Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Page 3
A TARIFF ROBBERY.
HOW A ROBBER GOT $200,000 y FROM WOMEN. Why Fruit-Jars Have Been High—A Combination to Put Up Prices - One Manufacturer Scoops in a Fortune of Tariff Spoils—Pittsburg Grocers Protest Against Trusts—McKinley’s Protected Britishers —A Merry Monopolist. Cause of Their Cost. Why havo fruit jars cost so much dur lug the present season’ That is the questio 1 that many good housewives have fccon asking themselves. With excel'ent fri it going to decay because they were not able to pay the high prices fur jars, they have looked ftrward with a foe ing of regiot for the pies of canned peaches, apples and other kinds of fruit which they will miss next winter. Do our women know what there is behind this great riso in the price of, jars? It is a trust, a tariff trust, and it lia; taken adva tage of the largo fruit crop to collect tho protective tariff spoils which the McKinleyites havo guaranteed to it The tariff on g ass jars for fr< it is 40 per cent on the best kinds and r till higher on the cheaper grades. Besides this, glass jars are very expensive things to pack and ship, being very liable to break in handling; and as the new law makes i o allowance for glass broken in shipment from abroad, unless the part broken is as much as one tenth of the whole, the domestic manufacturers got the benefit of still higher protection.. Whenever, therefore, an importer buys £lO worth of glass fruit jars in Europe he isiorapelled to pay £4 and more as a penalty for bringing them into this country. This £4 is then added to the priee of the jars and it keeps on accumulating in the hands of the various dealers till it reaches the farm where this tax is finally paid. Every dealer gets back the tariff price he paid ana more; the farmer's wifo has no way of getting hers back—she foots the entire bill and pockets the loss This is a fair specimen of protective tariff taxes. The fruit jar tax was imposed to keep foreign jars from competing with those made here, and it accomplishes this so thoroughly that wo do not import enough of these jars to make them worth mention in the Government reports. Foreign jars were to le kept out in order to encourage domestic manufacturers, and this object |s also accomplished, as is shown by the way in which these precious domestic manufacturers have combined and put tip prices during tho past few months. Cue of the men in this fruit-jar trust made a snug fortune this summer. The story is told |n a late number ot the National -Glais Budget, an organ published in th» interests of the glassmakers. This paper prints an account of the resumption of work after the summer rent in the fruit jar factories. The factories opened, says the Budget, In the midit of tho wildest boom in tho glass trade since 1879. * * * Behind the boom there is a most interesting story of how Whitney Bros., of the Whitney Glass Works, at Glassboro, N. J., have scooped up a c.'ear profit “Two years ago Whitney Bros, found themselves in a position where it was to their advantage to take tho entire product of an outside factory which ran on jars for them. Tho Whitneys’ own mills continued to turn out the usual amount, and the trade looked with horror ypon the jars, which were piled up into tho thousand gross. “At tho beginning of the season a combination was made in which it was agreed to maintain the price at $7.50 a gros'. The Whitneys were in, but even this combination did not let the others rest easy. hen the boom came the Whitneys had about 45,000 gross of lars on hand, and they were the masters of the situation. Up jumped the price. It rose quickly from £7 to 57.50, to £8.50, to £10.50, to £11; and to £11.50, and still Whitney Bros, had thousands of jars. They ctmld uot ship thorn fast enough to check the rise. From five to fifteen , carloads have been going daily from the storehouses in Glassboro and balom, and yet but a small fraction of the demand was met. Prices continued to jump, and Ti:e day offers a 3 high as £l2 and £l4 a gross were made without securing the jars. The resumption of work at the factories will have no appreciable effect on the market. ” This is a distinct case of tariff robbery. Any one can see that if the protective tariff did not prevent the importation of foreign made jars there would have been a supp y of them here to meet the large demand, and that the New Jersey men could not then have fleeced the women of £200,000. In order to “encourage domestic industry” the McKinley ites turn over all the farmers’ wives to th 3 tendey mercy of a grasping monopoly made up of a few jar manufacturers Is it not a sin and a shame thus to put it into tho power of a half dozen men to lay tribute upon thousands of households?
