Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1888 — Page 7

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A CHRONIUDE OF HAPPENINGS IN HOOSIERDOM. ■Shocking Deaths, Terrible Accidents, Horrible Crimes, Proceedings of Courts, Secret Societies, and, in fact, Everything of Interest to the Hoosiers Pensions have been granted the fol-lowing-named Indianians:, Original invalid —J. Cobb, Greensburg; E. H. Dunn, Shelbyville; L. S. Bass, Shelbyville; J. Blue, Battle-ground; W. H. H. Gilbert, "Whitehall; J. P. Meyers, (deceased), Bochester; H. Davis, Greensburg; E. D. McGee, Eoann; A. E. Bobbins, Central; J. Fox, Columbia City; J. B. Early, Kossuth; E. Arnold, Montpelier; A. Guire, Draper; H. Dill, Goshen; J. Johnson, Huron; C. Keck, Vincennes; J. Williams, Ireland; I. Love, Marion; J. Pinkston, Fayetteville; T. W. Kominger, Hartsville; E. K. Douglass, Crawfordsville; J. L. Laughrev, Monroe; A. Keen, Sullivan; J. M. Stockdale, Sycamore; F. F. Domke, Medaryville; H. Easterday, Bochester; G. W. Hardwick, Lafayette; J. Bruuesholz, Brownstown; A. Izor, Indianapolis; L. Hamilton, Waynesville; S. Kissinger, Churubusco; J. H. Bay, Hellott; J. H. Fulk. Worthington; J. Brown, : North Judson; B. A. Hullis, Fort Bitner; T. J. Deßolt. St. Paul. J. Smith, Jasper; U. Mock, Eidgeville; W. H. H. Schrock (deceased), Decatur; H. C. Wright, Mitchell; S. Butherford, Idaville; G. W. McCulley, Georgetown; C. Fromer, Greensburg; S. A. Parrish, Kniglitsville; D. Miller, Pennville; W. C. Greenstowu; B. F. Slater, Harrell; W. P. Butts (deceased), Muddy Fork. Increase—William S. Kaler, Andersonville; Bobert H. Little, Elmdale; Bobert McMullen, Manchester; George Swank, Jordan; William H. H. Ward, Logans.sport. Widows, etc.—Amanda, widow of Thomas Self, Hillham; Nettie H., widow of William H. Schrock, Decatur; Lucinda, mother of Henry Thom, Dupont; Laura 1., widow of John Curry, Mauckport; Elizabeth, widow of Emery E. Baper, Indionapolis; Sarah J. Compton, former widow of William P. Bugan, Washington. Crushed by a Dog. While helping to loadi a heavy log, in the woods three' miles east of Middle’town, Samuel Myers met with an accident from the effects of which he died. While the team was drawing the log up on the wagon, Myers was walking behind it, “chocking.” Suddenly the chain broke, and the log rolled back, knocked him down, find passed entirely over his body, stopping on his head. His body was terribly crushed, several ribs were broken, and he was otherwise injured internally. He was carried to his home and medical aid summoned. He suffered the most intense pain, when death relieved him. He was an industrious and respectable citizen, and leaves a wife and several children. , Doses by Fire. Kempton, eighfmiles west of' Tipton, was visited by a serious tire and almost the entire business part of the town w r as destroyed. E. Burkhart’s general store was burned, causing a loss of $ ,800; no insurance. John Clark, saloon and building, loss, $800; gas company office, $500; A. Gossard, meat market, $500; Johnßeese, postoffic.e and general store, $7,000; S. Mozingo, drug store, S4OO. A barber-shop, saloon and blacksmith shop were also burned, aggregating a loss of SBOO. There was no insurance on any of the buildings or stock. The fire is supposed to have been the work of incendiaries who first robbed the buildings and then applied the torch. A Wife, Deserted by Her Husband, Ends Her Existence with Morphine. Mrs. Josephine Dalby, of Fairmount, was found in a dying condition. When discovered she lay on the floor with nothing over or under her. She was the wife of Clark Dalby, a worthless character, who left her and went to Indianapolis. She and her children were reduced to the verge of starvation. She was a handsome woman of thirty-one. She leaves five children, whose ages range from one to thirteen years. The Coroner held an inquest and returned a verdict to the effect that death resulted from a dose of morphine taken with suicidal intent. Assaulted by Her Fallier-iu-Daw. Benjamin C. Ice, resididg ten miles south of Marion, was arrested on the charge of assault and battery with intent to murder his daughter-in-law, Lavina C. Ice. The accused and his alleged victim are both of the highest standing. It appears that there was a dispute over the measuring of some land, and Ice becoming enraged, attacked his relative with a club, and would have beaten her to death but for interference. As it she was painfully injured. In addition to a criminal prosecution, civil suit wa's filed this morning, demanding $5,000 of Ice for the injuries inflicted oh his daughter-in-law. *■. Afraid of “White Caps.” James Huddleston, of Washington County, went to Indianapolis with an afflicted daughter, who was placed in one of the asylhms. lie applied to’the: police station, vfafiting to know if. he was safe from molestation by “White. Caps” if he iemained in the anA he reported at the hotel to-day that" three men were following him tlgA intention of killing him. He acts $4 fj| he recently had beien subjected td a’tlrw*

