Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1880 — Page 5

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v THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL! WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1880.

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THE CIRCUIT RIDER.

Methodlet Ministry In Northern Indiana Thirty-seven Years Ago. 'With E'der Reuben D. Robinson time has indeed been generous, for w hile eomething like the ose ofyouth yet lingers upon bis cheekhe raay justly be considered one of the fathers of the Methodist Cuurch In Indiina. After graduating froia the University of Greenc&Mle, he chose the j-rofessh.n of medicine, but early became more concerned with the spiritual than physical ills of man: applied for and obtained a license, entering in 18 1 npon the dutie of a Methodist minister, a calling he has ever since, with the exception of a few yean of college professorsnip, zealously followed. i The first circuit to which he was assigned comrised the County of Tipton, a part of Howard, a

) part of Carroll, a part of Clinton, and a part of Boone. There lacked a great deal of being an Inhabitant to every square mile of territory, and the

settlements were only connected by blazed trails. In a brief Interview with a Fentinel representative yesterday brief because Elder Robinson is now doing all the work that devolves upon the :ead of the Kokomo Conference, and because he was busy shaping a tx rnion to be delivered in Peru on Friday evening he talked of the olden lime, and read entries In his journal, made in 1SK). This conversation was in the library of his rexidnee. in this city, at the corner of New Jersey ami North strevt. The salary of a Methodist minister in those days was $100 a year. That was the amount he expected to receive, and he was fortunate enough to collect His expense, he says, was scarcely' nothing: he was a mere boy and at home everywhere in the neigh borhoou. The people had a a abundance of everything but money, and that is an article for which they had but very little use. The streams yiellcd fish, the forests ame, wild fruit, and even au abundance of honey. I'ntil the railroads came the popular wants were decidedly primitive. Th.it was before the day of store clothes, in the use of the spinning wheel, every wife was proficient, and the baud loom had a place in every thrifty household. There were no church buildings in that section of country at that day. Service was held in the various houses of the neighborhood, and when the weather was at all favorable the congregations were immense, the people coming, old and youne, a distance of ten milet in every direction. A walk of four miles to a Hoosier of that day was nothing?. Set long ao, the Elder says, a venerable woman s.rose in cla.s meeting and said that the first time she ever mw the Presiding Elder, he was then quite a young man. preaching in a house in Avhlrh there wm neither door nor window, lie

Xtood in the chimney corner, and the only light by which to read came through the roof. Elder Robinson remembered the piace, and at I I once recognized the good old sister. J 1 Indoor eerviee was only known dnrine the V- w inter. In summer the woods offered a better .1 ... .... I. .. . . .I-?,.,. r.Mfn. t.A.A V...n n , Vi I.

JIUI n 1 sum ri.aiu uimia wrci but; cene of the strongest religious meetings ever cndncted. Much of Wesley's and Whitefleld's success may properly be attributed to the fact that they spoke in the open air. There "was not a power ores la the world at that

w e newspaper was not auaiiy or w eesiy ' r.-ii tor thiin ad iau- lltd rtrparhpr una thp phfiol

teacher were the only popular instructors. The Elder read a minute from his journal of a journey performed on horseback from Frankfort, union uouuty, in , 10 wiiness a session 01 me Legislature, lie noted the meeting of Dr. Evans, who has since served as Governor of Colorado, th representative of Tipiecanoe, with whom he was acouained. having been bom and reared near Lafayette, and (Jevernor-elect Albert C Porter, with whom he was a school-mate. The Elder devoted six days to the study of this deliberative body, and then started for home. I'pon the way he fell in Ith a New Yorker, who seems to have but a copious flow of profanity, lie was disgusted vhh the people of Indiana: their isrsiorance rie ;houcht intolerable, and the corn-bread upon which thev fattened he abominated. The stranger believed the Elder a t Quaker a belief that was uot opposed, lint for his vulgar oaths he might have proven a more acceptable traveling companion. At last the Elder, annoyed beyond endurance. demanded that he define and analyze the word damn. Soon after this they parted. The Elder also read an account of a visit to an Indian town irom the city of Kokomo. That was also in the winter of lvi. Know covered the ground, but he rightly judged the quality of land from the timber. He remarks the stately walnut. oa, poplar and sugar tree. After wandering for some time he struck a blazed trail, and made the Indian town without much difficulty. It was a remnant of the Miami tribe, and the Chief, once fully persuaded that he had not come for the purpose of buying or selling, but purely out of curi- : . ' : a LI . . I. . i j. .11... .

