Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 29, 1878,

BLACK SILKS. BLACK SILKS.

A lot of BLACK SILKS at astonishing low prices on sale this week. They are beautifol goods. See them.

Close & Wasson, BEE-HIVE.

Tapestry Brusse!s75c, Extra Supers75c, Two-Plys25c, PER YARD. W« haT« placed on Bale 23 to 50 pieces «»ch of. the shore food* that we offer at lew* than cost to ctoae oet. On examination yon will find the good* cheaper and better than say thing ever offered befeewLathe State. Great Bargains in AH Lines of Goods. Adams, Mansur &. Co., 47 and 49 S. Meridian Sf '

KNIVES, ; FORKS, SPOONS, ExtraLowPrices FOR THE NEXT 20 DAYS.

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THE DAILY NEWS.

MONDAY, JULY 29, 1878.

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The Indianapolis News the largest circulation of daily paper in Indiana. County expenses must he redmed.

Senator VooKiiEEa made a speech at South Bend Saturday, and as usual it was “the greatest effort of his life.” * There is no telling where the able Daniel will get before the end of the campaign. The Washington mob has fixed the price of labor. Any man wtio works for lew than $1.50 a day is to be stoned to death. The Journal ought to be gratified at this vindication of its assertion that a man cannot live on less than sixty cents a day. This is a free country. ^

estimate of 1873 had just been increased $280,213,616 over the preceding year, and was generally complained of aa excessive. But Mr. VoDrheea aays: “In thia vast shrinkage ef value*, arising from the shrinkage of money in circulation,” etc. Everybody knows there was no silver in circulation in 1873, while in 1877 there was some $40,000,000. Hence there was no shrinkage in that respect. On January 1, 1873, the greenback circulation was $358,557,907; on January 1,' 1877, $360,055,084—increase, $7,497,177•So there waa no shrinkage there. But the national bank circulation had diminished to the extent of $22,987,202. As silver and greenbacks had increased, and national bank paper diminished, the pure demagogism of the Wabash statesman cofbes out into fine relief. Mr. Secretary Sherman is credited with saying that the amount of nation :1 bonds held in foreign countries in 1873 was about $1,000,000,000; and that it is now not more than $200,000,000. One of . the stnftding complaints of the paper maniacs is . that foreigners hold our bonds, and com pel us to pay them so large an amount of interest; and they insist that it would be better for the country if all our bonds came home and were held by our own people. This would be true if we had vast unemployed capital seeking permanent investment. But these same people cry out that we need more money, that all kinds of business is dull, and that labor is unemployed. We ask sensible men to reflect whether the withdrawal of $800,000,000 of capital from business, to be invested in bonds, is a good thing? Is not this withdrawal large by the canse of the depression which continues? Would it not have been better to have left these bonds in Europe, to jfiave put this $800,000,000 into mines, manufactories, railroads and other means of employing labor? It is perhaps in vain to hope for a cessation of the agitation of those foolish and communistic theories of finance, which is chasing money out of business into bonds j hut the responsibility of the agitators is fearful.

There seems to be two greenback parties. At least Brick Pomeroy and the fiat money men are denouncing the Toledo platfom because it proposes to pay the bondholders in gold. Which is Indiana greenback ism? Do the Sun and Express propose to pay the bonds with gold or

paper?

Nicki.es are interconvertible with greenbacks, and hence they pass at their nominal value so long as “the wants of trade” can use them. When more are issued than the public convenience requires they are sent back to the treasury. Hence there are now over $800,000 worth lying idle. It is not government fiat, but government service and redeemability which support them. Yoorhees’s speech on Saturday was an ingenious production and an excellent sample of his style. Its language is rich and ingenious, but its arguments are baaed in the main upon misstatements or half truths. It was not as foolish and incendiary as his speech last winter in which he “warned” all creation to get out of his way, but the marks of the demagogue are over it stilh He repeats the silly lie that contraction is the cause of all the financial distress, notwithstanding the fact that this alleged contraction all took place before 1870, and the years of greatest prosperity (!) were from 1870 to the fall of 1373, and that there is more currency now than there was before the panics. He talks abont farmers being compelled to mortgage their farms to get money to do business with. We suppose when Voorhees mortgaged his own house to the Shylock . he now abuses, but whom he courted when he wanted money, that he needed more money to do business on. He probably ■pent the money royally and had a good time with it, but now that he has to pay it back feels that he is oppressed and defrauded. There are a good many of this Bort. Many like the whistle but don’t want to pay for it. The part of his speech in reference to the payment of-southern claims is logical and sensible. That unscrupulous demagogue, Daniel W. Voorhees, in his speech against resumption, stated that since the act demonetking silver the property of the country had shrunk in value 35 per cent. The sufficient answer to this is found on page 119 of the last report of Auditor Hender®om. Valuation of the real and personal property oi thi. state, 1873, $933,-Ml,067; valuation for 1877, $855,190,125; reduction, $78,390,942, or 8J per cent, But the

