Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: TUE DAY EVENING, AUGUST 21,1877.

THE DAILY NEWS.

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The Daily News baa the largest circulation of any paper in Indiana, and is read in nearly every town and Tillage tributary to Indianapolis. TV* belikvk the bond of the new gas company has to be a real estate one. That offered last night certainly does not comply with the conditions. Thi communistic Sentinel wants the mob to role. Let the mob support it then. Decent people who don’t want mobs should put their foot on it. Th* celestial kingdom has declared war on opium. It has a larger contract on hand than the temperance folk of this land who war against strong drink. Th* Russian and Turkish outrage bureaus are hard at work. Either onacan discount the affair we had established fn the southern states for so many years. India’s crops are, in most districts, a failure. The wheat countries of Eastern Europe can probably export very little if any, and the immense surplus of this country must find ready sale abroad. Tus communistic Sentinel hasn’t any more to say about endorsing Caven and lyiiliains. If it would spend twice the money it did on the sham workingmen’s meeting, it wouldn’t get a hundred people cut Th* communistic Sentinel parades its sham endoraement. It is the laughing stock of workingmen all over the town, who think however that the Sentinel would have made more by paying its employes their just dues than by wasting money on such a meeting. Th* communistic Sentinel, that great friend of labor, has proposed within a week to cut down the prices paid its printers. It has already reduced wages three times in two years. Yet this hypocrite has the impudence to claim to be the workingmanj^pauicplar^champion. Th* governor of Maine wanted the president to come “down ea-t,” and Mr. Blaine supplemented the invitation with a tender of the hospitalities ot his own house. This was in keeping with Mr. Blaine’s new roll of peace-maker and was a very large way of crawling out of a very small hole.

If th* city can reduce the number of water plugs, there is no contract with the company. If there ia no contract the company can do as it threatens, refuse to furnish water to any plugs. The councils had best go slow in the matter. Hie city can not be deprived of so much fire protection as the water works furnish.

Thb Sentinel advocates mob violence and preaches communism, pure and simple. It tries to destroy the rights of property and the rights of labor. It attacks the foundation of society, hoping to get a few votes for its party or a little notoriety for itself. How long will the decent people of Indianapolis support such an enemy to their interests? How long will business men pay it prices for advertising, based on a circulation twice as big as it really has?

Was has been declared between the Journal and Sentinel. The underground passage has been plugged up. Cossack and Lashi-Bozouk have been turned loose and hoi able atrocities are committed upon the English language. Meantime The News keeps its temper as it alyayg does and cares for the real interesta of the community by pointing out the thievish transactions of the Sentinel with the very clars of men it claims to protect. Like a professional beggar it stands at the byways recount-* ing its woes and showing its sores, and then returns to its own household to grind the faces of those over whom it has power.

Th* London Times strikes this note of warning: The people of the United States most las: «, as other nations have learned, that tampering with loose rhetorio addressed to the passions of the ignorant and the needy, |a so fall of peril for society that it onght to be moat sternly reprobated, and that a weakly sentimental sympathy with violence ia nothing less than a publio crime.

The people of this city have had such an example of this in the Sentinel that no additional words are needed to convey to them the importance of it For a month or more that sheet has teemed with inflamed sentiments and incendiary doctrinee. Law abiding citizens pass it by in disgust but this is not enough. They should create a public opinion

sinks into the minds of the depraved, the idle, the vicious, the Sentinel’s constitnency. It inflames their wrongheaded notions and in times of trouble tears fruit in unlawful acts. There is no greater enemy to society than such a paper. It is peculiarly the enemy of the workingman, for it is in his name that it attempts to sow the sentiments from which it hopes to reap the demagogue’s reward,and in his name excites communism to commit its crimes. Kossuth comes to the top with a suggestion to Austria concerning her foreign policy. Get concessions from Turkey as to the chrstiaus, and then compel Russia to end the war. Futile as this is, it contains the shell and kernel of the whole matter. It was for this that Russia professed she was compelled to go to war, and the attainment of it by any means would be in the interest of humanity. The present war is little more than a bear-baiting or bull fight. A brutal, cruel struggle on the one band for national existence and on the other for territory, with the additional motive now, that Russia since her defeat must demonstrate her ability to thrash the Turks soundly or she will sink from a that rate to a third rate power. Kossuth’s Way ignores Russian advantage. It might be supposed that he would not waste time concocting a Russian cslve for wounded honor, but his way is the way of peace and the way that will be eventually pursued. However long the war continues Russia will never be allowed to attain the object of her desires, the possession of the Golden Horn. In the last instance the powers will hurl her back from that and if they compelled peace now they would simply -ave desolation.

