Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Page 3

MR. SPRINGER’S REPORT.

THE TARIFF DOESN’T BENEFIT MANUFACTURING. A Strong Argument In Favor of * Revision of the Wool and Woolen Tariff— Tlie Reign of Shodtly—ln 1855—The Cordage Trust. /, Tlie Tariff Should Be Revised. Chairman Springer shows, in his report on the wool bill, that from 1867 the policy of high protective tariffs upon wool and woolens has resulted in disaster to the growers, manufacturers, and consumers. In considering the effect of the wool and woolens tariff of 1867 upon sheep husbandry, Mr. Springer says: “In 1868 there were 6,730,000 sheep in I Ohio; in 1870 the number had fallen to'l 4,928,000; in 1880 to 4,080,000; in 1883 6,060,000; in 1890 there were only 3,943,- ! 000 reported, while in 1891 the number was given at-4,061,000. Similar results took place in all the other States east of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. The increase in the number of sheep in the United States has been in States west of those rivers or in localities where there was a free range upon the public domain. There were in the whole United States in 1868 nearly 39,000,000 sheep; at this time there are only 43,000, - 000, an increase of 4,000,000 in twenty years, the whole increase being in sheep upon the ranches of the West. “In 1867, the year in which the WoolTariff act was passed, there were only 38,000,000 pounds of wool imported into the United States, which was 19 per cent, only of the wool consumed in this country. In 1891 there were 129,000,000 pounds of wool imported, which was 30.8 percent, of the total consumption ot the country. Thus it appears that there is at this time 62 per cent, more of foreign wool consumed in this country, as compared with the whole amount consumed, than there was in 1867. The yrool-growers of 1867 believed that the imposition of high tariffs on wool would secure them the control of the home market. The result proves how greatly they were mistaken and how ineffectual the law has been to produce the condition which they desired. “As to its effect on prices, wool has steadily declined from 1867, when it was worth 63 cents per pound, in currency, to the present time. The McKinley act increased the duty on wool an average of one cent a pound. The result has been a fall in price of two to three cents a pound instead of a rise in price. After twenty-five years of experiment the result has been a reduction of one-one-half in the number of sheep in the States east of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and a reduction of one-half in the price of wool." Of the effect of the tariffs upon manufactures, Mr. Springer says: "Nor have the manufacturers of woolen goods been benefited by tlie imposition of high duties on : wool and woolen goods. There have beep many.seasons of great depression in their business and many petitions have been sent to CongresA asking for free wool. The manufacturers of woolen goods are divided in opinion as to whether wool should be placed upon the free list, but all concede the great disadvantage to which American wool, manufacturers are subjected' by reason of the tariff on wool. ■ ’ 11 - t ' ; “A statement of the Census Office shows that' if we deduct the idle establishments (271) and the shoddy establishments (94), which arc included for the first time in woolen manufactures, it will be seen that instead of 2,867 establishments in 1890, there were only 2,502 woolen establishments in active operation. This shows a falling off in the number of establishments between 1880 and 1890 of 187. The capital invested in 1890 also includes hired property to the Value of $17,742,000. A careful examination of this preliminary statement will show that woolen establishments have increased in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and in the New England States, but that, as a rule, there has been a failing off in woolen establishments between 1880 and 1890 in the Southern States and States west of the Alleghany Mountains. “It will be seen that the increase amounted to only 26.08 per cent., which is but little more than the increase of population. With an actual decrease to the amount of 174 in woolen establishments, and an output which merely keeps pace with the growth of population in the United States, it cannot be claimed that the manufacture of woolen goods has been in a flourishing condition during the last decade. With a high protective tariff on the raw material, and compensatory and high ad valorem duties on the finished product, and products limited to the home market, woolen manufacturers cannot even hope to increase their productions beyond the annual increase of population.” How consumers of woolens have been injured,'the following clearly shows: goods, or goods composed in whole or in part of wool, including carpets, are articles of universal consumption in this country. Their cost to consumers is very great. It is impossible to estimate accurately how much the people of the country expend on this account. Such goods are absolutely nec- • essary to the health and comfort of the people, and they are entitled to supply their wants in this respect at the lowest possible cost. “If the existing law imposing an'average of 91 per cent, on such goods when imported does not increase the price of domestic goods of like character, which do not pay any tax whatever, then the manufacturer receives no benefits from protective tariffs and should not object to their repeal. If domestic goods are increased in price by reason of duties imposed upon foreign goods of like character, the extent or amount of this increase is the measure of protection which domestic manufacturers receive. Just how much this protection increases the cost of domestlo goods to American consumers cannot be ascertained with accuracy. As all persons are compelled to use woolen goods, are also compelled to pay the increased cost by reason of the tariff, .whatever it may bo. ~ This exaction is taken from the many for the benefit of the few. Concerning the growth of the shoddy Industry, Mr. Springer says: “Notwithstanding the high protection accorded manufacturers of woolen goods, the quality of such goods has deteriorated frem year to year since the discovery of machinery for converting woolen rags into substitutes for wool. In 1860 there were in this country thirty shoddy establishments with an invested capital of $123,500, using in raw material $227,925, employing ,290 hands at an annual cost of $54,124 and with an annual product of $402,590. During the war the public became greatly prejudiced against its use, through its extensive use in the manufacture of inferior army clothing and blankets. The census statistics of 1870 showed an increase in capital invested in shoddy manufacture of 561 per cent., and an increase in the value of the produot amounting to 339 per cent. The shoddy produced in the United States in 1890 will amount to 100,000,000 pounds. The scoured wool produced in that year amounted to only 92,000,000 pounds. Thus it appears that the shoddy produced in the United States in the census year of 1890 had a greater cloth-producing power than all the wool which was produced in the United States for that year. i, “It thus appears that the high pro-

