Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1878 — Page 2

THE UNDIAXA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOHNIN MAY 1, 1878.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1. THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK. - The democracy of Indiana are in good fighting condition for the coming campaign. She has in the field her state ticket f composed of good men," whose personal popularity gives great stren th to it Their ability to conduct an active canvass and to form a thorough, organization .of the party can not be questioned. The state central committee, through its chairman, Colonel B.C. Shaw, is looking after the thorough discipline of the party in the township and county organizations, and everything loots auspicious for a grand victory in October. The main battle will ba for the legislature. The republicans will concede the election of the state ticket to the demcc racy, aa.l will make up a ticket with the distinct understanding among its managers of selling it out to secure the leiiislature. The republican party knows full well that a lair apportionment of the State would leave them largely in the minority in the legislature for years to come; hence they look only alter that branch of the campaign. The national organization has no confidence in its leaders. They remember their sale two years ago to the republican party. The rank and file of this organization are not politicians, but they axe men who know that the policy of the republican party has bankrupted the country, and is forcing its best men into bankrupt courts every day. The democracy, being the only great organized party in the country that can overcome the republican party will suffer by the impatience of the people to overthrow the party that has had the control of the government through all these long, sad years of suffering of the business interests of the people. The patronage of the administration, with its eighty thousand . office-holders drawing salaries from the public treasury, is hard to overcome. The national organization can only accomplish one thing in the present condition of affairs the continuation of radical rule by dividing the forces that are so earnestly and so deeply battling for the whole people in overthrowing the repub ican party. We frequently hear the remark made by nationals: "It won't do to trust either one of the old parties." Has the democratic party failed to carry out its pledges when it was in power? lias not the lowc r house of congress and the democracy in the senate urged and voted for every nieas ure j romisirs to relieve the people? Then why will it not do to trust the democracy? ' Has the democratic party given any cause for any member of its organization to leave its ranks? Does not the restieasriess of the people result from republican legislation? We are not disposed at thi3 time to abuse' the rank and file of the national party, but we intend to hold up before the country from time to time its corrupt leaders whoare using honest voters as instruments to forward their corrupt ends." Democrats, as a general rule, are slow to follow false leadeis who have stood by the radical party until the country is ruined. When, they calmly consider the object of these allies of the repub lican J arty they come home to the oidtlem- j ocratic house of the fathers as the only chance for better government.' To us the political outlook is flattering. T1IK FLORIDA PJttSlDL.MI 1L FKAl'DS. Yesterday the telegraph Hashed the news to thy ccatry that the two Florida manipulators of the presidential returns in that state Lad turned 'state's evidence and exposed the ways by which the democrats had been cheated out of that state. These confessions confirm the charges of fraud made and proved by the democrats at the time, and piece the republican party in the position of being the most unprincipled and gigantic machine of corruption and robbery of modern times. The fraud was denied, then defended. What course now the virtuous organs of that party will pursue remains to be seen. After these exposures, how can that party go before the people of this country and aik'their support? How can it defend and uphold the rewarding of ' Sir. Stougcton, by the appointment of minister to Russia, for his part in these transactions? How can it longer clothe in virtue's robes the characters of Wells and Anderson, of the Louisiana returning board? How can it paint in glowing language the mission. yet unfinished, of ' the party that prostituted truth, exalted falsehood an'd debased power to defraud the American people out of their president? How can such a party educate public opinion to ways of honesty and deeds of virtue? Whatan influence to be exercised on the rising generation! What an example for posterity! What an exposure' to the world! Language fails to depict the villainy of this great crime. ' Imagination fails to foresee its consequences. Denunciation even palls before its enormity. And yet the organ of the delectable party characterises democrats as thieves, robbers, assassins, pimps, tramps, outcasts. Can depravity sink to a lower level? Can treason be questioned in these transactions? We have heard before this of the corruptions and stealings of parties; but in this case we have the hrst instance where a party actually stole the government from the people. The American people are ' now ruled by a party who, after stealing their wealth, have actually " appropriated their government to its base purposes, and 'rewarded with honorable and lucrative posltions the authors and the tools of this great crime. Mr. Conklingin his celebrated Interview declared that the .presidency was surrounded by such a black pall of crime stained villainy that it could not be kept secret. Time would expose It. His prediction has been fulfilled. We now expect to see the Journal put on Its white and shining robes of virtuous indignation and prove that It was the democrats who put up this job. Tower once abused in a republic becomes in the hands of its usurpers but an engine of oppression to the people. The nightmare of republican rala must ' succumb to the sunlight of the intelligence of its wrong doings. A relative of Tilton's says that Mrs. Tilton would have never made her last confession but for a sermon on "conscience" that

Beecher preached some months ago. In relation to Gilman's crime, Beecher exhorted those having any burden of sin to confess all and be saved, urging that non-confession would bring Vdamnation." Irs,Tilton listened, was convinced and confessed.

