Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — Page 2

4. ME HOKI. BYMANDA L CROCIIKB. leweep a tender, lovlmr chord . ?■' Ot memory’s ha:p to-night. And ii nsic kw, too sweet tor words, Vibrates in dear delight; Then coming softly ’cross the yvairs. In sweet aud hippy barn, Ttye mu>-ic t ows.-all dashed with tears, From the circle of the stars."• The gold and purple sunset gleam Falls across the magic st and; .S/ie comes io me. as iu a dram; With happv smile I press her hand. I feel her breath upon my cheek. < 1 touch her shining silken h ir. The happy words 1 cannot sjieak She understands; why need I care? Why need I care? hro’ all these years. My faitbtul heart is here a one. He- glorious eyes are not tor tears; ohe smiles and leads me on ana on. I kiss her client; adown the years 1116 musicsofdy <o • esand goes. And throbs away in happy tears O’er mignonette and rose. But the gleaming of a setting light Shines stid eniy across the sea; Over the day creejis deepest night; With folded arms she goes iro.n me! The music dll's adown the years. My heart will a he forever more; I only see through bitte • tears A dark, and cold, and stent shore.

Miss MARTHA'S MATCHMAKING.

BY AUGUSTA AVONDALE.

“I declare to goodness, Robert,” Miss Martha said, rubbing her nose in a way peculiar to her, “I don’t know what you will do unless you get married yourself.” Robert Ackerman looked at his sister in mild remonstrance as he said gently: “Marry! 1! You forget, Martha!” Martha’s face softened. Under the daisies, in the village cemetery, slept a Wue-eyed girl who brad been betrothed to her brother eighteen long years be- ! fore, and died one week before the ■wedding day. “It is so long ago!” she said, apologetically. “Yes,” her brother said, sighing; “and lam too old to begin a new life. Thirty-eight in Dei-ember, Manila. ” “Well,” said Miss Martha, tartly, “I am live years older, and I intend to marry John Sanderson in three months. Now, Robert” —this very coaxingly—“there is Dorothy Gaines.” “Don't trouble yourself to pick out my wife, ” her brother said; “1 have no intention of marrying, and certainly no desire to marry Dorothy Games.” He left the breakfast-table abruptly as he spoke and went to his study. Miss Martha rubbed her nose vigor- i ously. “Men are so unreasonable," she thought; “Robert must have some one to keep house for him when I go. And Dorothy Gaines is the best housekeeper in Meadowville!” Theideaof Dorothy Gaines presiding over the china closets and linen chests that had been her life’s delight, until Cupid came to win away the old maid’s attention, became more and more 1 agreeable to Miss Martha as the morning wore away. “11l just give Dorothy a hint,” she finally concluded. “Anybodycan twist Robert around a finger if they half try.” It was a speech founded upon long experience, for Martha had ruled with 1 undisputed sway over her brother and his belongings for many long years. They were people of position in Meadowville. Their house was large, and well furnished in old-fashioned i style. With good servants, well trained i under her own severe discipline, ample i means, and a brother who never found ; fault, Martha’s housekeeping certainly ! had few thorns. But when she consented to become the wife of the curate of Mea lowville, the transfer of her power and privileges became a weighty burden. .But one solution seemed possible; her brother must marry some steady, middle-aged spinster, who would keep up the prim neatness and the hundred fussy details of Miss Martha’s domain. Miss Dorothy ,<iaines, a vinegar- faced, sharp-voiced woman of limited income, and unlimited energy and temper, proved to be smilingly willing to take Miss Martha’s hints in good part. Indeed, one word leading to another, they arranged trousseau and bridal tour before they separated. It had been - a very satisfactory afternoon to Miss Martha, and she came home to tea in a very placid state of mind. Her brother, after lunch, had found himself unequal to his usual afternoon’s re >dipg, and strolled down a shady lane in the direction of the church. Was it his sister’s suggestion that had so brought i back the sweet face of his betrothed to his memory that he sought her grave, for of late years he had not been very •often to the secluded corner where Alice Desmond slept, in the shade of a great oak tree. He walked slowly, musingly, his eyes on the ground, till he was dose to the grave. Then he looked up, and reeled back as if shot. Close to the grave, one little hand resting on the marble headstone, was a slender girl of seventeen or eighteen, dressed in pure white, with a wide straw hat that ehaded Alice’s great blue eyes, Alice’s long, fair curls. Robert Ackerman felt as if he had lost his reason. His voice was hoarse and strained as he said: “Who are yuu, child?” “I am Alice Desmond,” said a low, aweet voice. “It is the name on the atone here. That Alice Desmond was my aunt, who died when I was a baby. Papa thinks I look like her.” The explanation was given with childlike frankness and simplicity, and gradually the suffocating throbs of Robert’s heart became quiet, and his voice was natural and had its habitual gentleness as he said: “I knew your father well before he left Meadowville, and I knew your .aunt. You may have heard of Robert Ackerman?” “Who was to have married Aunt Alice?” “Yes, dear child. You are like her—▼ery much like her. Are you staying at Meadowville?” “Yes. I have been ill. Not very, ■very ill; but”—and she gave a little gleeful laugh—“the doctor says I must go to the country, and not "study so hard. So I am living with papa’s •cousin, Miss Dorothy Gaines.” “Ah, yes. Well, you must let me come to see you sometimes, for vour lather’s sake.”

