Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — Page 3

WAR TARIFF.

flgfl Boston Po*t rubligheit a Letter from IHBfernioPter. and *Vtids a K» Kemark, Way of Enlightenment. gjglHhe Editor of the Boston Poet: |J|lH learn from the Post that England HHigardcd as a free trade country, and |§g« I do not know why she is so rejjgHled, and wish to be informed; HH. if this admission occasions snrHe, please consider that I don’t reHH in a State where all the rays of ■Ht concentrate. I have hitherto supwßjUid England far from being a free Government, and believed she lIIJI practiced, almost from time immeHH'ial, the exact opposite of free trade, as the advocates of protection JHHm, the poor are enriched by an imHHerishing process. 1 thought the llwj-eontinned bleeding system had HHan England the richest paupers HH'Vn in any Christian land. I have HH posed, too, that we borrowed or ■Hied from England our humbug sys|H|li of tariff for revenue and protection, HHich purloins from the poorer and ■■re unfortunate citizens a portion of HHh meal to enrich and elevate other who have no right to be, by [HremmeDt aid, above one common H 9 hold that the man who cleans your owns as much Government as HHaderbilt and Gould; that the true ■Hi just nature of a government is HH-verted when administered for any '« Her object than government; and I HH Dice that there is some prospect of HHdng in our next platform of princiHH s one plank worth contending for, ■Hi if you can shame or persuade the HHmocrats to stop playing tag with the which they have been doHHF for about twenty years, I believe HH shall shorten the income and lessen days of a detestable humbug, and will deserve more praise than Lincoln.” that I am not the only per§§■l who can be enlightened on the subHt which has suggested this letter, I |H)h you to explain in the Post what HHes England the enviable reputation |H: being a free trade country, and ■Blether England has a different system HHm those which prevail iu her foreign ■Hssessiona. If you can not, for any UHjison, give the desired information in |Hi Post, I trust you will be pleased to ■He me some light in a more private and so I inclose a two-cent stamp, MHving upon its face what is supposed HHbe a likeness of the great and good Washington, the people’s friend. Hmrs truly, D. G. Dixon. igHSouth Hero, Yt. HWe will endeavor to give Mr. Dixon |Hhie light, as requested in his interesting letter, and we will shed that light gjHjrough the columns of the Post, beep Hose, by so doing, it will penetrate not ISHIy Mr., Dixon’s cosy Green MounHn home, but thousands of other ■Bines, scattered over the land. Great jjHritain has the reputation of being a e trade country because she is such |Hx>untry, or the nearest to it of any SHrilized country in the world. Some ■H her possessions have a protective ■Hriff; none, however, a horrible monjjjHosity like our own. No protective gHities are now levied on goods imported BHto Great Britain, customs being Harged solely for the sake of revenue. RHjrmerly the articles subjected to duty IHmbered nearly a thousand; now they ||He only twenty-two, the chief being |Hbacco, spirits, tea, and wine. The is a complete list: ■ £ S. D. or beer, specific gravity not exHeeding 1,065 deg. per barrel 0 8 0 ■He or beer, specific gravity not exjgjHeeding 1,090 deg. per barrel 0 11 0 |SHe or beer, specific gravity ex- - Heeding 1,090 per barrel. 0 16 0 SfHher liquors, various rates of duty. ; Hrds, playing, per dozen packs.. .0 3 9 per cwt;.... 0 13 3 jHoonr, roasted 0 0 2 HHiloral hydrate, per pound 0 1 3 jjHlDroform, per pound 0 3 0 ftHcoa, other conditions, various ||H:ates of duty. ■■>ffee, raw, per cwt 0 14 0 gHffee, roasted or ground 0 0 2 SHllodion, per gallon 0 1 4 SH&her, per gallon 0 1 6 IHtait,dried, per cwt .0 7 0 pHalt, per quarter. 1 4 9 flHtphtha, purified, per gallon 0 ip 5 ■ckles, in vinegar, gallon 0 0 1 ■Hate, gold, ounce 0 17 0 Hate, silver, ounce 0 1 6 IHpirits, brandy, rum, etc., gallon. .0 10 5 ■pirits, rum, from British colonies.O 10 2 IHpirits, cologne water, gallon 0 16 6 Mea. pound 0 0 6 IHobacco, unmanufactured, pound.o 3 \% IHobacco, containing less than 10 1» per cent, moisture, pound 0 3 6 jHavendlsh or Negro Head 0 4 6 JHther manufactured tobacco 0 4 0 |Hnufls, rates varying from 3s. 9d. ■ to 4s. 6d. IHobacco. cigars, pound..: 0 5 0 .■arnish,containing alcohol, gallon.O 12 0 IHiaegar. gallon 0 0 3 Hvines, rates varying from is. to H 3s. per gallon. » 111 Among the articles upon which a Hustoms tax is levied in the United Hitates are barley, books, buttons, Hiheese, china ware, earthen and stone■vare, coal, cotton goods, feathers, fruit, ■glassware, straw goods, India rubber, Hron and steel, raw and manufactured, ■ratlery, jewelry, leather and leather ■joods, lemons and oranges, oils, salt, Hiardines, silk, spices, spirits and wines, Hragar, molasses, tobacco, toys, boards, ■planks and deals, Woolen goods, earpets Hind carpetings, dress goods of all sorts, ■aosiery, zinc, marble, etc., etc. In ■short, everything to wear, to eat and to Shake shelter, is taxed in this country, jnd in many cases the exactions are so outrageously high that even a Government mule must be ashamed that so £and a country as the United States of nerica should impose them. But we are glad to be able to agree with our friend at South Herb, Vt., in the belief that at last the masses are getting their ©yes open to 'the iniquities of our monstrous war tariff, and that the Democratic party in the immediate future will be marshaled for battle under the banners of tariff reform and under the leadership of statesmen who will not consent that the Democracy yhall longer play tag with the Republican party. The war tariff must go. And that is not all; all men calling themselves Democrats, who favor the retention of that “masterpiece of injustice,” in its present form must go— Into the Republican party, where they and all men calling themselves Republicans, who favor a genuine reduction and reform of our tariff laws, must come —into the Democratic party, Where they belong. No more running with the hounds and siding with the

