Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — Page 2

® Jje gcmocrttticgenttnel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 7, W. McEWEN, - - - Ppbxjsheb.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary 1 EASTERN. W. P. Copeland, one of the bestknown among the correspondents at Washington, died in Philadelphia of Bright’s disease. An explosion in J. H. Smith’s Excelsior squib factory, at Kingston, Pa., blew eight children out of the building, one falling in the creek. Their ages were between 11 and 16, and all were horribly burned and blackened by the powder. The piano-stool factory of Parker & Young, at Lisbon, N. H., valued at $25,000, was burned recently. Secret-service officers in a raid on a counterfeiting den in the mountains of Vermont discovered the existence of an oathbound conspiracy of crime with all the paraphernalia of signs, passwords, mystic records, and blood-curdling oaths of secrecy. An officer of the Secret service discovered near Brattleboro, Vt., a gang of twenty-three young counterfeiters, who have been at work since June in a secret place in the mountains. The most violent northeast gale for years raged along the New England coast. Many vessels were wrecked, and a number of lives lost. Dr. G. F. Taylor, of New York, has secured judgment for $20,000 against the Metropolitan Elevated railway for running trains past a house which he had previously rented for a hospital. Patrick E. Delaney, of New York, claims to have invented appliances by means of which six telegraph operators can send messages simultaneously over one wire, in different directions if desired. Capt. Finley, William Fowler, MWhalen and another seaman were drowned by the capsizing of a schooner off Vineyard Haven, Mass. Thomas H. Murch, lato Greenback Congressman from Maine, has settled in Boston, and, it Is said, will shortly open a drink-ing-saloon in that city. W. A. Kitts, a lumber broker of Oswego, N. Y., has failed, his liabilities being $50,000. The Rev. Isaac W. Pembroke, the oldest Congregational minister in New Hampshire, died at Concord, aged 90. A fire at Pittsburg destroyed Munderf’s planing-mill, five dwellings, and 1,000,000 feet of lumber, the loss aggregating $55,000. William H. Jenkins & Co., door manufacturers, at New York, have assigned. The liabilities are put at $179,000, and tho actual assets at $57,000. For violating the neutrality of the United States by furnishing arms and ammunition to the Haytian insurgents the Captain and first officer of the steamer Tropic were sentenced at Philadelphia to one year’s imprisonment and to pay a line of SSOO and costsIn the trial of a case against the Jersey Central and Beading railroads, at Trenton, N. J., ex-Senator Conkling became involved in a colloquy with President Gowen. The epithets “blackguard,” “blackmailer,” “lunatic” and “dashed scoundrel” were used on each side with facility and effect. A large audience stood up and yelled with delight. Two carriage factories of Plainsville, Ct., valued at SBO,OOO, were swept away by fire. The country residence of Edwin N. Benson, at Germantown, Pa., was burned, Involving a loss of SIOO,OOO. The jewelry store of L. S. Stowe & Co., Springfield, Mass., was burglarized of diamonds and other valuables to the extent of $15,000 at an early hour Sunday morning.

WESTERN.

A stranger applied to James Crawford, a well-known farmer near Greencastle, Ind., for food and lodging:. After eating, he struck Crawford repeatedly with knuckles and a slung-shot, seriously and perhaps fatally injuring him. A second man then broke the door and came in. Crawford’s wife, a confirmed invalid, attacked the strangers with a fire-shovel, when-they turned and beat her, fracturing her skull and breaking her nose, ja\v and collar-bone. Her injuries will prove fatal. Crawford, recovering consciousness, fired at them. They thereuponbeat him again and then left, taking three three revolvers, shot-gun and sl2 in cash. Charles Lorentzin, a farmer residing near Elgin, 111., died of glanders, having contracted the disease from his horse. It having been remarked that the correspondence between San Francisco and the Flowery Kingdom, was decreasing, the postal authorities set about discovering the causes, and the other day arrested several self-appointed Chinese mail-agents on an incoming steamer from Hong Kong, in whose possession were found several thoutUnd unstamped letters addressed to the cunning denizens of Chinatown. Eddy, Harvey & Co., of Chicago, heavy wholesale dealers in furs and bulk goods, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Judge Noonan, of St. Louis, in a case between litigating gamblers has decided that poker is a game of chance, Jacob Sanger, of Grundy county, Mo., whose mule became entangled in some sagging telegraph wires, causing internal injuries to its rider, has obtained judgment aganst the Western Union company for $6,000. Late advices from the far Southwest are to the effect that the Apache Chiefs, Geronimo, Juh, and their band of hqstiles have succeeded in eluding the Mexican soldiers, and, with 2,000 head of stolen cattle, are now making their way through Chihuahua to the American line. On the other hand, a troop of seventy Chiricahuas have surrendered and will be taken to Fort Bowie, in Arizona. Near Wauseon, Ohio, George W. Williams, a farmer, was found in his barn with his head almost cut off; his wife was discovered in the house with her skull split open, and a 6-weeks-old infant lay in a bed

