Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — Page 3

DORSEY’S DISCLOSURES.

Representative Belford, of Colorado, Says Dorsey’s Facts Are Not Distorted. Confirmatory Evidence of Their Truthfulness from Several Republican Congressmen —More Interesting Heading. [From the Chicago Dally News, Rep.l The revelations that ex-Senator Dorsey has made through the Sun have formed the principal topic of conversation among politicians through the West. A curious feature of the conversation that groups of politicians indulge in is the corroborative evidence that some one of them is sure to bring out respecting one or more of the facts. Knowing that so far as their own knowledge goes the statements are accurate, they can not help expressing a belief that the whole is true. * The charges are being widely circulated in Ohio and lowa, and the Republican voter waits in vain for any trustworthy denial of them. On the contrary, the assertions of men who ought to know, that they are true, send them home and clinch them. Representative Belford, of Colorado, has not hesitated to express his opinion that Dorsey’s facts are not distorted, though Judge Belford regrets that he saw fit to make them public at this time. Judge Belford is in possession of some facts that came under his own observation that confirm some things that Dorsey has said. “It throws no disoredit on Dorsey’s statements,” said Judge Belford, “to attack him. That is the policy of the lawyer, who, being beaten, goes out and swears at the Judge. There are, I fear, too many men who know, in part, at least, that he has told some truths. I know what I am speaking about when I say that Dorsey was one of Garfield’s most trusted counsellors, and his advice was sought by Garfield during the canvass and between the election and inauguration of Garfield. As to the causes that led to the rupture between Garfield and ■Conkling, I am quite familiar with them. I went to Mentor in the winter of 1881 to urge Garfield to appoint exGov. Routt, of Colorado, a member of his Cabinet. It was so well known that Garfield sought Dorsey’s advice in making up his Cabinet that it was thought necessary to win Dorsey’s support for Gov. Routt. With •a friend, a prominent politician, I went io New York and saw Dorsey. There letters from Garfield to Dorsey were shown my friend which satisfied him that Dorsey was very near to Garfield. We were, therefore,delighted when Dorsey agreed to go to Mentor and support Gov. Routt. While I was at Mentor Gen. Garfield requested me on my return to Washington, to see Mr. Conkling, and to learn why he seemed, even then, disaffected. Gen. Garfield wanted me to write fully to him the result of that interview. On my return Senator Teller arranged an. interview with Senator Conkling. We had a conversation that lasted more than an hour. When it was finished I wrote up what was said, showed the manuscript to Mr. Conkling, and have the note now. I cannot make that public now, but it is a full recital of the causes of difference. This talk satisfied me, and could not fail to satisfy any fair man, that Mr. Conkling had been sinned against, and, further, it is entirely consistent with what Dorsey’s statement in the Sun has to say ■on these matters. “I have,” continued Judge Belford, "“indirect evidence that other portions are true. A very prominent member of Congress, and one who was a very intimate friend of Gen. Garfield, told me that he said to Gen. G arfield that all his real friends thought that he had made a very great blunder in appointing Robertson. To this Garfield replied with his usual effusiveness when addressing an intimate: ‘Old fellow, that’s true, but I am going to get out of this trouble into which I was really forced. I will keep Robertson in the