“I shall be very glad to see you,” sai< Alice, f ankly, thinkng thin was th< handsomest gentleman she had evei seen. He had la ge, kindly, dark eyes, and a few silver threads mingled wit! the r >ven of his hair, brushed baei from a high, noble forehead; a mouth in which sternness was strangely min gle.l with sweetness, shaded by a dart mustache, apd when he smiled Alie< thought he was the best and nobles man in the world. He chatted with her a little while, and then walked with her to the gab of her cousin’s cottage, but would no! then go in. “I will come soon to see you,” he promised as he left her. But he said nothing to Martha about this new encounter, feeling that a sacred chord of memory had been touched, and shrinking from commonplace remarks upon it. The next day Miss Martha went to the city to attend to her wedding purchase, and to visit a relative. She left most minute directions with her servants for Robert’s comfort, and his heart was moved with a guilty sense of disloyalty. He was a man of sensitive refinement, a gentleman in the truest sense of the word; while his sister, without being vulgar, was what the Meadowvillians called a “stirring woman,” full of life and bustle, of overflowing energy, and an incessant talker. Miss Matha had been in the city but a few days when a letter from Meadowville filled her heart with elation. It was from Dorothy Gaines, and that spinster wrote: “Your brother comes over nearly every day. I suppose he’s a little lone? some while you are away, and he usually stays to tea. I’ve got a lodger this summer—a daughter of a cousin of mine in the city. She’s only a little girl, but she plays and sings, and your brother likes to hear her. He’s very attentive—sends fruit and flowers and brings books- though, between you and me, Martha, I’m no hand for books, nor ever was. Stiil, Philip’s little girl seems to like to read, and it keeps her out of mischief. Girls are always in mischief.” Every week there came a long, exultulting letter from Miss Gaines to her dear friend, Martha, until the time was drawing near for the elderly spinster’s wedding. All her wedding garments were made, marked, and neatly packed, when she received a letter from her brother: “Wait until Wedesday, and I will be your escort to Meadowville. “Robert.” This curt epistle had been written after a day of great moment to Robert Ackerman. He had gone quite early to the postoffiee, and returning passed the cottage of Miss Gaines. He somet mes loitered a little at this house to chat with the ladies as they trimmed the garden flowers, but on that day he p .used and caught his breath, as an excited voice rang out upon the air—the voice of Dorothy Gaines--saying: “You a e an impudent little brat, and I’ll send you home! How dare you set up to teach me how to treat mv husband?” A low, sweet voice answered:“You need not be so angry. Cousin Dorothy. I only said Robert Ackerman deserved a wife who loved him.” “Fiddle, saddle, love! You sentimental schoolgirls talk such arrant nonsense. Robert Ackerman is a mooning old bachelor, who wants a wife “to manage him and keep his house in order.” The sweet voice rang out more clearly: “Robert Ackerman is a noble, true gentleman, a man to love—a man to honor! And, if he marries, he wants a wife to love him—to make his life glad and happy.” “My good gracious!” gasped the astonished old maid.

“You think more this minute,” continued Alice,' “of Ins house, of his money, his carriage, and his table linen than you do of him. ” “Well, suppose I do, Perhaps you would like to marry him yourself?” “He would never think of such a thing; lam only an insignificant schoolgirl, to whom he is kind. But if I did marry him, it would be for love, and not for his money.” Hero the sweet but excised voice broke in a sob, and Alice fled from the battle-field. Robert Ackerman walked home slowly. For many weeks, ever since the meeting in the cemetery, he had felt as if his lost love, the hope of his youth, had been returned to him. Every hour’s intercourse with Alice brought back the long-buried dream of happiness more vividly. But he had crushed down all hope.