nearly starved. Williams had the previous day sold a load of clover seed, and It is supposed was murdered for the money. Mr. Denman Thompson, as the eccentric New England farmer, “Joshua Whitcomb,” has been playing to large audiences at McVicker's theater, Chicago, during the week. His engagementcontinues for another week. For a period of seven years, Mr. Thompson has adhered closely to this one character, having appeared in no other during that time. No other American play has ever had such a continuously long run. Its success is one of the phenomenons of the modern stage. The People’s Railway company of America has sued Wilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago Times, for libel, claiming that It had been damaged $500,000. Property valued at $55,000 was destroyed by fire at Lordsburg, N. M. At Joliet Crossing, Ind., thirty-two miles from Chicago, the locomotives of a Michigan Central freight train and Pan Handle passenger train collided with such force as to the cars. An engineer, a brakeman and a flagman were killed, and three other train-men were injured. One of the latter was Engineer Dengnan, who was thrown out upon the track and rendered insane, in which condition he ran four miles. Freight trains on the Cincinnati road came together on a curve near Stockwell, Ind., demolishing both engines, throwing twenty cars from the track, and killing Fireman Bowers. A west-bound passenger train on the Chicago and Alton railroad was partly wrecked by a sliding rail two miles east of, Glendale, Mo., and eighteen miles from Kan' sas City. The track was torn up for over 200 yards, and three coaches were thrown off the track—two chair cars and one dining-room car—injuring fifteen passengers, none of them seriously.

SOUTHERN.

Nearly 300 children in Guilford county, N. C., have died from diphtheria. Mrs. David Moses, nee Blanche Gray, the fat girl, who weighed 517 pounds, died suddenly in Baltimore. She was married a few weeks ago in New York, and was 17 years old. Maj. Burke, Director General of the World’s exposition at New Orleans, offers a premium of SI,OOO for tho best plan for a, building to embrace 1,000,000 square feet and cost $250,000. An unsuccessful attempt was made, at Baltimore, to resurrect the corpse of Mrs. Moses, the fat woman. In the Banks county (Ga.) Ku-klux cases eight of the accused were found guilty. Judge McCoy’s charge to the jury severely condemned outrages upon negroes. Tho convicted persons, who belonged to leading families, broke down when the verdiot was rendered, which created a sensation, as aoquittal was expected.

WASHINGTON.

