Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. George Huntington, his wife anti four children were drowned at Amesbury, Mass., by the capsizing of a small boat Anthony Comstock raided the poolloons in Long Island City, captured property valued at $15,000 and made three arrests. At each place visited he was compelled to force an entrance. At the autumn meeting of the New York and Brooklyn Association of Congregational Churches, held in the former city, II m y Ward Beecher, who had been assigned to open the discussion of the subject of “H; iritual Barbarism,” made it the occasion of announcing his withdrawal from mem-ber-hip in the association. He delivered an elaborate exposition of his beliefs respecting the doctrine of the Bible and of Christianity, and assigned as a reason for withdrawing from-the association that as a Christian gentleman he could not afford to lay on anybody the responsibility of his views. President Arthur was enthusiastically rec c ted at Boston. A battery thundered its welcome, and he was escorted to his hotel by brigades of the State militia. At his reception, at faneuil Hall, he addressed a large multitude. The party went from Boston to Marshfield, where they participated in the 100th birthday of Daniel Webster. George D. Rice, cashier of the Dime Savings Bank, at Lebanon, Pa., brought home from Philadelphia, in a sachel, $30,000 in currency, and laid it aside to eat supper with his family. About 8 o’clock in the evening he left for the bank, to place the money in the safe. When he had walked a few yards he was assaulted by two men, who felled him with a billy. He clung to the sachel and shouted for help, but was clubbed until senseless, and his treasure taken away. The 100th anniversary of the birth of Daniel Webster was celebrated with peculiarly interesting exercises at Marshfield, Mass. President Arthur and Secretaries Lincoln and Chandler, Senators Hoar and Dawes, Gov. Long, Mayor Green and other notables were present, the President making several speeches in response to the attentions bestowed upon him. The city of Buffalo is flooded with spurious silver dollars, and it is believed a gang of counterfeiters have their workshops hi the vicinity.

West. Charles P. Johnson, formerly Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, will defend Frank James in any prosecution brought by the State. The registration of voters in Utah covers 34,000 names, four out of nine being women and three out of four Mormons. Near Deckerville, Micli., a farmer named Davidson quarreled with and shot his wife dead, and then fatally wounded his two eons. The murderer then escaped. An entire block of business houses in East Front street, El Paso, 111., was consumed by lire. 'Lie loss is estimated at $100,0(H), with but small insurance. The people of Lincoln county, Mo., have rebelled against an order of court levying a tax of 1 per cent, to pay a judgment for S3OO,(XX) on railroad bonds, and declare that they will resist the collection in every manner known to the law. A fall of rock in the Republican Iron Mine, at Republic, Mich., instantly killed four workmen and seriously injured another. Seventeen members of a gang of counterfeiters were gobbled by the United Btates Marshal at Tipton, Ind., after mountains of evidence had been secured by detectives. The laborers on the Northern Pacific demanded an increase of wages, and the men were very turbulent and threatened Superintendent of Construction Hallet with hanging. All the Chinamen were driven off. Ha let demanded the protection of the military. The garrison at Salt Lake is to be increased by four companies of the Sixth infantry, but officers in the War Department deny any fears of trouble with the Mormons. Sixty-one head of polled Angus and Galloway cattle were sold at the Kansas City fair-grounds, bringing $36,730. The Angus cows averaged $748 and the Galloway cows $407. South. The Rev. J. L. Denton, State Superintendent of Instruction of Arkansas, suicided at Fayetteville, while mentally deranged, by throwing himself from the balcony of a residence. George D. Wise, candidate for Congress in Virginia, challenged his opponent, J. Ambler Smith. The latter accepted and named shot-guns at forty paces. Wise thereupon came to the conclusion that dueling was barbarous, and there was no fight. Congressman W. M. Lowe, of Ala- . bama, died at Huntsville in that State. The Star block at Terrell, Tex., containing a bank and several stores, was destroyed by fire, the loss aggregating $75,000. Diphtheria is committing great outrages in Pittsylvania county, Va Twenty pupils in one school district died, and there is not a family but mourns the loss of a little one.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Board of Freedmen at Havana, in accordance with the provisions of the Emancipation law, have, since January, set free 20,900 slavea President Arthur is said to be suffering from malaria and kidney troubles, and is threatened with Bright’s disease. The steamship Herder went ashore near Cape Race, in a dense fog, and will doubtless prove a total loss. She had 133 passengers and a crew of about 100 men, all of whom were landed without accident. Congressman Kasson, speaking at the Sullivan meeting at Des Moines on Irish affairs, said the diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Great Britain on the subject of imprisoned Americans was of such a character that, had they not been released, the friendly feeling between the two nations would have been greatly imperiled. A slight shock of earthquake was experienced at Montreal Herbert Spencer, on account of illhealth, has abandoned his contemplated Western trip, and wiR shortly return to England. Four tidal waves overwhelmed a Mex can island on the Pacific coast, and seventy people were drowned. The calamity occurred simultaneously with the earthquake on the Isthmus, Sept. 7. President Arthur told a friend in Boston that he had suffered from no disease

