Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1879 — Page 4

THE INDIAXA STATE SEKTIKEL, WEDNESDAY JAKUARY 1, 1879-

WED-NESDAY, JANUARY 1.

- tfSHS (POSTAGE PAID): -0f VARIABLY CASH XS ADVANCE, DAILY: Without "YWh Sunday Issue. Sandsy Isnuo. 1 COyy on year , ...sumO $.12. 00 1 ClV'Y Biz moirtlM. 6.U0 .U0 1 Ofpy three months. 30 8 U0 I (?jpv one month..... .X5 1.00 I Copy per week by carrier 50 .25 Additions to clubs received 1 asry time at lub rates. . W liBKLTt "Slngle Copy one year . 140 'Clubs of five oae year S.3 Olnbs of ten one year, aad an xsra copy to the getter op of the cluby, lft 00 dubs ol tvreHty-two, one yeaj tftCO Agents wanted at every post office, la tbe State. Bend lor outfit. How Send Hen7. Remittances may be madetiy draft, meneyOrder, or registered lett er, at our risk. Give Postoffioe address m fuD, Including Btate and County, and address - IHSIASAPeLIS. SESTIKEI. CO. Phil Shebtbax is re hot, and ebll heating, at Hie strictures tnaSe recentlyby Secretary Schwa upon 'tbe management of the Indian Bureau. P'aiL Chinks he knows how to run Lo tetter that the secretary of the interior. "T'frx weodd are. ftzSl" of stalwart radicals, head sod tail up,, after the Berlin mission, with -several tow nsti.ps in Ohio to hear from. Hayes says there is no hurry, but plenty of time, la "the meantime the crowd grows thicker-anl homgrler. HE"New Orleans Times will publish the successful ptizefoem, for which it offered one "hundred dollars, on New Year's day. The subject will be - commemorative of the generosity of tfce North, towards the South, daring the' late terrible epidemic In tte mean time Jim Blaine's committee, Teller at its head, prepares for its Southern pilgrimage to gather material to patch up the torn and nearly worn out old bloody abirt vFTJTY-nT2 millions of dollars is quite a aieat little sum on deposit at the First Na tional Bank of New'York, placed there by -John Sherman. There are little whisperings in the air that John received a little pocket money just to let it rest a brief while in the -commodieus bank vaults. Bat then this the bank that John d d the other day. AVomder what the trouble was. THE CLOSE OF 1878. When the Sentinel again greets its thousands tjf readers it will bear to them a wish of a happy and prosperous new year ; but now it beewces our task, ra the line of our journalistic-duties, to invite them around the bedside-of 1S78, whose morning meridian and poet meridian days are past, and who In a lerrf hours more will be numbered with the jears that have come and gone forever. In writing the obituary of 1S78 we could recall events that have left their impress so deep that centuries will not efface their nieicory. There have been wars sad rumors of wars; battle-fields where Christian and infidel measured arms, where cross .and . .crescent floated above the smoke of tbe battle, where lives were sacrificed by thousands to appease tk-s-embifion of men who claim to rule by Tight divine, butin this regard the dying Tear lias less to darken its record than thouBands of its predecessors. Peace among the nations of the-earth-iias been the rule and war the exception. There have been famines and epidemics -that have carried off their victims by thousands, bat they have awakened such profound sympathies and abundant Charities as to evidence that the great heart of humanity, when touched by scenes of -distress, responds with such grand pulsations of benevolence as makes some atone -meat for the griefs it assuages. TLeje have been harvests of boundless abundance as tbe wults f a fulfillment of tsecvenant, symbolized by the bow in the cloud,' that seed time and harvest shall .never fall. Peace . has gained its tnuttipba in every part of the globe, science has -made new discoveries, art has gained new triumphs, Christianity has built new ootpesis in the benighted nations of the earth, ftbe iewra incognita of Africa has been explored, education has kept pace with tbe demands of society, books have multiplied, and the jtrintlog press, the newspaper, the .art preservative of all arts, have lost none of tfheir power, but are Btill the pathfinders of .civilization. Ia.onr.own loved dand, rock-ribbed and ocean .girt, .we have had during the year tl te priceless blessing of peace, and brave m eat are still battling for grander achievm mte,M the result of a union of hearts and a a nwn of hands. We haye food in boundless abundance, enough and to spare, and we ikawe -statesmen and philanthropists of eial ted vUdom, endeavoring r - to so adju: it he various interests of ' the coun. fry that all shall be able to share ia tbe boundless beneficence of providence. The sun continues to sbine lovingly upon L W world, the stars are as bright as when t Wy .first sang together, the flowers have bl weaned and faded, the forests have decked t Wsnaelvee in holiday attire and disrobed tb e mi Ives for winter. The North, with its f rigid