Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1888 — Page 3

WORKINGMEN, READ!

Do You Prefer Cheap Whisky to Cheap Necessities? -Mr. Cox Pictures a Republican Campaigner on the Stump for the Chicago Platform. How can you go out and answer the questions, peitinent to this campaign, without entangling .allianxs and confused ideas? Some taxpayer, tired ot your protective exactions, asks : ‘Way should cnly ‘”,7-8,891 people, the pets of prote.tion, be favored at the expanse of ov r : -seventy par cent, of thair 60,000,00 J fellow-citi-zens ?” What for? The voice from the still—warm with the tears of widows and orphans—huskily answers, “Kor free whisky!" “Wfiy should we not chea tn clothes, blankets, and carpets by admitting wool f ei, since the woolen mills have a capacity for 610,0X1,00) j pounds, and only 24J,030,000 pounds are raised at home ?” The answer comes like the bleat of a thousand I flocks, “Before clothes, or blankets, or carpets, take free whisky!’’ But says an honorable recusant Republican from Minnesota: “Worthier, batter, and juster, it seems to my ! mind, would it be to give our people, the toiling ■ masses, cheaper food, cheaper fuel, < heaper I clothing, and cheaper shelter, cheaper b cause ' released from the Heavy and unnecessary burden of hig.i-t xrift taxes.” “Pshaw!" says the hide-bound protectionist, “these artie'es must remain taxed to vindicate the American system." That system has as its genius free whisky. A taxpayer inquires of you ; “Have not the American people paid in sixty years over $23,00'3,000.000 in the hope of getting goods cheaper by and by, after the infants have attained their majority? What, my Republican ■brother, will you do n >w?” The brother answers, “Free whisky." “Has invention dona nothing for us?" asks ths impoverished mechanic. “What do you show us as the result of our American genius for a century in mechanics?” The answer ermes: “We tender you the worm in the still, the finest invention ofihs devil. It m y take away your brains and improv sh ycur families; but protection must stand! We offer you untaxed, cheap, free whisky?" Another in~ u'rer asks : “Why do you not take the tax off my co tof ‘reversible nap?’ ” dhe answer comes: “Protec.ion first, but always free whisky.” An old lady of West Virginia asks with anxie.y: “Why must I lay sixty cents in addition to every dollar for the ciockery from which 1 dr nk my sassafras ter?” “Ah!”sa/sthe protectionist, “is not whisky better than tea?" A series of question! and answers might be fire I off in the following oidsr: “Are you con; to adow that reluct ion proposed by ths Mils bill from loroy-sevon per cent, duty to forty on carpets?’ "No, but wo will repeal the tax on cigarettes for our young boys, and add free whisky.” “Wen t you support that reduction of ten per cent, on cotton goods?” "No, but 1 would love to lower the whisky tax. ” “Won’t you reduce the tax on castor oil below 194 per cent., its present rate?" "ixo; I won’t condescend to help anybody but these who want the cost of whisky reduced." “Please help us reduce the tax o.r cheap woolen cloth from righty-nine per cent, to forty per cent., as Mills proposes. Will you not?” “No; Ido not want to engage” in anything else till I have taken the tax of ninety cents a gallon from whisky.” "We are making a last effort to reduce the duty on w’col hats from fifty-four per cent. Cheap hats. Won t you h Ip us?" “No, sir; the Republican platform does not -says unyt ing about, cheap hats. It does advocate taking tax from whisky, and 1 stand by t e platform.? "The worsted goods for my family is taxed 68 per cent. He p me pull that down to 40 per ■cent., will you not?” "No, sir; let your worsted goods go to grass! Whisky is more than a dollar a j.alien. 1 want to take the niuety-cent-gallon tax oft' of it.” “Now, my friend, the Mills bill proposes to take eleven and one-half millions tax oft sugar; won’t you help pass it?" “No, fcr it don't propose to cheapen whisky one cent.” “It makes salt free. Won’t you f.vorttat?” “Is salt whisky? Salt ain't in our platform.” “It makes the tin, of which our tin stove vessels, and cans, and roofs are made, free; won't you give us that?" “Tin is not in the platform ; whisky is.” “It makes lumber for our houses to keep us warm, free. Won’t you favor that?” “No. I want to legislate to warm the inner man, not toe outer one. Give us free whisky. ” When these questions are answered, let me read as a summing up to the gentleman what was said by an old farmer friend of mine in lowa. He had evidently been perusing Sidney Smith on taxation: “I never wore any clothes that were not increased in price by this policy of making an almshouse of every possible factory. I used to rise on Sunday morning from my humble cot in a log farm house, throwing oft the bedclothes taxed 40 to 100 per cent., and donning my clothing taxed 35 to 100 per cent., eat my taxed breakfast from dishes taxed 45 per cent, on a table cloth taxed 40 per cent., and when the Sabbath bell, taxed 35 pel- cent., sounded its inviting notes, I took my Bible, taxed 25 per cent., and went to the church built of lumber taxed 20 per cent., and there, in a Sunday-school song book taxed 25 per cent, (and all these taxes paid to the obj' cts of my charity, not to the government), I read: “Far out upon the prairie How many children dwell Who never re id the Bible Nor hear the Sabbath bell!” [Great laughter and applause. 1 What is the relief my farmer friend receives from you and your platform ? “Free whisky.” Does this give comfort to his family, his purse or his soul ? Now, you gentlemen want to go among the men, womsn and children of this country and say: "We will not take the tax oft of cheap clothing, cheap lumber, cheap food, but we will take the tax oft whisky, to make it cheap and common, and more hurtful to soul and body.” Is not that an inspiring issue for a party of moral elevation ? O, gentlemen, it is the eld, old story. You gentlemen must have often heard it sung: “O, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive."

