Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1879 — Page 2

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THE DAILY NEWS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1*79. The Indiftoapolis News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. Tnr legislature must limit the rate of

countj taxation.

Senator Thurman’s answer to the Toller committee is very neat. If we except the little military picnic England is having in Afghanistan, all the nations of the earth are at peace. Thb suggestion of The News that the members of the legislature reduce neir own pay, at least to war prices, is not re-

ceived with favor.

If the legislature haa a determined will and a firm hand, it can reduce the public burden by thousands of dollars, and that without disturbing the efficiency of the government. . Thk whole number of Indians in the country, not counting Alaska, is 270,000. They have 320 schools attended by 11,515 acholars; 28,000 church members; 292,000 acre* of land cultivated.'

Recent investigations of th6 deaths in England due wholly ol. partly to alcohol give a total of 39,287 yearly, a larger adult mortality than is due to any other disease exrept consumption. The croakers all say about resumption: “Just wait, you’ll see.” Of course we will. We’ll see before a • year has passed that many of these croakers whl want to forget that they ever were opposed to resumption. i .

The continuation of cold weather insures a full ice crop, which will insure reasonable prices next summer, steady pork packing and general benefit tp the community. The wheat is thoroughly protected by the snow, so that no fears of damage need be apprehended. Intelligent republican opinion in New York believes Conkling could no§ carry the state on a popular vote. Hi Mltisb, unstatesman-like course has thoroughly disgusted the people; but he will be re-elected, because of his manipulation ot machine politics and because of failure in the republican opposition to unite bn any one man. Boston’s government costs twico as much as that of Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis or Baltimore. It pays higher wages to alL employes, more for gas, &ater and Streets and seems to be run without regard to coat. It is believed that $1,000,00D a year might be saved in the public expenditures of the city, and ’that by squeezing —just as a business man wobld in the management of hia affairs—$2,000,0$) a. year might be saved. Sincn France haa been a republic the education of the people has been one of the chief cares of the goternment. At the end of the reign of Charles X the total fund fer public instruction was 1,825,000 franca. The church budget was 33,lt0,000 francs, and that of the royal family 32,000,000 francs. Education has had more bestowed upon it since then, under different re HJ n *> although the seceud empire only gave it- 3,000,000 francs. In 1870 the republic voted 88,000,000 francs, and the estimate for this year is 67,625,114 franca. Ex-Secbetaby Borib sails to-day to join Gen. Grant in his tour to India and the east. This is “piling things.” When Secretary Thom peon, without any warrant of law, tendered Gen. Grant the use of a U. S. vessel to take him about, it was not . expected that a retinue would go with him. First he asked that two newspaper correspondents be allowed to accompany him, then Fred Grant sailed join him and how Borie'has rone. Tom Murphy, Deacon McKee, Babcock, Belknap and Mosby will probably drop in, in the course of a week or two. The prospect of a free trip at the expense of the government is too much for the Grant crowd, who always had the notion that they were responsible to nobody. It is tp be hoped that sufficient room will be left fpr the sailors who must

work the ship.

^ The beautiful battle for principle, to fight which is the purpose of the partisan newspapers existence is illustrated by the Chicago Inter-Ocean. That paper takes the Tribune of that city to task because it does not fall down and worship John A. Logan. The Tribune, be it remembered, was a paper devoted to republicanism before the Inter-Ocean was born, pnd it wants the present incumbent, Oglesby, a republican, re-elected to the senate. But that counts for nothing. The Inter-Ocean

says:

“Republicans of Illinois, we £arn you that the Tribune is false to republicanism and false to you. It is not a republican paper. It is a journalistic guerilla. .It stands upon the same plane as the Ch icago Times. It is more dangerous, because more covert. Let these facta be made known; and let the republican papers of the state advertise its character and purposes, that the people may realize to whom thew have been giving support and

enoouragcmAtt.”

The point to he noticed in this is as The News haa noticed before, that no principle is involved. It i« simple man-worship, of which there is a parallel case in this state, in the determination to elect Voorheea. In neither state or party is it contended that those two political corruption-

ists, I.ogan and Voorhees, are the only men or the beat men, or that in the aeleo tion of ’ fitter meu any principle would be sacrificed t yet it it claesed as rank party treason for Any one to protest against theae persons, the democrat* carrying it to far as to threaten to hang any of their number to a lamp post who would refuse to support Voorhees, while the lutcr-Ocean, in the name of the republicans of Illinois, reads the Tribune but of the party for refusing to be Logan’s lackeyWe cite these two casea to point the moral of partyism, and to illoetrate ita real significance when it is expressed by the party press, whidi institution is, as The News had occasion to say some time ago, simpJy "the mouthpiece for politicians, to cry their praise and cover their sins, and in due time receive its reward in the division of the spoils.” ; - . * ‘

Repeal of Gold Certificates.

