Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1884 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. Saturday.— Cooler, generally fair weather. “There is no new thing under the sun,” said the Wise Man more than twenty-eight hundred years ago. This saying, when applied to the present time, is doubtless to be taken in a general sense; for, strictly speaking, it cannot be affirmed of the details of human civilization and progress in modem times, especially in the nineteenth century, and more especially in the present day. Take, for example, the subject of Men’s, Youths’, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing, and Furnishings. In these fields of human activity, beneficent improvement and innovation is ceaselessly at work. Each season contributes its share of meritorious new things—the catalogue of varieties is ever growing. Better still for the consumer, multiplication of variety and lowering of prices go hand in hand—facts which have by far the most adequate and impressive illustration in this market, as season succeeds season, in the several Departments of the WHEN CLOTHING STORK AN ILLINOIS TRAGEDY. One Woman Brntally Murders Another, and Then Cuts Her Own Throat O’Fallbn, 111., Aug. 29.—The -widowed sister of Mr. Van Court, a prominent citizen of this place, was found dead in her garden, last night, with her head badly beaten. Another woman, whose name is not given, attempted to commit suieide. The act of the woman who attempted to commit suicide leads to the suspicion that she committed the murder. Later reports of the affair say that the latter woman was found in a smoke-house on the premises of her son-in-law, John H. Lehman, bathed in blood, with her throat cat from ear to ear, and a bloody razor lying by her side. Surgical aid was immediately summonded, her throat sewed up, and she was made as comfortable as possible. There seemed to be no motive for the dreadful deed; but two hours later it was discovered to be the sequence of a crime still more horrible and ghaßtly. Mrs. Cormack, a highly respectable widow, and sister of Hoo. B. J. Van Court, was found lying murdered in a garden adjoining her residence, half a mile east of town. Her head and face were dreadfully beaten and her clothing stained with gore. A terrible wound appeared in her breast; a file was found near by, also a blood-stained piece of iron kettle, and a club, both of which seemed to have been used with terrible effect in the tragedy. As it was known some jealousy or bad feeling existed on the part of Mrs. Granther toward Mrs. Cormack, it was suspected there was more than a mere coincidence between the murder and the attempted suicide, and on closely questioning lira Granther she confessed to having killed Mrs. Cormack. It seems Mra Granther’s little daughter had done chores for Mrs. Cormack, and a dispute arose yesterday afternoon between the women about the payment of money for the service. Bad blood already existed, and a still more angry feeling arose, and Mrs. Granther, in her passion, seized the weapons at hand and stopped not till her victim lay dead at her feet She theu hurried away, and in the reaction of her feelings attempted her own life. The account, so far, is very indefinite. The fact s will not be known be fore to-day, when an inquest will be held. Three sealed, but unaddressed, letters written by Mrs. Granther, are now in the hands of the coroner. They will probably be read at the inquest, and it is thought that they will throw some light upon the affair and reveal the cause of the temple deed. Mrs. Granther died between 9 and 10 o’clock last night. She confessed that she killed Mrs. Cormack, but gave no reason for committing the deed. It seems to be well known, however, that she entertained bad feelings towards Mrs. Cormack, growing out of jealousy, and that she had several times threatened to kill her. She was a woman of fortyeight years, the wife of Thomas Granther, a coal miner; she had been divorced from two husbands before marrying Granther, and had lived a very unhappy life. Mrs. Cormack was the widowed sister of B. J. Van Court, owner and operator of the coal mines near O’Fallon, and a politician of some local note. She was a very highly esteemed lady who lived a retired life a short distance from town. It doesn’t appear that she was aware that Mrs. Granther was her enemy. John A Lehman, son-in-law of the suicide, says he never knew of any trouble between the women, and regard the affair as very mysterious. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict that Maria Cormack was murdered by Fredericks Granther, and that the latter committed suicide. The three letters left by the Granther woman threw no light on the tragedy, but bear evidence that the murderess was of unsound mind. STARVING INDIANS. Deplorable Condition of the Piegans—The Rations Insufficient to Sustain Life. Helena, Mont., Aug. 29.