Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1880 — Page 2

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Smyths, the Smythes, Schmidts, the

Schmitts, thoSraithys, the Smitheas, the Smithsons, the Smithcrses, the Schmidllapps, the Smith mans, and the Smithwicks, all of whom doubt less through family pride, would have given the Major a cordial support Being the largest section of our peo ple, their unanimity would have given him a plurality, which would have secured his election. How easy it is to point out the mistakes of our friends when it is too late to rectify them! But then we were for Garfield, and our National friends can not blame us for not giving them the key to success. SCHOFIELD. General Schofield, commander at West Point, is out in a letter, or rather a report, we believe, to the War Department, in defenco of the ignorant, vicious and unnecessary prejudice against Negro cadets, prevailing at the Military Academy. Ho says that too much has already been done to break down this prejudice, and says that no attempt ought ever to have been made to enforce equal ity among white and colored cadets. Race prejudice, he thinks, is a feeling that ought to be encouraged and not eradicated. The tenor of the whole letter or report is a disgraceful and infamous effort on the part of a prom inent Union General to palliate, extenuate and encourage the inhuman and brutal practices that grew out of the existence of slavery in the South. It is unworthy of any man who wore the Federal blue during the Rebellion. In this as in his other utterances about AVest Point exclufciveness, General Schofield brands himself as a pliant tool of a most damnable but happily expiring pre judice. Let hi in be buried in the grave, he is digging, and be judged hereafter by the record he is now making. Sic eemper tyranis. OENEUAL SHERMAN'S KEPOBT. In his annual report to the War Department, General Sherman enters into a labored defense of the West Point Academy and the vicious pracrices of the charity paupers being educated there, which wo think is not entirely creditable to the General. The Military Academy is an expensive, offensive, and exclusive institution of pauper snobbery that ought to be dispensed with immediately. We have no use for it. If there were any other powerful nations on this continent besides ours, we might need an institution io furnish us with militarily educated officers; but such not being the case, we have no need of it. All the military training we need, can be furnished at onr4 various collegiate institutions, by officers detailed for the purpose. The time has come for this military excresence to "go," and we sincerely hope it will stand not upon the order of going, but "go" at once. If it does not, we are firmly convinced that eventually the popular boot, applied to the lower extremity of its vertebrata, will materially assist in its exit. General Sherman makes another recommendation which we gladly endorse; namely, that exclusive colored regiments with exclusively white officers be broken up, and the men assigned to regiment without regard to color. We strike hands heartily with the gallant old General in this recommendation; but in doing so, we wish it distinctly understood that the officers shall bo mixed as well as the privates. Let the officers be promoted from the ranks for ability, intelligence, and meritorious conduct, and do not allow color" to be a bar to promotion, and then we will have exact equality in the army. Color prejudice, and the exclusivencss born of it, is what we arc against. Let this be stamped out with the iron heel of military law, and then we can take time to discuss the size of the the army, military posts and railroads, etc., to which tho General alludes in his report. IMMIGRANTS BY THE MILLIONS. In a recent issue of the New York Herald appeared a very exhaustive article upon the subject of immigration. The article starts out with the declaration that the first white native American of whom there is any positive knowledge, was born in what is now New England about the year 995, and that he was of Norwegian or Icelandic parents. The boy was called Onorro. It is generally believed that Columbus discovered America in the year 1492, but it seems that he did not, and that the honor belongs to the northern instead of southern European navigators. Jamestown, Va., claims the honor of being the first European settlement in the original United States ÜG09), but St. Augustine, Fla., was settled in 15G5, New York in 1613, and New England in 1620. Emigration from Europe to the Western World was at first largely owing to religious persecution, though, in some cases, it was a business venture, as in the case of the Dutch in New York; but whatever may have been the cause, immigration, from the date of the first settlements to 1775, did not amount to much, since, at the time when the Revolution set in, the entire population amounted to only about 3,000,000. There is no official record of the number of immigrants arriving in the United States until the year 1819, when Congress provided for returns to be made in the several customs districts. The estimate has

been made by. a careful statistician that from 1784 to 1794 the immigrants did not average more than 4.000 a year. In 1794 about 10,000 arrived, and from 180G to 1816 immigration almost ceased, in consequence of the unfriendly relations existing between the United States, France and Great Britain. England held to the doctrine "once a subject always a subject." TIi is deterred thousands from coming here, for they were not sure but they might be seized anywhere, as sailors already had been in American ships on the ocean. Another

