Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1884 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1884.

0 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1. OFFICE: 71 and 73 West Market Street. Theke are a number of Republican post maaters in Indiana in mach greater danger of the penitentiary than they are probably aware of. Jay Could has put up $100,000 to elect Blaine. Surely this ought to be sufficient evidence that Elaine is the friend of the industrial producing classes. Ir is astonishing, says the Philadelphia Eecor 3, "how long it taies for bread to find out that wheat baa come down." Or the family butcher to discover that beef is Trorth fifty cents less a hundred on the hoof. Near. Dow explains why Blaine dodged on the "prohibition" question the other day in Haine. He says it was done at the request of Ohio Republicans who were afraid of the effect of bis Toting "no" on the Germans of Ohio. That was a good point noted in Saturday's Sentinal, made by Governor Gray at Shelbyville. The Republicans in 1 SCO talked every body blind about "Honest Old Abe," but no one-hears a word in 1S31 about "Hon eat old Jim." Let us Bee. A few weeks since, when it leaked out that Mr. Blaine was secretly mar ried in Pittsburg, the organs at once exclaimed in chorus: "Oh, no! That could not be. It tra t a coitsLi of Mr. Blaine's.' How they do lie. "Wk do not wish our patrons to confound the impostor assuming the name of Frank "Wilson with our General Traveling Agent, W. Bent "Wilson. Although our Mr. "Wilson is known almost all over the State, he carries & letter of authority from the Business Manager, with which he will cheerfully identify himself to strangers. "Bent" is genuine. Beware of immitation. THAT $400,000,000 SURPLUS. Attorney Harrison in his screech Wednesday evening said: "These gentlemen (Gray and others) have perverted a statement of Hr. Calkins' in one of his early speeches." He was referring to the statement of Calkins as to the amount of "surplus" in the Treasury. Perhaps Attorney Harrison can not anderstand the English language. Here are the exact words of Calkins taken from his Richmond speech as published in th Journal: 'The Republican party found an empty treasury and now it has a surplus of $100,000,000." Calkins doubtless said thii through ignorance of the facts, but little Attorney Harrison can not truthfully Bay that the Democratic speakers have perverted his statement. It is so plain that even Attorney Harrison ought to understand it. This statement is giving the Republican papers and orators a great deal of trouble . It will be observed that Calkins says the Republican party has this money in the Treasury. The Democratic speakers and papers are showing how much good this surplus would do if it was put in circHlation. Calkins fixes the responsibility of its being hoarded upon the Republican party, and Attorney Harrison can't get him out of the scrape. ATTENTION, POSTMASTERS AND POSTAL CLERKS ! "We are receiving entirely too many complaints from various portions of Indiana regarding the non-receipt outright or inexcusable delay of our paper in pos to Glees and on poetal routes. In one instance mail matter is reported to us as having been tampered with ; that Is, the envelope was torn open and the contents used to give information to a prying eye and then stolen. We give illustrations of the sort of complaints we are receiving: Spencer, Ind., September 22. 1531. John C Shoemaker: Dear Sir I send you herewith a copy of a letter written by our Chairman to the Committeeman of Taylor TownshiD, with his reply. On the envelope which Chairman Dickeraon used in sending the letter Is a note apparentlv made oy the Postmaster at Quincy, as follows: Received out of the mails torn." Complaints have come to us from other -quarters that oar mall matter has not been reaching 1U destination. V. Enclosed were the following which tell the story: Spencer, Ind., Sept. 12, ISSt Sir Be iure and distribute the bills seat you, and distribute the documents. Yours truly, O. l. Dickep-son, Chairman. Qunct. lud., Sept. 16, lSt O. T.Dicierson: Dear Sir I received this letter with the envelope torn open just as it is. I didn't have to open it. Ine Postmaster here says he received it in the tame condition. I received no documents in this. Did you send any? it must have been opened en route, and if this is their game we will have to make other arrangements. Yours truly, J. W. Hart, Com. The following telegram gives us information that, although new in this particular case, is quite familiar in a general way: Acrora, Ind., Sept. 27, Publisher Sentinel : Nose of the subscribers to Weekly Sentinel I sent you have received papers. Demand o( Postmaster the reason, etc. O. F. Kobep.ts. Now, gentlemen, Messieurs Postmasters of Indiana, Postal and Pos to Hi ce clerks and gents of the Republican party ot Indiana, who have the run of the mails and postal arrangements of the State, we say to you that the ex-Postmaster at Garret, recently arrested for keeping back Democratic newspapers from subscribers and selling them to a peddler at one cent per pound, does not regard hla arrest and probable conviction as a joke. The chances are altogether favorable to his spending a portion of his life in the Northern Penitentiary of Indiana. This is an earnest o! what Democrats propose to do. Perhaps you will see the connection between his case and yours if any of you are guilty of the outrages noted in the foregoing. The Sentinel means basiness, gentlemen. Take the hint. BUCKET-SHOP DOXEY. Major Doxey, the Republican candidate for Conzresa in the Ninth District, possesses many qualifications for the leadership of the party to which he belongs. The peculiarity of some of his enterprises seems to be so closely allied to the methods his party use when political preferment is desired, the wonder is that he was not summoned earlier in life to guide his party over the rough and uncertain places which always lie betwixt it and the spoils of oflice. It was he that inTented and established what is popularly known as the ''bucket-shop" system of grain, stork and provision gambling. It is an ingeniously con txiyci bit of machinery for shearing