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Agriculture is the only business that can never be overdone, and the more the. subject is considered the more it will appear that' in thft direction lies the true solution of the labor question.—[Journal. It is true, we think, that the solution of the labor problem lies in the diversion of the unemployed or inadequately paid labor oi cities to farms, but the dictum that “agriculture is the only business that never.can be overdone,” lacks the support of fact. When corn is produced so profusely that the price at the crib won’t pay for its shipment,and it is sold by tons to railroads to bin a in engines, we fancy that agriculture is a little bit overdone. This happened in the northwest a few 3’ea r s ago, and many an Illinois railroad burned corn because it was cheaper than coal. Coin has more than once been left to rot in the field, in some of our fertile western bottoms, because the farmer hadn’t stock enough to eat it and no market to send it to. This may happen again, but doubtless it is less likely to happen with eveiy year’s growth of population, of industries that provide no food supply of tbeir own, and of a foreign demand left unsatisfied by inadequate agricultural resources already worked to their most productive point. There is a charm in city life, in the bustle end excitement of dense populations, in the exercise of intellect required by skilled labor, and in the usually greater pay of the competent artisan than the farmer, that will forever draw away the young country generation, to a greater or lees extent, into trades, to say nothing of the fascination of the profesrions, and the crowding, competition, reduced wages, strikes and distress that result, will probably never wholly restore the balance ot labor by sending idle mechanic? to the fields. This seems to be the teaching of experience. Farms are not likely to be crowded with labor; the arts and professions are sure to be. Farm products, though in xare cases “overdone,” are far less likely to suffer from plethora of production than their industrial relatives in cities. The greater probability of comfortable suppor|, of avoidance of suffering, of a final accumulation of a provision for old age, lies broadly on the farm. The, workshop offeis chances of rapid advance that the farm does not, but these chances are mixed with more of failure. The “slow and sure” is the farm’s inducement to sensible snd industrious men It may never be splendid, but it is pretty certain never to be distressful. 1 he sunshine aud the earlier andjatter raihs never “strike,” the plow is always quiet aud serviceable, the horse and the ox are no “Molly “Maguires.” The agencies of n'ature, which are the farmer’s chief ‘hands,” are often capricious but they are never quarrelsome or murderous, and when the caprices of drouth or long rains threaten mischief there are artifical means of replacing their service or abating their damage. So to the farm, all who can get there. The chances are far better there, and food and clothing in affiy event certain, and that is more than can be said of any trade or pro-

fession these days.

American Beer In Bavaria. (.Baltimore News.] A barrel of Baltimore beer was recently shipped to Kurnberg in the district of Middle Franconia, Bavaria, and tested by a number of gentlemen well up in the merits of lager. They all agreed, notwithstanding tfce long voyage, that the beer was in perfect condition, and fully equal to that produced by the leading Vienna brewers in color, quality and richnffs of malt But for the decided taste of the American hope they would have bad a difficulty in distinguishing it from tbeir native beer.

THE EA9YEKT WAR. ' Iteccnt IHisfclaii* Eoeaca—Xlcaics

.■Nearly Captured.

Bismarck has arrived at Berlin,

Exclusive of the Bulgarian loss of near 1 000, General Gcurka lost3 000 men, in

fighting, on the 30th and 3ist of July.

Hcbart Pasha has left a subordinate tosuperintend the emberkstion of Circassians, snd has gone to Hinope with most of the fleet. It is believed he goes thence

to the Danube.

The North German Gazette confirms the report that the representations of the Turkish ambaestdor relative to the alleged Rossian atrocitus have met with a most unfavorable receptioa from the German

c binet.

