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

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1879

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The Indianapolis Mews has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any Other daily paper in Indiana. The whole number of Bland dollara' Coined up to the lot inat., ia 40,237,050, The public debt was decreased last month $3,527,395, but since June 30th it has been increased $2,558,948. Louisville's exposition opena to-night, and the indications are that it will be a very creditable show, perhaps the best since 1873. It is reported that Mr. Sharon is arranging for his re-election as United States Senator from Nevada. Mr. Sharon has only been conspicuous by his absence Irom the senate, so much so that his drafts for his salary have been refused. Nevada will do herself discredit if she chooses him. The trial of the Chisholm murderers in Kemper county, Mississippi, was set for to-day, and probably will be pushed to completion. The prosecution seems to be well provided for, being conducted by two prominent Mississippi lawyers, assisted by District Attorney Stewart L. Woodford, of New York, who accompanied Mrs Chisholm. Kallocii is getting better so fgst that De Young has been admitted to bail, $25,000 being the sum faxed. The election comes off to-morrow, and if Kalloch is not elected the result of the whole affray will be suits for libel and damages. If he is elected it remains to be seen whether he can make good the threat of wiping out the Chronicle, Most people will feel about this as I ago did about the little difficulty he “set up” between Cassio and Othello. Slowly but surely, apparently, the yellow fever is gaining ground in New Orleans. Not many cases are reported, but enough to show that the disease is spreading. The board of health is resorting to all sorts of preventives, isolating the cases, fumigating the premises, etc., and may succeed in checking the scourge and preventing it from becoming epidemic, but it will surprise no one if it should rage there during the next two months. In Memphis the condition is about the same, the number of new eases varying considerably from day to day, but keeping up a large average during the week. The New York Tribune has begun the work of showing in detail the extent te which the southern states have repudiated their debts, and is giving a history of the debt of each state, showing how each part was incurred and how much the carpet bag governments are responsible for. The total aggregates $272,000,000, of which it estimated that $160,000,000 are held in the north, $86,000,000 by foreigners, and the remainder in the south. If municipal debts are added, the aggregate is swelled to over $300,000,000. The Tribune is certain to show a very low state of financial morality in the south, and one that ought to startle that section above all others. The south can not expect any increase of capital and development of its resources until it shows itself determined to treat its auditors with common honesty. The Evansville Tribune sa^rs: One O. II. Reeve, in The Indianapolis News ol the 27th inst., makes some very sensible remarks about the proposed amendments to our state dbustitution. He says : • • *.• ° While it is true that it is hot a partisan question, whether we shall have our consti- - tution so amended as to have honest elections lor instance, still the democracy propose to make that particular amendment a party question, simply because they see that with honest elections the state is naturally republican. The Tribune does not seem to know that “one C. H. Reeve” is the democratic senator from Marshall county, one of the best legislators the state ever had, and a man who does not sacrifice his opinions ol right and duty for any partisan reason. Hepe ia one democrat iu favor of all the amendments, and had there not been others last winter they could not have been adopted by the legislature. These gentlemen have their following, and they think it is a large one. We do not believe the adoption of the amendments will be made a partisan question. It certainly should not be, and if the people are thoroughly informed about them, will not be.

tics on cane sugar, but in apite of this unnatural mode of sustenance, the advantages have proved so clear and numerous that its growth has been continuous almost from the time that Achard demonstrated that he could make one per cent, of the beet into good refined sugar at six cents a pound. There have been backsets, of course, from hard times and improvident ventures, but in the main the industry has gone straight ahead, till now it defies all other sugar products and supplies almost the entire consumption of the continent of Europe at a less expense than cane sugar of the same grade ever cost. In recent times the processes have been so far improved that the beet flavor is removed in the factory—without waiting for the depu rati ve work of the refinery— and sugar hardly at all inferior to our “refined” was produced ten years ago, or more, at four and three-fourth cents a pound. Grant, in his treatise on beet sugar, gave the average price per pound for every year from 1819 to 1866, and it ranges from 12J to 4J, while the consump tion increased from about 2,000 tens to 270,000 tons. The entire consumption of France is over 266,000 tons, so that the beet supplies the whole demand, and leaves some for export. Germany, exclusive of Austria, produced 180,000 tons and consumed 150,000. Says Mr. Grant: “Except in the immediate vicinity of th # e sea-board cities of France, no sugar la used but the beet. The same is true of Germany. Not an ounce of any other is used in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Leijwic or Munich. Revolutions in Cuba and hurricanes in Ja aica or Martinique make no difference in the sugar market there. And yet the continent is no more favorably situated, in soil or climate or industrial appliances for the manufacture of beet sugar than we are. Beets have been grown in Illinois, in new ground, with little special care, that gave 12 tons to the acre of 12 per cent, sugar. The cost was $ 1.40 per on. In France a fair average of sugar is 1H per cent., but careful cultivation has produced 15 to 20 and even 30 tons to the acre. Get man beets yield and average of 13 per cent, of sugar, and 18 has been made. Russian beets are still riiher, a fact which indicates ;hat the saccharine quality is improved by an advance of latitude. French beets cost about $3.00 to $3.50 a ton, and those equally good have been produced on Long Island for $1.15 a ton, and a product of 491 tons to the acre obtained. In addition to the sugar, the pulp after the juipe is pressed out, is excellent food for cattle and is much relished. The beet leaves, salted down, have been found the best milk-making food of all that had ever been used in the nsrth of France. The culture of the sugar beet and its manufacture, it will be seen from this very slight summary of its development in Europe and the experiments here, may be pne of the great industries of the north, a new employment for labor, a new value for laud, a new market for agriculture, and a new use for capital.

