Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — Page 3

THE COMING CAMPAIGN.

■Stirring Address of Ex-Senator James R. Doolittle at the Iroquois oius Banquet, Chicago. ■ Mr. President and Gentlemen: I feel ■ "very highly honored to be called upon to rejf spond to this toast, but I must confess that I I am at the same time greatly embarrassed, I for it Is but a very short time that I have ■ been a-ware es the fact that Gov. Hubbard ■ would not be here himself, to whom I .hoped I to have the great pleasure of listening. But, I Mr. President, what means this toast —"The I Coming Campaign/'” What is involved in it/ I What are its issues? Who are its leaders? 1 'These are the questions that come at once to I our minds. In answer to the first question, I What are tobethelssi.es?” perhaps what I we have heard to-night already presents at I least three or four of thg great issues In the I oompaign. Mr. from KeriI tuoky, is called upojroo respond to the first, I *‘lllo Republic—Afrlndivisible Union of Ini -destructible btateA” 1 think the very order I in which you have placed these toasts has I put the issues that are involved in | the struggles between the two great parI ties of this country in ‘the ioreI most rank. "An indivisible union [ of indestructible States.” That is not the j -doctrine of the Republican party. The Republican party m its very ideas and logic today go just as far from the Constitution [ when they say the States have no rights which the Federal Government is bound to respect as the secessionists in former days, when they said the Federal Government has no rights that the States are bound to respect. The one extreme is but the rebound of the other; neither is the true doctrine of the Constitution. Under our Constitution the States are sovereigns, and the Federal Government is sovereign, but neither is absolute sovereign, thank God I Roth are limited sovereign and are limited by the Constitution of the United States. To the Federal Government is given just so much sovereignty as the Constitution gives. To the States is reserved ail the sovereignty which is not given to the Union. This is the true doctrine of the great •Constitution under which we live, livery American citizen lives under a double allegiance—his allegiance to the Federal Government, which makes the Federal Union, or the Union of -the States, one nation among the nations of the earth, which makes this great -republic—United States—the greatest nation upon the earth, although but at the end of its first century, and which before the end of the second century will dwarf every other nation on the face of this globe. And he at the same time owes an allegiance to the State in which he lives, allegiance to the Federal Government in national affairs, allegiance to the State in all domestic affairs, So that every American citizen, from the cradle to the grave, has two sovereignties, like two guardian angels, walking close by his side—the sovereignty of the Federal Government, which protects him as an American citizen all over this world, and the sovereignty of the State, which defends him in all his private relations. My friends, let me ask you what sovereignty is it that defends me in my home with my wife, my children? The sovereignty of the United States has no more to do with it than the Queen of Great Britain. It is the sovereignty of the State whore I live that defends me in my relations to my wife and children, while, -if my child is robbed from mo, it is not the Federal Government that interferes, but it is the State of Wisconsin that interferes. If a burglar enters my house at night, what sovereignty punishes him? The United States has no more to do with it than Canada, but the sovereignty of the State of Wisconsin seizes him, drags him before its tribunal, sentences him to the State Prison. If a man in the streets should murder your friend, what sovereignty punishes him? Not the sovereignty of the Federal Government, but the sovereignty of Illinois. Illinois takes him to prison; Illinois calls on Illinois judges to try him, Illinois juries convict him, • and when sentenced to be executed it is the Sheriff of Illinois that hangs him. My friends, this great sentiment lies at the very foundation of our whole existence in our American system. We have a sovereign GovernmenfUf the Union—especially by the Constitution—to make us one nation—one indivisible nation and Union—that cannot be dissolved, which prevents States or foreign nations from dissolving it. My friend said that the States within this Union were indestructible ! Why, the very Constitution makes them indestructible. The Constitution says in so many words the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government. What does -that mean? It means that every State is an independent republic within itself, in its own affairs. That isthe very idea of the Constitution, and yet I tell you, Mr. Chairman, and you, gentlemen, that, lying at the bottom of the Republican party, in its very heart of Reart, t and in its logic, they do not believe m the constitutional doctrines as to the States in this Union. They are just as far from it, just as false to the Constitution in their ideas of centralism, as were the secessionists in their ideas of secession—that they could break up the Union and destroy the Government by secession. But there is another idea expressed in that remarkable letter which we have heard this evening, a chracteristic letter which' shows the greatness of its author. When speaking of our Constitution it was Gouverneur Morris, he says, who says the Constitution is a good one, or whether it is a good one or not depends on how it is construed. The construction by the Republican party of the Constitution is this: That Congress can do whatever it is not expressly forbidden to do. Now. we deny that doctrine altogether. We insist that Congress has no right to do anything except what the Constitution says it may do, for which it is necessary to do, in order to carry out what the Constitution has expressly given it power to do. Now, on this great question there is a great issue between the Democratic party of to-day arid the Republican party of to-day. The Republican party of to-day goes the whole length of construing the Constitution, giving to Congress every power which it does not expressly forbid. That, I think, is another great issue, and I will take them right in order. Next comes the other great issue of civil-service reform. I say nothing, and attempt to say nothing, In addition to what has been said-by the distinguished Senator from Ohio. I will only do this—do what is sometimes done after a, very great sermon, when some layinan is called on to say a word by way of improvemerit. I will simply say this by way of improyement—not. that I improve his discourse, but in the way of improving the occasion—that the first thing, in my opinion, absolutely essential to civil-service reform is to elect a Democratic civil-service reformer for President. I will tell you the reason why. Not because there are not a great many good, men jn the Republican party that would be very glad to reform the civil service, but, because all experience has shown, and I believe any honest Republican will admit, if you will take him by himself and sit down in his office or oy his fireside—he will admit that all experience shows that no party which has been in power for twenty or twenty-five years, and gets into that corrupt state in the civil service which we have fallen into—that any such party has the power to reform itself. No party ever did it. It goes on from bad to worse. The only way to reform it is for the people to take hold of this matter and put the party out of power. That will give them a chance to reform. That will give them an opportunity to reform, and, besides all tiat, if a good Democrat oomes in as President of the United > Btates, then I think fair play will be extended, so that Democrats as well as Republicans may aspire to be examined before a Board of Civil Servioe Reform; that if they are found to. be honest, and found to be well qualified and capable, why a Democrat might possibly get into an office. We all know now that of these hundred thousand you speak of I do not suppose there are a thousand—l doubt if there are five hundred—Domocratsto be found in the whole service of the Government. There are as many Democrats in the country as there are Republicans, and we think a great many more. Why then should such a state of things exist, that not one single Democrat is anywore to be found in the civil servioe? Now, my friends, I ought to stop here I ought to have stopped before, but allow me to say ono or two words more and than I am done. There is another principle in this canvass—this coming campaign—that I oun