If the fiat fanatics by any possibility should crystallize their nonsense into law, this is the way it would work. In January, 1865, the following contract waa made: Mr. Ichabod L. Qnimby agrees to furnish us, and we take from him, 15,000 dozen long shovel-handles, to be of the best quality of timber and workmanship, for the preseat year, the price to be ($1.25) one dollar and twenty-five cents per dozen, basing the price on the present price of gold, $2.25. It the price of gold goes up or down, then the price of handles shall be advanced or reduced accordingly. But it is understood that no advance ©/reduction of the price of gold of 25 per cent, shall change the price of handles, unless it shall remain at the advanced or reduced rate sufficiently long to affect the general price of merchandise. . L L. Qcimby, Oliver Ames k Soxs. Before the contract was filled the price of gold fell from 225 to less than 150> which was a decline of more than the 25 per cent, limit of the contract, and so remained. The supreme court has decided that the contract is binding and that the handles should be paid for in* greenbacks at a price reduced from $1.25 per dozen at the ratio of the decline of the greenback price in gold. This decision recognizes the right of private parties to stipulate in their contracts for payment in gold if they like. So it will always be. The fiat fanatics might make their “absolute” paper absolute for all government dues, but they can not make it absolute in private Contracts. They can not force a farmer to take the worthless rag for a bushel of wheat, nor a bushel of rags for a grain of wheat. So long as thp law recognizes the right of contract so long must it recognize ‘a man’s right to take or refuse any thing for his own. If the fiat fanatics want to make a success of their foolery they must not stop at a legal-tender for all dues. They must compel all men to take them | for everything. For an example of how that works read the history of the French as-

signats.

The St&tg House Again. We are not disposed tq quarrel with The Indianapolis News. It has treated us with marked consideration in the discussion of the state house question. Nevertheless The

charged the state house commissioners with designing to colonize the stone quarries. Our claim has beeu that their action permitted such rascality, J that they render col refusing to award c October election.—[Madison Couriqf. The News has endeavored, as it always does, to treat the Courier with strict justice. We have thought that its articles plainly charged the commissioners with an attempt to colonize votes, and we still think that is the natural inference. We cheerfully give the Courier the benefit of its denial so far. but in the article quoted from, it certainly does make the charge

when it says;

We say nothing against the integrity of Messrs. Love, Morris, Gollett and Nelson; but remember they produce a tie vote— James D. W illiams is the decisive element in

the board when it comes to a party measure, and we put it straight at The News: did the democratic party ever prescribe a dirij piece of work for him to do and fiihl him unwilling

to perform it. ‘

If this is not an attack on the integrity of the commissioners we don’t know what to call it. It assumes that they will divide on party lines for any party measure, no matter how corrupt and wicked it may be, and that Governor Williams, having the casting vote, will decide the matter in favor of the democrats. These men are men of good repute, they are under bonds, they have every motive to maintain their good names and to do their duty so honestly that not a brenth of suspicion can tarnish their reputations, yet the Courier asserts that they are cognizant of contemplated fraucl, and when it comes to a party measure will adopt it in the interest of the democrats. Yet it says nothing against their integrity! And the Courier says it does nq£ make a party question of this. Why this great fear then of Gov. Williams and the democratic members? It endeavors to , sustain Us position by reciting all the

democratic frauds and oppressions as an evidence that that party will do wrong, yet it says it is not partisan in the matter. The two things do not consist. • Finally it requote* from the New Albmy Ledger what a “prominent democrat of Indianapolis” said and says: * . A prominent democrat of tins coflwty sai I in the presence of the writer ihat, “the state house commissioners would be d—d fools if they did not colonize the quarries*” aad justified such action as right because it was to the interest of the party. Now what do these aasertions amount to. We have no doubt that plenty of democrats can be found who will advocate colonization and say such things, and we can name plenty of republicans in this city who will say just the same things and act on them too for their own party. Unfortunately there ia just such corruption, there are many men who will hesitate at nothing if party success is to be gained. But because such men exist and talk, is no proof that nefarious schemes are to be carried out. Let us have names and facts. If the commissioners are not the guilty men, where are they? The Courier says “there is sufficient evidence of contemplated fraud.” Where is it? We want to see it. Give us evidence, not wind. Tell who these “prominent democrats” are, and let them be called on. If the Courier or the New Albany Ledger or any other paper has any proof, The News is ready to ex»' amine it, and if it is adequate, to join those papers. But it will not believe mere assertions from prejudiced quarters, as long as they are made in the face of all reason and probability.

