Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — Page 3

THE BAD BOY.

“What are you sitting there like a bump on a log for?" asked the groceryman of the bad boy, as the youth had sat on a box for half an hour with his hands in hie pockets, looking at a hole in the floor until his eyes were set like a dying Horse. “What are you thinking of, anyway ? It seems to me boys set around and think more than they used to when I was a boy,” and the grocery man brushed the wilted lettuce and shook it, and tried to make it stand up stiff’ and crisp before he put it out doors, but the contrary lettuce, which had been picked the day before, looked so tired that the boy noticed it. “That lettuce reminds me of a girl. Yesterday I was in here when it was new, like the girl going to the picnic, and it was as fresh, and proud, and starched up, and kitteny, and full of life, and as sassy as a girl starting out for a picnic. To-day it has got back from the picnic, and, like the girl, the starch is all taken out, and it is limber, and languid, and tired, and can’t stand up alone, and it looks as though it wanted to' be laid at rest beside the rotten apples in the alley rather than be set out in front of a store to be sold to honest people and give them the gangrene of the liver,” and the boy put ■on a Health Commissioner air that frightened the grocery man, and he threw the lettuce out the back door. “You never mind about my lettuce,” said the grocery man. “I can attend to my affairs. But now tell me what you thinking about here all the morning.” “I was thinking what a fool King Solomon was,” said the, boy, with the air of one who has made a statement that has got to be argued pretty strong io make it hold water. “Now look a-here,” said the groceryman, in anger, “I have stood it to have you play tricks on me, and have listened to your condemned foolishness without a murmur as long as you have confined yourself to people now living, but when you attack Solomon, the wisest man, the great King, and call him a fool, friendship ceases, and you must get out of this store. Solomon in all his glory, is aTriend df mine, and no fool boy is going to abuse Ifim in my presence. Now you dry up!” ■ “Sit down on the ice box,” said the boy to the grocery man. “What you need is rest. You are overworked. Your alleged brain is equal to wilted lettuce, and it can devise ways and means to hide rotten peaches under good ones, so as to sell them to blind ■orphans, but when it comes to grasping great questions, your small brain cannot comprehend them. Your brain may go up sideways to a great question, and rub against it, but it cannot surround it, and grasp it. That’s where you are deformed. Now,, it is different with me. I can raise brain to sell to you grocery men. Listen. This S&lomon is credited with being the wisest man, and yet history says he had a thousand wives. Just think of it You have got one wife, and pa has got -one, and all the neighbors have one, if they have had any kind of luck. Does not one wife make you pay attention? Wouldn’t two wives break you up? Wouldn’t three cause you to see stars? How would ten strike you? Why, man alive, you do not grasp the magnitude of the statement that Solomon had a thousand wives. A thousand wives, standing side by side, would reach about four blocks. Marching by fours it would take them twenty minutes to pass a given point. The largest summer resort hotel only holds about 500 people, so Sol would have had to hire two hotels if he took his wives ®ut for a day in the country. If you would stop to think you would know niore.” The grocery man’s eyes had begun to stick out as the bad boy continued, as though the statistics had never been brought to his attention before, but he wi% bound to * stand by his old friend Solomon, and he said, “Well, Solomon’s wives musf' have been different from our wives of the present day.” ‘•Not much,” said the boy, as he Saw he was paralyzing the grocery man. • “Women have been about the same ever siuce Eve.' She get mashed on the old original dude, and it stands to reason that Solomon’s wives were no better than the mother of the human race. Statistics show that one woman out of every ten is red-headed. That would give Solomon an even hundred red-headed wives. Just that hundred red-headed wives would be enough to make an ordinary man think that there ■was a land that is fairer than this. Then there would be, out of the other 900, about 300 blondes, and the other €OO would be brunettes, and maybe he had a few albinos, and bearded women, and fat women, and dwarfs. Now, those thousand women had appetites, desires for dress and style, the same as all women. Imagine Solomon saying to them, ‘ Girls, let’s all go down to the ice-cream saloon and have a dish of ice cream.’ Can you, with your brain muddled with codfish and new potatoes, realize the scene that would follow ? Suppose, after Soloman’s broom-brigade had got seated in the ice-creamery, one of the red-headed wives should catch Solomon winking at a strange girl at another table. You may think Solomon did not know enough to wink, or that he was not that kind of a flirt, but he must have been ■or he could never have succeeded in marrying a thousand wives, in a sparsely-settled country. No, sir, it looks to me as though Solomon, in all his glory, was an old masher, and, from what I have seen of men being bossed around with one wife, I don’t envy Solomon his thousand. Why, just imagine that gang of wives going and ordering fall bonnets. Solomon would have to be a King or a "Vanderbilt to stand it. Ma wears $5 silk stockings, and pa kicks aWfully when the bill comes in. Imagine Soldmon putting up for a "feV thdusand v pair of silk stockings. I am glad you will sit doWn and reason with me in a rational way about some of these Bible stories that take my ’breath away. The minister stands me off when I try to talk with him about such things, and tells me to study the parable of the Prodigal Son, and the deacons tell me to go and soak my head. There is darn little encouragement for

