Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1880 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1880.

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

MAINE. THE 1EC1!0.S CF THE St'PREMK COI RT OS THE l"EJTI0XS Or THE FlI0!U8TS. Bahc;or, Jan. 27. The following is a full text of tbe unanimous decision of the luoreme Judicial court, completed this evening, declining to reoognite the Futlonlst bodies at AnKUata.und explicitly declaring the House and Senate now nolding sesslou in the State House of Maine, the legal Legislature of -Maine: Ban;or, Jan. 27. 18S0. Ia respoue to the foregoing communication, the undersigned justice it of the supreme judicial court, have the honor to siiy tfcnt while we c n not a 1 mit, even by implication, that ih- st tement and questions now ix? lore as are presented by uny legally orgaalzed legislative bedy, so as to require any opinion trom us under the roudtaliooal provision (act 6, sec. 3i, we feel that we snould be ommlttlng an important servl't, which the people of thislxloved tate and the. eentlemen who have presented these questions presumably from aa honest desire to Know their duty as citizens, la the premises, might expect of us. If we fall to give some oi' the reasons which compel us to decline to entertain and respond to the aforesaid statement and questions based thereupon. The solemn occasion is indeed unparalleled and the ominous events in our public history which bavf occurred witnin Die last lew months, bat we are bound to declare that these iiutstions are not presented by 8 legally constituted legislative body for the ollowiDg reasons, briefly state J: When different bodies of men. eitel claiming to be and exercise the functions of the legislative department of the State appear, each stsaertiog their title to be regarded as law givers for the people, it is the obvious duty of the judicial department, who roust Inevitably at no distaut dy be called to pass upon the validity of the . hwb that may De enacted by the respective claimants to the legislative authorIty, to Inquire and ascertain for themselves, , v. 1th or without questions presented by the claimants, which of those bodies lawfully rep- , resent the p ople from whom they derive ' their power. There csn be but one lawful legislature. The court must Know lor ltseit . whose enactments It will recognize k as of binding force, whose levies of tax it will enforce wh-n brought judicially before it, whose choice of a prosecuting oflicer before court it will respect. Ina thousand ways it becomes essential that the court should forthwith ascertain and take Judicial cognizance or the question. Which is toe true legislature? Vw . a Im 1 e st m ro iol nf I Ii A fi si OB. A LI IT trlB VC utr VI tcj UtlU iav 1 J e j uj, i o 'J xmktton as to the powers and duties ot the governor and council in canvassing the votes for members of the Hen ate and lions of Repre sentatives was necessarily implied in the questions propounded by tiovenor Oarcelon and answered by this court under date of January 3. To put such quest ious In the absence of facts reo uinng their solution would be an use of the power ot the executive to call lor an opinion ot the court upon questions of law on sole no n occasions. These questions were luily answered, and by the answers It appeared that the acts and doings oi the governer and council In issuing certiricates of election to certain men as senators and members of the House of Representatives, who did not appear to be elected, and declining to issue certificates and sum mouses to certain men, who dil appear to be elected, were In violation of their legal and constitutional obligations and duties. We are bound to take judicial notice of the doings of the executive aud legislative departments of tlie Uoveruaient. and when called upon by proper authority to pass upon their validity. We are bound to take Judicial notice of historical tacts, matters of public notoriety and interest transpiring in our midst. We can not accept a statement when asserts ä9 facts matters that are In conflict with the record, and historical lacts t bat we are not a i liberty l disregard. We can not shut our ey-s to the fact that the governor and council then In office- disregarded tbeoninionof tue court given In answer to the governor's question, omitted to revoke the summonses Illegally issued to men who did not appear to be elected, or to issue summonses to men who did appear to be elected. We Know th&t the ofllcers who presided In the conventions of the members-elect of the Benate and House on the 11 ret Wednesday in January recognized as members ot bolh these bodies men who were unlawfully Introduced Into them by unconstitutional and illegal methods pursued by Governor Urcelon and council, and refused to rtcosjoize men wno appeared to ue legally elected, aud refused to pei mit any appeal from illegal decisions to bodies over walch tiiey were temporarily prealding. Tl.e report of th committee of the council, and the action of the governor and council thereon, of wbioh we must take Judicial notice. Dow that men were thus admitted and excluded upon grounds which this court declared, in their answer to üovernor Garcel..n s qnest.ons, to be untenable and illegal. It can not be successfully claimed that there was evera quorum Ui the House of Representatives which undertook to organlz-t on the first Wednesday of January, without counting men who could only appear to le elected, because the late governor and council pur ued modes which tili court declared, in their answertohis nstions, to be unconstitutional, illegal and void. These men were not in fact elected. They did cot appear to be elecled by the tet urns canvassed in and under which tbe constitution and laws rightly Interpreted, required tbe governor and council