Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STAJÜCE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13. 1877.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13. . Whew Garfield thinks of the senaiorship, then of th'e speakership, ' he ceases to have fellowship with the saints and curses Hayes and Matthews till things look blue in his section of Ohio. He is reported as Tery mad. ' Adelaide Neilsos received $17,000 for a four weeks' engagement at the California theater. It was the largest sum ever received by an actor or actress in that state, surpassing the amount given Booth or the Florences. The New York Times says the democrats of Ohio expect to carry the state upon the question of a repeal of the resumption act and the remonetization of silver. Its head is level The democrats of Ohio will realize their expectations. The Louisville Commercial is still very much distressed about the Kemper county (Miss.) tragedy. One would naturally sup- . pose that a sheet of its caliber could expend its stock of gas and clap-trap on Kentucky tragedies. The crop has been large for several years. Tkk acreage under wheat in England this year is greater than in 1876. Bo far the war has had no special effect upon the English grain market, and the falling off in American shipments has been made up by an extensive outward movement from Germany, North Russia and India. The ML Carmel tornado made more than one hundred families houseless and homeless. If we gtve the average of five persons to each family, tnen five hundred peo pie out of a population of three thousand are destitute and objects of charity. The ' mayor of the town sets forth the facts and asks for aid. HORTON VS. THE STRAWBERRY AND OYSTER. The frierids of O. P. Morton have experienced much perplexity in assigning the author of the "bloody shirt" his appropriate place in the caravan of fame. InHhe tragedy f liberty he played fiend to perfection. The spotted snake in the swamps of Louisiana (where Murat Halstead found Eliza Pinkston, the buzz-saw wench, who was made to damn her soul with perjury that Hayes might be president) is not more surcharged with yenom than Morton is with hate a fact that has always aided the senator to achieve success in the particular role assigned him when a southern state was to be assassinafed or radical villainy condoned. But these are not just the traits of character desired when a man is to pass into history, or when busted he is to occupy a niche in the temple of a nation's affections. As the great war governor, the :cow feed" facts made a "damned spot" that can not be obscured. It will stick out in spite of whitewash or paint, and has, therefore, puzzled those who were anxious to present their idol for the applause of mankind. As a statesman, on every page of the record Morton is written down as a failure. His most ardent friends, those whom he has fed as a farmer feeds his swine, examined the chronicles with a scrutiny hat admitted of no oversight, but no word of a statesman could be found. Of hates there was an abundant crop; they grew rank on every page. They stood out, loathsome and hideous, like warts upon a toad. Pestilential and death dealing in their influence, they gave Morton a damning prominence and an admitted leadership. If a state was to be stabbed Morton stood ready to applaud the assassin. If liberty was to be cloven down Morton stood ready to pass along the sword, bayonet or bludgeon, and if he could not do that, he could whet his tusks like a wild boar and assure conspirators of his sympathy. All these things appeared, but no act, or word, or sign of a statesman was anywhere upon the record." All at once a bappy thought struck the admirers of Morton. The bright and beautiful season of benevolence had arrived. There were orphans to be fed and clothed, ministers whose salaries are in arrears to be helped, Sunday-schools that needed books, and pictures to be supplied, churches to be repaired and heathens to be supplied with Bibles and tracts. Here was a field for the display of the latent powers of the Indiana renator. Oysters it was declared were about played out, besides there is no "r" in June, and strawberries are not expected unaided to usher in the millennial. It was believed, therefore, if Morton could be induced to enter the race with the strawberry and the oyster in aiding great moral, religious and be. nevolent enterprises, he could do much toward whitewashing himself, besides adding to the almost exhausted exchequers of various institutions which have for their object the good of mankind. It is assumed that Morton was approached, and that the potentiality of oysters and strawberries was folly discussed. The new opening for fame was staked out and the chances of success estimated. It is likely, though nothing is positively known upon the subject outside of the committee charged with arranging mat" ters, that Morton was not enthused with the idea of this new departure. His religious pulse was feeble; he had doubts about his orthodoxy, and there might be questions about the "morality" of the money raised by his tournament with the sacred oyster and strawberry, and he would not like to fail in . fact a failure just now would be damaging. Hayes had 'to be disciplined. Blaine was coming rapidly to the front. Kellogg had -to be seated by the agency of fraud, and to give out that, at this critical juncture in national affairs. he hadMurned -lecturer and 'pitted himself '. against the strawberry and oyster , for, erat religious enterprises, he doubtless thought might deprive him of the -jqcfcs" essential to' BUCcesV'when his great strength was demanded aa Ou of. the' jw

to the edifice of fraud, in the building of which he had been chief architect, and in the event he should fail as a benevolent mountebank, the disaster would have farreaching influences. But his friends at last overcame the fears of the great conspirator, and having concluded to forever settle the question for Indianapolis whether the strawberry, the oyster or Morton had the strongest hold upon the affections of the people, the next question was a subject a theme. The suggestions were numerous. "The value of perjury in 'elections" was suggested and rejected. "How to make fraud pay" also went by the board. "The future state of radical thieves" was regarded too personal for Indianapolis, and was laid aside. At last Morton was allowed to have his way and discuss the "electoral college" business. Orphans were selected as the beneficiaries of Morton's first exploit It was thought the orphans would draw whether Morton could or not A large house was engaged; the hours wore on. The senator appeared and lectured to about sixty hearers, including dead head. The thing was a literary fizzle, was a financial disaster. Morton hobbled out, and it was the universal conviction that as a means of raising money for benevolent enterprises either a peck of strawberries or a dozen cans of Baltimore oysters were worth a regiment of 0. P. Mortons.