CUR&KNT COMMENT. The treasury department paid out $1,865,000 in silver last month. "At that rate the country will soon become full of silver dollars. John Kelly claims to have reduced New York city’s bonded debt four millions during tfae last year. The Cincinnati Gazette republishes the evidence against the Dr. Luke P. Blackburn who tried to introduce yellow fever into the north, and calls upon the governor of Kentucky to defend himself, if he is that Blackburn. The Gazette will find this “love’s labor lost.” The New York republican convention meets to-morrow. America is now shipping large quantities of hops to England, which recalls the Britisher’s remark about this country: “You cawnt make beer, you know, ’cause you ’avn’t got the ’ops, you know.” New York steamboats throw two hundred and fifty tons of ashes into the rivers and harbor daily. The Herald fears that the harbor will be shoaled in time by this and the deposits of garbage, and is making war upon the habit. The Herald ia far-seeing and provident. The production of butter and cheese in this country, is said to be four times greater in value than the total yield of our gold and silver mines. Liberia seems to have about collapsed. The negro republic is bankrupt and in the power of British capitalists; the Liberians themselves are dissatisfied with the condition of affairs; and the most powerful tribes of natives throughout the country are talking secession and calling on the British for protection. Without money, credit, or an organized army, there is little chance that the republic can uofapld its authority, and the African state which the United States has indirectly backed for so long is in a fair way to fall into the hands of Beaconsfield.— [Springfield Republican. If the public knew half or even a quarter of the extent to which the business ol offering filth of this kind to the newspapers U carried it would be amazed and alarmed; but not only that—it would give the great body of the press of this country far more credit than it is accustomed to. The number of men—and women, we are sorry to say—who seek to use the press as a medium to revenge their private griefs or affronts, or who would like to use it as a lever for the raising of blackmail, is much greater than the public supposes. Fortunately the number of newspapers in this country willing to lend themselves to such bases uses in the hope of gaining a large public patronage ia ‘constantly decreasing.—[New York Herald. The truth of the old saying that no house is big enough for two families will be illustrated again, and in the end we are confident tna* in this instance, as has happened before, there will be a struggle between the system of celibacy and the system of families in which the family system will win the day. It will not be at all surprising if the Oneida community begins to decay from this time forward, although the procsss will doubtless be a very slow one at first.—[N. Y. Post.

Boa* Thlagt that Have Been Done. The other day we alluded briefly to the promise of a profitable investment and a great national development in the manufacture of sugar from beet*. The matter Is important enough to justify a return to its consideration, and the presentation of a few facts bearing directly on the question of practicability and profit. In Europe the beet-sugar manufacture * largely the result of forcing by high du-

Longevity of Veterans. Canada has already paid bounties to 2,412 survivors of the war of 1812 from the grant of $50,600 made by the house of commons in 1877. Somehow, to have fought in that war seems to have been a great aid to longevity on both sides of the line.

1>1* It Oat. The Toronto Mail claims that Canadi sescs mineral wealth equal to any coua the world, and it rejoices to see evid that increased attention is being gh mining operations, especially of gob tilver.

