Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1878 — Page 2
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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1878.
CLOAKS, SHAWLS. SILKS, dress goods, BLACK GOODS,
Selling at Ruinious Prices, AT THE BEE-HIVE S-A-LIEL No Goods Held in Reserre.
Close & Wasson.
CARPETS, Wall Paper, Etc., LOWER THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN THE STATE.
Wew Goods, Full Stock, Latest Styles, Choice Pajterm and Low prices.
A. L. WRIGHT & CO., (Successors to Apams, Mansur A Co.) Gold Bracelets AND NECKLACES. ■\7"©x*y IE31 o*0,nt• NEW LINE JDST RECEIVED. ~
Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, 12 E. WASHINGTON ST. Sign of the Street Clock.
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TKH- DAILY JIEW8. FRIDAY, NOV EMBER 22, 1878.
Tbv Indianapolis News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. Congress meets a week from next Monday. _ The resumption law will not be repealed and the experiment will be tried. Are there enough hard money demo■erats in Indiana to amount to anything? The result of all the investigations into the cause and spread of the yellow fever may be summed up that strict quarantine shall be maintained. The republicans, taking time by the forelock, seem quite in the notion of norm inating Heilman for governor next time. This is what success does for a man.
It is stated on good authority that the city has never collected a dollar of the benefits assessed in opening streets. The board oT aldermen have constantly refused to open any more, for this reason. The members should have credit for this. Dr. Pe La Matyr’s sermon at the funeral of the last murderer’s victim deserves careful consideration. It forcibly re-em-phasizos what The News has been preaching for the last year continuously—that the horrible increase of crime is, in the words of the bible, “because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily.” Terrible scenes in Sullivan yesterday where the victims in the deadly cave could be heard calling faintly for help that could not reach them. Is any one to blame for this slaughter? In the determination to protect human life which begins to show itself in this state, such ghastly calamities bm this should be thoroughly investigated. This is, we believe, the'first accident from gas that has taker, place in the west. Members of congress assembled in M aahington express the fear that a violent and acrimonious sectional controversy will break out aa soon as congress nieets. It takes two to quarrel, and if there is any considerable number of real patriots in congress, men who consider the welfare of the country before party advantage, they can squelch such a controversy byrefusing to take a part in it. Such a thing would be particularly unfortunate now. The business interests of the country, on the eve of a legal change in the financial basis, need all the encouragement that peace and order can give. A sectional contro▼erv will be a disturbing element that will loci up capital and cripple trade. England's preparations for the Indian war, which has now begun, have been made with a view to the chance of meeting Russia on the march to Cabul. It is said an overpowering force has been concentrated, and that the advance whiclf has begun, is a reality intended to result in a most active campaign at once, without apy
waiting for spring. Well informed eorrespoaxUnts say England has drawn a long breath and started in with clenched teeth; that this Afghanistan war will never end until every strategic jK>jnt and geographical defense on the northern frontier of India is in British hands. The determination is fixed to end this question once for all, and if to end it means a Russian war the cry still will be, “end it!” The British government will possess itself of every needed thing concerning India or be whipped in the attempt. The plea of insanity in Guetig’s case is paralleled in the robbery of the Palace Car company, of Chicago. The young fraud misnamed Angel has for some years been liable to fits. Epilepsy is a common disease. Until the close of life it is a mockery of medical experience to hold it injures ‘ the mind. The business man who is paying the largest tax in the state of Indiana is the subject of constant epilepsy. He would lie grossly insulted to be told it affects his intellect. The next eminent authority in the United States as to insanity in rdayon to medical jurisprudence, has written a standard work qp the relations of nerves on the mind. He testified that when a person has sense enough to deliberately plan the committing of a crime he is perfectly responsible to justice for that act. No one can question Dr. Hammond’s correct judgment or his knowledge of science. Angel’s attorney can plead that Angel has for years been subject to these epileptic fits; that one of the highest society ladies of a neighboring state broke an engagement on that very account* yet the ccnsuzninate skill of this same epileptic executed a theft as shrewdly as any crime was ever accomplished. The women of Wyoming are said to have lost much or all of their interest in the right of suffrage, and at the last election only the worst went to the polls, the better class being repelled by their vile associates. It is not easy to see why man should not be repelled from the polls by the bummers, thieves and cheats who infest them, if women find the casual association of prostitutes there a barrier to their participation in elections. Logically the exclusion should either operate on man or should not operate on women. But logic is not a controlling element in the decisions or duties of women, and sensitiveness to vile associations is. They could drive right over or right through an argument, and be beaten instantly by a suggestion of maladorous reputation. It is all the better that it is so. The world is the purer for the sensitiveness of its women, and it is not very clear that it would be either the purer or honester for their participation in elections. The influences that hover about the polls and the campaign on the way there, are of a kind more likely to pull good associations down than be pulled up and purified by them. That women themselves distrust the value of suffrage is evident in the indifference the great mass of them have always shown to the agitation about it. We think no well-informed man doubts that if a majority, or even a large minprity, of women had really desired the right and shown that they did, they would have had it in every state of the union long ago. ’They have never shown any indications of wanting it. The great bulk of wives, mothers and sisters, the housekeepers, the homemakers, have shown an aversion to it often, and indifference always, that necessarily made men indifferent about it. They may admit readily enough the force of the arguments for woman suffrage, but their allsufficient answer is, “If women want it let them say so;”and the women won’t say so. And if they had it, the Wyoming precedent would propably be pretty widely followed, for the difficulty there grew out of the very nature and deepest feelings of the sex.