Never would he link that bright, just-dawning life with his sad, memoryhaunted one. But this morning’s experience gave him rew hope—a hope that made his breath come thick and fast, and his heart throb hopefully. He could not bear such suspense long, and in the afternoon he wandered to a spot in the woods where Alice had often brought her needlework, and where Miss Dorothy’s keen eyes had never penetrated; and there the two would sit and chat by the hour, of books, travel, etc. Alice was there, but she was pale and shy—had evidently been weeping. He thought he had never seen her look so beaut ful before. She had on a white muslin dress, looped up with blue ribbon; her long golden curls were simply tied back with a blue ribbon. A few Huffy curls rested on her pure white brow. She was evidently buried in deep thought, for she did not perceive him until he was close beside her. She rose like a startled fawn, and would have fled, but, gently taking her little trembling hands in his strong ones, he said: “Alice, my darling, I love vou; do not run away from me. I want you for my own little wife. Can you not love me a little?” “But,” faltered Alice, “I thought I understood you were to marry Cousin Dorothy?” “You are mistaken, dearest I do not care for Miss Gaines, nor have I ever asked her to be my wife. There is but one little woman in the world that I shall ever ask to oe my wife,” he said, tenderly. “I did not think you could care for me, I am only an insignificant schoolgirl,” said Alice. “Look in my eyes, my love, my dar-

1 ling, and see whether I care for you or 3 not ?” he said. * r Bhe raised her eyes shyly to his face, , but the passionate love she saw there i dazzled her, and she drooped them in c sweet confusion. Placing his arm i tenderly around her he drew her gently - to his bosom, and pressed passionate c kisses on her sweet, quivering lips and ) burning cheeks. After a few moments t of silent bLss, he sat down on the rustic I seat and drew her down beside him, , and gazing down fondlv into the sweet, > blue eyes raised to his, said: “You > have not said yet whether you would be I my wife or not?” i I “I cannot hnagine any greateishappil ness than to be your wife," said Alice. Miss Martha Ackerman was already to return home when her brother pre- ■ seated himself in the drawing-room of i the house where she was staying. He surveyed the ancient garments in which she had arrayed herself for traveling with such evident disgust that it awaked her indignant surprprise. “What are you looking at me in that i way for?” she asked sharply. “This dress is good enough to spoil with dust. Come to look at you, you are wonderfully spruced up yourself. Why, your suit is new—new gloves, too!” “I wish you to dress yonrself handsomely, Martha,” her brother said, quietly, “to attend my wedding!” “You can’t be married'till we get to Meadowville. Dorothy surely never came here with you.” “I told you some time ago, Martha, that I had no intention of marrying Miss Gaines. ” “Thpn who are you going to marry?” “Alice Desmond!” Miss Martha simply stared, with a creeping horror tHht her brother was going mad. “She is Philip Desmond’s daughter, my Alice’s niece!” “What are you talking about? Philip Desmond hasn’t been married, but ” “Twenty years. Alice is eighteen, just the age of my dead lore." Miss Martha had a soft place in her heart, hard as she seemed, and she had loved her brother’s betrothed in that long ago when they were all young. Her voice was very gentle as she asked, “Are you sure she loves you, Robert? She is very young.” “But she loves me, Martha; do not fear for my happiness, sister. ” And Miss Martha selected the richest costume in her trousseau to attend the wedding, and stopped on the way to the church to buy a gift for her little sister-in-law that proved her good-will, as well as her generocity. It was not until the party returned to Meadowville that Miss Gaines realized how vain a castle in the air she had built upon Miss Martha’s matchmaking.

Scrubbing Railroad Cars.