Why the Ship Rolled.
A protectionist traveler just returned from Germany has the following to say in a high tariff organ: “The best thing I heard was on board the steamship Lahn of the North German Lloyd line on my way home Among the passengers was a German gentleman of wealth, who is a manufacturer of cutlery near Cologne. He was accompanied by his wife, and while on deck one day was engaged in wrapping her up in a rug in her steamer chair. It proved to be a very difficult undertaking, as the ship on a light sea was rolling heavily from side to side. Some one remarked about his predicament, that it was a curious thing for the steamship to bo rolling so heavi’y, when he replied in distinct English: ‘it is not at all curious. It is that McKinley bill does it There is no freight aboard ocean steamships, going to America any more, and the ship is light in the hold. That is why she rolls so badly.’ I thought that was a pretty good illustration of the protective tariff bill.* Yes; a pretty good illustration. We are now exporting enormous quantities of whea‘, and many ships even sail here empty from Europe to load with wheat, thus making it necessary for our product to pay a higher freight to get into the European market, and thus in a measure hurting its sale. But how long can trade of this kind continue/ Where much goes out and little comes in tl e balance must be made up in money. But no nation can be drained of its money; for as money grows scarce it becomes dearer. In othor words, the prices of .commodities fall, and when prices have fallen there we cea e to send our products there. One-sided trace cannot long exist This is admitted evon by the organ of ton American Protective Tariff League. In >* issue of April 3it said: “Prcba-
biy no economic law is more rigid than that a nation’s imperts must, in the long run, be paid for by its exports.” From which it follows that the more we buy in Europe the greater will bo the demand there for . pur products of farm and fa tory; and in order that we may make a foreign mrakotfer “another bu-hel of wheat and another barrel of pork,” wo must lower our tariff wall to let in more foreign goods. A Merry Monopolist. Tho pcckot-knife trust, which calls itself iho American Pocket-Cutlery Association, lias been gradually moving up prices ever siuce the McKinioy law was passed. One of the leading spirits in this trust is Thomas W. Bradley, of the New York Knife Company, W’aiden, N. Y. In a letter to the New York trade journal, Hardware, lie writes in a merry way about the pood things that tho McKinley law is doing for the pocketknife monopoly. He says: “American manufacturers of pocket cutjory have, under tho McKinley tariff, au opportunity to sell their product in an American market such as they have not had for years. * * * American makers are extending their works,'increasing their output, ar.d getting slightly bettor pike 3. * * * Life is a sight more worth living since Major McKinley and his co leagues A protective tariff to protect.” How much this merry monopolist and hisfiiend3 have advanced prices may be seen from the following statement made by a prominent New York dealer in a recent interview: “Here,” ho said, “is a three-blade knife which has had a very largo sale in the West, retailing at 75 cents. A year ago we bought ! this knife at £4.25 a dozen, but on Oct 18 the price was raised to £5.20. January a further advance to £G was made, and I see here that we bought it in June at £<5.70. At this latter price, after the knife has passed through the hands of tho jobber, the retail merchant will net be satisfied with less than a dollar as the price to the final purchaser. ” These higher pricos are the natural result of ra'sing the old duty from 50 per cent, to a McKinley duty running/ all the way from 74 to 110 per cent. The knife trust simply takes what McKinley gave it; and the thousands ot consumers all over the country must pay more for their knives.
Mckinley's Protected Britishers.
