Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — Page 3

THE BAD BOY.

"Ton seem sort of broke up this morning, ” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in and stood Against the counter, under the kerosene lamp that was leaking on his hat. “And I knew you would be when I saw you going down the dark alley last night with that ragged girl that peddles Apples. Oh, you are a sly one, and I have watched you, and I am satisfied you are on the wrong road. You better let up, young man, or your people will be ashamed of you. When a boy that belongs to the better class of society goes down a dark alley with a low girl—.” “But, gol-darn itr, she lived in the Alley. If she hadn't lived in the alley I wouldn’t have gone in there,” said the boy, a little nettled at the remarks of the grocery man, and trying to explain. “Yes, that is all right,” said the •cheese fiend, winking at the carpenter, who was nailing a weather-strip on the ■door, and who looked as thongh he needed a weather-strip on the bottom of his pants, to bank up his low shoes. *Of course she lived there, and she inveigled you, a respectable boy, into her den, and you didn’t have to have your •coat-collar pulled off to get you to go. I am ashamed of you, to go off down a dark alley with a* disreputable girl —” “There, hold on, condemn you, ” said the boy, as he grated his teeth and picked up a stick of stoVe wood and •drew it on the grocery man, his face pale as a ghost, while the carpenter «topped work to look on. “You say a word against that poor girl, and down comes your grocery. She is a Christian, that girl is, though she don’t put on airs and go to church with silk dresses and rich duds. But she prays, by jingo, better than any of ’em. There aint none of these prayer sharps that get up and talk big words, that can make me cry, but that little girl made me cry last night as though I had broke a pair of skates. You see her father is a drunkard, and he takes half she makes peddling apples, to buy gin, and •her grandmother has got the consumption, and that takes the other half to support her. I knew that girl when I went to school, and yesterday she came to me crying, and said she was going to . ssk a favor of me ’cause I had a heart in me. I don’t know how she found it out, but anyway she said she had knowed it for years. It seems her drunken father had taken all her money, and had gone on an awful bum, and she didn’t haven’t any to buy some of those cough-sirup lozenges for her grandma, and the old lady was chokin up pretty rough, and she wanted me to lend her a dollar till she could realize cn the apples she was going to get trusted for. Probably you noticed I haven’t got any watch this morning’ I have got my chain, with a bunch of keys on it in my pocket, but nobpdy will know I haven’t got any watch unless they ask me what time it is, and then I will tell them it lias run down, and.l guess it has, ’cause pawnbrokers never wind up watches. Well, sir, I got $4 on my watch, and I went and bought apples for her and medicine for her grandma, and then I went down home with her. You are right about the alley being pretty rough, but when I went in the little roon, where the old lady was on a bed, and heard her let off one of those regular hark-from-the-tombs coughs, that sounded away down cellar, where it is damp and moldy, I tell you it made me feel serious. And when that ragged little girl got down on her knees and prayed, there in the dirt, and asked God to bless the friend that had risen up and lifted such a load off the sufferer, do you know, I felt as though I had swallowed a piece of turnip or something hard, and couldn’t get it up or down, and the tears come to my eyes just like when you peel onions. She didn’t use any of this highfalutin language, such as the liigh•salaried preachers use, where you want a dictionary in your pew to find what the words mean. It was no full-dress, formal prayer, like some of the ministers give us, when it seems as though they had just been given a letter of introduction to God, and wanted to show Him that He was in luck to get acquainted with so distinguished and educated a preacher. She didn’t go on and advise God how to run things, like some of the preachers I have heard, and act as though if God didn’t take their advice He would lose his situation and be mighty lucky if he got a job carrying around a collection pldte. It wasn’t that kind of a prayer. The little girl got right down on her knees, and said, 4 Oh, Father in Heaven,’ just as though God was sitting right there in front of her on a three-legged stool, and she seemed so confident that the Heavenly Father heard her that I could almost see His hand on her head, petting the poor child. She didn’t tell God anything about my pawning my watch and buying the apples, and she didn't mention my name at all, but I could imagine that even He who watches the (Sparrows fall, was onto the bunch of keys in my vest-pocket, hitched to the watch-chain, bigger than a house. Say, do you know, some of these long prayers by the dress-parade preachers, who get a salary big enough to own a yacht, make me tired, and I want to go out in the woods and hear even a flock of blackbirds sing praises, in preference to listening to a long recital of what a lot of miserable sinners all the people are who are being prayed for, but I could have listened to that dirty, ragged girl pray for an hour, she .was so natural and pitiful, and talked so God could understand it whether He had ever graduated at college or not. But sh# wasn’t talking against time for wages, and she just seemed to have a ittle conversation with the good Lord just as a child would with its father, and then she got up and fired some medicine down her grandma, and made her a qup of tea on an oil stove and toasted a piece of bread and poached an egg while I sat there thinking. Do you know she broke me all up. If it wasn’t for that old calico dress, and the shoes run over at the heel, and the moth-eaten stockings, I should have thought slid was an angel, and, by gum, I will pawn everything I have got for her to get things for her grandma, but somebody else has got to chip in to buy gin for the old man. I can’t run a hospital and a distillery both on one cheap