fox; no more “policy” at the expense of principle; no more grinding the noses of the masses to please and enrich a favored few; down with fiddle-faddle, fear, and favor, and up with common sense, firmness, and justice to all.

Facte for Workingmen.

The telegraph announces that all nail factories in the West have been closed for six weeks, which throws not less than 5,000 men out of employment. In this brief announcement lies another illustration of the beauty and excellence of protection. In the whole protected list there is none so highly favored as the manufacture of nails, the duties ranging from S2O to SBO a ton. In superior machinery, organization of labor, raw materials, and all the meand and appliances to boot, the manufacturer of nails in this country can defy the. competition of the world. If there were no protective system largely enhancing tlje cost of all production the nail manufacturers of the United States need fear no rivalry from any quarter. But by the operation of the tariff they are mainly confined to the home market, and when that is supplied there is no outlet for the surplus production. By the exorbitant duties, which tax consumers, production is unhealthily stimulated, and at frequent intervals the combination of nail makers must suspend manufacture in order that the supply may not too far outstrip the demand, and that prices may be maintained. In the meantime the thousands of hands who are turned out of employment are obliged to consume their earnings in enforced idleness, or to gain a living as best they may in some unaccustomed occupation. When the demand springs up again operations begin anew, prices are raised against consumers, and the old songs about the blessings of protection to the workingmen of America are resumed. So far from protecting American labor, the tariff exposes them to just such vicissitudes as] this which the nailmakers are now undergoing.— Philadelphia Record. We invite the attention of the monopoly, high tariff organs te the foregoing, from the Record, and we also iwite the attention of workingmen # to Aggie same subject. There is no mistake pfbout the facts, and the deductions are m consonance with them. An immensely protected industry has, for the time being, collapsed. Workingmen are driven to idleness and to the penalties of idleness. The Republican tariff law protects the monopolist, prostrates the workingman. The capitalist’s money may be idle—it may earn no dividends. It may remain locked in a bank vault. What of it ? When the owner wants it he finds that it has not suffered from being idle. The capital of the laboring man is his ability to work, his health and strength. Stop earnings and yon reduce him to poverty, hunger, rags, sickness and death. Does Congress make laws to protect labor capital? Not a bit of it. And the nailmakers are finding it out. Protection does not protect labor, it simply protects money capital and degrades labor. Labor has been fed on fiction. It is now getting facts, and the facts are driving fiction to the wall.— lndianapolis Sentinel.