not overlook. Ire member that in 1878 we elected our President and our Vies President —a-d I remember another thing, that the leaders of the Republican party in the House and Senate—l will refer to them by name—they are both dead now—l refer to Mr. Garfield in the House and Senator Mor on in the Senate—su&tantially pledged themselves, as leaders of the i-epublioan pa: ty. ani pledged the Republican party to the leaders of the Democracy, that if they would join in appointing this commission—this high commission—part to be composed of the Judges of the Supreme Court and part of members of the House and members of the Senate, that they would oonsent and the commission would absolutely do wbat it was made for, to wit, try the question whether there was a fraudulent vote in Louisiana or not. I remember, too, that Mr. Garfield, after making that speech in the House, and Senator Morton in the Senate,twent onto that commission—l have not forgotten it, I have never forgotten it-—that after they went onto that commission. when it was proposed by one of the gentlemen who sits in this room at this moment—l refer to my distinguished friend. Senator Trumbull—it was proposed to prove before that commission that those returns from Louisiana were false and forged and fraudulent, and that the Tilden electors had received nearly ten thousand majority in Louisiana, that commission decided that it would not do the very thing it was made to do, to wit, try the question. That the mission decided that they would not hear the evidence, but would decide the case upon the old hoard returns. And I remember another thing, and my friend, the Mayor, who sits before me, authorizes me to tell. When Mr. Garfield came back from that commission ihto the House, Mr. Harrison met him, and says he, “Mr. Garfield,how in heaven’s name could you vote against trying that question after making that speech in the House?” and Mr. Garfield turned upon him. “Carter,” said bp, “if you had the cards wouldn’t you play them?” a I undertake to say that in in the pledges given by the leaders of the Republican party to the Democratic party, to have that commission try this question, and in the breaking of those pledges, the honor of the Republican party is gone—it is gone forever—and the result was that Mr. Tilden, who had nearly 10,000 majority in Louisiana, was defeated in the office, and Mr. Hayes, who was defeated by nearly ton thousand majority in Louisiana, was put into the office at the very same time that a commission appointed by Hayes himself went down to Lousiana and declared that the Democratic candidate for Governor in Louisiana, though he received 10,000 less votes than the Tilden electors, was elected by 7,000 majority. "Now, I will tell you, my friends, this outrage and wrong goes unpunished as long as the Republican party is in power. It is unreveriged, but I wHI tell you the people of this country have not forgotten it. So, too, there is one. thing more I remember. In 18:0, when Gen. Hancock was our leader, it was well known thatfn many of the States his majority was assured, but in Indiana, by the very money that was stolen by these “star-routers” —Dorsey and his crew—the money distributed In Indiana bought votes, defeated Gen. Hancock, and elected Mr. Garfield. That, too, is unavenged and unpunished and unforgiven. Gentlemen, I could speak of some other issues to come into this campaign, but I will not occupy your attention any longer. I will simply say this in reference to the coming campaign: Let us be united, with one heart and one mind and one soul. Let us call upon the whole country to come into this great struggle, that we may not only elect a Presldbnt in the United States, but, when eleoted, inaugurate him.