The following is an extract from the prospectus of tho Ban Jacinto Tin Mining Company of Calfornia, composed exclusively of Englishmen: “Metallic tin can be produced froiil Tfemescal (San Jacinto) ores at a cost not exceeding £25 per ton. Based on a daily output of 200 tons of ore, yielding 10 per tent. of*.metalhc tin costing £25 per lon and sold at £95 per ton, the Cajalco mine alone (the lode from which the company is now taking ore) would produce a yearly profit of £420,000, or nearly double the total profit from all the mines in Cornwall. ” Our lord high tariff maker put a duty of 4 cents a pound pn tin, to take effect in July, 1893, and here thes3 Englishmen are showing how they can make over £2,000,0G0 a year out of their ( allfornia tin mine. Yet, says McKinley, “it is an American bill; it is not a European bill. ”
Protection in Mexico.
Henry Wall Allen, of Kansas City, writes a lolt*r from the City of Mexico to the New York Standard, in which he says: “Tho vast majority of this population are so poor that they have never had on shoi or stock ng. It is estimated that 95 per cent, of them never buy an imported article. (How McKinley an’d his so lowers would bow down and worship such a reopl.‘.) But cotton cloth is the one thing that, more or ies3 of it, generally less, everybody must havo. With free trade Fall River could supply it at five cents a yard. But, a® it happens, this artic e is protected- The price of an inferior quality of it ranges between ten and twenty cents a yard, apd the mill operatives work fourteen to fifteen hours a day for thirty-five to seventy cents. The manufacturers, ft may be needless to add, have becoUhe very wea thy. ”
Cheapness All Around.
In continuing to denounce cheapness President Harrison either willfully or ignorantly overlooks the feet that cheapness is a rolative matter. When everything is cheap nobody suffers. When some things are dear and some cheap those who have the cheap things to sell and the dear thing 3 to buy must suffer. The farmers and workingmen, for instance, who have to sell their products and labor at competitive prices and buy necessary artic es at artificial prices fixed by a protective tariff are heavy sufferers, and their sufferings are due entirely to the discriminating policy of the President’s party.—St Louis Post-Dispatch. A young Tennessean, inspired by martial ardor, wrote to the Superintendent at West Point for the t|tms of admission. The usual circular of information from the Secretary of War was returned to him. Some time after he wrote again, thus: “I received your terms some time since. I was not seventeen years of age when I heard from you. I can’t come under such terms. I will give you the terms that I will come under. I want only to study military tactics. I want to stay three years. I want S4O per month. At the end of the term I want a position over some army of the United States. I want you to send me a round ticket there and back. I think I am both physically and mentally qualified to fill the position. I will not be out anything, but I want the position. Please answer this.’* The great factory at Irwin, Pa., with a capital of 51,000,000, has recently turned out Its first glass. It is announce! that its output will be 1,250,0.) feet per annum. This quantity, at the average prices for American plate glass, will bring the company $937,000, while the same glass bought In Europe and laid down in New York, without the duty, could be bought for $412,0 0. Great is protection for American industry. Is 1890 c heese to the value of $1,295,506 was imported into this country. The same year we exported cheese to the value of $8,591,043. What we imported came in the shape of the small and rich. Swiss and French cheeses, with which the article we export cannot possibly compete.—Rural New-Yorker. Thebe is a duty of 45 per cent, on pickles, and a combine of twenty-five pickle manufacturers has just been effected at St Louis and prices fixed for
the season. What a pickle these tail! trusts w ould oe In if there were no protective tariff to give them full control of the American consumer!
KICKING AT TRUSTS.
A PROTEST PROM THE PITTSBURG GROCERS Condemning Trust* and Combines—Crack- ■***;, Jellies, Preserves, and Fruit Butter Meld at High Prices—Trusts Protected by the Tariff. The Retail Grocers’ Association of Pittsburg, Pa., has been having a mild whack at trusts and combinations. A ter commending the action of the sugar refiners in reducing tho price of sugar as the result of the removal of the duty last April, tho association says: “We regret to ■ ay that there are other manufacturers of staple goods which are largely consumed, such as jellies, preserves, .fruit butters and crackers of all kinds, who maintain former prices, notwithstanding the great reduction in sugar and the bountiful supply of wheat and fruits of all kinds.”