tective tariff on wool, which was enacted with the avowed purpose of aiding woolgrowers, has forced manufacturers to use a cheaper material than wool; and the competition which now threatens mostly the wool producers of the country comes from the ninety-four establishments manufacturing shoddy in the United States rather than from wool grown in Australia and South America."

In 1855 and Now.

Are things cheaper now than they used to be? In answer to the above question we will say they are—very much cheaper—in material and construction and in many instances price; but it is safe to say that in wear and tear the common articles of every day use sold forty years ago were much cheaper to the purchaser, for the best is always the cheapest. We have in our possession the books kept by Samuel N. Baker, who was the founder of the potteries now conducted by his sons in Rockville, and who also kept a general store for some years before his death in 1860. Below is the account of a day laborer named Franklin Stuart: 1855. Dr. Oct. 3, to 1 paper needles * .10 Oct. 6, to 0 pounds coffee at 16%c 1.00 Oot. G, % hand tobacco at 30c 23 Oct. 6, ii pound soda at 150 * 05 Oct. G, 4 mackerel at 6%c 25 Oct. 18, by 1 pair shoeß 1.25 Jan. 22,1856, 2 yards cotton and drilling..... .28 Feb. 1,1 check shirt 65 Feb. 11, tobacco and comb K 10 March 14, one hoe 30 T0ta1.....“. 6408 On page 12 of the ledger we notice an entry at James W. Beadle’s account, as follows: Oot. 31,1855,1 pad? suspenders per John..,. ..10c Also we notice that O. J. Innis bought a rake on the 18th of April, 1856, for 25 cents. Aside from all questions of superiority of goods sold thirty-five years ago, how much cheaper can the above items be bought in Rockville to-day? Some items may be purchased at a lower prioe, others will cost more. But it must always be remembered that there was not a railroad in Parke County thirty-five years ago, and every pound of goods sold in Rockville had to be hauled here in wagons. Then comes the important question of labor. In those days nearly everything was made by hand. Inventions have so cheapened the labor cost of articles that one man and a machine now does the work formerly done by 100 men. Goods ought to be sold to Reckville laborers at much lower prices than are now paid*. We also have before us a copy of the Terre Haute Journal. January 23, 1852, published just forty years ago to-day, and in the advertisements of the Prairie City store we read: “Now opened and scattering 10,000 yards heavy brown sheetings and shirtings, the price, 6 to 8 cents per yard. ” P. Nippert, in the same paper, advertises to sell “calicoes of every quality, ranging from 5 cents to 12J cents per yard.” These records are worth more than all the “witnesses” who might be called to give testimony from memory. On the single item of calico, Rockville prices at the same time show a marked difference. It can only be explained by the fact that none of the cheaper grades were sold here. In that event there is not much difference between the price of the hand-made goods of those days and the machine goods of to-day. We are told that the best calico has recently retailed at 12J cents. According to a writer In the Republican, labor about Rockville, measured from a standard of wood chopping, was paid 50 cents per cord in 1859. Exactly the same price is paid to-day, so in the matter of wages the laborer is no bettOT off after thirty years of a national system of economy that has given twothirds of the wealth produced in that time to one two-thousandth of the population. The county records tell the rest. The laborers of that day were on the tax duplicates as Self-supporting property owners, paying on an average of over $290 of property each, and paying it. Their counterparts of to-day, if assessed at all, are list d only for poll tax, and as a rule this is delinquent. The pauper expense of Park County in 1860 was $1,131.59. In 1890 it was $13,262.76. Here are some interesting figures for those who argue that the day laborer is better off than he was in 1860. —Rockville fin'd.) Tribune.

The Cordage Trust.