ori..s An opimoxs. Sca aLET fever h.n attacked many pi the whce.1 chllJren of St. Louis. .-'' Thk. colored people of Washington city are forming colonies to come west..' - ( Mk. Rocm has failed as a lecturer. At Bridgeport, Connecticut, he had less than twenty auditors. .' - . Akotker 1 to ton -woman a century old.' The fount of eternal youth raut swell up in a bean pot. A Chikesk gambling bonne wM raideded in; New York Monday night and five "AhV'arrested. "!'';,',',' Anothek one f Carl Schurz's clerks has got into trouble In' Washington. A pretty woman In the Cfi.se. Til K Latin and Italian poems or Pope Leo XTil. will soon be published. lie revises tbem blmaeir. '' A New Yokk doctres3 advertises that she will "mend ladies' heartK after they have undergone a severe affliction." ' 'J .' . It Is said that the number of iruniixrants to Kansas this year will reach 500,000. Probably lOO.OCt) would be more correct. . . Fiobksce and wuV have' gone to Europe. Tills is his forty-eighth trip across, the Atlantic oceau, and he has never been seasick. A max committed suicide In New York because there "was no one to miss him." He ought to have been behind with hta- board. A southern senator at Washington asked EdUon if "he could not invent a simple machine topic cottcn." He replied he thought he could end would. Bijou Hekox la to be tent to a convent In France for two years, to complete her education. She will then become a professional actress "of the emotional school." Thk Methodist preachers of Wilmington, Pennsylvania, held a meeting last Monday and voted unanimously not to accept any complimentary tickets to Barnum's thow. Ox Mrs. Tilton's last birthday she received from her daughter Alice, who Is quite an artist, a-wreathot "forget-me-nots." There were forty three flower, one foreach year; a quaint Idea of the child. George W. IlLUST, a noted New Yorker who died a few days since, thus summed up his creed recently: "I believe in God, His infinite power and mercies, the mission of Christ, the flog of the Union." The new beds for the new prison of Massachusetts are of angle iron covered with canvass. Thus the cost of mattresses Is saved. The bed folds In th middle, forming a seat; and so there is no need for stools and chairs. Tite police have found some clae to the murderers of Lord Ixltrlm, Tne prisoners now in custody are Implicated, and others suspected are under surveillance. A reward of $1,250 has been offered by the Irish government and SjO.OUO by the new lord. Bishop McCo.sk ry was educated at West Point. He Is going back to Michigan to meet the charges made against him. In referring to them he said: "A miserable vagabond, who has been in prison, professes to have some let'eis written by me more than live years ago to a poor orphan girl. They have been published, and I suppose you have read them. The Imitation of my handwriting is said to be good. We go back to Detroit, as I am too good a soldier to retreat 'while a gun is firing.' If I am to be stricken dawn by the hand of an ;wa2Sln,l bhall fall with, my whole aruiox on." An exposure of the treatment of the female Insane patients at Blackwr-U's Island, made by the New York' papers, Is enough to make every civilized laf.n and woman Indignant. Women there are treated like brutes little better, often a great deal worse. . Their sense of modesty Is outraged by the attendants, and their womanly attempts to defend themselves meet brutal' punishment. The nurses are drunken and Ignorant, and trust to' weak memories for directions as to the care of the' patients. Too many of the Insane asylums of this country are, as an inmate of one of thern said, "ante rooms to hell." A press club Is to be organized at Paris for the exhibition. A club house will be built, the French commissioners having agreed to find an eligible space for the building, and give J 1,000 towards the erection of the .home. The club will be a rendezvous for all connected with newspapers anywhere and everywhere. There will be ' postal and telegraphic offices, every facility for writing, messengers taking In news, maps, books, all the prominent tie w papers in the world, and beside ' all this lunch and dinner will be served at the convenience of the writers at merely nominal price. To correspondents this place will be a veritable . news emporium, all that can be gleaned will be here aggregated, and wrlte-s will have little difficulty In framing readable let'ers to their various Journal when such a mass of information wuTbe available. Besides this, "the views of other correspondents, the knowledge gained by writers of different nationalities, the acquaintances formed, will' make the Press club house the tongue, if not tne brains, of the great exhibition. - -,i . In reference to the death of Lord Leltrlm who was supposed to have been killed by a tenant oil account of rental troubles, a