Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — Page 3

APACHE HOSTILES WHIPPED.

The Savages Break Away, and Are Endeavoring to Get Into Old Mexico. The New Mexican Indians have for several days back been on the rampage, killing settlers, stealing stock, and generally painting things red. The palefaces are now having their innings. however, and the copper-colored cutthroats are on the dead run. A dsipatch from Deming, New Mexico, reports: “Capt. Smith, of the 4t;i cavalry, had an. engagement with renesades. about thirty miles irom Alma, in which three soldiers and three Indian scouts were wounded. The Indians were repulsed, but with what loss is not known. Sixteen companies and sixty Indian scouts are now in the field and will be shortly re-inforced by two hundred Indian scouts from the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, composed of Tontos, Mojaves, and Arivapai At the time of the engagement with the troops Geronimo had his women, numbering about one thousand, in advance of the warriors, of whom there are thUty-four adnlt and half-grown braves. Gen. Bradley expresses the opinion that the renegades will, if pressed too closely, strike for Cook's Canvon, *nd into Mexico, east -of Deming. In anticipation of this move, two companies of troops have been sent to inter- ■ cept them at the canyon. The troops are crowding the reds on all sides, and another conflict is expected at any moment. So far eight men are reported killed, three near Alma, and five in the Mogoll4n Mountains." A Washington dispatch states that a telegram in regard to the recent Indian outbreak, of which the following is a copy, has been sent to the commanding Generals of the Divisions of the Pacific and of the Missouri: “Use every exertion possible, and call for all assistance of Federal troops you may require, to suppress the Indian outbreak in Arizona and New Mexico. These outrages must be stepped in the shortest time possible, and every precaution taken to prevent their occurrence in the future. By order of the Secretary of War. “ft. 'C. Dbum, Adjutant General.” The above order is the result of a cpnference 'between the President, the Secretary of War, • and Mr. Oliver S. Teall, of New York.

GILBERT A. PIERCE.

Governor of Dakota Territory,

Gilbert A. Pierce, Governor of Dakota Terrl'tory, was born in New York State. He went to Indiana when 16 years old, and subsequently studied law at the Chicago University After his admission to the bar he practiced at Valparaiso, Ind., for six months before the outbreak of the war. Upon the Monday v s olio wing the firing upon Fort Sumter he enlisted in Co. H, Ninth Indiana Volunteers, and was elected Second Lieutenant. He served in Western Virginia under Gen. G. B. McClellan and participated in the battles of Philippi, Laurel Hill, and Carrick’s Ford. Upon June 3,1861, he was appointed Captain and Assistant Quartermaster by President Lincoln, and was assigned to duty at Paducah, Ky. He served at Fort Donelson and Shiloh and also in the Vicksburg campaign. He was promoted a Lieutenant Colonel and ' Chief Quartermaster of the Thirteenth Army Corps in 1863, and was made Colonel and Inspector of Department 1864. By a written order from Secretary Stanton he was assigned -to duty as Special Commissioner of the War Department in the South, and served with Gen. Foster. Upon the surrendar of Mobile he entered that city with the victors. In 1865 Col. Pierce was elected to the Indiana Legislature 1 and • was Chairman of the Committee on Benevolent Institutions. In 1869 he was appointed one of the Financial Secretaries of the United States Senate. He resigned this position to accept an editorial chair on the Chicago Inter ' Ocean. In 1876 he became managing editor of that paper, holding the position for several years. In 1883 he became connected with the Chicago News, and was thus engaged when appointed as Governor of Dakota. When the grand reunion of all the armies took place at Chicago in 1868 Gov. Pierce was chosen to read the original poem on the occasion. He is the author of “Dickens' Dictionary,” published by James R. Osgood & Co., of Boston. He is also the author of several plays, one of which has been quite successful. He has written two novels, “Peggy, a Country Heroine,” and "A Dangerous Woman,” and also many sketches for the ieading magazines, etc.

HARD LINES FOR EDITORS.

