Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. "WEDNESDAY MOENTNG, FEBRUARY 27, 1878.

"WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27. DEMOCRATIC fcTATB TICKET FOR 187. For Secretary of Stale, J. G. BHANKLIN of Vanderburgh County. For Auditor of State, MAHLON D. M ANSON of Montgomery Co. For Treasurer of State, WILLIAM FLEMING ef Allen County. For Attorney General, THOMAS W. WOOLLEN of Johnson County. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. H. HMAR T of Allen County. i POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. COCXTT TICKET, CORY DON R. 8HIMEH, a resident of Warren township Jovover3i) jeare, will le a candidate before the demoeiatic convenllon of Mai ion county for the office of sheriff. R. J. CONNER will be a candidate for the nomination of clerk, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. THOS. F. RYAN will be a candidate for the nomination of county clerk, subject to the decision or the democratic county convention. DR. C. H. BUELL will be a candidate for heriff of Marion county, subject to the deci' slon of the democratic nominating convention. M0n the one term principle." CHRISTIAN DUNNMEYER will be a candidate for sheriff of Marion county before the democratic convention. AMOS BELLKRS will be a candidate for herttr of Marion county, subject to tne decilon of the democratic county convention. WILLIAM LOVE will be a candidate for the nomination for sheriff of Marlon county, before the democratic nominating convention. ELI HEINY, of Perry township, is a candidate for treasurer of Marion county, subject io the decision of the democratic nominating invention. DR. 8. IXJFTIN is a candidate for treasurer of Marion county, subject to the decision oi the democratic nominating convention. J. M. YOOART w a candidate for sheriff of Marion county, subject to the democratic conventlon. DR. W. M. DUNN will be a candidate for coroner, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention of Marlon county.

Coin means gold and Bilver once more. Exoland is evidently afraid to go to war. The people continue to indorse the democratic platform. Thk new post office at Boston has cost so r over $1,000,000. The oldest firm in established 323 years. England has been Illinois democrats will hold their state -convention April 11. Ma. Flemish, the candidate for state treasurer, is not a '"hard money" man. Congress ha) reinstated the dollar of daddies and the dollar of the contract. the A Cleveland man has been married ten rues, lie knows the ceremony "by heart." The News is of the opinion that the Joursal lies about its circulation. No doubt bout it. RrwiA'a victories have completely upset the sultan intellectually, and a new sultan talked of. Bismarck puts it thus: "Will England fight Russia? Ya as when the fishes make war on the horses." Nobody puts the democratic majority In ndiana at less than 30,000, and some place It ma Hioti .V finO l-'ittior unit nq Tin. Journal is too weak for our lash today; but we will strap it up to the Sentinel's whipping P9?t In dae im. Out tor the usual squeals. It is believed that Belmont is in Washingon for the purpose of purchasing senators. It is possible, however, that bis first offer will be to Hayes. Radical organs continue to chuckle over the fact that the silver bill, as it passed the enate, can not afford relief to the business prostration of the country. It is pleasant as well a amusing to note how industriously the Journal and News pile up falsehoods about their circulation. Proceed with your dog fight Great difficulty was experienced by the translators of the Bible in finding a Chinese equivalent for the word God. As a last resort Tien-Chu was adopted. A lar'ie number of well to do farmers are making preparations to leave the state of New York early in the spring. Thoywill settle in Nebraska, and many of them will turn their attention to stock raising. Jens W. Fobsey is not pleased with Stanley's lecture before the Koyal geographical society. Stanley was compelled. In telling the stery of his explorations, to refer to himself, and this is why Forney calls him egotistical. A &T. Locis lady died from fngbt because she saw some boys stoning her little con who whs playing on the sidewalk. Her physicians report her death to have been the direct result of fright from this trivial cause, the child not being in the least injured. The bones of the late Mrs. Pitman, of Cincinnati, in their now calcined state, have arrived at Cincinnati. They weighed four pound?, the smallest piece of bone being a nailer In size than an egg. Mr. Pitman intends planting them about the roots of a rose bash in his gar Jen. Two Scotch women have died recently, competent physicians declaring that in