Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1881 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1881.-

IWEDXESDAY. FKURUARY 2.

BJaTKS OF BTJBSCRIPTIOX. Dally, dellrered bf carriers, per week ,13 25 iMUy, delivered by carrier. Including Banday Sentinel, per week ) Daily to newsdealers, per copy Indianapolis 8ntinl for 1RÄO DtOly, 8u Ly and Wakly KdlUou. PAILT. Dallvered by carrier, per week. I M . v. - y - "I r if mJi Daily, peraannm. by mail 10 00 Daüy, per annum, by mail. Including Bunday, by mail rtujly, delivered by rrler, per mnum.. 12 CO Dally, delivered, by carrier, pec annum. Ineluding 8anday..- 00 CKDAT. Sunday edition of seventy colnmni 9 3 00 WEEKLY. Weekly, pe annum I 1 50 The poaiure on subscriptions by mail is prepaid fey the publisher. Newadealer irjppiied at three cent, per copy, iostage or other charge prepaid. DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE. Th Union mart aad shall ! pi eaet dU Jackson. Th OoTernment is best which governa aat Madlnon. OoTcrnmtnti a, re founded and laws enacted for the parpose of protecting th nooest, the weak, the Jast; punishing the guilty and rewarding tho meritorious Jefferson. No encroachments upon, or Interference with the affairs of this people of the North JLmerlcan Continent by any foreign power, King, Emperor, Prince, or Potentate Monro. The largest liberty to the greatest number f persons, providing they do not encroach npon the right ef a minority. Calhown. The people of every State, as well aa ef every Territory, have the right to regulato their own domestic affaire in their wnwr subject, however, to the prerisietia of tk Constitution of the United StaAe. Douga. The great principles ef America liberty are still the lawful lnhfirltanoo ef tW people, and ever sheaid he. The right ef trial fcf Jury, the hafceae eerytu, the Irsertw of tfce press, the freedom ef speech, the natural right of persona, and the righta ef properer must be preserved. General W.S-K.n cocVOTE FOB PÜESIÜEXT, Itt. Hancock, Democrat , 444,111 Garfield, Kepaallean ,C37;M 'Weaver, Greenback 301,003 ov, Prohikktion 9,644 -Scattering - 1,39 Total. .,,794 Hancock ever Cat-He H- . Vor years ao Peter Cooper gave Lis SOB and his sort-in-law 1,M ach. Such uiuinificence is well calculated to xveoffi want in a family. Tai Celored Citizen proposes to be auro--ro.us at the inauguration ball. II can hold his own in a reel, jig, or tui old-Ca.h - ioned break-down. JIayeh is going out of oiliee burdVned xitii universal contempt. Stalwarts of high arul low degree are denouncing him ven the theives and perjurers he has fed at the "Treatary crib, denounce him. 'Uhited States Xavy CliarJa'nn have a prettyfair show in this world. They re.ceive $2,500 a year, $.100 additional for eadi five years of service, and at ixty4wo they .are retired with $2,500 for lie. Bod JLincol.h has evidently got a Cabinet bee buying in his ear. The St. Louis PostDispatch thinks the eon of the martyr would .make .a .good school master if be Lad the .necessary '.'patience and education. Ax exchange remarks that "istanley Matthews hm't'.f.t for Judge, but Le would wake ja nice Governor for Alaska; and if apjpointed he -would doubtless freeze to the place." The-suggestion is good. LetfitanJey.be appointed and seated at onoe. Dklet.atb Cannon, while making aspeedi, was interruptedly a brother Congressman, -who asked hha Lew many wives be had. -Cannon, loaded tc tthe muzzle, fired back, -1 have wives enough to keep me from interfering with other men's wive.' Polygamy won once. E.VAP.T5, Haves') Priuier, remarka that lie -".could have eaved a littJe something had lie not been obliged to, rs&ke up to tlte Diplomatic Corps the "White House deficiencies in wine and brandy." A Jittle hint to Congress tc appropriate '.'a, li&e eomething Co snake bin. even. A N .of .Brigliam ,Yarc has been arrestel for bjgamy. His nar&e Is John W. lie will probably be onviid, but as one wallow don't date spring, to one conviction .won't do knvf with iyganij. It is an exceedingly diffiotc.lt jtak'ur to arrest and convict and imjprisoa a wh&ie Territory ftutl-of biamUta. Tmz Boston Tost fays that "it tit Iloraan, not ram punch, taat was eeriai at the Whkte JIoue.iDd aiiaut .vhich .abere has been o much -diptie. TEtere is about as mach difference between the Oxo asiietween a fiddle d a viulia. .Tliooe isebably thia ifecence;: Roman achter thas rum pnncj. Je Hayes would have selected rum. Hayes Ixzs been econoiaical ia spelling Tilden'i salary. Fkvatok JK, M Kevaii,1repBtiiatestt'e etory that the people &re tired.of folate Government on account oi tares, .and says: "Oar people do notksov tliai they have a j Government. That is, tbey Jv?ve ot felt ft burdentom at tüL 3ur eytem.of taxation is such thai the poor picple do nut feel the taxes. We 'are taxed according to our income. A mine is taxed Xr what it produces, - that it pay tax as part of the expensea. and. conipacalirejy Jtr.uking, ihe burden is not felt' The real estate bufcinet of th two rival cities f-'t. Louii and Chicago for oue weeJc is given a? follows: Chicago, $00T,Vf; StLouis, $10.053. The St. Lnuia rbst-Disjaiiij regards it as an cany matter to account for thii vast discrepancy. St. Louis owns itself. Chwtago is thieily owned by ouUidera. In St. Louis "real estate transactions, like its growth, are steady while Chicago ia a speculative, fe erifeh town. All the real etdate of the city charges hands every month or two. A maa in Chicago may own forty building lots to-!ay. An unlucky gambling transictioa On 'Change forces him to sell to-morrow. The following day the purchaser of tb lots is brought to bankruptcy, and he, in turn, U Lrccd to part with his property.