to canvass them. We can not recognize a House of representatives to make a quorum in which the presence of these men was necessary as a lawfully con stunted body, or capable of performing any functidhs of a House of Representatives when due protest was made In behalf of those who were In fact elected by the people. In like presence in the Senate ot men claiming seats to tbe exclusion of those whom a canvass legally conducted would show to be elected, and (elng recognized as members ot th convention by the temporary presiding olticer.who. though a protest against the Illegal action was made on the spot, refused to permit an appeal from his decision to the convention of tne senator elected, and vitiated the organization of that body, and we have only to reartrm the p lnciples we asserted In oar answers of January 1, ls8), upon these subjects in coming to a result tliat the bodies propounding to us the foregoing juetlons are not a legally organized House of Representativesanu Senate, and und r the constitution of the State, and it remains to be considered whether there is a legally organized Legislature In existence entitled to enact laws that must be binding upon tbe people and courts of the State. The action of those controllng the proceedings on flie first Wednesday, the Mh of January, 18S0, has net been acquiesced In by a quorum of those appearing to have been elecled to either House. It Is a matter of history that after unsuccessful resistance to illegal action ox the othcers attempting to create a .'eg lative organization on that day, a majo) It f of pe: ons whoapptarei to be elected In ifaetro Houses formed an organization of item elves, and they retrained from forming an la lepeodent organization until the 12th of Janu iry. hoping, until then, to obtain their r'gU .i. They were forced Into such a position ry (he illegal action of a minority of ine members whoe action they were not bit .ed to submit to which they could Inno i to. r reasonable manner resist. The organist ons made on January 1U were made by a majority of members appearing to be elected and bavins; prima fcle rights to seats. The point is raised by the statement and questions submitted that no legal organization could be formed on January 12, because no notice of Intended action was given to the minority or non-attending mem Den, so as to enable them to participate therein. Ine minority were not An excluded organization. It was made in a puouc luauutrr. auj ujiuoruj wcio l time claiming tobe, und are still claiming to be a lawful legislature. Jt Is not presumed that they would have abandoned that organisation at that 11 we had notices been given. We do not think that tbe want or notice Invalidates the organization of January L.Y There may be Irregularities In the manner in which such organizations were ' formed, but the voice of the popl Is Dot on that account to be stl fled, nor true government fail to be maintain!. No essential defects anywhere exist, but only sucn departures from the ordinary forms as circumstances compelled. History can never fall to disclose the vital fact that the organizations of January 1 J were formed oy loll quorums ot persons appearing by the records and returns as duly elected members of either House. It can not be that such a construction must be given to the constitution of the male as will subvert the plain and obvious Intention of its fraraer or piace it in the power of a few men to perpetuate their hold upon ortlces In the gtft of the people in defiance of the will of the voters constitutionally i pressed and as'ertalned, because their own mgiectof duty has made tne same departure from Die d. rectory piovlslons and ordinary fortes inevitable. A legally organized Leglslature, being now In existence and exercising Its constitutional functions, il follows that no convention ol members elect, of either House, can exist which can treated a nuctules for another organization. Two governments, claiming to beln existence as valid and entitled to the obedience of people, can not rightfully exist at the same time; but one (rovernment can be recognized and obeyed. The responsibility and solemn duty are Imposed upon us to determine which Is entitled to judicial recognition. We, therefore, after ine fieUneraUoa and consideration of all matters Involved, affirm

and declare our Judgment to be that the Benate whose presiding ortioer la Hon. Joseph A. Lrcke. and the House ot Representatives whose presiding officer Is Hen. O. Weeks, constitute tbe legal and constitutional Legislature of the State. (Signed) , Joh2 Applkton. Wm. G. Barrows, JoHif A. PxrrkRS, JOSKrH W. BYM0NPS, Chas. W. Walto. Carles Dam forth, ARTEMÜS LlBBKT. To Albert (J.Andrews and H. H. t'heever, Esq., Augusta, Me. SCATTERISU THE ' FUSION LEGI8LATCKE ADJOl'BSS TILL AUGUST. Boston, Jan. 2S. The Herald's Angusta special says the Fusion Legislature, after a prolonged secret session this afternoon, adjourned to meet the first Wednesday of August next. Many of the members will go home not to return here before that date; others will go back to tbe people of their districts to abide by their decision as to joining or remaining out of the Btate House Legislature. Others will take their seats among their Republican brethren. Tne counted-in members will, some of them, go home, while others will contest the seats oi their rivals In the Capitol for the sake of getting pay usually voted to defeated contestants. Two FuMonists Unlay appeared In the Republican House, and numerous others have expressed Intention to follow them. The Fusionist governer. Smith, and Talbot, speake of the Fusion House, will leave for their homes tomorrow. THE rCSIOSIST 8K'RETARV AND TREASURER WILL SI RRE.NDER THEIR OFFICES ArocsTA. Jan. 28. Some FuslonlsU claim that it Is the honest purfose and