Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1881 — Page 4

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THE -INDIANA J5TATE.SENT1NEL WEDNESDAY. JUXE 1. 188L

V VttlX&l WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. KATÜ Or SCBSCBI1T1ÜM. DaTy , de'ivered by carriers, per week fO 25 pajiy, delivered sy carriers, including Sun day gentinel. per week 30 DaUy to newsdealers, per copy . 3 is di&nm polls Sentinel for 1 fM Dally, San aay ana weekly Editions. DAILY. JeliTered by carrier, per week 25 Xfcaliy, including Sunday, per week.-.-.. 25 Vulj. per inuum, by mail 10 00 I)i:y. per annum, by mail, including Sundav, oy mail 12 00 Jj:y, delivered by carrier, per annum 12 00 "T". i w H nl i rt Hvfanriar rtor innnm In eluding Sunday '.Z. .' 14 00 SUN DAT. Buräsy edition of seventy columns I 2 00 WIXKLT. Weez!y, per annum... f 1 50 Tne postage on subscription by mail 1st prepaid by ?ne publisher. Newsdealer supplied at three cents per copy, pot ge or outer cnargea prepaid. W :ndom and James are taking the covers off of Hayes' Administration. rosTO! has eighteen public baihs, and last year 8U0,73ö persons availed themselves of their advantages, of whom 215,535 were fcn?a!es. Tr.z Russian despot has just sent forward 12,(y0 convicts to Siberia. About one-half of the miserable creatures committed the crime of ei pressing a desire for freedom. Eieos Adolphe Kothchilds, o' Naples, lid? retired from business on 180,000,000 franc. Jay Gould owns 500.000,000 francs, and is just getting a good start in business. Colosel Bob Inükrsoll has enlisted tinder the banner of Mahone. Bob seems to be fond of desperate undertakings. He propo' to pull down the Almighty and pull thronh Dorsey and Mahone. Ir anybody is troubled with black ants they may find re'ief by the free use of car bolic acid er corrosive sublimate. The black aar. seriously objects to these two things. They do not like solutions of tobacco, but corr -si ve sublimate, when it can be safely used, does the work effectually. Ti:r. charges made by Conkling against Car:"eld remain uncontradicted, and hence, Ga.-f old virtually pleads guilty. Indeed, he dare not deny, since he knows that Conkling has the documents to substantiate the charts. If Garfield is not degraded in the 'eyes of all honorable men, then the word has lost its significance. 1: view of the Star Route investigations, it Minis to be the opinion that Dorsey will go to the Penitentiary. If he goes, he ought to be incarcerated in one of the Indiana Pr'o:is; though if Sing Sing should be selected, Beecher. Hamilton Fish, Chester A. Arthur, John Jacob Astor and others of his tunqueting admirers, would be able to visit him nio-e frequently. When the people hear what wonderful things Postmaster General James is doing to catch and punish Star Route thieves, it should be remembered that Stephen W. Dor?y still retains the exalted position of cr tary of the National Republican Comnjit'.ee. Here is an exposed, trembling, guiliy Star Route thief still managing Republican affairs. Comment is unnecessary. C !MOIore Nctt, who started out in the worid in ISOOona capital of thirty inches and made a fortune, died a few days since. AH things considered, his success in life will compare with Jay Gould's. He was as widt-Iy known, as much respected, and more dearlv loved. His wife's affection for him was great, and as she cried, with heart breaking agony, she spoke of him as "my dear little boy," who had been "so good." I? may be well for those who answer tele phone calls and talk by the wire to be a little cautious when a thunder-storm is ragirg and the lightnings are playing hide and seek in the clouds. An exchange says that "during the tremendous storm of hail and üghtning at Troy, N. Y., on Wednesday afternoon a call was received on the tele phone at Quandt's brewery, near the Bull's Head Tavern. Jacob Thersduenof, the book-keeper, went to the instrument to an er the call. As he was replacing the receiver on the hook the lightning struck his cand, mangling it terribly and para lyzing his arm. He was knocked senseless, bnt will recover." Le Dvc is no longer Commissioner of Agriculture. He held on to his place with a death like grip. Garfield finally had to shake him up and kick him out. So far as known, Le Due never stole anything, and 'was. therefore, not in a position to make himself felt when the days of tribulation came upon him. Le Due was ambitious enthusiastic, and a hard worker. He was prp':d of his country, of its soil and climate. .He believed everything needed could be raied at home. He managed to raise tea, neither salable nor desirable and looked forward to the time when Florida would be .a vast coffee plantation, and the United -States independent of Brazil. As for sugar, he Klieved the United States to be the swtetest country in the world, and believed that :mder his administration, if let alone, . sugar mills ant refineries would be as numerous as Churches, and that molasses wo'i'd flow in a thousand streams to bless the land. He had discovered sugar, vinegar .ar.d rum in cornstalks, and was showing the i-oople new avenues to wealth. But GarficM has removed bim. Le Due is officially dead. His like will never be seen again. T:f. Republican party just now reminds one rf the Millerite story, in which John and his wife Betty were getting ready for the Judgment Day, then near at hand. The first thing on the programme was mutual confessions and forgiveness. To ascend the gold n stairs with the least decree of bitterness lingering in their hearts would prove fatal. John and Betty had three beautiful children. John loved them all. He lavished his affections upon them in numberless ways. He was proud -of them. His words were always tboe of tenderness, and if Judgment Day iad been postponed he anticipated glorious returns for all the love and devotion he had bestowed. John, being the head of the family, insisted that in confessing, Betty . V. , 1 1 WriOTr. Ttalttr Viaitji.UL lilllxhed. hum? down her head, shed tears and sUm- j -ccred. John urged her to proceed there '