influence retarded immigration. In 1806 Great Britain issued a decree declaring the coasts of France in a state of blockade, and France retaliated in November of the same year, declaring the British Islands under blockade. These declarations were followed by the British orders in Council, and Napoleon's Milan decree. The orders in Council prohibited trade with any ports occupied by the French. This was in retaliation for the Berlin decree of the previous year, which interdicted commerce with England. The United States Congress in March, 1809, prohibited commercial intercourse with both France and Great Britain for a year. In 1811 aloleon's decrees were annulled, and our trade with France took a fresh start, but it was much harassed by the British searching business, acts that finally led to the second war with the mother country, which was formally declared June 18, 1812. German emigration sensibly felt this unfavorable condition of affairs, inasmuch as emigrants from the Continent usually sailed from Havre or Liverpool. Thus, from 180G the stream of immigration was dammed up at its very sources. The records of immigration extend back sixty years, but they are not satisfactory; but since the establishment of the Commission on Emigration in New York the records have been kept with proper care. Before that the published returns sometimes separated aliens from citizens and sometimes did not, and so in regard to the sexes. The early records, are, therefore, imperfect ; but for the last thirty years they have been generally ac curate. In point of fact, the whole 50,000,000 of white and black people in the Union are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. The Indians are the only natives The records show that the total immigration to this country since the Revolution comes up (including citizens in some years) to nearly' 11,000,000 of people, for the most part of the best bone and sinew of the lands they left. With regard to sex and age the records are not perfect, but taking the ag gregate for forty years we find as follows:

I Per cent. Ages. Males, iFcm'es. Total. I Male. ! Tern. j 1 Under' 5- 218,417 200,676 419,003 4.141 3.81 510 199,7041 180,606 3S0.310: 3.79: 3.42 1015 194.5SOI 166.8Xi 361,413 3.69! 3.16 15-20 404,33S 319,755 754,093 7.67 6.63 20 & under 1.017,039 897,89o'l. 914,909 j 19.29' 17.02 2025 669,853 428,974 1,098,827; 12.7l 8.13 2" 30 - 576,822 269,554 846,376! 10.94 5.11 3035 352,619 163,778 516.3971 6.69, 3.12 3510 259.468 114,165 353.633! 4.54 2.16 40 & over.. 342,022 200,322 542,344 6.49! 3.80 . j : 20 & over.. 2,180,774 1,176.793 3,357,577, 41.37 22.32 Totals... 3,197,823 2,074.663 5,272,486 60.66 39.34

The next question to be considered is from what countries do these immigrants come? Mostly, it may be answered, from Ireland and Germany, but it is said more than seventy countries have been repre sented, and the figures for the year ending June 30, 1880, with regard to the national ities of immigrants arriving at Castle Gar den, New York, will give a general idea of nativitv: COUNTRIES. Males, i Females. iTotal Ireland.. 38,151 37,661 8,072 734 33,452! 71,603 England Scotland Other Great Britain. 21,793 59,454 4,568 12,640 445 1.17 Total British Isles..... Germany , Sweden , Norway...... , A. u 8 tri & NiHNiiwti Italy , Denmark Russia......... Hungary France... Netherlands........ .... Poland...... Belgium Other Europe Europe ex. O. Britain.. British America.. China ............ Other Asia Africa and Islands West Indies , Mexico and Cent. Amer.. South America .... Pacific Islands Iceland and Greenland.. All other

144,876 84,635 39,186 19,895 12,904 12,327 6,576 6,156 4,854 4.363 4,313 3,340 2,177 1,232 910 131.283 71,588 202,871 63,139 5.732; 36,5671 99,706 70 5,802 25 12; 4 459 96 24 37 21 1,351 536 88 954 396 609 17 892 410 . 64 800 244 369 154 152! 250 The next important question relates to the destination of emigrants since August 1, 1855. The reply is given in the following figures, concerning a total of 3,900,985: To New York 1,572,342 To New England.. 303,806 STATES. MIDDLE Pennsylvania 402,491 jDist. Columbia... New Jersey 123,361 Delaware Maryland 28,286 WESTERN STATES. 11,597 3,514 Illinois O'aio Wisconsin 365,926 Indiana .. 201,016 Minnesota-...... 48,822 73.369 191,656 Kansas. l 23,572 Michigan 109,270 Nebraska 22.459 Iowa 85.369 Colorado 3.250 Missouri 71,297 Total 1,226,026 STATES. PACIFIC California Oregon ........ ... 54.987, Nevada... 945 . TERRITORIES. Utah . . , 40,317,Other Territories 7,980 Total... 105,237 SOUTHERN STATES. Virginia,. 10,691 North Carolina. 17,112 Mississippi 6,8SSj Alabama....... . 1,053 1,362 1,016 922 814 1,806 Kentucky Louisiana South Carolina.... Tennessee Georgia. ........ A3 2.806! Arkansas. 6,746 Florida - 3,212i West Virginia 5,415 Total 59.84S LOCATED IN THE UNITED 8TATES.

