Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. t East An explosion occurred in the Chapman Metallic Cap Company’s works at Suffield, Conn., which resulted in the injury of eight men, one ot whom will die. A drove of twenty-two ostriches has been placed in Central I’ark, New York, to await the selection of a suitable place in the South’for breeding. They are valued at $1,400 each, and white feathers command • 175 per pound. Thb international half-mile running ma'ch between W. G. George, of England, and Lawrence E. Myers, of New York, which took place at the New York polo grounds, was won by the latter in 1 minute and 56 3-5 seconda Several New York banks have been swindled by counterfeit bills printed from plates similar to those captured in the West in February, 188). It Is supposed that one of the men who then escaped arrest has a plate in his possession from which he has struck off a quantity of notea A great checker match was played at Boston between Wylie, the great Scotch player, -And Baker, the American expert Fifty games were played, each contestant winning one, while forty-eight were drawn. ' The people of New York State adopted free-canal amendment at the recent election. Diphtheria and scarlet fever are ’ causing great mortality among children at Birdsboro, i’a. West. Luke McCray, a prominent young politician, was run over and killed by a train near Indianapolis, his remains being scatteied along the track for a mile. A girl 12 years old, living with the family of a colored blacksmith, at Keokuk, lowa, he.s received an inheritance of $360,(W, and a large amount of diamonds and jewelry, by the death of her father in Spain. The blacksmith will get $68,000. Belmont and Simmerman, who committed the triple murder recently at Minden, Neb., were overtaken in Southwestern Kansas by Charles Fonts and Frank Martin, from whom they had stolen a horse, and Belmont was shot dead on refusing to surrender, while Simmerman was made prisoner, and lodged in jail at Lincoln. The puddlers at Terse Haute, Ind., Iron and Nail Works and at the Wabash Iron Company’s Works went out on a strike the other day, demanding $6 per ton until the Ist of next June. Four hundred cars of corn arrived at Kan: as City in two days, and the elevators are,unable to keep pace with the receipts. The" cereal is being shipped to Eastern markets as rapidly as possible. An earthquake shock was felt at Laramie City, W. T., Mid points westward on the evening of the 7th inst. Plastering fell from the walls of buildings at Rawlins and other points. South. Five business places at Shreveport, La., valued at SIO2,(MX), were swept away by. fire. The total expenditures of the National Board of Health at Pensacola, from the outbreak of the epidemic of yellow fever to Oct. 15, were $6,100. The total number of cases at Pensacola has been 2,079, with 172 deaths. At Brownsville there have been 1,977 cases and 114 deaths. The disease is gradually declining in the South. Ague is said to be increasing to an alarming extent In Brownsville. * “Dago Pete,” an Italian fruit-vender of New Orleans, inspired by jealous, killed his quadroon mistress and her mother with a razor. A dispatch from Hampton Court House, 8. 0., says that a negro named Jake Gantt collected about twenty colored men to prevent Policeman Beid from taking away his -(Gantt’s) pistol When the difficulty recommenced, Reid was killed by the negroes, and three white citizens were cut or be iten. A white man who started for help was stabbed in the thigh and left on the road. All the prisoners in the Prince G orge county (MJ.) jail escaped by burning lock from the door. Four negroes, charged with robbery nnd attempted murder, were taken from the Vienna (La.) jail by a mob. One escaped, another was given a chance for his life, and the o'.h ,r two were taken a short distance from town and riddled with bullets. Half the distillers of Kentucky have signed an agreement to reduce the production of whisky for the next five years. The gas in the New Orleans city offices, police stations, prison and in the streets was turned off by the gas company, and the entire city plunged into darkness. Due and unpaid gas bills are the cause.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The report is received at the city of Mexico of the murder by natives of the Governor of the State of Tobasco and the Secretary of State.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A recent telegram from Washington B iys; James E. Anderson, the former Louisiana statesman, who vVent to “a warm climate” by way of Eureka, Nev., but not as a Consul, is well remembered here, where he achieved considerable notoriety as a witness before the Potter investigating committee. Eight or ten years ago he was an employe in the Government printing offica He left here and became a politician in Louisiana. He was the chief election officer of East Feliciana parish, in that State, in 1876, and, after making one rqj,uni favorable to Tilden, subsequently made another giving Hayes the parish. The election of the State turned upon Anderson and his return of the parish vote. The Returning Board counted his (Hayes’) return, and'Anderson afterward claimed the reward which he alleged had been promised him for making it As a witness before the Potter Committee, he produced certain correspondence between himself and Hon. Stanley Matthews. Among the letters was one that attracted much notice, recommending that Anderson be appointed to a “Consulship in a warm climate.” ■ Anderson won a notorious but unenviable reputation as a witness. He went to Nevada, and for a t me was connected with a paper at Gold Hll. Subsequently he went to Eureka, where he rounded up his career by dying “with his boots on. ” Rear Admiral Charles H. Poor died ■of apoplexy at Washington. The Mississippi River Commission has sent in its estimates of the sum needed for work during the next fiscal year. They ask for same sum appropriated by Con-