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except malarial fever, which he contracted at Washington. The Dominion Government will next summer lay a cable under Lake Superior, connecting with the telegraph system of Ontario. Cablegrams from Lima announce the failure of peace negotiations between Garcia Calderon and the Chilian officials, under the mediation of Minister Logan.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A sudden demand for fractional currency has sprung up, and the Treasurer of the United States is kept busy shoveling out half-dollars, quarters and dimes. The demand is said to grow out of the increasing prosperity of the South. The colored people are said to like silver money, and planters, manufacturers and storekeepers are constantly clamoring through the banks for fresh supplies. There will be no difficulty in supplying any possible demand in this direction. Dr. Bliss, Garfield’s physician, says he will get the full amount of his bill, s3sv--000, and that he will never be a well man again. Eighty days spent at Garfield’s bedside have, he claims, broken down his constitution and wrecked his health. William F. Salter and Wiimot H. Ward have been arrested in Washington on a charge of being engaged in a conspiracy to steal bonds and plates from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and attempting to bribe employes of the bureau to assist them in their plans. It is alleged that the object of the woukl-be thieves was not to counterfeit bonds, but to damage Col. Irish, chief of the bureau, and secure bis removal from office. Attorney General Brewster is vigorously pushing the inquiry into the attempted bribery of jurors in the star-route cases. The Treasury Department is unable to supply the demand for gold certificates, and it is proposed to change the form so that countersigning will not be necessary. Dressed beef from Chicago has made a revolution in prices at Washington, the decreased cost to consumers being onetliird. The Dead Letter Office has been receiving hundreds of misdirected letters which are sent out by insurance companies to all parts of ific country. A package has been received at the Treasury Department containing $‘.150,000 in Government bonds bequeathed by Joseph L. Lewis, a miser, of Hoboken, N/ Y., to extinguish the public debt. POLITICAL POINTS. A Little Rock dispatch says that returns of the vote in Arkansas at the September election on the liquor question have been received by the Secretary of State from ail but one small county, as follows: For license, 78,889; against license, 45,041. Only twelve counties out of seventy-four voted against license. Howard Carroll, a well-known journalist, was the unanimous choice of tho State Republican Committee of New York for Con-gressman-at-Large. The Democratic State Central Convention of Minnesota unanimously indorsed the P.ejiublican nomination of James Gilftllan for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The platform opposes the submission of an amendment to the constitution lessening the rights of the people, and demands a chance to soli in the highest and buy in the lowest market in the world. FOREIGN NEWS. The Cairo correspondent of the Cologne Gazette declares that Egyptian wounded were murdered by the British in the trenches at Tel-el-Kebir long after all resistance ceased. A letter from a noncommissioned officer says orders were given to spare none of the enemy, and to bayonet every one of them, as they would shoot soldiers treacherously if the latter passed them. A native convicted of committing terrible atrocities during the massacres of June 11 was executed at Alexandria. The military tribunal in session at Balta, Russia, trying the cases of anti-Jewish rioters, have condemned one leader to two years’ imprisonment and five others from sixteen to eighteen months. M. Duruax, French Minister of Public Instruction, in a speech at Nancy, advocated teaching the children republican politics, that they should be instructed what the Government lost at Alsace and Loigaino, and enlightened as to the character of the old monarchies. Sultan Pasha, President of the Egyptian Chamber of Notables, thinks Turk sh intervention in the affairs of the •ountry would cause anarchy. He thinks the cost of tho joint control was extravagant, and admits the mass of the people are unfit for representative government. The North Staffordshire coal-mine owners have granted then miners a 10 per cent, advance in wages. The indictment against the Egyptian leaders contains three counts: Instigating the Alexandria massacre, directing the burning of the city and abusing a iiag of truce. When the rebel prisoners were delivered to tho Egyptian authorities the English insisted that they be allowed legal assistance. The Egyptians contend that this condition does nob bind them to permit the engagement of foreign counsel. The question will be referred to the Foreign Office. A dispatch from Signapore, India, says that Explorer Witti, in the service ot the British Borneo Company, has been murdered by the head-hunters. ’1 ho Dyak custom of collecting human heads, it has been thought, had died out. Lorillard’s Touch-me-not won the Bedford Stakes for 2-year-olds at Newmarket. Father Sheehy, recently imprisoned as a “suspect” in Ireland, has been presented by his parishioners ■with a testimonial valued at £2,500. The Earl of Shrewsbury’s mansion, Ingestrc Hall, near Stafford, Eng’and, was de troyed by fire. Loss about $2,500,000. Mr. Courtney, a member of the British Parliament, assumes to define the policy of the Government by stating that Egypt is to be detached from the Sultan and her people left to stew in their own juice. The bodies of Lady Hanliam and Mrs. Hanham, who died in 1877 and 1870, respectively, have just been cremated in England—the first which have taken place in that country. According to United Ireland, Parnell will present to the Irish conference a prudent but firm policy for abolition of rackrents, pending gxe attainment of a peasant

proprietary. The same journal ridicules the reports of dissensions among the Irish leadera

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Nearly fifty shots were fired in a difficulty at Tifton, Ga, between Green B. Mayo and Martin Harrell, whose friends took part. Both principals were mortally wounded, and a sympathizer with Harrell was shot. William Austin was hanged at Lancaster, Ky., for the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Bland, and made a full confession at the last moment Paul Pringle, colored, was executed at Mansfield, Lx Gill, Floyd and McFadden, the three raiders from Posey county, implicated in the lynching of Redman at Evansville, were indicted and bailed in SI,OOO each. Recruiting for tho Egyptian gendarmerie lias been prohibited in Switzerland. The Egyptian Minister of Finance has a list of landed estates valued at £2,0C0,«. 000 belonging to lea lers of the I’ebellion, and extensive confiscations arc foreshadowed. Gen. Sir Archibald Alison, Gen. Wolseley and the Duke of Cambridge think the cons'ruction of the Channel tunnel would be fraught with danger to England. Bob Taylor, one of the Tennessee desperadoes for whom a reward of $16,000 is standing, was killed on a train near Marshfield, Mo., by R. P. Goodall, Sheriff of Laclede county, while attempting to draw a revolver. During the fiscal year ended June3o, the Post-office Department received $41,876,41", and expended $40,039,634, leaving a surplus of $1,886,775. John Hurd’s elevator, at Bridgeport, Conn , containing 100,000 bushels of grain, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $135,000.

OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

Ohio] \ Civdnnati dispatch of the 12th says: Detailed returns ere coming un but slowly, hut oepagh is known to say that the Demoorrtic majority in the State will he likely to overrun "o,('-00, with probably fifteen of the twenty-one Congressmen. A ppec'al telegram from Columbus to the Chicago Timex says: "The Democrats claim that the plurality will not be less than 20,000 and may reach 30,000, while the Republicans admit that it will not fall much if any be'ow the first figures. The result is a surprise to the Demooratsas well as Republicans, and on all K ilos the question being asked is, How did it happen? The Democrats attribute the result to superior organization on their part, Republican dissatisfaction with the national administration, and local quarrels, of which there were more than tho usual number in the Republican ranks. They also argue that tho action of Congress at its late session had a tendency to disgust Republicans and destroy their confidence in the honesty of tho party leaders. “Gov. Foster says the result is due partly to apathy on tho part of Republican voters and part y to tho Organized and persistent efforts of the anti-temperance element in bohalt' of tho Democracy. Secretary Townsend, the Republican candidate, attributes his defeat to a 1 ght vote in part, but ifiain'y to tiie war made on the party by the brewers, distillers and Saloon-keeiaers. He claims that iboy not only spent over $200,090 in the State to secure the defeat of the Republican ticket, but succeeded in effecting and operating in the interest of the Democratic party the most perfect political organisation eVef known in the State. Tho organization, it is claimed, extended throughout all sections, an i succeeded in controlling almost the entire floating vote. “ Capt. J. C. Donaldson, Secretary of the Republican State Executive Committee, gives it as his opinion that the result demonstrates clearly that the majority of the people of the State are not in sympathy with the radical moral-reform measures upon which the Republican party has staked and lost everything in the campaign just ended. While the State issues have played an important part in the canvass, it is probable that the death of Garfield and the installment of a new administration with ant.'igonisfcte tendencies, anil the dissatisfaction consequent upon this change, has been an important factor in bringing upon the Republican party in Ohio its defeat. The bickerings between the factions of the party in New York and Pennsylvania have also had their influence in Ohio, and that influence has been detrimental. The Garfield Republicans aparently mistrust the national administration, and were not particularly interested in giving it the same indorsement they gave Gartield last fall in the election of Gov. Foster. By far the most unfortunate feature of the disaster for the Republ can party in this State is the loss of nine Congressmen, .among them Butter worth and McKinlev, the two ablest members of the present Ohio delegation.” A Cincinnati dispatch says that returns from seventy-nine of the eighty-eight counties gives Newman a plurality of 15,426. It is now estimated that the Democratic majo; ity in the State wi 1 be between 17.000 and 20,(XK). A Columbus dispatch- states that McKinley, Republican, is elected to Congress in the Eighteenth district by eight votes, according to the official returns, which reduce 1 his opponent’s majority in Stark county from 837 to 804. The Democrats arc considerably stirred up over the matter, and charge fraud on the part of tho Republican clerk. Chairman Thompson states that the case will be contested The successful candidates in the three close districts—the Seventh, Twelfth and Eighteenth —we re elected by a total of 62 votes. Should McKir ley take his seat the delegation will stand eight Republicans and thirteen Democrats. WEST VIRGINIA. A Wheeling dispatch says: “Tho election of Goff, Republican, over Goode, Democrat, for Congress in this district is beyond a doubt. His majority will be over 1,300. The district has been Democratic since 1872. Gen. Goff was Secretary of the Navy under Hayes for a short time. Ihe three other districts return Democratic Congressmen, Wilson in the Second, Kenna in the Third and Gibson in the Fourth.”

Hygienic Hints.

Sucking the thumbs may cause a peculiar deformity of the chest in children, and even a form of dislocation of the jaw. Arsenate of gold, a combination of gold with arsenic, is claimed to possess extraordinary powers in the cure of nervous affections. Blisters have been found by the French surgeons} very useful in promoting the resolution of enlarged glands, even including those which have begun to suppurate. A recent statistical paper shows an intimate relation between the fatality of diphtheria and the amount of communication with sewers through waterclosets, waste-pipes, etc. Dr. 11. S. Shell contributes to the Medical and Surgical Reporter a pa•per showing that the earliest stages of Bright’s disease are best detected by an examination of the eye with the opthalmoscope. Professor Mialhe, of Paris, holds that dwellers in cities who take a little physical exercise, Often require considerable quantities of alkalies, such as soda, in order to maintain their bodily functions in a healthy condition. Tiierf. are no taxes in New Castle, Del., for the support of the local Government and schools, William Penn having endowed the town with land which now rents for enough to pay all the municipal expenses,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20,1882-

A BRILLIANT SPEECH.

