Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1881 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29. 1881.

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That $ij0,000 comes in the nick of time. t'EvTOP. IIamptos, of South Carolina, prolo?es to show that Sherman was resionsible for the crime of burning Columbia, S. C. Tue Times is to be a half-breed, ,;a firm sut irter of President Garfield's Administration." That settles the "indei-endent'' r. tit ion. It is interesting to know that one faction of the Republican party, the '"Buck" fac tion, has detectives on Garfleld's track pur j )e 13 to inipei' h hini if possible. The The Rutland ( Vt. Herald is of the opinion that "'the most formidable foes of human society, the men who work it the most grivf and wrong, are the sober scoundrels." A i voy member of Plymouth Church has written to Mr. Ileecher asking him if it is "wicked to wear enmps." She has suffered for twelve long years, and now Ilrother Reedier says she "must give up crimping." J hin Suekmax is on a ragged edge. His tr;:e inwardness is coming to the surface. AVindom w ill have to make his report public. John fears that it can not much longer be kept private, and when the report comes, Jolin Sherman will be a political corpse. Tue Republican press in its efforts to justify Windom's plan to fund the 3 and G per cent, bonds of the Government refer to the cifects produced uion holders of these boiuls, by the reduction of interest. It is said t.'iat under the old rate, $2.5, OX) of Government sixes yielded the holder $1,.VX), w hich is now reduced by Windoni's plan to $572. The Democratic plan would have re duced their income to $122 o.-er Windom's plan. $750 a gain of Lktk advices from Washington indicate the greatest poible jcrtuibation in the Republican ranks. A correspondent says: The whole power lhat can be directed from "Washington will be exerted to save Ohio this fall. With a capital of mre than twenty-seven thousand majority over Democrats and Greeabaekers combined at the Presidential election, with pos-ses-i of the State Government, and with an 01.i President prepared to do his utmost, the Re puk-tiiMii ticket is threatened with a defeat likely to be memorable in nditics. Distrust and the spirit l revolt are nearly as strong in Ohioas they arc in New York, sharpened by Sherman's jealosy and malice and desire to be revenged for the "treachery" of Foster ami Gartield at Chicago. The breach widens every day, and the causes of quarrt 1 will not only enter every approaching elcciio.i. but into every contest for ascendancy iu the party. They can not be kept out of the contest for jfp-aker in December. The united elements of cj.p sitiou leave the republicans with barely a nominal majority, giving them every vote and every advantage. The friends of Grant and Conking hold the balance of power, and if they should hink proper to use it resolutely, no Speaker can be elected not acceptable to them. The Sur Route contractors and their friends are ready to adopt the Nihilistic mt th nls of revenge not for the purpose of injuring Rlaine, Garfield & Co. corporeally, but for the purpose of shattering their political legs, knocking their iKjlitical wrath out of them, etc A funeral director might as veil be ordered to get ready to prepare for their obsequies. SOME HEADWAY. A Sunday or two ago Rev. Henry Ward Bcecher had occasion to ask for a collection in Plymouth Church for the support of the "Wayside Home for Women." In the course of his remarks Mr. lleecher said: In ancient times woman was the bond slave of man. From an almost hopeless state, since the Advent and In occidental nations, woman was no longer entirely dependent on her father and husband, and she had become a separate and individual unit in many relations. She could own property, own her own wages and care for her own children In marly States, and tyranny could not be legally exercised over her. But if woman refined, and developed in affections had only attained this state, what was the case of rude and coarse women? What of those who had broken over the moralities which girdle up society, and had lost place, nam?, and, worst of all, themselves? In the Jail in Brooklyn there used to be a room in which forty or fifty women were herded, with no chairs or teaches, squatting like swine, sent up for ten, cr twenty, or thirty days for drunkenness. At the end they were let out like animals from a tarni.rd, and suffered to go in the name of the devil. Of many of them all unwortblness could be sf.id; bnthad the Christian community made np its mind to let women of this class go with no cfTrt to save them? Many of them could be eavtd, and tlie effort was worth while if only one in a thousand could be helped. When a woman had it home and opportunity, what could she do or where could she go? As they phrased it. After riming from Jail they could beg. steal or driuk. When she could not endure the first two, f.r.e irunk, as a veil to hide her sufferings from ber--!i aud her conscience. l! is not altogether improbable, if women l.ad the rioht to vote, that they would manage to improve the condition of the unfort i:;ate of their sex and expedite their advancement, which, notwithstanding the formidable character of the obstacles encountered, has been, according to Mr. Iieecher, highly gratifying. Without reference to ''Christian communities" or the good the Church has accomplished in elevating women, there have b;en in operation, quite distinct from any Christian organization, forces, which have been productive of great advancement- Susan I. Anthony, in reply

to the question, "What have you accomplished by your work for Woman Suffrage" said : "Well, I should say we had accomplished a great deal. Since the beginning of the Woman Suffrage agitation, thirty years ao, we have gained school sutlrage in twelve States: law, theology and medicine all the professions hare been thrown ooen to us; all the Western Colleges and Universities admit women: there are in this country 1,000 lleensed female doctors: there are fifty female lawyers, and women axe allowed to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, although a number of the States still shut is out; there are forty female ministen in the Universalst Church alone, while hundreds of licensed female preachers are in the Methodist Church, doing the best kind of revival work. Thirty years aso women could oaly sew. Cook and teach. Now not a trade hardly but has women In iL Women are managers In the largest stores and business, and manage great farms with success. Why, the largest farm In one County of Illinois Is owned aud managed by a woman. Your Eastern people ought to go West and see how women are getting along with only a few of their righU." That certainly looks like progress, and ought to cheer those who advocate theemancipation of women from the thraldom of ignorance and prejudice to which they are now subjected.