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

gross last year, being about $4,250,000 for the Mississippi alone. The estimates have not yet been acted upon by the Secretary ot War, but will probably be approved without change and forwarded to the Secretary ot the Treasury, who will send them to Congress. The rumor is revived that Postmaster General Howe will soon resign from the Cabinet, and that Assistant Postmaster General Hatton will succeed him. POLITICAL POINTS. Gov. Hoyt’s espousal of the independent cau-e in Pennsylvania led Col. M. 8. Quay, Secretary of the Commonwealth, to resign his office. President Arthur was accompanied by his brother to the poll-box at No. 402 Third avenue. New York, and voted the straight Republican ticket. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll attributes tha Republican defeat to their refusal to reduce taxation, reform the tariff, and the fight for office. He believes Gen. Sherman will be the next President, upon whom Republicans of all shades of opinion can unite. There will be one Republican in the next Delaware Legislatuie—a hold-over Senator. Gov. Long, it is said, will succeed to Air. Hoar’s seat in the United States Senate-, FOREIGN NEWS. Great distress prevails in County Clare, Ireland, on account of the failure-ot the potato crop and prevalence of an epidemic that killed neary all the hogs. Baron Treskow, the German Consul, has Ir en instructed to inform the Khedive that England’s policy regarding Egypt meets with the cordial approval of Bismarck. Enlistments at Cairo for the expedition against the False Prophet are progressing satisfactorily, and many Germans and amnestied officers have tendered their services. Herr Bebel, the German Socialist leader, adjudged guilty of abusing the Government through the press, has began to serve his three months’ sentence in a Leipsic jail The wandering Socialist paper, Die Frieheit, just now publishe I in Switzerland, is to be seized by the Swiss Government as a dangerous publication. Herr Most, the editor, thinks of resuming its publication in England, and has asked for the necessary permission. The weather at St. Petersburg is extremely cold and navigation is closed. The River Neva is blocked with ice. It is reported that Russia is urging the Sultan to send a commission to Egypt, with a naval demonstration. Admiral Seymour is now a member of the British peerage, with the title of Baron Alcester. There is great distress among the victims of incendiarism at Alexandria who are waiting to be paid indemnity, and they have been compelled to appeal to private charity in order to sustain themselves. Floods and tempest weather in England retard wheat sowing, and opinions are expressed that the acreage next year will be : greatly reduced. The peace negotiations in progress between Chili and Peru are said to have been finally broken off, and President Calderon has been sent into confinement by the Chilian-'. The Prince of Wales, in accepting the Chairmanship of the Longfellow Memorial Committee, expresses his great satisfaction at being afforded an oppot tunity to show bis high appreciation of Longfellow and his works. A project for building a network of railways in the German Eastern provinces for strategic purposes will be submitted at the next session of the Reichstag. A frightful explosion occurred in the Clay Cross mines in Derbyshire, England, by which thirty persons lost their lives, most of j whom were colliers. Buildings live miles distant from the scene of the horreff were shattered by the concussion. The American Consul at Dunkirk, France, writes that the imports of com have decreased because of heated cargoes, sent 'down the Mississippi in barges to New Orleans. Gladstone, in a speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London, expressed content at the improved condition of Ireland, and asserted that judicious leg slation would be the foundation of a greater harmony between the two countries. He lauded the work of the army in Egypt, and expressed belief that England’s glory would hold its place until the end of time.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The mansion of Albert Bierstadt at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, with its wealth of paintings and relics, was burned, the loss being estimated at $200,000. A fire at Newbern, N. C., destroyed eight buildings, valued at $50,000. The first decided movement to crush out the expanding dressed-beef trade of Chicago has been made at Albany, where Wi.liatar H. Vanderbilt and others have organized with a capital of $1,000,000 to distr bute frozen meats throughout the country at cost. After a heated debate, the corporation of Dublin passed resolutions against presenting Gen. Wolseley -with the freedom of the city. A Dublin newspaper deduces from Gladstone’s speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet that’he feels the imposition of the Coercion act on Ireland was a constitutional wrong. The French journals attribute the suppression of the French control in Egypt to Dufferin’s influence, and fiercely attack what they term the bad policy and bad faith of Great Britain. Two negro murderers, Sam and Mill Hodge, were hanged in a large open space in the outskirts of Knoxville, Tenn. The gallows was of the primitive sort—a crossbeam supported by two uprights—and the men were hanged from a wagon which was driven from under the gibbet, leaving the condemned to strangle to death. Masked men fired the stable of Mr. Brandenbury, living near Erifi, Ga., and while the proprietor was trying to put out the fire the incendiaries entered the residence, shot at Mrs. Brandenbury and her niece, and carried off a trunk containing $6,000. James G. Blaine informed a personal friend at Boston that he wished no politi al preferment, and would on no account become a candidate for any office. Secretary Folger has issued a call for $15,003,000 in extended bonds bearing 3% per cent, interest, redeemable Feb. 10. Henry George, the land and labor re-

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA,. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1882.

former, called up n Secretary Frelinghuysen and expressed his satisfaction with the apology made by England for his arrest. In a special report to the Secretary of War, Gen. Sherman strikes out boldly for permanent military posts, recommending the expenditure of $1,006,000 per annum lor five years to make good quarters for the army for the next half century. The failures throughout the United States for the past week, ending Nov. 11, numbered 141, and exhibit a greater importance than usual. The Nickel-Plate road is running its trains into the Vanderbilt depot at Buffalo, on a contract for one year, and appears to be fully identified with the Lake Shore. During the absence from home of John Hepler, a farmer near Gratz’.own, Penn., his residence took fire in the n ght. His heroic wife rescued five children from the flames, but on entering the burning house for the fourth time she died with her youngest child in her arms. The Springfield ( 111. ) Reg ister nominates William M. Springer for Speaker of the House. Randall, of Pennsylvania, and Carlisle, of Kentucky, are both prominently spoken of in connection with the Speakership.

THE NEW HOUSE.

