Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1879 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1879.

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The Indianapolis Hews has a bona fide circulation more than one-half larger than that of any other daily paper In Indiana. , Tar* President is still the object of popular attention. At Columbus, Ohio, yesterday people of both parties Tied with each other in honoring him. T Mrs. Freeman, the wife of the Pocasset child murderer, was discharged yesterday. Her hnaband was indicted for murder in the first degree. The trial will be one without precedent. He cut his child’s throat, it will be remembered, because, as he asserted, he had been so commanded of

God, as Abraham was.

The coroner’s jury 'in the case of that terrible railroad collision at Jackson, find the yard master criminally negligent, and sereral other employes worthy of censure. If the grand jury will now take up the case, and apply a little punishment where it will do the most good, it will hare an effect to abate this costly

carelessness.

San Francisco is famishing for Teasels to carry the whfat abroad. Farmers and exporters are unable to realize the adrautage of the rise in price, because of the lack of transportation facilities. When a crop or two goes to waste, there may be a demand for the reTision of our idiotic shipping laws that politicians will be com-

pelled to heed. -

Salisbury tells the English at a banquet, that the last hope of European stability rests in Austrian independence and strength. Then it is as likely as not that Europe is leaning on a broken reed. Austria’s strength is an uncertain quantity and her independence since her German alliance, won’t do to count upon

without Bismarck’s consent.

WA^feiNGTON rumors agree in saying that the influence of the greeabackers, whether known that name or by the old party oongnomen will be exceedingly small in the coming session of congress. Warner’s silver bill,it will be remembered, reposes in Senator Bayard’s desk, and it will likely be left there. There is a vogue fear that the republicans may capture the senate in 1881 and possibly the house, and those democrats who are at heart hard money men thus fail to see sufficient cause for throwing themselves away as Thurman has done. The hopeful thing in this is that the results of the elections are beginning to be crystallized

merely a figure-head and was smashed in with a 90,000 majority because of kis financial viciousnees. Both he and Thurman are effectually killed, politically. * Is there no virtue extant?'’ -{VhbtoC It la perlonaly chained that Courtney had his boats sawed so (hat they could not be used to race with Haalan, and that he did it for profitable reasons. It was charged in the last race that he “gave it away” by arrangement. It has been charged repeatedly that base hall matches have been settled in advance. Horse races are sold constantly, sometimes by owners, sometimes by jockeys, sometimes by trainers. Favorites are drugged a few hours before the race, or they are slightly crippled, or some temporary diasbling mischief done. Bing fights have been sold, and walking matches, and every form of popular contention for prizes er honors. One would have thought that if the pervading sordidness of the times were ever to be stayed any where, it would be with games and struggles in which the winner looks more for credit than cash; that the reasonable chance for wearing the honors of a championship of a nation of of the world,would be a sufficient incentive to assure an honest contest. But Courtney has twice sold his chance of honors, it is asserted, and similar honors ^having been traded off over and over again. We may well ask with F&lstaff, “Is there no virtue extant?” The presidency has been the subject of bargains many a time, not a whit more honorable than if the consideration offered or asked were money. Tilden’s agents tried to buy it. The Louisiana returning board sold it, whoever paid for it, so tha^ Hayes got it. The Praetorian guards didn’t sell the Roman empire to Didius more directly when they put it up at auction and he bid it in, than Mr. Tilden’s men tried to buy the presidency. And to pretend that he didn’t know it is to say that he is a fool. Have we no experience insmaller offices? Have we never heard of candidates that were bought off, nominations that were compromised by an arrangement for a future chance? It is all the same in all grades of rivalry, from a walking match to a presidential race. Gamblers with faro boxes and roulette tables are not a whit worse than the gamblers with nominatiens §nd votes, and there are plenty of both that will sell out and do sell out, for money or considerations no more ereditable.