CURRENT COMMENT. Gen. John A. Logan will open the campaign in Illinois on Thursday at Yandalia,' where there ia to be a republican convention and mass meeting on that day. Ho expects to roar and*swing his arms as much as Yoorhees intends in this state; both hoping that the reward will be a seat in the senate. ^ Lest we may not have been fully understood on previous occasions, we repeat that the Grant movement is booming.—[st. Louis Globe-Democrat. The trouble with the Grant movement is that it is booming too soon. A lot of office hucksters and pardoned whisky thieves like the proprietor of the Globe-Democrat thought to take advantage of the republican dissatisfaction by yelling “Grant,” and the hubbub they made they mistook for the voice of the people. If any of the old thieves arc planning new operations under the hope that Grant will be in place to protect them three years hence, they might as well give it over. Grant will toddle to his grave a private citizen. The high price of Cincinnati gas is.quite generally driving it out of use, so that in the last three months 4000 gas-meters have been taken out and 20,000 lamps sold to take their places. There is a saving of from 50 to 85 per cent in the use of oil and more than half the stores on some of the principle streets now use kerosene. Vanderbilt is going to shut down on the “deadhead” system on the Lake Shore and Michigan Central route, as his father did on the New York Central when it came unden his control. There are cut annually in California 500,000,000 feet of lumber and the rapid disappearance of the forests, a sequence of this, is the result which is causing much discus-, sion in the state. I was at Lyons a few days ago, and had a long conversation with one of the leading silk manufacturers. He sadly admitted the coming dangerous competition of the Americans; Lyons mourns over the loss of the si Ik trade; Geneva over the loss of her watch trade; Russia over the loss of her leather trade; Manchester over the loss of her trade in cotton goods; Sheffield over the loss of her trade in iron fabrics, while America has become her own work-shop aud sells to the world, from which she formerly bought.— [Col. J. W. Forney. The greenback movement, aiming as it docs at inflation and repudiation, should be sharply assailed by the whole force of the 'republican organization. Ours is a party of conservatism and honesty on national finance, and is pledged to maintain the national honor, and to insist on the performance of all the nation’s obligations. It will be our policy and our duty to combat the greenback movement. We are its natural antagonists and the democrats are its natural friends. If it changes the face of politics it will be, in the end if not immediately, to shelter the democratic party and to strengthen ours.—[Gen. Garfield. Carl Schurz would seem to be the man most deserving the favor of the labor party. It is a rare man who can bring 28,000,000 acres of land into market for the landless.— [Springfield Republican. The Yellow Fever. Memphis has established a quarantine at President island, twelve miles below the city. tip to noon yesterday, 59 case* and 25 deaths were reported in New Orleans. Mobile has established a rigid quarantine against New Orleans, both by land and water. Galveston has established a twenty days’ quarantine against gulf and foreign ports. Shreveport will enforce a rigid quarantine by steamer, railway and stage against all infected points. Ttmneline the Hudson. The resumption of work on the Hudson river tunnel, which is to connect New York and Jersey City, is speedily expected. The tunnel will be four miles long and 82 feet below the surface of the river. Three gangs of men will work continuouslv day and night, commencing on the Jersey side. It is estimated thafcAhe construction will consumq two years in time and $10,000,096, and will employ from 1,000 to 1,500 men. Very Much Bettor. [Prominent republican.] However, it would be much better to give Hayes two terms than Grant three, and if it is narrowed down to this it seems to me the country could not do better than take Hayes. There has not been a better president than he, nor are we likely to nave one. Can’t gee What It’s For. On September 5, 1778, some 5,000 British troops invaded New Bedford, Mass., and after dtstroying nearly half a million dollars’ worth of property went on their way. New Bedford is going to keep the centennial, though it puzzles j^tsiders to know what it can find in the matter to celebrate. Abolishing Three-Cent Fioces. All the postmasters of the country have been ordered to send to Washington what ever 8-cent pieces they may receive, ia order that these qoins may be withdrawn from circulation,. , ...

