Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. JE€n.wt. A new 1-cent morning paper is to be started in New York on Nov. 15 by Joseph Pulitzer, of the St. Louis Poxt-Dixpatch, and Stilsdn Hutchins, of the Washington Post. The office will be in the Spruce street side of the Tribune building. Mrs. Langtry, the English professional beauty, arrived at New York Oct. 33. She Is accompanied by Mrs. Labourchere, the wife of the famous London editor. She will appear on the stage in the principal cities of the country under the management of Henry Abbey, of NewYorlt Her repertorie comprises only four plays—“As You Like It,” “The Honeymoon,” “She Stoops to Conquer,” and “An Unequal Match.” Ex-Gov. E. A. Straw, of New Hampshire, aged 73, died at Manchester, of softening of the brain. William Bartel, one of the wealthiest men In Delaware county, Pa, committed suicide. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has closed a career of-, thirty-five years as Professor of r Anatomy at Harvard University, desiring to give more time to literary pursuits Charges of embezzlement, perjury and conspiracy to defraud were lodged in New York against J. 0. Tiffany, late Indian Agent at San Carlos Agency, in Arizona, by the Assistant United States District Attorney, under instructions from the Attorney General in Washington. Tiffany was arrested and held in $6,000 bail, which he furnished, and was released. West. Winnipeg has celebrated the opening of a street railway and the lighting of its main thoroughfare by electricity. Charles Ford while attending the trial of his brother, Robert, at Plattsburg, Mo., was arrested on a charge of complicity in the robbery of the Lexington aud Richmond stage-coach last year. Ex-Congressman John Hanna died at his residence at Plainfield, Ind. % Gen. Crook is said to have checked i an Indian outbreak at San Carlos by putting a stop to frauds which were being practiced on the reservation. A. Bickus, Jr.. & Son’s lumber and planing mill, atDetroit, was burned together with 1,000,000 feet of lumber. Loss, $l5O- - A farmer named Kingbite, residing near Stillwater, Minn., who had served two terms in the penitentiary for manslaughter, arose from bed the other night, stabbed his wife fatally, killed his son, and resisted capture until mortally wounded by Sheriff Holcomb. The Kewanee (Ill.) bank-robbers, Pratt, Welsh and Dunkle, pleaded gu Ity, and were sentenced to six years hardlaborin the penitentiary. Scott, an accomplice, was given four years. John McCullough’s matinee at St. Louis for the benefit of the family of Col. Slayback netted nearly SB,OOO. Bob Ford, a participant in the “rem< val” of the notorious Jesse James, was acquitted at Plattsburg, Mo., of the murder of Wood Hite. Thomas F. Talbott, one of the oldest residents of Cheyenne, was mortally wounded by his wife in self-defense, he being intoxicated and ugly. They have nine childen. (South. The National Cotton-Planters’ Association, recently in session at Little Rock, Ark., resolved to hold a World’s Centennial . Cotton Exposition in 1884, that year being designated because of the seizure by the King of England in 1784 of eight bales of cotton as contraband, it having been charged that America could not produce so large a quantity. Ed Johnson and Charley Williams fought a duel with horsewhips near Greensboro, N. O. The fight lasted four hours, and was witnessed by fifty spectators. Both men were badly injured. All on account of a woman. Homer Ohlson, a 14-year-old lad, of Paris, Ky., shot his teacher, Prof. Yerkes, through the pght arm for having requested a written exercise for tardiness. Five blocks of'buildings in Hopkinsville, Ky., were burned, causing a heavy loss. An earthquake shock at Newbern, N. C., so alarmed the negroes that they fled from their rocking houses and for hours prayed in the fields. A man named Newton, aided by his wife, cut off the head of Mr. McMillen, who lived near S’ndford, Fla., and tie 1 an iron pot t o his body and threw it into a well. Arthur Payne, of Washington, who stands charged with an attempt to bribe Mr. Brown, 'of the star-route jury, was arraigned in the Police Court and held in $2,000 bail. The operations of 5,491 money-order offices (to which number 449 have been added since June 30, 1882, while one office has been discontinued) reached the sum of $113,400,118 in orders issued, and $113,388,301 in orders paid and repaid. The gain in each case is about 8 per cent. The fees received from the public were $1,053,710, an increase of nearly 9 per cent Fountain Tankersley, Jr., residing in Lowell county, Ky., poisoned his wife and two children by strychnine, and fled.' Near Tazewell, Ga., Charles Heard, a boy, tried to whip his grown sister. She shot him in the abdomen and killed nim instant'y. George Williams was fatally wounded by Charles Brown, a desperado, at Shepherd Station, but as he fell he shot and killed Brown.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Mme. Christine Nilsson, the famous prima donna, arrived at New York last week, and will sing in concerts in this country until the Ist of April. Emily Gavin, of Chicago, the talented young e’oeutionist, died while traveling in Algiers. Nine Bishops of the Methodist church held a week’s conference at Berwick, Pa. The American Institute of Architects held its annual session in Cincinnati. The ninth annual convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was held at Lexington, Ky. A party who returned to Owen Sound, Canada, from the search for the bodies of the Asia victims, rsport that the po< ket< of all the dead bodies were robbed of valuables. In four instances even the shoes were taken off. Indians in the vicinity have been spending money very freely of

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME' VI.

late and evidently benefited financially by the terrib l ': disaster. The announcement is made from New York that a controlling interest in the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, l>e.ter known as the Nickel-Plate road, had been sold to J. H. Devereux, President of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railroad. The price paid was 37 for the preferred, of which there is an is-sue of $22,009,000, and 17 for the common stock of the company, which is represented by an issue of $28,000,000. Several men of the crews of the schooner Surprise, of New Bedford, and the British bark Roseneath, recently wrecked in the Straits of Magellan, who took refuge on an island, were massacred by the nativea