“PLAYING TO THE GALLERY.”

•The Ridiculous Attitude of the Republican Senate on the Fisheries Question. [From the Chicago News, independent.] The Republican Senators, the journals of the party, and its big and little henchmen, formerly so belligerent on the fishery question, now that the President has sent in a message to Congress which is simply the logical sequence of all that the Senate had up to that point said and done on the contention, sing exceedingly small. It is, in fact, at this particular moment, the piping time of peace with one and all of them. At the bi me time they take occasion to denounce the President for “playing to the gallery,” as one or two of them express it, at such a critical juncture as this, when so many material interests are involved. The cool impudence of such a charge as this, after all the bellicose swash which for months past has disgraced our upper legislative body, is positively refreshing. Take, f r instance, as "a specimen brick,” a proposition from that ancient representative of the staid old Bay State commonwealth, Senator Hoar. • At a time when the British Government was in the very act of making an earnest attempt to settle this unfortunate fishery dispute, Senator Hoar introduced a resolution which was duly referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee. By this motion the President is requested to open negotiations “with a view to the settlement of all differences between her Majesty’s Government and the United States the Dominion of Canada to be represented, its concurrence being indispensable to the object sought, which is “the annexation to the United States of the whole or any portion of Canadathe political union is to be “in accord with the Federal system and Constitution of the United States;” no consideration for this wrestling of one of the colonies of the empire

therefrom is defined, except it be a vague flourish on the subject of other possible ireadies for “the future peace, happiness, security, and general welfare of her Majesty s dem Inions and of the United States.” Yet ft is in the face of such a proposal as this, by a leading Republican Senator, tout .he Preaident is charged with “playing t> the gallery" w hen he merely proposes, after the failure of all other m ans, to carry out the policy of th i Senatorial majority.

NO SNEER INTENDED.

