Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. A fire at Bridgeport, Ct., destroyed Watson's iron works and the factory of the Craighead & El well Company, the loss aggregating $55,000. The Pennsylvania Steel Association hci<l its annual session at Philadelphia The Becretary’s report showed that the production had been increased 1,618,804 tons in ten years. "West. Gen. Crook says that there is not now a hostile Apache in Arizona He has returned from a trip to the Magellan and White mountains and the San Carlos agency, and says that he had talks with all the disaffected Indians, and arrived at a thorough understanding with them. The only band from which we have to fear any trouble is that of the Chiricahuas, now in Mexico. A train on the Santa Fe road was boarded by robbers near Grenada, CoL Two men at Grenada mounted the engine with drawn revolvers, and compelled the engineer to run the train a mile and a half out of town, where fifteen men with revolvers took possession of the entire train. The only shots fired were at Conductor Dees, who had gone forward to learn the cause of the stopping of the train. The conductor ran back into the smoking-car, where a Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff from Raton, also the Sheriff from Las Vegas, were. They drew their revolvers, which saved the passengers from losing their valuables. The ruffians then robbed the express-car of 15,500 in money, ordered the engineer to pull out, got on their horses, which were hitched near by, and departed A safe in the rear car, containing SIO,OOO, was not molested At Fargo, J>. T., the wholesale grocery house of Raymond A Kingman was destroyed by fire. Loss, $38,000; insurance, s2s,<m By the accident to the Cannon-ball train at Salem, Kan., five persons were killed and four others severely injured, one of whom has Bince died. 'ldle bodies of the victims were so badly burned as to be scarcely recognizable. A granite monument, fifteen feet high, is being made at Muscatine, lowa, for Jesse James’ grave. A brilliant aerial phenomenon was witnessed at Dubuque the other evening, consisting of a luminous band spanning the whole heavens from northwest to southeast. It lasted half an hour, and then gradually faded away. . South. During the month of September there were 783 cases of yellow fever at Pensacola and seventy-eight deaths Richmond (Ya.) telegram: “Private Information received here is to the effect that the political riot at Lancaster, 8. C., was much more serious than represented It now I urns out that there were seven colored persons killed and some twenty-one wounded. None of the whites were seriously injured.” Two convict guards on a cotton plantation south of Houston, Tex., named Tower and Thompson, fought a duel with revolvers. Twelve shots were fired and both fell dead. James Rhodes was taken from jail at Charlottesville, Va., and hanged to a tree for the murder of the Massie family. He made a confession of his crime.

Robert T* Carruthers, of Lebanon Tenn., ex-Govemor and ex-member of Congress, is dead A party of lowa capitalists will immediately build another iron blast-furnace in the Birmingham district of Alabama. Judge Woods, late proprietor of the Denison (Texas) Democrat, but lately a citizen of the Indian Territory, where he has been engaged in getting out black walnut timber, had an altercation with one of his mill-hands named Slaughter, in which Slaughter was killed and Woods shot twico through the body, from the effects of which he died three days afterward At Carencro, La., Adolph Marceaux became offended about some imagined wrong, got up a party of friends in military fashion and marched to a hall where a festival was being held Arriving there, they opened fire on the assemblage, killing a girl named Domingue instantly and mortally wounding her brother. Isaac Carton and wife, at Goodwater, Ga, locked three children up in the house, which burned to the ground The children were cremated At Jacksonville, Ala., John Brooks, a negro, who had confessed to outraging a little girl, was taken from the Sheriff by a crowd and hanged in the outskirts of the city. .

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Manager Van Horn expresses the opinion that the Canadian Pacific road will be extended to the summit of the Rocky mountains next season. The tug Ann Long arrived at Owen sound with bodies of six victims of the illfated Asia. A large number of corpses were seen floating about the scene of the disaster, but the Long had no appliances with which to secure them. Newport, R. 1., is endangered with an international complicatioh over a stolen canine, a valuable pet dog belonging to Mr. De Barca, the Spanish Minister, who is occupying a cottage there. The theft was traced to a lager-beer bottler named Trager, who got frightened, killed and buried the dog, and now confesses the deed. The Minister telegraphed Secretary of State Frelinghuysen to have justice done him, and Trager will doubtless be visited with the severest punishment the law allows. The young Emperor of China has, in his own name, requested Queen Victoria’s personal efforts to suppress the opium traffic. The troubles between Corea and Japan have been settled by the former yielding, on a show of force, all Japan’s demands It is reported that Dillon will not press his resignation at present, but will give time for the election of his successor if his illness continues. The North American Beekeepers’ Society held its third annual session at Cincinnati. The President was Dr. A, J. Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural College. Near Mazatlan, Mezico, Francisca Osuna and his son, Prospero, were attacked by two bandits The son was killed, and the father mortally wounded. Citizens pursued and killed one bandit. The Chicago Base-ball Club has for the third consecutive season come out ahead in the race for the League championship pennant. Following is the record of games ost and won during the playing season,

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

which began May 1 and ended Oct 2:

