Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1882 — Page 2

HIE INDIANA STATE SiüKTiXlSL, ;VE1)NES1)AT, APHIL 5, 1882.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL

IT : fjriite time lor me r.epuinuiu fhj j ' couster wbeUier nonest payment 01 ucuui numi not be insisted up-n as a conmuon 01 mtmuership 1 f tne Union. We have lu the Union already several repudiating States. They are not all from one section, nor of one pari. The crime for ll ii a crime to rob honest leuurrs was perpetrated in some corns many yearsa-o, and in oiner cares uita recently. Bat the principle Which houMbe a-iopted. and to the full ll'Olt of the powr ot the tioverninent bereaf ter enlorctd, it preti;cly the same whether an i iVense ha been for a lo'S time continued or not. The Nation Buffers Wyond measure, in credit and in prosper:!?, by reason of thee acta if repudiation. ach and every Pute ia inji.red by a du-honest act of any State. No one ein calculate the extent f thenjurv. but it is great enough in any case to ju'ify Federal interposition to protect the Nauen from injustice. The only question is as to the i over of the Union in the matter. ew ork Tribune. The foregoing is taten from an article re latino to the admission of Dakota into the Union; bat it is highly suggestive of the deep duplicity of Republican organs. Virginia ii a repudiating State made so by the Republican party tp gain the support of Jlahone. Without the assistance of a Republican administration, without a resort to the most shameful ue of Government patronage, Virginia would to-day be holding up her head as a debt-paying State. As it is, she is prostrate in the dust, degraded by a coalition with Republicanism for the purpose of robbing honest creditors. And yet the New York Tribune would have it appear that the liepublican party is seriously Concerned upon the subject of the honest payment of debts by States and Territories. The iwople can not be too frequently remindvil of the hypocrisy of the Republican party, and that nothing is more certain than that when it makes loud professions of honesty it ia getting ready to commit some act of shameful dishonesty. THE EFFORT TO COOLYIZE AMERICAN LABOR. Fron the great centers of industries we are having accounts of labor disturbances, and the honest investigator finds without seriously taxing his patience that the cause is low wages a refusal on the part of monopolists to share the benefits of protection with labor. Worse still a determination on the part of monopolists to reduce the price of labor, while they clamor for maintaining the present iniquitous tariff, which increases the cost of living. A case in point is foand in the manufacturing town of Lawrence, Maj., where the great Pacific cotton arid woolen mills are located. To understar. .1 the case it should be stated that cotton manufacture are protected at frornGötoGl per cent., and woolen manufactures from 25 to 7S per cent. Under this tariff the Pacific mills have been operating for many yeirs and have made splendid fortunes for their owners We take the following from the Lawrence correspondence of the Boston Tost under date of March 22. The racific Mills have paid dividends to 1U stockholders the past nineteen years 1S63 to ISM ".?! per cent, on a capital of $2,503,000, or an av ers:;".; or 20 l-l'J per cent per anuum: 'Amount; Amount .Paid. 500,000 500,0 0 400 0,0 500,01 10 :i2YOJ0 3.HJ.0O0 5-0,000 50J.000 Per Ct , 21 Z3 ...... 24 1Ü 21 IS id . 22 .".".20 Paid, ; Years. Per Ct. SVW.OOO 174 -.20 &KI.U00 1S7 20 5. ),U0 1S7... Pi 6. XUXH) 1.H77... .20 600.000 17 .13 4"i0.U0 1ST'. .14 600.000 IVt'J 22 4 )0,000 lsl 2J 400.000: 51,000 19 Z-i lVs... Wl.. Istv5).. lf,r... w.. lv"! .. S'J.oii.CoO 5oo,coo; The above s copied from J. G. Martin's annual report, and is correct. This shows a wonderful prosperity, continued for many years in succession, snd a sigihicant protest against the sweenies rod action of pay 25 per cent., as proposed by the ot'icials of this rich corpo'ation. Ia addition several millions of dollars have been spent for new mills, new machinery, storehouses and other buildings, and several hundred thousand squandered and lost by bad management of Ute years. A large surplus 6n hand, all the result of the employe's labor. In nineteen years an investment of $2,500,000 has paid dividends to the amont of $0,.r-3,000. besides earning a surplus which has been invested in building more mills, and yet these protected monopolists demand a reduction of the wages of their employes to the cxtt of 23 per cent reducing them to a starvation point To make the matter infamous in all of its parts, these nionopolisrs go to Congress, and in demanding protection declare that the grand purpose of a protective tariff is to protect and bless American labor. A viler falsehood was never set afloat. To make it possiblefor theje heartless monopolists to degrade American labor, they and their organs and representatives, in and out of Congress, favor Chinese immigration, and one of these organs in a recent issue remarked that "the passage by Congress of the bill prohibiting Chinese immigration is a humiliating surrender of principle and a base pandering to a local popular prejudice. It is at variance with what has .always been our National policy, and, in view of our National professions, is a sorry farce. The time will come when it will be reversed, and when those who voted for it will be ashamed of themselves. When the question shall have been fully discussed before the people, and when they come to appreciate the moral principle involved, they will right the great wrong which has been done." We these what have columns before from shown in official sources China can do for America labor if the monopolists and their organs can have their W3y. Mr, O. N. Denny, Consul General of the United States at Shanghai, says tnat China can "supply the world" with cooly cheap labor, and the question is, how cheap can this labor be supplied? Mr. Denny gives the figures: Farm laborers work at $12 a year with b -ard and lodgi ng. When permanent employment is had a cooly can be had at fifteen cents a day. In the mining districts wajres are from five to fifteen cents per day. A woman in ana je to earn six cents per day in cotton factories. A cooly is content with surphi3 of fifty cents a month over food and lodging, and as his wardrobe costs him only about 2 a year he manages to lay up $1 a vear, and to these, prices monopolists and their organs and representatives are seeking to reduce American labor and claim that one of the "foundation stones" of tbe Rep.ibüc was laid for the express purjo-e of rearing a superstructure in wFlich American laborers,for the benefitof monopolists, shw id enjoy the glorious privilege of starvirg to Ao-Aih Knch seems to be the idea of ur esteemed contemporary, tbe Times, which avs: "The passage by Congress of the bill prohibiting Chinese immigration is a bamiliating surrender of principle and a ba-.e