Postmaster General Gresham, says a Washington dispatch, is urged upon all sides to recommend in his annual report radical changes in the law relating to rates of postage upon transient newspapers and mail matter of the third closs generally. The sender of a transient newspaper of ordinary size, to insure its transmission through the mails, is cautioned to carry the same to the postoffice and have it weighed, or else prepay postage enough to place his newspaper beyond any risk of dropping into the postoffice wastebasket. The revenue derived from the sales of these confiscated newspapers is considerable in the course of a year. Transient newspapers, as a rule, are sent for some specific purpose, and to those concerned it is almost as important that they should reach their destination as should a letter, but neither the sender nor the person addressed is notified if die re is any lack of postage. It is urged that the weight limit of newspapers to be sent for the ordinary rate of postage should be extended, or some provision adopted for notifying the sender of a newspaper or the person to whom it is addressed. Indian Commissioner Price, in his annual report, asks an appropriation to survey the boundaries of Indian reservations, a law to punish persona who furnish arms to the red men, and an appropriation to prosecute those who sell them liquor. Nearly all the tribes are ready to send their children to school. Allotments in severalty to tho number of 146 have been made during the year. A law to imprison intruders upon Indian lands is deemed a necessity. The President has issued the following Thanksgiving proclamation: In furtherance of the custom of this people at the close of each year to engage upon a day set apart for that purpose, in special festival of praise to the Giver of all Good, I, Chester A, Arthur, President of the United States, do hereby designate Thursday, the 29th day of November next, as a day of national thanksgiving. The year which is drawing to an end has been replete with evidences of divine goodness. The prevalence of health, the fullness of harvests, the stability of peace and order, the growth of fraternal feeling, the spread of intelligence and learning, the continued enjoyment of civil and religious liberty—all these, and countless other blessings, are cause for reverent rejoicing. Ido therefore recommend that on the day above named the psaple rest from their accustomed labors, and, meeting in their several places of worship, express their devout gratitude to God that He has dealt so bountifully with tfiis nation, and pray that His grace and favor abide with it forever, Chester A. Arthur. Upon the report of the Commissioner of Pensions, the Secretary of the Interior suspended from practice before the Interior department Belva A. Lockwood and Gelston & Co., pension attorneys at Washington. Mrs. Lockwood’is accused.of receiving illegal fees and withholding pension money, and Gelston Sc Co. for filing fraudulent pension claims. The report of the Superintendent of the Money-order Bureau of the Postoffice department for the fiscal year ended Jujie 30 shows that the total number of money-orders of all kinds issued was 9,273,882, aggregating in value $125,047,288. Tho total number paid was 8,751,077, aggregating in value $120,407,468. T he amount of fees received was $1,272,060. The increased value of domestic orders issued over those of the preceding year was $3,955,980, or 3 46-100 per cent. The increased fees received were $48,111, or 4 57-100 per cent. The ratio of improper payments to the total number of orders paid was as I to 273,471.

POLITICAL.

The colored people of Chicago, in mass meeting assembled, resolved to. cheer-

fully acquiesce In the civil-rights decision &n< j look for redress of all their wrongs to th« ; proper State authorities; that the namei “Democrat,” “Bourbon” and “Rebel Brigadier” have lost their terror; that they welcome any issue that will consolidate the negro vote in its own interest; and appeal to the State Legislature for legislation to prevent any abridgement of their rights. Baltimore had a very exciting municipal election, F. C. Latrobe being chosen Mayor by a majority of 3,574 over J. Monroe Heiskell, the reform Democratic candidate. The total vote was 54,940. The regular Democrats elected a majority of the council. All the counties in lowa have beer heard from. The vote on Governor stands: Sherman .164,181 Kinne i39,(Kk Weaver 23,085 Sherman over all 2.00 C Heed, for Supreme Judge, has 909 over both competitors.