Dublin correspondent of the New York Herald nays: "In England the belief is universal that the murder was agrarian. Not so In Ulster, where, of course, the man and everything connected with him were Infinitely better known. There it Is set down to private vengeance. .The earl was convinced that he was absolute lord of all his tenants' belongings, free to dispose of them at his Mill. No Turkish pasha was more profoundly self-satisfied of his right to do what .he pleased with, the - Ulnar ray ah s of his pachalk; and, if report does not calumniate him very much, the visits ot a Turkish pasha were never, more dreaded by his subject Christian raynhs than were those ot Lord Leltrim by his terrified tenantry. Woe for the household wbera his keen eye detected comeliness. He insisted ait his right to choose out of his tenants families whomsoever he pleased for "domestic service.". The popular opinion Knve'a terrible Interpretation to the phrase, hould the chosen one prove coy and troublesome, vengeancw fell - upon the family which refused to' minuter . to the pleasures or the lord,! worse and more inexorable than upon a mere defaulting tenant. It Is openly stated now In Ulster that Lord Leltrlm met his death from causes of this kind. The Irish peasant is proverbially tender about domestic honor. Can we be surprised If some one,outraged in this point ao sought to avenge the "unutterable wrong" of daughter, sister, sweetheart nay, perhaps one dearer 81111?" The Boss State. ' Clarinda Demccrat. Iowa is radical to a toe core, and there is no state in all the 33 that has had as many connty and state steals and no one punished; and now the big steal of the Fort Madison penitentiary is being probed, but in all probability it wil be smothered over, and the 10O,O0O that baa been stolen from the peo-f-le or a great portion of it -will be put nto ft campaign fund, and then all will be happy who belong to the radical ring of Iowa. -

THE STATE HOUSE. Judge Elliott Again Decides In Favor of the Commissioners Polats from tne ComZ'.. mlssloneri Quarters.

Judge Elliott, of the superior court, ruled on the demurrer to the amended complaint in the case of Tibbetts against the state house commissioners yesterday.. The judga ruled that the demurrer must be sustained for the reasons that the plaintiff does not show sufficient interest to entitle him to tne, and does not shots thai any loss to him will result from the , acts complained of, and that although he ruled that the allegation of fraud mast be made, it must ' be specific as to the alleged wrong done in paying Wilson for working on May's plan. I need only say it is too late to remedy that by iBjuction. ' ' The architects had not decided last evening as to what steps should be taken next, but claim they have plenty of material backing them, and that eventually the case will'go to the federal court. It is understood , the next step will be on the application for ft writ of mandate, and the architects claim they can yet form the issues for a change of venue. ' The state board has ordered General Morris to ascertain what arrangements can be made with the city and the various railroads entering the city to connect the state house grounds with the railroads by a side track. Also that b examine and report the best connection! the state house building with the city sewerage. He is authorized, to prepare map and plana for such connections. The board abo directed that proposals be received up to May 2 for the sale and removal within 30 days from that date of ail buildings and fenciDg on the state house grounds, except sheds on market space, the house occupied by. the commissioners, ana the building corner of Market , and Mississippi streets. . ' The board will within a few days start on a tour of inspection of the various stone quarries in the state for, the purpose of ascertaining extent, facilities for quarrying, railroad connections, etc s ' The members of the board of state house commissioners yesterday called on the secretary of the navy at the Bates bouse, and were received in a manner behttlng the high postion he occupies, and also the dignity of a board representing a great state while In the agony of constructing a state house. The cubes furnished by stone dealers to be tested have been shipped on to General Q. A. Gilmdre, at New ork. The city commissioners, after examining the streets and - alleys at the state house grounds, reported favorably on their vacation. Monday night the council approved the report, and Tuesday night the board of aldermen concurred. All .the necessary legal steps have now been taken, and the tquare north of the old state house square, with its alleys and so much of Market street as separates the two squares, is legally in possession of the state. This formal action is merely the completion of an agreement made by the city some