Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1883 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY t EBRUAltY 7, 1883.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBUARY 7. Niw York Citt pays $7,000,000 a year lor its religion and $22,000,000 for ita drinks. It te the Treasurer of Alabama this time. He haa skipped. The shortage is $227,000. Small prospect of a tariff reform which means small prospect for Republican suc cess in '84. Th defaulting Treasurer of Tennessee might skip out now and keep ahead $200,00. He is short nearly $300,000 and his bond is only $100,000. Os the 1st of March the charters of nearly 300 National Banks expire. Their capital mounts to $70 103,000, and their circula ion loots up $53 522.170. Maktlasd has introduced the whipping post for the benefit of wife-beaters. The first party to take advantage of the reform was a colored gentleman. Ah exchange, after a careful investigation of the subject, arrives at this conclusion "We have no Army to speak of, but can beat the world on a pension list. Pisdikq the decision as to what the course of the Republican party 6hall now be on the liquor question, it is understood the party leaders still take their drinks -without moral restraint Thi French Republic has rewarded the widow of General Chaczy not only with a good-sized pension, but has given her a arand bureau de tobae: that is to say Mrs. Chanzy will have the profits of a tobacco Bhop. It is possible that the archives of the Indianapolis Journal might contain a letter fiom Jeff Davis thanking that paper for editorials favorable to the Confederate cau3a, written about the beginning of the War. Who knows? Thzsz is a Long Island family endeavor ing to break a will worth $300,000 on the ground ot insanity. Oae of the proofs offered is that the lady who made the will al lowed her Sunday-school class to match pen nies during prayer time. Scotchmen are sooie what alarmed because, since 1S31, the population of the Highlands has decreased about one-half. "It is pretty certain, if Scotchmen abandon the Highlands, no other people in the world will occupy them, in which event the Dake of Argyle will find his income somewhat reduced. A RCPCBLICAN paper fays that "a tariff Bcrimmape" is impending in the Democratic party, and prophecies direful results. If the Republican rank and file ever do get their eyes open to the rasciHy tariff imposture of their leaders we prophesy that there will not be any Republican party one hoar afterward. That is the sort of a "scrimmage" impending in the "grand old party." A call is announced for a National Delepate Conference to be held in Chicago July 4, next, for the purposes of organizing a new political party "to espouse the cause of legitimate industry in the irrepressible conflict between monopolies and the people." The Democratic rarty already covers this same ground. Stand by the old party until Republicanism is routed. Hire is a strange case: A woman who has been in the Georgia Penitentiary eighteen years on a life sentence is to be released by Governor Aleck Stephens. He would pardon her if be knew what to pardon, but the fact ii that nobody knows what she is in there for. Tuere is no record of her misdeeds on the Prison register, and the woman herself does not know why she is imprisoned. NBW YORK PENITENTIARY IDYLS. The revelations made in New York City within the last few days, relating to the treatment of convicts in the Penitentiaries of that State, quite equal the tortures and helleries of anything we read of in the dark ages of the world's history. Considering the pretentions of the religious and social civilization of our time, this New York chapter outrivals Bastil9 experiences and the kindred devilsowns of earlier and crueler timea. The New York press make few comments upon these outrages. Perhaps if the conTicts were black and the Penitentiaries located in some Southern State, the smoke of its wrath would be dense and roll heavenward. Here is some sworn testimony. It is horrible: Vtichael Lawless, who wss sent up for twentyfive years lor burglary and aasault, attempted to escape, and w pedaled, placed In a cell and eft allied to the fl or for ten months, when he became a raying m i :ilc, arid wm sent to the Auburn Lunatic Asylum. There were twelve me a who were made i.'.wne by him liar barth punishment from Angu-t, 1873, to Frbruary. 18SU. The wlineaa bad seen nit: a killed by Imprisonment la waat is kuown as the screen'' cell. These cells were fitted with sides perforated with holes ooeeiühthor on9 sixteenth ol an lack la diameter, which were the only apertures for air and ltsht. The wttut-aa u MitthewO'Nell,.who resisted beliig pnt into the screen cell, shot In the presence of sevea keepers. He was a small man, witnout wMpoa,tid culd have bee-i eas'ly overpowered. Ha ia kilre jet. wttti a. ball In bis shoulder, lie and a man named Raas were the only mea wiornthe witter saw corae out of the screea celln without having been made insane. The principal kwper James Moon, saki that tome f the men should not set out of tne oree u cell alive. Taoiuait Hicis was kept eight month la one of the- M-reen ceils, chained to the fl or by a riurbolt, without any bedding. His iood was mainly bread and water. The "paddling" referred to consists in being striped of clothing and the body of the victim chained by outstretched arms to the eide of a loom with the feet confined by a chain and rings to the floor, and then a üeavy leathern thong or atrap applied to the bare back. A prisoner, one John Barrett, resisted it and he was shot dead. Another prisoner was confined for months in a stone dungeon, chained to a ring in the Goor, without any bedding. The keeper kindly allowed him a sprinkle of saw dust11 He finally became insane. A witness said: "Therj Is no natural death in the Prison; men are killed by overwork." In support of this statement Le qaUd the cases of Cornelius Lynch, William Anderson, Jarnes Macklnsm, Jo'm M ore, Junes Dj'an and William Chambers These mn, h ta'.d, were overworked and tick, and died for want of treatment. WII1 tax McNal'.y, who was a strong man when Adautte), raptured hituse'f in attempting to ; tio overwork, to get txtra pay, so that he Could enc sjmeihing to his family. William

Thompson, who was working in the shoe