• boy to try and figure out things. How would you like to have a thousand red-headed-wives come into the store |his minute and tell you they wanted you to send carriages around to the house at 3 o’clock so they could go for a drive ? Or how would you like to have a hired girl come rushing in and tell yon to send up 600 doctors, because 600 of your wives had been taken with cholera morbus ? Or ” “Oh, don’t mention it,” said the grocery man, with a shudder. “I wouldn’t take Solomon’s place, and be the natural protector of 1,000 wives if anybody would give me the earth. Think of getting up in a cold winter morning and building 1,000 fires. Think of 2,000 pair of hands in a fellow’s hair! Boy, you have shewn me that Solomon needed a guardian over him. He didn’t have sense.” “Yes,” says the boy, “and think of 2,000 feet, each one as cold as a brick of chocolate ice-cream. A man would want a back as big as the fence to a fair ground. But I don’t want to harrow up your feelings. I must go and put some arnica on pa. He has got home, and says he has been to a summer resort on a vacation, and he is all covered with blotches. He says it is mosquito bites, but ma thinks he has been shot full of bird shot by some watermelon farmer. Ma hasn’t got any sympathy for pa because he didn’t take her along, butPif she had been there she would have been filled with bird shot, too. But you musn’t detain me. Between pa and the baby I have got all I can attend to. The baby is teething, and ma nfakes me put my fingers in ’the baby’s mouth to help it cut teeth. That is a humiliating position for a boy as big as I am. Say, how many babies do you figure that Solomon had to buy rubber teething-rings for, in all his glory ?” And the boy went out leaving the grocery man reflecting on what a family Solomon must have had, and how he needed to be the wisest man to get along without a circus, afternoon and evening.— Peck’s Sun.

A Hotel Clerk for Once Comes to Grief.

Some of the boys put up a job on a Cincinnati hotel clerk. A lady had registered during the day and was assigned a room. One of the boys knew her, and knew also that her husband would come in on a late train, so he tola the others and they met the husband at the train, took him to the hotel, and sent him to his wife’s room without letting the clerk see him. About half-past 11 o’clock, while the crowd was in the office, the watchman came down, and, after a whispered conference with the clerk in which could be heard some*thing about a man in 214, the clerk and watchman skipped up stairs. The boys followed and got within hearing distance. Just as they reached the door they heard the following: “Listen!” said the watchman; “hear his voice?” “That’s so; a mqn as sure as the world; wonder who he is; she looked like a lady, too,” said the eierk. “You can’t always sajd the watchman; “I look miglityclose at them kind.” “Well, we can’t have it. and I’ll throw her out!” And he knocked at the door. All was still. Then another knock. “Who’s there?” said ft woman’s voice. “It’s me, the clerk, ” was the ungrammatical reply. “Wiiat do you want ?” “Open the door. There’s something important!” “I can’t; I’m not dressed.” “But you must.” “I tell you I won’t.” “Will you tell me if there is a man in there?” * “Yes, there is.” “Well, that’s what tlife row’s about, and he’s got to come o“ut or I’ll kick the door do-vyt). This js a respectable hotel, and we won’t stand any sdOh performances!” - Then the door opened and a man appeared. • “What’s the matter with you?” he asked. / /‘What are you doing in there this time-of night?” asked the clerk. “I’m getting ready to go tobed.” “But you don’t do it in this hotel. Both of you get upp. d. q., or I’ll call the police. ” “All right. Call your police. If a man and his wife can’t stop peaceably at a hotel, it’s time the police were cleaning the place out.” “What’s that? Are yon her husband ?” “Why, you blamed fool, did you think I wasn’t.” Then there was a guffaw at the other end of the hall, and the clerk looked up in time to see six coat-tails disappearing around the corner, and when he got down to the office the boys were waiting for him to “set ’em up,” and he did.— Hotel Reporter.

A Belligerent Bird.

