Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1877 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY. MOKNTNTG, MAY 23. 1877.

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Subscribers whose time hat expired will please remit at once, or we bhall be compelled to drop their names from oar subscription list. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. TERMS: One Subscriber one year 1 1 ?4) nba 4 subscribers, one year, to one P. O. 5 UO 10 " u 12 (10 m 20 " m . u u 20 00 "Where ten or more names are sent In, an extra copy is given to the getter-up of the club Agents sending over four names and fl 25 fo each name will be allowed a commission of wenty per cent, on the gross amount of their nloription WEDNESDAY. MAY 23. The St. Louis Times went for $50,000, and Hon. Stilson Hutchins did not go with it which the Republican and Globe-Democrat will doubtless approve. TniRE are several thousand radical bogardns kickers in Ohio who will do their level best to elevate the presidential fraud at the next election in that state. There was a dispatch came west last week that the Russian fleet, which has been lying in the port of New York for several weeks, had been ordered off by our- government. It is" now denied that any such an order was given. The secretary of state and attorney-at-law, who practices for the presidential fraud when his clients do not require bis services in some of the New York courts, has privately informed the commander of the Russian fleet that he must get away from New York. Mr. Whipps, who killed John W. Stockton in Louisville last January, has been acquit ted. The Commercial, in alluding to the verdict, expresses the opinion that it will still further depreciate the value of human life in Kentucky, and that, too, at a time Then everybody desires to see an advance. A special to the Chicago Times says lhat the administration has made up its mind to givj Governor Chamberlain, of South Caro lina, a place if he will take it. He has been offered the position of solicitor of the treas ury, and his radical friends are very much excited for fear he will accept it. . Governor Chamberlain is here. JuJge Carter, of the district supreme court, is urging Chamber. lain to take the place. Old Zach Chandler is moving back to De troit, an oraer to commence the campaign for the next senatorship of Michigan. Hayes seems to have gone back on the old bucca neer. We do not bear of his receiving even an invitation to "lunch" with the presiden tial pretender, and even Jim Blaine is occa sionally heard from in that connection. Per haps old Zach don't wear the red ribbon. In fact we are very sure he don't. Red ribbon lunches are cheaper than expensive wine dinners to Russian dukes. Read ye. Here is what the Philadelphia Times says about Grant: "Even beyond the 'hnnnrfaries of civilization, where the hat- . . iii I kantn frofo at tK cnr oa tf npnirat nM-li I uoi iau Aii iiiv uui-l.j vt i jfk itM unvi i 'torreak upon him in the songs of the sea and 'come from the pale faces which startle bin 'in the jungle and the deert, the great cap- ' tain of the repnblic will find himself not 'unknown to the capricious worshippers, of 'chief taina.' . How's that for hih,?- Itxolls out as beautifully as a News editorial on having the streets . cleaned by private con tract. 'J "Fifty clerks are to ba.discharged from the New York custom bouse. The time selected for their discharge, is opportune. During Hayes's recent visit to New York it was iru- ' por tan t to have "repeated and long-contin-'ued applause" on frequent occasions, and - these 5o puir of em torn house lungs could ""holler" much louder before than after thy had received their "walking papers." In little things the present administration is great and overjowering, or, as the Yankees say, "smart." Soke of the radical organs are eulogizing Hayes's speeches in the same way that' they frequently alluded to Grant's little meaning less talks that were jolted out of him from the platforms of palace cars on bis junketing trips. According to these admirers there is a world of wisdom created everytime Hayes ' opens hi3 month. They never particularize. It ia always very general. They leave room for one's im iglnation and ingenuity to have full play, aa they say about certain poets and novelists. -- !..,:.-.-.. , ,,Tub. word isjliatlorton, will. support Hayes and his policy. , .Morton always supports the president -that i if h ia a radical. He likes to give eut the -poat-otCces and. the pension ageneie. vIIe has the disposal of gome other good things Iii the way of govern , mental patronage.' He had an abundanoa of opportunity to oppose Grant, but somehow or other Grant "cuffed" all the radical leadrs except Charles Rumner, and a few others who were driven to the support of Greeley. Morton never takes high moral ground. He is always on the aide of the loaves and fishes. IIu scents tLe llesli pots of Egypt from afar, And his unerring iunUncU never lead hlux

