Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1878.

BLACK SILKS. • BLACK SILKS.

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

Close & Wasson,

BEE-HIVE.

Tapestry Brussels 75c, Extra Supers 75c, Two-Plys25o,

PER YARD.

We hare placed on *»le 25 to 60 piece* mm t» .j! the al»ove good* that we oft r at lew than cost to

eloee oat. <)u examination yoa will find the i{o.hla tehee per and better than anythin* oYiar offered be-

fore In the State. ■

Great Bargains in All Lines of Goods. Adams, Mansur & Co., 47 and 49 S. Meridian St KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS. ExtraLowPrices FOR THE NEXT 20 DAYS. Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, 12 E. Washington .St. Bioy or THE STREET CLOCg, THE DAILY NEWa Trn-tDAY. JULY 30 1378.

The ludiaua{>uli8 News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. CorsiY expenses must be reduced. A fiat dollar is a fraud and a aliam.

made.

The weather yesterday permitted excellent observations of the total eclipse of the sun to be taken at a great many places. It will require some time to ascertain

, , . , ... . , No man who has ever been m the departwhether any important discoveries were 1 ment of the interior has done as much work,

Hayes, hard money and home rule, are all the republicans have to advocate. The Pot ter commit tee gefc board at Atlantic City for »16 a week each, prob .b v on the grotied that it draws custom, though perhaps a cheap place was selected as the $20,000 appropriation is moning low. Benconsfield's description of Gladstone, “a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and egotistical imagination,:’ is good, but it was fairly equaled by a poor lunatic named Newberry, Well known to former residents of Madi on and vicinity.- At the commencement of Hanover college iu 1WJ3, the selected orator failing to appear, Rev. Dr. Daily, formerly president of the State University, happening to be present, was tailed upon and made a regular stump speech in which he was very bitter upon rebel sympathizers. Some one asked Newbery what he thought of it. “What do I think of it?” said he; “I think, sir, that it v. as a miscellaneous conglomeration of putrefactions and maledictions.” General Joseph E. Johnston will represent Richmond, Virginia, in the next congress, opjaifitipn to him being merely nominal. Many of the voters of the town were his old

soldiers.

New England politicians are agog over the rumor that Attorney General Devens is to be appointed to the vacant United States district judge-hip, which will make a vacancy in the cabinet for some New Englander. The Tappnn defalcation has shaken Boston from center to circumference, and the Post says: “Probably nothing has happened in a whole generation in this business community that more effectually shakes universal confidence in the pledges proffered by human

reputation.”

The Marquis of Lome, who is to be made governor-general of Canada, will, receive

$50, 000 a year.

There w as not a single German in the

Syracuse convention.

Why this silence of Belknap? Doesn’t he believe in a tl^ird term, too?—[Springfield

Republican.

Tbe Berkshire farmers can’t hire all the “help” they need, and no money can induce the tramps to take a hand at the honest labor

of a farm.—[Boston Herald.

Suppose (of course it is all nonsense to suggest such a thing, and we hardly know how it came into our head.) but suppose Grant should take a notion to change his politics and go over to the democrats, would the republicans have anybody left to run for President in 1880?—[Cincinnati Saturday

Night.

The democratic party is in an unfortunate condition on the currency question. In New York and all the New England States, and iu most of tbe southern states, there are entertained sound theories on financial questions. In the west the democrats seem to have gone crazy and to have no notions on this subject which are not too absurd for disenssiotr. What the result will be no man can foretell. Perhaps there may be a new division of the voters on new party lines and a total sinking of the issues of the war. If so, the present craze on the subject of cheap money will not be without a redeeming feature.”—[Richmond Despatch.

The terribde outrage on the New York Central road reported yesterday, is fully confirmed. The victim has never recovered her reason, although several months have elapsed. The railroad company is certainly responsible for this. What right had the conductor to allow two men to seize a woman who had a ticket of her own, and to take her away without demanding their commitment papers or other evidence that their story was true? The same thing was done in Nebraska lately. Whfct are we coming to when such dangers threaten every woman or girl compelled to trayel alone, or even to go on an errand in her own town or village. If suoln-thinp were done among barbarians there would at least be the chance of personal vengeance. It is time that a more severe penalty was enforced for these attacks upon women tl}an mere imprisonment, one that will render such scoundrels incapable of repeating their*-