Custom House one year, and then will send him to Europe to some first-class mission. I regret his mutual misunderstanding between Conkling and myself, and I propose to adjust it as soon as possible. There have been mistakes on both sides, and I am anxious to have them corrected.’ “There are politicians who assert this story of the manner in which Garfield ■was, as he expressed it, forced to appoint Robertson to be true. When the interview between Conkling, Arthur and Garfield was arranged by Wayne MacVeagh for the Sunday night before Robertson’s appointment was made, Garfield had no intention of making any immediate changes m the Custom House at New York. He told Mr. Conkling, at their interview, that he certainly would make no change without first consulting the Senators from New Y’ork. On the next ■day some minor appointment went in, and Blaine, who had been confined to his house by an attack of rheumatism, sent a letter to Garfield, saying that either Robertson must be appointed at once or he would resign from the Cabinet. He added that he waited an answer. This was a little too much even fpr Garfield. He took no notice of .Blaine’s note. Blaine, seeing that he ■could not bully Garfield by threatening to resign, went to the White House that ■evening and had a long talk with Garfield. While they were at it the telegram came from New York, threatening exposure of the Stanley Matthews bargain unless Robertson’s name was sent in the next day. That had more effect thap Blaine’s threat. Ex-Gov. Van Zandt, of Rhode Island, could substantiate this statement if he cared. ” Congressman Warner, of Ohio, says that there were so many things in Dorsey’s story that he knew to be true, that he had to accept it all. He says that J ewell himself told him that Dorsey’s finance . committee had raised an immense sqm, of which he (Jewell) knew nothing for three months, and that they had kept him in ignorance because

it was proposed to spend the money in ■0 manner which he would Dot tolerate. While he was busy raising money from manufacturers to make the fight on the tariff, this committee of New York bankers were raising immense amounts and spending them improperly. Jewell condemned to Warner in the severest terms the manner in which the money was used. Ex-Congressman Sapp, of lowa, said briefly that there were statements that Dorsey had made that he thought were true, and he regretted the fact and the publishing of it. Delegate Pettigrew, of Dakota, said that he knew that many of the statements Darsey had made were true. He sai'd that the publication was injuring the party in the.extreme West. Corporal Tanner, who was seen in Denver at the Grand Army Reunion, said that he believed that Dorsey, in the main, had told truth. John C. New said that he did not know where the Indiana two dollar bill came from, but he knew “they did a heap of .good.” There are other men, prominent men, who possess information as to the truthfulness of these charges, and possess that without the obligation of confidence. Some of them may ere long tell what they know.

Political Notes.

Turn the rascals out. The Republican party must go. No Democrat can afford to indorse monopoly. The Michigan Prohibitionists propose to beat the Republican party in that State if it takes every.dollar of their substance to do it. If' is said that the real reason of Conkling’s unpopularity among "members of Iris own party proceeds from his unimpeachable honesty. The most popular Republicans are those who are somewhat unscrupulous and who “do dirt” for the success of “the grand old party.” They stood by Dorsey as long as they dared. — Indianapolis Sen tinel Colfax, a gentleman of Indiana, formerly in public life, is a cheerful comforter of his party. Returning from New York, he expresses his firm belief that the Democrats will not have a majority of more than 25,000 this fall, which, he argues, is conclusive evidence that the Republicans will carry the State next year.— Chicago Herald. The idea that Blaine is “out of politics” and couldn’t be dragged into the Presidential arena with a cable and windlass is one that judicious people will hardly adopt without better evidence than his engagement in writing a book and declining to have his name used. Mr. Blaine will be heard from with a sunstroke or some other dramatic episode when the ball fairly opens. Gen. N. M. Curtis, who acted as Republican scape-goat last year and bore away the sins of his party in collecting political assessments contrary to law, has been rewarded for the sacrifice he made in permitting his friends to pay his fine. He has been nominated to the New York Assembly by the grateful Republicans in his district; and will undoubtedly make his campaign upon the platform of reform and no assessments. It has been very much the fashion for Republicans, both in and o'ut of Massachusetts, to belittle Butler and speak disparagingly of him. The Massachusetts Republicans, however, have abandoned it. Instead of belittling Butler they come very much nearer overrating him. They are paying him the highest compliment a political party can pay an opponent. Instead of seeking a candidate who will represent any particular idea or policy, or one who has been conspicuous for party loyalty and zeal, they are asking for the one that can beat Butler. No other qualification’ is worthy of or receives the slightest consideration. This is a high tribute to Ben from the men who have so persistently reviled him.— Detroit Free Press. The main issue in the next Presr dential election will be whether we shall hive a Democratic, honest, economical administration of the Govern--ment. Can there be any doubt of the result in a contest waged on such grounds ? Let us look at the figures. Gen. Hancock would have been elected if he had received the thirty-five votes of New York. He obtained only seventeen in the North. The rest of his 155 came from the South. There is not the slightest reason for supposing that any State, North or South, that supported Hancock in 1880, will fail to vote for the Democratic candidate in 1884. If we add the thirty-six votes of New York to the Hancock votes, this would determine the struggle in favor of the Democratic nominee. The six votes of Connecticut and the fifteen of Indiana would carry the Democratic majority up to a handsome figure. Some doubtful States may also fall into line, and make the triumph of honesty over profligacy especially memorable in the history of the country. The Republican party must go! — New York Sun.

