Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — Page 3

THE BAD BOY.

“Come in, come in," said the grocery 'm n to the bad boy, as he stopped on .the doorstep outside the grocery to go down into his pistol pocket for a little Vbange for a tramp that had come out of the grocery just ahead of the Fg ocery man’s boot “Come right in, mid don’t stand there talking with such cattle,” and the grocery man looked as mad as though he had left the spigot cf the molassae barrel running. "What’s the matter with you ?” said the bad boy, as he watched the tramp go into a bakery and come ont with a loaf of bread, and go off chewing the end of it as though it was the sweetest morsel a white man ever put a tooth into, and the smile the tramp showed on one side of the bread as he salftted the bad boy through the window was worth a dollar to the boy. “You seem to have got out of the wrong end of the bed this morning. What ails you?” “Oh, the tramps, and beggars, and subscriptions, and games to beat an honest man out of his hard-earned money,” said the grocery man, as he threw a hatchet on the floor with which he had been splitting up a box, and kicked a market basket across the room. “There is not a day but some one comes in here after money. Why don’t people that haven’t got any money go to the poor-house ? Why don’t sick people go to the hospitals? Condemn it! I have had people come in here for help for the Old Ladies’ home, and the Old Men’s home, and to sell ball tickets to help people that have ibeen sand-bagged, till I hope I may never see another person asking for help as long as I live.” “And you never would see another person asking for help, or coming to buy any of your decayed groceries, if they knew what kind of a hard-hearted sold pirate you was. Why, blast your jold vinegar countenance, you haven’t sot a heart bigger than a mustard Iseed,” said the boy, as he picked up the hatchet for fear the grocery man would Isplit him for kindling wood. | “Yes I have,” said the grocery man, find he appeared a little ashamed of what he had said. “My heart is all light, but they play it on me. The pther day I gave a tramp 5 cents to puy bread, and he went and bought a ■glasp of beer at a free-lunch place. That made me mad.” | “Well, bread, plain dry bread, is oretty hard eating. would yon like to go out on the sidewalk and gn»w fi dinner off a loaf of dry bread ? The isramp knew his business. He could go ■X) a saloon with that nickel and buy a tjlass of beer as though he had a bushel bf money, and while he was drinking it le could go to the lunch counter and gbt sausage, and rye bread, and head bheese, and liver, and cold ham, all for lothing. If you had only a nickel left, rad had a full-sized stomach, perfectly knpty, which would you do, stand out in a cold corner and chew bread, with bo water nearer than the lake, or would rou go into a nice warm saloon, buy a jlass of beer and have a big dinner brown in for a chromo. By gosh, you >ould go to the saloon, and you would ■flake the lunch counter look sick. No\>ody else keeps a warm place for ;ramps to eat free lunches by buying 5 cents’ worth of goods, and a tramp Bvould be a fool if he didn’t take advantage of such a chance, when the bermometer is 30 degrees below zero.” “I swow, I don’t know but you are ight, Hennery,” said the grocery man, with a forced smile. “I guess I would baralyze that lunch. But a man has bo business to be a tramp. Why don’t hey go to work ?” “Work? Why don’t you give one of hem work ? Nobody has any work for . tramp. A tramp may be a son of a aember of Congress, but if he has >een on the turf until he has had to iawn his clothes, one article after anther, to keep from starving, and looks iard, you don’t want him. He may be aore honest than you are, and letter educated, but his clothes ire thin, and he looks seedy, .nd cold, and hungry, and hasn’t ;ot any money. You do not stop to bink that he may be a thoroughbred. Ton fire him out, and he gets so he jhinks there isn’t a man in the world jrith a soul. If he steals, it is to keep him from starving, and not to lay up none;, like some gocers.” { “Hold on there, boy. I don’t steal—brach," said the grocery man. “But, tramps are all right enough. These ild people’s homes, where old men and women are kept in idleness, is what nakes me tired. Why don’t they go pnd live with their folks ?” | “Well, you are a smart Aleck,” said boy. “Why don’t they live with j|heir folks? That is good. Do you suppose these old people would go to a baritable home if they had one of jbeir own? They have outlived relatives and friends who would take care j»f them, and go to the home, where dnd-hearted strangers make the last lay of their lives as happy as possible, >nd they depend upon what they can ;et from people who have hearts, to >ay the expenses, and it is not often bat any person with a soul kicks at a ittle contribution towards banking up he stomachs of the old people who ,mve been pioneers when the country vas new. Many of these old people, viiom you find fault with for being old md poor, were rich and respected vhen you. were poor and ignorant, and t is possible you may be closed out by vour creditors some day, and have to ;o io a poor-house, and then von can appreciate it when some iither blasted skinflint refuses to contribute to your support. But you will lot be troubled any more by people Killing for aid, for I shall have a sign .painted and nailed up on the corner, laying there is no use of any person in leed of aid to keep them from want and (offering coming to you, for you are lowu on poor people and consider them lead beats, and that you will kick any person out doors who comes in asking :or anything, and that you growl and grumble more over giving away a nickel ban some people would in giving $5. C will fix you so that you can enjoy a jiuiet life. Let me take that box cover rad a paint pot a minute, please.” "No, you don’t,” said the grocery nun, pale with shame and excitement. ‘You don’t put up no sign. What I (aid about giving to the poor was said

