Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 6 April 1880 — Page 2

DAILY NEW

K. P. BEAUCHAMP, Editor sod Proprietor

VOLPM* 41, Entered at the Post Office at Torre Haste, Indiana, second-class matter. iMLtt

TUESDAY, APRIL 6. 1880.

THE DAILY NEW8 i* printed every week day Afternoonand delivered by carriers throughout the city at 10 cento per ioeek—collections made weekly. By mail (postage paid by the Publisher) one month 45 cents three months fl£5 six months $2MO one year $5.00.— Mail mbscriptions in advance.

OcTarDE fo the financial question the Republican and National parties have no materia] disagreement. Each professes to be in favor of a good and impartial government, equal rights to all and a pure ballot-box. The financial question in a great measure is settled, and both parties can, and ought to stand in the great coming contest together, as against thtf Democratic party. It is well known that there is no union of sentiment, and can be none, between the National and Democratic parties on the questions and principles sought to be advocated by the latter party. Honest, straightforward Nationals cannot, and we believe will not, become were machines to hplp the Democratic party in what even now they make plainly shown to lie their object in the affairs of our city, State and Government. The NEWS, therefore, suggests in the kindest manner and with the best feeling to all Nationals to fully and freely consider the relations and political condition they now occupy.

RRAD again! An exchange says: The DAILY EVENING NEWS, of Terre Haute, is dead, and the proprietors honestly say it perished for want of public sustenance. They do not claim that the gods loved it. Seriously, the NEWS was a neat and pretty paper and was edited ay a gentleman of ability and experience, ought to have a good harp on the goldshore. vVe are willing to submit to the Democrats of Terre Haute whether or not the /TEWS is dead, and whether or not it ought to have a good harp on the other shore.

SHERIFF IIAY, it is reported, intimidated one of his bailiffs to vote against the Constitutional Amendments, "regulating the fees and salaries of county officers," under a threat of dismissal from office. How Is this for a pure administration.

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The Torre Haute Daily NEWS has suspended, after a brilliant but brief career. —Oreencastle Banner.

Our Jllustrioua friend and patriarch the Banner certainly lives among the dry bones of the past, for the Democracy of Vigo couaty thinketh—-otherwise.

our Inadequate Navy.

With the exception o( a few ironclads designed for shonl water only and to resist cannon of the old calibre, we have, says the New Orleans Democrat, nothing hut a few sloops and frigates, unarmed, and with half the sjWSed of the war ships of Europe, with which to encounter her modern navies, or even those of Italy, Holland, hfyain and South America. But Europe has in addition to its navies at least eight hundred fast steamships*, making from fourteen to sixteen knots per hour, sustained in great part by subsidies, and designed for service in war as well as in pcacc. To meet them wo have not one-fiftieth of that number. In our parsimony we have preferred to patch the old rather than create the new. We have nearly, if not quite, as many miles of railway as Europe, and nearly as much commerec but while she h(w built more than a million tons of iron-clads, we have not one fit to cross the ocean to encounter one of the second class of ships of England. We have in our navy but ninety-five ships propelled by steam, with twenty-three sailing ships, which are of no account. Of first rate steamships of wood, none of which exceeds 8,000 tons, we have but four of second class wooden steamships, and less than 8,000 tons, we have but four of third and fourth class wooden steamships, below 1,100 tons, we have but fiftyeight, and of ironclads of old pattern and Inferior strength, ranging from 600 to 2,800 tons, but twenty-four in all, mostly unavailable. And yet we propose to bully the whole worlu on the Monroe doetrine. At the present moment the several navies of England, France, Italy, Germany, Holland and even Turkey, are strong enough to sweep our shipping from the deep before we could be ready to defend it or retaliate.

MLS.1jijuigi'i^juULUJ-^iat'

WHERE is the American war vessel that to convey the King of 8iam from Southampton to the United States? Tike king has given out that this will be hit means of transport, while the autocrat of the American navy, the excellent Dick Thompson. swears by all that's holy to the sailor thai he knows nothing of the arrangement. The matter will have to be refer* red to Fred Grant, who, possibly, made the whole arrangement.—Chicago Timm.