A FRIGHTFUL. ATROCITY. A Lutly Declared Innate and Bobbed and Out raged. Xhe New York Times say* *om« months since a married lady of Boston—of great refinement and beauty, and occupying a prominent social position—had been visiting friends in the interior part of New York, and when leaving took a drawing room car on the New York Central railroad for Albany, where her husband awaited her. Two villains followed her into the car, probably attracted by the valuable jewelry she wore, and when the conductor approached the lady for her ticket informed him that they were her friends; that she was deranged, and that they, unfortunately, had been selected to convey her to the Utica asylum. In spite of her protestations|and appeal for protection, the scoundrels succeeded in convincing the conductor and passengers of the truth of their story, and removed the lady from the cars at Utica, She swooned as the train moved away. She was then lilted into a coach, chloroformed, taken to a house of ill-repute, outraged and robbed of her jewelry and clothing. Her husband learned of Ids wife’s alleged insanity when the train arrived at Albany, and procuring a special engine started* to Utica without delay. Upon arriving a few inquiries en-^, abled him to find the disreputable house where his wife had been taken, and there he found her lying upon a bed, almost stripped of clothing, and her mind seriously injured by her terrible experience. No names are given from considerations of delicacy. The husband has made every effort consistent with privacy to discover the fiends, but so far without avail. Alexander Hamilton’s Last Night. • [Long Branch letter.] Among the noticed guests at the Howland hotel is an old gentleman with a nose so boldly aquiline as to be almost square, a pair of small, black eyes, with hazel lights in them, and short, white hair, giving with the nose an aged gladiatorial look to his generally moving figure. He ‘suggests in a slight degree the well known appearance of the late Beverly Johnson, a Roman firmness marking his mouth and profile. He is not more than five feet six or seven inches in bight, in that respect, as well as in the face, suggesting his distinguished sire. It ia the son of Alexander Hamilton—John C. Hamilton. lie was born in 1792, and was in his twelfth year when Aaron Burr killed his father. This event he baa a tolerably distinct recollection of. “I recall a single incident about it with full clearness,” he said. “My father’s .residence waa in the country, toward the north of New York island. His law office in the city was rather a shabby affair. The day before the duel I was sitting in a room, when, at a slight noise, I turned around and saw my father in the doorway, standing silently there and looking at me with a most beautiful expression of countenance. It was full of tenderness, and without any of the business preoccupations he sometimes had. ‘John,’ he said, when I had discovered him ? ‘won’t you come and sleep with me to-night?’ His voice was frank as if he had been my brother instead of my father. That night 1 went to his bed and in the morning very early he awakened me, and taking my hands in his palms, all four hands extended, he said and told me to repeat the Lord’s prayer. Seventy-five years have since passed over my head and 1 have forgotten many things, but not the tender expression when he stood looking at me in the door nor the prayer we-made together in the morning before the duel. I do not so well recollect seeing him lie upon his deathbed, though I was there. Of course I saw him, but that recollection is only general. I went to the funeral at Trinity church, and vaguely remember that.” Northwestern Crop Reports. Crop reports from the counties on the line of the Union Pacific railroad between Omaha and Kearney, and along the line of the Omaha & Republican Valley railroad show that the wheat yield ia not so large as was expected, owing to recent severe storms, but larger than last year on account of greatly increased acreage. This applies to all other grains, rye and corn, which will give an immense yield; it is estimated, nearly 50,000,000 bushels. The latest crop reports from different parts of Minnesota indicate considerable deficiency in the southern counties, where the yield* of wheat will not exceed 12 to 15 bushels to the acre; much of low grade. The lied river valley and the Northern Pacific counties are better, promising 20 to 25 bushels to the acre; all No. 1. Samcary« [Chicago Time#.] The notion that the whole country will be saved from revolutioa, and the nation from repudiation, by administering liberal doses of absolute worthlessness, and “paying” the public debt in the same sort of stuff, is well worthy of its blatherskite author. His idea seems to be that he and his crowd will get up a rebellion and repudiate the public debt unless they are permitted to authorize the repudiation of all private debts and to flatly repudiate the national debt by issuing a few hundred tons of “absolute” continental-confed-erate paper, and using it to “pay” debt*. Gold in Fatagoaia. Patagonia is a very attractive country. Its climate is of the coldest, its men are of the tallest, and its women oi the ngliest specimens of the human race. Its nrice are likewise gigantic, and the natives dis play an ineradicable propensity to tell lies. This delightful country is destined to become very important in consequence of the recent discovery of gold therein. From the Cordilleras to the Atlantic, from the Santa Cruz to Terra del Fuego, the country teams with gold. Mining Operations Suspended. ' There will be a general suspension of mining operations in the Schuylkill region, beginning to-day and continuing until the 5th of August, after which time it is thought there will be steady work during the balance of the shipping season. Noyes Off for France. United States Minister Noyes sailed Saturday from New York for France, in the steamer City of Richmond. Mr. Noyes is accompanied by his son. A Johnsonian Estimate of Gladstone. [Speech by Lord Bcaconsfield.] A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own Verbosity and egotistical imagination. Ohio’s Railroad Investment* The single state of Ohio has $32(3,000,0C0 invested in railroads, which includes a rolling stock of 50,000 cars and 2,500 engines. Russia Buying Steamers. A Berlin dispatch states that Russia is* still negotiating for the purchase of fast North German Lloyd and Hamburg steamers. Result# of Inflation. The first’duty of a man who founds a town is to name one of the principal streets after Washington and the other after himself. . 1’ralse be to Ilaye#. [John A. Logan ] That man [President Hayes] has set his executive and administrative foot down on every political hope of my life.