Since the cordage trust got control of nearly all tlie cordage mills of the country last year, it has made no less than six advances in price. The following table shows the full extent of these advances: Aug. 27, Feb. 25, 1891. 1£92. per lb. per lb. Advance cents. Cents, per cent. Manila, 54 In 954 12% 25.6 Manila, % in 10% 1294 24.3 Manila, % in 10% 13% 23.2 Sisal, 54 in 6% 9% 37.0 Sisal, %in 7% * 9% 34.3 New Zealand, 54 in... 0% 8% 29 5 New Zealand % in.... 7% 9% 27.5 The trust has complete control over the manufacture of binding twine and binding-tiwine machinery. Though the duty on binding twine has been reduced it is still prohibitive. Thus freed from foreign competition, the trust, by its control over the patents on twine machinery, is able to prevent new plants from being erected to compete with it. Only a short time ago the Legislatuoe of Minnesota appointed a committee to take the necessary steps to establish a binding-twine factory in the prison at Stillwater. This committee tried to purchase machinery of the trust, but found that it could not get it for less than $200,000 —an exorbitant price. The excuse which the trust offered for making so enormous a charge was that it feared iabor trouble. Its real object, however, was to prevent the State of Minnesota from manufacturing twine and selling it at a fair price to the farmers. Has Secretary Blaine succeeded in convincing the President that “trusts are private affairs,” with which the public has nothing to do? If not, why is not the Cordage trust made amenable to the anti-trust law, of which McKinley and his followers were wont to boast bo proudly? McKinley boasts that one page of his tariff can not be repealed in ten years; and he says with a sneer: “They have started in to repeal it item by item, and there are 2,500 items. ” This is tho taunt of mere physical obstruction, which is fatuous enough to fancy that its position is so buttressed against the will of the people as to be impregnable. McKinley overlooks the fact that if the people shall find the demolition of the tariff wall by piecemeal too slow, they may rise in their might and topple the whole business over in “.horizontal” fashion. Big crops at home and famine abroad can not always be depended upon to postpone the day of reckoning. At Gooseberry Ravine, Nevada County, California, some boys found four pieces of float quartz containing gold to the value of $6, $lB, $23, and $32 respectively. Prospectors have been thick in the ravine ever since, and recently one of them found a ledge which is believed to he the source of the float. A new typewriter, under the “point," system, produces writing* which the blind can read

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CONGRESSMEN VIOLATE GRAMMAR AND ITS RULES. ' I Now Bone Speeches Are Corrected—Avtra{« Number of Letters Received Dally by a Member of the House—Rush oi the Seed Season. Grammar In the House.

OUR Washington correspondent says: Grammatically the House is not a failure; that is to say, the grammar of feSv*' the Fifty-second Congress is not as bad as might be exBgSjl pected. The House, as a rule, Is a euriZg&j* ous constructor of IjllwJj' false syntax, and it Tap!* 8 onl Y a Question SW&-T of degree as to how ■■minin- far the rules of ppjrejT-of grammar are to II 1111 be violated and all j order and prece--11 dents shattered.

But in the matter of diction, to the surprise of all mankind, the present House is far in advance of its immediate predecessor, • Strangers in the galleries have watched with wonder the lightning-like speed of the stenographers taking down speeches which are being made for the benefit of the constituents of Buncombe County. They have listened to members whose words lap like shingles on a roof and whose sentences are telescoped worse than a railroad collision, and have marveled at the skill of the stenographers who make such a speech appear verbatim in the Record of the following morning. But all this is as nothing compared with the skill, diplomacy, and discretion whioh has to be exercised by those same itenographers to get these speeches arranged in grammatical form. The supposition the country around may be that Congress, as it furnishes the laws and the precedents in all parliamentary matters, might be accepted as authority on grammatical construction, and that the standard diotion as well as the law of the nation might be found in the House; but as a matter of fact civil service reform, sound currency and ethics of statesmanship (as badly treated as they are) are not as grossly assaulted as is the English language—the currency of speech. Every dialect that the nation knows is exemplified In some member of this assemblage of statesmen. As a general rule the intelligence of a Congress might be estimated by its speech. If this test were to be applied to the present Congress, I have the word of the stenographers for it, this is far above the average. Some of our ablest statesmen, however, have been very rugged in speech, and therefore it will not do in every case to let a Congress be judged by its grammar. The stenographers tell me that the Fiftyfirst Congress was conspicuous for poor grammar. Freely translated, the shorthand reports of the Fifty-first Congress would be a literary curiosity. It may be that this Congress has not gone far enough yet for a fair comparison, but up to the present point a very fair record has been produced In the construction of English sentences. The gift of gab has been bestowed freely upon the gentlemen in whose hands or upon whose tongues rests the fate of this great and glorious country temporarily. Yet should a report of one day’s proceedings in Congress be printed in the very language of the House it would make cu.rious and very interesting reading. Comparatively few even of the most learned and intelligent men in Congress follow a perfect diotion in debate. The stenographers make a report of every Word and almost every sound that occurs upon the floor, though a great deal of editing Is done before that copy is sent to the printer. If in the morning’s Record the grammatical construction is accurate, it Is due to their careful supervision, and it is curious what tact and diplomacy has to be exercised to bring this about. The report of a speech is generally submitted to the member delivering it for revision, if he desires, but corrections of grammatical construction are seldom -made by members themselves, and often it would be impossible to get the consent of a member for a correction of an obvious error. Usually the stenographer makes these corrections in transcribing his notes, and it is not Infrequent for a member to notice the correction and take exceptions to it, insisting upon being correctly report-