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Cou THOMAS H. NKKSO* was here on Wednesday night and made a speed*. He left on Thursday morning for Veedersburg where he was to spes* that evening. Before his departure he was driven about the city, accompanied by soma friends, and shown the several points of interest* He expressed himself highly delighted with our beautiful Athens, and In fact be came quite *nthtwi«»tte,—

As» laeMeas. ts

^tuimed sad unattended walks the oar, si Throagh Mo*eav'i

basy

street one wlntert day,

1 "God greet tike car!" they say.

Along Hi path there ttewl a itinera).

Gr»r ipecttcte of poverty and woe.

Pabllcatlon Office, corner Fifthaad Main SteseU. drarn by one weary man, glumly across t» snow. i» Andes the sledge, blown by the srtnterjfiad, •iMf-ityme cdSn,

The c*ar of all the Kasaias, pacing slow. Following the coffin, aa again it went Siowly across the snow.

The oasaers of the street, all wondering, Looked on the sight, then followed silently Peaaant and prince, and artisan and clerk.

All in one company.

Still, aa they went, the crowd grew ever more. Till tbou**ad« stood round the frieadlessjgtave. Led by that princely heart, who, royal, true.

Honored the poor and brave. —Agnes McDonald in London Spectator. Nora—This incident was narrated by a lady who waa living in Moscow when it took place.

TlseOrekeiar* o( To-Day. Burlington Hawkeye. The oboe resembles a clarionet very much as a rake resembles a hoe, all the difference is at one end. The voice of the oboe is very much like that of a man trying to whistle with his head under water. Te orchestral composers use the oboe on account of its simple, honest quality to express a countryman going into a bank and asking the banker to lend him $200 until Tilden is elected. In Jacobini's beautiful creation, "Sounds from the Kitchen,"you will remember the oboes are used to convey the remarks that pass between the COOK and the grocer's boy, who has just brought home two gallons of maple syrup in a one gallon kerosene can, and vice versa. The candid astonishment of the cook infuses the soul of the listener, while the efforts of the grocer's boy to explain away the apparent discrepancy between the quantity of syrup and the size of the can, is beautifully and touchingly conveyed.

The bassoon is made of wood, and the complete instrument is probably worth $8 a cord. It looks like a pump log, and is

played

The flute is too familliar for the readers of the Hawkeye to require any detailed description, in the hands of the young man living in the next block, its expressive wailing notes are vaguely suggestive of a dog trying to crawl through a fence that is too close for'him, assisted by another dog, of greater weight and more irritable temperament.

The double bass is the largest of the violin tribe. It is also the worst. The man who plays it is usually fat, and always bald.

A Hero.

In 1868, James Gordon Bennett placed in the hands of trustees $1,500, the interest of which was to be devoted every year to the purchase of a medal for the fireman of New York most deserving such recognition. The presentation for the current year has been matle to Captain Meagher, of a hook and ladder company, who rescued a woman from a four-story window. A forty two foot ladder was too short to reach the woman, who was handing from the window. One fireman had mime the attempt, and failed. The vantage ground afforded by a high stoop was tried! but still the ladder was too short In his presentation address, a trustee of the fund describes tho rest "Captain Meagher, taking the situation at a glance, ordered that the ladder be held erect and away from the building, so as to get all the length possible. He then ascended, standing on next to the top round of the ladder, fifty-two feet from the sidewalk and his head just up to the feet of the woman. He gave her some words of encouragement, and, in a calm but decided manner, directed her to hold her limbs and body as rigid as possible. All being ready, he told her to drop she did so he caught her in one arm, steadying himself by the power of his limbs and one hand at the top of the ladder, and thus passed Sarah Freeman to his comrade, Fireman Flood, who, notwithstanding the severe pain he waa suffering by a badly bruised foot, carried the frightened woman to the sidewalk in safety/' In all, ten medals have been presented, and the men who have received them have merited the distinction

A L«t Heir.