It ia not an unusual thine for a building or a lot tu be sold three or four time's a week under such circumstances. Recording sales, making out deeds and transfer thus beomes the most profitable industry of the town. ' hi nee it is a curiosity to find a man in Cbias holding a piece of real estate for more than a month, we are really surprised that the real estate transfers, as published in tlx paper, don't foot up two or three millions a week." It will occur to a good many that tl l-B. regret tliat St. Louis is not little rasre speculative ami feverish.

A BASTARDLY CIRCULAR. A. friend, residing in a distant portion of th State, has eent us a circular, the writer C which was We?rfed with futRcient sen.e self contempt to withhold his name, but, unfortunately for the author, while keeping tack his name, he clot Ires his dwarf in sch verbiage as to point directly to the place of its birth. That it eiuartaVt from the Indianapolis News there is little doubt In the vantdrtess of its utterarrces it confesses its parentage. In its perile mendacity, the News sticks out in every sentenoe, and in Us appeals to the iate iretw, which is better informed upon current events than the News, the circular becomes si rp"y the trick f a demagogue and an impertinent demand for assistance to help it wLtle engaged in an exceedicgly selfish busineBS. The purpose of the circular is to o change the present law relating to Foreign I mm ranee ComwAnies as afford the people of Itxliana no protection at all against fraudulent transactions. As the law now stans, the people do not complain, nor do the better class of foreign Insurance Companies. The sesui-annual f-tatemcnts of the Insurance Companies are fairly, honestly ani economically advertised. All interests are faithfully protected. I?ut the bastard circular like the Vews, of which it is evidently the offspring is worried. In its mean duplicity it demands what it does not wrnt, though, (ike the Xew, it would overturn order for 4he gratification of its spite and triumph of it jealousy. J t demands that foreign lourance Companies shall adiertise in all tke papers of the State. It knows, however, tkat such a law is not at all likely to be enacted by the Legislature, but the hoe is that, by falsehood and shuv;, to create an impresfuon tliat foreign I isu ran w Cwu:anies have hitherto been harshly dealt witli. and that the present law relating to advertising frhould be changed. The News a:l the bastardly circular vhich has leen ent forth u the State pres? toot the saiue tune, use, tue anie blang, nein-at tke saure falsehoods and exhibit the same desire to deceive. I realing one you are readlag both. The Legislature is Jiot likely to le milled by either or both, nor is the Slate prees likely to adopt the narrow prejudice which t&ey are ambitiotis t -cultivate. As the case now stands, the pjple and the Insur ance Companies are getting along remarkably well, and as it is always prudent to let well enough alone, the ows and the i astard ciicular are not likely to create any fxx ial disturbance in the legislative mind. DOES PROHIBITION PROHIBIT? From all quarter oomee informution w ith regard to the operation of -prohibitory H juor laws. In no single instance do they lessen thecojjsuniption of liquor, or improve the morals of the State where they e.xist. It. begins tobe understood that laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors is nt the best way to arrest drunkriinev. The State of Michigan is a caxe in point, and the facts are well worthy d consideration. The Detroit f'ost and Tribune, in commenting upon the subject, say that "in 174 Michigan hadon its statute books one of the Juot stringent prohibitory liquor laws ever passod by any State." All that law could do to .cure drunkenness was done, but the law was a dead failure indeed, fHHiK'thing worse than a failure. Drinking increased rather than diminished under iU operation, (iovernor lingley gave the peple of Jlichigan, in his message to the Legislature in 1H7.", information as to the practical results of prohibitory legislation. He said: The United State Revenue üepartment report 4.4 14 places in this State engagod in the b 'fJness of selling liquors. Their receipJg