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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: SATURDAY. JUNE 21, 1819-

sat CROAT, JUNK II. Jtlf. The Indianapolis News has a bona fide Circulation more than one-half larger than that of any other daily paper in Indiana. I-rcoit only $93,000 to run Lafayette last year. _ Cheap coal is a good thing for manufacturer*, but cheap taxes is an almost equally important item. Diranro this special session of congress 2,335 bills hare been introduced in the house. ’• The Kansas Chy Journal says the craze for settlement in the Indian territory has inflicted a less of $50,000 on the cattle men along the boarder. The action of the military caused a stampede of the herders to locations where the pastorage was too poor to properly support the stock. e> ' Rsswumoss commendatory of President Hayes in vetoing the democratic measures by the New Hampshire state senate, were offered and laid over till Tuesday for conaideration. This might be looked at in the lightof a^notice from Bill Chandler that if the president doesn’t go on yetoing he won’t be commended. . Texas begins to know how it is as well as Indiana. The recent release by pardon of two notorious desperadoes who had been duly sentenced to death by the courts, has nearly created a reign of terror. It is said further, that generally this ‘great abuse of the pardoning power in Texas is the direct source of much of the lawlessness that exists there. After a furious debate and all the waste powder of two or three days by Conkling et al., the army bill passed the senate exactly as it came from the house and it it altogether probable that the president will sign it. Conkling is one of that kind of arses that thinks its ears are the largest and sleekest and its bray the most sonorous of any other liring.

counties of Jackson, <to*s and Bates, exoapt those living Within one mile of three named of that part of Yernon county which lay within the military district, should remove within fifteen dare. It announced that such of them as could bring proof blloyalty would be permitted to remove to any military station In the district, but that all the rest must move out nf the district. It announced that such hay and grain in these counties as was in stacks or under cover, and within reach of military stations in the district, might be hauled by the owner* to said stations, where it wMild be receipted for, and that after fifteen days all the rest would be destroyed. The Qasette characterises it in most vigorous language aa cruel In the last degree, leaving the inference that Ewing deserves classifafttion with the “Austrian Hyena," Haynau. This, we believe, is the first instance of a republican paper attacking a union officer for his conduct in the war, (though we do not say it may not ba deserved) and appealing to the rebel sym patby in the democrats, to.punish him for his acts by cutting him off from political preferment. The position of things is rapidly shifting. # >

The Cincinnati Times is anxious to know if Mr. Hendricks is “now in favor of a substitution of treasury notes for bank notes, and for Ewing and Bice, two gallant onion generals in the late war,” and refers the matter to The News for investigation. These .are interesting if not imporffmt questions, but as Mr. Hendricks is at Hot Springs cariosity mnst be stayed. All political parties are liable to misuse the system of political assessments, but there is a use of it whidh is altogether proper and without which it is difficult ti see how any political organization is to be maintained. [Philadelphia Bulletin. How has the democratic party been maintained? For twenty years it has had no hundred thousand^ office-holders milk, but in tea years it has pretty stead ily come up from a slight hold on power to the control of both houses of congress and a good many states of the onion. Now that the democrats have deprived Indiana of -services so valuable as Dr. Maclntire’s in his profession, and driven him out of the state, we hope they are happy. Michigan has gladly availed her self of Indiana’s stupidity. She sec: one of the best teachers in the whole * profession to educate her deaf mutes. Indiana carefully deprives such • .one of the opportunity to educate hers, and takes instead a dentist in violation of law, who does hia duties by proxy, also in viola-

tion of law.

It will net astonish the Philadelphia Record to find that a year hence the present stand of Senators Bayard and Kernan on finance will be indorsed by their party, and that Mr. Bayard will be its candidate for president. If the Record was printed this aide of the Alleghenies it would be considerably astonished to see any such outcome. If there are any greenback victories this fall, and it looks as if there might be one or two, the soft money ma- - niaca will get a momentum that what little political virtue there is in the democratic party will be powerlfgs to resist. They will be received and installed in the places made vacant from having ousted such men as Bayard and Kernan. Apropos of the strike of the Fall River •pinner*, improvements in spinning machinery threaten to supplant the work of many hands. The “ring-spindle frame” doe* all the work now done by the “mule” in a much smaller space and can easily be tended by one girl In place of the six men aad boys now required for the service. The expense of introducing the new machinery is wVat retains the old service in place. But it is said that, if pushed too hard, the mill owners will have to make the change. If this is in the nature of a threat it ought to amount to little. Such improvement as* this is said to be can be held back by the leniency of no man. It is bound to come into use sooner or later, and drive those whose werk it does into other industries. Gazettes makes public issued by Gen. Ewing when In command of the i border at Kansas City. The

i that every inhabitant of the • %

tjwllln^chool j John Calvin^ come u^heiv | ‘aflI’” t *The imaginary John of Geneva wa* supposed to take bis place before the audlsnee in the spelling bee, and began la a

drawling voice (which Dow alwaj spell the word and pronounce 1 dime in this way: “A-double-l, J

Thdre, John Calvin, go down to the foot

BAM.T DAT!.

