Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1877 — Page 2

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOKNTNG. MAY 23. 1877

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23. Whilx Hayes was having a "right royal" time in New York Grant was hugely enjoying himself in Philadelphia. Prior to his leaving for Europe Senator Cameron entertained him magnificently. He was wined and dined, driven through Fairmount park and taken to the theater at night. On Thursday he sailed for Europe in the stearr.-aip Indiana. We wish him a bon voyage.

Before Miss Crawford married the late Commodore Vanderbilt she was engaged to a young doctor in Virginia, but the million aire's wealth overbalanced the love, and the two young lovers separated. Both married. The doctor's wife died just before.Mr. Vanderbilt's death, and now Mrs. Vanderbilt is corresponding with the sweetheart of her girlhood, and many believe that as soon as decency will permit, these two will renew the long broken engagement and marry. Ex-Governor Moroak, of New York, gave Hayes a dinner in New York city on Wednesday evening. Morgan ran for governor of New York on the same day that Hayes ran for president of the United States. Morgan was defeated by only thirty thousand votes, while Hayes was defeated by Mr. Tilden by nearly two hundred and fifty thousand votes. Conundrum suggested by the incident: Why is Hayes president of the United States, while Morgan is not governor of New York? North Carolina has a population of 1,070,120 people, who pay $8,500,90 for intoxicating liquors, $1,000,000 for educational purposes and $269.830 for church enterprises, ministers' salaries, etc. The entire crop of cotton, averaging 200,000 bales of 400 pounds each, selling at 19 cents per pound, will not meet the liquor bill by $560,900. The crop wiu pay but ount, and all the corn, about 18,454,641 bushels, at GO cents per bushel, is only one-third more than is annually paid out by the people of this state for spiritous liquors. Now", Grant rises to explain. He is ma l as a March hare at Hayes because he believes all the temperance talk at the white house lately has been intended as an insult to the --revious administration. He is the authori y f jr the report that wines re served at all '.tte dinners, not alone at the one given to lexis, that they are put on the table as a . '!t f er of course, and that no one has ever disscd their removal, and he intimates that : ae New England Methodists "resolved" too quick concerning Hayes's total abstinence. One of the side shows at the permanent e xhibition is a Philadelphia merchant who, v Lea a lady clerk in his store fainted from .. er exertion, with a great show of philan-'.r-py hired a carriage, sent her home and n deducted $G.00 from her weekjr salary f ?7.0rt to ray the hackman's bill. The lady -üs away from her work but one day. No more clerks will faiut in that store, or if they do they will previously make arrangements for a wheelbarrow at their own expense and figures. A very affecting incident connected with the reception of the fraudulent president in New York on Wednesday was the appearance of a bootblack u-ith hU box. That boy was sharp. Catch him letting his box lie around loose among fellows that "got away 'with" the presidency. To have made the tableau perfect, Hayes ought to have put his hand on the boy's head and excited his ambition by telling him, "Bub, play it fine; there is a big chance ahead for the fellow 'that don't get enough votes. I have made 'it possible for hira to reach the presidency, 'even when he is repudiated by the people. Tlay it fine. Mum's the word. Whist!" The radicals are congratulating themselves with the slender consolation that their fraudulent president received applause and cheers during the late junketing tour of himself and cabinet, as if such things were of any significance. . There are enougn custom house employes in New York to cheer and applaud Hayes on any and all occasions, to say nothing of the Wall street sharks and vampires who have lived on the United States treasury during the late and p-esent radical dynasties. Even Jim Fisk received cheers and applause when he appeared on Broadway at the head of the well known Seventh regiment as its colonel. Morton can appear anywhere and find somebody to cheer him. So can Japanese Tommy or Murat Halstead. Draixo the visit of the Hayes party to Philadelphia at the opening ceremonies of the permanent exhibition, it was noticed that Walt Whitman and Fred Douglass fat together. The "fitness of thing!" demanded that Hayes and Fred should have sat together "with their hats over their eves." illustrating one of the beautiful points of Fred's lecture in Baltimore. He said that Washington people "wore their hats over 'their eyes like thieves and robbers." This was one of the rerined observations in which the lecture abounded, and which some people objected to. Fred was making himself and Hayes the "heroes of his own story," as Byron remarked, alluding US "Wadsworth's 'Idiot Boy," in his scathing reply to his critics. ., It has been apparent for some time that between Hayes and Grant there is growing np a bad feeling, and, it is said, from a very small affair. It was heralded by radicals of the goodisb sort, soon after Hayes's inauguration, that, do wines were to be used in the white home. The New England Methodist conference Indorsed it, of course, by passing a resolution and sending it with some pomp to the presidential pretender. Now, here is where Grant's grievance comes in. He says it is all the talk of a hypocrite; that there is just as much wine used cow in the white