A singular ease of a lost heir came lately before the court of chancery, England. In 1888, Isaac, eldest son of John Atkinson. a Cumberland gentleman of property, disappeared. There -aras no suspicion of his death, but ao news ever reached his family about him. It now appears that about the same time one Janus* An* tferson started in business la Rome. Italy. He had a Cumberland accent, and like Isaac, waa a fine wrestler. This man was the lost heir. By the death of his father fan 1889, Isaac became heirjwt it Is atat«i never knew this until 1877. His claim waa then nearhr barred, nor did he take steps to aissert lt. He died In 1877. *D1m satisfied are lids family o( his Identity thai they have agreed on compromise with his children.

Joss BEST, of Zanesvilte, Ohio, died yesterday at the age of 100. He waa initiated aa a Xaaon in Ireland. In 1808, having bees a Xaaoo 71 years.

^rbe crowd onoorer a If soften" in a»e dear old city of Galena, a member Of the Decatur convention that

Very rode tod bare..

Jind ha who drew It best before fcla load. With doll and sattea air,

Ihe enxporer stood and beekfloed to the maw -Who. ia't thou beareat to the *raver" he «ud. "Only a soldier, *ln the slsjrt reply,

Only soldier dead r'~

-Only a soldier

r'mustnff

said the war

"Only a Bnssian, who waa poor and ware, More OB. I follow. Sach an one goes not Unhonored to hi* grave." s'k -f He bent his head, and silent raised his rap

by blowing into a silver stem

that *winds into the side of the tube. When the bassoon is not in use in the orchestra, it can be utilized as a clothcs prop. It has two distinct qualities of tone. In the upper and lower register it has a voice like a cow that has fallen into a pit, and in the middle register it sounds like a man with the croup, shouting "fire," from a fourth-story window. It is much used by composers for mournful, distracted effects, and in the opera of "La Sonnambula," it is employed as the interpreter of a man calling do^n a dark alley for his lost dog. When the average man listens to the ravishing bassoon solo in the slow movement in the concerto for piano and orchestra, it insensibly makes him think of a tall woman, with her head .tied up in an apron, and her mouth full of clothes pins, trying to hang up a fourteen foot sheet in a gale of wind.

s. F^a*-u}

Waata •«*?»*,

To the Editor of the Inter-Ocean,

Presuming upon old-time political capifor Wasliburne "early and

nominated Yates aad instracted '^nrt, last, and forever private and then a shoulder strapper in the Union army, though ever since the war a recinse in the Methodist ministry ("North" Methodist preachers are supposed to eschew, poli tics), may I beg to expreSsa tithe oflong

Will

ntup '"thuse" in your great dally? you allow me to rah for Washburne, if it doesn't get in the way of Grant ?jand know that's WOS#le. witty Mfe Washburne or his friends, and vice versa. In this I owe no apology, for we Americans hurrah any time, anywhere, and for anybody we pleaSe. "It's o^fc" that the wife of a Maine candidate owes allegiance at Home. Methodism doesn't like Rome, nor pope nor priest. As mere men. good aa anybody, "if they behave themselves ".not otherwise.

The Germans, the French, and the Americans ask for Washburn, and, whafs good is, every Washburn man is a Grant man!

We don't care down here in "Little Douglas" if the candidate has been President one or two terms, or never before, if he meets the demands of the "civil-ser-vice reform"—has capacity and experience.

We don't see Joseph Cook's consistency clamoring for "civil-service reform," till the most eminent instance offers for the highest office, when well-tried ability becomes an insuperable objection.' "Something's in the wood-pile!" Why "civil service reform" everywhere but in the place of places—the Presidency? Afraid of Ca?sar? We were not afraid of him when we had to save our nation^ nor when we had ^o reconstruct the Union but now, when the ship of state sails over a smooth sea, we fear the great warriorstatesman will turn pirate! That's too thin. Somebody else wants to be President!

Collision Between Blaine*'* Bureau and Circuit. Washington Special to Indianapolis New*.

The Grant men here have become yeiy much incensed at the character of various circulars which the Blaine literary bureau is sending out, attacking the candidacy of Gen. Grant, mainly from the anti-third term position. They claim also that some of the latest put in circulation recall the scandals of the second term. A paragraph in one of these circulars, to which strong objection is made, is as follows:

The far summit of all honor has been reached and is now held by him, and there is nothing to be gained by descending into another political struggle, which promises infinite bitterness and doubtful result. It is not wise to ignore existing facts, and no faci is more positively asserted than the existence of a large and growing body of voters who stand opposed both to the nomination and election of Gen. Grant for the third time, and whose opinions are claimed to be unalterable.