each ase death was caused by drinking ttrong ea. The women were middle aged, and seemed literally to shrivel away as if the blood died in their veins. After death the skin turned the color of old parchment and had the gam- appearance. A cosmctioser of Boston was arrested nd tried for selling candy adulterated with poisonous ingredients. Before trial his l iwyer asked to have the Indictment quash'ed on the "ground that confectionery is not an 'article of food, and that therefore its adulteration is not a criminal offense." But his client was tried and fined all the same. Tux London Times sUtea editorially that by an authority that can not be doubted, It Is said that there are 70,000,000 persons stirv- ' ing in northern China. The district is devastated by the dreadful famine, and human

beings art dying by hundreds and thousands. It is almost impossible to recite the suffering la that part of the empire. Children are devoured by adults, helpless old people are torn in pieces and eaten, and numerous fights occur where the weak are killed and claimed by the stronger onea of the tnbe. The Boston papers are displeased with statements made by resident) of New England upon the deplorable condition of affairs. A correspondent of a western paper writing from Somerville, Massachusetts, says: Black slavery never existed in the south In ao objectionable a form an white slavery does to-day in New England. This Is a bra saying, but is abundantly sustained by disagree able (acts. The average price of labor is about 60 rnt per diem, with good flour at IIO..', bu ter 8o e;nts, eggs 40 cents, cheese IS cent, beef 27 cent, pork 12 cents, oornmcal 4 cents a pound, hayS2? a ton, molasses 80 cent a gallon, and so on to the end. There are more than 1,(M 0,000 pople on the verge of starvation here and in tnls vicinity Huicides and murders are as common as they ever were in NewOrlean, and warcely any notice taken of them by the authorities. Children that have lailen Into the hands of taskmaste s and mistresses have been tortured and murdered in ways so Inhuman that had they occurred in the days of slavery at the south would have excited the ire of the community. It occurs to us that more silver dollars would help New England a little.

THE LOYAL1Y OF THE DEFEATED1. Disappointment is the lot of mankind and will continue to be so long as many are called and few are chosen, lhe candidates before the late democratic state convention, in the ratio of the offices to be filled, were as eight to one. Consequently seven eighths of the number were inevitably doomed to defeat. But this fact did not dampen their ardor nor cause them to shrink from the contest. They had entered the lists, and they were determined to contest for the prizes to be won. Although the contest was fcharp, it was honorably conducted. The candidates did not traduce each other, so when the verdict was announced there was no wound to heal or private grief to assuage. There has never been a state convention held by the democracy of Indiana which left so few scars as that of Thursday last. This was apparent on the evening of the day it was held, and is confirmed by the situation now. When Mr. Shanklin received the nomina tion for secretary of state Judge Gooding, his principal competitor, moved that it be made unanimous. This act of the distinguished gentleman from Hancock is worthy of him. He has a hold upon the democracy of Indiana which will be strengthened and made firmer by this magnanimity. - Judge Cravens, of Jefferson, another prominent candidate for secretary of state, in a recent interview with a reporter of the press, declared that the ticket nominated was a good and strong one. The Madiscn Courier says that Judge Cravens is better satisfied with the result than are his friends. He is an honorable and cultured gentleman, and has the respect and confidence of the democracy of the state in an eminent degree, His course is what might be expected from - one of the most honored democrats in Indiana. As cf Judge Gooding and Judge Cravens, so of Mr. Bradley and the other unsuccessful candidates for secretary of sUte. They, one and all, bow to the decision of the convention, and enter heartily Into the contest which com mences so auspiciously. . , We bare not the space to speak in detail of the several gentlemen who were unsuc cessful competitors for nomination on the democratic ticket last Thursday, but there is one whom we can not pass without notice. This is .Mr. John J. Cooper. He entered the contest at an early stage, and made a vigorous canvass. living at the capital, he drew upon himself the tire of all those who sought position and preferment through the false cry of an "Indianapolis ring." Although this cry was