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necessities of the government. When no more revenue is needed by the jownimotit of tlie poo pie, it h;i* attained tlie limit of its power to tax 1 lie people. Estimates based on tilt* census statisties show that as many as 18.000,000 of our people do some work or are occupied in some business, and that their average annual earnings are at least $100,000,000. Their annual incomes do not much exceed if'soo. and are wholly consumed in securing the means of daily subsist iiicc. ThoVe are. too. millions who, in shop and :ield. strike the blows of all production. All the accumulations of and Wilted additions to our mtional and individual wealth 'go to one eutli of those who earn it. and these few appropriate the great mass of ihe savings of the people and are enriched by the profits of the labor of other men. Like estimates will show that the few who profit most from the labor of all contribute little, under this system of unequal taxation, not more than 2 per cent, of their savings; while the great mass of workers, including the dependent poor. pay the bulk of the taxes, all of which is subtracted from their too scanty means of comfortable living. Ours is a very free country of very free men. both very freely taxed. In the same sense that we are free men, in a free country, freely taxed, we may be correctly named free traders when we insist that the trade and commerce of the country and the necessities of comfortable living shall be freed from all taxes not essential to the government for public uses. The amount required from customs is dependent upon what may be received from internal revenue. The abolition of internal revenue means free and cheaper liquors, but with heavier taxed and higher priced sugar and other articles essential in every household. lam not called upon to defend a system which has many abuses. Os the two systems, however, it is the cheaper in administration, immensely cheaper in its results. Repeal of the internal revenue means more than additional cost of living and privation to the poor. It means a permanent public debt. While we cannot doubt the existence of groat wrongs in the execution of the internal revenue laws, especially in the south Atlantic States, many of these may be cured. Neither is it because of these abuses of administration that abolition of the liquor and tobacco taxes is demanded in States far north and substantially free from these flagrant abuses. During more than half of the last ten years wages have been as low or lower than before the adoption of the taxing policy as a protenued means of making wages higher. There is but one horizontal reduction for which our opponents are willing to legislate—the reduction of wages—and this their favorites, with or without regard to legislation, are now executing day by day with cruel regularity In the opinion of the minority members of the committee. representing, as they do. their friends, the prevailing policy cures whatever national ills exist A result of this taxation is to be found in the higher-priced clothing and other articles useful in the fields, mines and homes, for that is what is meant by higher-taxed wool, fence rods, cotton bands and tin plates. Some of our friends here would cure the ills of overtaxation with a declaration, the purpose nd execution of which they would carefully •void; and here is the declaration It is called he Ohio platform:

‘ We favor a tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the government economically administered, and so adjusted in its application as to prevent burdens. encourage productive industries at home, afford just compensation to labor, but not to create or foster monopoly.” A tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the government is demanded by this plan of relief. Is the tariff now so limited? If not, then why refuse to limit it ? Who, among the representatives of tlioi goodly people of that State, who made this declaration, believes it is soliinited? Who, among them, believes the bill will reduce tho revenue below the necessities of the government? These are questions to which the plain people of the eountry want ansVrers. They will demand to know why the tariff taxes are not removed, in part, if they are beyond revenue limit. Do gentlemen expect to escape responsibility, because the rates arc not lightly adjusted? The adjustment will be the same when then the reduction is made, but whatever monopoly belongs to it will be fostered by twenty percent, less than it now L>. If this platform has an honest meaning, it is that the lariff shall be lowered to a revenue basis, and gentlemen but deceive themselves who expect the people will be deceived by a refusal to legislate in accordance with this declared purpose. If the protection policy is to be the continuing policy of the government, it will be and ought to be intrusted to its friends, the Republican party. Every argument in support of the protective policy is based on the assumption that any considerable tariff modification, especially a modification on a revenue basis, will destroy the. manufacturing industries, compel an abondonment of shops and mills, ar.d force those now engaged m them into other employments. This is an old. old story . It was told of the manufacturing industries in tlieir infancy; it will be told when protection brings them to decay. Eight Years ago 1 introduced the first hill for froo quinine and providing for uiitaxed alcohol for use in making it. At once it was insisted that quinine making would become a lost art among us if such a hill should pass, and it did not then pass. Later on. when the story of free juinine got among the people, another member placed a hill before the House, omitting free alcohol for this purpose, ar.d the bill became a law, the protectionists themselves feeling obliged to vote tor it. The great Philadelphia house did not go into a deline but continued its business of quinine making successfully as the second largest quinine ‘stablishmont m the world. So every legitinate industry would go on with revenue tariff. It is insisted that wages are so much higher ere than in countries seeking our markets, that evonue duties will not equalize the difference n cost of production. Conceding the truth of a*hat is not true, that foreign rivals must pay for the privilege of selling in our markets a stun equal to the difference in wages to enable the home producer to sell at a reasonable profit, let us sec if the revenue rates will compensate for that difference. The census value of manufactures for 1880 wag $5,309,579,191: the wages paid in making them were $947, 953,595. The difference in cost of goods is said to be the difference in the cost of wages: but suppose the difference between the cost here and the cost abroad amounts to all the wages paid here, then these manufactures would cost abroad $4,421,625,396. Suppose the average rate of duty, which the bill before the House leaves at 33 per cent., was reduced to 22 r>er cent., and at that rate this $4,421,625.3% m value of goods was imported, it would cost the importer at that rate of 22 per cent.. $972,757,587, which not only makes up for tho difference in wages, but exceeds all tho wages paid for making all the goods. Those who claim especial friendship for tho manufacturing industries will insist on their going into decay, and then dying. Some other apology must be found for their taking off than removal of unnecessary taxes.