The Russian cavalry is now all on the south side of the Balkans. Schipka Pass is strongly fortified, armed with 28 guns and garrisoned by a regiment of the 8th division. Two regiments hold Hainkoi pass, which presents a series of formidab e defenses. Telegrems from Zara aud Cettinje state that the Montenegrins on Sunday caraied tbe last outwork of Nicsics, and are pushing Tcrward through the town toward the fortress. A strong Turkish force, composed, however, mo-tly of irregulars, estimated by one account at lO.GOO.is hastening to relieve the. besieged. Fire thousand Montenegrins have gone in the direction of Kestac, to oppose the Turkish advance.

THE LABOR OU(»AN.

It Think*! Congress Should Stop Strikes by Strong measures. [Sentinel, February 27, 1874.J P. M. Arthur, an Albany (New York) engineer, was elected to fill the place of Wilson, the expelled head of the locomotive brotberbood. He is represented es a fiery communist, and the choice of the fire-eaters of tbe organization. It is intended to let the present condition of things continue until tke spring trade has set in, when a general strike throughout the country ia to be ordered and the railroads foiced to come to the brotherhood terms. No special grievance ia mentioned to cause this summary action, but tbe fiat is to go forth. Tbe sessions are kept secret but methods have been found to obtain these facts and they may be taken as correct. If the engineers have been unwise enough to take counsel only of the rash ones and demand a war upon the railroads, without cause, it behooves those interested to seek protection while there is yet time. Congress is in session and should be appealed to at once to put a atop to vindictive measures upon the part of unreasoning men. The disaster to the country from a general strike at any time would be irremediable, and the strongest measures should be taken to make the rash men in the brotherhood i.nks listen to reason and be guided therein.

Let the Communlotft Support It. [Morning Journal.] Tbe Sentinel has become the open advocate and apologist for communism and mob violence. It is trying each day now to foster and incite the mob to acts of violence, and if such thing should be brought about it will be through its teachings and instrumentality. It ia to-day the worst enemy the city and state could possibly have, being tbe recognized leader of the lawless elements of society. There is but one way to treat it, aud that is for decent people to avoid it as they would a skunk, and for the business portion of the community to cease to patronize it As the friend end advocate of the mob, let it look to tbe mob for support. Every business man in the cit; is damaged by every issue sent out. Every true workingman is disgraced by its pretended friendship. Every leading, peace loving, law abiding democrat in the c'ty opsn’y denounces it. Every man who advertises in it is doubly cheated. Then why not let it die? It won’t take it long. The men who are nursing it deserve neither respect nor patronage, and should be taught that they can not maintain such a festering nuisance on society with impunity.

Saratoga Tried Potatoes. The tools are a common cabbage-cutter, two wire sieves and a “spider.” Take, say eight large potatoes, pare them and slice very thin with the cutter, soak the slices for two hours in cold water, sl’r into it one teaspoonful of salt to a quart, and let them remain half au hour in that. Pour them inf > the sieve to drain, and when well drained wipe the slicea dry; put a pound of lard into the spider, and whei it becomes smoking hot put in tbe potatoes. They must be constantly st'i.ed to prevent tbe pieces from adhering to one another and until they are tafficiently brown to make your mouth water, when they should be throw into the other ueve tor a few seconds to drain and served at once.

Haaonic. 'I The national convention of royal and select masters of tbe United States are in session at the Masonic temple, Buffalo. Delegates are present from nearly every stale. The plan of degrees in tbe American Mnonic rite was discussed last evening and a committee appointed to memorialize the grand encampment of the knights tempiar of the United States at tbeir meeting in Claveland next week, to make these degrees a pre-requisite to the order of knigbthosd. * The twenty third triennial convocation of the general grand chapter of royal arch masons of the United States begins to day.

Bad Crop Prospect*! In England. The Agricultural Gazette says It is plain that 1877 will prove no exception to tbe succession of unfortunate harvests we have lately experienced. The wheat erop is certeinly very generally and very largely below average. Oata and winter beaus seem tbe beat of the grain crops of the year. On the other hand, it ia a great year for graziers and*dairy farmers. All kinds of cattle are found unusually abundant. Potatoes, so promising, are now very generally threatened with diseases The hay crop ia abundant

Striker* Weaken. The laborers of the extensive nail and tack works of Chess, Smythe & Co., Pittsr burg, whe struck last Thursday for an increase of wages, retained to work yesterday, at tbe old rates. This strike, while it lasted, compelled the stoppage of stout 500 employes.

