Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1884 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY AUGUST 13, 1884.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13. TEBMS PER TEAK. Single Copy, without Premium. S 1 00 Club of eleTen for - . - 10 03 We ask Democrats to Dear in mind, and select their own SUte paper when they come to tike subscriptions anil make up club. Even now the conflict Is In the air, and the word is Erery Democratic shoulder to the wheel. Agents making up clubs send for any information desired. Address INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL COMPANY, Indianpolis, Jnd. Majah Blaise. Bre'b Calkiss might be called a "swamp angel. Maja ix Blaine and Majah Calkins. Two Majahs. How hapiy we should be. Two plumed knight.5 Jim was a Kentucky "Majah" once. The disgraceful escapade of his youth happened when he was a "ilaj ah" Majah Elaine." Thb Llajah was very naughty, it seamsLet us Bee whether the Mugwump organs will regret it as mnch as they did that of Cleveland. Now that General Longstreet is retired from official cares, the Plumed Knight managers might commission him to stump the doubtful States. There ia no disguising his war record. Said a prorainent Republican yesterday to member of the Sentinel staff: "The story oa Blaine is infinitely more disgracfnl than the Cleveland scandal. Neither should nave been published, but tha Blaine matter is now justified as a retaliatory measure on the pait of the Democracy." Ths St. Louis Post-Dispatch says that Cleveland Is a hero. Ye, indeed, tbeberoof one of the worst scandals that has ever disgraced the name of a public Ban in this country. Indianapolis Times. Oh, no. It is not so mean and low as the Blaine matter. Besides nine-tenths of the Cleveland scandal is a lie. Calkiss, Feelie and Bruce Carr are moving across Southern Indiana. Why do they not take Ehody Shiel along with them, and occasionally Eugene Bundy. The astronomers say nothing abeut them in their descriptions of the August planets. Ferhap3 they hare been mistaken for comets. The Irish-American makes palpable reprisal against Blaine by quoting from, the Irish World of December 10, 1SS1, this view of its now favorite candidate: In his flunkeyim to the British Government, James G. Blaine has refused to protect American citizens whom be was bound, by every principle of law, to extend protection to. Such a man has no conception of what is due to the honor of the United State., and should never aiin be placed in a position where he can disgrace our Government. The Buffalo Telegraph Cleveland scandal has been republished in but one Republican newspaper. It has appeared in a score of Independent and Democratic newspapers. Yet we have been constantly bearing deprecation of the Republican press for malic g an issue of tie case. Terre flaute Express. The Chicago Tribune, the Toledo Blade, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Indianapolis Times and other Republican papers published the scandal alluded to, while the Indianapolis Journal, Herald, Review, News and others did what was infinitely and disgracefully worse, assnintd the filthy details tti'f, whenever they commented upon or alluded to them editorially or published extracts from other papers. The Boston Herald well recalls that it was away back ia 1550 more than a quarter of century ago that the Republican party, then only two year3 eld, and fortheiirst time in National Convention assembled, resolved that it was both the right and duty of Congress to prohibit ia the Territories "those twia relics of barbarism polygamy and ilavery." And after the war had extirpated one twin, they resolved that Congress must prohibit and extirpate the other. This was in 1377. In ISsO, thi3 declaration was reaührnied, but polygamy has not beea extirpated yet, although the party has been in power twenty-thre8 years, and points with pride to its record of promises fulfilled. Is there any reason to believe it will do any better ia the future? JJk. Calkiss, we understand, in explaining the swamp land transaction, says that he sold the swamp Ion ago subject to the mortgage. That does not meet the point. He is charged with having obtained a loan of $700 on a piece of swamp land not worth the third part of it. Mosquitoes take their rations with tbem whea they go to spead the summer there, tad travellers aay that armies of grasshoppers have been seen in the swamp with tears rolling dowa their cheeks mourning over the devastation of the place. The conundrum is: What art did the Republican candidate for Governor use to persuade a money loan association to advance him $700 on auch property. If there is a new "Slick Six" company organizing, there should be tome stock reserved for Mr. Calkins. The Sentinel calls special attention to the fact that a malignant speech made by Senator Morton in 1876 is now being sent broadcast over the land in supplements from the Journal office. In that speech Morton taunted Gov ernor Hendricks because he was childles. Death had robbed the Governor of his only child, and this incarnation of malignity stood ia the Academy of Music one night in the summer of 137G, and by tricky innuendo dragged himself into and through the sacred surroundings of a bereft home. The Journal, not content with the oblivion in which the Tulgar speech was slumbering, dragged it forth only the other day and published it ia its columns. Not content with this it lifted it from its daily issue and placed it in a campaign supplement, aad no, a3 we write, the miserable

thing ü poiaononing thousands of homes ia Indiana with its virus and vulgarity. If the Journal needs drag Morton into this canvass it must look to his defease.

