Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1884 — Page 3

DORSEY’S VENOM.

PB Empties a Few Vial* of Wrath on and Mat Veagh—A Vigorous D«oi LngeraoU, and a Hint of Fart* ■t Be Disclosed. HHln reply to on editoral paragraph ■oting ei-PoitmasWr ( rr: - r:-.l I i . §§| James as saying, “If Gen. Garfield ||Hd taken a lower view of his duties, would not have fallen a victim |H the assassin’s bullet,” the Santa (N. M. ) Eeviw recently published ■Be following communication from Dorsey: |H<7 answer, if worth while to answer at all like James, is that while Gon. Gar|Hld may have been very low in his vow Rj^Hmetimes, as ail men are, he struck the ebb of low tide when he appointed Postmaster General and MacVoagh General. He caught the ovil-fanged in one case and the devil-lish in the lj|Hber. These appointments were against my earnest protest, which was writien at He request of the President-elect and which published long ago. 1 didn’t know Hmos or MacVeagh, except by sight, but the scent or the tirst sight was sufficient. I Rj^B^'' v enough of them to know that they not fit representatives of two great which they claim to represent. 1 oiice Hid that the only credit MacVeagh was ento was the fact that he was the littlo of a great father-in-law. The Hcduct of the best potato generally results vicious and vapid eyes; the transmi.tcd of great men losses its ettoct in the transmission. writing this to you, my chief purpose is reply to statements made by James and HaoVeagh in respect to Col. Ingersoll. As a as a man, as a, friend, and as the of a family he has not now, and never Bd have, an equal in this or any other counAs an orator his peer never stopped on rosttum. Tho intimaton of that man B^B* mea that Ingersoll had in some way a part the assassination of Gariield by furnishing Be aseaaein money to buy a pistol repregjßnts the abhorrent character and the idiocy BHI James as weil as anything can. It would EHe an insult to the vilest professional witness BHk tite Tombs to say that James contradicts EBim. It seems to me that many persons are Horn liars, without judgment to conceal their Having, and many others whose capacity is igHDual in falsehood have tho cunning to con|Bfel ft. Both classes are adorned by Janies EHnd MaoYeagh. A man who defends lngerBH?U against a chargb of this kind would bo a EHreater fool than the man who made the Tho man whose intclleut has enBKgbtenod every nation called civilized, and BHiost of those called barbaric; whose charitaBHle sayings are repeated at every hearthstone BHf the world where language will permit ffiß&peiition; a'man whose genius is recognized Hi Canton, Moscow, London, as well as in Htev York, possesses a power the world likes ■o feel. When a century produces a great IBsjui the man produced makes the century |Breat. EH Whatever reply Ingersoll, A. B. Williams myself have to make before the coinmitwill be made on oath, and I fancy tho KHacts will come out. I have no doubt that |Hhe falsehood of fools will be stamped out. I knew a work more unprofitable than Bm attempt to contradict liars. If you could them of a falsehood one day they IHvould produce ten the ne.it day on tho same and probably on a larger scale. Men Bvho try to hide behind the monument of a Bnartyr can only be found by the boys who Bire hunting tho chirping birds that oven a IBboy with 1118 flrßt shotgun would not shoot at. B?he man who has dblraudod the Government Bnit of millions of dollars, and who lias, in [Birder to conceal bribery, accepted an office B>f the man in whoso favor fraud was perKetrated, is much tho best qualified to tell frauds, being engaged in them all his Ho understands them, being a reformer one hand in tho bank vaults stealing the widows and orphans, the other sticlcSHtag out of tho door, with a voico screaming jHfcreasury and of public morals.

Plate-Glass Outrage.