must average t20 per day each, or over S !s,(XH)(C0O per annum, a sua three time greater than all the taxes of every nature levied in the Stale. Four years' recefpts woald build every railroad In the Rate. On the statute booas of the State Ktands a .prohibitory liquor law, the constitutionality of which ha been aflirmodand realHnncd by th? Bupretae Court, which deflates this whole burlnew ilkogal, and each one of the principals Uüble to fine and imprisonment. Not -lea than i,5O0 persons ace daily vioJatinK thU law. If 5.000 or I.tfX) person were daUy violaiitig the law as to pettit larceny there would be.arrt-str without number. What makctt the difiereiiceT Is it not the fact that public sentiment sustains the one and not the other? Every good citizen abhors drunkeunetw aitd ahuMer at he countless evils that follow in its train. Hut is it not evident that the large majority are not in fyrapathy witk our preseat icKi&lat ion. whk-fa attempts to prohibit it and so utterly fails in its object? There will always be drinking and drunkecness. Wectn not hope by any agency to stop it entirely. But witk the moral sportof the great teacher of home, whool, and prefw, can we not have the aid of intelligent legislation that will diminish the Intemperate a se of liquor? Why not recognize the fact that there is a di&rence between drinking and drunkenness, and put in tke statutes laws regulating the ealeoi liquors? In behalf of temperance and sobriety, of cotxl morals and manly living, I urge all men of different opinions to get together on common ground and make the experiment. The people did get together. They found prohibition a signal failure; and. lite sensifcie people, they abandoned it, and substituted what is known in Michigan as the Li4?nse Liquor Tax law. This was raged in k75, and inlS77 Governor TagUyaain refeard to the subject in Iiis iiiebMige. lie said: The Xcense law of 1S73, providing for the regulation acvl taxation of the liquor traffic, has beeu in operation nearly two years. It wua the purpose of the friends of thUact not only to regulnte ij(ti to restrain the tratUc in strong drink tlm had grown to be, under other laws, the ereavt evil of the day. For tho ptiro of ascevtinirg what has been aceompli.shed under It, I addressed the Trcanurer ef each County, asking lw full details of the epcniioa of the present llivnsc law in their respective Counties. The Information received is as near complete as can be expecV'd. Ia 187i the number asses:l as reported to me was 4.971. Of these 4,215 paid the tax, amounting to $121,102. It Is altogether probable that those wfco have not paid have retired fron- t'.ie buiuR. In lf)76 the number assessed was 4,ri2. Of these ;..'$." are reported as having pai-l the tax, amounting to $W,3S7. . The collectors of (VnlWUtc) Internal rev-

enae report the number of persans assessed ia 1ST by the (ieneral Government, as dealers In liquor at 5,338, but this includes druggists, who, as a rule, are not aaaeMed ander the Stale law; the number in 1874 was 6,444, ehowlng a decrease of 1,106 In two years. It Is evident, therefore,

that the act of 1875 has decreased the number of places where liquor is sold very largely. The oflicUl reports of the police officer of De troit, Grand Rapids, Fant Saginaw, and Jackson report 3,971 arrests for drunkennexs In 1S71. 3,232 In 187,"), 2,22 for I'W. This decrease cf drunkena ess and of places where humanity Is made barter oi, and dollars trailed for degradation, miiht be gratifying to every citizen. The reportshow very generally that behind this license law there is a public sentiment that Kays enforce it, Intemperance is the danger of the hour. It feeds prisons and foor-houses, destroys morals and manhood, ml anoer-llke cats away the life of the Individual and Nation. Law will not stop its ravage, but it may be made an Instrument that will lestten it vil work, and this I heliev our present law is doing. Such is the record of the matter in Michitmn. where prohibition was tried, and failed. The Post and Tribune -shows that in the city of Detroit the arrests for drunkenness and disturbing the peace, caued by drtinkenncr, have greatly decreased under the license tax law. Under prohibition, for live years, fror 10 to 174, the arrests were 1S,71 7, and for five years under the license tax law the arrests" were 15,974, showing a decrease ia five years in favor of the license tax system of 2,742. Such figures are convincing. INSÜRANCE COMPANIES DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. Among the very important duties devolv ing upon the Legislature of Indiana that which rtlatcs to the enactment of laws regulating the business cA Insurance Campt nies occupies commanding prominence. To fully and faithfully ?ruard the interests the peopi of Indiana is the first and most important consideration. In doing this, no injustioecan be done to Insurance Companies, doaaest ic or foreign no hardir terposed and no money