The kingfisher is not regarded as a dangerous bird, but an artist friend of mine once had a most remarkable adventure with one. While sketching on the shore of a river he saw one of these birds flying across the water directly toward him. He watched its approach, expecting every moment to see it change its course, but, to his astonishment. the bird, swerving neither to the right nor the left, came straight at his face. His hands were filled with palette and brushes. He raised his foot to shield himself. “Thud!” came the bird against it, falling to the ground stunned by the shock; but, recovering quickly, it again took wing and disappeared around a bend in the shore. Now, the snowy owl (Nyctea scandiaca} is said to alight at times upon the heads of sportsmen while they are crouching quietly among the reeds watching for wild geese and ducks, probably mistaking them for stumps or something of that sort. But to suppose that the kingfisher had mistaken my friend for a fi[tump would not be coinplimentary to either the bird or the artist.—De Cost Smith, iu St. Nicholas. “Right-handedness ” extends very far along the animal series. Parrots hold their food by preference in the right foot, and, though we cannot speak positively, wasps, beetles and spiders seem to use the right anterior foot most commonly.

DORSEY AGAIN.

interesting Correspondence Bearing on the Campaign of 1880. A Series of Letters from Leading Members of the “Great” Bepub- ,. . • lican Party. The liaising of a Corruption fund—The Sale Topic Discussed. [From the New York Sun.] Soon after. the Republican National Committee was organized Gen. Garfield began an active correspondence with Senator Doraey and with Gov. Jewell, which lasted throughout the campaign. He was especially concerned about the election in Indiana, and July 9 wrote the following letter to Senator Dorsey: Mentor. Ohio, July 9, 1880. The Hou. 8. W. Dorsey, Secretary, e'c. My Dear Sir: I hope my anxiety to see Gen. Arthur, Gov. Jewell, and yourself will not be considered unreasonable. I cannot withhold from publication my letter of acceptance much longer, and I should be glad to counsel with you all in respect to it before it appears in print. I am glad to know that you and the Governor are coming, but if you could start twenty-four hours earlier than the date indicated in your telegram I should be glad. There are several topics concerning which we ought to consult. Very truly yours, J. A. Garfield. This letter shows that at the very beginning of the canvass Gen. Garfield sought the advice of Mr. Dorsey respecting such an Important matter as his letter of acceptance. July 19 he wrote as follows: INTERESTED IN INDIANA. Mentor, Ohio, July 19, 1880. The Hon. 8. W. Dorsey, No. 254 Fifth avenue. New York. • My Dear Sir: Yours of the 16th inst.*with inclosure came duly to hand. I am glad to hear that the letter oi acceptance is so generally well received. Some parties are kicking, as 1 expected, but, on the whole, no serious damage has been done. Thomas M. Phillips, of Newcastle, Pa., will visit you in a few days, and I ask you to give him a careful hearing. He has made- a special visit to Indiana, and he has much of interest to communicate. Yours very truly, J. A. Garfield. This indicates that at that early day Gen. Garfield’s mind was turned to the Indiana election. The same dav he sent the following letter to Gov. Jewell: Mentor, Ohio, July 19,1880. My Dear Governor : Yours of the 15th from Washington came duly to hand. lam gratified with the results of your visit. I expected to hear of some dissatisfactim in certain Washington quarters with the letter of acceptance, but it cannot be helped. Please let me know, as soon as you can, the result of the Philadelphia matter. I have had a long interview with Mr. T. M. Phillips, of Newcastle, Pa., who has just made a tour in Indiana, and, after a full consultation with Mr. New, has made an important side arrangt ment with reference to the campaign there. He will leave for New York Wednesday, and I shall send him a letter of introduction. He is an intimate friend . . . I believe bis plan, if carried out energetically, will of itself save the State of Indiana. . . . Please tell me how the letter of acceptance is received in inner circles, and especially what is thought of it by our New York friends. Very trulyyours, J. A. GabftelD. The next day Gen. Garfield wrote the following letter"both to Dorsey and Jewell: Mentor, Ohio, July 20,1880. Messrs. Jewell and Dorsey. 1 r Gentlemen : This note will introduce you to' my friend Mr. T. M. Phillips, of Newcastle, Pit,. of whom I, nave recently written you. He has made a tour of Indiana with a view tp special work in tne State, the full details of which he will privately give. you. Mr. Phillips has been my intimate friend for many years, and- yon may implicitly rely upofi* his thbfightfulnemr and good judgment in anything he undertakes.. I have no doubt that the result in Indiana can be made secure by following up vigorously the work he has begun. Of course it is imperative that whatever is done in this direction shunld be done quietly. Very truly yours, J. A. Garfield. MONEY WANTED FOB MAINE M i The National Committe, before tfce Indiana campaign, were besought for money, for Maine, and the following letter iron) Mr. Blaine shows that they were not satisfied wite the amounts that were contributed h - - My Dear Dorsey : Your committee was appointed early in July. It is now the middle of August, and we have not received one penny’s aid in the closest and most central battle of the campaign. Ido not wish to be a grumbler, but I assure you that you are imperiling the whole campaign. Yours, Jas. Q. Blaine. Senator Allison, who was in Maine,, seemsto have been encouraged at the r»stilta.<lL Mr. Blaine s letter, for he writes as lollowx fromMhine: ’ v .’**'! Dexteb, Me., Sebt. Jte Dear a Mb. Jewell: J will In New , .York at . the Brevoort House* Monday. I want to see you before going I wish you could come down to the during the day, where we can have a quiet riWk of half an hour. Why not dp this? Matters are looking well in Maine. ,1 am greatly deceived if our people do not have a decided victory. Yours very truly, W. B. Allison. To the Hon. Marshall Jewell. THE OCTOBER STATES AGAIN/ •’ The next letter which Mr. Allison wrote < was written to Senator Dorsey, and reads ps follows: Dubuque, lowa., Sept.lt. My Dear Sir : The Maine business is very bad. 1 tell you you must get down to serious work. Money must be had, and must be sent to Indiana. If we lose Indiana in October we. are beaten. z No stone must be left unturned in that direction. You gather about you h corps of strong men who.can aid you in raisjng’funds. We mast recover this disaster'in Maine by carrying Ohio and Indiana. Maine was carried by money and the still hunt tactics. Those same tactics must be played in Indiana and Ohio. Book out. Hastily yours, - ■ ?:■ -M W. B. Allison. AID ASKED FOR WEST VIRGINIA. But the National Committee at that time were having demands made upon them from other diiections. For instance, here is a letter from the Hon. Steward L. Woodford, from West Virginia: Wheeling, W. Va., Aug. 29,1880. My Dear Sib: . . . No* for busines-'. These people ought to be helped. Here, if anywhere, the South is to be broken. . . . You know what funds you have. Sturgiss and Atkinson agree to raise $lO,000 if you will give them $15,000. With $25,000 they can make an effective campaign. Of this SIO,OOO Wheeling men will give $5,000, and Sturgiss agrees to raise the remaining $5,000. With $25,000 they can organize the State. . . If you can possibly do this without endangering Indiana, I advise it very earnestly. . . . Your friend, Stewart L. Woodford. The Hon. Marshall Jewell. Sept 7 the Rev. J. R. Thompson, President of the West Virginia University, wrote to Secretary Dorsey as follows: If you put men and sinews here at once the Republicans will carry it (West Virginia) in October. THE OLD DOMINION. But the Republican National Committee had more important business to attend to than putting men and money into West Virginia. There was a plaintive howl from Virginia herself for cash, as appears by the following letter from Mahone’s chief Republican Lieutenant: Linwood, Sept 22, 1880. Gov. Jewell: My Dear Sir : The expenditure of $50,000 by your committee fiill insure the electoral vote of Virginia to Garfield and Arthur. “Help us, Cassius, or we perish.” Yours, truly, John F. Lewis.