Address of Henry Watterson to the Toledo Democrats, A Scathing Arraignment of the Republican Party, Fellow-Citizens of Toledo: The present situation of public affairs in the United States is something more than anomalous. It is in the highest degree whimsical and picturesque. I should insult your intelligence and discredit my OWn if 1 Should perpetrate the cOnceit of attempting to overreach your credulity with the pretense that there is a crisis. There is no crisis. Dangers there axe, indeed, as always; for amid toe prevail ng incertitude and indifference the absence of organized conviotion indicates a rank, unwholesome gfrdM'tli, which, while giving a show of current prosperity, is calculated to deceive the short-sighted, superficial observer. Our body politic, however, is not going to the dogs. It has at least escaped the dogs of war. Our national unity is stronger than ever it was. Among the people them fife ilo longer any irrepressible conflicts. Peace pervades the States and the sections which compose our Federal fabric. The war is over, anil the issues that begat it are settled irrevocably and forever. 8 avery is no more thought of or regretted in ike Soutli than in the North, and secession ra se." a sini'e even in its Very llauiits. The frictions nhd collisions growing out of the war have passed ini o history. Our Government has survived the deluge. Unshaken and untarnished, our constitutional system lias emerged from an era of mischievous theory, which, beginning With fttl£o iiotiOils in reconstruction to end with illusory notions of finance, for a long time threatened it. All the while the people have got on somehow, in spite of their demagogues. And now, witJi Gen. Butler as the Democratic standard-bearer in Massachusetts and dell (JbdiniGfs as the lidpub lean standard bearer in Mississippi, Surely the country is safe; it is more tnan safe, because what those great warriors and statesmen lack of making it so we may confidently look to see supplied by Gen. Mahone. THE TIME-SERVING POLITICIANS. I congratulate you, #ellow-.eiti«dng; upon this ccnSutiliilatlon so devoutly to be wished and shall not mar it by any forebodings that do not spring from the most ordinary suggestions of a prudent sagacity. I rejoice in being able to feel and I o say that we are fel-low-citizens; that we have a rich, prosperous and common country, and that, coffin what may, the future of tile ilejfilbliu is lull of a splendid promise. But we have not leached the millennium; not even here in Ohio, albeit the home of the Truly Good. We possess a great property, and to the wise and just and fruitful administration of this beloiig certain obligations and duties. It is these which bring us together Oli this Occasion. There used to lie two parties in the country. To-day it is a question requiring the nicest casuistry, a field-map and an eyeglass to determine whether we have one big party divided Into a dozen factions, or. a dozen little parties, all professing miich the same thiiig, and each wrestling with the other, To got some on ’em offls, An some on ’em votes. We have hard-money Democrats and softmoney Republicans. Wo bare fixt-tfcadt) Republicans and high-tariff Democrats. Fortunately, however, we have one question on which there is no disagreement at all. Everybody, from Jay Hubbell to Jay Gould, including the fusionlsts of Maine and the st: aigh’out stalwarts of Boutli Carolina, i? for civil-sorvice reform, so that whoever i 4 tormented W.tll an apprehension that there Is a crisis anywhere has only to array himsTf under the banners of the two Georges, Senator George H. Pendleton and Editor George William Curt's, to find surcease for his sorrow and a reme.ly for every ill. It is true the Senator cal's himself a Democrat, and the editor has sometimes been mistaken for a Republican. But what does that matter? In our politics as in our decorative art, the lily and the sunflower may be made to pool their issues without affront to the laws of a true esthetic taste or outrage to the understanding of a well-ordered political conscience. Allof which, fellow citizens, means that the people are foot-loose and fancy free —that the country is passing through a period of transition, and that, for anything t':at any party proposes in its organized capacity to *do or not to do, differing essentially from what everybody or nobody proposes, it is a matter of practical indifference Which is preferred. We hear a deal of loose talk about intentions. We hear sortie hot talk about antecedents. But, at this moment, thta difference between the two political orSanizations, which are labeled respectively emocratic and Republican, may be summed up in the single word—tendencies; for neither, as a party, has the hardihood or the honesty to step out from the shadow of yesterday into the sunshine of to-day, to lay down specifically a series of public measures relating directly to the public business, to elevate these into party laws, to compel obedience to them, and, inspired by common interests and cheered by a sense of duty, and dignified and emboldened by the courage of conviction, to say to the world, “Here we stand or fall.” If this be so, you will naturally ask me why I am a Democrat and why I do not favor the organization of a new party. The reason is not far afield in either case. lam a Democrat because I was horn a Democrat and have not yet despaired of bringing the old party back to where it was when I came into the'world. I am not in favor of organizing a new party, because parties do not grow on blackberry bushes, and, 1 >erhaps, because the Democratic party, though Jike the shepherdess in the play, an “ill-favored thing,” is “mine own.” But, the di- contented Republican may say,why should you ask me to quit the R“publican party and join you, when you admit that the one party is as unsatisfactory as the other? L don’t. I say that ilie two great parties arc dillycl i Hying with thepublio questions and shillyshallying with the people I say that neither is wholly true to it* convictions; but when I exsnvnethe bins of each, and consider the possib Ttiesof the one and the other —taking them hist as they are—my mind cannot escape two conclusions: First, that the Republican party. 1 cing in power and relying on mechan'cal agencies to keep there, is incapable of reforming itself and will go on with one expedient after another, from bad to worse, until its refection may cost tho country a revolution; and, Second, that there is good hope of reviving in the Democratic heart the simple, free-born sp rit of its founders. aid of applying th s to the practical uses of.our political life. THE DEVIL OF PARTY SPIRIT. lamafraii of t o long a domination of any party. I saw how that was and what it means un ier conditions favoring my partisan prejudices and predilext on& I saw a noble party, like a noble ship, full-riggci and carrying the ensign of the republic, sail out upon the broad, open waters of American politics. The mission of this party was human freedom and national development. It was the defender of the consti'ution. It was the friend of the Union. It was tiie enemy of close corporations, class legislation, patriciarrsm, oligarchism and sumptuary laws. It was for honest money, home rule and free trade. It was the party for progress and national honor. It represented the aspirations and needs of the people. It grew and grew and grew in popularity and power. At last it elected its national ticket by the votes of all the States except four, and returned to power after a brief interval upon pledges which constituted tho issue of the campaign which it had won by such an am izmg rmjoritw I saw this great party disregard those pledges, yet still retain its power. I saw it, maddened by the arrogance of success, abandon its honest principles. I saw it throw over the doctrines of Jefferson and the precepts of Jackson. I saw it become the organ of oligarchism, the advocate of slavery, the promoter of a weak, costly, splendid and corrupt Government And finallv, I saw it so powerful that it was able to make its exitfrom power—which had only been brought about by division in its own ranks—the signal for the greatest and most useless war of modern times. I saw all this. I was a vict'm to it; for I loved the Union and hated slavery, and vet, with thousands of other young men of the time, I was borne

