Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — Page 3

CABINET PORTRAITS.

Eayard Patient, Whitney Blunt, Endicott Suavo and Bolite, Garland Plain and Sociable, Manning Non-Com-mittal, Lamar Queer. [Washington special.] Secretary Bayard has a patient way of entertaining vieitois. If he is satisfied at the first glance that he can dispose of a case in a few words, he will do so, bnt as a rule he rather enjoys keeping applicants, for office especially, on the ragged edge as long as possible. When he once gets interested, however, the Secretary is a changed man. In the discussion of any topic he will go into the minutest details, and before he gets through he will exhaust his subject and listener as well. Mr. Bayard has been longer in public life, and has had more experience, thau any other Cabinet officer. This experience and knowledge of men and measures often enables him to dispose of business much more rapidly than he is given credit for. So far as personal manner of receiving visitors is concerned, Secretary Whitney is the sharpest contrast to Secretary Bayard. Mr. Whitney is a youthful-looking and handsome man. He wears glasses, and his clothes fit him admirably. No one has ever yet complained that Mr. Whitney equivocated. In this respect he resembles ex-Secretary Chandler, who had the tact of making the plainest, bluntest, and clearest statements in relation to matters in the Navy Department of any Secretary who has been in office since the war. Mr. Whitney is a good deal like Mr. Chandler in some other respects. He is quick, nervous, and alert, has the gift of instantly seeking the main point at issue, no matter how much it is covered up with a mass of details, and the courage to speak out his mind at once. Secretary Endicott is the most' aristocratic meniber of the Cabinet. Not every one can be admitted into his presence, but those who are have no reason to complain about their reception. A few days ago a gentleman called at the War Department and sent his card to the Secretary. In a few minutes the mestenger came out and said that Mr. Endicott desired to be informed as to the nature of his business. The caller grew furious and swore a blue streak, which made General Sheridan jump out of his seat and look up and down the corridor. Then the caller told the messenger that that wasn’t his style of doing business, and went away in high dudgeon. Secretary Endicott is suave and politd to those with whom he comes in contact. Attorney General Garland makes every visitor feel perfectly at home. Personally he is one of the most popular of Cabinet officers. He has a peculiar vein of humor and an intense appreciation of the ludicrous. There is not a fi..er raconteur or a more inveterate practical joker in America than the Attorney General. He is a jovial, whole-souled, generous man, who hates shams, and who works hard and plays hard. If the President had searched the country through and through, he could not have found a man more thoroughly unfitted for his surroundings than Mr. Garland. His is the grandest office 'in Washington. Mr. Garland is one of the plainest of men—plain in speech, action and appearance. Ordinarily he dresses in a well-worn broadcloth suit, and he invariably wears a bhmk slouch hat. tipped well down over his forehead. He looks as though he came from Arkansas and was glad of it. If ex-Attorney General Brewster could only take a peep at Mr. Garland as he daily sits in his office, he would hasten his trip to Europe to get rid of the scene. The Attorney General has an immense load of work on his shoulders, but he carries it lightly. For his friends he always has a neat story told in an inimitable manner, and next to telling one he loves to listen to others. Secretary Manning resembles the President in the way in which he receives visitors. He has a desk at the end of the big room on the second floor of the Treasury Department, and his callers sit and await their turn. He is a good listener—has a face like a sphinx—and says but little. He is the most non-committal man in the entire Cabinet. Occasionally, when aroused, he shows the stuff that is in him; is phlegmatic, impressive; and has the appearance of being able to receive good, bad, and indifferent news with the same outward calmness. Mr. Manning acts instead of talks. Like all newspaper men, he hates long stories. The man who goes to him with all his facts condensed, presents them with a few words and then retires, makes a greater impression upon him than those who weary him with an overabundance of verbiage. • Postmaster General Vilas has his visitors sorted by the colored messenger before they are admitted to his presence. He is a good talker himself, and likes it in others, but, like Mr. Manning, he despises the tiresome bore. Gen. Vilas can be one of the most fascinating men. From the standpoint of pure oratory he has no rival in the Democratic party. Secretary Lamar has a queer way of receiving visitors. He allows every one to tell his story. Probably there is not a more patient man in public life than Mr. Lamar, and the crowds that flock to his office seem to appreciate that fact. When he is weary he has the highly original plan of excusing himself for a moment, going out through his private door to the street, mounting his thoroughbred, and speeding away for a ride in the country.