crime. ^

Gen. Boynton, of the Cincinnati Gazette, whose criticisms about Gen. Sherman’s book shook Gen. Grant’s friendship for three weeks, has something to say about the late president’s talk as published in The News last week. He says that while those letters were being written he was in constant receipt of information and suggestions from the White house, not front Geu. Grant himself, but of such a character that he must have had personal knowledge of them. He was given every opportunity to examine official and private papers to show that Gen. Grant was really the conceiver of the march to the Bea and the author of other movements, credit for which was not given him by Sherman. More than this before the letters were issued in hook-form, more information was sent from Long Branch, where Gen. Grant was, and where he says he read Fhcrman’s book, and finally when the book was printed a copy Was sent to the president “with a request to be informed whether the points made Would'stand the test oi the records, and iu due time the answer came that they could not be upset.” I’roof of which General Boynton says can be had if necessary. General Grant’s reported conversation has aroused a good deal of other criticism, the affect of which is to create discussion of

various incident in the war. CLKKEN'T comment. *

Mr. Charles Foster says the republicans are sure of six of the Ohio congressional dis-

tricts, and will probably carry eight.

John G. Thompson is said to be a candidate for secretary of the senate against Wafcterson, which leads the Cincinnati Gazette to remark that it is barely possible that some gentleman not of the democratic persuajioZ

will be the next clerk of the senate.

or n= good work, as tbe present Secretary, Carl Schurz, That, which has been accomplished w ill stand as a remarkable exam ale of faithful and excellent service. One of the items is the interning of Sitting Bull an l his gang, for whom tbe Canadian authorities are now resj onsible. This took off on:* hands a costly war. Utirsned and hounded by the peddling politicians of the Senate, a d all the rascally repesentatives of ring’. Secretary Schui zbas labored witji untiring zeal and rare intelligence in reforming abuses in his department. He has simplified the pension sen it e and economized in it; he has used all bis power to protect tbe jirr-cious forests from timber thieves, organizid as mononolists; and he has asserted the right of the people to buy the railroad lauds at the old government price,.ihus opening a vast area of good land for poor mea.-^[Ctacinnati Com-

mercial.

CITIZEN SCHWAB. Ills Tittle Conimuni«tlc Plan for Hippl-

ne*a.

[New York Herald Interview.!;

“But what have you to offer them but rev-

olution and anarchy?”

“Ha! ha! That's what they say, is it? No, mt. Our plan contemplates the better-

ing of everybody’s “ ’

‘ >aout tb

condition. With our there would be no more

ever;

ideas carriei

misery, suffering, ignorance and superstition. Y hat’we want is tbe industrial emancipation of labor, and that must be achieved by the working classes themselves, independent of all parties but their own. We want the land, machinery, railroads, telegraphs, canals, to be made the common property of tbe whole people, through the government. To abolish the wage* system and substitute in its stead co-operative’ production, with a just distribution of its rewards.” “Under y#ur plan of government there will be no stealing?” “None; because there w ill be no motive. Society will hold all tilings in common. Faetciies, railroads, banks, insurance, shops, markets—all w ill be rim forthe benefit of the people, as the post office is now. No man shall have a monopoly of these things. Houses,* lands and all shall be regulated by the people through the government.” “Y ell, suppose a man wants to build and live in a bouse on Fifth avenue, is he to be prevented because somebody else lives iu a shanty in Mackerelville?” “The state is to do all that, to build houses suitable for every man 8 wants and necessities and to provide everybody with the work adapted to him. All arc to receive an equal education. There is to be no ignorance and no idleness and as much material comfort as

possible.”

“Y hat do you purpose doing with the

churches?”

“They w ill be left to decay, as they must decay when the rise and spread of ideas like ours is encountered.*’ “But when do you expect ever to accom-pli-h anything and how?” “Ye are now engaged in educating the people, and education, is always slow. We shall have patience and we shall work out our problem by peaceable means—(with a pause)—if it tie possible.” “And if not possible?” “Then by the means nature has given all of us—by the strong right hand. One class of people shall not forever continue to be the footstool for another, and it is this radicalism of ours that makes the weak-hearted fellows of the national labor party appear to me like milk and water.”

France Coddling Germany.

