Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — Page 3

EVILS OF THE TARIFF.

MASTERLY SPEECH BY MR. M’MILUS, OF TENNESSEE. Republicans Arraigned for Taxing Corn to Pay Bounties on Silk anil Sugar— Recklessness of the McKinley Measure — Republican Campaign Boodle. During the tariff debate in the Honse of Representatives, Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, delivered the followingjq>eech: However taxes are ra sed they are the money contrasted by the people to meet :hi ecpensea of the Government, and hence a burden to them. It would seem when tnere is a surplus flowing into the Treasury teere could he no diversity of opinion as to what should be done; that when the people are being laved beyond the needs of economic government, wisdom of statesmanship and purity of patriotism would alike suggest reduction of taxation. The tariff Bystain was adopted in time of war under pretext that it was necessary to carry on the war and only to be temporary. At the close of the war the in-terest-bearing public debt was *2,331,539,294. Of this more than half has been paid, and still not one jot nor tittle of war taxation imposed on the necessaries of life has passed away. The annual interest charge has been reduced from 8143,731,532 to $44,716,UX) —less than one-third its former proportions. Still the war tariff remains and the people beg in vain for relief. Year after year promises have been made to them that they should have a reduction of taxes. But the promises have been broken as often as made, and their condition has becom? perennially liopeljss. The promises are made for campaign purposes, to obtain power, and then broken to retain it. A sad commentary on the evil times on which we have fallen is that it takes morj bushels of corn to pay the interest now than it did in 1867, at the ruling prices. Is a quarter of a century ■of grinding, oppressive taxation not sufficient? Are the masses to have no relief from oppressive impositions made for the benefit of the classes V Are the agriculturists to be required to contribute forever excessive taxation that greater dividends may be paid to those engaged in other pursuits? The platlorms of all political parties have admitted the justice of the demands for relief. Stump orators of all parties have made themselves noarse hallooing for relief. The last four Presidents have urged Congress to give it. Still the cry of the oppressed taxpayer goes up in vain, anil a deaf ear is turned to his piteous plea. How long can this continue? Will vour broken promises not break their makers? Will your hollow hypocrisy not be exposed? Themutterings of discontent come louder and louder; the din approaches the Capitol nearer and nearer, till the farmers of the United States, after waiting with a patience which would have aroused the fenvy of Job, have learned that sixty millions of people are sixty millions strong. They have organized from the lakes to the Gulf. They have learned, and they will teach you that you are their servauts, not their masters. They demand relief from excessive taxes and you dare not longer refuse it. Who ever saw such a bill as that presented by the majority? It is founded on no general idea and can be justified on no general principle. It raises the duty on certain woolen goods on the principle that tho tariff is no tax, and .puts ■a agar on the free list on the plea that the tariff is a tax. Cabbages are taxed 3 cants each, and the sauerkraut made of cabbage is not taxed at all. Eggs to be eaten are taxed 5 cents a dozen. Silk worm eggs, that cannot be eaten, are admitted free. Never before has such recklessness characterized the committee in the construction of a bill. Never has such widespread consternation followed the promulgation of one. From every quarter and from almost every branch of trade comes the cry that ruin will follow its enactment into law. So great has been the clamor that changes have been made hourly since the bill was first printed and a change of nearly 830,000.000 was made after the <b 11 had been voted on in committee the night bast re it was reported. Need I give instances of these complaints? ■One of the greatest industries of Pennsylvania is her carpet manufactrra; millions of money and thousands of her people depend upon these. Many of them say that this bill will ruin them. The duty on tobacco was raised from 33 cents a pound to $2 a pound. The cigar manufacturers of Key West and Tampa told tho committee that a Johnstown flood or a fi -e which consumed half the town would bo a blessing when compared to the evil which will come in the wake of this bill. Other, cigarmakors complain. Exporters •of canned goods of all kinds haverepresanted to the committee that the increase on tin plate destroys their trade. The domestic workers of tin say they cannot stand it. The manufacturers of electric mad inery and of stoves complain at the excessive and unnecessary duty for the first time placed on mica, whereby electric lighting and motive power are to be made more and transparency in the stove through which the darkness and gloom of the room are to be dispelled are to be taxed. Not •content with placing the duty of 338 per cent, on common window glass and taxing sunlight in the home, the artificial light of the night is to be taxed—taxed by day and taxed by night. The committee proposes to pay a dollar a , pound out of the Treasury bounty on lawsilk. It proposes to tax the farmer and raise $2,000 to be paid as bounty on each ton of raw silk produced in the United States. In other words, the Kansas farmer, who is burning corn in the absence of a market, must pay a bounty to his neighbor who produces silk of over 13,00) bushels for each ton, or 373,000 pounds of corn for every thousand pounds of silk. Then he does not •own or gee the silk after paying this enormous price for it. We imported last year over 5,000,000 pounds Gentlemen, how do you like it? How will your constituents like this new method of robbing them ? I)o you loot fear you will reach the point where they will not longer bear their load? Do not their impoverished families touch you ? Do not the mortgages hanging like -a pall over their homes appeal to you' and implore you to lift the heavy hand of the tax-gatherer from them, to put put not the felonious fingers of unjust taxation into their pockets ? But this is not all. The committee have recommended the payment of 2 cents a pound on all the sugar produced from cane in the United States. It will take §7,500,00) annually to meit this bounty, even if there is no increase in the production. The committee has been implored not to attempt the bounty system on sugar. The sugannakers themselves, though not getting as much protection of the tariff as is proposed by this bill, have begged the Gov•eminent not to take charge of their business They foresee that the passage of this bill means the placing of their sugar houses under the surviillance of federal officials, the employment of spies and informers under pretext of protecting the Government against fraud; indictments in Federal Courts for alleged violation of law, the employment of thousands of officials to watch sugar from cane to the coffee pot, and the myriad ills which flow from the government’s intermedling to run the citizen’s business. What are ih9 consequences to flow from this taxation of one' man to make a donation to an--other—this PeUr-robbing, Paul-paying process? If you give a bounty on silk because it does not pay to produce silk in this country, why not also give it on jute and encourage our people to raise flieir own jute? Why not. on figs, and produce figs at home ? Why not bananas, and raise them under our own flag? The price of corn is down until in some parts of the country it has been burned for fuel. Will you extend your paternity and give the farmer a bounty on corn? Ths prices of beef cattle and hogs are low. Will you give a bounty on meat products? Are the producers of these to pay the bounty on silk sugar, but receive no recognition rrom this paternal government? How much will it cost? What will it lead to? It will lead inevitably and quickly to corruption. The corridors of this Capitol will-.rosound with the footfalls of interested jobbers. Committee-rooms will re--eoho with the voices of those seeking the governmental largess. The request will become a demand, tho demand a din. It will begin by Congress subsidizing the industries and end with the industries subsidizing Congress. This is no new business. The Pacific Mail Steamship Line was subsidized and corruption -crept in and did its cankering work. More and more was demanded, and more and more given. A lobbv strong as Samson was organized, and the snbiidized line kenneled its hell-hounds around the Capitol to scent out those who would sell their country and to hound down those who would not. Seven hundred thousand dollars, according to the report of an investigating committee, was used to corrupt Congress and force the bounty; like Senator Dilworthy’s hundred thousand dollar appropriation in -The Gilded Age,’ It “took it all to get It through Congress.” The bounty business went from bad to worse till the people, tired of its injustice and die-