" Aery courtesy that the camp afforded was" at his Jerviee. He describes the dress of the Indian woiien, which imul have been rather elegant as did pared with the costumesof the squaws of Vlcf toria's band The name of the Chief was Sharplandorsh. ' The aborigine had just returned from f"wt viait to the far West. He did not like the coun

try. He had visited the Osage tribe. When asked what be thought of them, he answered: "Him heap ugly." When asked if the people of those days were - Jiappy and contented, the Elder answered: "I

Vi-Mjaever have seen a happier people. They were erectly contented." f Did they talk in those days much about the rprogress the country was likely to make? I "Not much. I have no reason to believe they

f ever contemplated the great chauge that has taken I place. I often wonder now, in passing through I that country au( looking upon those large, matfniticent farms, why it never occurred to me to purchase some of the land. I could have pos sessed myself of a nice tract, but the Idea never (entered my head ' Th Elder havinjr for some years officiated In the V'niversity at Fort Wayne, his library is largely of text-books. He has. however, with a vast amount of Methodist literature, much of the exclusively polite and hat is known as liberal. Sandwiched between Dr. ClnrkV'Commeiitaries" and a classical dictionary was Andrew Jackson Davis' Harmonial Philosophy." When questioned about the work, he replied, with a merry laugh, that It was a harmless delusion. M Death of Mrs. Upfold. M Mrs. Upfold, the relict of the late Right Rev -, -. ... ti . i. n . 1- : . 1 Til 1 Indiana, died yesterday morning from the in firmities of a?e. She was conscious to the last free from pain, and in peace. Mrs. Upfold was a marked character. Occupying during a long life the trying pition of a clergyman's wife, she faithfully fulfilled the duties imposed upon her with dignity, and with the respect of all with whom she was associated. She was a devoted wife and mother, and to the last this trait predominated.

V 4 The maiden name of Mrs. Upfold was Sarah VX'phi Graves. She was married early in life, at

ibany, . 1 ., her husband then beingaphysi .an. bhirtly after he entered the ministry, and lor lifty years was a prominent clergyman In the Episcopal Church. He was the rector of St. Luke's and St. Thomas' Churches iu New York City, and for twenty years the rector of Trinity Church.

riusuun;, i a. in lvio, ne was eiectea iiinop 01 J x2ie Diocese of Indiana, first residing in Lafayette,

"but the associated with her during the Ion',; illness of her husband, and knew her tender and unremitting devotion to him, never ceasing and never complaining of the cares which she cheerfully assumed, and the anxieties that never ceased until the silver cord was broken, can best appreciate her worth and noble womanly trnila. Mrs Upfold died on the eve of her birthday, when she would have been eighty-five years of age. Fourteen years ago Mr. and M .u UpMd celebrated ; their golden wedding In t hi city. Ten years after ' she became a widow,, and. notwithstanding her great age, her health and vigor was preserved

tnen livinj here until his decease. In lSi Irs. Upfold was unassuming in her life

wy'f'lw in her convictions of duty, and In

i. lischarge of tbem. Those who were

until a brief period. She leave two children J. J. Bingham and Miss Emily I Upfold. rlie funeral of Mrs. Upfold will take place from y-Ver late residence, ü west Fratt street on to-mor-frow (Friday) morning at 10 o'clock, services at

tt. Paul's Cathedral at 10::JU o'clock. Undutlful County Officials. Auditor of State Manson yesterday received the following communication from ,the Department of the Interior: Washington, D. C, December 23, 1SS0. Tlon. M. I). Manson. Mate Auditor: DeaeSir In ordert complete the tabulation of statistics of wealth, debt and taxation of Indiana, it is very linprtHnt that schedules similar to those Inclosed should be filled out and received from every County in the -State. I have twice made application to the Comity officers of your State to have this done. Responses have been received from all but thirty four, mentioned on the inclofed list. I address you upon this subject, because you have bef re carefully r-spondel to every request for Information or a.s. . ristance from this office. Now, as they have been ( r)"C notifl-d fy me, and still neglect to reply, it occurred to me that if you would ak them it f'ht result In the work being done, etc. v r- Vours very respectfully, , ' . Robert p Porter. , .. SpecJaJ Agent: . From the atxove it would appear that twotbirdi of air' the.L'oanU Auditors in the Ktate have failed to furniaii to the Census Department of the Government statistics of wealth, debt and taxation, as required by the United Hutes statutes. General ilanaon