lambs who have an itching palm for speculative ventures. It is a species of robbery that has just enough of the air of legitimate business about it to relieve the "shop" of the odium of a common gambling hell, possessing at the same time enough of the Insinuating allurement of the green cloth to inveigle the most unsuspecting into its deadly anaconda-like coils. Many is the mortgaged home and povertystricken man that could, if they would, rise up and testify to the seductive influence of Mr. Doxey's adjustable device for transferring money from the pocket-books of the public to his own capacious and gaping wallet, and yet, notwithstanding the wrecks of fortunes and happy homes, like ghosts of the damnel line every thoroughfare in his district, mad so by the snake-like charm of the bucketshop, the man Doxey has the effrontery to ask the people to take "deals" in his pDlitfical bucket-shop, and thus enable him o obtain for his individual use and benoof in a political what he "squeezed'1 out of them in a financial way. It is a sad commentary on the moral sense and business integrity of any people when such a man as Doxey is recognized as a leader in either religion or politics, and the district that would return such a man to the

Congress of the Nation should not be accepted as representing in any degree the real moral worth, virtue and honesty of the people of the great State of Indiana. His election would give the lie to our claim of honesty of purpose and social excellence, for by our fruits are we judged. We all remember how, not only his own district, but how the whole Nation felt chagrined and humiliated over the presence of the gambler, John Morrissey, on the floor of the Nation's Legislative Hall, yet Mor rissey's gambling operations had the merit of being open and undisguised, while Doxey's are concealed behind a thin veil of so-called business ventures. In that, both he and his system of gambling are far more disreputable in every way than Morrissey and his chips and cards. Doxey assumes a virtue and ha3 it not, while Morrissey neither possessed nor assumed it. Now, we do not believe the people of that community can afford to compromise their dignity and besmirch their fair name by admitting by their act at the polls that Major Doxey is a fair and honest representative of the religious, moral and business Integrity of the people of the Ninth Indiana Congress sional District. It would be far better to let tbe Ninth's chair in Congress go unoccupied until time shall be no more than to have it taken by the inventor of the most wicked and diabolically constructed bit of gambling machinery that ever robbed humanity. WHY PROTECT MONOPOLIES? If the tariff, aa saddled upon this country, should be boldly entitled "An Act to Protect Monopolies," it would probably have opened the eyes of the people to the iniquities of the system long ago, and yet the practical result of the Republican policy amounts to just that very thing a protection to monopolies and monopolists. The time was when the march of reform ideas was slow and toilsome. A somewhat quicker step is observable in these latter days, though even now the conservative motto is, "Go slow." Evidently, it is not best to be rash, but it is still more objectionable to hesitate when the demand is to "Go ahead." The country is now burdened with an iniquitous tariff. The law, as it stands upon the statute books, has few defenders or apologists. The general verdict is that the tariff policy, as it stands, need3 a general overhauling; but when an attempt is made to change any of the vicious features of the law, objections are made and reform is postponed. The people are confronted with the fact that the sum of ? 100,000.000 annually is taken from them and handed to the Government for which the Government has no legitimate use whatever. The Democratic proposition is to get rid of this iniquitous taxation at the earliest day practicable. The wisdom and the justice of the proposition are too self-evident to require debate, since by no possibility can contingencies arise which demand that the Gov ernment is authorized to tax the people to create an unnecessary surplus. Those who favor the present tariff policy do not consider either the welfare of the people or the welfare of the Government. To tax a citizen more than is just is robbery. To create an enormous surplus in the Treasury Is corrupting. To rob the people for the purpose of continuing a reign of profligacy and demoralization is a proceeding which ought not to be tolerated for a single day, and no policy can be too aggressive and no movement too expeditious which seeks to remedy such an evil.: But the infamy of the policy is brought into the boldest possible prominence when it is dicovered thai the present iniquitous tariff is sought to be perpetuated for the benefit of a few monopolists, who are willins to increase their gains at the expense of tbe people, and that those who most stubbornly oppose the tariff reform are. simply the champions of monopolists, who, to maintain their position, resort to the demagogical cry of "infant industries," "pauper labor" and similar claptrap. The people are beginning to fully comprehend the tactics of the monopolists and those who champion their cause. They see themselves robbed annually.directly.of $100, 000,000, which the Government does not need, and they are asking, Why this stupendous iniquity? And the answer they find is, to support monopolists. When the inquiry is made: Do these protected monopolists, for whose benefit we are taxed, seek to maintain living prices of labor? the answer is: In no single instance. On the contrary, they are the first to reduce wages that their gains may be increased. Hence, it is found that the tariff, as it exists, demoralizes the Government, oppresses labor, and only benefits the favored few the protected monopolists. THE VALUE OF RAILWAYS TO THE FARMING INTERESTS. It is a self-evident fact that the leading element in the development of trade and commerce is cheap transportation, and no one understands the imDortance of having low tolls more clearly than the managers of transportation lines. Experience has taught them that the lower tbe rates for freight and for passengers the larger the volume of business. And hence it is that rates have steadily decreased, particularly since 1SG:. But in reducing the tolls the carrier companies . have not lost sight of the first great object for

