Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — Page 3

THE BAD BOY.

“Well, I never see ft boy change as Chave,” said the grocery man to the boy, as he came in with a poor, dirty-looking tramp, and bought him a pound of crackers and a big piece of cheese, and, as the tramp sat down on a soip box and began to go through the fodder as though it was a banquet, and the boy looked out of the window at the rain that was falling, the grocery man added: “What has got into you? You haven’t got religion, have you?” “Naw, I guess not,” said the boy, as he slyed a pickle out of a barrel to the tramp. “That is, I haven’t got it by any regular rule, but may be it is in my system. I tell you, old oleomargerine, I have always beeni in for fun, and haven’t cared much how I had it, but lately I have had more fun making people happy than I ever had making pa jump around. Don’t you know if yon see a person who is m hard luck and thinks the world is all a fraud, and who almost wants to be run over by a freight train, and you go to work and surprise the person with a bit of kindness, smuggle a warm meal down him before he knows it, it makes your heart feel as though you had got to loosen your belt? I never knew there was so much suffering in the world until that humane society fellow hired mo to go around with him to hold his horse while he relieved distress, but the woods are full of people who have no drawers to wear in winter, and who would faint away at sight of a roast of beef. Gosh, I wish I had a million dollars!” “Oh, what would you do with $1,000,000?” asked the grocery man, as he watched the tramp pick his teeth with a sliver off the soap-box. “If you had $1,000,000 you would buy a dude suit of clothes, and a trotting wagon with red wheels, and a horse that could trot in 2:10. And you would part your hair in the middle and wear yellow gloves and say * g-lang.’ That’s the kind of a millionaire you would be.” “No, sir! You are no guesser,” said the boy, as he gave the tramp a glass of cider. “I would buy out a bakery and a meat market, and when poor people hadn’t anything to eat I would invite them to call on Hennery. Then I would take SIOO,OOO and go around paying a month’s rent in advance for people. If some poor people knew they would not be bothered about paying rent for a month, they would be so happy they would ache. Then I would buy 10,000 pairs of red flannel drawers, regular old thick ones, all sizes, and sell them to poor people and take their notes for the pay. You see, some people wouldn’t like to have drawers given to them, but if you to4>k their notes they would feel as though they bought the drawers, and then you could have a bonfire and burn up the notes. But I had rather be able to work Kniracles than be a millionaire. If I jould take stones and turn them into loaves of bread, and water into wine, the way Christ did, I would set up business at a stone quarry and open a free bakery, and would take the Milwaukee river and make it into wine and tell the poor people to help themselves. It would make the breweries sick, but they could ship their beer to Texas and Colorado. I tell you, wliat this country needs is a fellow that can make a bakery out of a stone quarry by a simple turn of the wrist, and I had rather have such a job than to be President. If I could turn hard heads into bread it would be picnic. I would take a big stone and go to the home of a poor woman who had nothing to eat in the house and tell her I had brought her some bread, and I would hand her a stone as big as a peck-measure, and she would see it was a stone, an d the tears would come into her eyes, and she would look sorry because I was so mean, and while she was wiping her eyes on the under side of her apron I would touch the stone with my magic wand, and turn it into a loaf of salt-rising bread, or brown bread, with a mansard' roof on, and the look the poor woman would give me when she found the stone was bread would be worth a thousand dollars, and I would go away feeling pretty cunning. I should want to be able to turn cord wood into canvas hams, too. ” “Yes, that is all right for talk, but you ain’t no angel, yet,” said the grocery man. “The detective in this ward says he is shadowing a lot of you boys that are holding clandestine meetings in a barn and he thinks you are up to some deviltry. You better look out or the detective will have you boys all pulled.” “Don’t you worry about us,” said the boy, as he gave the tramp a quarter to buy the next meal, and told' him not to (mention it, when the tramp began to thank him. “That detective is too smart for his boots. We have formed a society for playing jokes on poor widows this winter. I have got nine boys in our neighborhood to join the society, and we are going to make it hot for widows, and don’t you forget it. The humane society man is going to tell us when they take load of wood to a poor widow’s house, aud us boys are going to sneak up to her house after , dark, armed to the teeth with buck- ’ jaws and saw-bucks, and axes, and before a widow knows what kind of a gang we are, we are going to saw up her wood and split it, and carry it in. We made the darnde3t mistake last night, on the South Side, though. We found a load of wood next to a poor widow’s house and sawed it up, and carried it in, and after we had got it all done, a Dutch cigar-maker, next door, who owned the wood, got mad about it and made us pay $4 for the wood. It took all the money we had, but it was fun,, and the widow never knew where the wood came from. I had to sell my states to raise my share, but there is no ice, anyway. I suppose that detective thicks he will run on to a kit of burglar tools when he makes a raid on us in the bam, but he will find us filing saws. Pa says us boys have struck a lead now that makes him proud of us, and if we can’t find wood enough to saw he will buy some. If he does we will give it to somebody that is poor. "We are not sawing wood for people that are able to hire a Polacker to saw it.” “Well, you take the cake,” said the grocery man, as he cleared up the Single crumb that the tramp left. “One spell I expected you would bring up in