years ago to make the transter to the state whenever it should be necessary, preparatory to the construction of a state house. The board may find when it cornea to consider the matter that it will be cheaper to lay a track on Mississippi street, from the union tracks to the state house grounds, than it is to connect with the I., C. and L. at Market street, and pay the I., C. and L. for the use of its track. The Jlnnlerer of Thirty-Two Men. In Longley, the desperado who has murdered 32 men, and is now waiting to be hanged in Lee county, Texas, the boys of New York may studyin real life one of those characters so often depictsd in cheap and sanguinary romances. Longley is described by the Globe-Democrat as "scarcely yet in his 21th year, with dark hair worn rather long and slightly psrted at , the side; coal black whiskers and beard that. shade a line olive complexion; a nose rather after the Greek model; teeth white and beautiful as a woman's; eyes black as midnight, that seem literally alive with expression, which their possesser'. seems little inclined to curb or suppress." He is confined in a dungeon "as dark and dismal as any pictured in the pages of romance. A massive iron door from the rear opens into a corridor dimly lighted by rusty iron gratings. At the further end is the cell of the desperado, the strong iron door of which is secured by massive locks, and whose walls are also massive." ' This handsome highwayman and man slayer a Dick Turpin and Claude Duval combined will undoubtedly swing from the gallows. The court of appeals has confirmed his sentence, and there is no further hope for him. Ouly Two 9Iethod of Getting a Living In Washington. Judge Clack, it seems, has a hard time getting his pay for rescuing Belknap from impeachment. It is said that the venerable judge, when aked how he could conscientiously undertake io defend a confessed delinquent like Belknap, rejoined that he was a lawyer, that Washington was in his field of practice, and that there seemed to be only two methods of getting a living in Washington one by robbiDg "the government and the other by defending the thieves when they were caught The judge's experience in the Belknap case admonishes lawyers that the fees for defending radical thieves mast be collected strictly In advance. With a View to Matrlmauy.' ' . (Charitan Leader. The Patriot accuses' Us ' of courting the g:eenbackers, with a view to a matrimonial alliance between them and the democracy! The charge is to some extent true, and we do so for their own' good. We would much rather see them respectably united with the gallant descendants of illustrious democratic sires, than prostituted in - the , embrace of modern radicalism. . The democrats have their affections, but the radicals have the most money, and the greenbackers can't go it singly and alone and accomplish anything; therefore common sense teaches them that they should - unite with the party that is most congenial to their tastes and principles. Improved Tiniest, Boston Post. With nearly two hundred millions of coin in the treasury it will be perfectly easy to bring legal tenders to an equality with gold. We may surely count on improved times after this, and not hare to wait for the day of actual resumption either. With an enlarged market for our dome: tic productions the situation would be almost without a drawback. A sound currency is of course the first consideration of a prosperous state of trade, bat an open and free market is the shre stimulns and promoter of the interests of skilled industry. - We shall hope that a reformed taritf will go band in hand with resumption,. " ' The Unlocking or Capital. . New York Herald. : , With thei confidence in the future of our currency which is sending down the premium on gold, until yeHerday it stood no higher than a quarter of one per cent, above greenbacks, being the lowest quotation in 17 years, is coming the unlocking of capital, which has been lying useless in bank vaults. The people are astir, ftew enterprises are on foot. Real estate, so long depressed, is again looking up, and on every side we hear the words of well founded hope. Worth RememberingCleveland rialn Dealer. ; As greenbacks are not taxable they will soon be at a premium over gold. Eating It All tl. In 18.V5 Jules J. B. . Kingsbury died intestate at Chicago, leaving a wife and two children. The son'g son, born after his father's death at Antietam, is the heir. In 1371 the

firoperty was appraised, at $1,250,000, and the ncumbrances amounted to $75,000. The lawyers and guardians have eaten the estate up, ao that now it hardly yields enough to pay the heir's boarding achcol bill. In fee alone twelve lawyers have absorbed $200,000 in seven years. The rest of the property has been dissipated by unwise ventures and collusion with persons who brought suit against the estate. STATE SEWS.