Lorwsuw Dew's visit to IndiawapoIU-A gkateh of This Eccentric Character. . [Prepared tor The Hews bv Rev. J. ©• Fletcher.! About fifty-three years ago there came to Indianapolis an eccentric preacher, whom fame for oddity was spread over the whole of the United States and Great Britain. He was not merely eccentric. He was a man, in some respects of fearless moral courage, and independence, of unimpeachable character, and of broad religions views at times,and again narrow, inexcusably rude in his manners, and very severe on fashion and sectarianism. t^uch was Lorenzo Dow,w ho visited Indianapolis on three different occasions, the first time, he preached on a Sunday forenoon in the old court house, standing in the southern window of the west side, so that people within the court room and the multitude in the.sb&de without could hear him. The second time, he preached in the woods on the sloping hill side near Lismund Basye’s cabin. This hill was known in after years

as White Point,* the residency j take it in. But I can still see the gaunt form,

i distance- tic long !*** “d beard, and recall the

use a man, ana span John of Geneva was

e the audlbegan in a ys used) to it. It was

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"inere, jonn vaiTiu, go uuwu w u>e foot: notwithstanding all my teaching, you w»« persist in pronouncing a-1-1 part. Now, Martin Luther, you come up here. Martim look sharp, and spell this word.” Then Martin. ■ through Dow’s mouth and nose, spelled “a-double-l all!" “That’s right, Martin: you are a good boy; go up to the head of

your clfttt.

At Brookville, Rev. Mr. Wilson, now of this city, heard Dow in 1826, when the Utter was on his way to Indianapolis. He began by saying, “Usually ministers preach from God’s words to men, but I' am going to bring you man’s word to God.” He *^en announced the word of Abraham, “S^i not the judge of all the earth do ri£ at y> His setmon was a general sla^ aillg i nto the

‘^Shorter catechism.

Of his first serw ufl | tt Indianapolis I do not recall a s^ gle word . The whole of that occasion gong like the baseless fabric of Pr Cipero’s vision. I was too young to

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An idea of Mr. Gonkling s style may be bad by the following sentences, given as specimens of the strained politeness and mock courtesy with which he coven his sneen and contemptnons arrogance: “No, if my friend will pardon me, I do not, and I beg him not to misnndentand my question, if he will indulge me.’’ • • * “I want, if I may, to eontinne this instructive dialogue—instructive to me, I mean—with the senator.” • * * “Mr. president, the senator can not understand me, and that is no doubt my fault.” • * • “Now I see my excellent friend from Indiana has risen.” * * * ‘-phe senator from Georgia whom I see in hi?coat —I am always glad to see him—told us the other day in answer to a question which I believe I ventured to ask myselfand so on. He is as crazy from vanity as Theodore Tilton is, utterly devoid of the obligation a gentleman always feels resting upon him. There is hardly a man of his own parly he hasn't quarreled with. Blaine hasn’t spoken to him since their quarrel in the house yea-a *70. Minister Stoughton with his cheerfal stor* iesto the contrary, the Londo.t News has correspondence from Russia and clippings from Russian papers which show a widespread state of terror in that empire. In the year 1878 there were, by official siatement, 33,319 conflagrations in the empire, with an aggregate loss of 62,472,003 roubles, or $15,000,000. Many of these fire/ were undoubtedly lighted by the nihilist conspirators. Murder and crime of aU sorts gor-on in nearly every quarter. The number of arrests increases and represents al’ grades of society and both sexes. Already over 1,200 have arrived at Tobolsk to be distributed over Siberia, and so great is the number of exiles that several shiploads,are to be sent by way of the Suez canal and Pacific ocean to a penal settlement on the s:a of Okhtosk. Burnside will’ vote for the army bill. That is a pretty strong indication .that the

president will sign it.

In our opinion, the rime has gone by when

the inflation and anti-resumption policy is an element of strength in Ohio or any western state. Give thc-e people free rem in this canvass, and it is not very doubtful where

the will drive to.—[Cincinnati Gaze tie. Since the representatives of the soft-money

interest are declaring their independence 6' patties, is it not time for the representative of hard-money interests to begin to think of

doing tha tike?—[New York Post. The money-sham oarty can not be helped

by men 1'ke Bayard,' Kernan, and tbeir little honest-money faction. The course of party wisdom is to turn them out without ceremony. The church can gmly survive by excommunicating the heretics. — [Chicago

Times.

Men may grow mad in.the hot atmosphere of Washington, and utter what insane nonsense they please, but civil war will not follow their ravings, any more than a social revolution will be precipitated by the inmates of an asylum for maniacs. Nothing prevent the people of both sections seeing each other as they are, bnt the cloud of dust raised by self-seeking politicians.—[Boston Herald. The republican party is in the condition of the boy with the boil, who was afraid to open it himself, and very angry with the other boy who smashed it with his fist, but who was secretly immensely relieved and thankful that the thing was done. Thus have the democrats let out the boils of stalwart ism that their opponents scarcely knew how to get rid of, and the result will be that the battle in Ohio will be fought not on the decaying passions of a dead past but on the real living political issues of the day, viz.: the financial question.—[Pittsburg Leader. We talk about congress. Congress is just what we make it; it |* what the people make it. There never was another couatry in the world where business men had an opportunity to form public Opinion, and to direct legislation, as in this country: and if they don’t it is their own fault. How is it with the representatives of the citizens? Whom do members of congress represent? Do they represent the business men ? Are they selected and chosen by the business meu, or are they the men that have catered to the slums of thq large cities? And if they do not represent business men, whose fault is it but that of business men who neglect their individual duties.—[Collector Beard. Industrial Concloalons. . I Atlantic Monthly.] First—that the savings of to-day are far greater than in the past. Second—that the earnings of the present are greater than in 1860. Third—That the cost of articles that enter into living has not advanced in proportion to our earnings. Fourth—That the mass of the people are better fed, better clothed, housed and in possession of more of the Comforts of life than at anv other period. Fifth—*That the change has been brought about bv the development of the forces of nature through discovery, invention, the use of ma'hinery and the harmonious working of capital and labor. Sixth—That capital and labor, instead of being antagonistic, are naturally helpful, aud that anv conflict between them is brought about oy elements beyond the control c either acting separately. A Minority Report. The minority of the committee of the judiciary having had under consideration the message of the pmidentedisapproviog of “An act to prevent military interference with elections,” yesterday submitted a statement of the reasons why they can not concur with the views of the majority of said committee. The report defends the position taken by the president, and declares tbaithe message does not advocate military interference, bnt the contrary. It quotes an erder of General McClellan and the report of the demo cratie committee on the New York election in 1876, to prove that the statute sought to be repealed is a necessary and salutary one, and jhould be continued in force.