shop, complained of being lick, was kept at work, had to be sent to the Hospital finally, and died in ax days. William Brandon, who compla ned of beinjr sick, was kept at work up to the last minute, and died five days after he was admitted to the Hospital. At this point the witness was Interrupted by Warden Brash, who exclaimed: "Let him go on, there can not be many more." The witness retorted: "That makes fortythree during your administration," and he then went on with the details of the terribla story, and gave the names of several other prisoners who had been driven to insanity by "paddling" and overwork. Arthur A. Hessler, who had been a convict In Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton Prisons, read a description of ill treatment and torture that he said were visited on him in Clinton Prison, chiefly by Keeper Haggerty, who paddled him, starved him, put him in the dirk dungeon, took away his shoulder brace and cane so that he was unable to walk, and compelled him to eat rats and mice for the diversion of the keepers. Another testified that the impression was that all the old cows that died in West chester County were bought for Sing Sing Prison. lie heard the chief cook ordered to take meat out of the swill barrel and keep it to be served the next morning. When Myers hanged himself and the fact was com municated to Hall Keeper Scripture, he said, 'Let him hang and be Myers was left hanging while the men -were taken from their cell, although life was not ex tinct" Jules Columbian testified that two prisoners received 315 blows each with'the pad dle." If these cruelties had been perpetrated anywhere ehe in the country some of the New York papers would have urged the General Government to suppress them, and punish the guilty and inhuman monsters that 5s, spell Nation with a big "N," as the Chevalier Halstead says. It reads very like hell with a big "II." Perhaps ilrs. Harriet BeecherStowe might gather now some material for a companion volume to ''Uncle Tom's Cabin." WAR UPON THE SILVE3 DOLLAR. On the 2d of January the Treasury held $125, OM.77 In sliver and I71.50l.568 tn gold. One year ago it held only fJ3.16l.4M lo silver and f 172,617.. 457 In gold. Marly the whole of the raver dollars coiutd In the year 181 lodged in the Trta. ury. in Brüte of especial efforts made by the Departtnen t to push them Into circulation. A year ago It held ii.'J.iXH) 000 of the.? coins for which no ui could be found; now It holds f.M.000.000, and yet It continues to coin at the rate of IJ.tOO.O'jo each month. Can there b given any Rood reason for this course, so loug after the amount that can be used in this country has been supplied? New York Tribuue. A New York illustrated paper recently start ed has proclaimed its belief that "the truth well stuck to is as good as a lie," while the Tribun, in discussing the silver dollar question, evidently believes that a lie well stack to is as good as the truth. It will be observed that the Tribune says the Treasuuy now holds $01,000,000. The assertion is deliber ately false, and its purpose is to mislead the public mind. Of the $01,000,000 in the Treasury only $28,500.000 is owned by the Government. The remainder, 505,500,000, ia virtually in circu lation in the shape of silver certificate?, which are abroad answering all the demands of a circulating medium; and it maybe said without the possibility of successful contradiction, that the $23,500,000 in silver dollars in the Treasury over and above the amount represented by silver certificates, could be, if the Government was so disposed, pot into circulation in a week. Take, for in stance, the disbursements required for pensions; the amount of standard silver dollars in the Treasury would barely answer for a quarterly payment, and no pensioner in the broad land would object to standard dollars. But it is contended that these dollars would speedily find their way back to the Treasury. Whether this be fact or fiction is of no consequence. If they should find their way back to the Treasury, let them be paid out again and thereby kept in circu lation. The objection to the standard silver dollar originated and is kept alive by the National Bank monopoly of the country, and it is well said that the present Secretary of the Treasury is In league with the banks, as was Sherman and Windom, his immediate predecessors. The American Register in a late issue discusses the question of "Gold and Silver Certificates as Oar Paper Money" with consummate ability. It says: That gold and silver Treasury certificates, as a paper money circulation, have been tried and proven to be a success can not be controverted; although it has been manliest that the National Banks and their adherents, aided by the Secretary of the Treasury and the whole influence of the present Administration, have used all possible means and Influence to discourage the circulation of thi currency as well as the circulation of the silver coin. Stability and uniformity are most Important, indeed essential qualities in the standard of value. And this currency, based as It la dollar for dollar on gold and silver, the money of the commercial world, deposited in the Treasury Department, could not be subject to artificial or factitious fluctuations, but would make the most stable and reliable paper money circulation that can possibly be devised. Paper money based on credit has no limit or governing principle as to the amount of the Lnes, but the capacity of the numerous banks to comply with the terms prescribed, and force thi lr paper into circulation on the speculating pre j ecu aiid adventures they undertake to aid. Consequently it is subject to contractions and expansions which are continually changing and aeBhoylng uniformity In the standard of value. Where is there to be found a free and sensible people who would knowingly place it in the power of my one man, or set ol men, to say when money should be plenty and when it should be cared; in other words wben to expand and when to contract the paper money issues, or, which is the same in principle, when to contract and when to elongate the yardstick; every change In the rule taking money out of the pockets of one set of men and putting It in the pockets of another setT But now this very power is placed In the bands of 2,000 banks, which contract and expand the paper-money standard Just aa may suit their speculating and adventurous projects. Besides the losses and injustice incident to this variable standard cf value, this money stem based on credit brings about, every tea or fifteen years, a paper-money revulsion, producing widespread disaster an ! ruin in budness lasting for years and causing great losses t the people, which can neither be described nor calculated adequately. t The Register further shows that it is entirely practicable for the 'United States to have a paper currency based upon gold and silver In the form of gold and silver certificates. In this connection the Register remarks: 'If the policy of isauiDg gold and silver certificates 'as,-, the . permacent circulating medium of th country shall ba adopted, the entire paper circulation of the country can ba

