Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — Page 3

A TRUE SOLDIER’S LETTER.

Written by a Man Who “Wouldn’t Soil His Soul for Any Amount of Dirty Dollars.” . 'liead in the House of Representatives at Washington, at-the request us Gen. of Wisconsin.] Soldiers’ Home, ) Hampton, Ya., Julj’ 3. j General— l like your sentiments on the •'business method of coining patriotism,” and chill penury having frozen out modesty, as well as all other softer virtues, I am bold enough to write you to request a special favor which has no relation to “spot cash.” My discharges show that I enlisted April 22, 1881, and was finally discharged in November, 1865. During my re-enlist-ment service the rolls will show “b unty declined” in the column of remarks every time an installment was due, for I am an American, and would as soon take hire to resent a personal indignity as hire to defend my country. I took my wages, which were my due; but I knew the state was entitled to the services and lives of any of its citizens whenever needed for its safety. I am only one of many similar cases of the officers and men of the enrly army who never took bounties or applied for any equalizations, or arrearages, or buncombe back pay; and I think we deserve seme record or recognition to show the youngsters growing up that there were men who fought for their flag alone, and not for their flag and so many dollars. Couldn’t Congress have a list made from the rolls in the A. G. O. and printed by authority? Or couldn’t they give those of us who are living a little nickel medal, something like the two-cent one the Navy Department gives to sailors .who risk their lives to save their shiv m ites from drowning? Those of us who are dead don’t need any, as the Recording Angel has the.r record, and will marshal them to fiont seats, which greenbacks can t purchase. [Laughter and applause.] When the war was over I went to work and made my living as well as I could until some months ago, when infirmities compelled me to quit work aud seek the shelter of the home w hich my country has provided for disabl d soldiers. I am thankful for it, and don’t propose to send in a bill besides for pensions, bounties, arrearages, back pay, clothing, rations, or equalization, or anything else. It ain tin the power of Congress to reduce me to the equality of a $1,300 patriot; but some things here look very strange; for instance: A small tobacco rat on is allowed to non-pensioners, and it worries me to see brave old George H , who saved our colors at Chantilly, marching in the line of paupers for his weekly dole, which he straightway shares with fellow s who draw pensions for a valorous diarrhea or glorious piles—|laughter)—for many of our pensioners depend upon their hospital record rather than their army,record, as claimants for their country’s generosity. Carl E , here, has been twice commended in General Orders for gallantry in action, and twice promo'.ed specially, but he has no hospital record, no dashing rupture lor awkwardly falling off a horse, no cbivalric blindness from too much commissary whisky to show 7 , and no brilliancy in his army record will gain him a pension, though bent double by pains. Nothing but a neat hospital record or perjury will do it.

For myself (but I’ve bio wed my own born bo much that I dislike starting a new tune) I will say that it is lucky for the Treasury that i can’t seqnently connect my present pains and aches and general usedupness with a bad cold I got sleeping in the snow among the S afford Hills after our bloody repulse at Fredericksburg, or a certain thumping I remember under my ribs when I saw (twenty-three years ago today) Pickett’s column advancing against the blazing crest of Bound Top; but, in truth, though my mo6t troublesome pain is in my pocket, I don’t propose to soil my soul for any amount of dirty dollars. If there is any acknowledgment can be made by Congress that we fought for our country without bounties, I for one would be very glad of it, and will always remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Thomas May, of Maysville. To General Bragg, Member of Congress. By way of preface to the above letter, and before it was real, General Bragg said: “Mr. Speaker, I am glad that at last we have in the Executive Mansion a man who has the nerve and courage to place his hand upon legislation when he thinks it improper, whet! er it be pension legislation or railroad legislation. [Applause.] We have gone a great way, and in my judgment altogether too far, in this matter of pension legislation. There is a large class of soldiers for whom there is never a voice raised in this House. They are thfe men whom a Confederate General had in his mind when he indorsed his approval upon an application for leave of absence that the soldier might go to see his family. He said: ‘lt was proper such men be permitted to go to their families, for from such men the Nation breeds the soldiers who will defend it in the future.’ In speaking of this class of soldiers I do not speak of those who. were in the service m rely fourteen s, or .sixty days, or ninety davs, and for whom many of your pension bills provide. But I mean that class of men who in April, May, June, and July, 1861, actuated only by patriotic desire to sustain the national flag, tilled the ranks of your army—a class of men but few of whom ever afterward joined it —the men who did not wait to be bought, but who enter, d the service from the pure dictate of duty, recognizing the fact that the Government had a right to ifs blood-tax from its citizens when its necersities demanded it, just as Auch as it had a right to tax their property for the support of the Government—those men who, if they suivived three years' fighting, re-enlisted for three or five years more, or as long as the war might last. There is but a small band of them; they have no medals to commemorate their service; they have no reoogu tion from the friends of the three months’ soldiers. “This House, before it proceeds further in pi- king out the dead-wood, the trash, the men who followed in the wake of the army, and pensioning them, ought to mak9 some provision for the men who fought at the front, who have no hospital records, no such claims for pensions as are ordinarily presumed 1 ere. Some of thes: men I have the honor to know; and fiomoneof this class I received a fewdavsago a letter which I send to the Clerk’s desk to be read that it may go into the Record as a part of my remarks.” Afteb President Cleveland had vetoed bills for the erection of large and unnecessary public buildings in several small Northern towns, the Republican organs