1 andering to local popular prejudice." The passage of the Chinese bill is in the interest of American labor, opposition to it ia in the interest of monopolist who would reduce American labor to the degraded level of cooly labor five to fifteen cents a day at which price Mr. Denny says, China can "supply the world." The Massachusetts racific Mills are making some headway in the direction of reducing its employes to the cooly level. The Pennsylvania iron monopolists are also moving to secure cooly prices. Hut there are Americans who believe in the dignity of labor, and who farther believe it to be the crowning glory of our institutions, and in spite. of monopolists and their mo jey, there are newspapers which will not fall down and worship pagan gods, no matter who seta them ho.

CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. There is in the city of New York a Civil Service Reform Association which ia doing good in various ways. In one instance it went to work vigorously upon one General N. M. Curtis, and hunted him out of his place as an employe of t'e United States Government for having violated the law, in that while a special agent of the Treasury Department for the "examination of charges and commissions," he requested and accepted assessmerli from the employes of the New York Custom House for political purposes, thereby violating the United States statute, kc 6, chap. 2S7, 1876, which apjears on page 217. General Curtis, while holding Iiis oflice.by appointment of tbc Secretary of the Treasury at a salary of $500 a month, was elected Treasurer of the Republican State Committee, and was guilty of a violation of the law, and the facta were made so clear that he was subsequently indicted and dismissed from the service. True, General Curtis did not sign the assesiing circulars, bat as Treasurer of the Repub lican Committee he received and disbursed the funds illegally obtained, and hence was discharged and indicted. It in every city in the United State3 a Civil Service Reform Association was in operation mm of the stvle of General Curtis would be speedily brought to a realizing sense that they can not violate a plain stat ute with impunity. Rut we can only be thankful for an occasional vindication of the law. and hone that in the progress of events competency, and not patronage, will be the test of employment in all departments of the Government The system of competitive examinations and appoint ments besran in the New York Custom House March C, 1S7U, and up to August 1, 1S81, 1,077 applicants had been examined. J "At present," says the report before us, "there are 1,213 public servants in the Custom House, with salaries amountiug to $1, 790,885 per annum; 1,077 of these, with salaries amountinz to $1,633,150, are npnointedon camnetitive examinations. In i , the remaining 13G are comprised the Col lector. Deputy Collectors, Naval Officer, Deputy Naval Officers, Surveyor, Apprais ers, Engineers, Ushers, laborers, etc. The following is the list of officers who were under the examination rnle3 in October, lSO. The examinations are hon estly conducted and are held quarterly, and every applicant, without regard to pol itics, has a fair show. The following in cludes the subjects upou which applicants are examined, viz.: "Dictation, including orthography, notation and numeration, ad dition, fractions, applied problems, accounts, geography, history and government, grammar, syntax, letter and brief and penmanship." And the following are a few of the questions submitted in a recent admission and examination: What ii the Evmot 307millionths, 56 ten-thousandths. 08 hundredths, 5 hundred-thousandths, 25614 tenths, ton-mUlionths, 375 units? At $0.125 per pound, how much sugar can be ought for An invoice of railway bars specifle3 3,622 bars, 127 feet long, weishing sixty pounds to the yard. What wUl tho duty amount to at the rate of seventy cents per 100 pounds? A certain Invoice amounting to 34 8i. 3d. Is subject to a discount of 2 per cent What Is the payable amount la United States currency, the pound sterling being worth $1.8065? What bodies of water and ef land seDarate the United States from South America? Name thefivMmrtortantbftttlesot the rebellion. In what does treason itgalnst the United State CJnsist? In grammer. Correct the following sentences: -A ship sails splendid. His time as well ai his money were lost It was arranged between he and I. Letter Desoribe the City of New Yore. " When examinations occur for promotion the following are soma of the questions submitted: 1. what department of ths custom first as sumes charge of vessels arriving from foreign ports? 2. What kind of paper authorizes the dis charge and delivery of ca-goes ot merchandise? 3. What disposition is made of r.nclalmed goods? 4. Explain the difference between bonded warehouse," "general order stores" and "Apprlaser'i store?" S. In which division of the Custom House are 'duties first estimated and In which finally ad pitted? fi. What are the duties and objects of the Weigher's department? 7. What Is done witn goods fraudulently Im ported in violation of the revenue laws? 8 What is tho "manifest" of a vessel. Letter Describe your duties In the position now hel(1 by an(1 glale otf relations to the whole ; curse of business In tho Custom House, explain ' tag as far as possible the nature and purpose of such papers and accounts as come before you. The following examples are given of sev eral examinations, and no applicant is ap pointed unless he secures the minimum 75 per cent of the maximum work. u S3 o u. .VhtxanrTatioi. r ad mis hn. fan. 6, 1SS0 CO $1,21,0 9 91.00, S3.93 4 ' h exam'atian I fr admission M 1 1 xsmi'atlon for ada isiwi. Suth eicam'ation for promotion 3.M examina'ti. July 8, 1830 31 l.SOt'jlOj 93.41, SG.89 1,200 6 93.21.83.&0 July 1. '8173 Feb. 10, 80 5 M'ch 25, '80 13 2,000 3J0.09, 86.10 1,400 and I 7 87.C1, f r promotion f.Cth exam'atlon !t promotion 1,600 Oct 13. 'Sliio; 1.6' 1 91.11. It it stated by those who know that these competitive examinations work exceedingly Wt.n for the Rood of tbe service, and are I stv?idilv crowing in favor. Collector Itobertt son. oi the new iorK tueiom uou&e, is re ported to have said: When I finU entered on the duties of the co.i.-ctorshiB it was with the Intention of