Sbylock to Antonio. gimsev Antonio many • time and oft In d«c Kealtc you haf abused me A l oot l in* monies, and said dot I took mot# interest ia • year Dm der principal vws corns tel %. Still had I borne all dose mit A patient shru#: For, vat you can it? sufferance?— Va* der badge of all our tribe; Yot/fcaJl ms Vsd name*— Misbeliever, cud-throat, son or a gun, Sheep tifcuhn, usd so on. Yeti, den, it va# now at.peart J Dot you need my helhrpl You come to me and you said, Mr. Rhylock, old poy, I vould Like to borrow dree dsusaud ducat# Till next Saturday! You said so? Ton, dot haf booted me Two, dree, six, several dim#*, L'nd murn'd me from your threshold Like s dog? Monies is your suit, deaf By goodness, you haf more cheek Asa book agent! Should I not said: Haf a dog money! s - £o a sou uv a gun , Keep s punk acs-jond? Didn’t it been impossibility Dot a cur should loan you Dreedousand ducats?' Or, Shall I tend low, und iv a bordman's key MU laud breath und simpered humbleness Said this: . l air air, you spit onme on Vednesday last. You spurn’d me on Thursday, On Friday you told me to vlpe off Mine shin off*. Anudder dime yon call me Old Stick-in-der-mud; l nd, now, for dose dings, 1 lend you a five-cent nickle, Und took m mortgage On tout old paid head. Don’t it? —[Oil City Derrick.

SCRAP!*.

The latest song is, “Mary, don’t crowd me, I’m melting.” “Aint yer paralyzed in yer mind,” is a fresh New York witticism. Timothy O. Howe has been in the United States senate eighteen years. The total indebtedness of the city of Pittsburg now amounts to $13,642,629. Bishop Ames, is recovering from his recent severe illness and is able to sit up. In Tuckerman’a ravine, White mountains, there is a body of snow forty feet wide and 100 feet long. “I find jour recommendatfona very good, Bridget.” “Yes ma’am, and now I’ll see yours, ma’am, if you plaze.” “A schooner of beer for five cents,” is translated by a French newspaper so as to read. “In America you can get a boat full of beer for five cents.” The Philadelphia friends of the late Rev. Albert Barnes, the bible commentator, will erect a magnificent stained glass window to his memory in the Walnut street Presbyterian church in that city. Lady: I say, conductor? Conductor: Yes, marm. Lady (who wants to go to Spurgeon’s Tabernacle): Do you go to Spurgeon’s Tabernacle? Conductor: N°» inarm, I don’t go nowhercs, no time.— [Judy. King Alfonso will build a $1,000,000 church near the royal palace, containing a splendid mausoleum in memory of the late queen. The room in which she died is to be left untouched; in the same room he was born. The magistrates in the English mining counties ave beginning to punish miners very severely for any infraction of the regulations whose observance is necessary to the preservation of life. The Bolton magistrates have just sent a man to prison for six weeks for having a match in his pocket while he waa in a coal pit. Ogontz, the former residence of Jay Cook, a few miles from Philadelphia, has had no occupants for four years. The house ia of stone, very spacious, and the grounds are beautiful. The man in charge opens the windows once a week to give the interior an airing, but all the furniture has been removed. Signs of neglect are numerous. Cook lives quietly in Philadelphia. Queen Isabella’s jewels, if they are selling at half price, are bringing into her majesty quite a nice little sum in cash. Among the high priced lots thus far disposed of have been the butterfly brooch, $28,.885; a diamond necklace, $40,000; a brooch in the form of a flower $16,300; thirty-one emerald balls, with as many in brilliants, $15,320, and the celebrated ear pendant, $02,000. Lightning struck a man out on State street the other day, bounded off, struck again, splintered, gathered itself up and took a good look, discovered that it had tackled the men who goes to newspaper, offices and asks for notices of entertainments that haven’t been advertised, howled with disgust, and went off down town and killed two book agents and the embassador of an insurance'company while it was cooling ofl.—[Bridgeport Standard. Frau Wilt, the prima donna of Vienna, has, according to a correspondent, nothing to recommend her but her voice, which is declared to be surpassingly fine, and capable of the most varied and enrapturing tones. Her face is course and her form— well, she weighs 300 pounds, aud is built for the prize ring. In complexion she possesses the purple cast which overspreads all fat faces which put on powder or enamel. In temper she is a fury, and her age is fifty. And yet all Austria hangs entranced on her sweet, girlish voice. A correspondent of the Golos speaks of the rough tone in which Bismarck addressed the Turkish representatives at the late congress, when they protested against the occupation by Austria of Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Do you really suppose,” said he, “that we are here to consider the interests of Turkey? We are here for the interests of Europe, for the peace of Europe. What do you Turks want? You don’t w ant to retire to the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. Very good, you shall not retire. You’ll be pitched into it if you go to protesting.” The George Washington relics purchased by congress are on exhibition in the patent office this week. The collection consists of furniture, chairs, two bedsteads, marble-top table, account books, ledger in which Washington kept his own accounts of profits and losses, portrait of Washington by Trumbull, from which copies have been taken, China and silverware, shaving case, candlesticks, two pictures of Martha Washington, books containing memoranda of surveys of his private property in different parts of the state of Virginia, in Washington’s own hand, and other interesting articles. Political Matters. The Massachusetts state republican co*yention is called for September 18. Congressman Slemmons has been renominated by the democracy of the Second Arkansas district. The Hon. Henry M. Rector, in a public letter published at Little Rock, declines to become a candidate for governor on the greenback or any other ticket at the approaching election. The nationals of the Eighteenth congresaional district of Ohio have nominated George E. Smith, of Belmont county, by acclamation. The republicans of Montgomery county, this state, nominated John Peterson, of Sugar creek township, as their candidate for the legislature. Mr. Petereon is a brother of Hon. Silas Peterson, present state senator.