84,618 60,258 52.743 31,895 26,862 12,324 13,165 6,730 7,283 5,621 8,677 3,650 4,466 2,110 4.212 1,944 3,206 1,588 2,964 1,399 2,802 1,511 1,932 1,408 1,142 735 784 448 685 225

sections. Number. Per Cent. New York 1,572,342 40.99 New England 303,806 8.25 Middle States. - 569,219 14.83 Western States. 1,226,026 31.95 Pacific States and Territories.. 106,237 2.77 Southern States. 59,848 1.21 Aggregate ............. ..- 3,837,508 100.00

Of the remainder, 70,991 went to Canada, 1,427 to New Brunswick, and the others to the West Indies, South America, Australia, China and other foreign countries; and of 22,788 the destination was not ascertained. With regard to the inquiry, what they can do, information upon this branch of the subject relates to those arriving during the year 1879, and the classification is as follows:

Males, jprn'sj Total Professionals 1,515 124; 1,639 Skilled workers 20,728 6341 21,362 Miscellaneous . 65,801 7,252 73,053 No occupation... 23,838 57,934 81,772 Totals 111,882 65.944i 177.826

In the elucidation of the various questions relating to the growth of population and the development of the vast resources of the United States, correct information with regard to immigration is absolutely necessary, and the foregoing figures will be found of service to those who make the science of political economy a study.

GEO. P. ROW ELL & CO. We have received a copy of the

American Newspaper Directory, published by the above named firm in New York. It contains an accurate list of all the nswspapers and period icals published in the United States and Canada, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. It is an exceedly valuable work to advertisers ana newspaper men. Howell & Co., un doubtedly conduct tho largest advertising agency in this country, and probably in tho world. They have a good reputation for honesty and business sagacity, which has no doubt been instrumental in securing to them the large advertising patronage which thev.now receive from the business public. l'KKSON'AL.. According to the Ohicaco Inter-Ocea'i "Presi dent Hayes will sail for Europe next Mty." A recent visitor at Carlyle's house describes the venerable writer as lying calmly in the valley of the shadow of death. Mrs. Millard Fillmore has gained a little more strength during the past week, but her power of speech has not returned. General Grant is exacted to arrive m "Wash incton about th' 1st of next month. He will be given a reception by the citizens of the District. George F. Ketchim, the comedian and stage manager, who died in Detroit last week, said, with his last breath: "I've made my last call and rung my last bell." Mr. Emmons Blaine, a son of Senator Blaine, has left his profession (the law) and gone into the office of the General Manager of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. A statue of Robert Burns will be erected in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, by the members of the Caledonian Club and other Scotch cit izens of the Pacific Coatt. Dr. John W. Kesnion, a practical missionary, not only preaches to the poor of New York, but treats them to free hot colTee and bread from a cart driven through the streets. Mr. Samuel II. Gladstone, the Premier's cousin, who came, over recently to take a look at ns, is now in the Sioux country. He expresses himself as delighted with the West, and is in clined to become an American. Mil. Edward King writes to the Boston Journal that Mile. Bernhardt is to wear in the "Sphinx" a wonderful, glittering dress "so corruscating that it seems to put out the lights and to furnish the splendor by which one sees it." Major Charles Bk kley. of the New Orleans Democrat, died a few days hso. He was fortybIx years of age, a man ot literary attainments and a hard worker. He has been known as a bright journalist for the past twenty years. Mr. Frye, of Maine, is short and somewhat stout, and has a face expressive of strength of wiU and pertinacity. He has light hair and mustache, cold blue eyes and a large nose. He is a sturdy believer in all New England ways and ideas. Richard Ten Broeck, the celebrated turfman is expected to arrive in New York from England o-day. He Is eighty years old, and thinks now that he is entitled to retire. The aggregate winnings of his stable during his ten years' stay in England amounted to $197,756. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts, in contributing 5500 to the Truro Cathedral fund, mentions that Truro was the first Cathedral whose foundation stone was laid with full Masonic honors, and adds: "Let us hope that this may be a type that the Churches of Christendom may become more united and convey more perfectly their Master's precepts, embodied in even what the ignorant know of the principles of the craft." tTiiE English think that Mr. Joseph Cook has one fault which he would do well to correct: he reads so rapidly that it is difficult for an audi ence to follow him. The Echo says: "Mr. Cook does not allow his hearers the tenth part of a second to weigh the exact meaning of some unaccustomed word. As the English people are not all theologians or metaphysicians, Mr. Cook, as a lecturer, would do well to accommodate himself to our deficiencies." INDUSTRIAL ISTERESTS. The Figures, as Reported by Census Supervisor Bidenour, for Indianapolis and Richmond. Supervisor liidenour has just completed the footings of the productive industries of Indianapolis as collected for the tenth census, and furnishes the following statement of the result: Number of establishments . 807 Number of employes 14,470 Amount of production 31,450,749 It will be remembered that these inquiries were for the census year from June 1, 1879, to May 31, 1880, and had they been on the basis of this year Mr. liidenour feels warranted in saying that fully 25 per cent, might be added to these footings. Under instructions, aud from his own convictions of duty to all interests, he has earnestly sought for solid, reliable information from each establishment on the premises as to present results that could be relied on and quoted, and has a full alphabetical, classified list of establishments, .with the names and production of each, that can not be made public, so far as namesand amounts of each are concerned, the faith of the Government being pledged to confidence in that behalf. Yet, where there are three or more of any class, he can give the number and production. All others are classed as "miscellaneous," to cover individual production. By reference to the n'nth census we find reported" for the whole County of Marion: Establishments 740 Employes 6,167 Productions .$16,642,10 In that census the city is not retorted separately. It will, therefore, be seen that the industries of the city alone double the amount of production of the whole County ien years ago. The city of Richmond, under the charge of Supervisor liidenour, as a special manu facturine district, is reported as follows underlie preset census: Number of establishments 177 Number of employe. - 2,667 Amount of productions....... 4,524,170 This last also showing a most marked ad vance in the industrial interests over the ninth census. In closing his report Mr. Ridcnour says: "In the home work I owe to those who were prompt in their responses my thanks, and to those who carelessly neglected their duty I attribute a want of a full appreciation of the work. And if I, in any case, seemed harsh in my demands for information, it was because the law demanded it. and sought to shield them from its penalties at a cost oi time and unremunerateu labor to myself." The Minnesota Asylum for the Insane De stroyed by Fire. Chicago. Nov. 16. A dispatch received from St. Paul at 3 o'clock this morning, after the report naa ciosea, says: -loenrein me .Minnesota in sane Asjlum at St. Peter originated in the north west comer of the basement of the north wine and at at out the same time there was a fire in tne basement in an adjoining section. The cause of the fire is still unknown. No one knows how many inmates perished, but it is feared that the number win at least reach titty. It will be some time before the exact number can be given, as some oi tne pauenis. lamng aavaniage 01 the con fusion, ran away, while others wandered off aim lessly, and It will not be surprising if some have perished from cold. The loss on the building is estimated at from 8100,000 to flöO.OOO no insurance. Additional particulars are expected every minute. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE FIRE. St. Paul, Nov. 16. Dispatches to the latest editions of the morning papers indicate that the fire in the St. Peter Asylum was not so serious as feared last night. Only one wing of the building was destroyed. The whole structure, which was ten years in course of erection, was only finished three years ago, and cost over half a million dollars. The loss by the fire will be from f 100,000 to $150,000, on which there is no insurance, the State having neglected this precaution. The origin of the fire is unknown, though it is located in