rible fright, and his friends will be communicated with. Datnag-ex Demanded for Slander. A tenement house on the farm of John Ford, a wealthy farmer who lives southwest of Columbus several miles, was destroyed by fire. It was supposed to have been the work of incendiary, and Ford is alleged to have openly accused Noah Wilson, a young man of the neighborhood, of committing the arson. Wilson has brought suit against Ford for SI,OOO damages for the slander of his character. Deatli from Injuries Received. Frederick Carr, a well-known and prominent painter at Jeffersonville, while decorating the new residence of Thomas O’Donell, fell from the second story of the building and sustained a concussion of the spine. He was picked up and carried to the office of Dr. Watkins, near by, and was unable to budge an inch from the time he was taken there until he died. Young Man Fatally Shot. Lafayette Shade, a farmer living two miles north of Hillsboro, shot and fatally wounded a young man named John McAlister. The tragedy was the result of a long-standing family feud. Shade was arraigned before Esquire Miller, who, after hearing the evidence of the witnesses to the affair, bound him over to court in the sum of $4,000. Shot by a Drunken Tramp. W. W. Casto, while crossing the river bridge at Terre Haute was accosted by two drunken men and a drunken woman, trying to pick a quarrel, which resulted in one of the drunken men shooting Mr. Casto twice, seriously but not fatally wouuding him. The man who did the shooting fled across the river. A party is in pursuit. Attempted Suicide. Lon Smith, son of JohnL. Smith, and about twenty years old, attempted suicide by hanging himself at his father’s home at Greensburg. It is said that a disagreement with some other member of the family caused despondency and he attempted his life, but was discovered. He may recover, although there is room for doubt. Murder Caused by Politics. Two and a quarter miles northeast of Bartlettsville* James McPike, aged 48, met William M. Maitin, aged GO, and beat him so badly that he died from the effects. The cause was politics. Minor State Items. —Extensive arrangements are being made for the reception of Hon. James G. Blaine in this State. While here be will be the guest of Gen. Harrison, and his first speech will be at Goshen, Oct. 10. —Dr. James Eitchey of Bensselaer, is dead. Dr. Bitchey practiced many years in Franklin, and was prominent in the politics of the State in its early history. He made the first report favorable to the establishment of a - hospital for the ininsane while he was a member of the Legislature. —The saw-mill of Jacob Landis at Franklin, was almost destroyed by the explosion of the boiler in the enginehouse. The engine-house was completely wrecked, and the engineer, John Cheatam, instantly killed. —Wallace.Britton, a prominent citizen at Crawfordsville, died at the age of 88 years. —A monster gas well, with a capacity estimated at nine million feet daily, was drilled in at Sweetser, nine miles west of Marion. This makes twenty-five natural-gas wells drilled in Grant County without a failure. —Bishop Dwenger, of the diocese of Fort Wayne, left to visit Borne. In taking leave of the clergy of the.diocese at the episcopal residence he was presented with a purse of $1,500, a tribute from the priests. The presentation speech was made by Father Brammer, pastor of the Cathedral, and the Bishop made a feeling response. He will be abroad until Christmas. —The eleventh annual reunion of the Seventh Begiment Association will be held in Greensburg on Thursday, Oct. 11. —rJames Dukes, of Darlington, took arsenic with suicidal intent. A doctor was secured in time to save his life. —Charest, the rope-walker, while riding a bicycle on a tight rope at Hammond, lost his balance and fell thirtyfive feet to the ground. He was badly hurt. —Jesse Miller has commenced suit against the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Kailway Company, at Marion, demanding damages in the sum of $lO,000. The claim is based on the killing of Albert, the 4-year-old son of the plaintiff, by one of the freight trains of the defendant. The boy was asleep on the track when the engine cut him in twain. Nellie Carver, a most estimable young lady, formerly a resident of Martinsville, died at the home of her parents i.p Indianapolis, after a sickness of Seven, months, of consumption. She Was taken to Martinsville for burial. John Click, an aged widow re- | siding north of Peru, was most horribly burned, the body being a mere crisp. It iis supposed her dress caught fire from a J,ife J coal while smoking a pipe. Her , daughter was seriously burned in attempting to rescue her. I ,4£-Diad, Israel Baker, cf Elkhart, Ind., ngeill i 7 years, a pioneer and prominent %*-.sotdier,

AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

A NEWSPAPER MAN INTEUVIE WS THE PRESIDENT. Mr. Cleveland's Frank Talk—His Views of Men ami Things—His Impressions of the West—Personal Attacks, Pension Views, Etc. [From the Chicago Herald.] My appointment with the President was for 2 o’clock, and at that hour I entered the wait-ing-rocm. A Cabinet officer was with him at the time, and it was not until a half hoar later that I was requested to enter. The Presidem's office is the oval room known as the library, immediately over the “Blue Parlor,” and which was first occupied as a private office by President Arthur. He was seated at his aesk, with pilos of pa era and documents ou e ich side of him, all awaitina his examination. He received me cordially, asked me to be seated, and at once entered into general conversation. The first impression one receives in meeting the President is of his downright sincerity and perfect truthfulness. You feel that what he says he means, because he believes it to be true. This puts you at once at ease, for you see that here is a man who is not laying conversational pitfalls for you, who is not holding hack his own thought in order to extract yours, or talking mere idle words that mean nothing. Every line in his face shows tensoity and honesty, and for a public man he exhibits in a notevvortby degree the Scriptural virtue of Binglemindedness. His mind moves with alertness, and he expresses himself clearly, with no hesitation as to the choice of his words, showing that he thinks clearly, and knows what he is talking about. Another impression ho leaves upon you is that when once he has t aken up a position by honest processes of thought he is almost immovably fixed there. His face shows a mind equal to arduous things, and there has beeu no more arduous work performed by living man than that of the President as ne stood four square against his party when, after the 4th of March three years ago, they marched gayly up to the capital in search of offices. Civil-service reform to the parcy meant turning the Republicans out, but it did not mean that to Mr. Cleveland, who had the laws to en orce. Platforms are usually platitudes, and are made "to keep the word of promise to the ear but to break it to the nope.” But not ho did the President read the Democratic platform of 1884. He saw in it sacred promises, and he held the politicians to them. There is not one man in lu,OJO in the United States in either party who could have stood up so sturdily and so honestly against the demands of his own party as did the President. If he should be defeated at the coming election the clock of civil-service reform would be stopped for a century, But while I am drawing these deductions from Mr. Cleveland's appearance and the impression he makes upon me, he has been talking after a very pleasant fashion. “My Western trip will always remain a very delightful memory to me. I was more than pleased. I was charmed with the Western people. Their openness, frankness, good nature, independence and thorough manhoed showed me that they belonged to the very highest typo of Americans. The courtesy and consideration shown the 1 residential party was especially gratifying; not because it wus .a personal compliment, but booause it showed respect for the greatest office in the nat ion. "The coni palace at Sioux City was a wonderful piece of work. I admired {hat very much, md was glad I stopped there, though we had Hot intended. But per raps what struck me the most was the perfection of our vast railroad system. It is somothiug for Americans to be proud of. We traveled that immeuse circuit of some 5,000 miles, over twenty-one different railroads, without an accident and wit _ out an interruption or delay. ” “People are sometimes curious to know, Mr. President, how you regard these Congressional assaults made on you personally?” “In regard to personal assaults made upon