j yesterday refused 'or the present to gWe the , reporter a list of thedirelict County officials,

but says it will be forthcoming at an early day, if the blanks are not filled out immediately and forwarded to Washington. RESUME OF THE WEEK'S NEWS. The Boycott Relief Fund now amounts to 1,000. Congress has not been in session for the past week. The steamship Pllesla, for New York, brought X40.OH0 in specie. M. Desprer, Embassador of France to the Vatican, will start for Rome January 15. The London Electrician states that the Tostoflice Department has ordered 20,0u0 telephones for the postal service. The Comtnittee for Decorations for Inauguration Day at Washington estimate the expen.se at IIj.OU). Two negroes were lynched near Horse Care, Kentucky, Thursday, for au assault ou and robbery oi a white man. Ex-Governor Scott, of South Carolina, now residing at Napoleon, O.. bhot and killed a young mau named Drury at that place. Pix persons out of n family of seven have died of trieinosis. and a family of four arc similarly afflicted in Franklin Couuty, Pennsylvania. Anderwert elected Presideut of the 8wiss Confederation forlhöl, committed suicide at 0 o'clock last evening. In a public promenade, by shooting. At Neelyvllle, Mo., on Saturday, an unknown mau shot three persons on a passenger train, mortally wounding them, and then ecaped to the woods. The residence of Patrick Wynne, Ft. Mark's avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., was fired Saturday by an explosion of kerosene. Mrs. Wynne was fatally burned. John Penn. son of Ed. Penn, a coal dealer of Charleston, W..Ya., was crushed to death by the falling of slate in the Frederick Coal Mine, near Cannelton. On the ltth of October, lS7t, a son of Alfred Carbon, of Stuyvesant avenue. New York City, was missed from home, and Saturday a daughter was kidnaped. The Consul General of the United States at Shanghai announces the determination of the Chinese Ciovernment to establish a telegraph line I, 2 miles long. The wife and two sons of the Russian Grand Duke Nicholas have arrived at Athens. They are guests of King tieorge. and were entertained at a state banquet on Friday. William Curney. of Erie, Pa, prepared to. die on Friday at 2 o'clock in consequence of a dream warnin? him of his end. but a dose of morphia and a falsified clock cured him of his delusion. It is reported in Washington that the recent Federal appointments in New York indicate the hostility of the incoming Administration to Senator Conkling. They are said to have been suggested by Mr. Garfield. A memorial has been prepared by naval ine officers and will be presented to Congress praying that naval officers suspended by the action of Courts Martial mav not be promoted before officers who have rendered continuous duty. in a naturalization case in Boston Friday, General Butler said the proceedings in such cases there have been for the past three years illegal. Th a fact, if established, would effect thousands of cases, and is receiving great attention. It is said that one reason of the incrse of the Republican vote of New York City Is the elevated railroads, which have brought back to New York Island a very large body of Republicans who have hitherto lived in New Jersey, Long Island, etc Friday evening Frar.k Hamilton Harvey, a student in the Sophomore class at Harvard, while skating on Gest Pond, Cambridge, suddenly disappeared through a hole in the ice and was drowned. Harvey's parent live in this city. ' A nnmbcr of Sitting Bull's Indians are at Pine Ridge Agency, and the old Chief himself will be at the mouth of the Milk River, in Dakota, in a few days, although his next friend, "the Gall," is reported to have tald he w ill surrender when he gets ready. Michigan Is now the third ship-building State In the country, having built sixty-five vessels last year, to ninety-six built in Maine and 110 in New S'ork. The tonnage built in the whole country in iss is 157,40", or 120,000 ton less than the total built in 1nV. Widow Nancy Anthony, living two miles west of Weston, O., had her house catch fire Friday night about 9 o'clock, consuming all the contents and burning a son of hers, about fourteen years old. and a daughter of her sister, about twelve years old. to death. At Rush Creek, Ind., Friday, Bilen Loudon met Hugh B. Neely, and as Neely passed by Loudon felled him with a large limp of coal, and then. Jumping upon him beat him terribly. He is now confined in his bed, and ioudon has lied. An old feud was the alleged cause. During a disturbance Saturday in the hotel Tof II. T. Griifin. at Rockaway Reach, one Mahon at tempted to stab the proprietor. The latter drew a revolver and fired six times at Mahon, who fell, mortally wounded. Griffin then siczed a gun and riddled Mahon with buck-shot. Two men asked for lodging in Mr. Rideing's house in Tupelo, Miss., Saturday night, and it is reported that they robbed the other inmates of the house and then burned them to death in the house iuelf. The story further ays that on of the robbers was captured and burned at the stake. Six hundred thousand dollars in gold has been put up in Bordeaux, France, to establish a steamship line with New York, running fortnightly. Ther have chartered old steamers till they can build new ones, of which one is to be made in France, and of 3,000 tons capacity. At Avon, Ind.. Friday evening, Uodolphus Cay wood shot and seriously injured Edmund FaV cett. Investigation shows that young Faweett had been holding illicit intercourse with Caywood's Jsister, Riid she was about to become 'a mother, lawcett was intending an entertainment of some kind at Wesley Chanel, and Cavwood lay in wait for him on the outside. As soon as Faweett made his appearance on the outside Cay wood began shooting at him. one ball taking effect in his side under the left arm, and it is said to be quite serious. Cay wood was immediately placed under arrest to await the extent of l-awcett s injuries. General Black and Democracy. Danville (111 ) Corrrespoudence Chicago Times. General J. C. Black, who is living along in the happiness of his escafe from nomination at the head of the Democratic State ticket last May, spoke Iiis mind to the Times correspondent, to-day, with a distinct clearness worthy of print. General Iilack desires to be set down as one who believes in "the Jeruocratic doctrines of National unity and home rule." In the matter of the taritt. he believes in free trade at the earliest mo ment, ami a revenue tariff only In the meantime." lie is a firm and positive bclieverin these things "I can see no need," paid lie, for a change in organization. These arc the great American idols of government, and they must prevail. There is no rtossible de parture from them, save in the direction of Imperialism and paternalistic favoritism. And so I am for the old party, purged of its fools and scoundrels if jKissible, but if not, then for it still, trusting time and mortality to aid in the clearing process. General DIack is one of the most prominent Democrats in the West, and a man who enjoys the restect of all paries. His utterance is, therefore, likely to have effect as a check to those who are howling for a reorganization ana anew parry, lie owns the Post of this city, a well-established and thriving newspaper, from which, on account of feeble health and a pressure of legal business, he is anxious to retire. Several parties arc now in negotiation lor it. (ieneral lilac k has a wish to see it in the best of irood hand?. and with that purpose in view he would pass oer jngner Didders iniavorot an nonest, efficient business man who would handle it well and keep it going. Such a man might nave tue newspaper upon his own terms. A Funny Fact. Sol Smith Ru.-sell tells the following story of his experience as an entertainer' At a small Ohio town, where he had given his performance the previous night, he met at the depot the following morning an elderly granger, who, while he peacefully munched a huge quid of toba.-co. intently eyed the humorist and finally said: "Say, mister, bent' you the fellow wot g:n the nhow up to tin wt's Hall last night?" "Yes," replied Russell, "I -did give an entertainment at Smoot'a Hall last night." "Wall, I thought you was the chap. I wanted to tell you 'bout a bxy of mine; you ought to have him; he's just the fellow for your show; he's the d dest fool I ever see." '. : ' ' Social Sport la Mebrmaka, . , 1 i 7' Sionx City (Iowa) Job mal ' ($ - A inaik ball waaiielj t KirertonT'Xeb., recently, at which the miisked ladies were auctioned ofT to the highest bidderV Quite a rivalry was gotten np aver' one üeirioi solle, who sold for the biggest figure offered for any lady auctioned off. and who on unmasking turned out to be one of the beaux of the city.