the basement of the norto wing, which was destroyed. Report of the loss of life are indefinite and conflicting. Different rumors place the num

ber ol victims irom two or three to fifty, but .no bodies have been found, and no one is surely identified as missing. The buperintenacnt ordered the release of all patients as soon as the danger became imminent, and it is probable that,durlng the confusion of the night some were overlooked and burned. This probability is increased by the fact that some rooms quickly filled with smoke and could not be entered by the rescuers, i nere were 656 patients in the 1 lospital last year. The inmates were cared for last night by the citizens. Some provision will be made for them to-day by the State authorities. MORE OF THE SAD STORY. St. Paul. Nov. 16. A bulletin to the Pioneer Press from St. Peter says that the number of lives lost by burning and freezing in the Insane Asylum are variously estimated at from twentv to fifty. The loss on the building is 500,000. A special, dated at 4 a. m., says that the scenes at the burning of the south wing of the Hospital were heart-rending in the extreme. so APPALLING A SIGHT has rarely leen witnessed, and we trust may never be again. Patients in the annex wing were males. They refused to leave the building at all. They ran up and down the halls screaming and crying, and acting like Bedlamites. They were. of course, those who could not be coaxed nor forced out of the building, and became the unhappy VICTIMS OF THE FLAMES, and suffocated in the pit of the flames. Others were saved, some by ladders and some by leaping from the windows; some were nearly nude. some shoeless and hatless, and all were exjoscd to THE EXCEEDING COLD OF THE NIGHT. Many of the poor demented and crazed inmates neu as n lor their lives, and could not be over taken or confined. Their sufferings in this fright ful condition can be better imagined than de scribed. The whle catastrophe is fearful to con template, and impossible to describe. The poor. dazed inmates ot the Asylum who had escaped tne names were at large, half clothed, and were to be seen in all directions liying in wild fright from those who attempted to save them. The air was bitter cold, and the poor wretches, with HALF-NAKED BODIES AND BLEEDING FEET, wereflvin? about, hidln? in nllevs anil riirt oar h 0 o - -----j was a sight, once seen, never to be forgotten. For some time the capacity of the building has been tried to its utmost. There were about boo patients, aud every men of space was utilized, what will be done with these poor creatures, turned out In the cold and their mal ady Increased by the excitement of the occasion. is a serious question. There are two other build ings situated in town, which are used, but they are crowded to their full capacity. The Asylum at Rochester is full, nnd will doubtless be unable to provide accommodations foranvof the inmates at st. i'eter. List of Killed in the Hospital Fire. St. Peter. Minn.. Nov. 18. The official list of the missing and dead, furnished by the Hospital omcers. is as toiiows: 8. S. Prüden, Lincoln County ; probably burned J. C. Breman, Washington County: missing, but believed to be sate. Columbus McMullcn, Scott County: probably burned. William Callappic. Ramsey County: probably burned. James E. Clinch. Annaka County: probably burned. Charles R. Barber, Noble County: missing. Amos Callery. Wright County ; missing. Carl Ransheiiner Scott County: sick, and proba bly burned. Jacob E. Egefeller, Nicolet County; missing. Mr. Frits. Nicolet County: missing, but thought to have escaped and eloped. T. lirson Ross, rock county; missing. Patrick E. Fahey, Ramsey County; missing. Joseph M. Sloppa, Blue Earth County: missing. Marcella Gogyna. demented, Hennepin County; probably burned. it. Anderson. Brown county; missing, ana probably burned. jonauian r. ADranam, nennepin vounty; rescued from the building, but died soon after. John R. Thorwaldson, Fillmore County; rescued from the building and died next day. Henry Dickmore, Dakota Couiity: probably burned: had resided in the Hospital fourteen years. John Gill, Wright County; rescued and died soon after from exhaustion. James McKay, Carleton County; missing. E. D. Gordon, Rice County; missing; demented. Andrew Ulsen, Scott, County; missing; demented. Lenore Ilubemans, Hennepin County; epileptic; probably burned. Edward Mahoney, Todd County; probably burned. Peter Peterson, Noble