Sad Plight of the “Grand Old Party” in New York.

The reorganization of the Republican party in New York which began with such promise by the re-enrollment of the Republican voters last fall appears to have ended apparently in the triumph of the old machine. The reenrollment was the work of a committee of eighteen, a temporary body created for that -special work. The ruling power of the party is the County Committee. That body met last Tuesday, and it was evident at once that the machine was in full control. One of the prominent reformers, Mr. Edward Mitchell, who had been relied upon to uphold the standard of those who sought to rescue the party from its old bosses, sank out of the conflict for some inexplicable reason, and refused to stand as candidate for temporary Chair>man. Thereupon “Jimmy” O’Brien was elected. As the temporary Chairman names the Committee on Contested Seats, and as that committee settles in all contested cases whether “reform” or “regular” delegates shall be admitted to the committee, it will be seen at once that the reformers surrendered the organization of the party. “Mike” Cregan, “Barney” Biglin, and “Jimmy” O'Brien were at the helm, and had things all their own way. “The state of the party,” the Tines mournfully declares, “is worse than it was before.” Stronger language could not be used. — Chicago Tribune, Rep.

A Consolation.

The report comes from Washington that the lobby, finding its business blocked in the Democratic House of Representatives, is deserting the national capital in despair. i This is doubtless true. During the three previous Congresses in which the Democrats had a majority in the House tho lobby starved. Last year, under the Keifer-Robeson regime, the vultures flocked back to Washington famished and desperate, and for two years they wallowed in jobbery and corruption. At Albany a change of an opposite character is to be seen. There last year tho lobby birdtf of prey were driven off by Speaker Chapin. Lo Sessions, Barber, and others of the flock were under indictment, and during the entire session they flapped their wings outside the Capitol and only got a chance of seizing two or three mouthfuls of stray carrion. This year they are in a happier plight, with a Woodpulp Miller-Sheard House and a Belden-McCarthy Senate. Lo Sessions has escaped conviction. The indictments against Barber and his “pals” have been pigeon-holed and the entire brood is in fine feather. They fill the Senate and Assembly chambers, crowd the committee rooms, and seize with avidity upon every victim. If the lobby is killed at Washington by the Democracy, it can console itself with the knowledge that it is resuscitated at Albany by Republicanism.— New York World.

Esquimaux Houses.