watch, but I am going to work for the humane society next week, and that girl can have all the money I make as long as the old lady’s cough hangs on. Say, do you think there is any bathroom in heaven where they can take such a* dirty girl as that and make an angel of her that will pass in a crowd? Take the dirt out from under her finger nails, and soak her hands in hot water, and put cold cream on them, and let her sleep a few nights with rubber gloves on, and I suppose they could make her pass as an angel. Well, I have got to go down to the Humane society office. I was in a street-car the other night and the car was full, and got off the track, and the mules couldn’t pull it. All the men sat there and wouldn’t get out. They read papers, and acted mad, while the driver pounded the mules. I was on the back step, and I yelled, ‘The members of the Humane society are requested to get out of the car and help push.’ You ought to have seen ’em. They all looked at each other, and then got out, and some of them looked ashamed, but they helped the mules. The boss of the Humane society heard of it, and he said he would give me a job watching for butchers who maul cattle. I guess I can work my way up so I will finally hold the proud position of looking after lame horses that draw swill wagons. Well, I must go and send our doctor down the alley, to sound the old lady’s cough, and have him charge it to pa.” As the boy went out the grocery man told the carpenter that boy had a heart in him as big as a barrel, but you had to watch the raisin box, all the same, when he was around.— Peck’s Sun.

Finding a Hidden Fortune.

“I have been sent for very often in my time,” said an elderly detective, “to search for money concealed by eccentric people. There was more of this hiding away of cash forty years ago than there is now, owing, probably, to the doubtful character of some of the old savings banks. “Some fifteen years ago I went up to a farm house in Orange county, at the request of tlid heirs, to look for money. The deceased had had no striking characteristics for my purpose, and, after trying several lines of search for three days, I grew doubtful. His riding saddle had been ripped open, his bootheels knocked off for diamonds, his shoes split up and his upholstery pulled to pieces. Bricks had been taken out, the hearth torn up, and the wainscotings pulled down. Even the backboards of picture frames had been taken out, and the boys had dug around the roots of every tree in the orchard, but still no money had been found. The reward was too large to be lost, but I was nearly at my wits’ end. Finally the thought came like a flash: ‘Where was the old gentleman in the habit of sitting?’ I asked. ‘Oh, he almost always sat by that window,’ said the brother; ‘but we’ve pulled everything to pieces around there.’ ‘Sit down just as he did.’ The man sat down. ‘ln which direction was he most apt to look ?’ ‘Nowhere in particular; out of the window generally.’ ‘Toward the barn?’ ‘No, this way.’ I followed the look; it was in the line of an old, usedup pump. ‘Which way did he walk when he went out to the field?’ ‘Over to the pump, and then made a bee line for the pond.’ These answers had a certain significance. Men like to have the place of concealment in sight, and it.is well-known that they will often walk over money they have buried to see that the sod is undisturbed. I had the pump taken up and excavations made—no money. The pump was replaced. I entered the room once more and stood by the window. Suddenly I saiv a faint, but peculiar-looking mark on the sill; it was a surveyor’s point. I “liped” it up to the pump, measured out to the exact center of the line, and the digging began. A two-inch steam pipe was struck at a depth of four feet. The end was plugged; I took home a SSOO bill that night.” —New York Sun.

The Chinese “Ten” Nasal and Guttural.