MAINS POLinOB. Til* Conclusion* of an In<Upcnd*at Correspondent. [Correqtondeno* Boston Henld,] The republicans are now working hard to gain democratic supporters in all parts of the state, and thus we hare the carious spectacle of the republican and greenback managers bidding tor democratic votes, while a comparatively small number of democrats by their action may finally determine the result. The republican solicitation of democratic vote* mu*t be done chiefly by private and personal influence. It tt not going too far to say that the republican leaders are fairly down on theirknees to that part of the democratic party which has not already gone over to the green backers. This truly refreshing spectacle can only be fully enjoyed when we remember that the term “stalwart,” as applied to oar politics, may be said to have originated in the state of Maine. Here it was that the limber-tongued critics of Mr. Hayes's southern policy, let loose their wildest imaginings of woe to come from the prosecutions of that policy. Here was the home of the great—the originalshaker of the bloody shirt. And here it tt that the man who started the agitation of the southern question with the Andersonville speech in 1876, and who has devoted his time in congress steadily for three years to that sort of politics, now finds it necessary to appeal to the democratic voters of Maine to come forward and save the republican party from being buried beneath a popular majority for the candidate of the greenbackers. Truly this is a wonderful result of three years of constant and harrasing agitation of the southern question in congress! AH the more wonderful when you consider what kind of stuff the talk tt which has drawn the popular attention so largely away fiom the issues on which a fourteen years’ patent was taken out by the republican leaders in 1876. The truth tt, and it ought to be spread as widely as possible, that the southern issue has broken down completely has proved absolutely useless to the republicans of this State as a means of restoring their party prestige. The last session of congress has not had a particle of effect that I can see upon thh present campaign, and the republicans are as little benelitted by it as are the democrats. The greenback leaders ridicule the southern “issue'’ in their speeches, and what thay say oh that subject tt heartily applauddu. A very large number of the people, if thfcv are to be humbugged, evidently prefer to be humbugged on the financial question. How fully the failure of the bloody shirt issue is recognized by the republicans tt shown by the last number of the state committee’s campaign sheet, Honest Truth (they have different kinds of truth down here ia Maine), which, contains fourteen columns of matter (out of fifteen) relating to finance and slate issues, and less than one column on the southern outrage business—this consisting of quotations from the Boston Hersld and other papers about the murder of Dixon in Mississippi. But the same number of this campaign sheet contains a carefully prepared appeal entitled “The true course for honest democrats.” The republican managers have suddenly discovered that there are twf> kinds of democrats, and that onekind is thoroughly honest, respectable-and excellent. »

Jay Gould Astonishes the Du^ch. [New York World Interview.] J “5 ou went to Amsterdam, according to the papas, and surprised the Dutchmen ?”, “5 63; 1 was there and bought some Denver bonds.” , “How was that?”

vv til, mere nas been for a long time some discussion between the Kansas Pacific road

and the Denver branch, and the bu$£ of the bonds of the Denver branch being held in Amsterdam, I asked when I was there whether they wanted to sell? They said yes. I asked them the price and got the bonds. It did not take much time, for I did not have much time to spare. I got there about ten in the morning, and had to leave on the one o’clock train, find I wanted to see the place. They expected to smoke over it for a week, and seemed to expect me to do the seme, but I put it through in our own

way.”

“They rather looked upon you as a Monte Christo—as a man of money. Did you covet the title?”

“Well, I wanted the‘bonds and they got the money. It was an crJinary transactiob, though it struck them as a very strange thing. I don’t thick they have got it straight in their minds yet. They did seem to want

to smoke over it so much.”

ITrlal of the Chisholm Murderers. BtTbe September term of the circuit court of Kemper county, Mississippi, began at DeKalb, the county aeat, yesterday, judge Hamm presiding. The state docket tt set for to-day, when will begin the trial of the cases of the state versus Henry J. Gully, Virgil Guliy, Houston Gully and Slocum Gully, indicted for the murder of W. W. Chisholm, Miss Chemitia Chisholm and J. P. Gilmore, on the 29lh of April, 1877. The prosecution will be conducted by District-attorney S. L. Woodford of New York, ex-Attorney-general Morris of Vicksburg, and ex-Chancellor Ware of Jackson, Mississippi. Over 500 persons, mostly white, are in atteudauce. While there is no excitement, great interest tt taken in the trial. W. H. Gully, one of the defendants, has died since being indicted.