As probably many people know, av. igloo is usually built of snow. The word however, means house, and as theii house consists of a single room it als> > means room. A long, low passage waj leads into each dwelling, so constructed as to exclude the wind from the interior, though ventilation is permitted by leaving open the door. A snow igloi is made of snow-bloeks about three feet by eighteen inches wide and five or six inches thick. The snow knife is simply a large thinbladed knife, like a cheese knife of the grocery store, with a handle made large enough to be conveniently grasped with both hands. Before iron and knives became so plentiful as at present, snow knives were made of bone and reindeer or musk ox-horn, but such knives are quite rare now. The Netchillik, Ookjoolik, and Ooquesiksillik tribes are still quite dqficient in iron weapons and implements; and many of their knives are marvels of ingenuity. I saw several made of a little tip of iron, perhaps an inch square, mounted on a handle two feet long, and so shaped that the iron would do much of the cutting and scratching, and the handle merely acted as a wedge to assist the operation. I also saw a man making a knife by cutting a thick piece of iron with a cold chisel, afterward to bo pounded out flat and ground down on stones. The entire operation would probably take about three or four weeks with the poor tools at their disposal. The builder selects snow of the proper consistency by sounding a drift with a cane, made for the purpose, of reindeer horn, straightened by steaming, and worked down until about half an inch in diameter, with a ferule of walrus tusk or the tooth of a bear on the bottom. By thrusting this into the snow lie can tell whether the layers deposited by successive winds are separated by bands of soft snow, wh ch would cause the blocks to break. When the snow is selected he digs a pit to the depth of eighteen inches or two feet, and about the length of the snow block. He then steps into the pit and proceeds to cut out the blocks by first cutting down at the end of the pit and then the bottom afterward, cutting a little channel about an inch or two deep, marking the thickness of the proposed block. Now comes the part that requires practice to accomplish- successfully. The expert will, with a few thrusts of the knife in just the right places, split off the Bnow block and lift it carefully put to await removal to its position on the wall. The tyro will almost inevitably break the block into two or three pieces utterly unfit for the use of the builder. When two men are building an igloo one cuts the blocks and the other erects the wall. When sufficient blocks have been cut to commence work the builder marks with his eye, or perhaps draws a line with his knife, describing the circumference of the building, usually a circle about ten or twelve feet in diameter. The first row ol ,blocks is then arranged, tlieblocks resting ,so as to incline inward, and resting against each other at ends, thus affording mutual support. When this row is completed the builder cuts away the first ’and second blocks, slanting them from the ground upward, so that the second tier resting upon the edges of the first row can be continued on and around spirally, and by gradually increasing the inward slant a perfect dome is constructed of such strength that the builder can lie flat on the outside while chinking the interstices between the blocks. The chinking is, however, usually done by the women and children as the building progresses, and additional protection secured from the winds in very cold weather by banking up with a large woodon snow shovel, the snow at the base often being piled to the depth of three or four feet. This makes the igloo perfectly impervious to the wind in the most tempestuous weather. When the house is completed the builders are walled in.* Then a small hole about two feet square is cut in the wall on the side away from where the entranee is to be located, and is used to pass in the lamps and bedding. It is then walled up and the regular door cut about two feet high, and nicked at the top. It would bring bad luck to carry the bedding into the igloo by the same door it would be taken out. Before the door is opened the bed is constructed of snow blocks, and made from one to three or four feet high, and occupies three-fourths of the .entire space. The higher the bed and the lower the door the warmer the igloo will be.— Arctic.

An Indignant Poet.

T. Buchanan Read, the dead poet, a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, was in London in the summer oi 1861, and was invited to meet Tennyson at the house of a common friend. He went with eagerness and' enthusiasm to see the illustrious singer, who figured in his mind* as the striking, h&ndaoipe, hoble-looking creature whose portrait, taken in his younger days, is so familiar. An introduction revealed a very dissimilar person, a thin-faced, fussy man, with scant hair, blue glasses, and round shoulders—the reverse of his ideal: Immediately the Briton broke out with: “I wish to say, Mr. Read, that I have in the past had a liking for your country; but, as it is now plainly going to the dogs, I feel bound to tell you that yon must not look for sympathy or aid from ns Englishmen.” Very properly nettled at-such unpardonable rudeness, Read replied, with heat: “Do not disturb yourself, Mr. Tennyson, about our country. We don’t care a—— either for you or your aid and sympathy. It is not worth having under any circumstances. We propose te fight this thing out ourselves, regardless of Europe. John Bull and his noble family can go to for all us. We Americans are not going that way just at present” This insohmt response, as Read himself said, instead of offending the elder poet, seemed to have a mollifying effect. “After that,” to use his own words, “Tennyson treated hie quite decently, and spoke very kindly of America and Americans. If I had allowed his effrontery to pass in silence, he would have had no respect for me. The only way to get on with Englishmen who bully you is to bully them in turn.”— London letter.