Ir makes a rast difference with Repnblicaa papers whose ox is gored. It was a duty they owed the country to print distorted accounts of a little private irregularity of Governor Cleveland a dozen years ego with a widow. But when mention is made of Blaine's having seduced and then abandoned an innocent girl, the Republican papers are indignant. Is it, then, worse for a Democrat to have beea merely uachaste thaa for a Republican to have been a vile seducer. The Jo urnal says of Robert Jeierson, the colored man who recently died in this city, that "there is very little doubt as to his being the eon of Thumas Jefferson." At the time the Journal's account of Mr. Jefferson appeared, some five or six years ago, the Saturday Herald, of this city, published a careful examiaatioa of the evidence disclosed in that account and showed that there was no reasoa to believe ia the alleged paternity. The coaclusioa was almost inesistIbly against it. Without conclusive evidence it is a shame to contribute to the most honored names ia our history the vices that would disgrace the Natioa ia thtir degradatioa. Some dosen years ago, a correspondent here of .a Cincinnati paper in an account of the portraits of the Tern", torial and State Governors ia the Governor's room cf the old State-house, alluded to that of Governor Posey, the last of the Territorial Governors, with an expansion of a silly story of his being the illegitimate son of General Washington and a beautiful young widow who was living near Mount Vernon whea the General was a young man. As the ,:'ather of his country" was claimed by history and tradition to be the father of nothing else, this story attracted some attention. At the request of the editor of the Cincinnati Com anercial Mr. 15. R. Sulgrove, of this city, examined into the matter, and by correspondence with the surviving relatives of Governor Posey he found that facts so completely exploded the invention that there was not enough left for the use even of a dime novelist. It is well enough to know the truth about creat men, even if it be an unpleasant truth, but there is no good and no sense ia giving currency to a rumor or tradition, evea if not improbable, that spots the fair fame of those whose good name is the honor of the Natten. THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. A striking instance of Republican injustice is seen by an omission by its press from its printed list of dailies supporting Blaine. True, it is not ordinarily the providence of a Democratic journal to faruish helpful suggestions to the opposition, but the Sentinel will be magnanimous enough to say that if the Republicans are not more politic they may offend one of their most zealous allies. Credit ihould ever be given to wherever it is due, but this principle is not observed when the Blaineites parade the Tribunes of New York and Chicago, the I ndianpolis Journal and Times, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the Buffalo Telegraph and the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, and do not parade the Cincinnati Enquirer. It is base ingratitude on the part of the Republican press to thus fail to honor a crew which is fighting more effectively evea if under false colors thaa the most ostentatious of its own Robeson ships. A sense of justice compels aa earnest recommendation of the Enquirer to the supporters' of James G. Blaine. Those who fail to read it miss some of the most truculent Blaine campaign literature. Indeed, the Blaine campaign, so far, without the Cincinnati Enquirer, would be something like the play of "Hamlet" with the character of "Hamlet" left oil. I's columns are delicious morssla apaicst the Democratic candidate which confessed Republican papers stop their presses to copy. The piratical Enquirer should, and shall, have the pronounced recognition it deserves at the hands of the Republican press, or the Sentinel will parade that press for its ingratitude. With "Gath" in New York (whea aot writing to the Tribune) telegraphing every virtue be can manufacture for Blaine, and every scandal he can nose out against Cleveland, and with "Jayhawker" in Indianapolis, to (when not engaged ia editorial work for a Republican illustrated weekly) pry into the secrets of Democratic campaign committees and report them to Republican committees, and send a version of them favorable to the Republican cause for the Enquirer columns, with only Republican correspondents to furnish its news, we say that, with all these engines at work ia Blaine's behalf, the Cincinnati Enquirer should have a prominent ..place ou the Republican list of Blaine organs. Bat we also say that the Enquirer, so far as it pretends to be Democratic, or to support the National Democratic ticket, ia a fraud and a libel, and any Democrat lending it his patronage is making a mistake. LABOR A COMMODITY. The possible energies of the wage-earner ia to him what the producta of the soil are to the farmer, and unless the demand is fully up to the supply a surplus is created which at once becomes valueless. True, the farmer may garner his over production, and at some future day realize something for it, but never except at a loss, unless some violent and uncommercial