Rusted with the corrupt method of obtaining it, returned to the sonnd principle of “equal rights to all, exclusive privileges to none.” I turn to the majority of the Ways and Means Committee and ask them what relief do they liropose for the frightfal ills that afflict the and? You find the farmei burning his corn. Have you stopp -d the conflagration? Yon find the Area extinguished in many Northern furnaces. Have you rekindled them? You find the farmers mortgaged to death; you hear the rueful rap of the auctioneer’s hammer making desolate their homes, and still you go madly on taxing to relieve against taxation. You have seen city after city and State after State since President Harrison’s election leave the Republican ranks aud join the party founded by Jefferson, which took charge of this Government ninety years ago, and whose motto was then, as now, equal laws, economic government, and jnat taxation. What relief do you propose for the woolen manufacturers now on the verge of ruin? You add an alditional tax to the wool they consume. The committee, not content with the imposition of duties on things produced in this country under pretext of protecting American labor, goes a vast stride further, aud more than doubles the tax on tin plate. Not a ton of it is made here; not a laborer would he thrown out of employment by admitting it free of duty. At 1 cent a pound It yielded last year §7.279,459 revenue. The committee proposes, after the next election, to make the duty 2.15 cents a pound iustead of 1 ceut. On the present basis of importations, this woull yield $15,650,848. The laborer living in the city is not able to cover hi s cottage with enduring copper or fine slate. He has to cover it with tin. His wife takes canned goods from tin cans and cooks them in tin stove vessels. He cannot spare the time from work to return home at noon and eat his bread with wife and little ones; his dinner is taken to furnace or factory fa a tin paiL Yet he is to have the cost of his roof, his supplies and his pail doubled by this tax. Representatives of vast, canning industries, canners of fish, fruit, vegetables and oysters, have come before the committee and begged that this suicidal step be not taken, but to no purpose. Fat was fried out of certain manufacturers two years ago for campaign purposes ; it has to be returned now 115 fold. Votes were bought then in blocks of five. Some of those who put up the “boodle" to pay for the “blocks" have been rewarded with Cabinet or other fat offices. Now let tho world see, gentlemen of the majority, how you reward others who helped give you this temporal power—a power which at the same time was your personal good luck and your country’s misfortune.