Shipbuilder*’ Strike Ended. The lock-out of the shipbuilders ou the Clyde ia virtually ended. At a meeting of masters it was decided to open the works to-day at the old rate of wages, pending a settlement of the dispute by arbitration, to which both parties hare agreed.

Tramp Kill Tramp. Aleck Patterson stabbed Charles Miller, at Old Orchard Beach, Maine, yesterday, because the murdered man contended that New Orleans was a bettsr place to get a square meal than Rob ton. Both were tramps.

Attempt to Force ItiMner* Ont. The strikera last night forced ont the Honeybrook miners near Hazleton, bat tbe preBence"bf tbe vigilantes prevented further interference with the men willing to work.

Do and Dare.

THE LABOB BEFOBR PARTY,

“THE WORKINCLVIAN’S FRIEND.**

Dare to think though others frown: Dare in word* your thought* exproit: ®tT« to /■>**• though oft ca«t down : Dare tbo wronged and (corned to bleM,

Dare from custom to depart; Dare the priceles* pearl posse** * Dare to wear tt next your heart; Dare whom other* curse to bless.

Dere forsake what you deem wrong; Dere to walk in wisdom's way; Dare to give where gilts belong; Dare God’s precept* to obey. Scorn to be the rich man’s guest. If his bounty buys your vote; D»re to do your level best, Though you wear a ragged coat.

Do what conscience says is right; Do what reason says is Best; Do with all your mind and might; Do yonr duty and be blest.

Four Figure*. A THBEXODY. [From London Society.] O Night, thou art not sweet! Scant rest indeed e Thou giv’st to these who crave Lethxan draughts of thee. And vain des re remaineth still the meed Of those wbe in thy arms would e’en as dead men be; And yet, because we seek thy spell not utterly in vain. Of thee, O Night, eontinu&lly unhappy men are fain.

O Day, thou art not glad! Thon bringest aare. And weary, hopeless toil, and pleasure wearier still; Thon pointest out the deeds we may not dare. The ends which none may reach, the memories none may kill; And yet. because wo fear to tread the dark and lotloly way Of sunless sight, which all mnsf tread, we cling to thee, 0 Day!

0 Time, thon art net kind! Thou bringest eld, Remorse for vanish’d years, and all that might have been. As in thy glass illusions are dispell’d. The hollow wraith of hope, and all tne sadness seen; And yet,because wc scarcely feel the ruin thon bast wrought, A farther span of thee, 0 Time, by foolish men is sought.

O Love, thon art not sweet, or glad, or kind! Theu hauntest Night with wistful dreams; thy tender grace Makes the Day monrnfnl, while with longings blind . We see Time’s ruthless touch conceal and mar thy face; And yet, because we yearn to know the discipline of pain, From Day and Night and Time we strive a little Love to gain.

