Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1878 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOHNING, DECEMBER 11, 1878-

WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11.

TERHH (POSTAGE PAID): IWVARIABLT CASH IN ADVANCE. Without With Sunday Issue. Sunday Issue. I f Vpy nn yoftr , f ilul L1U 1 Copy six months .. WO 6.00 1 Copy three months. 8 IX) 1 Copy one montn ...... .-5 1.0 1 Copy per week by carrier .20 J2S Additions to clubs received at any time at ftlob rate. WEEKLY: Single Copy one year 1 1D0 Clubs of five one year-... ........... 6. IX) Club o ten one year, (and an extra copy to the getter up of the olub)-......... 10.00 Clubs of twenty-two, on year. 20 00 Agents wanted at every post office In the state. Send for outfit. How to Knd Honey. Remittance may be made by draft, moneyOrder, or registered letter, at our risk. Ulve Postofflce address in fall, including Bute and County, and address INDIANAPOLIS SENTISEI. CM. Whelas, the forger and embezzler, has been arrested in Montreal. Ha had a short run. A war cloud about the size of a small ship indicates that the United States and Chili may come to blows. A Baltimore savings bank has deposits amounting to the sum of $5,000 and a ran has been commenced upon It. One hundred and twenty thousand drawn was out in two days. Govk&sob Hampton was to hate a leg; amputated on Saturday last. If this did not kill him bid friends were sanguine of saving his life; in fjcr, amputation was regarded as a life sarin; venture. The message fell like a shower of autumn leaves, and but made about as deep an lmpresslon on congress and the country a so many leaves would make en the ground. New York Express. Nothing of the sort. You are too poetical by half. Tbe message fell from the sublime altitude of Hayes' mouth like a cold flapjack, and remains just where it tell. Thk Unite 1 States have several kinds of dollars- the sold dollar, the silver dollar, tbe subsid'ary half dollars, quarters atd diiu8, the nickel, and the greenback dollar. The Sbylock financiers want only the gold dollar, and to get down to this, have filled the laud with idleness. Workingmen want any of the above named dollars, h&II dollars, dimes or nickels, all of which are equal in their buying power, but as they can not get work they can not get the dollar not even nickels with which to buy bread. What is wanted is leas tinkering about gold for the benefit of Sbylocks, and a policy that a ill give work and wages in some kind ot money that will keep people from starvation. Somk time ince tbe British government concluded to introduce a few thousand sepoy soldiers to aid in adjusting European com plications. It was Iord Beaconafield's idea. Ue prided himself upon it, and his government indorsed tbe project. We do not remember what position the Imlianspolis Journal took upon that line f policy, though we are inclined to tLe opinion that l favored Beaconsfield's undrrtakiog; and this is tbe more rational view, since it went into effect and the India troops were brought forward end camped withio striking distance of the Russian army. Tbe influence of the Journal is tremendous in shaping natioral affairs. Not long ago, it will be remembered, the Journal advised Hayes to veto the silver bill, and Hayes, as in duty bound, proceeded with his veto ritt. True, it did rot amount to anything except in so far as it Indicated the overwhelming influence cf tin Journal in Treating great measures. England bas what she is pleased to cull her India empire, containing about 300,000.000 of inhabitants, a country of vast wealth and resources. Beaconsfitsld wants to, reconstruct its northern frontier, and for that purpose has concluded to bate a war with the Afghans, who inhabit a country so situated that to place tbe frontier in a secure condition, nothing less than a sound thrasMng will answer tbe purpose. The Jour;:at, ax Lord Br aconsfield will doubtles be pained to learn, is oppwed to this war.' It don't think much of tbe boundary question and I de:id' dly opposed to the Beaconsfield policy of miking India bear the expense. We. will tee what eff-jct the Journal's pronounce 1 hostility has upon tb British parliament, for it id quits possible it will ba as conspicuous as its influence upon Hayes in his opposition to the remonetizatlon of the silver dollar with similar results. RADICALS AND NORTHERN NEGROES. FYrtuiiately for tbe country, facts are coming to the surface from colored witnesses showine up radicalism in its true light Intelligent men bave known from the first tliAt the intense solicitude manifested by the radical party for the negro bad about as much btari in it as a wolf's friendship for the lamb; snd this fact is getting at last pretty deep down in the understanding of tbe average colored voter, north and eoutb as the following Boston social to the New York Word proves: II. stox I e 6. The fact that the republican leader in A' as h 111". ton are preparing to make war upon t:e ou: h because of alleged intt rfen nee with the right of suffrage brings into prominence a number ot cases here In Boston wbrre Driii(if have beeu bulldozed by their emp'oyeis ai d compelled to vol the ticket nntlii tliHr hands by their white masters. There aretw colored men 1q the employ of j lntlucoimi ie.uoncnn ai tne niizmamis wno are rewdy io inak oU that, they weie compelled to vote as their employers dictated or lose, their places To day a well known colored citizen publishes a crd in which he sas that he hs voted the republican ticke. for thirteen year and served In the late wr. At the last elect ion he voted for (ieneral Butler. Kiuc- then h has boen persecuted and proscribed b bin former republican friends, aud w n permitted to participle lu a republican cincuH .n Ward . lie says: 4'I And that this very republican party have not acted in gooo faith, and only wauled to free us from slavery at t? e south fo that we might be greater slaves to tbe republican party ai the north." There is no disputing this testimony, and it oiigbt to have the effect upon radical bloody khirt r rgans to modify their clamor with retard io southern election outrages which are chi. fly fiction, and manufactured t) ord-rfora most villainous purpose. A very calm review of" Hayes' allusion to southern ec ions in his message is made in the coin runs of the Vew York "World, which completely upsets the radical supers tincture of falsehood and fiction, and is well calculated to i roduce a reaction in the minds of