which railways are constructed and operated that they are simply business enterprises, which are expected to yield a fair income on their value, and that rates must be fixed with that end in view, otherwise they would not be consistent with the purposes of the investors, and railway construction would come to a standstill. Kates are on a fair basis when they psy operating expenses, repairs, etc, and leave a resonable sum for distribution among the owners of the property. When they fail to do that they are too low, and when they yield more they are too high. Low, or rather reasonable rates, have made agricultural pursuits profitable in all parts of the country. But at all times the producer and consumer have been obliged to pay the cost of transporting the produce from the farm of the one to the home of the other, and the cost has always been a sum eaual to a fair yield on the value ol the carrier company's property. When the producer has a large amount of produce to sell and the demand of the consumer is equal to the supply, the increased volume of business can be moved at a lower rate per mile, and the consumer and producer have the benefit of it, while the transportation lines make just as much as when the producer sends but little to market. What effect railway construction has had upon the agricultural districts, more particHlarly in the West, is clearly shown in tbe general condition of the .country, when compared with what it was forty years ago. Railways have stimulated immigration. Which, in turn, has brought millions of acres of land under cultivation, making the construction of still other roads practicable and profitable, and insuring a reduction in the cost of reaching the center of trade by in

creasing the volume of surplus produce. Thus it is the railways and producers are dependent one upon the other, and if left to themselves the question of "cost of service" would not be debated. Rates would then adjust themselves to the law of supply and demand, and the parties most interested would be satisfied. The railway and the farming interests are so closely allied that the one can not be disturbed without seriously damaging the other, and so long as the internal carrying trade is of greater importance than all other interests combined, and is satisfied to regulate its rates and routes to the markets in its own way, it should be permitted to do so. But advocates of the construction of new parallel lines, lines that forc9 a division of the traffic without increasing the general business of the country tributary to them, should remember when people put money into railroeds it is with the expectation that a fair yield ou the investment will ba forthcoming on and after the completion of the line, and that an increase in facilities without a corresponding increase in tbe traffic to be moved, necessitates a:i increase in the rate per ton mile. Whenever a division of, existing traffic is forced, the loss in tonnage by the old lines has to be made good by an advance in the rates sufficient t) make good the loss of business. Railways are obliged to make the traffic pay the cost of service and a fair profit on the investment besides. When the traffic is heavy rates go down, and when light they go up. This equalizes the revenue of the roads one year with another, and insures steady and reasonable income on the value, not the cost, of the railway property. Rates are, therefore, not high when they only leave a small profit after paying cost of service, although the rate per ton per mile may be an increase of 50 per cent, from what it was in a previous year when the tonnage was greater. The obstructions of time and distance are removed in proportion to the requirements of the consumer and the ability of the producer to supply his demands. A wheat crop ot say 000,000,000 bushels, with an equally large demand from home and foreign consumption centers, shortens the distance between the wheat fields and the markets insomuch that the cost of moving the grain across the country adds but little to the price per bushel received by the producer. This, of course, gives the consumer cheap bread. But it is mainly because of the great volume of business which enables the carrier companies to reduce the rate so that the profits on the business moved will be precisely the same as if the tonnage were 50 per cent, less, and rates proportionately high that is, high enough to insure the same net yield as when the traffic was np to the capacity of the roads. The cost of service, as a matter of fact, includes a fair profit on the investment In tbe roads, and the traffic is obliged to piy it. When the traffic is light, its assessment is high, and when heavy it pays right tolls. Hence thj greater the number of competing lines built after the supply has reached the highest immediate demand for transportation facilities, the smaller the percentage of tonnage to each line, and the greater the cost of service to the traffic. The servant is worthy of his hire, and the railroads are entitled to paying rates whether the traffic be much or little. When little the burden falls upon tbe consnmer and the producer, and when much there is no burden to be borne. Therefore, under the "unwritten laws of commerce," to increase transportation facilities beyond the requirements of the traffic is to commit a crime against the industrial interests oi the country. Hence competition is not always the life of trade. Sometimes it is a grievous burden, and is always so when it comes in the shape of unnecessary and surplus transportation facilities. About ThaJolnt Discussion. Special to the Sentinel. Crawfordsvule, Ind., Sept. 20. This morning Hob. John E. Lamb forwarded the following letter to Hon. James T. Johnston: To Bon. James T. Johnston: Dear Sir I notice in the Terre Haute Express of yesterday a letter addressed to me by you from Clay City, Ind.. under date of September 21. 18M. in which you renew your proposition for fourteen joint debates, and fail so entirely to answer my letter to you of the -Oth inst. proposing seven debates. To avoid any further delay, I take it for granted that your letter a published is correct and I hasten to respond without waiting for the original communication to reach me. In my letter to you of the '-'Oth inst., I declined witii regret your proposition for fourteen joint debates and stated clearly that, with the limited time at my command, it would be lmoosslble for me to accept under these circumstances. A renewal of your proposition made five days after the date of my letter declining it can only be construed is an ell'ort On your part to prolong this cone-roudence and avoid a joint discussion with me. You are certainly too well informed to believe that it would be possible for us to have fourteen joint debates In seven consecutive day and at the tame time give the laboring , -jpnj of the district an opportunity to hear us. Permit me to suggest that became of your early nomination your canvass is much more advanced than mine, and that I can not make any more appointments until I receive a definite answer from you to my letter of the 20th Inst. In lew of the fact that I wrote you one week ago that I could not possibly give you fourteen meetins, will you not screw your new-bora zeal for

