Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1879 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWTS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER I, I8T9.

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THE DAILY NEWS. MOND aT, 8 kp r e m b bh T, 187a Tke Indianapolis Newt has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any Other daily paper in Indiana.

Thk coinage of nilver dollars at the Philadelphia mint last month, was $1,376,050. CmiATisre the government in any of its branches seems to be considered a fair thing to do. ,• — ^ Gks. Miles has suppressed all Indian disturbances this summer, notwithstanding the fears that he was trying to get promotion and would be reckless.

The national bank currency has increased $7,021,203 since the first of January. This sort of inflation is in obedieence to the actual demands of trade.

Thebe Feems to be money enough to do the business of the country. Nobody who has anything to mil has complained yet that he could not get the money for it.

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The country has finished one monument at any raw. That to Gen. Custer at West Point was unveiled Saturday, Gen. Banks being the chief orator of the day. When city tares were limited by law, it was said the government could pot be upon a ninety cent levy. The levy for next year is only seventy five cents.

Comment is unnecessary.

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The reduction of city taxation by the councils is largely due to the efforts of M. H. McKay, of the second ward. During his first year in the council he made low taxation possible by urging and enforcing thoroagh economy in every branch of the city government. Having be.n determined and outspoken in this necessary preparation by a reduction of expenses, he has consistently and ably worked for the reduction of taxes, in spite of the opposition of members who wished to have all'themoney to spend that could be got, or who desired to establish sinking funds. In this reduction he has had the hearty co-operation of some members, particularly some of .the raw ones, buj Mr. MoKay is fairly entitled to

a large share of the credit.

Gen. Johw B. Hood, who died of yellow fever at New Orleans Saturday, was one of the best known confederate generals in the Isst year of the war. He was a Kentuckian, born in 1831, graduated at West Point in 1853, served on the frontiers until the rebellion broke out, when he joined it as a lieutenant and rose to be lieutenant-general and commander of an army. He eerved in the Virginia army, ootnmending a division at Antietam and Gettysburg, where he left an arm, and in- - the fall of 1863 was transferred to ^he West and lost a leg at Chicamauga. In 1804 he led the attack on Keneeaw Mountain, and soon after was appointed to succeed Gen. Joe Johnston as commander in chief. Ho was a terrible fighter and poured out blood like water, in spite of which Sherman whipped him to and out of Atlanta, and then Hood made a great military achievement in escaping from Sherman and starting north. He met with •evere defeats at Ftanklin, and at Nash▼il!« his army was beaten to pieces by General Thomas. Since the war he has been engaged in the insurance business, but is understood to have been unfortunate financially. He leaves eleven children, the oldest of whom is but ten. Several of them are sick with the fever and his wife died a few daya before him from the same disease Hood was' regarded in military circles as a very obstinate, reckless man, whose whole idea of war was to pound away without regard to circumstances or coosequenees. He was deficient in the higher qualities of leadership that make a successful general, and his appointment to an independent command has always been considered a blrfnder. #

On Saturday night the councils fixed the tax levy lor the year at 75 cents on the $100. Probably no other city of anything like equal site can show such a low rate as this. Reading, Pashas 80 or 85 cents, but it is a rare exception, for in few placee is it lees than twice as much. In Cincinnati the rate for city purposes alone is $2.53, and in Louisville $2.14. This is the way the account here is estimated to stand: 948.000.0M.CO taxable* at 75 cent*. fMO.OM 00 18 788 poll* St 88 cents. 6,89 00 Ouk balance May 81,187» 808,488 78

Total amomrt. — „.8473,5o4 78 Allowance for insolvent tax. 80,000 00 470,888 68

Leaving s balance May 8i, 1880....^.81*8,870 16 The revenue frem - market lice ness and all other sources is left out of thl^ calcu-

lation. The delinquent list is not counted either way, believing it will be nf well paid up this year a* last, If not better This makes the whole tag levy for the rear $1.3$;A* follow*: Cl t y,.,.................. .^^.... POwOOla t ,a»»—«■.».«.»,««—«»»♦ »#<>•««...«.»»»»»«« ,»«««« '••**«••• mats and county In full ...—- « •1.88 This leaves in the pockets of the tax payers on the city list alone $72,000, that is it creates a sinking fund in every tax payer’* pocket, with himself as president, director and cashier. The total tax for all purposes is $1.38. If this does not prsve an inducement for capital to come here, no greater can be offered. Low taxes mean good government, and the best thing Indianapolis and Marion county can do in to maintain this record, keep taxes down, and capital will flow in fast enough to create additional revenue as it becomes needful. For this object The News has been striving for many years, and now congratulates the taxpayers upon so much of its accomplishment.