ILLINOIS ELECTIONS.

The New Enacted by the Legislature The new election law just enacted by the Illinois Legislature was gotten up in Chicago, and is intended mainly for that city. The law, however, can be adopted by any incorporated town, if approved by a popular vote. It provides that the County Court shall superintend all elections; election precincts shall not contain more than 450 voters; no man can- vote who is not upon the register; a canvass is to be made of each precinct by the official canvassers prior to each election; triplicate returns and duplicate tallies are to be returned; the polls are to close at four o’clock in the afternoou. The bill provides penalties for all infractions of the law. The bill was framed largely upon precedents of the Massachusetts, New York, and California laws. A. W. Rollins, of Chicago, who gave $50,000 of the $150,000 required to build the college in Florida, has christened the institution, recently opened, “Rollins College.” It is under Congregational influence, though non-sectarian, and admits •both sexes to its olasses.

Ohio.

Ohio is the first to enter the field since the Presidential election, and as an initial effort this proceeding has been anticipated with a good deal of interest. It was very naturally supposed that this effort would afford some strong indications as to the course of the Republican party throughout the entire country with reference'to future action. It was possibly thought that some new and surprising course would be taken; that some vital issues would be presented, and some reason given for the existence of a party which, by the verdict of tho people, was pronounced unworthy of longer holding ! places of power. This repudiation of the so-long dominant party applied to the party as a whole, and equally so to the Republican party of Ohio at its late gubernatorial election. At that time the control of the State was wrested from the Republicans by a majority of many thousands. Under these circumstances some good reasons should be presented by the party of that State for its continued existence. Naturally, one looks to the platform of the late convention as being the repository of the causes which restrain the party from disbanding. Its perusal seems to afford no adequate reason for the further existence of the Ohio Republicans as an organized body. It presents nothing whatever new or vital. It is a rehash of the so-called “principles” on which the national party was defeated last autumn. There is the ancient announcement as to the giving of the ballot to every citizen, which, if it have any pertinency at all, has application, in Ohio, to the outrageous intimidation exerted by the Republicans of Hamilton County to prevent the voting of Democrats in 1884. The clause, if properly construed, is a direct condemnation of the party which adopted it. The old idea whose effect is to rob the mass of consumers for the benefit of the select few producers, under the name of a protective tariff, was reaffirmed. The platform declares in favor of civil-service reform, which may be well enough as a phrase of repentance at a moment when the nation has voted to turn the Republican rascals out; it waves defiantly the bloody shirt, just as Republicans have been doing during every one of the twenty years which have elapsed since the war; and it affirms Republican regard for the Scott liquor law, which has been decided unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the State. This is the substance of the platform. Can any one discover in it any reason why the Republican party of that State, or any other, should continue to exist, and disturb the peace with its useless clamors and mischievous agitations ? The ticket put into the field has the same antiquated and fish-like odor which pervades the platform. Every man of consequence on it is a political hack, a permanent aspirant for office; a place-huckster whose profession had been the dealing in party spoils. It is rancid with age; it is composed of professional spoilsmen; it has nothing about it fresh, youthful, or suggestive of new blood, or a new departure. Two years ago, Foraker was a candidate for the same place, and was overwhelmingly defeated by the people. By the liberal use of promises, political machinery, the aid of cliques, he is once more a candidate for a place for which the people have but just said with emphasis that they do not want him. The second on the ticket is a man who fought for the first place, and, being defeated by the machinations of the Foraker elements, took the second place without the exhibition of the least shame at the humiliating spectacle which he presented. It is a ticket with which the people had nothing to do. All the men. who worship the memory of Garfield despise the treachery shown toward him by Kennedy; and all the people who believe in the doctrine of equal rights to the extent of permitting the children of all citizen -, without respect to nationality or color, to attend the same public schools, believe Foraker to be a traitor to their convictions and to his professions. The Ohio init'ative promises nothing for the future which is worthy of respect. The Republicans of that State have taken the field presenting the stale issues oa Avhich their party has just been defeated both by Ohio and the Union. —Chicago Times.