An Ohio Editor Receives a Coat of Tar and Feathers. Norwalk (Ohio) special to Chicago Times: Ray S. Hathaway, a reporter for the Toledo Democrat, has been in the habit of coming to Norwalk and sending correspondence to his paper embodying any gossip floating on the surface of current talk. Having printed a lot of slush of this character, Hathaway would come to Norwalk on the noon train Sunday with a lot of his papers, which he would offer for sale. He came here as usual yesterday. This morning W. H. Peters, Henry E. Smith, and C. L. Merry, all merchants, who had been attacked in the Democrat, took matters into their own hands. Hathaway was lured out to the St. Charles Hotel barn to look at a horse. Peters then seized and Merry and Smith tied his hands and feet. A physician was also present. Hathaway was then taken into the barn, where a pail of tar, a brush, and a bag of feathers had bean previously placed. A coat of tar and feathers was quickly laid upon Hathaway, and he was left to his own reflections. A revolver and “billy,” taken from his pockets, were turned over to the Marshal. Hathaway was a sorry-looking sight after he was released, and it took over an hour’s work by a number of persons to clean him up so that he could take the noon train to Toledo. The men implicated in the affair say they did not care what stories were retailed about them personally, but when the characters of their wives were assailed they vowed vengeance. A Wisconsin Editor’s Spine Badly Hurt. Sparta (Wis.) telegram: An affray took place this morning at O. I. Newton’s paper-mills, between that person and B. W. Perrv, editor of the Democrat, in the course of which both fell off a stairway to the ground, twelve or fifteen feet, and sustained serious injuries. Newton’s hip was dislocated and Perry badly hurt in the spine. Big Libel Suit Against an Indiana Editor. Fort Wayne dispatch: Jerry Hilligass, County School Superintendent, has sued the Fort Wayne Daily Journal for $10,090 damages because the Journal recently charged him with drinking, incompetency, etc.

The Seventeen-Tear Locusts.

Washington telegram: Prof. Riley says the seventeen-year locusts, whose visit he has predicted, are harmless to growing crops, and do no injury except to the twigs or forest and fruit trees. Wherever young orchards have been i planted on land which has been cleared during the last seventeen years the trees are liable to suffer somewhat, but it is probable kerosene spray will protect them. The ordinary locust, which is so destructive to growing crops, haa jaws which cut, while the seventeen-vear species, more properly called the Cicada, has only a beak through which he sucks his nourishment.

SUNK WITHOUT WARNING.

A Bark Bun Into and Sunk by an Ocean Steamer Nearly the Entire Crew Drowned. [New York telegram.] The City of Rome, of the Anchor Line, reached here to-day, having on board, besides her regular passengers, two French fishermen, the only survivors of the crew of the French fishing bark George Jeanne, which was sunk by the City of Rome in a collision on the banks of Newfoundland on May 25. The names of the rescued men are Hubert Albert and Frank Alphonse Marie. The City of Rome left Liverpool on May 20, and sailed from Queenstown the following day. There were on board 821 passengers. The weather was fine until Monday, when, after a bright morning, a dense fog came on. At 4:30, when the fog was thickest, the men forward saw the spars and masts of a ba r k appear in the west, barely twenty feet away. It was too late to stop the City of Rome. The signals to reverse the engines were given,but she struck the little bark and her iron bow cut the George Jeanne with as little resistance as if she had been a cheese. A few spars floated on the sea and four men could be seen struggling in the water. Life-buoys were thrown to them, and as soon as possible the steamer was stopped and backed to where the bark had been, and two boats were lowered. By this time one of the four fishermen had sunk, two were clinging to buoys, and a third floated alongside the steamer, supporting himself by a spar. A saloon passenger cried out, “I will give £IOO to anyone who will save that life. ” The man on the spar was doubled up, as though chilled by the icy water. He had to be rescued quickly or not at all. .Several sailors prepared to jump over the side, but they were prevented by Fourth Officer Turner, who rigged a rope around his body and, taking another rope, had himself lowered to the man. Turner succeeded in getting the rope about the Frenchman’s arm and neck. Strong arms pulled him half way up the side of the boat, when the loop slipped over his head and he fell back into the water and sank out of sight. This was the captain of the George Jeanne, Joseph Riondin. Meantime Albert and Marie were picked up by the boats.

MENNONITES DROWNED.