CUKKKNT COaLMKNT, Vermont had in 1877 one divorce to every fifteen marriages, being a steady increase from 18G2, when it was one in every twentyone. Brutality to wives was the cause of the majority. , Sunday desecration in Cincinnati has become so grave a question that the churches are holding lay conventions to devise ways and means to check the tide of immorality. Grave-robbing in Pennsylvania was once a widespread crime. An anatomical law passed the legislature, and since not a case of grave-robbing has been reported. When Indiana’s legislature begins its reforms it might profitably consider this subject. The deaths in Massachusetts last year were thirty-one thousand, about two per cent, of the population. More than a third of these were children under five years: more than half of the whole were the deaths of persons over thirty years old. Consumption was the great cause of death, more than one-sixth of the whole number dying from that disease. It is said that the Massachusetts death statistics for twenty years exhibit the progressive fatality of diseases of the central nervous -ystem—apoplexy, paralysis, insanity, and unspecified brain diseases. The mortality from apoplexy is much greater in pRiportiou among males than females, and sixty-three per cent, of the deaths from it occurred at ages above sixty. Consumption is most fatal to females, and in the decade of life between twenty and thirty years. A woman in Chicago, member of a Methodist church, has been disciplined, and is on trial for renting' some ground as a summer music and beer garden. The conclusion of the Halifax fisheries correspondence and the payment of the award, leads the Chicago Times to the conclusion that when John Bull goes fishing Evarts is allowed to cut bait. The Frenchman weeps and fights easjly. Gambetta and De Fourtou yesterday banged at the air by means of pistols with barrels like a potato* gun and hammers like a sixteenth century arquebuss, requiring about fifty pounds pressure to the inch on the trigger—at least such is the average French duelling pistol. Some Indiana republicans prefer Col. Dick Thom peon to Grant and want him nominated for the presidency in 1880. Col. Dick will not take with the “grand old party.” He has, in his conduct of the navv department, shown himself an honest man and something of a practical reformer. No such man can be a republican candidate for the presidency. —[Courier-Journal. General Sherman is reported as joining his brother John in advocacy of Grant's candidacy in 1880. The movement is undoubtedly
gathering strength among the politicians, and fheje may be able by the time the convention meets to gain control of the party and forco Grant upon it, but it is somewhat strange that these gentlemen do not observe that the proposal docs not awake a single responsive sound from the people. Its advocates are exclusively the most unpopular and malodorous politicians of the party, and the extreme class of republican organs which have the least circulation and least influence.— [Detroit News. A faction in the south are trvinjj to throw away a brilliant presidential victory in 1830 by growling about “Hayes's southern policy, and trying to elect some scoundrel to congress by stuffing a ballot box at a crossroad precinct or in a city ward. Let the president enforce all the penalties of the law against such political land pirates and vampires. and the whole country will apolaud bim for so doing, and none' more than the honest masses of the people of the south.— [Petersburg (Va.) Post. The present would lie a most unpropitious time for a wanton renewal of sectionttl hate. It would be a blunder as a political measure, for, with nearly two years of 'freedom from violent political strife before us, the recoverinp business interests of the nation would crush out any party or any administration that attempted to embarrass the struggling efforts of industry and trade for a restoration to thrift. And it would be an unspeakable calamity to all the material interests of the I nion. It would weaken the integrity of the government; depress public credit; paralyze commerce; make capital shrink from investment in every enterprise, and, more thanall, it would prove that the whole capital, industry and progress of a great nation is ever at the mercy of political leaders.—[Philadelphia Times. THE LORN£3. Tlie New Governor General of Canada and MIb Wife now on Their Way to that Country. [Moatreal Correspondence Cleveland Pres*.] When in Europe some years ago I had many opportunities of seeing the marquis of Lome and his wife, and I niet some people in society who had the entree of the charmed circle in which royalty is sometimes to be met, and who were connected with organizations which brought them into contact with the marquis and the princess. Lome is a very handsome man under 40 years of age, fair, with hair approaching his father’s carroty locks—for the duke of Argyle, McCallum Moore, is a little red headed runt—blue gray eyes, a well cut nose, light moustache and developing whiskers. He dresses plainly but in exquisite taste, which is more than can be said of his father, who never wore a suit of clothes worth more than 40 shillings in his life, that anyone knows of, or his brothe rs, who are notoriously slouchy. He is a quiet, studious gentleman, not given a great deal to showing himself, and somewhat noted for holding what few aristocrats hold flow, decided religious opinions. I heard him speak in the house of commons one night, and thought him a poor speaker in an assemblage of poor speakers. He has brains, though. He has written and published