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ed as to his very language. In order to get good language Into the report the stenographers often have to make a plea of inaccuracy on their part and take the blame for omissions and changes which they are compelled to make. There have been cases where members have corrected proof and restored their own inaccurate expressions for the corrected manuscript of the reporters, and it has been necessary to lose this revised proof and receive some slight censure for it in order to preserve the respectability of the Record. During this Congress the reporters have had comparatively little difficulty upon this score. The new members who have been doing a considerable amount of talking have proven themselves not only speakers of considerable capacity, in force and effectiveness, but to be finished and capable constructors of English sentences. Bailey, the longhaired young Texan, has astonished the stenographers by the delivery of free, off-hand speeches, which, while delivered with great rapidity, have been smooth and well balanced and almost entirely free from errors in construction. The same may be considered of Bryan of Nebraska, who came in with the upheaval which threw the Farmers’ Alliance into Congress. His speeches have been printed in the very language of their delivery without violation of tne canons of good taste. Watson, of Georgia, who was the Farmers’ Alliance candidate for Speaker, is not an educated man, though an exceedingly fluent talker, yet his speeches require very little editing. The ybung members ffom Massachusetts write better than they speak, but the English language does not suffer distortion upon their tongues even while they are embarrassed in their speech before this new and august assemblage. A number of the members have been raised in Ignorance up to manhood and have acquired their information in later years, and it is curious how their earlier training or lack of training exhibits itself in the

heat of debate. Jerry Simpson and Farmer Davis, who are the great literary men of the Alliance party, are very accurate and stroug writers. Davis in particular prides himself upon his literary attainments, yet in their speeches they both fly off the track entirely and shatter syntax in every sentenoe. This Congress has produoed some very rapid speakers, but tko most remarkable In this particular Is Johnson, of Indiana, who almost made the stenographer’s hair rise during his speech on the Craig-Stewart conti sted election case. During a very long argument on that case he spoke at un average rate of 280 words a minute. His words ran Into sentences with merely an undulation of sound, so that each sentence was uttered with almost tho quickness of a single word, and the ear was almost Incapable of detecting any pause even between the paragraphs. Yet the report appeared with sufficient aocuraey to defy detection of error. The only other maii in the present House who can anywhere approach Johnson In rapidity of speech is Catchlngs, of Mississippi, whoso usual rate is about 225 to 230 words a minute. A Con jp-eMni un's Malt. One day’s mail of 1 a Congressman, if well selected, furnish material for a romance. One might naturally conclude that the thousands of letters distributed among members each day dealt only with claims against the Government—pension cases and tho dry details of legislation, with here and there a pathetic appeal from poverty for assistance, but there is a great deal more than this in a Congressman’s mail. An average of about eighty thousand letters per month pass through the House Postofllce into tho hands of the Representatives to be read and answerod. During last month 77,770 letters were received, and nearly as many sent out. One could hardly imagine the curious subjects with relation to which people write to their Representatives in Congress and the confidence which is shown in these letters. A member from tho South showed'•»'letter the other day written' to him by a woman living in the country, the > simplicity of which proves Its sincerity, and the object of which was to seek his aid and ad rice in a matter Of virtue and morality personal to the writer. It is not an uncommon thing for parents who cannot agree upon a suitable name for their young offspring to refer the matter to their member for advioe. Some of tho West Virginia members get a good many letters of this sort. One member got a letter the other day from the mother of a presumably buxom and beautiful country lass JUst

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budding into womanhood asking his opinion as to the advisability of allowing the young lady to marry a young man who was paying court to her, and giving a full description of the young man’s character and prospeots in order to enable the member the more readily to come to a conclusion. Another letter came from a young lady whose true love course was running the usual rugged way and who, sought the member’s wisdom for tho solution of problems which she and her lover could not settle. These are but examples of a great many such letters which are received by members who represent remote districts, where tho simplicity of uncultured nature prevails. Some of the questions propounded by these simple people would puzzle a Solomon, and a member experiences no little embarrassment in answering them, though he who has the wisdom to speak like a Delphic oracle Is in a fair way to make himself solid with his people, gotting credit for it where his advice proves good and not running much risk of censure in any event'. The number of letters recelvod by members in the House vary from five or ten a day, which is about tho extent of the mail of Mr. Geissenheimor of New Jersey, to 250 each day, which is about the average numbor of letters received each day by Mr. Harter of Ohio. Mr. Harter having sent anti-silver circulars all over the country, is receiving replies which swell his daily, mails to tho highest notch. But about one other member of the House equals him. That other member is, O’Donnell of Michigan, who being an avowed candidate for the nomination as Governor of Michigan, la writing to and receiving letters from people throughout the State. Dalzell who Is laying his wires to succeed Mr. Quay In the Senate, receives an average of about 200 letters a day. Representatives Huff and Enochs have been getting about 200 letters a day during the session. Lodge of Massachusetts has a steady run during each session oi Congress of about 150 every day, while Wilson of Kentucky, Peel of Arkansas, Pendleton of West Virginia, and Houk of Tennessee run close up to him in their average. As a rule members representing city districts receive less mail than any others in Congress and altogether are very much less troubled by their correspondence.