One peculiarity of the Chinese language, which does not occur in any other that l am acquainted with, is the effect of the different -tones employed. Two words may be Bomanized or spelled according to our sounds in exactly the same way, but a* high nasal in one case and deep guttural in the other gives a totally . different meaning. This ia a difficulty that is hard to overcome. A clergyman of my acquaintance, delivering his first Chinese sermon, was very much annoyed at a blunder he made in the word heaven, ten, which, without the use of the nasal, denotes field. He spoke to them at length of the lives Christians should lead, and informed them as a reward for this proper conduct they would go to “ten” when they died. * “Humph!” said one old man on the front seat, “we can do that any day.”— Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Policeman and “Cops.”

Somebody wanted to know how policemen ever came to be called “cops.” The term originated in New York, and wp,s first given to the police force under Mayor Fernando Wood, from the copper badges which they wore. It was not long before the dictionary of thieves’ slang was enriched by a new word, “coppers.” Sir Robert Peel was an English magnate who gave considerable official attention to the reconstruction of the London police force, and hence the terms “bobbies” And “peelers,” the last of which was transplanted in American soil. —Boston Globe.

Hot Ice.

“Marvelous hot ice!” Did Shakspeare, in these words, anticipate the earthquake of Java? In the midst of the molten lava and carried along by the current was a solid and enormous bed of ice emitted from one of the craters. This bed of ice was surrounded by a thick envelope of sand and scoriae, which are such non-conductors of heat that a red-hot stream of lava running over it will not melt snow. It is supposed that this ice had formed the crust of some vast subterranean lake.—Detroit Free Press.

GRAIN-GROWING COUNTRIES.

Interesting Report by the United States Consul at Copenhagen. The Grain-Producing and Grain-Con-suming Countries of the World. Henry B. Snyder, United States Consul at Copenhagen, has submitted to the Department of State at Washington, a very interesting report on the grain-producing and grainconsuming countries. He says that by dividing these countries under the category of grain-exporting and grain-importing places, and putting them in their order according to the relative extent of their supplies for export, or. again for the magnitude of their retirements, he (obtains the two following lists: First, as grain-exporting lands—The United States, Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Danubian Provinces, British East Indies, Demark, Algiers, Australia, Egypt, Spain, Canada, Chill and Sweden. As grain-import-ing lands—Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal and Greeoe. On the list of grain-exporting lands the United States ranks pre-eminently first and foremost. Not so many years have elapsed since Russia occupied this position, and, in 1877, these two countries were about on an equal footing, but In the later years the United States has largely surpassed Russia. These large supplies from the United States naturally had great Influence upon the European grain markets, and the severe crisis, which the farming interests in so many pacts of Europe are now passing through, is doubtless due to this severe competition. Many writers on thifi side of the water seem to be of the opinion that the culminating point has now been reached, that the virgin soils of the Western States will shortly he exhausted, and that with a largely Increasing population in the States, and with a called-for use of artificial manures on the soil, the expert surplus will be diminished and the cost of production so much augmented that European farmers will not long have to contend against this formidable competition. These views, in his opinion, will scarcely he realized. There is still in our Western States an enormous area of fertile virgin soil ready to be brought under the plow by annually-in-creasing immigration, and it Is more likely that the culminating point may only be looked for In a very remote future. The constantly-increasing competition of the United States, combined with the political disturbances in the Balkan peninsula, and the bad harvests of 1879 and 1880, have conduced in a great measure to lessen the influence of Russian supplies on the world’s grain markets. Austria-Hungary is likewise mainly an agricultural land, and, with its fertile soil and not overdense population, will doubtless for a long time be able to rank among the grain-exporting countries. Until a few years back attention in the British East Indian territory was mostly concentrated on tbe production of rice, other cereals being cultivated to a very slight extent; but since 1871 the cultivation and export of Indian wheat has laigely increased. In England attention is now being strongly directed to the furtherance of all possible means, through an improved transport system, either of canal or railways, to an increased cultivation of wheat, so that eventually India may be in a position to compete with the United States on the European grain markets. The grain production of Australia floes not appear to have made such progress as was expected. Wheat alone is shown to yield a surplus of any consequence for export. These export%go to England, which in 1880 received about 1,000,000 quarters, the largest quantity yet reached. Egypt, which in remote ages was the most important of agricultural lands, has still her natural resources; but the disastrous tax system prevents all developments of agriculture, which is mainly of wheat, and scarcely exceeds 500,000 quarters. GRAIN-IMPORTING COUNTRIES. Turning next to the list of grain-importing lands, it will be seen that Great Britain stands prominently forward in the first rank at a pace increasing year by year, and due to three causes, namely: The large annual increase of population, that more bread is now consumed by the people than formerly, and, lastly, that wheat owing to unremunerative prices, is yearly reduced, the wheat lands being either sown with other cereals, or else turned into pasture land. Even with the most favored harvests, the home crops do not afford more than six months’ supply, and the remainder has to be looked for in importation; but still, with these large imports, the price of wheat is less now than when England depended mainly upon her home supplies in former times, and England is probably less exposed at the present day to danger of suffering from dearth than in the days of its home supplies. In France, although the yield of crops has increased during the last fllty years, still it is only in exceptionally good harvest years that the home supply is sufficient for its own requirements, and during the. last three unfavorable seasons a heavy importation has been required. These imports are chiefly obtained from Russia and the United States. In Germany, where agriculture may be considered as of a high standard, even this country is unable to support its population with breadstuffs from its own supplies. These supplies were in the first instance entirely obtained from Russia, but now they are likewise received from Hungary.

