Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1879 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: THURSDAY, AUGUST U, M

CARPETS, WALL PAPHL LACK CUATAINR, WINDOW SHADW, OIL CLOTHS, LINOLEUMS. IIATTUIOK, Etc. Th* I«rfMt and b#«t MlMWd •took in th« •Ity, ki WkolMAla and Bauil. A. L WEIGHT & CO., (Bucewan to Adams, Mansur A Oo. J 47 and 49 South Meridian St.

THE DAILY NEWS. THcSsDAT, Al7oP8T~h. i«n. The Indianapolis Hews has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any Other daily paper in Indiana.

Good goTerament and low taxes generally go together. EvxRYTHnro haa come down in price. jThe coat of government must do ao too. JjOW taxes are great induceme its to capitalists and manufacturers looking lor new locations. Taken by and large, Hayes’s administration is one ef the most creditable the Country has had. The India* wars threatened this summer have failed to materialize. If the Indian was treated with common honesty, there would be no fears of war. He is not much fonder of fighting than the rest ©f people. . m pKESinsicr Hates accepts the invitation to visit the Indiana state fair. With this attraction, the managers ought to make the affair profitable. He will be the second president who has visited Indianapolis while in office, General Grant l>eing the other. Thebe are too many young men in the cities dependent upon employment where . oo particular training is required. There ought te be opportunities for many of them to learn trades, and if those who can not do so would take to agriculture it would be for the individual and general good. Skilled workmen are in demand, the farber is thriving, but there is a plethora of labor in clerkships and light work.

The atate department, since the failure ©f the Paris international silver conference, has been making overtures towards holding another, to determine if an agreement can not be reached to use a bimetallic currency with a definite ratio fixed between gold and silver. It is now announced that Germany is disposed to regard the proposal favorably, and if Ragland’s consent can be gained something may be effected. If a standard is established by which both metals can be floated on a level, we shall easily get out «f our silver difficulty,- a thing which aeems impossible as long as England and Germany refese to use silver at all, and the Latin union limits its coinage or ceases it altogether. Mant towns and counties in the country have seriously impoverished themselves by giving subsidies to railroads. In hundreds of instances during the fiush times sf railroad building, municipalities and townships loaded themselves with debts, which have been found very onerous and in many cases have been repudiated. There have been many which have feund the evil perpoudcrated over the good secured by the railway. Now that times are improving and railroad building has began again, people should be very careful how they vote taxes to such enterprises. Of course there are instances in which the contemplated lines will be of great benefit, in establishing communications where none exist, and bringing good markets nearer. But there are many others which will be of no additional benefit, which are projected in districts already well provided with facilities. The mere fact that another railroad runs through a township does not always help it; it may prove a detriment. Nor Can additional lines be depended upon to produce competition anl thus aid the people, lor in these days of pools, a virtual monopoly can be established with two or three roads as easily aa if there was but one. There will be boils of these enterprises appealing for public aid. Shrewd speculators will be ready to build roads whenever there is sufficient encouragement, and that means enough to grade and bridge the road. It can then be bonded, and the builders, after ironing and equipping it, will make a profit without any outlay of capitaL With reviving confidence it will be easy to aell bonds, and if the public is not careful we shall have the business overdone, whence is certain to result the sinking of capital, and the creation of public debts which have to be paid at the time when it is hardest to pay them. Eight, But He Didn’t Mean It When Mr. Tilden says that “whichever party wins the next presidency will get the credit of the betterment of the condition of affairs which is surely coming,” he admits, aa much as such a crafty old party manager could* be expected to aay anything, that neither party will or can produce the •‘betterment,” and neither should be entitled to the credit of it. The accident of the possession of power simultaneously with this improvement of busioeel will determine the direction of the credit, he says, and that which is accidents! is fairly no man's credit. It is the intention and the act of nobody. And we don't believe the mass of our people can be deluded by the fallacy that any political influence can appropriate it Bad legislation, the insanity ef inflatien that possessed the democracy of the west, and does yet to some extent; the idiocy of fiatism; the suicide of thwarting resumption, would have staved off the “betterment of afjdru'' /or n year or two, or a half dossn; and

judicious legislation, which consists mainly in letting trade and finance manage them reives, and which was fortunately the controlling ^policy of our legislation in the critical period, may have helped the “betterment’’ ahead a little; but no man of sense needs any elaborate demonstration to see that a country which, for four years had been paying off debts, weeding out sickly enterprises, reducing the unhealthy expansion of prices, checking credits, and bringing all property and all business to a cash basis, and just as this “bed rock” is reached is fairly loaded with a succession of good crops, is ss certain of seeing a “betterment of the condition of affairs” as the world is of seeing daylight when night is gone. And the maddest of legislation, short of actual destruction of property, can’t wholly defeat it. 4 Prosperity as well as adversity hr mainly independent of all that “kings or laws can cause or cure.” With such crops, and such ^reduction to a solid foundation of ■11 business as we have had, such economy, debt paying and credit cutting, prosperity was very nearly inevitable, but the policy of the republicans has given it a less obstructed way than it would have had with the democrats in power,' at least if they had been controlled, as they very probably would, by the fantastic financial notions of such flocculent brains and flatulent utterances as Mr. De La Matyr’s or Mr. Voorhees’s. Whatever credit for the “betterment” of things is due to the legislation or any form of party action belongs to the republicans, but there is very little that they can fairly claim. And there will be more than any party can claim by the time the next presidency is settled. Nor do we believe that the people can be fooled into the opinion that any party has a claim to it.