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would give the ablest and mottefflcient subordin ate officers to my department. I was not more In favor of appointment by competitive examination than of any other system. I soon found, however, that it would be Impossible for me to attend to the regular business of my office, and at the same time personally examine the merits of be multitude of candidates for positions. Some system of examination was necessary, and, ai I informed a Conmitte of the New York Chamber of Commerce, I determined to give trial to the existing system of competitive examinations. In that view I have made my appointments from caudidates who have obtained the highest rank In the examinations. I have made only four removals, and these were on account ot intoxication of officers during business hours. AppolD.tment by competitive examinations Is the best method which I am at present aware of, and that method I shall favor until a better one Is shown me. . If such examinations work well in a Custom House, why not in every other depart ment of the Government where a large number of assistants are required. It enables the Government to secure the best servants. They obtain employment upon their own abilities they are from all the political parties, and therefore there is less disposition to assess them for partisan campaign purposes. Again the report showing the success of applicants fer appointments is largely encouraging to boys who come from the Public Schools of the country as "CO per cent of the appointees have been educated in free schools, and only GJ per cent have been educated in Colleges. Those educated in academies have succeeded, ;co rata, better than the College men. In view Of these facts, instead of fearing that a del uge' of college men would be poured into our civil service, under the examination I .A ,tW ,1irA that thA

system, nv ouvuiu ...u .'"the poet's character. Charles Hugo, who was pay

numoer oi onege iue.. -i t"nwnts under that syftem should be greatly ihcreased. By far the larger number of applicants have received only a common I school education. If, now, the system of entrance into the civil service by examination were made universal thousands would enter the Tublic Schools with the intention of fitting themselves for the service; and this fact would naturally act as a stimulant to render those schools mere efficient" Such is a mere outline of civil service reform in the New York Custom House, and it is well calculated to make thoughtful men of all parties hopeful that the day is not distant when civil service reform will reach every department of the Government, and competitive examinations take tbe place of the old method, everywhere known to be vicious. I ROAD SUPERVISORS. In electing Road Superintendents citizens of incorporated towns and cities have no right to vote, nor are citizens of such town or city "competent to fill the office of Road Superintendent," Attorney General D. P. Baldwin decides as follows: A resident of an Incorporated town or city can not be elected to the office of Township Road Superintendent; neither can the electors of such town cast their ballots for Road Superintendent. Where the word town Is used In our statutes. It refers to an incorporate town. Consequently a resident of an unincorporated town may be elected to the office of Road Superintendent This would seem to settle the question with law abiding citizens; but out in Hend ricks County Republicans are disposed to disregard the oninion of Attorney General Baldwin, interpret the law to suit them selves, and in such a way as to gain some pa tisan advantage. It should be understood that citizens who vote in defiance of law subject themselves to all the pains and penalties which the law Imposes, and doing this, after the Attorney General of the State has ex plained the law, they are justly debarred the privilege of making even the plea of lVnorancp. and should be made to pay the penalty. It is about time to put the law in force against Republicans who have hitherto violated it with impunity for partisan considerations, and if in Hendricks, or any other County, Repufl licana violate the law relating to Road Superintendents, Demo crats should obtain their names and have them indicted and punished. CURRENT NOTES. Louisa M. Alcott Is one of sixteen women qualified to vote at Concord, Mass. It is announced that Mr. John Russell Young, the Minister to China, will soon be married to Miss Coleman, a niece of Ex-Governor Jewell, Ol Connecticut. a wisiiixctox correspondent of the Portland (Me.) Press writes that Congressman Ladd looks apon Governor Plaisted as his dangerous rival in the Congrtislonal race. Thk lower branch of the Massachusetts Legisla ture has voted 83 to 37 to admit tne bill provid ing for fortnightly payment ot their workmen by municipal and manufacturing corporations. General Grant preserved a masterly Inac tivity at the White House in all except getting out of the way of callers. TNhen they inquired for him at the front door he slipped adroitly out through the conservatory, Among the visltors at Nice this winter is Mrs. Jnhnsnn. of Baltimore. She was tho niece ana heiress of the late President Buchanan, and dur nr Ma Preidencv did the honors of the White House as Miss Harriet Lane. The wite of Ex-Senator Dorsey is a beautiful woman, with gentle laanners, and is spoken of as a charming couverser. She was much admired when she first went to Washington, and the subsequent changes iJber husband's fortunes have nbt altered her Irlendships. Asa Briggs died a few days ago at Stutesbury, Mass. Contcious of his approaching end. he de fired that a certain minister living In a neighboring town should attend his burial services, giving as a reason: "They say he's a good hand at a funeral, and I'd like to hear him Just once." Rural New Yorker, We knew that confounded treaty was ahead of us, but we shut our eyes and wouldn't see It We hoped somehow that It would disappear as we went toward it But it woa't There it Is. big ger than ever, a great wall in the way, and on the top of It a Chinaman, shouting. "Spose Melican man klckee me out nie kickee Melican man ÜUt alle same, John." Graphic. Joseph Pulitzer, the able editor of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, called at the Washington Jail to see Guiteau. The latter rushed toward Pulitzer, and. seizing him by tho hand, ex claimed: "Why, how do you do, Mr. Schurz! I know your brother very well-have spoken from the same platform with him. How much you look like him." Pulitzer felt decidedly uncom I fro-tai.in hnt Pttlson Hutchlns stood by and chuckied. Boston Post On a recent Sunday Rev. C. II. Spurgeon, of London, was so Ll with gout as to be unable to anDearinhlsDulDit "To my own grievous a is appointment" he wrote in a letter read by one ot his assistants, "my old disorder has come upon me like an armed man and laid me low. I can not walk or even stand, and the pain renders it difficult forme to think consecutively upon any subject I entreat you to pray that this laflUcii