How the Republican Organs Speak of the Working Classes. [From the New York Herald.) Cne cf our R< publican contemporaries in a leading edit irial referred to the great Democrati,- party in the following way recently: “ Ihe worst elements in the country hope to elect Pr 'ident Cie\eland for another term by the aid of an element which thinks itself the let No sn> er is intended.” Th) I), mocra i partv, as is well known, represents \ery Inrgel/ the m n who gatti eir liv nr by he tw at o. the r i r >ws. Ihty are all dumped togeih ir. howev.r, in one pile as worth--1 ss lUbbish, and, w h a supercilious shrug of the shoulders, s.igma zed as “the worst elen eats in th s country.” A fair pa aphrase of the a’>ove siatemen;. there cm, would le d tomethiug like this: We. the Republicans are Ih>ge t’e n< nos this county, aid the Government should be rnu in oar fax or and for oar prot» <t on ; you Democrats am the fellows in shirt slee e i—the gmasy mechanics, with ytur petty Jan r ergamza ions i n I your pes ering demand f< r higher wages and your horrible strike); you cm the grubl era of the soil—mere ploughshare patriot s— who have get to be put down aud kept down. Well it is very handsome in the Republican organs to come out in this candid way and say just what they thin . If they have really reached the conclusion that the common- people arc no good; that the time has arrived in the history of this co ntry when the fundamental belief that “all men are born free and equal” may be successfully denied—is an insult to the cultured and wealthy class—why, that is an extremely interesting fact, and we shall regard the reception of the new doctrine with considerable curiosity, but, we confess, without a particle of fear as to the result. The Republic in platform illustrates thia novel phase of politic). It announces a determination to lift th) tariff still higher rather than to lower L. That, of course, would make the cost of living more expensive. You must pay more for the necessaries of life and manage to get along wittout any of its comforts. Tpe large de tiers are to be protect d. The business of the country is to be placed in the hands of the few, while small dealers who have made a fair profit, scrape! tog;ther a few thousands, moved into a better bouse, bought a piano for their dau;hte s, sent their boys to college, must I ive way, get out, go into bankruptcy or back into the rank; of the day laborer, where they belorg Still, when they sell their furniture and remove to the tenement, Ihey are to understand distinctly that “no sneer is rntenled.’’ r lhis is to be a monopolists’ government, and as they are not monopolists but only poor folk they must accept 1 heir fate with tho same cheerful faith in provi lenc r with which the “trusts" look over their cozy ban c account and thank the Lord and the Republican party that they are not as other men are. The Democratic platform is in strong contrast with all this. It is the platform of the common people, who are rated by our contemporary as "the worst elements in this country,” though “no sneer is intended. ” It demands an immediate reduction of the taxes, because the Government is already rich enough, and, for .hat matter, the poorer you keep it the better. It proposes a larger market for American products, because that will give a new impulse to business and steady employment to the working classes. It be ieves in money and wants every man to have some. It does not believe in a poor multitude and a rich few-, but in a fair distribution of changes, so that everybody who has the ability may get his share. Ti e people will make their choice between these two platforms in November. “No sneer is intended.”

Things to Think Of.

“Whenever I see a cheap coat, I think it involves a cheap man under the coat.” — Benjamin Harri-on. “Trusts are private affairs with which neither President Cleveland nor any private citizen has any right to interfere.” — James G. Blain’,. “We favor the entire repeal of the internal taxes (on whisky and tobacool rather than the surrender of any part of our protective system.” —Chicago platjcrm. “The platform is in entire harmony with my views.”—Ben Hamison. “Ihey (foreign-born Democratic voters) should go back to the free-trade-ridden, pope-ridden countries where they belong. ” — Parson Car rant. “Being an anti-Romanist, I am a Republican. ” —Bishop Vincent. “For Vice President we -want some fellow who could reach the conservative forces of the East and get contributions »from the manufacturers and Wall street. "—John J. Ingalls. “In common with most of the Republican Senators, I voted against the restriction of Chinese emigration.”— Ben Harrison. “If I had my way about it, I would put the manufacturers of Pennsylvan a, who are more hignly protected than anybody else, and who make large fortunes every year, under the fire and fry the fat out of them.”— Senator Morrill. Sherman, Allison, Harrison, etc., have records that would be awkward on the tariff, the currency, the Chinese question, etc.—John J. Ingalls. “If we can only punk it down the workingmen’s throats that free trade means less work and letc wages, we will bury this man Cleveland.”— Wood Pulp Miller.

How the Wool Tariff Works.

The manufacturer may be making a large profit—to which, by the way, every man who carpets his floor must make an involuntary contribution—but the laboring classes are protected to death or to the point of starvation. It is one of those cases in which everybody gets something, the boss a million and his employes a stale crust. This state of things may possibly be satisfactory to the capitalist, but whether the workingmen will be content with their share remains to be seen. Only one mill in Ken-ington is running on full time. The laborers there are lucky. One-third of the other mills are running on three-quarters time. The lowest possible wages and four days and a half of work out of seven. What does the wife do? She works at home, trying to make both ends meet. And the children? They work, t o, when they can get anything to do, for the merest pittance. Then two-thirds of the mills run on half time and less. Small wages and half time I And yet to hear the Republican leaders talk you would think that protection enables every man to “end his boys to college or set them up in business, with prosperity and plenty in every direction. On the other hand, it contracts the market, destroys competition with other nations, helps the few and grinds the many to powder.— Netv York Herald.