OLMKKNT ©OMMJSNT. A New York dispatch to the Chicago Journal says: It is generally believed that Senator Conkling will not be so potential as heretofore in future republican conventions. The subscriptions in New York to the Panama canal are so small that the managers will not publish "them. Clarkson Potter is said to be the man upon whom the New York democrats can “harmonize.” Some of the New York papers having insisted, recently, that the body of A. T. Stewart had been recovered at an expense of $60,000, the Herald denies it upon good authority, but says: “The coffin plate and coffin knob were expressed here some time ago, by a party demanding $250,000 for the body, but Judge Hilton would not pay a cent without seeing the remains.” The Philadelphia Record, after a search of eighteen months, hasfdiscovered ^he original of the Goddess of Liberty on the Bland dollar. It is a Miss Williams, a teacher in tha Philadelphia schools. The Record says it is not a portrait, several changes having been made, and so Miss Williams is to be congratulated. Now suppose the Record organizes an expedition to find out who the “Injun” on the cent piece is. There is an inexhaustible field here, if this is the sort of thing for ' newspaper enterprise to go into. The gloomy prospects of agricultural and manufacturiag interests in Great Britain are summed up in a dispatch from our consul at Manchester to the state department, which says: “The failure of the crops is much more serious than is generally supposed abroad. The demand in England for meats and grains from the United States will be enormous. Better methods of placing American butter, cheese, beef, hams, fruits, etc., for sale in the English markets would increase their sale immensely. The trade is yet in its infancy. At present it is hampered by middlemen. Necessity will favor new expedients to extend the consumption of all kinds of American produce. Competition will sooner or later teach the farmers of England that their expenses can be greatly reduced by using improved machinery and implements. The cotton trade of Lancashire continues in a depressed condition with little encouragement for the near future. Machinery is sold at a great sacrifice and strikes have ceased. Already the calls upon charity are heavy. Last year more than 80,000 persons were supported in Manchester by the public. The coming winter will probably witness still greater destitution.” The Hendrick Wright-labor investigating committee stopped at Salt Lake City on their way to San Francisco, and with the exception of Hon, Calvin Cowgill of this state, called on George Q. Cannon, now confined in the penitentiary for contempt in violating the mandate of the United States court. Cowgill thought it was indecent to pay respects to a brazen violator of United States law. That delightful magazine, Sunday Afternoon, will change its name to Good Company with the next issue. The choice does not seem a happy one, bat the designation will be true, unless the style changes as well. In the September number Noble C. Butler, clerk of the United States court, has an article on “The Public Schools and National Culture.” So Lord Byron is denied a memorial in Westminster Abbey, while all flunkeydom is eager to honor the so-called prince imperial, whose ancestor may have been a Bonaparte, and may have been an intriguing Dutch admiral.—[Boston Herald. The position of Senator Conkling is awkward and wretched. His profound silence in the matter cannot be maintained as becoming bis dignity. He may scorn the whole human race, with the exception of the tribe of politicians who serve him in New York, but for the sake of the lady in tne case be must sneak if he can. Meantime it is the general judgement that the appearance of Senator Conkling at Narragansett in the face of all the goesip at Washington, makes np a case of infatuation that, after the shotgun embellishment, will probably adorn a divorce niit.—[Cincinnati Commercial. Unless Senator Conkling succeeds in doing something very soen, be will not be able to carry the vote of New York in his pocket as much as he did. He will find it necessary to clear up the scandal which ex-Senator Sprague’s undischarged shot-gun has spread all over the country.—[Cincinnati Gazette. The affair at the summer residence of Senator Sprague will render public scandals which is the part of decency to conceal. Thoee who have bad the current stones forced upon them will not wonder that the injured husband has shot now, bat rather Uiat he has not before attempted to defend bis neoor. But he haa long conducted himself so as to command ao great sympatny. Theseaadals are so flagrant that they can The colored brother in Yazoo is quiet. It is the white brother who is now on the rampage.—[Memphis Avalanche. • As election time comes on in Mimiisippt the hip pocket seems to be yielding the front place to the shotgun.—I Philadelphia Times.