SENATOR BAYARD.

The Delaware Statesman on the Evils oi Maladministration. Measures of great importance are now pending before the two houses of Congress, and it is impossible to foretell when*they may come up for discussion. The welfare of the country and the prosperity of all classes and occupations demand a speedy loosening of the restrictions upon production and trade, caused by the present tariff laws, which are palpably congesting every branch of manufacture, prohibiting .exchanges with other nations, convulsing our home markets with alternate excitement and' depression, and compelling the laboring classes to obtain their daily bread, not by a readiness to work steadily, but by dependence upon the condition of our home market alone, and its capacity, fitfully and n6t regularly, to afford them employment. This is the condition of things, and the attitude of the Republican party—under whose policies and administrations it has been brought about—is clearly shown by the votes in Congress and the declarations of their party press; and it must be seen that they are so enthralled by the oligarchy of protection of the favored few at the cost of the many that hope of reform or relief can be expected only from the ascendenoy of the Democratic party. . The evils of maladministration are everywhere apparent, are confessed in many, and proven to exist in nearly every department of the executive branch. Respectable men of every party are compelled to hold their noses over the developments of the starroute trials; the falling out of rogues in office and out of office is exposing a state of things so corrupt and shocking that the only marvel is tbat public business could have been conducted at all through such agencies. The testimony of special counsel and agents of the Government, of members of President Garfield’s Cabinet, and the official reports of the Department of Justice, are adding chapters in the history of maladministration equal to the worst days of the worst governments. These evils are thus proven by the internal evidence of the facts themselves to be so deep-seated and widespread in the very structure and substance of the Republican party tbat it cannot reform them from within; that they have grown by reiterated use to be its customary land daily food and means of obtaining and prolonging its power, find cannot now be abandoned, unless it abandons also all hope of continuing in power. Of what material the Republican convention soon to assemble in your great city is to be composed, and by which its action will be chiefly dominated, may be learned by an examination of the compositiop of the Louisiana delegation, headed by an individual now under indictment for bribery, accompanied by a band of political mercenaries and-politi-cal camp followers. Under such conditions how idle to hope for civil-service reform, or tariff reform, or reform of any kind or nature from a party of suoh antecedents, such composition and such inevitable administration in the future,Should it unhappily be permitted to continue the mlsgovernment of the country.— Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, to the Iroquois Club.

Father and Son.

After bad wound up his ■great speech ion- the Ifitz-John Porter case, one of the firtt persons he met in the lobby was his sou Manning. Now, Manning Logan is a profound admirer of his father; it would be difficult to prove to him that the sun’s orbit was Hot confined within his father’s horizon. And the father encourages this feeling of pride in his son. “WeU, my boy,” cried the Senator, oheerHv slapping the young man on the back, “and how did you like my speeoh this afternoon?” “Father,” replied Manning, impressively, 1 “it was worthy of the palmiest days of Daniel Webster.” “Ah, well, I flatter myself it was,” said the Illinois statesman, drawing himself up proudly; “I may not have any talent at writing dictionaries, but when it comes to making speeches I don’t know that I have to ask any odds of my illustrious predeoessor from Massachusetts!” —Chicago Daily News. The Albany Jbwrnal makes an unwitting confession when it advises its Republican friends that it is “better to Bpend $lO in Maroh or April in interesting Republicans in their party than SI,OOO in buying torches, fireworks, and Democrats in October.”