started by the Journal and the News of this city, there were democrats in the state so badly informed as to believe it. Mr. Cooper is an honored democrat of Indianapolis, and was. entitled to the enthusiastic support he received. He had once led a forlorn hope, and had been prodigal of bis time and means to advance the interests of bis part. It 19 no wonder then that his friends rallied around him and strove their utmost to secure his nomination. The democracy of this city would have been ungrateful had it done less for him than it did. He deserved every vote he received, and had he been nominated would have brought much strength to the ticket in this county. Bat another was preferred, and Mr. Cooper and bis friends accepted the verdict and will abide by it. -When he arose in the convention and moved that the nomination of Mr. Fleming be made unanimous he but' acted in accordance with his whole political career, lie has ever been loyal to bis party and its organization, and the man who expects Mr. Cooper to nurse his grievances or give the the ticket only a lukewarm support doc? not know the man. Ifis tall form will be seen in the thickest of the approach! ngbattle.and although he was not chosen as one of the captains to lead the forces, be will demonstrate to the people that be can do execution in battle without epaulets being npon his shoulders. THE JOURNAL, IT COrEMPOltiHIE.S AKD ITS POLICY. The Journal of yesterday, in more than a column article, discusses "newspaper con'troversies," beginning ita homily as follows: The readers of thn Journal do n it, n a class, enjoy ncw'ij,r controversion r personal epithet mill billinx.-tg-it''. and do not. we are p'rsuftdod, care to p:iy their money for that kind of rending. As a rule, the people like newspaper controversies when the subjects under discussion relate to the general welfare, and it so happens that a newspaper, however solicitous it may be to obscure its mistakes ind heresies, only brings them into greater prominence by its prevarications, and as a legitimate consequence adds to the weight of odium which ita chicanery Invites. The Journal is a case in point, and fully and vividly Illustrates our proposition. The Journal for years past has been the defender of radical thieves and the apologist of the most ignominous crimes that disgrace civilization. We have placed the Journal in the pillory a thousand times and compelled it to sit dumb as a paving stone while the people spit in its face and covered it with their ecorn. We have done this because public sentiment demanded it, and the duty has been performed in the interest jl the people of Indiana. The Journal, as its readers are painfully aware, indorsed the Loulii-

ana returning board swindle. It indorsed I

every act f forgery; it indorsed every lm-' pious perjury, and now, when truth and justice are asserting their right to be heard and the Tile criminals stand shivering In the presence of the mills of the gods, where (hey are to be ground exceedingly fine, the Journal denounces law and justice, right and truth, and pleads for the perjury cursed scamps with all the ability itcancommand.andwben the Sentinel lashes it for its detestable advo cacy as if it were a Delaware sneak thief it gives vent to its anguish in flatulent protests against newspaper controversies and at tempts to prove the popularity of its heresies by appealing to circulation statements that only add to it) reputation for unblushing mendacity. The people are well aware of the financial and business condition of the country. They know there is widespread ruin. They know that the courts, from that of justice of the peace to the highest tribunal in the state, are crowded to overflowing with suits for debt. They know that the sheriff are forever selling their propsrty, that mortgages are being foreclosed, and that the bankrupt courts are dally extend ing the list of the killed and wounded. Under such circumstances the people, the patrons of the Journal, its political friends and political foes, had a right to expect that it would advocate measures of relief, that it would have some words of sympathy for them; but in this they have been disappointed. The Journal, true to its venal instincts, has advocated the cause of the Shylocks and the continuance of the curses their policy has inflicted upon the country. It has been a sneaking foe of the people of Indiana. The Sentipel has compelled it to wriggle and squirm occasionally, but the Shylocks have been able to hold the concern to the advocacy of measures which have been destructive of the welfare of the state. Republicans of Indiana regard the course of the Journal as a ' fiigrant outrage; they no longer regard it as their organ, and