Eftic naplks or America. Am AMdvMt Thoroufthfara—Tachte—Wll Ham Aster - Elorlrta'a deflators, with Ban Haller In the neekground. lOormncndMieeof Tha Indlaaapolia Nawi.] jACKaoxviLLB, Fla., August 7. 1879, Occasionally I come across something quite old in Florida. Recently I traveled a portion of what Is called the King's road. This was constructed by the Spaniards in 1665, when that monster of iniquity, Phillip the Second, bore sway, and connected St Augustine with what is now St. Mary’s, Georgia. The road was cut on as straight a line as possible through timber, and in places causeways had to be made through swamps. In these places pine and cedar trees had been felled and their trunks used as a foundation for the road —the whole being covered with earth thrown up from either side. In the ditches thus made cypress trees of large size now grow, attesting the age of the work I am describing. Many of the swamps of Florida at one season of the year are dry, and this road was built when the ground was clear of water. It would have been impossible to have constructed it at any other time. Much of the pine and cedar used in making this road is in a good degree of preservation to-day, and proves the enduring qualities of these species of wood. On Rice creek the sluice gates, made of cedar by the English settlers some time between 1763 and 1783, when Great Britain possessed Florida, are remarkable for their solidity and freedom from decay. Rice was extensively cultivated along this stream, and hence the name and existence of sluice gate for flooding the land at the proper time. Jacksonville has a yacht house without any yachts, though in winter time there are a number here. Wiliam Astor sails the Ambassadress, which, with its tender, I am told, cost $25A,000. He gives sumptuous banquets on board this vessel, and reigns as a prince in Jacksonville. He maintains a dub house at his own expense, for himself and friends, owns the railroad from Tccoi on the St. John’s to St. Augustine, over which he charges $2 for a ride of fourteen miles, and plays the autocrat pretty much with the business arrangements of Jacksonville. He has recently completed a stone front business block, which presents as handsome an appearance as anything you have at Indianapolis. The people of Jacksonville are very proud of the interest he takes in the place, and expect him to do much more for them than he has already lone. His wishes are deferred to on all occasions, and well they may be, as be pays all the expense of whatever he wants. If Jacksonville was built on hills it would very closely resemble Kansas City. The stjle of its buildings is very much like those of the wide awake city on the Missouri. It is emphatically a nortnern town built on southern soil. All there is of it in the way of growth and development has been accomplished by northern capital and energy. Left to its original possessors it would have been an insignificant frrg pond town today. It has been called the Naples of America, on account of the bay formed by the St. John’s, which is but an arm of the sea. BuVithas no VeEuvins, nor anything approaching a hill, even in appearance. The ground is slightly rolling, enough so to make good drainage, but the view across the river and in all other directions is of flat, low land, much of it swampy arm otherwise repulsive. Still there is an attraction about Jacksonville that allures the visitor into admiration, and he settles down to the conclusion that for a winter residence it is about all anyone could reasonably desire. There is no country surrounding it capable of maintaining a great city, and it must rest content with being a pleasant place for resort in cold weather, and such increase in trade as the slow progress of its tributary country will furnish it. tfacksonville is the home of Senator Call, who is the son of one of the territorial governors of Florida, and prides himsell on his Cracker birth. He is simply a dead lieat^nd was never known to pay a debt or earn a dollar where any exertion wai required. He is a fit representative of the Cracker element in Florida politics, and the democracy have saddled themselves with a big loao in atL mpting to carry him. He makes what the Crackers say is a good speech, and is known as the “silver tongued Call.” Bnt he is lazy, shiftless and indifferent as to his future. He never had an income until he commenced drawing his salary as United States senator, and that salary will be the, death of him. Five thousand dollars a year is a greater sum than he can comprehend, and it will upset his intellect, which is not strong by any means. He will be worried how to spend it, however, and be as poor at the end of his term as he was at the beginning of it. He would not be a genuine Cracker if such was not the case. Senator Jones lives at Pensacola. He is a native of Ireland, came to the United States when a boy and learned a trade as carpenter. After working at this for some time he studied law, and his first important case was the defence of a young man for murder. He obtained an acquittal and the father of the boy paid him a fee of three thousand head of cattle, which Jones turned into' $30,000 cash. This case gave him fame and brought him business. His next important case was the successful defense of the Florida and Alabama railroad company in an injunction suit brought by the Western Union telegraph company to restrain them from conscructing a line of telegraph along their road. This case led Jones to investigate the charter and privileges of the Western Union, and has prompted all the telegraphic legislation attempted by him in congress. He has succeeded beyond what was hoped for, and despite the most strenuous opposition of the Western Union has taught that gigantic monopoly a lesson it will do well to heed. He would have failed, however, in his measures if he had not received the aid of Ben Butler. Ben is interested in a patent insulated wire, and he wanted Jones’s telegraph bill to succeed. So be helped Jones and helped himself at the same time, as he always does. To-day the Baltimore and Ohio and the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern are stretching Ben Butler s insulated wire, manufactured at Pittsburg, along their tracks. The Wabash has attempted to do the same thing, but an injunction recently granted by justice Harlan, of the United States supreme court, restrains this road until October. The Western Union monopoly is doomed, and the credit of its destruction is due to Charles W. Jones, senator from Florida. Jones was elected to the senate by a republican legislature because the majority could not agree in the choice of a candidate. He is not a brilliant man but has proved himself a useful one. His wife is the danghter of a French banker at Pensacola, and the foundation of Jones’s future has been attributed to this alliance. What this may have done in aiding him in business it is impossible to say, but certain it is Jones had made his first big fee of $30,000, aad thus laid the foundation of his future, before he was married at alL His career is an illustration of what energy, hard sense and pluck will accomplish under our republican institutions, whether the man making the effort is native or foreign bom. The coolest object I have encountered in the recent hot weather—for we have had some roasting days, but not such as were registered at St. Looia and New York, as we bad pleasant evenings and could sleep through the night, which is not the case at jhe north—is that of a man calling himself Captain Little. He claims to bate been the commander of a whaler, and wrecked in the Arctic sea, where he was forced to remain for two years. During this time he traveled north and found an open polar sea and its shores inhabited by a people very different from the Esquimaux or thoee in the extreme north of Europe and Asia. He had selected Florida as a held and summer as the time to lecture on what he bad seen at the pole, but anxious as the residents of Jacksonville were to keep cool, he oonld not draw an audience together. And there were torrid words at the indisposition of the public to appreciate the elacielation of a frigid subject. Ba&tos.

tupbin gray is a new shade of yellowish

that will be worn in the falL

VANHION NOTE!. (New York Sun T Dotted mmlin dresses ere all the rage. Fbort dresses will be de rigueur ip the fall. Striped brocaded silks will be worn next season. Panier polonaises will be much worn in the early fall. White rat in is to be revived for brides’ wear in the fall. Bilk net gloves and mitts are more worn than any other kind. Almond colored French bunting Is almost as popular as white. Belts are as popular as ever for morning, afternoon and evening toilets. Bodices with long, narrow stomachers are to take the place of basques. Plush and velvet figures on silk surfaces bid fair to be very fashionable. The seaside and mountain belts of canvas are from two to four inches wide.