tbe laboring people to tbe sticking prfnt. and ac

cept immediately my proposition lor seven joint debates, selecting your choice of places in each county ot thedisvlct? I must at aay rate insist that you quit dodfcliia; and ftive me a definite answer. Any leitet Addressed to me at Terre Haute will reach me promptly. Respectfully yours. John E, Lamb. T1IKEE GEORGIAN PIONEERS. Senator John P. King's Romantic Career The Predecessor of Governor Stephens The Captor of John Howard Payne. Atlanta, Ga., Correspondence Globe-Democrtt. There are three old men in Georgia whose lives read like romonce, similar in some respects and widely dissimilar in others. The first of this illustrious trio is ex-Senator John r. King, whose life runs back: to a period behind the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Between 1815 and 1320 Mr. King spent much of his time in Europe, as a young man of leisure and fortune. In France he made the personal acquaintance of the Marquis de Lafayette, and a friendship was formed which was only broken by the death of the illustrious Frank. In 1825, when Lafayette made his memorable visit to Gergia, Mr. King was appointed by the City Council of Augusta to extend the invitation to become the guest of the city. This task Mr. King performed to the delight of his old friend and the approbation of the people. Later Mr. King took some interest in politics, and in 183t was appointed by the Governor of Georgia to a seat in the United States Senate to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of the duly elected Senator. This makes Mr. King the oldest living ex-member of that body. He was not long there, however, before he fell under the displeasure of the ruling faction at home. Petitions relative to African slavery, in the development of the abolition idea, were being poured in upon the Senate. The Southern members opposed their reception; Senator King created; al sensation by voting in favor of their reception. He explained that while the Abolitionists were fanatics, and unworthy of recognition, vet the right ot petition was a constitutional one, and by no vote of his would he abridge it. The result was, eventually, that Senator King resigned, and immediately upon his return home was elected Pi esident of the Georgia Railroad, which position he held for forty years, until the people forgot that he had ever been anything else. Owing to old age, he was then retired, but against his own will. Mr. King amassed a princely fortune. He was the father of two daughters, the first of whom was a great lover of society. For years she was tbe belle of the highest circles in London and Paris. She married an English Dobleman, and thus gained admissson into the most exclusive circles. Upon the death of her husband about seven years ago, she married one of the Fagots, friends of the Prince cf Wales, whose scandal brought so much discredit upon the English nobility. Their married life was not happy, however, and it has now been only three years since that Paris was shocked by the scandal which ended in their separation. Mr. King's second daughter, Mi's Louise King, who died in Germany a few years ago, was thoroughly American in her testes and habits, and spent her life at home in works of charity and benevolence. Mr. King's life is so much of the past that even in tbe city of his eighty or ninety years of residence, his existence is known only to a few newspaper and commercial men. imoüEi. coote:: ash .overxor Stephens. The second and a much more entertaining figure is Colonel Mark A. Cooper, of Barton County. Forty five years ago he was a member of Congress. Being a man of good business education, and having a turn for the practical side of legislation, he proved to be a conspicuous exception from the average Southern Congressman, who was always an orator or gentleman of leisure. Coming into possession of some heavy mining interest?, Color.el Cooper resigned his seat in Congress in order to devote his entire time to his business. To fill the vacancy just created, a vouDg man of sallow complexion, who was a perfect ruckle of bones, was elected. This young man served sixteen terms in the House, becoming one of its most distinguished leaders. When war broke over the country he became the Vice President of the new Confederacy. The war over, he re-entered Congress, from which he only resigned to accept the Governorship of Georgia, in the possession of which office he died, at the age of seventy-three. It is thus that the life, both long and eventful, of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is but an incident in the life of Mark A. Cooper, who still lives at a patriarchal aire in his country borne in North Georgia. While Mr. Cooper has absolutely divorced his life from National li tics, yet he has been a man of rare public spirit, giving much time and attention toward the education of tbe people and the development of the material resources of the State. He has lately brought himself into some prominence by denouncing the prohibition craze which is at present agitating Georgia. CAPTURING THE AUTHOR OF "HOME, SWEET HOME." The third gentleman, who is conspicuous for having lived so long after his Congressional career had ended, is Judge Junius Hillyer, who now Uvea in Decatur, Ga. He was a member of Congress before the 40's, and resigned to accept a seat on the Georgia bench. In State politics and jurisprudence he has ever since remained a prominent figure. He has a family of childrin and grandchildren. One incident of Judge Hiliyer's lile has a tinge of genuine romance. When he was quite a young man there was considerable trouble with tbe Cherokee Indians in North Georgia, which part of the State was then the domain of the red men. Tr jubles among the Indians were fomented by missionary busy-bodies from the North. Georgia claimed exclusive jurisdiction over the Indians in her territory, and the arrest of intruders was ordered. Young Hillyer was one of a band of young men who arrested three suspicious strangers, near Ilosser'a Landing, since known as Chattanooga. The party hurried with their pi isoners southward to Milledgeville. which ws then the seat of government. On