refer to its course upon the resumption law and the Bland bill in terms of the most bitter hostility. With such a record, the Journal's reference to Rowell'a statement of its circulation as an evidence of the people's indorsement of its course will receive, as it merits, the unmitigated scorn of honest men. It is absolutely true that the people are deeply interested in newspaper controversies when their interests are attacked and their convictions insulted by one class Of newspspers and defended by another class, and the public know full well that the Journal's course upon business and financial questions is not indorsed by any considerable number of republicans, and its utterances to the contrary are as devoid of truth as Howell's statement of its circulation. We have called the Journal "the business gravedigger." Why not? It3 advocacy of the veto power to arrest legislation for the relief of business makes the sobriquet eminently appropriate. We have called the Journal "the bankrupt hearse." Why not? Its advocacy of the Sbylock policy by which Indiana has lost more than $20,000,000 during the rast six years renders the nickname pertinent and deserving. No paper in the west has ' Ieen more inclined to employ epithets in its controversies with other papers than the Journal, but it has been taught by the Sen tinel the value of silence in this regard, and has avoided a good many castigations by the exercise of prudence. The Sentinel does not care a fig for the Journal's statements about it3 circulation. Such statements are of no value, and since the News has bunted them down as a terrier would a rat. . and killed them, they possess no value to the public. The Sentinel's controversy with the Journal is not upon the subject of its circulation, but upon ita defense of the radical thieving policy under Grant; its hostility to the punishment of the Louisiana returning board criminals, and its stubborn hostility to measures calculated to revive the business of the country and bring in an era of prosperity. In the discussion of such questions the people are interested, and the Sentinel will in the future, as in the past, compel the Journal to keep silent or modify ita hostility to measures of relief. BELMONT AT WASHINGTON. The news cornea from Washington that August Belmont, a New York banker, and I the American agent of the Rothschilds, has taken rooms in that city for the season. Hia object in doing this is to defeat ihe silver bill by appealing to the cupidity and appetite of the representatives of the states and of the people. He feels secure in the action of the fraudulent president, and if be can manipulate enough senators and representatives to prevent the passage of the bill over a veto he will accomplish his purpose. The country is in a dreadful condition when. as now, the people feel that there is danger of the great measure of relief that has recently pasiied congress being defeated by the arts and appliances which Mr. Belmont knows so well how to employ. In their suffering and agony they have cried aloud for relief until relief is almost within their grasp, but they now find one of their torturers at the national capital endeavoring to snatch the medicine from their lips. If money or any other appliance can prevent the silver bill from becoming a law the people may rest assured that "the dollar of the fathers" will never again be coined. The bondholders have too much at stake to allow the remonetizahon of silver if a million or two can prevent it. That they will cormptly use money to defeat this great measure of relief is as certain as that they procured the demonetization of silver by a trick and a fraud. The people of the country will anxiously await developments at Washington. They want to know if Belmont's dinners can change the current which has been runniDg so strongly In favor of the undoing of a great'wrong. They want to know if the bondholders are able to buy up enough senators and representatives to prevent the passage of a bill so earnestly' demanded by the ceuntry as the one now awaiting the consideration of the fraudulent president, whether he signs it or not They want to know whether tbe people or the bondholders are to rule the country. Woo belide the senator or representative who goes back upon his record and helps to kill the great measure of relief which he aided in pawing. It were better for him that the rocks and the mountains should fall

upon and crash him than that he do this