We don’t know anything of Joseph Patterson, not even whether he is a brother of the famous “Biily," but it ia a point in his favor, as possible successor to Air. Welsh at London, that he is a business man of “achol&rly tastes and culture,” no politician, bat intimately acquainted with most of the eminent men In politics and literature in England. It is another point in his favor that his nomination would atrengthen what seems to be growing into a fashion, if not a prescription, the selection of representatives of the nation at foreign courts from men who are distinguished for social and intellectual qualities instead of party position and influence. We have tried partisans with foreign rewards for party services, for a hundred speeches in a campaign, for carrying a pivot-district, for beating an importation of voters with a bigger one, and we have not been much honored in their services. We have done better with the sort of men that politicians call “d—d literary fellows,” and we shall always do better with them, for this one conclusive reason that a foreign minister has nothing to do, as Mr. St. Petersburg Stoughton distinctly declared the other day, and a literary man can improve his opportunities to do permanent service to the intellectual condition and reputation of his country, while a politician, of the avmge congressional variety, can simply spend lua salary when he does nothing worse. The exclusion of the doggery orator and salary-grabber for Bitch men as Motley and Taylor and Lowell and B»ker, is a premium on brains and decency that is never paid without a sure return in self respect first, and a diffusion of honorable emulation next. Next to literary men of •distinction ye business men of social position and intellectual culture. They may not add anything to the intellectual fame of the country, but they won’t damage it, either, which Is more than can be said of some of the men that were sent out by the last and many a preceding administration. And they wi 1$ use their position for the servica of those who may be of service to the country, while the Cameron tree 1 would’nt, probably couldn’t do even that. We bold it a great point gained when the “iinea” are surveyed for an exclusion of all men whose claims are wholly partisan, from competition for offices that are accepted as samples of the brains and culture of the country. And we appear to be running those “lines” pretty steadily lately. Oar diplomacy, which has never been more than a show, kept up to be like other nations, has latterly been filling up with men of distinction as scholars and writers, who never made a stump speech, and never “set up” a convention, and in this way useless offices have been made a means of promoting literary interests. It is about all the good there is in them, if we allow it to be of no national consequence whether our minister can gracefully "present a yotfng lady at conrt, or show a family of tourists where the best

hotel is.

his enemies, and the following con venation ensued: »*I peremptorily decline to tee or talk to eay laterOceen reprewntatlTe, or any uewipeper men of Chk*Kc>. Tneee interrirwenar* the ban** of my ?FPfi&iX'sr,“S?zjr& •“ a ‘« "Do yon object to placing youraelf on record In ne opinion in regard to any of the question* before the people~to*day ?” "1 do, meet emphatically I And now I wont say any more, *oget you hceee If yon do not want to fed the wrath of * Hooaier.” "Will, Hen”— "Here, now, Mop: I won t talk.” “Well, bow about the cam”— "I ton yen I will not beintervHwed.” "Hare you heard about 1 '— ‘■About what, now*" “Oh, only this: Have you heard over in Indiana atout the Kalloch shooting In CaUlornia?” "No, sir, nothing." "There was a man named Dixon killed In Misniaeippi. too.” "Will you leave mer Not Then I wlU leave you. so good morning.” The reporter made a desperate effort at one more queaUon: •,Yon can at least *ay what la your ticket for 1830*" ■‘Hendrick* and Hancock.” It was not safe to follow up the Senator with any more qiuatioos, for "tbe tall sycamore” is a mighty man—in suture. Kalloch is a bad lot So ia DeYoung. Both are dirty. They indulged iu had language to each other—a very bad practice. Neither told the whole truth about the other. It would teke a long time. It would be no lore to the world if Kalloch should die of DeYoung’s bullet or DeYoung of a tight cravat. Last year the California workingmen worshipped DeYoung. This year they worship Kalloch. Why do they" worship unprincipled editor* or adulterous preachers when there are honest workingmen living? —[Boston Herald. Judicially considered, the case stands thus: Dr. Thomson is a clergyman,seventy years of age, who has lived an apparently blameless life, in full view of the public. If character counts for anything in the world, iflongcontinued morality of life establishes anything like a presumplion of moral principle, it is wildly improbable that a clergyman who has led a" blameless life for seventy years, will fall, at the end of it, into the grossest uncleanness of conduct. When a charge is made to that effect, we are logical^ ly bound to believe that it is untrue until it is proved, because, both inductively and deductively, reason shows that the utterance of a malicious slander is more likely to occur than such conduct in such circumstances.— [New York Post.

CUKKKNT COUMKNT.

The Revue Industrielle, a French paper, says that French workmanship in watches, surgical instruments, mathematical and astronomical instruments, has deteriorated so much that the attention of the government has been directed to the subject. In some of these manufactures the French have always

led.

_ * Fifteen millions in gold hare been placed to the credit of the assay office in New York to be used in making exchange for gold bars and foreign gold coin which is on its way to this eountry from abroad for the payment of •xports from the United States, principally grain. This bullion will be recoined at our

mints.

Last year the aggregate steel production of the world was somewhat over 2,000,000 toes. Of this quantity the United States made 738,226 tons, Great*Britain 807,527 tons, Germany 240,000 tons, France 140,000 tons, Belgium 75,000 tons, Sweden 20,000 tons and Austria 25,000 tons. According to the postal laws, letter carriers are not required to deliver mail at the risk of being bitten by vicious dogs. People who harbor such must call at the office for their

letters.

Iowa has a tree planting law, which is pro dnetive of fraud. The law, it appears, provides that for every acre of forest trees planted and cultivated within .the state the sum of $100 shall be exempted from taxation upon the owner's assessment for two years after each one is so planted; and for each acre of fruit trees the exemption of $50 for . fire years. This year, under the law, eightyone counties claim exemption from taxation on property valued at $5,049,730. The assertion is made that not another class of persons in the state can be ftmnd who escape that amount of taxalion by working out the tax in improving their own property for their

own and sole benefit.