MISCELLANEOUS. It is announced from Washington that “ Judge Freeman, Attorney General for the Postoffice department, has prepared an order of importance to newspaper publishers. It will require them to number the pages ol their supplements in regular order with the pages of the regular issue.” The struggle to prevent the lotteryroboers from using the United States maili will be continued by Postmaster Genera’ Gresham. It is believed at Washington that Postmaster General Gresham will in hii forthcoming report favor the institution oi a postal telegraph. , Upon the recommendatitwl .of th< Commissioner of Pensions, the Secretary of the Interior has ordered the suspension o! the following-named pension attorneys: J R. Cilley, of Rockland, Me.; Francis Regestei and William H. Druen, of Philadelphia; Mill B. Stevens & Co., of Cleveland, Washington Detroit and Chicago; William H. Wells & Co, of Washington, D. C., and James R. Russel & Co., of Trenton, N. J. Among the oases recently docketec in the United States Supreme court, Is th« City of New Orleans vs. Myra Clark Gaines The record in the case is the largest ever sub mitred to the Supreme court or probably anj other court. It is bound in one immense volume, which weighs over 200 pounds and contains 3,200,000 words. It takes two men t« open and shut the book. Jem Mace and his pugilistic combination have sailed from New York for Liverpool, under an engagement of ten weeks. Order has been restored at Port-au-Prince, where 1,500 lives were lost and $4,000,000 worth of property destroyed during the recent massacre. Snow fell in Vermont and New Hampshire and as far south as St. (Joseph, Mo., Oct. 24-’5. Statistics are given showing greatlyincreased mails, the result of the cheaper postage. . The National Association of Fire Engineers met in convention at New Orleans, being welcomed by Mayor Behan. Little Plume, son ‘of a Blackfeei chief, ran a ten-mile race at Winnipeg for SSOO a side, with George Irvine, the champion runner of Canada. The red man won by five yards, but fell fainting. The business failures for the week ending Oct. 27 numbered 209, exceeding the previous week’s record by twenty-nine, aad being seventy-two more than in the corresponding period in-1882. Dun’s report fo.i the failures was less by twenty-nine than during week is very encouruging. With all the lack of confidence in business circles, it thinks that there is much money being made and very little talk about it. Claus Spreckels is said to have purchased the entire sugar crop of the Hawaiian islands. The Canadian Government guarantees 3 per cent, on Canadian Pacific railroad stock for ten years.

FOREIGN.

A Vienna journal states the Czar has instructed Counts Toistoi and Katjoff to prepare a constitution, being intent upon granting the Russian people more freedom. A black-] ist circular, containing the names of the jurors in the Phoenix park murder trials, has been mailed to thousands of Dublin’s citizens. German exports to America are decreasing in volume and value. Richter, a Deputy in the German reichstag, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for insulting the imperial family four years ago. Cholera is still a menacing danger tc all the Western nations. The disease ie again epidemic in Egypt, and worst where it gained the weakest foothold last summer. People are quitting Smyrna in numbers, dreading a recurrence of the earthquake. The Turkish Government has sent lumber to construct 5,000 sheds to shelter the homeless. The indemnity offered by France tc Missionary Shaw was £I,OOO, accompanied by *an expression of regret. Three Irish informers were shipped from Melbourne to Calcutta as grooms on a steamer taking horses for the army. Should King Humbert place in the Pantheon at Rome a monument to Victor Emanuel, it is said that the Pope will declare it a pagan temple. The death is announced of Cardinal Henri Marie Gaston de Bonnechose, Archbishop of Rouen. He was created a Cardinal in 1863. Mary Anderson appeared at London in "The Lady of Lyons,” before a crowded, enthusiastic house. She was recalled several times, and renewed the success she achieved in “Ingomar.” The Prince of Wales witnessed the performance. A panic prevails at Alexandria owing to the reappearance of the cholera. Europeans going to Egypt return without disembarking. lie disease also exists at Cairo. Large quantities of trade dollars have been imported into Germany, to be sold to emigrants at par. The Marquis of Lansdowne’s friends continue to very apprehensive for his personal safety in his new position of Governor General of Canada, as the Fenians have made explicit threats against his life. * The German Admiralty have ordered another 100 fish torpedoes to be delivered be- 1 fore next spring.