the way they camped near Athens for a night. Around a blazing fire the young men sat and related anecdotes amidst laughter and J mirth. At length a sone was called for, when yonng Hillyer, who had a floe voice, sing with deeD feeling the well-known words of "Home, Sweet Home." Every head was bowed in thought, when suddenly one of the young prisoners looked up and remarked to the guard beside him, "when 1 wrote that song 1 did not expect to hear it sung under these circumstances." The guards were incredulous at this statement, but when after a f short conversation with the prisoner, young Hillyer declared to his companions that the prisoner was none other than John H. Payne, whose sweet song was so familiar with them all, they became at once the ardent sympathizers witn tbe unfortunate stranger. This sympathy took shape by tbe release of Mr. Payne, and generous aid given him to reach his home again. Judge Hillyer now lives In a comfortable home-like mansion on the outskirts of tbe historic town, Decatur, where he is visited by hundreds of people, who have an interest in the history of his life. Who :i "Steve" tKlklns? No question since the organization of the E resent Republican National Committee has een more frequently asked than the one which we shall here attempt to answer, says the Denver News. The suddenness with which an apparently obscure individual has leaped into prominence, together with the nourish of trumpets attending it, to say nothing of his representation on the committee as tbe member from a territory, has naturally caused the inquiry. The answer to it generally is that he is the son-in-law of Senator Davis, of West Virginia, but that is icarcely satisfactory. Our acquaintance with the political history of New Mexico, together with certain old residents ofMissouri.enables us to give a better one. Mr. Elkins is a Missourian, atd lived there prior to and during a portion of the war. His education and associations naturally developed in him a strong love for the institutions and interests of the South, and as a proslavery Democrat he was in those days

equaled by few and excelled by non. Daring the entire Rebellion his sympathies were intensely Southern, but as his abilities were not of the combative order, he failed to take up arms for his Southern brethren. Luring the year 18ß2 (as we are informed), in order to evade the Northern draft and to avoid a forcibleenlistmentagainstthe principles and the people which be loved so well, be underwent a voluntary exile and fled to New Mexico. There be was for many years an intense rebel sympathizer and a violent opponent of the Liucoln regime. Up to 170 M r. Elkins was the most ardent of Democrats, and tbe very last man who would have been selected as tbe future leader of the great party of moral ideas. During these years, however, Mr. Elkiis and his associate in tbe practice of law, Mr. Catron, acquired a great influence over the Mexican population, and also acquired immense landed interests through the nominal purchase of land grants from the Mexican Government, protected by the treaty of Gcadaloupe-IIidalgo. but not then patened by the United States. About the year 1870 Mr. Elkins. despairing of an early restoration of the Democratic party to power, and "seeing various channels in which" he could make the Republican party useful, experienced a change of heart, acknowledged the errors of his ways, was received into full fellowship of the Republican party, and was rent as a delegate to Congress, which position he occupied from lS72tolS7C All of his little schemes, together with those of Catron, then assumed shape, and the fruition of his hopes was a matter of a little time only. The Government showed its appreciation of their newly exhibited loyalty by showering its favors upon them and patenting to them without stint tbe public domain. Each has thereby acquired enormous wealth, and they have in turn faithfully served their newly foucd patron, and it is but meet that Mr. Elkins should give to the National Committee the benefit of that rich political experience acquired daring a long course of yoars in New Mexico. There elections were determined by the count in the law office of the worthy pair referred to, and the devices resorted to for defeating the public will justify the statement made by many of his admirers that "Steve Elkins is as much smarter lhan Steve Dorsey, when it comes to politics, as Dorsey is superior to a ten-year-old boy." It is an open secret that in all the schemes in which Elkins is and has been interested Blaine is a silent Dartner. The land grants of New Mexico, the mines at Leadville, the ccal and railway interests of Pennsylvania and West Virginia all these and others, engineered and consummated by S. B. Elkins, are matters in which the two are jointly interested. And this suggests the true secret of Mr. Elkins' overwhelming desire for Blaine's election. Mr. Elkins was one of the promoters of the Maxwell iand grant scheme and one of the grantors of the present company. Mr. Elkins, while in oliicial nositiou, sold the claim, together with Chaffee, Waidin sham and others, for an enormous sum to Dutch capitalists. The boundaries of the grant were exceedingly indefinite, but it was known that in extent it could not exceed a million acres. In order to properly define and mark its boundaries the Interior Department required a survey of the grant, and Mr. Elkins was fortunate in securing the job for his brother, f he lines were ran to suit the owners of the grant, and finally a Secretaiy of the Interior was found who?e conscience was sufficiently pliable to enable him to consent to the issue of a patent according to tne survey. Its fraudulent and swindling effect was soon apparent, for it included 2,050.000 acres of the public do main, to which Elkins and bis confederates never had a shadow of a claim, and a very large portion of which was in the actual possession of bona fide settlers. A suit is now pending in the Circuit Court of the United States for this district, brought by the Government against tbe Maxwell Company and Elkins and others, to set aside this outrageous and infamous grant, and that the action will result in a victory for the Government, if prosecuted, is apparent to every one cognizant of the facts. Mr. Elkins' warranty of the title to 2,650,000 acres, therefore, becomes a very serious matter for him, since he must respond to his grantees in the event the title fails, and that means financial embarrassment, it not financial ruin.