State prison, and now I wouldn’t b« surprised any Sunday to go to church aud find you in the pulpit.” “No, yon needn’t expect to find me in a pulpit,” said the boy, as he scratched a match on his pants to light the tramp’s pipe. “I shall practice, and not preach.”— Peck’s Sun.

Religious Life of the Freedmen.

The vast majority of the blacks art Baptist. Next in point of numbers come the Methodists. Lastly, thongl) vastly in the minority, stand the Presbyterians and the Episcopalians. In fact, the latter admit and deplore theii inability to carry out an adequate system of missionary work among the negroes. In only a few of the large towns do we find African Episcopal churches. True, all the white Episcopal churches have galleries set apart for the negroes, but they are unused, or at most sparsely occupied. It is not uncommon to see -a white Episcopal church with one or more colored members; but the chances are that one will turn out to be the well-paid sexton, and the rest a couple of superannuated carriage drivers, who, having in former days “ ’sociated wid the quality,” scorn to “take up wid poor folks and niggers.” As a rule the doctrine and ritual of this church seem utterly incomprehensible, and therefore repellent to the negro. He harbors an undisguised distrust of it. He does not consider il religion at all. He has not the faintest idea that it can save anybody. There is too little heat and too much'form; and the negro is the truceless enemy of form in religion or out of religion. He is a creature of emotion, impulse, noise. Restraint is odious, insupportable. An apt text, a familiar allusion, or simply the shout of a fellow listener, plunges him into ecstacies, and thenceforward he is alive only to the sound oi his own voice.— Atlantic.

The Discovery of Quinine.

It is not generally known that to a woman the European world is indebted for the greatest febrifuge extant. The Countess of C'hinchon, a noble Spanish lady, daughter of the Marquis ol Astorga, and wife of the Viceroy of Pei'u, lay ill of a fever. The Indians of Peru had long known of the febrifugal qualities of the bark, which they called quinaquinn, bark of barks. They communicated their knowledge to a Spaniard in high authority, who consented to use it, and was cured of a fever. This gentleman, Don Juan Lopez de Canizares, imparted the information of this cure to a physician who was in attendance on the Countess of Chinchon. at the same time sending the lady a parcel of the valuable bark. Consenting to use it, her fever was allayed, and when she returned to Spain she carried some of the Peruvian bark with her, and made its qualities known. Linnaeus named the genus which yielded it chinchona, in honor of the lady. In consequence of her introducing it into Europe it was called “Countess’ bark.” The Jesuits promoted greatly its introduction into Europe, hence it was sometimes called Jesuit’s bark; and many attributed its introduction to them, when, in reality, they only diffused its knowledge and encouraged its use. Louis XIV. purchased the secret of preparing the qainquina from the bark from Dr..Talbor, an English physician, paying him 2,000 louis d’ors, and granting him a pension and a title.

A Parrot with a Pious Wink.

