Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1886 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6. im.

THE DESTINY OF SILVER

A Practical Solution of the Silver Question in Relation to Comaarciil Stagnation. iterview with Hon. Franklin Landers .a American Monetary Union Ilecomniended Trenti with South America A Line of Steamers Required. Uegianing to be somewhat interejud in the silver question, a Sentinel rejorter concluded he would seek information on the subject from one of its pioneer students and upon reflection concluded that a call upon Hon. Franklin Landers would be wore productive than elsewhere in this locality, and therefore he proceeded to his residence. Your reporter clinched the interview without ceremony by aying: !r. Landers, knowing that you was the mover of the silver question in the Fortyfourth Congress, aal that Vhe agitation at tnat time led to its renionetization, and that you are now a member of the National Biauetalic Committee, I take the liberty to call upon you for your views in regard to the jrooriety of stopping the coinage, and also iov your views of the future of silver. Jlr. Landers Well, I have luy views, of c-ottrx. as the subject has always been an interesting one to me, and the recent agitation 2ias led me to think on it somewhat. The subject has a wide bearinp, and it would require considerable time to give a complete answer o your question. IL Let." Mr. Landers, I would like to ask your opinion of the question in its bearing lipon tiie present commercial stagnation. Mr. L. After thinking a little.) We have arri red at a period when the old policy of protecting our manufacturers and prohibiting others from coming into our market is 310 longer useful to the manufacturers themselves; for in many lines they produce more than our markets can consume. , lt. Hut isn't that rather a social than a purely financial question? Mr. L. All these questions are more or ess connected. What is nedel now to start all the spindles and the furnace? is customers to take from them the surplus that can not be consumed at home. It. 15nt how are these customers to be obtained ? Mr. L. My opinion is that by judicious management on the part of the (iovernxuent we could be taken out of this deJression and make our country prosperous iy silver. It. liut how do you propose to do this? Mr. 1 If the Government will pet una convention of all the States of South America, Central America and Meiico, and with tliem establish a standard tor their silver Coins, there and here, and made alike legal tender in ail those countries and the I'nited States, the manufacturer of this country, when trading in those mentioned, would then ktow just what he was petting for his wares. The buyer there would then know ju?t what he was paying for them. IL-Tbca you would organize an American Id-monetary union on a plan like the mooometalie union of Eoiope? Jlr. Ii Yes, and I think it would meet their Itoand with an Oliver. Our manufacturer wouia fro into that country just as 3iiU(-h ahead of the British or German manufacturer as silver is discounted in England. IThe silver dollar is worth here just as much as the gold dollar, while in England or Jermany it is worth 13 to 1U per cent. less. The Jiscocnt is now 15 to 20 per cent., and that enough to secure a market for our manufacturers from all the surplus they can manufacture over the wants of our own people. It. How would this be practically realized? Mr. Ij. Business is carried on in banks and by drafts. Suppose a merchant in one of those South American countries should make a bill to a British merchant and the debt become due; and also make a bill to the merchant in the United States and the lebt become due. He would go to his banker, and the inquiry would be, -'What is exchange with the United State ?"' The answer would be, if the standard were li red a Miggested. 'Must the carrying between that country and this.' He wouid also inquire, "What is the exchange to England ." The Lanker would figure up the discount on silver and the carrying besides, and that would be the answer. He would soon rind iiom whence he got his cheapest goods when tl ey were paid for. IL But would such a movement be popui. r in either country' Mr. Ij. I think so. Some, no doubt, vould become alarmed at the idea of makinsr s light leal tender of silver, both here and here; but you must consider that money -gue where it belong where something has been given for it; and reflect for one moment on th- vast amount of the products of those countries that we buy. IL We buy much more than we sell, do we not? Mr. I Very nearly all our coffees arc jrrown there; our dye stuffs are produced there; our medicines come from there; thousand and ten- of thousands of raw bides are shipped here from there. Compare these writh the very small amount of surplus manufactured articles we have to send to them, and it wilt be seen the balance of trade with those countries will be so largely against us that in a very few years oar mines will not le able to produce silver enough to pay that J alan.ee. JL Upon what do you base this opinion? Mr. Ij. In proof, see how the balance stmds now. r.razil exports to this country over; S-V,-OuO.OCK) a year, and the port of Rio alone exported to the United States last year T4."04.4.', and imported from us $3,2m., ."?. a balance against us from that ort alone of $18,4K249.45. IL Then in effect you would add a bond that would connect the Western continent in System of commercial exchanges that would prevent any European monopoly of it. Mr. L. Yes. If commercial relations were

