Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1877 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOENING. MAY 9, 1877.

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Hub-cribers whose time hM expired will pleaee remit at once, or we shall be compelled to drop their names from our subscription list. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. TERMS: One Subscriber one ytar..-............ J 1 50 uba 4 subscribers, one year, to one P. O. 5 0 " 10 M " 12 00 i 20 " " 11 " 20 00 Where ten or more names are sent in, an ex tra copy is given to the getter-up of the club A genu sending over four names and II 25 fo each name will be allowed a commission of wenty per cent, on the gross amount of their obxcrlptlnna WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. Ann now it is the 15th of October. Hayes has found a way to pay the array up to that date, and there is therefore no necessity for an extra session of congress at an earlier day. It is thanred that one reason why the commerce of New York is declining is the frauds practiced in the custom house of that city. It Is in this way that radicalism acts and reacts upon every interest, to the detri ment of the country. Another Cfcarlie Kots trail has been struck. This tinte York, Pa., is confident that the genuine boy is livingwith a farmer near that town. Mr. Rgjs has sent for a pho tograph and description, and will examine this, as he has every other case, thoroughly. Slatto!, Oregon, has a claim to some notice. A daughter of Morgan, who, it was alleged, was destroyed by Masons, lives there in retirement, preferring not to be known to the world, as she dislikes to have recalled to her mind any remembrance of her father Ir Morton's plan for electing a 'president becomes the law of the land, could a "buzz 'saw" wench like Murat Halstead's favorite, Eliza Pinkston, swear a democratic vic tory into a defeat? If so it is safe to say that all the radical organs will be in favor of Morton's plan. The Globe-Democrat showed terrible indignation when it was announced that Grant was going to Europe as a "dead head." Nevertheless such is the case. Nor is this all, but the entire tribe are dead heads. The idea that Grant would pay his way when there was a chance for a dead head ticket is siniply preposterous. Mo TO! wants to abandon the electoral college, which he calls Mmbbish.M Evident ly Morton has invented a new returning board machine which he wants patented in time for 1SS0. The indications are that the old machine with bavonet attachments will not answer for another campaign. Morton wants to take time by the forelock and be prepared for the occasion. A New Orlkaxh grave digger has un earthed a grapholite bearing the following inscription in large Roman capitals: RÜIB.DY K II O V E It N O II E I T 8 II TNOKASC TKN The Smithsonian institute is to wrestle with the letters. They do not look ancient and may be a part of the returning board swindle record. . Macac'liy's theater at Louisville is to be sold to satisfy the creditors of the managers. The past season has been one of unusual trials for managers and actors, and scarcely a theater in the oountry has paid expenses. Mr. Bernard Macauley has done all in his power to stave off and prevent the final result f the hard times in Louisville, but he is finally forced to succumb to the pressure !) Pr.DKo went to a scientific, lecture in an Italian city and, being weary, went quiet ly to sleep. 'The lectarer, much flattered by his apparent attention, diverged from his written natter to deliver an exoessively pompous eulogy -on Lis imperial auditor, Tl audience applauded this heartily. The noiae awoke Dom, And he, thinking it a tribute to oro scientific opinion, clapped his bands and Peered iouder thst anybedy else. ßesnaiwn, t ' Tai Tweed .harter by which the Boss and Lis confederates were enabled to swindle the tMyol Vew York was secured bj the votes of republican, and ; Jve New Yerk Tribune makes the confession that "the rural repaV 'licans at ALbeuy dglibecately soli the .city 'of Xew York to Tweed." Ther Uas Tiever bi: any loubi iwntli jubjeejt in the rolnos of t honest men, and ' the afession. tuougQ ute, puts aa ana la. tue coateoverty Is It water or' whisky for white house treats The fpieittow laroudac'ded- ma Wf have olxerved" iL, II ave. kiiU aojue-, tiling strong for" foreigners fromvSt rekrsbar and Cincinnati, but his wife object?. TUw iaj room.. for the Wo ribbon "brigade In the white hon. -The president in igUs wear the red , ribbon in ibeoatMml-ton-hole-' nnKP the Cincinnati bummers came in sight, then he could very ,

easily untie it and hide it away until the Women's Temperance union came to see the effects of total abstinence in the white house.

