Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1883 — Page 2

THE INDIAVA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. APIilL 4. 1883-

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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4.

Is the Lien'euani Governor quite satibfiei that lie ki l 1 ti.e ar,pr priaton bill? Tub tt K '.v;.i' cr-.p U hein killed early this j tar. Chicago sreeials announce tbat the yield wi'I not beofer75 percent. The croaker In -intntly allow us cnly 50 per cent.

Snat EiKUona, in drawing the scond ti'Zi in Iii' lottery of assassination. ad-H'-ce-i hi Hilary from lö.UöO to $10,000 a war. T;ut is ahcut the size of the Ver laouttr.

Tnic Jo'irncl continue it intervals to make fetbi nt:Mr.pn to galvanize the political

corpus ut ite Lieutenant Governor. It is of

no u-.e, "i'.'sfjes are sot." The appropia tion bll did it.

Tiik Io-a supreme Court decided to give

n rthennng ou the prohibitive amendment que-jtl.'ii at tne Davenport Urm, beginning April 3. overr l'.irg a motion to strike the

petiti n for rehearing from the Sie.

Thk Journal doe3 not instance another L:f u;?! . nViovernor who killed an appro

pri&rio.i bill by refusing to Biga it. Mr. Hair?, therefore, stands alorse, grand,

gl.oiay a:.d peculiar in this regard.

f-nsiE i.Iea t the extent of the scare in London imy be inferred when it is known th 2 CO') -i.ldiers are required to protect th public buildings in that city. England

is du-v scarcely better o f than Russia.

Tas IVnnsylvania Legislature has one etr-:ht ruck on railroad deadheadisni. No meaiaer of tne Legislature is permitted to

acvpi :i free pass on any railroad in the

Side. Tb.it is certainly a new departure,

acd 1-joks like reform.

Jvv.i'. Jamesos bring? a terrific charge etrft'nv. t-.-o.rdirg nous and hotel life in his

a.rt:i 'e in the last number of the North

American Riview. lie eaya this is the cause of mir.j divoices. The idleness of the married borders makes them an easy prey

to intrigue.

Itr-iHHiso to the falling ofT in revenue from liquors, the Londcn Medical Treia

claini3 that since October, 1S80, one million

people have put on the blue ribbon, and

504.000 have signed the pledge. Well

di.-vc'.id moral suasion, not legislation, has

clf-c'.ei th'u result.

While the wine product of Franceis de-

crea-sir.g that of California is steadily increa.irg and improving in quality. In 18-51

California produced 0,000,00u gallons of wine, and in 1S.S2 10,500,000 gallons. At this rate

of increase California will entirely supply the heme demand for wines. Of all the modern ch.-rnes for making

money this thing of takmgoutinturar.ee

policies on p-.ople infirm with age is as repulsive as can well be conceived. It society can not rii its: If of those who practice the infamy it ought to confess that it can .neither enactor enforce just laws. lr is barely poss ble that Will'arn Fiit KeÜcg will finally land in the renitentury where he ouht to have bfen years ago. The feet that Democrats tolerttd liirn in the 'Ui.iled S:ites Senate, when they had the power f relieving that body of the etigna, may justly be rated a3 a blunder. Tki people of liio Janeiro endeavcr to make things look pleasant at a f;n?ral by trinimirg coffins with Lircy colo.-ed materia! bordered with gilt tinsel. It look-; tpritly t the mourners, and it makes no diiLruc? to the individual to wh-irn the Iri hmaa referred as "the jictlernan in tlie Ulli a." The ountry now has on hand ?4,0t)0 000 gill ons of whisky, the owners of whi.c:h are looking around for a convenient place to st.' it for the purpose of avoiding the tax wlicb, at 0) cei.i pt4r gallcn, anounts to th? sau- n im of $75. GOO 000. The prcbibility i th.it Canada will flid storage room for tci bilk of the article.

Th Territory of Idaho, says the Minir.g Record, "bfgii to produce gild as early as 1SG0." Time years later the yield was sufficient to find a place in the gold product of the c'ltiutry, and since that lime, 12G3, the gold ruduct of the territory has amounted to $71 05.C03 and the silver prodt'c: to $4,ls3,017; total precious metals, $75,1 S'J, 000. JC3T now the Rpab'.Jcan press of the country U excited over the report that exPrsjideit S irnuel J. Tilden is in vigarons health. At the mention of the names of Tilden ai l Hendricks the Republican organs and bosses are troubled -lth sensations similar to ihxie which visited His Royal Tlighnoii P.jlshazzir when the skeleton hand appeared on the wall of his bmquetirg hall. T.i-y gt terribly weak in tha knees and spine. The fear of retribution ii a source o! tribulation." und the worfecf demora'. ziti n could no! g") forward in a way more g-at,fyi ;g to De?n-craw.