those who have been disposed to accept the reports as truthful. ' The World says: ' 1 Now that President ' Hayes baa solemnly made what he calls tbe "record" of the November elections at tbe south, and especially In Louisiana and Houth Carolina, tbe burden of a presidential wall, let us see what the results of those elections were. In Maryland the republicans gained a seat; In Alabama they helped the nationals to defeat a democrat: In Virginia they retained their solitary member, and by an Increased majority; In North Carolina they kept the member they already had, gained another, and by the withdrawal of Canaday (rep ) in the Third district In favor of Russell (national) secured the election of a representative whom both Butler and Kearney ought to approve. In Texas they helped a republican candidate or two years ago to beat Hancock (dem.) In the Fifth district, lu Florida they kept their member. In Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi they bad no members to lose, and did not apparently attempt to gain any. For In Arkansas they made no nominations, In Georgia they let the contest go by default in seven out of nine districts, and in Mississippi they only ventured to contest the sat of one democrat out of six, and that In a district desolated by tbe yellow fever. In Kentucky, out of f our d (strict which they seriously con tested , they held their ground In one and made gains In two. In Ten nessee they held one former republican district and lost the other by making a weak nomination. Finally, by giving up West Virginia as a hopelessly democratic state they probably lost a fair chance of winning at least one scat. With this record the whole theory ot southern election outrages tumbles to pieces and brings those who have constructed It for effact upon the north into contempt

LAW AND TAXATION. Our article upon this subject yesterday morning was partly predicated upon tbe statement in Friday's News, that the board of county commissioners had contracted with Charles F. Fant to pay him 25 percent. of the taxes realized by the county on "sequestered property." Its appearance created a flatter among the docks who have been filling their maws out of the publio crib, and made them quack with alarm. On yesterday we took the trouble to investigate the matter for ourselves, and learned that the News was mistaken in Its statement that tbe board bad contracted with Fant; that the contract was with another man, tbe successor of whom thinks he u under cover, but who will realize, when be reads the Sentinel tday, that his arnbtua has been discovered. On Monday, the 12th day of November, 1977, the board of county commlss Ot ers passed the following order: Ordered, That under the agreement heretofore made for the collection of taxes where the assessors failed to return and the persons liable to make a proper return of their assets, and where tbe same does not appear on tbe duplicate, the county treasurer is hereby authorized, where collections as above specified aie made, to report for distribution by the county auditor 75 er cent, of tbe taxes so collected and to pay the remaining 25 per cent, to W. C. Morlarty. Sometime after the passage of this order Monarty bad an "onpleasintnesa" with the grand jury and was bounced from bis desk in tbe court house. It thereiore became necessary to find some one to take his place as a tax detective, and John L. Hanna, a deputy in the treasurer's office, was chosen. 8ometime subsequent to this Mr. Hanna desired to set up in btibinesa for himself and became a candidate for nomination for a county office on the radical ticket. Not wishing to have too many irons in tbe fire at the same time be turned over his interest in the Moriarty contract to Mr. Samuel Hanway, treasurer of the county. This gentleman, not desiring to be known to the public as an informer or detective, procured the ready services of Mr. Fant, who entered Into the work with great zest. We are not ad vised of the terms of the agreement between Crusoe and Friday, but assume they are sat. isfactory to both the high contracting parties. For awhile things went on swimmingly. Friday nosed around and turned up many soda of clov?r. Crusoe gathert d tbe blossoms, put three-fourths of them into the hay loft and the other fourth into his breaches pocket He made hay rapidly while the sun shone, but tbe golden orb went behind the clouds and bleak December brought Cotterell's injunction. No more bay for Crusoe and Friday! Now, let us examine the contract under which this hay was harvested, and see if it is legal and binding. We will not discuss the question as to whether its provisions can extend to others than Moriarty; we will assume they can, for a man's property descends to his legal rcpresentatives,and Crusoe and Friday may be, for aught we know, the lawful heirs of the lamented Moriarty. Section 15 of the Fea and Salary Act reads ai follows: The board of county commissioners shall make no allowance not specially required by this