The assoc ation further be’ieves “that ! crackers of all kinds, jellies; preserves, Sad fruit butters are entirely too high, and that prices are maintained by influences other than tho law of supply and demand;” and that “all kinds of fruit products can be maintained and manufactured at greatly reduced prices. ” In commenting on this, the New York Merchants’ Review, a stern foe to all our tariff trusts, says: “There can be no question as to the tariff being involved in this matter of the prices, of the goods mentioned in the resolutions qf .our Pittsburg friends, and it may b6,said without exaggeration that tho tariff te responsible for tho condition of which the grocers complain. They appear to be thankful for the reduction of sugar prices—a result of the passage of the McKinley law—but as the same measure, by its provisions which maintain or iti- , crease the duties of certain other goods handled by grocers, is chiefly responsib e for the existence of manufacturers’ trusts and combinations, or at least gives them power to maintain prices above the level of foreign markets, the quarrel of the Pittsburg Association would seem, ought to bs with the tariff and those responsible for its oueroim provisions ” It should be added that the cracker combine is protected by a duty of 20 per cent.; the combines controlling jelly, preserves, fruit butter, etc , by a duty of 35 per cent. In England tho poor working people buy fruit, jams, marmalades, etc., as substitutes for butter. If it were not for our protective taxes on these articles, would not the trusts be compelled to sell at . lower prices and thus put these articles in. reach of poorer people than can now indulge in them?
An enormous cavern has been discovered in Josephine County, Oregon, near the California line, and about forty miles from the coast. It is in a limestone region, which extends for miles. Many of the passages within the cave are described as of great beauty, containing semi-transparent stalactites, giant milk-white pillars and pools and streams of pure, clear water. A creek flows from the main opening to the cave. Several miles from the entrance is a small lake and a waterfall thirty -feet in height. The (favern appears to he fully as large as the Mammoth Cave vin Kentucky.
The antics of two young women produced a considerable commotion in a railway car. that was just entering Boston. The girls managed to calm themselves sufficiently to tell the conductor in’confidence that they believed it was a rat. The conductor grasped the animal through several thicknesses of summer fabrics, and when uncovered it proved to be a playful kitten. It subsequently got away from him, scrambled over the bald head of a sleeping gentleman from Cambridge, and tried to hide itself in the glass globe of a trainman’s lantern.
An old brindle cow belonging to an Indiana man broke into another’s field, and in court the owner of the field proved that the cow destroyed the following mentioned property, to wit: Two four-year-old cherry trees, seven apple trees, five pear trees, one plum tree, 100 head of cabbage, twelve rows of beans five rods long, one row of beets one and one-half rods long, fifty to 150 sweet potato plants, one bed of onions, three grapevines and fourteen blackberry bushes? Wm. Walter Phelps seems to have shown quite a measure of success as a foreign Minister. This is by no means strange when we consider the fact that his life in New Jersey has made him perfectly familiar with foreign ways and customs.
The Eoston Transcript, a Republican journal, offers tho fol owing to temper the glee of the McKinleyites In their rejoicings over free sugar: “It is now thought that $K,000,000 will be required to pay the sugar bounty the pre ent year. We are supposed to have made sugar free, and the American people will pay $12,000,000 in 1891 for having done it The Government doesn't furnish the money. It is the people. It is a highly Interesting fact that tho protected producers of pig lead in this country sell lead in Canada at a price lower by 18 per cent, than the price which the people oi the United States are required to pay. Another object lesson of the beauties of McKinleyism. —Boston Globe. The tariff trusts are gradually raking in everything Now it is a snath trust This trust was recently organized as the National Snath Company; and articles of incorporation have been filed at Jackson, Mich. The trus’. is protected by a duty of 35 per cent The next time President Harrison goes out to talk politics let him omit to mention'the rapid growth of the shoddy business under the McKinley law. —Louis* ▼ille Courier-Journal. The Chinese have sent his excels lency Lord Li as their minister plenipotentiary to Japan. This gentleman is a diplomatist, at least ia name.