breath, has boshed the music of the stn wam.and decked its world as if for a bridal, la all these things J78 has followed the foetsteps of its predecessors. It has taken Lws manr family circles loved ones, bat it fcae left eweet memories to be cherished forever. Taken all in all, 1878 has been an aerage year, and in taking oar leave erf it, we lutulge Ike hope for ourselves and on? readers, that the New Year, whose advent e faope la chronicle in oar next issue, will is more fruitXal of felicities and less productive of the ilia which are the heritage of .WtoanMy. JOHK BHEKMiW A FINANCIAL AUTOCSAT. Erents tbat luade B. B. Hayes president brought John ShtTVian Into odious and infamous prominenct, and the part he played in that stupendous genome of fraud made him, In tie opinion of sen in a position to know whereof they epak Secretary of the Treasasy. The office, with all of its rait trusts ad powers, was beOtowed upon Sherman as reward for his tierfidiea, and ha has mtmt&A it in the Interest of those who had it An taeir power to bestoi still farther reiwiftt 11 would be laprebxe folly to

qursstion John Shermm's ability for manipulating circumstances so as to produce the largest partisan , dividends and . personal

gains. As ceoretary ot the treasury, ne has ' keen equal to every emergency,, . . If , be has ,,' not . shaped all ttee financial legislation, he has been able to neutralize that which antagonized Ms "policy and to remain, in spite of the will of the people as expressed through their representatives, master of the situation, and fcy a series of "coup d'etats" has made bimself the financial autocrat of the country. Eastern papers, without regard to political proclivities, have aided Sherman to realize his ambitious designs, and now are waking np to the dangers they have helped to create. The Boston Post, which has been able to see prosperity only in the light of forced resumption, now admits that its perceptions have been imperfect, and that the anticipated prosperity may be postponed, if not changed to a calamity, by the power which resumption legislation has conferred upon Mr. Sherman. The Post, in this connection, says: To-day It ts wholly with the treasury. The Secretary Is king. It 1b for him to say henceforward what alnd of money snail be paid for duties on 1 moor ted eoods. He Is rtt tbe bead of a national bank that has a circulation of SS46.UOO.Ooe. every dollar of which is legal ton dt-r. Upon hira devolves the decision whether the circulation shall be more or less, whether the notes tht are retired shall be reissued and bow rapidly. He can at tbe same time say how much silver above two millions shall be coined -each month. Thus It is in his Dower to make money abundant or the contrary, to give It a high price or a low one. Upon his individual financial fiat the banks depend. So long as business Is on the mending order and our trade balances are favorable, all may go smoothly: but once Jet the currents of trade set in another direction and gold begin to now out of the country, ana with this enormous power In his hands the secretary of the treasury becomes supreme over all de artments of business, the dictator to our common industries, and ttao autocrafc who affixes the prices to the commodities consumed by the people. Not only that; the price of every man's property Is at his disposal also. It is for him to say whether we shall have contraction or expansion, another panic like tbat of 76 or another epocn or innation and 8necBlation like what preceded It. With such vast and dangeroua power lodged in the hands of one man, even though he were a man of many times tbe ability ot tne r resent Secretary, and one eanable of insDiribg many times the confidence tbat he is, It la lmDosslble to regard the simple act ot resump tion aa the settlement of alPour financial di Alanines and t he attain ment of our high financial hopes. Not only Is there a great deal to be done supplementary to thissingieact, mil tbere are limits to be fixed to the power that controls so abso utely all the Interests and the property of the country. In our whole history as a people we have never before consented to audi a creation as this. To no one man were ever before committed the issues of financial life and death for the people. It it true that financial affairs aro always likely to tie much better managed by a single mind than bv a legislative committee, acting gen erally from political motives; but in that case it becomesessential that there be certain recoguized limits to his action, and that he be not made at any time a financial dictator. Tne business community may like the looks of the arrangement as it now is, but we are unwil ling to believe ihat it does or will become "dt more reconciled to it with the progress of events, it is to be regaraeu as a subject tor general congratulation that a congress of a different political stripe Is so soon to succeed