The Chicago Times calls Bonnw’s collection a "horse nunnery,” and says it becomre evident, as Mr. Bonner continues to buy up all the phenomenally fast trotters, that the turf will naver have any peace until he is under it » Senator Yoorhees being accosted in Chicago by an Intor-Oeean reporter, declined to furnish any ammunition for fresh attacks by

Murder*. At 6 o’clock Saturday evening Henry Christien, keeper of a disreputable house at Pottsviite, Pa., while crazed with drink shot Lizzie Britton, his reputed wife, indicting a probably fatal wouud. Christian afterwards tried to blow his brains out, but was frustrated and arrested. At an early hour yesterday morning Will Ward, of St. Louis, shot Annie Lewis, a girl of fourteen, because she refused to leave her mother’s house and go to a beer saloon with him. The ball passed through her left side, inflicting a wound which terminated fatally last night. Ward was captured by the pHliee while running away from the house. A previous difficultv had occurred between them on account of the girl's refusal to ma:ry Ward. On Friday nigbt a body of unknown men went to the cabin of a negro named Cason, some five miles from Booneville, Mo., called him out and riddled him with InilleU. He was a rough character, kept a sort of low gambling den and made* himself generally disagreeable to the neighbors. The immediate cause of the affair was because Cason went to the house of a neighbor, during his absence, insulted and slapped his wife and otherwise abused her, which so enraged the community as to cause the above result. Postal Information. On the 31st of December, 1877, there were 58,366 post offices in Europe, with 223,517 persons employed, or one postal establishment for every 6,335 inhabitants. These pest offices are most thickly planted iu Switzerland, and after Switzerland in Great Tlritaiu and Ireland. A striking contrast to these two countries is afforded by Russia and Turkev, there being in the fomer only oue post office to every 5,708, and in the latter bile to every 1,105 square miles. Altogether, 5 682,000,000 letters, papers, etc., were sent by pest in Europe iu 1377, 3,597,000,000 beirg letters or post cards, 1,522,000,000 newspapers, and 563,000,000 patterns and the like; and the greatest number of letters, patters, etc., were sent in Great Britain and • Jrtftnd, the total number dispatched being 1,483,075,000, or at the rate of of 34.7 letters and 9.4 newspapers for every inhabitant. Fire*. The woolen mill and hat factory of Griffey 6 Co., at Wptsontown, Pa., was totally destroyed by fire Friday night. Loss, $150,000; partially insured. The origin of the lire is unknown. At 10 o’clock yesterday morning, a fire destroyed building No. 29 Elm street, Cleveland, occupied by the Lake Superior paint company. The estimated loss on machinery is $10,000, on stock $5,000; insured for $11,0o0 in several different companies. The loss on the building is $2,500, no insurance. 4 fire broke out in Charlestown, Jefferson county, West Virginia, at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, destroying the fine house of Sadler Brothers, and damaging, the county jail to the extent of $7,000. The loss on the Sadler building is $10,000; insured in the Phoenix, North British Mercantile, and .Lina companies.

Razor Making. The Sheffield operatives recently imported, at Bridgeport, are most of them engaged iu the making of razors of which they have already turned out a considerable number. Those produced so far are of a very superior quality, equal, in fact, to anything in the market, which indicates that the new branch of industry is to be entirely successfaL Razor making has heretofore been attempted in this country, but never before with satisfactory results. When the company gets the new shop fully under way, it will have about one hundred men employed on razors and another oue'hundredon scissors and the finer grades of pocket cutlery. Boston’s Boot and Shoe Trade, The shipments of boots and shoes from Boston the past week have been 62,858 cases, against 55,557 cases for the same time last year. This is the largest shipment of boots and shoes ever made in a single week from Boston. Item ark able Liberality. [Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.] "Give your bogs a rubbing post,” says an agricultural exchange. We extend the freedom of every lamp post iu this city to our local politicians. i — ' ■ — m Th« New Party. [Chicago Times.] Bob Ingersoll i* getting up a new party. It consists at present of Bob ingersoll and Robert G. Ingersoll, esq. A Bush tor Biddle’* Place. [Laporte Argus.] There is likely to be quite a scramble for the democratic nomination for supreme judge for this district. _ Sheep In Team*. There are now in Texas over 5.000,000 sheep. Last vear over 11,000,000 pounds of wool were shipped out of the state. Beep Water. The deepfest spot in the Hudson rives is opposite West Point, where the water is 216 feet deep. The Beal Bonanza. [South Bend Tribune.J The surest gold mine after all is a good farm well prospected. What Kind of a Preach waa It? A North Carolina chureh has paid its pastor a year’s salary of half a bushel of peas. Colored Men la Journalism. Three North Carolina newspapers are run and owned by colored men.

Twn New State# Projected The division of Dakota into three territories is being agitated.

A MODEL BKSOBT. Camp LUa an Lake Krta a* Laka Npreat Bomestoad-Bathing, Boating sad Fifth[Special uorrwpondftncft of The ladhoapojla New*.] Lxn Fohrrt, AxnoCA, Aug. 26. 1879. Begiunfeg about fifty miles up Lake Erie and running parallel with the New York shore, there is a picturesque piae ridge, abounding in shady ravines, minature canons and long, uneven sketches of stunted pine grqwtb through which are scattered a few trees of patriarchal age and unusual size. This ridge extends entirely through Erie county and nearly to the limits of the city of Buffalo. On one side of it there is a sloping beach of pebbles and sand leading to the Water's edge,almost as level as an Indianapolis thoroughfare, and on the other side there lies some of the best farming land out of doors—a long belt of ferule land sheltered by the ridge from the severe winds storms that are liable to sweep down the lake at any moment of any day. It was on this belt that Joseph Bennett, a young Vermonter, invested patrimony, fifty odd years ago, in 200 acres of land. He built his house, a low, rambling structure with numerous additions, on a little knoll under the shelter of the pines and by the side of the Gauagagee, which divides his pasture lands from the ridge and empties into the lake half a mile down the beach. A long avenue of large locusts leads from the highway to thq homestead, the set da of which Mr. Bennett

planted himself.