intention of tneir Legislature to meet In Augusta, and that they will enter upon a heavy campaign work for the next election, and that they will endeavor to have two returns of the congressional vote, one to be sent to them and another to be sent to the Legislature as recognized by the courts, and that they will make np a case to Congress concerning tue electoral vote. Ihe Republicans and quite a number of Fuslnnlsts say that the Fusion Legislature will never again meet, as will be shown to morrow by members taking their seats in the regular Legislature; that the course pursued was an indirect method of dissolving. If the members go home they will soon be returned by their constituents to look out for Important interests coming before the Legislature this session. The Legislature wilt declare vacant all seats that are now fllle , and new elections be ordered. The Kusionists' secretary of state, Hawver, promises to return the valuation books to the office of the secretary of state, and it is thought he will not claim to be secretary any longer, state Treasurer White was unable to be

here to-day, but telegraphed the finance committee that he would read the opinion ani meet them to-morrow, his only dere having been to secure himself and bondsmen against loss. The opinion prevails that he will freely give up the keys and property to his office as soon as his successor is qualified, limy one company of militia is now at the state House, and that will soon be relieved from dot v. It is the opinion onfall sides that the contest haa now ended and the excitement closed. Riots in Old Virginia. Richmond, Jan. 2s. Telegrams received here state that intense excitement prevails in Shenandoah county, in consequence of a collision between white and black laborers at the Columbia furnace, near Himburg, that county. Uovernor Holliday received atele gram from Sheriff Joseph Stickley, of Sbenandoah, asking the assistance of troops to aid in quelling the riot; also ohe from Captaia J. W. McUruder, of tbe Woodstock military company, stating that he has notice of a serious riot at the point mentioned, and asking for orders and what to do. The governor immediately replied to Captain Magruder, directing him to place his command at the disposal of Sheriff Stickley and the Commonwealth's attorneyAllen, for preservation of peace, and to keep him (the governor) advised of events. Other telegrams were received by members of the Legislature from Shenandoah valley which confirm the above reports. The trouble, as far as can be ascertained, has its origin in the fact that Jno. W'. Whltler V Co., proprietors Columbia and Liberty furnaces, are substituting coloied for r write labor In their works. These works b i ve heietofor1 been almost entirely run by white operatives.who live and own their little homes in the neighborhood of the furnaces, and have no other means of support than their dally labor, while the negroes who are replacing them ae Imported from other companies where the neuro element prevails to a greater extent than In Shenandoah. Richmond, Va., Jan. 2S.-8tate Senator II. H. Riddleberser; ot Shenandoah county, re celvedthe following to-night in relation to the riots in that county : Woodstock, Jan.8. Left Columbia 'furnace at 4 p. m. Eveiything quiet there, and reported by Dr. Armstrong to be oulet at Liberty furnace. An attack on some negroes was made at Liberty furnace. last nicht, and two men wounaea Tbe rioters then dispersed, with threats to re turn to-nignt. A disDaich from the sheriff just received says the rioters have now 2J0 men. He asks for more military. . The governor has Just received the follow lng: Woodstock, 7 :3U p.m. Oovernor Halliday: Have inst received a communication from the sheriff and Captain Magruder. at Liberty furnace, 12 miles from here. All is quiet now, but there Is dimculty apprehended. 1 ney say more men are needed at once, ine wincnestr company could be ordered np to-night. The sherid says a considerable body of rioters seem to be organizing. Two negroes were shot last night and severely hurt. In response to these, Uovernor Halliday has telegraphed Captain James B. Burgess, commanding the Winchester Light Infantry, ordering him to proceed with his company by the first train to the scene of disturbance, and place himself at the disposal of thesheriil. The Trouble All Over. Richmond, Va., Jan. 29. Governor Holliday this afternoon received a telegram from the scene of the troubles between the blacks and whites in Shenandoah county, stating that everyllilng was quiet. The excitement haa subsided, and the military companies have returned to their homes. Lincoln's Canonization. Roston Correspondence of the Hartford Cour ant. It reminds me of what a well-known journalist of this city said of Mr. Lincoln immediately after bis death. He was met by another journalist, since deceased (both were noted men), who said to him, "Isn't this tsiassinatioo terrible?" "Yep," was the reply, "bat yoa don't probably think of one of the worst effects of IU It has made it impossible ever to speak the tiuth of Abe Lincoln hereafter." The two men agreed in this. They were Republicans, bat, ss yoa may imagine, they had not an exalted opinion of Mr. Lincoln. I think they changed their views afterward, as it is possible Mr. Chandler did also. Some of our radical antislavery people who were Impatient with Mr. L'nccln, and criticised severely his action, leached this view earlier. Frank Bird went from here to the White House in 28CJ2, in company with Dr. 8 G. Howe, Wendell Phillips, George L. Stearns and Thomas W. HiggiOBon, to urge the policy of emanci pal ion upon the president. It was the first time Mr. Bird bad seen Mr. Lincoln. The d legation talked with him for a long time. After the interview was concluded those in it adjourned