property gotten up with all those countries, and treaties arranged that would only give lis an equal and fair exchange of commodities witii England, their great supplier, with the advantage of silver that we have, with the standard fixed as suggested, there is no ooubt but what all our idle spindles would re started, our furnaces lighted up, our idle v en employed, and the silver question, that ia now a frightful one to many persons, would be effectually settled. If our people would study how to avail themelves of the advantages that we possess with silver, as they study how to get rid of stiver, and abandon all idea of an international standard, which would place the countries upon an equal footing with ourselves upon tnat routhern trade, it would be far better for the country. It. Then it would be to our advantage if 3"3urop would not abandon the single standard? Mr. L. Certain!'. We want no standard iixea, except with those countries as sugtfted. It is to our interest that European countries should contrive to discount it, be-caiif-e we have gold in abundance to carry on a traue with them, and if we can pay f jr our co Sees, dye Stulls, medicines and other products of South and Central America with our. Kilver and our surplus manufactured goodi, the balance due us from Europe will be much larger than it now is, and must le paid in gold. If we should become their lf Mors we have the gold to pay them with. IL Bat, Mr. lenders, at present this country carries on its business with South America by way of Livorpool and in British bottom. Ioes not some policy looking to the establishment of American lines of steamers lireit to South A ruerican ' jiorts become 7icessajy part of the policy you have sugfcsled? . Mr L. Tt doe?, most emphatically. To Cfrry out this polirv we must have rapid ni freight tacliitiw of oux Qwn, We

niuit- have a direct- liue of stem?r rto au J from these countries. Trade can neithr be got nor keit up without efficient mad and freight facilities. . ' IL But it is believed that steamer enterprises to South America would t not pay oa investment? Mr. I i. Perhaps not, just at present, for we have no trade that would make any thin pav with those countries now. We uever will have any trade if we do not take th? means and make the stnizgle for it. It. What do you think of the subsidy plan? Mr. L. I do not favor subsidies ia the abstract. Still, roiuc way to accomplish our purjoscs must be adopted, aad if a line of steamers can not be got in any other way, why then I am in favor of subsidy. I would say as Mr. Talmage said, in a sermon preached last Thanksgiving Day one year ago, upon this subject, when he thanked the I-ord tliat the way might be ojeri to start the spindles and the furnaces, and employ the idle labor of the country if it required the $100,000,000 then in the Treasury that the Republicans had not stolen to carry out this policy, he would be in favor of appropriating it to that purpose before the Democrats did steal it IL But does not the silvar issue affect any other interest besides the commercial and manufacturing classes? Mr. Ia Of course. The agriculturalists of the country are interested as much as anj' other class in the employment of labor, by which all wealth is made. But they are interested in this silver question in another way. Our wheat is now priced in Iiondon and Liver-iool. India is becoming our great competitor in that market. The increased product of wheat in that country is remarkable. The imports into England frm ludia have increased in four years from l.OOd.O.K) bushels to ."T.OuO.öOÖ bushels, and it is now calculated that India, with improved machinery, in a verv few years will be able to export from LW.OOO.WK) to ::00,OUi .(. bushels. That wheat is bought in India with silver. The lower the Enzlish can buy the silver the cheaper the wheat. It comes in direct competition with our wheat. Any act of this Government that reduces the value of silver reduces the value of the farmer's wheat just to that extent. The depreciation in the value of silver dea not aflVct the producer of wheat in India. Silver is their only money. It pays his debts the only use any man has for money. The depreciation is in the interest of the man that buys the wheat with the depreciated monev. and against the interest of the producers ot' wheat in this country. It. Would it not be dPllcult to induce these .Sauth American countries into a treaty of the sort you have referred to? Mr. Ia I am satisfied tliere would not be. from the fact that'silver is their only leal money; besides, the balance of trade would be largely in their favor, and they are in need of those articles of manufacture that comprise our surplus. No, there would be every incentive of interest to induce them to act with us. Gold in those countries is an article of commerce. It sells for what it is worth. Thanking Mr. Landers for his attention, anil full with desired information, your reK?rter withdrew.

A TOUCHING CASE. Arrest of a Wetilthy Planter Charged with Manier Committed Vriiri Ali. Hoi'STos, Tex., Jan. 'i-heriir J. J. IUukia, ot Fayette County, arrived in the city Friday niht wilU Colonel H. K. AKton, a wealthy and promiucnt planter of Gregg County, in custody, who is under indictment for murder in Fayette County. The crime for which Colonel Alston is belt t aaswer was committed tno years before the war. The facts iu the cage arc as follows: Al.ston was then residing in Fayette C.uuty. au 1 was a bold, outspoken frieud and advocate of General Sain Houston. A bitter antagonism, t ae result of a lawsuit. tiruug up between Colonel AI. ton and Dr. Wren, a prominent citizen of Fayette Countr. The suit being decided in Alston's favor so embittered Dr. Wreu that he fcwor that he would kill Alston on :-Uht. Both were known to be men of great courage, and their friend attempted t' heal the breac h. hut without unct'ws. 1 he öth cf November, 17.1, was election day. and General Houston was chosen to-ertinr. Colonel Alston, although a strong supporter of the "Hero oisan Jhc Into," hesitated about goin to the polls, but he had leen in Teva a long wuile and lelt that he would not be doing his duty if he did not go and vote for his friend. Consequently be went to the polls at I.a Grange, the county sest of Faye tte County. hue there he encountered Dr. Wren a:i I hin overseer, and. as Alston had anticipated, they made au attack upon him. While lr. Wrea tvxi endeavoring to draw hi revolver it caught in suspender and AUtou hot the