of Dr. McClure. It was a short distancesouto of the j, tOW nt Union depot. The third find Iasi time that Lorenzo Dow came to the capital of Indiana be preached in the then Wesley chapel, (the first building which was taken down in 1846,) the site of the Sentinel office, at the corner of Meridian and Circle streets. This was four years before Dow died. The first time he came to this place he journeyed from Ohio and the southeastern part of this state, preaching at Oxford, 0., and Brookville, Ind. At the latter place I believe he staid at the house of Rev. Thomas Goodwin’s father. In both Oxford and Brookville he exhibited some of his striking peculiarities. But as little is known of Lorenzo Dow in this generation, it will be well to first give some account of this eccentric clergyman, who, from 1777 to the year of his death, in 1834, was so well known in the United States and Great Britain.* Just south of Norwich, Connecticut, is the township Montville. In the northwestern corner of this township Lorenzo Dow was born, October, 1777. The house, even now occupied by relatives of Dow’s second wife, still stands. It is a “low, rambling, twostory farm house” on the turnpike which runs through Montville to Colchester, the

the midst of “stony, .sterile pasture land,’ and that the region near at hand consists of “stony fields aad pastures, thatched with briers and bay berry bushes.” A regular old fashioned Connecticut yankee pointed out to the visitor the Dow house, and the places where Lorenzo had prayed and preached in the beginning of his “ministry.” “This is the right kind of country,” said the above cynical rustic, “to produce a religion hard enough for anybody. No ider that preachers were tough. No nonsense about ’em. there’s material enough lying around loose here to turn out a hell without any great strain of the imagination. The old man (Dow) got his religion and his musion to preach direct from here and God. He didn’t belong to no denomination, but set out oh his own hook. He didn't take no pay, and went about as the apostles* of old, wnerever the spirit called him. Lord, how he used to sail into the preachers that got salaries. He had ideas of his awn, and was independent of every one ana everything, es-

pecially fashion.”

The senate spent the entire session yesterday on the army bill, which passed at o’clock this morning by a vote of 33 to 19, Senator Burnside voting with the democrats. The debate was participated in by Senators Conkling, Blaine, Carpenter, Thurman, Logan, ana others. In the house no business

of importance was transacted.

lings than given by this man. Dow’s dress was as original and odd as his manner and matter in preaching. He always wore his beard long when everybody else shaved clean. I was three years old when he first came to Indianapolis, but I remember well his thin figure, as he stood in the court hou~e window preaching to those inside and ont. His long black hair was parted exactly in the middie, and was combed with great care. His beard, which was just “grizzling” with streaks of whlfj, seemed to me to reach half way down his chest. He was the first n m that I ever saw with a mustache. In the three visits he made to Indianapolis I never eaw him out of the pulpit, or when not speaking, and I was too small to take much note of him, but presiding elder Lynch of this city, who had heard him in 1815 in Cincinnati and at Oxford in 1823,aad says that he usually wore a very long coat, coming down to his heels, and had his panto loons tied around with strings at the ankles, bo that these garments would not slip up when riding horseback, his usual manner of traveling, lie was a-customed, summer and wintfr, to wee an old straw hat with the

brim half torn off.

At an early age the boy. Lorenzo Dow, was greatly distressed with the ha^d, ungracious preaching of bis day in Coanecticut, when that commonwealth had a “otaadIng order” or state religion. He was, as a youth, greatly given to religious spr alatiou, and had no joy or peace in his re ,: 7iors views. It was about this time thai the Methodist church began its work in Connecticut, and be embraced its doctrines. At nineteen he applied for license to preach, but was rejected. At twenty-one he was accepted and he preached for one year at different places in New England and in New York. But his peculiar, independent aud rest’css spirit would not allow him to remain long in any set church harness, id while holding to the general doctrines of the M. E. church, he bad no regular ecclesiastical relations with it after 1799. He was a knight errant with a free lance, and not a soldier of the disciplined “host of God’s elect.” At the end of that first year he felt a special call to go and reach to Irish Roman Catholics in Ireland. He did so, speaking fearlessly, but moreover so indisCretely that he more than once ran the risk of a broken head. He visited the “old country” twice—the last time in 1805. He is said to have fcacn the first to introduce “camp-meetings” in England. When he returned we find him wandering over the whole United States and territories. It is sta* d that he was the first Protestant preacher to hold forth in southern Alabama and Louisiana. His views in regard to slavery were as fearless and outepoken as in regard to fashion and and to salaried ministers. In 1821 he was actually imprisoned in Charleston, Sonth Carolina, for his libellous remarks concerning one of the leading planters. When liberated, he preached his first sermon as fearlessly u bis last, but with a discretion worthy of the most satirical diplomat He took as the text for his discourse the whole parable of the rich man and Lazarus, and his diecription of Djves, in the midst of affluence, was a graphic sketch of a first-class planter in South Carolina. Nevertheless it was of a Hebrew magnate, and after the whole audience knew exactly what he had in view, he said, “but I will go no further with this desc. iption for fear that Dives has relations fn Charleston and I shall be imprisoned again for libel.” They probably had a Grubbs libel law in Sonth Carolina. When he arrived at Oxford, Ohio, Elder Lynch informs me that Dr. Bishop, president of the college, sent his negro minister to inform Dow that the college chapel was at his service, Dow told the African, “I accept the chapel, but tell Dr. Bishop that he ought to have been polite enough to have come himself and not to have sent yon.” The college chapel wag of course crowded by people from town and country. The principal merchant of the place was Meriken Bond, whose .wife and* daughter appeared in fashionable bonnets of the day, trimmed with large Prince of Wales ostrich feathers. They were seated behind Dow, but he singled them ont in a most ur. mannerly way, and gave his usual philippic against the fripperies of fashion. His sermon was charged with tirades against the theological belief of most of the persons present, and in the presence of Dr. Bishop and Proto. McGuffey and Allen, he thundered against preordination and election. He exacted deference and courtesy from others, but never thought it worth his while to render back what he demanded. It was in this tour that in a certain town the Presbyterian church having heard of his tendency to “pitch into” Presbyterians, the Presbyterian church edifice was refused to those persons who applied tor Dow to preach in it. The consequence was that they bad to go to the school house, where, feeling the fitness of the pUce, Dow began his services by saying, “Well have