WASHINGTON NOTES. Army officers predict that Gen. Pope will find great difficulty in securing confirmation by the Senate as Major General, on account of his personal hostility to Fitz John Porter. Dr. Boynton has filed a claim of $4,500 for services during the illness of Garfie d. It is believed to be the last of the list of doctors’ bills. Estimates have been prepared for the pay and mileage of the members of the Forty-eighth Congress. There will be 325 members and eight delegates. For that pay there has been asked $1,665,000, and $25,000 for contestants. For mileage $125,000 is estimated, making a total of over $1,800,000. Gen. McClellan has been visiting Washington to aid in defeating Gen. Pope’s promotion. The Acting Secretary of the Interior at Washington has rendered a decision to the effect that seven years’ absence may be taken as proof pre-umptive of a soldier’s death, and such proofshall warrant the issue of a pension to his family, if the other requirements have been complied with. This decision is a direct reversal of tho practice which has hitherto prevailed in the Pension Bureau. Positive proof of a soldier’s death was required, which, in many cases, was impossible to produce. The President left the capital for New York last week, to remain till after the election Two important army promotions are announced from Washington, Gen. Pope being raised to the rank of Major General, while Col. Ranald 8. Mackenzie is made a Brigadier General. These appointments are. of course, subject to the approval of the Senate, where the nomination of Gen. Pope is certain to meet»with very active opposition. POLITICAL POINTS. At the first political meeting ever held by the Mormons, which took place at Ogden, Utah, on the evening of Oct. 21, Cannon denounced what he termed the attempt to despoil the Mormons of their constitutional rights. The official returns of the Ohio election give Newman, Democrat, a plurality of 19,115 over Townsend, Republican, and a ' majority over all of 1,568. FOREIGN NEWS. Arabi lias summoned De Lesseps as a witness on his trial. The Dublin corporation refused to vote to Gen. Wolseley the freedom of the city. The revolt in Herzegovina is increasing. Many conscripts are deserting and joining the insurgents. Manila, the capital of the Philippine islands, which was so terribly scourged by cholera, is almost destroyed by a cyclone. The False Prophet threatens an invasion of Lower Egypt. His following is large, and his revolt completely dwarfs Arabi Pasha’s recent movemen's. In June last 6,000 Egyptian soldiers were surrounded and massacred by his army. King Milan of Servia was fired at by a woman in the Cathedral at Belgrade, but escaped unhurt. The typhoon at Manila rendered 60,000 families homeless, but the loss of life was relatively small. Serrano, if called to power in Spain, will establish the constitution of 1869 and abolish the system of life Senatorships. De Lesseps has perfected a plan by which the time occupied by vessels in traversing the Suez canal will be shortened three days. Nobody pays much attention nowadays to what is going on in Afghanistan, but for all that there is a formidable revolt in progress there. The Ameer appointed his son to the Governorship of Herat, whereat a great disturbance has been created by the dissatisfied people. In the vicinity of Cabul the inhabitants are said to have revolted and killed their Governor. At the reassembling of Parliament the Tories attacked Gladstone fiercely for violating historical precedents by calling an autumn session, Lord Randolph Churchill moving an immediate adjournment as a protest against this action of the Government Gladstone was in nowise disconcerted by the atl ack, but, sure of his ground, treated the matter in a pleasant vein, and on a division Churchill’s motion was defeated by a vote of 142 to 209, the Parnellites voting with the majority. It is believed that the cost of the war In Egypt will prove to be £4,ooo,ooo,exclusive of the expense of the army of occupation. Parnell, Healy, Sexton and Justin McCarthy have b?en nom'nated by Gladstone as the committee to inquire into the imprisonment of Editor Grey. Egan, Treasurer of the Land Longue, says the Irish members of Parliament received but £1,600 of the funds, which was all absorbed by traveling expenses. England has proposed to Egypt the creation of an international indemnity commission, the United tj|p.tes and Greece to be represented. In the election for members of the Prussian Diet the secessionist Liberals and the ex reme Right have made a net gain of five and nine seats, respectively. The National Liberals lost ten seats. The Transvaal is at war with Mapoch, a native chief, who harbors Mampoer, the murderer of the Kaffir chief Secocoeni. The Transvaal Government has sent 2,000 men to subdue Chief Mapoch. The French Minister of Justice, in asking that the riotous miners be brought before a Paris tribunal, stated that he held clews to a vast revolutionary organization, directed by a committee at Geneva. Gladstone announce! in Parliament that Gen. Wo’seley and Adm'ral Seymour had accepted peerages, and hoped the House would provide them with suitable annuities.