A Ee ?uis Lie an organ objec’s to what it c alls the “high time” Minister Phelps is having at the Court of St. James, and says that the very flattering attentions he is at ]• resent receiving frem the Loudon aristocracy are due to the fact that English aristocrats are glad to welcome a “disunion Minister.” Will the same organ please account for the extraordinary attentions Minister Lowell has received in London from the same class? 'J'he author of “The Bigelow Papers” was certainly not a “disunion Minister.” Perhaps these two gentlemen have been cordially received at the English capital simply for the reason that they are men of distinguished culture and ability, rightly entitled to whatever courtesies British aristocracy can extend to them. Mr. Stephen B. Elkins still believes that Blaine is available. Mr. Blaine’s boasted availability appears to have been based on the notion that the Lnited States Government wanted to go into the stock- obbing, coal-mining, and land-grant railroad business. The e ection of last year ought to have convinced such nit-n as Mr. Elkins of their mistake, and there should be no more talk of Mr. Blaine as an available candidate for a Presidency where those lines of business are not to be transacted.

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Capt. Fred H. Marsh. Doited States Marshal for the Northern Illinois Uiatrh t. __ The fight oxer the Marshalship for the Northern District cf Illinois was of such a lively character as to create an interest in political circles all over the country. Capt. Frederick H. Marsh, the successful aspirant, whose portrait is herewith presented, was bom in England on Sept. 7, 1843, and became a citizen of Oregon, 111., in 1855, and at the present time is Sheriff of Ogle County. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but was discharged some time after, on account of sickness. In October,

1861, he re-enlisted in the Forty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and continued steadily in the service until he was mustered out at Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 20, 1866, having been in the service four years and eight months, during which time he was promoted to a Captaincy. Captain Marsh was a member of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies. In 1869 he formed a partnership with .his brother, Charles F. Marsh, and opened a book and stationery store under the firm name of Marsh Bros., until about 1870, when he retired, and some time later was appointed express agent. In 1870 and 1871 he was Town Clerk of Oregon. As Sheriff of Ogle County he has given good satisfaction, and is very popular with his constituents.

The Late Sir Julius Benedict.

Sir Julius Benedict, the famous composer, whose death recently occurred at London, Eng., will be remembered by many Americans as the gentleman who accomgnied Jenny Lind to this country in 1850. e was bom in Stuttgart in November, 1804, where Hummel, the great piano virtuoso of the time, became his tutor. When seventeen years of age he was taken in hand by Weber, who came to regard him as his son. In 1823, on Weber’s recommendation, he was intrusted with the leadership of the Vienna opera. On leaving Weber he went to

Naples and conducted the opera at the Saint Carlo. In 1835 he went to Paris, where he fell in with Rossini, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Donizetti, Auber, and others. The same year he went to England and adopted it as his home. In 1836 he took charge of the London Opera Bouffe at the Lyceum Theater. He led the Drury Lane orchestra at the time of the production of the great Balfe’s operas. When Jenny Lind decided to come to America she invited Sir Julius Benedict to be her pianist and general director. Returning to London, he became manager of Her Majesty’s Theater, and afterward at Drury Lane.

