Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL,, WEDNESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 14, 1877

"WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY U. THE STATE A' ITS IJirEBESTS. " There are indications that the friends of progress will be compelled at no distant day ti gird themselves anew for a renewal of a conflict in which hitherto they have gained signal triumphs. At the centennial exposition, and during the Centennial year just closed. the people, regardless of state lines, were by natioanl pride moulded into sublime unanimity in proclaiming the giant stride of the young republic in all departments of human progress. The wilderness had been subdued, iron bands linked the remotest sections indissolubly together, the mightiest rivers had been bridged, across the summits of mountains highways of travel and commerce had been hewed out, or their broad base tunnelled. Population had increase! from three to forty millions. Flourishing cities had taken the place of pioneer trading posts, a system of railroads had been constructed that made the resources of the country available, and enabled it to supply in part the markets of the world with its surplus products. Statesmen had been produced who will live in history with the most renowned the world had ever produced. Kloquence as fervid as ever enraptured an audience lived in memory and printed books. Philosophers who had brought the lightning from the clouds and harnessed it to the wires, the willing courier of men's thoughts were of American production and growth. Astronomersliad remapped the heavens and weighed the stars anew. Science had found American votaries of thought as profound as ever gained a hearing since, with feeble step, it demanded audience in the world of mind. College, advancing by regular steps from feeble schools to universities, had sent forth scholars who had brought America into intellectual communion with the learned men of other countries. Poets had stepped forth with their harps as sweetly attuned as Sappho's, or Homer's, or Milton's, but better still, as the climax oN her progress and as an evidence of her elevation, the republic, with a prde which must forever be her chief glory, iointed to her school houses, things of beauty and joy forever, and said: "Tese are my jewels, 'around these my mighty arms are enfolded; 'these are the monuments of the progress of 'humanity. Under my fostering care they 'have been warmed into life, and though the 'iron rails wear out and the locomotive 'ceases to awaken forest and mountain 'echoes, the school houses, if overshadowed with law and guarded by an enlightened public opinion, will in all time maintain'the 'glory of the state and guard well the insti- . 'tutions of liberty." This, and much more in the same direction, was said upon the subject of our growth and greatness. But it may be well to stop and listen to the remarkable change of tune that breaks upon the ear. The cry comes, "Down brakes." We interview the men who issue the order and find them all frightened; inquire into their circumstances, we find them all rich. They live in stately mansions. All climes contribute to their comfort and their ease. Houses and lands are theirs, banks and warehouses are their property. Many of them under the broad and enlightened liberality that has ruled in the past and which has contributed to their success, have become millionaires. And now what? Down breaks! Tlie complaint is too much taxes. If one suggest to much interest, they do not respond, too much rent, and their ears never catch the ound; too much mortgage, by which a man loses the earnings of a life time, or is compelled to give it up for half its worth in such cases the laws are all right. m But taxes, mention that subject and a Niagara of eloquence and invective commences its roar, and like- the Oregon, hears no sound save its own dashing. The feature of the discussion that attracts special attention just now relates to schools. True, they are the glory of the state and the country their boast and pride but they cost something, and the same is true of jails, penitentiariea and poorbousos. "What constitutes a state?" inquired Sir W. Jones, and replied: What constitutes a state? Not high-raised battlements or labored mound, Tl Ick wall or moated gate; Not eitlen proud, with spires and turret crowned; Not bays and W road armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low browed baseness m arts perfume to pride. In the development of its mind resources the state secures a wealth and influence that gold and silver can not furnish. The world is full of illustrations that de monstrate the fact beyond all controversy Taking this view of the subject, we are inclined to the opinion that Indiana should deliberate long and well before, in obedience to those who demand the sacrifice, she strikes a fatal blow at her free school svsteru. in other states the purpose is to increase the efficiency of the public school