several works, among them a volume of p.oems, a transcription into verse of the psalms of Hat id. lie is also the possessor of some repute as a dramatist. One of the most successful nieces on the London stage, and one which has commanded immense popularity ihe present season, is understood to be from his pen. In statesmanship, his education was earned out under the eve of his father, during whose term of office as sec re tar v for India he was private secretary, and I understand he has seen some diplomatic service. He has had all the necessary training to fit him for a position which Lord Dufferin has made easy for his successors. The governor general of Canada originates nothing, and is required not so much to take r art in the administration of affairs, as to act as a sort of exalted figurehead to a cabinet whose real chieftain is the firstminist* r of the crown, in the present instance, Sir John A. McDonald. \\ hen Dufferin was sent out there was a good deal of conciliation to be effected, as Canada was grow ling because she had given so much as she Supposed in the way of concessions to the United States to secure the ratification of the treaty of Washington, without anything in the way of compensation having been obtained from the mother country. The provinces, too, were jangling; some of tnem were crying out for “better terms,” that is larger subsidy from the central government. Dufferin straightened out. all the snarls, and has left a clean field to his successor. The Princess Louise is a splendid woman. In the matter of a husband she has done-bet-ter than any of her sisters, and,’in fact than any English princess in modern history, for .-he got the man of her heart and choice, a man whom she loves and bv whom she is deeply beloved. She has a husband whose life has been cleanly and foursquare, and w ith him she sets the example of a high morality, a lofty virtue and a constant striving to benefit those whose station is less happy than her own. She is not a beauty bv any meaas, but she is a splendid woman, finely proportioned, commanding in appearance,'graceful, in every w ay the grande dame with whom one instinctively associates the idea of royalty. She looks a great deal like her mother did 30 years ago, I am told, only hat she is much taller and has a better figure. Her majesty was so busily occupied in bringing scions of royalty into existence that she never had a great dial of lime to spend on the study of symmetrical proj>ortion. She is a very clever woman, and were she to be thrown upon her own resources she could make a comfortable living by her brush or her pen; yes, or by her needle, if need be, for she is one of the most expert needle women jn England. She is perpetually striving to attain some good end fur the poor, and has established industrial schools and houses without number. She has the reputation of owning a splendid head for business, and being a notable manager. As she is not given to extravagance or display, there is no danger of setting a spemit hnft example before the ladies of fashion in Canada, and as she is more given to work than the more conzentionables of fashion, perhaps she will put an extinguisher upon be chatter and gadding about which seem 'o constitute the sole occupation of the Canadian women of means of the present day. These are the two people who have' been . ent out to represent the majesty of Great Britain in Canada. They are now on the wav and will be received w'ith warm demonstrations of resnect and loyalty, for it seems that the closer Canada adapts her political svstem to that of our own republic, the firmer she knits her destinies with those of the empire. Many people think that they will inaugurate a reign of luxury and ostentation. Knowing something of their manner of life at home in England, I am of opinion that they will rather be remarkable for simplicity of 'style. Efficiency of the Navy. The estimates for the support of the nary for the next fiscal year are about the same as the sum appropriated during the last session of congress for the year ending June next, namely, about $14,000,000. The report of the secretary will show that the appropriations have not only been confined within their proper limits, but there is a small balance to the credit of the naval academy and marine corps. Unless congress shall order the building of new vessels the secretary, with the means asked for can render those we have now efficient, and keep them in good repair. Our navy is in much better condition than it was a year ago, and well adapted to peace establishments, but even in case of war with a foreign power, 90 vessels could at once be supplied. These include fifteen monitors and six frigates for coast defence, together with two torpedo boats, experiments with which show their effieienev for the purposes intended. Ravisher Lynched. At Lagrange, Kentucky, Wednesday night, forty armed men aroused Captain' James Russell, jailor, from his bed and took the jail key from him, went to the jail, secured a negro ravisher, George Williams, took him two miles west of the place and hung him. The negro confessed that he had ravished the eight-year-old daughter of Jack Barbour. Her Policy a Success. [Vernon Banner.] Whatever may be said of President Hayes's success in the conciliation line, Mrs. Hayes is certainly successful in "her department. She has presided eighteen months and in that time, five young lady visitors at the White house have been married. i
THE WABASH RIYEtt.
The Improvement* the Government is Making.
The Itencflt that baa Already Resulted to Navigation—-A Larjc* Increase In Trade-—A Rich Section.