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He said England might repose the greatest confidence in its m litary forces. Kileanea, the Hawaiian volcano, is in eruption on a grander scale than for twentyfive years. Bedouins in the vicinity of Suez murdered Capt Gill and Lieut. Charrington. The attitude of the desert wanderers in this section of Egypt is very menacing. In unveiling a statu i to Thomas Carlyle, on the Thamas embankment at London, Prof. Tyndall expressed a wish that a memorial to Ralph Waldo Emerson be raised alongside it.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A New York telegram says that the pmeh 'se of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis road by a syndicate extremely favorable t > Van lerbilt is the all-absorbing topic in Wa" street. The Hocking Valley road has acquire 1 an outlet to Chicago for its vast s ores of coal, and what might have proved an aggressive factor among the trunk lines has been divided up among several interests. The purchase money is to be paid in instailm mts, and the stock will be delivered when GJ per cent, shall have been handed over. The residence of Gen. Sturgis, at the Soldiers’ Home in Washington, was robbed of diamonds, silks and laces to the amount of $5,009. A search developed the missing property in the trunks of a French governess. Near Alamaos, Mexico, a battle was fought between Indians and the State troops, in which 100 Indians and twenty-three soldiers were killed and several wounded. William Dickson, the foreman of the recent star-route jury, was arrested at Wa- hington on the charge of endeavoring to improperly influence the Jury,and of conspiring to get money from the United States for the purpose of impeding justice. The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has decided that a frog is not a fish, and can not be imported from Canada free of duty under the treaty of Washington. Judge Alexander Hamilton, of St. Louis, who stood in the front rank of chancery lawyers, died, after an illness of four weeks. In the army rifle contest at Ft. Leavenworth, Sergt. Barrett, of the Engineer Battalion, took the first prize Gen. Shei man decorated the successful marksmen with their well-won trophies. The London Athenaeum states the Typographical Unions in America prevented the successful negotiation between England and the United States of a copyright convention. The Rubber Comb and Jewelry Company of Bloomingdale, N. J., has suspended payments, through the fai urc of a note broker. The liabilities are said to be $500,000. In a dispute at Nicholasville, Ky., about his fee, an attorney named Georsje B. Letcher k 1 ed Edward Evans, a young physician. The French police discovered a dynamite factory in the suburbs of Lyons. The citizens arc panic-stricken at the revelations in regard to the conspiracy, and a mob gathered and threatened the banks and public buildings. A Berlin disp dch says that full returns of the Prussian Parliamentary elections bay e been received, and indicate the return o'. 136 Conservatives, forty-seven Free Conservat ves, 10J of the Centre party, eighteen Poles, sixty-seven National Liberals, twenty-two Secessionists, thirty-eight Progressists, and five Independents. The Center and Conservatives, united, number 236, and as an absolute majority in the House is 217 they consequently have a good working majority, and will be enabled to pass all measures brought before the House. The United Liberty party number 130, and the Middle party 114. A letter from the Sultan has been found among Arabi Pasha's correspondence, urging him to resist invasion by England, France and other powers, and to defend the faith of his country.

THE BALLOT.

Thirty-three States to Hohl Elections or Tuesday, Nov. 7. Elections are to be he’d in thirty-three States of the Union on Tuesday, the 7th of November. The pluralities in 1889 in the State< which vote Nov. 7 were as below, the Presidential returns being taken in the main as the basis: Rep. Rem. Alabama 34 509 Arknnrr.s 18,828 Ca’ifornia 78 Colorado 2 803 • .... Connecticut 2,056 .... Delaware 1.033 Florida 4,310 Georgia 49,874 111in0i540,716 .... Indiana 6,636 .... 10wa78,059 .... K'in«as6l,73l .... Kentucky 43,449 Louisiana 33.41-9 Maryland 15,191 Massachusettss3,24s Michigans3.B9o .... Minnesota4o,sßß Mississippi 40,896 Missouri 55,042 Nebraska26,4s6 .... Nevada 879 New Hampshire. 4,058 .... New Jersey 2,010 New Y0rk21,033 North Carolina 8,326 Pennsylvania...'.37,376 .... Rhode Island 7,416 .... South Carolina 54,241 Tennessee 20,514 Toxas 98,388 Virginia 43,956 Wisconsin 29,763 .... Nov. 7, Missouri votes upon an amendment concerning the State judiciary; Nebraska decides upon an amendment' permitting women to vote; Illinois votes on two amendments—one to offer her canal to the national Government, and the other to vote half a million to complete her State House; New York considers two amendments—one making the canals free, and the other providing for the election of additional Supreme Judges; and Wisconsin determines the question of amending the State constitution respecting the residence and registration of voters, and the elect'on of county officers, and also by a change which shall make the general elections of State and county officers, except judicial officers, biennial in the even years after 1884, those who were chosen in 1881 to hold over until 1885, if the amendment is adopted. The members of Congress already chosen aggregate thirty-two: Maine, four; Vermont, two; Oregon, one; Ohio, twenty-one; West Airginia four. Under the new apportionment, Maine and Vermont each lose one member, while Ohio and West Virginia each gain one. As showing the importance of the November election, it it needs to be demonstrated, thenumberof membersof the House to be chosen on that day is 293, or precisely t' e whole number under the old apportionment. The November States gaining by the readjustment of representation are, Arkansas, one; California, two; Georgia, one-Illi-nois, one; lowa, two; Kansas, four; Kentucky, one; Massachusetts, one; Michigan, two f Minnesota, two; Mississippi, one; Misso iri, one; Nebraska, two; New York, one; North Carolina, one; Pennsylvania, one; South Caro ina, two;. Texas, five; Virginia, on ; Wisconsin, one. The only November State losing under the apportionment is New Hampshire.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