The Terrible Destruction Wrought by a Water Spout at Indianola, Nebraska. A sad calamity is reported from Indianola, Neb., by which three women and six children lost their lives. All of them were Bohemians, and belonged to the religious sect called Mennonites. A dispatch from Indianola gives the following particulars of the disaster: A party of seventeen Bohemians, en route to Dundy Creek, camped in Richmond Canyon, half a mile from the Republican River, nine miles east of this place. At dark a heavy rain set in, and about 10 o’clock a waterspout burst a short distance above, flooding the heretofore dry canyon to a depth of fifteen feet. This came down the canyon, each wave rising a foot or two higher than its predecessor. The party was asleep in the wagons. The one nearest the bed of the stream was occupied by John Maeek, his wife, and son; the center one by John Osmer, his wife, and four children, and three other children; aDd the third was occupied by Joseph Havelic, his wife, and three children.

When the flood struck the wagons Havelic was the first to arouse. He jumped up. grasped the wagon tongue, and attempted to pull the wagon out of the water. Fresh waves struck it, wresting the tongue from his grasp and carrying the wagon out into the raging flood. Osmer had already jumped from his wagon and Succeeded in getting his four children to shore, but before he could return to the wagon it was carried down in the seething canyon. The first Macek knew of the situation he was sailing down the stream. Seeing a tree just ahead, he bade his wife and son cling to him, and that he would try to catch the tree. He succeeded, but the sudden stop shook off his wife and son, and they went down in the flood. Macek climbed into the tree, from which he was rescued in the morning. But two of the eleven bodies missing had been found. In one of the wagons was a coffee-pot in which was $1,200, which was washed away and not recovered. There was no wjnd. The storm was accompanied with thunder and lightning. It was simply a sudden deluge of water, which, in the immediate vicinity where it fell, was ten feet deep, and, as it spread, covered the prairie to a depth of three feet. Fourteen soldiers belonging to the United States Cavalry were drowned in the same canyon in 1871 from a similar cause.

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.

The Commissioner of Agriculture Issues a Circular. [Washington telegram.] Commissioner Co'lman, being anxious to obtain all the facts possible pertaining to the dairy industry of the country, and particularly respecting the manufacture of articles designed for pure butter, but* terine, suine, petrola and the like compounds, has prepared a circular to manufacturers of dairy products. It is his wish to place before Congress and the country a complete statement of thefactoryproduct of cheese and butter, as well as of their adulterated imitations, and he suggests the propriety of making monthly records of the work of each manufacturer, in order that returns may be obtained more readily for such time as may be deemed best to aggregate the result October, he says, being the month when cheesemaking declines, it may be decided to have ail the returns of butter and cheese production terminate then, allowing six months for the dairy season. This would better determine the comparative production of one State with another, as in the summer months the conditions of food will be more uniform, the cows consuming alike the natural grasses.

Suffocated in a Well.

At Reading, Pa., Charles Smith, aged 12, dropped a knife into a twenty-five foot well, and going down to get it was overcome by gas. Isaac Doyle, aged 26, descended to rescue him and was also overcome, and both were taken out dead.

THE FEDERAL OFFICES.

Rules That Govern the Seven Cabinet Members in Making Appointments. [Washington Cor. New York Herald.] The suggestion made by yonr correspondent some days ago—that all recommendations for office,with their signatures, should be published in the State or district in which the appointment was sought—has the favor of many experienced men here, who believe it would very greatly assist the President and Cabinet in selecting the most capable and honest men for the places they have to fill. The truth is, the new administration has in the matter of the offices a far more difficult task than any of its predecessors since Washington. The easy way is, of oourse, the old way of making a general sweep, or where political complexion has not changed of turning out enough men indiscriminately to reward tho hangers-on, servitors, and friends of the new administration and let the rest go until their places also are “wanted” by Congressmen and others for their “workers” and favorites. If Mr. Cleveland and his Cabinet followed the example wliich the Republicans have set during all their years of power they would have an easy job, when now they have so much work to do that they do not get through with even the actual vacancies in the service by death, resignation, and dismissal for unfitness.

Toward the close of April there were 3,000 official places vacant by death or resignation, and waiting to be filled. It is doubtful if these places have yet been filled, and their number is naturally always added to. There are about 1*03,000 places under the Government. Among such a number there must be continually deaths, resignations, and removals for misconduct. The question which is to be settled by this administration practically is how a few men at Washington can select men to fill even the vacancies alone as they occur, and be reasonably certain that the men they pick out are fit, honest and capable.