The elections to the national House of Representatives appear to give the Democrats 199, the Republicans 122, and the Independents 4—making a total of 325. Many of the districts have chosen their Congressmen by major iti s so small that the result in some of them may be changed on the official count. States. Rep. Dem. Ind. Alabama s .... Arkansas 5 .... California C .... Colorado 1 Connecticut 1 3 .... Delaware 1 .... Florida 2 .... Georgia 10 .... Illinois 11 8 1 Indiana 4 9 .... lowa 8 2 1 Kansas 7 Kentucky 1 10 .... Louisiana 1 5 .... Maine 4 Maryland 2 4 .... Massachusetts 8 3 1 Michigan < 5 C .... Minnesota 5 Mississippi....» 1 6 . .... Missouri 14 .... Nebraska 3 Nevada 1 New Hampshire 2 New Jersey 4 3 .... New York 13 21 .... North Carolina 1 8 .... Ohio 8 13 Oregon 1 Pennsylvania 15 13 .... Rhode TXtand 2 South Carolina 1 (5 .... Tennessee 2 8 .... Texas-: 1 10 Vermont..,..., 2 .... .... Virginia 5 5 .... West Virginia 1 3 ■ .... Wisconsin 2 6 1 122 1 '9 4 Democratic majority over Republicans 7. Democratic majority over all 73 Fusion majority over Republicans 81 TERRITORIAL DELEGATES. Arizona—Granville 11. Gary, D. Dakota—John R. Haymond, R. Idaho—George Ainslee, D. Montana— Martin Maginnis D. New M> xico—Tranguiliuo Lum, R. Utah—John F. Caine, D. Washington—'lTiomas H. Brents, B. Wyoming—M. E Test, D.

Railway Construction.

The last number of the Railway Age contains the so lowing regarding nd road conntroetion lor Octobe : The work of adding to the railway mi eage of the United States still goes on wJh remar able rapidity. Our retu ns for i lie month of October show an aggregat not much less than that of the two preceding months and imit ate that the total for the year will probab y be larger than the most liberal estima’e heretofore. Summarizing the detai ed statement which is given below, we have a record of 1,(68 mi es o row track —main lines only—added on seventy-one diffei ent lines in’th rty of the States and Territories, as follows: No. No. States. Lines. M. States Lines. KT. Arizona Ter’y..2 29 Minneso'a 7 172 Arkanas 1 53 Mississippi 1 11 Calif- rnia 2 22 Missouri..•s 2 26 < • lorado 2 47 MontanaT r’y...2 62 Dakota Ter’y. .6 131 ebraska 2 8 Florida 2 21 New Hampshire..! 5 Gi-oreia 1 :0 New York 1 25 Idaho Ter’y... .2 22 North Car Ima 1 19 11 in0i5.........4 4!) Ohio 4 55 Indiana 1 :6 Oregon 2 11 lowa 5 38 Pc. nsylvania... .4 29 Kentucky 1 16 Texas 6 6 1 Maine... 1 2L Virginia 1 !■ Maryland 1 3 | West Virginia.. .1 Michigan 3 33 I Wisconsin 2 38 Total lines and miles m thirty States . and Territ ries :.71 1,068 Reported to Oct. 1 8,075 Total Jan. 1 to Nov. 1 293 9.14 J Adding the figures for October to those previously given, we find that at least 9,143 miles of new track have been added in the ten months of 1882 just closed, ; nd that tbe work wa« prosecut d on no less than 293 different lines in forty-three States and Territories, leaving only three States and one Territory—New Hampshire, Rhi de Island, Delaware and Wa hinglon Territory—in which no trac laying-i or the year has thus far been repo ted.

Lucy Had Her Ice-Cream.

Little Lucy’s big brother Charles promised to buy her some ice cream every Saturday if she would keep her hair nicely brushed during the week. One day Lucy and her brother were going to the place where the ice-cream was kept. Lucy was trotting along, holding Charles’ hand. She heard a strange noise in the street near them. Looking she saw the boys with a little ecru dog. One boy had tied a string to the poor little dog’s tail, andon the other end of a string was a deserted oyster can. “Oh brother!” said Lucy, “see what the wicked boys are doing.” And then tears filled her eyes, because she felt sorry for the dog. Then Charles asked the boys to lett he dog go. They would not do this, but said they would sell him the dog for 25 cents. “If we buy the dog, Lucy, you can have no" ice-cream, for I have only 25 cents in my pocket,” said Charles. Then Lucy was very sad, for she loved ice-cream dearly, but still she knew it was her duty to prevent the dog from suffering. , So for a moment she was silent, and tljen looked up to her brother she said in her pretty way: “You kick in the ribs of the boys, dear brother, and I will hustle the pup up the alley.” And so Lucy had her ice cream, after all.— Chicago Tribune. Mr. Hammond, engineer and general manager of an important Brazilian railroad, bears strong testimony to the value of coffee as a preventive against miasmatie fevers. He instances the case of Father Vaughan, who, on a journey through a most unhealthy country from Panama to the River Platte, considered that he owed his health to taking strong coffee, and mentions that since the natives in pestilent districts in Ecuador have taken to drinking it the death rate has fallen considerably.

"A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.’’

A HUMAN HOLOCAUST.

