Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — Page 3

RGAHIZING FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

■eetL-C of the I>«n<H'ruUe ■ Campaign Committee. ■ (Washington Telegram.] ■ The Democratic Congressional Cam■tign Committee met at the Arlington Hotel, in this city, and organized for He coming campaign. Senator PendleHs, Chairman of the Democratic joint Hocus, presided, and Representative Host, Secretary of the joint caucus, acted ■ Secretary of the meeting. Thirty Hates and lour Territories are repreHnted on the Campaign Committee, Htese being the States und Territories Hhioh send a Democratic Senator or' Representative to Congress. ThirtyHne members were present. The folHvring Executive Committee was seOn the part of the Senate, Henators Garland, Kenna, and GorHan; on the part of the House, Repre■mtatives Paige, Roeecrans, StocksHger, Stevens, and Murphy. It was Hjoided that this Executive Committee Hiould be empowered to select memHsrs for the Campaign Committee for Ke States and Territories not repreHmted either in the Senate or House by ■ Democrat. These States and TerritoHes are Colorado, Kansas, Maine, MinNebraska, New Hampshire, Hhode Island, and Vermont, and Hakota, Idaho, New Mexico, and Washington. No other business was ■ ansacted by the Campaign Committee. ■ The Executive Committee met on the Hljournment of the Campaign Commit- ■ e.'and organized by electing Senator Horman Chairman, and Representative Host Secretary. Senator Kenna and Representatives Stevens and Stock- ■ Ager were appointed a sub-committee Ha finance, and Senator Garland and Representatives Murphy and Paige a Hib-committee on campaign documents, Hie Chairman being an ex-officio memHer of both sub-committees. The comHdttee had an informal talk over the Hrrangements to be made for the camKugn, but did not enter into a discusHon of the question of party policy. Hevenue-reform Democrats appear to He in the minority on the Executive Hommittee. Senator Gorman and Senior Kenna are both “ tariff” Democrats, Hi are Representatives Paige and StevRks. Representatives Stockslager and Hlurphy were Carlisle men, and with Henatm- Garland represent the tariffHiform element on the committee. Representative Roseci ans voted for ■ar lisle for Speaker, but is an “inciHental Protectionist,® and indorses the Hhio tariff platform. The Secretary of Hue committee is a “tariff" Democrat, ■i the main the committee is composed ■ the younger element of the party, ■he following is a full list of the Cam* Haign Committee as at present organ■Alabatna—H. A. Herbert. ■ Arkansas —-A. H. Garland. ■California —W. S Roseorans. ■Connecticut—W. W. Eato.n. ■ Delaw-iro—o. B. Loro. ■Georgia—A.'Hi Colquitt. ■ Illinois —R. W. Townshend. ■ lowa—J.„H. Murrey. ■Kentucky— James E. Clay. RLou.slana —N. C. Bla iohard. ■Maryland—A. P. Gorman. ■Massachusetts —H. F. Loverin™. ■Michigan— X. B. Eldredge. ■Mississippi—H. L. Muldrow. ■Missouri—A. M. Tockery. • ■Neva la— W. Cas.-Idy. ■New Jersey—W. H. Fiedler. ■New- York—R. P. Sevens. ■North Carolina—Cloa.eat Dowd. ■Ohio —D. K. Paige. ■Oregon—J. H. Slater. —William Mutchler. ■Booth Carolina— Samuel Dibble. ■Tennessee—l. G. Harris. Rfexas—R. 0. Mills. —John S. Barbour. Virginia—John E. Kenna. P. V. Beuster. IRflorida —R. H. M. Davison, —G. H. Oury. I^Hontana —M. Magiunis. —M. E. Post. J. F. Caine.