“SCRAPS.” How qnickly five million little ants find out a fresh coat of paint.—[Observing Ex. The celebrated Watkin’s Glen, New York, Is owilid? by three Philadelphia Quakers, who paid $1CD,CC3 for it. The communist platform, epigrammatically expressed, is about as follows: A loaf for every loafer, with full privilege of loafing.—[World. A sermon in Barbadcrecently concluded thus: “My obslinacious brethern, I find it no more nse to preach to yon dan it is for a grfihopper to wear knee-breeches.” Rabbi Wisa, editor of the Israelite, is said to have sent forth this challenge: “We defy any Christian clergyman or professor of Hebrew to write a Hebrew letter.” Bo many *ew vessels are building in England, especially steamers, that the English shipping brokers say that they begin to fear the carrying trade of the world ia being largely overdone. Matt. Carpenter thinks he can break the Michigan liquor law, and wi’l be retained to make tbe attempt by the Detroit saloon keepers. It ought not to cost mnch tfnless he has an unnsnal thirst.— [N. Y. World. Poor look-ont for Turkey.—Uncle Towzer (with paper): “It says, sir, ‘The only chance for the po’te lies in a gorilla warfare.’ Now, what nonseneej How are they going to get enough of those fellows; ard if they did, who’s a going to drill ’em?"—[London Fun. Since the removal of the Italian capital to Rome the population has increased nearly 160,000. It is now over 285 000, and although, owing to the scarcity of houses, rents and the general expenses of living are higher than in any of the other cities of Italy, it continues to grow. “Lon” Hubbell, “the strong man of the world,” once we 1 ! known In the circus arena, is in a New York pcor-honse. In his time he could hold back two yoke of oxen, and snpport a' weight of 1,800 ponnds resting on his arched hands and feet with his stomach upwards. The Detroit Post urges that si reet-tar companies abolish the bell-punch and fiing the conductors back upon their own honesty. The conductors concur In the request It is understood that some of them will work for $10 a week less for the sweet gratification of being flnng back on their own honesty.—[Graphic. A correspondent of the Bulletin endearingly asks its editor, “How can the boys be kept off the streets at night?'’ Simple enongh. Let every parent pave Tia back yard with tesselated marble, light it with gas, pat a billiard table in it, with a bar and cigar stand in one corner, and the thing is done.—[Eureka Sentinel. Aa nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing, so nothing is more rare in a man than an act of •his own. Any work looks wonderful to him except that which he can do. We do not believe our own thought; we must serve somebody; we must quota somebody; we dote on the old and the distant; we are tickled by great names; we import the religion of other nations; we quote their opinions; we cite their laws. 0. D. Hess has organized an English opera troupe for the season of 1877-’78. Tbe Seguina, Gentle, Peakes, Beritz, Mias Emily Melville, Mia Louise Searle, Mr. 0. H. Turner and Mr. C. H Morton are in the company. The reportoira includes the following new works; A Summer Night’s Dream, Ambroiae Thomas; Queen Indigo, Strauss; The Pasha of Algiers, Ambroiae Thornes; The Bat, Stratus; John of Ptria, Francois Boieldieu; Haydee, Auber; A King for a Day, Adolphe Adam; The Hermit’s Bell, Mailart; The Dawn of Happiness. Auber; The Blacksmith’s Treasure, G. Operli,