Of the 103,01)0 Federal placemen only 14,000 are included in and subject to the civil-service rules. So far as these are concerned the administration has no trouble. They are examined, and when vacancies happen men are selected from those who have passed examinations. As to the great remainder, it is probably the truth that Mr. Cleveland and his assistants are still much at sea. The President feels the very serious objections, on public grounds, which lie against letting Senators and Representatives and political bosses have such swing as this class have so long had in getting their friends and retainers into office, but he also feels that he and the Cabinet must have some help in making selections, if it were merely to fill vacancies. They can not personally know men in every county in the united States, and where several men offer themselves for a place the President and his helpers can not decide between them with any degree of certainty that they are taking the best man, without consulting some one presumed to be familiar with tho locality. Secretary Bayard, it is understood here, has laid down the rule that every applicant for an office within his department must place on file his application, with such recommendations of prominent persons as he can get. Thereupon the Secretary of State makes his selections from all the recommended persons. That would seem to be a practical way, and yet it is now plain to Mr. Bayard himself that it has led him into a considerable number of mistakes, some of them so serious that undoubtedly he will hear unpleasantly about them when the Senate comes to consider them.

Secretary Manning has, perhaps, a wider knowledge of men than any other Cabinet officer. He has been very prudent, and, as the politicians would say, slow in making changes, and has been able to find very good men for important places. Thus he made Mr. Jordan Teasurer, an undoubtedly good and important change; and Mr. Jordan, being a man of business, took the first opportunity he could get to assure his subordinates that he intended to keep all in their places who did their work. Again, Mr. Manning made Mr. Graves Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a place which has long been used under previous administrations as one where Congressmen could get their favorites easily placed. But Mr. Graves is one of the most experienced and zealous civil-service reformers in Washington, and Mr. Manning’s appointment of Mr. Graves means that the old abuses in the bureau are to cease. There will no longer be favoritism there. Secretary Manning is going slow in a department which spreads all over the country and really needs many changes and a thorough overhauling, but he finds it difficult to lay his hands on such men as he wants for important places; and he means to make changes only when he’’is sure that he can improve the service. Secretary Lamar is as careful as Secretary Manning, and has so far made very few changes. He will make a good many for the good of the service before he gets through; but he, too, finds it difficult to get men of first-class ability to take important posts. Postmaster General Vilas is naturally the hardest worked man in the Cabinet. Of the 103,000 placemen in the service, 50,000 are Postmasters. Of the 3,010 vacancies recently reported, probably more than 1,500 were in his department. Mr. Vilas’ confidential letter to some members of Congress has been unfavorably commented on; but it is, after all, only evidence that Mr. Vilas has been reduced to desperation by the task he has in hand. His letter is an appeal for help. It is an appeal, not for partisan ends, but for an entirely proper object. But it is undoubtedly an appeal to the wrong people. Congressmen have too long had “the run of the offices. ” The abuse ought to be stopped, and it is a pity that Mr. Vilas has found no way to get the help he undoubtedly needs but this, which, no matter how careful he may be. will end only in perpetuating and strengthening a very grave abuse. If men who have thus misconducted themselves are to be retained in their places the essence of reform in the civil service is lost, and one of the most widespread and iniquitous abuses of the service is perpetuated. Mr. Vilas, in his letter, invites information on this matter. He has undoubtedly a right to be informed, because of himself he can not know. But certainly he would have done more wisely had he addressed his letter openly, not to Congressmen, who have no business to move in this Question, but to the public at large.

WANTED A CHAIR SEAT.