This style of procedure would be in accordance with the great principles which have thus far guided Mr. Hayes through are. It seems important enough to the radical oreans to publish the fact that William E. Chandler, called "Dill" Chandler for short and to keep him from getting mixed up with "Old Zach," is not finding any fault with Hayes because of the manner in which he has cut himself adrift from the great .ia-ats of the radical party. "Bill" is said to be one of the shrewdest, smartest radical rascals of all the Chandlers. He was in Florida during the manipulating of thereturns in favor of Hayes, and although Gen eral Barlow, a radical tool, said it was a swindle when he saw how it was done, yet "Bill' Chandler saw it through and pre served his radicalism in tact, while Morton read Harlow out of the party, saying he was not a repxblican and ought not to have been sent down there. "Dill" is all right, as usual. XEW AMERICAN PAItTY. The New York Herald proposes the organ ization of a new American party, with the view of making the pacification policy of his excellent fraudulency a national success. The Herald suggests that "such men as La mar, Hampton, Lee, Gordon and their fel'lows throw aside all political ties and unite with men like Conkling, Fish, Hoar. Evarts, Adams, Edmunds and Dix, and 'form a new party, whose first duly will be 'justice, magnanimity and ?d to the south." It is very plainly discoverable that the same "old nigger in the wood pile" is still the disturbing cause of the Herald's dissatis faction, for it says that "these southern men 'can in an hour give assurances as to the 'protection and well being of the negro that 'will at once satisfy the north." He says "they can give him political equal'ity, and in so doing open the way 'to a settlement that will end the most pain'f'il question that ever effected American 'politics, and bring about that era of good 'feeling of which the republic is in such sore need." The political philosophy of the Herald ii refreshing,and his party impudence is only equaled by the clandestine spirit of his party policy. He says the south has "accepted" nothing. "That they only aim to get back 'what they have lost, and to bring back as 'nearly as possible the old system." Then, he suggests, that Hayes may say to the men of the south, "Act with me in good 'faith and I will give you more; far more 'than you can win in a hundred electoral 'campaigns. Now we would like to ask what his frudu lency has to give the south or the north either? He is very much in the condition of the devil when he took the Saviour up into a high mountain. He has nothing to give but empty promises; nothing to utter in the ears of a grieving south but e batch of political lies. He give to the south! What can he give? What has he to give? Did he give Hampton to South Carolina? Not a bit of it. He couldn't help himself, for if he had dared to do so in the face of the masses of the white population of that abused state he would have stood by Chamberlain until the last day in the evening. Was it his hand that placed Nicholls in the gubernatorial chair ot Louisiana? No; he did not. He only yielded to inevitable events, and, therefore, he should nave no credit for a "peace policy" when he did not dare to do otherwise. The Herald even professes to do away with the bloody shirt business, except in Maine and Indiana, where it is supposed that it will still be necessary, "To enable Mr. 'Blaine and Mr. Morton and the fanatics to 'make an effective campaign." The proposition for the organization of a new party is to save the radical party in the next national campaign. They know well that unless they can conciliate the south in some way before that time their party will go under, as the scoundrelism of returning boards can never be repeated again without a revolution. They think now if they ran form an American party in the south they may carry three or four of the southern states and still hold their grip upon the government But the southern people will never, under any name, trust the party that claims that the south is "a conquered terri'tory." They have no confidence in .he sympathy that only feeds them to make them the more willing snbjects of radical misrule. They prefer an open foe to a soulless sycophant who would flatter only to gain rule. This new party of the Herald won't take. It is too thin and will not bear inspection. THE UNION BANKING COMPANY The failure of the Union banking company, of Philadelphia, has had but little effect in the money market either in Philadelphia or elsewhere. When it was first announced the reason given for it was the alledged defalcation of the cashier, James A. Hill. It now turns out that the president of the bank, Mr. N. C. Musselman, is as deep in the mud as his cashier is In the mire. He was arrested last Wednesday evening and held io $10,000 bail to answer a charge of the misappropriation of the bank's funds. When the -law against dishenest and defaulting bank officers is ngidly' enforced, there will be less speculating In .'stocks and grain on margins by bank officers than there now' is. Speculation is what broke the Cook County National bank of Chicago, the First National hank of Franklin, and now causes the Union banking company to atop payment The severest penalties of the law should "be visited upon any bank officer who uses the funds of bis bank in every other than legitimate ways, and until this is done we may continue to took for temfferprorriatioa of funds by those ' whose duty it Is to guard them.