house as ever; that it has been served at every public dinner since the inauguration; that it was used at the dinner given Duke Alexis, and also at the one more recently given to the Louisiana commission. Grant always did do and say just as be pleased, and thinks now that Hayes is anxious to give out the impression that Grant used an immense amount of liquors during his administration, but that now the red ribbon floats from the top of the presidential mansion, with all that it implies. Henceforth, no more Grantism in any shape. Therefore, Grant is naturally angry.

THE NEW NTATE HO CSE. Indianapolis happens to be the capital city of Indiana, a matter of fact about which complaint should have exhausted itself a quarter of a century ago. Indianapolis being the capital of the state the seat of government it is thought to be eminently appropriate to have the state house located within its corporate limits, and some years since, that idea prevailing, a state house was erected. Time's corroding, gnawing and destructive tcoth has been very busy upon the state house since the day of its completion, and the stately edifice is rapidly crumbling to decay. No longer a thing of beauty or a joy for a day, dilapidated and unsafe, the people's representatives in their wisdom concluded at the late session of . the legislature to tear it down and build a new state house in its place. The proposition, however, was opposed. With some the plea was econ omy; others thought the old rat hole and bat cave good enough for Indiana; while others, we conclude, opposed the enterprise because, forsooth, the new state house would have to be located at Indianapolis. This opposition was thought to be factious, as the reasons assigned for it were wanting in cogency, and as a consequence the arguments were correspondingly weak. Since the appointment of the state house commissioners by Governor Williams another form of opposition has been developed which is purely sectional, with the additional ingredient of hostility to Indianapolis. The Evansville Conrier, which has earned the enviable reputation of being large-hearted, enough to include the entire commonwealth in its states manship, in an article captioned "The New 'State Honse," says: There seems to be something In the atmosphere of Indianapolis that claims the allegiance of every man who goes there in an official capacity. To the many other instances in proof ot the fact, that every one will be able to recall. It is the saddest to be compelled to add the name of Blue Jeans Williams. The rest of Indiana has been called upen every year, fiom time immemorial, to contribute sometniii$ toward the building up or that city. If the Courier is driving at anything in particular in the paragraph we have quoted. it mu9t be to urge upon Governor Williams and all other state officials who come to the capital city to transact the business of the state, to commence at once to make war upon Indianapolis, and lay the foundation for the distribution of "favors as equally as 'possible among the different sections." To do this it would be necessary to have a dozen or two insane asylums, and an equal number of deaf and dumb institutions. The blind would be divided into email bands and located in various portions of the state so that the "people's money" might be fairly distributed. The state university would have to be split upiato district schools, and fifteen or twenty additional penitentiaries provided, to guard against sectional opposition to state enterprises. Fortunately for the sections of the state this policy is not likely to prevail, though it may greatly embarrass those who desire to legislate with strict regard to economy and the best interests of the people. Evansville and Fort Wayne, the Courier thinks, have been slighted, and it is possible such is the fact, though it is not made specially luminous. The Courier admits that the state "actually needs a new state house, but is of the opinion that the 'measure which passed the legislature would have been defeated, but for the fact that 'the people had great confidence in the judgment, ecoporay ami integrity of Gover'nor Williams. They felt," says the Courier, "that inasmuch as it would be necessary to 'build a new stafe house some time, it would 'perhaps be best to begin it during the ad'ministration of the governor whose name .'has been to them a symbol of economy." After all this we can arrive at the true inwardness of the Courier's trouble. It does not approve of the governor's selection of state house commissioners, and says it 'is a 'disappointment to the portion of the state 'which elected him." It will be rememberel that Governor Williams is himself one of the board of state house commissioners, with vote and voice on all matters pertaining to the erection of the building. The Courier indorses his judgment, integrity and economy, and then declares that "Governor Wil. 'lianas is himself a southern Indianian." What more, then, can the Courier ask? Southern Indiana has a commissioner pres ident of the board, clothed with power to see that ail things are done according to law. Does the Cour. ier claim two commissioners for its section of the state? Taking it for granted. if the question of sections was considered by the governor in making his appointments of commissioners, that he regarded himself as the representative on the board of southern Indiana, we conclude that simple justice has been done all sections, center, north, east, south and Kreit, and that the opportunity is afforded to pull together harmoniously. We do not indorse the proposition with which the Courier clotes its article, that "Southern Indiana should take immediate 'steps to check the further progress of the 'state house project" On the contrary, since Southern Indiana is well represented on the board, in the person of Governor Williams; we -believe the interests of that section, in common with other sections, will be properly regarded, and that the high character of the commissioners for probity gives in 't satisfactory assurances that the work riU o 2srward Ü4iciorily.