■ Mr. W. C. DePatnvhas furnislie d tlie ■'Journal a tabulated statement showing Hihat the wages of men and women enHgaged in the manufacture of plateHglass in the United States are higher ■than are paid in France, Germany, ■Belgium and England. As a matter of ■course Mr. DePauw would have it un■derstood that he went into the plateBglasa business and stays in it for the ■benevolent purpose of paying his workling men and women high wages. The ■Journal says that “the plate-glass ■business, after years of precarious exHistence, during which hundreds of ■thousands of dollars were sunk, has ■ begun to pay, and since 1879 capital ■thus invested has begun to realize a ■ small return.” Who has the manu- ■ facture of plate-glass “begun to pay ?” ■ The people? By no means. It has ■ "begun to pay” the monopolists who I have invested their money and have I been able to persuade Congress to ex- ■ tort from the pockets of the people the I money required to make it “pay.” It I should be understood distinctly that I Mr. DePauw don’t pay out of 1 any legitimate profits of his busi- ■ ness the amount of wages which he I claims to be in excess of wages paid in I Europe. He persuades Congress to I levy a tax on plate glass for his special I benefit, and with the money thus ,exI torted from the people he pays the exI cess of wages. He adroitly compels I the people to pay an enormous *tax on 8 plate glass that he may make annual I fortunes on his investments. He says, Ito Congress, we will suppose: “I have I invested $500,000 in the plate glass I business, but my capital don’t pay me. I I want to be helped out of the sad conI sequences of my mistake. Now, if you I will compel the people to pay me 120 fer cent, more than the article is worth, can increase my profits. lean make ;j money; if not, I shall have to abandon the business.” Congress responds, and I Mr. DePauw begins to make money for I himself. Let us see about this plate ' glass business. In 1882 the United States imported “plate glass above ''24x60,” 1,455,218 square feet, valued at $301,66 3. The tariff tax on this glass amounted to $727,609, more than double its appraised value, in round numbers $120,9*6 more than- it was wo. th. This $727,609 tax was imposed on $801,663, the value of the glass, to help Mr. DePauw get rich. This plate glass outrage ought to be thoroughly understood simply for the reason that it illustrates a number of other outrages perpetrated by the Bepublican tariff. We will suppose that Mr. De P-ttiiw had in the New York market a lot of plate glass 24x60, worth $601,filvf. We will suppose that the amount named is the actual cost of production, and, if he sells at the valuation named, he makes no money, Wo will say Mr, DePauw ought to make a profit of 25 per cent, on the lot, $601,663. This would amount to , $150,415. He finds it difficult to sell at that profit, because of foreign competition. He askß Congress to interfere in his behalf. He bemoans his fate. He is profoundly interested in

STEPHEN W. DORSEY.

his workmen; sell is scarcely con* aidered at all. "While Mr. De Pauw’s plate glass waits for a customer, a 6hip enters the port of New York with plate glass on Iward, amounting in valne to $601,663. Congress makes a note of the fact, and says the imported glass shall pay a duty of 120 per cent., or $727,609, and the moment that Congress so decides, Mr. De Pauw’s lot of plate glass, valued at $601,663, advances until it is held on the market at a valuation of $1,329,272. Congress has not onlv given him 25 per cent, profit, but almost five times 25 per cent. Congress has taken the $727,609 out of the people's pockets and placed it in Mr. De Panw’s pocket, and yet Mr. De Pauw’s organ remarks that foreign manufacturers “pay the duty on plate glass.” When Mr. De Pauw aDd th editor of the Journal had succeeded in constructing the article in question, and had arrived at the conclusion that foreign manufacturers paid the tariff tax on glass and other imported commodities, they must have been in a condition to contemplate each other in speechless admiration. —lndianapolis Sentinel.

Fitz John Porter.