— Gov. Crosby states that the special agent sent by him to inquire into the condition of the Piegan Indians has just returned. He found that these Indians, about 2,000 in number, are dying from the effects of gradual starvation at a rate of seven a <lay. The men and women are gaunt and spiritless, and the children emaciated. All are so weakened by lack of sufficient food for the past two years, that dreadful suffering and death will occur shortly. The appropriation for this year only permits agents to issue two pounds of beef and three pounds of bad flour per week, which is entirely inadequate to support well people. The Governor reports an unnatural and inhuman state of things existing, and calls upon the Secretary of the Interier to assume the responsibility of issuing full rations until Congress meets in Docember. The Wreck of the Tallapoosa. VinkyardHavkn, Aug. 29. —The wreck of the Tallapoosa was examined by three divers. The break in the hull is 18 feet long; on top the cut in the deck is 7J feet This cut extends downward 18 or 20 feet to the sand in which the . steamer is becoming imbedded. Careful search was made for bodies, but none were found. Movements of General Sheridan. Boston, Aug. 29.—Lieutenant-general Sheridan arrived here to-day, accompanied by several members of his staff. The General was met at the railroad station by a number of army officers. He will remain in the city a day or two to meet old soldiers of the late war. Small advertising a special feature of the Sunday Journal, which sells for three cents. Only ONE-HALT CENT A WORD.

THE FIGHTING IN THE EAST. The French Fleet Leaves the Min River, andMay Go to the City of Shanghai. Destruction of the Remainder of the Defenses at Kinpai European Residents at Shanghai Not Molested. A Chinese Force Said To Be Preparing lor an Invasion of Tonquin. Indications in London that the War in the East Will Be of Short Duration—Cable Newß of All Kinds. THE FRANCO-CHINESE WAR. Official Report of the Langton Affair— Foreigners Ordered to Leave Canton. London, Aug. 29.—A Paris dispatch says: “The official report concerning the Langson affair, from General Millot, commander of the French forces in Tonquin, praises the valor of Colonel Degenne, who was in command of the detachment sent to occupy Langson, hut says he acted too precipitately. Degenne was under orders to occupy Langson peacefully, and when he found himself confronted by Chinese, the general of which forces said he had received no orders to surrender, he ought to have asked further orders from Millot ty the heliograph. The French newspapers are exultant over the success of Admiral Courbet in destroying the defenses along the river Min, between Foo-Chow and the sea.” A Shanghai dispatch says: “The European residents of Shanghai remain unmolested. Many citizens are alarmed and leaving the city and the foreign settlement The chief magistrate and consuls have issued placards, urging the natives to remain, as the French have no present intention of attacking Shanghai or Wooshong. The Chinese authorities here have received an important telegram from Pekin, the purport of which is not precisely known. There are reports, however, that China is desirous of coming to an agreement with France. The viceroy of Canton has ordered all Frenchmen to leave his province immediately.” The French fleet has destroyed the remaining Chinese works at Kinpai. The fleet left Min river to-day, but its destination remains uncertain. It seems probable it may go to Shanghai. Gen. Millot, commander of the French force in Tonquin, telegraphs that the Chinese are preparing to invade Tonquin. He awaits their advance with confidence. A Speedy Settlement Expected. London, Ang. 29.—Advices received by leading China houses of London from their branches at Foo-Chow and Shanghai show that no dread is entertained there of a. native uprising, and business proceeds as usoaL In London, premiums on trading vessels in the Chinese seas, which have been advanced to war rates, have fallen to-day to nominal rates. General commercial confidence prevails, and an early settlement of the Franco-Chinese difficulties is looked for. Foo-Cliow and Its Surroundings. New York Special. “The Min river,” said Dr. Yon Tsze Hing, the well-known Chinese physician here, ‘ls a beautiful stream. It is larger than the Housatonic, • but smaller that the Hudson. At its mouth it expands into a broad harbor, whieh, however, contains so many rocks and shoals as to make it difficult of entry at certain seasons. The riveras you ascend it for the first ten miles flows between meadow lands of great fertility, all of which are under perfect cultivation. The landscape grows wilder and comes to resemble the highlands of the Hudson. Further up it expands and breaks into two branches, that encircle Pagoda island. The river here is very beautiful, similar to that of Staten island from Bergen . point Higher up is the great arsenal, and three miles beyond is the port of Foo-Chow, the city proper being three miles from the river. Nearly opposite the port is a large lake or widening of the river, which opens northward, so that its end is almost