Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — Page 3

A NEW M’KINLEY TRUST.

THE TABLE GLASSWARE MEN ; . HAVE ORGANIZED. A Trust to Enjoy McKinley Spoi’s— McKinley’s Big Advance or Unties Gives the j Trust n Good Thing—Our Exports of 1 Gloss ware Trove the Outy Not Necessary. The makers of table glassware have completed the trust they have been building ever since last December. McKinley gave these men such a handsome increase of duties that they at once determined to “get together” and appropriate the good things which McKinley bad so generously placed in their power. - Even before the famous McKinley bill toeeame.a law it was said that the manufacturers; bad in view a combination of some kind. This fact was stated during the debates in Congress last year; but the McKinleyites went ahead in defiance -of such information, regarding it as but Another “free trade attack on American industry,” and made a large increase in the duties. Here is a table giving the old and new rates of duty on articles made by this McKinley trust; McKinley Old rate. rets. Glassware. $) cent. i « i . Plain .4i) <'ut, deooratod, etc 40 Uo Lamp chimneys 40 00 bohemian 45 60 Shades 45 00 Tubes 45 60 But these figures do not bring out the full protection of the McKinley la»w. The customs administrative law, which went into effect on the Ist of last August, assesses the same duty on the boxes or crates containing goods as on the goods themselves. The packing makes a considerable item of expense in handling glassware. Furthermore, the same law requires that no allowance be made for articles broken in transit, unless the broken articles amount to 10 per cenC of the shipment, in which case the Government takes the broken or damaged articles, sells them at auction, and pockets the proceeds. In the shipment of glass and glassware a considerable portion is always broken; and the losses thus entailed form an additional protection to the domestic manufacturer over and above the high rate of duty in tho McKinley law. The additional protection in these items amounts to at least 10 per cent., making the full protection granted the trust by McKinley about 70 per cent. There was no need whatever for increasing the duties, since our imports amount to only fifty or sixty thousand dollars’ worth per annum, while we export, at least ten times as much. In the report of Mexico’s imports for 1889 it is seen that that country took from us $243,000 of glass and china, from Germany $164,000, from France $159,009, and from England only $16,000. If we can compote so successfully in Mexico, even without reciprocity, with the “pauper-made” , glassware of Europe, there is clearly no need for McKinley's high duties to protect our manufacturers in the home market. Even the New York 'Tribune admits that glassware “can be produced in tho United States as cheaply as in Europe. ” It could have been easily foreseen that McKinley’s high duties would give rise to a trust; and such has been the result. After much preliminary work during the past six months the glassware men have at last gotten their trust fairly launched. The high tariff New York Tribune, which holds the queer view that the McKinley law is “a trust-killing tariff, men and brethren,” has recently printed the following dispatch: GIjASS manufacturers combine. Pittsburg, July 15. — At a meeting of the table glassware manufacturers of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia in this city to-day, the plants were consolidated and an association formed under the name of the United States Glass Company. 1). C. Ripley, of this city, was elected President The company comprises eighteen firms, with a capital of $1,000,000. The object of the combination Is said to be to systematize and to harmonize the workings of the several plants and to securo such economies in cost as may result from a consolidation of interests. The headquarters will be in Pittsburg. The report that tho price of glass fruit-jars has been recently raised by a trust is eviaenco of what this infant combine can do in the way of bleeding the masses of our people. Where is tho family which does not use glassware? Nearly every table in the land has its tumblers, goblets, butter dishes, salt cellars, and numerous other articles of glassware. Poor, indeed, is the housewife who is not concerned in this McKinley tariff trust. The organization of this trust calls attention once more to the fact that trusts havq been springing ud like mushrooms in a wet summer ever since McKinley’s high tariff went into operation last October. McKinleyism and trusts go hand in hand.