For two days your correspondent has been been looking at the improvements on the lower Wabash. Two years ago last winter congress made an appropriation of $70,000 for the improvement of the navigation of this river. Under the executive order of the president, withheld by Grant, it was not expended until the subsequent order of Hayes made it available. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, $30,000 of the $70,000 w as expended under direction of Major Jared A. Smith, of the corps of engineers of the United States army, wh^ 1 has charge of all improvements under the war department in this slate. This left a remainder of $40,000 to be expended this fiscal year, and congress at its lost session made an additional appropriation of $50,000, making a total of $90,000 for expenditure during this fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, of which about $05,000 has been .disbursed since the first day of July
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THE NK,W HARMONY DAM. The first and most important work in the improvement of the navigation of the Wabash has been done at New Harmony, Posey county. At this point there is an island sixteen miles round, Ribeyre’s island, surrounded by the main channel of the river fourteen miles in length, and a short branch called the cut-off, nearly two miles in'lengh. In the latter there is an extensive reef of rock. This cutuff has grown from a creek, which could have been stepped across half a century ago, to be of nearly as great a width as the river itself—600 feet wide, in 187G it became evident that unless this was closed the entire volume of water would pass through there and thus cut off the entire navigation of the river, taking out fourteen miles at one fell swoop. A contract was made by the United States government in 1876 to close the cutoff by a dam, and the contractors, after working through the summer of that year and nearly completing their work, failed. The dam was poorly built, and late in January, 1877, one end of it broke away. This was rebuilt during the summer of 1877 in the most thorough manner, and the island bank protected in such a way as to prevent any recurrence of accidents of this kind in the future. During last winter aiearly all the remaining portion of the contractors’ work on the dam washed out. This last season Major Smith has rebuilt the part destroyed and also strongly reinforced the dam over the entire length. It now consists of a .durable work about 800 feet fh length, a portion of it being over 30feet high and the remainder between 15 and 20 feet high. The main portion of the dam is 20 feet wide on top and 40 feet wide at the bottom, the sloping portion being on the lower side. The dam is built in the most substantial manner, of timbers cribbed and filled with stone. The timbers are bolted together with iron and the top of the dam paved with stone over its entire surtace. In addition to the work on the dam there is a solid protection to the bank on Ribeyre’s island, of 400 feet in length. The dam contains twenty miles in length of logs, a large number of which are oak. In the entire work over 12,000 cubic yards of stone have been used. The timbers are held together by 13,000 iron bolts averaging twenty inches long, making an aggregate weight of iron of more than 25,000 pounds. The work has given employment to seventy-fire men who have received good wages for two summers,and ma<V> trade rather thrifty in the little town of New Harmony. The work wes under the direct superintendence of Charles B.Batemanof Evansville, while James B. Ctiyler. of Now Harmony,was overseer of the laborers. Eight-tenths of the stone was quarried 14 miles from the dam and transported to it in barges. The timber has been purchased of the farmers along the river over a dishyice of more than ten miles. The benefits of this dam are at once apparent. It gives a good navigable stream for fourteen miles at the lowest stage • •f water, enabling New Harmony, the depot of a large and productive section, and the farmers on the river, to make shipments to .St. Louis by the St. Louis and Southeastern railway. ' Before this improvement New Harmony in low water had no connection with the outside world except by wagons, the shortest route being fifteen miles across land to Mount Vernon. AT OBA WILLS. Another important point in connection with river shipments is Gravville, Illinois, sixteen miles above New Harmony, on the river. This town is situated on the Vincennes and Cairo railroad, opposite the upper end of a long peninsula called the “Kingdom peninsula,’’ which makes a loop four miles round and at the neck less than 200 yards across. Here the water was encroaching so rapidly on the land that it would soon have cut through leaving Grayville two miles from the river. This wash have been effectually stopped. The banks on the two sides of the | eninsula have been protected to a total distance of more than three-quarters of a mile by means of brush weighted with stones and told in position by a doable row of idles. The total length of piles driven in this protection is six miles, while thousands of torus of brush, with large quantities of stone, have also been employed. On top of the neck is a large levee several hundred feet long, to protect the cutting across the surface of the peninsula. In some {daces this levee is fifteen feet high. Opposite the neck of the peninsula there has been a bad bar, known as the Kingdom bar. on which a portion of the wreck of a steamer now lies. To remove this bar a wing darn of piles, brush and stone 300 feet in length, forty feet wide and eight feet deep has been constructed to throw the river current against the bar which is clearly beginning to disap-
ptar.
This work was under the personal super-vL-ion of Major J. J. Palmer, of Indianapolis, and the way in w hich it has been done speaks highly for hia ability and thorough-
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AT TURKEY ISLAND.
Four miles below New Harmony the river is divided by Turkey island into two channels, neither of which is navigable at low w ater so long as both are open. The channel known as Turkey island chute has been closed this summer .under the plana adopted by Major Smith, throwing all the water into the one main channel. The brush and piles required for this work and the Gravville work have been given by the owners of adjacent lands, not casting the government anything but the cutting. This work has all been done in the last two months, eighty hands being employed, with R. W^ Eastnam as overseer and Major Palmer
in superintendence. AT GRAND CHAIN.
