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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Kant. Capt. Webb, the famous English swimmer, accomplished the task of remaining 128% hoars in a tank of fresh water at New York, daring which time his weight decreased twenty-six pounds. A train on the New York Central railroad struck a carriage at Syracuse, N. Y.,' containing John D. Milonee aged 27, his wife aged 24, Mrs. H. B. Comstock and Mrs. Munro Burgess, two elderly ladies visiting from Marathon, N. Y. The three women were killed and the man seriously injured. Thomas A. McDevitt and Christian Price, the two star-route conspirators convicted at Philadelphia, have been sentenced respectively to twelve and six months in the penitentiary and to pay fines of <SOO and #IOO. Col. Bowen, special agent of the Department of Justice, who was accused by Foreman Dickson of attempting to bribe the star-route jurors, was arrested in Philadel'phia, at the instance of a hotel proprietor, for leaving the house without paying a board and wine bill of #54. He was held in S6OO bail by the magistrate. The constable who made the arrest found Bowen in conference with Attorney General Brewster. Pleuro-pneumonia has made its appearance in Lancaster county, Pa. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature of Vermont to provide that persons condemned to the gallows shall be rendered insensible before execution. President Arthur was at Princeton College last week, and addressed the students from the steps of Dr. McCosh’s residence. His son has entered the class of 1885. Frank Queen, proprietor of the New York Clipper , died at Philadelphia of paralysis of the brain, aged 63. A bill before the Legislature of Vermont imposes a flne-of #lO for offering a boy under 15 years of age a cigar or cigarette. James H. Corey, the Long Branch landlord who demanded #2,500 from his sick guests last summer, has been indicted for robbery, riot, extortion, assault and maintaining a nuisance. R. V. Storrs & Co., manufacturers of woolens at Dedham, Mass., have failed. Their liabilities are #43-',OOO, with nominal assets of #225,000. Marie Prescott, the actress, who sued President Tousey, of the American News Company, for criminal libel, by circulating a dramatic sheet containing a scurrilous attack on her, has obtained a verdict from the jury for #12.500 damaerea W eat. The Masonic Grand Lodge of California passed resolutions indorsing the refusal of the Grand Lodge of Utah to admit upholders of Mormonism. A desperate shooting affair occurred at Menden, Kearney county, Neb. Jack Woods, Sheriff of Hitchcock and Dundy counties, found at supper in a hotel throe men who had stolen horses, and tried to make an arrest The fellows’ pal, sitting across the table, then drew a revolver on Woods, who turned and was shot through the back, dropping dead. The two men and two more of their gang jumped up, and, in the melee, killed two citizens. The bandits then fled. Twenty Mormon elders have left Salt Lake for missionary work in the Southern Stat< s, and seventy-five for the European field. At Cincinnati William Saube, CO -ears old, after having quarreled with his eon, aged 3 ', lay in wait for him on their premises, shot him dead, and then went up in a barn loft and cut his throat with a razor. The younger Saube leaves a wife and several children. At San Carlos, A. T., Gen. Crook, in a conference with the head men of the Apaches, informed them that they would be counted every day, that they could not be permitted to leave the reservation, and if found outside its limits would be treated as hostiles. He prohibits the manufacture oi their favorite intoxicant John A. Cockerell, who killed Col. Slayback at St Louis, was bailed in #IO,OOO. The Grand Jury indicted him for murder in the second degree. A car of new corn from Parsons, Kansas, grading No. 2, sold at auction in Sc. Ljuis for 75 cents per busheL South. Two Texas desperadoes, named James and Edward Bean, were overtaken by a posse near Sunset, and James was killed and Edward mortally wounded. Hog cholera is playing havoc with the swine in the region of lowa City, lowaOne farmer lost over 400 head within a few days.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Samuel C. Davis, who founded an ex- ■ tensive dry-goods house in St. Louis, died of paralysis in Boston, leaving a large estate Four of the largest butchers of New York have decided to transfer their slaugh-ter-houses to Chicago and send the meat east in refrigerator-care Henry George, the labor reformer, arrived in New York the other day from Liverpool. He was met by a committee from the Central Labor Union and a committee of citizene Beports to the Canadian Government indicate an uprising of the Indians on Caradoc reserve, in the Northwest Territories. The Liquor-Dealers’ and Manufacturers’ Protective Association of the United States met at Milwaukee. It was decided to change tbe name of the organ'zation, which will hereafter be known as the PersonalLiberty League of the United States, to be composed of the various State 1 retentive associations, and also the National D stillera’ and Brewers’ Associations. Reso utions were adopted recognizing the necessity for vigorous and agg essive res'stanoe to the prohibition movement, and congratulating antiProhibitionists everywhere on the result of the election in Ohio. The Tariff Commission has finished taking testimony and will remain in New York until December making up its report Benjamin Legault, a French Canadian, has sued for an injunction to prevent his sister, who is 65 years old, and worth #IOO,OOO, from marrying a young man. A fight between Mexican customs officers and smugglers, at Lampasas, on the Rio Gran 'e, resulted in the killing of four of the smugglera The Rev. Thomas Nicholson and Mrs. J. R. Boyce, confined in the Hotel D'.eu at Monti cal, for insanity, evaded their nurses, jumped from the second and fourth stories

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JAS. W. MoEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

of the institution respect vely, and were killed. John D. Defrees, for many years Public Printer at Washington, died at- Berkley Springs, W. Va., in his 72d year, leaving five children. In 1831 he published a newspaper at South Bend, Ind., and in 1-44 became proprietor of the Indianapolis .Journal, which he conducted for ten years.