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A11 ball dresses are low in the neck, back nd front, but high ou the shoulders. Coiffures made up entirely of puffs, short curls and frizettes are coming in vogue. The most fashionable corsages are deeply pointed back and front, with paniers attached. The most elegant parasols of this seasDn are of white silk, with white lace on the edges. » The English jockey cap is taking the place of the stovepipe riding hat for lady equestri-

ans.

Dark blue flannel suits are the favorite young ladiea’ dresses for the beach and the mountains. The fashionable lawn party carpet is made of bandanna handkerchiefs, nine handkerchiefs sewn together making a perfect square. Very long trains are worn for full dress, but there should be but little trimming on the train, however elaborate the rest of the robe may be. _ For a slender, tall woman the prettiest kind of a short costume has the skirt composed entirely of horizontal puffs, with one deep flounce at the bottom, over which is worn a panier polonaise of a different material. The waistcoat is formed of puffings to correspond with the skirt,

Presence of Mind. Prefence of mind has lately proved valua ble in several interesting cases. Henry Kuhn, at the bottom of a Dubuque well, drove his pickaxe into the side, and stood under it when he faw the earth-laden backet falling, thus saving himself from being crushed. John Carey, when lightning struck the New Haven mill of which he was foreman, knocked down three of the panic stricken operators, who were madly rushing toward the narrow exit, and so prevented a dangerous jam on the stairway. Mrs. Duukin, of Long Prairie, Minn., was threatened with an axe by her crazy son. She said: “Well, if you want to cut my head off let’s go to the chopping block." He nodded, and they passed out to the woodpile. It was dark’and addressing him with, “Now, Pll put my head on the block,” she drew the white kerchief from her neck and threw it down and slipped away. The lunatic struck the kerchief a heavy, but harmless blow. Julia Clark, a San Francisco factory girl, was caught in a Machine by her long hair. She seized a pair of shears and cut off her tresses so quickly that she was not drawn between the wheels and killed, as she otherwise would have been. Ten men started down the shaft of a Nevada mine in a small skip. The donkey engine broke, and the miners felt their vessel sink downward with lightning speed. Deathly fear tamed every face white. In the panic most of them clutched the skip to wait for the crash. At the first intimation of disaster Patrick McCarthy, the engineer at the top of the shaft, seized a heavy plank and thrust the end between the pinion shaft and tae reel, from which the cable was running'off. The drum was revolving witn tarrific speed, and the friction produced streams of fire and smoke. But the engineer’s thrust was exactly at the right point, and the end of the board soon checked the descent, bringing the skip to a' standstill a few feet from the bottom. OreMnbacklsm D•Clinlog. [Maine correspondence Chicago Time* j It is an undoubted fact that greenbackism in Maine reached its flood tide m September latt, and has since been gradually receding. This is not mere guess work, bmt is a conclusion arrived at after a close examination of the figures of the canvass, and from extensive personal observation. There are several causes leading most naturally to that mult. The republicans are putting into the field the best speakers, and’ answering all the questions propouuded in the assemblages of the people. The press, through its regular and campaign issues, hare scattered broadcast truth from a republican standpoint. Three hundred campaign olubs have been organized, some of which are officered by hard money democrats. Their number and enthusiasm are unprecedented except in presidential contests. The action of the democrats in the last session of congress has aroused the old-time patriotic feeling. There is no state in the union where the soldier element may be more easily moved thau in Maine. And then the improvement in business has been a very great help to the republicans. Wherever busiuess is flat and loafers plenty greenbackism luxuriates. But in Maine every branch of business has felt the magic power of new life, and this in every erne has helped the republicans in thencampaign.

A Camp Meeting Controversy, A Methodist and a Spiritualist camp meeting are only two miles apart,in Bucks county, Pa., but the religious separation is much further. A delegation of Spiritualists went to the Methodist camp with a proposal to exchange speakers. “You have no Christ, ” replied Presiding Elder Chaplain, “no atonemeiit, no repentance, no new birth, no resurrection, no judgment, no hell. You allow every man to think as he pleases, to act as he pleases. No, we have no place for such as you.” A heated and somewhat acrimonious theological discussion ensued; and finally, as the Spiritualists proposed to go, the Methodists knelt and began to pray For them. The Spiritualists stood upright and disdainful. A Methodist clergyman besought pardon for “those who formerly preached Jesu8,but now dishonored him,” referring to two of the visiting delegation who had formerly belonged to the Methodist ministry. He added: “0, that we all present may enter heaven.” “We will!” we will!” shouted the Spiritualists. “But, O Lord,” continued the Methodist, taking note of the interruption, “we know that nothing shall enter therein that defileth or maketh a lie. O, but many shall seek to enter in and shall not be able.” This time the Spiritualists made no response. Finally the Methodists sang them out of camp with “Gld Hundred.”