In our cabin we bad quite a menagerie of tame birds and animals, writes Moncure D. Conway, referring to bis recent yoyage from Honolulu to San Francisco. When I was spoken to by this parrot, while passing, I turned and closely inspected its face. It winked. There was something in its mere wink so pious and something so unctuous in its voice that I feel confirmed in my suspicion that this is the penitent parrot. Without being in the least annoyed by anyone, and while seemingly looking out in a dreamy mood over the deep blue sea, this bird would suddenly break out with a volley of mariners’ patois and oaths enough* to turn the air purple around it. At length, when it was heard that some ladies had declared they would never again sail on a ship with such a bird, it was resolved that the parrot must be cured of its bad habits. And it was. Its oaths were invariably followed by a ducking. A large bucket of salt water was emptied on tile poor bird’s head, each splash accompanied with the remark, “You’ve been swearing.” Polly was thoroughly cured by this. Once, when the boat shipped a heavy sea which gave the reformed parrot a severe ducking, the bird, conscious of its own innocence, decended from its perch and repaired to the place of poultry. There it walked up and down before the deluged fowls, saying to them “You’ve been swearing! You’ve been swearing!”— Exchange.

A Japanese School-House.

Beside the clear, crystal waters of a running stream, and surrounded With lilies, we noticed on our way up Tu'jiYama, the Japanese sand mountain, what we thought to be a school-house, and our curiosity prompted us to ask admittance. There were some fifteen children in the room, which was furnished with long, plain tables. There appeared to be no check upon the children, who were moving about and conversing with each other. The master was teaching the smaller ones the char* acters of the written language by writing them on a black-board and requiring them to repeat the sounds indicated by them. Some were engaged in writing upon th'eir slates, others in arithmetical calculations and others in reading or committing to memory from text-books. There seemed to be an entire freedom from restraint, and we were surprised at the happy and contented manner in whioh they pursued their studies. Bright and intelligent little fellows they looked; and, from what we have seen of the youth of Japan, we are convinced there is much to be expected from them.— Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. In the German Empire there are 7,719,382 women who have been married. Of these 1,909,382 are widows.

ARMY AND NAVY.

Reports of the Army Quartermaster and Commissary Generals. Some Points from the Reports of Heads of Naval Bureaus. THE ARMY. FEEDING THE BOTS IN BLUE. The report of the Commissary General of the army for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, shows that the total resources for that year were $3,027,209, and the total expenditures $3,220,308, leaving a balance of $706,901. The additional 2 per cent, on cost Is still charged on all sales to officers and enlisted me* (except sales of tobacco .to the latter), in accordance with the decision of the Secretary of- War. The clause requiring the extra charge was omitted from the Appropriation bill for the year ending June 30, 1884. Daring the year 118 newspaper advertisements and 87 circulars for proposals were reported and 2,217 contracts made. The average contract price per pound for fresh beef for the year 1883 was 10.11 cents per pound, and for 1884 10.01 cents. The losses In the transportation of subsistence stores, for which no one was found responsible, during the year amounted to $13,350. The total losses by storms, fire, accidents and thefts were $2,222. The subsistence stores condemned during the year involve a net loss of $14,661. Attention is invited to the nocessity of providing good cooks and bakers fer the army. TRANSPORTATION, ETC. The report of the Quartermaster General of the Army shows that the total resources were $15,051,856, the expenditures $13,750,577. The construction of ninety new buildings, such as barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, guardhouses, etc., have been authorized at an estimated cost of $147,178. Kepairs to existing buildings have been authorized at an estimated cost of $125,599. An appropriation Of $125,000 is urged to replace the building used as it recruiting-depot and training-school for recruits at David’s Island, N. Y. The expenses for transportation amounted to $2,149,051. The expenses of military transportation not paid out of the regular appropriation comprised that provided over bonded Pacific railroads, $845,114, which is credited on the debts of these railroads, and that provided over land-grant railroads, to which 50 per cent, of tariff rates is paid under act of Congress of June 30, 1882, making a special appropriation of $125,000 for«that purposo. The unsettled accounts of the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific, Central Pacific, and Sioux City and Pacific roads amount to $1,508,165. The earnings of these railroads on account of military transportation from their first opening to June 30, 1883, amount to $13,251,107. Special attention is called to the debts of the Southern railroad companies to the United States for purchase of railway material in 1865 and 1866. The report says that of fifty railroads so indebted the acpounts of forty-six have been closed and pettLed. The four railroads still in debt to the United States have made no cash payments for several years, and the indications are that the present unsettled and unsatisfactory condition of affairs will continue indefinitely until Congress shall interpose. It is recommended that the Quartermaster General’s office be relieved of this entire business. ORDNANCE. The report of the Chief of Ordnance shows that 33,621 arms were manufactured at the National armory during the year. Contracts have been made for converting fifty ten-inch Rodmans into eight-inch rifles and making four large brea'ch-loading rifles. It has been found that steel hoops for banded guns manufactured in this country are fully equal in quality to the best hoops of European manufacture. It is recommended that the converson of ten-inch smooth-bores into eight-inch rifles be continued, that over 300 fifteen-inch smooth-bores be improved so the heaviest charges may be used, and that Congress encourage the formation of volunteer organizations in every State, district and city by making liberal appropriations for arming the same.