began to crj out that he hated the North and was exercising his veto as he did on the pension bill—because he hated the Union soldier. But now that the vetoes on buildings in Southern towns begin to fall the organs are significantly silent. They haven’t even the chance to feel os the people of Asheville, North Carolina, did when they sent a message to the President as follows: “While your veto of the Court House bill is generally regretted, the confidence of the public in your wisdom and justice remains unshaken, and should you visit North Carolina at any time, you would receive a cordial welcome at Asheville.” —Detroit Free Press.

CLEVELAND’S PENSION VETOES.

The Executive Warmly Defended by Mr. Springer, of IllinojN. During the debate in the House of Repre sentatives, on the motion to refer the message of the President vetoing the bill granting a pension to Joseph Romiser to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, Mr. bpringer, of Illinois, said he would not discuss the pendiug bill and the veto message of the President thereon, except to call attention to the fact that it was first vetoed in the Pensiou Office in 1882 by Commissioner Dudley. But gentlemen on the other side of the chamber had taken advantage of the discussion to attack the President and the Democratic partand to charge that they were opposed to granting pensions. Nothing could be further from the truth. During the entire eight years of General Grant’s administration, only .542 private pensions were granted. During the Forty-seventh Congress, which was Republican in both branches, only 151 private pension bills were passed, but during the last, or Fortv-eighth Congress, which contained a majority of Democrats in this House, ami when the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Matson) was Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, 552 of such bills passed and became laws, and during this sessii n. since December last, Congress had pas-ed 665 priva e pension bil.s, of which about 575 had either been signed by President Cleveland or had become laws without his action. He h d vetoed about rinety private pension bills; but thirty-three more had passed aud become laws during his administration up to this time than wore pa-sed during the eight years oc Grant s administration. Gee. Black, Commissioner of lei sious, had granted over 110.010 certificates to pensioners since he assumedtbe duties of 1 i< office, being 10 per cent, more than h d ever before been issued by any of his predecessors during the same length of time. 'J he Treasury of the United St ites attested the effect of Gin. Black’s in<rinsed efficiency in the administration of the Pension Office. The paymen s to pensioners during the fiscal year just, eneleel txc eeled those of the previous sis al year by $8,600,01,0. But notwithstanding thii increase in pen ioa payments, there had been a net reduction of expend tares during the last fiscal year of over $16,090,00.) as compared with the fiscal year of 1885. Exc udii g pensi: ns the reduction of ordinary expenses for 1886 as compared with 1885 amounted to $24,500,000. This statem nt was made from the Treasury Department. Mr. Springer asserted that the Pension Office had been, previous to General Black’s administration, run in the inteiest of the Republican party. During the last Presidential year the number of claims of applicants for pensions considered by the examining surgeons iu certain States was very significant. In Maine, a contested State, there were 779 cases considered in each Congressional district. In Massachusetts, reliably Republican, where no special political efforts were required, the number so considered was only 291 in each district. Iu Pennsylvania, reliably Republican, there w 7 ere ouly 332 considered in each district, but in Ohio, where there w 7 as a great contest, the number was 605 in each district. In Indiana the number considered was 821 in each district, w'hile in Illinois, rel ably Republican, the number so considered was only 460 in each district. Thus it would be seen that where there were great politii al contests during the last Presidential year, the business of the Pensiou-Office was concentrated, to the neg ect of worthy applicants who happened to reside iu IS ates reliably Republican or hopelessly Democratic.