"Kr. yoonv c-dj ta e Sci'iOH' miiri an n'lfe-'d fliid" of & hill pfni by tLi- J,jt!!tur" ol 1H",J on tbe Kixty fiirt day cl the vi. but not signet by Govcr.inr Morton. II a ! 1 f.u-ntd rn t Kixty-flrU day of tbe Mfl') i c; rixbifully -d ConsUtnclo;)ftll7 boCome a l;i v, e'.C Journal. 7he:her tha bill waj sigced by Governor Mortoi ü'r.ot of no conscqut-noe. The bill r ' rre 1 to was passed on the tixty-first day r.f t fie ?!ision an 1 became a law. The appropriation bill was passed on th correc-

ponlin? ij ,1 the recent session and did not bee rue a law. Why? Because Lieutenant Governor Ilanna killed it. The Journal is in its last ditch m defence of Mc.?r. Porter and Hanna. We call the attention uf the people to its dying kicks. The Supreme Courtof Indiana does cot rg-re with Governor Porter and his Lieutenant in killing the appropriation bill. The Supreme Court says, in the ISth of Indiana, on page 26, after quoting Section 14, Article 5 of the Constitution : When the Leslsliture. on the day of !' final adjournment, la the due course of lecilatln, iii'ls a Mil to the Governor for hl official artion, and he, on the day, and aftrrth' final a'ljournmrnt of te U'jidatur,, flirt it in the 'uy oflh Vcrtnnj of Stile teithwU aftraval. or t ie.iivru therein, it hfrirnun a law from liu; hnur thr, mute vlo4 filed in the ojiee of tue tecrrtiry of war, Ihis is not a recent decision, but it demonr'M txsvond .11 question that if Lieutenant GoTernor Hanna had signed th appro-

rriatioa bill instead of pigeon-holing it,

and then if Governor Porter had simply

done his duty regarding It as directed by

the Constitution, the bill would be a law

to-day. They are, therefore, responsible tor

the failure of the bill.

couara, counsel, and jurors. During the two weeks just part two men,

Jeter aüd Logue, have been on trial iu the

Criminal Court of Marion County for murder. In one case, that of Jetr, the Jury disagreed; iu the other, that of Logue, the Jury found the defendant guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced him to the Penitentiary for three years. Now, then, it seems to be in order in the estimation of one of our esteemed contemporaries to make

such comments upon tha trial as would, if its hypercriticisms were to have the effect desired. bnn2 Indianapolia Courts of

justice, Indianapolis jurors and Indianapolis lawyers not only into disrepute, but eink them altogether to a degrad.nl level scarcely above that occupied by the most debased clas?es of society. The firjt purpose of those

responsible for the trial of criminals is to obtain an honest, upright Jury. To say that is not the purpose directly or by innuendos is to charg3 tuch officials with corruption the

most flagitious, a purpose- to use their power and authority to defeat the ends of

justice, aid criminals rather than punish

them, and to disregard the welfare of society rather than promote it. We are not ready to join in that sort of crusade azainst

Courts and Juries. It is downright insan

ity. It warps and distorts facts. It brin,

the safeguard of society into disrepute. It

eiicournges mob violence, because it insinu

ates or directly assumes, that the constituted

authorities and the proceedings of Courts in

all regards, within the secure provisions of

the law, can not be trusted. It is an arraign

ment of men, acting under the binding obli

Kations of their oaths, and intimating that

ignorance or cupidity, mental or moral

weakness, haj led Juries to disagrea or to

render verdicts violative of law and testimony. If communities

can once be brought to adopt such views

anarchy will prevail unless it is put down

by Military Courts, backed by bayonets.

It becomes, in this c nnec;ion, a matter

of profound surprise that attorneys at law

who defend men charged with crime should

become targets for fling-i and jeers baed

upon their success in practicing their profession. The law recognizes the rights of men

charged with crime, and the v '8t criminal whose neck was ever broken by the fiat of

tho law, when on trial, stood at the

Dar oi justice ciotLea witu tne prerogative to clatra and demand every right under the law whicn its majesty confers, the

equal in that relation of any other man in the State. Indeed, so sacred are these rights esteemed by the law that if the man arrigned for crime is so poor that he can cot fee a lawyer to defend him, the Courts assign him counsel to guard his rights and sf e that jastice is done; and his lawyer is bound by his oath and by every consideration of honor, to make the best defense possible for