“It’s no small job cleaning these cars,” said an eipploye to a reporter, while vigorously scrubbing an expresscar on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. “Every inch of the exposed woodwork must be gone over, even to the narrow strip above the ventilators. Water of itself is of small consequence in removing this coat of black. You might rub this car for a week, using only water, and then not do the work properly. We dip our brushes in lye and that cuts the dirt, so that when we use the sponge, soaked in water, everything but the paint is removed. It is very hard on the paints. As a rule we scrub a car twice before it requires a new coat of paint and varnish. Two of us can clean a baggage-car in a day. They don’t have so many windows. The windows add greatly to the work, as they make so many little corners that require an extra amount of rubbing. It takes longer to clean a passengercar. It takes two men about two days, although when we are in a hurry to get a car out we have four at work, two on each side. The work is very hard on the arms. The scrubbing takes nearly all the varnish off and makes a car look old and common. The lettering in gold leaf loses its bright appearance and frequently has to be relettered, as the edges of the leaf pull off. We are kept busy all the year round. In the ■winter time we have to use warm water.

“There is no funny business about the work then. You ought to see our hands when the weather is cold. Hack is no name for it. We clean the cars of all the roads running into the Union Depot. Sometimes when we are rushed we only scrub a circular spot over the number of the car. We clean the cabooses occasionally. After getting accustomed to the work it is not very hard, hub it’s the same thing over and over. After the car is newly painted it will run several years without being cleaned. Alter one scrubbing the dirt catches more readily and is harder to get off the second time.”— Pittsburgh Dispatch.

A Winning Argument.

“What will you do fur .us poor farmers es you git elected to the Legislature?” asked a granger of a candidate who rode up to his cabin as soon as the granger called oil - his fourteen dogs. “Oh! there are plenty of things I’ll do. Dor instance, I’ll reduce the tax on dogs. That will help you a little ” “You’ll take it all off, will you?” “Yes, every cent of it. Wilbyou vote for me ?” “No, I’ll be hanged if I do. I don’t wan’t the tax taken off’n dogs.” “That’s singular. Why?” “Haze the darned dogs killed fortyseven of my sheep, last night, and I want to make the dog-tax pay fur ’em.” “Then I’ll make a law to kill all the dogs.” “If you ever make a law I expect it will kill dogs, but I don’t think you’ll make any. I don’t want the dogs killed." “That’s strange. Why don’t you wan’t them killed?” “Wall, es it weren’t for dogs to kill sheep, mutton and wool would soon be too cheap; and es it wuzn’t fur huntin’ dogs, ’possums would be too dear. You see I'm fur protective tariff on dogs and fur free trade on taut ton and ’possums, I guess you mought ez well move on, strange ', onless onless ye’ve got some ‘coffin varnish’ in that thar bottle in yer hip pocket. I git powerful dry talkin’ politi ks. Thanks, t iat kind uv argvment will win all ove these parts. I’ll vote fur ye, stranger.”— Paris Bea' eon.

LAST WORDS.

The National Democratic Committee to the People of the United States. A Stirring Appeal t® All Who Desire Honest (government and Honest Officials. The Democratic National Committee leaned a final address to the people of the United States on the 28th of October. Jt ie quite lenzthy. The salient pointe are as follows: There is only one great issue involved in this campaign. The question Is whe her this country shall be governed honestly and wisely or corruptly. Mr. Blaine would not be purer as a President than he was as Speaker and member of ttie House You are burdened with unnecessary taxes. One hundred millions of money not needed to de-fr-y proper charges of the Government are annual y taken irom the people and kept m the Treasury. The withdrawal of this Immense amount from circulation has hampered commerce, distressed trade, and impoverished labor. Mr. Blaine aided in the needless and reckless accumulation. He Is responsible lor the mischief it has occasioned. He cannot be trusted with its disbursement. The methods which he has employed in this campaign prove that the Government ought not to lie placed in h s hands. . A candidate capable of using improper means to increase his chances of election would not discharge the duties of that office honestly. Mr. Blaine personally supervised the preparations made by his managers for their work In the election in Ohio. Plain provisions of Federal law were wholly disregarded. Ruffians, not living in the election districts in which they were appointed, and not, in many instances, even citizens, were armed and used for the purpose of obtaining Wiajorities by violence and fraud. The effect has been remarkable. The blow struck at the rights of the citizen in Ohio has welded tiie Democratic party in New York. '1 here is no longer anv doubt as to the manner in which the electoral vote of that St te will be cast. Mr. Blaine and his managers, despairing of success in New York, are attempting to carry Indiana. New Jersey, and Connecticut by the d scredltable means employed in Ohio. in Indiana, New Jersey, and Connecticut men are forewarned, and are ready to meet the issue. They understand that a deputy marshal not a qualified voter of the precinct in which his duties are performed is an intruding mercenary. They know, also, the precise limits of the authority of each supervisor, marshal, or deputy marshal. Each State determines lor itself by whom and in what manner its Presidential electors ►hall be chosen. No supervisor or marshal has power to interfere with any person claiming a right to vote for electors of President and Vice 1 resident. The functions of these officials are limited to Congressional elections, and it is time th - t they should understand that there are well-defined bounds to their powers in such elections even.