The next work in extent and general im-
portance to the New Harmony dam is at Grand Chain, 23 miles below New Harmony, and just above the crossing of the St Lottia and Smith Eastern railroad. Here the river flows over a rocky reef half a mile in length. Several years ago a straight cut 100 fset wide was made through this reef. This failed to serve the purpose for which it WM intended and ^ it
was found necessary to improve it These improvements have consisted in extending the dike to the Indiana side of the shore, making the entire length of the dike on that side a little more than 3,000 feet. This tends ns a funnel to throw the water through the shuteandnot behind it, where it formerly w ent A large portion of the extension of the dike is crib work filled with stone with 1 ank protection at the end. white along the dike, which is being raided and l a'tu on top, at short distances are set heavy ring holts, to which heavily loaied xiearners can attach ropes and pull through ti e sw ift current of the chute by warping. The portion that remains to fill the contemp a ed improvement, the widening of the chute, will have to go over until further appropriation is made. After this widening is done the warping process will not be necesfiiry. There are eight miles of logs in ibe crib-work connecting the dike with the shore. This year over 9,000 cubic yards of stone w hich does not include the stone, an immense amount thrown on the dike to raise its level, have been used with 20,000 pounds of iron to secure the timbers in the cribs. It is anticipated that the completion of this work will provide an easy and safe passage for boats going in either direction, which has been exceeding difficult at all times, and at stages of low water impossible. The oreparatorj work at Grand Chain began June 4, 1«78, and the putting in of the cribs on the 10th of July last. An average of fifty men have been employed on this work during the summer. They have been under the management of Captain B. Hutcheson, who has had an experience of fifteen years in works of this kind. ANOTHER WORK IN CONTEMPLATION. At Little Chain, six miles below Grand Chain, is a similar reef with a cutoff like that at Turkey Island. This also needs attention, bnt nothing can be done with the present appropriation, the funds of which »ill be used on other improvements which are considered of greater present necessity. These consist of the removal of snags, which are of great danger to navigation. Two snag boats will be built this winfer and made ready for operation in the spring. One of them it is projiosed to operate between Vincennes and Terre Haute. Below Little Chain nothing siands in the way of open navigation to the Ohio but a few sand bars, which if the proper appropriations are made can be readily removed by-means of wing dams. During the past season two steamers, nine barges, two pile-drivers and not less than 375 men have been employed in these river improvements. Accurate surveys of a continuous portion of the river of more than 20 miles have been made, besides special surveys of several portions where immediate work was required. The dredge fleet of the Ohio river w as employed by Major Smith early in the season getting out snags and a lot of coffer-dam work, the latter left at JVairick’s Ripple by failing contractors of the previous season. That the river improvements have already done the shipping interesis great good may be seen in the fact that for the nine months preceding July 1, 1878, from Mount Carmel and other {loints below, there were shipped about 4,000,000 bushels of com, 2,000,000 bushels of wheat, 4,000,000 pounds of pork, besides large numliers of cattle and mules and quantities of lumber and general merchandise. Coal has also been brought up the river by steamer, which was formerly carted. The result has-been a saving to shippers of thirty per cent, in freights. C. D. The Indian Controversy, From the publication of original documents it appears that the sttatements originally made by General Pope, and endorsed bv Lieu-tor,aut-Geueral Sheridan, was that the interior department, in ordering the transfer of the Kiowa and Comanche Indians from Ft. Sill to the Wichita agency, saved only the salary of the Fort Sill agent, some $1,500, while it rendered necessary an outlay of tens of thousands of dollars for the preparation of the Wichita agency to receive the Indians, and left the valuable Fort Sill property unoecupied and useless. Generals Pope and Sheridan protested strongly against*this as unwise economy. The secretary of the interior's reply to these statements has been made public. General Sheridan, upon receding it back, endorsed it with reference to the extravagance which attended previous removals of agencies, and remarks, that long observation lias demonstrated that the main cause for such removals as these is hostility to army officers on account of their official reports. These remarks, he says, are intended to auply to the management of Indian affairs for the past twentyfive years. Regarding these in point, he has full personal acquaintance with Forts Sill and Wichita, and knows that Fort Sill has an abund*nlfsiipply of excellent pure water, has a tir.asoil and beautiful surrounding country. He concludes: I know- nothing in the relation** of the military to the civil administration which should prevent me calling the attention of my superiors to an unmce.sMiry waste of public money through the bad ad minis (ration of the Indian bureau. Gen. Sherman appends a strong endorsement to the above.
It baa Largely Caused the Corruption. [Madison Star.] “The county office abuse” is just now the bobby, and our city neighbor rides it with more vigor than grace. It seems to forget that the Indianapolis Journal, and it alone, is responsible for two-thirds of the corruption which exists in county offices in this state to day. While the stationery and job printing departments were attached to the Journal there was not a job that had for its object the robbery of the taxpayers that it did not advocate, and there was no legislation to benefit county officers and against the true interests of the public at large that did not find iu the Journal a ready and loud-mouthed ally. Thousands upon thousands of dollars in the .-hape of diamond rings, breastpins, horses ^ind buggies, have gone out of the county offices, the price of their corruption and the Journal’s dishonor. A Patriotic .Suggestion. « [Cambridge City Tribune.] While the Indianapolis Journal is making its virtuous war upon the fee and salary lull and charging that the country press leaves ihe great battle for the tax-payers to it alone, would it not be well for that paper to denounce the legislature for enacting the law whereby the insurance companies are compelled to pay such large sums for publishing their statements. The Journal has been getting enough benefit from that law to know enough about it to be able to show its unfair-
Tnlted States Officiate Arrested. United States Commissioner Wiggin, who has been making election arrests in Barnwell, South Carolina, was arrested yesterday on a charge of having accepted a bribe to compromise a case when state solicitor in 1870. He wus released on bail. Commissioner Sam Lee, of Sumter, who is also a probate judge, was arrested yesterday at Sumter fora failure to keep open the office of the probate judge. He refused to give hail and went to jail. The Ouaker Indian Agencies. The executive committee of the Society of Friends on Indian affairs, which has been in secret *<"*sion in Cincinnati, protests against the action of the secretary of the interior in taking three agencies from the care of Friends and giving them to politicians. They oxore*? confidence in .their method, which they claim would, if pursued, cause a steady pregress of the Indian towards civilization and self-support. Aogell Caught. Charles W. Angell, the defaulting secretary of the Pullman Palace Car company,has been arrested at Lisbon, Portugal, and $80,000 of the money taken by him has been tound on his person. Steamer Sank. The steamer Frank Krauf, valued at $40,000, and uninsured, sunk at Stella plantation Louisiana, yesterday. Whisper it Londly. [Cincinnati Commercial.] Two words should be whispered with foghorns into the ears of members of congress: “No subsidies.”