The seed season is just now beginning and the members from rural districts are overwhelmed with letters from constituents asking for seeds, which are given out by the Agricultural Department, a certain proportion to each district. Each member has about 8,800 packages of seed and 800 agricultural reports to distribute, and most of the country members have already alexhausted their stock. Meredith, of Virginia, whose constituents appear to be breaking a great deal of ground for the spring planting, has for several weeks been getting an average of fifty requests each for seed, and Holman has already responded to letters exhausting his full 8,800 packages. Besides all the letters which members of the House receive, each gets daily a copy of five papers, which are sent free by the publishers, and an average of fifty country weeklies are received by each member whose district lies outside of the large cities. The great burden of this correspondence lies in the fact that those men who get the most letters are usually the representatives of a class of people who insist that replies must be written by the members themselves and not by the secretaries. An exchange describes a perfect marriage as a sublime symphony, where in turn and at the same time vibrate, sing and blend the sensations, the aspirations, the ideas and the tastes of two beings which are completed the one by the other. That sounds well, but it does not strike us as throwing light on the hired girl problem, or to determine in Just whose sphere is included the duty of making the kitchen fire.

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PE-* RUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happening* of the WeekCrimes aud Casualties suicides— Deaths—Weddings, etc. Minor Slate Item*. Mrs. Owen Wai.kbr of Goshen, took poison and died in twenty minutes. The Catholics of Muucio will erect a 530,000 church during the present year. Muncie people are entering a great big kick on street car service in that city. The painter* and paper hangers at Crawfordsvillo have organized a union, tnd will iix a schodule of rates. Joseph Thorpe of Portland, got a five fears’ sentence for stealing a black rooster. He was an old offender. Mrs. Charges Stout of Noblesvllle, committed suicide because of a bad real estate deal made by her husband. The dead body of a malo infant that bad lived but a few hours was found in a link-holo at Canaan, Joffgrson County. Harvey Richards, Muucio nailworker, badly burned by shower of redhot iron slivers striking him in the faeo. Rev S. W. Brown has resigned the pastorate of the Christian Church at Crawfordsville, and will enter the evangelistic field. Fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin, destroyed tho barn and contents belonging to Mrs. Mary Crawford at Martinsvilia During the recent revival meetings held in tho different Now Albany churches, 300 people aro said to havo joined church. Dr. W. H. Hixon, Spencer, has sued Pennsylvania Railroad Company for 810,)00 damages. Hurt by getting off a (rain near Farmers’ Station. John Boyer, a “trusty,” who has twice escaped from tho Jeffersonvillo Penitentiary, was recaptured at his Bother’s house at Princeton. While Mrs. John Pralm of Montpelier, was'washlng her 3-year-old baby fell into t tub of hot water, scalding its head and tack in ji frightful manner. Officers aro In search of a naked man roaming the woods between South Bond tnd Valparaiso He is supposed to bo in escaped lunatic from the Logansport \9ylum. Gkorok Kessler, a country bruiser, who tried lo clean out the town of Silver Lake, Kosciusko County, precipitatod a riot and thirty-one arrests wore made before peace was restored.

Geo. C. Stole, editor M uncle Tribune, was assaulted aud severoly hurt by John Love. The papor bad published an attack on Lovo’s two sisters, and tho brother was seeking revenge. At Seymour, while engaged In tearing iown the old O. & M. round-house, C. Montgomery and Granville Deputy of Paris Crossing, were Injured by a portion if the brick wall falling on them. Over a year ago an 11-yoar-old son of Dr. Do Caux Tllnoy of Crawfordsvillo, was bitten by a garter snake whllo wading a, branch. The bite was In tho Initep, and began to pain him. His leg began to dwindle, and was soon useless, until it will have to bo amputated. An east bound Panhandle train killed t rnau at Gem. lie was undor the liilluinco of liquor. While tho train was slowing up to let him off ho gave tho ingineer the signal to go ahead. Then, Hopping from tho car, ho fell backwards md his head was crushed. 110 was a wood-cuttor named John Nngalle. “White Caps,” at Marengo, tied a ropo around Church Mattox's neck, and were going to beat him for stealing pork, lie provod to be the wrong man, and, in excusing themselves lor the ill-treat-inont, Mr. Mattox discovered their identity. Ho now threatens to prosecute them. The tax for aiding tho Chicago, Indianapolis and Chattanooga Southern railway was voted at Milcholl by a majority of 234. This Is considered a big victory. Work will bo commenced at Duce on tho part of tho routo betweon Rockport and IndlanaprNls, and it Is tho Intention to havo a direct route from there to Chicago by tho opening of tho World’s Fair. 1 Patents have boon granted to Indiana inventors as follows: Edward D. Chipman and E. L. D. Foster, Goshen, springs for beds, cushions, and chairs; Charlos M. Dyer. Coverdale, telegraph relay; August H. Herzog, Mishawaka, foot-rail for countors; Benjamin F. Osborn, near Nora, truss rtitl fence; James Plttigan, Roodiand, washboard; Charlos L. Ratliff, Marion, Index; David Wiser, Plymouth, drive well filtor. The body of William Rarfdan was found near the Panhandle railroad at Marlon, under circumstances that Indicate foul play. He is known to have had money In his pocket when ho started home, and Dnly 30 cents was found on him Felix Poole, who reported the find, admits having seen the body of a man across the track tho night before, where tho corpse was found, but declared that he had not the courage to investigate the mattor. Raridan’s skull was fractured, and there were other bruises about the head. The suit of the town ot Monroe City against Sylvester T. Steffy to enforce a town ordinance, has been decided in tho Gibson County Circuit Court In favor of the plaintiff. Steffy Is a saloon-keeper at Monroe City, Knox County. Several months ago the Town Council passed an ordinance requiring that all screens, frosted windows and hindrances to an unobstructed view of the Interior of a saloon In the village bo removed. Steffy refused to comply with tho provisions of tho ordinance, hence the suit. Tho defense denied the legal right of tho town to pass and enforce such an ordinance. Judge Shaw of Knox County, and Judge Welborn of Gibson County, have now both upheld the validity of the ordinance. Tho Case attracted much attention, as ft Is the first of tho kind ever tried In Indiana ,