factor in trade should create a fictitious demand at a fictitious value, and thea his advantage would be at the consumer's expense; but the wageworker cannot so store his energies and hold them for a prospective demand. His store-house is always full and every day that fails to famish him with a market, simply forces him to sustain an absolute and complete loss without a remedy to recover any part of it, and this condition is forced upon him every time his energies produce a greater supply than the demaad caa absorb. Naturally he must wait ia idleness until the surplus is consumed before his eaeigies will again be required. Ia the meantime, be it remembered, the purchasing power of the workingman'a wages remain the same. The cost of living does not fluctuate with the opportunities for employment. He lives, or rather exists, under a cold, severe aad selfish condition that ia the legitimate outgrowth of a misapprehension of what are the true principles of social science, the application of which false basis eacourages the .establishment of

monopolies, which, in turn, look upon aad treat the energies of workingmen as commodities without any reference to the supply of the necessaries of life in their larders or to their rights aa wage-workers. The wage-class is found in that condition very of tea ia this country, and so long as combinations of capital can keep the present high tariff law upon the statute books, over production and the consequent reduction in working days will occur at short intervals without a corresponding, in fact, without any reduction whatever ia the cost of bread and meat during the days ia which the market is closed against the energies of the wage-worker. It is claimed that high tariff laws open up opportunities for the employment of skilled and unskilled labor which, without them, could not be secured, but the evidence adduced by nearly a quarter of a century's experience proves that the reverse of that proposition is true. There are liviag evideaces oa every hand that a high tariff law is a cunningly devised machine for making the few very rich at the expense of the best interests of the many, who grow poorer day by day, while the monopolists grow richer day by day. The fact is, the civil war forced the establishment of 'manufactures contrary to the spirit of our system of government, but the obstructiona ia the way of securing supplies from Europe made it justifiable, as many other war measures were justified by the demauds of the occasion ; but when the war closed, war measures and extraordinary privileges for the few should have given place to the demands of legitimate business enterprises which are free trade, that the United States might compete with the world for the mastery ia the great battle of trade and

commerce. LOOKS CROOKED. Mr. Calkins, is this true? If so, it looks like a very crooked piece of work. Our authority for it is the Laporte Argus. The charges are damaging and are summarized briefly ia the following: Ten years ago next fall it is alleged that William II. Calkins secured a loan from the common school fund oa land that is practically a worthless swamp. With the assistance of intimate, personal and party friends, who probably never saw the land, he obtained money from the school fund to full twice the amount of the value of the swamp. He has failed to pay the interest on the debt, and for eight years the taxpayers have been obliged by law to pay it for him. He has failed to pay this hörest debt to the school fund, although repeatedly urged to do so. lie is a lawyer and knows that the money can not be collected oa his note by suit until the land is sold, and he has the best of reasons for believing that the land can not be sold at the appraised value, which is only two-thirds of the amount he received from the school fund. He knows that the people who pay the taxes have fo nearly eight years been paying the interest that was due from him to the school fund. Is this an honest transaction, er is it a swindle on the school fund, that should be sacred to every citizen ot Indiana? Is such a man worthy to be made chief executive of the State? Is he the right kind of a man to guard the interest of the childrea of the State, and to look after the welfare of the taxpayers? We leave the voters to answer these timely questions at the ballot box ia November. We find the following floating around the country credited to the Indianapolis Journal: Wtcn Colonel Gray was In the city, a few days ago, a brief conference with Major Calkins In regard to the matter wm beld. but no agreement was reached because he objected to holding more than four donates, while Major Call ins ured that there should be a joint discussion iu at least each of the thirteen Congressional District. They will again confer upon the matter sometime soon. The story reached this office very differently. Calkins, we understood, was the name of the party who did the "kicking." He it was who wanted only a very limited number of discussions. If he wants any more we are very sure that he caa have all that he wants. There is one thing sure, and that is this: He needs to be posted as to his fact?, or a ten-year old boy would make him the