The loan arts of the war authorize the secretary of the w treasury to re-

ceive gold bn deposit; and to imuo there-,

for certificates payable on demand. The object of this provision was twofold. (1,1 Customs duties being payable in coin the use of these certificates saved much labor and risk in the handling of coin, and was advantageous both to the government and its customers. (2.) It enabled the government to keep and use a larger volume of coin than it otherwise could have done; us hanks receiving call deposits can always calculate on a given margin, ac could the government. So long, therefore, as specie payments were suspended, and government paper at a discount this was an important auxilary in its financial operations. More than once it, enabled the government to meet its coin obligations, and to break up the gold rings. But with the resumption of specie payments the problenis of the government are changed, and it is a grave question whether these provisions of the law ought not

.to be repealed. From the first of January

the treasury will be expected to pay gold on all its greenbacks presented for redemption; these greenbacks are not to be cancelled, but reissued; and so. they, may be presented again and again. Now, there is no danger of any large amount of gold being <irawn out of the treasury so so long as it is not required for foreign shipment; because h is far more secuf? in tie government vaults than in banks or private vaults; and there will be no large foreign shipments, with the balance of trade so largely in our favor. But tho business world is anticipating increased prosperity; this means increased importations, reduced balance of trade, and hipments of gold. And here comes in also the disturbing influence of silver. -One hundred cents of gold will not circulate on an equality with eighty-three cents worth of • silver. And as this silver will be- a legal tender for greenbacks, the government will sooner or later have to avail itself of this privilege. The effect is evident,- a premium on gold, or a depreciation of greenbacks to the silver standard. Bankers and capitalists see this. Will they not also prepare for it? Will they not rapidly as possible tr^sfer the gold in the treasury from.the ownership of the government to th£ir own ownership, by exchanging greenbacks for gold certificates? So it seemji to us, and therefore, self-pro-tection will compel the government to change the system. In his inteiview with the house committee

on banking And currency, Mr. Sherman-

spoke of these deposits as “the most dangerous form of liability;” and when asked about their possible presentation for pay meiit before redemption day, he answered “I wish they would.” After that day they serve no purpose of the government^ which will have the expense and risk of taking care of the coin. If, therefore, the laws authorizing theae deposits were repealed, holders of certificates would have to resort to the alternative of presenting them for payment and so of taking the ex {tense and risk of the safe keeping pf the coin themselves, or of accepting treasury notes instead. It is said the treasury de partment is preparing greenback or treasury notes of large denominations, $5,000 and $10,000. This is precisely the solution required. A substitution of these large treasury notes for certificates of deposit will leave the gold in the treasury and prevent a transfer of ownership. They will serve the interests of the banks and importers by saving the handling and care of the coin; and will greatly strengthen the government in maintaining resumption. 1 Of course the treasury notes will be payable on demand as much as the certificates, but with the difl’erence that the one is a general liability, the other a specific demand. The certificates represent a special deposit, the treasury notes a common indebtedness. Besides, the change reduces the coin demands-by the amount of certificates cancelled, as the large notes will constitute a part of the present aggregate of $316,000,000.

CLRRKNl COMMENT.

The Jews put forward a candidate for the Berlin mission in the person of Meyer Isaacs, senior editoj of the Jewish Messenger. The legislature of Colorado meets on Januuary let; that of Indiana on the »th; Illinois and Missouri on the 8th and that of Kansas on the 14th. All these bodies elect a United States senator. In Indiana and Illinois Voorhees and Logan seem to be the sons of destiny.

Sweet pair.

The Chicago Tribune supports Oglesby for United States senator, the Times Farwell,

* the Inter-Ocean Logan.

A New York business man who has made a large fortunes believes that advertising should be included in the general estimate of expense, as regularly as store rent, clerk hire aiid insurance. It is often said that a good stand at a high rent is better than a poor one rent free. Advertising brings a man before the public in a way that makes any “stand” good. The best stand you can have is to be in the newspapers. These publications absorb so large a share of the lifer- of the day and are so constantly extending their scope and influence that it is next to impossible for a business to succeed and not make itself known through the newspapers. Better be out of the "world than out ol the newspapers.

Vice-President Wheeler broke the lonetomenees that encases him, by “receiving” at the Whit^house with the president: One of the political strikers sent south as a special agent to hunt frauds has been dismissed for complicity in the safe-burglary conspiracy. Is it on the evidence of these and such as these that national legislation is to be based ? * On the Pacific coast the Chinese is a target for the hoodlums, on. the Atlantic he is the center of society. Introductions to the Chinese embassy were eagerly sought after at the WBite house reception yesterday. * C. V. Riley, of the entomological department of the agricultural bureau, has reported on the English sparrow nuisance to the efifect that it would now be useless to attehipt the extermination of the bird. He says now that it is established no means can he practically adopted to be rid of it. In the country the bird will at times become a grievous pest here, as it bas been in Europe, and farmers, for self-protection, will, ever and anon, have to systematically destroy-it. The only thing he recommends is not to provide it with .artificial shelter; in other words, let it "kick for

itself.”