act to any county auditor, clerk, sheriff or treasurer, eltner directly or indirectly, nor to any clerk, deputy, bailiff or employe of such officer, nor aball they employ or authorize the employment of any deputy, bailifT or clerk for such otneer; and for a violation of the provisions of this section each member of such bord favoring the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined In any sum tot less than double nor 'more than five limes the amount of such allowance, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail lor any period not more than sixty days, and the office of such commissioner shall be declared forfeited. Moriarty, with whom the commissioners contracted, was at the time of the making of the contract deputy county auditor; Hanna, who succeeded Moriarty in tbe contract, was a deputy county treasurer, and Mr. Han way, who took Hanoa's place, is the treasurer himself. We suppose Mr. Fant is a deputy treasurer, as be Is usually during business hours to be found behind the treasurer's counter, but be this as it may, be is his clerk, and therefore is precluded from receiving pay from the county commissioners for work done for the treasurer. By allowing tbe money to Fant the other day the commissioners did an illegal act and one which renders them liable to aevere penalties. If they were bamboozled into making the allowance they are to be pitied; if they did it with their eyes open they should ba made to feel tbe full penalties of violated law. OHIITAItY. MRS. 8ALUK A. RAM AG K. DIED At 8 o'clock and 50 minutes, Saturday, December 7, Mrs. Sallle A. Raruage, eldest daughter of J. B. Maynard, in the 28th year of her atee. Funeral services will take place today, Sunday, December 8, at 2:')0 o'clock p. ra.. at "the resi dence of her father, 125 West Hecond street. Friends of the family are Invited. Hhe Is quiet now. Disease bas left Its Impress upon ivery faculty of body and mind. There la no smile, no pleasant recognition, no gentle word. She breathes, ber heart continues its throbbing, and sometimes a .moan escapes her Hps. Besides these evidences of life all is quiet. Color has departed from her cheek, brightness from her eye, strength from her limbs and reason from ber brain. Iter's is repose that resembles death. Weeks of pain have done fearful work, and death by steady approaches Is nearlng the citadel of life. Ail that skill and attention and aflectlon can

do to arrest its march la being . done but the situation grows more critical the crisis is approaching. Life and death are even now in close conflict. We await results with Intense solicitude. While we wait tbe beautiful life passes bafore us In all Its entrancing loveliness. A child of rare endowments, In her girlhood she took upon herself the obligations of a religious life, and from the dky of her public profession of Christ she never wavered In ber faith. Ilcr religion was unobtrusive, her prayers were In secret. Fidelity to every obligation was exhibited In her dally life, and cheerfulness, kindness and forgiveness were the abundant fruits. Extenuating words when others complained, hoping when others were despondent, courageous when others faltered, trusting when others doubted, and forgiving when others were exulting were tbe adornments of a mind singularly free from weaknesses. To belp others was a special pleasure, and to smooth the pathway of life to those who had her affection was to her a real Joy. Her reading was extensire. her perceptions of the beautiful, the good and the true quick and clear, and she omitted no opportunity to evidence her desire to make others happy. Hhe cherished no enmities, cultivated no frivolities, aha saw her duty clearly and went forward with patient earnestness In its performance. She forgot no obligation, and her gratitude was never clouded by deceit. At home the tenderest ties bound her to parents, brothers, sisters and husband, and life was brighter by her presence. . During tbe last four years she wrote much and was pleased to know that ber mind was undergoing a discipline that would lead to wider usefulness. Bhe never wrote a word of uuklnduess of any living being, but sought to awaken only generous emotions and acts of benevolence. Her fugitive pieces, written for the Sunday Sentinel, gained for her a number of appreciative readers, and the kindly words that occasionally came to her hearing were priceless rewards. As a 8unday-school teacher few were more successful In winning friendships, which she cherished with devotional care. As we write ber pulse is growing faint and feeble; life currents are flowing feebly through her veins; reason has abdicated its throne ; tne breath is quick ; eyes closed ; deat h Is approaching; the last struggle will soon be over, and then there will bo rest for the weary. Friends moisten her lips and wipe the death dew from her brow. Relatives, near and dear, gather around, Imprint the farewell kiss and say good-bye. They go with her to the stream, and only on Its brink are hands uncliiMjxxl. The soul takes Us night. Hhe Is dead. Tears fall like rain. God bo thanked for tears, us they tranqullize, and through tbem the bereaved look up and say, "Thy will be done." In life a favorite song, one which she loved and sang with the tenderness of childlike trust, was the poet's conception .of the text: "And lo, a great multitude which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms In their hands." "Who are those In bright array. This exulting, happy throng, Round the altar night and day, Singing one triumphant song? "They have clean robes, white robes; White robes are waiting for me; Yes, clean robes, white roltes, Washed in the blood of the Lamb. "Clad In raiment pure and white, Victor palms In every hand, Through their great Redeemer's might More than conquerors they stand. "Joy aud gladness banish sighs, Perfect love dispels all fears; And forever from thine eyes iod shall wipe away their tears." With a faith as strong as her own, we leave her with the "exultlng.happy throng." By the side of her sainted mother her form will rest. The living who loved her will cherish sweet memories of her life, and a faith like that which sustained her, that when life's fitful fever is past they shall Join her in that blessed country where . - . "Sickness, sorrow, pain and deatli Are fell and feared no more." KvaaBaBSBBKBESBHBBsaasaaBsai