laughing Block of the State. He surely underrates the intelligence of Indiana people if he thinks his Richmond swash will satisfy tnem. POLIIICAL, NOTES. The organs are pitching into Mr. Ilendric'is. but we observe that none of the fellows on the other side are writing the old man any mors letters. Louisville Time. Mr. Cleveland, as Governor, has fulfilled the promise made by his earlier career. lie has cduducted the Slate administration on strictly business principle Christian Union. Washington roT: Nothing helps the Republican campaign along so effectually as the spectacla of a millionaire putting an impoverished workingman on the bacK and saying, "How splendidly we we get along under Republican legislation." It is somewhat startling evidence of the growing worship of wealth that Blaine organs should seriously cite it as an argument against Cleveland's election to the Presidency that he is not, like their favorite, a rich man. Erooklyn Union (Rep.). The Brooklyn Eagle ears: "If there is any Democrat who is apprehensive as to the result of the Presidential contest in tbe Empire State let him take a trip through tbe rural district, bear what the people have to say, and he will get rid of his fears." There is, indeed, no public man in the country whose official action has proved that he can be tros'.ed by the friends of civil service reform so completely and satisfactorily as G rover Cleveland. Certainly no such claim caa be asserted for Mr. Blaine. Harper's Weekly. Asdraw Jackson was twice elected President of the United States, and that, too, in spite of attacks upon his personal character as malignant as any that were ever made upon the character of Aaron Burr. The American people have a wholesome repugnance to icandal-mongers who venture beyond the official record to assail public men. Brooklyn Eagle. VewYoek Tribune, May SI, 1S7G: He (Blaine) is at all times a partisan and too mach Imbued with the prejudices and habits ot partisanship to make an ideal President or an ideal candidate; and it is true, too, as has been once or twice said, tnat he has been in a conspicuous and Influential position In Congress for many years and has not urged ans measure ot re'orm or protests! against bad government and corrupt administration. The coune of the religious journals make the Blaine men so mad that they can't see. A Eai Francisco organ says that a religious paper is lika a circus or a caloon, run lor coin and no-hlng else. The policy f the paper is dictated by the till, and the till Is as independent of religion ai is the till of a traveling showman or a gin mill. II tlf the writing is doae by Impecunious Bohemians fur coin. Many of the so-called relizious journals are Impositions upon the public. Whey they go Into pilitlc they go in for a selfish money-making purpose. This is the view which tbe Blaine people now take of the leading religious papers of the country. Atlanta Constitution..

THE PLU2IED KNIGHT.

Jlillersburjr, Ky., Considerably Excited Over the Revival of an Old Scandal. An Alleged Chapter in the Life of James G. Blaine While a School Teacher. It 13 Charged That He Blighted the Fair Fame of a Young Lad y. Her Sadden Disappearance From the Kentucky Village to Seek Oblivdou A Prima Facie Case That Probably Needs at Searching Ministerial Investigation Backed by Affidavits. 8pecial to the Chicago Times: Milleksbueg, Ky., Aug. 8. These old Kentucky towns nffoid types of character seldom seen ia real life ia the Northern aad Western States. Many of the Colonels and the Majors are still on earth. Some of the fraternity are dilapidated as well as antiquated, but they linger around the hotels, in the Court-houses, and caa be foucd at the cattle and horse sales, which occur daily, expressing their views of the merits and demerits of the animals exposed to public auction. The towns, however, bear evidences of thrift, and despite the fact that the distilleries are closed, the busiaess of the CDuatry stores is said to be good, and the villages are certaialy quite pretty. Still they are not so lively a3 they were before the war, whea liquor was cheap and reasonably pure, negroes were articles of property, and the true Kentuckian was a gentleman of leisure in every eense of the word. Still the Millersburg of to-day is not the town of thirtyfive years ago. It was a very flourishing village then, surrounded by a most beautiful country, and inhabited by wealthy people. The "Cane ridge" boys came to town nightly, and indulged in the typical Southern game of "crack-loo," usine 20 gold pieces for each bet. These young men rodeblooded horses, and made ilillersburg howl when they came to town. The stakes have been reduced to a paltry nickel ia these degenerate times, and the average youth of the day busies himself with trading ia horses and cattle or agricultural pursuits. The dajs of the rapid youth have passed in the Blue Grass region. Millersburg had a famous female school in 1SvO-51. At the same time a companion institution for the educatioa of bays flourished at Blue Licks, about twelve miles distant. Both were managed by Colonel Thornton F. Johnson, who has long since left the land of the living, and the existence of this college brings the Times