Wages Per Week.

Workingmen, cut this table out, paste it in your hats, and when a mouthing protectionist asserts that protection makes wages higher, just show it to him and ask him why wages are nearly twice as high in free-trade England as they are In high-tariff Germany: WEEKLY WAGES IN ENGLAND AND GERMANY. Free-trade High-tariff England. Germany. Bricklayerss7.s4 $4.21 Masons 7.68 4.07 Plasterers 6.80 4.43 Carpenters 7.26 4.11 Blacksmiths 7.37 4.00 Cabinetmakers 7.(W 4.25 Cigarmakers6.W 3.58 Coopers 7.50 3.07 Laborers 4.80 3.11 Saddle and harness makers.... 6.63 3.53 Tinsmiths 6.56 3.45 The “Henry of Navarre” of the Republican party says : “I say here that the wages of the American laborer cannot be reduced except with the consent and votes of the American laborer himselt!” This is a piece of important news. The American laborer will be more surprised than any one else when he reads it. According to Mr. Blaine, whenever there is a reduction of wages for the benefit of some rich monopolist it is done to oblige the American laborers. Either this is so or else Mr. Blaine is indulging in a very reckless assertion. However, he is not a stranger to this kind of campaigning.—Detroit Free Brest.

TALK IN THE SENATE.

The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill Made the Pretext for Several Political Speeches. AllLsou aud Hale Criticise the President and Are Answered by Blackburn and Beck. [Washingion special.] '1 ho Senate took up the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill on Tuesday, and was addressed at considerable leng h by Mr. Allison in explanation of it and in a general defense of the action o the .‘-eniite Appropriate T Committee and the Senate itself as contrasts with that of the House. He criticised the President s veto of the bill for a public building at Sioux City. He then proceeded to analyze the sundry civil appropriation bill, nearly every item of which, he said, was inserted at the sol citation of a Cabinet officer. A general review of the situation regarding all the other appropriation bills followed, the Senate additions to each being explained and defended us necessary for the propar conduct of the Government. Among other matters Mr. Allison referred to th • p nsion appiopriation bill, which the Senate had increased bv tf'.tlt’,- Oj because thi pension bu eau ha I estim trd i rat that amoun: wo dd be nec ssarytocarv out the House jrivlsion that widows of »olci?rs should draw pens ous from the date of the.r husbuds de ith, not from the date < f the applloatio i. Asti the river and harbo.-bill, he explained how ths lid of thia se .rio-r is the fecoad bill th it has passel in fo-aryeais, 4r. Bident Cleveland hixiig v.totd u river aud harbor bi 1 approj ri iting $14,<k)0,OCO. The Seer tary of War had only estimated for $10,000,300, but had told that the chief of engineers reported that 840,000,(03 could be spent economically on these great national works. If there bad been a river .and harbor bill passed last year it would have covered some $12,000,0'30, and the river an<>! harbor bill of this year, instead of being $22,000,003, would, have been only $10,ooo,GO) or $12,000,000. Not only that, but the deficiency bills passed and to be passed at this session for the expenditures of the last fiscal year amounted to about slß,'X>o,ooo. That made a total of $30,000,000 that had been forced into the appropriation bills of this session. The total appropriations for ths current fiscal year, not including what are called the "permanent appropriations,” would amount to $305,000,0v0, but including the permanent appropriations they would amount to $420,010,000, und the estimated revenue would be $440,030,003, or only $20,000,000 more than the ex]»enditures. Mr. Allison also furnished a table to show that the expenditures of the Government for the four years of Mr. administration exceed bv $95,003,000 the expenditures for the four years of Mr. Garfield's and Mr. Arthur’s administrations. He mentioned this fact in reply to Mr. Thurman's recent speeches characterizing the appropriations of Congress i s monstrous. Mr. Hale attacked the civil-service record of the administration, Which he said 1 ad prostituted its offices to the uses of party politics as no other administration had ever done. No previous administiation had ever so med its power to break down malcontents in its own party, and the speaker referred to testimony taken in Pennsylvania by tho committee of which he was Chairman to show that men were rewarded with patronage to pay them fcr deserting Mr. Randall. Air. Beck said that with the exception of two years we had a Democratic House of Representatives during all the time covered by the s.atements submitted by Senator Allison, which hud taken very great care that all administrations should be economical. What hud been spent since the Democratic administration c«mo into power had been well expended, an I the people knew what had been done with the money. Prior to the Democratic administrat e n hundreds of millions hod been spent and we git no.king. The Democrats had had no star routes, no post-traderships, und no venality, but w re spending annually $90,000,<30J for p.-nsions, and if the President hud not vetoed the de-pendent-pension bid it would have been slsU<000,000, perhaps $200,1W,000. 'lhe increase of this year’s appropriations over those of last year were accounted for, perhaps, entirely by the deficiency aud the river and harbor bills, the guns and armaments. Take the $20,030,000 ot surplus, add to it $12,000,000 from the river and harbor und $8,000,000 from the deficiencies chargeable to former years, and that made $40,0,0,003 of surplus. Teen the $50,003,0030f s nking fund might very well be added, and that would make $93,000,000 of surplus. We hud also bought $60,000,000 of bonds. Every bond bought diminished the interest paid from the permanent annual appropriations, which embraced the interest on the public debt. Mr. Beck complimented Senator Allison for his fairness and zeal us Chairman ot the Committee on Appropriations, declaring that all matters in that committee bad been determined upon their merits and not with regard to partisan considerat ons. Mr. Hale said that every particle of the tes:imony taken by the committee was before the world. It hod been taken with open doors, and the reporters were invited to be present He asked why the Senator from Kent ucky had not brought some member of the administration before the committee, us he was entitled to do, to explain disclosures that were brought forth. The witness designated as a tramp was a gentleman, to whosi respectability the Senators Irom Indiana would test ify if present. Mr. Blackburn said the whole case before the committee when in New York in reference to the sugar trust turned upon the testimony of three men. One of these was a deaf doctor, who could not hear tie perjury of the two other witnesses—two brothers. Both of these sugar thieves ought to have been born in the penitentiary instead of being put into high and responsible positions by the Republican administration. '1 here stood those two brothers swearing to the transfer of real estate —which affected the whole question—and the deaf fellow, who they swore bought it, swore point-blank that they lied from beginning to end. The same character of testimony was taken in Baltimore and Philadelphia.

