Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1874 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1874.

, TUESDAY, AF1UL H.

Su&an Virginia B3ntoa Boilleau died iu P'ri An the 8th of March. She was the youngest daughter of Senator Thomas II. Benton, and was in many ways a remark able woman. In 1S55, she was married to n.irnn Roilleau. then secretary of the French legation at Washington. Her bus band was successively appointed to many diplomatic positions, and she invariably accompanied him, even a several years' residence at Calcutta, where ehe is sup posrd to have permanently Injured her health. Finally, the Baron became involved in General Fremont's Memphis and El Paso railroad project and through its failure he was compelled to repair to Paris for a trial, whoro he was immediately sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Iiis wife made heroic efforts to prove his innocence of any intentional fraud, but she finally sucenmbed to ber repeated failures, and lost her life in the faithful effort to save her husband from an undeserved disgrace. - .. 3 Wisconsin has a railroad law which fixes the rates of transportation according to the wiloin of a state legislature. But its provisions work some curious results that won't bo very well relished by the towns whose tr.uio is killed. It knocks the lumber trade of Milwaukee dead at one stroke. It is done in this way. The new law fixes tho rate at a uniform price from the point where the freight starts, say at two dollars per car for every 25 miles. Under the rule, lumber can be shipped from Toinah right through Milwaukee at a less rate than the roads have a right to charge from the latter place. This puts in the power of the St. Paul road, if it chooses to U3e it to cutoff all the trade at Milwaukee in favor of remoter points on the lino. The law iu one place provides that the railroad commissioners shall ride free overall railroads in the state, and els3where makes it a misdemeanor for any state official to accept a pass on a rail road. The rates fixod for freight are, after the first fifty mil9s hauled, on the following Articles: grain and flour, 1 6-10 cents per ton per mile ; salt, cement, etc, 92-100 cents per ton per mile; lumber and shingles, etc., 80-100 cents per ton per mile; live stoek, lo-l-j cents per ton per mile; agricultural implements, 1 2-10 cents per ton per mile; and oral one cent per ton per mile. It is said that these prices are below the actual cost under the best management. But the law and the people will probably come to an understanding on better acquaintance. Its provisions are not to bo put iu force until May, and meantime the railroads will study and determine what policy they will ajoj t under the statutes. If any dispute is "stale And unprofitable," it strikes oue that this is, nbout the cause or the confederate failure. General Jo Johnston charges it to a blunder ol the government In not seizing tho cotton in the hands of tho planters when tho war begun. This disturbs O. C. Memminger,wrhose name looks somewhat familiar in type after a long absence, lie was the first confederate secretary of tho treasury, and from personal knowledge makes a clear rejoinder to General Johnston. He shows that in the three lnotths, from February to May, before the blockade was ordered, tho shipment of 4,000,000 b3les ol cotton was a physical impossibility. It would have required 4.000 ships, and they were not to be had, especially in the faco of a notification of the coming blockade. More cotton was shipped by private enterprise than could have been done by the government. To obtain possession of tho cotton the government must have adopted one of three modes : purchase it, beg it, or seize it by force. The first expedient was impossihlo, a3 Mr. Memmlnger shows, for want ot money. When tho government not up iu business it had not money to pay lor the table at which the treasurer sat. l ranted that money was to be had for tho- printing, there was not a scrap of bank noe paper in the confederacy on which to print a dollar, or the covenant ol a bond. When they got to making notes the demand exceeded ths supply, and none could be used by the government to buy cotton. If cotton had been, bought directly with bonds the same as those issued for funding the currency, the planters would have thrown them on the market and they would have broken down in six months. As for donations ol cotton, loyal a3 the planters were, they could not aid the cause in that way. On the contrary, the govei nment was forced to answer tho multiplied applicaions by tho planter for aid with a printed circular. Instead of giving.the planters asked aid frqni the now government. In regard to seizure, the ex-treasurer declares that would have been "a high-handed course which could never receive the sanction of the statesmen who administered our gov ernmont." On the whole Mr. Memminger insists, and with much plausibility, that there is no record of a war of Buch dimen sions sustained four years by mere financial expedients. In that fact is one of the most striking evidences of the devotion of the Southern people to their ill-advised attempt at the destruction ot a nation. Among the curious and interesting ways of that wondrous French city, Paris, none ia more remarkable to American eyes than the mode by which municipal revenues are laised. It takes considerable money to run the city of Paris, especially when in addition to its dimensions, it is remembered that no other city gives away so mach in charitable provisions for the poor and the wretched. and none other goes into the perfection of public improvements on so magnificent a scale. How does she raise the money? In a word, by taxing lightly everything that i3 brought into the city for necessity, use and pleasure. Everything intended to be eaten, drnnk, or used for building or any purposo, when it reaches the barriers, is stopped by a sentinel and charged an ad mis slon fee. This tax for municipal revenue Is called the octroi. Of tha total expenditures of the city authorities last year, 197,815,932 francs, 103,745,000 franca were derived from