WASHINGTON NOTES. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 11,266,003 pieces were coined by the United States mints, representing a value of #89,413,447, being nearly #11,000,000 greater than in any previous year. The silver purchased by the Government during the period abovementioned amounted to 23,627,229 ounces at a cost of #24,136,942. For the nine months ended Sept. 30, the value of domestic bseadstuffs exported was #134,512,779; same time last year, #177,452,638. Secretary Folger having ruled that gold ceitificates can only be procured at New York, Western bankers will be compelled to pay express charges both on their gold to that city and on the certificates upon their i etura. W. W. Corcoran and other citizens of Washington have incorporated an association wii.h a capital of #IOO,OOO to erect a monument to the memory of Thomas Jefferson. Secretary Folger has called in $15,000,000 in extended 5 per-cent, bonds, payable Jam 18 next Secretary Frelinghuysen received a note from the American Representative at London, containing the regrets of Earl Granvi.le, the British Foreign Minister, at the arrest of Henry George while in Ireland. The Secretary thereupon requested a personal interview vith Mr. George at his convenience. The President suspended Jonathan Diggs, Indian Agent at the Colorado River Agency, and appointed John W. Clark as his successor. Indian Agent McGillicuddy, of the Mesea ero agency, has tendered his resignation to the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary declined to accept the resignation pending the result of the investigation now in progresa Dr. Hamilton, of Now York, has presented to the Garfield board of audit a bill for #25,000 for professional services. POLITICAL POINTS. Cadet Whittaker has come out as a Democrat. The Prohibitionists of New Hampshire have nominated Josiah W. Fletcher for Governor. A Cincinnati dispatch says that “the election of Gen. Goff,' Republican, to Congress in the West Virginia First district is assured by about 1,590 ma’orty. In the Second district of that State the result Is not quits defin tely settled, although the latest returns make it almost cert lin that Wilson, Democrat, is elected over Mason, Republican, by about fiity majority.” In the United States “Circuit -Court at Portland, Ore., Judge Deadv called the attention of the Grand Jury to the law in regard to political assessment, and instructed the jury, if any violation of the law cou d bo found, that it was their duty to indict the offenders. Representatives of the colored people of Rhode Island, in convention at Newport, discussed their alleged wrongs at the hands of the Republican party, demanded a fair apportionment of the public office--, and determined to support that candidate for office who had most regard for their rights and feelings. FOREIGN NEWS. The Egyptian Ministry positively refuse to allow foreign counsel to defend Arabi Pasha and the other prisoners. A Paris cablegram announces the death of Count Napoleon Ney, a son of the famous Marshal, at the age of 70. England’s reply to Turkey’s note touching the evacuation of Egypt has raised the Sirltan’s ire and infuriated the fanatical party at Constantinople, who lay the blame on Su'd Pasha and demand his execution. Absolute ownership by a tenant in land he either created or purchased, and undisturbed occupancy, are, according to Michael Davitt, the only things that will bring peace to Ireland. Russian thieves murdered a mail postilion near Odessa, and secured a half million roubles from the letters. An appeal from Victor Hugo, deprecating the execution of Arabi Pasha, is published. There is great and increasing dissatisfaction among the German people, and large numbers are now preparing to emigrate to this country. The German ship Constantia came in collision with the steamer City of Antwerp fourteen miles off Eddystone lighthouse, and both vessels were sunk. No lives lost. The Irish National Conference assembled at Dublin on the 17th of October, Parnell presiding. The platform was occupied by a number of prominent men, including the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the extreme Irish members of Parliament Egan, Treasurer of the Land League, presented his report, and asked that be be relieved from office. Nearly £250,000 passed through his hands. Parnell presented the programme of the conference, which declares for home rule and- the right of tenant-farmers to become owners by purchase. He denied thatih°re had been any dictation from Iri h-Ameri-cans, asserting that if there had been, lie, at least, would have disobeyed it All the speakers united in declaring that the I .aid act was an utter failure. Micba il Davitt, whi e dissent ng from Parnell’s land-reform scheme, will co operate with him in effecting the abolition of landlordi-m. Fourteen of the crew of the steamer City of Antwerp, in collision in the English channel with the ship Constantia, were drowned. It was at first announced that no lives were lost by the disaster. The new Russian loan, £80,000,060, nominal 3-per-cent, bonds at 59, will Le issued immediately by Rothschild. It is evident, says a Dublin dispatch, that, if there is no actual schism in the Irish National party, there is so wide a difference in the lines of action advocated by Davitt and Parnell that it is hard y possible they can pull in the same harness. Turkey is now ready to do business with England looking to a final adjustment of the Egyptian complication, and notice to this effect has been given by the Porte to the Br tish Ambassador at Constantinople The committee of the National League has adopted an address to the* Irisii