Ixx-tor through the heart, killing him instantly. Thea tur:iui! suddenly he stopjK-d the overseer, who was approaching Alston from t'.ie rear with a drawn bowie kiiife. by piittin? a bullet in hi bo.lv. The overseer bemed so lustily for his life that Colouel Alston refrained from killing htm. After the shooting AlMon tied into Ktstem Texas, liviajj ia Cherokee and Unsk Counties. He was residing in tht portion of Kusk County which was cut ort to foini a partot Greeg County, and here he rt: redided ior the past twenty -nix years, honored anj respected by all classes of citizens. Colonel Alston is now Rixty-four years old. Hv is a tall, hale, hearty, robust looking ma:i. with a strong, rnpged face, which lights up a kindly expression when iu conversation. Alston has accumulated a lare property in Grejr.1 County, an t SheriH" Kankiu says no inart is n better citizen. Htands hijjhcr or lias more friends t!iaa the Colonel wbeie he lives. W hen he went to leave the peer, lc flocked around the Colonel iu crowds, and lie could bave given bail in any amount if he 1 Hankin) had authority to take it. i the train Colonel Alston said to the SjheritT: "lam an old man: 1 do not want to Ket away from you. but want to go and set out from under the hhadovr of this case. .So du not take me along as a prisoner. I could have resisted your arrest and made it very lively, but I knew you could ultimately arrest me. and I didn't want any more trouble. ' Sheriff Rankin took the Colonel at his word and kept no watc h upon him. allowing him the utmost freenom of action. Colonel Alston's arrest, however. ishaviDg t very depressing effect upon hiia, although he has no fear of the resutt. and has assurances from the iK-st c-itizen of Fayette County that they are ready to go on his-oiid to any amount. Such long time has e!ajed since the killing took place that in all probability there will be no witnesses obtainable when the cae comes up for trial. Sheriff Rankin and his prisoner left tor la Grange to-day, and the result of the trial will be awaited with keen interest by the many friends of Colonel Alston throulwxit Texas. , A Terribl Dentli. New Yoi-.k, Jan. 2. The people of Murray Hill were fchotked yesterday by the annouueement that Miss Elizabeth B. Van Vorst, an elderly lady belonging to one of the oldest and'most respected families of the citr, had met with a U-rrÜde eleath. For several years Miss Van Vorst had occupied the five-story brown-ston house No. 5 Fast Forty-sixth street. iShe dos scssed ample means inherited from her lather. Corbelius Van Vorst, of Jcrsev City. Mie was a sister in-Hw of Robert Sewell. of New Jersey. Altout 11 a. in. the postman called at the house and banded her some letters. Sjb.e took them to tbe parlor on the second floor and sat down in front of an 0cn wood lire. It is sitpnosed that her d reus swept too close to the -flames, for the postman bad hardly got half a block away when a telegraph messenger boy who was passing the house saw tbe reflection of flames on the ceiling of tbe room and gave the alarm. Some New Year's callers wh were ffoin by rushed into the house and tip stairs to tue second floor, where they found Miss Van Vorst prostrated in the doorway, enveloped In flames. Her limbs and body bad N-en barred by the flames, and most of her clothing had been destroyed. me of the rugs which had been used to smother the fire had lK.cn partly burned also. Mis Van Vorst wai sixty-uine year old. A Steamer for the King of Siani. Wii.mi.votox. Iel.. Jan. -. The HarUn I .t Ifollingsworth Conn-any lias contracted to build a lißht draft Heel-wLcel ln.at for service iuJ-iam. ffb Hill I put together here, tested, and alout the first Of March will be taken apart and shipped in cctlons to Wtui. Although site will be used lrn-arryinji pase:isers and lljfht freight, she Is Oesl(5iied chietlv for exploring. She is bei'i built for an American gentleman and a brother of the King of. iam. and it is proUMe that they will soon have more boats built. She U to have a meru pallle-vheel. driven by a compound engine With eight-inch high pressure cyiimler on One Kide Of the bOftt ud a fourteca-inrll lowpressure on the other. Hotli cylinders will have a rommou tmke of thirty six Inches, she will draw fourteen inches of water and have a peed "Of ten mik-s per hour. , Ir. Sage'a Catarrh Remedy cures when eytry other ßo-called rcroed fi3.

Qüir HOME -BUDGET. Tlia Matdriottä Disappeinnca of aa Inliaai Fanner Cleared dpi

Fatal KwH of Itviler Kaplokiaa Arrest of a Wallstreet llrokec A Colored Plan Shot nod Almott In tantly Kilted. Vincenkjs, Ind., Dec. 2. .V mast astounding murder sensation has jtiit been developed here. Yesterday afternoon Sheriff John A. Padgett arrived from Shoals, Martin County, forty miiea east of this, city, on the Ohio and Mississippi Ilailroad, with a warrant for the arrest of John 1. Archer, whom it was discovered lived on the farm of Leroy l!oyd, five miles south of this city. Archer was wanted for the murder o John l:. J'uneh, who mysteriously disappeared during the summer of 1SS1 from lm farm in Iost llivcr Township, Martin County. Sheriff Tadgett secured assistance here, and in company with Deputy Sheriff Speckman, went at once to Archer's home in the country, where they found Archer busily engaged in spliting rails. As Mr. I'adgett approached, he dropjed his maul and demanded the business of his visitors. 