A Triumph of the American System— It will Do Huch to Dispel Ignorance by Dl*cn**ion. [From the Springfield Republican.] The signs of a serions and extended effort to carry the labor question into politics, and to fonnd a party on the grievances that failed of cure in the late etrikea, are multiplying on every htnd. We think there is more occasion for rejoicing than lamentation in this. Certainly we can not join oar contemporaries in their fervid deprecations and passionate protests. Politics and parties are the natural and legitimate safety-valve for our American lire. It is the vary essence of democracy that every grievance of individual or class can find expression in tbe political canvass and at the ballot-box. This is our protection from mobs and all forms of social disorder—our best remedy for every sore upon the body politic. No matter how vain are the political ideas of the dissatisfied laborer*; no matter what candidates or corruptions may be threatened in oar legislation by their combining to carry elections—it is not cnly altogether legitimate and proper, bat it is a great deal better than cinb* bing men off from locomotives, driving mechanics ont of work-shops, firing freight trsuna and station houses,andsending confnsion, disorder and min through the whole line of our social and bnsintss civilization. We have seen nothing in the way of men and notions pat forweid by the labor movement that we Wt old not prefer in government to each performances as made the recent week of s'rikes so horrible a memory. The parpc se to appeal from the defeat of those experiences to the ballot box is a sign of pblitreal wisdom; a recognition of their rights and power* and tme remedies in this country, that can not be too much applauded in the workingmen. Instead of being discouraged in their political movement, they onght rather to be enencouraged by every thoughtful citizen, every lover of good order,, every true philanthropist. There are many quq6t : ons of the relations of labor and capital that, indeed, need the illumination of political d''scassion and legislative experiment It is the true arena for them, and there is no better time for taking them up and working them out than the present. Capita’ has long bad the precedence in onr public legislation; what with tariffs and subsidies and land grants and acta of incorporation and systems of currency and taxation, with special privileges and advantages of every sort, it has very much monopolized the offices of government Now, if anything can be done for labor in the way of balancing the account, pray let ns see what it is and do it The granger movement of recent years, short-lived as it was, made its beneficent mark npon legislation and jurisprudence. It has established as the settled policy of the American states that the created is not greater than the creator—that special priveliges and powers, conferred for the organization of great public agencies, are to be interpreted and exercised with generous reference to the public good, and not for the sole benefit of those who happen to own snd exercise the agencies themselves. It has come now to be the common law of America that a charter is conferred and must be exercised for the common good and not simply aa a private benefit. And our varied chartered properties, and especially onr railroads, are more valuable to-day because they have been made to rest upon this great common mutual principle of lights and benefits. Never was labor and capital, aa repreaented in tbe carrying business of our railroad system, more truly in accord than they now are. There ie much to be learned yet on both sides.of their common relations, but both parties have been put fairly on the right track, and that largely through the influence of the granger movement. Other aspects of the labor qneetion will very likely be as well settled by a new political raid in its name. At any rate nothing really ill comes in this country of agitation and discussion, independent voting and the introduction of new elements into government. The deprecators of the labor movement dwell on the demagogism, the hypocrisy, the blind ignorance, the crude fanaticism, the passionate partisanship and the accompanying corruption that will follow 'its wake in politics and the government. Their fears are perhaps not unreasonable; bnt if these evils come they will only be as new formes of old and present diseases. There cannot well be anything worse in these respects than what we have had in onr politics and in onr government,north end sontb, since tbe war. Something of these evils is inseparable from a democracy in which there are so many one-sided, uneducated and miseducated people as there are in America. But publicity, agitation, change, the access of responsibility to new men, tbe education and conservatism of power, the experience of experiment,—all these things qnaiify onr danger*, and insnre by irregular etepe a steady improvement and a higher attainment. We feel snre that tbe leaders in the labol*reform part are altogether on the wrong track in their statement of remedies. They aeem to ns to be seeking to counter the advantages of capital, by following on still further in the path that baa given capital its advantages,—b/ new schemes of special legislation, by pushing the parental government idea to ita very extreme, by putting everybody and everything out to nurse to a special patron,—by, in short, running to the very excess of all the old-world notions of government. It ia quite In tbe other direction that the real remedy U more likely to be found,—in withdrawing from capital it* exclusiva privileges, in throwing down the harries to commerce abroad and to trade at home, in letting natural causes free to work out natural results, ia cultivating the causes of education, arbitration and philanthropy, evolving the mutuality of apparently adverse interests, and making clear the dependence of every class upon the comfort and prosperity of every other elaae. There is a wide field here for growth and for improvement, for removing obstacles and cultivating new infinenoer. Many of tbe agencies are still undiscovered and will only evolve themselves through agitation and experiment, through conflict and compromise. Bnt all onr experience baa shown that we can trust both tbe false and tbe true, the bad and tbe good, npon the great American arena of politics. And to that Arena wejwelcone with faith in the future all pbasesof the labor question. It ia their fit and proper place, and we repeat that the disposition to take them there is a triumph of tbe American idea and a tribute to the American system.

The Lying Comomnlstic Organ* [Morning Journal. | ' The Sentinel haa announced a hundred times within the past twenty days that the Journal ana News advocated the shooting of workingmen because they asked for advance of wagea. There is not a man, woman or child in tha state that knows anything about the facts, bnt knows tbe Sentinel lies every time it makes tbe statement If either the Journal or News advocated any such thing, or advocated the at >o‘ing of any one not engaged in a rice it wonid be easy to reproduce it The Journal and News advocated obedience to law. while tbe Sentinel attempted to Incite mob vio’ence.