GOLD AND SILVER AS TOOLS. What has happened to silver, as we have heretofore explained, is merely that in the progress of mankind toward a higher civilization people have found it a less convenient tool than formerly for purposes of trade, and have dropped it. pushed it to oue side. Just as wheelbarrows and pack-saddles are pushed aside in favor of wagons, aud wagons in favor of steam cars. It is Just as appropriate to say that men who prefer wagons are making war on wheelbarrows, or that those who uselucifer matches are making war on flints, as to say that those who prefer gold money are making war on silver. Making war Is not in their thoughts. Nothing is in their thoughts except the convenience of the tooi; and when they choose the one instead of the other, they are hardly conscious that they have made a choice uitil reminded by some philosopher or antiquary that wheelbarrows and tinder-boxes and silver dollars were of inestimable service to their ancestors. New York livening Post. Some years since a few interested gentlemen concluded that silver, as a "tool," was no longer useful in the United States, and that the time had conic to throw it aside. They succeeded. The proceeding was surreptitious and created very general opposition. The people had not been consulted, and when the time arrived for them to be heard they promptly reinstated silver as a "tool," and indicated a determination to retain it in all the workshops of commerce, trade and industries. "The progress of mankind toward a higher civilization" is about as manifest in the United States as it is in England and Germany, or elsewhere where the opposition to silver is the most p-onounced. Just here it is well anough to state, as the fac ts go far toward answering the "pack saddle" and "wheelbarrow" argument, that there are sixteen countries, with a population of 275,5:17,110, who use silver as a full legal tender tool, and rate it quite as convenient as gold, while there are but nine countries with a population of 55,527,210 which discard silver as a full legal tender. The Post and. journals of its ilk, in 'their eflorts to lower the value of silver as a "tool," strike at gold as well. As a "tool" luper, to a very great extent, has superseded both. It may be said, therefore, that mankind, in its "progress, toward a higher civilization," ha come to the conclusion that juiper is a better tool than either gold or silver, and the liguresin supiortof the proposition are quite satisfactory. That our readers may have the figures upon the subject, we give the estimated amount of gold and silver and paier money in circulation in twenty-four countries at the latest dates: Specie Total Gold and Paper Moiev. Silver. Austria Australia .. .i !,'...-, i . 7')..vo.oon 2l.(i').'. ' 50.tHiO.tH) .rS 41 '.." 17J.0O0.UU0 Jl.tMi o'i Nominal. J..0i7.if k 10.,'l."-S-" l.S"").".U -1, 700, 000 is. '.. ooo 2s.s;:t,wio .. JiM.'T-V.. 1,1-V.,24J.NVJ .... "2"J,.l.5'.)'i.2-J0 5t:l.K 4.41J 200,1 JS..S75 Tll.f.i'.Jll U.s.tO.OuO T.'KIO.OOO .... rvi.ooo.ooo 4i).roo.o l-i:5.nn,oir) jsn.mw.nuu 1..MXI.0OÜ 77.UM).00O Ti.2 ai.ooo ll.-J-xi.ooo 10 :sih( ooo l.ssj.ooo l:tXH.- S-'i.ooo.OiX) '-"..öJ'.'.tXH) llO.OW.Ot) 5s7.'. i7,MK) UW.tOO.OOO iViJ'.IJS.OOO lS.lJ0.0o0 ll.CSO.uw 94.700,000 Belgium I'.ritil - Catmd Columbia "Denmark France Germany Great lit i tain Greece Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands Norway Peru Portugal Russia Spain : Sweden Turkev United states, 10. 100,000.000 Nominal 3.6s:J.'JW."'-K 4-7.06,852 $ t,30,4S0,15l f;J.W)J.851.635 Of this amount of specie, $2,Ci),0'Jl,.72 is gold, $.sas,12,::i is full legal tender silver, and $115, 2 Is, 130 limited legal tender silver, the aggregate silver being $1,221,100,433. It must be admitted that silver, asa convenient '"tool," has not been discarded, and that in view of the ceaseless war made upon it by those favoring the single gold standard, it holds its own remarkably well. The object of the International Monetary Conference is to settle the relative value of gold and silver. This accomplished, and the monetary affairs of the world would at once be relieved of a vexatious question, and business would at once move forward with accelerated progress, and since paper money, as a "tool," is more convenient than either gold or silver, the United States has an opportunity to materially aid in vitalizing business. 'A contemporary ju iiciously asks: "With the constant accumulation of coin in this country, both from foreign importation and the . annual tion, would it policy " on the gress to authorize domestic producnot be ' a wise part of Conthe issue of cold and silver bullion and coin certificates of deposit which would represent the bullion and coin of both metals stored away in the vaults of the Treasury? These being made interchangeable at the option of the holder, would pass current, under a compact agreed ujon at Paris during the present session of the Conference, in all the countries parties thereto. The United States being the largest producer and dcjository ' of the precious metals, would give her the preference in the issue of these certificates of deposit. The system once adopted, these certificates would take the place of gold and silver, excepting for small change, in all public and private transactions, and being equally the money of foreign countries to the extent of their deposits of th precious mr.tals, would not be subject to any of the fluctuations and uncertainties of a pajr currency not based upon a gold and silver foundation. By adopting the course suggested, the en tire amount of coin and bullion in the Treasury would virtually pass into circulation, and as such certificates would represent so much silver actually in the Treasury, they would at once become the favorite "tools" of commerce. The gold and silver might re main forever in the Treasury; it would not be wanted as a "tool" paper answering a

far better purpose. Hence, we ' infer, all things considered, mankind in its "progress toward a higher civilization," has not arrived at that etherealized state when it is ready to cast aside silver as a "tool;" and though the people have outgrown "packsaddles and wheelbarrow in favor of "steam cars," they still recognize the great value of silver, and are as determined as ever to keep it in a position where it will do the most good.