The republican party must flo into tins contest unburdened by: any unnecessary weight.

Upon this the Blaine men here have been served with notice that a contination of this method of campaigning will have a disastrous result for their candiclate, since, if Gen, Grant's name is withdrawn at Chicago, his supporters will certainly prevent tlie nomination of all candidates who have takpn part in this secret form of attack.

THERE are indications of a stampede of colored people to the North this Summer. They want to get, away from the South before the Presidential election. The people of the Northern States should kindfv receive and aid these refugees. The North delivered them from slavery and gave them the suffrage, and it should complete its grand work of humanity by aiding them to escape from Southern oppression. The elevation of this race, degraded by centuries of slavery, is ah enormous undertaking. The progress has been marvelous. But the work is by no means near ended. The colored race is

scarcely

out of the wilderness. The

Northern people must not abandon them, nor falter in their task. This exodus is a part of God's great scheme of raising both the white man and the black man of the South to a higher plane of civile zation. The Republican party is the instrument chosen to carry on toe work.-— Jndiannpolis Journal. 1

The high tariff rates charged by the present ocean telegraph companies nave led to the organization of anew American company to lay another cable across the Atlantic. The proposed capital of the new company fei f4,w0,000, of which well-known bankers and financiers in London stand ready to take one-half if afforded an opportunity. The enterprise, however, will be under American management. The proposed rate to be established is 18 cents per word, or less than one-quarter the change made by the present companies. This, It is claimed, would giveayearir revenue of $1,500,000, out of which the net earnings would be about $1,000,000, or sufficient t» pay a dividend of 18 per cent to the stockholders and put by a reserve fund of 10 per cent.—/nf. Journal. '"It

A man from central New York having more brains than anything else, endured a tour through Europe because he thought he must. In speaking of his trip upon his return he exclaimed: "The happiest day of it all was when I stepped on my own native vice versa."

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An exchange says that Mary Anderson is notably deficient In her kissing, and the Albany Times finds a reason in the fact that Mary wasn't brought up to the ministry.

A French jotianal speaks of Bob lngersotl as the famous Pteabyterian cletgynam.

The wmm for '"greens" Is cmatag. ah, ha Willi ISIKS and vegetable track Tt»e festl** coenmber will bM ta-ta

A w3 to his cprtng wot* will beck. Tbe lively small boy will keep as eye The ptaee manner tttscWer to fcaicfc, BMdmgtdstitte the war twist «o dm wfTo fftekea tbe »n«)t «a«Mn patch. .....

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Cfcsullpen at ttee Isly Land.

Mris^ *lass, ex-consul at Jerusalem, makes following series of denies: "There iv "wt a railroad in all Palestine. There iaT btjm Aajerioai miaMonaiY ^in the Hoi# Jand nor a Sunday school. But one Proliant church in Jerusalem. an~ other outsv\e*»»f the walls And one at Nax areth, TliiFJewish population has inereaaed dniidg the past few years: but the population of the country has rapidly de creased. The Jews have no intention of re occupying the land. They go there to dBe. not to live. No Jew around Jerusalem owns or cultivatei an aere of |^tuntL' The Jews of Europe and America will Sever return to Palestine unless forced a at he in of he a

SUNSET.

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[F. W. BOURDlLIXWi.}

Oh there are golden moments in men'i lives, Shdden, aalooked for, a* the little clouds All gold, whfrh suddenly illume the gates Of the lost sun.

Oh, pray for them Ther bring So Increase like the gains of sun or showetd, Only a moment's biiglitnei»s to the oarth, Only a moment** gleam in common life, Yet vrho,would chaage them fur the wealth of '/worn*

KEARNKY IS coming down to the hardpan. He now reads his speeches from manuscript and carefully eliminates all profanitv from them. He acts as mildly as a turtle dove.

Daniel Boone's Snake.