Rome more Fact* A bent th* Journalistic Prostitute that t* Trying to be m Labor Organ—The way it Treated It* Werkmen—Pertinent Inquiries front the Journal. Tbe Sentinel undertakes this morning tb point ont errors in the list of parties bringing eoit against the stockholders of that concern, for back pay, and says: “Miss McMnrxy, referred to as asking for money to boy shoes, was paid ia full, never atked for tbe money, and personally denies the statement.” AH of which ia * barefaced lie. Mies McMnrry coiled at The News cffice this morning and stated that tbe version of affairs as published in The News is cornet in every particular; that she called npon John C. Shoemaker, president of the Sentinel company, fonr or five times, and asked him for insta'tments on her back pay claims to bay abets and other necessaries of llte; that Shoemaker positively and repeatedly refused to advance her any of the claim, but that James B. Rjan, one tf the stockholders resumed the debt and paid her himself. She wants the credit of the act to go where it fcalorgs, and at the same time she wants the public to understand that the Sentinel c impany never paid her the wa^es due her, which were classed under the head of ‘ back pay,” and that Shoemakar or the company did nothing to relieve her when ahe needed relief. Mr. Barrie, formerly foreman of the Sentinel news room, who was cat off from the pay roll became be asked Shoemaker for his pack pay, could tell some very cheerful little anecdotes about the “workingman’s friend” if he desired. On eeveial occasions printers, who were tamed oat of their boarding houses because of absolute inebility to pay their board by reason of the failure of the Sentinel - company to pav thaui tbeir wagea. came to him for permission to sleep in the composing room, and for several weeks that apartment was converted into a lodging room. One of the compositors who had a sick wife was forced to carry home stale pies and such other delicacies aa he conld obtain from the office lunch stand. His com?'.ton finally became desp orate, and the Journal cffice printers made np a parse of $10 for the poor man. He ale»obtained some relief from the township trustee, and tha books of that official show that the families of other Sentinel printers were partially supported by the township during most of the winter. Judge Martindale, proprietor of the Journal, is authority for tha statement ..bat within a week John 0. Shoemaker came to him with a proposition to reduce the price of composition from 35 to 32% cents per thoHsand sms. The Journai man declined to enter into any each scheme, expressing the opinion that printers got little enongh for their work. Then this beautiful specimen of a workingman’s friend went off and directed the double turretted editor to tell the suffering toilets how he loved them. The Journal this morning among other inquiries, asks the following questions: 6. When th* presidential election was only ten day* ofTdid the “beutinel riny,” composed of the same persons asnow, calloh William Henderson and infortp him that an offer was made for the uio and good will of the Sentinel until after the preiidentia! election, and that unlcs* he came down the sale would be made, and did not Mr. Henderson, under that threat, pay $2,700 and say to you that after the presidential election waa over he would have you all indicted for blackmailing? Let the conspirator* all speak. 7. Were you not imlorier;—you. Franklin Landers, Willis S. Webb, Kb. Bendeuon, James B. Ryan and John C. Shoemaker—on the paper of the gent'nol company at the First National bank and the Indiana National bank, and did you not have Judgment taken against tbe company on the notes yon indorsed, and did you not have the Sentinel property advertised and sold on such judgments, and did you not. through a third person, bid the same in and sate yourselves at the expense of creditor* whom you bad induced to r-edit tha co npanv, and at the expense of the workingmen and workingmen who uro now suing you for their wa fc es? Let “Franky.” “Sivey." “Kbby,” “Jimmy” and "johnnv,” all »peaV. 8. A* the work! igman'a f-iend* are you not a beautiful cage of animals, and are you not paying (er promising to pr •) your men thirty per cent, less than the Joa'aal!' pa”ing, and did not your prraident propo e to tne proprietor of t^e Journal, within five day*, to unite with the Journal and <ompel a .urtnor redaction on compo^i.ion, and are not some of you grinding even your ow j blood relation* to the point of starvation? Let the man who got the threa’ening letter from his brother ipeak, Ba*« Ball. The base ball nine far 1878 has been about made up, and c^will be see* by the list the team will be greatly strengthened. Jce Quest signed yesterday. A* now conatitnted tbe club fg composed of the following players; Flint, catcher; Nolan, p’tcbbr; Sullivan, of tne Buckeyes, first baseman; Quest, second baseman: WiMiamaon, of the Alleghenies, third baseman; Horning, of the Tecumsebs, left field: Warner, center field; MoKelvey, right field and change pitcher; Mack, short atop; Riley, substitute. Chinese Edict Against Opium. The imperial government of Ghina has issued an edict against the use of opium, declaring Its use waa bringlngdestruction upon the Obinese people. In addition to the home production, opium is imported into China to tbe annual value of over $40,000,000, principally from British India.

READJHIS.

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REMEMBER that I bay most of my goods CHEAPER than

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F. Me Herron, JEWELER, 16 Went Washington Street.

Carpets. TWQ-PLYS, 25 to 50 Cts. Per Ytrd. We are now receiving an elegaat new lino of Carpet* direct from manufaotarer*, including BODY BRUSSELS. nB „ oa „ ra 150 PIECES NOW IN STOCK. In coloring, design, nod nrtistie eattero ear new good* excel anything beretetore offered.' Call and see them. No trouble to show seeds.

ADAMS; MANSUR & COBUTLER UNIVERSITY.

The next eeeeion will oven Sept, iztn next. Irvington, lad. uvt