RESIJIITIOS AMt IT EFFECTS. Those who are in a position to form fair conclusions in regard.to the plans of the secretary of the treasury do not hesitate to express the conviction that the purpose of that functionary is to steadily carry forward his resumption programme. While the secretary is reticent in communicating his plans to the public, a fact calculated to mislead those who are anxious to believe in the honesty of his professions, his acts warrant the conclusion that he has made up his mind to carry forward his resumption policy in defiance of law, and with the full knowledge of the calamities to business that must inevitably ensue. The question of resumption and consequent contraction is one in which the people have such a deep and vital interest that it assumes more importance than any other now demanding consideration, and Secretary Sherman mistakes the temper of the people if he supposes they will submit' quietly while this ruin is being wrought out by himself, the gold gamblers of New York and the bondholders of Europe. .The country has had quite enough of Cscsarism in dealing with states and elections, and are not disposed to submit to a policy designed to sweep from them their substance without making such protests as will command attention. It is a part of the history of the resumption act that its friends professed that it was not designed to produce contraction of the cur rency, a 'act established by the declaration of Sherman himself who, while the debate was going forward on the bill, said: Now, we know very well the feeling with which that Idea (contraction of legal tenders) is regarded not only in the senate, but all through the country. It is believed to operate as a cÜNturbing elenierjt in all business relations of life; to add to the burthen of the debtor by making scarce that article In which he is bound to pay his debts; and there has been an honest, sincere opposition to this theory of contraction. Therefore, although It may be the simplest and the best way to reach specie payments, It Is entirely omitted from this bill. In this way suspicion was disarmed and the bill became a law, and now this man as treasurer assumes that the law gives the very authority which as senator he declared it did not possess, and disregarding its plain provisions, inaugurates a policy fraught with the direst business calamities. The New York Daily Bulletin, in pointing out the embarrassments and calamities likely to follow in the wake of Sherman's policy, says: Now, however, unfortunate it may be to have the secretary of the treasury pursuing a policy that la inconsistent wil) hin own professions, however demoralising to have resumption attempted throni wholly Illegal methods, yet It is worse than all to have a method that Invites the defeat of resumption; which the secretary's scheme of Indirect contraction does. His plan will make coin and legal tenders simultaneously scarce for market uses. How scarce will appear from a little consideration, in order to accumulate a coin reserve for the redemption of notes payable on and after January 1, 187 which he admits to be his purpose he will need to add fifty or sixty millions of coin to the fortynllilons at present owned by the government. That operation wonld almost entirely denude the mat ket of coin and produce great Inconvenience In procuring gold for customs, duties and for payments in the Import trade and for exportation. That pressure, severe as might be, ought to be endured as best it might for tue sake of the Important object to be attained. It would constitute, however, by far the leaner half of the dl filed ty. Added to this would come the contraction of legal lenders. How far Mr. Blierman hopes to carry that contraction, is one of his secrets, as, however, he attaches so mach Importance to it as to do the thing in defiance of law and of his own record, it is to be assumed he contemplates doiug it to some purpose. If he proposes to reduce the active circulation to the volume of $3JU,OUO,000 the limit fixed for the 80 per cent, contraction then a contraction of sixty millions of legal tenders would have to be enacted within the next nineteen months. Now while the withdrawal of the StfO.COO.OUU of coin would directly derange the gold market and seriously embarrass a certain class of mercantile operations, that wit h.t. -a wal with the farther withdrawal of J0,WW,U.J of legal tenders would conjointly operate as a contraction of f IJO.iAJO.uuu In the reserves of the banks. The very mention of such a fact is a confutation ot the posibillty of the operation; as any banker would acknowledge on the instant. Thesa withdrawals would come directly out of the banks of the three leading cities, but chiefly out of those of New York. The bank aw required by law to hold In lawful money (legal tenders or specie) an amount equal to 25 percent, oi' their deposits. At present the deposits of the clearinghouse bauksof New York, Philadelphia aud Uoston amount to $,,uu0 and ca'1 for a reserve of t&l,5uo,0u0: the reserve actually hld Is $HM,0U0,00O vix.! S79.4OÖ.0UO of legal tendent and tJl.öuO.UuO of specie leaving a surplus of tJ,öo0,0u0 beyond legal requirements. The biriks cou'd 111 arford to part with only the ?jo.Vju,(J0O of surplus, if a severe stringency wer to be avoided; but Mr. Khermtn'a programme would taae every doUar of reserve and calls for still 118,01)0,000 more. This, of course, means the quick suspension of every bank in our leading citiea and panio In II wildest form. It may be well to remark that the Daily Bulletin, which points out so lucidly the disasters which Sherman's policy is certain to force upon the country, is a resumption organ, an evidence that public sentiment has undergone a great change; and that the revolution is still gaining more rapid head-way.