I wm to be a plan oils reform within his "Well." said 'Betty, "there boar

beautiful daughter, Jennie. Well, what of,Itr said John, "proceed." "Well, John, she is not your child." If a glass bomb had burst and deprived John of his legs, a la Xihilift, he could not have been more completely dumbfounded. lie groaned in spirit. It was a reform in the family he had not anticipated, but the Day of Judgment was at hand, and John, summoning, all his Christianity, forgave Betty, and told her to proceed." Betty was wringing her hands in deep distress. John was impatient, and urged his wife to go on. "Well, John, there is our bright boy, Freddie." "Is there any thing the matter with Freddie?" queried John. "In the name of our marriage vows. isn't Freddie my child?" and he drew the little fellow to him and kissed bim with parental tenderness. "No, John," Baid Betty, "Freddie is not your child." If the Heavens had fallen John could not have felt worse. He gave way to violent convul sions of grief and humiliation. But as there were only a few hours remaining before he would be called upon to go up in a fiery chariot he forgave Betty, and told her to finish her confession as soon as possible. There was one little boy left Robbie brighteyed golden-haired boy, upon whom John had lavished his love. Even then Rob bie was nestling in his father's bosom while his hands played with his iron-gray locks. Better proceeded to finish up the reform within the family she said, "John, there is Robbie, he is not your child." Human nature could bear no more. Reform within the family had cost John all his children all his hopes and being ready to go up, he cried-out, "Gabriel blow your horn." To con fess was was to burst the family, destroy the home, and make universal wreck. The Re publican party is meeting with poor John's fate. Their reform efforts disclose only corruption and that continually. And Conkling and Platt, Mahone and Riddleberger. Grant and all the Stalwarts cry-out: "Gabriel blow your horn." A FLAGRANT MISTAKE (?) EXPRESS COMPANIES THE BENEFICIARIES. The gross incompetency, to use no harsher phrase, of the clerk or clerks of the State Senate during the late seession of the In diana Legislature, is brought into a promi nence seldom exceeded by incompetency or malfeasance. The case to which we refer relates to taxing Express Companies as found in Section 81 of an act concerning taxation. That our readers may conipre hend the the pernicious effects of the mis take), we copy so much of Section 81 as will serve a.i explanatory: Section 84. Any Joint Stock Association, Company or Corporation, incorporated under the laws of any other State, conveying to, from or through this State or any part thereof, money, packages, gold, silver, plate or other articles by express, or contract with any Railroad Company, or the managers, lessees, agent or receiver thereof, not including Railroad Companies engaged in the ordinary transportation of merchandise and property in this Staje, shall be deemed to be an Express Company, and every such Express Company shall annually, between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of May, make and de liver to the Auditor of State a statement, verified by the oath of the officer or agent making such report, showing the entire receipts of each agent of such Company doing business in this State tor the year then next preceding the 1st day of April for and on account of such Company, ..including its proportion of gros receipts for business done by such Company in connection witn otner companies. Provided, That the amount which any Ex press Company actually pays to the railroads within this State for the transportation of their freight within this 3tate, AND THE AMOUNT OF WAGES PAID TO EMPLOYES WITHIN THIS STATE, AND THE AM0U5T PAID FOR THE PURCHASE OF TANGIBLE PROPERTY WITHIN THIS STATE may be deducted from the gross receipts of such Company, as above ascertained. The clause included within the stars, which we have placed in capitals, was not a part of the act as it passed the Legislature. It was, however, embodied in an amendment to the act, offered by Sen ator Chapmau, in the exact language we have given, and was rejected. This fact can be abundantly proved, the history of the transaction being given to day elsewhere in t?le Sentinel. It will bo seen that, notwithstanding the rej-jction of Senator Chapman's amendment by the Senate, by a vote of 3) nays to 10 ayes it is in the act as published and is a part of the law. It is quite difficult to understand how such a flagrant mistake (?) could have been made. It is difficult to credit it to incompetency, since it bears all the ear-marks of deliberate design. It largely nullifies the law, and in its effects absolutely relieves the Express Companies from paying to the State a sum ranging fjm fJO.OW to $50,000 a year. We do not say thai the rejected amendment of Senator Chapman was incorporated in the act by design, a::d for the express benelit of the Express Companies, but we do say that the transaction is well calculated to aroa-e suspicion in that direction. It is a mistake (?) of such serious proportions as to require, the most searching investigation, and this it Ls likely to receive. When a legislative clerk, by committing so gross an error, nullifies law and puts thousands of dollars annually in the pockets of certain corporations, the tune for searching invest! gation is at hand. The case viewed from

any standpoint I exceedingly uaaleaeant for the subordinates of the Senat, as well as those who are enabled to profit by the transaction.