astray. Therefore, when he has been lost

sight of for awhile, we hear of him writing to "a friend," er a dispatch mysteriously turns np from somewhere to somebody that Morton is "all right." He is always just about where he is expected. The other I day, when some one thought he was taking a little rest at Centreville. he turns no with Hayes in New York. That was to be a sort of test reception. He knew Hayes would be looking out for his friends on that occasion. So Morton tarns up along with the New York custom house clerks, Wall street Jay Gould set, newsboys and bootblacks. Mor. ton would make a good Blueskin to our Jack Sheppard president THE RADICAL PRTY ASD BCSIPertalnlv. there i no one who imagines that h can nrcMner either politically or commcrelally oy a protraction of the foi ent and dis cord that nave prt-vauea mmunnoui. uicmiuiu during 1 be past deciule and a lia r. certainly, there is no one wno wooiu, u ne ci-uju, o prosper. lrtaloly. tne norm ana wesinre intimately Interested In the prosperity of the south. Journal. Some months since the people of Indiana were engaged in a hand to hand struggle for the simple purpose of inaugurating an era of reform in the administration of the affairs of the general government. The democratic par ty in Indiana took the high ground that the policy of the radical party towards the south was that of the highwayman, the foot pad, the garroter, the sneak thief, the pirate, the assassin, the incendiary, the burglar in a word, a policy of villainy generally, and it was compelled to beat down, with other obstacles to its success in the state, the In dianapolis Journal. The Joarnal was the accredited organ of Morton and his "Moody shirt" policy. It approved every.' act of radical scoundrelism in the south. It was the organ of radical conspirators. No radi cal infamy was too big for its gullet . It could swallow them without a grimace or an effort. When Morton took snuff the Journal sneezed. If Grant ordered troops into southern states to protect infamous rad ical governors and radical plunderers and carpet-bag thieves, Morton indicated bis wishes and the Journal, like a trained dog sitting up on its. hind legs,; barked its approval. When Morton, Bob Ingersoll, Ben Harrison, Kilpatrick and the rest of the pack, native and alien, sought to arouse the passions of the people agaiast the south, against peace and fraternity, which promised a revival of business and the inau guratt on of au era of prosperity, the Journal chimed iu with every other organ of the rad ical party, and emp'cyed its abilities to postpone the aupicioiis event. And when at last the dsmocracy of the country prevailed over fanaticism and ira.uu. ana tue snout went forth that Tilden and Hendricks had been elected by a majority .. of more than a quarter of a million of votes, and that the country was redeemed and disenthralled from the damning policy of rad icalism, radical conspirators, by returning boards and electoral commissi!'?, reversed the decision of the people and committed a crime without parallel and without a, name, The Journal then, as ever, true to its instincts and to Morton, applaaded Jhe crime. But the public- sentiment aroused by the democratic party in spite of radical villainj came to the rescue of the prostrate south, and the presidential fraud was compelled, ' in obedience to that senti ment. to do an act of justice to her people, and now the Journal ' and other or gans which are hungry for swag, and are ready to divide the spoils resulting from the Louisiana returning board crime, are ex ceediagly anxious to make it appear that they have been the opponents of discord and the advocates of southern prosperity. For nearly fourteen years the business interest of the country have been to a very large ex tent under the control of the radical party. When radical carpet-bag thieves were rob ( bing the southern states of their substance, was the Indianapolis Journal ever known to i,.t..,L.