thing. The people are well nigh desperate, and their wrath, hotter and more dreadful that a simoon, will overtake and destroy every unfaithful public eervant who for greed or gain essays to bind them hand and foot at the bidding of Belmont and the Shylocks, of whom be is a fit representative. DOST LIKE IT. The Journal, the Shylock organ, the 'busl'ness grave digger" and "bankrupt hearse' Is not pleased with the platform made by the democratic state convention, and still the platform is so broad and Bolid, so eminently wise and so entirely in consonance with tbe will of the people of the state that the "business grave digger" and "bankrupt . hearse" finds it difficult to indicate in what regards it is objectionable. In fact the "business grave digger" and "bankrupt hearse" is compelled to obey the inevitable, swallow its hates, restrain somewhat its venom and squeak out a faint approval. It says: The platform is Ingeniously constructed. Ko far as lhe workmanship is concerned, candor compels us to say It Is well put together, and Khows much less than the usual amount of verbiage. There is not quite so much of an attempt as usual to conceal ideas with words, and something like an appronch to an expres felon of principl s, at least in pot. On every phase oft tie money quest Ion the platform goes the extreme length, so far, indeed, that no other party need attempt to compete with the democracy on that line. Tuey have crn.d all ihe Rubicons there are, and burned the bridges beblnd them. It my be that just now th people are in a mood to accept these wild assertions aiid demands as the utterance of political wisdom, but the timo will come when they will see them for what they are the outgrowth of ignorance and communism. The platform sounds the death knell of radicalism in Indiana. Every declaration it contains strikes radicalism square in the face with giant force. Every paragraph is a nail to be driven into the' radical coffin. The party that obtained power that it might rob tbe people; that for years has massed its deyilish forces and set them in operation to crush business, paralyze industries, multiply idleness, intensify poverty and drape the land in gloom has lived ita day, exhanstad Its curses, and black with infamy will be compelled to retire. Such is the will of the people, and the crowning glory of the democratic platform of Indiana is that it echoes the will of the people. It I gives no uncertain sound. Triumph sits enthroned in every sentence. Every word has the diamond's lustre. The platform not only crosses Rubicons, but tears down the Shylocks' refuges of lies, and e x poses conspirators against the welfare of the people and subjects them to their deep and withering scorn. It points the way to victory w ith unerring certainty. It meets tbe demands of common sense, and is in full accord with the highest conceptions of integrity in governmental affairs. No one expected that the Journal grave digger and bankrupt hearse would indorse such a platform, just as no one expected that it would be able to successfully attack its declarations or arrest the applause of the people evidencing their approval. The Sentinel has, on more than one occasion, indicated its views with regard to a platform that would be likely to meet the wishes of the people, and we are glad to say, without particularizing, that the p'atforni suits us. It is broad enough for the people of Indiana j to stand upon, and they are now taking positions, and when the vote is counted the Journal grave digger will find that its party has gone to the devil, where it belongs. J TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Tuesday, Feb. 19. CONG RESSION AL. Senate. Mr. Spencer, from the committee on military affairs, reported favorably on the bill for tbe relief of William A. Hammond, late surgeon-general of the army. Mr. Ferry called up the senate bill to regulate the compensation of postmasters and for other purposes, and it was discussed at length. Mr. Wethers called up for consideration tbe senate bill amending the law granting pensions to the boldiera and sailors of tbe war of 1312 and their widows. This caused an excited debate in which Messrs. Injrals, Edmunds, Morrill, Blaine and other took part. The. bill was read a third time and passed yeas 47, nays 8. Mr. Sargent introduced a bill for the reorganization of the life saving and coast guarding service. Adjourned. House. After the reading of the journal Mr. Harris, chairman of the election committee, called up the election case of Acklin vs. Darrcl', from the fourth Louisiana district, and majority and minority reports were read. A heated and lengthy debate here followed, during which the Anderson trial, election commission, and many other subjects were discussed. During the discussion the house adjourned. GE5EHAD TELEGRAMS. The national agricultural congress met at Washington this morning. No decision has yet been reached in the Anderson appeal case. Six thousand persons have signed