DEVASTATION AND DEATH.

A Large Section of Western Ohio Swept by a Destructive Cyclone. Jamestown Almost Obliterated and Six People Killed—lmmense Damage at Other Places. □ A dispatch from Jamestown, Green County, says: A terrible cyclone struck Jamestown about 5 o’clock Sunday evening. Two-thirds of the town was comnletly ruined. Six persons were killed, gamely: Miss Stella Jones > aged 15, of Ksculapia Springs, Ky.; Mrs. Ann Carpenter, Letitia Jenkins, daughter of G. K. Jenkins; Miss Kate Boteler; Mrs. Stewart, a colored woman; a son of James Paulis. Several were badly wounded. Hundreds of people were turned out of their homes. No estimate of the damage is possible now. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. It appears to have originated near Woodbine, a small town ten miles south of Dayton. Eye-witnesses describe it as appalling in its fury. An authentic statement te tbat the cyclone was formed by the union of two light storm-clouds from south and northwest, which immediately assumed the form of a waterspout, rising and descending like waves of the sea, and destroying everything in its way. M. E. Best, of Dayton, who was near enough to observe accurately, says that it was fully an eighth of amlle wide, and moved about over the country like an immense cloud of smoke, while everywhere in its path the air was dark with trees and ruins of houses. Forests were mowed down like weeds, and fences were destroyed for miles, and it is estimated that in this county alone at least twenty residences are in ruins, to say nothing of the loss on other buildings, live stock, and farm property. At Alexandersville, six miles south of Dayton, several people are known to be injured, and one lady reported killed, while a sawmill, barns, and other buildings are destroyed. Friend’s paper-mill and other buildings are badly damaged, while a number of residences are reported destroyed. The telegraph lines are down in all directions, and roads are impassable from the ruins that fill them. Near Woodbine the residences and other buildings belonging to Edward Wheatly were destroyed with other property amounting in all to $2,000. Two farm hands are reported missing. Brick school house No. 9 is destroyed and the roof carried 500 yards. Mr. Harris’ house and barn were destroyed. One child caught in the cyclone was carried 200 yards and dropped to the earth slightly injured. Mr. Mitchell’s house and barn are partly rufned. Mr. Ridenour’! property is badly damaged. Abner Harris’ barn and other buildings were destroyed. The names of other losers cannot be ascertained, but, considering the large number of houses destroyed, there must be heavy loss of life. In the neighborhood of Miamisburg there is heavy damage. At Bellbrook, Greene County, at least fifteen farm houses are more or less damaged, but the families generally escaped by taking refuge in the cellars. From Carrollton the cyclone took a direct easterly course, and its force was not in the least spent when -it reached Jamestown, a thriving village of 600 inhabitants, which is reported entirely destroyed, with only a few buildings standing. Meager telegraph reports state that four people are known to be killed, while twenty are more or less injured. Among othem, the residence of L. Wickersham was lifted from its foundation and carried quite a distance. Near Xenia there was considerable destruction. The Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home web badly damaged. The bam, laundry, and other buildings were destroyed, while the hospital was unroofed. Miss Harvey, the matron, and Night-watchman Richardson were injured, but no children were hurt. Between Jasper and Cedar Creek, on the Narrow-gauge Road, the damage is great to farm property, and at this point trains were unable to'movo on account of the wind, while others did not dare to pass over the Cedar Creek trestle during the cyclone. In all directions, south and east of here, the scene of destruction defies description. Whole forests were cut down like weeds, and trees and smaller buildings carried a long distance in the air. [Dayton (Ohio) Telegram.] A very destructive cyclone visited this section on Sunday afternoon. In the neighborhood of Miamisburg, Carrolton, Franklin, Woodford, ltidgeville, Xenia, Jamestown, Washington Court House, and at other points the damage was appalling. The cyclone was first observed in the vicinity of Carrolton . and Woodford, where it seems to have begun. One reliable eye-witness says that he observed one cloud coming from the northwest and another from the south. At a point near Woodford they moved into a vasi; whirling cloud as light as smoke, which descended to the earth and rose in undulations like a whirlwind. From Woodford and Carrolton the course of. the cyclone was easterly, and reports from Greene County show that the violence was not spent in the east when it reached that section. The town of Alexandria, six miles south of here, is badly damaged, and one indy there is thought to be killed. A family took refuge in a shed, and one child was carried five hundred yards, but not badly injured. Sawmills, barns, and smaller buildings were destroyed, while further south the destruction to property was more general, and it is estimated that at least four hundred farm residences, to say nothing of 1 out-buildings, are completely ruined.