HUMAN BEINOS VEKSl'S DOUS. Hundreds of children die every summer in New York city simply because they have neither proper food nor care, and cooped np by scores in tenement houses they languish and perish from the first hot days of July through the long, sultry hours of August and September, until the cold winds of October bring a respite. They perish like the offspring of brutes, no one rescuing them from the certain death before them, but day after day allowing the scorching fever to dry Hp their life blood, and pestilence and famine to complete the work.' The mothers poor, ignorant, helpless watch their babies die and stretch their hands to God for His pity, for the hearts of men and women seem sealed. They are forced to leave their children either in the rooms locked up to keep them out of danger, or else turn them loose in the streets to learn the vice and wickedness of the brood of wretches and criminals who exult in the degradation of even a child. There i no alternative for these poor, bard working women, and dreading the one as much as the other, they are forced to a conclusion, and whether the little ones are left in the musty, illy ventilated, close rooms or abandoned to the mercy of the street gang, dangers menace them constantly. They sicken and suffer and die, and the death list swells with their names until in midsummer it touches high up in the hundreds. There are orphan asylums, there are homes for the friendless, there are places for the foundlings and waifs of the great city, but every one is crowded in debt and harrasred by pecuniary difficulties, and ere a child can be placed in one of these abodes enough red tape is consumed to carry a claim upon the government through to the secretary of the department Women do not want to give their children away at all maybe; they simply want a chance to give them a little fresh air, some good food and a bath every day, but these are as far beyond their reach as a trip to Europe. Excursions to the country, ticket for milk and bread, ä prescription from a physician and an order on a druggist are coveted as among the unattainable things of life. And so this summer will come as all summers come to the children of the poor in New York city, bringing disease and death, and the columns of every paper will be filled with regrets and resolutions and sanitary measures when it is too late to do anything

but bury the dead. The rich have done much, but so much remains yet to he done that past charity will avail nothing. But there does exist in New York a sentimentality that is repelling to the mind when the wholesale slaughter of the children each season is considered. Mr. Bergh proposes to take the money realized from, the dog show and build a home where tender puppies and venerable canines may be . housed and cared for. , There certainly can be in that great city no .tottering men and women just on the verge ot tne grave, whose last days are miserable and unhappy because they have not where to lay their heads. There probably "are never seen on the streets old people, hungry, trembling and sick, asking with quivering lips and a flush of shame for food, for shelter. Old men do not beg for work at the doors of the citizens and plead for humanity's sake for a crust of bread to keep the life from departing. Old women bereft of . home and children never greet the eye as they perform menial tasks to support themselves and perchance orphaned grandchildren. The idea, the movement now is to pick up the old dogs, to carry them tenderly away from the bustle and dangers of the world, and in some quiet, homelike place, let them breathe their lives gently with kind bands to sooth their last moments to give food to the cur whose bite is poison, and shelter the brute whose life is a danger to the community. It is to see that the puppies are kept in comfortable beds, are shut away from dangerous places, are fondled and caressed, while the moans and dying cries of scores of children are filling the fetid air with their echoes. By all means have the dogs taken care of, have them enjoy life. They are noble brutes, but the children, the old people are only human, are only paupers, and can be spared. The aristocratic matron who fondles on her lap the Spitz or a poodle would push from her side, as if she were contamination itself, the poor baby girl taken from the slums of the city. She would cleanse and bathe her hands a? if polluted if those tiny fingers should clasp themselves about hers, so whits and jeweled, but she will let the vicious, snapping, dangerous pet in her arms lick her face and lips. Sha will shed tears when it dies in spasms or with hydrophobia. She will lay it in a perfumed, satin lined box and bury it in her yard, or as a man did last week, in his cemetery lot, but she has no tears for the white fce and purpling Hps of the baby whose coffin i a box of pine, its shroud the calico slip. Hundreds of dollars are given for a dog, and men aud boys all going to destruction becau.se they must steal or starve, and self-preservation is the first law of nature. A dog of a certain breed is worth thousands of dollars, but the pure soul and unblemished character of a iad of a poor family is worth nothing. And yet if Mr. Bergh succeeds, if men and women inspired with sickly, silly sentiment succeed, before long not one dog in all New York need beg a bone or sleen out of his cozy bed. TIIE MORAL OF WAMII ISU TON CITY. The radical prints generally are very anxious that the recent lecture of Fred Douglass on Washington City and its people should apply to the times before radicalism s epped into high places. They do not explain that up to 1SG0 Fred Douglass was as unfamiliar with Washington City and her inhabitants as he was with the New Jerusalem and its angelic hosts. Consequently, all that he knows, if be really knows anything about the matter, has Wn taught hira In the new radical schools which flourished in war times and under Oratitistn. 1 le h.n undoubtedly rocived Ui; peculiar lri.?plitioa