BPUJCCH OP MR. KKTiLEY. Mr. Kelley made the opening speech in opposition to the bill. He did not believe any cheapening of good* could relieve any of the American ndustries. The evil was not that goods were aot cheap enough, or that America could not produce thorn. but was tliat the power of production the world over had outrun the power of consumption, and that the markets were ov* > stocked, and in every land skilled and industrious people had been idle for a large poriicm of time in. all recent years. Nihilism in and Germany, socialism and nihilism in the border- regions of Austria, and communism In France told the old story. In hese great countries idleness was u every industrial centre. He then :iree*otod to give chapters from the terrible iives ->f ikw* industrious classes of Engiiind as •earned by liim during a three month's visit to •merr-tiP England. ** “prosperous, free-trade ••Imrland.” in order to show the fearful condition if tin* laboring people of that country, and said he proposition now made was that the Knifed States ~hould enter tlie nice with the world for i cheapness which had led to such terrible reults m England. There was nothing of so little value in England ;is working men or women with reasonably good appetites. In one town he had seen women making trace-chains and yet the gentleman from Kentucky {Mr. Turner] was returned to Congress e\ erv year because he advocated placing trace chains on the freo list. Mr. Turner said that was a good proposition, which he hoped would bo adopted. Mr. Kelley replied that women could realize fifty live to sixty cents a week for making trace chain Band God forbid that any Kentucky woman must ever work at such a thing for such £tar voXtoa wages. Ho recalled tho reply of Emory

Stores to the Englishman who. at a dinner given by Minister Ijowcll, was badgering him about free trade: “I will admit that free trade is best tor you: at least for those of you who can afford to consume anything that is produced, but I claim protection is best for us. You think more, a great deal, of cheap shoes than you do of the shoemaker: while in America we think more of the artist than of his work." After describing the wretched condition of the laborers in Birmingham and surrounding towns, he said: ‘’God forbid that American labor should ever be e mbodied in any production that should he cheap enough to be sold to the industrial towns that surround Birmingham.” Much was heard about free trade. He denied that the free-trade Democracy of this country, as represented on this floor, was in favor of free raw material. Under the present tariff, every element of raw material which could be discovered was already on the free list. The pending bill put twenty or thirty articles on the free list, but not one of them was raw material. 'Plie raw material for salt was the brine which was pumped out. Coal in the earth, selling at a certain rate per ton. ‘ Tin sight, unseen,” was raw material; but when thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been expended in making it accessible to man’s use. it was not. Alcohol was raw material, and only two Democrats —Messrs. Hewitt and Randall—were in favor of putting it on the free list. What was charged for the use of nature’s solvent, for which the-wit of man had yet discovered no substitute? Before the American fanner could advance his raw material—com—one stage in manufacture, lie had to pay DO cents a peck. The same was true of tobacco. It was a tax on the producing and trading classes. In the race for cheapness, production left prosperous countries and found its way to the most oppressed of those whose people would work for the smallest modicum of food and clothing. The United States had entered on the.work of banishing manufactures, and he asked that the tariff rates be reinstated, as he hoped they would have been by the majority of the last Congress. By abolishing the duty on quinine and salt, the largest manufacturer of quinine in the country had been obliged to send all his stock abrou<t and to employ cheap German labor and cheap raw material in its manufacture. By putting a duty of 21.10 cents per pound on tin plates, the United States had succeeded in es otblishing manufactories, but by the displace ment of a comma it had happened that only a duty of 11.10 cents had been imposed. The effect of this had been to strike down the industry. The sapient .Secretary of the Treasury had held the word “highest ” m the last tariff law meant “lowest,” and on account of the ruling the wirerod makers were importing wire rod, pretty well made, from the other side of the water. Mr. Hewitt, of New York, suggested that the Republican and not the Democratic party bad done that. Mr. Kelley replied that if the 20 per-cent. Democrats in the last Congress had united with the Republicans, the tariff on wire rods would have been placed at such rates as to enable Americans to manufacture them. Mr. Hewitt—Would you have allowed us to fix the thing in a conference committee? Mr. Kelley—Yes, sir; no Democrat would serve on that committee save Mr. Carlisle, who served quietly in order to observe what was done. Mr. Hewitt—Then, the whole performance was a Republican performance. Mr. Kelley—The conference had to deal with the materials you sent us. Are there Renublicans in this House who propose to reduce duty on wire rods 20 per cent.? Who voted for it today—Republicans or Democrats? Don't let us talk about what occurred a year ago. Let us go back only two hours.