people in substance as follows: “The landlords have combined with the purpose of breaking the spirits of the tenants. The dismay which the present scale of jud eial rents has created among the applicants to the land courts renders it more necessary than ever that the tenantry should be reunited in a vigilant and lawful association for the purpose of protecting themselves from injustice The inspiration of our struggles is to transfer all local power and patronage from privileged strangers to the hands of the people, and so fortify the people for the work of self-government” After having been asserted and denied and reasserted and redenied, times without number, that Arabi Bey, the leader of the Egyptian rebels, would be permitted to employ foreign counsel to defend him, the matter seems to have been settled at last, and that Broadley, Eve and Napier, three distinguished English barristers, wiU be intrusted with the defense of the great rebel. Bany Sullivan, the tragedian, has consented to be a Parliamentary candidate in Ireland on home-rule principles.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Five negroes,'including one woman, were hang-id at Eastman, Ga, for complicity in a terrible riot which occurred at a camp-meeting at that place in August last The outbreak had its origin in the arrest by the City Marshal of a negro gaipbler, who, upon resisting and attempting to escape, was shot and ki led. This inflamed the negroes to a furious pitch, and they wreaked their vengeance in the most horrible manner upon a young man named Harvard, whom they killed and mutilated. In an encounter wh ch followed between the wh te citizens and the riotous negroes three of the latter were killed. The cqlored people of the region regarded the punishment as out of all proportion to the crime committed, and there were app eliensions of trouble at the execution, but n ne occurred, and the five negroes were hanged without any attempt at rescue. Near Mineral Springs, Ark., a posse who wished to arrest the two George boys found them at their father’s residence. Upon the fugitives disobeying an order not to stir the pursuers fired, instantly killing old man George and one son, and fatally wounding a young man visiting at the place. Stamped envelopes of the best quality are to be reduced to #1.89 per 1,000, exclusive of postage, at the commencement of the new year. Robert Paine, senior Bishop of the Method st Church South, died at Aberdeen, Misa The Universalists’ General Convention, in session at Philadelphia, condemned the death penalty, lauded and indorsed the_ efforts of the Prohibitionists and resolved that State Legislatures should enact stringent lgws for the prevention of cruelty to aniinala A Convention of Baptist clergymen and laymen, in session for several days at Hamilton, Ont., declined to demand of the Premier the introduction of the Bible as a textbook in the public schools, as they do not wish to interfere with the religious liberty of any citizen. The Michigan crop report for October states the average yield of wheat in the State is 18 41-100 bushels per acre, and the aggregate product is estimated at 31,689,445 bushels. Freight trains on the Hudson River road collided at Rhinecliff, by which an engine and twelve cars were thrown into the water, causing a loss of #BO,OOO. The indictment against Arabi Pasha embraces numerous counts of a serious character. It fie charged that in violation oj the rights of nations he displayefl a white flag in Alexandria as a cover under which to retire his forces and give the city over to fire and pillage; that be incited the Egyptians to engage in armed rebellion against the Khedive; that he continued the war after peace had been declared; and, in a general way, that he incited civil war, massacre, devastation, and pillage in Egyptian territory The new army of Egypt will number 11,0(k) men and cost £168,000 per annum. Baker Pasha proposes that the field officers be half British and half native, the gendarmerie to be officered by Egyptians. News has been received at Irkutsk, Siberia, that the harbor-exporing party in the Lena delta are all well. Nothing has been learned concerning the fate of Lieut. Cbipps. Dr. J. H. McLean, of patent-medi-cine fame, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of St Louis, Mo. Joseph N. Dolph was elected United States Senator on the forty-first ballot by the Oregon Legislature.

THOSE BILLS

For Payment for Services 111 Garfield’s Illness. Following is a complete list of the claims filed with the board designated by Congress to audit- the claims arising from the illness and death of President Garfield: Dr. D*W. Bliss . ..#25,000.00 Dr. D. Ilay s Agrnew 14, 00.00 Dr. Robert Rev burn 10,800.00 Dr. 1). S. Lamb (for examination of body at Elberon, N. J.) 1,000.00 Dr. Su an A. Edson 10,000.00 Henry H. Little, Receiver Central Railroad Company of New' Jersey, laying special track at Elb ron, N. J., and running special trains 3,239.00 Milne & Proctor, Washington, furniture 1G2.00 George W. Knox, Washington, express charges 13.00 G. G. C. Sims, Washington, drugs, etc.. 78.8-5 Charles A. Benedict, New York, funeral expenses, including casket 887.50 Thomas- Dolan an I James Sheridan, messengers at Executive Mansion, 1 ach 300.00 William Given, messenger at State Department (amount left to discretion of board) Dr. James W. Walsh, embalming the body 500.00 George Tremain & Co., of New York, surgical instruments, etc 85.27 H. Lr Crawford, sprinkling grounds Executive Mansion 270.00 W. H. Bailey, services at Mansion 200.00 W. B. Moses <fc Son, linen, etc.! a 40.36 James Good-win, Boston, invalid bed.. 75.00 William S. Dupee, messenger War Department 210.00 Singleton & Hoeke, Washington, for The National Capital Telephone Co 50.00 Charles H. Lee, messenger Department of Justice (no amount named) James Wilson, cooking, etc 180.00 Indepen lent Ice Company, ice 1,516.92 Margaret Nugent, cook, three months’ extra pay Fred R. Moore, messenger service 175.00 Claim of employes of Executive Mansion for three months’ extra pay No claim has yet been filed by Dr. Hamilton or Dr. Boynton. The board is waiting to hear from them.

An Established Theory.

There is a theory advanced by scientists that if you whisper in the ear of a sleeping man the impression of your words wil lie conveyecHo Iris mind as by a dream. We recent y experimented with this theory and found it worked very satisfactorily. A noted Western scout who boasted of having slain 200 Indians was stopping at the where we reside. We entered his room and

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27,1882.

whispered in his ear: “We are attacked by Indians! The red devils are upon us!” Did he spring up, grab for a knife and blindly rush forward for a fray ? He did rise from the bed. And he crawled under it. There can be no doubt that the theory is correct. — Boston Post.