is wierd

impression made upon me. Mj^father told me in after yean that when Dow was half through his disepurse, a wagon load of people from beyond the Helvy neighborhood (over the river in No. 16 school section) drove into the court house yard. Dow stopped his serand began in his drawling voice to count, and this being done he exclaimed, “Seven! Blessed number! Bible number! Complete number! Welcome! I have ireached from this text,” naming It, “and I lave got so far.” He then repeated the heads of his di£course*-such as they were— and said, “I was here when you drove up, and now I will go on from this place in my

sermon.”

I recall distinctly his second visit and his reaching in the woods, a little south of the Inian depot I can still see the crowds seated beneath the shady forest trees, the boys up in the branches, and Dow on something, whether a stamp or box or a platform of boards, I do not remember. And amongst that andience I recall with great vividness a curious “gnurly,” short, thick-set negro who was known as “Parson” Layback. ,[)ow had arrived the night before, and was the guest of Morris Morris. Be came about snpper time, and while he was seated at the supper table many persons of Indianapolis, who had heard him here and .ilsewbere, came to welcome him. Doubtless tome were moved by curiosity, but the najor part had the best of intentions. EVhen he came from supper he turned abruptly to Morris Morris and asked in his gruff way “Where am I to sleep?” and taking his old straw hat he went to his bedroom, not deigning a word or look to those who had come to salnte him. He was never inclined to be social. At his preaching next day he was disturbed” by the boys in the trees. He addressed them something which I did not understand. My father told me afterwards that he said, “You young Zacheuses, come down ofit of that tree!” In the middle of the sermon I saw that “Parson” Layback was seated at the root of a tree, and that the colored gentleman was exceedingly conspicuous by lis white vest and immense shirt bosom. Dow on this occasion was a little less denunciatory than usual, aud was speaking of the liberty wherewith Christ can make us free, “Yes,” he said, “a man may be a slave; another mau may own his body, but if he has the freedom of Carist he is no slave.” ’hen looking to the place where Parson .ayback was seated, Dow yelled at him: Layback, when you go back to Orleans, tell your brethren that Dow told you this!” Of course everybody was startled at this turn iu the sermon, but were more so when the negro thundered back to the astonishment of

all: “Berry well, sab, I will!”

The last time he came to Indianapolis, and spoke, it was at “early candle light” in the old Wesley chapel, he made but tittle stir, and had no great crowd from either town or country. 4 sat in the gallery, and he seemed to me feeble in comparison with the two previous occasions in which he preached here. He was by no means old in years when he died (he was only 57), but for several years before his death he was called “Old Dow,’

and seemed prematurely worn out.

The anecdotes of him arff innumerable. None seem to me more characteristic than bis performance of “miraculously raising the devil” on one occasion, and, next, the manner of getting his second wife. I will ive the latter as I heard it from my father, e bad lost his first wife, to whom he was sincerely attached. Sometime afterward, when preaching to a strange audience, he told at the close of his discourse of his great loss: “She was a good wife to me, and I have been very lonelv without a wife. I want another; and if there is any woman in this audience that would tike to’become my wife and share with pae my labors and toils and travels, let her stand up.” In a minute six women stood up. “Sit down,” he thundered, “and try it again. 1 can’t marry you a!L’ ! Fire obeyed his command, but one continued standing, and he took her to be his wife. Such an eccentric man as Dow excited great interest ahalf a century ago. The ignorant looked upom him as something superhuman—the intelligent, whether Christians or not, used to go and hear him out of curiosity, for Dow was as “smart as a steel trap.” But he bad no following. There was no appreciable good from his preaching. He could not compare in his work here or elsewhere with Allen Wiley, James Armstrong, Old Father Haven, Strange, or a dozen others of the early Methodists I might mention. He is not to be mentioned for one moment with Mr. Moody or Mr. Needham, who are gallant knights errant for the Master, and who have done an immense amount of good. I doubt if to-day Dow’s peculiar mode of dress, his ill-bred personalities, his want of courtesy and his general eccentricity would cause him to be run after in the United States. That he lived a pure life is admitted on all hands, but that permanent good was done to others I think can not be shown. His biography once was found in every house. To-day it is scarce— even our excellent library does not possess a

copy.