in a tew years ' f ally supplied with this cur

rency, and that, indeed, enlarged to the full requirement of the higeet state of business prosperity. This can be made a matter of demonstration. The last annual reports from the Treasury Department show tb? whole circulating medium of the United States to be substantially as follows: National Bank notes .. f35.680.000 Le;al tenders, alias Greenbacks 15 6 l.ooo Silver certificates 65 500,0 0 Gold certificates Sl.WO,) Silver coin and bullion, etc.... . 202.jO4.277 Gold coin and bullion 657.364 072 Fractional currency- 7.047,247 $1,569,366,59 "The above statement shows the whole amount of our circulating medium and its component parts, the aggregate being $1.560.360,55X3. Now, the gold and silver coin and bullion are shown to be over $700,000.000. Add to this the amount of gold and silver certificates issued and in circulation, and we have a gold and silver basis to start on of $856 958 W9, being $72,275,650 more than the one-half of the whole circulating medium." Statistics warrant the conclusion that the gold and silver production of the United States, with receipts from Mexico and importations from Europe, would amount to a total of $175,000,000 a year of which the Treasury could accumulate at least $SO,000,000 a year, and this would in the short space of five y eats displace the circulation of the National Banks and place the currency on a firmer basis than is known in any country on the globe. The war against the silver cer tificates Is to increase the power cfthe National Banks, which is even now colossal and dangerous. PRISONS AND PRISON DISCIPLINE A very animated discussion is going on in various 8tates relating to the management of Prisons. Investigations, when faithfully conducted, develop a deplorable condition of things, and Legislatures are coming to the conclusion that, after all, the supreme question is not, "Do State Prisons pay?" Take a prison with one thousand convicts, and it is fair to say that the average time of incarceration is five years. If this be approximately correct, then every five years the State that has such a penal institution turns loose upon the cemmunity 1,000 felons. Does the discipline of the Prison reform them, and are they sent forth from "durance vile" to be law abiding citizens, or have they been so treated aa to make them seven-fold more the children of the devil than when they entered the Prison? The investigation now goiDg toward in New York is producing a sensation one witness appeared before the Legislative Committee and testified in regard to paddling and other matters. He described the "paddle" as an instrument of torture, made of leather with a blade six inches wide. It must be an instrument of terrible cruelty, as some con victs deliberately commit suicide rather than endure the torture. The witness said : Oat convict named Lewis S15 blows were Inflicted at short Intervals, during two and one-half hours. The witness had known fifteen or twenty blows to be inflicted, and then a "recess" was taken to allow the flesh to swell. In the paddling room the clothes of the convict ware removed, his wrists joined together and fastened over his head to the wall, his feet being held by staples. The witness had known four officers to do the work, and one man and an officer would inflict thirty or forty blows before getting tired. Keeper Dickson, the witness said, Cetermiced to break down a prisoner named William Launey, alias "Teddy" lit ss. He kept him in a dark cell for five or six weeks, and the witness took him out old, stiff and helpless. He revived him and put him in another cell, giving him a mattre&s and blankets. II ess attempted to end his life by strangulation; when revived he said he would be all right if not pushed around, but spoken kindly to. The witness Interceded with Dickson, saying: "Give the man a show;" but Dickson replied: "No, I'm going to break him." The witneM reminded him that it was ness' fourth attempt at suicide, but Dickson said, "I don't give a d ; I am going to Veak bim." Hees was afterward sent to the Clinton Prison, his health being very bad. Large doses of opium were given to Hess to quiet him when nohy. A convict named Miller, when ordered to report for padding, protested. When he arrived at the keeper's room two officers were behind the door, and he was knocked senseless with a bludgeon, the wound on the head bolng six Inches long and one inch in diameter. A yonng convict threatened with paddling jumped from the fourth Her and broke his thigh and gashed his head. Another named Hughes jumped from a second-story laundry to eteape paddling. James Young received fifty blows and was seised with violent vomiting. In Sing Sing he had seen prisoners showered in their cells with a fire hose until they became insensible. He never saw any paddling, but under the contract tystem it was done before the keeper of a gang would know iL The keeper at night would be ordered to leave a certain convict in his cell in the morning. He would -be paddled and sent back to work to catch up on the work he bad failed on. He would elso miss his breakfast. Charles Boylan and Michael McCormick had been so paddled. The men dreaded it, and having more work than they could do became frenzied and jumped from the tiers. Such caws were frequent and a common subject of talk among the Keepers. He had known prisoners to be without a clean shirt for six weeks. The question arises, Is such treatment reformatory in its