hi a moment ot passion, when f had a hot box, bat you have showed me what a blasted old fool I am, and hereafter I will give freely to anybody that comes. Great Caesar, I wouldn’t have such a sign nut up for SI,OOO. It would ruin my business.” “Well, don’t ever Fay anything again ahcut charity that you would be ashamed to see in print,” and the bad boy went out whistling “The Dotlet on the Eye.”— Peck’* Sun.

THE INFLUENCE OF FLOWERS.

BY HENRY WALTER. JR.

When, on a bright midsummer’s day, we stand in a portion of Nature’s wide domain, and cast our eyes furtively over a field of wild flowers, and our thoughts wander forward in bright anticipation to the future, how quickly do we acknowledge the value of these gifts from our Creator, as an emblem of His presence and watohfulness. How exhilarating do the flowers then appear! How captivating to the eye! How infinitely predominating they seem! Like an oasis in a desert, at which a weary traveler may quench his thirst, they appear like fertile spots in our pathway; we may either stop and enjoy their fertility or pass on and be lost to it forever. Thus, we may live on entirely ignorant of our rich possessions without utilizing them, while, if they were, they would repay us a thousand fold. They would be our comfort in youth and middle age. They would be our oomfort in old age. There are thousands of persons who yearly go sorrowing to the grave, while, if they had directed their thoughts in this direction, their lives might have been full of pleasure instead of sorrow. How quickly would they, too, have acknowledged the value and importance of the flowers. Accustomed to see them in every day life and benefited by their beauty and perfume when prostrated on beds of sickness, they might, indeed, have proved a blessing. So it is with men who work. After a hard day’s work how pleasant and recreating is a visit to our flower-garden. Then the cool*air of the evening, commingling with the perfume of the dainty blossoms, transports us, so to speak, from a state of weariness to one of comfort and satisfaction. The flowers that during the day drooped and faded under the sweltering rays of the sun, are now braced up by the cool air, and vie with each other in producing the most agreeable perfume. Our garden is the threshold to beauty and purity. Within it we find an assemblage of merry faces, upturned to the sun to catch its last rays ere it sinks from view in the west. Within it we behold the beauty for which these merry faces are noted, and inhale the delicate perfume which is emitted from their lips. What a beautiful sight it is! How eagerly do we pause and take a second look! Wrapped up in these flowers is a secret that remains for each of us to unfold. What a study for the painter, and for the sculptor, and each of these in his turn has knelt at the shrine of Flora. Poets have vied with one another in portraying her charm in language of explicit sweetness. Likewise have artists striven to excel one another in paying homage to her beauty. But, seemingly, how vain and fruitless have been their efforts. Not that their productions were not meritorious, but that the original was so infinitely perfect that it was next to impossible to produce a perfect likeness. Each generation, in the march of time, is making rapid advancement in floriculture, and the flowers of to-day are far more numerous and varied in character than they were a hundred years ago, consequently our poelts and artists have a greater work to accomplish ; but, to meet this argument, it may be truly said that, in this enlightened age of ours, they, likewise have made rapid advancement in their chosen arts. The influences to which we are subjected in the cultivation of flowers are alike numerous and benefiting. They give us pleasure and mental improvement here, and a bright insight into the future, where, we are told, light and sunshine are perpetual. They afford us ample employment for our spare moments, by which we not only accomplish good but are ourselves directly benefited. Our knowledge of the subject in question is thus increased; our thoughts are directed in that line; oui jndgment is rendered shrewder; and the mind, under these joint actions, is strengthened and rendered more competent to cope with subjects of greater depth. And, with the impetus thus gained in our given s£udy, how bright and merry indeed appear our lives. And, if but for a brief period our knowledge forsook us, into what a sad predicament would we be thrown. But such a thing cannot be. As the flowers increase so also does our knowledge increase; and as years roll on, these little lessons in floriculture may be turned to advantage and our vivid thoughts advanced on the subject may have become so eroneous and fixed as to be shining lights. —Floral World.