County; epileptic; missing. Daniel O'Brien, Lesueur County; missing. Patrick Claney, Lesueur County; admitted last week; probably burned. Catharine Hohlman, Ramsey County; missing, but trobablv safe. Those probably burned were demented and sick patients, incapable of making any effort to save themselves. St. Paul, Nov. 18. A special from St retcr to the Pioneer Press says: "Thomas O'Niel. of Ramsay County; John Nequist, of Taylors Falls, and Fred Leclerc, of Rice County, died this forenoon from the effects of inhaling smoke and exhaustion at the Asylum fire. The number known to be dead is now thirteen; seven were identified by name and six are un recognized bodies. Ten more are reported as probably burned and eight more as missing." Trying to Save Whittaker. New York, Nov. 18. The following petition goes to the President to-day: Brooklyn, N. Y November 17. To His Excellency, j Rutherford B. Hayes, Presi dent: Sir Cadet J. C. Whittaker is on leave of absence. Some of his friends propose a Court Martial; others, among whom we have the honor to tand. think, as the case was proven against the boy, that the President, by restoring him to Iiis former place and position, would do only an act of justice to a friendless youth, subserve the interests of humanity and give additional evidence of his purpose to recognize no color line in our dealing with American citizens. We have the honor to remain, respectfully yours, J. Hyatt Smith, Member-elect Third Congressional District. Justin D. Fulaon, Theo. L. Cuyler, And others. . How England Is Fed. Loudoo Telegraph. j It is not stated whether Christmas plumpudding? make an appearance among the exhibits at Islington; but it is well known that there are in the United States, especially in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, plenty of plum-puddings for exportation to the English market. Ve are growing every year more and more dependent upon the Americans for oysters, and while our own 'natives" continue to be extravagantly dear, and Mr. Frank Buckland is unable to hold out any hopes of their becoming less costly yet awhile, depots for the sale of the cheaper but not fcufficiently cheap American bivalves are rapidly increasing in tho metropolis, and a vast proportion of what are known as "cooking" oysters are of Transatlantic extraction. Our markets are flooded with American and Continental cheeses, and not only have the Italian Gorgonzola and Strachino, and the French Roquefort and Camembert largely superseded our ancestral Stilton, Cheddar, Double Gloucester and North Wiltshire, but the adroit dairy farmers of New York and New Jer sey have of late devoted themselves with immense energy to the fabrication or forgery of Continental European cheeses, comprising not only those we have mentioned, but Gruyere, or Brie, Neutehatel, and what was formerly thought the inimitable Parmesan. Throughout the early spring and summer this year we ate French and Algerian fruits and vegetables almost exclusively. The quails at our grand banquets come from Italy and the south of Francs; and the French farmers' wives throughout Picardy, it , .1 t l - i n i .r iMormanay ana mexsieoi r ranee are Dusiiy employed just now in fattening geese, turkeys, and capons for the English "Christmas market. As for the Dutch they keep up a fair fight with Amencans in our kitchens in the way of cheese; but our cheeses are going rapidly to the wall. Our red herrings on the other hand, continue to be well spoken of, but there is no great demand for Yarmouth bloaters out of England: and even at home the kippered herring has to wage fierce war to hold its own against smoked salmon from Holland and the Gulf ot Bothnia, dried sprats from the North Sea, pickled anchovies fr m Sicily, dried codsounds from Newfoundland, pickled tunny from the Mediterranean, and caviar from the Volga. ' Royal hams" from Chicago are pitilessly shouldering our native Yorks; and the primestof our breakfast bacon comes no more exclu sively from Wiltshire. Many intelligent Frenchmen have for a long time past, been makine huge fortunes by supplying us with esrs and chickens: and as for the meat we eat, we know not whether it comes from our own Provinces, from Holland, from Scotland, from Nebraska or from Texas. While many admit the abstract probability that a falsity has usually a nucleus of reality, few bear this a Detract probability in mind when rtassinsr iudtrment on the ODinion of others. Herbert Spencer.

