Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1882 — Page 2

CTE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1882.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24. THKlndiwapcHs Se.itinel, Evansville Courier ad other !tmcratic pipers ae opp'weu u people voting on the queien ol prohibition ana woman in tirade, and urge that tne State Demo cratic platfjrm so declire. New Albany Press. We are not opposed to the people voting cn the questions referred tx On the contrary. we are in favor of their voting on these questions at the earliest moment prac ticable and settle them. Next November is the earliest, and there is plenty of time to give them a full discussion. The Republican organs in this city and throughout this Congressional District will not discuss in a manly and genteel manner the points at issue in the approaching can vass. Thev have abandoned issues and gone into personalities and mean, quibbHng inn endces. As Myron W. Reed said in a recent sermon, the nartrhaano principles; it is simply after the offices. Even the cohesive power of public plunder does not work wiih its accustomed smoothness, and so they are quarreling among themselves and lying about their opponents. Dos Cameeos. who bosses the Stalwar wring of the Republican party in Pennsyl vania. in a recent address to his clan In Convention said: "I would vote for an ox if he were the nominee of my party." Sev eral asses had been nominated, and Don's attention having been called to the fact, he at once silenced the braying by saying: ' would vote for an ox or an ass, dog or halfbreed, if either were the nominee of my party." This sounded like compromise, but the Stalwart oxen and asses bore off all the prizes of that Convention. It is now stated that Guiteaa will hold no more levees In the Washington Jail. From 100 to 150 visitors have been daily admitted to Guiteaa's parlors, the levee business becoming so much a feature of Guiteau's prison life that Senator Ilawley introduced a resolution instructing the Senate Committee of the District of Columbia to inquire into the management of the Washington Jail. The fact that the festivities at the Jail, upon a scale almost equal to those at the White House, was continually eliciting remarks anything but complimentary to the Republican party accounts for Senator Ilawley's resolution. AMENDING TBK CONSTITUTION. To change the fundamental law of a great commonwealth is always regarded as a serious matte by thoughtful people but when the proposition to change the Constitution imperils rights hitherto unquestioned, interest hitherto protected and guaranteed, and business enterprises long established and prosperous, the importance of investigation and discussion is self-evident. At the start the question arises, and its commanding in its prominence, Dj the people want such an amendment to the Constitution? A Republican Legislature, without instuction from the people, has made it necessary for the people to answer that question. An election occurs in November. A Legislature is to be elected. It is the right and the duty of the people to make known to their representatives their will upon a subject which citizens of all parties admit is of vital consequence. Ii the people elect representatives who are in favor of amending the Constitution, legislation in that direction will proceed. If representatives are elected who are opposed to amending the Constitution the whole matter will be set at rest, and it will be done by the peonle at the ballot-box. The sooner the question is settled the better it will be for the State, and since a Republican Legislature has thrust the issue into the campaign, the Democratic party is anxious that the people shall "vote upon it as often as opportunity offers. The Democratic party has honest convictions. It is ready to declare them, and instead of seeking to debar the people from expressing their will, it boldly asserts ' the right of the people to be heard, accepts ' the issue made by the Republican Legislature, and urges the people to pass upon it. j The Democratic paty is loyal to the will of i the people. If, with all the facts before ; them, the people of Indiana dec'a-e for ! prohibition, that settles it Mi a wh le, the ; Democratic prty, upon questiot s nvolving rights and interes-ts of unquestioned importance. demands the m st thorough and thoughtful investigation and the presentation of all the facts bearing the subject. clear upon THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. By a vote of the Democratic Central Committee, in sessi;i yesterday at the Grand Hotel, the De.uocratic State Convention will be held in Eaglish's Opera House, in Indianapolis, on Wednesday, August 2. The mee.ing of the Coniiuittee'was entirely harmonious, the following members being present: J. B. Bmis, O. Ol Steatey, W. II. D. Hunter, William C. Furry, J. M. Cropsey, Ben Havens (for J. Jump), A. B. Titzer, A. B. Crampt ju, W. J. Hilligass, C. A. Munson, H. II. Francis. W. II. English, Chairman, and James II. Rice, Secretary. There were also in attendance a number of distinguished Democrats f om various portions of the titate Hons. T. A. Hendrick, Franklin Landers, David Turpie, John S Wil.iams, Isaac P. Gray, William Fleniirg, Juhu B. ßtoll. V. It. Meyers, John,E. Lamb, A. Stidensticker, B. Schwitze, M. V. B. Spencer, A. J. Kelly, J. J. Coorer, 8 P. ßheeiin, T. B. Burns, W. II. Jack, Dan F. Mustard, Frank Trissell, Colonel Farrar, Piatt J. Wi-e, Crawford Fairbanks, J. M ßankey, S. R. Hamell, William Cooper, Willis G. Neff, A. B. Compton, Josiah Gwin, William Peck, Dr. A. M. Vickery, J. II. Drake, R. H. Hunt, B. & Sutton, Dr. Van Valzih, Chester A. Faulkner, A. . Howard. Captain John W. Dodd, Pre f .sor Smart and others. A number of ring'n speeches were made, tb drift of the arguments being tLat the Democratic party should insist upon a slurp, incisive, aggressive campaign. The central idea was that the Republican party has forced upon the State an Issue which the Democratic party will not dodge. No action was taken up jn ihe question jof prohibition, but the sentinunt was tbat the Democratic party is nncomprnmis;ngly opposed to that fanatical idea, tnd will vote against it But above all an 1 over all, the idea was expressed ibstthe people should decide the jutstion,

and that ii should be submitted to them