CURRENT COBfMKNr. The commission appointed by congress have leased the old Seaton hotel, Washington, for-a city postoffice, which is to be removed from the general postoffice building. / , Speaker Randall: “This thing seems to have set in for the republicans, and I don’t see how we are going to stop it.” Senator Yoorhees is quoted as being “sorry at the result of the Ohio election,” but “his democracy is of too sturdy a type to affect his faith in the final triumph of its principles.” Jees so, jedge. «. 7 he tarntng aHitode that the Independent

most feel it* Independent vertebra much •trength-

ened thereby.—[Franklin Democrats

This is idiotic. The president of the United States visits Indianapolis.and attracts the attention of thousands, and The News prints an account corresponding to the magnitude of the occasion and the prominence of the man. It would have poor claims to be a newspaper, if it had not done so. The News supported Mr. Hayes for election and has given the most consistent support to his policy, and was glad to welcome him to Indians. If there is any fawning in this, the Democrat can make the most of it By the by, while that paper is so much concerned about the independence of The News, why does it not have the honesty to let its readers know what The News said about its

into hard and soft money, rather than ioJ aaBertion la,t week - Fairne “ not to be oartv triumphs. f \expected from organs usually, but we never F • looked for better things in the Democrat. The burden of a good deal of fine scorn L^sseps has not given up the Panama canal

just now emanating from the democratic Scheme,

press over the result of the Ohio election, is that “Calico Charlie,” who stayed at home and sold dry goods while General Ewing was fighting the battles of his country, i}hould;be preferred before him. Even so astute a paper as the New York Sun is betrayed into lamentations about the choice of a money-loving trader in preference to a soldier, unmindful of the fact, as all its democratic contemporaries seem to he, that Foster’s election is an exemplification of the theory they have cried for so long and bemoaned because it was not, namely: The elevation of a man to office for qualities he had and principles he represented, and not merely because he had been a soldier and thus covered a multitude of sins. Foster’s election, if for no other reason than this, would be a

hopeful sign of the times.

■While Foster’s majority is now put at 20,000, figures which the official count will not change much, the average legislative majority is put at 40,000, and thus it is summed that Thurman’s defeat is worse than Ewing’s. So far as figures go this is true. But give the devil his due. Thurman was not defeated worse than Ewing. He stood on exactly the same plane and was defeated lor the same came —financial falsehood. There wer& a number of other things that entered into Jtae legislative election which called for more strenuous effort. There, was the outrageus gerrymander perpetrated at Speaker Randall’s instance, and it waa necessary to make a great endelvor in order to be sure of reversing this. Then the democratic administration of the state—and the legislature Is the administration, particularly in Ohio—bad been the worst possible. The benevolent institutions of the state were disorganised for partisan reasons, and those in whose hands they were placed, generally mal-administered them, in some casee to antpwnt to gross corruption, which waa persistently defended. City governmeats were overturned hr the same partisan ends, and generally the affairs of state were made a fpotball with the most reckless disregard for decency and law. Thus ths people had stronger motifes to see to it that the democratic legislature was swept away. Ewing was

The South Bend Register, which has just completed its first yqpr under its present management, has moved iato new and more commodious quarters, and is to be congratulated upon its prosperity. There is no city in the state in which the papers are more creditable and convincing exponents, of the thrift and intelligence of the people, than those of South Bend, and they seem to be

supported as they deserve to be.

Our good friend, the Tipton Tlmea,unkindJy scores The News for not having condemned things which occurred before it existed, bat which it has always censured. The last resort of the defeated is to call names and make faces. They should not forget, however that this is neithar good manners

nor argument.