commissioner to the words of the text, viz.: "A Scandal of Over Thirty Years Ago." In order to retail the story in its true bearings, it will be necessary to digress a little. The schools, male and female, in question, were originally instituted at Georgetown, and about the year 1813. Oa the recommendation of Judge Jesse A. Boulton, of Maysvilie, Colonel Johnson employed as a Professor in the male department of the institution James G. Blaine, who was at that time nineteen or twenty years of age. Mr. Blai re is well remembered by the old settlers as Major Blaine. He was a spare-built man, of medium height, and as straight as an arrow. His hair grew quite long and REACHED TO HIS SHOULDERS. There were possibly two hundred pupils in the male department, the sons of tha blueblooded aristocracy of ihr land. The lads wore a sti iking unifoim, and Major Blaine, being an officer, was attired ia a suit which would eclipse that usually worn by the drum-major of a crack band. The Times commissioner saw one of the identical au its the other day, its old-time wearer proudly exhibiting it to the boys ia the "tavern.' It consisted of lip.ht-blue pantaloons with a red stripe at least aa inch and a half in width, and a coat, also of blue, which was cut in full swallow-tail style, faced with red. As for buttons, there were just forty-eight large brass ones on the breast of the coat and twenty-four on the tails. And a hat. Such a hat! A huge shako, surmounted by waving ostrich plume?. Major Blaine's uniform was said to be even more stunning, if such a thing were possible. Being an oaicer, his coat was ornamented with more buttons than those worn by the papils. lie were gold-embroidered epaulette also, and the nodding feathers in his hat were at least six inches longer tbaa those in the chapeaux of the pupils. It may be the origin of the "plumed knight" business. On swell occasions tbe Major wore a sword, a "xeal" sword, and he was renowned for the tightness and slimr.ess of his boots, which were then one of the distinctive features of the dress of the Kentuckians. These boots were called "copper-toes," and made by a scoeniaker in Lexington. They were made skin-tight, and there were at least five inches of peaked toe to them, which turned up in front after the fashion of a sleigh-runner or a Dutch skate. The Major was a heart-smasher in every sense of the word. He was remarkably reat in his personal appearance, usually walking with a light cane in his right hand, while his left carried a glove and a newspaper. THE OLD TIME SCANDAL, the investigation of which devolved upon the Times Commissioner, had for its principals Mr. Blaine and a yocng lady belonging to the female department of Colonel Johnson's school. The lady, who shall be nameless, was young, bright, and vivacious, dark hair and ever, her features plain, but such a form! She was plump without being gross, and her shapely figure was the envy of all the slim waited blue grass bells. She had remarkably small feet and well turned ankles. The lady is well remembered all through this part of the State. Blaine soon became enamored with the lady's charms, and spent all his leisure hours while the schools were located at Georgetown ia her society. Colonel Johnson ia 1819 moved the male school to the Blue Licks, and the citizens of this town being desirous of hav'ng the female department located here offered Colonel Johnson extraordinary inducements if he would accede to their wishes. The Colonel, with an eye to business, said he needed some money, and if the citizens of Millersburg would indorse his paper for $5,000 the town should have the prize. The trade was closed out instanter, the money beiog borrowed of an old farmer up the Lexington pike on a note signed by Colonel Johnson and indcrsed by ten good men and true of Millersburg. It might be as well to add that the citizens paid the note, as the Colonel failed to make good his part. The male school was moved from Georgetown to the Blue Licks, and Major Blaine went with it The institution was called the Western Military Institute, and was located ia buildings owned by one Colonel Tom Holliday, who has long since departed this life. After a year or two Colonel Johnson got in arrears tor quite a sum of money as SENT FOR Tni PBIMISKS, and there arose a coolness between Johnson and Holliday. One day the thing came to a focus, Holliday demanded a settlement

and Col. Johnson filed a demurrer. Blaine and Bushrod Johnson, afterward a general in the confederate army, backed up the colonel, while Col. Holliday bad the assistance of bis son, John B. Holliday, now the heriff of Bourbon county, and his brother, Lewis Holliday. The parley grew warm, and finally Holliday, sr., said he would mighty soon settle the matter, and drew his pistol and shet Col. Johnson in the hip. Blaine drew his pistol, and, assisting Col. Johnson into a buggy near by. drove away toward Millersburg. Bushrod Johnsen is said to have taken to the brush, aad is reported to have made the twelve miles intervening between Millersburg and the Licks in thirty minutes. The Hollidays, father and son, mounted their horses, gave chase to Colonel Jonson and Blaine, and soon caught up with tbem. The