THE COLORED MAN’S RIGHTS.

A Southern Railroad to Run Separate Cars for Negroes. Senator Brown, as President of the State road of Georgia, and head of the new Georgia railroad syndicate, says an Atlanta dispatch, announces that his policy, under the altered condition of things made by the civil rights decision, will be to be more careful than ever that colored mon shall have full rights upon trains. He says that colored people will not be permitted to go into a car intended for white ladies nor to invade upon white people who do not desire their society, but that comfortable cars will be arranged on the Western and Atlantic for both races, where they can travel comfortably and safely. Conductors on his trains, under his orders, will no more permit white people to intrvde upon colored than they will permit colored to intrude on white people. His orders will be stringent to conductors to see that colored people paying the same price paid by whites shall have as comfortable accommodations, but they must take it in different cars. Senator Brown said a little common sense, with a desire to do what is just in the premises, would regulate the whole matter to the satisfaction of both races, and, so far as his road was concerned, it was his determination to see that justice was done to all.

PERSONAL.

The Russian Grand Duke Alexis ■will pass the winter in Paris. The Emperor of Austria weighs 143 pounds, while his wife .tips the scales.at 164. ■ • ->' Miss Cora Bennison, the Quincy (HI.) female lawyer, is making a tour around tH» world. ■ * * - - -mrtHowells, the novelist, parts his hair in the middle, and shrinks from mingling with the human race. Ex-Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, says he has been and is for justice to the negro, but he never saw the day when he would knowingly clothe him with authority over the echools oi the white race. John Carlino was fixing a freight-car of the New Jersey Central road, at Philadelphia, when the train started ahead, and the carwheels run over his breast, leaving the marks of their passage on his manly bosom. that, there lsrrothingthe matter With Mr. Carting, as he *h attending tq| business *as .usual. The car weighed 18,000 pounds. The very latest fashion in dinner-plates is square in shape, beautifully hand painted

HATTON’S REPORT.