National Cotton Exchange. The national cotton exchange began its convention in New York yesterday. St. Louis was represented by J. L. Sloes and W. M. Senter. About seventy persons were present, but not all were delegates. The annual report of the executive committee set forth Uiat owing to the appearauce of yellow fever in July, it was advisable to remove tbe convention from St Louis to New York. It declares that during the last five years cotton culture in the United States has outstripped the most sanguine expectations. The problem of free labor has been virtually solved and the south must be regarded as the future reliance of the cotton manufacturer* of both America and Europe. In the last few years but twenty-one per cent of the cotton crop was manufactured in the United States, sixty-nine per cent, going to feed the mills of Great Britain and continental Europe. The American Bone Wins. The race for the Runnymede plate at Egbam, England, yesterday, was woa by the American bred fUlr Saratoga. Werle was second and the Janeiro ntlr third. Nine horses ran. Wood rode Saratoga. In betting before the start First Chance was the favorite at two to one. This colt took the lead and made the running until withia fifty yards froib home. Here he lost his place and Saratoga, after a straggle with Werle, won the race by a head. There was a distance of half a length between the second and third horse*. The winner sold for IJy guineas.

Mr. Kneby Takes e in tie Tam Threngh Okie and Reports. [Toledo HUds. ] PatrogratK, 1 (Wich is in the Biate uv Ohio) j August 5,1879. j V 1 felt it mv dooty to heed the Macedonian cry wich the dimoerisr uv Ohio yelped, * Kum over and help us! ’ and I went, to da a litile misbuoary work in the suthern part uv the state,for that ’poseel uvonlimited money, that harbinger nv good times, Gen. Ewing. 1 wish! wuz back in the Corners, and sh el git there jist ez soon ez the sentral committy lets me leeve this most thoroughly discouragin kentry. Ef the rest nv the state is anything like this seckshun, Ohio is gone up. Rooin is before Ohio, and the state is drivin full tilt onto It , I met with no success at all, wich wux not my fault, ec the condtshns are agin me. I •w uz never so disappintid in my life,and hope never to be ao agin. I txpected to find a people ready to recteve dimercratic doctrine. I expected to find a distrest kentry filled with farmers bemoanin tbe hard times, and mechanics Isyin idle, with ther families starrin. I expectid to find asboelis, hatlis, community nr serfs, wich hed bin ground down by the money power till they wood bewillia to receeveany premise nr a change with joy and gladnis. 1 expectid to see factrys silent and farms desertid, shops shet up, and only nashnelbanks and rich, open. I expectid to find pale men, weak-eyed with hunger, and pale-faced, desp&iria wimmen, starvin theirselves that they mi e keep life into their angel babea. I hed bin reedin dimercratic papers, yoo see, about the people bein ground under foot, and I hied me to Ohio, with the most joyous antiseipashens. When I struck Pettusville it occurred to me that I must hev trot into the wrong locality. I arrived in the nite, and I notist the landlord uv the hotel weighed suthing over two hundred, and bis wife was suthin heavier, bat that didn’t affect me. In all strikly dimercratic localities landlords grow fat, nff matter who else grows lean, wich they ginerally do. I turned in and hugged the idee to my bozm that I shood her easy work to do in that place, Tbe fust thing I notist in the mornin wuz a string uv fee ms a mile long, more or less, waitin to onload wheat at the warehouse on the ralerode. The men onto tbe loads wuz about ez bale and harty a set uv fellers ez I ever seed. They wuzn’t pale nor wan, nor nothin. Ther ’wuz hefty specimens, and lookt ez tho they had three square meals a day all their lives. To my horror I noticed that the shops wuz, all open and the- mechanics very hard at* work, and that the three factories in the town hed torrents uv smoke a bilin out uv their chimneys. Bein entirely ahoor that I had been sent to the ti:e place, in spite of these discouragin apeerances, I approached a farmer which hed sold bis load and wuz jist a goin into a bank with his wife. “My friend,” sed I, “yoo are a victim uv the money power!” “Wat !’ r wuz his reply, lookin ezthohe tbot I wuz a escaped toonatic. “You are a serf, a bondman, and are held in the iron grip uv the bloatid bondholders, which is a equeezin the life blood out ur

yoo.”

“Is they ?” sed he. “I never thought uV that. But 1 kin beet em. I really haven’t time to discuss the matter, for, yoo see, I’m goin to be a bonded bloatholder myself. I hev jist sold my wheat, and I’m jist goin in to buy a bond or two. I want to be a aris-

tocracy myself a while.”

And he eloodid me, leevin'a button in my

hand.

Repeatin the tome remark to another, he merely remarkt: “O, git out, yoo ass! Wheat thirty bushels to the acre and a dollar bushel, gold. I want a great many years more uv this kind uv room. Where y frum anyway ?” Abandonin the farmers in disgust, for I got the same answer from all uv em, I attempted to git my work in on the distrest mechanics which must have bin rooined by resumpshen, but my success wuzn’t any better. I don’t know but I cood hev convinst em that they wuz all rooined ef I hed a fair show, but the alarming fact wuz they wuz all too bizzy to listen to me, for it happened to be pay day. Every man uv em went out Uv the offis with his money in full, and every man uv em declined to hear a word I sed. It wuz in vane that I urged they wuz serfs, it wuz in vane that I told em they wuz bein ground into dust by the nashuel banks, it wuz in vane I told em resumpshen wood be their rooin, for every cussed one uv em filed past me and went on and depositid their spare earnings in one uv these cussid octopusses, the nashnel bank uv the plaoe. I can’t understand what Ewing sent me to sich a place fur, and I telegraphed him. The dimccratic central committee ansered: “Hold on awhile. A heavy frost may come in August and kill the corn, and fetch ’em to their senses. Then they will know what Sherman has done for ’em. Suthin must be left to providence.” And so I am sittin in the tavern watchin the thermometer. It is a corn kentrv, and tbe farmers depend upon that crop for the heft or their profits. Ef the Lord would only take pity on the dimocrisy and send a •heavy frost, a regular black frost, this month, I fhood hev some show. It would derange things and tear up matters to such an extent that it would give us a chance. But then the wheat crop was so heavy that I am not shoor that even the totle destruoshen uv the corn crop would save us. The hog cholera can’t c> me soon enuff, and ez for cattle and horses, I never seed em so disgostinly healthy. Still, I shel sit and watch the thermometer and cuss John Sherman, ez the centre! cemmitte direx. It is possible that some distress may come upon the kentry before October, tho reely I see no eneurridgin signs. PuTBOLHDM V. NASBy, Distrest Finanseer.