CLIPPINGS. Hays the Captain to Pat, "Come, I'll have none of that!" As Faddy of whisky was drinking his fill. With a satisfied sigh, As he finished the "rye," Kays Paddy, "Be jabers, I dont think ye will!" Exchange. How to manage a wife Remain single. Norrlstown Herald. hoNo of the dry goods clerk "Swinging in delalu." Suturday ugbt. "I AM monarch of all I, sir, weigh," remarks the Uowanda Enterprise. A Parting Glass The maiden's final look in the mirror at her new hat. Corxkt playing In church, according to the PhlladelphiaChronlcle, is worshiping the Ixrd in a horn. Low roosts and dark night greatly tempt the ungodly to eat boned turkey New Orleans Plcayuue. Tun early dog drinks all the milk from the pall on the front stoop. Hacxensack (N. J.) Republican. Is Shakespeare's time there was "a tide in the affairs of men ;" now the tied Is In the affairs of women. - " I there is anything in a name, we should say "Congress Yeast Powder" would be rather a dilatory riser. "Woman's Work is Never Done" is a beautiful poem. N. B- For "work" read "gossip," New York Express. Some men are born great rascals, and some have great rascals thrust upon them. New York Commercial Advertiser. J It was the Chicago Journal that said," A few more medical schools, and there will be no business left for resurrection day." Did Panl write his epistles on parchment or paper? Exchange. On neither. He used apostle card. Somervllle Journal. "8a so" color Is the latest color In Paris for traveling dresses. It Is said to look as sweet as sugar. New York Commercial Advertiser. In New York a Chinese bill of fare Includes "hard boiled legs." Somehow these celestials have an "1" of a time learning English. Boston Tost The Detroit Free Press says that every coal dealer in Cincinnati belongs to the church. They must be a coal blooded lot of Christians. Boston Post. That the earth Is not of uniform1 thickness Is proven by the fact that one doesn't have to dig as deep in some places to strike china as In others. Yonkers Gazette. ALb the signers of the declaration of independence signed their names .with qulll pens except one be singed his Wilherspoon." Boston Journal of Commerce. From now till Christmas the women of the world will make a desperate effort to prove that all men who say they can't keep a secret are liars. Fond du Lao Reporter. South Afkicak proof readers die young. The last one succumbed to the description of a fight between the CnabellnlJIJl and Amaswaziezlzl tribes. N. Y. Commercial AdvertiH?l"a The age of economy has been reached In Foxboro, Mass where a woman stopped a clock from running because'lt would wear out too fast It Is a positive fact. Evidently she believed it to be a great waste of time.

THE IlUSPiTAL FOR; ISS1KE.

Annual Report of the Commis. sioners and Superintendent. As Attempt to Answer the Charges of Extravagance. A Labored Showing of the Operations of the Institution! A Claim That the Management Baa Been Consistently Economical. Tbe annual report of the commissioners and superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane "to the general assembly of tke state ot Indiana," was issued yesterday in an official pamphlet form, not having been submitted to the governor. Tbe report is quite a lengthy document, of which the following are abstracts: The commissioners, P. II. Jamenon, Goo. F. Chittenden and John T. Richardson, compliment the officers and emploj-es of the institution for the manner in which thev have performed their duties, and say that the Internal affair of the hospital have moved along smoothly and without interruption. It has been our desire, and, in co-operation with the superintendent, we have labored to place this hospital la the foremost tank of state Institutions of Its kind in this c ountry. In this we have meosura-ly succeeded. In dlana, with nearly two million inhabitants, her great Industrial interests, her colleges and schools, and her lower percentage of illiteracy than is found In some of tbe New England s ales, has not been behind her sisters la her public charities. She may well be proud of them. While we have avoided spending money merely for display, we have deemed it a duty, in view of the liberal appropriations of the last, and other preceding legislatures, to do whatever might, In ourjudgernent contribute to the best and most satisfactory results. Well furnished wards grounds ornamented witn trees and flowers, and harmless indoor and outdoor amusements are among the t hlngs which please the senses, and thereby tranqnlllzing the mind and bring it more lulo harmony with its surrouudlngs. PROFESrilONAX, WORK. The strictly professional work pertaining to the hospital has, in our judgment, been intelligently and faithfully performed by Dr. Kverts and his assistant 'physicians. Their medical regime seems to have been In pursuance of the mora advanced professional ideas and their treatment according to the more generally approved methods in our opinion, two more physicians tiiould be ndded to the pr sent corps at an early date, holding a 8uxrdinate rank to tbe assistant physicians. By this means