to Mr. Bird's room. "Well, what do you think of him?" inquired one of them of Mr. Bird. "I think he is a strong man, and every inch a president," was Mr. Bird's response. "Those who suppose that William II. Seward, or anybody else, runs this administration don't know what they are taking. We have never had a man in that chair not Andrew Jackson himself who had more entirely his own way than Abraham Lincoln." No one in that committee depreciated Mr. Lincoln's ability afterward. Mr. Bird saw the president agaiD, in an effort to get Governor Andrew appointed to the cabinet, in the last year of the war. He was struck with the cbsnga in him. His face, he said, had become spiritualized, and the responsibility of his mission bad made an unmistakably elevating mark on all his lineaments. I suppose there has beenco man in our history to whose ability so much injustice was done as to that of Abraham Lincoln daring his lifetime and this by careful and experienced judges of human nature. The mass of the people were the first to appreciate his greatness. All have coias to concede it since; and for this reason it was hardly fair to quote unexplained such early judgments as those of Senator Chandler. Mrs. Alice Oates' 1 ist husband is seriously ill. Too mach oats.

EXPBESSIOXS.

Young Fred, a bashful yet persistesitswaln. Was very much In love with Mary Jane. One night sho told him. In her tenderest tone, "It Is not good for man to be alone." Said Fred, "Just so, you darling little ell; I've often thought of that same thing myself." Then said the lass, while Fred was all agog, "You ought to buy yourself a terrier-dog." It looks as if winter had been counted out. Dennis Kearney's weapon "Ae ChinfSe mas' git." Sunday-school teacher How many letters does the Bible contain? Lradils unhin Twenty-six. "Yes," said Johnny, "lapsus may be the Latin for 'slip,' bat when mother laps us it usually means a slipper.'' After a Texas jury had stood out for 13 hours tbe judge got a verdict out ot them in two minutes by sending them word that a circus had come to town. The latest thing In India (shawls is an embroidered vertebra up the middle of the shawl so that it looks as though the wearer's backbone was showing clear through. A Nw York minister says that there are more Eves in the world to day than ever before. Yes, and the supply of Adams who are willing to be tempted ia equally as large. Bulkins, in referriog to the time his wife complimented him, says the coal fire needed replenishing, and she pointed toward tbe fire place with a commanding air and said, U'eter, the grate." Father ( who is always trying to teach his son how to act while tt table) "Well, John, you see that when I have finished eating I always leave the table." John "Yes, sir, and that is about all you do leave." A man passing through a gate in tbe dark ran againtt a post. "I wish that post was in tbe lower regions," wss his angry remark. "Better wish it somewhere else," said a by stander; "yoa might rnn against it again." Traveler Here, waiter, take this stesk away and give it to the poor. I'ts ss tough as ." Waiter (blandly) "We've never 'ad no complaints, sir." traveler "No; because that wretched old cow had 'em all." London (England) SportiDg Times. To remove spots of grease, oil or fat from woolens Saturate tbe cloth with kerosene or naphtha, and press it with a hot Iron on the wrong side. Then treat it with a lighted match. This is the only sure wao to remove grease from woolens. Boston Transcript.. Blaine is a very excitable man, aa his dispatch to the press shows: "I have not s ea the charge, but I know it is a lie out of the whole cloth." This reminds us of theremark of the fond mother: "Johnny, go and see what your little brother is doing, and tell him to stop it this minute." Boiton Poet. You can't fool aljaincy girl. When her "fellow" rises from bis seat in the theater between the acts und says: "I'll be back in a moment," she dazzles him with one of her most reliable smiles, and pulling him back with the remark, "I brougat Borne with me," coj ly slips into his hand a pinch of cloves or roasud ccfiee. Mrs. Sprague's Dinner to Mrs. Conkling. .Washington Correspondence N. Y. World. One of to-day's local papers gives the following piece of "society news," and shows by tbe following illustrations how apparent irre conciliations are adjusted in high life: "One of the handsomest entertainments imaginable, being perfect in its minutest details, was the little dinner given by Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague on Wednesday evening lsst to her friend, Mrs. Roscoe Conkhog, who is visiting here. Tbe cczy home on Connecticut avenue which Mrs. Sprague has occupied since leaving E jge wood is arranged with such artistic skill and on this occasion was so beautified by rliwers that upon entering the brilliantly lighted saloon from the gloom streets outside it looked like fairy land, and the illusion was Dot dispelled as its presiding spirit, radiant in whit3 cimel's hair and diamond?, advanced to welcome the favored guest. The table, with its Mowers and favors, was a work of art, everything being designed, frcm decorations to dessert, by the hostess. On the center of tbe table lay an oval mirror in its tank of flowers, looking like a miniature lake upon whose bosom appeared to lloat a huge swan with a back-load of fragrant blo&onis. At each plate, besides the customary bouquets, were exquisite trifles, such as, for inttance, a crimson satin slipper with gilded French heel and cbenielle bordered top, a bow of handsome satin ribbon on the toe, and lojg loops and bow of the same to ciny it on the arm as a eachel, and the shoe filled with gorgeous Marshal Neil rose-buds. Another was achccolate cake wrapped in its silver paper, upon which pranced a silver