the octroi, or onsiderable more than one-

half. It will readily be seen that the operating of such a revenue system as this must involve a complicated business machine. Nobody but the systematic Frenchman could make it successful. Yet the work is both perfectly and cheaply accomplished. It costs but a fraction over five per cent, to collect the octroi, and many Valuable matters of information are obtained incidentally besides. So exact are the operations, and so prompt the reports, that at any moment it can be told at the central bureau just how many chickens, eggs, measures of coal and bottles of wine have coaie into the the city during the day. The tax is in reality a relic of the feudal days.diling back more than fitty years. As the city increases so does the amount of money collected. In isol Paris had a half million of people. To day, there ars'over two millions, including the constant army of visitors from abroad. The tricks and ingenious devices lor smuggling, particularly liquors, which are heavilv taxed, would fill a volume. But officers are educated to the last degree of sagacity, and no way of escaping them i3 long successful. It is claim ed that this method of taxation which reaches absolutely every person, poor and rich alike, cannot be improved unon for that particular city which has be4 m come so accustomed to it. that the annoy ance has ceased to be so regarded. Itepeated attempts have been made to abolish the system, in the various revolutions, but it is a part of the very earth and atmosphere, venerablo with age, and fortified both by usage and prejudice. Considerable of a "drapplng" of things was beard Monday. Such fragments of the republican party as swung themselves out before the people dropped into nothingness, to be heard of no more, for a time, at least. The lesson of the result is easy to read. In many cases the republican partizans hoped to overcome the prejudice attaching to them by nominating first-rate men. Thej' imagined that the people would be de ceived by these ostrich tactics, and that rather than call in any other party, the peoplo would sustain the party of Lincoln and the war. Connecticut was a fair test of the condition of the public mind, The gentlemen on the republican ticket were excellent In character and first-rate in ability. Experienced in affairs and well Known to tho people. They would have adminisercd the government honestly and efficiently had they been selected. But they put it outside the possibility of honest men to vote for them, because they were known to be in sympathy with Grant's odious administration, and supporters of the debasing system whose details are coming to light in the Sanborn frauds, the attorney general's frauds and in fact every investiga lion that is set in operation. The reult, therefore, iloex not moan that the people trust 0110 party more, but that they trust the other less. So long as there is enly a choice between parties, people will naturally turn from a body whom to work with is to acknowledge yourself in sympathy with thieves and corrupt ionis! a. These are not loose terms either. The republican party organization is turned to corrupt purposes from the highest department at Washlngnon to the lowest township where the party holds control. In Indiana there are honest men in the state and subordinate offices men who adorn thoir places, but the actual party machinery is run in the interests of thieves and strikers. They ply their trade in currunt dickering in councils; in county stationary through the medium of dishonest and venial newspapers, and they do it with impunity, because as a general thing, the partisiau majority is always able as in this city, to shield the criminals from the penalty of their plundering, lie nee the conviction is unshaken in the popular mind that the republican party machinery is a vast system of plundering, under tho guise of political action. In proof of this, t ere is hardly a republican officeholder, from president t constable, who has not grown rich in the conduct of i public office. In our county offices, state offices, legislative offices, cabinet places, the incumbents leap from poverty to affluence. This has come to impress the people and this accounts for the changG which beginning' yesterday will continue under changing phases until, tho republican party relinquishes its baleful exis tence and people who sympathize with honesty and reform may work together in an independent party. There are other aspects in which the results are suggestive. This is the first general election hold since the advent of.the women's temperance movement in which the temperance question has been mad3 an issue. The candidates to be voted for were nominated in the great ma jority of cases in the simple question of fa voring or not favoring the present temperance movement. The offices to be filled were those of the mayoralty, the city councils and marshals and the commissioners of various public boards. In all, of the smaller towns the issue was a direct one on the temperance questionand also with a few exceptions In the larger cities. While the men were casting their votes in many of the cities the women were congregated in the churches praying for the success of the temperance cause and that votes might be cast in the cause ot sobriety and good order. As far as reported the following towns and cities elected temperance candidates by de cided majorities: Springfield, Mansfield, Warren, Marion, Morrow. Chiilicothe, New Lexington, Logan, Dennison and Lockwood. Anti-temperance majorities are given in Columbus, Dayton, Lancaster, Bucyrus Shelby and Sidney. In other cities and townships the returns are too uncertain as yet to classify; while in Toledo, Hamilton and other places, the temperance ques tion does not seem to have entered very di rectly Into the contest. In Dayton, although the anti-temperance mayor, Butz was elected by a small majority, yet the tem perance party claim a majority ot the councilmen. Similar mixed results are reported from several of the cities votine on the tem perance issue. The largest majority for the ami-temperance weitet, vas given in Co Iambus.