system, and in commenting upon the new departure, the Boston Post remarks that "the theory at 'present proposed is to provide mechanical achools that will take boys who havegradu 'ated at our public schools and help them to 'discover tbe bent of their minds and the fa cility of their hands, and thereby qualify 'themselves to enter, upon life armed 'with the practical means of conquer ing a livelihood." By this iue;ftis the scholar comes forth from the public school fully equipped for the battle of life, and like Captain Kad( confers wherever he goes honor a K5i his state and her institutions. No greater calamity can befall a state or a nation than the neglect of her mind resour ces, for, as Iliukin says: "A nation can not 'Jastas money making mob; it can Dot

'with impurity; it can not with existence

'go on despising science and despising art. It has been well said that "the alphabet is 'conquering the world." The educated arti san, the scientific mechanic, the intelligent laborer are what the woVld needs. These the free schools of America are supplying, and Indianapolis is doing her share in the good work, and it will be a gloomy day in her history when she lowers the standard of efficiency i her public schon fs. THE GERRYMANDER" OF THE COXCREKSIOXAL DISTRICTS. We endeavored to point out last week the rascally features of the legislative apportionment act as passed by the last radical legislature. The Journal made several attempts to defend it, but meeting with poor success, it finally "threw up the sponge" and retired from the field. As no defense can be made of the bill, and as the radical governor, Baker, refused to give his sanction to it at the time it was passed, the radical party and its organs adopt the policy of keeping as quiet aj possible, hushing up all talk and debate about it, in the hope that the great national q'uestion now on the tapis may overshadow it and bury it from sight. We believe we were successful in making it plain that the legislative apportionment act was a miserable party measure, and fit only tobe classified under the same general head as the rascally operations of the southern returning boards. They belong to the same class of legislation, both being aibitrary, rascally and infamous beyond all expression. We confine ourselves to th'e dis cussion of the apportionment act, as it af fected our legislative representation. We now propose to look into the "gerrymandering" of the state into congressional districts. The word "gerrymander" is taken from Kldridge Gerry, one of the signers of the ileclaration of independence, and gov ernor of Massachusetts. Massachusetts was divided in such a manner at one time as to make an unfair legislative representation and, we believe, at the time Mr. Gerry was governor, but it was afterwards ascertained that he had nothing to do with the division, yet it was at the time believed, and unfair apportionments, therefore, received the name of "gerrymandering" 'from Mr. (terry. "Gerrymandering" then being a Yankee invention, and having its birth in Massachusetts, it ought to be a very perfect piece of machinery. Mr. Dawes in the debate on the. electoral count bill alluded to the manner in which "they did things in Massachutts." Mr. lloscoe Conkling in answer remarked: My friend suggests the accuracy with wliicn the jurisdiction of courts is asserted in the state of Massachusetts, and he bids me make tli l.i as accurate as such thiiiiis are made in the state of Massachusetts. Mr. President, the sentiment of desjmir Is the only sentiment invoked by such an Kppenl. The Idea of the representatives of all the states making anything on earth, or in heaven above, or in the waters under the earth, as exact as everything is made by the state or Massachusetts: My irienu says that I stated we have done it as it is done In Massachusetts. I did not mean that. It was the queen of Hheba who said that she never realized the glory of Solomon until she entered the inner temple. Oh, no, Mr. President; whenever the thirty-seven other states of tills union reach, or even approximate, the exactness of the ttate of Massachusetts the time Mill have come when no problem remains to be solved, and when contested presidential votes will count themselves. The universe will go on then by automatic adjust ment. We therefore suppose that our readers may have an idea that the "gerrymander'ing" process is about as finished a piece of rascality as can be made. Well, at the time it was first invented or created, this was undoubtedly true. But we venture to say that our Indiana radicals have improved largely on anything that has ever been done in this direction. We think they are equal to their brethren of the southern returning boards, and that is equal to saying a very great deal in their favor, and it is also an economical way of stating it, saving language, paper, pen, etc., etc. Now, look at the Indiana congressional gerrymander. The Journal said the other day that the aptiortionment