A Year's Operations of the General Postoffice. » Annual Report of the First Assistant Postmaster General The annual report of Frank Hatton, First Assistant Postmaster General, has been laid before tbe Postmaster General The reporter says: The average amount of work porformed in eaoh division of the office exceeded that of any previous year, and the bureau has, so far as the appropriation would permit, endeavored to meet the necessities. It Is believed that in no preceding year have fewer complaints been made concerning incompetency or dishonesty of Postmasters or delay or confusion in the delivery or dispatch of mail matter in the different postoffices. The whole number of postofflees on June 30, 1883, was 47,863, an increase of 1,632 during the year. Apportioned by sections, the increase in the New England States was 36, Middle States 223, Southern States and Indian Territory 725, Statos and Territories West and Northwest 580, and the Pacific slope 68. Pennsylvania had the largest number of postoffices—3,7l6. New York followed with 3,082, and Ohio third, with 2,620. The number of money-order offices is 5,857, an increase of 421. The removals and suspensions during the year were 316 less than for the year before, an indication undoubtedly of the improvement in character and habits of the persons now serving the public as Postmasters. During the year 10,795 letters were written to Postmasters and to private individuals involving decisions under the postal regulations and laws, and $2,000 was collected from publishers of second-class matter for the violation of the law in inclosing third-class matter in second-class publications. Publishers of legitimate newspapers are specially interested in sustaining the department in its efforts through tbe division of postal lawtmnd regulations to exclude from the pound rate all publications designed primarily for advertising, purposes or for free circulation, or for circulation at nominal rates. The enforcement of that law will enable legitimate publications (favored by statute as an instrument of popular education) to sustain themselves by securing such locabadvertising support as would naturally come to them. The adjustment of salaries of Presidential Postmasters is now far enough advanced to warrant the statement that the result will be satisfactory, and for the first time in the history of the department the salaries of Presidential Postip as torS will be equalized and placed upon a basis of the gross receipts of their offices. ■ Beyond the benefits of the free-delivery service as at present restricted is a class of towns in densely-populated portions of the country which it is believed could be served by carriers with benefit to the people and economy to the department. These are towns within short distances of one another, which have not singly required the qualifications in population or gross revenue. The law should be amended so as to authorize the department to extend the system to such places by establishing it at the principal or central office of the group and discontinuing the other offices, or substituting for them inexpensive branches of the main office, from which carriers could serve the surrounding localities. Excess of postage on local matter over tha cost of free-delivery service, and taking into consideration the fact that local correspondence increases in proportion to the facilities offered, it should be extended and liberal appropriations made to bring it up to the highest practicable standard in' cities where it is now in operation. This service meots the general demands of business and social lifq, but fails to meet the dispatch required in the delivery of letters of exceptlanal importance. Under the present system letters received’ after the carriers go out upon their trips, whatever their importance, must lie in the office till the next trip. At 0 o’clock p. m., when the delivery closes for the day, they must lie over till next morning, and this delay frequently fails to meet the object of the communication. Out of this want of more speedy delivery, have grown up in several large cities private enterprises, which are now conducted in competition with this service and are diverting from the legitimate revenues of the department thousands of dollars yearly. The patronage bestowed upon them evinces a public demand for a more speedy delivery of a certain class of correspondence. To meet this want it is suggested that a special stamp be provided,’ which, when affixed to a letter, whether local or otherwise, entitle the letter to immediate delivery up to 10 o’clock p. m. To provide for their delivery It is suggested that boys be employed, and required to procure receipts from the party addressed, or some authorized person. In view of the excess of the receipts of postage on local matter alone over the cost of its delivery ($1,0&1,894), it seems the time has arrived when the postage on local letters at offices where the carrier system is in operatior can be reduced from 2 cents to 1 cent. Such a reduction will surely result in a rePy large increase in local business.

WORK AND WAGES.

The Senate Labor Committee Among: the New Englanders. [Boston Telegram.] Samuel D. Warren, a prominent and extensive paper-maker, testified before the Senate Labor committee to-day, and showed an exeeljentjcondltion of things among their laborers in Maine. E. L. Davenport, a compositor, thought grinding superintendents the greatest evil, and that employed children should be protected. M. H. Enwright, a grocer, thought the Government ought to regulate the standard of wages, as manufacturers’ goods are protected while labor is not. Dr. T. Stow, of Fall River, said operatives there were physically dwarfed and mentally wrecked by long hours, over-work, and starvation wages. The tenements are poor, ventilation bad, and facilities despicable. He favored the breaking up of land, money arid transportation monopolies. Thos. O. Donald, a Fall River spinner, earned $1.50 a day and had worked not half the time. Many Fall River laborers are obliged to dig clams and get their driftwood to eke out a living. Senator Blair said his story was too accursedly true. There were several other less Important witnesses.

AMONG OUR EXCHANGES.