The Foreign Market Willing. A protectionist trade paper says: “Foreign countries are turning their eyes to the United States for their bread supplies, and wiil buy everything in that line which we can offer them. This means the turning of a wide stream of gold into this country and a corresponding increase in the prosperity of all branches of trade. ” This is the confession of a protection journal thirty years after the Republican party began to build up a home market for the farmer, in which, as it promised, all his products would be consumed “right at his doors.” But the attempt to build up such a home market is further than ever from realization, aud our farmers must find a market for $600,000,000 or $700,000,000 worth of their produce. This year, with abundant crops hero and unusually short crops in Europe, the prospect is that our farmers will have $;800,000,000 worth of their products for export. The farmers are intelligent enough to See the enormous value to them of so large b foreign demand for what they raise, and to seo, too, tho importance of promoting our trade with foreign countries by a free admission of foreign goods Into our ports. To suppose that foreign countries can for any great length of time pay us for our farm products and manufactures in gold or silver is absurd. There is not a sufficient quantity of the precious metals in those countries to stand such a drain.

If wo wish, then, to sell to foreign countries, we must necessarily buy their products. Even the organ of the American Protective Tariff league has made the following sweeping admission: “Probably no common law is more rigid than that a nation s imports must in the long run be paid for by its exports. ” In other words, the more goods we buy abroad the greater the foreign demand for our products. Why, then, all this noise about the tin plate that we import? Why not encourage the Welsh-

man to send ns double the quantity we now take, since we can thus open a market for “another bushel of wheat and another barrel of pork?” “European Interest” and Tariff Reform. One of the cheapest and most foolish efforts of protectionists to create a prejudice against the ta iff reform movement Is to point out how Europe sympathizes with the Democratic party and is anxious for its success. Thus Hon. John S. Clarkson, who recently returned from Europe, said at a banquet given in his honor in New York: “A thing that strengthens the faith of the Republican visiting Europe is the plain expressions of hope heard in many quarters that the Democrats may return to power in the United States and reverse the American legislation, in European interest." If .Clarkson would apply this protection wisdom to bis private affairs he would have to boycott every merchant with whom he has been in the habit of trading. He must refuse to buy sugar from his grocer, since this worthy citizen is anxious to sell sujar; and it wou’d be equal y impossible to have a coat made, for tho tailor is always keen for a job. If the great Republican “headsman” of the Postoffice Department is consistent and w it refuse to buy from pcoole who are anxious to sell, he will go naked and hungry. Nobody qf even the lowest intelligence will be deceived by this favorite “argument” of the Clarksons, the McKinleys, and the lesser lights of Republican statecraft. The fact that Europe wants to trade with us is no evidence of hostility to our prosperity—no more so than the demand of our farmers for a market In Europe for “another bushel of wheat And another barrel of pork” means that they are seeking to cripple European industries. ‘ In tho long run all trade must yield a profit to both buyer and seller. It is extremely silly to suppose that we are going to suffer loss at the hands of European traders because they want to sell to us; and still more silly to pass laws to keep our people from buying wherever they find sellers with wares which they want

Labor and Commodities.

The system of protection is defended upon the ground that it will create more labor. Here is a favorite protectiouist maxim; “The best system for a country is that which secures for it the greatest amount of labor.” But labor is t not an end in Itself; we labor solely fer the sake of the commodities we need. Most people of ordinary common s nse think that the best : system is that wh'ch secures the greatest, amount of commodities. They are quite content to save their labor, and will even invent curious and cunning laborsaving machinery in order to spare themselves unnecessary toil. If the protection theory is sound then Elias Howe, the inventor of the sewing machine, was a great foe to women,, since he made it possible for one woman to do the work of ten; and the inventors of the self-binding reaper did great harm to the farmers by making it possible to reap their grain with one-tenth of the labor needed under the old system. No; the best system is not that which, gives us more labor, but more, goods, more food and clothing.' The shortest road to these is the system requiring the least labor. W f hen men are let alond they take that road of themselves; pro-1 tection only steps in to make men take the longest road, since in it they will have to take, more steps In order td reach the same point.