HENDERSON’S ADVICE. The attention of the committee was from the first turned toward the Indiana election, and not only of their own accord, but at the suggestion of many of the prominent Republican politicians of the? country. Mr. D. B. ’Henderson, of lowa, who succeeded dlorsey as Secretary of the committee, however, had a difl erent view. He writes from* fiubuque as follows: • „ „ „ Dubuque, lowa, Aug, 8,1880, The Hon. 8. W. Dorsey. Dear Sib: Maine must not be lost. If you can make sure of New York give Indiana to the enemy, excepting keep them busy there. In other words keep up a fire in Indiana, plant the troops lii New York, “pr t money in thy purse.' Yours very truly, D. B. Henderson. WHAT MR, RICHARD SMITH KNEW. The opinion of Mr. Henderson was not

shared by Richard Smith, editor of the cinnati Gazette. He writes as so lows: Cincinnati, Ohio. Sept. 1?, 1880. The Hon. Marshall Jewell: Drab 8m: Your favor of the 10th instant came duly to hand, and it surprises me. I was amazed at what yon Mid had been represented to you by Nash and Garfield, because I know what I said to you was true. I am not in the habit of misrepresenting matters of this kind, and I now repeat every line I wrote you before and since the Maine election, and support evdly line of that letter. I probably know more about what the Democrats are doing and proposing to do than Mr. Nash, Chairman of the Republican Committee of Ohio, became the brains of the management are here. Perhspi you will say lam meddlng. W. 11, yon know I am up to my eyes in this fight, I am devoting night and day to It, and in feeling am “all over” in this business. Therefore, I keep posted both aa to this State and Indiana. That, too, is my busfness; and I now tell you that as matters are going in Indiana and Ohio we are beaten in both States. There should be $50,000 judiciously placed in each Stote within the next ten days, and two-thirds of it should be reserved for use on election day. If your committee conclude to let Ohio take care of herself, and meet the enemy in a half-way style, you might just as well give up nowand not spend another dollar in effort. Now mark what I tell you. I inclose my correspondence. Truly yours, Richard Smith. GOY. FOSTER Gov. Foster seems to have been of the opinion that money was necessaiy in Ohio, for he writes aa follows: State of Ohjo.Executive Department, I Columbus, Sept. 16, 1880. J The Hon. Richard Smith, Cincinnati, O.: Dear SUj I have given the subject of our finances some attention, and have received and am promised $15,000. We ought to have $40,000 obtained—slo,ooo of it for Cleveland—and am trying to get hold of some of your men who can contribute Überally. I hope to have your aid and sympathies in my visit to Cincinnati, Yours very truly. Foster “me too” PLATT. But Mr. Dorsey was making arrangements by which the wealthy men could be brought together, the results of which were seen afterward in large contributions. Here is a letter from an eminent citizen of New York, indicating that in what Dorey did he had the cordial support of the stalwarts: Auburn. July 29,1880. My Dear Dorsey: Received your telegram here. I cannot go down to-night. In fact, it is impossible for me to get away before Monday. I wiU inclose a letter to Rutter, and you can see him. It he refuses, caU upon Mr.. Blanchard, of the Erie, who will do all you ask. If you want me to urge the Senator (Conkling) and Arthur to be th< re on the Sth I wiU do so at once, and any other things you may need of me telegraph me at Oswego and they shall be done at once. I congratulate you on the success of your efforts. Now I begin to see daylight. Yours truly, T. C. Platt. NOT A FRIEND OF DORSEY’S. This letter shows that, as Dorsey’s friends claim, he had the confidence of the Republican leaders, and was really the man upon whom they were relying for the arrangements which subsequently resulted in successful bargains by which the election of the President was procured. There was one man, however, who did not seem to have confidence in Dorsey. In a letter written by the Hon. JohnM. Forbes, of Boston, to Gov. Jewell, dated Boston, Sept. 21, he says: If we have any money to spare to Indiana, besidS what the New York Committee cheeses to send through Mr. Dorsey, r suggest sending it either to Ben Harrison or Gpn, rorter. asking him to co-operate with the others. I have sent you SIB,OOO, and promised Barbour $3,000 for West Virginia, and with $2,5(0 come in to-day I hive about $25,000 on my list