GROVER TO FARMERS.

MR. CLEVELAND ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ALLIANCE. He Sees Nothing in Thom lhat Cannot Be Fully Indorsed by Any Man Wlio Loves His Country—ln Touch’ug on the Tariff Questions Ho Points Out the Unequal Burdens Borne by the Agriculturists. A few weeks ago J. A. Hill, Corresponding Secretary of 0»k Grove Lodge, No. 22. Farmers’ Alliance, ne r Steubenville, Ohio, wrote to ex-President Cleveland, inclosing a copy of the decl*ration of purposes of the alliance and asking for Mr. Cleveland’s views thereon. The declaration of purposes is as follows: Profoundly impressed that we, the Farmers’ Alliance, unite! by the strong and faithful ties of financial and homo interests, should set forth our declaration of intentions; we therefore resolve — To strive to semre the establishment of right and justice to ourselves aud our posterity. To labor for the education of the agricultural classes in the science of economical government in a strictly non-partisan spirit. To indoree the motto “In Things Essential, Unity ; in All Things, Charity.” To secure the purity of the elective franchise aud to induce all voters to intelligently exercise it for the enactment and execution of laws whch will express the most advanced public sentiment uuon all questions involving the interests of laborers and farmers. To develop a better state, mentally, morally, socially, and financially. To constantly strive to secure entire harmony and good-will among all mankind and brotherly love among ourselves. To suppress personal, local, sectional, and national prejudices, and all unhealthful rivalry and selfish ambition. To assuage the sufferings of brothers aud sist'rs, bury the dead, care for the widows, and educate the orphans ; to exercise charity toward offenders ; to construe words and purposes in their most favorable light, granting honesty of purpose and good intentions to others, and to protect the principles of the Alliance unto death. Mr. Cleveland’s reply was: I have received your letter, accompanied by a copy of tho declaration of principles of the Farmers’ Alliance. I see nothing in this declaration that cannot be fully indorsed by any man who loves his country, who believes that the object of our Goverumont should be the freedom, prosperity, and happiness of all our people, and wbo believes that just ceand fairness to all are necessary conditions tolits userul administration. It has always seemed to me that the farmers of the country wore especially interested in an equitable adjustment < f our tariff system. The indifference taev have shown to that question and the ease with which they have been led away from a sober consideration of their needs and their rights as related to this subject have excited my surprise. Struggle as they may, our farmers must continue to bo purchasers and consumers of numberless things enhanced in cost by tariff regulations. Surely they have the right to insist that this cost shall not be increased for the purpose of collecting unnecessary revenue or to give undue advantage to domestic manufacturers. The plea that infant industries need the protection which impoverishes the farmer and consumer is, in view of our national advantages and the skill and ingenuity of our people, a hollow pretext. Struggle as they may, our farmers cannot escape the conditions which fix the price of what they produce according to the rates which prevail in foreign markets flooded with the competition of countries enjoying a freer exchange of trade than we. The plausible presentation of the blessings of a home market should not deceive our oppressed and impoverished agriculturists. There is no market for them which does not take its instructions from the seaboard, and the seaboard transmits the word of the foreign markets. Because my conviction that there should be a modification of our tariff laws arose principally from an apprecia ion of the wants of the vast army of consumers, comprising our farmers, our artisans, and our workingmen, and because their condition has led me to protest against present impositions, I am especially glad to see these sections of my fellow-country-men arousing themselves to the importance of tariff reform. Yours very truly,