for his lecture which would come naturally from contact with a returning board, fraudulent president and the class flocking around hira. Then Fred has undoubtedly had the advantages and disadvantages of the society of men like Ben Butler, Jim'Blaine, Za'-h Chandler, Morton and old Simon Cameron. The "free and easy" white house receptions, or orgies, when Grant, Mosby and Phil Sheridan would consume a gallon of old Bourbon at one evening's sitting have undoubtedly ' had their effects on Washington society, and, perhaps? sadly demoralized portions of It Now, for one moment, let us briefly think over a portion of the rascality and rascally schemes which moved and had their being in "Washington City during the hey-dey of' radicalism. Think of Belknap, high up in place and power; whisky rings and frauds without beginning or ending; navy yard and post tradership rascalities without number; safe robbery, straw bids, Indian rings, soldiers grave stone swindles. Then the demoraliz ing effects of swindling Mr. Tilden out of his election is another fruitful source of demoralization. Think of all these things, and are they not enough to demoralize any city

under heaven? Therefore, we say. that Douglass's ideas and opinions of Washing ton life were received and formed after that city had been thoroughly permeated with and demoralized by radicalism. Perhaps, therefore, barring the "impudence" of the thing, Fred was not so much to blame. The fault lies deeper. It is with the radical school, in which he received his education, and with his school masters, among whom are Morton, Jim-Blaine, Ben Butler, old Zach and other prominent radical D. D.'s, which, being freely translated, might truthfully mean doctors of deviltry. PAUPERISM. The investigation of the New York state board of chmrities reveals the moral standing of the inmates of the county poor houses to be such that sentimentalists and theorists must be convinced of the inheritance of a son from father or mother of vicious, idle habits. The board prepared sixty questions so constructed as to elicit answers bearing upon the whole subject of pauperism, compelliug facts and statements, regarding not only the inmates of the almshouse, but their ancestors for two or three generations. We are apt t conclude, without previous investigation, that children and very old people make up the great mass of paupere, and that therefore pity and charity for their helpless condition should overweigh every other feeling, and that the city or state authorities are only taking care of those who through weakness or infirmities are too weak to take care of themselves. But this official statement of the committee ; giving . figures properly vouched for in every instance destroys that theory and reveals the age and character of a majority of the people jWho seem to regard the poor house as a permanent home, where they may be fed , and clothed by charity, nD matter how well fitted they may be for labor. Of the 12,614 paupers questioned 7,281 were between 16 and 20, and 4.227 between 20 and 40. There were but' 910 over 70, and only 2,012 under 10 years of age. Thus the idea of infancy or advanced old age being the cause of the great mass of pauperism must be abandontd. Only a very few. of the adults had ever owned any real estate or any considerable amount of personal property, but bad Jived from "hand to mouth" until they had drifted into what seemed to them a harbor of peace and plenty the county poor house. One thousand three hundred and sixty-one paupers were the children of pauper parents, and this state with many existed as far back as the third generation. The men and women in one county had frequently relatives who were paupers in adjacent counties, and the same family name could be found on the records of half a dozen ' asylums. In one place a young woman was found with ten children, seven of whom were illegitimate; in another a mother with five boys of the same standing; in another a 'comparatively sensible, young, good looking woman who has had four pauper husbands and eleven pauper children, and she and her two last husbands and eight of the' offspring are living off of the charity of the county. Women go out into the world from these places and return again and again, bringing with them each time a new born child whose life will be passed in the poor house, and whose father is either a poor, degraded wretch, too poverty stricken to care for his never acknowledged child, or too rich and proud to desire to aid either the mother or his illegitimate brood. This tainted blood will show itself for generations mothers, daughters and granddaughters walking the same dishonest, vicious path, and giving to their children the sann propensity for crime and filth. Intemperance, either alone or associated with kindred weaknesses and passions, is a prolific source whence paupers are furnished, and the poverty of a family can be directly attributed to the habitual use of liquor by the father. Physical disease does not reduce as many to the ranks of pauperism as would be imagined, but where it does it is generally ot the most loathsome, foul description. Accidents , and ' wounds cripple and maim a few of the men and women who are obliged to ask shelter in an almshouse, but after a while such persons find some occupation, and preferring labor and privation to idleness and, ease, go out from under the care of the authorities. But the habitually lacy, idle, vicious, improvident and weak-virtued, are the common Inmates of county poor houses, and the children of a great majority of these people will take their places as fast as they are vacated, unless habits of industry and thrift aie implanted in their minds and they are, forced to work. 1 Gesibal Grast "thanks the Lord there 'will be no hand shaking at his European re. 'c prions." He is tired of the republican custom now. He liked it when into his out stretched palm office seekers used to drop heavy bribes.

MOKTOX A5ID HATES. There is no disguising the fact that Hayes is in. trouble concerning the future of Morton not bis future state or latter end, for evidently the presidential fraud wishes the Indiana conspirator in II alifax, and does not care a continental whether infirmities grow worse or better. Hayes's trouble is of a different sort altogether. He is not advised as to the course Morton will pursue towards his administration. As a matter