Our Tobacco Growth.

[Newport, Ky., Key State JopmaL] The growing of tobacco in this country annually assumes vaster proportions, aud is becoming more and more lucrative. Cuba begins to see a rival in the United States in the cultivation of tobacco, which it was supposed, twenty-five years ago, could not be produced anywhere in quantity-and flavor equal to that grown and cured in the Gem of the Antilles. This fact cannot but have a powerful influence in Spain on the subject of the sale of Cuba to the United States. Onoe it is clearly demonstrated that the tobacco crop of Cuba can no longer be made a controlling produoe in the markets of the world, and that the United States is producing a crop equal, if not superior, to the crop grown on that island, Spain will be ready to sell, and that at a price to suit the buyer. It is often in this way that diplomacy is suddenly arrested, and the best laid schemes of statesmen to acquire power or domain put to confusion. Time is the old justice that examines all offenders. — Shakspeare. John Hell is the principal ice-dealer ia Salt Lake City.

DANA, REID, AND APPLETON.

rta* Three-Corn* red Quarrel Between The*. New Yorkers. Whitelaw Reid and Charles A. Dana, after having despised and derided each other for ten years, have “made up,” and are now as thick as two philanthropists. I know of no more touching soene than to behold these two great journalists saints each other on meeting any time during the last six months. All the suppressed energy accumulated during a decade of non-intercourse seems to increase the grin of their embrace. But the kindred quarrel of the Tribune and the Appletons is not made up by any means; and I know of no reason why the true story of that quarrel, which is by no means a petty one as it stands, should not now be told. Very welL Imprimis, Reid, and Dana were sworn enemies—or, at any rate, Dana was. After being removed from the managing editorship of the Tribune because he had clamored “Forward to Richmond,” he nursed his wrath toward that paper and everybody connected with it. He regarded his suceessar, Sidney Howard Gay, with a mild contempt; Mr. Gay’s successor, Young, he did his best to cover with odium, Mr. Greeley he hated royally; and when the comparatively unknown Mr. Reid came from Cincinnati and assumed his old desk, Mr. Dana lost his head entirely, and alluded to him habitually as the Young Man of the Tall Tower, and the Young Man of the Powerful Miud, and Jay Gould’s Young Editor. Reid retaliated with silence. He directed that neither Sun nor Mr. Dana should ever be mentioned in the Tribune. Indeed, he went further. He directed that no interest of Mr. Dana should be mentioned.

Now, as long before as 1857, in the very midst of the panic, in which most all publishers, even Harper & Brothers, went under, Appleton & Co. began the American cyclopedia, and of that great work Ripley and Dana of the; Tribune were made editors. As they could not properly review a work of which they were editors, Mr. Greeley was in the habit of reviewing each volume as it appeared, over his own initials. When he died Mr. Wm. H. Appleton saw Mr. Reid, and it was arranged that he should continue to do the Bame over his initials. The work was then being revised. Three or four volumes came out, and they received no notiee in the Tribune. Mr. Appleton sent inquiries. “Will attend to it shortly,” wrote Mr. Reid. Still months passed and more volumes appeared. No notice. More promises. More volumes. Then an interview brought out the fact that Mr. Reid would not notice a work one of whose editors was calling him a “Young Man of a Powerful Mind.” He scorned the allegation aud defied the alligator. Having an option he decided not to eat that sort of crow. He would not sully the columns of the daily, but he would publish in the semi-weekly Tribune as many extracts from other papers commending the work as the publishers wished. “Very well,” said their agent, “that will satisfy us. ” So column after column of extracts appeared in the semi.