Taking Back-Water.

The Republicans of MassachusetteS are trying to run away from McKinleyism. The Republican Club of that State has recently sent out a circular to all its members to get their opinions as to the issues to be made prominent in the campaign next fall. One answer was; “Touch very’lightly upon protection;” and another; “The McKinley bill is not a final settlement of tho controversy, but Republicans are ready to amend the law as the evils incident to it become apparent. ” Says a third: “It is the duty of the Republican party, while protecting our industries, to correct any parts of tho tariff laws which, after a fair trial, are found to work injustice to the masses of the people.” Others still go further. “An attitude looking toward free raw materials for New England” is demanded by a Westfield correspondent A Boston letter is even more emphatic. “No further development of the theory of high protection,” it says, “but an extension of the free list and a careful and equitable reduction of the existing duties, as well as a practical cessation of a further addition to the list of dutiable articles, with the understanding that a foreign market is a desideratum as well as a home market. ”

Not a Money-Making Fair.

Ex-Congressman Ben Butterworth, who kicked so vigorously against tho McKinley bill last year, is now in London. Speaking there of the Chicago World's Fair, of which he is Secretary, he is reported to have said: “Besides a successful show, we intend to have a gathering of nations and to promote commerce. You may think it strange to talk of promoting commerce when we have built a wall across the road with the McKinley bill. Anyhow, we think the Exposition will lead to a better entente. It is not a dollar-making business."

But Butterworth will hardly find any European manufacturers who will go to the trouble and great expense of exhibiting at Chicago except as “a dollar-making business ” Europeans will have no patriotic sentiment such as moves us, and it is certain that the only European products found at the Chicago Fair will be such as appeal to the taste of the rich, who are able to buy costly articles of luxury despite the high-tariff wall “across the road. ” Europe makes a thousand and one articles which the poorer and moderately well-to-do people of this country would like to buy, but it is safe to predict that very few of these will be seen at Chicago.

Lead Sme[?]ting and McKinleyism.

Mexican silver-lead ores were taxed by McKinley almost to a point of exclusion under the pretense of helping Colorado lead producers. Now the Mexican ores are being smelted in Mexico, largely by Amerh an capital driven out of the country by McKinley, and the product, in the shape of crude lead bars is being shipped direct y to England. Formerly the ore came, into this country free and gave employment to many laborers in our smelting establishments. Being used for smelting the “dry ore” of Colorado, the Mexican ore acted as a direct encouragement to the development of our numerous mines producing these •dry ores.” The owners of the:to-called

“carbon ore* mines In Colorado, however; had-the “pall” on the Republican tariff maker, and, since the carbon enfed did not need Mexican silver-lead ores to mix with their own in smelting, they demanded a high duty to practically exclude them. The result this protectionist jugglery is thus stated by the Now York Engineering and Mining Journal: “Everyone knows that the *dry ore’ minors have been paying for the exclusion of Mexican fluxing ores, and everyone knows that the only people who have gained are a few owners of high grade or ‘irony’ lead ores, and some of tho railroads. Our miners are worse off than before." In the meantime, what are the consumers paying for lead itself? The price of lead in the New York market is now 4.40 cents a pound, against 2.68 cents in London, the duty being 2 cents a pound. Early lasi year, berore McKinley got in his work, the of lead here was as low as 3.80 cents per pound: but as soon as his tariff bill passed the HOase “lead jumped to 4.4 ft ” These are figures which anybody can verify from market report) In the trade 'journals, however violently the protection organs may deny the existence of any such thing as “McKinley prices. * “I\ 1890," says the New York Fruit 'Trade Journal, “England paid the growers of the United States for products shipped to that country, $377,000,000. Apple shippers were no small factors in these figures, which are certainly large. Prominent English merchants have openly stated that no European country Is more entitled to reciprocity than England, and if the McKinley bill is not repealed in part in 1892 to favor their country, or concessions given to English exporters, Parliament will be appealed to to place duties on American products. Apples, grain, bacon, lard, cheese and other produce shippers would hardly be pleased with this, which they, hope will be avoided.”