of course Morton knows that Hayes is a fraud, for he is entirely familiar with me ixmisiana returning board vil lainies and the equally infamous course pursued by the Judas Bradley electo ral commission. These things, however, do not bother Hayes, for be knows that Morton, being a party to the transactions bv which Tilden and Hendricks were swindled out of their election, will not go back on himself, but what makes Hayes uneasy is Morton's reticence on the swag question that is to say, Packard's share of it. Blaine is em phatic in bis advocacy of Packard's right to be counted iiv as governor of Iouisiana. The Maine senator demands that the dividends of the damning crime shall be divided acccording to contract, and inasmuch as Hayes wants all, and is willing to set Packard, his twin villain, adrift without anything. Mulli gan Blaine gives notice that he will make things hot for the presidential fraud. Mor ton keeps silent and out of sight He draws regularly on Hayes for swag, and Hayes re sponds satisfactorily. Fostoffices arid pen sion agencies are fixed according to Morton's programme. For the present this suits Morton, but whether he will support Hayes's ad ministration is just what Hayes does not know, and it gives the fraud trouble and anxiety. Morton has got the fraud where the hair is mighty short, and makes him shell out swag as he (Morton) dictates, and that, too, without giving any pledges. The policy of Morton, evidently, is to get all the public swill possible for his swine, and then join Blaine in his attacks upon Hayes. Evidently, the time is close at hand when Morton will have to show his hand. Hayes will not continue to supply Morton's retainers with swag, and remain uncertain as to the course Morton will pursue toward his administration. The Indiana conspirator will, doubtless, want the presi dential fraud to take stock in his "bloody Shirt" policy send troops to the south, and raise the devil and Cain at the same time. This'may not suit Hayes's eabinet, and there may be trouble in the camp. There is a bare possibility that Hayes can keep. Morton quiet with swag; in fact the Indiana opinion is that Morton's statesmanship is summed up in that one word "swag," and if he can get it in full radical measure, pressed down and run. ning over, and ' all the time, Hayes can count upon his support There areagood many hungry swag fiends in Indiana who huzzaed for the bloody shirt, tramped along beneath Morton's shadow and applauded when he raved, who are not pleased with Morton's way of dividing the spoils; but as a general thing Morton knows who to reward, and as the case now stands the indications are that the Indiana putrifaction will get . whatever he may demand from the presidential fraud, and in return beat him over the head with his crutches or treat him with that lofty contempt that a peer bestows upon a vassal.' Mb. Beecher, in reading from a notice of a lecture upon the Chinese in California, said that "we, as a nation, are in danger of 'repeating toward the Chinese the mistakes 'and cruelties that we have been guilty of practicing toward the negro. We are very 'fond of exporting the gospel to the heathen 'nations, but we do not seem to like to im'port the nations where the gospel ought to 'exist in its vigor. I am not sure that it ' would not be a good plan to export some of 'our own heathen, and bring back in their 'place some of the heathen of other lands." All right, Beecher; you go, and we will keep WooChingFoo. A cocfle of Madison gentlemen have built a yacht and launched her on the Ohio river. She is named the Courier, after Garber's paper ot that ilk. Should her commander ever get crooked, anchor her to a post office- and he will return to his allegiance. Post offices are specifics for the troubles of Courier commanders. THE STATE. Green county has a bonded debt of $18,000. Columbus City has purchased a steam fire engine. Albion has 322 school children, and Gar rett 337. Mumps are worrying the inhabitants of Boonville. Lebanon is to have a new jail which will cost 116,700. A new $30,000 or?an is being built for the cathedral at Fort Wayne. Richmond Palladium: Hog cholera has appeared in some parts of the county. The Hagerstown band contemplates running an excursion to Cincinnati soon. . Lafayette will send a large delegation to the state Sunday-school convention at Terre Haute. 'Thumps" is a new disease which has made its appearance among the hogs in Pike county. It is estimated that 15,000 bushels of corn have been boated out of White river during the past 10 days. . . Winamac Democrat: The splendid prospect of the wheat crop is cheering to the farmers in this county. Fort Wayne Gazette: Six miles of new rails and about 75,000 ties have been laid on tne Q. P- and I. this spring. ' . The assessment of the täxab'e property for Knox county for the year 1876 was $10.747.625, and for the city of Vencennes $3,4G7,2J0. Terre Haute Garetae: The A. 0. U. W has during its five years existence in this ity, paid $16,000 to widows of deceased members. Corn, beans aai other rentables ,ia War