Horrible Results of a Fire in the Poor Asylum at Halifax. Twenty-three Women and Eight Men Consumed Almost Beyond Recognition. Awful Scenes in the Blazing Structure Among the Doomed and Frenzied Inmates. A dispatch from Halifax, In Nova Scotia, says that at midnight, while all hands were sleeping, fire broke out in the bake-house, in the basement of the Poor Asylum building. Exactly how it originated is not very clear, but the smoke of the smouldering wood spread through the building into the dormitories and caused the utmost terror among four or five hundred inmates of the institution. There was no immediate danger, so the officers of the asylum did not take steps to remove the inmates. An alarm was sounded, and the stroke bell had scarcely commenced when reels were run out of the engine houses, as one or two men happened to be about. A few people who had not retired, and others who lived in the neighborhood, ran to the building. They found smoke issu ng from (he windows all over the building, but no flames were to be seen. In the west wing old women and children were seen at the windo as, crying to be let out, and, as ! hey began breaking glass, it was feared they would throw themselves to the ground. A sturdy ax man dashed at the door leading from this wing into the yard, and with a few vigorous blows of his ax knocked it in. The stairways were crowded, and out came a procession of women nursing infants, old, gray-headed grandmas, and feeble old men. All were screaming, and as they reached the fresh air without they ejaculated their thanks, and then began calling for this one and that one until all was a babel of confusion. Then it became known that those in Ihe upper wards of that wing were helpless. Some of the firemen and fire wardens and aidermen and clergymen, and others who were among the early arrivals, hastened up, and willing hands were soon getting the blind, halt and lame down the long winding stairs. The work was a very slow one, but finally that wing was emptied. In the meantime the names in the basement, which the Superintendent, engineer and officials were trying io keep under, spread to the base of the long air shaft or elevator reaching to the top of the main building. The draught here swept the flames upward with tremendous force, and in a few seconds the heaviest part of the conflagration was in the top of the main building. The story just under the eaves in this building was used as a hospital, and in it were about seventy patient*, most of them perfectly helpless. The fire was now fiercely burning right in the' hospital and above it. The heat was so intense that lead poured down from the roof in streams of brilliartt fire, and slates flew everywhere in deadly showers, rendering any near approach to the building almost certain death. Notwithstandiugthis, there wen-hundreds standing outside who would willingly have entered the building if they could have found their way through the place. Indeed, several did o in, but without guidance could do nothing in the immense building, and had to return to the yard. An attempt v\ as made to raise ladders to the windows, but the ladders were too short, and after a fireman was knocked do 1 n by falling brick, and it was seen that the ladders even would be swept away in a few minutes, the attempt ceased. The fire burst through the roof, and the scene was one never to be forgotten. Far above the roar of the flames and crack of burning slates were heard ihc cries of the wretched patients n the hospital, who were roasting to de ith. Mo*t of them, as before stated, were helpless, and could not leave their beds, and perhaps were stifled before the cruel flames reached them, but others were seen to dash themselves against the windows and cling to the sa*hes till their strength was exhausted or their hands burned off, and they fell back into the seething caldron of flames. A woman was seen to drag herself to the corner window, and, forcing her body half out th ough the iron bars i ill she could breathe cool air, she remained in that position till her head burned off. As far as can be ascertained, thirty- one persons were burned to death—eight men and twenty-three women. The building was constructed in 1868. It cost $83,000. and was in,,*ired for $50,000.

THE REGULAR ARMY.

Points from the Yearly Report of Gen. TV. T. Sherman. The annual report of Gen. Sherman shows the general staff to consist of 573 officers and 1,212 enlisted men. The army proper consists of 10 regiments of cavalry, 431 officers and 6,383 men; 5 regiments of artillery 280 officers and 2,493 men; 25 regiments of infantry, 876 officers and 8,773 men; total, including unavailable men detailed at various points, 2,165 officers and 23,024 men. He says the experience of the world shows that but 66 per cent, of an army is available for active service, and, as 25,000 men are really needed for a standing army, he recommends that the limit of the army be increased to 30,000. The officers and men in the army are now, he says, overworked, and must continue so, unless the number is increased. He reviews the work’ of the year somewhat in detail, f rriviug at the conclusion that there has been a less number of Indian outbreaks in the year than at any time for twenty years. Part of this is due to the efficiency of the army, and part to the advancement of civilization in the West. The report devotes considerable space to the growth of the great West, and says that, now that the transition period is pa*t, it is due to the Government to select certain strategic points for permanent army posts, and construct comfortable buildings on them, so as not longer to compel the officers and men to live in" holes in the ground, shanties, or green cottonwood log huts, as heretofore. There have been 1,741 trials by court-martial daring the year. He recommends a change in the system of courts-martial, saying the present system was established by custom in the English army a hundred years ago, when the habit was to dine at 3 o’clock and get drunk after dinner, which habit is notv, happily, done away with. The number of desert ons during the year was 3,721, and enlistments and re-en!ist-ments 7,341. Commenting on the number of desertions, he says many are those of men who enl st in Eastern cities, and after getting free transportation West desert, knowing there will belttie effort to bring them back or punish them. The remedy, he thinks, is m Letter treatment of those who stay, and more severe punishment of deserters. He recommends an increase of the pay of men to sl6 per month, instead of sl3, as now, and that punishment for desertion be made more severe, even inflicting capital punishment in aggravated cases, as is < one by other countries. The general condi don of the army personnel has been improved, as has the general condition of the people of the country at large. The recent rifle contests have made great improvem nts in the marksmanship of the men, and he recommends an appropr ation for continuing the work. He recommends the adoption of some plan by which regiments and officers can be given definite terms in i emote posts and then be al owed to return to the comforts of civilized life, and their places be taken by others. He recommends the employment of teachers for schools at posts, saying men from the army can not be spared for this purpose, and remarking that as officers, in spite of sa e ad vice, will marry and have families, they ought to be provided for in the best manner possible. .

The Alpine Glacier.