THE TRUTH OF 1IISTOUY. When David II ume was writing the history of England he made inquiry of every book he could find and gathered information from every source that he might give to the world, and especially to England, a true history of his country. But writing from the standpoint of an Englishman, he gave in many instances honor to the British crown where but little was merited. lie could not well be impartial where patronage veiled his eyes, or where prejudice warped his judgment The truth of history was thus made to suffer in his representations in order that the dignity of the ruling dynasties of his country might be sustained. So also will it be in the history ,of pur own land. "V7henever.it is written the standpoint of the historian will be as visible as those of other countries; for here we have party spirit and radical biases which more or less influence our historical writers, as well as our politicians, and whenever the full effort is made to bring oat American history, the pen of partiality will be' found visible. In our history, as already written, some men are lauded to the skies as statesmen and patriots who only acted in their official relations with mere ordinary decency, while hundreds of better men, who were far more self sacrificing, and whose services to their country were of a much higher grade of patriotism, have only been faintly named. Like one of our own Indiana historians, who has published a history of his church the littleness of prejudices and the egotism of selfishness in the historian eat up and destroyed his liberality, and left him to feed only on the husks of partiality, and consequently the book itself is but an historical abortion. Where an author attempts to build a pedestal to stand on himself when it should have served for others, he evinces a weakness which demonstrates his total in-capacity.-Some men may write well on law, theology or medicine, because these sciences come within the range of their especial educations and professional callings, but to write history so as to vindicate the truth, and do justice to such as deserve to be named on the roll of honor, requires a higher grade of talents than most writers possess, as well as a thorough education in the higher circles of sentiment and liberality, where neither self nor sect, or party spirit or sectionalism have any place or acknowledgment. It is strange how openly ' and impudently partizan writers misrepresent the facts of his tory, merely to sustain party purposes. They often seem lost to truth and hardened in the infamy of defamation. Their party spirit is malignant, even when it is searching among the bones of the grave. No magnanimity distinguishes their pens .when sketching the characters of such as have not exactly come up to their own standard of excellency; they offer no apology for ordinary weaknesses, and damn with faint praise all who were, known to be political or even religious antagonists. "It must be admitted," said a stall-fed clergyman once, in an essay on usefulness, "that the good which John 'Wesley did was considerable!" Ab, yes, it was considerable more than a world of such pigmy authors as he would accomplish in an age. The fact can not well be disputed that the majority of our histories are written and published for the benefit of the book trade more than for the truth of history. Authors are paid to write for specific purposes; to build up a temple of fame for themselves, or to bring certain characters to such a temple; to gratify the ambition of a dilapidated posterity who linger in the shadows of certain antedeluvian officials who were made great by the force of circumstances instead of thrmigh any personal abilities, or by any' acts of humanity. Benefactors of their race always deserve to live in history, and those who have gone out among men to labor on a liberal scale to build up the civilizations of men should live on history's page, be classed among the good and embalmed among the great But to attempt to place men in the same distinguished category who never had anything but official greatness, and even that force dupon them by fraudulent circumstances, is a historical perVersion which amounts to a crime, because it contradicts the truth of history, and makes a mockery of all moral principles. The supposition in this country is that the burning ire of party spirit will not always burn, that the rolling years will carry away the fuel of conflict and that the fires will go out But will men forget fraud? Will history fail to notice perjury and theft, and will the page of the historian add falsehood to infamy for the sake of establishing official greatness? The facts of party dishonesty, by wbioh national crimes have been committed and the people have been robbed of their rights, should be held up faithfully before the eyes of the people as a punishment of evil doers and as a warning to the present and all