RADICALISM Aft AX EDUCATOR. In a recent interview Col. Dick Thomp

son, secretary of the army, said that "the 'republican party was a school of education." He does not specify what kind of a school it is, or what kind of an education the scholars are given. We agree with him in the main proposition that the radical party is "a school of education." Such a Bchool we have never had in this country before, and such a peculiar education is the result tb At no one born since the advent of the sysjf m is as yet old enough to bear witness t'j the full force of its teachings. Gen. "Wade Hampton, in a recent address, or perhaps message, to the South Carolina legislature exhibited a proof of the beauti a 0( radical ism as an educator. He held i ip n Lis hand, that all might see the curios? tj, a certificate to teach given a teacher 0y a school board composed of three jerso M, with cross marls for their ilgnaturt. Radicalism has had the "run of South Carolin V f0r eleven years; it has filled nearly evevy office, important and unimportant, in tb.e state during all of that time, and the results show that radicalism is as great a fraud as an educator as it is as a financier or a statesman. In other spates of the south the great attractivene'js of edncating the colored radicals drew many friends of education into the philanthropic scheme. We were all here in the north stricken with admiration at the unanimity with which the proposition was received. Even the radical carpet-bagger fairly glowed with enthusiasm or perspiration as lie unfolded the universal scheme of education. Alas! the sad news was borne northward by degrees, and in limited quantities at first, that it was the school funds that were the chief attraction. Townships and entire counties were robbed outright of their school funds. Radicalism, with its Aminldab Sleek like innocence, its protestations of being the peculiar friend and educator of the colored man, and with its divers other forms of hypocrisy, has at length been driven out of every southern state.and a universal feelingof exultation and relief is manifest throughout the country. To-day the presidential pretender is receiving compliments and adulation because he has ridden South Carolina and Louisiana of this "school for education" which Dick Thompson talks about. That sort of talk is the forerunner of second childhood, which comes sometimes after the three score and ten of a secretary of the navy has passed. The radical party is a "school for educa. 'lion" of another kind. It is a school which has taught the American people at last that the good old idea which was a part of the religion of our forefathers that the candidate who received a majority of the suffrages of his countrymen ought to have the office was a fallacy. It has taught us that there is a trick by which the man who gets the fewer votes can hold the place of honor and emolument, even the highest seat in the nation's gift. It has demonstrated by the very strongest kind of a demonstration that four radical rascals can shut themselves in executive session, we believe, is the name for it. and swindle a successful candidate out of 10,000 votes and the presidency. Yerily radicalism is an "educator" a very "school 'for education," and its head professors are Jim Blaine, Morton, Chandler, Dick Thomp son, and tutors and wider (mors of the same stripe ad infinitum. NOTE AND OP! IOXS. Tknnysok is writing another historical drama. Is Missouri colored schools will as far aa possible be given to colored teachers. Mr. Tksnyson'h last sonnet is published In The Nineteenth Century, aud is on Montenegro. A combined harrow and stalk cutter has been patented by a Tennessee girl who is only 17 years of age. Tiik advance guard of the Russian army Is suffering from fever and a;ue, and great Ions of men Is reported. A xioro woman In Iowa has sued a white man for breach of promise. The case Is strong ly In favor of the plaintiff. Grant is to be welcomed to London by Minister Pierrepont, who will give a magnificent banquet In honor of bis guest. Up to the present time fifteen candidates have made kuowu their deaire to be elected senator from Kentucky In 1879. The demand for postal cards continues te Increase beyond precedent, and the demand has frequently overdrawn the supply. Kate Field's first newspa)er article