COMETS AND THE SUN'S ENERGY, The Director of the Naval Observatory at Washington, ina recent interview, remarked that "the sun was constantly contracting and eventually we might be frozen out. The sun's energy is probably kept up by the constant violent. impact of erratic heavenly bodies upon its surface, and as long as this absorption by the sun continues we need not have anj' fear of the return of the glacial period. If these strange visitors were to entirely desert our system the sun would eventually lose its energy and " the earth would be frozen solid to the core. So you see comets may seem to be an evil to the earth, but they are a necessity to the sun, and what benefit the sun benefits our globe. You can understand, then, why I am so little disturbed by the appearance of the heavenly strangers. If a great comet like the one which has just arrived should enter our atmosphere and penetrate to the earth we might all be consumed by the great heat or suffocated by gas." It is possible that the Director of the Naval Observatory has solved the great problem with regard to the sun's heat, but the world is not quite ready to accept the theory that the heat of the sun is maintained by the consumption of comets. 'It is held by some eminent astronomers, who have made the sun their special study, that Its heat "is due, not to combustion as in our ordinary fires, but to the vivid incandescence of each particle brought about by the original contraction of the vaporous globe, or by causes even more remote, or unknown." The sun is of such vast extent that astronomers are not able to master the phenomena which it creates. The sun has a diameter of 8S0.000 miles and a circumference of 2,704,000 miles, and its surface contains 2,432,800,000.000 square miles, and if it be a furnace which has to be supplied with comets for fuel, the consumption must be large, and our limited knowledge of comets, the material of which they are made, etc, is so vague that it is not best to indulge in guess work and palm it off for the conclusionsof scientific research. An effort has been made to associate famine with the appearance of dark spots upon the sun's surface, and observations for that purjxjse have been conducted through a series of years in various parts of the earth, but, after all, conclusions are unsatisfactory, and the whole matter rests just about where it was when the investigations began. There is no satisfactory evidence that the sun's energy has abated in the least degree. The sun being something less than 100,000,000 miles distant from the earth, and being 1.350,000 times lararer than the earth, it is a little too large and vastly too far away to handle conveniently. Itis,thercfore,bettcrnotto indulge in guess-work with regard to the duration of the present order of things; but to go forward, plant and sow and reap, build railroads and factories, explore the bowels of the earth, dig out the gold and silver and iron, extend the outjosts of commerce, kill or convert savages, and do such other things as increase the sum total of human happiness. The sun. moon and stars w ill continue to obey the laws of their creator, and if it has been discovered that comets are sun fuel there can be no objection to the arrangement, since it has never been found out that they can be put to a better use, or placed where the- can do more good. HON. JNO. C NEW CHAIRMAN. Dear Sir The Sentinel has no wish to dwarf or magnify your position asa leader in'the Republican party. You are a member of the National Republican Committee, and therefor in intimate political relations with ex-Senator Dorsey, who is Secretary of that Committee. You are also Chairman of the Republican Committee of Indiana. Such dignified positions bring you into conill ft spicuousness. You are a do??, and you can not successfully dodge the responsibilities which attach to the position. You must be aware that the party with which you are so prominently identified is at the present juncture overwhelmed with disgrace, as the result of the infamous transactions of its bosses. It would be impossible to exaggerate the ignominy that attaches to distinguished Republican managers and officials ex-President Grant, ex-Senators Conkling and Piatt, ex-Senator Dorsey, ex-Senator Sherman, President Garfield, Secretary of State Blaine, ex-Second Assistant Postmaster General Brady, Sta Senators Bradley and Sessions, and a host of others, whose names are familiar to the public, everyone ot whom is charged by Republican journals with crimes or indecencies well calculated to make honest Republicans blush in deep mortification. Investigations show that the Treasury Department has been scarcely better than a den of thieves, and that the Postoftice Department is rotten to the core. Unfortunately for you, Mr. New, developments of a most unsavory character require that you should make some explanation. Your silence, so far, has deeiened the impression that any word from you will only make things worse; that you and your associates on the Republican State Central Committee must remain silent or confirm the charges made directly against Dorsey and indirectly against your Committee. The rank ami file of the Republican party in Indiana claim to be honest. They have made you a boss. They put you in charge of the Republican Central Committee of the State. There you are fixed as certainly and as secure as if you wer in a pillory. Your Republican friends will ask von ouestions. People of all .. . j i narties will interrogate you. Honest Re publicans will urge you to answer. Your silence, the silence of the organ you control, the silence of your associates on the Republican State Central Committee, the silence of the Republican press throughout the State, the silence of all the Republican bosses is ominous it bodes evil, for the conclusion is that you dare not answer the charges made by S. Y. Conner.. You are aware that S. Y. Conner is a Republican highly indorsed. His testimony is of the mast damaging character. No development of Star Route rascalities or Treasury steal