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Chicago. 8 6 6 9 8| 9j 9j 55 Providence * ■■ 6 ® 8 9 9|lo 52 Bnffalo 8 .. 5 G 5 6] 11 45 Boston 8 6 7.. 7 8 4 7 45 Cleveland 3 4 6 5.. 4 911 42 Detroit 4 3 7 4 7.. 8 9| 42 Trov 8 3 6 8 2 4.. 9 35 Worcester 3 2 1 5 1 3 3 ..j 18 Games lost '29 32 39 39;40Ul 4H 06i334 Observations of the comet made at Harvard Observatory tend to establish the fact that it is one of a brief period, and that it is traveling at the rate of 400 miles a second. It has caused great consternation among the negroes of North Carolina, mdny of them firmly believing the end of the world is approaching. Jewish families to the number of 600 have left Pressburg, Austria, on account of the riota New York is in danger of losing Barthold’s great statue of Liberty, intended to be erected on Bedloe’s island, because no suitable foundations have been erected for it. Philadelphia Presbyterian churches voted against the use of musical instruments during divine service, as destructive of the harmony of worship among the sect. A loss of $9.0,000 was incurred at Hochelaga, near Montreal, by the burning of the sash factory and lumber-yard of James Hawley A Hon and McLennan A Co.’s notion factory. The death of Adelaide Phillipps, for many years the leading contralto singer of America, is announced. Miss Phillipps about six months ago was compelled by illhealth to seek rest and change of air in Europe, and at the time of her death was sojourning at Carlsbad Springs in Germany. In Tacubaya, Mexico, twelve masked bandits entered the house of Frederic Hubbi, a tax collector, murdered him and his wife and stole $4,000. WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Folger lias issued a new set of rules for the government of Treasury Department employes, who must be at their desks hereafter from 9 o’clock until 3:30, with the exception of half an hour for lunch, and during that time tend strictly to laisiness, and refrain from smoking aud reading newspapers. Beside the foregoing, there are other important changes in the conduct of the department. Following is the monthly public-debt statement issued on the 2d inst: Interest-bearing debt — Extended (is .$ -3,693,200 Extended 5s 177.062,900 Four and one-half percents 25<)/tm,ooo Four per cents 738,916,250 Three per cents 237,233,200 Refunding certificates 435,8 io Navy pension l'und 14/100,000 Total Interest-bearing debt $1,421,341,350 Interest 12,219,712 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity— Principal $ 15,053,625 Interest 515,030 Debt bearing no interest— Legal tenders $ 346,740,501 Certificates of deposit 10,670,000 Gold and silver certificates 76,476,630 Fractional currency 15,401,012 Less amount estimated .lost or destroyed ($8,375,934)....! 7,028,075 Principal... $ 440,915,229 Unclaimed Pacific railway interest.. 5,339 Total debt'.....' $1,878,216,205 Total interest. 12,740,083 Total $1,890,956,288 Cash in treasury 246,836,064 Debt, less cash in treasury— Oct. 1, 1882 $1,614,120,223 Sept. 1, 1882 1,658,926,171 Decrease during month $ 14,805,948 Decrease since June 30, 1882 44,794,237 Current liabilities — Interest due and unpaid $ 1,532,344 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 15,959,623 Interest thereon 513,030 Gold and silver certificates 76,476,650 United States notes held for redemn- ' ; tion of certificates of deposit 10,670,000 Cash balance available Oct. 1 141^682,413 Total... $ 246,836,061 Available assets— Cash in treasury $ 246,836,064 . Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money— Principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 969,352 Interest paid by United States 55,344,682 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service $ 15,286,467 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings G 55,198 Balance of interest paid by United States... 39,403,015 The accumulation of business in the Pension Bureau is something enormous. A chemical examination of the boquet presented to the assassin Guiteau by Mrs. Scovillo on the day before the execution has developed the fact that one bud contained five grains of white arsenic, far in excess of a fatal dose, which, if taken, could have been defeated by emetics. District Attorney Corkliill is making efforts to discover who poisoned the flow era Secretary Teller ordered the opening of the Turtle Mountain country for settlement. Gen. Sutor, in charge of the Mississippi river improvements, shows in his annual reports that $389,254 were spent for that work, and estimates that $1,383,000 can be profitably spent this year. POLITICAL POINTS. A. B. Hepburn declines the nomination for Congressman-at-Large from New York, on the ground that a very large portion of the Republicans of the State are dissatisfied with the work of the convention. Secretary Folger has formally accepted the Republican nomination for Governor of New York. The Executive Committee of the AntiMonopoly League of New York has formally indorsed the Democratic nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Alexander H. Stephens has been elected Governor of Georgia by a majority estimated at 40,000. All of the Democratic candidates for State officers were elected by about the same majority. The Delaware election resulted in a Democratic majority of- 2D5 for Inspectors and a Republican majority of 113 for Assessors. In the Wyoming Democratic Territorial Convention, which met at Green River, M. E. Post, the present Delegate to Congress, was renominated by acclamation. FOREIGN NEWS. E. Dwyer Gray has been ordered released by Judge Lawson on payment of his fine of £SOO. Col. Berdan has declined to enter the service of the Turkish Government. Two officers were killed and thirty seamen wounded by an explosion on a Russian ironclad at Odessa The Greek Minister has informed the Turkish Premier that Greece will not re-

nounce an inch of the territory ceded by Turkey. The latest diplomatic row at Oon’stantinople arose over the refusal of the Turks to permit the landing of laborers who bad been engaged with the British expedition to Egypt. They were allowed to pass the Dardanelles on the demand of Lord Dufferin, but armed police forced them to remain on Russian steamer which brought them from Port Said. A second effort by the British Minister was rewarded by the release of the laborers. Chili is selling Peruvian nitrate denosits. Mme. Hermance Sandria les Guillon, the authoress, is dead. Cholera is epidemic in Kotta Radja, Borneo, and in Atchin, Sumatra. An embassy from the Queen of Madagascar is about to visit America. The recent census shows the population of the Austrian empiro to be 23,144,244. The Porte has promised Greece it will order the Turks to evacuate all the ceded points of the frontier without delay. Anti- Jewish riots have been renewed at Magyabbel, in Hungary. Many persons have been injured and much property destroyed. Dublin dispatches announce the killing of Thomas Burne, a fanner of Castle Island, County Kerry, and of another farmer named Hunt, near Boyle, County Roscommon. Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,reports that the Irish people show signs of amelioration, though he found 4,000 holdings under £4 a year. He indirectly recommends emigration by the help of the Government. The bodies of two bailiffs named Huddy, thrown into the waters of Lough Mask, and recovered after great difficulty, have been again thrown into their former resting place. The Joyce family are believed to have been murdered for giving information that led to the first recovery of the corp -es. The energy shown by the Hungarian Prem’er in suppressing the anti-Jewish riots has elicited the thanks of the Austrian Emperor. The Sultan declares if Lord Dufferin docs not answer his note inquiring when the British will evacuate Egypt, he will appeal to the powers. Gen. Wolseley has issued a general order praising the troops in Egypt for their courage and gallantry. He thanks them in the Queen’s name for their valor and discipline. Four dissecting-knives, nine inches long, discolored by human blood, were found in a stable in Dublin used by a man named Kenny, who was recently deported for intimidation. It is believed that the weapons were those used in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, aud that Kenny was the driver ot' the car on which the assassins escaped. IVestgate, who made confession of his participa! ion in the tragedy, is at Kingston, Jamaica, and will not be sent to Europe for lack of evidence against him. It is stated in a dispatch from Cairo that Arab! Bey objects to being tried by a court-martial composed of Egyptians, saying that ho surrendered to the English, and not to his own countrymen, from whom he could expect no mercy. If he had supposed his fate was to be decided by any Egyptian tribunal lie would have escaped instead of surrendering. De Lesseps telegraphed the President of the court-martial that Arab! during the war did his utmost to protect apd maintain the neutrality of the Suez canal, and that _he preserved the lives and protected ihe interests of several Europeans. The Suez caual is to be enlarged and improved. The Afghan troops have revolted against the Ameer. Queen Victoria will soon visit the South of France