which I can call for, so I could supply you by advancing $5,000, but will not advance it unless it goes to Han ison or Porter, whom I happen to know better than I do Dorsey. Moreover, as New York chooses to discriminate in favor of Dorsey, I think we heie magchoosaour medium of. sending it as you may approve. Very truly yours, - ■■ - . . John M. Forbes. ■ Ms. Forbes also writes to Gov. Jewell as ifo'lowfi, the letter not being dated? ’ gXheJton. Jowell,,New*York—>. > Dear toceivej yovfr telegram, of this fnorhing, and replied thafTwould by to-night’s mail advanee check for $3,800, which I advance, ajthough I am already under advances to you beyond my subscriptions. It is currently reported that your New York members of Congress ofteß pay from $20,000 to $25,000 to secure their elections. If you do not soon get steam up in New York we shall break. New York ought to pay'frt-least $3 for every ,$1 raised in Boston, yet «i to ye are ahead. JohnM. Forbes. ' JOHN c. NEW- t “ Mr, JofcnC. New, who was Chairman-of the Republican State GonftilittAein' lndianß, carried op a ve»y voluminous correspondence . with the National Committee, of which the fdllowing letters are samples: • Indianapolis, July 24, 1880. The Hon. Marshall Jewsll, Chairman, etc. Dkab Sib : lam glad' yow recognize Indiana AS the battlefield. I had a letter from Gen. Garfield to tfie same effect. When I see you in New York next’week I will explain to you our wante,sand£Ml ctrtfidefitly rely on you for assistance. jWe must have material aid.for purposes Which I will explain, but it will be for the ‘-national ;fio;Hmtttee to maxethe battle in Indi- : APB a Victory sure and overwhelming, or to ieoparalze oflr cause for lack or it. Youse truly, ■ . • a-,.. '‘JdfflvONew. '-‘•■‘♦hr j, to • InDianlpolis, Aug.M,“lßßo. Of' tbe 28th lust, at hand. That Wabash raM matter is of very great importance, and I am glad you thought of it and accomplished so much. I hope that you can be equally successful in ouc eUysr Sherman is a Director in Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne. WonIdarM he would jhelp uei > GonHtoeeu control a coume-and fb&ClevelAncyjarties,Devereaux and darfiera the ClevtWand'people. Dorsey is in Chicago.' ‘Don’t know,hgw long he wjll remain. Do nqt,disappoint me in egard to the SIO,OOO written tor yesterday. We must have it or stop fighting.' - .■ .Yours, John C. New. HE GETS SOME CHECKS. X <- Sept. 4, 1880. The Hon. Marshall Jewell, Chairman, New York. My Dea-r Governor: Yours of the 2d Inst, covering check on Levi P. Morton for $4,000,: at hand, for which you have my thanks. Yours trnly, John 0. New. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 10. The Hon. Marshall Jewell, Chairman, New York: Your favor of the' 6th Inst., and covering check for $4,000 at hand, for whli h this is your receipt. You have our thanks, and we realize that you are doing your whole duty In our I behalf, and we hope and believe that we will re- I pay your good deeds by victory. Yours truly, John C. New. IN ACCORD WITH DORSEY. Indianapolis, Sept 10. The Hon. Marshall Jewell. Chairman, etc. My Dear Governor: ’. . . The prospect grows brighter. I saw Mr. Dorsey on Thursday, ■ He is up to his eyes in 1. tiers, etc., etc. He is doing us good service, and we are tn accord. Yours in haste, John C. New. Indianapolis. Ind., Aug. 28, 1880. My Dear Governor: I want you to send ma SIO,OOO. We are out, and our expenses are very heavy. We must have SIO,OOO at once. We shall commence a canvass, and have money next week, but it will take us some time to realize, | and in tbe meantime we will need what I ask for above. Please send me your check, and I will use it Inclosed you will find Treasurer’s receipt fbr the first sum you sent me. I tell you we are going to carry Indiana, and don’t you forget it. Yours truly, John C. New. A GREAT MANY LIES TOLD. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 25,1880. My Dear Governor: I thank you for your confidence. I know that a great many lies are being told about me personally and about our friends, but I am too busy to pay attention ,to these charges now. They will only start another lie when we nail one. If we can only carry Indiana we can afford to tell them all to be d d. Yours in baste, John C. New. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 25, 1880. Tbe Hon. Marshall Jewell: Dear Sib: ... So far as it is possible I I have and shall avoid any parade, but do our work from an individual standpoint. Yours truly, John C. New.