It would be affectation, however, to shut one’s eyes to actual facts. The old-fashioned republican impulse is one of these facts; and even Mr. Curtis and other dissatisfied members of his party, who refuse to shout for the machine or to forget ibeir principles, will find it harder to make head against the momentum of the republican mass than they would have found it at any other time in the last six years.—[New York Evening Poet The crop of southern outrages is being studiously cultivated about this timet and unhappily there is both too much of a republican appetite for theee horrors and too much material which can be magnified and fed to the impreasible voter. The stalwart politician is far more inclined to thank God for such ammunition than to mourn the effect npon^ cur national well-being.—[Saginaw This democratic congress is upon trial on the eve of a presidential election, and every act next winter will be watched with a sharp

cal government—[New York Sun. Our own belief is that Grant will not be a candidate, prefering retirement, end that James G. Blaine will be Our next president. So mote it be I—[Wm. E. Chandler’s organ. As things stand, John Sberman has a better chance to be next president of the United States than any other living man.*-[Detroit News. A Plena Old Qer**. [Columbus, Gm, Enquirer.] A religious old horse is owned by Mr. Alexander, of Oswickee, Ala , who rides him to church ou preaching days, which are twice a month. On other Sundays he is turned oat to graze, and it is on these days that he is so religious. He goes down to the church, stops at the tree Where he is srenerally tied when there is preaching, and with his head toward the church, remains about an hour and a half. He then walks leisurely home. This is a fact and will be vouched for by any of the people ot Oswichee.