All the labor organizations should be utilized, and the farmer class, who sec their capital lessening in England, should be shown that they may advantageously bring hither n^t that only, but. their laborers also, and thus build tfmtmscl'-ea no secmely on new foundations, but with ‘he oid materials. This is the best Work which many of our state legislatures can do ibis winter.—[New York Herald. A few banks may desire to increase their *-l'piy. A few timid individuals may seek to board coin. But the drawers of fo ;eigti exchange already receive legal tender at par, in payment t for London exchange, and there is no reason pj expect that coin will be demanded so long as our foreign trade shows favorable balance and the prices here c. United States and other securities held abroad are well maintained.—]Xe^ York Tribune. It is to the interest of every laboring man in the cduntry that all agitation of currancy questions shall cease, and that wise, or unwise, the present laws shall ba left as they stand untii their full effect bas been ascertained by thorough trial.—fNew York’ Herald. 9 We are confronted in the most prosperous .of the Horttiem states with the steady growth of a race of paupers bred to the moral inheritance of all the vices and weaknesses of a {•neper class. While we are combating the spectre of 8f>eialism in our politics, hceeaf our doors is the reality of socialism in its lowest, most repulsive and most degrading foim ; “squat like a toad^ at the ear of our Social organization and distilling its venom, slowly perhaps but surely,through the whole body politic.—[New Y'ork World.

FIRES,.

XVhat the New Year Brought In. At 3 o’clock yesterday morning the

large cptton press and warehouses of the Union cotton press company, at Charleston, South Carolina, were destroyed by fire together with 10,121 bales of cotton. The property contained four {tresses, with a capacity of pressing about 2,500 bales of cotton per diem, and storage room for over 10,000 bales. Only two presses were running. The buildings and presses were valued at about $100,000*nd insured for $00,000. The loss on cotton is estimated at $-175,000, and the insurance amounts to

$472,250.

Yesterday morning, between midnight and 1 o’clock, the large stone flouring mill at Rockdale, two miles west of Dubuque, was burned to the ground. As no other possible cause can be ascertained for its origin, it is believed that the tire originated from the flour gas in the patent Hour apartment. There was a large quantity of grain and flour in the mill, which was destroyed. The mill was valued at $25,000, and was insured for $17,000. This mill was the only building remaining in the little hamlet of Rockdale on the morning of the great flood of July, 1876, in which

forty persons were drowned.

A fire at Tuscarora, Nevada, Tuesday night, destroyed nearly a block of buildings on Main street, including the Young America hoisting works. The loss is about $40,000. It is supposed to have been

incendiary.

The Minnesota hotel.and eight smaller buildings were burned at Portland, Oregon, Tuesday night. Loss, $20,000.

The Strikers In England.

. It is expected that the journeyman builders of Sheffield will submit to the reduction of the rates of wages of which notice was given by the master builders on the 24th of December, and a strike will be

avoided.

Over 1,000 dock laborers have struck work at Hull. Contrary to expectation nearly all the masons at Sheffield struck against the reduction of which they were

notified ®n December 24.

The Oldham cotton strike has terminated. At a conference between the employers and operatives, the latter uncondi-

tionally accepted the proposed reduction. It is expected that work will be fully resumed Monday. The loss of wages by the

strike amounts to £Q0,OOO, besides the ex penditure of the union fund, and the loss to capital by the stoppage of four million spindles. SThe Sun mill, which is the largest limited company in Oldham, announces the loss of £2,200 duripg the last three months. This is the great-

elt loss ever sustained by any pany since the cotton famine.

New Variety of Farming. A new industry is springing up in Iowa iq the shape of muskrat farming. A man with a good marsh can seed it down to rats and make is yield him steadily after two years’ breeding, about $50 an acre. The trapping is a winter industry where there is plenty of leisure, and is a source of amusement to the younger members of the family. The market for ratskins is

steady and reliable.

KENTUCKY CANYONS. Tl>* Groat Sand OIHT* la Wayna Coaat} and lhaPea|>l« who Live Among Them - Obstacles Encountered by Revenue Raiders In Their March After “Wild Cats." [NrsIi rills Spccisl to Cincinnati Commercial.] The returned revenue raiders who accompanied Captain Davis through Clay, Overton, FenJfcjss and Soott counties, Tennessee, and Wayne ebuuty, Kentucky, give a thrilling and interesting account of-their adventures in that country and among the hardy inhahitanta. The scenery, they say, is wildly picturesque, and can not possibly be surpassed by the canyons of Colorado. From the tops af the mountains upon which they, stood a grand panorama of hills nnd valleys spread out before them. The great sand cliffs are covered with spruce and pine, the ground beneath them carpeted with velvety green ivy that enhanced the beauty of the scene. No snow had then fallen, but they afterward had plenty of it, and‘then an added beauty was given to the immensa cliffs, their clothing of white garments only sirving to bring out the rich, dark foliage of the surrounding evergreens. The cliffs rise up qlmost perpendicularly, and attain an altitude of from seven hundred to one ‘thousanu leaving canvons varying in width from one hundred io three hundred

feet.