FORCE AT THE POLLS.

What the Passage of tho Rowell Election BUI Means to the Southern States. [Washington special.] A number of gentlemen who have emerged from ambush since the incoming of the Harrison administration met last week and discussed the necessity of having United States troops at the polls. “Do you know what the Rowell election bill means in the Sonth?” asked a distinguished representative from that section. It meins this: Ivnorant and vicious negroes will be appointed to hold, elections, count votes, and canvass them, and they will be aided at the polls with other ignorant and brutal negroes armed with the protection of the law as deputy United States marshals. These will virtually hold the polls and obstruct voting, and will you wonder if serious emeutes shall occur under such circumstances? When Mr. Reed said at Pittsburg substantially that he had now enlisted under the bloody shirt he meant to convey to the country the idea that force was necessary to control elections in tho

GROVER CLEVELAND.

South. He looks for bloodshed at the fall elections if these election laws should be passed, and proposes to make them the issue of the campaign in 1892. We all supposed that when Haves withdrew the bayonets from the halls of the State Legislatures that phase of reconstruction was over for all time, and the South took a new atep forward in moral and material progress. The aim of the conspirators now is to reintroduce the army as a feature of elections, and to ke?p‘the South stirred up to furnish themes for ’the stump in the North. I should regard the successful carrying out of this programme as a great blow to Southern industries, and it would injure the North in a corresponding degree, for what hurts one section is bound to injure every other in some degree. Do I think the Federal election bills will pass? Yes. But I have hopes that the Democrats will carry the next House in spite of them, and that will upset the execution of the Republican -programme for 1892. ”

DESERTS THE GRAND OLD PARTY.

A Leading Indiana Republican Unable to Support War Taxes Any Longer. [Jeffersonville (Ind.) special.] The expression of views radically opposed to Republican tariff doctrines by John Overmeyer, of North Vernon, one of the most prominent Republicans in the State, once Speaker of the House and Chairman of the State Central Committee, has created a profound sensation. When asked whether he proposed joining the Democracy Mr. Overmeyer said: “I have not thought of the consequences of my utterances, and care not what they label me. I shall use all my energies to overthrow the false system of high tariff. I shall say what I consider right, hurt whom it mae, and shall support the party advocating revenue tariff in State and national contests with all my power. I have been stumping and working since 1866, and up to recent years Republican speakers would as soon have preached infant baptism as a high tariff. In the last campaign I supported the candidate, but* not the platform." He was a delegate to the Chicago convention, and is a very able man, of the highest integrity, whose influence is felt throughout the State.

At Home and Abroad.