Better Than Butler’s. [Boston Herald.] General Garfield was seen the other day on his farm getting in his hay. This is a surer way of getting the labor nomination for the presidency than going a yachting.

Africa nod Modern Discoveries. fi [!i. D. Convay’* London letter.] Some little time ago the Unite Cattolic* of Rome called attention to the fact that the Franciscan father#, Gregorio and Bonaventura, at the close of the seventeenth century, constructed a globe of the earth in which the recently discovered Albert and Victoria lakes in Africa are correctly marked. This old globe is now in the library of LyonA in wnieh city father Ore* gorio (Henri M&rchand) born and lived (1673-1760). Even the last lake discovered, Tanganyika, is indicated upon ibis curious wort. Since the catholic fcrgan called attention to this globe a gentleman of Bristol has called attention to the fact that the thri¥ great lakes of central Africa for discovering which Speke, livingstonand Stanley gained so much fame, are distinctly "marked on a yet earlier map, namely, Peter Heylin’s “Cosmography, in four books, containing the Ccsmographie and Histerie of the whole world,” published in London, Fleet street, 1665. But it seems that the discovery was much earlier than this. I have just had the pleasure of examifiing

Theatrum orbis terrarumand in it are two maps oi the region in question. On the first, of both hemispheres. Africa contains south of the equator two large lakes, from which flow the branches of the Nile. The second, on a larger scale of a portion of Africa, shows plainly the bifurcation of the Nile and its origin in two large lakes. A amaller lake upon the line does duty for an arm of. the Victoria Nyanza. The Albert Nyanza and the Tanganyika are mixed and yet divided by one part being called Zambre and the other Zaire. The topography is in precise accord with the latest discoveries. This great Antwerp atlas is owned by Mr. Fenton, of Wimbledon. It would appear to be a less difficult feat for our modern discoveries to explore Africa and rediscover its lakes than to .navigate centuries and visit the wild bookshelves occupied by our librophagi. Labor Trouble# In Washington. On Saturday, the riotous workingmen of Washington having been driven by the police from Fourteenth street, posted a circular setting forth that no man is allowed to work for less than $1.50 a day, and hereafter any one doing so shall be shot or stoned to death. They also demanded that the men stop work, and one or two stones were thrown and the workmen were obliged to retire, but the police arriving they resumed work. A squad of police were * attacked, who fired on the crowd, and a colored man named David Snowden was hit in the back. Another negro was shot in the act of hurling a brick at a policeman. Lieut. Geaaford received » painful wound from a brick. Extra precautions have : been taken by the police authorities to prevent the recurrence of trouble. A large and well-armed force with revolvers and Springfield rifles are in readiness to-efay to prevent outbreak, but there is no great fear that a resort to extreme measures will be necessary. Several of the leaders in the riotous demonstratious have been arrested, Cohen and Graham among the number. AFRICAN DIALECT. Conjugation of the Verb “I Dun.” PRKSKXT. I dun it. You dun it. , He dun it. • We or us uns dun it. You uns dun it. They uus dun it. TMPKBFECT. I dun dun it. You dun dun ii. He dun dun it. We or us uns dun dun It. You uns dun dun It. They uus dun dun it PERFECT. I gone dun dun it. You gone dun dun It. He gone dun dun It. We or us uns gone dun dun it. You uns gone dun dun it. They uns gone dun dun it.