The Multilateral Lawyers of the Senate.

It is recalled that the brilliant Matt Carpenter, of Wisconsin, once admitted that his being on the Judiciary Committe ■ in the Senate was equivalent to doubling liis income from his practice. He afteiward said: “I know I am a very successful lawyer and much sought after. But when I le t the Senate and was dropped from the Judiciary Committee, I was no louger employed by any of the railioad corporations which have large interests at s'ake at Washington.” That tells the whole story and furnishes an inkling of the motives of the Republican corporation lawyers in the Senate who are laboring so diligently to kill the Beck bill forbidding lawyers in Congress to serve corporations affect ’d by national legislation. Carpen’er Mas o frank man when he utter, d the naked truth. The conduct of Edmunds, Fvarts et al, n working against this righteous measure is the worst display we have recently witnessed of the subordination of public to private interests.— Utica Observer.

The Pledges Must He Kept.

If the Democratic party is to live—nay, if it is to deserve to live—this desertion must not ouly be punished but eff\ ctively guarded against in the future. Democracy must have one creed—one test of loyalty. Its solemn pledges iu national convention must not again be broken and trampled ou in the house of its fr ends. Disguised Republicans must cease to hold s ats in Democra i • conventions, or to r present nominally Demo ratio districts. The party had far belt r be iu a minority in Congress than have a nominal mn ority compot ed iu part of men who will thus join the Republicans to betray the principles and tie y the pledges of Democracy. —New York Slur.

“Sam Randall Must Go.”

The Lansing Journal says: “The Democratic party cannot snrvive half protectionist and half free trade. It must either declare itself wholly and unreservedly for commercial freedom or else abandon all hope of ever maintaining itself iu power iu the national Government. Sam Randall and his gang must go. They have no right to remain in the Democratic party, and aud every true and patriotic Democrat should insist on the.r going out and staying out.”

THE ANARCHIST TRIAL.

The Prosecution Close Their Case— Attorney Salomon Opens for the Defense. An Interesting Story as to How Uapt. Schaack Hunted Down the Conspirators. [Chicago telegram.] After the presentation of some purely formal evidence as to the time and place of Officer Degan’s death, and the reading of various incendiary articles from anarchistic journals, the State closed its case against the bomb-throwers on Saturday. During the reading of the articles, which grew more virulent as the Ist of May approached, the red and black flags and inflammatory banners of the socialists were presented to the jury. When the State had rested, the attorneys for the defense moved that Oscar Neebe be discharged, and followed by a motion that all the defendants except Spies and Fischer be dismissed. These motions were argued at some length, but were overruled by the court, which held that where there is a general advice to commit murder, the time and occasion not being foreseen, the adviser is guilty if the murder is committed. Mr. Salomon then made the opening statement for the defense. His effort was not remarkable in any way except in that it practically admitted very much that was claimed by the prosecution. His chief arguments centered upon two points: First, there cannot be accessories without a principal; second, the defendants did not throw the bomb. Upon the first of these points he held that the State must prove that somebody was a principal in committing the murder before it could convict the defendants as accessories. The manufacture of bombs, the intent to use dynamite, and the preparation for a revolution by force were admitted by Mr. Salomon, who made fully as many points for the State as for his c ients. At this stage of the case a brief and authentic record of the clever work of Captain Schaack and his assistants will be of interest. Captain Schaack has only six detectives in his di trict or under his control. These are Schuttler, Lowenstein, Whalen, Hoffman, Stift, and Rehm. These are the men that gathered the evidence that hung Mulkowski, aud it was these same meu who gathered practically all the evidence against the anarchists. Acting under the general direction of Captain Shaack, they worked night and day and left no stone unturned until every fact was laid bare. The morning of May 5, the day after the massacre, Captain Schaack had a consultation with Chief Ebersold. “I want to work independently in this case,” said Shaack; “I want no help from the Central Station. Your detectives here can work by themselves, and I and my men will work by ourselves.” Chief Ebersold agreed. At