G«1 jpve to nun hi« brnne *

With talreek oi(hts and aoands eeck

r&YifihoA) *

Yet here to vain may myn demand for raat He finds It not in ahady glades repoateg; Hefinitou rmt hravent among; Nor even when, his home around him dosing. Ho lis ta at Brunet to hia children's aong. «d keeps took real alone, that tha world-»«•«■?. E'en though hti enp high mantle* to the brim, Or though hi* Isle to desolate and drrary. May seek and find repose alone In Him!

—{TIM Argoay.

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its 250th birth-day on

A son baa been born to the prima donna, Mme Albam. Cowards die many times before tbeir deaths; the valiant never taste of death bat once.—[Caesar.

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The Free Press says: A Detroit woman soaks her breadboard over night so as to prevent any loss by shrinkage. - A marble bust of Frederick Douglass was formally presented to the city of Rochester by a number of citizens on Monday. The venerable Gen. W. O. Bo tier, of Carrolton. Ky., is baconr'ng very weak, and requires assistance p rising from bis chair. President Bartlett’s resignation of the presidency of Dai i mouth callege is 1 amoved as likely to be anucunced at the oming commencement The refusal to take proper physical rest when tired from labor is one of the most powerful inducoments to the consumption of ardent spirits. Charleston, S. C., contains abmt 25,000 white people and about 32,000 colored people. For every white person wh^dies three colored people die. A New Haven child’s father eloped with another Iran’s wife, ard its mother eloped with another woman’s husband. The tittle one goes to the poorhouse. Etiquette says a call should not be less than fifteen minutes iu length.—[New Orleans Picayune.) This rule does not apply to newspaper offices.—[Boston Post. lenryWard Beecher will deliver an onftion at Walden Lake, Mass., on the fourth of July morning, on “Nation affairs," and at Silver Lake grove in the afternoon. Four hundred thousand persons, according to the Railway World, are employed on the railroads in this country, and Uve times that many depend upon the roads for support. During January only effcht days were recorded in which any sunshine was registered at the Greenwich observatory, England, and during fourteen days of Febraary there was none. In December there were only 14.8 boers of sunshine. v Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy was murdered at Alton, Illinois, in 1837, when thirty-four years of age, and while defending his fourth press from destruc.ion by a pro-slavery mob. He has no monument, and a movement has just been inaugurated to secure one. Hawthorne did not intend that his note books should be published, and they probably would not have been printed bad the fortunes of the family permitted the luxury of keeping them locked up. The books, however, were a disappointment, returning but small income. Ex-Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, called together those of his colored laborers who bad the emigration fever and t-.lked to them. He told them that if they would stay with him during the season, fulfilling their contracts, be would help them go to Kansas with rations for their journey and money toward their farcs. # They concluded not to go. Senator Hill of Colorado has three children—a son being as tall as himself, although not out of his teens, and a daughter equally large for her years. “I ascribe their fine development to their being allowed plenty of sleep in their childhood, and never being allowed to keep late hoars,” said the senator when some ore remarked upop the physical beamy of his children. This is Ihe view taken of it by an infantof St. Joceph, Mo.: Little Freddie was undergoing the disagreeable, operation of having his hair combed by* his mother and he grumbled at the maneuver. “Why, Freddie,” said mamma, “you ought not to make snob a iuas. I don’t iues and cry when my hair is combed.” “Yes,” replied the youthful party, “but your hair aint hitched to your head.”* —[Harper’s Magazine. An amusing story is told of Dr. Lyman Beecher by a correspondent of the Hartford Times. When he was preaching at Litchfield

ing pond, coat pockets ing time to change his clothes, he marched with his pole to the chnrcb, and entered the pulpit with his boots filled with water and the pickerel kicking in his poeket. Notwithstanding his condition the divine preached one of his most impressive discourses.

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Sir Augusta* William Frederick Bpcacer Loftua, who to known br cq0**»7 ,■* kprd Augustus Loftu, the former minister of

in at St Petersburg, bat who h«s

■ > appointed governor of New South Wales, strived %t this port on Tueedey in the Canard steamer Bothnia, on hu way to Srdby way ol San Francisco. a*id the i’a“Will yoo.be good enough to favor me with

to be tittle unde»#ood here ?

• “I have known the imperial family intimately, and 1 would prefer hot to express opinions that might be mlsunderatood. However, 1 will my that the so-called nihilist movement U very much exaggerated. It to certainly misunderstood so for as it regards dvnasiy. The nihilist perty, if it be. permireeble to use such a figure of apeech, can be almost counted on the finger* of one’s h *“lsChearmy loyal?” . . “So long as the emperor can depend on hi* army he u master of the situation I doubt ifthsguards“nre in anyway tainted with feeling of disloyalty, bnt the esse m« be “Who are the nihilisto?” ^ “They are but aa infimtesaimal part of the - Tha peasants are not amon* thSi UU Th«ee Utter are Wto the emperor. The nihilists are what VM may call the literati. They are the writers, students and other classes possessed of a fair degree of education. These people are op-

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nigbt reported to

to the sefeaetHHiPI appointment* in the public schools Mart yaw. Mr. Brown, oMritofiff.