n»e Agricultural Department’s Crop Bulletin. Wheal. —The October returns to the National Department of Agriculture of the yield per acre of wheat, estimated from results of threshing, foreshadows a product slightly exceeding 500.000,000 bushels, and possibly reaching 520,000,000. The average yield per acre appears to be nearly fourteen bushels, on an acreage slightly less than 37,000,000 acres This is a reduct on of area in the soring-whea' region, and a large yield'in the reat winter-wheat growing belt of the West. Taking the highest figures indicated bv these returns of yield, the distribution of the production gives 248,000,000 bushels, or nearly half the crop of the United States, to six principal winter-wheat States—Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. The spring wheat of the Northwest may make 113,000,(QO bushels. The Pacific coast crop, which has been persistently exaggerated in commercial estimates, cannot much exceed 44,000,000 bushels. The Middle States produce about 40,000,000 bushels, and the Southern States Blightly in excess of 50,000,000 bushels. Corn. —The yield per acre of com will be reported in November. The condition averages 81, being very high in the South and comparatively low in the Sta’es of largest production. In Illinois, with 8 per cent, decrease of area, the condition is only 72, in lowa 70, and in Ohio 87. The three States produced 40 per cent of the crop of 1879. A careful comparison of the changes in area and condition indicates an average yield of twenty-five bushels per acre, against twenty-eight in 1879, and eighteen last year. The average of the series of years is between twenty-six and twenty-seven bushels. New England will produce, according to October returns, 7,000 000 to 8,000,000; the. Middle States, 82,000,06'); the Southern, 340,000,009; those north of Tennessee and west of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1,259,000,000 -an aggregate of 1,680,000,000. Later returns may slightly reduce but cannot materially increase this estimate. Oats. —The Department of Agriculture reports the average yield of oats to be somewhat higher than last year, or in 1879, and the product nearly as large as that of wheat —probably about 480,000,000 bushe's. Illinois, lowa, New York, Wisconsin, Mis ouri, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Kansas are the States of highest rank in the production. Bye. —The average yield of rye, averaged from State returns, is fourteen and seven-tenths bushels, thus making the crop 0,009,000 bushels, or nearly the same as reported by the censua Barley. —The average yield of barley is twenty-three bushels per acre, aggregating 45,000,000 bushela California, New York and Wisconsin together produce more than half, or 27,000,000 bushela The product in 1879 was 44,000,000. Buckwheat. —The prospect for buckwheat is good for nearly the average product, 11,000,000 to 12,000,000 bushels. Pennsylvania produces nearly half a crap, and reports 95 as the average of condition, 100 representing the full normal yield. New York makes the average 75. No other State produces 590,000 bushels. Potatoes. —The general average condition of potatoes is 81. In the South, in the Ohio valley, and in Michigan, Missouri and Nebraska, the average is 100 to 1(6. In the Northwest and in the Eastern and Middle States the condition is lower, it is 70 in New York, 85 in Ma ne and 84 in Vermont. Returns indicate a probable y eld of 80 bushe s per acre on an area of nearly 2,000,000 acres Cotton —The cotton returns of the Department of Agriculture for October indicate unusual size and vigor of the plant and capacity for large production. The iate.development of the fruitage, and the reported indications of a small top crop, l mit the Otherwise extraordinary prospect.

Annual Report of the Commissioner. The annual report of W. W. Dudley, Commissioner of Pens.ons, shows that at the close of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1882, 285,605 pensioners had been classified, as fol ows: - A’my invalids 173,138 Army w dows, minor children and dependent relatives 76,448 Navy invalids 2,301 Navy widows, minor children and dependent relatives 1,953 Survivors of the War of 1812 7,134 Widows of those who served in the War of 1812 24/61 The names of 27.664 new pensioners were added to the rolls during the year, and the names of 649 whose pensions had previously been dropped were restored, making an aggregate increase to the rolls of 28/18. The names of 11,446 pensioners were dropped from the rolls for various offenses, leaving a net increase for the year of 16,857 pensioners. At the c!o~e of the year the pen-ions paid to each pensioner averaged #102.70, and the aggregate annual value of the whole roll was $29,341, 1 01.02. The report says: “The annual payment of pensions exceeds the annual value by several millions of dollars—that is to say, the total amount paid for pensions during the year, exclusive of the arrears due in such pensions as were allowed prior to Jan. 25,1879, was #53,924,506.20; the difference between this sum and the annual value being the arrears due from new pensions computed from the date of discharge in the case of an inval d soldier, and from the death of the soldier where pension was not allowed to the widow or others.” The amount paid during the year upon first payments to new pensioners was $26,421,069. This amount was paid to 27,703 pensioners. The report gives in detail the operations of the bureau covering the period since 1861. the tables being arranged by years for the purpose of ready comparison. A table has a'so been prepared which shows the number of pension claims filed and allowed since 1861, and the disbursements on account of pensions since 1862 This table shows that the total number of claims filed during the period mentioned was 837,361; the total number allowed, 472,77'6; and the aggregate disbursements made, #56. >,.641,324 75 Included in ihis amount is the sum of $25,234,232 85 paid to pensioners for and on account of service rendered during the War of 1812 Anot ler table shows that there are 290,966 claims for pensions now pending, and 75,268 on the rejected files of the office. This exhibit also shows that there were 75,087 claims filed during the last fiscel year. The special examination system substituted by Congress at tbe sugge tion of the Commissioner for the “Special Service” is said to be giving great satisfaction. On this subject the Commissioner says: “This new system does away with tlje exparte evidence formerly i 1 use so that the claimant is now’ afforded the opportunity to face the witnesses and to appear in person or by counsel in the exammation of his case.” The ex( ense incm red in this service dur. ing the year amounted t > $88,275.23, while the gross saving to the Government resulting fiom the adoption of this system waß about #645,183.

The work of repairing Bunker Hill monument, which had been going on for six weeks, was completed satisfactorily a few days ago without accident of any kind. When the examination vshich led to the repairs was made, it was found that the seams about the top of the monument had been almost completely washed out, and the moss was growing in many of the crevices. If the monument had been neglected only a short time longer it would have suffered irreparable injury from the action of frost, which had already begun to show its effects around some of the horizontal joints.

"A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles ”

THE HARVEST.

PENSIONS.

A FEARFUL ARRAIGNMENT.