The Tyranny of Hoed.
It t* enough; l {eel, this golden morn, A* II a royal appanage were mine,
Though nature’* queenly warrant ot divine Itivretiture. What nrincea*, palaee-born, )
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Hath right of rapture more when skie* ad< Tbtmielvte so grandly; when the tuouuqt Tranufigured; wht- tho air exaltalike wit
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skie* adorn
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Than bliss,
Through rush of tears that leavea the landecape
dim—
“Who dares," I cry, “in such a world be sad!”
Ot God's good world—my being to Its brim
1 with utter thaakfulnese n<> lees of heautv, passionately glad
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NIGHT. I pres* my cheek against the window-pane. And gate abroad Into the blank, black space
Invades the-curtained room is on my (see, rhicb life and life’s I>e»t ends seem vain.
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A Good Idea. The new constitution of Georgia makes lobbying a crime. .
My swelling aspirations viewless sink As yon cloud-blotted hills: hopes that shone bright As planets yester-eve, like them to-night Are gulfed, the Impenetrable mists before: “Oh weary world, <1 cry,) how dare I think Thou hast for me one gleam of gladness morel” —{Margaret J. Preston in Sunday Afternoon. * • ^ SCRAPS. Mrs. Lome brings twenty-five servants. The Hindoos are reading Hamlet in their own language. Instead of bridesmaids, fashion in France now prescribes two tiny pages. The most eminent physicians in New York make from $40,000 to $70,000 a year. Cleveland has nine daily newspapers— feven English and two German. All of the English journals but two are afternoon pa-
pers.
Spurgeon will be presented by his congregation with $25,000 on the completion of his 25 years’ labor as a Baptist minister, Decem-
ber’s!.
Nearly a million and a half gospels and New Testament*, printed in twenty-two languages. were given away at the bible stand
in the Paris exposition.
The thah has granted to a French company the right to reconstruct the dams necessary to irrigate a great part of the province of Arabistan, hoping to render it fertile as
in former days.
By a resolution of congress all telegraphic wires connecting the <;«pitol building with the outside world, are required to enter the building underground so as to preserve the
beauty of the grounds.
I expected great things in the Nevember eleckshnns. For sixteen long years I hev bin strngglin, wrasslin a back-holt with disaster, and disaster has generally Hooped me.
I am flopped now.—[Xasby.
The late Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding bequeathed to his nephews and neices $10,000 each, and they are forty in number. His brother. Samuel D. Paulding, has the income of $20,000 as long as he lives. Prize money
made the admiral rich.
The case of the San Francisco newspaper foreman who killed himself because Ite couldn’t get everybody’s advertisement at the top of the column, is receiving the thoughtful condolence of ‘‘advertisement" men
throughout the country.—[Ex.
According to the directions of the will of James Parker, who died lately at Gotuitport Massachusetts, a span of fine horses were shot and and buried, and a large amount of personal property burned on the beach under the supervision of a member of his family. Germany is in a had way. There has been a great increase in crime, especially among the young, during the last seven years. The increase of suicide and vagabonds is correspondingly large; drunkenness is rampant, and vice and indecency are abominably prev-
alent.
The skull of Little Crow, the leader of the Sioux in the Minnesota massacre in 1862, is in possession of Dr. D. D. Powell of Lanesborough, Filmore county, Minnesota. The jaws have double teeth all around. The scalp is in Hit museum of the Minnesota state historical society. The experiment of lighting the assembly chamber in the new capitol at Albany, New York, by means of electricity, was ttied on Wednesday evening, and proved very satisfactory. The light was soft, ch ar and equally diffused, and the smallest print could be read easily. A Methodist and a Quaker having stopped at a public house, agreed to sleep in the same bed.. The Methmlist knelt down and prayed fervently, and confessed a long catalogue of sins. After he rose the Quaker observed, “Really, friend, if thou art as bad as thou saj est thou art, I think I dare not sleep with
tfiee.”