Th address then proceeds to exp’ain the limitation of interference by Federal election officers. It then says further: Mr. Blaine claims the credit of having aided in imposing duties upon imports with the purpose of protecting American labor. The national debt on Jan. J, 186-', was $?,860,<’47,869. It was necessary to levy largely increased duties on all imports in order to provide lor the anneal interest on this indebted r ess. These duties necessarily afforded protection to American industry and stimulated its g owth. buch dudes must have beeu laid if Mr. B aine had never been born. The national debt of Jan. 1, 1883, was J1.181,171,728. It will require the imposition of high duties upon imports to provide for the payment of the Interest on this great debt and sinking funds for its redemption. it is conceded by men of all parties that these duties must be revised. Under a Republican President such revision would be made in the interests of the corporat ons. Under a Democratic President such revision will be in the interest of the people. Tiie Democratic party has declared that in revising duties it will protect labor and capital involved in existing industries; will p otect labor and en <ble it to compete with foreign labor. This committee has conducted this campaign against enormous odds. Its necessary expenses have been paid by your voluntary contributions. The Republ.can treasury, on the contrary, was filled to overflowing. The large contributions of officeholders, of contractors who have accumulated wealth in public jobs, and of favored corporations, have c eated a campaign fund larger than the Democratic party edn command.

It the Blaine managers had stopped with this money, atfd rested content with its corrupt use, we should have left them to their devices, knowing that their expenditures w’ould be unavailing. But. while we write, a meeting of manufacturers, summoned by these managers, and in session at the Fifth Avenue Ho el, has by the request of those managers agreed to stop work at their factories unless their workmen will sunport Mr. Blaine. This attempt to coerce the workingmen to support Mr. Blaine will be remembered at the polls, not only by the men it was intended to affect, but by all workmen. You have fully awakened to a sense of the supreme importance of good government. You are putting forth all your power to secure it. This committee can forecast the issue. That issue will be the triumphant election of Cleveland and Hendricks.

WORDS OF WISDOM.

Gov. Cleveland Warns Wage-Workers and Asks for a Eeduction of the Tax Burdens. Gov. Cleveland left A bany for New York on the morning ot Oct. 27, by the West Shore Road, and received an ovation all along the route. At Newark, N. J., h:s birthplace, the great reform Governor was tendered a reception that exceeded anything ever witnessed in that city. The countless thousands who had gathered from all the surrounding country cheered he Democratic standard-bearer until they were hoarse. The Governor delivered addresses of considerable length, in the course of which he said: it is quite plain, too, that the people have a right to dt mand that no more money should be ta.ten from t em, directly or indirectly, for public uses than is necessary for this purpose. Indeed, the right of the Government to exact tribute from the citizen is limited to its actual necessities, and that taken from the people beyond that required for their protec ion by the Government is no better than robbery. We surely must condemn, then, a system which takes from the pockets of the peonle millions of dollars not needed for the support of the Government, and which tempts to the inauguration of corrupt schemes and ex ravagant expen iitu-res. The Democratic party has declared tiiat all taxation shall be limited by the requirements of economical government. ' This is plain and direct, and it distinctly recognizes the value ot labor and its rignt to governm ntal care when it iurther declares that the necessary reduction in taxation and the limitation thereof to the country's needs should be effected without depriving American labor ot the ability to compete successfully with lore'gn labor, and without inju.ing the interests ot our laboring population. A' this time, when the suffrages of laboring men are so industriously soughi, they should by careful inquiry, it seems to me, discover the party pledged to the protection ot their interests, and which rec. gnizes in their labor something most valuable to the p osperity of the country and primarily entitled to i.s care and protection. An intelligent examination will lead them to the exercise of their privileges as citizens in furtherance of their inter, sts and the welfare of their country. An unthinking and slothful performance of their duty at the bal-lot-box will result in their injury and betrayal No party and no candidate can have cause to complain ot the free and intelligent expression of the people's will. This expression will be free when uninfluenced by appeals to prejudice or the senseless cry of dan er, s Ifishly raised by a p irty that seeks its retention of power and patronage; and it wall be intelligent when based upon a calm deliberation and a full appreciation of the duty of good citizenship. In a government of the people r o political party gams to itself all the patriotism which the country contains. The perpetuity ot our institutions and the public welfare surely do not depend upon unchanging p riy ascendency, but upon a simple, businesslike administration of the affairs of Government and the appreciation by public officers that they are the people's servants, not their masters.