A writer in a western paper tells how he waa blasting with gunpowder some large and tough logs. From one of the logs thus split open crawled an euormous serpent, which waa easily killed. The man wlio tells the sltory continues from this point as follows: On stretching it out I found it to be thirty-one feet two inches in length, and the thickest part of ita body measured twenty-nine inches in circumference. Itwasadifferent species of serpent from any I had ever seen before. Its tail was armed with a sharppointed and curved horn its body was variegated with alternate brown and dirty yellow stripes, and on close examination I discovered that it had been totally blind, its

eyes

seeming to have turned in

to a reflectionle88, hard, bone-like substance. This explained its undecided, hesitating movements when it first came from the log. A strange crease appeared about the neck, just Dack of the head, which I found to oe caused by a stout thong of leather, about which the flesh of the serpent had grown until it hm5 sunk almost out of view. Cutting this thong and removing it I found attached to its under side a copoer plate which had heretofore been hidden by the body of the snake, and on one side of it was scratched: "D. Boone, April 15th, 1779." I split the log in two, and near tlie lower ena of the hollow I found where there had once beta'an opening, but long years ago it had been closea up with a plug made of oak wood, about and over which the maple had grown until it was almost concealed. The dead appearance of the small portion visible 01 the oak plug was all tnat called my attention to its existence. My theory of the matter is this: Daniel Boone many years ago, on thei date recorded upon tnis piece of copper, caught the sn&e. then young and small, fastened the copper plate about his neck, and imprisoned it within the hoUow of the tribe by mean$ of the oak plug, wb.eap his snakeshlp had remained until the day I delivered him to the free air and sunlight again."

Essay on Woman.

SERIOUS TACTS IN A FUN.VT VEIN.

J^fter man came woman. And she has been after him ever since. She isaperson offree extraction, being made of man's rib.

Neither could she nang over the back fence and talk with her near neighbor. All these blessed privilege* jrere Hied her. v.v'*

Poor Eve I she's dead.

A rapid penman can write thirty words a minute. To^do this he most draw hie

n"land

Ctty

ENHMWIE

through tbe space of a rod—sixteen a half. In forty^ninntee his pen travels a farkxoo, smd in

Sene New Thoughts on Xarrlge* Marriage is, to a man, at once the hap* piestand saddest event of his life. He

Sons

uits ail the companions and asaociaof his youth, and becomes the chief attraction of a new home. Every former tie is loosened, the spring of every

hope and action is to be changed, and yet he flees with joy to the untrodden paths before him. Then woe to the woman who can blight such joyful anticipations, and wreck the bright hopes of die trusting, faithful, fragrant masculine hk^aom, and bang l*is head against the sink, and throw him under the cooking range, and kick him into a three-corner-ed mass, and then sit down on him.

Little do women realiee that all a man needs umlar the broad cerulean domp of heaven is Ipve—and bctfird and clothes. 3 Love is life. If some woman or other don't love him, and love him like a hired man, he pines away and eventually climbs the golden stair. Man is born with strong yearnings for the unyearaable, and he does not care so much for wealth as he does for some one who will love him under all circumstances and in all conditions.

If women would spend their evenings at home with their husbands, they would see a marked change in the brightness of their homes. Too many sadeyed men

are

S[o.

I donjt know why Adam wailted to fool away his ribs in that way, but I suppose he was not accountable for all he aid. Vs

It costs tribre to keep"ii woman than three dogs and a shot-gun. But ahe pays you back with interestby giving you a houseful of children to keep you awake all .night and smear molasses candy over your Sunday coaU Besides, a wife i«a Very convenient article tohave abo|tt the house.

She is Kandy to swear at whenever you cut yourself with a razor and don't feel like blamingyourself.

Women is the superior being in Massachusetts. These are about 60,000 more of her sex than ijttfifti W tbafcsfete.

Thii ac^unts for the .terrified, hunted down expression of the single^lrmn, who has emigrated from the east.

Woman is not created perfect. She has her faults—such aa false hair, false complexion, and wo on.

But she id great deal better than her neighbor, and she knows it. Eve was a woman.