When William H. Appleton got home he was mad—in the excellent American sense of that word—long may it be retained ! He said that wasn’t the bargain. He wouldn’t stand it. Dana as journalist had nothing to do with Dana as cyclopedist. So he hotly sent to the Tribune a bill for $125 ior the cyclopedia. To pay the bill Mr. Reid sent a counter-bill of $513 for advertising in the same. With this offset bill Mr. Reid sent notice that no book of the Appletons should ever be noticed in the Tribune, and that their advertisemnts would no longer be received. This rule was carried out. 'No mention of Appleton & Co. has ever been made in the book notices of the Tribune. Their numerous and valuable works have been for ten years entirely ignored, and the readers of the literary columns of the Tribune are entirely ignorant of the issues of the largest publishing house in the country. Unless they have learned it elsewhere they do not even know that the new edition of the “American Cyclopedia” has ever been printed. Meantime, the letter “R” was reached in due course, and the Appletons and other editors of the work wanted Reid’s name inserted because place was given to other names of the same class. Mr. Dana peremptorily vetoed it. When Mr. Reid was in Europe two years ago Appleton & Co. began to advertise some scientific books in the Tribune. The absentee saw it and cabled to the counting-room to collect the bills when the advertisements were presented, instead of monthly or quarterly, as to others. Appleton & Co. wouldn’t stand that, and withdrew again. That was the last attempt at Eeace-making up to date.—New Fork •■tier.

She Caught On.

A woman who was harrying along Catharine street was halted by an acquaintance, who inquired if anything had happened. “I should think so!” she exclaimed in great excitement. “There’s been thieves in my house!” “No!” “Yes, and I’ve been robbed!” “Of what?" “Well, all I miss are a pair of earrings and a hair-brush. ” “And where are you going?” “After an officer.” “Exactly. Now, let me give you a piece of advice. Make out that there were at least three thieves. They got away with all your jewelry, a lot of clothes, SSO in money and some valuable papers. Make it out as big as you can.” “Oh, I was intending to do that, sir. Yes, indeed, I will.” “And if you meet with a reporter add to the rest that a fiendish attempt was made to set your house on fire and roast your children alive!” “I'll do it, sir. I was already wondering whether I’d have ’em start the fire in a closet or on the bed. I’ll make the neighbors jealous if I have to be knocked down with a club!”— Detroit Free Press.

PYNE'S POSITION.