Disastrous Cloud Burst. Parties from the Silver Lake Mennooite settlement, forty miles north from Yankton, bring intelligence of a cloud burst iu that region on Monday, by which a large portion of the country was submerged and seven persons drowned. The west branch of the Vermillion river, ordinarily about two rods wide, was filled to a width of over a mile and to a depth of from 10 to 30 feet. *Mueh destruction of property is reported. More Territory for England. The porte and the British ambassador deny that negotiations are now proceeding for the cession of a portion of the Servian coast arid the island of Fendos to England. Persistent reports, however, are current that negotiations, object unknown, continue between England and Turkey. Unfriendly Indians Concentrating. A Portland dispatch says that the rendezvous for all unfriendly Indians, both in Oregon and Washington territory, isAt the foot of Priest’s Rapids, where they are collecting in great numbers. Chief Moses says he can not control hi# young men, and warn# the settlers to look out for themselves. Adric# to the Nationals. [Hindoo Frovorli.] “When in the water don’t quarrel with the alligator.” Meteor#. On Saturday night, about 10 o’clock, a brilliant meteor shot from the northeast, apparently near the constellation Cassiopsia, and passing westward, went out at a hight of aw>ut fifteen degrees above the horizon. It was as large as \icnus at her brightest, but left hardly a trail. An hour later a smaller meteor passed along the zenith, or a little northward, to the west, leaving a distinct and considerable trail over several degrees of the heavens. The casual astronomer of The News aaw beside# these some half dozen pr more shooting stars of rather greater size than usual in these momentary visitor# of an unknown world. Altogether, without changing hi# position or making any attempt to take in a new range of the sky, he saw nearly a dozen shooting sts and small meteor# that night within

been qnite a pretty liti shower to the observer whose view gave him a wide range of the heaven#. • The Microscopical Congress. Dr. W. W. Butterfield, secretary of the Indianapolis lyceum of natural history, where originated the idea of a national microscopical corgress to be held in thia city next month, says the attendance will be large, generally from the state# north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. The first session will be held in thecrimi--al court it-_ j— i . »_ ust 14,1 loejiitu dress of welcome. The session will extend over Thursday, Friday and Saturday, two each day—from 10 to 12 a. m., and from 2 to 5 p. m.—devoted to discussion. Friday evening there will be a microscopical soiree when, probably, 200 of the finest microscopes in the country will be exhibited. Most of the delegates will remain in Indianapolis over Sunday, leaving Monday for St. Louis, where they go to attend the American association for the advancement of science.

blocks. This will cut a channel eigt feet deep, thus releasing blocks of size that are lifted from their beds

A atone Sepnlchr#—a ton# Quarries gp* **«ne# Generally with Home Black-

berries.

(Comapoadaaec oi The Indiuispoli* Neva.]

BKOPOitn? July 27,1878.

When yon get below Greencastle enter the region of rock; corn and become of secondary interest. Ail "b‘"r down thff railroad quarries are scatteareo^ and the freight cars are loaded with immense masse# of building stone going to the cities. Tonvewing with the peopfcfe. you find that each locality ha# a better quality of rock than the other# and the best in the state of Indiana. Bedford has inexhaustible quantities of excellent limestone, atid the vigor with which the Chicago A Bedford stone company are. working the quarries will soon secure for them s wide celebrity. Colonel W. E. Avery, the superintendent, is »n experienced mana-

ger, being interested in more than a dozen j. building quarries from Maine to Indians. -

He is putting these Bedford quarries in fine shape for working. Here I saw the marvellous channelin^driH machine by which

steam rower is utilized in cutting out the v blocks. This will cut a channel eighteen If