A California farmer has raised three watermelons weighing 104, ninety-eight and and eighty-four pounds. A large cougar killed and partially devoured a 2-year-old bull belonging to Charles King, of Whatcom, Washington Territory, recently. Roosevelt street, New York, has suddenly become famous as the residence of the only man in the United States who owns a white monkey. * The stomach of a dead cow that was owned by M. Kennedy, of Walllngfdrd, Ct., contained a steelyard weight, y a nut screw, the blade of a knife and a king-bolt. In the year 1872 the consumption of copper jn the ’ United States was 34,000,000 pounds, ‘and since that*tin*e it tos steadily increased. Last year it was 77,000,000. * fS *1 A Vermomt man, who stole a cow from hi® neighbor’s barn, found on getting her home that it wa« his own cow, which his neighbor had stolen earlier in the night.* The funeral of Lucy Fish /Curtis, who died at West Randolph, Vt., at the age of about 100 years, was attended by ass her six children, the youngest being 55 and the oldest 83 years of age. A statue to the inventor of the manufacture of soda is about to be erected at Jssoudun, his native place. When this great Chemist was alive the world refused him a brehkfast; now that he is dead. Why, a monument; of coarse. John T. Howard, bf has given $400,000 to the University of Vermont.

OLD COMRADES MEET AGAIN.

Successful Reunion at Cincinnati of the Army of the Cumberland. Gens. Sheridan, Rosecrans, and Other Noted Warriors Present. rCincinnati Telegram J The reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland commenced with a march of the members, headed by its President, Gen. Sheridan, and a band, from the Burnett house to the Grand opera-house, where a business session was held. Accompanying Gen. Sheridan wore Gens. Rosecrans, Wood, Logan, Newton, Mussey, Carlin, Morgan, Kimball and Parkhurst. Tho President called the meeting to order,' and Chaplain Earnshaw offered prayer. It was decided that a sketch of the late Gen. Steedman, who was not a member of the society, be published in the annual record. The Treasurer’s report showed a balance in hand of $lO7. He also said that many members were delinquent, their whereabouts being unknown. Committees were appointed and invitations accepted from several clubs, and the society adjourned. In the evening they marched to Music hall alone, the local military organizations which were to have escorted them failing to turn up. An audience of fully 2,000 was already in the hall when the society marched In, The stage and walls were beautifully decorated, flags, stacks of arms, tents and cannon being scattered around in profusion. Gen. Cist called the meeting to order and Introduced Gov. Foster, who welcomed the society. His references to the numerous distinguished military men present called forth loud applause, upon which Gen. Sheridan, with mock sternness, called for order. Gen. Smith D. Atkins was then introduced as the orator of the evening. A reunion of soldiers, said the speaker, does everyone good. The stories told by the gray-haired veterans are , incentives to youthful patriotism, and childish hearts burn with awakened love of country, and cheeks flush with desire of emulation, when they hear the fathers and grandsires reciting their warlike deeds and telling how they left home and families to bear privation and peril in defense of a common country. Aug. 15, 1861, continued the orator, Gen. Robert Anderson, “tho hero of Sumter,” organized the Army of the Cumberland. His department comprised Kentucky and Tennessee, but those States were neutral then, and the headquarters were established at Cincinnati. Don Carlos Buel was its first commander, and at Mill Springs was won the first decisive victory for the Union cause by Gen. Thomas and a portion of the Cumberland corps. At Shiloh, April 6, 1862, the armies had been fighting all one day, and step by step the Federal forces ware being driven back, when Gen. Buell led the army of the Cumberland upon the fldld and saved the day. Then came the race to Louisville, and Buell beat Bragg into the city, which was the “miss” of the campaign. Then Gen. Rosecrans took command, and the victories of Stone river, Murfreesboro, Tullahoma and Chattanooga were achieved by his corps. At Cbickamauga they met with defeat, owing to the faint-heartedness of the right wing; but it was atoned for at Missionary Ridge, when, without orders, they swept Bragg’s center from its strong position. Part of the Army Of the Cumberland went to the sea with Sherman; “and,” concluded the orator, “Gen. George H. Thomas was the hero of the war, and his army was the Army of the Cumberland.” Capt. Millard sang a song of his own composition, written for the occasion, after which Gen. Rosecrans responded to a call in a few words. Gen. John A. Logan was also called out, and said that, though not a member of the Cumberland army, he felt like he was a part of it, owing to the close relationship between It and the Army of the Tennessee. Gen. Barnett, Chairman of the Committee on the Garfield monument, reported that a place had been selected in Washington, but the selection would require an act of Congress to make it final. The committee thought the monument would be completed In time for the reunion of 1885. Capt. Ford reported the accession of 150 new members. The following officers were elected: President, Gen. Phil. H. Sheridan; Corresponding Secretary, Gen. H. M. Cist; Treasurer, Gen. G. S. Fullerton; Recording Secretary, Col. James W. Steele; with Vice Presidents from each .State and Territory represented in the society^ Rochester, N. Y., was selected as the next place of meeting, Sept. 21-22 (Chickamauga week). The society then proceeded, by invitation, to the Chamber of Commerce, where Capt. Foraker, Vice President for Ohio, made an address. President Peabody, of the Chamber of Commerce, responded, and was followed by Gens. Sheridan, Rosecrans, Logan iand others. The closing session consisted of a banquet at Music hall. About 600 sat down to the banquet. Gen. Rosecrans presided. Much satisfaction was expressed at the success of the reunion.