WITH JEFFERSON DAYIS.

A Visit to the Home of the Relic of the Lost Cause. Hon. A. K. McClnre, of the Philadelphia Times, has been visiting Jeff Davis. He writes as follows to his paper: A drive of five miles through the sand and straesling pines which skirt the Gulf bay exhibits the same general dilapidation among the old tlmt summer homes, which were once the favorite retreats of the elite of New Orleans in the sickly tea son. The shore of the bay has a number of palatial plantation houses, but they have lallen into the sweeping decay that mark them as relics of an age that has itone. The only one that seems to have been carefully preserved from the desolation that surrounds it is the Horsey place, nciir the home of Jefferson Davis. In a forest of fcrecn live oaks, richly laden orange trees and a profusion of vines and flowers a large frame plantation house is presented. It is a single story in height, and has the regulation pillars and broad verandas of the aristocratic Southern mansion. There the ex -Con federate President lives with his nephew. General lav is, and their joint families. The ex-Queen of the ConfederateCourt, is a stout, motherly, cultured and gonial woman, and a daughter, a strorgly-inarked cony of the mother, possesses unusual attractions, of both person and Intellect. The house is furnished with every regard for comfort, as the well-worn easy chairs and lounges, aud the hall and parlor divans, faithfully attest, and the walls are decorated with ancient paintings and modern bric-a-brac, while the wide chimney-place and capacious mantle tell how the cheerful pine fire sparkles when achill or a stray froot silences the song of the mocking bird aup ine bioodtnirsty nerenaae oi me musouito. Soon after I had been jolitely bowed into the rariar. jetierson Davis entered aiono, and nis greeting was the cordial welcome of the proverbial hospitality of the .South. I confes to dlsappointmeet in tlie general appearance of the man who stands in history to-day as the soldier-statesman without a country. I expected to find the strongly-marked traces of a grievously disappointed life, and evere civility and studied reticence in discussing all things of the past; but those who believe Jefferson Davis to be misanthropic in tempe rumen t aud embittered ngainst the Nation and the world greatly misjudge him. Nor 1 he the broken invalid that ee is generally Regarded. DAVIS. :y COX VERS TIOX. His vet abundant locks and full beard are deeply silvered, and his face and frame are spare as tney have always been, but his step is elastic and steady, and the hard lines on his brow. which are ho conspicuous in his pictures, are dt once etl'aced when he enters Into conversation. Instead of imoressing the visitor as a political re- j clusewhohas no interest in the land to whose citizenship he will live and die a stranger, he at once iuvites the freenom of the planter's home bv chattlnz without reserve, save when his contemporaries are likely te be criticised, when he adroitly and pleasantly turns the discussion into innofensive channels. He is yet the same losiiive man in all his convictions and purposes tuot made him tne leader oi a causeless rebellion. He well understands' that he casts the die lor Empire or for failure that must make him alien to the country and the world, and that he lost; and he knows that he is to-day the most powerless of all men in the laud to retrieve the fortunes of those who followed him to bereavement and sacrifice. He reads arj-ht the inexorable judgment that makes him execrated for the Confederacy, while his en nail v guilty subordinates have been wel comed to the fatted calf. His Vice President, who followed the slave empire afar off, when doubt and darkness gathered about it, made haste to scramble over the ruins of the Confederacy and regain the seat in Washington from which he seceded with Davis to aid in guiding the Rebellion. Two of his unnoted warriors have sat in Republican Cabinets: Lee's ablest Lieutenant is the Republican Minister to Turkey: the man who inarched the first regiment of volunteers to Charleston, and who served as Confederate Senator until Appomatox became historic, died as the Republican Minister to Russia, and Senate, House, and the Washington Departments swarm with men who were abreast with Jetierson Davis in every effort to dismember the Republic, but Davis Is the embodiment of humiliation while his fellows go in and out without displeasure. I heard no allusion to or -omplalnt of this injustice, but it is plainly evident that Davis entirely appreciates it. and that he believes he would not be consistent with himself and the grave responsibilities ne assumed, however mistaken he may have been in assuming them, if he did not deliberately remain an alien to the Goverdmcnt that he, more conspicuously than all others, struggled to overthrow. He could not help the South or himself by seeking or accepting restoration to citizenship, and he is wisely content with stubborn faith In the rectitude of his lost cause. SOME REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR. I have long