0 TIMES! 0 CUSTOMS! ASBURY HIGHJINKS.

BOLD "BURLESQUES." SOMETHING) ABOUT THE BOGUS PROGRAMS THE REVIEWERS OF THE " REVIEW" RE VIEWED GLEANINGS FROM THE FIELD WHAT IS SAID, THOUGHT AND FELT THE END NOT VET. "The Inoffensive satire never bites." Dryden.J From a Special Correspondent of the Bentiuel. Gbeexcastle, Indiana, April 4, 1S74. It was with feelings of peculiar Interest that the representative of the Sentinel to-day, disembarked at Greencastle. Sent as a physician not to minister to a mind diseased, (for the answer to the famous conundrum by Mr. Shakespeare as to who can accomp lish that task has not yet been given) but to feel the public pulse in relation to the recent "burlesques" emanating from certain (or is it uncertain?) ones at Asbury. However, the public pulse was not throbbing extensively. It was apparently in a rormal condition. Students did not stand at the street corners, or dot the college square in groups talking the matter over. Principally because the greater number had gone home for a week's vacation; and the day was too bitter cold for thoso remaining to be on the square; though, as a rule, Asbury 's students are notably 4 ou the square" in their dealings. The excitement consequent upon tho distribution of Mmock programs" last Sunday night, or early Monday morning, had decreased, A mock program, such as was gotten up thrs year, is not of itself a thing of beauty or a joy forever. This followed by a burlesque on the college paper (The Asbury Review), which, in some respects, out-burlesqued the burlesque, was notas oil upon the troubled waters. Indeed moro like, nitro-glyeerine productive of explosion The two are, in fact, beyond anything yet attempted in the burlesque line, and probably will not be again attempted at least for several cycles to come. Like the real poet who is supposed to be nascitur nou fit, these were "nastier" than any ever preceding them aad not fit to be either distributed or read. THE SAD FACT IS, however, that the one has been a sequence of the other. The burlesques were so plentiful and so plain that he who ran might read ; and there seems to have been a good deal of running. The Sophomoro exhibition in itself is usually a harmless and innocent kind of amusement. The orations of the Sophomorical Demosthene, tho culled phrases of the silver-tongued Nestors, fall gently as hayseed from the granger's hair on these occasions. Anyone who has passed through Sophomore exhibitions, either as spectator or actor, will bear witness to their innocuousness. But to "return to our muttons," or rather burlesques, which do not partake of the mutton character, being neither gentle nor frolicsome in the strictest sense. As Dame Partington puts it, "comparisons are odorous." In this case they surely are? tse offense is certainly rank and smells to heaven. The unassuming Sophomores were, in the mock programs, lampooned, not to say harpooned, and thus impaled were held up for the public eye to gaze upon; and that useful optic Was never yet wo distended as during the past week at Greencastle. Tho burlesque "lleview"eontained allusions to the faculty, their lainilies, and to students ot both Boxes that brought the burning blnsu of shams not only to all in town and college, but to the very cheeks ef tho wooden Indians that stand in Iront of tho tobacconists' stores. It may or may not be a coincidence, but in some way every one has learned not only of the existence of the burleque,but that they were very indecent. Many expressed the sentiment that it was a burniug shame. Others that as far as the programs were concerned, they ought to be not only burniDg but burned shames. The universal sen- j timent was that it was the very worst event that Asbury had seen. As at first stated, the excitement in the city of Greencastle has mostly subsided. Many-winged rumor has been and is yet busy. She has spread reports both conflicting and contradictory. Though it fcas not beeu " WniSrERED IN HEAVEN AND MUTTERED IX HELL," yet the breezes havo caught the reports a they fell, that the prosecuting attorney would havo a finger iu this pie yet; not to mention that awful conclave, the grand jury. That students were being expelled by the score, and the end was not yot. The Sentinel representative's eye, in glancing across the columns of the Greencas tle Banner this morning, saw the following item in reference to the affair; On Tuesday a bogus Asbury Review was distributed about the city, ot the most infamous and scurrilous character. It slanders every young lady in the university, attacks the professors and a number of the male students, and drags before the public in tho most shameful manner a respectable widow lady who is working hard to give her two excellent daughters an education. The English language is inadequate to properly characterize the thing. Yesterday the laculty expelled six i f the authors lor their participation in it A. K. Carmienael, A. II. Yount, O. W. Ayer, J. W. Barnes, G. D. Barnes and William Flinn, some of whom threaten to test the legality of the proceeding. Instead of quibbling about any legal technicality, the young men ought to bo thankful that they are permitted to get ofl" so easily for their grave offense. It is altogether probable that the number expelled might be increased with profit to Asbury. Since the above was in type we learn that an additional number have been expelled and a larger number demerited. Wishing to see the parties particularly interested, the reporter started out ou a tour of inspection. Knowing that most of the students were absent he thought the chances of finding the ' drsired parties not the most eruouraging. Fortu nately, after a few minute's walk- one of the gentlemen under the ban was round to be in. Two of the senior class had remained in town, and from them the reporter gleaned something which will give an idea of the way in which they view the matter. The senior interviewed called attention to the extract above given from the Banner, saying it was incorrect in one respect. The students mentioned as expelled were dismissed. This may seem to the uninitiated as a distinction without a difference. But the proposition is this: Dismissal is to expulsion as varioloid is to the smallpox. The analogy may be further carried out, inasmuch as they are each liable to tako oneolf. The first intimation that the six seniors had, was a notification (respectively,) which read as follows: Asbury University, April 1, 1874. Sear Sir You are known to have had connection with the preparing and issuing of the bogus Asbury Review, ion nave therefore been publicly dismissed lrom tue university. Yours, A.c. Reuben Antdrus, President. These notifications were sent to the seniors, who at first were disposed to regard them as "all-foolsday' jokes. Said the gentleman, undergoing the pangs of interview, . tq the Senti