“This country does not propose to lag behind," boasts the Dry Goode Chronicle, “and never has when her industries have been properly cared for. We have got all the elements within ourselves to compete with other nations. We make the best agricultural implements, the best cutlery and tools, the beit axes, the be3t steam engines, the sewing machines, the best sheetings and shirtings, and the best silks and gibbons np to a certain grade; the best carpets, the best blankets and the best watches.” And yet a country with all th'eSe “bests” needs a McKinley tariff wall tb protect it from less favored countries!

An Ornerythologist.

A Gratiot street woman was out in the back yard, cleaning her bird cage and filling it with nice bits of lettuce and other dainties for the warbler within, when a travel-stained citizen came around the corner. “Ah,” he said with kindly interest, “I see you love the feathered songster.” “Yes,” she replied shortly, after recovering from her surprise. “What do you want ?* “I also love birds, madam,” he went on regardless of her question, and ”. “I suppose you want a cold chicken, or a quail on toast, or a reed bird on a t cracker, or a bantam on a silver salver or a ” ( He threw Up his hands imploringly. “YouwrODg me cruelly, madam,” he cried; “I assure yuU I want none of ;these. But, madam, Ido want ten cents to buy some bird seed with. ” “You can’t drink bird seed,” she snapped at him. “Again you wrong me, madam,” he almost wailed. “I want them for a sweet little partridge I am raising.” She looked at him enviously and gave him a chance to go on. “You see; madam, it was this way: Some time ago I had the misfortune to swallow a partridge egg, and being so busy in my profession as not to think of the flight of time I was quite surprised, not to say shocked, to discover about a month ago that the egg had hatched in my inner man, so to speak, and of course I couldn’t afford to have a poor little bird starve right on my own premises, as it were, so I at once procured some bird seed and sent them down to it with great success, and now, madam, I desire ten cents more to ” But he never finished it, for the woman dropped her bird cage and reaching for a hoe handle she made a break for him that was entirely too vigorous for a man of any gallantry to resist and he went away rapidly. Free Press. •

A new kind of beer, made of the extract of rice, has a very peculiar effect. Sometimes a week elapses after drinking it before it causes any exhilaration. Then its fuddling quality is unmistakably shown, and is said to be quite staggering. It is recommended as very useful to travelers who have to make a long stay at prohibition towns. A benedict at Atlanta, desiring to have a grand carouse a few days before his marriage, and then reform, saturated himself with rice beer. The effect was disappointing, for he exhibited no signs of hilarity until his wedding day, and then he was so extremely jolly that he had to be restrained by his friends during the ceremony.

The living ancestors of Elsie Chase, daughter of Charles and Clara Chase, of Yarmouth, Mass., probably exceed in number those of any other person in the United States. She has twelve grandparents, viz: Edward and Mary Chase, grandfather and grandmother; Charles and Emma Ellis, grandfather and grandmother; Charles and Jane Ellis, great-grandfather and greatgrandmother; Jerry and Cordelia Chase, great-grandfather and greatgrandmother ; Matthew and Buth B. Gray, great-grandfather and greatgrandmother ; Adeline Nicholson.great-great-grandmother; Jerry Walker, great-great-grandfather. An eccentric Dominique hen is owned by a Philadelphia blacksmith. Every day about ten o’clock the hen walks into the gorge, and scratches a hollow place in the soft coal six inches from the fire. No matter how hard he blows the fire; the hen will not move until she has laid her egg. Several times her feathers were scorched, bat she held her place. It is stated that the flesh of animals killed by electricity is mnch tenderer than if the animals are killed in the ordinary way. This is especially the case in regard to fowls.