Ex plosion of a Bomb-Mortar During a Pyrotechnic Exhibition at Philadelphia. Six Persons Instantly Killed and a Number More or Less Seriously Injured. A mortar heavily charged with bombs and other fireworks, which were being used in the celebration of the Penn centennial at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, exploded, mowing down the surrounding spectators like the discharge of cannister into a regiment, and carrying death and destruction in its course. A dispatch from that city gives the foUowing particulars of the sickening affair: The shouts of the collected thousands which had rent the air a few minutes before because of the magnificent display suddenly ceased, and above the noise made by the stamping spectators could be heard the shrieks and moans of the dying. When the excitement follow ng the explosion had. somewhat abated ambulances .were summoned and the injured removed to a neighboring hospital Mrs. Davis Cookley, ag-d 26 years, who was nearest the mortar, was struck on the right side of the head and instantly killed, a piece of the iron carrying away part of her jaw. A colored infant was torn from the arms of its mother and killed. John Cannon, aged 35 years, had his skull crushed in, and died in ten minutes. A Gerhart and Edward Pierson, two young men, were standing together. Just as the crash came, Mr. Gerhart heard a woman’s voice cry: “Great God, my child is killed.” He felt a dead weight strike against his shoulders. Turning, he saw an elderly colored woman boldine the limp form of a child in her arms. It had almost d' opped from her grasp, but she had clutched it again. Sbe had Held the child in front of her, and in receiving the blow it had saved her life. The womi.n was Mrs. Charlotte Collins, of No. 514 North Nineteenth street, and the little boy was Howard, the 3-year-old son of her daughter, Mrs. Isabel a Scudder, 27 years old, residing on Bainbridge street. He died in a few minutes. Mrs. Scudder had been standing by her mother's side, laughing and admiring” the fire works. Her shoulder had almost touched that of Mr. Pierson. After the explosion she lay life!' ss at his feet. A flying fragment of the shell had struck her in the ffice, nearly severing the lower portion from the upper. Two men who had been standing by were struck by the flying pieces of the bomb ana were instantly killed. The face of the one was beaten into such a shapeless mass that not even his age could be ascertained. The other was a young man about 25 years old. Across his face, about the middle of the nose, was a transverse cut nearly two inches deejx Park Guard Thomas W. Harrison, who was standing nearest to the building, was picked up sensekss about 39 feet from his station. His injuries, although severe, did notappe ir to be dangerous, and he was immedi <tely removed, to his boarding place, No 2,343 Fairmount avenue. Mr. Harrison was a soldier under Maj. Reno in the Indian battle of she Big Horn river, in which Gen. Custer was slain. The bodies of the two unknown men and of Mrs. 8 -udder were removed to the art building at the Green street entrance. John M. Canning, one of the wounded, who was taken to the German Hospital, died a few minutes after his arrival. It is estimated that there were twenty-five persons injured seriously if not fatally.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

Annual Report of the Chief Officer. The Chief Signal Officer of the Army, in his annual report, says eleven new stations have been added, and special reports r.rc made for the cotton and tobacco-growing regions of the country, and the means for giving warnings to cattle-raisers of Texas against the approachof “northers”have been improved. Experiments have been made with a view ot increasing *he value of the farmers’bulletin by the addition of a weather chart of the United States, and it is believed that in a short time these charts may be successful!}’ reproduced on the farmers’ bulletin. With each year the popular knowledge of the uses of this bulletin enables those interested in agriculture to judge of the correctness of forecasts, and with the addition of the proposed weather-map individuals will be able to make correct predictions of the weather for localities which it is impossible to provide for in the brief sentence which expresses the prevailing weather indications antiepated for an entire district It is contemplated, as the work of the office progresses, to add to this bulletin brief instructions for the use of instruments which may hereafter be furnished for lo al observers. The railway-bulletin service has proven of great value the past year. The system of frost warnings for the "benefit of the sugar interests in Louisiana has been continued. During the coming year it is proposed to telegraph frost warnings direct from the Signal Office to all telegraph offices in the sugar-growing sections. It 'A proposed to establish a system of frost warn'ngs for the benefit of the to-bacco-growing interest of the country, also similar service for the benefit of the orangegrowers of Florida. A system of r< ports for the benefit of the cotton interests was thoroughly organized and successfully operated since 'September, 1881. At the solic ta'icn of those interested in the cultivation of wheat and other grains in the Northwest it is contemplated to establish a service similar to that now in operation for the benefit of the cotton interests, which will enable this office to publish in the journals of the Northwest the daily rainfall and temperature, as determined from a large number of stations. The cost to the Government of the men who do the signal-service work is less than $450,01X1 a year. The cost of salaries alone for the same number of civilian clerks would amount to more than $600,000.

PATENT OFFICE.

Annual Report of the Commissioners. Commissioner Marble, of the Patent Office, has submitted his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. During the past fiscal year, 30,062 applications for patents, registration of trade-marks, labels, and reissue patents were received. Of these 17,713 patents were granted and 1,709 trade-marks registered. The total receipts of the office from all sources W'ie $930,864, and the ex' penditures $651,719, leaving a Sumins o’ $ 79,144. The Commissioner calls attentior. to the section of the Revised Statutes which provides that “every patent granted for an invention which has been previously patented in a foreign country shall be so limited as to expire at the same time with the foreign patent, and to the fact that uncertainty exists as to the term of foreign patents, because of tho conditions on which they are issued. The report says: “In my opinion the terms of patents issued by this office should not be rendered uncertain by the operation of the laws of any foreign country nor by the failure of the patentees or their assignees to do what such law requires. In view of the fact that the terms for which patents may be granted in foreign countries are shorter than for which they may be originally granted in this country, I think that twelve years would be a proper term for patents where the invention has first been patented or patent applied for in a foreign country, and that the applicant should file his application within two years after the issuance of such patent or application therefor. Attention is also directed to a decision of the Supreme Court of the District that the Commissioner of Patents has no discretion in the registration of labels, but if an applicant comes with a trade-mark, calls it a label, and asks for its registration and pays the fees required by law for the registration of a label, it is the duty of the Commissioner to cause it to be registered. The Commissioner says, if the decision of the court is to be followed, legislation should be had which will remove every question of doubt in relation to such registration.

Science and Satisfaction.

Prof. Procter may tell within the sixteenth of an inch the length of a comet’s tail,and Prof. Huxley give us the

exact weight and age of the earth, and Herbert Spencer evolve more philosophy in one diy than the average man can understand in six months; but when it comes to determining the ripeness of a watermelon from the exterior, the triumvirate of scientific sharps must take a back seat, and let the Southern colored man, who never had a d <y’s schooling, step to the front. —Norristown Herald.