his client, and any lawyer who does lees

than this, betrays his trust and is a disgrace to hi3 profession. It is a maxim of the law, that it wera better for ninetynine guilty men to go free than that one innocent man should suiTer, and yet, notwithstanding every poasibls eflort to analjze testimony and guard he rights of men accused of crime, tht innocent are inad t suffer imprisooment and d.-ath. To arraign counsel for earnest devotion to their clieuts; to intimate that their reputitiona are to be smirched in any dfgrije by the crimes charged ui on those thy defend, is not or.ly a Mse prostitution of jjurnaiism, but a coert plea for universal conviction, regardless of law and testimony, and an exhibition of a wiiliugue.ss to see criminal trialj re ioced to a farce in which couviction bhall result. It mu.il be understood that Courts are not instituted to convict, but to see that justice is done. Courts ara human, aad therefore fa'hble. The wickt-d do ßoineiimeu escape and the innocest are sometimes punished, but these are the exceptions. To determine the measure of guilt, or whether guilt exist? at all, are often questions which baQl-j human wisdom. And just here comes in another wise provision: the man indicted for wrong doing 13 to have always the benefit of the doubt It will not do to tear away all the safeguards which centuries of experience have built up for the protection of society. Fanatical war whoops for universal conviction are not the requirement of tho times. Jastice and mercy Btill have their votaries, and the fundamental principles of our jurisprudence oufht not to ba chanced. Those who are forever denouncing J uries and Courts, propose nothing better to take their place. They simply favor tearing down they never build. Whtii do they prop e ia the place of the Jury system? nothing. Wbat changes in the practices of the Co-irts? none. Bat they seem to favor the ide.i that men under indictment for crime should always employ third-rato men to defend tuetn, so that their conviction may be assured. When they pursue a dilfjrtnt course, as in the ci.se of Jeter and Logue, then fanaticism whets its beak and sharpen-! its claw , and, with a fierceness born of Insanity, attacks counuel, Courts and Jurie-s designedly to bring the machinery of justice into cil.irepute. S ich journalism is pernicious, end auch must be the verdict of all prudent citizens. SOME QUEER TUOKlE3. Mr. John McElroy has a papr in the April number of tbe Popular Science Monthly, in which he seeks to elow that in very many regards what the world calls "vice," has economic functions which are of great benefit to the world. Juat why it is that nature ''creates thousands wLer Bhe Intends to make nse of one," is a mystery which has never been explained. It is Lowever one of nature's laws wbich for eome "inscrutable reason" she does not SDlve herself, nor permit others to elucidate. If all the female fish that swim in the ocean, seas, lakes and rivers of the world were able to preserve their oflVpnng, then the waters would be packed a la sardine box es, for many of the female fish east "millions of eggs upon the waters but before the progeny become full grown, in fact in the earliest stage of their existence, they are devoured. What is trua cf fish is equally true of all animal and veritable existence. "From the humble b ysaop on the

wall to the towering ceder of Lebanon; from

the meek and lowly amoeba, which has no more character or individuality than any other pin point of jelly, to the lordly tyrant.

man, the rule is inevitable and invariable. Life is sown broadcast, only to ba followed almost immediately by a destruction, nearly as sweeping." No one can tell why such seeming ontraditctions exist. It is estimated that "bat one fish in a thousand reaches maturity," and "of every 1,000 children Dorn, only C01 attain adult age." Thus it seems that nature permits 900 fih out of every 1,000 to perish, and of every five human beings only two survive the infantile period. Thus does nature relentlessly weed out and destroy her inferior or surplus products. The ceaseless struggle for existence becomes a murderous scramble, and even the fittest survive only by fighting. It is well said that "Bt2 fleas have little fleas U.i their back to bite 'em. Yi hile little tieas bare lesser fleas, And so ad infinitum." Thus while it is admitted that the "super-

fecundity ot nature" is a wise provision, it

is equally apparent that the law by which

the "weaker and inferior" are destroyed

that the "stronger and superior" may sur

vive, is also an exhibition of wisdom. If the extraordinary production everywhere going on were not met by destructive forces to remove the surplus, nature would at once

defeat its purposes, and the world would be

come one vast lazar house. The writer

says:

Mnce tbe propagation of human belnss goes on with entire recklessness ai to disqualify ol the product aad tbe means of subsistence, some stro: g corrective Is absolutely necewary to estab-

lish limits to reputation, and to secure the coa-

Unued development of the race. If every begot

teu child lived to the average age of forty, in a

very few year there would not be standlngroom

on the earth for its people. Even with such prop

agators as thi elephant, each female ot which products but six offspring in her bearlag period

of ninety years, we are to'.d that if the species had ne parasitic or other eucmtet. It would only

be 710 years until elephants overran tha earth

Where, then, would we aMgn limits to the productiveness of the 700,000,000 human femalei on the globe, each of whom is capable of producing

tw ?nty children in her thirty years of bearing?