as early and often as circumstances will admit. The purpose of the Democratic party is to submit the question to the peo ple in November and ascertain their wil upon the subject of changing the funda mental law of the State. The Committee adjourned to meet June 29, at which time the Democratic Editorial Convention also meets in this city. PENSIONEBS AND POLITICS. Colonel W. W. Dudley. Commissioner of Tensions and late United States Marshal of Indiana, is doing just what every one who knows him expected he would do, and that is to degrade Uie Bureau of which he has charge to the level of a mud machine for the purpose of perpetuating Republican rule in Indiana and elsewhere throughout the country. The object which Commissioner Dudley now has in view is to utilize his nowpr aa Commissioner of Tensions as to make the Tension Bureau potential in influencing the soldier element in Indiana to vote the Republican ticket, and it is said if the Republicans do not carry Indiana in November next 'it will not be because Colonel Dudley has not used the do wer of the Tension Bureau to that end." It is w-ll known that Colonel Dudleyis an unscrupulous partisan, and that in the last campaign he trained with ex Senator Dorsey, the Star Route thief, who is now billed for the Tenitentiary, and with Joe Gray, the erudite Trofessor of the sei ence of "double tickets." Colonel Dudley, it appears, became exceedingly excited be cause the Uincinnati inquirer puDiisneu the list of a few pensioners whose claims had been attended "to by Senator VOornees a mere incident. Laving no relation whatever to the scope of the distinguished Senator's labors in behalf of Indiana soldiers. But Commissioner Dudley, it is said, "either wrote or had written a statement which was published in nearly every Republican County paper in Indiana last week, to the effect that the numerous claims presented and obtained by Senator Voorhees did not constitute a drop in the bucket when compared with those obtained by Ben Harrison and other Republican Congressmen from Indiana. It is supposed that Dudley has manifold copies made of the article, and had a copy sent to every Republican paper in the State, Whether he did or did not, it is a significant coincidence that the article ap peared last week in those papers word for Word, and in some cases under the same heading; ' and it is lunner charged that 'as soon as Dudley runs across a claim wtilcn nas Deen niea Dy a Democrat he holds it back until he can send for or see a Republican member from the same State, and advise him of the fact that a pension for John Smith, with a large amount of arrears, is about to be allowed, thereby giving the Republican member a day or two previous notice, so that he can notify the beneficiary in advance of the Democratic member in language about as follows: " 'In looking after peusion claims at the Depart ment 1 cima across yours, and took the liberty of iaterestiag myself in your behalf to urge it alonp, and am now happy to luform you that it has been allowed.' That there may be no mistake about thh we are permuted to publish the following etter, which fully establishes the correctness of the charge made against Commissioner Dudley: Attica, Ind.. May 12. 182 Hon. D. W. Voorhees: Dear Sir I feel that I am under lasting obliga ions to you lor your vigilance and personal alte tion in my p?ntlm ewe in forwarding it to a final ultamatum. You will therefore permit meto thank you for your Liudue-s and-,rcpect. Shouid it ever be in my Dower I shall take gieat pleamire in manifestlig my fidelity by reciprocating the favor. R-petfuNTi P. S. I received the first notice of the granting of my pension throneh the hands of a Republican Congressman, elating that in looking af er pension claim at the Department, I came across yours, and took the liberty of interesting myself iu your behalf t urge it along, and am now happy to inform you that it has been allowed. The receipt of his letter was the first intimation I had of his taking any interest in the case. We invite special attention to the T. S. of the Attica letter. It lets the cat out of the bag, and discloses Dudley's duplicity effec tually. The Journal of this city some days since, realizing the fact that Democrats were doing more for nsioners than Republicans, published a Washington special glorifying Senator Harrison and other Republican rep resentatives in Congress, for the purpose uf stigmatizing Democrats, particularly Sen ator Voorhees. Bat the people of Indiana are not easily fooled. The soldiers of I diana know that in Senator Voorhees they have a friend watchful of their interests and ready to advance their welfare. Just now Commissioner Dudley is asking Con press to give him several hundred more clerks. The pnrposa is to enlarge the ca pacity of the Tension Bureau as a political machine, especially f r carrying Indiana at the next election, and it will be well for Democrats in Congress to watch with un tiring vigllanc LH maneuvers. THE DEPARTMENT .OF AORICUL TUBE. The indications now are that the Cabinet of the President of the United States is to have added to it a Secretary of Agriculture. This new Cabinet official is to be a practical agr cultarfct a farmer in the true sense of the term. The Department will have three Bureaus to start with the Bureau of Agri cultural Products, the Bureau of Animal Industry sntj the Bureau of Lands and S-atistics. The Bureau of Agricultural Pro ducts will include botany, chemistry and entomology, the latter being that part of sooh.gy which treats of insects. The BureJU Of Animal Industry will be in charge of a veterinary surgeon, and will devote its atten tion to matters relating to domestic animals, their number, condition and value, and will also pay special attention to the diseases of animals and the improvement of breeds. The Bureau of Lands and Statistics will at tend toad matters relating to laadj, their soil?, their suitability for certain crops. stock raising, etc; as also the collection of labor and agricultural statistics, crop renorts, etc, and it will also report upon mat ters relating to forestry, the timber supply, and the means of preserving the forests o the country. We predict for the Deportment of Agriculture great pop nlarity, if prudently conducted: We like it,becau5e in some sense it dignifies agriculture. The departments of the Government, as they now exist, are schools for the cultivation of disguiting snobbery, particularly the War, Navy and ßtaie Departments. Tin Agricultural Department ought tab' Democratic. It will represent the greatest and grandest interests of the

country. We have Government schools to