Jogs compare with 8. V. Conner's charges ol

criminal proceedings in the rooms of the Reuublican State Central Committee. It may be well, Mr. New to place these charges before you again. You ought to look at them, read and ponder them. They are covered all over with crime. Mr. Conner savs: lleing Chairman of the Republican County Central Committee. I was invited to the inner council at Indianapolis, and witnessed the "expeditlnjr" process bv which the Republican captured the State. I conversed freely with JOHN C. NEW. his secretary and all his clerks, and then met Jo tiray, the Lieutenant of Senator Dursey. After learning from Gray how double tickets were voted and counted, and being fully instructed, I was ushered into the presence of Senator lorsey. who was Secretary of the NaUonal Republican Central Committee. I was presented to loieT by JOHN U. NKW, the Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, and after being introduced, Mr. New withdrew and left me. Senator Dorsey had his bankers in an adjoining room upon whom he drew to furnish the money with which to corrupt and carry the election in Indiana. Senator Doraey demanded of me 600 majority in Newton Couniy. I told him we could not give it. UK THKN SAID HE WOULD GIVE ME MONEY TO HELP U. AND THAT BEING OS THE 1LL1-NOI-J LINK. WE COl I.n COLONIZE FROM ILLINOIS AND MAKE THE 600 MAJORITY. You will observe, Mr. New, that your name is intimately associated with the disreputable transactions. You introduced Conner to Dorsey, who proposed the crime of importing votes from Illinois to carry the State for Torter and Garfield. It was a Penitentiary offense worse in its purpose than the charge made by Dradley against Sessions as vile as anything that has ever transpired in the history of American politics, and yet, sir you remain silent. If rumor is correct, you are satisfied that S. P. Conner will hereafter remain silent, and with this assurance you seem willing that his charges of crimes committed' by Dorsey shall rest where he places hem. Itepublican s are asking (as the Sentinel is advised): Has Hort. John C. New no response to make to Conner's charges? Does he propose that the Republican party thall rest under the burden of disgrace which Conner's) statement imposes upon it? Are honest Republicans to be forever confronted with the charge that Indiana was carried for Torterand Garfield by crimes and frauds planned and perfected in the rooms of the Republican Central Committee? It is worth while for 'you, Mr. New, to rise and explain, your exceedingly delicate position indicates the propriety of such a course, and your further silence will be construed as confessing judgment. OltlTUARY. C0L0.NEL SAMUEL C. WILLSOX. Yesterday but a short time after the body of Hon. Henry S. Lane was laid away in its final resting place at Crawfordsville, his old friend and former law partner. Colonel Samuel C. Willson, breathed his last. He was but a few months older than Mr, Lane, having been born September, 1310. and Mr. Lane In the following February. In 1837 these two distingushed gentlemen entered Into a law partnership, which continued for sixteen years. Mr. Willson was born in Cherry Valley, Otsego County, New York, September 17, 1S10 the family being from Scotch ancestry on the paternal and English on the maternal side. Colonel Willson 's grandfather, James Willson, Cime to America in 1739, and was actively . engaged in the Revolutionary War, and afterward held various positions of houor and trust in the Federal service. His paternal ancestors fled from Scotland in the time of William and Mary, owing to religious persecution, and settled in County Antrim, Ireland. His grandfather married twice. His first wife was a sister of Judge Wells, who was massacred by the Tories and Indians at the sacking and burning of Cherry Valley. N. V., in 177s. The onlyone of the family that escaped was John Wells, at oue time one of the most distinguished lawyers of the Philadelphia Rar. Mr. Willson's second wife was one ol the Campbells of the celebrated Scotch clan of McCullum More. Colonel Willson's maternal grandfather was named Spencer, and came to this country with Aun Lee, the founder of the Society of Shakers, of whom he was a devout follower. In 1754 Mr. Willson's paternal grandfather was High theriff of Albany County, New York, and among his prisoners was Mr. Spencer, incarcerated because of his Shaker religious views. Here an acquaintance was formed, which led to a double marriage between Colonel Willson's fatner, his lather's brother, aud two of the Shaker's daughters. Colonel Willson's maternal grandfather was nearly related to Major Geneial Nathaniel Greene, the fighting Quaker General of the Revolution. His paternal grandfather, before mentioned, settled in 1739 in Cherry Valley, and the original homestead is still In the possession of the family, having descended from father to son, and never having been trans ferred by deed since the peiiod mentioned. Colonel Willson's early education was at the Cher - ryValle Academy. At the age of nineteen be entered the law office of Judge Levi Beardsley, of Cherry Valley. At the age of tweity-three he was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court, and was made Solicitor in Chancery by Chancellor Walworth. In June lsoi he came to Indiana and settled iu Charleston, ;Clark County, remaining there for two years ;whea he removed to Crawfordsville, where he has remained an honest, honored, upright citizen. In 1S57 he and Hon. Henry S. Lane formed a law partnership which continued until Mr. Lane retired from practice In 1SV. In 1833 Mr. Willson was elected by the Legislature on joint ballot Prosecuting Attorney, of his Judicial District, comprising nine Counties, and was twice re-elected. In 1SÖ3 he formed a partnership with ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, which continued lor six yejrs, and was then only dissolved in consequence of the removal of Mr. McDonald to Indianapolis. A subsequent partnership with General Lew Wallace was interrupted by the breaking out of the late War with the South. Since then Colonel Willson continued the practice of his profession in connection with other duties, and of late years has had associated with him the second son, Levi B. Willson. For several years past he was actively interested in railroad enterprises, and was for three years President of the Indianapolis, Crawfordsville aud Danville (Illinois) Railroad, which waa constructed under his administration, and now forming the Eastern Division of the Indianapolis, Rloomington and Western. For all the expenditure of time aud money in this important work he never received any pecuniary compensation. lie was desirous to see a through route on the line of travel, and in 1S72 he hal the satisfaction of taking a train at Crawfordsville and lauding at San Francisco without Changing cars. In 1 s;i, forty-one years previously,! had ridden from Albany to Schneetady behind the Johnny Bull, the first locomotive In use In America.1 Colonel Willson was for four years President of the Bard of Trustees of the State Unl versity at Bloomingtou. He used to al lüde humorously to Ins title of "Colonel and his war record, his comission as Colonel of the "bloody" Fifty -eighth Indiana militia having been signed by Governor David Wallace, father of General Iew Wallneo. Colonel Willson took quite an interest in agricultural matters, having been connected with theCouuty and State Boards of Agriculture in various capacities. II introduced the first tiling used in this State an lived to see it become an important article of manulacture. His family were for many years connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church bnt of late years have worshiped with th Protestant Etisconal denomination. His wife rai Mtc Tjinri MddfT of fharlestGWn.Ind - . where he married October 20, 1535, Her lather