that an additional b&iji been appointed, hen the condition of list of resignations

t •

So* ihe |

Tetter Carriers* Deficiency. The letter carriers’ deficiency bill was reported back to the senate yesterday and placed on the calendar. The committee struck out the entire amount ($71,000) voted by the house for the payment of an increased salary to letter carriera for the current fiscal year, under the reclassification authorized by the act of last February, and reduced the amount of $415,000 provided by the bouse for the pavmeut of increased salaries and the extension of the free delivery service of the next fiscal year to $400,000. The committee have added to the bill a deficiency sum of $100,000 to pay the judgments heretofore rendered by the court of claims, aud appropriations of $15,000 to enable the general land office to adjust and settle state claims for swamp lands. The last two amendments, were offered by Senator* Rollins and Cockrell respectively to the legislative and executive appropriation bill, but they have foiled of adoption. Dr. Bonaparte Besteneed. In the United States court at Cincinnati yesterday. Dr. Edward Bonaparte, alias E. B. Reynolds, specialty physician for the past twenty-five years, was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year for sending printed doenments through the mails giving information were certain articles, the sale of which is forbidden by law, could be purchased.

superintendence and pro vids for tk* grow til of the schools, with bat very littto if aay Increase in the total expenses oa account of salaries. The resignatioas presented were

fhoseof:

MhoMaateC.! Ell* T. Sera err! tie, K. Weld, Mb* Mm Mto* Apn* H, JfiMi Theban assigned are: * Mia Nettie If to* Sophto Dtthmsr,! M. M. JEtlchardrcn, HU* Ida Z 1 T1 wwi* lirritoUcnd Mis* ftanh £ !_J * Bit? JnCvItrliSlIU, mlasl 0«I*4A &,

leu Roger i.

The appointments are as follows: a sshh sit § ©is fmrmtmamu t »,«! * Jt-*

Jcnr*. Nebreeka Oropeey.

Aa Opposition Lie. [Logaasport Pharos.) The proposal to settle the question as to who shall be the next republioan candidate for the presidency by a Graeco-Roman wrestling match between Roecoe Conkling and James G. Blaine, to received with considerable favor among the opponents of a third term.

EophomiattooUy Doing U. (Rockville Tribune. ] We don’t tike to aay oor national fiatic friends lie, for we love them dearly ; but they have a babit of only stating half the fact in certain cases, which rubs dose on the other thing.

posed to the present system of government. There are also a great many persons of aU the other classes who stk dissatisfied with the present system of bribery and corruption, which exists in the government. While these persons are not nihilists they would not be sorry if nihilism would bring about a change of System. The importance attoched to the nihilists as a party to very much exaggerated. What gives rise to the party at all is the system of corruption am) peculation that exists in all the branches of the government, including the ariny. The nihilists are audacious. They are vindictive, and will slop at nothing, not even assassination. There is a double engine moving—first, that of terrorism; second, that of retribution.” “Some people talk of insurrection. But that is impossible so long as the army remains loyaL The nihilists exercise a system of terrorism, and in that very fact they show their weakness. They hold to Russian affairs about the same attitude that the communists held to the French empire. If they were greater in number doubtless they would act and make a demonstration of strength. Not doing so, but exercising a system of terrorism instead, is a palpable exhibition of weakness. Their purpose, on opportunity, to

secret assassination.”.

“When I was at Odessa,” interposed Lord LofIns’s eldest son at this point, “the troops were fairlv compelled to barricade themselves to save the emperor from the rage of the excited populace. I was looking out of a window at the emperor as he pas_ed. He was as pale as a sheet and trembled percept-

ibly.”

“And I," ejaculated the younger son, “saw pretty much the same coadition of

affairs at Moscow.”

“And this is the same emperor,” said Lord Augustus, resuming the thread of his intertupted conversation, in a musing manner, “whom I have often seen pass my house in St. Petersburg unattended and followed only by his carriage. Now it is as much as his tile is worth to go abroad. Personally the emperor is kind hearted. He acts however, under warm impulses and frequently under bad advisement If the emperor was to give the people a limited representation in the government, so far as the disbursement of its finances is concerned, for instauce it would keep social disturbances in abeyance, as it were. I understand that the emperor approves of such a policy, but the court fear to bring it forward at present, for fear of its being accepted as a confession of weakness.” “Can you foresee an early end of the

trouble?'

“No. For every exeention that takes place there is an assertion of the spirit of vengeance and retribution. Therefore it is impoissible for any one to seethe end of tbe trouble. Russia is now in a state of siege. There is an absence of temporized justice. Trials by court-martial are the rule. Hundreds of persons are sent to Siberia by what is called the police administratif, a sort of irresponsible tribunal. It is a name that is c&ed for a shield. Banishing these people in this way is much tike suspending the operations of the writ of habeas corpus. It is such things as these which increase the feeling of discontent with the government.” Joe Jefferson’s Flret Appearance. Of Joseph Jefferson’s first appearance on the stage, when fourteen years old, Mr. L. C. Davis gives in Lippincott a touching description. The young actor's widowed mother had for weeks trained him in the music, words and business of his part. They were both very poor, and both hoped intensely that the debut would be successful. The night came, and young Jefferson took his place upon tbe stage more dead than alive with fright. He became conscious that his mother was watching him, and though half blinded with tear, he saw her hands tremble up to her mouth, saw the tears filling her eyes, and raw her trying to smile encouragement to m through them; yet after the first tine or two he broke down utterly, and amid a storm of hisses he tottered off at the wing, to wlych his mother was clinging for support, so great was her distress. Be flung himself into her arms, erring out through his sobs and hers that he had failed—that he should never succeed. The lovely lady and loving mother died, not, indeed, before her son bad gamed a good position upon the stage, but before he had reached the success that would have made her so proud and happy.