manufacture military and naval officers, and the moment these fledglings leave their nests tbev assume aristocratic airs, and de port themselves as a superior race of human beings, and there are always fools enough hanging round to aid them in their effbrU at self-exaltation. Congress bv creating a Department of Agriculture places that interest on a level with the Army and the Navy. The farm has a representative at the Council Board of the Government When the Secretary of War refers to the crop of Indian wars, the Secretary of Agri culture may prudently speak of the crop of Indian corn. When the Jack-tar Secretary of the Navy calls the attention of the President to the worn out condition of his shins the Secretary of Agriculture can press home th argument that unless something is done to preserve the forests of America ship build ing will cease. ' if the right sort of a man is selected by the President for Secretary of Agriculture a ;d money enough is appropri ated to obtain correct information and pub lish it in a form that it can reach th9 farm ers of America, agriculture will be indefi nitely benefited. By all means let us have the Department of Acricultare. Tuk Chicago Tribune is anxious to show that somebody conspired to ruin Blaine, and for that purpose his guano diplomacy was investigated. The Tribune says that "the Shepherd scheme was recognized from the start as a wild, harum-scarum affair. which as not worthy of Congressional attention, but it was hoped that it would lead to some, information that would warrant censure of Blaine's foreign policy, if not an aspersion of his personal motives." It must be confessed, if the purpose of the investi gation was to crush Blaine, those who trot it up have reason for the most pronounced gratulation, for Blaine is now as politically dead as he will be a thousand years hence. He is embalmed in guano. Tbk vote in the House of Representatives on the Tariff Commisiion bill was 151 yea to S3 nays, as follow: Yea. Kay. ,s 7li 1 0 Republicans .S 117 Democrais .. 27 Green barkers. 6 ludepeudeuta 1 Total 161 8T) ...50 Absent or paired The men who voted for the bill confessed themselves incapable of mastering tarifi questions, and turned the whole business over to an irresponsible Commission. ccftaesr Niirm. Senator Browx, of Georgia, ha so far recov ered his health as to be able to attend to bis usual duties, and he promises tu occupy his Senatorial chair again this week. Mancep.o, the famous Mexican brigand, was found with twenty-six bullets in his carcass. He probably blundered upon sjma Kentucky gentleman traveling in Mexlca. Boston Post. Hiss Annie Locisk Cary will re tre from the tage next month. She doesn't wait, as some popular niasers do, till her voice sounds like a cracked fog-horn, but leaves her audiences with memories that can not fail to be naturally pleasant on both bides of the foot-lishts. Union-Argus. Ernst IIaeckle, Germany's great disciple of Dar tu, is now iu Egypt on his way home from Ceylou. During bis four mouths' stay in that LUnd his explorations were favored bf excep tionally fiae weather. The fauna of the island dil no', met his expectations, but of its flora he speaks only la terms of unqualified admiration and delight. To a ban Franci.co gentleman who is collecting autographs fr the beucSt of the troposed Union Veterans' Home in that city, Jeff.rson Davis wrote: "You were not mistaken in fuppof-ing I would sympathiz9 with an effort to provide fur veteran soldiers, who, having serced their country in its need, have ccme to need Uieir country's fcrvice." ArrERhis experience with tnem duriog his 'voyage of the Beagle," Darwin pronounced the PÄtagouians to be a race dtgraded below poscibilityof improvement. But thirty years later, ou learning of the changes wrought by English mLodouanes there, he frankly admitted his mis take and became a contributor to the funds of the South American Missionary Society. Madame Jaj acschek had a narrow escape in a urine at Leadville a few days ago. While descend ing the shaft th . car caught upon a projection, and the alarmed engineer, finding the ropes had Blackened, reversed his engine and brought the car t the surface.. It was found that the sidinx of the shaft had given way, and that if the car had not been stopped by one of the lallen timbers its occupants must have been killed by falling debris Bishop Green, of Mississippi, who has been presiding over a council of the Episcopal Church at Vicksburg, is eighty-four years old and has been a preacher for sixty-two year. He is now, and has been f r thirteen years past, the Chan cellor of the Vniverslty of the South, and is the sole survivor of the ten Southern Bishops wh founded that institution la 1300. His manlal faculties are 6 till lemarkably vigorous for oue of hit age. A French collector of bric-a-brac recently In a Rouen curiosity shop, stumbled upon two autographs of the First Napoleon. They arc- inclosed la an oral medallion of black wood, and read as follows: "Relic Private letter from Napoleon to Prince Eugene. Brought from St. Helena by Dr. O'Mcara in the sole of his shoe. Should he see my good LouUe. I beg she will permit him to kiss her hand. The 26th July, 1818. Napoleon." And oa the other tide: hope that Lascasea will see that this obligation is repaid la some way or another. 5th January, 1S18. Napoleon. Lord Frederick Cavendish left ao children Ills wife, a charming woman, baa two fristers liv ing, one married to Mr. Talbott, member for th Unlveish; of Oxford, the other to his brotbe Warden of Keble College. Oxford. Lady Fred erlck's grandmother, the Dowager Lad . Lyi tieton. Queen Vicoria's governess, was slste to Earl Spencer's father. Lady F. Cavendish has bad more than one hock of late years. Her father, whote mind of late years give way, threw blmelf over the banisters of his house and was killed, and it waa at a dinner prty at her house that the late Duchess of Argyll was Kizel with an nines whlcb in a few hours proved fatal. Besides Lord nartlngton, a bachelor, the Duke of Devonshire his only one on. Lord Frederick Cavendish's borne was almost opposite Mr. Gladstone's former a bole on Carlton House Terrace. Mme. Christisk Nilpsos made her first public appearance on Saturday. May 13, fince the death of her hnsband. The occasion waa an operatic concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, and thtre was a tremendous crowd present. It had been announced that he would be seen In costume In the garden tcene from "Fau&t;" but at the last moment she concluded that she could not appear in oostume so soon after M. Rouzaud'a de mise. 8o the scene was sung In evening dress, Mme. Nllsson appearlni in black silk, with a square neck and long sleeves. Ehe seemed rather paler than when I last saw her In Kew York, but somewhat stouter. The music of "Marguerite' sne rang as she had never before sung it in public. Her execution la, If possible, finer than it was when le was last heard In America, and on Saturday she seemed to have overcome for the time that coldnes which formerly characterized all her work. Those who have said she never was in such voice as at present are unquestionably igat.