GOING TO PIECES. The old Republican junk since it has been in command of Captain Garfield has had an exceptionally rough voyage. Head winds, occasionally rising to cyclones, have created big waves. Several distinguished Republican under officials have been washed over board; some have been thrown overboard while others, knowing the rotten condition of the old junk, have abandoned it, and are trying to swim ashore. The days and nights have been cloudy, so that Captain Garfield and his First Mate ( Blaine) have been unable to take observations, and are now o nable to tell the latitude and longitude. Chronome ter and compass are out of order. The steer ing gear is defective, and consternation reigns on deck from bowsprit to taffrail. To make things still worse, Garfield is seasick. Blaine in command, and as work inevitable, symptoms of mutiny have been discovered and the forecastle is ripe for treason. James, in rummaging round for leaks, has struck bilge water in rast quanti ties, and the sickening effluvium makes the Republican junk a great National stink. windom has also strack nastiness in the junk's money chest, and it is now 'believed the best thing that can be done is to scuttle the junk, and Conkling is, engaged in that business. General Butler is likely to come prominently to the front, and if Blaine is not reported disabled, Republicans, Stal warts and half-breeds will be dis appointed. The people look on as the old Republican junk settles down into her native slime and mud with wonderful complacency. Whether she goes down bow first, stern first or sidewise, is not material; she carries down noth ng but a cargo of piratical plundering frauds, villains, perjuries. Star Route and Treasury thieves and all patriots eay, "Let her sink to soundless depths of infamy." The days of Republican tribulation have come sure enough. Deep-seated, deeprooted, long-nursed villainy is coming to the surface. It is breaking out. The old Re publican junk has made her last voyage. She is moving toward warm latitudes where a righteous baptism of fire awaits her com The terrible disaster which befell the steamer Victoria should teach people a lesson never to be forgotten. It might be well to hang the men who permitted the steamer to be overcrowded, provided it would leach the living cau tion; but the living are slow to take warn ing, and disasters of to-day are no guarantee that they will not occur again to-morrow. The people are about as much to blame as the managers of excursion conveyances. The more people purchase tickets the cheaper they can be had. The cost is everything. The cheaper the tickets the larger the crowd, and with the increase of the crowd there is a corresponding increase of perils. There seems to be no re nedy. The people are inconsiderate, and those who control excursion enterprises, since they make money by the follies of others, are not disposed to place obstacles in the way of their gains. The law is of no avail. The people are ready to take the risks. This disposition to crowd, to rush headlong to destruction, to disregard warnings, is characteristic of the times an American disease, deep-seated and wide spread. It is called enterprise, persever ance, etc. ; when, in fact, it is an exhibi tion of restlessness, which, overleaping all prudent bounds, is fruitful of disasters. In building railroads, contractors are in too great a hurry to build strong; they rush through their work. In building steamboats and ships, the same criminal negligence is observed. In running trains, twenty-five, thirty and lorty miles an hour is not satisfactory; the. spirit of the times demands greater speed. It is obtained with its penalties. Take a line of street railway, where the cars run every five minutes, as an illustration. The people are unwilling to wait, and a car constructed to seat a dozen lersons will be seen with from twenty to thirty persons on board, and if human nature could endure it, the proprietors and drivers would not hesitate to double the number. It is an exhibition of the combin ation of folly and greed, and it is likely to continue for some years to dmie. Tmn are persons who assume, because the woman suffrage movement has not gained a triumph, that it has mae little, if any, headway. A contemporary remarks that while it is not disposed to consign the movement to the category of barren no tions, "It has, nevertheless, shown this characteristic of the .hobby, that while it has traveled fast and furious at times, it is still at the latest recorded stage of the journey bnt little farther from the point of departure than when it started." The woman suffragists do not take that view of the subject. On the contrary, they have made about as much headway as they anticipted, and in some localities their advance has been so marked as to invest their cause with a dignity which presages success in the near future. The women are not in error when they refer to the "prolonged slavery of woman as the darkest page in human history." It is nothing less, and, what is more, authentic history proves it. It is contended by those who oppose woman suffrage, that women have not been subjects to "prolonged slavery," and that it "would be mnch more near to a just judgment to say that the relations of woman to man and enlightened institutions make one of the brightest chapters in the history of civilization. Even such a statement might need some qualifications, but be approximately a more demonstrable proposition than the other. It is hardly fair to thus indirectly assume that a man is a monster, as the basis of a history of this movement, and it is not reasonable to declare that this proposed reform leads in importance all other reforms. The most that woman sufffragists can show to the satisfaction of practical minds is, that the condition of the sex would be improved by the privileges that they ask, and if they can can show that, it will be the duty of society to grant them. Women are not enslaved, and they are not benighted in our society. They are as well taught, as well cared for and as well loved as men, and if the agitators

wonld make progress in their chosen work they must ceae their senseless exaggeration