Speech of Ohio’s New Senator at the Cleveland Banquet < Gentlemen e/the General Assembly: You have seen fit to elect me to the highly honorable and responsible position ot a member ot the United States Senate. No doubt the compliment was mainly Intended for the patiently-waiting, long-suffering, ever faithful and true Democrats of Northern Ohio. For the first time in the history of the State they have been reoognizied and honored by their brethren. In their name I meet you tonight to thank you for the noble act of justice which has been so gracefully and generously awarded to them. For myself also I have desired this social gathering that 1 might in person assure you of my sincere and lasting gratitude, and give you a frank expression of my views on some of the pressing issues of the day. For fifty years I have been a resident of the State and a oola borer in the Democratic field. In forty-nine consecutive State elections I have supported and voted none other than the Democratic ticket, and every one of those votes has been cast in a Democratic ward in the oity of Cleveland. I have actively participated in twelve Presidential canvasses, in which, among other questions, the issues of the removal of the deposits by Gen. Jackson; the Independent Treasurer under Van Buren; the annexation of Texas; the war with Mexico; the popular sovereignty of Stephen A. Douglas; the Lecompton constitution of Buchanan; incipient secession at Charleston; the civil war under Lincoln; the abolition of slavery; the resumption and maintenance of specie payments; the great fraud of 1876 were by me discussed before the people without evasion or disguise; and I am proud to declare that to-night, reviewing the past from the advanced milestone in the journey of life, there is not one of the opinions then expressed that I would recall, or change, or modify, if I had the power to do so. This is all I care to say In vindication of the orthodoxy of my political faith or of my steadfast loyalty to the Democratic party. Gentlemen, I am induced to accept this Senatorship to which you have elected me mainly by the hope and belief that in the discharge of its duties I may be useful to the State and the party. The last must be secondary to and in harmony with the first, and both must have the approbation of my conscientious convictions. I will in no case knowingly violate the constitution or perpetrate a wrong. But to be useful the representative must be cordially sustained by his constituents, and that they may sustain him there must be between them and him a substantial agreement of views. As to the influence of the lobby I think you need have no apprehension. They have always deemed it expedient to give me a wide berth, and the increased rigidity that age imparts to the features will not be less repellant to their Insidious approaches. I will now proceed to some more Important questions. And first, civil service. For twenty-three years the disposition of Federal patronage has been in the hands of tho Republican party. Appointments have all been made from the adherents of that party, and mostly from the class of active politicians. The Federal Judges (Supreme, Ciroult and District), with their Clerks, Marshals, Assistants, Deputies, Registers, Master Commissioners, Assignees, have been and are Republicans. The heads of departments and their subordinates through all grades down to the messenger and porter, the sub-Treasurers, Collectors of both customs and internal revenue, Surveyors, Postmasters, letter-carriers, numbering in the aggregate more than 100,000, have been supplied from the one party, while nine-tenths of that party and the entire Democratic party have been and are now absolutely prescribed and debarred the public service. During the period money by the thousand millions has been collected and disbursed and the books kept by these partisan agents, furnishing an opportunity and a temptation for speculation, fraud, and concealment to which I should dread to expose even the ironolad Integrity of Democrats. Inevitably corruption and great abuses have crept in and hava been covered up; favoritism, protegeesm, nepotism, imbecility, and senility have obtained secure lodgment; demoralization has followed, and the public believe that a fetid mass exists, permeated with rottonness and gangrene. Now, can this service be reformed, and by what process? I answer, yes; and the process Is, first, by electing a Democratic President, and that is assured the present year, unless unwLdom and madness from the gods are permitted to block the way; second, by a pitiless and radical overhauling and purging of the present service. An Augean stable cannot be cleaned with a tooth-brush. You must turn on the hose, ply the hickory broom and scrub-brush, disinfect the premises, and give them a wholesome atmosphere for honest incumbents. Then let care be taken that none but such as bear the Jeffersonian stamp of “ honesty and capacity’ ’ be allowed to- enter, and those only from the Democratic party, until Its full rateable share enter to guard and proteot the public interest. If public offices be a sacrificial burden, all citizens should be compelled (by conscription, if need be) to share their portion. If, on the other hand, as most believe, it is a privilege and a blessing, onehalf or three-fourths of the whole population should not be excluded from enjoying their Just share of It. By this means reform is practicable, and, until accomplished, no stable settlement of the question can be obtained.

One year ago I ventured to make public some opinions in regard to the tariff, recognizing the divergence of views in the Democratic party and declaring that such divergence was the chief obstacle to the success of the party. At the State convention in June those opinions were oonsMered, condensed and crystallized into what has since become well known as the “Ohio platform.” It was unanimously approved by the convention. It distinctly rejects a “high tariff” or “ protection for “ protection’s sake ” on the one hand, and the equally inadmissible doctrine of “free trade ” or “tariff for revenue only ”on the other. It sought to find a compromise basis intermediate between the two extremes, which being equitable and just, would challenge the assent and concurrence of all lair-minded men and measurably remove it from the arena of partisan politics. Let me illustrate its excellence by an application to the interests of Ohio. For several decades Ohio has held'the third rank in the classification of States. Until the last ber main dependence fpr growth was in the development of her agricultural wealth. There were public lands to be entered, improved, populated, and created into new. counties. There was vast tracts of valuable timber, the building of canals, facilitating transportation to market, and, later, a system of railroads increasing these facilities and expending annually in their construction many millions of money. But now these aspects are greatly, changed. There are n9w no more lands subject to entry; there are no more, new counties in reserve; the valuable timber has been marketed; the canals have ceased to be tributary; and the railroad system is practically completed. The soil has been considerably impoverished; the cereal crops are. less bountiful, while the great Improvement of agricultural Implements, with the consolidation of small farms has, greatly reduced the demand for farm-bands. Even her wool staple is in peril of severe and Injurious attack. Is It not the duty of statesmanship to previse the sources of strength and growth that shall enable her to maintain the grand rank which she has hitherto held? The last census shows where these germs of strength are to be found. We have already more than 20,000 manufacturing and mechanical industries in which—included in great part by Congressional statutes—92oo,ooo,o.o of capital are invested, 160,000 hands are employed, receiving annually in wage) $60,000,000. Two hundred and flfjeen millions of material are used, and the manufactured product is $316,000,000 in value. More than 20 per cent, of her population And the r employment and livelihood in these Industrie). Iron ore and coal and other raw material are simply inexhaustible; her people are educated, industrious, and enterprising; and there is no reason why a ihousand other home industries should not spring up and flourish in our towns and villages as they have sprung up and are flourishing In the towns and villages of Few England. This will assuredly be the result If only Congress wUI let us alone. We