George Moritz Kbera, George Moritz Ebers is chiefly known to American readers as the author of a series of historic romances, among which “The Egyptian Princess” and “Uarda” have thrown a nineteenth century irradiation over that mysterious land of the Sphinx, which has been so long enveloped in truly Egyptian darkness. These romances, however, were but the accidental sequence of previous years of patient investigation, which added his name to the list of distinguished Egyptologists. “The Ebers Papyrus” is the second in extent and the first in preserva-

tion of all the Egyptian hadwritings known to us. It contains a complete manual of Egyptian medicine of the sixteenth century before Christ. Among the curious presciptions herein contained is a recipe for hairdye ascribed to Teta, mother of one of the earliest kings of Egypt. The original of this is now the property of the University Library at Leipsic, a copy of which Mr. Ebers laid before the Congress of Orientalists in London, in 1874. “The Egyptian Princess” appeared in 1863. A severe illness, resulting in lameness, keeping him a prisoner to his own room, proved the golden opportunity of developing his hitherto latent creative powers and crystallizing his science with a romantic form for the edification of general readers. Since that time his work has alternated between scientific researches and works of imagination.

TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION.

Five Negroes, One of Them a Woman, Hanged by a Texas Mob. Randolph Hazell, living on the outskirts of Elkhart, Texas, attended a village dance, says a dispatch fiom that place. His wife, only twenty-three years old, had intended accompanying him, but at the last moment changed her mind and retired with her two children, telling her husband to go to the dance and have a good time. When Hazell returned about midnight he entered his wife’s chamber, intending to wake her and gossip about the dauce. Ho found the two little children sleeping, but the mother whs gone. Striking a light, tho husb ind soon discovered that his wife’s clothing was all there, and, finding the front door unlocked, he at once surmised the truth. He ran to town, gathered half a dozen of his friends, and began a search. Near the doorwny of his residence, in the soft mud, were visible the tracks of two men with large, broad feet Between these tracks was the delicate imprint of a woman's foot. When the poor husband saw this he fell on his knees and asked God to kill him. He knew what the tracks meant. Dogs were quickly given the soent, and at 2 o’clock in the morning, through the aid of the animals, the body of Mrs. Hazell was found about a mile from the house, and only twenty-five yards from the main road. She was nude, and lying upon her face. The jugular vein had been severed with a common knife. Along her cheeks were visible great gashes made with a dull knife, and around her neck was a dark, black circle, as though she had been banged. Near the body was found a pair of men’s drawers, and 300 yards away was found a man’s undershirt. As soon as the Sheriff arrived from Palestine, some twelve miles distant, a rigid examination was commenced. Over twenty negroes were immediately arrested and examined. The body of the dead woman revealed the fact that she had been repeatedly outraged. The theory of the officers was that after outraging the woman the fiends, fearing they had been recognised, determined to kill her. After murdering her they attached a rope around her neck and dragged the corpse about oneeighth of a mile. All this took place within a few yards of a public road about 11 o’clock at night Over a hundred persons traveled the road that same night. In the house of Andy Jackson, a negro near by, was found a rope clotted with blood and hair, and also a white sheet with a woman’s footprint upon it. Andy Jackson, Fraik Hayes, Sam Collins, George Henry, William Rogers, and many other negroes were arrested. The following day the Coroner began an investigation, which was in progress until midnight. The prisoners were in a large vacant store-room, which was heavily guarded by twenty Deputy Sheriffs. During the progress of the inquest at one place in the village another examination, looking to identification of the guilty parties, was going on before Justice Parke. In the Coroner’s court twelve suspected negroes wore examined separately. Investigation developed the fact that the negro Andy Jackson, near whose house the nude body of Mrs. Hazell was found, hid been refused water out of the Hazell well. It seems that Andy Jackson’s wife had been in the habit of going to the well early drawing water. Fearing prolonged drought recently, Mrs. Hazell objected to Jackson’s using so much water. This cost the poor woman her life. In her examination before Justice Parke, Mrs. Jackson partially admitted that she had threatened to kill Mrs. Hazell, but stubbornly refused to divulge all she knew. Her young daughter, Lizzie Jackson, was finally sworn,and after a little coaxing and threatening she confessed what she knew about the crime. It was almost midnight when she told the awful story. She said her mother, whose name was also Lizzie, and her father, Andy Jackson, hatched the plot to murder Mrs. Hazell. Learning that Hazell would attend a dance, her father went out, and returned with three colored men, named Frank Hayes, Joe Norman, and William Rogers. These men and her father, Lizzie said, committed the crime. At this point Lizzie’s mother was brought in and confronted with her daughter’s confession. The mother broke down and supplemented the confession with sickening details. She said she accompanied the men to Mrs. Hazell’s house, and showed them where her bed stood. After they had carried their victim some distance from the house they threw her on the ground, and while Andy Jackson held a pistol at her head each of the other three brutes outraged the poor victim. Mrs. Jackson confessed that she stood by and saw the outrages perpetrated. “After this,” said the black woman, “we killed her and dragged her body to the place where it was found.” As soon as the Coroner's jury learned of the confessions they immediately returned a verdict in accordance with the same. At 1 o’clock next morning the verdict was generally known on the streets, and squads of waiting white men began to form into companies. All day and night teams from the country had been arriving, bringing men with long guns. At 2 o’clock fully 500 were in line. Not a single negro was to be seen anywhere. The mob marched to the storeroom where the prisoners were confined. At first the Deputy Sheriffs were inclined to show fight, when the leader notified them that it was useless. “We will kill every one of you, if it is necessary, in order to hang those brutes,” said the leader. That settled it. The mob came in and picked out the negroes above named, including Andy Jackson and his wife Lizzie. With their five victims the mob marched about a mile, until near the very spot where the murder and outrage were committed. There, near a negro church, on the limbs of a big tree the five brutes were strung up. They were asked no questions, and given no time to pray. It seemed as though the mob could not get them hanged quick enough.