The Corrupt Party Whose Abominations Cry Aloud. Illustrations of Republican Pollution. Not less than 5,000 “persons gathered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle the s other Sunday night, to listen to Dr. Talmage’s revelations of the “Degradation of Modern Polities.” In the audience were the familiar faces of many New York wire-pullers who awaited anxiously the onslaught. The preacher took for his text the passage: This place shall no more be called Tophet, nor the val ey of the son of Hinnom, but the valley or slaughter. Dr. Talmage said : “This wa3 Gehenna, or the valley outside of Jerusalem. The carcasses of animals were thrown there ; the offal of the oity was deposited there ; fires were kept perpetually burning, so that the palace would not breed a pestilence. It had sometimes been used by religious writers and speakers—that God-forsaken spot has been used by them as a symbol of perdition. I use it as a symbol of the condition of modern politics. THE FOULEST TOUR ON RECORD. After numerous illustrations of the animosities and corruption of the party strife in past years. Dr. Talmage said: “But why should I go away back, when the blackest year in American politics is the year between October, 1881, and October, 1882? I will give you some illustrations. I draw one illustration from the Yorktown carousal. On the 19th of October, 1781, the British forces under Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, and the long agony of our revolutionary fathers was ended. Last autumn was the centennial celebration. Sons of distinguished foreigners who had helped us in achieving American independence came across the water and were our guests. The programme for the service and celebration was issued. The Congress of the United States made an appropriation for that celebration; multitudes of people went to the quaint village of Yorktown and preserved their patriotism and their respectability, but to a great many of our public men it was a drunken carousal. I refer you back to the correspondence in the different papers about that time. Look at the whisky bill; look at the wine bill; look at the c : gar bill of those limes, and then consider the fact that there were innocent men and women in ulted during these times and duiiug that celebration, making sure that the October of 1781 was not more glorious than the October of 1881 was infamous. They saluted the English flag, and they sainted the Fr nch flag, and they saluted the American flag, but all the flags together cannot cover the shame of that debauch. The politicians get up the celebration, tbe politicians conducted the celebration, f he politicians ended the celebration, the politicians forever besmirched that occasion. I bring it as an illustration of the degradation of modern politics.

“I draw another illustration from the Garfield funeral carousal, reaching from Washington to Cleveland, and from Cleveland back to Washington. On that d.av and at that time when, this nation was sick with a grief such as has seldom befallen any nation, there were public men who guzzled and swilled and drank and caroused at the expense of the nation. You and I helped pay for it, if we have paid our taxes. The city of Cleveland, as beautiful and as moral a city as we have in all the land, never had so much drunkenness and debauchery in it as the night before Garfield’s* burial, while the Mayors and the Common Councilmen and the politicians from all the cities were there waiting for the obsequies. I arra : gn it as an appalling indecency, as an insult toGol and the American people. I arraign it as an illustration of the degradation of modern politics. “I draw another illustration from the last Albany Legislature. Look over the record of the ayes and noes, and the dodgers on the Convict Labor bill, on the General Stre et Baiiwav bill, on the Grain bill, on the Canal bill, and get your eyes so wide open you will never get them shut. As a specimen, they voted to destroy the grandest §troet on earth—Broadway, New York —by running a railroad through it. There never has been a greater sense of relief in this State than when it was announced that the Legislature had gone home. “I draw another illustration from the Spuyten-Duyvil disaster that Friday afternoon when the Hudson river railcar was crowded with politicians, and by their drunkenness and obscenity they turned the car into a pandemonium and overpowered the conductor, until he testified on solemn oath that he could not manage the train, and then one of the politicians jerking the rope to the air-brakes until the train halted and another train swept around the curve, and the lives of some of our most-valua-ble citizens and the bright and happy bridal tour ended in horror and massacre, the flames completing what the collision left. The politicians got the management of the train, and I charge them—l cars not what the Coroner’s juiymaysay—l charge them with tho murder. They halted the train. THE RIVER AND HARBOR STEAL. “I bring another illustration of the degradation of modern politics—the River and Harbor bill misappropriation—• millions of dollars voted away by Congress, and voted away in dead waste. Gentlemen wanting to be re-elected to Congress may go around this country trying to fix tilings up,*.but it will never be fixed up this side of tlieYlay of judgment, and that will fix it down. I saw last summer two of the places for which large appropriations were made by Congress in the way of improvement and development. One of these places was in Virginia; thousands of dollars voted by Congress to develop vliat is there, or what was there dnring the summer, a dry creek. There was not one drop of water in it, and in the winter time it very seldom has more than two or three feet of water. You could see looking there where at some time there had been water. The creek started nowhere especially, and ended nowhere especially. Thousands of dollars vo l ed for the development of that creek, doing no more good to the public than au appropriation for the development of rivers or