|Mbor and Capital Suffer Together Under Bepublicanism. Mfa have endeavored to show in a Mrmer issue that the united system of |M>or caused by the overthrow of the Mbtitution of slavery, together with unfree trade between the States Kd Territories of the United States, |Mrald necessarily distribute our manuMcturing industries over a much greatM extent of our territory than heretoMre, and that the manufacturing Mnters of many of those industries, Mid notably that of iron and the Mieaper qualities of cotton, would shift ■om their present localities into those Mcalities where the raw material used Mr them was cheaper and more aceessi■e, and that manufacturing, like farmMg, would flourish most where the Mreatest results could be obtained at the Mast cost. It seems plain to us that as Mese changes take place the tendency M prices will be downward until the M>int was reached where our chief prodMts of manufacture, like our, farm Moducts at the present time, will be Mile to enter the foreign markets in Mmpef ition with the world. The neMssitv of finding an outlet for dur surplus products of manufacture Mverely felt The ■irbance in our labor centers ■(suiting from overproduction and the ■(suits of suspending until the surplus ■m be disposed of, is one of the crying Mils of the day, and thousands of la■irers are now out of employment, ■waiting the time when the home con■unption shall take up the surplus so ■iat they may have work to do, but if ■iat surplus had the world for a market lien it would be seldom, if ever, that Mere wduld be an overproduction. I nder the present condition of things loth capital and labor are sufferers, ■at when manufacturing and farming ■re carried on under the same condi■ons, and the same favors and no more ■(tended to each, then the industrial ■iterests of the whole country will move ■i apace and in harmony. It is nataM 1 for the present manufacturing cen■tfe tp hold on to the monopoly they ■ave heretofore enjoyed as long as pos■ble. and the higli tariffs of the last ■venty years have enabled them to do M up to the pnsmt tiire, but at a great list to the consumer. While capital ■as timid about entering the new fields M the West and South, a high tariff ■mid keep out foreign competition, and ■ins Johnstown could continue to freight ■on ore from the Iron Mountains M Miraouri and from Lake Supericr to

feed her farnaees, it cost her S2O to make a toh of,pig iron, for it eventually came out of the pocket of the consumer. But when capital produces the same kind of iron, at the point where the ore has to be mined, at a cost of about one-half that sum, and no tariff can be interposed, then Johnstown must set up her furnaces in the iron belt or turn capital to some other kind of industry; and eventually Johnstown will insist that the duty be taken off of pig iron that the industries may obtain the raw material at prices that will enable them to manufacture the higher classes of iron and steel so as to compete with foreign manufactures in the some line. It will require the foreign competition to keep the prices steady. It is time that s nee ths close of the war in many lines of manufactures the tendency of the prices has been downward; but this has been from other causes than the influence of high tariff that have prevailed, and in spite of their existence. It is very certain that the reduction of prices would have been much greater if the rate of “Custom duties” had been less; but the important fact before us at this tjme-is that natural causes will work a cure to the evils under which we have been and still»are suffering in spite of our viciou t system of class legislation, and when that cure has been accomplished the whole country will be prosperous. — Indianapolis Sentinel.

MR. MORRISON’S TARIFF BILL.

▼lews of th* Leading Republican Advocate of Free Trade Operations. Mr. Morrison's bill is an honest, simple, practical attempt to relieve the people of burdens which rest on every industry, every trade, every household and individual in the land. It is not a theorist’s bill; it is not in effect, though it may be in interest, a political bill, and it cannot be made one except by the mistaken conduct of party leaders. It does not receive the support of the Democrats as a party, nor reflect their views or policy or tendencies. It is bitterly opposed by a powerful faction in the party, and cannot now be claimed as a Democratic measure. It does represent substantially the views of a large part, if not of the great majority, of the Republican party. It starts from the Morrill tariff. It stops short of the avowed intention of the last Republican Congress. It is purposely framed to meet the position to which the Republicans are committed. There is no reason why it should not receive the support of consevative Republicans, except that it comes from a Democratic source, and that fact would, by sueh support, be deprived of all political significance or effect. Regarding the principle and expressed intention of the bill—andjf it be found, on examination, not te conform to these, it can be made to do so—it is the plainest dictate of duty and policy to adopt it. If, on the other hand, the Republicans oppose it utterly, or if they offer in place of it sonde such foolish device as the abolition of the sugar duty, they must suffer the penalty of conspicuous folly and bad faith. They will then force the Democrats into the position of moderate and practical reform, and assume for themselves the indefensible position of indiscriminate support of high taxes for the benefit of a few favored interests. No sane man can doubt what the choice of the taxpaying voters would be between parties holding these respective positions. It is idle now to talk of making the issue between free trade Democracy and Republican protection. The Morrison bill is for free trade, and the opposition to it is not, in any decent sense, the support of protection. The bill is, in effect, a moderate and conservative attempt to deal with the actual and pressing needs of the business of the country. By treating it fairly and intelligently the Republican party can serve the country with no harm to their own party and no decided advantage to their opponents. By blind adherence to the tariff as it is, exorbitant and oppressive, partial and unjust, they can do themselves great injury and greatly help their opponents. —New York Times.