The Wild Westerner Who Had to l)n G*v. en a Box. “Give me a seat fur to-niglit,” said a red-bearded man, with a straw in It is mouth, to the treasurer of the Granti Opera House, as he pushed $1 througl the opening in the window. “Whereabouts do you want to sit?* - “I dunno; what ye got?” For answer the treasurer handed out a diagram of the auditorium. • “What’s this?” said the man. “A diagram of the seats, sir. These are the orchestra chairs, here the dress circle, and on this sheet are the balcony seats. ” “Oh, yes! a plan of the house, ain’t it? Where’s the dollar place?” “Here.” “Pretty far back, seems to me. What’s them down there on the plat? You see, I jist got in with a load o’ hogs from lowa, and me and Sal kinder tlio’t we’d go to ther show. This yer piece must be a lively un’ from the pi ters we seen. Gits blowed up, eh ? Bet them play acters can’t play tramps as we liav ’em out in Kossuth County. I’m considerable of a old sport rnvself, you bet, an’ ”

“Don’t keep the people waiting, sir; pick out a seat, please,” interrupted the patient ticket seller. “Well, ain’t la-doing it? How much’s them? An’don’t you he so cranky, young feller. If you was down my way once you kin jist bet I’d give you a chance fur yer white alley. ” “Two orchestra chairs. $3.” “How much?” “Three,” said the pasteboard vender, in a weary tone/ “Them’s chairs, eh?” The treasurer nodded, and as soon as ho could lay his hand on the other $2, which were fished up from the midst of a lot of loose hills, car tickets, and receipts which the lowa man dragged from the depths of his pants pocket, he pushed the tickets out, and in five seconds had sold five more seats. The hog producer meandered into the foyer, and, after examining the pictures and the tiles surround ing the fire-place, he looked around for Sal, but she was not in sight. After a search she was discovered sitting on • the stairway patiently waiting for her liege lord to turn up. An usher grabbed the checks and flew down an isle to tho seats, turned them down with a bang, left the checks and two programmes on one, and started back. He was stopped by the lowa man who had his back to the stage and his head thrown'back on tho nape of his neck looking up to the sunburner chandelier in the roof. Brought back to earth by a tap on the shoulder the couple at last got to the place assigned them. “Here, hold on!” cried the man, as he took a look at the seats and then at the little usher, who gasped and trod on the toes of the female lowan; “1 brought chairs, I did,” continued the red-bearded man, “you can’t palm off no sicli seats like them on me. Gimme chairs. ” “Checks call for these seats,” said the small usher. “1 paid my good money for chairs, an’ that’s wat I’m a-going to have, young feller.” “These are called orchestra chairs.” “Don’t give a cuss what ther called; can’t palm ’em off on me. Gimme chairs. ” “You can get a chair in the boxes,” said the attache, with a helpless sort of a look at the audience, who were all by this time enjoying the impromptu act. “How much?” was the reply, as a dive was made to his hip-pocket. The little usher thought a revolver was coming and fled precipitately, after saying: ‘ *

“Ten dollars!” with a loud voice, in a vain hope to scare the lowa porkdealer into tractability. “I’m going to have chairs now, by gosh,” said he, as he dragged his partner up the aisle, and soon the pair were seen to enter a box and ensconce themselves in the much-desired chairs. “That’s a sample of the fun we boys have occasionally,” remarked the diminutive usher, as he mopped his brow and glared ferociously in the direction of the box. “Such durned fools as that ought to stay at home.” —Chicago News.

Cats as Tide Indicators.

An old resident of New London says he can tell the state of the tides from the appearance of his cat’s eyes. When the tide is at a low ebb her eyes contract and become more oval. When the tide is on the flood her eyes expand and elongate. This theory easily explains what cats are made for. They are made to serve as tide indicators. There was a time when some person of weak intellect started the story that cats were invented to catch rats and mice. But when we recall the fact that over a billion rat and mouse traps are annually manufactured in this country, while only ten million of kittens are born in the same period, then the whole story at once explodes. —Neio London (Conn.) Telegram.

There’s Many a Slip ’Twist the Kiss and the Lip.