THE BAD BOY

“Take care, there, you will run right over the stove,” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came along the floor, hie eyes fixed as though he were looking into the future about two years, and his mind so occupied that he did. not seem to see the stove. “"What you thinking about ? Lately you have got so yon think too much, and by and by you will be one of these vacancies that don’t know beans. People are getting so they think too much, and especially boy 6. Nothing hurts a boy so much as to get in the habit of thinking. What did yon have on your mind when you came in?” “Oh, I was thinking of that feller down in the Third Ward that killed his girl and then killed himself, all on account of their religion j>eing a different brand, so they couldn’t marry each other. Gosh, it don’t seem as though religion ought to bar a feller out of the heaven of his girl’s love, does it?” said the boy. « “Well,” said the grocery man, as he wiped some sirup off his hands on a coffee sack, “you can’t drive two kinds of religion to the pole, in a family, with any kind of success. You may drive two kinds of religion single or tandem, but when you hitch ’em up together, and they try to travel along at a good road gait, one will go off its feet aud gallop, while the other trots, and then the galloping religion w*ill catch and come down to a trot, and the other will break up, and there they are, see-saw-ing, and the air full of creeds and doc-' trines, and there is danger they will run away and smash something. No, it is better for the people who are going to marry to have tueir measures taken for the same kind of religion, and then each can wear the other’s religion, aud all will be lovely. ” “I don’t know,” says the bad boy, taking an apple, “about this thing of waiting till you find out about a girl’s religion before yon lovo her. Sometimes yon can’t do it. If a girl has not got any sign out warning a fellow what kind of religion slie-lias got concealed about her person, how is he going to know until it is everlastingly too late ? When a young feller falls iu love with a girl, it is like falling down on skates. Everything seems to give way at once. It strikes him like a sand-bag, and there he is, asphyxiated the first thing. He knows that she is perfeot, and he takes her right into his heart and wraps his heart around her, and puts rubber weather strips on all the cracks so she can’t get out, and her religion is the last thing he thinks of. If her religion pulls her one wayj and his heart pulls her ’tother way, something’s got to bust; sometimes it’s the religion that bnsts, and sometimes it’s the heart. I think there ought to be a convention composed of delegates from all kinds of religion, and let them make a law that any religion shall be legal tender anywhere, like a gold dollar. Religion ought to be pure gold, good anywhere. If a man comes in here to buy soap, and gives you a gold dollar, coined in Rome, or Jerusalem, or California, or China, or Russia, or the Eeejee Islands, he gets his soap. But if your son is in love with a Hebrew girl, her religion says your son’s religion is counterfeit, and Bhe goes to her grave with your son’s love in her heart, and he goes to the devil with her image in his heart, and both are ruined for life ’cause they couldn’t match their religions. A Baptist girl falls in love with a young fellow that is a perfect specimen of manhood, brave, noble, intelligent, tender to her, and as kind as a man can be, and they begin to plan for the day when he can take her to a home and be all the world and a small section of heaven to her, when some day a friend says to her, “Your lover is one of the noblest men I ever saw, but it is a pity he is a Catholic.” Then the trouble commences. He believes his religion is the grandest in the world, aud she believes hers is bo slouch; each tries to induce the other to adopt another i religion, bht it is a failure, and they drift apart in all except the buried love that can never be quenched on earth or in heaven. I tell you it is pretty tongh to have so many different kinds of religion that can’t be made to jibe; don’t you think so 1” “Yes, it is rough,” said the grocery man, “but a little difference like that hadn’t ought to make a fellow kill the girl he loved.” “Course not, ” said the boy. “This feller surely didn’t love the girl, else he wouldn’t shoot. Say, s’pose you loved a girl, regular old spontaneous kind! Could yon pull out a revolver and send two bullets into her pretty cheek, and cord her up against the fence dead? Naw, yon couldn’t. Nor anybody else. He didn’t love that girl. He thought he did, but it was something else. You see, if he had loved her, not having any particular religion hisself, he would have let her take him by the hand and lead him tp her church like a child, and he would have got down on his knees and prayed with her, und become her brother in the church, aud then married her. But he Was wron g in the head, and when he found that she loved her church he got jealous of her religion, that was all, and as long as he couldn’t kill her religion, he killed her. By Jinks, if it was some fellows, they would join any ohurch that ever was for the girl they loved. Pa says he knew a man that got in love with a Jewess, ond her folks tried to stand him off, but he joined thoir church and opened a pawn shop, and got a rabbi, to marry them on the sly, and when her folks came blowing around he put up,his hand and shook it and said, ‘Hast dogeshen. Yot you going to do apout it 7 Ma says she and pa had a good deal of trouble about their religion before they were married. She was a Baptist and pa was a Democrat, but pa kicked when they nominated Greeley, and goes to her cliuroh now. Well, I must go down to the morgue and see the lovers that oonldn’t agree about going to heaven,” and the boy skipped.— Peck’s Sun. Queen Pomabe V., of Tahiti, is on inveterate cigarette smoker. She is described as vivacious, affable, polite, and refined. She speaks English fluently, and, while not a handsome woman, is exoeedingly good looking. In the bloom of youth no ornament is so lovely as that of virtue.