Looking down into these valleys, they appeared a, deep, dark hole, in which objects were indiscernible. The day in these valleys was of extreme short duration. It was almost, high noon ere the sun’s rays penetrated the depths, and then, in two or more hours, he had again hid his head Lebjnd the mountains. Indeed, to this part of the world he is exceedingly frugal in dispensing his light. Picking their weary way over these immense mountains, the revenue men descended to the valley and then cast their eyes backward over the hills they had traversed. They rose up black and frowning and earth and sky seemed to meet. From time to time huge bowlders have loosened their grip upon their mother mountain and rolled with thunder tones down to the valley. Others seemed only balanced upon a pivot, and needed but a few more mountain torrent* and heavy wind blast* to send them down among their fellows. There were transverse cliffs and transverse labyrinthine valleys. At a point a cone-shaped solid rock rises to a height of 15Q feet, and stands out ia bold relief against the sky. Through all this country there are no roads, and access and egress to the valleys are made over mountain trails, hard to find and dithcult to travel. Often the way was so perilous that it almost caused the hearts of the men to stand still, for a single mis-step of their sure-footed beasts would have tumbled both horse and rider over the cliffs, down the deep chasms nnto certain death. When the snow storms commenced the raiders experienced untold hardships. There was at first a snow, then rain, then a freeze, which made the paths so slippery that the least swaying to right or left would have been attended Tvith fearful consequences. In one instance one man slid down a fifty foot incline, stopping only when on the brink of a chasm 150 feet deep. Snow drifts piled up mouutain high had to be constantly gone over, where they intersected the paths. These drifts often slid down the mountain sides, ava-lanche-like, and it was a matter of wonder and fear to the men, whether they might not sudenly and unexpectedly be buried beneath one of these moving mountains, leaving only the bones of men and animals to be found after a long lapse of time to tell the tale of the expedition. The streams are swollen and frozen, and lording -them was an undertaking both disagreeable and hazardous. Bits of ice floated around the men, clung to the skirts of the saddles and matted up the tails of the horses. . The wind blew fiercely and beat their faces with th* snow, sometimes completely blinding the luckless raiders. Taken all in all the ride is said by the returned (fficers and men to have been one of the most dwagreeable and perilous any ef them hadjfver engaged in. The only wonder is that they escaped without any permanently disagreeable features. Ten days in the rough weather, and over the rougher roads, convinced the party that nothing could be done against such odds, and they wisely concluded to abandon further operations until milder weather makes it more feasible. The inhabitants of this upper region live quietly and contentedly in one story cabins. Their wants are feyy'their means fewer. As a general thirig they are hospitable, and divide their crust and their ample fireside with a generosity that more worldly minded people might envy. Their cabins have not even chinking between the logs to turn the cold blasts, but their vast, yawning fire places are never without a blaring log heap. Fuel is plentiful, and may be had without money and without price’ only needing to be hewn down and rolled over the mountain side. The principal products are corn and children. Ash-cake and wild meat, with milk to wash it down, keep the mountain offspring “fat and sassy.” Hunting is a favorite and qecesary occupation. Deers stalk the country around and are shot down without trouble. Bears. abound, and smaller game is plentiful. Every man in the region, nearly, wears wears patches on either shoulder from carrying a gun. Every house has a loom, and the women spin, weave and make up the wearing apparel of themselves and families. Stores are few and far between, and their only trade in sugar, molasses, salt, etc. Dry goods of any kind would be a drug on their hands. Calico dresses and store clothes are unheard of articles, and unnqeded. Nobody seems to have or cares to have any money, but live in utter independence. When they desire to trade, a coon skin will get them a spool of thread and a quart of molasses. A deer skin or a bear skin is worth more than

fiSsx tiikocfeftf. Ah, h«r» U a •ran* for a painter— A gl«aitiiDK and gloriflnd laka, With Ita framing of foreatand prairie, And Ita atcbtnga af thicket au l broke; With Itagnadaur and boktaroeof headland, Where the oaka and the tamamca grow A-Ieagne'with the aunlight of hearem Ana the spirlt-llke ahndowa below. Where the awallowa akim over the surface, And quaff as they touch the clear wave: Where the robin* seek out the cool waters. And warily venture to lave; Where the aandniper tors,with the plashes, And whistle* au passionate note, And the water-bugs sail like a navy Ol fairies for battle afloat.

a snowflake

Comes down from the clouds In the sky;

Wkere the bobolink lights on the flag-blade.

And so proudly and prettily sing*. Or watchea askance the swift minnow That out of hia element springs. * Where the lilies a-bloom on the surface, Held down by their cable-like items,

And the tints of the bright cardinaiU

Have the semblance of

W here th e mosses in festoons

m ign

Have the semblance of loveliest gems;

oon* are hanging

In the richest of fashion and fold,

ellfnga

To decorate Submarine dwellings O’er pavements of amber and gold.