and deal with facts. Hyperbole may be per missible in a circus poster, bnt it is not in the formulation of a reform." The bondage about which woman suffragists complain is one which love and kisses, bouquets and masculine gallantries do not obscure or pal liate. The men deny women the exercise of certain inalienable rights, and this denial constitutes the slavery of which they rightful ly complain. It is an assumption on the part of men, of a right to control women, which had its origin in ignorance and heathenish superstition, and has been perpetuated by a resort to methods which when applied to other affairs of Government, are universally abhorred by liberty-loving people. These masculines assume that women are so much inferior to men, that to give them the ballot is to destroy the liberties of all, and their acts in this regard outweighs all of their professions of love, loyalty and respect for women. Women, some of them at least, are tired of sentimentalism; they demand their rights, they struggle for civil and political equality, and as long as these rights are denied, they feel themselves at liberty to select such words from the vocabulary as most properly characterize the monstrous outrage. What the women suffragists demand is simple justice, and this they are likely to obtain men" begin to comprehend the fact that the women are right and that the men are wrong, and they are not as much disposed as formerly to advocate absolutism in controlling the destiny of women. POINTERS. Ax old angler siyethat a fish does not suffer mnch pain from being booked. Of coarse not. It Is the tho tight of how his weight will be lied about which causes him argulsh. Thk Conkllngltes ray that the Republican party In New York owes all that it now Is to the machinery bow In existence. Sensible people will come to the conclusion that the proper thing to da is to break up the machinery and the party also. The Senate of Michigan has recently passed a bill which limits el Til libel suits against the pub lishers of newspapers to actual damages proved. and requires the suit to be brought witkin a year after the publication. Such a law ought to exist in every State. Political changes now a days are various. Here is the Boston Traveller, recently Mr. Blaine's most Stalwart supporter.saying that "the Premier of the Administration has gone down into the local arena of New York to pull wires in the in terest of a bolt from the regular Republican or ganization of the State." Lightning singled ont a 85,000 stallion to kill at Bloomington, 111., leaving eleven comparative ly rainless horses uninjured. The owner, who had been an earnest Christian, resigned his Church membership and resumed a long neglected habit of profanity, declaring that Providence was against bim anyhow. There seems tobe a well-grounded belief in Washington that Attorney General McVeagh is determined to bring the Star Route conspirators to trial. Among citizens who value honesty and good government there will be only one opinion on the subject, if the accused are guilty, they should be punished to the utmost extent of the law. New York Herald. A IIarrisbcro dispatch to the Philadelphia Press Kays that the junior United States Senator from that State Mr. John I. Mitchellwhen asked on Wednesday his views respecting the Conkling matter, replied that so far as Mr. Conkling's ability was concerned he would like to see him back in the Senate, but with the New York Senator's present attitude toward the Adminis tration he thought he was better out of the Sen ate than in It. The Revised Testament, says the New York Herald, Is by all odds the most successful new book ever published In the United States. The people have waited impatiently for certain new histories and novels from time to time and ordered Immense quantities; but never before did orders for a single book amount to 175 000 copies n a single day, and truckmen and retail dealers flock before daylight to the publishers' ware houses and fight for places. A rather pale, pouting and impassive young man from New England was explaining to a crowd of young ladies his own characteristics, and was defending Carlyle for bavlug given to Froude the memoranda about his life. "The fault with Car lyle," said he, "is that he is erratic and antithetical. He is either away up or away down very hysterical in his wit, or very flat in his melan choly. Now I am like neither Carlyle nor Hngo. I am placid; I am neither flank of the antithobis; I am the semi-colon." EXPKKSSIOXS. Mrs. Garfiel will, it Is reported, spend part of the summer in Maine. Ma. P-T. Barxcm has presented a S10.000 foun tain to the town of Bethel, Conn. Gemiral Kilpatrick Is to sail for Chili ' next month, to relieve Mr. Osborn as United States Minister there. Colonel Jeromh Bonapartk Is building a magnificent house In Washington. It is of hand made brick, brown mortar and brown-stone trimmings. Horace Still an, of Saybrook, Conn., who voted for every Democratic candidate for President from Jackson to Hancock, died last Monday at the age of eighty-eight years. Mr. J. II. Wade, of Cleveland, is about to pre sent to that city nearly th whole of the handsome park which bears his name. This gift in cludes more than 100 acres of forest. Mr. G. W. Harrison, of Philadelphia, haa been directed by the Oovernor of Pennsylvania to go to Englaad and assis'-'iQ preparing to remove the remains of William Pcnn to Philadelphia. The Parisian reports that Princess Jeanne Bona parte, daughter of the late Pierre Bonaparte, will be led to the altar, after the conventional period of mourning, by a wealthy American . Montgomery Blair is President and Chief Justice Walte and Secretary Windom Vice Presidents cf an Association which has been formed at Washington to build a Homeopathic Hospital. John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who has been nearly a year in Europe for health and recreation, is on his way home, and is expected to arrive In New York dally. Governor Hott, of Pennsylvania, has ap pointed George W. Harrison, of Philadelphia, to proceed to England and assist In preparing the remains of William litt for shipment to Philadelphia. Mr. James ReVell, a Boston journalist, has rted from New York on a bycicle fa Boston. The distance is 240 miles, ana ne expects to accomplish the journey In three days aud two nights. Mr J. G. WHimx wrote to Mrs. Lucy Ston at the Woman Suffrage meeting in Boston: "1 see the good cause is steadily gathering ground. The action of the New York Legislature Is full of en couragement." The grandson and namesake of HagbSwinton Legare, the eminent jurist and oratoj of South Carolina, who was President Tyler Attorney General, on Monday last w as nominated by Presi dent Garfield to a cadetshlp at Waat Point An amusing instance of Carlyle'a plain speaking is reported by a hearer of It. An acquaint ance with strong opinions, of his own had sup-