influence? Is it good for the convict? Is it good for the State? Does it insure safety to society when the convict is released from Prison? Certainly inch queries are in order. Is it necessary that such abominations should be practiced? Is there anywhere within the entire range of philosophy, Christian, philanthropic, mental or any other philosophy that justifies such physical torture as is known to be practiced in the penal institutions of the United States? If so, it ought to be brought forward. Are officers of Prisons amenable to no authority? Are Prisons places where passions and brutality may reign with undisputed sway? May cat, paddle, hose and dungeon be employed as malice or caprice may dictate, without accountability? If so reform isoatof the question, and society bhould unaerstand that when convicts, thus treated, are let loose, they are more dangerous than ever before. They go forth the sworn, Implacable enemies of all thing's of g3od report, defying the law and treating its restraints with contempt, and thus the work of crime goes forward. It is not well to be sentimental nor to indulge iu gush about criminals, but it is eminently in order to study the subject of Prison discipline and Introduce such reforms as will best subserve th? great purpose for which Prisons are established, the reform of convicis and the safety of society. Thi coining of the new nickel began in Philadelphia yesterday. The old piece was near the throe-cent piece in sire. The size

of the new piece Is between that of the three-oent piece and that of the twenty-cent piece. The new ccin is of the same weight as the old and of the same alloy, the proportions being 25 of nickel and 75 of copper. The coinage of the old cent is to cea?e immediately and that of the new one begun. Wi are told that one of the heirs of Charles A. Bros! as. ot Germany, who died recently worth $33,000,000, resides at Knightstown, Indiana. Mr. Brosias had no family and left no will, and the German Courts will divide the estate among his relatives, most of whom reside in the United States. We are glad that Indiana is to get a portion of the estate, provided the lawyers do not make way with iL

CURRENT NOTES. WxxDn.LPHU.Lirs Is said by his friends to be gettlDg feeole In body. Eesator elect Kknna, of West Virginia, is only thirty-five years old. The debt of Paris is t300.0CO.0C0. The Chicago Tribune explains why: "Pattl has been sinking there." Ir the Ice Palace was erected by professional ice-men, how in the world is the city of Montreal ever going to pay for it? Puck. A hv.ndifd thousand dollar cottage on a t2C0.000 lot is buildiug at Newport for MUs Catherlae Wolfe, the richest single women ia America. Ten thousand dollars a week, on an average, are sent to Norway and Sewüen by Scandamvi&n set'Jers who wish to help their relatives to escape. There are now two female dentists in Philadelphia. One of them bad previously studied medicine, but did not find the profession congecicd. The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph has a subscriber who has read it for fifty-two years, and last week renewed his subscription for the fifty-third time. A joint resolution has been offered in the Wisconsin Legislature that hereafter State of ficers shall make blinnlaT Instead of annual re ports. GaMBrrTA's compliment to the Prince of Wales I deserves to be remembered: "Ah. sir. if all WTincea were like your Royal Highness, there would be no Republics." Notino Jay Gould's purchase of a cemetery lot at a big f sure, the Chicago Times Is fearful let this Is the beginning of an attempt to get control ot the route to the shining shore. The Charleston (S. C.) News says that the entire hotel bill of the Marquis of Lome and party in that city, "including carriage hire, cash advances and everything else," was only t"0Z. Thb hazing for which five Sophomores of Bowdjin College have been suspended consisted in cutting ofT violently one-half of the slow-appearing mustache of a reluctant Freshman. In tho past five years 5.000 persons have been divorced in Maine. Having to obtain refresh ments on the sly always breeds conjugal misunderstandings and ructions. Horace White has not bought the Times and J ha McLean has not bought the New York World. These organs will continue to drift to wreck without any new impetus. With ten cents a man can have his shirt washed or cm get a drink ot whloky, which accounts for the number of dirty shirts worn in this broad land of freedom. Drummer. Hawtuokse disliked to sit for his photograph. remarking, on one occasion, "The sun seems to take aa infernal pleasure In making me vener able, as If I were aa old as himself," but he was lellghted to sit f jr a portrait The Galena (111.) Gazette "heartily Indorses" the proposition to head the next Reputlican State ticket iu lllinoli with Richard I. Ogiesby for Governor, and es Senator R. H. McClellan. of Galena, for Lieutenant Governor. la the biographical sketches cf members or the Maine Legislature, a Representative from Thorna&ton is written down as a Democrat in polities and In religion "independent as a man can be whose wife and mother-In-Jaw are Baplif t3." The Lancaster Gingham Mills, at Clinton, Mass., are the largest mills of the kind in this country. They employ 2,000 hands and produce 20,000,000 yards ot cloth every year. Their products are sold mainly in Pennsylvania and täo Southwest. Mas. Melville, wife of the Arctic explorer, Is in fresh trouble. Her three children are seriously ill the eldest with pneumonia, and the two little ones with measles. They are living on the third floor of a house in Wes; Philadelphia, and are said to be la actual want. "A corns," raid the Irishman, "is the place where a man lives when he ia dead." "This funeral," says De Blowitz. in his dispatch to the London Times on the procession that passed through the streets of Paris after Gambetta's corpse, "this funeral has been the greatest success of his life." For every railroad tie laid in Dakota a bottle of beer is drunk by the laborers. The beer and the ties cjet the same fifty cents. At Bismarck lately a train of thirty cars was seen all laden with beer Chicago beer. It is supposed that none of those laborers will ever own a railroad. Miss Lacba Dom, the actress. Is at Nice, and will remain there nntil May next for the benefit