to the rule we have endured so long. The reflections of the Post will be regard ed by thinking men of all parties as emi' nently Just and opportune; and it well be remarkable if congress, before its adjourn ment, does not find means to bring Mr. Sherman within prudent restraints, for unless this is done the unrest that has characterized business circles will than diminish. increase rather THE JOURNAL ON ITS KNEES. It has been the purpose of the Sentinel its discussions of business affairi to approx imate the truth in so far as reliable statistics would permit. In this regard, the Sentinel has sought to impress the public mind with the dangers that environed the radical Shylock policy of forced resumption. We have stated over and over again tbat resumption on tbe John Sherman plan involved con traction of the currency, and necessarily ihe shrinkage of values, the prostration of busi ness, tbe destruction of industries, and the increase of idleness, novertv and crime. And the fact? demonstrating the truth of our declarations, like fresh made graves, ex tend from ocean to ocean and from tbe cen ter to the circumference of the land. The Journal, in its fanatical approval of a policy that wrought this ruin, has studi ously obscured evey fact bear ing upon the matter. It has blindly advocated the Shylock policy from first to last. It has favored contraction when its effect shoo down fortunes as autumn winds shake down the leaves of the forest. It had a monopoly of bankrupt ad vertising, and the mills which ground its neighbors to powder sdded to its Income. It saw its own city and state in the grasp of a business cyclone, whose whirl and force bore down everything in its way and lined the strand with business wrecks; still, when the Btorm was fiercest and its destruction the most fearful, it howled for a continuance of tbe policy, and now, when the worst that the Sentinel predicted has been accomDlished. it gets down upon its knees and makes the following confessions with regard to the cost of resumption : A glance at the business directory of Indian a polis of six years ago, as co u pared with tbat oi to-aay, win sniw mat more than twenty nve per cent, ot me Dullness men of the city have failed within tbat time and have gone down and out. Tbe records of tbe county offlees will show that twenty-five per cent, of those who were in business at that time, while they have not utterly (ailed, are so crippled and embarrassed hat thevaredeneiidinn iinnn the future revival of trade and restoration of values to enable them to save something of their former fortunes. - What is true of this city It true to a greater or less extent of ail the cities and to wns la the country. ; Here then is the admission that those utterly rained, and those so crippled tbat they are hardly able to maintain a foothold in the ranks of business men, amount to fifty per cent, of the entire business popu lation of Indianapolis, and it Ib a debatable question whether this estimate represents fairly the sum total of the business disasters of the city. Tbe Journal, in the humiliations of its admissions, includes every city in tbe country, as having suffered to equal extent, but this represents colossal as the sain total may be only a fraction of the havoc consequent upon forced resump iion. With nearly two hundred .thousand fail ures since tbe contraction forces were put in operation, representing losses equal to the cost of the lata war, we have shrinkage of values which touched every form of property and robbed it of fully forty per cent erf its value. This cost of resump tion ought hot to have occurred, nor would It have formed a part of tbe terrible record, if the democratic policy had prevailed. In that case resumption would have come by pro lasses, natural in their operation, and whan reached would bare found business, instead

of being prostrated as at present, active and

remunerative throughout the country. Labor would hare been employed at remuner ative wages. Idlers would not as now be an alarmiDg factor in social and political affairs, and the fact that all would be able to purchase the necessaries of life, would give give a home market and . hush the clamor about oyer production. As a consequnce, the conclusion is inevitable that forced resumption is a mistake, and that whatever blessings may be derived from it tbey can Dot atone for the terrible calami ties it has inflicted upon the country, and tbe lesson it teaches should impress the people that radicalism, in its application to govern ment in any of its departments, is a danger to be avoided, and that the future prosperity of tbe country can be assured only by the complete enthronement of the democratic party. If you've anything to say, Bay it; If you've anything to pay, Pay it. But, with nanght to pay or say. Don't fret yourself about it, pray. Boston Post. The day after washing-day Is one of sad Irony. Boston