( tui. .,1 rtrntf'SE &PA nst their ftCLS Of rtlTSCV and COng - 4 Journal, which has like Morton, cultivated the most intense hatred toward the touth and sonthern interests, has on all occasions ap plauded the most infamous acts of its party. If Grant toppled over a state constitution. bayoneted a legislature, protected thieves and scoundrels in perfecting fraud- in the in terest of the radical party, the Journal ap proved and applauded, and this course of villainy was pursued until business of all descriptions was prostrate and paralyzed. confidence dethroned, and the country filled with bankruptcy and idleness. This hostili ty to the general prosperity of the country, difficult of explanation by any ordinary method, is readily understood when it is re membered that radical officials were every where stealing, not only from the south. but from the revenues of the country, and that about one hundred thousand of them were drawing pay from the public revenue. During all this reign of despotism, of corrup tion, of fraud, of villainy, culminating in stealing tue nreni vcy. tne journal nan been the ruouth-pitce of the men wbo ere engagf"! in the daMnin work. When the south groaned under its burdens forced.upon its by the radical party, the Journal had "uo word of protest against the policy of its pnrty. 'When the south plead for its right under the constitution, and wiu spurned by the radical pr .'ty, the Journal approved of the callous disregard with which Morton and LU .). conspirators treated its appeal?, and when tyrant Ordered troops to stand guard over re turning board thieves and ptTjord villains in the interest of Hayes and criui-, the Journal did what it could to secure the approval o' the people. With this damning' record the Journal would now have It a pear that it has been the special advocate of peace and prosperity in the south, aiuUaay ihat"Our 'commerce a.nd industries btnguish, manu factures are bIuhisU; the wheeli o machin ery run slowly, and the whirr of the loom 'is intermittent." All of which is directly traces h to the infamous policy and still more infamous acts of a party of which the Journal ia Iii recoguüJ wrgau.

Clt A XT AMD IIIS JLIELTE ANTS.

General Grant indulged in a little farewell talk as he steamed dowu the Delaware on his way to Europe, in which he spoke of Sherman or Sheridan a3 being in eTery way qualified to liave filled Iiis place even in his character of civil ruler. This may be true and not be very complimentary either to Generals Sherman and Sheridan. We 'do not wish to detract on: iota from General Grant's military record and glory, but we are free' to say that his administration of national af fairs was the most wretched and painlul failure in the history of the government It was an era of corruption and fraud; a time of fearful looseness and general want of restraint in every department. Then the crowd of hangers on and blood suckers; which gravitated naturally to the national capital, and had their home and existence there, was A disgrace to present day civilization. Grant has au idea, so be says, that Sheridan would have done well as a civil ruler, or at least made as good a one as he did. We had an exampleof Sheridan's style of administering affairs on one of bis New Orleans trips, as foreshadowed in his well known dispatch which he sent to Washing ton, and to which Belknap replied: "We are 'all with you." ' Sheridan, our readers will remember, telegraphed to Grant to declare all , the Louisiana people "banditti," and then be significantly added, "Xo further ac'twn need be taken except that which would devolve 'upon me." In the words of old Simon Cam eron or old Zach, we forget which, as they are both at home in the use of such language, ''What a h I of a time" he would have bad. All the men, .women and chil dren at his mercy as "banditti," or outlaws, he would have made a brilliant record as an administrator of civil affairs. 'He would have been a "bigger man than old Grant" for a fact. No wonder that the New York Times, the grand national organ of radicalism, was so completely taken aback at Sheridan's dispatch, that it exclaimed, "We have never 'published such a document before, and we 'must say that nothing like it has ever been 'seen in any country under a constitutional 'government. . It almo3t induces one to be'lieve that the world has gone back two or three hundred years." And again, the same paper in alluding to Sheridan's "ban ditti" scheme, says: "If this means anything, it means that 'General Sheridan Would forthwith proceed 'to hang or shoot as many persons as he 'chc3e to bring under his own description of barditti. Some of the people in Washing ton must be curiously incompetent to gauge public opinion, or they never would have 'allowed that mad dispatch to have seen the 'light." . ..... They, however, did allow it to "see the. 