of her health, which, the says, was seriously lm paired by the close and eonstant attention she was obliged to give to the putting on the stage of her own play, "The Daughter of the Nile." When Mme. Nilsson, in Atlanta, sang "Way Down on the Scwaoee River" all tho colored people In the gallery cried. Mme. Nilsson, whose bro hers and sisters are wedded to their peaaut life in Sweden, will, with her adopted son, consider New York as her home. Anthony Tbollope. just before he laid down his pen never to take it up again, wrote thee words, whici will appear in his last novel: 'Amusement is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. Love gives itself and is not bought; but all true love is founded cn esteem." Ma Bow ex, who has been nominated tor Senator by the Republican caucus of the Colorado Legislature, is a bonanza king of less note than Mr. Tbor, another ot the candidates, but he is a pracUsed and successful politician, having had much experience In Arkansas before he moved to Colorado. JAXKS R. Krise bavlag mortgaged his property at Newport for $75.C00, til the gossips bave assembled for a tournament of t ngues with a view to acertatnlng what it all means. In the meanWhile Mr. Keene 6bowi up at his Broad street office la New York every day, as if nothing unusual bad oecurred. The National Gazette gives some startling statistics cf ocean dUadters. In 18S1 the vessels lost at tea averaged one a day, and in 1879 and 18S0 there were 400 steamer collisions In the North Atlantic alone. It Is believed many of thoe accidents might bave been avoided if a proper code of fog signals had been In use. The Chicago Tribune (Rep.) remarks that "it is not a pleasant thing to say, but it is abundantly evident that not the slightest reliance is to be placed upn tho statements of either Senator Morrill or Fl allst Kelley that large reductions of taxation are effected by the tariff bills under their charge." "I nana wlf J and a dog aboard that boat, and both were lo.t," remarked the bereaved man, gsilng In the direction of the wreck. "It must make you feci sorter desolate." responded his sympathizer. "Yes, it's rough on me," continued the mourner. "I've been walking the beach everslnce daybreak, looking for the body cl the dog." Una of the" correspondents tells cf a lady in Washington socle'y who lately attended six en tertainments between noon. and midsigbt the same day. First she went to a 12 o'clock break- j fast, then to a 2 o'clock lunch, next to a "tea"

from 4 to 7, thence to a dinner at half-past 7, and afterward to a reception, and then to a german. The correspondent ades that the lady is "something of an invalid." She seems to be. ' Hill Dixelu. the most popular actress of the Palais Royal Theater. Paris, has become Insane. In the middle ot a new comeoy, wnea the andiene was perfectly quiet and attentive, the turned to the other players and said : "Do you hearhow they hiss me? I can sot finish this piece." Next day she tried to kill herself, and had to b take a to an Asylum. Osk of the surviving -Forty-niners," Levi Farcsworth, of Jonetboro, Mr., returned to his old home a few days ago after an absence cf thirty-three years. lie sailed for the Pacific coast in November, 1849, leaving behind him his wife and six children, all of whdm were living to greet him on his return except one daughter, who died twenty years ago. Fashionable intelligence in the English Court Chronicle: "Her Maj-jety is expecting an accession of grandchildren. . An interesting event is about to occur (within a year of the lact) in the family ot the Duke of Connaught; another about a month later in that of the Duke of Albany; rnd yet another la that of the Dake of Edinburgh." Eoston CoBEETT, the man who killed the astassin Booth, is living in Kansas, engaged In the cattle business, ne has become a religious enthusiast, and In a recent letter to a friend in Camden be says that he has been directed by God to inflict dally corporal punL-hment upon himself as a penance for having taken human lifo. Miss Emma Wixom. otherwise Mile. Nevada, this year receives 81,000 per month for Einging in opera in Pari. Next year her contract calls for $ 1.100 per month, and in the following year 1.200

per month. B7 the expiration of her present con tract the will thus have earned (33.63.) at the Opera Comique. Then she will come home to America to make some more. When John Eicholtz died at Urbana, 0., he left behind him the accumulations of forty years. On his farm were 10.000 bushels of barley, thousands of bushels of corn partly rotted, eld horses that had never known harness, vehicles with soKd wheels cut from logs, and among the curiofüles was an old pump mounted on wheels like a can non. Mrs. Yasdekbilt, widow of the Commodore. gave a luncheon party in New York, the other day, to thirty ladies, ten of whom belonged to the Vaxiderbilt family. It was a very elaborate lunch and each guest received a bunch of roses tied with wide, white tatin ribbon, on which was her name in letters of gold. Mrs. Vanderbllt laugh ingly denies her reported engagement to General Beauregard. After Berlin, Mr. Elwin Bxth will visit Cologne, Bremen. Leipzig, Hanover and Yfenna. Some one advised him to Include Dresden . in his list because there are to many Americans there; whereupon he replied : "If my object was to ap pear before Americans I might have remclned in America." The plan of acting in Berlin was first suggested to him by the famous German actor Dawison la 1S66, when he repeatedly appeared la Nt w York with Booth In the same play. Mrs. Emma B. Drexel, wife of Francis A Drexel, of Philadelphia, who died last Monday night, was noted for her extensive philanthropy She paid the rent of more than 150 families and dlhtributed among the poor over S-J0.C00 a year, She employed a woman to institute inquiry into the merits of each applicant, and onco every week dl-pensed groceries, clothing and money to the poor, who gathered every Tuesday in the rear her residence. Writes the correspondent of Life (London) "Misi Lillian Nordica. the American prima donna, mado her appearance as 'Ophelia' in Hamlet' at the Grind Opera the other night French critics complain of her strong American accent aud slightly guttural vol?e; on the ether hand, they admit that her arms and hands are above rept oach, and that 'her eyes, teeth and smile are not uninteresting " A remarkable saying cf Gambetta's is quoted by a Paris correspondent: "Wheu Ltttre died some friends were indignantly deploring in Gambetta's presence the weakness or treachery which bad induced the Illustrious savant to profess Cbrisihinlty on his death bed. 