Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — Page 2

gljc J)f mocrflticSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - Pimriiom

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Judge Peckham, of the New York Supreme Court, has decided that the repeal of the Broadway charter waß constitutional, and that the mortgages are a lien on the property. The will of John Q. A. Williams, on being probated in Boston, was found to contain a bequest of $400,000 for Harvard College. The Laird House and nine other buildings at Greensburg, Pa., were burned. The losses aggregate $100,0,0. James A. McMaster, the editor of the Freeman'* Journal, New York is dead. The socialistic leaders in New York cannot conceal their disgust over drafts for $1,900 drawn by Dr. Aveling and wife for thirteen weeks’ services to the cause. Gen. W. W. Loring Pasha, who commanded a corjis in the Egyptian army, died of pneumonia in New York, agol 09. An Italian girl, named fell across the track of the Third Avenue Elevated Boad in New York, in front es an approaching train, and was instantly killed. The engine had to be raised with jackscrews to release her corpse Meanwhile the road was blocked with trains for two miles. Reports from the New England fisheries show that the past year was a very disastrous one. Twenty-six vessels were lost, valued at $152,000, and 127 persons wore drowned. ■*

WESTERN.

W. T. Eornaday, of the National Museum it Washington, who has been collating specimens in Montana, reports the visible supply of buffalo at sixty in the Yellowstone divide and one hundred In Texas. The (steamers B. S. Hayos and City of Natchez, with four barges, were burned to the water’s edge at Cairo, IIL The losses aggregate $1,000,000. Michael Davitt, the Irish patriot, and Miss Mamie Yoro Were married at Oakland, Cal. A special Grand Jury at Columbus, Ohio, found a true bill against five citizens for altering tally-sheets at the election hold fifteen months ago. Milwaukee brewers deny that they have contributed $3,000 for the defense of Aronsdorf, tho alleged murderer of the Rev. Mx\ Haddock, at Sioux City. The new Soldiers’ Home at Grpnd* Rapids, Mich., which cost $10),000 and will accommodate 590 persons, has been dedicated. Fred Wittrock told his mother that he perpetrated the express robbery to Save her home from being sold on a mortgage. A Kansas City dispatch Bays: “Superintendent Damsel, of the Adams Express Company of St. Louis, arrived hero this morning with Mrs. W. W. Haight On the strength of a confession made by Haight he brought information which Robert Pinkerton acted upon by going to Leavenworth. There he recovered $9,500 more, which was found buried in sealed cans. Oscar Cook has made a confession in which ho says that Fotheringham, the express messenger who is now in jail charged with complicity in tho robbery, knew all about tho plan to rob his car and was a willing victim to tho attack of tho robber. It is said that he was promised SIO,OOO of the amount stolen as his share of the boodle, and that sum was a part of the money which Fred Wittrock sent to his mother for safekeeping.” Robert A. Pinkerton placed Fred Wittrock in jail at St. Loute, and Detective Robertson lodged Weaver, the Chicago accomplice, in an adjoining cell Wittrock confessed to the reportersthat himself and Haight planned the robbery, and he insisted that Fotheringham had no knowledge of the scheme until he was disarmed in his car.. Nearly $50,000 has been recovered, most of it under Oscar Cook’s house in Leavenworth. On an order by Judge Gresliam, Mr. Perkins, the contumacious witness in tho Indianapolis election fraud cases, has been released on bail. Omaha erected 1,600 new buildings last year, at a cost of $5,024,000. During the year just closed, the Chicago l’ostoffice received $2,005,847 for stamps and postal cards. The growth of Milwaukee during the year shows gratifying progress, while that of Kansas City has been phenomenal. Tho business of St. L iuis, on the other hand, shows a considerable decrease, and the city can longer lay claim to being a packing center. Tlie buildings erected last year in Chicago would mare a straight line for ten mile- 1 , and their cost was $2),009,000. One-fourtli as much more was expended just outdde the city limits on three sides, and a portion of the lake would have given place to stately structures but for an injunction by the courts. real estate transfers for tho year aggregated $75,000,000.