Equal to the Emergency.

Miss Middy Morgan, the live-stock reporter of the New York Times, happened to be left in charge of a cottage in a New Jersey village, where she was visiting. To her appeared two villainous-looking tramps. “Well, have you anything for us, old woman?” ashed one of the fellows. “Oh, yes,” was the answer; “just wait and I’ll bring it down.” Miss Morgan went quickly up stairs and in half a minute returned ■with a seven-shooter firmly grasped in her right hand. “This is what I have for you, ” said she. “How do you like it?” The tramps did not wait to answer the question, but got out as fast as their legs could carry them.

A Large Head.

“I guess my son will develop into a first-class reporter,” remarked a manto the editor of the paper on which the youth had been serving a month on probation, “ —immense brain that boy’s got, large head—large head!” “Yes, yes,” said the editor who was cognizant of the young man’s drinking propensities, “large head, always swelled!”— Carl Pretzel’s Weekly.

THE BAD BOY.

“Well, well,’ remarked the grocery -nan as the boy came into the store and sat up on the edge of the counter, “you ioom up well for a boy with the ague. [ thought you couldn’t get out of bed, sou haven’t been around for nearly a week.” “Oh, the ague’s played out. I guess they run out of . quinine in this town while I was sick. Any how they A re d nearly a barrel of it down my neck,” replied the boy, helping himself to an >pple. “I beard your father was arrested last Saturday. What’s the trouble?” asked the grocery man as he closed a new gate at the end of the counter he had made to keep the boy away from the sugar bin. “Well, he did come near being run in, sure, and I guess he would if it hadn’t been for me. You see ma has been sick ever since she went into the deacon’s cellar to draw cider and met that skunk, so she told pa if he would get a couple of good fat hens, she would try and make a pot-pie for Sunday, as she i felt her health failing, and if her appe- | tite didn’t improve soon she would go hence, whatever that means. So that evening pa started out after hens. He was too late to get dressed ones, so he got two live ones from the market and started home. Me and my chum were layin’ for him, and when he got about half way home it commenced to rain and he started on a run so as to not get wet. We followed and met a policeman and told him we saw a man steal two hens, and pointed pa out as the man. The policeman started after him and yelled at him to halt, but pa did not hear him. Pretty soon pa saw some one was chasing him, and thought it was a robbei, so he ran all the harder. Then the policeman puUed out his revolver and fired in the air to scare pa, just as one of the hens got her wings loose and flopped it in pa’s eye. Pa dropped with a groan and said: ‘l’m shot. Tell my wife I died happy.’ Then a crowd got around him and was a-going to hang the pcl.ceman, but he swore the shot came across the street for he saw two men run, and said he didn’t carry a revolver anyway, and the crowd might search him. But I saw him throw it over in a yard and me and my chum got it the next morning. When pa found he wasn’t dead, he called for a stretcher to be carr ed home to die with his family. While some of the crowd went for the stretcher, the rest began to examine him to see where the bullet went in, and when they couldn’t find it, he got up and offered to lick any man that said he was shot. Just then another policeman came up and said he recognized pa as ‘Chicago Bill,’ a notorious safe-robber and that a reward was offered for him. Pa said he was an honest man and agreed to go back to the market with ihe chickens and be identified. They found only one of the the chickens, but the market man knew pa and fixed it, and then the policeman began to beg pa’s pardon and pa gave him $5 to keep still about it. When pa got home he told ma how he had helped catch a safe-blower and when he got his share of the reward she could have anew seal-skin sacque.”