THE NAVY.

EXPENDITURES FOR FOOD AND CLOTHING. The report of J. A. Smith, Paymaster General of the United States navy, Chief of the Bureau for Provisions and Clothing, shows that the expenditures for provisions during the year amounted to $1,000,959. The amount expended by pay officers abroad was $864,860; expended by the bureau, $273,918. There is a deficiency for provisions amounting to $173,987. The total expenditures on account of cjothing were $215,741, leaving a balance of $314,586. The total amount expended on account of small stores was $22,556, leaving a balance of $127,050. The amount expended for contingencies was $18,549, leaving a balance of $31,539. A comparison with previous years shows a rapid increase In payments for commuted rations. Great improvement has been made in the clothing of the enlisted men of the navy under the present system of manufacture at the New York navy yard. Changes are, however, contemplated, with a view of improving the quality and reducing the cost of the clothing. An appropriation of SOO,OOO is asked for the payment of freight on stores. The estimates for the next fiscal year include $18,580 on account of salaries for elerks; $l,lOO for miscellaneous expenses; $120,450 for commuted rations of 1,100 officers; $180,675 for commuted rations of I,6so’men and boys; $21,900 l'oi commuted rations of 200 marines; $876,975 for rations for 7,400 men, boys aud marines and other expenses; $60,000 for freight on shipments, and $12,411 for expenses of the civil establishment. CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. The Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy, estimates that $400,000 will be necessary to complete the frigate New York at the Brooklyn navy-yard, and the Mohican at Mare island. He recommends that the Thilmany process for preserving timber be adopted. A sufficient appropriation should be made by Congress to purchase shipbuilding material to put in stock. The number of wooden vessels will be largely reduced under the operations of the act which forbids tlio repair of any wooden vessel of the navy when the repairs will cost more than 20 per cent, of the appraised value. It Is reoommended that the limit of repairs on wooden vessels be fixed at S 3 per cent, of the cost of a new vessel of like size and materials, unless Congress may see fit to replace them by Iron or steel vessels. Since the passage of the act in operation, repairs on the following named vessels have had to be abandoned: Alaska, Monongahela, Plymouth and Ticonderoga. All of those vessels, except the Alaska, were worth repairing. The same act will sacrifice the Richmond and Pensacola. The limit for the existence of the Minnesota Is fixed at eighteen months. The Colorado Is to be placed In ordinary,, and the Vermont fitted as a receiving ship. The Tennessee will not last longer than twelve months. The training-vessels Saratoga, Portsmouth, and Jamestown will soon have to be abandoned under the present law.

Richard Cousins, 100 years old, voted for Hoadly for Governor of Ohio at the recent election. Cousins cast his first vote for Thomas Jefferson in 1804, and from that year to this fall has not failed to attend any general election and has voted for an unbroken period of seventy-nine years an unscratcbed Democratic ticket. y— ———————— The Hannibal (Mo.) negroes have “resolved” to “disarm prejudice and the malignity of the power for evil ” by redoubling their energies to become “intelligent, industrious and law-abiding citizens, deserving of respect and fair treatment at the hands of every one.” Pawtucket, 2.1., with 25,000 population, has again voted not to take a city charter.

THE LAKE MARINE.