KILLING HIS CHILD WIFE.

Six Months After Marrying a Girl Xot Yet Thirteen. A Husband of Fifty Years An Astonishing Family History in Red Bank,; New Jersey. TBy Telegraph to the New York Herald. Red Bank, X. J., Nov. 12. At Cranberry Hrook, a little hamlet two and a half miles south of Eatontown village, last night Wil liam Voorhees G rover, an army vetarn, for merly Sergeant of the Fourteenth New Jersey Regiment, shot and fatally wounded his - wife Jemima, a mere child, not .yet thirteen years of age. The child bride lay, with two pistol balls in her head, in her mother's residence, at Pine Brook Station, this evening. Dr. S. II. Hunt, of Eatontown, made two efforts to-day to probe for the bullets, but the girl's exhaustion forbade. The assassin is a descendant of James II. (i rover, of Mammouth County, and his victim the daughter of an old war comrade. In 1SG1 William Voorhees G rover went with the old Fourteenth Regiment of Volunteers from Freehold, X. J., to the seat of war. leaving a wife in Freehold. After the battles of the Peninsula Grover was discharged on account of physical disability. Soon after his return home his wife died, and then it is said G rover's mind became affected. He was not able to work, and what support he got was from his father. Notwithstanding his helplessness he married a second wife, a sister of his first one, and both wife and husband were thereafter supported by Grover's father. The second wife lived only two years, (j rover's father then assisted him by giving him a little piece of property near Cranberry Brook. This little good fortune was followed by Grover receiving $1,200 back pension money from the Government. Grover now told bis parents that he was about to take a third wife, and they disap1roved of his choice. He said that on the attle-field he promised to befriend a deceased comrade's family. That comrade was Charles Chambers, whose widow had remarried, leaving a girl barely twelve years of age, Chambers' daughter, with very little support. That comrade's daughter, Grover said, should be his wife. O rover a mother, then dying, drew from him a promise that he would not marry the girl while she lived, and he assented. In May last Grover took the child Jemima Chambers for his wife. She protested against being married to him. as he was verging on fifty; but her mother (now Mrs. Aumack), who has a large family by her second husband, insisted upon her union with Grover, as he had money and a comfortable home, while she (the mother) couid not support her. The ceremony was performed bv Kev. Jabez Marshall, of the Eatontown Baptist Church, on the 13th of Mav last. For a few months the child wife and her middle-aged husband lived happily on Grover's place, at Cranberry Brook. The pension money which Grover had received, it is said he lavished upon his wife until it was exhausted. It is alleged that then Grcver began to treat his wife harshly. On Saturday last-he beat her, and in terror she fled to lier mother's home, which is near Pine Brook. On Monday Grover went to the home of his wife's mother and demanded that his wife should return to his house, threatening to kill her if she did not The young wife, accompanied by her mother, went before Justice of Peace Smith, of Eatontown, the next morning and asked for a warrant for Grover's arrest, as she, Jemima, was apprehensive that he would take her life. Justice Smith, astonished at the youthfulness of the girl who called herself Grr ver's wife, refused to proceed against Grover until he could make an investigation. On Wednesday the young wife again went to Judge Smith's office and asked his aid in obtaining her clothes from her husband's house as she did not dare to go back and live with him. This was denied her. r but a letter was sent to Grover, who replied mat ins wile was welcome to her enects if she would call for them. the tragedy. Accompanied by two relatives, Mrs. Gro ver went to her husband s house at Cran berry Brook, last night, to obtain her clothes. At the door Grover met the trio, "J V. vjxj IV) WV VAy VW A V .y you shall have them all." Grover fell to packing her enects, and at one time said, "Jemima, I am awful jealous of you, be cause l love you, and because 1 love you you can have anything worth anything in t house.', As Mrs. Grover and her two relatives were preparing to depart Grover exclaimed, "jemima, come up stairs; there s some thing you forgot." The unsuspecting eirl fell into the trap which the insane husband had laid for her, and, following him, lightly tripped up the staircase. As she reached the top step she was confronted by her husband with a drawn revolver. Instantly, be töre sue could turn, orover hred. Ihe ball struck her just below the right eye. She reeled and fell backward, and another shot was discharged, the ball crashing through the skull and embedding itself In the brain The wounded girl fell headlong to the bot torn of the . ßtaircase. A third shot went spinning by her, not taking effect Rushing down stairs and over the prostrate body of his wife, Grover escaped to the street Medical aid was soon summoned; but Dr. Hunt said that fatal results would follow probing. An hour later Constable Robert Fay, of Eatontown, arrested Grover on the highway. When told that he was under arrest Grover said: "I expected it; I only shot her for fun." The prisoner was taken before his wife, who lav pale and sufitniij; uu a suiu. iü me ueposiuon maae uy the two relatives who saw the shooting she feebly signed her name. The paper was then read to Grover, and he said: "Yes, all right." He betrayed no remorse. He was handcuffed and taken to Freehold Jail. It is believed this evening that the rirl can not live, one wouia nave Deen tnir teen years of age on the 18th inst There is no doubt but that Grover is demented. In Eatontown it is said that the child was forced upon Grover by her mother, in order to get a share in the pension money. The widow Chambers had re-married, and thus forfeited the pension due her as tne widow oi tne somier cnamners. u rover, when ar rested, had his pistol in his back pocket, He quietly gave it up to Constable Fay. mreeoi the chambers were empty. jur. Aiott, brother-in-law oi Grover, says that Mrs. Aumack tried to have Grover marry her eldest daughter, Elizabeth, but tliat she rejected him. The mother then conceived the notion of marrying her youngest daughter to Grover, with his $1, 200. The G rovers strenuously objected to the marriage on account of Grover's weak ness of mind, and the extreme youtn oi the cirl Jemima. Those of the Grover family who dwell at Red Bank are of the highest respectability. Use Plain Language. The story is told of a sophomore, in col lege, who brought his composition to the tutor, for examination and correction. Its subject was "Cotocience;" and one of its sentences read: "The nature and province of conscience are such that, the view of the revealed and perfect standard of truth and duty, this in ward monitor enables us to discriminate be tween that which, on one hand, is forbidden and evil in its tendency, and that on the other, which is commanded and correct in theory and beneficial in practice." As the tutor read the sentence, he said to tho student: "What, exactly, do you mean by that?" "WThy," said the latter, "I mean that conscience tells us when we do right, and when we do wrong. 'Then, why did you not say so?" said the tutor. And the lesson is, say what you have to say in a few words, and in words so plain that all may understand your mean ing. Not long since we heard of a returning missionary, who preached a sermon, one Sabbath morning, on missions to the ''Land of Sieim;'' and half his bearers did not know what land he meant, till, in the evt

ing, the pastor of the church explained that by Sieim he meant China. And the story is told of a city minister, who, after preaching for a friend, in the country, was told by the latter: "You have given us a very good sermon, with one exception, and that is, you used some words our people do not understand.' The former thought the latter was cer tainly mistaken, and asked what single word he had used that all could not easily understand. "Why," replied the other, "you said felicity' instead of 'happiness.' Now, all our people know what 'happiness' is; but a