Rochester boasts of having a lady jeweler. A field of barley near Cambridge City has headed out. A Y. M. C. Columbus. A. will soon be organized in A marriage ceremony wai performed Wednesday in the open air at Columbus. The Courier says: "In 1053 Terre Haute was incorporated a city." News, at least to many. The Van Buskirk-Buck body snatching case will come up in the Fort Wayne courts this week. The trustees are setting out trees around the Valparaiso high school, and are beautifying the grounds. The Columbus Democrat Is trying to arouse some enthusiasm on the subject of a Fourth of July celebration. Jeffersonyille News: The wheat in the country is nearly a foot high, and still the 1st of May is not here. Tetersville mourns her geographical situa tion. The new road will miss that place by a distance of three miles. The wife of Dr. V. D. Jackson has been lying very ill at her residence in JefTersonville for the rast six weeks. Anoka item: Prospect for fruit of all kinds was never better, and should nothing happen it the crop will be immense. Bloomington Progress: Millers here are paying $1 and $1.05 for w heat, and 30 and 35 cents for corn. Hogs are worth $3 per hundred. Quite a large colony has been formed at Eugene to go to Texas. Many of the best families of that section are interested in the movement. A young medical student of Terre Haute has invented a gate latch which be proposes to have patented. He thinks there is a fortune in it. Logansport Pharos: Reports from the county are to the effect that the wheat is in splendid condition, and oats is coming on In fine style. There are 101J4 miles of streets in Evansville, making an average of 12Ji miles for each day policeman's beat, and (ili for each night officer. Terre Haute Courier: Eugene Craft, the injured brakeman, is slowly improving. The five men who were arrested for the outrage at Effingham have been released. Shelby ville Volunteer, 20th: Ex-Governor Thomas A. Hendricks arrived in the city at noon to-day to be present at the funeral of his sister-in-law, the late Mrs. Jennie Hendricks. Columbus Democrat: One of the best rat dogs in the town of Columbus was poisoned last Friday. In the last 18 months he has killed at the railroad hominy mills not less than 500 rats. Fort Wayne Sentinel: The Barr street market was formally opened on Saturday morning by a solitary woman in a solitary wagon. The enterprising female diia very good business. Laporte: Winter wheat looks unusually promising. A large proportion of last year's crop is still on hand, but is now moving to market. We are at least three weeks in advance with our spring seeding in comparison with former years. Lafayette Courier: Specifications have beer, made for a new depot to be built at the foot of Salem street, for the L., X. A. and C. railroad. It will be an extension of the old depot, and will be built out to Salem street It will be a stone front. Lafayette Courier: . J. H. Wood, the architect, president of the blue ribbon society, has gone east, rumor says, to take a contract, but in point of fact, as the Courier knows, he is going to marry an amiable lady in Boston, his former wife's sister. Lafayette Courier: Detective Bennett, after a great deal of hard work, captured the manwhoshot LaKue at Logansport some time ago. Taking him to Loganjport he turned him over to the authorities there, but on asking for him to have him identified it was found tLat he had escaped. The jailer had never missed him until he was called for. Terre Haute Courier: This morning Major James Hi te executed a deed for lot No. 1 in Hite's subdivision, on Poplar street, to the Christian temperance union of Terre Haute on condition that the union erect thereon a building costing not less than $2,000 within two years. The lot has a frontage of 88 feet and is valued at $2,500. It is located on Poplar between Sixth and Seventh streets. Richmond Independent: Oscar Wood, who returned January 1G from Jefferaonville, where he had served two years, was brought here Saturday by Detecti vcst'arr,of Kushville, and Stobangh, of Cambridge City, and placed in jail. He had been stealing In and about Cambridge City, and hiding his goods near llushville. He was captured at' New Paris, waived examination, and in default of bail was jailed." , The greatest protection that the farmer has is the birds that make their home about his premiss and prey upon the bugs, beetles, worms and insects which frequently lay waste his growing crops. By no means destroy or frighten away the feathered songsters, who, though they may claim something to eat from your fields and gardens, are sure to save from the insects many times as much as they take of your crops. Don't kill thebirds. Jeffersonville News: A few -days ago, while David S. Koons and some other gentlemen were burning a tree on Twelve Mile island, there was a sudden explosion in the top of the tree. Upon examination it proved to be an old shell which had been lodged in 'the top of the tree. The only explanation of the mvsterious location of the deadly missile is that it must have lodged there during the Morgan raid. Nobody was injured by the explosion. Lafayette Courier: Hughes and Ward are already famous for vigorous use of AngloSaxon. They speak to the