harbors on the top of your City Hall, of no more use than an appropriation to run a railroad from Trinity Church steeple to the moon. Swindle—all swindle—nothing but swindle. Then I saw this summer also another place for which a large appropriation had been made. It is on the coast of Massachusetts. A sea Captain, familiar with all the coast, pointed out to me where tbe improvements were to be, and he told me that the only use of that large appropriation by the Congress of the United States for that development would hr to pile up the ice in winter and impede navigation. A laugh of derision has gone all around this country about this Congressional outrage; but the people who pay the taxes are so stupid they cauuot see the joke. Oh, how easy it is to vote away other people’s m nev! Some of the leading meu of both political parties were in that national insult, that God-defy ng outrage! Oh, how much more beautiful it would have been if the Congress of the United States had practically said: ‘The people of this couniry have,'since the war, been taxed until tbe blood came. Now let up on them! Let us throw this surplus in the treasury and lower the taxes. Let us give a surprise party to the people, and lift their burdens, and let the toiling men and women of America have au easier chance to earn a livelihood for themselves and families.’ Ah, no; let the people sweit; grind harder tho faces of the poor; draw the buckle of tlio harness one hole tighter. Let Dives come to finer linen, and the dogs lake cave of Lazarus’ sores. LESSON OF THE STAR-ROUTE THIEVERY. “I bring another illustration of the degradation of American politics from the star route thievery. What a beautiful revelation! All the miscreants in that enterprise confirmed politician*, their guilt proved beyond doubt, and if they had been poor men they would have had a trial of four daya and would have long been in the penitentiary. Rut, as there was a large amount of money to draw on, they had four months of trial, and they are comparatively free. There is condemnation, great condemnation, in this country for a man who steals less than SIOO,OOO. If you are going to steal, if you must steal, steal over SIOO,OOO, or there will be no chance for you. The reason people are condemned in this country is because they do not steal enough. There will be other star-route trials instituted, but as long as there is a large amount of money to be drawn on there will be no more convictions. Put that down in your memorandum-books. Oh! it was beautifully consistent that this star-route crime should employ as counsel the champion infidel of America. Without the Bible there is no good government. The prominent infidel of the country said he did not see anything wrong in li’s clients. Of course he did not. There is no God; there is to be no judgment day; there are no eommandnients of divine authority. Let every mau do as he pleases. Such a theory as that would soon turn this land into a pandemonium. lam so glad that modern infidelity tells us at last what it believes in. I lift this fact up before the people of America. I want it understood, I am glad now that modern infidelity has gone out of the region of the abstract into the realm of practical morals, and we know what it sanctions and what it favors. FRAUD IN THE BARATOGA CONVENTION. “But J come down into the present autumn for an illustration of the degradation of modern politics. There were three factions in the Saratoga Convention—three factions. The Folger telegram to the State Committee has been excoriated from one end of the land to the other, and so it ought to be, but there is one fraud that has not been ventilated and I propo e to ventilate it. I propo e to turn on all the lights this morning. If you are going to take out a cancer, take it out root and all. There" came in that Saratoga Convention an hour of supreme excitement. It was found that Judge Folger would get the most votes. Then a member of the Oneida delegation, in as bold a spirit of fraud as was ever practiced this side of pandemonium, aro e and declared, that the entire Oneida delegation would now go over from Wadsworth to Cornell, trying to get a stampede in that direction, and without the consent . of the men of that delegation. The bold fraud would have been successful but for the fact that a member of that misrepresented Oneida delegation arose and said in a stentorian voice: ‘I am from the Oneida delegation and I turn my vote over to •Judge Folger.’ There was a great cry among the men of the convention: ‘ Call the roll of that delegation! Let us see where they stand!’ The roll of that delegation was called, and, instead of finding as that man had represented—that defrauder had represented—that all the delegation had gone over from Wadsworth to Cornell, it was found that seven went for Cornell, and four for Wadsworth and two for Folger. The forged telegram was to help Folger. The Oneida fraud was to help Cornell. While yon denounce the one you must anathcn\mtize the other. Well, my friends, it seems that in that ease righteousness was crucified on the center cross, while on the right and left were the two thieves —the forged te’egram and the fraud—the latter six times worse than the first, bee uise the forged telegram misrepresented one man, while the fraud misrepresented six men. “Now, I see people in holy horror talking about one fraud or another fraud or another fraud. Let us have them all out now. Cornell men I see standing with holy horror, their hands outspread toward this forged elegram, while with their skii ts they are trying to cover up the Oneida abomination. They cannot cover it up. I hand it out in the presence of the American pa >ple as another illustration of tho degradation of modern {>olities. Cursed is the forged telegram ! Cursed is the Oneida fraud! But there are more illustrations than I have tim to brin ; in. ’

Wages and Tariff.

The local organ of the Protectionists has been comparing the wages in Germany with the wages in this country and argues that our protective tariff is the cause of the high wages bere and free trade is the cause of the low wages in Germany. We are willing to make due allowance for the ignorance of the organ, but even the. editors of the. Post and Trilmne must’know that Germany has a high protective tariff and that the low wages paid in Germany cannot be caused by free trade. If the organ

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really desired to make a fair comparison of ihe effects of tariff and free trade on wages in countries where the other conditions of population, soil and climate are comparatively alike, it would have selected high-tariff Germany and free-trade England. The following talde is taken from the consular reports made with a view to sustaining the tariff under the Hayes administrati n in 1879: COMPARATIVE RATES OF WEEKLY WAGES PAH) IN GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN IN 1879. German it- Great Britain. Bakers $3.50 $6.50 to $6.60 Blacksmiths 3.55 7.04 to *.U Bookbinders 3.81 6.50 to 7.83 Bricklayers 3.60 7.58 to 9.0il Cabinetmakers 3.97 7.70 to 8.48 Carpenters 4.00 733 to 8.15 Fi.rm laborers 2.87 3.40 to 4.25 I laborers, porters, etc 2.92 4.50 to 5.00 Painters 3.92 7.25 to 8.10 Plasterers 3.80 7.08 to 10.13 Plumbers 3.60 7.13 to 8.46 Printers 4.80 7.52 to 7.75 Shoemakers 3.12 7.33 Tailors 3.53 5.00 to 7.30 •Tinsmiths. 3.65 6.00 to 730 COMPARATIVE RETAIL PRICE 0 OF THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE IN GERMAN! AND OREAT BRITAIN IN 1878. Germany. Great Britain. Gent*. Cents. Beef, roast, per 1b.... .22 .22 Beef, corned, tb .13 .18 to .20 Beans, qt 10 .09 Bread, lb 3to .07 .03)4 to .04>4 Batter, lb 22 .29 to .88 Coal, ton $4.25 $1.65 to $4.10 Codfish tb .08 to .03 Coffee, lb 35 .8 to .50 Errs, doz 20 .14 to .30 Flour, lb 05 4 .03!-j to .04>4 Lard, tb 21 .12 to .18 Milk, qt 04 .05 to .09 Mutton, fore qr. 1b... .14?4 .18 to .17 Oatmeal, lb .08 .0314 to .0414 Pork, fresh, lb 17 .10 to .18 Pork salted, lb .17 .10 to .11 Pork, baoon, lb .20 .12 to .18 Pork, sausage, tb 19 .18 Potatoes, bu .50 .88 tos’.oo Bice, tb v 9 .as <4 to .08 Soap, lb 1> .0 14 to ."9 Sugar, lb U -OSHs to .10 Tea, lb 75 .43 to .88 These figures show that in free-trade England mechanics’ wages are just about twice as high as in protected Germany, and the cost of coal and most articles of food is greater in Germany than iu England. England is the only free trade country in Europe, and the English workingmen are the best paid in Europe- The English mechanics receive from 50 to 100 per cent, higher wages than are paid in any other European country. We want no better illustration of the benefits of free trade than the condition of the working classes of England, and no better illustration of the injurious effect of protection can be found titan the miserable condition of the working c' asses in Germany. Comparisons between European countries and the United States are unfair and deceptive, for there are a thousand obvious causes liei-e which have always made wages higher than in Europe, regardless of the tariff. These are visible on every side to any intelligent observer, and are ignored only by very dishonest or ignorant writers. Among them are our cheap and fertile land and our sparse population. These sustain our labor prices at a high figure in spite of the influence of tho tariff. In Germany land is cheaper, population is sparser, and, in spite of the big army, taxes are lower than in Great Britain; and, as a consequence, wages should be higher. But, in spite of the better conditions, the influence of tariff' depresses labor to half the prices it commands in freetrade England. —Detroit News.