UTK IN FLORIDA SWAMPS. The Read “Forks” la a Poad-Oroeefag a Tarry at Mcht—Proepeeta of a Voyage to U>« Oalf. IComeyoodmiee of The ladUnapolU News.] * Tauahasmb, October 10, 1879.. In prosecution of the work aseigned me in Florida I had occasion the other day to make a journey of some 15 miles nearly dim north towards the Georgia line to look at some lands alleged to be swamp and overflowed. I had no doubt of the allegation being good, or'of the presence of allcgaton on the lands in question, but not being allowed to take anybody’s word for it, I was obliged to make a personal observation in the interest of the government. Our route lay between the Ocklockanee river and a succession of connected sloughs and ponds, called by courtesy a lake, and given the rather pretty name of Imonia. This lake by courtesy is anything but pretty in reality, however. It has rained in this country three days in the week for the past month and a half, and when it rains here the business is transacted on the wholesale. The water comes down as if the sky had been bored full of augur holes and the entire volume of the golf bad been elevated for the purpose of running throngh their openidgs. When the watar gets on to the ground it is precisely like the people here, very slow in its motions. It has to consider two or three days which way it will run, and while thus considering it spreads Over a good deal of country. I found that Lske Imonia had spread itself over miles of the road that had to be traveled, and had formed a connection, for either business or pleasure, with the Ocklockanee river. Coming to the margin of the lake, as made by the overflow, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, we entered the water and drove a mile or two and came to a thicket of anderbrush, such as grows in these semi-tropics 1 swamps. A path, -called a road, bad been cut througbjthis brufh just wide enough to allow one wagon to pass. Had we met a wagon, or a mule even, coming in the opposite d ! rection I don’t know how we would have got by. But we had the solitude all to ourselves, and it was the solitude of a dense shade almost merging into darkness. The sun was shining brightly over the trees, but it could not penetrate the thick foliage that enveloped us. In this shadow and through this water lay our devious way. Sometimes there would be not over an inch or two of water, and ihen for a considerable distance the axles wonld be submerged. On emerging from this tunnel cut through brush, vines and trees we came to an open space, and here we learned afterward the “road forked.” There was no guide-board—nothing but water, cypress, gum, button-bush and other evidences of the swampy condition of the country. We took the wrong prong of the “fork” and went splashing ahead .for seven or eight miles. Consulting a compass, we found ourselves very muclrout of our intended course, but it was too late in the day to turn back, and there was not dry ground enough on which to pitch tents and wait until next — - , the wa . river and we knew, to be on the other side. The mosquitoes swarmed in myriads and were as ferocious as a hive of disturbed bees. Like the people here, they have nothing to eat, and they “go for" provisions when they come ib sight or smell. Not relishing the idea of being doled out as food for ravenous insects, I urged the necessity of speedily reaching'and crossing the river.. On arriving at the stream we found the ferryman on the wrong side, and a half mile distant at that. There was but little daylight left, and no moon to follow the sun until after an interval of several hours, yekthe ferryman did not hurry. People in Florida never do. It is against the impulses of their natures, and there is no provision in their individual constitutions for rapid movements. Finally we saw him coming leisurely down the hill on the opposite bank. Crossing to our side be introduced us to a FLORIDA FERRY. ■Imagine two piae trees cut into logs of equal length and hewn with an ax to a thickness of four inches and a width of eight. At the ends they are shaped something like the forward part of a sled runner. On to the edge which is thus rounded are nailed pine boards or slabs, with a brace from side to side at either end. When the thing is done it is upeide down, but a little muscular exertion rights it np and launches it, a perfect boat for the transportation of men, animals and vehicles across dangerous streams. On a frail bark like this, and & pretty old one, at that, one of my teams was driven, and with a i ope stretched across the river for a guide and support, and by the dextrous use of poles it was safely landed on firm ground. The boat recrosaed for the second team, and got it aboard. On starting with it the ferryman loet his grip on the rope ,and boat and cargo commenced a voyage toward the gulf of Mexico. Just at that time the sun rank as suddenly as if a lantern had been dropped into a well, for let it be understood there is no twilight in Florida. The situation was critical. The boat drifted against the boughs of trees which brushed hard against the horses and made them refractory. The driver could afford no assistance to the ferryman, as the horses commanded all of his attention. There were on that frail thing called a boat, two valuable horses, a new wagon, two tents just received from New York, that had never been stretched, all our provisions and camp equipage and some personal effects. Starvation^ and blue ruin stared us in the face. It wns dark, and there was no prospect of a moon for two hours. The mosquitos Vera incessant in theirattacks. How to assist, the drifting bark was the question. We finally, after many efforts, learned from the ferryman where to find a batean. We got to it, but it was full of water. There was nothing to bail if with, but getting into the mud we turned it upside down ana launched it again, comparatively empty. “Who’s going across?”asks the driver who had got bis team ov^er. “The strongest man, of course,” I replied. “Den dat’s me,” he says, and proceeded to strip himself in case of necessity. He paddled up to the feny rope, grasped it and pulled across, then drifted down to the flat, got aboard, and by means of poles and pulling by the limbs of overhanging trees aided the ferryman in getting back to the place of starting. The horses by this time had" become very restless. I ordered them unhitched, preferring to lose a part rather than all of the property, by them jumping overboard. Nothing could be seen for the darkness, hat we could hear, each other distinctly, and it was this favora-' ble circumstance that enabled the party on shore to send aid to that on the water. About the middle of the river, as the flat was making its way across, the moon appeared above the trees and shed its welcome light upon the scene. It was timely, for the road in the immediate neighborhood of the ferry was the worst w e had encountered in the day's experience. The ferryman tied up his boat and conducted us to a high and dry camping ground near his own residence, where we were free from mosquitoes and had water from a well—a luxury not often enjoyed in the progress of this swamp land investigation. He ministered in various ways to otir comfort, and the next day proved a valuable aid as guide and general informer. The mia.fortune we thought we had encountered at night proved on the morrow a Incky circumstance. A drive of twelve miles over bad roads was saved, as the old ferryman and his son possessed the very knowledge we supposed we would hare to go to the Georgia line to obtain. “All’s wm that ends welt” Babtox. Foster's Tour. Foster, United States minister, is making a tour through Mexico. Hs was on the 8th inst. at Gaudalajara, where he received miu-ked attentions from public and private citizens. He will continue his journey by way of Colima to ManzaniUa. At the latter place he will take a steamer to Mazatlau, and thence proceed over the mountains to Durango. Baow Storm !b Aastrla. Snow is falling at Vienna thickly, and iM now six inches deep. At Gratz the snow id several feet deep. £>uch weather is unprecedented at this tune of the year.