goat drawing a miniature basket of fruits. Trailing vines suspended from the chandeliers and pyramids of fruits and flowers completed the adornments. Mrs. Conkling looked very lovely in blaci velvet, with trimming of white lace and ornaments ot pearls. Mrs. Hamilton Smith wore a rich black velvet costume, with black lace garniture; ornaments, amethysts and violets. Mrs. Conkliog's trophy was a shepherd's bat of satin filled with roses, which were held in place by a silver dart Mrs. Smith's a long Turkish pipe of crimson satin, the immens bowl being filled with buds There were but eight in the party, includirg the beautiful hostess." EFFECTS OF SMOKING. Doubt aud Certainties on the Ouestion ot Injurious Results. The London Lancet prints the following letter from the late Professor Parkes 'to an irouiricg friend, on the subject of the effect of smoking: My Deab Mr. PaATT I thlnt my state of mind as regards tobacco' is very much what yours seems to be. 1 have honestly tried to collect evidence from moderate smokers, both medical men and others, and when tolerance has been established I have never been able to make out any symptoms which implied InJury. In the case of miry medical men whom I have asked to study their own condition, the answer has always been the same viz., they could see no barm or disturbance of any loyiction. Even in some cases of enormous smokers 1. e., men who rarely were without a pipe or cigar I could learn of no lDjury. on the other hand, I have seen, like all of us, men complaining of dyspepsia, nervousness, palpitation, etc., and who were much better for leav ng off smoking; In fact, in these cases there could be no doubt of an Injurious effect. In boys of 14 or 15 who begin to smoke, I think I have observed that tolerance is slowly attained; that appetite Is less, aud I presume digestion and nutrition less good, and that the comulexion becomes pasty and less florid and clear. There was a striking case of this kind In tbe son of a medical friend, who watched his son, naturally, very carefully, aud who told methat the effect ot the tobacco (a good deal was smoked) was quite unmistakable. I persuaded the son to lessen his tobacco one-half, and bis health certainly improved, but he was then a young man. That mo me injury, tnerefore. Is sometimes produced, and especially on young people, seems to me quite clear; but It Is curious, In other cases, how difiiculllt Is tonnd ill fleets, even In the young, when the quantity is not excessive. As to the effect on the young even. It is curious in Burmahto see cnildr-n smoking In their mothers' arms, and yet when 1 was serving in Uurmah, many years ago, 1 often saw a woman walking along smoking her cigar of tobacco rolled up lna plantain leaf, and carrying on her hip her child of two or three years old, who also had bis or her little cigar, which was smoked with the greatest gravity. On talking to the Burmese (who smoke constantly), they would never allow that even young children were In the least damaged. When I was In Turkey I tried to make Inquiries of some of the Intelligent Turkish gentlemen; one or two of them said that they thought the Turks had learned to smoke from the Earopeans, and had been growing apathetic and dull everaslnce. Rat others laughed at this, and the rural Turk, who smokes a good deal, is a nne, active, energetle fellow. I have talked to many Germans, who all stand out manfully for tobacco. In conclusion, I confess myself quite unoertaln. I can

find nothing like good evidence in books; too eften a foregone conclusion, without any evidence to back It, 1 given. I think we must decidedly admit injury from excess; jtrom moderate use 1 can see no barm, except. It may be In youth. My opinions aie, you will see, very indefinite, and I would gladly see some really good evidence collected. If at any time you can send me any facts I shall be very grateful. Believe me, very sincerely yours, F.a.Pahkes. Bitterne, Hoothampton, Jan. ' 187b. The British Medical Journal cites an in' teiestiDg communication from Dr. Decaisce on the subject of smoking, particularly aa regards children and women. In l&A, Dr. Decaisne felated cases of SS yonngteople, in 27 of whom tbe effects of tobacco on the economy were observable, especially in cardiac aSections, palpitations, and intermit tences. He concluded by faring that, whatever conditions may be perceived tn adult subjects, the pernicious effects of tobaccosmoking are incontestible in children. Even the restricted use of tobacco in in children leads often to a change in tbe blood, and sometimes to chlorotic ac;emla, paleness of the face, emaciation, morbid sound in the carotid arteriev. palpitation and intermittance of the heart, diminution of tbe normal quantity of the bload corpuscles, difficulty of digestion, etc. Young people who smoke show generally a certain sluggishness of intelligence, and a more or leas pronounced taste for strong drinks. In' chi'dren who cease to smoke, and who are not affected by any organic lesion, tbe disorders of economy which have just been mentioned, disappear, often very quickly, and almost always without leaving aoy trace. Since lSto Dr. Decaisne has commenced to exsmine the effects of tobacco on women. He has observed 43 women who present symptoms arising from this source, including intermlttance of the pulse and disorders in the digestion; and he has arrived at tbe same conclusions as he arrived at in liA. Be adds that the effects of tobacco-smoking in women appear to him to resemble very cloaely those which he observed in children; that in a certsm number of them, as among children, even in a relatively sintll dose, -tobacco leads promptly to the symptoms of anemia, as well as intermittent pulse, and develops, for the most part, a pronounced taste for strong drinks.