1'sklgett said he had a warrant for his arrest, when Archer replied: "1111 no d d thief ; you can't take me." They were aliout to put handcuffs on him when Archer said: ''Gentlemen, treat me decent ; I will go in the bouse and put on some clothes and then I will go with you like a citizen." The efheers acquiesced and followed the man to the door. When Archer went in he puhed the door to, grabbed his gun and leveled it at them. George Holt and his sister were living with Archer. They, too, &lipped up, one w ith a revolver and the other with a shotgun leveled at the oihcers. Completely covered, with no opportunity to get out of their dangerous . quarters, the officers agreed to leave the place. The Sheriff has organized a posse of fifteen determined men, who propose to take Archer and his gang, dead or alive. Archer's comrade, (ieorge Holt, is also wanted for the same crime, and a warrant is out for him. The j-osse s-tarted at 10 o'clock. The story of the murder was first develoj ed yesterday at the l'oor-hö'ise in Martin County. John Archer's wife, whom be deserted, was compelled to see k the loor-houe lor frlitltfr. Site told the superiniendent that she could tell why John B. Ituneh disappeared so mysteriously, and intimated foul play. The Superintendent's curiosity was aroused and he sent for Prosecuting" A.torney McCormick to come and take her statement. Mrs. Archer said that John U. Archer, Samuel Archer, Thomas Archer, Martin Archer.G'eorge Holt and John Lynch were ail concerned in the mysterious disappearance of John I. Bunch, who was a wealthy German farmer. Hunch lived near Lost lliver. in Io3t ltiver Township. Martin t'uuntv. Tue Archers were a family of desIerauoes, ana i.uncn wouia not nave anything to do with them. A bitter hatred exi.sted between the Archers and Bunch, and the former resolved to put Bunch OUt of the way. In the summer of 1881, Mrs. Archer said, farmer Hunch went out into a field to call his hog. When out of siifbt of his house the Archers rushed up to him and killed him. Mrs. Archer iays they put a stone around his neck and threw the body into Lost ltiver. The body laid their three days. When Hunch's sudden disappearance became known it created the most intense exciten.ent, and tbe county was scoured for miles around. Finally a party began to drag Lost ltiver in the hope of finding Hunch's bodj'. This thoroughly frightened the Archers, and they went to the place where they had thrown the body and fished it out of the river. They took the body to a secluded spot, chopped it up. put it into an iron kettle and cooked it for two days and nights, until all the flesh came off the bones. After which they took the bones to a cemetery, where they found a new-made grave, and digging into it took the new coflin up, placed Hunch's bones at the bottom of the grave, replaced the couin and refilled the grave. For some days the grave remained undisturbed, until lit:ally the villains became alarmed and took up the bones of their victim and buried them somewhere else, but Mrs. Archer can not tell where. After the crime wa committed. Archer deserted her and went to live iu a distant place with another woman. For a time the other Archer. supported, John Archer's wife, but she finally applied for a divorce. Then they left her to shift for herself, and she was finally driven to the l'.orhouse. After much pcrsuatioa Mri. Arc'ier was induced to tell this story, and she has sworn and subscribed to it before tbe Frosecutintr Attorney. Warrant were at once issued and placed in the hands of the authorities for the arrest of the six men above mentioned. They will be arrested as soon as they can b found. BOILER EXPLOSIONS. Four Peraons Killed in tha Mobil Oil Mills Collapse of a Thresher at Mew I'rorldenre, Pa. M0R11.K, Ala., Dec. 21.!. Karly this morning the Gulf City Oil Mills' boiler exploded with terrific force, tearing down the boiler house and part of the seed sheds and burying four colored laborers in the debris. Three of these Joe Jackson, Willis Blade and Morlis Warren have been taken out The other, Charles Chastang, is missing. Three other negroes were seriously scalded and two others slightly hurt. I. S. Stanton (white), the foreman of the mill, was badly injured internally. The damage to the mills is about $'J,0Ü0. Lancaster, l'a., Dec. 2,). The boiler of a threshing machine in a barn near Uew Providence exploded this morning, killing two young (men named Christian Hildenrand and Edward Helm. Frank Edwards was seriously scalded. The barn was set on fire and consumed, with its contents. It contained twenty-three head of cattle, two mules, nine horses, three cows, ten hogs, l.sou bushels of corn, 5,000 bushels of wheat, and a large amount of hay. A Desperado Surrendera to the Sheriff. Shoals, Ind., Dec. ."0. Tuesday night a posse of a dozen resolute men went out to the home of John B. Archer, five miles south of Vincennes, wanted for the Bunch murder in this country, surrounded the house and threatened to burn Archer out if he would not surrender. After parleying two hours, Archer gave himself up and was taken to Vincennes jail. Yesterday at noon the desperado was brought to Shoals by f-heriff Padgett and Deputies Caruthers and Iiadley. An excited crowd met .hera at the ('(ot, and load shouts of "Han? him" were heard on every side. David Crand, another of the gang, was also captured here and jailed. The indignation of the citizens here is very great, and Archer and Crane fear they will be hung by a mob. They begged the' Sheriff to protect them, and Crane made a full confession to prosecuting Attorney McCormick, concernin his part in the' murder of Hunch. Crane is now only nineteen years old. He says he was to young that the Archer gang scared him into the participation of the crime; that he was told to s to Bunch'a house, decoy Buch out and take him to the field ner'the river. Crane did 0, and the Archers eveled revolvers at Crane's head and to'd hi'ii to fckip out for home. After Crane had gone the Archers killed Hunch. Crane said the Arche threatened several times to

kill him if he divulged 'the secret." -j! B. Archer, the desperado who waa arrested at Vineernea, admitted that he was implicated in the Bunch affair, but that he did not do the killing. All he did waa to watch out for the spies while his brothers and Lynch did the killing. The whole ot this murderous alTair resulted from another murder of four years ago. A man named Marley, working for Bunch, shot and killed Mart Archer. This so enraged the Archer family that they craved for vengeance. Bunch helped Marley to escape, when the Archers, hearing of it. planned the butchery of Buuch. The w hole gang is a desperate one." STANTON SENTENCED.