bill worked "equality in the aggregate;" also that it was "substantially just." We beg our readers to look closely into the matter. The democracy elected their governor by over five thousand votes, and one would think they ought to have a goodly share of corgressmen. What is the fact? Sine radicals jo to congress from Indiana, an-l only four democrats. Call you this working "substantial justice" or "equality in the aggregate?" Central Africa is full of such "substantial justice." Then let us examine the details of the bilk Take the second congressional district, and there we find nearly all the heaviest democratic counties in southern Indiana massedinto one district, giving sometimes a majority of almost 7,000 democratic. The district legins in the county next to Vigo, of which Terre Haute is the county seat, and runs in an irregular, helter-skelter shape to the Ohio river, nearly opposite to Louisville, Kentucky. Another district, the fifth, begins in northeastern Indiana, and makes a long, narrow sliajed shoot for the Ohio river, coining out in the neighborhood of Cincinnati. This was made for the purrxse of defeating Mr. Holman. The first race he made after the "gerryman'der he won, with 1,400 majority against him, estimating the majarities from the election previous, and in the second race he made in the district, against General Tom Browne, he was defeated. Mr. Holman is one of the best men every way that ever represented Indiana in congress. He was s watchful over the exrenditures of the government that he earned for himself the soubriquet of the "Watchdog of 'the Treasury." ( tie would have thought that the radicals would have been proud of a representative like Mr. Holman, and arranged the district so as to have kept him in public life. Hut no, "economy" has no music for the radical ear; "steal 411 you can get" has been the practical cry of the party fr years, and they all heed it. It is of little use to pursue the subject further. The congressional districts were nearly all arranged in the interest of radicalism. The fact that it sec red nine out of thirteen congressmen is proof enough of the infamous partisan complexion of the bill. There is no defense to be made for this bill, nor for the legislative ap portionment; therefore Governor Baker re fused to sitrn them, and therefore we find the Journal folding its tent and quietly stealing away ixom tueir aeiense.

THE PRESIDENTIAL, COMMISSION. The news from Washington which we publish to-day will command the attention of the country. It will be analyzed and commented upon by politicians, statesmen, lawyers and men of thought, without regard to politics or professions, for it happens to be a matter that interests every voter in the republic. If there are democrats, who after carefully reading the. telegraphic account of the ' first decision, conclude that there is yet something left upon which a hope for Tilden's success can take hold and hang on a while longer, we shall be disposed to applaud their faith in human nature, however much we may doubt their ability to judge between radical joliticians and honest men. We admit the possibility of obtaining from the commission an honest decision, but we most certainly, deny the probability of such a result. This conclusion, however, is not in consequence of the news received from Washington last night. We have at no time since the announcement of the jxrxonncl was made, had a thimble full of faith in the ability of its radical members to rise above their partisan predilections. We believed then, and our convictions are strengthened by the action of the commission, that its decisions would be in all regards partisan; that a majority being radicals, the decisions would favor the interests of Hayes, without regard to truth, constitution or law; that scoundrelism would be indorsed to any extent necessary to count in Hayes and count out Tilden. We have heard much of late of the ability of supreme judges to rise above the

partisan and vindicate the right, and we were disposed to hope that the high estimate would be justified by Mr. Justice Bradley, but there he stands side by side with Morton, covered with the slime of partisanship, with decisions in favor of fraud upon his lips that ought to burn them to cinders. He might have soared a miracle of light, and made for himself a name and a fame as enduring as the stars, but he preferred to parallel in his moral organism the physical deformities of Morton and besmear the ermine of his high office with the filth of radical slums, and to live in history as the man who betrayed his trust and let his faculties and opportunities to the infamous trick of stamping fraud with the broad seal of justice, and of emboldening returning boards to continue their perjuries with assur ances that not only the army, but the su preme court as well, will make their crimes, though red as crimson, appear as white as wool. The Florida case was from first to last as infamous as radical