A RAILROAD VICTORY IN IOWA.

Judge Fairali Makes Perpetual tiie Order Restraining the Commissioners. [lowa City (Iowa) special.] Judge Fairali, s tting as Chancellor, has filed his opinion in the case of the lowa railways against the lowa Railway Commissioners, being the test case of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway against the Commissioners to restrain them from putting into effect the schedule of rates prepared by the Commissioners in pursuance of the recent law of the lowa Legislature. The Judge gives an opinion of great length and sustains the injunction. He goes into the history of railway legislation and quote) from many authorities to sustain his position, hirst, he considers the question of the jurisdiction of;defendants and then whether the Stare is such accessory party as precludes assuming jurisdiction of the case. Th) point is decided that the court has jurisdiction under the rule which authorizes actions against officer) in their official capacity, whether to arrest or direct their official actions by injunction or ma idamus. Where such suits are authorized by law und the act to be done or omitted is purely ministerial, in the performance or omission of which the plaintiff has a legal interest, these may be maintained, even though the State be directly affected thereby. As to the jurisdiction of the court of the subject matter of the action, this is sustained on the ground that while the commissioners are authorized to exercise a discretion in fixing th) rates, yet when they fix such rates so low that the earnings are too low to enable the plaintiff to pay fixed charges and operating expenses, then their acts contravene the spirit of the statute, which requires ra es to be reasonable and just, and is in violation of the constitutional provisions whicn entitle the common carrier to a reward for his services. The court further holds that the title of authority of the Legislature is between rates which are compensatory and those which aro npt, and when not compensatory a court of equity has the authority to inquire into the matter. This is based on the right of such a court to control the action of public officers and to prevent them from acting in violation of law. The lowa Commissioners have appealed to the Supreme Court. John H. Derr and George Yocum, the Reading, Pa., stock brokers arrested for defrauding the Government by cashing forged money-orders, have been held for trial in $1,099 bail each.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A CHRONICLE OF HAPPENINGS IN HOOSIERDOM. Shocking Deaths, Terrible Accidents, Horrible Crimes, Proceedings of Courts, Secret Societies, and, in fact, Everything of Interest to the Hoosiers. John Beno, once a noted criminal, has been released from the northern penitentiary, having first been taken to Indianapolis aud examined as to his standing nnder the poor convict law, there being a fine standing against him. About three years ago he was .sent to the penitentiary named for counterfeiting, his sentence being for three years and three months. A portion of this time was eliminated for good conduct. He has quite a history, being a survivor of the famous Beno family, several of whom were lynched in the vicinity of Seymour shortly after the war. After that eventful period in the family history John Beno drifted West, and in a short time engaged in robbing a county treasury in southwestern Missouri. He escaped and went to Indianapolis, where he was Jiving in great style at the old Palmer House, with a woman whom he passed off as his wife, when he was arrested for his Missouri crime. Had he not lived so high his actions might not have aroused suspicion, but the arrest led to his conviction, and he was sentenced to eight years in the Missouri penitentiary, which he served. He is now about fifty years old. He is a stonemason by trade, but has not announced his future intentions.