On account of their connection with the Berlin congress. Prince Iloheulohe and Count Von Bulow have received from France [he grand cross of the legion of honor, and MM. lladowitz, Holstein and Busch have received minor grades of the order. These appointments are regarded as indicative of i gevw feeiu ‘F between France and Germanv.

m THE KCLIPSK. What Was Seen of It at Various Polnto, The observations taken along the path of the tptal eclipse yesterday were genially satisfactory. Al most points the sky was cloudless,-and the scientists posted at various place- succeeded in obtaining accurate notes. In the vicinity of Rawlins, Wyoming, very valuable results were obtained. Edison’s experiments with his tasimeter were quite satia-Ittc-tory. Dr. Draper, of New York, succeeded in obtaining several photographs of the snn during the eclipse. Prof. Watson, of Ann Arbor, and Mr. Norman Lock.yer viewed the eclipie at Separation, near Rawlins, where the total eedipse lasted two minutes and fifty seconds. Prof. W&tsdib discovered an intnimercural planet of the size of a four and a half magnitude 8!ar, about two and a half degrees southwest of the sun. Mr. Lockyer says this eclipre was totally different, the corona being ten times brighter this time than the one in 1871, showing a great variation of the brightness of the corona between the maximum and minimum period of sun spots. He obtained a faint photograph of the eontiiinons spectrum of tbe sun, and saw no trace of lines or rings through Mr. tiuiherford a grating. The structure of the corei a was well observed by him, but no trace of an exterior ring was seen, and tbe corona vanished instantly, while in 71 it remained visible for .several minutes after totality. (»uly one fafnt protuberance was observed by Mr. Lockyer. He is greatly surprised at the difference of eclipses occurring in different sun spot periods, and at the intimate relation of tbe brightness of the corona to the sun .-pots. At Denver the measures made by Me. Easterday indicated that the corona extended out on an average about twenty-six mindites of an arc corresponding to a distance of 700.000 mile? all around the sun. It was strongly striated, and in tbe direction of the ecliptic the ravs were nearlv straight, while above and below that line’they were spiral iu their character, ami some of the lines at their base formed an angle of not less than thirty degrees, with a prolongation of the sun’s" rays. The chromosphere was ■ distantly seen by Prof. Hough, indicating a thickness of some two thousand miles. The protuberances were much less prominent than at most of the recent; eclipses. Tw o rather pale ones were seen on the western side of the moon. Ked Tape la Kussia. A story is current in Moscow, apropos of Russian official routine, which whether literally true or not, certainly illustrates to perfec’liou the prevailing system. An operatic star of some note connected with one of the principal Moscow theaters, wishing to make a ,-hort excursion into the country went to get her passport countersigned by the local authorities. The presiding officer received her politely, and having learned her business inquired for her written petition. “My written petition 1” cried the lady ; “I have none. I ne' er knew ’.hat anything of the kind was required.” “Not required, madam ? on the contrary nothing can be done without it.' “Y hat" shall 1 do then?” “Nothing easier, be good enough to take this sheet of paper and write according to my dictation.” Tbe applicant obeyed, and transcribed word for word a formal petition requesting leave of absence from the city for a stated time, which was then duly signed, folded and scaled*. “And now,” qnolh the man in office, “you have onlv to deliver it.” “To whom, pray?” “To whom!” cried she official, with a slight smile at the absurdity of the