The maps, diagrams of marches, and other illustrated testimony that have been called in evidence by the enemies of Fiiz John Porter, will materially aid the historian in proving the incapacity of the man whose headquarters were in the saddle, and tho loyalty of the soldier who did his best to defend his flag under the most adverse circumstances possible. Commenting on these proofs, the military editor of the New York Herald says: “If there ever was a worse campaign than Pope’s—one in which twenty thousand fine fellows were sent to mere butchery, upon orders and operations that were a mere hopeless haphazard of ignorance and presumption—we do not know where to find its history.” Well, possibly the Herald might find its history in some of King Cetewayo’s warfare against the English, but we seriously doubt it. For stumbling against Longstreet and Jackson, Pope wa3 a decided success, but they were the wrong men to stumble against. What were the charges by means of which a prejudiced military court sacrificed Fitz John Porter, to prove that the man in the saddle had more than a spoonful of brains? It was charged that he did not arrive at Bristow at the time prescribed by Gen. Pope. The evidence shows that he was prevented from doing so by the condition of the roads; that had he got there according to Pope’s regulation time, he would not have found the enemy, and that were it not for the foolish order he could have planted himself between Stonewall Jackson and Longstreet. The fault of the blunder may be traced to Gen. Pope having his headquarters in the saddle, or having any headquarters at all, but certainly it should not be laid at the doors of Fitz John Porter. Another charge accused him of disobeying the joint order to himself and McDowell to move toward Gainsville. McDowell and Porter having failed to make out what was meantjby that order, McDowell, as superior officer, relieved Porter from any obligation whatover. The third charge accused him of not going into battle August 29, as directed; that is to say, that he should have gone into action on the flank and rear of Stonewall Jackson’s corps immediately, if not sooner. The officer who carried this order lost his way and) did not reach Porter’s camp until nightfull. But assuming that he had received it in time and obeyed it, whatj would have happened? In order ta whip Stonewall Jackson’s army, numbering two to his one, lie would first have to wipe out Gen. Longstreet’s, force, which was nearly four times stronger than liis own. We do not positively assert that Pope put Longstreet’s army in the way of an attack on Jackson’s corps, but it was there all the same. The following day Pope, with his magnificent army, fell into the pit| from which Providence, by misleading the courier with a jack-o’-the-lantern, had saved Porter, and was forced to, run like a scared wolf, while leaving the flower of his army dead or dying. And now, after Gen. Grant has openly apologized to Gen. Porter for blaming him unjustly, and after a court-martial of select officers has given the verdict that the charges on which he was tried “had no discernible relation to the facts,” and that the findings should be annulled and set aside, some Congressmen are so utterly inoapable of doing an honorable act that they will move) heaven and earth, and raise hell to prevent his being treated justly.— Texas Siftings.

Some Startling Facts.

In the course of the regular business of Congress, the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice have found it necessary to investigate the expenses and methods of the Star Route prosecutions. Incidentally they have stumbled on some startling facts. President Garfield’s Republican Attorney General told them that he left the Cabinet, after Garfield’s murder, because President Arthur and his advisers were in sympathy with the public robbers, and no one desirous of an honest prosecution could receive any moral support from the administration. President Garfield’s Postmaster General has said that Garfield was probably murdered because of his prosecution of the Star Route thieves, and that in his belief the Attorney General and Postmaster General were also marked for assassination. Do not these incidental revelations prove the necessity and the duty dt searching Congressional investigations ? —New York World. Indianapolis Sentinel: This is rather remarkable, coming as it does, from a Republican paper—the itfew York Times. It says: “As a man John Sherman is cold and selfish. He will never excite popular enthusiasm— Tho great fortune he has acquired while in public life will always subjeot him to suspicions. Perhaps they an undeserved.”

HAVOC BY THE WINDS.