It has frequently been asserted and as often denied that our protected manufacturers sell their goods abroad at lower prices than are charged to home consumers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has found a recent issue of the Engineer-r----ing and Mining Journal which definitely settles the point. In this are thirty-nine columns of advertisements in which American manufacturers offer “discounts for export only. ” Hore are some of the figures: Per cent. Per eent. Articles. discount. discount. Planes 40 Wfliffletrees 45 Bakes 70 Vises 50 Drills 30 Waßhtubs 25 Scythes 40 Lawn-mowers 60 Hatchets 50, (Scroll-saws 23 Table knives 25. Water-motors 41 Shears 60lNails 60 Feed-cutlers 3) Post-hole diggers... .40 Grinding-mills 25011 stoves 30 Barn-door hangers.. .50 Farm pumps 70 Wrenches SSjWood-j orews 50 Screw-drivors 70IHammera ...60 Picks 0)| Windmills 40 A semi-monthly pamphlet issued by tbe Tariff-Reform Club of New York contains other information bearing on the same point. There are two papers in New York that ore devoted exclusively to the export trade in American manufactures. One is called the American Mail and Export Journal and the other the Australasian and South American. Their chief department is a table of quotations which gives the lowest prices at wh ch articles cun bo bought in small quantities by foreigners. For large quantities “special” rates are frequently advertised and generally given. From the information gathered from these sources tho following comparative table is compiled:

At Home. Abroal. Wheel hoe, cultivator, rake and plow § 11.00 $ 8.40 All-steel horse hoe and cultivator, with wheel 8.03 G. 75 All-steel plain cultivator, with wheel 7.20 4.50 Potato digger 8.00 0.75 Shovels,cast steel.round point, Jfo. 2, per dozen 9.63 8.21 Shovels, No. 3 10.00 8.55 Flat-bottom kettles 1.43 .85 Fiber ware, water coolers, and filters, per dozen 144.00 115.20 Typewriters 100.00 60.03 Sewing machines (retail) 45.0) , 32.00 These are only a few of the comparative prices given, but they suffice to illustrate the point. With the*e discounts as a guide it is easy to understand the affection which the protee'ed manufacturers entertain for “a home market.’ But how about the farmers? Can they compete with cheap foreign labor and at tbe same time pay so much more for their agricultural implements?— Chicago News.

A Vermont Republican Astonished.

The long-continued silence of Senator Matthew S. Quay, of Pennsylvania, to the astounding charges of corruption made by the New York World, substantiated by the New York Evening Post, and brought before the House of Representatives by Gen. Spinola, of New York City, is certainly r. markable. The indictment covers bribery and theft extending over a long period of years, the gravest charge being thut Senator Quay took $280,01)0 from the Stale Treasury of Pennsylvania, which he lost in speculation. As he was not State Treasurer at the time this is virtually a charge that he stole that amount. Mr. Quay as Chairman of the Republican Nationxi Committee occupies a position of extraordinary power and responsibility in that parity, which is daily roceivi tg injuries from his silence. Both President Harrison and Secretary Blaine are much worried over the matter and desire an explanation. Let Senator Quay at least give his friends the privilege of hearing from him a denial of tbe truth of the charges. Coutemptuous silence in such a case is ominous, aud will be taken by ordinarily honest men as a confession of guilt.—St. Jolinsbury (Ft.) Caledonian (Rep.).

Tailor Mabx, of New York, has vigorously disputed the slander that a tailor is the ninth part of a man and will run at the sight of a snail’s horns. He caught a burglar climbing through his shop window the other night and shot him dead. All the superstitions of the past are being rudely shattered in tho 36 practical days.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