At Vania, in Asia Minor, 169 per* eons were seriously and sixty-one slightly injured by an earthquake shook. The wall surrounding the city of Symrna was damaged. The London Liberal organs call on Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to prosecute Lord Bossmore for having published a letter threatening that if the Government did not suppress Land League meetings in Ulster • the Orangemen would begin shooting the Nationalists. The Times and the Tory organs, however, encourage Lord Bosamore’s extreme utterances.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Cablejdispatches from Constantinople c i ve copious details of the destruction wrougb t by the recent upheavals of nature in Asia Minor and along the coast of Greece. The shocks extended over a wide area of country, of which the Turkish capital seems to hhve been the geographical center, and were of almost daily occurrence for a period of over two weeks. At the ancient city of Smyrna the shocks were particularly severe, as many as a dozen occurring in one evening, the waves extending from northeast to southwest. Many buildings were shaken down, nearly 150 people killed and hundreds injured. The survivors fled from their houses and have 6ince been living either is tents or in the open air without any shelter. The walls of Smyrna, which have boen standing since the time of the Crusades, were completely demolished. With them many of the remains of ancient Smyrna have been destroyed. The destruction of property and life in the outlying country and in the districtSTemote from Smyrna has been very great. Great landslides which came tearing down the steep declivities -with the water swept before them every habitation. Scio island, Samos, Metelin, and Lesbos, all a few miles off the western coast of Anatolia, in the Argean sea, were all severely shaken up, and there was a large loss of life and property on Samos and Lesbos, while the other two suffered much loss. At Alabanda ninety lives were lost. A fugitive from Kespil places the deaths there at fifty and the numbor wounded at 125. At Qk-Hissar fifty persons were burled beneath a land slide and a few more killed by falling walls. Bogaseusda suffered a depletion of about ono-half of her population. Of the population of Surgerlis abouticne-third survived to mourn the others. From scores of other hamlots come similar reports, and when all are in the loss of life will probably be found to aggregate well up Into the thousands. The large stationery and printing establishment of Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., Chicago, is financially embarrassed, and has made an assignment. The liabilities are reported to be as high' as $500,000. It is one of the oldest and best knows firms in Chicago, and has always stood very high. Mary Churchill, who mysteriously disappeared from St. Louis on the 19th of August, has written to her father a formal letter stating that she is earning an honest living. The handwriting is fully identified, but the Indianapolis postmark is ten days behind the inner date. It is believed that the girl is held for a largor reward, and that the letter was dictated by her captors. The tug Edic exploded her boiler in Mobile bay, killing the Captain, mate, cook, and fireman, and painfully wounding the engineer. A cyclone passed over Tensas and Catahoula parishes, La., sweeping away sew eral plantation structures, and injuring many persons. Wind wrecked James E. Clay’s tobacco warehouse in Bourbon county, Ky., and four negroes were killed. The receipts of the Postoffice department for the fiscal year were $45,508,692, and the surplus revenue was $2,691,992. G. N. Fox, who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when Gideon Welles was Secretary under Lincoln’s administration, died at New York last week. Five men were killed at a magazine on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio road in Pennsylvania by the explosion of dynamite. The detonation was heard for fifty miles, and windows were smashed several miles distant. Nothing but fragments of the bodies of the victims could be found. Up the track for 200 yards or more the ground was strewn with shreods of flesh and drops of blood. The face of the rocky cut In which the powder stood was adorned in a like ghastly manner. High up on the top of the tunnel fragments of flesh and clothing fluttered from the limbs of trees, and splinters the size of a toothpick covered the scene for hundreds of yards in every direction.

THE MARKET.

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THE CIVIL RIGHT'S DECISION.