question; “to me,-of course.” The dot ument was accordingly banded across the table. The great man adjusted his spectacles, broke the seal, gravely read over his own composition from beginning to end. and then turning to the impatient artist^, said, with an air of official solemnity: “Madam, 1 have read your petition, and regret to tell you that I am unable to grant it.” —# Heavy Failures. The Union ijon-works company, of Cleveland, made an assignment yesterday to J. M. Henderson, attorney. Liabilities, $215,000; assets, $100,000. This company employed LOCO men and had extensive mills iu "the Eighteenth ward. The immediate cause of the failure was the inability of some of their heaviest debtors to meet paper due. O. A. Brooks & Son, one of tbe oldest crockery and glassware firms in Cleveland, assigned yesterdav to John A. Vincent, Esq. Liabilities, $00,000; as?ets, $50,000. J. H. McVicker, for many years proprietor of McVieker’s tlieater, Chicago, and well known in the dramatic world, tiled his voluntary petition in bankruptcy yesterday. Liabilities $050,000. Of this amount $500.000 i? a judgment against him as one of the bond? men of David A. Gage, ex-city treasurer, who defaulted in d large amount to the city in 1874. Of tbe remainder $05,000 is secured by mortgage on iloVickcr's thea'eri and the rest is variously secured, with the ex_ ceptien of $2,000 or $3,000. He owes $00, 000 to Mrs. McVicker and $35,000 to various eastern parties. At present the theater will be run ns heretofore by Mr. McVicker, and all contracts that have been made with dramatic tronps will be carried out. Alwaya Worse for Labor. [Boston Herald.] Y'e can understand why speculators generally and men logded with mortgaged real estate, which 1ms fallen on their hands, should think it desirable, for them, to have the currency inflated and divorced from real value. We can even understand why capitalists, consulting only their present interests, might go in for a currency which increases the power of capital. But workingmen ought to be unanimous and earnest in favor of honest money. It is their best safeguard. Whatever money is in circulation, capital controls it. It is the arms, the feet, the tools, the machinery by which capital acts. A redundant currency increases the relative pow er of capital over labor, and when a currency represents no real value—is based upon nothing real—a promise never to be fulfilled—the workincman, who has only his labor to sell, is completely at the mercy of the men who, having the capital, coulrol the currency. In tbe long run. an irredeemable currency is bad lor both capital and labor, as our experience shows clearly enough, but its first and worst effects are always felt by labor. Discouraging Crop Reports. Reports coming from northern Iowa and southern Minnesota state that the crops are. badly damaged in those sections. The wheat in some counties will not yield o er seven bushels to the acre. Most of the reports say the average yield will be about fourteen or fifteen bushels-per acre. In some localities the wheat will not be cut, but these art; exceptional cases, while in other places the prospect for a good crop is better than it was j ft Wt‘ k fl^o. All reports concur in the statement that pals, barley and curb wil I La a magnificent crop. The farmers are workin" night and day and Sunday, and although ti amps have flooded the state, men cannot lie obtained to harvest for wages varying from $1.50 to $3.50 per day and board. Prospective Famine. There is a prospect of another famine in Ireland through the failure of the potato crop. Killed by Begulator*. .Saturday njght a band of so-called regulators, in Robertson county, Ky., thirty in number, visited the house of John Dayton, a respectable fanner, and killed him. and also burned tbe bouse of the town marshal at Mount Olivet.