point without special reference to periods or grammar hence the lollowing from some delicate lady wbose well trained ears have been offended. Hughes read the postal card to bis audience last night:. . Messrs. Hughes and Ward : Please take the advice of a friend and profit by the following sug'stions: I drattk or nave drank:, not "drinked;" I ariw or have Been, not 'I have saw" or "I neen ;" 1 did or bave done, not "I have did" or "I done;" I heard, not "heertd." . Amkkicus. Jeffersonville News: General Ekin is now having fitted up irjjthe government depot at this city a military museum, which will contain miniature models of all articles of camp equipage. The most interesting feature of the museum will - be lay figures of United States soldiers, which will show the uniform worn by our soldiers from the revolutionary war to the present time, includirg colored troops. One of the figures, a private in dress unilorm of the present regulation style, has already been received from New York, trom whence the others, 23 in nnmbnr, will be received soon. The figure is very natural and lifelike in appearance. Aprojws of the depot--the grounds are now in a most beau

tiful ' condition, and it hi a good time for visitors to take a walk through this large and interesting institution. Any well behaved person will be admitted to the premises. Jeffersonville News: In the police court this morning appeared "Indian Ide," a lineal descendant of Tecumseh. She came over here yesterday from Louisville, and, being under the influence of a miserable decoction of fire water, raised the war whoop on Spring street. Ledger-Standard : Judge Jonas G. Howard was in the city to day holding court. He Informs us that the growing crops in Clark county are much more forward than ever before known. Judge H. reports that there is considerable corn throughout the county several inches high. John McCulloch ba wheat near Jed'ersonville over knee high, and in fact some of it is heading out. There were four arrivals at the state prison south Saturday, to-wit: John Grady, two years; John Kichards, one year both for grand larceny from lerre Haute; Tom Shepherd, who went out one year ago to get a new trial for murder, returned for life; Walter Rodman, from Washington county, came in for 21 years for murder. William

an Felt was discharged by expiration of sentence. Columbus Democrat: The striped insect of Colorado is amongst tu. We are Informed by a reliable gentleman that on numerous fences surrounding potato patches hereabouts the dates of planting and variety of the seed have been carefully cut in the top rails bv the advance agents of the bag. By thi's means the bug is able to meet his annointments at the proper time, and not be forced to lay around in people's way before the crop is ready for him. Decatur (Greensburg) News: A temperance convention and Y. M. C A. anniversary will commence a Eession in this city on Friday evening, May 3, in the First M. E. churcb, and continue through Saturday, Sabbath, and perhaps a part of the week following. Saveral distinguished temperance speakers are expected, among them Mrs. Stivers, Mrs. Ex Governor Wallace, Mrs. Robinson, the Rev. Goodwin and others. On Sabbath, Messrs. Thome, Miller and Doane are .expected to occupy one of the churches, and in the evening of that day the anniversary of the Y. M. C. A. will be held. Evansville Courier: Mrs. Mary Graham, widow of the late John W. Graham, of Rockport, died early on Sunda' morning at the residence of her son-in-law, Captain J. W. Watermann. She was 80 years of age and was the mother of Joseph Graham, of EnterErise, Indiana; Samuel D. and James Graam, of Rockport; Mrs. Dr. DeBruler, Mrs. Captain Watermann and Miss Nannie Graham, of this city, and hits numerous relatives in southern Indiana. Mrs. Graham was one of the pioneers of southern Indiana, having resided in this section cf the state since 1S1D. She had been an invalid for several years. Her remains were taken to Rockport yesterday morning for interment. Terre Haute Courier: Terre Haute is more civilized now than it was a good many years ago, as will be seen by the following, which is found in the Terre Haute Advertiser of May 19. 1S24. which paper was published by John . Osborne: TO WHOM IT MAY COXCXRX. Know Ye, That the undersigned Miami Indians, being abliged to procet-d to Kaskaskla on business, do leave our wives and children In the white settlement, and as we always demean ourselves well, we solicit the white people not to mal-treat them In our absence. J A CCO, Wae Chief, SWAN, Vae Warrier, BULL, Wae Warrier. Greencastle Star, April 20: On next Monday the expressmen meet in convention at New Orleans. Expressmen are noted for strict integrity, business energy, and hue boots this by way of digression. Mr. W.H. Waters is assistant superintendent of the Adams express coniDaii3 and very popular withal. Tue employesof the company agreed to surprise him on next Monday, and to this end have purchased a $300 gold watch and chain to present him. These articles were purchased of A. R. Brattin, the Greencastle jeweler, by the committee, alter due examination and trial elsewhere. The watch is a "Brattin" movement, perfect and elegant, of course, in every particular. The inscription, artistically engraved thereon, reads: Presented by -Employes of Adams Express Company to W. 11. WATER3, Assistant Superintendent, April 22. 