Heavy Damages Demanded. A sensational action has been commenced in the Wabash Circuit Court by Miss Daisy Slack, a comely school teacher residing at La Gro. Miss Slack seeks to recover damages in the sum of SIO,OOO from William Orr. the richest farmer in the township, who, it is alleged in the complaint, vilely slandered the defendant, and accused her of being impure. The only provocation Miss Slack is known to have given Orr was to send home two of his childrn because they were not of school age. In his rage, On - called all the teachers at La Gro bad names, but Miss Slack received the full measure of abuse. Public sympathy is with Miss Slack, who has suffered greatly from the accusation. Shocking Death. While plowing a stubble field, on Stony Prairie, near Winamac, George Shelhart encountered a nest of bumblebees. He threw some dry grass over the nest and set it on fire. The fire spread, and in fighting it to save his fences Mr. Shelhart became overheated and fell to the ground, a blood vessel having probably burst. The only person in tho field with him was an adopted boy, about 7 years old, who ran to a neighbor and related the circumstance. When the neighbor reached the field the stubble fire had reached Mr. Shelhart and burned his body to a crisp. He was nearly 70 years old, and one of the oldest living resident of the county. Appointed by the Governor. Hon. AV. H. Bagan, of Greencastle, who was recently nominated by the Indiana Horticultural Society, of which he is the Secretary, as Trustee in Purdue University, has been appointed to the place by Gov. Gray aud received the commission. It is for a term of three years, beginning Aug. 24. Mr. Bagan has a national reputation in horticulture. He was at one time a member of the Legislature. In politics he was formerly a Republican and afterwards a Greenbacker. The Governor has also appointed John D. Emmert, of Boone County, as Prosecuting Attorney for the Twentieth Judicial District, to succeed Cassius Wyncoop, deceased. The Monument’s Superstructure. Owing to difficulty in obtaining stone, the Soldiers’ Monument Commissioners have abandoned the idea of doing any work upon the superstructure until next spring. The work on the foundation will be completed in about two weeks, and a little finishing will require about two weeks’ additional labor, after which the work will be relinquished for the winter. The Commissioners expect to be able to advertise for bids for the superstructure some time in November. The laying of the corner-stone will, of course, be delayed until work on the superstructure begins. Fatal Runaway Accident. Mr. Ab Mosure, a highly respected citizen of Bluffton, while driving home in his buggy met with an accident which resulted in his death. When about four squares from his residence he stopped to take in Mrs. E. B. McDowell, who was going out to his house, and the horse, becoming frightened at a parasol, dashed off down the street. In turning the next corner Mr. Mosure was thrown from the buggy, receiving internal injuries and a fractured skull. He was carried home in an unconscious condition, and so remained until he died. Well-Digger Seriously Hurt. While engaged at digging a well at tjie home of Ben Gifford, near Windfall, David Derlimple was seriously, and perhaps fatally, injured. The well was about twenty feet in depth, and Mr. Derlimple was at the bottom. He had filled the dirt-bucket, audit had reached the mouth of the well, w’hen the bucket became detached from the rope, and, in falling to the bottom, struck Mr.