coming generations, that the wrong may stand condemned and the right remain forever vindicated. Let us then always have the truth of history, if it is only for the power of its invincible and all-governiDg example. . THE NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE. The general public very well understands that the times are exceedingly hard, and have been growing steadily worse since the panic of 1373. Another fat almost universally accepted, and which forms one of the chief factors of the hard times, is that the financial and business interests of the conn, try have been controlled by the radical party, and it is a truth established beyond controversy that while there has been an absolute necessity for retrenchment and reform in private and corporate expenditures, growing out of the radical financial policy, blunders and frauds, the government itself has been both profligate, and criminal in , its use of . the , public revenues of the country. This fact has been brought to light in many ways since lua iuvatigatlond by the democratic

congress were commenced, and receive fresh corroboration by the exposure of radical scoundrelism in connection with the New York custom house. The committee who have had the matter in charge have made a detailed report showing the number of persons employed in the various departments of the institution and the salaries paid. The report gives a detailed exhibit of the condition of the various departments of the custom house, and of the reductions recommended. These tables show conclusively the extent of the robberies that have been practiced in one of the revenue strongholds, and point unerringly to the fact that under Grant dishonesty prevailed throughout every department of the government. That our readers may have the facts as presented by the committee, we give the figures as they appear in the report The numerical strength and annual expense of the New York custom house, as scheduled ly the ommittee, is as follows: Persons. Amt: Collector's office . 21 8.l,7ti0 Assistant collector's oince. 10 21,K0 Auditor's office lul 157,140 Cashier's office IS 3rt.K) Warehouse division 87 62,0ii0 Division of clearances, etc 22 32,:t00 Division of entry merchandise for congumpMon-...... 5fl lOrt.OOO Division of Invoices 22 27,) Division of orders. .. 5 ,"uu Division of public stores 75 102,0.51 Division of seizures, fines, etc... 4!) 71.1fl Division of bonded warehouses. SU tfrU.NNi Naval ofnce.......... 81 14,0 Surveyor's office - 32 58,810 Total .1.CKS6 1,552,064 Of this vast amount the managers of the radical party have regularly assessed a per cent as a corruption fund, for the purpose of perfecting frauds upon the ballot-box and in carrying forward such infamous crimes as were consummated by the Louisiana returning board, by virtue of which Hayes, instead of Tilden, is in the office of president It is by no means certain that the country is fully advised of the depth of the rottenness existing in the New York custom house, and that further exposure will come is generally believed; but the committee, however much disposed to shield radical villainies, have been compelled to let In upon them sufficient light to show that the annual stealings have amounted to more than $300,000. This is demonstrated by the recommendations of the committee, which, if carried out, will make an aggregate reduction in the present numerical force of the custom house of 237 persons, and effect an annual saving of $319,700, as will be seen from the following summary: Persons. Amt. Collector's office . ..... 1.1 SVüli Assistant collector's office 4 . 8.W) Auditor's office .. .... 20 24,wk) Cashier's office 2 3) Warehouse division - 8 8.4o Division of entrances, etc 3 3,200 Division of entry merchandise for consumption 9 9,-TOO Division of Invoices.. 8 M0 Division of public stores .............. 24 24,70 Division of seizures- . 11 12.000 Division of bonded warehouses.,.11 1 157 ,M0 Naval office 17 22.9W Surveyor's office S H.ttH) Total reductions.. .. ...237 $319,700 It is safe to say that for the past fifteen years this scoundrelism has been going forward, and that the people have been swindled out of $4,790,500. The public believes that the New York custom house illustrates the depth of radical rottenness in everything. It was to correct these villainies, to purify the government and introduce an era of honesty that the people in November last declared at the ballot-box by an overwhelming majority that the radical party should step down and out. The figures given above form a part of the sum total of the reasons for the verdict, and the infamous crime perpetrated by that Louisiana returning board gives a climax to the radical management of governmental affairs which, though te the last degree infamous and deplorable, is a fitting jewel in the crown of crime which the radical party must wear forever. The fish in Passaic river, New Jersey, are dying by thousands and tens of thousands. The cause of the mortality is ascribed to the condition of the water, which is poisoned by the arsenical dyes of the print works situated upon the banks of the river, and from other similar causes. As the case now stands the probabilities favor the depopulation of the Passaic, as front the description of the filth that enters it a turtle could hardly be expected to inhabit is waters and live.