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A granite monument, in three sections, to be placed by the Government on the held in Montana where Gen. Gibbon fought the Nez Perces in 1877, was shipped from St. Paul. A misplaced switch near Muscogee, Ind'an Territory, sent a freight train into a ditch. Engineer Spiar was crushed to a jelly and Fireman Walker had both legs severed from his body. An Atlanta dispatch says that Stephens’ majority in Georgia will reach. (50,000. Gartrell will contest the election, claiming fraud and intimidatronr y Various sections of the Liberal party in Germany connt with somir coniidence on gaining seventy seats from the Conservatives in the forthcoming elections. The bodies of sixteen victims of the steamer Lee horror have been recovered. All save two were buried at Yucatan land, ing. The greatest portion of' the business section of Warrington, Escambia county, Fla., was destroyed by an incendiary lire. The net revenue of the money-order division of the Postofllce Department for the past fiscal year will exceed $300,000. The funded debt of the city of New York is $97,381,011; adecreaseof over $50,000 having been made in September. A five-story building on Broadway, near Canal street, New York, occupied by several dry-goods firms, wiped out $150,000 in burning. Gold diggings yielding $lO per day have been discovered in the Cariboo district of British Columbia. Chili refuses to abate any of her demands upon Peru for territorial and pecuniary indemnification, and, as Peru declines to yield to these demands, the peace negotiations are broken off. Considerable excitement was caused among the members of the Land League and Irishmen generally in New York by the publication in the Irish World of a letter signed by Patrick Ford, the editor, announcing the close of the Land League fund. This action, Mr. Ford says, is prompted by the fact that “there is no longer a Land League in existence. What was the Land League is a thing of the past, and in its stead appears that beggarly nondescript—with its crouch and whine—the Mansion House Belief Committee. ” When Aurelien Scholl and “Baron” Harden-Hickey arrived at the Dutch frontier, with a view of dueling, the customs inspector glanced at their baggage, and remarked: “All, swords! Swords are dutiable, sir. Seven franc 3 each, if you please. Step this avay.” And he politely ushered the duelists into the office, where they paid the duty. Then he wished them good day politely, and they stepped out, and into the arms of a gendarme, who confiscated the weapons.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13,1882.

EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.

The Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education. Increased Attendance in the Schools of the Country. 0 The report of the National Commissioner of Education for 1880, just issued, in addition to the account of educational affairs for the year, furnishes valuable figures for a comparison with the first year of the preceding decade. The work of the office has increased considerably, as shown by the fact that, while in 1871 there were but 2,001 educational institutions and systems in corres pondence with it, in 18S0 there Were 8,231 such. From the statistics reported it appears that in 1871 twenty-nine States reported a school population of 9,632,969, while in 1880 the thirty-eight States and eight Territories reported a total of 15,536,280. The number enrolled in the public schools, twenty-eight States only reporting for 1871, was 6,393,085, while for 1880 it was 9,781,5.1, all the States and Territories reporting this item. Twenty-five States reported the number in daily attendance in 1871 as 3,601,739, while in 1880 thirty-four States and eight Territories reported it as 5,805,342. In twenty-six States the total number of teachers was given as 180,635 in 1871, and in all the States and Territories as 282,0i4 in 1880, divided in the former case into 60,949 men and 103,743 women, and in the latter into 116, <l2 men and 157,657 women; only twenty-four States reporting the teachers separately in the first year, and thirty-five States and eight Territories in the latter. The total public school income reported ?n 1871 by thirty States was $04,593,919, while in 1880—all the States and Territories re port-ing-—it was $83,940,239, with an expenditure in 1871 by twenty-four States of $61,179,220, and in 1830 by all the States and Territories of $30,032,838, or an expenditure for each child of school age varying from 99 cents in Alabama to sll9l in Massachusetts, and for eacli one in average attendance from $2.34 in North Carolina to $27.35 in Calif ornia. The permanent school fund reported in 1871 by nineteen States was $41,466,754, and that of 1880 was $123,878,839. This fund is composed principally of the proceeds of grants and reservations of land to the States and Territories respectively, made by the United States, and which are stated by Mr. Thomas Donaldson, in his valuable work, “The Public Domain,” to be as follows. From 1785 to June 30,1880: Acres. For public and common schools, estimated G 7,895,919 For seminaries or universities, estimated...-. 1,165,520 For agricultural and mechanical colleges 9,600,000 Total 77,659,439 The number of pupils reported in private schools in 1871 was 328,170 in fourteen States, and in 1880, in twenty-one States and four Territories, it was 508,130. Of normal schools, or schools for preparing teachers, there has been a steady increase during the decade, there being sixtyfive reported in 1871, with 445 instructors and 10,922 students, and 220 in 1880, with 1,466 instructors and 43,077 students, of w hom 903 and 25,723 respectively were in IC6 public normals, and 563 and 17,354 respectively were in 114 private schools. The number of graduates in those supported by the public funds was 2,943; in the private ones Considerable advance is shown in the institutions for the higher instruction of women, there being 136 of these reported in 1871, with 1,163 teachers and 12,411 pupils, and 227 in 1880, with 2,34) teachers, 20,78) studenis, 251,595 volumes in the libraries; grounds, buildings and apparatus valued at $9,510,909, and an income of $790,331. The Commissioner says that progress is marked and satis lactory"; that in 1870 the Michigan University and the Illinois industrial University were opened to women, in 1872 Cornell and the University of Vermont, in 1873 Boston University; that Smith aud Wellesley Colleges were'organized in 1875. and that in 1879 the Harvard Annex for Women went into operation. Agricultural colleges or schools of science have increased Lorn forty-one in 1871, with 303 instructors and 3,303 students, to eighty-three, including the United Slates Military and ’ Naval Academies, in 1880, with 953 instructors and 11,584 students. Ninety-four schools of theology were reported in 1871, with 369 teachers and 3,204 students. They increased during the decade to 142, with 633 instructors and 5,242 students trained in the tenets of twenty denominations, three of the schools being unsectarian. In law the number of schools was thirty in 1871, with 129 instructors and 1,722 students; in 1880 the number was forty-eight, with 229 instructors and 3,134 students. Schools of medicine have increased during the decade from 82, with 750 instructors and 7,045 stjidents, to 12.), with 1,660 instructors and 14,000 students The number of “regular” schools in 1871 was 57; in 1880 it was 72; of eclectic, in 1871, 4; in 1880, 6; homeopathic, in 1871, 6; in 1880 12; of dental, in 1871,9; in 1880, 16; of pharmaceutical, in 1871,16; in 1880,14. Schools for the blind number 30, and have 532 instructors and other emp'oyes, with 2,032 pupils. There have been 9,371 inmates of tlie.-e institutions since opening. • A summary of institutions for the deaf and dumb shows that there were 56 reported, with 418 instructors (60 being semi-mute), and 6,6 )7 under instruction, the whole number who have received instruction being 20,504. Of schools for feeble-minded 3 r outh there were 13 in 1880, reporting 483 instructors and other employes, tal of 1,936 dismissed improved since their opening. The amount of benefactions for educational purposes during the year 1880 reached the important figure of $5,513,501. This sum was distributed among the different institutions as follows: Universities and colleges $2,666,571 Schools of Science .1,371,445 Schools of theology 827,556 Schools of law 425 Schools of medicine 11,400 Institutions for the superior instruction of women 92,372 Preparatory schools 111,584 Institutions for secondary instruction.. 368,380 Institutions for the deaf and dumb and the blind 22,583 Trainirfg schools for nurses 40,885

Another edition oi Drs. Behm and Wagner’s well-known statistical compilation of the population of the earth has just appeared at Gotha, brought down to 1882. The last edition was printed in 188 and the world’s population have the right to congratulate themselves that their number has increased by 83,000,000 in two years. The populations of the various continents, according to the latest data, are given as fo'lows: Europe, 327,748,4 0; Asia, 795,591,(00; Africa, 205,823,20J; America, 100,415,400 r Australia and Polynesia, 4,:.33,.000; polar regions, 82,"(X); total, 1,413,837,500. There are some interesting details connected with the statistics. Greece has gained 299,953 population in her new terr torv. Asiatic Russia has also gained by territorial accessions, and now numbers 14,936,750; adding this to the population of European Russia gives 93,313,000 to the whole empire. The most interesting feature, however, is the reduction of the population of China, by correcting former errors, from 434,500,000 to 371,200,000. The final figures are for China proper, 350,000,000, for Manchuria, Mongolia, Thibet, Jungarie and East Turkestan, 21,180,000. Coming to America, the principal populations are set down as follows: United States, 50,442,0:30; Canada, 4,324,810; Mexico, 9,577,279; Central America, 2,891,000; West Indies, 4,617,450; South America, 28,010,354, of which number nearly one-half belongs to Brazil. »

A leading business man of Central New York, finding that he had reached the close of liis life, called his two sons to his bedside, told them he had arranged his affairs so that they would have a million each, and begged them to do nothing, but live like gentlemen on the income from their possessions.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

The World’s Population.

“Living Like Gentlemen.”

Then he died, and his two sons, in pursuance of tlieir father’s last request, proceeded to do nothing and to live like gentlemen. In twelve months thfe life of a gentleman finished one of the sons, and another year completed the earthly career of the other. Both fill drunkards’ graves, and they own the graves.

SURRENDER OF FRANK JAMES.