At a funeral in the country an undertaker was directing the ceremonial when he noticed a little man giving orders, and, as he thought, encroaching upon the privileges of his own office. He asked him, “And what are ye my man, that takssae muckle on ye?” “O, dinna ye ken?” said the man, under an evident sensb of his own importance, "I’m the corpse’s hritherl” By and by Col. IngersoD w T on’t have a friend any where. He set the church by he ears long ago, and now he is defying critics at.d criticism by kicking Milton, Horace* nd Thomsen and Y’irgjl and Dante and H .nOT and vEschylna out of poetry. There is no poet but Burns. The Colonel is right. It is only the heart that is born in poesy rnd swathed in poetic fire that could sing: Now dang the gleueh (hat cased the dyke-side kail, Ye ns hae tint the uieikle stlrkle drown: Ac linp* n jouk gaed couthie Uk the wail. An'nioal-pocxding tbexutd lang shafted sp'ine A young gentleman of Sheen, near Manchester, offered, w ith her mother's consent, to help a pupil teacher with her lessons iu the morning. He said she would not be awake early enough, and she offered to tie a string to her foot and let the end hang out of the window, so that if she overslept herself he might pull it. He was tip the earlier and pulled the cord, and the Rev. T. 1. Meygate, holding that this was an “artof impropriety,” refuted Lint the sacrament. The bishop of Lichfield declines to interfere, as it d'Kts not sc« m that the case admits of any authorita-
tive decision.
A clever little passage at the expense of a member of the Itelgian legation ta current in W ashington. A young attache recently reached here fresh from London, his last station, and greatiy vexed over what he was pleased to call his exile. “At all events,” he was in the habit of saving, and the remark came to l>e w idely quoted. “I shall speak no English in Wa-hington. I learned it in Londoi.andl don’t intend to spoil my accent.” Time passed. The attache was at a reception. Borne friend of bis asked a bright young American woman to permit him to present the attnche to her. “Oh, de»r, no, was the reply, and it has traveled over Washington; “T couldn’t think of each a thing. I learned my French in Paris, and it would ruin my accent to talk w ith a Belgian.” The North Fact He What* Fisheries. During the past thirty days sUventeea whalers have arrived at San Francisco from the north, bringing 7,700 barrels of oil. €(•>00 pounds of whalebone and 28,000 pounds of ivory. The catch is unuiu&lly
light.
Better otr Than Kver. Notwithstanding the low price of cotton, it is stated that the working people of southwest Georgia, both white and black are, aa a general thing, better off than they have been at any time since the close of tae war. Insurance Officers Acquitted. The officers of the defunct Protection life insurance company, of-Chicago, with the exception of Secretary Edwards, who took a change of venue, have been acquitted of conspiracy to defraud. Rilled fora Pair of Boots. George App shot and killed John Hackett at Memphis, yesterday, during a dispute abou # . a’pair of boots. *» Outlaw Escaped. The notorious outlAw, Jesse Under wood, escaped from jail in Owingville, Kv., yester>**1' i
FIAT AT TUB CORNER* ‘ Na*t»y Relates the Meaner In Which the Bloated Hbylocfca Crushed Rapid Growth of Wealth. Work-on the court home, ship rale road her bio auspendid. It wenlalour well enuff for a time. The men got into a habit uv demandta an increaaa of wad* averr day or two. and we met their demand* librab ly. It didn't make a particle uv diffrence to us whether we paid a dollar a day or fifty. U cost jest ez much to print a dollar note ez it did a fifty dollar note, and el a man felt richer with the fifty dollar note why not let him have it. The higher the wagis we paid, the richer the community wux gittin, becor. more money wuz gittin into cirkelasben. But ther cum a time when we bed to hev a dozen ejades and a pick-axe, and vt ithout em we cood not go on. The hardware deeiers wood not take our money for em, and we hed no other, for for want uv ten doilnra’ worth uv s{)ades and pick-axes, improvements inrolrin millions wuz brot to a complete stoppage I Fiat money is all well enuff, but wood I hed the power to compel the people to take it whether or no. Legislashenu wat we want; but the result of the November elekshuns giv me no hope uv that. I feel we are going to be in the power uv the bond-holders for a time yic Then came more trouble. Baeowa had hed an unparalleled run uv kiznis., and taken every doll&rjiv Fiat money ther wnz in the
, ur
— — _ the Tillage to find euthin that cood be used in printin, hut ez the people never indulged to any extent in the luxury uv wall-paper I coodent git any. In dispair I went to Pollock’s store *
and begged
hand
him to sell me wat he hed on
“Certainly,” red he, “for cash.”
“I will give you,” Ised, “exactly the money we hev, and 1 can’t do more than that. How
much hev von?”
much hev voo?
“Ten bolts.”
red I.
“Very good,”B„_
will tell you what I will do
“Now, Pollock, I
— ,,— Jo. We must hev more money. and we her no paper to print it on. I will take them ten bolts of trail-paper and I will print five uv em in one dollar bills for yoo, to pay for the other five. I don’t know how many yards ther is in a bolt uv wall paper, but I will spore that eech yard will make a hundred bills, and that there is twenty yards in a bolt. Thus ypo will git two thousand dollars for a ten cent bolt uv wall j«per. Kin yoo dispose of jour stock to
better advantage?”