“Your father’ll kill you some day. But what about that fuss at the social at the deacon’s night before last?” asked the groceryman, as he picked the fly-specks off from a lot of maple-sugar he was putting away for “new maplesugar” next spring. “I heard the whole church was mad at each other over a grab-bag, and the Presiding Elder had all he could do to quiet things down.” “That don’t amount to much,” replied the boy. “There’s always something turns up when the sociable season first starts in. You see, ma was appointed a committee to fix up a grabbag. Me and my chum were digging bait that morning to go fishing, when pa came out and said, ‘ Hennery, I believe you put up that chicken job on me, and I don’t believe anything but hard work will reform you. I want you to spade up the ground under the currant bushes.’ I asked him if he wanted a hump-baeked, disfigured boy, made so by hard work. Pa said he would risk the hump, and told ‘me to pitch in, and then went down town. My chum said he would help me, and me and him got the job done before 2 o’clock. When we got done I come in and found ma had finished the grabbag, and had it all loaded, with the top fastened with a puckering-string, and hung on the back of a chair. Ma was upstairs getting her Sunday clothes on, to go to the sociable, so it didn’t take me and my chum long to empty the bag and get first choice. Then I got our mouse trap and took it to the bain, and caught two nice big fat mice and put ’em in a collar-box with holes cut in it, to give ’em air, and dropped that in the bag. Then my chum remembered a big napping turtle he had in the swill-barrel, and me and him got that and wiped it as dry as we could, and tied it all up but its head, and put that in just as the deacon’s hired man came to take the | bag over to the socialbe. Me and my ; chum went down to his house and waited till the people got over to the sociable and then we went over and got up in a tree where we could see through the open window, and hear all that was going on. Pa he stood over by the bag and shouted, ‘Ten cents a grab; don’t let anybody be backward in a good cause.’ Three or four had put up their 10 cents and made a grab, when an old maid from Oshkosh, who had been to the springs for hysterics, got in her Work on the collar-box,, When she got the cover off, one of the mice that knew his business, jumped on her shoulder and crawled down her neck, and the other dropped down on the floor and started around to meet the other one. You’d a dide to seen her flop and show |»er stocking and scream. The deacon’s folks thought it was another attack of hysterics, and pa and the deacon got her on the sofa and held her while they poured paregoric and cayenne pepper down her. When she got loose she pcreamed all the harder. Then one of the other women see the mouse and got up in a chair and shook her skirts and asked the new young minister to help her catch tho mouse. The poor fellow looked as though Lewould like to, but he failed. Just

then the bottom of the chair broke and let her fall over on ma and tore her bangs all down. Ma called her a ‘hateful thing’ and told her she ought to be ashamed of herself. Finally they got things in order, but no one wanted to tackle the bag, and as here was , where the profits come in, pa braced up I and said he’d like to know why every- ‘ body acted so ’spicuous, he’d like to see a grab-bag that would give him the hysterics 1 , and said ‘aomen are always ; gettin’ scared at nothin’.’ He then put down 10 cents and jammed his hand way down in the bottom of the bag, but he didn’t keep it there long. He give a jump and yanked his hand out, yelling ‘thnnder!’ Then he swung it ovet hia head to shake it off, and brought it down on the deacon’s head and smashed his specks. Then he swung it the other way, and struck the woman President of the sewing society in the stomach and knocked her down in the deacon’s lap. After pa had hollered himself hoarse, and thumped half the people in the room, the turtle let go, and pa said he ‘could lick the man that put that steel trap in the grab-bag.’ Then pa and ma I got mad, and everybody began to jaw, and they all went home. There’s been a sort of coldness among the members ever since. I guess pa won’t have a hump-backed boy, but I’ll get even with him. you just see if I don’t. ” And the boy went out and took a sign, “Warranted Fresh,” from the fruit stand, and hung it on to a blind horse that was hitched to a garbage wagon in front of the store. — Peck's Sun.