may be greatly nctiüed to me, and that it may be quickly removed. I an cheerfully hopeful that It is not o fierce an attack as others' which I baTe rnffercd, and that I hall speedily be among you. Meanwhile lo you all I whsh joy, and myself patience." Among Longfellow's classmates at Bowdoin In 1S2S were John S. C. Abbott, the popular LL--torian; Jonathan Cllley, the Maine Cougrrec t man who fell in a duel with Representative William J. Graves, of the Louisville District; J. W. Brad ley, the eminent lawyer and politician: George B. Cheavervthe anti-slavery advocate; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others who achieved eminence, O.ni of the duties of the policeman on guard at

Professor Longfellow's grounds last Friday was to turn away the players ou band-organs. For years it cas been the custom of the family to give six cents to each hand-organ man, the result being that few of the peripatetic musicians who came into the vicinity failed to take the house into their circuit. Three appeared on Friday afternoon. JrDGE Jeremiah Black Is qnotedbya corres pondent of the Providence Press as saying: In re gard to the rumors of Mr. Arthur's marriage: "I do not doubt that the President is the constant subject of matrimonial overtures from all quar ters, some of them most diplomatically presented When I was associated with President Buchanan as a Cabinet officer from his own Stato, I was con tinually solicited to be the medium of these delicate approaches and propositions." Hon. Andrew d. Whitk refuses to slzn a peti tion for Sergeant Mason's pardon on the ground that the crime for which he was convicted "is one of the most dangerous known, either from a civil or military point of view; and it is rendered infi nitely more dangerous by the proposed glorifica tion of it." Mr. White adds: "The readiness of Individuals to take life ou the slightest pretext is one of the most serious symptoms in this country. There is no civilized land ia which murders are committed with such Impunity." t The last anecdote of Victor Hugo concerns Madeline Brohan. and the economy which is a part of lng to M1ie Brohan received orders to confine nImsen to three shirts a -week. lie disobeyed, and he punished him- chop was with drawn from his breakfast fare. After "IIernaii," when Hugo, in raptures over his "Dona Sol." kissed her, and taid: "Ask me something, any thiug. vthat you like," she supplicated: "Let Charles have bis chop again." AN IMPORTANT MATTER. The Auditor of State Post the Assessors On the New Law. . Colonel E. II. Wolfe, Auditor of State, yesterday Issued the following important circular regarding the annnnal assessment of personal property: As the time is approaching for the annual assessment of personal property throughout i he State. I presume the Township Assessors of yr ur for purpofeof 8greeing upon a unIform valu'e or assessment of the various items and articles named on the ARsesor's schedule. Recognizing trfe fact that much of tbeefficiencv and accuracy of the Assessors and their work is due to the personal Bupervbion given by County Auditors, I respectluiiy urge upon vou the im portance of giving to the present year's assess ment your special omciai attention. some oi your lownsmp Assessors are new men. having little. if any. practical experience or knovledee as to their Uutiei, and this nrxt or preliminary meeting is of especial importance to ootn tnem ana your people, l he instructions and v lormation which. by virtue of your office and experience, vou are able and authorized to impart, will greaily aid and facilitate them In their work. The election of new Assessors on the first Monday in April next may cause some delay and confusion, and in some Counties will result in either deferring this Assessors' meeting until alter tne election ana qualification of the new Asessot8or in an additional meet'us for t same purpose. To atree upou and fix a uniform or average assessment value, ou tne most common ana gen erally listed articles, i.i an essential object and purpose of this cousultalion; but I suggest that more man mis is contempiatea ana oi equal importance. Doubt! ul sections, provisions and requirements of the assessment law, their proper construction and interpretation, should be fully aiscuved. and as far as possible determined, with a view at least of securing meir uniform eniorcement and applicatioa throughout your County. Many of these doubtful provisions and requirements were determined during last year's work of assessment: their ac cepted construction or interpretation should be placed in possession of your new Assessors, and thoroughly understood ana emorcea ty aiL l nis will save time and unnecessary correspondence, and prevent complaint and de ay. II your Assessors can not get through witn tins their work in session another day. It is in the interest of public economy, and besides being worth all it costs your County, it is of personal and pecuniary interest to every con scientious tax payer m tne Mate, The citizen who lists nis property nonestiy ana fairly can only hope to have his aggregate taxes reduced by requiring every other citizen to list his property in the same way. The payment of the estimated annual cost or necessary expenav tures of the various departments of the State, Coun ty, or Township, are to be provided lor by rates of taxation levied, computed and extended upon the duplicate on tbe basis of the aggregate values returned by Township Assessors. If. therefore, in these returns "A" has listed at a fair valuation all his personal property, and "B." a neighboring citizen, is permitted by an lnemcient or incompe tent Assessor to list and return but one-nan ot nis property, the unfairness and Injustice of the result is manifest A uniform enforcement and application of the clear intent and meaning of the law and its requirements will correct these abuses: not only so, but it will place upon your tax duplicate pro perty that has heretofore entirely escaped taxation. and this, in turn, will, or should, reduce the tax rate. The LeeiNlature. at its special session in 115. enacted a special law requiriug a meeting of the Assessors of each county lor tne purposes map rated, Dut for some reason this requirement, or lea tu re. was omutea lor tne new tax law. Believing, however, that it is necessary in order to secure a competent and fair assessment of property throughout the State, and that tbe duties of County Boards of Equalization, as well as County Auditors, will be greatly facilitated thereby. 1 recommend that tha custom be con tinued, and so far as I have the authority, under Sections 247 and 250 of the tax law, direct that yon notify and convene your Assessors for that purpose, leaving you to nx tne time anu uaie oi such meeting or meetings. The haw on the Subject. The Attorney General has during the past few days received a number of letters regard ing the taxation of certificates ot deposits, and yesterday gave the following opinion in the matter: You sav March 26. 1S81. you deposited Ii bank legal tender notes and received a certificate of depofclt psyacie in tne Fame siouui money, ims does not extmpt you from taxation on that amount. Your certificate is just like any note. When your note is payable you are not bound to accept anything but legal teuaers. muwouw be with your certificate of deposit even though it did not contain the agreement to pay in tender. You could demand legal lender, and would be compelled to ao t no other fciud of money. Had you rolled your uioney up, written your name on the wrapper, or put some uisiiuguisniug iun noon it. and deposited it with the understanding. bonafide, that that exact roll of money was to be given back: to you, then the title cf the money so deposited by you would always hare remained in and vau would have been exempt from tax ation. The ordinary certificate of depotit is nothing more than a promise to pay to the amount therein named on demand of the de positor, either in pernon or by check given to soma third person, and stands, so far as taxation is concerned, upon the same ground as any other demand held by the owner against a bank or a piivate individual, whether It is aa ordinary promissorv uui ur u wxuuu .Will be Changed. Auditor of State Wolfe is ready to furnish the railroad companies the new blank re turns. The law requires that the returns must be filed with the Auditor of State by the 1st dav of June. Colonel "Wolfe has added a new schedule, rbich shows the value of theStation Houses, "depots, machine shops, water tanks, and other buildings sitHated in each County on the right ot way. Th KtstA Board cf Eoualization wilL at its next Coun County such distributed pro along the line of road.