scoundrel ism could make it. Falsehood and perjury, aided by Zach Chandler's telegrams and Grant's soldiers, added indefinitely to the essential devilishness of all its surroundings. A purpose to cheat in favor of Hayes was deliber ately planned and as deliberately carried out. It was discovered and exposed; every lie was gibbeted before the world; frauds, hideous as the putrid carcasses of alligators, were exposed to the view of those who were trying to get at the bottom facts of radical scoundrelism in Florida. The truth was brought to the surface and certified to by the highest tribunals in the state, but the verdict. by the commission, so far as it has any significance at all, indicates a purpose. t indorse fraud throughout, and if it be possible count in Hayes. As we have remarked, it may be possible to defeat the purpose of the conspirators, us a final result is not yet reached. We hope the advocates of the truth will continue to pile up the testimony, to array facts in solid phalanx, to exhibit to the country the damning frauds of the cbnspirators, and compel . the radical commissioners, if it is their purpose to consummate the crime of placing Hayes in office, to climb to dizzy altitudes to get over the truth, so that in the fall they may all break their official necks. It is some satisfaction to know that democrats, in favoring the arbitration plan of settling the vexed question, . believed that there were radicals who would be governed by an overwhelming array of truth, but failing in this, that radical supreme judges would be true to themselves, their duty and their country. If in all this they have been disappointed, as now appears, their deep humiliation may be somewhat modified by the reflection that they have gained a deeper insight than ever before into the demoralized effects of radicalism by which they may profit in future contests with the curse. HOW TO KILL, CHILDREN. The civilized portion of the human family, but more particularly that portion set down as enlightened and under the broad blaze of Christianity, seems to be devising the best methods possible for killing children. As a matter of course that is not what they call their numerous devices nor are the methods, adopted deliberately, designed for infant slaughter, but the results are not the less fatal on that account. The ayerage death rate, if we are to credit vital statistics, is not perceptibly decreased by the increase of medical skillj or a wider range of remedies. MecMcal colleges increase, the science of medicine is yearly brought to greater perfection, but diseases multiply and the transplanting of little children from earth to heaven goes on as vigorously as ever. There is, indeed, a great deal of mourning. Crape manufacturers, undertakers and casket rdakers flourish and declare large dividends upon the capital invested. Cemetery lots command advanced figures, and monument builders rather enjoy the ceaseless reign of death. But all of these things fail to arrest parents in carrying out to the letter the death-producing programme. Fashion, the fickle goddess, who rules her votaries with despotic sway and with refined and polished cruelty, kills thousands and tens of thousands of these earthly treasures annually slays them right and left, piles them up ia heaps, until her track

is one of continuous desolation. She first obtains exclusive possession of parental confidence and ears, then banishes judgment and common sense, and finally secures possession of the child. Henceforth dangers thicken on every side, and May and Maggie, Bob and Joe are compelled to run the gauntlet with a thousand diseases striking at them like serpents at every step. "Just think," whispers Fashion in the ear of a foad and doting mother, "how nice it 'will be to have May attend Professor Grass'hopper's dancing academy and learn to hop 'while she is young: it will add dig'nity and grace to her step and 'carriage when she enters society, and unless 'she commences young she will always be 'awkward. Professor Grasshopper's academy 'is patronized only by the tlitt and it is just 'the place for May." All of which sounds remarkably pretty, and consent being given, as a matter of course little blueeyed or blackeyed May is tricked out for the slaughter with scarcely anything" on deserving the name of clothes and the child dances itself very soon into the grave. Pretty as an angel, calm as heaven, but dead. Words of condolence are spoken, then the funeral, and all is over. Fashion has done its work. The minister says "death loves a shining mark." Providence is made to bear the burden" of fashion's follies. With words of encouragement that "there will be a meeting beyond the tide," the mother and father are left to their meditations, while Fashion, as relentless as death, continues the search for victims, and is never disappointed in her mission. Her handmaids are Pride, Ambition and Folly. With these she can find employment for disease,' and daily rob bonus of