the blue ribbon pledge at Terre Haute. The national convention of the United States export. trade assembled at Washington to-day. John D. Hayes, of Chicago, was selected chairman. The lower house of tte Louisiana legislature to day ousted Louis J. Jones, republican, and 'by a vote of 50 to 51 seated Judge I'.urbin, democratic. The senate committee on foreign relations agreed to report favorably the nominations of lUiyanl Taylor, minister to Germany, and Colonel Goodloe, minister to Belgium. Wedxesdav, Feb. 20. CONGRESSIONAL. Senate. Mr. Cockrell submitted a resolution instructing tbe commissioner of agriculture to furnish the senate all the information at his command with regard to the hog cholera, with any suggestions he may want to make. Mr. Fargentreportedanamendnient to tbe senate bill to organize tbe life saving and coast guard. Mr. Allison presented a resolution of the Burlington, Iowa, board of trade against the reimposing of the income tax. Quite a number ot bills were introduced and referred. Tho bill regulating the compensation of postmasters and for other purposes was called up. An amendment restoring the franking privileges was agreed to, and the bill read a third time and parsed. A resolution that the senate proceed with the bills on the calendar on Monday next at 1 o'clock was agreed to. The senate then resumed consideration of unfinished business, being the bill to annul an act of the legislative assembly of Wyoming territory, to provide for the organization of Crook and Pease counties, and to provide for the holding of court therein, approved by the governor of said territory on the 13th f December, 1877. The act of the legislative assembly referred to, after providing for tbe organization of. the counties named, to constitute a third judicial district of the state, assigns Associate Justice William Ware Beck as judge of the said d strict, removing him from his former district. A long discussion then took place, after which the bill was read a third time and pasted. After a short executive session the a mate adjourned. Uousd.-As boon as the reading of the Journ

al was concluded the contested case of Acklin tf. Darrell, from tbe fourth Louisiana

district, was called up. Mr. Blund asked if it was in order to move to go to thepeakezs table in order to reach tbe silver bill. The speaker replied that it was not. Mr. Bland toen said he objected to all debate on the contested case. It was thee deccided to make the motion to proceed with the business on the speaker's desk to-morrow morning. The contested case was then taken up and a beated debate ensued, at tha end of wnicn tne minority resolution declaring Darrell elected wns rejected by a vote of lid to 139. The majority resolution declaring Acklin elected was adopted without division. Mr. Acklin then appeared before the bar of the houie and was sworn in taking the iron-clad oath. Adjourned. MI6CBLLA5E0CB. A. G. Cattell & Co., the oldest grain house in Philadelphia, failed to day. Total indebtedness, $240,0(0; assets, $300,000. There were 1,450 fires in New York city during the past year, causing a loss of $3,210 G95, with insurance amounting to $12.003,627. The meeting of London workingmen on the eastern question has been abandoned, because Gladstone signified a determination not to participate. John Walter, a liberal member of parliament for Berks and chief proprietor of the London Times, was blackballed at tbe Athenreum club on account of his Turkish sentiments. t e ouse committee on elections to-day r ,- d the contested election cse of Frost ag :IXIetcalf, for the Third Missouri district, to a sub committee consisting of Cobb, Chandler and Hiscock with instructions to examine papers and report whether or not there are sufficient grounds for a contest to warrant further consideration of the committee. TncESDAT, Feb. 21. COXGRESSIOSAL. Senate. Quite a number of bills were introduced and referred. Mr. Chaffee submitted an amendment to tbe bill heretofore introduced by him, dtdaratory of the meaning of tbe fifteenth section of the Pacific railroad act of July 1, 1862. The same gentleman called up the house bill making appropriations to purchase law libraries for Dakota and Wyoming. Passed. Mr. Gordon reported, with an amendment from the committee on commerce, tbe house bill to authorize the granting of American register to foreign built ships. Mr. Windom presented a memorial of the board of commissioners appointed by Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and other states for the improvement of the Ohio river and its tributaries. After a short executive session the senate adjourned until Monday. House. Mr. Mills offVred a resolution, which was adopted, ealling for the correspodence