nel reporter: I at once called upon the president, and referring to the above notice, asked, am I to consider this an "April fool" joke. The president smiling (though not hilariously) replied that he wished it was only a joke, but that it was not. The notification meant what it said.Ac, c. In further conversation the senior said that there naturally was some feeling on the part of those dismissed as it seemed to them an ex-part sort ot affair. No chance had been given them to attempt to prove their "innocence." One or two bad left to wn before the notifications had been made, and did not know ot their dismissal until informed either by telegrams from their frieuds. c r by the arrival of the notifications. The gentleman interviewed thought that the general sentiment of the students was against the action of the faculty, in so summarily dismissing - the six students without the formality of a trial. As to the sentiment in town, it was difficult to state what that was. There were necessarily two parties; those who favored, and those who opposed the action. In Greencastle, as in all college towns, the affairs of the college were the affairs of the town itself. The point raised by the members dismissed, was that they had had no chance to plead their owncaute. Were pronounced guilty without any trial and put under the bau, they themselves not being allowed to show causo if any they had, why they should be dismissed. The six seniors dismissed, the "interviewed" thought, would all be present at the opening of the next term on Wednesday of the coming week. Whether the whole class would stand by the six was not yet known, though it was conjectured that they would refuse to return to college unless their companions should be reinstated; or rather, unless the faculty would temper their pronounced