the Assistants v.'ould be enabled still more to individualize tbeir cases, and better met tbe distinctive indications of each and perhaps contribute smethlng original to the knowledge of the profession. During the year each assistant bas bad in Immediate charge more than three hundred paiieuts, the majority of whom have been acutely Insane; with only such advisory assistance as cou d be given by the superintendent. It seems clear that there should be additional help In this depnrtment. VF-NTILATIOK, HEATlNfl ASD TUElNext In Importance to skillful medical treatment, we regard proper heating and ventilation. lieat aud ventilation in a building like this hospital are necessarily associated, uolding to each other the relation of cause and eCtct. Practically, when the temperature of the air is low, there can be no ventilation w ithout the expenditure of heat. To move the foul air of tbe wards upward and outward through flues constructed for that purpose, require the constant ingress of warm air rising from the steam colls beneath through the registers Any one, whether a physician or not in passing through apart meuts occupied by the insane can cot fail to observe tho large proportion of patients having cold and clammy hands, pallid faces and emaciated forms. Equally noticeable In many Instances Is the unhealthy and offensive character of the em nations from tbe bodies of these patients. To relieve these unfavorable conditions the air of the wards most not only be kept warm, but must.be frequently changed which makes tbe burning of a large amount of fuel necessary. , The fact that tbe capacity of air space ot the hospital Is nearly 8,1 OU,000 cubic feet ought to give an idea of the magnitude of this requirement! and tbe expenditure mde necessary io meet it. Tne coal required lor this purpose has been purchased from the lowest bidders, at such times and in such quantities as has been found necessary. The vouchers show that 30,7;0 bushels of Pittsburg t-oai at ll1 cent s per bushel, 30,917 bushels of block coal at!4 cents per buxbel, 5,801 bushels of block coal at Ai cents per bushel have been fmrcbased within the year. The contractors uive delivered It on the s Itch of the I., & St. L. Railroad, near the hospital. From here It has been carted, and weighed by the steward on the scales of tbe hospital. Forks are used In removing it from tho tara, so that all slack is excluded before weighing About 30.000 bushels of Pittsburg col remain "on hand" but nearly the same quantity brought over from the year before has been consumed,' so that the amount purchased during the year is about equal to tbe quantity which bas been nsed. For several years past we have thought it better to keep three or four months supply In store, as occasionally "strikes" of operatives In the Western mines have made scppltes from that source uncertain, wbile our demands might be nrgent. HTJttaSTKXCK. We believe tbat the so called "luxuries of the table" are almost always unhealthy, and as a general thing unfit for the insane. At the same lime we are firmly Impressed with tbe indea that such articles of tood as are necestary, should be of the very betst quality. As investments, inferior meats, roor flour, strong butter, etc . are but one degree better lhan bad eggs. As food they are alike nnprotltable for either sick or well. During the year the beef furnished the house has been the product of the best"shlpplng stock," purchased by the steward, and butchered at tne hospital. The flour used hns been of tne bent grado offered by the manufacturers of this city. It has been bought at wholesale always. Our butter supply has been from the best In the market, and of a qoallty nsed at our best hotels ieas, coffees, and sugars have been of flue grades and ftults and vegetables have Keen as good as the market afforded. Purchases bave generally been made at wholesale prices from tbe laigest bouses In tbe city. We believe tbat tbe resident officers, whose duty it is to purchase these supplies, have exercised due care and prudence in so doing. We have found that light and poorly fatted meats shrink so much in cooking that they are quite as costly as a better article. By consulting tbe vouchers it will be seen tbat tbe total cost of beef cattle for ti e year has been S10,741.71. The books of the steward show a reimbursement of 1,74.21 on account f hides and tallow, which, deducted from the cost of the cattle leaves 1)1,001.42 as the net cost of beef during tbe year; in addition to which 2i,373 pounds or other meats, mostly pork and dried meats, have been supplied at a cost of Sl.817.37. which, together with meats "on hand" at tbe beginning of the year to the value of S3o7.26 make an aggregate of fll,12ti.0-'l as the cost of meats of all kinds for the year. There having, been an average of 761 persons, patients an j employes, subsisted, it follows that the cost of meat for such persons per year bas been a fraction over 114.75 not quite 29 cents a week or four cents a day. Considering tbe excellent quality of the meals furnlkhed, and the great fn.portance of fresh beet as an element of nutrition in building up tbe variouslylmpalred organisations of the insane, surely they bave not been expensive. At the beglnlngof the year, November 1, 1877, there were "on band" 82 bbls flour. 1,273 bbls. were purchased during the year. l,ift3 bbls. were consumed, leaving '.til bbls. on hand at the close of the year. The cost of flour for each person subsisted has been fx.49 per year or about two cents aud three mills per day. Th amount of butter consumed has been .T2.311 lbs.; the average cost having been 1U cents per pound. The cost for butter for each person has been tS.ttl per year. Full and minute Information on all points relating to the subsistence can be had by consult Ing the vouchers on file at the office of the auditor of stale, and tbe books and reports of storekeeper at tbe hospital. These reports show the entire cost of articles of subsistence to have been only thirteen cents and eight mills per day for each person subsisted. This price does not seem exorbitant. ' AS TO BEE r CATTLE. , , There has been considerable comment and some unjust criticism as to tbe price paid for a lot of cattle bought by the steward at ft 75 on the eth of July of this year, and subsequently