with Spain in "relation to the seh.ure of the Virginius. A bill was passed dividing Missouri into two judicial) districts. Mr. Parks made a short personal explanation, in which he denounced Wells, Anderson and the rest of the gang in plain terms. A bill to relieve certain legal disabilities ot women was passed. A largj number of bills were repotted by committees and passed. ' The business on the speaker's desk was taken up. When the tilver bill was reached, after an attempt to refer the bill to the committee on banking and currency was defeated, the amendments of the senate were concurred in and the bill passed. -Mr. House reported a bill in reference to the Pacific railroad. Mr. Springer, from the committee on elections, made a report in the Massachusetts contested case of Dean vs. Field that Field, the sitting member, is not entitled to a seat, and that Dean, tbe contestant, is. Mr Cand ler presented a minority report. The house, without taking action, adjourned until Monday. MISCELLANEOUS. Charles Francois Diubigny, French painter and engraver, is dead. All impost duty on malt exported into Canada is to be taken off. The Ohio state prohibition convention today nominated an entire state ticket. President Hayes and wife were present for several hours at tbe Methodist fair given at Baltimore. Montgomery Queen's circus was sold at Louisville tonJay in bankruptcy. The ani mals brought $10,000. Monseignor Lasagni, secretary of the sacred college, hac been appointed pontifical secretary of state ad interim, and Cardinal Schwartzenburg becomes pro camerlingo. Desks In the House or KepreaentAtlvea. Another British fashion (says Perley, writing from Washington to the Boston Journal) which there is talk about introducing into the house of representatives every few years, is the banishment of desks and the substitution of benches for chairs. This' was tried in 1861, on the motion of Representative Miles, of Sautn Carolina, before he seceded, in 1SG0, with bis state. The desks and chairs wero taken into the galleries of tbe old hall and stacked up, and oaken settees were arranged . in semicircular form, tasing up about half the space which the desks and chairs had occupied. In the two corners of the hall, behind the settees, were very large tables, with conveniences for writing. The new arrangements were very distasteful to the representatives, who passed a resolution before the close of the session directing the restoration of the desks and the chairs. The tables were transformed by Ellsworth's Zouzous, while they were quartered in thecapitol, into billiard tables,by nailing on a edging of lath", mutket halls'serving as balls and ramroads as cues. The settees were donated to the insane asylum ior ita chapel, where they now are. Sherninn'H Sympathy. New York Suu.l John Sherman regards the conviction of Anderson as a great outrage, under color of law. and as 'n act of follv and madness." Sherman took an active part as an abettor and accomplice in the crimes of the returning board. The conviction of Anderson means danger to John Sherman; and it also burns the bra ml of fraud deeper into the brow of the de facto president. It attracts the attention of the people to the gravity of the crime by which they .were cheated out of their rightfully elected president, and to tbe fact that while one of the participants in the great fraud is on his way to tbe penitentiary, the beneficiary of tbe fraud sits in the chair of the chief magistrate. Eyen to Hayes, callous as he may have grown, such a situation must be almost intolerable, and In uttering these threats and denunciations Sherman no doubt gives expression to the thoughts and feelings of his master, as well as to his own fears. But this attempt by a de facto federal official to intimidate the courts of Louisiana will be treated with the contempt it deserves. CbAlrmiin of tb Ktate Central Committee. Muncie.Courler-Democrat.l Colonel B. C. Shaw has been elected chairman of the state central committee, and we join the Sentinel in hearty commendation ot the choice. Colonel Shaw has been one of the most active and effective workers for democratic success the past few years, and is conversant with the details of the active work to be performed a good organizer, a cool anil careful calculator, quick to perceive a weak point in his adversary and as prompt to take advantage of his weakness. Tbe phcintr of Colonel Shaw at the helm has added another strong pillar to the certainty of democratic success. The democracy can be congratulated in securing so able a Kader. Laporte Herald: Colds, oolda and rheumatism, neuralgia, mumps, scarlet fever aud diphtheria have been holding high carnival thia winter all over the country.

STATE SEWS.