THE RICHEST MAN IN BOSTON. Romance of the Life of a Veteran Maine Sea Captain. Boston Correspondence Hingham, Mass., Journal. Captain Maxwell is one of the most remarkable characters connected with New England commerce since the War of 1312. Had Marryatt come across him he would have found a legitimate subject for a three volume novel, which would have made Madie's fortune. Captain Maxwell is now fully ninety years of age. His fortune is immense. A native of Maine, he was wed to the life of a seaman, and in time reached the elevation of master. I knew him forty years ago. when he was comparatively an old man, but he was a splendid specimen of physical perfection, and he must have been more than that twenty years previous. The Pattens, of Bath, were the great shipbuilders f Maine sixty years ago. . Captain Maxwell was in their employ. The females of the Patten family for generations had been noted beauties, but they were as eccentric as beautiful. Captain Maxwell, in the pride of his vigorous manhood, made love to one of these beauties and was rejected. By the way, the marriage ties formed by the Patten girls were not always of the pleasantest kind. One married Jar via Slade, of the well-known firm of Lawrence, Stone & Slade, the great dry goods commission merchants, which went down in the financial crash of 1857 53. Another and an equal beauty married Wildes P. Walker, whose business and financial record in Boston and New York are very well anown. After Captain Maxwell was rejected Le became soured and turned bis attention to accumulating wealth. For a long time he lived in Charleston in the most penurious manner, till his mind gave way, and to-day he is a complete imbecile; and yet when be dies the bank records and safety vaults of State street will have to proclaim bim one of the richest, if not the richest nan in Boston. Captain Maxwell's wealth might belong to a family of hereditary monarchs. it is so invested that no financial panic can shake it; and yet, looking at the Captain Maxweli of sixty years ago and the Captain Maxwell of to-day, who would accept the change at the price of all his money? Domestic Economy. Detroit Free Press. He left ber in the wagon at the market after selling bis potatoes, and as he started off she called to him: "Remember, John eet twelve yards of dark-colored calico, and be sure to ask if it will wash. When he retnrned. twenty minutes later, sbe held out her hand for the package be carried, but he tossed it inta the wagon with the reply: 'Didn't get no callker." "Why?" "Well, I diskivered that plug tobacter was coming up and caliker going down, and I made np my mind you'd better wait." That settled it with her. She heaved a sigh or two over the disappointment, and then her contented look returned. A Deaf Hearer. Editor's Drawer, In Harper'a Magazine for October. I In the village of there is a Presbyterian Church, several of whose members are Scotch-Irish. Their views and their practices on the subject of temperance are not In strict accord with the notions of their pastor. Some years ago he preached them a sermon in which he "came down pretty heavy," as the vounger brethren described it, upon the häbits of tkat portion of his fleck which came from the province of Ulster. One in particular, McA , a good

old man, with but one failing, who occupied a pew at the side of the pulpit, was so clearly hinted at that all eyes were upon him. Even the minister expected that Mac's "Irish Wood wouId.be up." The offending brother waseiightly deaf, Lut the preacher was so much in earnest that even the deaf could hear. Bat McA knew how to turn bis infirmity to account. The benediction was scarcely ended when he had the pastor by the band. "Brother W ," he exclaimed, "an it is t dauncin ye are gieing it to the youn folk about?" Brother W waited some time before he ventured another temperance sermon. It Startlea the Teller. From Drake's Traveller's Magazine. "Look here!'' roared the paying teller,' as he jumped into the cashier's oflice and held out a newspaper with his thumb on a paragraph. "Look here! Has this bank any p litical influence?" "What's the matter?" inquired the ch3hier, turning pale. "This paper is urging the annexation of Canada. Now how are you going to stop that?" "Let it alone," said the cashier with a reassuring smile, as he poked another package of bonds into the tail of his coat. "Be faithful and earnest in your attention to your duties. The bank directors will take care of tbat annexation scheme. What securities have we in stock on long loans?" How Women IMOer From Men. At least three men on the average jury are bound to disagree with the rest just to show that they've got minds of their own; but there is no disagreement among tbe women as to the merits of Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription." They are all unanimous in pronouncing it the best remedy in the world for all those chronic diseases, weaknesses and complaints peculiar to their eex. It transforms the pale, haggard, dispirited woman into one of sparklirjg health, and the ringing laugh again "reigns supreme" in the happy household. "You say 'virtue is its own reward,' " remarked the indignant tramp, and that " 'honesty is bound to win.' Look at me; did I ever run off with a millionaire's daughter? Did I ever fail for $10,000,000? Did I ever go to Congress? Was I ever a Sundaychool Superintendent and President of a Savings Bank? No, sir. My life is a perfect picture of honesty, and what's my reward? A cold hand-out, with an order to sret out in the street and eat it. I'm going to quit this honest racket and be a politician o: something " Home is the one place in all the world where hearts are more of one another. It is the place of confidence; it is the p'.ace where we tear off the mask of guarded and suFpicious coldness, which this wortd forces us to wear in eelf-defense, and where we poor out the unreserved communications of lull and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions ot tenderness gush out without any sensations of awkwardness, and without any dread of ridicule. F. W. Robertson .