My Cop Runneth Ovar. Wherefore drink with me, friends 1 It la no dnogfat Ot red lotoiirntlon; et Ilf brim No Tins areatbed heed of Bacchus ever laughed— This pilgrim cup of mine now worn and dim With time’s rough usage; no bright bubbles swim, Or foam-beads sparkle over.—Have ye quaffed The waters dear that through green paetorea Where t^sy who love tbs Shepherd follow Him ? Brimmed with Bis peace, my soul is satis bed; Cooled are my feverish fancies, calmed the stir Of dreams whose only end was Utter ness. Healed at this fount our inmost all would be, Did we hot health above disease prefer. My cup is flikd at wetls whom bleselnem A world’s thirst cannot drain. Friends, drink with mot —[Lacy Lsrcom.

SCRAPS.

- The “Hood fond,’ now amounts to

$5,973.17.

A Stretford (Conn.) man has read the bible through 100 times since 1827. Is a pulpitless clergyman in quest of A church engaged in a steeple chase? A rumor comes from Paris that bonnets are to be worn on the head hereafter. Thirty-three miles of the Cincinnati southern road yet remain to be completed. South Carolinians propose to erect a monument to the memory of John C. Calhoun. There has been imported into New York by sea from California since the beginning of this year 1,156,712 gallons of wine, and 114, 717 gallons of brandy. *1 have searched for truth, and nowhere could I find it, not even in myself; therefore I die." This singular note was found on the body of a Russian nobleman who recently sommitted suicide with a pistol. Two children were playing in the sand together. The small boy said to the little

girl : “Do you wish to be my little wife ?” The little girl after reflecting: “Yes ” The small bqy: “Then take off my boots!” Mr. Richard A. Proctor sailed to-day for America. He will begin his lectures in Philadelphia, November 3, and after a busy winter both in the east and west, will start in April for Australia, to lecture there for six

months.

Dr. Grantham Munton Yprke, dean of Worcester, fell dead almost at the door of the cathedral ten days ago, just as the choir was singing, “I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest, for it is thon, Lord, only that

makest me dwell in safety.”

Congressmen A. H. Stephens, tells a Georgia editor that he is worried by the fact that when Northern papers give his opinions they put error alorgside them. Mr. Stephen’s opinions are not ot great importance, and even as stale and sickly commonplace Ithey are not likely to hurt anybody.—[New York Herald. A' little girl was puzzling herself abont her transferance from heaven to this mundane sphere, and| questioned her mother: “Did God and the angels have a funeral when I came away ?” “I presume there was no funeral,” replied the mother. “Well,” said the child, “1 presume they all felt bad.” Blondin, in his Vienna exhibitions, uses a rope stretched at a height pf 150 feet, and walks blindfolded, without a balance pole. No net is spread to break a fall, and death wonld be inevitable if he tumbled. In this respect his feats are more dangerous than at Niagara, where a drop into the water might

not have killed him.

Mr. Henry C. Work, the author of “Grand-

father’s Clock” and other popular songs, who lives on Columbia Heights, in Brooklyn, is broken-hearted over the elopement of his

daughter with a fast young man of tbe town. His wife is in an insane asylum, and be him-

self is believed to have become temporarily

deranged on account of bis troubles.

’ Some British tourists recently visited

Longfellow, saying that as there are no

ruins in this country they thought they

would call on him. They asked him fo write his autograph in their books, and as he vas doing so they looked over his shoulder, and one of themAaid, “Why, how plainly he w rjtes; haad doesn’t shake at all, you

know.”