ask no high rates or special protection that j favor monopolies, but we ask and demand stability and exemption from agitation. Let the law of March last have a lair trial, and i as resulting statistics disclose error# and Inequalities they can and should be remedied; already our farmers are making a loud and just demand for the restoration of the doty bn wool. See how admirably the Ohio filstform supplies the satisfactory so ution of this economic problem: It reads: “Wefavor a tariff lor revenue” (no resort to direct taxation or the voluntary contributions of States) "limited to the necessities of the Government”—(negativing the idea of protection for protection only), "economically administered"—(not $350,000.000, or $400,000,000 as under Republican administration of extravaganoo and waste, but $250,000,000, or $375,000,000 under the plain but frugal and efficient rule of the Democratic party), "and so adjusted in its application as to prevent unequal burdens, enoourage productive industries at borne and afford just compensation for labor and not to create and foster monopolies." No fair criticism can question the Justness and soundness of the policy here outlined. The man who would place wool and all other dutiable goods on the "free list" and resort to direct taxes for revenue, and thereby destroy these home industries and dismiss this army of labor handß to idleness and want, or drive them into exile from the State, is not a wise or benefloent friend of the people. This platform then, in my judgment, is the fairest and wisest that has ever been presented for public consideration. I here declare it as my deliberate conviction that we, adhering to this platform, will oarry the State at both the Ootober and the November elections. I am gratified that the workingmen, consolidating themselves Into labor organizations and better understanding the relations of capital to labor, have almost universally accepted the declarations of this platform, and can no longer be deceived by the specious argument of the so-called free-trader; nor*cun they be plaoed In antagonism to us by the selfish appeals or throats of aggregate capital that has grown to unsafe proportions under the baneful influence of a too high protective tariff. My own position Is definitely taken. 1 adopt the Ohio platform in letter and spirit, and with the party I stand on it squarely and perpendicularly. There is a broad line of demarkation, extending from the equator to the arctic, distinctly separating our citizens and interests froth the interests of England. Suoceeding or falling, standing or falling, I will succeed or fall, stand or fall on the American sido of that line, and there in all eases will my voloo and my vote be found. We had a partial test of this tariff policy In the late canvass which resulted In tho most complete and magnificent victory ever won by our party. It has borne luscious fruits. Columbus was never wreathed In such joyous smiles as to-day. Tho departments are all In the keeping of our friends. We have asserted our power and have placed on the bench lawyers eminent for their learning and their integrity. We have once more a Democratic Governor, who in all the accomplishments for the offloe, In talents and In oulture, and spotless purity of character is not surpassed by any of the Governors of the thirty-eight States of the Union. And what shall I say to this Democratic Legislature but that the high character and intelligence of Its members give confidence that their actions will be governed by wisdom and prudence and furnish the gratifying assurance that positive progressive legislation, modified by a reasonable conservatism, guarded by a free or frank interchange of views, will result in the enactment of laws, equal and just In their character, that will make this session memorable for its regard for personable liberty and care for tho rights of individual citizenship. And I anticipate with confidence such results from the Democratic administration that the public will not soon desire a change". Reverting again to Senatorial duty, lam inclined to acoept the word "encourage ” as tbe keynote to most questions of public policy—ln regard to tbe fuller development of our agricultural interests, to coast defenses, river and harbor improvements, Including the Mississippi river, the reoovery and advancement of the mercantile marine, the negotiation of commercial treaties, especially with Mexico and Central and South. America, opening the markets of these countries to tbe products of our manufactories, educating tbe people, especially tbe illiterate colored, 75 per oent. of whom, In some of the States, can neither read nor write. Why not, to the utmost verge of constitutional authority, "encourage ” each one of these by liberal appropriation? No American right or interost should be treated with Indifference, much less In an unfriendly spirit. But 1 have detained you too long. I have said sufficient, I trust, to indicate the line of policy I shall pursue, If permitted by a kind Providence to enter upon the duties of the high office which you have conferred on me. Gentlemen, 1 ask you all to Join me In a sentiment—"Tbe health of the members of tbe General Assembly of Ohio.”