was a lawyer of considerable prominence fn ra

Virginia. President John Q. Adams apiointed him Attorney General for Missouri, and he died there. Colonel and Mrs. Willson have had seven children, of whom five Uli live. two gois and three daughters. The oldest son died several years ago in this city. One daughter is married to Dr. II. IL Marsh, and another to V. Q. Irwiu. both of Crawfordsrille. Colonel Willson ha been a firm and consistent Democrat from his youth up. Recast his first vote for ieneral Jackson in lS3i lie has ad here. 1 to his party in evil as well as in good report, and has always been regarded at a leader in hi County and DlstrK-C He led the forlorn hope to an houorable defeat In the race - for Congress la lsftO in a District at that time overwhelmingly Republican. He has always been a mau of strong convictions, and never hesitated t the proper time to make them known. He possessed a remarkably retentive memory, which was a storehouse of reminiscences, legal, political, social and historical. His leadership at the Bar as a special pleader was clear and unquestioned. His associates were men of mark aud influence, aud be was one of the most active, energetic and useful citizens of the State. He leaves behind him a creditable, irreproachable record and the esteem and profound respect of his fellow citizens. We are indebted to the Western Biographical Publishing Company for the foregoing sketch of Colonel Willson's career. His funeral will take place at Crawfordsville to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. POLITICAL NOTES. Gesfral Grant continues to drive a nail into the third-term coffin every few minutes. New York Tribune. If "Stalwart" rejorts can be relied on Messrs. Conkling and Piatt are "in splendid spirits." and are becoming "more and more cheerful every day." If this thing goes on they will be able to secure fine engagements as end men next session. Washington Post (Democrat). It seems that the President consulted the noU rious Johnny Davenport in making his New York appointments, but stood on his dignity when senator Conkling thought that he should hare been consulted. Johnny's reputation is almost as odorous as that of Dorsey or Brady. A FP.oitlNF.ST Conkling man at Albany is said to have confessed the other day th when Conkling and Piatt resigned they expected the Legislature to re elect them. This was told in confidence, but In some way nearly everybody In the United States has known It for several weeks. Philadelphia Times. Tue Democrats of the New .York Legislature have made a wise exchange in placing Clarkson X. Potter's name on their Legislative ticket for one of the vacant Senatorships in place of that of Jacobs. Mr. Potter is one of the ablest of the Democrats in the Empire State, and is respected for his honesty as well as for his ability. Providence Tress. The Des Moiues (Iowa) Register prints a letter from Mr. David A. Wells, in which he says: "If we had a half dozen papers in the United States which would discuss the question of free trade versus protection as energetically and intelligently as you are doing, the issue would soon come to the front and be settled forever In free trade, as the question of slavery versus freedom has been settled." Definition" of deadlock: First class in politicsTeacher: "What is a deadlock?" Pupil: "It is a series of votes which elect nobody." "Correct. Where are deadlocks manufactured?" "In Hanisburg, WashiuRton and Albany." "Of what use are deadlocks?" "They turn 'statesmen' inside f-ut lhat the people may see just what they are made of." "What are statesmen made of?" "Give it up." New Haven Register. So long as the Democratic members stick to their colors the divided Republicans will be unable to select Senators," unless one faction or the other secures a majority by bargain, treachery or brbtry.' Rut, whatever may be done in the Republican cflrap, there ought to be no mistake as to the present duty of each Democratic Sen ato and Assemblyman to see that, so far as he can prevent it, neither the State nor the party receive an injury. If by Democratic blundering or neglect to attend the joint meetings the election of a Republican Senator is rendered possible, the party will not fail to. bring to account the members icspotisible for such a result, and a mnjority of the country will be- lively to conclude that smh,, members have been" bought. Dunalo Courier. ' ' PERSONALS Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, says that he has had several headaches In trying to understand New York politics. According to Secretary Rlaine, there are more than 1,000,000 applications for office on file in the various Departments at Washington. President Garfield, General Hayes and General Sherman are expected to attend the unveiling of the McPherson statue at Clyde, O., on July 2i Senator Millek. of California, will, with his j family, spend a short time at Saratoga before going to California. Miss Miller is very popular in Washington society." Sir Edward Thornton will sail for Europe on July 6, accompanied by his wife and daughters. Mr. Edward Thornton, his son, will remain in his present position as attache to the British Lega tion. A special to the New York Sun from Batavia, N. Y says that the story of the discovery of the bones William Morgan is a hoax concocted by a certain Dr. Phillips. The bones are those of a female body. Ma. Cornelius J. Vanderbilt's new house In Hartford is described aa remarkably handsome. The woodwork In each room is unlike the rest. and there Is a great deal of beautiful carving about the bouse. Ex-Vice President Whf.xler Is quoted assay ing that he "was startled and alarmed at the evl dence of corruption he saw at Albany." Two of the leading lobbyists approached hira on the snbect of a combination with Depew. All the personal effects of the late Henry Wil son, including his library aad his collection of valuable autograph letters, are soon to be sold. Mrs. Howe, Mr. Wilson's mother-in-law, who Is now ninety-four years old, will continue to live tt the old homestead. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines is quoted as once saying to Mr. Webster aud Mr. Clay: I admit you are very great men, but you can not compare with General Gaines in all that is sublime and beautiful in human character. I often told the General he waa too perfect lor this world, and although we had been married upward of ten vears I have endeavored to find a defect in his character, and have beea unsuccessful"' General Askby's former chaplain, in a lecture in Baltimore the other evening, explained to il lustrate the lengths to w hich "Stonewall" Ja'k sou went when it was necessary, the deposition of officers elected in Jackson's command and the substitution of others appointed by Jackson. When Jackson was told the men were disposed to rebel he said, "There will have to be some UU shooting among them. A fix portrait of George Eliot taken in 1SÖ0, when she was Marian Evans, is in the possession f ite painter, the Swiss artist, M. F. D' Albert Durade. At that time Miss Evans passed some months In the family of M. Durade, and a close friendship tor the painter and his wife was the result. Her objection to being limned was not then so strong as It afterward became, or at all events was not sufficiently strong to withstand the desire of her host to paint her portrait. Accordingly she gave him several sittings, and the result was a small half-length In oil, which was pronounced a good likeness, and especially happy in repro ducing her expressions of benevolent sweetness. The friendship thus besun continued to the last,

and M. Durade, who U equally at home In litera-'