When such questions with all the facts they bring to view are under discussion the

conclusion is inevitable that after all there

is not too much death in the world; in fact, if there was a little more of it humanity would be the gainer, since those who did

survive would not be required to fight for

existence so contiuously and desperately

"Below the human strata," says the writer "superabundant generation is neutralized by

the simple device of having every organism

pray upon some other one. Big fish eat little

fl9h, birds devour inect?, and so on throughout the entire realm of animated nature below the 'human strata.' Man

alone being 'practically exempt from wbat is appai?ntly an inseparable conditiou of all

other forms of animal life,' creates means for his own destruction. He preys

on myraids 'of created things.

Tbe entira animal and vegetable

kingdoms are subject to his con

trcl, and still there is not enough to satisfy his demands, and hencs in various

ways he turns upon himself." It must be assumed that in this exhibition of sslfilc-

structivenesa man obeys a law of his nature while at the same time he is the subject of

other laws, all of which optrata to remove

the weak and inferior of the human family;

audit is just here that tho writer observes

the "economic functions of vice." Moral

ists deplore suicide, the immoderate use of stimulants, lives of pleasure, a "short

lifd and a merry one," etc They fail to observe that the surplus of the human family must be reduced In some way. "Compe

tent English statisticians," says the wiiter,

"estimate that alter a man has begun drinking beer in large quantities it takes him 21.7 years to kill himself, and a whisky drinker thortens the time to 10.1 jeais. Intemperance, beirg among tbe

milder vices, kills t lowly. Sexual tios slay more rapidly, and the higher grades of vice do their work with a swiftness proportionate

to their flagrancy.' 'Vice," says the writ

er, "is not so much a cause as an effect; not so much a disease as a symptom. Vice docs cot make a nature weak ordefective; a weak and defective nature expresses its weakness and defects in vice, and . that expression bricgi about ia one way or another the sovereign remedy of extermination;" and the writer holds that "temperance agitators" are mistaken when they assert that "the demon alcohol is yearly dragging down to dishonorable graves hundreds cf thousands of the brightest and fairest of the land," simply because "with very few exceptions, every one who goes to perdition by the tlcohol route would reach that destination by some other highway if the alcohol line were cot ranninff," and adds: It, 4 the temperance agitators insist, "internperauce Is yearly drasiring a hundred thousand of the men arid women of our country down to the grave," then a love of scientific truth compels the statement that Intern perar re, while doing aomo hatm, as is usually the cue with natural agents, It alo doing an Immense amount of good. By far the greater portion of thote who thus succumb to alrohcl 'zaticn. and to the deadly practices that usually accompany It, are thieves, thugs, prostitutes, gambler, aharpers, rufuns,and other iaenVnJ's cf the criminal and 7Uu criminal c!acH, urA whom whUky accommodaUcgly performs the office of judge and executioner, cutting their careers off at an average cf five years, rhre, without this lntenxtfitlou. they would be extended 1 1 rosolblr twenty or thirty. Tbe certainty and celerity with which it ferrets out and destroys these classes recommend it strongly over the ordiaary processes of justice. It i in such statements that the writer

finds justification for his theory that vie I 1 ü ' a , ,

as iu economic ana o.neiiciai iunctions. It helps to reduce the human surplus. It goea hand in hand with all the scourges, malaria, eewer-ga ar.d death-breeding filth in all of the great cities. It is held a3 a general proposition that var is wickedness; that disasters by eea and lsnd are largely attributable to cau?e3 which have their origin in some sort cf human wickedness, and yet it must be remembered that with all these forces combined, from tbe descent of a thunderbolt to the vengeance of a tornado, from the lowest to the most refined forms of vice, the human family to-day is barely within the range of possible subsistence, and that any very decided increase in numbers would be attended with consequences of terrible fatality. Hence it may be assumed that, as Mr. McElroy asserts, vica has its economic functions.

the fiscal year ended October 31, 1S82. It ia

a document in pamphlet form, containing 315 pages. We find of the $5,000 appropriated by the Legislature, tbe sum of $4 232 06 has been expended, leaving a balance on hand of $707 94. It is quite probable that only thoroughly educated physicians can properly appreciate the value of the report. One thing ia very certain published aa it is in a book of 315 paces, very few of those who have to pay for it will ever be any the wiser on account of its publication; not because the report ii not exhaustive, and therefore valuable, but because it is simply impossible to place it in the hands of the people. A comparatively few pamphlets will be printed. These will be distributed to local Boards of Health and sent to the various State Boards; but the people who are taxed to pay for the maintenance ot the Board cf Health will remain as ignorant of what the Board has accomplished as the people of Timbuctoo unless the press of the State conclude to enlighten them gratuitously. And thus ii happens, in so tar as the people ot the State obtain any information from tbe report of the Board, their money might as well have been sunk in the bottom of the sea. It is quite possible the people may eventually discover that they are taxed for printing report of Health Boards, Agricultural Boards, Statistical and Geological Boards, etc., from wbich they do not derive a farthiDg's benefit in the way of information derived from such publications unless, as we have remarked, the press of the State digs out the more important facts contained in them and prints them without charge. The report of the State Board of Health contains seven reports upon various important subjects, as follows: On "Epidemic, Endemic and Contagious Diseases," by William Lomal, II. D. It does not require argument to show that the people who pay for such a report ought to have ail the inf ormation it contains placed within reach at the smallest possible cost. These epidemic and endemic diseases, so far as could be ascertained from the Counties reporting, caused 737 deaths during the year 1S32, as follows:

as Dm a? es. 5 a a. a j3 O Typhoid fever 277 71 Orebro spinal meulngltis....... 16) 52 Kiphtheria 93 41 Scarlet fever . 6-V 23 N hooping cough - 43; 13 Measles .. 15 12 Smallpox fc7 20

There is a report on the "Sanitary Condition and Surroundings of Vigo County," by J. T. Scoville, M. D., which may be of State importance for aught we know, and there is another report by L H. Dunning, M. D., on the "Sanitary Condition and Sur

roundings of South Bend," possibly of great

importance to the State at large. We notice a report on "Sewers and Drainage," by J. W. Compton, M. D., which, from the title, we should judse would be of very general importance. We notica a report by

George L. Curt:, D. D., M. D., on the "Re

lation of Sanitation to Christianity," which opens up a wide field for speculation and

inquiry, and ought to be valuable and en

tertaining. The report by Th ad. M. Stephenp, M. D., on "Surface Geology. Typography and Sanitary Survey of Indiana," aa also the first "Registration Report Concerning Vital Statistics" ot Indiana, by the came author, are calculated to command special attention sinc9 we concluda from a cursory pcrus&l that they indicate more thought and research than any of the reports mentioned. Dr. Stephens names aboit fifteen preventable disease, and says: The avtual loss by sleknass, in consequence of prGYcuti ble dl'Cisa, is a loss to the individual who is sick, and to his family and dependents; it la als) a low to the State aa compared with other States whose sick list from suca eause is lets; also, it la an actual loss to the State, in proportion to tha amount of taxes lost to the State in consf. quence of failure of such person to pay, or else the State, to make up, will have to increase the amount of taxes of t.osa who are well. All.thcse facta hold good with reference to those who die with preventable disease each 3 ear, and even If f we say that to tbe Individual deceased there is no Iocs by his death, etl'.l, aa the loss to his family aad dependents is increased by each death, the actual loss may be so an ted the same. In each County cf 10,000 iahabltants there la lost ia this way about 120,000 per annum. That alone makes the subject ot health laws and their observance desirable; but if ire examine we shall lad that a week's Mckness costs each one thus afflicted a certain sum; that to him Ml) and to the community iu general there ia an actual loss besides the actual cost. Let us see for a moment. If persons are a.ck they can not earn support; rather, they cause expense to one or more; they arc unproductive consumers, and, as health and disease are not only absolute, but relative, there is a gradstioa from perfect health to absolute helplessness. The following fi vires, taken from a reliable source of statistics, ahow tho number of deaths in Ec gland and the cost and loss to the Stat and citizens in consequents of such deaths. The Sguras given art for one year:

Deaths from preventable r.ea8es...-. One-third of these were adulta...Fw each death twelve cases of tickoea are comp ui ................ . .. One-third aduils........ -.. ........

25.000 8,3o

300.0C0 100,000

Each death (alult) ia computed at f 1,00 SS.333.OC0 Kacn adult sick for tlx days ia the year, loj-ing 52 per day $1,200,000 Each of the eases of aickneia tost eighty ce&U per day f or six cays 11.4 10,100

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH BEPORT. We have before ns the first annnal report of the State Board of Health of Indiana for

Total eot and loss per annum SlO.V'JS 000 Add to this the cost of f uuerals, etc , and the urn would be sweiied to about (12.CC0.O00. If the diseases which entail such losses annually upon the State can be prevented, the people ought to know it, and the re

quired information ought to be widely distributed, which, however, will never be done in books of 315 pages. The reports we have named, and which constitute the real value of the document, could easily and for a moderate sum of money be published in every County in the State, and the people thereby would reap some benefit from the money expended to maintain a State Board of Health. The tables relating to vital statistics afe interesting and valuable, and the facts they contain ouglt to be widely known. It is shown that for nine months, ended September CO, 1S32, there were 25,546 births, 11,20? deaths, and 0,207 marriages in the State, and the report shows there are ntarly 5, $00 physicians and accoochers to look after those who require their services.

GENERAL, MOTES.