Wheie theaoul of the mortal may worship

In the freMom of unwritten creeds, Roaring many andjoyoua responses

In the music thM

And where in

ny and

In the music that cornea, from the reeds;

fancy I’ve pictured

n<i wnere in my fancy I’ve piotui A tempi* that’s builded so high, It reaches In grandest proportions From the beaut Iful lake to the sky.

' —[J. C. Burnett in Foaest and Stream. Marie Roz'e is ill in New York with in

flammarion of the lungs.

It is remarkable how easily a sled can push a boy up hill.-—[Exchange Mrs. Stanton say# girls to be beautiful should bathe twice daily in cold water. A coal oil well in Patterson, N. J., was

fed by some leaky barrels in a neighboring

cellar.

The T’rotestant church authorities of Gotha, Germany, have prepared a ritual to be used at cremations. Michigan’s sweeteinger, Julia A. Moore, givcs.it as her humble opinion that “literary is a very hard work to do.” Fifteen thousand Russian Mennonites will leave their native country this winter to settle in our western states and territor-

ies.

Bayard Taylor was city editor of the New Y'ork Tribune at one time, with a #a!ary of twelve dollars a week and one

assistant.

Jefferson Davis’s book of .memoirs is to lie published next spring simultaneously in New York and London, with a French

edition in Earis.

There has been an increase .of four hundred and thirty-nine schools in South Carolina during the last year. The school' attendance is 111,239. * “My dear,” ^aid a wife to her husband, “I really think it is time we had a greenhouse.” “Well,my love, paint it any color .you please; red, white, or green will suit

me r ” responded the husband.

A moment’s reflection should convince you that when you say of a stranger that vj^i “wouldn’t know him from Adam,” »ou are wildly inaccurate. They do not

flress alike.—[World’s Almanac. '

Mr. W. H. Preece, the electrician to the British postofliee, is inclined to look upon the {.resent activity about the electric light as one of those sensational spasms which seize the public periodically at intervals of about ten years He has not

yet found the ideal electric light.

Several young men of Milton, Pa., the other evening in sport induced a colored man to drink three pints of whisky, when he became unconscious. They put him out of doors, thinking the cold air would revive him. After being out three or four hours he was fouftdnearly frozen to death,

and next day he died.

Among the smallest and meanest forms of official picking and stealing is that which has been unearthed in two or three of the school sections of Philadelphia, where directors have been detected in picking the pockets of poor women, in the shape of exacting fees or commissions for

getting them appointments.

Mrs. A. T. Stewart has removed from , her marble palace, at the comer of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, to her niece’s hs.use, on the opposite side o? the avenue. It is said that she no longer dare remain in her own home, fearing that she may lie kidnapped for the sake of obtaining a heavy ransom.—[New York Star. Luckiest man I ever knew; everything succeeded with him. He hail only to say w hat he wanted, and he got it.’ Why, confound it,-1 was walking with him one daj—the very last day of his life—and he said tome: “When I die, I want to die suddenly.” Got run over that very night, byhokey! Ever see such luck?—[Puck. A man in Malta, 111., has a tumor on his head forty inches in circumference and about eight in diameter. It lays largely on the left side of his head^covering his left ear and eye entirely, extending as low as the extremities of his neck and upward of four inches above the head, reaching considerably more than half way

across the high forehead.

The emperor of Austria is a tall, spare man,of soldierly bearing, who does not look much over forty, though he is nearer fifty, with sandy hair cropped close to his head, and turning an iron-gray, with regulation military whiskers and mustache, small restless gray eyes, and the blunt features and heavy lips which distinguish the Hapsburg family.*" He has patience, tact and dogged spirit of hard work. He is master of six European-languages. Mrs. Drake, a widow at Muhlenburg

WASHINGTON LETTER. Aaioag Cengreaamen—Inveatlff*tlona—B«7 Rom M d Colofse—P*r-

•caa).

[CumwpoodeaM of Tha Indianapolis Haws.) < WiSHiawPo*. December II. The democratic majority io the house has been reduced by two. Whisky in inordinate quantities did the work, and terminated two lives that might otherwise have been prolonged and useful. Williams of Michigan and Douglass of Yiirginia, -both men of intelligence and good qualities, committed self-destruotiqn by 1 the excessive use of stimulants. Another Virginia member had to be “carried home on a shatter” the same day Douglas was taken down with his fatal illness, and barely escaped accompanying Douglass to the landof shades. Several other representatives have fought .delirium tremens, and conquered for the time being, but the day cometh for them to pass in t|teil checks suddenly. To the credit of the constituents of tjiese^memhers it m«ut be said that none of them ret ceived the endorsement of a re-election. The people have become tired of having drunkards in congress, and tbe member who indulges convivial habits is almost

sure to be retired.