landlord and his son, as the historian say, made Johnson and Blaine give up thtir pistols, and Blaine, with characteristic smoothness, talked the Hollidays out of their intention to do further injury to Colonal Johnson, who was bleeding profusely and in great paia from hia wound. The sufferer was removed to Millersburg, and for many months hobbled about the town on crutches. The fact that Bushrod Johnson ran amounts to nothing, since a thousand acts on the battlefield in after years prove him a man of great personal courage. He was simply taken at a disadvantage! The Military Academy was shortly after the shooting ailray removed to Drennon Springs, and in a few menths died of inanition. But during these years Major Blaine was devoted in his attentions to the lady already alluded to. Every Friday night her neck was craned out of one of the windows of tbe college listening for the rumble of the sta?e coach, and tbe coach on Friday night invariably carried from Blue Licks to Millersburg the gallant Major, seated on the box by the side of Uncle Jack Hook, the driver. Major B'aine was a welcome visitor in Millersburg. Friday nights, Saturdays, and until Sunday evening, he paid court to the lady. THE LOVE-MAKING was done at the residence of Dr. Moore and William McKini, near the school. At Mc Kim's, card parties were the order of the day, while Dr. Moore's mansion was open for a social dance, Sunday excepted. It would not do to have the courting done in the boarding-school, for the matter was being talked about by the pupils already, and the parlors of a boarding-school affords little opportunity for a good, old-fashioned sixhours' Eessioa of a courting match, "When Sunday night came and the stage for the Licks was jest ready to leave the town, Major Blaine reluctantly tore himself fron? the presence of the charmer and returned to his pedagogic duties. Is it any wonder the people of Bourbon County talked? As for tie pupils, they almost wore thdr tongues out. Finally, the matter came to an issue. A great burly Kentucky cadet made some remark about the affair. Major Blaine called him to account for it, and, according to report, a little scrapping match ensued, but the affair was quietly hushed up and nothing more heard about it. Tbe young man, now in middle life, was asked by the Times commissioner the truth of thestcry. With characteristic Kentucky gallantry he refused to say a single word on the topic, and concluded the interview with the remark: "If there was anything in it I would not tell it" The teacher's wcoing was soon turned by certain loquacious people into secret scandal, and finally the matter was made more and more public, and the whole country side fell to talking about it. It ran month in and month out. and at length a report wa3 circulated which compromised ia THIS MOST SEBIOCS MANNER the ycung lady. One can imagine the effect of tuch a story concerning people of the prominf nee of Major Blaine and his inamorata. It set the country boys and girls beside themselves. As for the old gossips and "I-t old-jou so" people, they gloated over the alfair, and rolled it in their months as they would a rt asting ear or a lump of maple sugar. Then the old womea begsa to debate over the proposition as to whether or not Major Blaine bad been guilty of betraying the lady according to current rumor. At tbe quilting bees, the mite societies and the donation parties the ladies discussed the question in bated breath. But the men iolka enjoyed it immensely. The habitues of the postoflice and the drug store reveled in it, and the old bucks, wbo can always be found in country towns on the horse blocks, or engaged ia whittling up other people's ttore boxes, had a lasting theme for discussion. Oce day, however, while some ladies were busying themselves at an accouchement, one ancient dame said she had been noticing Miss very closely, and she was sure something was wrong with her physical condition. According to her opinion, Mlsa showed the premonitory svmptomsof approaching maternity. Another chimed in with a cheerful pecond, and the scandal, which was bad enough before, grew in iatensity a thousand fold. Of coune, the married ladies told their husbands, and the liege lords ia tura communicated the news to the young fellows, and every movement Miss made was. eagerly watched. The community was awaiting developments, and, according to the scrap of ancient history, they did not remain long in suspense. The graceful carriage degenerated into an ungainly walk, and the lady withdrew irom public gaze. In tbe meantime Professor Johnson wa3 compelled by adverse circumstances to give up tbe school at Drennon Springs and Major Blaine, laying aside his coat and buttons, sword and nodding plume, sought other fields and was lost to the gaze of Millersburg forever. When the fact that Major Blaine had severed his connection with the Western Military Academy or been thrown out of employment became known, the Milleriburg folk were all broken up, and tbey circulated a nauseous story that the Major bad not only seduced Miss , but had basely deserted her in her hour of trial. And, if report be true, the Major was openly and in secret condemned for his laches in not making