THE VOTE OF OHIO.

Returns of the Election Held Oct. 10. Official return* of the late election in Ohio have been received and are printed below. The comparisons are for President in 1880, Governor in 1881, and Secretary of State in 1882: 1880. 1881. 18R1 Republican37s,o4B 312,735 297.759 Democratic34o,B.'l 288,426 316,874 Prohibition 2,642 16,597 12,202 Greenback 6,456 2,905 5,3.5 T0ta15724,667 620,663 632,18? Republican plurality in 1880.34,227 Republican majority in 1850.....25,129 Republican plurality in 1881.... 124,309 Republican majority in 1881 4,797 Democratic plurality in 188219, 15 Democratic majority in 1882 7,735 Decrease in 1882 vote from 188098,027 Increase in 1882 vote from 1881 5,977 Decrease in 1882 Democratic vote from 1880. .23,677 Decrease in 1882 Republican vote from 1880.. 77,357 Inc ease in 1882 Democratic vote from 1881. .28,718 Decrease in 188 c Republican vote from 1881. .15,044 The vote for members of Congress at the recent election was as follows: FIRST DISTRICT. Butterworth, R. .13,721 | Follett, D 14,540 Democratic majority 819 SECOND DISTRICT. Smith, R 14,106 | Jordan, D 15,983 Democratic majority 1,817 THIRD DISTRICT. Shultz, R 15,826 | Murray, D 16,106 Democratic majority 280 FOURTH DISTRICT. Conkling, R 9,713 | Le Fevre, D 16,366 Democratic majority 6,353 FIFTH DISTRICT. Harris, R 11,006 | Seney, D :16,619 Democratic majority 5,615 SIXTH DISTRICT. Brigham, R 15,409 | Hill, D 16,164 Democratic majority 755 •SEVENTH DISTRICT. Morey, R 14,451.1 Campbell, D 14,410 Republican majority 41 EIGHTH DISTRICT. Keifer, R 14.397 | Young, D 13,17. Republican major ty 1,226 NINTH DISTRICT. Robinson, R 15,864 | Powell, D 15,458 Republican majority 406 TENTH DISTRICT. King, R 13,430 | Hurd, D 14,534 Democratic majority 1,104 ELEVENTH DISTRICT. McCormick, R.. ..1 ,227 | Leedom, D 13,037 Republican majority 2,190 TWELFTH DISTRICT Hart, R 16,898 | Neal, D 16,888 Republican majori y 10 THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. Drinkle, R,..14,092 | Converse, D 17,766 Democratic majority 3,674 FOURTEENTH DISTRICT. Horr, R 12,637 | Geddes, D 14,187 Democratic majority 1,580 FIFTEENTH DISTRICT. Dawes, R 13,048 | Warner, D 13,712 Democratic majority 664 SIXTEENTH DISTRICT. Clark, R 14,413 | Wilkins, D 19,743 Democratic majoritys,324 SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT. Updegraff, R,... .14,165 | Alexander, D... .13,265 Republican majority. 900 EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT. McKinley, R1'6,906 | Wallace, D 16,868 Republican majority 38 NINETEENTH DISTRICT. Taylor, R 15,739 | Rockwell, D 7,64 H Republican majority.' 8,091 TWENTIETH DISTRICT. McClure, R 13,980 | Paige, D 14,090 Democraticmajority. 110 TSVENTY-FIRST DISTRICT. Everett, R 11,408 | Foran, D 15,940 Democratic majority 4,532

RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.

A terrible accident to a caboose full of workmen belonging to the North Adorns (Mass.) freight-yard occurred, in which twen-ty-seven men were injured, and several fatally. At about 6:39 a. m. the engineer, Charles Wells, and the firemall, Joseph Bostley, left the North Adams depot on the engine Deerfield, on the State road, pushing a caboose loaded with thirty men to go to work at different places ne-ir Zoar and Carleniont. The party in the car included a section gang, a gang of masons, stone cru hers, track layers and carpenters. The engine and caboose smarted for the tunnel, aud had gone about half way there when the caboose, which was in front, coll ded with a Troy and Boston engine. The caboose was ra’sed from its trucks and carried to the cowcatcher of the en ine Deerfield. The front of the eng'ne was smashed, and steam and hot water flew into the caboose. The men not hurt in the < ollision svere burned badly, and but few escaped without injury. Th- se svho had not been hurt by the collision endeavored to t scape, but were met by the hot water, steam and smoke and nearly smothered before they got out. Blood was spilled all along the track Four men died ivithin a few hours after the accident, and others will probably die from the effects of their injuries. A special freight train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, north bound, struck a mule in a cow-cap a quarter of a mile north of Shepherdsville, Kv., ditching ten of the cars, and throwing the engine down a steep embankment The engineer, George Minott, was ins.antly killed. D. C. Cainmeron. a brakeman, was perhaps fatally injured, but nobody else was hurt. Fire in the cab of the New Brunsw ck (N. J.) passenger train on the Pennsylvania railroad threatened the travelers with a terrible death, but Engineer Steele, who had made his escape from the blazing spot, returned, reversed the engine and the train'stopped on the Hacken ack bridge. Mr. Steele, in performing his heroic act, was shockingly burned, and may not survive his injuries. A passenger train on the Memphis and Little Rock railroad was thrown from the track only a few miles west of Memphis by a bioken rail The engine and one car were demolished, and two cars were thrown down a small embankment. It is considered certain that eight men injured in the accident cannot live. A dispatch from Bridgeport, Ct., says that eight cars of the Boston through freight, bound East, were badly wrecked near Southport Station, on the New York and and New England railroad. Thomas Martin, a brakeman, was killed. Two brakemen were badly injured.