DEMOCRATIC STATE L'OSVESUOX.

Call of the Central Committee Indianapolis, May IS, 1S32. The voters of Indiana, regardless of past political affiliations, who are desirous of cooperating with the Democracy in the support of its principles and nominees, are initevd to participate in the meetings called throughout the State for the purpose of selecting representatives to attend a Delepate Convention, to be held in the city of Indianapolis. Wednesday. Aujrust 2, 1S2, for the purpose ol adopting a platform of pnn ci pies and the nomination of candidates to be-supported for the following offices: Three Judges of the Snprerue Court, Secretary of state. Auditor of Mate. Treasurer of btate. Clerk of the Supreme Court, Attorney Gen eral. Superintendent of Public Instruction. The ratio of representation will be one delegate for each '200 votes cast for Hancock and hnglish, November, 1SS0, and one dele pate for each fraction of 100 or over, as fol lows:

at ii JO . II M . 1 a 5 a COUNTIES. Ä ! COCNTIES. J; tf Ä bbj Ä , Q O ; C o I 2 o e ; od I i Adams ) 2.226 11;; Madison I 3,72-2! I'J Allen 7.7l Xt I Marion ! tl.V2 67 liarthol'm'w 2.9 10 15 , Marshall . 2,k?m 1:5 Benton 1.272 lijMnrtiii . 1,621 ltlackford 1.021 5 . Miami 3,(V6 15 liooiie...... 2.742 14 Monroe l,CS2j S Brown- l.Wfi SiMontgorn'ry 3.40S 17 Carroll 2.21 5 11 . Morgan 2MW 10 Cms.. 3,57H IS! Newton- 677 3 Clarke 3,6?i; lav Noble- 2,H7Si 14 Clav 2.S'.':j 14 Ohio öss 3 Clinton 3,015 lM Orango 1.521 1 Crawford...- 1,; 7! Oweu 1.977: 10 Daviess 2 3S7! 1j Parke 17.V J Dearborn.. 3-1.M IS Perry l.sCTl 0 Decatur 2,2'dl 111 Pike l.ToOj 9 DeKalb 2,.S2j 13, Porter 1.57V h Delaware l.S26j 9 Ppsey 2.615 13 Dubois-. 2.4US, 12MPula.ski 1.M & Klkhart- 3.472; 17! Putnam 2.S50 14 Kayette l,zJ C i Randolph.... 05; 10 Floyd 3,160' ltR.i.ley . 2,47i: n Fountain..'.. 2.26l! Ill Rush 2,324. 12 Franklin 8.151I 16 Scott LH! C Fulton l.NU: 9 Slulbv 3,.VwJ IS (iilson 2.4771 12 Spencer 2,4r.j r tirant ! 2.37s 12 Starke 5r 3 tireene.- ! 2,24fi 11 St. Joseph... 3 6S2j IS Hamilton.... 2i:r.i leistenden 1.23! 6 Haurock I 2,27:f 111 Sullivan S,0U: l"v Harrison ! 2 41 12 Switzerland. 1,421 7 Hemlricks.-j l.Wi 1I Tippecanoe.. 3.82; 19 Henrv 2,0::i 10 ; Tipton l,fC6! Howard 1,7; 9, Union Mfi! 4 Huntington j 2.6A7 I t ; V .dei burg 4.41 22 l.-u-kson 3,i:is 16 ! Vermilion... 1,235 6 J:isper I M- 4 Vl2o 4,576 23 Jav.. I 2,161 11 HVrtbash 2.3!'.' 12 .letlerson ! 2.617! 13 Warren WU 5 Jennings 1.71Ü, f j Warrick 2,31 12 .Innnson 2,461 ! 12 iWa.sh'Kton... 2 4X) 12 Knox. 3 4131 17 W'avne- 3,325; 17 Kosciusko- 2.NS7 II Swells 2,:?., 12 Latrrangc .... l.:. 7 jWhite 15.l lke .. l.l'J 6 iWhiüey 2,i2i! 11 Laporte 3 kso 19 I Lawrence.... 1.7UÜ 9 1 Total 225.522 1.121 Xecessary to a choice .. 5CI

William II. English, Chairman. James II. Rice, Secretary. AN OLl I'lOXKKlt. 'Sketch of the Lifo of James .Johnson. Another old settler ot Indianaiolis and Marion County ha gone to that country from whore bourne no traveler ever returns. James Johnson departed this life on the night of May 1G, aged eighty 3-ears and eight diys. He was a native of Grayson County, Virginia, from whence he removed at an early age to Butler County, Ohio, and from there to tht3 city on the 11th of March, 1S23. His first residence was an old hewed log tjouse on the lot on Market street which afterward became the home of Harvey Date?. Mr. Johnson's own account of his expe rience in settling tnis country best illus trates the trials of the early fettlers. In a communication to "the Locomotive" in 1S57. aftr alluding to his first residence here, he says: "I then male Another whceloarrow t-ir t' au old frame on the corner of WahiiiEton and New Jersey streets. In this old snell I wintered aud erved a regular apprenticeship to the cMlu and fever, shaking boiueiimes three times a day and sometimes only once iu three days. I moved to ;a catm i imn cn tne farm (which was his home during his life, live mi es from the city on the Crawf.irdsviiln K wtd), mi the i 15 hof March. 