SOUTHERN.

Since 1880 tlie iron and steel plants in Southern States have gamed an • annual capacity of 505,200 tons, with indications that at the next census the gain wiil reach 2,000,001 tons annually. The .outlook for the iron industry in 1887 is more prom sing than in the past Ten new blast furnace 3 are in progress of construction.- i Hirseli Brothers’ store, twelve miles below Vicksburg, Miss., was burglarized, and Milton Washington (colored), the occupant,' murdered. Eobert Beasley and Baymond Murphy, known to be enemies of the murdered man, were arrested for the crime. A

mob forcibly took them from the officers of justice and hanged them to a telegraph pole. A steamboat nsed as a boardinghouse at Ja.kson, Ala., was burned at midnight Twenty-five persons lost their lives; ten perishing in the flames, and the others being drowned. The Dolores Land and Cattle Company of Texas, chartered daring fire last year with a capital stock of $2,000,000, has made an assignment The liabilities are $500,000, assets $450,000. The new Sunday law at New Orleans is said to have been observed last Sabbath at all but about four hundred places of business, although the District Court had enjoined the Mayor and police from interfering with certain specified bar-rooms and groceries. The gambling houses gave away no liquors. The open Bhops were generally in the French quarter.

WASHINGTON.

The General Land Office has received reports during the last week showing the removal, under peremptory orders from special agents, of fences from twenty inclosures, embracing over 270,000 acres of laud, principally in the Denver Land District The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the 'l4sth call for the redemption of bonds. The call is for $10,000,000 of the 3 pef cent loan of 1882. The principal and accrued interest will be paid on Feb. 1, 1887, and interest will cease on that diy. The Dea'd Letter Office reports that put of sixty-four letters addressed to Pittsburgh, Ohio, all but nine were found to belong to parties in the Pennsylvania city. Another common error is that of addressing letters to Chicago, New York. and Mrs. Cleveland, assisted by members of the Cabinet and their wives, gave an official reception in the Bltiq Parlor of the Executive Mansion on New Year’s. . The President showed but slight traces of his recent illness. The residence of the Chilian minister at Washington was robbed of $7,0 )0 worth of jewelry and considerable money by a discharged servant named Silva, who was arrested while boarding a train for Now York. Representative Springer, after a careful study of the Pacific Bailroad question, has decided to offer an amendment to the Outhwaito refunding bill requiring the companies to discharge their debt to the government in twenty-six years, by annual installments of $3,877,410. It is now thought probable that Mrs. Logan will consent to the burial of the deceased General on the site in the Lake Park which has been tendered, free of all restriction, by the Chicago Council. The Washington, subscription for tho benefit of Mrs. Logan amounted Saturday to about $40,000, and tho same day Mrs. Logan received $6,500 as tho result of the first day’s subscription in Chicago.

POLITICAL.

The Federal Court, at Indianapolis, refused to quash tho indictments for bribery found against the Republican Sheriff and Au-ditor-elect of Orange County, Indiana. It also declined to release Perkins, the recalcitrant Democratic witness, whose case will now be brought before Judge Gresham ou appeal. The York Sun reports that a Republican conference was held last week at Philadelphia to inako arrangements to boom Senator Don Cameron for Presidential nomination. The contest for Gen. Logan’s seat in the Senate is exciting no small degree of interest in Illinois, particularly in Republican circles. There is quite a list of Richmonds in tho field. Ex-Congressman Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, has a strong following. Clark E. Carr, Gen. Henderson, Congressman Cannon, and Congressman Payson have eacli their quota of supporters, while the name of Robert T. Lincoln has been strongly urged by not a few. Ex-Gov. John M. Hamilton would not refuse the plum if it fell to him, and there are any number of dark horses browsing around and praying for tho lightning to strike them. Gov. Oglesby positively announces his noucaudidacy. Senator Cullom’s preferences are not yet known, but it is the opinion of the Illinoisans who visited Washington that, so far as possible, he desires to keep out of the fight, and link his fortunes with no one candidate.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

Two thousand brewery employes in Philadelphia struck agaiust a reduction of 29 per cent in their wage a It is computed that there were 3,000 separate strikes in 188(5, and that the loss to the country was about $25,000,090. The Brewers’ Union of New York has seceded from District A-sembly No. 49, of the Knights of Labor.