Elfe’a Gonging*. A child ran laughing on tbe beach, The Mtn uliane warn and bright Upon li«* warilni' golden hair/ Her tiny I«na m, *Hght. “I wiT.der why tha wurld'a Rolair, ftoIi'U of sun and aony, 1 wojuh-rsrhy the b!< folks don’t laugh? And play the whole day long!” A maid was walking on the atrand— She gnxsd far out to sea Where o’er the nan lit waters rode A berk »o gaUanUy. “Ah, love is coming o’er the waves, li coming noon to me, I wonder how, fn this sweet world, Old folks such shadows see?” A wemau stood upon the shore, Her eym with weeping ml, Looked sadly on the cruel sea That ne’er gave up its dead. “I wonder why the world was made Ho dark and full uf care. N« wonder that life's burden seems Too great for one to bear.” Neat by the window’s ledge there sat A grandame, old and gray— The window looked out to sea Where ships at anchor lax. ‘•I wonder when mine eyes shall see Ufo’s ship at anchor lie, YMtiiin God’s harbor peacefully For all eternity.” —[English Magazine. SCRAPS.

State news in a Texas paper consists cbiefiy in accounts of killings. Pnlt Lake City, which has always claimed an immunity from prostitutes and paupers, now has an abundance of both. All the merchants in the oil region of Pennsylvania have signed an agreement to sell goods for cash on delivery only. Westmoreland is the smallest county in Virginia, but it was the birthplace of three presidents—Washington, Madison and Monroe. A hundred years hence the newspapers of central Africa "will begin to record tbe finding of turtles inscribed “II. M. 187C.” —[Oil City Derrick. Disraeli has a near relative, after all. Ralph, his younger brother, is assistant clerk of parliament—the second office of the house of lords and a snug $9,000 place. Mosby, the ex-guerilla, is a quiet .looking medium sized man, of pleasing manners, v ith clean shaven features, gorMl sized nose, blue-gray eyes, a resolute mouth and short gray hair. An Iowan named Peterus has had, he believes, a call from heaven to sell his farm, go to Chicago as a special messenger of the Lord, confront the preachers of the city and prove them to be infidels. A philosophic tramp remarked to a Penn sylvania reporter that there was no danger of any man starving to death in this country, if he "ain’t ashamed to wear ragged clothes and has cheek enough to ask for grub. “Y'hnt is the national air &f this country?” asked a foreigner to Washington. “That is the rational lair,” renlied a native, pointing to the capitol, “but tlie animals are in the jungle just now, chasing.voters.”—[Hawkeye. Two balloonists, named Gilbert and Hayden, have challenged each other to a balloon race in Cincinnati. Hayden bets $500 against $300 that he, with his small balloon, can rise higher and remain in the air longer than Gilbert, with his large balloon. A new clerk in a drugstore was discharged the other day because tie didn’t know how to look wise, foil his eyes and say “seventyfire cents” without turning red in the face ns he handed out a little powder that had cost the concern about two cents ami a fraction. Emotion and business don’t jingle. [Boston Globe. “Anything to eat?” was the question of the nineteenth tramp at a certain house in this city last Wednesday morning. He was answered by a young lady, who bad become exasperated at the continuous begging. “No, sir! but we’ve got lots of this!” thrusting a huge six shooter into Lis face.—[Hastings (Minn.) Union. Tbe following respectful note was received by tbe editor ot the riaratogian: “Mr. Editor in reading your account of the Burglary at Knowe's Boarding House on Washington street you say I overlooked a Lady's Diamonds worth thousands the statement is correct I saw examined and left them they were paste. Yonr acconnt is no compliment to me. Your Injured Burglar.” A little four-year old friend of ours whose mother was sick, remarked very soberly the other day, “Mamma, if you don’t get well pretty quick I'm afraid you’ll die, won’t you ?” “Fm afraid so,” was the answer. “Well,” raid the little one, with a sigh, “I wish you would wait till sister and fget a little older, for 1 don’t know who’ll take care of us; grandma could, but she won't live long. I’m fraid, so I s'pose God will have to, hut 1 should rather have some one in the house.”—[Greenfield Times. ^ The death of Abby H. Smith recalls a singular fact in connection with this family, the fatal recurrence of the period of seven years, in the deaths of the sisters. Thus, Laurilla Aleroyla died in 1857, and in 1864 occurred the death of the next one, Cyrinthia Secretin. Seven years later, in 1871, came the death of Haney Z., and tbe two survivors were accustomed to say that in 1878 one of them would probably die—and the event, oddly enough, has proved the truth of the rule. Four of the five sisters have died at limes separated each by an interval of seven years. Exit Bannock John. Some Indians belonging to the Lemhi tribe, yesterday murdered Bannock John, an old Indian well-known in that section as a desperado, near Lemhi, Idaho. It appears that Bannock John murdered a white man a few weeks ago on the Gamas prairie, and the Indians feared retaliation on the part of the whites. The news reached the Indian camps that ten of their number were murdered by the whites while in Round valley hunting. After bearing of this slaughter the blame was laid on Bannock John, and a few of the Indians formed a conspiracy for his assassination, which was successfully carried out. ’ .

The Sultan Katities the Treaty. A sj eeial from Constantinople announces that the sultan has ratified the treaty of Berlin.

Unpleasantly Close Quarters. [Cherokee Georgian.] A young man named Penny, while out hunting his steers, barefoot, tlie other day, stepped on the head of a large rattlesnake. He bad bis heel on the snake’s head, and being afraid to move, did not know what to do for some time, while the hideous -thing was writhing and squirming, and vigorously la-h-icg the youth’s legs. Penny was badly frightened, but recovered presence of mind sufficient to take out his knife and reach down and cut off the snake’s bead. , EeUow Fever* The report that three of the crew o? the steamer John Porter died of yellow fever is pronounced untrue. They died from a too tree use of ice water. No yellow fever has appeared at Gal veston. and the city is strictly quarantined. Eighty-cases of yellow fever and thirtythree deaths have occurred at New Orleans.

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WINK PKIKKINO ABROAD.

Troubles of a T< etomler lu Wine-Drliikln* France-He Find* Uie Water UulH to Shrink, and Tet HU Conaclenee Will Hot

Permit Him to Drink Wipe.