Dinna Ye Hear the Slogan ?

What’s the news? Dinna ye hear the slogan? The very paving stones are not so dead as to be deaf to the shout now bounding from valley to mountain peak—from cliff to crag: “The Republican party is dying.” The death sweat is on its crime-stained forehead. The death rattle is in its throat. Gods! what a rigor it had in Ohio! See its paralyzed hands loosening their grip in New York! In Pennsylvania its spine is broken and every joint is dislocated. While here in Indiana Republicans are offering to bet that their party will be dead and on its cooling board on Nov. 7. Dinna ye hear the slogan ? Ditina ye hear a thousand slogans, battle cries, rallying shouts, calling the clans? Indiana hears them. ludiana is responding. Indiana is to be redeemed from the grasp of Republicanism. The grand old Democratic party is to take the helm of state. Democratic principles are to be in the ascendency. The Republican shout is reduced to a whine. The Republican party is forced to keep step, as it tramps into exile, to the tune of the rogue’s march. While the Democratic party, catching inspiration from key-notes of victory erect, defiant, aggressive decked in the royal robes of sovereignty, is prepivr .ng to sail the ship of state by Democratic charts. It is said of the inhabitants of tho Alpine regions of Switzerland —of tho herdsmen who live far up toward cloudland —that when the suu is setting the herdsman on the highest elevation takes his Alpine horn, and as distinctly as if speaking through a trumpet sends forth the shout, “Praise the Lord God!” Then other herdsmen-on far-away cl If and crag t ike their Alpine horns and shout back, “Praise the Lord God!” And thus for a Half hour all tho mount tin gorges are filled with echoes, bounduig from peak to peak, from valley to summit,“Praise the Lord God!” When" the last sound has died away then the herdsman mounts the skies, takes his Alpine horn and sends forth the benediction : “Good-night!” and again tlio grand corridors of the mountains are vocal with the herdsmen’s adieus. This done, with heads uncovered, a prayer is offered, and the men of the mountain seek repose. On the night of Nov. 7, as the sun is setting, Democrats on high elevations of victory will send forth the bugle blasts: “Praise the Lord God.” The Republican party can’t bark, nor bite, nor wag its tail. It is dead. From New York and Pennsylvania Democrats from high watch-towers will respond in trumpet tones, “Praise the Lord God, Folger and forgery are dead; Cameron’s neck is broken; the people are free; the Democratic party is crowned victor.” Then all the Democrats in this ocqpm-girt republic will send forth to comrades, “Good-nignt.” Dinna ye hear tiie slogan ? The veteran actor, Mr. James E. Murdoch, recently gave a reading to the fishermen at Lauesville, Mass. He erected a hut and pavillion at his own expense, and then invited about five hundred sunbrowned old sailors from Gloucester and Lauesville to hear ‘Enoch Arden” read. The occasion is said by those, who were-pi’esent to have been a most remarkable and interesting one, the audience being the most attentive and sympathetic, probably, that ever heard Tennyson’s poem read. Two Toronto elopers were 50 and 19, with the forty years seniority belonging to the woman.

gematrafy Sentinel JOB PRIITIIB OFFICE liaa better fmefflttaa than any ofltea in Vortfcmatea* Indiana for tha axaeuttea of all braaobaa of FOB PRINTINO. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. .laytfciaf, (ran a Dodger ta a Maa-Ute, ar fraaa • tempiuet to aJtaater, Maakar eakare*. ftelaer ta mm SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

INDIANA AFFAIRS.