their dearest treasures. Ignorance has always done a thriving business in killing off children, and unfortunately there are no laws that can keep children from its grasp. Among the methods which ignorance devises for killing "wee ones," the school folly is conspicuous. With a great many people the ruling ambition is to have Bob or Dick at six or eight years of age know more than their fathers, and as much as they ought to know when twice or thrice as old. Hence at a time when the brain is small and weak the process of stuffing from six to ten hours a day commenced and continued until the little fellows lie down to rest from their tasks and take up their harps in a country where text books and straps are not a part of the educational plan. In other cases, the custodians of the little immortals look uion their bone and muscle, and calculate with remarkable exactness what it is worth in the labor market, and are hired out for the money that can be secured for their services, and in this way body and soul and blood is coined into dollars, until life can bear no more, the thread then snaps and the little workers

sleep. The death roll of children is simply fearful, and should awaken the attention of men and women of thought, and one of the imperative demands for a bureauof vital statistics grows out of the fact that fashion, folly, ignorance and cupidity are slaying the children of the country with a sort of Herodian ferocity. To charge these deaths upon Providence, which though an easy way to shirk responsibility, is more insulting to God than anything Bob Ingersoll ever said, and religionists should, if they do anything, seek to place the responsibility where it belongs. If common sense could prevail in the management of children there would be less crape on the door knobs, and the nodding plumes of the hearse would be seen less frequently on the highways to burying grounds, COMMENT OF THE PK ESS. How tbe Tribunal's Action Strike the Lending Journal. IVew York Tribune. Tin; vocxu man settles it. It has still to be decidrd which of the three sets of papers contains the electoral vote of Florida, hut t here can not bo much difference of opinion as. to what the decision will tie. The registry of Hayes's certificates from that state Is manifest, Indeed is not seriously disputed even. There is no reason to suppose the commission will take any other view of the extraordinary performance of the Oregon democratic electoral college thon one that has been taken by all people of impartiality ayid common sense. THE EXTREME RADICAL VIEW. INew York Times. The only thin;; which remains for the commission to decide is which certificate contained the votes of those electors whom the state of Florida appointed, and on the face of the contents of the certitlcates there is hardly room for any doubt as to what the decision will he. The decision of the commission to consider the ebglbilty of Humphreys does not seem of any essential importance in the Florida case. Of its force us a precedent it is too soon to Judge. AN INDEPENDENT OPINION. New York Ilerald.J i In the immediate eagerness to know the practical consequence of any decision In this cast;, opinions that of consequence are reached by very hasty processes, and opinions of this sort already contemplate this judgment as a point already gained for the republican candidate, and we hear consequently of the discouragement of democrats. It is not certain that the decision given, viewed in all it possible applications, will be advantageous to Hayes. a txEAB conviction. IN. Y. World. Nothing can be clearer than that it is the duty of the commission to find out not who has got the certificate, but who was duly appointed, nor can it be disguised that the Judges of the supreme court on this occasion having divided according to party connections, ha awakened some surprise, alarm and distrust in the public mind. TOO TRUE. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. We have heretofore expressed the opinion that under the law of congress" the commissioners were not limited In their inrlsdiction to any particular ranne or mode of in vent locution ; and so believing, we accept the vote of yesterday as a determination of what ought to be done rather than of what might be done. J ii thi respect It Is an affirmation of all that hurt been claimed by the strömtest supporters of the republican cause since the beginning of the contest. COLD comTokt. (St. Louis Republican. A depressing incident of the deccslon is that it bean the impress of partisan division -eight republicans to seven democrats. This is likely to create In many quarters the belief that the further proceedings may bo governed by the political bias of the several m mbers of the commission. Hut the republican by no means shares this apprehension. We feel confident that the worst that can befall will be a tie, as between the democratic and republican electors, In which event Tilden will be chosen by the house of representatives.