A TELEPHONES EXPERIMENT. Conversation Carried On a Distance of 1'our Hundred and Ten Miles. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 2G An important experiment with the telephone was made yesterday between the Union Pacific Transfer on tbe east side of the Missouri river, and the American Union office at St. Louis, a dis tance of 410 miles. The experiment previously made between Omaha and St. Louis hid been unsatisfactory. Superintendent Dickey, of tbe telegraph lines, aud also head ot the Bell telephone system In tbe West; Manager Korty, ot the Union Pacific Teleerraph oihee, and Manager France, of the Omaha Telephone exchange, conducted the experiment at this end of the wire, and Mr. Benedict, of the American Union, and Mr. Durant.of the St Louis Telephone exchange, conducted the experiment for St Louis. Two jars, Calland battery, was med at this end, five jars in St Louis. But two or thres interruptions of a few seconds each occurred, and tbese were clearly due to the "swingißg" of the wires In the strong wind which was blowing. An ordinary conversation was carried on with tbe utmost ease, the mod noticeable fact being that, while the enunciation of the words was perfectly clear, ther came invariably with the regular vibration of a musical note. The conversation was varied with sirging, of which apparently not a note was lost. A St Louis singer sent over the wire in a clear baritone voice "Sweet By-and By," which France repeated back. The St Louis singer then sent ' I ra a Pilgrim and a StraDger," which Mr. France repeated back. The wires over the greater part of the dis tancs were quiet acd not in use, but at the St. Louis end there was a heavy induction. This is said to be the longest distance over which the telephoae has been successfully operated. To Thine Own Self be True." IBurlington HawKeye.j Just be honest with yourself, and then you will be honett with the world. And when you gst to be honest with yourself, my son, you will be surprised to ftr.l what a good feliow you are. You will like yourself. You will want to shake hands with yourself and pat yourself on tbe back, and call your self "old boy" and be on familiar, friendly "Tom and Bill" terms with yourself. But eo long as ycu are not fair and candid and honest with yourself, so lone; ss yoa mske your self a promise on the 1st of January, and break it on the 2d, you will bate vounelf, you will be ashamed of yourte.f. you will seek any society to avoid the rebuke of your own presence. So, be good to younelf, my boy. Be honest with yourself, and if you mads any promises on the lit of January, stick to them if you have to go out of society and live in a ctve. Keep them if you break a trace 100 times a day. Be honest with yourself, and by the middle of June you and your conscience will be so satisfied with each other that you will want to run your self for president. Abandoned ly His Children at the Age of One Hundred and One. (Philadelphia Times. Lewis Rockwell, aged 101 years, lives in a little cottsge about live miles from Lackawaxen. His wife died about a year ago. at the advanced age of !G, and the old man is now left entirely alone. He has children, a oi wnoru ire well to do, but those child ten have so far failed to contribute toward his support, and the centenarian has applied to the court for a rule to sho cause why his offspring should not support him in his old age. Mr. Rock we1 1 was for a number of years sheriff and also treasurer cf like county. He is probably the oldest man in northeastern Pennsylvania. A Sharp Little Thinker. I Norwich Bulletin. J A little Woodstock miss had long desired a sister for a playmate, and having been taught to ask God for everything, she asked Him for a sister, telling her mother she would do tbe praying if she would make the clothes. After praying several nights and getting a little impatient that her request was not granted, she said one night: "Oh, Lord, please send me a little sister right away. If you 'haven't got a white one send a black one." Thia same little girl was corrected by her mother'the other day for being naughty. "Well, I can't help It," she said; "when you prayed for me why didn't you pray for a better child?" Acurion case of swindling has just been detected in Pans. A young woman of exquisite manners and very well dressed, was in the habit of calling upon persons noted for their charities, and atking them for money to relieve the poor in this severe season. She showed papers signed by ecclesiastics or officer, and was uniformly "tu ccetsful. Not satisfied with this, she even went further and pretended to fall into a tit, explaining as she did so that she was an epileptic. Of course her hostess rang for tbe servants, and hurried about to help, during which time the visitor calmly pocketed a'i tbe jewelry and valuables upon which she could lay her hands. . Had Hoys. Eureka Leader. , Two bad Eureka boj-s recently shocked their good mother by a simple device. When they got her religious paper out of the mail they slipped it from the wrapper and substituted a copy of the Police Gazette. "When the mother first opened it without her ppecs, she thought it was a Christmas number. The baby's cries are its only method of letting you know that it suffers and needs Dr. Buil'a Baby Syrup. Price 25 cents a bottle.