TIRED OF INVESTIGATE

Tte people k.r,, li[e d 0 , iim ,. -.powons, and it is with no little degree of satisfaction that the -decision has been made that the Blaine-Teller committee has no funds to proceed with. Some of the members of the committee would be

nCBMWAL,

Mrs. Mary E. Nealy the poetess, well

known in Indianapolis from 1868 to IMS as a contributor to the newspaper*, resides on Capitol bill, near the rteideace of Judge Advocate-general Dunn. Since her residence in Washington she h« contributed frequently to the magazines and newspapers. Of late years her articles have mostly found their way Into the Aldine and An Journal, and as an ar* critic Mm. Nealy has taken high rank. She is

a favorite in the - art literary circles of W«

and an ever welcome guest wherever cuL lure is appreciated. Literary and artistic ability opens the doors of the best society in Washington. There is no shoddy here, except with those who come to make a display and leave when the season is overThe resident population are not much

given to drees, but look

the ' '

pope

~ dre

substantial pleasures

Floods In England.

The recent sudden thaw caused numerous ^ floods in England and Scotland. At Nottingham the flood was the greatest for fourteen years. The country around Darlington apd Wrexham 'is flooded for Vuihs. Much damage is reported at Ber-

wick and Aberdeen.

Beginning to Pay. The Little Rock Gazette says that one railway has spent over $150,000 within the past three years to promote immigration into Arkansas, and that ia now just beginning to reap the fruit of its labors. Sentenced to Death for Rape. Yesterday the jury in the case of Joseph Benstien, on trial at Memphis for raping Annie Dugan, an orphan thirteen years of age, returned a verdict of guilty. The penalty is*death, A Dull Day. [Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.] Crime is becoming so common in the United States that it is considered an unusually dull day when some murderer isn’t hanged. Through the Ice. Two Cleveland boys, W’illie Welsh, nged seven, and Patrick TCsoney, aged sixteen, were drowned in the lake yesterday, while playing on the ice. * Illness of Caleb Cashing. • Hon. Caleb Cushing is quite HI at NewAryport, Maas. .

they have any necessity for. These people have lived in the same localities for years, many never having gone away from their birth places, and never having visited so far as twenty miles distance. Others have moved into their homes, and, old and hoary headed, now never exjiect to again shift their tents. In one of the cabins where the revenue men halted was an old, old lady, who had apparently seen many a winter’s snow melt into summer’s suns. She was asked could she give them something to eat. With surprising alacrity she moved around, and soon had some smoking ashcake and fresh buttermilk, supplemented by a dish of smoking pork and beans, jsome remark was made about her being

so spry, when ahe asked:

“Well, now, how old do you suppose I

am?”

“Some where about seventy, I should think,-” was answered. She replied, “I am eighty-seven years old;” and evidently appreciated her green . old age. “How long have jou lived here?” was next asked. “I have .been in the valley fifty years ” In all that time she had never been twenty miles from the humble cabin that sheltered her. Just think of it! A-half e<*-i-turv ifi the valley, where sights were f°T and visitors infrequent, in ail these long years this old lady had watched the sua go down behind the same mountain ♦•>•>, his last dying rays lighting up the same scene, touching with gpld the same tall pine tree in the distance. The mountains io not seem so tall to her; she has beheld them too often and too constantly to be astonished at their heights. . f

•*.*-** o. -a-'* WANAUVV USA A.TAUHA«rUUUI g county, Ky., has in her possession an apple which has been in existence since the beginning of the revolutiqnary war. The soldier, Mr. Drake, received the apple from his betrothed just as he departeif for the ariny of YYashington; kept it during the whole *feir; returned after .the surrender of YorlQown and married the donqr. The apple Is sacredly preserved in the family. Itas dry and shriveled, nothing

remaining $nt the woody fiber.

I don’t want no senatorial .committee down here. I don’t want nobody pryin around, bringin’ niggers up to testify ez to wat they know about eleckshuns, and votin and sich. Niggers is prejudist, and their mental visions is distorted. They don’t understand polytix, and hev very din* and confoosed notions of relijun. Ther ain’t a nigger neer the Corners wich.don’t firmly bleeve that the Fifteenth amendment meens that they shel hev t he rite to vote, unfettered and unhampered, and that they hev the rite to vote ez they pleese. They can’t be made to understand that thesooperior intelligence that lays mostly around Bascom’s wuz designed by Providence to guide and direct ’em, and that they ought to be thankful that it is here to keer for

m.—[Nasby. •

Rnralu* National Exposition. A grand national exhibition will be held in Moscow in 1880, which will probably be accompanied by great festivities, as it will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of I hr- emperor’a accession to the throne.

Tbe Potter Committee.