'light," and Belknap, then secretary of war, telegraphed, "We are all with you," and now, in view of all this, General Grant, on his departure for Europe, in --looking back over his career, thinks that "Sheridan could 'have taken my (his) place as soldier or in 'civil office." ' ' As the nation progresses into the future it will, in taking retrospective glances into the pi'st, thank, God (that the doings and precedents of the last'six teen years of radi calisra are gradually getting dimmer and dimmer as they fade farther - away into the welcome past. TORTURIXf CHILDREN. There is a school of philanthropists (?) in the country forever declaiming against the law of kindness in the treatment of human beings. They seem to be always anxious to whip somebody. - Their idea is to elevate humanity with the lash, and to do this effectually they advocate whipping children in the public schools, and starting the little fellows np the hill of science- and literature smarting under the infliction of blows too severe to be administered to a decent dog. Professional educators (?) chime in with I those who advocate corporal punishment in I r i , , , . , . t , , . goes forward. It is claimed for the system that it establishes discipline; no doubt of it. Terrorh-ru generally does that for its victims. - It is practiced with success in penitentiaries where the most hardened and desperate criminals are locked up for the protection of society. If It is so effectual in uhjecting convicted felons, why noi equally so when applied to little children? A little boy with a blistered hand or a bloody back is likely, to remain quiet, but just , ho v much his education is advanced by the in human torture has never been accurately defined. In Massachusetts, where civilization started oit with special reference ( to the well being of witches, Quakers and Baptists, considerable progress Las been made in the triining of children and the elevation of juvenile human nature. Mas sachusetts has what is known as a reform school, a state institution, under the control of the legislature. This reform school is a sort of a penitentiary, the design being to -take boys guilty of petty , offenses and place then under such moral restraints and influences a wilt result in their reformation and give them back to society qualified to perform the duties of Rood citizens. The managers i f the institution commence the reformatory pncess by "breaking the spirit' of the youthful colpri;:Aa;the, matter ia of general interest and food. Sunday nading, we ie some details from an exchange. It siys: - -: ' , T-rtnrNi are rorU1 to- instead of methods' ot education. On iuhuiniui contrivance 1 nn upilgin box, C'ilil thi "sweat b x," located In aiUrk mile, barely lrg enough to receive liw-'buly of th victim, open -orilv In front, wliorui mIU Ihr.- lochen -Title . allow thtj entrance of air. Wln-u .the b)y Is pU ed In thl the movublrt 1 Ute nre driven l.i wltli wtHlge until he In m iut-ze! nexriv t wuiroiiil"ii. Tu testimony fieited by th c mmi-olon proved t'o.t the machine runld b so compres-ieil as to hr a i a b y 'a bones. Home hue- vlcf imi have h-ik lort ii rrxi lit tlit tnao'il ie fen -or twelve hours, aixl tli'-n taken out Ii ipeln with perni rati n ai d iinnbl to Maud Others a place i In a utraiaht Jicket. bound and gigged, unable to move, Hejilt or '.ike- Hiiy Mnu whatever, extv-pt when the gag I removed, and th victim N led on tmwd an" wnter. A a mild corrective, eo d water H played on tU9 Uojra taxougb- a ateaiu pump. Xuia

Is generally ORed in the winter. Flogging is the most common punishment in this model Institution, and though one of theoverf ers Untitled that be frequently . mauled the boys wita his rists, yet the wagon trace and

harness utrap wer, often employed. About tbirtv persons In tlie Institution have a ribt to inflict corporal r-uni'shraent at will, and one of these administered slxtv-nine floggings Including I.Kjü biows. lu eiaht months. The boys are Htrjpped before this work of "reform" i begins and the bruises received remain on their; bodies or months. 'ibree different "teachers" flogged one bov, one after another taking a hand, until the victim fainted. To Ulk of civilization, of Christianity, of morals, or of anything else but savagery while such infernal tortures are tolerated only brings the depravity of the country into bolder prominence. ,, '. The tortures to which children in the pubic schools of the country are subjected, while not so cruel as those inflicted upon the juvenile culprits in the Massachusetts re form institution, are an outrage opon civilization and a terrible commentary upon the inefficiency of professional educators. In the city of New York, where the rod as a means of mental advancement was abandoned Borne time since, an effort is being made to resume it, , The Herald, commentin? upon the subject, hits the nail on the head, ' when it savs , that "if nine-tenths of the public school teach,'ers really favor corporal b'unishmeht it is an 'evidence