i tha door: "Good night, sir! And let tne tell you that you Have capabi ittea for becoming one of the greatest boors in England." Bishop Simpson sailed on Saturday for En gland to attend the tEcumenical Council there. A large number of bis Church (eople gathered in Philadelphia on Thursday to say good-bye to him. Eulogistic speeches were made and the good Bishop responded pleasantly. Mrs. Gladstone is a benevolent woman and doea many kind tbiDga for the villagers of Hawarden. She has given them an excellent coffee house which is open weekdays and Sundays. . she has also established near the castle a home for orphans. Many of the Gladstone servants have been oa the estate twenty, thirty and forty years. MB. 8TEPHEX A. IICRLBCKT, Of IUIaoi, exMember of Congress, who was recently nomi nated Minister to Peru to succeed Judge Chris nancy, said last evening that he had net accepted that misHioa. and was not certain that he would do so. The tender of the office by the Adminis tration was a surprise to him, and the early ad journment of the Senate prevented his declining the office. He left for Washington last evening in connection with the matter. New York Herald. Emile de Girardi., it Is well-known, lived on the most unfriendly terms with his second wife. The house was large enough to pei mit them to dwell entirely separate from one another. One day Madame de Glrardin fhad an important com munication to make to her husband. Taking a small sheet of paper she wrote: "The Boudoir to the Library: Would like to goto Switzerland. M. de Glrardin, imitating her concise style, re sponded: "The Library to the Boudoir: Go." That was all. Miss Genevieve Ward has the happy faculty J of mäkln women her admirers and friends. Wo men soms times say that they think most highly ot the man who haa the best and sincerest friends among his own sex, as that circumstance Is taken to be indicative of sterling character and real worth. There Is no reason that tat same rule should not apply to women, and if so. Miss Ward possesses a character of no ordinary quality. She expwta to entertain on the other side this inn mer "Jennie June" and "Aunt Fanny," and Mrs. Langtry is one of her most ardent admirers. She sails for England on June 1. This little story about George Eliot is told by a Maine lady, who met the novelist at a hotel im Switzerland. Just after "Romola" appeared. One day Mrs. Lewes was reading sloud in French to a little girl in the garden, and the American drew near to listen to tae musical tones. Presently Mrs. Lewes glanced at the intruder and said: "Do yow understand?" "I do not care for the matter. answered the American; "I only came to listen t your sweet voice." "Do you like It?" said Mrs. Lewes, with some surprise. The American warmly expressed her admiration, and George Cot's face lighted with pleasure as she took her hand, saying, "I thank you. I would rather you would compliment my voice than my 'Romola'" CREAM OF THE "SPECIALS." A Pension Clerk Booked for the Peniten tiavry. A Washington special of the 30th says: Hambleton, the Clerk in the Pension Office who was caught lu swindling a Canadian at a three card monte game, was yesterday convicted at Alexandria, and sentenced to five rears in the Richmond Penitentiary. Hambleton was one of the Rang that was 1h the habit of persuading strangers visiting Washington to cross the Potomac to Arlington to witness the unveiling of a statue. Arriving on the Virginia side, the card game was always proposea ana often successful. A Level-Headed Dog. A Norwich, Conn., dispatch of the 29th, to the Cincinnati Gazette, says: A lady of this city, a milliner, has a well trained ewioundlaud dog. whose daily taht conilsts in bringing Ms mistress dinner from her home. lie is so well-knawn among the Norwich dogs that he Is never molested. But on Monday a strange dog undertook to have a little racket with him while h was loaded down with his commissary stores, lis bung to the basket, but stopped long enough to cet a good look at the cowardly cur that had interfered with him, and started off on a run to the store.where he deposited thebasketand imme diately returned to the street and began the search for his assailant. He found him and proceded to chastise him in the true canine style. In about half a minute he sat down and watched that cur put in his best jumps for the hilltops. giving a "ki yi" at every leap. . A Triple Tragedy. ' The Chicago Tribune contains the following special from Toledo. Ohio, dated May 29: Your correspondent has been permitted to look over a long letter just received in this city from Mexico, giving the particulars of a 8 trance triple tragedy which had just occurred in a survevinir camp down there, involving the lives of persons well known in Cleveland, aoieaoandiimn. it seems that last April Dr. Sack rider and a Mr. Mar tin, oi Cleveland., urauvme Jones, 01 1 linn, and a Mr. rilley. oi loledo. witn several otner civil en gineers, were employed by the Jay Gould interest to go into the far Southwest and to run out Dome lines for proposed railroads iu that section. The party had Invaded the ancient empire, aud at the lime of the thrilllug and deadly encounter were encamped 160 miles north of the Citj of Mexico. ackrider had become very jealous of Martin and Jone, rather iut touting at times that they were trying to undermine or work against him. They at least were getting larger pay than he was. and he seemed to imnk that they were endeavoring to work into favor with their superior officers to his disadvant age, r urtner tnan tnis. ne began to display undoubted evidences of insanity, which wetv well understood bv some oi his companions, and thev accordingly made it a point to keep a close watch on him. The three men, Backrider, Martin and Jonea, occupied the eame tent together. At the 1 nrsi k t T uawn vi me morning oi me laiai aav Sackricler awoke with a sudden start, and draw ing his revolver, corked it and demanded of Martin a note-book of his which he claimed, and peems to have believed Martin was keeping from him, but whiea in reality nad been left at auolher camp a lew canes away. Martin rose up, and, seizing the weapon, tried to wrench it from bis opi-onent'a erasp. t.acic.riaer. nowever. succeeded in tiring, the ball taking effect In Martin's forehead and killing him almost instantly. Jones, who was lying in an adjoining bunk, was wakened at the first of the outbreak, and was a witness to it. Before he could interpose, however, or make any defense. Hackrlder turned and fired upon him. The ball entered his side, and in three hours he was