THE PRESENT TARIFF.

Official Statistics of Its Operatiou. [Washington Telegram.] Mr. Nimmo, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, has placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury his report in regard to the operations of the tariff act of Maroh 3, 1882. It appears that the actcaused a reduction of about 6 per cent, in the average ad valorem rate of duty on imports. In detail the changes are as follows: Sugar and Molasses—Reduction. 9.32 per cent. Iron and Steel and Manufactures Thereof—6.ls per cent. Clothing W 001—3.88 per cent. Combing W 001—11.27 per cent. Carpet Wool-fi.M per cent. Manufactures of W 001—4.62 per cent. Manufactures of Cotton—lncrease, 1.92 per oerit. Manufactures nf Silk—Reduction, B.B2per cent. E*atthen and China Ware—lncrease, 13.11 per Glass and Glassware—lncrease. 1.09 per cent. . Bpititsjj and Wines—lncreaW, 18.38 per cent., and malt liquors a reduction «f 99.01 pgr cent. The .report, which la a ftoouinent of sev-enty-two paseS, embraces a •somewhat elaborate statement in regard to the changes in ad valorem rates caused by the tariff act of March 3, 1883, and by tho lall in the import pricefe of commodities. It contains also a considerable amount of statistical and other information In regard to the production of sugar, iron, wool, manufactures of silk, and spirits, and i wines In the United States. Tho report treats with some particularity of the production In the United Btates of the three great classes of wool known to our tariff laws—namely: clothing wool, combing wool, and carpet wool, and thri extent to which these three kinds of wool are used by the manufacturers of worsted and woolen goods, hats, carpets, and other articles.

SPLINTERS.

Three-fourths of tho officers in the German army wear corsets. Herbert 9pencer has started for Australia, a long sea voyage being recommended for his health. Wiggins claims to have predicted the London earthquake, and he says there will bo another about May 20. Chief Bushvhead, of the Cherokee Nation, has been afflioted with a severe ataekof scarlet fever, but is now recovering. The Bank of England has just opened ft reading and eating room for its clerks.

THE BAD BOY.