II Cat Over Steven Tears in Solitary Confinement. 1;iii AtiKi.piiiA, Jan. 2. Stanton, the Oonaecticut student who pleaded guilty to killia? his schoolmate, 5a.sa, was railed up to-day f r sentence. There was a moment of intense su.speu.se aud considerable anxiety in court when Judge Allison bad finished bis address to Stanton and akcd him for the secoud time if he ha 1 anything to ay why sentence should not be pronounced. Tbe prisoner aid in a tow voice: -I bave committed only o-Je iault iu this untortuaate aTair, and that was in permitting myself to be forced to 5ead guilty to a crime of which I a ui not guilty." udce Allison asked quickly: "Do you wish to withdraw your plea'.' ' The prisoner hesitated a moment and then said: "1 would do so at thi moment if I could." "You can do that if you wish. You are entitled to trial ly jury," replied III Honor. "What we have done we have dcTe under written instructions." interrupted Furmau bheppard, of ct'iinsel for the defense. "What do you propose to do?" asked the Jud?e of Stanton. "I am not guilty of the crime of murder," was the reply. "1 did soinethinsrto save myowa life." Assistant Pistrict Attorney Ureiry objected to the withdrawal of the plea, but Judge Allison watted for the prisoner. Stanton stood clutching the rail of the dock, his level brows knitted. The corners of his mouth twitched n!irhtly. A full minute passeo and he still was silent. Thea Mr. Bacon Meppcd quickly to the dock and talked to him for a moment or two. After the consultation tbe minuter said: "The prisoner desire to nay that he will le satisfied if it may be understood that he continues his plea ot murder in the second degree with the understanding that it shall not weigh in the public opinion against him and thit wuiie the plea thus atands he. in the forum of his own conscience, Mauds guilty of no crime at all.' "lie is entitled to that,"sid Judge Allison qutcklv. and then imposed a sentence of seveu years aud kix. nioutlis iu nolitarv confinement. Stanton did uot wince. The euteüce is virtually one of but live years, as taere is a yesr of commutation for j:rod tehavior. a:id Jml?e Allion consented to have the term begin eight months back, when Stanton first went iutt Moyaineusin l'risou. liuftineh Houses lturnrd IetH of a County Super iuteudent. Special to the r'entinei. Bi.oomkii:i.i, Ind., Dec. 2:. Last night about 11 o'clock a fire brske out in this place and re'sulte 1 m the loss of four frame buildings, two of which weie occupied as restaurants, tne by a real estate and insurance agent, and the fourth by Mrs. George F. Hogle, milliter. The lire originated ia the building belonging to Willilm Hainesand occupied by Zimmerman, but soon spread to the adjoining buildings. Py tearing down one building the fire was prevented from doing any further damape. The Henderson brick building adioininjr. the one in which the lire originated was somewhat damaged. 1 be liaruware store of Ilanden t Huff suffers some loss fro:.i water, and also Odd Fellows' Hall. The losses are pretty heavy 011 some, as all their means were invested in the pioierty destroyed. The Henderson buildiß' and the firm of Ilanden A Huff are fully protected from loss by insurance. At this time it is impossible to give any true account of the losses, as the insurance on the buildings and goods destroyed is small on account of the high rate of insurance. Two years ago this week our town was visited by a lire which swept away nearly one block of bcildings in the adjoining square. . 1'ofessor J. channon Og. County Superintendent for this ((Jreene) county, died last Saturday morning in this place from Brights disease, after an illness of ?everal weeks. The Trustees have been called to meet this week and elec asucces,or. Murdered fur Money. Cincinnati, Dec. 30. Henry G. Kemper, aged sixty-five, the proprietor of 3 small grocery store at 1(50 Barr street, was found murdered in his store early this morning. The driver of a bread wagon first discovered him. His skull was split open, but no trace ot : he weapon could be found. Hie murderer obtained less than $3 frxrni the money drawer. Deceased has a daughter in Denver, one in Dayton, two at home pud one son. His wife is lying dangerously ill. Suspicion attaches to an unknown mulatto seen at the store this morning before the murder. It has been discovered that a tall, vicious looking mulatto was seen in Kemper's grocery early this morning, and that he had been coming there for several mornings for a drink. It is also known that Kemper had said he was afraid of that man. From the description Harry Floyd is suspected but cannot be found. He is a dissipated man, who has not recently been living at home, but was at home only a few days ago. It now appears that the murderer only obtained filty cents. A Contractor Iinppeara. VtNtrxxEs, Ind., Dec. 2. Joseph C. Litzclman, a Newton, 111., contractor, ha.i disappeared between two days, leaving behind him scores of alleged victims, who hold nothing but his forged paper. Litzelman recently has been engaged In business and selling railroad ties to the Peoria, Dicntur and Evansville Ilailroad. He also bought up staves and hoops in large quantities, and his transactions made it necessary for him to handle large sums of money. ManT of his speculations, however, proved unprofitable, and he soon found himself in a bad financial condition. He has for some time, it is said, been using the name of both his father and uncle to secure money on notes. It is thought that the amount of his forgeries will reach $10,000. Stabbing Affray. Special to the Sentinel. i:i iimo,i. Ind., Dec. '".. Last night live young Germans by the names of Mensur, Kothert, Itemmert, Drenning and Feasler, were slaughtering a hog for a friend, when a difficulty arose between Mensur and the other four. He attempted to carry the hog to the block where it was to be hung up, when Kemmertz tried to push him away. He then struck Ilemmertz in the hip with a pocket-knife, making an ugly wound. Theothermen rushed in, but he succeeded in stabbing each of them before lie was overpowered. None were very seriously injured, however. He is under arrest. rienro-rneitmonia. L.x AsTF.it, Pa., Dec. 30. Secretary Edge to-day visited the farm of Henry S. Itish, near West Willcw, and inspected the herd of cattle suffering from pleuro-pneumonia. One cow wax killed, and tbe remaining thirtyfour were inoculated. A herd of fifty-six oil the farm of I'erry Win. in Manheim Township, York County, is infected.with the disease, and has been quarantined. The State authorities have killed thirteen head suffering from thediease, on the farm of Kphraim Hobbs, in Manheim Township. ratallv Stabb. Special to the Sentinel. ItoosvnxE, Ind., Dec. .20. Santa Taylor fatally cut Kdward Purdue near Yankeetown, this county. Vue parties lived on adjoining farm and quarreled about some stock. Doth are members of influential families. The latter leaves a wife and one child. This makes the third knifing affray UK the county for, the Holidays,