a dead man. Filley beard the firiug and rushed up toward the tent. Sack rider seeing him approaching, fired at him through a crack and then went, to the entrance to see what the effect of his lasti shot was, when Filley leveled his own revolver upon him. and shot him through the heart. The effect of this sodden horror upon the camp as graphically portrayed in the letter, can be imagined. As soon as the extra baggage could he sent for, tttre note-book was found aud perused. It was in the lorm oi a diary or personal note, running a long time back, and showed all thretigh traces of the writer's insanity. In it the writer stated that he was the person who gave information V the reporter of a Cleveland paperas a Pulice Court iiem, which caused the said reporter to be personally assaulted and outrageously dealt with. The writer. Sackrider, had then gone on to record nis peiiei mat Martin and Jones had been empioyea oy air. ChiHholm, the person whose character had been axsuilied in the police item, to follow hira up and do him all the damage possible. Sarkrider was about thirty-five, and supposed to have been tinmm1. Tfiley was formerly Assistant City Engineer of To I eto. Jonp was under T-hirty, and well connected in limn, ueing marriea to a daughter of William Gallup, of that plsoe. Hi1 friends will have his remains returned home, it ntwsible. Tbe date of the horrible occurrence i given ia the letter as May 6, and the -fetter is statt d j by those wno Know sometning oi me couutry to have come through in very quick time. Colonel Seott'a Fnueral At Impressive Scene. A Philadelphia special o I May 21 to the Chicago Times says: The last episode in the career of Thomas A. Scott, "the falling ot the curtain upon his stirring life and its peaceful close, was tne nu-iaucnoiy siectacle In Woodland Cemetery thia afternoon ef the group of relatives standSsig in the midst of the mute assembly of friends a they laid bis buiy lu the grave. It was his cwn request that ther should be no pageant at his death. The remains were allowed to rest la the country-honse near Darbv, where he died, aad were borne from there to their last inclosure, rather than from tbe city house, so as to avoid the unnecessary public demoncXration it might occasion. It was rmposhibte to keep the funeral of a man who belonged so much to the people and the Nation as secluded as if he had always been in private life, and hence it happened that the cemetery was thronged with people, and the approaches to the grave were almost impassable. At the house there were the usual senv-

I ported them pertinaciously .one evening against Ouijlt't views, and was thus taken leave of at

."""V ?mr"r- DB' t&e utmost qniet reigr-fd about the place, and there was lathing of that hum and bustle that so often detracts irvw tue

c-:uiumt vi mo i-aruDjs wito the dead. The prayers for the dead, according to the ritual of the tir0TfTnt K5,1?D! Churc. occupied a very lit- . V ' - . V""" '"i7 ana servants,, who stood around the room, advanced to look for tbe last time on the placid face. The death of Colonel bcott was simply a diasolutVm, aid belcher J-"-1-- .."" . OI tne accomptuiimenTf-- of release of life had left a tract upoa bW features. It was remarked as strange by those who knew him intimately and -w him - after I, . iaere ,snouia not oe a crease orwrhikle uii Jim iure u mm i oi air ne had encountered in a A3 me, nti rait&riDX. iiiriuntw misrn-aTirin-f na V uii ui respon&iDiiuie. tue ertli of riot SI l km ixti IIa & 11 tit a:i - . ".a"" " ' . :..." - a.avsio. AAC MWiutTPHV KlltirLJUUfS. CK Ml 1 1 V TlRin slfMl lh S a A up-hill struggles of youth, all ihest had bceii paeu inrougn. and vet. as he lav d4 a mL as sweet as a girl's played around his mouth, and his features were ai noble and benign as they ever were, even in nis best years. Tenderly ttjvr looked upon him throueh a mint nf tiwaiM aiA t.n TOiim o ascioxea. mere wer no glaring flowers laid on it, although the fading fragrance of roses in omer rooms penetrated everywhere like incense. A silver rtlate tH hi. nam ,k. uaies oi nu oirtn and of his death. Two palm orancnes lay across the lid. typical of immortality and lasting remembrance. Besides the family and the clergv there was nunc eih at tne nouoe out tne pall-bearers. Taese were George a Roberts. President of the Pennsylvania Railway Company; A. J. Cassatt.. First Yioe President; Frank Thomson, General Manager: John P. Green, who for many years was Colonel Scot i'i Private Secretary and assistant in the direction of the railway affairs: X. D. Barclay, to whom the Colonel Intrusted all his private affairs in late years; George D. "Krumbharr, Secretary and Treasurer of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, and Colonel William B. Fordney, of Lancaster, a very old friend. At 4 o'clock the carriages, sixteen in nnrmber, left the house for the cemetery, where they arrived a little after 5 o'clock, and drew tip iu the shaded avenues adjacent to the place of burial. The lot is large and located near the- cemetery on a hill. It is inclosed with heavy copings of white, and is unmarked by any monumentor tombstone. It contains but a single grave tha4of his son, Thomas A. Scott, and who died two years sgo. by coincidence, on the same day of the same month as his father. This mound has a flat slab bearing the youug man's name. Three oak trees form a triangle in tbe lot. and in the center ot this trian. cle Colonel Scott was buned. He namef the trees himself. calling one . of them Penn. the second Pan. and the third Pitts, having in recollection the three great systems of railrmds now united In one with whicn his life was identl fled the Pennsylvania. the Pan-Handle. aud the Pitt' bnrg and Fort Wayne. The grave was dng very deep and so Imbedded with flowers that sot a particle of the earth was visible. A solid mass of soft white flowers lay betow. and tne sides were nidden to the surface behind fringes of pretty foliage filled In with buds and blossoms of spring. The earth that had been dng up was also heaped over with branches- and masses ot bloom. Near tne lot on different sides are the burial places of several of Colonel Scott's re'atives, and the monument over John Kdgar Thompson, his predeee-sor as President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is in sight. During the hour before the burial the emnloves of the Company aud others who were anxious to pay the respect oi their presence arrived in great numbers, sometimes coming in delegations and taking up positions together in a solid body. Many came