Chicago Realty.

An investigation made by the Times shows that within the business 'district proper of the city, bounded on the north and west by the river, on the cast by the lake, and on the south by Van Buren street, all but forty pieces of property are owned by residents of Chicago, with mortgage incumbrances of less than 5 per cent. Ten years ago nearly one-fourth of this area was owned by non-residents, and 90 per centi of • the remainder was heavily mortgaged. The buildings in this district cost more than $100,000,000.

IMPORTANT DECISION.

The Supreme Court of Indiana Affirms the Constitutionality of the School Tax Law. [lndianapolis telegram.] The Supreme Court to-day rendered a decision in a case of much importance, holding that the present statute, authorizing the vnrious public school corporations of the State to levy taxes for tuition purposes, is constitutional and valid. The suit was originally brought in Switzerland County to enjoin the Treasurer from collecting such a tax. and the injunction was granted This decision was reversed in the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Elliott writing the decision, which was concurred in by all the other Judges. A great number of cases are reviewed in the opinion, showing ihut tho case of Greencastle Township vs. Black, 5 Indiana, Itep. 537, was, in principle, long since overruled in so far ns it decides that the law delegating to local school officers the power to levy taxes for tuition purposes is in conflict with the provision of the Constitution which requires the Legislature to establish “a general nnd uniform system of common schools. ” The decision overruled is the one whioh, in 1854, overthrew the school system. In the opinion great stress is placed upon the purpose of the Constitution and the Court says: “With the plainly declared purpose of the people before us, and with the knowledge that the system which has prevailed for eighteen years has carried our schools to a high state of prosperity and usefulness, we should do a great wrong, if, without the strongest reasons, we should overwhelm that system and compel the adoption of another which would shatter into inefficiency the whole common school system.” Much weight is also given to the long line of decisions, beginning in 1857, which held that taxes may be levied by local officers to bnildand equip schoolhouses, and it islield that there is no difference between taxation for that purpose and for the purposo of paying teachers, the Court using this illustration: “If the teacher of a private school were to send to the father of one of his pupils an account for tuitiou and afterward a bill for use of the place where the school was conducted, the position of the teacher would, on principle, be precisely tho same as that occupied by those who affirm that the power to levy a tax to erect school-houses may be delegated, but the power to levy a tax to pay teachers cannot be." It is further said, in the course of the opinion, that “a system whioh grants to all the various subdivisions of the State equal and uniform rights and privileges, leaving only to the local authorities the right to govern tho local affairs, is a general and uniform system.”