was printed when she was eight years old, but she does not tell us how long ago that was. "Hahd Times" Is the subject of one of Beecher's lectures. He knows wnat that means, too. He had a fruitful experience a short time ago. A UKOTiiEKof the late Vice President Wilson, who has for many years been one of the door keepers of the senate gallery, has been dis charged. The popularity of Hhakexpeare's works has never been a great in England as It is now; editions, notes and comments are multiplying (id inflnitum. Over a column of the Washington, Pa., lie porter was recently set op by James Me Der mott, a printer aged 83 years. He has worked on that paper for over GO years. Hiiakespearb was not behind our time In recognlzlug the services of the slgaul service bureau, for he makes one of his characters talk of "The hottest day pioguoxUcAtion pro'claims.'? ... . v.'.'.-. . Mull kit ought to be made examiner of the roofs of the houses he builds. He seut three or foarmen up on top of the Nw Trk court house and all of them ' were killed. Go 'up Mallet, go up. . : raKSiDENT Hayes has pardoned ex-Renator Graham, of New York. Mr. Graham was sentenced to ten years lmprlsanmeot foretnbeasllng funds of the bank: of which he was the president. He has served thrco years, but Js now In a dying condition, and as bis mind Is completely wrecked, his con finemebt last all its force, and the prison authorities united with lila friends In Halting for hin release. ' "Piük Domino" H the Utle of a prurient play just put on the London stage. Itlsslm plya"hue Immoral Joke, which no decent man would dare to tell before a decent woman,

and yet it has to, be licensed by the appointed English offleer a.nd nightly a "large, respecta'ble audience; witness Its presentation. Kuch a play would je hissed off the stage or a fourth rate New York theatre, and actors could scarcely "h 1 rei to take the leading part. At tHe banquet of the Lord Mayor of Dublin 1". week green was the fashionable and popxiIaT color. The ladles were dressed In green Irish poplin, tne gentlemen had knots of green riblwn on their coats and the servants i were dressed in green livery. The bands are

encouraged to play "Wearing of the Green, and that which was once esteemed disloyalty punished by Imprisonment Is now considered duty, which to disregard would be a crime. t THE PEACE POLICY. Ttie W'ny It Work i ti Alabama mn Viewed by m Radical Republican. Montgomery (Alabama) Letter in New York Times. There is no reason to believe that the re cently inaugurated reconciliation or peace policy will have the effect ot changing this cunuiiiou ui luniks, i iciiueu conversations with leading democrats in this and other parts of the state convince me of this ract. rso matter what l'resiuent iiayes does he can never do enough to satisfy an Alabama democrat. The white people of the state believe that Tilden was elected and to-day, after all he has done for them, they still denounce the republican president as a usurper and a fraud. There are a few, a very few liberal minded men here who give him some credit for his efforts to break down old party lines and bring about a new era of good feeling and fellowship between the sections, but even the best of the class to which I refer have no hesitation in openly declaring that the welfare of the nation depends npon the success of the democratic party in 1880. Colonel Boyd, secretary of state of Alabama, and a fair minded man, said to me this morning that even were President Hayes to continue his present policy for the next three years, even if he supported and adwo cated every railroad and other subsidy measure now pressed by the south, he would not, were he again a candidate, re ceive any support irom tnis section. Colonel Doyd said upon this subject: "I think that Mr. Hayes has done bis duty to the Bonth fairly and honestlv.and I give him all credit for what he has done, but I could never vote for hrn as against a roan of my own party. We m';st have a straight out democrat for our next president." These are the sentiments of nearly every white man in this state. The new policy inaugurated by Presluenc iiayes win not uiviue me aemocraiic vote here. The south is solid, and Alabama stands in the front rank of the last ditch democratic column. The national ad ministration may shower favors upon these