A Wondrous Whirlwind. [Augusts (Os.) News.] William Langley, a cotton planter of Gwinnette county, was standing in a field on his farm. Around him were several men, woman and three children, all breaking the soil for cotton. The sky was clear aad tbe air quiet, there being about both considerable sultriness. The children had just stopped work and thrown themselves, ured aa tired could be, on the top of a pile of guano sacks, when a peculiar roaring was heard in tbe field. The sound bore some resemblance to that of an approaching train, bnt as no railroad was near the workers they looked at one another kt, amazement. In a moment they saw a small column, not larger in circumference than a barrel, skim rapidly along the ground. The wind column or spout appeared to be filled with dust, and in the center conuined what appeared to be a ball of fire. The mother-rushed toward the children, who crouched low with fright, but l*efore she could reach them the pile of guano bags, children and all were scattered right and left. In its course, always eccentric, the column struck a stump fairly from butt to roots, end tore it from the ground, the wood splitting into three pieces and dropping twenty or thirty yards away. Hr. Lsngly was sucked in as the whirligig thing bolted by, and thrown into a plowed golly some distance away. lu the next instant the strange visitor had gone, passing up over tbe tope of the treee. It was seen plainly by tbe ladies at the Langley house, appearing to them like the smoke that runs up in circular volumes from the smoke-stack of a locomotive.

Uoj a for the Navy. Twenty-eight recruits for the naval service left St. Louis last night, in charge of Lieutenant Taunt, for New York, where they will be put on board tbe training ship Minnesota. Many more would have been ready to leave but for the sickness of Dr. Draper, examining officer. His place is now supplied by another eorgeon, and the examinations will proceed at once. Over 127 boys are waiting the surgeon’s attention.

The Bain on Tap. {Cincinnati GaaeUe.] There is abundant reason for the belief that an understanding for mutual profit has bten reached between General Ewing and Governor Tilden. and that there will be no lack of funds for the democratic campaign in Ohio. We mention this thatlhe boys in Cincinnati may know that there is money going, and be u for their share.

