried out for Keller and Stevens to ran, and as.tlieydid so Harding and his boy emerged from their hiding place and opened fire. At the first shot Keller fell to the ground. Stevens and Taylor ran on home, supposing Keller had also gone away. . Shortly afterward the Hardings met a man named Piercefteld, and told him they thought some one was dead up in the watermelon patch. Upon examination, Harding's son going up to the fence remarked, “Here lies one of them with his belly turned up.” It was Keller, dead. He was shot through tho neck. Harding was at once arrested, and confessed that he had done the shooting, but claimed he did it in self-defense, but ns Keller was not armed with any weapons the defense is very weak.

Practice Versus Preaching.

Surgeons are not healthier than solicitors, and wo are not aware that their children are more robust than the offspring of less scientific societariaus. The worst-drained house in Belgravia was owned by an eminent sanitarian; and to witness four men at a medical club supping on deviled crab and lobster salad is not a reassuring spectacle to the trusting pat ent who has been starving six months* on a certified dietary or gorging himself on sauceless cod in tlie hope of nourishing his brain with phosphorized food, of which all the fish in Billingsgate contain about as much as is dipped on the end of a lucifer match. —London World. There must now l>e more than 50D descendants of Benjamin Franklin in the United States, some of them poor and obscure as liis wife’s family, others in the navy and science 2 one of them is said to be the wife of Attorney General Brewster, another is a school teach er at Port Chester, N. Y,