Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — Page 3

FLAYED.

John Sherman Soundly Scored by Gov. Hoadly for His Recent Dema* gogical Utterances. Time for the Shermans and the Forakers to Accept the Results of the War. The Administration of President Cleveland Has Won the Confidence of the People. Gov. Hoadly recently opened the Ohio campaign at Hamilton, in the presence of an immense assemblage, paying particular attention to John Sherman’s resurrection of the bloody shirt We make the following extracts from his masterly address: Two years ago I opened tn your midst the canvass which resulted in Democratic success. Surrounded now by the friends who gave me then the magnificent majority of 2,893 in this Gibraltar of Democracy, I ask for a renewed expression of confidence, and for an increased majority, which shall express with emphasis your opinion that Dem cratic success, as proved by results. Ineans not only good government but reform. Union, personal liberty, economy, no fraud, no disguises, no concealments, open dealing, and candid treatment of the pub- . lie in affairs—State and national. The Ohio election will express the opinion of the people upon my administration and that of the Sixty-sixth General Assembly. It is the first State election after the inauguration of ■ Cleveland and Hendricks. It will therefore be regarded as the expression of popular judgment upon the policies of the President and his advisers. Of these 1 ask your approval, confident that Democratic success means good government, State and national, which ought not to be rebuked by defeat. The‘leader of the Republicans of Ohio has carefully prepared the appeal of his party and sent it from the stump through the press to the country. He waves the bloody, shirt—he indorses the policy of alienation and hate -he seeks to transplant and cultivate in this country the feelings of the English aristocracy toward the Irish, to array section against section, to govern the South from the North as Dublin Castle governs Ireland, as a conquered province, and all this in the year of grace 1885, twenty vears and more afier the close of the war. The average lite of an ordinary generation is thirty years. Owing to the casualties of war, which cost our country at least a million lives, the duiation ot the generation now passing away has been less than this. Twenty-five years have elapsed since Mr. Lincoln’s election. Five-sixths, perhaps more, of the men who devised rebellion, the men who fought its battles and the men who overcame it, have passed away. The great civil and the great military leaders, Lincoln and Grant, both sleep in graves bedewed by the tears of the whole nation South and North: for both died with words upon their lips and feelings in their hearts ot “charity to all, malice toward none.” Seward and Sumner. Chase and Fessenden, Douglas and Stephens, Lee and Breckenridge, these are historic, not living names. Alone of the authors of rebellion. Jett Davis survives. Boys born when the war broke out have been voting for three years past. Boys bom after the war will vote next year. Boys too young to b ar arms are now mature men of thirty-five. There is a new South and a new North. A new generation, full of new life is at work. A very large portion of the people of the South have never seen a slave, and have lived ui.der no other regime but that of universal suffrage. Is it not time for the Shermans and the Forakers to accept the results of the war and no longer to continue in battles? Eight million bales of cotton, the probable crop of this year, is in sight. There are no idlers in the South, why croak in the North? White men and black men ar e side by side at work. The South is developing new industries, weaving cotton cloth, digging coal and iron, forging steel. God and nature, religion and the human heart, are the forces aeainst which Sherman and Foraker contend and Foster plots. To the policy of alienation, we oppose Union; for hate we substitute love; we welcome the new South and the old South, old men and boys, fathers and sons, not as allies merely in a crusade against the forces of nature, but as brothers in affection and blood. We bid them all, white and black, join us in the great march of Union and liberty, to the peaceful conquest of the future. “Let us have peace.” said Gen. Grant many years ago. His eyes at last saw it. “I have witnessed.” said his dying voice, “since my sickness, just what I have wished to see ever since the war—harmony and good feeling between sections.” And again, rejoicing in the present, he prophesied the future in words of glowing hope. “We may now well look forward to a perpetual peace at home, and a national strength that will screen us against any foreign •complication.” Let us then banish these unmanly fears of Southern wrong-doing, and cease to exaggerate occasional personal conflicts into wars of races. Danville and Copiah are worn out. Turn out some new grist, oh, grinders of the outrage mill I Home rule, and as little application of the "eternal principle of regulation” as is consistent with the greatest liberty of all, will in time cure all the ills of State and nation. Mr. Sherman will fail in his efforts to stir the dying embers of sectional animosity. Ohio has not forgotten what Gen. Garfield so well said: “The man who attempts to get up a political excitement in this country on the old sectional issues will find himself without a party and without support. The man who wants to serve his country must put himself in the line of its leading thought, and that is the restoration of business, trad-, commerce, industry, sound political economy, fiard money, and honest payment of ail obligations and, the man who can add anything in the direction of the accomplishment of any of these purposes is a public benefactor.” The Solid Sou h! Have Senator Sherman and Judge Foraker forgotten that there was once a Bepublican Solid South, and what became of it •the South of Moses and Madison Wells, of Parson Brownlow, and Warmoth, of Dennis, "the lit .le giant of Alachua.” who invented tissue ballots; of the strumpet, Betty Higgins, and the chaplain who joined efforts to debauch the Legislature and bankrupt the treasury of Tennessee; the Solid South of Kellogg and Eliza linkston? But a few years ago every Soui hern State, except Kentucky, had a Republican Gover or and Legislature. Wh re are they now? Some in exile and some in prison, and their party, like Hans Ireitmann’s “barty," “all gone avay, in die Ewigkeif—fled away, as marsn miasma evaporates before the sun. Mr. Sherman is distressed because Lamar and Garland and Bayard, “two members of the Confederate Congress and one man who sympathized with them, are at the head of great departments of the Government.” Oh, yes! it -was well to put Mr. Key at the head of the Postoffice Department. One Confederate in the Cabinet was all right, but two—two are a lamentable concession to treason. No, not quite this, even. Ak rman was a propter Attorney General, and Key a most becoming Postmaster General, but two at a time, Garland and Lamar together—aye, there’s the rub. The tears of crocodlks are freely shed, as Sherman softly sings, “ Insatiate archer, would not one suffice?” Mosby, Madison Wells, Mahone, and Chalmers the guerrilla, the Returning Board, the repud ator and the Fort Pillow butcher, all these have had their garments washed, but Lawton and Jackson, Jonas and Lamar and Garlaud, the best and purest ot the (South, these to our Senator are the ungenerate children of the political Satan, untit to serve the republic. And Bayard, too, is a bug-a-boo with which to frighten Republicans—Bayard who “sympathized ” not quite so long, nor yet so f< ri•ougly as Logan, whose naw it used, to delight the New Io k Tribune to adorn with the prefix of “d. w.,” “dirty work John A. Logan.” because he boasted of 1 is delight in doing tne “dirty work ” of returning slaves to their masters. And all this that John Sherman may be Senator, or perb-.j s President, with our .beloved Foster for Senator, and that 1< oraker may be What can an opposition Senator do for Ohio? A chronic negative, a continuin ' scold, a runining sore of petty party complaint, is not what will best serve Ohio. Let us' put an equally