Transcript. Taylor, of Tennessee, aged 25, Is the young est man In the house cf representatives. The whisper of a beautiful woman can be heard farther tnan the loudest yell of duty. The Whitehall Times says a man who has one of his optics knocked out, is a man of one eye, dear. Yooso man, in beginning the journey of life don't take the train from the wrong deep owe. Whitehall Times. Mr. James Tchsbcll, a Georgia democratic stump speaker, is picturesquely described as The Wild Cat of the Curarhee." Two hundred and nine lawyers In congress! Good gracious! Is it any wonder they talk of a brief session? New York Express. Mrs. Burnett has just completed a new book called "Louisiana," the name of the he roine. She must be the "Maid of Orleans." A satire or burlesque Is a take-off, and that may account for the scanty wardrobe of bur lesque performers. New Orleans Picayune. Young Mapleson is the husband of Marie Boze, and also her manager. That's more than most husbands ever hope to be. Detroit Free Press. Elder Talmage says sin is catching, Is in fectious, is epidemic. If this Is so he must be In an awful condition from his late bad associ ations. A friend of ours says she enjoyed her trip to Europe immensely. Tbe sunsets were so stylish such fashionable colors. Binghamp ton Republican. A contemporary speaks of a "revival in kissing." This Is a "revival" in which many young ladies are on the "anxious bench." NorrLstown Herald. We no longer question the propriety of considering vessels In the feminine gender, They run each other down almost every d-iy in the English Channel. Turners Falls 1. im porter. Shoe dealers find that If they mark "No. on their No. 3 shoes they get a fit and please their customers, who would not for the world put on shoes a mile too bjg. New Orleans Pic ayune. Now is your time to lay in your next year's supply of gold. It, will never be any cheaper. Albany Argus. We've done it; got a tooth stuffed oh Satuiday. New York Commercial Advertiser. A Chicago cbapadvertlses for several steady girls to help on pantaloons. And an envious scribe says that a fellow who cant help on bis own pantaloons ought to be ashamed to want girls to do it. There are healthy, grown np men so anxious to appear in print that tbey will sign a patent medicine certlQcate, swearing they have had worms baffled by vermifuge, or any. thing else. Mew orieanB mcayune. "How many make a crowd?" asks the iu qulsltive man of the Edinburgh Herald. Well, we reckon, cn a Sunday evening that the presence of the father and mother will make the largest parlor awfully crowded to the young couple. A Nebraska minister preached an hour and three quarters last Sunday, and by tbat time the pews were about emptied, and, as the last worshipper coll-red his hat and slid out, the disgusted preacher asked the choir to sing. "Nothing but Leaves." Omaha Baptist. Resumption, January 1 of specie payments and of swearing off tobacco, liquor, profanity an 1 all other forms of nnrighteousnees. Bos ton Transcript. Pehsonai If this should reach the eye of D s K y, of the Band-Lot, California, it la to say tbat It Is all over betweoa as. Keturn photograph and lock of hair. I never gave you my heart. I simply gave you legal advice. Forget me and learn to love another. The Widow Butler. Albany Journal. CCRRFHT TOPICS. Ole Bull smokes when not fiddling. Connecticut has parties called "bean bakes." There is a floating furniture factory on Erie Canal. - ' Tbe government bays about 16 tons of silver a week. Counterfeit gold dollars are circulating in Chariot le, Mich. A Laporte, lnd., woman with vim subsists by tawing wood. . An Alabama paper records a death "on the third instance." Port Huron, Mich., Is darkened np by kerosene oil famine. There will be five colored members in the next Texas legislature. Bhere All has 300 women in his harem. But no mothers-in-law. Tbe protectionist movement in Germany Is making rapid progress. A pet fish tbat responds to a name amuses a Madison (Wis.) family. ' An invention for making cloth from glass is announced in x ranee. All German men of-war will in future be provided with torpedoes. Bay City, Michigan, Is sufficiently me tropolitan to have river pirates. A woman at Lawrence, Mass., has just given birtn to her twenty second child. A simple and effectual remedy for dvspeoeia is to abstain from drlnkiDg l ruined ately before and during meals, and for an hoar afterward. Tbe Wisconsin decision denying tbe con titutionality of the trade mark law is likely to be carried to the supreme court. Gold has returned to Its par after an ab sence of eighteen years, during which time it nss seen areat many ups ana oowns. Because she thought he used too much tobacoo.a woman fit Melrose, Mass , locked her husband up in a nan noose ana norsewuippea him. A man mum fnnnif at ICaat SL Lontal HI one day last week frown into a solid cake of lor, having laueninto a futu pona ana ores drowned.