The Potter committee finished ita work at New Orleans yesterday and adjourned to meet at 'Washington next Tuesday,

well pleased if no appropriation should be made hereafter, at they ;mj loth to be made cat’s paws for the purpoee M searching for 1>1 nine’s chestnuts among the embers of the old fires he insists shall be raked over and stirred up again. The senator from Maine has made himself very obnoxious by his recent course, and those on whom the responsibility of doing Blaine’s work rests would gladly see him and his investigation fall to the ground together The Potter committee is also out of fucuhq and the desire is that it may never have another dollar. The people are nauseated with it. Then there is Atkins’s committee of investigation into naval affairs, which has worked a year and produced nothingGlover’s several committees of investigation into treasury affairs, in none of which anything has been discovered; the investigation into the Hot Springs appropriation omission; the investigation of the government printing office; investigation into the cause of labor troubles; the Fitz John Porter investigation, and a half dozen others, which make a list of nuisances too grievous, to be borne: If," after all this disgusting' array of investigation farces, Mr. Blaine has no better remedy for the of disfranchisement in the south than additional investigation, in which he refuses to take part, it was time for him to step down from the lofty position of senator and give way to sqme one who will not walk in the .old and” profitless beaten tracks of sectional rancor. If that ia the measure of his statesmanship it has an exceedingly small measure and not of sufficient calibre to fill the presidential office which is the object of his ambition. I am almost tempted to applaud Conkling for the,snubbing ke gave Blaine. He appears to have known the man better than his fellow senators did, or the crowds in the gallery who shouted approval while he busied himself with a matter of pri-

vate concern.

Among old .’matters of investigation we find Grover, of Oregon, cost $10,000, anti that the sub-committee of the eommUffce on privileges and elections contrivtM to fpot up large bills. Some of the clerks of this committee got paid twice for the same aervice. One bill would be rendered “for •ervices,” and another for “employment,” and both collected. The very word investigation has been made disagreeable in sound to the public ear. ABE TIMES HARD? There must be some mistake about times beirig hard, for we find in the report of the contingent expenses of the senate items for several hundred tons of ice used between September and December, when the senate was not in session; hundreds of pounds of sugar; dozen of gallons of cologne at $8 a gallon, and the shme proportion of bay rum at $5, corkscrews at $6 a dozen; boxes of autograph albums at $5 apiece, fine pocket knives, pocket books, gold pens anti other articles necessary for stocking a fancy store. These things are all inexcusable, and the oflfcials who thus wasted the public monev should be punished, if there is a law for punishing such oflences, and if not, shohld be held tip to public scorn. I was nmused at the publication of the Contingent expenses of the interior department during the last year of the Chandler administration. Mixed in with' street car tickets, stationery and other items on about every third line was “detergent’ $ -. It was remarked that old Zach was getting the place in a cleanly condition for his successor, Witl^ the senate officials the desire must be to have their places made cool and sweet for the democrats who come in with the fortysixth congress. They first use ice, then cologne, then bay rum, then something that is got at with a corkscrew; then lemon*, sugar, and ice again, but never any liquors as far as the bills show. Ice cologne and bay rum are the principal disinfectant* used. * THE ARMY BILL. Senator Burnside is a man who very much resembles Deloss Root in appearance, but he hasn’t half the common sense Root possesses. While there are some good things in the army bill relative to the organization and effectiveness of the army, the principal object appears .to be to favor the private manufactures of arms, ordnance and ordnance •tores. Gen. Burnside ia said to interested in a large establishment at Providence which has facilities for manufacturing largely the goods and articles required by the army. The activity manifested by the lobby in tbe passage cf this bill should make it an object of suspicion with every honest legislator. The proposition to abolish all armories and arsenals has artery bad look, and carries conviction that a sinister motive accompanied the introduction of the

bill.

$7,000,000 saved.

In looking over the annual report of the public printer, and taking his comparison of the last seven years of the period when the public printing was done by con-

with favor. Authors, artists, musicians and people of refinement generally on a level without any regard to tb* oajl j

A *** ** truthfully said.

lifr * m -^PecUs-fiMre. Nealy enjoys -v in W afc l lington> JVr th* past year her health has not been good and her pen has been idle most of the time. The' warm weather months she spends ia the mountains, and it i* in those quiet retreats the has produced some of her sweetest

poems aad moat faacinating stories.

Some time ago The News published a brief account of the flight of Carl Schurx and J. H. Kappes from Germany into Switzerland after the suppression of the uprising of 1848. With them was Dr. Theodore iiertzberg, who came to America at about the same time Schurz and Kappes did, and acttled in San Antonio, Texas, where h* published a German paper up to tbs time of th‘e rebellion. Being a union man bas suffered for the advocacy of hia viewa. Hia office was destroyed and he waacompelled to leave the country. He has had the promise of a consulship in Germany, where" his family now ia, for some time, bnt some how he does not receive his papers. Secretary Schurz has quartered him temporarily in the government printing office, where his knowledge of ancient and modern languages make him at rimes s very efficient help to the proof readers. He has twice ' been impovsriahed by devotion to patriotism, and has concluded that come what will hereafter he can incur no more riaku. He thinks, too, a little consulship might be given him in consideration of what he has suffered in the cause of truth and right. JBabton.