“What you doing that money up. in a paper for,” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in with a two-dol-lar bill, and wrapped it up in a half sheet of note paper, and asked for an envelope. “That’s some April fool business I’ll bet $5.” “I’ll take the bet, and when I convince you that it is no April fool business, wo will put your $6 in with this and send it * I am going to sent that $2 to the Confederate Grand Army fair, at Richmond, Va. You see, there are lots of private soldiers who fought in the Confederate army, who are destitute, some of them on the verge of starvation, with families to support, and they have no government to give them pensions, and their neighbors are poor, so their comrades are getting up a fair to raise money to help support them, and perhaps build a home for them like our soldiers’ home, and the Confederates ask the Northern people to chip in a little towards it. I sympathize with the old boys $2; how muoh do you sympathize’?” and the boy looked at the grocery man as though' he expected a contribution. “Not a darn sympathize,” said the grocery man, as he picked up the cheese-knife and raised it over his head as though he wanted to cut a slice of cheese olf a Confederate soldier. “No, sir, I won’t give a nickel. Serves them right if they suffer and starve. What did they want to raise a row lor? They were wliipped, and now they must submit to tneir defeat, and live the best way they can. Catch me giving money to rebels I No; never! You are a fool. ” “You are a heartless old cuss, that’s what you are. You never was a soldier, or you would have some little charity concealed about your carcass. The Union soldiers are giving cheerfully toward helping their old old opponents, and it comes with a bad grace for a stay-at-home coward like you to go back on soldiers. U niou othcers shake hands with Confederate officers, and the Government gives offices to them, and when iliey come up North everybody is glad to see them, and when our people go South in the winter everybody treats them splendid, and they forget all about the terrible war, but here is a chance to do -something kind for the old crippled and sick private soldiers Of the Confederate army, who have hearts and souls and everything but money, and you refuse to give a nickel, eh?” “Yes, I refuse,” said the grocery man, as he went off down the counter to get away from the boy. “I don’t want nothing to do with men who tried to break up this Union. Condemn them, they shot a brother-in-law of mine in the back, and for a year after the war he couldn’t sit down, except on his knees. When I think of what that man suffered for want of rest it makes me wild, and when I. think of the Government refusing my brother-in-law a pension on the flimsy ground that he was running away from the enemy in the field, my blood boils. He had to get baok to the rear at Gettysburg, because he had left his knapsack with his writing materials in, about a mile back, and lie wanted to write a letter to his parents. By gum! I won’t give a cent.” “Those who were shot' in the back, and their friends, are the most bitter against the Confederates, ” said the bad boy, sarcastically. “The Union boldiers who were shot in the breast, or had an arm or a leg shot off while at the front, and who fell with their faces toward the boys in gray, are the ones who appreciate bravery, and they don’t kick on chipping in a little to help their old enemies, who are friends now, out of a tight place. You would treat our misguided neighbors worse than England treats the Zulus. You are worse than a cannibal. You do not seem to appreciate the fact that these old Confederate soldiers are white; that they are brothers, belonging to the same country that we do, speaking the same language, and ready to fight for our Union at the drop of the hat if ever occasion requires. You would see them starve, and not raise a helping hand. You would not see a dog starve if he came to your door and plead mutely for food, and yet you will see a Confederate soldier, who for three years fought because he thought he was right, and went to his desolate home with a bullet in him, suffer for the necessaries of life, and you refuse to help him. Can’t you realize that his children are as dear to him as yours are to you, and that it bteaks his heart to see their pitiful faces pinched with hunger, and that their voices asking for bread from the father who is unable to earn it for them, sound to him like a death knell ? Can’t you imagine that the Confederate, soldier feels crushed to know the need of the price of a sack of flour, when millions of dollars are squandered every day, in foolishness, by rich pecqile who are no better than he is ? I should think, if you could picture to yourself old veteran Confederates in ragpi, with children around them, climbing on their knees, and looking up into their bronzed or pale faces with wondering eyes, asking by their looks why it is that they have no homes, no food, and precious little clothes, if you have a' soul in you, you would reach down in your pocket and find something that you would be glad-to give to them. Try and realize that those men are human, and as good as we average, up North here, that their children are handsome and loving, and need educating, * and need words of cheer instead of curses, and think how rich our people are at the North, and how poor they are, and horw much good a few dollars, that we would not miss, will do them, and how far a little money would go towards making them comfortable, and making them feel that though our people were hard fighters, and shot from the shoulder, the recoil of the guns did not callous tho hearts of the victors, How much better you would feel if you knew tbe $5 you are soing to give me, to put in this letter with my $2, would reach a Confederate soldier who was so despondent as to almost wish he were dead, and change his countenance from despair to smiling hope, and cause him to thank his God and your God that the darkest hoqr is always just before day, and day had dawned, and his babies would now

| laugh on a lull stomach, while the ! soldier papa and the patient Southern mamma would cry for joy, and say God bless our Northern brother and shield him from all harm. What do you think about this scheme, any way ?” and the boy took an envelope in a business way and began directing it to the Confeder- | ate Grand Army at Richmond, while | his tongue was run out on one side just j like a boy when writing a letter. “Now look a-here, you dry up this kind of talk or you will have me bellering,” said the grocery man, as he wiped his eyes on the sleeve of his shirt. “Here, don’t send that letter by mail. Send it by express, and put in $lO for me, and put on a postscript and tell the boss Confederate soldier that the $2 comes from the best-hearted boy in Wisconsin, while the $lO is from the almightiest condemned fool that ever abused a white man behind his back. That oration of yours settles me, boy. You can teach me more sense in ten minutes than all the ministers can in a year. Shake, you young villain,” and the grocery man came from behind the counter and hugged the bad boy as though he -were a girl. “Another county heard from,” said the bad boy, as ho put the sl2 in the envelope and started down to the express office. “It’s a cold day when Hennery can’t get in l\is work for charity,” and he went off whistling “Away Down South in Dixie,” while the grocery man looked out the window at him with a big smile, and began humming an old Southern tune that he had almost forgotten.— Peck’s Sun.

Orchids.