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A lady on Fifth avenue, New York, quickly summoned a doctor. 'Oh. doctor my husband is nearly dead. He attended a caucus last night. He made four 85eeches and promised to be with his fellow-citizens again to-day. But oh, doctor, he looks nearly dead." "Has he been in politics long?" ''No, only last year. He worked hard for Jmes McCaulay's election." 4He will get" well, madam! He has a stomach for anv disease if he worked for him!" . Political life of short or long duration is very exhausting, as is evident from thegreit mortality which prevails among public men. Kx-TJnited States Senator 11. K. l'.ruce, who has been long in public life, says: 'The other day, when stepping into a car at a crossing. I found Dr. within, who eved me up and dawn in a surprised way, rt marking: "Why, Henator, how w:ll vou look!" " 'Well, I feel pretty well 1 answere J." The doctor uttered an incredulous replv, when the Senator frankly told him. in answer to an inquiry, that it was Warner's safe cure which accomplished for him what the profession bad failed to do. Senator Bruce says his friends are very much astonish?dat ths revelation of power4 The (ilobe. 'Overwhelmingly defeated. SENTINELS. Not and Items Captured on the Skirmish iaoe. "Opolis" is the name of a town in Crawford County, Kan. There are more colleges in Ohio than in France and Germany combined. The Globe Medico-Quirugico records the fact that a woman of Valladolid recently gave birth to seven children in two days. A Socorro (N. M.) newspaper invites girls who are working in the States at $1.50 a week to come to New Mexico and get 2.5 and 30. Sir Wilfrid Lawson and most of the teetotallers were defeated at the late English elections. On the other hand many brewers were returned. John W. Mackay, the California rr.il!ionaire. is a grandfather. His daughter, the Princess Galatro-Colonna, has just been delivered of a son. A daughter recently born to Mr. and Mr. George Kennedy, of Welliket. Miss., has now living three grandfathers and five grandmothers, the oldest being ninety-eight. Paul de Saint-Victor, the late famous literary critic, had a superstitious fancy that he could write well only by using an inkStand which he had purchased in Switzerland. "The Lay of the Lark," has iust been rejected by the P.urlington Free Press, which, however, informs the poet that a few specimens of the lay of the hen would be accepted. A recent report to the English Itayal Society of Arts shows that of the 12 iXi deaths which Lave occurred in coal nines since 1S7.". only one-fourth have been caused by tire damp. A Wiikeslarre tradesman had a prophetic dream concerning the Mill Creek disaster, which occurred on last Tuesday mornine. He had dreamed of several other mine accidents beforehand. Contagious diseases have excited the people of Fairhaven, Mass., to such a degree that tbe horse cars carry two bags of camphor as disinfectants, one at each end, placed there by the Board of Health. William Henry Walker, of Evansville, Ind., thirty-five years old, has a head thirtythree inches in circumference and thirty-five inches from chin to crown. He has fair intelligence and a good memory. At the Sands Quarry, Yinaltown. Me., a block of granite was recently started which measured about 4(H) feet long, forty feet wide, with an average thickness of nine feet. Such a block would weigh about 1'J,(h0 tons. Cases of severe colic from lead poisoning are reported among tailor3 and sewing women. This is probably due to their habit of biting off and sometimes chewing threads of sewing silk which has been weighted with acetate of lead. Heretofore ships have been permitted to pass through the Suez Canal only in daylipht"; but now war ships and steamers provided with electric lights of sufficient power to illuminate the canal 1,290 yards ahead may go at night. It is said that the wife of President Adams contributed largely to the state paters of her honorable and distinguished spouse, and that Mrs. Madison was often useful in moderating the temperament of the addresses which her husband wrote during his term of office. Figaro says that a Yankee maker of sewing machines has offered Mme. Patti $1,000 for each appearance, in addition to her regular salary, if she will sit at one of his sewing machines instead of at the spinning wheel, while singing the "King of Thüle." The telegraph system of the British Islands, under control of the Postoftice, now amounts to 15G.000 miles, and employs 17,000 instruments. The standard rate is twelve words for a sixpence, address included. Press messages alone now average a million words a day. The hymn in some of the books used in the Presbyterian Church beginning, When through the toru sail the wild tempest ia streaming, is ascribed in those books to Heber. It was written by Francis Key, author of "The Star Spangled BanDer." . I-et no man hereafter accuse the English eople of being inferior in politeness to the French. A murderer was hanged in Liverjool a fortnight ago, and the matter-of-fact .statement is made by the reporter that, "the weather being bitterly cold, Thomas was hanged in his overcoat." Miss Detchon, the young American lady who ha3 shone in British royal and aristocratic circles on account of her beauty and exceptional talent, says the London Court Journal, is in Paris, where she is a-wured of an equally amicable and Mattering reception in tbe salons of the French nobility. Tbe persons who invested in the diving speculation to obtain 100,000 worth of gold which was sunk years ago in the ship Alfotm XII , off the west coast of Africa, have been rewarded by a harvest of gold from the gray sand fields. The'divers have got up nearly all the gold, and have sent it to England. Talking parrots can not be bought now, at hast from sailors; for in the old time the sailor made his twelve months' voyage, and was able to teach his parrot a language. Xow the voyages last too short a time, and the talkimr parrot only comes into the market when his owner is forced to sell for some reason or another. A large pump has been at work in the Grand Central Mine . at Tombstone, A. T., without diminishing the water in the lower levels ior the last three months. It has just been discovered that the water pumped out found its way back into the mine and was feimply being bandied over and over again. Private John Barke, who has just been discharged from the Suffolk Regiment, is supposed to bave been the oldest soldier in the British array, having enlisted in 1817. lie had six good conduct stripes, and was refused the seventh on the ground that six was the maximum number allowed. He had served, ia the Crimean and Irjdiaa' mutiny