The Opinion of Justice Bradley Voiolng the Eindings of the Supreme Court. So Authority for the Law in the Thirteenth or Fourteenth Amendments. Negroes Must Seek Bedress in State Courts as Citizens Without Special Legal Guardianship. The following are the main points la the deeision of the Supreme Court In the civilrights oases. After quoting the first two sections of the act, Justice Bradley, who delivered the opinion, says; Has Congress constitutional power to make such a law? Of course, no one will contend that the power to pass it was contained in toe constitution before the adoption of the last three amendments. Power is sought first In the Fourteenth amendment. The first section (which is the one relied on), alter declaring who shall be citizens of the United States and the several- States, is prohibitory In its character (and prohibitory upon the State*.) It is State action of a particular character that is prohibited. Individual.invasion of individual rights is not the subject matter of the amendment. It has a deeper and broader scope. It nullifies and makes v<sid all State legislation and State action of every kind which impairs the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or,which injures them in life, liberty or prosperity without due process of law, or which denies to any of them the equal protection of the laws. It not only does this, but,in order that the national will thus declared may not be mere brutum fulmen , the last section of the amendment invests Congress with the power to enforce it with appropriate legislation. To enforce what? To eniorce prohibition. To auopt appropriate legislation tor correcting the eftects of such prohibited State laws and State acts, and thus to render them effectually null, void and innocuous. This Is the legislative power conferred upon Congress, and this is the whole of it. It does not invest Congress with power to legislate upon subjects which are within the domain of State legislation, but to provide modes of relief against State legislation or State action of the kind referred to. Until some State law has been passed or some State action through its officers or agents been taken adverse to the rights of citizens sought to be protected by the Fourteenth amendment, no legislation of the United States under said amendment nor any proceeding under such legislation can be called into activity, for the prohibitions of the amen i-ment-s are against State laws and acts done under State authority. An inspection of the law here in question shows that it applies equally to cases arising in the States which have ihe justest laws respecting the personal rights of citizens, and whose authorities are ever ready to enforce such laws, as to those which arise in States that may have violated the prohibitive amendment. In other words, it ste.-s into the domain of local jurisprudence and lays down rules for the conduct of individuals lit society toward each other, and Imposes sanct.ons for the enforcement of those rules without referring in any manner, to any sujiposed action of the State or iflß authorities. If this legislation is appropriate for Enforcing the prohibition amendment it is difficult to see where'it is to stop. Why may not Congress, with cn equal show of authority, enact a oode of laws for the enforcement and vindication of all rights of life, liberty and property? If it is not supposable that States may deprive persons of life, liberty, and property without due process of law (and the amendment itself does not suppose this), why should not Congress prooeed at once to prescribe a due process of law for the protection of every one of these fundamental rights in every possible case, as well as to prescribe equal privileges in inns, public conveyances and theaters? Judge Bradley refers to the Civil Rights bill of. April 4, 1866, and shows it “ is clearly corrective in its character, intended to counteract and furnish redress against State laws and proceedings and customs having the force of law which sanction the wrongful acts specified.”

In this connection it is proper to state that civil rights such as are guaranteed by the constitution against State aggression cannot be impaired by tne wrongful acts of individuals unsupported by State authority, in the shape of laws, customs, or judicial or executive proceedings. The wrongful act of an individual unsupported by any such authority is simply a private wrong or crime of that individual —an invasion ot the rights of the injured party, it is true, whether they affect his person, his property or his reputation; but.il not sanctioned in some way by the State, or not done under its authority, his rights renfain in full force and may presumably be vindicated by resorts to the laws of the State for redress. An individual cannot deprive a man of his right to vote, to hold property, to buy and sell, to sue in the courts, or to be a witness or juror. He may, by force or iraud, interfere with tlie enjoyment of a right in a particular case. He may commit assault against a person, or commit murder, or use ruffianly violence at the polls, or slander the good name of a fellow-citizen, but, unless protected in these wrongful acts by some shield of State law or State authority, he cannot destroy or injure the right. He will only render himself amenable to satisfaction or punishment, and amenable therefore to the laws of the State where the wrongful acts are committed. If the principles of interpretation we have laid down are correct, as we deem them to be, it is clear the law in question cannot be sustained by any grant of legisla iye power made to Congress by the Fourteenih amendment. But the power of Congress to adopt and direct primary as distinguished from corrective legislation on the subject in hand is sought In the second place from the Thirteenth amendment, which abolishes slavery and gives Congress power to enforce the amendment by appropriate legislation. This amendment, as well as the Fourteentu, is undoubtedly self-execu-tory without any ancillary legislation, so far as its terms are applicable to any existing state of circumstances. By its own unaided torce and effort it abolished slavery and established universal freedom. Still legislation may be necessary and proper to meet, all the various cases and circumstances affected by it and to prescribe proper mode- of redress for its violation in letter or spirit, and such legislation may be primary and direct in its character, for ihe amendment is not a mere pronibitim of Btate laws establishing or upholding slavery, but an absolute declaration that slavery or involuntary s ervitude, shall not exist in any part of the United Btates. Now, conceding for the sake of argument that admission to an inn, public conveyance, or place of public amusement on equal terms with all oiher ci lzens is the r ght of every man and all classes of men, is it any more than one of those rights which the Btates by the Fourteenth amendment are forbidden to denv to any person, and is the constttut.oii violated until tne denial of right has tome Slate sanction or authority? Can the acof a mere individual, the owner of an inn, public conveyance, or place of amusement in refusing accommodation be justly regarded as imposing any i.adge of slavery or servitude upon the applicant, or only a- inflicting an ordinary civil injury property cognizable by the laws of the Btate and presumably subject to redress by those laws until the contrary appears? After giving to these onest'ons all ihe consideration which tucir tmnortance demands, we are foiced to the conclusion that such an act of refusal has nothing to do with slavery or involuntary servitude, and that If it is violative of any right of a partv, his redress is to be sought under the Kiw of tlie Btate, or, if those aws are adverse to his rights and do not protect him, liis remedy will be found in the corrective legislation wnlch Congress has adopted or may adopt tor counteracting the effect of the State laws cr State action prohibited by the Fonrteentu amendment, ltwould be running the slavery argument into the ground to make it apply to every act of discrimination which a person may see tit as to a guest t e will entertain or as to the people he will take into his coach, or cab, or car, or admit to his concert or theater, or deal within other matters of intercourse or business. Innkeepers and public carriers by law in all States, so far as we are aware, are bound to the extent of tnoir facilities to furnish proper accomodation to all unobjectionable persons who, in good faith, apply fir them. If the laws themselves make any unjust discrimination amenable to the prohibitions of the Fourteenth amendment. Congress has full power to afford’a remedy under that amendment and in accordance with it. When a man has emerged from slavery and by the aid of legislation has shaken off the inseparable concomitants of that state, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the ran i of a mere citizen and ceases to be a special favorite of the laws, and when his rights as a citizen or manarfto be protected in the ordinary modes by which other men’s rights are protected. There were thousands of free colored pe pie in this country, before the abolition of slaveir. enjoying all the essential rights of life, liberty and pronerty the same as white citizens; yet no one at that time thought it was any invasion of