M ‘ Delaunay, the. Freflch actor, one evening left the theater with the manuscript of a play called “Vercingetorix”—the name of a patriotic Gaul of C.'csar’s time—under his arm. At the corner of the street he was attacked by a foot-pad. “RascalI” exclaimed the actor promptly, “if you are not off I will break my ‘Vercingetorix’ over your head!” The thief fled in great dismay. It affected its first audience similarly.. There is another astonished Englishman making a tour through the west—George Jacob Holyoake, the veteran English reformer and radical. He is “enchanted,” he says: “this is a marvellous country, and it has a tremendous future; and he adds: “The beauty of Ibe women and the comeliness of the men have astonished me, .for that is not what we have been led to expect. From this he hastens to infer that “the human race generally is improving.” Manv persons are puzzled to understand what the terms “fourpenny,” “sixpenny” and “tenpenny” mean as applied to nails. “Fourpenny” means four pounds to the thousand nails, “sixpenny” means six pounds |u> the thousand, and so on. It is an old English term, and meant at first “ten pound” nails (the thousand being understood) but the old English clipped it to “tenpun,” and from that it degenerated nntil “penny” wag substituted for “pmind.” When a thousand nails weigh less tnan one pound they are called tacks, brads, etc., and are reckoned by ounces. Poinj d’esprit, which is now fast superseding Breton lace, is simply fiue net in which small dots or points are darned by band (when it is called “real”) or woven by machine (when it is called “imitation.”) Point d’esprit net is made In wide widths for capes, caps, fichus, etc., and on black satin bonnets both black and white are used. For instance, the strings are black point d’esprit net, edged with black lace,while white point d’esprit is seen in the knots and bows ot the trimming. In lingerie it is much employed in conjunction with India mull musliu, and fichus of pale foulard are trimmed with it. This year there were 112 applicants for admission to the St. Petersburg medical college for women. “Of these,” save the Golos, “sixty-six were Greek Catholics, foity Hebrews, three Lutherans, two Roman Catholics, and one Arminiao. The ladies were subjected to a preliminary examination in arithmetic, algebra, geometery, trigonometry,physics, and the Russian, the Latin, and the French or German language. Seventyseven ladies passed a satisfactory examination in all branches, forty-nine of whom were Greek Catholics,twenty-six Hebrews, one Lutheran, and one Roman Catholic. Many of them received the highest mark (5) in Latin; all of the highest in Frencj) or German, and not one of them in Russian, in fact the least satisfactory examination was in the Russian language, the majority being marked three. The explanation of this Strang fact is that in Russian gymnasiums and seminaries particular attention is paid to the foreign languages, and the least to their

Scarcity of Shipping Facilities. There is less tonnage in the port of San Francisco than for years"past. Wheat is advancing daily with great rapidity. The rise in the past two days has been 15 cents per cental. The export demand is enormoas,but farmers’ and exporters’ hands are tied, and they are unable to reap the fruits of the foreign advance owing to the scarcity of the tonnage disengaged. Bamngartoa Sentenead. George Baumg&rten, the young farm hand, who murdered Uttle Sandy White in a horrible manner, was tried and convicted in Monroe, Green county, Wisconsin, and sentenced to B*ates prison for life. He was taken to Wanpun penitentiary last night. The procet dirgs have been kept quiet for fear of lynching. A Boom Which Proved a Boomerang. H. C. Corbin waa arreete^ at Westerville, Ohio, yesterday, cm a warrant charging him with blowing up his hotel, a few weeks ago. This outrage was charged upon temperance people when the exploeiou occurred.