THE TRIBUNAL'S POWER.

Letter to Judge Holman Discussing the Subject. The Ground Taken that Confrrews Can Aot Ile-DelrgrateltsCoustltn-(lonal Power. The following correspondence between a gentleman of this city and a well known Indiana representative'in congress bears its own explanation. Mr. McCarty's letter will be read with much interest by many whose minds are not wholly at rest on the disputed question of the delegation by congress of its constitutional powers to a somewhat novel tribunal: Washington, D. C, Jan. 21, 1877. My Dear JuDfiE: Please accept my thanks for your letter. You present the presidential question and the towers of con great and of the house under the constitution with great clearness. I had incorporated your letter in some remarks I had designed making on the report of the committee as to the rights and powers of the house, but the bill agreed upon by the Joint committee, which vou have seen, is likely to absorb Anally ull interest. What do you say to this bill? Can congress delegate this power? Up to this time the drift with democrats Is for the bill as the best that can be done. How does it strike vou? Yours very truly, w. S. Holman. Brookville, Ind., Feb. 3, 1877. Hon. Wm.S. Holman: Dear Mr In reply to your question whether congress can create a tribunal to determine who Is president and vice president. I answer that congress can not abdicate its peculiar powers, nor can it Ignore its duties or refuse to perform them, and where specific duties are put upon it, confidence, skill, patriotism, etc., the power is not the subject of re-delegatlon. It Is not like the powers remitted by legislative bodies to municipal corporations, an these are constituted by t lie corporators, nor the reierence ol matters by courts to a master in chancery, but even the acts of these subordinates are founded on the power and authority of that constituting them. So congress, or either house, may use Instruments (committees) to ascertain or determine data for its enlightenment or action, but the final action must have the sanction of congress. In this case I personify the constitution and treat it as the donor and congress as the donee of the power,aud so also are the qu lined electors of the states the donees of the power to confer title to the olticesot president and vice president through a college of electors, none of whom can be federal officeholders and as this duty of giving title to these ottiees may shift to congress, it may be called a shifting contingent power. Test it by the analogies between it and a power of attorney to convey title to laud and " one to convey title to office. A power of attorney to A. to- convey land gives no power to II to do it; so a power to the qualified voters gives none to disqualified voters to confer office, and a title can not be dedrced through the agency of the latter. So II A Iii power to appoint attorneys uuuer him to convey, but is forbidden to select D, the latter can not make the title. fck ii Watts was a federal officeholder, title can not come through him, as the title must be deduced from the constitution, as principal in' eomformity to the jKiwer. As these qualifications are made essential to the title. It does not vest if ttie coupled conditions are absent. 11 would be but a solemn farce to have the senate and house present if they have no duties or powers. You might as well have the same number of geese if the president of. the senate has sole power over the matter. As the senate and house are to elect in case of default of the people to do so, they must of necessity determine the question of election or non-election. -It is a compound question of law and fact, and riy opui on is that you have no more right to re mse to act than a court of exclusive jurisdiction has to refuse to entertain a suit and remit the suitor to a bogus tribunal for the redress that it is bound to afford. If the action of the committee is ratified by congress, it then, and then only, becomes legal, and not in virtue of its own action under the act. I admit that the mode of the exercise of its