The Revolution In Haytt. Advices from Hayti to August 20 state that the liberals captured two mail steamers. The provisional governmeiu of Port-au-Prince sent troojis against the liberals at Gonaives. After a bloody struggle Gonaives took fire and two-thirds of the town burned. The remainder was pillaged. After their defeat at Gonaives, Boyer Bazelais and adherents embarked for Jeremie, which pronounced in his favor, and where he intends to make a stand. Gen. Monpoint, aided by national troops from Port-au-Prince, recaptured Cape Hayticn. The country; is in a fearful condition. The fire at Jaetnel caused immense losses.

A Raise Measurer. w. II. II. Barton, of Yarmouth, Mass., has invented a machine which he calls a pulse metre, as it tt operated by the pulse. This machine, which has taken him four years to make, when placed on the wrist, records the pulse. At every beat a hand advances one degree over a dial, thus recording the number of beats. Another hand sweeps over a graduated scale, which shows the force Or intensity of the pulse. More remarkable still, a hammer tt made to strike a bell and give forth a dear and distinct sound, thus making the human pulse audible as well as risible.

Bridging the Hudson. The project of building a railroad bridge across the Hudson at Poughkeepsie has been revived, and the capital stock oj the bridge comi^ny has been increased to $4.000,(XKX It will be remembered that work was actually begun on the abutments some years ago, but the panic of 1873 caused not only a suspension of building operations, but a partial abandonment of the project. — - Sauce for the Goose Not Sauce for Turkey. [Fort Wayne SeatLnel.] If a protective tariff tt such a good thing for workingmen the laborers of Turkey ought ty be the best paid of any in the world, for Turkey has the highest tariff known.

Door Creatures. ■ [Ruing Sun Recorder.] More than nine-tenths of the Germans who come to this country have never seen a ^ratermelon..

An Old Fogy Idea. In Tennessee, South Carolina and Delaware clergymen are not permitted to become members of the state legislature.

Huxley Is Right.

Huxley tells the London university boys that industry and physical endurance are

better than cleverness.

Goins Into Real Estate. At the recent tax sale in Jersey City, out of 6,500 pieces of property the city bought in all but twenty.

A Pinafore Affair.

Seventy officers and 600 men comprise the force of Greece’s navy.

A NEW TELEPHONE. Edison’* Latest, which Can be Hoard AU About It. [SintUifa dispatch N. Y. Henld.] Mr. Edison occnpied the evening session of 4he Science aasociation to-night with a description of his new electro-chemical telephone, giving illustrations of its power and mode of operation. An immense audience was present filling the town hall to its utmost capacity, and the experiments were received with ereat interest and enthusiasm. The telephone was operated from an apartment in the building at some distance from tne hall. The difference between the new instrument and the ordinary telephone consists in its capacity to convey the voice to a room full of persons without any ear piece. The sounds of the voices were very distinct, and ene of the most carious features of the experiments was the conveyance of two voices distinctly at the same time, the one singing and the other repeating the alphabet Mr. Edison stated that he could not attempt to explain the reasons for the remarkable results obtained, for he did not fully comprehend them himself. The features of the instmment are the use of carbon points, and, in obtaining the wave, he explained that the current was broken by the friction occasioned by the revolution of a pirce of chalk against the metallic bar attached to the diaphragm. Several thousand vibrations of this were produced in a second of time. The revolutions are produced by the turning of a crank by a person in the room to which the sounds are transmitted, thus placing the traismission of sound in the hands of that person. The chalk used tt saturated with a solution of phosphate of potash, which rather than any other salt produces the required result. " Mr. Edison could not explain why. He only knew that he could not obtain results in any other way. Mr. Edison asserted his belief that before long a person making a speech in New York may be heard throueh the electro-chemical telephone by a ball full of people in Saratoga, or that a concert may be given at any place by artists in another city. Darina the experiments the cornet was played and “John Brown’s Body” was sung and transmitted with perfect distinctriess, and heard as plainly by all as if the instrument and voices were in the room.

The Sprague Family j A dispatch to the Boston Herald, from Providence, denies that Mrs. Sprague left Newport in a steam yacht, Saturday, and adds: “The governor denies iu toto that he kept any watch over his wife, or that he intercepted any of her letters or messages. It is further stated that Governor Sprague does not at present sue for a divorce, but will take immediate steps to regain possession of his daughters.” Governor Sprague on Sunday sent a letter to Mrs. Sprague’s counsel offering to forward the clothing of the children to any point they might designate.