Manly Word*. [Attica Ledger.] If the day ever comes when we can no longer feel that the republican party is better than all others, that day will see us leave it. We would feel ashamed to admit that our only, or even our best, reason for being republicans in 1879 was because a party by that name put down the rebellion it 1861. We are republicans because we believe in an honest dollar, (and plentv of them), in honest pajment of the public debt, in honest elections, in honest officials, and in freedom and protection to all men._ . Prccuring aa Illegal Vote.* John J, Kelly, ex-couucilman of Cincinnati, was sentenced yesterday to imprisonment in tbe county jail for three months and to pay a fine of $100 for indneing a man to cast an illegal vote at the last fall election. Ho American Troops la Canada. The Ottawa government has decided to rescind all permission to American troops to visit Canada under arms, alleging as a reason therefor that these visits might lead to further complications. Not the dofferer. [Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald. 1 Mr. Bayard hu not been the sufferer in this disgraceful affair. He hu maintained his dignified equipoise and his strong hold upon tbe neerts of the people. Generally the Case. „ [Attica Ledger.] It is a significant fact that the men who cry hard times the loudest, are the v ery ones who are industriously doing nothing to make them better Aad a Good Maay Others. [Terre Haute Bxpreea] This much may be said of Bayard, he hu the courage of bis convictions, which some of the democratic silver senators have not. That's Why They wLt Urn Daddtea’ Delian. - [Ctectoasti Gesette.1 Tbe democrats select men u financial leaden who had not sense enough to keep the dollars they inherited.

Price of Petroleum, The fluctuations in petroleum have been very great. It hu sold u low as forty cents a barrel within the put two years. Its price is sixty-five cents per barrel at the east. The highest price ever known to the trade wu between 1868 and 1874, when its average wu $4 per barrel. That wu the ruling price in 1872. A year ago there wu a ferment of excitement over “dotiaroil,” u it wu called. Producers said it would bring the trade into

the rough element in the region threatened

tonka

to burn the oil in the

; if it wu not

turned out on the sands; still, tbe price continned to go down to its present low figure. Since 1872 the average price of crude oil hu decreased about 350 per cent, while the amount of oil stored and the product of the wells have decreased over 600 per cent Conkltoe Helped by Hi* Physique. [Stewert L. Woodford.] Senator Conkling to a very able man, of fine appearance, and it U a pity he should stand where he doe*. His bight and large figure always command bim a respectful bearing. 1 nave often thought I wonld give a good deal for hto inches and avoirdupois. Small men, like you and I, are apt to be overlooked sometimes. Hto bight and weight have bed not a tittle to do with hi* political success. The rural politician who goes to Albany to vote for senator to very apt to be impressed by a fine physique and authorita-

tive manners.

Ptrs as Cincinnati.

The barrel and box factory of John Richard’s Son*, corner of Eighth street and Eggleston avenue, wu partially burned yesterday afternoon. Lou $4,006 to $6,000;" in-

sured.

As* 8o They Shoal*. [Plymouth JBepsbliean.] The hard money men of both parties are warmly praising Bayard for hto courage and firmness. ' - '

^TwecbeT*—George B. Tuails^ Speetoi of QtawiegTortThTiT faHseridh.'apSriat teuher

Joh«M,tia:UeK»v?£fueUoy£ F.orance F.y, Sadie”'iH?n, C l^utt A Al^ Praams

McFarland, Cntrie Oar-

tol -

tier man.

Homan, Delia Echo!*, Pauline Bhafier, tier mm. ho. 8—Etta Braitihaw, principal; Ann* B, Thom**, Alice TattemU, Lucratia Hobart, A. M.

Bidden, Deli* Carrie.

ho.**—Hanrietie Echimk*, principal;. Ann* Bchrake, Carrie Cleaver. Lleato k tearna, Majgio Hamilton, critic, Snaan Bradley, Anua Mnrriann,

tKfJsajia'iS

Elnora Haag, German.

Hc.lO-HenrieColgsn, principal; Aay Walaa. Ruamy Wale*. Mary A. Fulton, Mary C. War*, Marjaiet Zeailng, Boa v Dark, Julia D. Uulcklua helron, Carrie Jonea, Ha B. Morse, Mary Dy®, Ella KonI*. Ella Jonts, Julia Aabley. Lola Hoyt. Brookaide—Kate Phipps, principal; Inna

Wright.

ho. 11—Emma Don nan, principal; Emilr N. Ensign, Laura Don nan, Kate E. Eepey, Mattla Robinaon, Juliet Moore, Cor* M. Day .Liaxle Me*kill, May Mlnnicb, Mary 8. Kennedy, Mary P.

Cun to, Emma Danneberg. German.

ho. 18- Mary E. Perry, principal; Claribei Thompson, Emma Bicbman, Anna Ovett, Carrie McCormack. Laura Black, Dollie David, Jennie A.

Huron/Mario 8telle, German

ho. IS—M Selma IngeraoU. priodnal; Mary H. Ingeraoll.’LsuraT (Benson, Alice N Dwnare*, Mary Mather, Laura Tan Deusen, Hattie Galbraith, Nannie Galbraith, Fannie Murphy, leabelKlog, critic, Rachel Sogar, Helena O. Sturm, German. > ho. H—Mary T. Lodge, principal; Mara A. Hancock, Beatrice Fay, Agnea Lannea, Fane la Moniacn, MlUie Hancock, Mary Bledenmeiator,

Iqulaa Tichirch, German.

ho. IS.—Jennie Barbour, principal; Barrie Bob-

inson,-Myra Peck.