She most have been a model wife, too, for it cost Adam nothing tn keep her in

Still, iltottt think she was happy. She couldn't go to sewing circles and air her information about everybody she knew, nor excite the envy of other ladies by wearing her new winter bonnet to church.

five

boors and a

third* a mile. We make on an average sixteen carves or tarns of the pen in writingeech word. Writing thirty word# a minute we roust make 488 to each seconds: in an hour, 38^00^ in a day ofonjy fivehouw, 144(000,and tn a year of 300 days, 43.200,000. The man who made 1,000,000 strokes with lot pm a month

000. Ileri w. h*To in the Th^h Jukai »nother third •wfc300 milM loagtobe tnad OBJ-O- I**

reserved in alcohol, to be thrown up to 2 in the bright days to come.

Then, in conclusion, wives in Israel and other railroad towns, love your husbands while yet it is time. Give him your confidence. If your active corn manifests a wish to leave the reservation, go to your husband with it. Lean on him. lie will get a wood rasp and make that corn look sick. Ho is only waiting for your confidence and your truBt. Tell him your business affairs* and he will help you out. He will, no doubt, offer to go without help in the house in order to economize, and he will think of numberless other little ways ih which to save money. Do as we have told you and your lives will be one great'combination of rare and beautifully dissolving views. You will journey clown the pathway of your earthly existence with the easy poetical glide of the fat man who steps on the orange peel.

Keep the Stables Light. Dark utablea are an abomination?and should not be tolerated. There is no necessity to* sacrifice comfort, either in winter or summer, to securo enough light A horse's eyes are enlarged—tlie pupil of the eye is—by being kept in a dark stable he has a harness put on him and suddenly brought out into the bright, glaring sunlight, which contracts tlie pupil

able to see for a few momenta in tho sua-

den

light. Yon know how painful it is to yourself, then why have your horse repeatedly to beat such unnecessary pain? r+'

bearing away their lives

at home sewing buttons on. But enough of this. We would that we had a pen of "fire to write in letters of living light the ignominy, and contumely and—some more things like that, the names of which have escaped our memory, that are to-day being visited upon our sex.

Remember that your husband has the most delicate sensibilities, and keenly feels your coldness and neglect. The former may be remedied by toasting the feet over a brisk lire before going to bed, but the latter can only be remedied by a total reform on your part. Think what you promised his parents when you sued for his hand. Think how l*1® friends, and several girls to whom ho had at different times been engaged, came to you with tears in their eyes and besought, you to be kind to liini. Do these things ever occur to you as you throw him over the card table and mop iiie floor with his remains? Do you never feel the twinges of remorse after you have put an octagon head on him for not wiping the dishes drier? Think what a luxurious home you took him from and how his mother used to polish his boots and take care of him, and think what drudgery you subject him to now. Think on what pain it must cause him when you growl and swear at him. Perhaps when you went away to your work you did not leave him wood and coal and water does he ever repine at your neglect?

Ah, if wives knew the wealth of warm and true affection locked up in the bosoms of their husbands, and would draw it out, instead of allowing the pert and unprincipled hired girl to get all the benefit, what a change there would be 111 this world of ours! But they never do until the companion of their joys and sorrows has winged his way to the evergreen shore and takes charge of the heavenly orchestra, and then for about two weeks you will see a violently red proboscis glimmering and sparkling under a costly black veil, after which the good qualities of the deceased will be

so suddenly as to cause extreme

pain. By persevering in this very foolish and injudicious as well as cruel practice, tlie nerves of the eye become impaired, and if continued long enough, loss of sight will ensue. To see how very painful it is to face a bright light after naving been in the dark, take ^*[k some dark night for a short time, till the eye becomes accustomed to the darkness, then drop suddenly into some welllighted

room

and you will be scarcely

Ciovrat AS A Framtm—There is fanner in Mafwachufletfc* who noted $1 lor the excellence of his corn crop, lie says his plan his been for clover on one-third part of his plowed land and let the clover grow and remain uncut through the entire season, plowing it under late the next season, and planting com opon it and he aajrs ex-

Th?.^n

•rbrMKhwritorfBayau'.1 p«rt w»I procwf" in toe mme w»j-.

A dark stable is In variably a damp one, and such stables .we are not yet willing to put either a valuable working or driving hor»e in. Give good ventilation, jet tlie sunshine and the air have a chance to effect an entrance, and your stables will be purer and more healthy

than if yon take such pains to exclude ,, them and the good influence they invariably bring with them.