The Notorious Outlaw Turns Himself Over to the Authorities. His Pistols Handed to Gov. Crittenden in Person. Frank James, the noted outlaw, surrendered himself to Gov. Crittenden, at the capital of Missouri, on the sth inst. At dusk on that evening, the notorious desperado, accompanied by Maj. John N. Edwards, of the Sedalia Democrat , entered the Governor’s office, at Jefferson City. Maj. Edwards introduced Frank to the Governor. The two shook hands, and then Frank unbuckled his belt, and, handing it and his revolvers to Crittenden, he said: “You are the first man to handle that weapon since 1861. ” He meant that he had carried the pistol in his belt those twenty-one years. After this performance he was handed over to officers. This startling news, says a Kansas City dispatch, was a profound surprise to even the officials here. Just after the killing of Jesse James at St. Joseph, last spring, the friends of Frank James in this State made overtures to Gov. Crittenden looking to the pardon of the noted robber. Papers were full of the matter at the time, and it was even reported that Gov. Crittenden was willing to grant a pardon in the case if Frank would agree to give information concerning the members of the gang yet out. Gov. Crittenden himself says he told Frank James if he wanted to surrender he must come in as any other criminal and stand trial for crimes committed. Since then the matter has dropped from public attention, and it was even stated that Frank had gone t,-> Australia. Suddenly he reappeared on the scene, however, and this week sent Crittenden a letter from St Louis, stating in substance that he is anxious to be restored to citizenship; that he wants to put the past behind him; that he is heartily sick of the life of an outlaw; and that he has a wife and child to plead for him and make him human, even though he were as bad as he has been described, and throws himself on the clemency of the Governor and asks that he *be saved. Under date of Oct. 2, Gov. Crittenden responded that he could not grant a pardon, if inclined to, before conviction for some crime. He hopes he will abandon his past life, and if he surrenders will see that he gets an impartial trial. The response is a surrender. James’ history is known. He engaged in the Northfield bank robbery and some dozen other noted deeds of outlawry. He is under indictment in lowa for the Corydon Bank robbery; in Missouri for the Glendale, Blue Cut and Winston train robberies; in Arkansas for stage robberies; in West Virginia for bank robbery, and in Mussel Shoals, Ala., for robbing a Government contractor. MONUMENT TO JESSE JAMES. A dispaten from Muscatine, lowa, saysA large marble-cutting establishment of this city has ju-t been awarded th 9 c intract for erecting a monument over the grave ol Jesse James, 'lhe monument will be red beach granite and stand twelve or fourteen feet high, be iring the plain and simple inscription, “Mv husband, our father, Jes6e James, died April 2, 1882, aged 34 years 6 months and 8 days. ” The contract was signed by Mrs. Jesse W. James, and the stone was selected by her. THE BANDIT JAILED AT INDEPENDENCE. Frank James was taken from Jefferson Chy to Independence by Gov. Crittenden’s Secretary and placed in jail, bail being refused. A correspondent telegraphs that, “at the station was an anxious crowd, at the car windows and filling the aisle inside, eager to get a glimpse of the man who, for twenty years, has apparently defied the law. Once here, and several- times along the route, James was recognized by old confederates —men who had known him in the guerrilla days. Evidently he had changed much in appearance, as none of them recognized him until he had been rein ted out. .Tames is 5 feet 9 inches in height, of spare but sinewy build, with rather thin face and prominent cheek bones, lg ht blue eyes, small blonde mustache, and l air somewhat darker. His complexion is that of a man who has been for some time in confinement. His we’ght is 125 pounds. Because of his spare frame he appears taller than he really is. His manners is quiet, and language that of a man in the ordinary walks of life. His dress is altogether, unobtrusive, the only jewelry being a gold watch and chain. He stated that, although receiving no promise of clemency from Gov. Crittenden, lie had at last nerved himself to an act wh-'ch he had long contemplated, and surrendered himself to the State. He is confident that if he be tried on any single charge alone he will not be convicted; and, although having received no promises, he seems to hope that, in case of conviction, clemency will he shown because of his voluntary action. He says that his desire is to lead henceforth a quiet life with his family, and, instead of an outlaw’s career, to aid in the protection of the State against criminals. He declares that from April, 1877, until April, 1881, he lived quietly with his wife upon a rented 1.-vm in Tennessee near Nash ville. This he asserts he can prove by staunch business men of Nashville. Regarding his whereabouts since April, 1881, he is silent He says, however, that he read the news of the shooting of Jesse in the New York Herald tbe morning of its publication, indicating that he was in that vicinity, and admits he has been east of the Alleghanies and in Kentucky during the past year. “When the train reached Independence the crowd fell back upon the meeting of James with bis mother, wife and child, a hoy of 4 years. Mrs. Samuels wept aloud, anil her" son’s eyes were wet. The wife seemed to think only of the joy of meeting her husband again. The child looked wonderingly from his father’s shoulder upon the scene. The waiting officers joined the party, which then drove to the Court House. “The bandit bears the marks of many battles. He has seventeen scars to show fox as many wounds; has been twice shot through the body with Minie balls.”

An Old Fashioned Restaurant Advertisement.

Tlie following is from a Kentucky publication of the year 1815. To be sold by Jonathan Hiekumbottom At his refectory, west end of the bridge, Providence Solid Arguments, consisting of Bread, Butter, Cheese, Ham, Eggs, Salmon, Neat tongues, Oysters, Ac., ready cooked Agitations. Cider, Vinegar, Salt, Pickles, Sweet Oil, Ac. Grievances. Pepper, Sauce, Mustard, Black Pepper, Cayenne. Punishments. Wine, Brandy, Gin, Spirits, Bitters, Porter, Ac. Superfluities. Snuff, Tobacco and Segars. N. B.—Any of the above articles to be exchanged for Necessaries, viz.: French Crowns, Spanish Dollars, Pistareens, Cents, Mills or Bank Bills Credits given for Payments: 30, 60 and 90 seconds", or us long as a man can hold his breath. Rudiments gratis, viz.: Those indebted for Arguments Must not be Agitated Nor think it a Grievance If they should meet Punishment For calling for such Superfluities And supposing it not Necessary To make immediate - • • • Payment Miss Lucy Stone, of woman-suffrage fame, is not a maiden lady, for she is the wife of Professor Henry B. Blackwell, of Boston; but she does not believe in a wife taking her husband’s name.

TARIFF TOPICS.