Hs. 18—Margaret N. Marshall, principal; Sarah

E. Prather, Belle Carroll.

ho. 17.—Jennie McO. Wood, principal; Bara Underhill, Maggie Laird, Prudto Levi*. KNa Daria. ho. 18.—Levi E Christy, principal; H. B.Stokes,

Siva H. Terry, Anna M Spaulding.

R. .Wilson, principal; Emily L.

ho. 19. McCoy,

l.—Mary

Sarah Yontoey.

men; Laura Grube, German, ho. 23- "

-Mary A. McKeever, principal; Hattie Bibl, hattie VanJegrift. Al l. Morria, Mary A. Calhoun; Min

Lenora fit WU-

nnl* Kb-

Benaon. Ma.viv.nu,,.■ n,...i

mot, L. B. Morria, Mary A. Calhoun;

mcier, German.

ho 23—B W. Bagby, principal; S. V. W. Iraland, Wm McCoy, VictoriaWiUon, Mary G. Garter, Mary Wilron, Emma Gentry, N. N. Campbell. ho. 24—B. D. Rugby, principal; Kata Kvana,

Sattie McCary, Lil'ian Gilmore.

CHEAP COAXm

Cell for e Meeting to Devtoe How to Os*

Cheaper Coal.

The demand for cheap fuel is an ever present one in Indianapolis, and a number of th* merchants and manufacturers of the city have united in the following call for a meeting to be held at the room of the board of trade Monday night, to make an effort to secure cheaper rates for the transportation of coal, or if this be unsuccessful, to take step* towards building a road to tUfi coal country: The undersigned manufacturer* aad businew men of Indianapolla respectfully invite all whs are iutereated In ihe aubjoct 91 cheap fuel, and who are in favor of taking atep* to secure tha came, to meet aa at tbe board of trad# rooms, OS

Monday evening, June 83. at 8 o'clock p. m.

Haugh A Co., Indianapolla Stove Oo.,

Adas Engine-works, A. Abromet,

F. P. Ru.h A Co., A. L. Wright A Co, D. Monninger, E. B. Martlndato A Go.,

Hewing Mach.CablnetCo.,Thorns* D*ri»,

Lee-Hive Planlng-mill Sinker, Devi* A Co., 1 ndtonapoli* Bending Co.,K«gl« MachJnt-work», Moore A Kerrick, Pioneer Brass-works,

FleWher A Thomas, Peter ?• Bryoa,

D. E. Stone, Capital qtyPlanlng-null,

IndlananolU Sentinel Co.,J. M. Ridenour,

John Roberta, Central Printing Oo.,

W. R. Holloway, John F. John*ton,

A. B. Gatos A Co., John A J. A. Tsrlton, Coffin, Greenatreet A F., Murphy, Johnston A Co.,

J. A. Cloeaar A Co., M. Dickson A Co., M. H. Wright, . A. N. Hadley,

Klngan A Co.| 8ev«rtn,0.t*na«yerA G>. Daggett A Co., Haraon, Van Oimp A C*., Frederick Noelk*, heweomb, Otoon A Co.,

Ind Mcb. A Bolt Work*, AlfredT. Sinker, - Hlnkley, I*urceli A Co., H. Frank, J. H. Holliday, John P- Wood.

Central Elevator Co., D. Btoekmor* A Oo.,

Indpla. Polling Mill Co., W. O. Itockwood,

Indpla. Telephone Co., J. C. Ferguson A Co.,

A. t) Straight. X 8. Caray, _

Ssulsbu]

Sehsti

iburv Vinton, WUm?C?Sn A Co., UU ^ C0 ’j0hnM.^d P A O C^ ,,P ’

He Has a Pew Homory[Princeton Clarion.] Let's see. Dstn Voorhees lies net introduced that bill yet to repeal the resumption. ML

Coning TH* CHOBAL CMOS OOSC1BT. The Choral Union invocation concert will be given at the Grand Opera house next Tuesday evening. Tbe program will embrace four numbers by the Choral Unloa— Gloria and "The Marvelous Work*" by Haydn, tbe bridal chorus, from Lohengrin, and Mendelssohn’s psalm “Judge me, 0 God. Solos will be soog by Mrs. Julia Biodermano, Mrs. Grace Leveling, Mi*. W. 0. Lynn, Mr*. H. C. Newcomb, jr. and Mr. W. M. Jiltoou, Mrs. 8. L. Morrison, Mr. G. O, Andrea, Miassa Eva Smock and Lillfan nod Jennie Stoddard, and Mefsrs. Morrison, 8 tan wood and Andre*. Miss Ida Wallingford will play an unpub!>fibed Vatoe Caprice (piano) by Bchouacker, and Mr. Biedemetoter will -rive a Watdhorm solo. This to an invite ion affair, lad a collection will be taken un.

!Cincinnati tiaratt*.]

What would the great copperhead, YalUn-

digham, say, if he were alive? One Week la Well Street.

October 7th, 1S7I, Western Pntoa totogn *to< k »oW at the New Ymk Merit exchange for« per that*; October Hth, 1878, it ao'4 at 8 fluctuation cf 9% per cant. In csvra day*;

abara* cold oa a va-g‘n of or* pm

in actual capital of frtJSOO. Thecai era* at ore* a prodt of rtj par <aai. on the

ir IfcLtO jar 100 ahw

stock or

Mras. Oa

oooran n**d with eaul •neraai by th*

established. of orders ia on* ImaMBet

profit* »

I

the new

which ;, bar*

of pooling thousand* aad operating than aa realize large l wanted*! (ioTera- ' to Lawrence * Co,, ,Y.OUr, W

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