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EX-SENATOR M'DONALD. In this land of almost incessant political con flict and frequent chance, the names of leading statesmen are constantly before the public, as possible, probable or cctual candidates for office. Among this class is that of the dis tinguished man whose portrait heads this article. There is no need to say that the office for which. in the judgment of many, his political friends illnomlnate Mm. is that of President of the United States. This probability gives rtmariatle interest to the record of his life. Joseph E. McDonald was born In Butler County, Ohio, on August 20. 1S19. Seven years afterward lie was taken to Indiana, ever smcu the btate ol his residence. His education was HmltM. Karly in life he was apprenticed to the saddlery businets at laiayette. in wnicn numMA capacity, while ho wmusht Industriously at hm trade, he studied with tiie view to a more honored occupation. This Industry enabled hin to pass two years in College, after which he rend law and was admitted to the bar in 1M.1, when be wu aIno elected Prosecuting Attorney, an oilice which he held four years. Hewaaetectea to the 1 Dirtyfirst Coiieress. in which he took his seat December 3. 14-J. and ervcl to March 3. 1851. In ls6 Mr. McDonold was elected Attorney General of Indi ana, and re-vIC2ted to the same oilice in isoi. Durinz the suhseauent vear he removed from Lafayette to I ndtananoli.i. In. Ihtit he ran unhuv cessfully for the (fovrrnoirhip of Indiana, audit was not until 1875 that he attained his highest political dianity that of a .Senator of the United States. His term expired March 3. 1SSL A MADMAN'S ACT. Horrible Tragedy on an 0. and 31. Train. An Inoffendlrjor Passeneer Shot Dead by a Drunken Traveler Suicide of the Assassin. peclal to the Sentinel: Seymour, Ind.. March 2'J. A little after 3 o'clock this morning, as the O. and M. St. Louis and Cincinnati express, cast bound, was past leg Sparksville, this County, a man named W. M. Haines, who was supposed to have been crazed with drink, made himself obnoxious to the pas sengers by his boisterous conduct, and he was persuaded by the Conductor to tako a seat in another car. He seated himself near a gentleman . named Alex. C. Wingate, of Lexington, Ky., and In a few moments the two got Into an altercation which was provoked by the iusolence of Haines, who, a moment iater. drew a revolver and shot Wingate' in the breast, killing him instaatly. Before the passengers had time to realize what bad occurred or to Make any steps towards arresting naines, he jumped from the train. which was running at the rate of forty mUes an hour and made his e.'cspe. The train came through to this city and the railroad officials a1 Mcdora were notified of the occurrence. Searci was at once begun for the assassin, au on reaching a pond, about one-half mile froi where the tragedy occurred, his clothing wa found neatly hung up on a post, and after a littl further search his naked and lifeless body was brought to the surface. About $90, a gold watch and a number ofvaluable papers weie found on his person, from which it was learned that his name as Haines, as given above, and that his home was at New balem, O., whither he was en route from El Paso, Texas. The body of Wingate was taken to Louisville, and the corpse of the assassin-suicide followed on the next train. Coroner D. II. Brown, of this County, was not! fled, abut the railroad authorities con cluded that as the tragedy occurred en route, it was their duty to carry the bodies to the destina tion of the first one killed. The train men say that the murder was entirely unprovoked, and that Haines was certainly laboring under temporary insanity from excessive intoxication; but the manner in which he disposed of himself sh )wed that he bad at least a "method In his madness." No such terrible tragedy has occurred In this neighborhood for years. CisciNXATi, March 29. Specials to-night give additional particulars of the murder of Alex. C. W in gate, limes was lormeriy a resident of West Salem, O., but for the past eighteen years has been a resident of theW est.lle had lett?ra of lntrouuction in nis valise to various parties in New York and other places, dated Yuma, Ariz., saying he has been in business in that city fourteen years, and was about to make an extended tour East. His valise also contained a complete 8et 0f jambler's cards of all discriptionsand a ferocious looking dagger. The conductors say lie was so troublesome in thesleepingcar he had to be ejected. He was taken into the coach forward. w:ere for some time ne was very quiet. Suddenly he drew a revolver and without a word of warning fired into the breast of Mr. Wingate, killing him instantly. He then went to the car door. where he tired another shot at tne Draseman, but missed him. t He then jumped from the train. Wingate M a peaceabhs fanner living near Midway, Ky. Ale was a member of tbe Haptist Church, ana held in high esteem by the neighbors. Report of the Hog Packing for the- las Season. Cincinnati, March 29. The Cincinnati Price Current ot to-morrow morning will Eublish its thirty-third annual statement of og packing in the West. It is a voluminous work, and elaborate in details $na comparisons. The result of the winter packing in the West shows a total of 5.747,7ft) hoM of an average net weight of 210J rounds, and an average yield of lard of A 44-100 pounds each. Tne gain over last year . v i 1 z n itz 1 pa in tne average net weiga& per uog is Counds, and in lard 71M00 oi a pouna per og. . . . The decrease in the number ol pacfefrd was 1.172.G06 or nearly 17 per cent, .while the decrease in the aggregate weight was nearly 16 per cent. These exhibits -closely verifv the Price Current's estimates made early in ' the season. The manufacture of barrel pork reached bW8oy barrels, wnccn is 155.2-more barrels than last year. The aggregate packing for twelve months reaches 10,551,449 hogs, or l,UUi,'.uo less man tne nrecedinir vear. The outlook for the supply of hogs is regarded as probably below that of last verv to June, but afterward not vary ing much, estimating the season's packing supply as likely to be 5 to 10jr cent under last year tor tne eignt monins to ioveiuuer, Tfce total packing last summer was 4,803,000, Reducing the Internal Kavenue. WABUTNfiTorf. March 28. The House Committee on Ways and Means have agreed upon a bill to reduce the internal revenue, it rental the staiuo tax on bank checks, drafts, orders and vouchers; the tax on the capital and deposits of banks and bankers. under section 3,408 of the Revised btatutes as amended; the tax on the capital anddeNational banks on the bOth of June,