Water in Australia. It is stated that the successful borings for water in Frame county, South Australia, promises to render a large district, formerly destitute of water, highly valuable for agricultural or pastoral purposes. One artesian well, 400 miles north of Adelaide, sank to the depth of 370 feet, yields 10,000 gallons of excellent water a day. Much of the arid and inhospitable region between the coast and the nch lauds which have been discovered in (he interior of the continent is expected to be reclaimed by a systematic tapping of the springs supposed to exist beneath.

Gome Down to Limerick. Charles Stewart Parnell, the home-rule member of the house of commons for Meath, addressed a disorderly mob of from 10,000 to 20,00* persons in Limerick. Saturday, upon the land question. He advised the farmers to combine and pay no rent until they got a reduction. The crowd applauded the address and shouted in favor of shooting the landlords and agents. The platform was finally stormed and much crushing and fighting ensued.

More Square Talk from a Democrat, [Caanelton Enquirer and Reporter.] They undoubtedly need a little reconstructing down in Yazoo, Mississippi. It is not necessary to murder a man because h,e is a candidate for office. If that idea should become prevalent, it would be but a short time until our country would become depopulated. The Dixon murder seems to be nothing more than cold blooded brutality.

Boys KlUed on a Railroad. Four boys, Henrv Poth, John Goebel, Richard Kopf and Henry Reinhold, ranging from 6 to 13 years old, were run over by freight cars on the Iron Mountain road at St. Louis, yesterday. They were loitering about the track, when a switch engine moved down upon them suddenly and caught them all. Poth and Goebel will die.

Depression In me Coal Trade* Presideht Dickson, of the Delaware and Hudson coal company, writes that the cause of the demoralization in the coal trade is expressed by the word “overproduction,” and the remedy by another, “restriction.” All that tt required tt a distinct and unmistakable notice that the supply will be governed by the demand.

The Illinois Mtlltla Law. Judge Barnurn, of Chicago, has delivered a decision to the effect that the militia law enacted by the last state legislature, prohibiting the carrying of arms by organizations, except under a permit issued by the state authorities, tt void. The ground of the decision is that the law conflicts with the federal statute in force since 1792.

Strike of Freighters. A strike of 150 laborers in the Michigan Central freight depots at Chicago, occurred yesterday. The strike in the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne depot tt on the increase, and there is a general disposition among the t^orkmen to exact a raise fro:* $1 to $1.25.

The Kentucky Election. The official rote of Kentucky for governor is as follows: Blackburn,democrat, 125,799; Evans, republican, 81,882; Cook, greenbacker, 18,954. Blackburn’s majority is 43,917. The democratic majority four years ago for governor was 36,181.

An Insolvent City. The city council of Lawrence, Kansas, last night refused to levy the bond tax ordered by the United States district court, and passed a resolution which sets forth that the city can not pay more than fifty cents og the dollar of its indebtedness.

Advance in Nails. Nails advanced yesterday to a $2.60 card under an active demand. The mills at Wheeling have been declining orders at the old price for some days. The Belmont mill started up yesterday. All mills are now in full blast.

Improving Time*. Baltimore boasts loudly of the improved condition of business. Everything tt moving on actively there, and a larger fall trade than for many years past is anticipated. The buyers are mainly from the south.

Refreshing Talk. Senator Wade Hampton isquoted assaying of the South Carolina finances: “I think readjustment is infamous; the state can arrange to settle her indebtedness on some equitable plan.”

• Suicide at Erie. Charles Burnham, an attorney of Erie, shot himself yesterday. He fired two shots into his head. One will prove fatal. Domestic unhappiness tt said to have been the cause.

Elevator Burned. The Orchard mills and elevator of Olmsted A Cameron, at Burlington, Iowa, barfaed last night Loss over $100,90*; insured. Coal Miner'* Strike. The coal miners of the Cumberland region are on a strike. Their demand U 50c per ton.

Base Ball Yesterday. BufnR—Chicago 4, Buffalo 1. Cleveland —Cleveland 2, Cincinnati 4.

A Elf brew Leff*ad. Frflta an ancient, toaroad rabid come* this legend full ol grace. Floating down through count]*** *gcs, from a loit and •mattered race:

Far away, where the horizon form* a lino ’twtxt earth and sky, There arote a glittering city, with it* peaks and turret* high,

Flooded with a wondrous glory which in splendor downward rolled, Seeming like the way to hearen, through a country paved with gold. Sweet as odors from the tropics wu the free, llfeFraught w?th the divine elixir—making all immortal there.