'Who can tell?' re marked Gambeita, lifting his arm and lettiug it fall on the arm of his chair, perhap3 Littie did right after alL It is a great toss up (piloou face) what lies on the other side of death.' " A youno woman in Bradford County, Pennsyl vania, went before a Justice cf the Peace with the man of her choice and several witnesses, and made her?e!f a wife, saUsfactorily to herself, by a simple promise cf fidelity, claiming nothing from her spouse as a legal right, and insisted upon no ceremony. There were no vows given under the form of the law, and no pledges. The Justice took no part In the marriage, and sat in the room only as a witness. Ix Switzerland's lofty mountains the Alpine horn, which aourdi also the far-famed Ranz des Yaches, when the sun has set. Is taken by the herdsman and through it he loudly pronounces the words "Praise the Lord God." At the sound all the herdsmen Issue from their tents and take up the cry. At the last darkness falls and the highest herdsman calls "Good night," and "Good night" again resoundj from all the mountains and rocky cliffs. The Massachusetts legislators elect annually a clergyman to preach a sermon before their suc cessors. This election is not very reverentially conducted. Last Thursday they made a high joke of the work, voting for Ben Butler, Bob In gersoll and others, while twouty-f .nr voted for a lay associate who had previously urged the abolition of the sermon and the accompanying parade of cadets. The preacher selected was a Boston Baptlüt parson, for whom printed ballots had been circulated. Or the Princess von Hohenlohe, who is a dead shot, it is related that she was recently, accompanied by her daughter and the Princess von Ratibor, stalking deer in the wood near Schloss Rauden, when suddenly a fuil-grc wn wild boar da&bed at her from the left, and at the same mo ment a roebuck in full career croed in front of her. The Princess raised her rifle, knocked over the buck with her right barrel, and then gave the boar her left. The fierce animal turned over almost at her feet. Tux oldest member of the Ohio Legislature is Senator Moses II. Klrby, of Wyandot. He Is eighty-five years old, and was originally acreat admirer of John Adams. Ho rerved in the Legis lature in 1S27, and is now in the Sena'e sfter a lape ol nearly half a century. Mr. Klrby was born in HaUInx County, Va., in May. 1798 Washington was then living at Mount Vernon, lie went to Obio in 1815. locatintr at Hillnboro. He returned to the Sotitn to attend college la Norih Carolina, on the Virginia line. It required tea days ou horseback to get to the COllcgo tc&t. ' The Graphic thus de-crlbes the.qunil-eatlog per formance of Mr. Walcott: "A stranger, unaware of the caue. and seeing one man thus silently eating aud forty other men staodiug by and as silently wa'.chvig him, might with some show of rerson imagine he h&d (tumbled on a Lunatic Asylum. Itbasa'lnny' look. The bystacdois talk in low tones to each other. ' They sr em sad and serious. The quail-eater is the saddest and mct Ecrlons of them all. Wheu be rbes and slowly departs, the crowd Inspect the plate of bones to see if any fl h adheres." According to the report of the United States Coriful at Rochelle, French brandy within the last three years hss ceased to be brandy, being for the most part alooh.il of grain, potatoes or beeti. The proprietors of the vineyards themselves have become e clever ii it fabrication that it is almost lmpowible even for honett merchants to buy a pure cognac when they wish to do so. When the bottle is invoiced or labelled 1M9 or 18Ö6, it ouly means that the article has beca mvie to resemble the brandy of thttt year. The alcohol which has Ukei tbe place of tbe genuine spirit Cf the grai is described a a most pernicious liquor. produciLtf an latcxicatlim which , Inclines the patient to rage and physical violence, while the prolonged use of .It leads to insanity. '

EDUCATIONAL.

Legislative Excursion to Bloom Ington to Take a Ixxk at tho Indiana University. The Executive CommHtee of the Hume, With a Sfumlifr of Invited (Joe sip, Are Whirled In Bojal fctjle to the Athens of Indiana la a Special Coach. They are Sumptuously Entertain ed at the Hotels, Courteously Received at tho University and are Delighted Addresses, Recitations, Etc., Etc , Etc. Last Wednesday morning at 7:20 a specia car attached to the regular west-bound train or the andalia Line, well filled with ladies end gentlemen, left the Union Depot for Bloomington. the seat of the Indiana University. There wero on board of the car Representatives Gordon, Smith, Copeland, Jlaucfc, Mellett, McClelland, Ken nedy, Tuley, Graham and Robertson, mem bers of the Educational Committee of the House, as also Representative Bowers and benator louche. Accomnanvin? these hnn erablelaw makers were Mesers, JudgeBante of Fianklin: Ge-orsr Oonnpr nf !nn. John Patterson, of Terre Haute: Prcfeor wuj, oittio cuperinienaani ot l uolic Instruction, and John Hlocomb, Ein, his State Senator of Indianapolis; also Hon James L. Mitchell; Mr. Klngsburv of the Indiana Fairaer; Mr. George II Cooper and J. B. Maynard, of Indianapolis ihe felicities of the excursion were indeti nitelv increased bv a tirmhtmr lnio Mrs. Representative Mellett, Mr. Senator louche, Mrs. Keed, Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. Proitssor ü:os8 ana Mrs. Houston. At the Greencastle Junction the cur. sion car was taken in charge by a locomo tive reaay ior tne occasion, and at about 11 a. m. the voyagers arrived eafelv at Bloomington in flue spirits. Their shcrpened appetites were gratified and satisfied by a superb lunch specially prepared for them by jr. narnuei urcnara at tne Urchtrd House. ui wiiicu us is proprietor. Lunch over, carriages were in readiness trt tske those of the company who preferred riding to wolkintr to the Indiana Universitv, beautifully situated about a quarter of a mne irom me court House, where they met and were introduced to the fccultv of tbe institution, and