A large Lombardy poplar tree standing by the bridge over the creek, was his wife's riding switch when he brought her home on horseback. She thrust it into the ground and it took root, and now it is the largest tree of the sort for miles around. The beautiful and healthful situation of Mr. Bennett's term caused many applications to be made for summer board by invalids, but they were invariably refused until about five years ago. In an unlucky moment be let a gentleman and his wife nurse a sick baby at his house during the summer mouths. From that time the business steadily grew, until at last he was obliged to rent his farm and devote himself entirely'to it. He made a dozen canvas tents of different sizes, and placed them on solid plank floors in his orchard. These are capable of accommodating from two to six persons with sleeping apartments, and the occupants take their meals in a large tent iu the rear of the deacon’s house. It is the favorite idea there that tenters can never catch cold while boarding at Lake Forest, no matter bow damp or unpleasant the weather may be; and one thing is certain, weak, timid women who never think of retiring at home without searching the closet and poking under the bed, sleep there soundly in tents by themselves, without a solitar> fear, because the deacon told Ideal he bad never turned a key in his house in the fifty years he has fired there. These same women never pat that unbounded faith in the assertions of their husbands about the futility of the night's chase after the burglar heard somewhere in the region of the back kitchen. Judton Bennett, a son of the deacon, lives •u a portion of the farm, in a beautiful grove at the end of the orchard. He nas gone extensively into the boarding business. He has now over thirty tents, all occupied, and nearly one hundred boarders eat at bis table. The invariable rule of the deacon’s is that no boarder shall sport fine clothes. He told a lady a few days ago in my hearing that "he didn’t want any tine clothes in his orchard. If she couldn’t dress the way the other ladies did, be d : dn’t want her at a!L” One of the chief charms of summering there is the utter disregard for fashion. The men wear old pantaloons and blue flannel shirts, and the ladies dress equally plainly. Camping there ccmhicea ti e sports of actual camp life, with all the comforts of the town, and the price per week is only $5. An omnibus meets the trains at Angola, which is on the Lake Shore road, twenty miies from llttffalo, and carries passengers to the deacon's camp, three miles

from the station.

The principal sports are beach bathing, boating and fishing. Every morning at 11 o’clock and every afternoon at 4,the boarders proceed to the beach and take their semidaily dip, and baihing in Like Erie on a smooth, sandy beach is the best substitute for ocean bathing that has yet been discovered.

The creek is covered with row boats of all sizes and dtscriptions^vhich are rented to the hoarders at $1 a week, and everybody

rows, old men who can hardly walk and little children, and nobody gets drowned. The lake fishing is excellent. Bennett’s reef, two miles out, swarms with large bass, anxious to be caught, but thev seldom feed at the surface. The hundred and one professional fishermen and the forty odd amateurs who try their luck there every smooth day fish with worms on whale tackle and use anchors to keep the bait steady on the bottom. The bass are therefore uneducated and as long as they ran get fat on the bottom, they have no need of nearing the surface. The oldest fisherman told me that once in a great many years they did rise to the surface. He believed his grandfather or bis uncle had seen an occurrence of that sort long years before his time. I believed him for it certainly was not within my time. The camping season here is nearly over, the boarders are reluctantly leaving, and by this time next week the grounds will be nearly deserted. The season opens on the first of June and generally closes on the

first of September.

Sometime or other instead of tents there will be a large hotel there, and instead of $5.00 a week that much a day will be changed, and the simple camp will be a fashionable resort. It haa more natural l>eauty to recommend it, now that twothirds of the summer resorts, and besides is immensely popular with the citizens of Buffalo and Cleveland. But that never will come during the Deacon’s time, and that personage is as h.tle and hearty as a man of 40 and bids fair to hold his own in this wicked world as long as the next man. •

Bex. Brave Men Not Needed this Time,

[Fort Wayne sentinel.]

The practical workings of the Grubbs libel law are producing a feeling of intense disgust all over the state. It will take a brave man, indeed, to vote against its repeal at the next meeting of jhe legislature. Needn’t Walt to Find Out. [Petersburg National Ventilator.] The next democratic convention will tell whether the greenback men in the party have the grit to stand by their convictions or show the country that they hold principles as secondary to party. The Yawper tor Offio#.

[BicUmond Free Pre*e.]

The fact is, ninety-nine men out of every hundred don’t care particularly much which party is in power. It is the hundredth man who keeps up the unceasing howl about politics.

A Strange Sight.

In the capital of Japan, writes a missionary, there are about 70.000 soldiers, all in the American uniform, and provided with arms purchased from the United States and Eng-

Bare Enough. [Laporte Argus ] What has become of that income tax suit against Samuel J. Tilden? He is ready for trial and has been for two years; why is he not tried?