The radical papers, as a class, are full of denunciations of the south because violators of the law are not caught and imprisoned or hung within a day or two after the commission of the crimes. Our reading leads to. the conclusion that thieves and murders are punished with about as much expedition in the south as elsewhere in the Umied States, and we are quite willing to go upon the record with this declaratiod. A grand time is expected on Saturday, Jude 6, at the Green Valley farm, premises of Jehu Hadley, the occasion being the fifth annual reunion of old settlers of Hendricks and adjoining counties. Governor Williams and other distinguished citizens have signified their intention of being present Half fare tickets have been arranged for, and a day of pleasure is anticipated. A YOCTurcL Nebraska scientist in search of facts says that an acre of ground where grasshoppers deposit their eggs will yield a crop, under favorable circumstances, of 375,583,075.487. The eggs found on a square inch of ground warrants the grand sum total given. This would sive for a section of 640 acres 440,373,552.321,650 hoppers. No wonder the Kansas people are afraid. Some of the radical organs pretend they do not believe that Morton (had less than sixty persons to hear his great lecture in this city on the electoral college, and for the benefit of the orphans. Those who doubt should ask the Journal. Its veracity may be sufficiently elastic to give Morton, a hundred hearers. . Beyond this, however, it will. Leak. ' : " '

XOTES AXD OPIMO.VS. A brother of Teabody, the great philanthropist died In Ohio last Monday. Daniel Webster's old law office at Plymouth, N. H.t is to be converted Into a free library. Mr. Hayes will be the guest during July of Mr. Evarts at the "Evarta farm," Windser, Vermont. , Will Carltoh has incensed the negroes by callhag them. In his decoration day address, "Jet Jewelry." Stanford Dold, of Iowa, Is the falher of thirty-two children, lie is seventy years of age and his baby girl six weeks. The 2Sth annual session of the American medlcej association commenced Tuesday at Farwe'J hall, Chicago. About 500 delegates are present N'obort wants to be consul at Funchal, Por. tugal. The pay is only f 1,500 a year, and there are neither perquisites nor social pleasures in the place. Ths duchess of Wellington Is Queen Victoria's lady in waiting, and alwaysattends her majesty on state occasions. She Is said to be very beautiful. M. J. Pendleton, of Cleveland, one of the actors in Miss Dickinson's "Crown of Thorns," has Just married a Cleveland heiress with 240,000 in her own name. Lord Houghtos entertained Mrs. Jnlla Ward Howe at dinner the other day. The company were all Intellectual, and the conversation, as well as the viands, were delightful. M 18 BocciCA rrtx, the eldest daugh ter of the famous Boucicault, is to marry John Clayton, an actor. The gentleman has Just made "a hit" in London In the "DanicheflV and "All For Her." A lady at the queen's last drawing-room reception wore a dress composed of red silk, black lace, yellow-green satin and dark green brocade. She must have been worse than a flash of lightning. Ben Butler says be is not going to Colorado to ra'se sheep nor to New York to practice law, but if he is not let alone he will interview somebody, and make them wish he had gone to the Hot Springs. A clergyman la Boston has fixed the ages of bride and groom at which he can conscientiously perform the marriage ceremony. The man mu-t be 22, the woman 20, or he will not say the binding words. Path's social position seems to be unaltered, though her husband, by his suit, has done all that was possible to injure her character. She has been "commanded" by the'queen to sing at Buckingham palace. A celebrated New York artist is painting Anna Dickinson as Anna Boleyn, and Emma Abbett as Marguerite. Both pictures are ordered by admirers of the ladies, and a large sum is tobe paid for them. Wagner had "stage fright" the night of his first appearance in Loudon, and was obliged to leave the conductor's desk to recover his composure. The hearty applause of the English was more than he could stand. A disease is prevailing among the cows