delivered In two lots, about the 1st of August and the 1st of September.' On Inquiry we find that the stock b-longf d to a grade known as "shipping cattle." for whlsh grade no quotations were at that time made for the Indianapolis market. The quotations for "shipping cattle" at Chicago and St. Louis were as follows: July B, 1878, the date of purchase: Chicago, 1 1.70 to So.60 ; 8t . Lou is, U 50 to $5. August 1, the date of flrM delivery: Chicago, Si HU to S3 2; rtt. Louts, M.76 to 5. September 2, date ofsecmd delivery: Chicago, 11 to f 1.8a; St. Louis not given. from this statement of prices it appears that the average market quotations on the date of purchase, July , 1878. was S4.U2 or 17 cents above tbe price paid and that the average of all the quotations for JulytJ, August land September 2, thedstesofpurcna.se and delivery was fl.78, oi 8 cents above the price paid. It is also well kuown to producers and stock men that the higher quotations of the Indianapolis stock market refer to a lower grade of cattle, called "butchers' cattle," and the prices of "shipping cattle" are nt t governed by these quotations, but by tbe quotations of Chicago and St. Louis. At the time of making this purchase the steward took bids, as be always does before purchasing cattle, of several other stock raisers, none ol which were below the price then paid. THE KM PLC YES. The report refers at letgth to the necessity of having a good corps of ward attendants and other employes in an institution of tbe kind. They eay: In referring to the pay roll for October, filed with the auditor of state, yon will find the aggregate amount of wages paid C2,77M. This montn may be taken as an average for the yesr. The largest item is the monthly salary of the superintendent, fliie.66. Next the two assistant physicians receive $100 each, and the steward receives tasa. As to the other employes, It will be s.jen, the engineer getsSoO per month; the four next highest get SiO; one gets S3tt; one .5; one $30: oneJ-M; seven S2o; tweniy-two S2i; sixteen $18; three $17; ten $10; thirty-five 311: ten $12; sixteen $11; 8even$10; one $8, ana two ti, the number being H4, some ofjwhom were paid only for the fraction of a month, the number constantly employed being a little lew. CLOTH l so. The. total amount of the clothing account collected by the treasurer of state Is placed upon his books to the credit of the Institution, and is drawn upon by our board precisely in the same manner as it appropriated by the legislature. No part of tbe fund, however, is levied for or appropriated by the state. It comes wholly from the patients or the counties, nor has the superintendent nor the board, at any time, custody thereof. The amount credited this year hasbeon fl5,71io0, at an average cost of $25.40 per patient. Sometimes, but not frequently, the accounts show hUb priced articles have been purchased for the use of patients of the more wealthy classes, such being tbe desire or their friends, who cheerfully pay the bills. These facts ought to satisfy the inquiring minds of some persons who areanxious to kaow why a few pair of ladles' slippers have bsen bought at $2.50 per pair, and paid for by such patients as wanted them. REPAIRS. The year's appropriation for repairs was 110,000, of which J,s78.6J have been expended, the balance lapsing to the treasury as undrawn. It requires considerable expenditure to keep up the repairs of the buildings, as they have a great cpacity a!i immense exposure and are cut up inro more than five hundred apartment,", having the modern conveniences of steamy besting, water, baths, closets, and much else easily impaired. The occupants crowding every part of the house at all times, and oiten destructive, are always iudioerent as to its preservation. We estimate the original cost of the building at 600,000, and believe that it will never require less than from one to two per cent, ontbis amount to keep everything In good orderthat is, from $j,tXX) to $10,000 a year. MAI NTEN ANC'E. This includes all the expenditures of the Institution actually met by the state, except for repairs clothing being paid for by the counties or tbe patients through their legal representatives, asset forth. The appropriation for the year was $;?0,000 of which $107,227.12 have been expended, and $2.772.88 returned to tbe state. The dally average number of patients for the year having been 617, it follows that the cost of each patient per annum has been $173.77, and that the cost of each patient per week has been S3 34 lor maintenance, which we believe is as cheap as a good hospital can be maintained. A comparison of tne years 1855 and 1878, as to expenditures, may be made from the following statement: ISSi. Average number of patients.............. 178 Whole cost of maintenance $C2.fi32 41 ( out of each patient per year $183 32 Cost of each patient per week . IS 52 187. Average number of patients 612 Whole cost of maintenance ....$107,227 17 Cost of each patient per year $173 77 Cost of each patient per week S3 4 MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. Tbe report refers to tbe improvement in the water supply by the sinking of a deep well, and the accounts, vouchers and modes of payment. They also call attention to the insecurity of the 'moneys of the institution