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

down in the vortex and mad«—not by Democratic principles or traditions, but by irresiste ible condition!created by the devil of party spirit—to raise a sacrilegious hand against the flag and the hdiior of my country. Thank God, i anl hefe to-night to coiifess itt and thank God I can say, with a full heart, standing on a soil which, when Virginia gave it to the Union, she stipulated should be forever free, that it is mine again no less than you s, and that though you, who have never parted from it, may prize it, I, who know what it is to he a-.i exil* 1 and an alieu in my own land, love it, and would willingly defend it with my life. A WARNING TO YOUNG REPUBLICANS. I warn the young Republicans of the present generation by the fate that befell the young Democrats of the last. They were brought up to look upon the Republican party as the light of the world. In their eyes ft abolished slavery, it restored the Union and it saved the public credit. I shall not stop to question these claims or to consider how far any one of them may be qualified or abridged. The Republican party came wh- n it was calle'l Oririnallv an inspiration and a sentiment—hardly mo'ro than an emotion, though a generous and good emotion —there Came to ,it ail opportunity, which the emiheiit arid astiltp lrierl who led in were not slow to see and Maize. Thd folly of the Democratic party laid the foundation, as it has since made the fortune of the Republican party. The repeal of the Missouri compromise, anticipating the guns which opened upon Sumter, gave the cue to the Republican chiefs. Tho Democratic party had, in H, maimer laid aside the garments of Jefforfidh arid Jadkgdit The Republican leaders picked them up, put them on and appealed, not in vain, to the people to vindicate the principles of liberty and Union which they symbolized. There were Lincoln and Seward and Chase and Sumner and Greeley, and a host of aiile and true men. Why, the Republican platform 1801 contains as good Jeffersonian doctriiie aA iilay ltd fOtiiid, and, by a few verbal alterations, might be adopted by Democrats as a protest against the proceedings of the Republicans during the whole period of reconstruction. But, pardon me, I do not mean to go into ancient history'. . . . .. REPUBLICAN SHORTCOMINGS. In the rep' rt of a speech delivered tho other evening by Senator John Sherman, for whom, let me say, I have very great respect, I find the following passage, which, as I can well remember the Senator's first appearance lii the ilatiflilrtl Capirtfl pa f» Representative in Congress, is to me not without a touch of pathos. Senator Sherman said: ‘I am already getting old and my hair is turning gray, but my attachment to the Republican party is all the stronger, and it is so because I believe that party is the bulwark of bur country’® liberties and Wxgtess., If I could believe' that the Democratic party was fitted to be intrusted with the power of this great nation, I would not be here making speeches to you. I am here because I believe the Democratic party cannot manage this country of ours. ” I have no doubt the Senator is sincere, fie declared, tt little while ago that, in Ins opiiiiOil, ailjtliiiig justifiable to keep tiie Democrats out of power. This is precisely the spirit which brought on the war between the States. It is the spirit which sees nothing wrong within, everything wrong without, the party lines. Yet there is scarcely a criticism which I might pass upon the jaiesciit iiulllinistration with which Senator Sherman would not concur. Does he indorse tho alliance with Mahone in Virginia? Does he indorse the alliance with Chalmers in Mississippi? Docs lie indorse tho course of the President Hi forcing his Secretary Of the Treasury upon tiie Republicans of New York? Upon iwo leading measures at lea«t in the last Conpress he voted aga'nsb the admin stration, and lie is everywhere saying: “I will stand by and defend the River and Harbor bill’’ which the President vetoe 1. Now, fellowUitizOiis, I dm hot g low i tig did mid my hair is u >t.turning gray, but I will love no party better than I love my country, honor, justice and truth. I have seen the Republican par : y violate its obligations to each of those c l'dinal virtues, and because it did so Iliave seen one after another of its fathers and founders ieavG it', oewtird, ChilSe; lUitiT; Srimnerj Greeley, all died outride the party fold. Fessenden and Trumbull were on the eve of quitting it when, the one went to Iris grave and the other went into retirement. Just as the Democratic party did before it, the Republican party has been do ng the last few' years. The work Appointed tti dd it did thoroughly. It gave freedom to the slave It united the people in defense of the Union. Somebody had to save the national credit, and, being in power and having the fiscal responsibility of the Government on its hands. 1)r a sort of God’s mercy, it did not take the wrong shoot, though many of its foremost leaders, notably Senator Sherman and the late Senator Morton, started out originally as wrong as the Democrats whom they afterward denounced. And what has it been doing since? Disregarding all its traditions, it lias been conspiring and respiring to keep itself in power. By a stretch of State lights, which would made the slxo-t of John 0. Calhoun open its eves, it has counted and refused to count Electoral votes. Trdfessing td be the sole guardian of the national honor, it has leagued itself with repudiationists, and l>ecame a vehicle of repudiation in flic States. Up to a very recent date Mr. Jay A Hubbell was its one official civil-service reformer, and a likely specimen lie was, Ido admit. But, as if jealous of Mr. Hribbell’s naifie and fame, the Republican President of the United Stat s—although as Vice Pres dent he had won some civil-service laurels at Albany and elsewhere —resolved to submit iris claims to a competitive examination. With tiie treasury at iris heels he appeared, in the person of Judge Folger, at Saratoga where, by the aid of Gould’s millions, and the opportune and undetected interposition of forgery and fraud, he was able to Rocure tiie last and greatest triumph of c Vil-sOrVice reform, the defeat of a Governor who had ma le himself obnoxious to corporations, and the nomination of a Governor d dated by the ad mi nistration. These arc rough words, fellow-cit-izens, but they are true ones, and they expose the Republican tendency, which, if it be not checked, will ultimately wreck our admirable system of checks and balances. THE REPUBLICAN TENDENCY. That tendency is undoubtedly the consolidation of interests designed exclusively for the many in tho hands of the few; the concentration at Washington of powers hitherto divided among the States, and the elevation of the Stock Exchange into a department of the Government I do mt mean that there is any present purpose to create a new place in the Cabinet for Mr. Gould or Mr. Vanderbilt under the tit e of Secretary of the Loaves and Fishes and Keeper of the President’s Pocketbook. In politics, as in private business, there may be such a thing as a silent partnership, which, as we have just seen in New York, can lie relied on to work with effect. Rut Ido not mean to say that tiie policy of the Republican party has steadily courted the money power; that it is shaped to produce aggregations of vast wealth, ami that it looks for its perpetuation to the union it has achieved between tiie politicians and the capitalists. There are two railways lrom Washington to New York which are known to the public. But there is a third which has not yet appeared on any of the maps or in any of the guidebooks, although it is the most important of all. It is a narrow-gauge ait-line connecting the White House with Wall street This is not a mere figure of speech. Just consider for a moment what money- can do, and how much money the policy of the Republican party has enabled corporations and individuals to amass. Forty years ago the most florid imagination among the writers of extravagant romance, racking its invention for a fable of untoward riches, put the entire fortune of the Spada family, co looted through generations, concealed for ages, and finally unearthed by the Count of Monte Cristo, at 100,000,000 francs -$20,000,000. With this sum that redoubtable hero worked miracles, almost a social revolution in France. Later, another French novelist, of what the critics ca’l the realistic school, produced a colossal millionaire, whom he christened the Nabao. Still, he did not venture to put the figures beyond the limit set by his illustrious predecessor. One hundred millions o L francs—twenty millions of dol ars! Why, there are fifty men in and about New York worth more than that, who don’t consider themselves very well-to-do either, and are work ng, toiling, slaving, suffering day and night to earn a competency for themselves, cheered by the single hope that, whatever happens to them, they may in tiie end be able to leave something behind to keep the wolf from the door of the widow and the orphans. If he were living now the Count of Monte Cristo would be a beggar beside Jay Gould, who has 500,000,000 francs; so much money, indeed, that, not satisfied with his millions, he must carry the redress of his private wrongs into the public business of the country, and make accom-