Political Notes.

Arthur has two Presidential booms in his Cabinet, Gresham’s and Lincoln’s. These with his own boom make the boom business pretty lively about the White House. Senator Anthony declined to accept his approximation prize in the lottery of assassination, and Edmunds, the maple sugar favorite of fortune, is now enjoying the honors and emoluments. Prairie-dog Logan wants to be President, and it will be remembered that Guiteau wanted to harmonize the Republican party. The way the harmony business panned out is a matter of history. It may be that Henry B. Payne is a millionaire, and that the Standard Oil company used money to bay his way into the United States Senate, bnt the Republicans are the lasi men who •bould lament over the lapse of virtue in this respect. How many oi the men whom they have placed in the Senate are rich and -powerful and may have been aided to their exalted position by means of money and the wealth of monopolies? How does Don Cameron hold his seat in the Senate; how Miller, of New York; Tabor and Hill, of Colorado; Sabin, of Minnesota, and a score of others placed there by Republican votes? In most of the States where the Republicans are in the ascendency the Senatorship is in the market for sale to the highest bidder. For the* Republicans to refer to Mr. Payne’s election as corrupt, and venal is the sheerest kind of hypocrisy. —Frankfort ( Ind.) Crescent. - Since the Republican party eame into power their purpose seems to have been to make the old White house appeal as much like a palace as possible, and thousands have been squandered upon it. A contemporary says: “The partition dividing the publio hall is of opalescent glass, molded in sheets, rongh gems, ovals, and circles. They are set in lead, and borrow a fresh luster with every light that slitters through the tinting. The east room is hung with old-gold satin, brocaded with plush flowers a few shades darker, and the wall is inlaid with mirrors. The green room, papered in Nile green and silver, is a pretty apartment. The hangings are of Nile Seen satin, and the fnmitnre is simirly upholstered. The bine room, the old red room, and the state diningroom are perfect gems in their way.” Into this princely abode Chet crawled through a bullet hole, and can have his little game of draw without molestation. —lndianapolis Sentinel.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Judge Satlir, of Huntington, charged the Grand Jury to indict any person found transgressing the law In handling publications of an Immoral character. In the Ciroult Court, at Huntington, Judge Sayler overruled the motion for a new trial in the oaae of Charlotte Epps, who was convicted at the last term of the murder of her husband, and sentenced her to Imprisonment for life. The case will be taken to the Supreme Court, but no hopes are entertained of a reversal. Thi oldest resident of Indiana lives in Ridgevllle. His name is John Thompson. He oame to Indiana when it bad territorial government—lßo9. He saw the old whipping law, when criminals got forty lashes Instead of Imprisonment. Mr. Thompson is 7$ years old, has had but little sickness In all his life, Is as straight as a bean pole, and can walk four miles in forty minutes. Mr. J. G. Sha.nki.in, editor of the Evansville Courier, has been compelled to oease his journalistic labors again and consult the highest surgical skill in New York with reference to his eyes. For several years Mr. Shanklin, who is well known in Indiana, has been threatened with the loss of his sight, and it Is to be hoped he will oome out of this critical operation with his vision restored.— Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Laura Merritt, of Madison, oame unpleasantly near being the victim of a ourious accident. A loaded pistol-oartridge had been left on the mantel, and fell off Into a coal bucket. In due course of time it was thrown with the ooal Into the grate. An explosion followed and the ball just grazed the top of her head, passed over the head of her brother, struok the headpoat and fell to the floor. Walter E. Kidder, recently brought to Peru upon a requisition on the oharge of bigamy, has married four wives, and rooently oame near adding a fifth to the list at Harold D. T. One of his spouses is dead, and the last one whom he married—Miss Eva Todd, of Peru—secured the arrest of the oulprit. Kidder is about twenty-five years of age and not over five feet in height. He Is not handsome, but Is somewhat of a dude. The exoltement at Rushvllle, over the killing of Eli Frank by Elsie and Jaoob Bio ok has broken out afresh. The trial of the men will come up at the next term of oourt, at Greensburg. It will be remembered that the Blocks are father and son, and that tho threa men were rival olothing merchants. The murder was the outgrowth of a jealousy in business.