Dir. G. P. Gillen, superintea^ent of the Illinois slate institution for the deaf and dumb, at Jacksonville, in that state, now in Europe, writes to the Journal of that city descriptive of a banquet given to delegates to an international iSuaday-school -convention at Paris, which took place at the country home of Parson Pointer, a Protestant

yntan, near Park He says:

must, however, mention one thing that seems strange to us. On the table were about fifty bottles of wine, and every person partook of it the first thing and drank it all through the banquet till the last course,when coffee was served. Y'e poor Americans who bed denned the blue ribbon a few months before leaving home, presented a beautiful picture with glasses of pale water at our sides. I presume every person thought of Daniel in Babvkm. I really do not thiak we were very polite, but 1 told our hostess she would pardon me as I had taken a pledge to abstain and felrbound by it. With tbe utmost politeness she said" ‘Certainly; but you will taka wine with the toast?’ I replied, ‘Y'e drink toasts in water in America, and I would be thankful to be allowed the same privilege now.’ She very politely replied, •Certainly, hut it all seems very strange.’ “Every person uses wipe in France; almost every one m England uses some kind of spiriis. Y e find it quite difficult to avoid its use. as provision is made for its nse as our western people provide for the u-e of milk. At almost, it not quite every, place we go our tallies become an object of curiosity from the

(MS Am ROSE.

This is the Last Bight of the Street Lamps.

pensive. ..... — — and not esteemed healthy. I have not yet in England foufid any water that satisfied my thirst as our water at home does. OTHEB UOCIDB. “At Liverpool we tried ice water; at London 1 fell back on a habit acquired at early life, and used milk, but the milk was poor, and more suggestive of the Thames than of green fields and Alderney cows. Since coming to Paris 1 have resorted to iced tea. \ r ou would be amused to see the uttor astonishment of the landlady (all hotels are conducted by women in Europe), and head waiter when I explained to them what iced tea is. Some of the ladies have fallen bock on lemonade, and I am thinking I will have to follow their example. All of these things, b*ing out of tbe usual providon here, cost more than than the plain light wine that is used here. THEY ALL DRtXK. This sort of a thing the customers of a country may do for one who, as we are doing, remains only for a short time, and is not seeking social position, but I don’t see bow one can live long in France and England.(And I presume the same is true of other European countries) without using wine. The people say their wine is not intoxicating, and 1 must confess tbaf while everyone’s breath was fragrant with wine, 1 have seen very little evidence of intoxication. One can soon become accustomed to these things. It seemed strange to ns to sec a company of a hundred ministers of the gospel and Habbath school teachers drinking wine as we do milk, and coffee, but it seemed much more so to aeo it passed around among tbe thirsty children at the children's meeting.”

Proposing to Light the City with Oil— I urctuM# ot e.r.OO Feet of Bose.

The Lecture Business. The lecture business is in the main managed by two concerns—one in New York and one in Boston. The latter makes contrasts for concerts and operas as well. The manager says that only the most attractive lecturers are now much in demand, and that dramatic readers find more favor than formerly. Last year Beecher traveled 28,000 miles and lectured 130 times. He has already arranged dates for next season. \V r endell Phillips spoke 120 times, and, next to Beecher and Gough, made more money than any other lecturer. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore received $18,000, and is traveling iu Europe to recuperate. Helen Potter, with readings and imitations, also did well. The greatest success by a new lecturer was that of Collector Simmons of Boston. He talked about “reform.” Burdette, the Burlington Hawkeye humorist, lectured 113 times. James T. Fields, General Banks, and Robert Collyer bad all the calls that they could respond to. Theodore Tilton had his’own agent, and is said to have cleared $19,000. The Washington Labor Riot. Several rioters were arraigned in the police court at Washington yesterday, and John A Graham, prominent in the disturbance, was sent to jail for three month. Cohen, arrested Saturday night, and who is regarded as a leading agitator, was not ready for trial, and his case w as postponed until today. It is believed there will be no further serious trouble. The police authorities continue to take extra precautions to prevent breaches of the peace. Democrats Should Endorse De La Matyr. [Evansville Courier.] The first duty of a democrat is to work for the success of his own party, when it is feasible to do so. His next aim should be to beat the radicals at all hazards. Between an honest •and intelligent national on the one side and a brawling, ranting demagogue like John Hanna on the other, it seems to us onr democratic friends at the capital can not be mistaken as.to their duty. That Outrage Confirmed. The Providence Bulletin prints the following: “We are soiry to hear from a gentleman acquainted with the circumstances, that the report of a cruel outrage up »n a highly respectable Boston lady, who was. traveling on the New York Central road, published la yesterday’s associated press dispatches is true In all material circumstances. A Utica dispatch attempts to discredit the story, but there is'no doubt of the fact.”