Political Notes.

Tubn the rascals otft. The Republican party must go. Polk, of Tennessee, is awfully sorry that he was not a Republican like Dorsey. .The politics, of a thief has a great deal to do with his acquittal.— San Francisco Examiner. • The land grant of the Northern Pacific railroad embraces 75,000,000 acres, valued noy at $187,500,000; enough money to build the road with a ’ surplus of $70,000,000. That is prqba- ( bly the biggest land steel the Repub- j lican party has engineered through Congress. *

INTERNAL REVENUE.

Receipts Falling Off at the Bate of $36,000,000 a Tear. [Washington Telegram.] For the first two months of the fiscal year the revenues show a decrease, as compared with the same two months of last year, of 1130,123.291 The customs receipts showed an increase for July, but a large decrease for August The decrease for two months was >3,788.280. Internal revenue shows a reduction for two months of >6.248,808, and miscellan ous sources a decrease of >2,975,136. On the other hand, the expenses of the Government for the two months show an Increase of >4,795,566. The increased payments for pensions for two months are >7,870,647, and the dec. eased payments for interest are >2,0 £3,534. While the internal revenue appears to be falling off at the rate of >36,000,000 a year, it is said at the office the decrease will not exceed >3o,< 00,000, and may not exceed >25,000.000. The natural increase must be allowed for, and beside this there were very heavy purchases of tobacco stamps in May and June, which operate to reduce the receipts tor the first two or three months of this year. Manufacturers will soon be obliged to increase their purchases of stamps. There is another important element that has not been taken fully into account in estimating the revenue. The tax on 33,000, COO gallons of bonded spirits must be paid in the remainder of this fiscal year unle s the spirits are exported.. The Attorney General's opinion is not regarded as conclusive by the whisky men or internal-revenue officers, because it was ba ed on a suppositious case such as would not be likely to occur. It deters some from exporting, and, though others go on sending spirits abroad, the exportation is not heavy. Unless the bonded period is extended, it is probable that those spirits will materially Increase the Internal Revenue receipts The current manufacture of spirits is expected to yield about >50,000,000. The appropriations for the current year are >53,000, COu less than for the past year, but this does not show what expenditures will be. The appropriation for pensions for the current year is >80,000,000 less than for the past year, but it is evident that the expenditure in this direction will necessitate a deficiency bilL The following is the condition of the treasury: Gold com and bul i0n>204,150,028 Silver dollars and bullion 119,029,957 Frac ionai silver coin 27,818,180 United States notes. 53,917,724 Total>4o4 815,889 Certificates outstanding: Gold> 54,302,480 Silver 75,443,771 Cnrrency 12,005,000 Tne executive order consolidating the in-ternal-revenue colectlon districts, so far as it affects the following-named districts, was put in operation to-day; The Eighth Illinois and the D.siriet of Oregon. The Fifth district, New Mexico, will be transferred to the new Collector on the sth Inst. No date is yet fixed for the consolidating of the districts of California The executive order has been suspended so. far it relates to the districts in Wisconsin, and there will be no change in that State until after the President’s return.