from the city in carriages, which they left outside. The greater number came in special trains from points South, East and West, from beyond Pittsburg and east of New York and soutfi oi Baltimore. All the great avenues of wealth and intelligence and everything that goes to make irp prwierii- ami me nseiui were represented; The bench, bar, press, pulpit, the great manufac turing interests, the General and Municipal Governments, all the railroad corporations and nearly every public institution had their representatives. it wouia oe impossible to name them all. Attor ney General Mayne Maceagh. Schuyler Colfax. Simon Cameron and Senator Donald Cameron were among me pupiic men. As the procession entered the inclosure evervone rais-ea tneir nais. uisnop Stevens, wno con oucted tne burial service, led the way. He was acttompanfed by Rev. Dr. Swope. of Trinitv Parish. ew iork: Rev. Charles A. Malson. of St. James', king s jing. and Rev. w. w. Taylor, of St. Stephen's Church, of Clifton Heights, near Colouel Scott's country residence. These awUted In the services. The members of the family, in ciuding the grandchildren, several In number, ac com pan led by their nurses, stood around the grave. The air was so still that the dropping of a leaf might have been heard. The sun shone into the grave Illuminating its floral lining. The nandruiof earth whs scattered, the last solemn prayer uttered, and thea the family returned to their carnages. As gradually the space was filled. some little girls who had been visiting elsewhere witn tneir raotners came forward and threw handuls of loose flowers upon the earth with wnicn tne grave was mied. Th-Charge Againnt Secretary Blaine. The Hew York Sno, of Saturday, prominently prints the following Washington special: "The object of Mr. Blaine's recent visit to New York was twofold. Which cu&ea tirst each reader may determine for himself: lie has been caught in the Star Route swindles. Hence his businsiii New ork was urgent, as wen as private ana uersonxi. "Weeks ago Brady and Dorsey gave Mr. Blaine notice that if the- procedings against them were not stopped thev would foreclose ODXhim. i con elude Blaine haa not been able to stop the proceuing. iieoce tne beginning oi tne loreciosure - . . . r r . . . l . f against, nwu. ius vfcii to rew iorx was to nx things up. 'This th8&oc9t way to tell the story, and it is none tne less tnt lor being short." "There is more-of the same sort coming." It has been a matter of current rumor here for a fortuightl that there was an attack to be made on Blaine in connection with the Star Route frauds. The Sun dispatch above quoted has at least attracted Setcetarv Blaiue's notice, aud he denies it. Postmaster Ueneral James also denies its truth. He i quoted as saying there is nothing n tbe star Route developments to disturb Mr. Blait e. . On the contrary, tbe Post's Washington special says: Referrinc to th efcarge that Secretary Blaine haa been fourw to be implicated in the Star Route frauds, and that ala recent visit to New York was to "fix up things-, " etc., Mr. 151 ine informs me that the story ii an entire invention, and he be lieves that It was-started to affect the contet-t at Albany. Mr. Blaine went to New York Monday night and was there on Tuesday only. His visit was oue of private business Imply. - From 10 a. in. to ( p. m. Le was m me omce oi Alexander v Green, in tbe q.ujtable Building, or in the office of the Richmond ana Allegheny Railioad Company in the ITnited Bank Building, corner of Wall and Broadway. H left that building after 6 o'clock, in company with T. O. French, President of the Richmond) and Allegheny Railroad, lie saw no political leader, office-holder, editor or reporter during his stay. Attorney General McVeagh authorizes me to ray that his name might be used in connection with this charge, instead of Mr. Blaine's, with equal justness and propriety, and says: "The charge is absolutely gxouniles." Postmaster Gneral James, who was with the Attorney (General when he made to me this statement, said that be concurred fully in it; and added: "The charge te utterly false." - Ievwred by Dogs. . A Little- Knot special of the 28th to the GlobeDemocrat sa-ysc The detail of a horrid tragedy are reported today front woodruff County. A little boy named Uennie Joluisan. seven years old. was sent by his parents on an errand to a neighbor's bouse two miles distant. When half way to his- intended destination an 4 while crossing a lonely, unfrequented strip, ef country the little fellow wasattucked by a couple of vicious dogs He ttied to run. but the brutes quickly overtook him and knocked hiai down, lacerating bis flesh in a shocking manner and causing his speedy death. The dogs then drtucged the dead boy some fifty vards to the edge ot a thicket where thiy ate off one ear. the greater part of the face aud devoured, a considerate portion of the bod v. When found they were- stul engaged ir thei horrible featt from which they were driven wlU difficulty aad dispatched. Marshal Dudley. The CbauaerviaTs Wahlngt3a special. of the 26 th says: Marshal Dudley.of Indiana, la, been mjntionei for First Assistaut Postmaster General, Coraniut sioner of Itnsions and Comm;isioiier of the Land Office. The chances are that be will be appoint to the last-named position, in. preference to either of tike other two. The idea now prevails. bued on good authority, that Bently will bo retained as CoKiiotssiotier of Pensions and Tyner as. Iflrst Assistant lost master General. It Is thought Si be stra ge that Dudley woultü give up a Sti.uuo position in Indiana, to coiae here and take a. place paying very mnch lts. It is raid. Aowever, thai lw relations with the luCiatia Jud'diary ar not of the mot-t pleasant character, and keuce his desire to- come to Washington. The resident thinks verv hichlv of him. and his parts services, aud is also desirous of doing something for In .nana. It would seem therefore thut the t-amors ti Dudley's probable appoiutmem to a Waaington office arc well louuded. lty the Thousand. Purine several years past. Mr. "W. E. Clark, of Trovidence, R. I., has sold thous ands of bottles of his Great Kidney and Liver Mpdieine. Hunt's Reruedv. He recommends it to cure the most stubborn of all Kidney. Bladder. Liver and Urinary Com Dlaitis even Bright's Disease; and throughout its career he baskept the motto, 'Never known to fail." flying, without once having had occasion to tear it down H.Ont's Remedy is, without question, the liest kidnev medicnie. i Sold by all druggists. Trial size, 75 cents.

WHAT IS IT ?