SENTENCE OF DEATH.
MURDER OF LAWYER POSTON - TO BE AVENGED. H. Olay King Moat Hang—A Mexican Editor Fomenting Bevolntlon—Franco, Germany, and England Will Bring Chinn to Time —Printer* Scorched. Moat Atone with His Fife. Unless the Supreme Court shall Interfere in his behalf, Colonel H. Clay King will be hanged in Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 6 next for the murder of David H. Poston, March 10 last. The chapter in the life of Colonel King, so far as the Criminal Court of Shelby County is concerned, was closed when Judge J. J. Du Bose, of the Criminal Court, after a lengthy opinion, said : “Let the motion be overruled.” The crime'-for which H. Clay King stands convicted is too fresh in the minds of the people to need rehearsing in detail. Between 10 and 11 o’clock on the morning of the 10th of March CoL King stepped from a doorway on Main street, oppo ite Court Square, and shot down Lawyer David H. Toston, who was hurrying to the e on important business. He died a few hour* later. King at once gave hinjself np and was committed to jail without bail and trial. A few months thereafter caiqe the trial, lasting thirty-two days. The jury after nearly two days’ deliberation brought in a verdict of guilty of murder. A new trial was applied for, and Judge Du Bofo has delivered his opinion, dverruling the motion. Every exception oh the prisoner’s behalf was overruled. There was a brief (pause, a death-like alienee for more than a minute aftejr tho Judge had finished. (King sat perfectly stolid, with a broad jfan pressed tight to his lips. Judge Greer arose, and in & few words said that the prisoner excepted, to the judgment of the court in overruling the motion. There was another pause of a minute, when Judge Du Bose, looking up from the manuscript he had been arranging, said: “Let the prisoner come forward. ” Instantly Colonel King rose from his chair, and; with nervous step, but fixed and immovable countenance, stepped a few paces toward the bench and looked steadfastly' in the eyes of the Court. distinct voice, the Judge in effect said: “It is the judgment of this Court that you, H. Clay King, shall be committed to the county jail,*' and there safely be kept by the Sheriff until the 6th day of November, 1891; when, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 1 p. m. t the Sheriff shall, within the jail or an inclosure adjacent to the jail, take you to a gallows therein constructed ana hang you by the neck until you are dead. ” The prisoner stood as a statue, and when the Coqrt had finished he turned on his hoels and walked firmly back to his chair. Major Weatherford then arose and said an appeal would be takon to the Supreme Court Co'onel King, between two deputies, was taken back to jail, and the crowd which had thronged the court-room passed out into the sunshine.
CHINA WIU CATCH IT. Murderous Mongolian* to Be Punished by the Power*. A dispatch from Shanghai says: China is preparing a protocol to the powers on the recent riots. It is believed the foreign ministers will not wait for this document, the preparation of which Is likely to occupy several weeks. At Paris, the Chinese Charge d’Affaires has visited Foreign Minister Ribot and as er informing him that China recognized that the measures hith-. erto taken to protect Europeans in China were insufficient, assured him that the negligent mandarins would be dismissed and the rioters punished. He added that six of the latter have already been hanged. It is feared, however, that these promises will remain a dead letter.
The Berlin correspondent of the London Standard telegraphs that the German Foreign Office has been receiving disquieting news from China Within the last day or so. China, according to these advices, is unable to fulfill her promises made to the representatives of the Powers that she would piinfsh those who were implicated in the recent outrages upon foreigners and their property, and that sho would In future protect foreign residents from injury. It is added that the rumors circulated in several quarters to the effect that France and Russia would not take part in any joint action on the part of the combined fleets should it be decided that such & step is necessary, Is pronounced to be untrue. It is also asserted that there la no doubt that Germany will Increase the number of her warships now Id Chinese waters and that she will be propared to take strong measures should they be needed to protect German subjects or their property, or should she be called upon to take an active part In a naval demonstration against Cnina.