The Tspahet's Dream. The weary teacher mt akHie 1 he hoys sad girls ware gene. Tbe weary teacher sat alone; Uaocrved and pel* wa* he; Bowed Math a yoke of care he spoke in aad aoUloqay. “Another round, another round of labor thrown away; Another drain of toll and pain 1'rugged tnrouga a tedious day. “Of no avail ia eaoutaat seal, Love’aaacrtfiesla low; Tbe hope* of morn, an golden, tura Each evening into drum “I squander oo a barren field • My strength, mv HI*, my all. The seeds I sow will never grow; They perish where they fall.” Beatghed, and low upon hi* hands His aching brow he prrst; And o’er His frame ere long there came A soothing tense of rest. And then he lifted up hla face. But started hack aghast; The room by strange and sudden change Assumed proportions vast. It teemed a senate hall, and oae Addnraaed a lUtenlng throng; Ea*h burning ward all bosom* etirrei, Applause roee loud and long. The ’wlldered teacher thought he knew The speaker'* voice and look, “And lor his name,” he said, “the same Is ia my record book.” The stately senate hail diasol ved; A church rose in lie place. Wherein there stood a man ot God Dispensing words of grace. And though he spoke in solemn tone, Aad though hia hair waa grey, The teacher* thought waa atraagely wrought— “I whipped that boy to-day." The church, a phantom, vanished soon. What saw the teacher then? In classic gloom of aleoved room An author piled his pen. •‘My idlest lad I” the teacher sa d, hilled with a new surprise— “shall I behold his name enrolled AWfiO* the great aad wise 7” Tbe vUion of a co'tage home The teacher now dtseried; A mother’s (ace illumed the place, Her influence sanctified. “A miracle! A miracle! This matron, well I know, Waa but a wild and careleaa child Not half an hour ago. . • “And when the te her children speaks Of deity's golden rule. Her lipe repeat in accents sweet My words to hernt school. 3he scene was changed again, and lo! The school house rude and old. . Upon the wall did darkness (ail; The evening air was cold. “A dream!” the sleeper, waking, tald, Then paced along the floor, And whistling slow, and soft and low, He locked the school house door. And, walking borne, hi* heart was full Of peace and trust and love and praise, Ado singing slow, and soft and low, He murmnred. “After many days.” -[Prof. W. H. Venable. «*. -—w8CBAP&. There are more than 4,500 patent* on teed planters. Oliver Wendell Holmes will be seventy August 29. Wide ribbons are among the coming things of the winter. ‘ Colored berries” is the true way to speak of blackberries.—[Ex. H. R. Helper, the author of “The Impending Crisis,” is residing in St. Lonis. The carpet trade has decidedly improved since last week.—[New York letter. Jersey City is collecting funds for the centennial of the battle of Paulus Hook. Mrs. Caroline Brooks, the “butter sculptor,” is modeling busts in clay in New York. The fashionable English photograph is now very long, but it is no wider than It wa* before. ~ Marriages are very numerous this year in France, and Gambetta regards it as a proof ef the public well being. Rev. Newman Hall’s church has 1,225 communicants. In its various schools there are 5,000 scholars and 400 teachers. “It is no brag to say that there is nrfsailor in tbe world like the British sailor,” says Mr. W. H. Smith, the monarch of the sea. Table etiquette by the Detroit Free Press; “Take your ear of corn in one hand or both —the main point is to get away with the corn.” Bismarck’s salary as chancellor of the empire and a Prussian minister is $13,500. Dr. Falk, on retiring after thirty-three years’ service, gets a pension of $3,300. The Vicksburg health report for Sunday, tbe 10th, duly signed by the president and secretary of the board of health, is as follows : “Health prevails to an alarming extent.” John Sherman is a great financier. He can't help it. Ue was born that way. According to his brother, W. T., his first decent suit of clothes was bought with $50 borrowed money.—[Cincinnati Enquirer. If the conscience of Pillsbury, the Lawrence, Mass , speculating cashier, had allowed him to hold on a fortnight longer, tbe rise in the mining stocks he held would have made him and the bank’s funds all right, and saved him a term^of fiee years in a state’s prison. The New York tea dealers are likely to find that what is sauce for the goose is sauce (or the gander too. The crockery dealers having m vain sought to have them stop their practice of giving away delf, propose after September 1, to sell tea also, and will give it to their customers at retail for wholeprices. An intelligent resident of Havana says that Cuba is the graveyard of Spain, and a more befitting name than “Pearl of the Antillefi.” In one cemetery near the capital 89,336 interments have been made within ten years, and in a neighboring burial ground over 10,000. Out of the Spanish garrison of 7,000 men twenty die every day, or a whole battalion every month. At the Kensington school of needlework in London among other things rare and enriotu is a set of baby-linen worked by tbe hands of the princess (afterwards queen) Elizabeth and her ladies for a baby that never existed —the visionary infant of Queen Mary, celebrated by Tennyson in the most pathetic passage of his drama. Among the exhibits are also tbe bibs and bearing-bands of Charles I.; all well authenticated. Class in American history, stood np. Read I “Wen Jorg Uashiogtun was at Yale Forg, his trupz wnr in ned ov fud, klothing, and liker. It wuz vere kold wetour, and fn uv them bad shuz on ibar fet. But Jorg Uashingtun’s karij neverfald. and at last kongres sent him snpliz, an be chact the enemy over Nu Jurze, and wipt him ai the batel nr Trentun.” That’l do, boys. Run out now. and play .-[Philadelphia Bulletin. Day leaf ord, the famons seat in Worcestershire, England, the possession of which was tbe dream of Warren Hastings’s life, now belongs to a Mr. Byaaa, whose father made $2,000,000 by exporting bottled beer. It is said that tbe elder Byass gained greetlr by tbe name being so much like that of the famous Bass. Dayle*ford passed after Hasttinga’s d9ath to Sir Charles Imbqff, his!wife'* son, and changed hands again before it reached Mr. Byass. It is proposed to hold a reunion at Lexington, Ky^ of representatives of the Clay family, the time suggested being from October 14th to the 17th. It is said that all the American born bearing the name are descended from one family. Most of them reside ia Kentucky and Alabama, bat the family is represented In New York, New England, Texas and tbe Carolinas, and in Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, HUnoia, Ohio, and perhaps other states in the north and northwest. , A small boy was sent to the country to board a short time ago. He promised Us

mother that be would write a good tong letter describing hia trip and boarding place, etc. A week went by, end bis poor mother waa nearly distracted when she got tbe folio wing interesting letter from him: “I am here, and 1 swapped my watch for a pup. and be is tbe boss pup; and I went in •wimain’ fourteen times yesterday, and a feller Role my i-ocketbook, end I want some money; and I shall bring the pap home.”—[ Ikwtou Globe. Tbis is my birthday. I have reached a comfortable, resq-oruuble, satisfactory age, and I am going to stick to it. 1 aban stood still at thirty-five. It is the pleasantest age in the world. I em yoong enough to seeer at old fode*. and I am old enough to indulge in retroMwcts and wail about the good old times. I am young enough to go to piceics. Then when I get to a picnic 1 can plead old age as tbe fcxeuae for not climbing the tree to fix the swing. I am young enough to have mote >o learn than I will ever remember.and I am old enough te know a thundering Bight more than I do.—[Burdette’* Hawkey* Cor, In Germany it ia an offense against the law, punishable by fine aad imprisonment, for a Roman Catholic priest to refeae tbe sacrament to one of hia parishioner* without a valid reason. Pastor George Kraavn. of the village of Hoengen, was accused of this offense recently. He interposed the plea that the oompUinant, though a Roman Catholic by profession, was raising his children as Protestants, and was permitting them to attend a Protestant school, notwithstanding solemn promises made at his marriage not to do so, and in disregard ef the admonitions directed to him since. The plea was pronounced insufficient, and the pastor was sentenced to pay the costs of the prosecufion and a fine of about $35, or to imprisonment for fifteen days; and permission was Bocorded to tbe complainant to publish the proceedings for his vindication. Soon after the (Ecumenical counoil bsd pronounced by acclamation the dogma of papal infallibility, there waa a falling off in the contributions familiarly known as “St. Peter's Pence.” As years went on, until the death of Pio Nono, eighteen months ago, a steady diminution costumed, and at last they dwindled down to a comparatively insignificant sum. Seacc the accession of Cardinal Peooi the pence have been coming into the Vatican with the profu&iQB <>f foimhr yetfrs. For the semester the present year terminatiog on June 30 tfc* amount yielded exceeded by $180,000 the proceed* for the corresponding semester of 1878. The present popesU* down tbe expenses of hi* household.from $4,000 a month to $300, and has effected important economies in other directions. His thrift has made an excellent impression upon the Catholic world. Rev. Dr. is responsible for tbe following: In the early part of his ministry a very eminent clergyman of his own denomination visited him and spent a Sabbath with him. Of course he invited him to preach for him, and to his great satisfaction he consented. Rev. Dr. is .all, and his pulpit was rather’high, to accommodate his manuscript to his sight; his visitor was short, rather stout, and had a shining bald head. Rev. Dr. proposed to lower the pulpit a little, but his friend declined, and on the contrary desired that It should be raised higher. It seemed that he was near sighted, but for some reason preferred not to wear Spectacles. The desk being raisetL he proceeded to pile upon it the closed pulpit biole, two hymn books, a pile of about a dozeq sei inons, and finally his manuscript, and then,