Postmasters’ Salaries. Washington apeolal.l The salaries of Postmasters at all offices of the first, second, and third classes have been readjusted for the next fiscal year. This is the first readjustment based on the returns from the ‘2-cant letter rate of postage for nn entire year. The following is a list of all tho offices of the grades named in Indiana, where there is a change in sa'nry. At offices notin this list the salaries remain as at present. The salary for next year is given in the first column and tho present salary in the second coluihn: New Old salary, salary. Angola 11,200 $1,300 Auburn 1,000 1,400 Aurora 1,101 1,700 Bedford 1.000 1,400 Bloomington 1,500 l,l!00 Bluffton 1,400 1,500 Broolcville 4th class 1,000 Butler 1,000 1,100 Cambridge City 1,000 1,300 Covington 1,000 1,100 Crown Point 1,100 1,200 Decatur 1,200 1,300 Fort W ayne 2, 800 2, »H) Fowler 4th class 1,000 Goshen.. 2,100 2,200 Greencastle 1,900 1,800 Greensburg 1,000 J,7IK) Hartford City 1,000 1,100 Huntingburg 1,000 .... Jasper 4th class 1,100 Jeflersonvlllo 1,700 I,HOO Kentland 4th class . 1,000 Knightstown 1,200 1,300 Kokomo 1,800 1,900 Lafayette ;... 2,600 'A 700 La Grange 1,200 1,300 Lawrenceburg ;. 1,400 1,500 Lebanon 1,300 1,400 .Liberty 1.100 1,200 Marlon 1,700 l.soo Martinsville 1.100 1,200 Mlsbawka 1,400 1,500 Mitchell I*,ooo 1,100 Monticello 1,200 1,300 Mount Vernon 1,400 1,500 Muncie l.soo 1,900 New Castle 1,400 l.coo Noblesville 1,500 1,410 North Vernon 1,100 1,2(0 Notre Dame 1,600 1,600 Plymouth 1,500 1,000 Portland...., 1,400 1,600 Rensselaer 1,000 1,100 Rochester 1,400 1,500 Rockville 1,200 1,300 Seymour 1,600 1,700 Spencer 4th class 1,100 Sullivan 1,200 1,300 Thornton. 4thclass 1,100 Valparaiso 2,100 2,200 Warsaw 1,800 1,700 Washington 1,500 1,000 Waterloo 4th class 1,000 Winchester 1,400 1,500 Winamac 4th clais 1,000 State Items. —W. J. Kiplinger, grocer at Loogootee, has failed. —Among the cadets at Annapolis Naval Academy who will graduate this year is Arthur H. Dutton, of Indiana. —At Wabash, the passenger depot of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railroad at that point was destroyed by fire, which originated in the lunch-room adjoining. Tne ice-house of William Collins, adjoining, was also partially consumed. —A farmer living in Oregon Township, Clark County, thought the cold winter had killed all of his peach trees. He cut most of them down in tho spring, but those he left standing bear fruit. The mistake has caused him much loss, as his orchard was a valuable one, and would have yielded a big crop. The cold weather did not injure peaches in Clark County. —Mr. Jonas G. Howard, of Jefferson-' ville, has announced his intention of building a wagon and street-car bridge connecting Louisville and Jeffersonville. He has had this project in view for Borne time, and has interested some of the capitalists of Jeffersonville in the scheme. If he can accomplish as much with the moneyed men of Louisville plans will be matured immediately looking to the building of the bridge.