JAVHtJABY 1, 1879.

Us New Year's day the old year's gone With all the hopes her days have given ; And all her cares must be withdrawn Or to the t lde of sorrow driven. We now must make a new resolve. And drive away each latent sorrow. Nor let our bygone cares dissolve The pleasant hopes that bless the morrow. For Time, with her eventful cast, Like some ill spirit shadows o'er us, And binds in her em brace tbe Past With all tbe days spread out before us. We know not how this year may end. On whose swift current we have started ; But let our brightest hopes extend. Nor grieve o'er days that are departed. The scenes that blessed our childhood's heurs And gave to early life Its mission, But hastened on with nobler powers Our manhood's full and strong ambition, Ifatarer years shall follow yet " By still maturer deeds attended. And each some pleasant bopes beget Until life's wayward coarse Is ended. Oh, then will each good deed we've done la. golden letters be engraven ; It our brief race be nobly run, Until we reach man's final haven. Franklin, lud., Dec., 1878. D. STATE INTELLIGENCE. Elkhart has a new starch factory. The Vigo County Jail is undergoing repulis. Wood is selling at $5.50 per cord in Rich mond. A Good Templars lodge has been organized at Kingsbury. Yanderburg county sent nine criminals to the penitentiary the other day. Tho farmers ol Howard county will hold a meeting at Kokomo January 11. Several wolves have been killed in Knox county during tbe past few days. Tbe thermometer at Danville marked 14 degrees below zero on last Thursday. The hog cholera is raging to an alarming extent in some parts of Allen county. The young lawyers of Rockport bold a "moot court," and it is said have lots of fun. A commission house in Madison has ship ped 7,000 rabbits to New York thus far this aeon. The Warsaw Indianian issues an 80 column holiday number. It is about the size of a bed blanket. Charles Kupler, a fireman of South Bend, had his hands frozen off daring a fire a few nights since. Knightstown Banner: It isestlmated tbat 500 rabbits have been killed in this vicinity bo far this season. A negro woman at Canton, aged 35, has given birth to a child, her first born, which has but one arm and one leg. Saturday night Joseph Burkey, aged S3, living in Clinton township, Elkhart county, fell, causing injuries which may prove fatal. Elkbart city is scattered over portions cf nine different sections, six of which are in Concord township and three in Osolo township. Forty tramps rented their weary limbs at the Terre Haute Station House Sunday night, and it wasn't a good night for tramps, either. ' There will be a meeting of the miners of Clay county held at Brazil, on January 4, for the purpose of considering 'the subject of ventilation. Ruskville Jacksonian: A case of scan, mag. will soon convulse colored circles in this city, and a preacher's son is mixed up in the matter. Tbe residence of Sarah Hopkins, a widow of North Vernon, who earns her living by sewing, was robbed tbe other night of $101, all tbe money she had. Cassa polls has a new $9,999 school house, just finished and accepted by the committee. It would appear a little more liberal if that odd dollar had been included. Lafayette Journal: Bids for doctoring the poor in the several townships of the county will be opened on the 4th of January.. Tbe contracts will be for one year. Miss E. B. Walker, of Jefferson county, eaed Mr. John Haney, of tbe same county, for breach of promise, and was awarded $500, in default of which Haney went to jail. Muncie Times: John A. Wilson has on his farm 36 bead of two-year-old steers ay er. aging 1,475 pounds, said to be tne finest lot of cattle ever raised in Delaware county. Thomas Shuman, of Decatur county, died at the state prison south, on Sunday, of acute phthisis, ared 50 years. He was sent up for three years, and had about six months to serve. 1 Brookville Democrat: Tbe auditor has passed over to the treasurer tbe new duplicates for 1878, with the raund sum of $99,000 to be collected. The treasurer is now ready to receive company. . Evansville Journal: Constable Hyde had a young man in custody last night on the charge of bastardy. They disappeared Into tbe darkness together, procured a license and had a quiet wedding eomewhere. No cards. New Harmony Register: Twenty-five bogs were brought to town last week that may be called the boss lot of the season. Tbey averaged 471 pounds, and among them were three that weighed respectively 930, 742, and 700 pounds gross. Several cases of trichina have appeared in Elkbart county. Mrs. George Brumbaugh, of Milford, died of the disease, and a child of hers is in a precarious condition. A family named Mitchell, ot Gravelton, is also similarly affected. Patrick McLain, of Fort Wayne, died a few days since. His will has been filed. Tbe testator directs that the sum of $30 be sent annually to bis mother in Ireland so long as she miy live, as he has remitted tbat amount yearly during the psst 37 years. Good boy. Two alleged doctors named Willis, father and son, chloroformed end raped two women at Jonesboro some time ago. The women did not wish to make the act known, but the grand jury, hearing of it, indicted the villains, and they have ben arrested at Richmond. The news of tbe probable death by suicide of the Rev. Dr. Dixon, at Memphis, Saturday night, received at New Albany Bunday afternoon, caused a good deal of feeling and a general expression of sorrow. Mrs. Dixon and family leave New Albany for Memphis on Monday to reside there. Ut. Charles H. Roberta, oi EvantviUe, has applied for a patent on his invention to pre-