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Illinois Central has purchased the Champaign and Havana Road A contractor is looting over the territory lying between Duluth and Port Arthur in the interest of American capitalists, who intend to bu Id a railway for grain traffic. The Atlantic and Danville Road, fiftyfive miles m length, has been purchased by Senator Plumb, and will soon be extended to I|anvillp, Va. The Vanderbilts have declared dividends of 2 par cent, each on the Michigan Central and Lake Shore Boads, and Iper cent, ou Canada Southern. Stephenson Burke was elected P e3ident of the Bee Line Road, and a surplus of $105,060 over all charges was reported, but no dividend was declared. The Pennsylvania Company has arranged to heat two hundred of its freight cars with oil stove?. .II I : t

MISCELLANEOUS. A mechanic who has just returned to Oswego, N. Y., from Panama, where lie was at work for the canal company, says that employes are being buried daily by hundreds. Three trains are run out of Aspinwali each

day bearing bod es of dead employes, which are taken to a place called “Monkey Hill” Thes3 three trains bear three classes of corpses. The first is known as “Dumps”— those who have neither friends nor money. The second train contains those who die at work. The third contains those whose friends can pay for a decent bnriaL At the burying ground a long trench is dug, and the bodies are dumped in and covered with two or throe feet of earth. Tne great objection to the food is the manner of cooking. Everything is cooked with onions. They are found in the soup and hash, and the beefsteak is smothered in them. Even the tea and coffee taste and smell of onions. The employes of the American Dredging Company all receive their pay in silver issued by the Chilian Government, and each dollar is worth about sixty-five cents. Fred Wittrock, alias “Jim Cummings,” was taken by tne Pinkerton detectives fropi Chicago to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he made a full confession of his connection with the Adams Express robbery. A large amount of the money was recovered, it having been concealed in a box under a bam at Leavenworth. The detectives were taken to the spot and the box dug up. It was*taken to that city by Cook and concealed by him and three other young men. Mrs. Haight, wife of the man who planned tli3 robbery, was arrested at Nashville and tak ;ii to St Louis. A Washington dispatch says: “Capla n G. E. Lemon this morn.ng started a subscription fund for the benefit of Mrs. Logan with SI,OOO, and sent invitations to hundreds of General Logan’s friends and admirers throughout the country, asking them to contribute. The Western Union Telegraph Company tendered the free use of its wires for transmitting subscriptions. The responses are now coming in rapidly, and SI,OOO subscriptions have been received from Senator Sawyer, Hon. William Walter Phelps, John B. Drake of Chicago, Gov. Alger of Michigan, •George M. Pullman, and others. The receipts in ten hours from tho time tho subscription was started amounted to $15,000. All persons dosiring to contribute should telegraph George E. Lemon, Citizens’ National Bank, Washington, D. C., stating tho amount of their subscripton, and send checks or drafts at once to the order of J. A J. Cresswell, President Citizens’ National Bank, Washington, D. C.” The Executive Departments in Washington were closed on the occasion of General Logan’s funeral. General Sheridan was Marshal of the funeral procession, which was an imposing one. At Central Music Hall, Cliicago, 2,500 ladies and gentlemen met to do honor to the memory of the soldier statesman. Preachers, soldiers, and politicians paid tribute to the dead hero. The Chicago Council has set apart a space, about 320 foot square, at 4he south end of the lake front, in that city, as a burial place for General and Mrs. Logan. Thomas Stevens, the bicyclist who lias for the last three years been on a tour around the globe, has reached the end of his journey, and will be in San Francisco within a sow days, where he will bo banqueted by the local bicycle clubs.

FOREIGN.