sound Democrat by the side of Henry B. Payne, to join him in generous support of Grover Cleveland, helping to settle the silver question, to settle the Mormon difficulty, to revise the tariff on the lines of principle stated In the Chicago Democratic platform, and to reform the civil service. Against Senator Sherman’s appeals for disunion, we set the good work of the Democratic party, its Ires dent and Cabinet, and their declared aims and purposes. I ask for re-election, not tor my own sake, but that it will be understood as Ohio’s indorsement of these. No doubt there are dissatisfied Democrats. Yes, and fortunately there are satisfied Republicans. How much better would either have felt, had Blaine and Logan triumphed? In January, 1863, Mr. Lincoln said to my friend M. D. Conway, “Most of us here present have nearly all our lives work ng in minorities, and may have got into a habit of being dissatisfied." Speaking at a jollification meeting in this city last November, I pleaded for generous confidence in our newly elected President, and that every Democrat, educated though he might have been for twenty-four years in opposition, should treat him with sympathy and guard against carping criticism. Leave that to Sherman and Foraker. Now, I ask for more. I solicit approval, not forbearance. Mr. Cleveland has held office six months. Congress has not been in session, yet much has been accomplished. The spirit of reform and economy has entered all the departments, useless offices and expenses have been done away, while the performance of duty, civil and military, has been enforced. The Government is not solicitous to provide such offices for pets, but to save money for the people and to keep the faith pledged in the platform. If the navy, which the Republican party destroyed, be restored, it is now certain that ft will be honestly done. Under this administration there will be no loose contracting, no jobs let at prices nominally low to be made high by extras or by scamping the work. Tne remnant of the national domain, which Democratic Presidents, Jefferson and Monroe and Polk, added to our territory, the residue which Republican extravagance has not wasted on corporations and favorites, is saved from cattle kings and other plunderers for the benefit of the people. No more assessments will be levied on the departments to carry elections; no more clerks will be dismissed because they refused to bulldoze the people at Congressional elections in the guise of Deputy Marshals; the Pension Bureau will never again be emptied of its officers to defeat a wounded Democratic soldier for Congress; there will be no more star-routa frauds; no more whisky rings; in short, a breath, a strong breeze of economy and honesty is blowing through all branches of the public service. No more wool will be drawn over the eyes of Ohio farmers by a tariff nominally high, but ingeniously leveled down at the Custom House by fraudulent invoicing. Mr. Sherman has recently boasted that he has converted Senator Morrill, of Vermont, to tife support of the wool tariff of 1867. But is Mr. Sherman sure of himself on this question? Is he certain that Ire will not again attempt its reduction, as he did in 1872? Is he sure that in his anxiety to secure other tariff reductions he will never again give the casting vote in favor of reducing the wool tariff, rather than lose the opportunity to cut down duties on other articles as he did in 1883? Is ho sure that if ever elected President he will not, as Piesident Arthur did in 1882, recommend "a substantial reduction” in the duty “on wool?” The three great Republican scare-crows have been taken in for good, and relegated to the ragbag and the dust-heap. There will be no payment of the rebel debt, no pensions to rebel solders, no freedmen reduced to slavery. The results of the war, which Hancock and Ward, Warner and Mogan, Ewing and Rice, and thousands of other Ohio Democrats fought to secure, will be preserved intact. Here in Butler County you have a memorable instance of the beauties of Republican professions. Except for a short time under Andrew Johnson there has not been a moment since the close of the war when Ferdinand Vandeveer, the hero of two wars, could be permitted to enter the civil service of his country. He was welcomed to fight in Mexico, was welcomed to fight the rebellion, honored, promoted, made a Brigadier General. He was invited to shed his Democratic blood ior his twice imperiled country. Against foreign foes and domestic tra tors he freely exposed his life, but under a Republican President he has not been good enough to be even a whisky gauger. Thank God, Grover Cleveland has destroyed all this. Democrats, who for twenty years