Ponies.

The most popular pony is the Canadian, which is rather large for a pony and small for a horse, but he is much stronger and hardier, in proportion to size, than the larger animal of the horse kind. Exposure and inattention brings the horse down to the pony class, which not only affects the animal so subject at the time, but by long continuance, the dwarf size becomes characteristic in successive generations. Along the coast of Virginia and North Carolina,the islands are used for breeding ponies. On Chincoteague island, which is not far from the Virginia and Maryland line, on the Atlantic coast, ponies have been bred for many years, many of them being nearly as small as the Shetlands, but not so shaggy. The ponies come into the world with no care from man afterward, except to be branded, and, as the island is nearly barren of vegetation, it is a matter ol surprise how the animals can subsist, thrive, and multiply as rapidly as they do, and that, too, in the face of the fact that duiing the existence es storms and severe cold they have no shelter. The supposition that long-continued exposure and neglect will ultimately destroy all that nuyv remain of a breed is not verified in tnis case, for, despite their hardships, the ponies, when broken to harness, will outlast the best of horses, go longer without food and water, seldom become sick, and live to a good old age. In strength they cannot equal the average horses, as size is against them, but in proportion to their weight they are superior for drawing a load over a long distance in a short period. They never seem to tire, and never founder. They demonstrate, however, that JU we neglect our stock we deteriorate them in other ways. Size will be reduced, and more difficulty is encountered in training and domesticating animals that have been abandoned to their own resources. And then, who knows how many poor creatures actually perish on these exposed islands before the stronger and more robust become capable of undergoing the trying ordeal necessary for perpetuating its species. The “survival of the fittest” alone was the result, and no doubt many years elapsed’before the herds became numerous. But the ponies were not dwarfed in vain, for small as they are, they are useful in many ways, and always become favorites, no jnatter in whose poss.ssion they fall. They have passed through the critical stages, and are now distinct as a breed.— Farm, Field and Fireside.

Unconscious Genius.

Genius is often unconscious of its power. Perhaps it is always so at the beginning of its career. Shakespeare did not take the trouble of collecting his plays; he had little thought of their making him famous. Ball, the Boston sculptor, began his career as a pain ter,, with no thought of modeling forms. But one day, his unconscious genius made itself vaguely felt by making him restless toward his art and dissatisfied with his work. He had been painting a picture, and it so wearied him that he scraped it all out. He shut himself up in his studio for two or three flays, indisposed to see any one or to do anything. Suddenly, he was seized by an impulse to model something. He went to a sculptors studio near by, got a lump of clay, and began. After trying several things he made a miniature bust of Jenny Lind, then the star of the music-loving world. The little bust made a great liit, and from that day Ball anew that his vocation had found him.

Yes, Sah!

Yes, sah. We quite agree with you, sah, that there is a sort of delicious frankness, sah, about the following that will be appreciated beyond the bounds of West Virginia: Some five or six years ago a political party orator delivered an address for his party at Winfield, Putnam county, W. Va. When in the zenith of his oration he was stopped by a powerful voice among the listeners. “Look here, sah. May I ask you a question?” “Yes, sah; you may, sah.” “Well, sah, I want to know, sah, if you are not the man, sah, that I had down har in jail, sah, for hog-stealing, sah?” “Yes, sah, I am, sah,” came the response; “but I got clar, sah.”—Editor’s Drawer, in Harper’s Magazine. It is said that dwarfs die of premature old age and giants of exhaustion.

OFFICIAL PAP.