A Series of Cyclones in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and the Carolinas. Great Loss of Life and Incalculable Damage to Property—lncidents of the Storm. I* Kentucky, A large section of tbe rich Blue Grass region of .Kentucky was recently visited by a groat calamity in the shape of a cyclone, whloh destroyed some half a dozen villages, killed about twenty people, and Inflicted incalculable damage to tarm property. During the afternoon the oppress! e atmosphere and gathering clouds ga-e evidence of an approach ng storm, and a light rain began to fall. This gave fray to hail, which poured down like shot, accompanied by high winds. The latter increased in fury until it formed a cyclone, which struck Colemansvil t> full on the southwestern side, and In a few moments fiad almost obliterated the town from existence. Thejnhabltants rushed frantically from their houses, which tottered and fell. Large trees, torn from their roots were violently thrown against dwellings, carrying them along. Satire buildings we e o irried away, leaving not a vestige behind exoept the foundation. CtiJor bul dings were carried a distance of from one hundred yards to a half mi.'e distant, scattering debris of legs, stones and trees as so much dust. Every one either ran into tho street or sought retugo la cellars, and many were In ured by falling timbers, which dropped around In all directions. In the midst of the storm a Mrs. A. H. Lail rushed out of tho house with her Infant, three weeks old. The storm tore the child from her arms, while she was blown across the street against a neighbor's house. She was picked up insensib'e and badly in ured, and the baby was found dead 2t:o yard-i distant. Seven or eight people were killed atColomansvllle, and many were badly wounded. No one in the village escaped Injury. Reaching Mount Nebo, It destroyed every house and occasioned a great loss of life and property. Stock of all kinds was seen flying through the air. Still onward bound, the storm with greater force next struck Conroy, tearing down every building. ITiis place suffered greatly. Going thence to Antioch, it Is now impossible to ascertain whether a town e ver stood there or not. But little idea of the havo i occasioned by the tornado can bo conveyed In a word picture. Some few incidents may, however, serve to convey to the reader an Impression or the power of the storm. Trees we. e torn from the spots where they had grown to large proportions from little shrubs, carried a distance of five miles, and thon again d opped to the earth, denuded of their bark and stripped of their hints. Two boys, who were fishing in the Licking River, took refuge at tbe mouth of a railway tunnel, and were blown through it to its other opening, & distance of BOJ yards. A negro d scovore 1 his crunk In a, tree top several hundred yards distant. Babes were blown from their ' mothars’ arms and k lied. Those who went to meir work in tho morning have not yet returned to their families. Two children supposed to have been lost were next morning found in a cellar and rescued. Bodies of dead persons were found strewn along tbe roads Immense numbers of oattle and other stock were also slaughtered. At one place a man flying through the air was seen, but ho can not now be found. A church was lifted from sight and has not yet been heard of. The organ was found about five miles distant. Rocks weighing thiee tons were borne quite a distance, and the ground was much torn up. Vast quantities of water were blown from the rlvor. A man sought refuge behind a freight car; flying debris was seen to ene. mpass h m, and he can not now be found. The chimneys and foundations of buildings wero ourriod away. Dead chickens and sheip were picked up in the nd;olning coi nty, which were recognized as having teen blown from points several miles distant. When the oyclone first appeared it looked like an Immense circus tent filled with and being carried a'ong by the wind. After the tornado had finished Us work a hoavy hail-storm prevailed. Houses, catt’e, and all kindi of stock were carried through the air as though they were but chaff, and being thrown to the ground dead, or with limbs broken so that it was neoessary to shoot them In order to relieve their sufferings. Fragments of destroyed buildings, cooking utensils, etc., were found twelve or fifteen miles from where they were blown. At Putnam, Ky., a number of hoi gss were demolished, several people kUlod, and a number wounded. John Hartman, a brakeman on a freight train, was blown from a freight-car and carried about forty feet, alighting on his head In a creek, breaking bis neck, and causing Instantaneous death. In Indiana. The village of Eclpio, Ind., near the Ohio line, was wiped out by a tornado, Only two houses wore left Intact. Rev. Joseph Winston was killed. In the region about Shelbyville, dwellings were swept away, and outhouses, fenoes, hay and straw-stacks scattered ail over tho farms. Forests were uprooted and destroyed. Near Connersvllle a oyclone forty rods wide swept everything clean for a distance of two milles. In orosslng Whitewater River, the water was lifted in an immense sheet, and the stream loft momentar.ly dry. ,A cyclone fifty feet wide swept through Richmond with alarming velocity, tearing all sorts of rubbish wivh it. A Baptist church was wrecked, and several buildings unroofed. Near Greenfield a strip of ooantry two mites long was devastated, barns, fenoes, and hay-staeks being mixed into an inextricable mass and swept away like chaff. In Ohio. A clyclone swept through a section of Ohio contiguous to Dayton, at about the same time the Kentucky storm was performing its work of destruction. The towns of Ridgeville, Shakertown, Centervil’e, Spring Val’.ey, and South Charleston suffered greatiy. Two men were killed at Ridgaville, and another, who had taken refuge on a covered bridge, was blown Into the stream and drowned. At Ripley many houses were unroofed, and farm dwellings, barns and fences were demolished. In North Carolina. A large section of North Carolina was swept by a fierce cyclone, and many peoplo killed. At Newton thirty houses, were blown down, one woman killed and fourteen per-, sons wounded. In Lenoir a whole family were killed. At Mecklenburg six residonoes were levelod and a number of people injured. In Iredell County everything was swept clean in the track of the tornado, trees being carried a distance of two milos. In South Carolina. A fierce cyclone for the third time within a few weeks devastated a large section of South Carolina. In Chester County many dwellings and barns were blown down, and several persons killed and woundod. A 7-year-old boy was caught In tho storm and has been miss ng ever since. In Grcenrll e County serious damage was wrought, and two lives were lost.