west of the city. This lake is known as Lee Hn, or the inner gulf. It is always crowded with vessels. Foreign craft, English steamers, fishing junks from the harbor and neighboring ports, freight and passenger junks from up the river, rafts and pleasure boats make up a fleet larger than that in New York harbor. Besides, there is an institution peculiarly Chinese, viz.: a floating town; rafts that have come down the river, boats no longer seaworthy, and junks whose owners can make more money by leasing them as residences than by using them for freight, and besides these handsome floating houses whose occupants are retired shippers end sailors, are the main features of this ftuviatile city. By day, with its blaze of color and its numberless little flowergardens, it is very pretty. At night, however, the lights and lanterns swayingwith the wind and wave make it a fairy land. The great bridge that runs from the port to the island in front is a wonder. We call it the ‘bridge of a hundred arches,’ or ‘the bridge of ten thousand years.’ It was built ages ago, before the Tartar conquest, and shows no wear even to-day. It is constructed of granite blocks, laid upon stone piers, and supports not only the roadway, but also booths, stores and dwellings.” “Where were the fortifications that repulsed the fleet, Doctor.” “No one can tell from the Sispatches sent. When I was a young man there were occasional stone forts from the city to the harbor armed with old-style and rusty cannon. Most of them were so old and rotten that no one dared to fire them off, excepting it might be some mischievous boys. But about 1870 the government began to construct earthworks in the most modern style, and to arm them with the newest pattern of cannon. The first ordnance consisted of Armstrong and Whitworth cannon. We tried some American cannon—Dablgren and Rodmans—but found them inferior to the English. When the forges of Essen began to supersede those we bought the Krupp guns, and probably now own nine or ten hundred of the best models. China is so large, and there are so many points to be protected, that I question if there are more than 10 per cent, of them in the neighborhood of Foo-Chow. The fortifications begin at the port, then there are batteries on the points below the city and on the hills beyond, at the arsenal and at Pagoda island: but I don’t know which batteries made the fight until I can get the home papers, which will arrive in a day or two by the next mail." “What is meant by firing on the Pagoda?” “It may mean either of two things—both barbarous and wicked. If they mean' Pagoda island, it was shelling a fertile and densely popnlated district, as closely settled as Mor risania, and consequently great suffering aud death. If they mean pagoda as the term is commonly employed, it was the wanton destruction of some old and beautiful temples on both sides of the river; especially on the north are many ecclesiastical establishments. They are a species of sanctuaries dedicated to the gods. Most of them are very ancient and are as dear to the Chinese as the Madeline and Notre Dame are to

the French. Several of these are porcelain and enameled terra-cotta. The metal work is gilt. Respected by the savage Tartars who conquered China, they are the first objects of destruction by the ‘civilized’ French. I hope, however, for the sake of humanity, that the telegraph erred, and that what happened was only the shelling of the Pagoda island forts.” The Feeling in France. Cable Special. The French papers are ablaze with the Chauvinistic spirit, and are prophesying a future El Dorado of wealth consequent upon the result of the naval and military operations in China. It is proposed to push on and open up the Sangkoi river to the Chinese frontier, and by an invasion of Yunnan to force the government at Pekin to allow foreign goods to enter the country through this channel. By this means it is expected that an extensive trade, entirely in the hands of French merchants, would be opened up, which would make the settlement at Tonquin a source of great wealth to France. It is said in London that M. Ferry inspires the dispatches which come from China; that any awkward details are suppressed, and that the successes are grossly exaggerated. But the effect on the popular mind is to attract the attention of the French nation away from home affairs and to render it probable that the Chamber, when they meet, will in dorse all the action taken by the French government in regard to China. The cowardice of the Chinese as displayed at Kinpai has somewhat dampened the enthusiasm of their friends in London, who now believe that Pekin will shortly come to terms. THE CHOLERA. The Daily Record of Deaths—Unreasoning Opposition to Hospitals. Romk, Aug. 29.