A. Glance Into the Blue Book in Which Are Printed the Names of Got* enunent Employes. The Ohio Man Still Holding His Own in the Various Departments. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Times.] There is' a work published biennially by the Government of the United States which contains little else than names, and there is ten times more effort made by people to get their names into this book than there is to get their names into the book of lit & It is the United States Official Register, commonly called the “blue book.” A few years ago one moderate-sized volume answered the purpose. In 1879 the work reached the dimensions of two thin volumes; the edition of 1881 consists of two volumes, each containing nearly 900 pages. The index alone fills 130 pages, the names being arranged in four columns on a page. One of these two volumes is devoted exclusively to the postal service, though the employes of the department In Washington are provided for iq the other volume. The register contains the name of every person employed by the Government, his or her birch-place, residence, when appointed and salary. There are over 100,000 names in the two volumes but this does not mean, as is commonly and inoorrbctly said that the civil service contains IDu.OIX/offices. The register contains the names of all mail contractors and of all army and navy officers, And of all mechanics and laborers employed under the army enginers, and other persons who cannot be called officers or clerks. But it is a mighty army of the servants of a great nation. The last register, though dated July 1. 1881, did not appear until a year and a half ago. It takes time to get up such a catalogue. The next register will be dated July 1, 1888, and the appointment clerks in various departments are now making up their lists of officers and employes connected with the service at that date or on July 15. In some of the departments the official census was taken as a matter of covenience on the last day before the Civil Service law went into effect. In preparation for this general United States register, a new register for the Interior Department has just been prerared. It shows 3,0.11 persons on the Department rolls, not including Indian police, as the unabridged register does, but on the other hand not limited to the employes here in Washington. Just about one-fifth of the whole number are women—o2L There are 721 men who served in the army or the navy, and there are 204 colored persons, for complexion is shown in this Departmental register, though it was not indicated in the last general one. It is true that the majority of the colored people employed in the department are watchmen, janitors, messengers, packers, laborers, and charwomen, but seventy-one are clerks and oopylsts with salaries ranging from s72u to $l,tOJ. The latter sum is received by two men, one a Principal Examiner in the Pension Office and the other a Chief of Division in the Land Office. Four are clerks at $1,400, twenty-' two are clerks at $1,201, twenty-five are clerks at sl,too, fourteen are copyists at s9t 0, and fourteen are copyists at $7lO. While a large proportion of the women are copyists at quite a number are clerks with salaries running up to $1,400, and at least one Illinois lady gets SI,COO. The following table shows the States from which 3,091 officers and employes of the Department were appointed: Maine 52 Massachussetts.... 90 Vermont 46 Connecticut 65 Rhode Island 20 New Jersey 70 New York 331 Delaware 9 Pennsylvania 248 Virginia 132 Maryland 100 North Carolina..... 35 V\ est Virginia 37 Georgia 89 South Carolina 29 Florida. 15 Alabama 21 Louisiana 29 Mississippi 22 Texas 18 Arkansas Tennessee 62;Ohlo 181 Missouri t 2, Michigan 110 Indiana 140 Wisconsin 64 Illinois 145|Iowa 107 Minnesota 43. Nebraska 26 Kansas 69 Nevada 7 Colorado. 43 Oregon 13 California 41 Washington. ...... 5 Dakota 8 Idaho 4 New Mexico 6 Wyoming 8 Montana 2 U tah 2 Arizona 2 Dist. of Columbia.. 405 Indian Territory 2 New Hampshire 35 Total 3,091 There is not a very serious disproportion in the distribution of clerkships and other S laces among the States where the Repubcan party is strong. New York and Ohio seem to nave a tittle in excess of their quotas, but the excess is not great Illinois does not get quite its share. Colorado and Indiana have a little more than belongs to them, but the personal equation must be expected, and the head of the department is from one of these States, while the head of tne largest bureau in the department is from the other. What will at once strike the reader as surprising is the number of appointments from Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, especially the latter • There Is a natural explanation for this. In the first place, a large number of the employes are janitors, watchmen, scrubbers, packers, laborers, messengers, etc. The jobs are naturally given to people near by, that is, to residents of the District and the adjoining part of Maryland and Virginia. People do not come to Washington from remote parts of the country to get menial employment The other consideration is, that the solidly Democratic Southern States do not get their quotas, and the shares that would go to them on an equitable arrangement go to the neighborhood pf the capital; as the South has no political reasons to urge for office, the places are disposed of for personal reasons to people wuom Congressmen get acquainted with here. Beside all this, there is, of course, an advantage in being on or near the ground when vacancies occur. It might be said still further, that nearly everybody in the District came here from some one of the States, so that appointments from the District are scarcely more than appointments at large. The Postoffice Department has not published a register, but Mr. Hodges, Appointment Clerk, has furnished the number of em ployes of the Department in this city from each State and I erritory. The table is as follows: Arkan5a5............ 3[Connecticut. 5 Colorado 4 Florida..... 1 Delaware 3 Illinois 17 Georgia 4 lowa 12 Indiana. 25 Kentucky 2 Kansas 9<Maine 9 Louisiana 7Massrchusettß 15 Maryland 44 Minnesota 2 Michigan 11 Missouri 6 Mississippi 4, Nevada. 2 Nebraska 3 New Jersey 19 New Hampshire 5 North Carolina 5 New York. 56 Oregon 1 Ohio 24 Rhode Island 1 Pennsylvania 49 Tennessee 24 South Carolina 8 Vermont 8 Texas 5 West Virginia 10 Virginia 29 Arizona 1 Wisconsin 14 District of Columbia. 110 Montana. 1 California 5 Total 563