OSTRACIZED BY HIS RACE.

A Richmond Negro Almost Left to Die Alone Because He Voted Against Mahone. Lazarus Bullfinch, a colored man, recently died- here. He voted with the Democrats in the last election, and afterward was entirely ostracized by members of his face. They refused to speak to him or to let him visit their houses. Bullfinch was a very quiet negro, not participating actively in polities, but he supply expressed his determination to vote with the great body of the representative white people, who, he said, gave his race employment, and were indeed the best friends of the colored man. The negroes had been worked up to a pitch of frenzy by the reports industriously circulated among them by the Mahone agents to the e'ffect that the triumph of the Democracy meant the re-enslave-ment of the colored race. While the more intelligent blacks disbelieved such reports, the ignorant mass were stirred up, and cast a solid vote for the Mahone ticket. Bullfinch stood out against his race, however, and quietly voted the Democratic ticket. Since that time to the day of his death he became a pariah among his race. HA had no companions. His nearest relations had nothing to do with him. Two weeks ago he was taken sick, and a few of his colored friends attended him. The most of the negroes, however, would have nothing to do with him, and he died on Friday. His funeral took place to-day, and was conducted by Rev. Dr. Hatcher, a leading white minister of the Baptist Church, and was attended almost entirely by white people.— Richmond (Fa.) telegram. Sherman and Mahone’s. attempt to imitate Blaine by “stirring up” the Southern members was a flat failure. They are several years behind the age with their rubbish

THE BAD BOY.

“Here, here," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in the back door hurriedly and bolted it, and hid behind a barrel, "what you coming in the back door for in that manner, like a pirate of the Spanish main? My other customers don’t sneak in through the back door and hide behind things. What ails you ?” “S-h-h-h 1 If a man comes up from the street-car in about two minutes, with one coat tail torn off, and pieces of umbrella frame sticking out of hisself like porcupine quills, his hat gone, and a scared complexion on his face, and asks if you have seen a chubby-faced little boy, you drive him out doors, ’cause he isn’t responsible, ” and the boy pulled a coffee sack down off a barrel to cover himself up. “ Who is the wild man you are expecting, and what have you done?” asked the grocery man. “Sh-s-sh I It’s pa. And if he got out of the car without coming through the window, he is liable to show up here pretty quick. You see, pa has been trying to make us believe he could see just as well as he ever could, and he has quit wearing spectacles, and gets mad every time anybody suggests tllat he can’t see very well. Ma says he is ashamed to have folks think he is getting old. Sometimes I come in the room and pa snaps his fingers and says ‘hello, Bruno, good dog,’ thinking I am the dog, and when he finds out his mistake he laughs and says it was only a joke, and he says he can see as well as any man in this town. I told him some day some persons would play a joke on him and convince him that he was near-sighted, and he said they might try all the jokes they wanted to on him. Well pa is awful polite to ladies, and for fear he will pass some lady that he knows, and not speak to her, he speaks to all of ’em. Some of ’em get cross to have a stranger speak to them, but pa has such an innocent, benevolent, vacant sort of a look when he smiles, that they go on, thinking he has escaped from some asylum. Well, he was in a street car, and on the other side of the car was an old maid, with a pug dog in her lap, curled up like a baby. I see pa was getting his eyes sot on the woman and the dog, but 1 knew ha couldn’t make out whether it was a baby she had or not, so I wliispered to pa that it was too bad to carry babies on street cars, poor little things. That was enough for pa. He bit like a bass. He began to look benevolent, and smiled at the lady just as though he lived next door to her, and she looked sort of cross, but pa could not see that, and he smiled again and leaned over toward her and pointed to the dog and asked: ‘How old is the little thing ?’ Well, I thought I should just melt and run r.’ght through the perforated seat of the car. The woman said it. was only eleven months old, but she looked as though she didn’t know us it was any of his business, any way. I tried to get pa to change the subject and talk with me, but when he gets to talking with a woman that settles it, and he told me to hush up and look out of the window at the Then pa smiled again and got one eye on the lady and one on the supposed baby, which she had wrapped a shawl around, and said: ‘Little cne always been healthy, I suppose ?’ The woman snapped out that it had always been healthy enough, except when it was cutting teeth it had a sort of distemper. The other passengers began to look at pa and smile, and the lady was beginning to blush, and I could -see distapt mutterings of a cyclone, and I pulled pa’s sleeve and told him I wouldn’t talk to strangers that way if I was him, but pa he punched me in the rib with his elbow, and told me to mind my own business, and I went to the end of the car near the door so as to get out quick in case of an alarm of fire. Pa returned to the assault, and it made me perspire. ‘ls it a boy or girl ?’ said pa, and the lady’s face colored up and she pulled the strap to stop the car. Just as the car stopped pa got up, and in his politest manner he said, as he held out his hands, let me help you with the baby.’ Well, you’d a dide. You would have just laid right down in the straw* in the car and blatted. When the driver opened the door I flew out, and just then I looked in and the dog had gQt mad at pa when he put out his hands, and had grabbed pa’s hand, and was chewing his mitten and growling, and the lady called pa an old wretch, and said he ought to be arrested for going around insulting unprotected females, and I saw her umbrella go up in the air and come down on pa’s head, and pa yelled to somebody to take the dog off. Tha woman came out of the car on a gallop, holding the dog by the leg, and the dog had one of pa’s buckskin mittens in its mouth, chewing for all that was out. When she struck the street she told me to. c-11 a policeman and have the old tramp arrested, and I said ‘yessum,’ and she went off with the dog under her arm. I asked pa if I should follow his lady friend and get his mitten away from her little baby, that he was using to cut teeth on, and pa looked so mad, as he told me to go to gehenna, that I got off the car and fcame here, and left him picking pieces of umbrella out of his necktie, and explaining to the other passengers that he knew the dog wasn’t a baby all the time. Say, can you see how I was to blame about pa’s misfortune?” “I can’t see as you are to blame,” said the grocery man, as he dipped a quart of cranberries out of the barrel behind which the boy was hid; “your pa is one of those meh that knows it all and don’t, allow anybody to tell him anything. If he had listened to your adVicehewould have kept out of trouble. I think some men ought to have a boy for -a guardian. But, say! How would you like to have some fun ? I have got a big pile of potatoes in the cellar, and they are beginning to sprout. Let’s you and I go down cellar aad pull off our coats and just have a glorious old time picking those potatoes over and pulling off the sprouts. Hurrah! Come on," and the grocery man laughed and run his thumb into the boy’s ribs and started for the cellar. “No, not any fun for Hennery,” said the boy, as he looked out to see if his pa was in sight. “I think too much fun is not good for boys. If you want your