The great American cyclone Is "Gale" Hamll ton. Cf Sot-THEKN Journals call Tien Butler "the last of the Purilans," Paticmcb IIopfixu. widow of Jud;e Jsmei

Hopping, of Middle town, 2, J., celebrated he;

100th birthday last Wednesday. There were present seventeen grandchildren, twenty greatgrandchildren, and four great-great-grand-children. . A Wiscojcsix drummer has also tried the experiment of marrying five wives ia different ecUona of the country, bat has been brought p with a sudden. Three is the limit of safety. EosANf a Crrru, of Xatlck. R. I., aged 10S. la dim of sight and weak of memory, passing the time In drinking strong tea and monotonously knitting all day and unraveling at nights a pair of scks which she began thirteen years ago. Rosauna should be added to the Tartu Commission. Lady Beooki's toilet wt the Queen's list drawing room reception is described aa "a marvellous arrangement In white of Venetian velvet, fairy laces Stswo with pearls, ostrich plumes acd antique diamond buttons" in fact, aa the London World says, "a perfect replica of the costume in the celebrated picture of Nell Gwyane." A Minnesota school teacher asked the Committee if they would sustiin him If he t hraahed an obstreperous young lady pupil, and they said they would. Thea he went for her, and when the fight was over the girl ran borne laughing and ldft him standing outdoors subdued, and seeking to borrow a suit of clothes. A Wisconsin fa-mer, pretentious aa to piety took a ten-year-old boy out cf a charity Institution, promising to rear him "properly. The lad lied oue day, and the good man all; his tongue with a pair of scUsors. As this punishment was preceded by horse-whlpplng, proddlngs with a pitchfork, and suspensions by the heels, a Grand Jury has indicted the disciplinarian. Chief Jcstick Cartter, of the Supreme Court ot tbe Diatrict of Columbia, the other day inter rupted a lawyer who waasaylcg that "the making of bis will is one of the most noble acta ot a man's life." Mr. Cartter spoke up la dlhsent.

urging that wlll-makl-j? is a disagreeable Job to

most men. He concluded In this way: "If a man

could take his possessions with blm, all the prop

erty ot the earth would now ba either ia heaven or hell." ARETURNot the shipping and tonnage which baa passed through the Suez Canal from its opening in lSf.'J to the end of last year has been issued s a Parliamentary paper. Thia showa that the 'mount of 1SS2 far exceeded that of any previous year. Of the total of 3,1 J tbips (as against 2,727 in ISSl) which padsed through the Canal in 183.,

2,565 were English, their gross tonnage being

5,795,581, as anainst 1,320,541, the grots tonnage of the foreign vest la. "And what, in the name cf goodneer. is thls?' asked Mrs. David Davis as the Senitor lugged

something into the room and dropped it at her

feet. 'This is my thirt, darling, and I will be greatly obliged If you will tew on a button for me." "David Davis," said the lady eternly. "when you brlEg me your sblrt I will few on a button for you with pleasure, as becomes a fond and dutiful wife; but just now, sir, 1 must Insist upon your removicg this circus canvass from my apartment." Olive Logan met Carl Eoaa on the street In

London the other day, and straightway wrote off

to the Philadelphia Times in this remlniscc-ntlal moo3: "If Carl Rosa ia no longer the slender violinist of lang syne, a Romeo chef d'orches're, am I the Juliet of proportions symmetrical that I was? No, sir, I am not. I am one of those women depicted with such humor by Hawthorne, who, starting life as a violet, have in course of years expanded to the dimensions of the dahlia." This is certainly frank enough, but it should be remembered that Olive says it of herself. Thomas IT. Herndon, the member-elect to Congress from the Flist District of Alabama, died at Motile last wtek.tgcd fifty-five years. Mr. Herndon. who was a cousin of the wife of President Arthur, was a graduate ot the Harvard Law School. He entered public life aa a member of the Alabama Legislature ia 1857. He was one of the members cf the State Convention wbich de clared for secession in 1S6I, and subsequently entered the Army as Major. He reached the rank of Colonel and was twice wourded. lie ran ss the Democraticcandidste f jr Governor in 1S72. He was subsequently elected to the Legislature and served tw 0 1 ) ms in Congress.