It Has Experienced the Most Disastrous Season of Nearly Twenty Years. [From the Chicago Times.] The northwesterly gale which has prevailed almost steadily on the chain of great lakes since Sunday last is the most disastrous to Hfe and property that has occurred in any one gale since 1867. The total number of wrecks are forty, which includes vessels going ashore, as well as those which went to pieces, and the total number of lives lost was sixty-eight, so far as known. Beside these, there are some vessels missing, or, rather, have not been heard from since the terrible gale began to blow. It is probable that all these will turn up, as they" may be safely sheltered in harbors about the lakes. Speaking in this connection, it may be of interest to know that the season, as a whole, has been the most disastrous to shipping and insurance men alike than was ever known before in the history of navigation on the lakes. The whole season has been marked by disasters terrible in their nature and entailing heavy loss upon insurance companies. This was partly due to an unpropitious and stormy season, but largely to the inexcusable mistakes of the signal service. They have missed every gale of wind In such aVay as to encourage vessel masters to leave port on the verge of veritable hurricanes. Such was the case last Sunday, and also last May. To go further back, they made the same mistake before the great gale of Oct. 16, 1880. Then followed the terrible disasters to the Alpena, Wells Burt, and, lastly, the Akely.

A MILE IN 2:8 1-2.

Marvelous Performance bjr the Trotting Horse Frank. The little bay gelding Frank beat the record in a race at Prospect park, New York, with a running mate against H. B. Winshlp and mate. The purse was for $2,000, and SSOO extra to the horse beating 2:10%. About 300 spectators were present, says a New York dispatch, and the track was in excellent con" dltion. In the first heat Frank led slightly tc the quarter pole, when Winship passed and took the pole, keeping it till just before reaching the three-quarter. Then Murphy sped his team, and, gainimg rapidly, lapped the other team and shot ahead. On the homestretch both teams were running. But Murphy brought his horses down, and they passed under the wire In good shape, winning by half a neck. The time was as follows: First quarter, 33%; half, 1:03%; three-quar-ters, 1:35%; mile, 2:08%. In the second heat three false starts were made before the horses got off, with Frank at the pole. Winshlp passed him at the quarter and led two lengths to the three-quarter, where Frank picked up, but did not hold his ground, Winshlp shooting ahead and coming under the wire a winner by a length and a half. Time—First quarter, 33%; half, 1:04%; three-quarters, 1:36%; mile, 2:10%.

ROASTED AND WHIPPED.

An Old Man’s Barbarous Treatment at the Hands of Colorado Bobbers. » [Denver (Colo.) Telegram.] At Petersburg Grove, seven miles from this city, resides an old bachelor farmer named Peter Olsen, who usually kept small sums of money about his premises. At night four disguised men went to the house and knocked. The farmer asked the visitors to come in. As soon as all were inside they seized Olsen, threw him on the floor, and demanded to know where his money was. He replied that he had none. After thoroughly searching the house to no purpose, Olsen still refusing to tell where the money was hidden, the robbers got willow switches and whipped their victim on the bare feet and legs until they were covered with blood. Olsen still refusing them, they built a large fire in the back yard and carried him out, and proceeded to execute their threat to burn him alive. They placed his feet in the fire, and literally roasted them. Even this terrible treatment did not induce him to give up his hidden treasure. He was then compelled to walk back to the house, where a scuffle ensued, during which the stove was overturned, disclosing a box containing S6OO, which the robbers took and decamped. There is no olew to their identity. Olsen will probably recover.

A VICTORY FOR WOMEN.

They Secure the jEOght to Vote in Another Territory. [Portland (Oregon) Dispatch.] The bill striking out the word “male” from all the election laws passed the council of the Washington Territory Legislature, la session ac Olympia, to-day, by a vote of 7to 5. It passed the House several weeks ago by 15 to 7. Gov. Newell has expressed his intention to sign the bill, and there is no doubt it will become law in regular time—sixty’days. The first opportunity the women will have to vote will be at the general election next November. An enthusiastic meeting of women suffragists is in session to-night, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, the recognized leader in the equal rights movement, being the central figure. *

LIKE REGION LIGHT-HOUSES.