Salem Is In a commotion over a revival in tho Methodist Episcopal Church; 128 conversions and as many additions have beer, made to the church, and twenty of the families have been brought into the church. Some of the best men In Salem have been converted and tho work is goine on. John B. Craft, a once wealthy man at Brazil, now janitor of the City Building, is dying from a stroke of paralysis. He drank up his’ fortune, and while in the poor-house claimed that his angel mother came to him in a dream and begged him to swear off, which he did, and never touched a drop since. Rev. H. C. Hovey, D. D., of Middletown, Conn., who has been atCrawfordsvillc, says that the natural gas supply will last at least twenty years. He is a son of the late Prof. E. O. Hovey, of Wabash College. The prospects brighten that Terre Haute is to secure another road, and one that will be of great benefit to the business of that city. The projectors of the Terre Haute, Saylor Springs and Chester road have secured the right of way from the Wabash River (Chenowlth ferry) Clarke County, to Albany, 111. a distance of 103 mites, and it is thought tho right of way can easily be secured from Terre Haute to the crossing point named above.

Marion fs to have s lawn mower factory. > An epidemic of a peculiar form of mumps is raging In the vicinity of Evansville. Souuronia Scott was indicted and arrested at Evansville for the murder of her infant Hannah llameb, one of the few remaining first settlers of Mitchell, died at tho age of 84. Bayi.ess Stager Is the fifth ear-ro-pairer at Brazil who has been killod by tho ears backing over him while at work under them. Henry Kramer, young farm hand, near Fort Wayne, arrosted, charged with being highwayman who robbed Miss Kittle O'Rourko, school-teaehor. Several switchmen on a wrecked E. & I. train at Brazil saved their lives by jumping from a number of loaded coal cars that pitched down an embankment William Gkubick, Valparaiso, is making efforts to find out who his parents are, and whore they live. Ho was kidnaped whon a small child during tho war. F. D. Gardiner, a farmer living near Fountain City, gavo a bale of hay a vicious kick, dislocating his spine and rupturing tho spinal cord, causing death in a few hours. The now steamboat Bolmont was destroyed oy fire on White River, four miles west of. Washington. Tho boat was ownod by Hvatt & ltogors. Loss about $15,000; uninsured. Frederick West of the Farmland Enterprise olfleo, while running a job pross caught his right hand In the bed of press, mashing it in a terrible inannor. lie may lose both “type lingers.” John Clark, a woalthy farmer of Knox County, was killod while overseeing tho work of oreeting a barn on his farm, near Oaktown. A hoavy beam foil on him, Tanslng Instant death. It is reportod by telegraph from English, Crawford County, that Emory Slavln ate two cans of covo oysters in two mlnutos, thus winning a wager of $lO. It Is not said what will be done with the guilty wretch if found. The Parker Commercial Club of Parker, Randolph County, wishes to correspond vylth manufacturers wishing to locate 111 tho gas bolt. Froo fuel will be furnished to anyono who will manufacture corn-plantors, hay-rakos, harrows, and cultivators. President Meyer of tho Fort Wayne Base Ball Club, lias called a meeting of tho various clubs which propose to ontor the Ohlo-Indlana League this sonson, to bo hold at Torre Haute. Mr. Moyor Is vory sanguine over tho outlook, and says the leaguo will bo a suro go. In tho northoru part of Bartholomew County, in an old Baptist Church that has not boon used for twenty years, a young man has bogun preaching, and now the building will not Hold all who doslro to hoar. Services aro hold each night, and people aro said to begin arriving us early as 4 o'clock In the aftoriioon, so as to got seats. Some oxcltomont Is being caused throughout Charlostown Township, Clark County, by the report that a rich deposit ot silver had boon found on the farm ot John N. McCoy, who resides near Charlestown. He has several times found a mlxturo of sllvor and load and has threo plocos about the shape of a sllvor dollar which very much rnsombios silvor with unusually hoavy alloy. Ex-County Thkaburkh N. A. Call mot with a sorlous accident near Anderson, which It Is foarod will terminate fatally, lie was working on his farm felling troos and got caught under one, which crushed his hips and legs In a shocking inannor. 110 is unconscious and has been In that condition several hours. Mr. Call Is ono of thu most prominent citizens of tho county. The 3-yoar-old daughtor of Beniamin Manorp of Union City, came very near losing its life. The child was playing with the firo, when Its clothes caught and wore soon In llninos. She at once ran to her father, who extinguished tho llamos by rolling hor across the floor, but not until ho had burnod his hands to a crisp. The baby’s loft side, arm and leg wore badly burned. Tho life of the child was saved, but eho Is in a critical condition. A singular and unfortunato accident occurred at the car-works, Jeffersonvillo. B. F. Lagel, ono of tho oinployos, togothor with sonio others, Was engaged In placing a large sill In a car, when It slipped,-and striking Lagel, threw him a distance of thirty foot. He was picked up bleeding and unconscious, and taken to his homo, wliero Dr. Peyton, tho company's surgeon, atteridod him. It Is feared his Injuries will provo fatal, aB he had barely recovered from tho effects of anotho* 1 accloent. A great temperance revival Is now In progress at Osgood. William Murphy, the tomporance evangelist, has been laboring since March 1 with unprecedented success. Thu walls of the citadel of intemperanco havo boon shaken and nearly nine hundred havo signed tho pledge. Tho whole country round Is aroused by the llury eloquence of this apostle of tomporance reform. The village has four saloons, butslncoMurphy's arrival thov have lost tholr host patrons, hs tho revival has boon especially among tho class of drinking men.