me by my political opponents, I am free to say I care little for them. I knew they are not true, and I believe they are meant to be understood—by myself, at least—in a Pickwickian sense. I confess that the speeches of some of the Senators surprise me, for 1 look upon the Senate of the United States as the most dignified body in tho world, and certainly there have been speeches delivered there whieh do not comport with that dignity. But if they can stand it I can. I am a little amused, though, sometimes that these very Republican Senators who are the most bitter against me have no hesitation in asking very particular favors at my hands.” “Your pension vetoes have been criticised with some asperity ?” ■ x uenevo in a codification of the pension laws and a complete readjustment of their inequalities. They absolutely need it, and if Congressmen would address themselves to that they would do the soldiers far more good than in the passage of private pansion bills. The-e operate, as a general thing, unfairly and unequally. That is to say some person with Congressional influence succeeds in getting a pension, when there are many others in precisely the same case who fail because they have no such influence. Now there should be a general law under which'all could come in, whether they had influence or not. I have signed more pension bills than all my predecessors put together; and those I have vetoed were bills that never should have boeu passed. I am willing to stand before the people on the reasons I have given for my vetoes. It seems like a small matter to deprive some poor person of #l2 a month from the public treasury, but why should any person not justly entitled to it have #l2 or 12 cents out of the people’s money? These are matters of princiifle, not of generosity. But some of my vetoes have been in the interest of the applicant Take, for instance, that case of Mrs. Smith. I vetoed tho bill because her case was pending in the Pension Bureau. and if it passed there she would be entitled to a larger sum of money than she would get by the bill. 1 see by a Waila Walla newspaper that Mrs. 'Smith’s claim has passed the Pension Bureau after I had ‘brutally’ vetoed it. This is true, and that is the very ground upon which I did veto it. If I had not. ‘brutally’ vetoed it Mrs. Smith would have gotten some .«3JO or #4OJ less than she will get now, because her payment would have commenced with the passage of the bill, whereas now it commences from the time her claim was hied in the bureau.” “The opposition seem to be raking up a goed many stories about you.” “I do not intend to keep pace with the campaign lies manufactured out of whole clolh. and I only wonder at the ingenuity that devises them. “It was said a short time ago that I had never appointed a Catholic priest as chaplain in the army or navy. Now, the fact is thero have never been but three Catholic priests appointed as chaplains in the United States- service, aud 1 appointed two of them. “And that story about my saving I believed in free trade as I believed in the Protestant religion. I cannot imagine where people pick up such absurd statements. Iu the first place I don’t believe in free trade at all, and in the next place free trade and protection are mere matters of governmental policy. I don’t look upon religion as a matter of policy. That is something of very much higher moment than anything political. But I never said and never could say anything that might be even distorted into such an expression.” “How about that substitute, Mr. President?" “Y’es, it is true that I hired a substitute during the war. lam under the impression that some very eminent Republicans did the same thing. I was drafted at a time when it was impossible for me to go. Two of my brothers were already in the service, aud if it had beeu possible for me to have gone in justice to our family, I would have gone voluntarily. A friend brought me the substitute, who was a Norwegian sailor, just paid off from his ship, and who was desirous of going into the army and in king the most he could out of it. He was a splendidlooking fellow, and I remember the provost marshal complimented mo on bringing in so fine a recruit. He enlisted and served through the war, and, so far as I know, was a good soldier. After the war he returned to Buffalo and called to see me. He was i>cor, and 1 gave him #5. He was afterward admitted to the Soldiers’ Home, a' Bath, N. Y., and ho died there, as many other soldiers did. He never was in a poorhonse, so far as I know, and he certainly did not die in one.”

Campaign Lies.