1S21 without iu being chi ikedor daubed, or loft or tloor being iu it, having ody a door, but no th utter, ami fireplace cut out and built up ot wooa aa nign as the mantle log. In this situation I commenced tryiug to make a farm ague tili visiting me now and then 1 was there in the woods, and not very well situated, wi houtahorso or an thing of conM-qucnce. except a very good cow. with horns, and tdog which na-i a atsease called tne si'iea. lint I .ueeeeded trat spring in cleuring out about three acres of ground ad fenci'tg it. cutti tr and plltling the rails and carryiiiR them on my shoulder to make my fVnce, 1 got my corn planted on the l tn of Jane, 1824 I fcucceede t. with the help of a neighbor and his horse to do the plowing, in rMug a er p of fo ider and some sound orn. of which 1 ued a part for bread. In the me Mitime I had to carry my meal from Indianapolis ou my shoulder, having made a small crop of corn tne year bef.ire on the donation land, and what is now k"own as Ulackto d's addi'ion to I-.dianapo is. Whenever we wanted a print of meal I would go over to town, hell the corn and take it to old Mr. Ianc Wilson' mill on Fall Creek, pet D. gr und. shoulder it up and start for homo, wade White River, and make the tiip with about ot.e bubel of meal wtiich would generally last us about four weeks " And he adds: Iu the fall of the year 1821 my father died, and at the Rale of his personal proierty I bought a old horse at d bis hlckroiin tools. Being rather hanrty with tools, 1 soon 1 arued the blacksmiibitig business, o as to do the wo kf some of my neighbors; iu fict, I was not very par ticular whether it waa iron o- wood work they wanted, I could turn my hand to anything I did dresi out the eons, rnnd thn locks, fchoe the horw8, thurpen the pb-ws, repair the old wtrong, and make and mand Kboes lor the neighbor, and no in this way I have been able to get a'ong a part of my time, always ready to tnke hold of any work that was pr per to be done, and If I Could not get the largest price for my woik I would take what I could get." Mr. Johnson concludes this sketch of his own life and experience wi y a sentiment and rule that ever governed bim, which was not onlv ttie secret of tlu success winch fol lowed, but which Miould have universal application. He says: "I have made It a rule aevfrto be idle mre than I could help, believiug that is waa better to have a small Income than tobe spondiig what I had made, waiting for a speculation.. In fact, I think there is nothing hat wid hein a man along in the world better than to be alway employed no matter w hat the piy Is, be at work." And following this rule Mr. Johnson accumulated a Ur fortune. For fifty years Mr. Johnson has been Identified with the propre.-s and prosjx-rity of the ci y and count . For eleven years he wasa Justice ot the Peace for Wayne Township, when the Magistrates of the peveral Townships were a Hard to transact the busincs of the County. When Hon. Jese l. Bright wa United States Marshal for Ind - ana Mr. Johnson wa hi principal deputy. And he represented this County in the Legislature two sessions, in the ycara 1S33 and 183a. Mr. Johnson was in clligent and d;cidd in bia convictions upon ab questions of public policy, and durin his lang life was tdeatified with the Democratic party. He was a man of strict probity in all hi business and social relations, faithful to every trust confided to bim. His home interests and Association were ever foremost in his thoughts and anxieties. He was a kind, indulgent a"d devoted husband and father, a g-od neighbor and valuable citizen. During a long sickness, when life was gradually but surely waiting away, he was patient and ever thoughtful and considerate for the children who waited upon and watched over him with filial affection. He looked upon his end profonndlv, and sank genlly to his eternal rest. He leaves six children, Mrs.