required beyond what is necessary to give the people adequate protection. There were doing business in this Bute dnring tke year 1K7-sO ninety-6ix Fire Insurance Companies of other States and foreign countries, and thirty Life Insurance Companies. Of tlese ninety-six Fire Companies, tw-enty-one belong to foreign untries, and tlie remainder to the Caiited States. Of the foreign Companies thirteen hail from England and Scotland, four from Germany, two from 1'rance, and two from Canada. The account with these Kire and Life Insurance Ccnnpanies for the year endfcng June .'50, stands as follows: Ort. receipt.., Tax pnid......... 52,i.V5.l,' S7 l,237.0fi0 1! :i9.?2ö 41 1,276,75 CI Receipts ahow -expenditures 1,179,9-0 74 The foregowig figures represent a vast interest. They indicate a eteady and an enormous drain upon the wealth of the State. More than $1,00,000 go ut annually to enrich other States and communities, to come back no more. Just here it is prudent to inquire: What !o these foreign Insurance Companies, corporations owing their existence to charters obtained outside of Indiana, invent? We answer, nothing at all. They do business in Indiana entirely ujou Indiana capital. A8we have siiown, these foreign Insurance Companies. Fire and Life, received last year $2,4.rr7,,,i-37 fr0m the people of Indiana. They paid back to them and to the State $1!7,7S.'.I. and tocketed the balance. The people paidthe premiums, paid the losses and paid the tax and gave the Companies beside more than $l,OrtOX). The Companies paid nothing derived from other sources. This vast amount bf money paJd by the people annually to foreiga Insurance Companies is about tour times tle .annual interest, at . per cent., on the Stsäe-debt, domestic and foreign. It is a tax than, in two years, would build the State House. It is a tax which, Jn four yeirs, would wifce out the St:ite debt. These Fire Insurance Companies here polities on Indiana propeuty of not less than $ir0,000,0Ofl, and the nuriber of life.policies is a secret locked up in the archives of the Lt-'e Companies. They ate enough, however, to enable the Life Companies to draw frotii the State premiums to the amot:nt of $'.35,274.47 a yoar. Now, then, we ask,what security has the people of Indiana against fraud? Their solvency? -their integrity? their air dealing? AVe say, in the ligkt of current events, something aiore is demanded. Ttie eople of Indian, are not oerexweting. They are moderate in their de mands. They are pay inj larpsly. Theyiequire to know tke financial .condition f these foaeign Companies. Ttey demand semi-annual statements that shall be sworn to, .and they demand that these statements shall iwt only be made and sivorn to.atd filed witkiihe proper officers, but that tley shall be published senii-annualüjy in .newspapers o general circulation throughout the State, -so that they can stusfy them .and have a& the required inforncation wih regard td their condition, their solvency and theirability to pay when loies are sustained by f re or death. The people are faying these rCompanie, above their losses, xiore thau $L000,000, acnually. Tley are footing all the billd, an.1, in cotHÜderatioa of these expenditures, they deauand that the Insurance Comianles shall exnd a sn-all fraction ?f their gains to give theni, in the movt convenient form, information vital to their protection against loss. The bit! now pend-; ing before the Legislature denies the people these safeguards. It proposes autual statement instead of semi-tnnual statements. A year is a long time in the history of an Insurance Company. In twelve months an Insurance Company may be wrecked with total loss to the insured. Such things have too often occurred to silence apprehensions, tjuarterly statements would be better than semi-anuual statements; but annual tateruents are certainly not in the interest of the people. Hut worse still, the bill to which we refer provides that these foreign Insurance Companies may fde statements with Auditors, beyond which the people nhaü have no means of knowing their condition. If a farmer, a merchant or a manufacturer desires to know the condition of a foreign Insurance Com pan)', he must perform a pilgrimage to the cTice of the County Auditor and take his chances to obtain the required information, and when obtained it may be so old as to create doubts, in which case he is required to go it blind. In justification of this policy this favoritism to foreign Insurance Companies a clamor is eet up that

these Companies are unjustly taxed burdened, as it were, with taxation. Let us see if the facts warrant the hullabaloo. The ninety-six Fire Companies, for the year ended June 30, 1&), received from the