[Washington Telegram.] The report of the Light-house board says the Eleventh Light-house district (upper lake region) contains 117 separate light stations and embraces 2,508 statute miles of lake coast. The district has become so large that it has become unwieldy. No Inspector can perform his' other duties and visit each of its 117 light stations once each three months, as required by the regulations for the inspection of the lights and the payment of the keepers, as the stations are too numerous and too far apart. The completion of the Northern Pacific railroad has given a stimulus to the navigation of -the upper lakes, and it is evident that as the commerce of the upper lakes increases additional lights and more buoys will be required. It is therefore recommended that the Light-house district which embraces the upper lakes be divided; that the portion which embraces Lake Michigan and Green Bay be set off and called the Seventeenth Light-house district, with headquarters at Milwaukee, and that the portion which embraces Lake Huron and Lake Superior be set off, retaining the old name, with headquarters at Detroit. The increase in the aids to navigation over the number in 1852, when the district was constituted, and the prospective increase in the near fu. ture makes the division quite neoessary.

ALL ABOUT BOLD BEN.

The Widow Butler has got the mitten, — Kansas City Times. a The “solid ticket” is the nation’s hope—old Ben is gone up.— Springfield (111.) Register. Butler’s boom for the Presidency is stove in. —Cleveland Herald. The hero of Tewksbury now knows how it Is himself.— Burlington Hawkeye. Gen. Butler has simply met with his natural and Inevitable reward.— Karisas 'Cits Journal. A Texas man has to make up his mind to live ninety-rifcie years in tho penitentiary.

THE GREAT ARMY OF WORKERS.

Diftrant Occupations <of Americans, and the Number Engaged In Each. The following list shows the principal occupations in which the American people are engaged. It is compiled from the last census report, and m»j be accepted as correct: In Agriculture— Panne-.s and planters 4,225.94! Agricultural laborers 3,323,87! Dairymen and dairywomen 8.948 Gardeners, nursery and vine-growers... 51,482 Btook-drovers 3,449 Stock-herder 5......... 24,098 Stock-raisers 16,538 Florists 4,55! All others 11,611 Total In agriculture 7,670,493 In Manufacturing and MiningBlacksmiths 172,726 Boot And shoemakers 191,073 Butchers 76,241 Cabinetmakers 50.664 Carpenters and joiners 373,143 Carriage and wagon makers 49,881 Cigar makers 65,599 Cotton-mill operators 169.771 Engineers and firemen 78,625 Fishermen and oystermen 41,352 Glassworks operators 17,984 Harness and saddle makers 39,960 Iron and steel operat.ves 114,539 Leather curriers, tanners, etc 29,842 Lumbermen and raftsmen 30,651 Machinists 101.136 Manufacturers 44.019 Marble and stone cutters 32,840 Masons, brick and stone 102,473 Mill operatives, not specified 30,836 Millers : 63:440 Milliners, dressmakers and seamstresses 285,401 Miners 234,228 Painters and vamlsliers 128,556 Paper-mill operatives 21,430 Plasterers 22,082 Plumbers and *gas-fitters «. 19,383 Printers, lithographers, and stereotypers 72,726 Saw and planing-mill operatives 77,050 Ship carpenters, caulkers, riggers and smiths 17,<62 Silk mill operatives 18,071 Tailors and tailoresses 133,750 Tinners and tinware workers 42,818 Tobacco factory operatives 20,446 Wheelwrights 15,592 Woolen mill or eratives 88,016 All others in mines and factories 7£4,888 Total 3.83 7,112 In trade and Transportation— Clerks in stores » £53,444 Draymen, hackmen and teamsters 177,586 Employes cf railroads, not clerks 236,058 Telegraph officials and employes 22,809 Sailors 60,070 Salesmen and saleswomen 72,279 Saloon-keepers and bar-tenders, besides 13,074 restaurant-keepers 68,461 Traders in cigars and t0bacc0...;........ 11,866 Traders in clothing 10,073 Traders in coal and wood 10,871 Traders in drugs and medicines 27,701 Traders in dry goods, fancy goods, etc.. 46.831 Traders in groceries '... 101,849 Tiaders in iron and copper wares 15,076 Traders in liquors and wh.es 13,5( 0 Traders in live stock 12,596 Traders in lumber 11,263 Traders in produce and provisions 85,129 Traders la real estate 11,253" Traders in sewing machines 6,571 Traders and dealers not specified........ 112,842 Undertakers '. 5,113 All others 387.008 Total in trade and transportation.. .1,810,258 In Professional and Personal Services — Barbers and laundresses 44,851 Clergymen 64,698 Dentists 12,311 Domestic servants 1,075,653 Employes of hotels and restaurants.... 77,413 Hostlers 81,697 Hotelkeepers 32,459 Journalists 12,338 Laborers not specified 1,859,225 Launderers and laundresses 121,942 Lawyers 64,137 Musicians 30,477 Officials of Federal and State governments 57,081 Clerks of Federal and State governments 16,849 Employes 31,401 Physicians and surgeons 85,671 Soldiers of U. S. army and navy 24,161 Teachers and scientific persons 287,716 Other professions 2,201,199 , Total in professions and transportation . 4,074,238 The total number of persons in the United States reported as employed in gainful occupations in 1880 was 17,392,099, out of a total population of 50,155,883, being 84.68 per cent, of the population of all ages, and 47.31 per cent, of the population over 16 years of age. Of these 14,744,942 were males and 2,647,157 were females. Of the males 825,187 were between 10 and 15 years of age, and of the females, 293,169. .