W. C. Holmes. Mrs. W. It. HogsTiire, and four eons. John, James, Jesse and Isaac, The funeral services will take plac at his former home on the 19th inst., Kev. Mr. Taylor, of SL Paul's Church, officiating. Death of William H. Churchman. Our readers will be startled this morning to learn that Mr. William II. Chtirchman, brother of the well-known banker, Francis M. Churchman, Esq., dropped dead last night at 10 o'clock, at the residence of the Utter, situated on the well-known Beech Grove farm. Bix miles sou.heast of the city. The cause of his sudden death

was rupture of the heart. Mr. Church man was well known in this city, and, indeed, throughout the State, having been for many years the efiicient Superintendent of the State Institute for the lUind, located in this city. Previous to his taking charge of the Asv I am here he had been at various periods of bis life Superintendent of fcimilar institu tions in other States. He was barn in Balti more, Md., ia 1818. As a pupil of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind he acquired a good mathematical education and also attained proficiency iu music. In 1S40 he became an assistant teacher of music and other branches in the Ohio Institution for the Blind at Columbu.. In 1S14 he was appointea rnncipai of the Ieni.es-ee Institu tion for the Blind. He resigned after two years' service in consequence of ill health. and in 1&17 was chosen Superintendent of tue Indiana Institution, over which lie pre sided until Iao3. Ihe ensuing yea: lie established a young ladie seminary at Laporte. Ind., which after a little more than a year of successful progress was broken up by the destruction of the buil lings by fire. He then moved to Janesville, Wis., and took charge of the Institute lor the Blind of that State. Some years later he was recalled to the Snjerintendercy of the Asylum in this city. He resigned the position about three yeärssince. Although nature had deprived Mr. Churchman of eye-sight, yet he made abundant conpensation in other directions. He was a gentleman of large abilities and varied attainments. Large hearted, kind and gentlemanly in his demeanor, he was very popular and much beloved among those who. enjoyed his acquaintance atd knew him Lest. His knowlrdge of men and books was extensive, and to this he added rare conversational powers. Of the Feveral gentlemen who have superintended our rotate Institution since its foundation Mr. Churchman was among the best. Being blind himself he had the sympathetic heart for those similarly aöected. At the tame time the atllicion did not intcrfeie with the energetic and successful management of the duties and atl'airs of the position. OPINIONS OF THE STATIC PliKSS. . The Kushville Jacksonian says: . vv'e suppose that no trick or fraud that the Ee publican party ever at'empted to play on the peo pie lias been tnorouuniy exposed, and so l:ijurlotiMj" turned npon its projectors, as the trick iimtailed In the proposition to keep the nrohioi. ion and female mi IT. ao ameudraent.tout of politics have understood that the next Legislature should Kree to them so At to give the people a chauce to voteon them. lht was a menu peh me, and would have been very f rtuiate for the Republi can party if it had been successful II. it beusiole men could not tee way trey suou.d ignore two of these most important questions beiore thei, and the trict dil not work. The Jacksonian also tay.: At the election in ISfeO, tho Republican party succeeded in this Sta'o mainly by the use of money. Thousand of I'.t'i u'oli' wi s were indiffer ent aud had to be paid for voMnp. Indeed ihe had been bought for yecrs. aud bad come to the conclusion that they would not vote without notey. Mariy persons, who if not induced by b iocs would have voted the Democratic ticket, for money voted the Republican ticket. Ail lhe.-e persoi.R have bcn educated to vote for mou: and if Republicans cn not furnish the money. they win either not v te at all. or vole the Demo cratic ticket. Money will not be to plenty this fll, there being no President, advemor. etc., to elect. Tne Government 1 rtasury will not shell out as it did two years ago The honest Republi cans are KCt ing tired and lck of this wicked use of Money at elections. They wont s'and ii much loiiBtr. Abeiterday sms to be da wnlug. which weaasDemociatiesuc-. The Michigan City Dispatch says: There Is a treat difference jnst now apparent be tween the Columns of the sentinel and the Jour al of Indianapolis; the former is chocks lull of extracts f n m that paper and thi correspondent, all buidened with one refrain the virtues of mme (avorite candidate. The Journal, on ibe other hand, has little or nothing to siy in favor of any distinguished member of its party w ho may have official aspirations. It may be justly assumed that the mental activity prevadiiiK the country editor and thecouuiry correspondent, whose ar ticles take up so mum space in tne bi-nuuel is ine result of conviction that tne Democratic party has something more than a fighting 'how for victory iu N'oTemher, and it may a. so be Inferred that tne Couuty Districts are iuieut ou haviuga show in niaki. c the ticket thai they will be expected to vote for. Whether the ouietud reit; .in in the columns of th Journal indicates fear, or a Uesire to exclude public opinion from expression on the matter of candi iate's, or wnetner it Is merely the result of Republican apathy, we do not care to consider at presuiit. In States, ae in the Federal Union ot state', loc il prt.lj an 1 local lutarests have always f be c insulted lu th- maintenance of a harmonious development of a central idea. The New Albany Press says: There Is being waned a bitter warfare In the District composed of the Counties of C awf-rd, Harrison and Orange fur the nomination for Sen ator. The candidates are U ni. Johu Bei z, d Craaford: Hon. W II II Hudson und lion. V. N. Iracewell t,f Harrison A HarrUo'i Count. Democrat seuds the Public Press the follow!:)); as the delegate vote iu that O mnty for Senator : benz. 4S; Hudson. 