THM (Hi TRACT. The Advaatnree and Mishaps of a “Drnmmah," la tha Vary Bariy Days of Railroading. [Burlington Havktya.] It was during the reign of tbe good Caliph, when A bon Taanerlik came to thtdtyof Bagdad, threw bis gripsack on the counter, and, as he registered, spoke cheerfully onto the clerk, saying: “A cample room on the first floor and send my keyster up right away, and call me for the 6:28 train east in the morning.” And Easier el Jab, the dark, looked at him, bat went away to the mirror and gased at hip new diamond. And Abou Tamerlik hied him forth and went into the booths aad bazars and laid bold upon the merchants, and enticed them into his room, and spread oat his samples, and besooght them to bay. And when night was come he slept Because, he said, it is a dead town, and there is no place to go. And, before tbe second watch of the night, Rhumul em Uhp, tbs porter, smote on the panels of the door and cried aloud: ‘ Oh, Abou Tamerlik, arise and dress, for it is train time.” And Abou arose and girt his raiment abont him, and hastened down stairs and crept into the ‘bus. And he marveled that he was so sleepy, because he knew he went to bed exceedingly early and marvelously sober. And when they got to the depot, lo! it was 10:25 p, m. And Abou swore and reached for the porter that he might smite him, and he said onto him: “Carry me back unto my own room, and see that thon call me at 6:28 a. m., or thou diest” And ere he had been asleep even until the midnight watch, Rhumul em Uhp smote spun upon the panels of his door aad crte<j. “Awake, Abou Tamerlik, for the time waneth, and the train waiteth for no man. Awake and haste, for slumber overtook thv servant, and tbe way is long and the ’bos is gone I” And Abou Tamerlik rose and dressed and girded up bis loins, and set forth withjgreat speed, for his heart was anxious. Nevertheless he gave Rumul em Uhp a quarter and made him carry his grip, and he cursed him for a driveling laggard. And when he was come to the train, it was 11:46 p. m^ and it was a way freight going south. And Abou Tamerlik fell upon Rhumul em Uhp and smote him, and treated him roughly, and said: “O pale gray ass of all asses, tbe prophet pity thee if thou callest me once more before the 6:28 a.m. east” * And he gat him into his bed. Now, when the sleep fell heavily upon Abou Tamerlik, for he was sore discouraged, Rhumul em Uhp kicked fiercely against tbe panels of his door, and said: “O Abou Tamerlik, the drammah, awake and dress with all speed. It is night in the valleys, but the day star shines on the mountains. Truly tbe train is even now due at the depot, but the ’bus is indeed gone.” And Abou Tamerlik, the drummah, swore himself awake, and put on his robes and hastened to the depot, while Rhumnl em Nhp the porter, went before with a lantern. For it was pitch dark and raining like a house afire. • And when they reached the depot it was a gravel train going west, and the clock in the steeple tolled 2 a. m. And Abou Tamerlik fell on Rhumul em Uhp, the porter, and beat him all the way home, ana pelted him with mud, and broke his lantern, and cursed him. And he got him to bed and slept. Now, when Abou Tamerlik awoke the sun was high, and the noise of the street car rattled in the street. And his heart smote him, and be went down stairs, and the clerk said to him: “O, Abou Tamerlik, live i« peace. It is too late for breakfast and too early for dinner; nevertheless, it won’t make any difference in tbe bill.” And Abou Tamerlik, the drummah,sought Rhumul em Uph, the porter, and caught him by the beard, aftd said unto him: “0, chuck el edded-pup! (which is‘thou that sleepest at train time’) why hast thou forgotten me?” And Rhnmul em Uhp was angfy, and said: “O Abou Tamerlik, the drununah, hasty in speech and g|pw to think, whereforeshouldst thou get up at daybreak, when there is another train goes the same way to-morrow morning?” But Abou Tamerlik would not hearken unto him, but paid his bill, and hired a team and a man to take him to the next town. A-nd be hired the team at the livery stable, and he cursed the house that he put up at. Now, the livery staple belonged to the landlord, all the same. But Abou Tamerlik, the drummah, wist not that it was so.

The South Wants a Union General. [Speech of Gen. Chalmere ] It has been charged that the south is jealous of the army and the union soldiers because they conquered us. This is a slander apon the courage as well as the character of our people. Brave men are never jealous of a bold [and manly opponent, and I appeal to the record of the rebel brigadiers in congress to show that this is untrue. If the democracy of ths north will only give us a fair opportunity we will demonstrate to the world that we have no jealousy of the union soldier. If they will only nominate as our standard-bearer in 1880 some gallant soldier who loved the union, and sealed .bis faith with his blood, who fought for'the preservation of the union and not the destruction of the states, who was satisfied when the south laid dowu its arms, and refused to oppress and crush a conquered people—then a wild shout of applause will go up from the confederate soldiers from the Potomac to the Rio [Grande, that will echo and re-echo as it comes booming across the Ohio, until it awakens a responsive chord in the hearts of the union soldiers of the north.