vent grave robbing. It consists ot a concrete lining to the grave, in which is imbedded a wrought iron cage. Tbe whole can be

maae ornamental to each a degree tbat a coffin may be dispensed with. TBE ATTORSET FEE LAW. Tke Way It Operates Sonaettmes. Columbia City Post. J The attorney tee law, as now enforced in the courts, is one of the crowning relics of tbe war period of radical legislation, and should be swept out of sight without a dissenting voice in tbe legislature. The extortion practiced under it is not equaled in injustice to the debtor lass by any law on the statute books. If the law had fixed a definite limit as to tbe amount to be paid for tbe collection of a note if suit had to bs instituted, then tbere would bave been some protection from the avarice of many in the legal profession; but as now enforced in the courts, the poor unfortunate debtor has no chance of redress from downright robbery. If he would make a defense by calling witnesses to testify he is debarred from doing so, because not being members of tbe legal profession tbey do not know tbe value of such legal services. Hence it is tbat the mockery of doing justly between man and man is gone through before the court, by calling a lawyer to swear for another lawyer what his "reasonable services" are worth. It is like calling a doctor to prove a doctor's bill, and so on ad infinitum in all tbe trades and professions. Where men are allowed to make their own fees, tbe love of gain steps in. like with the usury collector, to do injustice between man and man. It was only lat week tbat we felt and ap preciated not the first time, however, tbe injustice practiced in tbis attorney fee law. when we were comoel'ed to pay for another, as surety, near ij.00 collection fee to a law firm in tbis place, on a note of $200 and a small amount of in terest, when the actual services rendered did not amount to one hour's work. Redress we bad none, because a member of tbe legal profession testified that tbis fee was a "reasonable" one, notwithstanding the fact that we could bave secured that same attorney's services to do the same work for five dollars. This one is but a singlo case of many like extortionate fees we have paid as surety. None appreciate pain so well in others as tbose who have been hurt themselves. Let it hit whom it may, the Post proposes to lend its feeble aid to striking from the statute books of Indiana a law which, as in the collection and charge of interest, allows one clas of individuals to extort from another, just because they Have the power and will to do so. The Post believes tbe laborer is worthy of his hire, and tbst the lawyer, like all other professions and business men, should be fully compensated for bis services, but it does not believe in a law which robs tbe debtor class. Strike the oppressive law from the statute hooks. Make the repeal so sweeping and complete tbst neither courts inferior or courts supreme can avoid it. Tbe Kearo Growing la Grace. I Atlanta Constitution. Tbe negro is growing in grace, so to speak. He Is discovering that his only friends are those whom he knows best; be is gradually learning that he has been most unmercifully robbed and swindled by the people who professed to bave an interest in his welfare. Tbey bave been led to tbe polls bound hand and foot in the toils in which carpet-bagism bad ensnared them, and tbey have voted as ipnorantly and as blindly as it is possible for politically ignorant and blind people to vote. But all this is past, and tbe sooner the republicans of tbe north discover it tbe better it will be for them. The colored vote bas passed from under their control. It will be cast in the direction best calculated to aid the interests of the solid south. Not VadmtMd li IDenlson- Herald. Lord Roseberry and his bride, Hannah de Rothschild, are quarreling already. We can not understand bow a man can afford to quarrel with a wife worth $20,000,000. It certainty seems as if $20,000,000 ought to make the red-headedest girl in Christendom an angel and blind a man to her temper, moles, warts and other uncomfortable features. Ia tbe Unmbraaeoaa. Washington Post. When the radicals began crowing about tbe cipher telegrams, tbey were in the