Some weeks ago mention was made in the Santa Barbara Independent, of a strange arrival from .lajian, in the shape of -a beautiful flower of the orchid, one of those plants called by the Spaniards of South America “Beautiful things without foundation. ” This individual was received by Dr. Lorenzo G. Yates, and was added to his collection, now embracing between twenty and thirty specimens from different parts of tiie world, among them being natives of India, Mexico, Brazil, Central Ameriqa, and Florida. They form, probably, one of the most interesting botanical collections on the coast, and were they to be bought in the floral markets of the East or Europe, where the tulip craze is being repeated, with the substitution of the orchid as the favorite, the coßt would be appalling. As it is, the Doctor has gathered them from scientific correspondents that he has acquired through his exchanges of shells and geological specimens. The peculiarity of the orchid is its grotesque and beautiful flower, and its manner of growth. Only a single plant of the race can be denominated useful, and, to use the words of an authority on the orchid, the application applies only by courtesy, since the vanilla is valued for its delicate aroma and rich flavor, both merely luxurious additions to enjoyment rather than the supply of a real need. The beauties of the orchid are without number. In color they are said to present—and being the only flower so doing—red, blue, and yellow among the different kinds, thus excelling the queen of flowers, the rose, which, alone of all hues, is denied the privilege of reflecting the blue of the skies above it. But with the orchid all colors are shown. Pure white is found in some, like the beautiful Espiritu Santo or Holy Spirit plant of Mexico, which is likened to a dove poised on outspread wings. “Tyrian days and seeming to flash with gold and jewels,” is the striking appearance of others, as described by one admirer of the plant. Many of these plants simulate animal forms, some with striking effect. One of the most singular is the Cynoches ventricosum, which is in the shape of a swan. A plant in Dr. Yates’ possession blossomed a few months ago. Its blossoms looked like a "row of little birds just lighted on a Ijmb. It produced from seventy-five to one hundred flowers at the time of blossoming. The oddities of orchids are beyond expression. They have strong individual preferences regarding manner of growth, and a human dislike of removal. An orchid which is flowering freely will, if moved ever so gently, at once oease to produce its bloom. As a rule they are of slow growth and long life. Sometimes new flower-stems are produced annually, but the plant itself may live a hundred years. Many amusing stories are told of orchid life and habits. Some varieties will only grow upside down; some must be cultivated suspended in the air; but all thrive best in a house by themselves, being a natural vegetable aristocracy, who decline to identify themselves with common growth of woods and gardens. If a portion of the conservatory be partitioned off for these exclusive guests, they will perhaps admit to their high-born company a lew choice exotic ferns. As more is learned of these fanciful plants, the list is becoming longer of orchids adapted for parlor culture, and we foresee the time when the most elegant rooms will not fail to show among their most valued ornaments a few of the grotesque or lovely shapes of the great fatnily of orchids.— Floral World.

An Exquisite Flower.

Both in shape and hne the Bose oi Sharon is an exquisite flower. Its blossoms are bell-shaped, and of ipany mingled hues and dyes. But its history is legendary and romantic in the highest • degree. In the East, throughout Syria, Judea, and Arabia, it is regarded with the profoundest reverence. The leaves that encircle the round blossoms dry and close together when the season of blossoms is over, and the stalk, withering completely away at last from the bush on which it grew, having dried in the shape of a ball, which is carried by the breeze to great distances. In this way it is borne over the wastes and sandy deserts, and at last, touching some moist place, it clings to the soil, where it immediately takes fresh root and springs to life and beauty again. For this Reason the Orientals have adopted it as the emblem of resurrection. We cannot understand what we have never experienced; we need pain, were it only to teach us sympathy.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