pliecs of Chief Magistrates and Secretaries of the Treasury in the punishment of recalcitrant Governors. I instance this case merely by way ot illustration. Mr. Gould may be within himself harmless enough. His recent operation may be merely ail fipbode. It may have been necessary to protect himself. Iffit we have seen how a great capitalist, joining force! with a weak President, may stifle the voice of the people and direct the destinies of a party in the Empire State of the Union. What might not be accomplished by a g eat capitalist haring the ambition and the genius of Julius Caasar r THE RECORD OF CLASS LEGISLATION. Fr im 1862 to 18S2 th ! whole power of the Republican party has been bent to the creat on and multiplication of great capitalists It b gan its career of robbing the poor t? enrich the rich with a war tariff it has never modified or reduced, and one of its last acts was to raise and pack a Cflrhtn ssion to trot about the country at the people’s expense, making materials and arrangements for the continuation of th : s masterpiece of injustice, oppression and rapine. It has driven our flag from the high s as in order that a sow domestic ship-builders may plunder What little commerce wo have left, and grow fat off the r eounirt'fl honor. The ra Iroad monarch* have bad only to tickle it W th a bar of iron to make it lau«h a harvest of land-grants. All thewhleitbas chucked the worfcingriiafi und r the cbin, whispered sweet words to him about the Jumper classes of Europe, given him $ 150 a day Wages, when it didn’t suit it to close shop, and charged him $2.59 for a suit of woolens worth sl. And this, we are told, is protecting “our infant industries.” fH» new slavery. Ido not mean to enter rijlofl a long and wearisome discussion of the tariff. There is one among you(Frank Hurd) who has brought its wanton hypocrisy and its vicious features to your familar knowledge more pointedly and more luminously than lean hope to 00. lam speaking the rather of collective forces, as they apply in their general forms and relations to the busifieSS and bosoms of men, and of political tendencies as they take their rise and impetus in party organization. The tendency of the Republican policy is not on'y to enable a few favorite classes to build up disproportioned fortunes, but it has fiy Its subserviency to the power of money, its truckliflg to corporations, and its disregard of the simple precepts on which its fathers founded it, done not a little to enervate American manhood and break down the spirit of fratofttiiy among the people- It has quite forgotten the homely Wisdom, of the couplet, once quoted so forcibly and sO appositely by Mr Seward,when speaking of the degrading influences and oligarchic character of slavery, he sad, with a solemnity that gave a prophetic reach to the lines: 111 fares t.iiS lXfld to haat'ninsr Ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates arid then decay. African slavery has gone. The oversedf with his lash has gone. But tiie Republican party is setting up a new slavery. It is slowly but surely transferring the seat of power from the people to the politicians and the cfijlif’riiirtS; afiJ preparing the way for a great commercial empire aiitl moneyed aristocracy, and a race of Medician Princes, masquerading as Presidents of the United States. We have, already had a President who was beaten by a quarter of a million votes. Why may wo not have, under the inspiration of money, and by the’ operation of mechanical agencies, a succession of Presidents representing the ruling principle of our political life ? It* is a habit of the apostles of the new slavery, who have a design in all they say and do, to belittle tho office of President, as if it were a mere flgoifeitOad Yet in his letter of acceptance, just issued, e very line and word of which we'may be assured were deliberated and have their meaning and purpose, Judge Folger, the President’s Secretary of the Treasury and nominee for Governor of New York, “Vivs: “It would be my aim, if elected, to be the representative of tho whole party, subservient only to my duty to tlifl Chief Magistrate of the whole people,” a somewhat confused confession of faith, hut sufficiently intelligible to disclose two things —first, tho purely partisan spirit of Republican candidates 'fof OflW; and, second the real Republican estimate of the overshadowing power of the President of the United States. THE NEED of A CHANGE. Fellow-citizens, is it not time to try the Virtue of a change in the political complexion of the Government? Senator Sherman says that none but Republicans are fit to goveril the country. It used to be a maxim in business that when an employe got to thinking himself imdispensable that was a good time to discharge him; for that man might die. This ought to he “quaily sound doctrine in politics, though in what I lifiVe sfild Of dan--gerous possibilities you will bear in mind that I have been sneaking solely of Republican tendencies. I do not believe they will be realized, because I believe the people will recognize the menace in time to arrest the danger. Rut to conffi down to current, ev-ery-day affairs, could we, as a matter of l adt, do much worse than Robeson and Keiler? Unless, indeed, we should stumble upon Charley Foster for President and Mabone for Secretary cif the Treasury—certainly not. At any rate you will agrei With tnc that dierc ought to be a change in the political complexion of the next national House of R >pre entatives, and if secured it wall do for a beghuiiitg.

The Ohio Victory.

Ohio, the home of Hayes, John Sherman and Keifer, is emancipated, disenthralled, free. The corrupt Republican party is prostrate beneath the heel of an indignant and outraged people. The cyclone of the people’s wrath swept from the Ohio to the lake, from the eastern to the western boundary, and from the center to the circumference of the commonwealth. It touched every countv, every precinct. It aroused tho dormant energies of a liberty-loving people. It battered down every Bepublican refuge of lies. It vitalized courage. It strengthened faith, it encouraged hope and sent the people to the polls resolved to win a victory for principle, for truth and justice, and today Ohio swings into line under tho grand old Democratic banner. She swings aloft her mighty arms, claps her hands, and, in the joy of redemption from the polluting grasp of Republicanism, invites her sister States to follow her example. Indiana catches the inspiring notes, and sends back assurances of a still grander victory in November. The days of righteous retribution have come. Republicanism has run its race. He who does not see the skeleton handwriting upon the walls of its banqueting halls, Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, is blind. It has won its victories by perjury and maintained its ascendency by fraud. From the dens of the Louisiana Returning Board to the last poor man stopped by the footpad Hubbell, and made to pav his assessment for a corruption fund, has been one long series of infamies. Ohio has set the seal of indignation upon Republican corruptions, and New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana will, if possible, bo still more emphatic in their condemnation. The outlook could scarcely be more cheering.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

History Repeats Itself.

The great tidal svave of 1874 began in Ohio. From thence it spread over the country, and resulted in a decided Democratic Congress, and finally in the election of Samuel J. Tilden in 1870. The temper of the people is not to be mistaken. What has occurred in Ohio will follow in New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and other States. The d its of Republicanism are numbered. The remit in Ohio means a Democratic President in 1884. Elder Gross’ prayer will be answered. The country will be saved from the devil, from star-route and ot er thieves upon the treasury, from Republicans. Amen field (III.) Register.