CHIPS.

Three cows In Nantucket have this spring given birth to cal tee without eyes. Two entirely white opossums, with dark eyes, were reoently found at Hot Springs, Ark. Adolph Stein, 17 years old, of New York, dressed himself in his mother's clothes and hanged himself. The New York district mossenger boys have been Ordered to wear clean shoes, standing collars, and short hair. There are seventeen candidates for Sheriff In Union County, Oregon.

PRESIDENTIAL TALK.

Tflden the first Choice of Che Democrats of the New England States. Blaine and Bandall Strong in Pennsylvania—Preference* of Illinois Democrats. •HID. The Shermans, John and Toon meek. [Washington Telegram.] “Hack,” of the Eandusky Register, who Is here, says that if it is deemed expedient to present the name of John Sherman at Chicago he will secure pretty noarly all tbe delegates from Ohio, although the Blaine sentiment among the voters is very strong. Some who have been attempting to organize a movement in favor of the noininatlou of Gen. Lherman for the Presidency are disturbed by tbe rumor that he voted for Hancock at 6t. Louis, and are endeavoring to a*-, certain the truth of this. PENNSYLVANIA. Blaine and Randall Prime Favorites with the Quaker*. [Philadelphia Dispatch.] Blaine and Randall had the call In the oounty conventions Just held In this State. In Wyoming a resolution was adopted by the Republicans instructing the delegates to use all honorable means to further the nomination of Blaine. In Columbia tho same action was taken, and in (enter a similar feeling prevailed. On the Democratic side Tllden's old friend, William L. Scott, was elected a Senatorial Delegate, and will go asa National Delegate to Chioago, together with some men who have here ofore favorod Wallaoe, but who are now instructed for Randall first, last, and all the time. Scott, In a strong speech, wai nod the Democracy of a scheme on the part of Wallnoe to defraud the people of the State of their choice, Samuel J. Randall. NEW ENGLAND DEMOCRATS. They Want Tilden and a Revenue Tariff. [Boston Dlspatoh.j The Boston Pont prints sevoral columns of letters from Democratic members of the Legislatures of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Conncotiout, in which the writers give their preferences for a Presidential oand date. TJden leads la each Sta'e save Massachusetts where be and Butler are about even. The Greenback members of tbe Maine Legislature favor T.ldon at first choice. On tho tariff question the majority are lor tariff for revenue on’y, and the overwhelming ma’ority favor the Morrison bill and a gradual reduction of tariff taxation. Of the members who declare unequivocally for a continuance of the present tariff two are New Hampshire men, throe Connecticut, and one Massachusetts. Two New Hampshire manufacturers favor an immediate reduction, and one favors the tariff as at present. ILLINOIS. The State Polled by Counties. [From the Chioago Inter Ocean.] Not long ago a Chioago gentleman had oocaslon to write to every County Clerk In Illinois upon a matter of business. After writing perhaps half a dozen letters it oocurrod to him that ho would ask wbat tbe political outlook was, and thus, without hardly any trouble, get an idea of ’be situation, The Inter Uctan has been favored with the privilege cf perusing the answers, and would be glad to publish them, only to many of tbe wrilers ask that their letie’S may to regarded as confidential that we are not allowed to do so. An idea of their oon tents, however, in tho aggregate can be given without the violation of confidence. Neither party seems to bo affTcted with any latent elements cf dtsoord. Not a single letter expresses any fear of trouble on the temperar oo quest on, or any other side Issue. I.O'al and pcisonal quanels are referred to, if at all, as not likely to etand in tho way of success. In regard -to candidates the Democrats seem to be of ono wind. Not a single oounty is reported to be in favor of any other than the old ticket, with Harrison for Govornor, except thnt St. (lair favors Morrison If he has any dhow. It is the old tlokot first, last, and all the time. Let or after letter speaks In tho most positive way as regards Democratic preference. One would say that Harristn would be ffbmlnated by aoclamation and a delegation solid for tbe old ticket sent to Chicago without the slightest doubt. No suoh unanimity Is expressed in regard to Republican nominees. As for Governor, a good word Is spoken for both Oglesby and Hamilton, no Republican betraying the slightest 111-feeling toward either. As for President, the names moat favorably mentioned are Logan, Arthur, Blaine, Edmunds, and Lincoln, the latter very frequently for Vioe President. grant! In Favor of John A. Logan. [Washington Telegram.] Senator Gullom has had an Interview with Gen. Grant here, and says Grant la tbe most unqualified manner expressed himself In favor of the nomination of Qen. Logan.