people of Indiana $1,.U1,5U1.!0, and paid out for losses $701,293.03, leaving a gain of $820,297,97. On this business they were taxed lCil'S, leaving them a net profit of $794,104. The thirty foreign Life Insurance Companies, for tlw year ended June SO, 1$), received, as we have befor stated, $035,174.47 from the people of Indiana, and paid back $S35,sr,;,iSs leaving a gain to the Companiesof $ fci,SS.34, less tax paid, $13,G22.0!t, sliowing a net profit of $:W5,Gu25. It is easily seen that such figures effectually sileoee the outcry about excessive taxation, arri dignify the claim ef the jeople to such legislation as fchall require foreign Insurance Companies to place befrre them in the most eenvenient form all desired information relating to their condition. In these regards täe law as it stands affords the people protection, and their interests will be subserved by permitting it to remain on thr statute books of the St.ite. ALIEN TITLES TO LAND. A very important -question relating to the immediate and future welfare of the State of Indiana is being vfidely and earnestly discussed by the people of the State. Indiana wants her fair share of European immigrants to settle within her borders, to aid in cultivating her lands and otherwise develop her boundless rejurces. Alien capitalists are anxious to purchase Indiana lands and settle upon them a set of hardy men who will cultivate them and become fco a fide citizens of the State. These alien capitalists have read of Indiana, of her fertile lands, ler railroads, her schools, ler civilization, and have made note of her geographical advantages, her centrality, her nearness to the great markets, and are anxious to purrliase lands and people tleni. Hut there is one great ditticulty: Indiana forbids aliens to acquire a title to real estate, to land, while other Western States permit aliens to purchase lands. Indiana bars them out by statute. This statute Las turned their attention to other States where the law are more liberal toward aliens and more in consonance with the welfare of the States. Why should Indiana longer pursue a policy in direct antagonism with her growth and prosperity? No Enlish or Scotch capitalists will purchase Indiana lands to hold them iodelinitely as investments. They purchase to sell again In small tracts such as English and Scotch farmers can purchasedand pay for. They want to real ire upon their investments as early as practicable and if the laws of Indiana permitted, would doubtless purchase at once, and the tide of immigration would immediately set toward our tate. The theory that these alien capitalists desire to purchase large estates in Indiana for the purpose of establishing such a system of landlordism as exists in Ireland, is not tenable, for were such the case, they could purchase to any extent desired in the States which permit aliens to own reai estate. The fact is, all things considered, tliese aliens prefer Indiana, and it will he unfortunate for the State df they are debarred the privilege of exercising their preference. We hope to announce the fact that the bill upon the subject now pending before Ute Legislature has become the law of the State, and that hereafter the policy of Indiana will be as liberal as that of any other State ambitious tj increase in population and wealth. STIFFS. As a general proposition, live men are niwre. valuable than dead men. There are exceptions, we admit too numerous per haps; but nevertheless the proposition defies successful contradiction. The prevailing sentiment that dead people are the most sacred souvenirs that Providence can bestow upon the living is, we admit, a chenVhed tenet. It is not, however, pecu liar to Christian civilization. The savage clings to it with greater tenacity than the saint. The -darker the heathenism the more value attaches to the bones of the dead; while in all other regards ignorance and superstition are held to be repulsive deformities meriting banishment from the abodes of civilization, they suddenly be come, when discussing the disposition of the dead, of .controlling importance, dethroning OMiiiuon -wense, and supplying its place with fancies inwrought with heathenish superstitions, whioh, when analyzed, are found tobe utterly destitute of any rational constituent whatever. In the grand march of events it is found that the dead can be of great service to the liviug. The science of dnedicine hon no more important depart-tT-ents than thc-iuf anatomy and surgery. Twiat the living may be benefited, dead by lies must be dhssected the situation of the different parts of the Ijvman body must betnown. If this- knowledge is not obtained, the whole JUuinan family suffers Ignorance in this regard is a far-reaching c ilatsity, and still to obtain a"stifT for a Medial College for a dissecting-room is rated a? a crione of such hideous proportions that confinement in the Peuitentiary is regarded as scarceiy adequate punishment, nor is the poor devik who furnishes- the "still"" the only transgressor, but the tuedical faculty in charge of tie institution where dead bodies are dissected for the benefit of the unfortunate ' iiving are also held to Le felons in the estimation of same people for whom the elon's fate is a juM punishmect. The demand for a thorough knowledge of the structure of the hursan body daiJy becomes more imitative. Every day, very where there are ills and misfortune requiring the highest achievements of nkill. Broken and fractured Uvnes, dislocations, etc., indefinitely are multiplying. Mea and womea, maimed and cruninu), have to be attended to; tumors and cancers have t. be removed by the use of the surgeon s knifo. If Ihese living suiTl-r-ers obtain relief, it must be by the knowledge obtained by d!