Derlimple, inflicting serious injuries. He was taken out in an almost unconscious condition, and will not recover. Child Horribly Burned. A 3-year-old child of Merchant Johnson met with a terrible accident at Keystone. It was playing by the saw-mill, and in some way ran through a pile of hot ashes and smoking embers taken from underneath the boilers. It was rescued immediately, but was horribly burned. The soles of its feet dropped off as they were carrying the child to the house, aud its legs and hands are literally roasted. The child’s recovery is doubtful.

Minor State Items. —Calvin Mitchell, colored, was run over by a J., M& I. train. His mangled remains were found one mile south of Seymour. He had been employed at the Seymour Republican office. —While engagedin paintingthe house of F. A. Gleason, at Tipton, Al Snyder fell from the scaffold to the ground, a distance of fifteen feet, receiving serious injuries. He alighted on his head and shoulders, aud it is thought has been injured internally. —Patents have been granted to Ipdiana inventors as follows: George W. East, Heltonville, harvester guard renovator; Isaac N. Goodnight, Kempton, assignor of one-half to J. T., Linebuck, Frankfort, fire extinguisher; John M. Perkins, South Bend, vehicle seat; David J. Terrill, Kokomo, vaginal syringe; Charles Van Wormer, Auburn, mole and gopher trap; Joachim Wilke, Garrett, truss. —Amand Yobst, of Fort Wayne, called on his daughter there, and aftera pleasant chat went into another room and shot himself, expiring instantly. No cause is ascribed except insanity. —The survivors of the old brigade of the Eighth and Eighteenth Indiana Regiments and the First Indiana Battery will hold their thirteenth annual reunion at the Court House in New Castle, October 19 next. —Frank and Elam Hall, brothers, at Nashville, attacked Jacob Pavey, aged (55, but a powerful man. Pavey seized an ax aud split Frank’s skull open, killing him instantly, and also struck Elam,, mortally wounding him. Pavey made his escape. —Mrs. Bigler, a well-known old lady of Wabash, has just received word that an nncle named Brandenburg had died in Germany, leaving a fortune valued at $1,909,000 to hei*self and a few other heirs, all living in the United States. The bulk of the property is in Baltimore, Md., consisting of a number of fine business blocks. The windfall is a complete surprise to Mrs. Bigler, who will undoubtedly come into possession of her share of the vast estate.

—The strange request of Mrs. O. Taylor, late of Pern, that when dead her hands, feet, and heart be taken from her body and sent to France for burial, was complied with. The remaining portion was interred at Somerset. —Homer Lenox, of Union County, aged about twenty-six years, was found dead in his room at Branham's resturant. He bad left a note directed to his mother, indicating that he had taken morphine with suicidal intent. An unfortunate marriage is the supposed cause. —George Floyd fell from a telephone pole at Terre Haute, and was seriously injured. —Thomas Leech, a switchman in the Jeffersonville, Madison, and Indianapolis Railroad yards, at Jeffersonville, was killed under peculiar circumstances. His foot caught in a frog, and he signaled an approaching locomotive to stop. The engineer reversed his engine, but too late, and the man was cut in two.

—The directors of the Rush County Agricultural Society have concluded to withdraw their membership from the American Trotting Association, and the fair, which begins September 11, will be conducted under rules of their own adoption. —The sixteenth natural-gas well was drilled in at Marion, producing a great gusher of 10,000,000 feet capacity. A big well was also drilled in at Point Isabel, Grant County. —Marita Matter, concert soloist and teacher, of New York, has been engaged to fill the position of professor of voice culture, opera and oratorio singing in the School of Music, DePauw University. —I. H. Huckstep, of Jefferson Township, Boone County, raised 1,000 pounds of potatoes from 190 hills of Early Rose; some hills weighed a little over nine pounds. These potatoes were raised in an old stockyard, and were planted on May 1. —Two fanners of Cass Township, Ohio County, named David Minx and E. J. Bright, who had been in partnership for some time, quarreled concerning a business settlement. Bright drew a revolver and shot Minx through the body. Minx is mortally wounded, but Bright has not yet been arrested. —ln the running race at the fair grounds, at Hartford City, William Hooker one of the jockeys, was run into by another jockey and hurled from his saddle, sustaining a broken arm and seriously internal injuries. Hooker resides at Montpelier. Jefferson Jones, a farmer, was also kicked in the stomach, by a horse and seriously hurt. —Albert Greenstreet, of. Spiceland, died of heart disease, aged 72. He wag probably the first white child born in., that township.