their personal status as free men becafise tiler were not admitted to all the privileges enjoyeß by white citizens, or because they were subjected to discriminations in the enjoyments of the accommodations of inns, public conveyances and places of amusement; mere discriminations on account of race or color were not regarded as a badge of slavery. I? since that time the enjoyment, of equal rights in all these respects has become established by constitutional enactment, it is not by force of the Thirteenth amendment (which merely abolishes slavery), but by force of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. On the whole, we are of oolnion that no countenance of authority for the passage of the law In question can be found in either the Thirteenth or Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution, and, no other ground of authority for its pas-age being suggested, it muse necessarily be declared void, at least so far as its operation in the several States is concerned.

HERE AND THERE.

The total income of the charities of London* last year was $21,552,000. A South Carolina rattlesnake recently captured possessed thirty-three rattles. The tax rate of Philadelphia for the ensuing year has been fixed at $1.85 on SIOO. ) A child was recently born in Port Orange, Fla., with eignt grown teeth in its gums. Foreign capitalists have bought a track of land in Arkansas that contains 460,000,000 foe t of tfinber. The Western and Atlantic railroad traok, near Dalton, Ga., is haunted by a phantom locomotive. A horse balked in Buffalo, and the patient driver sat in the buggy nine hours before the animal moved. Bonanza Flood has imported artiste to decorate the interior of his prinoely palace ia San Francisco. Florida’s orange crop for this year is estimated at 102,000,000. Last year’s crop was 50,000,000 oranges. Eli Barnes, of Mendon, N. Y., become afflicted with blood poisoning recently from skinning a dead horse. A canal horse, hearing a locomotive whistle in Albany, N. Y., recently, leaped ia the air and fell doad from fright. The St. Louis Republican, the leading Democratic paper of Missouri, pronounces Frederick Douglass “the ablest and wisest man of his race.” A permanent exhibition building is to be one of the attractive places of amusement in Baltimore, Md. It is to be built of brick, marble and iron, and is to cost $500,000. The Yokohama Gazette declares that all efforts to introduce Christianity into Japan have been pitiable failures, and that the people of that country regard foreign missionaries with jealous aversion. The bones of Guiteau have been removed from the army medical museum to the Surveyor General’s office, where their identity is concealed except from a few officials. The reason Is that the curiosity hunters took up so much time of the officials of the medical museum as to interfere with the work. An attempt was made to smuggle opium into Snn Francisco by hiding it in ordinary blocks of wood hollowed out and covered with a thick coat of oil and grease. The blocks were placed under the gangway of a steamer so as to support it and mislead the customhouse officers. A protruding screw exposed the fraud, and SI,OOO worth of the drug was seized.