under what seems to b- the financial system of the state. They say: The treiisurer of state is ex officio the treasurer of the .hospital, the custodian of all moneys appropriated for Its uses by the Btr.te, and thus far rightlully subject to our super-vb-lon. The penalty ot the tond of this oJtlcer Is only f lOO.OOu, while the funds in his bauds as shown by his monthly statements olten amount to from 5uo,0iO to $l,ouo,ooo. The annual appropriations for this institution alone exceed his bonded liabilities. Ue could thereiore If so disposed, default at any time In any sum ranging from four hundred thousand to eight hunared thousand dollars, for wbicb the stale would bave no security whatever, and thus leave this institution wholly without supirt . Nor is this all. There Is no sufficient check upon the state auditor. Tbe penalty of bis bond is only ten tbousand dollars, while he virtually controls alt of the funds of the institution. . This officer or any deputy of his could draw with impunity a fraudulent warrant on the treasuier against tbe funds of the hospital, for any sum. in favor of whom he might choose, and the treasurer be compelled to pay It. without knowing if it were genuine or not. In this way the balk of an appropriation might with ease be sjuandered by the malfeasance of a single person, without the knowledge of the treas arer or ourselves. THE SCPERIXTESDENT'S REPORT. The superintendent Orpheus Kverts, in his report gives tbe movement of population as follows: In hospital November 1, 1877 614 Admitted within the year.... 470 Whole number treated Dailv average Disch arged recovered 1 llfwhfirvml ImnmvMl Dicharged not improvedinscnargea not l a sane Tt--ll 1 g T-- ttl -11 M t I I I III I "f " - TT-TTT 40 Remaining In hospital.................... t14 The daily average for tbe year has exceeded that of any former year, the house having been crowded every day. The ratio of recoveries is lower than has been reported for some years, there having been fewer acute cases of disease admitted, and more cbronto cases retained, as a consequence. Ibe death rate, however, has been lower than usual. Fewer applications for the admission of patients recently attacked than has been customary and ex pec toil have been received within the past year, which is a noticeable Jact, Indicating a slight decrease in the development of insanity among the population of our state attributable, undoubtedly, to the general Immunity of our territory from serious diseases, aDd an abundant supply of food for all classes of citizens, as disease and deprivation are important factors In the causation of Insanity. raAffCIAL STATEMENT. Appropriations on account of maintenance for tbe year ending -October 31, 1878 ... -..$120,000 00 Cr. on account of clothing for 1877-... 15,715 30 Total . $135,715 30 Expended within the year-$122,17(i tt Rtlunded treasury for advance, 1877... .. -. 765 76 122,942 42 Lapsed to treasury, drawn balance un$12,772 88 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. Tbe amount advanced for clothing out of this year's expendltuies may be estimated as equal to the amount of credit received from the account of last year so that our maintenance proper, Including every expense except clothing, repairs and general Improvements, should be set down at $107,227.12, which Indies es the rate of expenditure for each patient to have been $173.77 for the year, or $3.34 a week, there having boen a daily average of 617 patients maintained. When the character of our population and tte uses for which the hospital was founded are taken into consideration that It la not, aid was not designed

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to be a cheap boarding bouse for paupers, but a refuge and hope for citizens of the state a filleted by disease requiring special treatment and expensive care, tbe rate abeve Indicated Is not, and does not seem exorbitant. The cost of maintenance for the year previous, ending October XI, 1877, was at the rate of $3.17. In estimating the actual cost ot maintenance of patients In the hospital, from printed reports, by persons not familiar with the facts, an error Is often made by adding the amount of "credit on account of clothing,'' which U advanced from year to year, an I does not really add anything to our resources; and the amount received by the steward from ssJes of hlJes and tallow raostly originally drawn from tbe appropriation and paid out and accounted for lu the purchase of cattle for beef, to the amount of the regularly appropriated resources. as the hospital bas no other original resource than the state treasury, and can not draw from that more than is appropriated by law for our expenditures, it follows that our expenses can not exceed the amount appropriated; although, by converting one class of materials into anotner-aa tbat of hides and tallow Into cash to be expended for other goods, and charging up tbe value of each class so received In exchange as an original resource, the figures might ne multiplied indefinitely, to the great a.arm of the misinformed tax-payer. SPECIAL PLEADING. Much of the superintendent's report is devoted to a review of hie connection with the institution, and an argument in behalf of his management and general course of action. He claims credit for vast improvements made since be took charge and goes deep into figures to prove that the institution has run at a less average cost per inmate than any similar one in the country. He gives a table of items in the bill of fare showing that the cost of the daily ration is 16 cents and 8 7-10 mills, and then asks, "Should our