The season Is at hand when the busy mosquito hums his tune and sends in his little bill, the bees, wasps and hornets sharpen up their stings, for the wicked city urchin, snakes grow abundant, and the sbarn axe and the rusty scythe do their mischief. There is heat in the city and tan and danger in tbe country. Tourists and travelers think of all this, and the too sudden changes of climate and water, and prepare for it all. Dr. Hering, Dr. Preston, Dr. Arthur Guinness, F. R C. 6., of England, and a thousand others say they "have prescribed Pond's Extract with the greatest success," internally and externally, for all kinds of inflammations and hemorrhages. A Frenchman sent a circular to all his friends asking why they cultivated a beard. Among the answers, nine stated, "because I wish to avoid Bhaving;" twelve "because I do not wish to catch cold"; five "because I wish to conceal bad teeth;" three "because I wish to conceal the length of my nose;" six "because I am a soldier;" twenty-one "because I was a soldier;" sixty-five "because my wife likes It;" twenty-eight "because my love likes it;" fifteen answered that they wore ne beards. The contact between civilized and semi civilized or degenerate races is often death to to the latter, but it is sometimes dangerous to the former as well. It appears to be admitted in Australia tbat the use of opium is spreading from the Chinese among the white population to an extent so alarming as to render legislation advisable. A discussion has taken place in the Victorian Parliament on a proposal to prohibit the sale of the drug in that colony except for medicinal purposes. Advocates ef prohibition need have no fears of "Prickly Ash Bitters," as it is a medicine, and by reason of its cathartic properties can not be used as a beverage. It is manufactured from the purest materials, and acts directly on the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels. As a blood purifier it has no equal. It is pleasant to the taste, and effective in action. Shot by a Policeman. Boston. Sept. $7. Policeman Jeremiah O'Brien early this morning shot and ktlled Thomas Callahan, one of the party who attempted to rescue Cornelius Casey, whom the otliccr had in charge for drunkenness. Damages la ltoth Ways. Sickness is tbe most expensive thing in the world. In two ways; it puts one to a direct cost, and prevents one from earning money by his labor. We fay nothing of suffering, for money can not pay for tint How much better to keep oneself well by the use of Parker's Tonic whenever there is the slightest sign of ill-health. A Steamer Anhöre Uu Oft. Key West, Fla., Sept. 27. The steamer Mar-seilk-p, hieb was ashore inside the Frescn reef, ha been atsisted off by the wrecker?, tine will leave the leef this af'.ercooa. Toe question of salvage has been settled in New Orltan. Ilorsford's Acid Phosphate FOR WOMEX AND CHILDREN. Dr. Joseph Holt, New Orleans, La , says: "I have frequently found it of excellent service in cases of debility, loss of appetite, aid in convalescence from exhaustive illness, and particularly of service in treatment of women and children. LYON'S KOZOTHIlTM, BErORCUSINS. ATTER US INC A GIFT TO THE GRAT. Lyon's Kozothicm is rot a dye, but a clear fragrant oil, and acts purely a a tonic to the ha:r follicles and capillary circulation of the sca!p, whereby it restores the natural action, and as a result rtstjret the natural color to the hair, leaving it soft and beautiful. UnliVe all other so-ca'Icd restoratives, it is entirely free from Sulphur, Nitrate Si.'-, er, and all noxious and deleterious chemicals. It is an elepant Hair Drfttirg, depositing ne sediment upon the scalp: doe not stain the skin, nor oil the most iVicate fabric Address A. KIKFEIt & CO. Indianapolis Ind. FOR BAIiB. TpOR 8ATJS Matthews' Patent Eenewabl Mem X orandum Book, fcend for sample copy an price list. Bamplea lent postpaid to any addres onirecelpt of M cents for No. 1, or 40 oenttforNo, 9 AddreasSINTiKaL OOMTANY, IadianapoLVk

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Combines, in a manner peculiar to itself, th best blood-purifying and htreiitLc.i!ijr remedies of the vegetable kingdom. You will find this wondcnul remedy effective .where other medicines have failed. Try it now. It will purify your LUkhI, repulato the digestion, and give new life and vigor to the entire body. i "Hood's SarsapariiU did me great good. I Was tired out from overwork, and it t ned nie up." Mrs. G. E. Simmons, Cohoes, N. Y. "I suffered three years from blood ioitu. I took Hood's iSarsajuirilla and think 1 am cured." JIks. M. J. Davis, Krockiert. '. Y. "j 1 it riß es the JHood ' nood's Sarsaparilla U characterized by three peculiarities : 1st, the combination of remedial agents; 2d, the projjortion; 3d, the) process of secri'is tlio aetite medicinal qualities. The result i a medicine of ijnr.suai strength, effecting cure hitherto unknown. ScDd for book containing addii tonal evidence "Hood's Sarsararilla tones i:p my system, purines my Hood, sharpens mv :iiii'tie. and s'-ii!s t n.ak ine over." .1. l TuoiU'SOK, lte::tcr f lH.-eds, Lowell, Ma.-s. "HfMHl's Sarsaparill.i beats ;.ll other, and Is worth its weight in gold." I. i;,iiKLNJTOA', 1U0 Uaak. Street, New York Cit I Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by r.'