CIVIL SERVICE.

Extracts from the Voluminous Report of the Civil-Service Commission. The Evils of the Spoils System Set Forth and a Good Word Spoken for the Common Schools. The following message was sent to Congress on the 29th ult.: To the Senate and House or Representarrvss: In compliance with an act of Congress approved Jan. 16. 1883, entitled “An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States/’ the Civil Service Commission has made to thaTresident its first annual report. That report is herewith transmitted, together with a communication from the heads of the several executive departments of the Government respecting the practical working of the law under which the commission has been acting. Upon tho good results which that law has already accomplished I congratulate Congress and the people, and I avow my conviction that it will henceforth prove to be of still more signal benefit to the public servioe. I heartily commend the seal and fidelity of the Commissioners and their suggestions for further legislation, and I advise the making of such appropriation as shall be adequate for their needs. Chester A. Arthur. Executive Mansion, Feb. 59,1884. The report makes a volume of sixty-seven olosely printed pages. It states that the several results which appear to be the more dlreot objects of the law and civil servioe rules, as understood by the commission, are: X. That official authority and influence must no longer be used to impair the freedom of elections, or cocroe the political action of citizens. 2. Extortion from those in public servioe, whether under the form of political assessments or otherwise, for the purpose of paying the expenses of parties or candidates, must come to an end. 3. Selections for executive ssrvioe on the basis of official favor and partisan influence must be suppressed by requiring examinations and other adequate tests of character and capacity as conditions for entering this servioe. 4. The true responslblity and independence of the Legislative and Executive Departments under the Constitution must be restored and preserved. Upon the subject of political assessments the report says there have been eovoral violations of the law, but only trifling sums secured, and the Illegal practice ceased upon publio attention being called to It. The amount colleoted from Federal officers slnoe the act wont Into effect is not more than onehalf or one-fourth as muoh as formerly. The evils of the spoils system are sot forth at great length, and the benefits derived from competitive examinations fully desorlbed. The difficulty attending the oiasslflontion of oivil service is dwelt upon at length, and the statement made that at largo offices tho power and opportunity for intrigue and selfish Influence aro dungoronsly great. In tho three branches of tho classified service the number of places to to filled on the basis of competitive examinations is, in the aggrogate, 13,924. The increase since made in the classified service carries the number above 14,000. The opinion is expressed that a salutary effeot would follow the selection of chiefs of bureaus, postmasters, und collectors at the larger ofiioes from among subordinates who would bring business experience rather than partisan activity to those positions. The report states that soldiers and sailors honorably dlsohargod by reason of disability, if capable, are allowed preference, and nowhere Is thoro ahy favor or advantage allowed by reason of sex. The oommlssion hold that the power of removal and Its exercise for just reasons are essential both to the dieoipllno and efficiency of the public servico. A life tenure would be Indefensible. It is still possible, says the report, to promise tho spoils of 109,000 offices as rewards lor party victory in a national canvass. It is still possible to remove every person In the classified servioe once In four years or onoo in four months, but the vacancies can be filled only by those who, Irrespective of party, demonstrate superiority In a free and open competition of character and capacity. It appears from the statistics presented with tbe report that H 5 per cent, of all those who entered the servioe through competitive examinations wore educated In the oommon schools alone, and the commission considered It unquestionable that the nation by bestowing its offices upon the most meritorious of those whom the States have oduoatod at publio expense will greatly honor and stimulate the publio school system of the country. Tbe report gives extracts from a largo number of letters received from Postmasters and Collectors, showing great benefit has accrued to the publio servioe by the enforcement of the civil service rules. It Is suggested that party test should be uo longer applied in the selection of Collectors and Postmasters, and that every corrupt exercise of power, nomination, promotion, transfer, or confirmation, even though tbe corrupt consideration may not be “a thing of value,” should be an offense under the bribery laws. The oommlssion, in eonolusion, declare the civil service act a success, and do not doubt that the most difficult point has passed.

AN UNWORTHY SCION.