have only been considered tit to be enlisted as private soldiers at sl3 a month, are now, at least occasionally, promoted from hard tack and sowbelly to the oysters and champagne of official position. At last it has become possible for the majority of the American people, the majority not in numbers merely, but in all that makes a nation great in intelligence, virtue, sobriety, right thinking, and right living, to see an officeholder occasionally at least selected from their midst. Doubtless Mr. Cleveland seems to some to move too slowly, but remember he is the head of a Government, not of a machine for the distribution of spoils. Of one thing I am sure, and that is that while maintaining and executing in all their force, as is his duty, every law he finds upon the statute book, including the law for the reform of the civil service he will in time till every office involving political action by men believing in the Chicago Democratic platform of 1881, and in sympathy with Democratic progress. For twenty years the Republican party of Ohio and the nation has proved by its action that its single idea of the public service has been that no Democrat should hold any civil office whatever, business or political, and that every public place, great and small, should be tilled by a partisan Republican, put there because, and only becasue, he was a partisan Republican. All this is now reversed, and “the mourners go about the streets." It is sweet, it is delicious, brethren, to hear the Republican lamentation, as expressed by John Sherman, who worked the Treasury Department for all it was worth in ltßu to nominate himself for President. and who never recommended a Democrat for civil office in his life, that the impartial, non-partisan civil service ot our country is in danger! Why, John, brother John, there is a beam in thine own eye. Do I say beam? Yes; a cord of wood, a whole forest. Go thou and pluck it out, then come, and after we have done our share of official duty we will rub out our little motes, and listen to your complaints. And whiie these reforms have been in progress, the country has not gone to the “demnition bow-wows," as every Republican orator has prophesied for a dozen years past. If that great and wise leader of the Democratic party, Samuel J. Tilden, that clearsighted reformer, before the electric light of whose penetrating vision fraud and waste shrunk and slunk into hiding places and exile, or was driven •to prison, were inaugurated, the country would be ruined—so prophesied our Republican Cassandras; theret ore, I lorida and Louisiana, the latter with Mr. Sherman’s own personal connivance, were robbed ot their electoral votes, and the Government for four years handed over to a usurper. Butlo! the hour has come and the man. Democracy has effectually prevailed at last, and where is the calamity? What has becomeof tne disaster? Business reviving, stocks advancing, are th se the tokens of distress? True, times are still hard, made so by Republican misgovernment. Rome was not built in a day or a year. It is only s x months since the Republicans lost power. It'may be that the revivals of industry we read ot are not the results of Democratic succ ss. Th ci"? are at any rate coincident. Republi an proph'sy is falslti* d, and Republican prophets silenced. Let us take heart, and with renewed laith in Democratic prim iples. and doubled courage, with generous confidence, continue our support of Piesident C.eveland. sure and secure that his inflexible integiity, his invincible courage, his persistent labor, supported by the counselsand wise legislation of a Democratic House of Representatives this year, and a Democratic Senate and House in 1887, will richly reward h.s, their, and our endeavors. The country will thus enter ui on a career of prosperity such as has attended other Democratic triumphs, such as came in with Jefferson, Mad son, und Monroe, under whose administration all political opposit on to the Democracy ceased, and who gave to the country Louisiana and Mississi] pi, the territory west of the Mississippi, and Florida, or with Jackson, who paid the public debt, or with Polk, who added Texas and California to the national domain. And at the election of 1888 Democrats and Republicans alike will have the satisfaction of v. ting lor the man of their choice, nnawed by ruffians drawn from the slums ot distant States and Term ones, armed with bull-dog pistol* and headed by 1 oweil Clayton, Dudley, Rathbone and Lot Wright. Marshal I rner is a Democrat and a gt ntleman, and h s deputi s will be gentlemen, and they will repel, n t actively aid the happy family of Republican colonizers who may be then enjoying the hospitality of Hog. head John.