OUR HOOSIER SOLDIERS.

THE ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT OF STATE MILITIA. Splendid Showing Made l y the Three Regiments of ihe Indiana Legion—Some Feature!* of Camp Life Described by Our Special War Correspondent. [special correspondence. ] Ft. Watne. —The Indiana soldier boys pitched their tents within half a mile of this city In a field of green oats that had _been condemned for their use and entered upon their annuhl encampment. The Morning Gcn.—Ban*! Clear and sharp was the morning greeting of the 10pouud Parrott, as it spoke the first word of the day. A few minutctt later the sweet strains of the reveille music from tho regiluental'bands was heard, add as the boys rolled out of their blankets they forgave the grim-visaged brigade cannoneer for so rudely interrupting their morning, dreams. Sunrise, viewing the camp froiq the guard-house, was a study In g»ay nnd white. The atmosphere of the beautiful picture was a misty gray, yet with singular kindness It made the field of tents a snowy white that could not have been made clearer by a dark contrast. The fleecy gray of the sky, harmonized by a misty softness and the white tents, needed only the slowly tramping guards to make a scene to be remembered. Like sentinels

BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS.

over ail, the black guns overlooking the field hold your eye foe a moment, for they were grand and noble on account of the years of service they had given their

country and the many loud shouts for patriotism they had howled from their iron throats. A Camp Bath, —Good-morning! Have you used Pears’ soap? No, thanks, I bathed in tho brook' and scrubbed off with a handful of sand. (Sometimes, you see, the water-works does not start as early as the morning brigade buzz, and tyater Is pretty scarce! The Inspector Going the Rounds.— “Halt! Who comes there?" “Friend, with the countersign.” “Advance, friend, and give countersign.” This is a captain accompanied by the Inspector General on the grand rounds. He is to be seen everywhere, and Is making note of all things that are not exactly according to Uncle Barn’s Ideas. He Is not wholly given to criticism, as his duty Is to call attention ti> what Is regulation and what is not. The War Department takes a lively Interest in the condition of the Stato troops and demands of the inspectors detailed to their annual encampments a lengthy statement us to tho conditions of the troops. He must know how many soldiers are onlisted, and something of their physical condition and character. He wants to know

THE COLOR LINE.

how well the officers understand their business; how much the boys ure paid while In camp. What Inducements are held out to them to come; whore they got their uniforms. guns, and other equipments, and what they cost; how many new men and old men comprise each regiment, are some of the things the Inspector must tell the War Department. And then he must answer many questions which appeal to his judgment, such as to how good soldiers they are, as he would estimate from their work on the drill ground; deportment In camp; thoroughness at guard duty, and from their general appearance. Making an Ordehlt.— Would you ask how they secure this Parisian delicacy of finish for the young man that does duty for the Colonel? Then let a little bird whisper It to you. Whisper, little bird, to the pretty wife or fond sweetheart of this handsome young orderly and their friends! Whisper how he is polished and groomed and brushed before being officially born at guard mount. Usually six men are around him. Two are at his feet chasing away each speck on bis shoes with vigorous rubs, another Is applying a whisk broom most Industriously and taking the most minute dust particles from the blue, another is

THE HOSPITAL CORPS.

giving a solid dead polish to hisleather belt, and the last man is looking after the brass buttons. Not in a minute do they do

this brushing, but by the half hour do they toil over their peti who is 40 be displayed In front of the ColonePs Yent.*’ If he possesses a mustache it must be curled, exquisitely and coquettlslily, and Mhp 'must'be'