around. St Louis which proves fatal In a short time. It is rumored that they have been poisoned by grazing In a district where "Paris green" has been freely used to destroy bugs. The Illinois state sangerfest Is in session at Qulncy. Large delegations of prominent musical societies are hourly arriving, and a grand festival will conclude the meeting. Hans Balatka, of St. Louis, is the leader of the concerts. Ex-Scpervisor Moore, of West Chicago, has proved tu be a defaulter and has fled from the city. His defalcations amounted to about 88,300, and he was under guard in his own house at the time of the flight, having been arrested for embezzlement last Tuesday night. Colfax Rays he has made $30,000 in three years from his winter lectures alone. And that he is very happy because now his life is a social one, and that his wife is the only one who has a right to command him. Queer idea of happiness. Men who own real estate in Washington are selling their property at ruinous prices rather than pay the heavy tax. Magnificent residences and elegantly adorned grounds are sold for less than the original cost of the unimproved land. Senator Morrill wants to put a bronze statue of Washington, 75 feet high, upon the uncompleted monument Thus the pile cf stone would serve as a pedestal, and would not be quite such a national disgrace as it is in Its present state. Oregon is the great fish-canning state of the Union, and, last season alone 700,000 cases of canned salmon were put up and sent to all parts of the world. Those 15,000,000 cans required 3,000,000 fish, and yet the supply was not visibly affected. It is reported that the population of Texas has doubled since 1870, and that if a census was taken an increase of 10 votes in the electoral college would be the result. The population is estimated at 2,000,000, that of southwest Texas being principally German farmers. Lydia Sherman, the notorious female poisoner who escaped from the Connecticut state prison last week, has been recaptured at Providence, R. I. She had been secreted by parties who will be prosecuted as soon as detected and proof can be obtained of their complicity. Miss Neilron, who goes to Europe this week, has distributed fourteen gold lockets containing her picture to the New York critics. Iu gift making to critics Anna Dickinson established the precedent, but instead or a locket and picture t.he gave them a curtain lecture and a "piece of her tongue." Lawrence Barrett's home at Cohasset is said to be one of the most beautiful pi ces on the coast. It is built on a high point of land surrounded on three bides by the ocean. Turf covers tue terraces to the water's edge, where lies the actor's yacht as a private wharf extends aonie distance out from the shore. Sewing women in Raleigh get five and twothirds cents for sewing all day, making heavy pants. By all means save your pennies for the untamed Chinee or the heathn e Turk. Are there not girls and women in Indianapolis equally as poverty stricken and over worked as these southern seamstresses? No body knows and nobody cares. ' The association of American medical editor was in session in Chicago on Tuesday. No business of any special importance waa transacted. Dr. John, P. Gray, of the American Journal of Insanity, was elected president, and Dr. Connor, of Detroit, vice president. The association will meet in 1878 at the call of the secretary, Dr. I. IL Davis. ' m " ' Da. H. V, Redfield says that hot bread 'and the frying' pan In the: south and pies and cakes in Ute north annually kill hundreds! of people by slowiy breaJtiug ilovru lueir digest

ive rowers, thus Inviting dyspepsia In its worst form. He gave the preference as to ability to kill to the diet of New England rather than to that of the southern states. Mrs Myra Clarke Gaines was formally eongratulated by Sorasls at the social meeting: at Delraonloo's last Monday. The bright cheery little woman replied in a speech, briefly reciting her long contest In the courts, her belief In her right, her determination to win and her pleasure in her triumph. She was frequently very eloquent nd her impromptu address would have done credit to any publice speaker In the country.