“But what good will all these dollar bills do me?” wuz his onfeclin anser. “I coodent buy another ten bolts uv paper with a cart
load uv it”
I then offered to print the five bolts up into two dollar bills, then in fives and finally in ’ twenties, and ez a last resort in hundreds. I showed him what a millionaire he wood be. Five bolts uv wall paper printed up in hundred dollar hills wood make him rich, and it wuz within his reach. All he bed to do w.u to give me th« other five bolts for the yoose of the corporashun. I shoodeut hev been so liberal, bnt I hedn’t hed a drink for four hours, and Bascom hed refoofed lik except for down payment.
tet ms possible. The monster wpz, however, indexible. He luffed me to skoru. He refoosed the millyuns 1 offered him. He red he wood sell the paper to me at ten cents a bolt, cash, or he wood even pve me credit for the five bolts. This wuz a gleem uv comfort, and I eagerly accepted it. But, he crushed me with these crooel words: “On credit,” ef 1 wood give good saooority. Secoorityf What holler mockery! Where cood I git secoority ? And so 1, with the metns of makin millyuns in ray hands, wuz redooced to abject poverty for want nr fifty cents to buy the wall-paper onto wich to print ni v millyuns. The Corner* is prostratid. Bascom her. the millyuns we hev printed, the citizens haven’t a dollar, and w.e can’t git no paper to perdoose more currency. Wat we shell do I hevn’t the slitest idee. Ef I cood git the Looisviil paper deeiers to take our money for more paper, and ef Simpson, the printer, wood go on and print it takin his pay In kit d, all wood be Well. But ez we can’t git
t*.*«,»« a, vvzzu ^ao tv Ltcai lUV L-U1U Lit and mertenary p&per-merchants won’t take, our case iz hard indeed. We are roomed, and I spore we shel hev to return to the old kinds uv money. Bnt what will Bascom do with the accoomulashun he hez on hand? I dread to face him, • Petrolkitm V. Nanby, Fina«8eer. MKS. SENATOR UKCOK. Wasblngtoa Society Agitated Concerning Her Expected He but-No More Negro o« In Cougren*. [Washington Correspondence Chicago Inter-Ocean). Senator Bruce, who has been travelling in Europe with bis bride since his marriage in June, is expected to arrive here soon, and has engaged a handsome residence on Capitol Hill for the remainder of his senatorial term, which expires on the 4th of Murcb, 1K8I. There is some social agitation here with regard to the manner in which Mrs. Bruce will he received by the wells of Washington. She is a lady of fine personal appearanct, an octoroon, and is perhaps hatter educated than most of the women who intend to snub her, if she presumes to enter society. She was a school-$ea< b.er in Cleveland, hut her husband has sufficient wealth to gratify . any tasde she uiay have in the way of personal adornment, and it is whispered that a wardrolte purchased by her iu Europe would he prized by any of our bid la. It is a requirement of official etiquette, here, that all the cahinent ladies and the wives of congreesmen, shall make the first call upon a eemitor’s wife, and the wives of the older senators always make the approach to an acquaintance with the wives of the new senators. Mrs. Bruce will exf.eneoce no embarrassment from the treatmi nt ehc will re&dve from Mrs. Kvart*, Mrs. Sherman and the other cabinet ladies, and Mra. Hayes, whore gentility la beyonU a question, intends to make Mrs. Bruce at home at once, by her cordial greeting. It is •raid that Mrs. Bruce will he aopoioted to attend Mrs. Hayes at the first presidential reception. The only colored- senator’s wife w ho ever attempted an entrance to Washington society was Mrs. Pinchhack, six yeaffi. ago, and being both beautiful and accomplished, rbe was not only treated with civility. hut was made quite a lioness.* It may be that Mrs. Brace will receive similar treat-
meat.
It will lie noticed that there will be o* negroes in the next congress, unless O’Hara, of North Carolina, gets a certificate, which U doubtful. There is a colored voting population in the south of over a million, bftt in tho forty-sixth congress it will be antirely unrepresented, except by Bruce in the senate. In the forty-second congress there were nine negroes; in the furty-tkird,.seven; in (he forty-fourth, four; in the forty-fifth, three; in the forty-sixth thiere will be noae, Blsfcee Triumphant. . The supreme court of Florida, has decided that the three precinct returns rejected by tue Alachua county canvaseiag hoard are good and valid, and has iaMted a peremptory writ to the board to canvas* them. There three precincts gave Bisl>ee a majority of 459, and their rejection by the canvassing board elected Hull, democrat. BisWs majority now stands ariont 290 in the district.
as It Always Is.
find tan spr .Us dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer]
The ran ruing press exhibited considerable
in dishing up the latest murder, et written and most compact report
was given by The New* la yesterday after-
noon 'j issue.
eoterr
Wife Murder.
George W. Smith, a cooper of Ran Frenctsk shot and killed his wife yesterday afterr..on. Rbe bad separated from him on account of his cruel treatment, and refused to return. After the murder Smith attempted
to shoot himself, but failede
A Faint Hope. [Frankfort Crescent] It is bard for business to revive in the f»<* of the resumption act; the progress il *loN» | it u to he hoped it is permaueut.