3. Tracewell. U. The Public Pres n gr ts that harmony d es no" prevail I i d I lfarrisou. but does not propose to mix In the fight. William Heilmau is to be the Republican candidate for ic-elcciio - from the Kvaiisville Distric. tola year. Can not a Democrat tx fouuu to oeleat him? Tue Pemocracy of Indiana will be most Htely to gain to Congressmen over the present delesa i luii. lion. William R English i almost certain to be elected in tne lndiauvpolis D. strict, now represented by IVelle, Kepub.ican. The Huntington Democrat says: Take the dog law. the decedents' estate act, the Mas er Commissioners' law. the Jury law, the law divulina the State into Precincts, and the law corai-elling tbe people to vaccinate, and you have a seties of laws that are unanimously condt med from Lak MicHjai to the Ohio li ver, and froin the OMo S ate line to lllitioia "Not very many of the men w ho gave us these will be returned attain by the pe pie. The Crawfordsville Review says: It Is nw prop -sed to Mahon'ze and Readjust Mississ ppi by renudlatine her S ate dtt. This is the work of thepartyof -'Kreat moral Ideas" which h-i Meiitiri-d Itself with tne Republ.ciiis. Crawfordsville. Review. THK sfATE. There will he a larger acrene of corn planted thi year than usual in this County. Petersburg!) Press. Abraham 'Levebatiirh, an old citizen of Washington, committed suicide Tuesday by hanging himself with a halter in his stable. Bill Arnold and Andrew Tucker, of Rubb County, have sued ihe Cincinnati Enquirer for $l,i)00 each, for libel, in connection tbeir names with Oscar Garrett and bis confederates. The City Council of Seymour hai passed an ordinance for the purchase, for 2.500. of six and one-half acre-ioi fine woodland ad jaeent to that citv, which "is to be convened into a public park. Evansville is now connected by telephone wiih over thirty towns in Indiat a, Kentucky and' Illinois. .Two new points, Troy and Tell City, were added last Monday, and the connection with Canndton has been established since. Snakes and things are becoming common in this section. Last Sunday a man at Richmond ran into a 'may meeting of snakes at Thistle waites pond and killed twenty-seven of them with a club. On last Friday Dan Port reports having found the woxJs between Dublin and Bentonvilie thickly strewn with fish from one t two inches in length. Tbe tiah were exhibited and looked like shiners with bit' head 4. The supposition is that they fell from the clouds. Tnis theory is possibly a good one, as the writer of this distinctly re-

members having seen thousands of little frogs in the Court House yard and streets of a town in Illinois, wben he was a boy. appearing just after a storm.Cambridge Citizen. Professor Morton and John Masters, of Brookville, attempted to cross Duck Creek at Metamer. They missed the ford, the horse mired In the quicksand, Masters got out of the bnggy to assist the horse, when the horse fell on him and fie was nearly drowned before he was rescued. The hore w.i8 drowned and the buggy badly damaged. Connersville Examiner. The carious specimen of fish taken from the Wabash River a few days ago and presented to Major McFadden has been on exhibition at the Hieh School fcr a few days and has attracted much attention. The fish is a native oi large rivers, and it is supposed to have worked its way from the Mississippi River up to thi place. The common name of this fish is shovel-nosed sturgeon, and indicates the striking feature of the lish, as also does the binomial scientific name, Scaphiry nchops platyrhyncbus, which this fish unwittingly' tports, and which, rendered in English, means, literally, "the broad-nosed, shovel-nosed." The whole body of this fish is rough with small prickles; there are five rows of body shields running from head to tail. The dorsal and anal fins are set back near the tail; the mouth is fucker-like, toothless and with protusible lips, and is set four inches back from the end of Ihe snout. As in other

sturgeons, there are four long barbels or feelers in front of the mouth, f.tting it, as does its en'ire structure, for a groveling life on tne bottoms of rivers and lakes. Logansport Journal. CHINESE DROWNED. A Barge Containing Thirty-six Coolies Cap sized and All Are Reported Drowned Mutiny Among 80O on Board the Steamer. fcAir 1" BAJicisco, May 16. A report has just been received at the Coroner's office from Macondray & Co., consignees of the steamer Altenower, now lying in quarantine with Chinese passengers, that a barge containing thirty-six Chinamen taken with th smallpox, destined for the Test House, capsized and all were drowned. Another report is that only a portion of tbose in the barge were lost and that a serious mutiny has broken out among the 800 Chinese remaining on the steamer. Nothing definite ha 3 yet been a'certained. Nothing definite, is yet obtairable regarding the Altenower affair at the Health OfEc. It is stated two boats .were in ow of the Launch. One caps-zed and about twenty lives were lost A notber report brings the number down to six or seven. The Chief of Police has ordered a squad of officers to tbe ship to assist in maintaining order. The information is that the Chinese, excited by the loss of iheir countrymen, refuse to longer submit to any discipline, but are not reported as dangerous. San Francisco, May lß. Further reports from the steamer Altenower show that all ihe Chinese up-et in the bitrge were caved with one exception, and taken to the Pest House Those remaining on b iard assaulted the ship's doctor, who took refuge below. The Chinese had control of the (-hip for awhile, but the arrival of the quarantine officers and a demonstration by the harbor ttolice restored com para; ive order, though the coolies are ttill in a bad humor and refuse to allow the doctors to go among them to look for infected persons. Killed by m Drunken Relative. Xewcomebstowk. Ohio, ' Mav IS. A slocking saloon murder ccurren at Dtnnison. a few miles east of here, last inirht. which Las caused the most inte .se xcit inent Mr. and Mrs. John R 'Mn-on, keepr of a saloon in Dennison. and Mr. Stete Ryan, -urs. Koomson s brotber-ns-law, came in with a friend named S'crling and demanded whisky. The demand notbeitg complied with, Ryan then called for b-er. and after drinking a glass began to abuse Mrs. Robinson and drew his revolver to shoot. Mrs. ' VT, ' f " ,7' C TT i ' tteized the revolver and U.ok it