DRAMATIC TRIUMPH.

America's Great Tragic Actress Scores a Great Success in London. [London Cablegram to'New .York Herald.] The event of the week in the drarhatid ’ world was the debut of your fair country- . Woman, Miss Mary Anderson, which was made this evening at the Lyceum Theater, whose stage has been made classic by the genius of Henry Irving. Miss Anderson has been sufficiently long in London to have become personally known to many of the leaders of the apt world of the metropolis, I and it must be adm tted that she had scored a preliminary triumph in Winning golden opinions of herself as a women be- ; lore the opportunity of judging her as an artist bad been given. The evening was it's nearly perfect as a September night in London can ever be, and there was no counter-attraction of sufficient potency to keep away the best class of theatergoera The house, which has long witnessed the highest exhibitions of English ' dramatic art, was crowded, and it seemed as though the whole of artistic and critical Lopdon was assembled within its walls. The debutant’s reception in the mrst Act Was distirifctly friendly, and soon became tinged, with enUHisiasm. Her figure was seen. to u t>e a compian4ing from its height, i althdiigh girlish in its supple and almost setpentine slenderness, and'the simple and colorless drapery in which she had dressed ! the par>xxf Parthenia lent grace to her pose and carriage, which were-always statuesque, without bearing the least impress of or iMf-conisclouSness. The whiterobed.figure, with sinuous arms baaed to the shoulder ana abundant brown hair hanging freely from the shapely head, with the tremulous mouth and the curl of the short upperlip involuntarily suggesting pathetic power was a revelation, even to tuose of the audience who had seen this fair girl in | the conventional dress of the drawing-room or the promenade, and the ice of criticism rapidly me.ted iff the glow of an involuntary entbftSiam. The applause became more ana more, general, and it continued far beyond ! what any of her friends could have antici- I pated. The debutante stood long before the footlights gracefully bowing her thanks and essaying to begin the lines of her part I When at last she began to speak her rich- I ly-modulated voice provoked another salvo of applause. During the earlier portion of , this act there was a slight tremor, and the , actress seemed hardly at her ease, but this quickly wore away, and she became the noble, animated heroine of the half savage, haif-idyllic romance of “Ingomar.” The applause was generously renewed at the close of Parthenia s interview with Polydor, in which the maiden's noble devotion to filial love and duty was powerfully portrayed, and her speech in which she foreshaaows her resolution of self sacrifice was enthusiastically re-demanded. At the close of this ' act she wiis twice called before the curtain and applauded to the echo. The same recognition was given at the end of the second act, and an elaborate bouquet from Mrs. Labouchere s box was among the floral offerings which now began to ra n upon the stage. The third act confirmed the verdict of the other two, and decided beyond cavil the triumphant success of ti e debut Mr. Barnes’thc Ingomar of the play, was tvrice compelled to lead Parthenia before the curtain, and the cultured critics of the metropolis again became the claquers of .one of the most speedy and spontaneous successes of the London stage. After the performance the more deliberate judgment of the foyer and the clubs was found to have ratified the verdict of the play-housa It was decided by the coolest of the critics that Miss Anderson's performance had challenged the highest standard es criticism, and had fairly stood the ordeal; that she was equal to the best exponents of the dramatic art in England, and that in voice and gesture, in play of wit and fancy and in delineation of - human passions and human emotions she had shown herself worthy of the ovation which her genius had enforced.

NATURAE HISTORY.

AMalne mail owns.a fox which can play a je-gsharp. ; ’ A Massachusetts teacher has a mule which won’t kick. A Bugletown bachelor uses apet kangaroo as a paper weight. A Vermont lady has taught a rooster to sing “Yankee Doodle.” Cannonsburg has a turtle that can play ■ mouth-organ like a real boy. A Fifth avenue young lady has a tame dude She feeds him on taffy and glucose

INDIANA NEWS.