ban these.’’—[Harper's Magazine.

The Hickory Tournament. In tbe national archery tournament a Chicago, yesterday, the gentlemen’s shoot o 100 yards resulted in giving W. H. Thomp son, of Crawfordsville. Indiana, the firs prize; E. W. Deral, of Marietta, Ohio, secom prize, $60; L. L. Peddinghaus, of Marietta third prize. Dr. Patterson and MoMechat tied for the fifth, $30. The ladies’ shoot o forty yards was concluded. Mrs. Lee, o Crawfordsville^ won the first prize v a silt

— y **a**a*| an iixs V' ro CL feurth; Mrs. Ramsay, fifth, and Miss Streel sixth. W. H. Thompson has the lead for th gentleman’s championship medal, and is sur of winning, and Mrs. Brown has a lead of si: for the women’s championship, with Mn Klein second and Mrs. Lee twenty.eight be hind.

v The Wallace Investigation. The Wallace committee continued Us i vestigation at Boston yesterday. Howie chief supervisor of elections, testified th supervisors and marshals were demanded I both parties, and appointments made equal from t hft irtAfit radrnnncti

entitled to vote. Warrants of arrest wer kept secret until after the parties voted, s that ne honest voter should be deterred Senator McDonald inquired whether th orderly and regular conduct of the electioi justified tbe intervention of federal electioi machinery to iuflnence a state election. Th witness was undecided, though he believei it to be within the power of the state t remedy any irregularities. Charges Against a Postmaster. The investigation of the charges agains Postmaster Tyler, of Baltimore, preferre< by B. F. Matthews, a clerk lately discharged was begun yesterday by a special agent o the department. Only witnesses were allow ed in the examination room, and against Lhii course Matthews protested to the agent ant the authorities at Washington, Cap*. Webb’s Feat. Captain W ebb yesterday accomplished tin feat of swimming from Sandy Hook to Man hattan Beach, Coney Island. He was expeote< at 6 o'clock, but reached the breakers at 2 oeing thus ahead of time. He remaine< outride till the appointed hour to fulfill hi contract.

Our Bad Teeth. There are 12,000 dentists In the United States who annually extract twenty million teeth, manufacture and insert three million artificial teeth, and hide away in the cavities of carious teeth three tons of pure gold.to say nothing about tbe tons of mercury, tin,silver and other metals employed in "fillings.” Andrasey's dueeeeeor. There ia extreme difficulty in finding a succefsor to Count Andraasy. On the choice of bis successor will depend whether the Hungarians will continue their loyal devotion to the dynasty. Russia ia tt>« only no *tr likely to be satisfied with a change. Flood to New South wales. Heavy floods we reported in some district* of New South Wales. The beach between Penalarro head and Pollizer bay, New Zealand, is strewn with wreckage, including one large ship, all hands supposed to be lost. Base Ball Teeterday. ■, - Trey—Pro video* 11, Troy 3. Gioeinnati —The game between the Chicago and Cincinnati clubs was not played on account of tbe bed condition of tbe grounds. AL Yellow Jack’* Work. [Memphis Appeal ] Yellow fever has killed 21,060 people ia ibis country within the past ten vears. Of this number 14,000 died last year. * What Bra tha Proflta? Thi* la tha abaorbing point that I* of ehiri iatoreet fn every btuinee* transaction. By tbe comMnation system of operating in stock*. Means. Lmwm ceACo , banker*, M. Y , unit# th# orders ot thousand* oi patrons, la various aotua/fnto one immense amount, and operate tbeaa as sfalchlj’ whole, «bus obtain tog all the oi ranUgw (dtfae Urg*nt capital and best .kill. FroSt*arodiatribotod pro rata among fb.rebohM**every wenth. In lfcU way large tain# •« mad* In abort periods, aad capital from lie or *15 to Ise.SOOron bo used with equal proportionate •neeem. *» will make ft00 in SO daya; »160 will pay $1 #00 profit, er 1*per sent, on tbe stock, and ao on according to tba market A china of Troy, mede $M* T5 m m Invaemtent ef $50 Many customer* are doing batter. The new circular baa “two unerring rnlea for *ueo«et” aad full details ao that aay one can operate Stock* and beads wanted. Oeranuyat bonds supplied. Apply to L*»rwic« d O, Uak**. I-xctange N. X. 0