people, but they will give nothing in return. All the strength, all the power which Mr. Hayes gives them they will use to ruin hirn and destroy the party that elected him. Of course, there are aumerous good, honest, smooth-spoken gentlemen here, who are willing to accept federal offices, "not as republicans, you know, but to aid the new Jolicy and benefit the country." There is also a class ot so-called native republicans, who are just now loud in their demands for ower and place. The president and his advisers should beware of both these classes, but particularly of the so-called "in ependent and respectable republican element." The men who compose it have for years past been coquetting with the democracy. They are not resected by the good men of either party in this state, and the national administration can gain no strength by favoring them. They would use any power which might be given them to se cretly overthrow the remnant of republicanIsm yet remaining in Alabama, lhere are honest and respectable republicans enough here to fill all the ottices men like Paul Stroback, General Healey, Judge Kice who were republicans when it was as much as their lives were worth to proclaim their principles. These men, and others like them, would do the national government credit in any feJera! oflice in the state. Their claims, if they advance any, should not be ignored. President Hayes can not divide the democratic vote of the south, but he can jtreatly benefit the union men who supported him by appointing honest republicans to oflice in Alabama. FARMING. 10,500 New Farm Ktarted Mit kin Year. New York World. Does any one know how many new farms were opened in the states and their territories last year; how many new log cabins have been built; how many acres of virgin soil plowed up for the first time? It is not probable that any one does know with exactness, . . i r i -. . i i 4 1 - Dill mere is a nine taoie in tue report of the secretary of the Interior, presented to congress some time ago, which furnishes the material for an approximately correct answer to these questions. During the year ending with June last, there were taken up under the homestead law 1,875,909 acres. New land taken up under the homestead law is for actual cultivation, and is generally taken in lota of 1(!0 acres. It would appear, therefore, that more than 17,000 new farms were commenced last year under the homestead law alone. Hut this is not all. There were sold during the yeartUO.Ml acres for cash, and 137,010 acres were allotted on military land warrants. It is no doubt true that a portion of these 778,331 acres were bought or entered by other than actual settlers, by speculators or by persons who made investments of this nature for future purposes. It would be fair to estimate, however, that one half of the 778,331 acres were purchased or entered for the purpose of immediate settlement or cultivation ; - and this calculation would give us 2,132 more new farms of 100 acres each. There were al30 21,013 acres entered upon the Sioux and Chippewa half breed scrip, and G07.9S4 acres taken np under the timber, culture law. Leaving these two latter items out of the calculation, we have an aggregate of about 19,500 new farms commenced during the year. This means ID.500 new homes. In five years from now these 19,500 farms, under good management, ought to produce annually some 20,000,000 bushels of wheat, some 40,000.000 bushels of corn, and some 400,O"K) head of cattle or swine making provision more than enough to furnish meat and bread for New Y'ork city for a whole year. i' . The following' petition was lately presented to an oiHcer in India by a native: "To Gentlemen and Ladies Having heurd of your benevolence, I therefore make it uiy duty t oome to- yon, not -only to pay tny respects, but to procure an help from ladies and gentlemen. I need scarcely mention by the help and favor of God that I got three brothers and two Bisters,. Including. rue; but my brothers are dumbless and have no lejs and head, and but for my another sifter she have no eyes, and for myself I can't talk, and benides that my brothers and släter they never eat rice nor bread except milk and sogar, and my brothers and sister are turned as Christians. For which act of kindness I Bhail ever pray for your . lonj life and prosperity."