potatoes looked over you will have to hire somebody to do it. Sprouting potatoes is work, and yon can’t make it pass for fun, unless you strike some fool boy that don’t know you are playing it on him. You old hypocrites think boys are fools. Ever since I turned grindstone for a man once all the afternoon for fun, and got so tired I couldn’t walk, I have decided to pick out my own fun. When a man unfolds a scheme to me to have fun, and I see it is a put up job to get me to work for nothing and call it fun, I pass,” and the boy went out to see if his pa got off tbe car.— Peek’s Sun.

TOBACCO PAPER PULP.

A Peculiar Kind of Ct gar*. A correspondent from New York writes: While seeking information among retail tobacconists, a peculiar preparation of tobacco used for the manufacture of a certain inferior class of cigarettes in Havana was spoken of, and with some difficulty it was learned that a German merchant, who is not in that line of trade, had a box of peculiar cigars sent to him some time ago from Germany as a sample, with a purpose of inducing him to undertake putting them on this market. “Take a cigar," he said, hospitably, offering a box half full of the “weeds," and lighting one of them himself. “Yes, I did have some such cigars sent me awhile ago, byt I declined to have anything to do with them, as there was no profit in them. They could not pay duty and compete with the class of cigars they would be expected to run against here. ‘Peculiar manufacture ?* Yes, rather. The richest, oiliest, rankest tobacco brought from some of the West Indian Islands is first put through a process exactly like that of making paper pulp. While it is in that state chemistry’s aid is invoked.to entirely change its character. The elements that render it rank and offensive are eliminated from it; other essential oils and ethers are added to it. It can be made to exactly counterfeit any tobacco in the world, eyen the finest from the Vuelta de Aba jo. “When it is just right, it is run out in a film, that gradually grows in thickness to a sheet, just as paper is made. Upon this sheet certain acids are lightly sprinkled in minute drops here and there, to simulate upon the perfected sheet the little spots and blotches that you see in the genuine tobacco leaf. The color has already been attended to and regulated so that it will come out just right for any shade of eigar, from a Clnro to an Oscuro, but now other essential oils are touched to the sheet in the most delicate way, to give the rich, oily gloss of sub-outane-ous color, so to speak, that will be observed on the finest dark leaf. Finally the sheet goes between powerful steel rollers, upon the carefully matched surface of which are deeply engraved exact reproductions in the most delicate detail of markings of genuine tobacco leaves. When those leaves are out out of the sheet, it requires the skill of an expert to determine that they are not real. The remnants go back into the vat, and the leaves are, according to their quality, made into cigars or chopped up into filling for cigarettes. By the way, how do you like that cigar you are smoking now ?” “Very well.” “Good flavor? Burns well? Holds well its fine white ash ?” “To all your queries—yes.” “Well, that is one of the cigars I have described to you tbe making of. Take this knife and cut it open. Examine its wrappers and the filler carefully. I am not surprised to hear you say that it looks like natural leaf, and that you can trace the lines of the veins and fine stems in it. Of course you can. But tear a bit in two and look at its edge with this magnifying glass. Do you observe that its filers are irregularly disposed o(, criss-cross, just like this bit of paper that I tear and put under the glass ? A natural ieaf doos not tear in that way. Scrape it, and you will see that its fibers separate from their hold in different directions. Soak it in water and it will become soft and pull apart like paper. It is simply tobacco paper. No, Ido not know that there are in the country any more oi these cigars than the few I have left. Ido not think that there are. But I know that great quantities of them are sold all over Europp, and that the exportations to South America are quite large. ' People there smoke them in preference to the genuine-and good real leaf cigars, grown and made in their own countries. Well, perhaps they don’t know how the imported ones are made. A dealer need not feel it compulsory upon him to tell, and there’s a great deal of virtue in a label to the average smoker."

Perfectfully Dreadful.

“Oh, I say, Chawley, that was a chawming cweechaw you dawnoed with at Mrs. Bullion’s t’other eve." “No, Hawy, she was not chawming; she is a vulgah cweechaw." “ Wy, weally, you don't say so, Chawley." “Yaas; she asked me if Ilikedconnndwums, and I told her that I had tried them in Paree, but I didn’t like them as well «8 fweid fwogs. And then she larfed—actually larfed. Just think of a society gyurl larfing.” “Puffee dwedful, wasn’t it?" “Yes; Mid then sho asked me if I knew why Fweddie Simpson was a fount >in of humor, and when I said no she said it was because he was always having boils. ” “Oh, Chawley* how could you? Take me to a soda-fountain. I feel faint and need a stimulant.”— Essex County (Mass.) Statesman. A comparison of the cotton product of South Carolina for the most prosperous > nto-rebellion year, 1860, with that of 1883 is shown to be so much tbe more favorable to the latter year as to seem almost incredible. The erop last year was larger than in 1860 by 114,815 bales, and in the manufacture of cotton prodiicts tbe inorease had been from (713,000 to (7,963,000. The cedars of Alaska are better and infinitely more inexhaustible than the famed cedars of Lebanon.

KICKED THE BUCKET.