An Old Organ. The Kennebec Journal has been doing the state minting in llaiue for twenty-five years, and has received up to date for the same $476,000. h Won’t Do It by That Plan. The Pennsylvania grcenbackers are trying th« still hunt plan of running the campaign this year. They expect to poll 60,000 voids. Rolling Stock ta* th# Baited States, i It is estimated that there are 400.000 railroad cars in the United States and 16,000 engines.

gept—iher. The ceMreMud hi yellow; ThaBocM* turn iu* krown; The toeeft hi ftppls etehftrd* W ith (rwt an bending down. The genttetr'* bluest fringes Are curling tn the sun; In dustv pod* the milkweed It* hidden silk haa spun. Th# Mdgfte fltnnt their harvest, In every meadow nook; And asters by the brook-side Make asten In the brook. From dewy lines *t morning The grape'* awset odors rise; At noon the road* all ti utter With yellow butterflies. By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summers best of weather, And autumn's best of cheer. But none of all this beauty Which floods the earth and air. It unto me the secret Which makes September fair. ’Tie a thing which I remember; To name it thrills me yet; ' One day of one September I never can forget. —[H. H , tn Scribner for Septem!>er. SCRAPS. A Chinaman in Little Rock has a book “printed” in 1263. "Don’t speak; let me drink it all in.”— [Recent lady at Niagara. Forty-six grasshoppers have been discovered in one robin’s stomach. A sword swallower in a Vienna theater swallowed one sword too many and died. Harrison Ainsworth, who was supposed to have passed away long ago, is still writing novels. The estate of O’Brien, the California mining speculator, turns out to be worth $6,000,000. Ben Butler refuses to retire to private life, which is probablv a pretty good thing for private life. The son of a hackman at Springfield, Mass., has passed the best examination for a West Point cadetship. Mrs. Higgin*on, a sister of Professor Agassiz, has twenty-five kindergartens under her charge at Boston. Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Cameron, are guests at the home of Senator Blaine, in Augusta. * Fite John Porter proposes to go to Washington early next winter to urge upon congress his restoration to active duty. Senator Sharon, of Nevada, likes drawing his senatorial salary without earning it well -enough to be anxious to* secure his reelection. Peter Siple, of Korth Ferriaburg, Vt., has six daughters who average 217 pounds each. IJjs whole family of eight persons weighs 1,762 pounds. Charles Fechter left in manuscript two seta of a play entitled “Napoleon and Josephine,” which a New York journalist intends totini?!} for John McCullough. Senator Hamlin, now on the stump in Maine, ha? made stumping tours every year ’.7t that state since 1836, and haa never failed to keep an appointment. Mr. W. S. Gilbert is credited with the following remark: “The sun never goes down on the queen’s dominions, because heaven is afraid to trust an Englishman in the dark.” If you want a bow-legged son to console your old age and have a good gait for plowing on a side-hiil, let him rub his feet together when a baby. That's what does it — [Detroit Free Press. The editor of the Red Bank (N.* J.) Register replies to an attack upon him in the Red Bank Standard by-saying that ‘‘when an idiot, pen, ink and paper get together, the result should not be published.” Texas scenery is disappointing. There are a coirespondent writes, no majestic rivers, broad-bosomed lakes or thundering cataracts, but there are instead beautifully rolling prairies, mosaics of open vaiiey, wooded bills and stately groves. A man who embarked in an honorable business six years ago, and adopted “Excelsior” for his motto, now occupies a cell on the second floor of a State prison. There is nothing like starting out with a good motto. —[Norristown Herald. There are eleven less pianos in the country than there were. They have been shipped to Japan, which wants more of them. We don't want to be too sanguine, but you will admit yourself that the outlook appears hopeful.—[Danbury News. Hay in Utah never loses the bright green appearance of the fresh cut grass, and the favorite variety of grass is the celebrated alfalfa, which throws down its root3.many feet into the groupd to find moisture, and which yields three of four crops a year. Professor Wilder says: “If you are choked get down upon all fours and cough.” Oh, yes, Professor Wilder, that is ail well enough, but suppose you have only just stolen a horse and you are being choked by a party of Texas regulators?—[Burlington Hawkeye. The idea of the biggest head knowing the most is all nonsense. The mastodon had the biggest head of his time, and yet he didn’t know enough to get into the ark out of the rain, and oe raved. The mosquito, with scarcely any head at all, was wiser.—[Norristown Herald. The new khedive, says a letter from Egypt to the Boston Advertiser, has a sympathetic countenance, large, dark. Oriental eyes and a pleasant smile, giving to the side face a childlike expression. He is, like his father, short and very stout, as are always the sons of Circassian mothers. He asked her: “Going away?” “Yes; going to the sea b-iths.” “What! ia auch chilly weather as this ? You will never go into the water.” “Oh, yes I will: I’m all fixed ud for that.” “Really?” “jes; I’ve had all my bathing dresses*trimmed with fur.”—[French paper. The tomato is masquerading about the market stalls under more aliases than yon can shake a stick at - There are toma/loea, tomarters, tommy toes, tomattuses, tomattoes, tormatoee, and the other day we heard a woman inquire, “How d’ye sell yer tornadoes?” —[New Haven Register. Bertie Hathaway, an ingenious boy at Kdenburg, Pa., made a gun by plugging one end of a gas pipe with an iron rivet, drilled a hole in the side, and fastened it to whittled wooden stock. The contrivance looked well, but when the lad fired it the rivet was blown into his breast, killing him. All the spelling reforms of all the men in this world will not succeed in lessening the intensity of the schoolboy’s affection who scrawls on his slate with a broken pencil, “I luv you,” and hands it across the aufle, with a big apple, to a pretty little blue-eyed girl who reads in the second reader.—[Steubenville Herald. Mr. Ko Knn Kua has arrived in New York, bringing with him a written agreement, dated Shanghai 26th of May, 1879, between Mr. Francis P. Knight, of Boston, on behalf of the president and fellows of Harvard college, and Ko Knn Kna to teach the'Chinese language at Harvard college for three years at $200 a month. Charles the Simple once remarked to his fool, Jean, that he thought they had better change places. A* Jean did not look well pleated at the proposal, Charles asked him if he were not content at the idea of being king. “Oh, content enough,” was the reply: “but I should he exceedingly ashamed at having such a fool.” Mrs. Thankful Taylor is a remarkable Vermont lady seventy years old. In her younger days she thirsted for a thorough knowledge of English, Greek and Latin, and, being poor, she worked for her books and studied them as she stood at her spinning wheel. In « L. I ^ * _ A <8 L * t • n A W