And the fame of that far city, seen above the sun-

set high—

Pointing with its sparkling finger*, ever upward

to the sky—

Went abroad to all earth's people, and they clasped e valleys up towards

their dear ones tight, And they journeyed from th

the golden light.

And for long, long years they dwelt there, with

life’s goblet brimming o’er:

life's gobkt brimming o'er;

deeper

sparkled evermore.

But a strange and restless yearning woke at last, as years went by, And they stole away in silence, one by one—that they might die. —[Boston Transcript.

SCRIPS.

They make, watermelon syrup in Georgia. There are now in Syria five hundred girls attending evangelical churches. A Carolina editor acknowledges the receipt of a “luscious mastodonian melon.” An escaped convict tt said to have “taken executive clemency in his own hands.” When man’s temper gets the best of him it reveals the worst of him.—[Yonkers Gazette. The kangaroos are dying out. They have for years been on their last legs.—[New Orleans Picayune. The hardest thing in the world for a young woman to do tt to look unconcerned for the first time she comes out in an engagement ring. Captain I. Grant Thompson, originator and editor of the Albany Law Journal, died of . diphtheria Friday night at Saratoga Springs. It is proposed to celebrate, next year, the seventh centenary of the royal house of Wittelsbacb, which since 1880* ha; feigned continuously in Bavaria. A company of pretended Zulus, on exhibition in Dublin, u ere routed by a woman who showered them with paving stones. Shebad lost a son in Zululand.

At New Haven Mills, Vermont, tt an apple tree that bears apples one year on one side, the next year on the other side. The fruit each year tt of the same variety. The princess Louise is coming to America, but she mustn’t fish. If she throws f, hook into an American stream we shall claim an offset to the Canadian fisheries award.—[Ex. “We wish,” says a Texas newspaper, “that a few of our citizens could be permitted to live till they die a natural death, so as to show the world what a magnificently healthy country Texas really is.” The first American paper mill of which there is any account was owned by William Rittinghuysen, and was built in 1690, in Roxborough, near Philadelphia, on a stream still called Paper Mill Run. A subscriber to a southwestern newspaper died recently, leaving four years’ subscription unpaid. The editor appeared at the grave and deposited in the coffin a palmleai fan, a linen coat and a thermometer.

There is something passing strange about human nature. If a man had to support htt family playing billiards at $2 a day bed complain he had to work awful hard for a living.—[Middletown Transcript.

he had cut you? They never do it: the; simply go fora chunk of alum and casual!’ remark, “Well, guess I shaved that spot i trifle too close.”—[Waterloo Observer.

John B. Gough has ieft Paris for London, whence he will sail for the United States in October. He went abroad for “total rest,” and when be concludes this Europeau campaign will have delivered one hundred and

fifty speeches.

A Chinese boy belonging to one of the mission schools at Peking, China, at a recent examination repeated the entire new testi* ment without missing a single word or making a single mistake. He is now committing to memory Dr. Martin's “Evidences of Christianity. ’

Mr. Alexander H. Stephens, having been asked about htt book, “The war between the states,” replied: “I wrote it with a view of having the facts as they were truthfully stated, and without any pecuniary view. I have received, however, $35,000 as my royalty on the sale, or 25 cents a volume.” A young farmer near Easthampton, Mass., had an old horse which was suddeuly taken dangerously sick. Going to a horse doctor for advice, he was told that an internal application of a little hard cider would probably eflect a cure. The young man straightened himself up and replied, in all the dignity of conscious virtue: “Sir, no drop of alcoholic stimulant shall ever pass the lips of any horse of mine; I would sooner have the animal die.” ‘ *

Mr. W. A Stearns, son ef the late President Stearns, of Amherst college, and one of the proprietors of the Salem (Mass.) Press, shot himself in the head, perhaps fatally, on Wednesday morning, having been made insane, it is supposed, by business troubles. He entered the office cf a lawyer, a personal friend, and said: “Horace, I have lost my honor, reputation, and all that men hold dear. Good by," and then fired. He tt about twenty-five years of age. Among the persons who “assisted” at the funeral of the late Louis Napoleon was a * certain General Schramm, who served under Napoleon I, and was wounded at the battle of Letpsic. The founder of the Bonaparte family saw the young officer, then a lieutenant, weeping and apparently dying on the field. “Why do you weep?” he asked. “Because I am going to die without being a captain,” was the answ er. Napoleon made him a captain at once, in order, says the chronicler, “to soothe htt last moments.” The soothing turned out to be wonderfully efficacious. A queer rose tt reported in the Hospital Gazette of Paris. A doctor was called to see a patient dying from cholera. In order not to discourage the man, the doctor prescribed three doses of ipecac powder to be given every half hour. The nurse misunderstood the directions, and instead of giving the drug by the mouth, gave it as a snuff; this produced a violent fit of sneezing, which was followed by a favorable reaction. The circulation was quickened, the skin was wanned, and the patient was on the way to recovery. When the doctor called next day he was amazed to find how he had taken htt medicine, and that he w as out of danger.