desired to know the exact truth from the fountain of Southern knowledge on the subject, in regard to several important events ol the war, and 1 was agreeably surprised at the freedom with which Mr. Davis met my Inquiries--. Why Beauregard was ordered to tire upon Ander son in Fort Sumter, after his surrender was inevitable at a sieci.ied time, without assaulting the ling, has never been rntlrely understood. It was the act of madness, as It made division In the Nortn ImiioHsIble. and I have always believed that the real cause of the order to open fire was to unify the South and end the threatening movements for reunion on terms. Mr. Davis answered promptly and emphatically that the order was given solely because faith had been broken by the Lincoln Adminstration in attempting te reinforce Anderson, and the South neen no war to solidify Its jieople. 1 think he errs in underestimating the probable power of the movement In the South for reconstruction before war, but it Is evident that, in de ciding to isue the fatal order for the assault upon Sumter, he believed the Confederacy Invincible, and defiantly resented what he regarded as a vio lation of the pledge ox the t ederal Government. That act practically consolidated the North, and henceforth the contederacy was a fearfully nopeiess venture. un anotner important point he answered with the same freedom. When asked whether the aggressive movement of Lee, that culminated at Gettysburg, was adopted as purely military strategy or the offspring of political necessity Inside the Confederacy, he answered that it was the wisest of both military and political strategy, but that it was not dictated at all by political considerations. He said that the wisdom of the military movement was proven in the recall of Meade from Virginia and the transfer of both armies to Northern' soil ; but, he soberly added, the battle was a misfortune. The chances were equal, as he regarded it, for military success, arid that would have deranged the whole plan of the Government and impaired its resources for the campaign of that year. As a military movement Mr. Davis says trie Gettysburg campaign bad the entire approval of Lee. and there were no poiiti cal divisions in the South to dictate any departure from tiie wisest military laws. I desired, also, to know whether, at the time of the Hampton Roads conference between Lincoln, Seward, Stephens and others, Mr. Davis had received auy Intimation from any credible source that Mr. Lincoln would assent to the payment of SIUO.OUO,000 as compensation for slaves if the South would accept emancipation and return to the Union. He answered that he had no such Intimation from any source, but that if such proposition had been "made he could not have entertained it as the Executive of the Confederacy. He said that he was the sworn Kxecuti ve of a Gov ernment founded on the rights of the States; that slavery was distinctively declared to be exclusively a State institution, and that such an issue could have been decided only by the independent assent of each State. Some of "them, he added. would have accepted such terms at that time, but otners would have deelined it, aud peace was, thereforeimpos-sible on that basis. Strange Suicide of Two Lovers. A remarkable duel has recently taken place which for its novelty and fearful ter mination lias set Parisians agog. Two brothers Auguste and Andre Berni, the former aged forty, the latter thirty-three both employed in the great glass manufactory at .Saint Denis, became enamored of Adele Vergeri, a cook at La Villette. Adele Vergeri is described as a young woman of Elain. simple habits, who had, by dint of ard work and economy, managed to save a few hundred francs. In appearance Adele is but a humble representative of France, but she is'modcst and retiring, and not given to resorting to balls and theaters. She formed the actniaintanee of the brothers at a baptism. Doth, it appears from the very first, began paying her attentions. Adele Vergeri received the visits of the brothers with much sang froid. To her it was amusing to see first one then the other come pulling and blowing in his desire to be the first to greet her. Neither would give in to the other, and Adele had to escort them both out, as neither would leave the other alone with her. So terrible became the jealousy letween the brothers that they would not speak with each other. It had, however, to be settled at last, as Adele Vergeri threatened that unless her courtship ceased to be mixed with hatred she would have to ask the brothers to desist from calling upon her. The brothers met. They bad jiartexl with Adele Vergeri, and both confronted each other in one of the great wine shops of the staint Denis quarter, so appropriately called by Zola, "Assomuioir." ; They glared at each other, and their friends saw at oca that rofcebief. was brewing; : Tltey finally motioned to each other to withdraw td a table. They spoke low but excitedly, smoked quickly, and the blue smoke of their pipes was hot. "A duel! ies, a duell" This vrvn distinctly heard, and then the brothers beck