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(St. Louis Times., "Bad news travels fast" Therefore; when Mr. Moody yesterday denounced from the platform of tbe First M. E. church the man who was selling his and Mr. Sankey's photographs in front of the building, that enterprising individual was not long in hearing of it Tbe voice with which he had cried: "Ere's your cor-r r-e-c-t photo-gr-a p h i of the great evangelists, only f-i-r e e-e-n t-s," began to have a shade more of sadness. He stood bis ground manfully, however, and eried his wares until tbe last worshiper had departed. Then, as the shades ot night were descending eoftly over the great city, coveting up its sin and wickedness as with a charitable mantle, and as the impecunious individuals were skirmishing around for materials lor supper and a bed, he folded up his apparatus sadly and started to steal away. It was then that a Times reporter apprcached him. "How is business?" for a atarter. The picture vender looked np. He was a young man of 27, or thereabout?, and looked as if his heart were laden with a mighty son ir. "Business? business, did you say?" asked he dijectedly. "Theio's no such thing aa business in this here ungodly town. This is the worst place we ever struck in all our travels. If this heie week of prayer don't give ns a stsrt we're busted, and no mis tike " "You heard of what Mr. Moody said of you this afternoon?'" "Yes, I heard. It's hard on a business that's nearly busted already, but 1 don't blame the old man. He's been the means of making a ßlbt of money for me, and I can t find it in my heart to reproach him. uiu it anect the sale of your pictures"' "AflVct 'em? I should say. I haven't hard ly sold a pLotojtraph to-day. You see, he said t ain't had a photograph taken for 20 years. That's a fact; but it does not keep my pictures from being good ones, all the same, doe it. Here is one of him and Sankey both, se for yourself." He produced two photographs, which were really striking llkneses of the evangelists as they appear to-day. "But, if Mr. Moody had no photographs taken for 20 years, how did you get that?" "You .-ee, I had been selling a miserable thing lor his likeness, and so when he was in Boston last, I thought it was nothing but the square thing to have a good one taken. I hird one of the bo&t draughtsmen in the city, Georce F. Brooks, who went into the tabernacle and crayoned bim. I tell you. begot the old man down fine. See there! You could tell he's preaching. He's g )t his head tucked down just like he always does." "Mr. Moody said something about having tried the law io get rid of you. How was that?" "Well, I got a pretty rough deal, but this is a free country, and it a man behaves himself he's all r!t:Qt. The old man never did anything personally beyond consulting a lawyer, who told him that he'd have to stand, it. I don't see how it's hurting him, and It's livin' to me. He's fixed. The Lird careth for His servants. I ain't got no such backer, and I have to hustle or starve. But you wanted to know about the law? It happened this way: I was standing in front of tbe church in Springfield hclierin' his photographs as cheerful as you please, for I was sellin' 'em faster than I could holler. Along comes a policeman. 'Shut that up, young man. You're disturbin' tbese here religious exercises,' said he. I don' know, I might have told him to cheese it, or swallow his club, or something of that sort Anyway, be run me in. The next morning it all came out The executive committee had put up a jib on me. But it wouldn't work. They ail said I was disturbing rel'gious s?rvice, but the policeman who arrested me vwore that I wasn't a disturbing nothing at all. The mayor took my part, and eo did the chief-of-police. They turned me loose and I haven't been bothered since." "You most bave bad a large experience with Mr. Moody?" "That's about what it amounts toi When I first knew him I was a boy, in Chicago. He lived on the corner ot Indiana and Dearborn streets then, and used to preach in a little church on Illinois street. Every Saturday night he used to go out to a vacant lot on Ohio street and preach to anybody he could get to hear him. There wasni' many in them days, for we didn't think much of him then. The boys used to think he was a little off, and would throw rotten potatoes and onions, and all sorts of decayed garden truck at bim. I believe be was better natared then than he ia now. There's mighty few of us who can stand prosperity. When a boy would hit him in the back with a rotten potato he'd catch him and promise him something nice to come to Sunday-schooL They wouldn't give him a class there, yoa see, and so he went out and got all the boys he could to come, and brought them in and taught them. "Don't you tell me that man's shamming. I don't plank very high on religion myself, but if there ever was religion in this world he's got it You ought to bave seen him work wilh those boys. As I said, he wasn't much thought of then, but he worked all the same. Then he got a boost in some