-eciing the bodiea tf the dead. There is absolutely no way to escajrfi the conclusion. Why, then, this everlasting hue and cry about "stiCs?" Why this ccxsless bombardment of dieso'.'ting-rooms? Why this clamor for severe penalties? The State should provide, by law, s me means whereby "atiCY may ho upplied. The Legislature might with much propriety give the pubject some attention. Railroad dlnsterj are of every-day occurrence. Casualties are too ct aierous

to catalogue they all plead for surgical skill, bone.setting and limb-cutting skill and this skill must have for its ierfection a knowledge of the human organism, to be obtained in the dissecting-room. But the dissecting rooms must be closed if stiffs can not be obtained. If then the welfare of the living depends in so great a measure upon "stifis," society ought to recognize the fact and aid in ameliorating the sufferings of the unfortunate.

Tiik Chief of the Bureau of Statistics furnishes the following information in regard to immigration into the United States: There arrived in the ports of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Kastport, New Bedford. New Orleans. New York, Philadelphia, Port Huron and San Francisco during the month ended January 31, 1SS1, l.l.SLM passengers, of whom 13.134 were immigrants, 1,534 citizens of the United States returned from abroad, and aliens not intending to reside in the United States. Of this total number of immigrants, there arrived from Kngland and Wales, 1,745; Scotland, 312; Ireland, 737; Germany, 4,333; Austria, 319; Sweden, 271; Norway, 90; Denmark, XJ; France. 207; Switzerland, 3.s; Netherlands, 70; Italy, 1.027; Russia, 12; Poland, 3J; Hungary, 512; Dominion of Canada, 2,027; China, 547; Australia, 113; and from all other countries, 201. The number of immigrants arrived at the above-named ports during the seven (7) months ended January 31, 1331, was as follows: From Germany, 77,407; Dominion of Canada, 74,839; England and Wales, 34,21(2; Ireland, 29.2U"; Scotland, 7,58J; China, 3,213; all other countries, G.';,345. California, is destined to be a glorious place for lawyers. Hitherto, railroads have furnished the biggest fees. Now comes the mines. California now has three of these mine cases. One case involves the sum of $10,429,003; another $20,015,000, and still another has $J,4W,4)0 in dispute. It is safe to bet that the lawyers will get away with at least one-half of these attractive heaps of money. The prohibition law In Rhode Island is a dead failure. The Providence Journal says the failure is owing to the fact that neithvr the people, the oidinary officials nor the Court will do their duty. In other words, bath the license law and the prohibitory law have been broken down because of the utter indifference of the irresponsible and the responsible portion of the community coicerniiig them. Gekesal Garfield took Conkling, during hi recent visit to Mentor, up stairs and into a room, barricaded the door, and then, after looking into all the closets and under the beds, said: "Shu!" What these two Republican Bourbons did in that up stairs room at Mentor will perhaps remain a secret until the division of the loaves and fishes at Washington on the 4th of March. It seeais to be impossible to find out jut where Chester A. Arthur, Vice Presidentelct, was born. Arthur does not know. He was not born where nor when he asserts he was born. He has no proofs of his nativity, but tlte Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections have come to the conclusion that he was born in three towns, and all within the United States. That will do. Mrs. Tone, Mrs. Tyler. Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Garfield, widows and wives of Presidents of the United States, are living, but they can't vote. Tlte heathen Chinese can. So much for American intelligence. Skxator IIlaine, soon to be Secretary of State, is in comfortable circumstances, having property to the amount of ?4-,000 in Augusta, Maine, and $(i0,000 in Maine State bonds. Mulligan could probably tell of a great deal more. Hox. Schuyler Colfax, ex-Vice President of the United States, is in the city, and while visiting the Legislature j'esterday was called upon for a steech, to which ha responded in a cw well-timed and felicitous remarks. Sixck there have been sixteen tariff acts passed by Congress. Quite enough of the sort; now let's have one that will benefit the people