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and in th case of other banxs and - bankt-rs on the 31t of May, ISMi'; the tax on matches, perfumery, medical preparations. and other artcles imposed by schedule "A" following section 3,43" of the Revised Stat utcs. Prom an J after the 1st of May, 1S,s2, rectifiers cf distilled spirits shall pay a special tax of $10; any person who rectifies less than 500 barrels a year shall pay 00; who'esa'e liquor dealers, SCO; retail liquor dealers, $12; dealers in manufactured tobacco, $240; all manufacturers! of tobacco, $0; manufacturers of cigars, $. The bill makes a total annual reduction

of f23.Ou0.0O0 of special taxes, $3,7W,40H; on checKJ. proprietary articles and all ar ticles in schedule A. $1G,3L,SS0; on c;?ars and cigarettes, $2.VJ.OOO. TIIE MISSISSIPPI OVEItFLOW. The Condition of the Sufferers in the lied River District The Destitute In Arkansas Placed at 21,000. -St. Louis, March 29. The Government steamer General Barnard loaded with 150,000 Government rations of meal and bacon, and about fifty tons of food and clothing contributed by charitable citizens, left here last night for Memphis, Helena and Vicksburgin command ofr Champlain Mullins. General Beck has received a report from Lieutenant B. H. Randolph, of the Third Cavalry, dated Dellri, La., in which the lat ter sums up the situation as follows: In the district from Red River to the Arkansas line, and about fifty utiles west of the Mis sissippi, there has been no loss of life in this section, except a few children in lilacs River, and there is no actual starvation or destitution at present. The eupdIv of rations, if judiciously husbanded. will supply all pressing needs until April 10, when, if there is no irprorenient m the situation before that data there will exist general destitution among- all people, both white and black. Should tbe flood fall decidedly by April 10, I think at tbe most there will be needed only about one-half rations of bacon and niear to May 1, for 5.000 persons who constitute a class ot small farmers, white and black. If theie is no change for the better before" the 10th of April, there will be about 18.000- persons without food or credit Should the water fall decidedly by April 10, the probability is that planting can be done by May 1, and with that prospect large planters will prefer to feed their own hands, whereas if the water continues to rise, the whole system of credit and working will be upset Commission merchants will decline to advance to country merchants and planters, and the latter will not be able to feed their laborers. I can not too strongly recommend that all issues be discontinued immediately upon tbe subsidence of the water, so that planting can begin. ANOTHER ESTIMATE. Memphis, Tenn., March 29. Lieutenants Satterlee and Richards arrived here this morning. The latter, who has been on an investizating trip through Mississippi aud Crittenden Counties. Arkansas, represents that three-fourths of Mississippi County is still under water, which, however, is falling steadily, and a decline of twelve inches more will relieve all the tillable land of the flood. There are about 500 people in the northern and central portions of the County that will need aid for fifteen days longer. In Crittenden County tho destitute number about 2.000, and will require assistance for fifteen days. All the County is under water, except in the vicinity of Marion and Crawfordsville. A detailed estimate of the destitute ieople in the Stateof Arkansas places the number at 21,000, who will have to be provided with supplies for about fifteen days. Washington, March 20. A telegram from Natchez says: "The back water is still rising and destruction on the increase. A steamer is removing people and stock across the country from Tensas River to Natchez. The town aud country are crowded with refugees." New Orleans, March 2'J. The TimesDemocrat's Troy (La.) special says: "Tne water here is three feet, ten inches above the 1374 Hood. The boat rescuing cattle is supposed to have gone down in the storm of Monday on Catahoula Lake with 100 head. The hills in Catahoula Parish are crowded with people and cattle. The people dwell in pine pole huts. The water continues rising at the rate ' of three-quarter inches per day, and in many places has reached the eaves of the houses, compelling the peonle to move out. At Lindell Place, on Black River, the high wiud n Monday partly unroofed a gin hous3 in which were twelve families, and nearly overturned the building, greatly alarming the occupants. A man named Mc Adam asked to be taken from his house with his family and forty hogs, the wind threatening ita destruction, but refused to leave without the stock. The waves raised by the winds shake the houses to the foundation. Tht Times-Democrat steamer left the Black River and