GENERAL NOTES.

In England, Canon Wilberforce has made a vigorous attack upon the holding by the Established Church of its immense property In public houses, a number of the most prosperous gin palaces being maintained under its direct administration. Mbs. Anandaibai Joshes, the wife of a Brahmin employe of the Government of India, has come to America to study medicine in the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia. Mbs. Langtry holds mortgages on property in New York to the amount of *81,0&

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Db. David R Abbott, a well known physician of Southern Indiana, died at his home in Milan, Ripley county. The doctor was in his 75th year. Howabd A Denio, who undertook to erect a Capitol at Indianapolis, have abandoned their contract, claiming to have lost over $300,000. Their suret es are citizens of Chicago, who Will submit new propositions to the State House Commissioners. At Vincennes. Frank Wedding had trouble with John Duffy, and, at a dance at the house of John Wedding that night. Duffy and George Wedding < uarreled, snd Frank struck Duffy on the hea 1 with a piece of boapi, producing concussion of the Lrain, from which he has since died. John Weddirg and his sens George and Frank are under arrest The extent of malicious barn-burning in this State has grown to be alarming. It not only destroys the property, but luns up the rates of insurance and thus taps the pocket of all who carry policies upon this class of property. Theie is urgent need of the barnburner getting seriously but accidentally shat. A little carelessness among the farmers with the rifle, while their barns are filled with the summer's harvest, might result in great good to the community.— lndianapolis Journal. A deplorable accident occurred at Schnettville, a village about six miles form Jasper, in which three prominent young men lost their lives. A well was being snnk near the town, and, as it was necessary to drill and b ast through rock, the usual process of blasting was resorted to. After an interval of several days, the work was resumed, and John Fitter went down the well with the blasting material and immediately suffocated by “damp.” Not hearing from him, another young man, named Henry Stemles, went down and was also sudo-, cated almost instantly. Then Agate Schnell, son of ex-Commissioner Schnell, went down with a rope tied around him to rescue his companions, but was overcome at once. He managed to signal to draw him up, which was done, but he had inhaled the poisonous air and soon died. Henp.y Krauesbauer shot and killed Isaac Lyons in Nettle Creek township, Randolph county. Krauesbauer is a single man about 30 years of age, and resides with Mary Kenyon, a widow about fO years of age, who owns a farm of LOJ acres, and is the mother of several children. The children for some time have been very much dissatisfied with Krauesbauers residence with the;r mother and have insinuated that an improper intimacy existed. Some time ago Nelson Kenyon, one of the children, and Krauesbauer had an altercation in the public road, which resulted in Kenyon hitting Krauesbauer with a stone. Krauesbauer at the time beK ing armed with a revolver. The case came into the Criminal Court Kenyon was fined $lO for assault and battery and Krauesbauer was fined $5 for carrying concealed weapons. The next day Ella Lyons, wife of deceased Isaac Lyons, aud daughter of the widow, Mary Kenyon, was arrested for malicious trespass committed on the premises of her mother, Krauesbauer being the prosecuting witness. The parties weoe all at court at Winchester, and on their way got into a difficulty, which resulted in the killing of Lyons, The weapon used by Krauesbauer was a tels-cocking revolver thirtyeight caliber; two shots were tired, one of which entered the mouth of deceased. Lyons was unarmed