ALL SORTS.

President Arthur pays taxes in New York on $285,000 worth of proporty. A 100-vkar-old gentleman recently deposited his first vote at Kensington, Ct, A Jersey calf ten inches high, and fourteen inches long, is the attraction of Brooksville, Ky. The cotton and sugar crop of the South this year is estimated at about half that oi 1882. During the past four weeks 2,500 negroes have left South Carolina for Arkansas an<! Texas. Italians at work near Roanoke, Genesee county, N. Y., having caught a largo snake, cooked and ate it. i A Chinaman with a Spanish wife and four bright little Celestials left Ban Francisco, Cal., recently, bound for China. A snake seven feet,and five inches long with thirteen rattles was recently killed on an island in Lake Winnepiseogee. During last year 18,300 vessels of ali nationalities entered and cleared at Chinese ports, of which 14,337 were Brltlsty. The North Nebraska Methodist conference has resolved that any member who has fallen into the use of tobacco ought to desist. The pastor of Salem Refcfrmed church, Allentown, Pa., has preached twenty-six funeral sermons in the last two months. Foreign capitalists have just bought a large tract of land in Southeastern Arkansas, said to contain 460,000,000 feet of timber. In Dewitt county, Tex., a [local paper says a live snake, twelve inches long, without eyes, was found imbedded in a solid rock. Alexander Willis, who claimed oo be 113 years old, has died at Savannah, Ga. He voted for Washington at his second election. A Mexican planter employed 200 men to kill locusts for him. Their wages amounted to $296.38, and they killed 317,000 of the insects. A Minneapolis man has paid $3,000 for medical treatment on account of a bite by his dog, and yet has not sought satisfaction by billing-the beast. They say that Carlyle’s ghost, arrayed in white, haunts Chelsea at the twilight hour, and recently asked a little girl for “ a ’penn’orth o’ tobacco.” A party of Minnesota young women have gone to the Argentine Republic to teach school, and they write back that their first impressions are pleasant. Eleven days after a girl babe had been born to a painter’s wife in Hazleton, Pa., she resumed her household duties for a day, and then added a boy to the family. Washington Territory is excited over the appearance of a wild woman who appears in the forests near small settlements occasionally. She has long streaming hair, and Is clothed in rags. “Ckiiro Gordo” Williams Is a model “bulegrass” farmer.. His tobacco crops always commands ihe highest price in the Louisville market, turning him a net profit of $25,000 to $30,000 a year. A St. Louis jury required only five minute* to find that shaving is a work of necessity, and that the barbers who had been arrestot on the charge of violating Missouri’s Sunday law were not guilty. While removing the old Catholic parsonage to Liberty street, Batavia, N. Y., recently, the workmen found a rat’s nest made o: about S2OO worth of “ shinplasters ” in a pretty good state of preservation. a" young gentleman, fresh from the other side and wearing his knees and elbows in the letter A style, remarked, in the Museum grounds in Central Park: “ No, I don’t care to look at the beasts. They are so beastly, you know.” , A w*ld pig, found in tho woods near Lytle Station, Ky., was, after considerable difficulty, so trained by his finder that he would follow his master as the historic lamb fob lowed Mary. Whenever his master sits down to eat, the pig will lie down by his side, and eat and drink whatever his trainer hands him. James Wilson, who dwells near Thamesville, Mich., drilled several holes for water, and his 2-year-old son fell through one of the holes into a cave twenty-five feet deep. A rope with a loop was let down, and after repeated efforts the loop was carried over the child's head and under his nose. He was drawn out. •.; In the neighborhood of the old copper mine at Phefiixvilie, Ga., George Fennel stunned a snake with a blow from a stone, and then ran and jumped on him. The snake revived, and, coiling itself about his leg, snapped it like a pipe-stem. A friend came to the rescue and beat the snake off, when it retreated down an old shaftrhotei. It was fifteen feet long.