great many of them, 1 am sure, do not know the meaning of 'felicity.'" As tho preacher doubted this, tho country minister said: "There comes one of our plain, sensible farmers; we will ask him." And as the farmer came up he said: "Wo were just speaking about a word the word felicity'; can you tell us what is its meaning?" "Why, yes," said .the farmer, ''certainly I know what 'felicity' is; it is something inside a pig, though I do not know exactly Whatl" Edward Everett once said ho had long since found that the great mass of what are called plain and common peoplo could al ways understand a speaker if he understood himself and used plain and simple lan guage. National Baptist. SENTIMENT AND SESsE. Pleasure comes through toil and not by elf-indulgence or indolence. When one is fagged, hungry and depressed, the worst seems most probable. As large a demand is made on cur faith by nature as can be made by miracles. One who is contented with what he ha done will never become famous for what he will do. Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; and the higher men climb the further they are from Heaven. To know how a bad man will act when in power reverse all the doctrines he preaches when obscure- S. Montague. Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures. The sense informs the soul. Whatever you have, have beauty. Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. The beautiful is a .manifestation of the secret laws of nature, which, but for this appearence, had been forever concealed from us. There is no such coward as the woman who toadies to society because she has outraged society. The bully, is never brave. Ouida. The powers of the mind, when they are unbound and expanded by the sunshine of felicity, more frequently luxuriate into follies than blossom into goodness. Wealth may minister to the best part of man, but only minister not master. When it usurps the throne and becomes monarch it is of all things most pitiful and abject. Learning without knowledge is but a bundle ot prejudices: a lumber of inert matter set before the threshold of the understanding, to the exclusion of common sense. Bulwer. The chief quality of the womanly woman is her motherhood that is her power of self-sacrifice and care-taking of those who need her care. From earliest childhood the difference between those who demand sacrifice and thofre who can make it is. plainly marked; and in the nursery as in the schoolroom and the home there is always one who is ready to give up, and always one who is ready to bo given up to. The former develops into the mother the womanly woman par excellence; the latter is never more than a toy, a thing to be caressed and waited on, decked in jewels and clothed in purple aiid fine linen, but never asked to work, to tliiiik, to fctiflvr, or to sacrifice. These are things which she requires from others not given. f herown grace in which she is the exact . pp site f her sister, the womanly omar., wh lino's her greatest happiness in making the happiness of others, ana her best joy in sacrifice, self-denial and duty. 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE! DE. REEVES, THE Indian Botanic Physician LATE OF LO.ND0X, ENGLAND Th mont 8nccH-fiiI rntjrtl,, Inng mid throat Joe -tr iii America, i i-f-rn.Hii.'iii'.v located t O corner oi Ilhnoin und Louisiana etit-ets, Indianapolis. Indian, where he will examine ail di-ea. and tell tbe complaint without kitig a tingle jix-ation. WCoDsultaiion Frw, in c ithf-r Grrmaa or Englinh. Dr. Rree warrant a iH'iuianent rare of thtfol lowing dineatws: Piles and tumor, itcbi&e andi protruding, cored without pain or intrtunut: cancert cured in II tbeir forms without the knife or sick ness of the patient. The Doctor has cared hun dred 1 of this dreadful canker of the human body. :nicn nas Dtmea tne accumulated skill or aces. His remedies excel anything known to medical sci ence, lie deDes the world to brine; bim a cane wherethere is sufficient Titality to sustaio the system, that he can not cure. Any person wishing further information or treatment, should (cive him a call. Rheumatism cured and warranted to stay cured ia eyery case. AU forma of Blood and Skin Disease are Permanently Cored 1 Such as tetter, salt rheum, scrofula or svrihilitic ores, strictures, seminal weakness or sperma torhcea, primary and secondary syphilis, gonorrhoea, or chronic renereal, kidney or urinary diseases of either sex, young or old, no matter how had. He challenges a comparison with any physician in America in curing these diseases. Loss of manhood restored. 1 he Doctor can refer to hundreds thus affected who credit their present existence to being cured by him. All moles, birth-marks and heckles removed. Also, all the various diseases of the eye and ear. FOB TOE LAD 1 FN ONLY! A lady, at any period of life, from childhood to the arraTe, may, if ill, anffer from one or more -of the fol lowing diseases, which the Doctor will positively core: Liver complaint, indigestion of the stomach. nervous weaknesses, lung disanre, etc.. tm latwus of ' the vagina or womb, lencorrhoea or whites, antever. ion, retroversion, antipleiion. retroflexion. r ulcer ation of this organ, sick bt-adache. rheumatism and sciatic pains, i Dropsy permanently cured in a short time without tapping. Call or will to tbe office, cor. llllnofav atsd LoolBlaaa streets. lnllMKliB Indlaaa. Prirate medical aid. . All diseases of a secret naturaspeedily cored. If in trouble call or rite perfectly confidential. ANT CASE OF WHTSKT HABIT CUBED IN TEN DAY 6. . .

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