[From the Indianapolis Sentinel.] The Republican party favors a tariff for protection. The Democratic party advocates a tariff for revenue. There is no free-trade party in the United States. The Democratic party is not a free-trade party, nor is it a protectivetaiiff party. The Democratic party advocates a constitu'ional tariff, which is a tariff for revenue. Tariff means tax. Taxes are levied so: - the support of governments, to defray the legitimate expenses of governments, and when levied for any other piupoTe they are despotic, and ought not to be tolerated in a free government. The Republican party favors a tariff which robs the poor man for the benefit of the rich man; a tariff like the Hubbell assessments —it plunders one class, the workers, the wage people, to raise money for which there is no legitimate use under heaven, and, when money so raised is in tlxe treasury, it becomes a source of corruption, of profligacy, and is squandered for the benefit of rings and rascals. The fact is so well established that the consumer pays the tax on the goods which he purchases that none but fools and knaves contravert it. Still, the Republican party, that it may continue to rob the poor for the benefit of the. rich, declares that high tax makes articles upon which it is levied cheaper to the consumer. But John Quincy Adams, fifty years ago, in his celebrated report upon manufactures, said that “the doctrine that duties of import cheapen the price of the articles upon which they are levied seems to conflict with the first dictates of common sense. The duty constitutes a part of the price of the whole mass of the article in the market. It is substantially paid upon the article of domestic manufacture as well as upon that of foreign production. Upon one it is a bounty, upon the other a burden, and the repeal of the tax must operate as an equivalent reduction of the price of the article, whether foreign or domestic. We say so long as the importation continues the duty must be paid b,v the purchaser of the article.” As we have remarked, none but fools and knaves deny the absolute correctness of such conclusions. Since it is necessary for the Gov ,-nment to liavo revenue, and since a tariff tax is the easiest method, all things considered, to obtain it, the Democratic party favors the lowest, tax practicable, that evey unnecessary burden may be removed from the people. The Republican party antagonizes the Democratic policy and advocates a higli protective tax, not lo obtain revenue, but to increase the wealth of monopolists by levying burdensome taxes upon consumers. Bearing in mind the incontrovertible fact that consumers pay the tariff tax, the reader will be prepared to understand the following from the great speech of Senator Coke, in the United States Senate last February. He said: “During the fiscal year just closed, the value of dutiable merchandise imported into this country from abroad, as the Treasurer’s report shows, was $448,061,587.95. Upon this merchandise was collected at the Custom House $193,800,897.67, being an* average of 434 per cent. This is the entire revenue of the Government derived from the tariff for the last fiscal year. Now, what amount do the manufacturers receive from the tariff? By the census of 1870 it was estimated that $4,000,000,000 worth of manufactured articles were consumed annually in the United States. The figures for 1880 are not yet published so as to be accessible, but following the ratio of increase in population and everything else, they must now amount to at least $5,000,000,000 iu each year. All these manufactures being increased in cost to the consumer by the amount of tariff duty, which, as I have before stated, is an average of 45 per cent., which goes to manufacturers. It is easy to see on that basis what the share of the manufacturers Avould be. But I will discount that per cent, so as to more than cover all contingencies and all drawbacks, and say they only receive, under the tariff, 2§ per cent, on the sum total of manufactured articles consumed iu the United States, and it amounts to the enormous sum of $1,250,000,000 annually. And the amount increases each year with the population and trade of the country. So. for the year 1881, the results of tariff taxation and the distribution of its proceeds may be tabulated thus: Revenue received by the Government, $193,800,897.67; bounty received by manufacturers, $1,250,000,000. So that, for every single dollar paid into the national treasury under the existing tariff, $6.50, at the lowest calculation, go into the pockets of the manufacturers. ” It would be difficult to state the case clearer. The facts and figures sustain the argument. This infamous tariff that robs one class to enrich another class is supported and advocated by the Republican party of Indiana, its organs and its candidates, and is opposed by the Democratic party. Senator Coke savs:

6f the $193,890,879.67 of revenue collected for the Government under this tariff for 1880, six commodilies and classes of commodities yielded 69.01 per oent of the whole. I quote from the report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on our foreign commerce of-1880: “Of the total amount of duties collected on imports, the duties on sugar and molasses amounted to $47,984,032.84, or 24.78 per cent.; the duties on wool and manufactures thereof amounted to $37,285,624.78, or 14.10 per cent.; the duties on iron and steel and manufactures thereof amounted to $21,461,534.- 4, or 11.09 per cent.; the duties on manufactures of silk amounted to $19,038,665.81. or 9.81 per cent.; the duties on manufactures of cotton amounted to $10,825,115.21, or 5.59 percent., and the duties on flax and manufactures thereof amount©3 to $6,984,374.99, or 3.60 per cent. “The duties collected on these six commodities . and c'asses of commodities amounted to $133,580,347 88, and constituted 69.01 per cent of the total amount of duties collected on imports.” No better evidence than this official statement is needed to show the utterly reckless perversion of the taxing power exercised in the constructing of the existing tariff. Why is it that it takes all the balance of the dutiable articles on the long tariff Ist to make up the remaining $69,000,000 of the revenue received by the Government, when these six commodities produce so much? The answer is plain. The range of duties is so high, so extremely protective, that very few foreign goods are imported; so the ' Government receives very little revenue: but these same excessive duties are added to the price of tlie doibest ic article, and the whole of it goes into the pocket of the manufacturer, because the people are compelled to buy. Take the article of blankets as an example. They are universally used throughout tho country. The duty on them is from 85 to 104 per cent It is estimated that $20,000,000 worth of blankets are bought annually in