SOUTHERN PROGRESS.

Remarkable Increase of Material Wealth. [From the New Orleans Ttmes-Democrat.] The Times-Democrat presents this morning a complete review of all the South, from the Potomaoand Ohio to the Gulf and Kio Grande, in the form of interviews with the Governors of the States of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. The assessment rolls have just been completed in most of the States, ' which enable us to show in undisputed figures, in dollars and cents, the exact growth of the South since the oensus was taken. This showing is far more flattering than we imagined a few weeks ago; is almost startling in the wonderful growth of wealth: , 1883. —: . State. Assessment. Tax rate. Alabama $ 155,009,000 6)6 Arkansas..... 128,00#,000 7 Florida 56,000,000 6 Georgia 325,000,000 2)6 Kentuckv 374,554.979 4)6 Louisiana 201,790,723 6 Mississippi 132,000,000 216 North Carolina 200,000,000 2 4-5 South Carolina 130,rti0,000 5 Tennessee 252,589,873 2 Texas 538,000,000 3 Virginia 332,000,000 5 ' Total $2,824,934,575 4)6 , 1879. s State. Assessment. Tax rate. Alabama $ 117,486,581 7 Arkansas /. 85,892,541 . 6)6 Florida 29,471,618 7 . Georgia 235,660,530 5 Kentucky 318,037,875 4)6 Louisiana 158,687,195 6 Mississippi., 106,594,708 3)6 North Carolina 156,000,000 2 2-5 South Carolina 132,237,986 6M Tennessee 223,211,345 l Texas 304,470,736 6 Virginia 316,576,822 6 i Total $2,184,227,547 6 1-12 This is an increase of $640,707,028 in four | years, an average of $160,17i6,757 a year. How rapid is the growth of the South is evidenced by the fact that the increased assessments over 1882 amount to $253,000,000 — nearly the value of the cotton crop.

PERSONS AND THINGS.