oned to Jules Rem! and Alfred Toulier, friends of theirs. They had decided upon lighting a duel, but not with swords or pistols. It was to be a duel to the death. Two bottles of rum, brought from the cellars of Jacquez Carbier's Assomoir de Saint Denis, were put on the table. Two tumblers were set by the side of the bottles, and this contract was made by the brothers, in the presence of witnesses: It Is agreed between the brothers Auguste and Andre lierni to drink rum until either is unable to drink any more. Tte first who succumbs will consider himself beaten, and surrender all claim to Adele Vergeri. The contract was signed the bottles"tipped and the tumblers filled. At first the men drank slowly, but as the liquor began to excite their brains they fairly poured it down their throats. At the ninth glass, Auguste, the younger of the brothers, gave a yell of Iain, and sank senseless to the rloor. Andre lerni then arose, and, with a smile on his face, turned to leave. Hardly had he reached the door of the cabaret when he threw up bis hands and fell senseless. He wa auickly carried to the Hosptal Tenon, but ied shortly after reaching it, of concussion of the brain and paralysis of the heart. Auguste lkrr.i, crazed by the rum he had drank, recovering from his faint, ran madly through the streets and has not been seen since. Adele Vergeri, the humble cook of La Villete, w hen she heard of the death of Andre and the disnpnea ranee of Auguste, merely shrugged her shoulders. TIIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