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this country; yet for the year 1881 official reports show that only $1,319.08 worth of blankets were imported from abroad, and the revenue of the Government on that importation amounted to only sl,oSii.oß, The 100 per cent duty was added to the cost of blankets made in the Uuited States, and was pocketed by the manufacturers, the people having it to'pay. Flannel, another article entering into universal consumption, worn in some form or other by all our people, of every age, sex and condition—an article for which a very much greater amount must be paid annually than is expended for blankets. The duty on flannels ranges from 8S to 95 per cent, and is prohibitory. For the year 188 > the flannels of every character and description import- d from abroad amounted to $8,082,98 worth, and the revenue coming to the Government to $2,435.06, the manufacturers again receiving the duty from the people, and the Government nothing virtually, Wool hats, such as our people generally wear, are taxed in the tariff 20 cents per pound and 35 per cent, ad valorem, compound duty, and not one was imported. The Government derived not 1 cent of revenue, but the people paid the duty in the price of the article to the manufacturer. So with shirts, drawers and other knit goods so generally worn; duty prohibitory, and none importe'd. So with shot; duty 2«< cents per pound; revenue from shot, only SOI.OO. So with back-saws, crosscut-saws and hand-saws; the entire duty derived from them for the Government, $02.73; duty prohibitory. Horseshoe nails: duty 5 cents per pound; prohibitory; revenue, slo.B'. Wire (such as our people use for fencing): duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Screws for wood: duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Cut nails and spikes: duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Galvanized or coated iron: duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Cast and wrought-iron hinges, board-nails, rivets and bolts f duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Bessemer steel rails, universally used now In construction of our railroads. The United States manufactures these rails more largely than any other country in the world. Price of these rails in Eflgland, from SBO to $35 per ton; our tariff duty, S2B per ton; price in the United States, $07.50 per ton. Domestic produce consumed in the United States during 1880, 1,112,090 tons. By comparing price in England and the United States, it will be seen that every dollar of the duty was added to the domestic product. Bounty to the manufacturer in this one article alone, $81,155,320, which is refund d by the people, with interest doubly compounded annually, to the railroad companies in increased charges for freight and passengers. The duty prohibitory until the unprecedented amount of railroad building now going on commenced, and will be again as soon as it subsides. So with heavy cotton goods, universally used by our poorer people, in which our manufacturers excel the world. Duty prohibitory; importation and revenue nominal. Common soap, of universal consumption: compound duty of 1 cent per pound and bO per cent, ad valorem. Toilet soap: duty 10 cents per pound and 25 per cent, ad valorem. Millions of dollars worth of these two articles are sold to the people annually with thpse compound duties added to the price; vet the revenue dmived from them is only $145,722.02. v I could go on and fill pages with quotations from the tariff list of articles of daily use among the people with duties so excessive as virtually to exclude importation and thereby destroy revenue, but on which the consumer pays the duty to the manufacturer in the price of the domestic article. A tariff- framed like this, which taxes the people from head to foot as this does in behalf of full-grown, fully-developed manufacturing industries as ours are, able to compete with the world in open market, is subversive of every principle of justice between men as it is destructive of the revenues of the Government. This is protection, socalled. I call it robbery under the forms of law. Such are some of the iniquitous burdens imposed by the present Republican tariff, which the Democratic party is seeking to have revised, ancl which the Republican party, monopolists and Arthur’s Tariff Commission are striving to maintain and perpetuate. It is a tariff of abominations— a tariff constructed for robbery as infamous as Hubhell’s blackmail proceedings—a tariff which legalizes cviuio for the purpose of corruption.

A Roving Lot.

Tlie pernicious and costly example of Grant in abandoning tlie seat of government,'and in turning over the great public business to irresponsible clerks for months, lias been adopted by Gen. Arthur as’worthy of imitation. He and liis Cabinet, with temporary exceptions, have been absent from Washington since the adjournment of Congress, and most of them are still wandering in distant parts of the country. According to the President’s own admissions, the Capitol and the White House are both healthy, and the summer has been exceptionally cool and pleasant. Hence there was no good reason for leaving a city where “malavia” is a convenient name for excesses. • The President is paid $50,000 a year, and is furnished with all the equipments of a luxurious household at the public expense, with a contingent fund of SB,OOO per annum, which is practically an addition to the salary. When Abraham Lincoln was President his pay was $25,000 a year and SI,OOO for contingencies. Mark the contrast! The Cabinet receive SB,OOO a year, and enjoy many privileges and perquisites little known to the public. These officials are servants of the people, and nothing more, whatever airs they may put on. Some of them, who went in poor, like Secor Robeson, have come out very rich. John Sherman, Windom, Cameron and others never killed the goose that laid the golden egg. They nourished it, and increased their stores. The President and Secretaries take oaths to perform their duties faithfully. They are supposed to be present to perform them. They draw the pay with punctilious regu arity, whether sporting with fashion at Newport, or cruising in public vessels, or luxuriating at Long Branch, or recruiting in Colorado, or wherever else they may be scattered, for free passes and the palace cars of monopoly carry them to tho extreme 4 points without expense. The great corporations cordially welcome them as chosen guests with a profuse hospitality. Ships of Avar ai - e- ordered for personal convenience by the President and the Secretary of the Navy at tlie cost of appropriations for the service. Meantime the rings, the jobbers and the corruptionists hold high carnival in the departments at Washington. Subordinates have full swing, and they make the most of the annual opportunity. The Governmental machine runs in the ruts of Grantism, Avidened by tlie hypocritical knavery of his fraudulent successsor, who demanded his salary a month in advance of its being due, and avlio stocked the departments with tho thieves, the perjurers, the forgers and tho scoundrels who in any Avay contributed to the theft of the Presidency in 187(5, Avhile Evarts, and Scliurz, and Sherman, and the rest of them Avero shouting for civil-service reform and glorifying their own purity! A sense of public decency was thought to be a sufficient pioiial re-

|P{ gfemocrntin gmtittef JOB PRINTING OFFICE 17m better tecflltt— than any oAoa tm Jfocthwieteai Indiana for the executtea o t aD brandies of FOB , JPRXKTT X2STC*. PROMPTNESS A SPIOIALTY. .Inytbing, from a Dodger to a Fries Uet, or from ■ fampUiot to a Footer, blade or ookwad, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