DEVOURING flames. Several Chicago Printer* and Stereo typer* Are Badly Scorched. Shortly after 1 o’c'ock in the morning a fire, which had evidently-been smoldering for some time, burst out of each of the six floor! of the building at No. 175 Monroe street, Chicago, and the halfdozen firms doing business were cleaned out The gro rnd floor was occupied by Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, typewriting machines; the second by the Jameson & Mor e Company, printers; tho third by the W. J. Jefferson Printing Company; and the upper floors by Womgren Bros. & Co , eloctrotypers and stereotypers. All of these firms suffer absolute loss on stock, though most of them are fully Insured. The building, comparatively a new one, was owned by the Packing House Insurance Company, and sustained an insured loss of about $20,000. The damage to the stocks of the tenants la variously estimated at from $30,000 to $50,000, so that at the most the loss In the aggregate will not exceed $70,000.
Bank of England Profit.
The half-yearly meeting of the directors of the Bank of England was presided over by Mr. Wm.Lidderdale,the Governor of the bank. A statement was submitted showing that the net profits for the half-year ended Aug. 31 were £763,238, making the amount in rest £3,776,800. A dividend of 5 guineas per cent was declared, leaving in rest £3,012,770. A fruit merchant in New York sold this season to one restaurant 18,000 pine-apples for making pine apple syrup for soda-water.
AMAZED THE NATIONS.
An Astounding Bequest by Russia Puwtl«« European Diplomat*. The Russian Government has requested the European Danube Commission to permit Russian naval cadets to take passage on board tho vessels bv longing to the commission, in order that these young officers may be instructed in the pilotage of the Danube and becomo familiar with the navigation of that river. This strange request, following close upon the Dardanelles incident lit which Russ a insisted that Turkey should allow vessels b -longing to her voluuteor fleet to pass tho Dardanelles, claiming that they were-not men of-War in tie actual loose of the word, has caused considerable astonishment in official circles The Danube is the chief natural highway for the commerce of a large portion of Europe. Tho request just made to the European Danube Commission would seem to indicate that Russia would like her naval cadets to bo instructed in the navigation of the Danube above and below the Iron Gate. It would also seem that this is a hint that she may not now consider binding, for her volunteer sMm> at least, the clause of tho stipu atlng that “ships of war* shbufo not navigate the Danube below thWroa Gato.
WAGNER ENRAGED THEM.
The Performance of •> Loliongrln" at Purls Accompanied by Exciting Scenes. The house was crowdod, there being no special difficulty in obta ning admission. Tho overture was listened to in profound sllonce, the audience breaking into rapturous applause at the conclusion. The opera was admirably mountod and finely rendered. \an Dyck and other artists were recalled several times and applauded to the echo. There was a noisy demonstration outside the opera house during the performance. A band of students sang tho “Marseillaise,” the crowd responding with cries of “Vivo la France;” “A bai Wagnot. ” Portions of tit© mob continually made rushes against the pollco cordon, and thu police, whenever those lncursionsi became formidable, assumod tho offensive and charged the mob, which would take flight In hot, haste. In some cases tho zeal of tho police seemed to outrun their discretion. In soveral instances rcspectnb o onlookers were roughly handled and arrested on the slightest provocation, and then cuffed if they ventured to make the mildest prottst At 10 o’clock a forco of cavalry and mountod tlollce patrolod tho scene of tho distui banco and a most determined effort to clear the streets was mako-meeting with consldorab e success. Tho crowd was apparently mainly composed of people curious :o witness any demonstration that might be madb. The performance was concluded Without trouble, and tho work was pronounced a great artistic success. Matty of tho audience wont out on tho stops between tho acts to wl’tness the Scene outside and were received with rounds of hisses. At the conclusion of the performances 700 policemen were still occupied in clearing the streets. Altogether about 1,000 persons wore arrested. Tho Gorman Embassy was strongly guarded throughout the night A party of 200 roughs smashed the windows of the German Case Hapovro. A curious incident Occurred in the course of tho bveping. One of tho men arrested, on beini taken to tho police station, announced himself as a Russian. He was forthwith liberated, with a bow and a pollto “Passez, Monsiour. ”
Cardinals to Be Created.