WINI* AND INCIDENTS THAT HATS LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors-Wo<l-dings anil Deaths—Crime, Casualties and Geueral News Notes. Minor State Items. —Edward Clinger, of Logansport, was killed by the cars'at Leroy. . —The Newman paper-mill, at Kokomo, is being greatly enlargod. —Black diphtheria has appeared in Clay Township. St. Joseph County. —A. S. Bright, of Huntington, lost both legs while switching cars ntKingsland. —The electric-ligbt plant of Rockport will be in operation by the 10th of June. —An empty house nt Vincennes was blown up by unknown dynamiters because it hud been rented to obnoxious tenants. —Knightstown has secured anothr important industry in a handlo factory to be erected and operated by local capitalists. —M. L. Lee lost control of red-hot wire he was handling in the Anderson rod-mill, and it passed completely through his wrist. —Seven prisoners attempted to escape from the Rockport jail, but were caught after they had succeeded in cutting a hole through the wall. —Lightning struck a tree in the yard of Thomas McKillup, nt Muncie, and tore it in pieces, burling a heavy fragment through the roof of the residence. —A costly freight wreck occurred at the junction, near Delphi, a Wabash freight crashing into a Monon freight as it was crossing. Nobody was injured. - Anybody who wishes to walk a tight rope across the falls nt Williamsport, Warren County, can secure a job on the Fourth of July by addressing James Armstrong, at that place. Prof. J. W. Carr, a teacher in the Muncie High-school, has been selected by the Anderson School Board to take charge of and superintend that city’s schools, at a salary of $1,200 per year. —The corner-stone of the new Crtholic St. Patrick’s Church at Fort Wayne was laid with nporopriate ceremonies. All the Catholic societies of the city and vicinity marched in tho procession. —Atßobo, six miles east of Decatur, Robert Bright, a freight brakeman on the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad, caught his foot in a switch frog. A car passed over him, cutting off both legs. He will die.

Charles Millen and David Kellams, two desperate characters, indulged in an impromtu duel at Derby, in which Kellams fired the first shot and was in turn killed by a shot through tbe breast. No arrests. —Bert Ezra, of Crawforilsville, accidentally diopped a lighted match into the mouth of a patent gas-generator, causing an explosion. The generator was destroyed, and Ezra received severo injuries and suffered tbe loss of some teeth. —A 2-year-old son of Oliver Moon, of Washington Township, Clay County, met with a peculiar, but fatal accident. The child fell from a chair and struck its head upon the floor, inflicting such injuries as to cause its death in a few minntes.

—J. B. Bird and Bert Bird, father and son, residing near Blountsville. quarreled over the possession of a cornplanter, and the>son fatally stamped bis father abont the breast. He is himself dangerously ill from no other known cause that remorse. —While a miner, Oscar Lusky, was at work in his room at Evansville, a blast from an adjoining room tore through the partition wall aud struck bim, breaking his ribs and mangling bim in a horrible manner. His injuries are so bad that he cannot recover. • —The Diamond-plate Glass Company, of Kokomo, has commenced the erection of another large additional two-story brick building, 200x217 feet, to be used as a foundry and machine-shop. On the completion of this over twelve acres of ground will be under roof. —Charles Harper, a youth, while attempting to get in a road cart at Scottsburg, lost his balance aDd fell beneath the horse’s feet. Before he could be removed from his perilous position the animal stepped upon lijs face, crushing his features in a frightful manner.

—The Kokomo Natnral-gas Company has opened another monster gas-well, near that city. So powerful was the pressure that 600 feet of four-inch casting was blown out, and twisted and coiled in all shapes among tbe trees. Four workmen and several by-standers miraculously escaped injury. —At Swayzee, the pressure of the gas in the well that supplies the town blew out a valve, the escaping gas ignited and burned down tbe derrick and the regu-lator-house, involving a loss of SI,OOO. The citizens of Swayzee will have to burn wood until the well can be con - trolled and the dajnage repaired —Henry Winklebeck, the lumberdealer who disappeared from Royal Center, is believed to be in Canada. About SIO,OOO of paper forged by him has turned up in Logansport, and more is believed to be afloat. Judge D. P. Baldwin is caught for $3,000, the National Bank $4,000, and others smaller amounts.

—Mrs. Charles Sikes died at Frasi-' fort from the effects of an accident seven months ago on the Monon. —Four milk cows in one locality ixr Columbus died very suddenly, and in » manner indicating that they had Lee& poisoned, and the dead animal*’ stomachs were examined and found to contain poison. —Mrs. Hite, wife of John Hite, the carriage of Franklin, committed suicide by hanging. She escaped the vigilance of her attendant,' took a long towel and hanged herself in the wood shed. Death resulted from strangulation, as her knees almost touched the floor. Shp had been unsound in mind for several years--The confession of the wife of J. W. Brown, who was murdered in Morgan County, in 1876, proves to be a hoax. Mrs. Brown died recently, and was alleged to have told a daughter that herself and sons put her husband out of the way. As no daughter wns present at her death bed, or with her for months be"ore she died, the story is obviously u> ae. It is also denied by James x. Brown, a son of the murdered man, and by attornoys who have investigated the case.