A Conscientious Conductor.

“How did I become Superintendent ?” answered the railroad official. “Why, it was this way: I was conductor of the morning passenger express, and one day, as we were coming down by the junction, we struck a misplaced switch and ran into a freight train that was standing on the siding. As we were running about thirty-five miles an hour, of course it piled things up a good deal. Our engine was smashed all to pieces, the ‘ smoker * telescoped the baggage car and the forward passenger coach ran up the heap and rolled over. I was standing on the platform at the time the thing happened, and luckily was slung off about thirty feet beside the track. When I picked myself up everything was confusion, the air was filled with clouds of escaping steam, and about fifty passengers were somewhere in the wreck. Of course, it was what you might call an ‘ emergency,’ but there’s no such word as that in the company’s dictionary. I had my orders and knew what to do. The roof of the smoking-car lay near me,'and I heard a man crying out from underneath # it. After about ten minutes’ work, I got the stuff all cleared away and reached him. He was very weak and groaning. * Oh, heavens !* he said, ‘ this timber presses on me so, I can’t move. Both my legs are broken below the knee.’ ‘Think you’ll be here till the next train ?’ I asked. ‘ Oh, yes;’ he moaned. * Then you’ll need a stop-over check, sir,’ I said, and I made out a pasteboard and gave it to him. ‘ Young man,’ he said, ‘ I observe that you have neglected to fill in the day of the month; but, under the circumstances, your omission is excusable. lam a Director of the company, and if I survive your attention to duty shall be rewarded.’ The old gentleman pulled through and is now Vice President. That’s how I became Superintendent, and”—he continued, musingly, as he fingered his lantern watch-charm—“l believe in the old saying, that the company has rights which the public is bound to respect and rules which they must conform to.” — Life.

Intellectual Women.