It is probable that tho next consistory will bo held at Rome within a few weeks. Cardinal Rotelll will receive the cardinal’s hat, and now cardinals will be created as follows; Mgr. Replace! and Mgr. Rufio Bclllo, for Italy, and Mgr. Thomas, for France. The dato of the consistory depends upon the conclusion of the negotiations with Hungary in regard to tho occupation of the 800 of Prague left vacant by the death of Cardinal Simor.
Investigations recently undertaken by direction of tho Pope aro raid at the Vatican to show that mixed marriages between Catholics and Protestants usually have a bad effect on both faiths. Several bishops have expressed tho opinion to the Holy See that such mixed marriages should be made more difficult. It is not yet known what decision Ihe holy office will take on tho subject In any case, the question lias boon opened, and will probab'y soon bo determined one way or tho other.
Saussier Was Surprised.
Le Temps, Paris, says that General Saussler, tho Commander-ln-chicf of the French army of maneuvers, and the general who was looked upon as the man to take supreme <ommandof the French forcos In Case of a war with Gormany, allowed himself to be surprised and hemmed in by the < nemy's cavalry In the military maneuvers on a recent drill. Tho Temps adds that General Boisdeffre, who was in command of the forco representing the enemy, not bolng desirous of capturing General taussler, allowed his cavalry to bo put to flight by General Saussier’s escort.
Talks Only of War.
The Berlin Fost says that, in congratulate g the Er urt troops, Emperor William “Erfurt, so med a f ojlous point in our history. Hero the Corsican parvenu most deeply humbled us and most horrib’y t euted us. From here also In 1813 proceeded a stream of vengeance. 1 remoiuLer that for eight years my rracious g andfather's sharp glance rested with satisfaction upon the corps then commanded by Genera) Plumenthal. Erfurt is, Jn fact, connected w.th great mo cents. 1 am confident that the corns will retain its smartness under jour excellency’s leadership.”
Discipline in Germany.
The Berliner Tagoblatt says: Two months ago the Captain of the Fi st Company of the Thirty-seventh Fusileers, stationed at Kotoschin, found a sentinel asleep. On the following Sunday the Captain, paraded them font times in succession. Twenty-one men were absent from the fourth parade and wore afterward found walking about the streets. They were arrested, tried by court-martial, and sentenced jo Imprisonment in a fortress for terms varying from eighteen to twenty months. The leaking out of tho news has caused a sensation. Edward Lytor Budwer Dickers, the youngest son of the great novelist, has been elected to Parliament in Nan Math Wales.
THE POSITIVE TRUTH
THAT ALL THE HOOSiER NEWS IS HERE. Onr Neighbor* Are Doing— Matter* of Ceneral and Local Intel eat—Accident*. crimes. Suicide, Ktc. J. J. Rtilnelifun, While Deincnlod, Tukcs Another Man’s Horse anil Is Miot. J. J. Rhiucham, a stranger In Now Ross, was shot and mortally wounded by William Evans. Rhlnoham got off tho train early in the evening and said ho wanted to go to Danville, 111. Ills actions attracted attention and it was apparent that ho was temporarily demented. This was further shown when he climbed into Evans’ buggy and drove away, oblivious to tho fact that the property did not belong to him. Soon tho owner appeared, and in company with Coroner Rronough, secured a rig and startod in pursuit toward Llzton. They met tho stranger returning. lie was driving as If simply enjoying himself. Evans jumped out and grasped tho reins of his horse but tno stranger simply drove ahead without stopping. Evans then pulled his revolver and deliberately shot tho man In the head, tho ball entering at tho cornor of the left eye. Nothing will bo done with Evans for tho shooting. Minor Bt*t« Item'. —An l epidemic of typhoid fever Is reported from Morgan County. —Tobo Fin was almost scalped at New Albany by a negro who attacked hh.i with a knife. —Two unknown tramps tired farmer Jacob Murray’s straw pile near Peru bocauso they were refused food. —Mrs. William Lopdorniilk, the wife of a prominent farrnor near Knlghtstown, dropped dead while attending to her household duties. —Thirty have died of diphtheria at Sholbyvlllo. Tho schools have beep closed and tho Mayor has ordered quarantine measures to bo takon.