THE STATE. A broom factory has been opened in Yincennes. Madison is wrestling with the Murphy movement Johnson county will hold a fair beginning on September 13. There was an excursion from Franklin to Madison Wednesday. The grangers of Union county are erecting a hall at Liberty. Frankfort is going to have a grand time on the Fourth of July. Five hundred persons have so far signed the Murphy pledge in Lafayette. The Indiana Wool Growers' association meets at Franklin on the 12th inst Lafayette Journal: Some parties are trying to get up a state billiard tournament All of the state exchanges' speak of late rains, and of fine prospects of good crops. The Y. M. C. A. of Vincennes only cleared $55 on their recent excursion to St Louis. Many of the cities of the state propose having a Fourth of July celebration this year. Eighteen railroads cross the Louisville, New Albany and CLicago railroad in this; state. Wheat in the seciton of Newburg promises to be the best for years. Grass is also looking fine. Three thousand signatures to the Murphy temperance pledge have been obtained at Richmond. Peru Sentinel: Wheat in all parts of thecounty is looking better than for many years, and is now in bloom. Lafayette Conrier: A number of colore people have recently come to Lafayette to reside. They make good citizens. A new crop of wool has made its appearance in Lynnville, Warrick county, and prices range from 13 to 32 cents per pound. Gibson county is accredited with 7,962: children between six and twenty-one years ot age upon the basis of the late enumeration. The marshal of Petersburg has been given fifteen days, by some unknown party, to leave the place. He will probably not emigrate. The Anderson democrat says the red ribbonians now form a solid phalanx of 175members. Attention company ! Rear ranks, brace up. Richmond Independent: The truant girls returned yesterday morning from Dayton, promising with multitudinous tears never to do so again. The Rushville Telegraph has been enlarged to a seven column paper, and passed into the proprietorship of the Telegraph Printing company. Brookville Republican: After all it is a matter of doubt whether the appropriation was carried in Penn township. There seems to have been one more ballot in the boxes than voters. Cannelton Enquirer: Our farmers who are anxious to set out their tobacco plants, are complaining a great deal on account of the dry weather which hes been experienced for the past month. Richmond Independent: The new dwelling of Mr. Franklin Hiatt, a farmer, two and one-half miles southwest of Dublin, burned to the ground last Saturday niornine. Part of the contents were saved. Loss $2,500. lhe city of Fort Wayne now pays to laborers on the streets $1.40 per day and to a man with a team and wagon $3 per day. These payments are made in city orders, on which there is a discount averaging 10 per cent Lafayette Journal: A few days since itwas currently reported that a Wabash conductor bad found a package of money on. the road. The Fort Wayne Sentinel says that it proved to be bogus, and that it was Erobably thrown out from the cars by some ard pushed counterfeiter. Fort Wayne Sentinel: A heartrending occurrence took place at Angola this morning. Johnnie McConnell, aged about 15years, the son of a well known citizen, was drowned in Fox lake, where he was fishing with a number of companions. At last accounts the body had not yet been recoveredNew Albany Ledger-Standard: Ben F. Burcbem and Miss Stevens, of Hardin county, Kentucky, being very matrimonially inclined, came here for a pair of licenses and were refused. They journeyed on to Jeff, and got 'em without trouble. They arehigh Kentucky life folks, have $10,000 a piece, but are yowng and romantic "CANKER IX THE BID." You watch its development with expectant solicitude the choice, exquisitelymoulded bud which promises to untold with the perfect flower. You perhaps think how it would adorn the drawing room vase, and anticipate the pleasure of showing it to your flower-loving friends. Batome morning you find its head drooping. Tf fragrance fled, and an ugly purple f ot on one of the delicately tinted petals. It is the poet's "cankerin the bud." How often the loathsome canker blights the cherished "infant blossoms" in our household gardens those human buds which give earnest of a brilliant future. The noisome canker, so long concealed scrofula at length reveals its' dreaded presence, and to our bright hopes succeeds the most agonizing fear, for we know the fatal sequel it portends pulmonary consumption. It is estimated by eminent medical authorities that at least onefifth of mankind are afflicted with this insidious malady. But its ravages are so secret,. that eyen its victims are unaware of its presence until it suddenly discloses itself in some of its myriad and ofttimes fatal forms. A slight cutaneous eruption is often the onlyindicator of its presence. The only means of exterminating this disease from the system is by a thorough course ol constitutional treatment This treatment must fulfill three indications, namely promote nutrition, alter or purify the blood, and arrest disorganization of the tissues and the formation .of tubercles. No more 'efficient alterative can, be employed for these purposes than Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. . While' imparting strength and tone to the digestive Organs, it cleanses the blood and beals the diseased tissues. Test its virtues ere the deadly: canker has blighted the life you prize.