A few weeks since an old woman, upward of

ninety years of ago, died at a pleca called tglmton, near Londonderry. The usual arraignments for tha future were made, Including a wake. Tbe coffin was closed and taken to the placs of Interment, where the service was duly gone through, the coffin lowered, and the grave filled in. Oa returning; home, however, the relatives were surprised to find the corpse of the old woman lying on the bed upon which she had expired. They had simply forgotten to put her ia the cofiio. They took her to the grave iu a cart, dug up the empty cofiln, placed her in it, and eventually had her securely planted. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Traveller says that an antique furniture store iu the District contains a very ingenious brass brecch-loadlng cannon made by Frederick, a weilknown gunner of the war time. It willhoota two-ounce ball a distance of a mile. Thiscaunon waa once the property of little "Tad" Lincoln. It was one of a pair made for the boy by the gunner, the second cannon being a perfect model of the celebrated Dahlgren gun. The second piece was bought by Mrs. Dahlgren the other day, but not until after Secretary Lincoln had called at tbe store and verified the property aa having once be longed to his brother "Tad." Mr. Lincoln says that his mother would not let little "Tad" keep them because she regarded them aa altoeethe too dangerous weapons to be used for playthings She gave them away to the man who subsequently placed them on sale Iu the antique store. Tue number ot suicides committed in Berlin during ihi month of February exceeded by 30 per cent, those recorded l:i January. Hanging was the mode ot death selected in the great majority of cases. Want and ml cry were, of course, the chief causes which determined so many persons to put an end to their existence; but in somecases no motive whatever could be assigned. . March has begun badly. Several suicides were registered on the 2d, amon which were included the sui cide of a whole f imlly. A merchant named Solvln, who had been ruined by unfortunate I peculations, pursuaded his wife and child to take poison, and then did so himself. The daughter, a girl of twelve, had managed in her last moments to think of her doll, which waa found dressed In white and put carefully away in its little bed. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Record writes: "A daiutr little girl ol eight or nine, with dangerous big eyes, appeared I I the library of the White Fouse the other day when It was fall of great men of one sort and another, aud quietly waited her turn to speak with the tall 'gentleman with tbe frray whiskers and hair, and the tober lace, and the courteous manner, down by the bow window in the south end of the room. By and by her opportunity came. She tripped forward modestly, but b'avely, and with a 'good morning Mr. President.' told her name and proffered ber request She was a niece cf General Winneld Scott Hancock, and fhe wanted a few sweet flowers from the executive conservatory for the Easter d coratlon of a little Episcopal Church. She smiled archly as she told her rrand, as though f be waa quite sure of a favorable response. Tbe President's tired face brightened with smiles as ba turned from the Uie?ome politicians to the sweet little face before him. It was like a cooling zephyr from the Chesapeake oa a hot summer's day. He told her honestly that he was very glad to see ber, and then he gave her carte blanche in the coos ervatory, and dismissed her with a pleaeaot word or two about his own little girl, who docs so much to lighten up his life in the White House. Ilcr handsome uncle could not have do ue more for her had he been standIngeln Arthur's place.

A Bark Soak. 6t. Johns, N. F., March $1. The light bouse keeper at Cae Pine reports seeing the liarkentine Aurora go down Wednesday afternoon. The harbor is treed from lce

THE F0I1EHAN HUIiDEll.

A $5,000 Life Polley Held on the life of

' the Old Lady,

Which Waa Taken Out by Her Son Milton Rich Developments Expected.

Since the arrest of James Hough, on Monday, for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Foreman and her daughter Lucinda, there has been much excitement, not only in the locality in which the folks lived, but in police circles in this city. During all of yesterday there were all kinds of wild rumors Moating about regarding clews and more arrests, but all of these failed to materialise. 03icer James Stevens and his partner, who arrested Hough, were busy all day in trying to unearth something new in the case, but if they did so they kept the fact mighty dark. There was, however, one fact brought to light during the day, which may give the cfficials some light upon the subjrc and it is to be hoped that they will be able yet to find out who committed the dastardly ciime. Yesterday morning a man named Goldsmith, who lesides at or near Colfax, came to the city and atrsightway hied himwlf to the Coroner's otlice to see Dr. Max-wt-ll. When this official was found the Colfax gentleman presented to him a death certificate for Mrs. Elizabeth Foreman, and asked the Doctor to sign the paper so the holders of an insurance policy upon the old lady could get their moaey. This little transaction opened the eyes of tbe Coroner with a jerk, as he has been hard at work ever since the mader was committed to find if there was an insurance policy on either one of the murdered women's lives. As soon as the Doctor regained his breath, he at once began to question tbe man regarding the policy, and from him learned the following facts: On or about the 50th of last Decernbeer, an agent of the Eureka Life Insurance Company, of Alliance, O., came among the good folki residing in and about the little village of Royalton, wanting to make out policies upon the lives ot the old and young. It is claimed that among others the above mentioned agent ran across Milton Foreman, a son and brother of the two murdered women. He explained to Milton the advantages held out by his Com pany in class C for the insurance of old people, and Milton, it seems, finally thought it would be a good plan to take out a $5,000 policy upon the life of his aged mother. The premiums were, however, quite heavy, and it is claimed that he went to a widow lady named Mrs. A. I). Moore and s'ated the case to her, and she finally agreed to go halves on the policy, and it whs taken out and the premium aid since that da e until now by Milton and M.s Mx re. It teenies that ttie Insurance Company which issued the policy will not piy any policies unless tney receive a death certificate signed by tbe physician attending th deceased. And as Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Gollsmiüh ara partners in a millinery stor atCoihx Mrs. Moore sent her partner's husband to this city to get the Coroner's signature to the death certificate, m be was the only physician who was officially connected with the case. The Coroner refused to attach his name to the certificate, and will do all in his power to get tbe agent who wrote the policy to make a sworn statement regarding the circumstances under which it was tiken out. John Foreman, the son of the murdered woman, who has been residing in this city, was seen a few days since by a Sentinel scribe, who asked him regarding the insurance question. He said that the members of the family had gotten together, when the insurance question was discussed, and that each mem Der of the family bad g.ven their word of honor that they knew nothing of any policy ever being taken out on the life cf their mother or sister, and inquiry had been made 0 all the Life Insurance Companies, and it was found that no policv was held by anyone on their mother's or sister's lives. It seems from tbe above that Milton bad forgotten the policy in the Kureka Association. Yesterday morning John Foreman, with his family, left the city in a two-horse wagon for his farm in ll inois, where Le intends to