monopolists have had enough. Jsibmit the Constitutional Amendments again, have the work declared unconstitu tional again. Foot the bills, and make haste slow. Such is back-action progress. ltcMOKs with regard to the management of the Female Prison and Heformatory are at last exhausted and the investigation has ceased. Tux United States exported 2.s,474,2i gallons of petroleum during the month of December last, valued at $.1,0-11,63. What About the corner-stone? Governor Porter hasn't let himself loose upon it for several days. PERSONALS. O en RR a l Gaufield has a niece who is studying medicine in liton. Evanuelist Moody pmioses to erect another school building at Northtield, Mam. &:retaey ScriCKZ will be given a public dinner by Boston admirers after the 4ih of March. Ha&d times in Persia induce the Gypsies to Fell their daughters at the lusuffieieut price of $.".00 each. Tue anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday wasiuietly observed by some of the citizens of New Orleans. Ex-iovERSoR McCreary. of Kentucky, snys he won't be a candidate for Governor next time, but he Is ready to go to Confess. The birthday of the poet Longfellow will !e celebtated on the 25th instant by the pupils of the High School at Ploomingtou, III. A iiKL with diphtheria was scut from one relative to another at Green Lake. Wis., each rettndug to take her in until she died in the waon. .iRcnnisiior Lajno, of Santa Fe, is a fortunate ecrV'tiastlc. lie owes a good lnlne, recently discovered, which Is mentioned as giving Jl.OOOin gold from two bucket! als of ore. A nugget was fuuud in It worth .'.000. Tux late Captain Frederick Pendleton, of Stonington, Conn., left about 93,000, and it is said had kept most of It, consisting of bonds and mortgages, in a small trunk In his sleeping-room for many years. He left no will. Key. Edward E. Hale, in a sermon on Carlyle lastÄundsy, repeated the pithy saying of Arthur HughClough in 'Vi: "Carlyle has led us all out from the Egypt of shams Into the desert, and he has left us there." "If protests were made," 6aiJ j Mr. Hale, "and It was asked what were to come next, tlüa Mosel who had brought them Into the

desert could not lead them into the promised land and he could point to no Joshua who could lead them there." "A.i Embassador," according to a quotation recently made in aa English journal, "ia an hon

est man sent to tell lies abroad for the good of his country." Baroness Kurdett Coutta William Ashmead BartletL... i ssasss , That's what we call an improper fraction. IT is asserted tnat since Iteecher said there would be a great deal of good poeleiy in hell a well as Heaven. Edwards I'ierrepont and Cyrus V. Held have got so they don't care much which place they go. A TOfSii lady was caressing a pretty spaniel and murmuring: "I do love a nice dog!" "Ah! sighed a dandy, standing near, "I would 1 were a dog." "Never mind." retorted the young lady, sharply; "you'll grow." IT I rumored that Hon. Edwin W. Stoughton. formerly l nited States Minister to Russia, is seeking the place on the Sarrme Court Bench which is likely to be made vacant soon by the retirement of Judge Hunt. MR. kxnor ia skilled not only in the rigns of the weather, but in geology and ornithology. He is now but-y with a work on the "P.irds of Canada." He is a tout man, about thirty-five years old, with fair hair, a weather-beaten countenance, and modest and agreeable manners. The onk frame in which Mrs. Hayes' White House portrait is to be placed Is being carved by the Cincinnati lady artit with representations of oak-leaves, acorns, grapes, lilies, sunflowers and hawthorn. The frame itself is the con :ribution of a few prominent ladies of Cincinnati. Mr. Pktlr Cooper, on his ninetieth birthday, slept until the morning had nearly passed, and when he arose ate as hearty a breakfast as he ever did In his life. Many old friends called at his house during the day. In the evening the pupils of the Cooper Institute gave him a reception. A . Braplf.y writes to the Pall Mall Gazette that the old r-late of Virginia may now be fairly said to be "booming" boc nilrtg, too. in a rjulet, respectable, and substantial manner that makes little mise or stir, but for that very reason Is all the firmar and the more likely to be permanent Hon. S. D. Hastings, for eight years Treasurer of Wisconsin, Is going to New Zealand, at the Invitation of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars of that Province, to engage iu temperance work aud asist In extending the order. Mr. Hastings Is the reputed founder of the order in Australia and Vew Zealand. Rev. Dr. Withrow, of Boston, and formerly pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in this city, has no faith In Mother Ship ton, bases no catenation on the perihelia of the planets, has no confidence in the dread cl forebodings of the Jamaic Professor, but he do ;s agree with the great students of Scriptural prophecy that we are near the end