from Rj an, w uf rruiu nr. liiiunnieu oy urina, ueait tier a terrible blow, and at the same time knocked the counter over acait.st her. crush ing her against the wall. Ryan then left. and Mrs. Robinson sat down in a chair, and began to spit, bin id. Sbe told her husband to have Ryan arrested, for she was going to die, and scarcely had she uttered the last word of the sentence, when she dropped to the fi or a corpse. As soon as the news spread through the town that she had bten killed, the greatest excitement prevailed. and Rvan was immediately am-sted. He remarked when he heard of hfr death, that he waa glad of it, f i rvv eure. Formt-rV it stitui St. LortP, Mav 18 h F. m r' Insti tute meetio' of th . entJ n . Congres sional Di''ict of Iiiin-, held under the au pice- of the r-tate B iar.. of Aerie llmre, which l as be n in sessi m ; t Bellevi le the p st tw ua s, a'l'-pieii a seri s of res i.uiions indorsing the proj-c s lor the improvement of the Mississippi ßver, the c instruction of thellennepin Ca-ial and t e water course across ihe Isthmus of FloriJa. as of great commercial importance, granting high praise to Captain James B, Eids, but expressing the belief that his plans will not alone accomplish the en i desired, and thref.jrc cs?k that the plans of Captain tiwdeti and others receivecareWl afeniion, he.irtily indorsing the tecent action of Congress in making a partial appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi River, and expressing the opinson this improvement will result in great benefit to both pr 1 ucer and consumer everywhere and add greatly to the development of the resources of the Nation. IHstrenRiujf Accident. Newcomkkstown, O., May 18. The people of this plac were ' wrought up to a high fitch of excitement by the drowning of ?aac Gariitier ami three of his daughters in the Tuscarawas River, two miles west of Port Washington, at Hill's Ford. The man efempted to ford the river, which is pretty high. There were seven persons in the wagon the father, two sons and four da ghters. The two b ys &waru out, and rescued one of tho girls by means of a fckifl. O'ie of the liores was drowned. None of ihe bodns are yet rcoverd. Shot Head. Memphis, May 18 Lvi Preston, a farmer living eight miles below Memphis, was shot dead last night by an unknown party. Suspicion points to a man named ClarK as the a-sassin. Clark and Preston had a fight at a grocery store near the M-cue of the murder earl v in the evening. Clark left for home at Ü o'clock and Preston remained until 9, and was biiot while riding aluiij,' the road toward lii.s residence. The report of a gun was hrard by several parties who were at the grocery The murder is being investigated. Ucniarkabla Care. CnWTTANOORA, Mav IS. A man named J. IS. Dutton, whj ha3 been deaf and dumb for Mxtf-en y-art". was on the steamer Wilder asleep in his brth a few dajs 8go wben it struck a sna'. an J ho vras thrown out. He was overcome wiih fright and became sick, and in a few days bia tech and bearing were cntirelv retired, lie lost them by disease. Shan't X tako a Blue rill? No. don't take it and run the risk of mer curial poisons, but when bilious and a nstipiteJ get a package of the celebrated Kid-ney-Wort. and it will speedily cure you. It is nature's great remedy for constrp.it ion. and for all kidney and liver diseases. It acts promptly on these great organs and so restores health, strength and vigor. It is pnt up in liquid and dry form, both acting with equal efficiency. Price, $1. See advertisement.

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DISEASES CT&X9 Vt Radway's Sarsaparillian ResolTcnt Chronic Skin Diseases, tmrles of the Bone, Hb mors in the Blood, Scrofulous Diseases, Bad or Unnatural Uabit of Body, ShilU kidVenereS Fever Sores Chronic or Old fleers, Salt Rheum, AfTections, Cankers, Glandular Swellings, Nodes, I of the Body, Plmpies aP BlOtrheA. Tntnnn rmno!. vtl - .. -r.7 der Diseases, Chronic Rheumatism and Gout Consumption. Gravel and Calculous Depoidta. and varieties of the above complaints to which sometimes are given specious names. ZT Vi e assert that there is no known reaody fVi . possesses the curaUve power over these dlaeiüv that Radways Rosolvent furnishes. It cures sWo by step, surely, from the found ttion, and restores the injured parts to their son .id condition. The wastes of the body art stopped and healthy blood Is supplied to the system, from which new maft .J" ,OI7nSd- P11 ia the ßjst corrective power of Kadway'g Keeolvent. If those who are taking these medicines for tag cure of chronic, Scrofulous or Syphilitic disease. oweJr'low mT eure, ''feel better" and find their general beult improving, their fleab and weight increasinir, or even keeping lu own, it Is a sure sign that the cure Is progressing. I these disease the patient either gets better ot worsa the virus of the dioae is not inactive li aot arretted aud driven from the blood 11 will -presl and coiitinue to undermine the ocnstim uou. As soon as the Sarsf.palllaa makes tin patient "feel better,'1 every hour yon will grow better, and Increase in health, etrenffta and fleah OVA III AN TUMORS, . Too removal of rnsae tumors by Kadwayt acwol-rent la now ao certainly established that what was once considered almost miraculous Is now a common rocognixed fact by all partiei. Witness the cases of Hannah P. Knepp.llrs. C, Kr?r.fV J- u- JoUj and Mm. 5. DT fiendrlx! pn joshed In our Almanac for 1879; also, that oi' Mrs C. 8. Blbbics, In the present ediUoQ of Ota 'False and True." . One bottle con tains more of the active prtnd plus of liediciaea than any other preparation. Taken in Twpoocful doses, while cthen reariirti 1ve or dz timos sü much. Ono nollar Pr Bottle. l P u. iä lit DIARKiiA, CHULC&A ITOBBr, FiVZK AND AGUH Radway's Ready Relict initUMATK. KFÜ2ALG1A, DIPHTHiRIA, OIUS THROAT, DIFFICrLT BRXATSnJOatuasTzn a rxw Kiacra 3Y EADWAY'S READY BEUCljrV. nOWiL COMPLAINT81 Looseness, lXarrr.i., Chcltra Morbus or palnfa llBt.harges from the bowels are stopped In fitteeai r twenty minutes by taking Eadway's Raady Relief. No congeüon or inflammation ; no weaklew or laseiide will follow the use of the K. if teiief AGHEM Jk.TL I'AIIVS. 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