that they ought to be put to some .'other bueineaa. ,If a person can not control 'a' school boy by other' means than brute 'force he ia unfit to be intrusted' with, the 'duty of education. ; Nothing cotild be bet'ter calculated or more certain to destroy the popularity' and efficiency 'of our Bchool sys'tem than to license such teachers as may be 'brutes by nature to indulge in their brutal'ity at the expense of the scholars. Besides, 'the present condition of the schools, as com'pared with their condition when corporal punishment was permitted, is conclusive 'against a return to the barbarous system." We are confident that the time is not dis tant when the rod and other instruments of torture will be banished from? the public schools, and the employment of competent teachers will demonstrate the ' fact that the barbarous practice of whipping children for educational purposes was too long continued. Chamberlain has been feeling very sore and sad over his South Carolina treatment, and by way of plastering up his wounds and bruises he was offered recently the position of solicitor of the treasury at the express desire of Hayes. Chamberlain very sensibly' declined. Ite did not probably want any thing more to do with the present administration, who had proved treacherous to him. He will practice law in New York city. Thk evidence concerning the New York custom house demonstrates beyond all ques tion that it is a nest of unclean and foul birds, and bids fair to become a tiissing and a by-word to the country. SOTES AM OI'IMOXN. Fluxes Bismarck Is soon to be In London. The postmaster at New Orleans is brother-in-law of Ben Butler. : - .', Toke's last picture, the "Serpent in the Wil derness," is six hundred feet long. - Tiierk were flve sunstrokes In New York last Friday. One of them was fatal. t Hayes has been Invited to attend the exercises of Decoiatlon day at Chattanooga. Tue nephew and namesake of David Livingstone, the celebrated explorer, lives In San Francisco. It Is said that the amount of money invest ed In submarine telegraphy Is a little over 110,000,000. William Llotd Garrison Is to leave for England this week, and will remain there four months. In some of the southern states,but especially in Alabama, the farmers are plowing np their cotton and sowing corn. . , General Qram told, a Philadelphia lady that he would return to the United States as soon aa he grew tired of Europe. , A few days ago a lady in Eastrllle found a diamond rlhg In a bag of coffee. There were five stones of large size In the cluster set. Oatl Hamilton Is getting ready for 1SS0, and If women havd their rights it will not be Jim Blaine for president, but Blaine's cousin-in-law, Oall herself. " ' , ...- The Washington. monument will probably b taken down, as the engineers say that Its foundations are not strong enough to allow the shaft to be raised any higher. : The change In the French cabinet has much displeased the German government, as It Is feared that the French Catholic party will control the resources and movements of the nation. ''. " Thk fugitive slave Slmms who has been talked about so much is In Washington, an applicant for any oftlce the government has at iUUUpOiüd, from a-consulship to a janitor's position. A writer In the Helen tl flc American dis cusses tue scheme of converting the desert of Sahara into a cea. It could be accompli-Jied, according to his calculation, in about a hundred yeais. Now we shall have reports from the musical Samsons.- A Philadelphia pianist . recently played forty-six compositions, requiring six hours' consecutive work. A violinist in Bos ton expects to eclipse thli time soon. An English lady, a most accomplished and eatiiuable wife and moi her, and also an en thusia-vtlc "hoM-womau," has declared that side saddles are ridiculous and uncomfortable and that hereafter fhe will ride "masculine fashion." A pension of $375 per annum has been grant ed by Queen Victoria to each of the three Misses Defoe, the lineal descendants of the au thor of " Robinson Crusoe." Putillo ' chat ity had been asked for them a tihort time since by a London benevolent society ) . j ,u ' A Koro whltewasher and local preacher has asked permission to preach' to the policemen of New York. The chief 6aid he would abide by the decUlon oi the men ; but at last accounts they had not made up their minds, They have heard too much of "white washing.?' At auction sales of pictures by well known ar Ists prices are lower than a month ago, and the bidding Is light. Eight hundred and twenty-fle dollars was the largest sum given In New York at a sale of Morau's pictures, many of which had been held at twice that aiuouut at prlvaU aU.

THE- MOODY J1CUDEB.