where everything possible was done to contribute to the pleasure of the company, and to afford members of the Legislature facilities to understand the con ditions, workings and wants of the institu tion. After hearing some of the recitations. wnicn evinced thoroughness fully abreast oi tbe demands of the times, and visiting the liorary, museum ana laDoratory, tne com pany was lnvitew 10 ine t Jiapel. a spacious room, witn a seating capacity of about 500, io listen to IMPROMPTU APDSESSES from such gentlemen as President Moss, of the University, taw proper to call upon to enlighten and delight the company. The Chapel wa3 well filled with students and citi zens, and the addresses delivered by Messrs. .ueneii, loucne, rroiessor uioss, bmith, Holcomb, Copeland and Robertson were. without exception, in a happy vein and to tbe point, and were enthusiastically aDpiauded. Without attempting to give the Sentinel readers a synopsis of the good ttnngs faivi by the speakers, it is in order to cbrcmcle the iact that an earnest and enlightened desire was expressed to place the Indiana University ia a position to accomplish in the future the greatest POSSIBLE AMOCXT OF GOOD to the State. The necessity for a large endowment fund to enable the Universitv to tttcuui piisu iu giauu euuiauuuni mission 18 ....i:.L :.- .a .t i universally conceded by thoughtful men. And since Euch a necessity is conceded, and the ability of tbe State beiotr equal to tbe demand, the only remaining quefction is, will the Legislature respond in that SDint of liberality required by the exigencies of the situation? The indications are cheering. The public mind is becoming enlightened. The purpose to develop the mind resources of the State is yearly more pronounced. A healthy ambition to educate Indiana boys and girls in Indiana schools and Universities is one of the cheering signs of the times. Ihe Legislature now in session has an opportunity to make a reputation for broad, generous and cultured liberality. which should not pass unimproved, and from the spirit of the addresses made to-day by members of the Legislature it is just to conclude that the motive exists, and since there is a way where there is a will, hopes are strengthened that the Indiana University is to nave its claims upon tne generosity of me pcupie lainy lavesngaiea. After the exercises at the Uni versity were over, tne company was moBt snmntnonsl v dined at thn Nation al Hotel, under the proprietorship of L. M. Sanders, Esq., and at 3:3) the whistle blew. and with the cry. "All aboard." the return train started for Indianapolis, where it ar rived on time to allow tbe Committee and company, if so inclined, to take in the fes tivities of the Capital City. The Sentinel representative takes pleasure in acknowledging the courtesies of Mr. Walter Brad f ute, editor of the Bloomineton Tel ephone, who came to the city with the ex cursion party. The excursion car, going and cominer. was in charge of Hon. John Graham, Representa tive of Brown and Monroe, who, whether conducting a tram or Legislature, Is the right man in the right place. The Elephant Who Did ot See the Joke. Rev. Mr. Watson pives a very curious story in illustration of this animal's wonderful long memory of a wrong tuffered. One of those pests of society, "a practical joker," visited a caravan in a west ot England Jb air and tried his stupid tricks upon an elephant there. He first doled out to it, one bv one. ome ccingerbread nuts, and when tbe grateiui animal was tnrown on its guard ne prof fered it a Iarco Darcel wrcrned in paper. The unsuspicious creature accepted and swallowed the lump. bat immediately began to exhioit signs cr lutense eucerin,?, and snatching up a bucket banded it to the Keeper lor water. Ibis being Riven to it, it eagerly swallowed quantities of tbe fluid. Ha!" cried the delighted loker, "Igaees those nuts were a trifle hot, old fellow." You had better be off." exclaimed the keeier, "unless you wish the buciet at your bead." The fool took the hint only iust in time, for the enraged animal having finished tbe sixth bucketful, hurled the bucket at its tormentor with suca force that had he lin gered a moment longer his life might have been forfeited. The affair had not, how ever, yet concluded. The following year the thow revisited the same town, and the foolish joker, like men of his genius, unable to profit by experience, thought to repeat his stupid trick on the eltpbant He took two lots of nuts into the show with him sweet nuts in one pucket and hot in the other. The ele phant had not forgotten the Meet plaved upon him, and therefore accepted the cakes very cautiously. At last the joker proffered a hot one; but r.o sooner had tbe injured creature discovered its pureency than it seized held of its persecutor by the coattails, honted mm up by them, and held him until they gave tvay, whn he fell to the ground. The elephant now inspected the bevered coat tails, whih, alter ha had dis covered aod eaten all the sweet nut-, he tore te rt3 and flung after their discomfited owner.

R. R. RADWAY'S READY REUET The Cheapest aad Bett Medicine for rai Uy Dae in the World, CURES AND rREYEXTS Dysentery, Diarrhoa, Cholera Morbus, Rneumatisia, Fever and Ague, Neuralgia, Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Influenza, Difficult Breathing-. BOWEL COMPLAINTS Loosenees, Diarrhoea Cholera Morbus or Pafrfal Discharges from the Bowels aw stopped In li or 20 minutea by taking Radway's Ready Relief. No congestion or inflammation, no weakness or lassitude, will follow the use of the R. R. EelW. It was the first and is the ONLY PAIN REMEDY that instantly stops the most excruciatirg pains, allsvs Inflammations, and cures Congestions. whether of the Lungs, Stomach, Bowels, or other glanrls or organs, by one applies ti on. In from ONE to TWKN1 Y MLNÜTJE3, no mattet how violent or excruciating the pain, the Kaeumtlo. Bod-riddeu, Infirm, Crippled, Nervous. Neuralgic, or prostrated with disease, nay eufier. RADWAY'S READY RELIKT will afford Lastaoi ease. INFLAMMATION OF THE KTDNEY3. INFLAMMATION OF THS BLADDER. INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWKLfl, OOSGESTIOS OF THE LUNGS PALPITATION OF THE HEART, rr . . gpTF.RICS, CROUP, CATARRH, IT?. A DACHE, TOOTHACHE, COLD CHILLS. AGTE CHILLS. NERVOUSNESS AND SLKErLEabKEoS. The