umbrageous shade of tbe forest. Next time they will not try to emulate the example of chanticleer till they are out of the woods. The Potter committee will gently guide them to the open fields where they can see things. Cheap Wive. Washington Post. J A matrimonial broker in New York offers to supply wives at $5 a piece. Really, there is no longer any sense in declining to marry because of poverty. Almost any man can afford a five dollar wife. St. LonU Thermometers. (Washington Post. St. Louis thermometers deserve a word of commendation. Tbey have shown their capacity for a wider range of industry than those of any other American city. A HEW AERIAL SHIP. The Invention of a Citizen of Indianapolis A Revolution In tbe Havlgatioa of the Air. - Indianapolis has tbe credit of being the birth place of a new aerial ship, invented and patented by C E. . Bidwell, the candy manufacturer. A large model ot tbe. invention is now on exhibition at No. 44 North Illinois street. The idea of its contraction may be explained briefly, as follows: A laiga cigar-shaped reservoir of oil cloth is filled with gas, Illuminating or hydrogen, to which is attached a car for the reception of passengers. The car is firmly attached to a rail, shaped somewhat like the ordinary railway T rail, and in such a manner as to make tbe resistance of friction as trifling as possible. Tbe rail is placed on posts aoy required distance in length, wbicn are firmly planted in tbe earth. Tbe motive power will be tne wind, when tbere is any, and when there is none, tbe ship will be propelled by a system of revolving wheels placed in the car, under control of the person in charge. Tbe model now exhibited is not complete, but is sufficiently so as tn make tbe principle upon which it operates plainly unnerstood. Mr. Bidwell is confident tbat be has struck the theory of aerial navigation, and that there's millions In it. He designs exhibiting his invention in Cincinnati and then throughout tbe large cities, returning beta in tbe spring, and constructing a trial track from tbe city to tbe Union Stock Yards. Tbe ship will remain on exhibition for a few days, to which a small admission fee is charged. Senator Winterbottom will come down to the capital weighted down with a bill fixing the salaries of state efflcers. It gives tbe secretary and treasurer of state and tbe cletk of the supreme court $3,000 per annum each and $2,500 for deputy hire, and the audit r of state $4,000 per annum and $3,000 for deputy hire, . The postponed drawing of tbe Benefit of the, Indianapolis and Evansville Orphan Asylums takes place at tba last named flaoed to-day. The premiums amount to 125,000, principally in Indianapolis, EvansTil sod Warrick cooaty real estate.

THE STATE SCHOOLS.

Uinth Biennial Eeport of the Superin tendent of Pubiic Instruction. A Voluminous and ExtauVtlve Dotmmsnt Synopsis of Portions Hot Already ' Given. The ninth biennial report of the superintendent of public instruction was approved by the governor yesterday. It Is by far the most voluminous as well as the most comprehensive report yet usned from the office. The superintendent says he has endeavored to present the facta concerning the growth and condition of onr schools in such a way as to be readily understood. The statistics have been analyzed and Interpreted and the information they contain presented In a series of tables and comparative statements. Tbe subjects treated of In the first part of the report are as follows: 1. Growth of schools. 2. Enumeration. 8. School attendance. 4. Duration ol schools. 6. Teachers. . School property. 7. School lands. 8. (School Revenues. 9. Bchool legislation. 10. Bctiool expenses. 11. State brwrd of education. 12. Work of the department. The most of the space in tbe report has been surrendered to county superintendents for their "written reports." Forty-six sub jects were selected by the state superintendent, each of which was assigned to two su perintendents, and reports have been sent in on all of them. These written reports are followed by a few historical sketches of -city school systems. All the important statistical tables and aggregate results have been published in tbe B.-ntinel from time to time during tbe compilation of the report. Many of them are of interest only to teachers and others engaged in educational work. THE report r&OPKK. The second part ot the report comprises the remarks, suggestions ana recommendations of the superintendent. On the subject of school legislation he says: I have not heretofore recommended much change In Uie school la ws. Frequent changes In tr.e school laws prod nee mischief. Too many changes bave already beeu made. The law Is by no means perfect, and if I were to construct another law 1 would change the Indiana law tn several particulars. But to make many of tbess changes now would, in my opinion, result in harm rather than good. If there Is any law tbat people need to