.l druggists. $1 ; six for ?". Mada only by C. t. HOOD & CO., Jewell, Vass. 100cDc3cs One Dollar. THE 1HLT POV7EH CUTJES. Uf&FHREYS9 Ü Ü in os9u0yorv ;- ;fCa! t-r.-cnrinoaof an miaeat Phrsi-.ian. S iiJapJe-, Sufo and Sttre. LIST of p:TNCifAi. Koa. i ( t:i. i'lur u. II )Kvprj, l'o"i5ttion. In:":aTna,;v! .. fcl Worm. Wnm lerer. Worn toiic... . m. X f -- .T. . .1 4 Iiar "j. ol t'hf.dren rr Adui'. Dispntery. Origins. '.liirtLs CwUc... .4t iiolt-tm JorljM. o?-.iU3 7t'ougl, Co.i, Lrsach.tii Neuinlva, j ocaviw, tat.t a. .. Ilradat !e. Mck !!f4.iici..-,Vert.rf( Drsurnsla. B'liof-i .-to-i- h 11 1 1! bajresoJ t r lil.ilul 1 criod QMEQPATHIC 14 Whites, r.o IT- .'t.'I r-vd.v Croup. Coui:".lMi""i !lr-.lhir.s It Ut tJta:' f ts...lt k."-:rx . - l Koveraal .V:-.;o.t v'!'.3, Jl-ltria..... Pilf s, l.l.a i it tiit.n.r . . .! f r .i . r. r r 1 I -.- i:: 14 tr i r ii .-ft ..-; I. viiVhocpit;ti otT."!.' 'i.v r' lvidm- Jia - V Nervous 1'- VjilKy l.K I rin, .r V." -. i- -c V. - T:.1 -. I'rttittrv Wpiikr.psi. ' 1 -VI DR. DAVID N REMEDY For the Cnrc of Kidney and Liver Com plaint. Constipation, und all disorder arising from an impure täte of the ItlKM). To women who suffer from any of the ills peculiar to their sex it ia an unfaiün? friend. All DrusrsrUts. One Dol'.ar a bottle, or ailrea Dr. David Kennedy. Hondout, Ii. Y. FEARFULLY COMMON. Kidney Complaint Among ltoth Seiet and Ages. A Hrilliant Recovery. There'ii rometbinir, startlinft in the rapid increase of kidney diseases amon? the Americaa people within a few yean past. Maar causes peculiar to certain classes tend to produce and aggravate these troubles as. for example, careleaa living, overwork, and exposure. Dr. David Kennedy, of Ron dout, N. Y., is often congratulated on the exceptional gnrcess of his medicine called FAVORITE REMEDY in arresting aud radically curing thete mou painful and dangerous disorders. Proofs of this, like the following, are constantly brought to hia attention, and are published by him for the sake ot thousands ol otner fufferers whom he desires to reach and benefit. Tbe letter, therefore, may be of vital importance to yon or to some one whom yon know. It is from o.ieofthe best known and popular druggists in the fine and growing city lrom which he writes and doubtless where those may find Mr. Crawford at his place of business, on the corner of Main and Union atieets: prix;field, Mass., March 22, 1SS4. Dr. David Kennedy, Bondout, N. Y. : Dear Sir. For ten years I had been afflicted with kidney disease in its most acute form. What I suffered must be left to the Imagination for no one ran appreciate it except who have gone through it. I retorted to many physicians and to many different kinds of treatment, and spent a great deU of money, only to find myself older and worse than ever. I jnay aay that I used bottle of a preparation widely advertised as a specific for this orecise sort of troubles, and found it entirely useless at least In my case. Your FAVORITE REMEDY f aay it with a perfect recollection of all that was done for me besides, is the onlv thins tbat did me tbe slightest good: and I am' happy to admit tbat it save ma Immanent relief. 1 hare recommended FAVOKTE REMEDY to many people for kidney diseaae, and they all agree with me in feavine that DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY baa net Us equal in the wide world lor this distressing anC. i.ften fatal complaint. Use this letter as vou deem best for tie nefit of others. Yours, etc.. LYMAN CRAWFORD. FOXTTZ'S HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS No Hom will die of Couc. Btvr or Lcxa F TIK. if Kontr" i'owrler are lined In time. r out)'." IVtwder willcnre und prevrnl MMCnot.iit FouW.'s Powders wtll prevent Ger Is Kowia Foutzs Powders will tncres-e the quantity ol mils and cream twenty per cent, ami make tde butter firm aud sweet. Foutz's I'owrler wilt enre or prevent almost avsai DiftiASc to winch Horses and atlle nre antvect. FOUTZ'S PoW DKRa WILL felTK S ATlsr ACTIOS. Bold everywhere. DAVID S. FOUTZ. Proprietor. BALTIMORE.. Catarrh HAY l'EVEK. I recommend to tos9 nflerine (a I have twen ) with Uv Fever, Ely's ('ream I'.alm. I have tried nearly ail the 'emediea, and (tive this a decided preference orer them all. It bas given me lmnieiiate relief. C. T. SteDhens, Hardware Merchant. Ithaca. X. Y. Apply into the nostril. HAY-EEVER,. a remedy founded oa acorrectdtaan s'of this disease and can be depended upon. Cream Balm causes no PJa. Gives relief at once. Chansea the head. Cause healthy accretions. Abates Inflammation, Prevents freut colds. Heals the aoies Restores the sense ot tas'eand smeiL A thonmsa treatment willcnre. Not a liquid or srafj. Applied into the nostril. Aoe. at druggists; 60c by mail. Sample bottles by mail, 10c LY BROTHERS Druggists, Owego, N. T. STOPPED FREE hm9 Pttons Restora DrvK-LlNE-S GREAT - - - - - - L.,m i Aff. cm- ar (1 ffrss ' i ra uj r ' .i I Fit rteas.tleVPT'reipclinroo hwa I trArrd. fcead am-, r. O. sad ep addrew W -M afflu-tea TO L'K r.Li Cvll rTjn -w..r mh. . - a. f j wi i- i r a tj a', " A D A I ' rC imaeCUOt VT Ä v -var

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