From Brieg we went by rail alongside the rapid-rolling Rhone to Vernayaz, a village which is the point of departure for the noted valley of Chamonix. The water of the Rhone is not very clear. It

is a sort of soapstone blue. That is the color of all the rivers and mountain streams that are fed from glaciers. The glacier, though it shows no more motion than an inch or so a year, is a river of ice continually flowing down the mountain gorges and melting away. It rolls the stones beneath it over and over till it polishes them off round and grinds their sharp corners to powder. As the ice melts and the water flows away this limestone dust mingles with, saturates and colors it. Thus the streams that flow from the glaciers are always of an opaque blue-gray color from the grinding of the glacier over rocks, while the mountain brooks from melted snow are clear and pure as crystal. You can tell which is which the moment you see a stream of water. Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Near Dover, Dearborn county, John Carpenter killed Patrick Neal with a hoe. A number of New Albany bicyclists made a trip to Edwardsville the other day. James B. Earhardt, a prominent and honored citizen of Lafayette, has passed away. Richmond is suffering from an epidemic of measles, and some of the rooms in the public schools are almost vacated. Mrs. Blakely, of Hunterstown, Allen county, while gathering moss with her daughter, dropped dead of heart disease. Mrs. Elizabeth Shinn, living near Elkhart, and respected by all her neighbors, was thrown from a load of fodder and killed. Eleven Young Men’s Christian Associations were formed in Indiana during the past year, making a total of fortyseven now in the State. The hog cholera prevails in the western part of Fayette county. George Booe recently lost S2OO worth of fattened hogs with the disease. Richmond has $3,500,000 invested in manufactures, the yearly product of which equals $8,000,000, with 2,300 hands employed. The earnings of the - State prison at Jeffersonville in the months of June, July and August were $21,240, and the expenditures $18,555. Thomas Garrity, while at work in Trow’s elevator at Madison, fell in a chute and was smothered to death by shipstuff caving on him. Dr. Silas Cooke, an old and prominent physician of Greensburg, died of blood poisoning. He was born in New York, and remembered talking with Aaron Burr when the latter practiced law. Some time since the trustee of Jefferson township, Sullivan county, ordered lightning rods placed on the school buddings, agreeing to pay $75 for the service. He was presented with a bill for $1,300. The express on the St. Louis air line from New Albany was thrown from the track by a misplaced switch, forty-eight miles west of the latter town, and the fireman, John McSwaim, of Evansville, was killed. A monument, to be placed at the grave of the late Gov. Williams, was destroyed by the railroad collision at Auburn Junction last month. It was of Scotch granite, and measured twentyfour feet in height. A 13-year-old girl, an adopted daughter of Nicholas Murphy, of Nabb’s Station, Clark county, has been detected in the cruel pastime of cutting the throats of Murphy’s horses. She is thought to be insane. A hack-driver, named Oscar Hart, ran over a child of Ira Cohterman in Goshen. The child has since died. Hart was declared negligent and careless, and has been arrested and now lies in jail awaiting trial. Work of removing the sandbar in Calumet river, opposite the mouth of the State ditch, known as “Hart, or Cody marsh ditch,” in Lake county, has been completed in accordance with the act of the Legislature. Isaac Newsbaum, the oldest man in Indiana, died at his residence, in Wabash county. Mr. Newsbaum was 107 years of age, and had been a resident of the county for over forty years. His death was occasioned by old age. Dr. W. L. Breyfogle, of New Albany, lias sold the Odd Fellows’ Hall building, in that city, to Arthur Peter, of Louisville. The price paid was $30,000, and is regarded as a satisfactory indication of the value placed upon real estate in New Albany. George Barrett, a wealthy farmer of Sullivan county, committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear, in the presence of his wife. His wife, who saw him do the deed, was horror-strick-en, and fainted at the sight. No cause is assigned for the rash act. Solomon Coletrain, a wealthy farmer who lived near Darlington, Montgomery county, died recently. It was believed he had about SIO,OOO in gold hid away in a bureau drawer at the time of his death, but, after his burial, search failed to find a larger sum than $3,000. A young lady of Seymour, aged 17 years, became so convulsed in laughter while in conversation in the family cir cle that her jaw became locked, she notbeing able to close or move it. A physician was called in, and relieved the young lady from her unpleasant predicament. The receipts from Indiana on account of internal-revenue taxes, from July 1, 1862, to June 30, 1882, are shown in the annexed table, compiled from the books of the Internal Revenue Commissioner at Washington: 1863 $ 924,904.21 1873 ~..$ 5,678,052.51 1864 3,: 98,219.97 1874 4,823,495.59 1865 4,821,243.48 1875 4,653,789.05 1866 5,447,336.50 1876 5,579,126.27 1867 4,122,863.08 1877 6,037,220.27 1868 2,342,327.3811878 5,710,837.56 1869 3,869,757.3011879 5,851,103.83 1870 5,045,(r23.82!1880 6,213,626.49 1871 4,798,468.90 1881 7,281,253.48 1872 5,441,892.72|1882 6,485,356.94 Total. $98,495,909.35 A distressing case of self-destrnct-ion is reported from Shelbyville, the victim being Mrs. Rhoda Reed, daughter of County Treasurer Amsden and wife of George Reed, one of Shelbyville’s leading citizens. Mrs. Reed and her sister, Miss Pet Amsden, were at home conversing, when Mrs. R. made some excuse to her sister; and w r ent into a side bedroom and shut the door. In a moment two shots were heard, and Miss Amsden, rushing into the bedroom, found Mrs. Reed lying on the floor, shot through the head, the brain oozing ous of the wound.