Vrther .Particular .r (be Dark and Bloody Keed-The Detectives Tell What TüfT Uhw AImoI th Cue. . Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.! , . Bloomikgton, Ind., May 21. The next Witness examined after rn-r iwnnrt it . K Jones-Tolliver trial closed on Saturday was .., JESSE WAY. There has been something mysterious about mis witness, which, to oae not in the secrets of the prosecution and defense, is past find1 A. IT I 1 . . ing mi. xie nas Deen sunpoenaed both by the state and defense, and was one of the witnesses whose absence was assigned as a reason for an application for a continuance by the defendants on a former calling of this ca?e for trial as important to them in es tablishing an nlibi. It was vevy evident from the questions put to other wirneme in re gard to him by the attorneys that his whereabouts on the day and night of the murder were considered important by both sides, and persons swore to seeing him very late in the evening of fc'.iat dav m Oreans, and the defendants swore that he was in Mitchell early at night. His own story, he now being introduced by tne state, isasioiiows: "lam now lirine in Jasper county, Illinois. I went there trom Lawrence county, this state, in 1874. 1 was acquainted with the Joneses and the Tollvers at that time these defendants. I wa in Lawrence and Orange counties in the last of February and first of March, 1875-; was back on a business trip. I went to Simtisort Tolliver's from the depot the first mornint? I got there and took breakfast at his house. Don't know where I was all the time, but I was in Orleans on Tuesday, the 2d of March, on business; went- there in the afternoon trom Mitchell, and left there late in the evening and went back to Mitchell. I was on horseback. I went to Tolliver's again, ate supper and then went to the odd fellows lodge. I don't know how long I was there, but guess it was about 8 o'clock or near that time; I stayed until the lodge broke. I went from the lodge to Abe Jones's whisky saloon; stayed there a few minutes, and then went to- raulkners hotel. I remained thereabout three-quarters of an hour or an hour until near 9 o'clock: had no timepiece, or anything to call mv attention particularly to the time. I went from there back to Abe Jones s saloon, and there I saw all of these defendants in there except perhaps Tom Tolliver. I am not cer tain of seeing him there, but I saw Bent Jones, Lee Jones. Parks Tolliver and Eli Lowerv. I don t remember of seeing anv one playing cards in there. They were in there when I got there; I staid there about a half hour and then went home with Si mo Tolliver; he was in the saloon. We all went out together: all of the defendants. Eli Lowery, Simp Tolliver and myself, and started west; I think Eli Lowery turned off at a corner ana went north. Borne of them asked him to go home with them, but I don't krow. whether he went or not Bent and Lee wert on together in front and I stopped with Simp Tolliver; they lived. further west than he did, I think this was on the 2d of March, 1?75." , . . i . i . f - i. MAJOR HCFFSTETTER, the next witness, is the father of Jeff Huffstetter. who. had had some difficulty with tne Moodya about the opening of a road a few years ago, and who is suspected bvAorae of the friends of the prisoners of having had a hand in the murder. At-least it is said this will be one of the theories of the de fense. The witness testified to Jones having questioned him as to the value of the Polly. Tolliver land and another piece belonging to Joe and Tom Tolliver, remarking that he ex pected to own both in a short time, and to another conversation alter the murder in which Jones had requested him to . see that Jeff held his jaw; saying that Jeff was at the bridge, and he (Jones) was afraid some c the men who were there would hane JefT because he was talking too much, and lay it on bitn. lhat Jones also said that he had not killed Tom Moody, and if be had, he bad friends enough to get him out of it. as he had no enemies in Mitchell; but that his son Jeff would be indicted for the murder; that Tucker had told him that he (Jones) was in no danger. ' on cross-examination, the witness was asked if he had not paid money . and retaiaed counsel to protect his son from the charge of this murder, and if he had not furnished money for and taken part in the prosecution of these defendants, to which he answered. 