ORDNANCE.

Report of Chief Benet. Gen 8. V. Benet, Chief of Ordnance of the United States army, in a report for the year ending June 30,1882, gives the fiscal resources of the year, $2,733,622; expenditures, $1,669,876. A chapter is devoted to the subject of the armammt of fortifications, in which Gen. Benet says: “With a very pressing need for seaport armament constantly before us, it should seem expedient to take every advantage of our own resources to help provide for our wants. It will doubtless be practicable for us to ] roduce rifled guns of a m"derata power, »ven from cast-iron, provi led tbe cast iron be suitably strengthened with steel hoops, or, better, with hoops on the exte:ior and steel tubes on the interior.” Gen. Benet also says it is be ieved that, with Ser encouragement, field guns can be e here without the necessity of going abroad for the steeL Recommendation is made that the immediate publication of the results of tests of iron and steel and other materia's for industrial purposes be authorized by C ngress. In the chapter on the militia, the Chief of Ordnance says: “ Our outstanding army is a small one. For the defense of the country our main dependence is on our militia. The militia shou’d, therefore, be kept in the bftst condition possible for actual service. Volunteer organizations in every State and Territory should be encouraged, and every effort made to promote their efficiency in di ill and discipline, and make them skillful in the use of their arms. It is the best way and the only way to render them a sure and safe reliance on the breaking out of a war, and before a little campaigning has inured them to hard service and disciplined them into old 601diers.”

A LITTLE TRUE HISTORY.

The Fraud of 1876 and of 1882. (From the Commercial Advertiser (Rep.l.l When, on the morning of Nov. 8, 1876, the New York Times was the only paper in the United States to claim the election of R. B. Hayes, it was regarded as a piece of newspaper audacity rather than that of political prescience. In view of what afterward happened, the Democratic press declared that the Tinies, of all the papers in the country, was taken into the plot to steal the electoral votes of Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina. At all events, a few hours after the appearance of the Times, Chairman Chandler of the National Committee claimed a Republican victory, and telegrams were sent to the three States named to hold them. It is interesting to recall this fact, because the New York Times now claims to be the special advocate of purity and fairness in politics, though it is on record as claiming, in the face of overwhelming evidence at the time, the election of of a ticket the defeat of which the vast majority of the country believed in. The Tinies cannot claim credit for possessing the proof of the claim it made then, for it took long and exciting months of hard labor to collect it.

That paper desperately put forth its claim for the mere purpose of defeating a Democratic President by any means. Naturally the Democrats grew excited; they saw what they regarded as the • fruits of their victory about to be wrested from them, and great excitement grew. Congress met and appointed the Electoral Commission, but its aliunde decisions and its declaration of the fact that John Watts being a Postmaster in Oregon Nov. 7, and, on the same day, A. B. Levisee, acting as United States Commissioner in New Orleans, did not invalidate their right to act as Presidential elector 4 , the statute to the contrary notwithstanding, did not bring forth a protest from the papers that are now waxing indignant over a forged proxy at Saratoga. • The fact that Louisiana, on the face of the returns, had given over (5,000 majority for the Tilden electors whose credentials were signed by the representative of the party Hayes afterward recognized (thereby darkening his own title), was calmly ignored by the people who are now shrieking fraud and forgery, when the Electoral Commission decided that that majority “did not count.” Not one of those papers, not one of the men like Beecher, Woodford and Curtis, who are horrified by the late forgery, rai-ed their voice in denunciation of the “groat fraud,” the proof of which was clearer and more incontestable than anything alleged to have been done in Saratoga. On the contrary, Stewart L. Woodford subsequently boasted that he had made arrangements to kidnap Tilden if he made any attempt to assert his rights, put him on a gunboat, and convey him to prison until he could be tried for high treason. Beecher, Curtis and the rest, who are now so indignant over an alleged fraud that did not affect the convention’s action, abused the Democrats for daring to assume they had rights. It was left for a petty cheat, that in no way influenced the final result in a State Convention, to arouse their fine sense of propriety and indignation. They could coolly and calmly see the country on the verge of civil war—for more than one-half of the people believed they had been cheated—and not one of the present indignant patriots had a word to say against the great wrong; but when a forged proxy is used in a meeting of a State committee, though it did not affect a single nomination, least of all decide who should fill a high office notwithstanding the people, they are ready to sacrifice the party 1 “ Rather let us go down in defeat,” they now say, “than succeed with an unexceptionable ticket, nominated, it is alleged, with the a d of a forged proxy 1” What consistency ! What statesmanship! Mr. Tilden had an undisputed popular vote of 4,284,855, and Mr. Hayes 4,033950—a clear majority of 250,935 ; ana, though this majority backed up their claims with evidence of the strongest kind, the Times and its allies refused to consider them. On the contrary, when the Potter 1 committee was selected and Edward F. Noyes was specifically charged on the floor of the House of Representatives with stea’ing the vote of Florida, and John Sherman with doing the' same with that of Louisiana, they declared the proceedings an attack on the President’s title, revolutionary in the extreme, and an endeavor to Mexicanize the Government. That is how they looked at the fraud of 1876. Republican Interference with Business. Years ago when it was charged that a Republican administration, with Grant at the head, had interfered in Wall street, and assisted in producing that terrible crisis known as “Black Friday,” the charge was rejected as impossible. Notwithstanding the evidence in support of it, the majority of the people could not bring themselves to believe that the responsible head of a great Government could, for the mere ag grandizement of himself and his fi lends, prostitute his office to so frightful an extent. Yet it would almost seem the sensibilities of the public were unduly shocked on the occasion referred to. Whatever may have been thought a dozen years ago, there is apparently nothing in the Republican code of ethics now which makes it wrong, or even injudicious, for a h'gh official of the Government to use his power to control the stock or money market The Secretary of the Treasury, who is also candidate for Governor of New York, seems to look upon it as a matter of course that he should use his power as Secretary to affect the prices of stocks in aid of Iris election. In his recent letter to a Republican meeting at Albany he plainly declared that “the election of the Democratic ticket in New York” would shrink “the values of the great properties of the country,” a statement which, under the circumstances, no sane individual could construe otherwise than as a threat. And if there were any doubt about the matter, it would be set at rest by the announcement of the gentleman who presented the letter that “a Republican victory in November will send values up $100,000,000.” If this and the letter, taken together, do not mean that Folger, if defeated, will make the property of the country suffer