A Herein Light-House Keeper,

[Quebec Correspondenc* 1 New York JVorld.] The Acadians have a tradition that God enjoined perpetual silence and desolation on Labrador and Anticosti when he gave them to Cain for a heritage. However that may be, h is certain that while other wilds of th* earth yield to man’s conquest these vapt wastes remain ever void and empty. The Indians called the island XatiscotU—the country of wailing—and under the modern corruption of Anrioosti it has added to its terrible renown. Ita whole history, /rom the day it was discovered 'by Jacques Carrie*- tn 1534 to the j. resent,is a record of human suffering. Here and there, however, there ia a tale of heroiem worthy of a nobler scene. In Augnst, 1869, the family of Edward Pope, keeper of the Ellis-bay light home, was |tricken down by typhoid fever, and, to add to/hia misfortnnes, the revolving appra’tua of hia light broke. The government steamer had gone, and Pope had no means of commnnicaring with the marine department at Que bee or elsewhere. The light revolved, or flashed, as technical phrase is, every minute and a half; and if it flashed no' more 1 it wonld probably be mistaken by passing vessels in that region of fog for the stationary light at the west point of the island, and thus lead to dire Inas of lUe. Pope found that with a little exertion he conld turn'it and make it flash, and at once determined to fill the place of *he automatic gear. Accordingly this humble hero sat in the turret, with hU watch by his side, turning the light regularly at the allotted time every night, from 7 p. m. until 7 a. n».,' from the middle of August until "the firat of December, and from the first of April until the end of Jun6, when the government steamer came , to his relief with a new apparatus. All through - the first season Pope's daughter and grandchildren were ill unto death, with nobody save him to nurse them. He waited on them tenderly during the day, but as night fell on the iron-bound coaat he hastened to hia vigil in the turret, doing his duty to the Canadian government and to humanity with unflinching devotion. In ^ (lie second season his daughter, who had lived through the fever, took turns with him in the light room. This man may have saved a thousand lives. He died in

1872, and his deed has never until this day *, ar the long ro. 11 1 *

Id knows nothing.

hern chronicled, for of the heroes of Anlic e*ti, ns of the long roll of her victims, the

Obit 0*17.

Rev. Samuel (). Aiken, D. D., for thirty years pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Cleveland, died at his residence

yesterday morning, aged 88.

Judce Charles T. Sherman, formerly United fltates judge for the Cleveland (O.) 'lintrict, died suddenly yesterday morning. He wafl a brother of secretary and Gen.

Hherman.

Ex-State Treasurer Robert W. Mackey of Pennsylvania, died yesterday morn-

ing.

John M. Walters, for several yeara Connected with the Grand Opera house at Milwaukee, and later treasurer of the Milwaukee theater, died Tuesday evening of consumption, after an illness of but two or three weeks. He was well known, among theatrical people.

tract with a corresponding period of seven years, just ended, I find that, taking the amount of work done in the last seven yeara and paying for it at tbe rate it would have cost under the contract system, the saving to tbe government in round numbers has I een $7,000,000 or $1,000,000 per year. And this only on the congressional printing. Tbe work done in the executive departments would have been in the same proportion, but there is no record of the amount expended for this part of the public printing, and' it is impossible to say what has been saved there. But all this makes no difference to hungry democrats. They insist that the government printing office shall be abolished and the printing let but by contract, as in “good old democratic timel.” If this ia done, the public printing which now costs less than $2,000,000, including the purchase of all new machinerr, wifl coat over $4,000,000 per annum, and not be done §0

promptly or so well.

Production of Precious Metals. Wells, Fargo‘A Co.’s annual statement ot the precious metals produced in the slates and territories west of the Missouri river, including British Columbia and the receipts in San Francisco from the west, (roast of Mexico, during 1878, shows aggregate products as follows: Gold, $38,056,231; silver, $38,746,301 < lead, $3,452,000, ihc total being less by $17,267,132 than ' for 1877. All probabilities now indicate that the yield of gold and silver from ail sourcea named for 1879 will not greatly exceed $70,000,000. A Kentucky New Year**. At a gathering of young people at a bouse at Middle Creek, Floyd county, Ky., a dispute arose between Noah Wadkins and Greenwade Hamilton, which soon changed into a "fight. Wadkins drew a knife and plunged it into Hamilton’s neck.causing death shortly aftes. Wadkins was put in jail. Return on Boston Property. Before the nani* a net return of 6 or 7 pet, cent, was the general return upon rental property in Boston, while now and for the future (for some years, at least,) 4 per cent, set will be retarded aa a desirable

investment.

Worth»r Deprcctetloa In Tarkoy. A fnrthrr enormous depreciation of Turkish paper money has occurred. As* consequence numbers of baker shops hare been dosed. ^ *