1878. The sale of such articles a3 the above, over strong competition, is a credit to Greencastle, as well as Brattin. KEW ALBAHY ITEMS. The brother of a German count and member of Kaiser Wilhelci'a cabinet is a citizen of New Albany. The snipe hunters mourn because of the scarcity of their favorite game. But then green frogs and wild ducks are plenty. Miss Emma Culbert.ion has returned home from Vassar college, owing to ill health, and will probably remain during the season. The aluninrc of the female high school is making preparations for the commencement exercises, which take place at the opera house on the 20th of May. . The prettiest girl in New Albany does all her mother's cooking and washing, and whitewashes all the ceilings and back fences and plays the fiddle qual to a professional. Mr. Patrick Coyle, of Cannelton, Indiana, an Irishman well knowp in this city, has just recovered from a spell of sickness. Mr. Coyle is 9C years of afre, and now bids fair to reach his 100th year. . The New Albany rail mill yesterday made the first bar under its contract for the Louisville street railway. The new rail will weigh 40 pounds to the yard, and of an entirely new pattern. The third annual convention of the medical society of the Third congressional district will meet at the court house in thiscity next Wednesday morning. It is desired that every physician in tbe district who can possibly do so will attenl the meeting. A New Albany young lady of rare genius and splendid educational endowments is said to be preparing herself for the stage, and will-make her dibut in the coming autumn at the Brooklyn theater. Brooklyn's a bad town for debutants and preachers. The board of county commissioners was in session yfsteday, examining plana for a new county poor asylum. The board virtually agreed to build the asylum according to the Jilans and specifications offered by Mr. C. B. Cooper, architect, of this city. The board, at the suggestion of Mr. Reilley, will go out to the poor farm bday to examine the grounds, and will probably order the auditor to advertise for bids this evening. Andrew J. Ealey and Ed Beurk, of this city, yesterday entered into an agreement to ran a foot race ot 100 yards for a purse of $30. The race will take place at the fair grounds, near this city, on Miy 4, at 3:30 o'clock. Mr. Ealey is a brakenan on the Jell" railway between thiscity and Jeffersonville. He has run twenty foot raaa, and ras only been beaten twice, and isoonsidered the champion of the state. The money is up, and the race will take place with Ht fail. JEFrERSOMVILIX ITEMS. A young fellow v.p in Randolph ' county showed his contempt for his father, who left him one dollar and the remainder of his handsome fortune to his wife and other children, by standing on the verge of the old gentleman's grave and lighting a cigar with a dollar bilL Thus his inheritance went to ashes. The water works company will probably lay their mains through the principal streets of Jeffersonville to supply the inhabitants with a good supply of water for fire and other purposes. It Is the opinion of Judge

Anthony, of New Albany, that the company can collect the $3,500 a year from the city, whether a contract is made out or not, the council having already virtually agreed o have water works, granting the company the right of way. Yesterday morning, as train No. 4 on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railway approached the crossing near the switch house, at the end of the depot yard, in Jeffersonville, engineer Shelton discovered a woman on the track. He blew the whistle, and as the woman attempted to step from tbe railroad the pilot struck her, knocking her down. She was picked up In an unconscious state and carried to the residence of Mx. Thompson, opposite the depot, when medical attention was summoned. The lady was recognized as Mrs. Sarah Gaither, wife of Frank Gaither. a well ' known gentleman of Jeffersonville. She had been to the government depot, and was returning home along the railroad track, but did not hear the bell on account of the storm prevailing at the time. The physicians found her left ankle was broken, and that

she had probably received internal injuries ot a uangerous cnaracter, besides having her forehead cnt hPVPreW Th train fartnnaoltr did not pass over her limbs. Mrs. Gaither was resting eay last .night, and the physicians have hopes of her recovery. A Poem by tienernl Itntler. April 10th was the STth anniversary of General William O. Butler's birth. .The following beautiful lines in reference to the month of his birth were written by the general many years ago, but have never before appeared in print: To thee, fair month, I owe my birth, And oft thou 'it come to glad tbe earth. When all forgotten I shall lie, , Forgetful of thy sun and hky; Yet hearts an warm and boies as vain Will great th e mid thy bowers again, Klate to run life's fevered race To find, like me, a resting place. But is there not, Jar, far away. Beyond the realms of lime and day, An April of perennial bloom Tbat breaks the winter ot the tomb, Where hope Btrnln may spread her