The Suicide of Frank Rande, the Most Infamous Desperado of the West. Using His Water Pail for a Scaffold, He Hangs Himself In a Cell at tbe Joliet Penitentiary. • ——- When tbe keeper of the solitary in the Illinois Penitentiary, at Joliet, opened the cell in which the murderous convict, Frank Rande, was confined, on the morning of the 7th inst., he was surprised to find the iron grated door covered with the clothing of Rande. Unlocking the grated door he found some little effort was required to open it, but when he had effected an entrance the cause was plain, for, suspended from the grating by the neck was the lifeless and almost naked body of the noted desperado. He had made the most careful preparations for committing suicide, evidently intending that nothing should prevent him from accomplishing bis purpose. He hud removed all his clothing except his drawers and stockings, and after tearing his undershirt into strips, had made from them and his suspenders a lope strong enough for his purpose. He then fastened his coat and vest to the bars of the door in order |p protect his naked body from the chilly iron, and after laying his trousers on the floor at the bottom of the door, he placed bis water-buoket thereon Jn order to have something on which to stand while fastening the rope at the upper bars of the door. These preparations being complete he hud only to fasten the rope properly around his neck and kick tbe bucket away from him and in a few minutes all was over. When found his body was cold, yet it presented a very natural appearance, for the feet rested on the floor, the hands hung down the sides, the eyes were wide open, and the head was turned a little to one side. A Coroner’s jury was summoned, and it took but a short time for them to resolve upon a verdict of willful suicide by hanging. Aarden McClaugbrey wont to Rande's cell the previous evening and immediately on entering it the conviot greeted him with much exoltemont, and insisted that the Warden should send for ex-Sherlff Hitchcock, of Peoria, and State's Attorney Tunnocliffo, of Galesburg, saying, “When you three are together I will tell you something wonderful.” To this request the Warden made no reply, and Just as he whs leaving the cell Rande begged him to take him out and hang him, **l cannot do that,” replied the Warden, “ but never fear, you will be hanged soon enough.” In a drawer belonging to the work bench of Rande, in the harness-shop among other things was found the cover of an old memorandum book, on the inside of which was written, in the handwriting of the dead desperado, a number of entries, the first of which is dated July 4, 1877, some six months prior to hie arrest. Among the entries were the following, all dated July M, 1877. Mrs. Mary Carroll and several others. Canton. Man and wife and a girl at Saville. A German woman and her »on at the house with a big tree seven or eight miles from Davenport, Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific. Dr. Hamraokwlll testify to my attempt at suicide. I lost five or six quarts of blood. These entries are supposed to refer to crimes committed by the dead assassin. There wore a number of others which could not be deciphered, but in the back of hie dictionary was found tbe following in Hondo's handwriting: I don't want to go to heaven. There ain’t nothing there. I'm going to hell, the big place. 1 ain’t going to heaven. I tell you God brains people—brains 'em. Perhaps that is the reason so many d-—n cranks are so anxious to go to heaven to get brained, and also escape the perils of hard work. A stranger appeared at the prison and offered the Warden SI,OOO for the body of Rande and the cell-door upon which the desperado ended his life. His proposition was not entertained.

A BLACK CAREER.

A Story of Human Depravity Almost Too Horrible for Credence. The books of tbe Joliot Prison show that Rande wa: received at that Institution Feb. 23, IH7B, on a life sentence. His right name was Charles C. Scott. His early years wore passed in Fairfield, lowa, whore his people live. In 1877 he was known to have killed no loss than five persons, and is now supposed to have murdered thirteen victims in all. He had gloried in the various titles of "American Brlxaud,” “Knox County Desperado,” "St. Louis Pawnshop Fiend,” "Brilliant Bandit of the Wabash," and other equally bloody and interesting titles. His career In the prison had been mutinous in the extreme. Again and again had he been placed in irons for inciting various disturbancoa among bls fellow-convicts, by whom ho had been cordially detested. Born in .Pennsylvania in 183 U, tbe son of a blacksmith, Rande moved to Fairitold, lowa, thirty years ago. He lived for a time the life of a hunter and trapper, while his sneaking and cowardly disposition gradually unfold d and finally blossomed out into that of the most unprincipled and bloodthirsty villain the country has over seen. After serving five years in the Michigan City (Ind.) Penitentiary for grand larceny, he commenced bls career as a murderer. After robbing a gunsmith of sovcral revolvers, be broke into a farm house neat Galesburg. 111., while the inmates were at church, leaving the home, with his plunder, through a corn-field. The farmer, discovering his loss, alarmed several neighbors, and, following the robber’s track, soon surrounded him. Rande made good use of his revolvers and escaped, leaving in a corn-field the dead todies of three of Vis pursuers. The horrified and outraged community scoured the country for mlfes around to find the murderer, but in vain. A little more than a week later Rande robbed another house at St. Elmo, 111., near Effingham, on the Vandlalln road. He was pursued by the citizens, sur rounded in a pie; e of woods, and again escaped, leaving, as a memento of his t endishness, tbe bullet-riddled todies of John Scales, Frank Wiseman, and Frank Barnes. Finding the country be oming decidedly too hotfot him. Ilandc went to Indianapolis, where, while living in the constant society of the most depraved characters, he maliciously provoked the anger of a fellow-reprobate, who called In an officer. Rande again escaped, after shooting two or three officers, and next turned up in St. Louis. There he shot two men in a pawn shop before he was finally overpowered. His trial in Knox County, 111., was lookei Upon as a libel of the most dis graceful nature, as it saved tho murderer’) neck from the gallows.