—The new catalogue for 1889-90, of Wabash College, contains sovernl lithographs lof the college buildings and of the museum. The attendance during the yerr wns 258, divided among the classes as follows: Post graduates, 5; seniors, 33; juniors, 30; Bophomores, 31; freshmen, 67; senior preparatory, 40; junior preparatory, 52. One senior has died during the year—F. H. Boudinot, of Terre Hunte, on April 1. Two trustees! have also died within tho past year—Moses Fowler, of Lafayette, and Rev. J. F. Kemlnll. D. D., of Lul’orte. —Joseph Long, aged 36 years, and a highlv respected citizen of Vernon, was run ever by a Madison passenger train, and both legs cut off. Iu addition he received injuries about the head, causing his death almost instantly. Long was an employe of tho J., M. &I. ub a section-hand and had lately become very deaf. When discovered by the engineer he was at work in the center of the track. The whistle was sounded, but undeeded by Long until too late. The engine and baggage car passed over him before the train could bo stopped. At the April eleotion the Republican aud| Democratic candidates for Trustees of Clinton Township. Decatur County, each received the same number of votes. The Board of Election adjourned sine die without casting lot to determine the winner, as provided by statute. A suit was begun by the Democratic candidate, asking a mandate against theßdord requiring it to re-assemble and cast lots. To this a demurrer was filed, and after exhaustive argument the court, Judge Study, held that mandate would lie, and the Board will be directod to cost lots. As this question has never been decided by the Supremo Court of this State, on appeal to that court will be taken nt once. —Hazel, the 5-year-old daughter of Lawrence llhoton, near Montpelier, m«)t with a frightful death. She had been playing in tho yard where the family had been making soap, when, in some manner, her clothes caught fire. Her grandmother’s attention was attracted by her screams and, on going to the door, she saw the child in flames. She ran to the little one and triod to smother the flames with her apron, but her efforts were of no avail. The child's* mother by this time heard her crying, ran and threw a bucket of water over her and quenched the flames. Dr. Morrison was sent for and dressed the wounds but tbe little sufferer only lived a few hours.

—A young man, whoso steam gauge registered a jag of 800 pounds, walked into Thompson’s restaurant near the North depot, at Qreencastle, and informed Frank Hill, the clerk, that* he was a cowboy and a very bad man when he started out to paint. He also exhibited to the astonished clerk an ugly scar on his head, which he said was a relic of a hand-to-hand encounter and terrific tableau death struggle with the great Apache [chief, Never-Miss-a-Drink. He finally insulted some lady customers and Hiil pushed him out of the door, A rattling fight took placp, and when the mill ended, the cowboy had lost three teeth and received another ugly cut on the head. No one at the depot knew his name or where he hailed from.

—Patents have been granted to the following I ndiana inventors: Cornelius C. Alexander, Hartford City, sliding and swinging gate; Charles Anderson*, assignor to South Bend Iron Works, South Bend, sulky-plow; Charles Campbell, and J. Cox, Winchester, crate; Samuel E. Harsh, assignor of one-half to J. M. Harter, Wabash, over-draw loop and buckle; William T. Hill, Indianapolis, sporting trap; Alexander L., H. Messmer, Hammond, metallic wheel hub and vehicle wheel; William Moore, Kokomo, apparatus for separating liquids from natural gas; Clark B. Nelson, Crawfordsville, cresting for roofs; William T. Parks, Lagrange, shock com-; pressor and binder; George M. D. Pome-, roy, Lebanon, potato digger; Henry T. Poor, Indianapolis, saw; John O. Steele,, Portland, harness buckle; George E.-, Sterling and S. T. Camden, dust collector for threshing machines and separa-. tors