Gail Hamilton wrote, Blaine indorsed, and the New York Tribune printed, in 1880. that Logan was “the political burglar of Illinois. ” How does Logan like the pet name? Blaine called the article containing it “a timely appeal ” — Boston Herald. Beecher and the Cleveland letter to Mrs. Beecher have blown the Buffalo scand.il to pieces. The blackguards will continue to “nuzzle” in the mud, however, and ,smell around the debris. A bulldog revolver is equal to four Democratic challengers,— J. U. Blaine.

LABOR’S VOICE

It Is Raised in Thunder Tones for the Democratic Standard Bearers. Enormous Demonstra’ion of Chicago Wage-Workers in Honor of Gov. Hendricks. Besolntions Denonncing Blaine as the Enemy of Labor Unanimously Adopted. Addresses by the Indiana Statesman and Others—lmmense Torchlight , Parade. [From the Chicago Daily News.] The electric lights in Battery D Armory glared last evening on a dense mass of people who had wedged themselves into the hall to see and hear Thomas A. Hendricks, who had men invited to speak there under the auspices of the Central Labor Club of Chicago As many people were present as could crowd themselves through the doorway—probably eight thousand or more. MLhlgan avenue was also thronged with many hundreds of people who waited to catch a g impse of Gov. Hendricks as he went into the hall. The Democratic candidate or Vice President reached Chicago from Pullman at 5-3# o clock yesterday aitem on. He was met by a committee from the labor organization and escorted to the Palm r House, where he remained until time to go to the meeting. Mark L. Crawford, chairman of the assemble e, rapped for order at 8 o’clock. He made a short speech, in which he said: "This meeting is held under the auspices of the Central Labor Club of Chicago. Two men Irom Tooley street have gone forth saying to the people that the laboring classes are not going to vote for the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President. We have thought it well under the clrcum-tanoes to call a meeting to see whether or notthe workingmen would support Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks. One James G. Blaine claimed to be the true friend of the workingmen. If any on ■ will show me more than one action that he has performed in their behalf I am w Hing to support him. Isn’t that a fair offer? He voted for the antl-Chinese bill, put let me ask you wlo is responsible for the Chinese being in this country?” Secretary Daniel O’Connell then read the names of the Vice Presidents of the meeting, all of whom. Chairman Crawford said, “earn their bread by the sweat of their brows.” M. J. Flood, C. McAuliff, W. T. Henderson, Martin Knowles, and Frederick Cook were appointed members of a Committee on i.esolutions.

M hen Gov. Hendricks came forward to speak the audience rose again and did some m< re cheering. During Lis address, which occupied an hour in its delivery, he was frequently interrupted by very' Hearty applause. He said in begin ing that civil service forbade the neglect of public duty for partisan or political service and the use of a public position for priv ate gain. Continuing, he said: "Was not Oh o til’ed before the last election with Federal office-holders, many of them not from Ohio at all? Will cot the peoi le grow tired of this Republican party when they barn ihat the.r public offivesare deserted pending eleo tions? Not long ago this party ] retended to desire reforms in the public offices, but now it authorizes this pro titution of the public service. During the election at < incinnati that city was quiet, but still it was filled with armed Republican Marshals appointed by a Federal office-holder. The request of many respectable people that th s force should be non-partisan was refused. Th s refusal showed that the force was selected to do partisan work. The Marshals went armed to their work. In consequence, the election w; s accompanied with scenes of horror and fright. Under cover of these Marshals the work of repeating went on until the total vote exceeded by 7.0 o the poll of the year before. The acts of the R esident have been so uniformly wise and impartial that when he comes to consid r the work of Federal officers in Ohio he will be observed with the greatest interest." Gov. Hendricks enumerated the various faults in the tariff system which the Republicans in their platform promised to reform. He asked why they had not corrected th-se faults long ago. He wanted to know whether any one in the audience had ever seen a Democrat who was in favor of free trade. Many Democr. ts, he said, were in favor of enlarging the free list, but the speaker did not know of one who wished to abolish the tariff entirely. Gov. Hendricks read the statement of President Arthur that the amount of taxation required for an honest and economical government had been far exceeded. The yearly excess of taxation was $85,000,000 a year. The speaker said: “Nineteen years the Republicans have had the power to change this matter of overtaxation. They do well now to promise to reform it. But a party that arms marshals to kill voters at the polls in order to remain in power ought to explain why it has not re.ormed this evil long ago.”