eral literature.

FEBPETCAL SFRINQ,

ipes, tb

i. The boilers are

under the equator, the water is heated by the tropic sun, aril conduct at a temperature of (7 degrees along the American oo&si Cl the Atlantic as far as Newfoundland, when it is turned eastward and floods Europe, from the bay of Biscay to the Baltic, with a ^ftening climate, whose temperature upon the same degree of latitude in the American continent, is from tea to twenty degrees

colder. .

Borrowing a chart and a map from the captain, he detailed to me his scheme for (Witting through th,e narrow isthmus where the bay of Fundysetsin between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, thus conducting Hie warm waters of the gulf west instead of east of Newfoundland and along the coast of Labrador through Hudson’s strait and into Hudion’s bay. Then widening the channel of the river into lake Winnipeg, and enlarging all the water ways thence by the way of the Red river of the Nonh and the upper Misfiseippi, he wou’d overflow all the northern waters with the tepidity of the tropics, and change the circuit of the Gulf stream from the Atlantic ocean through which it now courses, to the North American continent, maintaining a perpetual circulation up the coast and down the Mississippi.to the

gulf Hgain.

“This,” he said, witU.an eloquence I can not impart to his mere words, “will change the whole character of America; its soff, its products, tts people, its institutions. No longer will your fellow countrymen be slaves of ‘ze Shack Frost.’ No longer the humble man ofJoil shall have to work tour months to buy the fuel that shall keep him warm the other eight. The bleak domain frozen byihe arctic waters shall be like my own sunny France; the oranges and the bananas shall grow at “Dulute, and the cotton whiten the flelda of

“Meech-e-gan and Men-ai-eotah.”

• He proposed, of course, to appeal for govgovernment aid in lettine loose all tbese blessings upon our beloved country, and asked my advice how to proceed. I told told him it might perhaps be done by “logrolling” or “lobbying,” and then explaining these terms—whose utterances made Irm stare at me as if I had suddenly begun speaking in an aboriginal tongue. I told him he must find out what other schemes of the kind were on foot, and get one or two mem hers of congress interested in his, and then by combining the other schemes with his own, and promising to exchange the votes he could command with those obtainable tor the others, he might succeed in his project. I frankly added,, however, that I thought it

very doubtful.

He looked discouraged, and the restlessness in his eyes increased. However he soon ’brightened. “1 don’t think 1 shall fail," he said; “if I do my plans are by no means exhausted. If you are not fatiguing I will

tell you them.”

I at once not only consented, but expressed a desire to bear them. “I will return to my native country. I will get amnestied.” “rio ho! you’re an ex-member of the commune,” 1 said to myself. “1 will enlist the new government, which needs to make un coup de theatre. France is ready for it. The Sue* canal has made everything possible. The desert of Sahara is te be either flooded with the Mediterranean or crossed by railroads. The Panama canal ia to wed the Pacific and

the Atlantic.” *

Taking up the chart once more he showed

me how tie gulf stream, turning southerly near the Azores, ran along down the coast of Africa and returned Its waters to the reservoir or boilers at the equator, whence they come. Now by placing a dike at the cape or Canary islands, we will force it back to north. We will use one or more of the islands for our dike, or perhaps throw the peak of Tenerifl'e into the sea. “This will add seventeen degrees to the temperature of France,” he exclaimed, and as if warmed by the thought went on in his effusive way to say: “1 ader the influence of the blue sky and constant sunshine the arte will flourish as they did in ancient Greece. We will return to primitive times without losing anything which civilization hakgained. Statuary, favored by the spectacle of public games, will triumph anew in the splendor of the nude. Adieu the close fitting garments and the restraints imposed by an ungraceful climate when beauty in its most voluptuous and graceful form can be gazed at without sbame-facedness. Art will cease to shiver with the cold. What a magician is light! What a worker of miracles is the sun !