FIGHTING THEIR BATTLES OVER.

Veterans of the Army of the Tennessee Hold Their Eighteenth Annnal B mnion. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee held its eighteenth annual leunion in Chicago on the 9th and 10th of September. Gen. Sherman presiding. There was a large attendance, including Gen. Logan, Govs. Alger of Michigan, Sherman of lowa, Oglesby of Illinois, ex-Gov. Fletcher of Missouri, Gen. J. B. Sanborn of Minnesota, Gen. G. M. Dodge of lowa. Gens. Hickenlooper and Force of Ohio, and Bishop Fallows of Chicago. The Treasurer’s report showed SIO,OOO cash on hand. Gens. Sherman, Logan, Oglesby, and Rauni, and Bishop Fallows were selected to prepare resolutions on the death of General Grant. Governor Oglesby delivered the acNkess of welcome. He offered them in behalf of the soldiers of Illinois their platter, canteen, and cup. He ha 1 heard something of their deeds, knew something of their fame, and had a strong sentiment of gratitude for the glorious work they had accomplished in the days gone by. As the guardians of a nation’s life, and the representatives of one of the great armies of the country, he bade them welcome to the hospitable soil of Illinois. Gen. Sherman delivered an address eulogistic of the late Gen, Grant. The speaker accepted all the hospitalies extended, and then said he would devote his attention to “the old and first commander. ” It was Gen. U. S. Grant who had, during the cold winter of 1861-62, raised a company at Cairo, 111., and it was he who took his final leave of his family and friends on earth on July 23, 1885; all were willing to admit that mankind had lost a kindled spirit. His comrades, who had shared with him the trials of the campaigns from Henry to Vicksburg, knew’ better than any other that a great soldier, a loving man, and a wise statesman had been taken off. Hundreds, aye, thousands of pens were engaged in an effort to describe the man who did so much in so short a time. These looked to’ the comrades of the Army of the Tennessee for information which ought to be forthcoming, and which he would try to give. He met Grant at West Point in 1839. The speaker was then a classman, a more exalted position, he asserted, than he had ever reached since, although he had been reasonably successful in life. One day a number of the classmen were perusing a list of names of cadets, and among them appeared that of “U. S. Grant.” This was regarded as a somewhat singular name, and the boys began to cogitate as to what the initials “U. S.” meant. Some thought they meant “United States,” others that the “S." meant “Sam,” and still others “Uncle Sam. ” However, Grant served under the name of “Sam” in the Mexican war in the Fourth Infantry. The speaker knew very litile of Grant while at West Point because one was a classman and the other was a plebe, and classmen would hardly deign to notice plebes. Grant’s rep- 1 utation while serving in the Fourth Infantry in the Mexican war was that of a willing officer, ever ready to do the fighting, extremely social and friendly with his fellows; but in no sense did he display those qualities that were developed during the civil war. It was the old commander who had restored order when chaos had been let loone and the gates of hell were wide open all around. He raised the dark curtain that enshrouded the Federal commanders when he won the victory at Belmont, so that it was only necessary to follow the course mapped out. He did not care how a battle was fought so long as it was won. In closing, Gen. Sherman said it was fitting that the dead hero should find his last resting place in New York, and hoped that any monuments to be erected would, like himself, be stroi g and simple. He then introduced Gen. Sanborn.