that time Lieutenant Shea, chief of the detective department and its force of thirty men, had arrested Spies, Parsons, Schwab, Fielden, Fischer, and several others openly identified with the anarchists or connected with the anarchic publications, and had seized the stuff in the Arbeiter-Zeituno Building. Schaack called in his six men and gave them their instructions. The second morning afterward (May 7) he had learned of bombs having been made in one or two houses on Sedgwick street, and also in a certain place in the lumber district. In those tM’o days, it might be stated, the whole city was practically scoured by those six men in their search for a bomb factory. The work had not been completed, but had merely narrowed down to certain districts and had resulted in certain pointers from which that information of May 7 was gathered. Schuttler and Lowenstein and some officers in uniform were sent to the two houses on Sedgwick street, one of which was Seliger’s (No. 442), and the other a few doors off on the opposite side of the street. Oppenheimer, the escaped informer, said that when the officers were going toward Seliger’s he and Lingg were standing on the opposite sidewalk and that they discussed the feasibility of making a rush for the house and getting in in time to arm themselves and kill the officers in case they were actually bound for Seliger’s. But the unconscious officers were too quick in their movements and got to the house first. Then Lingg said he would hide, and instructed Oppenheimer to send his tiunk to No. 71 West Lake street in case the officers did not take them away. It was then that Schuttler aud Lowenstein found the LinggSeliger arsenal and all the infernal machinery for bomb manufacture. The officers held possession of the place until everything Mas taken to the station. Seliger was found at work at Meyer’s carpentershop tne same evening, and was lodged in the East Chicago Avenue Station. This was the first arrest of importance as leading directly to the conspiracy. That night Thielen came to see what his friend Seliger was arrested for, and he too waß put under lock and key. It was then that Lingg first was heard of. Thielen was the first informer, but it was some days before he willingly told anything. His talk the first night, however, regarding Seliger’s lodger, Lingg, and Seliger’s tulk on the same subject, led Schacck to believe that Lingg was an important factor in the case. Schuttler and Lowenstein then bent all their energies to Lingg’s capture. They tracked him first by an express wagon he had hired to deliver his tool-chest at Twelfth and Clark streets. Then they traced him to Canal street, and then to the lumber district, frequently losing the trail and then catching it again. Finally, the 14th, they located him in the little cottage on Ambrose street, where they arrested him. Lingg was an unconscious informer. He was defiant; he desired to conceal nothing regarding himself, and in his reckless moods he disclosed many things that were valuable. Then Thielen squealed. A host of conspirators were hunted down by these six detectives and arrested. Assistant State’s Attorney Furthinau, whom Schaack describes ns better than any two detectives in the city, interviewed the prisoners daily and nightly in their native tongue, aud kept a record of all their statements.

A lawyer walked down the street recently, with his length of arms taxed to hold a lot of law-books. To him a friend, pointing at the books, said: “Why, I thought you carried all that stuff in your head?” “I do,” quickly replied the lawyer, with a knowing wink: “these are for the judges.” _ .

POSTOFFICE AFFAIRS.

Some Interesting Statistics—Resigua* tiens and Removals for the Year —New Offices Created. [Washington special.] The following table shows the casualties among Postmasters in several States during the year ending June 30 lad: INIs Ch I ■ o2;° 2 I ~ ! • *5 States. rs g j rs © b 7 | « £ * ® a 5 S s a 2 *» a £ Q fc Dakota 187 157 c| 80 Illinois 382 098 20 41 Indiana 441 531 20 23 lowa 319 407 20| 25 Knnsas 460 291 151 107 Ml iliigan 282 398 loj 41 Minnesota 166 11 61 13 Nebraska 205! 143 7| 74 New York 473 1,122 40i 58 Ohio 451 915 29 38 Pennsylvania 656 1,003 41 li 7 Wisconsin 179 2:38 22 *0 *Decrease. The following are some of the figures for the country at large: Sf . S §1 X p »-« P r “» o A Posolices established during the year 2,121 3,482 1,361 Pcstotlices discontinued 886 1,120 234 Net increase over previous year 1,235 2,262 1,127 Whole number of pcstofflce*. 51,252 53,014 2,362 Number tillod by a[ point-j ment of too President.... 2,233 2,265 32 No. fillod by appointment of the Postmaster General. 49,019 51,349 2,320 Appointments made daring the year— On resignation and commission expired 6,204 9,112 2,908 On removals and suspensions 810 9,576 8,756 On desths of Postmasters... 412 587 175 On establishment of new po3toliices 212 3,462 1,361 Total.. 9,547 22,747 13,2C0 Of the newly established postoffices the six New England States had 51, with 1 discontinuance. The five Middle States and the Dislrict of Columbia had 261 establishments and no discontinuances. The twelve Southern States and Indian Territory had 1,444 new offices; the Pacific slope 114 and 8 discontinued; the remaining States aud Territories of the West and Noidiwest 523 new establishments and 23 offici s discontinued. The largest number of new offices were necessary in the State of Virginia. During the last fiscal year they were 127. The entire number of Presidential offices is 2,265, an increase of 32 during the year. Of these the largest numbers are in New York, 216; Illinois, 182; Pennsylvania, 158; Ohio, 133; Massachusetts aud lowa, 121 each. The total number of money-order offices at the close of the year was 7,356, an increase of 227 over the previous year. Of these Illinois holds the large st number, 590; lowa is next with 522; New York, 496; Ohio, 468; Pennsylvania, 402; Michigan, 344; Kansas, 342; Indiana, 315; Missouri, 213; Wisconsin, 271. The greatest increase in any State was 25 in Kansas.