powdered and a little pink put on the cheeks. The Troops in a Rain Storm.—lt is raining. Now we are proud of our State troops. The water desconds In torrents, but those slowly moving sentinels neither quicken nor slacken their soldiery tread. It surely cannot be fun to be heedless of that drenching rain. No great of course, but so unpleasant that only a sense of duty can keep him there. How like a real army Is that glorious blue overcoat! The capo Is thrown over his head and the skirts f*U to the knees. “Armed for native land" comes thrilling over you as the words of the silent gun that stands obliquely skyward from his shoulder. With military precision bo paces buck as ho came, and grand and nohle Is this slowly marching man, simply because he is a soldier doing his duty. He does it perhaps because there will be fuu in camp, good times at tho armory at home and at picnics, but now hb Is doing for duty sake, just the samo as he would do If ho wore facing the black guns and warlike front of a real Instead of an Imaginary enemy. Patching Military Trousers.— Patching pnnts Is one of the. domestic details of playing soldier, as woll as real war. It does not make a heroic picture. At least tho Interior of 0110 of the tents of the National Guards did not Impress me as being heroic, when I saw tho rear portion of a private’s trousers being patched by a Qorporal. The prlvute was too lazy to take off

SECTION OF THE CAMP.

tho trousers, and was In a position over a trunk, much as a young man would take at a boarding-school, just as he was about to be spanked. Sometimes be would yell as

though an abortive attempt was being mule io electrocute him. The sewer didn’t se« in to mind, as he remarked coolly: son. never mind. Cbaaile, that slipped,” An admiring crowd was watching tho operations, and finally Charlie's pants were patched to perfect V>n Running the Guard It Is part of t»o amusement of tho camp to bother the sentries late at night. I saw a very Ingenious scheme for running the guard. A half, a dozen boys advanced unseen, and when tho sentry got to the farthor end of his boat oho of them run qp with a four-foot club In bis hand. lie tyok nodtipn on the line, brought tho club to liis shoulder as ho would a gun, and began marching as though doing guqrd duty. The sentry saw him, and when tjhe other fellowS ran up to the confederate nind wero challenged ho thought It, all regulhr. They advanced to tlio mun with tho club, whispered something, and shipped to the tents as though they hud given tho countersign. Tho sentry did not discover ttyat ho had been “bamlioozled” by some mischievous follows until they lot out a lidwl of derision. The Grand Review.—Tho scene on the parade ground during dross parade eilch

George (with an attompt at military discipline and dignity even with her) —Advance, friend, and give the countersign. MlUlcent (from tho dress goods dept.) —Why, it's “Thirty nine cents, was seventy five,” isn't It, Gawge? day Is always inspiring, hut tho grand review before tho Governor and his staff on Governoi's day made a picture that was truly a brilliant one and well calculated to Impress the beholders with the power that lies behind the civil authorities. There were perhaps 2,000 well-armed, well-drilled and well-offieered men In line accustomed to obeying every order given them, and they may safely be relied upon to protect the persons and the property of citizens in any emergency likely to arise. A Private. [Written while In (be guard house.] ~ ~ T '"T’-.i - Oxe of the plainest of human rights is tho right to be let alone, and to be allowed the privilege of oxercising our benevolent faculties and extending our sympathies in whatever direction we prefer—a right which cannot be invaded without tyranny.

PREPARING FOR INSPECTION.

MESS TEST.

A BARGAIN COUNTERSIGN.

THESE ACTUAL FACTS

4tL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. An Interesting Summary of the More Important linings nr Our Neighbors Crimes, Casualties, Deaths, Etc. The .State Institutions. Tho following statement shows what It costs to maintain our benevolent and reformatory institutions per month, taking tho month of June as an average month: TIUNKVOT.KNT INSTITUTIONS. Centra’ insane hospital... .935,026.13 Non in*rn insane hospital.. .0,101.03 BonU:«rn insane hospital.. 5,952.68 Eastern insane hospital... 6,305.90 Des'and dumb asylum,... 5,234.83 Blind asylum...... 8,009.16 Soldiers’ and sailors'' orphans' home 10,989.00 School for feeble minded • youth 6,432.89 969,813.54 REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS. - Reform school for boy 5.... #6.209.00. Reform school for girls and women’s prison 3,517.54 89,747.54 Total 879,360.08 State prisons are self-sustaining. Assistant Deputy Clem Korsig, in the Stato Treasurer’s office, places the average monthly disbursements of these institutions for maintenance, clothing and repairs at $78,000 and gradually increasing. This does not include tho construction and equipments of new buildings and other improvements that become necessary every year as the number of inmates boeomos greater.