Vupaiusaad aLjo in China and .ALjhauistau. The last slave in this country, tin- ThomasvUlefGa.) Register asserts, was Milby Reynolds, and she was owned by a negro, Collina Alston, who, having become his own master, saved eoough to buy Milbv, and kept her in bondage for nearly a year after the emancipation. She finally secured her freedom bv accepting a refuge with a w hite woman iü Thomasviile. It appears that Yictor Hugo's father was, during the French regime of Joseph Bonaparte in Italy, the General who was the. Military Governor of the Province of Avelino, and. as such, ordered the hanging of "Fra Diavolw," as the brigand Colonel, Michael Pozzo, was called. This took place in IS ;, w hen Victor Hugo was a little boy, living with his father in Italy. The Prince of Moroco took several hundred iloats to the Azores last summer, a:id, sailing ia a northerly direction, he dropjed them one by one into the ocean, allowing an interval of a mile or two between them. In the interior of each is a paper piving the latitude and longitude of the spot where it was dropped, and mariners have been reqited thiough the usual channels to note the time and place of their picking up any of them they may happen to fall in with. If a su.'ücient number of these observations can be collected, a much needed light will, it is hoped, be thrown ou the direction and velocity of the gulf stream. An explosion in a cofhn that was exhumed lately i:i Yorkville. S. C, is rejorted by the Enquirer of that place. The coffin, whic h contained the remnants of a child three or four years old, was buried in 1S7.". Itecently the parents of the child bought a family lot in a cemetery, and the disinterment was for the purpose of transferring the body, which is said to have been found in an excellent state of preservation. There was a glass parel in the ca'.k'.-t, and the heat of the sui f-hii.ing on tLis :.s believed to hiive .aued a-: exi ansion of rrases within the eeluu. reu'ting 'n tbe explos'on. which k rejMirtef to have equalled that of a dynamite cartridge? in foice. The manufacture of base balls in this country has become an important industry, aud an ingenious one, too, according t the description given of the process: First, there is a little hard rubber ball, around which

there is w ound a strong blue coarse yarn, and when this reaches a prescribed size it is firmly wrapped with white Yenitian yarn. The balls are now placed in an oven and baked until the moisture is taken out of them and they are reduced in size, this making them solid. They are then coated with cement, which causes the balls to retain their shape. and they can not le knocked crooked. After this some fine blue yarn, and around the whole is placed tine white gilling twine. The bills are weighed, each to Lave a certain weigh', and the covers are put on, these being made of the tinest horse-hidc. Itonsists of two pieces, each cut in the shape of the figure M. Ir b?iidin on one secti-m in one way and tit other in an opposite direct:ot a complete cover is obtained. This is a simple and effectual substitute for the forlilfr method of covering with four pieces of leather. An examination of the musical sands of Kauai, Cala., which have excited so much interest ou the part of geologists and others, shows that they possess a teculiar microscopical structure. The grains are found to be chietly composed of small ortionsof coral and apparently calcareous sponges; they are all more or less perforated with small holes, in some instances forming tube. but mostly terminating in blind cavities. which are frequently enlarged in the interior of the grains, communicating with the surface by a small opening. There were also in the sand small black particles, formed principally of crvstals of aasrite, neplie'.ine and magnetic oxide of iron, embedded in a glassy matrix. The structure of these grains explains, it is thought, why sound is emitted when they are set in motion ; that is, the friction against each other causes vibrations in their substance, and consequently in the sides of the cavities they contain and the vibrations being communicated to the air :n the cavities, under the most favorable conditions for producing sound, the result is the loud noise occasioned when any large mass of sand is set in motion, there being, in fact, millions upon millions of resonant cavities, each giving forth sound. I n ted States Treasurer Jordan Taken Charge of the SuH-Treasnry at New York. Kf.w Yohk, Jin. 2. Mr. Thomas Acton. Assistant Treasurer of the I'nited States in this city received a letter Thursday last from Secretary Manning, ordering him to tnrn over his oftioe to Mr. N. C. Jardan, Tieasurcr of the I'nited States, this morning. Mr. Acton at once obtained the following opinions from Messrs. George P.lisa and Elihua Root : "Hon. Thomas C. Acton : "Sir We advise you that your term of office expired on December 'JO. 1S85: that you have since been holding over, and that your relations in this respect will not change on January 1, that you have uo legal right to turn over your oflice and the projierty in your charge to any person not nominated by the President and confirmed by tbe Senate, and that you can not sifely obey any order bo to do. No person not confirmed by the Knate as your successor can give you a. proper receipt or release you and your bondsmen fr jui responsibility tor the millions under your coutrol. Mere it necessary that you should assume the responsibility of turning over the oflic e to a person not confirmed by the Senate, in oider that the operation of the great othce of Assistant Treasurer should not be broneht to a standstill, you will doubtless as a good eitien feel disposed to obey any order to that effect, but as the operations of the office have gone ou for ten days since your term expired, we see bo reason why they may not continue in the same way for A few" days until the l'rffuieut aud rjenale can act. In view of these considerations we hardlv think that the authorities at Washington can be contemplating the action reported by the press, but it would be well for you to call their attention to the views ascertained by vourself and your counsel." The following letter was delivered to Mr. Jordan this morning in answer to his demand for a klirrender ot the oflice: 'jANL'AtY 'i. 1W. 