'no,", in the, most positive, man ner. COLUMBUS M00RE. Coldmbus Moore, the next witness. testified to having seen Bent Jones and Parks Tolliver, who had a pistol in his band during a term of court, in the bar room of the Hughes houfce in Bedford, inquiring for Moody; that they were in the nar room alone, and that Tarks Tolliver seemed to be looking up the stairway, he having been informed thatTom Moody was up stairs, and, 'seeming to be come impatient, remarked that he was get ting d d tired of waiting. ' I . . , SAMUEL- B. who is said to have furnished the bulk of the brains In the detective line in this case, was the next witness, and testified to having examined the privy at the school house, into which Liowery, in his confesstou, had said one of the signal guns, loaded with buck shot, "had been fired for Murry's benefit on that night alter the murder, and, in com pany with Mr.Keef and Mr.MilIett,to finding that at some previous time a load of buck shot had been fired into it, some of which he had succeeded in extracting, and which was exhibited to the jury. . ". i ELIZABETH BROWN then testified to having heard Bent Jones say,' while working on her house in Mitch ell, that some persons had been around his null one night and bad pounded Lli Lowery, who was watching for him, and that he believed it was some of the Moody gang; that be (Jones) and the Moody s could not lire in toe same country; ' h. b. Ward, ', the man who went to Mitchell to ferret out the murderer of Thomas Moody for the re wardof $1,000. -said the way ha did. it was by going to Orleans and Mitchell in Febru ary, 1876. to canvass fox the State Atlas, but in reality to find the murderers of Thomas Moody. That after being there a few weeks and getting acquainted with the people, he learned enough to satisfy him that Bent Jones was the instigator of the murder; that he first gained an opportunity of petting ac quainted with Jones hy having possession of "-a package - letters - which"" be longed , to Jones, and which bad been found by one Ben Moorehonse, living at Orleans. That be wrote Jones a note in forming him of the letters, and shortly arter met Jones at the railroad crossing in Mitchell, delivered the letter, and asked to have a talk; that Jones said be would not talk then, as he was just leaving on the train, but jthat he would meet .him at a certain bar q on the pexr Monday; that he did not go to tue burn ' Vv üft Jones,' but went to Mitchell, and met .him at the Albert bouse; that he theu told. Jonea bis business was to find out who 'murdered Moody; that he had been invcstigniing the matter, and found nothing ag-tmst him, but that he thought with Jones's help he could indict and convict Jeff Huffitetter; that Jones then eaid lLi JolT IluIIiUtlcr ws as guilt

as hell, and he COIlId fin.T a man rhn Ui.

where the gun was that did the killing, and would find out and roll Mi? l.o Jones in a private room in the hotel a few days afterward, when Jones told him that it was a settled fact thnt Ttr TTnr..t.tto. w . . . - " . . .-j . i m im n all about the killing r.f Vnn.l- thii V. (Huffstetter) had told Abe Jones where tbe gun was, and that Lowrv hA told him he knew , kK. i as. would find out and 1 him inM. i Ihey would indict Jeff and make some roney oat of it, That be received a dispatch fror Jones on Mit is tliin him cowe to Mrtchell, and he went the next day an met Joses, who took bim to the ncrthe?i room up stairs in the Albert hoive, here Jones said ta ln'm- "v,-,i t w . ' . 1 V, M. AJW b now wheth-er von in m fnan.i a-.,-. ou aay be trvin? to trat m-" tha i-J ard) said he could not An it it w.o. - not Kuiltv. Then Jone wiiit V. .. a"tl w rw run fo? sheriff of Lawrence eoaaty, and was sure of getting elected, and if be could helpv " 'u J fe" or irrree tnoosand dollars WOUldl be all riehtL Hp rniut- k. eaidyesrifhe made one thousand . dollars out vi u ne wouia give Jones JJO to elecuuncerwim. inat Jones then took a card and marked off a mad nnrl w-.. said the gn was in- ene of these two ponds. 1 a.1 La it I ue tuougnt me largest one; that be knew uere n was an tne time, but did not know hetber to trust Wardr that thv the gun which was in a pond close to Huffstetter's, and have Jeff indicted, and that oiu Major uunstetier, who was rieb would pay out a goou deal or money before he would see Jeff sent to the penitentiary; that after some further preliminaries he left Jones and succeeded in finding a double-barreled shotgun in the bottom of the larger pond. lmoeoaea in tne mud, and identibed a gun which was produced in court as the one; that Jones was then arrested.and Eli Lowery was arrested and brought' hiV nlo shortly after made a confession. The witness was cross questioned as to his achievements as a detective outside of this case, and pro-, duced an indorsement from Chief Dewey anaex-cniei Wilson. 