THE CHIEF OF MODERN MARVELS.

Professor Bell's Talking Telephons and the Wonders It Does. The t iter Simplicity of 11 Construction nd the Utter Mystery of It Working. New York World. Professor Bell is to exhibit his telephone shortly in New York. There will be several performances, with lectures, and the first is set down for the 15th of this month. Trofessor Hell's instrument differs very materially from Professor Gray's, and from any other that has yet come to "notice. Its peculiarity is that it is capable of transmitting oral sounds in other words, that it can talk. The motive to its operation is not electro-magnetism as we have heretofore understood that agent, although for want of a better word that it is what it is called. As far as apparatus goes there is a magnet, a coil of insulated wire and a disk of soft iron no more; nothing of chemicals or friction to develop an electrical current; no necessity further but a voice to speak against the soft iron tympanum and an ear 50 miles away to hear what the voice is saying. In point of construction, this telephone is simplicity itself. As it is made for exhibition and as it will be seen here on the 15th, it consists of a wooden box, about a cubic foot in bulk and not unlike a photographic camera in appearance. Within this vox is set, on its side, an ordinary horse shoe magnet, with the poles or ends directed towards the audience. Fixed upon each of tbe.se ends is a little coil of insulated fine wire. Still in front uf these wire coils and separated from them by a space of about the one-thirty second part of an inch is set a vertical round disk of soft iron, about five inches in diameter and one-thirty-second of an inch thick. To each of the wire coils is fixed a wire, one running 'to the point, wherever it may be, where the talking is to be done, and there connecting with one of the coils of wire in an instrument precisely similar; the other running into the ground, as in the corresponding instrument does a corresponding wire, forming the ordinary circuit. That is the whole apparatus. There is no battery, no telegraphic instrument, and all connections with instruments along the line of the wire must be severed. All that is necessary then is for the operator that is to say the one who is to talk to say what he may wish against the soft iron tympanum, which is exposed through an opening in the box, and the sound is csugbt up, transmitted and reproduced identically at the other end of the wire. There is no mystery about this thing, except the great mystery that one can not understand why it is all so. The box is not a necessity and is only used as a convenient means of transporting the apparatus, and as a protection against the dirt and dust. In Professor Dell's own apartments the magnet, the wire coils and the disk are fixed against the wall In a position convenient to his desk, one wire connecting simply with the gas-fixture. All the professor has to do then is to turn his face towards the machine, as one in common politeness would do when about to address another, and speak his will: the tympanum of an exactly corresponding instrument at the other end of the wire one hundred miles away, it may be responds to the vibrations of tympanum No. 1, and sieaks j there to the listener in language as plain as that employed by Professor Bell himself. A SVorld reporter had a conversation j-es-terday with Mr. Frederic A. Gower, Professor Bell's general manager, who gave a most intelligent account of the working of the instrument and of its theory so far as anybody may yet understand it The whole reason of it nobody does know. There is no especial necessity for having the magnet in the telephone just the size that it is. If it is larger it will do, and if it is smaller it will do. The same is true of the iron disk or tympanum. Professor Bell has experimented with all sizes, and finds that an ordinary magnet and a disk about five inches in diameter produce effects as good as any though not necessarily the best effects. He has used two of the little red painted toy magnets, such as the children buy for 10 cents apiece, and obtained good effects Again, the telophones employed at the two ends of the line need not correspond in point of size; and, contrary to all law governing electric telegraphy, it is quite immaterial which iole of one magnet corresponds to a given pole of the other. It is only necessary that the Beveral parts ot the instrument should be set firm and right. During