New Albany is trying to raise funds for a public library. The old settlers of Knox County and vicinity will give their twelfth annual reunion at Vlnoennes on May 29. Two HUNDRED AND BIXTY-FIVB DOLLARS has been subscribed by citizens of Vincennes for securing a competent manager and a baseball nine. Col. James Tullis, special agent for the Government in Utah Territory, has decided not to return to that Territory, but will make Lafayette his home as heretofore. The Shelbyvllle Light Infantry, having received orders to go into camp during the week of Fourth of July, are forced to abandon their contemplated celebration on that day. The largo barn owned by Lewis Barngrover, on his farm near Fatrland, was sot on tire about midnight and totally destroyed, with all its contents, iuoludiug two horses, one cow, and considerable hay. Loss, $1,000; insurance, S2OO. Mil. Claiborne Williams, a wealthy farmer residing five miles northeast of Tay. lorsvilie, died after an illuoss of ten days, of lung fever. Deceased was one of the oldest oltizons of Bartholomew County, and was respected by a wido oircle of friends. While Sherman Day was going home, he was assaulted by two highwaymen, seven miles north of Montlcello, and brutally beaten into insensibility by clubs. Tho thieves secured nothing, but left Day seri-*. ously hurt. Elder John L. Smith has brought suit to secure a one-fifth share in tho property known as tho Stookwoll Collogiate Institute, an institution of loarning located at Stockwell, Tlppeoanoe County. Tho property now belongs to De Pauw Univorsity. Huoh McClavy, a boy livingono mile south of Nashville, was driving a yoko of cattle hitched to a log wagon, one evening recently, when they booame scared going down-hill, and ran away. The oxen knocked him down and tho wagon ran across his broast, causing his death in a few hours. The city schools of Frankfort oelobratod Arbor day with interesting ceremonies. Trees wore planted to tho memory of John G. Whittier, J. W. Itiley, Gen. Low Wallace, Miss L. M. Alcott, of the living; and to the memory of Alice and Phoebe Cary, Longfellow, Bryant and other poots. After a lingering illness of a few woeks, Mr. Bowman, aged sixty-seven, dlod at Madison, of hoart diseaso and dropsy. Deceased went thore in 1H.12, from his native homo in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and had boen in businoss ever since, until recently, when he began ailing. The family of Elijah Eskridge, comprising himself, wife, and daughter, residents of Washington, have boon almost at tho point of death from vegetable poison. They cooked the tops of a rhubarb plant as greens, and shortly after eating wore solzod with violent slokness, which prostrated them. Mr. and Mrs. Eskridge arc in a fair way to recover, but the daughter Is still very ill. The old, dilapidated gravoyard located at Clarksville Is fust ebbing away. In this yard tho graves of Indians are numerous, and during tho high water fully one-half of the graves were washed away, and portions of skulls, thigh bones, and femur strewn pro. miscuously along tho bank of the river greatly attract tho attention of all who pass by them. Mu. W. C. DkPaiiw, of Now Albany, has received, through tho mail, from Indianapolis, the oheck for $503 drawn to the order of tho Now Albany Hall-Mill Company stolen from the residence of Mr. Albert Trlnler, of Now Albany, on the night of the 25th of March, whon his house was entered by burglars. The check, Inclosed in an envelope, was dropped into one of the street letter-boxes at Indianapolis. The wife of a woH-known citizen of Adams County gave birth to a child that had but one arm, that being the right one. On tho left shoulder, whore tho arm should be, there is a perfectly developed head, the neok being also perfectly developed, but where the head should be is, something that resembles an arm minus the band. All other parte of the body were perfectly developed. The child died about three hours after birth. The parents were offered a large eum of money for the body, which they refused, and a close watch is being kept over the grave to prevent its being robbed. Near 12 o'clock at night Fout T. Hines and wife, of Evansville, who lad Just retired, heard a knock at the door. Hines asked who was there, and received an answer that It was a poor old traveler who wanted some matches. Hines replied he had no matches for him, and ordered him to leave. Mr. Hines then arose and took out two pistols, giving one to his wife. He went to the front room. While there his wife arose and went Into the kitchen. On going back to the bed-room Mr. Hines heard a noise in the kitchen, and opening the door he saw the form of a person, supposing it was their mldnjgbt visitor. He looked a second time to be positive, and, feeling certain It was a burglar, be fired, when Mrs. Hines threw up her hands and exclaimed, “Oh, l*m shot!" A physician found her in & critical condition, but thinks shewlll recover. * Mrs. Posey, a colored woman living In North Vincennes, is the owner of a sow that recently gave birth to a litter of pigs, producing a freak of nature seldom seen among swine. Out of seven perfectly formed pigs was a monstrosity, or “double pig,” or “two of a kind,” linked by the shoulder by a solid mass of flesh, which extends to the rear parts showing two pigs in one, a male and a female, both well developed. From the middle of the body forward the union Is complete, except from the top of the head to the tip of tho nose. However, there are two perfect eyes, the ears being untted at the base. It baa eight legs and two distinct appendages. There is but one under-jaw and an imperfect union of heads? which are equally proportioned only from above the eyes. Richard Preston, tho pickpocket, known to fame as “Windy Dick,” who is now eon, fined at Lafayette, considers himself ono of the most ex pert thieves in the country. Ho claims to bo able to make, without effort, $2,000 per month at the business. A New Albany lady, who has been renting her elegant residence on Main street, recently got possession and movod in. She was compelled to pay $126 plumber’s bill jjefora she could ocoupy it." A Jewish cemetery is to be established av Logans port.