01 Indianannlia A m as to his previous residences and domestic relations, which, according to bis statement, have not been very happy. c. r. h'iittiee, of the Mitchell Commercial, was then introduced, but having been in the court room taking notes for his paper during the trial, which was a violation of an order of the court excluding wiinesses.he was not allowed to testify. O. W. XASLY was then put upon the stand and produced a piece of paper, partially burned and blackened with powder, which he said he had picked up in range of where the gun was fired that killed Moody on the night of the murder, and on which could be de ciphered enough to make out that it was a price list of sash, doors, etc. XD MILLS ' was then examined, and testified to a conversation with Jones in which Johcs said he wanted to see Ward, and said he could ive him all the information he wanted ia re gard to Jeff Huffstetter. WM. F. CLARK was examined, "and testified that he was bailiff at Paoli under Sheriff Shively. deceased, and remembered a bail bond offered b Jones for Eli Lowery, when he was in dicted, but which was not accepted. Court then adjourned until to-day o'clock. Kl'SSIAX 3IERCII.1XTS. at 1 What Tbey I Arter Mab. I us aFortnne. When a Russian merchant becomes rich, he builds for himself a fine house, or buys and thoroughly repairs the house of some ruined noble and spends money freely on in'aid floors, gigantic mirrors, malachite tables, grand pianos by the best makers, and other articles of furniture made of the most costly materials. Occasionally especially on the occasion of a marriage or a death in the family he will give magnificent banquets, and expend enormous sums on gigantic Sterlet, choice sturgeons, foreign fruits, champagne and all manner of costly delicacies. But all this lavish, ostentatious expenditure does not affect the ordinary current of his daily life. As you enter those guadily furnished rooms you can perceive at a glance that they are not for ordinary use. . You notice a rigid symmetry and an indescribable bareness which inevitably suggest that the original arrangements of the upholsterer have never been modified or supplemented. The truth is that by far the greater part of the bouse is used only on state occasions. The host and his family live dowD stairs in small, dirty rooms, furnished in a very different and for them more comfortable style. At ordinary times the fine rooms are closed, and tbe tine furniture carefully covered. If you make a rii de politee af tar an ent r-ainmentat which you have been present, , you . will probably have some difficulty in gaining admis sion by the front door. When you have knocked or rung several times some one will, probably, come round from the back regions, and ask you what you want Then follows another long paue, and at last footsteps are heard approaching from within. The bolts are drawn, the door is opened, and you are led up to a spacious drawing-room. At the wall opposite the windows there is sure to be a sofa, and be f 6 re it an oval table. At each end of the table, and at right angles to the sofa, there will be a row of three armchairs. Tbe other chairs will be symmetrically arranged around the room. In a few minutes the host will appear, in his long, double-breasted black coat and well polished long toots. His hair is parted iu the middle, and his beard shpws no trace of sci.-ors or razor. After the customary greetings have been exchanged, glasses of tea, with, slices of lemon and preserves, or perhaps a bottle of champagne, are brought in by way of refreshment The female members of the family you must not expect to see, unless you are an intimate friend, for the merchants still retain something of that female seclusion which was in vogue among the upper classes before the time of Peter the Great. The host himself will probably be an intelligent but totally uneducated and decidedly taciturn man. About the weather and the crops he may talk fluently enough, but he will not show much inclination to ?o beyond these topics. From ltussia, by D. Mackensie Wallace. Speaking of age, we, see that the great actors lived to more than average, age,-: one reason being that to be a prat actor requires unusual strength and ability. John Philip Kemble reached Od years, while his brother Charles was 79 years old; Mrs. Sid lonsdied at 86; Junius Brutus Booth;- notwithstanding his drunkenness, passed his 55th year: Charles Kean lived 10 years lonpr,' and Macready lasted till 80 years old; Charlotte Cushman died at CO years of ige, and Edwin Forrest at 65; Torn Hamblin reached tiearly the same age. Going a little further bck we find that Ga'rick lived to 63 and Betterton to 75 years of age.' Binon Booth, of Pope's day, was the shortest lived -of any actor of note, next to Kean. He was S2 at the time of his death. As a general thing plav actors have seldom come under the criminal list No actor of note has ever reached the death penalty, except Wilkes Ujoth, srho stands la solitary iniamy.