Mr. Kelley then repeated the assertion he had made, that production had outrun consumption. Every reduction of wages diminished the power of tho masses to consume, and magnified the evil from which the people, the whole industrial world, were now suffering. This evil could not be mitigated by a 20 per cent reduction in a tariff now too light on a good many articles which should be produced iu the United States, nor by a blow at the agricultural interests. The south of Russia was now engaging Americans to erect elevators, to build factories for American agricultural machinery, and to aid in the construction of railroads to seaports, and if the farmers of America did not care for their interests, and did not strive, by proper legislation to diversify their agricultural products, their markets would be gone. In comparison with the prices they now received for wheat, they would receive a price little more than nora inal. He could see but two means by which our markets could be increased, with a third means glimmering in the future—stop all importation of cheap labor; send back to whatever country they came from the men or women who had signed contracts in foreign lands or on shipboard to work at lower wages "than the wages of tho American laborer: see that wages were kept so high that the public schools might be well sustained and children reasonably well educated. Let not American homes become degraded. Protect American motherhood against the degradation of becoming drudges, lie advocated the production of sorghum in tlio West, and especially in the Southwest, as a means of diversifying the labor of the American farmer and enhancing the sale of his productions. Let the country' bo isolated. It was unlike any oilier. If was not a monarchy or an empire. It was a five republic, every human being belonging to which was a eitixen. with the rights of a free man. and with the duty before him of helping to maintain a government which could only live s long as virtue, intelligence and independence characterized its citizens, and this it could not do if it was to begin an unholy race for the “cheap and nasty.” Mr. Mills was the next speaker. Reduction of taxes must- come on some things, and tho questions presented for decision of (’on gross were as to tho articles on which reduction should be made. What article commended itself most strongly to consideration? What article should he cheapened in order that consumption should he increased among the people? Was it whisky or food? Was it whisky or clothing? Was it whisky or implements of labor? The demand for repeal of the whisky tax came from three classes—dUtillers, holders, j of government securities and national banking interests: and they were arrayed against the in ternal revenue because all three were deeply interested in maintaining the national debt. The pending bill was extreme in nothing. It was ex ceedingly moderate. It wool prove a substan tial relief from taxation to the people; but that was only one-half the good thai would result from its passage. It would remove obstructions in tho way of exportation of American agricultural products; it would increase importation; it would increase exportation: it would increase the value of exports; it would decrease the price of manufactured products. He reviewed the tariff legislation of tin* country to show that the condition of the industrial classes was better and the community at large more prosperous during the low tariff epochs than during the maintenance of high protective tariff, and ridiculed the proposition that the wages of kil an* were affected to any material extent by acts of Congress. Wages were affected only by demand. He contrasted iu forcible language the present depression of our foreign carrying trade with its flourishing condition previous to tho war. God giant that tlie time may come, and come soon, when our commerce might again traverse every ocean in American vessels and under the protection of the American flag. But it would have to be preceded by a reversal of the policy of the government respecting its commerce. Every hand must be on ' tne tiller, wealth most he permitted to grow up in the homes of the people, and then peace and prosperity would come to bless a land of free men. free people and a free press. Mr. Russell having been accorded tho floor, the committee rose and tho House adjourned.

OtNKKAL GRANT’S TARIFF VIEWS. He Discusses tho Question in an Intelligent and Discriminating Manner. Interview in Eastern Paper. ‘•lt is evident that tho .aggressive attitude taken by the free-traders against the existing and tried economic conditions of tlie country has forced tlie issue of free trade or tariff to the front as the paramount question to be determined by the people in the coming presidential campaign. There are many features of this question which seoni to create very positivo an-tagonisms-i n theory, but which, looked at in tlie light of practical oxperiouco, are not only simple enough, but should convince any reflecting person of the fallacy of tho idea dominant among certain theorists tliat free trade is the panacea for all industrial ailings. JU-d opens the highway

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to exceptional industrial activity and national prosperity. When you think about it just the reverse is the tendency. “Look at the facts. Within* a comparatively time we can remember when steel rails were .