—The daily bulletin of cholera in Italy for the past twenty-four hours shows 118 fresh cases, 26 deaths. Os these La Spezzia has 30 new cases and ten deaths, Massa, 18 new cases and 11 deaths; Votteguesao has thus far 18 deaths. Marseilles and the southern provinces to-day record thirty-two new cases. At Naples much unreasoning opposition to the transference of cholera patients to the hospitals prevails among the populace. Forcible opposition was yesterday offered. Asa person with the disease was being conveyed to the hospital riotefs wounded and otherwise maltreated several policemen. At the same time crowds of women assailed the infant schools, for fear the children, if they became unwell, would be taken to the hospitals. The syndic has asked the archbishop to help enlighten the people. There were live deaths from cholera at Marseilles to day. The records of the cholera in the Toulon hospitals for the twenty-four houre ending to-night, show: Admitted, 4; discharged, 6; deaths, 2, under treatment, 31. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. A Bold but Ineffectual Attempt to Plunder a Money-Changer. Hamburg, Aug. 29.—There was a hold attempt at Jobbery here to day. A locksmith named Boraemann entered the office of a moneychanger named Moritz Kaner and stabbed him in the neck. Boraemann then proceeded to open the safe, supposing his victim so seriously disabled that he could not help himself, bnt Kaner managed to reach a window, smash the glass and shout for help. At this Boraemann fled without having secured any money from the safe. He was captured later, after a violent struggle. Many weapons were found on him. He had live-l a long time in America. The Gordon Relief Expedition. London, Aug. 29. —Col.'Stewart has been ordered to Egypt to join the Soudan expedition. Seven steamers have passed the first cataract. The Nile is rising steadily and has already risen four feet at Wady-Halfa A Wady-Halfa telegram says a portion of the Sussex regiment have arrived and the remainder is coming. The regiment is ordered to push on to Dongola and support the raudir. The regiment will carry three months’ provisions. Colonel Kitchener has received a message from General Gordon, saying the General and the troops are well, and had sufficient provisions to enable them to hold out four months. The message is dated the 13th of April. The Pope and the French Divorce Law. Rome, Aug. 29.—An encyclical letter from the Pope, directed against the action of the French government in adopting the new divorce law, is ready for promulgation. The Pope reminds France that he has already frequently admonished the people against laws contrary to the church passed by their rulers. He instructs the bishops of the various dioceses as to the course they should pursue in order to maintain the principles of the church in regard to the sacrament of marriage. Precautions for the Czar’s Safety. Warsaw, Ang. 29.—Unusual precautions are being taken here, in view of the Czar’s visit, to prevent any acts of violence by Nihilists. The railways will be minutely inspected, and all trees along the roads to be traversed by the Czar have been cut to prevent conspirators hiding in them. Domiciliary visits are made nightly. Three hundred persons, including seventeen women, have been arrested since the discovery of the Bordweski conspiracy. The Duke of Edinburg at Dublin. Dublin, Aug. 29,— The Duke of Edinburg, with the Channel fleet, is visiting Dublin harbor. This has caused a great stir among the people, and the Duke is well received. Thousands flock to Kingston to visit the fleet, and the evenings are made brilliant with halls, fire-works and illuminations of the war ships. The Freeman’s Journal remarks that such occurrences as this indicate how loyal the Irish might be if only accorded their just rights. Marriage in High Life. Paris, Aug. 29.—1n the chapel of the Nonciature, to-day, Viscomte De Lande, a member of the diplomatic service, and May Parrott, an American, were married. The papal nuncio S renounced the benediction. United States [mister Morton was a witness for the bride. Cable Notes. M. Malon, the great Conservative leader of Belgium, is seriously ill. At Wisserabad, India, six soldiers were killed in the barracks by lightning. Seven miners were killed yesterday by accident at the Blackstone coal pit, near Paisley. Alphonso Taft, the new American minister to Russia, has arrived at St Petersburg' from Vienna. Charles Bradlaugh has not yet settled the terms of his contemplated lecturing tour in America. He will probably not start until after the opening of Parliament, when he will likely again claim his seat. Serious Blander of Health Officers. Nxw Orleans, Aug. 29.—The Times-Demo-crat’s Biloxi special says the affair of the Bark Atlanta, ordered to Ship island from Pensacola on account of yeHow fever, as telegraphed over the country, proves a serious blunder. There has been no yellow fever nor is there any sickness of any kind aboard. The captain is not dead, nor has he been ill Dr. Murray, quarantine physician at Ship island, released the Atlanta from detention on finding her free from any shadow of suspicion of infection. Small advertising a special feature of the Sunday Journal, which sells for three cents. Only ONK-HAU CENT A WORD.

GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS. Mr. Hendricks’s Dubuque Letter Proves an Unusually Fruitful Topic. An Indiana Man Thinks It a Hard Blow at Cleveland, and That Gentleman’s Friends Take the Same View. Ben Butler Delivers a Characteristic Speech to a Crowd of Farmers. Interesting Revelations as to the Treatment of Maria Halpin—A Brief but Pointed Speech by Senator Edmunds. MR. HENDRICKS’S LATEST LETTER. A Hard Blow Struck at the Head of the Democratic Ticket. Correapondence of the Indiananotia Journal. Columbia City, Ind., Aug. 29.—Hendricks's letter in answer to the Dubuque man shows more thought than his letter of acceptance does, and read between the lines it contains a bid for the first place on the ticket. The vice-presden-tial candidate discussing the withdrawal of his chief and his moral character in reference to the subject of bastardy is unprecedented, but peculiarly Democratic. The bare admission that the second man on the ticket has been approached on the subject of withdrawing Cleveland is a damaging confession. The language, “I cannot consider with favor" is putting his refusal to assist in Cleveland’s removal from the ticket in very mild language. “The action of the convention cannot now be reconsidered,” may be the reason for the above refusal to “consider with favor,” and shows that Thomas has weighed the matter carefully. “I don’t agree with you in respect to the probable result,” an admission that Cleveland's character, which is under discussion relative to the result, has also been considered, and that a Democrat of sufficient importance to address a letter. to one of the candidates and receive an answer, has expressed to Hendricks hie fears of the result. Hendricks could easily have omitted this last quotation from his letter, but his purpose was better served by the admission. “Whatever there may have been of the scandal before,” is the language of doubting Thomas, and is an important admission. “The public welfare requires that he be judged by his public record.” Between the lines this reads: “The success of the Democratic party requires that he be judged not by his private character.” The Chicago Times should now ask Cleveland to send his fool-killer to look after Thomas. Here the letter is regarded as the hardest hit Cleveland has yet had. The Democratic party demands that its record he not spoken of; and when it is, the cry of “bloody shirt” is immediately raised. The party has now offered us a candidate for President whose past life they would not have us refer to. However, when we do so, they dare not cry “bloody shirt" That would be too significant. They will simply say: “Public welfare requires that he be judged by his public life.” What Is Said by Eastern Democrats. New York Special. To those who sre on the inside of Democratic politics in this city Hendricks’s letter to a Dubuque Democrat is full of significance when read between the lines. To begin with, the question is asked, why, if he were entirely loyal to Cleveland, should he write any letter at all to one who, he must have known, was hostile to Cleveland, and therefore liable to use any advantage against him? Or, if he felt it due to courtesy to answer a correspondent whose very letter must have implied belief that Hendrioks was willing to he untrue to the head of the ticket, why should he handle the matter so openly and carelessly? Why should he not have written guardedly, so that, if his letter should fall before the public eye, it would not be a complete document within itself, without reference to the letter to which it was a reply? Cleveland’s friends are far from pleased with Hendricks’s course in this matter, and the belief is intimated that the tail of the ticket wrote the letter for a purpose and knowing that it would be published. They point to the fact that it makes a very mild defense of Cleveland; admitting the truth of the verycharges which have led to the talk of getting Cleveland off the track; brings out the fact that this question is being agitated in Democratic ranks, and that there is a belief among the members of that party that unless is withdrawn the defeat of the ticket in the November election is sure to follow. While his letter recognizes these as existing facts, he mildly deprecates the bringing of the scandal into the canvass; gently expresses the opinion the action of the convention must stand, and coos gently as a sucking dove his belief that the Democratic party has* a chance to win. It was given out when "Hendricks went East that it was for the purpose of winning over John Kelly and Tammany to the support of the ticket. He has returned to Indiana, and Tammany is, if anything, more outspoken than before. Cleveland’s fnends now say that, having proved faithless to Joe McDonald in the Chicago convention, he has proved equally traitorous to Cleveland, and that his eommunings with the Tammany chieftain were with the view to securing Cleveland’s retirement, and his own elevation to the first place on the ticket. A lively row in the