Isabella Begg, tbe niece of Robert Burns, lias just died in Scotland. A workman’s congress in Brussels decided to form a fund to drill and equip mea A proposal to affiliate with tlu American Knights of Labor was disfavored. The Chancellorship of the British Exchequer has been accepted by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, to fill tho vacancy created by the resignation of Lord Kandolph Churchill. Just outside the harbor of St. John, N. 8., the steamer Sir John was burned to the water’s edge. Ono, man was drowned while attempting to swim ashore, and five others were fatally burned. The financial loss is about #70,000. Baron Theodore von Oppelseir, the Austrian astronomer, is dead: There is a growing belief in Vienna that Russia is determined on war. Reports of increased Russian armaments are continually coming to hand from various sources. The latest intelligence of this kind is to the effect that 300,000 Russian troops have been ordered to mass at Kieff, and the occupants of 10,000 houses have received official notification that soldiers will soon be billeted in them Mr. Gladstone celebrated his 77th birthday Dec. 29. He attended early, service at tho Hawarden church, and received presents and congratulations from all parts of the world. Lord Colin Campbell has applied for a new trial of the divorce suit brought by his wife against him, and, if ho fails, will take the matter before the House of Lords for final ad judication. A fire at Lisbon, Portugal, which destroyed a large block of buildings, caused the death of five persons. John Dillon has deposited in a Dublin court £l, 00 required as bail, and Messrs. Kenney and Biggar signed a bond for twice that amount

A Paris correspondent affirms that lie lias reliable information that Germany and Russia signed a direct alliance a fortnight ago. Emperor William on New Year’s celebrated the eightieth anniversary of. his entrance into the Prussian army. The report of the Scotch crofters’ commission shows the existence of a system of rack rents in the Highlands as deplorable as any known in Ireland, and recommends a reduction in rents of from 15 to cent. The scheme for mobilization of the troops of Great Britain is perfected, and by April 1 tho Government will be able to get 68,000 troops on shipboard at twenty-four hours’ notice. Overtures for a re anion of the Liberal party have been made to Mr. Gladstone by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. The former makes the approval of his Irish government bi?l, upon which the last Liberal ministry were defeated, a condition precedent to such reunion. By the burning of an inclosure at the People’s Park, in Madras, 275 natives lost their lives. .

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

v A Washington dispatch says Mrs. Logan expre s«<i to an intimate friend of ner late husband her opposit.on to the banal of the remains in the space set apart on thelase front, Chicago, and her willingness to accept a location along the South Parks or boulevards. It is indignantly denied that there is dissatisfaction on the part of Gen. Logan’s family with the medical treatment he received in his last illness. The fund for the relief of Mra Logan had reached upward of $50,00.) on the sth inst A San Antonio dispatch furnishes meager particulars of a horrib.e collision on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 200 miles west of that point Nine Mexicans were burned to death among the wreckage The men were riding on an open flat-car when the collision occurred. This car was driven under a heavily laden bot-car, on the top of which several others had piled, when the entire wreck took fire, literally roasting alive the Mexicans, who were pinned down on the top of the flat-car. None of the bodies were recognizable when Recovered. At the opening of the opera season in Boston last week, head-dress among the ladies proved to be the exception. The reform is due to the press. The decrease in the public fiebt duriog December was The interestbearing bonds now amount to $1,130,494,462. The treasury stock of gold has been steadily gaining since July last, and is now $170,912,413. The governments .holdings of silver have rapidly fallen off for Some months, th'o aggregate being $75,998,944. Following is the official debt statement for December: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4'i> percent $ 250,000,000 Bonds at 4 pe r cent 737,781,850 Bonds at 3 per cent- 63,8 )9,000 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 190,1 0 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,00j,0,0 Pacific railroad bonds at 0 per cent. 64,623,012 Principal ' $1,130,494,462 Interest .V. 11,838,720 Total $1,142,333,182 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $ 8,874,855 Interest 211,336 Total... $ 9,186,191 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Olddemand and legal-tender notes.? 346,738,341 Certificates of deposit 6,510,000 Gold certificates 97 215,605 Silver certificates 117,245,6/0 Fractional currency (less $8,3/5,931 estimated as lost or destroyed).. 6,953,702 Principal ». $ 571,661,318 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,714,033,635 Interest 12, <50,057 Total .$1,720,08),692 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt. $. 241,903,504 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes.... .., 100,000,000 Total $ 311,902,564 Total debt, less available cash Rems ....$1,384,181,128 Net cash in the Treasury 42,196,612 Debt, less cash in Treasury, Jan. 1, 1837 $1,341,984,496 Debt, lets cash in Treasury, Dec. 1, 7885 •. 351,342,638 Decrease of debt during the month, § 9,358,202 CASH IN THE TREASURY. Available for reduction of debt: Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $ 97,215,635 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 117,216,670 United States notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding G,510,003 Cash held for matured debt aud interest unpaid 20,924,912 Fractional currency 5,376 Total available for reduction of the debt $241,902,563 Reserve fund held for redemption of United States notes, acts Jan.l4. 1875, and July 12, 1882 .$ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: Fractional silver coin....' ..$ 25,660,935 Minor coin.... $ 131,422 Total $ 25,792,357 Certificates held as cash 35,024,236 Net cash balance on hand 42,196,632 Total' cash in the Treasury as shown by Treasurer’s general necount $ 444,915,783’