Boone county wants more graveled roads. Crawtordsville has five good templar lodges. The corporation limits of Auburn are f be extended. Ripley County Journal: are all safe so far. The peach bnda Work on the new depot at Columbus ia progressing rapidly. The Delphi papers are having a little tersonal unpleasantness. Goshen is to have another newspaper. This makes the fourth. Angola has had Ann Eliza Young to lecture for the literary society. Logansport Tharos: Sugar water flowed freely several days last week. Many of the hikes ia Kosciusko county are to be stocked with salmon. ' The Warren county fair begins September 9, 1878, and continues five days. Osgood needs more business houses; there are absolutely no stores for rent. Blue birds are singing and building their nesta in the Ripley county groves. Farmers in Owen county are complaining that their horses and cows are sick. Horse buyers are sweeping away all the good stock from Kokomo and vicinity. The Ledger says that Attica defies th world in the way of lou J squalling cats. Kokomo Despatch, farmers report th roads in an almost impassable condition. The Columbus woolen mills will not commence operations before the 1st of March. Tippecanoe county is sending many of her best citirens in colonies to Texas and Kansas. The Richmond light infantry have adopted as a "drill uniform Bimply a blouse and cap. -Cool. Attica Ledger: The narrow gauge railway expects to extend ita road westward in tha spring. Two large gray wolves have been killed near Liberty Mills, Wabash county, in the past six days. The Lafayette guards have petitioned the city council to bear the expense of the rent of their armory. There is a movement on foot to have a grand temperance convention at Richmond the 6th of March. A catamount,' measuring three feet and seven incbefroin tip to tip, was killed in Knox county last week. Lebanon has a dramatic association. An entertainment will be given soon for the " benefit of the militia cottpany. George Patton, of Brookston. White county, buried four children recentlv in one week. They died of diphtheria. He is now childless. Two Holmes county chaps traded wives. One of the ladies gave her lord to understand she was not a legal tender, and the bargain was declared off. The Brookvllle American aays: "Sugar making is now in full blast. Finer weather than the present for that purpose could hardly be expected." Franklin Democrat: Old farmers tell ut that the public highways are in a worse condition now than ever before known during any former winter. Laporte nearld: Colds, colds and rheumatism, neuralgia, mumps scarlet fever and diphtheria bave been holding high carnival this winter all over the country. Decatur county Is losing Its populationrapid'. It is said that thirty families leave Greensburg and the immediate vicinity about the 1st of March for Kansas. Some of the farmers of Decatur county, in connection with some of the Greens'ourg citizens, are thinking of having a poultry show some time during the present montl North Manchester will be much improved fhi anrintr Vw hnilrli?icr raciHonra, stores, and other improvements are contemplated by the wide awake, thorough going citizens. ' 1 Eight members of one family at Waterloo had the scarlet fever at the same time. All are now out of danger. The disease is prevailing to an alarming extent in and an und Waterloo. Lebanon Pioneer: Some of our business men are shipping ice from Kankakee. . t costs them about $53 per car (12 tons) de livered here. It is ice that was put up last year, and is about 24 inches thick. Terre Haute Gazette: It is learned that to fit nnt a colon v nf pmnrrnm Inr Torn There are many in this city and vicinity contemplating moving to that state. Attica Ledger: Soaie of our older readers have got into a dispute in regard to which side of an old fashioned sickle the teeth are " cut on. Will some of our subscribers settle the matter by giving in the desired information? Logansport Pharo: The Tipton townshipfree gravel road project has failed. While a. majority of the land owners along the line of the proposed road were in favor of it, they were not the owners of the majority of acres, as the case requires. Good land Register: It now looks very probable that farm labor next season will be lower than it has been for the last 20" years. From $13 to $16 per month, the farmers say, will be all they can afford to a.. give unless times ana green dscks are oetter and plentier. New Era: We have a family in Nobla county who have been so destitute as to be compelled to kill and eat a litter of pups and then eat the mother, since which timo they have been eating ground hogs. They can not be prevailed upon to go to the poor house. Does pride drive peoplo to such ends? Brookville American: The aged inhabitant has turned up again and says that the winter of 1842 43 was even milder than this. The farmers were plowing every month, and there was no sleighing but for one-half day, yet the spring was not earlier than usual. The apple trees were in full bloom on th 20th of May, but white frosts appeared, until the 23d. marriage took place m Lafayette, which, at the time, escaped the watchful eye of theCourier. It was kept very quiet Tbe bride wasawellrto-do colored woman, whoso name can not now be given to tbe publiev but who bore the title of "Black EhzV She was a person of good reputation. The groom was a German citizen, whose name lsalso withheld by his fnenas. They wereevidently warmly attached to each other, though of race and nationalities with no symjathiFS in common. They removed atonce to Ungstein Iwhelm, Bavaria, Germany, the former home of the groom. 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