Iure and art, became the translator of several of her books. M. Dur.de has had many applicaUon. ' for permission to photograph or engrave, the portrait he painted thirty-one years ago, but these he has steadily refused. The statue of Ryron, which" the Greeks have erected to the cherished memory of the i-oet, is about to be unveiled at Misaolonghi. where he died. The statue is the work of tho tculpror Vitalis, of Syra, and represents Byron standing: he is shrouded in an ancient mantle, which allows little of the costume of the nineteenth century to be seen. In his left hand he holds a roll, and with the right be points down to the land where he appeared as a liberator. The expression of the face is noble and not without a touch of sadness. The statue U curved iu Pentellc marble. The Orillia (Ont.) Packet came togTief the other day. The editor bad two local paragraphs one announcing a new preacher, and the other calling tho Mayor's attention to assaults on. street preachers and the foreman mixed them in this way: "Rev. Robert Moodie, of fetayner.wiu occupy the Presbyterian pulpit next Sunday," and the Mayor should direct the Constables to take effective precautions to prevent our town being disgraced by iu Religion has not much to gain from foul-mouthed, profane and egg-throwing champions." .' " . "When Hn. Hayes Was ft Congressman's wife here," writes the Washington correspondent of the Troy Times, "she was one of the companionable sort to sit out on the front door-steps of her boarding house with a waterproof over her head, chatting with the other boarders: and there were several families of old friends where she kent up a fashion ot 'running in' for a long time after she came to the White House, though always with her carriage. Mrs. Garfield, on the contrary, has never seemed to have much time for intimate friends, but always to be very much engrossed with the domestic side of life a Martha, troubled about many things." f It Is lelated of Dr. Hilmes that at a country charitable Fair one day he was entreated to furn lsh a letter for the Postoftice. lie seized a sheet o paper and between its folds placed a Jl bank note turning to the first page he wrote the following: Dear lady, whosoe'er thou art, Tnrn this poor page with trembling care; But hush, oh hush, thy beating heart. The one thou lovest best will be there. In obedience to the poet's injunction the page turned disclosed the attractive greenback of SI, and to prove the truth of this asserUon, he made the following appeal on the opposite page from the bank deposit: Fair lady, lift thine eyes and tell If this Is not a truthful letter, This is the one thou lovest well, s And naught (0) wonli make thee love it better. A New York special of the 22d says: ' The Duke of Sutherland and partv. inclndiDsr Dr. W. H. Russell, who returned from their trip to California to-day. will visit Newport. Saratoca. and perhaps Long Branch, and will sail for England July 2. The party went to the Pacific Jjflst by way of the recently-completed Southern Pact tic railroad. The Dnke's comments on this road, as given this evening to a World rejiorter, are of interest "Rightly built and properly managed," said he, "that road shouldibean important part of your railway system. It makes a most direct cut for the Pacific, through a fertile regit n. 1 am torn, ana it ougnt to develop a large local tratlic and do good work in connecting the East with the West. It should be a well constructed line, tapable of having trains run at high speed. l inniK tnese lines ountiogei a large snare ot the trafiic which now goes by way of the Suez Cauat between India and Great Britain. Such a way of reaching the old country wonld be very pleasant. as it would give one a view of the country and introauce a very agreeaDie variety. I think there would be enough passenger travel to keep four lines running across thi Western plains, and 1 have no doubt that ail .he lines now projected or in progress will turn out to be good prooerties. "You see." said the Duke, unfoldinc a large map of the Western country, crossed in several fllrections with red lines to indicate the route over which the Ducal party had traveled, "what a short route it is, and, taking the entire line to the East. 500 miles of travel may be saved, and that is no slight point. The present roads might be very much improved bv in creasing the sjeed. It is all well enough when the trams are going, but the ion? waits at the stations are annoying. Think of four hours stand ing on a siding. 1 think we lost a full day on the Southern Pacific by this dilly dallying process. The roads,, too. are not built specially strong. tnoii'An mat, l tninx, is a matter in whicn they will improve as the travel becomes heavier. Al ready they are takim; out wooden bridges and putting in iron girders. The Pennsylvania Road is a magnificent one. and is fullv ui. 1 think, to any of our tirst class English roads What struck me" as a great novelty was the making of eastTrou wheels at Altoona. iu the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. It was certainly a very ingenious plan, lhe third rail. too. was very unique, aud answered lts-purpof-e-aamiraoiv, giving -this rouA-.the effect of a siding, whllo in tact there was not a full siding." Did vou see anything that could be Introduced to advantage on the English roads?" "Well, no, I can not say that I did. Of course our carriages are not as comfortable as your firstclass cars, but who .vants a Pullman saloon car on our roads, where the longest ride you can lake is for twentv-eeven hours. One can get along very well for that time in such cars as we have, and I think that sneed and safety are more imjtortant factors to be looked after. Here, where you may travel tor a week on the rail, you need such conveniences as you have, and they answer the purpose admirably, lcau best compare my trip for so many days with so much comfort to a yachting trip. Call it yachting on dry land, with wheels instead of a "keel below you. and you express the idea capitally. It is so pleasant to be able to do so much work as is involved in traveling so many miles and. yet nave no accompanying fatigue. If we had gone home by to-day's steamer we could have reached England after an absence of just ten weeks. Iu that time we would have gone over twenty thousand miles, and we don't look much like weather beaten or toilsome pilgrims. I regret that there should ne such a want of confidence at home In your railroad plans and schemes, but then, where we see such transfers of property as we do here, there is apt to be some want ol connaence engenaerea. Where vou have men who can; as you say, 'gobble' "up a mad. what is to become of the other stockholders? Why, out West, at one place, a pier had been built at much expense, but a Railway Company wanted it out of the way. so they simply put a gang of men to work and tore It out by the roots, as it were. They left only the stub of the pier, and there seemed to be no redress for the pier people. Garfield and Grant in Conjunction. A Long Branch special of the 25th says: President Garfield held an informal reception to-day in the ladies hojel of the Elberon. Invitations were sent out to the occupants ef the neighboring cottages and General Grant was especially notified of the opportunity for him to come half way toward a reconciliation. It has been intimated all along tnai ne naa inveaaeu prv vpiiini? to call on the President, but he either supposed the President was not at home. or he himsen was too urea, or iu i reMuci m weary or for some reason or other he never came. When to-day's opportunity was given for him to call and pay his respects to the Executive his absence would have amounted to an örout. The President and Colonel Rockwell entered the parlor together at 5:30 o'clock. Presently Secretary of the Navy Hunt and Postmaster General James, each accompanied by his wife and daughter, fiiMvwi Mr :.r(ii'll was not present. Soon the approaches to the Eltjeron were filled with sounds of jingling harness and clattering hoofs nd the stylish eouipage of the stylish neighbor hood drove up to the piazza. General Grant was among the last to call. He drove up in a coupe soon after 6 and entered the parlor alone, iiror do von do. Mr. President?" he said. "How do you do. General?" waa the President's counter query. Thar chnnV hands cordiftllv. A few words in iinfiia n-ntfiir- of ranimonuUec were uttered by (ieneral Grant, and in moment what might have been an embarrassing silence was broken by half a dozen ladies and gentemen surrounding the ex-President and shaking hands with him. In three minutes by the watch of General Ihrie, of California, forme r'y of Grant's staff, the exCr.idoit had left tne hotel. He walked away mtu'il th road to his son Jesse's cottage on f.w.t Thorp wan no oonortunitv for any exchange of personal or confidential remarks between the two men ana notniug more nuiiunnu n... Long Branch air and scenery was sioKn oi. ATlllMacVeagh Kesicn? A Washington special of the 2?d to the New York Sun says: That Blaine should be defended by Brady is sufficiently novel to arrest attention. Ihougn novel, it ia not a fiction. It takes the form of di rect rut and thrust by Brady's evening paper uere at Attorney General Mac eagh, and gentle, cooing paragraphs concerning Secretary Blaine. The ma. .ii or oi it Ipivp nothing to be Inferred. Bnlt'imsntlr mrMant i it that reaSOBS CXist for this peculiar manifestation of eumity toward one . n.l t rioTirtshln for thA ntnpr all crowing OUt Of the Star trials to come or not. It iskuown that Colonel IngersoU characterizes in strong terms the lnnrnn(TP and manner of MacYcagh on the OCCAm cn with hl rllont. ex-Senator Dorsey, ou that officer. The affront is spoken of as altogether so gross and undignified as to deserve only