Gen. J. B. Sanborn also paid an eloquent and graceful tribute to Gen. Grant. Gen. William F. Vilas was then demanded by the audience, and gracefully came forward, when he was received with enthusiastic applause. He said it had been understood that his part in the programme was to be that of silence. He felt that he would Le a daring man indeed who would attempt extemporaneously to add to the burning words of the soldier-President and chosen orator upon that grand theme of Grant He would, however, touch upon one feature which added greatly to the fame he had so justly earned. He aMuded to the love he had won from the enemies he had fought, and pictured the grieving ex-Con-federate officers standing by the death-bed of the man who had struck such deadly blows against them, with tears of honest, manly sympathy glistening in their eyes. Grant had not fought for selfish ambition, nor waged war through vindictiveness. His love of country was too great for this, and that very love endeared him to his enemie s. It was Grant’s quiet, earnest labor in behalf of returning harmony among the sections that had materially led to the grateful reuniting, now happily accomplished, of the once divided and fiercely fighting sections of the country, and when he died who were found following his body to its last rest but the leading generals now surviving of the enemies with whom he combated. He referred to the two communications which passed between Grant and Buckner, and pictured Grant’s joyful reception of the approaching unity and peace, and in most eloquent and feeling terms referred to the fact that the sunshine of a sweet and enduring peace was the glorious fruition of the years of war. Resolutions of respect to the memory of the old commander were adopted. The committee to name officers presented the following names in their report, which was adopted unanimously: President—General W. T. Sherman. Vice Presidents—Major George W. Colby, of Alabama; Colonel W. 8. Oliver, of Arkansas; Captain Richard 8. Tuthlll, of Illinois; Lieutenant Co onel J. M. Dre-'ser, of Indians; Major Cnarles E. Putnam, of Iowa; Colonel A. J. lijay, of Missouri; Captain W. McCrory, of MHinesot i; CapL in W. 8. Burns, of New York; General E. H. Murray. of Kentucky: General Geo ge E. Wells, ot Ohio; General.!. M. Rusk, of Wisconsin; Major W. M. Dunn, of the United States army. Corresponding Secretary—General A. Hickenlooper. Re ording Secretary—Colonel L. M. Dayton. Treasurer—General M. p. Force, It was determined to ho'd the next meeting at Rock Is and, 111., Sep*. 15 and 16, 1886. Ihe reunion concluded with a banquet nt the Grand Pacific Hotel, at which numerous speeches were mpde in response to toasts, the festivitfesrlasting until nearly 3 •’clock a. m.

POSTMASTERS.

The Changes That Have Taken Place Throughout the Country. [Washington special 1 Since the present administration took charge of the reins of Government no harder-worked officials have been found in Washington than those employed in the appointment branch of the Postoffice Department During the last six months nearly one-fourth of the Postmasterships of the first second, and third classes, whose commissions are signed by the President, have been changed, while over one-eighth of the nearly 50.000 fourth-class and crossroads offices, the commissions for which are signed by the Postmaster General, have now a new Postmaster. The records of the department show that the following changes in Postmasters have taken place in the States and Territories named: State. State. Solti’S u* 3 o £s] o fife fe fe Alabama 13 121 Missouri 20 361 Alaska 1 Moutaaa. I 16 Arizona 7 Nebraska 9 68 Arkansas 8 171 Nevada 1 11 California 6 39 N Hampshire. 8 101 Colorado 9 32New Jersey.... 7 78 Connecticut... 12 28New Mexico... 1 8 Dakota 8 41 New York 40 658 Delaware 1 21 North Carolina 14 271 Florida. 3 30 Ohio 23 618 Georgia 10 131 Oregon 28 Idaho 3 28 Pennsylvania. 34 415 Illinois 311 329 Rhode Island 6 Indiana 43 455 South Carolina 9 78 Indian Ter.... 1 12 Tennessee 6 148 lowa 40 168 Texas. 10 1 Kansas. 29 151 Utah 2 127 Kentucky 7 184 Vermont. 10 116 Louisiana 3 73 Virginia 16 439 Maine 7 GO Washington T. 1 13 Maryland 2 140 West Virginia. 1 145 Massachuse’ts 8 28 Wisconsin 23 147 Michigan 22 141 Wyoming 3 1 Minnesota 10 46 ’ Mississippi.... 9 108 Totals 5216309 The number of Presidential offices in the country is 6,309, while the fourth-class offices aggregate 48,421. The table shows that the greater number of changes thus far have been made in Ohio, where the number is 641. New York comes next with 598; then Indiana with 508; Virginia with 455; and Pennsylvania with 449.