$75 and even $125 a ton. Every pound of that article used on our railroads was imported from England. Our gold went out of the country to pay for it. A few enterprising citizens, who had the interests of their country and its labor, and not of the foreign manufacturers, at heart, began a movement looking to the manufacture of steel rails in the United States. All they needed was some guarantee of a price, which would enable them to make the large investment required for the establishment ol a plant and to pay our American workingmen proper wages, not pauper wages, for their labor. A duty of S2B a ton was placed on steel rails. The erection of Bessemer steel plants was commenced, and soon American capital and labor were turning out as fine steel rails as the English. What, was the result? Our railroads relieved from the extortionate demands of a foreign monopoly, could now buy mils at home for less than s<o a ton. with a still downward tendency. A short time ago Congress took sll off the duty on steel rails, leaving sl7. In the meantime, with improved machinery and are duction in the price paid for labor, which must always attend a reduction of duties, the price of steel rails lias gone down to about $35 a ton. Instead of paying an outrageous price to foreign monopolists and draining our country of its financial resources, we are employing our own capital and our own labor and distributing the money for the benefit of our own people. It is estimated that not more than one-tenth the amount of steel rails now used are imported, and even then the foreign monopolists are forced down to the reasonable prices brought about through protection and the encouragement of home industry. “Now it is proposed to destroy this satisfactory condition of things by a free-trade move ment, beginning with a horizontal reduction of 20 per cent, which would put the duty on steelrails down to about $13.00. The first effect would be a reduction of at least 20 per cent, in the price of labor at the steel works, and at least 20 per cent, in the price of raw materials and the labor which produces them, or the closing up of our home establishments. How long the country could live in peace under such circumstances is a very simple proposition, and one that anybody should oe able to answer. With the country draiued of Us money, and no employment for its working classes, industrial prostration would be the first step, and anarchy would follow in natural sequence. •*The same thing might l>e said of textile fabrics. I remember when calico was 37 12 cents a yard This was again the period of foreign monopoly. Our Southern planters received 4 cents a pound for cotton which was sent all the way to England to be manufactured and then shipped back again. After much trouble our enterprising citizens from New England succeeded in having a duty put upon cotton fabrics; and with what result? Cotton mills began to appear, the whir of the spindles and the rattle of machinery began to resound among the hills of New England. Today calico is so cheap the wives and daughters of our working people will not wear it for best and our cotton planters are getting 10 and 32 cents a pound for their cotton. More than this, the cotton mill is no longer a stranger to the South. We hear of them springing up in that section every day, and why? Simply because of the guarantee afforded by our American industrial system. The free-traders talk about monopolists in a manner which only demonstrates an intensity of dullness almost inexplicable or the influence of some subtle spell. Steel rails at free-trade prices ranging from $75 to $125 a ton. and at tariff prices $35 a ton: calicoes at 37 1-2 cents a yard, free-trade prices, and 0 1-2 cents, tariff prices, and cotton at 4 cents a peund. free trade prices, and 12 cents tariff prices, should convince every manufacturer and workingman, planter and fanner, that there is neither logic nor reason in five trade, but if they choose to call it monopoly it were better for our own peo pie to enjoy the benefits of their own monopoly than to l>e dependent and subservient to the extortions of foreign monopoly.” Outbreak Against Americans. El. Paso, Tex., April 15.—A dispatch from Zacatecas, Mexico, 700 miles south, was received here this afternoon to the effect that, there is trouble among tin* inhabitants and an uprising against American residents. They attacked the Mexican Central railroad, burned bridges and tore up the track for several miles. In Chihuahua the Governor called out troops to prevent any demonstration. Travelers from the interior' for several days have reported general uneasiness and fear of rebellion among the inhabitants.

Monday Night's Fire at Pittsburg. Pn*rsßuko. April 15.—The loss by last night's fire at Schultes'* planing mill will not exceed $30,000. on which there is an insurance of $lO.000. distributed in tho following companies: North British: Lion, of England: Kenton, of Kentucky: Commerce, of Albany. N. V.: .Etna, of Hartford: Fire Association: Standard, of England, and Artisans. Peoples*. Gorman-Ameri-can, City aul Allemania, of Ifittsbnrg. Serious Fire at Ludlow. Cincinnati, April 10 —1:30 a. m.—■.A destructive conflagration is in , progress at Ludlow. Ky., . across tho river from the western part of Cincinnati. The grocery of ,T. 11. Grove, tho dry goods store of H. Corwin and a number of residences are now burning, and tho liro ls spreading rapidly. Tho Cincinnati fire department has sent assistance. Steamship News. Xkw York, April 15.—Arrived: Helvetia, from Liverpool. London. April 15.—Arrived: Australia, Wie laud, from New York. Philadelphia, April 15.—Arrived: British Crown, from Liverpool. Heavy Executions. Philadelphia, April 15.—Executions were issued to day upon three judgments entered up against Edmund Claxton, stationer and bookseller of this city, in favor of William Weightman. amounting to $244,810. Interest and costs will swell the assessment of damages to $%6,510. A Very Poor Can: ir<l. St. Johns, April 15.