[Now York telegram.] In spite of the absolute proof which has been brought to the knowledge of the National Republican Committee that the extracts praising the President for his “free-trade acts” purporting to have been taken from various English papers Ore forgeries, Senator Quay and his associates still continue to send them out with all the weight of their sanction as genuine editorial ex-

pressions. One of the most recent of thes documents 1s < ntitled ‘A Question of Wages an Bread.” of which 1.500.U0J have been issued Among other thing-s, it contains excerpts frou. th i Republican uational platforms of 1878. 1880, and 1881, disingenuously made so as to conceal the fact that each of the platforms recognized the propriety, if not the necessity, of readjusting the tariff on a lower scale of duties. By these extracts an attempt is made to cause the reader t ■ believe that the Republican platforms of 1876, 1880, and 1884 were as rigid for high protection and as unalterably opposed to changiug one jot or tittle of the tariff as is the platform of 1888. The Democratic platform of 1881 is also garbled.

DON DICKINSON TALKS.

RINGING WORDS FOR TARIFF REFORM AND TAX REDACTION. The Postnias'er General Says It's an Issue Between New England Monopoly and the Great West aud He’s with the Datter — Now England Disloyalty. The Washington correspondent of the Chioago Herald recently called on Don M. Dickinson, the Postmaster General, at his privato office, and found him willing to talk on the political issues of the day. The correspondent asked him what he thought the President would do with the Chinese exclusion hill, which had been passed with such hot haste by Congreßs. , "No one,” said Mr. Dickinson, “has any right to speak for the President. He is a mail who makes up his own mind and pursues his auty fearlessly. His only thought is for the honor and diguity of the country. That bill is not an administration measure, and the President will treat it precisely as he does every subject that comes before him. Ever since bis inauguration he nas done all in his power to give real protection to American labor by endeavoring to exclude from the country that cheap labor which competes with it. That is the only way American labor can be protected. Tne President originated tho negotiations of this Chinese treaty by which the question of Chinese immigration was settled. It amply protected the laboring men from further competition with the Chinese, and all the Senate had to do was to ratify it, aud it would have gone at once Into etfeoi. Instead of that, the majority talked on some Insigniflcant amendments, which male it necessary to send the treaty bock to China for ratification of the amendments. Hence this long delay, with the further prospects of serious complications with the Chinese Government.” “What do you think of the action of certain Republican Senators in regard to the retaliation message and bill?” “I think the Republican Senators ore animated by one object only, and that is, as one of them expressed it, to put the President ‘in a holo.' They wish to embarrass the administration, if they can, without respect to the interests of the country. The retaliation law of 1887 was a law that did not retaliate. It would have injured the West far more than it would have injured Canada. Thero would have be n an embargo laid ou all our great lakes aud Western water frontier, and our valuable commercial relations with i anada and the British possessions would have been stopped, to the immense detriment of the West. What would have happened to New England? Nothing. She would have got rich. Her railroads would get an increased carrying trade, and among other roads the Vermont Central, of which Senator Edmunds knows a good deal, would have paid double dividends. Blaine has said that Portland is nothing but a Canadian port, and that railroads leading thence into Canada would have doue an immense business if the President had simply stopped tho traffic of Canadian vessels with this country by ordering a few seizures. But that is all the retaliation law of 1887 contemplated, and if lthad ever been put iu operation it would have immensely benefited New England at the expense of everyother part of tho country, und particularly of the West. “But what do they care? They have always grown rich off the rest of tho country. The West pays tribute aud tax to New England and gets nothing ih return for it. They don't buy a pound of Western produce. They buy neither our flour nor our provisions. Talk about the manufacturing States affording a ‘home market!’ They buy nothing from the West, but only sell their products to us. Tho South buys from us, and takes our flour and provisions. The surplus we sell to England at her prices. "New England controls and has control.od for years the legislation of this country, and has always protected her own selflsh interests at the expense of the remainder of too States. Twelve Senators represent in tho United States Senate a population not as great as the State of New York, and in extent of territory not as great as the State of Illinois. And they talk to us in the great West of the duty of patriotism, and how we must go in for a high protective tariff for the sake of the workingman aud to build up the country. They are glib with their appeals to our generosity and our .patriotism, and yet that political party that controls New England and has twelve Senators in the United S.ates Congress never drew a generous or a patr.oiio breath. This country was never engaged iu a foreign war that the old Federal and Wfiig parties did not oppose, and the present Republican party In inow England is tne lineal descendant of those parties. Tho first secession movement was started iu New England. In ihe war of 1012 every New England State refused to vote men and supplies In aid of tho Government, and when President Madison requested Gov. Strong, of Massachusetts, to Bind forward his quota of troops the Governor positively and insultingly declined. That is the record they have, aud it is notorious that if the war had continued another year they would have welcomed the British fleets to their port 4. They used to bum blue lights along the shore as signals for the British fleet, aud tney wore disloyal through and through. They held the Hanford convention, which was intended as a seep toward secession, and they did everything possible to embjirrass the General Government. They entertained in Boston that man McHenry, who was an emissary of England, and who came to promote dissensions between the States. "The same spirit arose in tho Mexican war, and the Whigs of New England wero opposed to that war and disloyal in all their actions aud measures. The Republicans of New England went Into the war for the Union, not from motives of patriotism, but because they thought they could make money aud injure the South. The State of Missouri sent more troops to the Union armies tuan all of New England, outside of Massachusetts. And yet tiny talk about patiiotism anl try to induce our Western farmers, from whom they never buy a pound of anything, to keep on voting riches into their pockets. They have the money, and have waxed fat and rich off the toil of the,West, and the Western fanners are growing poorer all the time. In 1880 the farming lands and products of the West, the farms, the horses, caiale, sheep, and products were not worth as much by millions of dollars as they were iu 1870, ten years before. Ten years of the highest protection this country has known has mode the Western farmer poorer than he ever was before. And yet he is asked to vote again for this enormous tariff taxation in order that the Eastern manufacturers may receive more tribute and grow still richer. It astonishes me, it dumfounds me, to think our people can be so blind. “The President sent in his retaliation message and asked for power to retaliate to some purpose if it became necessary, to retaliate iu u way that would inflict some injury on Canada with as little injury as possible to the whole people of this country. New England has discovered that if that line were pursued her interests might have to suffer, and now these New England (Senators are not so fierce for retaliation and not so bloodthirsty as they were a short time ago. The President believes in the whole country and in maintaining its dignity and honor, and these Senators only think of their own little narrow neck of land which they represent and of dollars and cents cnly. “The empire of this country belongs to the West, where there is a great, generous, and patriotic people. If our people choose they can throw off this tribute to New England that has been demanded from them so long. But they cannot do it so long as they support all the monstrous features of the present tariff. Low taxation and tariff reform will free the entire Western country, and bring about a time of prosperity such as we have never known before.” The Porftoflice Department, under Democratic administration is making a better showing than it has ever mode before. The deficiency of the deportment yi IBM was #7,001,0.10. This fiscal year it will not he o ver #2,000,000. In connection with this large difference we must bear in mind that 8,000 Kaye been established; also a parcel postal system to foreigu countries. In renewing the equipment of the postal service there has also been an outlay of #5,000,000. The business of the department has largely grown, but t.. ier Democratic supervision it costa lets to transact-it.

THE GREEN DIAMOND.