edict so far as to allow them a trial. Some further conversation was held with the gentleman under interview, but nothing more oi especial importance was gleaned. A readiness for " investigation" was expressed on the part of tho senior, with whom the Sentinel reporter talked, both for himself and lor those of his companions who bad left town two only remaining since the lieginning of vacation. Bidding the gentleman good day, the Sentinel representative hied him to tho residence ot Prof. Tingley, professor of natural science in the university, and one of the prominent mombers of the faculty. President Andrus being at the time absent from town, and tho few fleeting hours allowed for this pursuit of knowledge under dfliculties, the Sentinel emis sary hastened to place the genial professor on the inquisitorial rack. . But what the interview resulted in. and some further facts connected with matter will le given in a second letter. H. P. II. ASBURY'S AFFLICTION. cnArTER the second t'other, ripe -wn at THE FACULTY SAY THE FIAT FIRMLY FIXKD PUBLIC SENTIMENT "EXTRACTS." Greencastle, Ind., April 6. 1S74. Having so to speak, ' girded up my lions," preparatory to seeking information to devour, the next step in the ' burlesque" matter, was to tho house of one of the members of the faculty, Professor Tingley. Knowing the uncer tainties that beset the path of the interviewer, and that it was also a vacation time, the Sentinel representative thought he might rather, in finding citu cane, and in consequence not finding anything out. However, tne latter was not the case. He found that gentleman at home, evolv ing from the depths of his inner c nsciousness aud a microscope, the problam as to how many specimens of tho genua trichinre there were to a few square inches of pork. Altera few casual remarks on the subject, and on the exhaustion of the subject of trichinre ana its cuecis, tne immediate one of "bogus" programs was touched upou. Profesxor Tingley prefaced his conversation with the remark that they (the faculty) had no desire to rush iuto print. As far as they were concerned, they would vastly prefer to have nothing whatever said on the subject. They were biding their own time, leeiing that in the end they wouia ue justmea in the course they had taken. In alluding to tne remarK auuut mu iovuuk tuni mo aifair necessarily has created the professor said that as fa; as the laculty were concerned there was no feeling in tne matter. The evidence which had beeu given them they considered conclusive. The professor did not wish to give auy opinion in the matter. At least he did not wish to have anything stated as his opinion. It a statement of the facts would be sufficient, the prolessor would give them. He supposed that the reporter had already seen the burlesques in qnestion. The, reporter intimated that he bad caught a glimpse at the documents mentioned. The faculty, said the prolessor, naa become pos sessed of evidence that was to them conclusive. The assertions on the part ot the students, already dismissed, as to their guilt or innocence availed nothing, as the faculty wt re so well convinced that assertions would not UNSETTLE THESE CONVICTIONS, The ficulty did not consider themselves as a judicial court. The reasous were sufficient to them for dismissal, and for the pressnt they expected to do nothing further. As to what outside parties intended to do, the professor did not know. Whether the grand jury or prosecuting attorney would take the matter ia nana, he couia not say. ine action of the faculty was independent; they bad not taken tueir action witnout due con sideration. The dismissal of the students was not equivalent to an expulsion. With the latter was connected the disgrace and nublicitv that ft dismissal didn't have. The reporter asked if any of the dismissed stuhaving been expelled what steps would bo V necessary to be re-admittea. x-roiessor xingley said that in such, as in every case, a dismissed inau must show thorough and complete reformation . As to the particular cases under consideration there would be nothing further done at present. The reporter asked if the" bogus" programs recently issued were worse in their contents than thoseof previous years. To this the Professor said that burlesques of that sort were not as freauent as the reporter intimated. There had been such things published and known, in the history ol the university, but it must not be supposed they came as regularly as did the exhibitions they burlesqued. The reporter stated that he did not suppose they were issued with the unfailing regularity that the catalogues or papers showing the scholarship of the students, or thai they were begun in the morning and renewed at evening. Not at all. But be had heard while In town that burlesques nearly, if not quite, equaling those under discussion had been issued, and that no dismissal had taken place. The Professor replied that such was not the case, and even if it were and no dismissals bad followed it was bocause good proof was wanting. But now the evidence.reiterated the Professor was suf ficient lor the faculty. If all the students implicated should avow thcär innocence twenty times over, it would not causo them to waive their decision. As to the number dismissed. the floating rumors and accounts were decidedly in error. There had been, the professor assured the reporter, but six notified, and tae names as given before, comprised the list. One junior had been suspended (2 esse Weikl because he refused to tellol whom he had bought a mock, program. This pereonago

perchance be doomed to let disappointment, like a worm i' the LnJ, fced on his damaged cbeek," iu linriintr the prufosfor out. or.