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by a misuse of his official power, and that if elected he will, by misusing his power in a different way, send stocks up, they have no meaning at all. There is no danger that the people of New York will not promptly and satisfactorily rebuke this attempt to override the popular will by a threat. Folger will be defeated, iu spite of his power as Secretary of the Treasury and his willingness to prostitute it. But this reaction a>ainst such methods ought to extend, beyond New York. Although Folger is not running in Michigan the party which upholds him is struggling here, as in New York, for a continuance of power. It has no one here to officially promise prosperity or threaten injury as the result of defeat; but its leaders and speakers make the promise and the threat unofficially just as they did two years ago, when they declared that workshops and mills should be closed if the Democracy succeeded,. It is the same spirit that Folger and his fo 1 lowers are exhibiting in New York, and it should be rebuked here as it will be iu New York. — Detroit Free Press. Cotton Thread Catechism. How many spools of cotton thread are used in the United States in a year ? About 25,000,000 dozen. From whftt material is this thread made ? From raw cotton grown in the United States. How is this raw cotton produced ? By free labor, in competition with the so-called pauper labor of the whole cotton-grown g world. Is the growing of raw cotton protected by a tariff or tax? It is not. What is the tariff or tax levied on cotton thread ? About 23 J cents on each dozen spools. For whose benefit is this tax levied ? For the benefit of the thread manufacturers, or the thread monopoly. How ranch does this tax amount to ? Nearly $6,000,000 a year. Who pays this enormous tax? Poor sewing-women and others who use cotton thread. Do the rich use more of this kind of thread than the poor ? Clearly not; for in making their wearing apparel silk thread is used more than cot' on ? Upon whom, then, does the burden of this tax upon cotton thread mostly fall? Upon the poor, of course. Will the Tariff Commission recommend the repeal of this tax? No! Emphatically no! Why not? • Because it would lighten the burdens of the poor consumers and decrease the profits of the rich manufacturers. Beside, the poor consumers do not contribute anything to pay campaign expenses and buy votes for the high-tarifl Republican party, while the rich manufacturers do contribute freely lor that purpose. But, can cotton thread be made in this country if the users of it are not taxed and compelled to pay something in addition to the natural price of thread in a free market, on eve y spool they buy ? Undoubtedly it can. The raw cotton is grown here; we have an abundance of machinery and labor: and the cost of sending the cotton abroad and bringing the thread back again, together with the extra commissions on the cotton and extra profits of transportation afford protection enough for our manufacturers, without levying this tax of 231 cents upon each dozen spool«. When will this sort of iniquity end? When the peop'e demand that tariff, or taxes, shall be levied solely to support the Government, and not to pay bounties and subsidies to certain favored classes and interest-, among which are the cotton-thread monopolies of New England. — Jackson Patriot. In New Hampshire Also. New York isn’t the only State where fraud in nominating a candidate for Governor has broken the Republican party in twain. New Hampshire is in the same fix. Ex-Senator Wadleigh, of that State, a life-long Republican, writes to the discontented Republicans in Keene, whom he has been invited to address, as follows: That the present Republican candidate for Governor was nominated by shameless bribery, hateful to all honest men, is an open secret. To compass his nomination, the Secretary of the Navy ostentatiously sailed to Portsmouth with the fleet and the President, and stepped from the deck of a war-ship into the convention. Fresh from an ifiterview with that official, the leader of the Portsmouth delegation was guilty of unwonted treachery, pleading as an excuse the command of “a power he could not resist.” The candidate thus forced upon us encountered the most vigorous home opposition, growing out of his sharp business practices, which was met by the argument that, if nominated, he could neutralize it at the polls by the purchase of Democratic votes. Beyond all, it is evident that his nomination was part of a plot by which the lobbyist of Boss Shepheard, John Roach and Jay Gould is to be lifted to a seat in the Senate of the United States, there to represent, not the people of New Hampshire, but his employers and the corrupt rings of the national capital who plunder the people.

Walt Whitman on the Moon.

No one ever gets tired of the moon. Goddess that she is by dower of her eternal beauty, she is a true woman by her tact —knows the charm of being seldom seen, of coming by surprise and staying but a little while; never wears the same dress two nights running, nor all night the same way, commends herself to the matter-of-fact people by her usefulness, and makes her usefulness adored by poets, artists, and all lovers in all lands; lends herself to every symbolism and to every emblem; is Diana’s bow and Venus’ mirror and Mary’s throne; is a sickle, a scarf, an eyebrow, his face or her face, as looked at by her or by him; is the madman’s hell, the poet’s heaven, the baby’s toy, the study, and while her admirers follow her footsteps and hang on her lovely looks, she knows how to keep her woman’s secret—her other side unguessed and unguessable. There are six different types of the Goddess of Liberty afloat in this country, and not one of ’em is dressed in a w y you would like to see your sister adopt.— Somerville Journal,

semacrulii[ JOB PRINTINS OFFICE b'M better tecOltiaa than any office tn Wm thwaataK Indiana for the execution of all branebea of tob miNTiMra, PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prioe-Uet, er from • nmpluet to a Footer, black or colored, plain or f anqa SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

INDIANA AFFAIRS.