NEWS AND GOSSIP IN THE BASEBADD WORLD. Tlie Work of the Dengue Pitchers—- . Spalding's Australian Tour—A Demand by the Brotherhood of Ball Players— Miscellaneous Notes of the Game. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] John M. Ward, tho great short-stop of the New York Club, and President of the Brotherhood of Ball Playei's, while in I Pittsburg -last week, was shown a news- | paper article to the effect thnt the Broth- , erhood h:.d decided to make a fight ou the reserve rule, aud not to be bound by it [ auother season, and that Ward had been chosen as the player to make the test. Members of tho New York Club without exception laughed at it as absurd and characterized it as a “fairy story.” Ward, who, according to the article, is to sustaiu the burden of the attack, read it carefully, and, asking for paper aud pencil, wrote as follows: “The story is absolutely without foundation. If nuy such move were contemplated, certainly I should know of it. There has never been a season before, within my recollection, in whieh such perfect good faith has been maintained between clubs and players. Since the meeting of the League and Brotherhood last fall the best of feeling has prevailed all around. There are ouo or two minor i affairs that should yet bo adjusted, and doubtless will be without friction, but that there is any such move to be made as outlined is absolutely uutrue.” Dan Bronthei’s, w ho is Vice President of tho Brotherhood, and Hanlon, another leading light, denounce the sensation in fully as Btrong terms as did Ward. All say they are well satisfied with the reserve rule, aud waut it maintained when not abused. Ward says he expects to be reserved by Now York, and play there next seasou. In speaking of tho proposed Australian trip, President Spalding, of the Chicago Club, said the other day: “The American team is nearly complete, although there may be new additions. I have just signed John Healy, of tho Indianapolis Club, and Jamos Donnelly, of tho Washington team. So you Bee that all tho League toams are represented in the combination.” Spalding aud Anson will spend tho winter on tho Australian trip, but let no one suppose for a moment that the Chicago magnate’s interest in tho League or the Chicago Club will bo forgotten. Tim Murnau iu New England and an equally trusty man in tho Northwest have their instructions from headquarters; and lot it be understood that, while there will be no wholesale change in tho ranks of the team as now composed, it will carry a greater force of seasoned and unseivsoned but promising bat ery talent next year than any club in the League. The result of the work done by the League pitchers up to date is as follows: Won. Lost. I Won. Lost. Keefe 28 9|Shreve 8 18 1\ C0nway......20 8; Gleason 7 12 Clarkson 24 KslGruber 6 10 Kroo. 21 lljWidner 5 5 Welch 21 14; Madden 5 10 Bufflntou'. 21 12 D. Conway 4 1 Morris 19 ' liiißorchers 4 4 Galvin 17 18 Burdick 4 5 Howders...- 10 10 Rodbourn 4 11 Whitney 15 14 Ryan 3 2 O’Day 15 21 j Crane 3 4 Gotzeln 15 21IBeatin 3 4 Vun Haltren... .13 12-Dailey 2 6 M. Buldwin 12 13 Mains 1 0 Cfls-jy 12 14; George 1 0 Boyle 12 19 Knell 1 2 Handers 11 OlTener 0 1 Healy 11 18 ; Maul 0 1 Tltcomb 9 7 Hhaw 0 3 Staley 9 91 A few weeks ago Pfeffer, the great second baseman of the Chicago Club, stopped smoking, thinking it Would aid him in batting. His mother, who is all wrapped up in her son’s welfare, anxiously watched his record to see if he did better. She discovered that he was falling awav and getting farther down tho list every day, so she wrote him to again commence smoking and see if he couldn’t hit the ball. He received the letter last Friday night, and, acting on his mother’s advice, smoked three or four cigars before retiring. So far it has had the desired result, for he won the game Saturday by timely hitting and made a total of six with five times at bat in Monday’s game. “I see that Anson is claiming as original the idea of removing tho pitcher to the center of the diamond, so as to make batting better,” said Umpire Ferguson to an Eastern reporter. “Why, I was the first one to suggest it, and not only to suggest it, but to try it. It w r as in Chicago, and Bond was one of the pitchers. Both pitchers were hit very hard. lam satisfied that something like this will be tried next season.” The Clevelands have been shut out more times this season than any team in the Association. They have received ten coats of whitewash; Kansas City is next on the list with nine. Brooklyn has been shut out seven times, Cincinnati six, Louisville and Baltimore five each, St. Louis four, aud the Athletics are at the tail end of the list with only three. DIAMOND DUST. Dwyer will prove a valuable addition to the Chicagos. Detroit leads the League in club hatting and New York in club fielding. Dan Brouthers leads the Detroit team in batting and fielding. Anson Mill have some more SIO,OOO pitchers to sell next season. Dalrymple has been released from the Pittsburgs. President Young says there will be no change in the League rovt season. The present clubs will all rc...aiu in. The Ball-Players’ Brotherhood will make a strong fight at the fall League meetiug to do away with the reserve rule. Anson does not deserve ill-treatment at Chicago’s hands. The old man is the salvation of this city as a ball town. At least so thinks a Boston exchange. President Young, of the League, things the only possible method of increasing tpe batting without disturbing things too much is to move the pitcher back five feet. Keefe, of New York, has won the most games in the National League; King, of St. Louis, in the Association; Lovett, of Omaha, in the Western; and Sowders, of (JLima, in the Tri-State. Hoy, of the Washingtons, has been fortunate in stealing second base this season, but when he once makes the attempt and is thrown out it destroys all his ambition to make a second attempt in the sam» game.