Terre Haute claims to produce rOJ,(XX> barrels of flour a year, ©oasuming 2,500,009 bushels of wheat A school-teacher of Howard county eloped with Miss Olive Robertson, of Kokomo, three days after he had married Miss Malisaa Williams, a county belle. The older they get the better they are. A colored woman, (0 years old, who lives near Rockford, is reported as having shocked 150 acres of wheat ia eight days recently. Samuel G. Roach recently died at Aurora He had been Irving there some years w.th a woman he called his wife • They were faembers of the church, and appearel to be highly re-pectable. It is now charged that the couple were never married, or, if so, it was within a year, and the certificate falsely dated back. About 10 o'clock at night Mortimer Hill, who lived neir Selma, five miles east of Muncie, went to his father-in-law's house and shot his wife, who had left him a few days ago After he had committed this act, he sent a bullet through his own Beait, causing instant death. '1 he woman was the daughter of a well-to-do farmer in the eastern part of Delaware county. She is sti 1 living, with no hope of recovery. The cause is said to be jealousy and drink. Some time ago William Farley, who was confined in the prison at Jeffersonville, escaped from the jail and made his appearance before Gov. Porter and made a moraj plea in his own behalf for pardon. The Governor at the time, while astonished at the audacity of the convict, was compelled to refuse the pardon, whereupon William told the Governor he would go back to prison and serve his time out, and then disappeared from the Governor’s office before he could be detained by an officer. True to his word, he turned up in the Town of Edinburg, Johnson county, and from tha-place took the train for Jeffersonville, where he gave himself up. He was subsequently pardoned by the Governor, and the other day he de* cided on settling down, whereupon he took out a marriage license for h mself and Miss Emma Umbles, and they were duly and legally married. He is now doing well, has a good trade, plenty of work, and has no inclination of renewing his old traits.

There was another horrible tragedy aIndianapolis, which has already lesulted fatally in the two participants, while an innocent spectator is -at the point of death, the result of a wild shot The j.rmcipals were Jacob Altenbe g and Jacob Bush, both Germans and both old men, who in former I years had been great friends. Lately, however, they had a difference over a note for >SO, and Bush got judgment against Altenbeig in a Justice Court This increased the enmity, and the outgrowth of it was a suit for >5,000 damages for slander, brought by Bush against his old friend About noon Altenberg went into Bush’s office, and the two men had some heated conversation in German over the r troubles. They walked ’ Ont tdgfetJher’, nfid Bush stai*tbd to ‘ dfhner. As he walked away Altenberg drew a revolver and fired at him, and he fell. A second shot went wild and struck Samuel Campbell, a bookbinder, who was stand- ' ing near, in the stomach. Altenberg then put the weapon to his own head and made I two attempts to shoot, but the catridges failed to explode, iiy this time some men had arrived and endeavored to restrain him, but he lan into an adjacent yard and aga n attempted suicide. 1 his time he was more successful, and the bullet went crashing through his skull, making a large wound from which the blood and brains oozed. He lived nearly an hour. Bush was found to be • shot entirely through the body, and he died shortly after bis murderer, had breathed his flash Campbell was taken to his home, and his case wad pronoundfed hopeless. The tragedy created a great sensation here, as j both Altenberg, and Bush were prominent Germans and men of means. What was • once strong friendship between them had ■ become undying-hatred cn account of their business differences, and there iff little doubt that Allen berg jdelibejately. planned the murdef and the subsequent suicide. Oiqs of the qjost horrible that have yet been rec cr dep. was-co nmitt,ed in Mount Vernon. ‘ About two weeks ago a ;'young nran'nlimed Vanery, cr Vandever. I from Clayville, Webster county, Ky.? about 19 years of age, went to Mount Vernon. He had all the characteristics-of a ruralist. , For several days he frequented the saloons, i making acquaintances promiscuously. He ! entered the stoie of Rosenbaum Brothers, ! asking permission to deposit his money, as I he said he had been robbed of a portion of it. His money was put in an envelope and , placed in the safe—about >lB. The next 1 day he cabled for it and it was given to him, and that night late he was seen playing pool in one of the saloons, and that was the last seen of him alive. On the following day a gentleman driving along the road, just above an iron bridge, discovered blood on some cornstalks, an evidence of a struggle, and the weeds trampled down leading to the river and covered with blood, as though some body had been dragged through them. These evidences were found all the way to the river's edge. Marshal Paul was notified of these traces, and, believing that a crime had been committed, dragged the river, but without successful results. A man named Tabe Miller, while fishing, discovered a body that had been wasbed ashore. He immediately notified the authorities, and, upon the examination of the floater it was discovered to be young Vanery, or Vandever, with his throat cut from ear to ear and badly decomposed. Three men—Bennett Campbell, Zack Sniaer and John Briderson—were arrested on suspicion, as they were last seen with him. Snider made a confession. Snider and Briderson induced Vanery to accompany them to the iron bridge, saying there was a girl there who wanted to see him. After getting him they tried to bo: row some money from him, and, on his refusal, they attacked him. But, as he was able to get away with tnem, Briderson struck him over the head with a club, stunning him They then beat him to insensibi’ity and afterward dragged him toward the river. Vanery cane to before they got him there, and one of them choked him while the .other drew a Barlow knife, and with his hands sawed his throat acrcss from ear to ear, and, to make sure of his death, d.agged the body into the river and stood on it until satisfied that Vanery was dead. Neither of the murderers are yet of age, while their victim was only 18 years old.