The wisest men unite in the belief that intensely intellectual women are not always the most desirable companions. Auerbach, in “On the Heights,” describes the Countess Irma, with all her wit, grace and beauty, as “an unspeakably fatiguing women, requiring au everlasting firework display of mind.” Pyrotechnic displays are wonderful and delightful, but an eternal Fourth of •July, mental or material, would soon wear out the stanchest man. Bless the dull day and the average woman. Each has its niche to fill.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Coroner of Floyd county has held but sixteen inquests since Jan. 1. The house and barn of Mrs. Pierce, south >f Carlisle, were burned. Loss, 12,000. James STORy, oonvicted of killing Joseph Beaver, has been granted a new trial at Kushville. Mas. T. W, Henderson, for fifty years a resident of Charlestown, Clark county, i lead. . 8 The Evansville council has granted right >f way to the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph company. Two cases of small-pox are reported in Vew Albany. The oouncll has taken precautionary measures. The President has appointed Shaffer Peter, ion Postmaster at Decatur, in place of Bo niarnin Shotty, resigned. Georoe Fuller, whoso father was at one lime a representative man in Vigo county, tas been adjudged insaneA. B. Clark, a freshman, diod in Purduo university, Lafayette—the first death since the organization of the college. Lee Hirsch’s clothing establishment at Terre Haute, has been closed. Liabilities not known; assets about $16,000. John Wall committed suicide at Clark's hill, near Lafayette.' Poverty and Intemperance are the supposed causes of the deed. Hodson & Clark, for the past twentyceven years saddlers at Anderson, are reported to have made an assignment. Liabilities $3,000. At Birdseye, J. Carmichael killed Charles Ewing, for eloping with and marrying his daughter, and attempted to murder the latter. In the Connersville district of the Southeast Indiaifa M. E. conference there was an increase last year of 306 members, making a membership of 5,637. Eugene Debs, Grand Secretary and Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, was presented a diamond pin at Terre Haute, by his friends. Mrs. Jonathan Landig, of Wells county. Committed suicide by hanging. She is supposed to have lost her mind, owing to the recent death of her husband and son. During the past conference year, pastors of the Southeast Indiana M. E. conference made 9,806 pastoral visits, preached 3,649 sermons and administered 380 baptisms. The Ontario society, of Terre Haute, and the Philharmonics, of Evansville, will give jointly the oratorio of St. Paul, at Terre Haute and Evansville, during the winter. Alexander Woods, Postmaster and Justice of the Peace at Dundee, near Elwood, was assaulted by two masked men, a few pights since. He had previously received a number of anonymous letters warning him to leave. H 6 contemplates leaving. At a meeting of a number of the surviving comrades of the Thirty-ninth Indiana regiment, Eighth cavalry, held in Kokomo, it was decided to hold a regimental reunion, and a committee was appointed to perfect arrangements for the same. The remarkable divorce suit in the Union Circuit court, at Liberty, between Jane Spahr and Samuel Spahr, both over 80 years old, 'with a married life of nearly sixty years, has been compromised. The plaintiff receives SI,OOO cash, and is to havo S4OO annually during her life, and withdraws her complaint. The couple remain separate without divorce. About two years ago Jacob Rantz, who ; lived about three miles west of Laketon, Wabash county, whilo fishing intho Twin Lakes, was drowned. Among his effects was found the model of a patent switch for railroads. Mr. N. G. Hunter was appointed the administrator of the estate, but found very little to administer upon except the patent. Re. cently it has been found that there are a great many railroads throughout the country usiDg this very patent, or an infringement i upon it. A movement is now on foot to give | the heirs of the dead inventor their rights In the matter. It is asserted that Rantz refused SIO,OOO for the patent before his death. The offer was made by Chicago parties. A well-dressed young man called at Col. Thomas’s jewelry-store, at Terre Haute, while the proprietor was at supper, saying to several ladies in a millinery establishment at the other side of the store-room that his watch had been left there to be repaired and that he must have it, as he was going away on the train. The ladies replied that they I had nothing to do with the jewelry-store. “Oh, well,” said the stranger, “I’ll Just step behind the counter and get it; I know Mr. Thomas, and if you oannot ac.ept pay for the work I will see him.” Suiting the action to i the word, the stranger took from the case a | gold watch worth $l5O and a silver watch i worth S4O and walked away. Within an hour : an Express reporter had tracked him down, and, calling a policeman, the thief was arrested. He gave the name of Allen Nelson. The watches were recovered. William Forkner, a highly-respected and wealthy citizen living a few miles east of Anderson, dressed himself the other evening ready to go to church, some half mile distant, when, on going to the door, he noticed some one walking around his straw-stack. When he got to the end of it he could see no one, and he started to walk round it, when a man, covered from the top of his head to the lower part of his breast with a mask, sprang from the straw and commenced firing at him with a revolver. The first shot passed through the crown of Mr. Forkner’s hat, literally tearing the crown away. The second shot passed through his coat and shirt on his left side opposite his heart. By this time the ruffian was within arm’s length, and, placing the muzzle of his pistol against Forkner’s breast, attempted to fire again, but It only snapped, and he took to his heels. Although the villain was closely masked, it is pretty well understood that he is known. The clothes of Mr. Forkner were badly burnt and torn, but he received no wounds.

Dr. Harrison, who, with his family, has |>een residing: In Red Key for the past two years, died recently from the effects of an pverdose of morphine. It Is generally Relieved that the morphine was taken with suicidal intent. He leaves a widow and four children. Mr. De Pauw has begun the sinking of his 1,600-foot oil well in Harrison county. If he does not find oil or gas before reaching that i depth he will abandon it, and sink one or two j more in the same vicinity. T. B. Voole & Co., tailors, of Fort Wayne, Ind., have failed. Liabilities $15,000.