VMt with

wedges beneath. Bedford folk all talk stone aud state house. But my main ob-

ject is to speak of

DR. FOOT’S STONE SEPULCHRE, the most remarkable tomb I ever saw, and indeed a great curiosity. Dr. Winthrop Foote was born Nqv. SO, 1787, I think in Virginia, It is reported that he at one time was a law partner of Andrew Jackson at Nashville. Any way he came into Bedford in 1825 and acquired the title to a large estate surrounding the town. Here he also devoted his time to the practice of medicine. He was an eccentric character in many ways, one feature of his oddity being manifested in the arrangement which he made for the disposition of hi# body after death. It waa as eflectual as cremation and proof against all attempts of body snatchers. He went into a beautiful dell, in the deep, unbroken forest, and there selected an immense massive rock, or boulder, perhaps twenty feet square and of corresponding thickness. The top of this solid mass is dressed down, forming a pedestal, on which is ■. placed a monumental shaft some ten feet high, now bearing suitable inscriptions of hia birth and death. He died August^ J856. Underneath this shaft and pedestal in the middle of the rock he excavated from the ride a deep cavity of sufficient dimensions to receive the body and also that of his brother, whose bone# were brought from Kentucky, and alse deposited with him in the solid rock. When hi* body was thus placed in the middle of thi# great boulder the opening of the side wa# hermetically sealed with a close Suing door and imperishable cement. There lie his remains in a tomb immoveable and inaccessible, withont the aid of drill anil blast. The lovely spot where this tomb * arid monument now stand overshadowed by grand treos, is near the quarries overlooking them across a bit of a lakelet and a narrow ravine. It forms a picturesque feature in this now charming picture, and it is, I venture, one of the most striking curiosities in the state. The doctor, yrhen ha chose his last resting place in the obscurity of the forest .and the security of a rockribbed bed, could not have anticipated that the place would ultimately be conspiemfliii in the most active business scene of thi# region; but so it is. It is safe to presume, however, that his precautions against disturbance are adequate, and that neither hi* dust nor the massive casket in which it i# deposited will ever be shaken, unless by the resistless convulsions of nature. H.

Dr. DeLaM»t>r nuil the Democrats. Democratic politician* whose sun does not rise and set in the state offices, say that the Martinsville convention next mouth will surely endorse Dr. DeLaMatyr’s nomination for congress. They claim that outside of the immediate circle of state house influence democrat^ are in favor of that action, and arc as they always have been, ready and willing to swallow any candidate who promises sticccqj# to their ticket. One of the raggedest of the Ragged Reubens said the other day that in a short I>olitlcal exjicrience his party had called upon him to vofo for all kinds of candidates, from a philosopher down, but in his wildest fancies he never dreamed of being asked to support a Methodist preacher, and a radical red hot temticrance man. If that waa the polity of the party, though, he would accept

it without question.

Another democrat, prominent in the party, says that Voorheea is managing the negotiations in connection with Dr. De La Matyr’s nomination. Mr. Voorhees will £ make hi# principal fight for the legislature ■ in this county, and lie propose# to use the doctor to pull his legislative chestnuts out of the fire. If he can trade on De L# Matyr’s candidacy he will do it, and leave the reverend gentleman to “hold the hag.” That is the interest Voorhees has in the matter, and it is the interest he doesn't

propose to see suffer. • Base Ball Matters.

The Indianapolis dub won its fourth victory over the Chicagos Saturday, by # score of five to four. The Inst three game* of the series between these two clubs will be played at Chicago to-day, to-morrow and Wednesday. The Blues will play in Cleveland nnd Buffalo the last of the week, and then go east to Providence and

Boston.

The game Saturday between the Qui,.*steps and the newly organized Reds, wfi# won by the former, 13 to 0. The new club that F. N. Scott is organizing to play against non and semi-professional# of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, during the absence of the Blues, will be made up of member# of these two organizations. The game#

played at the ball park by the new combination will be free to holders of season

tickets.

The following is the standing of tb« league club* in the race for the champion-

ship:

„ . Woo. Loot. V-.ru csgo .........<24 15 Cincinnati ‘i\ [j Indianspplis i* 22 Providence IS IS Milwaukee 9 29 During the past week the fielding and batting average of the Indianapolis clnb advanced one point each, now heing 848 and 248 respectively.

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The meeting at the Railroad Young Men’s Christian association rooms yesterday was well attended and very interest. Next Sunday two coach loadsof visitor* will come over from Bradford aad two from Iridianola. /Milestones on the Road to Health. The recovery of digestion aad the resumption oi rctiriiy by the liver, bowels and kidneys are milestones which mark our progress on the road to health. They speedily become perceptible when HoatetUz's Stomach Bitters is used by the invalid. ho:h ng to surely and expeditiously consumes th# dlxtance to the desired yaal. A# no bodily fun©, tton can suffer interruption without impairing the gwmral health of the aystets, t*o the system can never acquire perfect vigor, health’s synonym, until that function be actively resumed. Taka, for instance, digestion, a *u*pen*io*t of which is In variably rec (tied by the Biu«r». U the organs 'teV? lt reawTea their cause.