become ued to and need torespecl.lt Is their school law. Frequent changes In our law beget at on y a re.tless desire to chance, but aUoa (en tempt for a law that is prejudicial to lis successful execution. Most evils in our school complained of arise from defective administration. It Is true that our schools do not produce as good results as tbey ought to produce. Bat they made under the piet-ent law rapid improve ment in tne past, ana unaer it tbey win make rapid Improvement In the future. No part of tbe public service c- ts so much as our public school system, in no part is tbeie so much opportunity for the wantage of time, energy and money; In no part to much need of systematic and thorough supervisory control. JCAGSITUPE OF TBE ISTXEESTS. The superintendent then goes on to state that the school fund coucists of $9,000,000, and tbat the vain of permanent school property is $12,000,000, end dwells upon the care and responsibility involved in. their management. In speaking ot the growth of the schools be eays that in 1S52 we bad no school system. In 1860 Indiana was tbe sixth stale iq point of population, and tbe twentieth in point of educational facilities, while now her system is generally acknowledged to be a superior one, her progress in recent years unsurpassed, and she now stands abreast of her sister states in educationol advantages. HOT TOO MUCH KXPKHSE. The superintendent answers the question whether we do not pay too much for our -teachers and for our school bouses in the negative. He gives $180 as the average per diem of tbe teachers, four months aa the average term, $114 as tbe average annual salary. The teacher is not certain of other employment for tbe remainder of tbe year, and ta subjected to many extra expenses. The pay may be too much for poor teachers, but is not enough for the best. Tbe school does not increase as fast as the children. The taxabies are decreasing In value. and thus the state revenue is diminished, which will require increased local taxation -o keep np the schools. The superintendent places the coet of the average school hotue at $160, and does not think, except perhaps in special cases, tbe buildings have been too expensive. The state is now iully equipped with school bouses, so that the expense hereafter for school houses will not be large. The expenditure for special school revenue -has diminished since 1875. The expense of school bouses in 1874 was $875,515Mwhile in 1878 it was $424,304. ldSCELlAB'EOTJS. The expenditure per capita for the last . three years have been as follows: 1876, $2.69; 1877, $2.34; 1878, $2.27. Tbe superintendent reviews tbe proceedings of tbe state board of education, and the work of tbe department. He refers to the large amount of official correspondence of the department. In 1878 tbere were 26 200 communications sent out of the office, while in 1877 (the legislative year) tbere were 39,200. In closing, the superintendent repeat the suggestions made . In his last report. Caught in the Act. A festive doctor from Knightstown, who -omes here every two or three months to waste his accumulations in riotous living, dropped into Weilacher's saloon on North Pennsylvania street, yesterday afternoon. He hungered for a game of pool, and a well ' known "crack" player, who presents a . somewhat unsophisticated appearance;, was kind enough to accept bis challenge. Early in the evenirg, and while -the proprietor was at supper, tbe doctor -pulled out a plethoric roll of bills and offered to play for a stake. His opponent "saw" bim, and tben tbe play went on until some one notified Officers 8bearer and Shea, whostepped in, and, after seeing tba players throw their wages on tbe tabie, ariested them and took them to tbe station house, wbere tbey were slated under fictitious names for "playing pool for money." They put up bail and departed. Tbe following taxpayers of Marion county will serve as jurors for the February term of the civil circuit court: John Berryman, Warren township; William 8. George, I ecatur township: William Bar bee. Perry township; Alfred Ellis Washington township: James Day, Lawrence town hlpThomss li- B. Peck, Center township; John Buchanan, Warren township; Cbar.es A. Farnum. Center township; J. W. Htepp, Washington tow ship. Garret List. Perry township Daniel Moore, Franklin Lownhhlp; Oliver Koy sler. Wayne township. Governor Williams yesterday pardoned Clarence D. Sineletoo, wbo was sentenced to tbe penitentiary for two years, in tbe criminal court of tbis county, March, 10, 1877. It was his first offente, and was committed through ignorance and nnder intimidation. He was a teamster, and the only support of his widowed mother. The governor received numerous ca'Jera yesterday from Dearborn and Ripley counties, urging the claims of the various candidates for tbe appointment of prosecuting attorney of that circuit. Tbe appointment, had not been mad at the close of business yesterday.