the transmission of sound there is no perceptible motion of the iron tympanum or any of the parts; whatever vibrations occur are not discoverable I by the eye. Again, in the oral transmissions the sound does not escape into air along the rOUle, OS ll uuca ivr.iiiouiiivc n ucn iiiudiu 19 transmitted by Professor Gray's telephone. During an exhibition in Providence last winter, the weather was extremely wet and bad, and in the transmission of music about one-third of the sound was dissipated on the way, but at the same entertainment the oral sounds were received without any perceptible diminution of their volume. The loss through the resistance offered by different bodies to the passage through them of an electric current is estimated in what are called "ohms." Thus the resistance created by a person of ordinarily thin skin is about 6,000 ohms, and the loss in a passage through the Atlantio cable is about 7,000 ohms. An experiment was made with Professor Bell's telephone in New Haven to see what loss in its tones wtuld occur through the interposition of human bodies. Sixteen of the professors of Y'ale college took part in the experiment. One part of 1 the telephone was set up in one room and the other, part in ' ' another room at at a considerable distance, ' though distance, within the limit, say, of 100 miles at least, does not make any material difference in the volume of sound obtained. The connecting wires between the two instruments were severed, and the circuit was afterwards re-established by making a line of the professors, eight to each wire, who joined bands, those on the ends grasping the severed wires, and thus completing the circuit. ' The professors stood upon the floor, with nothing interposed between their feet nnd the carpet, and thus were not insulated. The telephone was then talked to at one end and answered at the other in an audible and highly satisfactory manner. The work of Professor Bell's telephone seems opposed to all laws, whether of electro-magnetism or anything else, that the scientists have as yet codified. Here is molecular vibration changed into impulse, and loipulse in due time changed into molecular vibration. When the good reason for it is discovered,' the World will hasten to make it known; : .' PmfeanoT Bell eran hia career as a prof es sorot -vocal physiology, busying himself with evervthini relating to sound and speech. He is a Scotchman, a native of Edinburgh, and his father before him was a nrofessor in one of the wcoten universities. lie has worked upon this one subject, for 12 or 15 years, ana may be said to nave siruca the key-note of success when he discovered tli at a nUte of snft metal.' like the "tvmpanum' of his telephone, was capable of receiving and reproducing the whole variety of

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necessary. Probably his dicovery of the capability of a simple magnet and coil to catch un sound and transform it and drain to transform and reproduce it, was not pure1 r m lnrri.Al vn ä V.,. 1. ,i Im 1 . less of the (very desirable) elements of 'Scotch cussedness." Trofessor Bell came to this country about seven years apo for hia health, and is now engaged in teaching. He was invited some time since by Superintendent Orton, Cyrus W. Field and others to lecture and give exhibitions here, and he now proposes to neglect his professional duties somewhat in order to give lectures upon his discovery. In considering the results of Professor Bell's discovery Mr. Gower was probably not more sanguine than another would be who had seen it do so much that was wonderful. Everybody will have a wire," he thought, "and the high prices which come of batteries and instruments and skilled labor, and all the complicated list of apparatus at present necessary will be broken down." Professor Bell, Mr. Gower savs. is overrun with applications for his instrument, but he is holding off until he is satisfied that he has made it the best that is possible. The professor is anxious to try the Atlantic cable, and has hopes that, considerin" its perfect insulation, he may speak and be beard a thousand leagues away. The exhibition here will be only one of two. There will be telephones stationed here, in New Brunswick and in Trenton. New Brunswick will be the point of operation, and the words of Mr. Gower, who will De mere stationed, will be heard simultaneously in New York and in Treuton. THE STATE. The outstanding debtof Richmond is $120.000. Church exercises are