steamed down laues, over fieldsand through quarters of several plantations, exciting the wonderment of the people who crowded the lofts of gin houses. The boat ran two miles and a half inland, the waves of the boat splashing through rooms of deserted houses. This is- a rich cotton section. Stock was on scaffolds in many places, waiting to be taken to hieh ground. The rising waters demoral ized the negroes at Liddal Place, where a woman was drowned bunday. On the Mis sissippi a house and family were washed away. A gin house at Horse Shoe, below Troy, and containing 300 negroes, is threat ened with destruction, bteamers wui be busy for days rescuing the people." FEARFUL ACGIDEM, A Cotton Gin Near Lake St. John, Loubl avna. Destroyed suid 120 Peonle KIMed. NATcnEZ, March 29. Information has reached this city of the destruction of the Ralston gin, near Lake St John, Tensas Parish, Louisiana, by which 12) refugees lost their lives. This gin was1 one of the largest in North Louisiana and was packed to overflowing with negroes from adjoining plantations. Sol fit of Gave field. An Ellettsville, Ind., special to the Gazette says: m Indian Creek, an outlying Township of Mon roe Countv. to a Democrats have made several at tempts to nominate candidates for Township offices, but natty iealousies prevented, and the Conventions have adionrned without result. Last Saturday there was a large assemblage of tho di.-ciples of Andrew Jackson at an adjourned Con vention, wna. alter voiais some nine, u-u iw lose their teirtpeni, and it became evident tna:; n. work wouixl end in a bolt of a fan tion and result in a Republican victory. which would be nothing short of a public calam ity in tha Fection. When alLwas In coniusjon And tunroil, there rode up on horseback nod 'i hted Mrs. James Tariir.ctoo. the wife ob a candidate. After hitsning the auiraal, she walJied . . 1 . .1 ' . . : - A . w . . n n ...... 11110 me nouse nun MraiKUfc mc buwu, hu without a word politely addressed the Chair,, who lmmcviiately recognized her. f-he said, in a sirong t-niiu iiatii1 Almii'htv had crime to her the nicht before and said that she was to come to this Convention to restore peace and harmony r. that the Lond had tpM ner mat a nreax lntaisoonvsntiou would be the omen ol the dissolution oi the Democratic yarty, ana that, witn im, wouia cause, the downfall ol tha ation: taai toe spirit of Uarneia had been transiorinea into tnai of a democrat, and that it was his desire that t&e carier of the Republican party shouldeud. and tnai it tne uosveuuon aujourneu m h) bigaificance was that lj would bring a Democratic President. Whereupon sne said that waate ier might be the result of the ballstscast her knsband must and would abide by the resulu With this she closed, and in a few minutes the Convention finished its work, her hnshand. however, being defeated. The woman declares that the spirit prompted her to say wcat sno uj, anu told her that her husband would be ddeated.t . . i . My Good Woman, , ,. whyareyou so out of sorts, never able to tell folks that you are well? Ten to one it'a all caused in the first place by habitual constipation, which no doubt finally caused deranged kidneys and liver. The sure cure for constipation is the celebrated Kidney-Wort It is also a specific remedy for all kidney and liver diseases. Thousands are cured by it every month. Try it at once. Toledo Blade.

HEALTH IS WEALTH. Health of Body Is Wealth of Mini

vproanarilltan PocnliDn' uuiuuüumi.im uuounuir I Pore blood malus sond fleaa, strong bona atr aclcarsHa. If yon would have your teüx trS, your bono" sound, without caries, and your co?l pi Tion lair, use Bsdway's ßsnapaxUlaa ÜJm sei rent. A GRATEFUL RECOGNITION. ' To cure a chronic or lorn? standing disease U truly i victory ia the bii;ig i rt : that resionhf poorer thst clt-ariy dlsormr drfec and rapph remedy; that restores bV-d by m?p by degrees the body which has bten slowly attacked and wiukened by an lnridlora disease, not only oora mandsour respect but rlflservep our grtatiuda. Ir. Kadway has fumisb-4 mankind with that vomierful remedy, Kadwvs SarsvrHUsai iioSilvent, which accomplishes this rasui- and suffering humanity, who dm? nut an existence of pain and di.--?. throncb long i.vi and long nights, owe him thel; grafadd?' liofilc! Ee senger. FALSE AMP TRUE. We extract from Dr. Rcdway' "TreatJtnon Dis esse and It Cure" as follows: LIST OF B-ISIAS F .3 2T Railway's SarapariiJiaa EesclrraL Chronic 8kn Disease. Csles of t"e Bone. B mors in the Blood, cofr.lous E1lscs, Bade U;jiatural Habit of Body, Syphilis tad Venereal Fever Sorea, Chronic or Old Clccra. 3alt Rfceun, tickets. White Swelling Scald Heul, Cerln

Millions, Jansen, lor-Tnlar FweiLUR, Kodes, Wealing and Decay of th Body. Pjsiples aäff i Blotches, Tumori, Dyfperfia, Kidney ani

Consumption, Gravel and Calculous Dermits, and..