Eease hunters are now hovering around what Is supposed to bo a rich sine deposit along Rock Creek, in Carroll County. Several weeks ago a young man from tho Koek-creek neighborhood went to Logansport, and in an office there saw some zlnc-oro from Joplin, Mq» Asking what it was he was told, and replied that there was lots of it along Rock Creek, and when ho wont home scut several pounds of the deposit to Logansport Tho result was that several capitalists, headed by Senator A. R. Shroyer, hastened to tho place, and leased about one thousand acres before any one else know what was going on. Now that the secret is out, scores of people are trying to get a lease. The Shroyer syndicate has arranged to sink a shaft, and work will be commenced in a few days. The excitement in tho neighborhood Is up to fever-boat, and there are many prospective millionaires. H. W. Pubcell of Urbana, 111., desires information of Thomas Tracey, a soldier, Irish, who served in Company G, First Regiment Ohio Light Artillery. He was in some county poor-house In Indiana the past winter. Workmen siuking a shaft below the present voln, .of coal, which is being mined at theVincennes coal mines, penetrated a vein'-of.coal fivo feet thick. Immediately beneath this is a stratum of lire clay fourteen Inches In thickness. Beneath this Is a two-foot vein of coal. Both the upper and the lower mines will be worked, and the fire clay will be utilized. The Middletown News has been sold to ex-Postmastor H. J Brown of Anderson.

French Thrift.

An eminent French statistician makes a clever and graphic presentation of the thrift of the French people. He says that a duplicate of the Eiffel tower, which weighs between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 kilograms, built of silver, and with twp additional stories added, wcfcld barely represent the actual savings of the French people deposited in the National savings banks. The kilogram is two nounds 3.20 ounces.

WILL BE A CANDIDATE.

GRAVER CLEVELAND IS IN THE RACE. In a Letter He Sets Aside Any Doubts a* to His Intentions—Missouri Lynchers Murder a Brave Guard Senator Morrill at Death's Door. Mr. Cleveland's Letter. A letter la published from Grover Cleveland which 1b construed na being a formal declaration that he la a candi-

date for the Democratic nomination for President, The lotter was addressed to Gen. E. S. Bragg, the commander of the famous old “Iron"’ who wrote te the ex-President under date of March 5, from Fond du Lao,