Its Mission and Its Principles. Senator Willitim A. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, In the North American Review. The events and processes ot more than a generation have taken the control of Governmental atlairs away from the intelligent rule of the masses and vested it in a power as yet formative and undefined. Among these were the civil war, the creation and peculiar manipulation of the public debt, reconstruction outside the Constitution, universal negro suffrage, a plethora ot pater money, loose public morals, enormous growth of private fortunes, and a close con nection oi the woveranient with the banking interest. Each had its weight in sapping the foundations of a government by the masses and in shaping our course toward a different rule. Whether that rule is to be 6ufi"rnge, qualified and rarified, or suffrage controlled by the power ot aggregated wealth or monopoly, or a Senatorial oli garchy, or hereditary government, is- beside the present inquiry, save as theyeach and all show distrust of the people and build their foundations upon universal sunrage, debased, corrupted and dominated. The tendency toward a so-called stronger Government is as manifest a are the causes that have given it form. It !.s in the nature of things for Government to grow stronger at the expense of the governed; but the plain proof of the existence of this tendency is found in the opinions of the Federal judiciary, in Federal legislation over matters heretofore within the control of the people oi the States, in the modes of execution of those satutes, by which local rule, Local t'ourts and personal liberty are overthrown, and in that ramification of executive patronage which sends its mandates to the extremities, and at will gathers in a single hand enormous contributions and unscruplous obedience from 90,000 paid officials. "Executive patronage will bring us to a master." A net-work of oftice-holders,bound each to the other, wielding time and money and power of place to pack primaries, dictate nominations, crush independent thought and action, and subordinate local control to the will of an executive who governs in the name of party, points the road with unerring certainty to the end that Franklin, the wise man, predicted, r urther guide-boards on that road are seen in large donations of money by corporations, monopolists and wealthy men, to supplement the power of the executive and carry elections in the in terest of an aristocratic class who dislike and distrust the people; in the domination of employe by employer; in the marked ballot; in the third-term candidacy and pilgrimage on the stump; in the national and labor organizations, jvluch are but over zealous protests against this tendency, and in that ill-concealed demand for energetic government, which has been the fundamental thought of the opponents of Democracy since the days of John Adams. The issues of 175)0 and 1S00 again confront the people. The theories of that day are again to struggle for the mastery. The Government of the Republic is already centralized. The canvass of 1SH0 teaches this. The Federal executive has been felt from the Wardcaucus to the vaultsof the Treasury, from the primary to the Presidential elec tion. A high Federal official quits his place to tase a nomination ior uovernor oi lue pivotal State, and at once the executive arm is extended to his support. Marshals, detectives, Collectors, Secretaries, and all else that are needed, locate themselves within the State, and its suffrage is debauched and its undoubted will reversed. A suffrage, first debased, then corrupted, then obedient, is centralization in its worst form. This is but one means to the end sought. The mission of the Democratic party is decentralization. Its duty is to restore the Government of the Republic to the intelligent rule of the masses of the people. It must teach and Jractice the doctrines of its illustrious ounder. It must appeal to the people themselves in their own interest. It must preach the eternal truth that the individual citizen is the unit in government, from whom proceeds all jower, in whom is vested all rights save those which are granted by hint for the good of the whole. The people at the base, the States and the Federal Government each supreme within itssphere, is the system to which it looks for liberty, and it must teach that he who looks to paternal Government to centralization, or to empire, looks to despotism. Care for and perfect the Government, and it will protect the liberties of the people, was the thought oi Hamilton. Give intelligence and information to the eonle, teach them that it is their Government" and their interest to preserve law and order, was the thought of Jefferson. Paternal Government and vigor in the Federal head on the one hand, information to the masses and energy from the extremities on the other. The former gave the Republic alien and sedition laws, direct taxation. Federal Marshals and centralized rule in 1T1I9. The latter swept these out of existence in 1800; carried us successfully through two foreign wars; acquired an empire oi territory and governed the country for sixty years. We must choose between these two now. The Democracy must again plant itself npon the axiom, "Governments are made for men, not men for Governments." It must strike with mailed hand the tendency to strong Government. It must be true to the people and aggressive in its fealty. Dominated labor must be taught its rights and its interests. Capital must see its safety in the intelligence and justice of individual rule, and not in the exerr 'se of arbitrary will. Honest performance of every Governmental contract now in existence, but a change of policy by which the debt shall be managed in the interest of the people and not of the creditor; equal taxation on every form of property; thorough inquiry into taxation for revenue and its readjustment upon a basis just to every interest and to all the people; no monopolies; forfeiture of the franchises of corporations and punishment of aggregated wealth, or individuals, for coercion of employes, or the use of money in elections; our own carrying trade made to be our own preserve; and a divorce between Government and banks, arc thoughts which rind place in such an issue. The cry of a "Solid South" is exhausted and impotent at last It has served its purpose. Divided councils upon questions of administration have kept the Democracy a mere party , of oppodticmancV -concealed -the silent ap-; proaehw of the enemy to -etrong GoTeTtnment. i It will continue tö be a party in op-f position, untrusted and untried, untiV It defiantly asserts its ancient theories and goes to the people for their vindication. The Democratic party is not dead. An-taus-like, after each defeat, it arises from