of the world. Mr. Ch arles O'Conor, the eminent Counselor, was interviewed at his home, on the Island of Nantucket, the other dar, urxn the Irish ouestion. He said that the Irish outcry againft British oppression undoubtedly was warranted, but that Americans have not time to interfere; ihut we have enough to do "in checking the growth of governmental evils at home." A singular case has Jost been decided in a St. Ixuis Court. An elderly lady of that city, who had prorateed to bequeath j.J.OOO to a Church, was persuaded by her clergyman and others to give the Church SJ.000 i astend, but afterward regretted it and sued to recover. The Judge held that she hud been improperly influenced by her spiritual adviser, and decreed judgment again the Church for fi.ooo. Emily Pfeiffer sends to the Spectator a poem entitled "Learn of the Iog," the gist of which Ls: "Learn of the dog to live, if thou would'st find His peace In death ; for him the silent spheres Keep their long watch unchallenged overhead ; Know as he knows; love as he loves his kind, Unweave the web of human toils and tears; lie like a dog when 'thought and love are dead." This is the way that the Philadelphia Times tells it: "Governor Torter, of Indiana, visited the State Senate Chamber in Indianapolis the other aay, and, because he could not find a seat, turned angrily to the doorkeeper with: 'Why don't you bring me a chair, sir?' The doorkeeper, who knew Porter very well, stared at him for a moment and then said, in a voice that was heard all over the Cham ber: 'Who isthat dd little redheaded cuss asking for a chair?' " Fernando Wood was a Member of the Congress which appropriated $30,000 In sid of Professor Morse's experimental telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore. Mr. Wood voted for the appropriation, and was, in consequence, defeated in his next race for Congress by the intelligent voters of his District, who couldn't tolerate a ltepreseutative who would waste public money on such a chimerical project as that of transmitting Intelligence upon wires strung upon poles. Senator Blaixe Is recovering from bis attack of rheu mat Irin, but he is still forced to stay indoors. It is said that he may not take his seat in the Senate again, inasmuch as he intend to leave it anyway before the 4th of March. According to his present intention, he will resign next week. This will give the Maine Legislature the required ten days' notice of au existing vacancy, and will afford the opportunity to elect his successor Mr. Frye in time to enable him to take his seat very soon after March 4. Thikty years ago Jame Boyle left Ireland for Australia with his wife and one child, leaving another child, Mary, with her grandfather. He was very successful on the gold fields, and Invested his money to great advantage. His wife and child died in Australia. Mary married a man named Glen, and moved to America, where the has been living ia a poor part of Philadelphia. By the miscarriage of letters Incidental to ber moving at the same time as her father they lost trace of each other, and each thought the other dead. Hhe now find herself, after a life of hard struggle, worth a million of dollars. General Garfield is now being bothered by the itersons who are making arraugernents for the inauguration.- Apropos of . this the Washington Republican relates an anecdote of Mr. Lincoln. The Inauguration Committee submitted two programmes, and asked the President-elect which he preferred. Mr. Lincoln threw one leg over the back of his chair, and replied as follows: "When I was practicing law in Illinois a client of mine, a peculiar sort of fellow, uas brought before the Court, aud the Judge asked him: 'Do you swear or affirm? "Mr. Judge,' my client replied, 1 don't care a damn which.' " "Calamity" Lai-ham is the name of a man who lives iu Ottumwa, Iowa. He acquired his unhappy sobriquet from the numerous acci dents of which he has been the victim. He was shot a dozen or more times during the War: was run over by a caisson, and went to the bottom of the Mississippi River with a transport sunk at the Megc of Vlckshurg. Vince the war he has had the cholera, small-pox, yellow fever, been bitten by a snake, struck by lightning, and had three ribs broken by a fulling wall during au earthquake in one of the Soulh Americau StaP-s A few days ago bis left baud was cut off In an Ottuuiwa mill. IPoltstown Eailj Ledger. A Michigan journal relates the following: "Amos James, Esq., proprietor of the Huron House. Port Huron, Mich., suffered 60 badly with rheumatism that he was unable to raise his arm for three months. Five bottles of St. Jacobs Oil cured him entirely." Canvassers make from $25 to $50 per week selling goods for E. G. Rideout &Co., 10 liarclav street, New York. Send for catalogue and terms. tH tri flirt rerday at home. Samples wonb.15 $3 ID $ZU free, . Addret eTINr'OX CO., Portland, Maine,

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