powers, or what agencies it may use to enlighten it either as to law or facts, or what aids it may bring to its use are proper; but If It Is the tribunal or power designated by the constitution for this purpoe, it alone can legally do it. The "presence" used in the constitution does not mean as mere "figure heads," but a potential presence, to determine the title to the ottice and guard the rights and efiforce the will of the jeople. This is the Involved implication, otherwise congress might e made the mere "panders" to a scheme of villiany. Li t nie ask you if a court were setting upon a disputed title, as you are to do in this case, and and a deed were offered which purports, on its face.to convey the title, and the party,to avoid the effect, offers proof that it was forged, the agent usurped his agency, or it was void for duress, fraud, or disability, or inoperative by reason of any other defect, could you reject the evidence and give force to the deed? If so the court is superior to the law it professes to administer, and which avoids the deed. Is the title to office less sacred, that the action of congress should be more restricted than that of ' courts? You can not absolve yourselves from a constitutional duty. The constitution dominates you and the title alike. Congress represents states, and the people and the framers of our constitution deposited this power in congress, and it can not shift the deposit. The qualities imFilled in the trustee nrejndicial skill, wisdom, ntegrity and patriotism, and the constitution supposed congress the fit agency because of these qualities and its relations to state and people. I do not think prominence enough has been given to the constitution of Louisiana, which guarantees to each citizen over twentj'-one the elective franchise. The legislature can not directly or by the returning board or other means destroy this right. The law conflicts with, the constitution and is void. The right is in determinate persons and lives in and with the constitution, and no crimes of third persons can destroy It. I have no leisure for further elaboration now. Very respectfully yours, William M. McCarty. KEW8 XOT1Ä. Philadelphia policemen kick against political assessments. The silver commission has resumed its sessions in Washington. Plumb, the senator elect from Kansas, voted for Greeley in 1872. A pastor in Morrisiana, New York, has sued Lis church for unpaid salary. Mail thieves in Cayuga, New York, snatch the bag as it is thrown from the train. The citizens of Fittslmrg are holding meetings to demand diminished taxation. The preliminary surveys for the Darlen ship canal are resulting most satisfactorily. Whips, the Louisville hotel keeper who shot his clerk, has been held in $3,000 bail. Thomas Camphell has been sentenced to death for murder at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. A coffin containing a year old child was lately found Moating in the Mississippi at New Orleans. The mortgages and claims against the defunct Washington Chronicle amount to over f 100,000. Three Methodist churches in Mt Pleasant, Iowa, have captured 140 converts in a brief revival serson. Three counterfeiters of silver coin, with a lot of moulds and tools, were captured in Akron, Ohio, last week. Two young men named Barrick and Ensminger have been arrested near Sandusky, Ohio, charged with train wrecking. Pierson, the self-confessed murderer of Murray McConncll, at Jacksonville, Illinois, turns out to be a probable imposter and lunatic. Buffalo, New York, makes sport of human

misery by having entertainments in which the chief feature is a mock breach of promise trial. Joseph Vair, one of a thoroughly orjranized gang of thieves in Marshalltown, Iowa, has been arrested and the gang is thought to be broken up. Three burglars, named Dillon, Clark and Rose, of a gang who have been operating extensively in Ohio cities, were captured Sunday in Cincinnati. J. Madison Wells is a walking annorv. He prances around Washington with two "revolvers and a knife concealed on his person, and carrying a rifled cane. THE STATE.