—Tho rumored rescue of tho Greely party by the sealing steamer Vanguard turns out to nave been a canard circulated on the first day of April. Nasby’i* Idea About Matrimony. Letter from the Corner*. The only proper marriage arrangements I hev ever seen is among the Soo Injuns. The sooperior bein uv that tribe, when he wants a wife, simply knocks down with a chib the maiden onto whom he hez fixed bis love. This is in token nr his suoperiority. Es she survives, she rises, and immejitly goes out and picks up dry wood, dresses the game in his lodge, cooks his dinner, wieh the gushin child uv naelier eats, and immojitly goes to the nearest settlement and gits oz drunk ez a lord, wieh practice is continyood every day till death doth them part. She dresses tho game, tans the skins uv the buffalo he kills, cultivates the corn, and, in short, does tho work uv life; wieh gives her master the time necessary to his mental and moral improvement Ah! with all our boasted civilizashon, we kin yit, learn suthin from the noble rod man! Es rich customs prevailed among us I wood hav me a wife to vrunst. but rather than bo coerced erz the married men uv the Corners are. I will remain single forever. Es I eood find a woman willin to work for me it wood anser. fntt Wat I kin borrev barely supplies my appetite, and I don’t keer to further burden my capasrity. The woman wieh wants mo must he willin to keer forme. Thom’s nvf only terms. No man with a consootnin appetite hezany bum is with a wife. She don’t recognize tho necessity uv supply in it, and manners at cold rooms and bad cloze, wieh is annoy in. Horsford’s Acid Phosphate, INCOMPARABLE IN SICK UK AD ACHE. Dr. Fred Horner, jr,, Salem, Ya., sys: “To relieve thw indigestion and so called sick headache, and mental depression incident to certain stages of rheumatism, it is incomparable. *

STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. The Long-l'endiug Strike in the Clay County Region Drawing to an End. ° * A White County Man Brutally Beaten by Highwaymen—Collection of Minor Events in Indiana and Illinois. INDIANA. The Long-Pending Coal Strike In Western Indiaua About limled. Special to the I mliao&polis Journal. Brazil, April 15.—1 tis understood to-day that the coal miners’ and operators’ strike is about to end by the operators conceding to the demand of the miners for 35 cents a ton. It is understood that one or more of the companies have offered 85 ceuts, and this is understood to be equivalent to the concession on the part of all. Indiana Patents. Sp<vial to the Imlia/iapohs Journal. Washington, April 15.—Patents were issued to the following Imlianians to-day: Charles A. Rlume, Union City, stump-puller Howard Campbell, assignor t* i.itu\ Scott & Cos., Richmond, Ind.. reclining attachment for threshers or separators: Wilbur F. Cornelius. Muneie, mop and brush-holder. Wallace H. Dodge. Misha waka, (two) cornice and button-fastener; James Dushane, South Bend, wrench; John Gilgour, Columbus, nut lock: William R, Lampton, Terre Haute, safety brace for car-seats; Thomas J. Lindsay. Lafayette, cheek-row corn-planter: Marion W. McCann, Posey county, cultivator: David M. Parry, Rushville. auger-handle; George* W. Rickwine, Muneie, show-window ventilator; Zachary L. Sweeney and J. I. Irwin, Columbus, fenee-post; Vincent D. Urso, Evansville, popcorn package. Food for the Gallows. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Waynk, April 15.—The case of William Boyle, indicted for murder in tho first degree for killing Daniel Casey, has been set for trial on the 22d inst. The two men were partners in a burglary in central Ohio, and were coming west on freight trains of the P., Ft. W. & C. railway. At Monroeville, Ind., fifteen miles east of Fort Wayne, they quarreled and Casey was killed. In an ante mortem statomeut. made in the presence of officers, Boyle was fully identified as the murderer. The gallows on which Sam McDonald •was hung on Oct. 9, last, is preserved for future use. Lectures by Hon. JK. B. Reynolds. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Gi.knwood, April 15.—Hon. E. B. Reynolds, president of the Grand Prohibition Council of Indiana, has just closed a series of lectures on temperance at this place, in which he advocates the right of the proplc to vote upon an amendment to the Constitution of tho State prohibiting the liquor traffic. He advises all men to labor in their respective parties for such an amendment to be passed upon by the Legislature and submitted to a popular vote. The temperance people adopted resolutions thanking Me Reynolds for his earnest efforts. Northern Indiana Fair to Continue, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, April 15. —The Northern In cliana Fair Association have resolved not to discontinue giving fairs at Fort Wayne, as had been expected. The next fair will bo held in this city on Sept. 31 and Oct. 1, 2 and 3. Spring floods have ruined tlie race track and $.5,009 will be roquired to repair the damage to grounds and buildings by water and ice.

Beaten by Highwaymen. Special to the Indiatmpo'in Journal. Montioello, April 15. —While Sherman Day was going home, on Saturday night, lie was assaulted by two highwaymen, seven miles north of this place, and brutally beaten into insensibility,by clubs. The thieves secured nothing, but left Day seriously hurt. Minor Notes. The Jewish citizens of Logansporfc have taken steps to purchase ground for a cemetery. Lizzie Escott. a little girl of Jeffersonville, was badly poisoned on Sunday by eating an Easter egg. Captain Argus Dean, the groat peach grower of Jefferson county, says there will be no peach crop this year. Mr. Oraeter. a Vincennes capitalist, proposes to build a first-class hotel and three business houses in that city. The Richmond Independent is threatened with a suit for damages by the water-works company of that city. The noisiest and most turbulent- saloon in Lafayettee, is conducted by a woman. The monkeys and parrots have a perennial picnic there. Timothy O’Leary, who was injured by a switching-engine, in the Vandalia yards at Terre Haute, on Satnrdry. died on Monday evening. 