It was half-past Blast night with a large amount of bnsinesa before it, when Dr. Walker, in the Absence of Mayor Haven, called the council to order. Twenty-three counoilmen responded to their names on roll call. After dispoeiag of some wiaor preliminary busiuass tbe clerk read a comammcaUoa'irom the gas company, which after Acknowledging tue receipt from the city clerk of the resolution passed by the council and board of aldermen last week, says: The case between the city and the ps company is about this:

i:i force '

new contract of that date. This contrast was ratified by the dtv council, and under Its direction was sf-ned by tbe major and city clerk, attested bv the corporate s<*J, and delivered tothegu company. There has never been any well erounded complaint of any failure on our part tokoepail the terms of this contract. In It import-tut con* cessions were made to the city, which wore aceeptedss entirely sati*!actery to the etty author ties. In a little more thstn one year from that time the city rtiuned n» pn lot hi that contract, and a retwlut ion passed the council ordering out one thousand

lamps. The t

Frobably Eost the State. [Sooth Bend Register.) Mr. White is the present congressman; and as ho has made a good record and is thoroughly capable, he ought to be returned for a second term. Mr. Orth’s nomination for governor two years ago probably lost the state to the republicans.

A Late Caller Punished. About midnight Sunday night Isaac Hammil rode up to John Angelo’s farm-house, a few miles south of Jacksorrville, Illinois, and asked to see Angelo’s daughters. Angelo refused permission, at the same time ordering his son Jason, aged 14, to shoot Hantmil. The son took down an old shot-gun, loaded with slugs, and discharged the contents into Hammil’s head, killing him instantly. The father and son were arrested. lie Knows More Now. [Madison Oonrier.] Y'hen tbe editor of The Indianapolis News was a student at Hanover he was satisfied with one cupola on the college building. Tbe archives of the Philalathean society mention no resolution introduced by him demanding tbe erection of four additional cupolas—two over each society hall. His taste in architecture becomes "worse as he grows older. A Good Clignce for Her. [South Bead Tribune.] The Jndianapolis New* and the Chicago Journal simultaneously nominate Mrs. Jenks for the vice-presidency on a national ticket, With the “Y idow” Butler for the first place. Tbe coincidence augurs favorably for Mrs. Jenks. Indiana's Duty. [South Bead Begin ter.] To lay Yoorhees on the shelf is the first duty of Indiana this year. Rise In Freight Rates. ^ The general freight agents yesterday raised the rate on fourth class freight from Chicago to New York to 25 cents per 100 pounds.

ny voluntaiuy coucvding s rehst# ©l that year from the ametsnl which the city fcoum! by its contract to pay. At the bcramtng of the fiscal year we are Sifaia met by a refusal on the part of the city to perform its contract. The company again consented to negoitate, and maic sere nil propuaiUons, all of which involved ir»l>ort»nt coiK-esstons to the city. We again offered to give a rebate of $10,000 for the enrrent ysar from tbe contract price, or to furnish a less amount of gas at prices statsa. There negotiations have totmlnatod in ike rosylutk.n received a few days ago. We eaiyiot accept the ultimatum. The price offered is Wholly inatl-quafe for the amount of gas demanded. In all of these difftranoes and negotiations the city has put Its refusal to comply with toe existing contract, not upon any fraud in its procurement or any breach upon our part is its execution, but npou tlie ground that theettr was not In law bound by any contract it hod or could uiako with ns. We are advised that this is not the law, but if your legal adviser Is right It soeuts to us to be enturelv futile to lie writing and signing contracts. We must test this qiwsttoA with you in the courts if the present position of the city Is maintained. WV might perhaps regn-d the resolution <crvri upou us a suflaeieut just IticaUsn for lea-ing the city in darkness alter Urn day you have named (August 1), but not desiring, if It cau be avoided, to subject our citireu* to the inconvenience and dangers of unligbted streets, we shall, unless prevented l*y yon, eontinue to furnish gas to the street-lamps and to light them under our contract until yotr shall refuse to pay our bills according to the terms of the contract of July 22d, ISTil. If you adhere to your resolution, and refuse to pay our bills, we must go to the courts for a detiriou oi the question whether cities have any power to contract. It is certain that the obligation of cemisets must lie mutual. If the city is not