rick county, that have been planted, hare rotted in the ground from the cause of sc much wet and cold weather. New Albany Ledger-Standard: It is said that George H. Chapman has been appointed receiver of the L., M. and B. railroad. He was at one time receiver of the L., N. A. and C. railroad. Danville Indianian: Corn bread has become fashionable in Danville since the price of flour raised so high. Many of our citizens say they can follow even this fashion, but they don't hanker after it. Richmond Palladium: A large rick of wood belonging to the P., C. and St. L. road, at Dunreitb, was burned on Thursday. It is supposed to have been set on fire by tramps. There was nearly $2,000 worth of wood in the rick. SOUTH CAltOLlSA. The Way Red field Talks When IInt. In a letter to the Cincinnati Commercial, after discussing some other matters, Redneld says: "Meantime the candid reader must not lose sight of the fact that the white people have suffered grievously and almost irreparably under the corrupt and rascally rule of the republican party here. In a few years their property was depreciated from $185,000,000 to $135.000,000, and taxation correspondingly increased. The whole state government was corrupt, lowtoned, and., imbecile, and the black legislature little less than a den of thieves. Indeed, language fails me to picture the wretchedness of the government under which these proud spirited people were compelled to live, and in their efforts to get out and keep out now that they are out, one can discover a strong case of 'mitigating circumstances.' It has been discovered by sad experieace that one race or the other has to be on top here, and the whites have 'determined to occupy that place themselves hereafter, and their preparations are to that end. The material interests of the state are improved and quickened and revived by white supremacy. There is bsolutely no question of this. The present legislature, called together in extra session by Governor Hampton, is the first decent one that has assembled since the reconstruc tion era. It is as great an improvement over the black concern that has heretofore made laws as day is to night They set about the work of retrenchment and reform in earnest a thing that the republicans never did. Their rule was that of extravagance, theft and ruin; the republican legislature was corrupt, low-toned, and without shame. The exposure of bribery made no impression upon the average African lawmaker or upon those who elected him. The quality of reform is not in this class of population. The present legislature his taken hold of the needful work of retrenchment in a manner which shows them to be in earnest They have cut down their own pay to $300 per annum, and reduced mileage onehalf. Their every act shows them to be in sympathy with the financially distressed tax payers, and to do all in their power to lighten the burdens." The Tlmenkow-f'rolow Asylum. There has lately been raised on the bank of the Neva, at 8t. Petersburg, a splendid structure, to which peculiar interest attaches. There is in Russia a singular sect known as the Skoptsi, who shut themselves off from all family ties, detest children, whom they look upon as the outward ana visible sign of deadly sin, and concentrate, for the most part all their thoughts on money getting. Forty years ago one of their number, Andrew Timenkow, was clerk to a celebrated merchant named Solodovnikow, who bequeathed to him and a brother clerk, Frolow, 250,000 roubles. The two clerks carried on business together, and became immensely rich. Frolow died, and Timenkow remained sole owner. In 1S51 Timenkow became acquainted, in the course of business, with a certain Ivan Touliakow, a merchant, and conceived a great liking for him. Touliakow soon gained a great influence over him. Had he been a selfish, grasping