Vaccine Virus. The State Board of Health has passed a resolution that all packages of vaccine virus shall be put into envelopes bearing the name of the proprietor of the farm, and the date it was taken from the cow. The board also modified the rule relating to the vaccination of school-children by making their exclusion from the schools depend upon whether or not virus may be conveniently obtained. An Editor Jailed. S. J. Thompson, editor of the Shelbyville Daily liepublican, was recently sentenced to thirty days in jail for contempt of court. Thompson’s paper had severely criticised the Grand Jury for failing to find an indictment in a certain case, stating that man was clearly guilty, but that influence had been used to secure his release. The 1’ rand Jury summoned Thompson and asked his authority. Refusing to divulge he was sent to jail. Shocking Discovery. A horrible discovery was made in the woods four miles northeast of Logansport. The remains of a woman were found, and the hogs had eaten so much of the flesh from the body that nearly all semblance of humanity was obliterated. Appearances indicated that the woman had been well dressed. A small amount of money and a note-book bearing the name Ella Flay, or Ella Hay, were found. A number of clippings from a Warsaw, (Ind.) paper were also discovered. Government Sale# hi Indiana* J. w. Donnelly, Chief of the Division of Accounts in the General Land Office,at Washington, has prepared a statement showing the total sales of public lands in the State of Indiana from Jan, 1, 1817, to June 30, 1882, and the amounts received therefor. This statement shows that 16,918,382 acres of public lands were sold in Indiana during this time, for which the Government received $21,011,219.42. The largest sales for any one year were made in 1836. being 3,155,742 acres, for which $3,974,727.(50 were paid. The first year 993,289 acres were sold, which, at $1.25, brought $1,058,992.89. The last sale was in 1878, when only 4 88-100 were sold for $ 2.60. In the years 1864, 1867 and 1868, no public lands were sold in this State. A Modern Instance. It is understood that the events in the closing chapters of W. D. Howells’ last novel, “A Modern Instance,” transpired in one of our neighboring cit’cs. The Tecumseh of the novel is Crawfordsville. The plot of “A Modern Instance,” so far as it can be, in the divorce scene, is from actual study. Mr. Howells visited Crawfordsville last summer, and spent several weeks there in studying the city, the court and the Indiana divorce system. Augustus H. Hawkins, the Court Clerk in the fiction, is Mr. T. D. Brown, uncle of Miss Mary H. Krout, and present Clerk of Montgomery. The Judge of the book is Judge Britton, now on the bench in that county. We think the paper in which the divorce advertisement was printed must not have been of Crawfordsville, as Mr. Howells refers to it as “a flimsy, shabbily-printed country newspaper.” There is a study of the Crawfordsville bar in the closing chapters of this remarkable novel said to be quite realistic.—Richmond Independent. Methodism in Indiana. The following is an exhibit of the numerical increase of the church, and its increase as compared with the growth of the population of the State marked by decades from 1810 to 1870: Papula t-i o n. Me t tioili sts. 1810 24,520 755 18 0 147,178 4,410 1820\ 343,031 17,551 1840 685,866 52,625 JB',o. 988,410 74,583 1860 1,55 ,428 96,905 1,668,000 113,800 In 1810 there were, in round numbers, 24,000 people in the State; of these 755 were Methodists, being 1 in every 32 of the population. In 1820 the population had risen to 147,000; of these 4,410 were Methodists, being 1 in every 33 of the population. In 1850, in a poidilation of 988,000, there were 74,000 Methodists, being 1 communicant in every 13 of the population. In 1870, with a population of 1,668,000, we had a membership of 113,000, being 1 for every 15 of the whole population. The value of the church property is as follows: Indiana Conference —Churches, 370; value, $11(5,995.82. Parsona es, 82; value, $73,075. North Indiana Conference—Churches, 403; value. $862,542. Parsonages, 108; value, $130,243. Northwest Indiana ConferenceChurches, 295; value, $7(58,149. Parsonages, 82; value, $103,700. Southeast Indiana Conference Churches, 291; v due, *5757,050.57. Parsonages, 57; value, $56,375. Indiana District, Lexington Conference—Churches, 17; value, $21,900. German Methodists —Churches, 52; value, $137,850. African Methodist Episcopal Church —Estimated value of church property, $75,000. Total number of churches, 1,436; value, $2,740,486.39. Tota 1 number of parsonages, 329; value, $<363,393. Total value of churches and parsonages, $3,103,879.39.—D/-. Holl id iy'* Report to the State Methodist Convention. State* IteniH. The City of Jeffersonville s, building water-works to cost $75,000|0r $80,030. Upon a modest gravestone in Vin cennes appears this plaintive legend: “His neighbor played the cornet.” Six or eight miles distant from New Albany the woods abound in squirrels. Quail, however, are said to be very scarce. k Edward Shock, of South Bend,' aged 16, blew into the muzzle of his shotgun to see if it was loaded. It was. He died instantly. A romantic couple were married a few days s neo in Wyandotte cave, Crawford county, and the cave w.ih brilliantly illuminated with parti-col-ored lights. Asbury Universily, is to receive an endowment of $1,000,()00 from Hon. W. C. DePafiw, on condition that it assume his name and comply with some pecuniary requirements,