stra'nt against this culpable absenteeism and criminal neglect of duty. That sentiment has had no foothold since Grant became President. Ho defied it, and inaugurated the license which has been practiced for thirteen successive years, to the great scandal of honest government, and at a loss of many millions to the treasury, to say nothing of the demoralization of the whole public service iu every branch and in every bureau. "Without the least authority of law, the 9,000 or 10,000 clerks in the departments are allowed a month’s vacation in each year, with full pay. They may select their own time for the abseuco, or loiter about the streets and resorts of Washington at pleasuro. This privilege is granted by the Executive, who has no more right to give it than ho has to lake the million of dollars out of the treasury which the taxpayers havo to furnish for this absence from duty. The President and the heads of departments and the chiefs of bureaus do not, however, apply this rule to themselves, They are free to go and to come without restraint, and without loss of salary. They claim to be a privileged class, and they insist on special favors as following this assumed distinction. We propose that Congress shall pass a law at the next session to correct this shameful abuse. The terms of it may ho very simple, and need only a few plain but direct words, forbidding any public officer from receiving pay wliilo absent from duty at his own request or by any recognized practice of vacation. Stop the salary, and reform will follow os naturally ns day succeeds night.— New York Sun.

THE MORMONS.

The Work of the United States Commission. Ten Thousand Polygamists Disfranchised. lion. Alexander Ramsey, Chairman of the United States commission appointed under the provisions of the Edmunds bill to carry out the new law in Utah, recently arrived home at St. Paul on a short vacation from his labors, and was interviewed in regard to the progress of the task of making polygamy odious. “I loft Salt Lake,” said Gov. Ramsey, “for a short rest and visit homo, fcho commission having completed the registration of the voters for the Territory of Utah, Thirty-five thousand persons, men and women—the women vote there, you know—were registered, and 10,(XX) polygamists of both sexes were disfranchised The census of 1880 showed that there were 144,000 people in the Territory, and it is estimated that there are now about 100,000, of whom 120,000 are Mormons and the balance of 40,000 anti-Mormon. Of this population, which registers 35,000 voters, the Mormons claim that not to exceed from 5,01 K) to 7,000 are non-Mormons, while the Gentiles assert that their voting strength is from 7,000 to 10,0(K>. At a very early day after the arrival of the commission, leading polygamists came to us and said they desired to assure us they would make no attempt to be registered, nor would thev make any attempt to vote, and would do all in tlielr power to assist us. In a general way I think they kept their word. In fact, tbo Mormons conducted themselves fairly, as far as we could learn. We have, beside completing the registration, appointed a County Register in each of tuo twenty-four counties of Utah and selected a Register for each voting precinct, so that there are about 200 of them. We now have to appoint three judges in each election precinct, making about G<>o judges. With regard to these appointments, 'there has been a good deal of nonsense in the papers about the commission favoring the Mormons, while the fact is that there are whole counties where none hut Mormons reside, and, as the law is intended to make polygamy odious and does not disfranchise a ' non-polygamist Mormon, wc could not do otherwise tl.an do just what the law does—recognize that class. Ho far as the elections are concerned, they will of course be carried by the Mormons. Of course the Mormon vote, which is at least two and a half to one Gentile, will elect the Delegate to Congress, and the polygamists, knowing that their man and officers generally will be chosen, can well afford to acquiesce in their own disfranchisement. I heard it said that the present Mayor of Halt Lake City,"Mr. Kane, stood a good show for the Mormon nomination mid election. ” "What will be the general effect of the law as it pertains to the elections! 1 ” “It will take pretty near all the wealthiest men of the Mormon church out of politics and make polygamy odious, especially to the rising generation, who will dislike to bo disfranchised on arriving at their majority. The old fellows now thrown out will be looked upon by many as martyrs, and in fact so cons der themselves already. Ho far as the general effect of ihe law is concerned it cannot now be determined what that will bo, for it is, of course, an experiment.”

STATE CONVENTIONS.

The Democrats of Connecticut assembled in State Convention at Hartford and nominated the following ticket: Governor, Thomas M. Waller; Lieutenant Governor, George G. Sumner; Secretary of State, 8. Ward Northrop; Treasurer, Alfred R. Goodrich; Comptroller, Thomas P. Sanford. The platform approves the Presi - dent's veto of the River and Harbor bill, and treats the prohibition question as follows: “We fully recognize the evils arising from the abuse of intoxicating liquors. Wo believe those evils may be most effectually checked by the force of enlightened public opinion. They may be partially restrained by wises legislation, but such legislation should not be so oppressive or so impracticable in its provisions as to trench on tho personal rights and liberties of the citizens, and ought not to be made a partisan quastion. Legislation so equally affecting every one in reference to a subject where all honest men seek a common object can most safely bo left to individual conscience free from blunders of party prejudice. We believe the incorporation of a police regulation relative to the sale of intoxicating liquors Into tho State constitution to be opposed to tlie plainest principles of sound government. ” The Now York State Temperance Convention met at Syracuse to agree upon the basis of the Prohibition amendment to tho Stato constitution. The following resolutions Avere adopted: Revolved, That we recognize the hand of Almighty God in the movement that has already accomplished so much for the suppression of tho liquor traffic in other States, and that ts kindling so great an enthusiasm among the friends of tcmi>cranee in our State. Reunited, That Ave call for the submission to the people of tills State of an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. Revolted, That we do not identify ourselves with any partisan movement., but, as a convention representing tho temisrance societies and Christian churches of the State ot New York, we do sook such legislation as shall free our noble State from tlie power of rum, which we recognize as an enemy of all good, and we do hereby call on all good citizens, irrespective ofparty or creed, to aid in tills object. Revolved, That wc pledge ourselves to vote for no candidate for tho Legislature who will not publicly pledge himself in favor of submitting such amendment to a vote of the people. A constituteon for a temperance association was adopted and John N. Stearns chosen Chairman. A little lady of 2£ years had picked np a cane in the corner of the room and Avas playing with it—a plain stick bent at the end. Papa asked, “ What are you doing Avith the cane?'’ “It isn’t a cane.” “What is it, then?” “It’s an umbrella without aij' clothes on it.”