The old settlers in Daviess countv report this the coldest winter since ls0. The Daviess county agricultural board intend to make extraordinary exertions for a fair. A colony is being made up in Xew Albany and vicinity for emigration to Arkansas. Jordansville, Knox county, is now without a post office, it having been discontinued. John Hay, of New Carlisle, sold his trotting bore, Advance, to a Chicago party for $2,50 0. It is reDorted that there are a Inrop mini. ber of mad dogs in the northern part of Mar lin county. A new stage line was placed on the road between Xew Albany and Corydon on Monday. According to the Mt Carmel Democrat, 25,000 bushels of wheat are stored at present in that place. The formers of Perry county have lost a large number of hogs within the last few weeks from cholera. The annual commencement exercises of the Fort Wayne medical college will take place on the 27th inst. The old settlers of the White Water valley in eastern Wayne county held a reunion at Richmond on Saturday. South Bend Tribun: A farmer reports to us that many hives of bees have been destroyed by the severe winter. Posey county farmers are said to have borrowed $100,000 lately from eastern men to carry on the farming interests. A fire in Curtisville, Tipton county, Thursday night, burned a saw mill worth $00,000. No insurance. Cause of fire unknown. A lady teacher in the public schools of Fort Wayne had her month's salary stolen from her pocket while going home from school a few d?.ys since. George Thompson was killed by the cars in JelVersonville while intoxicated 'Tuesday, lie was returning from a ball when struCk by the train and dreadfully mangled. The census of the Third ward of Ric hmond. just completed by Mr. Robert Siuipn, shows a lopulation of 284 persons over 21 years of age, 13 of whom are colored. A reduction in the number of sewing women at the government works at Jefi'ersonville has been made from (00 to 1Ö0. New Albany is reduced from 100 to 30. This is by order of the secretary of war. Richmond Independent: At the old settlers' meeting yesterdav was exhibited a tobacco box made from the old elm tree under which Wm. Tenn made his first treaty with the Indians in 1G82. The tree fell in 1810. A Mrs. Baemstingle. of Tell frity. Terry county, was attacked a fewdays a ago while on the road between that place and Cannelton bv three tramps, but they were frightened off before they accomplished their hellish design. During a fit of insanity, John Alexander, of Lafontaine, Ind., brutally murdered the wife of his4rother by cutting her throat. She died almost instantly. No one was present except his mother, who, attempting to interfere, bad her hand nearly cut oft' by the maniac. He then threw her intoalare lire-place, where she was shockingly burned before getting out, Alexander was over powered as soon as an alarm could be given, and he is now in jail at Wabash. Lafontaine is a small village nine miles south of there. Although deranged, Alexander was never supposed to be dangerous. This is the way the New Albany correspondent or the Louisville News goes for the management of Floyd county: "Why is it that the orders of Floyd county are three cents on the dollar below par? Certainly this should not be the case. The county has no improvements going on to deplete her treasury; or, in fact, is there any good reason that we are aware of why her orders should not be paid on presentation at the treasury? A county so near out of debt, and with so large a revenue as Floyd county, should keep her obligations at par. Not to do so is hy no means to her credit. Come ,ow and Let Vn Keauton Toaelher. Why do people so frequently say to Dr. Pierce", ''1 supioe your Golden Medical Discovery cures everything?" Because it has been the practice of knavi.sh charlatans to manufacture worthless nostrums and attempt to dupe the ignorant and credulous by recommending them to cure erery form of disease. To such an extent has thi-s been Eractird that it is no wonder that many ave acquired prejudices against all advertised remedies. But Dr. Pierce does not advertise his standard preparations as ''curealls," does not claim that they will perform miracles; simply publishes the fact that tuey have been developed as specifics for certain forms of disease for which he recommends them, after having tested their efficacy in many hundred cases with the most gratifying success. Itis a fact known to every well informed physician that many single remedies possess several different properties. Quinine, for instance, has a tonic quality, which suggests its use in cases of debility; an anti-periodic, by which it is efficacious in ague; and a febrifuge property, which renders it etheacious in cases of fever. The result of its administration will also vary with the quantity given atid the circumstancei under which it is emplojed. So, likewise, the Golden Medical Discovery possesses both pectoral and alterative or blood cleansing properties of the highest order. By reason of thee two prominent roperties it cures two classes of diseases, ''irst, those of the respiratory organs, as throat, bronchial and lung atleetions, chronic coughs and asthma; and second, " diseaBes of the blood and glandular system, in which affections all skillful physicians enipl y alteratives, as in cases of blotches, eruptions, ulcers, swellings, tumors, abcesses, and in torpor of the liver or "biliousness." While its use is, by its combination of properties, suggested in cases of pulmonary consumption, yet you need not take it expecting it will cure vou if your lungs are half consumed, nor Wcause it is recommended as a blood medicine would its proprietor advise you to take it eipccting it to cure cancer. It will not perform miracles, but it will cure many grave forms of disease.