Live-Stock Statistic*. The State Statistical Bureau has completed tables giving the number of cattle, sheep, hogs and animals slaughtered for food in 1881 and 1882. Totals are as follows: Cattle —April 1,1881,1,254,G 55; 1882, 1,110,632; during the yeir 29,217 cattle died. Hogs, 1881, 2,328,394; 1882, 3,066,267. Sheep, 1881, 1,146,556: 1882, 1,092,601. Limbs, 1881, 456,309; 1882, 502,447. Catt’o slaughtered, 1881, 138,485; 1882, 94,872. Hogs, 1881,1,421,375; 1882,1,897,055. Sheep, 1881,46,729; 1882,54,516. The bureau also furnishes tables giving the number of acres of fallow ground in 1881 as 638,395, against 657,183 in 1882. In 1881 the newly-olearo 1 ground in the State amounted to 132,159 acres; iu 1882, 225,468 acres. „ Poultry am! Egg*. The State Bureau of Statistics have compiled from the April reports of the township Assessors’ statements showing the production of poultry in each oounty of the State, together with statistics relative to tho quality of eggs sold and used by poultry raisers and the feathers picked, from which the following comparative summary of tho last three years is taken: ' ' j 1880. 1881. 18827* Chtokens, dozen 062,840 558,491 628,286 Turkovs, dozen 58,713 28.067 44,089 Geese,’dozen 48,348 26,408 25,403 Ducks, dozen 21,835 14,068 15,064 Guineas, dozen 4,748 2,410 2,976 Peafowls, dozen .. 2,329 6,125 Eggs, dozen 17,150,661 19,188,783 Feathers, lbs 518,787 346,681 310,733 The statistics on eggs include the production from all kinds of fowls, and the feathers are only those picked from geese. The total number of fowls of all kinds, according to the last report of the Assessors made in April, is 722,043, and of this number 628,286 are chickens. The statistics are probably incomplete in some respects, but they certainly made a very creditable showing for the poultry producers of the State. CongreHxinnal Nominations. The Congressional pominations in Indiana are as follows: FIBST DISTRICT. Republican, William Heilman, Evansville, Vnmferburg county; Democrntl •, John J. Kleiner, Evansville, Vamlerburg county. Tman DISTRICT. Republican, Will T. Walker, Kcottsburg, Scott com ty; Democratic, 8. M. Stockslngor, Corydon, Harrisnn county; National, JolinO. Green, New Albany, Floyil oounty. FOURTH DISTRICT. Democratic, William H. Holman, Aurora, Dearborn county; Republican, W. J. Johnson, Madi-on. FIFTH DISTRICT. Republican, C. C. Matson, Oreencastle, Putnam county; National, Samuel Wallingford, Bloomington, Monroe county. SIXTH DISTRICT. Republican, Thomas M. Browne, Winchester, Randolph county; Democratic, L. J. Pender, Richmond, Wayne county; National, Thompson Smith, Webster, Wayne county. HKVENTH DISTRICT. Republican, Stanton J. Poelle, Indianapolis, M ariou county; Democratic, Will E. English, Indianapolis, Marion county; National, R. W. Medkirk, Indianapolis, Marion county. EIGHTH DISTRICT. Republican, Robert B. F. Pierce, Crawfords vide, Montgomery county; Democra ic, John E. Lamb, Terre Haute', Vigo county; National. JohnW. Copner, Covington, Fountain county. NINTH DISTRICT. Republican, Godlove S Orth, Lafayette, Tippecanoe county; Democratic, Thomas B. Ward, Lafayette, Tippecanoe county; National, Richard F. Jacks, Lebunon, Boone county. TENTH DISTRICT. Republican, Mark L De Motto, Valparaiso, Tot ter conn y; Democratic, Thomas J. W od, ( rown Point! Lake county; National, James N. Moore, Lowell, Luke county. ELEVENTH DISTRICT. Republ can, George W. Htee’e, Marion, Grant county; Democratic, Joseph R Daly, Bluff ton, Wei is county; National, Evan Thompson, Huntlnguin, Huntington county. TWELFTH DISTRICT Republican, Wesley C. Glasgow, Lagrange, LaTrango county; Democratic, Rolien Lowry, Fort Wayne, Allen county; National, Joseph Butler, AneoJa, Steulieu county. THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. Republican, W. H. Calkins, Luporto, I,arorfce county; Democratic, J. H. Winterbotham, Michigan City, Ltiporte county; National, B. F. Shively, south Bend, Bt. Joseph county. Here and There. A military company lias been organized at Knightstown. There is a pending offer to construct a cable line for street cars in Columbus, provided the city will grant a satisfactory charter. Capt. M. O’Donnell, a butcher of Vincennes, was gored in the side by a cow at his slaughter-house, and seriously though not fatally injured. Farmers in Southern Indiana report mast more plentiful than for a number of year ?. The woods are full of squirrels, and pigeons are m iking their appearance. William Henry, a prominent farmer near She&yville, is sued for d voice by his second wife, who demands SIO,OOO alimony out of his estate, worth at least $60,000. Franklin Simmons, the American sculptor, notv in Rome, has nearly completed tho statue of the late Gov. Oliver P. Morton, on which he has long been engaged. The figure is about eight feet highland represents Mr. Morton in the uct of speaking. Judge Gregory, formerly of the Supreme Court, and his wife celebrated the fifty-first anniversary of tbeir wedding at Lafayette, and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Andrew, of Cliauncv, near Lafayette, celebrated the fifty-fourth anniversary of their wedding. Frank Meyer has brought suit against Enos Hedges for $3,000 damages, for injuries sustained while employed by the defendant in erecting a railroad bridge in Denrliorn county. The injury was received by a heavy stone falling upon his left leg. Joseph Fry, an aged miser of Vincennes, has closed his career of moneyg. tting. Some years ago tho Board of Health required him to got a new bu t of clothes. Inside his shirt, after death, there was found a stinking mass of greenbacks, amonuting to $4,250. His chief avocation has l»eon the collect on of cigar stumps, and he died from attempting to live on green apples. His will gives $250 to the Catholic ohnroh, and the remainder to a sistor in Germany. . They were two little children, and they were painting pictures in their school-books. One youngster ftni bed a cow in blue, and then remembered never to have seen n blue cow. “Never mind,” encouragingly said tho other; “well say the cow is cold.”