THAT TIDAL WAVE

Opinions of the Press Upon the Lessons of the Election. Various Reasons Given lor the Great Land-Slide. Democratic Opinion. [From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The Democrats have achieved victories which justify an exhilarating' hope that the next President will be a representative man of their political faith, and that the reins of government will return to the party of the people. The result has been brought about through the. disruption of the Republican organization and the general disgust of the people with the bosses and the tireless papsuckers; and no party can afford to be heedless of the lesson conveyed. Ihe party which has had almost a monopoly of the distribution of the spoils has suffered such a tremendous rebuke that it can only recover from the shock it has received through the blundering of its opponents. [From the Louisville Courier-Journal.] The Democrats have gained all over the North. The Republicans have made their only gains in the Southern States. This is well; neither party is solid in either section. The next Congress will be Democratic. The majority will be large enough; it will, perhaps, be too large. With this accession of power comes new responsibilities. If the Democrats meet these as they should; if they are true to their convictions, their traditions and their promises; if they will at once perfect measures for a gradual reduction of taxation and a revision of the tariff; if they will enact laws which shall take the civil service out of politics and make free citizens of the public servants, there is no doubt whatever the vote of confidence to-day will be repeated in 1884. If, on the contrary, they violate or ignore the pledges given in this canvass, this great party will give way to a greater and a better one, which will execute the people’s will. [From the St. Louis Republican (] It is not possible for any one to view current history without something of the bias es selfish interest and pride of opinion. It is also certain that no one I nowswh’at the influence of so sweeping a. change may be, because its full effects are contingent upon the uncertain actions of men in the future into whose motives so many conflicting factors enter. A great battle which might, be decisive of the fate of armies and thte power of nations often proves, from the course of subsequent events, of little consequence and of no real value to the victors; What has become of the Repub ican majorities apparently sw pt away in Pennsyh ania, New York and other States ? The voters who contributed to those majorities in other years are still in the flesh, an 1 a I .but a margin of them are stid Rcpub icans. It will not do to conclude that S ates lately Republican have ail at once become Democratic. It would be easy for the Democratic party, by an unwise and injudicious course, by a failure to appreciate the responsibilities nt W thrown upon it, to cause a rea tion and even a revulsion whi :h would place it further from permanent victory than it has been since 1872. [From the New York World.] How little the disaffection of the “h ilfbreeds” has really had to do with the overthrow of the Republi an party is shown by the overwhelming vote given to Mr. Belin nt in the First Con ressional district. Mr. Belmont’s competitor was put into the field by friends of Mr. Blaine, and k pt there j solelv by their contributions and th< ir activity'. W iatwa- the result? Th t Mr. Belmont goes back to Congress at the head of a majorit more than f ur times as arge as that by which he was or ginally sent to Washington, This single fact suffices to show that the Democratic party has been called back to power in New York, not because the Republicans of New York think President Arthur more or less worthy of confidence than Mr. Blaine, but because the people of New York are weary of leedin on the east wind o the Re; üblican promises of reform. “A plague on both your houses” is the brief moral of ay’s tremendous popular verdict. It rings ti>e knell of he Republican organization It gives notice to every young aspiring man in the country that the luturebelongs to new issues and to the Democratic party. Republican Exp anallons. [From the Cleveland Herald.] The general disaster which overtook the Republican nominees cannot be laid to merely local causes. The liquor question may have had a certain influence h< re and there, but where the d moralization was greatest that quest on was no in the slightest degree an issue. Tne real cause was the same'everywhere, was at once general and local, and “was of sufficient potenev to overbear the strongest local issuesand buiy the best tickets beneath a mounta n of adverse votes. [From the Buffalo Express.] The rebuke visited upon Arthur’s stalwart administration the most crushing ever dealt out to a political faction—is a rebuke not only to the men at the hea l of the machine, a rebuke not only to their methods, but a rebuke to and a repud ation of the w.iile stalwart idea. That idea is, e-seu-tially, that a party is an army, and that the only duty, the only right, of the men in the ranks is to obey their masters—their bosses. The men in the ranks yesterday showed that they are the masters, that their will must be carried out by’ the party’ leaders, and that self-constituted leaders who attempt to rule rather than to serve will be tried by drum-head court-martial and shot upon the spot. The lesson has been wr.tb' n up large, so that they who run—the stalwart<, to-wit—may read. No man will have any excuse for misunderstanding it hereafter. [From the Chicago Inter OeGan.] While disaster has been anticipated by thinking Republicans all over the country they never fully realized such a flood as is reported in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania It looks a good deal like a case of bamson and the temple. The people undertook to pnnifeh the bosses, and fell with them under the ruins or the temple. There will, however, be a resurrection of the temple and a resuscitation of the victims. The Republican party is of too grand a history and too promising of noble purpose in the future io go down. Croakers to the contrary, its mission is not yet fl led. The result of yesterday does not show that Republicanism-has a less strong holckon the country than it has held for years, but rather tiiat the purifying process is going on that it may rise- to grander flights and nobler deeds. [From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] It may be sai l that the Republicans needed this defeat They invited it, and had it not come the bosses would have, been very sure to bring it on two years hence. Fortunately a strenthened Rep üblican Senate, with a R publican Execu ive behind it, will be in place to i revent Democratic; c pers in the House from being seriously detrimental to the general welfai e, while the Democrats will show their inc opacity for Legislative . work beyond pergdventure. They have secured jus enough rope to hang themselves with, and the few wise advisers they have cannot prevent them from mak ng use of it. The effort to control them has been made in vain time and again. Thus there'wil. be two strong influences at work to win Republican success in 1884, namely: the exposition of their own weakness s on I he part of the Republicans and the demonstrate ! n .cessi y of correcting them, and the exhibition of Democratic inability to govern. In fa t, ih s Re- £ ublican defeat is a pretty good tlrng it it i only viewed rightly. [From the Cincinnati Commercial]. President Arthur succeeded, and was immediately beset by the gang who had been disap ointed in Garfield. He resisted many of their most vicious anl unseemly demands, but they have been sufficiently dictatorial, and have so far flavored the Administration with their vindictive {ollies that