man he might no doubt have done what Others have done in like circumstances, and devoted all his effort to get the riches of the childless, kinless millionaire. But, on the contrary, he besought him to apply his millions for the benefit of his kind, by founding a home for decayed men of business, a school for orphans and a church where Timenkow's remains should be placed, and where his name would be heard daily in the service; in fact an institution extremely similar to the celebrated foundation of Thomas Sutton, whose motto was the same as Timenkow s Deo Dante Dedi so familiar ' to Americans by the ten and pencil of Thack eray. Old iimenkow readily assented to V. 1 1 tue otucLuc du iar as uiervuauis went concerned, but hesitated at the children, of whom he had a holy horror, but the adroit Touliakow suggested that even merchants must unfortunately, be children at a certain period of their lives, and that the commercial future of the country wonld be greatly benefited by a great commercial school. This view conquered the old man. The sum devoted to the institution is 5,0u0,000 roubles, about $3,750,000. There is to be accommodation for 1,000 old men, school accommodation for 400 pupils, a hospital, and Russian baths. It is called the Timen-kow-Folow asylum. , The enterprise of a recent emplove of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad can not be too much praised. While taking a trunk out of a baggage car from Boston in the Springfield depot some time ago. he was thrown down and hurt. He suffered terribly, and crawled around on crutches until the Boston and Albany and the New Haven roads united and crave him $6,000, when he was instantaneously and completely cured. Shortly afterward a man on the Boston and Albany road was killed, and the company gave the widow $3,000. The former cripple, who had secured $tt,000 already, soon married her and thus counted $9,000. He recovered his health so completely that he was able to work again on the railroad, but finally, not being hurt again within a reasonable time, he retired to a farm, which he had bought with a part of the proceeds of his former calamities, and where he is living in peace and quietness. and under the consolations of the reflection that virtue is its own reward. SUPERSTITION. '; ' A panacea, or "cure-all," ' Is ' one of the myths of the age of superstition. Dr. R. V. Fierce does not recommend any one or even his whole list of standard remedies as adequate to cure every disease. For severe lingering coughs, bronchial, throat- and chronic lun diseases, he believes his 'iolden Medical Uiscovery is unsurpassed, Dut it will not cure you if your lungs are half wasted by consumption. The Discovery not Only exercises a potent influence over pulmonary aftections, by reason of its pectoral proper ties, but possesses also the most valuable alterative, or. blood-cleansing properties, and is therefore a sovereign remedy, in blood and skin affections. But while it will cure scrofulous and other ulcers or sores, blotches, pimples and eruptions, it will not cure cancer, nor does its manufacturer clainuany such merit for it as is done by proprietors of other, blood-cleansing medicines, who dishonestly try to deceive the afflicted into tkj belief that their preparations will accomfdisn impossibilities, lij reason ol its real ntrinsic merit it has a sale surpassing that of any other blood and cough medicine.