RANCE'S KIT.

Au Instance of Lax Prison Discipline. The authorities of the Joliet Prison owed the well-nigh fatal assault which Rande maclt' upon them to their inexcusable carelessness. In tbe pockets of the found a sharp deadly weapon, known in the saddlery bus ness as a “eock-eye punch;” a monkey wrench, a--shoe-knife; an awl-handle, a small slate, a wooden model, bottles of oil and srlyo erine, sponges, cutton batting, a tin tube, an almanac, a comb, a oopperheaded spike, lead pencils made by himself out of harness black ing, buttons, rivets, sheets of paper with extracts of news about the James boys and Younger brothers, a pocket Bible used os a scrapbook, 10u homeopathic powders, spools of thread and pages from a book of chemistry. A Gatl.ng gun and an ammunition wagou would have completed his outfit.

SMALL TALK.

LouißviLbß has a barber shop managed entirely by women. Or the 100 member* of the lowa House fifty *ay that they have no .religious prefer ences. The New York market is glutted with potatoes. Thousand* of oar load* remain unsold. A girl 14 years old has Just l>een arrested in Boston for attempting to set fire to a school building. Senator Miller, from California, owm the finest residence in Washington.

LIGHT ON THE STAR ROUTES.

The Story of the Proeecations Retold by Mean. James and MacVeagh Ex-Attorney General MacVeagh’s Rea* sons for Retiring from Free!* dent Arthur’s Cabinet. Before Mr. Springer's House Committee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice, ex-Postmastor General James and exAttorney General Wayne MacVeagh have been rehearsing their brief experiences as Cabinet officers, and telling what they know about the star-route frauds and star-route prosecutions. From the mass of testimony elicited and wired from the national capital, we compress into a column the pith of the dual narrative. As Told by Mr. James. The ex-Postmaster General produced a printed statement of star route investigation and the alleged frauds brought to his notice by Senator George Spencer. Before the witness was made Postmaster General he was called to Washington by Whitdaw Reid. Together they called upon the President. James was then informed that he was offered the Postmaster Generalship. Star route measures were talked over. The President said there was something rotten in the Poatqffioe Department, and he expected the witness to "put his plow In beam and subsoil it On March V, 1881. the President again brought the mattes to the notice of witness. He said he expected witness to cut off frauds. If, upon investigation, he found any persons guilty, they would be turned over to the Department ot Justioe. Witness proposed to call Mr. Woodward into the inquiry, and this met ths approval of the President John Swinton, one of the editors of the New York Sun, suggested the name of A. M. Gibson as Inspector, and he was accepted and put to work. Hersrwltness entered Into a lengthy narrative of the details of the work of Gibson and Woodward, all of which are familiar to the country. Witness suggested to the President that civil suits be first Instituted against the accused. The President thought criminal suits should be begun. The Attorney General warned the President that criminal suits might strike men in high official position and turn the political tide to the Democrats. Witness said Dorsey called on him to denounce Gen. Brady, and demanded bis removal. Witness recommended Brady’s removal to the President, who took the matter under advisement. After concluding that Brady's resignation would not be demanded, tbe President reconsidered, consented to it, and witness asked for it. Brady immediately handed itin. Then Dorsey began to hedge. He cringed and crawled, and his braxen effrontery disappeared in his pleas for clemency. The story of Rordell's confession was rehearsed, and was directed especially at the alleged "deplorable character," Dorsey. Witness related that upon visit, ng the President with William A. Cook he found Dorsey and Attorney Ingersoll in conversation. Cook warned the President that "something awful" was about to happen. James said that Bliss, Glbnon. Woodward, and others retained in the case did not tlx their own salaries. “Right here I want to say," continued the witness, "that what I say ot the other Postottioe officials Includes Gibson. The statement ot ths witness closed with the assertion that “Imd the President not taken the step he did against the star-routers he wouldn't have fallen by the assassin's bullet.” “Why do you state that the assassination of Garfield was the trait ot the star route prosecutions?” inquired Mr." Stewart. . “I do not state that,” replied witness. “That's the inference drawn from your assertion. I think you need to explain your situattop.” Witness said he wouldn’t make that assertion because he didn't know it. From the character of the newspaper clippings found upon the person of the assassin at the time tbe deed was committed it was plain that his head was turned by press accounts of the star route prosecutions.