application of the Readr Relief to the part cr parts where the pain or di&iculty exists will afford case and cocif rt Thirty oi sixty drops In half a tumbler of water wiu in a few minutes cure Cramps, Hpralns, 8oux Stomach. Heartburn, Sick Headvhe, Diarrhoea, inrternairp&ialiC" Win1 13 the Bowels, and all Travelers should always carry a bottle of Radway's Ready Relief with them. A few drops fa water will prevent eicxness or pains from chanireof water. It is better than French Branny or Litters as a stimulant. Malaria in its Various Fcrrns FEVEIl AND JLGXJJU. Fever and Arne cured for 60 eta. Taere is not a remedial esnt in this world that will cure Ferex and Ague, and other Malarious, Bilious, Scarlet, Typhoid, Yellow and other fevers, (aided by Railway's PÜL), so quietly as Rad way's Ready Rellet nfty Cents Per lSottle. Sarsaparillian Resolver IS THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIES! Chases as Seen aod Tlt m They ( occur, arr er ising a ew Doses. 1. Good spirits, dlsarnetranee cf tin languor, melancholy, increase and hardnet nesa ana mnncies, etc 2. Btrenjith iscreat.es. appetite Imrrovoa.Mli? for food, no more sour eructations of watcrbraa good digestion, calm and u:dituibed aleew awaken fresh and vigorous. 3. Dii-trpearaBC of snots, blotches, pimples, the skinlooVs clear ind fiealthy ;tne arlaechaneed' from its turbid and clou a t appearance to a deaf cr.erry cram tor color; water passes freely from the bladder through theeurethra without p&inot scalding; little or no sediment; no pain or weakness. 4. Marked dfminution of auatiUtr and fre quency of involuntary weakening discharges It alllicted in that way), with certainty of perma nent cure, increasea streng in exmoitoa in tne f acre ting glands, and functional harmony restored to the several organs. a. i fellow untre on tne white of the eves, ana the swarthy, saffron appearance of the skin chaneed to a clear, lively and healthy color. t. lnose sunering irom weax or niceratea lungs or tubercles will realize great benefit in ex pector&Ung freely the tough phlegm or mucus from the lungs, air cells, bronchi or windpipe, throat or head: diminishing t&e frequency oi cough; general increase of strength throughout the tystem; stoppage of night sweats and paiaa and feelings of weakness around the ankles, letrs, shoulders, etc ; cessation of cold and chills, seasof suffocation, hard breathing and paroxysm of cough on lying down or arising in the morning. au tnese aisaec&ing symptoms gradually cuaaf pear. 7. As day titer day the SARSAPARILLIAN taken new signs of returning health will appear as the blood Improves in purity and strength, dia ease will diminish, and all foreign and impura uvpvmi, kUIUUlD, VVUVCIV, IUUi etc., be resolved away, and the unsound mad sound and healthy ulcers, fever sores, chronio akin diseases, gradually disappear. ' s. in cases w here tue syptem has teen salivated and Mercury. Quicksilver, Corrosive Sublimate have accumulated and become deposited in tbe bones, jeinta, etc. causing caries of the bones, rickets, spinal curvatures, contortions, wnite swellings, varicose veins, etc., the SA RS A P ARIL LIAN will resolve away these deposits and exter minute the virus of the disease from the systeca" y. ii mote wno are taxing tnese meaidues ttr. the cure of Chronic Scrofulous or Syphilitic dif eases, however slow xnsy be the cure, "leel bet ver ana una vneir general beaiux improving their flesh and weigh t increasing or even keeping Its own, It is a cure sign that the cure Is progress ing. In these dtoeares the patient either gets bet ter or worse the vires of the dieeae is not In active; ii net arrested and driven from the blood it will spread and continue to undermine the constitution. As soon as the SARSAPARILLIAN makes the patient "feel better," every hour you will grow better and increase In health, strengt andfleih. The great power of this remedy I tn dwease that threaten death, as in CONSUMPTION of the Lungs and Tuberculosis Phthisis, Scrof-Ja, Syphiloid Diseases, Wasting, Degeneration, and Ulceration of the Kidneys. Dln.be lis. Stoppage of Water (instantaneous relief afforded where catheters hsve been used, thus doing away with the painful operation of using these instrument?), dis solving Stone ii the Hadder, and xn all eases f INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER AND KIDNEYS. In chronic cases ol Leuoorrhoea and Uterine Discharges. Oae bottle crm tains more oi the active pnnaples of medicines than any ether preparation. Taken In Teaspoonful doses, while others require five or six times as much. ONE DOLLAR TER BOTTLE, Radway's Regulating Pills! Perfect, Purar&Hve, Soothing;, .Aperients. Acta wltnout rain, Always Sellable aa Kntural In Operation. A vegetable 8 at stltute for Calomel. Perfectly tasteleaa, elegantly eoatea with sweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleauao and stressthen. Radway's Pills for the use of all CiaorderW the gtomsrh. Liver. Bowala. Eidneva. 1UV?

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Nervous Diseases, Loss of Appetite, Hetdact f Consumption, Costlvenees, Indigestion, Dyr$ 1 sia, Biliouraosa, Fever, Inflammation of t

Boweia, mes, ana ail aerangemocu oi tne ln(; nal Viscera. Purely vegetable, containing f mercury, mineral, or deleterious drnc. Observe the loiiowiug symptoms resuitf from Diseases of the Dtcestlve Organs: Conti tlon, Inward Piie, FuUuew of Blood in the Head. Acidity of the Btom&ch, Heartburn, DtaruM of Food, Fullness or Weight ia the Ewmacl, Sour Eructations. Sinking or Fluttering at the Heart. Choking or Puttering Sensations wheu in a lying posture. Dimness ol Vhdou, Dots or Wets beior the S'ht, Fever and Dull Pains in the Head. Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness ot tte Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Chest, Limbs, .nft Sud don Flushes ot Heat, Bomlrg In the Fiech. A few doces of Radway's Pll will f roe their' tera from all the above-named disorders. Sold by Druggists. Price, 2b Cents per box. READ "FALSI AND TRÜE," Bend a letter rtamp to RADWAY A CO.. No. Warren, corner Charch street. New York. "lnforma tioa worth thouania ulll b3tl to you. - tu tne robifce. Ha ini an1 uV tir H tTm tT'm ai A ana flint i ameV'RADWAY" Is on what .you buy.

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