Humanity will regain its lost paradise. “More than this. The rain and the sun-

shine shall be regulated. In the newspapers you shall read, ‘Europe is informed that it will not rain isom April 15th to May 1st;' or ‘It will rain from May 1st to the 6th.’ The gulf stream wiirfurnish the means of operating this scheme. The warm current flowing toward the frozen aeas loosens the icebergs from this congealed maae. They float downward to Newfoundland, off whoee coast they diaaolve into a heavy mist, which is precipi-

tated in the form of hail, rain, or si the coests of Europe. Here, then,

dare laugh at any achievement ia the closing

quarter of the nineteenth century?” He paced tip and down the deck agiow

with his own imagination, hi* resile** eyes brilliant with his schemes. I did not see him after landing in New York; I thought it

rotaibi* bis friend* had taken charge of him. I have never seen or beard of him alnce, except The other day I noticed that Senator Bioir, of New Hampshire, during the lost

ewion of rongree*, introduced e bill for changing the climate of the north weet, by

turning the gulf stream into Hudson’* bey

«»**•“*“ waters, of the MUstsaippi; nnd

in the Frecch paper* I perceive wme talk of rendemig the climate 0 f France more salubrious by dunmiiut «» at Cape Verd that much demanded Atlantic curfent.

Bow to Make » Garden of Kden-Freneti Scteaea ■eelOng New Triumph* on the A mar leu Continent A Travesty on Borne of Che Great Utopian Schemes.

_ [Detroit News.]

I taw him flreion the •learner Australasia, bound from Liverpool to New York. It was the third day out, and a heavy sea so thinned the crowd at the tables that * I noticed him then for the first time. He was of medium height, with dark restless eyes, black mustache and an imperial; slim, nervous ia his motions, high forehead, with a look of unusual intelligence, qualified, however, by a perturbed uneasy glance, which both fascinated and repelled the observer. He had evidently lived in England, for he spoke the language well, though with decided French accent, and was attired in that “baggineas” of costume which cockney tailors have wonderful ingenuity and never failing snccess in

inventing and making.

After dinner that day he came politelv up to me, asking for a light, which 1 gave

him.

“Mons’r, eesan Ameneanne?” “Yes, sir. Under the circumstances I could not easily bare been anything else.” “Ah! how is dat, eef you pleez?” “I was born in that country.” He smiled. “Ze Amerioanne always likes bees plaisanteree. Hee’s—vat you call heem ?—bee’s joke.” And so the conversation drifted into the usual talk about the voyage, the steamer, the passengers, and finally about navigation and the ocean. In this latter subjecttoiy new acquaintance seemed particularly interested. He quoted Maury, Petermann, Babiuet, Carpenter, Recluse,'Ritter and other authorities with great fluency. I had only a superficial knowledge myself, and was therefore unable to decide how accurate or profound his was; but I thought I detected in it that delicate but superabounding imagination of his countrymen which invests the dryest, or in this case, the wettest topic with pictorial attractiveness: a flavor of Jules Verne and About rather than of Sir Isaac Newton and Humboldt, however he was none the less interest-

ing.

“Y'ou know ze beeg men in Yashingtone, zer grands hommes, viz zer polyteekie oaflewans?” he asked one day as we"chatted on

deck.

“Not many,” I said, “and those not very well. I am too busy: I never had time to

get acquainted with them.”

"1 have ze intention of making aair aoquaintens. I have magnificent proposee-

shone to make to zem.” I asked him about it.

He proposed to “u-tee-lize” the Gulf stream. He had long studied the subject and proceeded on the theory a good deal disputed—that the stream now serves the purpose of warming Europe, he had discovered as he thought a mode by which America could be benentted. The Gulf stream, as everybody knows, he said in substance, is the furnace,

the hot water pipes, the steam supply com- for the insane thirty-tHree instruments;'city pany of Europe. The boilers are situated ( >of Indianapolis fire’department,-etc. thirty;

TELKPHONB3.

Nearly 400 ta Dee ta this City—A Visit te

the Two Telephone Exchange*. A News reporter has paid a visit to the two

telephone exchanges. The first was Beil’s . telephone exchange, on the fourth floor of the Vance block, at the base of the tower, and this is what be saw: Three young ladies were seated at three sewing machine tables, and before each of them m a* a telephoce. Two boy* were at a switchboard. Their business was to connect by means of a, worsted-covered wire the lines of any two customers who may desire to convene to6I lher - Tkeirduta U simple but lively. The switchboard looks like a greatly arapli* fled cnbbage board, and the pegging is no sinecure. This is what he heard, the voices

“Hello.”

“Hello, Ysndalia., Well? “Take off C (to switch boy.)

"Hello, Mr. Piel. Can’t let you hare Vandulia. Lt t you know when they are through.

Put on 31.

‘•Call Dr. Fletcher’s residence. “Put in G. Hello, Mr. Fraser.

“Here’s Dr. Fletcher’s house. Put in 67.” The reporter was told to put his ear to the telephone. A violin was playing at Dr. Fletcher’s residence and several -p&sons at

his office were enjoying the music,'

“Hello, J. M.& I” Not got that I. B. & W.

yet; call ’em again." ^

“Can’t give you Gibson’s mill!: he*s talking to somebody else. Take off city hospital and coll Gjbson (to the cribbage boy).” “Stout & Son. Here they are. Go on.”

“Hello Kionard,”

“Here’s Fred Rush on the Ps, Knock him off-” f “Here's the First national bank. Hello, put‘<

on I. A Sl L. etc. ate.”