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varieties oi tue aoove com iiam tines ire given specious casies. e assert that there Is ne known reir adv that powocwea the curative power over thrno diseases -that Badway'a Besoivent fcrsishea. Itcresstep by Hep, surely, from tha fou-2latlon, and restore the Injured parts to the.'r svmd condltloru The wastes of the body are stop: and healthy blood is supplied to the system, iryr -which nerv material Is formed. This U tie C?st coirectlre power of Radway's Resolvent 11 those who are taking these edlcinos for the cure of chronic Scrofulous or SyphiUUc disease, however slow may be the enre, "feel better" and and their general healtli Improving, their Cesh and weight Increasing, or even keeping its own, it is a sure sign that tbc cere is progressing. In these diseases the patient eiiler gets better or worse the virus of the disease is not inactive: U not arrested and driven from tho blood If will spread and continue to undermine the constitu tion. Ai soon as ice turaobnuiaa mates tna patient "feel better," every hour you will rrovr better, and Increase In hetuth. slrenzth and fieth OVARIAN 07X130X18. The removal or these tumors by EadwayfResolvent Is now bo cortanny established that' what was once considered alznoat miraculous fj now a common recocnlzod far.t by all parties. Witness the cases of Hannah P. XLnapp.Mrm. G, Krapf, Mrs. J. 11. Jolly and Mrs. P. D. Hendrlx. published In our Almanac or 1S73; also, that of Un. C 8. Bibblns, Li the present edition of oaj raise and True." One bottle contains more cf tbe active rrtad ploa of Medicines than any ether preparation, Tstken in Teaspoon ful does, while others rcqnlrt nve or six times aa muco. One Dollar Ter Bottle. B. D7S2NTZRY, DIAKRHEA, CHOLERA IfOÄBra. 1 EX Kl A1.D AG TJX CJBEJ) AND rKTVEXTEn 3T Radwas Ready Relict RHUUMATISlf, KZÜRALGIA, DIPHTE33IA, SO EE THROAT, DIFFICULT E2LSATHIN9 EZUXTXD XH A TEW BY RADWAY'S BEADY BELIEF. BOWEL co?i?iAJnsrr& Looseness, Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus or pain fa discharres front the bowels are b topped In fifteen or twenty minute by taking fcadway'i Keady Relief. No congestion or InCann&ation ; no weakness or lassitude will follow the use of the XL B Bella ACHES AJST PAINS. For Ile&dache, whether sick or nervous, ftervovsness and Sleeplessness ; rheumatism, lumbago, pains and weakness In the back, spine or kidneys, pains around the liver, pleurisy, welling of the Joints, pain In the bowels, heartburn and pains of sil kinds, Radway's Beady Relief will afford lng meaiase ease, ana its ooacuMa use ror a xew aays erect a peimaaent cure. Price, Fifty Sscts, TJ A Ttt-,7 A U"a Ferteci Fnrcatlves, Ccctbtafl A?er!eat Act WitiOTt Pain, Always P.8Hab!eQd itetir&l la Ttiolr&ftratloa. A Vegetable SibstlUte for CaloaeL FesSsetly tast&lem. elcgaotly coated ttIUi twea ram. puree. reriüMe, purify, Ctcaüsa anc strengthen. RadwtysPiDi for the cure of all 01 ordra of the stomach, liver, bowf is, kidneys bladder, nervous uifctsasvAy headache, consUpaUcn eos'iveness. Indigestion, dyspepsia, biliousness lever, inflammation of tho bow els, piles and fZl ds raiigomenta of the internal viscera, Warran Kxl4 effect a cure. Purely vugetabie, containlagt mercury, mincal or öeleterious d"sgs. Observe the fallowing symptoms- resulting trot, öaGases of the Digestive Organs. Constipation, Inward piles, fullness of Wood the hend, aciiiity of the stomaci, nausc, heas bum, disgust of foed, fullness c weight lnt M 6ttimach, sour eructations, hlnktag or fluttering the heart ckokinx or suffering sonsattons when . a lying posture, dimness of vision, dots or weV before tho sight, fever and dull pain la the he t UCuUit'UVJ VA V IJ'UftWVU, j WW v, is js V Ba f and eyes, pain In the side, chert, Ursba, tü. J sua. den flushes ol heat burning in tho-ffoa. A few doses ol Kadway' Pills wül fre-e tha m teri from all the above nase ddisoidcrs. Frlce, 25 csets per Bax. Sold by Prugg'tEU. B&ad "FALSE AKD TRUE. Send a letiersUmp to kau wax a uo., no. 3 Warren, core er Chunm street, New York. information worth thousands will be sent 1 TO THE PUBLIC : There can be no better rannte of the v Irlue Dt. Radway's old established R. R. Kciaedlca thi tha base aud worthless Imitations of ticmoLS th are Faice Resolvents, Relief and 1111s. Sesure si ask for Radway's, and see that the name "R4 way" la on wlt you cuy,

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