expenditures be still further reduced? Is it practicable? Is it best?" Tbe superintendent also says: I recognize, also, the fact that tbe periodical promise of "retrenchment and reform'' made by politicians and parties should be fulfilled whenever practicable. But there Is a limit. An institution of this kind can be retrenched out of existence, and soon would be, should each successive legislature feel called upon to appropriate something less than did its predecessorand nothing but failure and disgrace can be anticipated as a result of bandying great and permanent institutions of a strictly professional character like foot balls between Contending and alternatingly successful parties. I wish It also to be distinctly understood that 1 do not make this record with any selfish desire for personal retention In an office which I have already occupied for more thn double the average term ot five predecessors -and which I would only consent to remain in because "wanted." The report closes with various suggestions and recommendations. It says: It has been suggested that tbe money receivtd by the steward from sales of hides, etc., should be paid into the state treasury. As there Is no law by which the treasurer could receive such a fund and place it to the credit of the hospital, to do so would be equivalent to returning just ho much of our appropriation to the Tieasury. 1 can see no necessity for so doing, unless it is to be inferred that the money would be safer in tbe bands of the treasurer of state, than In the safe keeping of the Fteward, who is at the same time a bonded officer, it is a great convenience to the hospital to have a fund from which small bills can be paid, without waiting for the monthly meetings of the board, In some instances. A list of vouchers covering the disbursements ,f tbe steward, will be found in the appendix. STEWARO'S REPORT. Hospital for Insane in account with farm. 1878. dr. To farm products, vegetables, hay, grain, etc. as per schedule $1,72 00 To 14,oiio gallons milk at 15 cents per gallon 2J9f 00 To 18 calves at $i each . 90 00

Total proceeds..... .-.$4,072 CO CR. By cost of production, labor, teams and tools, ground feed and products fed to cows, pasturage not included-! 201 35 Kstimated profit . $ 1,270 5 For details see appendix. Xlopital for the Insane, lu account with George Patterson, steward. R. By cash received from sales of blde, tallow, etc., from November 1, 1877, to October 81, 1878 -..-.J 3,5S1 21 . DR. To cash paid out as per vouchers on me ...... 2,815 25 AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS. Annual Report of the Officers of the State Board of Agriculture. The annual report of the state board of agriculture was submitted to the governor Monday. The report shows that the re ceipts during the year were $25,912.53, and the expenditures $17,562.49, leaving a balance in i he treasusy of $8,3.rf.08. Outside of this there are unsettled claims amounting to about $400. Included in this report are the expenses of the office of state geologist, which In tbe aggregate amount to $t,4S0 25. The surplus receipts over expenditures of the state fair last year amount to $5,030 02. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT. As a matter of interest we copy the following comparative entries for the years named:

1873 1874 1875 1870 1877 I 1878 Livestock 1M 1,4T3 1.S4U 918 1,404! 1,419 Agr.cul'U 419 404 3D2 30! 600 625 Hortic'ti It 291 20O , 04 lib 15 Textile ' fabrics.-1 523 301 845 312 471 m Totals. I 2,341. 2,599 2,314 1,633 2,551 3,109

No entries in the mechanical department are included In the above, as there was not any premium offered in that department of late years. There was on exhibition at the stale fair of 1S78 about l.fyo articles in the mechanical department, by 412 exhibitors, duly registered. The following is a statement ot comparative receipts for the years named, inclubive: 187C, $6,342.70; 1877, $11,511; 1878, $15,850.18. . Candidate for Doorkeeper. Bedford Banner .J Harry Soloman, E.q , qr Indianapolis, will be a candidate before tbe democratic caucus for doorkeeper of the house of representatives. Mr. Soloman is a gentleman, is polite and accommodating, is well qualified for such a position, and would adorn it with as much grace as any other gentlemsn in the state. Harry is an enthusiastic, working democrat, aud possesses tbe confidence of the leadi ng democrats not only of Marion county, but of the state generally. Tbe democrats throughout tbe state who are in tbe habit of attending state conventions will recollect Soloman as the enthusiastic "brunette" of tbe Marion county delegation, who always works like a beaver for his friends, but who always accepls the situation and votes "the ticket." Soloman is a good fellow and would make as good a doorkeeper as could be elected to that position. Edison's l.lecirle Llgbt. New York Herald. Another important advance toward the completion of tbe electric light has just been made in the Menlo Park laboratory. After days of constant work Mr. Edison has at last succeeded in perfecting a suitable apparatus for measuring tbe quantity of electricity used. This very necessary appliance, which is to the electric light what the gas meter is to gas, bas hitherto been one ot the things incompleted. Before hitting upon the present device Mr. Edison had tried quite a number of others, but all seemed to lack one or another necessary element A few days ago he branched off in a new direction, and son was gratified in finding that be had alighted upon just what he had so long been looking for. Constant experimenting on the new apparatus since then bas proved it to be all that the inventor desired, and be has accordingly taken teps to have it patented.