LUMBERMEN FRIGHTENED.

Some 816,000,000 Worth of Public Lands Declared Public Domain. [Washington dispatch. I Secretary Lamar has rendered a decision in regard to the Ontonagon land grant, which is calculated to make a commotion among a number of prominent capita'ists in the West. For several years efforts have been made in one guise and another to get a confirmation by act of Congress for the title to a large amount of lands in Northern Michigan. This land was withdrawn from sale because it was granted to the Ontonagon & Brule River Railroad. In spite of repeated directions from the General Land Office the land agents at the Marquette Land Office sold these lands right along to lumbermen at $1.25 per acre. For years these purchasers have paid taxes on these lands. Settlers who could defy the purchasers went and built bouses and cleared farms on the tract, trusting to time to give them title. The lumbermen claim they bought in good faith and should be given patents. The last bill before Congress proposed to confirm titles only where there was no counter-claim by settlers. The property is worth from $16,000,000 to $20,000,001), and covers a number of mines and several fine, growing villages. The question of title was argued recently by ex-Senator McDonald for the settlers, and Assistant Secretary Jenks wrote the decision which Secretary Lamar has, after careful consideration, approved. It simply upsets the cash-entry men and throws into the public domain the greater portion of the land in question.

NOT SNAKES, BUT FIRE.

A Liquor-Crazed Man Sees an Imaginary Fire and Leaps from a Window, Fatallj Injuring Himself. I Boston special.] Peter M-c Cary, who had been drinking, awoke about 1 o'clock this morning with the idea that the house was on fire and that it was his duty to save the lives of the inmates. After having conducted a number of imaginary persons to a window and sent them to the ground, as he imagined, by a safety chute, he decided to save himself in the same manner. His wife, by this time being awakened by the noise, was horrified to see him making preparations to dive out of the window, head first With a bound she landed upon the floor and succeeded in grasping one of her husband’s legs just as he shot out of the window. Shrieking for help, she still hung on, but before the arrival of aid her strength gave out and she was obliged to let go her hold, her husband falling to the sidewalk below, where he was picked up unconscious and conveyed to the city hospital. On account of the terrible injuries received, there are but slight hopes of bis recovery.

COURT OF ALABAMA CLAIMS.

The Salary of the Government Counsel a Stopped. [Washington telegram.) First Controller Durham to-day stopped a requisition to pay the salary of J. A. J. Creswell, Government counsel before the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, for the month of August, until it is settled that there is any balance duo him. The First Controller takes the gound that Mr. Creswell is not entitled to a fixed salary of SB,OOO per annum, but that that sum is named as the limit of the fees to be allowed him f,or the trial of cases. He says that the law organizing the court provided that the Government counsel should receive a reasonable compensation for each case tried, and that subsequent laws limited such compensation to SB,tX)O per annum. The court, however, he says, neglected to fix the amount of a “reasonable compensation, ” and has illegally treated that item as a fixed salaiy.

The Base-Ball Championship.

The r;ce for the base-ball championship is becoming interesting to the lovers of the game. The other clubs are so far in the rear that they are out of the question, and the contest has narrowed down to the New York and Chicago Clubs, with the latter s'ightly in the lead in games won, but with this advantage about offset by the fact that the Chicago’s future games are with stronger clubs than New York has to play.

A DEADLY DESTROYER.