Gov. Hendricks alluded with withering sarcasm to the plank in the Republican platform ’demanding" the “ristoration of our navy," 'which had disappeared under Republican rule, and particularly inquired what had become of the $400,0( 0,00 which had been appropriated between 1868 and 1883 for the purpose of building up the navy. The distinguished speaker went on to say that the country was not prosperous under Republican rule and that the remedy for the evil was a change. Wheat in Chicago was now lower than it had been before for very many years. After the Ohio elec.ion wheat fell 8 cents and corn about 7 cents. Another election or two, giving hopes of Republican success, would send corn and wheat the speaker knew not where. In closing, Gov. Hendricks urged his hearers to try and secure an honest election. The coming elect on. voicing the American s ntiment, if an honest one, the speaker said, was "more powerful than the voice of courts or the voice of cannon.”

M. J. Flood, of 1 he Committee on Resolutions, then read a series of resolutions denouncing Blaine's actions in legislation concerning measures in the interest of labor and extolling Cleveland as the irlend of the workingman, 'i he resolutions state furthe that mon po y's reprslentatives are in favor of Blain?, while the staunch business men indorse C.eveland; that the Republicans of ILinois h d refused to listen to the reasonable demands of tne wage-workers, while the 1 eurocrats had willingly embodied these demands in their platform The resolutions end with the assertion that it is the emphatic •duty of every workingman to suppo t not only the national but ihe gubernatorial ticket of the Democrats. The resolutions were unanimously adopted. Henry Watterson, who was introduced to the audience, said he was a workingman who earned his bread by the sweat of his i row, and did not cut it off of coupons. He said that if he had time he would te 1 the people that taxing a man did not make him any richer, but the real question of the campaign was, does the country belong to the officeholders or the taxpayers? He said that und t the R publican rule 60 per cent, of the industrial classes was unemployed. Continuing, he said: Once the Republicans stole the Presidency and once they bought it Now the question is, wh ther or not they shall take it from you this time by force of arms. I don’t sav that it may not be better to install Mr. Gould's attornev in the White House, but I say that if you are going to save the Government you’d better do it now. The Republicans have dared to putup a ticket which is a menace, and which it elected will be a nat onal disgrace. lam talking as a philosopher and a historian. Ido not want an office. I’m not sure that it isn't better for J. Gould and Vanderbilt and all the damned rascals to have the Government. If you can stand it, God knows I can. Their candidate is a public robber and thief, who never did an honst day’s work in his life, who preaches a falsehood from his 1 ps and a blacker one from his heart, which is depraved by nature. Gov. Hendricks was driven to the Iroquois Club after the meeting broke up. The streets in front of the c ub and for a block, on each side were crowded full of people, ently battled with the stiff breeze that cont nued all the evening. When Gov. Hendricks arrived the crowd went wild with excitement. Hundreds of people attempted to climb into his carriage, and a dozen policemen were haruly able to keep back the thiong. He finally escaped from the friendly but enthusiastic mass, and when he appeared on the balcony was greeted with tremendous cheers. At 10 o clock the torchlight procession made its appearance on Monroe street and passed the Iroquois Club House, where it was reviewed by Gov. Hendricks. It was the largest demonstration that has been seen in Chicago this year. From eight thousand to ten thousand men were in line. The stalwart torchbearers were cheered lustily by the immense throngs upon the streets