The Texas lecture managers lost money on Beecher. „ A man at Viola, Warren county, Tenn., the other day, eat eight pounds of oysters in less than twenty minutes. Mrs. Mart P. Jones, of Stevenson, Ala., who Jiaa just celebrated, her 100th birthday, has 216 lineal descendants. Mrs. Ann Scott, who lives near Hudson, . N. V., has been married four times and has brought sixteen children into this world. r Henry Ward Beecher returned from hia ecturing tour with $13,0 00 in cash.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Washington county was left out of the Southern Indiana fair circuit. Thehk are more quails in Southern Indiana than has been known for many years. The apple crop of Howard county is estimated to be worth about $300,000 this year. G. W. Wood, of Hlllsbury, Clinton county, has harvested a pumpkin weighing 220 pounds. The city of Evansville will be furnished, with forty additional arches or masts for eleotric lights. The Northern Indiana Hunting association. | will start on their big annual hunt in Northern Michigan on Nov. 1. The enterprising inhabitants of Steuben county kre talking of building a railroad from Angola to Orland. The city of Logansport has entered into a contract with an electric light company to furnish that city with fifty lights of 2,000 candle power each. Jacob Cook, a wealthy farmer near Columbus, defies the engineer corps of the Columbus, Greensburg and Hope railroad, with shot-gun and revolvers, to run a line through his farm. Mrs. Jesse Thurman, of New Albany, paid two Gypsy women $350 for ridding her of a witch, and then, realizing her duplicity, had the officers on their trat k, who made thorn disgorge their “knowledge” money. Francis J. Kelly, 17 yenrs old, confessed at Rockport that he murdered R. T. Arnett, the owner of a trading boat, on the night of Sept. 29. Kelly claims that Arnett threatened to kill him If he left his employment. People crowd the jail of Lafayette to see Nelllng, the murderer of Ada Atkinson. Many of theso curious callers are ladies. The crowd became so large that tho Sheriff was compelled to refuse permits to visitors. Mr. Eli Cross, living in Rush county, heard a pistol-shot in an adjoining room, and on entering found his 13-ycar-old boy dead with a pistol-ball in his brain. It Is not known whether it was accidental or intentional. Two wealthy farmers near Spencer hava procured a diamond drill and other necessary machinery and have commenced to bore for coal In Deer creek prairie. Geologists say that the coal-drift Is 800 feet above them. William M. Prichard has entered suit against Donald McPherson, at Terre Haute, for damages In tho sum of $5,000, for alleged injuries sustained while digging a well, and causod by the carelessness of McPherson. Quite a sensation was created in Hope by a teacher of one of the schools compelling a white child to kiss a colored one for some offense. There Is strong talk among tho white class, but it is probable that nothing will be done. An*old citizen of Lawrence county went to a neighboring .town recently and purchased a ticket for some remote region in Kansas, but before train time he had a premonition to return home and wait a few days, where he died, leaving a wife and six children. Henry Holmes, a carpenter, is in the jail atWashington charged with burning a church and several stacks of hay belonging to one of the ohurch trustees. The cause of tho rash act was a quarrel about the wages of Holmes, who had been at work on the church building. Several roughs who occupied tho front rows of an opera-house In Vincennes, became Involved In a fight, and nearly created a panic in the more respectable part of the : audience. Fair damsels screamed and fainted, while others almost maimed themselves in endeavoring to'get out of the house. Mr. Murchie Moods, the only colorod boy who ever graduated from the Jeffersonville schools, is now In Africa, where he served as a British soldier during the late unpleasantness at Murchie. About two years ago he took unto himself an African maiden, and he ,1s npw living a quiet and happy life.

Two Mormon preachers have made their appearance in Franklin county, the location where two of the same faith wore tarred and feathered, and say they have come .to stay, and propose to take away with them twenty of the best-looking girls in that section, who have been partly converted to their faith. They asked to stop over night with Mr. De Armond. Mr. Do Armond objected, and they so persisted in their request that he went out and brought in a corn-knife and told them he would behead them if they did not leave at once. They reluctantly departed. The case of Agnes Balter, a young lady residing at Lafayette, is most marvelous. Ih the morning she was unable to move, and was blind; now she walks and can see. Eight years ago she was seized with the dreaded disease cerebro-spinal meningitis, which left her lower limbs paralyzed. She had gone to Ogdensburg to enter a convent, and was taken ill the second day after sho had arrived. In a few weeks she was brought home, and for eight years she has been a constant sufferer. The best physicians of the city have treated her and pronounced her incurable. Dr. 8. T. Yount has been her physician for three years. She was in convulsions most of the time, and these would continue as long as two and three weeks. Dr* Yount states that she presented a most horrible sight. For weeks at a time she had no nourishment whatever. Recently a young lady friend. Miss Kinsman, returned from Europe and brought her some water from the fountain of our Lady of Lourdes. This sho has been applying and drinking. A nine days’ season of prayer was inaugurated by herself and other members of the church. This terminated when she was removed in an unconscious condition to the church. She at length was revived, took ''communion and instantly she could see and walk unaided. Sho behoves that prayer did it. Dr. Yount and others pronounce It a .most marvelous case. When the ioctor and reporters called she walked across the room to show them that she wus indeed cured. Her case seems mir&culous, and there are many more besides herself who, familiar with the case, attribute it to the power of prayer. A horridly mutilated body of an unknown woman was found recently in the woods near St. Mary’s, in Yigo county. The skull was fractured and the face crushed in, showing signs of murder. The body had been lying* there for some time, it is supposed, because when found it was in a state of decomposition, and had been rooted and partially eaten by hogs. Undergarmentsof the finest quality and a dress of excellent goods wore found near by, but it afforded no clew to the terrible affair. An effort is being made to establish a read-ing-room for railroad men at Indianapolis.