REVENUE RETURNS.

Statistics from the Beport of the Head of the Revenue Bureiu. [Washington trlegram.] The Hon. Joseph S. Miller, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has made a preliminary report of tie operations of the iuteruai revenue service during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886, of which the following is an abstract: The total collections lor the year were $116,902,845. The total collections for the previous fiscal year were $112,421,121, showing an increase of $4,481,724. The increuse was made up as follows; On spirits, $1,581,055; on tobacco, $1,500,274; on fermented liifuors, $1,445,949. This amount was reduced by a decrease of $25,000 on banks and bankers, and a decrease of $20,554 in miscellaneous receipts. There was an increase of 252,212,112 in the number of cigarettes; an increase of 151,925,855 in the number of cigars; an increase of 11,010,574 iu the number of pounds of tobacco; increase 1,606,108 iu the number of gallons of spirits distilled from grain and other materials, and increase of 1,524,980 in the number of barrels of fermented liquors, as compared with the previous fiscal year. The States iu which the greatest collections M'ere made are, respectively: Illinois, $23,852,253; Kentucky, $15,746,940; New York, $14,365,209; Ohio, $12,921,349; Pennsylvania, $7,847,231; nnd Missouri, $7,060,649. The smallest collections Mere: Vermont, $32,503, and Mississippi, $45,062. The Commissioner’s report Bhows that the collection of internal revenue in the various districts named was as follows: First Illinois, Joel D. Harvey $1,896,030 First Illinois, 11. Stone 5,441,138 Second Illinois, M. B. Crooker 37,313 Second Illinois, Andrew Welch 187,905 Fourth Illinois, Itowett 55,48 i Fourth Illinois, Maurice Kelly 279,586 Filth Illinois, George A. Wilson 13,913,381 Eighth Illinois, Jacob Wheeler 108,435 Eighth Illinois, Thomas Cooper 1,524,380 Thirteenth Illinois, Charles W. Pavev. 42,266 Thirteenth Illinois, William B. Anderson 455,242 Sixth Indiana, William D. H. Hunter.. 3,058,972 Seventh Indiana, William H. Carter... 61,331 Seventh Indiana, Tomas Hanlon 1,571,444 Eleventh Indiana, 'lbomas M. Kirkpatrick 18,393 Elovi nth Indiana, John O. Hendersn... 168,088 Second lowa, John W. Green 27,347 Second lowa, Wm. C. Thompson 2,244,113 Third lowa, James E. Simpson 5,016 Third Town, Byron Webster 186,988 Fo r h lowa, John W. Buidatte 3.C29 l-ourili loM-a, A. H. Kuhlemeier 60,245 District of Kansas, No son F. Acers.... 201,145 First Mickle an, Johnß. Moloney 1,479.883 Fourth Michigan, George N. Davis 192,111 District of Minnesota, Win. Bicket.... 68,75? District of Minnesota, Adolph Bierman 465,773 District of Montana, Thomas I*. Fuller 13,703 District of Montana, D. J. Welch 77,136 District of N. braHka, George W. P< st. 1,674,013 First Wisconsin, Etward G. Wall 2,508,601 Third Wisconsin, Henry Harden 2,402 Second Wisconsin, Alfred C. Parkinson 154,284 Third Wisconsin, Howard M. Kutchin 83,324 Third Wisconsin, Owen A. Wells 241,948 i-lxth Wise ms n, Leonard Lottringe.. 25.960 Sixth Wisconsin, Joseph M. Morrow.. 156,731 A curiosity of engineering, in the form of a tiny steam-engine, has been mode by an ingenious clockmaker. It weighs only about fifteen grains, and is entirely covered by an ordinary thimble.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The State Firemen’s Association will meet at Angola iu August. —A blacksnake, teu feet long, is frightening the berry-pickers iu the vicinity of Jeffersonville. —Richmond has a lodge of colored Masons,aud is now organiziug a lodge of colored Odd Fellows. —The grain elevator at Franklon, Madison County, burned recently. Loss,s3,ooo, with SSOO insurance. —Horned pigs are no novelty, according to a farmer near Fort Branch, who says he has a large number of them ou his farm. —The largest single coal mine in the State is the Nickel-plate, in Clay County. It employs 500 men and turns out 800 tons daily. —The farmers of Jefferson County have purchased forty acres of ground at Wirt, ou the J., M. &I. Railroad for fair purposes. —The Fort Wayne Electric Light Company Iras secured the contract for lighting the streets of Newark, N. J., to cost SII,OOO per annum. —A farmer