“Gov. Cleveland is an able, thoughtful man, and the excitements of tho Presidential contests have not drawn him away from his duties at the state capital He his a strong hold upon the confidence of the public." —Horatio Seymour.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—L. L. Weller, an organ manufac'urer at Muncie, lost an arm by contact with a buzz saw. —The Sheriff of Spencer County removed* the Hendershot murdereis from Bockport to Jeffersonville, to guaid agiinst another lynching. —A horse driven by Henry Weinland, nt Hope, ran away, throwing him and his wife from the buggy, breaking Mr. Weinland’s leg, and injuring Mrs. Weinland so that she died. —John Burrell, of Seymour, arrested at Shelbyville on Sept 21 for passing counterfeit money, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary at Jeffersonville. —The wife of John Calvert, one of the leading farmers of Carroll Coun’.y, while laboring under a tempoiary brain trouble, escaped from her attendants and hanged herself in a smoke house. —The Indiana Supreme Court his decided that it his no power to respite or grant pardon to convicted criminals. The law conferring that power on any other person than tha Governor is unconstitutional. —ln a runaway at Indianapo is, William Campbell was fatally injured. The horse which caused the accident is the same animal which killed A. C. Buddenbaum three weeks ago. Campbell was thrown from the wagon in front of Buddenbaum’s late residence. —A young man by the name of John Burns, of Lafayette, a deaf mute and imbecile, who was found a few days ago eating a snake, a portion of which he had in his possession, died, after suffering in great agony. How he obtained the snake is not known.

—Jeffersonville item in Louisville Commercial: Dr. Graham, the centenarian, of Louisville, had a very narrow escape near this city ten years ago. He was hunting fossils near the Fe’.ix Lewis cut on the J., M. <fc 1., in company wi h Dr. S. C. McClure, when a train came along and Dr. Graham, being hard of hearing, was nearly caught. It just caught his coat-tail and tore it off. The accident happened just on the aged gentleman’s ninetieth birthday, and i frightened him considerably. -—After a five days’ trial at Evansville, the case of the Henderson Bridge Company against the Ingle heirs has beeu decided. After being out for seven hours the jury returned a sealed verdict. The Ingle claim was $20,000 for the condemnat:o iof nineteen and a quarter acres of laud belonging to the Ingle heirs. In the trial the land was sworn to be worth different prices, ranging from SIOO to $1,500 per acre. The jury made a tour of inspection over the contested territory, and then, after hearing the testimony, they returned a verdict of $12,000 in favor of the heirs. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court of the State.

—Residents of Monroe township, Clarke County, ure much exercised over the mysterious operations of a man named Wiseman. He built a furnace and shop on the banks of Silver Creek, in which for several months he has been pursuing some mysterious occupation, and is evidently developing some experiment or carrying on something he does not want the public to be familiar with. Considerable coal and lead have been hauled to the place, and a chemist or metallurgist has been brought there. The premises are securely locked and guarded. For nearly five months this mysterious business has been going on, and yet no one has been able to learn what Wiseman is at.

—A shrieking girl, aged about 1G years, bearing traces of dissipation, was found at an early hour on the bank of Charley Creek, near the outskirts of Wabash, unconscious from the combined effects of liquor and an epileptic fit. She lay within a few inches from a smoldering fire, and when found was almost chi led to death. She was taken to the County Jail and given a cell in the women’s department, and two physicians were summoned. One of them expressed the belief that the girl, who is good-looking and well dressed, had been lured to the lonely spot, drugged, and robbed. The girl herself, upon recovery, stated that she remembers nothing that occurred the night before. She says that her home is in Ohio, and was sent to that State. The whole affair is a mystery, and creates a big sensation.

—James F. Butler, the Hartford City boy who has been troubled with a sarcoma cancer, has died of strangulation. Last June he noticed something growing on the inside of his right cheek. Little notice was taken of it until it had attained the size of an egg. The boy was taken to Cincinnati and an able surgeon removed the tumor, together with all the superfluous flesh. In less than a week it had swollen to the size of an orange. This time the surgeon extracted a number of teeth, and removed part of the lower jaw bone. In less than a week the same operation was performed. In all h re have been twenty-nine operations, three at Cincinnati and twenty-six at home. Every time the boy expressed himself perfectly willing to endure the oideal of the operation and showed unflinching nerve. His lower jaw was d awn out of the socket and his teeth had not been together for two weeks. He received non ishment of no kind except beef tea, and that could only be swallowed by pushing it to one side of his mouth.

—Corydon R. Shimer, a farmer living near Indianapolis, was atticked by his Jersey bull. The point of one horn pene.rated Mr. Sh'mer’s cheek near the mouth, uid tore upward to tho left eye, lifting the cheek-bone frem its at achment, and makng a horrible wound. The other horn itruck him in the arm, mangling the flesh, md he was otherwise bruised and trampled ipon. His condition is critical. —Ed Kearney, of Owensboro, was killed in the Bon Harbor coal mine.