Democratic ranks is very probable. BEN BUTLER. He Tells the Pennsylvania Farmers How They Are Oppressed. Williams Grove, Pa., Aug. 29. —General Butler arrived at noon and was met by 5,000 people and escorted to grange headquarters, where he held a short reception. At 2 o'clock General Butler was escorted to the grand stand by a very large number of people, a band of music and a squad of fifty police. As he ascended the steps of the platform he was loudly cheered, and a few minutes later was introduced by Worthy Master Leonard Rhone, of the State Grange. Genera! Butler in his speech said: “Usually, a speech to farmers commences by telling them how happy they are, and how much their lot is to be desired by all others, and how excellent a thing it is to plow in the gronnds and drive cows and milk them, and to make butter and have other people eat it I’m not going to begin my speech in that way. I was a farmer’s boy, brought up in my early youth on a farm, not like these, but so rocky that when they sent me after the cows I could jump a mile from stone to stone and never touch the ground. I know something of farm life. It is a hard life, if well followed; it is a stern life, if well followed; it is an onerous life, if well followed. The farmer, as a rule, does not get rich, hut he always has a comfortable subsistence, and if he is industrious and fugal, he lays up a competence for his children, if he has taught them to work with him and not let them get foolish ideas that

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- | th p „ vocation a man can have is to meaaup ('ith a yard stick behind a counter. N< © Cat Stay at home, boys, on the farm. Ua s'ou one or two things, and this is poßtici PJ ;?u don’t know it Ninety-nine out pf 1 tea £men that, go into the city and go m ninety out of every 100 fail utterly- wi os successes you hear of, but the ) -* -ink away into obscurity, and your sons-* no are gone into the city find" their place at last in the poor-house, where history doesn't deal with them to any considerable extent. And it is as much worse for the girl as you can think. I speak like an old man to young men and women, and to mothers and fathers, and I say, find a good, honest farmer or mechanic in your neighborhood, marry the girl to him, and let them be the happy parents of fine children, who will again marry with that class, on which the very foundation ol government rests. “Now, I say farm life is a hard life; but why is it a hard life? Because you don’t get a fair share of the profits of what you produce. Look at the agricultural implements I see here. How much has the power of the farmer been increased by this improved machinery? More than two hundred fold. You can produce two hundred fold as much in the same time. Now, why is not the condition of the farmer two hundred fold better now than it was before the good gifts of God to him in Hie shape of machinery were given him to increase production? He rather ought to be two hundred times richer, ought to do his work two hundred times easier, and ought to work two hundred times less than formerly; bnt he don’t Where has this money gone to? Who has got it? [Voice in the crowd, ‘The monopolist. 1 ] Not always the monopolist hut he gets most of it The farmer hasn't got it He nas got his land a little better or a little worse: but all this great production has gone somewhere. It has not been eaten up; it has not been burned; it has Dot taken wings and flown away. You will see it in these immense fortunes which have been acquired. lam not here to say one word against those men that acquired them. lam here to arraign the laws of the country which allow them so to accumulate the wages of honest labor and honest production. [Applause.] lam here to say that laws and legislators that can be so manipulated to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, ought to be changed. Os the fifty billion dollars of property in the country, the farmers own more than one quarter. Well, why have they not got rich? Because, first, their riches don’t flow in piles to them. It is a steady stream; aud then, you pay all the taxes substantially. Why do I say that? Why. if we could get all this fifty billion dollars of property taxed, the taxes would be nothing at all; thev would not he a flea-bite. But Mr. Vanderbilt says that under the law he is not taxable at all for anv personal property, and yet by your laws, he had at that time $52,000,000 of national and other securities, and the law would allow him to escape taxation. Do you say a word about these laws? Oh, no; you get up all manne* of quarrels over States rights and old matters of any kind that were matters of importance long ago, and while one calls himself a Republican, and another a Democrat, and get vexed and angry and make a great row, yet you are bled every day while you are qnarreling, nothing more nor nothing less. Why does" the fanner pay so much? It is because all hi* property lies where it can be seen, and the tax-gatherer can’t miss it; whereas, my bonds, if