Tha Sphere ot the Independent Paper. [Cincinnati Star.] No act of a prominent public official of either party can have exact justice done by partisan papers on either side. His opponents will exagerate his errors and impute evil intentions and results to his most viitoous deeds. His political friends wHl see only virtues in bis conduct, whether judicious or otherwise. Hence the more intelligent reader feels it a relief to turn to the independent press of the country for the news of tbe day that he reads and inwardly digests, making np his opinions from the events themselves, and not from the falsified statements he gets from political organs and partisan papers that are net organs. This is why the independent papers of the country are thriving, why they increase in circulation, and why their opinions, when they give them upon current events, are respected.

Gambling. [LaBiyeUe Com i«r. ] It is an open book of immorality, a gate to hell with the door wide open aad tbe invitation “come in” written across the casing. Enough money has passed Into the dealer’s pocket to feed and clothe the indigent poor of Lafayette for the city’s lifetime. The gambling places are simply a factory to turn oat blacklegs, thieves, defaulters and adepts in every grade of scoundrelism that vice recognizes and the law punishes.

Fatal Railroad Accident. An express train ran into a freight train ou the Susquehanna road at Oneonta, N. Y., yesterday, by which the engineer and fireman of the express were killed and both locomotives damaged. The accident was a duplication of the one lately occurring on the Michigan Central. None of the passengers were hurt. Judd Maun was the engineer and James McGnire fireman. Both lived in Bingbampton and had wivea and children.

Revenue Swindlers Caogbt. Revenue sgent Blacker, assisted by deputy collector Gyles, has unearthed gross frauds in Gaston coonr- ” " '- J — u ~ : “ tered grain dis_ eminent officers.

Kaadad Adviea. •

fOuiseg* Evening Journal.] Preachers who read the published sermons of others of the profession should be very careful not to abeorb too mnch of it, just as a financier expert, when called upon to count other people's money, should bs careful not to let any of it stick to his fiagan. Bat What If Thay Don't?

[Seymour Republican.]

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Tbey’li Know More. [Attica Ledger.] Stalwart paper won’t be half so stalwart after tbe fall elections are over. They can then admit that the country is comparatively safe without injuring the party. Bourbon papers, too, will be able to tell the truth occasionally. It Looks lake !«. [Madison Courier.] Are we a nation of gamblers?—This buying and selling of cereals is simply gambling. It is worse than “betting on elections.’’ as had as playing faro or poker or any other game which is played with cards. Marderar Oeavtcted. At Newton, N. J., the jury in the cate of Grill, charged with the murder of his daughter, brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. Sentence was deferred. Tbe defense was insanity. A| Leatla Aefeoatabed. [Terre Haute Gazette.] Ohio is and has been for years a republican state, but we bad no idea that the majority would be so large. W ■ - Blood Oat of m Turnip. | Vincennes Sun—dem.l The election in Ohio was an endorsement of Hayes and bis policr towards tbe south. It was therefore a rebuke to stalwartism. Leatkov Belting Pat Up. Tbe leather belting manufacturers or the country, at a meeting held in New York Wednesday, advanced the price of belting from 15 to 20 per cent #

Ohio Hm Settled Him. [Michigan City Diapatch.\ - One thing is certain, Frank Landers’s nomination means defeat to tbe Indiana democracy. ■ k Tka Datck Will Take Holland. [Lzporte Chronicle.] / A republican triumph in Pennsylvania is confidently predicted. - “The Time of Dey.” [South Bead Register. | Tbe Sberman boom is pretty well, I thank you.

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