such a report as the place nnd circumstances

forbade. From all that is understood concerning J A1.'

reasons for irritation, 'if sura ere the fart then J

w,iat Iaust "ve heen bis humor since, under the

secretary of State reulati:ijr liie Attorney (ien- r eral In his conduct of the Sur caes, rn a maimer calculated to Irritate a l?ss rpirited individual? There is an Administration polier and there is rhe oliry or the method or the AuV.ri.ey (General I rerrtirdiuir. these cases. The Administration hl!et?o undertook to have Its wayrstowho should be Solicitor General, but the spirited Attoruejr General joined Lwoe and beat the Admin-f Uratiou. in-e thing Is certain, the law otSrer of I the Government is a good deal on his mettle, and I doesn't comprehend why there should exist pe- i euliar reasons for interference in the Star eases i. by Secretary Rlaine. Tnlesa he th.wsm. r. M

sources quite beyond w hat is suspected of him. he will scarcely rocced In anv direct cont l with the Administration in this instance, and will J hence have to yield: either that or else his rwieiiauou win oe inoraer. And what will Mr. James do then : in ii. - Iieecher and Monopolies. A New York telegram of the 26th to the Com-1 mercialsays: Beecher. in Drear-hint? nn mnnnnnl ay. I

said : "The power Is tending from the individual to the corporation. lean remember when there Vwere 10,000 looms in private houe in New Eng-- I land: now there are none, and all textile fabric are made in factories. The Individual become 1 powerless before the gigantic monopolies created J by force of wealth. Suppot-e a man wishes to in- y vest SlOO.OOOjin oil refining, the Standard Oil Com- I pany says to htm: Sell out to us,' or "divide your ' 1 pronto with ns. If you don't we will crush you.' If he says this is a free country, they reply that it J is as free for the corporation as for the individual. J That KLiiiiriarrt Oil Vtmrvur I tiv -.,...-