wing earless of blight or withering? Teach me, thou great mysterious Power, O, teach me while I Journey here. To toil for wreaths tnat bloom but there. , Carroliton Democrat. Tbe Itelknaps. A Washington correspondent says Belknap yet lingers, moth like, around the blaze that scorched his wings, but festive halls where he and his wife were wont to be among the gayest of the gay now know him no more forever. He dies hard. His magnificent auburn beard is streaked with gray, his hyperion locks no longer curl (for he has had them clipped and "sand papered"), and he looks ' as he evidently feels, a sad and broken map- -Belknap not only retains his flesh, however but has grown corpulent to obesity. Te wine, terrapin, canvas back ducks and other goodies of the Grant regime had a wonderfully fattening effect, and there is not a case on record where any partaker thereof has subsequently lost what he gained in pounds avoirdupois. The beautiful Mrs. Belknap is living as best she may in the little city of Keokuk, called the "gate of Iowa." The Dividends or the Bonanza Kin-. Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise. The Consolidated Virginia mining company yesterday declared its usual monthly dividend (No. 41) of $2 per share, aggregating $1,030,000, payable on the 13th inst. This brings the grahd total of dividends paid by this company since May, 1874, up to $39,900,000. The California mining company also declared yesterday the usual monthly dividend (No. 24) of $2 per Ebare, aggregating $1,080,000, payable on Monday, the 15th inst., making the grand total of dividends paid tince May, 1876, (21 months), $25,920,000. Up to date the Consolidated Virginia has paid in dividends $74 per share, and the California $18 per 6hare, and the grand total of dividends paid by both companies is $'55,8S0.0O0. Kndical Ciratltnde. Washington Post. If you wish to see the "true, maimed Union soldier" In all the glory of the fat sinecure lavished on him by radical gratitude go at midnight and see him keeping his vigil as night watchman. about some government building. That is the sort of position deemed good enough for the maimed veteran. And he is very fortunate if not crowded out of that by the patriots who preservtd their physical integrity by keeping out of range of bullest. Indeed, such crowding out has repeatedly occurred under the benign administration of Mr. Hayes, as well as his predecessor. Wouldn't tbe "Stalwarts' Like It? I Boston Globe. Preparations are being made to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Wyoming " massacre on the 3d and 4th of July, on a grand scale. The old torts and huts along the Susquehanna are to be rebuilt, and even a tribe of Indians has been engaged, so as to make the scene resemble that of a hundred years ago, minus the massacre. Hayes has promised to be present. If he would only agree to play the part of the early settlers any number of "stalwarts" might be engaged to take that of the scalping savages. Political Influence. f Council Bluffs Globe. A bull fight in Texas. (75,000 majority for Tilden). Rep. Organ. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars 6tolen in Iowa. (00,000 majority for Hayes.) Three million dollars itoien in Pennsylvania. (159,000 majority for Grant in 172.) One hundred and sixteen million dollars stolen by federal office holders under Grant. (Hayes declared elected president in 1876 ) All the whisky thieves in the United States pardoned out of jail. (And the republican party is still in power.) A little grand-nephew of Prince Bismarck was sitting on the prince's knee the other day, when he suddenly cried out: "Oh, uncle, I hope I shall be a great man'likc you when I grow up!" "Why, my child?" asked his uncle. "Because you are so great, and every one fears you." "Wouldn't you rather every one loved you?" The child thought a little, and then replied: "No, uncle; for when people love you they cheat you, but when they lear you they let you cheat them." Colonel Robert Ingersoll has been lecturing in Bingharnpton, New York, and the ladiea of tbe Woman's Classical and Bible college have presented him with a copy of their just finished text book on "Moral" Philosophy," thanking him for the greatly increased strength their religious views and convictions received from his recent infidel ltcture in Binghampton. They were passing by a house even with the street, when she was heard to plead: "Don't take off your flannels yet, darling, it is too early. Don't do it" What he said was not heard, but, as lar ns could be observed in the gloom, he did not do it. Danbury News. A Florida negro mistook a mule for a ghost and poked it with a stick. The verdict recited tbat he came to his death by using too short a stick in probing the unknowable for evidence of a future existence. Worcester Press. Mr. Edison, the inventor of the phonograph, parts his hair at the top of his collar, and combs it straight up in the air. When he walks out he hangs his bat upon it. Mrs. General Gaines being asked how she retained her youthful feelings to the age of over eighty years, replied, "cJoap and water and a clear conscience." It is expected that the government will gain nearly ten millions of dollars by the destruction of fractional currency.