'Hie Vincennes telephone exchange lisps, which caused the newspapers of that city to locate the fire of the Eugene ice houses at Bulli van, instead of Carlisle. A young son of William Walker, near Oak town. Sullivan county, ran upon the point of a pitchfork on Saturday night. One of the prongs entered his eye. passed through his head, and killed him. On Sunday night Kid Gerard and James Hickey, two boy thieves, broke into Myers Bros.’ fish market, in Terre Haute. They were discovered in the storeroom by the police and Gerard was captured, Hickey making good his escape. Richard Bird, a colored man belonging to a hook and ladder company, at Linden Hill, fell under t lie wagon while running to a fire, on Sunday night, and liad a leg broken and was other wise injured, llis leg will probably require amputation. Luther O. Cooper, who killed ’Squire Dillon in a wheat-field, near Ireland, Dubois county, last summer, at the same time shooting tho ’Squire’s son. was arrested on Sunday at Jasper. He is in ill-health, and claims that the shooting was done in self defense. Marion Watkins and William Morgan with others indulged iu a drunken row at Edwardsville, Floyd county, on Sunday. Watkins is seriously injured in the head and spine having been clubbed and stoned and Morgan received an ugly stab in the back. Tlio city schools of Frankfort celebrated Arbor Day v ith interesting ceremonies. Trees were planted to tho memory of J. G. Whittier, J. W. Riley, General Lew Wallace. Miss L. M. Alcott. of the living, and to the memory of Alice and Phcebe Cary, Longfellow', Bryant and other poets. Charles A. Cripps, city clerk of this place, has been placed under a SSOO bond to answer to an embarrassing charge preferred against him by Miss Agnes Mollock, a cousin of his wife She •gave birth to a child last. January, and now demands from Cripps $1.4)00 damages* Tho affair did not become public until this week. Dean Edward Bradley, of Christ Church, Madison, last Saturday received from an unknown friend in Philadelphia, a white silk stoll, handsomely embellished with a cross and gold fringe on each end. The only wards that came with it were in effect* that it had been sent in grateful remembrance of past ministrations. On Monday evening a discussion took place at La Fontaine, Wabash county, between George T. Vandergrift and Dr. Thomas, the latter accusing Vandergrift of inditing an article in the Plaiivdealcr. Jake Mader, a saloon-keeper, and an enemy of Vandergrift, interfered, and being a powerful man, pounded the latter until he was insensible. He is seriously hurt and will be laid up for some time. Mrs. Sarah Saunders died, near Richmond, on Saturday. She was a daughter of Andrew Hoovot, wlo, with his family of ten sons and daughters, of whom she was the youngest and tho latest survivor, located near where Rich

mond now' stands, in 1800. She was the oldest living citizen of the county, having resided in it for seventy-eight years. Her father was a leading member of the Society of Friends, and a man of worth. The lato Hon. John S. Newman, Judge Jacob B. Julian and Hon. George W. Julian are of this stock, being grandsons of Andrew Hoover. The Princeton Presbytery of the United Pres byterian Church closed their work at Scotland on Monday. Rev. J. Gordon acted as moderator ■and li. A. Foster, of Bloomington, as clerk. The resignation of Rev. William P. McNarry as pastor of the l T nited Presbyterian Church at Bloomington was accepted. Rev. McNarry having taken the position of editor of the St. Louis Midland, the resignation to take effect at once. Rev. W. W. Blair was nominated for superintendent of missions and Rev. J. A. Gordon for superintendent of home missions. For Presbyterian Sun-day-school superintendent J. H. Hannah was selected. Adjourned to meet at Summerville, Ind., in April next. ILLINOIS. Decatur Treated to a Surprise in the Shape of au Anti-License Victory. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Dkcatur, April 15. —This city was treated to a geuuino .surprise to-day in an anti license victory, tho Prohibitionists electing four of five candidates for aldermen, making the now Council stand seven to three. This means prohibition, and insures temperance for two years. The candidates elected are Wayne, First ward; Muzzy, Second ward; Starr, Third ward; Oakes, Fourth ward; Henderson, Fifth ward. Oakes is the only license man. Mule Thieves Caught. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, April 15. —Two men were arrested near Ivenny, DeWittcounty, to day. having in their possession three mules,’ stolen from 11. Harteing. at Elkhart, Ind., on Sunday. They were taken to Mt. Pulaski, and, upon examination, pleaded guilty and were taken to jail at Lincoln. They gave the names of George Watson and Fred Mayer. Brief Mention. The farmers of Livingston count}' are very busy putting in oats, of which a large acreage will be sown in that county. Springfield is catching the greater number of refugee women recently driven from Bloomington by the uprising of the citizens. High license was victorious at Clinton, yesterday. with the same result at Chenoa. Wapella went for license, and Eureka and Metamora both went strongly for anti liconse. The Rev. W. H. Moore, rector of St. John’s Church, of Decatur, who lately received a call to become rector of St. Paul’s Church, at Springfield, has declined to accept the flattering offer. Lida Large, the girl who figured so prominently before the public in connection with the Dodd murder case at Loami. was arrested recently, at Springfield, by an officer from Virginia, Cass county. Slie is wanted there to answer an indictment for keeping a house of ill-fame. The Southern Association of Congregational Churches of Illinois is now holding its twenty sixth annual session in Mattoon. " Pastors and delegates from all parts of the southern half of the State, together with several eminent clergymen from Chicago and elsewhere are in attendance. The session promises to be unusually interesting and will continue in session until Friday noon. On Sunday morning, while services wore being bold in the chapel of the penitentiary at Chester, a convict named James O'Brien, who was sent from Lafayette county last October, on an eighteen months' sentence for assault to commit larceny, complained of being sick and was allowed to* go to his cell, where fie was discovered in about half an hour. dead, having committed suicide by hanging himself with his Suspenders. Tho private collection of mementoes of Abraham Lincoln, now belonging to O. H. Oldroyd, of Springfield, was opened to public inspection on Monday, in the old Lincoln residence. Mr. Oldroyd lias been gathering these articles together for upward of twenty years, and they now number more* than two thousand. Two rooms in the old Lincoln mansion are devoted to them, and in general the arrangement of the rooms is the same as when Lincoln left them to go to Washington as President.