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:the New York election of yesterday serves *as an object les- on As a party the Re.publicans are about where they were eight years ago. It has lost under Arthur the ground gained after it got rid of Grant. If the Republican party is to have a future, —if Uis to retain the national Government' beyond the next Presidential e ection*-fb mu*t be relieved of its bosses. Stalwartism must be blown away like a bad smell in a high wnd And we must drop the fanatical crusaders in behalf of pretended temj perance reformation. The country distrusts the Democratic party, and there are an * abundance of voters opposed to that party to defeat it if they.can be permitted to exercise their common sense and common rights of Republican citizens; but they are not to be subordinated to the vulgar domination of bosses and the despotic caprices of vainglorious pCetendcrs to .statesmanship. Independent Comment. [From the Chicago Times.] A year ago such a political revolution as was consummated in this country yesterday would havo been considered impossible. To- ‘ day it excites not even a ripple of surpriseMuch has been done in the past three months by the chiefs of the defeated party to ■convince t ie American • eople that, in the interest of political morality and common public decencv, a change was necessary. The effect of that wors will be almost universally accepted as in accordance with the eternal fib-ne-s of things. . Amid the general slaughter of the political bo-ses the like of which hasn’t been seen in a lifet me, it must be matter of regret that the most intolerant as well as the meanest of them all, Mahonc, ot Virginia, escapes with slight injury’. Still his victory, if .it is as represented, j can hardly be .-more than short-lived. ' The'' President, having lost such a list of States as New York, his home: Pennsylvania, the home of his ti listed Lieutenant, Mr. Don C moron; New Hampshire, the home of his aggressive Secretary of the Navy; Connecticut, Ohio, '’possibly Michigan; Indiana, which had no savior this yea'-, Mr. BLnr-Route Dorsey, whom tire President toasted two years ago, being almost within the shadow of the penitentiary; Wisconsin, possibly; Colorado, t e stalkmg-ground of his man Teller; California and divers and f undry other strongholds of his party’, will hardly care to exert 1 iinself again for the satisfaction of a petty boss intheOld Dominion. Though ft exhibit unmistakable signs of life, the President will probably be inclined to let the tail go with the hide. Unsustained by Fetloßfd patronage, Mahone will surely go to the wall. .■ * * What a Grecrfbaeker Thinks. [From the Chicago Express.] It is a-Democratic land-slide,,as wins ix-’ pected. The Republicans, disgusted with Hulibellism, bossism and fitalwartism, have let the thing go by def aiflt The Democratic party’ has woh, not upplj. fts own merits, but upon its enemy’s demerits In the South the Democrats have scarcely their own. The people of Massachusetts have taken that lively citizen, Ben Butler, down from h s shylf and’dusted him off forHetxrn. He seems to be almost as good as new. Two men survive the cra h of machinep and the w eck of st .teamen this year—Butler /Mid B nine. They have carrb d their States? 'lheir white plumes will be seetr .in the fray again. Folgcr is terribly beaten. Tlie'Bdm.nistration is New York presents her compliment to the dandy President. Sialwartism is aS (lead as Guitaau. The people are sick of all old spoils f iction . They are ready for a new deal. The old lines cannot stand,the. storm much longer. The first reports give no details of Green-back-Labor and Anti-Monopoly votes. They will be fished up out of the bottom of the boxes in a few days. Let us wait patiently for the official count.

OBITUARY.

(From the Chicago Times.] 1 Died, Nov. 7,1882, of an overdose of party. Pres dent, the llepublicm party, aged 26 years. The deceased entered into this life in the year 1856. It (being of the neuter gender) was the offspring of the union of Political. Motive and Public Consc'ence. Like Hercules, it came into the world with a gi and'ftiisbion—namely, to strangle the polydephalowi dragon, Slavery, and its slimy brood, Stateism, Nullification, Secession, Bourbonisip, etc, composing f a, family leal led the Dc’inccratic party.' Like *otit army at Bull Run, it was defeated in its first » contest with the public enemy, led- Iry. a chieftain popularly styled “ Old Buck.” But, four .years ftder ,• 41ie» young Hercules had attained to *such. strength and vigor that the political dragon was driven to the wall. Btill, the dragon refused to surrender. Musall the members of its- silnrian family, excepting softie of tfttffae in the northern parts of the land, who enrolled themselves under the national b inner, of which the Deliverer had gained possession, the Detroyer unfurled the Hag of Secession and proclaimed the holy war of- the Rebellion. How the youthful Deliverer triumphed in that war, abolislied Slavery, strangled Secession and Nullification, ban-, ished Stateism, broke the back of Bohl* bonism and established National Supremacy on an immovable foumlation, is a familiar history which no power of this world can unwrite. With the consummation of the socalled “reconstruction" of the national order, the political mission of the deceased was But such was the irresistible force with which it had moved on to the fulfillment that it* was not easy at that point to aWest or control th® momentum. Two great reasons appeared for the continuance cfl its organized activities. One, and-th* stronger reason, was that the Democrat diwon? though dismembered -and mutilated and reduced to a miserable rump, still exhiftitccT life, iftid refused to bury it* putrefying carcass out of sight. Iftithat putrid reminiscence had. crawled iptp its proper holo and given up the jniost* upbn the suppression of its rGWnion; fhetriurnphant party winch had delivered the land from its hateful jjyould also hftve broken up and disappeared l in 1872, and perhaps- earlier.' It was •mainly public, fear of .thmjjld Bourbon dragon, which pefsrstfcd’mSquatting in its corner and whoaing ita unj>le.is<nt fangs, that kept party in existence. * n . j . The other cause the prolongation of its organic life, after the fulfilment of its political mission *an appetite for the “spoils of officO?’ Among its most active and conspicuous men were many who had beetptraiued in the political school of Marcy and Jackson 1 ;' men who, like “the Veter (th ” Thurlow Weed, “believed in the spoils systeAi,” and regarded parties; as merely organized election machines to be used by" professional-politicians as appliances for getting the offifees. To ; these were speedily added innumerable others who became easy converts to that view, Ab that hardly had the deceased party accomplished its political' mission than the professional politician began tb employ its organisation as aibqlection machine for office-getting, an£ to exclude political considerations as matters interfering with its Usefiilfieis to them ae a machine. , ‘- ir " i ?!<* •* - ' imp