The telephone exchange began less than nine months ago and now has over 300 telephones connected with it The first telephone erected in this city was put up by* Engle A Drew, oo&l dealers, ia August, 1878. They were closely followed by Cobb A Branham, and that firm ia turn was followed by G. R. Root, so that to the coal trade is due the introduction of the telephone iu this city. Among the largest subscribers to the Beil telephone exchange, of which E. T. Gilliland is th imager, are: Hospital

equip out to

rain, or snow upon ere, then, are the

reservoirs of our storms. Why not buildaaa

a fleet *f Great Easterns and lend them

| encounter the icy flotilla? The icebergs need not be destroyed; with anchors and grayling-hooks they can be towed aw front the European coast, tad the rain cease. Is there danger of a drouth ?

fleet will go in search of the { and bring them within the rig_ They will melt, and, according „ the rain will last 10.15, or 20 days.

“You smile as if It were a romance. But is it not tree? Is it not at least a charming dream—to produce eternal spring time? At present it is, perhaps, only a dream, but who

w.

gns light and coke company, tixteen; Watson coal aud mining company, nine; Gobi) & Branham, nine; G. R. Root, six: water woiks, four, etc. The new hospital for “ irsane ^ wiil’require [“n, telephones with 18,00V leei oi wire, which will make, with the wire ia the.old buildings, over five miles of wire at the institution. The Bell excharge has ail told over 140 miles of wire, with new instruments and new wire constantly being added. The exchange runs day ard night. During the day there are throe operators (ladies) and three boys at the fwitch beard. At night oue person, a man, attends to all the work. The busiest hours are between 8 and 11 a. m. aud 2 and 4:30 p. m. The reporter uttered the thought that so much talking was probably a highly agreeable task to young ladies just getting, the use of their tongues—a labor' they delighted in. “No, sir,” one young lady auswered, “it is hard work with but little amusement in it. Some young fellows.clerks ia offices, annoy ns very much by talking over the wires. Wq are here for business., and have no time to waste in idle talk. We stay here ail day. One comes at 7 o’clock in the morning, another at 7:30 a. m, and another at 8:30 a.m., aud we each work nine and a half hours a day, leaving at different hours in thi evening. And ijo you - '* see from the we are kept at work answering business question* that we nave no time for piny.” Young ladies make better telephone operators than men, their voice! being pitched in a higher and clearer key. The reporter next visRed the Western Union telephone exchange, which uses the Edison instrument. This establishment began talking over the wires only five weeks ago, and haa already 71 instruments in operation. It is the intention of this exchange to have the telephone, as soon as possible, take the place of the American district telegraph. Connections will be made with private residences and grocers, butchers, nakers, etc , until, like sewing machines, there will be one iu every house. The reporter desired to try one of the Edison telephones. Gus Fuller unslung one of the ear trumpets, aud

the writer folded his ear over it,

“Now/* said Gus Fuller, who Jwas exhibiting the instrument, “don’t expect too much. We don’t brag on our telephones; we let them exhibit themseles. Showing off a telephone is much IHte exhibiting a bright child —it doesn’t always come up to the expectations of the exhibitor. Sheriff Pressly had a . telephone put up at his office a few days ago. He called in several friends to admire it. It . was the most beautiful instrument of the kind ever made. Friends tried it; could hear nothing but a buzz, like a hive of bees kicked over. Strange; he’d show’em. Ho advanced to the instrument in the greatest confidence. Did his own ears deceive him ? what was the matter with the confounded thing? Mr. Prevsly is an exceedingly mild man, but when he took hold of that telephone box and twdated it from its moorings, giving it a parting kick out of »bo window, the coart house rocked on Its foundations and the court bouse clock covered its face *

with ite nands and cowered with /ear.”

Heavy Balt. The Metropolitan National bank of New York has begun suit against the trustees off the Maetm bank, of Kansas City, on a mortgagp given on all the real estate owned by the Maotius to secure the payment by the MasUn bank of oil notes discounted and to be discounted by th* Metropolitan National bank for the use of the Mastin bank. Tha amount involved is $4200,000, Minister Welsh at Horae. Hon. John Welsh, ex-United States minister to England, arrived at Pbiladelphig bat evening. He was met at New Castle by a committee of the board of trade and a number of personal friends, and brought to the city on the revenue cutter Hamilton. . The Trouble with the Turcomans. A dispatch from Tcheister states that Gen. Lszaroff died, at Tchat, from the effects of a carbuncle. The same dispatch says the Turcomans from the Pereiau side have attacked the Russian line of communication wlth’Tchat.

John Henry Coming.

John Henry Puleston, member of parliament for Devenport, sailed .Saturday from Liverpool for Philadelphia. His mission is to inquired into the agricultural and commercial condition of the United Staten'.

Squarely Dividing.

[Marion Chronicle ] > | We are gratified to see leading republican journals and orators roily to the defense of the national banking system, as against democratic, state rights a flacks. m Easily Incurred, Terribly Obstinate, Is rheumatism. Even sl the outset the ordinary remedies are frequently powerless to oops with it. This is more particularly the case wbao a tendency to it Is inherited. It ihould be combatted before it becomes chronic. When tte int twinges are felt, recoone should be had to Hostetler*’* fikunach Bitten, a depurent which expel* from the blood those IrrlUUng principles which, by contact* esnse inf animation and pain is the B uaeeie and joints. Poisonous medicines which are uauallf administered tor thU dlaase, but which, ta a sU*ht overdose, may terminate 11 by destroying U» lUelr, should be avoided, wid^hissefesod mors effective medieine used instead. T^o»e dlaordees of the Dowels, stomach and liver vhioh Ireraently accompany rheumatic and gouty ailments, ace U»I vartebTyremoved by this enceilsri h>UDi. oor-

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