refused on the ground that he had promised not to reveal the name of the one from whom he bought it. The faculty had urged him to disclose the rame, saying that if that person was honorable he would give

mm, ineswidenr, LIBERTY TO TELL rather than have him suffer for the misdemeanor of another. So far the junior had keDt his pledge, though he would be re-instatcd whenever he might soe fit to give the desired information. In answer to a question as to how many of the students would be dismissed, Professor Tingley intimated that at present no information could be triven on that point; that the Elnniiiin mysteries were not deeper and to be more guarded then the action of the fa?ulty respecting other students. The faculty intend at present to pursue the even tenor of their way. The next term begins on Wednesday, and possibly some of the dismissed may endeavor to gain admission. This would be useless however, as they were disbarred from the rights and privileges they formerly had. There had been the professor continued, about fitteen or twenty of the students demerited, for having bought the burlesques. The standard voi gooa Denavior; was 100; which was "perfect." Astudent receiving fiftv rand overl demerits was required to leave college that r ' ne mignt gain a more heatbfnl moral tone. None of these demerited had, however, reached to that fatal figure, reports to the contrary notwithstanding. There were wheels within wheels,t he professor remarked in this recent affair. The storm clouds on the classic skies of Aslury had been gathering for sometime past ; the occult forces had been at work, and now,ushered in by the tornado of "burlesque," had burst over the heads of the unsuspecting. This being the case, the bolts of justice had struck in several places at once; and the injured had only themselves to blame. It was to do justice to themselves (the faculty) the college, and the students therein, that the step had been taken. They could not permit student whom they knew to be guilty of publishing the outrageous burlesques to remain with the others; it would bo injustice to the latter. Alter some further conversation in which nothing new was elicited the reporter withdrew. The professor reiterated his statement made at the beginning that he nor the faculty wished to rush into print." It had never been, nor was not, their way of doing things. His preference would be to have nothing 6aid about it whatever. The reporter stated in reply that in a matter of such general interest tho Sentinel felt in duty bound to eive at least the general particulars. That the object and aim was to obtain a general expression as to how the matter was regarded FKOM BOTH SIDES. It was a statement of facts and not an "opionated" statement that was desired. An afl'air of this kind was not purely local and the more that could be gleaned from trustworthy sources the better for all parties 4nterested. Bidding Professor Tingley goodday the reporter put on all sail possible and started on another tack ; to lcaru what the public sentiment was. It was sailing against a head wind, however, as though there was a great deal X)f sentiment (for fo much fact), yet it wa3 about equally divided: at least no it seemed. Of course, as far as the publication ot programs and their conieuts were concerned, there was but one eiprcsion. That they were outraareoua, vulgar and indecent, was a forepone conclusion; apparent at the first plance. This was too well conceded to make it necessary to "feel the way" in regard to it. But in talking with Mime of the citizens of Oreencastla there geemed to be two different sentiments. One that the faculty had done perfectly right in dismissing the students without giving them a hearing; the other that they had baen unjust in doing this V6ry thing. No matter, paid the latter, if the proof of their guilt WH conclusive to the faculty. They at least had a right to bo heard. The refusal was as unjust, as it wus unwise. It has the appearance of an ex-rrarte allair. and the studeuts dismissed naturally do not feel that they have no rights; and very rightly ask an investigation. No one will wish that the guilty ones should eo unpunished, but that the accused shall have an opportunity of bearing thoir guilt (or innocence) established. Some thought that Crawfordsville and Bloomington would not shut their doors against the ones dismissed from Asbury; because they could say that they had been dismissed without trial; that they were, by rights btill members of Asbury. Some thought that the faculty could justly be their own judges in the afiair, aud if they were satisfied that the young men were implicated in f)ublishing the programs and buresque Review they could dismiss them without any trial. The disgrace and public expulsion consequent would be greater than it was at present. In answer to this it was said that the disgrace was us great now as it could be; that an investigation would not dd to it; and might prove the faculty they were mistaken iu some respects. So It goes. Many men (and women) of many minds. Therefore it is difficult to attempt to give anything as tho general sentiment. To "average" the thing is not posible without as much time and pains as would be involved in getting up a city directory, and prove, by the rule of three (or is it five?) that so many names indicate so many people; or, in this case, such and such h sentiment. There has been so much talk concerning the burlesque programs and mock "Reviews," that a few of the cleanest" and least offensive extracts from them may be not out of place; so that (on the principle of expede bereutem) from them one can Judge of what the whole- combination might be. Imagine the feelings of a blushing sophomore who conies on to "speak his little speak" after being alluded to in the mock program as Christ-forsaken ;" and a mention of his having on a clean pair of socks, etc Or of another as "callgnuousiy-rotten-hearted;" further being TOCCHXNQLY AUfDED TO as woe-begotten, dilute,, heterogenous compact of nothing; at the same time being told to return home and tell his sire "that it is the unanimous desire of the faculty that he knock you in the beadi A feeling allusion J to one as "sugar-coatedi June-ug;" to an-i other as. "jobbernowl slangwhanger," "woefully Christlika," "mule-eared, molasses-besmeared,"' "justly, God-forsaken. Then are sueb, light and triflicR allusions as "the- bow-legged,- crookod backed. backwoods , youth." But - it is impassible, waen there Is so much dirt,. to pick one's way toclean spots. The progaaai is a combination of vulgarisms, unredeemed by aay semblance" of wit. As to the -Review," it hasyin onao two places, a taarer approach to tho quality lacking in tho other, and is not so wholly given ever to unmitigated diatribes. It has also more double eriendre in its columns, which does not iaake it particularly good family reading, and causes . one to wonder why i&A genius that prcjiiced it has not, ere this Jr.ed of remorse, at Eoeing how utterly Inane the eflbrt at " fun " has b9en. Tha "Review," like its namesake, is an eight page paper, and bears this paiticuiarly appropriate) motto: "Truth needs no color; beauty no pencil." Its own "paffa" play with that dangerous weapon, "sarkassum" in this way : "Every family should have a copy of the Review. It is a companion piece for the Ashbury Catalogue! and Review." "The faculty are united In their support of the Review. They read It, thy write for it and ask their friends to consider ita claims,