A KANSAS LYNCHING.

Samnel Fryer, the Murderer of Jrflm Pennington and Wife, Hanged at Marysville by a Mob. [Marysville (Kan.) Dispatoh.] Intense excitement has prevailed bore for some days over the trial of Samuel Fryer for the murder of the Pennington family, whieh has been iu progress here. Thursday evening tho Jury returned a verdict of “Guilty,” and the prisoner was taken back to jail. It being expected that trouble would ensue, a strong guard was placed around the jail, which is a flimsy oonoern. Last night twenty-five or thirty masked men rode up to tho jail, took Fryer out, and, going to Spring Creek, a small stream half a mile from town, threw a rope over the boom of the bridge, and he was swung off into eternity. When the rope was placed around his nock, he was asked if be had anything to say. He said, “Yes,” and proceeded to give a full, detailed aooount of the awful and cold-blooded murder of John Pennington and his wife, which be committed about the middle of Febri ary noar Frankfort, Kan. It will be remembered that the victims were found dead in their barn several days after the murder. They had been robbed, and Mrs. Pennington had been assaulted in a most bru al manner and afterward killed by the inhuman brute, who paid the penalty of his orlme last night at tba hands of a mob. William Cline, of Westvllle, N. J., a few days ago killed a bog of Cbestor white breed, which, althouvb only a few months overt years old, weighed 1,010 pounds. It was considered the heaviest hog ever raised in New Jersey. According to Japanese oustort, age is counted from the first day of tho January succeeding birth. At that date a child is 1 year old, whether born the previous January, at midsummer, or on the 81st of December. A wild duck took a direction parallel to a locomotive leaving Tarryiewn, and it was s dose raoej tor two miles, but just before rcaohiiur Irvington the bird forged ahead of the engine. A panther measuring ten feet from tip to tip and weighing 200 pound* was reported killed near Hartland, Wash. Ter., reoently. Benedict, Md„ has 100 Inhabitants, of whom seventy are sick with typhoid fever.

John Bradley.

No night was so dark, no wintry blast so catting that John Bradley refused to leave his bed to extend the hand of charity. A poor man, ih a worldly sense—aud indeed living monuments of soul-kindled sympathy nearly always are—yet in the richness of good deeds he was a millionaire. I well remember tlio first time I ever saw him. " I can never forget the lost. The first time he was standing over a burly man whom he had knocked down for speaking lightly of a lady who passed along the sidewalk. The last time—well as faithfully as a hand can execute an honest - effort I will relate the facts, gloomy as their very recollection makes me feel: One day, while in a neighboring town, I met Bradley. He had come out to paint a church, and was ou his way to the building. After exchanging a few words, I passed, and had gone but a short distance when a loud cry of “git out of my way 1” caused me to turn back into the main street. People were hurrying from the thoroughfare and seeking refuge in neighboring stores. 1 soon discovered the cause of the panic. A team of horses attached to a wagon tore madly down the street, and bobbing above the side boards the head of a child was seen. Some one rushed from the sidewalk, and seized one of the horses by the bridle. I knew in an instaut that Bradley was the man. He struggled with the strength of a hero, and hod succeeded in turning the team toward a wall, when he was lifted from the ground, thrown down, and run over by the wagon. The horses stopped. The crowd rushed up. Poor Bradley was fearfully mangled. One of the horses had planted his iron hoof on the brave man’s breast. Life was almost extinct when we took him up, and when we laid him on a bed he muttered something and said, “Poor Mary.” These were his last words. His friends brought a coffin from the city, and I went back to town on the tram that carried h n remains. I knew nothing of his domestio relations, and even now I wish there had been no revelation. I knew not where his family lived, but as I passed along a lonely street a hearse stopped at a door. Hold by the foroe of a strango awe, I stopped when the wheels of the vehicle backed against the stone curbing with an ominous grind. Several men slowly approached, and thon with a piercing shriek a woman oamo out. One of the men gently took her arm, but she tore away from him, and, wildly swaying her arms, exclaimed: “My God! why hast Thou forsaken me?" Women with their gontle touch came, and with soft wordß tried to hush the wild cries of tho heart-broken widow, but she threw her arms wildly around. Striking the ohffin, she grasped the oloth-covercd repository of death and pressed it to her besom, as a wild wail went up from her soul; tho-i, opening wide her lusterless eyes, she pressed her forehead against the glass that covered the dead man’s face. A man turned to me and said: “The poor woman is blind. She has not seen her huabaud for five years.” Her wild motions were then explained. She was feeling for the coffin, and, finding it, tried to force away the darkness with the mighty effort of despair.—Texas S if tings.