The Value of the Garden. Correspondence Milwaukee Sentinel. Economically considered, the garden forms a most profitable department on the farm, when it is liberally treated and judiciously managed. Much of the living of the family may he gained from the garden, and a most wholesome living it is. The idea of a farmer sowing and planting all of his land to field crops and then buying or going without vegetables all the vear round, is simply bat-barons and unnatural. Such a man is h disgrace to the fair earth lie fills. No Wonder that tho weevil, the blight and the grasshoppers settle over his fields, for he neglects to provide against such emergencies- by diversifying the products of his farm, as every farmer ought, to some extent at least. Our agricultural calling can never bo raised by the confirmed wheat or corn growers. It does not require a very high degree of skill or intelligence to plow, sow and harvest such crops. The dullest plodder, w'ho is guided us much bv instinct us by reason and intelligence, can accomplish this work as successfully as tlio most skilled agriculturist of the land. Yet in tho garden or in the orchard ho would do but softy work. The day is rapidly approaching when agriculture must bo pursued upon strictly economical and fleiefrtific principles, that the earth may Ik? made to produce enough to supply its toiling millions with that which sustains life. Then, indeed must the finer agricultural and horticultural arts be mastered by the fanner. The Art of Sealing a Letter. There is a great art in scaling a letter, and the candle, tho stick of sealing-wax and a daintily engraved seal are now requisites of tho fashionable writing table. When seal, note and candle are ready, do not begin by thrusting the end of the wax stick into the flame and conveying it in a flaming splatter of wax to your envelope. Take plenty of time to do it. First lay the seal right to your hand, so that the impression may be square and not wrong sido up. Then hold the wax considerably above the flame of tho candle, not close enough to burn. A burnt wax makes a brittle,streaky seal, .and is hard to manage. When tlio wax has gradually softened, apply it with a circular movement or tlio hand upon the note. Hub it well around and down until you have a proper circle and of sufficient thickness. Then do not apply the seal. The wax has cooled so that it wonkt not take a clear impression. Hold the envelope some litllo distance from the flame, then lay it upon your desk, and apply the seal. The result should be a clear cut impression. Permanent Pasture. Breeders* There are several varieties of pasture grasses, the value of which seem to us to have been much underestimated, and which are well worthy of trial. Orchard grass wo would give a prominent place in this list. Yet we come back, usually, to timothy, red clover and blue grass as the leading varieties. Timothy and clover grow rapidly, give a large yield, and. consequently, can bo relied on. Blue grass gets a foot-hold more slowly, but will finally take nearly exclusive possession of tho soil. We should sow three together. There is much difference iu the practice of good farmers in regard to quantity sown. It rarely happens that too much seed is put on. The only objection to thick sowing is the increased cost. A bushel of timothy to about four to six acres, a like amount of blue-grass and half as much clover ought to give a good stand. We have known good results from much lighter seeding, but there is greater probability of failure. The blue-grass will not be expected to make much showing the first two years. We Can’t Talk" Without showing the condition of our teeth. Every laugh exposes them. In order not to bo ashamed of them, let us use that standard dentifrice. Sozodont, which is sure to keep them white and spotless. No tartar can encrust them, no canker affect the enamel, no species of decay infest the dental bono, if Sozodont is regularly used. 11 is botanical preparation, and its beneficial effects on the teeth and gums are marvelous, as it removes all discolorations, and renders the gums hard and rosy.

VICTOR HUGO. Eighty-Two Years Old, and the Vainest Man Now Living, Baris Letter in Chicago Tribune. Victor Hugo is now 82 (his birthday was Feb 20), and if not at the acme of his genius, he is assuredly at the acme of his egotism. His vanity has been steadily and swiftly growing through two generation*, until it has reached a height tnat no ordinary mind can measure. It is col1088al, everlasting, insatiable. Since he wrote his ‘’Odes and Ballads.” when he was twenty, he has been largely occupied with his boundless inportance and tho contemplation of his own greatness, and for many years past he has been irredeemably lost in admiring wonderment at his personal perfections. Other men are vain; * Hugo is vanity itself. To express even faintly his superlative, his preternatural self-esteem, some new word should bo invented, and the best word would be Hugoism. Nowhere but in France would such deification be possible. France is self-worshipful, and the r rench, in a wav, worship themselves by worshiping Hugo, who is, in their eyes, first, a Frenchman, and, secondly, a genius. He is the one man of the country before whom all other men palo and dwindle. The French people, as he thinks, and as they are willing to concede, are divided into the French and Victor Hugo. He is the apotheosis of poetry, thtf avatar of intellect. Everybody addresses him as “Dear Master,” and strangers who call on him—he is very accessible—do little else than echo the praises he expects as his due. Many of these praises are ludicrously excessive: but they never soifad so to him. His hearing has grown callous to the exaggerated compliments that have so long assailed it. No Anglo-Saxon could or would endure such a battery of adulation. Superlatives have become so familiar to him that tho positive degree might awaken resentment He is continually accosted as “divine,” “the