Thomas H. Crittenden, of Kentucky, Sentenced to the Penitentiary for Eight Years for Murder. [Louisville Telegram.] Thomas H. Crittenden, grandson of John J. Crittenden, the great Kentueky Senator, nephew of Gen. Thomas H. Crittenden, U. 8. A., and son of Col. R. H. Crittenden, late United Stales Marshal for the District of Kentucky, was sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years to-day for murder. Crittenden, who is 27 years old, whs the wildest blade of this celebrated family, noted for their dash and courage on the field and in private life. Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, is a cousin, as is Gov. Murray, of Utah, and so also was the brave young Lieutenant of the Virginius, who met his tragic fate So coolly at Havana ten years ago. The young murderer, who was raised at Frankfort, Ky., has always moved In the highest social circles of the State. The crime for which he was sentenced is what is known in Kentucky as a “ niggerkilling.” Crittenden had whipped a servant on his father's place In the country, and was arrested on the charge of assault and battery. Rose Moseby, a negro man, who had witnessed the assault, gave the testimony In court which convicted Crittenden. Aftei tho trial Crittenden walked up to Moseby and said: “I will see you later." He then walked across the street to bis residence, procured a shotgun, came back, and blew off the top of Moseby s head The murder was shockingly unprovoked and cruel, but Crittenden succeeded in fighting off the trial until the negro was forgotten. Several of tbe ablest lawyers in tbe State volunteered for his defense, but he was prosecuted with the utmost vigor by Prosecuting Attorney Ciiruth. The prisoner’s family connection. made it impossible to convict him of murder, but the Jury, after an hour's deliberation, agreed on voluntary manslaughter. Two jurors were for iho death penalty. The prisoner’s mother, who was in court, fainted away on hearing the verdict. As he was led to jail he romarked: "1 expected to be convicted, but that eight years knocked me out when I heard It.”

ODD HAPPENINGS.