such reparation to tbe lady as lay ia his power, and the whole country fell to talking about it. One sultry summer afternoon the Lexington stage drew up in front of the leading hotel in Millersburg. Down the street came Miss with her head high ia the air. Raying no attention to the people ia the doors or on the sidewalks, she entered the stage, and, as the coach went down the pike, the citizens feasted their eyes on her for the last time. She has never been seen here since. THIS WAS WOT THE END of the scandal. The public began to discuss irregularities of conduct in the female school, which were said to have occurred some time previously. It was alleged there had been several lapses from virtue ia the institution. The Blaine scandal was the cap sheaf, and the patrons of the school took their children home and the institution went to the wall. Colonel Johnson left the town, and it was only after several years and a change of management that public confidence was restored and the school resuscitated and put on a substantial basis. Colonel Johnson had the names of 125 pupils on his catalogue of 1S50, and the institution, which is now the pride of the Bourbon County people, i3 usually attended by 100 to 150 young ladies. There has never been a breath of suspicion against it since the affair referred to, audit enjoya to the highest degree the esteem of the public. Now this was the Btory which the Times Commissioner was instructed to investigate. The Echool is still here, although the boarding-house occupied by the pupils was burned down years ago. In 1S50-51 a church was used as a school-house, and it stands here to-day. On the site of the boarding-house stands a very handsome College, containing recitation-rooms, dormitories, dining-rooms, etc. The pupils who, during the years 1813, 1840, 1850 and 1851, attended the schools at Georgetown, Blue Licks and Millersburg are scattered all over the United States. Many of the males yielded up their lives ia the rebellion. The institution tarnished brave men during the war, some wearing the blue and others the gray, Numbers of them were

seen by the Times Commissioner during his visit of a week to the blue grass region. The question arises in the mind of everyone, ' Can the story be corroborated?" The Times Commissioner in many cases took the affidavits of parties whose characters are above reproach conversant with the affair, and, without giving publicity to their names, reproduces several of the statements. The following is a sample: State or Kentucky, Bourbon County, . being duly sworn, says he. in the year ISM) and 1851. as well as new, resided in Millersb'irg. within ose block of the Johnson College. Affiant knew Jaaes G. Blaine, who was called Major Blaine. Affiant by sight knew Miss ; that about the years IS50 or lsöl, a icandalous report concerning Blaine and Miss was circulated through Bourbon County, to tbe effect that Blaine had saducsa Müs . ana made her pregnant. . The matter was freely talked about, and shortly afterward said Blaine left the counfy. It was then reported that Biaine, in addition to seducing Miss , ha 1 deserted her. A short time after the circulation of this report Miss left Millersbnrg, and neither she nor said Blaine has been there since. That the matter was at tha lime referred to the talk of the entire country, and no one ever pretended to deny or contradict tho truth of the statement that Blaine had seduced Miss and made her pregnant. The scandal bad the effect of destruviuz public confidence ia the school. Tne pupils mainly left on its ace-Mint, and were taken home by their psrent, and tbe school was broken up oa account of tbe Blaine episode. Sworn to before a justice of the peace in and for Bourbon County, August 6. 1S54. Numerous statements were made by prominent citizens of tbe town to the Times Commissioner. One gentleman saw Miss get into the stage when she finally left Millersburg. He said she was enceinte beyond all question. That the scandal here outlined was the theme of general conversation over thirty years ago can be substantiated without any trouble, and at the present time the old settlers are f arbishing up their memories, and some wonderful fairy tales are being circulated with regard to the auV.r. The tale Itself and corroberative evidences are in part given above. The affidavits are in the possession of the Times, and can be inspected by any one who has a right to look at them. The intention of a brace of preachers, who have for a few weeks been eccagd in Buffalo m the pleating task of besmirching Governor Cleveland, is respectfully called to them. If these gentlemen will secure half-rate tickets, ro to Chicaeo and visit the Times ofiice, they can see the affidavits. Moreover, should they desire to visit Kentucky and look the matter up, since their labors at Buffalo are at an end, they will be given letters of introduction to a number of gentlemen in Bourbon and the surrounding counties who will enlighten them upon the topic. Kentucky ta this season of the year is attractive to itinerant clergymen. There are several caniDmeetings in progress in this part of the State, and the jellow-legged chickens roost low. iioo. NEW Ol'.LKANS rosTOFFICE.