a liionaer or a Jt raud In the Law .Taxing xpre9 Companies? An Inf xcnsable Prot? eedlrrp on the Tart or the Eeetut Kepabllcan -. ' Legislature. The State Out cf Pockar. $30,000 to 850,000 Annually. An Important Discovery to tbe TaxPayers of Indiana Made by Sentinel ke potter. Tb House Journal and ih r Brevier Ieislative Reports evidence the passage 4 a law to tax Express Companies upon their gross earnings. This is a matter of between fc,0Cand $50,000 1 the State. State Sen ator G. . Jfenziea was tL nuthar r.f. 1. - w. v - vaiv bill: He drew it and faithfully championed its passage. It was vic'ously corubatted by the Express Companies themselves, with all the legislative sentiment that could be mar shaled, backed by a fctrcmg lobby of attor neys. Jv other measure awakened oppo sition that continued longer or was more intense. Tbe character of the corporateprrprty to be taxed and the amount of rev enue- likely to accrue all served to heighten the interest. .very retail of the contest,. that continued lor a day and a half, is viv idly rentembered. These can be no mistake in that pnniioc. of the feai essayed to weaken it with various-amenffl-menia, but it finally passed clear, and SO far as both Houses were mnroraa,! became a law. It was thourht to Im i n full force until discovered by the Revisory Committee. Judge. James S. Krazer informed "Senator Menaies. The mrnrise of that sentleman was no le? than his chagrin and mortification. He was in the citv vevfonfnv In a conversation with a Sentinel reporter ie expressed the greatest indication r tb fraud, if it is a fraud; or the blunder, if it i a blunder: He said of course thos nln resionsible lor the chuutre. whatever their motives may have been. w ill claim that it was an error, uut the public ought to be informed, - and, in view of all the ftances, it i3goigto be exceedingly difficult a, . 1 . . to niaae ine peope believe that the change is not the result of desiirn rather tlm Tne following ia from the House Journal' and is corroborated by all the Members as wen as me published reiHrts: W. S. Chapmjii uirenw iu snowing amendment to the substitute: "Aiuend Section 1)1 by inserting after the word 'ttate: in line 12 the words 'and- the amount of wages paid to employes within the "State, and the amount paid for the pursbas-e of tangible property within the Srtater " which was rejected. innate Journal, Mareh 1, IsSl. The House bill shows that it was voted uin four different limes various amendments were-pBoposedJ.ut all rejected. Upon its final passage it t.iuinphed 'M to 5. But,, notwithstandingthis, the amendment crept into the law. It is there, and there it will remain for the next two vears. What is stranger stlil, Senator Meiizies, fearing a fraud, read the bill, pencil in hand, with the Reading Clerk. As it was read it appears exactly as it does in the House journal, and the Drapier Report as published in the Sentinel. In fpieof the legislation against it the fatal amendment crept in. A Sentinel reporter talked for a few moments with Judge James S. Frazer yesterday. He said that it was a very embarrassing, circumstance. While it might be a fraud, he knew a number f ways by which the error or blunder might have occurred; 'but there is no excuein the world for such an error or, to say. blunder." While he bad believed the clerical roTce of the General Assembly honest, it was difficult to conceive them.oapabie of sarh a blunder. Judge Chapman remembered that his amendment was lost, aud that tbe bill as passed taxed the gross re?eipts of the Express Companies. He was very much surprised when the printed law revealed the survival of hi amendment A Sentinel. reporter yesrday inquired of . him, "Do you believe the fraad theory?'' "No," he answered, "tie clerical force of the Henate was grossly incompetent. It was guilty of a number ot errors. But for the watchfulness of members, it would have done scarcely no busine at alL Judge- btoLsenberg. taidi "The only question is tin's: Was it unintentional, or was it designed?' While if might have been a fraud,, there are manv wavs by which the accident might have ooourred." "Another wavby whiah it raieht have oc curred," said Mr. Nixon: "An agent or friend of the Express Companies migiit have asked, to see the journal, and when shown t lie eould tiave surreptitiously written under the amendment the word 'accepted.' " The Wool Growers met yesterday morning at 9 o'clock. L. W. Duncan, aiade quite a. lengthy speech on What is the Best Mode oi Caring for the DitTeroni Breeds of Sheep.."" Tbe subject was discusHod at some length. The following report was made by the Committee on the Prograiunae Sur the January Matting in ISSiL-. Address of President.. ILon.T. Beeler. Indianpolls. How shall we sellour wool T. VYilhite, Middletowa. What is tariff, andiwhat has- it done for sheen huobandry? J. V. Robb, Gseencasile. How to castrate and dock auceetsfully. A. Mc Clelland, Dorr Village. WJiit course , shall we pursue to Increase the number and quality of shep in Indiana? Cal Darnell, Indianapolis. How shall wo- supply the- looms of the United States with all the wool thuy manufacture? Robert Mitchel, Prinoeton. Stiar beets, mangel, wurtzel. rutabagas, carrets and parsnip in relation to theep husbandry, t V. W. Sunnan, Spades. W bat i the best mode o5 wintering fifty or more cheep? D. H. Thompson, Waldrou. Characteristics- of the Shropshire Downs, Morig&a and Cotien. Newmaa, Hi. A raror en r'OxfonJ. Dawns sheen." bv T. S. Cooper, ot Ohio, was read by f . W. W.. Sunnian. At the afternoon ses.sk a paper was rraol en "Oxfopd. Downs," after which a long dis cussion easued. The Convention then adu journed. Yetettruury Oaacks. Will the Sentinel notify its patros to "ieware of the amount oi quackery pract-tied by pretended veterinary Burgeons in the country upon, theix patient servant,, the horstt On the 23d oi this month I received a te'jegram inviting me to Rockville Tark to see a sick horse. On arriving I met a brother of the tinfortunat pro prietor cJ the doomed horse, who informed we that a knight of tbe blood stick and lancet had been attend g to the patient three or four days, pronounced tli disease hooks, and, as a remedy, Wed him to. the enormous amount of ninegaTons. Nine quarts, I remarked, which brought the reply : l,No, sir; thirty-six quarts, and lext davcame and extracted nine quarts rore." When I reached tbe stable 1 foupd not hooks, bat talorius lockjaw, and tbe horse reduced to a skeleton. I put him on a treat ruent of lobelia and opeolis, and at last accounts he was showing a remission of his sjtasms and a suppression of nervous excitement. Jörne N. Navis, V. S. Indianapolis, May 3i 1881. Dr. Klme's" Great Nerve Restorer is the marvel of the age for all Nerve Diseases All fit stopped free Send to 931 Arch 8troet, Philadelphia, Fa.