Deputy Marshal Killed. Richard Stephenson, United States deputy marshal, was shot to death in Kingman county. Kansas, by a horse thief who escaped to the Indian Territory, and whom he had in custody.

A Big Purchase. The Canadian government has contracted for the delivery of 60,000 tons of steel rails at prices ranging from $20 to $25 per ton, to be delivered at Montreal.

Tk* First Gan. [Oil City Derrick.] It is supposed thai the first gun of the campaign was Sprague’s.

Odious. [Quincy Modern Argo.l Sham charity .that talks much and does nothing.

The Old Duffer Kuew Somathlog. [Ctoero.] Econcmy tt of itself a great revenue.

GOOD TIM Ed. N*w York Fall of Mraasara—Report* from tho Country. [Kew York apodal to tho Chtdanati DJqulrer.] New York has not been so full of visitor# since the centennial exhibition year. There bas been a bigger rush this season to the seaside and mountain resort* of the east, and improving busiuess has brought thousands from the west and south. To day It tt almost impossible to get a room in a first or recondclass New York hotel. The cold snap of the first of the week drov* the guests at Long Branch and Saiatoga into the city, and very many who are getting back home from eastern states are sojourning here for a day or two. The merchants, too, from far and near, are here looking for goods, and there hasn’t been such a bustle and busiuess air imparted to Broadway in a long time. Places of amusement are opening to very full audiences. In fact, things are looking up in a business point of view, and everybody seems happy. Prom all tarts of the country come reports of a boom in the iron industry. We have it here in New York, and hear of it elsewhere. A tour among the iron working establishments of the city shows that, with a single exception, they are employing more men and doing more work than in any year since 1872. Moreover, it looks as if the revival bad come to stay. At the Cornell iron works, the most extensive in New York, and probably in the country, it was said that they were never so busy as now. For general help the ra*e of wages was a little lower than in 1873, but for skilled labor more was being paid. At the Delamater iron works the same report was made. Their business was chiefly in boilers. The proprietor expressed opinion that the iron mills of the country will be busy for four or five years to come. So greatly had been the consumption of iron increased in the past six months, that its price had gone up. He thought the mills would not be able to furnish rails for railroad purposes as rapidly as they were called for. What was said at these two representative works was re-echoed at other places. The iron men no longer go about with sour visages.

A Knowing Beast. [New York Sun.l A North river oysterman said, yesterday, that an embryo oyster two days’ old could make faster time than a brook trout; “and as for intelligence,” he continued, “the man who «ays the oyster tt a fool makes a misIftkc*/ 11 “What about the clam?” “Ef you keep on and continner to persevere in drillin’ a clam-, I’ll be durned ef I don’t think that you can lain it to lead a brass band.”

FALL SUITS OPEN TO-DAY

Creelman & Co., Whelmalq.and Retail Dealer* in , Teas, Coffees, Sugars, SPIOES and FRUITS, 53 N. Pennsylvania St.

ELI LILLY, HI AN U FACT D R E K

An Escaped Lunatic. A Frenchman claims to have discovered ia two natural substances, inexhaustible in nature, the means of lighting and maintaining a fire without wood or coal; a fire instantaneously lighted or extinguished, causing no dust, smoke or trouble, costing one-tenth of ordinary fuel, and everlasting.

Little Drops Make the Ocean. (Columbus Republican.] While local papers have little direct influence on national politics, they have much indirect influence, by moulding the public sentiment of the community. « wA Whaler Crashed, The whaling ship “Our Queen," of Dunded Scotland, with fourteen whale?, wa caught in the ice in Lancaster sound, betw en Baffin bay and Barrow strait, and crushed. The crew were saved.

The merchant police force have fitted up rooms at 70 East Court street. The amount of orders drawn upon the city treasury, during the month of August, was $82,199.62. For the month of August the expense? of the city hospital were $1,092.47; total number of days’ subsistence furnished, 1,^31. Barnum did not accompany his show to Indiaaapolss, being frightened away from St. Louis under the belief that he had yellow fever.