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.00 @ 5.75 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 90 @ .99 v No. 2 Red 90 @ .90C, ‘ CORN—No. 2 47te@ .49' Oats—White .37 @ .41 Poke—Mess 12.00 @12.50 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @ 5.50 Good Shipping 3.75 @ 4.50 Common... 3.00 @3.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.25 @ 4.75 Flour—Extra Spring 4.25 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 77 @ .77V. Corn—No. 2 36 @ .37 * Oats—No. 2... 26 @ .27 Butter—Choice Creamery., j27>£@ .28 % Fine Dairy......! !l8 .22 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar. Full Cream, new '.1294 @ '.I3U Eggs—Fresh 23 @ .25 Potatoes—Choice, per bu .45 @ .48 Pork—Mess li.'so @12.09 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 77 @ .78 Corn—No. 2 36 .37 Oats—No. 2 20 @ .26 v, Rye-No. 1 54 @ .56 * Pork—Mess...*ii: 1150 @12.00 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 80 @ .80’Y, Corn—Cash.,.. .37 @ 38* Oats—No. 2........ 28 @ 29 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.50 @5 25 Hogs 3.50 @ 4975 Sheep 4.25 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 82 @ 82 Corn—No. 2 „ .37 @ .33* Oats—No. 2 White 31 @ 32 ST. LOUIS. v Wheat—No. 2 : 00 @ .81 Corn—Mixed A 35 @ .sß< Oats—Mixed ' .28 @ .28 Pork—New Mess 11.75 @12.25 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Bed 81 @ 81;; Corn—No. 2 as @F.3t i Oats—No. 2......... '36 @ 31 * Pork—Mess 11.75 @12.25 Live Hogs 4.00 @ 4.50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard r. .20 @ .91 Corn—No. 3 Yellow.... 1 " .44 @ 44'h Cattle 4.25 @ 5.00 * „ INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle'. 3.00 @ 550 Hogs 3.73 @ 4.50 Sheep. 2.50 @ 4 Whleat—No. 2 Bed 77 @ Corn—No. 2 .35 @ 'so Oats 29 @ i3O EABT LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4.75 @ 525 Fair -...( 4.00 @ 4.50 Common 3.25 @ 3.75 Hogs.. . 4.25 @4.75 Sheet v LSO @5.00

Not Generally Known.