Made It Out West.

"Been out West, have you?” I said to a smart looking young man who sat in the seat beside me. “Yes, sir; been out there for ten years. ” “Where were you located?” “No place in particular. Changed around a good deal. ” “Make any money?” “Yes, made a fortune. Am now going East to enjoy it. Shall live in a big stone mansion at one of the prettiest towns in New York State. Don’t ’suppose you will believe it, sir, but it’s a fact, I shall have 150 to 200 servants to wait on me. I shall keep my own physician right on the premises. I shall entertain hundreds of guests from all oter the State of New York and a few from the Territories,” “Now, that will do,” I interrupted. “I’m not a greeny; no use to tell such stories to me.” “It’s a foot though,” he replied, “and here's the proof of it.” And he held up his hands and exhibited a pair of handcuffs adorning his wrists. “Yes, sir; he’s my prisoner, and I’m taking him from Montana to Auburn,” said a keen-eyed, bearded man behind him. “A misunderstanding between you and the special agent in regard to the Avhereabouts of some registered letters, wasn’t it, Jim?” —“Tram Ta " Chicago Herald.

A Compromise.

As a woman, accompanied by a boy about 10 years of age, was pass mg a store on Michigan avenue, a cur dog belonging to the merchant gave the lad a snap on the leg. A great commotion was at once raised over the circumstance, and the merchant finally inquired : “How much do you want to settle this ease?” “Ten yards of ealioo,” promptly replied the woman. “Very well; oome in and get it.” The cloth was torn off and handed to her, and mother and son took their departure. They returned, however, in a ,ew minutes, and when the merchant, asked what was wanted, she replied: “It’s the boy who is raising the fuss, sir. He says he got the bite and I got the dress, and he isn’t satisfied.” “Well, what does he want?” “Three stioks of candy will console him, sir, or if they don’t he’ll have to take it out in complaining.” The sticks were handed out, and as the boy broke one in two and stuffed nis mouth full he muttered: “You let the next dog bite you and i’ll take a suit of olothes and yon may have the candy.”— Detroit Free Press. The total number of actions brought n the High Court of Justice in England last year was 100,000, one-third oom menced in the distriot registries, and two-thirds in London.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Tea number of persons who have Joined the temperance movement at Richmond ie 5,857. Five prisoners made their escape from the Jail at Columbia City. The/ had patiently worked on the stone ceiling for three weeks, having- obtained masons' tools from outsiders. Mrs. Philip West*, residing two milee from Hartford City, came near losing her Use, recontly, by drinking a decoction of poke-root recommended by an Ignorant plllpeddlcr. Sho was bettor at last accounts, but her life is yet endangeroa from Its poisonous offeots. Te* Sheep-Shoaring Festival, under the auspices of tho Indiana Wcol-Growers’ Asso. elation, will be hold at tho Exposition Grounds, at Indianapolis, April 83 and 21. It will not be an exhibition exclusively of Indiana sboep and wool, as sheep-owners in ether States are Invited to make entries. A horrible cutting affray occurred near Palom, 1m whleh one brother used the doadly knife upon another. Benjamin R. Wheeler and John Wheeler, It soems, wero playing a friendly game of cards, when a dispute arose which resulted in Benjamin deliberately outting bis brother's liver out. The Jury In tho case of Tom Taylor, of Petersburg, for malpraotloo on the person of Anna Poe, last fall, which resulted in the death of tho young lady, returned a verdict of guilty, and assessed bis punlshmont st seven years in the Stuto Prison and a fine Sf $2501 John Fox, aged 60 years, who had been living the 11 ro of a hermit for tho last thirty years in a littlo one-room hut on Samuel Cutslnger's land, near Edinburgh, was found lead in his hut at a lato hour tho other evening. Ho had not boon seen for several days, ind one or Cutslnger's workmen wont to his nut, whore ho found him dead. A letter from Prathersvlllo, Mo., states that Perry Manls, now sorvlng In tho Jeffersonville Penttontlary for the murder of Mrs. Nelson, near Torre Haute, resided in Missouri two years ago, and thoro, under tho name of 0. D. Harris, married an estimable young lady, whom he troated with great oruelty and thon dcsorted. After a retirement of twenty-four hours the Jury in the liquor-license case of Reiser vs. Welsh, on trial at ConnersvlUo on ohange Of venue from Henry County, failed to agree. Tho easo was tried about a year ago and the Jury failed to agree, and tho present is the seoond trial, and Is largoly a contest over the oosts in tho oase, whloh are very heavy. Hereafter orders given by employos on the Beo-Uno system to parties to whom they arelndobted will not bo honored. General Manager Thomas says giving “orders" and assigning pay causes trouble and oompUoates pay-rolls. Any omploye giving “orders ”or assigning pay will reuder hlmsolf liable to dismissal from the service of tho company. The Wabash management, last week, Issued a notioc of similar import. Mess Nevada Miles, one of tho most popular young ladles of Greosnburg and a sister . of the Hon. Robert Miles, of Bloomington, recently doped with William Minor, and they were married. Minor had been employed by the young lady's father, who is confined to his room by.partial paralysis, as a nurse, but it appears that the young man has not been ldlo, and has won tho affeotions of the daughter whilo caring for her father. Tbo old gentloman will probably weloomo thorn bade, as they left a note saying they would soon return as man and wife. A band of selT-constituled regulators seized William Blaolc, of Hamilton Township, Jackson County, whom they regarded as too proud to beg, but not too honest to steal, and sasipondod him from the limb of a tree three tlmos for tbo purpose of extorting a oonfceslon from him on the charge of stealing meat. Ho Is a large and powerful man, and made desperate resistance, knocking down several of his assailants before be was finally conquered. Ho persisted in his innooenoe to the last. Falling in their efforts, the regulators turned him loose. He says he recognized all of the party, and threatens to sua for satisfaction.