Many thanks. Coms may bo had at

the faculty roonn, ot any of the professors or tutors." If these cheerful little bits of i:n pudecce were aJ', it would btt jwelL But the families f dauzhters of some of the faculty are attacked i.'1 shameful way; which lact alone would IV enough to damu the whole thing were it e"vet so witty and never so wise. The poet of its pages has perpetrated the following parody, which is comparatively innocuoo, inasmucU a1 ifc apparently means nothing in particular 1 reads : "Afary had a little lamb Hhe gave it many a t uIe, She tore the wool all off Ins bark, Aud tuCVd it la ber bustle. The lamb saw it had been fWced, And in a passion flew; Hut Mary not lipo her ear. And aiuifeil the larab in, too " Anything further would be tiresome. Tba extracts given above only show in a mild way what the burlesques are. Infinite patience has wrought out several yards of much worse stuff, so that the public may know that there has naturally been something of a commotion in this town of Greencastle, at having the programs and papers scattered throughout its streets. In reviewing in this hasty manner the status of affairs here, an endeavor La? been made by the Seutinel's representative to state the fact; and those impartially. What is to bo done yet he ha no lurthr means cf knowing. Wednesday the term begins, and students talk of "big times" coming. Whether tho afiair is to be mded by tho dUmisialof those slreadv mentioned deponent (l. e. the facultj ) saith nut. Time will 'eH- II. P. II. HOME RAILROAD INTERESTS. THE CONDITION OP THE C. C. C. I. A ROAD WHICH AIDS INDIANAPOLIS ITS GROWTH AND PROSPECTS. It is not often that so clear a showing of information is placed in so concise a form as the present Sixth Annual report of the C. C. C. & I. railway, known also for some years as the Bellefontaine railway, one of the strongest and best conducted corporations of the west. The report opens witn a succinct outline of tho beginning and growth of the company which to-day owns and operates four hun dred and forty-seven and one-half miles of railway. It began with one h jndred and thirty-eight miles between Cleveland and Columbus. This was in 1S51. Ten vears later it was extended by pnrchamto Springfield, fifty miles furthe'r, from Indianapolis to Union City, eighty four miles, and from Union City to Galiou, oue hundred and nineteen miles. In 1SG4 these extensions were consolidated under the name of the Hellefontaine Railway. In April, lsöS, the Cleveland, Columbus fc Cincinnati railroad company was consolidated with the Itellefontaine, making a total length of 3'Ji mile?, and in January, 1S71, the Cincinnati fc Springfield railway was added by lease, making up the present grand total. The president's report on behalf of the directors shows the total receipts ol the company in 1S73 to be f4,8S7,44S 59 and the expenditures $3. 0,809 91, leaving a balance applicable to dividends of f l.lOT.tKW US, of which a semiannual dividend was made August 15. 1873, of three and one-half per cent on capital stock, amounting to 4,050 50. The increase o I tonnage by the general superintendent's report over that ol 1S72 is i'W,24?i tons, the aggregate freight moved amounting in weight to 1,6S0,5SH tons. The mileage made during tho year for passenger service was i34,7öö miles, and for freight pervieo almost six limen as much, or :i,4VJ,303 miles. The chief engineer's report is full of interestirg itc-nis, showing that to mend their fences cost tho company $18,4-JC; to repair bridges, f27,'.fcj; repairs of buildinps, $09,70S, and tbe mending or their ways. S7oL253. All of