Egyptian pyramids. in a bunch, each with a Pharaoh on it. 1 v it the most gigantic combina- 1 tion on the face oi the earth, and it is not a whit better because one of the best men in it is a member of a leading EapUst Church in Brooklyn. There are live or ten men vi no control 10.000 miles of railroad in the lines of travel or transportation, and so have billions upon billions of property under their authority, and a clutch on the very throat of commerce. If need should come for a President who would favor the railroad monopolies, it would take only live pockets to put any man in the Executive Chair. Out Irom ew ork run three or four roads, which are uudeveioped dangers to the very exigence of uncorrupt Central Oovernment. There is a many mouthed lion and a real peril. But good will come out of all this. Combination in manufacturing means, cheaper fabrics, if Steamship Companies and railroads will distribute them cheaply. Commerce will be a winged lion when the perils are overruled, and the honey will remain. As to labor troubles comprehensively, I rejoice In them; individually, I am torry. Labor must organize for self -defense. Men are not to be trodden down like grass. The orgauizstion of labor is widespread, and wages formerly discussed at one end are now talked over at both. I'auses in work occur, strikes and riots. Would we have it otherwise? I am glad the bridle is teing put on the behemoth. Millions are not to be controlled at the will of teu or twenty. Thus fur and no further.ls being said to monopoly. . The brewers are unwilling to cive their men 10 percent, more wages and a half day ort. and the men struck. Well, the brewers bay. "We dou t care; we have bter enough in our vaults." Then the men mMe a compact with the sellers and re fuse to drink" va certain man s ale. What they ought to do is to boycott the beer-seller and not drink at all. That would be a beuetit all around. The laboring men are at school studying political economy. . They are learning how to give up a part of liberty so as to enjoy fully the rest Calculators, reasoners, philosophers "and orators are developing among them, it is full of future benefit, and the evils are mere trliles. A Ilmtal Murder. A Detroit (Mich.) special of June 24 says: Oue of the most brutal murders ever com mirted in Detroit was rpetrated at an early hour this morning. The vicüni was a shoemaker, Alon7 Barrett, and the man w ho killed nim is a marblepolisher named Clarence Davis, alias Frank De Hicl. Davis came to Detroit last fall from Newburg, N. V., and during most of the vi Inter boarded with Barrett. The latter occupied the front room oi the premises as a shoe-shon. snd.ie remaining four rooms were used as living apartments by himself ani three chüireu. Some eight weeks ago, after an absence of several weeks, Davis returned. He had been drinking yesterday, and about o'clock last night left the house. He akcd the elde, child, Ermine Barrett, sued fifteen, to tart'sWWf?t with him, but she refused. A half hour later the mau came in and all the inmates retired. Davis and Barrett slept in the same bed In a back room and Irving Grant Barrett, one of the children, aged twelve, occupied a bed lu the same upartment. Ermine and her nister Ester slept together in the room adjoiniug.-trmine states that she was awakened-about Ö o'clock this monring by sounds in the room ocenpied by her fatter and Davis. She heard a dull thud as of a blow struck, and, thinking dome one was trying to get into the house, entered. She "saw Davis with a billet of wood iu his hand and asked him what was the matter. He toM her he had struck Ler father.

nek Ler father. , ed to rise, ai.d, 'X all over blood. l back, saying. K J

Barrett. wl was on the bed. tnec asked: ";Vhat is the matter? I'm si do for a doctor." Dttvis uusbed him "Von lie down and keen still."' The little girl a.-ked me wretcn if her father was hurt badly, and he rephrdt -"bit, do; he will go to woikinthw morning, lie isn't uTt much." II. "heirt v,: "I must get away from i.re, or l'i Jr'J arresieo, anu asseu wie- -nua nere nis cioi ..ä were. Two shirts were all he had. ar.dtakirir them he departed. The child was stuj e:ied withv fright aud dared not leave, the place or give an alarm. A half hour later lavis returned and said he had been for a doctor. Ermine commenced crying, and the fiend prasjed her by the throat and threatened to choke her if she did not keepqeiet. He then went away for the second and last time. Policemen were immediately notified and the city was icoured for the criminal, but without success. Barrett died at H:20 tho. morning. His head had been pounded to a jelly with a board. The skull over the left temrle was crushed in. the teeth knocked out, and the roof of the mouth and lips split open. Roth eyes were blackened and swollen, and the balls turned far up into the head. The w hole face was bruised. cut, and pulled out in a frightful manner. All the circumstances indicate mat uavis got np in the night, and deliberately pounded Barrett to death in his sleep. The words "Go foradoetor" were the lsst sounds, excent groam, wnicn pas9ea his lips. The motive which actuated Davis is not known. Remarkable Case of Longevity Twin Slater Ninety-Four Yeara Old. Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman and Mrs. Nellie Day were ninety-four years old on the- 17th of June. Mrs. Coleman lives in Johnson County, near Morgantown, and ha many relatives in the County. Her sons and QiirvlitoNriOTA all mo rati 1arcra A tlrf rPTiFt A

ble families, and are among toft first families of the County. . J . StS V " J ft.

Mrs. ellie Day lives near atenv ina., , . i

aud has reared a large family, and us. yet in cood health. It is very doubtful whetner there is another such an instance ot tdd age (in twins) In the United States. -What a IMty. Texas Siftlngs. Gus De Smith is one of the best solo sing ers in Austin. Whenever he is present at a social gathering he gets somebody to call on him for a song, arid then he warbles forth some such simple melody as "Away down on the Sewanee Kiver, until aai tne cats in the neighborhood are swelled up with wrath and jealousy. The other night after he had finished, and the hearers bad pulled the wads of cotton out of their ears, Mrs. McSpillkins, who does not live happily, remarked to a lady friend. "How I wish my husband had sung that way when he was a young cian." "Why sor '"Because if he had only had that kind of a voice I never would hare married him," and she sighed heavilj . A Perfect Wreck. Such is the condition of the man who haslong battled with trouble of the Kidneys, Liver, I'.ladder, and Urinary Organs. No. vart8 of the human system, when ailiig, "give out" sooner tban these, or sooaer wreck health and life He warned in tiaie. You can not must not "fool" with such ailments Cure thcja at once. There is an infallible cure. It is Hunt s Keniedy, the Great Kidney and Liver Medicine. Hunt s Remedy was nevei jtnowu to tail, it een cures Hright's Disease of the Kidneys. Sold by all druggists. Tml size, i cents norswnen, Take Notice. Caustic Ilabam, advertised in this paper1 does what is. claimed for it. t-atislaction guaranteed. Give it a tnaL DU, TITLIO S. VKttDI, ol Washington, D. C the celebrated author, Commissioner of the National Board of Health, etc.. says the Liebig Co.'s Amicated Extract of itch Harel "is invaluable." Cures llles. Salt Kheum, Catarrh, I'ainful lcrlods. Rheumatism, Colds and Neuralgia. Beware of cheap counterfeits. The Liebig Company offers no cheap goods. It oilers ouly nouest preparations at honest prices.

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