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But this reduction of party to the character of a mere election machine inbttulated it with the loathsome and fatal disease known as the spoils distemper, which has its genesis in the party President. Strong symptoms of the malady began to appear in Grant’s reign; wherefore they were called Grantism. They did not differ, however, from the symptoms of the same malady under other party Presidents. What was called Grantism, and so exasperated the country against the Pres- ■ ident that a large number of the provinces wlijch supported his candidacy in 1861? turned ’against, him in 1872, was, reduced to its simplest expression, the employment of-tlie appointing power as ameaffrf of paying his political debts, bribing party support, and rewarding the questionable, characters whom a Missouri Senator of the President’s own Dui’ty described as “ Grant’s cursed old bar-room cronies." The dose of party President which Grant gave it in his firsteterm was so strong that it reduced the party nigh unto death in 1872, and probably it would have kicked the bucket then if the offensive circa is ol the Democrat dragon had no been In gged in at Cincinnati and Baltimore to frighten the country into keeping G rant four yeats longer. Tne “party did not recover from the spoils disease. Grant would not let it. ()jn, the contrary, hp increased the dose of party President. The consequence was tint, in 1864, the party which, at Grant’s first election, had a majority of two-thirds in the Representatives, lost its majority in that assembly, and did not - recover it for six years. Moreover, so sick was the party made by Grant's second dose of party President that, in 1876, its popular majority also vanished, and the interposition of a Louisiana Returning Board” alone saved .to its bosses the 'appointing power, the scandalous abuspof which had brought it so near4o (Uuith's door. Dr- Hayes undertook to cure the sick parjv of thp spoils distemper. Ho lixifed, partly from the lack of “backand pArfly from not grasping the nature and cause of the disease. Nevertheless, -his treatment benefited tiie patient. Alter all the denunciation pf’his course by the stalwart bosses of the machine, the party was in belter health at thh close of his ministration than ib had been-in many years. It regained its lost majority in the Repro'sentatives. It was able to keep the executive without the aid of a Louisiana Re- . turning Bpard, a batch of “visiting statesmen” and an “’Electoral Commission. Plainly, its health had improved under the treatment of a President who forbaflo his subordinates to use the public offices as manipulators of the party machine, and did not degrade his own-of-fice by engaging personally in the electioneering work of a machine politician. Great hopes wore felt that the beneficial treatment of the sick party by Dr. Hayes would be continued, with still better results, by Dr. Garfield. That such hopes would have been fulfilled there are some good reasons to doubt. But a machine politician of the name of Guiteau prevented the possibility of their fulfillment by removing Garfield and putting the sick party in the hands of political quack, Dr. Arthur, who immediately began to treat the ease Ujron the principle shiiilia similibux Cittantur, by dosing the patient with more party President than any previous party has ever lived or died under. No President, since Jackson, and not Jackson hinufelf, has so openly and unhesitatingly prostituted the powers and 1 duftesof his office to the service of a party machine as Arthur has. done. ’No Ptesident, benhath an assumption of dignity, Jigs betrayed alone of political morals so degi aded and vicious. No President, not even Grant, has ’ifdemed to form so degraded a concep•ijern oi'-|h< proper character of his office. . JJfo President, hl¥< ho viciously oyerfiteDped tile .pro]iei’ bounds of his Official junction to interfere with popular elections and supersede the electors * n . i ie f re ° exercise of their office. No President has so lUjerallv lent the appbinting power to party bo Res, or* permitted them to employ it so freely tor the corruption of electors awd the destruction of the elective independence. No President has so openly permitted and encouraged the infamous practice of levying contributions pn the public service to fasten fif)o;)'tbc people the intolerable tyranny T»f the machine, the damnable dospotikui of party bossism. Putting all in a single proposition, no President has given the country so large andmusehting a*i(tbse of q/ffr/i/ Presid nt ism as ihe present .incumbent. In a single year he has fiijed the land with the ac..cu.npilated onensiven ss of Grant’s eight year<,lost his majority in the Representatives, and carried his party back not oniv to tlie desperately sick state in ;i Hayes found it, but put it probably beyond (lie hope of resurrection. TJjis is, anil will be, the general vorMfct.” Mr. Grover Cleveland, not mis»interpreting the significance of his election over the president’s own candidate for. Governor of New York by more ’tiffin 160,600 votes to spare, has said, uhth ss much' truth as candor, that it .would ' l»e a mistake to infer from the result, that public sentiment is turning . ba-k to, flip old Bourbon party machine. u *Th j immGnate cause is the interferPnce of *tliA national Executive with the people’s politics.” It is, in other words, the spo'-ls disease, a more specific name for vdiieh would be the party-President diseasQ, ql**which the President’s party fias v rtually exp red. Let the country bury it, and inscribe on its gravestone, in plain words that even stupid keepers <if the aid Bourbon election machine eaft‘!reach. this fitting epitaph: Hia JACF.T DEFUNCTUS « S'. TSEiBEPUBLICAN PARTY. IN . ITS INFANCY A MOTIVE OF POLITICAL RIGHTEOUSNESS; IN ITSMATUKITY AN ; ORGANIZATION OF THE NOBLEST POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS OF A PEOPLE J IN ITS AGE AN ELECTION MACHINE ' MANIPULATED BY PARTY BOSSES, BROUGHT TO ITS DEATH BY AN OVERDOSE OF PARTY PRESIDENT. BEQUIESCAT IN PECTORE , JAY HUBBELL. Jack Canter, alias George Ripley, ’the forger, who was released from the Eastern penitentiary last week, had completed a seven years’ imprisonment •for raising the face value of stock of a fire insurance company, for the purpose of deceiving the insurance coinmjssioner with the show of a sound financial basis. W. D. Halfman, the president of the company, who was concerned in the fraud, .served a shorter toini. Canter has spent ftltogother -ftbqut Uiirty-two years m jail.