—Foster Fletcher applied for a liconso to sell liquor at Newmarket, but tho County Commissioners refused him. Tho peoplo there aro bent on local option. —Joseph Pierce, Jr., and John McWhtnoy, ofWaynoton, were hunting and Piorce accidentally shot his companion In tho breast. Tho wound will not bo fatal. —Rev. Richard S. Martin, of Valparaiso, has lallcn heir to a fortune In England and has been called to Grace Methodist Church In Chicago, to succeed Rev. Mclntiro. —Sneak thieves have made two good hauls IP Terre Haute, gottlng a hundred dollars’worth of jewelry In tho rosltfenco of Mr, J. D. Blgolow and S7OO worth in tho rosldenco of Mr. E. 11. Bindley. —ln 1855 J. J. Leak, of Crawfordsvlllc, failed and gave his watch to John Tayno, one of his creditors, for a debt of $45, with tho understanding that he could rufloem It. Tho redeeming of tho watch never took place until last week. —Tho Jackson County Bank, of Seymour, with a capital stock of $50,000, doing business as a State Bank for a number of years past, will bo changed to a National Bank, under tho title of “Tho Seymour National Bank." The capital stock will to Increased to SIOO,OOO, —Comrades of Wagnor’s old brigade, Fifteenth, Fortieth and Fifty-seventh Indiana, Twenty-sixth and Ninetyseventh Ohio, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-olghth Kentucky, Ono-hund-redth Illinois and Tenth Indiana Battery, will hold their first reunion slnco the war at Lebanon, Oct. 8 a tut 0. —Geo. W. Dobson, an employe of tho Pennsylvania Company, Columbus, has been officially notified tnat by his first marri&go, his wife being dead, he and his two children had fallen hair to a largo Interest in tho Harper estate in Germany, and that his presence was desired at Nashville, Tenn., at once, whero a part 6f It was ready for distribution. Dobson resigned his position and left for Nashville to receive his share.
Mrs. John Wagner, residing near North Manchester, started home, walking down tho Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Bailroad track. As she was crossing the trestle over the river an engine, with one box-car attached, ran her down. Fortunately she fell between tho rails and lay flat on the tics. As she is of very slight build, by bugging the ties closely, permitted the engine and car to pass over her without Inflicting serious Injury, though she was painfully cut and bruised about the head and body. She Is 60 years old. —Tho little 2-year-old son of Prof. J. T. Reese, teacher of music In the Connersvllle Public Schools, came very near meeting his death by accident. The little fellow walked down to the Big Four tracks just as a freight, two hours late, came rushing through the city. He sat down on the track, and as the whistle gave alarm again and again the little fellow heeded It not While the train was approaching the fireman crawled over the engine, reached the cow-catcher and seized the boy by tho arm just in time to save bis life. The fireman has received the praise of all for his heroic deed. —The onion crop raised by the farmers residing on the river bottom west of-New Albany Is said to be very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrels havo already been shipped to Northern points. —As the west-bound fast train on the Wabash thundered through Burrow’s Station, a lad about twelve years o{ age | jumped off the train. He was instantly killed. There was hothing on his person by which to Identify Rfm. . H,e is thought to have bailed from Royal Center, Cass County.