Mr. MaoVeagh’s Story.

Ex-Attorney General MacVeagh testified that after President Garfield was shot he considered it undesirable to complicate the starroute cates, and ho de ired to do nothing to complicate tbe President who would succeed Garfield. He wished hie successor to go in as little embarrassed as possible. "I had," said Mr. MacVeagh. “several conferences with President Arthur as io the general subject of tbe prosecution of the star-ronte cases, and he expressed a desire that I remain and continue responsible for the prosecution, first as Attorney General and subsequently as leading counsel for the Government, but I felt I oould not do so.” Explaining the talk he had with President Garfield in the political effect of the prosecution of the star-routers, Mr. MacVeagh stated that he warned the President that it would strike some of his high political friends, men prominent in his election, who held letters from the President which he wouldn't desire to have made public. Witness explained the great gravity of the step proposed, as there was at the time a division in the Republican partv, and he thought the prosecution might hazard its future. Among those high in political position referred to were Dorsey, Brady, and Kellogg. Witness told Dorsey's attorneys that papers had been found in the department which needed explanation. He also told Dorsey that there must be an investigation by the Grand Jury, aa he could not bo injured if innocent. He said the matter caused Garfield great distress, but he consented. He was made aware ot all the steps taken in the investigation, the issuance of warrants projjosed, etc. Restated that it was not Garfield’s desire that the matter be settled by judicial investigation. Witness dwelt upon the efforts of Dorsey to have him turned out ot the Cabinet, and the use of Rerdell’s affidavit was referred to. The grounds upon which Dorsey'demanded the removal ot witness were that he was generally a bad man. Witness entered into an account of the circumstances of his leaving the Cabinet He said it wlFattributable to President Arthur’s sympathy with the star-routers. Witness cited the intimate relations of Arthur with Hugh Hastings, George C. Gorham, and other friends of star-routers. They supported Arthur before the assassination, and were cordially received afterward. He thought the gentlemen had great influence with Arthur. Witness didn't desire to remain in the Cabinet. He suggested to the President that he had better have another Attorney General; as the citizens of the District of Columbia believed if he remained it was merely to administer to a dead man’s estate. Mr. MacVeagh testified that he' did what he could to oust District Attorney Corkhill, but President Arthur was set in his desire to have Corkhill piosecute Guiteau. The ox-Attorney General’s testimony next turned upon the subject of salaries paid to the Government's attorneys in tbe star-route prosecutions. The testimony on this subject tended to throw the responsibility upon Attorney General Brewster. In fact, ne explicitly stated that Mr. Brewster first recommended the payment of two a day to the attorneys. Tne only account witness passed upon really was $2,500 to Attorneys Bliss ana Brewster prior to tho’apSiintment ot the latter as Attorney General. e recommended, however, that these two gonmen should be paid SO,OOO and $5,000, respectively, for services from the middle of December to the Ist or January. Mr. Bliss first suggested SIOO a day, and it was insisted upon by Mr. Brewster, who wrote several letters upon the subject ot salary, and Insisted uj on the settlement ot his MH before tie entered upon the duties of Attorney General, aa he did not want to irass upon his own bill. “Was not tse sa.ary of »100 per day unreasonable?" inquired Mr. fete wart, ot the committe. “Not for a short time,” replied the witness. "It might be unreasonable if it should ran a year or iwo years. For iso days it would not be an excessive salary."

BRIEFS.

Newhill, N. C., claims a storm of red rain last week. A copy of John Eliot’s bible was sold In New York on Tuesday for SOSO. Six thousand beau guesses at Cincinnati realized $1,500 for uood sutferers. In the Congregational Church at Grinnell, lowa, a pew is named for Wen Sell Phillipa and is set apart for colored people. Gustavs Hauck, of Philadelphia, tried to hang, shoot, and down himself because Selempe Nennerowicz married another fellow. Senator Drown, of Georgia, pays the largest real estate tax in Atlanta. He owns $400,000 worth of property in that city alone. As an evidence of the recent remarkable growth of Texas, it is stated that the State has now sixty-four organized counties in which no vote was polled at the last Presidential election. The Southern Biwmae argues that ’the mound-builders were drowned by floods.