I have got any, my stock and my notes and my securities, lie away in my safe, and the assessor can’t find them. The farmer is worse off than the workingman, because he has got something to he taxed that can be seen. The workingman has got his capital, which is his capability of doing a day’s work—that is not taxed; hut the farmer having one-fourth of the property of this country, pays three-fourths of the taxes.” The General then considered tho subject of transportation, and said: “The railroad companies league together and make discriminating raths on freight, and now, without going into this matter at length, let me sketch you one thing: Chicago beef, is, and has been cheaper in Liverpool, England, than in Boston, and that beef has been taken through Boston. You say that is very remarkable. Not at all It is effected by discrimination in rates against the Boston purchaser. I only want to call that one thing to your mind to show you how those great corporations of necessity act toward you. The corporation leaves the individual manager entirely relieved from all responsibility. You go to a railroad corporation and complain to the manager. ‘Oh,’ says he, J’d relieve you if I could, but the company have voted so and so, and such is the order.’ And who is the company? You can’t find them. The company has no conscience, and the individual is relieved from his responsibility, and that is the worst thing I have against corporations. Corporations are necessary, but what are they? They are agents'of the people, created by the law of the people, to be restrained by the people, and they are to act only for the good of the people. They are allowed to take tolls on fares and freight for the purpose of just and fair remuneration, and if they do that, and that alone, they become the friend of the workingman and the friend of the farmer as a means of communication and interchange of freights and passengers. But if they transcend these limits then your Legislature snould have full power. It has in theory a constitutional right tO‘ restrain them, but now, how is it in Pennsylvania? Do you believe honestly that there is E>wer enough in any Democratic or Republican egislature in this State to restrain the Pennsylvania Central railroad? There is not a man of you believes this. Tried every year, it missed fire every time.” The General then addressed himself to his Democratic hearers, saying: “Who has been throwing away his vote, and, [to his Republican hearers] who ias been doing worse—sustaining the- party that has brought about these things? It doesn’t make a bit of difference which party wins—the Pennsylvania Railroad controls them always, just as you would if you were the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mon are pretty much alike in this world. The great majority of men are all right; the mass of the people are always right, and they are always intelligent, for everybody knows more than anybody.” The General considered the low prices ruling, and gave his reason therefor. “Under consumption, not over-prodnetion, and between them,” he said, “is a very wide and vital difference. Over-production is when there is more of anything produced than all the world could consume if they could get it; under-con-sumption is when there is more produced than those that want it, and can’t get it,can consume. The trouble is because the means of transportation are so high that it keeps yon poor. It is discrimination, and that you want to remedy. Now, won’t you vote for yourself awhile? We have got to start anew party, a people’s party. The people must come up and stand together, and renovate the old parties. You can do it, you men, if you will stand together. Now don’t let anybody go away and say Gen. Butler wants us to vote for him. lam not anxious on that subject at all. You can do me no good by your votes. If you should elect me President, however, next November, you would do me the greatest possible harm. An old man, to he driven from pillar to post for four years by a continual scramble for office, by all .sorts and conditions of men, without power —unless you would give me Congress—without power to do any good, and only to be an noyed and fretted to death because I could not do anything. I came here not to ask you to throw away your votes. I want you to lay the foundation of a people's party which shall remedy these things." General Butler wa3 loudly cheered at the close of his address, and was driven to the station and conveyed by special train to Harrisburg, whence he left for New York, where he speaks to morrow evening. An Aggressive Butler Campaign. Philadelphia, Aug. 29.— At a conference of the National Greenback Labor leaders with General Butler at Williams Grove, to-day, an aggressive campaign was decided on. General Butler will make four more speeches in the State —at Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and two other places, yet to be determined. From now till the State convention. Sept 18, at Bellefonte, will bo devoted to perfecting the organization and