A Section of Ohio Devastated by a Cyclone, Many Persons Perishing. Washington Court House and Bloomingburg Almost Wiped Out of Existence. (Springfield (Ohio) special.] A terrible cyclone struck "Washington Court House, a city of 4,000 inhabitants, twenty-five miles from here, at 8 o’clock this evening, and almost swept it from the earth. The storm came from the northwest, and broke upon the town very suddenly, carrying everything before it. The tornado whirled up Court street, the main business thoroughfare, and ruined almost every business block in it—at least forty or fifty in all. Hardly a private residence in the town escaped, fully four hundred buildings going down. The Baptist, Presbyterian, and Catholic churches all suffered the common fate. The Ohio Southern, Panhandle, Narrow-Gauge, and Midland Railroad stations were blown to smithereens, and every building iu the vicinity was carried away, making ingress or egress almost impossible. As every wire within a circle of two miles is down, it is utterly impossible to get accurate details of this catastrophe. The only reports that can be had are through an operator who topped a wire two miles west of the town, and is sitting in a heavy rainstorm to work hie instruments. The panicstricken people were taken completely unawares, and lied from the tumbling buildings in every direction through the murky darkness. A mad frenzy seemed to seize them, aud they hurried hither and thither in their wild distinction, little knowingwhither they were fleeing. After the whirlwind, which lasted about ten minutes, a heavy rainfall set in, which still continues unacuted at this writing. As soon as a few of the cooler heads recovered their senses searching parties were organized, and the sad work of looking for the dead began. So far fifteen bodies have been recovered from the debris of various ruined buildings. It is probable as many more will bo found before morning. The glimmer of lanterns procured from farm houses iu the vicinity and from the few houses left standing is the only light they have to work by. Two or three bodies have been stumbled upon in the middle of the street, where they were stricken down by flying bricks or timbers. The cellars of houses and every sort of refuge were filled with shivering people, huddling together in the vain attempt to keep warm. One baby in arms has died from exposure. Advices from Bloomingburg say that town was struck by a funnel-shaped cloud and almost entirely demolished. Three or four persons were killed.

INDIANA’S SENSATION.

Certain Trustees Issue Illegal Township Orders to the Extent of SIOO,OOO. [lndianapolis telegram.] The discovery that certain Township Trustees of Daviess County,this State, had issued illegal township orders to the extent of $100,01)0 or more, and then fled to Canada, has caused much excitement in business circles here, where many of the orders were disposed of, and there is a well-founded belief that the swindle has been extensively practiced in other parts of the State. It is already known that such spurious obligations hive been issued in Posey, Fountain, Vermillion, and Shelby Counties, and at the present time it is impossible to estimate their extent, although it is probably hundreds of, thousands of dollars. Investigation made to-day develops that R. B. Pollard, until recently a resident of Indianapolis, is at the head of the scheme, which was both original and daring. He was agent of various school furnishing houses in Chicago and elsewhere, and his business was almost exclusively with township trustees. With some of these he made a conspiracy by which they were to issue to him township orders in large amounts in alleged ‘payment for school-supplies, and these he was to sell, dividing the proceeds with them. As he stood well financially, 1 having a constant balance in bank of from SIO,OOO to $20,000, and the orders bore on their face evidences of their genuineness, he had comparatively little trouble in disposing of them, especially as he sold them at from 10 to 15 per cent, discount, and they bore 8 per cent, interest They were sold principally to Eastern capitalists, although Pollard disposed of $4,360 worth of them to a diamond and jewelry house, said to be Coon <fc Co., of Cincinnati, for diamonds, and $2,300 to D. Van Wee, of this city, besides unknown amounts to the Third National Bank of Greensburg, and other national banks at North Vernon. In addition to this he paid for a large consignment of school furniture to a Chicago house with them, receiving his commission for them in cash. He and his family left here last week, ostensibly for Boston, but recent advices say that he is at Linn, Ont. There is a rumor, which cannot be traced down to definite sources, that before leaving he borrowed $20,000 in cash from a city bank, putting up $35,000 of these illegal orders as collateral security. The swindle is the most extensive one known in the history of the State, and its full extent is not yet known.

A CURIOUS INCIDENT.

A Dove Visit* a Preacher In Church and Finally Alights on Hi* Head. (New Haven (Conn.) special] A curious incident occurred while services were being held in the Congregational Church in East Huven, a village five miles from 1 his city, yesterday. Ah the pastor. Rev. Mr. Clark, gave out his text a dove, which had made its way into the church unpetc ived, flew down fiomits perch in the gallery and alighted on the laige Bible from which the minister was reading. The bird remained near the pulpit during the rest of the service, and at its close slut ered to the pistor's head. It was afterward discovered that the bird belonged to a small boy, and for some reason or other followed its owner to the church. The preacher’s text was, “I saw the spirit descend ng from above like a dove and it rested upon Him.”