the people stronger than before. It cari not die whilst it teaches and believes in the rights of the masses. The hour for its triumph will have come when it boldly asserts its true theories and ignores the blandishments of money, monopoly, and corrupt power. He whose interest judgment or teachings are adverse to the rule of the maises will join its enemies, bat in his room it wiii recruit scores of those in whose interest it strikes, or who respect its attitude and detest strong government The future of the Democratic jwirty is the future of the Republic. H.iyes as a Politician. Washington Cor. New York World. A story has been circulated that State Senator Harrison, a Tennessee Republican,' has been here and assured the administration that, with a little patronage and other substantial help, a Republican Senator could be chosen, intimating that he himself could thus become the beniticiary. His plan was to subsidize some of the Low-Tax Demo

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"Well, you just go back to the President." said Mr. Gorham, confidentially, "and say for me that 1 will present you with his subscription for 1S7G which is double what you require and which we have had no use for yet" Harrison s case may be assumed to be un like the North Carolina applicant's only in that the President hai not yet so far committed himself is to give him a note to the Congressional Committee. Dangers to Iron Workes. Pittsburg Evening Chronicle. Messrs. U. Esterbrook fc Sons, City Iron Foundry, Boston, Mass., speak on this point as follows: Two or three of our men were badly burnt in working. They were, however, immediately cured by using that valuable remedy, St Jacobs Oil. All our men are highly pleased with it, and we shall always recommend it to those afflicted with pains or rheumatism. Bright' a Disease in Women. The gentler sex, for a variety of reasons perfectly understood by them, are peculiarly liable to those attacks which end in Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. Upon the special attention of women, therefore, we urge the great virtues of Hunt's Remedy, the great Kidney and Liver Medicine. This superb medicine has saved many a good woman from an early grave. It is excellent in all of the peculiar diseases of the sex. No medicine equals Hunt's Remedy for delicate women. Sohl by all druggists. Trial size, seventyfive cents. The I tat tie is Raging Itetween Winter and all the organs through which we draw the breath of life, Which, shall conquer? Strengthen, soothe and heal the irritated lungs and throat w ith "Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar," and the rapid cure of cough, cold or intluenza is absoluely certain. sold by druggists. Pike's Toothache Drops cure in one min ute. Children's shoes are worn through at the toes while the balance of the shoe is perfectly good. Parents who have submitted to this rather than have them wear the metal tips, should try the A. S. T. Co.'s Black Tip, which perfectly protects the toe, and adds to the beauty of the shoe. See ad vertisement in another column. SPECIAL NOTICES. Life in the Crescent City. Amid the turmoil of business in New Orleans. pleasure Is not neglected, and a grand promenade concert in connection with the Twenty-fourth Grand Extraordinary Pemi-Annual Drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery was superintended by Generals G. T. Beauregard, of Louisiana, and Jubal A. Early, of Virginia, at which prizes amounting to over Jj22,0D0 were placed in the wheel and fairly distributed. The next drawing takes place January 11, and any one sending 12 to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La., or same per son at No. 319 Broadway, New York City, may get ?3Q,000. Why may it not be the reader? 0 A CARD. 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The most mild, bland and nutritious form In which Cod Liver Oil can be used, and with more benefit secured to the patient by a single teaspoonful of this Jelly than by double the quantity of the liquid oil, and the mo6t delicate stomach will not reject it, .For sale by alt druggists, and E. H TRÜEX, 3 Piatt street. New York. , . -FOB S-A.X.E., "T7K)R SALE Matthews' Patent Renewable Memo ran dum Book. Send for ample copy and price list. Samples sent postpaid to any address on receipt of 50 cents for No. 1, or 40 centa for No. 2. Address SEN'TLNEL COMPANY, Indianapolis.

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