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NUMBER 38.

IS THE EARTH IN PERIL?

Views of Eminent Scientists Regarding the Comet A Washington dispatch says that Prof. Skinner, of the Naval Observatory, was interviewed in relation to the opinion of Prof. Proctor and other eminent European scientists, that the present comet is that of 184:5 and 1880, and it will again return in 188;] and fall into the sun, causing terrible disaster to the earth. He said that, while Mr. Procter llad a reputation among astronomers for making rash announcements, there was no use in ridiculing his idea. The comet now visible, he said, was certainly a very remarkable one, and in some of its features was an extraordinary phenomenon. As to the possibility of a meeting between the comet and the sun, at some time in the near future, he said, such an event was by no means improbable. He did not think it would be safe at this time to hazard a definite opinion on Prof. Proctor’s prophecy: “The comet will be visible fora montfe yet, and we hope," he said, “to bo able, with the aid of a telescope, to follow it a month and a hair We have not made a sufficient number of observations yet, nor has it been visible long enough, to determine its subsequent course. We don’t know as yet, nor Will we be able for some time to And out, whether the track of the comet be that of a parabola or ari elliptic, If it be the latter, there is some reason to expect serious consequences. The great comet now visible travels in a path practically coincident with the comets of 1813 and 1880. Hubbard found the period of revolution of the comet of 1843 to be ovef 500 years. The period of revolution of the comet of 1880 was over thirty years. The period of tho great comet how visible is not yet calculated with certainty, owing to the limited time of observation. These three comets at the time of the nearest approach to the sun iiitlst traverse the solar atmosphere, thus experiencing a great degree of resistance. The facts, as far as known, are that these comets are observed to travel in the same path. If they are the same comet, that comet’s path must have been violently changed by some outside force. If they fixe ndt the same comet, then the hypothesis of Prof. Saft'ord that they are pieces of the 1843 comet may be held as probable. ” Prof. Skinner concluded by saying that it was idle to make any positive predictions of the future movements of this comet until it has been observed through a longer arc. He said that even if Prof. Proctor’s prediction should be borne out it wouldn’t necessarily follow that tho destruction of the earth Would result. It was all owing to what the comet might be made of. He did not believe it to be m> very ponderable an affair, and in tlie face of Kj coming in contact wit a the sun the sun may be able to take care of it, without any difficulty. * Prof. Pickering, of Harvard University, was interviewed by a reporter and said: “You may say that the scientists of Cambridge Observatory hold no such views. They httve no fears of the earth s destruction through any such a collision between the sun and the comdt. " Prof. Chandler, of Harvard, lias computed that the comet of 188> will not return until after a period of thirty or forty years, nor do the Cambridge professors believe that the present Comet will return in 1884 Prof Frisbie, of the Washington Observatory, says the comet’s nucleus is constantly changing in color, size and saapfl. and that great internal disturbances arc taking place. He estimates the length of the tail at 50,000,000 miles. Ti e NeW York Vun savs: “Tho nucleus of the grout comet hiiS broken into i hroe i arts. The combined length of tho three frag- ! ments, which are a'ranged in a row, is estimated at about 35,0 0 miles, while their width is only 31K0 miles. No change in tho a peilrUileo of the comet is perceptible to the naked eye. The nucleus of the comet of 1881 also broke in twd. In both cases the breaki g up occurred after tile comet had passed the point or nearest approach to the Run. The same is true of Biela’s comet, Which in 1840 not only split up, but developed into two separate comets, cachpos-se-sed of a head and tail of its own. This seems to indicate that a comet encounters some disintegrating force in making it« perihelion passage, and recalls the stifle* mens, of the late Prof. Pierce, based upon a long mathematical investigation, that the tenacity Of tho nucleus of a comet approaching as close to the sun as the comet of 1843 did not equal that of steel, else it would he torn to piece's. The present comet went about as close to the sun ns the one in 184 i, and, according to appearances, was unable to bear tile strain. “It is now a recognized fact that some meteors, at least, and particularly certain ones which appear in periodic showeffl, arc the fragments of comets. If the great comet, which is now mcciting so much interest and attracting air eyes to the morning sky should crumble into pieces it is not beyond the range of possibility that Some of our descendants may have in their cabinets black, flre-incrusted fragments of this celestial body which is making such a glorious spectacle in ill: sky for us.” The astronomers have discovered that tho comet now visible in the eastern heavens splits Into sections every four days, and that the fragments revolve about a common center of gravity, alternately closing and separating. The Smithson-an Institute, at Washing'on, has received from the Academy of V orria the announcement of the discovery by Schmidt at Athens, on the. Bth o'' October. of a comet four degrees southeast of the great com't. Prof. Swift of hochestc", says this is unquestionably a fragment of the great comet, broken off at its perihelion passage. This proves that the great comet must have grazed the sun. and hence passed through the terrib e crisis This is the se owl instance on record where o c enet has ben disrupted, the first one being liiehu's comet of 184(5.

MURDER AND ROBBERY.

A Banker at Waupaca, AVis., Killed l»y Unknown Persons, and the Bank Vault Bobbed. H. C. Mead, an eccentric bachelor, who for thirty years has done a banking business at Waupaca, Wis., was shot dead at a roar window of his office a ; he sat writing at a table. His nose, eyes and part of his brain were torn away by the discharge. The murderers then cut the wire screen, entered the apartment and rifled the money-chest of several thousand dollars. A dispatch from Waupaca gives the following particulars of the tragedy: Mr. Mead had been in 'ho habit of sleeping near his treasures and taking his meals at the hotel, and when he did not come to either breakfast or dinner a messenger was sent to learn if he wa« sick. Repeated knocks on the bank door bro'.’ght no answer, and the b tek window was u -ed as a means of ingress. On the floor lay the remains of the banker, with blood spattered all over the walls, while a largo pool had gathered around his prostrate body. A jury was dnpaneled and an examination showed that Mr. Mead’s death was caused by a gun-shot. Tiieuun had evidently been placo 1 in the rear window of the buildinir, as toe wire screen was found torn off and the wiudo.v lowered. He had probably been sitting at a sm ii table in the back room writing, and, hearing a noise at the w ndo a-, ha 1 turne I around, only to receive the full charge from both barrels of tho Bhotgun in his f,ice. The nose, eyes and part of his head had been completely torn off. The assassins then seemingly went to the safe, which was still un ocked, and rifled the chest, taking away several thousand dollars in • urrency, goid and bonds. It is known that Mr. Mead was worth more than SIOO,000. The bank is a one-story wooden budding, the front room being used for business, while the rear room was the sleeping apartments of the murdered man. Not live feet from where his bed stands is a window without bars, and the sill is about five feet from t ie ground. In this room Mr. Mead had slope and almost lived for twenty-live years, having no children. His peril was often mentioned to him, and h s answer was that lie had never harmed any one in his life, and , that, if it was his money that was wanted, it would not be necessary to kill him. A iiOTKf, cook at Newport served a dinner in six courses, the other day, the material for each and every course being lobster,