Minor State Items. —Kokomo wants a morning paper. —George Skinner, while stealing a ride on a train at Goshen, had his leg crushed off. —Noblosvillo ministers are fighting merchants who keep open stores on Sunday. —Son of Dr. Wimraer, Marlon, was seriously hurt, by falling off a lumber pile. —llurr Love, 13, Marion, was run down by a train and had his foot mangled. —Spencer continues to defend itself against attacks relating to the recent lynching. —Win. Schroder, of Laporte, was dangerously injured by a meat-ciitt<b falling on him. —Mrs. Ilonrv Becker and babv wero seriously Injured by a runaway horse at Evansville. —Farmer Lewis Brown, Clay County, raised forty bushels of wheat to tho acre this year. —Corwin Cofeen, of Muncie, was Jailed ’cause he didu’t register his doggie. Will tost tho law. —A Morgantown druggist has shipped $1,232 worth of Brown County ginseng to Cincinnati.

—Dr. G. C. Smythe, Greoncastlo surgeon, was seriously hurt by being thrown from ills carriage. —Found the charred bones of a man in tho ruins of Albert Yates’ barn at Goshen. Mystery. —Guy Apple, 3 years old, died at Noblosvillo from tho offects of drinking concentrated lye. —County fair, Danville, is in tho hands of a receiver. Liabilities $50,000; assets about tho same. —A turtle with • “James Robinson. 18L8,” carved on its back, lias boon found In Harrison County.

—John L. Dobyns, for eight years Auditor ol Docatur CoUlity, is dead at Clarksburg, where he was op a visit. —JacoD Landenborg’s valuable colt, whjch was stefen from his farm near Woodvlllo, has been tound at Buchanan, Mich. —Geo. \V. Warner, 69, Martinsville, was stricken with paralysis. He has been a resident bf Martlnsvillb sixty years. —-Young son of Frank Callin, New Castle, upset a cup of hot scaling wax, and was badly burned on, the hands and arms. —lsaac and Charles Arnold, Vinson France, and a young man named Warner were seriously Injured in a runaway accident near Pleasantville. —Moore's Hill College was struck by lightning and a portion of the cupola torn away. Rain put out the fire. Prof. Blgney was severely shocked. —A miner, while making a blast at Knightsvllle, found a petrified man on horseback. The man was in a reclining position and had a cap in his haud. Might be true. ,* —Lucy Ulney, 20 months old, was drowned at the home of her parents near Indianapolis. She was left alone in the kitchen for a few minutes, and fell, head first, Into a boiler tilled with cold water. —Attorney General Smith has received a letter from the Prosecutor at Lawrencoburg, regarding the action of the Board of Review toward the banks that refused to state the several amounts which their depositors had on hand at the beginning of the assessment year. When the Attorney General’s opinion Was received the Board summoned the officers of the banks, and under threats of sending them to lail secured statements of deposits, showing that $300,000 had been withheld from the assessors. This sum, together with 50 per cent, additional as penalty was placed upon the tax-dupiicHtc, making a total of $450,000 as a result of the investigation. —A young man named Owens, employed at tho Edinburg Cereal Mills, while sweeping, caught his sleeve In the machine, his arm being drawn in and his hand almost severed by an oblique cut across the wrist. —Mrs. Jessie P. Elliott, of Connersvillc, and her daughter Annie, while oat driving, attempted to hoist an umbrella, and there was a runaway, in which both ladies were injured, Mrs. Elliott dangerously. The horse ran half a mile and fell dead-