reside in the future. About auhonr after

they had departed two officers called at bis former residence for him, and when it was found that John had left a Con

stable was immediately sent in pursuit of

him, to bring him back and testify be fore the Coroner, and it is suppose J that he will be brought back to the city txiay, and will give his evidence before the Coroner. It is expected that some startling facta will be brought to light to-day.

The following testimony was taken yester

day by Joroner Maxwell, which is quite interesting reading: Jamea P. Catterson I live in Hendricka County. My home la about four miles from the Foreman place. 1 flnt learned of the murder on öaturday morning alter the wome:i were killed. I have known Jamas Hough for ten years. HU general character and reputation is bad. I saw him twioe oa the day t efore the murder pat through my wools. I did n-n see hla again until tbe following Monday. This time I saw him pasa through tha woods again. On this occasion be told me that if it had not been for bis wife he wou'd have whipped Mosea (iulna that morning. lie was living on Guinn'a place, and he sa,d Gutnn came to his house that morning after the murder and said he would like for him to vacate the house, aa he had use for It, and that the neighbors were U-aUt.ned, and that there had been suspicious ligils sten about his houfo on tbe night of the murder. Hough asked Gul::n who saw the lights, aud he said Mr. Button; and he said when he asked Mr. Button about it be denied saying iu It was in this itme conversation toat he told me that he and Willie Hout;h were together near the Foreman farm, and that they met a boy running who said there was a dead woman up there. He said this waa on Friday morning, March 9. The first 1 knew of the murder was the next mornii.g. W. J. Hamilton -I am a brother In-law of James Hough. I am in the employ of J. P. Catterson. I whs presentat the time the above conversation oocurred, and I corroborate it in fall.

A JAIKSON HAND-BILL.

An Old Hand-Hlll Tbat Called the People Together. Zaccsville Signal. Mr. George Shreck. who has been locktender at the Zanesville locks for over twenty-seven years, showed a Signal reporter, a day or two since, a Jackson hand-bill, dated Nov. 18, 1823, fifty-four years ago. It reads: "Zanesville, Nov. IS. 1S28. "celebration of the victokt or the 31 t OCTOBER ! ! "Ohio has risen In her strength She has nobly taken her stand with her ristcr States of New York. Pennsylvania, Vlrainia, Keutucky and Indiana, and has proclaimed her voice at the ballot-boxes for Jsckson and Reform ! "The majority frr Jackson and Calhoun, the Democratic candidates for President and Vice-PreM-lent of the United Elates, is unparalleled in political aunalsol Ohio. It is officially announced tobe "FOra TH0CSAKD OXK HCXDRKP A.5D SKVEÄTTfive! "Friends of Republican Vlc'ory In Muskicgum! Ye who have helped to achieve hia great and glorious victory! Ys who hsve stood by the pe&?cuted patriots of two wars! Ye who hav stemmed tr.e torrent of abu-ia and ca'umuy headed by the Federal arMrcracy of a Hartford Convention! Ye who have been denounced aad stigmatized aa the offscourings and dogs of society ! - who have borne the brunt and heat of battle! Ye patrotic sons cf foreign lands who have been put under the ban of Federal proscription l Ye who have de--cted and put to flight the mlFeraole defenders of devotion and mutiny, of slanderers and copper hand balls. ALL ALL are invited to join in the festiritleaot the day. "The right of instruction and the will of tbe sovereign people have prevailed. Friendaof Jacx8ON ad Liberty. You have won the victory. Your country is safe. Let u rejoice, but let it be in moderation, as becomes Frek-msn and let us be grateful totheGreat Authorof ourCelngfor the civil and religions privilege we ecjoy. "Bv Older of the Republican Corresponding Committee of Muskingum Co. "N. B.-A signal of two gunj will be fired oa Thursday morning."

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