living near Seymour, raised 1,000 bushels of wheat on thirty-six acres. Six acres of the field yielded 226 bushels, an average of 37<} per acre. —A Seymour butcher lias left that place, after borrowing all the money he could. He was to have been married to a respectable young lady, but did not materialize. —A Wabash County farmer reports that of twelve hogs on his Indian-land farm, eight have died of cholera .recently, and that the disease is raging all through that vicinity. —There is an immense yield of blackberries iu the northern counties of the State, aud ns a consequence the crop of rattlesnake stories promises to bo very abundant. —A man nt Newtown, Dearborn County, died from the effects of a weed poultice that he had applied to his face to cure a boil. The weed poisoned his face and killed him. —Bishop Dwenger, of Fort Wayne, has in his possession a picture of great value. It is from the brush of the celebrated Titian, aud represents the beheading of John the Baptist. —The Brazil Block Coal Company is the largest mining corporation in the State. It operates eleven of thirty-four minoH in Clay County. The capacity of their mines is 4,000 lons daily. —The Tri-State Fair will behold at Fort Wayne, September 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17tb. They are also iu the Big Circuit this year, which is a guarantee of a large field of first-class trotters and runners. —A fatal disease, known as catarrhal fever, has broken out among Terre Haute horses, and is spreading rapidly. It is similar in several respects to the disease which broke out in 1872 with such fatality. , —Clark County Lad a chicken that beat anything as a curiosity, outside of a museum. It had the head of a cat, body of a chicken, aud was provided with four legs. The monstrosity died after a fitful existence of three days. —The watermelon crop of Jackson County will not be nearly so large or as fine in quality as usual. The cold nights are having n damaging effect on the fruit, aud for a second time this season, the vines have been attacked by black rust. —Although the widow of a brave soldier who lies buried nt Angola has received $7,500 iu pensions, she has expended nothing for a tablet in memory of her liegelord, whose grave is unmarked and unprotected from the depredations of cattle aud horses. —Sportsmen may lawfully shoot game iu this State between the following dates: Quail or pheasant, October 15 to December 20; prairie chicken, September 1 to February 1; woodcock, July 1 to January 1; duck, September 1 to April 15; deer, October 1 to January 1. —The Commissioners of Fountain County have purchased the 101 l bridge across the Wabash llivernt Covington, paying SIB,OOO for it. There is great rejoicing in the neighborhood, as the tolls charged have always been considered excessive by the farmers. —The City Marshal of Winchester wants information as to the whereabouts of Edward Betts, a 15-year-old boy, who left his home, near Ridgeville, September 20, 1885. He has dark hair, light complexion, light blue eyes, aud is about five feet four inches tall. —ln some parts of the State farmers are tearing down their worm fences, built of black walnut rails, and selling the seasoned sticks to the chair-makers for prices that will refence their fields with pine and paint the boards, and leave a margin of profit on the operation. —A cyclone passed over Decatur, and the monster funnel-shaped cloud was seen by many of the citizens. The cj-clone did not seem to touch the earth, but came to the tops of the trees. The branches of the highest were wrenched off and carried away in the vortox. —Recently two young thieves were arrested five miles east of Kokomo. They had burglarized the residence of a farmer. When run down and caught, near Vermont, they surrendered Steven loaded revolvers, and w6re handcuffed, taken to that city, and lodged in jail. They arc each about 25 years of age. —The South Bend Times says that buyers, representing Chicago dealers, are endeavoring to purchase cholera-infected hogs in St. Joseph Couuly, and warns the farmers to be on the lookout, aud give them such a reception as will cause them to come to the conclusion that they don’t want any Indiana pork.