any i u...n .» the same right. It ought to be known what the law on this suhjeta is iu our state. This was signed by A. M. Fletcher, vicepresident, for the company. On motion of Mr. Marsee. the communication was received. Mr. McKay thereupon offered tbe following resolutions:

to a levy of meet y Corns upon the one h unit red dollars fur general clly purposes, and the decline in valuations of property hsa largely reduced the amount of tho revenue of the city for the present fiscal year; and whereas, it is Ini possible to carry on the city government and keep the expsosee of the same within the amount W revenue received, and light the streets and alleys by gas, and in the manner and in the Same way that the same have . been lighted during ihe^fiseal year last past; and whereas, it has been impossible to make any arrangement with tlie Indianapolis gaslight and coke company by which the same could be satisfactorily lighted'lor the present year for the tunoftiiof money that the city can spend for that pun>oss; tln-reiore, be it. Resolved, By Uicromtuon council and board of aldmneu, that it is for the test interests of tho clly that the lighting of the streets and alleys with gas be dUcoutimied from aud alter August 1st, 187tj : and the civil engineer is hereby directed to netit v the Indianapolis gaslight and coke company of the passage of tills resolution, and that the cilv will not pay for any gas consumed in tho lighting of the streets and alleys, nor for the lighting, extinguishing, denning, or re) mi ring of nnv street lamafter the 1st day of August, H73; sr.d the ettv civil engineer is hereby instructed to

citv after said date, and he is aiso iustrust* carefully remove the tips or burners on said lamps ami » at the same, so that no gas can osenpe. Be it funher re.;.»lved, That the conunUtse on gas of the common council and hoard ofnldermen bt ami are hereby directed to investigate and report what will be the expense of lighting tha streets with oil lamps; or by any other mode than gas. As substitute, Mr. Tucker offered a resolution providing for cutting off 1.200 luoqw. Ml. Marsee moved to lay the substitute on the table. Agreed to—17 to 6. Mr, McKay’s motion was then adopted by a vote of 18 to 5, as follows: Ayes—

McKay, Off, Reasner, RodebaugU, Hhowaiter, tSindlinger, Steeg, Tucker and Wiese. Noer—Messrs. Morse, McGiuty, Reading, Walker and Wright. That disposed of this question. .The next thing was the fire hose purchase. A report was received from the fire board recommending the pnrehase of .2,500 feet of the test hose manufactured by the New York belting and packing company, at 90 cents ncr foot, the purchase to be made throngh Mooney, Taylor A Smith, of this city. The report was accepted and the attorney directed to draw up a contract with Mooney, Taylor & Smith covering the points of their bid. Mr. Reasner presented an ordinance fixing the fees and rat ary of t lie city treasurer, ft provides that for the collection of current tax he be allowed one-httlf of one per cent, and that his per cent, and penaltyon delinquent tax le the same as the law gives county treasurers in cases of delinquents. The ordinance is to take effect from its passage, its provisions applying to ail taxes assented on the lax duplicate for 1878, and repeals all ordinances in conflict therewith. The council then turned its attention to the market ordinance, and soon afterwards adjourned. The Potter Committee*. The Potter committee met in New York yesterday and examined Governor Palmer, one of the visiting statesmen. Governor Palmer testified to tlie terrible condition of Eliza Pinkston, and that be told Governor Kellogg that if be were governor he would pHni-htbe perpetrators of the outrage or quit tbe state. The witness found from the statements of some colored men (hat many of the ftarishes had been a good deal disturbed. Their school money had been uted up and the democratic politicians had made many ] r./misea to induce them to vote the dt roi eratic ticket. The Democrats had tnade extraordinary efforts to capiare the colored vote. Gov. NkboIU had obtained the respect of* tbe colored people down there more than any other governor he knew of and more than Governor Packard." He had heard Mr. Ascher say that Jodge Lev is re stated that the election was a fraud, and if he could hare $100,000 he wonld give his vote for Tilden. If witness was asked if the election in Ixtuisiana was fair he would say not. .The sense of the people there waa that Tilden and Nicholls were elected. After a few nnimportant questions. Governor Palmer’s testimony was closed, and the committee adjourned until the 12th of August, unless sooner called together. The .Same Principle. [Springfield Union.] To try and get the highest wages forthe leaat work and to try and get the most work for tbe least wages are identical things in fl’irik