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INDIANA AFFAIRS.

A Wondelftil Find. <rrWhile getting out stone in his quarry, a mile south of Kokomo, George W. Defenhaugh made one of the most wonderful discoveries of tho present age. It became necessary to split a massive slab of stone, when, to his great surprise, ho found firmly imbedded in the solid rook a species of lizard of light color, with eyes, but apparently sightless, alive and active. W hen first found it did not appear to possess any life, hut in a few moments was very lively. Tho lizard had been imbedded in this stone-prison house perluyim hundreds of years, feeding on nothing and lying in a comatose condition. Scientific men consider tl*’ find most wonderful. The lizard is now alive and in the possession of Mr. Defenhaugh. Validity of Indian Marriages. The sisters of an Indian woman named Nancy A otory are just now a party to an important lawsuit in tho Circuit Court of our suburb of AVabash. Tho facts are about as follows: Throe* years ago George Shapp, an Indian, entered into an agreement with Nancy Yotery to live together as husband and wife. There was no solemnization of the union, and the pair immediately went to housekeeping and cohabited for over a year, when a baby was born to them. It died shortly after birth, and a few days later the mother also died. The woman owned in her right u, farm of 250 acres, valued at, SIO,OOO, and as soon as she was buried Shapp began proceedings to gain possession of the property. The sisters of the deceased opposed his claim on the ground that the marriage was illegal, and that, not being a relative, he was not entitled to any share of the estate. Tho question to be decided is whether the union of Shapp and the ATitery woman was valid. According to the Indian custom it was a sound contract, but it is doubtful whether tho State law recognizes such a marriage. There arc about 100 Indians in AVabash county living together who were married in the manner described, and the decision against Shapp will render the title to much valuable land open to dispute. There are also some marriages of this kind in Allen county, whose validity depends on what tho State courts hold in this matter. — Fort Wayne Gazette. A J-OHt Soul’s Appeal—Straugo Story from Fort Wuyiiß. Every reader of the city papers is familiar with the sad suicide some weeks ago of Nellie Coleman, or Nellie Apt, and with which the name of Perry Alexander, the horse-buyer, was unpleasantly connected. At the time of her death from an overdose of morphine, Mrs. Coleman (or Apt) avhh boarding with tho family of Lewis N. Clark,at 95) Barr street,and. when she was found lying cold and stark in death there, she was taken thence to the undertaking establishment of Peltier & Son, where, after the post-mortem examination, it was turned over to Mr Peltier as a subject on which to experiment with a new embalming process. After her veins were opened and the preserving fluid injected, the corpse took on an almost life-like expres ion. Color came into the cheeks, the limbs were pliable, the breasts were firm, and tho success of the whole experiment was so remarkable that tho body was placed on exhibition and visited by thousands of people. But, while all this was going on at the undertaker’s, things were not so pleasant in the family of Mr. Clark. A few nights after the suicide, and while the excitement over the wondrous preservation of the corpse was at its height, Airs. CUvrk, who had retired . early, was awakened by a curious sensation. "J Although the air of the room had been hot and close before when she awoke, it now had the chilly feeling of a vault for the reception of the dead. Starting up, with her flesh fairly creeping, and while the air seemed full of a mysterious rustling of unseen garments, Mrs. Clark noticed a white figure by her bedside. The outlines wore but dimly defined in the darkness, but she at once saw it was Nellie Coleman, with her hair streaming about her face, and wringing her hands. As soon as the ghostly visitor saw that Airs. Clark wa« awake, it spoke, in an unearthly voice, as follows: “Oh, Ml'S. Clark, for God’s sake have them bury my body. I suffer terriblo agonies while they have it lying there. Saying this, the figure sank slowly to the floor and disappeared. Mrs. Clark was so frightened that her teeth chattered, and it was near.y an hour before she awoke her husband and told him of tho visitor from the other world. He, man-like, tried to laugh it off, but she would not he quieted, and remained awake the rest of the night. A few nights afterward the ghost came again, and pleaded even more piteously that Mr. and Mrs. Clark would intercede to have the body taken from the experimenting undertaker and buried. Each time tlie same damp, chilly air and oppressing sensation heralded tho approach of the ghost. At these visitations Mr. Clark also saw the spirit, and he was somewhat alarmed, but did not go to the undertaker. for fear of ridicule. The body, however, continued on exhibition at Peltier’s, and finally tlie visits and importunities of the ghost of tho self-murdered woman to have her body buried became so great that Mr. and Airs. Clark moved ou f ' of the house where the death occurred, but still this ghostly visitor followed, and they had no rest nor quiet until the father of Nellie came to this city and Took tlie body home to Elkhart county and buried it. Since that time the spirit seems to have found rest and has not troubled its earthly friends. Altogether it is a strange story, and one t ie truth of which may be fully relied on. Air. Clark are averse to any publicity being given the matter, but their story is so strange, and tho fact that their visitor was something unearthly is so well established, that wo give tlie facts as they arc. The psychologist and the scientist can draw their own conclusions. —Fort If r a\jne Gazette. A yoi'NO fellow asked another at a ball if his girl was there. “ Yes,” said lie: “do you see that girl dressed in pink?” “ AA'hat, that splendid woman with such magnificent eyes? You don’t say so. How lucky you are!” “Just so" Of course I am. AVell, my girl in the next one to her,"