way, and after a while he went to Karope and came back famous. Chicsgo was proud of him then, and built him a tabernacle. Then the b:om started and I started. Since that time we have held services all over the United States pretty much, and got up some rousing services. All through the East we stirred 'em up, and don't you forget it When we was in New York in I believe it was I'm not good on dates we made the Gotbamites stare and converted a powerful lot But Boston was the boss, although you wcutdn't think it. While things were booming on the inside, I was booming on the outside. We converted Yankees like sin. and every time anybody is converted they buy a picture. I made $00 net cash one day. I thought I was goin' to be a millionaire, and I picked out my coachman's livery. All up there in them Yankee States we raised the very Cain. 1 coined money in spite of the little accident which happened to nie in Springfield but I don't bear the old man no ma' tee forthat. Then we struck it rich in Philadelphia, everywhere, in fact, except in Baltimore. Y'ou see, Sankey wasn't with us, and land the old man wasn't much team without him. Conversions were awful scarce, but I made over expenses. I never failed on that yet until we struck this here Gcd-forsafcen town." What has been tbe woist place?" "Worst place? - Worst place? Great jimini! How can you ask me such a question? Why, this here place? This here village of St Louis! It is the worst given over to iniquity than any small town that ever was struck. I haven't much more'n cleared expenses. We haven't converted scarcely anybody. Y'ou see, I can tell. I've got that down fine. Whenever a man is converted he buys one of the pictures to rememember us by. What does a man want with a picture if he ain't converted? No, sir, he don't want it at all. But when they get him on the inside, 1 get him on the outside. We haven't made much Impression here. It'a not worth speaking of. Why, tbs biggest day I've had yet has only been $9. Just think of that, will you! Nine dollars! That waa on New Year's Day, when we helped at the watchmeelings, and went over town, too." "What do you think of the prospects?" "Weil, T don't know. This week of prayer may hoop things up. Besides, the old man hasn't had a fair show. Wait till he gets that He's a little under the weather, but when he humps himself he's a power, and don't you formet it You oughter seen him in Boston. We' may stir thirgi np yet Going? So long!" ' In 1878 there were In this country 01,525,000 acres in corn, and 32,104,500 in wheat.

THE 1880. INDIANA WEEKLY STATE SEIHE ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. 91.00 PER ANUUM TOE. PIPER FOB THE PEOPLE PKOSPEcrrrs for isso. The comlug presidential year promises to be the most eventful arnd thrilling in a political sense that we bave ever witnessed, and will determine questions of the most vital importance to every citizen of the Ktate and nation. It is not improbable indeed, It Is almost certain that, upon the determination of these qneetlonx, will depend the perpetuity of oar present system of free government. These questions will be thoroughly discussed during the present session of Congress. The Sentinel has arranged for a first-class, experienced special correspondent at Washington, and, In addition to giving a true account of all the general proceedings In that body, will give the leading speeches of our most prominent statesmen, and without depriving our patrons or the usual amount of reading matter. The Sentinel will hereafter contain a supplement, malting In all fslxty Columns of composition. In a word, it is the purpose of tbe Sentinel, as a Eteadfast watchman of public intelligence to do Its whole duty in affording information to its subscribers upon aU these topics of such vast moment. As In 78 so lu X) Indiana will be called upon to take a first position In the front of the great contest and upon the success or failure of the great and gallant Democracy of our (State wUl depend the fate of Issues the most f-ortentons ever submitted to the arbitrament of a free people. We shall also specially call attention, from day to day, as occaeien may require, to an entirely Mew PbM in the politics of our State we mean the forced emigration for temporary partisan puropses of pauper negroes from the bouth Into Indiana. The managers and lead em of the Republican party, In our State and at Washington, are now engaged In this nefarious work, and are attempting by every means In their power to promote its advancement. They have failed, utterly failed, to convince our people of the correctness of their political principles by reason or argument; tneir appeals to hatred and prejudice nave fallen harmless; their lavish and corrupt expenditures of public and private moneys have proved wholly futile. They propose now hy an African Invasion of worse than a vandal iforue or beegars and mendicants to override tne voice oi the people of the State, and to arowa the Iiemocratio majority. 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