Class feeling has been running very high In De Pauw University for some time. It be* gan by the seniors adopting plug bats as the insignia of tbdr class. Those were promptly stolen by the sophomores, who had their ploturos taken with them on. The other evening, during the progress of the sophomore performance, about thirty freshmen entered the hall with large paper saoks Inflated and labeled “sophomore wind." After hearing four spoeobes they all started to leave the hall. Dr. Bldpath, presiding, tried to detain them by looking the doors, but these were buret open and the fresmen escaped amid great excitement. During the uproar firecrackers wore exploded, filling the hall with smoke. At a later hour the cannon were taken from the armory and fired repeatedly. The absence of policemen during the fray was noticeable. Purdue University has out aspeoial catalogue of asohool pharmacy to be opened next autumn. Instruction will be given in junior and senior courses of twenty weeks each, twenty-two hours each week. The fa<c ulty Is composed of the President, James B. Smart; Bobert B. Warder, chemistry; John N. Hurty, pharmacy; Alembert W. Brayton, materia medloa and toxicology; Charles R. Barnes, botany. The instruction is free, as In all departments of the university. Matrioulatlon, Incidentals and ohemloals amountto less than SBO per term, so that $125 covers the total expenses of a term of twenty weeks. Including board, room-rent, foes, books, and Incidentals. The leotures begin Sept. 23*1881 and close Feb. 9. 1885. The degree of pharmacy will bo conferred upon applicants completing the course, and who have been three years and a half under a preceptor In a dispensing pharmacy, deluding the time spent in the school. For catalogue and further knowledge the School of Pharmacy, Purdue University, Lafayette, may be addressed. The City Council of Oreenoastle has Interdicted the sale, bartering, or giving away of any sporting paper within the olty limits, especial mention being made of the Police Ornette, Police Newt, 'lllustrated Times, and Week’s Doing*. Near Huntington the barn of Peter Karst was consumed, and three horses were burned to death. A large amount of grain and a number of farm implements were also destroyed; loss, $3,500. Alice Smith was stabbed three times ta BhelbyvlUe by Alva Brown.