It Condition as IZeported by the Commiv ion Appointed to Investigate It-They Report Things Aro in a Very Loose State Generally. Washington, Aug. 7, The special com mission which has been iavestigatiag the coaditionand management of the New Orleans Tost ofiice, submitted a report to the Tostmaster General to-day. The commissioners say that they found the facilities of the ofiice ample, but the force employed insufficient, through lack of proper training. Organization or discipline, they say, does not exist in the office, and they add that they found everything arranged apparently more for the pertonal convenience of tbe clerks than for the necessities of the business. They say the Postmaster possesses but a limited knowledgo of the actual work of the ofiice, and makes little or no eilort to inform himself of the necessities of this service, rarely visiting the working floor, and reldom consulting with hi3 subordinates; also, that while too much ought not to be expected of the Assistant Postmaster, in view of his comparatively recent appointment, yet they feel constrained to say his selection for the placewa uawise. because of his "inferior judgment, lack of dUcretion and inability to maintain discipline." They further say they found the mailing division without organization or discipline; mail matter, especially newspapers," being badly handled and delayed; that no account has beea kept of the mail sacks, of which the latter, in many cases, were being unlawfully used by persons other than employes, they (the Commissioners) having found 1 10 of them in j unk shops, and others used as cotton packages, or made into hammocks. They express the opinion that the want of energy oa the part of the chief of this division is in patt owing to the failure of hia superiors to support him. They say, also, that the office of collection clerk, with a Ea!ary of ':KK), has been held for some time past by George W. Merchant, a son of the Postmaster, who has rendered very little service, his work having been done by others, and they add that this office is entirely unnecessary and should be abolished. They report having found an employe carried on the rolls as 'Torter, detailed as a detective," who rendered no service himself, but who had hired aa old colored man at S3 per month, to do a little sweeping, that being the service which called for the employment of a porter, and they recommended that this office, as well as that of chief porter, be abolished. They also recommend that the title of the official now known as "Secretary and Auditor" be changed to "Official Secretary," and the salary of the office be reduced from 15,000 to 12,000 per annum. They recommend an increase in tbe salaries of certain clerks, aggregating 1.100 per annum, and reductions aggregating 2,450. They also report having made inquiries relative t the depredations on the mails at this office and the failure of the Tostmaster to report them, and say, with respect to this branch cf their investigation, that it was found, just before their visit, that fifteen letters addressed to M. A. Dauphin had been abstracted from the mails in the office and tbe circumstances pointed almost conclusively to the son of the Postmaster as the person who stole them; that whea the facti were reported to the Postmaster he obtained possession of and burned certain fragments of the missing letters, thereby destroying important evidence agajnst the cailty person, but he afterward promised to exclude his son permanently from the office. Chrimine Uilssojt, who has attained a Mct social position than any other prima donna of I present day, is apanding a week- at 'iaymotun Castle, the seat of lady BreadalDane, with the King of Sweden as fellow-guest. Truly thess are proud days for tbe once bumble Swedish, maiden wbo tang at conntry fairs. No effort has ever beea made to advertise Lydia . Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound outside of our own America; yet frequent calls from other parts of the world show that good news will spread. Packages of this medicine have even been sent from Lynn, Mass., to China. ONLY 25 CENTS - FOR THE "Weekly Sentinel Until After the Election. Democrats and Independents, see o it that tho SENTINEL is road in iverv home in the State. Address SENTINEL COMPANY. Indianapolis, Ind. GUNS. R;!,"sf,,r,Ä FREE, 6t"4 PUtüLNIXriUKAKCü.UBarcIaySt.N.E

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