greatest of poets,” “tho monarch of mirth,” “the intellect ual ruler of the age,” and the like. A not uncommon form of greeting is. “How is the good god?" to which he responds with won deiTul ingenuousness. “The good god is very well.” STOPPING A STAMPEDE. A Cowboy’s Coolness Before a Herd of Frightened Cattle. Chicago Herald. “One of the slickest things I saw in my travels,” said a passenger from the West, “was a cowboy stopping a cattlo stampede. A herd of about GOO or 800 bail got frightened at something and broke away pell-tuell with their tails in the air and the bulls at the head of the procession. But Mr. Cowboy didn’t get excited at all when he saw the herd was going straight for a high bluff, where they would certainly’ tumbledown into the canon and be killed. You know that when a herd like that gets to going they can’t stop, no matter whether they rush to death or not. Those in the rear crowd those ahead, and away they go. 1 wouldn’t have given a dollar a head for that herd, but the cowboy spurred up his mustang, made a little detour, came in right in front of the herd, cut across their paths at a right angle and then galloped leisurely on to the edge of that bluff, halted, and looked around at that wild mass of beef coming right toward him. He was cool as a cucumber, though I expected to see him killed, and was so excited I could not speak. Well. sir, when the leaders had got within about a quarter of a mile of him I saw them try to slack up, though they could not do it very quick. But the whole herd seemed to want io stop, and when the cows and steers in the rear got alxmt where the cowboy had cut across their path, 1 was surprised to see them stop and com tnencc to nibble at the grass. Then the whole herd stopped, wheeled, straggled back, and went to fighting for a chance to eat where the rear guard was. You ace, that cowboy had opened a big bag of salt he had brought out from the ranch to give the cuttle, galloped across the herd’s course and emptied the bag. Every critter .sniffed that lino of salt, and of course that broke up the stampede. But I tell you it wat a queer sight to see that cuss out there on the edge of that bluff quietly rolling a cigarette, when it seemed as if he’d be lying under 200 tons of beef in about a minute and a half.”

To Avoid Accidents from Barbs. Country Gentleman. For smooth, nearly level fields, plow a deep furrow on each side of the wire fence, o rather plow several furrows, so as to make one broad and deep one on either side, throwing as much earth with the plow ns practicable towards the line of posts, and finishing the work by cleaning out by hand the ditches thus made. This work is performed at comparatively little cost, and has the three advantages of draining the line, bank ing against the posts so that they need not he set so deep, and making a visible barrier which will induce horses to check their speed and stop before they reach tie fence. They will not pitch heedlessly into a ditch and against a bank. They are always brought up before they reach the line. Another advantage is that the uitch and bank combined are as good as two bottom boards, and a smaller number of wire are needed to complete the fence above. The Last Plot. Norristown Herald. Tho directions given in fashion journals for crocheting tidies and things are very lively road ing, but lack plot. If our memory is not at fault, they run somehow this way: Work nine stitches, turn back, two stitches in third bar, two single in thirds, three chain, FS to O 4th ch., K takes B. then mako eight chain and fasten to center of Q B 7th, loop and turn back, white to play and mate in threo stitches. It seems easy enough. Unfortunately Untrue. Michigan City Dispatch. An Indianapolis special says that 0. J. French, superintendent* will resign to accept the super intendency of the Dayton. & Michigan division of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, and that J. R. Carnahan, Adjutant-general, will bo appointed to succeed him. This will bo good news to tlio mail agents of this city, who detest French, and with whom General Carnahan is deservedly popular. Not Dangerous at All Times. Frankfort, Ky.. Yeoman. Mr. Henry Wartefson is not ordinarily a dan gerous man. It is only when lie is very greatly provoked and highly excited that he becomes savage. The strangling of such a man as Sam Randall is only an occasional thing with him, and prominent Democrats who differ with his opinions need not be frightened into a belief that such remorseless cruelty is an every day occurence Interesting Primer Lor©. NVmr Y*>rk OrnpMc. An inqurer asks: “Can any ono tell me if there is a book on the care, training and breed ingot cats ?” The only work on cats we remo.m ber is the “Benjamin Franklin Primer,” which contains the following catechism: "What is that?” “That is a cat and a kit The cat is tho dam of the kit I) the eat and the kit.” Is It Quite Sale? Washington Post. It is safe to assume that even if Mr. Hendricks is not personally jn the race as a candidate, his heart is in it as a member, of the Democratic party, desiring nothing so much as the success of its nominees, wherever they come from and whoever they are, and the trumph of its principles. A Literary Hotel Clerk. Soulii Beiw* Tribune. Tho hotel clerks, who were never supposed to have an ambition above a big solitaire diamond pin, are to be represented among the book-mak-ers. George Sharp, of the Murdock House, Logansport, is Writing a book called “Eighteen Years Among tho Gripsacks.” A good design for a bedspread is fro place a monogram or other pattern in the upper lefthand corner, surrounded by flowers. Poisoned Clieeso Cleans out all rats, mice, roaches, water-hugs, bed-hugs, ants, vermin. 15c. Druggists. Browuing & Sloan, agents. HR KREGELO & WHITSETf, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS, No. 77 North Dehtwaro Street. Telephone connection at office and residence. Cottiagei for weddings and parties.