The Japanese Prince is But, girls, he is married. Same here All of ns handsome men are married.— IVa king on Post. A Burlington girl, who is a great talker, says it is better to be engaged in conversation than not at all.—Burling on Free Pres -. Some Americans are too proud to beg and too honest to steal, so they gettrnsted. — Bo ton Pn * t. A New-Yorker shot at his wife, but the bullet hit nothing but her stare hair. It is very hard to get at the exactboundaries of a woman nowadays.— Omaha World. The royal family always wears, its trousers turned up at the bottom, because it is reigning in England. - Life. No gentleman should smoke when walking with ladies, nor should a lady smoke when walking with a gentleman. —A etc Haven News. Albert—Your inquiry reveals that you are a young married man. All women have cold feet, and it is believed by scientists that they enjoy having them.— Philadelphia Call. Bichard had no sooner declared that he was himself again than Richmond camp along and knocked him out. 'lt would have been money in Di k’s pocket if he had remained somebody else.— Puck. A New York doctor says that men who have the headache are Jhe most sympathetic. If there was ever a man ' with the headache who cared a copper how soon the whole world stubbed its toe and broke its nose be ought to be put on exhibition.— Detroit Free Press.

Arguing with a Bolter.

In the early days, when politics was Tather rough,.Bill Carr was famous'as* a manipulate During the fight for Broderick for Senator there was one leg slater who gave a great deal of trouble. He had been engaged to both sides, and even then refused to stay put, and Broderick had made up his mind that the traitor would go into caucus against him. His vote was a danger, and several consultations were had. At last Carr lost all patience and said: “You have wasted more time on that man than he’s worth. Leave him to me, and I’ll guarantee he won’t vote in this caucus.” It was so agreed, and>Carr laid his plans. He put half a dozen men on the roof of an unfinished house, from which depended a block and tackle, and gave them orders to haul away when he said hoist. Then he de oyed the frail one beneath .the rope, and hastily throwing a noose round his waist yelled out: “Haul away.” The boys pulled with a will, and in a few seconds the delegate was*son the roof, and Carr walked off, after saying: “If he makes a noise pitch him off, and say he fell off. ” The caucus came, and scouts were sent out in all directions for the missing one, who could not be found, and in his absence Broderick won the light. The member was kept on the roof till midnight, and then given a chance to sneak out of town. —San Francisco Post.

How to Read.

A great deal more can be accomplished by systematic reading or study for fifteen or twenty minutes daily, than appears possible to one who has never tried it. It would suffice to keep up French or German, and to become conversant with the best authors. Or a little time given daily to the earnest study of science, and one might become a skillful botanist or geolog st. Or if English literature be more attractive—as it undoubtedly is to the great majority—how soon would one become familiar with Milton or Shakspeare, Bacon or Macaulay, if a few sentences were read and considered daily. Above all things it is important that one should read systematically, and not be guided by chauce. Have always a good book, a standard work, that will repay careful study, at hand, and to that devote a part of the time that may be set apart for reading. Before opening the book recall as fully as possible what was read the day before, and on closing it see by reflection how many of the thoughts of the author you have made your own, and so cultivate memory. —Bo ton Tra user ip \

Equal to Mark Twain’s Frog.

An old gentleman at Tewkesbury for many years rode a blind horse. Though sightless, the steed, which had probably been a good fencer once, had learned to jump whenever he received a hint that he was desired to do so. One da.v, after a run with the hounds, some hunting men were talking in the bar of the hotel about jumps, and theqwner of the blind horse stoutly maintained that that aninal would jutnp over a single obstacle which none of their hunters would leap, lie was ready to hack his words with money, and, as the result of the conversation, lie made dour bets of £5 each on tiie sub ect. Very soon the four sportsmen repented of risking'their money so rashly. The owner of the blind put down a straw in the street, and this constituted the obstacle. He rode up to it, and the blind steed, responding to his call, “rose at the rasper,” clearing it with a bound, four feet in the air, and covering twelve feet of ground at least. None of the other four horses would rise at a straw, and the owner of the blind horse was £2O the richer. —English paper. v A well at Yakutsk, Siberia, was many years ago sunk 382 feet without penetrating the frozen ground, which a recent estimate, based on temperatures taken at various depths, shows must extend 612 feot below the surface. - ‘