“Henrietta, dear!” “Yes, ma,” from the daughter at the door, parting from her sweetheart, who is just kissing her good-night. “Tell George to look out for the paint.” George does not kiss her again, and Henrietta thinks it is real mean of her mother to give her away, until she remembers that the front gate has just been newly painted. As ravenous birds are the quickest sighted, so are the worst people the greatest fault-finders. Calmess of will is a sign of grandour.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Dwelling houses for rent are very scarce in Peru. —A catfish was recently caught in the river at Lawrenceburg that weighed forty pounds. —Out of the 11,000 dogs owned in Evansville, only eleven have owners who have applied for licenses, so far. —Elder M. M. Vancleve, of the Baptist Church of Crawfordsville. performed his 531st marriage ceremony on Sunday. —Lucky Baldwin, the California millionaire, is an Indianiau, says the South Bend Times, having left Olive Township, St. Joseph County, a little more than twenty years ago. —Oren Van Winkle, of Markleville, Madison County, a man about 24 years of age, committed suicide with a shot-gun. Disappointment in love is supposed to have induced the act. •—The prospect of silver in paying quantities in the central part of Pike County is attracting attention. A test of the quartz has shown 10 per cent., or $lO per ton, of the ore, and lead shows 10 per cent. —Abiah Hayes, aged 71, of Elizabethtown, was married to Miss Aurelia J. Millon, aged 17, of Harrison. The affair was very quietly arranged, and not a single member of his family knew a word about it until the man drove home with his bride. —A farmer’s wife in this Stato who runs a vegetable garden of half an acre, not only kept a large table bountifully supplied, but sold last year more than SIOO worth of vegetables to the town folks a few miles away. This half acre was of more profit than any four acres which the husband cul-

tivated. —Officers from Ohio arrested at Richmond a lady who was formerly the wife of a wealthy citizen of Cleveland named Cobb, charging her with kidnaping her own son, 9 years of age, the heir to a large estate. Sho lias married again, and tho administrator jof Mr. Cobb’s estate seeks to obtain possession of tho lad. The mother and child were discharged by Judge Kibby on the ground of defects in the requisition. —The late Schuyler Colfax, at a meeting of the Daughters of Rebekah in Indianapolis last summer, declared from tho rostrum that it was his pride to say that the Rebekah degree was the best kept Hecret in the order. Men had been expelled from tho order (Odd Fellows) for divulging the secret work, but there was no instance on record of a woman having ever proved recreant to her obligations. —Albany Express.

—Thu Ledger has received from R. O. Brown, of Pike County, some handsome specimens of Pike County lead ore, plumbago or black lead, white kaolin, and fireclay. The lead ore is a fissure galena, almost pure. The plumbago is a very rich specimen. The kaolin is equal in quality and whiteness to any found in the West. The fire-clay is of a quality that may also be used in the manufacture of the finest stoneware. —New Albany Ledger. —The report of the State Board of Agriculture for 1884 is now being distributed. It makes a volume of 495 pages, and contains, besides a detailed statement of the business transacted by the board, a number of papers of interest to agriculturists. Among the subjects treated are “The Farmer and Higher Education,” by Prof. C. H. Hall; “A Farmer’s Recreations and Amusements,” by Miss Lulu A. Davidson; “French Agriculture and the Breeding of Norman Horses, ” by Col. J. A. Bridgeland; “Food and the Adulteration of Some Articles of Diet,” by Dr. John N. Hurty; “The Fish Interest in Indiana,” by Enos B. Reed, Stato Fish Commissioner; “Fish Culture and the Profit of It," by Isaac N. Cotton; “Fertilizers Relation to the Growing Plant,” by F. G. Wiselogeli; “Destruction of Crops by Insects, ’’ by J. G. Kingsbury; “The Value of Birds as Insect Destroyers,” by Fletcher N. Noe; “Road* Paving Material,” by John T. Campbell. The volume also contains reports from the officers of county societies regarding the condition of agriculture in different sections oP the State. The volume will compare creditably with the reports issued by the agricultural boards of other States.

Casting Out Devils. [Wabash telegram.] It has just beed discovered that Mrs. Ohm, a widow living in the vicinity of Laketon, this county, professes to enjoy the power of divination, and has been regularly engaged in the business of “casting out devils” for some months past She is said to have done a lucrative business, her patrons taking good care to maintain the strictest silence respecting their re!ations with the lady. It is now learned that a man named Clinker,acting upon her advice, has sought to compel a man named Click, on whose farm he a mortgage, to leave the country. Mrs. Ohm, upon consultation, having made the discovery that a child of Clinker, who was veiy ill, was bewitched, and that the spe 1 was duo to the malign presence of Click, she said that Click must bo gotten away at all hazards, otherwise the child would die, and Mr. Clinker has since been assiduous in his endeavors to secure his removal, going so far as to begin foreclosure proceedings on the mortgage. This resulted in the expose of ihe whole superstitious affair, and created a sensation of no small magnitude in the vicinity of Laketon.