talked of in Vin--cennes. There are tlrtv.fln rViil.1an in .V phans' home at Lafayette. Franklin has six Protestant churches and' one Catholic. Two of the former are colored. The Catholic church building now in course of construction ia Kokoiuo will cost $25,000. Laporte Areus: We bear of one farmer of this county who has 2,500 bushels of wheat to sea. Richland, Spencer county, has cast off ifc old name and has assumed the name of Axton city. The Kokomo gas company entered suit, on . Tuesday, against the city for $000 alleged un paid gas bill. o Columbus Democrat: The whpst rron So in -wj- . such a forward state of growth that an early harvest is promised. lar trips up White river, in the vicinity of ii i . t iiiuicKiu, tvr luru. Fourteen members were initiated in the new lodge of odd fellows organized at Owensburg last Thursday night. The farmers in Spencer county are hold ing their corn with the expectation that i will reach 45 cents per bushel. One hundred dollars reward is offered forJoseph Havens, who mysteriously disappeared frn Kushville a few weeks ago. Delphi Times: Since our last issue the Erice of wheat has raised 20 cents on the ushel and corn 4 cents in this market. Rushville Republican: The enumeration of Orange township, just completed, shows 3G3 voters and 403 persons of school age. Last Friday a colored man ramed John Woodson was shot and almost instantly killed by a Mr. Patten, at Princeton, Ind. Vincennes Sun: We have a reading club. a literary society, a moot court, and now it iswhispered that we will have a divinity duo. What next? DarA'ille Indianian: The scarcity of money is having its effect on the matrimonial market. Marriageable daughters are dull, withdecreasing demand. A BAHfirMrhiia f 1 1 nirir WAiirliinr abgilt fnnf ounces was taken from the head of a four-vear-old child in Muncie Thursday by Dr. F. II. DeVeaux, of Kokomo. TjuvMnuktim ilr-ino im t?7 (VY1 to establish a stove factory in that city. As it will give employment to 300 men the citizens of that place will Boon more than get their money DacK. TATPninrih Democrat: Four casks of apple brandy were seized for the violation of the revenue law by Jacob öeacai, aeputy collector of the first district, from John II. Ray, near Hartford. B chmond Independent: The whole amount of losses by fire in this city for the year was $2,C00, minus an insurance of $1; 075, having an actual loss of but $G25. This speaks well for the firemen. Harlan Bond, a wealthy farmer who reBlUCVl UCai ii oouiiiMiii J 'v "J t committed suicide by hanging himself in bis . n.. , . 1 T . : Darn on Anursaay iuomioK. wiuciug trouble is thought to have been the cause of the act. Quite a spirited trot between Jim Wilson's Tocahontas Boy, and John Fairley's Roger Hanson, for a $50 purse, came off at the Kushville fair grounds last 8atnrdav, which resulted in favor of Tocahontas Boy in 2:54, by a neck. , A fire at a late hour Saturday night consumed the Hickory Grove flouring mill, near Kidgeville, owned by A. McKew; also a large quantity of flour, grain, etc. Total loss nearly $20,000; no insurance. A man was brought to the poor farm in Spencer county last Sunday morning with a broken ankle. Cause delirium tremens and lumping from a second story window in kureka while delirious. At Logansport last Wednesday Hülse, Cox and Ault, all of Cass county, were fined $25 ach for the shooting of Rhodes last fall, the very good character of the defendants, the want of malice, causing Judge Chase to make the punishment to light. . Lafayette Courier: Drake, the ham string fiend, he who wrecked the fond heart and other prowerty of Mrs. Drake, was fined $450 in the circuit court. Not being able to pay imprisonment will be substituted, and for about three years the world will ; be rid of one of its wickedest men. : Richmond Independent: ' A collision occurred between the Pan Handle engines Nos!. 3S and 40 at Ccntreville Wednesday, nighf. Engine 38 Was so badly injured that it could not come on to this city. One train was on the Bide track, and the engineer on the Incoming train thlnklnsr' that the switch was turned came on at a lively, rate. Tl switch not being tamed he ran into the other train, thus causing the collusion. ,..! " Kokomo Dispatch: The trustee's 1 annual report for. the fiscal year jnst endrd shows an enumeration in this townhlp (Center), not Including Kokomo, of 417 seh! children 219 males and 213 females. . The fame report shows a voting population outside the city of 400,