A fatal shooting affray occurred at Monroe City. Thomas Soott, a local pugilist, called the boys up to the bar to have something to drink. Rufus Steffey, the proprietor, asked who was to pay for it, when Soott grabbed him and fired him through a window. The other inmates followed Steffey, when Jimmy Doon, a small man, resisted Soott. In the meloe Doen shot Soott through tbe left lung, with fatal results. Soott died from tho effects of the shot next day. The Fostor-Shoefer scandal case at Goshen which attracted so muoh attention on ad count of the prominence of both parties, is ended. Foster pays SIOO fine and goes to the penitentiary for four years. Miss Schaefer is the daughter of a oity official at Goshen t and Foster was her Sunday-school teaoher. It was oh urged that ImpAiper relations existed between them, and that Foster bad procured criminal malpractice. Mrs. McDonald, wife of ex-Senator Joseph E. MoDonald, the proposed Demooratlo can* didate for the Presidency, is described as a remarkably beautiful woman. She has white hair, large brown eyes, and a complexion like peaches and cream. She got a dlvoroe 5 tew years ago from her first husband, Jehlel A. Barnard, who was the Secretary of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, and married the Senator. She had been married to Mr. Barnard for over twenty years, and her son s the husband of one of Senator Sher. nan’s nleoes. Mr. MoDonald was a widower when he married her. The acquittal of Loomis for killing William Stauffer at Middlebury, last August, caused t big excitement in that village, and the oltttens, oomlng together, drafted resolutions ordering him to leave that vicinity at onoe rad that, although they were opposed to takl ing the law in their own hands, yet they would not permit him to dwell among them. Shortly after this he got into a quarrel with a Mr. Sohrock, whom be attempted to shoot, mapping bis revolver at him twice. Scbrook, however, got away from him, and, getting a gun, started to hunt him up, but he had fled tbe town. It to safe to say that If he puts in an appearance the now fully aroused citizens will make short work of him.

The Bates House building, at Indianapolis, baa beep purchased from Harvey Bates by B. F. Claypool. The consideration of the transfer is $160,000. It is one of the most valuable hotel buildings in the West. Mr. Louis Bel. bold, the leasee of the building, will continue in the management of the hoteL The property was once owned by Mr. Claypool's father, who purchased it from the State in 1835. Some months ago Mr. W. C. DePauw was negotiating for the purchase of the hotel, and the terms of the sale had been agreed upon, hut the transfer was not made because Mr. DePauw refused to permit the sate of liquors on the hotel premises, which the losceo of the property would not aocede to. Onk of these cases which show how tenacious some men are of their rights, as they understand them, has been filed in the Clerk’s offloe at Shelbyville, on a change of venue from the Circuit Court of Johnson county. The title of the ease is Alexander Pruitt vs, John A. Thompson, and Is a suit to determine the ownership of a fat bog, worth probably $25. The ease was first tried before a Johnson county Justloe of the Peaoe, then appealed to the Circuit Court, and from thenoe brought to Shelby county. There are fiftyeight witnesses in the case, and the costs so far, not including attorneys’ fees, are $260.42. Both parties to this suit are wealthy men, and will fight the case to the bitter end. Jacob Taw, foreman of the Grand Jury at Terre Haute, playfully slipped on a pair of handcuffs and locked them. When it vi ( known that the only man who bad the keys to them was the Bherlff and he was out of town, Mr. Yaw did not feel so playful, and ■ when he was pointed out to strangers as a j daring and bloodthirsty burglar, and wail | compelled to listen to their comments, the ! situation became painful. After three hours' martyrdom the Sheriff returned | and he wag! released. David Christophbb died at Elkhart, ot lockjaw, caused by a out foot.