The Central German conference, in session at New Albany, has appointed Jacob Rottweiler and F. Thornald to the charge in this city. A lottery, with a valuable ring as tho attraction, is being arranged by “Modoc's” friends to raise funds to fee an attorney for bis defense. It tt probable that Prof. Bohannan, elected to succeed Prof. Dr. Jordan iu the chair of natural science at Butler University, will not accept the position. An invitation to attend the twelfth anniversary of the German Protestant Orphans’ home, on the 14th of September, has been accepted by the council. The receipts of Chief Fire Engineer Pendergast during the first quarter o£ the current fiscal year were $546.10; expenses $80.72. Supplies for the department c>st $4,982.35. Jerome C. Burnett, chief at the national bank bond division, treasury department, was in the city to-day, enroute to Washington, after having spent a brief vacation on the shores of the Wabash. A petition, signed by the members of the mercantile association, asking permission to use the Circle sidewalk for W. N. Lake, pedestrian, to walk 1,000 quarter miles in I, 0*0 quarter hours, was presented to council last night and granted. A motion was introduced in council last night, by Mr. Hooker, looking to the construction of cells inSixth street engine house, which went to the police board for consideration. An estimate fixes the cost of the improvement at about $45 per cell. The council has given permission for hacks and express wagons to stand at the intersection of Illinois and Washington and Pennsylvania and Washington streets, during the state fair, with the understanding that the streets are not to be blocked thereby. An ordinance was introduced by Mr. Brown last night fixing the per diem of patrolmen at $1.85, and cutting off Witness fees in the city court. Mr. Rooker presented one appropriating $400 for care and keeping of horses for ura of street commissioner and chief fire engineer. George E. Waring, jr., superintendent of collection of statistics, has applied to Mayor Caven for information and reports on this city, for incorporation in the next census. The council committee on printing has been charged with the duty of collecting the information desired. Persons who desire to attend the celebration at Delphi, Thursday, over the completion of the Indianapolis, Delphi and Chicago road-to that point, can obtain certificate* entitling them to a passage for one fare, of J. J. Palmer. A general invitation-tt extended to life councils, board of trade and mercantile association. City Attorney Henry reported to the council last night that a sale of merchandise to the city constitutes a contract within th* meaning of the law, and an indebtedness or liability tt thereby created against the city. He is therefore of the opinion that a strict legal construction of the section referred to would prohibit the making of all contracts or sales by aldermen or councilmen.

The Way VaaderbUt Succeeded. When Commodore VandertilH wa» running stesmboeta be beat all hi* rirsU by crowding on steam to the utmost, and even running down hi* enemy if neeesaary, to accomplish a triumph. When be went Into railroading, he adopted a much

by his skiiUuJ manipulation, aseatm. nawrenoe a. Co., bankers N. Y., accomplish a much greater sneers? In rtoet operations by their new Combination Method of dealing. By this system the orders of thousands of customer* are pooled Into one vast mm and to-operml A under the most ex perieaced management, thns giving to-each aharehoider all th# benefits of huge capital and beat akill. Profile divided monthly. Any amount iorm pi to 825,040 can be used with peat success. $15 will make 175 profit 8*0 would return 8720 or 9 per cent, on the stock during the month, according to the market. The new circular (mailed free) has “two unerring rules for success’' and lull explanations, so that any one can operate profitably. Stocks and bonds wanted. Government bonds supplied. Apply to Lawrence A Co., bankers 67 Exchinge Place, sew York Qty. [4]

GELATIN COATED PILLS,

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JNO. RAUCH, Wholesale Dealer and Manufacturer of Other Fine Brands, 15 Circle Street.

Standard Works

MOTLEY’S HISTORIES, New edition, 9 voi*., 818.00 MACAULAY’S ESSAYS, New edition, 0 roU., 88.00. Bowen, Stewart & Co., ^18 West Washington St.

Fail Style Hats AT City Hat Store, Bfo. 80 North Penn. St. BERRY SELF, Manager.

WALNUT LOGS.

The highest market price will be paid for Walnut Logs by the Sewing Machine Cabinet Go., Head of Malott .r*., IN DI ANAPOLI8, tad. W ts ATLAS JEBxiW orULfls, Builder* of Steam Engine* and Bolton, ar.d Martind.le * venue, InoisnapolU, lad. T*k* kUmachaastU svenae can from Union Depot