THE STATE’S VOTERS.

The Increase of White aud Colored Voters Since the Enumeration of 1877. The statistics gathered by the Auditor of State, in compliance with the law requiring an enumeration of the voting population every six years, to be uecd as a basis for the redistricting of the State, shows that there has been an increase since 1877 of 18,C07 voters in Indiana, and that the voting population now numbers 499,833, of whom 10,298 are colored men. /he increase of white voters durii'g the six years aggregates 46,5C5, which is at the rate of over 10 per cent. The increase in the number of colored voters during the same period has been 2,C4 ?, or about 2"> ;er cent. The following is a comparative statement of the enumerationin 1877, and of the one just completed by the Aud.tor, given by Congressional districts: • j 1877. ~~~lSB.< ' Districts. i I Whit-'. 1 Col. White.) Col. First 31.797 1,553 41,166 i 2,487 Second 33.713 305 33,985 371 Third 31.417 964 34,717 1,190 Fourth 32,133 1,020 32,804 39ft Filth 33,302 369 33,940 447 Sixth 82 445 890 36.197 1,014 Seventh 33.224 1,967 37,770.2,374 Eighth :5,.>93 617 40,050 804 Ninth 34,482 353 38,M8! 386 Tenth 34,712 91' 37,965 108 Eleventh 39,479 384 45,519 449 Twelfth 31,886 711 36,857 89 Thirteenth 35,156 1251 40,497 182 Totals, 442,970 8,056 489,535'10,298 8,056 10,298 Aggregate 451,026| _499,833| The largest increase in the white popula tion during the six years has been in the First district, composed of the counties ofGibson, Perry, Pike. Posey, Spencer, Vandere burg and Warrick, where, in 1877, there were 34,797 white voters, and from the statistics just gathered it is shown that there are now 41,1611 In the Eleventh District, comprising the counties of Adams, Blackford, Grant, Howard, Huntington, Jay, Miami, Wabash and Wells, the enumeration shows an increase from 39,479 to 45,519, which is the largest voting population in any district in the State. The First District has the largest number of colored voters, 2,487, and the Twelfth the lowest, 89. In the Fourth District the colored voters have decreased from 1,020 in -1877 to only 396. In Marion county there are 27,529 white voters and 2,283 colored, while in 1877 there were only 23,745 white and 1,t07 colored. The coal miners of the western part of the State organized a State Miners’ Association at Terre Haute, and elected the following officers: President, Wm. Galt, of Brazil; Vice President, Thomas Burk, of Coal Creek; Secretary, David Lawson, of Knightsville; Treasurer, Thomas Boxbufy, of Rosedale. The daughter of Col. James Trumbull, of Indianapolis, a prominent belle, walked off to a clergyman's and married Geo. Gale, a ballad-singer in a minstrel company. When they went to the depot her father attempted to prevent her from leaving the city.