A touno dog was recently frightened to death near Lafayette, Oregon, by a child who dressed up as a bugaboo and chased the animal. A BHOBT-HoitN heifer named Lillie Dale, belonging to J. W. Dawson, of Russellville, Ky., died four hours after eating a leaf of tobacco. Mrs. Nki.uk Kki.uk, of Hyde Park, Vt.. was severely burned on the la e, hands and arms by the explosion of a doughnut which she was frying. Amaziah Jordan' of Hartland, Me., in a fit of insanity out off his toes ono at a tithe.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Lcxiansport will have a normal school shortly. Sheridan has a temperance revival. Over •430 have signed the pledge. The Lafayatte Council has abolished the office of Chief of Polloe. Wesley Dawson, residing near Wabash, has become a raving maniac from losses la grain speculations at Milwaukee. The case of The State vs. Ell Ketohum{ charged with murder, which has been on trla In the Grant County Circuit Court for several days, terminated by the Jury returning a verdict of not guilty. Ketchum became in* volved in a quarrel with John Lemon and killed him. He pleaded that he committed . tho act In sotf-dofense. John Freeman, a young man about 23 years of age, who had been blind from infancy, committed suicide at Vincennes by taking almost two ounces of morphine. He has been a charge upon the county for some time," being deserted and cast off by bis im. mediate relatives. The only oause assigned is his despondenoy over his condition la life. In tho ease of Geary against St. Mary's Catholio Cemetery, at Lafayette, the priest refusing to permit the interment of the corpse of a young man who had not conformed to the rules of the oburoh, the Superior Court decided that as tbe Bishop to whom the cemetery grounds wore formerly deeded h'ad died intestate no proper authority existed to prevent the burial of the body. The case will be takon to the Supreme Court. Geoboe Gausert, of Counersvillo, has instituted suit against Dra. W. A. Pugh, S. A. McMahon, W. 8. Hargrove, and Robert T. Graham, of Rush County; V. H. Grigg and S. N. Hamilton, of Connersvllle, and James P. Orr, now of. Florida, but reoently of ltushvillo, for 915,000 damages for malpraotice. Last summer Gausert's wife was thought to bo dying with tumor. Medical and surgical aid was called, and tho knife was used, but, as It is now claimed, no tumor was found. At the Grand Lodge of tbe Order of Chosen Friends, at Indianapolis, tho Recorder reported collections in Indiana during tho past year amounting tq $28,564, and slnco the order has boon organized $54,412 has been paid out in reliof. OfHoors were eleoted as follows: B. F. Rogers, of Indianapolis, Grand Councilor; W. E. Groso, of Mlddlobury, Grand Assistant Counollor; Mrs. M. H. Greenwood, of Indianapolis, Grand Vloo Councilor; M. Flsohubor, of Brazil, Grund Recorder; John MoElvoe, of Indianapolis, Grand Treasurer; Mrs. E. H. Tiffany, of Indianapolis, Grand prelate; E. A. Campbell, of Blkhort, Grand Marshal; Mrs. li. J. Grimes, of Indianapolis, Grand Warden; E. W. Bradford, of Indianapolis, Grand Guard; C. E. Reed, of Fort Wayno, Grand Sontry; Jonathan Croasdale of Brazil, John M. Sims of Indianapolis, and M. F. Owen of Rome City, Grand Trustees; W. H. Stringer, of Indianapolis, and Dr. C. S. Pixley, of Elkhart, Representatives to tbe Supreme Council. Mormonism Is flourishing in Indiana, and In as great seourlty as in Utah. For three or four years Mormon missionaries have labored contlnously in some western counties and made many oonverts. It Is not known positively that polygamy is practiced, but it doubtless is, as tbe doctrine is firmly believed in. One who investigated says tho young iadios of the churoh, who should be the last to accept tbe iniquitous dootrlne of polygamy, openly deolare they wjiuld be willing to become tbe wlvos of men already possessed of more than one wife, or would be willing for their husbands to take other wives. These ladles, or girls, are beautiful, intelligent, but are as completely doluded as are any in Utah, and, llko the latter, are without any knowledge of the iniquities of the doctrine. It la usoless to inveigh against Mormonism In Utah when it la permitted to flourish In so enlightened a State as ours without any pretenee at suppression on the part of the authorities. In Northern Michigan over thirty years ago the Mormons attempted to establish a Mormon oolony in the vicinity of Charlevoix, and made a great many converts. Tho settlors there desparingly took the law into their own hands, and, mustering with firearms, drove tbe Mormons from their haunts and from the State. Sevoral were killed or wounded, but a quietus was put on Mormonism in MichL gan.— South Bend Regititer. Looanspokt speolal; One of the most sensational events ever ooourrlng in Catholio circles in this elty or State took place at Saint Vincent de Paul Churoh recently. This was the exoommunlcation of one of tho most prominent married couples withiu the church’s domain. Tho ground for this most severe and unusual aotion was that the couple had been reoently married, in direct violation of tbe luws of the Catholic Churoh. Tbe faots regarding tbe marriage are as follows: Peter W. Moore, a wealthy young liquor-dealer of this city, who has a divorced wife living, was married a few days ago, at Chicago, to Miss Maggie Dolan, the handsome daughter of William Dolan, our merchant prince, and owner of tho Opera House in this city. Both were Cathollqs, and both were anxious to bo marriod In that oburoh; but the priest in this olty refused to marfy them, as tho churoh laws do not recognize divorces, and refused to sanction Ahe mar*, rlage on the ground that Moore was a divorced man. Then the couple wont to Chicago, attended ehifrch there, and, finally, by representing thomsolves mombors of that parish, were married by a priest. Returning here, tho fact leakod out at oooe. The case was referred to Bishop Dwonger, of Fort Wayne. He acted promptly, and, notwithstanding the wealth of tbe couple and the Influence of their families, declared them excommunicated and tbe marriage null and void. Tho only means Mr. and Mrs. Moore now have of getting back into the church la by separation, and asking tho forgiveness of tho congregation. While the bride has always been a very faithful Catholic, and the groom attended regularly, it is thought they will live together as happily as they can outside the church. A coin dated 1787 Is owned by a Logansport gentlcinun. On ttfe obverse side are the words: “Mind your own business." On the reverse side a chain composed of thirteen links, and representing tho States, enclrclea the coin, in tbe cenfbr of which are tbe words: "United Statos.” The residence of E. H. Dennis, at Riohmond, burned. Loss, $2,000. A few hours later J. B. Hartkin’a house was destroyed. Loss, SI,OOO. * • - - ■ ■ I,- >i-i.ii John Wernhabdt, of Terre Haute, was found dead in bed. t