'Hon. N. C. Jordan, Treasurer of the United Mates: "Hear Sir I have received a letter from Hon. Daniel Manning, of the Treasury, directing me t surrender the office of Assistant Treasurer of the 1'nited States to you. In reply. 1 have to say that I am here ready to continue the performauce ot the duties of this oflice. and caunot as-wnt by word or act to the assumption of the conduct or control of this office by any one not appointed by the 1'resident and confirmed by the Senate a my successor. You have caused your seal to be placed upon the vaults containing the funds to make the necessary paymeuta from day to day, and therebv interrupt the performance by me of the regular everv dar and necessary duties of the oflice. if this interruption is relieved 1 shall be glad to act la the ortice in the umc manner that I have done Mtice the Attn dav of teeeinler nil. if this is not iermitted to nie, whatever shall be done by you iu re pard to the business of this oflice mut be done without my assistance or assent, aud against my protest. No one can regret more than I d that the action of the Government to furnish a vu---.-S0r to me ill the Oftlc-COf Assistant Treasurer has been disappointed, and that temporcryerabarrH-s-ment to the public business ahoilld possibly occur, but I have no right, ny auy ad or omissiou of mine, to Jeopardize the right or increase the risk of kit bondsmen. '"I am, ir. vour oledicnt servant. Thos. Ac ton. Assistant Treasurer." At 11 O'clock Mr. Jordan. a Treasurer of me Tnited Rates, took the responsibility of breaKhu tho eeU and beginning business. Mr. Acton made no objectiou, and Mr. Jordau toot control. A LADY'S SECRET. The ladies of the Court of Fiance possessed a pecret that should be known by every lady. Send 2-ent atamp for sealed circular in plain envelope. Kuropean Medical Co., 233 JXortUKiai2i8trtft, Tluladelphia

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TESTIMONIALS. "l tttii(C5.itating!y add tnr tesfmony f the jreat leiefits to I derived from tbe u.-t? of KIMM )A' Id Vt.!t RK.t UUlK. I ras rtlic U.i;for w..-rl years with disordered liver, which resulted ia bcvcre attack of jaundice. I hail as gnoc; nodical attendance as our f-ection afl'oVls, who faded utterly to restore me to the eujoytnent ot my former health. I then tried the favorite presc.ttionof one of the most renowned pbyu iaas f Louisvilie, Ky., but to no purpose: wnereup ! I was indiud to try MMMONV I.IYER RlMill..IC'U I found immediate beuelit fmm iu 11, and it ultimately restored me to the full enjoy nieut of heaUh. A. II. SHIRLEY, Richmoud. K." 'I take gn-at pleasure In recom mending hill MON.v IJM.K RKGl I.ATcMi to all Unering fron Sick Headache and BiliouMiess.. Have been a victim to the above for years, and. after trying various remedies, mv onlv success was iu the tue of SIMMONS' LI Y Kit IIKGULATOR. which oerer failed to relieve ine iu twelve hours; and I a assure those susVering ftoin the above that they would le greatly relieved by its use. I spvak uoi myself, but my whole family. Yours rcspectfullv! J. M. F1LLMAN, Sklma, Ala." fceethat you get the Genuin. It alrra has the ' Stamp iu It, on front of wr.t-r. and seal and signature of J. It. Zelaod A C.( on the side. 1 wf i j - vv ros'iv m MBA Best iu tKWorTJ. HOMEOPATHIC Yelerinarj Specifics Cor Diseaaa tt Horses. Cattle, Sheep DOGS, HOGS. P0ULTKY. In nse for over 20 years hy TannerS! Stockbreeders, Herse K. IL, Ac Used by U. S. CovernmenU VW STABLE CHART Mounted on Rollers A Book Mailed FrM. fTamphrryi'Mra. Co I OS Foltoa fct.. !Y. V? nu urn beys' homeopathic nj sPEcrnc No. 0 i a u-e jj r. Th only neemf til reirrdy toe Nervous Dility, vital Weakness, and Prostration, from iver-ork or other o $1 per vial, or i vi ab and lirre vial powjw, tr a& IT 1JKI tiilm. orrni hj-wiu im tw" iuoWrua' rite I., IV tiutM a. I . FREE TRIAL! IMPOTENT PEN! Vhetner Young r Old having Impaired their Procreative Pover et Br the Indlaoretton of Youth or Kxre" of Mtr Y?ar uiy lx) quickly restored to I'tltt e.Cl MAHHOOB and Sexual Power INT m mr ifi. ( . a.. a. Af V.nrAut rW!hM!tV- ItVBtal aatf i ll)HHIIUS lk V may a vi ' ' physical weaknrM. lost manhood, nervoua pMif tion. rranlta of Indlx-t-etlon. fc oranr iii'K cured hy Nervit. N reniedy ever offrred t iw afflicted liaa mat with nH unprecedented eucreaa It liat no equal for corr forma of Mavori W(TTB. EXHlTIOX, DkBll.tTV O ICV. It brnrficlal effwt aie Imijtrfiiaieiy percept ihle; to a Irw rek after commencing; tta e a ferltoa; . renewed vigor and atn-iigrli It apparent Itefleii ; prompt and radical cure, and U the on.T ? aa effectual reimdr known for curing- all form of Mtvora 1HBILITT from any -. It rlTrt r ernianent. Nomattrr how ipcravated yourcae.n. S remedic you hive tnrd or how niinj doc bave failed. When the dlfteaM B bafTlM the L. U Ol tne ablet phvUIn. whoa melancholy aad aeapa.tr bave taken the place of liopo. and the world look blanfc and deeary. Nervita will MlIJ. n.!lLlf? !! perninentlyctirelHHlymt mind. -,er nJl5 by It e lnisat. Wrong faith that It will cure wftaT r prompta ur o aentJ a trial packac on receipt ofil cean poa'ae. Free at offlor. amethlap? DR. A. G. OLINCO., 1 ifl V Ws.riin-ton Kt P.O.Box 212. CHICAGO. 11 . A Cure at Last. The evl.leuee Is overwhelming that F.raall'a IMl 1 III or rooi utuiMivui it v. ... auv other to the scat of the disease, an.l is cunn? more had cases than ail other medicines anl thpile doctor coinMned. A. McCJibbons, Kq.. IJ i'onlar street, Allegheny, Pa., write.: -I hat 1. .4 l.l.liii.i nilii ui hurl I octlllil not Man.l or w alk without intense suffering. I d octoretl witn manv pnvsicians. auu iro-i ii iur r- i , cailvd cure, that Iver heard t(, in vaiu Cpavi (X out hundred of dollar!, until 1 nted l-m-';" Music Htlm. After the firt application 1 en;ove4 y the leH nnrht S kieep l wa iorieujcais.au ha cured lue completely. " Sold by all drusreuu evetvw htre, or scut by mail ot cetio in !- ae ttaiiip- Bowvrr Medic-! Co.. yrop-ietora surpbnrK. Pa. sld by Browni'i? I. fcloaa. drug aiMfc. I mliuap lift Ind. &w's(o)ia'

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