tlitse, except the last, fell Ixlow the expenses of the preceding year. Seventy-three miles of new track were laid, of which 40 milts was Bessemer steel rails. It oost the coiupiay $454,3'J7, nearly half a million, lor fuel alone, and the damages paid of all kinds foot up f 4,130, over 7,000, of which was lor fctock. The ENTIRE PRoriativ of the corporation of all kinds, amounts to S29.190.G4G ;4. The capital stock is S15,000,C00, and the surplus alter paying all liabilities at the end of tho year was $Sit3,S;0 or near- ' ly 1,000,000. But few roads can make such a showing in these perilous times and days of railroad tribulation. It will be readilv comprehended that the managing head of such a business, accepts an immense responsibility. Tho capitai of 20,000,000 involved, may bo duplicate ! by some of tho oldest and best insurance companies gf tha country, but no insurance business involves a hundreth part of tho activity, peril from employes and administrative capacity of a complicated line of railroad, lue vindication and credit of President J. II. Devereux is found in the items and footings a few, only, of which are set forth alxve. But these are not all the evidences of his excellent management. A. better testimony is that of the people and the country which i has served, who know that this line gives low and fair rates,, deals honorably and squarely with its patrons and the public to an exceptional degree. The spirit of its heal is iniused into all departments and offices which command good will for their kind and obliging, manner of doing business. Indianapolis, ia particular, is prepared to give a cordial testimony to the benefits aud liberal policy oi the company. They; have expended money and trouble to eitead accommodations to the city and promote its business as . fair dealing railroad can do. It is. rumored that ther company have taken stepsto enlarge theVr capacities and industries, at this point which will be of ad van W agetrf both privat and pub'te interests.. The- complete details of the report which, cannot be even roentioned in this place arethe best proof that exact system in taking; cars of the smallest matters which is the secret ot good management and.. the succeesor this great corporation. L&CAX SHIPMENT yrom Indianapolis, .in 18:3, the C, C.C railroad ooanpany shVpped over their 'line freight r.fbllowst in pcunds: Memhaja:dise, 103,G4iv9Cl; manufactures, 12,122.613; provisions, 04495,323; lorat produca. 110,435,554; sUne and lime 5,323,09$. coal, 1,4S3,500; petroleum, 22556; iron aad. other ores, 20,3d4,7; railroad- and pig 5on, 20,504,641; tcbaoco, 33,506,587: cottoa 2246,89S; hogs.and sheep, 2Ut,350; horses, and cattle, 102,? wheat, 24644; com oats and Beed, 702.022; llour 800,161; making a total ot 1,128,173,144, lor which tan receipts were 5S,TA),612 37. The same road brought. to thi&city from tiveast, in pounds: Mer-. chan&se, 176,471,5?; manufactures, 40.040. 780; provisions, 116,005; forest produce S3,tt2.09S: stone and lime, 4,8a2!8; coal. 6,5(il,100; petroleum, 21.32l.S74; iron aad other ores. 1,03?. S93; railroad and pig iron G.702,929; tobacco, 92,462; bogs and sheep, 20.450; horses and cattle, 414; wheat, corn, oats and seeds, 17,640; Hour, 5,143.; total, 322,224,255, for which the receipts were $501,940 87. That is the freight busiue this road only at this point. Id the office of the Secretary of State, in A A 11. . A4 Connecticut is tue venerauia cnarter or tne

colony bearing the autogijph of Charles II. j it is the same document which, made tho Charter Oak famous, J

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