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AVIs., asking Cleveland to state whether or not ho was a candidate. Mr. Cleveland’s letter wa9 written from Lakewood, N. J.. on March 9, and sets at rest the rumors that he Intended to announce that he was not a candidate. Tho lotter Is as follows: Lakewood, N. March 0. 1892. The Hon. Kdward B. Bragg: My Hear Sir —Your letter of the SihInst. Is received. I have thought until now that I might continue silent on the subjects which, under tho high sanction of your ppsltlon as ray “fellow-Democrat and follow-citizen,” and In your relutlon os a true and trusted friend, you present to me if, in answering your question, I might only consider ray personal desiros and my individual oaso and comfort, my response would bo promptly mado and without the least reservation or difficulty. But if you are right In suppt ting that the subject is related to a duty I owe to tho country and to my party, a condition exists which makes such private uud personal consider-, atlons entirely irrelevant I cannot, however, refrain from declaring to you tlint my experience In the groat office of President of tho United Btutes has so Impressed mo with tho solemnity of the trnst and Its awful responsibilities that 1 cannot bring myself to regard a candidacy for tho place as something to bo won by personal strife and active solf-ussertlun. I have ulso an Idea tliut tho Presidency Is pre-eminently tho people's office; and I have boon sincere In my constant advocacy of tho effective participation In political affairs on the part of all our cltUons, consequently 1 kellove the people should bo beard in tho cholco of their party candidates, and that tho/ themselves should make nominations, us directly as Is consistent with open, fair and full party organisation uud methods, I speak of these things solely for the purpose of advising you that my conoeptlou of the nature of the Presidential office, and my conviction that tbo voters, of our party should be free In tho selection of tbelr candidate.*, preclude tho possibility of my leading u>& pushing a self-seeking cauvas* for tho Presidential nomination, oven If I had a doslro to be again a candidate. Believing that tbo complete supremacy of Democratic principles means Increased national prosperity and the increased happiness of our people, I am e&rqostly anxious for the success of my party. I am confident that success Is still within our reach, but I t ollovo this Is a time for Democratic thoughtfulnoss and deliberation, not only na to candidates, but concerning party action upon questions of Immense Interest to the patriotic aud Intelligent votera of the land, who wutuh tor an assurance of safoty as the price of their confidence and support. Yours vory truly, Grover Cleveland, BKNATUII MOHUILL CRITICALLY ILL. Ho I* Suffering from Pneumonia and (Strong Fears Aro Entertained, Washington special: Senator Justin S. Morrill of Vormont Is critically 111

with pneumonia at his residence on Thomas Circle. His physician stated that thoro was little im- 1 mediate danger of death, but he holds out scant hopo of recovery. Senator Mor-J rill will bo B*2 years old April 10. At each' succeeding session of Congress ho has found it necessary to remain uway at timos because

of Illness, yet thore uro probably not ft dozon Senators whoso absence aggregates so little as his. This session he has been away more than usual, but it waft beoause of the Illness of Mrs. Morrill. Last Friday Senator Morrill was at the Capitol. He complained of a cold, bat did not look upon it as serious. Saturday morning ho remained In bed. Dr. Bussy was sent for and he at once discovered that pneumonia hud set In. Throughout tho day everything possible was done to relievo the sufferer and remove danger. Tho Senator is now somewhat easier, but there Is no marked improvement In his condition. His constitution, it is feared, Is not sufficiently robust to permit anything llko a protracted strugglo with pneumonia. LYNCUKR* MUItDEH A GUARD. Taney County, Missouri. Wild with Exolte- , moot Over a Tragoily. Seventy armed and masked mop rode Into tho little town of Forsythe, Mo., wont to the jail and demanded the body of John Bright, tho man who murdered his wife In Tanoy County. All of the guards ran except James Williams, ft deputy sheriff, who refused to lot them como near the Jail, and said he would kill the first man that made any attempt to take his prisoner out. Onb man from behind Williams drew his pistol and shot Williams through the head, killing him Instantly.* At the llrlng of the shot the rest of the mob came running and, trampling over Williams’ dead body, went to the Jail with a sledge hammer, broke the doors down, and took Bright out. They threw a rope around his neck, placed him on a horse, and started out of town with him. A half mile from Forsythe they hanged him to a tree, and rode off at once, leaving him danglttig until daylight, when he was cut down and taken baok to Forsytho. Taney County Is wild with excitement over tho killing of Williams. A large posse of men started out of Ozark, under the guidance of Sheriff Cook to arrest the men who were Identified in the mob. It is believed that when some of the mob are captured a regular war will tako place, suoh as never has been known In southwest Missouri. 1 i :

Cheap Human Life.

It is a lonesome day in Chioago when a street car is not run down by a railroad train.—Buffalo Commercial. Collisions between street cars and railroad trains are getting to be in the nature of an every-day occurrence in the W'orld’s Fair city.—Des Moines Leader. * A street car filled with passengers was run down in Chioago the other day and several more victims added to the list of those who have fallen on the grade crossing. * The grade crossing must go. —Kansas City Journal. Chicago does well to getupa World's Fair for the purpose of attracting people from outside in 1893. If railway trains keep crashing into her street cars at the present rate her population will be pretty sadly thinned out by that time and will need rooruiting.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. In Chicago, a horse car, a red-h>t stove and thirteen passengers were struck by an engine. The oar was reduced to kindling-wood and took fire, but not a passenger was killed. And yet people will go right on insisting that thirteen is an unlucky number.—Springfield Monitor,

SENATOR MORRILL.